MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toast0 | 2025-10-25 18:58:43+00:00
Sure, but if you're forward looking, the rules could change and it's not predictable.

This kind of a memo is a useful CYA. An interpretation of the current situation and likely risk factors, and when the situation changes in the future, an artifact that justifies their current non-compliance. Will Ofcom/courts accept it and not require compliance if the situation changes? No, but it might eliminate or reduce penalties for non-compliance.
by neom | 2025-10-25 18:58:55+00:00
Thank you for your reply. Extremely interesting to me. My thinking and memory is pure motion picture and sound, it makes me think that I could be good at geometry as I can do spatial thinking well, however the downside of my thinking style is I've never been able to find a framework that allows me to hold fine detail symbols in space and work with them usefully, I suppose hence dyslexia + dyscalculia diagnosis. Maybe people like me who are in math use whiteboards and notes a lot or something? Maybe people like me don't go into maths so much. Imagination of touch is also very interesting, I've read about kinetic leaners before, I like to touch things when I'm learning as it helps with the recall later, but absolutely zero sense of touch is present in the recall. Sorry for the massive tangent, I'm just very curious about this stuff!
by benzible | 2025-10-25 19:01:15+00:00
I'm sure that's true, but your personal experience as [presumably] rank-and-file wouldn't have given you visibility into C-suite machinations. The ruling in the App Store case this year documented that Cook personally overruled Schiller's compliance recommendations, made the decision to violate the judge's court order on fees, and then tried to hide those meetings from the court - resulting in contempt findings and a criminal referral. Those are top-down decisions, on the record, with executives lying about it, which wouldn't have been known outside the inner sanctum but for this case. Not at all consistent with "trust", in a matter that directly harms consumers.

Regarding the basis of Apple's market cap, I would suggest that profitability ranks a bit higher than privacy. Apple's potential tariff burden was $44 billion annually, reduced to $7 billion after Cook plied the mad king with flattery, gold and cash. Apple had lost $300 billion in market value before Trump exempted smartphones, then immediately regained its $3 trillion market cap.

Privacy is nice brand positioning, but the truth behind it was always that Apple wasn't beholden to "surveillance capitalism" like the other tech behemoths as hardware was their primary profit center. This allowed them to take the high ground on this one, while coincidentally kneecapping Meta and others with App Tracking Transparency - which cost Meta an estimated $10 billion in 2022 alone and hit Google as well. But ATT only blocks third-party tracking across apps and websites - it doesn't apply to Apple's own growing advertising business, which uses first-party data from the App Store, Apple News, etc. Apple claims they don't "track users across apps and websites owned by other companies" - but they absolutely track within their own walled garden for their expanding ad business.

And the iOS 26 removal of Pegasus/Predator detection artifacts right as ICE activates Paragon spyware contracts? Maybe a coincidental bug, maybe what happens when keeping Trump happy is worth tens of billions.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-10-25 19:01:39+00:00
Question for people who actually write app and SQL code: besides convenience, what is the upside of working with JSON in SQL over having your app construct and parse JSON objects, but storing the data in a database using more primitive types? My relatively inexperienced brain is telling me that it’s probably over complex to store and manipulate JSON objects at the DB level.
Ask HN: Advice for creating a USB device linking 2 computers
by WorldDev | 2025-10-25 19:01:51+00:00
I want to build a little device that connects two computers together via usb, and send keystrokes from one to the other.

(I would use it to use a laptop keyboard on a headless computers).

I am looking for an easy solution, it does not have to be the cheapest.

ChatGPT points me to Arduino, but as far as I can see, there's no arduino with 2 usb ports. It also points me to Raspery pi zero, but that's a computer, not a microcontroller, so not sure if it's suitable.

If anyone with experience can give me some pointers, it would be greatly appreciated!
by bgwalter | 2025-10-25 19:01:56+00:00
You can modify the posted script to eliminate global variables:

def f(): l = [0] for i in range(100000000): l += [2] return l x = f() print(x[0])

Timings:

3.9: 8.6s 3.14: 8.7s 3.14 (free-threading): 11.6s

3.14 is not faster than 3.9 and the free-threading build is 33% slower.
by bruce511 | 2025-10-25 19:02:02+00:00
It's helpful to include the year in the article header because;

Everything may have been true at the time of writing, but details may be obsolete. For example this article refers to Neo4j. Knowing the article is 4 years old helps me understand that comment is not current.

The landscape can change quickly. The older an article the more one takes that into account. Given that this article promotes an alternative technique, Knowing the article is old allows me to wonder if any of the suggestions were gelled, and if so to what success.

In this case, since SQL has been around since the 70s, it's not surprising that the complaints are not novel, and are all likely to be true for years to come. SQL has truly enormous inertia on its side though.
by laurencerowe | 2025-10-25 19:02:13+00:00
> my React sentiments at the time seemed to be relatively common: React felt like a breath of fresh air.

This was exactly how I felt. I building a Backbone app around the time React was released. It was only around 2600 lines of JS at the time but event handling and state management already felt like a tangled mess.

Porting it to React was a huge improvement even at that scale and really paid off over the next 5 years of development.
Show HN: Cooky' Recipe manager with automatic nutrition tracking
by dortal | 2025-10-25 19:02:35+00:00
I built a recipe manager that automatically shows nutrition info for any recipe. Import from websites or photos, create healthier versions, and keep everything organized across devices.

The trickiest part was handling unit conversions accurately—turns out 1 cup of flour and 1 cup of sugar have very different weights!

100% free, available on web and iOS. Looking for feedback!
by nesarkvechnep | 2025-10-25 19:02:44+00:00
I hold a very unpopular opinion of GraphQL. I think it’s a great internal querying API. Every web backend project I’ve worked on tries to implement an API for querying data and it’s usually either fast and inflexible or flexible but slow. GraphQL allows to strike a balance, flexible and reasonably fast, with ways to optimise further.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-25 19:02:50+00:00
Yeah, loldrivers are a thing because any signed driver can load, vuln drivers with ELAM .. I don't know of any, I believe they're quite rare.

You have a good point with attack surface, but apple has a pretty robust system already for ensuring boot and lock security that doesn't rely on EL0/El1 security. I'm sure you know more than me about higher EL's like EL3 and secure world code that can take care of all that. I'm pretty sure they don't have to issue new signing keys either, matter of fact, why let even 3rd parties do this, apple themselves could expose a memory and file system dumping api without involving third parties. That way, they could sanitize away anything they consider sensitive as well. They can also require that the commands be issued over a physical/authorized usb connection.

Point is, there are very legitimate are critical cases where memory and file system forensics could be critical. From what little chatter I've heard, forensic software today is resorting to exploitation of the devices and those exploits tend to be abused for other reasons too.
by nabla9 | 2025-10-25 19:02:54+00:00
The arrest warrants are as solid as humanly possible.

Before the arrest warrant by the Judge, before the ICC prosecutor even attempted to ask for arrest, they asked second opinion from a Panel of Experts in International Law that included top experts, including Theodor Meron; Hebrew University (M.J.), Harvard Law School (LL.M., J.S.D.) and Cambridge University (Diploma in Public International Law) who was once was a legal adviser of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then Israeli Ambassador in Canada, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and so on.

The panel unanimously agreed with the prosecutor.
by churchill | 2025-10-25 19:03:50+00:00
That's a lot of fancy words to say, "America is a rogue regime that believes might makes right despite all the human rights, morals, and God bless America bullshit."

I actually don't mind tyranny on some level if I can't do anything against them. it just feels good having the mask of righteousness & honor fall off so that the world can see the ugly, unvarnished, hypocritical beast under the makeup.
by dapperdrake | 2025-10-25 19:04:12+00:00
I didn’t like this piece of advice myself back when I got it, but it was worth it:

Start with introductory physical unix handbooks that cover user permissions, fork(2), and exec(2).

Oddly enough containers only add something like a git-fs-chroot and network-chroot on top. The principles are all still the same.

Like I said, I didn’t like this answer either until I read a few of the books.
by mitjam | 2025-10-25 19:04:16+00:00
Idk if this is the reference but it’s in the same direction:

„ These days, when entrepreneurs pitch at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm, there’s a high chance their startups are running on Chinese models. “I’d say there’s an 80% chance they’re using a Chinese open-source model,” notes Martin Casado, a partner at a16z.“ —- https://ixbroker.com/blog/china-is-quietly-overtaking-americ...
by MountDoom | 2025-10-25 19:04:17+00:00
I find it weird that you single out Bush. After 9/11, a military conflict was pretty much politically inevitable. The decision to expand to Iraq was stupid, but did it really shake up the post-1991 neoliberal consensus? Or was it just its final flex - "with this one trick, we can finally fix the Middle East"?

I think Russia deserves a lot of credit. It started long before Crimea. They had a military incursion into Georgia, secured a pro-Kremlin dictator in Belarus, nearly got away with the same in Ukraine and some other neighboring republics - all while buttering up the EU with energy deals. I think the European and American (non-)response to that was the death knell of that "rules-based" worldview.

While Russia acted belligerently, China played the long game to cement its geopolitical influence and make itself "too big to fail".

If there was a domestic inflection point in the US and in the EU, I think that was actually the housing crisis / the sovereign debt crisis around 2007-2009. That really undermined the optimism about supranational institutions.
Show HN: Scriptover – An AI Tool to Help Vets Focus on Patients, Not Paperwork
by iman613 | 2025-10-25 19:04:17+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on Scriptover, a multimodal AI assistant that helps veterinarians create SOAP notes (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan) from real client conversations, images, and lab data.

The idea came from my brother, a hospital director in California, who was spending hours each night writing notes after long days at the clinic. I wanted to see if AI could help vets reclaim that time while keeping medical reasoning accurate and transparent.

Scriptover listens, interprets, and structures cases into clear, editable records — helping clinicians focus more on patients and less on paperwork.

You can try it here → https://www.scriptover.com

Happy to hear thoughts or feedback from anyone building applied AI or working on healthcare workflow tools.

Cheers, Iman
by archi42 | 2025-10-25 19:06:18+00:00
> I do not see anyone being willing to put the effort in to build a different community.

There is a small community on Discord: https://discord.gg/tfPVDGQuYm

To manage expectations: It is less active than the official channel of course, but then it is not as old as the official TG groups and it's not exactly endorsed by the developer (e.g. it's not linked to on the Valetudo website as an independent/alternate support platform). But it's an option to discuss Valetudo and related topics, and get some support if the official way doesn't work out.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with that Discord, I just happen to hang out there.
by jamesbelchamber | 2025-10-25 19:06:45+00:00
To steel-man this - the public have become more wary of the internet's influence on society generally: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/technology/trackers/how-optimist...

If you consider all we know about the excesses and influences of big tech companies, and then blunt that down to a more lay perspective, it's pretty easy to understand why we've landed up here.

People have lost faith in us.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-25 19:06:53+00:00
> arrest warrants are as solid as humanly possible

This isn’t a debate around this international law, but international law broadly.

The ICC has no jurisdiction in America, Russia or China. Nor India, Pakistan, Indonesia and a host of other states. Most of the world’s population and most of the world’s economy isn’t subject to it. (Even those who are find convenient excuses for not enforcing its warrants.)

International law experts will agree these warrants are legal because per international law they are. The broader debate being missed is what role international law has to play in a multipolar world. Historically, and by that I mean Metternich’s peace, the law that matters in multipolar international politics is only that which the great powers agree to, and only so long as they agree to it.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-25 19:06:56+00:00
Not choosing exactly what words you want to use is something very different than not completing a thought IMO. When you speak you may not know exactly which words you're going to use to communicate an idea, but you already know the idea that you're communicating. By contrast LLMs have no such concept as an idea - only words.

And it's also important that language and words are just another invention of humanity. We achieved plenty before we had any meaningful language whatsoever. At the bare minimum we reproduced - and think about all that's involved in forming a relationship, having a child, and then successfully raising that child for them to go on and do the same, all without any sort of language. It emphasizes that ideas and language are two very different concepts, at least for humans.
by churchill | 2025-10-25 19:07:06+00:00
Stop the self-deception. America hates accountability so much that it has laws on the books guaranteeing that it'll invade the Hague (killing thousands of Dutch citizens, inevitably) if US servicemembers are ever detained there for crimes against humanity.

This is just a rogue state going mask-off.

Imagine if China or Russia even suggested the same willingness during a press conversation, let alone making a law to that effect.
by sunscream89 | 2025-10-25 19:08:05+00:00
It is all very amusing however the true reason they are ineffective breaks your science.

The idea of the foil hat does not come from an age of satellites and CIA. It was written in a book before tinfoil existed. This was mentioned in a past HN post on the topic, of which there was more vigorous debate.

The truth of all of this, which does break your science, is better referred to the well known oddity of the CIA Stargate programs.

These programs are cargo cult, however Power is real. Through “Power”, which is the entanglement of our consciousness, humans can actually travel among networks of other minds. The Stargate program falsely described the effect as through the “holographic universe”, which is technically a lie covering up the “holographic consciousness” of which third party masters may curate our every experience like a waking dream.

So these early foil hat ideas came from earlier times knowing some rare humans do have the ability to hear the thoughts of others, however the mechanism was not fully understood.

Our entanglement of consciousness (and therefore the ability for those sensitive to hear our thoughts) does spread through telemetric propagation. Once established however these links may be maintained at a distance through a special meditative techniques, others may use you as their John Malkovich.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-25 19:08:12+00:00
> ICC is not failed implementation

As a global institution it certainly has. It has no jurisdiction over most of the world, and has net lost signatories since its birth [1]. And even where it has jurisdiction, it’s unceremoniously ignored [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_parties_to_the_Rome_Sta...

[2] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241127-france-says-n...
by bb88 | 2025-10-25 19:08:21+00:00
Let's criticize their behavior then.

Police have a long history of racial profiling. Driving while black. Walking while black. And in this case, carrying a bag of empty Doritos while black. They often are taught to "secure by force" rather than "de-escalate and investigate". And if they do violate your rights, so what? They have qualified immunity.

On the issue of guns, if you are white and republican, you can walk around the Idaho Statehouse with a loaded AR-15 without any issue whatsoever. It's only at the moment the gun goes off is when there's a problem.

Here's a fun story where a 11 year old girl carried an AR-15 to the Idaho Statehouse.

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/capitol-watch/girl-1...
by bobthepanda | 2025-10-25 19:08:28+00:00
at least from what i've seen, most Americans now live in communities where even if they wanted to there are an increasing lack of places to just hang out, particularly if you don't want booze involved.

the real estate shortage is driving two effects; places not optimized for revenue are being priced out of existence, and workers need higher wages to pay housing costs which squeezes these places further and results in things like shorter operating hours even if full closure doesn't happen.
by drdaeman | 2025-10-25 19:08:31+00:00
One surely can be charged with anything. What I'm trying to say is that tampering or compromising safety of the flight are IMHO highly improbable charges that are very unlikely to appear, and even less likely to stick. Hell, I strongly suspect airline is going to defend the hacker in this scenario, because they absolutely wouldn't want anyone (especially FAA) to ever think their firewall bug can affect flight safety.

I think it's well-known that entertainment systems have to be isolated from main systems of the aircraft. I'm not an expert, but I know that it was the case that IFEs weren't safe, plane(s) went down because of that, so we no longer do that.

All this said, I totally agree with you that there is a non-negligible chance that abusing the network policies could lead to some charges, possibly even criminal charges. Or, at the very least, lead to some unpleasantness that surely isn't worth 30 bucks. Just not the charges you're mentioning.
by helicone | 2025-10-25 19:10:06+00:00
I don't think they care one way or the other. They haven't ever been profitable, and so they're likely going to build up data and pull the rug on all of their users by suddenly declaring themselves a data broker. They won't try this against companies that can afford to sue, but most of their users will probably start to get even more creepily targeted ads directed at them.
by zkmon | 2025-10-25 19:10:15+00:00
So I guess the author is trying to help a decision maker to make a decision when faced with a question of whether to use SQL or not. But in reality that question would be settled by other factors and contextual reasons rather than the arguments provided by the author.

For instance, analytics usecases favor SQL stores, as slicing and dicing is better done with row or column stores instead of document databases.

Also, Postgres is getting more popular for lot of usecases, so SQL is here to stay.
by sersi | 2025-10-25 19:10:22+00:00
My son goes to an AMI accredited school with AMI accredited teachers only. In general parents in elementary rave about the school. However, we did talk to a few parents whose kids are in elementary that had the same problem with mathematics. Their kids weren't interested in Math and they didn't do as much as they could do. The teacher did try to push a bit and the kids didn't do no mathematics but they were easily one year below what they should be. One of our close friend who had that specific problem with his daughter solved it easily with tuition but complains that it shouldn't be the case.

In kindergarten (casa), there's a lot of structure with individualised work and a child is unlikely to have gaps in a specific subject. On the other hand, I think that in elementary with the stronger focus on group projects, it's easier for certain subject to fall by the wayside if a student doesn't particularly care for them.
by FlameRobot | 2025-10-25 19:11:17+00:00
That happens on car repair vids as well. I like this channel for example:

https://www.youtube.com/c/WatchWesWork

He fixes up a lot of different type of vehicles and actually explains in detail what he is doing. A lot of car stuff is just people like do a dyno test of like suped up car, I don't find it very interesting. I end up just blocking those channels.

I really think that people are nitpicking a system that works reasonably well for the most part.
by DougMerritt | 2025-10-25 19:11:40+00:00
For the languages that we westerners regard as having very exotic grammars -- not like Chinese, which is comparatively straightforward, but like the aboriginal languages of Australia -- AFAIK there's no experience on such subjects yet.

For the world's most common/famous languages (English, Mandarin, Portuguese, etc) there's every reason to think that it's just a question of how much training data is available for training up an LLM.

In particular note that the Chinese experiments with their Deepseek LLM technology does well with both Mandarin and English, which all by itself is fairly illustrative.

If "exotic" grammars turned out to pose a major problem for LLMs, that would possibly challenge some of the most mainstream theories about linguistics, so I regard that as unlikely.
by papanoah | 2025-10-25 19:11:53+00:00
It sends a different message, in my opinion. Blocking means "I disagree, but lets figure it out and work together to get it over the finish line". "I don't approve, but someone else can" is very non-commital. Which gives me the feeling of being left alone with a bunch of critique, without appreciation for the work that I have originally done. I would wish my reviewer takes responsibility for his/her feedback. "I don't approve, but someone else can" also means to me "Merge it, if you must. If it works out, good for you, I havent blocked it. If it doesnt work out, I get to say 'See, I told you so!'.
by necovek | 2025-10-25 19:12:02+00:00
You are right, but your mom would easily benefit from someone else who would be able to fix that: free software relies on the fact that someone "able" is at least not looking to hurt you, which is, for a popular enough software, a given.

For software that is not popular enough, you are right that in practice, your mom wouldn't be able to do anything other than stop using the software.

But of course FOSS is not perfect, it's just a way to empower your users: nothing more, nothing less.
by YZF | 2025-10-25 19:12:04+00:00
But those endpoints are abstractions. Don't we want control over the surface of the API and our abstractions? If you let the client tell the server what the abstractions are in run-time you've just lost control over that interface?

As I was saying, there might be some situations where that's the right thing, but in general it seems you want to have a well controlled layer there the specifies the contract between these pieces.