MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonymous908213 | 2025-12-18 13:46:16+00:00
But the reality is that it is too simple to communicate secretly

This is a horrifying thought to be reading on this site of all places, and I can't help but feel that humanity is well and truly screwed if this mentality has seeped this far into the culture. *Communicating secretly is a human right*. A legal right under international law (ICCPR article 17, ECHR article 8), and a constitutional right in any country worth living in. There can not possibly be such a thing as "too simple to exercise your human right to privacy". It's like asserting that it is too simple to choose your line of work, or that it is too simple to live in the city of your choosing.

and the government has an interest in protecting its citizens

The government has more than an interest, it has a legal obligation to protecting the human rights of its citizens.
by qsort | 2025-12-18 13:46:27+00:00
I believe the argument isn't that ancient statues were ugly, but rather that reconstructions are ugly (unfortunately this has been used to argue against the now ascertained fact that ancient statues were indeed painted). Purely subjective judgement from someone not trained in the arts: that photo of the Augusto di Prima Porta doesn't look like a great paint-job. The idea that, like the statue itself, the painting must instead have been a great work of art lost to time seems solid to me.
Ask HN: Show and tell your successfull sideprojects based in EU
by gethly | 2025-12-18 13:46:46+00:00
This is a related "show and tell" to the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307973 but with the aim of listing only projects that succeeded(are profitable) while being based in the European Union. As "we" all know, it is orders of magnitude harder to succeed in EU due to bureaucracy, language barriers and lack of financing. This topic aims to highlight projects that were able to make it despite all the road blocks of the EU environment.

I myself am not yet profitable, so I won't use this as self promotion. But It would be good to hear your struggles and how you've overcame them. In other words, give some background/story as inspiration to others.
by hermanzegerman | 2025-12-18 13:47:05+00:00
They can cancel the subscription if you don't agree to the new proposition after they fulfilled their contract. But they can't just change the terms of the agreement after it was made.

But doing so would mean risking to loose customers who were just too lazy to cancel. So most Businesses don't like it. (Spotify did cancel their old contracts though, for people who had not agreed with the recent price hike)
by squigz | 2025-12-18 13:47:24+00:00
We were ahead of the curve in getting our attentions spans hijacked.... and yet most of us work in fields where we must maintain attention for long periods of time?

Maybe, just maybe, it's possible to integrate technology into one's life without it being detrimental?

Also those examples don't really paint the picture you think it does. Currently, I have about 200 browser tabs open, Sublime Text, several games, Docker containers, and a bunch of other stuff.

That doesn't mean I'm doing all those things at once, or within a very short period of time.
by 71bw | 2025-12-18 13:47:30+00:00
Running on an i5-7500T in Firefox with a lot of stuff going on in the background (work PC running Win11) the game maintains a completely stable 60 FPS. Its insane, given the native build of the game sometimes hitched on my 7600x+6900xt combo at home when loading assets. None of that here!
by paulcole | 2025-12-18 13:48:05+00:00
No, I don’t think that is the correct analogy. The analogy in the blog post is that you (one person) gets a month headstart on the test. You would look like a genius because you’d outscore everyone else who had the time constraint.

Yes, if you play a different game you’ll find different high performers. That is obvious. But it is not what the blog post is saying. It is saying if you let one person play the same game but by different rules, they will look better.
by wtfse | 2025-12-18 13:48:18+00:00
hey this is the author. Thanks for everyones comment here guys.

There as a actually a vulnerability Clickhouse, which helps you to execute any query on the remote postgresl. By default, you can't execute any random query! This bug was seperately reported to the Clickhouse and has been fixed seperately https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/74144/commits/...
by fallinditch | 2025-12-18 13:48:32+00:00
That's sad. There are so many factors at play. I would say that with my friend and his daughter, one of the reasons it worked out well was because they spent so much time together: traveling to competitions, driving to the mountains for skiing every weekend. They enjoyed each other's company and bonded over these shared experiences, and things like introducing her to the Beatles and the Grateful Dead.
by buescher | 2025-12-18 13:48:41+00:00
I think the best explanation is that classicists are not makeup artists. I am reminded of reading some classicists' attempt to create garum in the kitchen by making some unpleasant horror of mashed fish or something back in the eighties or nineties. No one ever mentioned in those kinds of write-ups back then that they still make fish sauce in Italy. (I looked for the source I'm thinking of and it's drowned out by more credible modern attempts). There's a tendency the further north you go to think of the classical world as completely lost, discontinuous, and opaque to us, too, which adds to it.
by rajvarkala | 2025-12-18 13:48:53+00:00
How do you verify AWS charges? By inspecting logs? There goes the arbiter.

I get the binary part. The biggest difference is the subjective component of outcome? However, a tech provider - especially Agent provider - has to bring down the subjective to a quantitative metric when selling. If that cannot be done, I am not sure what we are going to be buying from Agent builders/providers?
by johnwatson11218 | 2025-12-18 13:48:54+00:00
I've read that by the end of ancient Egyptian history they had used tricks like a picture of an eye for the letter or sound 'I' or a picture of a bee for the sound of 'B' there was a complete alphabet embedded within the system. To be literate you had to know the tricks from the ancient and middle kingdoms as well. The result was three complete alphabets, similar to modern Japanese. From that point of view the invention of the alphabet was more of a simplification. This always reminded me of the situation in modern enterprise development where lots of infrastructure was written in-house.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-12-18 13:49:04+00:00
I do think toxicity is often extremely subjective. Ironically the limits and definitions are often defined by the most toxic people, because they have the least tolerance in general. But that is just my opinion.

I don't know what limits HN uses. You are green at first when it is euphemistically true. You aren't allowed to downvote at first (although restrictions always apply to direct responses?). Generally I would describe the limits as minimally invasive. I would guess the average upvote score for a comment on HN is probably something about 3?

These mechanisms are quite smart and not too invasive, but not the sole reason for HN being like this.

For your network it highly depends on what audience you want to nurture. Do you want the classic golf club where people feel superior and exclusive to others? Use vouching and ID checking.

Do you want free thinkers? Don't moderate much, but you may have to gatekeep people looking for offence (or just don't feed the trolls and ignore them).

Do you want a broad audience or enthusiasts? "Exploitability" is not only a matter of education, but it certainly helps. If that is a problem on your platform, you need to find out about the type of exploitation to counter it.

Not everyone is alike and will get along, there are different personalities having different expectations. If you cater to all, you probably won't be successful.

I cannot say what attracts people preferring "pleasant" (meaning?) discussions on the net. I probably more or less belong at the other end of that spectrum.
by miroljub | 2025-12-18 13:49:24+00:00
>> The UK arrests 12k people per year for social media posts, using vague laws to undermine free speech. > This doesn't mean anything in isolation.

It's pretty good proxy for freedom of speech, one of the features without which democracy is not possible.

>> Here's the citation from the EU parliament itself [1], since I doubt you'd believe non-government sources.

> Do we know each other?

Probably not, but I can smell a state believer when I see him.

> No, but there aren't many that are much better so when you take all of that in to account, yes UK an Germany are beacons of democracy.

If they are, it's a pretty low baseline. They are but a shadow of what they once were.

>> It's sad that those countries declined so fast that we are now comparing them.

> I already asked this but by what metric are they declining faste?

The article I posted has a link [1]. There you can see the number of people arrested went up from 5502 in 2017 to 12183 in 2023. It's a pretty sharp decline in freedom of speech.

[1] https://archive.is/kC5x2
by sschueller | 2025-12-18 13:49:30+00:00
It came out of a project that I did [1] from which I wanted to see what it takes to turn that into an actual product[2]. Hardware is a while other game than software especially in low quantity as you still need to deal with things like CE.

[1] https://sschueller.github.io/posts/vbz-fahrgastinformation/

[2] https://sschueller.github.io/posts/turning-a-project-into-a-...
by Aldipower | 2025-12-18 13:49:43+00:00
Because I was frustrated of the pricing and feature list of TrainingPeaks, I've built my own training planning and analytics platform for endurance athletes (and coaches too!). It is called Tredict (https://www.tredict.com.) and it covers almost everything for runners, cyclists and swimmers over training effort forecasting and prediction, a comprehensive training log, training plans, workout planning, Vo2Max calculation, FTP assessments and collaboration with other athletes and coaches, equipment tracking and so on and so on. Quite a lot of things TrainingPeaks offers too. It has integrations for sending and execution of planned workouts to your watch with Garmin, Wahoo, Suunto, Coros, icTrainer and it receives executed trainings or health data from Polar, Dropbox, Oura, Withings and others! I think I did more then 15 oAuth integrations in total over Tredict's existens? And the platform offers an oAuth2 API for 3-party integrations on its own.

The payment model is a pre-paid model for 12 months of write access to your calendar. It brings ~500-600 Euros (before taxes) a month since 6 years.

https://www.tredict.com
by wongarsu | 2025-12-18 13:49:54+00:00
"trolling" in this instance seems to be a nicer way of saying "misleading to create attention". It's hard to deny that "look at how garish these beautiful statures originally looked" created a lot more attention than a theoretical "Roman statues looked pretty nice, but with paint"

It's an unsubstantiated theory, but the author does go out of their way to say that this might not even be objectionable, if it happened at all
by tyleo | 2025-12-18 13:50:03+00:00
I have a theory that vibe coding existed before AI.

I’ve worked with plenty of developers who are happy to slam null checks everywhere to solve NREs with no thought to why the object is null, should it even be null here, etc. There’s just a vibe that the null check works and solves the problem at hand.

I actually think a few folks like this can be valuable around the edges of software but whole systems built like this are a nightmare to work on. IMO AI vibe coding is an accelerant on this style of not knowing why something works but seeing what you want on the screen.
by ubermonkey | 2025-12-18 13:52:35+00:00
So sure, you pick a high-test bike absolutely not intended for anything but urban hooliganism.

There are virtually zero bikes with an range of only 100 miles. People still joke about the VMax because it actually DID have that limitation. It's the exception that proves the rule.

The vast majority of bikes are good for materially more than that. Even my very staid, traditional Bonnville will easily make 150 on the highway if not farther. My BMW will double that.

My main point about the Livewire is that it's more than Harley failed IT because they're absolutely terrified of annoying their MAGA boomer base that is incredibly hostile to the whole IDEA of EVs.

Daily commuter bikes are a GREAT use case for electrics, IMO. I know a couple folks here in Durham who do it (one, in fact, on a Livewire). I haven't looked hard at electric bikes myself because I do much farther rides than that, so the utility isn't there -- but as an urban runabout, they're awesome.
by strangescript | 2025-12-18 13:53:29+00:00
Do they consider code readability, formatting and variable naming as "errors" for the overall count. That seems dubious given where we are headed.

No one cares what a compiler or js minifier names its variables in its output.

Yes, if you don't believe we will get there ever, then this is totally valid complaint. You are also wrong about the future.
by creata | 2025-12-18 13:54:01+00:00
For people too lazy to click, the second post was:

> I think it’s time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter.

> Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE.

I'm not sure what the punishment for such a clear but ineffective incitement to violence should be, but it shouldn't be nothing.
by businessmate | 2025-12-18 13:54:12+00:00
AI assistants now function as an external reasoning layer for capital markets.

They summarise filings, compare issuers, infer regulatory posture, generate suitability narratives, and compress disclosure into authoritative conclusions consumed by investors, analysts, journalists, counterparties, and internal teams.

This does not create new disclosure obligations under securities law.

It does create a new and growing exposure: material AI-mediated misstatements about issuers, occurring outside the enterprise perimeter, without monitoring, evidence, or rebuttal capability.

That exposure is no longer theoretical. By the end of 2025, it is measurable, repeatable, and documented.
by krbaccord94f | 2025-12-18 13:54:17+00:00
Rain water collection structures that distill H2O in terms of pH.

Gonabad qanat network, reputedly the world’s largest, extends for more than 20 miles beneath the Barakuh Mountains of northeast Iran. The tunnels are more than 3 feet high, reach a depth of a thousand feet, and are supplied by more than 400 vertical wells for maintenance.
by rramadass | 2025-12-18 13:54:36+00:00
Yep, i looked him up too. He has books and YouTube channel/videos on "Brain Energy" theory and "Metabolic Theory of Mental Illness" which seem to make a lot of sense.

The fundamental problem is that the "Modern World/Economy" has forced us to orient our Circadian Rhythms, Diet, Lifestyle etc. around its needs rather than the other way around. This makes absolutely no sense. We are what we Eat and are affected by our immediate Environment (both Natural and Societal). Thus the Organism cannot be separated from its Environment and all problems both Mental and Physical must have its roots in maladaptation. So any solution would have to be holistic starting with diet and lifestyle changes. This has been the basis for ancient systems of medicine like Ayurveda, Yoga etc. and yet most of us have forgotten these holistic approaches but instead look only at symptomatic treatment i.e. "popping pills" when things go wrong.

Chris Palmer YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisPalmerMD

His testimony at the Senate roundtable - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KskcoSkmjI
by iamnothere | 2025-12-18 13:54:44+00:00
They can cancel the prior tier or bump up the price on renewal though. This is the problem with subscriptions, you become complacent and accept incremental changes until you finally notice that you’re being rinsed.

And actually some subscriptions can include unilateral price increases in the contract (a subscription is a contract) with early termination fees. It just isn’t commonly done because word gets around and you will lose business. You typically only see this in predatory industries where there are few alternatives and the service is necessary, like local waste management.

If the contract is unfair enough you can usually escape it in court or arbitration, but nobody wants to go through that.
by disintegrator | 2025-12-18 13:54:56+00:00
Disclaimer: I work at Speakeasy but not the author.

It probably needs better wording because it's sort of the wrong complexity metric. Many customers have gigantic OpenAPI documents with large numbers of deep and wide JSON Schemas that contain things like allOf/oneOf/anyOf sub-schemas, all of which need to be parsed into an object model for use by downstream tooling (e.g. code generation). For those customers, we want generation time to be super speedy and since this is a core aspect of Speakeasy, it made a ton of sense to us to take full control of OpenAPI parsing and optimize it.
by laurentiurad | 2025-12-18 13:55:10+00:00
I am not sure if this is a problem that should prompt an architecture change of that caliber. I use a distributed network of GPU-machines and each request is handled sequential. If all machines are busy, then the request goes into a queue already and is being picked up by the first machine that becomes available.

Also, the user got the pictures after just a few minutes and there is a clear disclaimer, and an email is being sent to the user once the pics are ready. On top of that, I have no complaints from other users about it. It's clear to me that the intent of the user was to cause some reputation harm, which I think didn't work. I also got an email from a person with the same first name (not sure if it's the same person tho) that they offer UX services for Headsnap.
by syhol | 2025-12-18 13:55:11+00:00
Frontend churn has chilled out so much over the last few years. The default webapp stack today has been the same for 5 years now, next.js (9yo) react (12yo) tailwind (8yo) postgres (36yo). I'm not endorsing this stack, it just seems to be the norm now.

Compare that to what we had in the late 00's and early 10's we went through prototype -> mootools -> jquery -> backbone -> angularjs -> ember -> react, all in about 6 years. Thats a new recommended framework every year. If you want to complain about fads and churn, hop on over to AI development, they have plenty.
by simonw | 2025-12-18 13:55:12+00:00
That's bad and those juniors should be taught to do better or be "managed out of the company".

Their job is to deliver code that they have proved to work.

This inspired me to write a longer form version of this: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-we-have-proven-to...
by magicalist | 2025-12-18 13:55:46+00:00
Clicking on a random link:

> It doesn't help that all males currently under the age of 40 were raised to be supercucks

https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1854708962462982465

Dear lord, yeah, this is why I completely tuned him out years ago. Somewhat ironically it's the Blow fans in this thread that are cherry picking his comments. He's way too online so says things like this all the time, and it's the fans that are in here demanding a smoking gun comment that somehow proves he's awful rather than telling him "sometimes it's ok to stfu" to comments like this that enable and echo chamber him.

And I say this as a fan of Braid and The Witness (at least of the first couple of layers of puzzles...as you go deeper, just like with Braid, you find more and more self-indulgent windbaggery that should have been on the cutting room floor).
Show HN: I built an app to fix my ADHD using the FBI meme
by m_giovani | 2025-12-18 13:56:20+00:00
I had a weird idea: what if getting distracted was so annoying that my brain just... stopped doing it?

Now when I open YouTube instead of working, the FBI OPEN UP meme blasts at full volume until I alt-tab away. I literally cannot hear the video over the sound of my screen being raided.

When I'm focused: lofi beats play. When I'm distracted: FBI raid.

It sounds dumb but after a few weeks I think this really works for me.

You can configure which sites/apps trigger the raid (regex patterns), and it works on both macOS and Windows.

Native desktop app built with Go + Wails, Svelte + Tailwind for the UI. No telemetry, your shame stays local and session restricted.
by j-conn | 2025-12-18 13:56:26+00:00
There was. From the article: '''

ZeroEyes said that trained employees review alerts before they are sent and that its software can make a lifesaving difference in averting mass shootings by alerting law enforcement to weapons on campus within seconds. At Lawton Chiles, the student flagged by ZeroEyes was holding his musical instrument like a rifle, co-founder Sam Alaimo told The Washington Post. “We don’t think we made an error, nor does the school,” Alaimo said. “That was better to dispatch [police] than not dispatch.”

'''
by reify | 2025-12-18 13:56:49+00:00
I experienced the same.

For me, its about not engaging in unnecessary stress. It carries a sense that someone is controlling your life.

I have had a new rule for the last 10 years.

I only open official mail amd emails on Mondays. I never open any postal mail or emails on Fridays.

I have learned that these official Friday emails and postal mail are intentional sent to create stress.

Imagine if you open an important letter on Friday afternoon about an unpaid bill, you cannot speak to anyone about it, you get no reply from an email, the business only works 9-5 mon-fri, so you are left with an entire weekends worth of stress.

Take control. On Monday I have time to consider and think about my options. stress free
by Loughla | 2025-12-18 13:57:00+00:00
I work at a college, and can tell you that (while everyone views their childhoods with rose colored glasses), at my institution, statistically kids today are less able to cope with difficulty than they were when I started my career.

When I started, the top three reasons for students leaving the institution were a) family priorities (work), b) transportation, and c) grades (overall GPA less than 1.5).

For the 2024-25 academic year, the reasons were a) anxiety, b) grades (overall GPA between 2.5 and 3, with less than 2 'd' or 'f' grades for the final semester), and c) unstated reason related to interactions with faculty or staff (difficult conversations about study habits, or realistic major/timeline conversations).

In other words, they hit one small barrier, or have to shift gears even slightly, and everything goes to pieces.

We don't let them make decisions when they're kids and the stakes are low, and then don't understand why they can't make decisions when they're adults. . . Or, there are a minority of parents that seem to enjoy making every decision for their kids. It's not great.