MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fzeroracer | 2025-10-13 00:52:15+00:00
This assertion stood out the most to me and shows how much of our court system is utter bullshit:

> As a reminder, Hadley urges us to hold that: “innocent homeowner[s] with no connection to the sought-after sus- pect[,] whose property the [government] intentionally and se- verely damage[s] through a military-style assault … to exe- cute a warrant to apprehend [a] suspect … when the property otherwise would not have been damaged” are owed compen- sation.

> Mindful of our decisions’ precedential effect on future cases, we have concerns about the administrability of Had- ley’s proposed holding. It raises difficult questions, not least of which is, how does one determine innocence? For example, must an ancillary criminal proceeding conclude to show in- nocence before proceeding with a takings claim? Does having “no connection” with a suspect—as Hadley asserted herself— render the landowner “innocent”?

Like come on, this seems like a nonsensical rebuttal. We know she was innocent and that the police wrongfully raided the wrong home. Our court system is supposed to be built on the presumption of innocent until proven guilty. The judge argued that she should've instead brought a case against the police to try and surmount the qualified immunity defense but they're just kicking the ball down another losing court decision.
by mrcwinn | 2025-10-13 00:53:25+00:00
And how is UBI funded? Higher corporate taxes on (over time, as gross margins improve from inference cost deductions) more profitable companies?

Or rather than higher taxes, more money printing because inflation is just so incredibly low because of advancements in productivity.

That’s the only thing I can imagine so far. All other paths in my mind lead me thinking about uprising and political unrest.

(I’m not a doomer. I’m literally just trying to imagine how it will work structurally.)
by layer8 | 2025-10-13 00:53:33+00:00
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. The reason is that ISO 8859-7 [0] used for Greek has a separate character code for Iota (for all greek letters, really), while ISO 8859-3 [1] and -9 [2] used for Turkish do not for the usual dotless uppercase I.

One important goal of Unicode is to be able to convert from existing character sets to Unicode (and back) without having to know the language of the text that is being converted. If they had invented a separate code point for I in Turkish, then when converting text from those existing ISO character encodings, you’d have to know whether the text is Turkish or English or something else, to know which Unicode code point to map the source “I” into. That’s exactly what Unicode was designed to avoid.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-7

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-3

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-9
by bfg_9k | 2025-10-13 00:54:11+00:00
> But imagine a world where every strong business goes private and only failing businesses are public.

That's the opposite of what happens with PE. PE firms don't buy fairly priced, well run businesses. They (typically) buy underpriced, poorly performing but cash flow heavy businesses that would benefit from leveraging up and making operations more lean.

Think about it, if a business is fairly priced and well run, PE firms have no incentive to buy it because where do they generate returns?

I don't like PE firms but there's no doubt that they force businesses to operate better, and ultimately that benefits people like you and me who have retirement savings, because PE firms aren't getting their money out of thin air.
by _wire_ | 2025-10-13 00:55:27+00:00
The new Tron Ares is sterile and boring. It applies movie craft for everything except storytelling. If it has any cultural meaning, it's drowned by the edifice. As to pro-AI, it's like a Claude or de-fi commercial: you can't figure out what's being sold from the messaging, but if it gets a brand imprinted in your cortex, that's probably success for the seller.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-13 00:56:01+00:00
The hope with QUIC is encrypted tunnels that look and smell like standard web traffic are probably first in the list of any allowed traffic tunneling methods. It works (surprisingly) a lot more often than hoping an adversarial network/security admin doesn't block known VPN protocols (even when they are put on 443). It also doesn't hurt that "normal" users (unknowingly) try to generate this traffic, so opening a QUIC connection on 443 and getting a failure makes you look like "every other user with a browser" instead of "an interesting note in the log".

I.e. the advantage here is any% + QUIC%, where QUIC% is the additional chances of getting through by looking and smelling like actual web traffic, not a promise of 100%.
by dangus | 2025-10-13 00:56:18+00:00
Windows Phone.

I felt like the OS hit a stride around 8.1, with some markets sporting somewhat impressive marketshare, and the corporate politics of the whole situation and Nokia merger screwed it up badly.

I really think if Microsoft had doubled down and focused on getting flagship devices to all 4 flagship carriers it would have gone somewhere.

But I remember at the time having a dead end of hardware where competitors were putting out new phones on all 4 carriers every year. With Windows Phone you were hopping between carrier exclusives or getting nothing because all the new Nokia/Microsoft phones were low end or mid-range at best.
by quintu5 | 2025-10-13 00:56:41+00:00
When this was first posted a couple of weeks ago by the spec's author, I took it as an opportunity to see how quickly I could spin up an IntelliJ language plugin since the last time I worked on a language plugin was pre-GPT (Klotho Annotations - basically TOML inside of @annotations inside comments or string literals in a variety of host languages). Back then, it took a week for me to figure out the ins and outs of basic syntax highlighting with GrammarKit.

This time around, I worked with Claude Code and we basically filled in each other's knowledge gaps to finish implementing every feature I was looking for in about 3 days of work:

Day 1:

- Plugin initialization

- Syntax highlighting

- JSON Schema integration

- Error inspections

Day 2:

- Code formatter (the code style settings page probably took longer to get right than the formatter)

- Test suite for existing features

Day 3:

- Intentions, QuickFix actions, etc. to help quickly reformat or fix issues detected in the file

- More graceful parsing error recovery and reporting

- Contextual completions (e.g., relevant keys/values from a JSON schema, existing keys from elsewhere in the file, etc.)

- Color picker gutter icon from string values that represent colors (in various formats)

I'm sure there are a few other features that I'm forgetting, but at the end of the day, roughly 80-85% of the code was generated from the command line by conversing with Claude Code (Sonnet 4.5) to plan, implement, test, and revise individual features.

For IntelliJ plugins, the SDK docs tend to cover the bare minimum to get common functionality working, and beyond that, the way to learn is by reading the source of existing OSS plugins. Claude was shockingly good at finding extension points for features I'd never implemented before and figuring out how to wire them up (though not always 100% successfully). It turns out that Claude can be quite an accelerator for building plugins for the JetBrains ecosystem.

Bottom line, if you're sitting on an idea for a plugin because you thought it might to take too long to bootstrap and figure out all the IDE integration parts, there's never been a better time to just go for it.

EDIT: Repo link for anyone interested: https://github.com/DavidSeptimus/maml-intellij-plugin
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-13 00:57:26+00:00
I'm still pondering the clean break of the AI supremacy scenario. I think there are a few:

1. Fusion 2. Pharmaceuticals (think Ozempic economic benefit X 100) 3. Advanced weaponry (if warlike, don't build just conquer) 4. Advanced propaganda to destabilize other nations (again, if warlike)

This is mostly off the cuff, given the success of AlphaEvolve and AlphaFold I don't think they're unreasonable.
by amlib | 2025-10-13 00:57:52+00:00
This may sound silly but I think desktop linux "winning" is of the utmost importance right now. Free software is pretty much shut off from the appliance/mobile computing platforms but if a sizable portion of personal computers remain using free software it will be hard for the big corporations to fully close the web or make platform attestation truly required for everything.

Preserving such mindshare into the future might enable us to show people why they should care about free software and perhaps finally obviate how much malfeasance the perpetrators of closed platforms can do contrasted to the remaining open platforms on pcs (assuming people don't just completely abandon pcs...). This may also help push and convince law makers into legislating in favor of free software and open platforms.
by mrcwinn | 2025-10-13 00:58:14+00:00
All of “circular” those bets only work if there are real purchase orders and real revenue. In fact the two major deals are literally tied to that.

So it doesn’t answer my question. Real GPUs are bought. Presumably because real consumption is taking place. Presumably because real value (productivity) is produced. Which in turn reduces knowledge work labor (maybe?). Which may destroy jobs. Which reduces excess income and consumption in… a consumer-driven economy.

My point is, it’s actually not rational for the worst actors you could imagine. There’s a link in the chain missing for me logically and I think “billionaires” actually isn’t the answer.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-10-13 00:58:44+00:00
Ah makes more sense thanks. iirc mastadon doesn't have much of an identity migration story, except for using domain control as proof of identity which is kinda neat. I still like DNS and TLDs as a pay-to-play distributed namespace if you're going to have a persistent identity that can travel from server to server, and change hands as property from one owner to another. (I think there is case law on domain names being property, somewhat unique in cyberspace)
by CGamesPlay | 2025-10-13 00:58:48+00:00
Wow, an article about human rights lost credibility before I could even read the headline. They put up their mandatory (for their marketing) cookie banner, the "settings" page uses a dark pattern where the optional cookies are already off so clicking them would turn them on, and the only buttons are "Accept Recommended Cookies" or "X". Oh look, the article includes a section about our right to privacy, how compelling.
by trod1234 | 2025-10-13 01:00:05+00:00
I don't think there is a valid rationale for this.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of armchair spectators that don't understand how the economy actually functions; and they've got brigades that go after people that do actually know who speak out (based on certain keywords).

As a result, its totally not worth talking about since the point of no return has largely already come and gone and we're stuck in a hysteresis trap.

People don't see how the things we are seeing today were predictable outcomes given choices made at the money-printer level (i.e. Fed/Private Banking).

No deposit requirement, is no reserve money-printing. It always fails, but I'm sure someone will say... but this time will be different. Needless to say, any discussion on economics is basically flame bait these days with a lot of delusional people on both sides of the aisle.

Fractional Banking (RIP, Circa 2020).
by hu3 | 2025-10-13 01:00:23+00:00
I mean I didn't read but the first experiment I did wit 1Blocker showed ads. That's all I need to know.

I'm fine with the industry strongest adblocking tool. And it's open source to boot.

I'd never trust a mere closed source list of URLs. Imagine using this all day with websites changing URLs and this "smol" company having to keep up with it.
Show HN: Inscribe – Execute code blocks inside Markdown to get living documents
by tesserato | 2025-10-13 01:01:01+00:00
Run code from various languages directly within your markdown. It has built-in runners for Python, JavaScript/Node, Ruby, Shell, and more, and you can easily define custom commands for any language (e.g., use python3.11 instead of python).

Code blocks of the same language share a single runtime session, allowing variables and state to persist from one block to the next. This works for both full code fences and short, inline code snippets for dynamic text.

For a seamless workflow, it includes a file watching mode to automatically reprocess your document on change and post-processing hooks to run any command (like a static site generator or pandoc) after a successful run. It also works with stdin and stdout for easy integration into Unix pipelines.
by mrcwinn | 2025-10-13 01:01:26+00:00
Actually you made me think of a fun scenario.

A robot, who I will name Robort, over time becomes, say, 1/10th the price of human labor. But they do 10x the work quality and work 10x longer.

In that scenario, you could pay them the same wage but produce significantly more economic value. The robot, who won’t care about material possessions or luxuries, could make purchases on behalf of a human - and that human, overworked in 2025 or jobless - has a significant quality of life improvement.

Help, an economist or someone smarter, check my math.
by MaxfordAndSons | 2025-10-13 01:01:51+00:00
Yea the "No take, only throw" game seems more endemic to Mastiff descendants, as opposed to the true "retrieval" behavior described in the top comments about Retrievers. My boxer/bulldog mix loves to chase the ball, but will fight like hell to not give it up. Like you, I rely on bribery or manipulating the properties of the ball to make it more easily relinquished.
by solomonb | 2025-10-13 01:02:18+00:00
I have a lot of thoughts about this!

1. Radio is COOL. As a fellow ham I think you would agree with me on this one so I'll leave it at that.

2. Internet streaming gives you wider but far less localized audience. We will have an internet stream, but being radio first shifts the focus to local community and local content.

3. Internet streaming and radio have related but not entirely overlapping histories and contexts which impacts how people produce and consume their content. I love the traditional formats of radio and they are often completely missing in online radio which IMO models itself more often on mixtape and club DJ culture.

4. AI slop is ruining the world. I have this belief that as AI slop further conquers the internet we are going to get to a place where nobody trusts internet content. People will seek out novelty and authenticity (sort of how LLMs do lol) and I think there will be a return to local content and community.

5. Commercial radio sucks. The LPFM system is a wonderful opportunity to create a strong, community driven alternative to corporate media.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-13 01:02:37+00:00
We're a niche, but at this point most people I see around are spending the majority of their time in unix/linux through whatever layer feels right for them, be it the Darwin system or WSL2 or straight docker/container. The overall maintenance being linuxy is par for the course.

Good timing to plug this other article on the top page, Exactly om that paradox:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562286
by geoctl | 2025-10-13 01:02:49+00:00
TCP over WireGuard is unavoidable because that's the whole point of tunneling. But TCP over WireGuard over QUIC just doesn't make any sense, neither from performance nor from security perspective. Not to mention that with every additional tunneling layer you need to reduce the MTU (which is already a very restricted sub-1500 value without tunneling) of all inner tunnels.
by approx-equal | 2025-10-13 01:02:51+00:00
I just finished writing a small script that finds all optimally bad Wordle guesses. More precisely, on hard Wordle, where you must give a valid word (from the guesses list), and you must use yellows + greens, and must not use greys, what are all the combinations of answer + 6 guesses where there is only grey. This is equivalent to finding all answer + 6 guesses where no letters are in common between any pair.

This is basically a variation on bit-packing (which is NP-hard), but it's tractable if you prune the search space enough.
by jrapdx3 | 2025-10-13 01:04:06+00:00
Sure, the FSF is as idealistic as it has been influential. Can't fault FSF for unrelenting commitment to stated purposes. While the totally free OS was a goal that never quite materialized, a large proportion of modern open-source systems is composed of free (in the FSF sense) software. What FSF advocates has indeed mattered.

I think the question is this: is having totally free cell phones, etc., the essential criterion of success? Or is something less than embodying FSF-style ideology acceptable? To be sure, there's no definitive answer to such a question. But ideological purity is a luxury in the real world that even FSF acknowledges, compromises sometimes have to be made, pragmatic considerations have to be taken into account.

Nothing wrong with keeping lofty goals, but as practical necessity frequently dictates, graciously accepting less than total victory more often than not best serves our interests.

(Edited re: grammar.)
by lifthrasiir | 2025-10-13 01:04:08+00:00
Today's AI does exhibit some intelligence, period. It is absurd to claim that an intelligent-looking entity doesn't have intelligence, only because we might not be able to determine which part of the entity has one. The superintelligence is an entirely different problem though because there is no clear path from intelligence to so-called superintelligence, everything has been just a speculation so far.
by wilkystyle | 2025-10-13 01:04:09+00:00
This is a great question! It's also a really hard one to answer.

When newer developers come to me looking for a recommendation of an editor to use, I don't often recommend Neovim, and I pretty much never recommend Emacs. I do recommend learning Vim motions, however, and my go-to is VS Code with the vscode-neovim plugin (uses actual nvim binary under the hood—no crappy emulation slowness/inaccuracies!)

For me personally, I've never met a situation where my Neovim or Emacs configuration couldn't handle a refactor or some other thing an IDE does. And then with all the other things like search/navigation (Consult+Orderless in Emacs is unparalleled) and working with files, git, or the filesystem (dired-mode in emacs, Oil.nvim for Neovim)... I'm just so much faster in one of those two editors than I am in any IDE. The ability to do everything you need in a single tool using the same paradigm and keybindings and concepts to get all of it done is pretty powerful.

I do also have a nervous aversion to using products that are not fully open source. Probably an OCD fear of losing full control over my editing and development experience.
by taurath | 2025-10-13 01:04:35+00:00
To me this reads like someone's been inside the echo chamber too long.

> For you AI skeptics, this is going to be rough to hear, but given the suffering that will occur if AI fails, I believe we have a moral imperative to make sure it succeeds.

What if, and hear me out here, the prediction is that it will fail because it can't succeed. It hasn't proven it is capable of producing the results that would justify itself. That there is some value doesn't mean that it will develop that capability. We have nothing to say that it will.
by dangus | 2025-10-13 01:04:35+00:00
I’m glad nobody plays this game anymore because people stopped to think 5 minutes about how crap the game is and how crap its creators are.

This blog post puts the issues with the game into words better than I can:

https://cjleo.com/blog/the-problem-with-cards-against-humani...

They probably can’t print their cards in the USA because nobody’s buying them.
by SilverElfin | 2025-10-13 01:06:12+00:00
Is this proposing a voluntary process or something new that would be required by law to resolve conflicts on how to interpret law. The US badly needs faster resolution of legal questions. SCOTUS is far too slow and they take too few cases.

For example, states like California and Oregon and Washington abusively and repeatedly violate the second amendment through their legislation, and the process of fighting these unjust laws takes years and lots of money. Meanwhile everyone’s constitutional rights are violated.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-13 01:06:47+00:00
> The Freedoms are based on the notion that you should have the right to do what you will with hardware you own

Then why do they keep trying to own our devices? Why do we have all this attestation nonsense designed to subvert our ability to do what we will with the hardware we own?

> you don't own someone else's hardware in the Cloud

Then they should keep their ownership in the cloud where it belongs. My software will talk to their software through the network boundary. All is well.

Dictating what software I can or can't use on my machine to talk to their software is an invasion of my territory. It shouldn't matter whether I use their official app, my own custom client or some curl script to achieve my own ends. If they're going to try and usurp control of my machine, then I'm gonna start relativizing their "freedoms" as well.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-13 01:07:05+00:00
They could though. They're just being overly cautious.

All it forbids is blocking users from running modified FOSS code which macOS doesn't do. You can compile what you want and run it in Xcode. Even on iOS you can do this.

What TiVo did was shipping FOSS code but not giving users any access to their device.
by chrsstrm | 2025-10-13 01:07:08+00:00
I built https://invoicepad.app which is a free, completely in-browser tool for creating invoices, estimates, and quotes. Yes, similar apps have been posted here before, but none were built the way I envisioned, so I made my own. The key difference: all invoice data is stored in the URL hash, not the querystring. This is important because querystrings are sent to the server with every request, while hashes stay local to your browser. This means I can never see your invoice data, unlike other similar apps. The workflow is simple: use your browser's bookmark manager as your invoice filing system. Or if you want to keep it offline, just copy and paste invoice URLs into a text document for storage. I’ve also included helpful features like saved profiles to save on repeated data input. The next step is to finish working on a browser extension (v1 is being tested) to make bookmarking, editing, and saving changes even easier, that is if I ever stop being distracted by other side projects.
by RichardChu | 2025-10-13 01:07:12+00:00
I'm working on 2 projects right now:

1. Fluxmail - https://fluxmail.ai

Fluxmail is an AI-powered email app that helps you get done with email faster. There are a couple of core tenets/features that it has, including:

- local-first - we don't store your emails and we make interactions as fast as possible

- unified inbox - so you can view emails from all your email addresses in one place

- AI-native - helping you draft emails, search for emails, and read through your emails faster

I'd love to hear if these features resonate with you, or if there are other features that you feel are missing from your current email app.

2. ExploreJobs.ai - https://explorejobs.ai

This is a job board for AI jobs and companies. The job market in AI is pretty hot right now, and there are a lot of cool AI companies out there. I'm hoping to connect job seekers with fast-growing AI companies.