MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gummydogg | 2025-11-07 18:46:49+00:00
I deal with domain impersonation and fraudulent ad takedowns nearly every day. A year ago, Meta would remove fake ads falsely using my company’s branding within a day or two. Now these same ads run for over a month with no action taken. This isn’t just an inconvenience these scams cause real harm. The money fraudsters extract fuels their expansion into larger operations. Meta has become completely negligent in its enforcement responsibilities and shows no empathy for the victims it enables. Meta is the single largest enabler of this fraud ecosystem the operations fund human trafficking, force, labor, and systematic financial fraud, targeting vulnerable populations, particularly elderly victims, who lose their life savings at a point in time where they have no time to earn it back. Every dollars these criminals make through Meta platform goes to some of the most depraved actors on the planet.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-07 18:47:45+00:00
>Do you really think many people are being charged and found guilty of felony assault for throwing a sandwich at a random person? He was only charged because the guy was part of a cop-like class.

To put a finer point on it, he was charged because the current administration wants to chill protest against their undemocratic (small 'd') and unlawful activities. In fact, that was the point of deploying ICE/National Guard/etc. to cities in the first place -- to sow fear and limit freedom of expression/assembly.
by fluoridation | 2025-11-07 18:47:48+00:00
I don't think there really is much that can be done. Even under ideal conditions, an ISP could only possibly guarantee the advertised link speed between you and their routers, not between you and any particular node on the Internet. Is it possible an ISP might be doing things that harm the QoS? Yeah, sure. But the angle to approach that problem is not by complaining about instances of limited bandwidth.
by mmooss | 2025-11-07 18:47:54+00:00
One argument against SCOTUS emergency orders (or the 'Shadow Docket') that I haven't seen is that these decisions are made without an open court session, without hearing any arguments (are there even the arguments that typically accompany preliminary injunctions?, and without an open decision-making process - no vote, no written analysis of the facts and law, etc.

It's just a few people anonymously pronouncing decisions. How is that a legitimate judicial decision at all? Is that authority within their Constitutional powers? 'Court' and 'judicial' have specific meanings - it's not 'whatever a judge does', I would think.

I'd be interested in any lawyers commenting on why people with legal expertise don't make that argument.
by igouy | 2025-11-07 18:48:19+00:00
Note: 'possible hand-written vector instructions or "unsafe" or naked ffi' are flagged by *

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Note: Here are naive un-optimised single-thread programs transliterated line-by-line literal style into different programming languages from the same original.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-07 18:48:56+00:00
Pytorch is still pretty dominant in cloud hosting. I’m not aware of anyone not using it (usually by way of vLLM or similar). It’s also completely dominant for training. I’m not aware of anyone using anything else.

It’s not dominant in terms of self-hosted where llama.cpp wins but there’s also not really that much self-hosting going on (at least compared with the amount of requests that hosted models are serving)
by lesuorac | 2025-11-07 18:50:01+00:00
Which part of Google do you think doesn't use AI?

Sure, a Nest thermostat doesn't allow you to converse with a large language model but it's still advertised as with AI.

I think the difference is really Google had an existing business that they can augment with new technologies while a lot of these other companies are a solution in search of a product.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-11-07 18:50:04+00:00
When a software error can simultaneously shut down hospitals, air transport, ground transport, emergency services, and telecommunications, I don't see how the design of that software system should be held to a different legal standard than the design of, say, a steam turbine at a power plant, or the electrical grid itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_ou...

> "The outage disrupted daily life, businesses, and governments around the world. Many industries were affected—airlines, airports, banks, hotels, hospitals, manufacturing, stock markets, broadcasting, gas stations, retail stores, and governmental services, such as emergency services and websites. The worldwide financial damage has been estimated to be at least US$10 billion"
by chuckadams | 2025-11-07 18:50:05+00:00
> Rust teaches you ownership like a tough-love therapist. Zig, meanwhile, just shrugs and says, "You break it, you fix it." That's the philosophical divide. Rust assumes you can't be trusted. Zig assumes you're an adult.

Yep, just need programmers to roll up their sleeves and write code without errors. That's worked out great for the whole history of never. And I like Zig, but not this way.
by fweimer | 2025-11-07 18:50:21+00:00
Is doing business with Inter.link really structurally different from getting connectivity to an exchange like DE-CIX and doing business there? I know that in theory, you get settlement-free peering at exchanges, but only for those networks that participate.

And who funds Inter.link? Their publicly available balance sheet shows significant, growing debts to a linked company, but it doesn't mention its name.
by rurp | 2025-11-07 18:50:38+00:00
It's a shame how sleazy the leading markets are currently since prediction markets are awesome in principle. I wonder if this is a result of the institutional resistance to them, especially on the left; only companies run by less than upstanding folks are willing and able to navigate the current regulatory gray areas. Hopefully things change for the better at some point.

One of the very few areas I agree with the modern right on is that we shouldn't reflexively ban prediction markets, but they could certainly be better than they are now.
by dmpk2k | 2025-11-07 18:50:43+00:00
Maybe it's post-hoc?

I wanted to use OCaml since 2002, since it was a GC'd language with good performance, achieving a lot with relatively few lines of code. Being a language nerd, I was (am?) positively inclined to the language. Yet there was always something that made it notably less pleasant to solve my current problem in than in than some other language.

If it had trouble getting traction with me, that's bad news.

Meanwhile the mainstream has progressed a lot since 2000. GC is the standard, closures are normal, pattern matching and destructuring are increasingly so. While HM-style type inference is not mainstream, local type inference is (and I'm no longer convinced that global type inference is the way). Algebraic data types aren't unusual anymore.

A few years back I just threw in the towel and went with Rust; this happened after I volunteered to improve OCaml's gdb support (including DWARF hell), which went nowhere. I wish Rust compiled faster, and a GC'd language is usually more productive for my problems, but in every other regard it stole what should have been OCaml's thunder. And when popular successor languages eventually appear, they'll do it even better.
by SalmonSnarker | 2025-11-07 18:51:41+00:00
> it's sort of a bad example of "humans are the virus" type thinking, since it both lived and died by agriculture.

from "Islands of Abandonment":

> As I get further out, my feet sink deeper into the thin, grey sand. When I look closer, I see it is not sand at all, but the dry bones of fish, pounded into shards, and the tiny, skull-like husks of barnacles. This is a foul place. The air is thick with brine and guano and decomposition. Even now, in the violet dusk, the heat is oppressive. But as I cross the crystallised flats, the water gleams into view, an impossible sea in the middle of the desert.

> It is a poison lake whispering sweet nothings. It promises cool succour, quenched thirst. Despite what I know of this shimmering mirage - despite the stink and the rot and the waste that surrounds it, despite the staring eyes of the dead and desiccating fish that litter its shrinking shores, despite the absence of vegetation - I can’t help but quicken my pace. I stumble through sucking mud towards this false vision, on and on until the muck is over my feet, and up to my ankles, and I am shin-deep in a warm broth that, when stirred, releases a draught so stagnant I can taste it.

surely not a place to be proud of.
Ask HN: Why not combine dating with board game design and testing?
by amichail | 2025-11-07 18:51:57+00:00
Here’s an idea that mixes dating, creativity, and playtesting in a self-sustaining way.

People would sign up and choose one of three roles that best fits their personality type:

* Creative people – imaginative types who love brainstorming and inventing things.

* Analytical people – logical types who like rules, structure, and evaluation.

* Hybrid people – somewhere in between; they like improving and refining ideas.

The event would run in repeating cycles:

1. Creatives are randomly grouped (say, 8 per group) and asked to invent a brand-new board game together. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just original and playable.

2. Analytical groups then play those prototypes on a later day. They give detailed feedback on what worked, what was confusing, and what could be improved.

3. Hybrid groups receive that feedback and refine the most promising games — tightening the rules, balancing mechanics, improving presentation.

4. Finally, another set of Analytical groups plays these improved versions and rates them again.

The dating part

At the end of each session, everyone privately fills out a short dating questionnaire indicating if they’d like to go on a date with anyone they met in their group. (Matches are handled privately, of course.)

Why it’s interesting

* It’s not just another “speed dating” or “paint night.” People build something creative together, which naturally shows personality and chemistry.

* Each event produces real, evolving board games so the system literally generates new games as it helps people meet.

* The three-role setup (Creative, Analytical, Hybrid) keeps things dynamic and makes the social ecosystem self-renewing: games and participants both evolve.

* It balances chaos and structure — Creatives spark ideas, Analytics test them, Hybrids translate between the two.

Essentially it’s a dating ecosystem that also functions as a board-game innovation loop. Every cycle produces new games and new relationships.

What do you think of this idea?
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-07 18:52:02+00:00
>Having a border is not fascism. Goodness me.

Yeah! Washington, DC is right on the border! I mean WTF is wrong with people! It's so important to make sure that the border between it, Maryland and Virginia is secure! Those Virginians are comin' to steal our jerbs, eat our sandwiches (or throw them at our fearless masters!). I mean it's not like Marylanders are really human, are they?
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-11-07 18:52:08+00:00
*Only for Google Android and Apple iOS users. Everyone else who don't want to be a customer of these two, including GrapheneOS and LineageOS users, will have to upload scans of identity papers to each service, like the UK clusterfuck.

Source: I wrote Digitaliseringsstyrelsen in Denmark where this solution will be implemented next year as a pilot, and they confirm that the truly anonymous solution will not be offered on other platforms.

Digitaliseringsstyrelsen and EU is truly, utterly fucking us all over by locking us in to the trusted competing platforms offered by the current American duopoly on the smartphone market.
by hebelehubele | 2025-11-07 18:52:25+00:00
This is the script that uses yt-dlp to print the English transcript. I pipe it to Simon Willison's `llm` tool.

https://gist.github.com/abdusco/118a6a3ab41a0a1d2a5f8813f789...

https://github.com/simonw/llm

> youtube_transcript.py 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8' | llm 'give me keypoints, ignore promotions' Certainly! Here are the key points from the detailed discussion about dishwasher detergents, washing cycles, and hot water use: 1. **Dishwasher Detergent Basics:** - Most dishwashers have a detergent dispenser designed to release detergent in two doses: a smaller pre-wash dose and a larger main wash dose. - The pre-wash helps remove easily dissolvable food residues before the main wash. - Oils and fats do not dissolve well in plain water; putting some detergent in the pre-wash water helps emulsify and remove these soils early. 2. **Why Use Loose Powder Detergents:** - Loose powders allow flexible dosing: users can adjust detergent amounts based on load dirtiness. - Pre-dosed pods force a single, fixed dose which can be excessive or insufficient depending on the wash. - The dispenser’s design supports splitting detergent dosing; powders are better aligned with this system than pods. ... you get the point
by Liquix | 2025-11-07 18:52:34+00:00
there seems to be a parallel with the industrial revolution - being fit and having muscles used to be the norm when everyone worked the fields all day. but now that grocery stores and sedentary jobs have made exercise optional. so choosing to pursue fitness signals to others that one is disciplined, takes pride in their appearance, etc.

i can see the next couple generations of AI agents causing the same effect on reading, critical thinking, and intelligence in general. thinking is no longer necessary with AI agents, so maybe cultivating one's ability to think will become optional/personal pursuits which send similar signals.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-11-07 18:52:57+00:00
I would suggest that people interested in using OCaml on Windows (or indeed, OCaml at all) try F# instead. It is still an ML-family language. Incidentally, by targeting the CLR, F# is considerably more deployable (both to users and to developers) than OCaml is. Plus, any old NuGet library written in C# or VB.NET can be used almost trivially in F#. This also solves the problem OP listed about a tiny ecosystem, because the C#/.NET ecosystem is massive.

I couldn't agree more with the parent commenter about OCaml documentation. Functional programmers appear to love terseness to an almost extreme degree. Things like `first` are abbreviated to `fst`, which is just odd. Especially now that good IntelliSense means there is no real functional (heh) difference between typing `.fi` and pressing Tab, and typing `.fs` and pressing Tab.

The F# documentation is comparatively very spiffy and detailed, with plenty of examples[1][2][3].

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...

[2]: https://fsharp.github.io/fsharp-core-docs/

[3]: https://fsprojects.github.io/fsharp-cheatsheet/fsharp-cheats...
by troupo | 2025-11-07 18:53:11+00:00
> I have never used Swift UI.

That's the thing though: it affects you even if you don't use it. E.g. Swift's type system was made more complex because SwiftUI needed opaque types, function builders etc. and that was shipped with little consideration or design.

> I am less concerned about the number of total keywords vs. the average number of keywords required to accomplish what I need

Onve again, they affect you even if you don't use them. Because the compiler and the libs and the systems etc. now have to aware of these, and use them extensively.

E.g.

--- start quote ---

The Compiler's semantic analysis simply looks for the raw source string "DispatchQueue.main", and adds the hidden @_unsafeMainActor attribute

https://x.com/jacobtechtavern/status/1986705344748220529

--- end quote ---

It's not language design. It's a minefield of unspecified hacks and workarounds. And the list is growing.

Speaking of SwiftUI, and how it affects the compiler https://x.com/krzyzanowskim/status/1818881302394814717

> In fact, I think C# might honestly be worse.

C# is 25 years old, Swift is 11, and already basically on par with C#? ;)

Also, "this language could he worse" is not a good argument :)

BTW that chart is outdated. It shows C# 8 (it's 14 now) and Swift 5. Swift now has twice as many keywords as C# 8 :) And as many as the Visual Basic 2019 (at 207 keywords).

> I think you can do something like this as Swift 5 or 6

Yeah, I vaguely remember something like that :)
by rimunroe | 2025-11-07 18:53:30+00:00
> He definitely did, though. That the jury opted not to convict him doesn't change that fact.

> [...]

> For the record, I agree with the jury's verdict here, but there's no question he threw a sandwich at someone, and there's no question that is legally assault.

I think you're approaching this as though it's straightforward jury nullification, which (as a layperson) I don't think it is. No one disagrees that he threw the sandwich, but my understanding is that the assault charge requires the officer have "reasonable fear of immediate bodily harm". The defense's argument was that there's no reason to believe the officer was actually afraid.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-07 18:54:07+00:00
Because western governments (and those whose governments were modeled from western regimes - like post-war South Korea and Japan) have become victim to regulatory capture and corruption. It’s why the FCC has repeatedly killed, blocked, or reversed reforms like net neutrality or “nutrition labels” on ISPs, and why South Korea gave in to “fair share” regulations that deterred further investment. Tech money is hugely influential, and the industry is almost exclusively made up of rent-seeking slumlords at this point, particularly at the top (Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Apple, etc). It’s why DMCA reform is blocked, why pirates get jail time while AI grifts get a hand-wave, and why right-to-repair or data privacy remains a fractured and piecemeal reform instead of a national agenda item.

The problem isn’t regulation, but regulatory capture ensuring companies get the regulations they desire and benefit from.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-07 18:54:41+00:00
> I've given you four examples of large foreign banks that you - you can walk into your nearest US branch of and open an account with, today.

Trade barriers generally aren't when something is fully impossible or illegal, they're when it's impeded in some way to sustain an advantage for domestic companies. There are an infinite number of ways to do that and it's often layering them on top of each other rather than any one individual thing, but strong evidence of that happening is if it's achieving the intended result, i.e. that domestic companies have the large majority of the domestic market, whereas the same companies competing for the same class of customers in a different country have a lower share. When the only difference is the law, "a law that creates an advantage for domestic companies" is what a trade barrier is.

> Retail banking is a commodity at this point.

Except where it isn't.

For example, suppose you want a specific service: We don't freeze your account without a court order. A foreign bank would nominally be in a strong position to do this, because they could keep the money somewhere else and then you could get to it in Ireland or wherever even if the US subsidiary was under extralegal pressure to cut you off. It would force the US to use official process that gives you legal recourse instead of strong arming in the back room.

Unless the strong arming takes the form of keeping them out of the market or assuring that they have negligible market share, which is the trade barrier.
by Klonoar | 2025-11-07 18:55:01+00:00
I don't think you understand that the post was written by the creator of Rust. That he is writing positive things about Fil-C says more than enough.

> If anything, Rust zealots sure aren't hiding, their agenda is deep-set and out in the open, and they are generally obnoxious.

You really need to drop the paranoia.
by Telaneo | 2025-11-07 18:55:06+00:00
But the true link speed's not even what's being asked for. 4K Netflix never goes above 20 Mbps as far as I know, so getting just 1/50 the advertised speed to one of the most well-known internet services in existence, hardly seems like a big ask, especially when the only reason that it can't reach that speed or higher is because of the ISP, given that swapping to one that aren't being knobheads about it fixes the problem. It should be the responsibility of the ISP to keep links to other parts of the internet as open as possible. If real-world constraints prevent the speed from being all that high, because it's a shitty server in Australia, then that's understandable. This however, isn't that.

All I'm getting from this is that it's a good idea to label ISPs utilities and bring the hammer down if they're being knobheads about it.
by londons_explore | 2025-11-07 18:55:40+00:00
If I were needing a place to store the phone calls of millions of people recorded without consent for speech recognition, sentiment analysis etc, I wouldn't use a public cloud provider simply because the chances of a data leak would be too high.

All that stuff would be best done with a big order to Dell and renting space in a data center nearby (ie. Not overseas)
by MichaelBosworth | 2025-11-07 18:56:01+00:00
That he viewed a review on Goodreads as the reviewer’s intellectual property hadn’t occurred to me. I see why, in aggregate, many such opinions become valuable, but the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

So does it feel to you guys like your comments, say, here in this Hacker News thread should be considered effectively copyrighted as your personal IP?

If so, do you feel the same way about opinions you share out in a supermarket or on the street?
by dmje | 2025-11-07 18:56:09+00:00
Yeh, no.

Parents are doing what they can, but it inevitably comes down to “but my friend x has it so why can’t I have it” - so all and any help from government / schools is a good thing.

This is so, so, so obviously a nasty, dangerous technology - young brains should absolutely not be exposed to it. In all honesty, neither should older ones, but that’s not what we’re considering here.
by mmooss | 2025-11-07 18:56:11+00:00
Great point. I think that also emphasizes the necessity of the D in R&D: The research has to be adapted to the real world to be useful, for example to organizational frameworks and processes that manage complexity as you say.

Most software organizations I know don't have anything like the time to do D (to distinguish it from software development), except in a few clear high-ROI cases. Big software companies like Microsoft and Google have research divisions; I wonder how much they devote to D as opposed to R, and how much of that is released publicly.
by Mars008 | 2025-11-07 18:56:13+00:00
> see an alternate reality, it helps to escape the bubble, for example, by spending time in a completely different culture

I'm at similar position now, need to make decision. The problem is after leaving IT world for a while it will be hard to get back. I'll have to change my life completely and discard all knowledge and expertise I have. That will be fun, interesting, eyes opening, etc, but no way back.
by slicktux | 2025-11-07 18:56:54+00:00
I watched a documentary a while back on the Salton Sea. It touched on the local residents that live in the area and how the dust affected the children. There were even plans of tapping into Mexico’s Laguna Salada to help keep the Salton Sea from drying up.

Although it’s not a natural sea and its full of chemicals from agricultural run off the residents that live in the area are suffering from the dust and fears of great dust clouds plumbing and going west to San Diego were also insensitives from keeping the hazardous Salton Sea from drying up.

Beautiful place to visit…just not during summer when it smells from all the Dead Sea life.