MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2025-11-12 00:36:46+00:00
This tech looks like it would be annoying to other people in a cafe/workplace/etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1drVhn0hLiI&t=40s

What I think would be ideal with current tech is non-backlit e-ink color. Maybe displaying a static image that usually doesn't change while at a location.

You could use e-ink display changes when switching between modes, for example:

* corporate in-office staid, or internal team flair;

* trade conference switch to promoting company brands, rather than internal flairs;

* corporate in-office using it to indicate when you're in focus mode or on a call and less interruptible (actually, you could maybe use the LEDs for on-call mode, a rare instance when you might want the more attention than e-ink);

* traveling with work laptop, but at a cafe or lounge, and want to signal social sensibilities for meeting people personally.
by Onavo | 2025-11-12 00:38:35+00:00
Most of commenters in this thread are overcomplicating things and have no experience with gray area industries. What you need is Turkey, the UAE and Dubai. The payment stack however can be Chinese/middle eastern/eastern European. This is a fairly standard play for people of your background, from there you can bootstrap and then ultimately leverage yourself into a new citizenship (most commonly Canadian and Australian, or other places with easier citizenship by investment routes).

You are asking technologists in an English speaking forum targeting the American centric world. You should be enquiring with friends in the nearby Islamic countries. None of the problems you have encountered are new or have no solutions for. As a suggestion, look up the payment providers used by Pornhub (they are blacklisted by Visa and Mastercard) and that is a good starting point for you. Also look at where a lot of crypto platforms incorporate. There is a whole world outside of the Delaware Corp + Stripe Atlas game, but you certainly won't learn that from silicon valley forums.

I strongly suggest you don't let desperation drive you into a poor deal or enter yourself into a disadvantageous partnership. Take some time off to clear your head, and talk to people. Don't let the whole "product led growth" US centric sales strategy cloud your business decisions. In the rest of the world, B2B is not limited to MasterCard/Visa and most of the notion/stripe style credit card driven SaaS don't necessarily exist in the same way. For your type of product, you should be charging more too.

Also most importantly, make sure your bank account is in the middle east and avoid dealing with USD under any circumstance. If you have a foreign bank account in a less friendly jurisdiction, an overzealous compliance department can easily shut down your entire business.
by ivraatiems | 2025-11-12 00:39:15+00:00
I'm not sure. I can really only speak to the US and Canada.

If so, the first step would be to find a competent attorney in Singapore to advise.

The US embassy, for example, maintains a list of English-speaking attorneys in Singapore who may have relevant experience: https://sg.usembassy.gov/list-of-attorneys/
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 00:39:19+00:00
> Partner in US/UK registers their own company - Opens Stripe under their company name - Hires me as a remote contractor (like any distributed team) - I hold equity as a foreign shareholder (which I thought was legal for non-US persons)

This structure clearly violates sanctions, yes.

The person opening the Stripe account in this case would be breaking the law and would be taking on the legal consequences of violating those sanctions.

Having another person act as a proxy for a business in a sanctioned country is unquestionably illegal, regardless of how you structure it. Equity agreements, remote contractor, handshake agreements, crypto payments, doesn't matter. Any arrangement like this is designed to avoid sanctions and violating sanctions is a big deal.
by ahepp | 2025-11-12 00:39:35+00:00
I can tell you with 100% certainty that there are undiscovered vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel right now. Does that mean they should stop shipping?

I do think that contributing fuzzing and quality bug reports can be beneficial to a project, but it's just human nature that when someone says "you go ahead and do the work, I'll stand here and criticize", people get angry.

Rather than going off and digging up ten time bombs which all start counting down together, how about digging up one and defusing it? Or even just contributing a bit of funding towards the team of people working for free to defuse them?

If Google really wants to improve the software quality of the open source ecosystem, the best thing they could do is solve the funding problem. Not a lot of people set out to intentionally write insecure code. The only case that immediately comes to mind is the xz backdoor attempt, which again had a root cause of too few maintainers. I think figuring out a way to get constructive resources to these projects would be a much more impressive way to contribute.

This is a company that takes a lot of pride in being the absolute best of the best. Maybe what they're doing can be justified in some way, but I see why maintainers are feeling bullied. Is Google really being excellent here?
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-12 00:39:48+00:00
You do in fact need an extremely steep filter. 44.1kHz is a little over an octave above 20k, and for adequate filtering and reconstruction you need 96dB of roll-off at at 16-bits and 144dB at 24-bits.

It's practically impossible to design an artefact-free filter with a roll-off as steep as that. Every single person who says that 44.1k is enough "because Nyquist" has failed to understand this.

You can trade off delay against various artefacts, including passband ripple, non-linear phase smearing, and others. But the shorter the delay, the less true it is that you get out exactly what you put in.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-11-12 00:40:05+00:00
> As someone based outside of the US, I rarely see people with stickers on their laptop.

I see them at technical conferences in many different parts of the world, with people from many different parts of the world. It's not a US thing.

And many of the sticker pictures on this site appear to be from European countries, including at least Finland and Germany.
by jamiek88 | 2025-11-12 00:40:20+00:00
I’ve just preordered your headband. I have a lot of concerns about my memory performance and the fact that I awake 20-30 times per night.

With sleep hygiene I’ve been able to improve it somewhat as well as taking clonidine, the clonidine stops being effective so I use it every other day at most.

Thanks for this update the EEG vid of your sleep was interesting.

Are you still on course for early next year shipping?
by astrange | 2025-11-12 00:40:20+00:00
Mainly the minimum size requirements are much larger (requirements related to stretchers).

Also, in some/all places the elevator union got basically all manufacturing processes banned so they have to be assembled on site by union workers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevator-construc...

And in the US, nobody in the relevant unions or regulators cares about cities - elevator workers and firefighters are all suburbanite pickup-truck-Americans. So they're rarely personally interested in anything that isn't about driving a big car around really fast. This has a big impact on road layouts and the outside of buildings, because of course everyone listens to firefighters, but all they want to do is drive a big red truck everywhere with nothing stopping them.

(Which sometimes leads to them eg shutting down pedestrian safety improvements, and always leads to big wide access roads.)
by BoorishBears | 2025-11-12 00:40:36+00:00
Am I losing it or am I looking ClearType on OSX?!

I get the value in this and realize it's not for your polished -$500 ARPU consumer social apps, but man this is weird.

(Also if anyone who worked on it is here, it's crashing for me on OSX 26, Chrome 142.0.7444.135, if I run an animation and hit back as the animation finishes)
by devinvs | 2025-11-12 00:42:03+00:00
my best shot at it:

year: bits 0-6 reversed month: bits 6-10 reversed hour: bits 13-18 minute: bits 18-24 day: bits 24-29 (maybe reversed)

unsatisfyingly I don't have any idea what the gaps are or why parts need to be reversed, so i could be wrong. With the data from the post:

y mo d h mi 25 11 10 11 3 25 11 10 11 31 25 11 10 12 1 25 11 10 12 35 25 11 10 13 0 25 11 10 13 31 25 11 10 13 31 25 11 10 14 0
by QuiEgo | 2025-11-12 00:42:03+00:00
I often explicitly discuss roles. Who is responsible for a feature (must be exactly one person). Who will have input (without veto power), who will have input (with veto power), who is the “decider” if the responsible person gets vetoed and they don’t agree. Setting up all of this early (and keeping the veto list as small as possible) makes collab a million times easier.
by CiscoCodex | 2025-11-12 00:42:04+00:00
Just today I listened to an article from NPR talking about some sort settlement involving small businesses and credit card vendors. I want to support my local business and not have them pay the credit card charges. But the convenience of carrying around just one card vs various bills and coins is hard to give up.

I’m curious, how do you personally handle change specially small currency like pennies and nickels?
by ndriscoll | 2025-11-12 00:42:05+00:00
I don't know what our contract terms were for security issues, but I've certainly worked on a product where we had 5 figure penalties for any processing errors or any failures of our system to perform its actions by certain times of day. You can absolutely have these things in a contract if you pay for it, and mass market software that you pay for likely also has some implied merchantability depending on jurisdiction.

But yes things you get for free have no guarantees and there should be no expectations put in the gift giver beyond not being actively intentionally malicious.
by yencabulator | 2025-11-12 00:42:18+00:00
No need for pure FP or monads I believe. Consider statically analyzing the library for:

1. `unsafe`

2. import/use of any ambient effects (std::fs::open etc; good enough to have a much smaller allowlist). allow using methods on passed-in &std::fs::File but do not allow std::fs::File::open. beware anything making openat a method on File. Making this realistic may need new API conventions. WASI is doing some of this work already.

3. apply recursively to dependencies

Now the library can only operate on the things passed in to it.

Much preexisting source won't qualify, but e.g. PNG decoding should.
by cmurf | 2025-11-12 00:42:25+00:00
From casual conversations with merchants, they are charged the same fees on debit cards as credit cards.

Apparently debit cards support either debit or credit transactions, and (some/all/most) POS systems are defaulting to credit? I notice I'm often asked to sign, rather than receiving a PIN prompt. That's how I know if the charge is going to be debit (PIN) or credit(sign).

And it is only debit that incurs the near cash equivalence due to far lower transaction fees.
by qchris | 2025-11-12 00:42:39+00:00
Here's a 2022 from Quartz article that might have some context on this. Anduril isn't on the list according to the footnote, but Thiel and Lucky have since had a history collaborating on projects with the same naming scheme.

[1] https://qz.com/1346926/the-hidden-logic-of-peter-thiels-lord...

[2] https://fortune.com/2025/07/07/peter-thiel-palmer-luckey-ere...
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-12 00:42:40+00:00
The native date pickers are of low quality for usability. They have been so unpopular for so long, that you don't have any users who are accustomed to them. Because almost no apps or websites use the native date pickers.

If you're fine with loosing most of your customers because they can't use your website, then go ahead with native date pickers. But I'm not going to ask my customers to scroll on a list of numbers on their iPhone or try to pinpoint a microscopic calendar on their computer to pick a date. User comes first. Developer comes last.
by nixpulvis | 2025-11-12 00:43:49+00:00
I also have lots of ideas, not all that different from the goals of some of these... but there's something critical to remember. The terminal survives as it is, because so many tools were built to run on them. They are only becoming more cross platform and feature rich, albeit slowly and conservatively.

Maintaining a high level of backwards compatibility while improving the user experience is critical. Or at least to me. For example, my #1 fristration with neovim, is the change to ! not just swapping the alt screen back to the default and letting me see and run what I was doing outside of it.

We generally like the terminal because, unlike GUIs it's super easy to turn a workflow into a script, a manual process into an automated process. Everything is reproducible, and everything is ripgrep-able. It's all right there at your fingertips.

I fell in love with computers twice, once when I got my first one, and again when I learned to use the terminal.
Ask HN: Spam filtering app (get paid for spam)
by bountymail | 2025-11-12 00:43:52+00:00
Hey guys, building a chrome extension that filters out spam mail.

It filters your inbox for cold outreach and marketing emails, then flags ones that appear to violate spam laws — things like fake “Re:” subjects, no address in the footer, or missing unsubscribe links.

With your approval, it sends a notice to the sender (through a partner attorney) asking them to settle instead of risking legal action.

When there’s a payout, the user gets a share. The idea is to make it completely free to use, with settlements funding the platform.

Genuinely curious if people would be interested in something like this, or if anyone is open to being a beta tester.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-11-12 00:44:07+00:00
Back in the day, Lockheed could move very quickly. The P-38 went from proposal to working prototype between February 1937 and January 1939. But there was a cost. Test pilots died

The top American fighter pilot of WW2, Richard Bong was killed test piloting the Lockheed P80 jet fighter.
by zacksiri | 2025-11-12 00:44:13+00:00
I feel for this guy, I really do.

I see comments like "is this a request to bypass sanctions" OR "he's iranian"

Let's remind ourselves of the following:

- First understand that he didn't choose to be born and raised in Iran.

- Second people grow up have families become attached to where they're born it's not easy to just 'pick up and leave' moving to a new country is expensive and extremely difficult especially from countries like Iran.

- Third he's building something he believes in which is probably better than most people who live in privileged countries who sit around and do nothing.

To me this reads like a plea for help.

He's built something and showing it to the world, if someone likes it and wants to fund him / get him out of Iran, so he can pursue his dreams AND have the people who help him benefit along with him. I'm sure he'll be all for that.
by rubyn00bie | 2025-11-12 00:44:17+00:00
I see a lot of negativity in this thread and I’m not sure why… There are a LOT of folks who prowl HN and some of them obviously have incredible access to resources and connections to figure out a way to accomplish if they were so inclined.

Yes there are obvious hurdles for people in “the west,” but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. I think the most obvious question is, would the OP relocate to another country if they were able to get a work visa? If yes, then sufficiently connected people, could absolutely make that happen. It would also immediately fix the issues around export sanctions. That’s in no way saying anyone could make it happen, but I have zero doubt that someone who could prowls HN.

There are many ways to having this occur legally, and I think it’s a bit unfair to immediately say this is completely and utterly illegal with no possible way to make it work. If anything, I’d expect the folks who prowl HN to be the exact kind of people to find a way to do it (without violating sanctions or facing jail time).

Addendum: I personally think this is cool, but I lack the resources to tackle the immediate problems or help bring it to market. I’d encourage the rest of you to offer meaningfully critiques or advice. Simply shouting “sanctions!” into the ether is neither of those. Those are a given and based on the replies from the OP thus far (which have all been downvoted to hell for no reason) they seem incredibly sincere. They’re just trying to figure out what they even can do and/or what possibilities even exist.

Good luck to the OP. This seems like a labor of love and I hope you find a way to make it work.
by echend | 2025-11-12 00:44:24+00:00
You're absolutely right, and I apologize for the confusion.

The demo is a single-session system (designed for hotel lobby kiosks where one person uses it at a time). If someone else is talking to the avatar when you visit, you won't see a QR code.

Here's a direct link you can try: https://ps.neoclerks.com:8451/player.html?ss=7591aecb-72d2-4...

If that's busy too, I'm happy to schedule a 15-min private demo. Email: EchenDeligani@gmail.com

This single-user limitation is product design (kiosk model) not technical - production handles 10-50 concurrent users per GPU. I should have explained this upfront and provided multiple demo instances for HN traffic.

My mistake - learning as I go here.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-11-12 00:44:57+00:00
There's the common, and IMO boring, sociological take on AI/Singularity vs. religion: humans are so infantile they prefer to worship advanced technology than to understand it. I.e.: we turn anything too difficult into religion.

Then there's the more interesting, speculative take: sufficiently advanced systems acquire properties associated with deities, such us being everpresent, acting in mysterious way, and seemingly omnipotent or at least omniscient in limited domains. Related, per Arthur C. Clarke, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". I.e. we turn things into religion when it's pragmatic.

Then there's the more speculative fiction take: maybe it's not the first time humanity has been there, maybe propensity for religious practice and thinking is a consequence of humanity's previous, otherwise forgotten, dealings with advanced technology :).
by dingnuts | 2025-11-12 00:45:13+00:00
the extra value in that bill comes from the collector and historical interest; I'm not sure the US government is really obligated to pay out rare metals for your bill, if that's the distinction you're making.

Anyway, I think we as a society should normalize using silver coins for personal wealth transfer, because they are a good size and weight for not too much value, and they are shiny and make a satisfying jingle sound when kept in a bag
by jasomill | 2025-11-12 00:46:28+00:00
MSC and UAS are SCSI transport protocols and have nothing to do with a device being identified as a removable device, which happens at the higher command set layer.

Specifically, flash drives typically set the removable media bit in their response to the SCSI INQUIRY command, which makes the OS believe they contain a medium that can be removed and replaced, like a floppy, "superfloppy" (Zip, LS-120, SyQuest, etc.), or optical drive.

This is why Windows, in particular, exhibits curious behavior when dealing with flash drives:

It assigns a drive letter to a flash drive even if it contains no partitions — MS-DOS and Windows floppies, "superfloppies", and optical media were traditionally unpartitioned.

It allows you to eject the "medium" from the drive — at which point it typically becomes unusable, like a floppy drive with no disk inserted, unless you have a way to send a START STOP UNIT command with the load eject bit set (e.g., the sg3_utils[1] sg_start command), which directs a removable drive to attempt to load the inserted medium (a tray-loading CD-ROM drive with an open tray will retract the tray and spin up the disc, if present; a tape drive capable of injecting an ejected tape will do so; a flash drive with nothing to physically eject will once again present as a drive with medium present).

Most usefully, it causes Windows to default to more conservative caching behavior that makes surprise removal safer (this can be changed for specific devices via Properties in Device Manager), and therefore doesn't display a warning when the drive is physically disconnected without requesting disconnection from the OS and waiting for the "safe to remove" notification.

[1] https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html
by dangus | 2025-11-12 00:47:21+00:00
This whole thing is most likely just be a scam with a sob story.

The urgency is the sob story: OP threw his life away to develop an AI avatar platform [1] and is supposedly in dire need urgent financial assistance. Better help him quick before you discover it’s a scam!

OP is almost certainly exaggerating the amount of effort put into this platform. It’s an AI wrapper. Period.

Scam.

[1] Who needs an AI avatar? It is not a bazillion dollar market like OP claims.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-11-12 00:47:36+00:00
At first blush, you might think a suicide discussion forum would cause people to commit suicide, and thus banning them would prevent suicide, and thus be a reasonable thing for a state to do.

However, some random clicks on sasu found people who had been forum members for over a decade. Possibly not entirely mentally healthy - to be fair - but evidently still very much alive.

If the primary effect of participation was to increase the rate of suicide among its users, the forum would act as a sieve. While it might attract new members, the retention of long-term members (as observed) would be statistically improbable. The fact that a stable, long-term user base exists is evidence that for many, the forum serves a different function—likely as an outlet to manage and process ideation, not just to escalate it.

The state banning this outlet could, perversely, remove a coping mechanism and inadvertently have the opposite of the intended effect.
by wyclif | 2025-11-12 00:47:47+00:00
That's why even though I like the weird and esoteric stickers you see here, I myself prefer the `unixstickers` style I think you're talking about. Debian, Arch, GNU, Python, bash, Ruby, Git, Vim, fork bomb, Tux, DEFCON, 127.0.0.1, &c. These are great for starting conversations, even in cafes. And you end up meeting some interesting people with shared culture.
by harry8 | 2025-11-12 00:47:48+00:00
Note that Warren's personal wealth has been vastly more than he and three generations of his ancestors could ever possibly spend however frivolously for /decades/ now.

The only thin you can do with that money is give it away in charity or politics.

So what has he done with that time? He doesn't seem to be into frivolous spending much at all as far as is reported.
by bawolff | 2025-11-12 00:47:51+00:00
> Editing to add: the ONLY exception I can think of to this would be if you flee Iran, plead for and are granted asylum in the United States or a third country with better relationships to it. This is extraordinarily hard, and possibly a violation of Iranian law for me to even suggest to you.

Couldnt they just immigrate normally? I dont know how this all works, but there is a reasonably large size group of Iranian expats in my country (canada), many of them with jobs in the tech sector. I think they are just normal immigrants and not asylum seekers. I imagine its hard (especially with the current gov taking an anti-immigration tone), but probably a lot easier than getting asylum in usa.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 00:47:58+00:00
> I see a lot of negativity in this thread and I’m not sure why…

Because it's a request for someone to violate sanctions for them. They are specifically asking for someone to set up Stripe, take on the legal risk of violating international sanctions, and forward the money to them.

> Yes there are obvious hurdles for people in “the west,” but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

The "it" that is being requested is not about relocation, though. It's a direct ask to violate sanctions to sign up for services that must enforce sanctions.