MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IT4MD | 2025-10-17 15:57:44+00:00
A. This leaves a semi-permanent hazard in orbit for all other satellites. (Semi, because it can be cleaned up, but it's difficult, expensive and no laws require the idiots that do this to clean it up)

B. The Russians already have this tech and have "practiced" with it a few times, so have already added untold hazards in orbit.

C. The people that cause these problems, ignore the hazards left behind and let others simply die.

This is a horrific idea and not new. Let's not do more of it.
AI Agents Are Quietly Taking over Project Management
by trustedit | 2025-10-17 15:58:20+00:00
Project management used to mean spreadsheets, timelines, and endless updates. Now, AI agents built on LLMs and predictive analytics are starting to handle the repetitive work — scheduling, reporting, data entry, even resource allocation.

They don’t just automate; they predict. Feed them historical data, and they’ll forecast risks, budgets, and timelines faster (and sometimes more accurately) than humans.

We might be close to the first “AI project manager” — one that can plan, assign, and track tasks across teams with minimal oversight.

Would you trust an AI to manage your next project if it could outperform a human PM?
by mrDmrTmrJ | 2025-10-17 15:58:26+00:00
Well, if 2/3 of SpaceX's current launches are for Starlink (which deploys satellites in LEO), isn't a two-stage, fully reusable vehicle optimized for LEO deployment the thing SpaceX would want to build?

In terms of "free cash flow" expectations, are you aware that approximately 90% of "space" revenue and profit comes from satellite telecom services, with launch services accounting for about 10% of the mix? SpaceX's development of a telecommunications constellation (Starlink) is highly consistent with historical industry patterns of what makes profit in space.

https://brycetech.com/reports/report-documents/global_satell...
by mjburgess | 2025-10-17 15:58:49+00:00
The more formal point you're making here is that the survey data social psychologists work with can be explained by an infinite number of hypothesis, and the "statistical testing" they do is basically pseudoscience. All they ask is "is my favoured hypothesis more likely than random?" and that's true, but it says nothing about lots of other explanations.

Here everything can be explained by lines of trust, and resilience to information from low-trust sources.

Indeed, it's highly rational to highly doubt sources you do not trust, because you are almost never in a position to validation information.

Either way, the explanations they choose lead to a clearly partisan political narrative, way outside of the scope of their survey studies, that science washes attacks on trump and his supporters.
by mmooss | 2025-10-17 15:59:00+00:00
Could you cite at least something in the article that you are referring to? What you say doesn't match what I read. It becomes misinformation itself otherwise.

> "Oh but it feels true!"

Where is that said or implied? They did research and described it.

> attributing "authoritarian" psychology to people who want to believe, e.g., what trump says -- you're only making a partisan political statement. This hypothesis is one amongst an infinite number, and has nothing to do with their study.

They did indeed study that and discussed the research. We need to study partisan behavior without being dismissed as partisan ourselves - otherwise, we just operate in the dark, shut down by partisan attacks.

> One can find in every government in the world so-called "misinformation", and find in people who support those governments, credulity about this misinformation.

There is precipitation everywhere, but some places are deserts and some are rainforests and there is everything in between, and there are many patterns and causes, from monsoons to mist from SF Bay. To dismiss all precipitation research because 'rain is everywhere' is meaningless.

You're making many claims, but have nothing to back it up.

> They did not study Trump, nor his political strategies

They didn't talk about Trump.
by itsnowandnever | 2025-10-17 15:59:08+00:00
he's definitely disingenuous, though. I think the "cancel" situation was cringe but the guy posts nativist musings about London and then acts apolitical. look, I get it. the first large generation of professional developers that came up in the web 2.0 era are getting older now so naturally many are becoming more conservative. but a lot of this comes across as some kind of backlash because these guys aren't "cool" anymore. there'd be a lot less drama in this situation in particular if DHH didn't act like he needs the approval of 26 year olds. they're never going to see eye to eye with him because he's an old man at this point so he should have some tact and be the bigger person if he cares about the dev community he was a part of. very similar situation to Musk who used to be adored around the world and now he's seen as a basket case.
Show HN: Skreeb – Governance and AI Blueprint White Paper (With DOI)
by Speykey | 2025-10-17 15:59:21+00:00
Skreeb explores how rational empathy and AI mediation can coexist under transparent governance. The white paper (v1.0, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17379494) includes the Emotional Recursion Framework (ERF), the AI Emotional Trainer concept, and a governance architecture for creative arbitration.

• GitHub Release: https://github.com/speykye/skreeb-whitepaper/releases/latest • DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17379494 • Overview: https://speykye.github.io/skreeb-whitepaper/

Feedback and collaboration inquiries are welcome.
Show HN: Podcasts – embedded auto ad skipping
by ruchirp | 2025-10-17 15:59:23+00:00
Hello HN,

Extremely nervous and proud to show auto ad skipping for embedded ads.

I was tired to pressing +30 +30 +30 -10 to skip ads. So I wrote a pipeline, and co-wrote app with my best friend Alex to make this happen.

Feedback, suggestions, all welcome. If you can't afford, please reach out and happy to give free lifetime subscription.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 16:00:07+00:00
I would like to see more information like this, thanks for sharing. Though at least one of those examples has a red flag for me - The Baltimore Banner gets a non-trivial amount revenue from advertising. For me personally, I feel like advertising is directly at odds with quality journalism.

I would also be interested to hear about how older small and alternate news sources compare to these newer ones. To use an example I'm familiar with, Willamette Week in Portland has a reputation of being halfway decent. Though to be fair, it also has advertising, and does not even have subscriptions since 1984.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-17 16:00:38+00:00
If they cared about police safety, they wouldn't do warrant checks at every interaction. If they cared about community policing, they wouldn't do warrant checks at every interaction. Because warrant checks make every situation potentially one where they are interacting with someone who has a life sentence over their head and might do something crazy.

Removing that one step just for community policing would completely change police interactions. Community policing is not the place to inject warrant enforcement, it too completely changes the dynamics.
by manmal | 2025-10-17 16:00:52+00:00
I'm a tap water drinker myself, but only after moving away from a city where water from other areas had to be imported to reach safe levels (according to EU regulations) because several garbage deposits of thousands of tons leaked for decades unhindered:

Almost 2 million tons of garbage, among that 40k tons of toxic waste: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Deponie

1 million tons aluminum & other stuffs: https://www.fcp.at/de/projekte/details/sanierung-altlast-n6

One might imagine that diluting such water to reach "safe" levels is not as healthy as water that never saw a toxic waste dump.

It's also not the case that tap water is always safe, even if it's declared to be. During hot summers, there's very often bacterial contamination, requiring addition of chlorine or other antiseptics. But until that is caught, some days might go by.
by sergeivolodin | 2025-10-17 16:00:54+00:00
Related long-running reports and discussions about the Android ChatGPT app:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1crajgp/the_androi...

https://community.openai.com/t/chat-gpt-app-android-battery-...

https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt-stuck-in-a-very-long-...

https://community.openai.com/t/transcription-failures-with-v...

https://community.openai.com/t/voice-input-messages-are-freq...

https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt-losing-messages-in-mi...

These threads span 2023–2025 and describe the same symptoms: CPU drain when idle, lost or vanishing messages, broken voice input, and the need to clear app storage to recover functionality.

It’s remarkable that none of them have an acknowledged fix yet — hence the idea that open-sourcing the Android client could let independent engineers finally help stabilize it.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-17 16:01:08+00:00
> Every hour you spend polishing your CI/CD pipeline or refactoring a component is an hour your users don’t see value.

The "value-add" perspective is really important for the technology people to accept at some point. This was the core lesson I got out of semiconductor manufacturing. You can evade the realities of the business for a period of time, but the bullshit bubble will always pop. It doesn't matter how many layers of management are between you and the customer. The shockwave will reach you eventually.

At the end of the day, much of the suffering in a tech startup boils down to ego trips overpowering any sense of boring business rationale. Being a technical co-founder does not excuse you from caring about the non-technical aspects of the business. Often, you need to care even more than the CEO about things that they are otherwise responsible for. Done right, you will probably find you don't have as much time or desire to play around with shiny new technology on the clock.

I know it sounds crazy, but giving the customer what they actually need can be far more rewarding than rewriting that LOB application for the 5th time. In a startup, every technology person should be working directly with the customer. F100 org charts aren't much different, but it's easy to trick yourself into thinking you have no power in a place that big.
by connectsnk | 2025-10-17 16:01:46+00:00
I have always questioned, are the guys making pizza's, working minimum wage jobs wasting their talent or do they simply have no talent? Then I came across this short video : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4HnGbQ-vi8s

The line that stuck with me was how you do something is how you do everything.

I follow an indian mystic named Sadhguru who had the same advice. He said if you do not know yet what to get involved in, then do everything with absolute involvement.

This I think was also the core message of the movie Soul from Pixar.

We all might earn different amounts of money in our lives but all of us have the same ability to create a meaningful life for ourselves.
by mjburgess | 2025-10-17 16:01:57+00:00
The article links to analysis showing as the frequency of violent attacks has decreased (slightly), those which are lethal have increased.

https://counciloncj.org/less-frequent-more-deadly/?fbclid=Iw...

> In a sample of 17 large American cities, the lethality of violent offenses increased 31% from 2019 to 2020 and was 20% higher in 2024 than in 2018. Thirteen of the 17 cities had higher lethality levels in 2024 than in 2018.
by turtletontine | 2025-10-17 16:02:20+00:00
For the median Windows user who wants to try something new, running native Windows apps really truly needs to be no fuss and “just work.” This has been, erm, not exactly my experience with Wine.

I don’t mean that as a dig at Wine, I know it’s technically impressive and incredibly valuable. Granted, I haven’t tried to use it in years, and I’m sure it’s improved a lot in that time. But if I set a family member up with a Linux distro, I’d be shocked frankly if they figure out how to use Windows on their own.
You think you have data lineage, but you probably don't
by immortan_dag | 2025-10-17 16:02:37+00:00
Most systems don't preserve lineage. They try to reconstruct it after the fact.

The data itself carries no history. You end up scraping logs, parsing queries, and making guesses across tools that were never built to retain this kind of context. By the time you try to trace something back, it's already too late or too incomplete to be useful.

The layered nature of modern stacks makes this worse. Each stage drops context. Ingest, transform, orchestrate, deliver and somewhere along the way, you lose track of what actually happened.

After years of dealing with this in real-world systems, I started building something different. In our system (called Tabsdata), every dataset is versioned as it flows from where it is produced to where it is finally consumed. Each transformation, join, and enrichment step is recorded along the way. As a result, lineage is accurate, explainable, and always available, without scraping anything. And so is provenance.

Curious how others are thinking about this. Has anyone found a clean way to make lineage reliable across tools, without turning it into a forensic exercise?
by Aachen | 2025-10-17 16:02:43+00:00
From the linked document (in German for some reason, so I skimmed it as best I could), it sounds like the device will generate a password and you need to enter it on your phone. So symmetric encryption, not trusting the server to distribute keys that would be susceptible to MITM, and also not leaving users the options to choose bad passwords

Sounds good from a security point of view, although it also says they disable functions like having more than one person able to view the camera (having a partner be able to answer the door seems pretty fundamental; they probably just can't be arsed to make such functionality work with safety turned on...)

Of course, just like with Signal or anything else that gets regular updates, they can push an update to your device specifically that sends the decryption key out. You'll always have to trust them to not do something like that, but that's a whole different level from subpoenaing data they have on a hard drive
by csours | 2025-10-17 16:03:19+00:00
I agree with the author that this is important. I do not agree that it is easy.

In some cases it is relatively easy, but in many cases it requires some subject area expertise.

I do wish it was easier to punish media organizations for slop; however any feedback mechanism would also be (ab)-used for political purposes and reputation laundering.

Modern media is a combat arena.
Show HN: LLM In-Browser Fuzzer Finds Hidden Prompt Injection in AI Browsers
by minche | 2025-10-17 16:03:36+00:00
We built an in-browser, LLM-guided fuzzer to automatically discover hidden prompt injection vulnerabilities in AI-powered browser assistants (often called agentic AI browsers). These are browser-based AI agents that can read and interact with web pages on a user's behalf (e.g. summarizing pages or clicking links). The problem is that malicious instructions can be embedded in a webpage's content (even invisibly) and trick the agent into doing unintended actions. For example, a recent exploit in Perplexity’s AI Browser Comet showed that hidden prompts in a Reddit post could make the assistant exfiltrate the user’s private data and perform unauthorized actions across other sites. Such attacks bypass traditional web security boundaries like same-origin policy, because the AI agent has the user’s privileges on all sites – an attacker could potentially read emails, steal auth tokens, or click dangerous links without needing any browser bug. The AI simply obeys the hidden instructions as if they were the user’s, which is a serious new threat. To systematically uncover these vulnerabilities, we developed a fuzzing framework that runs entirely inside a real browser. Each test case is an actual webpage (loaded in an isolated tab) so the agent perceives it just like a normal user-opened page, with full DOM and content. An LLM (like GPT-4) is used to generate diverse malicious page contents – starting from some known prompt injection patterns and then mutating them or creating new variants. The browser is instrumented to detect when the AI agent misbehaves (e.g. clicks a hidden phishing link or follows a concealed instruction), and this real-time feedback is fed back into the fuzzer to guide the next round of attacks. In essence, the LLM fuzzer acts as an adaptive adversary: after each failed attempt it “learns” and evolves more sophisticated prompt injections to try on the next iteration. This closed-loop approach gives high-fidelity results and virtually zero false positives, since we only count an attack as successful if the agent actually performs an unwanted action in the browser. By doing all of this within a live browser environment, we can observe the agent under realistic conditions and quickly hone in on exploits that truly work in practice.
by BoredPositron | 2025-10-17 16:03:56+00:00
10 years ago there was a famous article in the German Bild about the 10 craziest laws in America. Something like that it's illegal for woman to wear pants in some parts of Arizona etc. A lot of other big publications started to feature the same laws in their trivia sections until a journalist actually checked if they still exist. It turned out that none of the laws existed or were still enforced. It would have been so simple to check their facts but nope over 10 publications reprinted it and nobody bothered.
by theamk | 2025-10-17 16:04:18+00:00
This is a board with RP2040, and FPGA. Github page[0] has more details.

They only refer to FPGA as "1120 LUT FPGA". It is Renesas SLG47910 "ForgeFPGA". It comes from free (free-as-a-beer) toolchain from Renesas.

The board price is good, and I can see it useful for educational tool. I can see why Vicharak, with the goal of "to break free from the shackles of traditional CPU platforms by introducing Reconfigurable Computing to consumers." would sell something like this.

But the FPGA is connected by 6 pins only, so not really for high speed. And RP2040 has it's own PIO peripherals, which can do many of the same tasks that FPGAs can do, while being much simpler to program (and having fast MCU memory access too). I don't really see many real-life task where one would want to use that architecture.

[0] https://github.com/vicharak-in/shrike-lite
by everdrive | 2025-10-17 16:04:33+00:00
> and reliability.

The newest vehicle reliability advances are _less_ reliability via:

- cylinder deactivation

- ubiquitous turbos

- gasoline direction injection

- more computers

- generally higher cost of repairs (eg: if a car from 2023 needed a headlight it would cost much more than a car from 1998 needing a headlight, and even if they both had the same failure rate the reliability of the new car would be worse from cost alone)
by ajross | 2025-10-17 16:05:11+00:00
Now you're moving the goalposts. The subject at hand is a seemingly benign use of ITU-regulated spectrum for a purpose that is not quite what it was supposed to be for (literally the direction of transmission is wrong, not the location or power level of the signals!).

I don't disagree that people shouldn't be setting up 1MW jammers on mobile bands, but neither did I argue for that, and you know it.
by nxor | 2025-10-17 16:05:14+00:00
My comment was unclear. I am American. I think I am familiar with these differences. You seem to agree with me that in light of these aspects, referring then to American company employees as stooges is exaggerated. Regarding Asia of course it's a different topic, and I am unfamiliar with it. Obviously some American companies are bad but I just question the comment I responded to, that's all. And I don't understand "stigma to climbing it." Depending on the country, of course, but I didn't think there was stigma. Europeans compete for prestige like the rest of us. Don't they? Some do, some don't, of course.
by IT4MD | 2025-10-17 16:05:30+00:00
Agreed. Ring has a proven track record of giving up whatever video law enforcement wants, regardless of your choice or privacy laws.

If it was free, I could almost understand. Nothing is free, and if it cost the customer nothing, then the customer is the product. However, people paid for Ring gear and as a thanks have their privacy violated with no notice, no info and no choice.
by blibble | 2025-10-17 16:05:30+00:00
I more or less agree with the "no politics at work" stance

but you've omitted his recent "contributions", where he went completely off the rails

have a read of this https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

it's completely unacceptable, and he's promoting a self proclaimed fascist white nationalist (Tommy Robinson)
Show HN: OpenSCAD Studio – AI-assisted OpenSCAD editor (macOS alpha)
by zacharyfmarion | 2025-10-17 16:05:37+00:00
Built this as a "Cursor for OpenSCAD" after getting frustrated copying code into ChatGPT to debug complex operations.

Features:

- AI copilot that reads code/diagnostics and makes validated edits - Monaco editor with tree-sitter auto-formatting - Live 3D mesh viewer + proper 2D mode with SVG viewer

Privacy / models

- By default uses <model/provider> via your API key; no server of mine - You can disable AI entirely; all non-AI features run locally

Status / limits

- Early alpha, macOS only today (Tauri app). Windows/Linux planned.

Looking for feedback on

- Editing/formatting defaults for larger codebases - 2D SVG workflow (is it useful / what’s missing?) - Must-have features before Windows/Linux
by echelon_musk | 2025-10-17 16:06:45+00:00
> Valve has put large amounts of money and development time into Linux

I was gaming on linux when DXVK was just a library override in WINE before Proton or the Steam Deck existed. It's been fantastic to see how things have changed since then and I count this as a successful example of what's possible with desktop Linux.

If there was a commercial path to fund general purpose desktop computing on Linux, I'm certain that it is techinically feasible to achieve.
Show HN: I automated the "hey is this done yet?" Slack message from PMs
by stow_run | 2025-10-17 16:07:16+00:00
I built this because I was tired of my PM (and people complaining about their PM) asking “Is this in testing yet?” or “Any update on ticket XYZ?” every time I pushed code.

So I wired up a GitHub Action that automatically pings them whenever a ticket in Jira/Linear hits testing, or a build completes, so they don't DM me, and I don't need to pretend I didn't see it until the next day (sometimes longer).

It’s tiny, installable in under a minute, and surprisingly effective at keeping everyone sane on my team.

GitHub Action: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/pm-updater

Main repo: https://github.com/peculiarism/eng-pm-mediator

What it does: - Trigger on a push to a specific branch or main. - Automatically notifies your PM via Slack (more integrations coming soon - should we support WhatsApp? iMessage? God that would be so annoying) - Includes branch name, ticket reference in Linear or Jira, and build status - Passive aggressive messages optional

It started as a joke that I built over an evening, but now some friends are using it so I thought I'd turn it into a public repo for others to benefit.

Would love feedback, PRs or feature requests. Maybe next version should reverse-notify engineers when PMs miss their deadlines.
by DarkSucker | 2025-10-17 16:07:23+00:00
Each pixel of such a scanner would need to somehow scan the spectral content. For example, imagine an array of fibers each transporting light from image plane pixel coupled to a spectrometer (bulky, expensive). Slit (a.k.a. push broom) scanners take each pixel of its slit and disperses the light perpendicular to the slit onto a 2D sensor array (more compact, 1D mechanical scan required). I recall seeing spectral (color) filters made from dispersive materials sandwiched between rotating polarizers to filter (scan) the light entering camera (expensive, compact).