MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmadeano | 2025-11-13 18:00:38+00:00
We'd love to do something like that! We can currently do things like "Hide content that mentions the word {X}" or "Hide content from {author}". Basically, behind the scenes it will implement a set of keywords to filter.

The limitation here is that the AI agent sees your page once and has to write a static script that applies generically.

What you're requesting would require an LLM call on every page request dynamically (rather than a static generated script) to categorize the content. It is possible and something we want to achieve, but we're not there quite yet.
by Zak | 2025-11-13 18:00:51+00:00
That's true. The whole point of an open ecosystem is that you get to decide who you get your software from. You can decide on the official F-Droid repository and get the benefits and drawbacks of a strict open source rule with the F-Droid organization's curation if that's your preference. You can add other repositories with different curation if you prefer that.
by fransje26 | 2025-11-13 18:01:23+00:00
> The biggest disaster of privatisation was the loss of more than a century of engineering and management culture and knowledge.

That's always the loss. In privitisation, in out-sourcing, and in downscaling engineering teams by firing senior engineers. And it's great for the those in charge of the budget cuts, because it is a loss that is very difficult to quantify financially, and will only show over a longer period of time. Typically, well after they cashed-out and left.
by JulianChastain | 2025-11-13 18:01:31+00:00
I grew up with the sentiment that forms of masculinity are some of the chief evils of society being the dominant narrative. I grew up learning that the US is patriarchal culture, and that it must continue to evolve and progress in order to truly provide equal opportunity to women. This narrative always seemed to view men as a kind of primordial oppressor. I remember in high school and college it was common for some people to say, "Kill All Men!" as a half joking slogan. I'm 24 for reference.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-13 18:01:48+00:00
Ever since Apple Silicon macs came out, it's been a real struggle. Almost 6 years later and there is still nothing on the market that:

* Has the same level of performance

* With the same or better battery life

* With the same quality of screen

* With the same quality of speakers and touchpad

* Runs as quiet or as cool

as the Apple Silicon macbooks. If you add in "needs to be able to run Linux" your choices go down from maybe 1 or 2 to 0.

They all have some sort of compromise. Either the speakers, screen, keyboard, touchpad, build quality, battery life, or thermals.

I have a Surface Laptop 7 with the Snapdragon X Elite, and it's pretty close. Checks the boxes for Screen, build quality, and touchpad. Loses out on speakers and battery life, and the fans need to run a lot more than my M4 Pro MBP does. It also loses on performance, and it doesn't run Linux. Windows on Arm also still has a lot of little quirks and bugs that start to become daily annoyances.

It's incredibly frustrating. I want, essentially, my 14" M4 MacBook Pro, but in a Linux laptop, and there's no OEM out there that's fulfilling that need without compromises.

Apple keeps pulling ahead in silicon and every other laptop OEM is just being left in the dust, shrugging their shoulders, and putting out the same old 1200p 16:9 plastic garbage they have always been putting out.
by vinckr | 2025-11-13 18:01:53+00:00
You can use other parts of the Ory ecosystem to add these features, such as Ory Polis for SAML/SCIM support: https://github.com/ory/polis

CAPTCHAs aren’t a big help anymore in my personal opinion, but you can easily integrate them on the frontend when using Kratos. The commercial offering just bundles all of this out of the box for you.

If Keycloak fits your needs well and you see no room for improvement, that’s perfectly fine; by all means use what works best for you.
by bko | 2025-11-13 18:02:05+00:00
Sure, it's pretty easy to argue. The profit margin on health care providers is not that high. The median hospital operating margin in the US is 7%, despite 37% of hospitals operating in the red.

Even if you assume profit is completely useless in organizing activity and investment, removing profit would save at most ~7% expenses and that wouldn't be that transformational. So it's not profit motive that leads to high healthcare costs in the US

https://www.advisory.com/topics/margin-management/health-sys...
by lupopedia | 2025-11-13 18:02:05+00:00
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by tick_tock_tick | 2025-11-13 18:02:05+00:00
> Iran Nuclear Accords

The USA did not ratify

> Paris Climate Agreement

The USA did not ratify

Obama famously avoided sending either to Congress as he is legally required for the USA to ratify a treaty. The USA's "commitment" was non binding and frankly illegal for Obama to make. Hell the USA Congress even send a letter to Iran to be super explicit that the accords didn't mean shit since it's not ratified by the USA.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-13 18:02:41+00:00
C# is pretty popular in the US as well in certain spaces... especially Govt or Banking and adjacent environments. Mostly line of business applications. I'd say Java is slightly more popular, but I never really liked Java's ecosystem ergonomics, though they're better today it's just not for me.

Similarly, I'm not a fan of "Enterprise" development regardless... I find a lot of .Net shops, like Jave, just create a lot of layers of indirection and abstraction that only lead to excess complexity, cost and difficulty in both maintenance and enhancement. The older I get, the more my mindset shifts to make things that are easy to replace without adding undue complexity or patterns.
by sys32768 | 2025-11-13 18:02:52+00:00
I don't want to live among a majority of rude, selfish people of any class, so I think the trend will be the struggling middle class moves into the dignified poverty of small farming among established rural farming communities that are outside the reach of urban or suburban blight.

Many who can afford it will move into giant private citadel communities created by the ultra-rich. Think Vegas but focused on not sinning.
by giantg2 | 2025-11-13 18:03:02+00:00
"Of course the voters who have much more political power than is fair,"

Who determines what is fair? Why is it not fair for each state to have equal representation?

"This point is always brought up as if it's inherently bad for rural concerns to get overruled by urban ones, but TOTALLY FINE if urban concerns get overruled by rural ones."

The urban ones have more power in the house as that chamber is designed to represent the people. The rural states have equal power in the Senate. It might just happen that there are more rural states (just as in the House some states happen to have more people).
by kjkjadksj | 2025-11-13 18:03:06+00:00
I disagree entirely with this narrative that somehow keeps get repeated. The mere existence of white men has never been vilified. You know what has? Assholes. Perverts. Bigots. Racists. That is it. That’s all it is. For some reason, there is a subset of white men who see that as a direct attack on themselves.

Hillary was exactly right when she spoke of deplorables. The mask is off these days.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-13 18:03:17+00:00
Some fuzzy thinking in here. "A heartbeat sent from a node in California to a monitor in Virginia might take 80 milliseconds under normal conditions, but could spike to 200 milliseconds during periods of congestion." This is not really the effect of congestion, or at best this sentence misleads the reader. The mechanism that causes high latency during congestion is dropped frames, which are retried at the protocol level based on timers. You can get a 200ms delay between two nodes even if they are adjacent, because the TCP minimum RTO is 200ms.
by chriselles | 2025-11-13 18:03:19+00:00
I think biggest threat of invasion for Australia is illegal immigration.

It’s happened before, and Australia has used discrete and unconventional means to disrupt it.

RAN could probably surge 3 Collins boats depending on timings of depot level maintenance.

P8 paired with C17/C130 used as arsenal planes to saturate PLAN air defence and F35 hitting hard targets with LRASM would make it a slaughter.

PLAN’s recent live fire exercise in the commercial air corridor between Australia and NZ single handedly justifies increased defence spending for ANZ.

Personally, I think China’s horrible demographic wall it’s about to hit at 100kph combined with a stagnant economy(140+ car makers today that will surely drop to 20 or less by 2035) leaves Xi with plenty of domestic crisis to solve.

The risk is if Xi needs(or needs to create) an external crisis to activate nationalism and deflect away from domestic strike(akin to Argentina-Falklands 1982).

Even Taiwan might be a stretch too far. Xi will need a guaranteed win.
by bryananderson | 2025-11-13 18:03:37+00:00
Italy has not exactly privatized high speed rail. The public rail operator Trenitalia is by far the largest high speed rail operator in the country. And it’s great.

What Italy has done is open the rails to access by private companies in addition to the public one, most notably high speed operator NTV/Italo.

Arguably this competition has helped spur on the public operator to greater heights. But it’s not the same at all as what Britain did (privatizing the public operator itself).
by ablob | 2025-11-13 18:03:59+00:00
By the definitions given they can not, as no function subsumes another. By whatever you define as "compiler" maybe, but I see no point in this kind of interaction that essentially boils down to subsumtion to an entity you refuse to describe any further.

Is there a merit to this? Can whatever you call compiler do more? Is it all three of the things mentioned combined? Who knows - as is stands I only know that you disagree with the definitions given/proposed.
by bradly | 2025-11-13 18:04:20+00:00
> Definitely open to feedback here!

Sure.

Know your audience. HN users are going to be focused on two things: how the your browers data is used and how you stop an agent from taking account numbers, inputted passwords, etc.

From the linked privacy policy:

> Share data with third parties except our API service

It would be helpful for you to share the privacy policy of the API service as well.

> When you use our script generation functionality: > Generated Code: We retain rights to use, modify, distribute, and commercialize any scripts generated by our service > Sharing Rights: Generated scripts may be used to improve our services, shared as examples, or incorporated into our script library

Anything you make is or can become public. I would revisit this decision and prioritize keeping users' data private.

Also, I would encourage you to understand your technology, even your marketing site, to be able to add a link to Privacy Policy and ToS in the footer without the burden of "an entangled mess of state machine" and the risk of breaking anything. If the marketing site technology is outside the scope of your expertise, consider how much worse would a static page would be?
by bavent | 2025-11-13 18:04:21+00:00
I never said we needed 5k, if you have to pretend I said something in order to make an argument, you don’t really have an argument. You also provided no evidence that 5k reps can’t run a country either.

The U.K. has more than triple what we have. If we had 1500 representatives, that’s roughly 1 per 225k people. Not a great number, but much more reasonable at least, and also much closer to what representation was when the House was capped.

Smaller districts mean not just more accountability, but more similarity within the district. Right now, my district is 95% rural and 5% a slice of a city. I live in the city part, therefore my rep doesn’t care about what I have to say, as my wants and needs are different than the rural population that makes up the majority of who vote for him. Smaller districts are harder to gerrymander like this, and they also mean your rep probably lives a life relatively similar to yours - drives the same highways, experiences roughly the same tax burden, shops at the same places, participates in the same events. This will not be true for every case, but it’s still a better situation than what we have now.
by 9rx | 2025-11-13 18:04:31+00:00
> Canada's auto industry is tied to the US's.

As is Mexico's, but BYD is available there — as well in a number of other North American countries.

> BYD coming to Canada would also hurt the auto industry.

To be fair, it is already hurting from the attacks launched by the USA. Canada has been considering partnering with China instead as a result of this. BYD is looking more and more realistic.
by btilly | 2025-11-13 18:04:44+00:00
This is a strawman argument, which is already answered in my comment.

My impression is not based on something I read online or in the media. Nor is it based on my experiences back when I was growing up in the 1980s.

My impression is based on the lived experience of my children, as consistently described by them. And particularly of the opinion of my son, who has become radicalized against it.

His radicalization started with outrage that when he applied to college, his excellent SAT scores were not allowed to be submitted to most of the colleges that he wanted to go to. "Because the tests are racist and sexist." Luckily he managed to get into UC San Diego. But there he found a requirement for taking a series of courses that he saw as straight up DEI indoctrination. The content of which often outraged him.

It didn't help that his very real struggles were often dismissed by the very same people who were lecturing him about his privilege. He learned that he will never be heard, and he is mad about it.

Do you have any more takes demonstrating your unwillingness to hear the lived experiences of people you disagree with? Demonstrating the dismissiveness that my son is overreacting against?
by darth_avocado | 2025-11-13 18:04:51+00:00
Highly doubt that. MongoDB has 5000 well paid employees and is not a big loss making enterprise. If most of the cost was pass through to AWS, they’d not be able to do that. Their quarterly revenue is $500M+ but also spend $200M in sales and marketing and $180M in R&D. (All based on their filings)
by glenstein | 2025-11-13 18:05:08+00:00
Looks great, and a brilliant idea to bring back the Greasemonkey way of doing things. Also, perhaps the first practical use case for LLM-In-The-Browser I've seen in the wild (sidebars or AI startpages are very half-posterier'd ideas for what AI in the browser should mean imo).

Like some others here, Firefox is my daily driver and would look forward to anything you could bring our way.
by Retric | 2025-11-13 18:05:31+00:00
For a cashier sorting a customers change and presumably multiple small denomination bills is more effort than the rote action of handing out change. Handing exact change is therefore significantly slower for everyone else.

> using SYZ technology to save time is a moral imperative

Saving other people’s time is the imperative, the technology bit is simply how that happens. People can for example fill most of a check out before they know the exact amount, but you rarely see it.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-11-13 18:06:14+00:00
I think you meant "guitar solo".

I too was surprised by the author's tendency to suggest that alone time is inherently bad. If you aren't particularly interested in the society you live in, there is nothing wrong with spending time alone. I don't really suggest you take up gambling, smoking, or drinking to pass the time. But spending time alone is just fine.
by danudey | 2025-11-13 18:06:17+00:00
My first read is that 'storing auth data in a relational database is bad' or 'storing critical auth data in a system where only one node can write' is bad, but thinking about the possibilities a bit it could be a factor of data-at-rest as well?

Two factors: the first, that (given the right system permissions) auth data could be fetched from a backup without having access to the system (MySQL/Postgres) directly. Theoretically not a problem if you're salting everything, etc., since you're presumably not storing auth data in plaintext anyway.

Second, no cryptographic verification that nothing has been tampered with? Theoretically possible for someone to e.g. modify the auth data on-disk for the DB to then read and allow auth when it shouldn't.

So I guess at that point the 'solution' would be some form of storage which provides cryptographic verification of its contents so that you can detect tampering, as well as a distributed system with consensus so that if auth data is changed out-of-band then it can be detected and corrected by the other nodes.
by a-dub | 2025-11-13 18:06:18+00:00
my understanding is that this is the dynamic in modern college classrooms. everyone opens a big shared google doc for notes and they all collaboratively edit a set of notes in real-time.

or at least that's what i've heard, no idea if they actually do it.

it is nice to see a crdt backed editor tool for markdown and code though. gdocs markdown support has been lacking for years.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-11-13 18:06:59+00:00
For some reason, people also tend to ignore the many other cases where this is also true: telecoms, energy, water, etc.

The problem is that there is massive political gain to both sides so we will likely keep rotating through the same options. In either case, the exact same people are in control, and no-one will ever ask whether the issue might be the people.

I also think that people fundamentally misunderstand why they were privatized: the public cost was massive, it was ever growing, and there was no capacity to fix this. Any discussion around money was completely impossible. Can you think of any part of the government where this is true? Actually, can you think of any part of the government where this isn't true? The government struggles to do bin collections, they struggle to police effectively, nothing works...and people assume that the problems will magically be fixed if they are given more control.

I think the lack of investment is a side-effect btw. There is a massive issue in the UK with management, it stretches across government, the larger public sector, and the private sector. It is true that in regulated industries, regulators have created bad incentives for the private sector, this is true generally of the incentives that government creates for the private sector...but even outside of those areas, it is generally quite bad. One of the sources of this problem is the complete and total obsession with politics outside of the outcomes that it creates i.e. the purpose of politics is politics, not running things effectively.

There is no real way to fix this (and we have done almost everything possible to make it worse).
by specialist | 2025-11-13 18:07:16+00:00
A monocoque design could be really cool. Like the original Mini. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini

Were I in charge, I'd've started with a kei car or city car. Or something (size wise) like Telo. https://www.telotrucks.com/

Definitely would not have started with an off-road vehicle.
by murugaviki | 2025-11-13 18:07:21+00:00
I agree with your point about resource scaling if we assume a classical computing model. But the Von Neumann model is purely classical — it predates quantum computation entirely. So its scaling limits don’t apply to any hypothetical simulator capable of generating a quantum universe.

If our reality is simulated at “Level 0” (fully detailed, quantum-accurate), the simulator’s hardware must be at least quantum-native or beyond-quantum. That means it wouldn’t follow classical memory/clock constraints or the exponential resource blow-ups associated with Von Neumann machines.

In other words, using a 1940s classical architecture to evaluate the feasibility of a universe-scale simulator is like using abacus limitations to argue that supercomputers can’t exist.

Your Level 0 / Level 1 distinction is useful though — the essay is more of a conceptual metaphor than a literal computational model. But if someone did build a literal Level-0 universe simulator, it can’t logically be based on classical Von Neumann architecture.
by glenstein | 2025-11-13 18:07:44+00:00
They already did! The word was install. Or as GP noted, run. They're actually even now much more conventional and widely understood uses, and if anything it's Google attempting to swim against the stream and normalize sideload as language for software installation. Theirs is an object lesson, I think, in appropriately registering the objection and pushing us back to normal language.
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-13 18:07:50+00:00
The British rail privatization was so successful in increasing passenger numbers it also increased the number of passengers taking the train in France (despite French rail still being state-controlled).

Or maybe, just maybe, there's another underlying casual relationship that explains why train use increased a ton in the 90s and 00s in both countries (and other European countries too, by the way, AFAIK passengers count also increased in Germany in that period). Who knows.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-13 18:07:54+00:00
>You don’t get to have hefty defense contracts in countries like Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia if you’re de facto a private company, which they aren’t.

This is false. Saudi Arabi buys equipment from private companies. Most US Defense contractors are private companies, of course countries all around the world buy from private companies.

The defense contracts of Airbus have nothing to do with them being partially state owned.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-11-13 18:07:58+00:00
Did you read the source you posted?

It basically provides a bunch of graphs that confirms that flying is safer than ever, even as more people than ever fly at cheaper fares than ever. Embedded within the actual data is an unsubstantiated rant about enshittification and the danger of flying (despite the evidence they chose indicating the opposite), and a tangent about github.