MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Draiken | 2025-12-05 18:02:33+00:00
The marketing works because of what I said: people are dumb.

Anyone that's not dumb will know (maybe after the heat of the moment) why they lost, but the vast majority of people will blame anything they can instead. Teammates, lag, the developers, etc. Cheating is merely one of these excuses.

> I’ve seen so many players saying “look you can own my entire pc just please eliminate the cheating.”

This entire idea is so dumb it makes my head hurt. You can't eliminate bad actors no matter how hard you try. It's impossible in the real world.

All these "if only we could prevent X with more surveillance/control" ideas go up in flames as soon as reality hits. Even if a single person bypasses it, we can question everything. Then all we're left with are these surveillance systems that are then converted into pure data exfiltration to sell it all to the highest bidder (assuming they weren't doing this already).

I applaud Valve for not going down the easy route of creating spyware and selling it as "protection".
by lawn | 2025-12-05 18:02:50+00:00
Very cool!

Although to be pedantic, that's not an "ortholinear" keyboard (as in a square grid) rather a keyboard with column stagger (which you should use).

I wonder if you could make it for a FW13 too? I know QMK doesn't work for 13.

Edit: I see now that it uses a separate microcontroller, so yes if you could make it fit then it should work.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-12-05 18:02:53+00:00
Everyone else is too busy spending everything they have on GPUs, DRAM and power plants?

Joking. Honestly, the only thing that surprises me more than seeing Larry Ellison at the top of the list, is seeing Netflix buying Warner Bros, and not the other way around. Maybe I'm too old, but the very notion somehow does not compute.
by cmiles8 | 2025-12-05 18:03:15+00:00
Tech customers are massively AI hype fatigued at this point.

The tech isn’t going away, but a hard reset is overdue to bring things back down for a cold hard reality check. Article yesterday about MSFT slashing quotas on AI sales as customers aren’t buying is in line with this broader theme.

Morgan Stanley also quietly trying to offload its exposure to data center financing in a move that smells very summer of 2008-ish. CNBC now talks about the AI bubble multiple times a day. OpenAI looks incredibly vulnerable and financially over-extended.

I don’t want a hard bubble pop such that it nukes the tech ecosystem, but we’re reaching a breaking point.
Show HN: I won Half Baked x Bolt Hackathon (20k participants) with Claim Watch
by ma1or | 2025-12-05 18:03:15+00:00
Today I received the official confirmation: Claim Watch just won the Best Product Award at the Half Baked x Bolt Founder Hackathon.

There were 20,000+ participants globally. I made the TOP 5, and then 130,000 people voted for Claim Watch to win first place ($7,500 prize).

First-week impact:

1,000+ active users 1,000+ settlements identified $800k+ recovered for people

I built this during the hackathon, and now it seems to be turning into a real product. Happy to answer questions about the tech, stack, or how the system works.
by scottyah | 2025-12-05 18:03:26+00:00
I agree overall, but it is a lot different when each further thievery requires no additional work (since you're not streaming from them). It'd be more like paying someone each time you walk in your door, for the lifetime of the door. In this case they can also take the door off anytime they want, put ads on it, or do pretty much whatever they want.
by coffeeaddict1 | 2025-12-05 18:03:53+00:00
I'd like to ask HN a very vaguely related question. I need to get a self-hosted runner (for GitHub Actions) that is capable of running Windows ARM64. What are my options other than buying a machine and do everything manually? Are there any service providers that offer Windows ARM64 VMs? I can only seem to find options for Linux.
by bpt3 | 2025-12-05 18:03:53+00:00
> farming was insanely lucrative during that time

That is wildly inaccurate. Do you think people were flocking to cities to flee the "insanely lucrative" jobs they already had?

Farm labor paid significantly less than industrialized labor at the time. I suspect in addition to just making things up, you're looking at a few landowners who were quite wealthy due to their land holdings (and other assets) and what they have left behind while completely ignoring the lives led by the vast majority of farmers at the time.
by rcv | 2025-12-05 18:04:18+00:00
> so anyone who didn't get vaccinated before Nov. 2021 is considered unvaccinated?

The answer is in the first paragraph of the "Design, Study Populations, and Outcomes" section:

Exposure to COVID-19 vaccination was defined as the administration of a first dose of an mRNA vaccine between May 1 and October 31, 2021 (inclusion period), which was the mass vaccination period for adults in France, who primarily received mRNA vaccines. Multiple vaccinations in exposed individuals were not considered. The unvaccinated group was defined as individuals who remained unvaccinated as of November 1, 2021. Individuals vaccinated before May 1, 2021 (12.0%), or who received a first dose of another (ie, non-mRNA–based) COVID-19 vaccine during the inclusion period (1.4%) were excluded.

> why is everyone so keen to defend big pharma? i thought we were supposed to hate them?

Are we? Says who? Certainly there are bad actors who profit off of the misfortune of others. There are also brilliant people who work hard to bring about access to lifesaving treatments. There have certainly been examples of fraud in the past, and there have also been examples of truly amazing public health benefits.

Do I personally think the US health system could be better structured to disincentivize the former and promote the latter? Definitely! Is that evidence of a global conspiracy? Nope.

> had COVID and got hit by a bus? that was a COVID death

There's a good analysis of that here: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-evidence-that-a-million...

TLDR is that all-cause death increased in line with the reported covid deaths which strongly refutes the "had covid got hit with a bus" theory.
by maherbeg | 2025-12-05 18:04:24+00:00
One other thing I think it misses, is how easy it is to navigate a massive code base because everything looks the same. In a large team, this is crucial and I value the legibility over cleverness (I really dislike meta programming).

Really the only thing I found difficult is finding the concrete implementation of an interface when the interface is defined close to where it is, and when interfaces are duplicated everywhere.
by nebula8804 | 2025-12-05 18:04:31+00:00
>Ruthless monopoly building on both Google and Apple side IMHO.

Microsoft spent a lot of money and resources trying to compete and failed.

Android/Apple just started early enough and by 2012 it was too late as most consumers have decided. To enter this market you have to be truly unique or else you are just copying the competitor and why would users switch if they are happy enough?

Is that really a monopoly if you had a third competitor come in and try?
by perching_aix | 2025-12-05 18:05:31+00:00
Protected speech is what's covered by "free speech", not all speech. If you disagree with what specific areas of speech they find illegal, say so, be clear about it, rather than presupposing your views in your claims in an emotion evoking fashion (e.g. "speech they don't like").

It's extremely tiring to decipher takes like these and they're everywhere recently. It's supposed to be convincing, yet to read it without finding it jarring, I'd already need to agree with you. Makes no sense!
by dmix | 2025-12-05 18:05:37+00:00
X as a whole became more profitable than Twitter last year thanks to a huge surge in US Election traffic and reduction in operating costs.

> Its 2024 adjusted EBITDA nearly doubled Twitter’s best year

Revenue is up 20% in 2025 but profit is lower and revenue in general is still much lower than pre-Musk purchase due to lost advertising but it is still improving slowly. https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-saw...

In the UK there was a more serious drop in revenue https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/15/x-twitter...

Not sure about EU
by dangus | 2025-12-05 18:05:47+00:00
This idea doesn’t mean those people are correct.

Netflix was great when it was the only streaming service because all the legacy media companies licensed shows for cheap. They basically considered it bonus income like syndicated television.

Most of Netflix’s content at that time was very popular but was basically just reruns. The Office, etc. It was a time when you’d be hard pressed to find any movie resembling a blockbuster, just bargain DVD bin type of stuff.

If all the streaming services consolidate there will be less reason than ever to put effort into content. As long as most people stay subscribed the less they spend on content the better.

With an à la carte landscape that we have now, streaming services all have to fight it out in open competition to keep their service on your monthly bill.

It might be less convenient but it is better for content than having a market with just one, two, or three players.
by raddan | 2025-12-05 18:06:00+00:00
Did you even follow the link provided? It leads directly to an informed consent page for the study, which was voluntary. You're probably thinking about what happened _after_ these studies found the vaccine to be safe and effective. If you're a doctor or a nurse, you work in a special environment, and if you are turning down a safe and effective vaccine, you are putting your patients at risk. It means that you are unqualified for your job, so yes, you should be fired.

In the US at least, most people are employed "at will" [1], which means that you can be fired for reasons far less egregious than actually putting your patients at risk. Most of the libertarian types here cheer firings for lots of reasons, but for some reason being fired for actually being a health risk is not one of those things. That just makes no sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
by hannob | 2025-12-05 18:06:04+00:00
It looks like the shingles vaccine has positive effects that prevent dementia. (Well, that's in the title.)

This study was possible due to a "natural experiment" where one country gave people from a very specific birth date the vaccine (so people born right before and right after that date were very similar, except for the vaccine).

It's not clear why this is the case. It might be that the virus the vaccine supresses plays a role in dementia development, or it might be that the vaccine causes an immune response that has other indirect positive impacts.
by Kapura | 2025-12-05 18:06:20+00:00
I feel like when I was growing up, I learned about how monopolization was bad for society when it came to industries like steel and rail. but for some reason in the 21st century we've decided that maybe corporations are somehow... better citizens or something? despite the evidence?

Obviously, the reason it's gotten this bad is that lobbying is legal and private campaign funding is mandatory. Thanks again, citizens united!
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-05 18:06:28+00:00
Its about time, I hope System76 comes up with their own version of the Framework laptop, because I would love to buy a laptop where I can swap out all internals, motherboard etc. but I really also want to work with System76 because I love what they are doing with POP_OS! (though I prefer arch these days, I can still use their Desktop environment etc) and love that they make Linux hardware specifically.

We have needed a "Jeep of Laptops" for a while, maybe someone needs to spec out a fully open source design that any manufacturer can target.
by throwaway743 | 2025-12-05 18:07:10+00:00
A lot of this AI backlash feels less about the tech itself and more about people feeling economically exposed. When you think your job or livelihood is on thin ice, it is easier to direct that fear at AI than at the fact that our elected reps have not offered any real plan for how workers are supposed to survive the transition.

AI becomes a stand-in for a bigger problem. We keep arguing about models and chatbots, but the real issue is that the economic safety net has not been updated in decades. Until that changes, people will keep treating AI as the thing to be angry at instead of the system that leaves them vulnerable.
by tensor | 2025-12-05 18:07:41+00:00
If those US companies operate in foreign countries, then yes they will be following the law in those countries or they won't be operating there. And no, the only tears flowing will be from those who don't understand how laws and borders work.

This has always been true. E.g. Google and others complying with Chinese laws, or not operating at all in places like Iran. X can simply cease operations in EU if they don't like it.
by Glawen | 2025-12-05 18:07:44+00:00
Exactly, you need to touch both plus and minus. You moved the goalpost from getting electrocuted driving your car due to shoddy quality remanufacturing of battery, to getting electrocuted while repairing the high voltage side of your vehicle. Remanufacturing quality does not come into play if you decide to touch plus and minus side of a HV battery.
by ubercow13 | 2025-12-05 18:07:45+00:00
Am I right in reading "Figure. Estimation of All-Cause Mortality at 4 Years in Vaccinated Compared With Unvaccinated Individuals Using Weighted Cox Models: Main and Stratified Analyses" to show that vaccines were more beneficial to the 18-29 age group than any older group? Isn't that unexpected?
by quesera | 2025-12-05 18:07:51+00:00
Herbicides are pesticides. Are you implying that I made a mistake with that word? I did not.

Your other points are valid, but would you advocate for dishonest research to be acceptable as evidence that a pesticide is ready for widespread human field trials?

Assuming you would not, then I think you'd agree that there should be repercussions. Monsanto is not Uber for agriculture.
by mberning | 2025-12-05 18:08:04+00:00
I think the part that people doubt is the highly compressed timeline for approval. Hard to anticipate long term effects when something has only been tested for a short period of time. Also during this time the pitch degraded from “you won’t get sick or spread the disease” to “well I still got sick, but it probably would have been worse without the vaccine”. It is actually crazy to think about in retrospect.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-05 18:08:08+00:00
That means they engineered their systems incorrectly then? Precisely because they are much bigger, they should be more resilient. You know who's bigger than Cloudflare? tier-1 ISPs, if they had an outage the whole internet would know about it, and they do have outages except they don't cascade into a global mess like this.

Just speculating based on my experience: It's more likely than not that they likely refused to invest in fail-safe architectures for cost reasons. Control-plane and data-plane should be separate, a react patch shouldn't affect traffic forwarding.

Forget manual rollbacks, there should be automated reversion to a known working state.
by ghaff | 2025-12-05 18:08:09+00:00
An analyst friend of mine wrote that Napster was more about convenience than price (free). I disagreed with him at the time but, with the rise of various streaming services, I've come to view myself as at least partially wrong.

Maybe not the broke 20 year old per another comment. (Who doesn't have a lot of money anyway.) But a lot of people are happy and able to pay for a subscription that doesn't involve screwing around with a lot of dodgy stuff.
by empath75 | 2025-12-05 18:08:53+00:00
This is one of the best Rust articles I've ever read. It's obviously from experience and covers a lot of _business logic_ foot guns that Rust doesn't typically protect you against without a little bit of careful coding that allows the compiler to help you.

So many rust articles are focused on people doing dark sorcery with "unsafe", and this is just normal every day api design, which is far more practical for most people.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-12-05 18:08:53+00:00
(2024)

Some related discussions since:

Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529756

The new literalism plaguing today’s movies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44567683

Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062198
by tekne | 2025-12-05 18:09:00+00:00
Alright that’s pretty bad. Have some questions though.

- For the bit.ly thing; as far as I understand Gaddafi could at least theoretically order the registrar to point somewhere else and then that somewhere else could get new keys from the automated CA, right? Or am I missing something? Maybe we do want some second layer process for extra security, but couldn’t you solve this by sticking extra certificates in the record? This can also replicate the corporate solution: “trust an extra MyCorp certificate as well as the actual one.”

- So… now that I know the details of DNSSEC beyond “signed encrypted DNS,” I’m not a fan. What stops us from phasing in (beyond, elas, politics and network effects) Actually Good Signed Encrypted DNS? Specifically;

- For backwards compat, can we separate the “signed” and “encrypted” part where you stick a signature on the record which signs the hash of the record minus the signature and any other signatures?

- And then, for encryption, can you just do DNS-over-TLS or something like that? Totally separate from the signing bit; the goal of signing is that you can trust the data, the goal of encryption is that people can’t see what you’re looking up.

- And let’s say we had this nice two-layer protocol. Why do we need proofs of nonexistence? Why not just treat it like https and, when adoption is good enough, default deny insecure HTTP? Seems like another mistake in DNSSEC to have this feature at all…

For a glimpse into the idealized mental model of an idealized future I’m grasping at here:

- An abstract identity is (waves at philosophy)

- A concrete identity is a set of cryptographic keys

- Two problems:

- How do I find out the identity associated with a name. Related subproblem: key rotation and friends. - How do I reach the given identity, over a given network; here the Internet

Technically these can be separate services! DNS can do both at the same time so efficiency, but they’re orthogonal.

- You can have other naming systems. For example, a social network with E2E chat can be viewed as mapping names to identities-as-keys

- You can have other comms channels: see here again the chat, which is at a higher level than the Internet. But also SMS, Tailscale, idk… also, see different kinds of DNS records so one naming system (DNS) can handle multiple reachability kinds!

So, in short, if anyone bothered to read this brain dump, I believe a form for trustable (if you trust the source but not the nodes) hierarchical name => identity systems is a Good Idea so far, and I guess DNSSEC is not the way… but it still seems like CA is also not the way and it should really be part of DNS.

How misguided am I?

/rant
by inkspireadi2001 | 2025-12-05 18:09:10+00:00
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by dragonwriter | 2025-12-05 18:09:41+00:00
> Pesticide are used to kill pests, such as insects in the case of insecticide or rodents. It does not include fungicides nor herbicides

Wrong.

See, e.g., https://www.fda.gov/food/chemical-contaminants-pesticides/pe...

“Pesticides are used in agriculture to protect crops from insects, fungi, weeds, and other pests.”
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-12-05 18:10:01+00:00
Associated official posts:

Philadelphia https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-bringing-our-service-to-...

Balitmore https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-waymo-is-heading-to-balt...

Pittsburgh https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-waymo-coming-to-pittsbur...

St. Louis https://waymo.com/blog/?modal=short-entering-st-louis
by dekhn | 2025-12-05 18:10:04+00:00
Do you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doebley ? See also https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/science/25creature.html for the story of how maize was traced back to teosinte using hybrids and some literature with more scientific detail: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0168952592...
by GuB-42 | 2025-12-05 18:10:11+00:00
There is a difference between a streaming platform and cable. Streaming platforms are on demand while cable is broadcast.

To have an ads/no ads option with cable, you need 2 distinct channels with different programming, as you need something fill what would be the ad breaks. With an on-demand platform, there is no fixed schedule, so you can insert ads at will without having to account for that.

So even if the market for no ads is small, it doesn't cost them much to provide that option, and they just have to price it above how much they get from ads to make a profit. Even the seldom used YouTube Premium is actually quite profitable for Google. Streaming platforms won't miss that opportunity.
by mullingitover | 2025-12-05 18:10:14+00:00
> You can just move to a different country that doesn't censor you.

The 'Network State' fascist bros (Balaji Srinivasan, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, et al) are the powers behind the throne of the current regime. They want to dismantle the United States and create modern-day fiefdoms where your corporate overlords dictate your rights. They are serious about doing it.

"You can vote with your feet and leave our fiefdom if you don't like the lack of rights" is literally their stance.
by shevy-java | 2025-12-05 18:10:33+00:00
The recent increase of hardware prices (the example I gave yesterday of the same RAM I purchased about 2 years ago for a cheap computer, suddenly costing 2.5x as much as it did ~2 years ago) changed my opinion completely. I was already skeptical of AI, but I could see a few possible use cases, such as generating images for use in free-to-play browser games, and so forth. But I also saw a lot of crap - fake-videos on youtube that just wastes my time. And now that the prices are going up, I have enough indeed.

The big tech bro AI mega-corporations need to pay us - aka mankind - for the damage they cause here. The AI bubble is already subsiding, we see that, despite Trump trying to protect the mafiosi here. They owe us billions now in damage. Microsoft also recently announced it will milk everyone by increasing the prices due to "new AI features in MS office". Granted, I don't use Microsoft products as such (I do have a computer running Win10 though, so my statement is not 100% correct; I just don't use a Microsoft paid-for office suite or any other milk-for-money service), but I think it is time to turn the odds.

These corporations should pay us, for the damage they are causing here in general. I no longer accept the AI mafia method, even less so as the prices of hardware went up because of this. This mafia owes us money.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-12-05 18:10:51+00:00
I'm kind of thankful not having to work with people trying to be clever in CSS anymore (especially "clever" backend developers).

And I used to defend and evangelize taking HTML&CSS seriously in my previous roles, which I'd still do!

But as much as I have longed for features like these in the past (also: :has(), container queries, custom properties...), I dislike this.

I found CSS grid disappointing for most use cases.

I think :has() is a terrible idea, except for quick hacks.

I still think container queries and custom properties are good.

But, oh well, old man yelling at cloud.