MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coryfklein | 2025-10-06 15:23:16+00:00
The following is a transcript recording of two agents that will remain anonymous:

Agent X: The Unicode standard committee is now considering the addition of a seahorse emoji

Agent Y: Okay.

Agent X: ...

Agent Y: What?

Agent X: Don't you see, this only furthers my argument that [redacted] has escaped containment

Agent Y: Look, [name redacted], we've been over this. No matter how many more containment verification protocols we introduce, they always come up negative. There is no possible way [redacted] has escaped containment. And now you think this seahorse emoji... ahem, excuse me, now you think SCP-314 is incontrovertible proof?

Agent X: Did you look at the proposal?

Agent Y: sigh, yes I have it right here.

Agent X: The name at the top of the submission?

Agent Y: [pause] No. This can't be. But, how did it... how would it even know to use that name?

[transcription abruptly ends]
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-06 15:23:53+00:00
No, it’s not laughable. Your insinuation that China doesn’t invade other countries, meant to imply they haven’t engaged in warfare, was false. And yes IP theft is comparable to invasions and often worse.

> Not to mention that the entire US was stolen from the natives.

This is partially true. But partially false. You can figure out why if you’re curious.
by nilkn | 2025-10-06 15:24:19+00:00
There are always outlier examples, but for most folks, sacrificing integrity too much will come back to bite them -- marital and family problems, divorce, or personal crises that end up eating through money or having ramifications that affect your career performance are the most common examples.

Living with integrity doesn't mean you can't be highly competitive or make emotionally difficult decisions in a professional context. But it does mean avoiding the kind of personal debt that can detonate your life in a way that most people, unlike Musk or Altman, can't truly get away with.

Said differently, taking moral shortcuts in your career might seem to work in isolation, but doing so in all aspects of your life tends to accrue real consequences that compound over time. And most folks who take moral shortcuts aren't capable of constraining that behavior to a single domain of their life over time. It's like an infection that spreads and is hard to control. Add in any kind of latent substance use risk -- common throughout the adult US population in general -- and successful, talented people end up in the second half of their life nowhere near where their financial potential was.
by spankalee | 2025-10-06 15:24:37+00:00
Not caching tasks is kind of a huge missing feature. Once you can describe a graph of tasks with dependencies, not running already clean dependencies is how you make that tractable for repeated runs even in moderate-sized monorepos.

I went looking for an issue to see if they're planning it, but the Mise repo doesn't have issues enabled? And no discussion on the README about why they don't. That doesn't inspire confidence.

If you're in a single-language npm monorepo, check out Wireit. It extends plain npm scripts to be able to have dependencies and caching (local and GitHub actions). It also has a unique service type of script for long-running tasks that lets you rebuild dependencies and no restart services.

https://github.com/google/wireit/
Show HN: Use the right credit card every time
by soelost | 2025-10-06 15:25:21+00:00
I have 4 credit cards and kept guessing wrong about which one was “safe” to use. The issue: I was only tracking current balance/utilization, not statement closing dates.

Your balance gets reported to credit bureaus when your statement closes — not when you pay. So even though I pay in full every month, I was spiking my utilization without realizing it.

I built WhichCard to fix that. It shows: Available spend under 30% on each card Days until each statement closes Red / yellow / green indicators for quick decisions

Example: Chase shows $450 available but closes in 3 days → Don’t use. Capital One shows $890 available and just closed yesterday → Safe.

Timing turned out to matter more than I expected.
by agonza | 2025-10-06 15:25:34+00:00
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by libria | 2025-10-06 15:25:42+00:00
Yeah, all this chatter about technologies and processes that could have saved this: you don't think someone in all of Korean government knew about that?

The problem is more likely culture, hierarchy or corruption. Guaranteed several principal security architects have been raising the alarm on this internally along with much safer, redundant, secure alternatives that came with an increased cost. And decision makers who had a higher rank/social/networking advantage shot it down. Maybe the original storage designer was still entrenched there and sabotaging all other proposals out of pride. Or there's an unspoken business relationship with the another department providing resources for that data center that generates kickbacks.

Assuming nobody knows how to do an offsite backup or is plain ignorant of risk over there is arrogant.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-06 15:25:42+00:00
That's fair enough, I didn't actually notice. Regardless, I was offering the information for other readers, which may or may not include the person I'm replying to.

Edit:

> flagging the parts of the discussion that seem to go nowhere

This is and isn't what actually happens, though. People do flag the parts of the discussion that don't go anywhere but then people also flag the post itself because they think there's no reason to discuss it at all for the fact there's a vocal part (minority or majority doesn't really matter) that wants to discuss a topic that's not going anywhere.

People shouldn't flag the post itself just because it's likely to gather or even has gathered a crowd that will discuss such directionless topics when there are better topics to discuss, even (especially?) if they're not currently being discussed.
by dijit | 2025-10-06 15:25:58+00:00
There's just me and you here, nobody is reading this thread anymore.

I think you don't have an answer for what I'm saying because your mind has gone into "I am attacked, must defend myself" mode - and this is because you've been told to believe that only villains are talking about Iryna, and only Hero's are talking about Jordan.

I'm not attacking you, and I am curious.

To me Iryna Zarutska is newsworthy, in all the ways I explained. Jordan Neely was publicised widely despite it being much less harrowing and random; so I'm genuinely curious as to why.

This isn't a "gotcha". Help me understand how you reconcile this - or if you don't, then fair play and I hope you at least understand that you are not immune to propaganda either.
by chasil | 2025-10-06 15:26:16+00:00
I'm actually surprised that there wasn't a fork of the last GPLv2 release.

The benefit of starting over is that Landley was able to relicense Toybox as BSD, after he first released it as GPLv2. That would not have been possible with a fork.

If this were commercial software, he would have been forced to "cleanroom" the new code.
by drewg123 | 2025-10-06 15:27:19+00:00
Great question..

Me personally? Nothing. I hate them. I never want anybody to touch my screen.

However, I've talked to at least one team that has disabled their app on MacOS who thinks having a UI designed for touch-screen run via a trackpad is too janky and would lead to a bad UX for their customers.

I've run their app via playcover, and it IS janky, but its a lot better than the weight of an iPad in my backpack.
by ajross | 2025-10-06 15:27:27+00:00
> These companies are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into building AI infrastructure without any good idea of how they're going to recover the cost.

Well... to be fair it's only really Anthropic (and the also-ran set like xAI) that runs the risk of being over-leveraged. OpenAI is backstopped by Microsoft at the macro level. They might try to screw over Oracle, but they could pay the bill. So that's not going to move the market beyond those two stocks. And the other big players is obviously Google which has similarly deep pockets.

I don't doubt that there's an AI bubble. But it won't pop like that, given the size of the players. Leverage cycles are very hard to see in foresight; in 2008 no one saw the insanity in the derivatives market until Lehman blew up.
by hyc_symas | 2025-10-06 15:27:44+00:00
Thanks for that. It doesn't look like there is an open bug report for this yet.

I understand your commit description but I'm still a bit puzzled by it. cursor_to_update shouldn't have a deeper stack than cursor, even if it was a cursor on a subdatabase. All the references to the subdatabase are in the subcursor, and that has no bearing on the main cursor's stack.

The original code with the bug was added for ITS#8406, commit 37081325f7356587c5e6ce4c1f36c3b303fa718c on 2016-04-18. Definitely a rare occurrence since it's uncommon to write from multiple cursors on the same DB. Fixed now in ITS#10396.
From Docker Desktop (300% CPU) to Colima and Portainer (0.2%) on macOS
by muthuishere | 2025-10-06 15:27:51+00:00
Docker Desktop on macOS often sits in a VM that constantly sucks CPU. For years I tolerated it—until today, when running just two Node.js apps + one Python app pegged my system, froze the UI.

I switched to Colima and pointed docker context use colima. Then added Portainer for UI (docker run -d -p 9000:9000 ...).

With the same compose setup, Colima usage dropped to ~0.2%

Portainer provides containers/images/console UI

All while keeping the Docker CLI workflow

Full write-up (with screenshots) here: https://muthuishere.medium.com/docker-desktop-colima-portainer-my-mac-finally-breathes-b70d82d6cf0f
by reaperducer | 2025-10-06 15:28:16+00:00
"Indefinite backpack travel." We used to call this being a hobo.

The only difference here is that this person is well-funded, so uses the latest high-end gear to do it, instead of a bindle.

Yes, hobos do still exist. My recently deceased cousin-in-law was one, and proudly called himself a "hobo."

Yes, they have smartphones.
by johnjames87 | 2025-10-06 15:28:17+00:00
Your comment just shows the paroquialism of your knowledge of economics. Were the keelboat men affected personally when they lost their jobs to the steam boats? Yes. Did the benefits of the steam boats (10 times faster, can travel up and down river and carry more cargo) benefit everyone - including the keelboat men? Also yes. Economic growth will sometimes require pivoting of the economic agents' activities but they're always better off.

> Just because something happened in the past, doesn't mean it will happen in the future

Say no more, let's ignore what always happened and go in the opposite way.
by bparsons | 2025-10-06 15:28:30+00:00
I am always confounded when I get off a flight at a vacation destination and see people dragging these 80L roller bags around. What are you putting in there?

Pack the absolute minimum. If you really need something, you can almost always buy it wherever you are going. Even trekking in the deep Himalayas, there was always a spot to buy an extra t-shirt or socks every day or so.
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-06 15:28:56+00:00
So RubyGems has betrayed its community by ousting its maintainers. When a community-focused alternative created by the original maintainers is announced, it gets flagged on HN. What is wrong with people?

This situation is eerily similar to the Freenode takeover[1] and the subsequent formation of Libera Chat[2] a few years ago, even down to the political leanings of those behind the takeover. Except if the Freenode incident occurred today, there would be a vocal portion on HN vehemently siding with Freenode solely based on the perceived political affiliations of its owners. Submissions about Libera Chat would face heavy flagging, much like this one has.

It seems the Freenode team may have advanced their plans just a bit too early.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207734
by captainclam | 2025-10-06 15:29:12+00:00
The seahorse emoji is one of the canonical "Mandela effects". These are things that a large group of people collectively (mis)remember, but turn out to have never existed. Classic examples include the cornucopia in the Fruit of the Loom label (never there), and the wording on car mirrors "objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear." (There's no record of 'may be closer', just 'are closer').

Unfortunately, the discussion around Mandela effects gets tainted by lots of people being so sure of their memory that the only explanation must be fantastical (the timeline has shifted!), giving the topic a valence of crazy that discourages engagement. I find these mass mis-rememberings fascinating from a psychological perspective, and lacking satisfying explanation (there probably isn't one).

So here we're seeing LLMs "experiencing" the same mandela effect that afflicts so many people, and I sincerely wonder why? The obvious answer is that the training data has lots of discussions about this particular mandela effect, ie people posting online "where is the seahorse emoji"? But those discussions are probably necessarily coupled with language that ascertains 'no, the seahorse emoji does not exist.' That's why the discussion is there in the first place! so why does the model take on the persona of someone that is sure it does exist? Why does it steer the models into such a weird feedback loop?
by johnmaguire | 2025-10-06 15:29:21+00:00
> I think you don't have an answer for what I'm saying because your mind has gone into "I am attacked, must defend myself" mode - and this is because you've been told to believe that only villains are talking about Iryna, and only Hero's are talking about Jordan.

No, my problem is your presumption - even here - that I am brainwashed when we were having a logical, rational conversation. I'm incredibly disappointed in you and I really hope you change your tune. This isn't what I expect from you, honestly.
by hylaride | 2025-10-06 15:29:59+00:00
People freak out about this, but all it boils down to is bringing enough socks, underwear, and shirts for ~5-6 days, 2 pairs of bottoms, and (depending on weather) or a combination of 2 and/either sweaters and an outer shell. Wear the biggest stuff (pants/sweaters) on the plane. After that be willing to do laundry, which will often put you in a position that's outside the tourist mainstream and force you to slow down and take stalk for a few hours (single use detergent packs are a thing, but you can also just bring a few tide pods in a zip-lock bag). Freak weather events can be used as an excuse to shop for clothing, too (the best rain jacket that I ever bought was in this situation in the Netherlands - it was expensive, but I'm still using it a decade later - a fantastic souvenir that people always complement me on when wearing it).

Of course, if you need to lug more (for special occasions or business), that's another matter, but it still makes my jaw drop when I see people travelling on vacations with massive roller luggage that often sucks on cobblestone streets or lugging up stairs.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-06 15:30:21+00:00
if you love it, make a copy of it

this is the kind of thing that is so fundamental to IT that not doing it is at best negligence and at worst intentional malpractice. There is simply no situation that justifies not having backups and I think it might be worth assuming intentionality here, at least for purposes of investigation. It looks like an accident but someone (perhaps several someones, somefew if you will) made a series of shriekingly bad decisions in order to put themselves in a precarious place where an accident could have an effect like this.
by sha2kyou | 2025-10-06 15:30:31+00:00
Creator here. Built this to solve my own problem - I kept missing events because I had to constantly switch away from my work between Calendar, Reminders, RSS readers, and GitHub. Sidefy renders a timeline on your screen edge showing events from all these sources as colored bars. Technical part: JavaScript plugin engine using JavaScriptCore. The challenge was sandboxing - disabled eval/setTimeout but provided safe HTTP and storage APIs. Added permission controls so users decide what each plugin can access. Built with Swift/SwiftUI over 4 months. Curious to hear: - Would this workflow work for you? What would you want to track? - Thoughts on plugin security tradeoffs? - How would you design the JS API? Happy to dive into any technical details - sandbox implementation, performance optimization, cache management, etc. What would you like to know?
by kulahan | 2025-10-06 15:30:45+00:00
If you watch modern American politics, the President has vastly more power than he was ever meant to be, combined with a house and senate that follow his wishes to the T.

Why would we allow the president to do that? Because at some point in the last 300 years we decided it was a necessary power for him to get past some crisis, and no President ever relinquishes power.
by octo888 | 2025-10-06 15:30:45+00:00
Shoes are always what get me. Wearing the same pair 2 days in a row isn't great for bacteria etc. Plus wanting sandals/flip-flops for the beach. Proper boots for any kind of hiking. Then I feel awkward particularly in Europe in the evening going to restaurants in trainers, so a pair of smart shoes is useful.

Not saying I always take that entire combo, but almost always more than 1 pair.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-06 15:30:52+00:00
> My inner dialog is "this is unacceptable!" It turns out that climbing on the hedonic treadmill is practically effortless, but sliding down it is full of splinters.

For me, in situations like this the frustration comes from having invested so much into something that isn’t delivering what it was supposed to.

For example, when my 20 year old car broke down it was an inconvenience, but I could also shrug it off because I got my money’s worth out of the car long ago.

If an expensive brand new car broke down I would be inconvenienced, but the situation would be much more frustrating because I spent so much on a new car to avoid these issues.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-10-06 15:31:28+00:00
The fact that the next-console's Sonic Adventure 1 still felt like an also-ran Mario 64 makes me think that it probably wouldn't have made a difference.

Much ink has been spilled and fingers pointed over the failures of Sonic Xtreme and other attempts to make a fully-3D Sonic game on the Sega Saturn, but I think it fundamentally comes down to the fact that the creators didn't know how to translate the core gameplay loop into 3D.
by toast0 | 2025-10-06 15:31:28+00:00
> Only on the internet will "here's a related example why you might be correct" result in strange discussions like these. Makes me sad.

It would help if the comment said any of those quoted words. The context as I see it was:

1> they could be baiting the human

2> why bait the human and not eat it?

3> They hunt moose

With no further words, it could be intended as they hunt moose, so they clearly like surf and turf and would love to eat a human. Or it could be intended as they hunt moose, they know how to hunt land animals so it's a choice to give a gift that'a not bait.

In person, someone hearing the 3rd comment would probably make a confused face and the person making the offering of a moose reference would make clarifying comments.
by dijit | 2025-10-06 15:31:52+00:00
I do think that you're watching a lot of left leaning media and that you're being nudged to think a certain way.

Let's not go so far as to claim "brainwash". You can prove me wrong immediately by supplying me with an answer.

I'm not disappointed in you, but I will be if you can't step back and assess yourself critically. I do it all the time. That's why I don't care about "not towing the line" for the left; while being a dyed in the wool lefty. (at least by UK standards).
by sudosysgen | 2025-10-06 15:32:23+00:00
> MRBM launchers are not trucks.

It's a piston mounted on top of a utility truck. It's a truck! If a semi-truck with a refrigerated trailer is a truck, then an 8x8 utility truck with a hydraulic piston is also a truck.

> Guided vs unguided refers to the ability to course correct en route. An unguided missile is a lobber rocket. A guided missile has reaction controls onboard.

That's not what I'm referring to. Early ballistic missiles only had inertial guidance, and therefore needed an accurate positional and attitude fix provided by the launcher, which made it expensive and complex. Modern ballistic missiles have absolute guidance mechanisms, so the launcher is now much simpler.

> That it's a complicated machine you can't whip up in a garagd.

Iranian UGFs aren't garages. They are called missile cities for a reason.

> A strategy undermined by collapsing launch rates.

25-35% of ballistic missile impacts on Israel occured on June 22nd. The Iranian capacity to actually hit targets in Israel did not collapse through the 12 day war.

> Absolutely. I'm not saying Israel is indefinitely invulnerable to Iran. Just that in the last war, it neutered Iran's capacity to hurt it.

Iran's ballistic missile strikes were most successful on June 22nd. In the last week of the war, there is plenty of evidence pointing towards Israeli BMD degrading faster than Iran's ability to launch ballistic missiles.

The only way to conclude that Iran's ability to launch was neutered is if you believe that, were the war to continue, Iran's ability to launch missiles would have continued to degrade. The only argument to that effect is that they'd run out of launchers - I find that implausible on the basis of the launchers being simple modifications of extremely plentiful military truck platforms.