MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-11-09 21:03:58+00:00
Self-promoting your own domains again, @cannibalXxx?: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=comuniq.xyz From this user's description: "For now, I am working on a website similar to Hacker News, but somewhat improved. Please visit us at: https;//comuniq.xyz"

We know the two users are the same individual since they acknowledge domains spammed on HN as theirs in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45096377 and the spam history can be seen in https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=chat-to.dev with the showdead setting turned on. The user also literally asked whether they could use high accounts to self-promote last year so they can't plead ignorance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41979929

Another user has connected the dots on this user's self-promotion history as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44241333
by Roguelazer | 2025-11-09 21:04:39+00:00
DCR is cool, but I haven't seen anyone roll it out. I know it has to be enabled per-tenant in Okta and Azure (which nobody does), and I don't think Google Workspace supports it at all yet. It's a shame that OIDC spent so long and got so much market-share tied to OAuth client secrets, especially since classic OpenID had no such configuration step.
by callahad | 2025-11-09 21:05:04+00:00
> This section could easily be done by [...]

Less easily than you'd think.

You'd have to make an authenticated cross-origin request to the issuer, which would be equivalent to mounting a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack against the target email providers.

Even if you could send an authenticated request, the Same Origin Policy means your site won't be able to read the result unless the issuer explicitly returns appropriate CORS headers including `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: <* or your domain>` and `Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true` in its response.

Browsers can exempt themselves from these constraints when making requests for their own purposes, but that's not an option available to web content.

> I'm guessing that this proposal requires new custom browser (user-agent) code just to handle this protocol?

Correct; which is going to be the main challenge for this to gain traction. We called it the "three-way cold start" in Persona: sites, issuers, and browsers are all stuck waiting for the other two to reach critical mass before it makes sense for them to adopt the protocol.

Google could probably sidestep that problem by abusing their market dominance in both the browser and issuer space, but I don't see the incentive nor do I see it being feasible for anyone else.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-09 21:05:18+00:00
They do though. My company hires in India and has had a hard time retaining talent there because anyone with mediocre talent can get western salaries by switching to larger companies than our own.

We've lost a decent number of engineers to Google, Facebook, and Amazon in India.

My company wants to pay roughly $50k USD in India per dev and that's just not enough. They've tried to compete by making nicer facilities and better in office benefits (like a cafeteria) but it's just not enough.
by hyperman1 | 2025-11-09 21:05:18+00:00
My son has his own linux account. He made an absolute mess of everything he could drag around on the desktop, just for fun. Every time I'm in there, the KDE start menu pops out of some other weird place, not even at the border of a screen anymore. Plus, we seem to have some kind of mass xeyes invasion going on there. It makes troubleshooting anything interesting, at least.

He recently learned there are other computers running Windows, which he hates because of the ads.
by autoexec | 2025-11-09 21:06:46+00:00
> “if you want to live this way, you give up a bunch of conveniences and have to deal with it.”

You would give up conveniences, but you'd be giving up inconveniences as well. It's a trade off that works extremely well for some people who are often surprised by how little effort it takes and how much happier and healthier they are. I doubt it's for everybody, but even then there are a lot of half-measures people can take to reduce the amount harm their cell phones are causing them and improve their lives.
by bondarchuk | 2025-11-09 21:07:53+00:00
It won't happen explicitly of course. The root comment mentioned "depression", for example, which is at least in part caused by inadequate work-life balance, poor quality of life in general, lack of social fabric, etc... So if you would genetically engineer people to be less depressed, even if you just empirically looked at what genes depressed people have in today's world (as the root comment is proposing), you could end up engineering people that are OK with working long hours for little pay, eating slop, sitting at home doing nothing, never socializing with anyone, obedient to their boss, etcetera etcetera. This would be, in effect, "genetically engineering an under-class", yet it would be easy to defend in the newspapers by just saying "we're only getting rid of depression, how can you be against it?" It's just a logical conclusion if you can think more than two steps ahead.
by lukan | 2025-11-09 21:08:59+00:00
"It is a lie if they use it as if they were a full-fledged member of a community while not actually being a true member of said community."

That would be a lie, yes. (I found your example above not clearly written and still am not quite sure what you meant exactly)

"And regarding arguing in bad faith, I was not arguing. Maybe you are not aware of the expression 'lying by omission'? But the smileys I used were supposed to make obvious that it was a joke/tongue-in-cheek. Even the initial question was tongue-in-cheek. Do you sincerely believe that I expect to receive some credit card info?!!!"

Asking for information and someone declining that information has nothing to do with lying by ommision. That you try to make a connection here is what makes me believe you are not debating (or talking about or whatever) in good faith.

"But, not everything is ruled by law, especially online. Which is also the point of the question."

But this is about a concrete community, where my point is, they can very much rule certain things by their law.

And to me by default, lying is evil. And not banning those who lie (which was the starting point here).
by thegrim33 | 2025-11-09 21:11:05+00:00
Well, here's some data for reference:

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/china-co2-emissi...

China is the number one producer of CO2 emissions in the world.

From 2000-2022, China has had two of those years with a decrease in emissions compared to the previous year; all other years were an increase in emissions.

From 2000-2022, China has gone from being producing 14% of the world's emissions to producing 32%.

For comparison, the US:

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/us-co2-emissions...

Since the year 2000, the US has had 11 years where it decreased emissions compared to the previous year.

Since the year 2000, the US has gone from producing 23% of the world's emissions to 12%.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-09 21:11:21+00:00
> It's not just about transgender people. When you have a tech organisation and say "all our members are old white guys... maybe there's something that keeps others away from us? let's make sure there are no barriers", you're engaging in DEI.

I would like to see this kind of thing treated, socially and legally, as equivalent to saying "This tech organization has a lot of Jews... can we do something about that?" (Indeed, many of the exact same people who are classified as white men who are disproportionately present in tech organizations by DEI advocates are also Ashkenazi or Sephardic Jews, and the DEI advocates are treating their white male identity rather than their Jewish identity as politically salient). If some organization refuses to refrain from treating the disproportionate presence of white men in some organization - or the assumed disproportionate presence of white men - as a problem, I think it's reasonable for the US federal government to refuse to give them grant money.
by Teever | 2025-11-09 21:11:22+00:00
Eugenics never went away, we just stopped calling it eugenics.

Modern forms of family planning that include access to birth control, genetic testing, abortions, and prenatal screening can empower individuals to make choices that they feel will bring about the healthiest and happiest progeny. That's eugenics.

We as a society should continue to allow individuals to make these kinds of choices rather than leave it up to fate or a central authority.
by jmyeet | 2025-11-09 21:12:03+00:00
Yeah, that's not the lesson here at all. We're still in an era where you will suffer absolutely zero consequences for security lapses and breaches.

Everything that is happening with this administration is simply because it suits American foreign policy or the interests of one of the oligarchs. I mean this with absolutely no hyperbole: the pretense of there being any rule of law for the ultra-wealthy is gone. The White House is openly selling pardons, which have the added effect of cancelling out debts to the US government.

Tiktok getting banned? It had nothing to do with "national security". The government simply had less control over the content and the algorithm on Tiktok than they do on Meta and Google platforms.

Reading through this article, you have Microsoft pointing the finger at TP-Link. That's... rich. Becvause Microsoft has historically been horrible for security. It would take further investigation but I really wonder if TP-Link isn't just a convenient scapegoat.
by bdangubic | 2025-11-09 21:12:07+00:00
“ It is not good management to take profits out of the workers or the buyers; make management produce the profits. Don’t cheapen the product. Don’t cheapen the wage. don’t overcharge the public. Well-managed business pays high wages and sells at low prices. Its workmen have the leisure to enjoy life and the wherewithal with which to finance that enjoyment.”

– Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-11-09 21:12:08+00:00
> Good talent in India and the Philippines tend to work for FAANG companies, often at very comparable salaries to the west.

As other commenters have pointed out, this is simply bullshit. Good talent in India and the Philippines earn nowhere near US dev salaries. Unless by "very comparable" you mean 1/3 - 1/2.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-09 21:13:10+00:00
Per company government acquisition "bans" are stupid for PR and security reasons. Brand-specific banlists are whackamole when the same hardware and software will be immediately duplicated with another cat-walks-on-keyboard brand name that will disappear within a year.

Instead, there should be in-depth, enforced audit, compliance, and evaluation standards for gear for particular purposes. If it doesn't meet particular standard(s), then it can't be purchased or used.
by Animats | 2025-11-09 21:14:03+00:00
From the article: "We have been following the slow growth in revenues for generative AI over the last few years, and the revenues are neither big enough to support the number of layoffs attributed to AI, nor to justify the capital expenditures on AI cloud infrastructure. Those expenditures may be approaching $1 trillion for 2025, while AI revenue—which would be used to pay for the use of AI infrastructure to run the software—will not exceed $30 billion this year."

Are the numbers really that bad?

Google has been claiming that their cost per AI search query has dropped by over an order of magnitude.[1] They're presumably reaping the gains of not cranking up a really smart model on dumb questions.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-says-it-dropped-th...
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-11-09 21:15:35+00:00
Mesmerizing is the right word. "I can watch them for hours" was the key bit for me - I have always been fascinated how humans can stare at a random visual generator for forever, if it's the right one.

I think there is an instinct built deep in our lizard brain somewhere for this. Humans will happily stare at a fire, or an ocean, or a wave in a river, or (sometimes, especially children) a TV screen - and all I have worked out why is because it is constantly changing in an unpredictable way.

This marble run shouldn't even be unpredictable - clearly the paths are fixed and the cadence of balls is regular - but somehow it is still mesmerizing.
by davidthetrader | 2025-11-09 21:15:48+00:00
Built a momentum-based trading strategy and a web tool to backtest it. The strategy holds AAPL+MSFT (40%) plus top 2 momentum stocks (60%), rebalances monthly, and goes to cash in bear markets.

Backtested over 25 years: 3000% returns, but varies heavily by stock selection. Some combinations hit 5000%+ but also depends on data from FMP.

The web tool lets you test different stock combinations yourself. Also built a Telegram bot that sends real-time signals.

Looking for feedback on the strategy and beta testers for the bot (using Stripe test cards, so free).

Tech: Python, Flask, Telegram Bot API, FMP data, Stripe.

Not financial advice - educational/experimental.
by samwillis | 2025-11-09 21:15:54+00:00
I'm really intrigued by the use of differential dataflow in a static site toolkit, but there isn't much in the way written about it. If anyone from the team are here I would love it if you could explain how it's being used? Does this enable fast incremental builds, only changing the parts that change in the input? If so how do you model that? Are you using multisets as a message format inside the engine?

For context, I work on TanStack DB which is a differential dataflow / DBSP inspired reactive client datastore. Super interested in your use case.
by numpy-thagoras | 2025-11-09 21:16:01+00:00
Most code is throwaway, even to you.

Most code will quickly be obsolete anyways, even for you.

Most code you write will be torn apart by often the harshest critic: yourself.

People who chase others' code just to copy it and not to understand it will not get anywhere, especially today.

Share for your benefit first, and share often. That's how I have found my gems, even for code I've written.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-09 21:16:03+00:00
> Companies were already out-sourcing before great video conferencing software or an understanding of how to work with remote teams.

And those experiments failed in the 2000s.

But in the 2020s with an extended pandemic lockdown over 2-3 years, async work was proven to succeed.

I am one of those decisionmakers and the pandemic effect did convince the last stragglers that offshoring by directly managing a subsidiary in Poland, India, Czechia, Israel, etc with ex-American leadership is good enough.

I warned about this during COVID on HN and was downvoted constantly.

Pretending that the 2000s-era experience can inform decisions we make in the 2020s is completely flawed.

Being in denial of the "brave new world" is only going to do you harm as an IC.
by randycupertino | 2025-11-09 21:16:43+00:00
I think the pay is location dependent, but note there was a LOT of opportunity for overtime- I basically could work as much as I wanted. They would ask us to stay late to do extra deliveries almost every day and come in weekends also for time and a half or double time. I think it might vary on the volume of your hub. The reddit "UPSers" subreddit was also a good resource, if you search PVD or SSD on there:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UPS/comments/z0bpne/advice_for_a_ne...

https://www.reddit.com/r/UPS/comments/zu6x8n/first_year_pvd_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/UPSers/comments/1gdypb6/working_as_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/UPSers/comments/18jxcd5/ssd_center_...
by hamdingers | 2025-11-09 21:17:36+00:00
If you have the space for it, just put it outdoors 5' from anything flammable and you're good to go. This is not a hobby for folks in apartments unfortunately.

I've had one of my DIY ebike batteries short and fail spectacularly at near full charge and was able to push it with a broom out of the garage into the driveway before any damage was done. Now I have a bench with wheels that I can take into the driveway for initial testing.
by tamimio | 2025-11-09 21:17:43+00:00
Neither software development nor IT work is engineering work and shouldn't be considered one either. I am talking about engineering jobs, jobs that you went to school for 4-5 years in an engineering discipline, not a few weeks bootcamp or made-up program like computer science only to be called an engineer later, diluting the whole industry in the process. So yeah, software development might be boom and bust, engineering is not.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-11-09 21:17:48+00:00
So much fantasy landing in the comments here.

I worked in software 15-20 years ago. The work was not "brutal". I worked hard, but mostly because I enjoyed the work. I lived in a major American city and my pay was essentially the highest pay you could get outside of professions requiring professional degrees like doctor or lawyer, or some high finance positions. And even then, I made more than some doctors in lower-tier specialties.
by WalterSear | 2025-11-09 21:18:02+00:00
IMHO, there's never been a better time to build your own product and learn to sell it. The effort that AI implementation requires is clearly exponential to complexity of the organization.

You can build faster now that you ever have: I am building faster than I have in 25 years of engineering. You have more capable support for all the unfamiliar processes of building a business imaginable.

And almost everyone larger than you is finding it harder to achieve similar productivity gains from implementing AI, if not outright struggling with it. This is a golden moment and won't last long.
by oytis | 2025-11-09 21:19:12+00:00
> More American jobs opened up to a Londoner than global jobs opened up to someone living in SF.

As someone living in EU and working (and job hunting) for American companies for the last N years I just have never seen it happen. American companies were opening subsidiaries in Europe long before COVID - they were just making everyone go to office there. Surge of remote work didn't seem to bring new American jobs to Europe as far as I could see - if anyone was hiring remotely, it were the same companies that already were hiring for in-office jobs before. Meanwhile, most remote jobs by American companies seem to be open for American residents only.

Thing is, for most locations, you still need to establish a legal presense to hire there, and that is enough of bureacratic burden for most companies to expand their geography very sparingly
by randycupertino | 2025-11-09 21:20:13+00:00
For me personally I was pretty depressed about being laid off and instead of using the time wisely (gym/cooking/museums/travel) I was moping around, so having something that forced me to get out of the house and busy was really beneficial.

Also, doing the deliveries kind of sucked so much (lol) that it was highly motivational to network with recruiters which is how I got back in industry.

There's definitely more optimal uses of time for a layoff but I wasn't utilizing them hence this was perfect for me at the time!
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-09 21:20:42+00:00
you need better examples than radio/tv/cars

radio/tv share the bands which are very narrow resource so licensing pretty much have to exist else there would be interference abound (imagine competing TV station just driving around with a jammer on competition

cars have that + the fact infrastructure is built by public money. Allowing anyone on anything with no training there literally costs lives

Or, copyright wise, to earn money in before digital world you kinda had to not have too much of copyright infringement - while artist today might get popular enough to subside on patreon/other form of digital tips, before it wouldn't be possible
by skopje | 2025-11-09 21:20:43+00:00
i tried to deal with sleeplessness by using multiple 5mg melatonin pills per night and it did nothing and made me fell gross. then my doctor said to cut 3 mg pills in half, and 1.5 mg worked far better than over-dosing myself! but he didn't tell me it was bad for me, but only i was taking TOO much of it.
by throw0101d | 2025-11-09 21:21:58+00:00
> Not saying these returns are typical, but I can imagine that a highly aggressive retail investor could, with a few good trades and a lot of confidence, do incredibly well and end up with a life-altering amount of money. Obviously, the chances of both entering AND exiting the trades to capture all of that is low.

The problem is the existential question of knowing whether you are good (in absolute and relative terms) or not:

> For example, any competent basketball coach could tell you whether someone was skilled at shooting within the course of 10 minutes. Yes, it’s possible to get lucky and make a bunch of shots early on, but eventually they will trend toward their actual shooting percentage. The same is true in a technical field like computer programming. Within a short period of time, a good programmer would be able to tell if someone doesn’t know what they are talking about.

> But, what about stock picking? How long would it take to determine if someone is a good stock picker?

> An hour? A week? A year?

> Try multiple years, and even then you still may not know for sure. The issue is that causality is harder to determine with stock picking than with other domains. When you shoot a basketball or write a computer program, the result comes immediately after the action. The ball goes in the hoop or it doesn’t. The program runs correctly or it doesn’t. But, with stock picking, you make a decision now and have to wait for it to pay off. The feedback loop can take years.

> And the payoff you do eventually get has to be compared to the payoff of buying an index fund like the S&P 500. So, even if you make money on absolute terms, you can still lose money on relative terms.

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/why-you-shouldnt-pick-individua...
by mrweasel | 2025-11-09 21:21:59+00:00
With $400B you should be able to do pretty much anything you set your mind on. Want to do to Mars, not a problem. End world hunger, $400B will do that in about ten years. You can do ANYTHING with $400B, yet OpenAI want's to sell erotic chats and show you ads?

I'm not saying that LLMs and the current AIs aren't useful, but they aren't worth even close to $400B. Some of the progress, especially in the medical field, is amazing, but the spending is completely out of proportion with the gains. It only works because right now people like Sam Altman has sold people with money on the idea and now they have to continue to peddle their sneak oil, hoping that the money won't dry up.