MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bijant | 2025-12-16 03:59:31+00:00
As if the sight of this dystopian thread wasn't depressing enough, there is your one gold nugget of a comment, downvoted into oblivion, grayed out at the bottom of the comment section. A hundred comments of people reverse-engineering vendor handshakes, writing Python daemons, and debating the finer points of CEC frame injection - and not one of them asking why this is necessary. The answer is in three letters: DRM. Your PlayStation is a computer. Your Xbox is a computer. Your Apple TV is a computer. Your "smart TV" is a computer. You already own a computer. The reason you can't just... use it... is that the entertainment industry spent two decades making sure the bits know who owns them at every step of the pipeline. HDCP, HDMI licensing, CEC's vendor-specific "quirks".I see no interoperability failure, it's interoperability prevention. Meanwhile, a $200 mini-PC running VLC, connected via DisplayPort to a monitor and 3.5mm to powered speakers, plays anything in any format at any bitrate with zero handshake failures. One "remote": a wireless keyboard. This solution has existed since before some commenters here were born. What you're all debugging isn't technology. It's compliance.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-12-16 04:01:05+00:00
Interesting, I didn't know they'd added an Windows/ARM build. Makes some sense though, WoW has always been one of the best about broad platform/arch support… macOS/PPC and Windows/x86 versions were both available from day one and have stayed in lockstep the whole time, and it was among the first games to make both the PPC → x86 jump and x86 → ARM jump on Macs. Have heard that they had Linux builds internally early on too.
by dhosek | 2025-12-16 04:01:26+00:00
And yet a larger percentage of the capital is concentrated in a smaller percentage of the population. I think about life in the arts—in the first half of the century it used to be that a talented writer or musician could make a living with their art. Not necessarily a huge amount of money, but something that could provide at least a middle-class level of living. Now a smaller number of writers or musicians make mind-numbing amounts of money while the vast majority of writers and musicians cannot make a living from art. We’re seeing a concentration of the rewards in everything into fewer and fewer hands while most get very little.
Ask HN: Any idea why Grok hasn't responded to any tweet for more than 3 hrs now?
by chirau | 2025-12-16 04:01:39+00:00
I have asked it a few verification questions in the past few hours, no response. I then checked its last activity responding to any tweet, and there hasn't been any for more than 2 hours now.

Time: 8pm, Pacific, Mon 12/15/2025 Subscription: Premium

If you use the main link to grok, it answers, but it is not responding to tweets when it is mentioned.
by marcellus23 | 2025-12-16 04:03:00+00:00
I think what's going on there is that "While using" includes when a navigation app is running in the background, which is visible to the user (via e.g. a blue status bar pill). "Always" allows access even when it's not clear to the user that an app is running.

The developer documentation is actually pretty clear about this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/ch...
by empathy_m | 2025-12-16 04:04:30+00:00
Watched a fantastic film about this on the plane a few years ago, "Liar Game - Reborn". There is some fairly sophisticated logic puzzling and scheming going on (see e.g. sample illustration https://imgur.com/a/0AOb67G from an interlude about 50min in where there are 3 groups of people who mutually distrust each other, each know a secret collection of 3-4 integers unique to their group, and want to deniably pass share integers with each other which are "not my team's". Another participant watches what happened and realizes in retrospect this is how the info was shared.)

A lot more upbeat than "Alice in Borderland".
by EnergyAmy | 2025-12-16 04:05:04+00:00
XXY/etc are all variations within a sex. The above poster is correct to point out that sex is defined entirely by the gamete size that one's body is organized around producing in anisogamous species like humans, and is binary.

Intersex is a misleading term, the better term is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorders_of_sex_development. There are male DSDs and female DSDs. Even in the case of ovotestes, you'll have one gamete produced, and the other tissue will be nonfunctional.
by nebula8804 | 2025-12-16 04:05:10+00:00
He has been invited to speak at HOPE and I'd like to think there is some level of standards applied to vetting talks there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3tKmaylRrY

He does repeat the same saga of his time in Pakistan a lot (or maybe im watching too many of his talks expecting something new).
by necovek | 2025-12-16 04:05:24+00:00
Oh, just funny mental gymnastics if we are aiming for survival in 10 seconds with a valid, exit code 0 tar command. :)

As tar is a POSIX (ISO standard for "portable operating system interfaces") utility, I am also highlighting what might get us killed as all of us are mostly used to GNU systems with all the GNU extensions (think also bash commands in scripts vs pure sh too).

No offense intended, just the hackers' chat.
by TylerE | 2025-12-16 04:05:27+00:00
I've gotten to watch a fair number of soundchecks as the only civilian in the room - it really is a magical experience. I've become friends with the guys in my favorite band and it's lead to some really magical experiences, like the time I got to play guitar for the last minute or so of a sold out show at the Ryman in Nashville (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tCrreXh0Pg&list=RD8tCrreXh0... starting at about the 6 minute mark)
Show HN: Extending RocksDB to Deduplicate Values
by demajh | 2025-12-16 04:05:45+00:00
I've come across the problem a few times to need to remove duplicate values from my data. Usually, the data are higher level objects like images or text blobs. I end up writing custom deduplication pipelines every time.

I got sick of doing this over and over, so I wrote a wrapper around RocksDB that deduplicates values after a Put() operation. Currently only exact deduplication is performed, but I want to extend it in a number of ways, including semantic (fuzzy) deduplication for things like images and text.

Any feedback on the project would be appreciated:

https://github.com/demajh/prestige
by partiallypro | 2025-12-16 04:06:15+00:00
I think an electric full sized truck was always a mistake. To me the market is in the Tacoma/Ranger size for an EV truck. It's pretty simple. Those don't need to haul anything, they are smaller, more aerodynamic, can look sportier because they are more compact, etc. The Tacoma even today gets like 20mpg, which is absolutely abysmal for a 4-cylinder, it's so ripe for an electric motor. The obvious obstacle to overcome is longevity, given Tacomas especially are known to last practically forever.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-16 04:07:31+00:00
They don't overtly take bribes. It's a mixture of two things. The first is a corporate revolving door. Look at the head of a regulatory agency and he's often a corporate insider - regulatory capture. For instance many regulations that greatly expanded the reach and reduced requirements for GMOs passed under Michael R Taylor [1] as the head of the FDA.

He was a Vice President at Monsanto (and worked as part of their contracted legal team for 7 years prior) and some of his most well known publications involved arguing for an interpretation of a 1958 law, that forbid companies using carcinogens in products, to mean that they could only knowingly allow a 'small amount' of carcinogens. His Wiki page looks like it's been hit by a PR firm. Here [1] is an older version.

So you essentially have Monsanto, by proxy, in charge of the FDA. And this sort of stuff is much more the rule than the exception. Taylor was appointed by Obama. That's not to be partisan and suggest Obama was particularly bad here, but on the contrary I think many people have a positive view of him relative to more recent presidents, yet he continued on with these practices just like literally every other administration in modern history.

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The second thing is indirect payoffs. Massive companies like Monsanto have their tentacles in just about everything in any way remotely related to their domain. If you play ball with them, you're going to find doors and opportunities open for you everywhere. On the other hand if you turn against them they will similarly use all their resources to destroy you so much as possible.

A recent article on here discussed how key research published regarding the safety of Monsanto products was ghostwritten by Monsanto themselves and then handed off to some other 'scientists' to sign their name to it and publish. [2] Once that was indisputably revealed in court (only thanks to the really smart guys doing this literally talking about it, verbatim, in emails), it took some 8 years for the article to be retracted. People just don't want to go against Monsanto.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_R._Taylor...

[2] - https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/glyphosate-safety-art...
by pensatoio | 2025-12-16 04:08:22+00:00
If a shelf stable fuel like LP could be integrated into an EREV, I think that would be the perfect combo. All the dynamics of an EV with the extended range and easy fuel availability.

I’ve owned a M3P and MY, and I really want a truck, but it needs to be more capable than the electric offerings. An EREV truck would be fantastic.
by themafia | 2025-12-16 04:08:32+00:00
The vehicle has been in production for almost 5 years now. See the date on that video. Vehicles break and get damaged and need replacement so we always need to build them. Newer ones are also more efficient and provide greater safety and overall benefits to the owner. People's needs change and family sizes change.

You may perceive that there's "enough" but the market has clearly decided that you are wrong.
by QuadrupleA | 2025-12-16 04:09:53+00:00
So much of what's aimed at nontechnical consumers these days is full of dishonesty and abuse. Microsoft kinda turned Windows into something like this, you need OneDrive "for your protection", new telemetry and ads with every update, etc.

In much of the physical world thankfully there's laws and pretty-effective enforcement against people clubbing you on the head and taking your stuff, retail stores selling fake products and empty boxes, etc.

But the tech world is this ever-boiling global cauldron of intangible software processes and code - hard to get a handle on what to even regulate. Wish people would just be decent to each other, and that that would be culturally valued over materialism and moneymaking by any possible means. Perhaps it'll make a comeback.
by pimlottc | 2025-12-16 04:10:03+00:00
According to setlist.fm, that show [0] is indeed the only time he’s played “Heartbeat” and “Blueberry Hill”. For the other, he’s only played them 3 or 4 times each, and it’s the last show for both.

0: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bob-dylan/2014/academy-of-mus...
by 2bird3 | 2025-12-16 04:10:31+00:00
As someone who has witnessed BiScience tracking in the past, I am not surprised to to hear that they might be involved in all this. They came up in the past when researchers investigated the cyberhaven compromise [1][2]. Though the correlation might not all be there its kind of disappointing

[1] https://secureannex.com/blog/cyberhaven-extension-compromise.... [2] https://secureannex.com/blog/sclpfybn-moneitization-scheme/ (referenced in the article)
by 4fterd4rk | 2025-12-16 04:10:35+00:00
Electric trucks make perfect sense and are ideal for what most F-150s are actually used for. The problem is that the F-150 is a fashion accessory for low IQ types that cosplay as rancher/cowboy/whatever. They're buying the appearance of being tough. They're insecure. The electric F-150 doesn't make them feel better about their pathetic lives.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-16 04:11:14+00:00
Yes... and I was pointing out that people who think that they can write software... cannot talk about it, making them...?

You're completely missing the point that doing and talking are necessary in a world where developers aren't the only ones working on a project.

What use is someone that can write a priority queue, but not be able to be asked to write one, or to tell anyone to write one?

The same as someone who can ask for those things, but cannot do it themselves... right?
by shark_laser | 2025-12-16 04:12:06+00:00
I'm still confused about why multiple clients would be pushing the same message, especially given that Nostr events are signed, but that's by the by.

I think "without further implementation details" is the key point here. Client developers usually have these. Sure, Nostr is still small, but there's several clever ways of dealing with scalability issues. Not least of which is the outbox model, linked in my first post.

Your criticisms of the article are valid tho. And I don't think it is unique in its failing. Perhaps Nostr's fatal flaw is in the way it is being sold by its fans, myself included.

But that's OK. It will take off as Bitchat, or Primal, or whatever the next iteration is that figures out a way of selling Nostr's benefits, without confusing people with its implementation.
by db48x | 2025-12-16 04:12:11+00:00
You’ve either been meeting the wrong women or you need more rooms. One room where people can sit and talk to each other and a completely different room where people can sit and listen to music or watch a screen. Ideally if you want music in that first room you would put a piano in there, because playing the piano (and singing along) is a social activity that people can actually do together. Neither of these activities should be relegated to a garage.
by jaccola | 2025-12-16 04:12:40+00:00
In your original comment, it sounded like you would encourage billionaires to buy yachts, solely "for the good of the economy".

Scenario D: A homeowner adds 10 window to their home because the populous think he is stingy and will send him to the guillotine if he does not start spending his money on new windows!

Scenario D provides no benefit to society.

If the billionaire does want the yacht, then no encouragement is needed.
by esseph | 2025-12-16 04:13:38+00:00
It's the default for most of the parent/child distros.

Wayland Only (default, installed):

* Fedora

* Ubuntu

* openSUSE

* Arch Linux

* Pop!_OS

Wayland (default)

* Debian

* SUSE

I use Discord on Wayland every day and have for at least 3 years. Both AMD 9060 and NVIDIA 4060 (and an AMD RX 580).

The distro you use can have a huge impact on your OOTB experience.
by triceratops | 2025-12-16 04:14:12+00:00
> The launderer bets all their money on the up and up, and does actual gambling. They win back some percentage of that.

Ok? So the hypothetical MO is: Go to a casino, buy $200 worth of chips with cash, gamble till there's $150 left, then cash the chips out? And that's "clean" money?

Because unless the launderer is good at gambling they aren't walking away with more money than they walked in with. And if done consistently it will still draw questions about where the initial $200 came from (assume it's more like $2m).

I've never gambled in a casino so I don't know how this would work.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-16 04:15:46+00:00
> They look really legitimate on the outside

If that looks use-italics "really legitimate" to you, then you might be easily scammed. I'm not saying they're not legitimate, but nothing that you shared is a strong signal of legitimacy.

It would take a perhaps a few hundred dollars a month to maintain a business that looked exactly like this, and maybe a couple thousand to buy one that somebody else had aged ahead of time. You wouldn't have to have any actual operations. Just continuously filed corporate papers, a simple brochure website, and a couple virtual office accounts in places so dense that people don't know the virtual address sites by heart.

Old advice, but be careful believing what you encounter on the internet!
by kcplate | 2025-12-16 04:15:54+00:00
A former NSA guy worked with me seventeen years ago. He had been retired for five years from the agency at that point we worked together.

He did not own a mobile phone or any internet connected device. Was staunchly against it. This attitude was based on what he knew were the surveillance capabilities in 2003. Ended up retiring to a mountain cabin that was off grid.

Maybe he was crazy, but he never seemed like the prepper type. Just very very sober and serious about avoiding electronic communications.
by bix6 | 2025-12-16 04:16:05+00:00
Is the agent address real?

1000 N. WEST ST. STE. 1501, WILMINGTON, New Castle, DE, 19801

It almost matches this law firms address but not quite.

https://www.skjlaw.com/contact-us/

Brandywine Building 1000 N. West Street, Suite 1501 Wilmington DE 19801
by lll-o-lll | 2025-12-16 04:17:51+00:00
> This is a puzzle! Why would the market fail to reward innovative firms, or, conversely, why does it continue rewarding less innovative firms? Unfortunately, here we don’t have clear answers.

Puzzle no more, the answers are obvious! There are two interlinked mechanisms leading to this phenomenon. The rise of inequality (centralisation of power and wealth) and the rise in private debt. Both require coordinated governmental intervention to address, which won’t happen until the next economic crisis and dramatic drop in standards of living. Wish it was different, but economic theory (mainstream anyway) doesn’t account for our present situation and the control system is cycling into instability.

The upside is that we might learn the lessons this time around.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-16 04:19:06+00:00
> They have symbolic border disputes

They shot at each other in '21 [1].

> They can't affect each other militarily

China is building naval bases in Pakistan [2] and Sri Lanka [3]. India is heavily dependent on seaborne oil imports [4].

I'm not even going into the various chokes China has on India along the Himalayas. (India lacks similar game-over pinch points on Beijing.)

In the same way India controls the upstream Indus to Pakistan, China controls the upstream Brahmaputra to India [5]. (India maintains Nepal and Bhutan as de facto suzerainties.)

> not much geopolitically

Pakistan just beat India in an air battle. India flew Russian and French jets. Pakistan fielded an integrated Chinese air defence system.

> US has been trying to enlist India against China but India, as usual, is happy to accept our gifts of trade, technolgy, and miltary aid and to smile for the cameras, but isn't participating in our geopolitical struggles

India was banning Chinese imports before Trump. Which makes sense. China is building capabilities that would let it unilaterally shut down the Indian economy and potentially, if it can pressure Russia, military, on the order of months. That means territories, alliances and even market access terms New Delhi would prefer to determine as a sovereign become ones it must defer to Beijing on.

India won't (and shouldn't) fight America's fight for it. It's a properly sovereign state. But sovereignty takes work. And much of that work dovetails with the alliances America is building in the region.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_China%E2%80%...

[2] https://www.csis.org/analysis/pakistans-gwadar-port-new-nava...

[3] https://thediplomat.com/2023/08/aiddata-report-warns-of-a-ch...

[4] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/energy/oil-gas...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmaputra_River
by bitwize | 2025-12-16 04:19:20+00:00
Mouse models in papers like these mean they're using (live) mice to model human systems. They may even be altered or genetically engineered mice, which present problems of their own: for example Alzheimer's treatment candidates which work in mice that have been changed to have "Alzheimer's-like symptoms" rarely produce the same results in humans with actual Alzheimer's. But yes, in general an animal model is a cohort of live animals used to get a sense for what the effect would be like in humans.
by narrator | 2025-12-16 04:19:49+00:00
You should read F.A Hayek's essay on The Paradox of Savings [1]. Creation of capital like factories, education creating new specialists, or new processes lowers the cost of production and leads to real economic progress. Excessive spending without capital creation does nothing except keeping factors of production wastefully employed when they could be put to other uses and always ends in inflation.

[1] https://mises.org/mises-daily/hayek-paradox-saving
by pests | 2025-12-16 04:19:51+00:00
> US-centric political moderation on top.

This is something you opt-in to. Two concepts, labels and moderation policy.

You subscribe to "labelers" which will apply labels to posts. You can subscribe to many labelers. Some labelers will be generic or some will be focused on a certain idea/niche. You might have a labeler focusing on nsfw content or another for human vs ai content. Or one who just tags spiders. Labels can be anything, and are stand alone data objects in the atproto ecosystem.

Your moderation policy is up to you, on how to handle those above labels. You can decide to allow, warn, or block for each label applied by your labelers. Warn shows a content warning you must click through first to see.

Bsky does have a default labeler and moderation settings when you sign up, which you might be experiencing.
by x-complexity | 2025-12-16 04:20:54+00:00
> Probably not. All side effects need to go through the js side. So you can alway see where http calls are made

That can be circumnavigated by bundling the conversations into one POST to an API endpoint, along with a few hundred calls to several dummy endpoints to muddy the waters. Bonus points if you can make it look like an normal-passing update script.

It'll still show up in the end, but at this point your main goal is to delay the discovery as much as you can.
by dpark | 2025-12-16 04:22:12+00:00
It’s a real concern in the sense that a lot of them care about the capability.

Objectively a Ford F-150 is the wrong vehicle for what 90% of its buyers need. But it’s an aspirational purchase. It can go off-road. It can haul a boat. It can haul a bed full of gravel. It doesn’t matter for these purchasers that they rarely if ever actually do any of this.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-16 04:22:18+00:00
The role of a judge is not to give his own personal opinion on a topic. It's to listen to arguments between two different sides, who each may call upon experts, witnesses, present evidence, and so on. And they will then also argue how the other side's take is invalid or misleading. The role of the judge is to work to objectively determine which side has the law and evidence most on their side.

In cases where a judge is a domain expert, he may well end up even needing to recuse himself as that would generally entail opining on debatable topics one way or the other, which makes him unlikely to be able to effectively perform his role.
by zx8080 | 2025-12-16 04:24:47+00:00
In addition to VC funds spend at random things not necessarily all of which are good innovations (and many exploit it), also VCs probably have harder and less flexible requirements for ROI than many non-VC investors. That kills some (probably significant) number of innovations with a good potential of adding value to society in favour of those with greater potential of quick ROI and increase of capital concentration in one hands.

Benefits for society (which could have been behind many great inventions) is now almost totally nonsense, despite being proclaimed by many money behemots like OpenAI.