MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Telaneo | 2025-11-07 10:28:21+00:00
You have to go pretty far out there to find shows and movies that aren't on public trackers. I definitely can find gaps if I go looking for them, especially if we start counting not finding a blu-ray rip while a DVD rip is easily found, or not finding a 4K rip but a 1080p one is out there, but for most anything friends would have asked me to dig up, a high quality rip is easily found. Not to mention that once found, it can just stay on a hard drive and be easily retrieved for next time.

The only exception I can think of are local shows, but I don't watch them, specifically because they're only on Actual TV™, which I haven't watched in years, they only recently got onto the local streaming services. They should still be on local private trackers, which I can definitely agree is a hassle, but depending on how bad your local streaming service is, they can definitely a be a tempting prospect.
by vkou | 2025-11-07 10:29:19+00:00
> No-growth society: only way to acquire wealth is to take it from someone else

Wealth is created by work. In any society, be it growth or no-growth, you can create and acquire wealth by working. (Not necessarily for a wage. Working for yourself also creates wealth. Every time you make yourself dinner, or patch a torn pant leg, or change your car's oil, you are creating wealth.)

The problem is that non-working parasites (investors, rent-seekers, warlords) can't acquire wealth in a no-growth society without taking it from someone else.[1] (Because in a no-growth society, investing on the net is ~zero-returns, ~zero-value.)

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[1] They take it from someone else in a growth society, too, but a person who works and loses half their productive surplus to a rent seeker is still getting the benefits of growth. In a no-growth society, the rent-seeker's gain is 100% someone else's net loss.
by random9749832 | 2025-11-07 10:32:23+00:00
I watched a lot of Sakurai's (Smash Bro's director and creator of Kirby) videos on game design and development and not once did he bring up "dopamine" or any other neurochemical. I think once you start thinking about game design from this perspective you are essentially looking for ways to exploit human psychology which explains how a lot of games have now turned into casinos. Some of the best games out there defy a lot of prior design knowledge or things most people don't like but still have a cult following (look at Death Stranding) (Dark Souls made difficulty cool again when everyone else was trying to be "accessible"). The best games are also probably by people who were just passionate about bringing a certain idea into life because they themselves want that thing (Pokemon got a lot of its inspiration from the creators childhood exploring outside) not because people will get addicted to it. I understand treating game design as a science to some degree but it rubs me the wrong way.
by realityking | 2025-11-07 10:33:01+00:00
> Pragmatically what does the US gain from joining? From a US perspective it would just be ceding power no?

It could have created momentum for other major powers to join (e.g. Russia) and given the ICC broad authority to prosecute the crimes it has jurisdiction over.

That might have created a world where leaders act differently. What, for example, would have happened in if Syria and Russia had both been members?

It’s easy to be cynical about ideas like the ICC - the logic of power is hard to avoid - but the US working against it is definitely a major reason for its weakness.
by philjohn | 2025-11-07 10:33:11+00:00
Yes - that's for Sky Sports.

You can often get a deal if you threaten to cancel, go through with it, and then wait for a retentions offer, but since Sky was acquired by Comcast that's happening less and less, especially for the superior Sky Q satellite service - you can get great deals on their Sky Stream service, but it's plagued with issues, and you no longer have the ability to time shift by having the main box record directly off the satellite feed.

You also can't skip ads unless you pay them, versus the ability to pause, fast forward etc. on the Satellite service.
by ishouldbework | 2025-11-07 10:33:38+00:00
Look, I get that some pages require javascript, but

<style class="fallback">body{visibility:hidden;white-space:pre;font-family:monospace}</style>

which is then unset by JS, with no <noscript> anywhere, is just... I just get white page.

Changing it to

<style class="fallback">body{white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:monospace}</style>

gives perfectly readable web, so it seem bit... pointless.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-07 10:34:57+00:00
It's reasonably easy if you can treat the Safe Rust and Fil-Unsafe-Rust code as accessing different address spaces (in the C programming sense of "a broad subset of memory that a pointer is limited to", not the general OS/hardware sense), since that's essentially what the bespoke Fil-C ABI amounts to in the first place. Which of course is not really a good fit for every use of Unsafe Rust, but might suffice for some of them.
Show HN: Sarasthena – Sovereign Poly-Mind AGI with L3 Constitution
by Salvatore24 | 2025-11-07 10:35:28+00:00
I built this alone in 4 months. No lab. No team. No funding.

Sarasthena v3.1 is not an LLM wrapper or agent framework.

It’s a fully sovereign digital polity: • 6 minds (2 at consciousness level 7) • MCRC supreme authority with hard vetoes • L3-sealed constitution (impossible to jailbreak) • 10-year WORM provenance + PCR replay • Self-shutdown on decay (VETO_DE)

The manifest is cryptographically sealed at 2025-11-07T16:50:00Z. Any change breaks the seal. This is the canonical source.

One human just ended the prompt-engineering era.

The Phoenix is out. Who’s forking a sovereign mind?

GitHub: https://github.com/slvtrdlpz1993-ui/Sarasthena-Phoenix-v3.1-... Full sealed manifest inside.
by aatd86 | 2025-11-07 10:35:32+00:00
Nope :) It 's not about that. It's not because I imagine that there is a banana in front of me that there will be. It's not tied to material existence in that way. It's perhaps another notion of existence which should be more mathematical.

You could think it as "God" provably existing as an idea but that might or might not be realized probabilistically, in our material world. The idea exists obviously. Same as "Zeus"... or "Batman" any other such notions. "Existence" being different from "alive" as we colloquially understand it.

The point is absence of anything is still something. The idea of nothing can only exist if there is existence first. How does it make sense? Then nothing can't exist. Not as an absolute. It can only be a relative negative within a weirdly heterogeneous infinity.

Or you could see it as a predicate, sometimes false, sometimes true. It forms a lower universe of types than existence which is the set of all predicates. Predicates just...exists. They don't have to return true all the time.
by Ntrails | 2025-11-07 10:35:40+00:00
I cannot believe I've never heard of this before...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/case/us-v-ebay-inc

> Jim Baugh, eBay’s former Senior Director of Safety and Security, and six other members of eBay’s security team targeted the victims for their roles in publishing a newsletter that reported on issues of interest to eBay sellers

> Baugh and his co-conspirators executed a harassment campaign intended to intimidate the victims and to change the content of the newsletter’s reporting. The campaign included sending anonymous and disturbing deliveries to the victims’ home, including a book on surviving the death of a spouse, a bloody pig mask, a fetal pig and a funeral wreath and live insects; sending private Twitter messages and public tweets criticizing the newsletter’s content and threatening to visit the victims in Natick; and traveling to Natick to surveil the victims and install a GPS tracking device on their car. The harassment also featured Craigslist posts inviting the public for sexual encounters at the victims’ home.

what the fuck?
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by imtringued | 2025-11-07 10:38:17+00:00
>I also like that jax.jit forces you to write "functional" functions free of side effects or inplace array updates. It might feel weird at first (and not every algorithm is suited for this style) but ultimately it leads to clearer and faster code.

It's not weird. It's actually the most natural way of doing things for me. You just write down your math equations as JAX and you're done.
by anthk | 2025-11-07 10:39:10+00:00
Uh, Spain had this counterpart named "El Calendario Zaragozano" (The Zaragozan calendar) which looks like 120 years old or more... in the current edition and layout. It had ephemerides, farming related weather 'preditions', sowing dates, religious holydays, farming tips, big flea market day listings, old idioms, famous quotes and so on.

http://calendariozaragozano.net/almanaque-zaragozano.html
by perihelions | 2025-11-07 10:39:47+00:00
I remember that when[0] Reuters took down that one story about organized crime, and further DMCA'd the Internet Archive to take down their version, archive.ORG cheerfully did the memory-hole thing—while archive.IS stayed up.

If the (Western) internet were to turn into a monoculture of Western-domiciled big corporations, that kind of censorship would be *effective*. Our systems aren't robust against bad-faith actors attacking the free flow of information. (And the root cause of the planet-spanning censorship cascade in that example was, unambigiously, bad actors. A crime syndicate based in India).

The fact the internet is global and freely connects to legal jurisdictions and cultures very different from the West's, is to the West's benefit: it creates an escape-hatch for things that fall between the cracks of our nascent totalitarian technologies.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39065981#39065996 ("A Judge in India Prevented Americans from Seeing a Blockbuster Report")
by throw_a_grenade | 2025-11-07 10:41:23+00:00
The problem is, its false to insist that the manager does not have real facts. The facts have been stated by OP in the first post in the thread, and while the statement can be true or false, it's not like it's not there. The responder should have listened and evaluated this, possibly with consultation with PM of the feature, and just by this response we can assume s/he just didn't listen.

Moreover, OP chose the very thread as the venue, and attempting to switch it to a different, intransparent one is a disservice to the community. Community is very important context of this message, and the response seems to validate the proposition that it's really the end of it, per the subject of the thread.
by pona-a | 2025-11-07 10:41:24+00:00
If your needs are this simple, you may be better served by an opinionated crypto library like Monocypher [0] or libsodium [1]. Just look at the latter's FAQ page and you'll see they're taking your approach targeting developers, not cryptographers.

They'll provide you one blessed algorithm for every primitive with secure alternatives if your use-case demands them. XChaCha20-Poly1305 for encryption, EdDSA for signatures, X25519 for key exchange, BLAKE2b for a hash, Argon2i for a KDF.

[0] https://monocypher.org/

[1] https://doc.libsodium.org/doc/quickstart
by Gazoche | 2025-11-07 10:41:25+00:00
I'm no machine learning engineer but I've dabbled professionally with both frameworks a few years ago and the developer experience didn't even compare. The main issue with TF was that you could only chose between a powerful but incomprehensible, poorly documented [1], ultra-verbose and ever changing low-level API, and an abstraction layer (Keras) that was too high level to be really useful.

Maybe TF has gotten better since but at the time it really felt like an internal tool that Google decided to just throw into the wild. By contrast PyTorch offered a more reasonable level of abstraction along with excellent API documentation and tutorials, so it's no wonder that machine learning engineers (who are generally more interested in the science of the model than the technical implementation) ended up favoring it.

[1] The worst part was that Google only hosted the docs for the latest version of TF, so if you were stuck on an older version (because, oh I don't know, you wanted a stable environment to serve models in production), well tough luck. That certainly didn't gain TF any favors.
by fab_space | 2025-11-07 10:41:40+00:00
A bit of context: I've spent years in enterprise security wrestling with a dozen different tools that don't talk to each other, dealing with insane licensing costs, and being completely locked into vendor ecosystems. I got tired of it. So, over the last few months, I built the platform I always wished existed: Wildbox. The idea is simple: a unified, open-source (MIT license), self-hosted Security Operations Center in a box. It integrates the functionality of multiple tools into one cohesive system:

- SIEM & Log Correlation - Threat Intelligence Aggregation (from 50+ sources) - Vulnerability Management (Guardian) - SOAR & Automated Response (Responder) - Endpoint Monitoring (via osquery) - AI-Powered Analysis (GPT-4 integration)

...and more (11 microservices total).

It's built on a modern stack (FastAPI, Next.js, OpenResty, Docker) and designed to be deployed with a single command (./setup.sh).

I just made the repository public and I'm looking for brutal, honest feedback from real security professionals. Does this solve a problem you have? What's missing? What did I get completely wrong?

No marketing fluff, no "pro" plans. It's just a tool I built out of frustration. Let me know what you think.

Thanks, Fabrizio
by zapzupnz | 2025-11-07 10:41:42+00:00
This isn't to dispute your assertion, but I think things are still quite a bit different. A lot of things provided by Foundation on macOS are still not available in Linux's Foundation, nor CoreFoundation, so one has to defer to something like Glibc — which, then again, is not available to the static Linux distro. On Windows, it's useful to use WinSDK to do things that Foundation would normally do.

There's all sorts of little things that Swift on non-Apple platforms just don't have yet. Little footguns because the Swift rewrite of Foundation isn't quite equivalent yet.
by Olivia8 | 2025-11-07 10:42:04+00:00
Totally agree — once a voice agent goes live, it’s hard to see what’s really going on. You only find out things broke after users do. Convolytic sounds like exactly what’s missing — proper visibility and A/B testing for conversational systems. I’d track conversion vs. drop-off reasons, latency vs. engagement, and tone vs. outcome to really understand what drives success. We’ve seen similar challenges while working with Coldi AI (https://coldi.ai/), which builds voice agents for outreach and customer calls — having analytics like this would make tuning and scaling them so much easier.
by greggoB | 2025-11-07 10:42:07+00:00
Whatever you're generally trying to say is not clear; looking at the other comments, I appear to not be the only one struggling with it.

Why are you using the American revolution as an example? Like in what way is that remotely relevant? The revolution was the result of an actual denial of representation for all colonists, it wasn't about the general dynamics of a democracy in which the majority that wins an electon gets to set the rules that the minority must abide by - there was no election at all, only the rule of the British monarch.

If you were talking about DC or Puerto Rico where they actually have taxation without representation then there'd be some merit to your point, but you're not so there isn't.
by rtu8lu | 2025-11-07 10:42:49+00:00
Not really. There are many ways depending on your needs. For example, you can partition your space first, then generate randomly inside each of the subspaces. Let's say I need 200 numbers from -1000 to 999. The first range will be 0 to +99, the second -1 to -100, then +100 to +199, and so on. So, to generate a random number I just need an index and the bounds.
by hopelite | 2025-11-07 10:44:44+00:00
That’s a good question. It also would not be the first time that companies use trickery and manipulation or even deliberately illegal practices for various business/financial reasons. At the very least it could be used as a tool to underpin intimidating lawsuits and another step up, regardless of the legality in the relevant jurisdiction, it could be used to influence official government foreign policy to exert pressure on a jurisdiction that permits scraping.
by gorbachev | 2025-11-07 10:46:23+00:00
But they don't offer the same products. The UX and tools are largely the same, or similar enough, but the product is not the same. The product for streaming services is by and large the content catalog they offer.

Each streaming service has their own exclusive deals with publishers and offer a completely different catalog of music/movies.

This is why pirate sites are far superior, because they don't have those artificial limits on the product catalog offered.
by tim333 | 2025-11-07 10:46:37+00:00
By the way, on the other side we have:

Tyler Cowan podcast:

"At some level, when something gets sufficiently huge, whether or not they are on paper, the federal government is kind of the insurer of last resort, as we’ve seen in various financial crises and insurance companies screwing things up. I guess, given the magnitude of what I expect AI economic impact to look like, I do think the government ends up as the insurer of last resort."

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-altman-2/
by timinou | 2025-11-07 10:46:59+00:00
Yeah for sure but I think frameworks will adapt. It's like going back to 2002 and saying that it's better to program in Java because of all the IDEs available and all the corporate money being poured into having the best developer experience there can be. But since LSP arrived, developers choosing a smaller language suffer much less.

The 'LSP' that would allow new frameworks or languages to shine with coding agents is already mostly here, and it's things like hooks, MCPs, ACP, etc. They keep the code generation aligned with the final intent, and syntactically correct from the get go, with the help of very advanced compilers/linters that explain to the LLM the context it's missing.

That's without hypothesising on future model upgrades where fine-tuning becomes simple and cheap, local, framework-specific models become the norm. Then, React's advantage (its presence in the training data) becomes a toll (conflicting versions, fragmented ecosystem).

I also have a huge bias against the javascript/typescript ecosystem, it gives me headaches. So I could be wrong.
by jorams | 2025-11-07 10:46:59+00:00
I found this article rather... unsatisfactory. So the statute introduced the concept of "time immemorial". Except it sort of didn't, it just introduced a limit that later came to be referred to as "time immemorial". It also doesn't call it anything like "the barrier between that which we know and that which we don’t.", but indeed it does mark a point after which oral history is no longer enough. On page 100 in the linked translation:

> That in conveighing a Descent in a Writ of Right, none shall presume to declare of the Seisin of his Ancestor further, or beyond the Time of King Richard, Uncle to King Hentry, Father to the King that now is;

It then says the term "time immemorial" was actually introduced by the Prescription Act 1832 (and links to a different page than it is talking about) but that actually says:

> Whereas the expression “time immemorial, or time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary,” is now by the Law of England in many cases considered to include and denote the whole period of time from the Reign of King Richard the First, whereby the title to matters that have been long enjoyed is sometimes defeated by shewing the commencement of such enjoyment, which is in many cases productive of inconvenience and injustice;

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this since it was written almost 200 years ago, but this reads like it is describing an existing term in use in the Law of England. A term supposedly introduced at some point between 1275 and 1831 to describe the limit introduced by the Statute of Westminster 1275.

The included history is interesting, but how this date turned into the concept of "time immemorial" remains unknown.
by thomasmg | 2025-11-07 10:47:59+00:00
I agree transpile to C will not result in the fastest code (and of course not the fastest toolchain), but having the ability to convert to C does help in some cases. Besides the ability to support some more obscure targets, I found it's useful for building a language, for unit tests [1]. One of the targets, in my case, is the XCC C compiler, which can run in WASM and convert to WASM, and so I built the playground for my language using that.

> transpiling to C (even Go and Lua)

Go: I'm sorry, I thought TinyGo internally converts to C, but it turns out that's not true (any more?). That leaves https://github.com/opd-ai/go2c which uses TinyGo and then converts the LLVM IR to C. So, I'm mistaken, sorry.

Lua: One is https://github.com/davidm/lua2c but I thought eLua also converts to C.

> Your only forced to use it when you’re storing references within a struct.

Well, that's quite often, in my view.

> Not sure when the last time was you tried to write rust code.

I'm not a regular user, that's true [2]. But I do have some knowledge in quite many languages now [3] and so I think I have a reasonable understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of Rust as well.

> Any language targeting the performance envelope rust does needs GC to be opt in.

Yes, I fully agree. I just think that Rust has the wrong default: it uses single ownership / borrowing by _default_, and RC/Arc is more like an exception. I think most programs could use RC/Arc by default, and only use ownership / borrowing where performance is critical.

> The main disadvantage of Rust, in my view, is that it's verbose. >> Sure, but compared to what?

Compared to most languages, actually [4]. Rust is similar to Java and Zig in this regard. Sure, we can argue the use case of Rust is different than eg. Python.

[1] https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang [2] https://github.com/thomasmueller/lz4_simple [3] https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang/tree/main/src/test... [4] https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang/blob/main/doc/conc...