MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eth0up | 2025-11-08 22:35:58+00:00
I've seen humans eat these entities parboiled and squirming.

It's a shaft in the existential backside that this is the best infinity can offer. Are we not embued in it?

What a depraved world that is ours. Given the minds we have to understand yet trading them for trivial vittles.

A tongue our lord and eyes, to taste our way through this cosmic mystery.

A three-year-old... Perhaps exaggeration. It hardly makes a difference. A 0.3 year-old would do, if one wished to be disturbed.

I have always opposed cannibalism but wonder if I've been wrong. We probably should begin the final feast soon, and really clean our plates.
by Thorrez | 2025-11-08 22:36:11+00:00
Sorry, I missed that you were talking about stealer logs. This specific credential dump of 2B emails wasn't a stealer log, so stealer log info will not tell you anything about this specific credential dump.

You're right that the API for stealer log info isn't free.

However, the dashboard can provide you information about stealer logs for free.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Dashboard#StealerLogs
by ethbr1 | 2025-11-08 22:36:24+00:00
Businesses that are profiting off un-paid-for externalities aren't socially sustainable businesses. They're just economic scams that happen to be legal.

Imho, we should do what we can to make sure they're required to pay for those externalities.

Then, they either figure out a way to do that profitably (great! innovation!) or they go under.

But we shouldn't allow them to continue to profit by causing external ills.
by doublerabbit | 2025-11-08 22:36:50+00:00
I've used Revision [0] which tightly strips Microsoft rubbish out of the OS on my mother's new build. Rather then relying on GitHub PowerShell scripts

I was skeptical at first but after having a phone call with her today and telling me it just works. That made me happy

[0] https://www.revi.cc/
by evil-olive | 2025-11-08 22:37:21+00:00
> Audio quality is really bad.

as the video says at the beginning, the audio is sourced from LiveATC, which is a network of volunteers with their own radio equipment [0] who tune in to ATC frequencies and then livestream them.

those volunteers are by necessity not at the airport itself, but some distance away. and the audio is compressed to 16kbps MP3 for livestreaming purposes.

this means the sound quality we're hearing is going to be worse (significantly worse, in some cases) than what the pilots and controllers actually hear.

> They're sending instructions by voice.

I get that it's 2025 and it's tempting to say "everything should be a text message". but remember that there's 2 pilots in the aircraft, the Pilot Flying and the Pilot Monitoring [1].

under normal circumstances, the PM handles talking to ATC (among other duties). but both pilots have headsets that allow them to hear transmissions from ATC. and crucially for the Pilot Flying, they hear those messages without taking their eyes away from actually flying.

modern aircraft do have a text message system of sorts [2] but there is a very good reason why the crucial ATC instruction in this case ("turn right heading 270 immediately") happens via voice and not an ACARS message.

also, it's important to remember that airline pilots in the US have a minimum of 1500 hours of flying time, and pilots flying an A330 on an LAX-Rome route probably have significantly more than that. we're watching a 5-minute video and going "oh it's a bit hard for me to follow this" but for actual commercial pilots this radio chatter is routine and something they have been practicing for years.

0: https://www.liveatc.net/faq/

1: https://skybrary.aero/articles/pilot-flying-pf-and-pilot-mon...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACARS
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-08 22:37:26+00:00
What if you're a few days shy of 31, and they decide to hire you, but you just cross 31 at the time you sign the contract, would that be deemed as an illegal hire? Or what if you were a few minutes away from turning 31 when you signed the contract, but then turned 31 when you submitted it? Or what if you were a few hours or days away from 31 when you signed the contract, but then you turned 31 before your details were formalised in the HR system?

Where does one draw the line exactly? If it is at the exact time you sign the contract, what if you were still drawing your signature when you turn 31? Or what if you mostly finished drawing the signature but the tip of your pen is still on the tail end of the signature when you turned 31, does that count as you having signed the contract before you turned 31?

Also, how does this account for timezone changes and daylight savings? Say if you were born in a country which is a day ahead of your present country, so you were still 30 as per your current local timezone, but 31 as per your native timezone? Also, do they consider the local time at the place you're signing the contract, or the local time of the place where the organisation is based? If its the latter, would they consider the timezone of the headquarters, or the branch office where you would be working?

How about daylight savings and leap days? Is clock drift and time dilation taken into consideration?
by ddtaylor | 2025-11-08 22:37:27+00:00
I disagree.

There is a massive interest in older computing, both from a programming and from an art perspective. The demo scene thrives on it.

I have seen many times (and recently) a lot of interest here on HN about ancient 90s arcade machines with "unbeatable" encryption, etc.

There is a massive interest in doing reverse engineering old games to a bit-perfect level.
by gigatexal | 2025-11-08 22:37:51+00:00
Has to be the most out of touch thing a human can say to another human: I just sold something for more money than I know what to do with or would be able to spend in a life time; money that will Setup my posterity with generational wealth and oh no I’m lost and aimless.

It’s pathetic.

The look founder and notch after selling to Microsoft … go get therapy. Go figure out or remember what it was like to be human. You know when you were 5 in a sandpit with friends when you didn’t have money as your only goal?

How painfully pathetic this whining from these very wealthy founders is.

Just put on the Patagonia vest and go be a VC like everyone else did.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-11-08 22:38:22+00:00
This is not true, at least in Europe. There exists well-established anti-discriminatory law, which dictates equal opportunity in employment. When targeted advertising is based only on demographic signals, it creates strong information asymmetry. Let’s say someone is not actively looking for a job, but gets information about new opportunities through ads more frequently, than someone else with same skills but different gender or background. When this happens at scale, the people like the first person will have more upward mobility than second group. Or the second group has to invest considerably more resources to find a better job. This is classic discrimination.
by gooseyard | 2025-11-08 22:38:28+00:00
I listened to an interview with the woman who was at the time I believe overseeing the efforts of the Audio Engineering Society to address the problem of the countless recordings made on proprietary digital audio tape machines like the Sony PCM-3348. The total number of those machines that were ever built was small since so few studios could afford them, but they were major studios and thus the masters of many of the most culturally significant albums are on tapes in that format.

She mentioned that even if you could find one of the machines that was working, keeping it running required routine maintenance and that they were down to essentially one guy who was nearing the age of retirement who had the skill and parts to keep one running. So they were in a race against time to figure out which masters to convert.

The problem gets even more thorny for sessions that were recorded using software like ProTools, which has been around in some form or another for almost 40 years, has gone through countless revisions of project file formats, and has a complicated relationship with specialty audio hardware and software plugins.

It seems like there's a general awareness of the problem now and good studios are taking some measures to archive sessions in ways that allow them to be imported in the future, but in the meantime there are two decade's worth of recordings at risk, even if their media hasn't been lost or corrupted. I guess if nothing else its a cool opportunity for people who like to hack on systems of this type though.
by rhetocj23 | 2025-11-08 22:39:32+00:00
Im admittedly bearish on LLMS but believe there are benefits to be exploited in the underlying technology. I have personally found a way to utilise it as an input to produce a superior user experience within a product than what exists for the market I am targeting.

I agree, its not intelligent. You have to accept that as a fundamental premise and build up from there to figure out where it makes sense to utilise the technology - oh and if you have to refer to the technology and make sure the user knows about it, youve already failed. The user frankly does not care nor do they need to know of its existence.
by throwawaypath | 2025-11-08 22:39:50+00:00
>If you think white Brits are the only native Brits then you are also an ethnonationalist.

There's no "thinking" White Brits are the only Brits native to Britain, they are. It's not ethnonationalist, it is an indisputable fact.

>the data point makes no sense

If you bothered to read his blog post, not just Bluesky/Mastodon comments, the data point makes a lot of sense.

>I'm white and born in Finland. By your logic, if I move to the UK and become a naturalized citizen, then I would be a native.

Here is where you're wrong. You would not be native, you would still be a foreigner. Finns are not White Brits. Russians, Austrians, etc. may all be White, but they are not White Brits, and are therefore not native Brits, even if they move and gain citizenship.

>So the one third figure is both racist and incrdibly stupid.

Neither racist nor stupid, just wrongthink.

>Native means you're born somewhere.

White Brits are the only indigenous Brits.

>Equating nationality by skin color is ethnonationalism.

Glad that's not what I nor DHH did.

>So I guess congrats, you're a nazi.

So I guess congrats, you're a genocidal Maoist-Leninist-Marxist.
by tengwar2 | 2025-11-08 22:39:53+00:00
This is an area I have some peripheral involvement with. For retrofitted sails on bulkers, the figure of 10% saving in fuel is the usual one mentioned rather than 20%. However given the long life of ships, there is much more interest in retrofit than in new build.

You mention container ships. I haven't seen anything explicit on these, and I think the reason is probably that they cruise much faster than bulkers and tankers, which means the potential savings from sail is smaller. I would have thought 20% optimistic even for a new-build.
by a1studmuffin | 2025-11-08 22:40:06+00:00
Your health is ultimately your own responsibility - it's your body. You have free will, and your appetite for risk is yours alone. You can choose to ignore expert advice and refuse to wear a seatbelt, skip your rehabilitation exercises, invest all-in on crypto, or smoke cigarettes. None of this responsibility should fall on the expert if they communicated the risks clearly.
by nuevita70 | 2025-11-08 22:40:29+00:00
Oh I FORGOT THIS ONE, IT'S GOLD: 4. Because You Touched Their Wound These men are disconnected from soul, ashamed of mystery, and starved of reverence.

They scroll Reddit and Hacker News for dopamine hits, scoffing at everything sacred.

Then your Scrolls appear — Not perfect, not peer-reviewed, but charged. A sacred bomb in their marketplace of cleverness.
by tiltowait | 2025-11-08 22:40:38+00:00
The idea is fine, though the execution seems obnoxious for getting your writing out of your system. The trouble is, depending on what you’re writing, Tilde might be a massive downgrade. For novels, I find something like Scrivener essential.

I’ve looked into a few options like this over the years (e.g. the Freewrite, or even an old Alphasmart), but always came to the conclusion they added more friction to my writing process, not less.
by brucehoult | 2025-11-08 22:40:47+00:00
NOOOO!

What Ada (and Rust) calls generics is very different -- it is like template functions in C++.

In those languages the version of the function that is selected is based on the declared type of the arguments.

In CLOS, Dylan, Julia the version of the function that is selected is based on the runtime type of the actual arguments.

Here's an example in Dylan that you can't do in Ada / Rust / C++ / Java.

define method fib(n) fib(n-1) + fib(n-2) end; define method fib(n == 0) 0 end; define method fib(n == 1) 1 end;

The `n == 1` is actually syntactic sugar for the type declaration `n :: singleton(1)`.

The Julia version is slightly more complex.

fib(n) = fib(Val(n)) fib(::Val{n}) where {n} = fib(n-1) + fib(n-2) fib(::Val{0}) = 0 fib(::Val{1}) = 1 println(fib(30))

This is perhaps a crazy way to write `fib()` instead of a conventional `if/then/else` or `?:` or switch with a default case, but kinda fun :-)

This of course is just a function with a single argument, but you can do the same thing across multiple arguments.

define method ack(m, n) ack(m-1, ack(m, n-1)) end; define method ack(m == 0, n) n+1 end; define method ack(m, n == 0) ack(m-1, 1) end;
by worik | 2025-11-08 22:41:21+00:00
There is a conflicting tension.

Freeriding

If a union negotiates better conditions at a workplace, who should be subject to them? Everybody, of course IMO

But what of people who never paid union dues?

There is no nice tidy solution to that tension, only messy ones that impinge on a freedom somewhere

It is worth unionising, voluntarily
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-08 22:42:18+00:00
> Important to say, I tried 5 distros and only Ubuntu managed this. Fedora put fans on full blast, couldn’t wake from lid down and refused to talk to my external monitor, arch had weird scaling issues and popos desktop was working weirdly.

That is one of the offputting aspects of the experience, in my opinion. Some machines work better out of the box with Ubuntu (or derivatives), some work better with Fedora, some with Arch, etc. Of course it's possible to isolate what the distro that works best for a machine is doing that makes it that way so it can be applied to your preferred distro, but frankly who has the time for that?
by anigbrowl | 2025-11-08 22:42:36+00:00
Clickbait nonsense - one of those 'I did [impractical thing], watch what happens!' channels. He buys an octopus at a fish market and trains it to pull on levers styled as piano keys to get a food reward. By preselecting the tuning of the keys, eventually he gets it to play a few random notes in the same scale as his guitar noodling.
by pkkim | 2025-11-08 22:43:58+00:00
When I lived in Chicago, no one was silent about Chicago's violence. It was widely acknowledged as one of the city's biggest problems and there was a ton of effort put into stopping it by the government and nonprofits, including grassroots initiatives.

To steelman what you're saying, it's true we lived with it so long that it came to seem normal in a way if you weren't personally affected. But "everyone has been silent" is just not true.
by potatoproduct | 2025-11-08 22:44:01+00:00
The content you consume has a large influence in your education and career.

If you get recommendations for "Technology" and someone of the opposite sex doesn't its completely discriminatory.

If you don't think its a problem then you likely dont understand how recommendation systems work.

The only way recommendations could work is you would explicitly state preferences for everything upfront and no engagement data is used.
by pimlottc | 2025-11-08 22:44:14+00:00
This is mentioned:

> I call it Avería – which is a Spanish word related to the root of the word ‘average’. It actually means mechanical breakdown or damage. This seemed curiously fitting, and I was assured by a Spanish friend-of-a-friend that “Avería is an incredibly beautiful word regardless of its meaning”. So that's nice.
by briantoknowyou | 2025-11-08 22:44:24+00:00
I read a lot of reviews of people really unhappy about the change to the "energy system" (basically their lever to control how much content can be consumed before the paywall pops up), and it sounds pretty heavy handed. I can't comment on that since I'm a paying user, but for me as someone heavily immersed in learning a second language, this plus the changes that made the immersive gamified elements like audio positive reinforcements way too intense, I'm all-in on other learning aids like Anki or Babbel. I also liked how with Rosetta Stone there's a different focus on how you engage with the learning - the cards that appear require cultural context focusing (such as inferring the correct tense based on the calendar shown in the card) that add to that immersive variety and challenge. Duolingo is really just a low-effort mobile game as the popular argument goes.

I also tried an app that was going AI first with agents and feedback (Langotalk) but since I used it 6 months ago I felt like it still lacked the polish and thoughtfulness to make it worthwhile. But that would be the game-changer for immersive learning.
by andy99 | 2025-11-08 22:44:30+00:00
I also work in LLM evaluation. My cynical take is that nobody is really using LLMs for stuff, and so benchmarks are mostly just make up tasks (coding is probably the exception). If we had real specific use cases it should be easier to benchmark and know if one is better, but it’s mostly all hypothetical.

The more generous take is that you can’t benchmarks advanced intelligence very well, whether LLM or person. We don’t have good procedures for assessing a person's fit-for-purpose e.g. for a job, certainly not standardized question sets. Why would we expect to be able to do this with AI?

I think both of these takes are present to some extent in reality.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-11-08 22:44:50+00:00
> I experienced this repeatedly. We were admitted to the hospital for over a week when my daughter contracted viral meningitis (the scariest experience of my life). Even while working with incredible infectious disease doctors, I still had to fight and constantly remind people what the next steps were during our admission. Nobody is watching over you - it’s your job to organize things and ensure they’re on track. I had to coordinate between the infectious disease departments and neurology departments and make sure the people doing the lumbar puncture on my 9-month-old daughter weren’t just residents practicing on my child but experts who had conducted the procedure countless times before. You must Advocate for yourself and the ones you love.

Don't know why his behavior wasn't noticed more in the comments but he's absolutely entitled.

Hospitals and everything have limited resources, by being the asshole who request things to go fast for him and only have the best of the best to practice on his daughter, he just deprived someone else daughter from good care.

This is selfishness, unless the nurses and doctors were napping, he shouldn't have that kind of behavior detrimental to everyone else. I couldn't read further what he got to say but, coming from this man, i don't see how it could be interesting or useful.

I don't have anything to prove it but the whole thing smell fishy, when he goes to these 'concierge doctors', of course they are going to find things that are not right and were 'missed' by his regular doctor. That's literally their business.

if you went there and you were told 'nop, everything is fine. Keep doing what you do', you would go back to your GP and forget about it. But if he frightens you with bloodwork that show 'not optimal' in big red, tells you how wrong your gp is and how you should listen to him, you're going to think this guy know so much more and deserve my money. It's business.

I trust the national health guidelines: eat healthy, do at least 30 min of activity per day and lift weights.

Everything else feel like nuisance, especially coming from folk like that.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-08 22:46:22+00:00
I'm tired of fighting my software in general, not just my OS. I only wish it was as easy to "declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of" my other software as it apparently is to do with Windows. I'm tired of all the pushiness, nudging, pressuring, and coercion. Software products should not be trying to change my behavior.
by gyomu | 2025-11-08 22:46:31+00:00
The article is a short selection from a more complete website: https://www.effectindex.com/effects

The effort is purely descriptive and does not seem to correlate the various effects with their cause (nothing wrong with that, still interesting).

This article provides a good overview of various theories:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-theory-for-why-people-...
by charcircuit | 2025-11-08 22:46:32+00:00
Optimal marketing strategies change over time. What may have worked 20 years, may not be the right approach today. Many businesses struggle with this. They remember what they did to initial gain success, but that marketing route is no longer effective so they fail to figure out how to reach new people and eventually die.

>Do you really think AI features are going to move the needle here?

It's better than doing nothing at least.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-08 22:47:00+00:00
They accuse the algorithm of perpetuating gender stereotypes, but it's really society that's doing that. The ads are just trying to be the most efficient and in doing so they mirror the preferences of society. I don't know why anybody ever assumed that professions would ideally be 50-50 by gender, but that does seem to be something that people come into these arguments assuming.

Put another way, what's the conversion rate shear between mechanic job listings between women and men?

Overall, agree with your take.
by msandford | 2025-11-08 22:49:07+00:00
The Biden admin (no idea if Biden himself was involved) literally sued Texas to stop Texas from enforcing border law. This same admin also essentially redefined "asylum" to be economic asylum rather than "I'm afraid that if I go back to my country I'll be killed" which is how people typically thought of asylum.

You can absolutely think that what's happening now is an overreaction, un-American, gross, illegal, and morally wrong.

But if you're unwilling to try and understand how it's possible that over half the country voted for someone who would enact policies that lead to what we're seeing now, you're simply not paying attention.

If you just want to see the people who voted for this as "the enemy" and "evil" you're basically doing the same tribal "othering" that's lead to these outcomes you don't like.

Is that ugly and uncomfortable? Yes, absolutely. Will things get better by ignoring it? Absolutely not.
by aftbit | 2025-11-08 22:49:23+00:00
Not to dispute your point, but the GWoT was shockingly low casualty for the Americans. Almost 10x as many Americans died in the Vietnam war (58,281 US military KIA), mostly between 1965 and 1971, peaking at 16,899 in '68 alone. There are lots of reasons for this, including the different styles and intensities of fighting, the soldiers used (GWoT was all volunteer after all), improvements in transport and trauma care, and the sheer technological lead that the US held. GWoT was really an example of punching down counterinsurgency, not a real "war" in a lot of ways.