MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-05 03:06:12+00:00
The tide is turning but there’s much work ahead before midterms.

https://apps.npr.org/2025-election-results/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2025-elections/maine-ballot...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/aftab-pureval-wins-ree...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/pennsylvania-supr...

https://thehill.com/homenews/5589670-gop-incumbents-lose-sea...

(California Prop 50 returns aren’t in yet, but I’m hopeful based on turnout as of this comment)
by ModernMech | 2025-11-05 03:06:53+00:00
Yeah that's the fastest way to breed animosity in these communities. Insisting on calling someone by a name they don't use for themselves is extremely antagonistic.

r/programminglanguages has the right idea: put a pride flag in the logo and a lot of these problems just sort themselves out.

the flag logo has proven surprisingly effective at weeding out bigots. Not just in this thread or the previous one, but also in the moderator mail: we've had at least several instances of mouth breathers writing rants along the lines of "How dare you use colors in your logo!" (that's a very nice "translation" of what's actually written in those cases). Similarly, several comments in this thread have been removed and their authors banned, due to comments that boil down to "I'm not a bigot, I just hate LGBTQ+ people". This will not change, based on the simple premise that such people aren't worth having around in any community, and these people don't contribute anything of value anyway.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/17gcv...

And it does work out well, the discussions stay on topic, LGBTQ issues aren't really a community topic despite the flag. Here's how that works out in practice, from today:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/1onr6...

Someone says "he", they're corrected with "she", and that's the end of it. In more toxic communities where people are encouraged to use whatever pronouns they want, that simple interaction because a whole thing, where eventually one person calls the other delusional, the other calls them a bigot, and then no one is talking about programming languages. It's an eternal struggle, and for many people who build and maintain programming languages, they prefer to kick out the bigot rather than be called delusional, so everyone can get back to talking about programming languages. Still, there are plenty of online spaces, especially language spaces, where LGBTQ people are made to feel excluded. People upset with the flag or pronouns can join one of those communities, and everyone is happy.

(If anyone is wondering what kind of comments, they're usually veiled or not so veiled threats along the lines of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727677. If the mere presence of the flag keeps people like this out, that's fine by me.)
by bigyabai | 2025-11-05 03:07:23+00:00
I disagree. Many of us don't use a headset regularly or carry it with us like a phone or laptop; it is an express inconvenience to use, with only marginal benefits. Businesses won't want one if webcams still do the trick, and users might respond positively but are always priced-out of owning one.

If I'm doing work at my desk and I get a Zoom call, there is a 0.00% chance I will go plug in my Vision Pro to answer it. I'm just going to open the app and turn on my webcam, spatial audio be damned.
Ask HN: Is this the fast take off?
by noduerme | 2025-11-05 03:08:00+00:00
Imagine you read an article in Wired in 1996 envisioning the following:

(1) Stock market keeps rallying while the only growth and capex is in AI

(2) Mass layoffs of human workers

(3) Giant spike in resource consumption caused by explosive growth in datacenters

Would you think humans and their error-prone systems had led to this by a series of accidents and greedy investments? As I think we are primed to believe after tulips, railroads, junk bonds, Web 1.0, etc?

How different would it look right now in November of 2025 if Sam had an AGI in pocket that was using all that money to grow itself?
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-11-05 03:08:23+00:00
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by boltzmann-brain | 2025-11-05 03:08:38+00:00
Main tech skills:

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by tmvphil | 2025-11-05 03:08:38+00:00
I'm optimistic that he will actually be a positive force in reforming how the city operates. I think he is pragmatic in that he understands that efficiency in government administration is something that progressives have insufficiently prioritized. His policies are more populist than I'd prefer, but I think not the crazy socialist fever dream that Rs portray it as. The scariest thing for me is the prospect of active sabotage from the federal level, although I don't know how much they have held back.
by sarchertech | 2025-11-05 03:09:38+00:00
> They can delay getting new versions for a few hours with no issue. But when they stop entirely it's a problem.

If they can delay getting a new version for a few hours they can delay getting a new version for a few months.

> Once the dependency exists, it's bad to cut it off without warning, even without an exploitative goal.

It would be nice for them to do that, and it’s fine to be disappointed if they don’t, but anger is uncalled for unless it was malicious.

But ignoring that, it isn’t like they are shutting of a live service without warning. They’re just no longer offering an image. You can keep using the images that you had saved indefinitely. A warning wasn’t necessary.
by boltzmann-brain | 2025-11-05 03:09:48+00:00
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If there's a problem related to tech, I can solve it, and build a team or company around it. Available for work as dev/IC, EM, Director, or CTO, with experience in each. Full-solution MVP development from scratch. Performance optimization and modernization of older systems. DSL and programming language design, compilers. Let me know if you're looking for experience that isn't below! HN posts are short. CV upon request.

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- Short-term dev and research work

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by boltzmann-brain | 2025-11-05 03:10:02+00:00
Main tech skills:

- Backend Programming: Rust, Zig, Haskell, Python, JS, TypeScript, Node, Vue, React, Elm, Scala, C, C++, SQL, Perl, PHP, Clojure, OCaml, Erlang, Elixir, Theorem provers (TLA+, Isabelle HOL, Agda), ...

- Devops & co: NixOS, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Ansible, Linux admin, Distributed Systems, ... Quote from code review: "This is the most beautiful Bash code I've ever seen written"

- Fintech: Dev experience with banks and financial institutions. Launched Tezos and other major blockchains. Dozens of smart contract audits.

- Bizdev: Gamification, consumer modelling, data-driven retention and engagement

- AI: LLMs, predictive text, machine vision (trajectory tracking), DSP, Big Data, ...

- Infosec: Cryptography, Red team testing, RE, audits, threat modeling, ...

- Other tech: Godot game engine, audio engineering (mastering), Verilog, VHDL

Management and business: Minor in Psychology, led and managed teams between 2 and 30 people, product design and gamification, hiring, executive and political outreach, media appearances, and a lot of other experience that won't fit in this post.
by voidhorse | 2025-11-05 03:10:19+00:00
I think it has to do with scale and control.

The scale of the kinds of death you cited are typically personal. The actual act of the death has a local scope. It tends to be cordoned off and lacks spectacle in the sense that it doesn't produce tons of rampant collateral damage. Further, in most of those situations, there's some semblance of having autonomy and the possibility of personal choice and escape.

Not so with flight. Airplanes are a massive scale transportation system that has way more passengers than operators, and we rescind basically all control to those few operating experts to keep us safe. Couple that with the fact that, in most cases airplane accidents have breadth of collateral damage, and you have a perfect storm of human fear. Not only is it a system which we have no hope of controlling or escaping (in the case of accidents), it is super dramatic, comparatively rare, and thus eye catching.

People's fear of the lack of control is only second to their fear of the unknown.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-11-05 03:10:30+00:00
I suspect this government isn’t receptive to commentary from anyone other than only one person. While I’d never discourage anyone from advocating their beliefs this feels like at best a waste of energy. They are going to do it because they decided to do it - the solicitation of comments is performative and required. The only way to stop it is via the courts and by voting next November.
by prodigycorp | 2025-11-05 03:12:56+00:00
It goes a lot better if you don't think about it. But this is HN, I'll explain the logic.

I split Becky into two: IBM is Vanilla Becky. Palantir is Becky with the good hair. But don't get it twisted, they are both Becky. Don't fall for Becky.
by anonymars | 2025-11-05 03:13:25+00:00
> when an engine detached from the plane on takeoff...

https://imgur.com/a/NYlrLYO

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/757091156717862935/14...

Source: https://reddit.com/r/flying/comments/1ooms7t/ksdf_accident/n...
by epolanski | 2025-11-05 03:13:56+00:00
> Western countries put enormous value on personal liberty — America probably the most so

Ah yes, nothing screams valuing personal freedom like having 2 million people *in prison* right now in US. A rate of what, one every 140 adults?

And nothing screams personal freedom like spying every single of it's citizens or hacking every single chip on this planet.

Hell, US respects your freedom so much, you can't even renounce their citizenship!!
by mikestorrent | 2025-11-05 03:13:56+00:00
Threads like this are, in a sense, like a digital wake - we can all mourn Carlsen a little bit now. I remember the first time I saw a .TIF - on Rainbow Paint, a free paint program bundled with a Dexxa mouse my old man bought as an upgrade for our 286. To me, running across a random .tif somewhere was such a delight, something I could open as a surprise, maybe re-use parts of, zoom into, etc. or share on a disk with a friend. It's quaint, now...
by topspin | 2025-11-05 03:14:30+00:00
> Do runways have some sort of barrier between them and the next "important" thing.

Some do. Here is what it looks like when an overshooting plane utilizes such a barrier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW71FrX8t_g

179 dead.

Consider the possibility that gigantic flying aluminum tubes filled with tons of flammable fuel hurtling around at hundreds of kilometers per hour comprise a dilemma that has no trivial answers. Even defining what "important thing" means at any given instant is not straightforward.
by voidhorse | 2025-11-05 03:14:41+00:00
The gov't may try to fuck with NYC using ICE or whatever, but honestly I think the fears about federal funding are overblown.

NYC generates like 2+ trillion GDP all on its own. It is the largest metropolitan economy in the world let alone the United States. I don't know how much NYC actually depends on federal money, but if there's any city that has a chance to figure out how to make it through a government funding squeeze, it's NYC.

Honestly I think the only recourse the fed has to put pressure on NYC is the actual gestapo shit they've already been pulling in Chicago.
by ryukoposting | 2025-11-05 03:15:10+00:00
Government agencies like to take standards off the shelf whenever they can. Citing something overseen by an apolitical, non-profit organization avoids conflicts of interest (relative to the alternatives).

Random example I found at a glance: NIST recommending use of a specific ISO standard in domains not formally covered by a regulatory body: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-05 03:15:43+00:00
~6.5 times as many people (~7M) turned out for the last no kings protest as there are total active duty military personnel on US soil (~1.14M). Sounds like a poor play, but again, irrational and/or unsophisticated people will take irrational and/or unsophisticated actions. The US military lost in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars after spending ~$6 trillion and countless lives, you’d think people would know better. Ah, well, “it is what it is.”

> Despite the recent recruitment gains, the overall size of the military workforce is down 38% from 1980; the total number of active-duty service members has declined 45,861 from 2022 to 2024, for a total of just under 1.3 million. And some recruiting challenges remain: The DOD reports that 77% of young adults in the US are unqualified to serve without a waiver.

> The three most-common factors for disqualification are obesity, educational deficits, and criminal or drug abuse records. Young adults also report low interest in serving. In a 2024 survey, 87% of people aged 16–21 said they were either “probably not” or “definitely not” considering enlistment.

https://www.gao.gov/military-readiness

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-are-in-the-us-...

https://usafacts.org/articles/is-military-enlistment-down/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/06/6-facts-a...
Ask HN: How do you debug or trace Cloudflare RayIDs efficiently?
by mylescorner | 2025-11-05 03:16:22+00:00
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How do you debug or trace Cloudflare RayIDs efficiently?

I’m trying to understand how DevOps and developers currently handle debugging Cloudflare RayIDs. When an error or outage happens (say, a 502 or WAF block), Cloudflare provides a “Ray ID” — but getting the full context (edge data center, latency path, WAF rules, request diagnostics) usually means jumping through multiple dashboards or APIs.

How do you currently trace those RayIDs or investigate the root cause?

Do you use Cloudflare’s dashboard/logs manually?

Have you built internal scripts or dashboards?

Is there any existing API-based tool or aggregator you trust for this?

I’m exploring whether a “ Aggregator or solution based API could simplify this — paste a RayID, get a full diagnostic (edge path, WAF triggers, latency visualization, etc.) instantly.

Curious: would that actually save you time or fit into your workflow? What’s the hardest part about debugging RayIDs today?
by anonymars | 2025-11-05 03:16:22+00:00
The second video here shows an incredibly close view of the impact from a nearby dashcam.

https://www.wdrb.com/news/ups-plane-catches-fire-and-explode...

> There is an incredible amount of ground damage!

It's fortunate it wasn't taking off the other direction, towards the adjacent downtown of Louisville (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Louisville+International+A...)
by positron26 | 2025-11-05 03:16:38+00:00
There is a dead zone between rejection and successful take-off speeds. We see it hit too often.

I think pilot training is playing a factor. A normal rotation kills too much energy. One engine can climb when you have some airspeed and get clean, but if you lose too much energy on rotation, the inefficiency of the AoA for the rest of the short flight means that engine can no longer buy you any up. I've seen too many single-engine planes going down while trying to pitch up the whole way down.

So, less aggressive single-engine rotations and energy absorbers at the ends of runways that can't get longer. This seems like the kind of thing where we do it because it removes a significant cause of people dying.

Just watched this angle a few more times: https://x.com/BNONews/status/1985845907191889930

Another crash video shows the aircraft clearly descending before colliding with anything. It manages to go up a bit, so it's fast enough to get airborne. The normal looking rotation kills too much energy. The plane is then too inefficient to maintain speed. AoA goes up while energy goes down. Power available goes negative and then it's over.
by Sinosteelpipe | 2025-11-05 03:16:40+00:00
The latest data report released by financial analysis company S&P Global shows that the S&P Global Australia Manufacturing PMI dropped to 49.7 points in October 2025 from 51.4 points in September. This is the first time that the index has fallen below the recession line after being above the boom line for nine consecutive months, indicating that Australia's manufacturing industry has stopped continuing to expand and has turned to shrinking, but the shrinkage is weak. The S&P Global Australian Manufacturing PMI is a weighted average calculated based on output indicators, new orders indicators, employment indicators, supplier delivery time indicators and purchase inventory indicators. The index is above 50 points, indicating that Australia's manufacturing industry is expanding, and below 50 points, it indicates that the country's manufacturing industry is shrinking. The latest report pointed out that due to the deterioration of market demand, new domestic orders for the Australian manufacturing industry fell at the fastest rate in 10 months in October. At the same time, new export orders also fell, especially from the Asia-Pacific region. Under this circumstance, the Australian manufacturing industry reduced factory output for the first time since June, reduced employment for the first time in eight months, and reduced purchasing activities for the first time in three months, resulting in a decrease in the inventory of purchased goods. Inventories of finished goods continued to increase in October. In addition to the lack of new orders, the reason was also related to shipment delays. Affected by port congestion, poor weather conditions and shipping delays, delivery times for the Australian manufacturing industry in October were extended by the largest margin this year. In terms of prices, the average input cost of Australia's manufacturing industry continued to increase in October, and its growth rate reached the highest level since April. The main driving factors behind the rising cost pressure are rising prices of raw materials, electricity and shipping. At the same time, despite the accelerated rise in costs, the pace of manufacturing companies increasing product sales prices slowed down in October. The report said sluggish demand and strong competitive pressure limited companies' ability to pass on cost burdens to customers. In October, Australian manufacturing companies remained optimistic about output growth over the next 12 months. However, the Australian manufacturing business confidence level indicator fell to a four-month low that month, indicating that companies are increasingly worried about the macroeconomic outlook. S&P Global Economist Pan Jingyi said that data shows that both domestic demand and overseas demand for Australian manufacturing products have deteriorated. Judging from the reduction in employment and declining business optimism, Australian manufacturing companies have become more cautious about growth prospects.
by blibble | 2025-11-05 03:16:56+00:00
> This is Amazon’s first legal salvo against an AI company, and it is a threat to all internet users

well, it's no threat to me as I'd rather not use the internet than have some dogshit "AI" agent browsing for me

> Publishers and corporations have no right to discriminate against users based on which AI they've chosen to represent them.

of course they do, "AI" agents are not a protected class

if I want to ban e.g. all Mac OS users from my store I can do that too

> Perplexity is fighting for the rights of users.

what a load of utter toss
by magicalhippo | 2025-11-05 03:16:57+00:00
The linked Stern article[1] has a before picture showing how the wave used to look.

I'm not that good with hydrodynamics, but since they say nothing structural changed during the cleanup, could it be how quickly they brought the flow back up?

[1]: https://www.stern.de/sport/sportwelt/eisbachwelle--so-funkti...
by bigyabai | 2025-11-05 03:17:12+00:00
> Would you think humans and their error-prone systems had led to this by a series of accidents and greedy investments?

Any year before 2008, no.

On a more serious note though, I think you're zoomed in on the wrong pieces of the puzzle. (1) and (3) are just reflections of Nvidia's valuation, and (2) needs more time to be fully substantiated.

> How different would it look right now in November of 2025 if Sam had an AGI in pocket that was using all that money to grow itself?

I don't even know what an AGI is at this point. Who knows.
by nine_zeros | 2025-11-05 03:17:23+00:00
While I don't 100% agree with his policies, I cannot be more excited for someone completely opposite of the corrupt establishment Republicans and Democrats.

I was sold when he was willing to back down on some of his own views publicly, admitting publicly that he was wrong on some things. That kind of admission and honesty is so refreshing.

Complete opposite of Trump, MAGA, and constant lies. Kudos NYC! Time for a new era.