MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by robocat | 2025-11-14 21:17:43+00:00
Fine. Is Finland an oligarchy?

The article mentions 54 billion net worth left the country. I guess we'd have to look at who left to make any comments regarding startup founders or regulation manipulators.

Yes, there is a balance. The default assumption is that the wealthy fuck over their countries. I'm not quite so cynical (e.g. I think Buffett is nothing like Ellison).

The article is super biased (the site helps rich people get second passports).

We've got a few billionaires in New Zealand. I have very little idea about their influence on our regulations (although I suspect Peter Jackson might have had a positive influence - he's certainly generally helped our economy).
by cardanome | 2025-11-14 21:17:49+00:00
They are regularly arresting people and police brutality has gotten so bad that even the international press is taking note:

> Irish officials express 'concern' after Irish protestor left bloodied by police in Berlin

https://www.irishpost.com/news/irish-officials-express-conce...

> Footage circulating on X shows police using brute force to push back protesters, with at least 28 people arrested, according to police reports.

https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/crackdown-on-pro-pa...

> Udi Raz, 34, is sitting in a cafe in Berlin, where he lives, reflecting on a turbulent six months. Since Israel’s war on Gaza began following the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October, Raz, an Israeli Jew raised in Haifa, has been fired from his job and had the activist group he’s part of labelled antisemitic by Germany’s official antisemitism commissioner.

> Last Friday, German authorities arrested Raz, a board member of Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, after they cancelled and then banned the group’s three-day conference on Palestine.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/germany-crackdown-israel-...

Yes, even Jewish people are labeled anti-semites, it is that insane.
by pryce | 2025-11-14 21:17:57+00:00
Came here to submit this after seeing it linked by another member of the NZ developer community - but I see you already have. An impressive synthesis that deserves to be widely read - this passage landed well with my own unease about the gap betweeen what kind of future we're building versus what kind of future we say we're building:

> It boggles the mind that in an open software culture whose central ethos is continuous iteration and improvement made possible by openness, our licensing stack and its ingrained principles are apparently immutable.
by immibis | 2025-11-14 21:18:12+00:00
Sure. Just look at how they're doing now: they have the full support of the world to re-invade Gaza, and this can be justified by the fact that no Jews live there (Just look three comments above yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932249 )

If there were Israeli Jews (I am not referring to the religious group, but by which side of the conflict people are on) living in Gaza, such arguments wouldn't work, just like they don't work for the West Bank (which is also getting genocided but we're not talking about it, so maybe that strategy works too).
by fragmede | 2025-11-14 21:18:33+00:00
Claude totally can, same with ChatGPT. Upload a picture to either one of them via the app and tell it there's no line where there should be. There’s some plumbing involved to get it to work in Claude code or codex, but yes, computers can "see". If you have lm-server, there's tons of non-text models you can point your code at.
by SamBam | 2025-11-14 21:18:51+00:00
The issue is the they always say "Here's the final, correct answer" before they've written the answer, so of course the LLM has no idea if it's going to be right before it starts, because it has no clue what it's going to say.

I wonder how it would do if instead it were told "Do not tell me at the start that the solution is going to be correct. Instead, tell me the solution, and at the end tell me if you think it's correct or not."

I have found that on certain logic puzzles that it simply cannot get right, it always tells me that it's going to get it quite "this last time," but if asked later it always recognizes its errors.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-14 21:20:02+00:00
> The purpose of PAS was to create a low manganese environment in the body,

Do you have a source for this?

I searched, but this recent paper on the mechanism of action for para-Aminosalicylic Acid (PAS) doesn't even mention manganese. It says it targets Dihydrofolate Reductase pathways: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5395024/

Searching for manganese and TB leads me to papers showing that manganese is an essential cofactor for Isoniazid's anti-TB action: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31319159/ but nothing about inducing low manganese states would be helpful or intentional.

So I don't think I'm dead wrong at all. Unless you have some sources, I don't think inducing manganese deficiency is actually the mechanism of action for PAS.

> we have a lot of data showing how well people do with low manganese for a period of 1-2 years. (That was the time that this treatment required.) It wasn't pleasant (in particular it came with nausea), but it was definitely survivable.

Again, do you have any source for this? Preferably a source that indicates what manganese levels were reduced to during treatment?

The side effects are likely due to the 3 drugs in combination which have their own side effects, not low manganese (if it occurred).

EDIT: This commenter was making the same claim down thread and admitted they couldn't find a source for their claim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932379 It seems like they're making assumptions and presenting it as scientific fact.
by jeromegv | 2025-11-14 21:20:18+00:00
This is entirely false, the typical propaganda narative that all is fine in Gaza and they are just faking it.

All hospitals and universities have been bombed. All foreign doctors that went to Gaza and went out (about the only people allowed in Gaza because journalists are prevented by Israel) have talked of the absolute destruction and lack of medical supplies.

All neighbourhoods look absolutely destroyed. Most buildlings are severely damaged, which has been documented by satellite imagery published by most medias including BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/live/czjvzmknv0lt
by w10-1 | 2025-11-14 21:21:09+00:00
It's worth highlighting the conditions under which this can help:

> in domains where the taxonomy drifts, the data is scarce, or the requirements shift faster than you can annotate

It's not actually clear if warranty claims really meet these criteria.

For warranty claims, the difficulty is in detecting false negatives, when companies have a strong incentive and opportunity to hide the negatives.

Companies have been trusted to do this kind of market surveillance (auto warranties, drug post-market reporting) largely based on faith that the people involved would do so in earnest. That faith is misplaced when the process is automated (not because the implementors are less diligent, but because they are too removed to tell).

Then the backlash to a few significant injuries might be a much worse regime of bureaucratic oversight, right when companies have replaced knowledge with automation (and replacement labor costs are high).
by resfirestar | 2025-11-14 21:21:23+00:00
Interesting. I've found Claude Code very useful for answering questions about codebases. I think that kind of functionality is on the whole more useful than static AI-generated documentation, but maybe there's a place for an always-ready and google-able starting point.

It badly needs to split up the pages for different parts of large codebases. The golang/go page is way too long and the table of contents sidebar makes you watch a scrolling animation to expand subsections.
by pixl97 | 2025-11-14 21:21:25+00:00
>but that doesn't mean that the machine is actually conscious in the same way a human body empirically

Does it matter? Is a dog/cow/bird/lizard conscious in the same way a human is? We're built from the same basic parts, and yet humans seem to have a higher state of consciousness than other animals around us.

For example the definition of the word conscious is

>aware of and responding to one's surroundings; awake.

I'll give that we likely mean this in a general sense, but I'd say we're pretty close to this with machines. They can observe the real world with sensors of different types, and then either directly compute, or use neural nets to make generalized decisions on what is occurring around them, then proceed to act on those observations.
by lurking_swe | 2025-11-14 21:21:44+00:00
suggestion: give people the benefit of the doubt instead of assuming they are out to get you, trying to blame you, or trying to attack you. Especially on hacker news.

Was it a “dumb” question? Yes. Maybe they are dumb. Maybe they are just totally out of touch because they don’t know any poor people. I don’t know because i’m not a mind reader.

It’s not a crime to ask a dumb question.

Good day.
by bluGill | 2025-11-14 21:21:47+00:00
I don't understand this niche. Linux does not need to run on an ARM machine for almost anything. Linux has very good cross platform abilities and so you can build and test on whatever CPU (presumably x86, but any CPU will do), and then when you are confident that everything works cross compile for ARM and things will almost always work. You also have qemu which is slow but plenty good for running some code where this matters.

You do need a little testing because ARM is different, but the odds that are are doing something where it matters are low. I've been doing the above for years and only found two things. First was a bug in GCC (already fixed in a newer version by the time I traced it down). Second was x86 has a strong stronger memory model for sharing data between threads - hopefully you are not doing that (I only hit it because I maintain our cross thread message system).

You also can't test anything that uses GPIO type things - but this computer has different setup and so you couldn't with this anyway. (and you should abstract your GPIO for testing anyway so this because a small test case when you do switch to real hardware)
by KaiserPro | 2025-11-14 21:21:55+00:00
> Kubernetes is incredibly reliable compared to traditional infrastructure.

The fuck it is.

> It eliminates a ton of the configuration management

Have you used k8s recently? to get it secure and sane is a lot of work. Even if you buy in sensible defaults, its a huge amount of work to get a safe, low blast radius deployment pipeline working reliably

Like if you want vaguely secure secrets, thats an add on. if you want decent non-stupid networking, thats an addon, Everything is split horizon DNS.

Thats before we get to state management, trying to play the pvc lottery, is not fun. which means its easier to use a clustered filesystem. Thats how fucked it is.

> there’s a lot of complexity to configuration management on traditional VMs

Not really, you need at least terraform to spin up your k8s cluster in the first place, its not that much harder to extend it to use real machines instead.

It is more expensive, unless you're binpacking with docker.

> cough…Chef

Chef can also fuck off. Although facebook use it on something like 8 million servers, somehow.

> Networking can be complex with Kubernetes

try making it use ipv6.

Look what the industry needs is a simple orchestration layer that places docker containers according to a DAG. You can have dependencies, and if you want a plugin system to allow you to paint yourself into a corner.

Have some hooks so we can trigger actions based on backlog

Leave the networking to the network, because DHCP and DNS are a solved problem.

What I'm describing is basically ECS, but without the horrid config language.
by buellerbueller | 2025-11-14 21:22:09+00:00
The trend is not a "wiggle." It is the slope of a local region, around which the "wiggles" bounce.

Sure, I agree: privatization continued the trend that nationalization established.

My point is simply this: the graph on its own doesn't indicate anything causal, but your original comment implied that the graph is enough to prove that privatization caused the growth.
by bokohut | 2025-11-14 21:22:37+00:00
Yes, timing and location is everything and some impacts can never be changed. In this case the planet's tilt cannot be changed which is reducing our daily PV output in aligned conjunction with increased mileage traveled via electric mobility.

This alert is also a false positive because while they are reporting our increased draw within a set interval they are not front loading the alert logic check against our existing overage credit balance from back feeding our surplus. This then asks the question should the alert logic only occur on increased usage that I pay for or should they also take into consideration my credit before alerting me? My increased usage costs nothing when I have an overage credit as my power company PV agreement is 1 to 1.
by cgranier | 2025-11-14 21:23:39+00:00
I'm working on a browser extension that lets you save a list of all your open tabs into a markdown document. You can format the output using a templating language and it saves direct to your Obsidian vault if you have one (otherwise gives you a markdown file to download, plus a clipboard copy).

github link: https://github.com/cgranier/tabSidian

Links to all the browser extension stores on github.
by Muromec | 2025-11-14 21:23:55+00:00
>EU parliament is the only legislature in the world that needs permission to legislate

It makes sense, because EU law is mostly technical stuff that commission has to draft and all the national governments have to agree to.

With the commission being elected by the parliament itself and vote of no confidence being a thing, it's not like the parliament doesn't have power -- the power is intentionally nerfed to not overreach where national governments don't want it to.
by bakugo | 2025-11-14 21:24:03+00:00
> grandma isn't a beta tester

Grandma doesn't know what a gosh darn fire fox is, and probably doesn't even know what a web browser is, either. And she most definitely doesn't know what an "AI browser" is.

If this is their target audience, they are guaranteed to lose to the "defaults" aka Chrome and Edge.
by jeromegv | 2025-11-14 21:24:07+00:00
> How do you define this?

Would you not try to resist if you were to live in an open-air prison like Gaza?

What if you lived in the West Bank and someone came to knock on your door and tell you that settlers were now taking over your land your family has lived in for hundreds of years and the bulldozer was coming the same afternoon to destroy your house, how would you react?

I never condone attacking civilians, but i can't reasonably understand what those people had to live through for decades while their neighbour get to go to the beach every weekend.
by ethmarks | 2025-11-14 21:24:26+00:00
> Or they can steal vertical tabs from Vivaldi.

Firefox already has vertical tabs and they work great.

> Or they can steal the profile switching from Vivaldi.

I'm pretty sure that Firefox has profile switching in some capacity, although I don't personally use it and can't vouch for it.

As for the rest of these, I agree completely. Firefox has too many wacky AI experiments and not enough normal browser features.
by sifulweb | 2025-11-14 21:25:08+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been building MailUI, a lightweight HTML email builder that includes:

a modern drag-and-drop email editor

an embeddable plugin that can be added to any SaaS app with a single script

a large template gallery

an AI text-to-email generator

The goal is to make email creation easier for both individual users and developers. Tools like Unlayer and Stripo are powerful, but many people find them heavy, slow to integrate, or difficult to customize. I wanted something cleaner, more modern, and easier to embed.

Why I built this

I run a small product and needed a solid email builder, but everything available was either too enterprise-focused, too hard to integrate, or too inflexible. Building a custom editor from scratch is a huge project—blocks, templates, drag-and-drop behavior, HTML rendering, responsive handling, export formats, etc. MailUI started as an internal tool to solve that gap and eventually grew into something I wanted to release publicly.

How the embeddable plugin works

The plugin loads with a single script tag. It renders a full email editor inside your app and communicates with your backend using a small API layer. You can customize colors, fonts, allowed components, templates, and export formats (HTML or JSON). It’s framework-agnostic and works with React, Vue, Next.js, Laravel, Rails, and others.

Technical notes

The editor runs as a standalone client bundle

The template system uses JSON-based blocks

AI generation is handled by an internal API wrapper around OpenAI

What’s next

Custom block SDK

Collaboration features

More templates

Improved plugin API

I’d appreciate any feedback.

Thanks for reading.
by michaelrpeskin | 2025-11-14 21:25:34+00:00
We did "free" lunch for all here a couple of years ago. The idea is great, execution is terrible. You can't get a la carte free, only the full "FDA approved" lunch is free. So if you forget a drink, or just want to add a snack to your own packed lunch, you go get the whole thing and throw everything else away.

The elementary school tried adding the "share table" where you can put anything you don't want so that someone else could pick it up, but that was shut down because they could assure the feds that everyone was getting a "balanced" lunch.

My highschooler tells me of all the kids going through line multiple times to get pizza on pizza day and then throwing the rest away because they don't want that.

Of course we had a second tax that was approved this year because the free lunches were more expensive than they had planned. Wonder why.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-11-14 21:25:35+00:00
> What's in dispute is where that threshold is, and how steep the curve before/after it.

Yes, but I'm not disputing that, nor is that the substance of your attack on my comment. You attacked the Laffer curve, not the presupposition that the article is factually correct, which does not discredit or undermine the Laffer curve. At best, it only removes its relevance.
by Shocka1 | 2025-11-14 21:26:02+00:00
Selling it as a pain reliever I can't buy into personally based off my anecdotal experience. I've had chronic pericarditis for more than a decade now and THC amplifies mine as well, as I tend to focus more on the pain. I think it's a very subjective thing, depending on many factors; strain, type of pain, person, etc.
by btilly | 2025-11-14 21:26:05+00:00
See https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4407437/ to verify that PAS was used.

Any google search on PAS and manganese will show that it eliminates manganese from the body by chelating it, and is therefore used for treating manganese toxicity.

I don't have a specific reference for manganese levels in people undergoing the old TB treatment. But I'm sure that it should exist somewhere.
by atmosx | 2025-11-14 21:26:07+00:00
> From 10 years ago, but still, there is nothing today as secure as GPG.

Age?

> Since 2015 we have seen may applications that use encryption, and almost every one has given up their key once the company get a legal request from their government. Just look a China for an example.

https://xkcd.com/538/ ?!?!
by garciasn | 2025-11-14 21:26:19+00:00
I would say these are 'tagged'; organized is a bit of a stretch, IMO.

This is some sort of searchable index that reminds me a lot of what the web was like prior to Google; the Altavista days. It's just a jumble of poorly formatted text that isn't really contextually aware and is largely useless for the volume of textual documents.

Then there's the whole 'I landed on an email that offers the text of an email that, I assume, the pertinent information is in the attachment listed, of which I cannot easily access.

--

I'd be more interested to see how you enhance this in v2.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-14 21:26:58+00:00
> The entire industry lacks security experts.

Disagree. I think you mean "cheap experts", in which case I withdraw.

The most talented security professionals I've seen so far are from Europe. But they get paid dirt by comparison to the US.

Here in the US as well, for over a decade now there is this cry about "skills shortage". Plenty of skilled people. But companies want to pay them dirt, have them show up to in person offices, and pass drug tests. I'm sure they'll add degrees to that list as well soon. It's a game as old as time.

The reality is that infosec is flooded with entry level people right now, and many of them are talented. Pay is decreasing, even in the US. EU, EMEA, Latin America will hurt even more as a result in the long term.

Security isn't revenue generating unless you're a security company, so companies in general want security but they want it cheap. They want cheap tools and cheap people. That's what they mean by skills shortage, there isn't an actual skill shortage. They think infosec professionals should get paid a little bit higher than help desk. Of course, there are many exceptions, places that are flexible and pay well (heck, just flexible only even!) are being flooded with resumes from actual humans.

Infosec certification costs are soaring because of the spike in demand. next to compsci, "cyber security" is the easy way to make a fortune (or so the rumor goes), and fresh grads looking for a good job are in for a shock.

> here we have a bunch of companies with presumably human devs, that just got pwned by an AI script kiddie. Womp womp.

What's your point? You don't need AI, companies get pwned by script kiddies buying $30 malware on telegram all the time. despite paying millions for security tools/agents and people.
by simoncion | 2025-11-14 21:27:10+00:00
> Not without a lot of extra help. That is why I said by yourself.

One guy can totally make butter, lard, and harvest fatty meat by themselves. While it's far easier with help, it's not as if you're asking the fellow to -say- change the orbit of the sun. Fat people and high-calorie foods substantially predate modern industry.
by pixl97 | 2025-11-14 21:27:21+00:00
>The implied answer is of course, one is water falling from the sky and one is a machine.

Lets say you're in a room a good distance from the window. Suddenly you hear what sounds like thunder and rain falling. From a distance it appears that it's raining outside.

Is the rain real? Or is it simulated on a screen well enough you can't tell?

You have input output devices just like a computer. They don't see reality, they filter out huge amounts of data and your brain just interprets it. If our machines get good enough we may be able to blast signals directly to the brain that say it's raining and the brain wouldn't have any idea if it was simulated or not. Much in the same way it feels like we exist and not a 3d hologram an infinite distance away (or whatever other weirdness physics may or could do).