MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sudosysgen | 2025-10-04 01:48:14+00:00
Iranian solid-fueled MRBM production rates were estimated by Israel to be at 200 a month, and rapidly increasing. That is actually a pretty remarkable production rate - basically the yearly production rate of interceptors. And that's only the solid fueled (by now the most produced), and only in ranges that can reach Israel. There is no reason why they would be any easier to intercept - plenty of aeroballistic missiles and even HGVs are propelled by solid fueled boosters.

Iranian missiles launchers are pretty cheap, and reportedly quite plentiful - they are relatively simple modifications of domestically produced truck platforms.

The Iranian account for why the strikes slowed down, FWIW, is that it took a significant amount of time to dig out the exits of the missiles bases, not that they ran out of launchers. Given the recycling of footage from launcher destruction and the simplicity of the launchers I personally find that account significantly more plausible.
by beeflet | 2025-10-04 01:48:23+00:00
There is no world in which the automation of human-level intelligence pans out well politically. You would just have a single superpower controlling the world.

There is no such thing as an AI that is safe "except for jobs or whatever". The automation of all labor will destroy the world as we know it. The problem cannot be solved through UBI because the recipients of the UBI will have no leverage to ensure its existence, even as a fighting force.

>I’ve talked to many people who find the complex argument completely implausible.

This is just the normie attitude of "everything is going to be fine". 99% of the time everything is fine, so this is a really good strategy until it isn't.
by stebalien | 2025-10-04 01:48:25+00:00
Ah, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

I guess I get why it works that way (avoids some issues with domain expiration) but... honestly, I'd rather have my domain name in control. Even after registering my own rotation key, I'm still at the mercy of the centralized PLC directory.

Unfortunately, it looks like it's not possible to migrate to a web DID without starting over.
by sealeck | 2025-10-04 01:48:36+00:00
In the previous post on the Fly.io blog (https://fly.io/blog/litestream-revamped/), a really cool thing was mentioned!

> In Litestream, we’re solving the problem a different way. Modern object stores like S3 and Tigris solve this problem for us: they now offer conditional write support. With conditional writes, we can implement a time-based lease. We get essentially the same constraint Consul gave us, but without having to think about it or set up a dependency.

Reading this blog post though, I couldn't see any reference to this. Is this supported in Litestream v0.5.0, or will it be for a future release?
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-04 01:49:18+00:00
Local regional hospitals and air ambulance companies are being bought up by private equity. And, surprise surprise, privately-owned regional hospitals are cutting critical care specialty services and so air ambulance life flights have increased 900%. I expect mortality has increased too logically because of delays in care.

The Air-Ambulance Vultures (2022) https://archive.ph/2TYGj

Air ambulances, backed by private equity firms, leave patients with $45,000 bills (2018) https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-air-ambulance-cost-20...
by OtomotO | 2025-10-04 01:49:35+00:00
I think it highly depends on what you're doing.

For some work I tend to take a pen and paper and think about a solution, before I write code. For these problems compile time isn't an issue.

For UI work on the other hand, it's invaluable to have fast iteration cycles to nail the design, because it's such an artistic and creative activity
by hoistbypetard | 2025-10-04 01:49:48+00:00
> Same for kids, you're not giving a kid your credit card when you send him to a bakery to get bread, you give him a couple of euros in cash.

I got caught out by a thing like this, recently. (I'm on the east coast of the US.)

My kids had a day off from school, and it was a nice day to ride bikes. There's a small municipal park around 5 miles (8 km) away, with a nice mini-golf course and a grill/cafe next to it. They were eager to go by themselves, so I told them they could ride their bikes there and gave each kid enough cash for a round of mini-golf, a cold drink and some lunch.

The park was card only! While that has been happening more and more, I was not expecting that from a city park. Thankfully, they're not shy kids, and they persuaded one of the park employees to use a personal card in exchange for cash. But I was shocked. They're 10 and 13 years old... it had not previously occurred to me that I should give them cards of any kind.
by cam_l | 2025-10-04 01:52:13+00:00
But men are the perpetrator in around 75% of all domestic or family violence cases, if you read the stats a bit more carefully. You have got to be careful of people mixing perp and victim data, and also lumping stats. Both of which are present in your post, along with cherry picking the one and only piece of data on that site that (kinda) supports your point!

Truth is men are responsible for most violence, most rape, most sexual assault, serious injury or death.

It is also important to remember that most perpetrators are men != most men are perpetrators.

And, the truth is also that women commit abuse at about the same rate as men. They are just as likely to abuse their kids, their partners, or their family. That abuse is just more likely to show up as emotional or coercive rather than physical.
by axiolite | 2025-10-04 01:53:43+00:00
Epson Workforce Pro WF-7820 is just $200 on Amazon right now. Brother MFC-J5340DW is currently at $280.

Tabloid printing used to be quite inexpensive... Any 11" wide dot-matrix printer could manage it.

The rise of inkjets made it relatively more expensive. I resorted to rescaling tabloid (11x14") printouts to US Legal (8.5x14") to keep old business applications working.

In recent years, as A3 format copiers (with network printing) have become very common in offices everywhere, it's becoming inexpensive to print on tabloid sized paper once again.
by infamouscow | 2025-10-04 01:54:26+00:00
Texas cities don't just stumble into better homelessness outcomes because they build more houses—though, yes, their zoning laws are less suffocating than California's bureaucratic strangulations, letting developers churn out homes while keeping rents from spiraling into the stratosphere.

The real engine here isn't just policy, it's the stubborn, unapologetic religious underpinnings of Texas. Those churches you see in Austin, from non-denominational barns to Catholic sanctuaries, are the sinew of a community that doesn't bend to the fickle winds of election cycles. The faithful don't wait for a ballot to act—they feed, clothe, and stabilize the downtrodden with a doggedness that shames the state's tepid, vote-chasing programs. Why? Because they answer to a higher power than city hall, and their time horizon isn't the next electoral race. Contrast this with the secular cathedrals of the blue coasts, where government is God and every solution is a press release, not a commitment. SF's "enforcement-first" shuffle—clear an encampment, watch it refill—betrays a system that worships process over results.

Texas' edge lies in cheap homes plus a culture that scorns the state's monopoly on virtue. The religious don't just build safety nets, they weave them into the social fabric, outlasting the transient schemes of politicians.
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-04 01:56:17+00:00
>The second part is basically saying if you do your own logic-based lazy imports (inline imports in functions) then you’re going against the traditions. Again, traditions are allowed to change!

No, they are saying the tradition is there for a reason. Imports at the beginning of the file makes reasoning about the dependencies of a module much easier and faster. I've had to deal with both and I sure as hell know which I'd prefer. Lazy imports by functions is a sometimes necessary evil and it would be very nice if it became unnecessary.
by Analemma_ | 2025-10-04 01:56:55+00:00
Uber sold something like $50 billion in equity and debt before it went public, and although they're profitable now, to me it doesn't seem like they have answer to Waymo coming up fast in the rear-view mirror. I think Uber is still a scam, just one where the earlier investors fleeced the later ones who are never going to see the returns they paid for.
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-10-04 01:56:58+00:00
And just in case people scrolling by haven't heard about the atrocities ICE has committed in Chicago, they were, quite literally, zip-tying naked children. They raided a residential building, detained multiple US citizens, wasted tax payer money, all to arrest a group of people who are statistically less violent than actual citizens.

And if anyone is still under the illusion that this is about "law enforcement" or "immigration", this should be a giant waving red flag that it's about racism and authoritarian control.
Airlynk – browser peer-to-peer file sharing without servers
by sathishaluvala | 2025-10-04 01:57:01+00:00
Airlynk is a browser-based peer-to-peer file sharing platform that works entirely without servers. You can share files directly between devices using only your browser — no uploads to cloud servers, no accounts, no sign-ins. Airlynk aims to make P2P file transfer simple, fast, and secure, even for non-technical users.

How it works: Airlynk uses WebRTC for direct peer-to-peer connections. When two users connect, a lightweight signaling process negotiates the connection. If a direct connection isn’t possible due to NATs or firewalls, it can temporarily relay data through a fallback mechanism. Files are chunked and transferred with progress tracking, ensuring reliability and minimal interruptions. To check the site visit: www.airlynk.in
by BHSPitMonkey | 2025-10-04 01:57:28+00:00
An automated test mitigates the risk you describe, and is well worth the tradeoff for fast startup.

I don't consider startup time "superficial" at all; I work in a Django monolith where this problem resulted in each and every management command, test invokation, and container reload incurring a 10-15sec penalty because of just a handful of heavy-to-import libraries used by certain tasks/views. Deferring these made a massive difference.
by Aeolun | 2025-10-04 01:58:27+00:00
> American infrastructure also isn't built to accommodate "USA-sized" cars.

I don’t think this is true. Everyone was driving around in the Toyota Tacoma in Hawaii and that was fine. You couldn’t drive the thing in Tokyo. You’d just immediately get stuck at the first corner.

The US is definitely built to facilitate cars, and plus sized cars by extension.
by bobthepanda | 2025-10-04 01:58:31+00:00
It's worth noting that due to advances in technology, it is possible to deliver the same show for less money and time.

The average "how to cook on a food network" show was, ultimately, one person in the kitchen of a large home cooking for the camera, produced once a week. There are plenty of people delivering that style of cooking show with high production quality today. Obviously it's not the same because some things are less deliverable with smaller or one-person teams (Miss Piggy is not going to visit some Youtube show the way she visited Martha Stewart) but there are people making this content ranging from big shops like NYT Cooking to smaller outfits like Binging with Babish, Glen and Friends Cooking, etc. and there are even outfits like this dedicated to more niche topics like Tasting History or Emmymade.
by reactordev | 2025-10-04 01:59:02+00:00
To them, he was a master of manipulation, exactly what they’re looking for. Someone who can spout racism and bigotry and drive listenership based on what crazy thing he’ll say next. Where does this sound familiar? It’s playbook man. That’s their business. I don’t condone any of what happened but he’s not someone we should be building statues of.
by corimaith | 2025-10-04 01:59:23+00:00
>But, economists will just assume it is, because they assume everything is a free market, and then apply free market dynamics. Basically, they skip step 1, and go to step 1000.

Which economist are you referring to here? It's hard to even see what specific policy conclusions you're critiquing here, beyond a vague strawman against "free market assumptions".
by koeng | 2025-10-04 01:59:35+00:00
I've really appreciated the incremental builds with zig - I really like having a single static binary, and I have an application which uses a few different libraries like SQLite and luau and it compiles at nearly Go speeds.

That said, there are definitely still bugs to their self hosted compiler. For example, for SQLite I have to use llvm - https://github.com/vrischmann/zig-sqlite/issues/195 - which kinda sucks.
by DennisP | 2025-10-04 02:00:05+00:00
My claim is that that's a bad decision, for exactly that reason. Job loss can happen for any number of reasons, often without warning. Getting a mortgage without any cushion for job loss is a huge risk.

Note also that I'm talking about highly-paid software engineers, not about people in general. Lots of people in the US make way less money than senior software engineers, and they manage to get by. Live at that level and secure your emergency funds first, and you'll be a lot more comfortable dealing with any ethical quandaries at work.
by bigiain | 2025-10-04 02:00:47+00:00
To balance the universe a bit, I read it expecting a drama post - then read it right through because it was at least as interesting as the drama post I'd expected. I also discovered Oxide through this, which looks interesting, except for the complete lack of pricing I can find on their site - which puts in my head as probably in the "If you need to ask the price you can't afford it" category...
by kelseyfrog | 2025-10-04 02:00:56+00:00
I wish this argument would die. We're asking for a better future among futures, not a better future compared to the past.

It's like buying a car, receiving a bike, and then being told, "A bike is great because you don't have to walk anymore." If you feel like that's unfair and the response misses the point, that's how that lands. I don't know who, when hearing that, feels better. It feels out of touch and dismissive.
by godelski | 2025-10-04 02:01:21+00:00
> when you can drop a maps link.

This does not update over time. So it has some serious limitations. The feature is actually quite helpful when meeting up with others, especially on longer road trips. It's a good way to allow the other person to know when to expect me as well as them know if I'm safe or have had hiccups. Means I am not using my phone while driving.

> ????? What?

For that link the user was talking about sending multimedia directly between devices, like "Airdrop". Why stop at pictures and videos? Why not texts? If these are short range then why send over the servers? It saves Signal server costs as well as provides some extra privacy and security for users as their messages cannot be gobbled up over the network (you'd have to be physically in range). Capture and decrypt later (the motivation Post-Quantum resistance, as discussed in the Signal blog post) can't be done if you don't capture, right?

There is real desire to still be able to communicate at times when networks are down. Be that a natural disaster, a crowded/congested area, or a government shutdown. Means of passing digital media during such events is still critical. It's not like we pass each other physical notes anymore. Plus, behind a secure protocol that's a bonus.

> If you are at a protest with your phone

Yeah sure, but reducing signals and information leakage is better than not reducing, right? Privacy and security are not binary things, they are continuums.

> To me?

Why?

Do these things stop you from using the app the way you currently use it?
Show HN: I built Fake Tweet Generator all by claudecode
by yeeyang | 2025-10-04 02:01:38+00:00
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This is a small project I use for growth, and I hope you like it.
by eyegor | 2025-10-04 02:02:08+00:00
> even a 1 minute compile time is dwarfed by the time it takes to write and reason about code, run tests, work with version control, etc.

You are far from the embedded world if you think 1 minute here or there is long. I have been involved with many projects that take hours to build, usually caused by hardware generation (fpga hdl builds) or poor cross compiling support (custom/complex toolchain requirements). These days I can keep most of the custom shenanigans in the 1hr ballpark by throwing more compute at a very heavy emulator (to fully emulate the architecture) but that's still pretty painful. One day I'll find a way to use the zig toolchain for cross compiles but it gets thrown off by some of the c macro or custom resource embedding nonsense.

Edit: missed some context on lazy first read so ignore the snark above.
by CPLX | 2025-10-04 02:02:16+00:00
Indeed. If you read between the lines that’s clearly it.

And on that note can I add how much I truly despise sentences like this:

> We are hearing from a lot of rightsholders who are very excited for this new kind of "interactive fan fiction" and think this new kind of engagement will accrue a lot of value to them, but want the ability to specify how their characters can be used (including not at all).

To me this sentence sums up a certain kind of passive aggressive California, Silicon Valley, sociopathic way of communicating with people that just makes my skin crawl. It’s sort of a conceptual cousin to concepts like banning someone from a service without even telling them or using words like “sunset” instead of “cancel” and so on.

What that sentence actually fucking means is that a lot of powerful people with valuable creative works contacted them with lawyers telling them to knock this the fuck off. Which they thought was appropriate to put in parentheses at the end as if it wasn’t the main point.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-04 02:02:34+00:00
"Far left extremists" is a dogwhistle used by non-POTUS/non-VEEP parts of the regime to avoid running afoul of the Hatch Act. 47 sometimes adds "Democrats" but that's not illegal per the law. The whole point is to demonize the other party priming the population and apparatus for the purges or "final solution" they intend to wield against non-MAGA politicians.
by switz | 2025-10-04 02:03:26+00:00
I'd list these as the real-world advantages

* Very flexible, but rigid deployments (can build anywhere, deploy from anywhere, and roll out deployments safely with zero downtime) * Images don't randomly disappear (ran into this all the time with dokku and caprover) * If something goes wrong, it heals itself as best it can * Structured observability (i.e. logs, metrics, etc. are easy to capture, unify, and ship to places) * Very easy to setup replicas to reduce load on services or have safe failovers * Custom resource usage (I can give some pods use more/less CPU/memory limits depending on scale and priority) * Easy to self-host FOSS services (queues, dbs, observability, apps, etc.) * Total flexibility when customizing ingress/routing. I can keep private services private and only expose public services * Certbot can issue ssl certs instantly (always ran into issues with other self-hosting platforms) * Tailscale Operator makes accessing services a breeze (can opt-in services one by one) * Everything is yaml, so easy to manipulate * Adding new services is a cake-walk - as easy as creating a new yaml file, building an image and pushing it. I'm no longer disincentivized to spin up a new codebase for something small but worthwhile, because it's easy to ship it.

All-in-all I spent many years trying "lightweight" deployment solutions (dokku, elastic beanstalk, caprover, coolify, etc.) that all came with the promise of "simple" but ended up being infinitely more of a headache to manage when things went wrong. Even something like heroku falls short because it's harder to just spin up "anything" like a stateful service or random FOSS application. Dokku was probably the best, but it always felt somewhat brittle. Caprover was okay. And coolify never got off the ground for me. Don't even get me started on elastic beanstalk.

I would say the biggest downside is that managing databases is less rigid than using something like RDS, but the flip side is that my DB is far more performant and far cheaper (I own the CPU cycles! no noisy neighbors.), and I still run daily backups to external object storage.

Once you get k8s running, it kind of just works. And when I want to do something funky or experimental (like splitting AI bots to separate pods), I can go ahead and do that with ease.

I run two separate k8s "clusters" (both single node) and I kind of love it. k9s (obs. tool) is amazing. I built my own logging platform because I hated all the other ones, might release that into its own product one day (email in my profile if you're interested).
by brudgers | 2025-10-04 02:03:28+00:00
I think Musehub.com is a sister project within Muse Group that helps mitigate the cost of paying professional developers to work on Audacity and MuseScore.

In the case of Muse Score it also provides a marketplace for third parties.

I don’t use it but I can see why it exists…ordinary folks expect cloud services these days. And if I had a different use case, it would help me get stuff done.

But for what it’s worth with Audacity I don’t see it pop up as a location on my computer.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-04 02:03:41+00:00
It is a specific type of sophisticated denial-of-service attack on data infrastructure. Theoretically it is a really interesting attack and difficult to defend against. Essentially all open source and commercial systems are vulnerable to it.

Most systems, including military systems, use data from many exogenous sources. Critical systems may use data diodes and formally verified software interfaces to consume this data that make them extremely hardened against outright exploitation. However, these systems are vulnerable in another way: they use data structures and algorithms to serve their purpose, often with a bunch of architecture to allow scalability like multithreading.

You can subtly generate or dynamically edit data in exogenous data streams of target systems to produce pathological computer science outcomes that will pass all human inspection and formal verification as legitimate. Nonetheless, it is engineered to enable cascading pathological scenarios in common implementations of data structures and algorithms in popular systems. The attacks are usually targeted against lock graphs and subtle quadratic corner cases in algorithm implementations. Many years ago I engineered a prototype of this for fun targeting a well-known commercial database and it completely locked up the system for more than 10 minutes. For many purposes, that is almost as good as a system kill. The obvious way to recover your system is to disconnect it from data sources and users.

There is a requirement in DoD for systems that are designed to automatically detect these types of attacks and to preserve operational performance in these types of adversarial data environments. I think it isn't on anyone's radar because it hasn't been used in any real-world attacks against commercial systems. It definitely requires a sophisticated adversary, random hackers aren't going to pull it off.

The "data denied environments" are like the above, where your adversary is injecting these kinds of system attacks in all of your exogenous data feeds. If you have to shut those sources off to keep your systems up, you are running blind.