MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by troupo | 2025-11-23 22:02:22+00:00
> How much damage has those Russian and Iranian built rockets done in Israel?

Enough for Israel to build Iron Dome. Iron Dome literally exists because these "poor militants with handguns" were firing hundreds of rockets per month at targets in Israel. From Wikipedia:

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In January 2008 the border between Gaza and Egypt was breached by Hamas. It allowed them to bring in Russian and Iranian-made rockets with a larger range. In the first half of 2008, the number of attacks rose sharply, consistently totaling several hundred per month.

--- end quote ---

The rest of your message is a non-sequitur on top of non-sequitur.

Hamas is not, and never has been "militants with handguns". They are, and have always been, a well organised organisation with huge funding.

Agan. Wikipedia.

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Hamas has reportedly accumulated over $12 million per month from taxes on goods imported from Egypt into Gaza as of 2021. Iran provides some $100 million annually to Hamas and other Palestinian groups

--- end quote ---

These are just some estimates. Actual numbers are likely to be significantly higher.
by lilsneddz | 2025-11-23 22:02:27+00:00
Hi, I'm Emily the designer of Fran Sans. One of the Breda cars is going to the California State Railroad Museum, and it has the displays in it. I also suggested to the Letterform Archive in SF that they may have interest in it. I do know they've archived some of the NY subway curtain displays, so I think it's only fair they save one of these in their collections too.
by tomhow | 2025-11-23 22:02:40+00:00
> I have a different worldview than you

You don't know what my worldview is or what dang's worldview is and honestly I don't know what your worldview is and this is never relevant to how we moderate HN. We want HN to be a place where difficult topics can be discussed and all perspectives can be represented. That's what we optimise HN for, with the caveat that the guidelines foremost ask us all to "be kind" in comments. It's notable that you keep complaining about some kind of "bias" without being able to point to any evidence for your claims, and that all of your comments in this subthread ultimately resort to ad hominem. If there was any substance to your claims you would have presented it by now. The entire history of HN submissions and comments is available for anyone to download and analyse.

Let's be clear what's going on here: you've claimed to be a victim; you can't demonstrate exactly how you've been made a victim; when we investigate your claims, which we've taken time to do in good faith, we find that, no, there's no evidence for your claims of victimhood; when we tell you that, you respond with ad hominem attacks.

Please just observe the guidelines like everyone here is expected to do.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-11-23 22:03:09+00:00
I don't trust the NIST curves: they were generated in a dubious way which has been written about extensively elsewhere (the coefficients for P-256 were generated by hashing the unexplained seed c49d360886e704936a6678e1139d26b7819f7e90). I always avoid them unless I have to use them. It makes me sad when hardware forces me to use them.

> I've heard people make the point before that EdDSA is not great for secure enclaves due to being suspictable to Fault Attacks which could lead to (partial) key extraction

Huh, got a link? My understanding is that eddsa is better with respect to side channels in every way, that was part of the intent of it's design. I've worked with crypto hardware which supports it.
by II2II | 2025-11-23 22:04:02+00:00
> having a bad landing page suggests you really don’t care about the details, and that’s a bad sign.

That depends upon your definition of a good landing page. Personally, I will pay more attention to a Linux distribution if the landing page has information that is valuable to the community. If it looks like they are trying to sell something, I will just move on. In a way, I treat caring about the details as a bad sign (though I realize that I am just prioritizing a different set of details).
by Animats | 2025-11-23 22:04:31+00:00
Yes. Here's one on Amazon.[1]

I used to be into antique office equipment for my steampunk telegraph office. I knew about those. We had a Bates stapler which took in a roll of brass wire and made its own staples instead, though. Those are available on eBay if you want one.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Stapleless-Harinacs-Handheld-Portable...
by matheusmoreira | 2025-11-23 22:04:36+00:00
> It names the FEDERAL PUBLIC PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE as the author, not the Supreme Court.

https://www.conjur.com.br/2019-mar-14/toffoli-abre-inquerito...

https://www.conjur.com.br/2019-mar-22/alexandre-moraes-manda...

https://www.conjur.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/comunic...

> THE PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COURT ...

> RESOLVES to instantiate the inquisition...

> DESIGNATES the minister Alexandre de Moraes ...

> Signed Minister Dias Toffoli, President

As you can see, there is absolutely nothing wrong with anything that was claimed.

> this is a blatant attempt from the Congress to protect their own interests

That's not what you said. You said "certain groups" are trying to undermine the non-existent impartiality of the supreme court. They've been doing an excellent job at destroying it all by themselves.

As to your claim that congress is blatantly trying to protect itself, we're not in disagreement. I even said so in my original comment. I don't agree with that asinine "shielding" law at all.

I merely expressed sympathy towards their reasons for doing so. The only reason the supreme court hasn't straight up dissolved congress is they need it to exist so this country can have a veneer of democracy.

Here's a notable episode: our current president and his ministers have been on a taxation spree since he took office; at some point our elected congress started blocking their attempts to raise taxes on us; the supreme court suddenly swoops in and overrides our elected congress on this matter, giving the president what he wants.

The only reason the supreme court hasn't dissolved congress is they still need it to exist so this country can have a veneer of democracy.

> Musk accusing USAID of interfering in the Brazilian election

Not Musk. Accusations come from Mike Benz, former US State Department official.

https://www.riotimesonline.com/explosive-allegation-was-lula...

This aligns with my own memories of the 2022 election. I stopped trusting the voting machines when I saw Biden's top CIA official tell Bolsonaro to stop questioning them.

> what are you fighting for?

At this point? My own sanity.

This country is hopeless, it can't be fixed. Nevertheless I can't remain silent in these discussions because I feel like I'm being gaslit.

> Are the judges in the way of someone that stands for democracy?

The judges are themselves against democracy. My position is they have themselves pulled off a silent coup and are now running the country monocratically.

Whatever Bolsonaro plotted to do is mostly irrelevant when faced with this. If anything it'd be a counter-coup.
by wavemode | 2025-11-23 22:05:08+00:00
So, let's say you have a term: 5

5 is a value of the type Integer.

What the paper is saying, is that we can go two steps further - Integer itself is a value of the type Type, and Type itself is also a value of the type Type.

The paper uses * as a symbol (and "type of all types" as a description) designating the type Type.
by ctoth | 2025-11-23 22:05:10+00:00
I believe your comment pattern matches to the classic comment 9224, was the point I was making. Yes, this might be easy for you.

> an llm managed to generate some iptables rules and sysctl settings that have been well documented for years..

> you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.

But the whole point of the blog post is that a person who didn't know how to do it did the thing. If the thing is the goal, they succeeded. They now have a thing they didn't have before, after not knowing how to do that thing. A new capability was unlocked by the LLM.

Please generalize this.
by prism56 | 2025-11-23 22:05:19+00:00
First blog post - Pretty rough, but thought somebody might be interested in the figures.

My city in the UK - Between 2023-01-01 and 2025-10-31 here's the amount of unsolved crime for each category.

theft-from-the-person 93.75%

other-theft 91.11%

vehicle-crime 90.68%

bicycle-theft 88.84%

burglary 86.72%

criminal-damage-arson 86.22%

violent-crime 81.38%

robbery 78.02%

other-crime 72.48%

public-order 69.82%

shoplifting 64.79%

drugs 55.33%

possession-of-weapons 42.33%
by diogenes_atx | 2025-11-23 22:05:31+00:00
I lived on the west coast for 15 years, mostly in California, and in my experience Comcast/Xfinity is one of the worst companies I have ever encountered as a consumer. Not only is the service unreliable, the company tries to slap you with charges when you call to report a problem. One day I saw a Comcast technician working outside my apartment, and as he was leaving, my internet service went down. I called Comcast, they sent someone out a few hours later, the internet was restored... and then, when I got my monthly bill, there was an additional charge for $29 or something, iirc. When I called customer service to ask them to remove the charge, they transferred my call several times and put me on hold for several minutes every time they transferred the call. Finally, after a hour on the phone, they agreed to remove the charge.

Since then, I have moved to Austin, where there are two large Internet Service Providers competing against each other. I mostly use Spectrum; it is not perfect, people here complain about it, but it is incomparably better than Comcast.
by Buttons840 | 2025-11-23 22:06:19+00:00
I was excited for avy until I realized its purpose is only to move the cursor to a place visible on the screen. It does nothing a mouse can't do with one click.

(This is my understanding at least; I'm open to correction.)

I'm a lover of Vim bindings, and so I appreciate keyboard controls, but where Vim enables working with files and text in a general and powerful way, avy enables avoiding one click with the mouse. I don't use Vim to avoid the mouse, I use it so I can hack some Vim macros together when I'm editing text on a text-level. Vim (or Emacs) is an eternal tool that can do big things, avy just positions my cursor.
by Someone1234 | 2025-11-23 22:06:20+00:00
I've been a Windows user since 3.1; and I've even defended Microsoft in the past (particularly when they made unpopular choices, but for technically correct reasons, like UAC or forcing vendors to rewrite their drivers into userland or using a safer driver model).

BUT, I won't defend Windows 11 and Microsoft's general direction. I feel like there has been a slow cultural shift within Microsoft, from a core of fantastic engineers surrounding by marketing/sales, to the org's direction being set by marketing/sales UX be damned.

Plus it feels like a lot of the technical expertise retired out, and left a bunch of engineers scared to touch core systems instead preferring to build on top using Web tech. It means that Windows/Office stopped improving, and have actually both regressed significantly.

I've actually found myself recommending MacOS, particularly the prior generation of Macbook Airs which are absurdly powerful with absurd battery life for a fair price. Combine that with the lack of user hostility, and UX, that MacOS brings relative to Windows 11, and it is hard to ignore.
by npteljes | 2025-11-23 22:06:24+00:00
I stopped drinking caffeine in my everydays, reserving it for occasions that are more meaningful to me, like a weekend of chores around the house, or going out to a party.

Drinking it every day makes me a bit jittery and anxious, and I feel that my employer doesn't deserve the increased productivity that it brings. Turns out that I get the same salary, even though I'm noticeably slower, less creative about my solutions, and less focused. In turn I'm steadier, more thorough. A good tradeoff, especially on a personal level, and I don't miss it at all, even though I was drinking 4-5 coffees as day in my "prime".

I also quit "cold turkey", like the author. Headaches on days 3-7 or so, which I managed with a low dose of paracetamol. They weren't too bad, but I tolerate headaches really badly :)
by mschild | 2025-11-23 22:07:23+00:00
Surrogacy is illegal in Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Finland, and Turkey. Also banned in China, some states in the US and Québec. Thats a pretty hefty chunk of the worlds population.

A lot of other countries also have a limbo status where there is either no clear law making it illegal but put so many hurdles up that its impractical.

Some countries, like Italy, also make it illegal for Italian citizens to go abroad to a country where it is legal and then do it there.
by F7F7F7 | 2025-11-23 22:07:34+00:00
For those of us who want our mobile devices to just be there when we need it...thank god there are no new animations. I don't need a shot of dopamine every time I open the Mail app. I just want to know that I successfully pressed the icon. Which is what micro interactions (aka small animations) are for. Feedback.

I hope the phone get's even more boring and uninspired next go around. Apple can afford to go back to the 'it just works' motto.
by BoppreH | 2025-11-23 22:08:11+00:00
Very sleek marketing, but why did they rebrand (the fantastic) KDE Connect to "Zorin Connect"[1]? From the mere <30 commits, I see no reason for the fork, only confused users.

If it was tightly integrated into the OS I could sort of understand not mentioning its name, like you don't want "Foobar Control Panel" and "FizzBuzz Start Menu". But KDE Connect is a standalone app you can install even on Windows. And this is not just hiding the name, it's replacing it!

So, why the "rebrand"[2]? It feels like an attempt at stealing credit.

[1] https://github.com/ZorinOS/zorin-connect-android and https://github.com/ZorinOS/gnome-shell-extension-zorin-conne...

[2] https://github.com/ZorinOS/zorin-connect-android/issues/19
by flypunk | 2025-11-23 22:08:22+00:00
This post ends with a beautiful poem set in Frans Sans

OUTSIDE MY LIFE, INSIDE THE DREAM.

FALLING UP THE STAIRS, INTO THE STREET.

LET THE CABLE CAR CARRY ME.

STRAIGHT OUT OF TOWN, INTO THE SEA.

PAST THE DAHLIAS AND THE SELF-DRIVING CARS.

THE CHURCH OF 8 WHEELS. THE LOWER HAIGHT BARS.

THE PEAK HOUR SPRAWL. THE KIDS IN THE PARK.

THE SLANTING HOUSES. THE BAY AFTER DARK.

MY WINDOW, MY OWN SILVER SCREEN.

I FOLLOW WHERE THE FOG TAKES ME.

By MADDY CARRUCAN
by buu700 | 2025-11-23 22:08:26+00:00
Sure, by all means use whatever is the best tool for the job. I never said not to; I've consistently said the opposite of that.

My position is that where a developer might have historically said "ideally I'd do X, but given my current timeline and resource constraints, doing Y with some new dependency Z would be the better short-term option", today that tradeoff would be influenced by the lower and decreasing cost of ideal solution X.

Maybe you understood my initial comment differently. If you are saying you disagree with that, then either you believe that X is never ideal — with X being any given solution to a problem that doesn't involve installing a new dependency — which is a black-and-white position; or you disagree that AI is ever capable of actually reducing the cost of X, in which case I can tell you from experience that you would be incorrect.

> If you ask AI to implement something that appears in its training data

This qualifier undermines everything that comes after. Based on what are you assuming that an exact implementation of X would always appear in the training data? It's a hypothetical unspecified widget; it could be anything.

> Maybe the situation is different in front-end land

Frontend definitely has more obvious examples of X. There are many scenarios where it wouldn't be that complicated to implement an isolated UI component that does exactly what you need without any clear vulnerabilities, where in the past it would have saved time to build on top of a third-party subset or variation of that UI even when it wasn't the optimal long-term solution.

It's not a frontend-specific comment, but maybe frontend better illustrates the principle. While backend examples might be more niche and system-specific, the same tradeoff logic applies there too; e.g. in areas like custom middleware or data processing utilities.

Ultimately, the crux of what I'm saying has nothing to do with what those X and Y scenarios are. Continuing to bring up scenarios where dependencies are useful is a non sequitur to my original comment, which was that AI gives us a lot more optionality on this front.
by spankibalt | 2025-11-23 22:09:17+00:00
> "Art is all about repetition. [...] Programming is more like solving puzzles. Once you've solved it once, you can pull the solution out of your head as many times as you need, as long as you still remember it. With art, it doesn't matter if you remember how to do it, it still takes practice to get reproducible results. Of course it takes longer."

First and foremost, contrary to you it seems, I see art as a measure of quality, not as a simple descriptor of manifestations of human personal, and therefore cultural, expression (albeit using a, naturally technically imprecise, colloquialism such as "pixel art" to describe a school of aesthetics, or style). See also: The Art of Programming. Et cetera.

And furthermore, I see both disciplines as fields which humans engage in to solve specific identified problems, rationally or intuitively; in both it takes practice to get reproducible results, in both you need to keep doing it until it becomes "second nature". This refers to the process itself, the process to hone one's craft.
by kemotep | 2025-11-23 22:09:43+00:00
It would be cool if the output that that the LLM made (commands it ran to harden, the iptables, MPTCP config, etc.) was included in the post.

It seems incredulous that this didn’t take dozens of back and forth prompts and fixes. It was able to one-shot deploying a digital ocean droplet and configure wireguard?
by Zigurd | 2025-11-23 22:11:04+00:00
If you're talking about the relationship of engineering management with senior management, the most important "core skill," though I wouldn't really call it a skill, is alignment. Thing is, you won't get alignment without being closely aligned with product management, and if product management is weak, acting just as a features accountant, you're screwed no matter how good an engineering manager you are. You have no support to disagree with or shape senior management inputs. Everything else is nice and correct but not determinative the way that alignment will be.
by swatcoder | 2025-11-23 22:11:07+00:00
"At least vibe code it, so people know you care about detail"

Do you see the irony there?

If something is a cheap template or just vibe-coded slop, it denotes precisely that someone doesn't care about detail. It's exactly for those style-over-substance people that these tools exist!

That's not to say that a dated, perfunctory, or poor attempt might not suggest a lack of interest in detail itself, or at least a lack of personal insignt for user experience. It could, but vibe coding delivers no cheat around that. It just writes it in big bold letters.
by AOsborn | 2025-11-23 22:11:09+00:00
File transfer that just works.

My mum can use airdrop. She sends us things. She doesn't need to install anything or configure things. She just uses the first-party UI.

It's the same with Airpods. Bluetooth headphones? Yeah, you can buy some for $20, who needs Apple ones? Apparently everyone. Turns out providing great noise cancellation and bluetooth that just works means the product is appealing to general consumers.
by lithocarpus | 2025-11-23 22:12:28+00:00
I am dubious about "red meat" being called pro-inflammatory.

Are there any studies showing that real red meat - say venison or grass fed beef or acorn-fed pork is inflammatory or harmful?

I'd not be surprised if a comparative study of diets could show that higher amounts of red meat in the diet correlated with bad health, but I have never seen anything suggesting the red meat itself is a problem other than perhaps processed meat like hot dogs.

Processed food - for sure, there are many aspects of most processed food that I think are harmful. Inflammatory I think generally means it's damaging the body in some way which causes inflammation.
by attila-lendvai | 2025-11-23 22:12:36+00:00
i think it's much worse than that: first, most drivers are probably not aware of the problem at all (i mean that their (often brand new) car is part of the problem).

just consider e.g. the number of people who are driving in fog or rain without their headlight turned on... because nowadays the front lights are always on due to some law... but the back of their car is completely dark. and no amount of flashing any lights makes them realize this.

or the number of people who are clueless about the fact that the headlight agle can be adjusted on most cars today, and what that means and/or how that works.

second, it's the institutions that are failing here, which is *way more concerning* than some clueles people driving around on the roads...
by s4mbh4 | 2025-11-23 22:12:50+00:00
Said paper : https://gwern.net/doc/ai/1997-thompson.pdf

Answering another commenter's question: yes the final result was dependent on temperature. The author did try using it over different temperatures. It only was able to operate in the region of temperatures it was trained at.

Fig. 8 goes in details.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-23 22:13:43+00:00
Kinda. Lindows didn't resemble Windows as closely as its name might suggest and played with fire with its naming. Ideally this new distro would have a custom built DE made to be as close as possible visually and functionally, yet legally distinct (which a skilled designer can easily pull off) and would not tie the branding to Microsoft or Windows in any way.
Show HN: Safe-NPM – only install packages that are +90 days old
by kevinslin | 2025-11-23 22:14:14+00:00
This past quarter has been awash with sophisticated npm supply chain attacks like [Shai-Hulud](https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/09/23/widesprea...() and the [Chalk/debug Compromise](https://www.wiz.io/blog/widespread-npm-supply-chain-attack-b...). This CLI helps protect users from recently compromised packages by only downloading packages that have been public for a while (default is 90 days or older).

Install: npm install -g @dendronhq/safe-npm Usage: safe-npm install react@^18 lodash

How it works: - Queries npm registry for all versions matching your semver range - Filters out anything published in the last 90 days - Installs the newest "aged" version

Limitations: - Won't protect against packages malicious from day one - Doesn't control transitive dependencies (yet - looking into overrides) - Delays access to legitimate new features

This is meant as a 80/20 measure against recently compromised NPM packages and is not a silver bullet. Please give it a try and let me know if you have feedback.
by jackvalentine | 2025-11-23 22:14:48+00:00
I’m looking for a replacement OS for my mother in law whose computer is aging out of Windows 10 support. I’m glad to see slick distributions like this trying to fill that gap.

That said her requirements are _so_ simple that Debian with Chromium would probably satisfy 100% of her requirements which are ‘download documents from gmail and print them’.