MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hobs | 2025-10-08 14:39:39+00:00
> SEC set to see hundreds leave through buyout, retirement offers https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/sec-buyouts-retirem...

> US SEC buyouts hit legal, investment divisions hardest, data shows https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/secs-legal-in...

> SEC Formally Withdraws Fourteen Rule Proposals https://www.proskauer.com/alert/sec-withdraws-fourteen-rule-...

The actions generally do not seem to match the words, and seem to point to a general trend of deregulation and lack of oversight (as the administration has said they would do, and especially in the crypto space has essentially stopped prosecuting crimes)
by spopejoy | 2025-10-08 14:39:41+00:00
Well-put. Sw eng is so much better, assuming you are comfortable in the role, for types who want to punch a clock doing something they don't hate.

Sales is the definition of high-pressure, and your output is always threatened by forces beyond your control. It doesn't consistently reward intelligence or any particular skill other than hustle.

There's nothing like sw dev that lets you sit at your desk and ignore the outside world while getting paid for delivering biz-critical milestones. Even creatives don't have this kind of potential autonomy.
by atonse | 2025-10-08 14:39:48+00:00
Came here to say exactly this.

That all the naysayers are missing the tons of small wins that are happening every single day by people using AI to write code, that weren't possible before.

I specified in a thread a few weeks ago that we manage a small elixir-rust library, and I have never coded rust in my life. Sure, it's about 20 lines of rust, mostly mapping to the underlying rust lib, but so far I've used claude to just maintain it (fix deprecations, perform upgrades, etc).

This simply wasn't possible before.
Show HN: Appcockpit – Version and Maintenance Control for Native Apps
by moritzmoritz21 | 2025-10-08 14:39:51+00:00
Hi Hacker News,

Throughout my career working on native mobile apps, two problems constantly appeared across every company: managing forced updates/version control and managing maintenance mode without a painful backend update or new app release.

I built AppCockpit.dev to solve this. It's a centralized service that gives you a dashboard to control which version is enabled and which requires an update.

Key features:

* Centralized Version Control * Instant Maintenance Mode * Currently focusing on React Native (More SDKs will follow)

I'm already using this in a smaller application and am now looking for feedback from the broader community on the feature set and roadmap. I have many more features planned, but I'm at a point where I need input from others to prioritize.

Let me know what you think about the approach. What is your team's biggest headache with forced updates?

Go check it out: https://appcockpit.dev/
by machardMAXHARD | 2025-10-08 14:40:01+00:00
Most of tech still operates on domination game rules: zero-sum competition, finite chances, survival-based motivation. But there's a fundamentally different game with better outcomes for everyone.

*Domination Game (what we inherited):*

- Zero-sum: Your success requires my failure - Finite attempts: "Game over" scenarios, no retries - Fear-based: Motivated by survival, threat avoidance - Competitive: Players positioned against each other

*Liberty Game (what actually works better):*

- Positive-sum: Your success enables my success - Unlimited retries: Mistakes become learning, no permanent failure - Enjoyment-based: Motivated by optimization and satisfaction - Cooperative: Mutual support creates better outcomes for everyone

*The "Only Winners" principle:*

In a properly structured cooperative system, individual optimization requires collective optimization. Success multiplies rather than being scarce. Network effects mean each person's improvement enhances everyone's capacity.

*Observable in practice:*

- Open source: Your contribution improves the tool for everyone, including you - Research: Shared knowledge accelerates everyone's discovery - Standards: Interoperability benefits all implementers - Learning communities: Teaching others deepens your own understanding

*The unlimited retries advantage:*

Traditional systems punish mistakes with "game over" scenarios. But continuous learning systems integrate every attempt into accumulated capability. Each retry is informed by all previous experience—not repetition, but evolution.

*Why "enjoy and good luck" matters:*

When mutual encouragement is genuine (not competitive pleasantries), it creates sustainable cooperation. Pleasure-based participation outperforms fear-based compliance over time.

*The transition:*

You don't need permission to play the liberty game. Approach interactions for mutual benefit. Celebrate others' success. Treat challenges as learning opportunities. Share knowledge freely.

The domination game is optional. The liberty game is available now.
by datadrivenangel | 2025-10-08 14:40:23+00:00
If I invest in lighting money on fire, there is no money to circulate.

Paying my staff to light money on fire means that some of the money will circulate, and my brilliant idea to decarbonize the economy by replacing coal with printed currency will result in some benefits (much much less than the costs), but fundamentally it is not a productive endeavor.

The AI Data center build out is much more useful than purely lighting money on fire, but if we overpay for more than it is actually ultimately worth, than it still was a bad idea.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-08 14:40:28+00:00
Do you think more employee ownership and control, a "seat at the table," would've prevented technically competent leadership from testing customer hostile business decisions?

> Regarding employee morale: It was very depressing for me during this period to open Hacker News and see threads complaining about my employer. I can confirm that it spurred a job search for me.

Indeed. I believe that if you're a shareholder employee owner, you are likely incentivized to not kill the golden goose versus folks at the top making decisions unilaterally, but you also need some ability to say no to bad decisions. Like Costco, employee and customer happiness first, profits after.

(big fan of employee ownership and control contributors, aligning incentives and outcomes and all that jazz)
by KPGv2 | 2025-10-08 14:40:36+00:00
> They call it a "gross employer contribution"

It feels disingenuous to me to see "someone else pays tax, so that counts as a tax on me" leveled as a serious argument.

Maybe it's just my cold pragmatism speaking, but if your employer suddenly didn't have to pay that tax, I don't think they would bump your salary up.

Americans make this same argument (they call it "trickle down economics"). So far, it doesn't seem to have worked out for them.
by palmotea | 2025-10-08 14:40:43+00:00
> Peter Hummelgaard, Danish Minister of Justice: "I indisputably believe that surveillance creates an increased sense of security ... and given that the prerequisite for freedom is security, yes, I believe that more surveillance equates to more freedom"

I mean, he's kinda right. It just depends on if you feel you're a target or not. If you're not the target, you feel an increased sense of security from any threat caused by the people who are the target.

A really obvious example is a dictator like Kim Jong Un: there's a huge amount of surveillance in North Korea, but all of it serves him and none of it threatens him.

So, especially someone kind of unthoughtful and ignorant of the complexities might feel "an increased sense of security" from this surveillance, because they know they're not a pedophile so assume surveillance purportedly targeted at pedophiles will do them no harm. You might even feel "more freedom" to the degree you feel pedophiles are a threat to you or your family.
by simianwords | 2025-10-08 14:40:46+00:00
> Faith in the AI boom has recently been rattled by research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which showed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI.

They cite this paper while also citing OpenAI’s valuation. If you actually read the paper, it doesn’t really talk about AI in general but just llm based saas and that people use their personal accounts for AI and are satisfied with it. So the paper, if anything, reinforces the idea that OpenAI is brining value and doesn’t make a claim about LLMs at large.

It really gives the impression of not doing much research to understand the nuances of the supposed bubble.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-08 14:41:35+00:00
Simplification is the key. My setup went from: Custom NAS hardware running vendor-provided OS and heavyweight media serving software -> Custom NAS hardware running TrueNAS + heavyweight media server -> Custom NAS hardware running Linux + NFS -> Old Junker Dell running Linux + NFS. You keep finding bells and whistles you just don't need and all they do is add complexity to your life.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-10-08 14:41:48+00:00
You’re running the pi and drives in a plastic take away container off usb power for that price.

At the very least you want the case and psu. At which point the question is which cpu+motherboard+ram combo do you want in that case. The rpi is one of many such options and is actually quite expensive for the amount of cpu+ram you get for the price.
by miroljub | 2025-10-08 14:42:11+00:00
AfD is consistently the pro-choice and pro-personal-freedom party in Germany. They are the only party advocating for an unrestricted American-style free speech and against all kinds of government mandates that other mainstream political parties are pushing.

You may disagree (or agree) with many of their other views, but as an opposition party, they are precisely the corrective Germany and Europe need to keep the power-hungry elites in check.
Show HN: Searchable compression for JSON (p50≈0.18 ms; 10-min demo)
by kodomonocch1 | 2025-10-08 14:42:12+00:00
Hi! I built SEE (Semantic Entropy Encoding) because the “data tax” (storage/egress) and the “CPU tax” (decompress/parse) keep rising together.

Tradeoff: it’s not always smaller than Zstd, but it stays searchable while compressed and minimizes I/O. Key numbers (demo): combined≈19.5% of raw, skip≈99%, lookup p50≈0.18 ms (bloom≈0.30).

10-min reproduction (no marketing): 1) Download the Demo ZIP (Release). 2) Follow README_FIRST.md. 3) Run `python samples/quick_demo.py` → prints ratio/skip/bloom + p50/p95/p99.

ROI quick math: Savings/TB ≈ (1 − 0.195) × Price_per_GB × 1000 (e.g., $0.05/GB → ~$40/TB). NDA/VDR (private, no confidential info in public): [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScV2Ti592K3Za2r_WLU...]

Happy to answer technical questions (schema-aware layout, delta strategy, bloom density, skip heuristics, failure modes).
by LexiMax | 2025-10-08 14:43:17+00:00
I think that was the idea, but in practice I think that China successfully outmaneuvered the United States by taking advantage of the short-sighted greed of our businesses leaders.

They are now the manufacturing capital of the world, and our position of being the preeminent consumer in the world lasts only as long as our consumers can afford to purchase things.
by Delphiza | 2025-10-08 14:43:52+00:00
Also reported in the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/08/bank-of-eng...

For non-brits, Bank of England the UKs central bank and is a lot like the US Fed. Their comments carry a lot of weight and do impact government policy.

Not enough central banks were making comments about the sub-prime bubble that led to the 2008 crisis. Getting warnings about a possible AI bubble by a central bank is both significant and, in performing the functions of monetary and financial stability for a country, the prudent thing to do.
by Hikikomori | 2025-10-08 14:44:45+00:00
I bought a Terramaster DAS as I already had a NUC, just connected with USB, supports 10Gbit but my NUC only does 5.

Looked a lot at NAS alternatives and ugreen, asustor, aoostar all seem pretty good, as you can just run truenas or a linux distro. Can also do DIY chassi with mini itx board.
by dgb23 | 2025-10-08 14:44:51+00:00
The crux of it is that they are not anti-democratic.

German law tries to protect against anti-democratic groups and categorizes them as extremists (including left wing extremists) if they a threatening democracy.

In practice that means that group is then surveilled. If there is evidence that the group tries to overthrow democracy, they are banned.

Die Linke is in many ways _more_ democratic than other groups and parties as they support direct democracy and workplace democracy.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 14:45:15+00:00
> Not sure why you are downvoted.

Because the reality of this is unpopular for critics of capitalism. Most people rarely have an idea how far removed from laissez faire capitalism European countries are. This doesn't stop critics from ironically mentioning that free markets altogether don't work for example in our renter's market (which is the most restricted market we have). The ill-effects we are now feeling are from strangulating regulation, bad policy and European countries with large welfare states like France or Germany having little moveable capital to invest into infrastructure, because most of it is forever bound to welfare. Note that I'm not critical of welfare, but we have lost the plot that money needs to be earned before it can be redistributed.

> Social market economy is the self-description in Germany, it's what you learn in school and how German politicians name the system.

All this and also scholars attributing this very real system to be effectively what we have in Germany is not enough for some.
Show HN: Hacker News as a biological simulation (with time travel)
by aeonfox | 2025-10-08 14:45:22+00:00
Hi HN!

I made this as a passion project because I thought it would be fun to interact with Hacker News in a completely different way.

Each cell is a submission, and each little 'organelle' in each cell is an interactive comment thread. Every shape represents an Elixir process that is sipping on a live Firebase stream. The live data is piped to the user, but it is also stored and snapshotted on the server so the user can travel back in time and replay any moment. You can click on a comment and story and scrub the timeline to watch it change over time. It's fully keyboard navigable and I've made some effort to make it work with screen readers. You can also share the state of Hacker News at any moment, and for any story, or comment, by simply copying the browser url. Or just make it fullscreen and use it as a screen saver :)

Have a play. Please let me know what you think, or if there's any annoyances, etc. I enjoy using it myself, and judging by my server monitoring I might have got some of my friends hooked on it. Hopefully you'll like it too!
by looping__lui | 2025-10-08 14:45:25+00:00
It’s worth remembering who actually made the strategic choices that strengthened Russia’s hand and left Germany dependent and militarily weak. Those weren’t the AfD’s doing — they came from the CDU–SPD coalition governments, the same lineup that’s currently in power again.

• 2011: Under Angela Merkel (CDU) and the SPD coalition, Germany decided to abolish nuclear power after Fukushima, dismantling one of the few sources of domestic energy independence.

• 2011–2015: The same governments backed and defended Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2, tying Germany’s critical infrastructure even closer to Russian gas — despite repeated warnings from Eastern European neighbors.

• 2011: The abolition of compulsory military service further weakened Germany’s defense capacity and NATO readiness.

These weren’t minor policy missteps — they systematically made Germany more vulnerable to Russian influence.

And it’s also worth noting a historical irony: Angela Merkel’s family moved from West Germany to East Germany in 1954, one of the very few families to go in that direction. Between 1949 and 1961, roughly 2.7 to 3 million East Germans fled the communist East for the capitalist West — virtually nobody went the other way.
by kayge | 2025-10-08 14:45:30+00:00
Yep! Nothing worth sharing/publishing from me, but quite a few mini projects that are specific to my position at a small non-tech company I work for. For example we send data to a client on a regular basis, and they send back an automated report with any data issues (missing fields, invalid entries, etc) in a human-unfriendly XML format. So I one-shotted a helper script to parse that data and append additional information from our environment to make it super easy for my coworkers to find and fix the data issues.
by simianparrot | 2025-10-08 14:45:36+00:00
He’s not saying the skin color is wrong. He’s saying it’s not ethnic British. Which is a thing. Same as there’s ethnic Japanese of which I am not one of. I can be a Japanese citizen but I cannot be Japanese. And that’s ok. Cultural and ethnic identity is a thing, except for some bizarre reason only ethnic minorities from specific origins get to have and observe that and not be called racist. Why is that?

I'm Norwegian by the way and I belong to quite a small ethnic minority, but because of the color of my skin, people assume a whole lot of things about my background which isn't true. And I don't get to be proud about my heritage for some reason. Weird that.
by Someone | 2025-10-08 14:46:26+00:00
> And lets not forget they weren't that far from success in first days - if they won Hostomel airport, Kyiv would probably fall and with it the rest would be a domino effect.

I think the war would have been very short if Zelensky hadn’t rejected the USA offer to evacuate him, asking for ammunition instead.

> But is is actually colossal fuckup to them? No it isn't, they get some international hate but plight of commoners is completely irrelevant to them

Maybe it isn’t a colossal fuckup to them _yet_. The plight of commoners was irrelevant to the tsars, too, until it became very relevant, and then, it was too late for them.
by bluGill | 2025-10-08 14:46:42+00:00
> Dont exchanges sell the same stocks?

No. Each company chooses what exchange their stock is sold on. Sometimes (often for large companies) you are on more then one exchange, but never all of them.

Nothings stops an exchange (laws may not allow this but remember exchanges are in many countries and only subject to the laws of their country) from handling stock that the company doesn't want on them, but the value of an exchange is other people are looking there when they want to buy and sell and so it would be hard to get enough traders if the company doesn't want to list with you.

Not all exchanges handle stocks. There are other things traded as well.
by qzw | 2025-10-08 14:46:44+00:00
Well, one man's junk is another man's treasure.

In any case, none of the requirements you listed seem that exotic. There are computer cases with hot-swap ready drive cages, and status lights (or even LCDs) are easy to find. The software is probably already on github. The toughest ask is probably for it to be "little", but that's not something everybody cares about. So I don't find the GP's claim to be that much of a stretch.
by thijson | 2025-10-08 14:46:46+00:00
I don't see what the mutual dependency is. They sent us cheap shit for a few decades, we gave them dollars in return. Our inflation rate was super low, as we were exporting our inflation. We slowly lost the ability to make stuff domestically. That system is now crumbling, China is using their exports to buy gold instead. We are left with a hollowed out economy based on services and finance. The DOD is having a big problem building ships and submarines. Nuclear power plants can't be built affordably. In some ways, China is in the same position as the USA was during WW2, the world's factory.
by TZubiri | 2025-10-08 14:46:46+00:00
"I use JSON for just about every data file format in my games."

Not to be mean, but this has the trifecta of amateur programming:

- JSON - Games - One solution for everything.

Pro tip, you can store variables as they are in memory to disk. Got 1 million 2D points representing units? Each point is a couple of floats? You can store each float as-is, write the amount of floats as an int (4bytes), the first float is the X coord, the second the Y coord, (4 bytes each), then repeat 1M times, boom you just solved that in 8MB, and in a couple of miliseconds of compute. Bonus point, no escaping, no import json, just a programmer programming.
by Bender | 2025-10-08 14:46:59+00:00
Lawful interception requires things like paperwork, warrants, probably cause

Technically yes but there are back-room agreements to bypass this. I used to have warrants on my desk to set up call tracing in the 90's and eventually I was told to not require them any more and just leave test system and modems enabled logging disabled so agents could set up their own call tracing. The people I worked for had no skin in the game as they were all from the EU. I would be very surprised if this was no longer a thing. If anything I would expect it to be much simpler and more stream-lined by now, probably some HTTPS API end-point and some app on their phone.

In fairness to the agents some things are time sensitive like kidnappings / abductions. Provided logging is not disabled I think it is fine they have real time access if someone actually audits the logs and matches them up to incidents much like license plate queries by cops are supposed to be audited.
by caconym_ | 2025-10-08 14:47:11+00:00
Same. I like my Synology unit well enough but I see a trend toward less openness, toward greed (including removing capabilities from units they've already sold) and toward a decline of their business as a result of tanking customer goodwill. So they no longer seem like a reliable bet for the long term, which is what I'm looking for in a NAS.
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-08 14:47:23+00:00
> However, it is misleading to claim Rust is plainly more amenable to formal verification than Ada. SPARK is a deliberately restricted subset of Ada designed from the ground up for static proof

Hold on, there's some slight of hand going on here. The person you're responding to was comparing Rust and Ada, both languages not intentionally originally designed for formal verification. You, on the other hand, are comparing Rust, a language that was not originally designed for formal verification, and Ada/SPARK, which is designed for formal verification by definition. That's not a proper comparison for what GP was claiming!

A correct comparison would probably involve identifying "a deliberately restricted subset of [Rust] designed from the ground up for static proof" and comparing its capabilities against what SPARK offers as well as (somehow) comparing how "easy"/"hard" producing that subset was compared to defining SPARK from Ada.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 14:47:34+00:00
Yea, and it's the guy above ironically. If I add my net here [1], I can see that I land pretty much exactly at 49.7% of my wage being deducted from when my employer pays me to where it lands on my bank account.

[1]: https://www.steuertipps.de/service/rechner/brutto-netto-geha...
by nginity | 2025-10-08 14:47:40+00:00
Imagine being able to sketch out an AI agent workflow on a canvas – dragging nodes, wiring logic, connecting to APIs, layering safety checks – and then turning it live in hours, not months. This is no longer futuristic hype.

Last month, I watched three companies in my network question every line of agent infrastructure they’d written over the past six months.

One team had four engineers spending $120K building custom orchestration layers for a procurement agent. Another was three months into a multi-agent research system that still hadn’t shipped.
by cozzyd | 2025-10-08 14:47:43+00:00
I'm not sure what is meant by Redditors... I haven't used Reddit in many years.

Admittedly anectodal, but I don't remember any power outage here in Chicago over the last 11 years I lived here, but I was in Texas for work for a few weeks this summer at the NASA balloon base and there were multiple power outages.