MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NYCNews | 2025-11-13 00:41:24+00:00
Suspect Steals Baseball and Pokémon Cards After Skirting Declined Credit Card Transaction

By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice November 12, 2025

NYC LOCAL NEWS - Cops are looking for a man who made off with nearly $10,000 in Pokemon and baseball cards.

At around 11:40 a.m., an unidentified individual walked into the store at 244 Lafayette Street with the intent to make a purchase using a credit card. When the card was declined, the suspect didn’t give up. Instead, he began entering manual commands into the store’s payment terminal, likely trying to bypass the transaction issue without the employee noticing.

somehow, the attempt worked, and the individual managed to walk away with a large haul, including baseball and Pokémon cards worth nearly $9,710. After grabbing the goods, the suspect fled on foot, heading southbound on Lafayette Street. The NYPD released surveillance video from inside the store. The suspect is described as a male with a medium complexion. He was last seen wearing a black baseball cap, a black hooded sweatshirt, black shorts, white socks, and white sneakers. He was also seen carrying a multicolored bag.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on X @NYPDTips.
by mickael-kerjean | 2025-11-13 00:41:40+00:00
I always found fascinating the power section of valve amp for guitar will always be made of a very basic rectifier circuit to convert AC to DC that requires a expensive transformer and produce power with a terrible efficiency compared to more modern SMPS. Why is it nobody interested in valve amp never go the SMPS path? Is it all because sag is a desirable sound distortion?
by harry8 | 2025-11-13 00:42:10+00:00
In addition to search engines you can learn a great deal about all sorts of things using an LLM. This works well enough if you don't want to pay. They are very patient and you canb go as deep as you want. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo+AI+Chat&ia=chat&duckai=...
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-13 00:42:16+00:00
> You can create a logical equivalent of the cut operator in Fortran if you wanted to

In isolation, no you can't. You could implement a Prolog interpreter in Fortran however. And if you did that, you would be able to write a cut operator because then you are interacting directly with Prolog's machinery. Part of the definition of the cut operator involves changing how code around it behaves. You can't do this with Fortran (or other languages) normally. Then there is the entire concept of backtracking with isn't native in any other language (that I know of).

You could probably make a very poor cut operator in a language with an Any/Object type and casting but why would you. You are not wrong about the math. But you are ignoring the absurd amount of code you would have to write to do it. Its a bit hand-wavy to say because you can implement Prolog in a language, its just as powerful. Although that is mathematically correct but in practice it really isn't.
by hunter2_ | 2025-11-13 00:42:24+00:00
I'm not sure of every type of trouble folks might have using selects, but for the subset where using a hardware keyboard is required, you can usually type into a focused select just as you can type into a text input. Getting an Android/iOS on-screen keyboard to do this without a special configuration might not be a thing, I'll admit.

The only tricky part, for me, is deciding whether I should type a state abbreviation or a few letters of the full state name, which in my case differ enough to be quite annoying.
by fenomas | 2025-11-13 00:42:33+00:00
SyncThing syncs only when both clients are running at the same time. Nobody who edits a document on a website expects that they'll need to leave that browser window open in order to see the document in a different browser.

Am I missing something? Is this seriously a heated HN debate over "why does this website need to store the text it sends to people who view the website?"?
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-11-13 00:42:47+00:00
<< you may want to reexamine your experience as a child to make sure there was some sort of "power re-alignment"

I can understand every word in this sentence and yet I am having a difficult time parsing it. Is it that I did not provide vivid enough details? Is it that the experience is dismissed as that of a child? Is it merely a stepping stone to the next sentence and actually has no other meaning in your response?

It is an internet forum. I did not give any major details though my posting history is readily available for digging.

I guess what I am really saying is:

I am confused by your answer. Care to elaborate?
by hamandcheese | 2025-11-13 00:43:06+00:00
We do exactly this at my dayjob - we have (multiple) very specific combinations of (erlang, elixir, hex, rebar3) that we use which are pinned to exactly the versions we need. We have a private Nix cache so we only have to build them once.

https://www.cachix.org/ simplifies running a custom cache. Well worth the money, IMO.

That said, learning nix and setting up a nix cache is still a lot of work. Docker buildx might offer you some more knobs to cache portions of your build in a finer-grained manner without having to take the nix plunge.
by piva00 | 2025-11-13 00:43:13+00:00
Valve kinda shows how a well-managed private business ought to run: respect your customers, find a cash cow and use it for slowly expand into related markets to your niche, develop good products over a long period (SteamOS took many years to become something actually useful) without focusing on the mentality of hyper-growth, keep the stereotypical contemporary MBA thinking away, have a small but competent team.

There are, of course, the issues with lootboxes but even there they've kept their hands much cleaner than any other game developer.

It's a very well oiled machine, I had another VR headset ordered for sim racing, immediately canceled it when saw the Frame announcement because even if specs-wise it's a bit of a downgrade, I want to buy what Valve is selling.
by dangus | 2025-11-13 00:43:17+00:00
The point is that Apple could have easily locked down the bootloader and made it not possible at all to install something else. In designing the M1 hardware they explicitly went out of their way to make sure other operating systems could be installed and they’ve said as much. They took their smartphone SoCs and bootloader that never allowed alternate operating systems and added that feature in actively.

Technically Asahi Linux isn’t facing a much different situation than standard Linux distributions as they relate to x86 hardware. There are thousands of PC components that don’t provide any sort of Linux driver where contributors reverse engineer those drivers.

Sure, in the PC world a lot more vendors do voluntarily provide Linux drivers, and Apple will never to that for its hardware, and that specific point is a valid criticism.

As far as assisting in running Windows, my understanding is that the company that makes Parallels and Apple have some kind of relationship. Microsoft officially endorses Parallels.

You can complain about it being virtualization but it’s perfectly fine for desktop apps or even some more intensive apps. And it’s not really a very valid complaint considering that Microsoft doesn’t distribute a general purpose ARM distribution of Windows.
by allan_s | 2025-11-13 00:44:12+00:00
I was wondering how easy it is

I.e I know that hdmi stream can be encrypted so I guess for Netflix you can't juste have a "hdmi splitter"? Do you need to go as far as plugging yourself just before the lcd pixels ? And if so , is it the moment where its easier to have a high def camera pointed at your lcd screen with post processing?
by greesil | 2025-11-13 00:44:19+00:00
I think it made a calculation that it could do it, and did it. I think it was absolutely correct with respect to the physics and timing. What was not factored in to it was how surprising it would be to other drivers, and what would happen if a pedestrian or cyclist or some other surprise showed up, and it would just have no margin whatsoever so it would be straight to the trolley problem.
by dpark | 2025-11-13 00:47:30+00:00
Your hypothetical 4 cents per transaction is inflated but it’s still only 4 cents per transaction. Credit card fees dwarf that even for very large volume business.

No CEO is rubbing their hands together salivating over the idea of 4 cents per transaction. This likely won’t even show up on an earnings report because it’s literally going to be rounded away.
by crdrost | 2025-11-13 00:49:24+00:00
There are a bunch of tricks like this. So for instance to make antibiotic-free chicken without a commitment to being antibiotic-free and organic, raise a bunch of chickens, take any who gets sick enough to need antibiotics and put them into a separate field with their antibiotics, sell the ones that happen to not get sick as antibiotic-free, sell the other ones as usual.

Or, if you're making orange juice, make the ingredients label say oranges. But you can split it up, take the peels, put them into a hydraulic press, extract out oils that have the concentrated aroma and flavor of oranges, homogenize some of that into the juice. Or you can centrifuge the juice, or you can pass it through osmotic filters to remove some of the water and concentrate the flavor. No rule saying you can't treat some of the juice similar to sugar beet juice and try to isolate its sugars. At the end, you reassemble a perfect consistent mixture. The label doesn't have to tell you about any of this, it just has to tell you that the ingredients were oranges.

(The recipe for the best lemonade you'll ever make is like this, it's just lemons and water and sugar, but you zest the lemons into the simple syrup you're making with the sugar water, then strain it with cheesecloth or a coffee filter, before adding to the juice and water and pulp.)

Imported oils, you can basically do anything that some middleman country allows you to do with the oil (in particular mix with cheaper oils) and then say "oh this is imported olive oil, olive oil according to someone else's standards”...
by marcodiego | 2025-11-13 00:49:49+00:00
> Technically Asahi Linux isn’t facing a much different situation than standard Linux distributions as they relate to x86 hardware.

Very very different.

> There are thousands of PC components that don’t provide any sort of Linux driver where contributors reverse engineer those drivers.

Increasingly more rare. Maybe that only happens thèse d'ays on extremely specialized hardware.
by famahar | 2025-11-13 00:51:01+00:00
The main thing I dislike about VR is how uncomfortable it is on my head and how hard it is to adjust that comfort. Too much friction to enjoy. If I can just easily slip these on that would be perfect.

I also never got used to the feeling of being completely detached from my own world. I know that's the point of VR, for it to be completely immersive but it felt very jarring not knowing what was going on around me.
by svat | 2025-11-13 00:51:09+00:00
The article has a couple of quotes from Waymo leads on the topic:

> “Freeway driving is one of those things that’s very easy to learn, but very hard to master when we’re talking about full autonomy without a human driver as a backup, and at scale,” Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov said

and

> While many assume freeway driving is easier, it comes with its own set of challenges, principal software engineer Pierre Kreitmann said in a recent briefing. He noted that critical events happen less often on freeways, which means there are fewer opportunities to expose Waymo’s self-driving system to rare scenarios and prove how the system performs when it really matters.

Both point to freeway driving being easier to do well, but harder to be sure is being done well.
by neom | 2025-11-13 00:51:30+00:00
If you don't have access here are some sample conversations:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6914f65d-20dc-800f-b5c4-16ae767dce...

https://chatgpt.com/share/6914f67b-d628-800f-a358-2f4cd71b23...

https://chatgpt.com/share/6914f697-ff4c-800f-a65a-c99a9d2206...

https://chatgpt.com/share/6914f691-4ef0-800f-bb22-b6271b0e86...
by bloppe | 2025-11-13 00:51:41+00:00
This is a silly distinction. You can always include pre-built object files in your "source code" formula, then the build step is just linking it into an executable locally. That would bypass the quarantine attribute and effectively retain the ability to distribute pre-built binaries without gatekeeper getting involved.

Seems like only a matter of time before someone at Apple realizes this and takes the necessary measures to protect you from yourself.
by linguae | 2025-11-13 00:53:17+00:00
Additionally, having baked-in taxes à la Japan would change how advertising works, since we don't have a uniform sales tax (unlike Japan). For example, I live in San Ramon, CA, which has a sales tax rate of 9.75%. If I drive just two miles north to Danville, the sales tax goes down to 8.75%. If I drive a few miles south to Dublin, the sales tax goes up to 10.25%. The reason is because California has a base statewide sales tax of 7.25% (with 1% of it going to local governments), and city and county governments are free to add up to 4% for local sales taxes.

By comparison, in Japan the consumption tax is 10% for most items (8% for groceries and takeout), and it's the same nationwide.

In addition, there are sometimes fees that are prohibited by law from being baked in. For example, California has a statewide ban on free "single-use" bags in grocery stores and some other businesses. These businesses are required to charge their customers for bags, and they are not allowed to bake it into the price. Some municipalities have extended this to disposable cups as part of an effort to discourage them in favor of reusable cups. For example, Santa Cruz mandates a 25 cent fee on disposable cups. The Costco $1.50 hot dog + drink combo is normally $1.50 + sales tax, but in Santa Cruz it's $1.50 + $.25 mandatory cup fee + sales tax (yes, the cup is taxable). I have yet to see someone bring a disposable cup to Costco or to other places where paper cups are sold, however.

Having baked-in taxes will require big changes about how taxes and fees work in America, the land of extra sales taxes, extra fees, surcharges, and tipping.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-11-13 00:53:42+00:00
This is not true. x86 CPUs have long had micro-op caches that support taken branches which do not result in icache fetches. Probably started with Pentium4's trace cache which was perhaps a little more similar to Transmeta's design, but modern x86 CPUs from Intel and AMD both do dynamic translation from x86 to an internal instruction format that includes branches and likely has some transformation (e.g., some fusion and perhaps cracking).

The motivations and mechanics and performance characteristics are all very different than what Transmeta did, but still it is difficult to argue that modern x86 CPUs do not translate x86-64 into their own internal instruction sets even if you have this branching requirement.
by antonvs | 2025-11-13 00:54:26+00:00
Much of what we're dealing with now has been in the works since at least around 1950. The Southern Strategy is well-documented, for example. The party's position on restricting voting has been consistent over the years.

Reagan's opposition to social programs (demonizing "welfare queens") and outright racism was a big part of why he was elected. (Reagan quote from the Nixon recordings: "To see those monkeys from those African countries. Damn them. They're still uncomfortable wearing shoes.")

It wasn't a coincidence that Reagan began his presidential campaign where civil rights workers were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan, with the cooperation of local law enforcement.

That is what is at the heart of the Republican Party, and has been for at least 75 years. There are many other examples of this kind of thing.

What you're describing from a couple of decades ago was essentially a facade, a mask. What's changed in recent years is that the mask has come off - as members of the party feel increasingly threatened by people who they see as unlike themselves, they can no longer afford the pretense of respectability.
by tomcam | 2025-11-13 00:55:15+00:00
I am uneasy about it for no logical reason. I have an emotional attachment to pennies because as a not rich kid in the 60s, even finding a penny brightened my day. Back then they sold "penny candy", for example a roll of Smarties, and it was actually a penny. There were maybe half a dozen options. You absolutely could bring a buck in and get hundred pieces of candy, modulo the 6% sales tax in SoCal.

Middle school in the mid 70s: a penny rolls around the corner and I pick it up. A school bully and his friends taunted me at length. They'd launched it hoping I'd do exactly what I did. I just thought to myself, one day I'll be a fucking millionaire and you'll still be a squib. That came true. I am damaged enough to be smug about it to this day.

The next year that same kid and his friends beat me up, giving me a TBI, a permanent hole in my memory, and what apparently was a new personality. Twenty years later he was found dead in a dumpster. When I heard about it I did not weep for him. That is of course my defect. I am not proud of my perpetual grievance.

I saved spare change in jars until my 50s, and every once in a while took them to the bank and bought something cool, or just took them out and played with them with my kids.

So for me pennies are some kind of odd little vestige of control over my life. Completely inane, I get it. They're annoying af and too expensive to manufacture. Everything's electronic anyway these days. I'll miss them though.
by antisthenes | 2025-11-13 00:55:56+00:00
> Intel did last orders for that drive Dec 30 2022.

Intel didn't. Solidigm did. If the author was buying the Intel drive, it was at least 4 years old since they spun SSDs out in 2021.

> Secondly, maybe my scam detector isn't well tuned enough, but "Maestro Technologies" doesn't seem that much stranger than "Apple" or "Micro soft" or "Zoom" or "Snap."

Yes, it isn't.

> The takeaway lesson here is that Amazon has become less and less reliable as a source for items.

That problem is over a decade old. Even normies I talk to are aware of it.
by culi | 2025-11-13 00:55:58+00:00
I haven't gamed in almost a decade but what an exciting time to be alive as a PC gamer:

- almost every classic console is easy to emulate

- most modern consoles are, less-legally, emulatable

- we have thorough archives of Flash games and ofc almost all non-flash web games are still functioning

- cross compatibility across OS's has never been better

And, best of all, almost all of this is achievable on Linux! You can also plug in almost any controller, VR headset, or monitor/projector. Remote gaming has also made incredible progress allowing gamers to access their expansive libraries while not even at home.

In fact, I can't think of a single thing a console can do that a PC can't
by orwin | 2025-11-13 00:56:24+00:00
Already told this story, but basically my mother overreacted to a vaccine in the 80s, became an early antivax, had me, only did the bare minimum, I got pertussis at 4-5yo (lucky it wasn't earlier), and since no doctor in the area ever saw pertussis (everyone being vaccinated at the time, and everybody thought I was too, through my mother antibodies), I spent 4 month coughing (I was told), until a retired doctor diagnosed me, and then a few months again, but it was manageable. I have three memories of that time, the first three memories of my life: once coughing so hard I cried on the playground, one lying on my grandmother couch, coughing while she helps me drink, and one after getting treatment (probably for the first time?).

My siblings all got vaccinated after that, and my mother stopped being antivax (still taking 'alternative' medecine, but also still taking conventional one). I guess seeing your child in so much pain and develop arythmia because of your 'beliefs' can make you change. Hopefully things like this will be less and less common.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-13 00:57:09+00:00
> leftists fight as hard as they can for an insecure and unverified voting process

that is false

what they fight for is a voting process that provides equal access to voting by all citizens

for those from Europe who wonder why this is even an issue when voting is the most basic of rights in a democracy, the US has a terrible history of voter suppression, especially of African Americans, where local systems were intentionally designed to make it as difficult for them to vote; this still happens today

the fact that voting takes place on a weekday, and you don't get a day off from work to do it, and polling stations in poorer areas are removed or have restricted hours, is one example of how the right to vote is stacked against poorer working class people

this is why some states allow you to vote by mail, which Trump is desperately trying to outlaw

if you're worried about insecure voting processes, lets take a look at the companies who own the electronic voting machines
Show HN: Give your coding agent production bug context
by Dimittri | 2025-11-13 00:58:19+00:00
Hi all, I've been working on this devtool for 1 month now for myself at first and I'll be curious to see if it's something that could work for you as well. So basically, it detects bugs in your website in production from real user sessions, an llm clusters them by severity and it provides the complete context of the issue that you can copy-paste into your coding agent to fix it in one go. Why did I create it? I've been shipping fast with tools like Cursor and Claude Code. The problem? When bugs happen in production, these tools have zero context about what actually went wrong. Sentry is powerful but way too complex - I just want to copy context and paste it into my copilot. How to install it? Basically it's a JS tracker to add to your website I'm very curious about your ideas about this tool or similar tools available if you know some of them. Looking for feedback on the whole concept and UX. Is this something you'd actually use? What's missing? Happy to share more technical details for those interested. Thanks!
by acdha | 2025-11-13 00:58:57+00:00
Yes to all of that. Your experience is not universally shared, and the people who are affected disproportionately belong to specific groups which have been discriminated against in the past (e.g. Native Americans on a reservation are more likely not to have a short trip to a local post office).

Here’s a summary from 2012 by people who study this professionally:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/vote...

I would also note that in theory, this is a fixable problem and no election security expert I’ve heard of opposes doing it in the right order (make ID universally available before disenfranchising anyone), they’re just quick to note that there’s absolutely no evidence that it would make a difference in outcomes despite the high cost.
by mgerdts | 2025-11-13 00:59:13+00:00
I think it is solidigm that has started to argue that with a 128 TB QLC drive constant writes at the maximum write rate will hit the drive’s endurance limit at about 4.6 years. The perf/TB of these drives is better than HDDs. The cost per TB when you factor in server count, switches, power, etc., is argued to favor huge QLC drives too.
by o11c | 2025-11-13 00:59:35+00:00
The C++ implementation, sure. But there is plenty of other implementation space without giving up like Java.

With a trait-first implementation that mostly defers monomorphization and prefers "static if" over C++-style specialized implementations, the only hard choice is whether to optimize codegen for size or speed.

Trying to retrofit this onto standard C++ is ... not actually as difficult as you might think. The real problem is the implementation of builtins that rely heavily on "this really must be a constant during X phase of compilation".