MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-23 11:34:28+00:00
Of course they did. Anyone not blind to what is going on knows this, of course. It is merely a matter of proving it in front of the law. That's all this is about. It's no longer about the question whether or not they acted despicably.

I doubt serious consequences will follow this time, as there haven't been following serious consequences all the previous times Meta/Facebook has been found guilty of crimes. However, it can serve as one more event to point out to naive people, who don't want to believe the IT person, that FB/Meta is evil, because they don't want to give up some interaction on it, or some comfort they have, using FB/Meta's apps or tools. I think it's a natural tendency most of us have. We use something, then we want extra good proof when someone claims that thing is bad, because we don't want to change and stop using the thing. Plus FB/Meta will do anything they can, to make people addicted to their platforms.
Ask HN: Do LLMs make you feel like you've lost your edge?
by galfarragem | 2025-11-23 11:35:36+00:00
They didn’t kill me but they wounded me. The edge I carried all my life? Now it feels cheap. I still think. I still write. But they do it faster, cleaner. There’s still a spark in me, creativity isn’t theirs yet. But even that I feel it slipping through my fingers.

They’ll kill (figuratively) almost all of us. Maybe they already have, and people just haven’t realized it. LLMs are «zombifying» us.

Sorry to depress your Sunday. Thoughts?
by thomasikzelf | 2025-11-23 11:35:46+00:00
Have you seen ReScript? Of course it is not as popular as typescript but it improves on all the bad parts of typescript. You'll get sound types with the pain points of javascript stripped out. Because it compiles to readable javascript you are still in the npm ecosystem.

You don't have to rewrite your whole codebase to start using it. It grows horizontally (you add typed files along the way) compared to typescript which grows vertically (you enable it with Any types).

The point is that we don't have to move back to plain js. We have learned a lot since typescript was created and I think the time has come to slowly move to a better language (and ReScript feels the most like Javascript in that regard).
by teleforce | 2025-11-23 11:35:50+00:00
>Basalt fibers also have high electric-insulating characteristics and transparency for electromagnetic radiation.

The killer application most probably UAV drone since it's more affordable than carbon fiber.

For drone you want lightweight, robust against weather elements and strong material, and at the same has electromagnetic (EM) transparency so not to disturb its wireless control and communication signal. Carbon fiber however, is not EM transparent material.
by rsanek | 2025-11-23 11:36:02+00:00
> Another thing about being a pop star is that you cannot avoid the fact that some people are simply determined to prove that you are stupid... subconsciously people still believe there is only room for women to be a certain type of way

Is this limited to females or even those in pop? I think any star is at risk here. I'd argue male athletes are targets at least as often. See: public discourse on Travis Kelce.
by vintermann | 2025-11-23 11:36:37+00:00
Also, tobacco companies and oil companies famously got into trouble from revelations that they were perfectly aware of their negative impacts. For the gambling and alcohol industry, it probably wouldn't even make the news if some internal report leaked that they were "aware" of their negative impact (as if anyone thought they would not be?)

Social media is way down on the list of companies aware of their negative impact. The negative impact arguably isn't even central to their business model, which it certainly is for the other industries mentioned.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-23 11:36:39+00:00
Short (by New Yorker standards). And only the first couple para's are even vaguely about the startup the article is hung on.

I figure that solar geoengineering will stay stuck in the "99% moralizing, 1% experimenting" stage until some major country suffers from Heat Disaster too grim to brush off with "just a few old and sick and poor" talk. Then, things will flip to countries taking unilateral action to protect their own interests. (Which won't shut up the moralizers, but nobody in power will particularly care.)
by jijijijij | 2025-11-23 11:37:24+00:00
As long as you are not auditing every bit of code you run yourself AND are sufficiently knowledgeable to detect even obfuscated malicious code, you need some basis of trust.

Evident world views far off reason, reality, compassion and pragmatic self-regulation, don't speak for a stable, predictable and reasonable personality.

If a person thinks some humans deserve less rights than others, how could you trust any update to not reflect this world view?

Additionally you may be becoming technologically dependent on a person whose actions may be detrimental to your safety or wellbeing in other parts of your life.

You may also just don't like to promote this person's work.

It's fair to inform others about the person behind the software they are running. Everybody can make their own informed choices.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-23 11:37:44+00:00
> Bit of a tangent but the Apple II used a similar approach for its video system.

A lot of home computers did. The ZX Spectrum has the same weirdass screen layout as Apple II HGR, for much the same reason - the screen is scanned in 256-byte (32 bytes by eight rows) blocks so that you hit all the 256 byte pages with a refresh one after the other. It's kind of an odd choice because the Z80 could be set up to handle DRAM refresh by itself, but the 6502 did not have that luxury.
by lucideer | 2025-11-23 11:38:27+00:00
> Is there a way without certification that results in high conformance that consumers can rely on?

Sibling commenters have already answered this in the affirmative but a better question is: what examples can you give supporting your thesis that certification drives high conformance?

I'm likely in a bubble but most certification systems I've seen exist in highly "competitive" landscapes (read: competing standards) & exist purely to support an ecosystem of institutions relying solely on certification to make money & providing no other value back to the system (e.g. in the form of standards advocacy, conformance testing or even standards maintenance). To the point I've come to anecdotally equate "certification" with wild-west/scammy corporate practices.

So as far as I've seen certification often has the opposite effect that you propose. At least in the IT & software space.
by RaiausderDose | 2025-11-23 11:38:28+00:00
Please tell me which legal case you mean? Sounds very much like a bubble-YouTube story about ‘Muslims can rape everybody in Germany without getting punishment.’

Acquittals happen when there are contradictions in the evidence or victims testimonies, but when it's clear that a rape occurred and the perpetrator only gets a stern talking to - don't really know such stuff happening.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-11-23 11:39:37+00:00
The author could also have used the phrase "hobby horsing", which is similar to bike shedding in that the individual is focusing on things that don't really push the project forward, but which rather give them personal pleasure, instead. Bike shedding usually is explained as "working out what color to paint the bike shed before the rest of the house is done".
by bigmealbigmeal | 2025-11-23 11:43:04+00:00
Yes, it's absolutely the case for Lennon and McCartney, since they didn't give rough ideas to George Martin to fill in; they specifically wrote the exact melodies for half the instruments involved and exactly how to play them.

You could argue that Harrison and Starr always deserved some of the writing credit, since they often determined their parts, and I wouldn't actually disagree with that -- though Lennon and McCartney were kinda control freaks, so I'm not sure how much leeway was actually given. When they started bringing in extra instruments, again, there is arguably some extra credit to be given to Martin and others, but Lennon and McCartney were still strongly directing what was to be played.

For what it's worth -- and this is going to get me hated even more than my popstar-skepticism -- I don't really like the Beatles that much. But it's transparent that they did more than Taylor Swift because they were specifically and precisely writing the melodies for the instruments being played.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-23 11:43:17+00:00
True, but there haven't even been publicly known internal research attempts at for example YouTube/Google about the content they are pushing and probably more importantly the ads they keep pushing into people's faces. I bet FB/Meta are kicking themselves now, for even running such internal research in the first place.

My point is, that all of these big tech giants will find, that they are a harmful cancer to society, at least in parts. Which is probably why they don't even "research" it. This way they can continue to act oblivious to this fact.
Show HN: A little browser game I made after seeing a viral dance video
by davidyu37 | 2025-11-23 11:43:21+00:00
I built this game after seeing a viral video on YouTube where people were dancing to a music warmup routine. It looked so fun that I wondered what it would be like if the video could actually track your movements and give you a score, instead of just watching and following along.

It’s all meant to be lighthearted. No account needed, no ads, no onboarding. You just open the site, start dancing, and see how well you match the movements. The goal was simply to make something that brings a smile to people’s faces.

I’m still improving the motion tracking and smoothing out the gameplay, so I would love any feedback on what feels good or what can be better.

You can try it here: https://immersivewarmup.com/

Thanks for taking a look. I hope it gives you a quick laugh or a tiny workout.
by aw1621107 | 2025-11-23 11:44:55+00:00
> If you want to be flagged and down voted, just write a critic about Rust.

Nonsense. It's not all that hard to find well-received stuff on HN critical of Rust (e.g., from a quick search there's [0, 1, 2] and plenty more, especially around async and/or deps). The key is to write substantive/thoughtful/constructive criticism. In fact, that applies in general - substantive/thoughtful/constructive articles/comments are much more likely to be well-received no matter their topic.

This article does touch on some of Rust's weaknesses/pain points, but does an absolutely atrocious job of doing so. Right off the bat you have this:

Example comparison (small benchmark): # C++ (g++) $ time g++ main.cpp -o main real 0m0.4s # Rust (cargo build --release) $ time cargo build --release real 0m9.7s

Yes, Rust's compile times can be long, but if you wanted to demonstrate that then this is pretty much the worst possible way to do so as not only is it not comparing apples to apples (it's comparing a debug build to a release build) but we don't even know what is being compiled!

And it's pretty much downhill from there. Like this:

> Suddenly, the compiler starts screaming:

error[E0515]: cannot return value referencing local variable

Well yes, that's an error. It's also wrong in C++. In fact, C++26 makes (some forms?) a hard error as well, so C++ is moving to match Rust in this respect.

The code organization example is yet again not an apples-to-apples comparison. It's also straight up wrong to boot.

The migration decision tree is inconsistent as well. If "memory safety is your #1 priority", then C++ with sanitizers is definitely not a viable option.

So on and so forth. If you want to write Rust criticism and be received well, this is definitely not the way to do so.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36239534

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41791773
by NaomiLehman | 2025-11-23 11:45:35+00:00
I don't know what the famous people are actually feeling and struggling with. I don't know how much of what they are saying is an act and how much is real.

2025 example: Chappell Roan - I have no idea if she is genuine or is this a very cleverly manufactured brand. Outbursts at fans, bipolar disorder, anxiety, etc.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-11-23 11:46:00+00:00
Nothing says "empire treating everyone else like serfs" like expecting a peace plan between two foreign nations being written in proper English and not the mother tongue of the parties involved.

Do you not see the irony in this? "The two of you should make peace in our language, or it's fake."

Even if the argument is made that the USA is involved in the war and should be a party to the plan (it "isn't", except "it is"), the peace plan should've been written in Ukrainian and Russian, and only then translated to English as appropriate.

Seriously, that this is even being considered as a detractor from peace is highly specious.

Perhaps you should point out that the language of the peace plan wasn't written in Ukrainian, translated into Russian, and then into English. That'd probably be acceptable, right?
by bell-cot | 2025-11-23 11:46:15+00:00
From the research article's abstract:

> Inflammasome initiates inflammation via the maturation of interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β). Periodontitis is a prevalent, male-biased disease characterized by inflammation-driven bone loss, yet the mechanism(s) of this sex bias is unknown. This study explored whether enhanced inflammasome represents a causal mechanism for this bias. Analyses of three separate human studies (>6,200 samples) show that males have significantly higher IL-1β...

A quarter-ish century ago, my dentist told me to be a smart sissy, and readily take certain painkillers for dental pain. Because those painkillers were anti-inflammatory, inflammation alone could cost me teeth, and "I was tough" would be a sh*tty consolation for the daily miseries of having fewer teeth as I got older.
by perlgeek | 2025-11-23 11:46:15+00:00
When I'm writing new software, I kinda hate having to support old legacy stuff, because it makes my life harder, and means I cannot depend on new library or language features.

But that's not what happens here, this is probably mostly backporting security fixes to older version. I haven't done that to any meaningful amount, but why wouldn't you find a sense of purpose in it? And if you do, why wouldn't it be fun?
by mangecoeur | 2025-11-23 11:46:23+00:00
The problem in practice is that quickly one merges into the other. You start with a markdown readme, then you have markdown documentation for a small project. But then one day you need full documentation for your project with cross links, translations, accessibility. With Markdown you end up bolting these things on and each flavor does it a bit differently.

Perhaps some of the blame can be laid with the poor UX of technically superior systems. restructuredtext (apart from the terrible name) built with Spinx can do impressive things but becomes a huge pain to configure. All the XML-based tools like DocBook are very complete but try to get started actually building something - apart from having to author them in XML (which is already a kind of punishment), then you have to figure out XSLT stylesheets, 2000s-era design Java tools for processing them. And just look at the DocBook landing page! AsciiDoc has improved their onboarding recently but does have the issue of feeling like a markdown-ish alternative that's just a bit different for no clear reason.
by omnicognate | 2025-11-23 11:46:58+00:00
They did that so well, starting out like a corny live daytime TV-ish thing and slowly ratcheting up the weirdness, taking full advantage of the phase everyone would go through where they were uncertain if it was really live or a hoax.

I doubt you'd get any impression of what it was like then by watching it now, because all the social context is gone, but as a kid at the time it was really scary.
by padolsey | 2025-11-23 11:47:19+00:00
I think it's become a bit of a cliche/clique'y thing amongst a certain population. I don't know its origins (tumblr emo crowd??) but I first encountered it in Silicon Valley. The Collison brothers used to love doing it, as did Altman. I feel it projects a kind of stream-of-thought with an aloofness, like "i dont care enough for correct form. language bends to my unique thoughts. read this if you like, i dont care lol".

All-lowercase comes accross as the text equivalent of a hoodie and jeans: comfortable, a bit defensive against being seen as trying too hard, and now so common it barely reads as rebellion.
by dijit | 2025-11-23 11:47:25+00:00
Signal would have had a better time if it had opened the idea that they don't have to be the ultimate authority and intermediate message broker..

Messaging your friends? What about your family?

One of you a nerd? Have one of those people stand up a server and federate it.

If Signal remains the "authority" here, then there can be mechanisms for spam reports across federated lines, distributed blacklisting and an appeal process.

That would alleviate their burden significantly, it would retire the notion that they have to always have perfect security and it would be in-keeping with their idea that "we don't want to have the information that could expose users". The easiest way to not have information at all is to not even relay it.
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-23 11:47:37+00:00
VUE was really "happy", clean. Sans-serif fonts. Cool colours. Funny design like a HP logo and on/off button on the dock.

IBM made it super suit and tie. Geriatric colour schemes with dark colours, formal serif fonts and anything cool removed.

Functionally it was the same (even two or three features were added) but it went from "designed for people" to "designed for business". Like everything that IBM got their hands on in those days (these days they make nothing of consequence anymore anyway, they're just a consulting firm).

It was really disappointing to me when we got the "upgrade". And HP was really dismissive of VUE because they wanted to protect their collaboration deal.

I think 10.30 was peak HP-UX. 11 and 11i were the decline.
by fingerlocks | 2025-11-23 11:47:47+00:00
What are you talking about? You extract 3 exposure values from the raw camera buffer and merge and tone map them manually into a single HDR image. The final exported image format may not have the full supported color space, but that’s on you. Apple uses the P3 space by default.

This has been supported by both Apple and third party apps for over a decade. I’ve implemented it myself.
by tossandthrow | 2025-11-23 11:48:22+00:00
The thing is, that This is speculation (with all respect).

I, on the other hand, do not lack courage to do hard things. But I have learned that it is a strawman - it does not make you happier to quite you job, leave your spouse, go for your passion in a startup, etc.

Luckily I fucked up everything in that fever dream early enough that it did not have substantiel impact on my life.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-23 11:48:42+00:00
What do you think the social effects of large scale advertising are? The whole point is to create false demand essentially driving discontent. I've no idea if Google et al have ever done a formal internal study on the consequences, but it's not hard to predict what the result would be.

The internet can provide an immense amount of good for society, but if we net it on overall impact, I suspect that the internet has overall had a severely negative impact on society. And this effect is being magnified by companies who certainly know that what they're doing is socially detrimental, but they're making tons of money doing it.
Ask HN: Why GenAI is immoral but vibe coding is ok?
by jb_briant | 2025-11-23 11:49:20+00:00
Twitter is full of rants against GenAI.

Every AI CEO selling the disparition of developers in 6 months. But I don't see any developer complaining about LLM steeling our job, or that LLM are infringing copyright and are bad for humanity.

I can't possibly make a fundamental difference between GenAI and vibe coding, they are the same thing.
by ezst | 2025-11-23 11:50:18+00:00
> Signal is the only WhatsApp/Messenger alternative I've managed to get friends and family to actually move to.

And what good did that achieve, practically? In effect, your friends and family:

- still use a centralised service with Signal (subject to enshittification/changing the deal overnight/acting as a single point of control and failure) - still use WhatsApp because they really have no choice: that's where everyone else is (and so, there is no avoiding Meta's data collection on them and indirectly, on you) - gained nothing compared to WhatsApp+E2EE (being centralised, both Signal and Meta can infer your social graph, the nature and volume of exchanges you have with your contacts, and hence the nature of your relationships, Signal only "pinky swears" it's not looking at it, and that's a very lame "guarantee").
by Beretta_Vexee | 2025-11-23 11:50:39+00:00
People don't learn to tell the difference.

A number of people take advantage of this to push unrealistic and inconsistent threat models. ‘I need an anonymous, decentralised solution that can resist the NSA so I can send my shopping list to my wife. I'm not going to consider hardware access or coercion because I'm a law-abiding citizen.’

Some people forget that many things have already been tested. Do you want a file-sharing network and forums that are completely anonymous, decentralised, and resistant to censorship? It exists: Freenet. It's so overrun with paedophiles that even the most fervent advocates of anonymity have fled.
by nilslindemann | 2025-11-23 11:51:12+00:00
To me, it would be enough if there existed a search engine which only lists sites which do nothing of the above. But that would require that sites are honestly answering the question "are you tracking?". They won't. Corps have the same thinking as the criminals they try to keep outside.

There would have to be laws which require site owners to answer that question honestly, so that users have a choice and such a search engine can be built. But states are interested in fingerprinting too, so I guess such will never happen.
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-23 11:51:43+00:00
> I thought this would be a great test to show the benefits of TypeScript over plain JavaScript: either it would fail to compile, or the strings would become numbers.

You're just stressing that you had a fundamental misunderstanding of the language you were using when you first started to use it. This is not a problem with the language. You simply did not understood what you were doing.

For starters, TypeScript does not change the code you write, it only helps you attach type information to the code you write. The type information you add is there to help the IDE flag potential issues with your code. That's it.

See how node introduced support for running TypeScript code: it strips out type info, and runs the resulting JavaScript code. That's it.

If your code was failing to tell you that you were passing strings where you expected numbers, that was a bug in your code. It's a logic error, and a type definition error.

Static code analysis doesn't change the way you write code. That's your responsibility. Static code analysis adds visibility to the problems you're creating for yourself.
by robin_reala | 2025-11-23 11:52:36+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Circular_Collider#Motiv...

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) study develops options for potential high-energy frontier circular colliders at CERN for the post-LHC era. Among other things, it plans to look for dark matter particles, which account for approximately 25% of the energy in the observable universe. Though no experiment at colliders can probe the full range of dark matter (DM) masses allowed by astrophysical observations, there is a very broad class of models for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the GeV – tens of TeV mass scale, and which could be in the range of the FCC.