MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sholain | 2025-10-14 12:23:41+00:00
The West is relatively clean at least in this; they had fair and open terms for China which were not reciprocated.

Even those 'local partnerships' in China were not above board - they existed to steal the intellectual property from the partnered Western company.

It seems the only thing that can be nailed down are 'consumer brands' which are difficult to duplicate.

[1] https://www.planetizen.com/node/47241

At least in the context of trade over the last 35 years, there has been an imbalance.

As for 'Arbitrary Rules' - it's a fair claim and the US, EU etc. need to establish clear and fair terms. So should China, India, Brazil, everywhere else.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-14 12:24:10+00:00
> Entities the size of the US or the EU are capable of producing most or all strategically important products internally

The US can internally produce: food staples, fossil fuels and nuclear fuel, most (but not all) industrial chemicals and construction material, defense systems and major military equipment, generic drugs and many medical devices.

However, vulnerabilities exist in: semiconductors, rare earth minerals, speciality chemicals and pharmaceutical raw materials.

Even if the EU were a country, it has high self-sufficiency for: temperature agriculture, industrial chemicals, some aerospace and defense components. However, it is import dependent for: energy, specialty metals and rare earths, pharmaceuticals, high-tech electronics and semiconductors.

Lastly, what about the remaining 167 countries in the world (195 - US - EU)? 90% of the world's population live outside the US and EU.

Trade is really really important for human flourishing.
by scbzzzzz | 2025-10-14 12:24:36+00:00
With all the things google is doing for custom os last few years ( play protect, no major updates to asop and bundling updates to closed source google libraries etc). It is not speculation it is predicting with high certainty. Google wants custom os market to die and they are doing it brick by brick. We should Open our eyes and look at the timeline and realise it is not speculation and actual reality before it will be too late. Source: i am an owner of device with custom os and i know things i have to do to fix broken apps.
by mwexler | 2025-10-14 12:24:56+00:00
Fivetran has 2 pieces: data movement and integration/access (via linking to APIs, etc.) Sure, there's Airbyte and others, but no one has as complete a catalog of integration plugs as Fivetran.

Yes, OpenFlow may be able to replace the data movement part (though prefect, airflow, yadda yadda all tried to be the one ring), but it's a pretty small bunch who support all connections.

It's not the only part of the business, but it's an important one. Just like Plaid's approach became the standard to code against in accessing financial services, Fivetran has become the default in getting data out of tools you already pay for directly into a controlled space.

If they don't muck that up, they've got an embed in every large integration. No one is looking to OpenFlow for that.

Still won't become Snowflake or Databricks (and it's silly to try, imho), but they do have a good moat for a small castle.
by graemep | 2025-10-14 12:25:14+00:00
I was replying to a comment comparing the distribution of self-contained binaries to Linux package management. This is a much more straightforward question

Containers are a related (as the GP comment says) thing, but offer a different and varied set of tradeoffs.

Those tradeoffs also depend on what you are using containers for. Scaling by deploying large numbers of containers on a cloud providers? Applications with bundled dependencies on the same physical server? As a way of providing a uniform development environment?
by Tade0 | 2025-10-14 12:25:45+00:00
> "Cancer is awful," Xu says. "What's making it even worse is cancer treatment."

Well said. And it's either terrible or expensive (and sometimes also terrible as well).

Proton therapy for instance is amazing at targeting hard to reach tumors like those in the eye, but costs close to fix figures as it requires a team of people to design the treatment.

For comparison, a liver histotripsy costs $17.5k:

https://histosonics.com/news/histosonics-notches-significant...

Not a bad deal for a non-invasive life-saving surgery.
by cam_l | 2025-10-14 12:25:51+00:00
>The story was first reported by Ette Media, whose co-founder Antoinette Lattouf also had her number published on the site.

I wondered if the ABC would acknowledge who broke this story. (Latouffe sued the ABC earlier this year for wrongful dismissal and won.)

They didn't link to her new media company though or the original story (other news sites did).

https://www.ettemedia.com/exclusive-personal-phone-number-of...
by josteink | 2025-10-14 12:26:10+00:00
> How about we actually finally roll out IPv6 and bury CGNAT in the graveyard where it belongs?

That depends on the service you are DDosing actually having an IPv6 presence. And lots of sites really don't.

It doesn't help if you have IPv6 if you need to fallback to IPv4 anyway. And if bot-net authors knows they can hide behind CGNAT, why would they IPv6 enable their bot-load when all sites and services are guaranteed to be reachable bia IPv4 for the next 3 decades?

(Disclaimer: This comment posted on IPv6)
by lambdaone | 2025-10-14 12:27:30+00:00
I had a client with a system just like this. EBS, S3, RDS, Cognito, the lot. It cost $00s per month under almost no load, and was a maintenance nightmare - which was the real problem, not the cost, as it stopped working altogether eventually. A bit of hacking later, it all fits on a single VM that costs ~$10/month to run and is far easier to build, deploy and maintain.
by bigthymer | 2025-10-14 12:27:43+00:00
Is it just me or has the amount of data collected changed? Last I checked, the locally stored data just identifies known business locations that have been visited. In the past, when I clicked a business location in the app, it would show when I last visited. Google maps no longer does this. In the past, I could do a hike and see exactly how long I walked and how fast I went. However, this info is no longer collected to this degree.
by zahlman | 2025-10-14 12:27:45+00:00
> It's somehow always relevant, because they all pretend to be speaking for black people, or that their situation is exactly as if they were black people.

What does that have to do with the fancifully hypothetical "project with an official policy that pull requests from people with a certain skin color will not be accepted"?

I legitimately can't understand what you're railing against. Who are "they" in this sentence? Why should I consider that "they" are doing what you describe? Give concrete examples, please.
by dapperdrake | 2025-10-14 12:27:52+00:00
The complexity that makes money is all the essential complexity of the problem domain. The "complexity in the architecture" can only add to that (and often does).

This is the part that is about math as a language for patterns as well as research for finding counter-examples. It’s not an engineering problem yet.

Once you have product market fit, then it becomes and engineering problem.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-14 12:27:58+00:00
Well I know for a fact there are more code monkeys than rocket scientists working on advanced technologies. Just look at job offers really...

Anyone with any kind of experience in the industry should be able to tell that so idk where you're going with your "junior" comment. Technically I'm a senior in my company and I'm including myself in the code monkey category, I'm not working on anything revolutionary, as most devs are, just gluing things together, probably things that have been made dozens of times before and will be done dozens of time later... there is no shame in that, it's just the reality of software development. Just like most mechanics don't work on ferraris, even if mechanics working on ferraris do exist.

From my friends, working in small startups and large megacorps, no one is working on anything other than gluing existing packages together, a bit of es, a bit of postgres, a bit of crud, most of them worked on more technical things while getting their degrees 15 years ago than they are right now... while being in the top 5% of earners in the country. 50% of their job consist of bullshitting the n+1 to get a raise and some other variant of office politics
by conover | 2025-10-14 12:28:10+00:00
In my experience, you can weaponize processes like the Five Whys or the Amazon Leadership Principles. I don’t think that means they don’t have any value.

That being said, in this case, I agree with your manager. Both the QA team and your team had fundamental problems.

Your team (I assume) verified the functionality which included X set of changes, and then your team made Y more changes (the flag) which were not verified. Ideally, once the functionality is verified, no more changes would be permitted in order to prevent this type of problem.

The fundamental problems on the QA team were…extensive.
by 542354234235 | 2025-10-14 12:28:39+00:00
It is possible and has precedent. Raymond Lee Oyler was convicted of first-degree murder for starting the Esperanza Fire. Five firefighters died fighting the fire.

>Raymond Lee Oyler, 54, of Beaumont, was sentenced to death for starting the Esparanza Fire in October 2006. He was convicted of five counts of first-degree murder, 19 counts of arson and 16 counts of possessing incendiary devices. https://kesq.com/news/2025/05/05/ca-supreme-court-upholds-de...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanza_Fire
by josteink | 2025-10-14 12:28:59+00:00
> That would be really easy to block -- if we were on IPv6.

Make that: If the service being attacked was on IPv6-only, and the attacker had no way to fall back to IPv4.

As long as we are dual-stack and IPv6 is optional, no attacker is going to be stupid enough to select the stack which has the highest probability of being defeated. Don't be naive.
by sholain | 2025-10-14 12:29:08+00:00
Share buybacks are are at least nominally a financially neutral exercise - it generally does not benefit either shareholders or executives.

They can however signal 'strength' in stock price by creating more demand and signalling to the market that the company itself which has 'insider information' believes the stock price is worth less than the price they're bought for.

It's a fair point about Jobs - but - Jobs was never sitting on more money than the economies of most nations.

Jobs Apple was a consumer product company, Tim Cook Apple is a Private Equity Operating Entity in a way. Their financial operations dictate as much about their valuation as anything else.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-14 12:29:35+00:00
I said more in another comment. But after 20+ years in the industry as of 2018 and and before that 10 years as a hobbyist, coding had become a grind. I started liking solving business problems, talking to customers, mentoring etc and even the high level architect of the code.

AI has made a world of difference. I don’t use agents, I build the system up using ChatGPT as a junior developer with hand holding.
by dragonelite | 2025-10-14 12:29:39+00:00
Its China they will create their own EUV ecosystem, there are sources that keep track of Chinese developments and there's a lot of EUV related patents being rewarded within China.

So i wouldn't be surprised if they will announce first initial set of EUV test runs this year or early next year as a cherry on top of their "Made in China 2025" cake.
by ricardobeat | 2025-10-14 12:30:20+00:00
I swear someone will eventually come down in an anti-gravity belt to deliver fresh mangoes just shipped half an hour ago via Starship from Pakistan, and the comments will be that “it’s not that impressive” :D

The training material has been around since the start, but we are just now reaching the point where LLMs can autonomously code complex software that works; this would take an engineer days to make, with access to the same training material. I bet 99% of devs couldn’t even complete the window manager alone in under 24 hours, let alone a snake game + shell and python interpreters + paint + text editor.
by runningmike | 2025-10-14 12:31:00+00:00
Reaction: "Disappointed to see public accusations without reaching out first, especially after launching a competitive product.

We work directly with maintainers via GitHub, not bounty platforms. Neither we nor the maintainers knew about your Huntr reports at the time, otherwise they would have been marked as duplicates.

We've publicly credited FuzzingLabs for the 2 CVEs where your findings came first, and we're always happy to credit whoever finds them before we do.

The claim about stolen CVEs doesn't hold up when many links you provided were already marked as "duplicate" or "invalid" on Huntr."

source: https://x.com/gecko_sec/status/1977805927320551672

This is become a flame-war.
Easy and Long-Term Discord Bot Support
by sl8s | 2025-10-14 12:31:02+00:00
Discord bot for running weekly Dead by Daylight tournaments. However, only the application framework was implemented using the SMVP pattern (Share, Model, View, Psychology), with a project structure similar to APIs (middlewares, routers), but with some modifications — 'interactions' and 'messages' instead of 'routers'. This approach was designed to make developing Discord, Telegram, and other bots easier and faster in the long run Stack: TypeScript, Discord.js, SMVP, Git, Github Actions, Github Codespaces, Docker, PostgreSQL

https://github.com/sl8s/dbd_tournaments
by saidinesh5 | 2025-10-14 12:31:06+00:00
> If you have a simple job to do that fits in an AWS Lambda, why not deploy it that way, scalability is essentially free. But the real advantage is that by writing it as a Lambda you are forced to think of it in stateless terms.

What you are describing is already the example of premature optimization. The moment you are thinking of a job in terms of "fits in an AWS Lambda" you are automatically stuck with "Use S3 to store the results" and "use a queue to manage the jobs" decisions.

You don't even know if that job is the bottleneck that needs to scale. For all you know, writing a simple monolithic script to deploy onto a VM/server would be a lot simpler deployment. Just use the ram/filesystem as the cache. Write the results to the filesystem/database. When the time comes to scale you know exactly which parts of your monolith are the bottleneck that need to be split. For all you know - you can simply replicate your monolith, shard the inputs and the scaling is already done. Or just use the DB's replication functionality.

To put things into perspective, even a cheap raspberry pi/entry level cloud VM gives you thousands of postgres queries per second. Most startups I worked at NEVER hit that number. Yet their deployment stories started off with "let's use lambdas, s3, etc..". That's just added complexity. And a lot of bills - if it weren't for the "free cloud credits".
by alganet | 2025-10-14 12:32:10+00:00
Several people hinted at the limits this technology was about to face, including training data and compute. It was obvious it had serious limits.

Despite the warnings, companies insisted on marketing superintelligence nonsense and magic automatic developers. They convinced the market with disingenous demonstrations, which, again, were called out as bullshit by many people. They are still doing it. It's the same thing.
by dapperdrake | 2025-10-14 12:32:48+00:00
GNOME essentially gutted itself when it switched away from GNOME 2.

Somehow they still stuck around as a broken default. Go figure.

IIRC, then a lot of documentation still mentions GNOME first and then KDE second.

Furthermore, Ubuntu without the prefix is GNOME. Kubuntu is KDE. And all the others like Lubuntu, etc. all seem "special" to casual users.

Think of what the average university student installs in a VM, when they need to run some random command-line tool. Plain stock Ubuntu.

And GNOME lives on as a sorry excuse for a bad copy of MacOS desktop looks without the feel.
Show HN: Infinite canvas for AI media generation
by taherchhabra | 2025-10-14 12:32:53+00:00
one-off image/video generation is easy, but creating a cohesive story with consistent characters and locations across multiple scenes is difficult.

So I am building flickspeed.ai which provides a infinite canvas with image/video/audio nodes where you can create base characters and then use it across multiple scenes. there is also an agent which assist in writing prompts

Feedback, bugs, and suggestions are all welcome.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-14 12:33:23+00:00
AI has impacted at least 3 presidential elections in the usa. but how much impact?

I saw several really good ones during the 2020 where i had to go to the original cspan feed to find out it was fake. In 2024, it was both sides creating them, and it was more than I was willing to fact check.

But did these videos really change someone's mind how to vote? I dobut that. Polarization where it's at, there's really not many fencesitters. You were in the camp you were in and it didnt change a great deal.
by drob518 | 2025-10-14 12:33:27+00:00
> The first problem every startup solves is scalability. The first problem every startup should solve is “how do we have enough money to not go bust in two months”, but that’s a hard problem, whereas scalability is trivially solvable by reading a few engineering blogs, and anyway it’s not like anyone will ever call you out on it, since you’ll go bust in two months.

I laughed. I cried. Having a back full of microservices scars, I can attest that everything said here is true. Just build an effin monolith and get it done.
by DrScientist | 2025-10-14 12:33:46+00:00
Isn't it simple as the following?

Break your code into modules/components that have a defined interface between them. That interface only passes data - not code with behaviour - and signal the method calls may fail to complete ( ie throw exceptions ).

ie the interface could be a network call in the future.

Allow easy swapping of interface implementations by passing them into constructors/ using factories or dependency injection frameworks if you must.

That's it - you can then start with everything in-process and the rapid development that allows, but if you need to you can add splitting into networked microservices - any complexity that arises from the network aspect is hidden behind the proxy, with the ultimate escape hatch of the exception.

Have I missed something?
by saghm | 2025-10-14 12:35:09+00:00
Honest question: given the relatively niche status of Ada compared to other systems programming languages, and similar diminished levels of popularity for other languages mentioned in this thread (Pascal, Perl), does this really prove that these principles are particularly effective for programming languages? I understand that this is a relatively small sample size, but I feel like that could be just as well used to argue that other factors might have been more important to the successes of languages designed like Ada than the more rigorous approach to human usability. It doesn't feel particularly obvious to me that we know these principles actually work well for programming languages but choose to ignore them rather than them not fitting the domain particularly well at all, or maybe something in between where we don't really know whether they apply well yet or not, and more attempts at using them might not actually be as successful as one might hope.
by nabla9 | 2025-10-14 12:35:20+00:00
The US is a Paradox

The United States is both modern and poor. Its vast interstate highways stretch from gleaming coastal metropolises, traversing westward across thousands of miles, cutting through rugged mountains and vast deserts before reaching tired, rural towns. These areas house millions of Americans who still struggle to earn a living wage, often falling below the federal poverty line.

America's power is unprecedented, yet its society remains deeply divided. Despite decades of economic growth and innovation, the traumas of the 20th century, from the Great Depression to the Civil Rights struggles, have left a deep mark on the cultural DNA. Even within the growing professional class in affluent suburbs, many feel insecure and anxious about the future.

America's leadership subscribes to democratic and free-market principles, yet its political polarization, entrenched corporate power, and increasingly tribal online discourse often resemble more populist or even oligarchical modes of organization.

Critics claim the U.S. "can only compete through financialization and corporate subsidies," yet its high-tech sectors continue to thrive. They build on one another atop a deep foundation of specialized labor and innovation, dominating high-tech value chains from software to biotech, aerospace to entertainment, and making impressive gains in AI and advanced manufacturing.
by smashah | 2025-10-14 12:35:21+00:00
This is the premise of the book "Silent Coup".

It explores how western companies use the the Investor–state dispute settlement system to usurp the will of countries to control their own resources. ICC (International Chamber of Commerce in Switzerland) and the World Bank (via ICSID) are the main arbitration venues for this corporate bullying/neocolonialism.

Then of course, as soon as that arbitration is ignored/won then the genocidal defenders of democracy are activated.

If you pull the thread on many conflicts, at some point you will find these courts.

I'm not a fan of the Chinese government but I hope the Chinese firms/people involved use these same systems against the Dutch government.
by scbzzzzz | 2025-10-14 12:35:26+00:00
It is not just that. In my case , everyone around me are using iphone . I made the sacrifice to not easily connect with them and use android so that i have freedom ( to install, customise what ever). Once that freedom aspect is taken away. There is no reason for me to make that sacrifice.

Until EU's cross compatibility between messaging apps is passed, we are forced to be in vendor lockin.
by everdrive | 2025-10-14 12:35:46+00:00
It's very difficult if not impossible to avoid. Just how many hours do you want to spend doing research for _every single_ household item? It'd be genuinely difficult, and even plenty of stuff which claims to be "made in the USA" is actually just assembled here. It's possible to look these things up, but that takes time and it's difficult to get absolute certainty. And not all stuff from China is terrible, either. It's just an opportunity cost which is nearly impossible to avoid given just how common so much of the crap from China is.

A normal person who doesn't want to upend their life might have a few easier baby-steps: buy as little stuff as possible, and buy used whenever possible. The original country doesn't see any real direct benefit when you buy used.
by BirAdam | 2025-10-14 12:35:50+00:00
Just to be honest for a bit here... we also should be asking what kind of scale?

Quite a while ago, before containers were a thing at all, I did systems for some very large porn companies. They were doing streaming video at scale before most, and the only other people working on video at that scale were Youtube.

The general setup for the largest players in that space was haproxy in front of nginx in front of several PHP servers in front of a MySQL database that had one primary r/w with one read only replica. Storage (at that time) was usually done with glusterfs. This was scalable enough at the time for hundreds of thousands of concurrent users, though the video quality was quite a bit lower than what people expect today.

Today at AWS, it is easily possible for people to spend a multiple of the cost of that hardware setup every month for far less compute power and storage.