MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-20 11:44:13+00:00
Max Martin is a stand out talent.

You can take a thousand people and give them baseline technical skills for any medium. If you're lucky a few people out of your thousand will have a special kind of fluency that makes them stand out. from the rest.

Even more rarely you'll get someone who eats the technical skills alive and adds something original and unique which pushes them outside of the usual recycled tropes and cliches.

Martin is somewhere between those two. He's not a genius, but he's a rock solid pop writer, with a unique ear for hooks and drama, and stand-out arrangement skills.
by viking123 | 2025-11-20 11:45:55+00:00
I think it kind of shines in this type of task. I am building my own game engine and it's very good for this type of refactoring. On some other tasks though, it clearly makes bad architectural decisions imo, like more junior developer might not get them but for instance in my game engine, it often tries to be too generalist like trying to build something akin to Unity that can do all sorts of games rather than focus on the type of game I am building it for unless I very explicitly always say it
by esquivalience | 2025-11-20 11:46:46+00:00
From the article:

> Nearly half of all phone numbers that appeared in the 2021 Facebook data leak of 500 million phone numbers (caused by a scraping incident in 2018) were still active on WhatsApp. This highlights the enduring risks for leaked numbers (e.g., being targeted in scam calls) associated with such exposures.

Fascinating to me as this seems to imply that a phone number has a half-life of about 4-5 years (unless the fact of the leak persuaded a significant number of people to change their number, which I suppose is unlikely?)
by throw0101a | 2025-11-20 11:46:56+00:00
> So what makes a bitcoin worth $100k if it’s such a shit currency?

What makes mint condition Babe Ruth baseball cards worth what they're listed at?

* https://www.sportscardspro.com/search-products?q=babe+ruth&t...

Something is "worth" whatever someone is willing to pay for it.
by rs186 | 2025-11-20 11:47:18+00:00
I mean, websites don't need to use non-functional cookies in the first place. If they use it, they have to declare it. It's a problem created by website owners themselves.

GitHub doesn't have a cookie banner: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/no-cookie-for...

That said, looks like what you asked is happening: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/19/europe-gdpr-cookie-chan...
by graemep | 2025-11-20 11:47:59+00:00
As with many laws people think its what is sold as.

There are a lot of good ideas in the GDPR, but once you start looking into implementation it gets a lot more complex.

Its not just business. A community organisation (like my local amateur theatre, or a sports club, or a parish church etc.) is subject to pretty complex rules. Often things run by volunteers that keep very little data. Here is the guidance for UK GDPR (which is still pretty much identical to the EU version) compliance for small organisations:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/advice-for-small-organi...

Read it all, and tell me its simple for an organisation with a limited budget, or for someone without either a technical or legal background to understand.
by cheschire | 2025-11-20 11:48:28+00:00
Does everyone forget 2023 when someone leaked the llama weights to 4chan?? Then meta started issuing takedowns on the leaks trying to stop it.

Meta took the open path because their initial foray into AI was compromised so they have been doing their best to kneecap everyone else since then.

I like the result but let’s not pretend it’s for gracious intent.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-20 11:48:30+00:00
Perhaps you'll like AppImages instead: they're standalone binary bundles, that any indie dev can host on their website (or have it on their github or whatever). You don't need to "install" it via some store or something, don't need to worry about dependencies - just download a single file and run it.

Also, if you hate sudo and messing with permissions etc, there's EasyOS - in fact it addresses most of the complaints you've raised, so probably worth checking out: https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-easyos-is-different.htm...
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-20 11:48:52+00:00
It's not even that the qualities of description are all that bad or don't contain truth or something. Sure one might object to it omitting one candidate's record as DA or their "questionable even by politician standards" career arc. The problem is that question is based around the assumption that people choose their vote based more or less on a comparison of candidates and not in large part based on the party priorities the candidate brings with them. Jesus Christ himself couldn't win the presidency running 3rd party.
by brulard | 2025-11-20 11:49:04+00:00
I have the same experience as you. For me instructions in CLAUDE.md are followed almost always. On different projects, different CLAUDE.md files, some short, some long. No problem. When a specific instruction is skipped, I ask claude to emphasize it. It uses ALLCAPS, IMPORTANT!, etc., then it works 99% of the time. (Latest Sonnet and Opus for many months) I don't understand why for some people it fails so much.
by Retric | 2025-11-20 11:49:53+00:00
> pure BEVs are still the significantly more expensive option

New technology often has ‘new’ tradeoffs, are GPU’s are sill only situationally better than CPU’s.

DC fast charging is several times more expensive than home charging which heavily influences the economics of buying an EV without subsidies. Same deal with plug in Hybrids or long range batteries on PEV, if you don’t need the range you’re just wasting money. So there’s cases when an unsubsidized PEV is the cheapest option and that line will change over time even if it’s not going away anytime soon.

AI on the other hand is such a wide umbrella it doesn’t really make sense to talk about specific tradeoffs beyond the short term. Nobody can say what the downsides will be in 10-20 years because they aren’t extrapolating a specific technology with clear tradeoffs. Self driving cars could be taking over industries in 15 years, or still quite limited we can’t say.
by kreco | 2025-11-20 11:50:44+00:00
Like on of my sibling comment, I truly believe this is connected to some degree of social pressure.

People pointing fingers to "outdated" languages for not having some of the most trendy constructs.

The pipe operator is definitely one of the feature that create more ways to do the same thing while providing unclear benefit.

Never in my life I was in a situation like "with the pipe operator this I would have saved me hours of debugging/reading/creating code".
by Vinnl | 2025-11-20 11:51:17+00:00
The new installer isn't as good as Ubuntu's IMHO, but holy moly it's so much better than the old one. I recently tried installing Fedora Silverblue (which still has the old installer), and besides being terribly confusing, it also errored out consistently This led me to install regular Fedora and then convert it to Silverblue, so I got to compare the two installers. It's not even funny how much better it is.
Ask HN: How Is Gemini 3?
by vimall_10 | 2025-11-20 11:51:41+00:00
I tried Gemini 3.0 briefly, but I'm not sure how good it really is.

If you've used it, how does it feel in day-to-day use?

What's good, what's not and what surprised you?

Would love to hear your thoughts.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-20 11:51:48+00:00
I think that silicone rubber or silicone resins would be much better choices than a butyl rubber for such applications.

Not only silicone rubber or resins use much less CO2 and water for fabrication, most of their weight coming from quartz, but they can also be used in a much wider range of temperatures, compatible with that at the surface of Mars (i.e. including very low temperatures and high temperatures).

Silicone resins reinforced with glass fiber are a material commonly used where a wide range of operating temperatures is required, so I am pretty sure that they could also be reinforced with basalt fiber.
by pron | 2025-11-20 11:52:07+00:00
Running Java workloads is very important for most CPUs these days, and both ARM and Intel consult with the Java team on new features (although Java's needs aren't much different from those of C++). But while you're right that with modern JITs, executing Java bytecode directly isn't too helpful, our concurrent collectors are already very efficient (they could, perhaps, take advantage of new address masking features).

I think there's some disconnect between how people imagine GCs work and how the JVMs newest garbage collectors actually work. Rather than exacting a performance cost, they're more often a performance boost compared to more manual or eager memory management techniques, especially for the workloads of large, concurrent servers. The only real cost is in memory footprint, but even that is often misunderstood, as covered beautifully in this recent ISMM talk (that I would recommend to anyone interested in memory management of any kind): https://youtu.be/mLNFVNXbw7I. The key is that moving-tracing collectors can turn available RAM into CPU cycles, and some memory management techniques under-utilise available RAM.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-20 11:52:36+00:00
It is also a tool to cut costs for corporations.

The whole word is not only now a buzzword too but one that thinly tries to disguise some underlying strategies. And it is also a bubble, part of which is currently breaking - you can see this at the stock market.

I really think society overall has to change. I know this is wishful thinking, but we can not afford those extra-money to a few superrich while inflation skyrockets. This is organised theft. AI is not the only troublemaker of course; a lot of this is a systemic problem and how markets work, or rather don't work. But when politicians are de-facto lobbyists and/or corrupt, then the whole model of a "free" market breaks away in various ways. On top of finding jobs becoming harder and harder in various areas.
by hulitu | 2025-11-20 11:52:41+00:00
> But Ookla, the folks behind the SpeedTest app and website, have analyzed about five weeks’ worth of users’ testing data to get an idea of how the iPhone 17 lineup stacks up to the iPhone 16, as well as Android phones with Wi-Fi chips from Qualcomm, MediaTek, and others.

So it is not about the chip but overall network performance.

And comparing Apples with Androides (i.e. oranges).
by MrVandemar | 2025-11-20 11:53:12+00:00
> 5. Read the Bible. Even if you do not believe, Jesus is the most impressive human I've ever learned about. When I started reading it I was agnostic.

Yeah, read the whole Bible — the one people swear on in court, the one the preachers hold and up and tell you it is the word of god — and don't cherry-pick. So much misogeny and shit behavior. How about this one:

“David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.”

Yeah, let's kill those Philistines! Yeah, two hundred human beings! And let's cut off their foreskins because that's not remotely sick and dysfunctional at all and make a gift of them. Seems to be behavior that was rewarded.

Word of the Lord is basically sick fucking shit.
by lysp | 2025-11-20 11:53:31+00:00
As you're well aware, simply dismissing these as random "youtube videos" is disingenuous. The footage is sourced from the Associated Press (AP) which you have no doubt heard of. It has 235 news bureaus in 94 countries worldwide, and has been around for ~180 years, also having won 59 Pulitzer prizes for its journalism.

Your claim that buildings are being destroyed because they were "booby trapped" comes from a partisan source (the Israeli Government/IDF), which is an active participant in this conflict. Their claims are a liability limiting exercise and it's in their best interests do downplay destruction they have caused.

Statements from a government at war regarding their own military conduct are basically a PR exercise unless they have been independently verified. Plus independent verification is quite hard, as the same partisan source has prevented independent media from gaining access into the strip which stops independent verification of both side's claims.

Do you have independent sources for the booby trapping other than IDF or news organisations repeating their press releases? Basically anything from international NGOs / neutral observers that confirm that houses are booby trapped to such a scale that it necessitates the flattening of entire residential blocks?

While you say it's trivial to find a house with no damage, that was not my point. My point was from viewing the drone footage - that's view covers entire suburbs - there is not one single intact building in all 3 separate videos.

But since you mentioned "recently satellite imagery", lets look at the actual data provided by experts who analyse it.

The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT), released its Comprehensive Damage Assessment in late October 2025. So it's 3 weeks old. Completely fresh and up to date.

* It uses high-res imagery from as recent as 11 October 2025

* It tracks damage over time rather than just a before/after assessment

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/unosat-gaza-strip-damage...

Quoting the summary:

> According to satellite imagery analysis, as of 11 October 2025, approximately 81% of all structures in the Gaza Strip are damaged. Among the damaged structures, UNOSAT identified 123,464 destroyed structures, 17,116 severely damaged structures, 33,857 moderately damaged structures, and 23,836 possibly damaged structures for a total of 198,273 affected structures. Compared to the 8 July 2025 assessment, this corresponds to a 4% increase in total affected structures, and an 18% increase in destroyed structures, indicating worsening damage. An estimated 320,622 housing units have been damaged, 12% more than on 08 July 2025.

Their satellite analysis shows:

* 23,464 destroyed structures

* 17,116 severely damaged structures

* 33,857 moderately damaged structures

* 23,836 possibly damaged structures

* A total of 198,273 affected structures

It also shows the destruction of housing / infrastructure has been both systematic and continual over the past two years.

Having 81% of all structures damaged (and 320k housing units) puts extreme doubt to the claim that it is "just making it safe from booby traps".
by Topfi | 2025-11-20 11:53:36+00:00
> If you ask Claude to fix a test that accidentally says assert(1 + 1 === 3), it'll say "this is clearly a typo" and just rewrite the test. Codex will rewrite the entire V8 engine to break arithmetic.

Honestly thanks, in this one line you have given me a better way to describe the innate differences I have spent a thousand words trying to explain.

Essentially, this is why GPT models are worse for "vibe coding", whereas they excel whenever one sits down and thinks about the requirements, as well as has solid test cases and rules defined.
by gadders | 2025-11-20 11:53:45+00:00
You don't think Eton is being flooded with progressive views? [1]

A far better proxy for "the elite" would be "people who studied PPE at Oxford"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Oxford_p...

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-58244672
by pembrook | 2025-11-20 11:53:52+00:00
Ah, you again! I see you’ve looked up all my comments to respond with vitriol to all of them. Doesn’t help to undermine my point that this has become a topic of religious dogma here.

No, I am not selling user data, nor is the vast vast majority of companies affected by GDPR. Please do not assume bad faith as it ends useful discussion (and is against HN guidelines).

So you believe GDPR and the ePrivacy directive (which people here unknowingly conflate) are the most perfect words ever put on paper and there is nothing that could be improved?
by ahmtyldz | 2025-11-20 11:54:39+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’ve been building a lightweight, real-time portfolio tracking app that brings stocks, crypto, commodities (gold/silver), FX, and ETFs together in one simple interface.

Most portfolio apps I’ve used were either too bloated, too slow, or required heavy onboarding. So I built my own with a simple goal: fast data, clean UI, and a quick way to check overall P/L without navigating multiple screens.

Some features: – Real-time market data (stocks, crypto, forex, commodities) – Clean UI with a dark, minimal style – Portfolio view with total and daily P/L – Support for Turkish & US stocks – No ads, no clutter

I’d love feedback from the HN community
by aw1621107 | 2025-11-20 11:56:13+00:00
The answer might depend on what exactly you mean by "it", but in any case I'm inclined to disagree. Perhaps you can call using Rust "avoiding responsibility" for memory safety errors, but I don't think that's a particularly useful thing to say since you can say something similar about using calculators/theorem provers for avoiding math errors, FEA for avoiding simulation/math errors, etc. Sure, you're not actually responsible for putting pencil to paper and writing out the algebra/matrix manipulations/theorem derivations/etc., but it's far from unusual to consider using those tools the "responsible" choice where their reliability and/or effectiveness over human work is well established.

In addition, there's almost always something more going on than using a particular tool and you're generally still going to be responsible for that other stuff anyways. For example, if you're working on something critical and high-integrity you're responsible for the end product functioning as intended no matter how exactly you go about doing that. Using something like SPARK might be a smart way to go about that, but you still need to have processes before using SPARK (e.g., verifying the specifications you're going to implement are what you intend) and processes after using SPARK (e.g., verifying what you implemented is actually what you intended, that the product is indeed working as expected, etc.). If a bug in SPARK results in something unintended happening, you may not be responsible for the faulty proof itself but that's only one failure out of multiple in the entire pipeline - for example, you can't pin a failure to catch the error in testing on SPARK.
by myself248 | 2025-11-20 11:56:19+00:00
Right? There's an artificial island in that very harbor, which could be rammed by similar ships all day and give nary a fuck. It's called Fort Carroll and it was built in the *1850s*.

Why the bridge piers weren't set into artificial islands, I can't fathom. Sure. Let's build a bridge across a busy port but not make it ship-proof. The bridge was built in the 1970s, had they forgotten how to make artificial islands?
by throwaway290 | 2025-11-20 11:56:47+00:00
OK... but it's not phone number enumeration. You need to give it a phone number to check if whatsapp acc is registered for it. So you need to have a collection of phone numbers first. If you have a collection of all phone numebrs in the world then you could enumerate whatsapp accounts.

And yes the pictures were leaked in the process.
by roryirvine | 2025-11-20 11:56:48+00:00
Didn't dselect in Debian deal with transitive dependencies (albeit through a tui rather than a cli) a couple of years before deity/apt came along?

As I recall, rpm could list dependencies but not automatically fetch them. Full apt-style recursive downloads weren't a thing until yum from Yellowdog (a PowerMac-specific clone of RedHat) and urpmi from Mandrake, both of which arrived in late 1999 or early 2000-ish.

RedHat eventually started using yum as well, but not until around 2002.

Certainly, in the late 90s, apt was king. Debian was struggling badly with their internal processes at the time, though, so they didn't benefit as much as they otherwise might have.
by roflcopter69 | 2025-11-20 11:57:48+00:00
How well has your vibecoding with Godot worked? I thought about it but wouldn't the LLM be unable to add files by itself due to stuff only the Godot editor knows how to do like generating uid files and so on? I would have expected that the LLM needs a MCP or some tool calling to properly interact with a Godot project. How are you doing it?
by devttyeu | 2025-11-20 11:57:59+00:00
If you have Pro users why not leverage with debt without giving up equity for no good reason?

Maybe the value prop is not clear, the website talks a bunch about AI agent integrations, that sounds like a completely different product to a parser library, which however advanced it may be, investors will likely see as tangential bit of IP that a senior engineer can build for $10-20k in a few days.
by reify | 2025-11-20 12:03:42+00:00
I can truly empathise.

At 69 years old my face is like a well worn craggy rock face, excuse the pun.

I have never considered make up as an alternative to craggy rock face skin syndrome.

Top notch hype and marketting. I'm loving it.

Is it organic?

To be honest though, I think a mix of bread flour and corn starch would do the same thing.

I was hoping that I coud transform my craggy rock face skin back to the beautiful 20 year old skin I used to have.

thats getting old for ya!
by zulko | 2025-11-20 12:04:29+00:00
Total plug but this year I scraped 400,000 wikipedia pages with Gemini to create landnotes.org, an atlas where you can ask "what happened in Japan in 1923":

https://landnotes.org/?location=xnd284b0-6&date=1923&strictD...

https://github.com/Zulko/landnotes

My plan has been to overlay historical map borders on top of it, like the Geacron one from this post, but they all seem to be protected by copyright - and understandably so, given the amount of work involved.
by devnullbrain | 2025-11-20 12:04:45+00:00
There are low hanging, unpicked fruit for Microsoft to make more money from selling desktop licences. It's still trivial to buy one for a third party for pennies on the dollar. It's still not possible to install officially without TPM 2.0.

In contrast, Microsoft have pushed the pricing of Game Pass up significantly and are in the process of unifying the next Xbox platform with PC.

Given that, I don't think it's consistent with Microsoft's current strategy to make selling games to gamers harder for the benefit of the OS division.

Now, that conclusion does depend on Microsoft acting rationally, which isn't a given, so I'll also add that I don't think it's actually an option for them: win32 already exists, the cat is out of the bag. And the cat can't get back in the bag to be extended/extinguished unless Microsoft convinces everyone to move to Windows 11.
by vyntral | 2025-11-20 12:05:25+00:00
Hi HN!

I built God's Eye to solve a problem I had doing bug bounties: existing recon tools found subdomains, but I still had to manually analyze them for security issues.

God's Eye combines subdomain enumeration with AI security analysis using Ollama (runs 100% locally):

• 11 passive sources + DNS brute-forcing • HTTP probing + tech detection • Real-time CVE detection via function calling • JavaScript security review • All analysis happens locally (zero API costs, completely private)

The AI integration uses a cascade approach: fast triage with phi3.5:3.8b, then deep analysis with qwen2.5-coder:7b only for interesting findings.

I've been using it for months on real engagements. The CVE detection via function calling has been particularly useful - the LLM queries the NVD database and provides context-aware recommendations.

Tech stack: Go, Ollama, concurrent execution with rate limiting, modular architecture.

It's MIT licensed and I'm looking for feedback on: - Performance optimizations - Additional AI use cases - Integration ideas

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or AI integration approach!

Release notes: https://github.com/Vyntral/god-eye/releases/tag/v0.1.0