MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RickJWagner | 2025-11-30 22:34:57+00:00
I’m afraid you are hopelessly across the wall.

Hunter was paid $500k per year by a gas company. He has no expertise in the domain, and does not even speak the language. To pretend this is not corruption is amazing.

I believe you know this, but are not mentally acknowledging it because that would lead to uncomfortable internal reckonings.
by skissane | 2025-11-30 22:35:28+00:00
Google has been working on Fuchsia, a new open source OS which in theory can replace Linux as the base of ChromeOS and Android

But it is unclear how committed they still are to this. Some suggest it was just a “keep our options open” project or a “stop smart people from doing it for our competitors” project. They are actually using it in anger on their Nest Hub devices, but we don’t know if they still plan to take it any further than that
by puika | 2025-11-30 22:35:31+00:00
funny, windows 11's explorer has been the most infuriating experience for me over the years in all my personal and workplace machines (hangs, wont preview whatever files it decides doesnt want to, slow context menu startup, and many more) and frankly one of the reasons I've been daily driving kde+dolphin. I'd say I miss the out of the box cloud integration (you can install kio plugins but theyre not in a good state now. Dropbox have their own dolphin plugin as well), but I really couldn't care less when weighing in everything else. multimonitor support in kde wayland is just as good. Actually, its better, since you can control monitor brightness without a external program like Monitorian. wsl2 has some quirks if you're using a company VPN but overall pretty solid. Accessibility really is a pain point for linux in general
by voodooEntity | 2025-11-30 22:35:49+00:00
So, since this seems to be relevant im a CISO myself.

And i would definitely not agree with everything in this letter.

Personally, i think the worst part about it is handling a low probability as something that's not gonne happen. Thats, especially in IT-Sec, one of the worst practices.

To take on point as example - the "never scan public QR codes".

Apart from the fact that there have been enaugh exploits in the past (The USSD "Remote Wipe", iOS 11 Camera Notification Spoofing (iOS, 2018), ZBar Buffer Overflow (CVE-2023-40889), etc) even without an 0day exploit qr codes can pose a relevant risk.

As a simple example, not to long ago i was in a restaurant which only had their menu in form of a qr code to scan. Behind the QR code was the link to an PDF showing the menu. This PDF was hosted on a free to use webservice that allowed to upload files and get a QR code link to them. There was no account managed control about the pdf that they linked to, it could be replaced at any time opening a whole different world of possible exploitations via whatever file is being returned.

Sure you could argue "this is not a QR code vulnerability just bad practice by the restaurant owner" - but that's the point. For the user there is literally no difference if the QR code itself has a malicious payload or if the URL behind it has (etc etc).

While we in the tech world might understand the difference, for the John and Jane Doe this is the same thing. And for them its still a possible danger.

Apart from that, recently a coworker linked me a "hacker" video on youtube showing a guy in an interview talking about the O.MG cable. Sure, you might say this is also an absolutely non standard attack vector, yet it still exists. And people should be aware it does.

My point is - by telling people that all those attack vectors are basically "urban myths" you just desensitize the already not well enough informed public from the dangers the "digital" poses to them. And from my personal view, we should rather educate more than tell them "don't worry it will be fine".
by hansvm | 2025-11-30 22:36:12+00:00
> what difference does it make

Traditional fraud-detection models have quantified type-i/ii error rates, and somebody typically chooses parameters such that those errors are within acceptable bounds. If somebody decided to use a transformers-based architecture in roughly the same setup as before then there would be no issue, but if somebody listened to some exec's hairbrained idea to "let the AI look for fraud" and just came up with a prompt/api wrapping a modern LLM then there would be huge issues.
by weinzierl | 2025-11-30 22:37:21+00:00
These processors were very very different from what we have today.

They usually only had a single general purpose register (plus some helpers). Registers were 8-bit but addresses (pointers) were 16-bit. Memory was highly non-uniform, with (fast) SRAM, DRAM and (slow) ROM all in one single address space. Instructions often involved RAM directly and there were a plethora of complicated addressing modes.

Partly this was because there was no big gap between processing speed and memory access, but this makes it very unlikely that similar architectures will ever come back.

As interesting as experiments like LLVM-MOS are, they would not be a good fit for upstream LLVM.
by closewith | 2025-11-30 22:37:36+00:00
Yes, I am sure.

Annex VII only rules out connecting to the PSAP/112 side, not routine network attaches. To detect faults in the “means of communication”, the IVS has to verify that the SIM, baseband and RF path are actually usable, and you can’t test that without a network attach.

In practice that’s what all current eCall implementations do. The modem attaches to the cellular network at each ignition so it can confirm it’s capable of placing an eCall. If you block the modem or antenna, the IVS fails its self-test and the vehicle is no longer roadworthy.
by defrost | 2025-11-30 22:38:46+00:00
Part of the mechanism to make this possible is dropping the full weight of the DOJ and other three letter agencies down hard on anybody who dares to point out the illegality of many of the actions here.

eg: Pentagon Is Investigating a Member Of Congress Who Criticized Trump

~ https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/pentagon-is...

is essentially direct retribution against elected members, former military members who merely state that serving troops are required to follow the law and the constitution first as a priority.

This wastes the time, money, and resources of those prepared to state the emperor has no clothes and serves as a dire warning to any other that might think to stand up.
by diath | 2025-11-30 22:38:51+00:00
> Never scan QR codes: There is no evidence of widespread crime originating from QR-code scanning itself.

> The true risk is social engineering scams...

Exactly. My grandma is very susceptible to phishing and social engineering, I don't want her scanning random QR codes that would lead to almost identical service to the one she would think she is on and end up with identity theft or the likes.

> Regularly change passwords: Frequent password changes were once common advice, but there is no evidence it reduces crime, and it often leads to weaker passwords and reuse across accounts.

Database leaks happen all the time.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-30 22:39:04+00:00
> Those upsides could have also been accomplished by pointing the CIA at Venezuela to do the same thing they've been doing across South America for the past fifty years

Has the CIA actually advanced American interests in South America? Legitimate question. My layman's understanding is they serially fucked the theatres they were assigned to alongside America's reputation in exchange for, at best, short-term U.S. wins.
by ifidishshbsba | 2025-11-30 22:39:07+00:00
Let D be the language used to express the gameplay, C be an implementation of a compiler for D in a language L. You want to minimise the length of D + C across all languages L. This gives you a unique language D (a DSL) for each game which is the most semantically dense and expresses the essence of the problem domain the best.

The language or languages D is discovered (not designed) and is the essence of the problem, will never change and is true in all universes. Any general purpose programming language solving the same problem (a solution using L) will have a structure of D with a bunch of boilerplate and design patterns (design pattern = boilerplate = hints at a special form in D).

Using a hierarchy of these minimal languages D with one compiling into another for each little problem is the only way to get ‘clean code’ free of boilerplate.

Software engineering is minimising D + C for all L
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-30 22:39:34+00:00
Along the same lines, I occasionally find myself cursing iOS for its willingness to just bring up the dialer and call a number. I really, really wish that it would confirm any dialing before doing it, especially if you didn't click on a phone number on a contact. Couple times I've ended up dialing a recent spam caller, which is the last thing I ever want to do.
by leoc | 2025-11-30 22:40:06+00:00
A well-known or once-well-known article from what seems to me (I'm not an expert) to be roughly the beginning of the current wave of AI progress and optimism. This seems like an appropriate moment to think about it again, especially since Moravec predicted human-level AI for about now:

> This paper describes how the performance of AI machines tends to improve at the same pace that AI researchers get access to faster hardware. The processing power and memory capacity necessary to match general intellectual performance of the human brain are estimated. Based on extrapolation of past trends and on examination of technologies under development, it is predicted that the required hardware will be available in cheap machines in the 2020s.
by RickJWagner | 2025-11-30 22:40:18+00:00
Given your statements about Hunter, I believe you have decent visibility into both sides of the issue. Kudos to you.

I don’t disbelieve what you say about Trump and his family. I am certain they are cashing in on his time in office, at a tremendous pace. ( It has to be worth it, given the damage being done to the Trump corporate brand. )
by card_zero | 2025-11-30 22:41:08+00:00
OK, but what does advancing society on purpose look like, in the 800s? This is before the invention of the concept of progress. People could only aspire to be good in a way that equated loosely to "holy", which for Charlemagne seems to have included "scholastic", and I think that's as reasonably close to intentionally advancing society as you're going to get, at that time. You may prefer to venerate some Frankish monk instead, who valued scholarship without also killing thousands of Saxons, but such a person would be less influential and would probably also approve of mass slaughter of pagans anyway.

Beccaria is interesting, it's true. Nothing wrong with digging up the underrated and overlooked, if you can find them.
by naikrovek | 2025-11-30 22:41:33+00:00
It’s not baffling at all. They strongly value maintaining backwards compatibility guarantees.

For example, Windows 11 has no backwards compatibility guarantees for DOS but operating systems that they do have backwards compatibility guarantees for do.

Enterprises need Microsoft to maintain these for as long as possible.

It is AMAZING how much inertia software has that hardware doesn’t, given how difficult each are to create.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-11-30 22:42:06+00:00
> Doctor competence is highly variable, as there are few incentives for improvement.

> But all hospitalists are paid under the same schedule (based on years of experience), meaning that the high-agency hospitalist is getting paid the same as their counterparts. Greater intrinsic motivation and competence are not explicitly rewarded.

I find it very hard to believe that it’s possible to measure “greater intrinsic motivation and competence” objectively here (and for GPs as well, basically any profession with high variety in the Stafford Beer sense), so explicitly rewarding that seems fraught with Goodhart-style problems.
by shoo | 2025-11-30 22:42:23+00:00
Jack Crenshaw's 1988-1995 series Let's Build a Compiler [1]

Graydon Hoare's 2002 talk `"One Day Compilers" or how I learned to stop worrying and love static metaprogramming` [2] (implements a compiler for a DSL that's a subset of makefile syntax in < 400 lines of code using ocaml toolchain)

edit: on second thoughts, aiming to ship a game in a novel _compiled_ language in a 7 day language+game jam is probably a lot more optimistic than aiming for an interpreted language.

[1] https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

[2] https://www.venge.net/graydon/talks/
by eichin | 2025-11-30 22:42:44+00:00
That sounds healthy! But I would note that there's been interesting community discussions on reddit in past years, and I've gotten caught up in the "finish faster so I can go join the reddit discussion without spoilers". It turns out you can have amazing in-jokes about software puzzles and ascii art - but it also taught me in a very visceral way that even for "little" problems, building a visualizer (or making sure your data structures are easy-to-visualize) is startlingly helpful... also that it's nice to have people to commiserate with who got stuck in the same garden path/rathole that you did.
by an0malous | 2025-11-30 22:42:51+00:00
> Do you have a source for that not being their life savings?

I mean there are many sources that talk about the $300k he received from his family to start Amazon, it's a famous story. None of those sources mention that it was his family's life savings. I don't really know how to provide a source that says it wasn't his family's life savings, but I also can't provide a source that says he wasn't an alien from Zeta Reticula. This is generally the problem with proving a negative and why the onus is usually on the person making a positive assertion.

> if you're going to assert Bezos came from wealth in the first place, you have to back that up.

I did, I'm saying that a family that can give their son $300k to start a business in 1993 is wealthy. That would be about $674k today.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-30 22:42:58+00:00
There's the typical mix of good and bad points in this manifesto, but I wish the people willing to sign their names to it had a better record of success implementing the call to action inside their own organizations first:

We call on software manufacturers to take responsibility for building software that is secure by design and secure by default—engineered to be safe before it ever reaches users—and to publish clear roadmaps showing how they will achieve that goal.
by simondotau | 2025-11-30 22:42:59+00:00
On the contrary, I read the cartoon as being very complimentary, as it espouses the virtue of egalitarianism. Why should someone on the internet know that you're a dog? If you're campaigning for the eradication of cats, perhaps. But even then, shouldn't we assume everyone is personally motivated and that a good argument is a good argument?

There's an impossible balance to be found between total transparency and not having to reveal all truths about your being, such as your species.
by TZubiri | 2025-11-30 22:43:29+00:00
But it was not expected, it's a one trick pony, but it worked. There's a lot of accounts that were passing as being from one country, and they ended up being some content farmer from a third world country with a gdp per capita of 2000$.

It was in part fueled by Twitter's idea of paying content creators, which made the whole thing an engagement bait party, it gave an economic incentive to countries with cheap and idle workforces to work 9 to 5 on posting whatever got likes without even understanding it, even it was political.
Show HN: CSS Advent Calendar 2025
by steveharrison | 2025-11-30 22:43:48+00:00
I've updated my CSS advent calendar for this year. Last year, I was using Windsurf to generate the code and content—it had heaps of broken links. This year, I used Claude Code to update the content and every link worked! Pretty cool how much AI coding has advanced in the past year.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-30 22:44:00+00:00
> Who even supports this?

Over a third of each of 2024 Trump voters and self-identified conservatives consider Venezuela America's "enemy" [1]. (Over two fifths of each of the male, Hispanic, 65+ and $100k+ income demos view Maduro unfavourably.)

Also, "weapons and AI platforms that were designed for a future conflict with China or struggled to prove themselves on the Ukrainian battlefield have found a niche in the administration’s tech-enabled crackdown on drug trafficking" [2]. ("In an interview, Palantir Technologies Chief Executive Alex Karp declined to say whether his company’s technology was involved in counternarcotics operations, but voiced support for the strikes. 'If we are involved, I am very proud,' Karp said.")

[1] https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabRepor... The Economist/YouGov, November 15 to 17, U.S. Adult Citizens

[2] https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trumps-focus-...
by lordnacho | 2025-11-30 22:44:43+00:00
SO has had an effective outage for years now. Put up a question, get smacked with "it's a duplicate" of an old, no-longer-relevant question, mods don't correct it because the culture is gatekeeping, now you have a dead Q&A site.

With the additional problem that someone invented a way to take your question pages and tailor them to the exact needs of a particular user.
by alien_ | 2025-11-30 22:44:47+00:00
This is the tool I use to generate and prepare for sending the PDF invoices for my freelance work.

It takes a bunch of JSON files that define info about my clients, as well as my own business details.

It then uses some of those JSON files to generates a PDF for the invoice, which it attaches to an email pre-populated with all the details, including the client’s finance email address, etc., which I just need to double check and send.

Might be useful for freelancers having multiple clients billed using various billing methods (hourly, results based, etc.)
by infecto | 2025-11-30 22:44:57+00:00
This is a wild take imo. Yes, I am sure there there are definite cases of overreach and I generally sit squarely in the libertarian camp but most permits, studies, etc are there for a reason. Maybe you have lived in a developing nation but I have and I can say you are at much higher risk of death because of the lack of oversight. The number of commercial building fires, risky electric installations, lack of common code is highly dangerous.
by btilly | 2025-11-30 22:45:07+00:00
I agree with your point.

My point was a "don't shoot the messenger".

A politically powerful minority calls ability tests racist because they make minorities look bad. An opposing offensive minority uses those same ability tests as evidence that minorities are simply inferior. Courts ruled that those using the tests should be presumed racist because the results show racial differences.

The result of all of this is a policy, meant to help minorities, that fails them. At great expense to all of us.

And an actual easy to identify factor which sustains racial differences - poor educational policies - is politically off limits to think about. "Because that would cost money."

The resulting mess is in alternating turns absurd and sad.
by LastTrain | 2025-11-30 22:45:07+00:00
That is not anywhere near 50/50 and is your leading example. A charitable summary of the survey is, when pressed, in some areas, people can think of some potential benefits. Why are you skeptical a group of 15 people would all dislike AI? People’s perceptions are based on how it is being employed in the current moment, and they don’t like it, and don’t trust it, which is the attitude included in the /first/ bullet item of the survey you linked: “ Americans are much more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life, with a majority saying they want more control over how AI is used in their lives.”
by Etheryte | 2025-11-30 22:45:15+00:00
I can see where you might get that sentiment, but where do you plan to go when new tech rolls around, the docs don't cut it and your LLM of choice hallucinates APIs that don't exist? This was always Stackoverflow's bread and butter, and people who only use it as noob search tend to miss that fact. SO can be a tough crowd, yes, but mostly it's people who didn't read the rules before posting who get burnt. That aside, it still has a very high concentration of experts that you'll struggle to find anywhere else.
by josephg | 2025-11-30 22:45:25+00:00
Yeah. I remember seeing the circuit board for official Xbox controllers vs cheap 3rd party ones. The official controllers had about 10x as many components. I don’t know what all that stuff does, but I’m sure it all contributes to the controllers feeling and working better.

I wonder the same thing about chargers. I’ve recently moved from a 3rd party charger for my camera batteries I got on amazon to an official Sony charger. The 3rd party charger seemed to work great - but it was practically weightless. The Sony charger is clearly a way more complex (and more expensive) product. I don’t know if all that complexity is actually worth it. What does it all do? But I assume so.
by euroderf | 2025-11-30 22:45:38+00:00
From the article: > Studies in people who develop apathy have shown that many of them just don’t find it sufficiently rewarding to take action. The cost of making the effort doesn’t seem worth the potential benefit.

In a work environment, if the rewards don't come in a timely fashion, pretty soon you should be looking for something new. If you don't know who the patsy is, the patsy is you.

And in a work environment, if you're not the kind of person marketing yourself, promoting yourself, that's another way that you might not see that effort/reward feedback loop get closed.

Maybe it's executive functioning faults, or whatever, but it might not be easy to keep the motivation and the commitment at a high level unless your manager is really tuned in.
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-11-30 22:46:08+00:00
You deffinetly don't just push the entire code base. Previous models required you to be meticulous about your input. A function here a class there.

Even now if I am working on REALLY hard problems I will still manually copy and paste code sections out for discussion and algorithm designs. Depends on complexity.

This is why I still believe open ai O1-Pro was the best model I've ever seen. The amount of compute you could throw at a problem was absurd.
by cesarb | 2025-11-30 22:46:15+00:00
> > But here we are with linux abandoning things like 'a.out'.

> I've completely missed this and would like to know more, may I be so bold as to request a link?

"A way out for a.out" https://lwn.net/Articles/888741/

"Linux 6.1 Finishes Gutting Out The Old a.out Code" https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.1-Gutting-Out-a.out (with links to two earlier articles)
by nacozarina | 2025-11-30 22:46:33+00:00
you are confused. ‘founder’ isn’t an operational position, it just means you have equity.

and using your ownership stake to bully others in their operational role is really bad form. your job ain’t your equity status and it apparently ain’t ceo. if you care about the value of your equity, focus on doing your job and be supportive of your ceo and wider management team.
by clanky | 2025-11-30 22:47:58+00:00
One third is really not a solid base of support for major military action, especially among the administration's staunchest supporters. My purely subjective impression is that there is plenty of doubt in the ranks of MAGA about this, Fox News consent manufacturing notwithstanding. Of course, the imperatives of imperialism being what they are, I don't think it makes much difference.