MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by unsupp0rted | 2025-12-15 20:13:23+00:00
I use semi-colons and em-dashes liberally too. But I tend to do a second pass to avoid redundancy.

e.g. > [...] and there is - in my observational opinion - a rather dark and insidious slant to it

Let's leave it at "insidious" and "in my opinion". Or drop "in my opinion" entirely, since it goes without saying.

Just take one dip and end it.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfprRZQxWps)
by dsernst | 2025-12-15 20:13:25+00:00
1) For context, that's already trivially true for all vote-by-mail voting: bring your blank ballot into the office, and give it to me signed-but-blank. Possible for in-person voting too, using the camera in your pocket.

2) Nonetheless, we have spent the last year developing advanced tools for coercion-resistance: https://siv.org/overrides. This allows voters-under-pressure to fake a vote the demanded way, then secretly get it nullified to cast their true choices — while still not allowing election admins or malware to cheat. Was available for all voters, but no one asked to use it.
by graeme | 2025-12-15 20:13:32+00:00
If you get a robot that automated it you'll feel the difference. Floors get a lot of dust. Especially if you have pets but even without.

I would not personally vacuum daily but having completely automated, vacuuming and mopping, every day has produced wonderful floors. Less work than what we did before too.

There's no germs involved here. Dustin on the floor is dirty socks, and you can peel crumbs and other things under foot under foot. It all goes away if floors are cleaned daily.
by thatfrenchguy | 2025-12-15 20:13:51+00:00
> United maintains a relatively consistent experience between domestic and international, minus the free alcohol.

A consistent extremely mediocre experience I guess. I've flown Lufthansa, Air France, Air Canada and United with a toddler and I'd get out of my way to avoid United in the future, never seen staff everywhere in that airline that was more unpleasant and unhelpful, especially with young children, as much as when flying United.
by zenapollo | 2025-12-15 20:13:53+00:00
I'm very pleased that it seems like there is a real movement happening in the self-hosted space. I've been self-hosting for about 6 months and actually started with umbrel because the UI looks so polished, which is comforting for people like me who didn't live in the CL. But there's a reason dev and eng tools always have the CL fallback, the GUI limits customization and hacking. And I hit those limits super fast on Umbrel. Then I moved to dokploy, then coolify, and finally `ssh homelab "cd /opt/<homelab>/stacks/<app> && docker compose up -d"`, and I couldn't be happier to tinker to my heart's desire.

The biggest upgrade of this movement is privacy & data sovereignty, so I hope it continues growing, and hope Umbrel has success in being a gateway for a lot of selfhost-curious.
by maxglute | 2025-12-15 20:13:53+00:00
Yes in 2019, look what's happening to TW politics now, green fatigue, DPP anti PRC rhetoric secured a couple elections but now the island new gen is increasingly jaded and post political because they realize the DPP Anti PRC card isn't improving their QoL. VS a few years post getting crushed, HKers also post political who realized they can simply live much better lives by embracing mainland (SZ) and not be such nativist/supremecist. Reality is democratic and shitlib politics is structurally failling everywhere, if the authoritarian gives you a priveledged deal, many TWer might eventually take it. Just look at HK reaction to recent fire, HKers lamenting how much more SZ and mainland tier1s have their shit together. The vibe is changing. PRC needs carrot and stick for TW, like how it's always been. Let's be real, in a post TW crisis there will be winners and losers, TWers need to see how winners are treated (tier1 affordtable life style) and how losers are treated (Gaza). Nevermind DPP just banned XHS because they realize they're losing culture war to mainland.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-15 20:13:53+00:00
D-Bus is the closest Linux desktop has from XPC, COM, Android IPC.

Maybe it should be treated better, not rebooting it every couple of times.

The problem is naturally the Linux desktop fragmentation that hinders a proper full stack approach to application development.

What works for GNOME is useless for KDE, and what works for KDE is useless for XFCE, which is ignored by Sway and so forth.
by alexeestec | 2025-12-15 20:13:58+00:00
SaaS was always just a transitional phase between desktop software and... this. We built entire businesses around being the interface layer, but if AI can interact with APIs directly, that whole layer gets compressed.

The optimistic angle nobody's exploring: maybe 'eating SaaS' means we finally escape the subscription hellscape where every basic function costs $29/month. If an AI agent can stitch together free/cheap APIs instead of forcing you into Notion/Airtable/Whatever, that's not destruction—that's evolution.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-12-15 20:14:33+00:00
Sure, but it would be even better if it was accessible by ChatGPT[0] and not some bespoke chat interface you created - because with ChatGPT, the AI has all the other tools and can actually use yours in intelligent ways as part of doing something for the user.

--

[0] - Or Claude, or Gemini.
OWASP PTK 9.2.4: CVE Lookup module and CVE-focused DAST attacks
by DenisPodgurskii | 2025-12-15 20:14:40+00:00
OWASP PTK 9.2.4 release: added a new CVE Lookup module (passive CVE fingerprinting) plus 10 new CVEs covered in both passive checks and active DAST attacks (inspired by the React2Shell discovery/validation flow). Also improved IAST with chrome.debugger and much stricter correlation/validation — aiming for zero false positives in recent runs — along with UI/stability fixes.
by zamadatix | 2025-12-15 20:14:42+00:00
Is it not fair to say 4x4 TB SSD is an example of at least a prosumer use case (barrier there is more like ~10 before needing workstation/server gear)? Joe Schmoe is doing on the better half of Steam gamers if he's rocking a 1x2 TB SSD as his primary drive.
by amarant | 2025-12-15 20:14:49+00:00
So they say they built umbrelOS from the ground up...

Did they really? I'm guessing this is a BSD of some kind? Or have they actually built their own kernel from scratch? I kinda doubt it, and it was hard to tell, even their GitHub readme.md is just marketing material, not the tech specifics for Devs I'm used to finding there.
by mNovak | 2025-12-15 20:15:15+00:00
As an engineer, I use Matlab (or rather, Octave the free equivalent) all the time. It's really great for numerical computing and plotting. Most things 'just work', there's a sizeable collection of packages, and I personally like how flexible the function inputs are.

Biggest drawback though is that it's over-optimized for matrix math, that it forces you to think about everything as matrices, even if that's not how your data naturally lies. The first thing they teach about performant Matlab code is that simple for-loops will tank performance. And you feel it pretty quickly, I saw a case once of some image processing, with a 1000x speedup from Matlab-optimized syntax.

Other things issues I've run into are string handling (painful), and generally OOP is unnatural. Would love to see something with the convenient math syntax of Matlab, but with broader ease of use of something like JS.
by alisa_fortin | 2025-12-15 20:15:15+00:00
Hi there! I am the PM for Veo on the Gemini API. I wanted to check with you on Point 8 - getting garbled sound when extending the video. Veo 3.1 is limited to the last 24 frames, 1s of video for the extension feature so sometimes dialog and audio are lacking continuity. We are working on this limitation. If you are experiencing a different issue altogether, would you be able to share the prompt so I can debug on my end? Thank you!
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-15 20:15:18+00:00
Correction: "laudanum", not "Luandanum". And there's no reason to capitalize that, nor opium.

Not clear why you think the Hapsburgs and the Medicis lost their reigns due to alcoholic opium use. That's a new one to me.

Edit: Also, I was unaware the Allies were uniformly under the influence (aside from the Yanks). Citation?
by echelon | 2025-12-15 20:15:22+00:00
I love how everyone is dunking on airlines (it's easy - I do too!), yet airlines are one of the least profitable business sectors to be in.

It's like dunking on QSR, but worse. These things are practically on welfare.

Everything is fungible, high risk, extremely expensive, extremely regulated. The margins are almost nil. They all fly the same planes. You can compete on "experience", and that's basically it.

Their dingy little ads, baggage fees, and wifi upsells are the the best they can muster. That's the entire farm, and they're scraping by as best they can. This is every single airline.

What a awful, utterly unrewarding business to be in.

We in tech are unbelievably privileged.
by pdabbadabba | 2025-12-15 20:15:23+00:00
> Try flying Lufthansa (or one of their half dozen subsidiaries created almost entirely to give worse service) anywhere inside of europe. Everything is a money grab and the service and boarding are terrible.

FWIW, I just took such a flight and didn't notice anything that compares unfavorably to a domestic U.S. airline. (To be clear, it certainly wasn't better either.) Is there anything specific you can point to?
by tstrimple | 2025-12-15 20:16:12+00:00
I have a friend who was in a serious car accident years ago and had a broken hip. It still gives him daily pain. He has turned to cannabis to treat his pain long term and it seem to be working for him. He never describes it as "immediately eliminating the pain" or anything close to that. Really just takes the edge off so he's not as focused on his pain. It's easier to push to the background and ignore.
by magundu | 2025-12-15 20:16:17+00:00
I’m working on DeepCost.ai, an AI-driven cloud cost optimization tool for AWS, GCP, and Azure.

The goal is to help small teams and fast-growing startups understand where cloud spend is leaking and automatically reduce waste (idle resources, over-provisioned workloads, inefficient Kubernetes setups, and AI API usage). Setup is lightweight, and we focus on actionable recommendations rather than massive dashboards.

We’re still early and testing with a few teams who want better cost visibility without running a full FinOps practice.

Website: https://deepcost.ai
by pstuart | 2025-12-15 20:17:04+00:00
I explicitly stated that it was "more than one" and in no way intimated that it was all cops.

One of the simplest things we could do as a country to help mitigate this is to end the War on Drugs. It was never about protecting people, and was always about enabling oppression of "others".

The other simple thing to do is to stop using cops for "welfare checks" and mental health crises -- those situations are uniformly better handled by social workers. This has tragically been put under the category of "defund the police", but the idea itself is sound. The "defund" slogan is so bad it's almost like it was created to sabotage the effort.
by amelius | 2025-12-15 20:17:06+00:00
I often read the advice that if something does not work on Linux, then switch from Wayland to X11.

Also, 20% is quite a big userbase. What you are saying is like saying that Firefox is "gone" because "percentage".

Trust me, X11 is not gone.

(written from a browser that runs in a VNC session that uses the X11 protocol under the hood)
by carabiner | 2025-12-15 20:17:16+00:00
It's so strange to hear you and GP talking as if no one has ever learned a foreign language without moving to another country. The US military has been teaching translators for decades at the Defense Language Institute in California, and people learn languages to conversational fluency in university, albeit inefficiently. Duolingo is a game meant to be fun and collect subscription fees, not designed to teach any useful skill.
by ComputerGuru | 2025-12-15 20:17:22+00:00
And I'm saying assuming that m.2 slots are sufficient to replace SATA is folly because it is only talking about SSDs.

And SATA SSDs do make sense, they are significantly more cost effective than NVMe and trivial to expand. Compare the simplicity, ease, and cost of building an array/pool of many disks comprised of either 2.5" SATA SSDs or M.2 NVMe and get back to me when you have a solution that can scale to 8, 14, or 60 disks as easily and cheaply as the SATA option can. There are many cases where the performance of SSDs going over ACHI (or SAS) is plenty and you don't need to pay the cost of going to full-on PCIe lanes per disk.
by sgarland | 2025-12-15 20:17:26+00:00
I have never seen anyone post an actual example of the German Tank problem creating an issue for them, only that it’s possible.

> I don’t have to think about it

And here we have the main problem of most DB issues I deal with on a daily basis - someone didn’t want to think about the implications of what they were doing, and it’s suddenly then my emergency because they have no idea how to address it.
by tehjoker | 2025-12-15 20:18:00+00:00
It is true and documented that the reason TikTok was challenged and censored was because it was exposing too many people to Israeli crimes in the genocide in Gaza. This was stated by high level officials. Of course, it also provides grist for accusing China of interfering in American politics, but of course, doing so would be a voice of morality, and you can't have that.

https://forward.com/culture/688840/tiktok-ban-gaza-palestine...

Edit: As a Jew, I also want to note that there is at least one dead comment mixing this with actual antisemitism, which has been apparently increasingly promoted by the right-wing media. My presumption is this is an attempt to create an actual anti-semitism crisis Israel can point to in order to shut down criticism from the left.
by lrvick | 2025-12-15 20:18:10+00:00
I am a security researcher and three letter agencies have talked to me more than a couple times about their interest in my work.

I got a used manual transmission easy to repair vehicle with no internet, no cell phone, I only use cash IRL, and the only device I travel with is a QubesOS laptop.

If the CIA wants to track me, they are going to have to work for it. I hope to waste as much of their time as possible.
by 47282847 | 2025-12-15 20:18:38+00:00
> Vault 7 is a series of documents that WikiLeaks began to publish on 7 March 2017, detailing the activities and capabilities of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. The files, dating from 2013 to 2016, include details on the agency's software capabilities, such as the ability to compromise cars, smart TVs, web browsers including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera, the operating systems of most smartphones including Apple's iOS and Google's Android, and computer operating systems including Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux.

> In July 2022, former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte was convicted of leaking the documents to WikiLeaks, and in February 2024 sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7
by Herring | 2025-12-15 20:18:45+00:00
That's kind of misleading. HK had a lot of civil freedoms (rule of law, independent judiciary, freedom of speech). China explicitly blocked earlier democratization. The vote only managed to get through after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown made HK panic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Hong_Kong
by eikenberry | 2025-12-15 20:18:46+00:00
> Coding is the last part, and the easiest one. The real value is in understanding the world (the processes involved) and modeling it in a way that cuts a good compromise between ease of use and complexity.

Coding and modeling are interleaved. Prototyping is basically thinking through the models you are considering. If you split the two, you'll end up with a bad model, bad software or both.
by amichal | 2025-12-15 20:18:54+00:00
I feel the same, 72 million monthly page views is about 8 pages per second even if in a single timezone (72e6 / 8h * 30d * 3600h/s) - even with today's heavy weight pages we are talking under well under 1000 req/s. Assuming they are not super image/asset heavy i would expect this to comfortably be served by a couple of reasonable old school ngnix servers[1]. If each page was a full megabyte of uncached content we are < 10Gbits/sec. Probably under 1

The build logic to decide which things to rebuild of course is probably the interesting bits but we dont need all these services... </grey-beard-rant>

[1] https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/nginx&eval=c18b8feaeca...

edit: to be less ranty they are more or less building static sites out of their Next.js codebase but on-demand updated etc which is indeed interesting but none of this needs cloudflare/hyerscaler tech

Not sure how many customers/sites they have. Perhaps they don't want to spend CPU regenerating all sites on every deployment? They do describe a content-driven pre-warmer but I'm still unclear why this couldn't be a content-driven static site generator running on some build machine
by ben_w | 2025-12-15 20:19:08+00:00
I use HTML directly, with a small custom-made wrapper so all I write is the main content itself, not the head element or the visible footer. Some scripts to build the index page, the tags page, the categories page. Hosted on GitHub, but it would work just as well on my own domain. I made some stylesheets for fun, the default is deliberately minimalistic.

I've found I have so few readers I don't really need a comment section, so I've not even implemented one.
by Arainach | 2025-12-15 20:19:31+00:00
Workers can't "leave a job at any time" when healthcare is tied to employment.

They can't leave a job at any time if the job is working them at hours that prevent them from interviewing anywhere else.

They can't leave a job for a better job when employers are colluding - either directly or indirectly with things like credit checks for jobs not involving handling finances.
by vel0city | 2025-12-15 20:19:33+00:00
> WHO exactly is MAGA really? I am no longer convinced that MAGA is "real". Or really significant.

Many are easy to spot. All the people with giant "Make America Great Again" flags in their front yard or attached to their lifted pickup trucks. The people in my neighborhood who have their Christmas light decor as a giant sign of "TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING". Funny how they complain about the leftists killing Christmas by removing Christ but they went from having a nativity scene to having TRUMP take up their holiday decorations.

This org? Over the top patriotic branding (FREEDOM chat, logo is an eagle, etc). They make a point to be on Truth Social. On their Truth Social profile they have interviews on Breitbart and similar right-leaning people, including Laura Trump. Their brand Truth Social page constantly complaining about SOCIALISM.

If you're not seeing the MAGA alignment of this chat platform you're just not looking very hard.
by kkfx | 2025-12-15 20:19:44+00:00
Like frigghome.ai I do not see much interest in these, but they could be an interesting way to bring a homeserver per home, potentially powering a public blockchain for digital identity, (smart)contracts hashed publicly, and a digital currency not owned by anyone in particular with also Liquid Feedback blockchain to construct a new society.

The road is very long, but technically feasible, obviously I expect ferocious push against...
by mike_hearn | 2025-12-15 20:19:45+00:00
And what happens when those people don't want to have your requirements "set" on them? Do you force those peaceful people to do your bidding with violence? Would that not make you the evil ones?

Look at the reply from the guy I was questioning. It took just two or three mild questions for him to go full Hitler, talking about how his comrades will have to "discipline" a whole generation of "oligarchs" (i.e. anyone who makes things he doesn't personally prioritize).

Collectivist thinking always leads to violence, and eventually societal failure.
by coldtea | 2025-12-15 20:19:48+00:00
>This is exactly what happened and how we got here: turning a blind eye to the destruction of democracy and the growing authoritarianism in Russia

That was never their problem. The latter not selling out to their conglomerates was (even if that was because local scumbags kept that loot). The elites could not give a rats arse for "authoritarianism", when 'allies' embrace it, like Bibi and his ethnocide, or the new Syrian ISIS guy, they are fine with it. Just a pretext to increase arms spending and gather special powers.

The elites couldn't care less about the direct toll to "innocent people in their homes" either. When that toll specifically and shamelessly targetted an enclosed population of millions, including children, the sick, and the elderly, they kept full diplomatic ties and supported the thing with arms, trade, and other methods of collaboration. (Russia too of course, only a few shining examples like Ireland didn't).

As for the "Cold War era, when half of Europe was a Russian prison camp", funny times those. Are we to believe that, the, no stranger to enslaving people France, still fighting wars to keep its colonies in the 1950s and 1960s, and ever since keeping its grubby hands in Africa, was so heartbroken at the plight of eastern Europe having to suffer "really existing socialism"?

Or, maybe it was Germany who was moved to tears about it, after first having no problem supporting the mustache man for over a decade, ethnically cleaning those same eastern provinces, gassing several million, and voting and maintaining ex-Nazis in positions of power well into the 70s.

With so much democratic sensitivity, it's strange then that most of Europe didn't appear much concerned with several European countries having western-approved dictaroships - anything as long as it wasn't that pesky communism!
by 0x3f | 2025-12-15 20:20:18+00:00
> you aren't even allowed to say what you think about the US government on social media and then travel to the US despite what the constitution says.

Does this matter? The question is whether the UK has a moral authority to tell China off over free speech. Nobody has said that different countries don't have varying types of restrictions on speech.

Even if I agreed with your characterisation of the US, you're talking about visitors, not residents or citizens. The UK also regularly denies visas for speech.

You're defending against whataboutism from China to the UK by invoking whataboutism from the UK to the US here.

> I looked up the case against Joey Barton and it looks like he was harassing people online which yes is illegal here.

No, harassment is a specific and different offence. He was convicted specifically for sending 'grossly offensive' messages, not harassing people. The definition of that crime is based on the content of the messages, not the pattern of their transmission.

> The Quran burning outside the Turkish Consulate was even more weak stuff from you. The guy was fined £240 and told not to do it again.

I don't really get how this refutes anything I've said. It's illegal to protest in this manner in the UK.

What is your argument here, that OK it's illegal but the punishment is not very severe so no problem? You understand that the specifics of _what_ is illegal is the criticism.

> Neither of these are about freedom of speech are they, they are about harassment online and deliberately trying to provoke muslims.

Neither of these is about harassment. Or they would have been convicted of harassment.