MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by siva7 | 2025-12-15 22:59:57+00:00
Analytics like what?! Sentry? See, i'm the first one to waste 15+ hours of my own time claude vibing some barely working analytics in order to save 15 dollars for not paying a proven solution to professionals who really understand that problem domain - but we all agree how dumb this is. But if i really can vibe code that analytics in 5 minutes, that thing was never a proven SaaS business in the first place and my use case with certainty a toy app with zero users..
by jotux | 2025-12-15 23:00:02+00:00
Left federal and my private 401k is 150% match up to 6%. Better than TSP in everything except fees, which are slightly higher. But that mattered a lot less than my pay, I was a GS-15 in a leadership role and took a role in the private sector for a 30% pay increase back into an individual contributor role. So much less work and a huge pay increase.
by Buttons840 | 2025-12-15 23:00:03+00:00
This whole situations is such a sad clown show.

There was a legitimate debate to be had about the dangers of TikTok and the importance of free speech. Do we ban TikTok and squash free speech, or is free speech of supreme importance, even if it means allowing a dangerous foreign app--these were the questions of a few years ago.

So what happened? Let's recap:

Congress passed a law banning TikTok. Free speech was trampled.

The Supreme Court upheld the ban. Free speech was trampled again.

Then, the law just doesn't get enforced. The dangers of TikTok remain.

Everyone loses and the entire political process around this has been a joke.

We've learned that Congress can just ban apps by name, effectively, and yet the great danger that made us cross this line in the first place remains in use under the control of China.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-12-15 23:00:05+00:00
Tapping in different parts of the text box, or dragging the finger in the text box, allow a lot more precise control than what one can easily do by dragging the space bar in the iPhone keyboard, much closer to what you can do on a full computer with regular keyboard and mouse.

The difference is especially noticeable for tasks like editing / deleting / selecting specific parts of long URLs, and on smaller phones where the iPhone space bar is smaller than on larger phones.
by gediz | 2025-12-15 23:00:16+00:00
I wanted to export long chats from Microsoft Teams but turns out Microsoft Graph API or some PowerShell scripts were necessary. API access is not enabled by our IT manager by default so existing solutions dis not help. So I built (vibe-coded) a browser extension for myself, then decided to open source it. There are still some edges to smooth out but it’s going fine.

Turns out it was a common pain point. Now it has around 800 users in Chrome+Firefox. Mostly chrome.

https://github.com/gediz/teams-web-chat-exporter
by tracker1 | 2025-12-15 23:00:32+00:00
I think the bigger issue is parts availability over the repairability issue... from what I understand, these have been quite reliable but parts for Ford's EVs have been backordered as much as months, where having a "work truck" down for months is an intolerable position.

The cost is also kind of crazy between inflated factory and dealer pricing as much as $20k over sticker price. Yeah, there was some early demand, but over-charging really cooled that and the demand overall.

I'm with you on some of the interior features, they're cool, but the overall inflated price is just too much. On the flip side, the Chevy "Work Truck" is kinda too far the other direction imo.

Similar on the more complex exterior, though I actually like it, it's not practical for its' prescibed purpose. If Ford could create a stripped down EV equivalent to Chevy's "Work Truck" at even 50% higher cost, I think it would do very well. They're very good for in-city use in terms of range on a charge, it's definitely good enough for most general tradecraft use, but the bloat and pricing really drag it down. Much like most cars in general these days.

Pretty much the only interesting new car I've seen this year was the Hundai Palasade, which IMO was just a good value for what it is. Kind of disappointing to see Nissan drop the Titan line. While I'd prefer to buy American brands, the fact that is that I don't think they deliver on overall value or reliability as well as competing brands. And it gets muddied further with foreign brands with US assembly and American brands now owned or otherwise operated or significantly built outside the US.
by exceptione | 2025-12-15 23:00:39+00:00
Jup, the official term is Elite Capture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_capture

The difficulty for any party to want to govern after this is... there is no government. It is all oligarch captured, the candidates are oligarch sponsored, and don't count on the media to sound the siren because, well, you know why.

This is a plane that is never gonna fly again. The only way is to build a new plane, as impossible as that might sound.
by GMoromisato | 2025-12-15 23:00:52+00:00
> ...we should be actively goading more billionaires into spending on irrational, high-variance projects that might actually advance civilization. I feel genuine secondhand embarrassment watching people torch their fortunes on yachts and status cosplay. No one cares about your Loro Piana.

I 100% agree with this. There are ~2,600 billionaires in the world and we should encourage all of them to spend their money. Even buying a superyacht is a benefit to the economy. But the best billionaires, like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, are actually trying to advance the tech tree.

We are honestly lucky that Musk is wired funny. Any normal human being would retire and hang out on the beach with supermodels after all the abuse he has taken. But he takes it all as a personal challenge and doubles down. That is both his worst quality and his best.
by scottbez1 | 2025-12-15 23:01:04+00:00
This doesn’t seem that crazy to me - a broadly applicable coordinated OTA zero day applied across cars during US rush hours has the potential to result in likely hundreds of thousands of deaths in a few hours if safety critical systems like airbags can be tampered/inhibited by OTA-capable systems.

The scale of car travel plus the inherent kinetic energy involved make a correlated risk particularly likely to lead to a mass casualty event. There are very few information system vulnerabilities with that magnitude of short-term worst case outcome.
by 0xCMP | 2025-12-15 23:01:11+00:00
Ah yes, and convincing friends/family/partners to use Signal instead of Whatsapp clearly what will convince them is that they need to setup, acquire, and use cryptocurrency to register or connect with me on the encrypted messaging service. "No thanks, I just use Whatsapp/iMessage. I heard they're actually e2e encrypted too, so what's the problem?"
by NoahZuniga | 2025-12-15 23:01:19+00:00
Have you heard the good news of Merkle Tree Certificates[1,2]? They include the transparency cryptography directly in the certificate issuance pipeline. This has multiple benefits, one of them being way smaller transparency logs.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP9uT_wBDw A great explainer of how they work and why they're better.

2: https://davidben.github.io/merkle-tree-certs/draft-davidben-... The current working draft
by adsharma | 2025-12-15 23:01:55+00:00
GQL is related to Cypher, but not a common name for Cypher.

https://www.tigergraph.com/glossary/cypher-query-language/ https://www.tigergraph.com/blog/the-rise-of-gql-a-new-iso-st...

Has some history behind it.

Syntax and some queries:

https://github.com/opengql/grammar/tree/main/samples

Full specification costs you about $270
by strken | 2025-12-15 23:02:13+00:00
I know you know everything I'm about to write, but I read a lot of dubious quality fiction. It needs to be made clear that if the butler "strides" up to Helen, then I, the reader, am expecting him to eject her from the party, tell her that her car is on fire, or something equally dramatic. The writer can subvert this expectation, but must at least acknowledge that it exists. The butler can stride up to Helen with a self-important sniff and welcome her to the house, but he can't just stride up for no reason: the striding must be explained and it must be relevant to the rest of the story.

Conveying meaning is the whole problem here. An unexpected word choice is a neon sign saying "This is important!" and it disappoints the reader if it is not.
by mistersquid | 2025-12-15 23:02:25+00:00
> Everything that TikTok is doing is being done by Meta, Snap, Instagram, etc. If it’s not done through TikTok it’ll be done somewhere else.

Meta, Snap, Instagram (i.e. Meta), are US-based media companies and subject to US regulation and jurisprudence.

TikTok operates under the jurisdiction of authoritarian adversary. This undue foreign influence is the sticking point, not merely the massive media sway.
by lousken | 2025-12-15 23:02:34+00:00
I am not sure how I feel about this solution. It is already painful to deal with certs on every single piece of IT equipment. Unless you create and manage your own CA and manage it, which is an extra burden, what is the point of this? This will only create more janky scripts and annoyances for very little benefit.

What's next? Enforcing email signing with SMIME or PGP?
by ImPleadThe5th | 2025-12-15 23:02:47+00:00
Probably because Microsoft knows vibe coding is _not_ an actual viable way to build production ready code and does not want to deal with the liability issues of prompting customers to move from a working Excel sheet to a broken piece of software that looks like it works.

In my experience, it's actually quite hard to move a business from an excel sheet to software. Because an excel sheet allows the end user to easily handle every edge case and they likely don't even think in terms of "edge cases"
by delecti | 2025-12-15 23:03:00+00:00
Yeah, I was being a bit glib about that part.

IMO, the biggest perk is dependent on the ability to charge at home. If you can, then the price per mile is about half (if Google is right that California rates are about $0.30/kWh) or less than for an ICE. But even if the $/mile were equal, never needing to visit a gas station again is itself the biggest perk.

And sure there are people for whom an EV won't meet their range needs, but probably way fewer than think that's the case for them.
by EgregiousCube | 2025-12-15 23:03:09+00:00
We already see "paid relays" and relays that filter certain content, even as small as nostr is today. I think the end state, if it manages to really catch on, is going to be as "oligarchical" as mastodon or other federated networks today - just via relays instead of via homeservers.

A step in the right direction for sure! But I don't feel like Nostr is the final target that nature is shooting for here.
by cryzinger | 2025-12-15 23:03:13+00:00
I've seen a lot of references to this "Alexander Technique"[1] lately but no indication that it's anything other than the latest trendy pseudoscience that you can conveniently use to explain just about anything. (There seems to be a fair amount of overlap between it and what I can only describe as "rationalists who think they invented meditation".) Does anyone know why it's so popular now or who's behind the push?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_technique
by no_wizard | 2025-12-15 23:03:14+00:00
Don't forget the user experience needs to be seamless. We bubble ourselves to this as tech fluent folks on HN, but the seamless quality needs to be on par or better with Google Drive, iCloud drive, Google / iCloud Photos etc.

Ability to share, good default security, and seamless integration with the things people care about.

If this device can't automatically backup a phone wirelessly and without my interaction, it will be a poor proposition to most people.

We would all have been better off fiercely advocating for open protocols for all this stuff first (forced interop), but technologists have not wanted to wade into that in a sustained, en masse way
by recursive | 2025-12-15 23:03:17+00:00
Modern AV stuff is insane. I have no interest in taking it up as a hobby. I have an xbox, a TV, and a pair of bookshelf speakers. How am I supposed to get the audio to the speakers without a bulky expensive receiver box? Luckily, I have one of the last remaining TVs with a headphone jack. I don't use a remote for any of it.

Side note: Sometimes the TV doesn't come on when you press its power button. After a tremendous amount of experimentation, I determined this was because the "brain" was on, but the backlight was not. Power cycling it blind usually fixes it. That's harder than it sounds though because you have to navigate the menu blind using short and long button presses with the one button. But I'm scared to try a new TV, because then I'm going to have to figure out how to get audio out of the TV.

It seems like AV stuff used to be so simple. Now the simplest scenarios seem to require more and more knowledge about arcane connection standard interactions and network topology. Ugh.
by samdoesnothing | 2025-12-15 23:03:59+00:00
A lot of people are criticizing this for unnecessary complexity, but it's a little more complicated than that. I actually think it makes sense given where they are at right now. The complexity stems from Vercel and Next.js - had they used a different tech, say Cloudflare directly and architected their own systems designed to handle rapidly changing static content none of this would have been necessary. So I guess it depends on your definition of unnecessary complexity. It's definitely unnecessary for the problem space, but probably necessary for their existing stack.
by integralid | 2025-12-15 23:04:13+00:00
The US is not "exporting" anything. PhDs are people, they pay for their education and they leave.

Nevertheless responding to your question:

>Contrary to common perceptions, US technology benefits from these graduates' work even if they leave: though the US share of global patent citations to graduates' science drops from 70% to 50% after migrating, it remains five times larger than the destination country share
by bwblabs | 2025-12-15 23:04:56+00:00
There is this list of things tech people think they understand (DNS, javascript), and more common you can see this with everyday people, e.g. with stuff like elections: the basic concept is clear, understandable, but the devil/complexity is in the detail, how to handle certain exceptions. I was employed by the Election Management Body of The Netherlands for a few years, so I can only vouch for the complexity of that relatively simple election system, but I'm pretty sure it will hold for about every country ;)
by Jeremy1026 | 2025-12-15 23:06:18+00:00
I definitely don't think I'd be willing to hand it my day job's codebase and walk away. But I feel a lot more comfortable throwing it very specific tasks and questions, then manually vetting the results. Over time I may be a little more willing to give it bigger chunks or give a more cursory code review on what it generates.

If I come back to it to look to add polish (and fix mobile) that'll be a prompt I'll throw at it as well.
by falcor84 | 2025-12-15 23:06:19+00:00
> "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." — Lao Tzu

> Nature is an enormous flow of energy, yet nature makes no effort.

I don't get these. What are they referring to? The nature I'm looking at, at all scales, from viruses, to animals, to storms, it's all so violent. Is it just that it's all in the eye of the beholder?
by netsharc | 2025-12-15 23:06:27+00:00
> they dont seem to be reaping the benefits

"they" as in the USA or its people?

Germany has taxpayer-subsidized education even for foreign students. They may stay, the may leave. One of its views is that the time the student spent in the country helps foster cultural ties and understanding, and generates goodwill towards the country...

I suppose "goodwill" is hard to translate to cold hard cash, so America doesn't really like it ;-)
by pbalau | 2025-12-15 23:06:29+00:00
That's not the problem. The real problem is that if I convince you to run my script, it's going to be quite easy to convince you to give me extra permissions, so I can get to your data. It really irks me when things like Cargo are doing exactly that, make me run a sh script. Cargo and the likes, are making running sh scripts way too common.
by jonah-archive | 2025-12-15 23:06:35+00:00
A long time ago I used one of these HDMI-CEC-to-USB/serial bridges: https://web.archive.org/web/20110219131237/http://rainshadow...

(I'd gotten a large LG monitor instead of a flatscreen tv, and it didn't talk HDMI-CEC but it had a serial-over-TRRS control interface, so I listened for messages on the bus and my media PC translated and relayed them to the monitor.)
by bsimpson | 2025-12-15 23:06:35+00:00
I saw the Steam Machine bragging about CEC and being able to turn the TV on when it does, which made me wonder why my setup doesn't do that.

Turns out that there's a special pin on your APU that has to be wired up, and AMD didn't bother for the Z1 Extreme chips. I wish "wake on signal" was a universal option.
by maxglute | 2025-12-15 23:06:54+00:00
lol it's not contradictory, there are specific PRC strategic milestones that shifts TW scenario, or a broader push to boot US+co out of east asia and gain PRC asian hegemony from potential gamble to forgone. And that's what PRC ultimately wants, their own Monroe. There's a few components left that more or less secures this in next 10/20 years where balance of forces makes US posture existentially unfavorable. The intersection period is mid 2030s-2040s where basically broader strategic balance is baked in, it's just matter of watching relevant trend lines cross (or gap extend). Realistically that's when we can expect things to pop off. The best course of action is for PRC to NOT JUST INVADE TW, but use TW as cassus belli for broader east asian war with US+co to dismantal postwar hemisphereic US security archictecture. The conclusion is, TW is basically PRC's legitmate excuse to shoot US hardware for meddling in domestic Chinese civil war card, it's simply too good to squander right now. Now ultimately international law doesn't matter in WW3, but it helps to have legimate reason to start a constrained WW3 in a way that would cause third parties to sit out (why meddle in ongoing Chinese civil war) and ask why not be net winners while US and PRC and most of east asia "lose". Ultimately for PRC it shouldn't be enough for them to gain TW, but US must also lose east asia.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-15 23:07:23+00:00
FWIW, plenty of work trucks in lots of Companies are boring Vans or Pickups...

Even so, the issue comes to fit for use, cost (initial, ongoing), repairability and value. The F-150 Lightning only checked the fit for use box, since parts backlogs made it unrepairable for potentially months. The initial cost was okay at initial list price, but the actual price for purchase after dealer gouging and the factory raising prices through the roof was kind of insane... on top of a minor fender bender keeping your truck off the road an excessive amount of time killed a lot of momentum.
by _venkatasg | 2025-12-15 23:07:26+00:00
I was thinking about FizzBuzz and thought it might be cool to benchmark various LLMs to see the highest number they could go before they got it wrong. FizzBuzz is cool because you can test whether the model's can generalize to any other game (divisors of 3 and 7 instead of 3 and 5 for example).

Fun, short and sweet experiment to run over the weekend, with some mildly interesting results :)

https://github.com/venkatasg/fizzbuzz-llm
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-15 23:07:37+00:00
Will these space-based data centers run on rad-hard silicon (which is dog slow compared to anything on Earth) or just silently accept wrong results, hardware lockups and permanent failure due to the harsh space environment? Will they cool that hardware with special über-expensive high-temperature Peltiers that heat the radiators up to visible incandescence so that the heat can be shed with any efficiency? There's zillions of those issues. The whole idea is just bonkers.
by benburleson | 2025-12-15 23:07:37+00:00
I've found the most useful prompt tip is to add to the end of every prompt:

"Ask questions for clarification as needed."

Claude will then present a list of questions I answer, either directly, or sometimes those prompt more thought or questions from myself.

Either way, that statement helps escape the assumption that I just want some slop reaching the goal in the quickest way possible.
by wmf | 2025-12-15 23:08:10+00:00
P2P with end-to-end encryption over relays existed in 2001 (e.g. Groove, Mojo Nation) and wasn't invented by Nostr.

Nostr is so simple because it handwaves away the fact that everybody seems to use the same small set of relays and there's nothing stopping them from censoring the network. I'm also not aware of any incentives for the relay operators either.
by nervousvarun | 2025-12-15 23:08:35+00:00
Man you just unlocked a memory. I'm about the same age...I had forgot about when we lucked our way into "turtle trapping" (didn't know until I read your post it was even called that). When the lives counter goes crazy (we called it "infinity men") we genuinely had no idea what was going on at first and thought we broke the game.

It happened when a buddy and I were completely bored messing around with the game and I remember calling my friends and explaining it but no one "got it" until we showed them.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-15 23:08:40+00:00
Why are all us HN old timers in here arguing about this

I thought this was settled

People are walking around with self spy devices and putting them everywhere and giving all their private data to corpos.

That’s not new, we know it happens, we know companies use “anonymized” data for advertising. Its in public records for large companies balance sheets and there are thousands of data brokers who live exclusively on this data.

There are multiple compelling and popular documentaries about this.

What’s the push back here?
by HardCodedBias | 2025-12-15 23:09:09+00:00
"My point is that you can actually reduce it all to dollars."

I'm not sure. A couple of points:

1) The regulatory landscape is enormous. It is unknown from which angle regulators will "slow you down."

2) As I mentioned the regulatory frameworks in this area are evolving very quickly. It is unknown what the regulations will be in 1, 2, 5 years and how that will impact your business.
by dijit | 2025-12-15 23:09:32+00:00
Are we pretending browsers aren’t a universal app delivery platform, fueling internal corporate tools and hobby projects alike?

Or that TLS and HTTPS are unrelated, when HTTPS is just HTTP over TLS; and TLS secures far more, from APIs and email to VPNs, IoT, and non-browser endpoints? Both are bunk; take your pick.

Or opt for door three: Ignore how CA/B Forum’s relentless ratcheting burdens ops into forking browsers, hacking root stores, or splintering ecosystems with exploitable kludges (they won’t: they’ll go back to “this cert is invalid, proceed anyway?” for all internal users).

Nothing screams “sound security” like 45-day cert churn for systems outside the public browser fray.

And hey, remember back in the day when all the SMTP submission servers just blindly accepted any certificate they were handed because doing domain validation broke email… yeah

Inspired.
by rchachra | 2025-12-15 23:09:59+00:00
New 8Spotlight episode is live This week, we sat down with Joshua Perk , Founder & CEO of Vector , to unpack how modern GTM is changing, and why the future belongs to contact-level insight, not account-level guesswork.

We talk about:

• Building through early PMF challenges

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• Creating an entirely new category: Contact-Based Marketing

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If you care about the future of marketing, sales, or building enduring SaaS companies, this one’s for you.