MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by koakuma-chan | 2025-12-12 18:48:24+00:00
> Incest: The dramatis personae (https://nhentai.net/g/609087/4/, mostly SFW if your boss doesn't mind fully-clothed underboobs) introduces the characters as step-siblings. (And page 11 the male character refers to the female character as "family".

It's not "incest" if they are not blood-related.

> Rape: The premise is inherently rapey as one is not allowed to withdraw consent after entering the room.

As I understand it, entering the room does not constitute giving consent, and one can withdraw their consent any time, which the protagonist chose not to do.

> Also the bottom of page 15 the male does not look like he had consented to the events of that page and the previous.

The way I read it, especially with previous two pages in mind, it appears to me that he does not mind.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-12 18:48:42+00:00
> Europe is the central advocate of human rights currently

The European definition of human rights doesn't include a maximalist approach to privacy. The primacy of state powers is a core bedrock in mainstream European thought, as can be seen with EU Charter Article 8.

Hybrid warfare tactics such as those being used by Russia within the EU [0] along with other sorts of offensive intelligence operations would fall under the remit of an expansion of state enforcement and coexist with the EU Charter.

Furthermore, as I previously stated, this kind of empowerment of law enforcement and intelligence agencies was the norm across much of the EU (and still is in Southern and Eastern European member states) until the 2010s.

[0] - https://acleddata.com/report/testing-waters-suspected-russia...
by johnys | 2025-12-12 18:49:04+00:00
The best part of the largest healthcare conference of the year is usually the satellite events.

I started keeping a personal spreadsheet and it snowballed - so I've started publishing it to save others the same scavenger hunt:

https://biotechhunter.com/2026-jpm-healthcare-conference-gui...

Would love recommendations for good events to add this year that I'm missing so far!
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-12 18:49:25+00:00
In rural America their often is no bus.

In the city I grew up in they had no busses until a local company paid for the first one simply to get the poorer employees to work reliably because it was impacting production.

There are still many places in America where you either walk or you own a car, period. When the car breaks down and you need parts.. you walk. Worse there are no sidewalks. When the snow is a foot deep you risk frostbite and hypothermia.
by lunias | 2025-12-12 18:49:28+00:00
It definitely sounds like a hard problem. I'm not familiar with the current process, but based on what I found when I looked it up, it seems like there is a verification step already in place, but some of the methods of verification are tenuous. The method that seems the most secure to me is delivering a pin to the physical location that's being registered, but I feel like everything is exploitable.
by cthalupa | 2025-12-12 18:49:31+00:00
> But if you want to mis-characterize things, by all means do so.

People were allowed to have open and honest discussion about things. I saw plenty of discussion about myocarditis at the time from reputable sources and in reasonable manners.

But they were all pointing out that this is just an aspect of flu vaccines, that we had known it could happen even with regular flu vaccines for a long time, that the incident rate is lower than just getting covid (or the flu) in general, and that the severity was also less than that of if you had gotten it as a result of covid.

Because that's a better picture of reality because it gives you the full context.

Instead of pointing out that whole context, a whole lot of people left it at "it's the clot shot! it gives you myocarditis!"

And despite this apparent widespread suppression that everyone claims was going on, this bad-faith misrepresentation of the reality of the situation was all over the place. I saw many times more people spouting misinformation than I did the actual full details of this stuff. Like .01% of the potentially fatal misinformation got cleaned up and people are acting like there was this brutal suppression of the truth.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-12-12 18:49:51+00:00
The “social media version of war crimes” is just .. war crimes.

15 - 16 year olds will grow up to inherit the war crimes of their state. The liabilities of the state are the responsibility of every single citizen.

And, let us not forget, that a government is always and only ever held accountable to its citizens if those citizens are well informed.

“Protecting children” is one thing. But a state that feels the need to defend itself from children - by mass murdering them at scale - is another thing entirely. Let us also not forget that the Australian government is a wholesale violator of human rights, and has committed genocide and participated in heinous war crimes with impunity, pretty much since its inception. This is a nation which was still practicing forced sterilization of cultures its ruling classes deemed inferior, well into the 1980’s. This is a nation that literally got away with the modern worlds’ first genocide.

That state of affairs is never going to change if there are a generation of bootlickers, raised by the state, to never question the state.

There will be a generation of Australians, in 3 or 4 years time, who will either strongly resist the totalitarian-authoritarian actions of their state - or they’ll participate in them.
by arjie | 2025-12-12 18:50:34+00:00
Just not that straightforward in practice. You have all of these product lines that people are building that you're hoping will grow the business. They all depend on your backend stuff that's just an implementation detail. You have to somehow convince everyone across the org to stall their product development to perform a "migrate to Postgres" thing? It's not going to be easy.

There was a recent big company that posted on Twitter about "shutting down our last Oracle server" and that was the last thing in a multi-year process or something like that.

Coordination is sometimes harder than the technology itself.
by jessriedel | 2025-12-12 18:51:06+00:00
I thought some combination of error correction and redundant systems was already widespread in airplanes to prevent cosmic-ray induced errors. (GPT agrees.) What am I missing? I've read multiple articles on this, and none of them address the fact that the problem, at the level of detail described in the article, should have been prevented by technology available and widely deployed for decades.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-12-12 18:51:18+00:00
True words. I've seen this technique used to force people to think realistically. It goes like this (example):

- Is it possible for a 3 person team to manage 1000 distinct Kubernetes clusters?

- No way in hell!

- What if we hypothetically pay you $2M salary each?

- Well, let me think about it, we could figure this out...
by terminalshort | 2025-12-12 18:51:28+00:00
Statements like "it is bound by the laws of physics" are not "verifiable" by your definition, and yet we safely assume it is true of everything. Everything except the human brain, that is, for which wild speculation that it may be supernatural is seemingly considered rational discussion so long as it satisfies people's needs to believe that they are somehow special in the universe.
by mrsilencedogood | 2025-12-12 18:51:31+00:00
But how do you actually bootstrap that process?

Look at bandcamp. They unionized successfully. Then the company got sold (again), and everyone but the union leaders (and prominent members) got job offers from the new parent company. Basically got reverse-fired.

I still suspect part of the reason Epic sold them is to ninja-bust the union (or at least get it out of the way).
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-12 18:51:39+00:00
> the good ideas I have to praise or agree with, and the bad ideas I cannot disagree with because they get offended

Why do you feel this need? You don't have to play people's games. Let people get offended. If you have not said anything objectively offensive, then morally, you have nothing to worry about. Any subjective offense taken is their problem and concern, not yours.
by just6979 | 2025-12-12 18:51:40+00:00
"“We’re using confman for configuration management, which feeds into climan for the CLI, and then wsconn handles our WebSocket connections, permgr manages permissions, all through jqueue for our job queue”"

This is better? Is this Highlander, there can only be one of each thing? What about variations of those tools... cman2? confman? cfigmgr? Naming projects, and hence tools, is often just as much about namespacing as meaning. There _will_ be more than one of most non-trivial tools/projects, and not every configuration manager can be called "confman" (if that's even really a "good" name").

And part of it _is_ connecting utility to an "appelation": calling "your MIT-licensed file parser with 45 GitHub stars" just "parser" practically gaurantees you'll never get that 50th star, because there are already a bunch of "parser" projects and there is no reason for someone to ever find yours.

"Each one demands tribute: a few seconds of mental processing to decode the semantic cipher. Those seconds accumulate into minutes and effort, then career-spanning mountains of wasted cognitive effort."

No they don't, because you're _not_ doing that processing every time. Just like "grep" makes perfect sense _now_ because you've used it forever, once you're working on a project then something like "cobra" immediately maps to "the cli library". It might take a secon the first couple times, but humans are good at this internalizing kind of abstraction, and programmers are damn amazing at it.

The unix tools example is really terrible. "I used grep to examine the confs in etc and then cat to combine them before processing with sed and awk and tarballed the output to be curl'ed to the webdav server." Those are only intuitive because you know them already. "sed" for "stream editor"? Come on, it's not called that because it's a good name. Why not strmed, or even streameditor?. Simple, actually intuitive. It's because 'sed' was the bare minimum to be a short as possible while being unique and just memorable enough. Awk is an even better counter-example to the article's claim: it's just names, makes no sense! Has literally _nothing_ to do with what it does.

"the Golden Gate Bridge tells you it spans the Golden Gate strait."

Umm, no it doesn't tell you that. Does the Brooklyn Bridge span the Brooklyn strait? George Washinton Bridge? Bridges are not exclusively named by that which they span, and software is not exclusively named after exactly what it does.
by uecker | 2025-12-12 18:52:32+00:00
I owned the N9. This was a phone which was perfectly good also for average users, and it seems it sold very well in the few markets where it was actually sold (sadly no major markets). But when it came to the market, it was already decided that Nokia will kill their own OS development in favor of Windows Phone, which then flopped spectacularly. A decision which many people called out for being stupid before the consequences had fully unfolded.
Show HN: Share and install AI configurations with a single command
by sebasjimenezv | 2025-12-12 18:53:14+00:00
I built a small tool to create, share, and install AI configuration files for different tools.

The goal is to make AI setups reproducible and easy to share across machines, similar to how people manage dotfiles.

This is a fun side project I built for myself and decided to share. Feedback welcome.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-12 18:53:19+00:00
You are privileged enough to be ABLE to make good decisions. Some people are victims of the boots theory of economics and better choices aren't actually an option.

Lifting yourself by your bootstraps only works if you can afford boots in the first place.

Pratchet said:

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
by hu3 | 2025-12-12 18:53:27+00:00
yep. specially since Apple font license is quite restrictive:

> Apple restricts the usage of the typeface by others. It is licensed to registered third-party developers only for the design and development of applications for Apple's platforms. Only SF Pro, SF Compact, SF Mono, SF Arabic, SF Hebrew and New York variants are available for download on Developer website and they are the only SF variants allowed to be used by developers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(sans-serif_type...
by inesranzo | 2025-12-12 18:53:32+00:00
Does this really need AI?

Doesn't Google and others do this already?

Is this really a massive problem with humongous 1000x growth potential upside or an IPO?

I hope the VCs and Angels asked the serious questions and not invested because she is the daughter of the Microsoft founder.

I only wonder of the many 99.9999999% of startups were turned down by VCs of funding because "they don't know them", "they didn't go to the same school as me", "too much risk", or the infamous and vague "not now".

Alas, in this brave new world it is great to support our new underdogs.
by Xss3 | 2025-12-12 18:53:50+00:00
Losing devs that built a service, its infrastructure, build pipelines, tests, etc. Can sometimes mean losing deep knowledge.

Sometimes an issue arises and without that deep knowledge you'll be waiting weeks for a fix. Better hope it isnt a critical issue like a serious vulnerability or that you can hire the deep knowledge on a temporary consultancy contract.

Sometimes services are fully rewritten from scratch because the new devs cant get a build of the old service to compile/run/do the thing™.
by MarkusQ | 2025-12-12 18:53:58+00:00
This is silly. Rapidly refreshing the data that was (presumably) flipped by a cosmic ray last time won't do anything to prevent an error in whatever it hits next time. Unless the theory is that cosmic rays are somehow more likely to hit these particular bits compared to all the millions (billions?) of others in the system...in which case I have a different objection.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-12-12 18:54:01+00:00
It is legacy decisions going back decades. Thirty years ago, you did not have a wealth of database alternatives. You picked Oracle and built the business around it. More and more business processes accumulate around the data store, all using some proprietary Oracle extensions. Eventually, the thought of disentangling the dependency is so daunting you are locked in forever until an existential risk materializes.
by madeofpalk | 2025-12-12 18:54:42+00:00
Epic also sued both Google and Apple in Australia, which is notably outside of CA.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-court-rul...

I think the simpler answer is that Epic isn’t upset with the arrangement they have with Microsoft/Nintendo/Sony. They’ve done a better job cultivating a relationship with Epic than Apple has who seems to have only contempt for every other developer.

https://direct.playstation.com/en-gb/buy-consoles/playstatio...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ubcwin-Switch-Fortnite-Wildcat-Bund...
by CodingJeebus | 2025-12-12 18:54:53+00:00
It only takes one bad deployment to bring huge swaths of the internet down nowadays, just look at Cloudflare, AWS, etc. costing millions of dollars in downstream economic impact.

Sure, a platform will continue to run on a given day without intervention, but that’s like playing Russian roulette: at some point you’ll need intervention and you’ll likely need it fast.
by cj | 2025-12-12 18:55:34+00:00
I've found the only stocks where I can personally be successful stock picking are companies I have some sort of unique relationship or experience with that is uncommon or unavailable to sophisticated investors or analysts.

E.g. you're an IT admin at Big Co overseeing software contracts. You can often get interesting insights by looking at things like how aggressive their sales reps are with end of quarter discounts (how desperate are they to meet numbers that quarter?). Or if you see a company completely dropping the ball within your org, but on CNBC you constantly hear how great the company is by pundits and analysts -- maybe you know something the pundits don't.

Often times the consensus view of a stock trails reality by a few weeks to a month - there's a lot of non-public but also non-confidential information that isn't readily available to analysts, but exposed to employees of customers/vendors/partners/end-users.

TLDR: when stock picking or day trading, pick companies within the niche of the world where you're a SME.
by avazhi | 2025-12-12 18:55:53+00:00
“ The increasing reliance of computers in fly-by-wire systems in aircraft, which use electronics rather than mechanical systems to control the plane in the air, also mean the risk posed by bit flips when they do occur is higher.”

Bit of an understatement. I don’t think there any active passenger airliners in the first world today that aren’t fly-by-wire. The MD-80 was the last of its kind and it’s been out of passenger operation for what, 10 years now?
by faxmeyourcode | 2025-12-12 18:55:55+00:00
My boss (great engineer) had been complaining about this with his internal github copilot quality no matter the model or task. Turns out he never cleared the context. It was just the same conversation spread thin across nearly a dozen completely separate repositories because they were all in his massive vscode workspace at once.

This was earlier this year... So I started giving internal presentations on basic context management, best practices, etc after that for our engineering team.
by drtgh | 2025-12-12 18:55:55+00:00
As with all Ponzi schemes OpenAI will eventually go bankrupt, yet it continues to receive money from the unwary. I wonder how the research division at Disney feels about what their bosses have done...

But it should happen earlier due what is happening with the RAM, as it sounds quite illegal, like anticompetitive hoarding, cornering the market, raising rivals' costs, consumer welfare harm, and so on.
by morshu9001 | 2025-12-12 18:55:56+00:00
json columns pretty much obviated the need for ORMs. It used to be that you'd sometimes have a deep nested thing you really only ever query all at once rather than in pieces, so you'd use an ORM to automate that, but now you can just shove it into json. And then use regular SQL for the relations you actually care about.
by cthalupa | 2025-12-12 18:56:08+00:00
The lead "researcher" on that paper is a climate change denier who also claims covid didn't exist. He also used racial slurs against a former colleague.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Rancourt

He's not a credible source. HAL is not a peer reviewed journal, it is an open archive where you can upload papers regardless of publication status.

Meanwhile, we have excellent actual research done by credible researchers in peer reviewed journals like https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... that directly dispute this nonsense.
by ericmay | 2025-12-12 18:56:37+00:00
Yep, on their platform. Just like Wal-Mart and Kroger have full control over what products their competitors are allowed to sell too (in-store versus name brands). Microsoft only makes and sells their games for example for the Windows platform and doesn't allow portability.

As a pattern there's nothing wrong with it.

The crux of the issue is that creation of a mobile operating system that people actually want, like in some other industries, as resulted in two dominant platforms that don't compete all that much with each other. That's a much more interesting and important "problem" to solve than Apple/Google create competing apps on their software distribution platforms.
by observationist | 2025-12-12 18:56:38+00:00
Unless you're supposing something mystical or supernatural about how brains work, then yes, it is "just" math, there is nothing else it could be. All of the evidence we have shows it's an electrochemical network of neurons processing information. There's no evidence that suggests anything different, or even the need for anything different. There's no missing piece or deep mystery to it.

It's on those who want alternative explanations to demonstrate even the slightest need for them exists - there is no scientific evidence that exists which suggests the operation of brains as computers, as information processors, as substrate independent equivalents to Turing machines, are insufficient to any of the cognitive phenomena known across the entire domain of human knowledge.

We are brains in bone vats, connected to a wonderful and sophisticated sensorimotor platform, and our brains create the reality we experience by processing sensor data and constructing a simulation which we perceive as subjective experience.

The explanation we have is sufficient to the phenomenon. There's no need or benefit for searching for unnecessarily complicated alternative interpretations.

If you aren't satisfied with the explanation, it doesn't really matter - to quote one of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's best turns of phrase: "the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you"

If you can find evidence, any evidence whatsoever, and that evidence withstands scientific scrutiny, and it demands more than the explanation we currently have, then by all means, chase it down and find out more about how cognition works and expand our understanding of the universe. It simply doesn't look like we need anything more, in principle, to fully explain the nature of biological intelligence, and consciousness, and how brains work.

Mind as interdimensional radios, mystical souls and spirits, quantum tubules, none of that stuff has any basis in a ruthlessly rational and scientific review of the science of cognition.

That doesn't preclude souls and supernatural appearing phenomena or all manner of "other" things happening. There's simply no need to tie it in with cognition - neurotransmitters, biological networks, electrical activity, that's all you need.
by nettlin | 2025-12-12 18:56:48+00:00
> The patches published earlier are vulnerable.

> If you already updated for the Critical Security Vulnerability last week, you will need to update again.

> If you updated to 19.0.2, 19.1.3, and 19.2.2, these are incomplete and you will need to update again.

https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-sour...
by skybrian | 2025-12-12 18:56:50+00:00
Do LLM’s lie? Consider a situation in a screenplay where a character lies, compared to one where the character tells the truth. It seems likely that LLM’s can distinguish these situations and generate appropriate text. Internally, it can represent “the current character is lying now” differently than “the current character is telling the truth.”

And earlier this year there was some interesting research published about how LLM’s have an “evil vector” that, if enabled, gets them to act like stereotypical villains.

So it seems pretty clear that characters can lie even if the LLM’s task is just “generate text.”

This is fiction, like playing a role-playing game. But we are routinely talking to LLM-generated ghosts and the “helpful, harmless” AI assistant is not the only ghost it can conjure up.

It’s hard to see how role-playing can be all that harmful for a rational adult, but there are news reports that for some people, it definitely is.