MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dijit | 2025-11-19 23:09:08+00:00
GDPR allows for essential cookies with no popup.

Implied consent is valid for most functionality, just not selling peoples tracking data or giving it to a third party who could.

Its entirely possible to have no pop-up.

Someone once told me they wanted one anyway because it made the site seem more legitimate than if I removed it (the only thing I would have needed to change was the embedded video from youtube and I could have dropped the popup. Oh well).
by nashashmi | 2025-11-19 23:09:14+00:00
I’d be more excited for thunderbird if it worked on an open source alternative to EXCHANGE SERVER. Firefox and thunderbird are clients. But it is time they launched servers as well. There might not be any advantage to another https server. But a new mail server with a new email client protocol would be exciting. And maybe a WebDAV server that Firefox could work with natively.
by ben_w | 2025-11-19 23:09:23+00:00
That's the great thing about "invention", there are other ways to 0 pollution besides historic ones.

Worse than that, actually: to get to 0 pollution by only deleting things, you'd also need to remove one of the main sources of pollution in third world countries: cooking with fire.

Invention has already given us renewable electricity, and using that to cook is much better than inhaling wood smoke.
by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn | 2025-11-19 23:09:36+00:00
I used, and even paid for, The Bat! at around this time, but as it was the emailer of choice for spammers, when spamming was a newish thing, I kept getting perfectly legitimate mail bounced and the developers had to constantly update the client to traverse the anti Bat internet! Which was a pain. I also used Opera email client for a while. Which was dross.
by bombcar | 2025-11-19 23:09:37+00:00
This is the most pertinent thing to learn from these NTSB crash investigations - it's not what went wrong at the final disaster, but all the things that went wrong that didn't detect that they were down to one layer of defense.

Your car engaging auto brake to prevent a collision shouldn't be a "whew, glad that didn't happen" and more a "oh shit, I need to work on paying attention more."
by alex1138 | 2025-11-19 23:09:44+00:00
The security vuln is that it's owned by a bad faith actor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662215

I get this is snarky and it being HN I'll now collect my downvotes, but really, I can't not hear Whatsapp without also thinking Facebook; the entire product may as well be a security vuln
by creer | 2025-11-19 23:10:03+00:00
> Perl 6 would have had to be a better Perl 5 and a better Python 2 to win.

Don't sell perl 6 short. I am using perl 6 for significant projects now (after a career of perl 5) - and it's fundamentally different. I describe it as perl to the power of perl.

For me, expressiveness is fundamental. And perl 6 gives me that.

Perl 6 is simply suffering from python being everywhere. And perl 5 was always easy to lampoon as "line noise". It's a stupid quip, but it leaves a mark on new programmers. You don't even need to read the course and you can already have an opinion. Stupid kills? And then perl 6 doubled down on that anyway. Then I doubled down on that ALSO and I get to use (carefully chosen) unicode symbols in my line noise :-) So there.
by spartanatreyu | 2025-11-19 23:10:36+00:00
It would be hard to make it work.

Influencer's approach to posting tends to be the "shotgun" / "throw shit at a wall and see what sticks" approach.

Since Mastodon only sorts by date and not by popularity/virality, anyone who follows those influencers are going to get spammed by every single one of their posts.

Mastodon users have a simple solution for dealing with spam, they unfollow that person.
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-11-19 23:10:55+00:00
The flow has definitely started reversing, and yep you're right there will be problems. Worldwide central bank holdings of gold just recently surpassed holdings of US Treasuries for the first time in 30 years. And I believe that's using only reported amounts of gold, when all experts agree that China has acquired far more gold in recent years than what's reported.
by Bratmon | 2025-11-19 23:11:16+00:00
"Unions are their members"

For reference this is a textbook example of an equivocation (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Equivocation). The statement has two meanings: the trivially true "A union is made up of its members" and the implicit claim "The behavior of the management of a union is what the majority of its members want".

The latter statement is a very bold claim (and does not survive even a tiny amount of empirical scrutiny for those familiar with unions in practice), so the commenter tries to launder it into the discussion by conflating it with the obviously-true trivial meaning.
by xp84 | 2025-11-19 23:12:17+00:00
From your article - this answered a question I had:

> The settlement does not include any damages for the reconstruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The State of Maryland built, owned, maintained, and operated the bridge, and attorneys on the state’s behalf filed their own claim for those damages. Pursuant to the governing regulation, funds recovered by the State of Maryland for reconstruction of the bridge will be used to reduce the project costs paid for in the first instance by federal tax dollars.
by tshaddox | 2025-11-19 23:12:26+00:00
An older pattern (which is arguably more well-intended) is when a site transforms all links to first go to a splash screen that says "In 5 seconds you will leave this website, so please be careful and don't blame us if you see anything bad!"

You used to see this all the time for user-generated content on web forums. I don't see it much these days.

It's worth noting that the U.S Web Design System specifically says to not use these "roadblock notices" for external links: https://designsystem.digital.gov/components/link/
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-11-19 23:13:19+00:00
> The pace is the format. Even if you're just watching turtles for 30 seconds, the loop and the switch to next video are fast-paced context switching, which is stimulating.

I've been over-indulging in context switching long before short-form videos ever showed up. The internet itself is all about context switching. But the UX around short-form videos definitely encourages doomscrolling, similar to how microtransaction games encourage neverending grinds.

We definitely need better habits as a collective, but I think a list of "do's" is just as important as a whack-a-mole list of "don'ts".
by defrost | 2025-11-19 23:13:19+00:00
A good many people I know and have known for 60+ years would, do, and yearn for civilisation as you know it to back the f off and get its foot from their neck.

Yes, they are fully awar of what that means and they have lived without electricity, devices, and transport.

Embrace of bleeding edge tech isn't universal, hell even the embrace of the past 100 years of tech isn't for every human.
by wonger_ | 2025-11-19 23:13:56+00:00
> When I see the adware monstrosity that Windows appears to have turned into, I'm actually quite shocked to see sharp folks using it. I must be missing something, like do they have cheat codes to make it usable?

There's at least a few factors:

- like boiling frogs, where things worsen gradually and you don't notice / hurt enough until it's too late

- accumulated bandaids over time to keep it bearable. e.g. knowing what settings to disable, perhaps having powershell scripts to debloat new machines, etc

- inertia. Hard to make big changes in general, even if they would help, because change is hard and usually costly

- forced to use Windows at work
by robotnikman | 2025-11-19 23:14:17+00:00
I can confirm your anecdote, based on messing with ML on a linux system in my personal time over the last few years. I don't do any work in ML, but I have never heard of anyone doing anything with ML on Windows other than maybe running some models locally.

Though I will say I have encountered issues in the past with a Linux gaming computer which experienced issues with the Nvidia drivers anytime I decided to update the distro (I was using Kubuntu at the time).
by ben_w | 2025-11-19 23:14:44+00:00
I remember hearing about the variance thing ages ago. Back when I was young enough and naïve enough to trust statements said in official voices without critically assessing them.

With the caveat that IQ tests scores are now provably something one can learn to be good at (because LLMs do much better on public tests than private ones), was the claim about variably actually justified at the time, or was it nonsense even back then?
by tombert | 2025-11-19 23:14:44+00:00
I wish my parents would switch. Look at my comment history if you want more details, but TL;DR the auto update to windows 11 bricked my mom’s laptop and I had to do some weirdness with Linux to save her files and then wipe the computer.

Since I am a software person I have become the person that my parents call for IT help, and increasingly I have grown pretty frustrated with Windows. I have been trying to convince them to move to Zorin or Mint or something or to buy a Mac, and they will not yield.

In a bit of fairness to them, the biggest issue is MS Office; they did recently try LibreOffice and the MS Office online, and they had shortcomings with both. Since I have been wholly unsuccessful at getting any modern Office to work on Linux (without virtualization), so now I don’t have a case for them to move.

Which is annoying, because I really hate having to deal with it.
by vacuity | 2025-11-19 23:14:45+00:00
I can't honestly call myself "anti-woke", nor can I honestly call myself "woke". What a pain. Harping on about either one makes for a dull comment. If anything, I'd probably be considered "woke" by ideological proximity.

> Is it though, or is that just what your ideological sense tells you?

What aside from grade inflation explains why those students in the UCSD report had high grades but had to take remedial math class? The schools I went to had some grade inflation, though perhaps it's not that bad. Heck, Harvard loves grade inflation.

Also, what even is the ideological angle here? I'm the only one talking about grade inflation here (well, one other person mentioned it, but surely not to be "anti-woke").

> but haven't ever been moving particularly fast either

Would it be false that education quality is declining even if it is doing so slowly?

> Teachers have always had funny ideas, and haven't broken kids yet

That "yet" is doing a lot of work, and ignoring the present article. A slow-moving train wreck is still a train wreck.
by protocolture | 2025-11-19 23:14:52+00:00
>Does it? I'm more about trusting persons than ever. When the shareholders comes, thats when the enshitification process really starts. I also wish Tony Fadell would take over Nest again.

Founders are the people who get money in exchange for taking the business public. The guy will be on his yacht when the shareholders arrive to screw things up.
by araes | 2025-11-19 23:15:10+00:00
Partial agree on the food storage location.

However, I would also suggest the connection to the Amaru myth of the Nazca and Incas (and Andean civilizations in general). [1] Possible reason it was laid out in a snake pattern petroglyph rather than just being a large collection of holes relatively near the valley floor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaru_(mythology)

"amaru or katari (aymara) is a mythical serpent or dragon ... associated with the vital waters that irrigated the farmlands"

From Google "two-headed snakes mountain snakes symbolizing fertility, rain, and rebirth"

The digging pattern definitely looks like a riff on serpent's scales, and snake geoglyphs show up all over the Andes. May have been put in that shape for the implied crop fertility, rain, and vital water benevolence of the Amaru along with events that may have been held up at the top of the mountain. Looks like there's an old path that got widened into a somewhat modern road up to the top. It both stores food in terms of a granary, and also serves as a religious geoglyph implying a positive connection to Amaru (or similar) snake concepts viewed as beneficial for crops, rain, ect...
by frankest | 2025-11-19 23:15:20+00:00
The big question here is are they involved with Epstein because they are in power, or did they get power because they had Epstein pull in favors for them. From the emails he seems like the big spider in a spider web. Both parties and so many people in power referred to him for critical problems, pulling strings in critical places (Bannon on behalf of Trump was getting his advice on how to discredit Kavanaugh opponents and Epstein obliged with medical information on one of the opponents to bring up at a hearing). Beyond Clinton, Obama’s attorney is mentioned a bunch as well. I’m sure the democrats had plenty of favors in too.

My conclusion from information so far - this is a small subset of the files, and yet this seems like in a country where power should be divided to be balanced, a congealed network has been selecting and pulling the elites they want to the podium. The curation mechanism (may not be the only curation mechanism) has been people who are easy to manipulate by the network - too deep into perversions to ever come out of prison if they ever lost power. Thus more power and money becomes the only survival mechanism.

If you want a real constitutional democracy in the US, can you EVER have it if past presidents, or the networks underneath them, or party leaders who have no term limits, have control over who gets nominated to that power next? It’s not two parties. It’s one party that seems to be playing a show for the masses while taking Yin and Yang turns at the helm.
Show HN: Lucen – AI dating coach for over-thinkers (like me)
by omarfarooq360 | 2025-11-19 23:15:22+00:00
Hi HN,

I can overthink dating (probably just like many of you) and thought that I can't be the only person over-thinking texts. So I decided to build Lucen - an AI relationship coach that analyzes your texts to give you advice. Goal to help people with questions like:

- “Is this person actually into me or just bored?” - “Am I doing too much?” - “Did I mess things up with that text?”

What Lucen does

You upload transcript, screenshots or screen recoding of messages and Lucen: - Gives you a report with interest, compatibility, red/green flags. - Allow you to ask questions about your conversations. - View and select your messages to ask about them.

How it works (high level)

Ingestion – You upload screenshots or recording. We OCR and reconstruct message sequences (sender, timestamps, etc.).

Conversation modeling – We build a structured representation: who said what, when, to whom, and in what order.

LLM reasoning – Analyze the texts, generate report with evidence and seed chat featue.

Tech-wise: React Native/Expo (web + iOS), Firebase (Auth/Firestore), RevenueCat for IAP, and OpenAI on the analysis side, plus analytics via PostHog.

Biggest challenge: Parsing texts from a phone screen-recording. Users can scroll at different speeds.

What I’m trying to do differently: Goal is to bridge the gap between the two extremes in dating related to cover the weird state before labels, when you have a lot of confusion and overthinking. - (Upper funnel of dating) AI wingman apps to automate dating apps e.g. PlugAI, RizzGPT. - (Apps targeted at couples) Couple apps: Quiz apps, couples therapy, etc.

Status & pricing

iOS app + web are live.

Still iterating on onboarding, the analysis UX, and pricing. There is a paid subscription, but if the price is a blocker and you’re willing to give me thoughtful feedback, I’m happy to sort out access codes / discounts.

What I’d love feedback on from HN

- UX/product - Is the upload flow too clunky? - Accuracy - Pricing - What’s missing?

Monetization If you’re in a situationship, talking to someone new, or just curious, you can try it here:

https://lucen.app

I’ll be in the comments all day responding and would really appreciate any feedback, skepticism, or brutal honesty from this crowd.
by vladms | 2025-11-19 23:15:38+00:00
You don't give any reference that we can look up regarding the problems you mention (ref: "if you're using any service touching data in any part of your business even remotely connected to the US or any non-EU country (so, almost everything"). They might be very reasonable, but seems we miss the point if we don't talk a bit more detailed.

What services are you talking about? AWS? Microsoft? Some small startup? Gmail? What data? etc.
by charlie-83 | 2025-11-19 23:15:45+00:00
If all you want to do is play steam games then I'm sure steamOS is going to be the best experience possible. If you want to use it as a regular PC it probably works reasonably well but a user who doesn't want to use the terminal is more likely to run into a brick wall at some point (e.g. connecting to a printer or something). Something like Linux Mint is going to give an overall friendlier experience for someone new to Linux even if running steam games on it is slightly less friendly.
by ArtDev | 2025-11-19 23:16:00+00:00
That is terrible advice. Cloudflare is normally an awesome CDN that is effectively free. It reduces resource usage by a large amount due to caching.

Also, if my little blog gets posted on Reddit or somewhere and gets a huge spike.. it won't go down or cost me money in overages.

This actually happened two years ago. I had massive DDOS style traffic that Cloudflare totally was able to mitigate.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-19 23:17:03+00:00
I sort of agree, but in my experience, wealthy parents have the money for extra classes, tutoring, SAT/ACT prep, etc., which enable their kid to get a high SAT score. These are resources which the disadvantaged don't have. So while an "average" wealthy kid might score 780 with all the help afforded to them, it would take a truly exceptional poor kid to score 780 since they're essentially bootstrapping from natural talent alone.

So whether you include SAT scores in admissions or not, it's still heavily skewed.

Also, the problem with SAT scores is that you end up studying to the test. (This is why Chinese applicants do so well on college entrance exams - they spent most of their high school studying for the specific range/type of questions they will be asked on the test.)
by Scubabear68 | 2025-11-19 23:17:39+00:00
I got into Perl in the early 90s in the Perl4 days, watched the very weird but necessary Perl5 come into focus, then I saw Larry and the community in the 2000s get stars in their eyes and just throw it all away for the dream of Perl6.

The real issue is not just that Perl6 wasn’t backwards compatible, it was that Perl6 basically did not exist for real for many, many years. People got tired of waiting, and the lack of backwards compatibility did not help.

Also Perl6 was just more weird on top of weird from a mainstream perspective. Making it even harder to justify.
by Rochus | 2025-11-19 23:18:27+00:00
The publishers who sued Cloudflare all operate major digital manga platforms that depend on the same infrastructure they're attacking. If this ruling makes CDN providers skittish about serving Japanese content (fearing liability accusations), or if Cloudflare restricts services in Japan, legitimate manga sites suffer the same performance degradation as pirate sites. Meanwhile, truly anonymous piracy networks (torrents, decentralized systems) remain unaffected by CDN lawsuits. The publishers won a battle that may make their own digital transformation more expensive and less effective.
by somat | 2025-11-19 23:18:28+00:00
It is double weird because unix has always supported this.

I think was an accident of how the unix filesystem was implemented but basically, every file has at least one name but can have as many as you want, if a file ever has zero names it gets deleted. note that every open file is considered an additional name for that file.

By accident, I don't think it was designed this way but as they were putting together the filesystem "hey, what happens if two directories entries point to the same data?" anyone else "We will make a complicated locking system to prevent that from happening" the unix madlads "ship it and call it a feature, hell, work it into how files are opened as well then you can do tricksy stuff like open a file then delete it so it does not exists anywhere in the filesystem but it is still on disk"

The funny, in an ironic sense, thing is that while this this sort of naturally fell out of the first design of the unix filesystem it is not natural at all to modern copy-on-write filesystems, they have to do contortions to support it, but they do because it is now what people expect.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-11-19 23:18:44+00:00
> Code is first and foremost for human consumption. The compiler's job is to worry about appeasing the machine.

Tangentially, it continues to frustrate me that C code organization directly impacts performance. Want to factorize that code? Pay the cost of a new stack frame and potentially non-local jump (bye, ICache!). Want it to not do that? Add more keywords ('inline') and hope the compiler applies them.

(I kind of understand the reason for this. Code Bloat is a thing, and if everything was inlined the resulting binary would be 100x bigger)
by xp84 | 2025-11-19 23:18:46+00:00
Agree. I am obligated to run those retrospectives and the SNR is very poor.

It is nice though (as long as there isn't anyone in there that the team is afraid to be honest in front of), when people can vent about something that has been pissing them off, so that I as their manager know how they feel. But that happens only about 15-20% of the time. The rest is meaningless tripe like "Glad Project X is done" and "$TECHNOLOGY sucks" and "Good job to Bob and Susan for resolving the issue with the Acme account"
by tom-in-july | 2025-11-19 23:19:14+00:00
The native support for streaming in SAM3 is awesome. Especially since it should also remove some of the memory accumulation for long sequences.

I used SAM2 for tracking tumors in real-time MRI images. With the default SAM2 and loading images from the da, we could only process videos with 10^2 - 10^3 frames before running out of memory.

By developing/adapting a custom version (1) based on a modified implementation with real (almost) stateless streaming (2) we were able to increase that to 10^5 frames. While this was enough for our purposes, I spend way too much time debugging/investigating tiny differences between SAM2 versions. So it’s great that the canonical version now supports streaming as well.

(Side note: I also know of people using SAM2 for real-time ultrasound imaging.)

1 https://github.com/LMUK-RADONC-PHYS-RES/mrgrt-target-localiz...

2 https://github.com/Gy920/segment-anything-2-real-time
by skirmish | 2025-11-19 23:19:14+00:00
I tried to install CachyOS with KDE on my wife's new laptop (Lenovo Yoga) about 3 weeks ago. The version available was 2025-08-28 (still is, just checked), and it was crashing KDE all the time. Quick research told me that version had lots of KDE bugs that have been since fixed, yet no new release.

Maybe it's different on Nvidia (wife's laptop had AMD graphics), but I expect a very bumpy road ahead of him.