MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drooopy | 2025-11-13 16:48:01+00:00
It requires some level of skill and talent to be able to cause this amount of damage to the soft power and influence that the US projected around the world in less than a year. Throughout my 40 years on this planet, Pax Americana was a constant that seemed to hold the world together (+/-). It's scary to see it vanish and with such speed and efficiency.
by robtherobber | 2025-11-13 16:48:06+00:00
News aside, surely you can see how the game is currently being dominated by the US and how Europe understands the current status - where the US is objectively a political antagoniser - as huge liability with potentially extreme consequences?

> those who have never been here or taken the time to interact with an American

I think there's a misunderstanding at play here; in the vast majority of cases Europeans see Americans as reliable, cool-headed, friendly people. What they take issue with is the US' imperialist, heavy-handed, ombelico-del-mondo approach.
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-13 16:48:27+00:00
Many operators do an "operator-specific, 10/20p cheaper" ticket because it means they receive 100% of the revenue, rather than just a portion of it. That's exactly what TPE are doing in this instance.

That practice should have been abolished long ago - it's totally anti-passenger.

GBR will likely solve this with removing the cheaper ticket, instead of making the cheaper ticket a generic ticket, of course :-)
by winter_blue | 2025-11-13 16:48:29+00:00
> They're in the "get 'em hooked" stage of the drug deal.

You're implying that people are selling inference at below cost right now. That's certainly not true for most third-party inference providers. I doubt API pricing at Anthropic or OpenAI is being solid below cost either.

The only place where you get what you're talking about are the fixed price plans OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, etc. sell.
by monooso | 2025-11-13 16:48:48+00:00
Not only that, the same bill includes a provision which allows "...eight Republican senators to seek hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for alleged privacy violations stemming from the Biden administration's investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot." [1].

This ability to tack random unrelated legislation onto a bill makes no sense to me.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/deal-end-us-shutdow...
by hamdingers | 2025-11-13 16:48:49+00:00
An "entry level" computer which could mean anything. The first thing I did after the announcement was put together a micro atx PC with similar specs on PCPartPicker and came up with $800, so I consider that the ceiling.

Assuming they can bring costs down at scale and subsidize a bit, I don't think undercutting the PS5 pro is unreasonable.
by Yoric | 2025-11-13 16:49:31+00:00
I think GP means that Europe didn't intervene when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and, more generally, has done its best to limit rearmament until now. And we're going to pay for it by having a war against Russia that we might have avoided had we projected more strength.

The precedent being France and UK that were so disgusted by war after WWI (and recall that France was the historical biggest warmonger among Western nations at least since the second half of the Hundred Years War) that they didn't react to Nazi Germany annexing Austria, then invading Sudetenland, and in fact not even when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Had they reacted earlier, WWII might have been avoided.
by maxlin | 2025-11-13 16:49:39+00:00
I'd hardly call it "weak" with gigafactories setting new standards in efficiency, and Tesla being the only "recently" founded US carmaker making massive amounts of cars. All while they have more vertical integration than the competition.

Cybertrucks are for pioneers. If you want something super reliable, just get a "boring" Model Y. They've improved all parts of the design continuously, the cars are indistinguishable from the early ones when it comes to finish quality
by roguecoder | 2025-11-13 16:50:05+00:00
That's interesting: it reminds me of the results we're seeing from workplace democracy in Germany.

Companies with workers on their boards are significantly less likely to go bust than companies where only investors' opinions matter.

But of course, whenever someone else's opinion matters, investors use their wealth to try to change that. Rich people seem to prefer worse outcomes as long as they get to be in charge.
by joshring | 2025-11-13 16:50:12+00:00
Originally (maybe over a year ago) I had similar issues. But now Zitadel is one `enable = true;` option[1] away and in the official nixpkgs repo so you shouldn't really have this issue anymore. I was able to use it pretty easily with the built in service and postgres service[2] (note mine is encapsulated in a nixos container but otherwise the inner config is all you really need).

[1]: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=25.05&query=zitadel

[2]: https://git.joshuabell.xyz/ringofstorms/dotfiles/src/branch/...
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-13 16:50:31+00:00
> Please feel free to read it this time.

"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> harmful, sexist, racist, morally incorrect policies like DEI

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity." (ibid)
by ApolloFortyNine | 2025-11-13 16:50:34+00:00
>The premise is basically that Tokyo is the busiest city on planet earth and so should therefore have the best public transit and pedestrian infrastructure by a huge margin, when in fact it still gives unbelievable space to cars (Shibuya crossing should have been permanently closed to cars 20 years ago).

Tokyo has the top 3 busiest train stations in the world. 8 of the top 15, 9 if you count Yokohama. To argue that they're somehow failing to provide a service, and that privatization is the problem, just sounds insane. [1]

It's 'don't let perfect be the enemy of good' taken to the very extreme. I'm really not sure how to have a productive conversation with this premise.

>Privatization results in requiring riders to sometimes exit a station of one company, go all the way up to ground level, walk a block or to two another different company station, and then ride another train

Heavy emphasis on sometimes since they're often connected at a station if it's busy enough (yes you have to 'exit' a gate then enter another. There's plenty examples of lines in city subways not having tunnels between them as well, and having to walk outside.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_railway_statio...
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-13 16:50:35+00:00
> The rules of multiple authorities apply to single jurisdictions.

There is no federal sales tax rule, so there is at most one soveriegn authority whose rules apply to any jurisdiction as to computation and collection of sales tax, any other authority is a dependent one, whose policies can be (and probably are already) constrained by the sovereign's own rules governing sales tax, which can be the level at which solutions are imposed, if necessary. "Thousands of independent authorities" is not a reality.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-13 16:51:03+00:00
I don't know about you, but when I code-gen from an OpenAPI doc, I get strongly typed object interfaces, so the serialization is in the box. No need to have a client distribution specifically, unless you want to wrap the generated client to make it easier to implement security layers.

If I had to manually create a client, then I'd probably go back to WCF (CoreWCF) which, again makes it easy enough to publish a client. For WCF in particular, I used to have one project with all the interface definitions and a client-generator that would allow for an "easy" single connection string as opposed to the XML bloat that is typical for WCF defaults.

All the same, you can definitely generate strongly typed clients to OpenAPI, provided the interfaces are well defined in the doc/generator/api.
by whimsicalism | 2025-11-13 16:51:19+00:00
The Senate is fundamentally a ridiculous way of representing 350 million people and we’re going to continue to get absurd unrepresentative outcomes for as long as it remains a relevant body. There’s no getting around this and it will structurally just get worse and worse. Simply no way something like it exists 200 years from now, it is probably the biggest flaw in the US political structure right now.
by daneel_w | 2025-11-13 16:51:37+00:00
How can you deem Europe as not dependable based on what mostly amounts to studying two European languages? It's a continent of roughly 50 distinct nations, with almost as many languages and cultural distinctions, not to mention the huge political differences, even when in the same general ballpark, vastly overarching US political diversity (e.g. Danish Socialdemokratiet are something entirely else than the Swedish social democrats, who in turn are nothing like the German SPD).

Incidentally I'm reminded by how common this ignorant view of Europe and Europeans is with Americans, in how they either insist on or unfortunately misunderstand Europe as a single nation with near-homogeneity.
by jmadeano | 2025-11-13 16:51:56+00:00
Oh great point! We do have the privacy policy included directly on the site but I cut out a lot of the onboarding content if you don't have the extension installed. Working on it now!

Edit: The site is an entangled mess of state machine and I don't want to break anything right now (+ I'm trying to keep up with all the comments + traffic) so I can just put it here for now: https://www.tweeks.io/privacy

We care a lot about privacy and tried to keep everything as minimal as possible. Definitely open to feedback here!
Ask HN: Would you use an app that helps you collect and revisit favorite quotes?
by relaxy | 2025-11-13 16:51:56+00:00
I built a small side-project: a mobile app where you can swipe through interesting quotes.

I’m trying to understand whether this idea is useful and what I should improve next.

If you try it, I’d really appreciate any feedback — UX, usefulness, missing features, or things that annoy you.

https://apps.apple.com/app/quoter-daily-quotes/id6479527672
by whalesalad | 2025-11-13 16:52:41+00:00
The alcohol lobbyists did this.

> And in a letter Monday obtained by MJBizDaily, representatives from major alcohol lobbies urged senators to thwart Paul’s efforts.

> His “shortsighted actions could threaten the delicately balanced deal to reopen the federal government,” a Nov. 10 letter from the American Distilled Spirits Alliance, Distilled Spirits Council, Wine Institute, Beer Institute and Wine America reads.

https://mjbizdaily.com/trump-backs-hemp-thc-ban-included-in-...
by tptacek | 2025-11-13 16:53:15+00:00
Are you sure you want to be citing that particular site to defend the MDC? Do you co-sign other things it says?

https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:index

Anyways, at this point my feeling is that you've essentially conceded the actual point I was making (that PGP is itself also a shitshow of 1990s cryptography), and answered that you just don't care that it is. That's a perfectly coherent point to make and not one I'm super interested in litigating today.
by ragequittah | 2025-11-13 16:53:46+00:00
Whenever I read something like this I do definitely think "you're using it wrong". This question would've certainly tripped up earlier models but new ones have absolutely no issue making this with sources for each question. Example:

https://chatgpt.com/share/69160c9e-b2ac-8001-ad39-966975971a...

(the 7 minutes thinking is because ChatGPT is unusually slow right now for any question)

These days I'd trust it to accurately give 100 questions only about Homer. LLMs really are quite a lot better than they used to be by a large margin if you use them right.
by Yoric | 2025-11-13 16:54:06+00:00
I don't think that the sky is falling.

However, I think that many in the US are underestimating the current paradigm shift. Right now, in Europe, leaders and voters need to take decisions while keeping in mind the possibility that the US will invade Canada and Greenland while not reacting if Russia movies to Estonia.

Will it happen? Who the f*k knows? Donald Trump has made declarations very much in this direction. Also, Donald Trump has broken a sufficiently large number of treaties since becoming president that _anything_ should be considered possible.

That being said, as you mention, it's not clear that any of this is in any way related to Europe not buying the E-7.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-13 16:54:17+00:00
I always wondered what personality of software engineers leads to massive grab bag predicates.

def is_problem(ctx) -> Bool: ...1000 lines of various garbage...

Vs.

def is_specific_condition(ctx) -> Bool: ...3 lines of specific predicate...

Now I see. The latter would be suspiciously specific. I wonder if it correlates with belief in the Omnicause.
by greedo | 2025-11-13 16:54:33+00:00
I think you're basing your opinion of the overall Soviet warplan on a single plan. I'm sure the Soviets had plans for a conventional war in Western Europe. I'm sure they also had plans for invading Australia, just like the US has plans somewhere for invading Canada.

But the overwhelming record, both archival and from officers in the Warsaw Pact since the fall of the Berlin Wall was that nuclear weapons were always considered an essential component of attacking the West. Both tactical nukes and chemical weapons were planned for and considered integral for Soviet and Warsaw forces success.

As to your contention that the Soviet conventional forces would have survived in any coherent fashion after SIOP was initiated is wishful thinking. Fortunately, that timeline was never entered.
by pxc | 2025-11-13 16:55:12+00:00
And of course, code signing can't protect you from such a thing. When software publishing rights get bought, so (usually) do the signing keys.

Curation (and even patching) by independent, third-party volunteers with strong value commitments does protect users from this (and many other things). Code signing is still helpful for F/OSS distributions of software, but the truth is that most of the security measures related to app installation serve primarily to solve problems with proprietary app markets like Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store. Same thing with app sandboxing.

It's unfortunate but predictable when powerful corporations taint genuine security features (like anti-tampering measures, built-in encryption devices, code signing, sandboxing, malware scanning, etc.) by using them as instruments of control to subdue their competitors and their own users.
Show HN: I built a "router" for image to image AI models based on use case
by stewardyunn | 2025-11-13 16:55:33+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the builder of image to image ai.

Lately, I've been going deep down the rabbit hole of AI image models, and my main takeaway is: the landscape is incredibly fragmented and confusing for anyone who isn't living in this space 24/7.

My frustration was that no single model is the best at everything.

I found that nanobanana is fantastic for enhancing or merging multiple images, but it can't handle text editing. qwen is surprisingly good at in-image text manipulation, but its general enhancements are weaker. chatgpt is great for structured things like comics or infographics, and other models like kontext are strong generalists with fewer restrictions.

This is a terrible experience for a normal user. Users don't care about which model to use. They have a task they want to accomplish, like "fix this text" or "make my headshot look professional."

So, I built image2image.ai based on this premise.

My project isn't another single model. It's a user-centric layer that sits on top of this fragmentation. I've tried to identify the best-in-class model for each specific use case.

You can see this philosophy on our tools page: https://image2image.ai/ai-tools

Instead of just giving you a blank prompt, I've organized the site by what you want to do (e.g., AI Headshot Generator, Object Remover, Background Generator, etc.). Behind the scenes, each of these tools is wired up to the model that I've found performs best for that specific job.

To make it even easier, each tool is loaded with practical examples and copy-paste-ready prompts so you don't have to guess.

To me, this is what a true "Image to Image AI" service should be. It shouldn't be the user's job to figure out the complex model ecosystem. The product should do that for them.

This is very much a V1, and I know this community understands the technical trade-offs here. I’d be incredibly grateful for your feedback. What scenarios are we missing? Do you find the results for a specific case (like text editing) genuinely better than a one-size-fits-all image to image ai tool?

Thanks for checking it out!
by MobileVet | 2025-11-13 16:55:52+00:00
Thanks for sharing the story and committing to a 6-month and 1 year follow up. We will definitely be interested to hear further how it went over time.

In the mean time, I am curious where the time was spent debugging and building Atlas deployments? It certainly isn't the cheapest option, but it has been quite a '1 click' solution for us.
by tw04 | 2025-11-13 16:56:20+00:00
For all the initial PR they got, they've always had quality issues that rarely plague other manufacturers. Elon has just done a great job of creating a reality distortion field around the cars. Once he started getting into politics and the veneer started wearing off, people started asking questions.

I think people forget the Model 3 literally had the bumper falling off from driving in rain. And it took Tesla a LONG time to admit to it being their fault.

https://www.jalopnik.com/tesla-finally-admits-model-3-bumper...
by kirin_memorang | 2025-11-13 16:56:44+00:00
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by sadeshmukh | 2025-11-13 16:57:00+00:00
For all of you discussing the chatgpt, this was after borderline harassing an intern who quoted ChatGPT as a joke in her DMs. There was no legal advice. There used to be a previous version with receipts and screenshots if I remember correctly, with very, very extensive discussions within Hack Club (to the order of thousands of messages of critical discussion).

Please take what's said here with a grain of salt. This is the same person who attempted to extort Hack Club out of thousands by using an airtable token they previously had (all tokens have since been examined as to whether they are truly necessary).

> another asked: "if you found a security vulnerability within hackclub, severe or major, given how they have currently handled reports so far, would YOU report it and go through the same process and payouts that previous people have experienced?"

> the answer from most people was a resounding no.

Popular request is for the program to be expanded. I don't know about the "resounding no".

> teenagers are positioned as "independent contractors" to avoid employment protections, holiday pay, and wage floors. this isn't "scrappy nonprofit" energy - it's child exploitation dressed up as opportunity.

It isn't a full-time job.

> email compliance failures

Recently, email sending has been revamped, and there are tools to subscribe to individual mailing lists.

Criticism isn't ever censored - there's anonymous reporting, a public forum channel for feedback (which only has temporary threadlocks upon very inflammatory or irrelevant discussion), and you can discuss it anywhere else within the Slack.

I could keep going, but the raw truth is that this misses a lot of context for independent observers.
by barbazoo | 2025-11-13 16:57:03+00:00
A lot of that context I didn’t have, thank you, I should catch up more in that regard.

> But mostly because the CCP just can’t be trusted with their power, because they’re neither democratic nor support liberal values like free speech.

How do we square this with the US being democratically elected (let’s ignore gerrymandering and absence of one person one vote) but the actions like the upcoming war with Venezuela, bombing Iran. The people didn’t vote for that either.
by zzzeek | 2025-11-13 16:57:03+00:00
it's getting hard to ignore Hetzner (as a Linode user).

Thing is, Linode was great 10-15 years ago, then enshittification ensued (starting with Akamai buying them).

So what does enshittification for Hetzner look like? I've already got migration scripts pointed at their servers but can't wait for the eventual letdown.
by rmunn | 2025-11-13 16:57:04+00:00
It allows the security guy (in this case, zikduruqe) to send an email that can only be read by the person who possesses the corresponding private key. Which means that either the email is going to the executive who really does own the account, or else that the attacker has already breached that executive's laptop to the point of having acquired his private key (and passphrase, if there was one), in which case phishing attempts to get a password would be utterly pointless (like trying to pick the lock of the front door when you're already inside the house).