MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dlubarov | 2025-10-29 18:23:56+00:00
Your speculation seems a bit farfetched - there's no evidence that intelligence collected by USS Liberty was hurting Israel, and if Israel's goal was to avoid scrutiny, attacking an expensive asset of the world's superpower would have been rather counterproductive.

Israel captured the Golan Heights because it had been used to shell Israeli communities for decades, and that continued even after Syria officially accepted the ceasefire. It would be unreasonable to expect Israel to tolerate that sort of aggression; no capable military would do so.
by grayrest | 2025-10-29 18:23:58+00:00
> I'm sure I could learn to be slightly faster on dvorak/colemak

As near as I can tell, people generally type at similar speeds regardless of layout. If you're aiming for speed typing [1], I can see it making a difference, but chances are you're not going to see much of a difference. I type on an alpha-thumb layout (Hands Down Vibranium, the R key is under my left thumb) on an ergo keyboard. It's like using a fountain pen versus a cheap ballpoint or a nice mechanical keyboard vs a membrane keyboard. The experience is nicer but it's not a fundamentally different process. Being on a weird setup, I was concerned about "what if my keyboard breaks", "what if I'm on a public computer", etc and the solution is just to not forget qwerty. I use the laptop keyboard every other day or so for something short like a comment and it's fine.

What my personal setup does let me do is have my wrists in a neutral position with my arms resting on chair armrests and no active muscle effort. Between the efficient layout and small keyboard I never need to move my hands at all. This means that my wrists are just as well positioned after 12 hours as they are at the start and that's what has been letting my stress injuries recover.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/KeyboardLayouts/comments/1lfu1xt/fi...
by croemer | 2025-10-29 18:24:00+00:00
"We have initiated the deployment of our 'last known good' configuration. This is expected to be fully deployed in about 30 minutes from which point customers will start to see initial signs of recovery. Once this is completed, the next stage is to start to recover nodes while we route traffic through these healthy nodes."

"This message was last updated at 18:11 UTC on 29 October 2025"
by array_key_first | 2025-10-29 18:24:23+00:00
Cloud is literally never cheaper, especially if you perform benchmarks.

Yes, EC2 might seem to be only 2.5 times the cost of storage... Except that, even if you buy the high speed storage, it's going to be 10x - 100x slower than bare metal. Which then means you can buy much slower drives, if you wanted to, and save a shit ton of money.
by tunesmith | 2025-10-29 18:24:44+00:00
Wonder how it compares with elkjs? I had written a few things that wrapped dot, which felt clunky, but have since had good success writing react components that use elkjs. Elkjs has a stupid amount of configuration options, some of which aren't very clearly documented, but I've been able to get decent output for use cases like argument mapping and choose-your-own-adventure maps.
by hackthemack | 2025-10-29 18:24:59+00:00
I much prefer just writing stuff for Luanti (formerly minetest).

You can, pretty much, get the Minecraft experience by downloading mods. Or just use the VoxeLibre game mod.

https://content.luanti.org/packages/Wuzzy/mineclone2/

The mods are written in lua and you can find the source code for most of them.

One I like is Zoonami which turns the experience into a Pokemon like game.

https://content.luanti.org/packages/isaiah658/zoonami/
by strbean | 2025-10-29 18:25:02+00:00
I loved the touch bar once I realized all the first party applications actually had useful customizations for it.

When you used the Terminal app, there was literally a "man" button that would open the relevant man page (for whatever command you currently had typed) in a new window.

Actually an awesome feature if application authors got on board.

Making the power button part of the bar instead of a physical button sucked though.
by keybored | 2025-10-29 18:25:21+00:00
> I have never heard this term before,

> > In Spanish, the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (English: Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts), published by the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, recommends the genderless term estadounidense (literally United Statesian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonyms_for_the_United_States

> , but to clarify what I mean

You’re restating your point while not responding to the point that OP brought up.
by elicash | 2025-10-29 18:25:41+00:00
What distinguishes AI slop customer support from the previous enshittification of customer service is that previously if you wanted to avoid the garbage chat support you could get on the phone and -- even if you had to go through a phone tree -- you could at least eventually ask a person about the problem.

But now, even if it's possible to get a person on the phone, THAT PERSON is just doing the AI chatbot on their end. By talking to a human, you're just adding a middleman who is accessing the same incorrect chatbot that's available to you.
by nicoles | 2025-10-29 18:25:45+00:00
This is nearly bang on correct. The pieces don't contain any electronics or sensors, they have a conductive pattern built into the surface using specialized materials and a manufacturing technique we developed in house. Our custom software stack processes the raw data from the device's touch sensor using embedded ML on the NPU, which detects and tracks the pieces in real time.

That said, the device can detect the pieces whether you touch them or not. Touching them absolutely does change the response, and we pass that along as a parameter to the SDK.

Your coin exploration is seriously cool, please hit me up when you're next in NYC!
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-10-29 18:25:47+00:00
It used to be that you could find an IPO underwriter after 100M in revenue and growing YoY above others in the competitive basket.

I’m not sure that’s true anymore, I think you still need the revenue, but just need attention. everything else is just whatever because you can’t predict 10 year outcomes for any business at this point with any level of confidence, and there’s nothing to compare it to other than extremely different businesses.

Ultimately it’s more of the same goal with differing levers:

Offload a massive illiquid investment onto the public so that investors make their fund

Make sure it can tread water long enough for people to forget about it so it can go through the long and slow enshittification period

After all the prime investors have liquidated and some cooling period, risk of lawsuits from activist investors drops significantly, they can ratchet up the margins, do a few years of layoffs to pump the price.

Then everyone involved is back to where they started, only the top 100 richest people put even more distance between themselves and everyone else so they can now invest in radical life extension or whatever
by iso1631 | 2025-10-29 18:26:20+00:00
The only metric that's important is the CTO's bonus

When everyone is suffering because AWS is having its bi-yearly 8 hour outage, the CTO isn't blamed, bonus all round, and maybe the AWS sales team takes him for an apology lunch

When the CTO is up for 1500 days straight then has a 2 hour downtime when nobody else does, the CTO is blamed, no bonus, and more likely to get fired
by mothballed | 2025-10-29 18:26:44+00:00
Always has been.

Biden's CBP goons stripped me naked, imprisoned me, ran up an ER bill for which I'm still being chased for by debt collectors, and tranported me by prisoner van all over the state, while they were enforcing Biden's (and now continue with Trump) insane war on drugs. I did not have drugs, I am not involved with drugs.

Of course nothing was found, and the allegation was hearsay by an HSI detective that some unnamed dog alerted to an unnamed officer, neither of which I have any idea what they were even referencing.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-10-29 18:26:48+00:00
I picked up a no name brand N100 for like $150, came with a (pirated key at this price point?) Win 11 pro license and am blown away at how capable it is. Could easily be a desktop machine for web browsing and office work. Would undoubtedly struggle with heavy electron apps, but really impressive. I even tried to run a few games on it, and it still handled everything surprisingly well.

It makes me look at my way over specced workstation (for significantly more than $150) wondering why I am burning so much electricity daily. Should use a micro desktop for the web and just remote into my beefy workstation as required.
by mrktf | 2025-10-29 18:27:31+00:00
It depends on organization size, just my anecdotal example, I would say the moment IT department becomes own island (for example: can totally ignore requests, with excuses staff overbooked/we need extra planning/6 months extra meetings. Or even worse - process request,but up to point where it can show for upper management and blame you for wasting resources) - you can go full cloud, at least there it is possible get something working in reasonable time.
by mminer237 | 2025-10-29 18:27:55+00:00
All of those were also all $0–$20. It's kind of a chicken and egg problem to build a user and developer community. Games have to build a strong playerbase with limited content, then enough gamers have to be invested enough to become creators. Enough have to be able to actually pull off the development, yes, but I think the even bigger problem is that they'll never have a reason to with the small number of users inherent with platforms that cost $500–$3500 for special hardware to get onto.
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-10-29 18:28:07+00:00
The point I was making about "enough civil unrest" is that the administration is trying to use it as an excuse to deploy the military in ways they want. It's cover for their true purposes.

I don't believe they should be deployed hardly ever, if at all, and there is a good reason they are prohibited from being used as domestic law enforcement.
by lumost | 2025-10-29 18:28:10+00:00
I suspect the common issue with small scale projects is that it's not atypical for the engineers involved to perform a joint optimization of "what will work well for this project", and "what will work well at my next project/job." Particularly in startups where the turnover/employer stability is poor - this is the optimal action for the engineers involved.

Unless employees expect that their best rewards are from making their current project as simple and effective as possible - it is highly unlikely that the current project will be as simple as it could be.
by Edmond | 2025-10-29 18:28:16+00:00
My motivation is less about self-promotion at this point and perhaps just frustration with the face-palm quality of the failure to properly implement information verification on the internet.

Every time I hear about some dumb approach to age verification (conversation analysis...really?) or a romance scam story because of a fraudster somewhere in Malaysia..I have the need to scream...THERE IS A CORRECT SOLUTION.
by briffle | 2025-10-29 18:28:23+00:00
The tooling should be getting close to manage this on-prem now, with VM's, K8s clusters, networking, storage, etc. I know that oxide computers exists, and they look fantastic, but there has got to be more 'open' ways to run things on your own Dell/HP/Supermicro servers with NVMe drives. Especially since VMware has jacked up their prices since being acquired.

Talos OS looks really interesting. But I also need the storage parts, networking parts, etc.
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-29 18:28:40+00:00
I suspect Google is the one pushing for this. C.ai has dramatically folded on two of its longest standing struggles in the last two months: underage users and intellectual property

In both cases they went nuclear in a way that implies they actually don't care if the current product survives as long as C.ai (read: Google) isn't exposed to the ongoing risk
by zokier | 2025-10-29 18:28:52+00:00
My biggest frustration with Intel Twin Lake (2025 Nxxx series) is its anemic PCIe configuration. 9 lanes is pretty restrictive, but the real kicker is them being only PCIe 3.0 in a SoC released in 2025(!).

It is not directly comparable, but AMD 8840U and V3C14 both give you 20 PCI 4.0 lanes.

Of course it is true that ARM SoCs are usually even worse in this regard.
by schluete | 2025-10-29 18:29:09+00:00
Native german speaker here, this is pretty nice!

One mistake I found though: in the clock game the game's solution for one o'clock times is "eins", like "eins Uhr dreissig" for 1:30am/pm. That's not correct, you'd use "ein" instead of "eins", so the correct solution would be "ein Uhr dreissig"

Keep up learning german, I know from non-german coworkers how hard the language can be to get a grasp on!
by PagingDr123 | 2025-10-29 18:29:55+00:00
My wife runs a clinic with about a dozen health care providers. They use a paging service that delivers pages to a phone app. It has to be a phone app because the shifts are 24hrs and the providers sleep when they can and need to be able to turn off all other notifications.

This costs about $12,000/yr and uses servers in the United States. Some of the staff work very part time, but still need a license at the same cost even if they only get one or two call shifts a month. The price ratchets up regularly.

There is competition, but nothing really better.

I could stand up an asterisk server and write a simple Android and iOS app for an ongoing cost two orders of magnitude lower (using existing infrastructure), but the app store impedance is too high to risk it.

I don't have the practical ability to confidently get an app into the Google play store and the Apple app store and keep it there.

The only viable alternative to bending over for these vendors for us is to go back to discrete pagers. It may come to that.
by basfo | 2025-10-29 18:30:03+00:00
We’re 100% on Azure but so far there’s no impact for us.

Luckily, we moved off Azure Front Door about a year ago. We’d had three major incidents tied to Front Door and stopped treating it as a reliable CDN.

They weren’t global outages, more like issues triggered by new deployments. In one case, our homepage suddenly showed a huge Microsoft banner about a “post-quantum encryption algorithm” or something along those lines.

Kinda wild that a company that big can be so shaky on a CDN, which should be rock solid.
by dogman144 | 2025-10-29 18:30:19+00:00
I think a lot of tech needs to go through that struggle.

From the perspective of a long career in infosec, what’s occurring now was enabled a longtime ago by broad-based industry consensus. Concerns then, which == awful stuff occurring now, were robustly dismissed by many many many devs with s/strong viewpoints/paychecks.

The only silver lining I can see is we’re taking our medicine now, but there’s a lot more to go through still, on the back of many significant tech capabilities.

For example, Flock was kept out of many cities, but Amazon was not, Flock just signed a data sharing deal with Ring. That’s a no-nonsense, nationwide, warrantless vehicular and pedestrian tracking network mechanism.

Not great, Bob! But RSUs for building it all sure was great.
by evanjrowley | 2025-10-29 18:30:27+00:00
Legal action against this is going to be a tough, possibly unfeasable battle.

Whatever the laws are, they probably contain exceptions for the use of biometrics for law enforcement purposes.

In terms of court precedent, biometrics are not protected by the 4th amendment, because your face is not considered a secret that the government could compel you to reveal.
by brnaftr361 | 2025-10-29 18:30:38+00:00
There isn't presently a good solution to this. I think regulations like that will probably have downstream effects, kicking the can down the road.

Google is already bad enough at government collusion, divulging data, as are other infrastructure providers.

Best-case is gutting Alphabet and breaking it up to the effect of decentralization of its pieces.

I think if anything regulating the current instruments would just harden their social/political position which furthers their interests more than anything.
by jjmarr | 2025-10-29 18:30:40+00:00
Roblox had a phenomenal engine when it came out and its terrain destruction is still unmatched.

In 2006, I could download the Roblox app and bam, I would play thousands of 3D multiplayer games for free that loaded near instantly. With fully destructible buildings and dynamic terrain. Somehow I didn't get viruses from remote code execution.

That was groundbreaking at the time. In that era, I'd have to download Steam, buy individual games like Counterstrike, and the wackiest thing would be the "surf" gamemode. Most games I'd buy on CDs. I certainly couldn't knock down entire buildings with grenades.

If you contrast with Second Life/Habbo Hotel, you could walk around and talk to people I guess?

The community that spring up around it eventually carried it into total dominance of gaming for American children, but the basic parts of the engine like "click button, load into game, blow stuff up" were a decade ahead of the curve.

Also Blockland cost money, Roblox was free.
by nxor | 2025-10-29 18:30:56+00:00
What do I mean? Where to start. Interact with some people from the region and you will find out. As most learners of German know, the hard part of German isn't der die das, it's the exclusive culture. I have C1 in German and have been told "You sound unnatural like a Turk" (I am not a Turk) and "Children sound more natural than you" (of course - they are native speakers). You can get every case, every article, and every syllable correct and they will still find a way to laugh at you. Ask for help in Germany and you will be ignored. Or better yet, "I don't want to help you." Then they wonder why people fail to learn their language. Frankly I wish I could unlearn the language.
by nyrikki | 2025-10-29 18:30:57+00:00
> The claim isn’t that Postgres is functionally equivalent to any of these specialized systems. The claim is that it handles 80%+ of their use cases with 20% of the development effort. (Pareto Principle)

Lots of us that built systems when SQL was the only option, know that doesn’t hold overtime.

SStable backed systems have their applications, and I have never seen dedicated Kafka teams like we used to have with DBAs

We have the tools to make decisions based on real tradeoffs.

I highly recommend people dig into the appropriate tools to select vs making pre-selected products fit an unknown problem domain.

Tools are tactics, not strategies, tactics should be changeable with the strategic needs.
by littlekey | 2025-10-29 18:31:25+00:00
I think you're making strong points that what generates revenue for these places isn't always quality but social media hype / overly broad appeal etc... but objective quality is still a huge factor. Some restaurants may have a 2/5 star score because they're too innovative, but many have that 2/5 because they're simply serving bad food. If a place is serving burned/undercooked/expired food, I'd like them to feel like they need to address those issues.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-10-29 18:31:58+00:00
> Where is the limit to how much money is expended on one person?

It depends on what would be an effective and indicated treatment.

> What if they have a 99% likelihood of death, are unlimited funds expended in this case?

Then treatment would neither be effective nor indicated. But if it was your parent, your child, your granny, wouldn't you rather they at least try?

> What if there's a shortage on drugs - who should get the limited supply available?

The people for whom treatment is most likely to be effective

> Which country with public health options pays for biologic medications or similar patient-tailored solutions?

The UK, for a start.
by tredre3 | 2025-10-29 18:32:41+00:00
LibreOffice's best guess is that they had 200M MAUs in 2019.

I personally find that hard to believe and they don't explain their methodology to arrive at that number (presumably they looked at the downloads and picked a number of users based on feelings).

But, if that number is true, then I suppose you're not only right, but LibreOffice is already near 5% market share.
by roywiggins | 2025-10-29 18:32:45+00:00
SCOTUS has endorsed using "apparent ethnicity" as grounds for a stop:

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/justice-brett-kavanaugh-a...

Bovino says they do profile people on how they look:

> “Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said to the reporter, a tall, middle-aged man of Anglo descent.

https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/29/feds-march-into-...
by keeda | 2025-10-29 18:33:07+00:00
I think it said "send me a newt" (hence the lizard reference.)

I am extremely curious about this. Did it think it was a convincing lie? Like, when other models dissemble, they seem to come up with much more sophisticated methods. Or is it just a mocking continuation of its edgy persona? Or was it actually "panicking"? Or did it just repeat something from its training data?

Edit: from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747699 it seems to be option b), continuation of its edge persona.
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-29 18:33:21+00:00
Even full stack listings come with a list of technologies that the candidate must have deep knowledge of.

> We got rid of roles... DBA's, QA teams, Sysadmins, then front and back end.

On a first approximation, those roles were all wrong. If your people don't wear many of those hats at the same time, they won't be able to create software.

But yeah, we did get rid of roles. And still require people to be specialized to the point it's close to impossible to match the requirements of a random job.
by leetharris | 2025-10-29 18:33:21+00:00
This is kind of a wild story. Sam Altman is openly flexing that he was able to skirt the rules and regulations by threatening economic damage to California. It's not even subtle anymore.

This reminds me of when the former CEO of Hyundai, Chung Mong-koo, went to prison for embezzlement. In just 3 years he was pardoned because the President of South Korea basically said, "we need you for the economy."

We're not even pretending that the government is in control anymore. It's just full on anarcho-capitalism on display.
by throw0101c | 2025-10-29 18:33:22+00:00
> The irony of doing this while covering their own faces

It’s best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It’s how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied. It’s not an inconsistency. It’s very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination. It’s very important to understand, fascists don’t just see hypocrisy as a necessary evil or an unintended side-effect. It’s the purpose. The ability to enjoy yourself the thing you’re able to deny others, because you dominate, is the whole point. For fascists, hypocrisy is a great virtue—the greatest.

* https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/109551955251655267

* Via: https://kottke.org/25/03/for-fascists-hypocrisy-is-a-virtue
by Molitor5901 | 2025-10-29 18:34:01+00:00
I wonder if this is a portend to an American social credit score, like where China uses facial recognition to identify criminals at concerts[1], and jaywalkers, etc. which severely impacts a person's ability to get a job, housing, etc.

I can't help but assume this is already being used at retail establishments, but now it could be tied into law enforcement databases, and .. communicate..
by ryandrake | 2025-10-29 18:35:17+00:00
I don't think it will take 15 years to do this. The scope of so-called LLM Safety is growing rapidly to encompass "everything corporations don't want users to talk about or do with LLMs (or computers in general)". The obvious other leg of this stool is to use already-built gatekeeping hardware and software to prevent computers from circumventing LLM Safety and that will include running unauthorized local models.

All the pieces are ready today, and I would be shocked if every LLM vendor was not already working on it.