MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jack_tripper | 2025-11-28 20:27:17+00:00
>The usa couldnt handle Aghanistan

Reddit level argument ignoring the fact that the US's goal there wasn't to win anything since there's nothing of value there, it was to funnel taxpayer money to the military industrial complex for 15 years.

Pretty sure the US could have glassed Afghanistan off the map if they really wanted but probably wouldn't have been very popular decision.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-28 20:27:40+00:00
But the vast majority are still using an IDE - and I say this as someone who has adamantly used Vim with plugins for decades.

Something similar will happen with agentic workflows - those who aren't already productive with the status quo will have to eventually adopt productivity enhancing tooling.

That said, it isn't too surprising if the rate of AI adoption starts slowing down around now - agentic tooling has been around for a couple years now, so it makes sense that some amount of vendor/tool rationalization is kicking in.
by arjie | 2025-11-28 20:28:08+00:00
Another thing that you can do when you have the IP address range is just run a traditional split-tunnel. A simple way to do that is to run Wireguard on a cheap VPS, then have only traffic to those fixed IPs go to that tunnel. The nice thing about this is that tiny WiFi routers (e.g. hAP AX S) these days support Wireguard at pretty decent speeds. Then anyone on your network gets this, and if you want it while you roam you can just run the Wireguard VPN on your phone as well with the same rules.
by jerf | 2025-11-28 20:28:15+00:00
Arbitration is still a pretty big money sink for them. If enough people do it then it becomes a problem for them. There have been instances of companies reinstating normal class action lawsuits back into their EULAs because it turned out that forced arbitration wasn't a magical wonderland of cost cutting for them after all. Forced arbitration and especially when they have a clause that forbids class-action arbitration can turn into a huge liability for them even if they nominally win every instance.

The fundamental financial maneuver of the modern world is to take modest risks of modest loss and financially engineer it into a smaller risk of much, much larger loss, with a higher expected loss (risk*size) in the end after the engineering than before. Forced arbitration (and especially when class arbitration is banned) is that manuever in the legal sphere. It isn't a ticket out of the risk entirely, it's shoving that risk under the rug and making it net larger. If you and a few hundred of your closest friends put their minds to it you can trigger that smaller-chance-of-larger-disaster scenario and all you have to do is file... you don't even have to win.

I won't deny it's an uphill battle but the forced arbitration clauses can be turned to consumer's advantage with relatively modest coordination, you just need to get enough annoyed people together.

(I can't help you with this one, I don't have a car with this problem. Your few hundred closest friends will need standing.)
by gmuslera | 2025-11-28 20:28:46+00:00
May not be related with this in particular, but how many names that are not tied to any shooting or whatever appear in low activity google trends? It could happen with most names around the region where you live, i.e. related with spam campaigns, AI searches, people curious about people in their neighbourhood or whatever that covers most of the people? If it is something common giving a reasonable time frame before a given moment, it could be a coincidence that may not be so rare. Checking only backwards for a particular event and not doing the check forward to see if that is unusual is a missing link there.
by surajrmal | 2025-11-28 20:29:13+00:00
Android's sandboxing is doing work for the benefit of the user. This is similar to how your web browser sandboxes JavaScript. Not every app needs access to my location and providing it access shouldn't require root. The Linux ecosystem understands this and it's why there is a large push for sandboxing models in software such as flatpak. Even if you disagree with Android at some level it hard to argue that users benefit from being able to control what the software they run is capable of doing. Otherwise we wouldn't have filesystem permissions to begin with, in the name of "freedom".
by apparent | 2025-11-28 20:30:42+00:00
Are you looking to remote start from the fob, or from an app? I agree that if it's done via the fob, that shouldn't require a subscription. But I understand that something requiring a cell signal will usually be paid, one way or another. I prefer it not be baked into the cost of the car, since some people (me) will not want that feature.
by sxp | 2025-11-28 20:32:28+00:00
The title sounds like speculative clickbait.

From https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-ai...:

Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.

This is different from the core claim that the incident was caused by radiation. What are the prior probabilities that the system was exposed to "intense radiation"? Vs some other mundane cause such as a faulty wire or mechanical issues? And what is the evidence supporting the former hypothesis?
by lmf4lol | 2025-11-28 20:32:52+00:00
I think no one can predict what will happen. We need to wait until we can empirically observe who will be more productive on certain tasks.

Thats why I started with AI coding. I wanted to hedge against the possibility that this takes off and I am useless. But it made me sad as hell and so I just said: Screw it. If this is the future, I will NOT participate.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-28 20:33:17+00:00
Edit: Reply to the commenter below, who unfortunately was down voted. I didn't mean it in that way at all. I mean it as in finding a missing part of your essence, which we all have to do at times. Eroticism is in everyday life if we allow it to be and don't shun away from it, just like courage, adventure, challenge, mystery, and a lot of other essential experiences of the soul, which the modern mass man system tries to erase.
by evanelias | 2025-11-28 20:33:31+00:00
It's truly remarkable that Google put an absurd Wrong Answers Only generator in front of their primary cash cow 18 months ago, and in that time their share price has nearly doubled.

It's wrong nearly every time I search for anything. Ironically, in writing this comment, I tried asking it for the GOOG share price the day before AI Overviews launched, and it got that wrong too.
by fabiensanglard | 2025-11-28 20:33:39+00:00
The battery life is what keeps me going back to my MacBook Pro every time I try to switch to a Linux laptop.

From what I understand, almost all linux problems in this area are firmware/driver shortcoming. So, in theory, could the Framework laptop rival Apple?

They are built from the ground up to run Linux so I assume they have access to the firmware or at least can request features from vendors?
by nuancebydefault | 2025-11-28 20:33:48+00:00
My physio therapist is very nice and caring, genuinely interested in conversation and helping with my and other people's physical and sometimes even psychological problems. While she was moving my legs using her upper body, it felt quite intimate and I admired her for being so professional while doing her work physically and giving psychological support as a bonus. I'm sure she will notice at times that some people get intimate feelings but she seems to be okay with that, knowing she is helping patients while such things can happen as a side effect.

All to say that feelings are only natural and they can induce thoughts. Why apologize.
by throawayonthe | 2025-11-28 20:33:50+00:00
i think it's one of those things where how/if they will do it doesn't matter, it's a "we make the rules" thing

if the situation is such that a US -> Netherlands land invasion (with somehow independent armed forces?) is imaginable, you're past the point of the US-ICC legal relations mattering (i'd go so far as to say there's no sovereignty to speak of here :p)
by retrac | 2025-11-28 20:34:17+00:00
This is so conjectural as to be more in the realm of science fiction but here goes. There's little to no hard evidence that there's anything particular to the human brain that makes our way of thinking unique to humans. No doubt we are indeed evolved to be highly intelligent social animals. But how specialized is our brain to our particular kind of thinking?

What if what evolved was not primarily biological, but cultural evolution? What if our kind of language, and our kind of thinking, are the product of many stacked layers of ideas and cultural practices. And not much more? If so, then perhaps it is contagious. And if that can't be ruled out, maybe we should think long and hard before we try to talk to the whales. Lest we risk turning that classic The Onion piece into something real: "Scientists successfully teach gorilla that it will die some day -- Tulane University researchers say Quigley is now able to experience the crippling fear of impending death previously only accessible to humans."
Ask HN: Why don't closed captions boldface words that are likely to be misheard?
by amichail | 2025-11-28 20:34:31+00:00
I think Netflix should enhance closed captions by using boldface on words that are more likely to be misheard due to high-frequency hearing loss.

Of course, Netflix could also provide options for different types and severities of hearing loss that affect caption styling.

Technically, it may need to bypass the closed caption standard and display the text directly over the video for this to work.

Do you think many people would benefit from this option for closed captions?
by bgwalter | 2025-11-28 20:35:31+00:00
According to the airworthiness directive:

Affected ELAC: Elevator aileron computer (ELAC) ELAC B L104 Serviceable ELAC: ELAC B L103+

So it's a regression that affects decades old aircraft. Of course Airbus is now also meddling with "AI":

https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/digital-transformation/...

Obviously there no direct connection here, but it seems that destabilizing perfectly working aircraft could be the product of a culture shift.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-28 20:35:45+00:00
Maybe, but in the US, we can't deduct "sweat equity."

I probably do hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of work, for free. It would be nice to be able to use some of that, as a tax break. It would be a drop in the bucket, compared to the monster breaks corporations get.

I would be more worried about rigidly defining "open source." We see battles on HN, about the definition of "open source." It could end up specifying something like only release of GPL-licensed code is allowed, which might seem OK, but that's sort of taking a "political" stance.

I release all my stuff MIT (usually). That's mainly because I don't care if anyone takes it, and gets rich (Fat chance, anyway. My stuff isn't that amazing), and I'm not interested in coercing anyone else to take my political stance. I just don't want some bunghole suing me for something out of my control.
by kragen | 2025-11-28 20:36:26+00:00
It's possible that Roman Catholicism and then the Reformation made sexual repression a part of Western European culture in a way that survived the transition to a more secular society (although the US in particular is still mostly nominally Christian).

But some kind of sexual repression seems to be a feature of every human society. Probably that's because people in every society often harm themselves and one another for sexual reasons, so people everywhere attempt to repress that.

Birth control, especially barrier methods such as condoms, and modern medicine have dramatically ameliorated the degree to which people harm one another for sexual reasons. But rape, infidelity, and falling in love with harmful partners are still enormous problems, as well as some more prosaic problems mentioned in the article.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-28 20:36:48+00:00
It appears to be something to do with using PAYG SIMs for mobile broadband. Back when I lived ten minutes from one of the largest cities in the country I used 4G, but didn't run into this or their CGNAT crap because I tunneled out to a sane ISP.

Given that you can buy a SIM that'll give you a couple of hundred GB of data for under a tenner, it seems reasonable that they'd block stuff you didn't want young children getting access to (easily).
by RealityVoid | 2025-11-28 20:37:24+00:00
That's it, these machines don't have an original thought in there. They have a lot of data so they seem like they know stuff, they clearly know stuff you don't.But go off the beaten path and they gently but annoyingly try to steer you back.

And that's fine for some things. Horrible if you want to do non-conventional things.
by buu700 | 2025-11-28 20:38:07+00:00
I did find it interesting that the entire post was such an eloquent description of a generalization of cancel culture, yet the author still went out of her way to virtue signal to readers who would reflexively dismiss any allusion to cancel culture as made up or partisan. Probably the right call, since those are some of the ones who most need to hear what she has to say, but still funny.

> I think there's a meaningful difference between being a genuine liberal who wants to change how American society thinks about sex, and being a partisan who wants to use puritan callouts as a cudgel on your enemies

I mean, those aren't just meaningfully different; they're entirely at odds with each other. You can't have a liberal attitude toward sex and a puritanical attitude toward sex at the same time.
by spwa4 | 2025-11-28 20:38:43+00:00
Musk/DOGE started out by claiming they could save $2 trillion of the federal budget. They quickly backpedaled to $1 trillion and kept downscaling it, until now they're claiming less than $160 billion. Independent reports claim it is closer to MINUS $200 to $300 billion (as in Musk/DOGE increased federal spending rather than save anything at all).

I would call this a pretty fucking big inconsistency. If you backpedal on your promises 100% I would call that inconsistent. Musk/DOGE backpedaled on their promise 92%, and according to independent observers 115%.

Whichever of those 2 figures is true, I would call it pretty damn fucking inconsistent ...
by tetha | 2025-11-28 20:41:12+00:00
Mh, I am starting to dislike this kind of hyper-configurability.

I know when this was necessary and used it myself quite a bit. But today, couldn't we just open up a mount namespace and bind-mount something else to /tmp, like SystemDs private tempdirs? (Which broke a lot of assumptions about tmpdirs and caused a bit of ruckus, but on the other hand, I see their point by now)

I'm honestly starting to wonder about a lot of these really weird, prickly and fragile environment variables which cause security vulnerabilities, if low-overhead virtualization and namespacing/containers are available. This would also raise the security floor.
by antonvs | 2025-11-28 20:41:42+00:00
We have an extremely good understanding of how gravity operates, both inside and outside of stars. There are no Nobel prizes waiting for things you describe, because that’s all well-established and settled science.

Quantum physics tells us exactly why high temperatures and pressures are needed, and predicts numerically what values are needed. We have a great deal of confidence in its correctness, especially because classical physics predicted values that were far too high - it’s only with quantum tunneling that we get values that match observations.

> The way we are trying to study fusion is like rubbing larger and larger rocks to produce more fire.

This is an incorrect opinion borne of ignorance of the very well-understood physics involved.
by notatoad | 2025-11-28 20:42:28+00:00
“If you are meta” in this case means “if you have a billion dollars already, and a credit rating that you don’t want to destroy.

Nobody is trying to pull one over on a bank here. Pricing the risk of the loan is a bank’s whole business, they’re happy to loan to meta because meta is meta, and they’re a good candidate for a loan.
by giobox | 2025-11-28 20:42:58+00:00
Old enough to remember when work place mandated Windows machines were common place - now it feels like things have flipped in software dev, and macOS has become the "workOS". While no fan of Windows, I now find in my older age I am much less inclined to run Macs for personal/home use than I was 20 years ago - it feels too much like being at work now!

While I of course agree modern Mac laptops are great and Apple's silicon efforts have been superb, just seeing one makes me think of work and not pleasure now, somewhat ironically how I also felt about beige IBM boxes in the early 90s...
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-11-28 20:43:24+00:00
> Do you get tangibly different results if you don't capitalize MUST (NOT)?

My use of MUST/MUST NOT is from experience with various web specification documents and is capitalized more for visual recognition than any other reason. Having only used this form, I cannot answer your question as to document generation impact. I would imagine use of Markdown emphasis, such as:

- _must not_ ...

Would have some effect though. Perhaps both even more?
by echelon | 2025-11-28 20:44:46+00:00
> If you request deletion of your Hacker News account, note that we reserve the right to refuse to (i) delete any of the submissions, favorites, or comments you posted on the Hacker News site or linked in your profile and/or (ii) remove their association with your Hacker News ID.

I don't know why they continue to stand by this massive breach of privacy.

Citizens of any country should have the right to sue to remove personal information from any website at any time, regardless of how it got there.

Right to be forgotten should he universal.
by Scotrix | 2025-11-28 20:44:52+00:00
I played a lot with LLMs over the last year and built a multitude of products with it and it’s always just the same bottom line outcome: - be specific - keep it small - be precise when adding context - don’t expect magic and shift deterministic requirements to deterministic code execution layers

All this is awfully painful to manage with current frameworks and SDKs, somehow a weird mix of over-engineered stuff while missing the actual point of making things traceable and easy changeable once it gets complex (my unpopular personal opinion, sorry). So I have built something out of my own need and started to offer it (quite successfully so far)to family & friends to get a handle on it: Have a look: https://llm-flow-designer.com
by ahartmetz | 2025-11-28 20:44:53+00:00
Interesting, seems like Python is a strict improvement over ABC though many things are very similar. The PUT ... IN ... and INSERT ... IN ... syntax looks quite clunky and un-composable, at least the examples never do more than one (high-level) operation per line. Also, I guess GvR's English wasn't that good at the time - it should be have been INTO, right?
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-28 20:45:25+00:00
My daily is a 1997 Range Rover.

My next daily will likely be something with approximately the same level of technology.

There are about ten buttons on the dashboard, of which the only ones I care about is the rotary knob that turns on the headlights and the button that switches the heater from "normal" to "EVERYTHING UP FULL ALL ON RIGHT NOW FULL BORE MAXIMUM EVERYTHING WE ARE GOING TO AIR FRY A POLAR BEAR ON THE BACK SEAT".

There's an LCD screen. It's the size of my thumb, and tells me how many miles it's done (only 190,000 - it's my low mileage one, my other has done 270 and there's a guy on my forum who's rapidly closing in on 600,000 miles in his), what gear it thinks it's probably in, and occasionally it uses this LCD to lie about the gearbox overheating because water got into the plug for the sensor when I drove through a river and it came over the bonnet.

It's not very fast or very efficient, but it does everything I need a car to do, and I have a full factory service manual for it and easy access to spares.
by bbminner | 2025-11-28 20:45:40+00:00
True! And yet, oddly enough, I'd argue that this obviously bad advice is, in a way, the expected online (corporate?) etiquette, that is being, for some odd reason, applied in the real world.

It is akin to situations that several comics I heard described -in which either a caretaker (or even the relative with a disability themselves) was corrected and schooled for using "non inclusive language" when addressing their relative / a relative referring themselves. To which, anecdotally, the typical reaction of the said relative was along the lines of "oh, i am sorry honey, i wanted to say it is hard for a damn useless cripple like me".
by pear01 | 2025-11-28 20:46:22+00:00
Just to address parts of this where we may have some small slice of agreement:

No kings might be cringe in that way, but then again can you really say that the tea party wasn't? Are Sarah Palin and the like effective avatars for intelligent government reform? It seems to me evoking 1776 and literal revolution because idk the government might subsidize healthcare is about as silly as calling an opposing president a king. To be clear, I'm also going out of my way to be extremely charitable to your position despite my personal beliefs. And assuming you will also in good faith attempt a willingness to assess protests movements along lines that go beyond your individual sympathies.

I would contend the reason the tea party was "successful" is because mainstream Republicans co-opted it and thought they could control it to temper an extremely charismatic incumbent Democrat who they wanted to weaken as they feared the extent of his mandate. Cue mitch mcconnell saying he will make Obama a "one-term president". Fox News and others became incessant boosters of it. Of course, this turned against them in 2016 when their plans to nominate another Bush collided with Trump riding the grassroots insurgency, which now somewhat controls them (we'll see what happens in the coming post-Trump era).

Democrats have simply not had such an insurgency, although it seems obvious given the failures of both sides of the mainstream that such a thing is coming. In some cases vis a vis "the deep state" (as vacuous as I find that term) those farther from the center agree, even if from opposite sides of the spectrum. If nothing more one can say a move to populism on either side is self evidently a move to some shared common representation of "populism", even if both left and right strenuously disagree on implementation and so on.

So anyway, I wouldn't pat the tea party on the back too hard. Their success has more to do with institutional Republican hubris than their own effectiveness. It's not like the current administration is actually implementing limited government, if you haven't noticed. But I suspect any hope we have of a good faith discussion will quickly evaporate if I stray any closer to that topic. Fwiw I think the collapse of successful civil movements has far more to do with trends we see causing other declines in our society, that is the collective elevation of self-interest, greed, bombast and mob makes right. In that way, perhaps the lack of success of some movements - given the environment in which they operate - is actually in a weird way a credit to them. If you are successful in an increasingly inane society, what does that say about you? What benchmark would you even articulate to define a successful protest movement in the modern United States?