MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lurk2 | 2025-11-09 10:37:14+00:00
> Pretty obviously.

You're telling me it's obvious but I still don't think that you'd agree with the statement that: "your only objection to these activities is their real or potential impact on the civil rights of American citizens." If the infrastructure was in place to ensure each of these cases was thoroughly reviewed (for example, to address refugee claimant status), would you object to the deportation of absolutely all foreign nationals illegally residing in the United States? I have a hunch that the answer is no, and even if it were yes, I don't think it's obvious from the language used in this thread that attitudes towards this issue are stemming from a Ron Paul style concern over the fate of the American Republic and its civil liberties. From the language used, it seems far more likely that these people see immigration law as basically illegitimate, and that their policy position is whatever enables the largest number of illegal residents to remain in the country.

> In fact, you defined a pretty good standard with the exception of the snark about what the OP deems humane

You're reading into the comment. His own standard of what he deems humane would obviously be a prerequisite for him to deem the practices acceptable. Given the inane comment you made about another one of my comments being "plainly illogical" I would request that you keep to the issues and stop tone policing.

> - not deporting to an overcrowded prison in a 3rd country can’t be that hard to agree on.

Evidently not. It's not the most effective policy (which would be targeting employers), but if you don't imprison repeat offenders, the incentive will always be there to try again. For as many of the sob stories you're seeing about a father of six getting deported after working diligently for 30 years as an unlicensed carpenter, there are a dozen guys getting caught at the Home Deport parking lot who will be back in the country within the year. Deportation to these people is an inconvenience, not a Greek tragedy, and the only way you could really dissuade them from it would be incarcerating them so that the penalty is some period where they know they aren't going to have any earnings.

> All evidenced by the fact that higher deportation numbers during Obama created no uproar. You think it’s coz Obama was handsome or smtg?

Obama's higher deportation numbers were largely the result of changes to the definition of what constituted a deportation.
by lazide | 2025-11-09 10:38:15+00:00
They became monopolies/state sponsored entities.

It happens everywhere under every market system.

Typically, in most capitalist systems they get (eventually) broken up as it stifles competition, which (non-winning) capitalists don’t like. Same as in Soviet systems a patron gets too fat/corrupt and other patrons start vying for attention.

But that is far from certain, and aerospace & military has always been rife with this issue. The ‘merge until they become too big/important to fail’ playbook isn’t just for banks!

Messerschmitt, Sukoi, Tupolev, Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed, McDonnell-Douglas, etc.
by uxcolumbo | 2025-11-09 10:39:37+00:00
It's not just the features, but also the UX itself.

GIMP feels clunky and the UI is not as good. I haven't tried out the Photoshop mod. Apparently it matches all the keyboard shortcuts.

Many who tried to switch are complaining about how unintuitive it is. I know you can just try to get used to the different workflows, but unless the UX issues are addressed you won't see professionals making the switch.

Blender managed to completely overhaul their UI and it's now being used to create Oscar winning animated feature films.
by nis0s | 2025-11-09 10:40:37+00:00
The big tech firms trend more towards monopoly or oligopoly, and are tolerated more for “too big to fail” reasons than actual consumer usefulness. The incestuous nature of their dealings prevents organic innovation and competition to form, and any innovation that does happen is usually in the form of almost parasitic companies, like remoras attaching to whales, that do “services” for big tech, like Databricks, Scale AI, Datadog and others, that’s why the predominate business model for startups is “do enough to get acquired. Many big companies, not just the tech ones, should be split into smaller units that are still useful for the economy and markets, but prevented from being anti-capitalist or anticompetitive, so basically we need more antitrust legislation. Capitalism isn’t the problem, necessarily, it’s late stage capitalism, or the neoliberal economics which tolerate it.
by Lapel2742 | 2025-11-09 10:41:59+00:00
> [...] infected with the woke mind virus [...]

I won't argue other than telling you: That's peak American infighting and I'm not American. I leave a citation of Arthur Schopenhauer, a famous philosopher, here. Maybe it betters your condition:

“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
by KingMob | 2025-11-09 10:43:16+00:00
But Tesla != Musk. He wasn't actually a founder, he bought his way in, and demanded that everyone agree he was a "founder".

Not to mention the huge numbers of real scientists working over the decades to improve battery tech to the point where it was obvious that electric cars were going to be viable.

We shouldn't praise Musk for taking credit for other people's work.
by sim7c00 | 2025-11-09 10:43:25+00:00
htb isnt gonna help much -_-. maybe to get a job, not to succeed at it...

uni isnt bad for cyber. maybe for 'red teaming' but that is only a tiny part of cyber. most companies dont even do it... (its not pentesting).

most other cyber things u can learn just fine at uni.

its the classic 'tech is behind at unis' excuse. its more important to learn the how and why than the what.

all in all it depend on where in cyber u wanna work.

if u want to do red teaming, uni is useless. HTB is a popular option but imho also useless.

you need to learn fundamental skills first. then learn to apply those within cyber.

learn to write code, debug it reverse it. basic networking. building web apps, databases. lots of enterprise systems, all flavors of virtualization, containers, etc. etc. etc.

a lot of those u can learn fine at uni!!!

'security is everywhere' and needing to know tons of stuff is more relevant for red teamers than any cyber other job.

its super helpful for blueteamers but these days your more likely just to be a security app admin than doing actual stuff to production systems to secure them -_-.

some jobs in cyber just need u to send questionaires to third parties, or use some existing platform to do basic phishing tests. its super simple stuff and htb has nothing on it... u will need a degree to send those emails tho :p (dont ask why!)
by bertil | 2025-11-09 10:43:28+00:00
A friend of mine has a relatively common first name and last name, and she regularly gets mail that is clearly not meant for her. She started a Facebook group for homonyms to help her route mail, and it now have a hundred members and have helped people get important documents.

At some point, they even organized an impersonation because someone needed to retrieve an official document and couldn’t be there in person. Another member nearby offered to go and get it. “Won’t you need my ID for that? — Oh, I have one with just the right name…”
by ben_w | 2025-11-09 10:44:11+00:00
> My cost basis for Tesla is $16.96 because instead of not renewing my driver's license I bought a bunch of shares in the company in 2018. My decision wasn't based on "believing Elon" it was based on analysis.

I also bought shares. Sold them all for a profit this year.

My beliefs (all of them) are based on analysing what information I have access to, which in the case of "I won't need to drive" includes things said by Tesla which turned out to be falsehoods, and also other things not relevant to this topic.

The reasons I sold those shares include not only the CEO's failures to deliver, but also that other shareholders like yourself keep making excuses for the CEO's failures thus suggesting nothing will be fixed, and also that the CEO angers his customer bases to the point that showrooms get smashed up and products arsoned.

Normal people do not consider such things to be signs of "winning".

> The argument that Tesla sucks because they haven't delivered on their promises is kinda illogical.

I didn't say "suck", I said didn't deserve their current price.

What is illogical is that you're defending them despite them making false statements about what they could deliver that got them sued.

They're only "a bit weird", not "suck" by product range/market segments served (Cybertruck excluded); by sales and so on, Tesla is a perfectly adequate *$50 billion doller market cap* car company — like Hyundai, who make more profit and more cars, and has a robotics company in the same group.

The key there is "50 billion" not "trillion or so". Tesla is not magic.

> Tesla is closer to a viable robotaxi, and grid scale energy arbitrage business than they ever have been and the share price reflects it.

"closer […] than they ever have been" is still behind the competition.

The world has been moving on with each of these things while Tesla dithers and their CEO is distracted by SpaceX, his other AI company that owns his social media company, and offending much of his target market with ham-fisted political involvement.

> With a P/E ~250+ Tesla should be an automatic short if your analysis is correct.

Shorts are strongly associated with the phrase "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" for good reason.

> I have $2 million long in the company. In 2035 it will be >$8 million. In 2035 Waymo will be a footnote.

You yourself have said their market price relfects a "10-20%" chance. Your own 80-90% bet is necessarily that Tesla does not.

That said, given everything I'm seeing in the US, I'd put P(sufficient hyperinflation by 2035 to get that proportional change in market cap, conditional on Tesla actually still exists) ~= 0.1-0.25

Also on the subject of 10%, Musk has claimed variously 5%, 10%, and 20% chances of AI causing an apocalypse/wiping out humanity. Anyone who actually believes him on 10% (I don't, not that I have power to make such a call even if I did), should be willing to let 800 million people die to stop anyone (including Musk) developing it.
by MallocVoidstar | 2025-11-09 10:45:40+00:00
I don't think there are any up-to-date leaderboards, but models absolutely degrade in performance the more context they're dealing with.

https://wandb.ai/byyoung3/ruler_eval/reports/How-to-evaluate...

>Gpt-5-mini records 0.87 overall judge accuracy at 4k [context] and falls to 0.59 at 128k.

And Llama 4 Scout claimed a 10 million token context window but in practice its performance on query tasks drops below 20% accuracy by 32k tokens.
by yoavm | 2025-11-09 10:46:14+00:00
My siblings and I live in 3 different continents. We use Tailscale exactly for that. It's also installed on some of the VPS I own, so all-in-all we have around 7 exit nodes in different countries to choose from. It was really a breeze to set up.

The best part is that our IPs never seemed to be blocked by any service provider.
by bloovis | 2025-11-09 10:46:43+00:00
My ex-wife had the same name as a woman in another state who had beaten up a cop and done jail time. So every time my wife's driver's license came up for renewal, the DMV decided she was that criminal, and refused to issue the license. This happened so often, she eventually was on a first-name basis with the DMV director, who had to intervene every time. I'm guessing this problem due to the DMV in our little state using an ancient computer system, perhaps written in COBOL in the 1960s. I can just see the code now, where it compares the name, but not state of residence or any other identifiers.
by kyrylo | 2025-11-09 10:47:51+00:00
Hey, Telebugs creator here. Great questions! Right now, Telebugs doesn’t have built-in throttling, so during error spikes, you’d either need to handle it manually or overprovision. I do plan to add throttling in the future, similar to what Sentry does, to protect your infrastructure automatically.

Curious: for those running self-hosted error trackers in production, how do you currently handle sudden error spikes? Any clever tricks or patterns you swear by?
by mcny | 2025-11-09 10:49:40+00:00
What I'm hoping to see in the future are:

1. native support for all http verbs such as put and delete in html itself without relying on JavaScript

2. sensible controls for drop down, select, multi select, date, time, datetime and so on without relying on any JavaScript

3. Submitting a form and submitting actions without reloading the whole page again without requiring any JavaScript

4. A whole lot of stuff yes without requiring any JavaScript

When I first heard the term htmx, I thought that was what htmx was but sadly it is just intercooler. What I am asking for requires broad support from browser vendors.
by close04 | 2025-11-09 10:49:57+00:00
> burger means civilian

Nice try, so you tell me that the burger hospital I passed by is not in fact a place where they patch up burgers until they’re back on their feet?

A lot of countries have a unique ID for their citizens which is used for routine identification. On websites, at the bank, etc. nothing special about SSNs in this regard, except that they were leaked more times than you can count.
by KingMob | 2025-11-09 10:50:44+00:00
Fair, but don't forget Altman's sister accused him of sexual abuse in court. (https://www.newsweek.com/sam-altman-openai-sister-annie-sexu...)

Dunno if it's true. The family wrote it off, saying she's mentally ill, but I can also see years of abuse leading to mental illness.
by Timon3 | 2025-11-09 10:51:42+00:00
I do understand how recommendation systems work, thank you.

You've written twice in this thread that you'd need to ban any kind of content recommendation system. Is that what you're advocating for? Your comments read to me as the opposite - you're saying that the only way to 100% solve this issue is by banning any recommendation system, so we shouldn't do anything instead.

This is, of course, not how we treat almost any facet of our society. No law covers 100% of cases, yet we're fine implementing new laws if they improve the situation. Why can't we do the same here?
by anthk | 2025-11-09 10:52:08+00:00
Some people even did y2k patches to BSD 4.3. Also, tons of 'modern' software could run on it you can get GCC 2.95 and GCC 3.4. Lynx, for instance. Or gopher and IRC clients. And, maybe, with a bit of luck, Lua and JimTCL.
by rwarfield | 2025-11-09 10:52:35+00:00
Besides the extraterritoriality issue, the other problem with FATCA is that it makes Americans living overseas (99% of whom are just normal people not trying to evade taxes) radioactive to overseas financial institutions because of the potential consequences of failing to report on someone's accounts properly.

Sadly a lot of Americans hear "foreign bank account" and immediately think "tax evasion" without realizing there are a lot of ordinary Americans overseas who just want to pay the rent and save for retirement but can't because Uncle Sam follows us wherever we go for life.
by namibj | 2025-11-09 10:53:28+00:00
Many freighters have space for the 12 passengers they're allowed to carry before they get reclassified to passenger ship with all the post-Titanic SOLAS requirements those incur.

The first 12 however are easy, they self-select to be low-maintenance, they just get their breakfast/lunch/dinner portion from the ship's cook, and have their cabin. A little electricity, reasonable running water, and they're contend. Essentially a hotel room plus partaking the staff dinner/in-House-catering.

Most people just can't handle the boredom these days, and many don't have that many days to spare, either.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-11-09 10:54:18+00:00
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult you. To explain the reason: you seem to use some particular wordings that just seem strange to me, such as first saying that Marcus position is that "LLMs are impossible" which is either false or incredibly imprecise shortcut for "AGI using LLMs is impossible", and then claiming it was beautiful.

I didn't mean to attack you personally and I'm really sorry if it sounded this way. I appreciate the generally positive atmosphere on HN and I believe it more important than the actual argument, whatever it may be.
by stavros | 2025-11-09 10:58:03+00:00
I was interested in trying this, but the UI is like pulling teeth. I couldn't accept the ToS because the checkbox was under the terms box, and had to tap very carefully.

Then I tried to create a Hub, but couldn't figure out how to get it to accept my drawing (there's no "done" button, only "cancel", even though the polygon I want is right there). After a few frustrating tries, I went back and noticed that I need to click the first point again, which is very unintuitive.

After that, it kept complaining that my area is too big, and there was no way to live-adjust the area while seeing how big it is. I had to cancel out of the whole thing, go out to the hub screen, then click "start drawing" again for another try. I didn't make it past that.
by lproven | 2025-11-09 10:58:54+00:00
I didn't know about that! :-o Thanks!

> personally I think it's a bit too close to just emulating the whole thing

Yes, I do know what you mean.

Although it's functionally more limited, there is also Emu68, which removes the native PiOS from the setup completely.

https://github.com/michalsc/Emu68
Ask HN: Should there be a monthly Who is NOT hiring post
by WhoIsNotHiring_ | 2025-11-09 11:02:51+00:00
There are some companies that are not really hiring, and do not respond at all, not even with a rejection, despite the rule to be committed to responding.

> Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to responding to applicants.

Should there be a monthly Who is NOT hiring post? It will only be for obvious cases of companies not hiring. For example, cases in which companies do not respond at all, not even with a rejection, despite the rule to be committed to responding.
Show HN: SharpFocus – A Flowistry-inspired data flow analysis tool for C#
by trrahul | 2025-11-09 11:02:54+00:00
I built SharpFocus, a static analysis extension for C# that brings program slicing to VS Code. It's heavily inspired by Flowistry for Rust.

Click any variable, and it instantly highlights its complete data flow (what influenced it, and what it influences), fading out all irrelevant code. It's designed to make debugging and understanding complex methods faster. The analysis is powered by Roslyn.

It's open-source, and I'd appreciate any feedback.

GitHub: https://github.com/trrahul/SharpFocus VS Code Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RahulTR....
by goku12 | 2025-11-09 11:04:18+00:00
They should just provide an easy way to opt-in and disable the AI. That should be in their settings page (GUI) too - not in the about:configs page or in the prefs.js. That should be enough for people to stop feeling like they're losing control.

To be more transparent about it and foster further innovation, they should simply move the AI parts out of the browser altogether (to an external engine like ollama) and provide sane defaults, easy ways to launch them and options to try out different models. Such models and engines can perhaps be shared with other browsers or applications without duplication. Why must they instead be separately integrated so tightly into every single traditional application?
by kyrylo | 2025-11-09 11:04:58+00:00
ONCE projects do get occasional updates. I don’t use boilerplate projects much, so I can’t speak to them.

My model isn’t a subscription. Think about it like buying rice. You might buy it every week, but that doesn’t mean you’re “subscribed” to rice.

Even if I release a new major version, you’re free not to update. And if it’s a major version, it’s fair to expect it to be paid. After all, major updates usually bring significant improvements. For example, if you played the original DOOM, you had to pay for DOOM 2 too, even though they run on the same engine.
by topspin | 2025-11-09 11:05:42+00:00
Hams bounce signals off of everything. Aircraft scatter, for example. Probably the coolest is using the ion trails of meteorites. When meteors punch through the atmosphere, they create ionized trails. These trails can reflect RF signals. Some of these happen to be optimal at low VFH frequencies, and hams make contacts using frequencies that ordinarily don't work beyond line of sight.
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-11-09 11:05:46+00:00
Terminal Bench 2.0 just dropped and a big success factor they stress is the hand crafted phd level rollout tests they picked aprox 80 out of 120 with the incentive that anyone who contributed 3 would get listed as a paper author this resulted in high quality participation equivalent to foundation labs proprietary agentic RL data but it's FOSS.
by gf000 | 2025-11-09 11:06:51+00:00
Well, this obviously depends on a given programming language/culture, but in my mind I would say in case of parsing a string to an int it is an expected case that it could fail, so I would model it as a Return type of an Int or a ParsingError, or something like that.

Meanwhile, for a function doing numerous file copies and network calls I would throw an exception, as the number of possible failure cases are almost limitless. (Like you surely not want to have an ADT that models FileSystemFullErrors and whatnot).

It so happens that in this particular example one is pure and the other is side-effecting, but I'm not convinced that's a hard rule here.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-11-09 11:07:54+00:00
Oh that, yeah I've seen pointless certificates given out for doing crappy mandatory training courses.

Although, the only place I've seen them is in a company whose HQ is in the US. So maybe that is more of a US thing too.

To be honest, I never saw them as a participation reward. Everyone hates doing the damn things in the first place, nobody cares about getting the certificate.
by m-hodges | 2025-11-09 11:08:07+00:00
> Even Twitter is finding a second life by becoming a haven for the free speech advocates and alternative views, much to the chagrin of MSMs because they now no longer have the monopoly on the "truth"

Of all the silly things to say about Musk and Twitter, the idea that “MSM” are upset about Twitter is among the silliest.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-11-09 11:08:08+00:00
But you need to agree that we can single out one specific argument he is most famous for, right? And when Josh Wolfe is saying that "Apple Gary Marcus'd LLM's reasoning ability", it does refer to a very specific issue of whether LLMs can lead to AGI or not.

I don't know whether he's right or wrong, but deep down I feel the amount of money funneled in the Transformed architecture might have blocked other approaches, both potentially promising and others doomed for failure, just because LLMs' quick wins.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-09 11:08:35+00:00
> How do you think we determine the age of the universe?

Inaccurately, with recent revisions to the tune of hundreds of millions of years.

> The age of rocks?

Surprisingly inaccurately, despite the smooooooooth exponential curve of radioactive decay.

Evolution is not smooth.

> Do you not accept carbon dating?

I do, within its error range. Which is large. Like tens of percent in common scenarios.