MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by senkora | 2025-11-12 05:37:15+00:00
Do you mean a red flag for the quality of the article, or for the actions of the department? "Department of War" is currently a real name for the department:

> On September 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order authorizing "Department of War" and "secretary of war" as secondary titles to the main titles of "Department of Defense" and "secretary of defense." The terms must be accommodated by federal agencies and are permitted in executive branch communications, ceremonial settings, and non-statutory documents. However, only an act of Congress can legally and formally change the department's name and secretary's title, so "Department of Defense" and "secretary of defense" remain legally official.[10][11] Trump described his rebranding as an effort to project a stronger and more bellicose name and said the "defense" names were "woke".[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De...
by pmontra | 2025-11-12 05:37:24+00:00
If you leave ground alone all sort of things grow on it or lay on it. Dirt, mud, leaves etc. Soil grows at about 1 mm per year. 1 meter in 1000 years.

Historically cities were hit by floods and wars and new buildings were built on top of the foundations of old ones. We had an article about that church in Rome built over another roman church built over another roman church, etc. down to an old temple on a spring, or something like that.
by tentoumushi | 2025-11-12 05:37:37+00:00
As a long time Japanese learner, I've always wanted there to be a simple, free online trainer for learning and grinding Japanese kanji and vocabulary - like Monkeytype in the typing community (fun fact: we actually have 2 Monkeytype devs on our team now!). I'm doing this because I grew tired of all the subscriptions and paywalls, which are unfortunately very common in the Japanese learning apps market. That's why I want to make the most fun, user-friendly and customizable platform for learning Japanese currently available, and the first one that is (and will be, forever) completely free, ad-free and open-source - driven not by profit, but made by the community, for the community. We already managed to get around 600 stars on GitHub and about 7k monthly users for the app. That being said, I recognize that the app is still in its very early alpha stages and is, objectively speaking, behind paid Japanese learning solutions (at least for now) - which is why I want to change that and make it the first entirely free and open-source platform for learning Japanese to provide a real, high-quality alternative to all the current paid Japanese learning resources, which I believe we can achieve with the open-source community's help.

Why am I doing this? Because weebs deserve to have a free, open-source learning platform too (I'm one of them, don't judge...)

どうもありがとうございます!
by k310 | 2025-11-12 05:38:24+00:00
There's an old adage, I don't know if it's still valid, that a higher price makes some people think that the product or service is actually worth more than a cheaper one. (think open source apps and operating systems)

That said, I believe that music/video production apps start around $5 and a lot more on ios, some unknown number on mac (many ios apps run on Macs since M1/Ventura)

I don't follow mac app prices/bargains since some sale sites shut down or are just too hard to find. For ios, I look at the bargain page below, which is how I got that rough lower bound.

The "virtue" of the mac app store is the visibility to many, whereas selling outside of it (still possible and desirable) has a findability problem, unless you know how to find your customer base by whatever means

P.S. I sometimes find useful mac apps via Hacker News, but I avoid "help, get me out of here" popular social sites.

https://www.igeeksblog.com/paid-iphone-apps-gone-free/
by kappi | 2025-11-12 05:39:08+00:00
It's because of high admission rate from LCFF+ Schools

Beginning in 2022, however, UC San Diego took the lead, with enrollment jumping from 894 in 2021 to roughly 1,800 in each of the following three years (2022-2024).

The subset of California public schools in which more than 75 percent of the school’s total enrollment is composed of students who are identified as either eligible for free or reduced-price meals, or English learners, or foster youth, are eligible for additional funding through the LCFF program. The subset of California schools that meet these eligibility requirements are referred to as LCFF+ schools,
by _wire_ | 2025-11-12 05:39:08+00:00
These points observe how forum members adapt to and manage controversy irrespective of any connection to organized influencing. Basic psychology.

So connecting these observations to "spies" is absurd begging of the question.

Maybe this little catalogue seemed insightful in the 80s era of USENET news, but today it's simplistic and anarchistic.

MSM and FAANG have gone so far beyond these points in strategy and tactical manipulation of opinion that trying to reckon MSM / FAANG concerns and approaches with a litany about interpersonal behaviors of ordinary, singular net users is like confusing an interaction with a next door neighbor is the same contact with aliens in another solar system.
by jrflowers | 2025-11-12 05:41:01+00:00
> a person who was excellent at their pre-AI job, will replace ten of the people down the chain

I think comedy is a great example of how this is not the general case.

In this instance, the video you posted was the result when a comic used a tool to make a non-living thing say their jokes.

That’s not new, that’s a prop. It’s ventriloquism. People have been doing that gag since the first crude marionette was whittled.

The existence of prop comics isn’t an indicator that that’s the pinnacle of comedy (or even particularly good). If Mitch Hedburg had Jeff Dunham’s puppets it probably would’ve been… fine, but if Jeff Dunham woke up tomorrow with Hedburg’s ability to write and deliver jokes his life and career would be dramatically changed forever.

Better dummies will benefit some ventriloquists but there’s no reason to think that this is the moment that the dummies get so good that everyone will stop watching humans and start watching ventriloquists (which is what would have to happen for one e-ventriloquist putting 10 comedians out of a job to be a regular thing)
by chii | 2025-11-12 05:41:08+00:00
why are the standards and expectation different for google vs an independent researcher? Just because they are richer, doesn't mean they should be held to a standard that isn't done for an independent researcher.

The OSS maintainer has the responsibility to either fix, or declare they won't fix - both are appropriate actions, and they are free to make this choice. The consumer of OSS should have the right to know what vulns/issues exist in the package, so that they make as informed a decision as they can (such as adding defense in depth for vulns that the maintainers chooses not to fix).
by f33d5173 | 2025-11-12 05:41:46+00:00
>If Google really wants to improve the software quality of the open source ecosystem, the best thing they could do is solve the funding problem.

Google is not a monolith. If you asked the board, or the shareholders of google what they thought of open source software quality they would say they don't give a rat's ass about it. Someone within google who does care has been given very limited resources to deal with the problem, and are approaching it in the most efficient way they can.

>it's just human nature that when someone says "you go ahead and do the work, I'll stand here and criticize", people get angry

Bug reports are not criticism, they are in fact contributions, and the human thing to do when someone contributes to your project is to thank them.

>This is a company that takes a lot of pride in being the absolute best of the best.

There was an era when people actually believed that google was the best of the best, rather than saying it as a rhetorical trick, and during that era they never would have dreamed of making such self centered demands of google. This project zero business comes across as the last vestige of a dying culture within google. Why do people feel the need to be so antagonitic towards it?

>I can tell you with 100% certainty that there are undiscovered vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel right now. Does that mean they should stop shipping?

Hence why I qualified "deliberately".
by yoder | 2025-11-12 05:42:03+00:00
This might be smart. A few thoughts:

1. It gets the camera out of your pocket, which could give your ai assistant more context about what you're doing.

2. The high price tag helps get the word out (e.g. this thread) and invites third parties to compete with cheaper and more practical versions. This makes sense if Apple's goal is #1
by silisili | 2025-11-12 05:44:33+00:00
In essence, you're right. To a sufficiently large company, absolutely.

But there'd be a huge difference between giving me a 500mil investment vs giving me 500mil in tax breaks.

Obviously most fall into the former camp, but it's also optics. One feels like taking money from taxpayers and giving it out, the other less so. It's a little more bold to hand out money than to just not collect it IMO.
by dang | 2025-11-12 05:44:33+00:00
I'd forgotten about that site!

I thought I'd seen it here but maybe not: Nietzsche Family Circus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19287681 - March 2019 (2 comments)

It sort of reminds me of Werner Herzog Reads Curious George and/or Garfield minus Garfield.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-11-12 05:46:17+00:00
If you rely on it, pay for it. So easy. Especially if you are a BIIG company. Money gives the maintainers joy, free time and appreciation for their work.

Wakey wakey people, FOSS is here to F you. It can be free, while those, who rely on it and using it, also pay for it.
by LeFantome | 2025-11-12 05:47:55+00:00
MVC is not .NET of course.

You are right that WinForms and MVC have been around forever. However, Microsoft has continuously told devs that they are the past. So, you would be forgiven for expecting them to go away.

WinUI is the current official desktop paradigm and it is basically UWP from an API point of view. So the idea that UWP went away is not 100% accurate either.

Microsoft does not really abandon their UI tech like people say they do. But look how many different frameworks they have.

All of the above is Windows desktop only. There are a completely different set of UI technologies for the web.

UNO Platform (Open Source) allows you to use the WinUI API to target almost anything.

.NET MAUI is the official "cross platform" UI tech from Microsoft. It is what you use to target iOS and Android. As a bonus, you can target macOS and Windows too. On Windows, it uses WinUI. You will notice that the Linux desktop is missing from that list.

Here comes Avalonia to build MAUI on top of the Avalonia framework. This adds Linux and WASM to the list of platforms that MAUI will run on. Adding Linux is awesome. A lot of people have wanted that and it really completes the MAUI cross-platform story.

Adding WASM is neat but MAUI was never meant to target the web. If you use it for that, it is literally just the modern version of Silverlight. But Microsoft did not design it for that at all. It is just a back-end that Avalonia supports.
by hresvelgr | 2025-11-12 05:48:27+00:00
> men just want to be safe, satiated, and friendly to each other

I would argue AI fundamentally changes nothing in this respect. I think what we all want is freedom of pursuit, which is afforded to all as a birthright. What we are so concerned with is everyone's starting lines, and those starting lines are the consequence of an unjust society. Rand said it best in The Fountainhead:

"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
by codneprose | 2025-11-12 05:49:05+00:00
A lot of my friends in tech have given up on Twitter, but I still find a lot of value there. People don’t want to waste time trying to improve their feeds. They’re tired of doomscrolling and just want signal without noise. Twitter can be incredible at times, but it often feels like trying to find a needle in a noisy, sloppy ass haystack. I’ve been experimenting with building a dedicated site for folks who just don’t want to bother. It’s a curated directory of the best tech-related posts of the day: https://www.techtwitter.com
by mmooss | 2025-11-12 05:49:34+00:00
It's especially interesting because their philosophy is the opposite of Tolkien's. They seek power at all costs, trying to create 'rings' and dallying with bad people.

One common rhetorical tactic, commonly used by their political allies, is to use their (perceived) enemies' most powerful words and ideas against them, to disarm and counter-attack. 'Woke' was a term on the left; racism became descrimination against white people, diversity becomes affirmative action for conservatives, banning and mocking and even embracing discussions of Nazis, etc.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-12 05:49:48+00:00
That sounds hopeful and I certainly hope direct bank payments take hold. I'm still a bit worried because I still think payment providers will just end up becoming the new middlemen.

The old fashioned bank I use when I need in person banking (most of my money goes through fintechs or brokerage accounts) is on the FedNow list you link but doesn't offer FedNow use for its users. I can't, for example, pay my wife through FedNow.
by chartered_stack | 2025-11-12 05:50:31+00:00
I understand the feeling. There is a huge asymmetry between individual contributors and huge profitable companies.

But I think a frame shift that might help is that you're not actually donating your time to LMAX (or whoever). You're instead contributing to make software that you've already benefited from become better. Any open source library represents many multiple developer-years that you've benefited from and are using for free. When you contribute back, you're participating in an exchange that started when you first used their library, not making a one-way donation.

> They wouldn't have merged my code in if they didn't think it had some amount of value, and if they think it has value then they should pay me.

This can easily be flipped: you wouldn't have contributed if their software didn't add value to your life first and so you should pay them to use Disruptor.

Neither framing quite captures what's happening. You're not in an exchange with LMAX but maintaining a commons you're already part of. You wouldn't feel taken advantage of when you reshelve a book properly at a public library so why feel bad about this?
by zamadatix | 2025-11-12 05:51:16+00:00
Sorry, but this states a lot of assumption as fact to ask a question which only makes sense if it's all true. I feel Google should assist the project more financially given how much they use it, but I don't think Google shipping products using every codec they find bugs for with their open source fuzzer project is a reasonable guess. I certainly doubt YouTube/Chrome let's you upload/compiles ffmpeg with this LucasArts format, as an example. For security issues relevant to their usage via Chrome CVEs etc, they seem to contribute on fixes as needed. E.g. here is one via fuzzing or a codec they use and work on internally https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/b1febda061955c6f4bfb...

In regards whether it's a bad idea to publicly document security concerns found regardless whether you plan on fixing them, it often depends if you ask the product manager what they want for their product or what the security concerned folks in general want for every product :).
by xarope | 2025-11-12 05:51:40+00:00
I'm a member of the ACM, so I would report this article.

However, I think the author may just have made some mistakes and mixed up/-1'd their references, since the 2023 report is actually #2

2. Di Battista, A., Grayling, S., Hasselaar, E., Leopold, T., Li, R., Rayner, M. and Zahidi, S., 2023, November. Future of jobs report 2023. In World Economic Forum (pp. 978-2).

Similarly, Footnote 7 probably should probably point to #8

8. Nietzsche, F. and Hollingdale, R.J., 2020. Thus spoke zarathustra. In The Routledge Circus Studies Reader (pp. 461-466). Routledge.
by LeFantome | 2025-11-12 05:51:53+00:00
MAUI was never intended for the web. This is not what Microsoft wants you to use it for.

WASM is just one of the platforms that Avalonia supports and so, if you run MAUI on Avalonia, you can run it on WASM.

If you do that though, it is going to be like rendering any other desktop GUI toolkit in WASM. It is not a web app. I mean, it is cool you can do it and MAUI in WASM is better than no web capability at all I guess. But you would never set out to create a web app in MAUI.

MAUI on Avalonia on WASM is really a modern replacement for Silverlight. And it will likely be about as popular.

The really cool thing is being able to target the Linux desktop finally. A lot of people will love that.

And, while MAUI was meant to use native controls on each platform, many people may prefer the Avalonia approach of having your app render the same everywhere.
by Animats | 2025-11-12 05:51:55+00:00
US power grid info:

PJM:

Geomagnetic Disturbance Warning 11.11.2025 19:25 (PJM times are Eastern Standard). PJM-RTO

A Geomagnetic Disturbance Warning has been issued for 19:25 on 11.11.2025 through 04:00 on 11.12.2025 . A GMD warning of K7 or greater is in effect for this period.

This is only a warning. There are no listed actions being taken. When you see Geomagnetic Disturbance Action, not just Warning, there's a problem. That happened most recently on June 1, 2025. Extra people are probably on standby all night in case something happens.

CAISO: Nothing.

ERCOT: Nothing.

Hydro-Québec: Multiple snow-related outages near Montreal and some other locations.

Background info from the last time HN got wound up about this.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44152154
by thelastgallon | 2025-11-12 05:52:32+00:00
> It is not made from quality materials ( Nylon (14%), Polyester (85%), Polyurethane (1%)). It is not innovative. It is questionable whether it solves its primary use case particularly well.

It is impossible for Apple to innovate. It's way too much work to compete with BYD/Tesla on real things like Electric Cars.

It's a LOT easier just to extract money from idiots who pay top dollar for 'fashion'. They will market this as the Balenciaga of phone bags, to differentiate it from the $2 phone bags that will appear on Temu next week (or they are already there; Apple is slowly catching up after a few years).
by EagnaIonat | 2025-11-12 05:52:40+00:00
Our cyber security team told people not to put stickers on the laptop as it can be used to spear phish the owner, can open to industrial espionage.

They even showed us this cheesy video showing.

1. A woman chatting up a developer based on their stickers on the laptop they saw earlier. 2. Someone targeting the laptop for theft because of the stickers.

People still do it, but I've only seen it on the junior people trying to express who they are.
by greygoo222 | 2025-11-12 05:53:31+00:00
> I know several people with hereditary mental health disorders who's ailments have been trigger by drug use but i don't think you can blame the drugs here. a traumatic experience could trigger it too.

If they had a 50% chance of developing the disorder without taking the drug and an 80% chance of developing it with the drug (for example) of course you can blame it. There has to be some nuance here: these drugs are not nearly as dangerous as many make them out to be, but they are not without risk either. People can be seriously harmed by them, or, more likely, just have a bad time.
by mrcsharp | 2025-11-12 05:54:44+00:00
I found it to be a headache trying to get LE Audio to work on my Windows machine. It should provide good audio quality when the microphone is in use but:

- I have to have BLE v5.2 at least on my Windows device - It must have isosynchronous audio support (which I believe is an optional feature in the spec)

- The headset must have the same features too.

Then it is a question of which audio codecs are supported on those 2 devices. It's quite messy to be honest.
by KingMob | 2025-11-12 05:55:01+00:00
I like FS, but it's always had kind of nebulous morality, though. It lumps in humans with companies, which cannot have morals, under the blanket term "users".

This is the same tortured logic as Citizens United and Santa Clara Co vs Southern Pacific Railroad, but applied to FS freedoms instead of corporate personhood and the 1st Amendment.

I like the FS' freedoms, but I favor economic justice more, and existing FS licenses don't support that well in the 21st c. This is why we get articles like this every month about deep-pocketed corporate free riders.
by lodovic | 2025-11-12 05:55:54+00:00
Can't you just give the information you are hinting at? Other people than OP read this. You basically tell me to go read thousands of messages on a mailing list just solve your rhetorical question. (answer: Intel, Redhat, Meta, Google, Suse, Arm and Oracle. There are much more efficient ways to find this.) Yes, they are the main kernel contributors and have been for many years. I'm still not sure I understand the comment.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-12 05:56:50+00:00
Perhaps if the Department of Whatever engineered and built things they needed themselves*, or at least controlled the program management and knew all of the sub-sub-sub-sub-contractors, they wouldn't be incorporating improperly acquired metals or ballooning programs into mega pork projects for all 50 states. The DoD is a jobs program and wastes money that could be used for housing, healthcare, and food instead of lining the pockets of "defense" contractors as the larger budget in the world compared to the next 9 countries combined and maintaining 750 bases in 80 nations.

* They and the private sector ran out of TNT because of UA-RU and Israel's flattening of Gaza and so they won't have enough for 2 years from now because corporate consolidation leads to unpreparedness because it's more profitable than keeping essential supply chain infrastructure alive. (It used to cost $0.50/kg but now it's $20/kg.) OTOH, they forge the barrels for tanks and artillery mostly themselves. This inconsistency and creeping of megacorp profiteering never lends itself to security or capital efficiency.. privatization isn't "flexibility" or "efficient", it's price-gouging and risky.
by hinkley | 2025-11-12 05:56:50+00:00
Standardizing people’s work turned them into automatons to be studied and improved by a management elite.

Which all came crashing down when Deming had to go to Japan to get people to listen to his ideas and triggered a massive recession in the US.

Deming and (to a lesser extent) Goldratt pull the employees back into the conversation. Tether are closest to the problem and even if they can’t solve it, they can help you shape the answer. Taylor was neofeudalism and he can rot.
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by Phiality | 2025-11-12 05:57:05+00:00
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by announcer4614 | 2025-11-12 05:57:15+00:00
I've noticed that some things can make the price suddenly skyrocket. Certain PCB specifications for one (though couldn't name anything in particular off hand). The one thing that caught me by surprise was that if I wanted to have JLCPCB solder the ESP32 for me the cost would jump by more than double, and the PCB would have to be physically larger. Something about their "Economic" vs. "Standard" PCB assembly where, for reasons I'm not clear on, the ESP32 could only be done under the latter. I opted to solder that component myself, of course.