MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by estearum | 2025-12-13 15:46:32+00:00
That's kind of eliding the whole point of parking minimums (which I also hate, by the way). Parking is a classic tragedy of the commons issue where each individual developer would prefer not to build any parking and externalize that cost onto nearby lots/public streets/following developers.

In fact developers did do this, and "the market" responded by creating regulations that prevent it. Which are obviously causing their own set of serious problems.
by rvnx | 2025-12-13 15:46:44+00:00
Lot of arrogant people here who think they are safe and better than anybody and blame OP.

It is totally normal in today’s world to depend on cloud services and reasonably difficult to do without it. In China: no WeChat you are practically dead. Here try to join meetings without account, try to send a message on WhatsApp without account, etc… a lot can go wrong very fast. What if you used your Apple account as SSO to other services ?
by gcr | 2025-12-13 15:47:11+00:00
Academic papers should be neutral when dissing previous work imo.

"[Previous work] is just bad [previous other work]" isn't a professional way to talk about the merits and drawbacks of competing approaches, but boy does it get tiktok views!

Better work stands on its own merits. No need to explicitly shit on the competition in the title/abstract.
by autoexec | 2025-12-13 15:47:50+00:00
Did you have to deal with invoices from companies across 27+ different countries? Did you automate any of it at all?

Scale is a much bigger deal than the complexity of any one invoice. When you're dealing with hundreds of thousands if not millions of invoices from all over the place it makes sense to have it standardized so that software can be developed to do most your work with those invoices automatically and consistently.

I've worked on automating high volume document processing from a much smaller number of companies (mainly just from those within the US), just one or two outliers can massively expand your codebase and when those companies are free to change their formats on a whim in whatever why suits them it can break everything in ways that can be immediately catastrophic or very subtle but no less disastrous.
by trj | 2025-12-13 15:49:13+00:00
This could be easily done. The emulator core supports memory mapped IO, but uvm32 only uses this to map an extra block of RAM from the host (for a framebuffer, or a separare memory heap). You can trap the writes here: https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32/blob/main/uvm32/uv... and the reads here https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32/blob/main/uvm32/uv...
by sombragris | 2025-12-13 15:49:36+00:00
I used it sometimes when I needed a live Linux, and I liked it, because it used to be based in Slackware, and it had KDE as its desktop. Now they added Debian as another base, and that's great. Sadly, they dropped KDE.

There's also Porteus, also a Slackware derivative offering KDE Plasma -- https://www.porteus.org

Slax was and still is a great live distribution. The fact that (at least one of its flavors) is based on Slackware shows that the parent distro (Slackware) isn't that hard to use, something that few people believe. Slackware is in fact very simple in comparison to other distros.
by tim333 | 2025-12-13 15:49:44+00:00
I kind of agree but I think the point is what people mean by words is vague, so he said:

>Instead of attempting such a definition I shall replace the question by another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambiguous words.

which is can you tell the AI answers from the humans ones in a test. It then becomes an experimental result rather than what you mean by 'think' or maybe by 'extrinsic difference'.
by yojo | 2025-12-13 15:49:46+00:00
I just want a panel. I’m already doing what the article suggests (running a Hisense offline with a media box), but my TV still crashes a few times a month and needs to be power-cycled/takes about a minute to reboot.

There’s just no reason for this. You have one job: Take my signal and display it. Anything else is just another place for things to go wrong.
by alexpotato | 2025-12-13 15:49:48+00:00
B/c, by design, you want the archived stream of events to include everything.

e.g. a lot of these systems have a "replay" node that can be used by components that just restarted. You want the replay to include ALL of the messages seen so you can rebuild the state at any given point.

(There are, of course, tradeoffs to this so I'm just commenting on the "single sequencer" design philosophy)
by SenseiOS | 2025-12-13 15:49:58+00:00
Hey HN,

For the last 20 years, I've managed frontline hospitality operations. The single hardest problem, the one that causes the most financial loss and human burnout, is scheduling. It's an impossible, multi-dimensional puzzle. You have to balance labor costs, employee skills, availability, legal constraints, and predicted demand, all while dealing with the chaos of the real world. I became obsessed with the idea: what if the building itself had a memory? What if the schedule could learn? So I started building HaleES, with an AI persona I call "Sensei." It's my attempt at creating an 'operating system' for physical operations. It hooks into the POS, cameras, and employee data to understand what's happening, then uses a suite of specialized "brains" to predict problems and optimize operations. The core technology isn't just a single ML model. The defensibility comes from unifying four systems: 1. A Normalized Language for all operational data. 2. A Constraint Engine that understands the rules of the business. 3. An Intent-to-Action Layer that safely turns natural language into audited actions. 4. A Learning Loop with a "Champion/Challenger" model so the system gets smarter every week. The website I submitted contains the first "HaleOS Paper" explaining the core 'Intent Graph', and more importantly, it features 8 live, interactive demos you can try right now. I especially recommend checking out the "Chargeback Guardian" to see how the AI uses video and POS data to automatically fight fraud, and the "Live Prep Flow" to see how it orchestrates a kitchen in real-time. This project is my life's work. I'm posting it here because the quality of feedback on HN is second to none. I'd be honored to hear what you think about the architecture and the demos. Thanks for your time.
by kmbfjr | 2025-12-13 15:50:31+00:00
Great advice if you don’t need a smartphone. Many do, they are now an identity tool.

The alternative to Apple is…Google? How is that in any way better other than not being Apple? Sure, there are de-Googlefied versions of Android and today they work . But Google is actively working on ending the ability of those alternative operating systems to work.
by youhatetheleft | 2025-12-13 15:50:43+00:00
I remember the first time I read His Dark Materials trilogy as a kid and how much I loved it. I was able to escape to a completely different world, and it was the first love story I really enjoyed. I loved it so much I reread the books immediately, and begged my parents for the cassettes for the audiobooks. Makes me kind of sad that we seem to not value reading as a form of entertainment anymore because getting immersed in a book is a completely unique feeling I rarely get from any visual media.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-12-13 15:51:15+00:00
I am not depending on cloud storage at all. What do I need to upload onto some cloud? And when I need to sync between devices, or rather want to sync, then I have a Syncthing setup on my server running. No cloud. And copies on participating devices.

Sure, it is not directly their fault, when they are treated badly by big tech. Though of course they could have been more careful, and rely less on big tech and cloud. We can all learn from this example, like many others before this one.
by rwmj | 2025-12-13 15:51:20+00:00
Be warned that it's not deep philosophy, just a bit of fun!

Edit: Reading it again now, I think the story stands up well, aside from its obvious 1970s-isms. If the story has any philosophical value today, it's that pretty soon we will actually build machines that behave like this (if it hasn't even been done already). And some of their owners will definitely treat them as sentient, even if obviously they are not. And at some point as the machines get better and better at this mimicry there'll be people demanding that laws are passed to protect them.
by kombine | 2025-12-13 15:51:35+00:00
This reminds of a joke we have in Russia which roughly translates into English as follows: "Comrade Stalin, it has been a terrible mistake!" The phrase could belong to one of Stalin's own sycophants who unluckily for themselves got imprisoned and executed during the big purge in the 1930s. They didn't understand why it happened to them.

I have a feeling that this guy also doesn't get why this happened to him and that he himself contributed towards it with the work of his life.
by davexunit | 2025-12-13 15:52:07+00:00
> However, I am still puzzled what the advantage of having a herd of capsudod instances running is to say my proposal of allowing users to set up their own doas.conf(5)s to delegate capabilities. Yes, we still need SUID and we will need to be darn sure 1,000 or so lines are properly secured, but it is attenuable, revocable, auditable, and feels (perhaps wrongly, because I have a bias towards text files describing the state of a system?) more natural to me than putting it all into the running state of a daemon.

I think two separate discussions are being mixed here. The above seems mostly concerned with the chosen interface of capsudo. Imperative vs. declarative is orthogonal to the discussion about object capabilities vs. ACLs.
by gnatman | 2025-12-13 15:52:43+00:00
Fred Eshelman founded Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc in 1985. In 2010, he became the founding chair of Furiex Pharmaceuticals. Currently he is chairman of The Medicines Company, CEO of Innocrin Pharmaceuticals, and founder of Eshelman Ventures LLC.

He has an estimated net worth of $300M and fell for Donald Trump’s stolen election grift.

https://wbt.com/576/nc-man-sues-pro-trump-group-for-return-2...
by ViktorRay | 2025-12-13 15:52:44+00:00
The issue is that the business models of these platforms (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, tik tok) are based on maximizing engagement. And maximizing engagement in this context means spending ever increased amounts of time on one platform over another or over doing offline activities like reading a book and going outside.

So the tech leaders preach moderation but the design of all these apps are built to be addictive and to maximize the time that other people and other people’s kids spend on it. It seems to be poor kids who have overworked stressed parents who seem to spend the largest chuck of time endlessly scrolling on these apps harming their minds and mental health and so on
by franga2000 | 2025-12-13 15:52:53+00:00
I never said it was trivial, I said it was possible. In many places, it's actually very easy. In others it takes some work, but we're talking about de-googling your life, having to put in some work is already implied.

At least around here, I can walk into a bank, sign a few papers, then that bank coordinates with my old bank to transfer all my direct debits, move all my money and notify all my periodic creditors (employer, social security, tax office...). Peer-to-peer payments (like splitting bills with friends) are usually done by alias (phone number or email) on our instant payment scheme, not by IBAN, and my new bank will take care of rerouting that too. And if for whatever reason someone has my old IBAN and tries to send me money in the future, they'll get a rejection and will just have to ask me for my new one, no big deal.

As for "in a week", come on, you're just being intentionally annoying. Obviously there's no guarantee. If they don't have root detection now, after everyone has had it for a decade, there's probably a reason and they won't implement it any time soon. And if you're just supremely unlucky and they actually do it right after you switch, oh well, you wasted and afternoon. Definitely less time wasted than trying all the million different root hiding techniques that probably don't work anymore.
by lapcat | 2025-12-13 15:53:06+00:00
> The root problem is that, in exchange for convenience, we as a society have ceded too much power to these large businesses and we are now paying the price for it.

I don't know why some people have made "convenience" into a dirty word. Almost everything we do is for convenience. You could live in a remote log cabin with no electricity and grow/hunt your own food, separating yourself from most of society, but that wouldn't be convenient or pleasant.

Individual consumers have very little power over the market. There's a collective action problem, which is why governments and regulation exist... or should exist. The way I see it, the root problem is a massive failure by (corrupt) governments to protect consumer rights.
by eitally | 2025-12-13 15:53:29+00:00
Personally (as parent of two high schoolers) I think leaving texting unmanaged is wild. We block social media apps (Snap, IG, etc) and also regular media (YT, Netflix, Disney+, Tubi, etc). Social media because of toxic content and regular media because of distractions. We limit messaging app time to 30min/day, whether it's SMS/RCS, Whatsapp, Telegram, or something else.

By far the most distracting thing for kids is persistent notifications. Snap is the worst for this, but messaging apps are a close second.
by bee_rider | 2025-12-13 15:53:39+00:00
Agreed.

This “proprietary telemetry” is basically malware, just, it was put on the thing at the factory. Once a system is fully rooted by malware, the least-bad option is to nuke it entirely and install from scratch.

In this context where the locked-down device probably also doesn’t have a fully open source kernel and drivers, this becomes a bit tricky. Better just to use a device that doesn’t have malware on it in the first place.
by rvnx | 2025-12-13 15:53:49+00:00
I wonder if you can prepay using a card ? But otherwise to answer your potential question, I understand OP as I like to prepay things like my phone operator. I put 500 USD there, and come back one year later. This way it can free-up my limit of 10 virtual cards I have, and most of all, can keep their limits as close as possible to the minimum. If you have a mix of services on the same card it is much more difficult and more risky. If you have 100 USD + 50 USD + 25 USD + 75 USD + 60 USD in monthly spend. Then you have 310 USD at risk, when your risk could be way lower.
by alexpotato | 2025-12-13 15:54:09+00:00
You are very welcome!

It's definitely a job that you don't hear much about but has a lot of interesting positives for people who like technology and trading. Especially if you prefer shorter term, high intensity work vs long term projects (e.g. like developers).

> Always love watching their incident responses from afar

I actually have a thread on that too: https://x.com/alexpotato/status/1227335960788160513?s=20

> (I'm sure joining KCG in August of 2012 was a wild time...)

And not surprisingly, a thread on that as well: https://x.com/alexpotato/status/1501174282969305093?s=20
by realberkeaslan | 2025-12-13 15:54:16+00:00
Consider giving Cursor a try. I personally like the entire UI/UX, their agent has good context, and the entire experience overall is just great. The team has done a phenomenal job. Your workflow could look something like this:

1. Prompt the agent

2. The agent gets too work

3. Review the changes

4. Repeat

This can speed up your process significantly, and the UI clearly shows the changes + some other cool features

EDIT: from reading your post again, I think you could benefit primarily from a clear UI with the adjusted code, which Cursor does very well.
by snowe2010 | 2025-12-13 15:54:18+00:00
If aws decided to block your access to their ecosystem you would lose so so so much more than Apple blocking your access to theirs. If the US decided what you said, t1 networks would restrict your access across much of the planet.

Your logic makes no sense since you can easily switch to Google or whatever other smartphone providers there are (China has a bunch).

But of course those providers can also cut you off, so what I said still applies.
by orochimaaru | 2025-12-13 15:54:30+00:00
Not a whole lot of doomscrolling. There is more engagement - but I’ve resigned to the fact that it’s how kids communicate. For example - if they need to discuss homework or projects or even something simple as plan for boba tea.

I’d rather they walk to their friends’ place. But now they make the plan and then walk to where they need to be.
by acudburn | 2025-12-13 15:54:34+00:00
Devs need to understand this is really common and nothing to be ashamed of.

You can do as many do and be very careful with your personal time and work commitments, or you can push it hard until you burnout.

If/when you burnout, know that it’s like being a marathon runner. You may just need a break. You may get injured in a way that you think you’ll never be what you were. You may have spurts again where you come back. You may trip and fall back into burnout.

All of this is going to happen to some of us. You can be as ambitious and/or giving as you want. But physically and mentally, there are times in which you’ll need to take a break, learn to forgive yourself, and do whatever you need to do, and that’s ok.

Don’t give up and cut life short because you felt you were responsible for ruining or ending other people’s lives. I believe that God is there for you, and if you don’t believe that, then know someone out there believes that you can turn it around, because I do.
by evanelias | 2025-12-13 15:54:44+00:00
Most of those section headers and bolded bullet-point summary phrases should simply be removed. That's why I described them as superfluous.

In cases where it makes sense to divide an article into sections, the phrasing should be varied so that they aren't mostly of the same format ("The Blahbity Blah", in the case of what AI commonly spews out).

This is fairly basic writing advice!

To be clear, I'm not accusing his books as being written like this or using AI. I'm simply responding to the writing style of this article. For me, it reduces the trustworthiness of the claims in the article, especially combined with the key missing detail of why/how exactly such a large gift card was being purchased.
by resters | 2025-12-13 15:55:59+00:00
His "arguments" on the All-In podcast are always purely persuasive/emotional and never substantiated by fact or logic. Most of it parrots GOP talking points and in my opinion he's a major threat to Silicon Valley legitimacy as he seeks to co-opt existing meritocratic institutional structures and impose his political cronyism/favoritism on them. Very dangerous stuff.
by numpad0 | 2025-12-13 15:56:08+00:00
imo a massive problem with generative AI is in communication skills of its creators.

Look at Google Gemini and how it's accepted. The only two differences between it and the rest is that it's made by Google, and they don't brag about disrupting the society or damaging its workings(Google do disrupt the society and damage its workings).

It's one thing to design a shotgun, it's another to give it a commercial name "Street Sweeper". The latter is asking to be treated unfairly. Torrenting bunch of media contents and brandishing the runnable blobs as weapons that kill all $classes_of_good_people just isn't and never was the way you communicate anything to anyone.
by alecco | 2025-12-13 15:56:15+00:00
All those are bold announcements by politicians. There are a lot of things to do and it takes many years in Latin America. Also there is no spare grid and electricity generation is kind of in the middle of nowhere. Good luck with constructing a datacenter in there, and then having technical employees to maintain it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for those plans. But it will take 5 to 10 years while China has a 15 year headstart.
Show HN: Online ASN1 DER parser and editor
by TheBestTvarynka | 2025-12-13 15:56:23+00:00
Hello HN,

For the last 3 years, I have been working on a tool to help me debug ASN1-encoded data (keys, certificates, Kerberos/CredSSP/SPNEGO/etc data structures, and more) and cryptographic operations.

A few days ago, I shipped a significant feature: ASN1 tree editor. Now it can parse and edit the ASN1 tree directly on the page. I found it very useful and may be helpful for others.

Follow the link and try it. Short manual:

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A complete user guide with images can be found in my blog post: https://tbt.qkation.com/posts/announcing-crypto-helper-0-16/.

Overall, this tool can also perform many crypto-algorithms and has a JWT debugger. But that's another story :)

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by Zak | 2025-12-13 15:56:44+00:00
With a flight, an airline that cancels a flight with less than two weeks notice owes you cash compensation of 250, 400, or 600 Euros depending on the length of the flight. The airline can only avoid this obligation if the cancellation was due to extraordinary circumstances outside their control.

A similar regulation for trains would likely tighten up reliability, though it could also raise ticket prices.
by dotancohen | 2025-12-13 15:57:07+00:00
The newer iPhones have such great cameras, I have have been considering an iPhone for my next phone. The only thing holding me back is the lack of built-in stylus.

Does the iPhone require an Apple ID? I don't even log into my Google account with my Android device. If the phone requires an Apple ID, then obviously I'm not buying one.
by jshaqaw | 2025-12-13 15:57:18+00:00
This is interesting but also just hilarious at a meta level. I was a “low frequency” ie manual fundamental based hedge fund investor for many years. In general I think hft is a net benefit to liquidity when done in compliance with the text and spirit of regulations. But no real world allocation of resources is improved by having to game transactions to this level of time granularity. This is just society pouring resources down a zero sum black hole. Open to hearing contrary views of course.
by formerly_proven | 2025-12-13 15:57:42+00:00
I can obviously only speak for myself, but I've tried AI coding tools from time to time and with Opus 4.5 I have for the first time the impression that it is genuinely helpful for a variety of tasks. I've never previously claimed that I find them useful. And 10x more productive? Certainly not, even if it would improve development speed 10000x I wouldn't be 10x more productive overall since not even half of my time is directed towards development efforts.
by hamiecod | 2025-12-13 15:58:20+00:00
I recently started reading "Specifying Systems: The TLA+ Language and Tools for Hardware and Software En" by Lawrence Lamport[0]. It is a good starting point for learning how to specify systems on the basis of mathematical proofs.

Since the new code is specifications in the age of AI, learning how to specify systems mathematically is a huge advantage because English is extremely ambiguous.

[0]: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/book-02-08-08.pdf
by IndianShitbombs | 2025-12-13 15:58:21+00:00
> Every normal person has content in Google , iCloud , OneDrive , Dropbox and maybe more. That’s 4+ single points of failure.

Well, i don't. I have my local file storage. Contacts and Calendar get synched, thats it. These get lcal backups, but aren't important so or so.