MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lovich | 2025-11-17 22:23:11+00:00
The sociopath who destroyed GE in the quest for more money is someone I would only take social advice from if I was done with humanity and had started to use society for entirely selfish ends.

He got away with “candor” because he was at the top and anyone who disagreed with him was removed.

Honestly any self help books from people in unique positions in society trying to tell the common man how to improve always read to me as “my top 10 tips for winning the lottery: tip one buy a winning lottery ticket”
by consumer451 | 2025-11-17 22:23:13+00:00
An army of tweakers. I don't think that this aspect of the War and the Holocaust are discussed enough. Certainly no excuse, but it is very interesting.

> Chronic Meth users have deficits in memory and executive functioning as well as higher rates of anxiety, depression, and most notably psychosis. [0]

In more recent times of horror:

> After the fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria, large stockpiles of the illicit drug captagon have reportedly been uncovered.

> The stockpiles, found by Syrian rebels, are believed to be linked to al-Assad military headquarters, implicating the fallen regime in the drug’s manufacture and distribution. [1]

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3764482/

[1] https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-drug-captagon-and-ho...
by reify | 2025-11-17 22:23:13+00:00
If you look closely at the video I can definitely see Will Smith standing in the the background.

You cant keep that man away from robots

I think he was just an extra in this fake video.

I mean. did you see the robot olympics, they cant even stand up, let alone do work or fight a war. be fair.

Jeff benzodiazepine of amazon fame will snap up a few of them there robots to put in his factories. You cant keep that bald ugly cunt down from making an extra buck on the back of some poor bastard.

Give those poor bastards slaving for shit wages a decent tea break.
by akerl_ | 2025-11-17 22:23:53+00:00
It feels like maybe the disconnect here is with what "servant" means, and with this quote: "the servants are the software that provides an entry point to the web (read or publish or both)".

The RFC8890 doesn't suggest anything that overlaps with my understanding of what the word "servant" means or implies. The library in my town endeavors to make decisions that promote the knowledge and education of people in my town. But I wouldn't characterize them as having a "servant-mindset". Maybe the person above meant "service"?

FWIW, Google/Mozilla/Apple appear to believe they're making the correct decision for the benefit of end users, by removing code that is infrequently used, unmaintained, and thus primarily a security risk for the majority of their users.
by bccdee | 2025-11-17 22:23:56+00:00
> However blanket statements like "one should not use XYZ some abstract community thinks so" to me have near zero value.

Come on, you don't believe this. How about a blanket statement like, "one should not use asbestos insulation in buildings because some oncologists think so"? Is that an "abstract statement" which we shouldn't waste time on? Don't be obtuse. Abstract best practices are valuable sometimes.

> Come to a company whose life depends on software running their business [...] and tell them [...] "rewrite it in Rust".

Obviously a full rewrite isn't typically viable. An approach where the path for new contributions is gradually pivoted to Rust can be much more practical. Google's done this with Android to the tune of a 1000x reduction in the density of memory safety vulnerabilities¹, and that matters. Android vulnerabilities can ruin lives. CrowdStrike's life depended on a piece of memory-unsafe software, and look how that turned out. Don't act like software safety & quality aren't serious concerns.

[1]: https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move...

> my craft is to design and implement robust solutions for clients [...] I do not find arguing abstract concepts disregarding of particular situation having much value.

Again, imagine a housing contractor saying in response to an "abstract discussion" about asbestos insulation. Abstract concepts have concrete consequences. And don't tell me the asbestos example is too extreme, because the consequences of the CrowdStrike bug were extreme too. Software quality matters.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-11-17 22:24:13+00:00
> On one hand, a more efficient fridge would cost less money on the long run, but on the other hand i'm afraid to buy a lemon. So I'm patiently waiting for my Siemens to die

There's a piece of wisdom about cars and appliances that unless there's some egregious defect that turns it into infinite money sink, the least costly (and in fact the most environmentally friendly) option is to run the one you currently have until it disintegrates. Because the price of a new one is usually like your electrical bill for the current one over multiple years, adjusted for inflation and price hikes.

There are of course exceptions, but rules of thumb are never 100%.
by mort96 | 2025-11-17 22:24:15+00:00
Some of the devices I'm talking about are running on my own residential internet connection or my sister's. Some are running on whatever corporate or residential or 4G network happens to exist where I need to interact with them. Some are running on whatever network the user has.

How does your proposed suggestion of getting a static prefix from an ISP apply to those situations? Should I start calling customers to get them to ask their ISP for a static IP address?

> Then again, you don't need a static address to get a TLS certificate. You don't need an address at all! All you need is a domain name.

I don't understand what you think this solves.
by casq | 2025-11-17 22:24:25+00:00
I just wanted to jump in as Hack Club cofounder and say Hack Club acknowledges this post-- it’s written by a young person we are familiar with: they were banned from Hack Club for harassing transgender kids, and they then recently tried to extort Hack Club for money, threatening to create problems and drama like this after we refused.

This post should not be taken seriously because the implication is wrong: Hack Club is compliant with data protection rules and is very careful with student data; Unlike almost every where else teenagers hang out on the internet, Hack Club does NOT monetize or sell student data or allow advertising to young people.

During one of our many summer programs, we had a situation where some students’ info was accessible publicly by mistake, and as soon as it was reported, we fixed it. No one accessed it and we apologized. You GOT us, ok? It happens and the young programmer responsible feels really badly about the fact that it keeps getting brought up in new and twisted ways.

We work around the clock with a fully trained staff to make sure that there won’t be any problems and to address them immediately if they come up. As I’ve stated in the past, this original post is from a disgruntled student was banned for really ugly behavior and yet they continue and it's sad to see it getting amplified here.
by jmward01 | 2025-11-17 22:24:48+00:00
My dark energy/expansion of the universe thought experiment is still this: when you throw a ball up in an expanding universe, how fast does it come back down? This is (clearly) not my field but this basic question just seems to lead fun places. No matter how I think about this question I always come back to the idea that matter seems special in an expanding universe since it seems to extract energy from nothing if the universe is expanding uniformly. As we learn more I hope to get a good explanation for this question one day.
by hkpatel3 | 2025-11-17 22:24:50+00:00
I would disagree since I believe web agents and computer using agents that act like human on the web do need a way to authenticate and UI has a big component to that. A2A works with implicit OAuth Flow but for web agents and computer using agents having a flow of OAuth 2.1 + OIDC is rational. Check this repo out once https://github.com/auth-agent/auth-agent. I do want to read the article fully and I will get back to you. Thanks for the article!
by listenallyall | 2025-11-17 22:24:57+00:00
True, however this speech finally comes in the last 15 minutes of the film, in response to Will saying something profoundly stupid, that he'd rather stick around and work construction than actually use his enormous talent.

It's also notable that this talk comes after (or near the end) of his sessions with therapist Sean and working with the professor - so he has come to terms with his past abuse (not claiming he is "healed" but he certainly is in a better place), learned a bit about structure from the professor, started interviewing, and now the final hurdle holding Will back is the intense loyalty to his friends. Chuckie not only gives him permission to leave them behind but tells him how stupid and disappointing Will would be if he didn't. He even tells him how to leave - just go, no warning, no message, no planning.

It's obvious this is something Chuckie has thought for years, but only verbalizes at the very end when Will needs (and is able to act upon) that final push.
by eXpl0it3r | 2025-11-17 22:24:58+00:00
Most of my research was directed at PDF creation and less at editing, so I'm not sure the list captures everything available.

For example I somehow dismissed PdfPig [1] early on, because it's mostly for text extraction from PDFs, but it does support some basic editing of sorts.

[1] https://github.com/UglyToad/PdfPig
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-17 22:25:04+00:00
>The idea that higher prices (rents) should lead to more construction is based on the premise that there is a functioning market based mostly on price alone.

It's also just very very wrong in most places.

The "development" companies in my area already own all the housing stock. Why would they spend any money on new builds when they can reliably keep ticking the rent cost up 7% YoY forever? It doesn't matter how high demand gets, nobody else can build because if you try to invest in a new development, they can just temporarily drop rents and wipe out any ROI you might have hoped for and ensure you fail and then buy up your property. Like, this stuff is literally how city real estate has always worked.

Instead, rent stabilization ensures that they can't dump the market like that to kill new entrants, so it encourages people to invest in building.

Meanwhile, people like my dad who are also technically "builders" are busy serving the far far far more profitable "We moved here with a billion dollars from SV and have no idea how money works so we don't notice your 100% profit margin" market, and no average people can ever compete with that. Builders want to make the highest profit they can, and that does not come from commodity housing in the city. It comes from catering and pandering to rich 2nd gen assholes who think they are gods gift to the world and can't tell the difference between quality and expensive. These people will continue to insist the free market would fix this and blame city regulations and zoning that they don't even know, because at no point have they even pretended or thought about building housing for the city. There's not enough profit in it.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-11-17 22:25:12+00:00
Nobody is going to argue that the USA is a force for good in the world when it comes to starting one stupid, evil war, after the other. If the USA is good at one thing, its dropping bombs on innocent human beings every twenty minutes for the past twenty odd years. The question is, though, in which interest is it committing those crimes?

Oh, and .. who are you referring to as “people living in the US”, and by what means are you certain of this fact? HN is an international community.

Some of us don’t see national identity and just want the mass murder of children to stop, whatever it takes.
by apparent | 2025-11-17 22:25:37+00:00
There's no doubt that mixing these two could be a nightmare. But if you're replacing the pre-purchase haggling of a car dealership with the no-haggle process of buying on Amazon, then it might not be awful.

The real question is: who's on the hook if things aren't as described/pictured? It sounds like these all come with extended warranties, so that would mean it would be the dealer. They're no picnic to deal with, but that's going to be the case no matter whether you buy the car from them or from Amazon. If you can have a more pleasant buying experience by starting with Amazon, that's a win in my book.

As a knock-on effect, it could help bring down prices on used cars sold by other dealers, since buyers could point to these car listings as comparables.
by dadada_dada_da | 2025-11-17 22:25:56+00:00
You're right, that comment is pretty superlative - the point is more around the disparity in the exchange between user and platform.

Compared to what Meta receives, the vast majority of users receive nothing, and studies continue to show there are wellbeing costs to the user, who is statistically negatively affected by the design of the platform, all the while Meta's use of persuasive design effectively coerces users into staying on-platform.

Meta Invoice was built to challenge the illusion that social media is a neutral, benevolent publishing platform - and to provoke reflection on our role as the user in the attention economy.
by hedora | 2025-11-17 22:26:00+00:00
I’ve often wondered:

It’s -30C and the heat pump doesn’t really work. Is there any advantage to heating the cold side with, say, a resistive heater?

Conservation of energy says no, but what if it’s also being heated by waste heat from charging the batteries?

(Maybe the answer is “if that’s the case, you are actively cooling the batteries with the heat pump!”, but I’d like to think someone more clever than me could make the scheme work.)
by robocat | 2025-11-17 22:26:29+00:00
> subsidized

What's a better word here? Adverts cost the consumer, however I'm sure the consumer doesn't get equal recompense. Theoretically a SmartTV with adverts costs less money ("subsidised" due to price competition), but is the consumer actually ($,time) better off?

The costs are invisible and the consumer cannot actually measure the costs (the vendors do measure profitability but this is not legible).

I reckon most people are terrible at judging the value of their own time (especially children and retirees).
by keybored | 2025-11-17 22:27:05+00:00
What’s the evidence that it is human-generated? Oh I see. If it is AI generated then you still have to judge it by its merit, manually. (Or can I get an AI to do it for me?) And if they lied about it being human-authored? Well what if the author refutes that accusation? (Maybe using AI? But why judge them if they use AI to refute the claim? After all we must judge its on its own merit (repeats forever))
by ozim | 2025-11-17 22:27:23+00:00
Not criticizing is not for hiding fact you hate someone.

Not criticizing is about - you see someone slipping don’t call them stupid just move on.

Like if someone makes a typo in comment here on HN, no one writes how stupid they are because they might be on the phone having autocorrect breaking their typing. You don’t really show off how smart you are pointing out small mistakes.

Hating someone requires that they somehow wronged you. There was nothing in the book about being nice for someone who is swearing at you or punched you in the face.
by akerl_ | 2025-11-17 22:27:48+00:00
I put this in a parallel thread, but maybe this is a linguistic gap between "servant", a person who does what they are told and has very limited agency within the bounds of their instructions, and "service", where you do things for the benefit of another entity.

None of the above reads like a "servant-oriented mindset". It reads like "this is the framework by which we decide what's valuable". And by that framework, they're saying that keeping XSLT around is not the right call. You can disagree with that, but nothing you've quoted suggests that they're trying to prioritize any group over the majority of their users.
by mpeg | 2025-11-17 22:28:57+00:00
This is cool, and it's a really impressive feat especially for someone with relatively little experience due to your age.

A few notes:

- it's easy to be faster than other routers when you're doing less, for example it seems wildcards are not supported yet, and there's no tests but I suspect there would be a lot of bugs in the way routes are handled. I wouldn't focus that much on speed

- your code organisation is ok for a personal project, but it could use a bit of structure. things are all over the place, I would try to separate pieces of functionality that can be developed (and, importantly, tested) in isolation. For example, your router could be its own module, that way it would also be easier to get started in writing unit tests. (once you've got some example code you can just offload a lot of the test writing to an LLM, then clean them up manually as it will do stupid things)

- your benchmarks are quite low in general, I don't know how good the node.js tool you're using for it is but I would give them a go with something like oha. also, it's very odd that hono beats elysia in your tests, in my own testing elysia is much faster than hono, but it suffers from the same tradeoffs as any trie based router (more set up time)

- instead of zod, you should use the @standard-schema/spec package, so that it can work with any validation library (including zod) – they have some nice type utilities too that simplify inferring types from schemas
by vessenes | 2025-11-17 22:29:24+00:00
OK, interesting. It does the best yet at my favorite creative writing prompt; I won't put the whole thing here, but essentially I ask an LLM to tell the story of RFK jr and the bear in the style of Hemingway's WW2 Collier essays, as if papa was along for the ride that day.

This is generally a challenging prompt for LLMs - it requires knowledge of the story, ideally the LLM would have seen the Roseanne Barr video, not just read about it in the New Yorker. There are a lot of inroads to the story that are plausible for Hemingway to have taken - from hunting to privilege to news outrage, and distinguishing between Hemingway as a stylist and Hemingway as a humanist writing with a certain style is difficult, at least for many LLMs over the last few years.

Grok 4.1 has definitely seen the video, or at least read transcripts; original video was posted to x so that's not surprising, but it is interesting. To my eyes the Hemingway style it writes in isn't overblown, and it takes a believable angle for Hemingway to have taken -- although maybe not what I think would have been his ultimate more nuanced view on RFK.

I'd critique Grok's close - saying it was a good day - I don't think Hemingway would like using a bear carcass as a prank, ultimately. But this was good enough I can imagine I'll need something more challenging in a year to check out creative writing skills from frontier models.

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5LWNvcHk_92bf5248-18e1-4f8a-88...
by ninkendo | 2025-11-17 22:29:40+00:00
Because it doesn’t solve the problem, it merely works around it. Solving the problem would mean coming up with a battery chemistry that doesn’t suffer in the cold. Instead the answer is “just don’t have it get cold”.

It’s not to say a hack/workaround isn’t useful, and I would say that it’s perfectly acceptable to simply use a battery heater in the winter. But calling it “solved” confuses solutions and workarounds, and that’s an intellectually dishonest thing to do.
by Fabricio20 | 2025-11-17 22:29:54+00:00
As someone on the receiving end of these, I've yet to receive any explanation. Every other week we see the most basic of attacks against our infrastructure (http floods - GET / - for example), with no specific goal in mind and we never received any threats. I can only assume it's some disgruntled user or maybe a competitor, but it could also just be stray bullets. I don't know who used these IPs before us, though it's been several years we've owned them. Who knows.
by tptacek | 2025-11-17 22:30:10+00:00
It very obviously is. You went from using normal-person quotation marks to fitted quotes in the span of one message, you have a Unicode multiplication dot, and things like

Again, this is not “subjective.” It’s what actually happens This isn’t a subjective opinion. It’s just how discounted cashflow works. You can argue about the ethics if you want. But the financial comparison isn’t ambiguous.

Your paste doesn't even use a normal keyboard minus sign:

|nue) ... cost. S|

Another tell is how much of the quote isn't responsive to the whole thread context, just Hearn's immediate message. I'll add that it doesn't even manage to rebut Hearn!

(Feel free to compare this to your own writing style to get some clarity for what to fix up next time before pasting LLM output).

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Later

In case you were typing while I updated this, the first version of this comment didn't notice your minus sign, but it stuck out to me and when I checked it was so funny you used an en-dash I couldn't not include it.
by ordu | 2025-11-17 22:30:26+00:00
It is like that to me. I believe that I've just learned the proper motions for some interactions, and I can look to be very social person proficient in communications. It is easy for me, no problem. Till I hit some situation where I need to think fast, trying to figure out what is expected of me now.

> I am absolutely terrified in near all social situations

It is different for me, I'm absolutely confident in near all social situations, but there is a catch, I actively avoid social situations which make me terrified, and I'm pretty good at it.

> I have zero idea how to make small talk with people I haven't known for years.

I have never bothered to get the idea of a small talk. I hate it from my teens, I hate to dig in my mind for something I can say when there is nothing to say. Or to voice opinions about things I don't care (and "i don't care about your TV-series, I never watch them" doesn't count as a socially acceptable opinion). So I just avoid such situations overall. Generally if you avoid talking with people tet-a-tete you don't need to talk small. You can just look like you are listening, why calculating ways to leave the place without offending anyone.
by loeg | 2025-11-17 22:30:49+00:00
That's what std::string_view and std::span are, though. They're views / borrows over the underlying data, minus the kind of protections something like Rust has about lifetimes of the underlying data vs the borrow.

The benefit of these types is that they're a pair of pointer+size, instead of just a bare pointer without a known size.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-11-17 22:30:52+00:00
You have, of course, familiarized yourself with this material:

Common Article 3; GC I Art. 12 & 18; GC III Art. 13; GC IV Arts. 27, 32 & 51; AP I Arts. 48, 51(2–5), 57 & 54; CCW Amended Protocol II Art. 7(2) of the Geneva Conventions.