MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Kye | 2025-11-04 15:54:11+00:00
Reefer Madness. Satan in vinyl. DnD panic. Downloading as piracy.

I was once accused of being a pirate back then because I was talking about downloading in a chatroom.

What was I downloading? Linux. Probably Debian. It's the same kind of nonsense as people going around accusing everyone whose process they don't understand of using AI. I'm surprised no one has come after me for making flame fractals.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-04 15:54:13+00:00
If congressional Republicans could guarantee all funding will continue under a CR, I bet the shutdown would be over by now. But they can't, because in July they ratified Trump's authority to cancel any appropriated funding he wants. When challenged on rescissions, the Speaker said they're going to continue regardless!

How are budget negotiations supposed to work if one of the sides won't even promise to honor the agreements made?
by NewsaHackO | 2025-11-04 15:54:31+00:00
I find it funny that:

1) He released it from MIT to avoid suspicion.

2) After he was convicted, he went from Cornell to Harvard to complete his Ph.D.

3) He became an assistant professor at MIT after that.

He had to be really spectacular/have crazy connections to still be able to finish his training at a top program and get a job at the institution he tried to frame.
by madamelic | 2025-11-04 15:54:35+00:00
Waymo hits pole (this one is from 2024, could've sworn I saw one in the last few weeks but may have misremembered): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZP-RNSr0s

Waymos crash into each other: https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1mdl5zn/tw...

Waymo cutting off bus at left turn: https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1o9accg/wh...

Waymo doing... something... no clue how a pre-mapped car thinks this is ok: https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1lmq7rl/wa...

Waymo sideswipes firetruck with its lights on: https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1mj4w8d/wa...

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Crashes happen. Tesla is currently having a rash of them but Waymo isn't immune to "wtf how" kinds of crashes even with all of its built-in advantages (far more sensors and having pre-mapping).
by ag_user123 | 2025-11-04 15:54:40+00:00
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by ag_user123 | 2025-11-04 15:55:12+00:00
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Technologies: Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, Heroku, Datadog, React.js, JavaScript, Next.js, Apollo, GraphQL, data visualizations (D3.js, Mapbox, Leaflet), headless CMS (Contentful, Prismic, Strapi), MobX, Redux, Wordpress, Tailwind, Bootstrap, Material UI, Webpack, TypeScript, Web3 (ethers.js), Chrome extensions and more.

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by anbotero | 2025-11-04 15:55:51+00:00
I'm part of a chat group related to videogames, and it took me ages to convince the Pokémon die-hard fan to stop buying the games if he found so many things he didn't like (he voiced them... ALL THE TIME).

Maybe I didn't make the best argument for it, but the general sense was: Stop buying them. If you keep buying them even when you see so many things you disagree with, they'll never improve upon them. Some were such stagnant anti-features, at that point it wasn't honest from the company to keep them in the games.

He finally understood for Sword/Shield. So he hasn't bought this last generation, although the latest calls to him because there are some interesting changes, but I told him to wait for the next refinement, assuming they really improve even more.
by kcartmell | 2025-11-04 15:55:55+00:00
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by 9rx | 2025-11-04 15:56:07+00:00
> Being a farmer isn't owning a farm

Not according to the government. To legally become a farmer you need farm receipts of a certain amount or more. Selling your labour to a farmer is not that. And not according to the dictionary either. There are multiple words surrounding this topic for good reason.

> Farmhands are farmers.

It is possible that a farmer also works on his farm, or another farmer's farm for that matter, but they would be a farmhand while in that capacity. People can be more than one thing, unsurprisingly. But not all farmers are also farmhands and not all farmhands are also farmers. Many farmers never lift a finger, so to speak. I personally work with farmers who don't even know what is growing in their fields.

> Remember we're talking about a game, and the game is called "replacing the farmer"

Actually, we were talking about some pedantic take on the word "replace", which transitioned into a pedantic take on the word "farmer". There is no discussion about a game going on in this thread. This indicates that you didn't bother to read the thread before replying. Why?
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-11-04 15:56:17+00:00
Yes, worms think, let the computers have thinking too, the philosophers can still argue all they want about consciousness.

Humans are special, we emit meaning the way stars emit photons, we are rare in the universe as far as empirical observation has revealed. Even with AGI the existence of each complex meaning generator will be a cosmic rarity.

For some people that seems to be not enough, due to their factually wrong word views they see themselves as common and worthless (when they empirically aren't) and need this little psychological boost of unexaminable metaphysical superiority.

But there is an issue of course, the type of thinking humans do is dangerous but net positive and relatively stable, we have a long history where most instantiations of humans can persist and grow themselves and the species as a whole, we have a track record.

These new models do not, people have brains that as they stop functioning they stop persisting the apparatus that supports the brain and they die, people tend to become less capable and active as their thinking deteriorates and hold less influence ocer others accept in rare cases.

This is not the case for an LLM, they seem to be able to hallucinate endlessly and as they have access to the outside world maintain roughly their same amount of causal leverage, their clarity and accuracy of their thinking isn't tied to their persisting.
by compsciphd | 2025-11-04 15:56:21+00:00
your first statement demonstrates you shouldn't be talking about this subject either.

To quote wikipedia (feels appropriate in regards to this comment).

"The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas[a] (an acronym from the Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah),[29][b]"
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-04 15:56:40+00:00
> They’re as fundamental to mathematics as the alphabet is to language. “If I know Cyrillic, do I know Russian?” said Fabrizio Bianchi (opens a new tab), a mathematician at the University of Pisa in Italy. “No. But try to learn Russian without learning Cyrillic.”

Something's gone badly wrong here. "Without learning Cyrillic" is the normal way to learn Russian. Pick a slightly less prominent language and 100% of learners will do it without learning anything about the writing system.
by dinkleberg | 2025-11-04 15:57:03+00:00
It looks well done. It is a shame that people posting reviews can be such dickheads. Out of the 4 public reviews, 3 are 1 star and only one of those is because of an actual issue. One is because the app isn’t right for them. The other because they wanted dark mode (really? You like the app enough to care that it doesn’t have dark mode but still gave it a 1 star?)
by WhyOhWhyQ | 2025-11-04 15:57:04+00:00
What does it mean? My stance is it's (obviously and only a fool would think otherwise) never going to be conscious because consciousness is a physical process based on particular material interactions, like everything else we've ever encountered. But I have no clear stance on what thinking means besides a sequence of deductions, which seems like something it's already doing in "thinking mode".
by cxr | 2025-11-04 15:57:07+00:00
I was going to bring up the same claim—of it being a "Letter, from Robert Hooke to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz". It's clearly not written with that intent.

While reading, I first took it to be a journal entry. The penmanship also supports this. But the second person "you" at the end is a confounding detail. A journal entry in the form of a letter to himself is possible, but doesn't seem plausible.

The word you've labelled "[deviate?]" in your copy is definitely not "deviate" in the manuscript. I'm certain that the first letter is "R", and the second to last letter probably a "d" followed by "e" (compare to "undenyable" and "persuade"). The letter following "R" could be "i", but really could be anything. It's unfortunate that it's not as straightforward as just crafting a regex and grepping at /usr/share/dict/words, because whatever Hooke meant, it's likely to be an archaic spelling. "Recede" spelled as "Ricede" works grammatically, but I don't think that's it, either.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-11-04 15:58:12+00:00
I guess the increased bandwidth should at least show up on the ISP bill since that's the only place anyone would notice.

But we're pretty far from having a system that isn't perfect for botnets and malicious proxies hiding on your network.

Kinda crazy how my ISP doesn't even show me my usage on the bill. But then again every time I call them for something, they try to convince me I need something more than the minimum plan, and they're BS depends on me not knowing which tier I need.
by emehrkay | 2025-11-04 15:58:25+00:00
I clicked a link in IG once and and it opened via a webveiw. it was one of those "give us your email for a discount" popups so I put in "mark@aol.com" and at a later date, IG asked if I wanted to associate that email with my account (or something along those lines). I tend to take the extra step to "open in native browser" whenever webveiws popup
by dmix | 2025-11-04 15:59:24+00:00
There was a senate investigation in Sept 2025 and it sounds a good case for an antitrust investigation:

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Musharbash-T...

Whenever there's market centralization the first question is why aren't upstarts taking over the market if there's such a backlog and high costs. Briefly reading into this, there's a large barrier to entry for fire engines in terms of extensive certification, local/state regulations, and the large emergency operations buying them need safe supply lines so they won't risk betting on newbies. You also won't easily find foreign suppliers to help fill the void (euro companies will focus on euro certifications). Plus you'd need to make deals with other mega-corp truck manufacturers and other specialized equipment.

Combine that with 2008 financial crisis + flood of cheap capital, it was easy pickings for financialization/consolidation.
by WhyOhWhyQ | 2025-11-04 15:59:41+00:00
It's truly the best book on Smooth Manifolds, though if you'd like a gentler approach which is still useful, then I suggest Loring Tu's books. Lee's Topological Manifolds book is also very nice. His newest edition of the Riemannian manifolds book requires selective reading or it'll slow you down.
by nathanmarz | 2025-11-04 16:00:11+00:00
It's not meant as just a demo of what Rama can do. It's a fully featured tool that supports the end-to-end workflow of building and maintaining robust LLM agents. It has an easy-to-learn API and you don't need to learn how to program Rama itself.

Rama isn't open source, but it's far from a black box. All data structures and computation are fully visible in the UI. You can inspect depots, topologies, and PStates, and see exactly what's stored and how it changes over time. Everything is also accessible through the Rama client API for direct querying. The PState schemas used by Agent-o-rama are defined here: https://github.com/redplanetlabs/agent-o-rama/blob/master/sr...

Backups are easy: you configure a “backup provider” (we provide one for S3) and a schedule for incremental backups. The free version can also be backed up with a short maintenance window. Full details are here: https://redplanetlabs.com/docs/~/backups.html
by chairmansteve | 2025-11-04 16:00:34+00:00
Yep. I ruthlessly anyone who induces the slightest negative emotion in me, be it annoyance, fear, anger etc. You are what you consume.

I check the mainstream headlines once a day, kind of like checking the weather. There may be something I need to know. But then I move on.

Getting worked up about politics is like shaking your fist at the rain clouds, completely pointless.
by api | 2025-11-04 16:00:36+00:00
It's a little shocking to me that there haven't been more things like this.

While we're much more conscientious and better at security than we were way back then, things are certainly not totally secure.

The best answer I have is the same as what a bio professor told me once about designer plagues: it hasn't happened because nobody's done it. The capability is out there, and the vulnerability is out there.

(Someone will chime in about COVID lab leak theories, but even if that's true that's not what I mean. If that happened it was the worst industrial accident in history, not an intentional designer plague.)
by Awesomedonut | 2025-11-04 16:01:08+00:00
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by phantasmish | 2025-11-04 16:01:44+00:00
cmd is brilliant. I have to shift my entire hand downward a little to hit ctr+c/ctrl-v, and make a pinkie-stretch that I can feel straining my hand. Cmd+c/v keeps three fingers on the home row, and involves just a slide-over of the thumb by maybe a centimeter. It's great.

caps-as-an-extra-ctrl helps with all of that, but leaves you with the problem of overlapping shortcuts in the terminal. Cmd also fixes that.

I hate how hard it is to get anything remotely like it working in Linux. All the solutions are partial and very janky.
by mft_ | 2025-11-04 16:01:48+00:00
> What do you mean "until"? It's the core of many of European "dreams".

Sorry if I was unclear; I'm not referring to the "housing ladder" here, but rather that the accumulation of wealth (accelerated in recent years) by the already-rich has driven investment patterns that have in turn driven the appreciation of many asset classes that sit behind the current "cost of living crisis".

If one accepts this premise, then an obvious solution would be wealth taxation, of which inheritance tax is one form. But very few people in the politican/economics sphere are seriously talking about wealth taxation. (There are some, e.g. Gary Stevenson, and Zack Polanski is gently flirting with it as a policy.)
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-11-04 16:01:56+00:00
GCHQ has metadata on all digital communications - even among homeless and immigrant populations have near 100% mobile daily usage.

"We" surely have pretty good information about number of adults in the UK, and if the security services are worth their salt we know their names and associations.

Heck, the main supermarkets can probably tell you within a percent or two what the live demographics of the country are.
by colinbartlett | 2025-11-04 16:02:20+00:00
This delay in status page acknowledgement is a huge reason that my app, StatusGator, has blown up in popularity recently.

We are now regularly detecting outages long before providers acknowledge them which is hugely beneficial to IT teams.

For this Reddit outage, we alerted 13 minutes before the official status page.

Last weeks Azure outage, it was 42 minutes prior (!?!).
by jeromechoo | 2025-11-04 16:02:22+00:00
I got a $1500 quote to replace a stuck thermostat in my car from my local mechanic. After some Youtubing I was able to replace the part myself with $150 in parts.

I got a $5000 quote to fix my AC 2 summers ago and no amount of Youtube was able to help me DIY a fix.

Maybe in the long term there will be more HVAC techs than auto mechanics. Somehow I don't think that's likely.
Show HN: Suites – modern unit tests framework for TypeScript back ends
by omermorad | 2025-11-04 16:02:22+00:00
Hey HN!

Suites is a unit-testing framework for TypeScript backend systems working with dependency injection.

It introduces a single declarative API for unit testing: wrap any unit with a single call and receive a correct test environment for the unit and its dependencies.

// Test a class in complete isolation, all dependencies mocked TestBed.solitary(OrderService).compile(); // Or, test how it integrates with a real dependency TestBed.sociable(OrderService) .expose(PaymentProcessor) // Use the real class .compile();

The backstory: while working for a fast-growing fintech startup 4 years ago, my team had to write thousands of unit tests for our NestJS backend. To scale our efforts, I've built a unit-testing framework which eliminated a significant part of the tests' code and made them a whole lot more maintainable. I open-sourced it, generalized it to support more tech stacks, and soon it gained traction.

The problem - unit testing becomes a nightmare very fast:

- You mock dependencies by hand, wire them up manually, and spend more time maintaining tests than writing them. - Unit tests are leaky and error-prone since it's unclear which dependencies are mocked - Test intention is lost in the boilerplate - Each engineer invents their own conventions - Tests break during refactors because of untyped, loosely connected mocks - Missing mock implementations go unnoticed, so tests falsely fail on unexpected undefined returns or validate the wrong behavior - Test errors for wrong mocking are confusing to engineers and coding agents alike

The nitty-gritty details:

- Fluent, auto-discoverable, fully-typed API. - DI Framework Adapters: Works out of the box with NestJS and InversifyJS - Testing Library Adapters: Works out of the box with Jest, Sinon, and Vitest

Suites provide two modes of testing: (inspired by Martin Fowler's writings [0])

- Solitary: For testing units in a vacuum, it creates type-safe mocks of all the unit's direct dependencies. - Sociable: For testing units with other related units, it allows the developer to define which dependencies to mock.

Eliminating boilerplate and making mocks type-safe drastically helps coding agents (e.g. Claude Code) to write correct tests in a single pass and avoid entering infinite loops, significantly reducing token cost.

You can read more about Suites on our website: https://suites.dev

What's next?

- A dedicated skill for Claude Code - Extended docs with real-world patterns - More test utilities for common backend scenarios

Suites is fully open-source and actively maintained for 4 years. I would love you to check it out and get your honest feedback!

[0] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html
Ask HN: How did you find your job?
by dirtybirdnj | 2025-11-04 16:02:28+00:00
I appreciate the who's hiring / who wants to be hired posts. I am curious if we can flip this pattern a little and have some discussions on how people found jobs they are in, or jobs that were meaningful and impactful in their careers.

Locating: How did you find the job? Did it find you?

Interviewing: Was there anything you did that made a difference? Different strategies that might not be intuitive?

Surviving: Every job has its flaws, what have you done to maintain your ability to earn an income despite issues that had made previous jobs difficult / unpleasant / untenable.

Currently unemployed, quit my job working for one of the states in the US earlier this year because they were not treating software development as a first class citizen. It's hard to get work done when you can't get any testing, can't get any infra or PM support, have to do everything yourself in a vaccum. Have to run apps on a server in the closet.

First time in my life I "chose myself" and quit a job instead of staying in something that was very negatively affecting my mental health. It's been hard to find a way to get back into employment without addressing fears of hostile, toxic work environments.

Fingers crossed for some ideas or directions that can give me some new things to try instead of just doing the same shit that fails over and over again.