MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Scaevolus | 2025-12-27 23:48:31+00:00
https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2005008887234048091

Here's the word on the internet streets:

- THE FIRST GROUP of individuals exploited a Rainbow 6 Siege service allowing them ban players, modify inventory, etc. These individuals did not touch user data (unsure if they even could). They gifted roughly $339,960,000,000,000 worth of in-game currency to players. Ubisoft will perform a roll back to undo the damages. They're probably annoyed. I cannot go into full details at this time how it was achieved.

- A SECOND GROUP of individuals, unrelated to the FIRST GROUP of individuals, exploited a MongoDB instance from Ubisoft, using MongoBleed, which allowed them (in some capacity) to pivot to an internal Git repository. They exfiltrated a large portion of Ubisoft's internal source code. They assert it is data from the 90's - present, including software development kits, multiplayer services, etc. I have medium to high confidence this true. I've confirmed this with multiple parties.

- A THIRD GROUP of individuals claim to have compromised Ubisoft and exfiltrated user data by exploiting MongoDB via MongoBleed. This group is trying to extort Ubisoft. They have a name for their extortion group and are active on Telegram. However, I have been unable to determine the validity of their claims.

- A FOURTH GROUP of individuals assert the SECOND group of individuals are LYING and state the SECOND GROUP has had access to the Ubisoft internal source code for awhile. However, they state the SECOND GROUP is trying to hide behind the FIRST GROUP to masquerade as them and give them a reason to leak the source code in totality. The FIRST GROUP and FOURTH GROUP is frustrated by this

Will the SECOND GROUP leak the source code? Is the SECOND GROUP telling the truth? Did the SECOND GROUP lie and have access to Ubisoft code this whole time? Was it MongoBleed? Will the FIRST GROUP get pinned for this? Who is this mysterious THIRD GROUP? Is this group related to any of the other groups?
by tzs | 2025-12-27 23:49:25+00:00
I don't see how "Addictive feed" is circularly defined. The definition given is [1]:

> "Addictive feed" shall mean a website, online service, online
application, or mobile application, or a portion thereof, in which
multiple pieces of media generated or shared by users of a website,
online service, online application, or mobile application, either
concurrently or sequentially, are recommended, selected, or prioritized
for display to a user based, in whole or in part, on information
associated with the user or the user's device, unless any of the
following conditions are met, alone or in combination with one another:

> (a) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is based on
information that is not persistently associated with the user or user's
device, and does not concern the user's previous interactions with media
generated or shared by other users;

> (b) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is based on
user-selected privacy or accessibility settings, or technical
information concerning the user's device;

> (c) the user expressly and unambiguously requested the specific media,
media by the author, creator, or poster of media the user has subscribed
to, or media shared by users to a page or group the user has subscribed
to, provided that the media is not recommended, selected, or prioritized
for display based, in whole or in part, on other information associated
with the user or the user's device that is not otherwise permissible
under this subdivision;

> (d) the user expressly and unambiguously requested that specific
media, media by a specified author, creator, or poster of media the user
has subscribed to, or media shared by users to a page or group the user
has subscribed to pursuant to paragraph (c) of this subdivision, be
blocked, prioritized or deprioritized for display, provided that the
media is not recommended, selected, or prioritized for display based, in
whole or in part, on other information associated with the user or the
user's device that is not otherwise permissible under this subdivision;

> (e) the media are direct and private communications;

> (f) the media are recommended, selected, or prioritized only in
response to a specific search inquiry by the user;

(> g) the media recommended, selected, or prioritized for display is
exclusively next in a pre-existing sequence from the same author,
creator, poster, or source; or

> (h) the recommendation, prioritization, or selection is necessary to
comply with the provisions of this article and any regulations
promulgated pursuant to this article.

[1] https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/GBS/1500
by adamwong246 | 2025-12-27 23:49:28+00:00
All petroleum was created from ancient forests before the evolution of microorganisms that could decompose fiber, so the plant material was simply buried and gradually became petroleum. Above ground, evolution produced organisms which could break down fiber. My point being, that not only is petroleum very useful, it is exceptionally rare on a geological timeline (at least on this planet ). It's like a cosmic trust fund, and like most trust fund recipents, we utterly squandered it. We took all this free energy, burned it to power ai slop, and poisoned ourselves in the process. We should have been using that oil to push humans out of the gravity well to Titan where petroleum is abundant. But no, we wanted big cars, cheap electricity and single use utensils.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-12-27 23:49:41+00:00
I know almost nothing about bio, hopefully someone more knowledgeable can answer. But I had the same thought -- one treatment for 18 months of relief sounds great! even people that _are_ lactose tolerant often lose tolerance as they age, so it seems like this could have wide appeal. Do it ~30 times and you could be lactose-tolerant your whole life.
by saagarjha | 2025-12-27 23:50:19+00:00
The idea was that I figured you’d consider that some things are valuable in ways that don’t involve money. Unfortunately I think the conclusion here is that you actually truly believe that there is nothing that cannot be bet if a suitable market could be formed for it. Of course, I should have realized this, because by placing bets in general you are in fact taking a financial position in the concept of betting markets.
by kllrnohj | 2025-12-27 23:51:27+00:00
> If we really want to compare, I bet a refurbished Thinkpad would probably be about the same price as the typical Framework mainboard of similar performance.

And a used laptop is cheaper still! Which is all entirely irrelevant to the original point and the goal posts aren't even in view anymore. Finding cheaper products that aren't equivalent isn't exactly hard. If the singular thing you want is CPU performance then a laptop is a bad idea in the first place.
by 999900000999 | 2025-12-27 23:52:13+00:00
I actually think I'm trying Just to get more out of the electronics where others can't match what I had decades ago.to get to where your at.

I like programming. I want to start a company and hire smart people.

But I don't want that to be my main means of support.

>Just to get more out of the electronics where others can't match what I had decades ago.

I'm forced to assume you have a particular niche here.

I hope to be able to write code as long as I'm here, but I want it to be a hobby when I'm old.

Hopefully the hobby includes collaborations with others. A lot of people have vanity wine shops and book stores which lose money, I want a vanity game studio ( maybe music production software too).
by senfiaj | 2025-12-27 23:52:19+00:00
Maybe. But I remember one game developer told that they face even a more challenging problem, which is the synchronization between players in multiplayer real-time games. Just imagine different users having significantly different network latencies in a multiplayer shooter where a couple milliseconds can be decisive. Someone makes a headshot when the game state is already outdated. If you think about this you can appreciate how it's complicated just to make the gameplay at least not awful...
by tonfa | 2025-12-27 23:52:20+00:00
That's a nice thing in Switzerland, even if developed with company resources, only what you're being asked to do belongs to the company.

Things that are done in the course of employment (but aren't part of the contractual obligations) would often need to be disclosed and the company could license it. IP would typically still be owned by the employee.

Obviously things done outside of work would be even more clearly owned by the employee.

I wonder if any other country has a similar system.
by garciasn | 2025-12-27 23:52:48+00:00
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S

Federal Receipts as a Percent of GDP measures total government revenue relative to the size of the economy, serving as a standardized way to track the federal tax burden over time.

Although the top marginal tax rate in the 1950s indeed exceeded 90%, federal receipts hovered around 17% of GDP; this was nearly identical to current levels, because loopholes and high income thresholds (roughly equivalent to $2MM for single/$4MM for couples) meant almost no one actually paid that top rate.

The effective tax rate for the top 1% was closer to 42% rather than 90%, demonstrating that extremely high statutory rates on paper do not necessarily generate proportionally higher government revenue.
by throw20251220 | 2025-12-27 23:53:15+00:00
No. There is no “you” in this context. There is ”itself”. They don’t want to pay for it because they apparently don’t agree with the outcome. The government is willingly giving up its own right to speak at its own expense. Those 800 people who will get laid off can start a gofundme and continue their own free speech.
by neilv | 2025-12-27 23:53:17+00:00
Funny: maybe it's my ad blocker, but if go to https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/ (old-school Reddit UI), the right sidebar says:

> "With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power. " -- Richard M Stallman

> Essential reading [...] People with similar ideas: [...] Vaguely related: [...]

> Rules:

> 1. Memes and shitposts allowed only on Mondays

> 2. Try to flair your posts

> 3. WWRMSD?

But if I go to https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/ (new-style Reddit UI), the right sidebar says:

> Stallman was Right

> Nobody listens to him. But he was right all along.*

> r/StallmanWasRight Rules

> 1 Memes only on Mondays

> 2 no-spam-brigading

Is the first UI for hackers, and the second one for mindless doomscrolling?
by watersb | 2025-12-27 23:54:13+00:00
35 years ago, protesters blocked the Golden Gate Bridge.

I'm pretty sure they were protesting the war with Iraq (Bush the First) in response to Iraq's invasion and capture of oil wells in Kuwait.

But far more clear is my memory of the searing rage of a coworker that day. She was flying on it, the hatred coming out of her mouth.

It shocked me for a couple of reasons. She was close in age to me, just out of school. I think that my college years had led me to presume to most young people would be more sympathetic to opposition of general warfare. There was lots of talk of forcing military enlistment among people our age.

But the main reason was that the trigger for her rage was the temporary threat to her right to drive her car wherever she wanted to.

You think Americans are nuts about their guns, don't you ever threaten their right to kill people with cars.

Any sympathy she could have felt for the protesters' cause was gone because they blocked a highway.
by rldjbpin | 2025-12-27 23:54:44+00:00
quite appreciate everyone chiming in the comments to help others reach their goals.

mine are rehash from this year (which failed!) with a new one:

- focus on health: specifically getting back on track and maintaining a sustainable routine

- consume less, make more: less passive pastime

- explore side hustles: to encourage the previous, try to fill in a (very) small market gap using what i know or want to learn
by danpalmer | 2025-12-27 23:55:20+00:00
I see your point, I do agree that it's best to go into any situation assuming good faith. The problem is that the airline industry and those sorts of big corporations have already proven that they do not generally act in good faith (at least in the countries I have experience with – UK, AU, US). They have already lost the trust and the responsibility is on them to rebuild it.
by cge | 2025-12-27 23:55:21+00:00
Even in emergency situations, the idea that the best outcome for passengers is achieved when they leave everything behind does involve placing trust in the crew and the authorities around the situation. If you're in a situation where that trust is no longer there, ignoring rules and going for a bag can make sense, which is one of the reasons why that trust is important.

I'd prefer not to go into extensive detail, but I was once a passenger involved in a shipwreck where I did not trust the crew or the country we were in, and it was a somewhat similar situation of needing to get off the ship immediately, with the implication that everything should be left behind.

Disregarding that and instead grabbing my small backpack with a satellite phone and cell phone, a GPS system and camera, my passport, a jacket, and similar items was, in hindsight, a very good decision. Without that bag, we would have been in a very sketchy situation, entirely under the control of the crew and shipowner, in a corrupt country where the shipowner was well-connected.

Depending on the situation, it's not necessarily a matter of compensation for expensive possessions. Do you have any means of outside communication that isn't controlled by a group that might not have your best interests in mind? Do you have any alternative (eg, communication, documentation, or means of payment) if they decide to make your treatment dependent on what you are willing to sign, or if they decide to simply abandon you, or worse? Even during the emergency itself: is the emergency equipment that is supposed to be there going to be there? Is it going to be functional? Do you trust the crew to actually help you?

With all that said: going for an overhead bag in an emergency on a plane is ridiculous and dangerous; if something is so critical, it would make more sense to have it in a pocket (to be fully compliant), or at least immediately accessible in a small bag.
by DGrechko | 2025-12-27 23:55:53+00:00
Thanks, haven't seen it before, but love the idea of it. It certainly takes the concept a lot futher that I intended with this project. My goal is far is to relyt on well-supported open source tools and frameworks, and give both the software and hardware flexibility for people to create what they need. Think of it like FlipperZero, but for outdoors
by emerongi | 2025-12-27 23:56:09+00:00
> It's already becoming a common strategy

I've taken mental health leave (not due to a PIP) and my productivity before and after was significantly different. It was _great_ for my employer that I took it. I'm quite sure I would've eventually ended up with a PIP if I hadn't taken it sooner myself, and the best remedy on a PIP would have been to take mental health leave. Not as a strategy as such, but literally because it would have been the best solution (and I think the only one).
by afiori | 2025-12-27 23:56:16+00:00
I think it should be mostly ad-hoc methods:

if you have a website put your keys in a dedicated page and direct people there

If you are in an org there can be whatever kind of centralised repo

Add the hashes to your email signature and/or profile bios

There might be a nice uniform solution using DNS and derived keys like certificate chains? I am not sure but I think it might not be necessary
by JCattheATM | 2025-12-27 23:56:39+00:00
I think the US is rather unique from other capitalist countries in having such a large portion of its population being so poorly educated. This simply isn't the case in EU or Commonwealth countries - in the US its led people to vote against their own interests, allowing companies to lobby for things that benefit the companies and hurt people, in an ever increasing trend. I don't think it's to do with the size of the country, but the education level of the population.
by DonHopkins | 2025-12-27 23:56:55+00:00
Fair enough, then let’s dive into substance.

I’m not objecting because I "don’t like" Rogan or Weinstein, and I'm not saying you're religious or pushing ID. I’m objecting because the specific framing you're repeating is decades old, well studied, and routinely mis-presented in popular media as if it repairs a flaw in evolutionary theory that doesn't actually exist.

The idea that non-coding DNA, developmental constraints, or regulatory structure "reduce the search space" is not controversial, it’s foundational. What is misleading is presenting this as a fix for a "pure random walk" model of evolution. That model was abandoned generations ago and is mainly kept alive in popular discourse by critics of evolution (Creationists, the Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design proponents, Teach the Controversy perpetrators, anti-science podcasters, etc).

Weinstein calling this a "pet theory" is itself revealing -- it’s not a theory in the scientific sense at all, but a loose, personalized retelling of ideas that have been standard in evolutionary biology for decades.

If you want solid, non-Rogan, non-Weinstein sources, here are places to start:

Sean B. Carroll -- Endless Forms Most Beautiful:
Classic introduction to evo-devo, gene regulatory networks, and why morphology is highly constrained and reusable.

Gerhart & Kirschner -- The Theory of Facilitated Variation:
Explicitly addresses how biological systems bias variation toward viable outcomes. This is probably the closest rigorous treatment of what Weinstein gestures at, minus the hype.

Wagner & Altenberg (1996) -- Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability:
Shows how genotype–phenotype mappings are structured, non-uniform, and historically constrained.

Pigliucci & Müller -- Evolution: The Extended Synthesis:
Covers developmental bias, constraint, and non-coding DNA without implying evolution was ever a blind bit-flip search.

Lenski et al. (2003–2015) -- Long-term E. coli evolution experiments:
Direct experimental evidence of cumulative selection exploiting structured variation.

None of this is new, hidden, or suppressed. It’s in textbooks and review papers.

The reason I push back hard on Rogan/Weinstein is that their signature move is to strip this literature of context, reintroduce a strawman (“random walk evolution”), present a well-known correction as contrarian revelation, and imply experts missed something obvious.

That pattern reliably manufactures doubt without producing new insight.

So no, my objection is not "don't listen to them".

It's: don't mistake and parrot repackaged, incomplete explanations for novel insight, especially when they're framed as fixing a problem experts allegedly ignored.

If you want to understand this topic deeply, the literature above will take you much farther than a podcast ever will.
by magnitudes | 2025-12-27 23:57:12+00:00
“Russia has excellent deterrence” is what you’re trying to say sanctions are not working to stop what Russia is doing to Ukraine? That not only demonstrates a bad understanding of geopolitics and how sanctions work, but also distracts from what we are actually talking about.

It’s not really clear to me what you are trying to say. There will be winners and losers and it will be hard to know who they will be. That has nothing to do with Anthropic/OpenAI/etc not being rational in their strategy...
by johnisgood | 2025-12-27 23:57:45+00:00
I know, I know, I was going to edit it to "Git{Hub,Lab}" in the beginning but oh well.

In any case, my comment just reflects on the fact that you had a series of patches that you could not squash or rebase. It stuck.

And the fact that I see many people use the abbreviation "PR" for something that is merely a patch or diff. For example you might send a diff to the tech@ mailing list, but you should not refer to it as a PR.
by ajxs | 2025-12-27 23:58:04+00:00
Sydney has an extensive network of toll roads, and it's a nightmare. The state government has outsourced the initial infrastructure development to a private company (Transurban), who pay off their development costs through collecting the toll. It costs taxpayers a fortune. Sydney's road network is so poorly designed that it's difficult to get anywhere without crossing a toll road if you actually value your time. People allege that the state government is deliberately designing bottlenecks into the road network to funnel traffic into toll roads (e.g. westbound traffic on Parramatta Road) and it's difficult to disagree with this assessment. I live in the city and most of my driving is for leisure, yet somehow I still paid $850 in tolls over the last 12 months. Just in case anyone is wondering, there's no 'toll plaza'. Our toll roads have an automated collection system which operates via ALPR.
by saagarjha | 2025-12-27 23:58:14+00:00
I think it is absurd to assume that posting “this is how I feel about this topic” continually but rejecting a question of “why do you feel that way” as “personal” would lead to any productive discussion: it would just lead to people screaming their opinions at each other progressively louder. Looking at your past comments, I think this is about accurate in describing the discussions it spawned! So I actually don’t think I agree with you that what I posted is flamebait.
by cyberax | 2025-12-27 23:58:43+00:00
Yep. Increased over-centralization in the US wouldn't have been possible without transit.

And it's the main reason for polarization. You have large cities (SF, Seattle, Chicago, NYC) that are the centers of economic growth, and you have thousands of small cities that are slowly dying. These large cities and their satellites are growing at an unsustainable rate, even though the _overall_ population is flat.

And then the cities themselves, they have a huge population of low-income workers who can't afford to live there without some form of subsidies. It started with transit, but now the freaking NYC mayor is talking about subsidized grocery stores. This is another source of polarization.

Want to see an even starker example? Look at Japan. Tokyo is in a literal housing price bubble in a country with a _shrinking_ population.
by rustystump | 2025-12-27 23:59:27+00:00
> so much content, it can keep me continually engaged

I find the total opposite to be true. I desperately want more engaging content to feed the gooey goblin in my brain but the overwhelming majority doesn't cut it and this was before AI.

Almost every show I see on netflix, tiktok I glance at, or reddit post is absolute unflavored mash potatoes. Content for content's sake. Feed me more content like scavengers reign and less frankenstein remakes or super hero slop.
by dvratil | 2025-12-27 23:59:30+00:00
Happened on the first day of my first on-call rotation - a cert for one of the key services expired. Autorenew failed, because one of the subdomains on the cert no longer resolved.

The main lesson we took from this was: you absolutely need monitoring for cert expiration, with alert when (valid_to - now) becomes less than typical refresh window.

It's easy to forget this, especially when it's not strictly part of your app, but essential nonetheless.