MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by usefulcat | 2025-10-08 16:35:22+00:00
> Perhaps Texas could use a different trading model that doesn't require ultra high speed trading.

What would that look like? Periodic auctions? Certainly it could be done, I'm just trying to understand what problem might be solved, and whether the solution would be effective.

For example, even with the opening and closing auctions we have today, there can be an advantage to getting your order accepted right before the deadline. Some participants do this, most don't really (depending on the exact definition of "right before"). But the fact that some do tells me that some participants would do the same thing with periodic auctions, and at least for them latency would still be important.

If, as seems likely, latency is fundamentally important to at least some styles of trading, how do you incentivize participants to not value it?
by eflim | 2025-10-08 16:35:46+00:00
Mostly yes, but a more optimistic (if naive) perspective is that the exchange wants to bring something new and valuable to the market. There are tons of little rules on exchanges about how stocks trade, and these can affect the amount of stocks and prices of stocks that different investors are able to get. These rules (often called microstructure) are partially determined by law, but there's differentiation between exchanges, and so one of the things a new exchange can do is introduce different rules that might make the market more "fair" depending how you define that.
by HanClinto | 2025-10-08 16:35:49+00:00
I still miss Google Reader. I loved the social aspects, where I could repost my favorite articles (with comments about them), and friends could easily subscribe to my feed and comment on my shares. It was a really great social network for sharing blog posts and articles. I credit the demise of Google Reader with a lot of the downfall of the Old Web.

Since then, social sharing platforms are motivated to keep you on their platform. I recently ran an experiment on Facebook, where I posted a link to a content creator's video on YouTube with a lot of my thoughts about it.

I then downloaded the same video from YouTube and uploaded it to Facebook (this particular creator didn't upload his content to Facebook directly), and posted the exact same text content (but this time, hid the link the the source video in a comment).

The post where I downloaded + reposted the video got about 1000x more views than the one where I linked to the source.

On top of that, Facebook will often hide the link to the source video unless I click "Show all comments" (rather than the default "Show most relevant").

Facebook deprioritizes (shadowbans?) posts that link off of their platform, and it starts feeling like a stagnant pond. It's frustrating that it's difficult to share insightful blog posts on that platform, and I'm feeling pretty done with it.

Getting a good RSS reader isn't the part that I'm looking for -- I want the easy social aspect that Google Reader and Google+ gave me.
by misja111 | 2025-10-08 16:36:05+00:00
From the Oracle/Java documentation:

java.net.preferIPv4Stack (default: false) If IPv6 is available on the operating system the underlying native socket will be, by default, an IPv6 socket which lets applications connect to, and accept connections from, both IPv4 and IPv6 hosts. However, in the case an application would rather use IPv4 only sockets, then this property can be set to true. The implication is that it will not be possible for the application to communicate with IPv6 only hosts.

It's strange that things didn't work with this flag to false. It should be able to connect to both IPv4 and IPv6. Now that the author has set it to true, the drawback is that his IntelliJ won't be able to connect to IPv6-only hosts anymore.
by landl0rd | 2025-10-08 16:36:35+00:00
I lived in Texas and we never got rolling blackouts for this. We didn't hear about it from family and friends in every major Texas city. Maybe this means 75% of the state by area rather than population? We just didn't drive because much of Texas isn't set up to clear roads and, more importantly, few of our drivers know how to deal with snow and so most get very unsafe to drive around.

The report your wikipedia article cites for 75% says this: "In the case of ERCOT, where rolling blackouts affected the largest number of customers (3.2 million), there were 3100 MW of responsive reserves available on the first day of the event, compared to a minimum requirement of 2300 MW." So an eighth or so of Texas' ~25 million population in 2011.
by kasey_junk | 2025-10-08 16:36:36+00:00
NYSE Texas didn’t see a huge influx of listings when they moved there and changed their rules. I don’t think “Texas” is particularly interesting to the conversation given the dominant regulatory regime will be federal and the trading will happen in NJ but I could be wrong.

There are lots of stock exchanges, which have started for lots of reasons but there isn’t really much of an industry desire to be out of nyse/nasdaq for vanilla listings. If there was it would have already happened.

Seems like a publicity stunt to siphon some regnms traffic and maybe some etf listings to me, but no big drama if not.
Show HN: Sarge Launcher – A Quake 3 Arena Utility
by endless-r0ad | 2025-10-08 16:36:41+00:00
Good morning!

As an avid quake 3 defrag player, this project started out for me as a tool for Quake 3 and Q3 mods that would solve some of the issues that the in-game UI has. It is essentially an external launcher for the game built with Tauri v2.

Where this launcher shines is it lets you toggle your Quake 3 client exe and with 1 click the launcher is now targeted to that mod (servers / demos / levels refresh). Note there is a nice GIF of the app in the readme of the repo

The project uses Tauri (webview) which some people scoff at - and I get it. Although I think most of the webview stigma is due to electron apps bloating everyone's PC. In any case - I tried my damndest on the UI :).

So try it out - this is for all the Q3 old heads!

Benefits over in-game UI below:

Faster server browser, Ability to favorite servers, Ability to trash servers (this is useful as many servers advertise using fake players which pollutes the in-game browsing experience - trashing these resolves this), Ability to add custom servers that are not advertised on the Q3 master servers, Unlimited number of demos/levels can be displayed (Q3 client exes have hard limits on the amount of demos / levels that can be displayed in the in-game UI), Ability to play demos on a loop (a feature inspired by the old Demo Show Creator tool https://alt.3dcenter.org/dsc/index_english.php), Ability to auto-close the client at demo end, Managing the EXE (basically closing and re-opening the client on subsequent launches), More data is parsed from demos, levels, and servers and is displayed in a nice fashion, You can read back the console activity in demos (chat history etc) without having to play the demo. I don't think this has been done before in any other tool
by badlibrarian | 2025-10-08 16:37:08+00:00
A C++ codebase with bonus non-C++ code that generates C++ code plus a build-process-that-generates-build processes all with maniacal inter-dependencies and a guy who insists on renaming everything and moving all the files around in git-destroying ways twice a year does indeed create a bit of a monks-in-the-caves vibe.
by Neywiny | 2025-10-08 16:37:18+00:00
Agreeing with the others. It's you. Like my initial house example, if I make a contract with *you* to build the house, you provide me a house. If you don't, I sue you. If it's not your fault, you sue them. But that's not my problem. I'm not going to sue the person who planted the tree, harvested the tree, sawed the tree, etc etc if the house falls down. That's on you for choosing bad suppliers.

If you chose OpenAI to be the one running your model, that's your choice not mine. If your contract with them has a clause that they pay you if they mess up, great for you. Otherwise, that's the risk you took choosing them
by TimorousBestie | 2025-10-08 16:37:35+00:00
Talking with you is very difficult when you continue to conflate various claims and stances that are logically distinct.

OP said:

>>> How is it 'disgusting' to try to let someone live as they were born?

Asserting this as an ethical principle leads to absurdities. That’s all that occurred here.

> What "absurd collateral damage" have the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, or Norway encountered when they banned endocrine interventions for treating gender dysphoric youth?

This is irrelevant to the point at hand (nobody here was discussing European medical policy), but this is not accurate. It’s strange, because you’ve correctly summarized what occurred elsewhere.

Let’s go review the situation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty_blocker

> Danish guidelines published in 2023 recommend the use of puberty blockers on transgender patients at either Tanner stage two or three, as a means of buying time for patients to consider their gender more fully before making a decision.[119]

> In 2020, Finland revised its guidelines to prioritise psychotherapy over medical transition.[120] However, these guidelines are a recommendation, not a mandate.[121][122] The Council for Choices in Health Care allows the use of puberty blockers in transgender children after a case-by-case assessment if there are no medical contraindications.[123][124]

> In 2023, the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board, an independent non-governmental organization, issued a non-binding report finding "there is insufficient evidence for the use of puberty blockers and cross sex hormone treatments in young people" and recommending changing to a cautious approach.[148][149] The Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board is not responsible for setting healthcare policy, and the Directorate, which is, has not implemented the recommendations, though they have said they are considering them.[148][146][125] Misinformation that Norway had banned gender affirming care proliferated on social media.[146]

Misinformation, by the way, that you continue to peddle in.
by butlike | 2025-10-08 16:37:41+00:00
On the one hand I hear time and time again: it's not the idea, it's the implementation that matters.

On the other hand, people freak out about uploading secrets to a tool/platform.

Are these secrets REALLY that 'cornerstone' to the survivability of the company, or is it maybe just a <little> wishful thinking from smaller companies convincing themselves they've made some sort of secret sauce?
by Gerardo1 | 2025-10-08 16:37:44+00:00
Exactly. I have said several times that the largest and most lucrative market for AI and agents in general is liability-laundering.

It's just that you can't advertise that, or you ruin the service.

And it already does work. See the sweet, sweet deal Anthropic got recently (and if you think $1.5B isn't a good deal, look at the range of of compensation they could have been subject to had they gone to court and lost).

Remember the story about Replit's LLM deleting a production database? All the stories were AI goes rogue, AI deletes database, etc.

If an Amazon RDS database was just wiped a production DB out of nowhere, with no reason, the story wouldn't be "Rogue hosted database service deletes DB" it would be "AWS randomly deletes production DB" (and, AWS would take a serious reputational hit because of that).
Ask HN: How can we force a gcloud billing support ticket to be escalted
by merb | 2025-10-08 16:37:50+00:00
we were a really happy user on google cloud in the past.

however on august we moved our company headequarter to a new location. and since we are located in germany it is really important to have invoices with the correct address.

unfortunatly we could not change the address in google cloud for the payment settings, because our profile is connected with D-U-N-S. we already changed our invoice at the D-U-N-S site and other providers that use D-U-N-S did allow us to change to the new address. however that does not work on google cloud.

we reached out the support on 8/11/25 and we only got told to wait. it should not be that hard to change a simple address on our invoices? it would be really problematic in november.

does anybody have ideas how we can further reach out to somebody at google to escalate the issue?
by homarp | 2025-10-08 16:38:12+00:00
see also https://github.com/schlae/scopetrex with the plan to build a clone.

You need a XY Monitor - https://jmargolin.com/xy/xymon.htm

or if you have a normal CRT, you can add the XY kit: https://www.retrorgb.com/vector-monitor-xy-kit.html
Ask HN: How many politics threads are flagged, and by who? is NH being censored?
by casenmgreen | 2025-10-08 16:38:21+00:00
Every now and then in "New" I see a political thread, relating to ongoing Government misconduct, flagged but not yet gone.

I have formed the impression political threads in general are being flagged, and rapidly.

I'm concerned about potential misuse of the flagging mechanism.

Does any data or insight exist into the who/what/where/when of thread suppression via flagging?

Is it reasonably known that what seems to be happening the genuine will of the mass of readers? or it there potential for misuse, to suppress discussion?
by oceanplexian | 2025-10-08 16:38:42+00:00
> Starship to orbit sounds useful, but Starship to Mars is near useless.

A single astronaut with a shovel could do more science in a couple days than all the probes combined in the last 54 years (Which have barely scratched the surface). For all we know there are literal fossils a few meters below the surface but none of our technology had the ability to even start looking.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-08 16:38:43+00:00
They send me surveys which show they have preoccupations which are... weird.

They're not happy to have a successful game store, they want me to use a VR headset to determine my schedule. Which I guess is alright, if I can also access my schedule with a desktop computer or a phone. Why I'd want to use VR to determine my schedule is beyond me, I think a 'minority report' kind of interface could be possible but it is 2025 and you'd think people would expect a conversational recommender that works everywhere.
by tomrod | 2025-10-08 16:39:10+00:00
All true. Texas worker environment is not great though. Folks typically list income tax as an advantage but property and sales taxes more than make up the difference. Also, govt admin is fairly hostile to any infrastructure expansion, preferring to let the local car dealers buy new town charters with no infrastructure.

Environmental regs are not well managed generally.

Anyhow, not the worst state, not the best. Pretty balanced economy, like Ohio, Illinois, California, and Georgia.
by jmrobles | 2025-10-08 16:39:19+00:00
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by simonw | 2025-10-08 16:39:26+00:00
It looks like the key idea here is that a GitHub repo can have a gemini-extension.json file which specifies some MCP servers and a GEMINI.md file, then you can tell Gemini CLI to add that repo and it will fetch and configure those details.

Here's a commit I found adding one of these for the Google Maps platform: https://github.com/googlemaps/platform-ai/commit/95c4efdb43c...
by paulwilsonn | 2025-10-08 16:39:40+00:00
Totally agree — AI voice agents shine when they handle the repetitive stuff and free up humans for real conversations. The best results I’ve seen are from teams that don’t treat it as a full replacement, but as an assistant layer that filters or pre-qualifies before handing off.

The tone analysis part is super interesting too — I’ve noticed when combined with CRM data, it actually helps reps adjust their approach mid-call. Tools like Coldi.ai seem to be heading in the right direction with that balance between automation and empathy.
by reaperducer | 2025-10-08 16:40:14+00:00
I hope one day we get to see real names in this story.

> to protect the privacy of the people and companies involved

Companies get privacy rights now?

Snark aside, I think I understand how this person feels.

I once worked for a company that did something abhorrent during a natural disaster. I spoke up and was reprimanded, while my coworkers just sat there and accepted it. I came very close to losing my job, and ended up leaving the company at my first opportunity.

It was 20 years ago, and I keep meaning to write an article about it, but never do. It's not that you want to protect the company, or that you're afraid of being sued. But there's something that weighs on you when you think about actually putting the words down.

It's all a decade or more old, so what's the point? Nobody will be held to account. The company is no longer under the same leadership (or even the same name).

My personal blog has a dead-man's switch that will reveal a number of ugly things about several of the companies for which I've worked. But who cares? That's part of the weight. What good will it do? If, by some remote chance, someone reads it, it will only make them mad. How does that help anything?

But I'm also one of those people on HN who's always crying "name and shame." So, I'm a hypocrite. Such is life.
by Gerardo1 | 2025-10-08 16:40:15+00:00
Did you, the company who built and sold this SaaS product, offer and agree to provide the service your customers paid you for?

Did your product fail to render those services? Or do damage to the customer by operating outside of the boundaries of your agreement?

There is no difference between "Company A did not fulfill the services they agreed to fulfill" and "Company A's product did not fulfill the services they agreed to fulfill", therefore there is no difference between "Company A's product, in the category of AI agents, did not fulfill the services they agreed to fulfill."
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-08 16:40:17+00:00
You might want to look at "Why Liberalism Failed", specifically the chapter "The New Aristocracy."

The section "Classical Liberalism: Roots of the New Aristocracy", summarizes the fundamental philosophy behind why a certain amount of inequality is embraced in classically liberal countries (IE, democracies): Overall, it rises everyone's everyone's living standards; even the poor.

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

(Just a warning: The author is very conservative and outspoken about social issues. Try to read to understand the author's opinion, instead of reading to agree or disagree.)
by tracker1 | 2025-10-08 16:41:06+00:00
Too little, too late... My current Synology box will likely be my last, I might get another 5-bay expansion, but even that is really iffy. I just don't like the decisions like this that they've continued to make... more lock in, more restrictive features, etc.

For that matter, in the 4-6 drive SOHO range, there are a LOT of NAS products with decent consumer upgrade options and alternative OS support with okay compute power. Not to mention the prosumer options for software that support these devices as well as DIY options are pretty good as well, less than the premium that Synology charges for their hardware.
by mindslight | 2025-10-08 16:41:11+00:00
The fact he had to use dashes there just really demonstrates the out of control radical left liberal media cancel culture censorship (/s).

I still do think racism is a pretty impotent critique though. The driving goal of these people isn't racial segregation, but rather power. They're leaning into the latent racism in our society as a source of energy. But when you make a deal with the Devil, the Devil will always ultimately win. These people (drunk on big data and now LLMs) think they can beat the Devil at his own game, as they lead Western society to ruin.
by rendall | 2025-10-08 16:41:27+00:00
> ...and anti-trans writer Jesse Singal

This is a really dumb article, starting with this example. Singal is not anti-trans and never has been. He wrote critically of methodologies used by key papers that are cited in support of affirmation in youth gender medicine. That is it, and all it ever was. For that he was canceled. Ridiculous.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-10-08 16:41:34+00:00
The author is located in Italy, where "it's the truth" is not an absolute defense against defamation like you say - basically, here, causing "reputational harm" is actually against the law, even if you are telling the truth. There are a few exceptions like social interest which may apply, but it is a dangerous game to play because you need to prove that to the courts, as opposed to just proving what you wrote is what actually happened.
by brudgers | 2025-10-08 16:41:51+00:00
I am aware that some people have a neurotype that is very opposed to "being told what to do", especially when they can't reason to it themselves. and sometimes being able to anticipate needs in advance is an important first step to meeting those needs more often

Lifelong direct and intimate familiarity with a person of the “neurotype” you describe is actually what drew forth my comment.

To be more clear, a real person with the “being told what to do” interpretation of the world you mention was forced to my thought by what the author said.
by westurner | 2025-10-08 16:41:58+00:00
OpenCogPrime:EconomicAttentionAllocation: https://wiki.opencog.org/w/OpenCogPrime:EconomicAttentionAll... :

> Economic Attention Allocation (ECAN) was an OpenCog subsystem intended to control attentional focus during reasoning. The idea was to allocate attention as a scarce resource (thus, "economic") which would then be used to "fund" some specific train of thought. This system is no longer maintained; it is one of the OpenCog Fossils.

(Smart contracts require funds to execute (redundantly and with consensus), and there there are scarce resources).

Now there's ProxyNode and there are StorageNode implementations, but Agent is not yet reimplemented in OpenCog?

ProxyNode implementers: ReadThruProxy, WriteThruProxy, SequentialReadProxy, ReadWriteProxy, CachingProxy

StorageNode > Implementations: https://wiki.opencog.org/w/StorageNode#Implementations