MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eknkc | 2025-11-09 08:43:37+00:00
I share the same name with a local TV star in my country. Even that is a PITA. Can’t imagine being named Mark Zuckerberg or Michael Jackson or anything like that.

At some point there were teenager girls calling me (no idea how they got the phone number). I started acting like they called the right person and there would be happy screams on the other hand. I guess the high point was that. I decided that might not be a good idea though. Would definitely continue if my “fans” were middle aged men.
by phantomathkg | 2025-11-09 08:43:52+00:00
QR Code base system is slow, have security risk and will not work without smartphone.

Proliferation of hundred of QR Code based payments system is not a good thing, you need one that works across all countries.

Outside Visa and Mastercard, we have Amex, Diner, JCB, even China has UnionPay, but unfortunately they are not as popular as a contender of the duopoly.
by ulfw | 2025-11-09 08:46:27+00:00
Meanwhile everywhere you pay with a credit card in Australia you have to pay an additional 1-2% because they can get away with it. It's a terrible example really.

(just as an example: https://www.hilton.com/en/book/reservation/rooms/?ctyhocn=SY...)

"Hotel Message

Credit Card Fee

Credit Card payments relating to Australian hotels incur a merchant service fee of 2% in addition to the total amount payable."
by joegibbs | 2025-11-09 08:46:59+00:00
I tried making a spreadsheet application and found that they’re not that great at working with 2D data, especially if there’s a lot of it. It’s harder to do search for a large spreadsheet than a large text file - you might get a range of thousands of numbers, how do you search that? And things like headers or important information may not be anywhere near where it’s focused which means it needs to read a ton of irrelevant context. For small sheets it works perfectly though, it’ll have to be something I’ll take another look at in the future.
by snvzz | 2025-11-09 08:49:09+00:00
seL4 is being used in many places that we know about[0] and then there's those we don't or are still in the future, where we can only guess based on e.g. seL4 membership[1].

0. https://sel4.systems/use.html

1. https://sel4.systems/Foundation/Membership/
by algo_trader | 2025-11-09 08:49:32+00:00
> EDIT: Wingsails to reduce cargo ship fuel consumption (April 2023) > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35426482

> I’m Joseph, and along with Arpan and Bailey we are the founders of OutSail Shipping. We’re building a sail the size of a 747 that rolls up into a shipping container.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-09 08:50:38+00:00
> I never really understood the appeal of these things outside of one very well-defined threat model: namely, they're excellent if you're specifically trying to prevent someone from physically taking your hard drive, and only your hard drive, and walking out of a data centre, office, or home with it.

So basically the same thing you'd get by having an internal USB port on the system board where you could plug a thumb drive to keep the FDE key on it?

> It also provides measured boot, and I won't downplay it, it's useful in many situations to have boot-time integrity attestation.

That's the nefarious part. You get adversarial corporations trying to insist that you run their malware in order to use their service, and it's giving them a means to attempt to verify it.

Which doesn't actually work against sophisticated attackers, so the security value against real attacks is none, but it works against normies which in turn subjects the normies to the malware instead of letting someone give them an alternative to it that doesn't screw them.
by Timshel | 2025-11-09 08:52:11+00:00
Not sure where you extract is supposed to come from, the paper argue that

> Many have blamed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the 2003 Global Settlement’s effects on analyst coverage for the decline in IPO activity. We find very little support for the conventional wisdom, and offer an alternative explanation

No wonder you got ignored ..

Edit: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1954788
by lm28469 | 2025-11-09 08:52:48+00:00
Why is he licking Israel boot is he's a neo nazi ?

It's almost as if being a piece of shit doesn't immediately make you a nazi, we should move on from ww2 era lingo, new things need new terms. When everyone is a fascist and a nazi no one is, and it weakens the original terms to the point of them being meaningless
by Krssst | 2025-11-09 08:53:17+00:00
Shitty food has been around for a long time. Some virus known for causing long-term effects in non-negligible parts of the population has been around since 2019.

> The increase in disability prevalence from 2016 to 2022 is likely attributable in part to the long-term effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
by lifthrasiir | 2025-11-09 08:53:26+00:00
I have used Rust for decades (yeah, Rust is that old) and want to point out that that's not always the case, especially when FFI is involved. At some point, for example, any Rust crate with the `openssl` dependency used to require a special care every time `cargo install` gets run. Cargo itself is super nice; other tools, still not so much.
by llamasushi | 2025-11-09 08:53:30+00:00
Lol, this reminds me of a funny story. I had a lawyer whose name was Jim Halpert. Turns out he was the very Jim who was inspired his namesake on the office. Asked him about it once. His reply? "Hey, it's been great for getting clients." =)

He was also very much like Jim on the show. Fun times.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-11-09 08:53:33+00:00
> idea of a low-distraction laptop OS is a good one [...] something that looks a lot like Classic (pre-OS-X) Mac OS. It's simplified and has just enough presence to properly host graphical applications [...] This design strongly encourages singular focus

Counterpoints:

1) You will be blocked if/when the ancient/EOL electronics fail.

2) You want USB and a modern display.

3) If there is any network connexion, you need modern security features.

Software solution: minimal Debian running Sway or labwc. Pick favourite minimal writing tools. The labwc GUI can be very minimal.

One possible hardware solution: Raspberry Pi 400 or 500. Simple, reliable, easy to replace. Use with any external and/or portable display.
by beklein | 2025-11-09 08:54:48+00:00
If you've never used Rust before, I couldn't find good documentation on how to run a existing Rust project nor could I find `cargo install` on the "Getting Started" page. I could read the Cargo Book, or check `--help` I guess, but this can be surprisingly time consuming as well, it might take 5-30 minutes of active searching to locate the information. If you can, try put yourself in a beginner's mindset and think though your argument again.

Regarding your second point, I think people actually underutilise LLMs for simple tasks. Delegating these tasks frees up your problem-solving skills for challenges that truly need human insight. In this case, asking an LLM is arguably the smart choice: it's a common task in training data, easy to verify, and low-risk to run and not a direct learning or benefit for your initial question.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-09 08:54:57+00:00
Answer the question: What would an asshole do? They would buy up their neighbors' houses to make an unapproved mega compound, buy up ancestral Hawaiian land to block communal land access, and do unlicensed shit without permits making their remaining neighbors miserable. So what is right by virtue is unlikely to happen because almost all billionaires are legitimized criminal aristocrats subject to a different set of rules than average or poor people who are killed in the street for selling loose cigarettes like Eric Garner.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-11-09 08:56:01+00:00
For a Rust developer, neglecting their ability to debug cargo build issues puts their career at risk. For someone like that, letting AI handle it would be a really shortsighted move.

But Simon isn’t a Rust developer - he’s a motivated individual with a side project. He can now speedrun the part he’s not interested in. That doesn’t affect anyone else’s decisions, you can still choose to learn the details. Ability to skip it if you wish, is a huge win for everyone.
by bawolff | 2025-11-09 08:56:39+00:00
Given that the current president is right wing, wouldn't the left have a vested interest in talking about self-dealing in the state?

Regardless, we are on a news aggregator here. Whatever selection bias this source has should be counteracted by hn drawing from many sources. At least on the source level. HN is going to of course be biased towards stories hn finds interesting.
by swiftcoder | 2025-11-09 08:58:11+00:00
Look, your application is certainly impressive, but it's extremely basic from the perspective of a UI toolkit.

- It's not multi-window, so it doesn't have to integrate with a bunch of the OS window management affordances.

- It doesn't have any complicated typesetting or rich text editing, so you get to pretty much ignore that whole mess.

- Since it's a very visual tool that doesn't make much sense for blind folks, you haven't invested much in accessibility support.

- And so on...

This is a great use case for EGUI, and EGUI works great in this sort of UI-lite scenario. Whereas I wouldn't want to use it to implement something on the complexity of VSCode/Excel/FireFox.
by upboundspiral | 2025-11-09 08:58:11+00:00
One thing that shocked me is how pervasive flock is. Major US cities have hundreds if not thousands of flock cameras https://deflock.me/map.

I truly believe that technology like this, implemented in the way that it is, is incredibly dangerous. They are creating a nationwide spynet, selling everyone's information, and lying about this fact. Both sides of the political isle will inevitably abuse this power. It needs to be pushed back against strongly now and forever more. I encourage people to show up to city council meetings if adding flock to your city is on the agenda. And if it is already in your city then the contract will need to be renewed at some point and you can contest it then. Emailing your representatives is not always effective, but if thousands of people do so then it does start making a dent.

Denver town hall where multiple sources of flock lying and deceiving the government and the people are brought up: https://youtu.be/OR_qolqQ2fM
by wqaatwt | 2025-11-09 08:58:39+00:00
Yet if you go to the actual model’s page:

https://openrouter.ai/x-ai/grok-code-fast-1

Cline and Kilo code are in the top 3. So how does that work?

It’s considerably cheaper than competing models like 2.5 flash, though. So its not that surprising
by kalleboo | 2025-11-09 08:58:42+00:00
QR is not ideal but as long as Apple keeps such a tight leash on NFC payments, it's the only "open" option. It's ironic that by trying to keep NFC payments so secure, they've instead caused the wide proliferation of far less secure alternatives.

Physical card issuance is too high-friction for new entrants. It's much easier to attract new users with "just install our app" than "enter your home address and wait days for a card to arrive then put it in your wallet and remember to use it"
by lukan | 2025-11-09 08:59:14+00:00
(Like this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/replications/comments/1ll9k7o/fligh...

https://old.reddit.com/r/replications/comments/1jkajcq/that_...

https://www.old.reddit.com/r/replications/comments/1hruv4t/j...

)
by deaux | 2025-11-09 08:59:36+00:00
> LLMs are a commodity but ChatGpt is a brand, for most people AI means ChatGpt. They are not going to use Chinese models.

This is still an unknown.

> Linux is free and yet people use Windows.

The moat isn't even 1% of the one that Windows has - and even Windows has been losing ground on the consumer side. While slow, the rate acceleration is definitely there. Compare Oct 2020-Oct 2025 vs the preceding 5-year period.
by scott_w | 2025-11-09 08:59:42+00:00
You can’t infer that from the statement posted. In fact, all Ofcom have done is say they’re investigating. Do you expect a regulatory body to not investigate a report from a serious suicide prevention charity?

In addition, such an inference flies in the face of the fact that Ofcom have sent staff to conferences for pornographic websites to talk to them about compliance: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/21/were-here-to...
by enraged_camel | 2025-11-09 09:01:52+00:00
The guy spends most of his time signal-boosting deeply racist, antisemitic, white supremacist stuff on X. He's obsessed with stuff like "replacement theory" and constantly insists white people must make as many babies as possible to maintain their cultural superiority and avoid being outnumbered by other races. You don't have to believe me. Go check for yourself.
by piker | 2025-11-09 09:03:20+00:00
Interesting look into what Zuck and other mega celebrities experience day to day. I'm sure Zuck and others of a certain stature have many protection layers, but surely some things slip through and it's interesting to consider those just a tier lower that can't afford all of the security, etc.

Reminds me of the Bill Murray quote: "I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it."
by pharos92 | 2025-11-09 09:03:38+00:00
Looks like a great and useful app. I'll definitely buy it.

Have you seen PingDoctor? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pingdoctor/id1350044974?mt=12

I quite often login to routers/firewalls to pull the ARP and Route Tables. If there was an option to add an API Key + REGEX + HOST/s for processing with a one-click button that'd be rad
by Terr_ | 2025-11-09 09:04:29+00:00
I find it helps to explicitly abandon the expectation that each person has a unitary and consistent will.

Bob the gambler wants to quit and wants to wager, sometimes sequentially and sometimes simultaneously.

The question isn't whether the whole Bob "means it", but which version of Bob we want to ally-with to war against the other, and what conditions or limitations we put on that assistance.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-11-09 09:04:54+00:00
Interviews with CEO, where he stresses that the main problem is not sailing upwind but to get there on time.

https://youtu.be/qhAlImSIDyU

https://youtu.be/QfHJE1UwMTw

Another contender https://youtu.be/xsFc3pro8Y8

(Also FR based, cultural reason?)
by mjd | 2025-11-09 09:05:27+00:00
Dennis Ritchie (co-inventor of the C programming language) had a page on his personal web site called “My other lives” with a list of other Dennis Ritchies.

“Outside of my main professional career, I have accumulated other WWW-recorded accomplishments and have other interests. Generally I pursue these interests using separate mail addresses, SS#, and DNA.”

It's preserved here:

https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/other...
by ghusto | 2025-11-09 09:06:11+00:00
Remember, we make laws and they are there to make society work/better. So whilst the legal answer is "yes", I presume the real question was "_Is_ this gender discrimination?", as in; let's actually think about it instead of fobbing it off to the current state of the law.

If the law is nonsensical or harmful, it can and should be changed.
by wqaatwt | 2025-11-09 09:07:52+00:00
I do. You’re certainly right. I just don’t like reducing the entire political compass to “marxist/smth.” and “nazis”. That both devalues these words and and leaves out any nuance.

Guys like Trump or Putin are not nazis (yet). They do resemble Mussolini on various and often quite deep levels. So fascist would probably be the more correct term.

As for Musk I’m not sure. Drugs and whatever mental issues he’s suffering from likely are distorting the real picture (which might also be even darker).
by thro1 | 2025-11-09 09:08:20+00:00
https://www.igalia.com/chats/xslt-liam

So basically browsers had this [..] the question now is there is no investment in this. None. And there hasn't been for a really long time from the browser's perspectives.

XSLT shows up then to be very robust technology that survived the test of time already - if for decades (!) regardless of lack of support, investment, with key browser bugs not fixed by purpose stuck at version 1.0 - it's still being used in that working part - and if used it holds up well and last, in meantime, elsewhere:

XPath And XSLT continue to evolve. They've really continued to evolve. And people are currently working on an XSLT-4.

or Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust 381 points 8 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502291 .

And because it's a declarative way of transforming trees and collections of trees. And declarative means you don't say how to do it. You say, 'This is what I want'..

.. it's timeless: _abstracted definition_ to which imperative solutions could be reduced in the best case - with unaware of that authors repetitively trying (and soon having to) to reimplement that "not needed" ( - if abstracted already out ! - ) part ( ex. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183624 ) - in more or less common or compatible ways

- so, better keep it - as not everybody can afford expensive solutions and there are nonprofits too that don't depend on % of money wasted repeating same work and like to KISS !
by legacynl | 2025-11-09 09:10:26+00:00
Basically yes. China doesn't have a democracy, and it's government isn't bound by it's laws. If CCP thinks deepseek or any other product/tech can be a beneficial to Chinese strategy they will come knocking, and there's no denying whatever they demand. It can be backdooring, data harvesting, etc, there's really no saying how far they might go.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-09 09:11:50+00:00
> Not sure where you extract is supposed to come from

The paper. The one that was cited. (It was a working paper at the time.)

Nevertheless, your quote drives the point home. The paper rejects “the conventional wisdom” which “states that low public market prices are due to either lower valuations caused by the lack of analyst coverage, or to lower earnings as a public firm because of SOX and other costs.”

The Pro Publica article says that paper shows SOX did not reduce IPO volumes. That’s false. The earnings channel is rejected. But otherwise, the paper is about acquisition versus IPO.

It’s understandable incompetence. It turns into a lie when one digs in after the error is pointed out.

> No wonder you got ignored ..

If a journalist ignoring me means I can let their work be ignored in multiple state and national capitals, I will take it as a win.

(And with the benefit of hindsight, the article was dead wrong. I built a bit of a career on the private markets starting in 2012, as it happens.)
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-09 09:12:00+00:00
It was tricky to use too literal names, as they're basically the placeholders in the input forms for instance, or the translations keys.

To defend a bit the choice for somewhat realistic names, there is a gestalt decomposition where you're looking through "First name" first names for hundreds of lines. Same for Lorum ipsums, designers' reaction are completely different when the page looks somewhat realistic and isn't just a blatant test.
by wqaatwt | 2025-11-09 09:12:34+00:00
So let’s focus on the specifics things he does and says. Instead of compressing everything into a single word (which unfortunately lost much of its meaning and has been massively devalued).

Nazism is a specific, relatively, defined and extremely dark ideology. If we apply it to every unhinged off brand pseudo-fascist it can really distort the views people might start having about the original ideology.
by PeterStuer | 2025-11-09 09:12:35+00:00
The syntax is the set of rules that define what are valid expressions in the language. Valid as in the token sequence you wrote does not violate the grammar, nothing more that that. It can state that an "if" token must be followed by a "condition clause" that must be followed by "then" token etc.

The semantics is the definition of what is supposed to computationally happen if you execute a valid expression. It would state that the code block under the "then" will be executed if the condition attached to the "if" evaluated to true and skipped otherwise.
by snthpy | 2025-11-09 09:12:36+00:00
I'm a big statin sceptic so just putting that up front.

I think things haven't changed because most people underestimate how slow institutional scale change is. There is a reason why HR departments and consultants have Change Management experts. The inertia is huge. Young people don't appreciate this because they thrive on new ideas. Old folks don't and will subconsciously push back, like a form of institutional homeostasis.

Also, while I believe your heart attack stats are correct, I'm more interested in all cause mortality. I believe there statins are a net negative.
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-09 09:12:52+00:00
This is tangential to the main point of the article, but this concluding sentence annoyed me greatly:

> Governments are generally better at supporting companies in established markets where innovation takes place slowly and incrementally. This is likely why state-backed efforts have found it easier to be competitive against aerospace companies than Silicon Valley giants working at breakneck pace

I always finds it fascinating that companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon or Microsoft (granted the later isn't a “silicon valley giant” proper) managed to build a narrative portraying themselves as “innovative companies” when they are the opposite of that: they are, and have been for almost two decades now or even more for Microsoft, very close to the complacent and short-term-profit-maximizer Boeing portrayed in this article.

They just happen to benefit from a much stronger network effect than Boeing, and work in a business where economies of scale are insane.
by nsoonhui | 2025-11-09 09:13:07+00:00
It's a shame that the top comments are focusing more on Elon Musk, his personality and politics rather than the quality of the model per se.

Speaking about Elon, regardless of what you think of him, he really does get things done, despite naysayers -- SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and even get Trump elected ( despite subsequent fallout) etc. Even Twitter is finding a second life by becoming a haven for the free speech advocates and alternative views, much to the chagrin of MSMs because they now no longer have the monopoly on the "truth", and censoring "fake news" becomes hard.

People like Elon are almost by definition contrarian ( you don't change the world by being a conformist), that should align well with the predilection of the intended audience here. So it's a surprise to me that HNs are almost uniformly, vehemently anti-Musk. It's almost as if the ultimate embodiment of the hacker spirit -- Musk -- is being rejected by his own kind, the very kind that he is supposed to inspire.
by AmbroseBierce | 2025-11-09 09:13:51+00:00
Sorry but I am voting for the opposite solution, meaning:

with Session( engine ) as session: youngest_ids_subq = ( select( func.max( People.id ).label( "max_id" ) ) .group_by( People.name ) .subquery() ) purge_stmt = ( delete( People ) .where( People.id.not_in( select( youngest_ids_subq.c.max_id ) ) ) ) session.execute( purge_stmt ) session.commit() unique_idx = Index( "uq_people_name", People.name, unique=True ) unique_idx.create(bind=engine)
by TMWNN | 2025-11-09 09:14:14+00:00
>Meanwhile interchange fees in places like EU and Australia are more like 0.3%

Those places don't have the ruthless competition between card issuers and various rewards that occurs in the US. I was paid $1000 by Chase for opening a new card and doing the spend on it that I would have done anyway. I get 5% back on every purchase made at Amazon. I get 3% back for every food-related purchase. I get 2% back for every other purchase. I get rewards for my monthly rent payment. Etc., etc.

>I live in Asia where there is a cambrian explosion of QR-code based payment methods.

No American, used to having his Visa or Mastercard accepted at 99% and Amex accepted at 97% of places, would want to switch to constantly having to scan gigantic charts such as your example to see whether his card/payment method will work.

In other words, the US has the competition you spoke of, without the inconvenience.