MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aachen | 2025-12-12 17:13:08+00:00
Similar here. I've removed my websites from Google so people would find that other engines can return more complete results. People can find the content using any other engine (or LLM) or links in relevant places. Using anything but the monopolist should pay off until it's no longer a monopoly, or at least not one abused to gain power in other markets like by advertising their browser product on the homepage and not allowing anyone else to advertise there (much less for free)
by vips7L | 2025-12-12 17:13:13+00:00
Kind of like how sum types and matching are implemented in library code? Example from D here:

Fahrenheit toFahrenheit(Temperature t) { return Fahrenheit( t.match!( (Fahrenheit f) => f.degrees, (Celsius c) => c.degrees * 9.0/5 + 32, (Kelvin k) => k.degrees * 9.0/5 - 459.4 ) ); }
by munificent | 2025-12-12 17:13:27+00:00
> a attempt to further squeeze the middle class.

I think it's both a cause of and a symptom of the middle class disappearing.

Part of the compulsion towards gambling and lotteries is this sense that there's no other viable path upwards from where you are.

If you can't even imagine a reasonable chance of success from starting a small business, finding a better job, going back to school, or some other healthy path towards security and prosperity, then literally rolling the dice starts to seem like the most tangible (if unlikely) path towards wealth.

People gamble when they believe they don't have any better opportunities to spend their meager amount of discretionary income on.

(Of course, there is a separate compulsion towards gambling that is more a direct mental illness like alcoholism. But if you see a large-scale rise in gambling, I think you need to look for societal causes.)
by phantasmish | 2025-12-12 17:13:40+00:00
Like social media, there’s a whole nasty well-funded world of businesses behind it doing everything they can to harm people if it means an extra buck.

A lot of things that are basically ok when one dude with ordinary human liability does it become horrible when corporations enter the mix. IMO it’s not contrary to liberalism to tamp down on the use of corporations for these purposes. They’re creations of the state, after all.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-12 17:13:49+00:00
At the time “microservices” was coined, “service oriented architecture” had drifted from being an architectural style to being associated with inplementation of the WS-* technical standards, and was frequently used to describe what were essentially monoliths with web services interfaces.

“Microservices” was, IIRC, more about rejecting that and returning to the foundations of SOA than anything else. The original description was each would support a single business domain (sometimes described “business function”, and this may be part of the problem, because in some later descriptions, perhaps through a version of the telephone game, this got shortened to “function” and without understanding the original context...)
by Someone | 2025-12-12 17:14:12+00:00
> Speaking to reporters Thursday night, though, Epic founder and CEO Tim Sweeney said he believes those should be “super super minor fees,” on the order of “tens or hundreds of dollars” every time an iOS app update goes through Apple for review. That should be more than enough to compensate the employees reviewing the apps to make sure outside payment links are not scams

I would think making sure outside payment links aren’t scams will be more expensive than that because checking that once isn’t sufficient. Scammers will update the target of such links, so you can’t just check this at app submission time. You also will have to check from around the world, from different IP address ranges, outside California business hours, etc, because scammer are smart enough to use such info to decide whether to show their scammy page.

Also, even if it becomes ‘only’ hundreds of dollars, I guess only large companies will be able to afford providing an option for outside payments.
by BryantD | 2025-12-12 17:14:41+00:00
To be completely fair, Russia did decide to make an exception in this case, although it took a couple of months (during which Bushby was detained) to get there.

I am a little bit torn in this case. From our vantage point it's obvious that Bushby wasn't running an elaborate long scam to get into Russia. In the moment... I don't know, former UK special forces guy? Long history of espionage between UK and Russia? Two months seems too long; it's also not as easy as your case of a teenager in the sewer.
by Barbing | 2025-12-12 17:14:50+00:00
Runnin’ confabulations:

>Yes — the “hamster driving a car” prompt is a well-known informal test …

>…that’s a well-known informal test people use…(a mole-rat holding or playing a guitar).

Try any plausible concept. Get sillier and it’s trained to talk about it being nonsense. The output still claims it’s a real test, just a real “nonsense” test.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-12 17:14:51+00:00
Russia's war and invasion of Ukraine have brought NATO along more Russian border with new voluntary NATO members. And Russia claims it doesn't care about that/it isn't an issue.

You're argument is just a way to work backwards from the outcome Russia wants, not a reality.

Russia has said it is about Russian speakers. Russia has said it is about nazis. Russia will say anything to try to validate their war.
by ninth_ant | 2025-12-12 17:15:34+00:00
> Outside of a very narrow use case, the iPad product range is useless, despite the endless rantings of the brainwashed fanboys

The use case is rich iPhone users who want an easy experience to watch videos, read, or consume social media on a larger screen than their phones. It’s especially popular for the children or elderly parents of these rich people. You can argue this use case is narrow, but it’s decently profitable.

Just because this use case doesn’t apply to your experience doesn’t mean anyone who disagrees is a brainwashed fanboy.

I will agree that the iPad Pro range seems overly niche to me — but also it could be I just don’t understand the use case. If someone else finds it productive and pleasant to use, what difference does this make to me or you?
by mmooss | 2025-12-12 17:15:47+00:00
> the "inviolability of the home" human dignity concept doesn't exist in the US.

Maybe not under that term, but for example, almost the only place an American's 4th Amendment protections against search and seizure apply is in their home. Law enforcement can search their garbage at the curb, monitor their [edit: public] movements via camera and license plate monitoring, etc., look them up online, all without warrants [*]. They can't do that in someone's home.

[*] I'm pretty sure no warrant is required to search curbside trash or do most online research.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-12-12 17:16:04+00:00
Some background:

Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competition (2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36368735

Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores (2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40662176

iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline (Nov 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822302
by renewiltord | 2025-12-12 17:16:11+00:00
Not so much leaving money on the table as you have a valuable resource you are underutilizing in this respect. You’d have to cross-cultivate your audience and expand to fill some niche.

That means that instead of dropping facts here you should post it on Substack and link to it here. You’ll be fine with it because you’re trusted here so people will be like “oh it’s fine”.

And then once you have the newsletter going and you have a following there you can do paid placements etc. that don't have to be done by you.

I think you have the highest potential on this front but that doesn't mean there's comparative advantage. It may not be worth it to you. For instance, I would never do it. To keep that wheel spinning you have to keep putting energy into it. And I have other ways of making money, so even with your account it would be a waste.
by macintux | 2025-12-12 17:16:24+00:00
A Walk Across America was amazing reading when I was college aged. I've never forgotten the story about the accident when he and his (then-girlfriend?) were walking along a quiet highway, I think in Nevada, and they decided to walk on the wrong side of the road, against his usual rules, because it had a shoulder.

And, she landed in the hospital after a car hit them.
by 1-more | 2025-12-12 17:16:31+00:00
This is a norm to the point of being a rule for Elm packages. The names are things like elm-csv, elm-json-decode-pipeline, elm-iso8601-date-strings. There's a strong preference in the community to name a package for exactly what it does, and differentiate on the author namespace if needed e.g. you may choose among coreygirard/elm-nonempty-list, mgold/elm-nonempty-list, and v-nys/elm-nonempty-list depending on which meets your needs best

I remember working on a ruby project and running into some problem with our env setup tool and just hitting "could not find nokogiri" (or an error to that effect) over and over and getting a little mad that I had to read this cutesypoo not-at-all descriptive name over and over while failing to get a danged website to run.

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To be sure, there are in-the-know parts of all the package names I just listed: what does JSON stand for? What does CSV stand for. What is the ISO and what is 8601? I guess the idea there is the descriptiveness ends at the edge of the language; the package name is too short a field to explain Javascript Object Notation, Comma Separated Values, or the ~~International Standards Organization~~ ok actually it's from "isos" meaning "same" date format.
by JohnMakin | 2025-12-12 17:16:41+00:00
I'm not making any kind of statement as to whether or not these prediction markets should exist - but one thing that irritates me is a fundamental error people make when evaluating them. It seems like people conflate "25% of the money is on a yes outcome for xyz event" with "xyz event yes outcome is 25% likely."

It isn't. It's merely a measure of people's confidence in the event's outcome, and even if in aggregate people are 99.9% confident of something, they can be wrong (and often are). Yet often, when I get into debates about the likelihood of some event, people will often point to these markets as a refutation of the argument or in support of theirs. It probably shouldn't bother me as much as it does, because there's a lot of money to be made from delusion .
by Santosh83 | 2025-12-12 17:16:44+00:00
Visiting this site with a freshly installed, stock Tor browser (therefore with JS enabled, no settings changed from defaults) on Debian stable gives me:

"Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking."

"Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 301.9 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 8.24 bits of identifying information."

Interestingly, increasing the Tor Browser Security level from Safe to Safer actually increased the bits of identifying information and reduced the anonymity:

"Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 832.32 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 9.7 bits of identifying information."

And at the Safest Security level (i.e. with JS diabled) the identifying bits and anonymization appear to be at their best:

"Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 261.41 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 8.03 bits of identifying information."
by LexiMax | 2025-12-12 17:16:52+00:00
Because Hacker News gamifies engagement, and they know that this kind of message tends to attract a lot of upvotes. The whole conversation tree is a carpet of land-mines, laid out in the hopes that someone steps on one so they can pounce.

This sort of gamification of discourse is poison if you actually care about good faith or reasonable discussions. HN is not a good place for either.
by btown | 2025-12-12 17:17:01+00:00
The November federal indictment, for those unfamiliar or curious: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/media/1417041/dl

Allegedly, per the indictment:

> Overall, between 2023 and 2025, the Bettors won at least $400,000 from the Betting Platforms on pitches thrown by the defendant EMMANUEL CLASE DE LA CRUZ.
by bad_haircut72 | 2025-12-12 17:17:11+00:00
Deregulation and the general decay of governance are the major drivers but it should also be pointed out that inequality is a huge driver of gambling. Charlie Munger had a whole speech once about how dumb poor people are for playing the lottery, but thats spoken like a true rich person - from the poor persons perspective, the lottery is one of the only realistic ways out of your current predicament, saving $5 a week will do nothing and just get eaten up elsewhere.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-12 17:17:27+00:00
I was using USDA figures for median food costs, do you have a better source? And I did not say to buy them a car, I was giving the median cost of single vehicle ownership for the whole family (which factors in purchasing, licensing, insuring, maintaining, and fueling the vehicle). These are median numbers.

This is not the 1940s:

Cheap homes are unavailable. Even single family homes are becoming unaffordable except in isolated areas without jobs. Housing costs, even apartments, have gone up enormously as a percentage of income and building/health codes don’t allow you to live in shanties.

You need a phone now for most jobs. People aren’t hiring you if you can’t be contacted except for bottom of the barrel work. You likely need internet if your job requires remote work and kids probably need it for homework.

People in the mid 1900s had single earner households and households or neighborhoods with extended family. That means more time for cooking, sewing and repairing clothes, and other housework. Work often wasn’t as far away, especially in working class neighborhoods, so you might not even need a car.

Besides all this, literally nobody is going to have kids if it requires going back to a 1940s standard of living. That’s society’s problem, if as an aggregate entity it cares about perpetuating itself. If nobody cares, fine, let it fall apart.
by triceratops | 2025-12-12 17:17:36+00:00
Legalized gambling is fine. It takes away a revenue stream from criminals.

Gambling advertising is an awful, terrible, no-good idea. Gambling is a zero-sum activity that doesn't increase productivity or happiness. There's no reason to create demand for it.

Gambling apps, or any kind of online gambling for that matter, is the same. Allowing online gambling is like piping whisky into every alcoholic's home.

Keep all gambling in meatspace. Don't allow it to be advertised.
by ModernMech | 2025-12-12 17:17:48+00:00
It's the commercials that get me. Depicting people playing the games constantly, while clearing the house, going to the bathroom, hanging out with friends. It shows them with their minds elsewhere, as if they're in a fancy casino surrounded by rich beautiful people wearing suits and glamourous clothes. Meanwhile they are in their dull ordinary life, craving for a dopamine hit the app gives them.

The commercials are a celebration of addiction, and its disgusting to those of us who have struggled with addiction and know, like you say, the damage is clear. And they tacitly admit it too at the end of the commercial where they hurriedly say "struggling with gambling addiction? call this number." As if that absolves anything.

And it's not just the gambling either. A typical commercial break these days consists of: gambling ads where they try to get you addicted, crypto ads where they try to bilk you, political ads where they lie to you, and then there's the omnipresent pharmaceutical ads. Now we've got AI ads on top of it all. Every one of those ad categories should be made illegal, like tobacco advertising.
by rikroots | 2025-12-12 17:18:01+00:00
This explains my entire drive with my work on my canvas library. I wanted to do something different with the way I was presenting my poems on my poetry website, so I went away and built something which would help me do just that. I didn't expect the library to take over the majority of my spare time for over a decade, but then I was having too much fun to stop.

The library's on GitHub and I could spam a link to it here, but it's much more exciting to spam a link to a poem that finally gets to use it - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/poem/flaw
by lenerdenator | 2025-12-12 17:18:15+00:00
> The walled garden has to end. There is no excuse for making people pay a premium price for an iPad Pro that can't run a third party web browser or do software development in any meaningful way.

Why?

There's an alternative: Android. I'm perfectly free to use that instead. I don't.

If I want to "do software development in any meaningful way", I'm not using a tablet. I'm using something with MacOS or GNU/Linux on it.

People willingly pay what Apple's charging for the iPad in the face of competition from a different OS and different classes of device, so I'm not really seeing the problem, especially when I can hand my technologically-handicapped 65-year-old mother an iPad and not have to worry as much about her installing something that will wreck every device on my parents' network or compromise her bank accounts or something.

Besides, the whole "locked-down device" wasn't Tim's idea, it was Steve's. There are plenty of reasons to gripe about Tim Cook, but "the iPad is too locked down" isn't one of them.
by orliesaurus | 2025-12-12 17:18:19+00:00
I'm starting to feel like I'm living in some weird simulation...

It isn't just about the money or whether some corporation rakes in a few more dollars... It's about the way this stuff rewires people's brains. I read a piece about sports betting apps driving anxiety and depression in young men recently. And there was another report pointing out that kids as young as eleven are tempted to gamble when their favourite influencers promote betting codes...

These little hits of dopamine condition people early... It's not enough to say 'buyer beware' if the buyer is twelve. The normalization of gambling as just another entertainment product is insidious. I REALLY worry that we'll look back at this moment like we do with tobacco ads. People knew something was off, BUT it took decades for the laws to catch up.

ALSO the pressure for growth means the industry will keep pushing into new spaces... There are serious public health consequences here and some countries are starting to treat it like that. I hope we don't wait until the damage is everywhere before acting.
by Cpoll | 2025-12-12 17:18:29+00:00
Calling it "German authoritarianism" risks thinking it's a localized phenomenon or special case. But it seems more like a regression to the global mean. Most of these expansions are things that have been on the front page of HN, but in reference to the US: cell tower queries, facial recognition, license plate harvesting, long detention periods without being charged, etc.
by sbuttgereit | 2025-12-12 17:18:38+00:00
This is a new issue for sure, but what trust is left to erode in the first place?

We already are regularly asked to accept mere emotionally motivated opinion as information. Of course its relayed as "fact-based reporting", wrapped in mostly tidy narratives which wear the makeup of a journalistic endeavor. But look at which facts are amplified, suppressed, or omitted; or the adjectives used around the facts or which facts are only ever spoken by the journalists and which facts are allowed to be conveyed directly by the participants. Even the choice of which stories are newsworthy and which aren't plays a role.

Modern journalism is already largely a call to action for adopting a particular worldview rather than an effort to ensure that you have the best information in formulating opinions. The press, the government, and activists already have taken the stand that you are a fool that is better manipulated into "correct thinking" by your betters than left to your own devices.

Given all that, I would contend that most reporting is not there to inform you in the first place: its there to manipulate your emotions on a subject while convincing you that somehow you are now "informed". I would say under those circumstances that any trust that still exists in the media is already misplaced. The betting question is just another avenue exacerbating an already unreliable journalistic landscape.
by pfdietz | 2025-12-12 17:19:03+00:00
You even admitted it was a poor argument.

I'll state it plainly: to get to the same level of reliability as the existing grid with just wind, solar, and batteries requires unacceptable amounts of overprovisioning of these at high latitude (or unacceptably high transmission cost).

Fortunately, use of different long duration storage (not batteries) can solve the problem more economically.
by uberman | 2025-12-12 17:19:15+00:00
You're suggesting that the only alternative to autonomous self-driving cars is public transit?

By the way, I do vote with my wallet. I won't buy a car that has these features. I won't buy a car that serves me ads. I won't buy a car that charges a subscription fee. However, this is becoming increasingly challenging. Most luxury vehicle manufacturers want to pad their bottom lines by charging a premium or worse a subscription for things I (and I suspect many people) don't want.

These premium features ultimately trickle down so every new car must have a rear-view camera and many have LED lighting. Examples of two premium features that now everyone must pay for. My eldest daughter failed her driving test because she used the rear view camera when parallel parking. Yes these cameras are mandated but you fail if you use them. The tail light on an F-150 can cost upwards of $3,000 to replace. A tail light!

My first car, a jeep, came with a bikini top, no doors. the windshield actually folded down without a special tool, and I used a kerosene heater in between the seats when it was cold. Now wranglers come with touch screens, heated steering wheels and cruise control. Apparently they are difficult to find with a manual transmission. I loved mine back in the day but as you say I'll vote with my wallet and will not buy from Stellantis.

I'll happily get my kids a Slate. Of course your mileage may vary and if you want to pay for these premiums then power to you. I just don't want to subsidize your choice.
by echelon | 2025-12-12 17:20:09+00:00
It's a less than zero-sum, non-productive activity that damages people's finances.

The institutions that enable gambling receive the majority of the upside, while society receives all the negative externalities of people not being able to pay their bills, digging themselves into holes, not able to participate in the real economy.

The institutions enabling this use dark patterns and addictiveness to fuel a cycle of dependence.

I am also of the libertarian ideology that we should mostly let people do whatever they want so long as it doesn't hurt others. But lately I've been starting to think there are some habits (gambling) and some drugs (fentanyl) that are impossible to use responsibility and that destroy individuals and degrade society.

I think gambling should be regulated and taxed. This should not be such a lucrative or desirable industry to target.

At least gambling in the stock market, housing market, etc. is actually tied to real securities and derivatives. Betting on sports is useless. It pads the wallets of the gambling marketplaces and decreases the fitness, mental health, and security of the losers.