MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by boomlinde | 2025-11-07 19:05:22+00:00
Would social networks accepting Danish users have to implement the other end of that, or will they also be allowed to use less privacy-oriented age verification solutions (e.g. requesting a photocopy of the user's ID)?

It seems to me like it's either a privacy disaster waiting to happen (if not required) or everyone but the biggest players throwing out a lot of bathwater with very little baby by simply not accepting Danish users (if required).

The wording on the page also makes it sound like their threat model doesn't include themselves as a potential threat actor. I absolutely wouldn't want to reveal my complete identity to just anyone requesting it, which the digital ID solution seems to have covered, but I also don't want the issuer of the age attestation to know anything about my browsing habits, which the description doesn't address.
by barbazoo | 2025-11-07 19:05:25+00:00
> I used to pay for each of these services individually and was paying 2x what I pay now

What's the other factor though and is it worth the getting walled in?

Password manager in my opinion has to be its own thing, has nothing to do with the rest, same for VPN. I can see email, calendar and data being close together as being beneficial in every day flow. That's where Fastmail for instance draws the line I think.

If you untangle these, would the cost not be worth the benefit?
by LaurensBER | 2025-11-07 19:05:27+00:00
While this is great when it works it does raise some interesting challenges, what happens if the ISP loses money, should taxes be used to cover the cost since this is a public service? Is it reasonable for this ISP to undercut commercial offerings? Internet is in a weird grey zone where it's almost a utility but not on the same level as water or sewage.

I'm glad this non-profit ISP exists but on a national level I would prefer (strong) net neutrality laws. Probably not an issue in NL but in less developed countries neutrality isn't guaranteed.
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-07 19:06:33+00:00
I use walmart.com, they have fast local delivery (often next day) but you do have to be careful, as they also have listings for third party sellers and they are just as shady as Amazon. I only buy items sold by Walmart, never a third party. You can filter your searches for that pretty easily.

I never buy food, supplements, OTC meds, etc. online from any source. That stuff I always buy in person at a local retailer.
by immibis | 2025-11-07 19:06:36+00:00
Dance, mostly. It's irrationally fun, but only if you can get in the right mood. (Drugs optional - I don't even drink alcohol.)

I will say if you are at a 6-day outdoor festival with camping it is a lot easier to get in that mood than being at a nightclub for what, 4-6 hours? Another comment referenced this too. I don't know if I should share my recommendations because they're better when they're not so well known. I found them by word of mouth from people I met at clubs.

Good clubs (RIP Wilde Renate) also have some kind of chill-out area where you can actually talk to people who are often also in the mood to talk to strangers just like you are. I presume it's an intentional accident that (at least at some) the indoor dancing area is always hot and the outdoor social area is always cold, which makes you want to alternate spaces like a Finnish sauna.

It's an open secret that most people who didn't come with a partner are, at least a little bit, hoping to meet one and have sex, but it happens much less often than mass media would have you think. That is in no way mandatory or the only reason to be there. It is simply one of many things that are permitted and has a small chance of happening whenever you socialize in general.

I should also mention there can be a big difference in vibes depending on the night - whether it's a random Friday or Saturday night, or a weeknight, or a particular party (see Resident Advisor and/or word of mouth).

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by mrweasel | 2025-11-07 19:06:59+00:00
Even if you're half-joking, there's a very real point to this. It's really not solving the problem. It's moving it very so slightly down the line.

I'm not entirely sure how I'd want to word it, but it would be something like: It is prohibited to profit from engagement generated by triggering negative emotions in the public.

You should be free to run a rage-bait forum, but you cannot profit from it, as that would potentially generate a perverse incentive to undermine trust in society. You can do it for free, to ensure that people can voice their dissatisfaction with the government, working conditions, billionaires, the HOA and so on. I'd carve out a slight exception for unions being allowed to spend membership fees to run such forums.

Also politicians should be banned from social media. They can run their own websites.
by throwawaygames | 2025-11-07 19:07:20+00:00
It's not bad! Some thoughts:

- I think that this sounds like the perfect thing for the subset/union of folks who are both looking to date and are into games.

- However, if I'm in a relationship but interested in gaming... it would be weird/suspicious if I went to a thing that's dating-related. My partner would probably (reasonably) wonder if I'm looking for another partner

- Dating is hard! but I think that dating/meeting people informally is actually quite possible at a social event that doesn't have to be about dating. Think of any salsa dancing class - most of these classes won't say that they are "good for dating", but they are, in fact, a great place to meet people and potentially, if there's mutual interest, maybe start dating someone you met there.

- I actually think the idea of "brainstorm new games/feedback" nights is good in itself! I'm not thhhaaat much into board games myself actually - but I'd be tempted to go to an experimental board game night and/or talk to a creator, and maybe even try my own hand at presenting/brainstorming something that I would find fun... and maybe meet other people ((not romantically)) that enjoy what I enjoy!

Cheers - I think you're onto something. I would just generally maybe suggest tempering the "dating" angle..? But I'm just one opinion :-)
by immibis | 2025-11-07 19:07:26+00:00
TFA says they were pirating live sports streams - live content can't be accessed via torrent trackers, obviously.

I personally don't "get" sports, but I understand that people who do, want it to be a shared experience where everyone is watching the same game and feeling the same emotions at the same time. Even ten seconds of extra latency is bad because you can hear your neighbours cheering before you see the goal get scored, and if you were to download and watch the game 12 hours later, the "magic of the moment" would be gone - might as well just google what the final score was.

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by bikeshaving | 2025-11-07 19:07:32+00:00
I would love to see a blogpost about the advantages of different Zig allocators (page, arena, fixed buffer, more?) and practical use-cases. Right now, I’m just thinking “this is the thing I pass through all my functions,” and it’s usually just the std.heap.page_allocator. Imagine we get to a period where people are writing games, web UIs, servers directly in Zig. I think the way allocators are used is likely to be the most interesting part.
by absurdwebsite | 2025-11-07 19:07:44+00:00
I’ve been collecting strange, funny, and completely pointless websites — the kind that used to spread through forums and Tumblr years ago. Most of the old “useless website” collections haven’t been updated in ages, so I built a new one that keeps expanding.

Every click opens a random site — sometimes absurd, sometimes oddly artistic, sometimes just broken in the best way.

Would love to see more submissions or ideas for other weird corners of the web worth adding.
by discreteevent | 2025-11-07 19:07:58+00:00
> distinction between an interface/typeclass or whatever, and a concrete type.

This is the essence of OOP.

"The notion of an interface is what truly characterizes objects - not classes, not inheritance, not mutable state. Read William Cook's classic essay for a deep discussion on this." - Gilad Bracha

https://blog.bracha.org/primordialsoup.html?snapshot=Amplefo...

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf
by hashemian | 2025-11-07 19:08:02+00:00
I donno, I've come across or read about fair number of people who worked on a crazy idea for a very long time, as if they were planning to throw their life away chasing that idea. Some had a breakthrough and ended up being a huge win. But I'm sure there are many many more who just ended up nowhere. So, I guess it's a gamble.
by ambicapter | 2025-11-07 19:08:21+00:00
> The answer is that it just takes a lot of people.

The more of those people you hire, the higher the chance that a bad actor will slip through and push malicious things through for a fee. If the scammer has a good enough system, they'll do this one time with one person and then move on to the next one, so now you need to verify that all your verifiers are in fact perfect in their adherence to the rules. Now you need a verification system for your verification system, which will eventually need a verification system^3 for the verification system^2, ad infinitum.
Show HN: Warp Documentation Automation – Built with Claude (99% Automatic)
by Telerad | 2025-11-07 19:08:36+00:00
I'm sharing an unusual project - a production-ready documentation automation tool built through genuine human-AI collaboration with Claude (Anthropic).

What it does: Maintains project journals automatically in Warp terminal with 99% automation. Install 4 template files, work normally, say "Thanks" at end of session, approve the update. Done.

Real results from my medical imaging project: - 90% faster docs (2 min vs 20-30 min) - 99% coverage vs 60-70% manual - 5x faster team onboarding - Zero context loss

The interesting part: Built collaboratively with Claude as my development partner (not just AI-assisted). We worked together for 48 hours - I brought domain expertise and architectural decisions, Claude brought implementation (2,722 lines). Production-ready with zero bugs after deployment.

Technical: First Warp-native doc automation using rules + prompts + workflows + bash pre-commit hook. Implicit trigger detection (conversation-based), universal templates (any language), three-layer safety net. MIT licensed.

Happy to answer questions about the tool itself or the collaboration process!
by devashish86 | 2025-11-07 19:08:37+00:00
I'm a heavy cc user for writing code, reviewing documentation, brainstorming, updating jira tickets etc etc. For the past few months, I started experimenting with managing a team using cc. As a team, we got together and decided to experiment with a new way to run the team and now that we're looking at some good results, I wanted to share our learnings here

https://www.devashish.me/p/why-5x-engineers-dont-make-5x-tea...

Would love to hear thoughts from others who are trying something similar.
by bruce511 | 2025-11-07 19:08:58+00:00
In all honesty I'm not sure I'd recommend you stay in development. You might want to explore possibilities in other fields.

I say this not because I know you, but because much of what you describe is "pretty normal" for this industry. And once you start doubting your self worth; once you need the recognition from others, well, let's say there's not much of that going around.

There's no shame in deciding its not for you, and exploring options in other fields which are more compatible with your needs.
by sabatonfan | 2025-11-07 19:09:00+00:00
Ah context matters.. for someone currently single lets say with no jobs and feeling lack of purpose, it wouldn't have been so bad. Maybe tried to self project with different context and I mean, its understandable why you might feel this way regarding him

I still doubt asking an LLM about depression if I am being honest, I just don't think its the best thing overall or something that should be considered norm I suppose but I am not sure as even in things like these context matters.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-11-07 19:09:25+00:00
Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in MICE lung microbiome after just one week.

I really wish this would be included in the headline in such stories.

Is there a repository somewhere that measures the number of studies on mice that go on to successful human trials or verification.

With the prominence of studies on mice, I think most humans trials Started on mice.
by jvvw | 2025-11-07 19:09:26+00:00
I'm curious as to how social media gets defined for these bans.

I presume text messaging doesn't count whereas Discord/WhatsApp do? What about Minecraft and other games? What about school platforms which they can post comments/messages on? Is watching YouTube included? When I've filled in surveys about our children's social media use, they have included YouTube, which makes it look like every child is on social media.
by tristor | 2025-11-07 19:09:29+00:00
A license agreement, or a contract in general, cannot permit either party to violate the law. What you're describing in this scenario, and what has actually happened in some cases, is effectively theft of use and arguably fraud.

Fraudulent terms of service are not above the law, nor are they above basic expectations in society of fair dealing. You can try to litigate this any which way you choose, based on the language contained in the contract/TOS, and it fundamentally does not matter. At some point, something has to give and it ends with burning down buildings and building guillotines. History is full of abundant lessons about the supremacy of social mores and standards that suborn the law, and the supremacy of the law over the specific parties of any given contract.
by idoubtit | 2025-11-07 19:09:36+00:00
I wanted to find users that loved the same kinds of classical novels. The core of my list was each famous work of famous classical writers like Dostoievsky, Tolstoi, Huxley and Borges. I added a few excellent authors, still famous but to a lesser degree, like Italo Calvino or Marguerite Yourcenar. I know there are many readers of the whole list I wrote, I could name a few among my friends and family.

So I think the problem was not in the existence of similar readers, but in the way to reach them. Few people that read classical books log in Goodreads (I don't) and even fewer input what they've read over the past decades.
by mmooss | 2025-11-07 19:09:52+00:00
> You can pick and choose what you see from the audit

I don't think so: Pick something that supports your claim. Right now it looks like you linked to it without even knowing what it said, hoping nobody would read it and you could claim some authority.

> Responder safety/back-up needs mean you can’t fully “swap out” police. This program still needed to bring in police most of the time.

The audit specifically says that they can't evaluate that; they don't know because they lack the appropriate data.

Is there something else you base that claim on?

> why not just equip police to better handle mental health cases

Because it takes a lot of training that police don't have time or possibly the propensity for. Even police have long complained that they are given jobs that they aren't suited for.

> the reason is idealogical stubbornness

You answered your own question with that ... there is nothing more I can add!
by stroebs | 2025-11-07 19:09:56+00:00
I thought Google was _always_ like this. At least going back to 2015 when I left the ISP game, peering with them was notoriously difficult if you didn't have the traffic volumes required. Our network suffered from asynchronous routing to Google and Netflix for years because they refused to allow our routes despite checking all the boxes they require. Customers eventually left because other (larger) ISPs didn't have this issue.

I get why the enshittification of IXPs is occurring. Over the years many small and careless ISPs have caused issues for IXPs (and peers) based on what I've seen on mailing lists. It's hard work managing many hundreds or thousands of peers, let alone the equipment cost with multi-100Gbit ports becoming the norm for larger providers.
by flohofwoe | 2025-11-07 19:09:59+00:00
> 2. Why would a game's developer's rights be restricted after they ship something based on how many people use it or how much society likes it?

IMHO this should mostly kick in after the original developer has stopped supporting the game. E.g. what's commonly known as abandonware, such abandoned games should automatically go into the public domain, so that copyright or IP disputes can't hinder fans who want to preserve the game. The abandonware deadline needs to be much shorter than copyright deadlines. Something like 5 years after the publisher stopped 'exploiting' the IP would make sense.

Of course especially Bethesda is infamous for milking their IPs until the sun goes supernova.
by uecker | 2025-11-07 19:10:00+00:00
Sorry, how was your comment "Wayland is an evolution of the previous design. X11's architecture had clients sending drawing commands to the X server, a method that became limited and required extensions over time. Wayland's approach is: applications perform their own rendering into their own separate buffers, then tell the compositor when they are ready. The compositor takes those buffers to produce the final image." not highly misleading, if X had the composite extension in 2004 and Wayland project was started in 2008? Last time I tried waypipe it did not work and its design seems flawed as it has to have hard-coded knowledge about each protocol used on the wire.
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-07 19:10:02+00:00
> You're right, kids in the 2000s actually wanted to use social media. It's a dying industry

You're either operating with an anachronistic notion of what constitutes social media, or you're very out of touch with the public. Not sure which one.

The "myspaces" and "facebooks" are trending down, but other forms of social media like tiktok, discord, reddit, youtube, etc are alive and well, still hooking kids young as they always have.
by Zigurd | 2025-11-07 19:10:24+00:00
Calling Tesla investors risk tolerant is overly kind. Waymo vehicles might cost a lot, but they work, and Waymo as a business is in commerce. Waymo's real competitors are two or three Chinese companies that currently have fewer vehicles on the road than Waymo, they all use a sensor suite comparable to that on the Waymo vehicles, and one reason why they can't scale as fast as Waymo is likely that they need a lot more supervision than Waymo's fleet.

Two of the three leading Chinese companies are affiliated with large internet platform companies. Those internet platform companies have detailed geospatial data for reasons apart from their robotaxis.

Tesla isn't just behind Waymo. They are in fifth place and an outlier technologically.
by 9rx | 2025-11-07 19:11:27+00:00
> I wonder if it would technically be possible to only compile with duck typing in test

Not exactly the same thing, but you can use build tags to compile with a different implementation for a concrete type while under test.

Sounds like a serious case of overthinking it, though. The places where you will justifiably swap implementations during testing are also places where you will justifiably want to be able to swap implementations in general. That's what interfaces are there for.

If you cannot find any reason why you'd benefit from a second implementation outside of the testing scenario, you won't need it while under test either. In that case, learn how to test properly and use the single implementation you already have under all scenarios.
by tristor | 2025-11-07 19:11:35+00:00
I'm sure it felt good to write something pithy like that, but the Flint, MI case is not one of a water utility screwing up, or causing harmful contaminants to enter the water. It's a story of the city switching providers, and that other provider having different water chemistry that was incompatible with the existing piping in the city which caused harmful contaminants to be introduced into the water. Neither water provider had failed to provide what they were intending to provide, the city failed to plan ahead and test things before moving the source of their water.
by Barrin92 | 2025-11-07 19:11:41+00:00
For one there is no indication that parents are any more literate in regards to digital practices than their kids. More importantly the constant appeal to the responsibility of parents misses that this is a collective action problem.

The reason most parents give up to regulate their children's online activity is because the children end up isolated if an individual household prevents their kid from socializing online. All the other kids are online, therefore switching individually ends in isolation. What might be beneficial for each household is unworkable as long as there is no collective mechanism. (which is the case for virtually every problem caused by social networks)
by kbolino | 2025-11-07 19:11:48+00:00
It is mostly the middle, and not either of the endpoints, that is the real problem. You have a 1Gbps link, the Netflix DC you're reaching probably has multiple links with aggregated bandwidth measured in Tbps, but at some point in between the two there's a 10Gbps link being shared between 5000 subscribers at peak times and now the bottleneck is 2Mbps per subscriber. This link may or may not be under your ISP's (or Netflix's ISP's) control, and it may or may not be the only relevant bottleneck.

The solution that was developed in the Netflix-Comcast fight over a decade ago is content distribution. Instead of trying to build out extra capacity in every possible link, you shorten the path and thus reduce the number of contended links involved in each interaction. This scales much better, but it has two major problems: the first is rightsholders and their obnoxious anti-piracy restrictions, and the second is good old jurisdictional friction and economic misalignment. Somebody has to own the physical servers in all the myriad locations that keep the content closer to the consumer. If the ISP owns them, then they naturally want to exploit them. If Netflix owns them, they naturally don't want to serve their competitors. If a third party owns them, you address those two problems (potentially) but add new ones around liability, non-disclosure, competitiveness, etc.

If regulation is going to be useful here, it needs to focus on opening up opportunities to serve the unsexy middle of the infrastructure puzzle and not just the most visible parts that consumers/voters usually interact with. Also, "Netflix" needs to be understood as just a stand-in for any high-bandwidth Internet service, as the landscape is constantly changing.
by mandevil | 2025-11-07 19:12:46+00:00
I don't know you, don't know your situation, but this does not seem to match the experiences of many of my friends who left for a while and then came back. "Spent two years starting a restaurant" and "had to take care of my parents" were not blockers for getting another computer related job in due time. There are few truly irrevocable decisions in our life.

Now, the current job market makes this significantly harder than it was in the 2010's, but that's floating over all of us- if your company does an Amazon tomorrow, would you get a job as nice as you currently have? Maybe, maybe not.