MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-27 14:29:15+00:00
Was?

The old boys network and class still plays a big role in UK politics. I'm convinced that the behaviour of Boris Johnson and even Starmer is incomprehensible without that unspoken element.

Is it a bad thing? perhaps. Is it a recipe for disaster? I would say the historical evidence is pretty clear that no, not really. It worth pointing out that the US where class is much less important is more successful.

In my head Holmes is descended from minor nobility while Watson is solidly upper middle class.

Now, Labours envy based attacks on the private schools that gave them all their advantages in life helps nobody. It won't matter to rich kids and is just a barrier to success for middle class kids. When you consider the quality of state education, at least there should be some educated people to run the country, even if it's a bad system.

Ot but hogwarts is a great parody of the British boarding school system. A drafty, dangerous castle full of dangerous animals, homicidal, abusive and incompetent teachers, serious injuries are a fact of life and complacent staff. Add in the most incompetent and negligent headmaster in all literature, who hardly does anything throughout the series and thinks that soul sucking demons are an acceptable security measure to protect his students and runs the school as his personal domain. Throw in class based bullying in the student body and you have everything. I always found it striking that the most hatable character in the series is a school inspector (Umbridge).
by yetihehe | 2025-11-27 14:29:29+00:00
> This is not right and it's making HN a worse place.

I think so too, but It's not a strong opinion from me. Some things are offtopic. The problem is that there are no other good discussion places to discuss this. Maybe it's because such topics attract a lot of people with strong opinions who don't engage in good-faith discussion (I'm not talking about you or that one guy).

> One guy (234000 karma) doesn't.

I think one guy flagging is not enough for article to be [Flagged].
by mr_toad | 2025-11-27 14:29:31+00:00
> However, gains made from trading assets, including property, were taxed, and that caught crypto investors as the dominant reason for buying crypto assets is to later sell make a gain, rather than holding them as a long term asset like a home, or rental property.

Unfortunately what constitutes “trading” vs “holding” is ill defined in NZ law. At least with shares you can make a case you’re holding them for dividends, that defence isn’t available for crypto.
by voidUpdate | 2025-11-27 14:30:54+00:00
As a leftie, I've never really used a keyboard and mouse "left handed". It's too much hassle to have to keep swapping things around when you live in a household of righties, so I just learned to use stuff the "normal" way around. In situations where there is an obvious physical disadvantage to using right handed items (eg scissors), I'll do my best to find a leftie equivalent, but it sounds like more hassle than it's worth to do the same with a mouse and keyboard. I can't draw for the life of me with a mouse, but that doesn't come up much. I don't really see the point of a left side numpad, though TBH I rarely use one anyways
by maxloh | 2025-11-27 14:30:56+00:00
To my understanding, if the material is publicly available or obtained legally (i.e., not pirated), then training a model with it falls under fair use, at least in the US and some other jurisdictions.

If the training is established as fair use, the underlying license doesn't really matter. The term you added would likely be void or deemed unenforceable if someone ever brought it to a court.
by misja111 | 2025-11-27 14:31:02+00:00
Well this is exactly what I mean with inflation of the term fascism. Surely there are lots of things wrong in US society, and surely some of them can be seen as part of a fascist society. But really this is nothing compared to self declared fascist regimes such as Franco, Mussolini or Hitler.

Yes the current Trump regime is trying to suppress other opinions, sometimes quite openly. But luckily there is still plenty of room in the US to criticize the sitting president. What do you think would have happened to someone like Seth Meyer under Franco or Hitler?
Does anyone run ads successfully?
by XCSme | 2025-11-27 14:31:03+00:00
Over the last 10 years, I kept trying to run various ad campaigns for my products. NEVER was I able to get any sale from ads, and it seems like all traffic is bot traffic.

I am not sure if I'm doing anything wrong, or maybe my budgets are too low (<$50/day), but runnings ads always seemed like simply burning money to me.

Are there any tricks I'm missing to actually get sales and good traffic from ads? I tried even very niche targeting (only high-paying countries, very specific keywords, etc.), but very rarely I managed to get any human-looking visitor.
by Sprocklem | 2025-11-27 14:31:50+00:00
> My uneducated guess at why Wayland failed to succeed is that it went for extreme modularity and refused to say (back in like 2009) "Here's the security mechanism everyone has to use to take screenshots, etc. If this breaks your spacebar heater, sucks to be you."

I tend to agree. I have long attributed the mess that is wayland-protocols in large part to the fact that they didn’t define a security mechanism or permission model in place from the start.

They seemed to assume, at first, that it was reasonable to prevent all programs from doing what any program could abuse. Had they instead acknowledged that some programs need to be granted the ability to take actions that otherwise risk insecurity, they wouldn’t have needed to try to distort the protocols to fit the lacking security model of Wayland (or, in some cases, wouldn’t have needed to circumvent Wayland entirely to achieve their ends).
by gus_massa | 2025-11-27 14:33:07+00:00
I'm not a fan of Sabine, but I think her video is very interesting because it shows a lot of what "we" already know about the Milky Way and that I ignored completely.

There are a lot of discoveries that are important but never reach the front page of the newspapers. Accidental discoveries are overrated, they are nice stories but most discoveries are just boring advances here and there.
by omnicognate | 2025-11-27 14:33:14+00:00
There is no "virality", and the article's use of "propagation" to mean the same thing is wrong. The GPL doesn't "cause" anything to be GPLed that hasn't been explicitly licensed under the GPL by the owner of its copyright. The GPL grants a license to use the copyright material to which it applies. To satisfy the terms of that license for a particular use may require that you license other code under the GPL, but if you don't the GPL can't magically make that code GPLed. You will, however, not be covered by the license so unless your use is permitted for some other reason (eg. fair use or a different license you have been granted) your use of the the original code will be a violation of copyright. All of this has been repeatedly tested in court.

It's sad to see Microsoft's FUD still festering 20 years later.
by neom | 2025-11-27 14:33:19+00:00
"The fact that Mixpanel has this data in non-de-identified form is suspect to me."

The way mixpanel works is that they tag users with a device ID, then once they become a customer, you back port your own customer ID to mix panel and they switch the device ID to your internal customer record so that you can see what your signed up users are doing, where they signed up from and generally track the user journey.
by voidUpdate | 2025-11-27 14:33:38+00:00
> "a Windows laptop you can convert into a Linux machine, or a Linux machine that tries very hard not to act like one"

You can buy computers with nothing installed on them if you want, and computer is computer (for the most part), so you can run whatever you want on it. I think the linux space is generally too fragmented into all the different distros to offer a "linux laptop", because people will wonder why it's not shipping with their favourite flavour of penguin
by NiloCK | 2025-11-27 14:34:01+00:00
Not crazy - there's a rational self-interest in doing this.

But I'm not certain that the relevant players have the same consequence-fearing mindset that you do, and to be honest they're probably right. The theft is too great to calculate the consequences, and by the time it's settled, what are you gonna do - turn off Forster's machine?

I hope you're right in at least some cases!
by pessimizer | 2025-11-27 14:34:04+00:00
As somebody who thinks that people currently own the code that they write, I wonder why you're in people's business who want to write GPL'd software.

Are you complaining about proprietary software? I hear the restrictions are a lot tighter for Photoshop's source code, or iOS's, but for some reason you are one of the people who hate GPL as a hobby. Please don't show up whining about "spirits" when Amazon puts you out of business.
by genuser | 2025-11-27 14:34:06+00:00
The highly anticipated final season of Stranger Things arrives on Netflix, bringing fans back to Hawkins for one last battle against the Upside Down. Season 5, Part 1 premieres November 26, 2025, with the first four episodes dropping simultaneously. This marks the beginning of the end for the cultural phenomenon that has captivated audiences since 2016. The series reportedly accumulating over 404 million viewing hours across its four seasons in just the first half of 2025 alone.
by myrmidon | 2025-11-27 14:34:38+00:00
I had a very similar view once, and have since understood that this is mainly a difference in perspective:

It's easy as a developer to slip into a role where you want to build/package (maybe sell) some software product with minimal obligations. BSD-likes are obviously great there.

But the GPL follows a different perspective: It tries to make sure that every user of any software product is always capable of tinkering and changing it himself, and the more permissive licenses do not help there because they don't prevent (or even discourage!) companies from just selling you stripped and obfuscated binary blobs that put you fully at the vendors mercy.
by vrighter | 2025-11-27 14:35:37+00:00
only really faster and better if you don't use them for gaming, unfortunately. Upscaling and frame generation is not a better GPU, it's one with a band-aid applied to hide the fact that it actually did not get much faster.

RTX doesn't count to me either, because that's some bullcrap pushed by gpu manufacturers that requires the aformentioned upscaling and frame generation techniques to fake actually being anywhere close to what gpu manufacturers want gamers to believe.
by pjc50 | 2025-11-27 14:36:48+00:00
See "price stickiness" and what is simplified as "menu reprinting costs"; there's usually a cost associated with changing prices, and a cost associated with renegotiating prices for everything that's not being sold on a spot market. People cannot buy housing at spot, and while spot-labour pricing is definitely a thing for some services it's so socially destabilizing for anything skilled that most workforces operate on salary.

The reverse of this is that high inflation tends to cause a lot of strikes, because salaries refuse to go up and very high levels of inflation need salary repricing every month or even week.
by gizajob | 2025-11-27 14:37:06+00:00
I lived in Australia for a while, and the political system seemed like it was mostly just for show to a greater extent than anywhere else I’ve ever been. In the mould of “whoever you vote for, the government always gets in”. And any big actual decisions where they deem fit to have a referendum such as the change to a Republic in 1999 or the Aboriginal Voice (would have been completely meaningless and powerless anyway), gets nerfed and purposefully mishandled and obfuscated so the status quo remains as it was.
by chuckadams | 2025-11-27 14:37:06+00:00
For every tortured genius whose passion comes from pain, there's a hundred who never get started because they lack the energy to get out of bed half the time, are slowly killing themselves with alcohol and other substances, and so on. But a pill alone doesn't fix that -- hell, current research shows most of those pills do no better than a placebo -- so the mythology of the nobility of suffering will continue for some time hence.

(Fun fact, you know that "lorem ipsum" text that's used as filler? It's not nonsense Latin, it's from a speech by Cicero where he denounces the stoic ideal of suffering being good for the soul, or at least "pointless" suffering anyway)
by ninkendo | 2025-11-27 14:37:09+00:00
Unrelated but imgur is basically malware at this point. I had to click through so many layers of nagging popups (including a “don’t support us” button, then a severely low-contrast “view in safari” button on a dialog explicitly designed to get me to accidentally click the app link), then when I finally got to your picture, any sort of interaction with the page whatsoever, including pinch-zooming to see the image, just took me away to a different page altogether.

I sincerely hate imgur and hope the whole site goes bankrupt, and I can’t stand it when anyone links to them.
by vintermann | 2025-11-27 14:37:20+00:00
Differences between men and women are down to the situation.

Sometimes the long situation. When a situation has lasted a long time, it sticks, and turns into culture, gender roles.

When a situation has lasted a really long time, it sticks hard, and becomes biology.

But most of the time, it's neither culture or biology which decides what men and women do. It's the immediate situation.

And even if you think it's culture, even if you think it's biology, if you don't like how men are (or how women are) you have to start with changing the immediate situation. The others will follow - eventually.
Show HN: Auto-Unpublish NPM Packages Published Outside CI
by ethanblackburn | 2025-11-27 14:37:49+00:00
A lot of vendors and open-source projects shared guidance on protecting users from downloading malicious NPM packages after the Shai-Hulud campaign — but almost nothing focused on protecting maintainers from accidentally (or maliciously) publishing them.

So we built a small tool that continuously monitors your NPM packages and automatically unpublishes any version not produced by your CI workflow.
by ezrabrand | 2025-11-27 14:37:53+00:00
Definitely!

Sefaria is incredible, it's revolutionized access to classical texts. And their API gives full and complete access. My vibe-coded Talmud reader website fetches Talmud, Bible, and translations from Sefaria, you might be interested in checking it out :)

https://chavrutAI.com/

Source code here:

https://github.com/EzraBrand/replit-chavrutai-2

I've been vibe-coding it over the last few months using Replit, it's been a really cool experience
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving – Grateful
by emreb | 2025-11-27 14:38:02+00:00
I wanted to take a moment to express my appreciation for Hacker News. I've been a lurker/member for many years, and this community has been an invaluable resource, both professionally and personally.

While many parts of the internet have become noisy or performative, HN remains a unique corner of the web. The discussions consistently offer depth, intellectual curiosity, and a refreshing level of civility that is hard to find elsewhere.

Thank you to everyone who contributes thoughtfully, shares their knowledge, and makes this one of the best communities on the internet.

Happy hacking!
by _jzlw | 2025-11-27 14:38:23+00:00
I dunno, this reads overwhelmingly like the parents trying to deflect responsibility. Cries for help ignored, the thing about the medication, been going on for five years, and he mentioned he was reading other forums too, so it's not like it was just chatgpt egging him on or something. I don't see how you could even pretend this is chatgpt's fault and not the parents'.
by im3w1l | 2025-11-27 14:38:32+00:00
Whenever I heard that expression I have never perceived people to mean "so don't obtain power". More like, "if you do get power be careful". Or "even if he seems like a nice guy, we should maintain a separation of powers".

Like it's more a force than a destiny. Gravity pulls the moon down every day yet it doesn't fall on our heads.
by monocasa | 2025-11-27 14:40:01+00:00
Their laptops never had lightning, so there was no "moving along". And iPad Pros moved because they're trying to create a product niche that people use like a laptop/desktop, but where Apple actually gets that sweet, sweet App Store money for all software on the device. In that niche, people expect actual expandibility to access stuff like large disk storage, and the App Store money greatly outweighs the patent money from lightning.

If apple had planned to drop lightning, we wouldn't still have rhe crappy USB2 controllers backing that port on those SoCs that would still would have been under development when the EU decision came down.
by Peroni | 2025-11-27 14:40:06+00:00
When there are entire multi-billion dollar industries built on trying to solve the problem you are facing, you can safely assume that the solution is likely more complex than you or I are capable of figuring out effectively. If you're spending +$10k a year on ads, then it might be worth investing a portion of that into a consultation with a small, independent performance marketing agency.
by trevithick | 2025-11-27 14:40:16+00:00
Topton makes a lot of those router mini PCs. I have an N100 with 4 2.5Gbe ports. It has a serial port too, which is nice. It's been running great for about a year now. Then again, it's from Aliexpress, so who knows if it's even really a Topton.
by lapcat | 2025-11-27 14:40:26+00:00
In a vague sense, yes, but in a specific sense, no.

The stockholders do not make design decisions but only elect the board of directors. The board of directors do not make design decisions but only elect the CEO. The former CEO Steve Jobs did make design decisions, but the current CEO Tim Cook appears not to make design decisions, delegating that to subordinates. Alan Dye is Vice President of Human Interface Design at Apple. He does make design decisions; indeed that's in his job title. Dye previously reported to Jeff Williams, COO, but Williams just retired, so it's unclear who Dye reports to now. In any case, Dye is likely the person at Apple who has the final say on design decisions.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-27 14:40:27+00:00
> I might be crazy, and I'd love to hear from somebody who knows about this, but I've been assuming that AI companies have been pulling GPL code out of the training material specifically to avoid this.

Haha no.

https://windsurf.com/blog/copilot-trains-on-gpl-codeium-does...

And just in the last two days, AI generating LGPL headers (which it could not do if identifying LGPL code was pulled from the codebase) and misattributing authors:

https://devclass.com/2025/11/27/ocaml-maintainers-reject-mas...
by devnavigator | 2025-11-27 14:40:41+00:00
- Google and xAI dominate the top of the rankings, while Anthropic and OpenAI maintain strong multi-model representation across the top 10. - Community voting continues to shape the leaderboard, offering a real-world signal of performance across cultural and linguistic contexts as opposed to static performance metrics. - OpenAI’s absence from the top 2 positions reflects industry maturity, where other organizations continue to grow and contribute meaningfully to advancing text-based intelligence.
by latexr | 2025-11-27 14:41:35+00:00
> But it is very common.

It’s important to keep in mind that “common” doesn’t mean “right” or “positive”. Lots of things, such as CFCs in aerosol spray cans and radioactive elements in household items used to be common.

I’m not saying that’s what your argument is—on the contrary, I get the feeling you’re making a statement and not justifying it—but still think it’s an important point to not forget.

> I was watching a YouTube video by Casey Muratori where

Do you remember what video it was? That’s a bit disappointing and I’d like to see for myself to gather context and tone. From all I’ve seen from Casey I’d expect gentle bashing of languages but not groups of people. Though I mostly have seen Casey on his own teaching or being interviewed one-on-one, I get the feeling he might be different in podcasts.
by lsaferite | 2025-11-27 14:41:42+00:00
If you put your phone in your pocket, little bits of lint get in the port. Just tiny little bits. Then, when you use a USB-C plug, those tiny bits get compacted. Over time this results in a thin layer of compacted lint in the bottom of the port. Eventually this layer is thick enough that the USB-C cable won't positively lock onto the port. It'll still work, but it'll disconnect if you move it sometimes and just start to feel finicky.

I have to clean my port maybe once a year or so. I wait until the cables aren't locking and then I clean it out. The dental pick makes it easy and you are just dislodging that compacted mat of lint and removing it. Conversely, my wife never has the problem. Her phone never goes into a pocket, just her purse.
by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-11-27 14:42:04+00:00
No it doesn't.

It indicates that when you switch your investment from one thing to another, that you have to then pay tax for your gain.

Which is very very normal.

Just that people in crypto not realized what it means when you trade bitcoin to another token which would be the equivielent of selling shares and buying something else like gold. As soon as you sell your shares you have to pay tax on gains.

But hey, the advantage of crypto was anyway that its an 'unregulated' market. Lets hope at least bitcoin just dies
by palata | 2025-11-27 14:43:04+00:00
But then we would need a way to prove that some code was LLM generated, right?

Like if I copy-paste GPL-licenced code, the way you realise that I copy-pasted it is because 1) you can see it and 2) the GPL-licenced code exists. But when code is LLM generated, it is "new". If I claim I wrote it, how would you oppose that?
by tom_ | 2025-11-27 14:43:30+00:00
It happens when you exchange one type of token for another, that's the point being made. Broadly: the gain is calculated any time the value of the property is realised by using it to purchase some other thing. Using the thing to purchase money is one way of realising its value, and makes the calculations easy; but when used to purchase some thing other than money, the transaction can be assigned a monetary value and that's used to calculate the gain or loss.

The example given of the guy that had NZ$1.6m - the tax became due when he sold his NZ$1.6m of tokens for what we must assume was NZ$1.6m of some other type of token. He should have calculated the gain at that point, set aside an appropriate amount of money for to pay the tax bill later, and spent only the remainder on the other tokens.
by hcs | 2025-11-27 14:44:02+00:00
Neat idea, but it looks like the math doesn't really work out: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/66295/is-interstel...

Though it looks like these folks are thinking about blocking from near the star, which requires megastructures for anything detectable. I haven't done even back of the envelope calculations but I'd guess the limiting factor is you'd only be causing an eclipse/transit in an unusably narrow angle directly behind the craft. As you get closer the cone expands but the signal weakens.
by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-11-27 14:44:14+00:00
For making profit or gains.

The state doesn't give you protection on you buying shares either.

And if someone would steal your bitcoin, shares or whatever, the state would allow you to use the legal system to get it back. Its your issue if you use something which is inherant intransparent, partially anonmous and globally unregulated.

The tax is there to pay streets, kindergarden, schools, etc. btw.
by WillAdams | 2025-11-27 14:44:29+00:00
Amusingly enough, a text by J.R.R. Tolkien, (Oxford Don who wrote some books which the _hoi polloi_ seem fascinated with) which decries the industrialization of Oxford has just been published:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232514895-the-bovadium-f...

which is a hoot, esp. when paired w/ his _Mr. Bliss_.