MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tim333 | 2025-12-23 16:06:44+00:00
The "existential threat to Russia's security interests" is a bit of a Russian propaganda thing. No one was out to attack Russia. They have the world's largest nuclear arsenal. Ukraine was peaceful, hadn't joined NATO and wasn't formally planning to.

I think it's more the "Russian Empire grew by about 50 sq km per day over 400 years" thing and they are behaving now as in the past. Times change though. Empires are a bit nineteenth century.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-23 16:06:53+00:00
As an autodidact, and someone who has seen plenty of well educated idiots in the software profession, I'm happy there are no such requirements... I think a guild might be more reasonable than a professional org more akin to how it works for other groups (lawyers, doctors, etc).

There are of course projects that operate at higher development specification standards, often in the military or banking. This should be extended to all vehicles and invasive medical devices.
by WackyFighter | 2025-12-23 16:07:00+00:00
Right. So you didn't watch it and instead cherry picked the comments. You missed a key thing in the video. It isn't really any cheaper using public transport. BTW my experience was roughly the same as in the video but replace buses with trains.

One of the key reasons I learned to drive was because trains, buses and taxis are expensive and mile per mile more expensive than using the car. Even flying in some circumstances is more expensive and longer than driving (short domestic UK flights).

The issue with public transport is that it doesn't go quite go where, when you want and nothing is going to fix that.

No amount of campaigning is going to change anything. Near where I live there is two roads closed. It been this way for almost three years now. If the council can't fix one road in three years, how are they ever going to sort out more complex issues.

So you have something that isn't cheaper, doesn't quite do what you want and generally is less pleasant than using a car, you aren't going to want to use it.
by kalleboo | 2025-12-23 16:07:05+00:00
Historically (like, 15+ years ago when I did the SEA backpacking circuit) there have been some cards with ridiculous fees for international transactions. Like, a flat $10 per transaction. Back then when I saw prompts like this on card terminals I assumed it was targeted at those cardholders (or people who had heard stories of those and were unsure and worried what they would be charged and wanted to be reassured by a number in their home currency)
by anovikov | 2025-12-23 16:07:59+00:00
In fact i find Ryanair booking page the most smooth in user experience out of all major airlines. I am mostly tied to Aegean because i have a top loyalty level, and it is incredibly frustrating to go through extremely slow loading pages, page after page, to do every trivial task, and having to enter SMS OTP on every step. With Ryanair is't one and done, i barely remember it. And every action is blazing fast, pages load in a blink, no spinners.
by bgbntty2 | 2025-12-23 16:08:07+00:00
I found this quite interesting, but I don't understand how the articles claims we can see flesh.

And the author's Substack has 2 videos of Trump kissing and patting Bill Clinton's groin area (through pants). They are likely AI because I couldn't find anything online about how they're real besides the original photo. And if they were real, why is no one talking about it? He claims for one of the videos that it's real. So it kind of reduced the author's trustworthiness a bit.
by latexr | 2025-12-23 16:08:32+00:00
> If multiple people are assuming bad faith

It’s not “multiple people”, I asked that of one person multiple times.

And respectfully Mike, you’re not the person to be schooling others on respectful communication and requesting apologies. You are incredibly abrasive, often rude, and the reason many people avoid Homebrew altogether. You’re repeatedly criticised for “being a dick” or an “asshole” (I personally would use neither), including on HN submissions. You are very far from the paragon you are exalting.

I used to defend you when I contributed more regularly to Homebrew, but as time went on I now only ever find you in contexts of trading insults and never giving an inch or admitting wrongdoing. Even when it seems you are, you always find a way to end with some subtle jab at the other person.

For sure I could do better. I try and often fail, and that’s how we grow. But it is profoundly hypocritical of you to act like you are an example.

No shade on most other Homebrew maintainers, though, and thank you nonetheless for all the work you do.
by phaedrus | 2025-12-23 16:08:49+00:00
I once attended a talk by someone who is or was big in the node.js world. He opened with the premise, "a static type check is just a stand-in for a unit test."

I wanted to throw a shoe at him. A static type check doesn't stand in for "a" unit test; static typing stands in for an unbounded number of unit tests.

Put another way, this common misconception by users of languages like Javascript and Python that unit testing is just as good as type checking (plus more flexible) is a confusion between the "exists" and "for all" logical operators.
by UncleMeat | 2025-12-23 16:09:16+00:00
Notice how this article frames the entire thing as caused by the left and happily ignores the fact that what is happening under Trump is not new. Were the excesses of the left the cause of the Stop Woke Act in Florida? The right has been screaming about firing professors since God and Man at Yale was published. In my opinion, this is not anything resembling a serious accounting of the threats to speech from the right.

And you can compare this article against the entire book that he published about the left's flaws this year. On one hand we've got an article critical of the right that finds the need to smuggle criticisms of the left in constantly and on the other hand we have a complete manuscript. You tell me where Williams is focusing his attention.
by MarkusQ | 2025-12-23 16:09:38+00:00
Sadly, that seems to be the gist of the article. I was really hoping for something a little more, but the whole tone struck me as "millions of people are putting uncontrolled amounts of sugar, honey, and who knows what other sweeteners in their tea without a single double blind study to prove it improves the flavor, and without regard to the potential side effects!" pearl clutching.

I'm all in favor of well designed studies. Not so fond of gatekeeping.
by gs17 | 2025-12-23 16:11:51+00:00
> However he disagreed that the ‘don’t insure me’ option was hidden, and said that 98% of Ryanair’s passengers could “find a way to decline insurance”.

I'm not surprised, but still a bit impressed by the ability to lie like this. Somehow I doubt even 9% of their passengers would know it was between Denmark and Finland.
by luker123 | 2025-12-23 16:11:55+00:00
Technical documentation is horrible and there aren't many good solutions for it. It's always either outdated, unreadable, poorly formatted, or just doesn't exist in the first place. That's why I built Doclific.

Doclific is a free, open source solution for technical documentation. Use the CLI to launch your documentation portal; no trying to find the right URL and logging in only to realize your in the wrong organization or something else. All your documentation lives in your repo which means it can be always be updated depending on the branch you're working on. Since it uses MDX, merge conflicts are a breeze to navigate. The best feature though, is the ability to add code snippets that update automatically if you change the code in your repo. Simply select the file and lines you want to display and a snippet will be added. If you ever change the code in the referenced file, the snippet in the documentation will be updated immediately. Additionally, each snippet has a link that will open the file to the specific line in a VS Code window as well. Most other cool rich text editor features are built in as well such as links, slash commands, etc. It's even AI enabled. Just add your provider, model, and key. Prompt it to generate documentation on a specific flow and the agent will select relevant snippets from files and generate documentation.

If you have any thoughts or anything you'd like to see in it, let me know. I'll be changing it to MIT license in the near future as well.
by pritambarhate | 2025-12-23 16:12:22+00:00
Even with LLMs delivering software that consistently works requires quite a bit of work and in most cases requires certain level of expertise. Humans also write quite a bit of garbage code.

People using LLMs to code these days is similar to how majority people stopped using assembly and moved to C and C++, then to garbage collected languages and dynamically typed languages. People were always looking for ways to make programmers more productive.

Programming is evolving. LLMs are just next generation programming tools. They make programmers more productive and in majority of the cases people and companies are going to use them more and more.
by UncleMeat | 2025-12-23 16:12:51+00:00
And I believe that the mods thinking that a16z was the least critical part of the headline such that it could be cut for space reasons is a huge concern. I'm glad that you changed your mind. But the fact that it was needed worries me and the fact that you can't understand why people were upset is worse.

There doesn't need to be an explicit effort to protect vc firms for your blind spots to shape conversation on this website away from criticizing them.
by DanHulton | 2025-12-23 16:13:36+00:00
Xyz makes sense because that is what those axes are literally labeled, but ijk I will rail against until I die.

There's no context in those names to help you understand them, you have to look at the code surrounding it. And even the most well-intentioned, small loops with obvious context right next to it can over time grow and add additional index counters until your obvious little index counter is utterly opaque without reading a dozen extra lines to understand it.

(And i and j? Which look so similar at a glance? Never. Never!)
by coldpie | 2025-12-23 16:14:11+00:00
This is very well put, thank you (though I think you got a little needlessly aggro at the end :) ). A big part of why I find this situation so frustrating is passkeys are such a cool technology and genuinely a big improvement over passwords. I even spent a whole day writing a big article about how cool they are! But the big tech company lock-in stuff is so obvious, and so strongly supported by the spec authors and the passkey community, that it's hard to see it as unintentional. It completely poisons the technology, and that sucks because I really do want to use it.
by TZubiri | 2025-12-23 16:14:17+00:00
I've just connected this to some other thought on Android app marketplaces.

Even in operating systems as distant as Android, we still have the phenomenon of using proper_names instead of natural names.

If you want a taxi or a cab, you don't ask your OS to get you a taxi or cab, you ask it to use the Uber binary.

In the 2000s it wasn't clear that this was going to be the case, the famous example of the pets.com domain was a wrong bet that natural names would somehow be important.

Instead natural names are only important when used through an obscure privately controlled algorithm like Google or StackoverFlow or ChatGPT, if you want to say "flights to Greece" instead of "Oobloo greece", you need a magical black box in the middle.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-23 16:14:18+00:00
I guess if I disagree it seems argumentative, not sure how to disagree without others believing it's argumentative, it kind of is by definition. It isn't my intention. Regardless.

> > > Hmm the guardian has gone "accept tracking or subscribe".

> > I didn’t know you were allowed to do that with cookies.

> UK site. Not in the EU any more.

This is the initial context for me in this conversation. As I understand things, whether UK is in the EU or not, they can still have laws active in the country that were introduced while the UK was in the EU.

Then someone said:

> ... or no one bothers to enforce them any more?

Which I guess is where I lose track a bit of what the actual subject is. We're talking about UK laws, that they may or may not still have as active in the UK, but at that point I already suspect that they're talking about some "EU-wide laws" or similar instead, which for me muddy the waters.

> Who's going to open a case and where?

Then this appears, which has obvious answers; if you're a UK citizen and someone broke UK law, you report to UK authorities. If you're from $EU_COUNTRY, then you report it in $EU_COUNTRY.

If you're in $EU_COUNTRY and UK company breaks your national laws, same applies as for any non-EU country, you report it in $EU_COUNTRY.

Going back to the initial question, can The Guardian ask "let us track you, or pay to visit this website"? For entities covered by the DMA, the answer is clear: No (so Meta cannot do this, which is why they're changing it). Otherwise, the answer isn't so clear, yet.

Now I don't know what I'm being dismissive about, I feel like I did my best following how the subject seemingly changed across comments, but I can acknowledge I lost track of the initial questions, for that I apologize. I guess I loose track of the discussion as the questions seems to get less specific, rather than more specific.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-23 16:14:28+00:00
I'm a bit mixed, as I really appreciate the balance that VS Code has brought to the table and even with that feel there's sometimes too much in the base install. JetBrains is definitely better than VS proper in a lot of ways though. I still have nightmares of using VS for web projects, it's not nearly as bad today but I still completely avoid it.
by notahacker | 2025-12-23 16:14:37+00:00
You can get point-to-point connections with legacy airlines all over Europe (the hub and spoke model means you can also get onward connections including to non-European destinations). Might not be exactly the same airport pair (and there are sometimes good reasons to prefer the second tier airport Ryanair flies too rather than the main city airport), but there aren't many city pairs you're forced to use Ryanair or a connection, provided you're happy paying more money and flying at a different time.

But yeah, you're not going to be flying Qantas or Emirates, you're going to be flying BA or Aer Lingus or Air France or even another LCC
by steffoz | 2025-12-23 16:14:38+00:00
Define “successful Italian agency” :) If breaking even every year with 20+ employees counts as successful, then yes—successful. But I think you may have a mistaken idea of the level of support and investment that the “incubating” company actually provided. With the limited effort I put into this product over the years before it started to work, all I really needed was any stable job and a few hours each week. You don’t need a particularly favorable setup to pursue a bootstrapped approach... but you do need to be very comfortable with the timeline for seeing results.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-12-23 16:14:54+00:00
Yes but there’s no evidence this is vibe coded or not. You’re cynically claiming it due to agent authorship. As if there is no legitimate use.

> No human expert involved

You don’t know this, you are just hating.

Besides the close review and specification that may be conducted with agents, even if you handwrite / edit code, it will say that it was co-authored by the agent if you have the agent do the commit for you.
by dpark | 2025-12-23 16:15:10+00:00
> I rarely see anyone actually going into a public forum to try to clearly communicate the evidence for vaccine safety

Then you haven’t looked. There are endless examples of qualified people explaining the actual risks and benefits of vaccines in clear and honest terms.

Perhaps what you actually mean is that you don’t see this happen within the insular communities that embrace antivaccine rhetoric. You don’t see it there because such efforts are blocked. Go explain vaccines in an antivax subreddit and watch as you get downvoted into invisibility and probably banned from the sub.
by Paradigma11 | 2025-12-23 16:15:12+00:00
But Putin himself didn't see that promise as binding and relevant. He publicly stated that Ukraines relationship with NATO was solely a thing between NATO and Ukraine and none of Russias business. Only later had this always been different.
What's next?
Let's revive the treaty of Westphalia?

Plus, any treaty takes bits of the sovereignty of a nation and limits the will of the voter. See how the US never ratified UNCLOS. But a pinky swear by Baker should limit the US forever?
The idea that those seasoned soviet diplomats got somehow hoodwinked is also a bit silly.
by mootoday | 2025-12-23 16:15:20+00:00
Yeah, I've noticed similar things with my projects. Hard to avoid these days I think.

Awesome, thanks for being an early adopter!

I got some great feedback already, so I'll continue building it out.

Roadmap:
- Release binaries for Intel Mac, Linux, Windows
- Add / test support for more database engines
- Wrap up the LLM integration

Holidays are coming up, it may be a productive time haha
by nemothekid | 2025-12-23 16:16:57+00:00
>Most employees, contractors, and vendors are surprisingly forgiving of one-time screw-ups.

If you are a new business that isn't true. Your comparison to the US federal government is not apt at all - the USG is one of the longest running, stable organizations in the country, people will have plenty of patience for the USG, but they wont have it for your incorporated-last-month business.

Secondly I could make the same argument for AWS. AWS has plenty of downtime - way more than the USG has shutdowns, and there are never been a massive wave of customers off of AWS.

Finally, as a small business, if your payroll gets fucked, your largest assets will use that to walk out the door! The second you miss payroll is the second your employees start seeing the writing on the wall, its very hard to recover moral after that. Imagine being Uber and not paying drivers on time, they will simply drive more often with a competitor.

That said, I still see the parallels with the hypothetical "Accountant forums". The subject matter experts believe their shiny toy is the most critical to the business and the other parts aren't. Replace "US federal government" with "Amazon Web Services", and you will have your "Accountant forums" poster arguing why payroll should be done in house and SLA doesn't matter.
by kccqzy | 2025-12-23 16:17:33+00:00
Plus, it is simply more enjoyable to design the types in your program than to write unit tests. The fun factor comes from operating on a higher level of abstraction and engages more of your brain’s puzzle-solving mode than just writing unit tests. Making yourself think about “for all x” rather than a concrete x forces your brain to consider deeply the properties of x being used.
by autoexec | 2025-12-23 16:17:40+00:00
> Out of many millions of people, 12 per day is a rounding error. You'd probably save more lives by launching a campaign telling kids to tie their shoes or lay off the soda, for real.

If I told you that I kidnapped 12 kids every single day and fed them into a woodchipper would that be acceptable to you because it's "just a rounding error" or because "You'd save more lives telling kids to tie their shoes than by stopping me"? Any number of children I threw into that woodchipper would be an unacceptable number of children and of course actions should be taken to stop or at the very least reduce those deaths. It's no different with gun deaths.

> Also, what gun grabbers don't understand (or choose to ignore) is that the people who are murdered by their peers with a gun could just as easily be murdered with a knife, or a brick.

Once again, the facts don't support your argument. We know that mass-stabbers don't kill as many people as mass-shooters. It's obvious why that is, you even said it yourself: Sharpened pencils and bricks are slow and far less effective at killing than guns. There's a reason why the militaries of the world arm their troops with guns and not just bricks and knives. People with bricks and sharpened pencils (which become very hard to hold on to while covered in blood by the way) are far easier to disarm safely. It is much much harder to kill with those everyday objects than with guns.

Obviously psychopaths will still find ways of killing people. Keeping the most deadly weapons out of their hands, or making it more difficult for them to get those weapons will reduce the number of deaths they can inflict on us which is something everyone should want.
by chongli | 2025-12-23 16:17:47+00:00
Modifications can be licensed differently but that takes extra work. If I release a project with the MIT license at the top of each file and you download my project and make a 1-line change which you then redistribute, you need to explicitly mark that line as having a different license from the rest of the file otherwise it could be interpreted as also being MIT licensed.

You also could not legally remove the MIT license from those files and distribute with all rights reserved. My original granting of permission to modify and redistribute continues downstream.
by organsnyder | 2025-12-23 16:18:16+00:00
This is accomplished in new builds with intentional ventilation. My above-garage ADU accomplishes this with a schedule on the bathroom fan and a make-up air intake in the utility closet. A more expensive (and more efficient) route would be to install an HRV or ERV.

As an energy consultant friend explained to me: You want to control the ventilation rate, rather than relying on whatever you get accidentally (which may not be enough, especially on calm days).
by gmd63 | 2025-12-23 16:18:18+00:00
Larry Ellison is using his bags to purchase lies and silence.

No economy can be in true equilibrium when the consumers send profits to be spent in unforeseen and unrelated ways like this. Every purchase carries potentially immense future costs that are almost completely opaque.

Free market maximalists need to confront this fact before praying at the altar of complete deregulation, and every consumer should pay more attention to who they are buying from.
by heliumtera | 2025-12-23 16:19:21+00:00
We know. It is not difficult to tell them apart. Good taste is apparent and beauty is universal.
The amount of care and attention someone put into a craft is universally appreciated.
Also, I am 100% confident this comment was the output of a human process.
We can tell.
There is something more. It is obvious for those that have a soul.
by ryandrake | 2025-12-23 16:19:41+00:00
Obviously, nobody but the HN admins/mods know about flagging or voting patterns, and they don't talk about the details when these kinds of events happen. The most you'll hear is "We looked at it and manually removed the flags." So, it is impossible to provide the evidence you are asking for.

You see this here with other topics, too, not just things some people dismiss as "political". Submit any article that criticizes a certain multi-company tech CEO and it will be instantly flagged off the main page.
by gus_ | 2025-12-23 16:19:44+00:00
ss obtains the connections information via netlink directly from the kernel (besides parsing /proc):

https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/manpages/sock_diag.7.en...

https://github.com/vishvananda/netlink/blob/main/inet_diag.g...

Not many rootkits tamper the netlink channel, so in most cases it's a bit more reliable.