MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fpauser | 2025-12-05 21:06:08+00:00
When I realized how much ads manipulate me and my thinking, I stopped consuming radio/TV stations that send ads. This was >= 25 years ago. Additionally, I never surf without ad blocking and use DNS based ad blocking on all my devices + in our home router (nextdns). Besides this, I like to pay for the content I am interested in - which helps against ads. This is my personal mostly ad free bubble, I couldn't stand it any different.
by ben_w | 2025-12-05 21:06:17+00:00
With GenAI, I suspect a lot that could be ad-supported will evaporate anyway.

How can you get a reputation for a high-quality well-researched podcast(/youtube channel) when your voice(/face) can be cloned by the advertiser who buys a slot somewhere in your podcast(/video) to sell some snakeoil?

Are those your friends you're seeing on social media enjoying ${brand} or supporting ${politician}? Or did your friends all leave the site years ago, and these are just fakes, legally licenced by the advertisers from the social media firm thanks to a clause in the TOS that's hard for non-lawyers to comprehend the consequences of?
by proberts | 2025-12-05 21:06:24+00:00
We've obtained lots of marriage-based green cards for those in TN status. The issue is intent at the time of the most recent entry prior to filing a green card application since the intent at that time cannot be to apply for a green card. Generally speaking, if there's a gap of at least 90 days between entry and filing, USCIS's concern about intent goes away or is at least greatly lessened.
by ptx | 2025-12-05 21:06:31+00:00
Hmm, I may have actually solved my problem. I think what I mostly want to do is this, if I'm working on the "feature-1" branch based on "main":

$ git checkout feature-1 $ git reset main $ git commit -a -C feature-1@{1}

This squashes all the changes and keeps the date and and message of the final commit on the branch.

Weirdly, although the "-c" and "-C" flags for the fixup operations sound like they should correspond to the same flags for "git commit", which grabs the date along with the message from the specified commit, the fixup flags only affect the message and not the date.

It would be nice if it worked the same for rebase as for commit. Then "fixup -C" would essentially correspond to Mercurial's "fold".
by arjie | 2025-12-05 21:06:56+00:00
I assume you mean some percent of ad spend as a tax? Well, the cheapest ads to run are usually the most obnoxious ones. Taxing ad spend is a bit like taxing you more the nicer the building you build on a piece of land. You're directing the incentive in the wrong direction. A minimum fee per ad run perhaps would have an effect more in line with what you're thinking, I think, though I haven't thought about it much.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-05 21:07:10+00:00
> Zig where I used to use C/Rust (but admittedly I spent the least time here).

I really don't understand how that fit with the “I want something that allows me to focus my mental facilities on the complexities of the actual problem domain”.

For low-level stuff, Rust allows to offload the cognitive load of maintaining the ownership requirements to the machine. On the opposite, Zig is exactly like C as it forces you to think about it all the time or you just shoot yourself in the foot at the first opportunity…

For stuff that can be done with managed languages, then absolutely, the GC allows to completely ignore that aspect, at the cost of some performance you don't always care about because how fast the modern hardware is.
by atbpaca | 2025-12-05 21:07:22+00:00
I just hope they won't destroy sagas like they did to the Witcher. In other words, I don't think this is good for future content as there is a risk movies/series will follow the same scripts, underlying story plots, cultural norms, same cinematography, etc. Quality going down.

Moreover, this also means more time for ads to pay for this merger.
by alexashka | 2025-12-05 21:07:33+00:00
> A society with a pragmatic regard for its own survival would ban it outright

Western society would cease to exist if it didn't continue its diabolical lies, falsehoods and abuse. The lies are not optional.

It is because of pragmatic regard for survival of the status quo that the lies do continue. That word 'pragmatic' is what keeps diabolical people from seeing themselves for what they are.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-05 21:07:38+00:00
Nobody in the comment section is apparently reading the paper, because the only subcategory that reached p<0.05 significance was newspaper advertising expenditure.

When they stretch the p-value threshold for significance to p<0.1, they claim magazine advertising expenditure reached that threshold.

TV, Radio, and Cinema advertising did not reach significance even at the expanded p<0.1 threshold.

The methodology of the paper is also not great at all. They looked at changes in advertising expenditure and changes in happiness measures and then tried to correlate the two.
by throw234234234 | 2025-12-05 21:08:12+00:00
A big reason is relative advantage. The "I have to use it because its there now and everyone else is, but I would rather no one have to use it at all" argument.

Lets say I'm a small business and I want to produce a new logo for some marketing material. In the past I would of paid someone either via a platform or some local business to do it. That would of just been the cost of business.

Now since there is a lower cost technology, and I know my competition is using it, I should use it too else all else equal I'm losing margin compared to my competition.

It's happening in software development too. Its the reason they say "if you don't use AI you will be taken over by someone who does". It may be true; but that person may of wished the AI genie was never let out of the bottle.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-12-05 21:08:48+00:00
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma odds ratio 1.41-1.45 (AKA 41-45% higher relative risk): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31342895/

NHL odds ratio 2.26: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18623080/

Positive trend of NHL risk with exposure: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12937207/

7x risk of follicular lymphoma in those ever exposed: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8082925/
by nephihaha | 2025-12-05 21:09:01+00:00
In the broadest sense, yes, but not necessarily claiming scientific methods to make those projections. We can often guess from current trends. Some science fiction isn't aiming to be predictive, but more in the direction of escapism or what if?

You are right about politics and science. One uses the other. Politicians tend to use emotional rather than logical arguments to persuade people.
by happytoexplain | 2025-12-05 21:09:07+00:00
I strongly disagree. Hearing an ad makes me a little miserable/angry almost instantly, without even the context of the ad yet. They are one of the major categories of corporate mistreatment of humans, which together are the #2 most hideous by-design facets of our civilization, after war ("by-design" meaning to the exclusion of illegal activity).
by dllu | 2025-12-05 21:09:21+00:00
It does have graphics acceleration and you can even play AAA titles with fex [1] since last year. But many bells and whistles still don't work --- for example, the video decoding hardware, proper sleep, etc.

Anyway, I've been using it on my Macbook Air M2 and it works fine for my use case [3]. Pretty smooth.

[1] https://rosenzweig.io/blog/aaa-gaming-on-m1.html

[3] https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2024-12-01-asahi-linux-with-...
by pwagland | 2025-12-05 21:09:54+00:00
I tried this with Claude:

``` > [Image #1] Create a unicode "ascii-art" version of this image, with the optimal path through the maze highlighted in a solid colour.

I'll create an ASCII art version of this maze with the solution path highlighted!

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```

Suffice to say, it didn't do either part right.
by umanwizard | 2025-12-05 21:09:57+00:00
Indeed this isn't anywhere in the Rust standard library, but there is `ordered_float::NotNan`: https://docs.rs/ordered-float/latest/ordered_float/struct.No... .

Unfortunately, Rust doesn't seem to be smart enough to represent `Option<NotNan<f64>>` in 8 bytes, even though in theory it should be possible (it does the analogous thing with `Option<NonZero<u64>>`).

This thread is discussing the possibility of adding such an optimization: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/add-float-types-with-niche...
by brandensilva | 2025-12-05 21:10:01+00:00
I ended up getting shingles when I was 17. Terrible and rare I heard but for the most part I've never had any major outbreaks since then.

I wasn't aware the shingles vaccine starves off nerve pain. I've noticed more nerve pain with pins and needles and neuropathy now that I'm 41 which I assume is what you are talking about. I used to think I was getting pre-diabetic before this as I wasn't aware of nerve flare ups being a thing given how young I was when I found out.

Has there not been any studies around this with those with shingles taking the vaccine and freeing them from their symptoms? First time I've heard this.
by VikingCoder | 2025-12-05 21:10:06+00:00
Well, with things like this, I feel like someone could get interesting results pretty quickly:

https://lintangwisesa.github.io/MediaPipe-in-JavaScript/inde...

https://github.com/cosyneco/MediaPipe.NET

https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/guide

I'd think you'd start with a tool to automatically cut video into scenes, and kind of go from there...
by morleytj | 2025-12-05 21:10:11+00:00
If advertising is no longer financially rewarding, is there not an argument that labor could transition into a different sector of the economy?

Companies based around advertising would die, yes, but they only exist in the first place because of how lucrative the activity is. Nobody is sitting around dreaming of how they could sell ads better than anyone else while not thinking of the financial compensation. At least I hope they aren't.

If someone was saying "many people have jobs in running offshore internet sports betting companies, if we put regulations on offshore internet sports betting, it would remove jobs" wouldn't the natural question be whether those industries are actually productive to have people employed in, or if it's a harmful industry overall? Generally in my view its somewhat sad that the system as a whole optimizes for advertising work rather than orienting in a way that everyone could be putting their work towards something they see as more fulfilling.

There is certainly more need for product discoverability broadly than something like online gambling, but I think the more relevant conversation is if the current advertising model is more like a local minima preventing progress towards a more economically viable method of handling product discoverability.
by xp84 | 2025-12-05 21:10:38+00:00
> they need to not lose the subscriptions

note: I hate ads so I'm not trying to manifest this, but can you explain why you're so sure of this?

To me, it seems like they "should" (for greed reasons, I mean, not for my happiness) hike the prices of subscriptions aggressively while keeping the ad-tier attractively-priced, moving as many people as possible over. This increases ad revenue and allows more YoY growth if their ML can manipulate you into more watch hours in 2027 than you do in 2026.

Sure, some people like me will probably drop Netflix before they'll pay $35 a month or endure ads. But the current delta is only $10. I suspect they can make $10 a head in ad revenue in a year -- and if they can make $15, they would break even if they lost 3 ad-free subscribers but gained 2 back onto the ad tier. Anything better than those numbers would be a net gain.
by yanosh_kunsh | 2025-12-05 21:10:54+00:00
It is very strange that this didn't make it to the front page of HN. I've just received an email from DigitalOcean that my VPS/droplet had been used in a DDoS attack, and a few hours latter another email, again from DigitalOcean, saying that I'm running software that has a vulnerability with CVE score of 10. I guess not a lot of CVEs get a score of 10, and not for a framework as widespread as React and Next.
by qcnguy | 2025-12-05 21:10:54+00:00
> Oracle sell an RDBMS

Businesses Oracle is in:

- Databases (several)

- Cloud

- Software for planning everything related to manufacturing and logistics (ERP, supply chain management)

- Software for customer relationship management (CRM)

- Software for healthcare, managing hospitals and clinics

- Software for managing every aspect of running a bank

- Point of sale equipment

- Software for running utility companies

- Software for everything people related inside companies (payroll, HR, hiring, etc)

- Competing with Red Hat on commercial Linux

- Programming languages (several)

- Software for managing inventories

And a gazillion other things.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-12-05 21:10:59+00:00
There are two kinds of advertising. I will call them "scarcity advertising" and "abundance advertising".

Scarcity advertising is, for example, "Joe's grocery now has cantaloupes" (back in the day when cantaloupes were not available all year). It's information - something is now available that wasn't available before.

Abundance advertising is, for example, "The Chevrolet SomeHotCar will give you an exciting life like the people in this ad. Don't you want that?" As someone put it (wish I remember who, I would give credit): "[This kind of] advertising attempts to make the person you are envy the person you could be with their product. In other words, it attempts to steal your satisfaction and then offers to sell it back to you."

The first kind of advertising is useful. The second is abusive.
Ask HN: How is you and your team are using AI?
by IdontKnowRust | 2025-12-05 21:12:05+00:00
I'm curious about how everyone is using AI lately.

- Is every team member using their own editor/CLI?

- Is there any sort of alignment across the team? Like using a shared memory bank for the whole project?

- What about rule files? Does the project have a main rules file, or does everyone just use their own private/local rules file?

I really want to understand the nuances here, what works for you personally versus what works for the team.

Is there an industry standard emerging yet? or do you think people are still trying to figure it out?

I’m asking because it feels like in some workplaces/companies, it's treated like a forbidden topic (which is crazy).
by Jolliness7501 | 2025-12-05 21:12:07+00:00
Thats why I singed out from ads everywhere I could. Adblocking everywhere it's possible, no legacy radio or tv - only add-free subscriptions or free alternatives, alt-apps for youtube, no social-media like f...book, twitter or (Thor forbid) tictok. I always reject any discounts, special offers when it require to agree to "marketing cominication". I block all robocalls and if any pass throu I chase down the company behind it and file complain to authorities (in my country it's illegal to contact anyone without him/her agree for it). Not everything works of course and only ads I cannot block are OOH like billboards. I support creators directly where it's worth and pay or donate for all sites/services/apps I use frequently (if applicable).
by fifilura | 2025-12-05 21:12:38+00:00
Europe has much stronger defense than e.g. Japan. Where did you buy your Kool-Aid?

South Korea is a special case but so is Finland and Poland and Greece.

Russia is a formidable enemy (although not nearly as competent as many thought before 2022). You are much better off if you have allies and friends when fighting a war.
Ask HN: Bullied by Indian compliance automation platform
by bitlad | 2025-12-05 21:12:47+00:00
We were using Sprinto for compliance automation for a year or so. But in our recent renewal we ran into a technical issue related to payment therefore I notified their customer success manager about the issue, which they acknowledged. However, someone from their finance team who super privilege access disabled our account as due date had passed. We begged them to enable our account, which the team took almost 24h to respond to and upto 48h to resolve.

As we operate in regulated space, this was nightmare, therefore we decided to let them know that we were going to terminate the service due to breach of trust and started looking for another oem.

However, their team now tells us termination for convenience is not allowed according to their terms of service and that we have to pay the full year contract regardless of whether we use it or not. We believe we terminated due to breach of trust. They have also threaten us to take legal action if we do not pay in next 7 days.

We believe they are not operating in good faith, bullying us into paying for a situation they have created.

We also believe that their regular employee have extended access into data of their customers which honestly makes us uncomfortable to operate with them.

The number we have to pay is around $4000 which I believe is not too much.

Question here is that should we standup against their bullying, malpractice and fight. And is it worth fighting for and pay their contract.

Please advice. We are smaller startup compared to Sprinto which has raised millions of dollars.
by Sleaker | 2025-12-05 21:13:11+00:00
Dabbled in CachyOS as a replacement fo my main OS recently it worked well, was trying to do the omarchy on cachy for the kernel improvements but ended up bricking things when trying to update so ended up swapping to omarchy mainline. I am seriously considering swapping back over to cachyos though, seems like it's going in the right direction.
by kimbernator | 2025-12-05 21:13:25+00:00
I find it surprising that more people aren't dismayed at how many advertisements we are being exposed to daily. I think that once you're used to it, you don't feel much concern about it, but when you manage to cut a lot of them out (e.g. I have a pi-hole filtering a large portion of ads in my whole home) it becomes extremely upsetting to be dropped back into a place where they are everywhere.

Few things upset me as much as driving around a beautiful place and having billboards plastered up and down the highway. A few states have come to their senses and banned them.

The issue as a whole is that it genuinely is eroding the human experience. Being alive in a world where your eyesight is real estate to be filled with images that are meant to leave you with negative emotions with the intent of taking your money from you is bleak.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-05 21:13:43+00:00
Ouch, the HN downvote crowd strikes again. While I completely disagree with drstewart, it is his actual world view and as such worthwhile to know about. This stance also seems to be shared by e.g. the current US administration. Could we only downvote things, for what is obviously a low-effort or crap post and not just for opinions we don't like?
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2025-12-05 21:13:48+00:00
Because both are languages that could feasibly be used to solve a particular set of problems. TigerBeetle could have been written in either, they explain why they didn't choose Rust but it was a feasible alternative (in a way that Java or Python would not have been).

Conceptually C and C++ are also in that potential solution space, but I'm sure they feel that Zig's properties are superior for what they want.
by thepasswordapp | 2025-12-05 21:13:54+00:00
Fair skepticism - I'd be suspicious too.

Two clarifications:

1. We don't ask for your current passwords. The app imports your CSV from your existing password manager (1Password, Bitwarden, etc.), which you already trust with your credentials. We automate the change process - you provide the new passwords you want.

2. Zero passwords leave your machine. The app runs locally. Browser automation happens in a local Playwright instance. The AI (GPT-5-mini via OpenRouter) only sees page structure, never credential values. Passwords are passed to forms via a separate injection mechanism that's invisible to the LLM context.

The "vibe coding" comment was about development speed with AI assistants, not about skipping security review. We spent weeks specifically on credential isolation architecture - making sure passwords can't leak to logs, LLM prompts, or network requests. That's the opposite of careless.

Code's not open source yet, but we're working toward that for exactly the reasons you describe - trust requires verification.
by kridsdale3 | 2025-12-05 21:13:58+00:00
I have also tried the maze from a photo test a few times and never seen a one-shot success. But yesterday I was determined to succeed so I allowed Gemini 3 to write a python gui app that takes in photos of physical mazes (I have a bunch of 3d printed ones) and find the path. This does work.

Gemini 3 then one-shot ported the whole thing (which uses CV py libraries) to a single page html+js version which works just as well.

I gave that to Claude to assess and assign a FAANG hiring level to, and it was amazed and said Gemini 3 codes like an L6.

Since I work for Google and used my phone in the office to do this, I think I can't share the source or file.