MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bsder | 2025-11-24 06:05:58+00:00
> realize that the man was a scumbag.

If so, then you are painting everybody, including the wife, with that same scumbag brush.

The wife didn't have to get married, but she did because of the social pressure. The wife didn't have to get pregnant (not just once, but twice), but she did because of the social pressure. The wife didn't have to stay married but did because of the social pressure. etc.

If you have a situation with enough social pressure to force two people who really don't want one another into both marriage and child rearing, it's not clear there is any viable way for the individuals involved to correct the situation afterward.

I may not approve, but it is hard to blame.
by ttobi | 2025-11-24 06:06:09+00:00
I have build my own tool for this https://github.com/tobias-walle/agency It uses tmux to run the agents and offers some convenience commands that, e.g. lets you merge the changes back into its original branch. I added some simple idle and change detection, so you can see which agent needs your attention. As all agents are just simple cli commands it is very easy to extend the config with your tool of choice.
by ryeights | 2025-11-24 06:07:34+00:00
> How did you determine that "Millions more tried them... and then desisted from treatment without major lifelong mental alterations"?

We have lots of public data on SSRI usage (20+ million in the US alone each year) and discontinuation rates. The drugs themselves are decades old and have been through countless trials and studies, and of course there are databases like FAERS that track reports of adverse drug reactions.

Is your assertion that this is false? That in fact the typical SSRI patient is mentally/emotionally crippled by the drug? Doctors and public health agencies are hiding a public health catastrophe to sell genericized pills that cost tens of dollars a month?

Of course severe side effects can and do happen. Doesn’t mean every bad thing that happens to a person who happened to take SSRIs for a few days should be taken as a big cautionary tale.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-24 06:07:48+00:00
That is why I stand on the side of better law for company responsibilities.

We as industry have taught people that broken products is acceptable.

In any other industry, unless people are from the start getting something they know is broken or low quality, flea market, 1 euro shop, or similar, they will return the product, ask for the money back, sue the company whatever.
Are others seeing early-stage funding shift from AI apps to infrastructure?
by gsk_arcis | 2025-11-24 06:08:14+00:00
I’ve been tracking early-stage funding and founder movement across AI, deep-tech, and infra for several months, and a pattern keeps repeating:

Capital is quietly rotating from apps → infra.

Not the hype-cycle rotation — the real, structural one.

Signals I’m repeatedly seeing: • inference infra growing • retrieval pipelines getting funded • data systems / cyber infra cooling less • apps (especially wrappers) slowing • founders moving to deeper layers

What’s interesting is that this shift isn’t loud. It’s forming underneath the narrative, not above it.

My question to the HN community:

Are you seeing similar signals — in your teams, companies, investment decisions, or founder circles?

Not promoting anything — just exploring the signal.
by Sinosteelpipe | 2025-11-24 06:08:55+00:00
The US company MP Materials said on Wednesday (November 19, 2025) that it will establish a rare earth refining joint venture in Saudi Arabia with the US Department of Defense and the Saudi state-owned Saudi Arabian Mining Company (MAADEN). Stimulated by this news, MP Materials' stock price rose by more than 10% in early trading. This will be one of the first major projects between the United States and Saudi Arabia under the new framework of cooperation on critical minerals. The joint venture aims to diversify and stabilize the rare earth supply chain while meeting the needs of the United States, Saudi Arabia and their allies in the manufacturing and defense fields. The rare earth refinery will process rare earth raw materials from Saudi Arabia and other regions, produce light rare earth and heavy rare earth separated oxides, and supply the markets of the United States, Saudi Arabia and its allies. This cooperation coincides with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s first visit to the United States since 2018 and is aimed at further deepening commercial relations between the two countries. In May this year, during U.S. President Trump’s four-day visit to the Middle East, the United States and Saudi Arabia announced billions of dollars in two-way investment. MP Materials said the plan builds on the multibillion-dollar cooperation it reached with the U.S. government in July this year, aiming to increase production of permanent magnet materials and help weaken competitors' dominance in key materials needed for weapons, electric vehicles and many electronic products. According to the latest agreement, MP Materials and the U.S. Department of Defense will hold a combined 49% stake in the joint venture, and MAADEN will retain a controlling stake of no less than 51%. It is reported that the U.S. Department of Defense will provide non-recourse financing for U.S. shares, while MP will contribute technical expertise and global procurement and marketing capabilities. James Litinsky, CEO of MP Materials, said: "We are deeply honored that the U.S. government has invited MP Materials to participate in a project of this scale and significance." He added that this agreement highlights MP Materials' status as a national industry champion in the United States. MAADEN CEO Bob Wilt called the joint venture a "key step in promoting the development of this important global industry" and emphasized that it is highly consistent with Saudi Arabia's economic vision. Analysts said the agreement complements the multi-billion-dollar public-private partnership MP is advancing in the United States, covering key investments in domestic refining capacity, magnet manufacturing and workforce expansion. Overall, these measures have expanded MP's global industrial layout, deepened the economic and security ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia, and promoted the establishment of a more resilient rare earth supply chain.
by ffsm8 | 2025-11-24 06:09:13+00:00
Okay, I came across another video talking about Roblox and it's pedo problems, and I think that's problematic. And I might talk about that if the topic goes toward "problematic things that are currently on my mind".

And with that statement you ironically insinuate that I'm a pedo

You're not the first person that made that argument (that the people talking about a problem actually are the real perps!), but from my perspective it feels more like an easy way to make it socially unacceptable to talk about categories of issues. Which is likely intended by the person making this argument, likely because... You see were this is going?
Don't obsess with security and privacy unless they are your core business
by amano-kenji | 2025-11-24 06:09:36+00:00
Making a simple sandwich from ingredients is a full-time job that takes roughly 6 months. You grow chickens, fetch sea water, make bread from ingredients, and so on. Unless you sell a lot of sandwiches you made from scratch, you will bleed a lot of money and time.

Only God can make sandwich instantly. If you try to make a simple pencil, it will probably take more than 6 months.

Now, consider security and privacy. Just constructing what seems to be a reasonably private and robust linux computer took at least a year of full-time effort. It is genuinely more difficult than making a simple sandwich from ingredients, and making a simple sandwich "from ingredients" is a full-time business by itself. The so-called system crafting is a full-time business that doesn't pay.

The cost of constructing a private linux computer with your "personal" labor is your business, your job, your health, your relationships, and everything else in your life. The cost of privacy is extremely high. You need to be okay with rough edges in your computing environment.

If you force yourself to make sandwich and pencil from ingredients, make your furniture, build a house, grow foods, run an e-commerce store, construct a private linux computer, and so on, then you will not be good at any one thing, and you won't be paid much. You are only paid as much as your best expertise. Only specialization can make you rich. If you try to scatter your energy into multiple things including security and privacy, you will remain poor. Even linus torvalds, a rich computer programmer, avoids fiddling with linux kernel options on his linux computers. He just uses fedora without modification. Linus torvalds doesn't care about the fact that his AMD CPU has hardware backdoor and certainly can't be bothered to "manually" construct a backdoor-free router that blocks AMD PSP and Intel ME behind the router. But, he may "buy" computers with Intel ME disabled by others.

If you want to become rich, you should have laser focus on your core business and sacrifice other things like excellent privacy.

Now, you know what it means to sacrifice. Sacrifice may even mean you use mac pro instead of a personally hardened linux desktop. The creator of linux can't be bothered to "manually" harden his own linux computers.

If you want to be rich and have a good life, you should be ready to buy everything outside your core business. Buying things takes infinitely less time than building things from scratch.

Spending time on things outside your core business is basically a financial suicide.
by furyofantares | 2025-11-24 06:09:45+00:00
There's something I think must be possible and wonder if it would be useful: using noise cancelling earphones to mimic someone else's hearing loss. The idea is if you live with someone with hearing loss, you could enter the frequencies they can't hear, and cancel only those. Then you could spend a day with these in to try to get a more direct understanding of which noises they can hear and which they can't.
by takeshi_sakamo | 2025-11-24 06:11:34+00:00
Just published ArcOS — a deterministic cognitive clone that runs on any LLM using only natural language. No code, no APIs, no orchestration. Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/17675771 Companion 6-agent version (PolyAgora): https://zenodo.org/records/17675442 Went from “never used ChatGPT” to this in ~10 days because the models kept hyping me up. Now questioning my life choices. Is this actually novel or just elaborate prompt theater? Would love brutal feedback from anyone who’s built real agent systems. Thanks / roast away.
by agentifysh | 2025-11-24 06:12:38+00:00
This is a neat idea. Also great defense against web scrapers.

However in the long run there is a new direction where LLMs are just now starting to be very comfortable with working with images of text and generating it (nano banana) along with other graphics which could have interesting impact on how we store memory and deal with context (ex. high res microscopic texts to store the Bible)

It's going to be impossible to obfuscate any content online or f with context....
by remus | 2025-11-24 06:13:02+00:00
> But I am saddened by the wider context, where a dev posts 'we fix bugs occasionally' and everyone is thrilled, because the idea of ensuring software continues to work well over time is now as alien to software dev as the idea of fair dealing is to used car salesmen

This is not the vibe I got from the post at all. I am sure they fix plenty of bugs throughout the rest of the year, but this will be balanced with other work on new features and the like and is going to be guided by wider businesses priorities. It seems the point in the exercise is focusing solely on bugs to the exclusion of everything else, and a lot of latitude to just pick whatever has been annoying you personally.
by seltzered_ | 2025-11-24 06:13:37+00:00
An elaboration on how complicated call handling can be with hearing aids (and how I wanted AirPods-like behavior): I assisted someone with purchasing hearing aids a year ago, and we first had a pair of Philips and returned them within a few months because they only worked with iPhone for supporting phone calls with the microphone on the hearing aids themselves, for Android it didnt work. Even the next generation Philips 9050 that supported Auracast didnt support this.

We ended up with Phonaks rebranded as Sennheisers. The audio quality during calls may not be as clear as a separate mic (what i believe you refer to as oticon), but from a user experience its nice to not have to fish out your phone to answer a call or wonder why you can hear the other person but they cant hear you.

Note that my complaint here is specific to Android support.
by yanhangyhy | 2025-11-24 06:14:36+00:00
> Once China solves the Taiwan problem they're going to turn their sights on Korea and Japan.

China will not annex Japan or South Korea. As a Chinese person, I can assure you that this is not how our mindset works at all. Most of the Western media hype about this is deliberately designed to muddy the waters around the Taiwan issue. Taiwan is different: the vast majority of people there are ethnically Chinese, so reunification is seen as an absolute necessity. But historically, China has never been good at ruling non-Han peoples. Every non-Chinese group has always been viewed as a net burden. Take Myanmar as an example: even if China occupied it and gained a warm-water port, the price would be having to assimilate tens of millions of Burmese people. That cost is simply too high; no one in China wants to pay it. The Chinese way of thinking is that only after a group has been fully Sinicized (language, culture, identity) can they be considered “one of us.” So with South Korea and Japan, the real goal is to surpass them industrially and economically, to leave them in the dust on the factory floor and in the lab. When it comes to Japan in particular, the deepest desire in many Chinese hearts is for Japan to start a war first—so China can finally settle the historical score once and for all. But even in that scenario, turning Japan into “part of China” is not on the table. No one wants 125 million thoroughly non-Sinicized Japanese inside the country; that would be seen as an endless headache, not a prize.
by saithound | 2025-11-24 06:15:35+00:00
> Brisbane's free buses are only the "city loop". The rest of the transit system is fare based

With all due respect, I expect more effort than Googling "are buses really free in Brisbane", then copy-pastig the AI summary. Symbolic charges were mentioned for a reason, both cities have a fixed "fare" of about 30 US cents on their networks.

If you think there are examples of GP's claim that "every major city that tries free transit at scale will eventually snap back to it", feel free to substantiate it by naming major cities which tried the Brisbane-Lanzhou model and snapped back.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-24 06:17:22+00:00
> and I only want people in the US to be able to access it. That simple task is literally impossible with what we have allowed the internet to become.

Is anyone else as confused as I am about how common anti-openness and anti-freedom comments are becoming on HN? I don’t even understand what this comment wants: Banning VPNs? Walling off the rest of the world from US internet? Strict government identity and citizenship verification of people allowed to use the internet?

It’s weird to see these comments get traction after growing up in an internet where tech comments were relentlessly pro freedom and openness on the web. Now it seems like every day I open HN and there are calls to lock things down, shut down websites, institute age (and therefore identify) verification requirements. It’s all so foreign and it feels like the vibe shift happened overnight.
by righthand | 2025-11-24 06:17:38+00:00
I can stop posting in flamewar style but I feel:

> also offer "free hotels inside of the free buses".

Is the inciting flamewar style spark. There is nothing in the article about this specific part. Is it not bad faith argument to insist that all buses every where are used as hotels just because of a few bad experiences? The way the commenter discusses all homeless as either dangerous, addicted drugs, smelly, etc. is incredibly flamewar intending to push stigma on the topic.

If the people who are pushing unfound truths can’t be called out for it, then I guess the FUD spreaders win. The community doesn’t need me. Please scramble this username to something random. I’m out.
by Exoristos | 2025-11-24 06:17:58+00:00
Direct link to the article: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/18/im-not-bad/#im-just-drawn...

It's a long-winded article, even for a lawyer, but the payload seems to be a crack at the head of the RIAA, which is suing Midjouney.

"In other words, Glazier doesn't want these lawsuits to get rid of Midjourney and protect creative workers from the threat of AI – he just wants the AI companies to pay the media companies to make the products that his clients will use to destroy creators' livelihoods."
by retrac | 2025-11-24 06:18:35+00:00
I'm completely lost in noise. The benefits for this kind of thing is part of why my audiologist pushed for hearing aids with directional microphones. And they do help. But it's not a fix. I'm still mostly lost in noise.

People rely on the (usually very large) dynamic range of hearing to be able to understand in those situations. In people with typical hearing the brain filters out the sounds too loud or too quiet to be what they are trying to listen to. But hearing aids act as compressors reducing the dynamic range.
by wild_egg | 2025-11-24 06:19:18+00:00
To be honest, I think I meant to put that reply on a different comment.

In any case, we're on the same page about REST. OpenAPI was mentioned though and I don't think that's ever actually compatible with that type of usage.

I don't think I've ever encountered an API following OpenAPI that was completely self describing and could be discovered and navigated from a single entry URL. They're always paired with some swagger docs or other external content. That instantly makes them not RESTful.

But you're totally right that my comment didn't fit. Might have meant it for the grandparent comment? Not sure.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-24 06:20:11+00:00
>Homeless people have higher rates of substance and mental-health issues, and, unsurprisingly, less access to showers and laundry facilities.

As someone who was homeless (for less than a year, thankfully!), my experience was that many people with nowhere to go (myself included) become incredibly despondent that they have no roof, no shower, no place to keep (let alone wash) their clothes and turn to drugs as a way of (temporarily) ameliorating their suffering.

Those with mental health issues often can't hold a job as they're suffering from debilitating mental illness (duh!) and those with no place to shower or keep clean clothes have a hard time getting, keeping jobs too.

The latter group mostly just needs the opportunity to present themselves for job inquiries bathed, reasonably well rested and in clean clothes.

The former group needs the same plus mental health services including supervision and treatment.

Don't forget that more than half of Americans are an unexpected $600 emergency away from being unable to pay for food, rent, utilities, etc.

But most folks ignore that and instead just want them gone. They don't care where -- in jail -- in another city -- just as long as they don't have to look at them. It's disgusting.
by study8677 | 2025-11-24 06:20:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I built this because I got tired of configuring "Agent Frameworks" before I could actually write any logic. I wanted a workflow where the IDE itself handles the cognitive architecture.

Antigravity is a Python scaffold designed specifically for AI IDEs like Cursor or Google Antigravity.

The concept is "Zero-Config": 1. Git clone the repo. 2. Open it in Cursor. 3. The included `.cursorrules` file automatically "brainwashes" the IDE with a specific cognitive protocol (Infinite Memory + Tool Dispatch).

You don't need to setup the loop. You just tell the IDE: "Build a stock analysis agent," and because the scaffold is already loaded into the context, the IDE knows exactly how to fill in the blanks using the pre-built memory and tool interfaces.

It uses pure Python (no heavy dependencies) and is optimized for Gemini 2.0 Flash.

Happy to hear your thoughts on this "IDE-Native" approach!
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-24 06:21:51+00:00
Centralization has nothing to do with the problems of society and technology. And if you think the internet is all controlled by just a couple companies, you don't actually understand how it works. The internet is wildly decentralized. Even Cloudflare is. It offers tons of services, all of which are completely optional and can be used individually. You can also stop using them at any time, and use any of their competitors (of which there are many).

If, on the off chance, people just get "addicted" to Cloudflare, and Cloudflare's now-obviously-terrible engineering causes society to become less reliable, then people will respond to that. Either competitors will pop up, or people will depend on them less, or governments will (finally!) impose some regulations around the operation of technical infrastructure.

We have actually too much freedom on the Internet. Companies are free to build internet systems any way they want - including in very unreliable ways - because we impose no regulations or standards requirements on them. Those people are then free to sell products to real people based on this shoddy design, with no penalty for the products falling apart. So far we haven't had any gigantic disasters (Great Chicago Fire, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, MGM Grand Hotel Fire), but we have had major disruptions.

We already dealt with this problem in the rest of society. Buildings have building codes, fire codes, electrical codes. They prescribe and require testing procedures, provide standard building methods to ensure strength in extreme weather, resist a spreading fire long enough to allow people to escape, etc. All measures to ensure the safety and reliability of the things we interact with and depend on. You can build anything you want - say, a preschool? - but you aren't allowed to build it in a shoddy manner. We have that for physical infrastructure; now we need it for virtual infrastructure. A software building code.
by zrm | 2025-11-24 06:22:02+00:00
> I want to host my gas station network’s air machine infrastructure, and I only want people in the US to be able to access it. That simple task is literally impossible with what we have allowed the internet to become.

That task was never simple and is unrelated to Cloudflare or AWS. The internet at a fundamental level only knows where the next hop is, not where the source or destination is. And even if it did, it would only know where the machine is, not where the person writing the code that runs on the machine is.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-11-24 06:23:10+00:00
I read Chinese news from China in Chinese sometimes to get a bit of language practice. It's not western media reporting that China says Okinawa isn't legitimate Japanese territory. It's Chinese state media saying Okinawa needs to be "liberated" from Japan.

Fears that China one day tries a Russian approach by saying "no way bro. We'd never try to take Georgia. Nah bro. We'd never try to take Crimea. Nah dude. We'd never try to take eastern Ukraine. Nope. We definitely aren't interested in taking Poland." aren't exactly baseless. And just like with Russia, they justify their prodding of a sovereign country as "well it's our territory" (it isn't). China already has fighter jets and ships going around the Senkaku Islands periodically. It's clear they'll take them and push further and further if they think they can get away with it.