MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mapt | 2025-11-18 15:15:24+00:00
I have an alternate theory:

If you end up owing a foreign entity vast war debts, war debts that destroy your economy by demanding that every economic transaction in the sovereign currency be heavily taxed and ship its value abroad? You can limit the damage by just not doing that. Don't call it a transaction, don't use the sovereign currency. Call it a barter, and make up barter tokens, and you're in the free and clear. For a certain value of %taxrate, you're producing such an unambiguously beneficial increase in production and reduction in deadweight losses, escaping the austerity trap, that tax collection actually goes up in the long run as you shift off of the barter tokens and back to the pool of sovereign currency backing them.
by telepromptereye | 2025-11-18 15:15:48+00:00
We take the idea of the internet always being on for granted. Most people don’t understand the stack and assume that when sites go down it’s isolated, and although I agree with you, it’s just as much complacency and lack of oversight and enforcement delays in bureaucracy as it is centralization. But I guess that’s kind of the umbrella to those things… lol
by DoomDestroyer | 2025-11-18 15:15:55+00:00
> People don't have an expectation of that. The number one rule of movie making used to be "Show, don't tell"

I am aware that it is supposed to be like that however around the 90s/2000s this changed.

> With the rise of streaming this changed. People "watch" movies while chatting on their phones, doing home chores etc. A lot of movies in the streaming era spell everything out because people no longer watch the screens.

This was in a movie theatre and this was still in the era where it was considered rude to be speaking on chatting on the phone in the cinema.
by TZubiri | 2025-11-18 15:15:56+00:00
A couple of weeks ago my apprentice put a demo of ours behind cloudflare, I had him remove it. His explanation was interestingly "it hides our IP, if we remove it, they'll know our IP", yup, that's fine buddy, consider our IP to be a public piece of data.

And we all lived happily ever after.
by moralestapia | 2025-11-18 15:16:19+00:00
5 mins. of thought to figure out why these services exist?

Dialogue about mitigations/solutions? Alternative services? High availability strategies?

Nah! It's free to complain.

Me personally, I'd say those companies do a phenomenal job by being a de facto backbone of the modern web. Also Cloudflare, in particular, gives me a lot of things for free.
by Retric | 2025-11-18 15:16:22+00:00
Between Python and Elixir or Golang, I’ll stick with Python for an exploratory side project.

It’s just a better fit when you’re not quite sure what you’re building. You just gain more on the 99% of projects that never go anywhere than you lose on the one that you end up trying to turn into a real product. So calling them better web tech assumes a lot about the development process that isn’t guaranteed.
by graemep | 2025-11-18 15:16:30+00:00
> You think kids aren't running across the street at night out in the country? Chasing a soccer ball?

Only in well light areas, usually with a low speed limit too.

> People, deer, fallen branches, large roadkill, garbage cans blown into the road by the wind, the list goes on and on.

Of those only people are at all common, and not on large roads. I have never even seen roadkill large enough to be unsafe to drive over.

I have only once come close to hitting any of these on country roads in the UK. I have been dangerously dazzled by oncoming bright headlights all the time.
by bobdvb | 2025-11-18 15:16:37+00:00
Until I changed job recently, I spent the past 8 years working in an area of tech that many people on places like HN and Reddit think that the work is a horrific waste of effort (DRM and content security for a streaming company).

The idea that if companies like my former employer would stop doing DRM their audience would embrace it is rife idealism. But based on bitter experience so enough people will do bad things just for the lulz that you need to cover your ass.

My home lab will never have an open port, I'll always put things behind a CDN or zero trust system, even then...

FWIW, it's worthwhile just for educational reasons to look at abuseipdb.com quite revealing.
by kakacik | 2025-11-18 15:16:55+00:00
> Weed isn't really psychedelic

Depends on mind, use, dose. I've had THC trips that were almost as strong as concentrated mushrooms can deliver on an empty stomach, seeing shit that wasn't, patterns, my mind was light years away, reality twisted. Almost as strong.

Didn't dance as a mist of atoms to shamanic music without any connection to my real 5 senses, but then again I hardly met mushroom user who did achieve that themselves.
by 59nadir | 2025-11-18 15:17:02+00:00
For what it's worth my experience with Windows 11 is that it's slower than Windows 10 for whatever reason, even though I'm doing exactly the same things in exactly the same ways, so it definitely echoes your assessment.

I personally think Windows has historically been the best OS for native development but I'm out. I've used Linux a ton before on/off since ~2003 but at this point it's looking more and more like there'll be no reason to ever install Windows again. I don't get who Windows 11 and all of these AI features is actually for but I know for a fact it's not for me.

Now I have to figure out how to actually get my Nvidia card to actually behave on Linux, or I'll just have to buy an AMD one again. Eventually I might actually start using the Steam Machine as a devbox; we'll see.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-11-18 15:17:55+00:00
Another problem in North America is that the sizes and heights of cars keep going up. Reminds me of loudness wars in music somehow. Don’t know if this apparent size translates to more space inside; from my limited experience riding in American cars, not very much.

There’s someone in my neighborhood who has an imported Toyota Sequoia. Magnificent machine. His car could be mistaken for a small bus. When he vacates the spot, two normal sized cars can park in it. Our actual buses and semis often have lower headlights than that thing.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-18 15:18:08+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20240626184542/https://www.remin...

Broken video links as well. Here appears to be a few:

https://youtu.be/RSgvQr9tV9Y

https://youtu.be/ObUw9ezvp5o

https://youtu.be/ATcbU9w-PuY
by djfobbz | 2025-11-18 15:18:19+00:00
Alright kids, breathe...a DDoS attack isn't the end of the world, it's just the internet throwing a tantrum. If you really don't want to use a fancy protection provider, you can still act like a grown-up: get your datacenter to filter trash at the edge, announce a more specific prefix with BGP so you can shift traffic, drop junk with strict ACLs, and turn on basic rate limiting so bots get bored. You can also tune your kernel so it doesn't faint at SYN storms, and if the firehose gets too big, pop out a more specific BGP prefix from a backup path or secondary router so you can pull production away from the burning IP.
by Rochus | 2025-11-18 15:18:25+00:00
The article presents OOP and FP as mutually exclusive paradigms where one must be entirely wrong. In reality, modern software development benefits from hybrid approaches. Most current languages support both paradigms, and experienced engineers choose appropriate tools for specific problems.

The interview question about static constructors and self-instantiating programs represents anti-patterns that professional OOP developers also avoid, not inherent OOP features. This is equivalent to judging FP by its worst callback-hell examples.

The ad hominem attack on prominent OOP authors doesn't improve the quality of the article, and dismissing patterns as "crutches" ignores that FP has equivalent patterns (monads, functors, lenses).
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-11-18 15:18:34+00:00
Hi ZeroConcerns, I'm doing fine, thanks, hope you too!

There's no but... - just claims you made that I dared to question just for fundamentals, which obviously you want to dodge. I won't go as far as questioning your intellectual honesty here, but I really have a hard time seeing it. So now for reals, good day
by retrofuturism | 2025-11-18 15:18:41+00:00
I'm running a Raspberry Pi 5 at home as a lightweight web server. I put it behind `cloudflared` as to not leak my home IP address, and today I got to pay for it.

Should I just stop being paranoid about "leaking my IP address" and self-host it 100%? All I fear is that my family will have to live with degraded internet experience because some script kiddie targeted me for fun.
by LarryClapp | 2025-11-18 15:18:58+00:00
I mean, you don't really know that, do you?

Maybe Tuesdays tend to be a big day for me, and instead of "down for a day", it's "lose almost a quarter of my income for the month".

Cloudflare is pretty pervasive, there are all kinds of people and businesses, in all kinds of situations, impacted by this.
by RobinL | 2025-11-18 15:19:05+00:00
- Anyone have any idea why it says 'confidential'?

- Anyone actually able to use it? I get 'You've reached your rate limit. Please try again later'. (That said, I don't have a paid plan, but I've always had pretty much unlimited access to 2.5 pro)

[Edit: working for me now in ai studio]
by sd9 | 2025-11-18 15:19:08+00:00
How long does it typically take after this to become available on https://gemini.google.com/app ?

I would like to try the model, wondering if it's worth setting up billing or waiting. At the moment trying to use it in AI Studio (on the Free tier) just gives me "Failed to generate content, quota exceeded: you have reached the limit of requests today for this model. Please try again tomorrow."
by TZubiri | 2025-11-18 15:19:30+00:00
> yet another Cloudflare outage.

Are these common?

I guess by using cloudflare you are pooling your connection with other services that are afraid of being ddosed and actively targetted, whether by politics or by sheer volume. Unless you have volume or political motivations, it might be better not to pool, (or to pool for other purposes)
Ask HN: Reason for the DDoS attacks on DALnet circa 2002?
by Meekro | 2025-11-18 15:19:32+00:00
Watching DALnet get almost completely destroyed by sustained DDoS attacks around 2002 was a formative memory for me, but I never did figure out why it happened, or what made DALnet more vulnerable than other IRC networks. Many of the simple explanations (warez? extortion? demo of botnet-for-hire?) don't really seem likely, and don't fit the facts.

Does anyone know what the story really was?
by pdimitar | 2025-11-18 15:19:42+00:00
You might be proving my point here because Elixir is amazing for exploration. You literally generate a project and then can immediately fiddle with it to your heart's content in a REPL.

As said though, I don't judge people who go by familiarity. But one should keep an open mind, and learning some of the modern languages (like Elixir) is much less work than many believe.

A better web tech in this case refers to having the potential to scale far above what Python can offer + have a very good developer experience. To me those two are paramount.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-18 15:19:45+00:00
Re: Cloudflare it is because developers actively pushed "just use Cloudflare" again and again and again.

It has been dead to me since the SSL cache vulnerability thing and the arrogance with which senior people expected others to solve their problems.

But consider how many people still do stupid things like use the default CDN offered by some third party library, or use google fonts directly; people are lazy and don't care.
by bilekas | 2025-11-18 15:20:04+00:00
I'm not sure if it's what you mean, but can't you have all your properties without a setter, and only init them inside the constructor for example ?

Would your 'readonly' annotation dictate that at compile time ?

eg

class Test {

private readonly string _testString {get;} public Test(string tstSrting) => _testString = tstSrting ;

}

We may be going off topic though. As I understand objects in typescript/js are explicitly mutable as expected to be via the interpertor. But will try and play with it.
by mil22 | 2025-11-18 15:20:10+00:00
It's available to be selected, but the quota does not seem to have been enabled just yet.

"Failed to generate content, quota exceeded: you have reached the limit of requests today for this model. Please try again tomorrow."

"You've reached your rate limit. Please try again later."

Update: as of 3:33 PM UTC, Tuesday, November 18, 2025, it seems to be enabled.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-18 15:20:32+00:00
That is part of the problem, yes. Not SNAP itself, which is good, but the fact that it can be used to buy garbage.

You should be restricted from buying soft drinks, chips, candy, etc. with SNAP/EBT, just like you can't buy cigarettes and alcohol with it. But nobody is willing to take on BigFood, and are content to let them prey on the poor with taxpayers footing the bill.

The second problem though is that if you restrict SNAP eligible food, you still have to provide healthy alternatives -- fresh veggies, fruit, grains, etc. -- at subsidized prices for SNAP recipients so they can actually survive on it.

It's such a shameful situation, and one that gets very little attention from either party.
by theultdev | 2025-11-18 15:20:37+00:00
By all means investigate away on the thanksgiving email, you will find nothing as nothing exists.

Choosing resources to investigate hearsay that is easily disproven is a waste of time though when you have actual evidence of direct correspondence.

Noone is falling for this crap anymore btw. The Trump smear stuff doesn't work as everyone cried wolf too many times.

Very telling you spend this much energy on a silly email talking about Trump vs people who actually talked and met with Epstein.
by elmerfud | 2025-11-18 15:20:45+00:00
I suspect a lot of it comes down to how they phrased the question. At this point I think a lot of people have given up on the idea of ownership of their own data, including in the EU. So when you've mentally prepared yourself in a way that you already don't own this thing the value on it goes down quite a bit.

If you were to preface the question with a proposition such as; companies are only allowed to request the minimum amount of personal information in order to business and they are only allowed to retain that online for the minimum amount of time required. Companies that request more than the minimum required or retain it online longer than the minimum required face a 100,000 Euro fine per incident paid to the person whose personal data was violated.

Given this, you could optionally opt to sell your personal data so companies could freely use it and retain it until you opt out. What is the monthly price that you would sell your personal data for so companies could use it anytime they want without request?

I suspect you would get a completely different answer. Where people would now value their data very highly because how the scenario is framed. When you frame a scenario as if your personal data has no value you basically set the market for people in their mind.
by bunderbunder | 2025-11-18 15:21:28+00:00
Same for rural parts of North America, and you also have to worry about animals on the road.

But I find that bright white headlights actually make that second problem worse. The bright white light means your eyes don't adjust as well to the dark, so you can really only see straight ahead. So it's much harder to spot deer standing in the relative gloom along the side of the road than it is with older halogen headlights.
by sylware | 2025-11-18 15:21:40+00:00
This is the other way around pal. You have to bring the legal texts that exempt software like games of any technical support until EOS (End-Of-Service). I give you a hint: many "eulas" have illegal parts in many countries.

Funny, this kind of disclaimer is what you get from _FREE AS IN FREE BEER_ open source source software.
by DoomDestroyer | 2025-11-18 15:22:00+00:00
> Then Nicolas Cage's character, the hero, comes out. He gives a toss of his luxurious hair (must've been smuggling Pantene in his "prison pocket"), everything goes slo-mo, and I swear to you, a beam of holy light falls on him like he's Simba from The Lion King.

Don't forget the scene near the end where he says to Bubba (I think at least that is his name), "I will show you that God exists", and in almost every other movie it is left upto interpretation whether God is really protecting/guiding the hero.

However in Conair, Cyrus shoots at him at point blank range and I think every bullet misses and/or grazes him. As he is walking through the plane to finally confront Cyrus there is a number of events that should kill him e.g a propeller flies through the fuselage and narrowly misses him and kills Jonny 23. There is really no other way to interpret it other than Nicolas Cage is very literally demonstrating that God exists.

The movie is not subtle about anything. It was the last "All American" action movie, where the hero beats everyone by just punching them harder and believing in Jesus. I quite like it.
by 4MOAisgoodenuf | 2025-11-18 15:22:08+00:00
In a densely wooded area, no. Your sight line is naturally blocked by trees, so a farther throw of light would be wasted

In more open areas it can be quite helpful to have greater throw and flood illumination.

In the American Midwest, being able to spot ice patches or deer on the interstate with your brights is quite helpful.

Normal driving lights have no need for the intensity they have today though
by julianozen | 2025-11-18 15:22:13+00:00
IMO this is terrible advice.

1. Put a moderate amount of money toward having the world's experts in uptime keep your site performing fast, and accept that occasionally your service goes down at the same time as everyone else.

2. Roll your own service, hire a large number of expensive experts to try to solve these problems yourself, and be responsible for your own outages and failures which will happen eventually and probably more frequently.

If no one is going to die from your service going down, it seems like this is a perfectly reasonable third-party dependency. And if the issue is just your contract's SLA or a financial customer, the saving that comes from using Cloudflare can probably be worked through via negotiations.
by bccdee | 2025-11-18 15:22:19+00:00
Not necessarily. If your error handling looks like this:

value, err := externalLibraryFunctionFoo(a, b) if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("calling foo: %w", err) }

then you probably don't need to test it. All you're doing is bubbling up the error handling from other libraries' functions.
by slfnflctd | 2025-11-18 15:22:23+00:00
In middle school, a friend and I 'cracked' that decoder ring by copying all the info by hand on to paper so we could both play the game from one store bought copy because we were poor. I don't think we ever finished the game, but it's still one of my happiest early gaming memories.

They remastered all three of the first Bard's Tale games a few years ago and released them on Steam with many quality of life improvements-- I bought the set without a second thought even though I know I will probably never take the time to play it all the way through. I've spent a few dozen hours on it so far, though.
by lucianbr | 2025-11-18 15:22:34+00:00
> whatever lights you want

For the cars I owned, only one set of official lights existed. Aftermarket would be nearly guaranteed to be worse quality and poorer alignment. And no changing them in the warranty period either.

Car parts are not like PC parts, where you can buy your own and mix-and-match.

No, things with car lights are not as you think. In many modern cars there are no bulbs, but laser diodes and complex lenses and god knows what else. I wouldn't trust anyone to fiddle with mine and do a good job, including the dealership.
by aliljet | 2025-11-18 15:22:41+00:00
What's wild here is that among every single score they've absolutely killed, somehow, Anthropic and Claude Sonnet 4.5 have won a single victory in the fight: SWE Bench Verified and only by a singular point.

I already enjoy Gemini 2.5 pro for planning and if Gemini 3 is priced similarly, I'll be incredibly happy to ditch the painfully pricey Claude max subscription. To be fair, I've already got an extremely sour taste in my mouth from the last Anthropic bait and switch on pricing and usage, so happy to see Google take the crown here.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-18 15:23:08+00:00
> The road lines are actually reflective, so it's not as if you'll struggle to see the road lines. And generally speaking out in the country, there won't be pedestrian foot traffic, so it's not as if you need the bright lights for them.

Reading these comments is a reminder that a lot of people aren’t familiar with the diversity of roads and environments across the country and around the world.

Painted reflective road lines in good shape are a luxury, especially in areas with heavy snow and snowplows coming through a lot.

Pedestrians aren’t a concern, but deer and other animals are. The deer are much worse than pedestrians because they move faster and don’t understand how to avoid cars.

Country roads also have very different conditions across the world. In some places you have clear visibility 100 feet to the tree line. In some places I drive, the trees are dense right up to the road with only a couple feet of clearance to the car. Some roads are also so rough that the biggest hazards are avoiding pot holes. Some roads I drive are up against mountain faces and the road may have large rocks that have fallen on it.

I personally don’t feel the need for brighter headlights because I keep my headlight lenses clear, washed, and waxed, and I’m young with good eyesight. I also use brights in the countryside and toggle them off when other drivers are coming.

However, downplaying the challenges of country road driving is weird.
by lkbm | 2025-11-18 15:23:17+00:00
https://llmdeathcount.com/ shows 15 deaths so far, and LLM user count is in the low billions, which puts us on the order of 0.0015 deaths per hundred thousand users.

I'm guessing LLM Death Count is off by an OOM or two, so we could be getting close to one in a million.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-11-18 15:23:18+00:00
My blog was constantly going down for unknown reasons, with nothing obvious in the logs. I migrated it to CloudFlare and was able to track down the root-cause of the issue.

I also blocked all the AI crawlers after moving to CloudFlare and have stopped a huge amount of traffic theft with it.

My website is definitely much more stable, and loads insanely faster, since moving to CloudFlare.
by TZubiri | 2025-11-18 15:23:22+00:00
It comes down to politics, if I'm hosting a weird porn website, I'm sure my host would drop me. But since I have a run of the mill SaaS website or a landing page for a business hosted. I'm sure my host would see no point in dropping my service, if I get DDosed, my neighbours got ddosed as well similarly I'm sure. Maybe they charge me extra or rate limit the connection, idk.

In fact, I expect my host to kick weird porn websites from their servers so that I don't have any bad neighbours, we're running legitimate businesses here sir.

Maybe they'd push me into upgrading my server, as a sort of way of charging me for the increased resources, which is fine. If I'm coasting on a 7$ VPS and my host tanks a DDoS like a hero, sure, let's set up a 50-100$ dedicated server man.

In business loyalty pays and it goes both ways.

I have more than 1 hosting provider though, so I can reroute if needed, and even choose not to reroute to avoid infecting other services, isolating the ddosed asset.
by randycupertino | 2025-11-18 15:23:25+00:00
Old school NES Jaws is really fun! If you want a 1980s retro throwback you can play it online here, and a few other retro game websites:

https://www.retrogames.cz/play_381-NES.php

When you get the minisub (appears randomly after 20 conch shells or I think 30,000 points) it is sooooo fun.