MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ch2026 | 2025-11-13 16:17:27+00:00
A few years back I launched an io game and used hetzner as my backend. an hour into launch day they null routed my account because their anti-abuse system thought my sudden surge in websocket connections was an attack (unclear if they thought it was inbound or outbound doing the attacking).

I had paid for advertising on a few game curation sites plus youtubers and streamers. Lovely failure all thanks to Hetzner. Took 3 days and numerous emails with the most arrogant Germans you’ve ever met before my account was unlocked.

I switched to OVH and while they’re not without their own faults (reliability is a big one), it’s been a far better experience.
by kordlessagain | 2025-11-13 16:17:37+00:00
You’re doomscrolling because technology companies profit from you doomscrolling and corporations don't care it's not good for us, in sum total.

Boredom, genuine downtime, the ability to sit with nothing, is genuinely important. It's when your mind wanders, makes unexpected connections, actually processes things. It's how creativity often happens. The fact that people are increasingly unable to tolerate boredom is its own problem.

You aren't bored because you don't love anything. You are bored because it's human to be bored. Get comfortable with it.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-11-13 16:17:51+00:00
Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programs allows the participating countries to share most of the setup cost, except some high end technology that is country specific, it’s mainly divided by per airframe basis.

When you have the US Air Force in a program and they purchase a bazillion aircraft, things get relatively affordable.

Well, the US left and nobody want to spend billions of dollars into the development of this aircraft (most of the problems are the airframe not radar I heard, citation needed) and end up with just two aircraft and then deal with internal news about how they spend billions of dollars per aircraft when commercial airlines are so much cheaper.
by Thorrez | 2025-11-13 16:17:57+00:00
Do you have a source that the Google hack was related to David Petraeus? This page doesn't mention it[1]. Does the timeline line up? Google was hacked in 2009[2]. The Petraeus stuff seems to have happened later.

Disclosure: I work at Google but have no internal knowledge about whether Petraeus was related to Operation Aurora.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
by wackget | 2025-11-13 16:18:12+00:00
Why is the UX around photos and videos in WhatsApp Web so incredibly poor?

I have clients who regularly send me photos/videos to publish on websites. There are many usability issues around this:

1. There is no option to "download all", which means you need to click through every photo manually and hit the download icon.

2. When navigating through photos, the download icon is often hidden behind a submenu which means it takes two clicks to download a photo instead of one.

3. It's impossible to download videos without first having fully buffered them. This means you need to click through the full video to ensure it's streamed to your device before the download icon appears. This is super annoying especially with longer videos.

4. Bonus non-web annoyance: if a user sends you multiple photos, your phone goes insane with notifications and sounds like a rapid-fire pinball machine. DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING

As a web developer I find it incredibly difficult to even think of releasing software with these kinds of basic inadequacies.
by teleforce | 2025-11-13 16:18:44+00:00
I am thinking of applying Graph Neural Network (GNN) for anomaly detection. It seems that at the moment the best technique so far is BWGNN that's originally proposed here [1].

Another question is that you claimed querying SQL as graph without ETL. Do you use similar technique to associative array mathematics proposed by D4M or other techniques [2].

[1] "Rethinking Graph Neural Networks for Anomaly Detection" in ICML 2022:

https://github.com/squareRoot3/Rethinking-Anomaly-Detection

[2] D4M: Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model:

https://d4m.mit.edu/
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-13 16:18:45+00:00
> I’m curious why so many places I’ve worked have insisted on avoiding using libraries with GPL licenses in favor of MIT licensed projects

Because failing to manage their GPL obligations led to a lawsuit for D-Link followed by a compulsion to release a lot more code than they ever planned to share online, to the company's detriment.

You can pretty much look at the stock value before and after they lost the lawsuit. There was, notably, a big value spike immediately after, but the value then settled down to an average of around 15 a share, markedly below their previous 30 a share.

For some companies, the value is in the proprietary content and using GPL would be shooting themselves in the foot.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-13 16:19:07+00:00
Amusingly, this discussion thread is filled with replies that attempt to "answer" the question of "why" OpenAI collects chat histories even when it must have known it would be sued for copyright infringment

For users affected by OpenAI's conduct, an "answer" makes no difference. Anyone can construct any "answer" they want and we can see that in this thread. For users affected by OpenAI's conduct, it does not matter

In the above paper on search engines, the claim was that longer retention of sensitive data leads to better search. This was the "answer" presented in response to the question of "why"

But the "answer" is only misdirection. The companies have no reputation for being honest and their operations are non-transparent. Accordingly, user focus will be on the consequences for users of the company's practices, not "why"

Some readers are probably too young to have read through the AOL search data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release

Did anyone care "why" AOL released the data

IMHO, it is unfortunate that papers like the one above need to published

The question of "why" is rhetorical. It is meant to the draw attention to the consequences for users, not to seek an "answer"
by lm28469 | 2025-11-13 16:19:20+00:00
Like Russia's gas and Germany's industry ;)

Or the EU relying on the US army for defense ;)

We're not in the post ww2 world illusion or world peace through commerce, mutual dependencies clearly don't stop nationalist interests. Trump shattered the illusion with his illegal meme tier tariffs, now we're slowly going back to empires dealing with their friends while fucking over anyone else.
by poszlem | 2025-11-13 16:19:22+00:00
As in so many of these stories, what gets glossed over is just how much complexity there is in setting up your own server securely.

You set up your server. Harden it. Follow all the best practices for your firewall with ufw. Then you run a Docker container. Accidentally, or simply because you don’t know any better, you bind it to 0.0.0.0 by doing 5432:5432. Oops. Docker just walked right past your firewall rules, ignored ufw, and now port 5432 is exposed with default Postgres credentials. Congratulations. Say hello to Kinsing.

And this is just one of many possible scenarios like that. I’m not trying to spread FUD, but this really needs to be stressed much more clearly.

EDIT. as always - thank you HN for downvoting instead of actually addressing the argument.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-13 16:19:26+00:00
I wrote myself an extension to bypass all youtube adverts and used it for years. I'm perfectly capable of evading NYT garbage once the fury exceeds the lazyness. Still the issue remains. I'm not the only one bothered by paywalled links in search results, being linked from websites and suggested in feeds of mobile apps. Checkbox to filter them out was requested long time ago. Never implemented.
by blenderob | 2025-11-13 16:20:30+00:00
I could agree with most of your comment except for this:

> Some people have been indoctrinated into looking at others and feeling envy (cultural gap?) but don't be delusional into thinking its all random and there's nothing to learn.

Envy is a natural human emotion. What do you feel envy about? Rhetorical question. Not expecting an answer unless you want to volunteer this information. I'm no psychologist nor a philosopher but I'd hazard a guess that whatever you feel envy about says something about what you or your culture thinks are desirable virtues.

It looks like you are somehow projecting your type of envy onto me and my culture. I don't think I've ever felt envy about someone being rich. Someone is super rich? Very good for them. I am not super rich but I earn well to live a comfortable life. Good for me too.

But I feel envy too when I meet someone who is an absolute gentleperson who is not only doing very well for their family but also for the community around them. I admire them. At the same time I feel envy.

Now, I'm not saying one envy is better than other. Not at all. I'm just saying cultural differences can be big and it's sometimes very hard to imagine or visualize each other's culture because our own culture seems so natural to us that the other culture seems unnatural.

So to your rhetorical:

> cultural gap?

Yes, absolutely!

> but don't be delusional into thinking its all random and there's nothing to learn.

Absolutely! A person who wants to become super-rich has a lot to learn from someone who is super-rich. I don't want to be super-rich. I want to be excellent in other virtues which I think were mostly indoctrinated by my culture. So I look up to people with those virtues and learn from them. That's kinda why we don't really look at a super-rich person and immediately think "there is something unique about them" (which is where this thread began above) even if it's true. But we do see a person with great community spirit and think "there is something unique about them".
by jdietrich | 2025-11-13 16:20:31+00:00
Nearly a third of Train Operating Companies are now under state ownership; LNER has been state-owned since 2018 and Northern since 2020. I don't know about LNER, but punctuality and reliability on Northern has significantly worsened since nationalisation.

Last year, we had the absurd spectacle of the Department for Transport notifying the Department for Transport that the Department for Transport had breached their contract with the Department for Transport, because the Department for Transport didn't meet the performance standards set by the Department for Transport.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl2j364kxzo
by mock-possum | 2025-11-13 16:20:41+00:00
I disagree, I think it’s fairly easy to read this passage in particular

> The simplest solution to a lot of problems is consuming less with the assumption that, most of us (maybe not you), have a lot of spare energy sitting around.

as energy-woo / thanks-I’m-cured material.

You can weasel your way around criticism by calling it “a general and fairly anodyne opinion about what might be a solution to a problem some people have,” but consider -

It does make sense that someone who’s struggled with a chronic condition would be tired and embittered by the endless snake oil evangelizing they’ve had to endure, on top of already struggling with their health.

(Not that fasting doesn’t work for some people, as you say! it’s more the grandiose claim that it’s “The simplest solution to a lot of problems” coupled with some vague anecdote about blood work and knowing better than doctors that waves a red flag)
by ethin | 2025-11-13 16:20:49+00:00
I've tried Keycloak and quite a few other IAM solutions, and finally settled on Kanidm. Not because it was written in Rust but because the project was easy to learn and understand and it wasn't that hard to hook things up to it. It has it's quirks, but it's been phenomenal so far. The fact that it's super lightweight from my experience is also a big bonus.
by xandrius | 2025-11-13 16:20:55+00:00
Those are cool but it does seem like they are forced to have that form factor to fit in most existing devices.

While a brand new device could employ something more apt? Even say something larger which can store more energy, dunno. It just feel off to still have AA batteries (which are generally not rechargeable) in a new product in 2025 which is not targeted to elderlies.
by devsda | 2025-11-13 16:20:55+00:00
Doesn't it mean Google will collect the app ids of all installs on all devices whether they are signed into an account or not.

I'm not naive to think its not happening today, whats probably new is them admitting to it.

How long does it take them to use that info to drop ban hammer on the user accountd for using apps like newpipe and hide behind reasons like violation of TnCs.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-11-13 16:21:24+00:00
> I’ve been thinking recently about these guys who are dating less, socializing less, and leaving their home less, while filling their media with more porn and betting parlays. They seem to prefer the financial discomfort of losing a bet to the social anxiety of being rejected on a date. They find intimacy scary and gambling exciting. They furnish their rooms like high-tech monasteries and gravitate toward media that works like a slot machine.

> These young men seem to me like modern ascetics who find themselves somehow trapped on the betting floor of the economy. They are like monks, yes. But more than that: They are monks in a casino. Risk-aversion in the social sphere has combined with their risk-chasing in the market, and it’s created a genuinely berserk modern life script.

This seems like a bad take. There's no preference there, these people have crippling addictions, it's a form of mental illness. It's like saying schizophrenics prefer talking to voices than having a home, or that people who are clinically depressed prefer napping over going to work.
by brettgriffin | 2025-11-13 16:21:30+00:00
> but I'm of the opinion that CEO's don't do a whole lot.

Rather, you just don't understand what CEOs in large public companies actually do. You're comparing them to earlier stage CEOs, who can be more hands on.

When running a public company of a quarter million people, the CEO's responsibility starts to look more like an asset manager responsible for a $4 trillion dollar book.

And no - nobody wants that role replaced by an LLM.
by martinald | 2025-11-13 16:21:32+00:00
It's too confusing but you can always buy an any operator ticket. On that route you have these options for anytime travel.

Anytime Day Single: Any permitted - £6.70 Anytime Day Single: TPE only - £6.50 Anytime Day Single: Transport for Wales only - £5.40

Unfortunately many apps don't make this clear enough. I suspect you bought a TPE only ticket when any permitted would only be 20p more. Many apps will show you the cheapest ticket even if it results in massive downgrade in flexibility.

While it seems ridiculous (and tbh it is) on these kind of routes, it is useful on some routes, which the slower operator (eg Birmingham to London) is 1/3rd of the price of the fast one.
by __mharrison__ | 2025-11-13 16:21:42+00:00
Alacrity is one of my casks. I'm not tied to it. Alternatives? I guess I could just go back to terminal.

Here's my other casks:

cask "aerospace" cask "alacritty" cask "betterdisplay" cask "emacs" cask "espanso" cask "hammerspoon" cask "jordanbaird-ice" # ice cask "gimp" cask "inkscape" cask "maccy" cask "mactex" cask "macwhisper" cask "qmk-toolbox" cask "zoom"
by neilv | 2025-11-13 16:21:43+00:00
> The sweet spot isn’t an empty market. It’s a crowded market with broken execution.

The broken execution can include being twisted by perverse incentives.

Example: social media tending to converge on a mix of outrage doom-scrolling for engagement, selling out privacy, and force-feeding ads/ideas.

I ran into the perverse incentives problem, in a different space (not social media). Basically, there's a fairly simple solution to a problem for the majority of users/customers with this problem. But they need assistance at scale, like from a tech company, and there are perverse incentives for a company to pretend to solve the problem, while actively working against solving it. There's big demand for a solution, but most of the money is in not solving it, and it's easy money. One big player even acquires most of the competition, and twists them into the same awfulness, just with different veneers. (And, if you're a pair of idealistic cofounders who actually want to solve the problem, and you need funding, you would rather abandon it and work on something less conflicted, than sort through all the investors and prospective CEOs who would tell you what you want to hear, while thinking of it as a warm-fuzzy marketing story for the same awful, and ultimately you'd be misleading your users into the same awful easy-money exit endgame.)
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-13 16:21:47+00:00
The US has never had a situation where the rule of law collapsed, and mobs were actively trying to kill the elite. ("Elite" here meaning those with extreme amounts of money or social status.) In places like Europe, they remember things like that.

So if you're an elite there, you don't make waves or have a high profile, because you know from history that doing so can attract attention of a kind that you really don't want.

But in the US, that's not in your history. So, especially if you're rather narcissistic, you think of using your wealth to get attention.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-13 16:21:54+00:00
I didn’t deduce it from the name. I deduced it from over a decade experience working primarily with .Net.

Since I can’t presume the reader has equivalent experience, especially in HN, pointing to the name, which should be a good signifier of what something does (to be fair, MS really, really sucks at naming), is a good shorthand.

The real reason .Net isn’t good for embedded devices is because MS didn’t develop it for embedded devices. They’ve only added low level memory management in the past few years.

Until recently you couldn’t even create a fully statically compiled executable.
by codethief | 2025-11-13 16:21:55+00:00
Doesn't the embargo concern the source code of the patches (and detailed information about the CVEs), not the release of the patched binaries?

Either way, I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Even after reading your other comments here in this subtree, I don't see anything in the regulation you linked that would have delayed the source code release of Android 16 QPR1, given that the QPR1 binaries had already been released.
by guitarbill | 2025-11-13 16:21:57+00:00
Downvote or not, it's true:

> NHTSA conducts frontal, side and rollover tests because these types account for the majority of crashes on America's roadways.

> IIHS tests evaluate two aspects of safety: crashworthiness — how well a vehicle protects its occupants in a crash — and crash avoidance and mitigation — technology that can prevent a crash or lessen its severity.

> As well as assessing how well cars protect their occupants, Euro NCAP tests how well they protect those vulnerable road users – pedestrians and cyclists – with whom they might collide.
by jcgl | 2025-11-13 16:22:14+00:00
It’s unclear to me any stateful keychains are implied here. The decrypting system has N number of keys available. It tries to authenticate the ciphertext with those N keys. If the ciphertext authenticates, then return the decrypted cleartext.

What’s more, it’s unclear to me why point 5 belongs in the cryptosystem layer (such as with PGP) rather than on some higher, more adaptable layer. All that is needed for that higher layer to “compile down to” or emit some kind of key allowlist or denylist that can be consumed by the cryptosystem layer beneath it. The work-in-progress VOA[0] spec is an example of such an upper layer.

[0] https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/file_hierarchy_f...
by abustamam | 2025-11-13 16:22:55+00:00
Which box is that? I personally have a Nvidia Shield with Steam Link to stream games from my gaming computer to my TV. I connected an Xbox controller and it works pretty well. I also use an old iPad for streaming games for games that don't lend themselves well to a controller.

It's obviously not a direct replacement since it still relies on my gaming machine, which not everyone has, but it gets a pretty good console experience, and it's portable.
by fatbird | 2025-11-13 16:23:17+00:00
Just like the IC story about Iraqi uranium refining was a "slam dunk"?

That's not actually to impugn the US IC, exactly. It's more to call out that the IC can do their job thoroughly and correctly and the powers that be will misuse or misrepresent their work product for their own purposes. Unless you know otherwise, we have to consider (among other things) that the US IC has nothing showing these boats are implicated, but the admin proceeded anyway.

You're assuming a level of adherence to norms, best practices, and laws that the current administration has demonstrated they do not do. They're not even bothering to present weak evidence.
by msabalau | 2025-11-13 16:23:42+00:00
If there is a non-zero chance that I might want to play such a game, from time to time, I can stream it.

Why would I want to limit my options for occasional AAA gaming to the graphics supported by a particular console, when I can spring for GeForce Ultimate for a month and play BF6 with amazing graphics at 120 FPS, on my TV or my laptop, or my iPad or my phone? And play with even better graphics two years from now, as the state of the art advances.

Sure a different option would likely be best for people who know they want to play AAA, all the time. Although, even for many of these people, the Steam machine is probably a great second box for many, that gets you however many 100s or 1000s of titles they have in their Steam library.

But a fear based "you might miss out occasionally" argument is unpersuasive. Especially in a world where some games are exclusive. My swanky new PlayStation is no help if everyone is raving about the new Nintendo game.
by film42 | 2025-11-13 16:24:30+00:00
It's a cash grab. More conversational AI means more folks running out of free or lower paid tier tokens faster, leading to more upsell opportunities. API users will pay more in output tokens by default.

Example, I asked Claude a high level question about p2p systems and it started writing code in 3 languages. Ignoring the code, asking a follow up about the fundamentals, it answered and then rewrote the code 3 times. After a few minutes I hit a token limit for the first time.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-13 16:24:33+00:00
China needs Europe to support its export economy because there will never be enough domestic demand to prevent a deflationary spiral. Europe is a rational actor China can expect to act rationally in trade, and Europe can benefit from that.

The US has nothing to offer Europe except LNG that Europe cannot produce itself, or obtain from China at better price or quality. Canada has ~200 years of LNG reserves and can ship to Europe from LNG Canada.

https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/imports/united-s...

https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e...

The True Cost of China's Falling Prices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876691 - November 2025

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/americas-self-d...

> In 1995, China accounted for less than five percent of global manufacturing output. By 2010, that number had jumped to around a quarter, and today it stands at nearly a third.
by stirfish | 2025-11-13 16:25:19+00:00
I forgot what modus ponens/tollens are, but you get get it - I think I'm not generally intelligent

For people coming after me, or for anyone who took discrete math a decade ago and need a quick refresher:

Modus ponens (affirming): if P, then Q. P is true, therefore Q.

If it is raining, the grass is wet. It is raining. Therefore the grass is wet.

Modus tollens (denying): if P, then Q. Q is false. Therefore P is false.

If it is raining, then the grass is wet. The grass is not wet. Therefore, it is not raining.