MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tomsmeding | 2025-11-14 22:05:25+00:00
> According to Breyer, the existing voluntary system has already proven flawed, with German police reporting that roughly half of all flagged cases turn out to be irrelevant.

A failure rate of only 50% is absurdly good for a system like this. If we have to:

> Imagine your phone scanning every conversation with your partner, your daughter, your therapist, and leaking it just because the word ‘love’ or ‘meet’ appears somewhere.

then apparently either there are so many perpetrators that regular conversations with partners etc. are about as common as crime, or such regular conversations don't have such a high risk of being reported after all.

I don't think chat surveillance is a good idea. But please use transparent and open communication. Don't manipulate us just like the enemy does.
by SomaticPirate | 2025-11-14 22:05:29+00:00
The AI water usage aspect is pretty clearly a lie and a gross misunderstanding at best https://open.substack.com/pub/andymasley/p/the-ai-water-issu... There are dozens of other things that use we use everyday that have a larger impact. I think there a real concerns here but the water usage argument is a poor one
by expedition32 | 2025-11-14 22:05:56+00:00
Everyone worries about losing their job I think. Nowadays employment is a lot more unstable. Hell a large percentage of the workforce doesn't even have permanent employment. Flexibility is great for companies but humans need stability.

There is nothing worse than the economy going South, corporations starting to cut jobs en masse and you finding out that there are 50 other people who show up for that job interview.
Show HN: PitchWell, My AI PR Tool That Sounds Like You
by maikop | 2025-11-14 22:06:06+00:00
I'm the dev behind PitchWell. I learned PR from our founder, Rebecca, and co-founder Katie, who run an actual agency.

Here's the difference between us and platforms like PodPitch or OnePitch.

PodPitch is solid, but it's podcast-only. OnePitch is journalist-only. We built PitchWell for both because founders need both. PodPitch has some AI integration, but it lacks great personalization and can’t learn from a user's writing style. OnePitch doesn’t even have any AI built into the platform.

Our AI, Winsley, learns your actual voice from your writing samples (not just "style preferences"). It uses Rebecca and Katie's pitch templates, then researches each contact individually before personalizing using Exa. I built a vector search that finds truly aligned contacts, not just keyword matches. You control everything, send through Gmail, and schedule follow-ups.

The goal isn't replacing humans. It's giving founders elite publicist tools without the $5K/month retainer.
by isaacvando | 2025-11-14 22:06:24+00:00
At work we have anonymized dumps of our production data that we use for local development. This is extremely helpful as it allows testing things locally that would be completely unrealistic to setup otherwise. Your whole dataset might not be able to fit on a dev machine, but I'd guess in most cases you could create a subset of it that would be large enough to be useful for local performance work.
by system2 | 2025-11-14 22:06:53+00:00
Sorry, I didn't understand your answer. Are the "dumbass business ideas" featured on morningbrew.com? Or did you find an article that was featured with the ideas you turned into a website?

It is normal to get a spike for a frontpage HN post; unsure if you added that part as an answer. Or after posting it on HN, did morningbrew.com pick up and post an article about it? I know I am reading into it too much, but I kinda hate vague answers. :) I am asking: Did you create these ideas with AI, or found somewhere, or did you sit down and write them yourself?
by pigpag | 2025-11-14 22:06:56+00:00
In a democratic society, complaining is very important. It is probably why, by people complaining about a 5% inflation, the government had to take drastic moves to suppress it.

If you don't complain, you eventually won't be able to complain. If you can't complain, you take anything shoveled to you by the government, poverty being the foremost.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-14 22:07:28+00:00
I think I'm probably in the target market for this. I have a board using Linux on an Arm v9.2 chip. It'd be nice to run unit tests with exactly the same binaries and compiler settings. The actual boards are a bit expensive and unavailable for CI purposes (vs HIL). Graviton isn't v9.2. QEMU doesn't support v9.2. This does.

Probably won't end up buying this, but it's not hard to imagine a small number of other people would find it useful.
by latchup | 2025-11-14 22:07:35+00:00
How about that time in 2020 the Swiss voted in favor of an immigration restriction proposal that was so fundamentally incompatible with existing EU treaties, the government was forced to bullshit their way out of implementing entirely because doing so would have basically ended Switzerland as a nation? This is the kinda thing that really cannot happen in a working system. The only reason the government is not sued into following through is because the courts have conspired with other branches to shut down any attempt at doing so. Real democratic.

Generally speaking, people are stupid. Really REALLY f-cking stupid. Giving the average Joe this kind of unmoderated power in a modern world that almost entirely eludes his understanding is no different from handing him a loaded gun; eventually, someone will get hurt real bad. As someone living in Switzerland, the main reason things are as stable as they are is because:

* Changing anything significant requires a referendum, which is a huge pain in the ass. So politicians just kinda avoid important changes that require referenda, finding other ways to enrich themselves and leaving society stagnating. This means that actually important changes come about very slowly or not at all. Read up on how long it took for women's suffrage to become universal – and the outright threats of internal military action the federal government resorted to...

* Whether the Swiss like it or not, Switzerland is mostly a loud, spoilt economic annex of the EU. It will remain stable for as long as the EU is, and well off for as long as the EU wants to be seen as a peaceful and magnanimous partner in international relations. After all, "bullying" tiny and surrounded Switzerland into agreeing to anything – which the Swiss will cry about at any opportunity you give them – is a bad look.

So yeah, Swiss direct democracy is not all it's made out to be, and really not all that great up close. Admirers remind me a lot of Weaboos, strangely shortsighted in their admiration of a system they know little about.
by benjaminogles | 2025-11-14 22:07:39+00:00
I feel the same about using Awk, it is just fun to use. I like that variables have defined initial values so they don't need to be declared. And the most common bits of control flow needed to process an input file are implicit. Some fun things I've written with awk

Plain text accounting program in awk https://github.com/benjaminogles/ledger.bash

Literate programming/static site generator in awk https://github.com/benjaminogles/lit

Although the latter just uses awk as a weird shell and maintains a couple child processes for converting md to html and executing code blocks with output piped into the document
by bluGill | 2025-11-14 22:08:26+00:00
That is the way it should be. Well more or less, you didn't state what your debt is from, some are better than others. College debt can be a good investment long term (depends on the degree). Buying a house is a good long term investment if you live there for a long time.

You should save for retirement and a "rainy day". However remember you can't take it with you. If you have the above savings, an extra penny, and something to spend a penny on spend it. You can't take it with you, so you should be at 0 at the end of every month (again ignoring retirement and rainy day savings)
by CMay | 2025-11-14 22:08:58+00:00
You don't need a crazy fast connection for most of this automation stuff, because it has to be able to operate offline successfully to start with. Any dark factory should be running on its own wireless network anyway, not some cellular network. Who would do that? Even for a local wireless network, why would a Huawei router be any better?

To me, this was never about 5G or 6G. This was always about CCP controlled network hardware getting installed across the globe taking advantage of a natural iterative next step in network improvement which would be fine if the CCP wasn't absolutely psycho and immoral, but they seem to be. I'm sure there are many well-meaning and smart people who work at Huawei, but unfortunately any advantage a Chinese company gets in a foreign market becomes potentially leveraged as CCP advantage and control.

Many countries leverage their companies abroad if something is important enough, but few countries are as bold or blatant as China in this regard. Nobody is worried about most of these countries excessively abusing their influence abroad, because most care about their reputation. China is basically untrusted by all of its neighbors and doesn't seem to care about authentic reputation over manipulation. To them, "harmony" just seems like a way to misspell "control". Balance to them means nothing if they aren't the center of gravity.

For as old and advanced as China has become, it discarded all of its slow wisdom to be wrong as fast as possible. Can a country like that really be trusted? No, it can't. There isn't any country on Earth that can be trusted 100%, but the CCP is just far below the threshold of even tolerable levels of trust.

There is nothing 5G or 6G provides that is worth letting the CCP control your networks. Aside from just spying or hacking, imagine World War 3 comes around and the CCP just decides it's time to shut off all our networks? Trust is almost always more important than speed.
by danans | 2025-11-14 22:08:59+00:00
> I've never earned above £0, and at this point it's too late to care

If you have never earned above 0 at age 37, that suggests that you have a personal situation that actually prevents you from working, not so different from a disabled person might face. Just as tragic is the fact that people who do work full time and earn very little also end up in similar debt spirals.

In benevolent societies such people might end up being helped by the social safety net, but in less benevolent societies, they often end up on the streets. There are active experiments in decreasing benevolence right now across many societies.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-14 22:09:36+00:00
I wouldn't say so. A large percentage of the population - double digits - have never had any job security in their lives, or any guarantees whatsoever. We've learnt to adapt and know we can do it again. People aren't allocated 1 job per person for life and if we loose that job we're in the shit for life. Most people know they can get another job.
by drillsteps5 | 2025-11-14 22:10:22+00:00
I remember in the 80s, after mostly having given up on perpetuuum mobile, bunch of people were trying to invent something like this, using vibration etc which worked on Earth but would not in a vacuum... Looks like a new generation took the baton. Like this guy:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a65924333/eng...

An Engineer Says He’s Found a Way to Overcome Earth’s Gravity

This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

"In 2001, British Electrical Engineer Roger Shawyer first introduced the “impossible drive,” known as the EmDrive. It was called “impossible” because its creator purported that the drive was reactionless, meaning no propellant required—in other words, it defied the known laws of physics (specifically, the conservation of momentum)."
by Spivak | 2025-11-14 22:10:23+00:00
I mean this is the nanny state at its best. Getting in the way of progress because you refuse to meet people, in this case kids, where they actually are. The challenge should be minimizing the amount of waste—cook literally anything where the kids will clean their plates then try to nudge toward healthier options while keeping your waste % low. Let them take any subset of the lunch as they please, prune dishes kids either don't take or leave behind until you have a menu.

Mind boggling how getting the kids actually fed is lower on the priority list than making sure they eat the "right" things.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-14 22:10:43+00:00
My money's on fake woo-woo.

At first—like many others here—I thought it might just be a terribly-written explanation for a device that uses Earth's magnetic field, so that the planet itself is the "reaction mass" being pushed around... but I'm not seeing that in a quick patent search for the company.

Instead, there's a bunch of stuff that seems like perpetual-motion-machine crankery, where their "motor" depends on a oscillating some mass back and forth inside a chamber using special frequencies and "waveforms", which somehow imparts some acceleration which they explain as "generating mass."

Perhaps did use Earth's magnetic field through pure experimental error, and they either haven't realized it or think they can bilk investors by presenting it as something new.

_________

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11462985B2/en :

> The inertial mass of an object varies with the variation of its magnetic field and therefore a variation of inertia can be created which leads to the generation of mass by varying the magnetization of the motor and its constituent elements (at given times, as explained above).

> [...] the variation of “mass” is generated by the overmagnetization or undermagnetization of the motor itself in conjunction with given “shocks” or interactions between the magnetic piston and the two buffer magnets [...]

https://patents.justia.com/patent/11462985 :

> [In] general the motor or the moving system according to the present invention consists of an electromagnetically charged body which moves within a delimited volume of space being accelerated and decelerated electromagnetically in controlled manner during its movement within said volume of space.

> Such accelerations/decelerations generate a force on the volume inside which the mass moves and allow the volume of space to move.
by BoorishBears | 2025-11-14 22:11:47+00:00
I like that actually, I've spent the last year probably 60:40 between post-training and prompt engineering/witch doctoring (the two go together more than most people realize)

Some of it is engineering-like, but I've also picked up a sixth sense when modifying prompts about what parts are affecting the behavior I want to modify for certain models, and that feels very witch doctory!

The more engineering-like part is essentially trying to RE a black box model's post-training, but that goes over some people's heads so I'm happy to help keep the "it's just voodoo and guessing" narrative going instead :)
by spwa4 | 2025-11-14 22:11:51+00:00
How is this a solution to Chat Control and EU law? If this is used, governments will simply demand Apple and Google get the app declared forbidden, which both have done to apps for many reasons.

Worse: they might demand a list of people who have it installed (and this violates the Chat Control law of course).

Even worse: this app turns out to be written by a security agency or scammers and starts exploiting people.
by Genego | 2025-11-14 22:11:51+00:00
The issue for them is that once the tools exists, adoption only moves in one direction. And it will enable a whole wave of new artists. I sympathize with them, but if I enjoy GenAI art creation and see it as my genuine creative outlet, why would I stop? What about thousands of others exploring this?

If at some point I also get very good at it; and the tech, models and tools mature, this will turn into a real avenue; who are they to tell us not to pursue it?
by kazinator | 2025-11-14 22:12:30+00:00
Since you control the \\d format, why would you allow/support anything but a space as a separator? That's just to distinguish it from a comment like "\\delete empty nodes" that is not the \\d debug notation.

If tabs are supported,

[ \t]

is still shorter than

[[:space:]]

and if we include all the "isspace" characters from ASCII (vertical tab, form feed, embedded carriage return) except for the line feed that would never occur due to separating lines, we just break even on pure character count:

[_\t\v\f\r]

TVFR all fall under the left hand, backspace under the right, and nothing requires Shift.

The resulting character class does exactly the same thing under any locale.
by wk_end | 2025-11-14 22:12:43+00:00
I very genuinely - in the interest of consuming a diverse set of inputs! - would love to see some sources that persuasively, with evidence, can demonstrate a vision of the ground in Gaza that runs counter to what seems absolutely obvious to everyone following the war.

A world of luxury cars, high-end iPhones, relaxing afternoons spent in cafés on street corners? After two years of relentless bombing, a near-total blockade on supplies, and on and on? It seems so absurd at this point it doesn't even pass as propaganda. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
by nickff | 2025-11-14 22:12:56+00:00
The website you linked to specifies a subtly different thing from what you’re asserting:

>”Forty-eight percent of the people who died from blast injuries among our colleagues' households were children and 40 percent were under 10 years old.”

That is quite different from saying that “ 40% of the bombing victims in Gaza are under 10 years old”.
by bombcar | 2025-11-14 22:13:14+00:00
If you're a poor family you're better off with not having Netflix or go to the movies; you just watch DVDs and stay home.

The underlying problem not talked about in all this is how our entire financial system is built around charging you a bit more than you can bear, but not actually driving you into bankruptcy.

Then a huge percentage of your income goes to interest payments.
by msandford | 2025-11-14 22:13:15+00:00
"I could stop being poor, I just don't like the tradeoff."

I feel like this is an ugly truth, but still a truth. It's also very ugly.

For some people there's no tradeoff on how much they have to suffer to get some financial security because they already have it. Some people have to suffer a bit but quickly hit escape velocity. Some people never stop suffering. It's terrible.

I think Dave Ramsey has many annoying qualities but his "sometimes you have to act crazy to get out of it" is basically correct even if it's very, very uncomfortable IMO.
by acters | 2025-11-14 22:13:20+00:00
I use incus to pass a containerized kali os the Wayland and x11 sockets, and whatever else maybe in the /run/user/1000 folder and x11 socket folder, like pipewire. It isn't perfect, but it's really nice spawning a shell/bar/etc inside the container and it goes over the current Wayland desktop. Then I am able to use it to spawn other graphical apps. It works really well. Incus is amazing, or lxc and wayland in general.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-14 22:13:23+00:00
My suggestions can help some people, but not everybody. Because everybody is different. Let's continue complaining instead then?

But I've worked in places like this with people who were deaf and people who had limps, and people with a ton of other problems. And hundreds of thousands of people who have families work in the merchant navy to support them, or in other similar work places.

Sometimes (almost all the time) trying to talk about things on HN feels like having to argue that it is indeed possible to fry an egg or boil a cup of coffee...
by Sanzig | 2025-11-14 22:13:41+00:00
I am highly skeptical. A reactionless thruster is the holy grail of propulsion systems, but there are no known physics which permit it to work. A photon rocket would allow momentum exchange without mass consumption, but a quick look at the math shows it would be infeasible (hundreds of megawatts per newton).

My guess is this works at all, it is inadvertently expelling reaction mass somehow, such as ablating off small amounts of volatiles from polymer parts (like an inefficient version of a pulsed plasma thruster).

I'd love to be wrong, but this very much falls into the "extraordinary claims" category for me.
by TomJansen | 2025-11-14 22:13:43+00:00
So the author tried to fix a non-issue of somebody else's dog with human-grade probiotics.

I think that actually there was no issue at all and he just wanted to YOLO it.

And then he only goes to discuss if it was ethical as he didn't ask the dog? What about just not medicating a dog when there is no medical problem? What about consent from the owner? So much more issues with this than what the author discusses.
by elysionmind | 2025-11-14 22:14:02+00:00
People are submitting their ideas and im approving them (i dont generate them): https://snipboard.io/JjyGUh.jpg (current backlog)

about morningbrew, the initial traffic as per GA was from here (but couldnt find the article tbh.. https://snipboard.io/OT3s4X.jpg
by klelatti | 2025-11-14 22:14:42+00:00
I agree with Ken Shirriff [1]

> In my view, the key features of a microprocessor are that it provides a CPU on a single chip (including ALU, control functions, and registers such as a program counter) and that it is programmable.

Which means that, pioneering as it was, this wasn’t a microprocessor.

Ken’s post is terrific btw for an overview of the candidates for the title of first microprocessor.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-surprising-story-of-the-first-...
by ryandrake | 2025-11-14 22:14:45+00:00
Implementation of free and reduced-cost lunches varies considerably across the US states. In many places, it's discreet and private, but also in many places, the process is deliberately designed to 1. call attention to and shame people, and 2. make it difficult to use and easy to be denied.

And yes, you can probably easily guess which kinds of places focus on the cruelty, and which kinds of places focus on the helping.
by bwblabs | 2025-11-14 22:15:16+00:00
It really depends, e.g. take a look at PostgreSQL, which is licensed under the PostgreSQL License, which is similar to MIT.

IMHO a MIT license is better than AGPL with a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) like with Elastic.

Gitea is MIT, so free and open-source, permissive.

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929247#45930949
by rzerowan | 2025-11-14 22:15:29+00:00
The way most of these deals get structured especially when multicorps get involved is requiring the donor gov to guarantee the loan. Which gets routed to the recepient country, kickbacks get shaved off and re-routed back to the donor country. In this instance though my thinking is that for competeive pricing they would need volume , and prerequisite demand. This would be one way to generate that demand.In a way similar to the whole Tariff circus just more upfront.