MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vmaurin | 2025-10-22 12:26:45+00:00
Same goes for age verification.

There was the DNT header, that was a bit to simplistic, but was never implemented https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

The thing people need to understand here is that the annoyance is not due to lack of technical solutions, or regulations forcing something. It is explicitly wanted by the industry so they can maximize the consent rate. The browser solution is probably the best technical/user friendly one, but ad tech/data gathering industry won't have any consent. As they control most of the web, they will never do that
by soco | 2025-10-22 12:27:26+00:00
In this situation, where you know zero about the product, one would have to be out of their minds to sign up. Not saying some people won't click it, but see previous phrase. Maybe we are simply not the (gullible enough) target user base. That, or it's just a well meant but very poorly thought off side income attempt. Which doesn't bode well for the app itself either.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-22 12:27:30+00:00
If you were relying on their pre-built binaries, you presumably still have them. It's not like they went and deleted them off of your computer. They're just not giving you new pre-built binaries (but they're still giving you new code for free! And others pre-build binaries for free anyway). Do the old ones stop working at some point?

Note that a CVE is not an indication that something doesn't work. In the real world, they're mostly relevant only for businesses that need something like PCI compliance. Especially for something like a storage server that shouldn't be directly exposed to the Internet. If you are a business that has some compliance obligation, you have no one to blame but yourself if you rely on others' charity to meet that obligation.
by CrlNvl | 2025-10-22 12:27:53+00:00
And it would solve nothing.

GDPR already mandates that "Refuse non essential" button should be the same size and prominence than the "Accept all" button, every website around the globe does not care (apart from major players like Google, Apple or Amazon) and national data protection authorities absolutely do not care.

We already had one attempt with "Do not track" header, nobody was willing to commit to it because it impaired business. Same would go with OP proposal.

Websites are forcing this banner on us because they are greedy morons that would rather drain our data for money than incite us to pay for their work.
by reedf1 | 2025-10-22 12:28:04+00:00
I feel a bit bad it was interpreted that way.

Some fun context, I was trying to find a scanned copy of the first 'correct' book on optics (written by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham). Possibly the first person to really use the scientific method in circa 1000CE (!!). And I found this (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-PETERHOUSE-00209/103) filled with interesting optical diagrams like something out of my high school physics notebooks. Anyway - I was also thinking about how they might index interesting doodles in the margins. So it was on my mind.
by sumtechguy | 2025-10-22 12:28:12+00:00
That is application of the formula

Pre-work time + pack up time + send time + unpack time + work time + pack up time + send time + unpack time + post-work time.

All remote work has these properties. Even something 'simple' like a remote REST call. If 'remote work time' plus all that other stuff is less than your local calls then it is time wise worth sending it remote. If not local CPU would win.

That in many cases right now the GPU is 'winning' that race.
by mtlynch | 2025-10-22 12:28:30+00:00
These criticisms all feel very nitpicky and subjective. So many of them seem to boil down to, "this is an opinionated configuration, but their opinions differ from my opinions."

This part was where I stopped taking the article seriously:

>Moreover, taking into account that the system relies heavily on sudo (instead of the more modern doas), and also considering that the default installation configures the maximum number of password retries to 10 (instead of the more cautious limit of three), it raises an important question: Does Omarchy care about security?

This is such a reflexive and petty critique. How many real world security breaches happened because a login prompt that requires physical access limited to 10 tries instead of the "more cautious" limit of 3? And do you even care about security at all unless you limit to the even more cautious limit of 2?
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-22 12:28:32+00:00
While new works do trickle into the public domain every year, it's worth noting that copyright status is not currently the main bottleneck to public domain cultural works being made widely available to the public under F.A.I.R. (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles. There's a huge amount of extant literature and music in the public domain that someone has scanned and perhaps put up online as raw page images, but no one took the effort to transcribe/index/classify it yet and thus make it easily available for most uses - such that it might as well not exist as far as most people are concerned. This is where efforts like Project Gutenberg can be especially valuable.
by melling | 2025-10-22 12:28:34+00:00
Recently competed in ultramarathons and has now died from cancer at age 60. Very sad.

There are new tests coming that will catch cancer early so hopefully it’s not late stage, increasing one’s survival rates.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/grail-stock-price-cancer-st...

I’m about Greg’s age and I had colon cancer last year. Now I can’t unsee cancer in the media.
by Animats | 2025-10-22 12:28:38+00:00
It was implemented in browsers and ignored by sites. Chrome help says:

Turn "Do Not Track" on or off

When you browse the web on computers or Android devices, you can send a request to websites not to collect or track your browsing data. It's turned off by default.

However, what happens to your data depends on how a website responds to the request. Many websites will still collect and use your browsing data to improve security, provide content, services, ads and recommendations on their websites, and generate reporting statistics.

Most websites and web services, including Google's, don't change their behavior when they receive a Do Not Track request. Chrome doesn't provide details of which websites and web services respect Do Not Track requests and how websites interpret them.[1]

About the best we have browser side is a mode where all cookies are cleared at browser exit.

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761
by jsmailes | 2025-10-22 12:29:54+00:00
I believe this is already starting to be solved via Global Privacy Control (GPC) [1], and has already been implemented in Firefox to replace Do Not Track [2]. All that remains is to see if lawmakers will catch up and make it a legal requirement to follow...

[1] https://globalprivacycontrol.org/

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/global-privacy-control
by the_other | 2025-10-22 12:29:58+00:00
> where wealth inequality has reached a point of a new feudal like caste system

This is a global problem, not limited to the US. It's also the end-state of capitalism because having (access to) more money makes it easier to have access to more money, and money drives everything else.

> where our institutions now function to primarily manage and preserve an unhealthy society that is primarily exploitative and does not have the needs of the populace first and foremost.

For me, it has always looked like the use was primarily exploitative and completely opposed to supporting the populace.

> Where economic indicators, economic lingo and policy just uses a vernacular to hide its direct purpose to provide safety for the haves at the expense of the have nots.

This is not new. Chomsky told us this in the 60s. The Catholic Church used a similar strategy for over a millennia.

I'm not disagreeing with you, only attempting to disperse your sense of surprise.
by Klaster_1 | 2025-10-22 12:30:09+00:00
>We all do the same thing. We sigh, our eyes glaze over, and we click "Accept All" with the muscle memory of a weary soldier.

No. When I see a cookie banner that doesn't have a "Reject all" or at least "Reject non-necessary", I leave the website. When you look into the "Reject..." section, it often contains 1000+ of adtech shit you have to untick individually. Aren't these actually non-compliant with regulations? Makes you think twice about website owners if they choose to sell your data to adtech - seems like law does exactly what it was supposed to do. The problem is adtech which encourages to collect data websites have no business at collecting. If anything, non-compliant sites should be fined into ground and adtech outlawed.

If I could, I'd downvote the article.
by gkbrk | 2025-10-22 12:30:37+00:00
> If you want to place restrictions on how your software is used and who gets to enjoy it, that's fine, but make those terms explicit by choosing the appropriate license and business model from the start. Stop abusing OSS as a marketing tactic.

But MinIO didn't do any of that. They're still a 100% open-source project, with the proper license.
by philipallstar | 2025-10-22 12:30:57+00:00
> The zoom fascination is pretty weird

Why? It's much better than Teams, if for no other reason than Teams just got deprecated on MacOS Monterey and that's really annoying. Or rather not for just that reason, but for the reason that Teams is Microsoft's 10th biggest priority, whereas video calling is Zoom's only priority, so they make a better product.
by Bender | 2025-10-22 12:31:34+00:00
how do we keep them into the new one?

This goes back to the variation by generation and group interests. People that already feel oppressed by the main platform may likely stay on the one you provided them, otherwise most will go back to whatever they and their friends liked about their main platform. Unless these people are your employees it is unlikely you would be deciding where they go. Even in that case employees will do what they can do.

Ask these people what they like about the platform they are on and decide if you can replicate or enhance that experience. If you can, show them and they will decide if what you created is something they would prefer.
Show HN: GumshoeOS – AI Generated Mystery Game OS
by heyarviind2 | 2025-10-22 12:31:36+00:00
Hi Everyone,

I wanted to play a mystery game where i have all the evidence/reports in physical form and find out who is the suspect. Having documents in physical form is hard to get so I created a digital game which generates a new mystery, evidence, police report and interviews from people, based on these things i have to find the suspect.

I created this in the form of OS so that you can see the docs in the folder and have the feel that you are investigating something real :D

Currently, the stories and images are generated by the AI which is a little expensive but I just want to share it anyway. If you like it you can donate so that I can keep it alive haha.

(I just ask the email to login into the system, I don't do anything else with it. If you dont want to provide your email you can give a fake one)

URL: https://gumshoeos.site
by arghwhat | 2025-10-22 12:31:53+00:00
We're not going around making kitchen knives illegal. I would go out of my way to mitigate footguns where an entirely legitimate use or legitimate source of confusion would turn foul, but if you chose to go out of your way to misuse it as a hammer or ignore documentation, then you're on your own.

In this case, we're not even talking about that though, it's just a redundant prebuilt binary getting janked. I don't think it makes sense to provide prebuild binaries in the first place.
by jve | 2025-10-22 12:31:53+00:00
> but any actual engineer doing a ground up redesign starting today would definitely go with carbon fiber.

You seem like commenting on a situation as one would comment about a moon visuals by looking at it without a telescope. But maybe I'm wrong and you are very close to SpaceX engineers and know some folks that work there or other internals...

But you should then have known that Tesla/SpaceX is very well known to remove stupid requirements or solutions if there is much better alternative. And they don't leave stupid decisions there.

I'm no expert that I can attribute the durability of the vehicle to the choice of stainless steel or whatever alloy they have there, but me and online folks have been amazed at IFT1 when starship tumbled and didn't break apart... or IFT11 when heat tiles were purposefully removed on critical spots and the ship still landed. Maybe suffered burn-thru but it didn't prevent a soft ocean splashdown.

Can it be attributed to stainless steel? I'm no engineer, so I don't know. It's just that the observable result is amazing.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-22 12:32:20+00:00
Maintenance would be orders of magnitude easier.

JWST is actually a good example. The (slow) unfolding of the telescope was a long-term nail-biting experience, because even very trivial problems that could have been easily fixed with a screwdriver or a finger poke on Earth could doom one of the most sophisticated pieces of scientific equipment ever produced.

We were lucky in the end, but if anything went wrong, the result would be immense frustration and the most expensive piece of space junk per unit of weight.

But in general, you probably don't need human bodies for such maintenance on the Moon, "just" very sophisticated and versatile robot mechanics. IDK what is easier.
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-22 12:32:24+00:00
> And that's perfectly fine, i would also never criticize people who just buy a Mac, some people are just interested in different stuff.

I used to be an operating system enthusiast. I've tried them all at one time. I just have a job now (I have to use Windows at work) and I just not interested in faffing to get graphics working. The experience hasn't changed that much with FreeBSD in 20 years. Some might be okay with that, but I don't really want to have to spend 3 days getting a basic desktop environment behaving properly.

OpenBSD is better in this regard than FreeBSD, I've found.

> However if you have problems getting lost in "menus" but wanna try out a BSD try GhostBSD: https://www.ghostbsd.org/

This is kinda like distro-hopping. I don't want to run some weird fork of the OS, because you will end up with a new set problems potentially. I don't use derivative distros for this very reason and only use mainline distros.

I don't understand why (I don't care for wanky reasons that often quoted) that there isn't a mechanism for me to quickly get up an running with a desktop. The situation hasn't changed in 20+ years. Whereas Linux (for all the faults that it has) has effectively had this problem solved for over a decade now.
Show HN: Pokémon Legends Z-A Friendship Checker
by sjdeak | 2025-10-22 12:32:39+00:00
Hi HN, I built a friendship checker for Pokémon Legends Z-A players. In this game, friendship is a hidden stat that determines evolution for Pokémon like Eevee and Riolu, but there's no direct way to see the exact values in-game.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-22 12:32:42+00:00
Uh... no.

The purpose of the laws (GDPR et al) is to give me control over who does what with my data, data about me. The operator of the website is who the law binds. It's not even about the website - if I phoned or emailed, the same laws would apply. You need my explicit consent to process my data in a number of ways that you'd like to, it makes you money, but I don't want you to.

The processors of this data can't make as much money off selling access to data about me, if I have these rights. So they petulantly get in my face as much as possible, via banners on websites, to annoy me and confuse me as to why these banners are even there, and try and trick me into letting them make more money.

The banners, which a browser could block or autofill, are just the surface. And they're an attack surface, so even if we agreed a way for the browser to pass on your preferences (we already did this, it's called the Do-Not-Track or DNT header, and it was a complete failure because website-owners just ignored it), website-owners would add a second layer of "ah, I see you said no automatically, but are you REALLY sure you don't want to let me make more money from your data?"

NOYB is very good for chasing after such charlatans, and forcing companies to obey data protection laws. Here is some of their guidance, and listing of the dark patterns used by non-compliant companies: https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2024-07/noyb_Cookie_Repo...
by moooo99 | 2025-10-22 12:32:44+00:00
I disagree that this should be in the scope of a browser.

Cookie banner are called cookie banners because they‘re most frequently associated with the opt in for tracking cookies, but this kind of opt in is required for any kind of third party involvement that goes beyond technical necessity.

Your browser has no way to tell what third party present on the site is a technical necessity and which one isn‘t. So you‘d have to tell it - making it part of the site providers problem as well. But this time its worse, because responsibilities are mixed between the site operator and the third party.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-22 12:32:49+00:00
It is, but it is hardly unexpected. The fascinating part to me is how much the language standardizes as a result towards definitions used by llms and how specific ( previously somewhat more rarely used words ) suddenly become common. The most amusing part, naturally, came from management class thus far. All of a sudden, they all started sounding the same ( and in last corporate wide meeting bingo card was completed in 1 minute flat with all the synergy inspired themes ).
by spicyusername | 2025-10-22 12:33:08+00:00
Lots of people in this thread keep repeating the idea that, "Nobody owes anybody anything".

Sure, just like nobody owes minio goodwill or business. People sour on these kinds of things because they feel sneaky and backhanded. It tells you something about the kind of people you're working with.

Imagine if a food kitchen suddenly started charging for the food, without notice. Or they started charging to use changing rooms in clothing stores. Etc, etc. You'd, rightly, expect a negative reaction, even if the "food kitchen doesn't owe anybody anything".

The biggest misstep in these situations is the corporations avoiding being honest and communicative about why the changes are suddenly necessary. We all know, intuitively, that in most cases its because it's not for a good reason. It's because they are greedy or otherwise feel pressured to show infinite growth.
by Sebb767 | 2025-10-22 12:33:23+00:00
> Always, always log in through bookmarked links or typing them manually. Never use a link in an email unless it's in direct response to something you initiated and even then examine it carefully.

If you still want to avoid the comfort of typing in stuff manually or navigating the webinterface, logging in on a new tab and then clicking on the link is also an option.
by gethly | 2025-10-22 12:33:31+00:00
I think Minio is the only Go client for S3 API and S3-compatible APIs. I cannot say I liked using it, but I had no choice. Nowadays I run my own file storage with my own API, so I no longer care.

But if anyone wants to run their own file storage(so not a client), there is https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs
by mystraline | 2025-10-22 12:33:55+00:00
The point of the 'annoy with consent banners' was to get people to 'allow (to be tracked) '.

Denying would, in many cases, go up to hundreds of yes/no options, with no 'deny all'. Makes getting coerced permission easy, and active denial almost impossible.

Of course, by not tracking, they dont need any of this crap. But surveillance capitalism must continue. Sigh.
Tell HN: Copilot.microsoft.com redirect to m365.cloud.microsoft, chats gone
by eitland | 2025-10-22 12:33:59+00:00
Yesterday "copilot.microsoft.com" started redirecting to "m365.cloud.microsoft/search" and I and others have seen our previous chats vanish.

I don't know if this is a gradual rollout or what since there isn't a large outrage yet, but if you use copilot.microsoft.com, have useful data there and still haven't lost access you might want to make copies of anything you want to keep.

Also if anyone from Microsoft is reading this: what is going on here? How does a company put that much effort into the compilot brand only to sacrifice it to drive customers to Office?
by kacandor001 | 2025-10-22 12:34:06+00:00
> The accomplishment of Wikipedia is not just beating the Library of Alexandria by many orders of magnitude, but doing so while keeping moderation logs in the open as well.

There is at least one exception to that rule. Users who attract the ArbCom's attention may get a general block. If they ask what they're blocked for, the ArbCom rep will tell them to read their email. These moderation decisions are not public, not even in a form with PII redacted.
by gnud | 2025-10-22 12:34:45+00:00
For Knuth's sake: The GDPR is NOT about cookies! The older 'cookie directive' is also NOT about cookies! They're about a third party storing their data on your computer, or storing your personal data on their computers - no matter what technology is used.

Nothing in the GDPR stops websites from honoring "Do not track" and then _not asking_ if it's present. They don't have to ask if they don't track you! They don't have to ask for a technically necessary session cookie that appears after you actively log in!

Websites ask because they want to track you! A 'law targeting browsers' would not help because people would say no to cookies, and then websites would ask about some other way to track you. Because they want to track you.
by guerrilla | 2025-10-22 12:34:56+00:00
Which one of the CPUs do you think looks the cleanest, aesthetically? The first Alpha looks rather chaotic, while the Samsung Alpha looks very uniform. That TI PA-7000 FPC looks like chaos. I think the two PowerPCs look the best, which is what I'd expect too. Well, actually I'd expect some of the other RISC to look simpler too...
Ask HN: Would you use an AI that remembers everything you've done on your PC?
by ekalabya | 2025-10-22 12:35:53+00:00
I've been working on Ghost Widget – an AI memory assistant that captures your screen activity and lets you (or AI agents) search through everything you've ever seen. The problem I'm solving: You spend 20 minutes looking for that article you read last week, or that code snippet you wrote yesterday, or remembering what your manager said in that Zoom call. Your computer has a terrible memory, even though it literally has perfect storage. How it works: Runs in background, captures screen metadata/activity, builds a searchable knowledge base. You can ask "what was that Python library I looked at last Tuesday?" or let Claude/ChatGPT query it directly for context-aware assistance. Early traction: 10 people signed up for demos in the first week with basically no marketing and a landing page I'm embarrassed to show you. Questions for HN:

Privacy: This is obviously the biggest concern. Would local-only storage + open-source code make you comfortable? Or is screen recording a hard no regardless? Use cases: Beyond "finding stuff I've seen," what would make this genuinely indispensable for you? Pricing: Would you pay $20/month for this if it saved you an hour daily? Or does it need to be freemium? Competition: Rewind exists but is Mac-only and just got acquired/pivoted. Microsoft Recall was a privacy nightmare. What would differentiate a new player here?

For context: I'm a 9th grader from India, top 1% on Codeforces, built an AI IDE in 2022 before Cursor was a thing. I ship fast and want to make sure I'm building something people actually want before going deeper.

A very bootstrapped landing page: https://www.ghostwidget.com/