MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by echelon | 2025-10-02 18:50:41+00:00
Why is it okay to just accept that the hyperscalers are 100% closed, but the minute a smaller player tries to play "open-ish" with "fair source" we crucify them?

Fair source is amazing. You get the code. You can modify the code. You can redistribute the code. You just can't take their business from them and compete with them head-to-head with their product. You can reformulate it into something else, but you can't take their labor and cut their knees off with it. You have literally every other freedom.

Why in the hell are so many people against that?

Fair source is sustainable and equitable. You get everything except for that one little right with which you could compete with them.

Everyone gushes over Obsidian - that's not even "source available" or "fair source". It's completely closed.

I bet if Obsidian went "fair source", and you could download the code and compile it yourself, there would be hundreds of voices crawling out of the woodwork to call them the devil for not being pure OSI-approved open. How dare they keep one little freedom to themselves for all the hard work they've done?

I'm half convinced the anti-"fair source" voices are deep industry folks who want big tech to own the OSI definition. Who can use it strategically as they sit atop hundreds of billions of dollars in cash flows. Open source to the FAANGMAGMA Gods is just a way of outsourcing labor and dangling trinkets in front of underpaid labor.

n8n isn't doing a "VC rug pull." They're trying to be sustainable. The only thing that's been "pulled" is the wool over the eyes of every engineer satisfied with FAANG OSI-approved serfdom. Some of the pieces are "open" all right, but they own pretty much everything the sunlight touches.

If n8n can't build a business then it just becomes some side project hobby. What exactly do we think every other company is doing?

Please be more pragmatic and realize that "fair source" is sustainable. It rewards the innovators and you get almost everything for free. You just can't shoot them with their own gun.

Do you not want the ability to download the source and potentially tweak the software? To have a copy you can hold onto forever? To be able to analyze it for telemetry. To be able to potentially submit patches (if you're feeling generous)?

Don't you want them to make money? Rather than beg for Github donation scraps?

Be especially mindful if you're typing a retort on a Macbook Pro or iPhone and deploying software to GKE or AWS.

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https://faircode.io/

https://fair.io/
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-02 18:50:47+00:00
> Every once in a while I remember an algorithm for doing something I can include in our app and feel like a God, lol.

I can distinctly remember the three times this happened for a team I was on, in my couple decades of doing this, because everyone involved kinda got a thrill out of the extreme novelty of doing something resembling actual math of even a lower-end-of-undergrad level. Lasted all of a few minutes to perhaps a few hours, but still.
by rascul | 2025-10-02 18:50:51+00:00
The framers have nothing to attach to until there's structure, and they don't really need to get up there much until they do the decking. They can attach lines to the ridge then. So can the roofers when it's their turn.

When I was a roofer, I think we might have used safety lines and harnesses twice, when the pitch was too steep.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-02 18:51:42+00:00
Only so frustrated though.

Not frustrated enough to actually bother to check if Trump exploded the deficit during his first term and think hey is he going to do this again? Or hey, Musk says he's going to save 2 trillion but never clarified how; maybe he's not a reliable source.

Frustration without thinking just leads to more frustration.
by mikepurvis | 2025-10-02 18:51:42+00:00
I don't think that's really the case, is it? At least, not in any formally-specified way. Modern email clients will extract metadata for things like airline reservations, shipping trackers, ICS calendar invites, etc, and give you live tiles specific to that time-sensitive info, but it's very clearly supplementary and at least in GMail none of it is pretending to be part of the message itself.
by sneak | 2025-10-02 18:51:54+00:00
Why would you build your blog to fail if some article on it ever gets popular? The fact that the most hits you ever received was 50k in a week isn't relevant; a single important post could receive that in seconds.

It basically costs nothing to pre-render a static site, which then serves several orders of magnitude faster. I'm confused why anyone would do it this way in this day and age.
by elvisloops | 2025-10-02 18:52:02+00:00
There's a difference between what Signal does in the app and a manual action a user performs outside of the app. It is not realistic to expect that people will see a feature Signal has built for them in the app and understand the underlying implications to "post compromise security" and "forward secrecy" that it may have.

The expectation is that what happens inside Signal is secure, and the features Signal provides are secure. If the idea is that nobody is going to enable this feature, then why build it? If the idea is that many people are going to enable this feature, then this entire cryptographic protocol is meaningless.
by digdugdirk | 2025-10-02 18:52:08+00:00
You need to understand that the system is deliberately so opaque that doctors don't even know what your costs would be. Sure there's a sticker price, but for most medications that's so high as to be absurd. From there, it's entirely dependent on your insurance, coinsurance, pharma benefits, etc, etc.

They try, but they're not in a position to do anything about it.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-02 18:52:18+00:00
QnX is expensive. And in a way that is exactly what I'm hoping for with this release: that someone will pick it up, see how simple a robust OS can be and to use it as a base to build on (for instance, by porting Rust and rewriting the core in that, which would give a very quick path to a self hosting OS), or maybe just as a source of inspiration.

Here you have all of the scaffolding in place already so now you can focus on those other parts one at the time while having the luxury of good tooling and a nice debugging environment, no need to bring it up from scratch. Another great thing would be to make an ARM or other CPU port. And that's not all that hard: there is only one process that is CPU specific and there are a very limited number of pieces that you need (essentially just a COM port driver) to be able to make it self hosting.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-02 18:52:28+00:00
> And this didn't start in 2023. Gaza has been under Israeli blockade for decades.

The blockade was also imposed by Egypt[0] and Hamas certainly provided no shortage of security related justifications for the blockade. Unfortunately those security concerns turned out to be accurate[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks
by legitster | 2025-10-02 18:52:38+00:00
Expressed vs revealed preferences. Our reliance on mass media is at an all-time high.

The president attacks the media every single day. But then asked why he wanted to deploy troops to Portland: "because of what I saw on TV".

The amount of media outlets has exploded. However, there are fewer journalists than ever "on the beat" - independent researchers, beat reporters, local journalists, industry experts, etc. So most of our original quality reporting is coming from a small set of national sources, and then spun every which in the second-hand media channels.

Not figuring ways to monetize news back in the early days I think will prove to be one of the biggest failures of the internet as a collective technology.
by dh2022 | 2025-10-02 18:53:04+00:00
And how can the states arrest ICE agents without using force? You think ICE agents will just willingly walk into custody?

The minute states use force against any US Federal agents the US Federal Government will use its military force.

BTW - this also works in the following scenario: Trump's federal court finds Gavin Newsom guilty of something and US Federal Marshals to take him into custody. If Gavin tries to use California's forces to protect him against Marshals then US Federal Government will use military force to detain Gavin.
by jackconsidine | 2025-10-02 18:53:08+00:00
What an awesome project at just the right time.

I love baseball and I love that the hacker culture seems to love baseball too.

I read that part of baseball's decline from the premiere American sport was due to its outdated revenue model (strict reliance on ticket sales). The NFL in 80s really embraced TV and reached more fans and here we are. MLB has been recently way ahead of the curve on streaming (MLB.tv, AWS StatCast etc).

I hope projects like this contribute to baseball regaining popularity
by midmagico | 2025-10-02 18:53:09+00:00
lol ArtForz was an engineer who single-handedly designed from scratch low-run book printing machines, built his house with CHP that he designed and created himself, created his own pick-n-place machines from parts he had laying around, reversed a hidden opcode in the AMD GPUs of the time, designed at the gate-level his own FPGA, manually soldered his own sASIC, and printed his own MOSIS chips. He was the smartest person in the room. By far. Many of the very early non-get-rich-quick people that didn't think anything would happen for decades but were interested in Bitcoin, were in fact the applied-science smartest people in the room. The people generally who thought it was digital tulips even a few years later were also people who thought they were the smartest people in the room, but were actually nowhere close.

Others who were very early (source: I was there and interacted with them) were extremely wealthy investment bankers with a track history of being able to make money, some kinds of cryptographers (Hal, Adam, etc) and others who were ultra-competent, often inventors of new technique in their own right.

It's a well-studied but unfortunately not particularly well-known result that the people most interested in Bitcoin are at the two ends of the expertise spectrum—highly highly financially competent, and financially incompetent people.

You will never hear from most of the highly-competent people because they also recognize that being noisy about owning Bitcoin draws a giant target on their backs. E.g. try and find ArtForz now.

I would offer that the late and very great James Randi's often-repeated comments on ultra high-skilled people being some of the easiest to trick are probably illustrative, and my personal opinion at the moment is that many of these people have been tricked long ago into thinking that Bitcoin is something bad.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-02 18:53:59+00:00
My understanding also is that pharma is a case where you can often show you spend $X on a medicine and it gives $10X or more in savings.

For instance inhaled steroids for asthma can cost an eye-popping $300 a month but some people with asthma get hospitalized once a year at a cost upwards of $8000 so the inhaler is really a bargain.
by _wire_ | 2025-10-02 18:54:40+00:00
A cattle chute is a humane way to get cows to the slaughter, but that make it appealing nor recommendable for people to enter.

The freedoms and risks of personal vehicles distribute with the usage base, allowing a sense of both autonomy and a commons under God's laws. This makes the risk morally and ethically comprehensible and mitigateble.

The term robot implies an autonomous alien device beholden to unknown laws, which is incomprehensible.

The argument that the robot is in fact subject to known laws dictated by megalomaniacal greedy tech bros does nothing to build trust in the devices.

You can't even trust your TV or refrigerator not to exploit you on their behalf.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 18:54:52+00:00
> how can the states arrest ICE agents without using force? You think ICE agents will just willingly walk into custody?

If ICE start shooting at cops, we've won the battle.

> minute states use force against any US Federal agents the US Federal Government will use its military force

Sure, that's the overreaction. Nobody is ordering police to shoot back.

> this also works in the following scenario: Trump's federal court finds Gavin Newsom guilty of something and US Federal Marshals to take him into custody

Sure. I'd guess he wins the Presidency if Trump does this.

Ordering state officers to detain ICE agents for breaking state law isn't criminal. Newsom's trial would become the media sensation of the next few years. Not whatever nonsense Trump conjurs up on a daily basis to earn media.
by estearum | 2025-10-02 18:55:12+00:00
Nobody claimed that?

The claims are that Trump gave people the impression that Tylenol causes autism, which is a claim we've failed to substantiate 100% of the dozens of times we've tried, and that FDA put out guidance that is much, much softer in direct controversion of Trump’s claims.

In other words: Trump’s statements weren’t in response to the FDA decision nor was the FDA decision in response to Trump’s statements. Both were distinct responses to the head of HHS (a scientific illiterate and world famous grifting conspiracy theorist) deciding that vague gesticulating about Tylenol could help him meet his self-imposed September deadline to solve autism.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-02 18:55:17+00:00
No, you are right, in volume QNX is expensive. We spent a ton of money ($1600 / license iirc) on licenses for a system that we built, and even so it felt like Quantum never took us serious because we only needed 10's of them rather than the 100's of thousands they were used to selling to their bigger automotive customers. But it is still an OS that will for me always embody the 'road not taken' and I still strongly believe that it was a better road, based on my experience with IRIX, Windows, DOS, VMS, Linux, VAX Unix, OS/9, Plan 9 and QNX. It felt like that only one that always ran and that always stayed responsive, no matter what we threw at it. Across many years and 10's of machines running various versions of QNX I have not seen a single production crash of the OS that was not an indication that the underlying hardware had died. But it was perfectly possible to anticipate even that and have an Erlang like supervisor system in place to deal with that.
by elvisloops | 2025-10-02 18:56:00+00:00
If the app takes your disappearing message, encrypts it with a static key that never changes and is never deleted, and uploads it to the cloud, then the message is never truly "disappearing." A "post compromise" event will allow the attacker to decrypt that ciphertext at any point in the future. All of this ratcheting is undone by backups.
by palmfacehn | 2025-10-02 18:56:14+00:00
Empiricism is overrated in the current era. Pure reason is underappreciated. A triangle has only three sides. Two parallel lines will never meet. Wikipedia edit wars and reliable sources can't change that. If you wish, you can go far by building from basics and catching inconsistencies. You can park it there, or you can speculate about the motives of those who would abuse reason.
by viccis | 2025-10-02 18:56:23+00:00
>it allowed the US to build a pier for food delivery

You mean the one that Israel was caught on camera using to help carry out a raid (the Nuseirat refugee camp massacre) that killed 276 civilians and injured over 600? And then promptly disintegrated after spending only 20 days distributing 1/5 of the aid actually needed?

How magnanimous of them. Why don't we send them another billion off our paychecks to fund their free healthcare to thank them?
by Lammy | 2025-10-02 18:56:31+00:00
> Can you move the menu bar on Mac? Can we not just accept that this is a design decision and move on?

Yes, you can put the Dock on any side of the screen, plus you can pin it to the beginning or end of the chosen side. Those options have been in there since 10-dot-0 even before there was official UI to control them. TinkerTool was popular for this: https://www.bresink.com/osx/0TinkerToolClassic/details.html
by dmitrygr | 2025-10-02 18:57:05+00:00
> Having witnessed my own children

==

"Having witnessed my own friends, I simply do not believe that people who can juggle exist."

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Gifted kids exist. I see friends' kids who read at 4 and they absolutely do not need to be stuck in a class with kids who still chew on their toys. The fact that you have not seen those does not mean they do not exist.

As a second example, I was able to read before I was 4 and multiply 2-digit numbers before I was 5. Luckily schools did have programs that challenged me. I would have been much less lucky, had I been a kid in Mamdani's NYC...
by mannyv | 2025-10-02 18:57:14+00:00
My kids could read and do math in K, unlike many of their classmates.

At that point it doesn't really matter, because K is really about play and learning the conventions.

By the end of 2nd grade it was clear that they were bored out of their minds. So to private school they went.

For parents with kids that aren't motivated it's hard to understand what the fuss is.

But, the Left's problem is that instead of trying to raise everyone up they're bringing people down. It was that way in the USSR, and it's that way here. Where I used to live the Talented and Gifted program (which was state mandated) had a $1000 budget systemwide. The "equity" fund was almost a third of the budget. At that point why bother with public schools? It's taxation without representation.
by Ozzie_osman | 2025-10-02 18:57:16+00:00
These articles are from over a year ago and they all say that Israel took control of the Rafah border.

"On May 7, Israeli forces seized the main border crossing at Rafah, closing a vital route for aid into the besieged enclave."

Understandably, the Egyptian government does not want to coordinate with the Israeli government after seeing how the Israeli-organized aid sites have been going.
by gabbagool | 2025-10-02 18:57:17+00:00
To this day, I wonder if Google knew that they couldn't be the ones to unleash AI unto the world. They clearly had the wherewithal and expertise to do it (Vaswani et al, 2017), but were under so much antitrust pressure at the time that it seemed inconceivable that they could be the ones to introduce such a polarizing technology to the world. What kind of firestorm would have rained down on them if they were the first.

Or, you might think, if Google had the technology, and they knew how to turn it into a trillion-dollar product, it's beyond ridiculous to think they would just hand the win over to someone else.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-02 18:57:55+00:00
I should definitely make that picture. Yes, it as VM. Message passing all runs through the kernel. Task isolation is strictly memory based, whether a task acts on or responds to a message is something the tasks will have to negotiate between themselves. You could whitelist, use a token scheme or any other method for authentication that you wish to put in place, but out of the box there is none, if you know a tasks ID you can send it a message. Obviously there are ownership of resource constraints and the kernel will always ensure that the receiving task knows who the sending task is to ensure that parties are not stealing each others descriptors and such.
by logicallee | 2025-10-02 18:58:01+00:00
The profile you responded to "techbro" was made 3 years ago, has 102 karma (i.e. 1 upvote every 10 days, on average), and has never submitted anything - zero submitted articles or profiles. My profile was made 12 years ago and has 3,118 karma (approximately averaging an upvote every 1.4 days) including lots of submissions of stuff I made, for example this Show HN that I was pleased to see make it to the front page with 36 points and lots of positive comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141139 (the resource itself is currently offline as I've temporarily replaced my website with 50 reasons why it's wrong to disrupt communications between a husband and wife. I'll replace my website as soon as this issue is solved.)

Right up your alley, I've actually written a cryptographic case study of some of the dynamics of this, I've just sent you a copy of it (you and I were in touch before - it was very well reviewed by professional cryptographers.) In your reply to this, please acknowledge your receipt of my email, and if you can, print it out as well, as it can become inaccessible later.

Of course, there are a lot of NSA-affiliated people who could come out of the woodworks to support parent's slander that I "sound paranoid and schizophrenic".

The reason they don't? They're witnesses in the FBI case and don't want to go to prison themselves. The FBI has already handwritten over 10,000 affidavits in this case. (They are writing by hand to avoid electronic tampering with evidence.)

I am not making a media story about it yet, which would be the next step, so there are no articles about this yet.

My reason for not doing so is not to bring extra attention to the case, but simply to solve it in a straightforward and expedient manner.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-02 18:59:14+00:00
Signal is lacking a crucial safety feature. To cover some background, it is necessary to set "Who can see my number" and "Who can find me by number" both to "Nobody", as this lowers the chances of spam messages and attempted hacks. Once these are set, the only way for someone to start a conversation with you is if they know your Signal username or QR link, both of which you can set in your Profile. The issue is that your link can be saved unsafely by your Contacts, and can be used multiple times, also by others, leaking it to hackers who can then send you unsolicited messages to compromise your device. The safety feature that would be good to have is to allow someone to contact me only via a one-time use link that cannot be reused by anyone.
by YZF | 2025-10-02 18:59:19+00:00
Israel is prioritizing defeating Hamas over making the world like it. This is partly due to the incompetence of the government, partly due to the impossible realities on the ground, but also partly due to an understanding that the survival of Hamas in Gaza and their perceived win is a larger threat.

I would also say that it's the propaganda war against Israel that's causing most of the alienation. To some extent Israel can do no right here and its critics aren't really proposing any alternatives that they would be able to live with if they were in a similar situation. The extent to which social (and traditional) media has been mobilized as part of the war here is unprecedented.

Re: "end and means" why is this argument made here but not e.g. wrt/ the world's war on ISIS/ISIL or Al Qaeda? Or WW-II? Should Ukraine surrender because the end (having a free/democratic Ukraine aligned with the west?) doesn't justify the "means"?
by chris_j | 2025-10-02 18:59:21+00:00
One thing that I heard from folks who do development for retro Atari platforms is that the 68k support in GCC has been getting worse as time has gone on, and it's very difficult to get the maintainers to accept patches to improve it, since 68k is not exactly widely used at this point.

Specifically, I heard that the 68k backend keeps getting worse, whilst the front-end keeps getting better. So choosing a GCC version is a case of examining the tradeoffs between getting better AST-level optimisations from a newer version, or more optimised assembly language output from an earlier version.

I imagine GCC 6.5 probably has a backend that makes better use of the 68k chip than the GCC 11.4 that ngdevkit uses (such as knowing when to use dbra) but is probably worse in other ways due to an older and less capable frontend.
by al_borland | 2025-10-02 18:59:22+00:00
This guy has been trying to milk that album cover for cash in any way possible for a long time. Trying to claim exploitation after getting a Nevermind tattoo on his chest, recreating the image as an adult, and other such promotion, is ridiculous. I’m glad to see he lost. I actually thought this got dismissed a couple years ago.

Being a baby on an album cover isn’t a career.