MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vel0city | 2025-12-16 17:33:34+00:00
Right? These people are apparently taking off their seatbelts while rolling to the stop, sprinting to the bathroom, emptying their bowels in a few seconds, not thoroughly washing their hands, and sprinting back to the car as fast as they can to shave a few minutes off their several hour trip. God help them if there's only one toilet, I guess the family is going to share today.

Forget that. Take your time. Be comfortable. You've got a few more hours to go, enjoy yourself. Stretch, have your snack outside of the car so it doesn't get as messy and you're not hungry in a little bit (and as the driver, so you're not distracted trying to eat while driving). Don't get me wrong, don't just be idle at the stop, do what you need to do and get moving again. But you don't need to rush. Its not going to make that big of a difference in the end.
by Bender | 2025-12-16 17:33:37+00:00
It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs

They would be far from first. Any time I create a Wildcard cert in LE I immediately see a ton of sub-domain enumeration in my DNS query logs. Just for fun I create a bunch of wildcard certs for domains I do not even use just to keep their bots busy ... not used as in parked domains. This has been going on about as long as the CT logs have existed.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-16 17:33:59+00:00
I have a long history of sneering at people who ceaselessly buy Apple products despite their lack of economic "efficiency" but I "have a finely calibrated sense of value" ie I'm a tightwad.

Being "economically efficient" with laptop purchases saves you a few hundred to a thousand dollars.

Being just reasonable with a car purchase saves you $25k.

These are not at all comparable to the average american.

The average new car price is $50k. Almost zero people need that. The Toyota Corolla, which is overpriced, still starts at under $25k. Considering inflation it's about 30% more expensive than the base model from the 90s, but the modern Corolla is more comparable IMO to the old Camry, who's price point it exactly matches.

For that money you get a safer car than the 90s, dramatically so. You get modern infotainment, like CarPlay and AndroidAuto. You get a backup camera and bluetooth connectivity. Aircon, power windows, central locking. You get 170HP from a 2.0L 4cyl that is rather silly for a commuter car. Only 32 mpg City. This is a small family car.

But Americans do not want that. Americans want to put down $50k for 80 months for a MANLY man truck for MANLY MAN things. Or the same money for a stupid box on the same frame as an """SUV"""

This is not "avocado toast" or "Just get a roommate". Americans are spending absurd money on absurd vehicles for absurd reasons.

Advances in the reliability of modern cars made the car market weird. If you have any financial sense at all, new cars almost never make sense, because the 5 year old model is still excellent. That means the only people left in that market are not making decisions on financial merits. But that also means the entire market is controlled by the whims of the easily persuadeable and financially illiterate.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-16 17:34:28+00:00
> Why is the reaction seen as irrational or immature but not the action that triggered it?

The analogous (but with an opposite direction) action would be campaigning to make gay marriage legal. Nobody has a problem with people doing that. The reason people object to Eich's firing is because it is a very clear escalation in the culture war, not because they have strong opinions about gay marriage.
by ericmcer | 2025-12-16 17:34:51+00:00
It is annoying when it is dogmatically followed, but for certain things it makes sense to have a generic interface between your business logic and specific library/service code.

Being all or nothing with it can be tedious though. Like if you are using Postgres... you probably don't need have abstracted adapters that makes it easier to run on some other DB later.
by foxyv | 2025-12-16 17:35:01+00:00
> Further, an ad hominem is when a person attacks someone's character without any base.

An Ad-Hominem is specifically an attack on someone's arguments using some un-related attack on their character.

EG: "Dr. John's Opinions about vaccines are invalid because he smokes cigarettes." or "James assertion that the earth is round is invalid because he thinks that dogs are better than cats."

Ad-Hom is short for argumentum ad hominem. If you aren't making an argument with your attack, you are just insulting someone.
by 1123581321 | 2025-12-16 17:35:03+00:00
Apple told the European Commission it would roll out the new terms in January 2026. This letter is saying that the uncertainty leading up to January 2026 is causing damage and not in concordance with the European Commission finding in August 2025. Do I understand that right?

Did the European Commission agree to the January 2026 deadline or not? Have they been working internally behind the scenes with Apple or are they as in the dark as these developers? What is the legal mechanism to push disclosure a month earlier and why is the letter only being published now?

These are sincere questions of mine, in case it's not clear.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-12-16 17:35:17+00:00
It's a huge drag to debate this issue because multiple pollsters have published polls of both Justin Trudeau and Carney, and the results are seldom identical. Consequently, there's a lot of research involved both of polls and pollsters, and the end result won't be conclusive.

It is worth noting, polls aside, that the Carney election both finished off the NDP, and resulted in Conservative Poilievre losing his seat. And recently, Conservatives have started crossing the floor to join Carney. Justin Trudeau was popular with Liberals. Carney is generally popular.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-12-16 17:35:21+00:00
RFC 7766

3. Terminology

o Pipelining: the sending of multiple queries and responses over a single TCP connection but not waiting for any outstanding replies before sending another query.

o Out-of-Order Processing: The processing of queries concurrently and the returning of individual responses as soon as they are available, possibly out of order. This will most likely occur in recursive servers; however, it is possible in authoritative servers that, for example, have different backend data stores.

6.1. Current Practices

Other more modern protocols (e.g., HTTP/1.1 [RFC7230], HTTP/2 [RFC7540]) have support by default for persistent TCP connections for all requests. Connections are then normally closed via a 'connection close' signal from one party.

6.2.1. Connection Reuse

To amortise connection setup costs, both clients and servers SHOULD support connection reuse by sending multiple queries and responses over a single persistent TCP connection.

When sending multiple queries over a TCP connection, clients MUST NOT reuse the DNS Message ID of an in-flight query on that connection in order to avoid Message ID collisions. This is especially important if the server could be performing out-of-order processing (see Section 7).

6.2.1.1. Query Pipelining

In order to achieve performance on par with UDP, DNS clients SHOULD pipeline their queries.

It is likely that DNS servers need to process pipelined queries concurrently and also send out-of-order responses over TCP in order to provide the level of performance possible with UDP transport.

DNS servers (especially recursive) MUST expect to receive pipelined queries. The server SHOULD process TCP queries concurrently, just as it would for UDP. The server SHOULD answer all pipelined queries, even if they are received in quick succession. The handling of responses to pipelined queries is covered in Section 7.

7. Response Reordering

Authoritative servers and recursive resolvers are RECOMMENDED to support the preparing of responses in parallel and sending them out of order, regardless of the transport protocol in use.

In order to achieve performance on par with UDP, recursive resolvers SHOULD process TCP queries in parallel and return individual responses as soon as they are available, possibly out of order.

[HTTP/1.1 pipelining can only do ordered responses]
by rpdillon | 2025-12-16 17:35:21+00:00
I commented about this a few weeks ago here about this, but essentially: v2 allows you to block things you can't see, but you still probably don't want, like folks hiding cloud analytics behind CNAME cloaking to allow it to appear as a first-party site rather than Google Analytics, for example.

You won't "feel" this in your day-to-day browsing, but if you're concerned about your data being collected, v2 matters.
by Y-bar | 2025-12-16 17:35:38+00:00
I disagree that the choice is simple.

In reality there are only two mobile operating systems where there is any hardware to purchase in my town. These two operating systems are the only mobile devices where my bank (and as far as I am aware other competing banks in my area) offer banking on.

There are many variables that goes into the purchase of a mobile phone, the App Store is only one of many. Google is marginally better at allowing side-loading or alternative stores, there is a degree of flexibility in hardware choices and so on. But on the other hand I trust Apple more (absolutely not fully, mind you) with regards to general privacy for example. This privacy protection in conjunction with significantly better movie recording compared to Android are the two primary reasons I stay on iOS.

But at the same time, I am highly critical of Apple’s conduct here. And because it is effectively impossible to vote with my wallet I am voting with my vote so that politicians enact policies that allow me to use my devices the way I want.
by sunaookami | 2025-12-16 17:35:54+00:00
>IMO this is a policy change that can Break the Internet, as many archived/legacy sites on old-school certificates may not be able to afford the upfront tech or ongoing labor to transition from annual to effectively-monthly renewals, and will simply be shut down.

This is just fear-mongering, legacy sites still need to update their tech and going fully automatic for cert renewals leads to less maintenance burden then renewing them manually.
by kridsdale3 | 2025-12-16 17:36:00+00:00
I recently heard that when automobiles were new the USA quickly ended up in a state with 80 competing manufacturing brands. In a couple decades, the market figured out what customers actually want and what styles and features mattered, and the competition ecosystem consolidated to 5 brands.

The same happened with GPUs in the 90s. When Jensen formed Nvidia there were 70 other companies selling Graphics Cards that you could put in a PCI slot. Now there are 2.
by nomilk | 2025-12-16 17:36:06+00:00
From Wikipedia:

> The Sega Channel was an online game service developed by Sega for the Sega Genesis video game console, serving as a content delivery system. Launched on December 12, 1994, the Sega Channel was provided to the public by TCI and Time Warner Cable through cable television services by way of coaxial cable. It was a pay to play service, through which customers could access Genesis games online, play game demos, and get cheat codes. Lasting until July 31, 1998, the Sega Channel operated three years after the release of Sega's next generation console, the Sega Saturn. Though criticized for its poorly timed launch and costly subscription fee, the Sega Channel has been praised for its innovations in downloadable content and impact on online game services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-16 17:36:08+00:00
Dealers certainly make less profit on EVs. The Dealer model was built around regular, required maintenance schedules as profit centers. EVs have far fewer moving parts and fluids with regular maintenance schedules.

Dealers are incentivized to sell more ICE than EVs for the good of their own profits. Ford and GM unfortunately can't cannibalize their relationship with dealers under current American regulations and so will feel a lot of pressure to somehow keep EVs "luxury" and low volume/high margin deals for the dealers so they feel less bad about the loss of maintenance profits.

At one point Ford was teasing building their EV division as a mini-startup with direct-to-consumer sales and no pressure to meet dealer needs/demands, because that would be the only true way to compete with Tesla and Rivian and others. That probably would have been the best interest for Ford EVs, but obviously just floating those rumors was enough to stop it by the number of dealers that are also shareholders in Ford. (A problem for Ford all the way back to Ford v. Dodge Brothers.)
by zamadatix | 2025-12-16 17:36:19+00:00
Better yet, if an LLM does add value to the use cases why is it that I have one "integrated" LLM when editing a document in the webpage, another "integrated" LLM in the browser, and then an "integrated" LLM in the OS. If there is value to be had I want it to integrate with the different things on the system as they exist just like I do, not be shoehorned into whatever company abc decided to bundle with just their product(s) too.
by apognwsi | 2025-12-16 17:36:27+00:00
smoking is not an appropriate analogy at least insofar it is primarily damaging to the individual (claims of second hand smoke aside), whereas exposing oneself during covid is more broadly damaging as the purpose of social distancing was specifically to avoid spreading the disease, not to oneself, but to more vulnerable individuals. moreover it can be indicative that he is self-interested, that is, by acting hypocritically, while not in and of itself evidence, is consistent with 'charlatan behavior' as is, i would add, interviewing a known charlatan dr aman. aman detractors will think he is 'being shown' but the reality is that aman or similar wins legitimacy, which the interviewer knows, since his aim is entertainment, not medicine, in his capacity as an interviewer.

it is not ad-hominem to try to understand a person's motivations for expressing a particular opinion, which is why the above poster referred to 'character' which is not specific to the definition of ad-hominem, but is in the spirit thereof, that is, distracting from the argument. but if the person has shown themselves to be working contradictorily to public health policy, especially in consideration of the hippocratic oath, you may ask reasonably what they are about.
by lenerdenator | 2025-12-16 17:36:27+00:00
Mozilla needs to get back to just being a browser project with foundation-based corporate governance.

I don't get why everything has to include the latest trend. Do what the Linux kernel project does: be a bazaar. If someone wants to create deeper AI integration into Firefox, they'll pick up that task, put it in a branch, and the community will discuss whether it merits inclusion in the main. If it does, it'll be there; if not, it won't be.

Operate on donations of time and money with a clear goal of what the project should be.
by whstl | 2025-12-16 17:37:00+00:00
This video that was posted here yesterday shows some details: https://youtu.be/W420BOqga_s?t=93

Apparently there is scraping of public data + keyword matching + moderators filtering the matches.

An example that he shows a bit earlier in the video comes from this page, which has an RSS feed: https://www.cityofsanbenito.com/AgendaCenter/City-Commission...

The video says it's open source but I can't find the source.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-12-16 17:37:37+00:00
I don't know, I think there's some benefit to health insurance being more than insurance.

I think there's public-health benefits to subsidizing preventative/routine care, since

1. People are dumb and will decline to pay the $100-$300 it takes to decide whether something needs treating even if they can afford it

2. It's just kind of inhumane to make people struggling on the edge actually do the math on whether they should pay sticker price to get e.g. an ingrown nail treated or just wait and hope it doesn't get infected, costing them vastly more or losing them a toe, and that's even if the probabilistic and cost information was readily available.

3. Even if we assume a perfectly informed and rational populace, rational individual decisions aren't the same as rational societal decisions. For example, a lot of people actually probably shouldn't pay $1000 for a given vaccine, since their risk of infection is pretty low as long as enough other people are vaccinated and pretty high if enough other are not, whether or not they're vaccinated. However, across a society, paying ~$1,000 per head to get everyone vaccinated might be worth it to get to the break point where we go from 250 million lost workdays and 1 million deaths to 1 million lost workdays and 1 thousand deaths. And then if you're making 300 million vaccines instead of 500 thousand, you can probably get the price down to at least $500, maybe less.

Maybe these things shouldn't be a function of health insurance. Maybe we should just directly subsidize the specific care we want to be widely available. But a lot of other countries seem to have decided it makes sense to gather public health expenditure and cost-sharing into one umbrella also called "insurance," so I'm not convinced it would make that little sense for us.
by clintonb | 2025-12-16 17:37:49+00:00
Yikes! They seem to be gunning for services like WarpBuild, which we've used for a couple years to keep our costs low. The $0.002 per minute on top of WarpBuild's costs is exactly GitHub's new pricing scheme.

I'm happy for competition, but this seems a bit foul since we users aren't getting anything tangible beyond the promise of improvements and investments that I don't need.
by rkpiotr | 2025-12-16 17:37:51+00:00
With player hubs, it's always a stutter, but it also depends on the network connection - you can have someone with the best rig showing 10 FPS and someone on a laptop with 30-40 FPS at the same time.

Mass mobs combat in Karazhan is a pretty good raid tester - in raids, the FPS won't be as low as that (AVG), but the 1%/0.1% lows will be quite close. For systems with weaker and weaker CPUs, even the AVG FPS will come closer and closer as the game will get a single-core "world state" bottleneck more easily. I did some comparison benchmarks before for this, including a world boss world quest with lots of people ;)

Also, regressions in WoW are a nightmare to handle. You go to the latest raid, the FPS is fine, but someone next to you has a slideshow.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-12-16 17:37:52+00:00
Just curious to understand how you think vehicles are such a critical point for decreasing crime in the US?

I do agree that we have heavy crime (though HN will say it's all anecdotal and the stats show we're in a period of remarkable peace).

I just don't know that greater enforcement around vehicle use will have the outsized effect that you're claiming.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-16 17:37:56+00:00
The point was not "whatever the majority wants is therefore good". The point is that if you were to apply the "you get fired from your job for this" standard evenly, the majority of the country would've had to get fired from their jobs. That is a pretty unreasonable standard to apply, imo.

Also, come on man. It's in really bad taste to compare stuff to the Holocaust. Nobody was being murdered here, it's not remotely the same.
by kappuchino | 2025-12-16 17:37:57+00:00
Until https://github.com/vllora/vllora/tree/v0.1.6 it was Apache licensed. Then Elastic Search 2. Nah.

IMHO the "don't remove anything with a licensekey ever" part in the license is the kind of potential poison that I would never recommend this to my or any other company. More than a few fellow engineers consider nagware an insult and see the potential to twist your arm late in the game making former free functions part of a new "optimized pay package", which you need because you can't fix the bug in the goddamn license part that is a security risk. LOL. (Not saying that you ever do. See below)

And there is no moat, debugging AI flows is a few prompts and a claude code max, google gemini pro or codex whatever for a couple of days while doing the usual things will happen.

Note: Its not about this software specific. I learned that the cuts and bruises of incidents before you come along are the ones that shape behaviour of your partners/colleagues/peers. You may have the purest intentions and best approaches, but someone longe before you ruined it. Its not you, its you chosing the same path.
by wrs | 2025-12-16 17:37:59+00:00
If you're parsing a new language that you're trying to define, I do recommend using a parser generator to check your grammar, even if your "real" parser is handwritten for good reasons. A parser generator will insist on your grammar being unambiguous, or at least tell you where it is ambiguous. Without this sanity check, your unconstrained handwritten parser is almost guaranteed to not actually parse the language you think it parses.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-12-16 17:38:08+00:00
> This actually strikes me as a good thing. The more we can get big dumb ads out of meatspace and confine everything to devices, the better, in my opinion (though once they figure out targeted ads in public that could suck).

I mean the issue is the billboards aren't going away, they're just costing less and less which means you get ads for shittier products (see aforementioned lawyers, reverse mortgages and other financial scams, dick pills, etc.). If they were getting taken down I'd heartily agree with you.

> I know this is an unpopular opinion here, but I get a lot more value out of targeted social media ads than I ever did billboards or TV commercials. They actually...show me niche things that are relevant to my interests, that I didn't know about. It's much closer to the underlying real value of advertising than the Coca-Cola billboard model is.

Perhaps they work for you. I still largely get the experience that after I buy a toilet seat for example on Amazon, Amazon then regularly shows me ads for additional toilet seats, as though I've taken up throne collecting as a hobby or something.

> Also this. It's not dystopian. It's genuinely a better experience than sitting through a single commercial break of a TV show in the 90s (of which I'm sure we all sat through thousands). They blend in. They are easily skippable, they don't dominate near as much of your attention. It's no worse than most of the other stuff competing for your attention.

I mean, I personally loathe the way my attention is constantly being redirected, or attempted to be, by loud inane bullshit. I tolerate it, of course, what other option does one have, but I certainly wouldn't call it a good or healthy thing. I think our society would leap forward 20 years if we pushed the entirety of ad-tech into the ocean.
by unethical_ban | 2025-12-16 17:38:16+00:00
>Firefox's only unique selling point is "We aren't a massive data vampire."

That's a big selling point. Along with "still allows ad-blocking extensions".

Besides being able to turn off all online AI features, and the fact that forks like Librewolf will inevitably strip it out, I am stunned by how HN readers think "Translate this for me immediately and accurately" and related functions are not desirable to the average person.
by SkyeCA | 2025-12-16 17:38:19+00:00
>I can only say being against this is either it’s self-interest or not able to grasp it.

I'm massively burnt out, what can I say? I can grasp new tech perfectly fine, but I don't want to. I quite honestly can't muster enough energy to care about "revolutionary" things anymore.

If anything I resent having to deal with yet more "revolutionary" bullshit.
by roryirvine | 2025-12-16 17:38:48+00:00
Most academic and technical writing in the UK still uses the z form, and the OED and Collins dictionaries tend to prefer it, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

In popular writing, the s forms dominate - I've not heard the MS Word explanation before, but the most popular UK-produced word processors and spellcheckers in the 1980s (eg. Locoscript/Locospell, Protext/Prospell, 1st Word) tended to come from companies in the Cambridge area or which were founded by Cambridge grads, so would naturally have used the s spellings by default.