MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ehnto | 2025-10-07 08:32:36+00:00
It also relies on all your intellectual and creative persuits being digital in nature, otherwise all you have is the social and the travel.

The lifestyle appealed to me too and I even worked towards it, but I don't think it could be a full time thing for someone who loves making things, "building a life" does in a sense require some permanency past your laptop.
by homamg | 2025-10-07 08:32:42+00:00
The digital marketing world has always been a game of adaptation. Remember when SEO ruled, demanding keyword-stuffed pages to climb search rankings? Then came generative AI, flipping the script with instant answers that bypassed clicks altogether. Enter Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), the strategy brands adopted to ensure their content influences those AI summaries and recommendations. But as AI evolves from mere responder to active agent—handling bookings, purchases, and decisions on our behalf—we're witnessing a deeper shift. This is the dawn of Agentic Commerce Optimization (ACO), where measuring brand performance means tracking not just visibility in answers, but influence over actions like direct sales in chat interfaces.
by a_e_k | 2025-10-07 08:33:36+00:00
I really don't get this move.

It's one thing to try to steer basic, non-technical users toward an MS account by default. Fine; I may not like that, but I get it. But at this point, anyone left who's still using these methods to create a local account is likely to be a technical user who's deliberately and intentionally wanting a stay on local account for whatever their own reasons.

I suspect that's a rather small group, which leaves me puzzled: (1) is the juice really worth the squeeze, and (2) is it really worth being so hostile to your power users?
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-10-07 08:34:02+00:00
I've been part of a European startup that added offices in Asia and the US, and we initially always partnered with local companies to do this. It's mutually beneficial. It allowed us to grow more quickly, and it allowed them to make relatively easy money (and, in our case, to dump some of their shittier employees on us without us knowing).

In Proton's case, they already knew each other because Tesonet had previously offered to provide infrastructure during a DDoS attack against Proton.

So maybe it's a conspiracy, or maybe it's just how things go. You can make up your own mind, but you should provide the facts when you make sinister insinuations.
Show HN: I made a growth analytics tool that shows what drives growth
by marieeettoh | 2025-10-07 08:34:46+00:00
Hey HN,

I built ROAARRR because most analytics tools make it hard to get clear answers. You spend hours setting up dashboards and connecting data, but you still don’t really know what drives growth.

ROAARRR brings your key data together and shows your funnel from awareness to revenue. You can track product activity, create charts for specific events, and see how changes affect retention and revenue.

It’s free to try today. I’d love your feedback, especially on what feels confusing or missing.
by felixyz | 2025-10-07 08:35:00+00:00
I've seen several Mac users have the same experience: going all-in on nix-darwin and then getting frustrated. But nix-darwin is one of the worst ways of getting into Nix, because its goal is to make your whole macOS system configurable with Nix, but macOS is a moving target and (unlike Linux) not built to be modular at all. I know people put a lot of hard work into nix-darwin, but it's simply not the main focus of Nix as a whole and sadly it might not ever become a seamless experience. (I'm not a mac user so not keeping up, but I do see colleagues trying it out from time to time.)

The solution here is: use Nix but don't use nix-darwin (at least not until you're generally comfortable with Nix for package management and dev shells). You do NOT have to use nix-darwin on Mac to reap 80% of the benefits of Nix (especially in a team setting).

After dropping nix-darwin, I think almost everyone will find that it's very easy to use Nix for sharing project setups with bespoke tooling. I just had a new team member onboard, knowing nothing about Nix, in a day or less, with several different languages and unusual tools.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-07 08:36:06+00:00
It might depend on how much your IT departements cares about customizing your setups. The efforts described in TFA for instance don't cover auto install scripts which are still free to create whatever local account is needed, provided it's done through the fleet management mechanisms.

Much of the scripts to "debloat" windows also rely on MDM entry points and overriding user preferences with higher privilege.
by willtemperley | 2025-10-07 08:36:09+00:00
There's probably little danger to the savvy user who understands how manipulative technology like this can be.

The problems come when vulnerable users are targeted using dark patterns. How AI dark patterns will evolve is very uncertain [1] however I suspect they will be extremely subtle and very effective.

What's the worst that can happen if someone vulnerable is persuaded to buy a flight by an AI. I don't know, maybe depression and bad credit after the chatbot's promises weren't met. If they're persuaded to buy a weapon, that's a different matter.

At least current advertising is somewhat public, although that's increasingly less true as ads get more targeted.

This is new territory where ads will be so extremely private it will be only known by the user (maybe they won't even notice) and someone reading the subpoenaed chat logs after a user does something terrible. Those chat logs will likely be inconclusive anyway.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/ai/darkness-rising-the-hidden-danger...
by motoxpro | 2025-10-07 08:36:42+00:00
I agree that that is what the word and phrase means, however in THIS context, it means something different.

It doesn't ruin the idea if the idea is to share that it has easter eggs. If they didn't create, share and "ruin" it, they would have omitted an important feature (to put it in software terms)

They don't want the reader to go and find it, they are overlaying ideas from the "Swiftie-verse" onto a tech platform and THAT is the fun part. It's just a little fun blog.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-07 08:37:11+00:00
Some US doctors are rich. With a strong bias toward certain medical specialties, where you can bill X thousand dollars for a "procedure". And do a lot of those procedures every week.

Vs. merely billing by the hour - then having to pay your office rent, utilities, medical school loans, nurse's salary, receptionist's wages, etc. etc. out of that. I've read quite a few accounts of that sort of doctor going bankrupt...unless they were being supported by the specialists, to whom they were referring patients who needed procedures or other expensive care.
by tzs | 2025-10-07 08:38:35+00:00
My guess, having only looked at the text of the law but not into any of the legislative history, is that it was for technical reasons. This is based on how they worded it. The text says it applies to "a television station, cable operator, or other multi-channel video programming distributor".

This suggests they were thinking of linear television. Some searching tells me that in fact this is how it was apparently interpreted, for when it was applied to cable TV it was not applied to on-demand cable programming. It was just applied to the regular cable channels.

With linear TV everything is prepared in advance. When they sell an ad slot they know what program they will be showing at the time. There's plenty of time to match the ad volume to the program volume, which I suspect in 2010 could not be reasonably automated.

With on-demand you don't know what programs the ad will be in until the program actually starts. You could potentially be showing that ad in thousands of different programs at approximately the same time. If the level adjustments could not reasonably be completely automated this may have been impractical.
by pilaf | 2025-10-07 08:38:46+00:00
Last I heard they were planning to move to Swift [1] partly because of the safety features. Apparently there are still some blockers [2] preventing that move though.

1: https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031

2: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/933
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 08:39:40+00:00
> junk being in everyone's orbits

It takes a lot of energy to change orbital planes. Debris tend to stay in constrained orbits (usually their original ones). If the upper stages are in the birds’ orbits (which is a big if), the debris will all tend to stay there.

> they have the capabilities to do it in a more targeted manner

But not plausibly deniable. My point is China is leaving the front door open to shenanigans by leaving high-energy mass next to its birds. (If, again, it is.)
by baobun | 2025-10-07 08:40:40+00:00
In general, on the incoming side you have two options: Have all the mail sent to one server (pointing all MX records to the same place), or using something to sync messages in place from a remote (in cases where you want to keep the primary mailbox on another server for whatever reason).

Similarly on the SMTP: You can send directly yourself or use separate relays for individual domains.

Then I guess it's up to you if you want to keep inboxes compartmentantalized and duplicated (internal forwarding) or suck them all into one place directly (aliasing).

Reasonable mail clients will allow you to add multiple sender aliases and map them when you reply.

You can set up e.g. dovecot and postfix yourself or use one of the many appliance projects out there (docker-mailserver, mailinabox, mailu, mailcow, I'm sure there are others). Or if self-hosting is not an option, providers should slso support adding domains to your account (usually for a pretty penny).
by atoav | 2025-10-07 08:40:41+00:00
Pdoc is great. I love it.

But there is one blemish.

They write on documenting variable assignments which don't support pythons __doc__ string:

> To compensate, pdoc will read the abstract syntax tree (an abstract representation of the source code) and include all assignment statements immediately followed by a docstring

I can't really understand that. I am programming Python for 14 years now, and any real codebase I have ever seen documents variables above their declaration. Even if there is some technical reason for it, if I saw a python developer comment what a variable declaration means below that declaration I would at least question their taste.

To me that particular implementation is so bad, that I would prefer pdoc without it.
Ask HN: Infra engineer is boring and I want to start with development
by shivajikobardan | 2025-10-07 08:40:48+00:00
I started my career as a technical support engineer. I then started homelabbing and learning Infrastructure Engineering and Operations. But soon I realized this is all boring(it is not a creative profession at all. You get some adrenaline rush solving simple but critical issues on production but that is about it. No creativity is required.). I am looking to enter backend developer route as a Java Dev. But I already have 2.5 years of technical support engineer experience. How can I plan the switch?

I have been learning Java basics and oops since 1+ year ago(without thinking of being a java developer in mind, just wanted to boost my programming skills). Now I am torn between two paths.

Learn devops/modern sysadmin

OR

Learn development with spring boot(It is the widely used technology here in country).

I need to invest in a new computer if I were to learn intermediate devops which will cost me 600 bucks. I feel like it is a pure waste of money without having a job to do that.

But I do not need anything to learn spring boot development.

I am currently free whole day. What path should I seek that would give me higher ROI in the long run?
by defrost | 2025-10-07 08:41:19+00:00
> But where are those resources?

There's a service for that, sold to S&P a decade or so back now:

https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/industries/m...

> we have relatively cheap lithium batteries mostly because we exploit third-world countries (often including child-labor)

Citation needed, there's no child labour at Greenbushes and other large global production sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_mining_in_Australia

Children are less effective at mining than massive excavators and 100 tonne HaulPaks.

> Had lithium to be extracted paying regular wages i doubt it would be as cheap as it is today.

Pay and conditions at largest hard rock lithium mine globally: https://calculate.fairwork.gov.au/payguides/fairwork/ma00001... https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/awards/awa...

Basic weekly pay rates ~ $1,000 (AU) .. plus public holiday and Sunday loading, increases for specialized skills, Night shift rates, trade skills, more paid vacation time than in the US, long service leave, etc.

--

Currently a good many lithium mines are shuttered, closed down until the market demand rises, after many of them were opened in anticipation of much greater demand.

Moreover, lithium batteries are not essential to the problem of large scale grid storage; they are energy per kilogram of weight efficient and ideal for cars and battery power on the go; for grid storage there are much heavier batteries that deliver less energy per kilogram .. and that doesn't matter as the battery farms don't move.
by elcritch | 2025-10-07 08:41:23+00:00
Great links and even briefly skimming them makes me lean more towards zoonosis myself.

However, @hackingonempty's comment shows how dangerous over politicising these topics can be. Claiming lab-accident origin as a conspiracy theory stifles debates like the one linked.

Take a report from the first link where experts in the field still give a 21% chance to lab leak definitely takes it out of the range of conspiracy theories.

The only reason it was "removed" as a plausible origin was politics.

> asked how likely it is that COVID-19 originated from natural zoonosis, experts gave an average likelihood of 77% (median=90%). In fact, four out of five experts stated that a natural zoonotic origin was more than 50% likely. > However, consensus was not complete. Across all experts, the average likelihood they gave for a research-related accident origin was 21%. Overall, one out of five experts reported a 50% or greater chance for an origin other than natural zoonosis.
by cess11 | 2025-10-07 08:41:43+00:00
An intern of mine recently took the jump from Windows to Linux Mint. She managed to figure out the installation and configuration, and now she's very, very pleased with having passed that hurdle.

Everything feels faster, and to her it was a wow-experience to have office software without the hassle of payments. According to her the only drawback is that some games and gaming clients don't work, notably the Riot client, but enough do work that she's satisfied anyway. She found she prefers Thunderbird to Outlook and the package catalog is much nicer than both the MICROS~1 application store and ye olde 'download and double click this binary, hope you won't forget to uncheck the spyware checkbox!' style of program management.

Next project is to get my CEO to make the switch.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-07 08:42:18+00:00
> One has to remember that "open-source" does not necessarily mean "community".

> But the issue tracker is so overwhelmed by slop, non-Latin scripts, and people who think their personal problems (or AI model problems) are the product's problems

The internet used to have a community feel. But that is very easily destroyed by this kind of "dark forest" behavior; everyone learns that opening yourself to the world is opening yourself to attack.
by cgsmith | 2025-10-07 08:44:53+00:00
I shared this article with my sister. Unfortunately I have lost faith in most people to read the full article. Within 30 seconds of sending the article she responds with "Sadly I don't know two languages! So we will focus on english together"

To me the point is to toss as much at the brain as possible. Not limit yourself or your child with monoculture.
by inemesitaffia | 2025-10-07 08:45:17+00:00
I don't even want him to entertain my data or observations.

He can go to or recruit a user in territories that can be only served via laser in 2025,(I've listed 10 at least so far) install a computer that boots to desktop and remotely test his theories.

His base argument is no one can hold a phone call or run a game without interruptions every 120 seconds on Starlink if they are served via lasers (two more countries, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia) not because of packet drops but because of session terminations. Now I can understand the possibility of broken middle boxes, but the thing is we'd see the effect in our applications before even bringing out any network analysis tools.

He's also skipped the users doing BGP over the lasers. Doesn't BGP have sessions?

Why did this country https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=602234895877639&vanity=61560... switch to a product that's so bad it's unusable
by mike_hearn | 2025-10-07 08:45:56+00:00
Look at their advisory. It says:

> Use of cryptographic integrity protection mode of Intel® Total Memory Encryption - Multi-Key (Intel® TME-MK) can provide additional protection against alias-based attacks, such as those outlined in the Battering RAM paper. This feature is available on 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® processors (formerly codenamed Emerald Rapids) and Intel® Xeon® 6 processor family with P-cores (formerly codenamed Granite Rapids).

I guess it depends how you interpret "additional protection". But look at the website. They say none of their attacks work on TDX. Only "Scalable SGX".

However, TME-MK is indeed still vulnerable to other kinds of attacks like replay attacks. It isn't going to be as strong as the original SGX design. Unfortunately, as I explain in my other comment, the original SGX design is a kind of theoretical ideal that expects people to make software redesign efforts to benefit from it and the market just has no stomach for much extra spending on security or privacy right now.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-10-07 08:46:33+00:00
> No, it is because I too lived in Poland, have a ton of friends and family there and know from first had experience what Poland looked like under Russian occupation.

And how from this experience follows anything that you postulated before?

My great grandfather was in three German camps, Auschwitz among them, and I do not produce from this fact any theory on German foreign policy, or politics in general. That would be quite silly.

> The EU was preceded by several other institutions which had absolutely nothing to do with the United States.

ECSC in 1951 was created due to US encouragement and active involvement. US was preventing France from enacting more severe reparation policies after WW2, US was pushing UK to go against traditional British policy of preventing mainland Europe from any unification, US was making sure Germany will be part of any initiative (France was reluctant, UK even more so) etc. We can add to that the Marshall Plan as well. Of course nothing of that wasn't motivated by charity of the US, and it doesn't mean that there were no forces internal to Europe that also pushed for closer cooperation, but it doesn't change facts that are a bitter pill for some euro enthusiasts. History usually brings bitter pills for those that think it ended.

Unless you mean Holy Roman Empire as a predecessor of the EU, then sure, you are right.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-07 08:48:16+00:00
QNX was recently on hackernews but I didn't actually look at it but I will give it a go, thanks!

My reasoning for why I like tiny core linux if I am honest is that it doesnt have a web browser so if I am studying there I would be studying there...

Except it was so fun to mess with things in the terminal there and opening up my mac for the browser to learn more about tiny core linux and trying to build scripts that it was so fun...

but they can easily be removed and created a new iso for if I want in the future as well but I will definitely look more into QNX. Wish it was on something like copy.sh for easy trying I suppose but if possible I will try to run it in something like quickemu or copy.sh iso way and let you know the easiest way to run it and what are my thoughts if I don't procastinate lol. Have a nice day.
by FlynnLivesMattr | 2025-10-07 08:48:36+00:00
Hey Carl! This is the first I'm hearing of Obscura. After doing a deep dive into your product, it looks to be a very fascinating privacy tool. However, I'm concerned with your operating under US jurisdiction, as detailed by others here:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/20059-obscura-vpn-and-mullv...

While I understand potentially not wanting to incorporate in the EU (with Chat Control on the horizon) nor Switzerland (due to their own non-EU-related privacy backslide), why still select the US, which historically other privacy tools have largely avoided? It feels like you're already shooting yourself in the foot, whereas you'd be good in the EU should Chat Control not pass. While it's great that you verifiably can't see a user's internet traffic, you're one US court order away from a forced compromising of the service for a user (or at least, giving up the connecting IP). Historically, EU court orders have been easier and more transparently fought by privacy tools.

Non sequitur, it would be great if you prioritized accepting Monero as payment, like your exit hop Mullvad. Also, how much control do we have over the features Mullvad offers (e.g. DAITA, quantum resistance, DNS filters, IPv6, integration with Mullvad Browser)?
by close04 | 2025-10-07 08:48:42+00:00
It doesn't matter if it's accurate or not, such judgements are made by most people every day. Someone who was professionally formed somewhere has a higher probability of ties to them later on. Being intelligence services this might be even more true.

In today's political climate where people around the world see Israel judging (and sentencing, and carrying out the punishment) every Palestinian as terrorists, I think this wide brush of judging Israelis on their ties with the IDF is probably widely accepted as "only fair". When it comes to Unit 8200 the implications are even stronger.

But I don't get the US public school system reference. You have to start with a baseline and if you see a private Ivy League school on someone's CV and a random public school on someone else's I'm sure you'll probably make the obvious assumption about which one is better, even if sometimes the obvious is wrong.
by ggm | 2025-10-07 08:49:22+00:00
A very hard sell to cultures aiming for billionaires rather than a tide lifting all boats. That said, not all of Europe is a success story, it's patchy. But I overwhelmingly agree with the sentiment. The welfare state is a massive success story, compared to what came before.

Will Europe survive the necessary rearming and the swing to a strongly defensive eastern border? Or will the tensions between member states be exploited to tear it apart?