MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2025-10-10 16:38:39+00:00
> There is no evidence of Parallel construction in iOS.

Parallel construction isn't a technical "feature" on any phone. It is a way the NSA can use their de-facto coercion powers, ones that Apple has already admitted to fielding. If Apple is fighting this "more than any other large company" you know of, you better trust them a whole lot more than any of us do. There is no evidence that Cook has resisted this admin, at the going rate it seems like a Tweet is all it takes for him to redesign the ecosystem.

> Today's announcement from Apple further flies in the face of your arguments

Apple has always had a pitiful security bounty. It's why NSO Group burns their zero-days instead of disclosing them responsibly. Nobody cares what Apple will pay you if the exploit is worth more.

Mind you, Apple tried to sue NSO Group but then dropped the case after their federal handlers warned them of fighting with Israeli intel: https://www.securityweek.com/apple-suddenly-drops-nso-group-...
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-10 16:38:44+00:00
Why do people have this weird idea that humans reliably pick the correct answer, even given infinite information?

Humans are incapable of being rational, it's not how our brains function. We can, with great effort, emulate what we think rational thought would be like.

Human brains regularly lie to themselves because it is cheaper or easier than actually processing input.

You know that fun retort: "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?", and how it's always trotted out as this supposed retort to someone suggesting you ignore obvious info, but our eyes are lying to us constantly. There are tons of ways your eyes cheat, or lie, or outright ignore reality in favor of some internal model. This isn't even limited to optical illusions!

And the same is true of all sensory input we have. There are auditory illusions and ways your ears lie to you. There are things like phantom limbs that demonstrate your brain will ignore explicit and clear reality for no reason.

Humans are emotional creatures, like all biological creatures. Humans make choices emotionally

Do you think the most emotionally charged information will always be truthful?

The outcome we are experiencing was obvious, but people ignored it because that sort of implies that information needs to be filtered or curated and that makes people nervous.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-10-10 16:38:57+00:00
bad science is not fragmented.

let me give you ONE example. Homme Hellinga (tenured professor at Duke) claimed to have designed a triosephosphate isomerase. his grad student Mary Dwyer (science hero) recognized it was an artefact and called him out on it, got railroaded and i think even sued. after the dust settled, hellinga was merely forced to give up his named seat (he kept tenure and was still getting grants). meanwhile my grad student friend burned three years of his life doing a project based on a different hellinga result.

i have many, many more examples (this one is publically known, so its safe to talk about and i personally know someone who lost years to it), some worse, some not as bad.

here's two more publically known incidents just at duke:

https://caffeinatedchemist.medium.com/hellinga-66449cf4699e
by jayw_lead | 2025-10-10 16:39:34+00:00
You're right, I should have tied that back to the opening.

The acceleration we've experienced has allowed us to "outrun" our problems. In earlier generations, that meant famine or disease. Today, it might be climate change. Tomorrow, it'll be something else entirely.

Technological progress has generally been the reason humanity should be optimistic against challenges: it gives us ever improving tools to solve our hardest problems faster than we succumb to them. Without it, that optimism becomes much harder to justify.

Even if there is a plateau we can't cross, if we believe we drive more benefit from technology than the problems it creates, it makes sense to extract as much progress as we can from the physics we have.
by mallowdram | 2025-10-10 16:39:51+00:00
It has no basis in psychological discourse, politics is by nature illogical. So creating logic games from arbitrary metaphors (what politics is based in and especially when each side is calling the other with the same arbitrary label) is like creating a card game that only let's the house win.

https://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/papers/irrationality.htm
by VirusNewbie | 2025-10-10 16:40:10+00:00
> So I feel that there are many people like me who are confused and kind of unsure on how to proceed.

Don't let AI write the code for you and send diffs when you're a newbie.

Use it to understand, to ask questions, use it like a better stack overflow/google, but don't copy/paste chunks of code.

If you do have it generate more than a single line, mess with it, change it around, type it in but change the way it works, see if there's other method calls that would do what you're doing, see if you can refactor it.

Basically, don't just get into a copy/paste loop. The same thing happened when Stack Overflow became big, you had a whole generation of code monkeys who could copy-paste something sorta working from stack overflow/googling, but when something broke, they had no clue how to fix it.

Copy-paste here (or having it send diffs) is the evil part, not the AI. AI can really help you learn new tech. Have it do code reviews, have it brainstorm ideas, or have it even find the right apis for you, Just don't copy paste!
by gsnedders | 2025-10-10 16:40:22+00:00
I felt like that seems a little long from EDI to MAN (after all, EDI to LHR is typically a flight time of under an hour!), so:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=4d2256&lat=54.720&lon=-... is the track of this flight.

Went around at EDI at about 19:10Z, landed at about 19:51Z, so about a 41 minute flight.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-10 16:40:59+00:00
> also in the sense that the PSL needs to be more discoverable

Well, this is a problem that caused the author's ignorance but you present it as though it's the other way around. That's primarily what I meant. Not really disagreeing with "should have known better", mostly in the sense that user-generated content is a huge yellow flag.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-10-10 16:41:04+00:00
"But we have exactly the same number of reviewers."

LLMs can help with reviews as well. LLMs are not too bad at reviewing code; GPT 5 for example can find off-by-one, missed returns, all sorts of problems that are localized. I think they have a harder time with issues requiring a higher-level global understanding. I wonder if in the future you could fine-tune an LLM on a big codebase (maybe nightly or something) and it could be the first-level reviewer for all changes to that codebase.
by 9rx | 2025-10-10 16:41:06+00:00
> and computing hardware keeps changing.

Only if you can't reasonably buy a direct replacement. That might have been a bigger problem in the early days of computing where people spread themselves around, leaving a lot of business failures and thus defunct hardware, but nowadays we all usually settle on common architectures that are very likely to still be around in the distant future due to that mass adoption still providing strong incentive for someone to keep producing it.
by mingus88 | 2025-10-10 16:41:10+00:00
The gov project was ARPANET. The public internet was not intended to be a classified wartime network.

Then we had Internet2 which is backbone dedicated to research, again, not a tool for coordination or control.

If you were online in the 90s, a popular refrain was that the internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it. It was very much operated as a free space for ideas. There was no centralization of platforms, no apps, and anyone could host whatever they wanted.

Depending on your age, that is the internet built by your parents.
by verelo | 2025-10-10 16:41:25+00:00
I’ve been criticized for this by my coworkers in the past, but I strongly believe that this is generally true and has been for quite a while. Developers, myself included, like to think their code is special, set in stone and going to last forever. Most the code we write struggles to live a few years yet we treat all of it like it’s going to last forever. I’ve been an advocate for flipping that and treating it like our code will not last long, and when we identify the components that will, going back and optimizing them.

I’m pretty confident that most developers, again including myself, just really enjoy knowing something is done well. Being able to separate yourself from the code and fixate solely on the outcomes can sometimes get me past this.
by mystraline | 2025-10-10 16:42:05+00:00
We have an actual consistent way to define fascism. And yeah, people who throw that name as a slur for "something you dont like", helps nobody.

Now, how to define the metrics are outside of my comment, including the current administration. But Ive been seeing quite a few of these seem to match here in the USA for quite some time. And now, more seem to match quite well with historical fascist movements.

https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights 3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause 4. Supremacy of the Military 5. Rampant Sexism 6. Controlled Mass Media 7. Obsession with National Security 8. Religion and Government are Intertwined 9. Corporate Power is Protected 10. Labor Power is Suppressed 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption 14. Fraudulent Elections
by ActorNightly | 2025-10-10 16:42:16+00:00
The router is 100% separated from the rest of the plane, and has a fuse on the power. You can't really mess anything up and the only chance of you getting caught is if you somehow manage to ddos the network.

The fun thing to do on the plane is clone the wifi and add an option to log in with google or meta or apple credentials....
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-10 16:42:34+00:00
> particularly telling of a billionaire's mindset when the fines are too small to matter

It’s telling that billionaires are human?

Fines being too small to matter are a phenomenon across the income spectrum. From delivery drivers dancing with New York meter maids to American tourists ignoring overseas traffic rules, the notion that inadequate fines stop deterring and become merely a nuisance is well know.
by eminence32 | 2025-10-10 16:42:45+00:00
I really enjoy Helix, but I can't install it everywhere, and so I end up going back and forth between Helix and Vim depending on what machine I'm working on. This puts a lot of pressure on my muscle memory -- I often type a vim keybinding while in Helix or a Helix keybinding while in vim.
by zackmorris | 2025-10-10 16:42:46+00:00
This reminds me of an article that I saw 10-20 years ago about delivering small amounts of morphine or another opioid to the spine to stop the transmission of pain as effectively as administering medication to the whole body, using an intrathecal pump:

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

Supposedly there are few or no side effects since the dose is small and localized. Kind of a shame that it's not more broadly known or used IMHO, since I've been close with people with chronic pain whose quality of life was greatly impacted.
by Waterluvian | 2025-10-10 16:43:03+00:00
> feel like they got it, and then freeze up the moment they had to write anything from scratch.

I had a deep rooted emotional response to this. One of the most gruelling and somewhat distressing experiences of learning to program was going through a tutorial, kind of getting it, then trying to make my own spin of the same idea and getting completely stuck.

But I’m also convinced that this gruelling process was the highest density learning I’ve ever done. I’ve learned much more since then, and a lot of considerably more complex things. But I’ve never matched the same density of learning.

The closest was probably high school math. That deeply uncomfortable “this hurts my brain and is stressing me out” feeling that I suspect isn’t normal for everyone.
by firefax | 2025-10-10 16:43:11+00:00
>"dang is an app?"

I guess the cat is out of the bag.

Here's a little snippet I was sent back when I ran a valleywide gossip group chat:

"dang had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. So he took me to his private channel and told me his secret: 'I am not dang' he typed into the IRC window. 'My name is... Microsoft Bob. I inherited this site from the previous dang, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from was not the real dang, either. His name was Bill. The real Roberts has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Santa Cruz.' Then he explained the name was the important thing for inspiring the necessary fear. You see, no one would fund a Series to the Dread Pirate Microsoft Bob. So we got off the Caltrain and into the Uber XL, we took on an entirely new entourage and he stayed on for awhile as chief mod, all the time calling me dang. Once the mods believed, he left the Uber and I have been dang ever since. Except, now that we're together, I shall retire and hand the name over to someone else. Is everything clear to you?"
by reaperducer | 2025-10-10 16:43:34+00:00
You're missing out on resolution (4K) and picture quality (HDR, contrast ratios, color gamut) improvements by doing this.

Not everyone suffers from FOMO.

I've only seen one movie that was worth the bother and expense of seeing it in 4K (Rear Window).

The rest of the things you mention are mostly for a very small slice of theoretical people with perfect vision in perfectly lit rooms at the perfect height and viewing angle.

Beyond icons on a sticker checklist, they mean nothing to the 99% of people who just want to watch sportsball or eat popcorn while watching Disney films with their kids.

You can put lipstick on a pig, but most people are still watching pigs.
by nikolay | 2025-10-10 16:43:49+00:00
Helix wants to be Emacs. Ever since they decided to use a built-in Lisp dialect called "Steel" for scripting and become the next Emacs, not the next Neovim, I stopped following it. I love Lisp, I wrote so much code in Lisp in the '80s and early '90s, but that was another millennium! It's 2025 now, and just because it's easy to write Lisp interpreters doesn't mean we should use them. In fact, maybe Forth is even easier than Lisp... well, not really.
by nobody9999 | 2025-10-10 16:44:13+00:00
>Here are the magic words in US Health Care: "What is the cash price?"

I'm not so sure about that. Especially in a hospital setting.

Many years ago, I was admitted to the hospital for several days as it was suspected (wrongly, but that's another issue with the perverse incentives in US "healthcare") that I had MRSA and the doctor wanted me on IV antibiotics while testing proceeded.

I spent three days in the hospital, getting discharged when the tests came back negative for MRSA.

Shortly thereafter, I received a detailed "explanation of benefits" (EOB) from my insurer, which put the cost of my hospital stay at ~USD$12,000 which included stays in two hospital rooms simultaneously as well as a pap smear (despite the fact that I do not have a cervix). When I complained about this, the insurer tried to make it seem unimportant, but I pressed the issue as both the hospital and the insurer seemed to be involved in some sort of fraud WRT billing.

I was told I shouldn't care because I wasn't actually paying, but I persisted as I was concerned that there was something hinky going on. That culminated in a conference call with my insurance company, the hospital's accounts receivable group and me.

The two other parties talked in insurance billing jargon for a while, but when pressed, they stated that the charges on the "explanation of benefits" was a fiction and that the insurance company and hospital group's contract set a USD$1,500/day flat rate for patients admitted to the hospital's facilities -- roughly 1/3 of the "costs" cited in the EOB.

The made up stuff (which they didn't even try to hide that it was made up) was there as "protection" for the hospital group as the "cash price" of such services, even though I couldn't have received such services (two rooms at the same time? A pap smear[0] despite the fact that I don't have a female reproductive system, nor do/did I present as anything other than a cis male?).

I imagine that there may be some cases where a "cash price" actually does reflect costs and might even be less than insurance costs (although that seems unlikely given my experience), but insurers and healthcare providers do and have for decades gamed the "cash price" to justify the insane overcharging of healthcare services. YMMV.

[0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/pap-smear/about/...
by ActorNightly | 2025-10-10 16:44:21+00:00
>C compatibility / extension compatibility - nope. First, it is an issue of limited resources.

No, its an issue of reinventing the wheel. Native code is native code. Numpy stuff isn't going to be faster running in pypy, neither is any of the ML stuff. Stuff like FastAPI or Uvicorn aren't going see much speed increase.

In the modern world, there is basically no need for middle ground performance. In the past, when you had single core processors, making things go fast was advantageous. Now, if you need to go fast, you most likely need to go REALLY fast, at which point just go full native. Otherwise, you are going to be slowed down by network calls and other factors.

So while PyPy is a cool projects that can be an optimization on top of regular python, its not worth while trying to make Python into something it will never be
by vpShane | 2025-10-10 16:44:43+00:00
100%. I enjoy AI Agentic programming because I make new things to tinker with and/or try out ideas. I'm not trying to code to push to some production, and I'm not worried about what others think of my code.

I want to be able to say I've tried and done things when speaking with highly technical people. I've been a 'programmer' since I was 10, I'm 35 now but never joined the work force as a programmer; I don't know why, but now that AI is here, the love for coding, tinkering, making system level things, trying things like WASM which may be the future of our www; these all give me that joy. I found my limitations as a programmer and excelled because I have different skillsets.

I love learning that doing something MY way is a good idea, but has been thought of and some amazing programmer already built the ground-work for it.

My Cursor AI agent even setup git for me for my projects so I can easily push with my SSH keys: do I know I can do that myself? Yes. Do I want to? no.

> ReSharper for example will suggest taking advantage of new language features when you write something an older way, and many times this was my introduction to that new feature.

That's actually news to me and sounds amazing. I started coding with C syntax when I was young. You learn habits then, it sticks with you.

I'm since enjoying python for backend things, flask for little webserver stuff and javascript for front-end things.

WASM Python ain't there yet, but I _love_ tinkering. I _love_ finding bugs. I _love_ poking and prodding at how things work. I'm almost always re-inventing the wheel with concepts but you know what? At least it's mine and I can tinker and learn.

Some of us enjoy the craft as a hobby and learning. Even within my teams some are more sophisticated tech wise than I am; to get on their level remotely requires me to tinker.

Often times, I find a solution for my problems that were the most simple; engineering minds like to overcomplicate things.
by charlotte-fyi | 2025-10-10 16:44:51+00:00
This comparison is kind of sloppy, though. OpenGL on the desktop needs to be compared to a concrete WebGPU implementation. While it still lags behind state of the art, `wgpu` has many features on desktop that aren't in the standard. For example, they've started working on mesh shaders too: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/issues/7197. If you stick to only what's compatible with WebGL2 on the desktop you'd face similar limitations.
by matt_heimer | 2025-10-10 16:45:15+00:00
I have Sony Bravia TV that has Android TV so I went looking for the docs to confirm you can enable developer mode, access adb, and sideload apps. While looking at the docs I discovered I can load HTML5 apps from USB! I never knew that but I'm going to do some experimentation in the near future.

https://pro-bravia.sony.net/develop/app/getting-started/inde...
by ck2 | 2025-10-10 16:46:00+00:00
leaving a toxic mess is a repeated part of Musk's plan with each business

it's always privatize the profits, socialize the costs

he's doing the same thing with Starlink which is going to vaporize many thousands of toxic satellites out of LEO into the atmosphere

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-space-orbit-satellit...

imagine what he's going to do on the Moon or Mars
by nostrademons | 2025-10-10 16:46:28+00:00
With 100mph winds I could easily see the 30 min reserve being eaten up by the flight from Edinburgh to Manchester. It's 178 miles! It takes a good 15-20 minutes to cross that distance when flying normally, add ascent & descent time and the landing pattern and you're easily at 24 minutes.

Edit: in other comments here, it seems like Edinburgh to Manchester is a 45 minute flight. So yeah, they could easily have been outside of reserves when they did the go-around at Edinburgh and still had only 6 minutes left at Manchester.
by oniony | 2025-10-10 16:46:41+00:00
I think hyperlinks killed the underline.

Underline was pretty popular when I was younger. We'd underline the dates in our exercise books, it was used for emphasis in textbooks, &c. But when hyperlinks adopted underline as the default style then nobody would use them for anything else any more, as otherwise you'd have people clicking on things thinking they were links when they weren't. I'm guessing that's when people decided to render _this_ as italic rather than underline, perhaps web based IRC clients started it.

But then everyone stopped rendering links with underlines, so it died in vain. (I suppose it /is/ still used as a hover effect sometimes, inconsistently.)

And now nobody really uses underline for anything at all. It's kinda dormant waiting for its renaissance.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-10-10 16:46:42+00:00
Basic decency of being upfront about your business model, and in general being upfront and not being deceitful in life.

Anyways, constructively, they should add a usual pricing page with a nav for that at the top of the landing page.

It makes it clear that something is priced, right on the landing page.

In the pricing page the cards better make the costs super clear.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-10 16:47:06+00:00
> We have an actual consistent way to define fascism

One, a 14-point checklist is functionally worthless in politics.

Two, why is Britt the final say on what fascism is?

Three, this list is extremely ambiguous. When does criticism cross into disdain, interest into obsession, grim tolerance into rampant acceptance?

Everything on that list is accurate as a retrospective tool. But for contemporaneous measure, it falls short by failing to propose clear tests.