MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JCM9 | 2025-10-03 12:38:32+00:00
The current bubble is getting scary. When this thing pops the blast it’s going to be a real mess. The big tech firms will hurt, fire some execs in a show of “making changes,” do a bunch of layoffs across “AI” teams to show the market they’re pivoting and getting costs in order, and move on. The startups ecosystem will suffer extensive and catastrophic damage.

The funding ecosystem will be set back years as this wipes out a bunch of VCs and investors. Some of the “AI startups” will be sold in fire sales for parts so investors can at least minimize losses and most of the rest will vaporize, the likes of which we haven’t seen since financial firms imploded in 2008.

I hope I’m wrong, but the most experienced trusted folks I know are already repositioning themselves to weather the upcoming storm.
by everdrive | 2025-10-03 12:38:44+00:00
It's also worth noting that every little ecosystem acts as if:

1) You actually care to learn their ecosystem in the first place. 2) You don't have to learn tens or hundreds of other ecosystems.

This shows up all over the tech space, and no one seems to recognize that I don't want to learn another UI, to learn other conventions, etc. It's all being pushed on us because teams just have this desperate, insane need to add a small bit of complexity every year until their product is an unwieldy mess. Attempts to "simplify" and "modernize" often go badly sideways as well.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 12:40:55+00:00
What's wrong with that? Does the United States not have US-only roads (that Mexican citizens in Mexico) can't drive on.

Those roads link Areas C. Either you know what that means so I don't need to explain it, or you don't know enough about the agreements between the PA and the state of Israel to discuss this. Just in case you are in the later camp, as I stated, there are Palestinian-only roads in Areas A. Those are found throughout the West Bank, everywhere. Only in a single place exists the Israeli-only road. So the argument about "Jew-only roads" is not only a lie, it is an inversion of true state of affairs.
by piltdownman | 2025-10-03 12:41:24+00:00
Here's a thought experiment to underline that, in case there's any confusion.

Q. How many times did any Countries hold islamic-only real-estate expos in Mosques for the former and future homes and territories of Jewish peoples either already dispossessed or planned to be dispossessed due to fundamentalist islamic occupation? _Zero_

Q. How many times did any Countries held jewish-only real-estate expos in Synagogues for the former homes and territories of Muslim peoples either already dispossessed or planned to be dispossessed due to zionist occupation? _Countless_

https://lapublicpress.org/2024/09/israeli-real-estate-fair-h...

https://halifax.citynews.ca/2024/03/07/palestine-is-not-for-...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-drawing-protests-in-othe...

https://www.laconverse.com/en/articles/les-coulisses-dun-sal...

They're now at the point where they're paying their contractors $1,500 a house demolished, and constantly inciting violent engagement so as to get the IDF involved and sanitise the area - most notably near the supposed humanitarian relief distribution points they're so fond of double-tap bombing.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250630-shocking-israeli-...

N.B. Israel is now concentrating on the remaining medical facilities, and has carried out at least 17 attacks on or in the vicinity of healthcare facilities in Gaza City since 16 September. (https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2078)

Three healthcare facilities—Al Quds Hospital, Al Rantisi Children’s Hospital, and the Medical Relief Health Centre—have all been directly hit, while further strikes were recorded in the vicinity of two more, Al Shifa Medical Complex and Al Ahli Hospital.

Currently, across the Gaza Strip, only 2000 hospital beds remain available, for a population of over 2 million people.
by pelzatessa | 2025-10-03 12:42:12+00:00
In the scenario with mailservers with PGP encrypted messages I did intend the messages to be encrypted client side, perhaps it was not clear enough. When I selfhost my own server (and my trusted friend selfhosts his), I can be completely sure that the encrypted messages will not be dumped either through storage or while relaying them. If sent PGP end-to-end encrypted messages through, say, gmail, then I'm not 100% sure that gmail won't store these messages somewhere and decrypt them whenever quantum computing becomes available for them.
by hackthenewsapp | 2025-10-03 12:42:13+00:00
Hi folks!

As a daily HN reader, I was spending hours trying to keep up with tech news. I'd see an interesting article with 300+ comments, want to dive in, but couldn't afford the time. I'd either skip it entirely or waste 30 minutes scrolling to find the good takes.

There had to be a better way.

What makes HackTheNews different:

- Dual AI summaries - Both the article AND the entire discussion thread get summarized (short + long versions) - Smart tagging - AI-generated tags help you discover stories by topic (AI, blockchain, security, etc.) - Real-time processing - Summaries generate as you browse, with live status updates - Advanced filtering - Filter by tags, AI processing status, sort by different criteria

This is my first SaaS product launch. I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback - both on the product itself and the commercial/business side of things. What works? What doesn't? What would you pay for? All insights welcome as I figure this out.

Also on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/hackthenews-app
by woooooo | 2025-10-03 12:42:46+00:00
Bro, I get that you care about Israel, but posting sophistry to Hacker News is not going to change the fundamentals.

Israel is going to be "the country that committed genocide" unless Israelis find a way to stop it. There's no "but you need to understand the complexities of the situation" when it comes to killing hundreds of thousands of defenseless civilians.
by lillecarl | 2025-10-03 12:42:53+00:00
I don't understand how all the authoritarian things he does keeps flying, isn't there any regulations in place to keep a crooked president in check? So much for "worlds greatest democracy". I prefer coalition governments which trade efficiency against "ultimate power".

Why doesn't Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Walmart, McDonald's and friends come together and tell him to go fuck himself?
by 1313ed01 | 2025-10-03 12:43:03+00:00
My current hobby project is for DOS. Runs everywhere, mostly thanks to DOSBox, and the API has not changed since 1994 and will never change. For something to run offline and to avoid being stuck forever maintaining code I think this is what I will stick to for most of my future projects as well.

It's not like any modern OS, or popular libraries/frameworks could not provide an equally stable (subset of an) API for apps, but sadly they don't.
by tim333 | 2025-10-03 12:43:06+00:00
Maybe we could have a separate version that was fonetik and regular and the kids could learn it? They could always use google translate to deal with texts in normal English like I do with most languages.

Edit - I looked up and there is a translation thing online.

"this is text translated to a phonetic version" goes to "ðɪs ɪz tɛkst trænzˈleɪtɪd tuː ə fəʊˈnɛtɪk ˈvɜːʒᵊn" in British pronunciation and "ðɪs ɪz tɛkst trænˈsleɪtɪd tu ə fəˈnɛtɪk ˈvɜrʒən" in American.

Not sure it's going to catch on.
by rco8786 | 2025-10-03 12:44:21+00:00
Oi vey. I used the example number that you gave. My sincerest apologies.

Bluntly, you’re misunderstanding the basic math of a wealth tax.

Consider that we already tax unrealized gains on real estate as an annually paid tax. The suggestion is to do the exact same thing for other types of assets. That’s it. It’s very simple, and we’re not talking about making billionaires poor. Just trying to make it so that people can't go from $1B to $100B net worth and pay no taxes, while the rest of us fork over 25%+ of our measly 6-figure incomes every year.
by throwaway_dang | 2025-10-03 12:45:13+00:00
Russia has about twice the steel output that Germany does, comparable to the United States (which has twice the population of Russia). Russia uses about twice the electricity that Germany does too.

Here's Germany doing its NATO exercises with broomsticks due to shortages

https://www.newsweek.com/germany-cant-explain-use-broomstick...

https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2018/0...

What was that you were saying about spewing bullshit?
by alias_neo | 2025-10-03 12:45:31+00:00
> people will stop buying them as they're close to useless as people have Smart TVs for the legal stuff

I don't know if by "people" you mean specifically the people who use them for illegal streams, but there are others of us who buy them.

I have a perfectly good high-end LG OLED TV that's now ~7-8 years old, and I wanted something with better performance (and newer WiFi standards) for streaming apps in 4K, I've used a couple of different boxes/dongles in that time and am currently using a Firestick 4K Max, it sort of does the job but of course it's advert-ridden and has AV sync issues, overall performance is ok, but the Prime Video app is still appallingly slow, Netflix runs great, Disney is ok, and the others are a variety of acceptable to poor.
by ehnto | 2025-10-03 12:45:35+00:00
Of course, but some technologies are more mature and stable, and maintaining those amounts to set and forget security updates, not rewriting functionality to keep up with changing features etc.

It's not a dichotomy though. If you build with cutting edge platforms, you'll suffer churn as things change underneath you. It's a choice you should make with awareness, but there's no right answer.

I prefer stable mature platforms for professional settings, because you can focus on the business problems and not the technology problems. It's the more fiscally responsible choice as well, given lower platform churn means less work that has no direct business value.
by tentahedronic | 2025-10-03 12:46:22+00:00
UNIX is proprietary too, and also a kinda large monolith. UNIX philosophy or UNIX way is just the standard lingo to describe using many single-purpose (usually command line) programs to accomplish your task, there's nothing more to it, so this AI tool definitely is UNIXy in this way. I'm not old enough to even remember if that was how folks even actually used UNIX systems most of the time back in the days, but it doesn't really matter, that's just how we talk these days.
by KronisLV | 2025-10-03 12:46:29+00:00
It will probably take a few days/week for some in depth benchmarks to start popping up.

The IBM article has this image showing that it's supposed to be a bit ahead of GPT OSS 120B for at least some tasks (horrible URL but oh well): https://www.ibm.com/content/dam/worldwide-content/creative-a...

So in general it's going to be worse than GPT-5 and also Sonnet 4.5, but closer to GPT-5 mini. At least you can run this on prem, but none of the others. Pretty good, could possibly replace Qwen3 for quite a few use cases!
by morcus | 2025-10-03 12:47:26+00:00
> But "fair source" cure is a new, unproven drug with serious side effects, all while ignoring the established, effective vaccine (strong copyleft GPL/AGPL and dual-licensing)

Can you explain this a bit more? I don't understand how this is true.

AFAIK AGPL only prevents someone from modifying your AGPL codebase without sharing that in turn, but if they're content to offer exactly the service you're offering without modification it's not an issue.

See for example Grafana, which is distributed under the AGPL but still has to handle competition from AWS and Azure that have managed Grafana offerings.
by bpt3 | 2025-10-03 12:47:54+00:00
LVT advocates just don't get it.

The author lists out 4 testable statements that a property tax should meet (which are valid IMO), yet doesn't recognize that an LVT fails to meet them!

There is an inherent relationship between what is built on a parcel and its surrounding parcels and the desirability (which greatly influences the value) of that parcel. That relationship makes an LVT fundamentally untenable.

On top of that, people with expensive improvements to their parcel should pay more in property tax, as at least some of that tax goes to fund what is effectively insurance for your improvements (emergency services at a minimum, and you could argue that high quality local government services in general are a form of insurance for the value of those assets).
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-03 12:48:07+00:00
For the really simple flat case with key / value pairs and no grouping or hierarchies, I would recommend that you still use the .NET configuration to define and read the config sources.

Then when you need to read a value, inject IConfiguration and call config.GetValue<string>("someKey") or config.GetValue<int>("otherKey") etc. to get values from it in a flat manner.

If you do that enough, you might extract common code or but some other class over it for related settings. At which point you might as well declare a DTO and use IOptions<T>

However what OP has is a whole 80 line workflow definition. I don't recommend storing that kind of thing in the .NET config system at all.

Then if such a large file has sensitive values such as passwords, it will need some find/replace templating system to substitute them from config. e.g. handlebars with "{{somePassword}}" in the file.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-03 12:48:20+00:00
For your weirdest claim:

> syndication noun

> syn·di·ca·tion

> the act of selling something (such as a newspaper column or television series) for publication or broadcast to multiple newspapers, periodicals, websites, stations, etc.

>> the syndication of news articles and video footage

( https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syndication )

The "syndication" in RSS refers to distributing the same content to many different readers.

Here's MDN: https://devdoc.net/web/developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/RSS/...

> This article provides a simple guide to using RSS to syndicate Web content.

Note that this is a guide to creating an RSS feed from the publisher's perspective. It is not possible for two feeds to be displayed together, or at all, on the publisher's end. How do you interpret the verb syndicate?
by dentemple | 2025-10-03 12:48:31+00:00
> After a “small number of clicks” the researchers encountered pornographic content ranging from women flashing to penetrative sex.

I (40m) don't think I've ever seen literal flashing or literal porn on TikTok, and my algorithm does like to throw in thirst content between my usual hobby stuff.

Are they making the claim that showing porn is a normal behavior for TikTok's algorithm overall, or are they saying that this is something that specifically pervasive with child accounts?
by thechao | 2025-10-03 12:48:31+00:00
Dang. My kids are just getting the hang of using ChatGPT as a way to generate random quizzes and additional homework problems; to the point where both of them just automatically use the AI to "fill in the gaps" each evening. (Prior to AI, additional HW was met with less enthusiasm than you'd think!) I told my wife that the billionaire class spent the last few decades cheating the tax system (and, thus, the education system) just to weirdly dump a trillion dollars into the AI ecosystem to build the world's finest tutors. I really hope that doesn't Go Away™.
by close04 | 2025-10-03 12:49:21+00:00
I own multiple FireTVs, Google’s Android TV, and an Apple TV and for almost everything I do the AppleTV is far ahead.

The only thing the FireTV had as an edge was the Xbox game streaming app which worked fine over WiFi6E. Otherwise it was absolutely ad-ridden, poor UI/UX, and Amazon’s apps suck on any platform. Since I no longer use the Xbox stuff, the stick and the older versions I have line the bottom of some drawer.

The Android TV turned out be almost as ad ridden as the Fire Stick and no obvious outstanding features. Works ok though. I wanted it to sideload some TV apps from another country to stream those TV channels. But the Android apks didn’t behave well on Android TV so into the drawer it went.

The AppleTV can’t run those apps either, they’re not in the store but at least it’s not showing ads and the UI/UX and performance are top notch. Integration with the rest of the Apple ecosystem really brings value to me. And that brings me to probably the most important point.

In the end what matters more is what ecosystem you are or want to be in. Unless you have a super specific requirement or ecosystem preference then generally I’d rank them Apple TV > Android TV > Fire Stick. Amazon doesn’t have an ecosystem to speak of so it hard to take it as a serious competitor to Google and Apple.
by instagib | 2025-10-03 12:50:06+00:00
Unverified developers can still use adb to install whatever they choose per the link:

“How does developer verification impact my use of Android Studio?

We are working to ensure these changes don’t have an impact on your day-to-day workflow so you can continue building your apps as smoothly as possible. Participating in developer verification will not affect your experience in Android Studio, the official IDE for Android app development. You will continue to be able to build and run an app even if your identity is not verified. Android Studio is unaffected because deployments performed with adb, which Android Studio uses behind the scenes to push builds to devices, is unaffected. You can continue to develop, debug, and test your app locally by deploying to both emulators and physical devices, just as you do now.”
by vorpalhex | 2025-10-03 12:50:15+00:00
Only about 20% of people deported have been rounded up by ICE, etc - the rest have chosen self deportation.

If I had to mind read the admin, I would imagine they intend ICE to go after the hardened criminals who, making a profit or being wanted, won't self deport under any circumstance.

Meanwhile most people who have just migrated illegally will generally self deport or do a really good job of blending in.

Obviously ICE is still going to sweep up anyone and everyone they can. The fed exists, and has always existed, to be a boot not a scalpel.

In theory local law enforcement is supposed to be the more targeted localized tool but because immigration enforcement has become partisan, they are either restricted from doing anything migration related or are going overboard to suck up to the fed.

Systems out of alignment grow more severe.
by danielspace23 | 2025-10-03 12:50:16+00:00
Fyne is an interesting library, and although I'm sure it can do a good job on the desktop, last time I tried it I was disappointed by how "meh" it works on mobile (Android in my case).

It does run, but I feel like it's more of a prototyping tool, or a tool for building internal apps. It's kinda slow, graphically inconsistent with the rest of Android, and it has little to no support for features like foreground services, the camera, and more.

I really hope they can improve, but with limited resources and funding, and such a wide scope, I'm not sure if they will ever be ready for more complex projects. In any case, best of luck to the devs!
by JCM9 | 2025-10-03 12:50:39+00:00
Perkins’ point is valid. It’s still shareholder assets and resources at the end of the day even if via a SPV. The banks did this sort of thing in the financial crisis with all sorts of subsidiaries and circular funding.

“Hey it’s OK that mortgage side business is going belly up but we bought that special insurance.”

“Cool, so who sells that insurance?”

“Um, actually I think we do via our other SPV”

“$&@!”

Not 100% analogy here but similar shenanigans where company A is taking out debt, to build a datacenter, to buy GPUs, to sell services to startup B that Company A gave cash to to buy said services. Startup B has no viable business model and implodes. Company A goes from looking like a genius to a financial nuclear waste dump almost overnight. It’s financial shell games all over again.
by diggan | 2025-10-03 12:50:46+00:00
> I hope I’m wrong

I kind of hope you're right. Any "hyped" industry/sector is bound to eventually needing to get back to reality, and focus on things that actually work, rather than spraying and praying prototypes and over-hyping them.

The individuals and companies building real products that actually improve something will stick around, either as they are, or at least as ideas, and most of the interesting stuff tends to happen when the hype dies down, as the builders continue as they were, but all the rest of the riffraff disappears.

There will still be a community and the ideas won't magically disappear, just smaller and more focused, which to me sounds like a much needed improvement over the current state of things.
by bena | 2025-10-03 12:51:38+00:00
Well, you came here to defend another poster. Your initial address wasn't to the story itself, the poster in question, etc.

And I even mentioned that even if he were autistic, it's never an excuse. A diagnosis is a tool for self-reflection, not a get-out-of-trouble-free card. So he's still shitty for using a diagnosis as a reason to be shitty.

People are taking OP's story at face value because it doesn't warrant investigation. It's minor enough that even if he were lying, it doesn't matter. The story is banal enough that it's likely happened to someone at some point. It doesn't require the display of credentials or anything like that. And no one is asking us to do anything about either side. Dude was just sharing an anecdote. That's why people are taking it at face value. Because to do otherwise is to dedicate too much energy to something that doesn't matter.
by teknopaul | 2025-10-03 12:52:12+00:00
Not being able to install and remove software on your computers was always going to be a problem.

Authoritarian tech companies were the precursor to authoritarian government. Via Theil.

Anyone who has ever been to a demo or protest saw that coming as soon as Apple announced the app store.

No one in USA did anything tho. And y'all faught hard against Europe trying. Turns out you were not an exception.
by piva00 | 2025-10-03 12:52:30+00:00
Isn't the problem the creditors exposed to the SPVs though?

Meta, and others might be shielded from it but there's someone on the other end of these debts, if the SPVs are accruing massive amounts of debt and go bankrupt there are lots of obligations that will go unfulfilled, bringing the whole house down.

It's quacking very similar to other accounting tricks, caham, financial engineering, to hide bad numbers somewhere else. CDSs and CDOs were a different mechanism with the same purpose: hide risk away into overly complex instruments.
by iLemming | 2025-10-03 12:52:49+00:00
What's your wish for? Navigating the chats more efficiently, or simply typing the messages? If the latter, why haven't you figured out a workflow where you do all your typing in Emacs, or whatever your choice of an editor is?

I have done that years ago and I just can't imagine my life without this feature. I never even try to type directly, anything longer than three words - in Slack, Browser, Teams, Outlook, whatever. There are packages like emacs-everywhere, but I don't use that. My technique is simple and I usually get it to work on every WM and system I use. It basically simulates Cmd|Ctrl+A & Ctrl+X, and via emacsclient opens a dedicated buffer and sends the text+PID. When done, pressing a key copypastes the text back into the app of the PID.

I can't recommend that enough - being able to use all the tools you have in your editor - completions, spellchecking, thesaurus, etymology lookup, translation and dictionaries, search of all kinds, etc., is absolute and pure joy.