MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by darksaints | 2025-10-15 03:22:25+00:00
Mohammed bin Salman and Trump are in each other's pockets. One of Trump's first acts in his first term was to approve the sale of military equipment to Saudi Arabia for the first time. At the time, MBS was the defense minister, and was not the Crown Prince. Almost all western open source intelligence on the matter will state that this act alone was what convinced King Salman to remove Muhammad bin Nayef as Crown Prince, and install MBS in his stead. The deal closed in May, and MBS was made Crown Prince in June. MBS literally owes his role as future King to Donald Trump. Trump would later brag about protecting "our guy" after the whole world condemned him and wanted to cut ties to Saudi Arabia for killing Khashoggi. When MBS did his now infamous 2017 purge of Saudi Billionaires, imprisoning them in a hotel and confiscating their wealth or securing their loyalty, he was likely doing it with CIA-sourced intel, hand delivered by Kushner [0] who had finally received the necessary security clearances which the Trump administration directly intervened in issuing [1].

In October 2022, literally a week after meeting Putin for the first time, Elon Musk started mirroring Russian propaganda [2], even though he had been a staunch supporter of Ukraine until that point. A week later, he would announce that he had secured funding to buy Twitter. Immediately, he reversed course on his "Free Speech Absolutism" and started pumping out right wing propaganda. Not long after, he would announce that he was leaving the democratic party, and not long after that, he would endorse Trump, and then not long after that, he would begin campaigning with trump and becoming his single largest donor and chief election meddler.

When Musk was forced to disclose his investors, the list [3] included:

* the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia

* several Saudi hedge funds, including those owned by billionaires that miraculously survived the 2017 purge with their wealth intact.

* several Silicon Valley VCs who had recently announced raising significant funding from Saudi Arabia, including one that had just hired the sons of sanctioned Russian Oligarchs in Putin's inner circle [4].

* several individuals with ties to Saudi Arabia or Russia.

* (unrelated but hilarious and unsurprising) P Diddy, who knew he was in future need of a presidential pardon.

TL;DR: Mohammed bin Salman owes his position as Crown Prince to Donald Trump, and Donald Trump owes his second term to Mohammed bin Salman.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-crown-prince-jared-kus...

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437292-kushners-...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/1126714896/elon-musk-ukraine-...

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/x-investors-helped-elon-musk-...

[4] https://www.aa.com.tr/en/science-technology/x-shareholders-l...
by gertop | 2025-10-15 03:22:38+00:00
> It's an incredible waste

Funny, I would have used those exact words had they chosen anything BUT Android as their base.

All the other "freedom" Linux phones are failures (yes I'm sure fsflover will now chime in to but akshually). I know because I bought them all. They all have one thing in common: the software sucks.

And I don't even need apps. Just basic phone functionality (several Linux phones still can't do MMS), a web browser, and no crashes. Unfortunately no Linux phone has been able to give the to me yet. Whereas Android has been delivering for over a decade.
by thedumbname | 2025-10-15 03:24:15+00:00
You are mixed up 3 different tech stacks: 1. React Native has nothing in common with web apps except JS runtime. It uses "native" widgets for Android and iOS. You need to add a new "native" runtime for your free OS. There are some third-party attempts to add mac/win/linux support, but they are not feature complete as officially supported platforms. Again, your free OS will be step behind. 2. Yes, you can write PWA with React (Web), but PWA still have many missing features which offered by platform APIs of Android and iOS. Your app will not be in "feature parity" with "native" app. Especially banking app. 3. Electron apps are integrated with desktop platform APIs, you cannot easily port Electron app to mobile. Every time big company with big investments wins.
by nerdponx | 2025-10-15 03:25:36+00:00
> You must be then using history the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support rather than illumination.

Why would I be interested in other time periods when talking about the similarities between our time, and a phenomenon that did not exist in those other time periods?

If I state that someone on the street looks like Bill Murray, would you pull up pictures of John Cleese on your phone to refute my claim?
by fujigawa | 2025-10-15 03:26:00+00:00
Overall this isn't the W you think it is; New England still leads the nation in heating oil consumption by a large margin.

Nearly 2M households in New England heat their homes with oil (usually boiler, sometimes furnace). For those unfamiliar, a tanker truck comes by your house every couple of months and pumps diesel fuel into a tank down cellar, which literally gets burned like a flamethrower to boil water to heat your home. It's dirty but keeps your home toasty warm when it's -20 outside.

Maine in particular has very little natural gas infrastructure. Electric is impractical as New England winters are cold as balls and the houses are usually old and not that well insulated.
by vel0city | 2025-10-15 03:26:14+00:00
It truly depends on the quality of the software you were using at the time. Maybe the software you used didn't result in many issues. I know a lot of the games I played as a kid on my family's or friend's Win95 machines resulted in system lockups or blue screens practically every time we used them.

As I mess around with these old machines for fun in my free time, I encounter these kinds of crashes pretty dang often. Its hard to tell if its just the old hardware is broken in odd ways or not so I can't fully say its the old software, but things are definitely pretty unreliable on old desktop Windows running old desktop Windows apps.
by neilv | 2025-10-15 03:27:00+00:00
> The FSF has been supporting earlier free software mobile phone projects such as Replicant,

Hopefully this project will go better than Replicant. Here are my notes on running Replicant on the (then already very old) flagship Samsung GT-I9300:

https://www.neilvandyke.org/replicant/

The hardware was a little difficult to obtain in the US, and WiFi worked only with a blob of questionable provenance.

It looks like Replicant has been stuck for several years, and they recognize that they need to find a new device, funding, etc.

(After Replicant, I spent some time on PostmarketOS with various devices, and then gave up and bought iPhones, and then got ticked off and moved to GrapheneOS.)

I wonder whether the FSF is already collaborating with Purism on this, to leverage their work on the Librem 5 and PureOS, which I believe the FSF is well aware of. If the FSF manages to muster a lot more open source volunteers on a more affordable hardware, but that work is also usable for Librem 5, then it could be a win-win. (And Purism also has something called Liberty Phone, which is a made-in-USA Librem 5 phone, so their lawyers should talk about trademarks in any case.)

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/
by jodrellblank | 2025-10-15 03:27:01+00:00
Anyone else remembering Trygve Lode’s “treehouse” in Denver, where he ran video editing, music servers, and a local ISP from his home basement/weight room around the Pentium II era?

http://www.trygve.com/servers_quarters.html

http://www.trygve.com/house.html (scroll down)
Language Evangelism Is Annoying
by amano-kenji | 2025-10-15 03:27:17+00:00
A rust evangelist, who has a clojure job with some rust coding on the side, came to clojure community and couldn't stop mentioning Rust to me in clojure community.

I told him to stop, but he couldn't stop mentioning it. I got annoyed and snapped.

Evangelism is very annoying. Don't do this. If you don't like clojure, then get a new job that doesn't involve clojure, but don't come to clojure community and keep telling people to consider Rust or any other language.

If a clojure programmer disgruntled with a Rust job went to a rust community and kept telling people to maybe ditch Rust and consider clojure, would it not be annoying as hell?

I think your programming language is inferior to mine. You think my language is inferior to yours. No one is going to agree because it's a matter of opinion and taste.

Just let people use their languages according to their personal preferences. Let them write cobol, fortran, C, clojure, C++, Rust, Haskell, or whatever. Don't bother programmers with other languages.

Leave people alone. If you want to evangelize your language, publish contents. Don't bother people.

Evangelism is as annoying as an ugly guy stalking a beautiful princess. No means no. Respect personal boundaries.
by unsungNovelty | 2025-10-15 03:27:37+00:00
As I write more code, use more software and read about rewrites...

The biggest gripe I have with a rewrite is... A lof of the time we rewrite for feature parity. Not the exact same thing. So you are kind ignoring/missing/forgetting all those edge cases and patches that were added along the way for so many niche or otherwise reasons.

This means broken software. Something which used to work before but not anymore. They'll have to encounter all of them again in the wild and fix it again.

Obviously if we are to rewrite an important piece of software like this, you'd emphasise more on all of these. But it's hard for me to comprehend whether it will be 100%.

But other than sqlite, think SDL. If it is to be rewritten. It's really hard for me to comprehend that it's negligible in effect. Am guessing horrible releases before it gets better. Users complaining for things that used work.

C is going to be there long after the next Rust is where my money is. And even if Rust is still present, there would be a new Rust then.

So why rewrite? Rewrites shouldn't be the default thinking no?
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-15 03:28:12+00:00
> are there no existing languages comprehensive enough for this?

In my experience, RAML[0] is worth adopting as an API specification language. It is superior to Swagger/OpenAPI in both being able to scale in complexity and by supporting modularity as a first class concept:

RAML provides several mechanisms to help modularize the ecosystem of an API specification: Includes Libraries Overlays Extensions[1]

0 - https://github.com/raml-org/raml-spec/blob/master/versions/r...

1 - https://github.com/raml-org/raml-spec/blob/master/versions/r...
by LarsAlereon | 2025-10-15 03:29:58+00:00
It looks like the top-end estimate is that the Fukushima disaster may have caused up to 500 additional total lifetime deaths from cancer. Roughly 23,000 people per year died of diseases attributed to coal power plants in the United States alone from 1999-2020.

Edit: Changed "linked to" to "attributed to", because this is the estimated count of people who would not have died of disease if coal power plants were not running.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-15 03:32:00+00:00
>The Army Corps of Engineers successfully operated small nuclear reactors for remote sites from 1954 through 1979. The Shippingport commercial reactor (America’s first civil nuclear power station) grew directly from the naval nuclear program.

Hope author goes further into analyzing the diff between army and navy engineering culture, because it is clear that naval engineers built the foundations here :)

Post is titled Pentagon but how does the cross-service learning work exactly in the Schools
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-15 03:32:26+00:00
Unlikely. The ISO has 3.5GW of solar and nuclear capacity equally (I’m aware of capacity factor of solar vs nuclear, but the ISO also reports ~6GW of behind the meter distributed solar which only manifests as reduced demand). The ISO needs more batteries, renewables, and transmission from hydro in Quebec, Canada (1.2GW), but nuclear is not needed to succeed long term and those two generators will eventually be decommissioned, as their license only extends their operating period to ~2050. Twenty five years is plenty of time to replace their 3.5GW of output; 18GW of battery storage, 17GW of wind, and 13.5GW of solar is in the ISO’s interconnect queue or has been proposed by developers.

https://www.mainepublic.org/climate/2025-01-03/central-maine... (“Central Maine Power aims to finish controversial western Maine power corridor in 2025”)

https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2023-11-30/documents-re... (NextEra, which owns the Seabrook nuclear power plant in N.H., stands to lose tens of millions of dollars every year if the NECEC comes online and attempted to use political donations to scuttle the Quebec Hydro transmission line)

https://www.iberdrola.com/about-us/what-we-do/smart-grids/ne... (“The new transmission line between Quebec and Maine will provide 1,200 megawatts (MW) of renewable hydroelectric power to the New England power grid in Lewiston, Maine, sufficient to meet the demand of 1.2 million homes. Once built, NECEC will be New England's largest renewable energy source, saving customers $190 million per year.”)

https://www.iso-ne.com/about/government-industry-affairs/new...

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/northeast-...

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/US-NE-ISNE/live/fif...

(Quebec, interestingly, has ~40GW of hydro generation capacity)
by chaseadam17 | 2025-10-15 03:33:54+00:00
I stopped reading all news except for a daily non partisan newsletter and it has made me much happier. One criticism I often get is that I’m not fulfilling my duty of being an informed citizen - but people forget that the benefit of being informed is to improve your or someone else’s life. If the news is wasting your time and draining your energy more than it’s giving you actionable insights you can do something tangible about, it’s not worth reading. Of course, maybe you just enjoy the news, but then it’s entertainment (and not a civic duty). I think this idea of being an informed citizen is carried over from prior eras when news was scarce, sort of like how my grandma used to get mad at me if I didn’t finish my McNuggets in the 90’s, not realizing “chicken” could be unhealthy since meat had always been such a scarce luxury in her life.
by red369 | 2025-10-15 03:34:49+00:00
I think it is probably only a hardware issue in the sense that the iPhone 13 mini is probably too old/slow to run iOS 26 as quickly as the old version.

I updated my old/spare phone - an iPhone SE3, which I think has a similar processor and memory (A15 and 4GB). It became a lot more sluggish. I learned my lesson not to upgrade my main phone, also an iPhone 13 mini.

I also noticed a disappointing slow down on a 9th gen iPad, which has even older internals. Actually, perhaps I should be quickly looking into downgrading that if it's possible.
Ask HN: What Are the Hidden Bottlenecks in Startup Marketing
by contentlead | 2025-10-15 03:35:31+00:00
For founders and small teams here, what ended up being your biggest invisible bottleneck in marketing? Was it tools, people, process, or something sneakier?

We’ve noticed that 70% of our marketing delays happen after the content is written, like during reviews, approvals, and scheduling. The creative part is fast; the coordination is what kills velocity.
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-15 03:36:04+00:00
> This same institution operates America’s highest-performing school system. DoDEA students scored 234 in fourth-grade reading on the 2024 NAEP, outperforming the national average of 214. That’s roughly two grade levels ahead. In eighth-grade math, DoDEA scored 291 versus 272 nationally. When 2024 NAEP results showed national reading scores declining, DoDEA was the only jurisdiction where scores increased.

How again do we know this isn’t entirely due to selection effects?
by randcraw | 2025-10-15 03:38:00+00:00
Exactly. A simple phone that runs a browser I can trust that's also capable of running web-based apps is all I need. I already avoid running apps on my iphone whenever possible.

The phone I really want is as uncomplicated and open as possible and beholden to no corporate economic interests or privacy invasions.

Now that I'm retired I'm looking for a project to immerse myself in. This sounds like just the ticket.
by ajross | 2025-10-15 03:38:01+00:00
> All it takes to negate thousands of people with one opinion

... thousands? You haven't cited even one! Which, as I eagerly point out, is exactly one fewer example than I provided. So even accepting your dismissal as framed, I win. By a lot.

Seems to me that it's the person asserting the existence of a conspiracy that needs to be the one coming to the table with evidence.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-10-15 03:38:11+00:00
If Volkswagen's competitors ran around saying that cars aren't dangerous and there's no need to regulate them, and their critics insisted that you're a mark if you accept the premise that cars are a useful transportation method at all, I don't suppose I'd have a choice but to take it seriously. If you know of a similar analysis from a less conflicted group I'd love to read it!
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-10-15 03:38:20+00:00
I’d think many people dying of heart disease and cancer are at the end of a long life and perhaps not entirely surprising. Sure there are tragic exceptions…

However, about 1000 people a week die in car accidents which almost never makes the news. I doubt the majority of those are either elderly or non-preventable. I feel this should get attention but never does.
by autoexec | 2025-10-15 03:38:43+00:00
> What does it matter if you can run a completely free software stack on your phone, if your bank software (or your required government ID, as is looking depressingly likely) requires you to run a Big Tech approved phone OS?

What does it matter if you can use any OS you want if your phone is filled with SoCs which are bugged and backdoored by the state and/or who knows who else? The reality is that we need both free hardware and free software. I can always tell my bank to fuck off and move my accounts to one that gives me freedom to use the mobile OS of my choosing, and if there isn't a single bank on earth willing to do that I can always simply refuse to use my cell phone for banking.

I'd much rather keep the phone I control and trust while limiting myself to only having the options of a desktop PC, a laptop, an ATM, a phone call, a drive thru, and walking into my bank's closest branch when interacting with my bank. Not being able to also stab my finger at a cell phone screen to check my balance isn't really that big of a deal.
by tobihrbr | 2025-10-15 03:40:41+00:00
That's a great idea. We'll add that asap. More broadly, we're working on documentation that explains Metorial, and it's sub-components, in more detail.

Just for context, it's as simple as 1) creating an OAuth Sessions (https://metorial.com/api/oauth-session) which includes a URL which you 2) pass on to your user's to authenticate at and you're done.
by ajross | 2025-10-15 03:40:55+00:00
> The graph shows only that cars are getting more expensive over time just not as mush as gas.

Gas isn't on the chart. It's showing the ratio between the auto segment of CPI (how expensive "a car" is) to the broader CPI metric (how expensive everything else is, on average). And it's going down.

I strongly suggest you think harder on the subject and study the chart (and FRED more generally) a bit.

> Inflation is a tax imposed by one group on another.

Yikes. Cite for that definition?
by twothreeone | 2025-10-15 03:42:51+00:00
Sorry, but no. Device attestation is another mechanism to track and ultimately exercise control over the user. It fundamentally goes against the freedom of choice. You want me to authenticate with multiple factors? Cool.. let me tell you which method I'm already using on all my other accounts and then tell me how to register that with your service. You want to "measure" my device? Okay, I'll take my business elsewhere..
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-10-15 03:42:58+00:00
the problem with these hypotheses is the lack of wiring. a very simple battery is not difficult to make (but pay no attention to the energy density), but making a useful circuit that does anything is pretty hard. the simplest possible useful circuit is a lightbulb which requires ability to create tungston wire, a vacuum, and very thin, precise glass.
by terminalshort | 2025-10-15 03:44:08+00:00
Google Drive would be good enough (if you can access Meta, you can access Google Drive) or any other cloud storage where you maintain ownership of your data. You can give people anywhere in the world the credentials to access it and upload to any social media. Internet Archive allows takedown requests from content owners, so it's not really a backup. Meta probably automatically sends one when it deletes an Instagram page.
by hunter-gatherer | 2025-10-15 03:44:15+00:00
I'm sure someone has done the math, so I'd be intrigued if anyone can point it out. I'm curious as to the ratio of traffic deaths to driving hours is? It would be even more interesting to see if we had numbers for deaths against "productive" and "leisure" driving hours. Like, we all see the occasional accident, but drive on... So I am not sure the media _needs_ to bring attention to it. As a society, have we just come to accept some deaths as a cost of doing business??? I dunno... just speculating.
by LarsAlereon | 2025-10-15 03:44:49+00:00
From what I've heard from low-level employees, HR was basically entirely automated some years ago and the HR staff existed as a kind of helpdesk to solve exceptions. A simple example I heard is that employees are automatically fired after 3 days of unexcused absences, but occasionally an employee's doctor's note somehow doesn't excuse their absences, so they get an e-mail saying they are fired, call a phone number in the footer of the e-mail to talk to HR and open a ticket, and HR marks their absences as excused and unfires them.
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-15 03:45:00+00:00
All three of the languages you list are still actively updated. Coincidentally, the latest standard for all three of them is from 2023(ish):

- C23: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3096.pdf

- Cobol 2023: https://www.incits.org/news-events/news-coverage/available-n... (random press release since a PDF of the standard didn't immediately show up in a search)

- Fortran 2023: https://wg5-fortran.org/N2201-N2250/N2212.pdf

C2Y has a fair number of already-accepted features as well and it's relatively early in the standard release cycle: https://thephd.dev/c2y-hitting-the-ground-running
by fsckboy | 2025-10-15 03:45:18+00:00
>Before anyone jumps the gun and says this is a political move, this is quite likely just economics.

Before anyone jumps the gun and says this is likely economics, RTFA at least a few paragraphs:

Granite Shore Power, the company that owns the coal plant in Bow, New Hampshire, said they ceased commercial operations September 12th, about a year and a half since they announced they would retire their facility by 2028 as part of a settlement agreement with environmental groups.