MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-15 13:24:47+00:00
I expected testing and verification to come before the release, so that you don't have any users yet was implied. As for when you have produced hardware, when it's only prototypes, it should still be cheap, hardware also needs multiple revisions, before all bugs are ruled out.

When that is not the case, working without a spec won't help either.
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2025-11-15 13:25:02+00:00
It is important to distinguish between Jews and Israelis, as there is a significant portion of Jewish people who are leading the fight for truth about what Israel is and what Israel does.

To address your comment, Israelis have been caught lying so many times that now when they make a claim, it is on them to prove that the claim is correct, rather than on others to prove that it is not. Just a few examples off the top of my head include:

- The killing of medical workers in a convoy of ambulances and burying them in shallow graves, then lying about doing it until someone dug the bodies up and found footage confirming that they lied on the phone of one of the buried aid workers. [1]

- The hunting down and killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers via multiple air strikes [2]. This was repeatedly denied by Israelis until too much evidence was stacked up and they settled for "it was a grave mistake".

- The high profile case of killing of Hind Rajab [3] who for a brief period of time was the sole survivor of a tank attack in a shelled vehicle filled with her dead family members. Aid workers were dispatched to rescue here, coordinated with Israelis. Neither the girl nor the aid workers were ever seen alive after that. Israelis repeatedly insisted that there were no troops in the area, until too much evidence was stacked again.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-isr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen_aid_conv...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab
by atombender | 2025-11-15 13:25:09+00:00
There is a big difference between believing something cured you, and publicly promoting something as a cure.

I see this all the time in various social media communities: For example, people with an autoimmune diseases that got better after eliminating dairy or starting to take willow bark supplements or whatever. The moment they see a benefit, they jump on Reddit or YouTube or whatever to promote it as a cure and tell everyone to do the same thing as them.

Promoting an extremely specific medical treatment without evidence larger than N=1 is both unethical and scientifically sloppy. At least you could bother to temper the advice with some caveats.

But apparently everyone on social media can be a medical authority these days, and giving out medical advice without a license is okay.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-15 13:25:12+00:00
Here is an example of an open mess boy position on an oil tanker: https://seacrew.net/vacancy/40763

And there's countless more similar vacancies.

Food, board and $1500 per month. That's a life line out of absolute poverty for any person who is willing to take it.

I know that hackers hate it, because the truth is that deep down most of you have a caste mentality and think that people who are born poor should stay poor, and dependent on government handouts. All discussion about "changing the system" is just for show so you can feel good about yourself and pat each other on the back, while things remain the same.

So hackers are provoked by people taking their destiny in their own hands and clawing their way out of poverty by virtue of their own honest labour. How dare they leave the ghetto behind, when they belong there?
by hnlmorg | 2025-11-15 13:26:29+00:00
That seems like a silly reason not to do something educational.

Build something for fun. Build it for yourself. If people want to use it then they’ll use it. But more likely they won’t.

The only thing I would advise against is building something expecting other people to use it.

As I said elsewhere, not enough people these days build things for their own pleasure without any expectation nor desire for it to be used by anyone else. Sometimes just doing something for yourself is its own reward.

And it’s far more likely that DIY projects will teach skills that you can then directly contribute to established projects with, rather than DIY projects fragmenting those established communities.
by jesusofsuburbia | 2025-11-15 13:26:32+00:00
For any tech/electronics stuff I regularly use Geizhals, but it doesn't offer the same for clothes, for which I use idealo.

I've compared prices online for 20 years now, and I can say that Google is objectively worse and you just notice how they push sponsored stuff. Often, the top results from the other 2 are not shown, nor do they show up as comparison alternatives in general.

Whoevet claims that this is an act of EU punishing American companies through stupid policies is just blind. Google failed and continues to fail to offer something better; instead they misuse their monopoly position. I can’t understand why you would defend Google's behavior. Maybe it is due to other motives, some weird nationalism even?

To a consumer, price comparison is a crucial piece for enabling a true market with competition.
by BoppreH | 2025-11-15 13:26:39+00:00
I needed to perform scans internally, and testssl.sh was too slow (minimum 20 seconds with parallelization and all optional scans disabled). So I made my own scanner, for a 60-100x speedup: https://github.com/boppreh/hello_tls . It doesn't do vulnerability assessment, but I was more interested in extracting the configuration.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-11-15 13:28:18+00:00
You don't need this type of work to be deterministic. It doesn't really matter if the LLM names a function "IsEven" vs "IsNumberEvent".

Have you ever written the EXACT same code twice?

> it introduces an unreliable compiler.

So then by definition so our humans. If compiling is "taking text and converting it to code" that's literally us.

> it's up to the developer to review the changes. Which just seems like a laborious error prone task.

There are trade-offs to everything. Have you ever worked with an off-shore team? They tend to produce worse code and have 1% of the context the LLM does. I'd much rather review LLM-written code than "I'm not even the person you hired because we're scamming the system" developers.
by thekraken57 | 2025-11-15 13:28:58+00:00
hot water is a huge piece of home energy. DOE had this study that showed more energy for water heating than electric car charging in a home with both. Just look at the total energy use on the energystar sticker of a standard water heater. https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1307-sept...
by hiq | 2025-11-15 13:29:54+00:00
I'm assuming it's too heavy and has too much contact surface (so more friction), making it too hard to glide smoothly.

There's probably something with the position of the hand when you move the mouse as well. At least I seem to be moving mostly the wrist when I use my mouse, meaning that my hand and forearm are not always aligned; without this alignment, I feel there's more strain on the wrist when typing.
Show HN: I built IncidentPulse after getting paged at 3 AM
by bhoyee | 2025-11-15 13:30:12+00:00
I built IncidentPulse after the classic "Slack-on-fire, status-page-outdated" outage chaos. It's a clean, self-hosted tool to track incidents, responders, and updates.

Live Demo: https://incident-pulse.vercel.app GitHub: https://github.com/bhoyee/IncidentPulse

I'm at a crossroads and would love your blunt feedback on one question:

What's the ONE feature that would make you actually switch from your current process (be it PagerDuty, a messy Slack channel, or nothing) to a tool like this?

Other things I'd love thoughts on:

Is the webhook setup (with HMAC, idempotency keys) straightforward?

The UI is minimalistic—is it missing any critical info at a glance?

Would you consider self-hosting this, or is a cloud version a must?
by bell-cot | 2025-11-15 13:30:22+00:00
> It really pisses me off that schools don't get more government funding. Nutrition plays such a huge role in ...

True. OTOH,

- You could expand that "Nutrition plays such a huge role..." logic into saying that schools should also provide broad medical coverage for the students, and clothing, and de facto parenting, and ... In practice - meals are a limited remit, it's relatively obvious if it's being done poorly, kids eating together is socialization (obviously part of a school's job), and "hungry children" pushes enough emotional buttons that subsidized school lunches are relatively well accepted.

Though I've seen quite a few stories about modern-day public school teachers being quietly expected to serve (suffer) as "whatever it takes" unpaid social workers / therapists / family counselors for their students - basically because "somebody needs to", and teachers are convenient victims for social pressures and non-classroom problems.

- There is far too little connection between "money goes to schools" and "schools are competently managed". Modern education attracts way too many well-intended ignorant ideologues (Mrs. Obama was merely one of an endless host), "consultants", "experts", grifters, and worse.

Vs. interest in competent oversight of schools seems nearly non-existent. When was the last time you saw detailed local press coverage of how well a school board was managing the students-and-teachers basics of education?
by Rochus | 2025-11-15 13:30:52+00:00
Thanks for sharing the video. "Solving the wrong problem" is indeed a persistent challenge and a well-recognized pitfall in engineering. Ada/SPARK offered capabilities before Rust that remain unmatched today. SPARK provides machine-checked formal verification that proves absence of runtime errors, bounds violations, and functional correctness at compile time—not just memory safety. In contrast, Rust's verification tools are experimental research projects retrofitted onto a language designed for different goals.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-15 13:31:07+00:00
Some people have a directory that they fill up with markdown documentation for LLMs that they either write themselves or have an LLM write. Myself, I tend to write comments in files that have a pivotal role, for instance I have a special style of test that uses certain helper functions and the theory and practice of those tests is discussed there.

I have the experience that the context goes bad in an agent if you use it long enough. The prompts start out like:

Do A. That’s really good but there is problem B

But if you use it long enough it seems to start going in circles and it would be a big waste of time if you think it will do the right thing if you argue with it enough except it never does. My answer is to start a fresh session and maybe cut and paste some text from the old session into the new session or into comments.

If any long term memory solution carries this poison state with it it won’t really be helpful.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-15 13:31:54+00:00
Because of this issue, many departments put in much stricter protocols for dealing with this kind of material. Only certain people would be exposed to classify/tag it, and these people would only hold that post of a limited period of time. The burden on those people doesn't change, but it can be diluted to mitigate it somewhat.

Its a real and sad problem, but not one that I think can be fixed with technology. To much is on the line to allow for a false positive from a hallucinating robot to destroy a person(s) life.
by danielskogly | 2025-11-15 13:33:00+00:00
I'm in the speedrunning community[0] for NOLF and just want to chime in on the amazing work that haekb did (I believe the "community-driven project" is only them) for these games[1]. They made both NOLF and NOLF2 a lot more accessible to people casually picking up the game, as there was a lot of jank and configuration needed otherwise to get the games running in a good way on modern systems. In addition to fixing jank, they actually fixed tons of bugs and added other QoL and fun stuff like a jukebox in the menus to listen to the (great) soundtrack. Some stuff - like how if you have certain USB devices connected, the game will just flip out - still remains, but that's just a part of the _voodoo_ with old games like these.

Fixing bugs and stuff is nice, but a lot of the fun speedrunning tech we depend on was also fixed, and they were kind enough to create a separate "lithfix" that only made the games playable on modern systems and left the in-game bugs intact. Not only that, but they also added a dev console and fixed some of the old cheat codes, which made it so that we could finally noclip around to inspect the maps properly and toggle on hitboxes, etc.

It's incredible the impact a single individual can have. They never asked for anything back, and now their work is even included by default on the "unofficial" download page. Even though I don't speedrun anymore (maybe one day!) I'll always be grateful for that :)

The game holds up incredibly well - beautiful scenery, fun story, some of the best and most humorous dialogue in any game ever[2], and a really strong and well-written female main character. Would strongly recommend anyone to pick it up, just know that some parts struggle a bit with the "stealth", and expect (and embrace) "going loud" at times. But do try to stealth a lot, as you're nicely rewarded with brilliant dialogue! NOLF2 is fun too, but very different - definitely worth a play through though!

They're also very fun speedrun games, and the community is very helpful to anyone, even if you're just wanting to play it casually :)

Edit: Forgot to mention that they also fixed the multiplayer in NOLF2, and some people still play sometimes! More info on this page[3]

[0]: https://www.speedrun.com/nolf <-- you'll find a link to the game here as well

[1]: https://haekb.itch.io/ <-- here you'll find all the lithtech stuff they made

[2]: https://youtu.be/q2PxxbJydBU <-- this is just one of many examples

[3]: https://spawnsite.net/
by rwyinuse | 2025-11-15 13:33:21+00:00
It's also pretty obvious that Russia respects only strength. If NATO doesn't react strongly enough, it is perceived weak by Russia, which increases the likelihood of them trying something against a NATO country.

I don't think shooting down aircraft that severely violate NATO airspace is overreacting. It's what Russia would do to NATO aircraft violating their airspace. I think everything Russia does should be responded with a measure of similar size. Being overly careful with Russia hasn't worked very well at all historically.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-15 13:33:28+00:00
Yeah, we can have fancy NN-based filters, but I think even a simple IP blocker with some carefully-made presets would go a long way.

Anyways, the main point I was making is the filtering should be done on-device at the parents' discretion, if they really wanted to protect their children. We can give them that feature and eliminate an excuse for authoritarian laws at the same time. This doesn't even require legislation, we can just do it if enough people working on operating systems agree.
by codedokode | 2025-11-15 13:34:00+00:00
IA also blocks some content in Russia, for example this [1] says: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine in your region.". I was sincerely surprised to learn that while not paying much attention to US copyright law, they have high respect for messages from Vladimir.

(in case someone is curious what about is that article, it is a fictional comparison of life of a fictional character in Springfield, USA and Chusovoy, USSR in 80s and I cannot even understand why it was banned in Russia)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250418160713/https://habr.com/...
by y-curious | 2025-11-15 13:35:17+00:00
Very curious how it got in there. I found this snippet while searching for the connection:

“James Tagg, a tech entrepreneur, wanted to found a Penrose Institute in San Diego to pursue the consciousness theories. Penrose went along with the plan and Tagg set about fundraising. At a meeting of consciousness aficionados in 2017, Penrose was told there was someone who wanted to talk to him who might be willing to put big money into the institute. This turned out to be Jeffrey Epstein, who had for some time financed initiatives in physics as well as in mind and brain research. ‘I was sitting there talking to Jeffrey Epstein and he was asking me about this institute,’ Penrose told Barss. ‘Now I didn’t really know anything about him. He said he had these parties. He was wondering whether I’d be interested to go to New York. He could invite Woody Allen.’ Penrose’s colleagues told him that Epstein was a convicted sex offender; Penrose recommended to Epstein that he support a colleague of his, a female physicist, but decided to skip the party.”

Could this be prompt injection or something that snuck an ai book in?
by cheschire | 2025-11-15 13:35:52+00:00
You say “unknowing” as if that’s a defense, but last I check you could still be charged with a crime even without being aware of it before hand. The punishment would likely be more lenient if you can convince the judge effectively that you had no knowledge, but you’re still going to court if caught.

The reason the viewer in your example is not liable though is because there is no reasonable expectation that viewers should (or even could) verify that Netflix held the rights to season 1. The license that the viewer has to access any media is between them and Netflix, not between them and each individual media rights-holding company.

Sorry for the tangent.
by Swenrekcah | 2025-11-15 13:36:48+00:00
I agree that banks and many financial instruments are valuable and do facilitate value creation in the world. But that is the extent of it, they facilitate others to create value but do not make any on their own. They are however very well positioned to extract the profit from other industries and that is why the financial world can be so lucrative.

Also, even if some financialization is beneficial that does not mean all of it is. Too much can be very harmful.
by throwaway938761 | 2025-11-15 13:37:00+00:00
The innocent people caught in the net aren't the only victims though. Entire families will be broken by the 50% false positive rate. You can easily end up doing more harm than the abusers with your line of thinking.

Granted, assuming law enforcement is reasonably competent, the false positives shouldn't result in anything other some wasted time for whoever has to look into it...but that's quite the assumption to make.
by maccam912 | 2025-11-15 13:37:46+00:00
Heres one I found: search for "spaceweather" and you get weather for East Derry, New Hampshire. Definitely not space. The results I need are one and two for links below, but a friend pointed out that there is an astronaut (Alan Shepherd maybe?) who lived there which is the only connection to space I can think of for that city.
by Plasmoid2000ad | 2025-11-15 13:38:34+00:00
I've seen some theories or maybe more like guesses as to how the paywall bypass works - I don't think anyone (or at least no one posting places like here) seems to know.

One I saw suggested they've a set of subscriptions to the paywalled sites and some minimal custom work to hide the signed in account used - which seems plausible. That makes the defense most likely used to catch the account used and ban them - which would be a right pain.
by rainworld | 2025-11-15 13:38:46+00:00
> And what makes you think Russia didn't pay a price for that?

That wasn’t the question and you’re putting words in my mouth.

> look at Syria - they literally removed Russia from the middle east.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c201p2dd6r4o

They were warm words from two men seeking a good working relationship.

Russia wants continued access to its Tartous naval port and Hmeimim military airbase on Syria's Mediterranean coast.

Sharaa suggested he would allow this, saying Syria would "respect all agreements concluded throughout the great history" of their bilateral relations.

In turn, he wants help to consolidate his power in Syria, secure its borders and rescue a parlous economy with access to Russian energy and investment.

Plus ça change.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-11-15 13:41:35+00:00
The capabilities of LLMs are unclear but it is clear that they are not just search engines or autocompletes or stochastic parrots.

You can disagree. But this is not an opinion. You are factually wrong if you disagree. And by that I mean you don’t know what you’re talking about and you are completely misinformed and lack knowledge.

The long term outcome if I’m right is that AI abilities continue to grow and it basically destroys my career and yours completely. I stand not to benefit from this reality and I state it because it is reality. LLMs improve every month. It’s already to the point of where if you’re not vibe coding you’re behind.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-15 13:43:38+00:00
Speaking with conservatively minded friends on this subject, they just shrug it off, smug in the knowledge that if they were in that situation they would immediately be able to pull themselves out of it. The fact that other people don't just do that is because they make poor decisions and therefore its all about 'personal responsibility'. There really is no convincing them otherwise.
by tim333 | 2025-11-15 13:43:54+00:00
I was thinking that. The most plausible reasoning I've seen for Russia's recent behavior along those lines is Putin is mostly concerned with his personal power and position in Russia.

The Ukraine war doesn't make him look very good in Russia - a lot of dead Russians and burning oil facilities in return for occupying some bombed out land where the people hate them.

If he gets into a low level fight with NATO then he can sell it at home that they are in a noble war with a much larger enemy rather than getting beat up by a small and largely peaceful neighbor they chose to attack.

The strategic option for NATO is probably to mostly ignore Russian planes and drones flying near them but respond by helping Ukraine win.

(Or personally I'd like if they took out Putin but that doesn't seem the done thing. Better to kill a hundred thousand innocents than the guilty one seems to be the thing.)
by colechristensen | 2025-11-15 13:44:47+00:00
>Every country that has slid into North Korea style total control begins with a "it won't happen here. And it'd stop before it gets that bad."

This is a pretty bold claim and I'm not sure it matches up with reality.

Karl Marx said that in the first stage of communism there would be a required period of dictatorial control in order to transition from and dismantle capitalist institutions. This is exactly what happened in China and the USSR... there just never was a phase 2.

That's not quite "this will never happen here", more like premeditated dictatorship that never ended because the ruling class preferred being a ruling class rather than return themselves to "communist paradise".
by atoav | 2025-11-15 13:45:06+00:00
This is what keeps me from using things like these. Meanwhile I have uinx-oid scripts that keep chugging on up to date servers for more than a decade without any need to change them.

I know there is always the temptation to make it really shiny and nice. But the more moving parts your system has the liklier it becomes that something will fail eventually. And as it happens these failures happen usually at the time when it is most inconvenient for all people involved.

That doesn't mean that complex software cannot work reliably, but it takes more effort for the developer side to honor that unwritten contract with their users (if they are even aware of it).

This is why sometimes doing it yourself, on your own servers can be benefitial because it gives you more control.