MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mojoe | 2025-11-10 18:38:03+00:00
Thanks!

I pay a fixed rate up-front for reprint rights, which is a one-time deal. This is mostly because pro rata royalties on an anthology are a pain (I've done this before, it involves sending out lots of tiny single-digit-dollar checks), but also because it's unlikely for me to make back the money I spend on anthology creation (science fiction short stories are a tiny market).

This is a hobby project for me, I'm obsessed with trying to get more people to read science fiction short stories. I spent about $6k creating the anthology (to pay for cover art, reprint rights, proof prints, etc), and I'll probably recoup about half of what I spent? We'll see, I'm currently testing various marketing strategies.
by pron | 2025-11-10 18:38:47+00:00
Turns out that "killer features" are frequently not killer enough. You mentioned Rust with its memory-safety killer-feature, and yet Rust is quite old now (about as old as Java was when JDK 6 came out or JS was when jQuery came out) and its adoption rate is low for such an old age.

I have no idea if Zig will be successful or not, but even if you look just at memory safety, I think it does a better job at that than Rust. If you look at MITRE's top 25 dangerous weaknesses [1] or top 10 exploited weaknesses [2], you'll see that Rust spends almost all of its complexity on eliminating weaknesses that don't even make the top 5 on either list, while Zig's more limited memory safety addresses the more dangerous memory-safety-related problems without paying so dearly to solve less severe issues.

Now, I personally think that Zig's combination of expressivity and simplicity, while still being low-level, is an unprecedented killer feature (I wrote more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852774) which makes the language design quite revolutionary and fascinating. This could perhaps translate to correctness benefits.

[1]: https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2024/2024_cwe_top25.html

[2]: https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2024/2024_kev_list.html
by IncreasePosts | 2025-11-10 18:39:15+00:00
She might be, but it might also be the case that there are so many actors, to be "well known", you need to be in the 0.001%

I probably have seen movies with her in it, but I have no recollection of her as an actor. I did recognize her husband as Samir from Office Space, though I couldn't tell you his name.
by Theodores | 2025-11-10 18:39:18+00:00
You would also be surprised at how 'tech savvy' non-tech people are in the UK. It is quite common for non-tech people to screenshot train ticket QR codes just in case they have no signal at the station yet none of the common train booking apps suggest this.

Rest assured, Ryanair knows their passengers very well. They know that every single one of their passengers knows how to babysit a smartphone so the battery doesn't die on their flight. Let's be honest, sudden unexpected incontinence is more likely than a Ryanair passenger fluffing up their pocket device for doom-scrolling.
by bluGill | 2025-11-10 18:39:21+00:00
Anytime someone talks about scale I remember just how much data the low mhz CPUs used to process. Sure the modern stuff has nicer UIs, but the UIs of the past where not bad, and we a lot of data was processed. Almost nobody has more data than what the busiest 200mhz CPU on 1999 used to handle alone, so if you can't do it that isn't a scaling problem it is a people problem. (don't get me wrong, this might be a good trade off to make - but don't say you couldn't do it on a single computer)
by isodev | 2025-11-10 18:40:21+00:00
> please make sure you de-Apple, de-Google, and de-American Stack yourself when you have time, clarity, and focus to do it. Start today.

That's the message. It's high time. We can what-about-argume about what's E2EE and what Apple "pinky promises" isn't used or sold but the reality is that anything seated in the US may as well be a publicly open http for the right buyer (be it the US government, Saudi Arabia, Israel or whatever...)

Especially if you're in charge of customer data, you can't "just" setup something on a EU server if the corp is based in the US, those days are over now. You need to do the legwork.
by HiPhish | 2025-11-10 18:40:35+00:00
> Out of curiosity, what happens when someone does not own a smartphone (or the battery is dead)?

Or you drop your phone. Or it gets stolen. Or for whatever reason the software fails. Electronic devices are so flimsy, even if you want to use an app it's worth having paper as a backup option. It's the same reason why I always carry cash and a card on me (and I pay in cash as much as possible anyway).
by hnthrowaway0328 | 2025-11-10 18:40:58+00:00
I think MS SQL Server is fine? Office is good if you ignore anything after 2013...VS debugger is good, but VS itself is bloated.

Meh, not many indeed. Anyway they adopted the beta to user and improve on the way mindset long time ago. Windows terminal was not very good back then but now it is OK.
by observationist | 2025-11-10 18:41:04+00:00
Any rational assessment of Canada's military capabilities, its funding capabilities, and population will lead to a determination that they're not in any sort of position to have any sort of meaningful defense or offense without the US running point.

For that to change would require generational shifts in culture and revenue generation and so on. If the US chooses not to defend them, they're exposing themselves to unacceptable risk. If the US chooses to defend, Canada isn't contributing within the same order of magnitude. If the US chose to attack, then more has gone wrong in the world than you could possibly cope with, having a few thousand more tanks, ships, and helicopters isn't going to save the day. It'd take decades to build up population, R&D infrastructure, resources, and so on, and there'd likely be a lot of pressure to not do those things and use the US military industrial complex instead.

Not saying this is good for Canada, btw, just that the reality is they've kinda coasted on US coattails for decades now, and for better or worse, they're stuck. Which should in turn beg the question - if there's no practical or pragmatic point in spending a bunch of money on military preparedness and expansion, then why's that money being spent, and who's getting paid? Why are bureaucrats being militarized, instead of a discrete, well regulated military being created to meet whatever the need was?

Strange politics.
by ml- | 2025-11-10 18:41:07+00:00
Yeah, that's cool. Currently tangential, but conceptually not something that would be completely out of scope in the end. I'm planning to use machine translations, text-to-speech, and multi modal generative models for accessibility already. There's also an idea for baking in GPS audio tours. Obviously depends on sourcing some quality content first

When you say open source is it so you could self host it, use your "own" models, and curate your own datasets? or some other reasons? I could see a future where a lot of the project could potentially be open sourced and work with any defined geojson API.
by llm_nerd | 2025-11-10 18:41:43+00:00
Many, many Americans are in denial about how shockingly the country has fallen. It's just staggering at this point seeing Americans, of all people, warning about Chinese ties with business.

I remember everyone fear-mongering because some business member in China had ties with the Communist party. The US is literally commissioning executives from tech companies in the armed forces (https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/1255164460/1a-army-07-03-2025), business leaders like Elon Musk literally became members of the administration while many more (Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, among many others) are defacto mouthpieces of this administration. Trump is exerting absolute, unchecked, utterly lawless power to do whatever he wants whenever he wants, while occasionally looting those very companies for various kickbacks.

The US is currently an international shame, and a shame to 240+ years of its history. It is an abomination compared to all of its historic values and laws and checks. And anyone blind to this, yet still pointing at China, is intellectually defective.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-10 18:42:15+00:00
It's that second one that I'm trying to actually work around by using AI to generate the trimmed down version. I just haven't taken the time to pull open some of the really old versions of my resume to flush out the history and to expand on older projects yet.

The whole process just seems to suck all around. As much as I never liked filtering through a stack of hundreds of resumes as a senior member in a time hiring, being on this side of the wall is even less fun.
by benoau | 2025-11-10 18:42:17+00:00
> But what do you think happens once you that gateway is blown open, isn't your front door next?

Yes this is the way policing should work, if they think you have done something they knock on your door rather than go to Apple and Google and compromise the entire population all at once through the convenience of their monopolies. Bonus points if a judge needs to grant them the privilege of knocking on your door too.
by piltdownman | 2025-11-10 18:42:23+00:00
The Brown study I cited above concludes differently, and is strictly a longitudinal, retrospective cohort study involving adults 50 to 85 years of age.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2408259

Within that 50-85 cohort, among 73,838 adults (mean [±SD] age, 65±9.8 years), the participants in the top wealth quartiles in northern and western Europe and southern Europe appeared to be higher than that among the wealthiest Americans. Survival in the wealthiest U.S. quartile appeared to be similar to that in the poorest quartile in northern and western Europe.
by bluGill | 2025-11-10 18:42:34+00:00
I generally think the right rule of thumbs is about 10 languages - but that includes the build system, CI system... Not everyone needs to know all 10, but you need a good set of options for that that need it. Most people should be using the same 2 or 3 of that 10, but a few teams need to do something weird and so need the other options that are overall rarely used.
by austinshea | 2025-11-10 18:42:42+00:00
It's not absurd, and it's also not gatekeeping.

Why do you want a summary of the changes? The bulk of the information in a commit is the diff itself.

The information that is not contained in the diff is the author's intent, and that's what the space is meant to contain.

I'm not convinced you actually believe that a summary is valuable because this whole comment is coming from a very defensive place.
by InTheArena | 2025-11-10 18:42:51+00:00
The first two are reasonable positions. The third, on the merits of the argument in the article, is absolutely bonkers. It's the UK government that is unleashing this stupidity on the world. There is no European alternative that is any safer, and it's the UK's own hands that are at fault in the first place.

Not that there aren't other reasons to be skeptical of American companies' right, but it's just so easy to fall into nationalistic prattle instead of fixing the real problem.
by joshstrange | 2025-11-10 18:43:09+00:00
LibreChat was my favorite open source frontend/backend for interacting with LLMs. I know ClickHouse says it will stay that way but I find this acquisition odd to say the least. The overlap seems tenuous at best and I worry this will be abandoned along the way. I hope I'm wrong but the whole thing just is odd, a database acquiring an open source AI tool?
by HiPhish | 2025-11-10 18:43:31+00:00
> but will instead need to use the digital boarding pass generated in their “myRyanair” app during check-in to board their Ryanair flight.

And of course it's only possible using a specific proprietary app. You'd think a penny-pinching company would want to use open standard to save money instead of develop a custom app, right? I'm 100% sure this is done intentionally to scoop up as much personal data from their customers.
by dpoloncsak | 2025-11-10 18:43:34+00:00
I'm sort of out of the loop as a US citizen....Does the UK really have the ability to enforce every E2EE storage solution on GitHub to comply?

Even if you monitor downloads, every VPN, every ISP..... can't I copy paste the source code?

Isn't SFTP already E2EE? They're not going to come down on SFTP....right? I really hope not...
by eviks | 2025-11-10 18:43:50+00:00
1. I think the fact that you have nothing of substance and have to read into the fact that after reading your comment explicitly mentioning tmux I repeated that illustrates the point is invalid.

2. but what's the value of a shibboleth if it's not reflected in capabilities??? Why would you care that a TUI app targets "tech user base" if you also know it will be less capable in your 'keyboard-centric' workflow due to platform limitations? And LCD for users just doesn't make sense, what user quality are you min-aggregating?
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-11-10 18:44:01+00:00
A big reason for this is that Wikipedia's source is often a book or a journal article that is either offline or behind an academic paywall. Checking the source is effectively impossible without visiting a college campus's library. The likelihood that the cited information is wrongly summarizing the contents is low enough and the cost is high enough that doing so regularly would be irrational.
by bitwize | 2025-11-10 18:44:10+00:00
I'm a bit reminded of the days before Unix-style pipelining and abstract I/O streams like "standard input and output". Mainframe operating systems would instead support devices like "virtual card readers" and "virtual line printers". When you created a COBOL program on disk and scheduled a compile job for it, the system would set up a virtual card reader to accept the program as input and direct the logs to a virtual printer. How to set this up was specified using JCL on IBM iron.

It seems that "virtual personhood" was set up to address deficiencies in our legal system regarding who or what may be party to a lawsuit, etc.
by kakacik | 2025-11-10 18:44:17+00:00
The only reason you can claim russia is not threat to you is their utter corrupted incompetence which had them losing cold war. In their mindset, every single one of you here living in free democratic country, doing and thinking whatever you like are a direct threat to their dictatorship and way of existence. Canada has no reason to not be another russian gubernia, they can come up with some made up claim like they would need one.

One would laugh at all this and ignore them if they didn't have enough functional nukes to cover entire civilization few times over.

Now I am not claiming the above about every russian person, nor attacking their culture or history. Actually history yes, a bit, its pretty sad and explains why they are as they are. They consistently end up with ruling elite who thinks above, maybe apart from Gorbachev (who is despised back home). Don't ever make a mistake of underestimating how fucked up russia as a country is. I keep repeating the same for past 2 decades (as someone coming from country practically enslaved for 4 decades by them) with people mostly laughing it off, apart from last 3 years.
by leptons | 2025-11-10 18:44:51+00:00
>. And of course, all of the crappy app developers insist that 1. I use a very recent phone and 2. I run the latest OS, or I'm shut out.

Signal did this when my wife's Macbook could no longer be updated to the latest Apple OS version. Signal just stopped working for her completely on her laptop. She couldn't install the latest version of Signal due to her not being on the latest OS, and Signal won't allow the old version to work once it's outdated. We had to buy her a whole new laptop (not Apple this time) to get her back on Signal (something she relies on).

Yes, I know about the hacky workarounds to get the latest OS working on a Macbook, but fuck that noise.
by brainwad | 2025-11-10 18:45:05+00:00
That's far from obvious. The UK is 3x the population of Australia, which manages fine without deep economic integrations. The problem of Brexit is not that it is impossible to go it alone as a middle power; it's just an unnecessary handicap when you border a 450m head market but want to ignore them and act like you are an island at the arse end of the world.
by JyrkiAlakuijala | 2025-11-10 18:45:30+00:00
Zstd decompresses faster, perhaps 2x faster, but Brotli is fast enough. Often a little faster than gzip/deflate.

Brotli can compress more because of context modeling, about 5% more without the static dictionary and even more with it. Brotli works better with very short data.

Brotli is a bit more streamable than zstd, i.e., hides less data during transfer.

Zstd has better encoder implementations, but basically there is no technical difference in the demands of the format on the encoding algorithms. Compression could be equally fast, Zstd just saw more love and specialization for encoding. As a result, Zstd libs are 2x heavier than Brotli.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-10 18:45:31+00:00
My new high-privacy, high-control data management solution revolves around pen & paper. As far as I am aware, these implements have not yet been banned in the UK.

I don't know why everything must be digital. If you don't put it on a computer, it's almost as if it doesn't exist. If you do this often enough, it is almost as if you don't exist.
by npalli | 2025-11-10 18:45:49+00:00
He is very enthusiastic about new things but even he struggled (for ex. the first link is about his experience OOB with Sparq and it wasn't a smashing success).

Should you get one? # It’s a bit too early for me to provide a confident recommendation concerning this machine. As indicated above, I’ve had a tough time figuring out how best to put it to use, largely through my own inexperience with CUDA, ARM64 and Ubuntu GPU machines in general. The ecosystem improvements in just the past 24 hours have been very reassuring though. I expect it will be clear within a few weeks how well supported this machine is going to be.
by ryadh | 2025-11-10 18:45:57+00:00
It actually comes from our own experience at ClickHouse. We deployed this stack internally 8 months ago, and since very few people here have touched our legacy BI systems :) I have never seen an adoption curve like this one tbh. It's obviously not perfect and can hallucinate sometimes, which can be tricky, but with the right approach and awareness in place, the value it delivers is massive. What really happens is that more users get access to data instantly, and as a result, we make better, data-driven, decisions overall.

My favourite use-case: our sales and support folks systematically ask DWAINE (our dwh agent) to produce a report before important meetings with customers, something along the lines of: "I'm meeting with <customer_name> for a QBR, what do I need to know?". This will pull usage data, support interactions, billing, and many other dimensions, and you can guess that the quality of the conversation is greatly improved.

My colleague Dmitry wrote about it when we first deployed it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bi-dead-change-my-mind-dmitry...
by jonas21 | 2025-11-10 18:46:13+00:00
It's also a marketing channel for future flights. The app almost certainly asks for notification permissions, and most people will say yes -- they're useful for knowing if your flight is delayed or there's a gate change.

Now they have a channel where they can let you know about deals, etc. I'm sure they've modeled exactly how much this is worth, and I'd be willing to bet it's a lot.
Show HN: Princejs – <10 kB Bun framework by a 13-year-old Nigerian, beats Hono
by lilprince1218 | 2025-11-10 18:46:30+00:00
Hey HN, I’m Matthew — 13 years old, from Nigeria

24 hours ago I published princejs — a tiny Bun-native web framework I built in 3 days on my school Windows laptop.

Real 30-second autocannon benchmarks (same route, same machine):

- princejs → 256,000 requests (8,526 req/sec) - Hono → 241,000 - Elysia → 286,000 (still fastest but 2 MB+ unpacked)

princejs beats Hono by 6%, is only ~10% behind Elysia, and is *200× smaller* (10 kB total, 178 lines of code, zero deps).

Website + docs: https://princejs.vercel.app npm: npm i princejs

I’m just a kid with a school laptop and a dream. Would love your feedback!
Show HN: Infostealers in Nov 2025: 183M Gmail, 16B Logins, Nikkei Slack
by Traclea | 2025-11-10 18:47:20+00:00
In the past month alone, infostealer malware has dominated headlines with breaches exposing billions of credentials—183M Gmail-linked logins dumped in late October (via Synthient's monitoring, loaded to HIBP on Oct 21), Nikkei's Slack histories for 17K+ employees compromised by a single August infection (disclosed Nov 4), and an aggregated 16B credential mega-leak from ongoing stealer campaigns (Cybernews, June but with fresh Oct dumps).

These aren't flashy ransomware hits; they're silent endpoint infections turning your browser, wallet, or Slack into hacker fodder. Vidar 2.0's upgrade (Oct 6) is already spiking campaigns, filling the Lumma void with faster exfil and better evasion.

Traditional breach checkers like HIBP are great for historical dumps, but they miss the real-time flood of stealer logs—raw credential grabs from infected machines, sold cheap on Telegram/dark forums for ATOs and fraud.

That's where Traclea steps in: we scan your emails and usernames across both breach archives and live stealer databases, with platform-specific filters (e.g., Steam/Discord creds, crypto wallets like MetaMask/Binance, socials like IG/TikTok). Alerts hit instantly when your data surfaces, so you can rotate keys before the phishing starts.

Key bits:

Monitors 1000s of sources, including emerging threats like FleshStealer or PhantomVAI loaders.

Username search beats email-only tools—catch exposures on gaming/streaming accounts that slip through.

Simple dashboard, no fluff.

We're bootstrapped, privacy-first (no data resale), and aimed at devs/security folks tired of waiting for breach notifications.

To kick off awareness: First 1000 to join our waitlist get 1 month free on the individual Basic plan.

Head to https://traclea.com/ and sign up—let's make November less breach-y.

Thoughts? Ever dealt with a stealer hit? What's your go-to for credential hygiene?
by throwanem | 2025-11-10 18:48:12+00:00
Good to see a couple stories here I first read in Clarkesworld! If you're a fan of the old-school SF magazine as form, there's no better place to go lately, in my view, and Neil's editorial taste is excellent - if you like this anthology, you'll enjoy the magazine, also. Take a look!

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/
by sylens | 2025-11-10 18:48:23+00:00
GCP had second mover advantage in that they got to build a lot of constructs to segment identity and network access in ways that make sense. It's incredibly easy to give a service account access to conduct an action in every folder and project in a GCP org, compared with having to deploy a role to each account in an AWS org. VPCs being global and subnets being regional also make a lot more sense than having them be regional and zonal, respectively, in AWS.

But the support I get from AWS is world class compared to GCP. My AWS account team is always proactively reaching out, not just for potential security risks but also with cost optimization advice.
by throw0101d | 2025-11-10 18:48:35+00:00
> so in reality you're 1 channel up over 6GHz becasue people are not buying wifi6 router to stay on 80MHz channel

In reality, a 1x1 80Mhz connection gives you a 600 Mbps PHY rate:

* https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

* https://superuser.com/questions/1619079/what-is-the-maximum-...

Even if you halve that, how many online activities are going to make use of that bandwidth? And if you have a 2x2 client, you double it anyways. A 1x1 40Mhz using 802.11ax will give you a max PHY of 287Mbps. How many activities use >100 Mbps, especially continuously?

Off the top of my head: certainly downloading a new game or software updates can eat up those bits, and photo/video editing or creation (local NAS or uploading) it might be useful; are there any other activities that use that?

As I commented elsewhere: it would be great if residential Wifi devices defaulted to 40 MHz.