MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-11-21 13:50:00+00:00
A lot of people voted for it as a point of 'control'. The UK might be in a pretty messed up place politically right now, but it does have full control over its laws. The buck stops with someone you can reasonably drive to and shout at. The EU was a slow and constant move into more and more centralised control in Europe.

Some of these people think this means they can influence the country more for their own gain; some think it protects them from people influencing the country unduly.

Either way, its hard to argue against brexit having given the UK has more on paper long term control, and its hard to argue against brexit being costly both theoretically and in practice, and its hard to argue that the UK wouldn't currently be better off in the EU. Its hard, but people are doing it.
by surgical_fire | 2025-11-21 13:50:18+00:00
This is so weird.

I live in EU, but I am not originally from Europe. I have a EU citizenship at this point though.

That said, I am staunchly pro EU, and would always vote for further integration. In truth, I even think that EU federalization would be a good idea.

I have no idea why immigrants of all people would have a nationalistic stance on this.
by danhau | 2025-11-21 13:50:56+00:00
I had a hard time understanding what the author is trying to accomplish. The necessary context apparently is spread across the intro and outro:

> Because of that, later PalmOS versions offered two different encodings for storing color bitmaps: 8 bits palette bitmaps, capable of using up to 256 simultaneous colors

> to perform complex bitmap rendering using multiple, incompatible color palettes

It seems the palette is not per-bitmap but rather per-device, hence the need to convert.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-11-21 13:51:17+00:00
American involvement in the Nuremberg trials set the stage for the modern era of international law. It began with the United States, along with the allied nations, constructing a post-facto legal definition of crime against humanity that somehow included the Holocaust but excluded both the American campaign in Japan and various Russian war crimes on the Western Front. It’s not cynicism to point out the clear hypocrisy.
by doublerabbit | 2025-11-21 13:51:21+00:00
I take satisfaction in the end product of something. A product where I have created it myself, with my own skills and learnings. If I haven't created it myself and yet still have an end product, how have I accomplished anything?

It's nice for a robot to create it for you but you've really not gained; other than a product you're unknown to.

Although, how long until we have AI in CnC machines?

"Lathe this plank of wood in to a chair leg x by x."
by j_w | 2025-11-21 13:51:45+00:00
> They said they have done all sorts of research to make sure their tech is safe...

We've heard this one before. This really is a regulation bad because "trust me bro our product/service is so good for you/the environment/the world/etc and it's just regulations that are holding us back."

This isn't to say that it's not a fine product/service, but we are talking about a service that alters how companies may comply with current/future emissions regulations. By apparently pumping it back into the ground. We might want the regulators to really make sure that is a good idea and not just take their word for it.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-11-21 13:51:49+00:00
> In large part due to regulation.

Wait, what? With this type of claim I was sure you were going to back it up with at least some evidence but apparently I was wrong.

I'm sorry, but the irony in this comment too much. The reason insulin is so high is because of a lack of regulation.

If the government took a stronger stance towards monopolies in the pharma industry, this wouldn't be happening. If the government REGULATED insulin prices, it wouldn't be so high. If the government reigned in PBMs, it wouldn't be so high. IF the government reigned in patents and the tricks drug companies play with them, it wouldn't be so high.
Show HN: Needle – Find users, track competitors, and spot market opportunities
by iamvs2002 | 2025-11-21 13:51:59+00:00
Hi HN, I am Vaibhav - a founder based in Bangalore, India.

Most founders build without knowing who their real competitors are or what users are actually asking for right now. We usually search Google, Twitter, Reddit manually and hope to catch signals - but it’s slow and incomplete, hence easy to miss important conversations.. This is exactly what Needle solves.

I built Needle because I kept struggling to answer a basic question while building MoveOnFromYourEx (Ai tool that helps people move on after a breakup): "Where are the people who are already talking about the problem I am solving?"

I spent hours manually searching Reddit, StackOverflow, Quora, Product Hunt, GitHub, etc., trying to find real problem discussions. I opened dozens of tabs, scrolled endlessly, and still missed important threads. It felt random and inefficient.

I also realized something else: Competitors are not always the big companies. If you are building a search engine, Google is not your competitor. The 15 indie projects and GitHub repos that people are actually trying are your competitors — and they are almost invisible until you stumble onto them by accident. I wanted a way to discover those early.

So I built Needle originally as a small internal tool to search multiple platforms at once. It worked better than expected, a few friends asked to try it, and now I am sharing it with HN.

What Needle does: - Search real conversations across 10 platforms (Reddit, HN, Quora, StackOverflow, GitHub, ProductHunt, YouTube, Tumblr, Pinterest, Mastodon) - Find users who are actively describing problems and asking for solutions - Discover competitors mentioned in real conversations, even small ones, and monitor every move they make - Spot trending problems - Analyze how well your product or brand is recommended by GPT systems

What is different: - Streams results in real time instead of waiting for a full search - Structured view of conversations, sentiment, and sources in one place - Surfaces long-tail indie competitors and tools people actually mention - GPT-based analysis on how likely AI tools are to recommend your product category

Try it: https://useneedle.net (Requires login)

Looking for feedback on: - What signals matter most when validating an idea - Which platforms or workflows are missing - Whether the competitive discovery approach makes sense - Concerns around data usage, architecture, limits, etc. - Happy to answer questions and share more details in the comments.

Thanks, Vaibhav (iamvs2002)
by wongarsu | 2025-11-21 13:52:12+00:00
A leader is difficult to arrest and prosecute while they are in power. But it does have a political cost for them (both being branded as wanted by the ICC, and how complicated international travel becomes, including your host country burning political capital by not arresting you). But of course the real cost comes if you ever fall from power. The ICC means we don't have to invent laws on the spot like we did in the Nuremberg trials for the Nazis, we can use established laws, courts and processes
by MattRix | 2025-11-21 13:53:00+00:00
I agree, but I think you’re misunderstanding my comment. I was replying to a snarky comment that seemed to imply that the effect of taking amphetamines is obvious and mundane.

The point I was trying to make is that the effect on someone with ADHD can be profound and transformative, not like going from 80 to 100 but rather from 0 to 100. You suddenly feel like a functional person (I say this as someone with ADHD).
by ryandvm | 2025-11-21 13:53:06+00:00
Collective bargaining has been unpopular in this industry for so long because 25 years ago pretty much any ADHD autodidact that was interested in tech could get an extremely promising job with nothing more than a high school diploma.

Naturally, these individuals had very little interest in waiting in line behind retiring gray-beards for high pay and job security. They experienced that just being interested in tech was enough for huge opportunities to fall into their lap.

Of course 25 years later, that ship has sailed and almost nobody is hiring people without a degree in C. And now you have the self taught gray-beards bumping up against ageism and the weird effects AI is having on the marketplace, and they're starting to wonder if, "hmmm, maybe unions aren't such a bad idea after all."
by watwut | 2025-11-21 13:53:10+00:00
Neither was genocide, neither in outcome nor in intention.

You could argue about "mass killing" or some such. Dresden firebombings did not attempted to eliminate German nation as such. It does not matter how actual nazi try to frame it as similar to holocaust, it was not nearly close.

And same goes for Hiroshima. It was not an attempt to eliminate Japanese people out of existence.
by danaris | 2025-11-21 13:53:23+00:00
Sure.

But that is no different than if you created the array in that scope.

So, again: Why is it "really bad" that you can't return a typed array from a function? What is worse about that than not being able to create a typed array in the current scope?

Also: What, exactly, about that is "not working"? As I said above, I understand the basic arguments about typed arrays; they're conceptually equivalent to weak/dynamic types. And there is value in having strong and static types. But it's hardly a showstopper not to, and PHP works just fine even if you don't use any. It just...makes it easier for us, as programmers, to make mistakes.

So to say it's "not working" simply because it's possible to add elements to the array that don't match the types you want seems like an exaggeration.
by metamet | 2025-11-21 13:53:52+00:00
Ah, I see how you perceive this situation. You think the Democrats manufactured a police state by flooding America with undocumented immigrants in order to get Republicans to go full gestopo in order to fix it. Some 5D chess move where the left is to blame for "forcing" the right into authoritarianism. And somehow the videos coming from communities within America are just "hysterics".

So just pure conspiratorial nonsense that absolves all blame from the perpetuator and abuser. Got it.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-21 13:54:45+00:00
I have heard devs (typically on the greener side) make the argument that comments in code are bad because they need to be maintained along with the code they're commenting on. It's quite common for devs to neglect this, leading to comments that are no longer correct, and an incorrect comment is worse than no comment.

The argument touches on truths, but in my opinion pretty seriously overstates the problem. Good comments tell you things like why a design decision was made, what hidden assumptions the code is relying on, etc. Things that don't often change unless refactoring is happening. The benefit of good comments is so large that, in my opinion, they are well worth this cost.

The same devs are often also of the opinion that writing code in a self-documenting manner eliminates the need for comments. This is just incorrect. Good comments tell you what the code itself can't.
by j_w | 2025-11-21 13:55:00+00:00
> Are the potential harms in the very worst case scenario more significant than the harms of failing to sequester carbon and stop its production? It’s hard for me to imagine this being so.

What percentage risk of it being worse would you draw the "we need regulators to take a careful look at this at? A 20% chance that they destroy up a local ecosystem or something else catastrophic? 5%? 1%?

Now what if their operations were local to you? What does it become then?
by reify | 2025-11-21 13:55:05+00:00
This keep getting boosted on HN.

Twice in two days.

desperation and bullshit really matter.

I told him yesteday, It would be perfect for my craggy 69 year old boatrace.

But I dont live in India.

My ex wife is a beautician and says that, bicarbonate of soda and corn starch will do the same thing.

It has talcum powder in it, meaning hidden asbestos.

https://www.distacart.com/en-gb/products/spinz-bb-brightenin...

Thousands in UK sue Johnson & Johnson over talcum powder

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c797wv928g8o Talcum powder has been proven to cause cancer:

https://ovarian.org.uk/news/talcum-powder-and-ovarian-cancer...
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-21 13:55:54+00:00
In practice you're always computing with finite precision. (Even computing with symbolic expressions is just a preliminary step to what's ultimately a numerical result with finite precision.) The whole point of real numbers is to abstract away from detailed considerations of precision, and figure out what happens if you only ever care about putting satisfactory bounds on the output and are willing to bound your input to the extent required.
by 4ggr0 | 2025-11-21 13:56:14+00:00
> no, they are talking about high performance desktops

then i don't really get the "world has moved on"-claim. in my bubble socketed RAM is still the way to-go, be it for gaming or graphics work. of course Apple-user will use a Mac Pro, but saying that the world has moved on when it's about high-performance, deluxe edge-cases is a bit hyperbolic.

but maybe my POV is very outdated or whatever, not sure.
by shaky-carrousel | 2025-11-21 13:56:16+00:00
In the last link provided by parent you can read:

> Close-range wireless file transfers: this feature allows to access the same iOS-controlled features as Apple’s services in third-party file sharing apps, creating, for example, alternatives to AirDrop.

As you can read here (https://www.ditto.com/blog/cross-platform-p2p-wi-fi-how-the-...):

> Under pressure from the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple is being forced to ditch its proprietary peer-to-peer Wi-Fi protocol – Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) – in favor of the industry-standard Wi-Fi Aware, also known as Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN). A quietly published EU interoperability roadmap mandates Apple support Wi-Fi Aware 4.0 in iOS 19 and v5.0,1 thereafter, essentially forcing AWDL into retirement. This post investigates how we got here (from Wi-Fi Direct to AWDL to Wi-Fi Aware), what makes Wi-Fi Aware technically superior, and why this shift unlocks true cross-platform peer-to-peer connectivity for developers.
Show HN: Use any LLM in Go with stable, minimal API
by blixt | 2025-11-21 13:56:18+00:00
I started this package about a year ago because most existing packages were overly complex and I just wanted the basic LLM functionality (text, tools, streaming, images, caching, etc) compatible with all the major APIs (OpenAI Chat Completions + Responses, Anthropic, Google Studio + Vertex). It also works with any other vendor that provides a compatible API.

Along this journey we found a ton of quirks and differences between vendors, and tried to make switching between them on the fly feel as smooth as possible (e.g. not having to worry exactly how to include an image in a tool result).

Sharing it now because it's reaching some form of maturity after a year, but because the goal has been to keep it minimal, it only has the bare minimum we needed – I'd love to hear what people think is missing!
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-11-21 13:56:47+00:00
> The problem in USA is that producing insuline is so regulated that setting up and maintaining production is obnoxiously expensive.

This has absolutely nothing to do with insulin costs. Nada. Zip. Nil.

> As noone will want to produce insuline if required paperwork costs more than it's selling price.

Where are you getting this information from? I've been in the industry for a bit now and this is a first for me. That the reason why insulin is so expensive in the US is because it costs money to make????
by red-iron-pine | 2025-11-21 13:58:46+00:00
no they're not. PII has to be able to identify an individual.

anyone can in theory be driving a car. is it my wife, or me, or my kid taking the station wagon out this weekend?

it's also why red light cameras and speed camera send tickets to the registered owner, not necessarily who is driving. my sister in law borrows the car and I get the ticket
by dangus | 2025-11-21 13:59:33+00:00
But of course, in the case of this article the OP is presenting just their side of the story. It doesn’t present the other side of the story where companies rushed dangerous products to market with no oversight which made the regulations necessary.

They find that $27 million in regulatory cost is a huge burden.

But I think if their product is successful it seems like it could be the kind of thing that a large percentage of semi trucks install.

If even 10% of semi trucks purchase the product, $27 million is a drop in the bucket.

Instead of bitching at the world over regulatory costs, OP should bitch as his investors for not being generous enough. Or maybe his investors should be firing him for failing to account for regulatory cost and time.

And all this bitching is happening despite the fact that he was successful in having the regulatory agent expedite the process. 14 months to get a brand new instrument of this sort approved doesn’t seem crazy to me. It seems quite in line with the estimated time needed for a company like Toyota to crash test and certify a new vehicle model with the various emissions and safety agencies.

If OP would like to move faster they need to get out of the sort of industry that makes products that can very easily kill people.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-21 14:00:15+00:00
That's because many smaller cities and suburban or rural areas are economically defunct, so property is cheap because it's essentially worthless (you can't make money off of it).

Property is expensive in, say, NYC because you can use that property to do A LOT of economic activity. Property is cheap in Ponder, Texas because you can use that property to do fuck all, so you better take what you can get.

You can choose to live in Ponder, Texas, but the economics of that aren't too hot.
by mancerayder | 2025-11-21 14:00:30+00:00
An intelligent manager with generalized expertise can be smart enough to figure out intuitively the performance of their directs in a specialized area they have less knowledge in. In fact I would argue it's a must for a tech manager, and it shows in the form of a mix of Socratic questioning, knowing when to step in and get out of the way, and stopping to deep dive if necessary without micromanaging. For a good manager, I think micromanaging is a punishment or a temporary condition.

A bad tech manager a) thinks he/she must know more than their directs (no organization would ever scale if the leader in the hierarchy above knew all of what was below), b) micromanages competent people instead of giving them high level directives and course correcting at a high level when necessary c) can't tell the difference between the high performers and the slackers.

In my experience, there's a slew of bad managers out there, and in my present reality the bad ones are highly technical people who should not be managing human beings or projects.
by fsloth | 2025-11-21 14:00:40+00:00
You are welcome!

To expand slightly.

There are common parts and stuff that is totally different.

For example the core parts in graphics and geometry are always familiar wether you work in games, vfx or what ever CAD industry.

But then all the wrapping around those core concepts vary quite a lot, and in terms of mass of complexity and code are drowned by all the domain specific stuff.
by 4ggr0 | 2025-11-21 14:00:47+00:00
Immediately had to think about the Apple Web Store which seemed to have the same "issue" two weeks ago[0]

I guess the same thing[1] applies here.

> This is not "exposing" their source code. While yes, it may not be minified and it's slightly more human readable, it's not exposing any additional logic. Remember, obfuscation is not security.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804664

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1onnzlj/comment/nmy...
by roenxi | 2025-11-21 14:01:01+00:00
> but calling it over-regulation pushes a certain agenda that all regulations are bad

Over-regulation implies that there is an optimal level of regulation that is non-zero. It just happens in practice that people don't complain when the level is pretty good and it is unusual for something to be under-regulated because the regulators are eager beavers for regulating things. The default state when there is a regulatory problem is usually over-regulation.

Like when the thread ancestor tried to find an example of a situation moving to under-regulated the first thing that leapt to mind was roaming charges which it must be admitted is a pretty minor problem. But the first thing that leaps to mind for over-regulation is things like the article where the cost of something expensive doubled and a potentially good idea struggles to be born into the world.
by evolve2k | 2025-11-21 14:01:13+00:00
Install and use Chrome Mask for those sites:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/

From their about:

A little Firefox Extension that provides a one-click toggle to spoof as Chrome in Firefox - or, in other words, to put on the Chrome Mask.

There are a lot of generic "User Agent spoof" extensions. However, this extension does a few things differently:

- Instead of overriding the User Agent string on all sites, this extension allows you to only look like Chrome on specific sites.

- Unlike some extensions with outdated version numbers and UA strings, this extension automatically updates the Chrome version it pretends to be. It does that by querying a simple API every 24 hours.

- You don't have to pick the correct Operating System manually; this extension does it for you.

- This extension also shims a few additional JavaScript attributes, like navigator.vendor or the global chrome object, to pass common browser checks.
by 7952 | 2025-11-21 14:01:28+00:00
Ethno-nationalism seems to be a strong factor in both Israeli and Palestinian politics. I can't think of a more direct example of ethno-nationalism than the Jewish state.

Also, my point was more about how conflict is perceived and litigated in politics and threads like this. Factoids about history are completely irrelevant to that. Its just another abstraction.
by LiamPowell | 2025-11-21 14:02:07+00:00
See also: The VLC bug that incorrectly applies right crops as left crops [1]. This bug report is from 2023, however the bug has existed as long as VLC has as far as I know.

I'm always surprised to see bugs like this where an extremely easy to test part of the spec just seemingly isn't tested and ends up as a bug that never gets fixed until many years later.

[0]: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/28279
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-11-21 14:02:25+00:00
None of this is while insulin is so expensive in the US. None of it.

We've been producing insulin for 100 years now. You guys are just making things up and it's wild.

I don't think a single person who is claiming that regulation is driving up insulin prices has even Googled it to make sure what they're saying makes sense. Spoiler alert: It's not.

The cost of insulin is a result of monopolies, pharmacy benefit managers, patents, and most importantly: a LACK of regulation on drug prices.
by taneq | 2025-11-21 14:02:42+00:00
> Why is any restriction on adult content so fiercely defended?

If you mean “why do people protest age verification” then the answer is that the only effective way to do age verification is by mandating login with government verified ID, which destroys anonymity. People aren’t upset about kids not seeing pron, they’re upset about the entire rest of the internet being subject to surveillance.