MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by survirtual | 2025-11-15 12:11:27+00:00
It doesn't matter because use of version control is mandatory. When you see things missing or bypassed, audit-instructed LLMs detect these issues and roll-back changes.

I like to keep domains with their own isolated workspaces and git repos. I am not there yet, but I plan on making a sort of local-first gitflow where agents have to pull the codebase, make a new branch, make changes, and submit pull requests to the main codebase.

I would ultimately like to make this a oneliner for agents, where new agents are sandboxed with specific tools and permissions cloning the main codebase.

Fresh-context agents then can function as code reviewers, with escalation to higher tier agents (higher tier = higher token count = more expensive to run) as needed.

In my experience, with correct prompting, LLMs will self-correct when exposed to auditors.

If mistakes do make it through, it is all version controlled, so rolling back isn't hard.
by ok_craig | 2025-11-15 12:11:56+00:00
About 20 years ago I wrote a little program to turn my own standard keyboard into something I could type on one hand with. It's basically just T9, with every basic letter key bound to two letters instead of one. (The mirror counterpart from the other side of the keyboard.)

It's a shit demo from college and I always wanted to share the concept but never made it presentable.

https://github.com/cilphex/QuickBoard
by xbmcuser | 2025-11-15 12:13:02+00:00
I speculate, and the conspiracy theorist in me believes, something of a compromising nature has been archived and they want that data inaccessible, but at the same time, pointing out what they want hidden would shine a light on it.

It is even more interesting the US government is coming after archive.today at the same time, or maybe that is just a coincidence, and this is just a tech-savvy philanderer trying to hide something from his wife.
by codedokode | 2025-11-15 12:13:42+00:00
> they ask for backdoors in every messaging app

Being a devil's advocate, you already entrust the government to register your property, issue your money, prosecute you for wrongdoing (including death penalty) and send you to the war. Your data is already collected and sold by thousands of data brokers. What are you losing by having a backdoor that would be used only in strict accordance with the law (laws being created by your elected representatives) and only for legal purposes? You must comply with the law anyway, no matter if the government can or cannot see what you are doing.

If you truly believed in democracy and rule of law in your country, you would have no doubts and volunteered to install the backdoor yourself.
by liampulles | 2025-11-15 12:13:52+00:00
One of the biggest productivity improvements I've had as a developer was to make a habit of planning all my work upfront. Specifically, when I pick up a ticket, I break it down into a big bullet point list of TODOs. Doing it this way leads to a better design, to dealing with inter-ticket dependencies upfront, to clarifying the spec upfront (which yes, is part of your job as a senior developer), and most valuable of all it allows me to get into flow state much more regularly when I am programming.

Its not a surprise to me that this approach also helps AI coding agents to work more effectively, as in-depth planning is essentially moving the thinking upfront.

(I wrote more about this here: https://liampulles.com/jira-tickets.html)
by lazide | 2025-11-15 12:14:29+00:00
“Mercury has been employed in one or other of its forms in almost all diseases”

Are you really saying that in that time, no one tried the most obvious form?

You’re right though that I was wrong it was the primary one - I’m truly horrified at the various things people tried. But I guess untreated syphilis is one of the worst possible ways to die, and I’d try pretty much anything too.
by troupo | 2025-11-15 12:16:50+00:00
> if you look on ffmpeg’s site you’ll find a link

> Note the names of those maintainers. Now go to fflabs.eu

> Now click on the “team” link and check out the names

Quite an investigative work you've done there: some maintainers may do some work that surely... means sonething?

Meanwhile actual maintainer actually patching thousands of vulnerabilities in ffmpeg, including the recent ones reported by Google:

--- start quote ---

so far i got 7560€ before taxes for my security work in the last 7 months. And thats why i would appreciate that google, facebook, amazon and others would pay me directly. Also that 7560 i only got after the twitter noise.

https://x.com/michael__ni/status/1989391413151518779

--- end quote ---

Hint: just because people do some consulting for a customer doesn't mean that they are continuously paid to work on something.
by skhr0680 | 2025-11-15 12:18:02+00:00
Please don’t be patronizing. Are you involved with this project? Your comment is hostile and involves digging through my post history etc.

What I meant was “every lab I’ve ever had my film developed at cut and sleeved film by default because there were plenty of reasons to do so and not many reasons to not”

> Price is 999 euro.

It says on the site it will retail for 1599 EUR
by microtherion | 2025-11-15 12:18:45+00:00
I'm not super comfortable with my body, but I occasionally frequent saunas, and in my experience, there is very little "staring" going on in the mainstream ones (obviously, there are saunas intended for orgies, pickups, etc, but that's a very different culture). Typically, just enough eye contact is made to avoid bumping into each other on the way in or out.

Anthropologically, I've heard that cultural acceptance of staring at people is inversely correlated with amount of clothing worn, i.e. in cultures where people habitually live unclothed, it's considered rude to look at others' bodies.

Of course, I'm old and fat, so I have good reasons for not fearing people being sexually attracted to me…
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-11-15 12:19:33+00:00
I'm not sure why you couldn't make the flow I describe just as accessible as anything else in Android? But I'll grant your premise and respond anyways.

If the user lacks full mental faculties, they are part of the userbase we need to protect from scams. Most likely, a user without full mental faculties who is trying to sideload will be a scam victim.

If the user lacks the necessary physical faculties to "solve a puzzle on their phone", they probably get help from friends regularly; a friend should be able to help with sideloading. Enabling sideloading should be a one-time operation right?
by themgt | 2025-11-15 12:20:18+00:00
You can skim through the wikis for some color, but tldr Turkey is generally playing amoral "middle power dilemma" politics rather than the Marvel universe fan fiction version:

In June 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent a letter, on the recommendation of Farkhad Akhmedov[123] to Russian President Vladimir Putin expressing sympathy and 'deep condolences' to the family of the victims. An investigation was also reopened into the suspected Turkish military personnel involved in the incident.[124] Three weeks later (in the meantime, there had been a coup d'état attempt against him), Erdoğan announced in an interview that the two Turkish pilots who downed Russian aircraft were arrested on suspicion that they have links to the Gülen movement, and that a court should find out "the truth"

On 12 September 2017, Turkey announced that it had signed a deal to purchase the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system; the deal was characterised by American press as ″the clearest sign of [Recep Erdoğan]′s pivot toward Russia and away from NATO and the West" that ″cements a recent rapprochement with Russia″.[109] Despite pressure to cancel the deal on the part of the Trump administration, in April 2018 the scheduled delivery of the S-400 batteries had been brought forward from the first quarter of 2020 to July 2019.[110]

In September 2019, Russia sent the Sukhoi Su-35S and the 5th Generation stealth fighter Su-57 to Turkey for Technofest Istanbul 2019. The jets landed at Turkey's Atatürk Airport, weeks after Recep Tayyip Erdoğan went to Moscow and discussed stealth fighter with Vladimir Putin.[111]

In November 2021, Russia offered assistance to Turkey in developing new-generation fighter jet to Turkey.[112][113] Some Turkish officials have also shown interest to buy Russian jets if the US F-16 deal fails.[114][115][116][117][118]

In 2024, Washington warned Turkey of potential consequences if it did not reduce exports of US military-linked hardware to Russia, critical for Moscow's war efforts. Assistant Commerce Secretary Matthew Axelrod met Turkish officials to halt this trade, emphasizing the need to curb the flow of American-origin components vital to Russia's military. The issue strained NATO relations, as Turkey increased trade with Russia despite US and EU sanctions since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Axelrod urged Turkey to enforce a ban on transshipping US items to Russia, warning that Moscow was exploiting Turkey's trade policy. Despite a rise in Turkey's exports of military-linked goods to Russia and intermediaries, there was no corresponding increase in reported imports in those destinations, suggesting a "ghost trade."[119]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shoo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Turkey_relation...
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-15 12:20:45+00:00
I feel like emojis is the lazy persons way of adding tone, nuance and humanity, when you don't know how to do so by only writing. Don't want to imply it's wrong, it's valid to be lazy, especially when it comes to improving communication, but I find myself thinking "How can I make sure this comes across as the joke it is?" and after one or two minute I just end up slapping a wink emoji at the end and don't rewrite the text at all, as the lazy person I am.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-15 12:21:38+00:00
Just as most agile projects aren't Agile, most waterfall projects weren't strict Waterfall as it was preached.

That being said, when for instance you had a project that should take 2 years and involve a dozen team, you'd try to cut it in 3 or 4 phases, to even if it would only be "released" and fully tested at the end of it all. At least if your goal was to have it see the light in a reasonable time frame.

Where I worked we also did integration runs at given checkpoints to be able to iron out issues earlier in the process.

PS: on agile, the main specificity I'm seeing is the ability to infinitely extend a project as the scope and specs are typically set on the go. Which is a feature if you're a contractor for a project. you can't do that with waterfall.

Most shops have a mix of pre-planning and on-the go specing to get a realistic process.
by pogue | 2025-11-15 12:21:51+00:00
That's most likely the reason pressure is being put on them. Big media companies successfully shutdown 12ft.io, which was used to bypass paywalls, and forced the BPC (Bypass Paywalls Chrome) browser extension off the Mozilla Extension store, then Gitlab, then Github. Now the dev is hosting it on a Russian Github clone, presumably making it untouchable.

Since archive[.]today is using some very obscure hosting methods with multiple international mirrors, it makes it incredibly difficult for law enforcement to go after.
by cornholio | 2025-11-15 12:22:11+00:00
It's unlikely law enforcement would take the risk to handle CSAM just to make a case against a Russian pirate, jeopardizing their careers and freedom, when the copyright case is pretty strong already.

These are the doings of one of the myriad freelance "intelectual rights enforcement agents", which are paid on success and employed by some large media organization. Another possibility is that a single aggrieved individual who found themselves doxed or their criminal conviction archived etc. took action after failing to enforce their so called "right to be forgotten".

Unfortunately, archive.is operating model is uniquely vulnerable to such false flag attacks.
by conover | 2025-11-15 12:25:19+00:00
This is the classic precision versus recall discussion. The discussion centers around how you think about the cost of a false positive versus false negative.

Some people think it's fine for the process to have low precision but high recall. Low precision is that of the number of conversations the process flagged as a positive, some unacceptable (to you) percentage turned out to be a not/false "positive". High recall is that of all the actually positive conversations, the process flagged an acceptable (to you) percentage of them as positive (i.e. only "missed" a few/false negative).

What does it cost to wrongly identify conversation a positive when it's really not a positive (false positive)?

What does it cost to wrongly identify a conversation as a negative when it's really a positive (false negative)?

You decide.
Show HN: Wikipedia 10x, 100x Better
by bkrauth | 2025-11-15 12:26:56+00:00
Built substrate: https://github.com/bkrauth7/Planetary-substrate

Protoytpe on GPT-4o. Stable + live. Nervous system interface.

Proposing Wikipedia 10x, 100x better.

Ben bkrauth7@gmail.com
by taneq | 2025-11-15 12:27:00+00:00
OK, but by that definition, how many human software developers ever develop something "novel"? Of course, the "functionally equivalent" term is doing a lot of heavy lifting here: How equivalent? How many differences are required to qualify as different? How many similarities are required to qualify as similar? Which one overrules the other? If I write an app that's identical to Excel in every single aspect except that instead of a Microsoft Flight Simulator easter egg, there's a different, unique, fully playable game that can't be summed up with any combination of genre lables, is that 'novel'?
by RealityVoid | 2025-11-15 12:28:45+00:00
> Waterfall with short iteration time is not possible by definition.

What definition would that be?

Regardless, at this point it's all semantics. What I care about is how you do stuff, not the label you assign and in my book writing specs to ground the LLM is a good idea. And I don't even like specs, but in this instance, it works.
by self_awareness | 2025-11-15 12:29:03+00:00
Teams is good with video calls, but so was Skype, which was apparently used as the video backend system.

Rest of Teams? Abysmal.

Logging to text files? Missing. Search? Broken. Speed? Sometimes the UI jumps around and I click the wrong things, because UI hasn't been loaded by the time I'm trying to click something. Formatting? Sometimes it's impossible, and I need to edit the message after sending, to be able to properly format it.

If you don't have problems with Teams, you're simply not using them enough.
by skydhash | 2025-11-15 12:30:17+00:00
> That's why I think it is best to feed LLMs small chunks of work at a time and to keep the humam dev in the driving see to quickly iterate and experiment, and to be able to easily reason with the AI-generated code

REPL development and Live programming is similar to that. But when something works, it stays working. Even with the Edit-Compile-Run cycle, you can be very fast if the cycle is short enough (seconds). I see people going all in with LLMs (and wishing for very powerful machines) while ignoring other tools that could give better return on a 5 year old laptop.
by saltysalt | 2025-11-15 12:30:34+00:00
You are correct, and the hard reality is that content producers don't get to pick and choose who gets to index their public content because the bad bots don't play by the rules of robots.txt or user-agent strings. In my experience, bad bots do everything they can to identify as regular users: fake IPs, fake agent strings...so it's hard to sort them from regular traffic.
by mattmaroon | 2025-11-15 12:31:46+00:00
It isn’t that they don’t have the documents, it’s that they don’t know if they have the documents and they’re not going to bother to look until there’s a reason to. If someone made the game, presumably they’d call up Iron Mountain and start digging.

Making a game is enough of an investment that you wouldn’t do it if you knew you had a high likelihood of being sued by legitimate rights holders as soon as you started making the news. Digging through paper records from decades ago is enough of an investment that you wouldn’t do it unless you had a reason to also.

Classic stalemate.
by sometimes_all | 2025-11-15 12:32:00+00:00
> having domestic staff and such

You need to realize that it's far more than this.

Current status of transport is... quite good. Metros have been built, more are incoming. Sea Link and Atal Setu mean that it's a lot easier to get to the office areas. Taxis, Rickshaws, Buses, Uber/Rapido solve last-mile issues. Populace has genuinely started to fight for cleaner air and better quality of life (Gen Z is publicly calling out companies with a bad work culture). Almost every new home >= 2 bedrooms will have a washer, dryer and a Roomba (some will also have a dishwasher) - significantly reducing the need for most of domestic help (who are increasingly demanding higher wages to offset cost of living). RERA making things at least a bit more transparent when it comes to real-estate activities, RBI in general doing good regulation for at least consumer-oriented finance. The biggest laggard in moving things online (the government) is moving many operations bit-by-bit to online/mobile. There's an explosion of entertainment, food and shopping options. I see a lot more luxury cars on the road than before. Online shopping and payment options are way better than anything in the US. There are enough career options to lead a good life if you're talented - no need to leave the country for that [1]. And I'm talking only about what's already happened, not some imagined future.

> working in tech probably live better in Mumbai

For tech maybe not - you need to go to Bangalore/Hyderabad/NCR for that. Mumbai is better for business and finance-related stuff.

> Attempting to walk in Mumbai lol.

Well, at least one can walk, and can find options to see/shop/do within walking distance. The times I visited the US, outside of NYC, Boston, Chicago and a few college towns, everything else required a car to reach anything important. There were many roads with no sidewalks.

> to the point where i think it would be fun to visit (as opposed to our visits growing up which I dreaded).

I hear you. Not being from this environment for a few years can be a bit overwhelming for people's senses. But locals are used to it.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-15/india-s-i...
by gausswho | 2025-11-15 12:34:16+00:00
> Teams is not primarily a text chat software. It’s not built for this purpose as that’s not how most office workers collaborate. That’s quite obvious.

That's insightful. I gather your workday is a blend of collaborative document writing or video calls?

At work, I'm at my best when I'm not in meetings nor documents. I'm writing text all day, some for computers, some for humans. But I can see how I'm in the minority across the spectrum of knowledge work.
by flohofwoe | 2025-11-15 12:34:19+00:00
> ...based AWACS several hundred kilometers back near the German/Polish border

This should also have triggered the 'fact checker alarm bells' because there are no NATO bases in the area of former East Germany to this day (honoring the agreement with the late Soviet Union to not station foreign NATO troops in former East Germany - e.g. the only "no NATO East expansion promise" that actually exists in writing) - and AFAIK apart from the Eurofighter Luftwaffengeschwader 73 in Rostock-Laage (also not exactly close to the Polish border) there is no presence of the German airforce in East Germany either.

Although tbf, the sentence could also be read as the Geilenkirchen-based AWACS plane operating several hundred kilometers back (from Estonia) near the German/Polish border - which I guess makes a lot more sense than moving Geilenkirchen several hundred kilometers to the east :)

In any case I agree that it's a poorly written article and should be classified as fiction until confirmed by more reliable sources.
by HalcyonCowboy | 2025-11-15 12:35:04+00:00
Thanks for being skeptical, looked it up because of that. Looks like the primary study people cite is this one, which indicates around 65% of people filing for bankruptcy cite a medical contributor of their bankruptcy. That includes medical bills (highest contributor overall) and loss of income due to medical issues.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6366487/

I’d like to see what information you have that’s different though.
Why is Apache still popular even as Nginx has proven its mettle on performance?
by pyeri | 2025-11-15 12:35:37+00:00
As I understand, the popular consensus today is that nginx+php-fpm performs faster than apache even with the mpm_event process management enabled?

But when it comes to real world usage, many production instances I observe these days still deploy apache a lot. Even cpanel based web hosting (shared or dedicated instances) are more often apache based than nginx.

Is it due to some old habits and dependence on apache specific features like .htaccess support? Or is it the case that apache has actually caught up in the race with ngnix and the performance difference is quite negligible these days?
by Mawr | 2025-11-15 12:38:36+00:00
> it lacks iterators -- every time you must write a big cycle instead

It has iterators - https://pkg.go.dev/iter.

> It lacks simple things like check if a key exists in a map.

What? `value, keyExists := myMap[someKey]`

> Try removing an element from an array - you must rely on some magic and awkward syntax, and there's no clear explanation what actually happens under the hood (all docs just show you that a slice is a pointer to a piece of vector).

First of all, if you're removing elements from the middle of an array, you're using the wrong data structure 99% of the time. If you're doing that in a loop, you're hitting degenerate performance.

Second, https://pkg.go.dev/slices#Delete
by xtiansimon | 2025-11-15 12:38:40+00:00
> “These aren't fishing boats…these boats are very obviously being used for one thing and one thing only.”

It looks like a deep sea panga boat used for fishing. I’m not a sailor so it’s not obvious to me why the destroyed boat pictured is a …well… for one thing only.

Here’s a video of YouTuber ItchyBoots taking a boat around the Darien Gap. [1] What does this look like? (start from “Entrada” sign on the beach).

If the destroyed boat is different, it’s because it has three outboard motors and not just one. Still has the same open design.

I mean, it’s not a “cigar boat” [2].

Adding two more outboards seems same to me as my neighbor who drives a Dodge 3500.

[1]: Starts at 16:00 https://youtu.be/2wjLdLbpzxY

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QK_7pNhbAA4
by xorcist | 2025-11-15 12:40:15+00:00
I think we agree. Of course a NAT router with an application proxy such as FTP or SIP can relay and rewrite traffic as needed.

TCP and UDP have port numbers that the NAT software can extract and keep state tables for, so we can send the return traffic to its intended destination.

For unknown IP protocols that is not possible. It may at best act like network diode, which is one way of violating the end-to-end principle.
by khannn | 2025-11-15 12:40:32+00:00
My BS comp sci degree was a waste of time, to be real. Fairly certain my first job out of college would have been appropriate for myself as a high school senior. One of my parents and two of my grandparents were programmers without needing anything more than a high school diploma. Despite the push for trades, I couldn't even get an interview without a degree even despite my experience. Add in the increase in the cost of living, stagnant wages, plus inflation and it doesn't make a pretty picture.