MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bionade24 | 2025-12-29 20:14:20+00:00
> But I'd love to see Switzerland take over some of those international connections.

The Giruno EMUs of the SBB serving the Eurocity from Hamburg to Basel are having technical malfunctions causing delays & aborted trainrides for the last few weeks.

The Eurocity(Express) Zurich-Munich is the most delayed long-distance train route in Germany. Most of the German route is only single-tracked and overcrowded.
by kiran_kumar_sf | 2025-12-29 20:14:23+00:00
Abstract

Much of our effort is devoted to debating and educating about whether specific beliefs are “true”
or “false,” or whether humanity is becoming “more peaceful.” The implicit hope is that rational
persuasion will continue to expand the cooperative majority over time - an effort that remains
both valuable and necessary. But these efforts operate on averages. In complex systems
dominated by extreme outcomes, averages are irrelevant.

The only metric that matters is tail risk.

From a systems-engineering perspective, tribalism - whether ethnic, religious, nationalistic, or
ideological - was a necessary and unavoidable train stop in the evolutionary journey that
enabled early human coordination. But in the modern technological era, it introduces a non-zero
probability of irreversible systemic collapse.

The “Great Filter” of the Fermi Paradox is not a particular war or catastrophe. It is the
mathematical consequence of operating indefinitely in a system where the probability of total
failure is greater than zero. If Russian roulette is played long enough, entropy eventually wins.
by EA-3167 | 2025-12-29 20:14:37+00:00
I think that's nice! Now my ad-blocker and their ad-generator can have a loving relationship without me being involved. The circle is complete!

Seriously though, every bit of ad-tech news I've heard for the last decade explains why even my 70 year old mother knows what an ad-blocker is and uses it religiously. Meanwhile paywalls are popping up everywhere and you know... I prefer them to ads; they were always used as a bogeyman by ad-tech bros, but truly they're not bad at all. For one thing a paywall really helps you to stop and think how much you care about a site.
by sjducb | 2025-12-29 20:14:45+00:00
On day one the UKs porn ban was used to censor political speech.

Discussion and images of the protests around migrant hotels were age restricted because they contained adult content (racist content, fighting and burning things).

This age restriction meant that only logged in, age verified, users could see the content. Loads of adults are not age verified.

This is censorship of the news and political speech.
by metadope | 2025-12-29 20:14:53+00:00
This is just another cynical game of "pin the tale on the donkey". The current administration hopes, once again, to blindfold the American public, spin us around in circles, and get us to stick it to a leading opposition candidate.

I'm not saying there's no fraud in Minnesota.

I'm saying this tale is a developing political story in which all the forces of the party in power are aligning to attack the image of the man they have identified as a not-so-far-future threat.

In this episode, there's no need to make a "perfect phone call" to a distant foreign leader to ask for a little favor.

Deploy the influencer troops; get the once-legitimate agencies to blow some smoke under the color of authority. Invite the public to join in, incite outrage with a tale that swipes at the face of the whole state. Bang the same drum as always, outrage over peon cheaters, stoke fury at lower class fraud.

But make sure to stick that pin in the governor.

Make that ass bray, just in case we let the peons vote some day.
by mvkel | 2025-12-29 20:15:04+00:00
One massive bullet that is missing that is worth more than the other things combined: synthesizing all company data and developing a cohesive strategy that achieves some stated long term vision.

There is no shortage of data a company has at its disposal these days and a CEO will bias towards what they feel they are best at. We see that with Steve Jobs versus Tim Cook. Tim loves seeing numbers go up into the right, so that's where the passion is in the company these days. An AI CEO that could not only balance that out but cancel it out could be a real strength.

The human ceo would still be indispensable in setting the company vision, and defining its culture and values; crucial ingredients for execution.
by worik | 2025-12-29 20:15:07+00:00
AI companies are spending billions of dollars constructing data centers at warp speed around the world. It's the reason why Gogia says the demand for these chips isn't just a cyclical blip.

That makes no sense, except in the very short term.

The Datacentre building going on is clearly cyclic, the start of a cycle, but still a cycle. There are finite requirements, finite money and finite tolerance for loss.

RAM lead in times to ramp up production are long, but also finite.

This will correct, again. Hopefully in the meantime we learn to do more with less, always an innovation engine
by pegasus | 2025-12-29 20:15:33+00:00
I agree it's hard to not get sucked into the soap opera aspect of it all. Taking a break once in a while is a healthy strategy, but I think ultimately the sweet spot is to be informed about the important developments as they happen, something that shouldn't take more than 30 mins per day of watching news and political analysis while preparing food etc.

After all, there's more to the democratic process than just voting. There's a global conversation going on which needs informed and diverse participants. Plus there's a personal learning aspect to it, which goes much deeper when one tries to understand and anticipate trends as they happen only to have those inklings and reasonings being checked by the course of history. It's an ongoing lesson in the mysteries of human nature.
by restalis | 2025-12-29 20:15:54+00:00
"No stuffing about with swapping physical hardware just because I've temporarily relocated myself."

That's exactly the use case for which the carriers offer roaming plans. The bonus is that you (as in your phone number) get to remain connected and accessible by your contacts, as no other phone number is involved at any point. One should not need to change the SIM unless is about one's phone change.
by alphazard | 2025-12-29 20:16:05+00:00
The thing that always trips me up is the lack of isolation/sandboxing that all of the AI programming tools provide.
I want to orchestrate a workforce of agents, but they can't be trusted not to run amok.

Does anyone have a better way to do this other than spinning up a cloud VM to run goose or claude or whatever poorly isolated agent tool?
by avipeltz | 2025-12-29 20:16:46+00:00
Thanks for the question. For most traditional web apps using frameworks like Next.js, Vite, etc they'll automatically try the next port if its in use (3000-> 3001 -> 3003). We give a visualization of which ports are running from each worktree so you can see at a glance whats where.

For more complex setups if your app has hardcoded ports or multiple services that need coordination you can use setup/teardown scripts to manage this. Either dynamically assigning ports or killing the previous server before starting a new one (you can also kill the previous sever manually).

In practice most users aren't running all 10 agent's dev servers at once (yet), you're usually actively previewing 1-2 at at time while the other are working (writing code, running tests, reviewing, etc). But please give it a try and let me know if you encounter anything you want us to improve :)
by latexr | 2025-12-29 20:17:57+00:00
Agreed, I’ve experienced that myself. But I’ve also experienced the opposite: the user who always complains, doesn’t think things through, refuses to consider how their ideas would impact other users, doesn’t follow instructions…

In some cases, had I had the power to do so, there are a few users who I’d gladly have “fired”: offer a full refund in exchange for no more support.
Zynk, Cross-platform, unlimited, private and efficient file transfer
by justmarc | 2025-12-29 20:18:04+00:00
I built Zynk because I was tired of file transfer being a "solved problem" that still sucked.

AirDrop? kinda Apple-only. Cloud drives? Size limits? Waiting for uploads? WeTransfer? caps caps caps. Browser uploads? No folders supported? One network hiccup and you start over.

What Zynk does: Transfers files between any devices/OS on your local network, also without Internet connectivity, between you and anyone else over the Internet.

- Efficiently transfer files or folders of any size, rsync-style, terabytes welcome.

- Resumable: close your laptop, lose WiFi, switch networks, pick up where you left off

- All platforms supported: Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Android TV, Steam Deck for everyday use, CLI for power users and automation,

- Web share and drop links for sharing or receiving transfers from anyone with the browser

- Media viewer/player built into the app

- Messaging + reactions for efficient collaboration

- P2P + Always End-to-end encrypted (we can't see your files or messages)

I wanted something that "just worked" the way AirDrop does, but across everything I own and the people I care about. Built-in chat because context can matter when you're bouncing stuff between people. File preview/play built in. Passes the mom test.

It's being developed to be a one stop shop tool that is capable of covering any file transfer need and scenario easily, efficiently, and securely/privately.

Free, ad free, with Pro tier available for those who need a lot more. Would love feedback from the HN crowd!

We have a long roadmap ahead. Expect new and unique feature announcements soon.

Happy to answer any questions.

https://zynk.it
by mmooss | 2025-12-29 20:18:18+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean, but the NYC subways - and public transportation I've been on in many cities - work well in terms of social trust. The evidence doesn't fit your theory.

Does everything work perfectly all the time? No, not in anything. If you cross the street, maybe someone will drive right into you. But I cross streets without a problem.
by bayindirh | 2025-12-29 20:18:27+00:00
This is because of Gabe and Valve itself, and it's not a universal constant. I have quite a few licensed software where I have the license, but installing the software is impossible.

This is why I still keep a copy of the software I bought, and religiously backup that trove. Because someday that S3 bucket or SendOwl link or company server will go down.

Sometimes, a company will raise prices, so the publisher will have to kill the old links. C64Audio had to switch to BandCamp and invalidate SendOwl links because of that price hike.

I'm still bitter about not being able to reset my Test Drive Unlimited install count online just because I have updated my computer and transferred the whole Windows installation to the new system back in the day.

There are not many ways to battle the entropy of the universe.
by oezi | 2025-12-29 20:18:28+00:00
Well according to press freedom indices many European countries and the US are quite similarly ranked. Some countries better some countries worse.

Some countries have stronger institutions against dictatorships than others but unfortunately we have seen that even the US isn't immune and that slides auch as in Poland and Hungary are possible.

There is always hope that things can turn around (as in Poland even though the road is hard and there are setbacks)
by happosai | 2025-12-29 20:18:30+00:00
Currently Chinese are competitive because because developers work on burnout level intensity and workers have no life but factory around the clock.

Of course, the salaries and working conditions are going up in China while west is eroding worker rights as fast as we can. One the factories will come back here simply because we'll end up cheaper. Don't buy solar made by Xinjiang forced labor, by solar panels made by illegal immigrant prison labor!
by doctorpangloss | 2025-12-29 20:18:37+00:00
i suppose you could speculate, why do i feel Unity's marketing isn't deceptive; why do I think it's a pretty well written game engine; and why am i ignoring these points about C# performance? because i'm stupid? i can't really say, because i'll be downvoted haha. a lot of smart, wise successful game developers choose unity...
by ValentineC | 2025-12-29 20:18:39+00:00
> I was surprised to see that the phone migration process took care of that - at the end I had the new phone with an eSIM and my usual number, and the old phone with a deactivated SIM card.

It's nice to know that you're on a telco that supports "eSIM Quick Transfer", but that's still a feature that telcos need to explicitly support.
by deergomoo | 2025-12-29 20:18:44+00:00
Formatted? I guess not really, because it’s trivially easy to reformat it. But how it’s structured, the data structures and algorithms it uses, the way it models the problem space, the way it handles failures? That all matters, because ultimately the computer still has to run the code.

It may be more extreme than what you are suggesting here, but there are definitely people out there who think that code quality no longer matters. I find that viewpoint maddening. I was already of the opinion that the average quality of software is appalling, even before we start talking about generated code. Probably 99% of all CPU cycles today are wasted relative to how fast software could be.

Of course there are trade-offs: we can’t and shouldn’t all be shipping only hand-optimised machine code. But the degree to which we waste these incredible resources is slightly nauseating.

Just because something doesn’t have to be better, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive to make it so.
by rphln | 2025-12-29 20:18:56+00:00
Flamegraphs are a really lovely tool for visualizing trees. Slightly related anecdote:

A while ago I was experimenting with interactive exploration of (huge) Monte Carlo Tree Search trees. Inspired by file system visualization tools, my first attempts were also tree maps and sunburst graphs, but I ran into the same problems as in the article.

I tried flamegraphs next with the following setup:

- The number of visits in each node maps to the width and order of each bar (i.e., the most visited node was first and was the largest)

- The expected value maps to the color of each bar.

And then it was a perfect fit: it's easy to see what's going on in each branch at the first levels, and the deeper levels can be explored through drilling down.
by bitwize | 2025-12-29 20:18:57+00:00
My father mentored some engineering college students about 15 years ago. He came away from the experience a bit disappointed: they knew how to model a part, but not how to machine one. When he came up in the world of slide-rule-and-drafting-pencil mechanical engineering, every engineer knew, in principle at least, how to machine a part; such knowledge was necessary for good designs because a design was instructions to shop-floor personnel on how to make the part, including info like materials to be used, tolerances, tools, etc.
by bgarbiak | 2025-12-29 20:18:58+00:00
Europe doesn’t need new entrants. They got legacy automakers that are no worse at making EVs than Chinese and American startups.

The problem is: they can’t make them cheap enough to compete with China in developing countries. I’m not sure if they even want to do that at this point, the margins there are so low. It’s easier to just rebadge a Chinese car as your own (Renault and GM already do that in SA).
by EvanAnderson | 2025-12-29 20:19:04+00:00
I was using Straight Talk prior to the Verizon acquisition and I've been holding-on to my one remaining pre-acquisition SIM like a rent controlled apartment. I've moved that SIM through a number of phones since I got it back in 2013. I absolutely hate that, moving forward, I have to get Verizon's permission to switch phones.
by warmedcookie | 2025-12-29 20:19:31+00:00
In order to be a good little cog in the capitalist machine, all you need is passion and interest in the subject you are pursuing. Classes not relevant to your subject (ex. Liberal Arts) are mostly a waste of time for such things, which I would have gladly used AI generated flash cards for.

Memorize the things they want you to learn and move on. It's not like you are going to recall it later on because you don't have a passion or interest for it. The only things I recall in those classes are from professors who had passion in the subject, hence why I now have a weird interest in 1920s American History.
by jkuria | 2025-12-29 20:19:43+00:00
This is really annoying. They force the "Optimize Text Per Person" and it is really hard to turn off. If you accept even one "enhancement" they turn OTPP and there isn't a disable button. And then it spews garbage in some of the ads--copy that is full of non-sequiturs and first and second lines that are complete nonesense. They should be held to account.
by threethirtytwo | 2025-12-29 20:19:52+00:00
That’s a very long and indirect jump to make.

The claim that admitting a larger set of programs improves reliability goes through several speculative steps: that the extra programs are correct, that they are simpler, that simplicity leads to fewer mistakes, and that those mistakes would not have been caught elsewhere. None of that follows from the language semantics. It’s a human-factor argument layered on top of assumptions.

By contrast, static typing removing a class of runtime failures is immediate and unconditional. Programs that would fail at runtime with type errors simply cannot execute. No assumptions about developer skill, code style, review quality, or time pressure are needed.

Even in practice, this is why dynamic languages tend to reintroduce types via linters, contracts, or optional typing systems. The extra expressiveness doesn’t translate into higher reliability; it increases the error surface and then has to be constrained again.

So the expressiveness argument doesn’t invalidate the claim. It changes the topic. One side is a direct property of the language. The other is a speculative, multi-step causal story about human behavior. That’s why the original claim is neither unfalsifiable nor “just vibes.”

So regardless of speculative human factors, the claim stands: holding the language semantics constant, static typing strictly reduces the set of possible runtime failures, and therefore strictly increases reliability in the only direct, non-contingent sense available.
by hvb2 | 2025-12-29 20:20:10+00:00
> Pretty much every electric car has charging stops built-in to the navigation

That's my expectation too.

> For some the quality of the data isn’t as high, but it will be there.

This is a real issue. You might be stranded with low quality suggestions. Chargers that don't work. The large number of accounts you need to have as every charger has their own etcetera
by systemtest | 2025-12-29 20:20:26+00:00
I was in Germany once at a red light for a pedestrian crossing. After the last pedestrian had fully crossed the street and the pedestrian light turned red I drove off. I did not wait for my own light to turn green which is typical in my country.

The person behind me flashed their lights. Cultural difference I guess. Why wait when there is nothing to wait for.
by therobots927 | 2025-12-29 20:20:28+00:00
Think about a maze drawn on a piece of paper. Because we’re in 3D you can see all of the maze at once but if you were a 2D entity inside the maze you would only see the walls / entrances / exits directly in front or behind you. Now imagine drawing a line from the entrance to the exit - that’s 2D + a time dimension. Now make it a 3D maze and an entity existing outside of spacetime would be able to see all events happening at once in 3D.
by overfeed | 2025-12-29 20:20:54+00:00
> only recovering with Zen (and even then it took a few generations for Zen to mature).

Zen was a beast from day one. Zen 1 more or less matched Intel on single-core perf and outmatched it on multicore. Zen 1 blew Intel out of water on perf/$, so much so that the morning after booting up my Zen 1 computer, I bought as many AMD shares as I could afford.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-12-29 20:21:08+00:00
I bought my parents their first smartphones back in 2023. I got unlocked iPhone SE3's w/ physical SIMs. I was quite pleased.

My father recently had a problem w/ the phone showing SIM-related error messages. He called the carrier and they "helpfully" switched him to an eSIM.

The best laid plans... >sigh<
by throwaway150 | 2025-12-29 20:21:29+00:00
> You don't have a choice pasting links into some apps. They may strip out query and hash components, percent encode, force URL shortener services, etc.

If an app is mangling the URL by stripping the query and hash components, then it is breaking URLs and you have a bigger problem than worrying about URLs being logged. Stop using such apps immediately and report the bugs to the app developers.
by KomoD | 2025-12-29 20:21:32+00:00
curl -x http://xxxxx:xxxxx@geo.iproyal.com:11202 -L https://aroma.global.ssl.fastly.net/

<html><body><h1>You don't seem to be using a TCP Proxy!</h1><p>(If you are using a VPN or any other kind of proxy that is not a TCP Proxy, this will not detect it)</p></body></html>
by fwsgonzo | 2025-12-29 20:22:32+00:00
Hey, and thanks! libloong is a little bit restrained in its design. It's designed specifically to be the lowest latency sandbox. libriscv is more flexible in that it can load dynamic ELFs and run programs with LuaJIT embedded. I actually haven't been able to run Go programs in libloong yet, but I do want to reach that level!
by naet | 2025-12-29 20:23:11+00:00
I'm a big fan of podcasts; this year I've heard multiple podcasts that I listen to say that the bottom fell out of podcast ad sponsorship money and they lost a lot of funding. Many were looking for alternative ways to fund their podcasts like selling monthly subscriptions.

I wonder if the ad market will start to drop out for other stuff like websites too. AI might cannibalize search engine traffic... if google can basically scrape your site and then front-run you in the search results with an AI summary, you might not be able to make some money off the content you produce with online ads. Some will say good riddance to the SEO spam type of websites that are stuffed with horrible ads, but there are also people making legitimately good or well intentioned content that live off ad spend. I know I personally enjoy reading certain web comics that seem to be largely funded with online ads. I certainly don't like ads, but sometimes I'd rather see something for free with an ad instead of paying for it.

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On a different note, I sometimes use Instagram and recently I have seen a ton of ads for a local tech event... but the event already passed a good while ago, so every time I see the ad it's completely pointless. Someone out there is getting screwed on their ad spend. I think a lot of companies are probably losing money on bad metrics reported for ad views, ads shown to the wrong audience, fake clicks, etc. I'm not saying ads are completely worthless or can't drive sales and conversions but I do think it's easy to get fooled into thinking they are doing more than they are.