MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dustractor | 2025-12-02 11:47:37+00:00
> Have people disappeared off the face of the earth?

It is established that hundreds of detainees from the July 2025 Alligator Alcatraz intake were unaccounted for in ICE’s online system by late August and reported as such through September 2025, with recurring reporting of about 800 with no online record and some 450 with unclear location data.
by makingstuffs | 2025-12-02 11:47:58+00:00
> You would benefit from not assuming that everyone is the same as you.

I’m sorry if it came across that this was the point I was making. I was not. I acknowledge and understand everyone is different.

The point I was making was about trusting people to be responsible adults and do what is right for the productivity without dictating a binary decision.

People who are more productive at home should not be punished because others are not and likewise for the inverse.
by iron_albatross | 2025-12-02 11:48:58+00:00
I’d argue that any sufficiently dense city is naturally a 15 minute city, and tens of millions of people (including myself) live in them. For example: in New York, Tokyo, London etc. one can feasibly access all the amenities they need within a “15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit ride”.

The key thing is that these cities developed this way organically. There is nothing stopping me leaving my 15 minute radius if I want to, and I regularly do.
by abc123abc123 | 2025-12-02 11:49:09+00:00
Yes, it is the single most popular vector for scammers to fleece old people. Great! Add to that, that your identity is controlled by banks, not the government, and that banks can terminate you without any due process, and complaining can take weeks if not months, and there is no guaranteed positive outcome.

No thank you, I'll take no ID over ID any day, and at worst, a physical plastic card over a bullsh*t digital solution that is used to lock you out off society.

Sweden is really the worst possible approach, is authoritarian, and hands over the power to the banks controlling the digital ID system.
by Tor3 | 2025-12-02 11:49:23+00:00
In those places where a system like Sweden's has been implemented, the usage is constricted to certain areas. And in the case where it's used elsewhere, that's an option that is not mandatory (and in any case far and few between). A way to identify an individual is typically related to financial or contractual issues. So far, at least. Looking at you, the UK
by mstep | 2025-12-02 11:49:28+00:00
i don-t think so. the stage direction before that dialogue is:

(ROS and GUIL ponder. Each reluctant to speak first.)

if the dialogue should be clearly about who speaks first, wouldn-t the stage direction have been something like:

(ROS and GUIL ponder. Each reluctant to speak first. ROS tries to say something but does not) ?

i mean - you could play it like that. But then to me some of the beauty of that dialogue is lost, that comes from the fact that for the spectator it-s not clear what is the subject of it.
by halfdaft | 2025-12-02 11:49:42+00:00
Hi HN,

I recently launched this poster design and customisation project. It's built entirely from home with just my wife and I working on it.

The idea came from us realising our official address might have the wrong townland. Townlands being the smallest official land division in the country, with fairly ancient origins.

Digging into official maps, old maps and ongoing efforts to digitally map and research the original underlying Irish language names of the now mostly anglicised place names, was a very fun rabbit hole to dive into.

I also realised I'd never seen a map of Ireland composed of just the townland boundaries: of which there are an atonishing (to me anyway) 61,112, give or take.

A lot of people in Ireland, particularly in the countryside, are quite passionate about their townland/s. They don't carry any social complexities like teams or flags, but they do offer colour and meaning in a sort of linguistic interface to the land and its occupants. For example, the meaningless sounding townland Brockra is derived from the Irish An Bhrocraigh, or the place of badgers.

By combinging data from OpenStreepMap, Loganim[0], townlands[1] and other sources, we built a dataset which we would use as the foundation for a poster design. We designed the poster and built the customisation engine in parallel, letting one influence the other.

We built the whole thing in 3 weeks including website, a preview request and approval system, email and print API integration. This wouldn't have been possible without AI development tools, Claude code in this case.

The Python-based poster builder modifies SVG template layers to a spec file, a style file and a place name sidecar file. It uses Inkscape headless to outline text and CairoSVG for rasterization. This runs on an old linux PC at home, the website is built with caard and the e-commerce stack is Cloudfare worker, Stripe and Supabase.

Sample posters and previews of custom posters are available on the website. Hope it's of interest to some!

[0] https://www.logainm.ie [1] https://www.townlands.ie/
by vijucat | 2025-12-02 11:51:01+00:00
I disagree with "the golden age of software quality". For example, right now, on the front page of HN, is this article, "After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46116567. I could be wrong, but it feels as if this egregious error is AI workslop?!
by GeoAtreides | 2025-12-02 11:51:28+00:00
I'm not sure what the argument is here.

That because there's a large corpus of public domain works, then the long copyright protection is ok? That people want a short copyright protection because they're done with everything in the public domain?

Would that also imply that if the number of public domain works gets large enough, then the duration copyright protections should also increase?
by theothertimcook | 2025-12-02 11:52:00+00:00
The sunscreen thing is atrocious, about 7 years ago I bought a big expensive bottle of LeTan spf50 waterproof sunscreen, had a big day at the beach but applied and reapply diligently following the instructions.

Burnt to a crisp, I emails them and never heard back, I can't image I was the only person to notice.

Which is why Im probably vitD deficient too, the sun is toobharde to spend any amount of time outside unprotected here.

It's now slip, slop, slap, seek, slide - shade and sunglasses!
by aa-jv | 2025-12-02 11:52:38+00:00
Beej has been a stable reference for me for decades, also. By applying the knowledge gained in his networking guide, I've won many contracts for work that others considered too difficult (or "impossible" in the budget constraints) .. but which I managed to deliver, on time and under budget, because Beej had led the way.

Easily one of my top 5 favourite people on the Internet, alongside Linus Torvalds and so on.. I would say Beejs' impact on technology has been understated but definitely an order of magnitude or two greater than most.
by champtar | 2025-12-02 11:52:46+00:00
CAP_NET_RAW also allow to capture packets (tcpdump) so you really can have some fun like running a TCP stack in user space or MITM http connections: https://blog.champtar.fr/IPv6_RA_MITM/ / https://blog.champtar.fr/Metadata_MITM_root_EKS_GKE/
by interleave | 2025-12-02 11:53:17+00:00
Also a huge Eno fan here. Put together, I probably have listened to Music for Airports, Another Green World, Taking Tiger Mountain and Discreet Music more than any other artist. Maybe Philip Glass comes in at a close second.

Anyways, in 2016, Tero Parviainen (@teropa) shared this really cool long-form exploration called "JavaScript Systems Music – Learning Web Audio by Recreating The Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno" that I enjoyed tremendously (and I don't even like Javascript!)

Check it out at: https://teropa.info/blog/2016/07/28/javascript-systems-music...
by dspillett | 2025-12-02 11:53:20+00:00
I've been using Debian:Stable on servers and occasionally on desktop for many years. I can't say I've ever had a problem due to a bad update.

IIRC there have been a couple, but they've not affected the packages I was using, or I hadn't updated before the issues were spotted and resolved. The last half of that point is important: most Linux distros can be trusted to be left alone for 24 hours without coming back to find they've rebooted themselves, potentially losing work (or if not work, at least context so getting back to work takes longer than it should), without permission. Forcing updates and reboots might be acceptable when they cover a serious remote attack exposure bug, but Windows will reboot itself without permission even for relatively minor updates, and the fact it needs to reboot for so many minor things, where under Linux the updates might just need to restart a daemon or two rather than the whole OS, is irritating. Yes, there are ways to block Windows doing that, but you shouldn't have to fight your OS like that.
by bananalychee | 2025-12-02 11:53:36+00:00
Your target price range is set too low for the area if you keep seeing poor quality houses. I've heard plenty of people complain about the quality of the housing stock in my (old) area, but that's because they insist on lowballing in desirable neighborhoods, there's plenty of well-maintained properties as well including at the low end. You just can't expect a miracle for the price of a foreclosure.
by entuno | 2025-12-02 11:53:50+00:00
The simple solution is that whenever you start to write a comment, ask yourself: do I want to have a discussion about this?

If the answer is "yes", then make your comment, check back and interact with the responses (assuming they seem to be in good faith). If it's "no" then just close the comment box and get on with your life.

But then I realise that it's fairly pointless writing this in the first place...
by liendolucas | 2025-12-02 11:55:19+00:00
I have used the guide when at college and it was an extremely good read at the time. Learnt so much. I should probably buy a printed copy.

Being that said, at the moment I'm trying to implement a simple non-blocking TLS server in Python with a custom protocol (no external deps, only built-ins) and couldn't find a single guide online that treats the topic. Having read the Python documentation it appears that there are a lot of nuances and pitfalls to correctly implement it. This was my impression after reading the docs, though I could be wrong.

I haven't checked if current Beej's guide covers the topic, in case it doesn't, did anyone embarked in doing this with success?

The Python docs on the topic: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ssl.html#ssl-nonblocking
by Saline9515 | 2025-12-02 11:55:21+00:00
No, because with classic ID documents, the government doesn't know if I went to a specific healthcare provider, if I opened a social media account, if I bought a train ticket, or even where my bank accounts are (reporting is yearly, not in real time). Accessing all of this data is possible but bears a lot of friction, which prevents mass surveillance (or at least increases the costs).

Once the eID system is set up and becomes ubiquitous, it will be trivial for companies to use eID to open any online account or reserve plane/train tickets. Therefore, giving enforcement forces very convenient access to all of my activity and allowing automated monitoring. Just look at what is happening in China.
by redbell | 2025-12-02 11:55:56+00:00
> Over the last few weeks I’ve been discovering problems that have been eroding confidence in macOS.

As we move forward, we're probably going to discover more hidden gems in the Apple’s ecosystem because, apparently, it's a serious crisis that is not going anywhere anytime soon.

You might be also interested in these related submissions:

Apple's Software Quality Crisis (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243075)

What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail?(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45685551)
by mrbungie | 2025-12-02 11:56:09+00:00
Well, depends on the software project itself and where you are in its development lifecycle but:

- (1) A lot of developing can be just chores around managing scaffolds and repeatable work, and due to this macros, autogenerated code and other tools have been a thing at many layers for a long time; and

- (2) I remember copy-pasting from Google/StackOverflow (i.e. mostly search + pattern matching with some minimal reasoning) being criticized as a low-effort mode of development during the 2010s, before ChatGPT and AI assisted coding tools took over that part.

So yes, I'd argue a huge amount of software development problems can be solved without ever actually reasoning from first principles, AI tools just made that more visible.
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-12-02 11:56:41+00:00
> I love this album. I often listen to it when programming

Me too. Its been a coding zone favourite of mine for many years.

The classical/instrumental version by Bang on a Can [1] is good too.

[1] https://www.discogs.com/release/1140705-Bang-On-A-Can-Brian-...
by baq | 2025-12-02 11:56:48+00:00
> This will make the very mention of "AI" toxic for most investors sooner than later.

I'm not so sure. I agree about the exceptionally off the charts expectations rivaling only the dotcom bubble, but with the current rate of progress I'd expect AI to be pervasive enough to disappear from investor relationship materials not because it's a buzzword, but because it's assumed to be incorporated just like companies don't mention that they're running Linux servers; companies saying that they're doing stuff without AI will be something to watch for.
by davailan | 2025-12-02 11:57:21+00:00
Thanks!

What topics are you interested in?

Two different directions I'm thinking of for Open Paper Digest:

- either some recommendation algorithm that figures out which topics you are interested in and serves you papers based on that. Would need a good way to get signals though. That's why I'm now bootstrapping the process with Huggingface Trending Papers, but that immediately constrains the topics.

- or more search driven, where you type "I'd like to read about X" and it starts your feed

With regards to anti-bubbling: interesting thought, a "reverse" recommendation algorithm...
by 0xEF | 2025-12-02 11:57:37+00:00
I'd push even further and say it encroaches, if not outright invades the conversation about who owns what data. Both are terribly muddy waters, to be sure, but something worth hashing out since we live in an age of information that is both accessible and under threat, so the real question is where do we want to collectively steer this ship?
by hommes-r | 2025-12-02 11:57:37+00:00
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by MonkeyClub | 2025-12-02 11:57:42+00:00
> The only possible reason for it is if you have a personal instigatory agenda

Here's another possible reason: I actively dislike totalitarianism.

If you're able to make a substantiated comment beyond the trope of "totally irrelevant", I'd be happy to entertain your opinion.

> As Slashdot named it, you are just a "Anonymous Coward" [...] and a troll.

Again, resorting to name calling and equating anonymity with trolling doesn't promote your opinion, it doesn't even elucidate it, it just puts you up as someone who'd rather go for ad hominems rather than genuine dialogue.

I mean, are you pro-Modi and BJP? Do you even have a reasoning for it that manages to elide all their shortcomings, or is it just fitting in with the crowd?
by codr7 | 2025-12-02 11:57:49+00:00
I've worked remotely most of my career, long before Covid.

Last few months I've been in the office almost every single day.

And I get what they're saying, there are definite advantages to having everybody in the same room. I don't think pretending otherwise is going to help us much.

There are definite advantages that go the other way as well.

The goal has to be to find a good compromise, you can never go back.
by efijob | 2025-12-02 11:58:34+00:00
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by shmeeed | 2025-12-02 11:59:21+00:00
Right, one might suppose so. Alas, the chirps echoing within a tiled 3x3' cell grind my ears. Besides it feels a bit out of place within these plain white confinements. I just can't conjure up the mental image of being out in the woods.

But you have to pick your battles with your partner. I'm turning the volume down, and when the battery's empty I don't exactly hasten to change it.
by tim333 | 2025-12-02 11:59:27+00:00
>A new AI winter is coming.

Counterpoint - no it isn't.

The NP arguments are dumb and have nothing to do with thinking. I don't think Einstein was NP complete but could still think.

Winter summer implies sine wave like progress but what we are seeing now is a result of exponential growth in computer hardware such that it is now passing human equivalent levels https://www.bvp.com/assets/uploads/2024/03/price-performance...

LLMs having failings is a blip. Hinton got his nobel prize for work done in the 1980s but we are seeing AI takeoff now 45 years later, almost exactly when predicted by the likes of Moravec/Kurweil because of the hardware progress.

(see the token use graph mentioned by aoeusnth1 - https://openrouter.ai/rankings usage looking exponential too)
by entuno | 2025-12-02 11:59:33+00:00
> It's just hard to justify engaging. Worst case, I get a fight on my hands with someone who's as dogmatic as they are wrong, which is both frequent and also a complete waste of my time.

The three mindset changes I found that really help with this are understanding that:

* You don't have to try and get the last word in.

* Other people are not entitled to your time, especially if they're engaging in bad faith.

* Outside of small and curated communities, there's pretty good odds that you're not interacting with a real and honest person.

So whenever I click into the comment box, I always ask myself "Can I really be bothered with this? Is this really what I want to be spending my free time doing?"

And then I often close the comment box and get on with my life.
by krylon | 2025-12-02 11:59:40+00:00
I vaguely recall there was a case a few years back where a patient had been cured of HIV. But they had effectively their entire immune system wiped out by radiation therapy or something along those lines, and then received a bone marrow transplant from a healthy donor. So not something that could easily be replicated in many patients.

Still, that is big news, considering how many people have died from HIV, and how many still live with the virus. Treatment has come a long way - I remember how it was practically a death penalty in the 1990s; but a complete cure would be so much better than depending on medication for the rest of one's life. I don't think this is the breakthrough, but it is proof that search for a cure is not futile.
by pardon_me | 2025-12-02 12:01:42+00:00
The open internet is dead.

Everyone seems to be liable for each others' actions and content, yet simultaneously we don't own our own data.

The internet is a tool. Rather than putting ourselves at risk by standing on a street corner shouting our message to the world, or using controlled mass media streams such as TV and newspapers (which themselves are always at risk of being sued), we can "anonymously" communicate to millions, with very little risk to our personal safety or finances. There are few (if any) laws or commercial control worldwide which govern our right to so called "free speech" online, unless it affects profits.

This had led to opposing forces: Web technology companies (ISPs, AI, social media, search engines etc.) want us to share as much as possible, particularly emotionally-driven content. They use tools to deeply inspect data for tracking and profiling, and lobby government for the right to own and retain this data--all for profit purposes. Simultaneously, they wish to take no responsibility for creating and running these tools, nor the data retained, nor the global societal impacts. They refuse to share the data or inferred summaries.

Advertising has led to military grade tracking technology, and the web is practically run by advertising companies, who scrape, process, and retain our data, to create useful tools for us to use in order to encourage us to share more information. A feedback loop.

It's effectively privatizing profits and socializing losses on a data/information level; The commercial success of encouraging us to share our psyche and fostering opinion silos goes to investors. The control of individuals and groups goes to seekers of power. Yet the social impact of a divided society full of disinformation falls on all of us who aren't insulated from the reality of humanity.

Perhaps the general understanding of the value of data will begin to merge as we wake up to understand what this all means.