MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oblio | 2025-11-20 08:23:05+00:00
> to blocking self-driving cars.

This part seems mis-informed.

https://www.arenaev.com/mercedes_gets_level_3_autonomous_dri...

https://www.arenaev.com/bmw_ix3_gets_handsoff_motorway_assis...

European cars from almost every brand, already have emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, lane switching, etc., which get us 70% of the way there in terms of road safety.

I don't want to be experimented on by companies like Tesla:

Let them kill US citizens and keep lying and hiding things:

https://www.arenaev.com/tesla_robotaxi_troubles_grow_with_se...

> Understanding exactly whose fault these crashes are is tricky because of how Tesla fills out its forms. Automakers must send reports to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Most companies explain the crash in a written section called the narrative. This narrative tells the public whether another driver ran a red light or if the computer made a mistake.

> Tesla chooses to block out this information and redacts the narrative section entirely. This prevents the public from knowing the truth, but it is entirely legal, even if it frustrates data analysts. Without the story, nobody knows if the Robotaxi caused the crash or if it was a victim. Fans of the brand often argue that other drivers cause these wrecks. That might be true. But since the company hides the proof, nobody can say for sure. Other autonomous companies like Waymo share these details openly.
by wqaatwt | 2025-11-20 08:23:18+00:00
> they will be then we adjust the law.

Bizarrely horrible approach. A lot of damage would already be done, most importantly changing the status quo is inherently much harder than doing nothing. So going back won’t necessarily be straightforward.

Claiming that “slippery slope” is always a fallacy is a gross misconception and misinterpretation. It varies case by case, very often it can be a perfectly rational argument.

“Let’s restrict democracy and individual freedoms just a bit, maybe an authoritarian strongman is just what we need to get us out of this mess, we can always go back later..”

“Let’s try scanning all personal communication in a non intrusive way, if it doesn’t solve CSAM problems we can always adjust the law”, right.. as if that was ever going to happen.

Some lines need to be drawn that can never be crossed regardless of any good and well reasoned intentions.
by Gareth321 | 2025-11-20 08:23:50+00:00
I tried to do this, but booting into a different OS depending on the task just turned into a chore. I tried going full Linux but despite the claims, many games don't "just work" out of the box. Many require tweaking, at minimum. Of the top 100 games in Proton, only 9% are "Tier 1," and reading reviews, even that doesn't guarantee a flawless experience. (https://www.protondb.com/dashboard) On top of this, kernel level anti-cheat games are not supported at all, and trying to run them in VMs result in permanent bans. Worse still, many peripherals have zero driver support. I have Fanatec wheels and pedals and could not get them to run in Linux.

I could live with using Linux for web browsing, but because it doesn't do the other stuff I like, I ended up just staying in Windows and eventually uninstalled Linux.
by tapia | 2025-11-20 08:24:27+00:00
I just bought a second Fairphone 4 just to play a bit with pmOS. I'm really surprised by the state it is. It's not fully usable as a daily driver yet, but with some work it can get there. Waydroid works also pretty good. Of course, the major problem are banking apps and similar. I hope that some progress can be done in this direction. And, who needs working audio, if you can have python and git in your phone!? :P
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-20 08:25:47+00:00
Somewhat of a nitpick, but Donald Trump is not a convicted rapist. ("Convicted" refers to being found criminally liable, and in any case Donald Trump has not, to date, been found liable, civilly or criminally, for rape as such; Donald Trump was found civilly liable for a sexual abuse but not rape as defined in the NY criminal code, though it was also found to be sufficiently accurately described by "rape" in the common vernacular that it was not defamation for his victim, E. Jeacn Caroll, to have described it as such.)
by whstl | 2025-11-20 08:26:01+00:00
Nah, it carried over to scripting languages.

Most of them still require a very specific, very special, very fragile environment to run, and require multiple tools and carefully ran steps just so it does same you can do with a compiled executable linked to the OS.

They weren't made for having libraries, or being packaged to run in multiple machines, or being distributed to customers to run in their own computers. Perhaps JS was the exception but only to the last part.

Sure it mostly works today, but a lot of people put a lot of the effort so we can keep shoving square pegs into round roles.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-20 08:26:38+00:00
Yeah, exactly that's my point. The role of Arduino is like that of a Distro, they own the packet repository and the packet manager, and maintain a build-system and an IDE. They aren't the initial copyright holder to basically any library. The only thing they really own is the Arduino API, but this is an API not an implementation. The compiler is GCC, the board specific methods come from the hardware vendor, the C lib is newlib or comes also from the hardware vendor. The flasher software comes from a different company.

The libraries are written by random people, what Arduino does is adopt them after ~4-6 years of existing, slapping a "© Arduino LLC" on top and maybe fixing the packet manifest. The role of Arduino is a vendor and maintainer, they don't really are upstream for much things.

I don't really understand how what they try to achieve with these new "terms and conditions" is legally possible. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978802) They could release new software with different licenses, but they would need to rewrite most of the ecosystem to do that. Neither MIT, nor LGPL, nor GPL nor AGPL contain any reference to "terms and conditions" of one of the copyright holders, which should be followed on top of the license.
by jononor | 2025-11-20 08:27:51+00:00
Adafruit also created and maintains CircuitPython, which is targeted very much at the same audience as Arduino. Very beginner friendly, great for quick prototyping/one-offs, but serious enough that one can ship small scale projects with it. And Python is a much better language for that than C++ (which is what Arduino users do not really realize they are using).
by IshKebab | 2025-11-20 08:28:14+00:00
People want to run things other than Java.

We did see a recent attempt to do hardware-based memory management again with Vypercore, but they ran out of money.

I think part of the problem with any performance-related microarchitectural innovation is that unless you are one of the big players (i.e. Qualcomm, Apple, Intel, AMD, Nvidia) then you already have a significant performance disadvantage just due to access to process nodes and design manpower. So unless you have an absolutely insane performance trick, it's still not going to make sense to buy your chip.
by homebrewer | 2025-11-20 08:28:31+00:00
It's like walking on minefields with very different "mine densities"; when using something stricter, you would have one mine per acre, with PHP you would have ten.

For the longest time the language had been developed with this mentality that it's okay to continue running if something broke, that it's better to print out something than to do nothing and bail out.

Which means that for things to run reliably, you have to write very defensive code that checks everything you can think of. Which is probably a good idea with any language, but I find that old PHP requires much more of this.

Thankfully, they've been changing that over the past decade while still maintaining decent compatibility with old code. I just recently finished porting a pretty large project (~2 mil SLoC) from the ten year old 5.6 to the currently latest 8.4, and it's been pretty painless. The only things that broke were those that were never actually properly implemented and worked by pure chance.
Ask HN: How do you stay updated on new tech trends and breakthroughs?
by BobJenkins | 2025-11-20 08:28:36+00:00
I realized I’m missing a lot of major updates until they randomly pop up on TikTok, for example, Gemini 3 demos and capabilities showed up in my feed before I saw anything on HN or the usual tech sites I browse (HN, Wired, etc.).

For those of you who like staying on top of new tech, AI releases, tools, and trends, what are your go-to sources? Which sites, newsletters, feeds, or channels truly keep you ahead?
by snasan | 2025-11-20 08:29:25+00:00
Maybe this article can help you. It mentions the multi-agent research boom back in the 1990s. Later, reinforcement learning was incorporated, and by 2017, industrial-scale applications of multi-agent reinforcement learning were even achieved. Neural networks were eventually integrated too. But when LLMs arrived, they upended the entire paradigm. The article also breaks down the architecture of modern asynchronous multi-agent systems, using Microsoft's Magentic One as a key example. https://medium.com/@openagents/the-end-of-a-15-year-marl-era...
by plucafs | 2025-11-20 08:29:31+00:00
Full title: A Proposal for the Unification of Psychotherapeutic Action Understood as Memory Modification Processes

Abstract: a person’s “memory” is the stored form of all types of acquired personal knowledge, including both knowledge of personal experiences (episodic memory) and knowledge of patterns perceived in the world (semantic memory), such as the knowledge that staying safe around one’s rage-prone, alcoholic parent urgently requires never expressing any views or feelings of one’s own. This article explores the possibility of (a) understanding most, if not all, psychotherapeutic action as a reconfiguration of knowledge held in memory and (b) identifying each of the distinct, fundamentally different endogenous mechanisms, or types of processes, that can modify memory therapeutically. In this way, a potential means of unifying psychotherapy emerges, enabling us to identify how any particular therapeutic process influences symptom production through its memory modification effects. Memory neuroscience has identified mechanisms of memory modification sufficiently for the proposed explorations to be pursued fruitfully at this point. The resulting unification scheme consists of two qualitatively different, main modes of memory modification, each with submodes. This scheme can account for the full range of therapeutic outcomes, from partial, unstable, relapse-prone symptom reduction to transformational change, defined here as the enduring cessation of a symptom and its underlying theme of emotional distress. Case vignettes illustrate the fundamental modes and some submodes of therapeutic memory modification. Viewed through this unification framework, diverse therapy systems no longer seem to belong to different worlds. Rather, their distinctive techniques and methodologies become a rich array of options for tailoring memory modification and therapeutic change uniquely for each person.
by miramba | 2025-11-20 08:29:44+00:00
Since you asked: I care. I leave sites which insist on tracking me and appreciate that it is now mandatory for said sites to inform me about their intentions. So this is a solution to a problem I actually have. There are sites which place a "reject all" button above all and make this easy for me. Others try it the sneaky way, by making me turn off every single tracking vendor and then a lot more hidden under legitimate interest. Those are the sites I leave and never come back. The hurdle in question has a lot of simple solutions. 1, don't use cookies. Github does that AFAIK. 2, be transparent about your tracking intentions and use one of the several premade solutions. 3, design a dark pattern UI that hides the important switches in technical named lists and count on the laziness and confusion of users to use them. That is probably the most expensive way for a 3 person company, as you need devs and UX designers and lawyers to judge if you bended the regulation requirements just enough without breaking them.
by buzer | 2025-11-20 08:29:46+00:00
You should probably look into pseudononymization in your case, not actual anonymization. Look into C‑413/23 P in more detail to see if it's applicable in your situation, it's essentially the first case law around it. You probably do need some extra controls (like contract that the data is not shared) just in case to avoid the data coming in hands of someone else who could identify the people depending on how detailed the data is.
by npteljes | 2025-11-20 08:30:17+00:00
Try giving LTSC versions a go. Parents get a Windows, and you get much less headaches. Those get long security updates (Win 10 still being updated until 2032 for example), and they get no feature updates. The bloat is also cut down, no Store, no Cortana, etc. So overall, it's much easier to deal with. And it's a fully valid Windows, I do my gaming on it, and I have it installed for parents as well. Activation can be done by massgrave or by spinning up your own activation emulation server (under 10 minutes), and pointing the Windows to it (3 commands).
by rmunn | 2025-11-20 08:30:36+00:00
AI will not go away, I agree. But many of the companies now betting the farm on AI are going to lose, and there will be server farms going for sale cheap. I'm hearing more and more people outside the tech world talk about the AI bubble, and predicting it's going to pop. When that happens and investors lose confidence, suddenly companies who need the next round of financing to pay off their current debts won't get it, and will go under.

I can't predict when the shakeout will be, but I can predict that not every AI company is going to survive when it happens. The ones that do survive will be the ones that found a viable niche people are willing to pay for, just as the dot-com bubble bursting didn't kill Paypal, eBay, and so on. But there are definitely going to be some companies going bankrupt, that's pretty clear even at this point.
by sdoering | 2025-11-20 08:30:44+00:00
I recently registered a complaint with my local data protection authority. This then got routed to their colleagues in North Rhine-Westphalia that are responsible, as the company in question had their business location there.

What the company did? They showed a consent banner - but already sent my data to all manner of analytics and marketing companies. Before I even denied consent. They also did not mention all of those trackers/companies/cookies in their consent solution nor on their privacy page.

The result from the authorities was a clear: Go f*k yourself e-mail to me (I had screenshots attached in my complaint). Basically stating: We do not see any way you are personally affected and we also have too much to do, so we won't go after a company, just because they tracked you and sent your data to a bunch of marketing companies and tracking firms, even as you denied consent. And we also don't care, that they actually did not mention quite a bunch of those receivers of my data in their data privacy page.

So yeah - when governments actually have no interest in enforcing the rules in place to protect citizens, I am lost for words. Might have been, because the company in question being in violation of the law here was a former state-owned business, that while privatised is still run by politicians (like currently by the Chairman of the FDP Federal Committee for Justice, Home Affairs, Integration, and Consumer Protection to be precise).

What pisses me off about this the most, though is, that companies that actually follow the regulations, treat customers well and respect their data privacy concerns, they are at a disadvantage. It is not that our government and those EU conservative ars**es are for a free market. They want a market in which their buddies and the ones providing the juicy jobs after governmental terms come to an end, to win. As always, conservatives follow Wilhoit's Law.
by piva00 | 2025-11-20 08:30:56+00:00
You are putting "attracting businesses" as a bigger priority than public accountability of the government elected by the public? Why even have the farce of a democracy if the purpose of government in your view is to attract businesses?

There are mechanisms for businesses to share confidential information with government officials, and keep it under wraps if the release of them could undermine their businesses, use these mechanisms instead of trying to make government communication opaque to the public in the name of "attracting businesses".

More government transparency is never, ever, a bad thing, the few exceptions where it might require transparency to be reduced need to be very clear cut to avoid being abused (as is common in the USA to call "national security" and redact a shit ton of stuff), the less transparent your government is, the bigger chances it's just being corrupted, no one wants that.
by moooo99 | 2025-11-20 08:31:27+00:00
I totally agree with this view!

I understand why the rules are vague to an extent, simply because it is hard to impossible to cover every aspect of data collection.

But the GDPR is super vague on some very technical datapoints as well. Is an IP Address PII? Is there a difference between an IPv4 or an IPv6 address being PII? What constitutes as legitimate interest specifically? Can I use data for legitimate interests also for different first party purposes?

I‘ve spent more time than I care to admit navigating the compliance landscape of the GDPR and every time I consulted with compliance experts, I got different - partially conflicting - answers.
by rafaelmn | 2025-11-20 08:32:30+00:00
Not really - 3.5 was the first model where I could actually use it to vibe through CRUD without it vasting more time than it saves, I actually used it to deliver a MVP on a side gig I was working on. GPT 4 was nowhere near as useful at the time. And Sonnet 3 was also considerably worse.

And from reading through the forums and talking to co-workers this was a common experience.
by 0dayz | 2025-11-20 08:32:35+00:00
Because lying is always easier than telling the truth?

You have to be incredibly naive to think information/evidence is treated equally.

If you prove one lie wrong 20 are up and running.

Imagine your proposal in court: if you're caught in a lie, just move the goalpost and if found guilty of lying in court nothing happens!

Because the super duper rock solid evidence that will take 20 years will surely convince everyone to switch sides.
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by amirfahd72 | 2025-11-20 08:33:00+00:00
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by paganel | 2025-11-20 08:33:05+00:00
It's a feature for many of us, it is for me, cause when I input a new phone number in my contacts (like let's say a plumber's phone number I found on the internet) I first go to WhatsApp to check if they've got a profile there, in which case I contact them directly using WhatsApp, not via voice-call/SMS.
Show HN: Cloud Computing Camp – tidy and structured AWS learning materials
by soaple | 2025-11-20 08:33:38+00:00
I'm currently creating learning materials that make cloud computing (especially AWS) easy to understand. AWS official documentation is mostly text-heavy, which makes it quite difficult for beginners to grasp. Also, video lectures have the downside of taking a lot of time and being hard to follow at your own pace.

That's why I made learning materials that include visual aids and hands-on practice examples. For now, as a trial, I've created materials about EC2, and I'm distributing it for free. You can check out the materials at the link, so please take a good look and leave me some feedback!
by jonathanlydall | 2025-11-20 08:33:46+00:00
So are you saying I have low standards or high tolerance in regards to software quality?

Let me say this again, Teams works perfectly on my machine, it's largely indistinguishable performance wise compared to Slack on the same machine, if anything it runs a bit better.

I'm not going to try claim Teams isn't in fact terrible for other people, my point was that as I suffer no problems with it, it makes me wonder what's different on my machine compared to these other people's, and as I don't have any security software except Windows Defender, I speculate it's maybe their corporate managed security software is a factor.
by mhd | 2025-11-20 08:34:22+00:00
A lot of C# and Java code is oriented towards web backends, too. Which are quite big and complex. So it seems natural that languages in the same design space (trad OO) converge on similar features. I think the only exception these days is Go.

I think these days you could change "You can write Fortran in any language" to "You can structure your code like Spring in any language"…
by vladms | 2025-11-20 08:34:25+00:00
> The gdpr.eu website literally says that a cookie that allows the website to remember "what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in" is a functional cookie rather than a strictly necessary cookie.

But one row before it mentions "such as accessing secure areas of the site.". If the secure cookie has 12 months validity, this is basically a different way to implement "remember username/password".

Besides, all my browsers (Firefox, Chrome) remember the users and passwords for all the site I access, so are we even talking about this? Is Safari that bad that it doesn't remember your user/password (no experience with that one)?

> You're not storing the language preference in the cookie, you're storing a cookie that identifies the user

Ok, I agree that for sites without username / password that will not work. On the other hand, personally I rarely end up on any site that is not in a language that I can read and on top the browser has a language preference : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/l... . So, in practice, I think there are extremely few cases for sites require a language cookie for a not authenticated user.
by snuxoll | 2025-11-20 08:34:40+00:00
Yeah, the requirement to build and provide device trees for most mobile devices is the huge issue. For all of the garbage we have gotten from buggy ass ACPI tables on assorted PC’s, it’s absolutely true that it solved a lot of headaches with hardware discovery/enumeration.

It’s really too bad that ARM had adopted ACPI as part of their SystemReady certification. It does work, and not reinventing the wheel is always a wise where feasible, but I think we could absolutely push something better.
by patrickk | 2025-11-20 08:34:41+00:00
They're not doing it out of the goodness of their heart, they're deploying a classic strategy known as "Commoditize Your Complement"[1], to ward off threats from OpenAI and Anthropic. It's only a happy accident that the little guy benefits in this instance.

Facebook is a deeply scummy company[2] and their stranglehold on online advertising spend (along with Google) allows them to pour enormous funds into side bets like this.

[1] https://gwern.net/complement

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People