MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-11-03 00:37:19+00:00
If you have a MacOS ARM system, than emulating old slow games can work:

https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases

For some, it is the only real legal option given windows 11 licensing.

Apple M3/M4 are a great chip, but they EOL the hardware ecosystem every 12 years on average. Few companies can tolerate that level of development liability, and Apple users benefit from the FOSS ecosystems cross-platform efforts. =3
by refurb | 2025-11-03 00:37:28+00:00
You realize ICE responded to this claim?

https://x.com/dhsgov/status/1983550041496117532?s=46

“This temporary restraining order was not served to ICE until AFTER the criminal illegal alien was removed….Following his heinous crimes, he lost his green card, and an immigration judge ordered him removed in 2006. 20 years later, he tried a Hail Mary attempt to remain in our country by claiming he was a U.S. citizen.”
by tcoff91 | 2025-11-03 00:37:34+00:00
If you give people glasses instead of solo cups, I find that partygoers will tend to treat your house with a lot more care and respect. We have a set of glasses that have little black stickers on them that are a material that works well with chalk, so people can label them.

Yes, there's a risk of breakage & having to clean up, but overall I think it sets a better tone.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-11-03 00:37:35+00:00
Being associated with delivery vans would dilute the Tesla brand. Imagine seeing beat up Amazon vans with Porsche emblems - it wouldn’t improve your perception of a Porsche as a car you would love to one day own.

Yes, other things the company or CEO does are also diluting the brand. It’s still true that the company can be making a rational decision not to attack this segment.

Rivian’s marketing people probably hate that they’re doing this, but the company had $2.5B revenue and still lost $1.6B the first half of 2025. They’re in survival mode.
by tptacek | 2025-11-03 00:37:56+00:00
That's a serious blocker, but the biggest blocker for it is that it can't reliably be deployed; too much of the Internet is on links that won't pass the records required to verify DANE, which means that browsers need fallback paths for DANE, which means DANE expands, rather than contracts, the threat surface area of the WebPKI.
by dlisboa | 2025-11-03 00:38:43+00:00
I feel like this is really an American culture thing where parties or dinner parties are mostly the responsibility of the host. In movies or TV there’s even a common theme of guests judging the host’s hosting abilities.

In Brazil you throw a party to people you like and they all have a hand in helping you, sharing the load. Everyone will be responsible for some part of it, all of it is organized informally, there are no real formalities to the event. No one cares about making a science out of it.

I’ve never heard of a person complaining about party quality or comparing hosting abilities.
by noosphr | 2025-11-03 00:39:13+00:00
I can't find the article where I read it, many years ago now, but it was about strategies that small communities can adopt to keep their culture from being subsumed by the mainstream.

One was to pick a set of norms repugnant to the mainstream that everyone currently in the community can tolerate and enforce them rigorously on all new members. This will limit the appeal of the community to people like the ones currently there and will make sure that it never grows too big.

Thus your community is as appetising to activists attempting a hostile takeover as a toxic slug is to a bird.

As an example from six years ago, when the code of conduct madness had just reached its peak:

>I believe OpenBSD's code of conduct can be summed up as "if you are the type of person who needs a code of conduct to teach to you how to human then you are not welcome here".
by akerl_ | 2025-11-03 00:39:57+00:00
It's a good thing that intent is a major element of the crime, then.

If you just happen on a dump of a company's data, you didn't have the necessary intent. If you hit a login form and figure out that it has flaws and then use those flaws to access data, you do.

The examples you're giving don't seem to be ambiguous?

There's a pretty clear pattern if you look at cases where folks have found flaws in websites. Find a flaw? So far, so good. Test the flaw against dummy data or your own data? Still good. Test the flaw by pulling other people's data or trying things that would reasonably damage the company's infrastructure? Not good.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-03 00:40:22+00:00
I think it's not exactly a fair comparison, because capitalism and communism are both very new economic systems. And, in the time communist systems existed, they were existentially threatened by high GDP nations.

I think, it's clear to me, that capitalists feel extremely threatened by the mere concept of Marxism and what it could mean for them. Even if it's happening on the other side of the world. They will deploy bombs, soldiers, develop nukes.

I'm not saying that it works and it's good. But, consider: most capitalist nations are abject failures as well. There's only a handful of capitalist nations that are developed, and they stay developed because they imperialisticly siphon wealth from the global periphery. We don't know if this system is sustainable. Really, we don't.

Since WWII, the US has just been riding the waves of having 50% of the global GDP. It's not that we're doing good - it's that everyone else was bombed to shreds and we weren't. We've sort of been winning by default. I don't think that's enough to just call it quits.
by nicbou | 2025-11-03 00:40:23+00:00
I prefer to invite people individually, and create a group chat with those who confirmed. Nothing is more demoralising than 24 hours of people saying they won’t come, in the group chat, right before the event.

My flake rate is close to zero, mostly because people personally told me they’ll join.

It doesn’t hurt to get the group chat hyped up on the day of the event. The activity is enough to get people excited. I also pin the time and location so people find it easily.

Besides that, just chill. It doesn’t have to be perfect. Once a few good people are there, the thing mostly runs itself. Try to relax and enjoy your own party.
by tptacek | 2025-11-03 00:40:51+00:00
You have not here presented a fact pattern that would put the journalist at risk. A journalist can safely write a story about the gross insecurity of a website. You could put 10 million bank account numbers behinds a login field that accepts 'OR''=' as a password, and write about that. You could have a bypass for that login whereby incrementing an integer revealed those bank accounts, one after another, on an unauthenticated HTTP GET.

Where you get into trouble is when you use either of those conditions to collect bank account numbers. Whether you're collecting them to sell or collecting them as color (the amount, scale, diversity, whatever) for your story: you'll be expected to understand that you did not have authorized access to that data, and by collecting it, you'll have violated CFAA.

You would similarly be at risk when, having used the 'OR''=' password, you then poked around inside the website to see what else was exposed. That might "feel" like journalism. So too would be wandering around inside a bank you found unlocked at night. But no sane journalist would do what I just described.

In fact: this is straightforward. Further evidence of that: that journalists routinely write about this stuff and don't get prosecuted.

The Barrett Brown case is an especially good illustration of where the lines are drawn.
by refurb | 2025-11-03 00:40:53+00:00
Are you an immigration lawyer?

Sure if you produce some secure form of proof that has no indication of being fraudulent there is no cause to detain.

But that’s not what’s happening in many cases. People using others ID. Questions about fraud in the immigration case itself.

If you have any examples of US citizens being detained for extended periods (actual citizens, not just a verbal claim) I’d be interested to read about them.
by pornel | 2025-11-03 00:41:05+00:00
Extra "wasted" capacity has many benefits for EV battery packs.

It allows distributing load across more cells. It allows using cells with a lower C-rating, which typically have better energy density, and longer lifespan.

Distributing load reduces energy loss during charging, makes cooling less demanding, while allowing higher total charging power, which means adding more range per minute.

The excess capacity makes it easier to avoid fully changing and discharging cells. This prolongs life of NMC cells.

(but I agree that cars are an inefficient mode of transport in general)
by mmooss | 2025-11-03 00:41:10+00:00
> 2. We have got to do something

That's a mistake. We need to do something with good results. Doing something with bad results is worse than doing nothing.

> Whether or not this something is actually a useful and good thing [and whether or not it will lead to other good things, and if those other things will be good...] will definitely be biased by your view of the administration, your policy towards war, and you risk tolerance.

You're accusing random people of bias - you don't even know who they are. It's a way to shut down discussion and reason.

Whether or not it's good and useful doesn't depend on bias, but on reality. We can talk about reality here, without shutting each other down.

From what I understand, fentanyl doesn't come by boat, and few drugs do.

> 5. No one commenting in the news has enough info of the plan (or of the future) to offer a useful appraisal of this particular something.

If that's true, it's a major problem in democracy, where the people have sovereignty. Their elected representatives in Congress decide on wars, not the White House.
by skissane | 2025-11-03 00:41:20+00:00
> Yeah, it panics when you use after free.

I wasn’t talking about use-after-free, I was talking about memory leaks - when you get a pointer from malloc(), and then you destroy your last copy of the pointer without ever having called free() on it.

Can the GC be configured to warn/panic if it deallocates a memory block which the program failed to explicitly deallocate?
by Natfan | 2025-11-03 00:41:37+00:00
RQL[0][1] or FIQL[2] might be of interest to you as well, Callum.

[0]: https://github.com/persvr/rql

[1]: https://github.com/jirutka/rsql-parser

[2]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-nottingham-atomp...
by dijit | 2025-11-03 00:41:52+00:00
not to split hairs, but I think the parent is justified in saying they “always worked” if they’ve been this good for a decade.

If I was 10 years younger than I am today, my perspective would have been that it “always worked” and at some point we have to acknowledge that there has been good work done and things are quite stable in the modern day. 10y is not a small amount of time to prove it out.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-11-03 00:42:37+00:00
I have heard that Denmark exports their best pigs and leaves the second best for home. Not sure why that should be any truer than what you heard regarding Switzerland and their strategy, but they seem to represent two differing strategies about how to best profit from strong points, it would be nice to figure if either is the dominant one.

Perhaps we can ask Italy what they do with tomatoes and parmigiano.
by gerdesj | 2025-11-03 00:42:57+00:00
There are largely three types of cheese in the US: Swiss, American and Cheddar. I live near to Cheddar (Somerset, UK) but I'm not going to get too outraged.

All countries, without exception, do something unpleasant to an ingredient or dish that the rest of the world will cry foul over. It is the way of things.
by cyberax | 2025-11-03 00:43:00+00:00
> In the 1900s every city was walkable. Most cities had trains of some sort for the majority of transport and bikes or horses for the last mile.

Not the "last mile". The _only_ mile. Cities were so walkable that London had multiple distinct local accents because people were living their entire lives in one neighborhood, venturing outside only for special occasions.

This changed only with the invention of electric trams that allowed people to relatively cheaply move around. Technically, horse-driven trams were invented a bit earlier but they never got built at scale.
by mike_hearn | 2025-11-03 00:44:15+00:00
It's certainly both a lot more than distillation and at least some Chinese labs have been cloning OpenAI via distillation. That's why they instituted much tighter ID verification requirements earlier this year.

No, the reason you don't see many open source models coming from the rest-of-world (other than Mistral in France) is that you still need a ton of capital to do it. China can compete because the CCP used a combination of the Great Firewall and lax copyright/patent enforcement to implement protectionism for internet services, which is a unique policy (one that obviously came with massive costs too). This allowed China to develop home grown tech companies which then have the datacenters, capital and talent density to train models. Rest of world didn't do this and wasn't able to build up domestic tech industries competitive with the USA.
by mmooss | 2025-11-03 00:44:45+00:00
Random people in boats are getting killed; the dictators are fine. And who decides who is guilty and what they deserve? A single person? That's against freedom, democracy, and everything the US stands for.

> They're shipping poison that kills our people to our country

Drugs transit many countries; can we arbitrarily convict and kill everyone connected to those countries?

Most of the people involved are Americans, in the US.
by mike_hearn | 2025-11-03 00:45:50+00:00
They aren't in the lead. They are very close behind, but that's not hard given the quantity of freely published papers. They keep proving they can train models competitive with US models, but, only months after the fact. And at least some of the Chinese models were trained via distillation from US models. Probably not at Alibaba but it seems at least some models were.
by missingcolours | 2025-11-03 00:46:03+00:00
The reality is that most SNAP recipients are not going to go to food banks or anything like that; they're just going to use their own money and buy groceries or McDonald's.

Now, what that means is that they'll have to spend less money on other things to buy groceries. Sometimes that's concerts and fancy clothes. Sometimes it's car repairs or the electric bill; depends on the person and their situation. People in tight financial situations are typically accustomed to getting behind on bills and borrowing money sometimes, and realistically in the short term changing their grocery habits is going to be a lot more of a pain than just spending money.

3 months from now in the unlikely scenario that SNAP hasn't been renewed that's a different story.
by georgehopkin | 2025-11-03 00:47:15+00:00
Researchers at Columbia University Fertility Center have reported the first successful pregnancy using an AI-guided method they developed to recover sperm in men with azoospermia, a condition in which ejaculate contains little or no sperm.

The case, described in a research letter published in The Lancet, demonstrates the potential of the technology to help couples overcome male-factor infertility, which accounts for approximately 40 per cent of infertility cases. Of those, about 10-15 per cent of men with infertility have azoospermia.
by voidmain | 2025-11-03 00:48:12+00:00
Yes. OkCupid basically solved dating, at least for people like me. It took me 2 dates to find the love of my life, and then I left the site (and all dating sites) forever. I paid them $0. Match Group, whose sites are designed to keep you single or in repeated failed relationships forever, made lots more money, bought them out, and ruined the site so they would stop shrinking the market.

It's a lot like how tech companies, data and advertisers have ruined news, friendship, phone, email, politics, ...
Ask HN: Is Common Crawl used exhaustively by any search engine?
by n1xis10t | 2025-11-03 00:48:30+00:00
The Common Crawl has about 300 billion pages in it, and if you downloaded all of it in extracted text format it would only take up about 816 TB compressed. If someone were to make a search engine with this I think it would be more comprehensive than Bing, and possibly pretty similar to Google. The only CC based search engines that I know of use a tiny fraction of what they have available. Do you know of any that use the whole thing?
by bigyabai | 2025-11-03 00:48:39+00:00
Not all of the living hostages, no. Many of the Palestinian prisoners were executed in Israeli detainment before being handed over: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-bodies-releas...

Israel will be hard-pressed to negotiate for peace when they execute more prisoners then the terrorists do. I was hoping Trump might change that, but it seems he doesn't notice or care.
by PessimalDecimal | 2025-11-03 00:49:26+00:00
Mercedes runs their Sprinter line with the Mercedes star on the front. I know some after-market modifications can turn these into really nice RVs, but they're mostly in the "work van" category. In Europe, Mercedes doesn't really have the same connotations of luxury/aspirational purchase that it does in the US, so maybe that explains the willingness to slap their insignia on a work van. But nobody in the US seems to think Sprinters dilute the perception that other Mercedes are a luxury.

Edit: ugh I see at least two others made exactly this same point while I was typing my comment. I guess it shows that it's a valid one...
by labrador | 2025-11-03 00:49:46+00:00
Thanks. I'm sorry I jumped to the conclusion that you were making the doomer arguement. I see now your argument is much more subtle and raises some interesting points. If I understand it correctly, it's like what if one company owned the internet? But worse than that, what if one company owned access to intelligence? I'm old so I remember when AT&T owned the American phone system. We couldn't hook up anything to the phone jack without permission, so intuitivly I did understand your argument, but my opposition to doomer arguments (pause research! regulate!) got in the way.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-11-03 00:50:32+00:00
You have photos and text, try making them funny and showing off that you’re not afraid to hide things about yourself that others would hide- maybe emphasize and show a weird hobby or interest that other people might be worried to share. Of course this only works if you’re actually funny or actually have unusual hobbies. One guy I know literally posted silly photos of himself awkwardly pole dancing and got tons of matches. Even if you’re tall and rich, I advise being interesting instead and making it impossible to tell those things, if you want to match with people that are not boring and shallow. Have a good time and be light hearted- having a bad attitude about how dating is unfair will be impossible to hide and looks like a major personality flaw.
by AmbroseBierce | 2025-11-03 00:50:40+00:00
It reminds me of a story I read somewhere that some guy high on drugs climbed to the top of some elevated campus headlights shouting things about being a moth and loving lights, and the security guys tried telling him to go down but he paid no attention to that and time went on until a janitor came and shut off the lights, then turned one of those high powered handheld ones and point it at him the guy quickly climbed down there.

So yeah I think there are different levels of thinking, maybe future models with have some sort of internal models once they recognize patterns of some level of thinking, I'm not that knowledgeable of the internal workings of LLMs so maybe this is all nonsense.
by teleforce | 2025-11-03 00:53:29+00:00
The new web standard initiative BRAID is trying to make web to be more human and machine friendly with a synchronous web of state [1],[2],[3].

"Braid’s goal is to extend HTTP from a state transfer protocol to a state sync protocol, in order to do away with custom sync protocols and make state across the web more interoperable.

Braid puts the power of operational transforms and CRDTs on the web, improving network performance and enabling natively p2p, collaboratively-editable, local-first web applications." [4]

[1] A Synchronous Web of State:

https://braid.org/meeting-107

[2] Braid: Synchronization for HTTP (88 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40480016

[3] Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful (564 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44507076

[4] Braid HTTP:

https://jzhao.xyz/thoughts/Braid-HTTP
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-03 00:53:29+00:00
It's worth noting that there's several implementations of persistent/immutable/functional data structures for Rust already, and a few basic "building blocks" (namely std::borrow::Cow, noted for its bovine superpowers) are even in the Rust standard library. It's possible that we'll see more of them standardized in the future if a case can be made that they're useful and a consensus is reached wrt. some kind of minimally viable APIs.
by bitshiftfaced | 2025-11-03 00:53:40+00:00
> In Brazil you throw a party to people you like and they all have a hand in helping you, sharing the load. Everyone will be responsible for some part of it, all of it is organized informally, there are no real formalities to the event. No one cares about making a science out of it.

> I’ve never heard of a person complaining about party quality or comparing hosting abilities.

This is all true in my experience as well, and I live in the US. Maybe I don't go to enough parties, though.
by cyberax | 2025-11-03 00:54:51+00:00
Linux has won on phones (Android) and on the server side. I don't think Windows Server is seriously used for anything but Exchange/AD these days, outside of hosting specialized or legacy apps.

Windows also comprehensively lost the "exclusivity" moat. Most of popular apps are now cross-platform, because they need to run on Android/iOS/macOS. So desktop Linux is often an easy addition: Slack, Discord, all the messengers, Zoom, various IDEs, etc.

So Linux indeed won to a large extent. Just not in the way people expected it.
by gerdesj | 2025-11-03 00:55:37+00:00
Cheddar is a small town and a gorge in Somerset, UK. I live close by.

Switzerland is an entire country with sodding great mountains and lakes, multiple towns, cities and a lot of worryingly loved leather clothing.

How on earth can you reduce a nation that supplies the rather lovely Swiss Guard to the Vatican and rather a lot more (that word is working quite hard at this point and perspiring very heavily) to the entire world to ... cheese.

I suggest you don't apply for any jobs in marketing. Your talents will be wasted, should any be found 8)
Ask HN: Are all modern meta-search engines lame?
by n1xis10t | 2025-11-03 00:56:09+00:00
It seems like there is no modern meta-search engine that gets all the available results (by paginating) from its sources, and then crawls them and re-ranks them. As far as I can tell from the paper, this is what the original meta-crawler did.

My questions: Do you know of any modern ones that do this? Do you remember any old ones that did this besides meta-crawler?

It might be slower, but I think that something like this would be fantastic, especially if it were open source so that I could come up with and experiment with my own ranking methods.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-03 00:56:26+00:00
Don't forget all the opensource ports/engine recomps that (still) work great on Linux:

- OpenJazz (port of Jazz Jackrabbit)

- OpenOMF (One Must Fall 2097)

- OpenMW (Morrowind)

- Devilution X (Diablo)

- SDLPoP (Prince of Persia)

- RVGL (Re-Volt)

- R.E.L.I.V.E. (Abe's Oddysee)

- Ship of Harkinian (Zelda OoT)

- 2Ship2Harkinian (Zelda Majora's Mask)

- Super Mario Bros Remastered

... and probably lots more that I missed out.