MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CuriouslyC | 2025-11-24 14:05:01+00:00
Obviously not with Gmail/Facebook, in that case it's just 100% incentive misalignment.

The others, probably, VCs are incentivized to fund the people who allocate the most resources towards growth and marketing, as long as the app isn't actively on fire investors will actively push you away from allocating resources to make your tech good.
by emestifs | 2025-11-24 14:05:18+00:00
Sorry, but as an outsider from one of those other countries you mention, I don't get what you mean by top notch? Top notch for whom? The people who can afford to pay out of pocket? Or those willing to do into debt to just get treatment? Whenever I see news from places like PBS News Hour, it's about some low wage or senior person struggling to just care for their medical needs or prescriptions.

I don't know my guy, your system isn't exactly top notch for most people - I don't think you need to look very hard to see that if you try.

Random examples:

- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/OECD_hea... - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Life_exp...

There's something very very wrong here when your paying that much per capita and a lot of people are still struggling.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-11-24 14:05:23+00:00
Professionally I am a fulltime FE Dev using Typescript+React. My Backends for my side projects are all done in C#, even so I'd be fluent in node+typescript for that very reason. In a current side project, my backend only has 3 external package dependencies, 2 of which are SQLite+ORM related. The frontend for that sideproject has over 50 (React/Typescript/MaterialUI/NextJS/NX etc.)
by stunthamsterio | 2025-11-24 14:05:53+00:00
Good catch - I should have expanded on the acronym, especially as was referring to my hearing loss being Single Sided Hearing Loss, so already easy to confuse (Although as you point out, SSHL often presents as single sided deafness). In my case, I had sudden loss of balance with subsequent hearing loss. I spent well over six weeks suffering from bouts of severe rotational vertigo, which once passed, never returned, but took a hefty chunk of my left side hearing with it.

The hearing aid has certainly given me back most of what I loss, but it took some time to come to terms with losing my hearing on that side.
by kasey_junk | 2025-11-24 14:06:08+00:00
You’d need a long term stable tariff regime for the investment required for that to happen.

The current administration has not proven itself to be stable. Even for their base they’ve walked back beneficial tariffs when the anticipated price increases happen (e.g. beef).

And that’s before you get into the constitutionality of their actions or how likely they are to be reversed with the next congress
by trollbridge | 2025-11-24 14:06:08+00:00
I live in an area where the homeless by and large are well served (lots of halfway houses), so despite being a generally impoverished area in terms of bottom quintile of income or percent of population on food stamps and so forth, public facilities like buses and libraries get to be used for their intended purpose.

A library levy recently passed despite being in a deep-red political jurisdiction. If families couldn’t use the library without contending with people using it as a residential facility, it wouldn’t have passed.
by andupotorac | 2025-11-24 14:06:28+00:00
Added support for Playwright, so that the LLM can get the screenshot of the page the user wants to copy. While this seems like a small thing, what is required to build it, and what the difference in the output is are quite large.

Here are some examples of different tools, compared to Same.dev that also captures screenshots of pages - and all the others.

https://x.com/andupoto/status/1992928743925690382
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by GuB-42 | 2025-11-24 14:07:15+00:00
One reason I can think of is with regard to confidentiality. A lot of AI services are controlled by companies in the US or China, and they may not want military research to leak to these countries.

Classified project obviously have stricter rules, such as airgaps, but sometimes, the limits are a bit fuzzy, like a non-classified project that supports a classified project. And I may be wrong but academics don't seem to be the type who are good at keeping secrets nor see the security implication of their actions. Which is a good thing in my book, science is about sharing, not keeping secrets! So no AI for military projects could be a step in that direction.
by 0110101001 | 2025-11-24 14:07:37+00:00
Not exactly the same, but in Japan (where obviously many of the great games of the 80s and 90s were authored) there's a mechanism to acquire a license from the government to publish abandonware. The government collects a royalty from the new distributor that it holds in case a valid copyright holder comes forward.

Little Samson, a late-era NES game that because of its rarity can sell for thousands, was developed by a now-defunct company and is getting a re-release next year using this process.

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/10/daunting-limited-...
by eviks | 2025-11-24 14:07:49+00:00
> A note on defaults. A problem with customised setups is that they mean you can’t pick up your friend’s Emacs setup and use it

> can be mitigated by sticking with the ‘language’ of the system

No? You're still going to be mistaken a lot of the time to the point of making your experience unpleasant. And how often do you really pick up your friend's Emacs setup for this to outweigh the other 99% of your time?

> Emacs has pretty clear (if arguably not very good) conventions

Indeed, so it's a waste of productivity and ergonomics to rely on it
by numpad0 | 2025-11-24 14:08:08+00:00
Japan's also like, long as the distance between Warsaw to Barcelona. Or to Gibraltar if you include islands south to Okinawa. And Hokkaido is an "island" that's about as big as the entire Czech Republic. Is investment in a French chip factory considered risky because it's practically right in front of Russia... not really no?

The Chinese threat is also being handled by rapid rearmament. JSDF has been like, dual-fast-tracking lots of things including MRBMs for operational capabilities in 2026-27 timeframes.
by dhx | 2025-11-24 14:08:17+00:00
Amongst the numerous reasons why you _don't_ want to rush into implementing new algorithms is even the _reference implementation_ (and most other early implementations) for Kyber/ML-KEM included multiple timing side channel vulnerabilities that allowed for key recovery.[1][2]

djb has been consistent in view for decades that cryptography standards need to consider the foolproofness of implementation so that a minor implementation mistake specific to timing of specific instructions on specific CPU architectures, or specific compiler optimisations, etc doesn't break the implementation. See for example the many problems of NIST P-224/P-256/P-384 ECC curves which djb has been instrumental in fixing through widespread deployment of X25519.[3][4][5]

[1] https://cryspen.com/post/ml-kem-implementation/

[2] https://kyberslash.cr.yp.to/faq.html / https://kyberslash.cr.yp.to/libraries.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_point_multiplic...

[4] https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/ladder.html

[5] https://cr.yp.to/newelliptic/nistecc-20160106.pdf
by jrmg | 2025-11-24 14:08:23+00:00
Replying to myself…

From https://rightsback.org/faq/#What_kinds_of_agreements_cannot_... , works for hire are not covered, which includes most 1990s software (though I do still wonder about open source licenses):

Under the U.S. Copyright Act, copyrighted works that qualify as “works made for hire” are subject to special rules that govern who becomes the first owner of copyright in a work. For regular works, the person who creates the work becomes the first owner of copyright. However, for “works made for hire” either the employer or person who commissioned the work becomes the first owner of copyright. Neither of these transfers of rights from the author to the employer or commissioning party, which occur by operation of the Copyright Act, nor any subsequent agreements entered into by the employer or commissioning party in relation to the work, may be challenged by the author or their family members.

There’s a whole lot more nuance there, but notably “A contribution to a collective work” is allowed to be a work for hire.
by mrtksn | 2025-11-24 14:08:44+00:00
See, usually you don't have 11 developers coding 24/7. What you usually have is project managers, account managers etc and then a few people who code every now and then. Then you have licenses and support costs.

You can't just code the website, zip the code and mail it to the client. They have many stakeholders like this person needs to be able to show this that persin needs to be able to access this etc because they are running a business or service with than many people. Then you will have requirements like blind people should be able to use that and someone should be able to monitor all that. For each complication you will use specialized tools and do integration, i.e. Adobe will sell you one thing Oracle will sell you another thing and you will have to have people overseeing all these integrations and requirements etc.

That's why you have thousands of employees in tech companies with seemingly a simple product that you can fully code in a week(at least the user facing part of it).
by cracki | 2025-11-24 14:08:47+00:00
Fixed price? Shake on it LOL

- That "weather website" has to serve all of Australia.

- It's got to be usable on big screen desktops, tablets, smartphones.

- It has to have an uptime of what I estimate to be 99.99%. As the article says, farmers will pitchfork you if you can't tell them when rain will hit their fields.

- It has to be slinging dynamic image data to (about) every visitor.

- The data comes from somewhere. You're lucky if they have that under control already. Probably not.

I came up with these aspects, not knowing anything about what the "Bureau of Meteorology" actually needs in a website. It's just common sense speculation.
by aa-jv | 2025-11-24 14:08:49+00:00
> C/C++ .. a convenient package manager

Every time I fire up "cmake" I chant a little spell that protects me from the goblins that live on the other side of FetchContent to promise to the Gods of the Repo that I will, eventually, review everything to make sure I'm not shipping poop nuggets .. just as soon as I get the build done, tested .. and shipped, of course .. but I never, ever do.
by jack_tripper | 2025-11-24 14:09:13+00:00
>I've noticed they tend to have a weird mix of orientalist sentiment along with a "Europe should be able to do this too".

Is it wrong for people in Europe to wish for more cutting-edge/high-margin opportunities in their back yard, especially given the currently atrocious state of the job market?

Like you read news how TSMC's cutting edge chips are made in Taiwan and US fabs, then you looks at European fabs and the most cutting edge are 16/12nm.

People are seeing the lag with their own eyes and wish for some change.
by mrj | 2025-11-24 14:09:27+00:00
My son is 14 and has a moderate to severe loss. During his younger years we had a big clunky behind the ear type of aid and it was fine for a while. But tech progressed and we started noticing that he was having trouble hearing "s" sounds. I researched and got him the Oticon Real and it's been amazing and his speech dramatically improved with the new tech. There have been a lot fewer problems with wind noise and he can talk and pay attention in loud environments like school or a restaurant. His grades shot up.

The newer tech is definitely worth it but spendy. There are times though when I'm a bit jealous, too! He can turn them off when he doesn't want to hear and can listen to anything on his phone over bluetooth, as well as take calls. And he never wakes up at night because of noise :)
by keepamovin | 2025-11-24 14:10:42+00:00
That's because the US was founded on a unique constitution to empower individuals against tyranny, then defeated (with Russia, mind) the Nazis in world war II, bootstrapped the UN, went to the moon, and ushered in an era of global leadership and peace, along with unmatched soft power (films, news, etc). Camelot, shining city on the hill. China had a bloody communist revolution, then got rich (in part by breaking deals and ripping off IP) - also through hard work. America is porous, "Shortbus", "anyone can make it", American dream. China is ethnonationalist, and has a sense of ethnic and cultural supremacy that is not inclusive of "outsiders". That's why it's a problem, and, rightly, seen/intuitied to be a problem, more so than the US (despite US' many failings/misteps, etc).
by seethishat | 2025-11-24 14:10:53+00:00
I think some system would need to dynamically analyze the code (as it runs) and record what it does. Even then, that may not catch all malicious activity. It's sort of hard to define what malicious activity is. Any file read or network conn could, in theory, be malicious.

As a SW developer, you may be able to limit the damage from these attacks by using a MAC (like SELinux or Tomoyo) to ensure that your node app cannot read secrets that it is not intended to read, conns that it should not make, etc. and log attempts to do those things.

You could also reduce your use of external packages. Until slowly, over time you have very little external dependencies.
by smeej | 2025-11-24 14:11:11+00:00
Cheap phones like a year old Moto G are under $100. There's no reason that shouldn't last two years. They do everything necessary. If you're near poverty, you don't get to use "normal" amounts of data, streaming shows and Spotify and YouTube. You need enough data to get by, and 5GB will easily load every website you must access in a month, never mind that the plan includes all the talk/text you need.

I really do pay $15 a month for my phone plan. I've never hit my 5GB data cap.

I do have $30 home internet. So even if we assume two adults and home broadband, we're talking $70 including hardware, not $200, but there's nothing I do on my home WiFi that I absolutely need and couldn't do from my phone while staying under the data cap. But I'm not financially struggling, and it's an expense I'm happy to pay. It's not something I need.
by jonstewart | 2025-11-24 14:11:13+00:00
Sure! First, while I’m in no position to judge cryptographic algorithms, the success of cha-cha and 25519 speak for themselves. More prosaically, patriecia/critbit trees and his other tools are the right thing, and foresighted. He’s not just smart, but also prolific.

However, he’s left a wake of combative controversy his entire career, of the “crackpot” type the parent comment notes, and at some point it’d be worth his asking, AITA? Second, his unconditional support of Jacob Appelbaum has been bonkers. He’s obviously smart and uncompromising but, despite having been in the right on some issues, his scorched earth approach/lack of judgment seems to have turned his paranoia about everyone being out to get him into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-11-24 14:11:51+00:00
It amazes me the number of people who are raging at how AI is hurting creators, and will make long videos and posts about this subject, without touching on the fact that the __ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY__ is the single largest abuser of creators, and it's far worse than AI is or probably will ever be.

That's how you can tell that the RIAA/MPAA propaganda campaign against AI to protect its racket is working.
by trollbridge | 2025-11-24 14:11:59+00:00
My state lets you register hand built and other oddball vehicles - basically, if you can get it past customs, you can register it. The out of state inspection for a title transfer is to check the VIN.

Insurance would need to be from a specialty provider who do insure oddball vehicles. Someone I know (in CA no less) insured his homemade electric motorcycle this way. (It’s titled as the chassis of the BMW regular motorcycle it was built from.)

If you’re pulled over, you would need to show things like seat belts or turn signals and so on. I got nailed for not having a shoulder belt in a homemade vehicle made after 1960. Seat belt ticket was my punishment, although the cop remarked that adding a shoulder belt would be a good idea.
by alistairSH | 2025-11-24 14:12:17+00:00
Is that true though?

Cameras and bicycles are my two main hobbies. Essentially zero US production for either. Prices have gone up, but for no good reason - there's no US industry to protect.

Limited, highly-targeted tariffs can serve a purpose. But the blanket stuff we've seen this year make zero sense at a macroeconomic level.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-11-24 14:12:24+00:00
Just own goal, after own goal, after own goal by the current US political party in power.

While China proceeds to lap us doing what they party insisted was economically infeasible if not impossible. Investing in cutting edge technologies, gaining energy independence, and leading the world in manufacturing growth.

And instead of investing in the future, building better products and tech, and out competing the world, all we've heard from the past decade+ is protectionism for oil interests and tariffs for industries.

Such backwards thinking, while China is an existence proof of what they claimed couldn't happen.

Such lost opportunity for no good reason at all. This country is going to hate being so weak in the international stage, but it's almost inevitable given its domestic choices.
by wongarsu | 2025-11-24 14:12:43+00:00
Do any of those competitors actually have meaningfully better uptime?

From a societal level, having everything shut down at once is an issue. But if you only have one POS system targeting only one backend URL (and that backend has to be online for the POS to work) then cloudflare seems like one of the best choices

If the uptime provided by cloudflare isn't enough then the solution isn't a cloudflare competitor, it's the ability to operate offline (which many POS have, including for card purchases) or at least multiple backends with different DNS, CDN, server location etc.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-24 14:13:15+00:00
Rust (and really, any but JS) ecosystem have a bit more "due dilligence" applied everywhere; I don't doubt someone will try to namesquat but chance of success are far smaller

> The more I think about it, the more I believe that C, C++ or Odin's decision not to have a convenient package manager that fosters a cambrian explosion of dependencies to be a very good idea security-wise.

There was no decision in case of C/C++; it was just not a thing languages had at the time so the language itself (especially C) isn't written in a way to accommodate it nicely

> Ambivalent about Go: they have a semblance of packaging system, but nothing so reckless like allowing third-party tarballs uploaded in the cloud to effectively run code on the dev's machine.

Any code you download and compile is running code on dev machine; and Go does have tools to do that in compile process too.

I do however like the by default namespacing by domain, there is no central repository to compromise, and forks of any defunct libs are easier to manage.
by ghaff | 2025-11-24 14:13:37+00:00
Which is one of the reasons public domain is problematic in some jurisdictions because it requires you to waive rights you can't necessarily waive.

Yes, Louisiana somewhat notwithstanding, the US is basically common law like the UK (and much of the Anglosphere/Commonwealth).

As a bit of trivia, the MIT License was essentially created because of issues with "just" making X public domain. https://opensource.com/article/19/4/history-mit-license
by cosmotic | 2025-11-24 14:15:22+00:00
The unique thing about the US healthcare system is that care is directly proportional to how much money you can spend on it. So as a top spender, yes the care is great. Though realistically we should look at the system as a whole for all people it "covers". Looking at infant mortality rate, life expectancy, etc, for the average person, the picture is bleak; the US is shockingly bad.
by freen | 2025-11-24 14:15:49+00:00
Free public roads and highways? Free public parking? Good, normal, should be encouraged. Add a lane or two to the highway? Always a good idea! (hint: it never is)

Free public transit? KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! It will never work (those places it did are aberrations)

Go look up: 1. Jevons paradox (induced demand): More road capacity → more traffic. 2. Marchetti’s constant (30-minute city): Average commute time is stable; faster modes → sprawl. 3. Downs–Thomson paradox (transit sets highway speed): Car speeds improve only if transit gets better. 4. Braess’s paradox (network effect): Adding a new road can worsen traffic for everyone.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-24 14:16:13+00:00
> However, I can't see what those features do to defend against an attack vector that we have certainly seen elsewhere: project gets compromised, releases a malicious version, and then everyone picks it up when they next run `go get -u ./...` without doing any further checking. Which I would say is the workflow for a good chunk of actual users.

You can't, really, aside from full on code audits. By definition, if you trust a maintainer and they get compromised, you get compromised too.

Requiring GPG signing of releases (even by just git commit signing) would help but that's more work for people to distribute their stuff, and inevitably someone will make insecure but convenient way to automate that away from the developer
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-11-24 14:16:25+00:00
For whatever reason, the industry term for the certification is "Homologation" (1)

But yes, the vehicles which aren't on sale typically haven't been homologated. Why invest the time and money in that when it's not needed?

Actually deemed unsafe and not meeting the rules is much rarer, e.g. Tesla CyberTruck in Europe. (2)

In either case, you may get away with owning it, but not driving it on public roads.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homologation https://www.productipedia.com/kb/productipedia/compliance-re...

2) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/08/tesla-cyb...
by tromp | 2025-11-24 14:16:29+00:00
> there's an easy way to translate LC to IN

While easy, it sadly doesn't preserve semantics. Specifically, when you duplicate a term that ends up duplicating itself, results will diverge.

There exist more involved semantics preserving translations, using so-called croissants and brackets, or with the recent rephrased approach of [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20314
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-24 14:16:37+00:00
You could have stopped at average people don't like to change. It being justified or not as very little impact on the reception.

It applies equally to this than to systemd, wayland or Rust - but Rust is now trendy so people will bandwagon in their appreciation to look cool and in - to quote other topics regularly discussed on HN.

I fear that the most interesting thing about how these changes are received by the HN community is what it says about the HN community itself.