MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matheusmoreira | 2025-11-27 03:08:29+00:00
Online games are nothing. They are a literal non-issue next to the loss of computing freedom. Let them be ruined so that we can have the freedom to control our computers without undue intrusion. If online games are the price of freedom, so be it.

Sacrificing freedom for security? I don't agree with it but I can at least understand where the impetus comes from. Sacrificing freedom for fun? For video games of all things? That's pretty disgusting and I want people to be better than that.

Accept this, and you also indirectly accept corporations regulating "your" computer's ability to copy, as well as governments regulating "your" computer's ability to encrypt.
by anigbrowl | 2025-11-27 03:08:50+00:00
I largely agree, although in an emergency bystanders/emergency workers shouldn't be trying to figure out how a door handle works at all. As a general non-driver, I find it kinda disturbing how auto manufacturers are constantly making these cosmetic adjust that impact safety - excessively bright headlights, distracting animated turn signals, weird ass handles. Not all features are innovations, some are just bad ideas.
by miki123211 | 2025-11-27 03:09:56+00:00
PSA: Codeberg currently does not implement accessible account registration. It is impossible for screen reader users to make a Codeberg account due to the image-only captcha. There's a manual fallback path, but no idea how long that takes. I've been forced to use the Wikimedia one, and that was about 3 months. This has been pointed out to them many times, and it's seemingly not something they're willing to fix.

If you didn't know what Codeberg's political stance really is and how they treat the inconvenient part of their userbase... I guess now you know.
by kingstnap | 2025-11-27 03:10:02+00:00
So right now it seems like it actually just provides Claude 3.5 sonnet, all you need to do is curl it.

I wonder how many dollars OP loaded on their API key. So far according to stats you've spent $13.65 for a few hundred thousand tokens people sent up.

{ "success": true, "totals": { "requests": 491, "revenue": 0, "cost": 13.650696, "profit": -13.650696, "inputTokens": 411557, "outputTokens": 258956, "customers": 32 }, "byProvider": [ { "provider": "anthropic", "requests": 491, "cost": 13.650696, "revenue": 0, "profit": -13.650696 } ] }
by burntsushi | 2025-11-27 03:10:31+00:00
Nope. Because you've completely mischaracterized not only the actual problem here, but the value proposition of Rust. You're tilting at windmills.

Nobody credible has ever said that Rust will fix all your problems 100% of the time. If that's what you inferred was being sold based on random HN commentary, then you probably want to revisit how you absorb information.

Rust has always been about reducing bugs, with a specific focus on bugs as a result of undefined behavior. It has never, isn't and will never be able to eliminate all bugs. At minimum, you need formal methods for that.

Rust programs can and will have bugs as a result of undefined behavior. The value proposition is that their incidence should be markedly lower than programs written in C or C++ (i.e., implementations of languages that are memory unsafe by default).
by noduerme | 2025-11-27 03:10:51+00:00
Eh, at 2am you ask a taxi driver for a local non-chain hotel and see where the night takes you. Honestly the endless ability of people to complain about corporate control when they're unwilling to try anything potentially sketchy is annoying. Don't like staying at the four companies? Ask a local or wander into somewhere and ask the front desk. Don't blame corporations for your lack of adventurism.
by onesociety2022 | 2025-11-27 03:11:09+00:00
Favored placement is never going to work but I would use Alexa for repeat purchases: “hey Alexa I bought some Crocs shoes a year ago. Can you reorder it?”.

Or purchases where I know exactly what I want but don’t want to search and add to cart manually: “buy a new 3 foot USB-C braided cable from Anker”.
by jonnrb | 2025-11-27 03:11:50+00:00
I mean this is like comment and comment reply number three of the same pattern: "I have Tesla Model 3|Y and it's doing well" --> "sample size of 1 mreh".

Reviews tend to skew negative. Where are all the angry Tesla owners here? (Seriously. I want to hear from angry HN readers about bad 3|Y ownership experience.)

I have a Y and an S (Palladium) and the Y is solid (only service for usual EV wear items) but the S has been... a "luxury" vehicle let's say that. I'd imagine some of the issues it had in its history wouldn't pass German TUV, but I got the things I noticed fixed under warranty.

I'm really curious how the newer vehicles do. It's a bit of a running joke "the new ones will be better!" but I really do see the improvement in my 2023 Y versus the 2020 3 I had. The S falls somewhere in between in a way that makes sense given its price point and year.
by the_snooze | 2025-11-27 03:13:06+00:00
Ad SDKs exploit OS bugs to get location data. These specific ones have since been patched, but historicaly they read ARP tables, EXIF geo tags, and colluded with other apps that legimately had location permissions to get that info. It wouldn't surprise me if there are other live exploits quietly being used today. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity19/presentat...
by Vikkyv | 2025-11-27 03:13:46+00:00
Hi HN,

I am a developer living in Barsoi, Bihar (India).

The Context: My region produces ~90% of the world's supply of Makhana (Fox Nuts). I see farmers harvesting these seeds from muddy ponds daily, yet they sell them for pennies to aggregators. By the time the product reaches cities, it is 5x the price and often stale.

The Project: I am bootstrapping a direct-to-consumer platform to cut out the middlemen.

The Stack:

Built with Bolt.new (Rapid prototyping in the browser).

Deployed on Vercel.

No Database yet: I built a "WhatsApp-First" checkout flow. I want to handle the first 50 orders personally to verify logistics before automating it.

The "Hard" Tech: We don't use industrial popping machines. We use the traditional wooden mallet (Thaapi) method because it preserves the crunch better. (There is a video of this process on the site).

Happy to answer questions about the tech stack or the supply chain logistics in rural India!
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-27 03:15:14+00:00
Android has some viable non-root "application firewalls" or other apps that use Android's VPN functionality to filter traffic. These can prevent apps, including system apps, from accessing remote servers, e.g., DNS resolvers, ad/tracking servers, etc. There are also Android apps that can automate killing apps that try to run in the background

Not sure iOS has anything equivalent

The problem with "apps" isn't the surreptitious attempts to access remote servers for data collection, surveillance and tracking/ads. Websites do more or less the same thing. The problem is that the corporate mobile OS sucks, it's user-hostile and exceedingly difficult to try to control

The advantage of websites is they do not require using a computer running a corporate mobile OS
by echelon | 2025-11-27 03:15:48+00:00
The author of the article is the creator of the Zig language.

This is par for the course for him. He's quite a bit like Linus [1].

He needs to start following his own advice [2].

[1] https://mastodon.social/@andrewrk/112362751644363647

[2] https://andrewkelley.me/post/open-letter-everyone-butted-hea...
Can Management Be Outsourced?
by ymanagers | 2025-11-27 03:17:18+00:00
We’re investigating a controversial hypothesis. We’ve seen almost every major function move outside the building: Marketing → Agencies Sales → SDR firms Legal → External counsel Product → Dev shops.

The pattern is clear. But does it stop at Management?

We honestly don’t know.

Is the "execution" side of management something that must stay in-house forever? Or is it the next function to be decoupled?

We’re running a survey to gather the data: “Can Management Be Outsourced?”

We want to hear from everyone—skeptics, believers, and the undecided. Help us build the dataset. We’ll share the raw findings with everyone who participates.

Link: https://forms.office.com/r/7LxYpzHqKd

Time: 2 minutes.
by mlugg | 2025-11-27 03:17:18+00:00
> This has been pointed out to them many times, and it's seemingly not something they're willing to fix.

On the exact page you're on is a link to an issue [0] acknowledging that the CAPTCHA is inaccessible and expressing that they plan to drop it (albeit with no concrete time-frame). I don't at all understand your argument that Codeberg must be slow at replying to emails (the "manual fallback path") because Wikimedia are; these are two completely unrelated entities and I don't see why you would make inferences about one from the other.

[0]: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/1797
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-11-27 03:17:24+00:00
Who’s stopping anyone from competing with Apple?

Let’s force ASML to open up its manufacturing line and cancel their patents for squandering innovation, but wait they’re an incredible company that dominated the field with their hard work and diligence, so it’s not fair for them.

Similarly, the open markets should apply to everyone, not just dominant American firms.

Though, I’m not saying they’re innocent and I think they have to be even broken up due to their monopolistic behaviors.
by xp84 | 2025-11-27 03:18:02+00:00
Generally, what I’ve seen is on travel sites like Priceline, sometimes they list a room as like “standard room” and they don’t specify and (in the fine print) explicitly do not guarantee how many beds - with some cheaper rates. Basically trying to discourage people from booking them. The thinking being if you don’t wanna end up in 1 King bed with your bro, you’ll pay the extra $13 for the explicitly 2-bed room, which is always listed as well.
by jonnrb | 2025-11-27 03:18:08+00:00
Do regular service intervals influence this? Would Tesla improve the safety of their cars (by this metric) by giving a regular service for safety items in tandem with the safety inspection interval?

Damage done by the driver is one thing (AFAIU, Tesla Service pricing is pretty damn competitive for repairs), but warranty work like light alignment and function, premature suspension wear (big on Teslas), and brake maintenance probably don't make a difference to Tesla if they are done before the safety inspection or after in terms of cost, but is rather important in terms of reputation...
by marcus_holmes | 2025-11-27 03:18:26+00:00
Individually, yes, each app cannot obtain much data. But all the apps sell their bit of data to a third party, and buy the resulting profile about you, because they can identify you.

So no, the McDonalds app doesn't know when you got paid directly. But it does know that you bought a cheeseburger in the last two weeks of every month, and it knows that your grocery expenses are higher in the first two weeks of every month, and you tend to eat at a restaurant in the first week of every month, and you take less ubers in the last week of every month; it's not hard to conclude that you get paid at the start of the month.

And that's without your banking app selling your info, which it might do. In which case it knows exactly when you get paid, and your probable current bank balance right now when you place your cheeseburger order.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-27 03:18:46+00:00
> Yes it does. Give me back my lightning charger. Now I have USB-C where male port is on the phone and the connector is exposed to wear and tear. Apple

I have one of every Apple device category except the HomePod. But this is a horrible take. I can now use my same USB C cables everywhere.

But more importantly, I can use standard USB C peripherals from network adapters USB C external monitors, standard USB C to HDMI cords, plug a USB C storage device in etc
by protocolture | 2025-11-27 03:18:54+00:00
>Memory is being allocated to those with deeper pockets first

Yes, sellers fill the most expensive bids first.

>OpenAI's new "Stargate" project reportedly signed deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month to feed its AI clusters, which is an amount close to 40% of total global DRAM output if it's ever met.

Right, so demand has pretty much doubled.

>In this cycle, manufacturers had cut back production and investment during the last downturn (2022), and they've been slow to ramp back up.

And manufacturers have been burnt by over production before and are cautious

>Another factor limiting supply of standard RAM is that memory firms are diverting their limited manufacturing capacity to the most lucrative products. Specifically, there's a gold rush for HBM, which is a special kind of memory used by AI accelerator GPUs, because HBM commands far higher prices and profit margins than commodity DRAM.

See above about filling the more lucrative bids first.

>I'm not saying that all of these reasons given aren't the cause for the recent price boom, but what I am saying is that it wouldn't be the first time that price-fixing occurred in the memory industry.

Ok so what should be done about it?

>While that second lawsuit didn't hold up in court (and failed in appeal), that ongoing suspicion exists for a reason.

K so there have been 2 claims, one spurious.

>Each firm knows that flooding the market would hurt all of their profits, so a form of unspoken coordination can occur, and this is next to impossible to prove.

See: Have been burnt by over production before. And Unspoken coordination is hardly an issue. Reacting to private information is bad, reacting to public information is normal and expected.

>It's hard not to see this supposedly coincidental aligned strategy of restraint and wonder if there's something more at play. All of these actions support pricing stability (for those companies) and suggests that no one is "breaking ranks" to grab a larger share by undercutting prices.

You are telling me that you are suspicious of an industry that has expanded, caused a glut that hurt their own businesses and killed their competitors, and are shying away from repeating that event that you outline as a clear mistake.

If theres so much money on the table, you will need another vendor. New RAM vendors have to weigh risk, including all the risk you have outlined, against what is likely a very massive capital outlay.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-27 03:18:54+00:00
> Presciently, Hutter appears to be absolutely right. His enwik8 and enwik9’s benchmark datasets are, today, best compressed by a 169M parameter LLM

Okay, that's not fair. There's a big advantage to having an external compressor and reference file whose bytes aren't counted, whether or not your compressor models knowledge.

More importantly, even with that advantage it only wins on the much smaller enwiki8. It loses pretty badly on enwiki9.
by gruez | 2025-11-27 03:19:25+00:00
>It's the larger point. A device with a 64-bit SoC, higher-than-HD display, battery, gigabytes of RAM and storage being consigned to landfill is bonkers.

That's not a high bar to clear. Who's realistically going to use a laptop/desktop with a Core 2 Duo (2006), for instance?
by smoovb | 2025-11-27 03:19:36+00:00
Consumer reports put VW 18th out of 22 in reliability, yet some how this article states: "Volkswagen emerged as a dominant force in the reliability rankings, with the Golf Sportsvan, T Roc, and Touareg earning top marks in the four-year and older bracket."

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...
CoinTracker Third-party security incident (Mixpanel)
by dotmanish | 2025-11-27 03:20:39+00:00
(Received as on 26 Nov 2025)

We’re reaching out to let you know about a security event involving one of CoinTracker’s third-party service providers, Mixpanel. We want to be transparent about what happened, what information was involved, and what we’re doing in response.

To be clear: CoinTracker’s systems were not compromised, and no access was gained to our internal infrastructure. What happened

On November 21, 2025, Mixpanel — a data analytics provider used by CoinTracker and many other software companies — provided details of a security incident that occurred within their environment.

Mixpanel’s security team found that an attacker had gained access to their systems through an SMS phishing attack (”smishing”). Using elevated permissions, the attacker exported certain datasets containing CoinTracker user information. Mixpanel stopped the unauthorized activity and initiated an investigation.

CoinTracker systems were not affected. What information was involved

The data involved is limited to profile data, which includes: Email address Geographic location (derived from IP address: city, region, country) Device metadata (e.g., screen size, Android version, mobile carrier) Limited transaction summaries (e.g., 2022 total transaction count) User preferences or attributes (e.g., “is accountant”)

No CoinTracker account logins or specific transaction/wallet data were exposed. What information was NOT involved

Wallet addresses Recovery phrases Private keys (CoinTracker never collects this data) CoinTracker passwords or login credentials Tax forms Exchange-connected transaction data Bank account or credit card information Social Security numbers or other government-issued IDs

CoinTracker’s systems were not compromised. The breach occurred solely within Mixpanel’s environment. Important safety tips

Be alert for any suspicious or unexpected emails. Avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from unknown sources. If you use CoinTracker, enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to further protect your account. What we’re doing

We have stopped sending email addresses to Mixpanel and are auditing all tools that handle user data. We’ve also opted into Mixpanel’s third-party review and monitoring process to confirm what was accessed and ensure it does not appear on the dark web.

Protecting your data is our priority. If you have questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our team at support@cointracker.com

The CoinTracker Team
by jolmg | 2025-11-27 03:21:36+00:00
Seems perfectly reasonable to consider money management to just refer to management of money in one's ownership.

Re: mortgages. IDK how things are where you're at, but from what I've seen, with houses of equal valuation, the value of the monthly with a mortgage will typically be more than double than when renting. Renting, saving, then buying out of one's pocket (likely a lower valuation house than when renting) seems like a viable strategy. Mortagages aren't some unavoidable fact of life.

It may or may not be what gives the best result, but that's ok. The peace of mind of not being in debt and having greater savings may be worth it, and have second order effects like enabling you to take more risk in other parts of your life.
by leo_e | 2025-11-27 03:21:50+00:00
This trend is the absolute bane of early-stage startups.

When you are bootstrapping and flying a team to a conference, sharing twin rooms is standard procedure to stretch the runway. There is nothing that kills the vibe of a "strategic roadmap discussion" faster than realizing you have zero acoustic privacy from your co-founder using the toilet 3 feet away.

It feels like hostile architecture specifically designed to break the "business frugality" use case. We ended up switching to Airbnbs solely because of this.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-27 03:22:30+00:00
That’s fair. I would also support pyrotechnic bolts or other systems similar to seat belt tensioners that cause doors to fail open upon impact. The primitives already exist to support isolating the high voltage battery pack in a crash event (triggered by airbag deployment) using a pyrotechnic switch. When Bad Thing happens, the vehicle should be designed to maximize occupant survival odds, including minimizing time to occupant extraction.

https://xray.greyb.com/ev-battery/tesla-crash-protection-tec...
by jonnrb | 2025-11-27 03:23:07+00:00
My 2021 S I bought used has been rather as expected in terms of issues... which is to say I have a similar experience to you, somewhat due to the prior owner leaving a litany of subtle issues for me to find and get serviced and also due to the S-ness. It's low volume, so I get it, but I think most of the cheapness is not safety related (except that all PS4S on 21" configurations should be fired into the sun they are such utter crap in terms of longevity and handling feel).
by btbuildem | 2025-11-27 03:23:29+00:00
If I'm reading this correctly, it's limited to browser use, not general computer use (eg, you won't be able to orchestrate KiCAD workflows with it). Not disparaging, just noticing the limitation.

I've been playing with the Qwen3-VL-30B model using Playwright to automate some common things I do in browsers, and the LLM does "reasonably well", in that it accelerates finding the right ways to wrangle a page with Playwright, but then you want to capture that in code anyway for repeated use.

I wonder how this compares -- supposedly purpose made for the task, but also significantly smaller.
by lvspiff | 2025-11-27 03:25:47+00:00
I've traveled more recently for a new job and the downgrade in hotels has been the same. I've stayed at a la quinta that was no better than a motel 6 with a barely cleaned room and towels that were more like old wash cloths, a Marriot down the road from raven's stadium in Baltimore that had the stupid open shower thing and room stank like mold, and the surprising belle of the ball has been a best western "plus" which has essentially been what a midrange Hilton/Marriot was just a few years ago.
by bayesnet | 2025-11-27 03:26:12+00:00
It greatly saddens me to see how little concern there is for accessibility for dev tooling. It says something about our industry that accessibility is often viewed as a “luxury” feature that can be dealt with once you’ve reached some level of success or revenue or whatever.

I’m hopeful AI tools can improve qol for those who require screen readers and similar tools but have a sinking feeling that it will only transfer even more of the burden for accessible access from operator to user.
by holysoles | 2025-11-27 03:27:53+00:00
I haven't really taken a step back to critically think about using GitHub as a platform until now, but I do agree with the points in this article.

While I like the idea of a more distributed repository environment, I will miss the project discoverability, social aspects, and centralization that GitHub offers. It'll probably be awhile before I make a switch, but I will eventually.
by sometimes_all | 2025-11-27 03:28:01+00:00
LOL in the name of security, HDFC is trying to move their OTP verification to be almost entirely app-only, (not open-source TOTP which can be generated by authenticator/any other auth app; you can only use HDFC's app for that even if you want to log in via desktop).

Regulators sleeping at the wheel on this one.
Show HN: Non-Custodial Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway
by cranberryturkey | 2025-11-27 03:28:03+00:00
I built this vibe coding (i know i know...i'll run strix on it once I'm finished). Started at 2am this morning its now 7:30pm PST. Less than 24 hours and 57k lines of code written. All TDD using next.js and supabase cloud.

....say what you will but this would have taken an entire team 2 years and 1M+ in funding before roocode/claude opus 4.5 -- cost me around $500

Here's the github. its open source: https://github.com/profullstack/coinpayportal

Testers wanted. we have a cli/sdk too at https://www.npmjs.com/package/@profullstack/coinpay

Here's the music i vibe coded to: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5uG9Er5qjdNmc5qPELGf0h?si=11... (also created by me with Suno.com)

ps: here's a usestrix.com coupon code they gave me to share: chovyfu2025
by porphyra | 2025-11-27 03:28:15+00:00
Volkswagens get serviced frequently.

Teslas never get serviced, and they don't really use their brakes either due to regenerative braking, so stuff like "rust on brakes" counts as a strike against their "reliability" in this study even though it's harmless.

In reality, owning a Tesla is way more painless than owning a VW.