MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnonC | 2025-10-23 04:11:04+00:00
The lack of support for JMAP in common mail clients has been my concern for years. And recently Fastmail went ahead with releasing its own Electron-based desktop app that uses JMAP for its mail service. Mozilla Thunderbird could do with some support (financial and/or people wise) to get JMAP implemented. I don’t know if Fastmail the company has done much on this aspect, but hope they do.
by int_19h | 2025-10-23 04:11:07+00:00
It's founded by the son of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly, so that brand of crazy is basically vintage.

That said, it is indeed so insane that trolls sometimes become contributors just to see how far they can push it. There were several known cases of trolls going far enough undetected to get various admin rights (to block etc).
by throwaway-0001 | 2025-10-23 04:12:12+00:00
I’m also self hosting gitea and pertainer and I’m trying this issue every few weeks. I appeal, they remove the warning, after a week is back. This is ongoing for at least 4 years. I have more than 20 appeals all successfully removing the warning. Ridiculous. I heard legal action is the best option now, any other ideas?
by noisem4ker | 2025-10-23 04:12:13+00:00
uBlock Origin + Cookie Notice blocklists also work fine.

I started to write this comment meaning to add that Firefox does it all by itself now, but I just read that such feature "is not currently available anymore".

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookie-banner-reduction

Does anyone know what happened after years of development, before I delve into their Bugzilla to find out?
by pyth0 | 2025-10-23 04:13:22+00:00
It appears you can tune what is sanitized from the input via the "sanitizer" optional parameter. The default sanitizer is however defined in a spec linked on the docs page [1] with the actual sanitize operation specified as well [2].

[1] https://wicg.github.io/sanitizer-api/#dom-element-sethtml

[2] https://wicg.github.io/sanitizer-api/#sanitize
by bitbiter | 2025-10-23 04:13:23+00:00
Electronic gambling machines are highly regulated because they deal with real money and random number generation. There are a lot of safeguards in that industry across various jurisdictions that seem like they should apply to electronic voting machines too.

Independent testing laboratories exist that do specialize in the specific skills you're talking about. Pretty much all of the software involved is certified and saved, source is saved, compiled binaries are saved, hashes are logged of the compiled binaries. Binaries run from EPROMS or write-protected partitions making it very difficult to change them once installed. Cabinets have tamper-apparent sealing.

The machines are designed so that an auditor can inspect a machine on a casino floor in under 5 minutes, verifying that the software that's installed is the one that's supposed to be and that the physical seals haven't been broken.

I'd imagine there are a lot of similar processes for ATMs.
by janalsncm | 2025-10-23 04:16:16+00:00
No one is expecting browsers to identify the purposes of cookies. Websites would still need to register cookies as either technically necessary or not. That part stays the same.

As far as malicious/non-compliant websites go, cookie banners don’t make that issue better or worse. They can lie just as easily with a banner. In fact this implementation makes it easier as no one needs to build those ugly banners anymore. (Devastating for the pop up industry though.)
by SubiculumCode | 2025-10-23 04:16:24+00:00
There is a big gulf between the know-nothing vibe-coding and a professional programmer using a LLM, with lots and lots of people somewhere in the middle, who can code, but is slow at it because they are always learning on the fly, coding just a few hours a week, targeted at small goals, like data wrangling in a pipeline, small applications to replace clunky and error prone Excel books. No, I don't have a study to back it up, just my own experiences in how much I have done this last year. Maybe it doesn't apply to corps with a lot of top down beuraceacy, but in small to medium-sized enterprises, I am convinced it is an engine of agile innovation
by dang | 2025-10-23 04:16:38+00:00
Can you please not be snarky in HN comments? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, because we're trying for a different sort of discussion here.

Edit: it looks like your account has been breaking the site guidelines quite a bit. That's not good, we ban accounts that do this, and we already asked you once before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34420693. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by businessmate | 2025-10-23 04:16:51+00:00
In the past six months, more than a hundred new platforms have claimed to measure “AI visibility.”

Each promises to reveal how brands appear across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Perplexity. Each offers a score, a dashboard, and a pitch: that it can quantify the future of discovery.

But there’s a deeper problem beneath this abundance. No one can verify any of it.
by int_19h | 2025-10-23 04:17:27+00:00
They should be, yes, but they won't. We already know this from the way those same companies have treated open source projects that they depend on.

One thing that I would really like to see is some kind of hefty tax on any kind of income derived from models trained on Wikipedia. Basically, make it legal to train, to share weights etc freely, and hosting them locally. But the moment you start charging people for subscription, the society should start charging you to maintain the commons that you are profiting from.

(This likely goes for more than Wikipedia, but that case is especially simple since there's a single legal entity that could be given the money.)
by krapp | 2025-10-23 04:17:28+00:00
Why do you have such an aversion to capes? There's no rule saying you have to play as a character in a cape.

If you're asking if there's a version of D&D that's pure math and no roleplay, the closest thing I can imagine would be Dragon Dice, or something with the mechanics of a very basic roguelike. The math in D&D itself such as in combat is affected by your character's stats and the encounters created by the DM, so the mechanics and the role playing are kind of tied together.
by cortesoft | 2025-10-23 04:18:14+00:00
My favorite part about playing Madden and FIFA/FC is that I can login, hit play online, and within 30 seconds I am playing against someone who is pretty close to my skill level.

That is impossible with custom servers. I have played MANY games that are based around custom servers (and still play some today), and there are many great qualities with those types of games. However, you lose that 'find a good game in under a minute' quality.

I am older now, and I don't want to spend the time to find and join custom servers. I don't want to have to talk to people or deal with server admins or get caught up in drama that a community like that can have. I just want to play competitive, fair games.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-23 04:18:26+00:00
A core assumption underlying thread-per-core architecture is that you will be designing a custom I/O and execution scheduler that is purpose-built for your software and workload at a very granular level. Most expectations of large performance benefits follow from this assumption.

At some point, people started using thread-per-core style while delegating scheduling to a third-party runtime, which almost completely defeats the purpose. If you let tokio et al do that for you, you are leaving a lot of performance and scale on the table. This is an NP-Hard problem; the point of solving it at compile-time is that it is computationally intractable for generic code to create a good schedule at runtime unless it is a trivial case. We need schedulers to consistently make excellent decisions extremely efficiently. I think this point is often lost in discussions of thread-per-core. In the old days we didn’t have runtimes, it was just assumed you would be designing an exotic scheduler. The lack of discussion around this may have led people to believe it wasn’t a critical aspect.

The reality that designing excellent workload-optimized I/O and execution schedulers is an esoteric, high-skill endeavor. It requires enormous amounts of patience and craft, it doesn’t lend itself to quick-and-dirty prototypes. If you aren’t willing to spend months designing the many touch points for the scheduler throughout your software, the algorithms for how events across those touch points interact, and analyzing the scheduler at a systems level for equilibria and boundary conditions then thread-per-core might not be worth the effort.

That said, it isn’t rocket science to design a reasonable schedule for software that is e.g. just taking data off the wire and doing something with it. Most systems are not nearly as complex as e.g. a full-featured database kernel.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-23 04:19:31+00:00
Republicans made ICE and border patrol essential to receive payments, but not SNAP, during the shutdown. They are spending $300M to tear down the East Wing and put a ballroom in, during the shutdown. This is a choice, as Republicans control both the legislative and executive branches.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/trump-govern...

https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/many-low-incom...

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/23/trump-white-house-east-wing...
by pols45 | 2025-10-23 04:20:02+00:00
Everyone knows this including the Companies that say these things and their customers.

They leverage/exploit the fact that it takes time to Verify anything. [Hype-verification gap]

Their theory goes if you use that time delay to beat the drum louder than the next guy you have a shot at attracting more customers, investors, employee, govt support than if you dont. Those who don't do it appear less Ambitious or Capable. Exploit and amplify that also.

Chimps have 3 inch brains. And this is all easier to do than solving quantum field equations. So they do it happily, cluelessly, patting each other on the head about how fascinating they are.

As soon as one chimp troupe (corp) does it well, everyone else does the same, and that's when the entire system experiences a phase transition.

It's no more about what individual chimps or companies say or think, a super structure has emerged, which traps everyone Inside the super structure, into patterns they can't escape.

Stories emerge about what the super structure is then doing. Outsider and Insider stories start diverging. And we get a bifurcation point a moment in chaos theory where one neat line splits into 2, 4, 1000, until you can’t tell what’s signal and what’s noise[1] It’s all feedback where every claim feeds on every other claim, a forest of branches growing out of thin air and verification moves too slowly to prune it.

So what's the message to the kids watching it all and getting absorbed by it? Recognize when you have jumped into the chaos stream between bifurcation and verification. When everything starts to sound urgent, revolutionary, world-changing but no one can show you how or why youre standing dead center in chaos. Stories multiply faster than facts can catch up, where everyone’s pretending to see patterns that arent there yet. The louder it gets, the less meaning there is.That’s your cue to walk sideways. Dont let it drain your attention, time and energy. There are better things to do in life. [1]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Lo...
by sunaookami | 2025-10-23 04:20:57+00:00
Gemini doesn't seem to be trained on tool use (which Claude is) so it quiet often thinks it can't do something it certainly can and does a lot of nonsense. For me it fails nearly everytime while it's trying to read project files because it uses relative paths instead of absolute so I've put "For your "ReadFile" and "WriteFile" tool, you MUST use absolute paths to files" in my system instructions.

Speaking of system instructions, Gemini always forgets them or doesn't follow them. And it still puts code comments nearly everywhere, it drives me nuts.

Codex is much better at following system instructions but the CLI is..... very bad.
by munksbeer | 2025-10-23 04:20:57+00:00
> Were I the CEO of a company like that I'd reduce headcount in the legacy orgs, transition them to maintenance mode, and start new orgs within the company that are as insulated from legacy as possible. This will not be an easy transition, and will probably fail. The alternative however is to definitely fail.

Oh wow. Want to kill morale and ensure if a few years anyone decent has moved on? Make a shiny new team of the future and put existing employees in "not the team of the future".

Any motivation I had to put in extra effort for things would evaporate. They want to keep the lights on? I'll do the same.

I've been on the other end of this, brought in to a company, for a team to replace an older technology stack, while the existing devs continued with what was labeled as legacy. There was a lot of bad vibe.
by zZorgz | 2025-10-23 04:21:30+00:00
Is there a way to do that today?

For updating bookmarks I've found like half a dozen variants of `tug` alias the community has come to using which is just a slight improvement (bit daunting to newcomer to pick 'best' one and not fan setting up aliases on all my working devices).

It would be nice if jj was better than git for the fundamental workflows like this out of the box overall.
by cortesoft | 2025-10-23 04:22:11+00:00
I play games at odd hours, when I get a chance between a busy life with being a father and working full time. I have a once a week game night with my friends, and we play games together online. However, most of the time I just want to play a few quick games. I don't want to try to organize with friends or do anything like that. I just want to play some people in fun competitive games.

Online matchmaking is what lets that be possible. I used to dream of having something like that, all the way back when I first started playing online games when you had to call your friend, then tell your family not to pick up the phone because it was your friend calling your modem, then lose connection when your sister tried to make a call. I remember having to set up a code with my friend; if the phone rang twice and then hung up, that means the next call would be me on a voice call wanting to talk, otherwise let the modem answer it.

I used to dream about being able to play people at any hour of the day, and now it is possible. It is an amazing invention.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-23 04:24:41+00:00
God, that's a lot of writing.

One, you absolutely can "outrun" a diet. If you've known anyone a little bit too much into fitness then you've known someone who has struggled to eat enough to maintain and build weight.

I had a friend who would drink a gallon of whole milk a day to maintain weight because he did so much at the gym.

I'm not saying it's healthy, but saying it isn't possible to exercise so much it's difficult to keep weight on is stupid.

Any beyond this, with tiny homes in dense neighborhoods and social norms that require parents to literally be watching their children 24/7 usually in their tiny home... yeah... the children are fat and depressed.

Lock kids in cages their entire lives and they have emotional problems and weight problems. Then you talk about physical activity like it's "training" and something that has to be scheduled and measured and doled out in just the right doses.

Normalize children having safe space to be by themselves outside in the world without constant surveillance and maybe they won't have so many dopamine addiction social media problems and obesity.
by zmmmmm | 2025-10-23 04:24:50+00:00
I think it's typically said to be about half as powerful as the M2 was. So far far less than the M5. I'm honestly quite surprised at what they seem to be able to get out of it on the Galaxy XR. I guess the direct partnership with Qualcomm probably means it's optimised like crazy. But even still, just rendering at 4K at all is impressive for that chip.
by Buttons840 | 2025-10-23 04:26:05+00:00
My tin-foil-hat-theory is that the most valuable things many programmers do at their company is not working for a competitor.

A small team is not only more efficient, but is overall more productive.

The 100-person team produces 100 widgets a day, and the 10-person team produces 200 widgets a day.

But, if the industry becomes filled with the knowledge of how to produce 200 widgets a day with 10 people, and there are also a lot of unemployed widget makers looking for work, and the infrastructure required to produce widgets costs approximately 0 dollars, then suddenly there is no moat for the big widget making companies.
by sivers | 2025-10-23 04:26:39+00:00
Thanks! And yeah the other inspiration is that in the last 27 years of making web apps, I've gone from PHP to Ruby to JavaScript back to Ruby, considered switching to Go or Elixir, but my PostgreSQL database was at the center of it all, throughout.

So it makes sense to notice what's constant, what's ever-changing, and organize accordingly.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-23 04:26:48+00:00
It's surprisingly common. A lot of standard features (reclining seats, AC, large fuel tanks, back seats, large trunks, fuel efficiency) aren't important to all buyers, but they're important to some buyers. Over time they creep into the standard feature set as manufacturers design new models because the economies of scale from additional customers and a simpler production line outweigh the additional costs.
by sureglymop | 2025-10-23 04:28:57+00:00
The biggest con of this is that to a user it will seem much more like phishing.

It happened to me a while ago that I suddenly got emails from "githubnext.com". Well, I know Github and I know that it's hosted at "github.com". So, to me, that was quite obviously phishing/spam.

Turns out it was real...
by jader201 | 2025-10-23 04:28:57+00:00
To me, when I think “abstract”, I think “no theme”. Games that aren’t abstract have a theme that helps make sense of the rules of the game.

There are also games with themes that don’t really help make sense of the rules — the theme is just pasted on. These are still considered abstract, despite technically having a theme.

The “ameritrash” genre are known for having strong themes that tie to the rules of the game. E.g. a lot of co-op games with plastic figures.

Old school euro games often have a pasted on theme, and are more abstract.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-10-23 04:29:01+00:00
Well in the talk the presenter was talking things like tardigrades which are multicellular. The challenge with tardigrades (and any multicellular life) is that you want it to be reproducing (and hence evolving) so it has to be able to do so under conditions on the body you drop it on too. Again, since the talk was speculative there were various speculative ideas such as ice penetrators to put them into the liquid under the ice of moons like Enceladus.

Evolvable being the key of course. Many, if not most, folks I've met in the scientific community are intensely opposed to this sort of open ended experimentation. NASA has a whole team that insures things we send to other bodies are not carrying any organisms (single cell or otherwise) for this very reason.
by johnecheck | 2025-10-23 04:30:01+00:00
This seems like the time to mention my unreleased board/video game, Star Gambit!

It's a turn-based abstract space fleet battle coming to your browser in 2026. It's already playable over the internet w/ time controls and ratings. If that interests you, join the discord for updates and playtest invites!

https://stargamb.it

https://discord.gg/f3MUSkJjFx
by neilpmas | 2025-10-23 04:30:19+00:00
I'm a bit sceptical about yet another project from JetBrains. I got quite excited about both WriterSide and Fleet - I think both are dead? I'm not sure about Fleet. Isn't there a testing tool that got killed too?

From the video I can't work out what this tool does. Does it have actual GUI tools in it, or is everything prompt powered? What if you just want to change a fill colour - do you need to use AI, or can you edit it? How do you refer to single GUI items? On figma you click or use the menu from the left? Do you have support for components?

Can you start a new website from scratch on it?

How do you plug the AI in? Is there an MCP server, or is this just with Jetbrains AI agent - that's been a bit frustrating so far. Can you run it on copilot or will companies have to onboard a new AI tool.
by visarga | 2025-10-23 04:30:27+00:00
Funny, I habitually read while engaging TTS on same text. I have even made a Chrome extension for web reading, it highlights text and reads it, while keeping the current position in the viewport. I find using 2 modalities at the same time improves my concentration. TTS is sped up to 1.5x to match reading speed. Maybe it is just because I want to reduce visual strain. Since I consume a lot of text every day, it can be tiring.
by im3w1l | 2025-10-23 04:31:22+00:00
I kinda like the optimistic perspective that humanity emerged preposterously early. Like the age of the universe is a mere ~14 billion years. It's basically nothing imo. Star formation is predicted to keep going for about 100 trillion years. So from that perspective we are only about 0.1% of the way through the current cosmic era.

When I think about our genomic complexity and how many neat little things are encoded in there, it's mindboggling to me how quickly it evolved. Like there are so many little wonders in the body. Just a few billion years of throwing shit at the wall?!
by dpark | 2025-10-23 04:33:40+00:00
It’s definitely about expectations. I suspect that a lot of people, once they’ve used CarPlay or (presumably) android auto, would find it very difficult to go back to the experience that the typical car manufacturer is shipping.

I’ve never used a car that I was impressed with the built-in navigation or anything else that I might otherwise do on the phone. Aside from Google and Apple just shipping more polished products in general than the teams that seem to be building infotainment systems, the specific phone integration also makes a lot of stuff easier. Yes, I can use voice to ask Siri to do something. But I can also just use my phone to type in an address or whatever else. I cannot do that with Chevy’s built-in system. I also frankly don’t want to pay Chevy or any other car manufacturer a subscription fee for up-to-date maps or traffic that my phone has already.
by anp | 2025-10-23 04:35:19+00:00
I tend to agree but there are a few scenarios where I really want it to work. Debuggers in particular seem hard to get right for the current agents. I’ve not been able to get the various MCP servers I’ve tried to work, I’ve struck out using the debug adapter protocol from agent-authored python. The best results I’ve gotten are from prompting it to run the debugger under screen, but it takes many tool calls to iterate IME. I’m curious to see how gemini cli works for that use case with this feature.
by DangitBobby | 2025-10-23 04:35:52+00:00
Some people maybe can but most cannot. Even running like 5 miles a day is completely undone by a large frapachino. The difference in an active adult's normal day, like a teacher walking around, and a completely sedentary worker at their computer can be undone with a cream cheese bagel.

And in the US, a bunch of the food that's convenient to buy and eat is "hyperpalatable". You're going to be really hard pressed to lose and keep weight off without deliberately adjusting your diet to support it.