MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gosub100 | 2025-12-21 02:42:52+00:00
So your claim is that someone is not a victim unless they are physically restrained or imprisoned? Can you give some examples of clear, definitive "legitimate victims" for contrast? Or are you insinuating that victim hood cannot be claimed unless they both come from the same income strata? Because otherwise the victims incentive to make money outweighs the possibility that the claim is true, that a wealthy person could in fact be a rapist?
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-12-21 02:43:09+00:00
I mean it is so obvious causing me to find the use of the phrase cloned so weird that I feel it needs to be said.

The UI cloning doesn't feel exactly correct either there are things that are slightly off.

But I just find the "cloned" wrong, because obviously you cannot send an email from this account, you cannot log in to the service as Jeffrey Epstein, you cannot delete emails, create alerts based on searches, do actions on selected emails (create new tag, move under that tag)

there are so many functionalities that are not cloned because obviously they could not be cloned because they would make no sense for what this project is. So just the praise for cloning so quickly makes me sort of mad.

You could theoretically make something like this that allowed log in so you got a personalized epstein mails, and then could do all that, and perhaps get more mails sent in as files get released, and perhaps create Google alerts on epstein in the news etc. that would come as mails and maybe the code could put news that came in, into the appropriate the tags etc.

But until that time "cloned" is just very wrong.
by anonymars | 2025-12-21 02:45:05+00:00
"I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-convince-the-lowest-wh...
by thequux | 2025-12-21 02:45:50+00:00
Hi! I'm one of the founders of dotMeow, and it's been a long road to get to the point that we're willing to stake our reputations on a crowdfunding campaign. From applying to the applicant support program (we believe we were one of the first, if not the first organization accepted) to working out financial plans and overall strategy to achieve NIS2 compliance on a shoestring budget, it's been a year and a half of effort to reach where we are now.

It's quite late here in Belgium, so I'm about to go to sleep, but in the morning, I'll happily answer any questions people have about the project.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-21 02:46:09+00:00
> The IPv4 address space should have been included in the IPv6 space, allowing transparent intercommunication between any IP addresses, regardless whether they were old IPv4 addresses or new IPv6 addresses.

How would you have implemented it that is different from the NAT64 that actually exists, including shoving all IPv4 addresses into 64:ff9b::/96?
by quei7Ahm | 2025-12-21 02:46:14+00:00
At this time the local power utility shows: Total of 140 outages affecting 24,981 customers. [1]

Remember - the Marshall fire started on December 30, 2021 under similar high wind conditions. [2] 1,000 structures destroyed, two deaths.

[1] https://co.my.xcelenergy.com/s/outage-safety/outage-map

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Fire
by Ongyten | 2025-12-21 02:47:13+00:00
Protecting your anonymity isn't a sign that you're hiding something because you have done something wrong. It is because you're cautious. Benign information can be used against you. European Jews in the early 1900s gave census takers the info they were Jews. Decades later that info was collated with punch card machines by the Nazis to build family trees to hunt them down. This is an example of how "innocent" info can be weaponized in ways you would never dream of.
by nobody9999 | 2025-12-21 02:47:57+00:00
As the old saw about driving in NYC goes:

Green means 'Go!'

Yellow means 'Go faster!'

Red means 'The next six cars may go through the intersection.'

Okay, the third part is a little hyperbolic.

The above is from the 1980s and AFAICT (I've lived here nearly 60 years) not much has changed.
by phyzix5761 | 2025-12-21 02:48:38+00:00
Even within compounding there's an interesting phenomenon.

Start with $100 and compound it at 10% per year for 30 years and you end up with about $1,700. Improve that return by just 1% to 11% and after the same 30 years you have about $2,300.

That small 1% edge produces roughly 35% more money in the end. Compounding is extremely powerful, and even marginally better money management leads to vastly better outcomes over time.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-12-21 02:48:43+00:00
Pretty fun overall. The roasts were really good, the stats were pretty neat, the predictions made me smile. The xkcdupe fell flat for me because it's pretty generic and I've seen many variants of it before, but still pretty impressive for an AI to make. The "Your HN Front Page in 2035" was definitely the weakest part for me. Maybe because every gag in it had already been done in other sections.

One thing I noticed is that it seems to give more weight to submissions (i.e. things I've submitted as posts) than to comments (or at least, doesn't let submissions get drowned in a sea of comments), which turns out as a good thing. And it doesn't seem to care about karma, which is also IMO a really good thing, makes it feel like a deep dive and keeps it interesting.
by sheepscreek | 2025-12-21 02:49:30+00:00
This made me want to laugh so hard. I think this idea came from the same place as beta testing “Full Autopilot” with human guinea pigs. Great minds…

Jokes aside, Anthropic CEO commands a tad more respect from me, on taking a more principals approach and sticking to it (at least better than their biggest rival). Also for inventing the code agent in the terminal category.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-21 02:53:29+00:00
Well, now you're moving the goalpost. I think China has every right to be proud of developing economically beyond what the Soviets were capable of.

Characterizing that success is easy, looking at the economy; China has tons of raw and manufactured resources, with a weak financial sector. That's the exact opposite of what you see in developed economies in America and Europe, and the service industries will reflect that. Oftentimes, a weak finance sector is reflected in a surplus of poor people (which can be confirmed looking at China's GDP/capita).

What you're describing in all of your anecdotes are not the nascent signs of superiority. It's cheap concrete and poor people who will do jobs that other people consider insulting. There are absolutely domains where China has met or exceeded the global watermark in various areas (HGVs, BVR missiles, expendable AESA/GAN radar, speaking as an aviation nerd) but much of that stems from the aforementioned surplus. The Soviets also had wonderful trinkets that the western world couldn't copy, but it didn't save them when they needed money and foreign support.
by mothballed | 2025-12-21 02:54:00+00:00
Idk my family in the Phillipines can literally just build a shack near a city with jobs no permits or anything, then carry your kids 5 up on a moped without being hassled by cops. I took a family member to the ER and only charge was $5 worth of pesos for meds (granted if I hadn't paid they'd have got absolutely nothing, but at least it was cheap) , no other charges.

Building a shack with nothing but bamboo and no paperwork in US is illegal almost everywhere, transporting kids this way would get you pulled over, and you spend a fortune to get healthcare to the point of getting Phillipines tier healthcare.

Nominally we're richer, with the freedom to have cops bring violence to us if we're not and we try to keep our unpermitted urban shack. It feels like you have to earn a fortune in the USA to do the things poor countries almost take for granted.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-12-21 02:55:38+00:00
The last 100 years has been the era of the American Empire, which is monetized through the network effects of the dollar and dollar-denominated-assets. We don't have ships full of Potosí silver, but we do have 10% yearly S&P returns in an economy growing 3%. Extrapolating another year of that is probably reasonable, extrapolating another 100 years of that is probably not.
by jbmsf | 2025-12-21 02:57:11+00:00
I started in this industry before cloud was a thing. I did most of the things RDS does the hard way (except being able to dynamically increase memory on a running instance, that's magic to me). I do not want that responsibility, especially because I know how badly it turns out when it's one of a dozen (or dozens) of responsibilities asked of the team.
by slazien | 2025-12-21 02:57:26+00:00
https://www.jmail.world/about

"We compiled these Epstein estate emails from the House Oversight Committee release by converting the PDFs to structured text with an LLM"

and:

"Data Sources

Gmail emails: House Oversight Committee Yahoo emails: DDoSecrets (brought to us by Drop Site News)

Technology

Document parsing and extraction powered by reducto"
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-12-21 02:58:50+00:00
while true, it would probably be useful to provide examples. The one that I am aware of seems to be a picture showing Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross with "redacted" victims

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65628031/

https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3mag7myutmc2d

however it seems that this photo is actually taken from a 2003 Democratic fundraiser, and the redacted images of victims were of Diana Ross' son Evan, and Michael Jackson's kids, Paris and Prince Jackson. This may or may not be accurate either, since I have not been able to dig down into the photo and determine if it has any connections to a supposed 2003 fundraiser.

But it seems more likely to be true than not that this was sloppily planted evidence that was especially insultingly fake.

on edit: looking closer does not seem to be exact same photos, but instead two different photos taken at the same time and place, so in the 2003 Dem fundraising, but a different photo of that. So it could be that Epstein had it and DOJ thought hey, look at these pervs! Let's release!!
by aeon_ai | 2025-12-21 02:59:06+00:00
Same.

If you’re able to self host and run the tool for any use, it’s effectively a free, extensible, modifiable software solution.

Copyleft licenses are as restrictive as the license DHH put out with Fizzy. I’m an Apache 2.0 or MIT licensing OSS advocate myself, but it’s difficult to argue that it’s worse or equal to a fully closed SaaS solution.

It’s not even remotely close to one of these bullshit “ee” OSS licenses
by stevage | 2025-12-21 02:59:33+00:00
This gave me a good chuckle:

> You have mentioned being Australian at least five times as a personality trait just to remind us that our pennies are stupid and our tap-to-pay is thirty years behind yours.

Fair!

The XKCD comic generation was impressive.

The "your HN front page in 2035" doesn't really make sense to me because afaik personalised front pages are not a thing? (Or maybe they will be in 2035...)
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-21 02:59:39+00:00
The point of drinking is to get a buzz. Most alcoholic drinks taste bad anyway, and would not be consumed if not for that. The only people who would need a pill to stop after one drink are hardcore alcoholics. This guy is either really stupid, marketing for some upcoming product, or propagandizing against alcohol because they found it is actually good for you after all lol.
by Lvl999Noob | 2025-12-21 02:59:54+00:00
This isn't really something the logging library can do. If the language provides a string interpolation mechanism then that mechanism is what the programmers will reach for first. And the library cannot know that interpolation happened because the language creates the final string before passing it in.

If you want the builtin interpolation to become a noop in the face runtime log disabling then the logging library has to be a builtin too.
by chmod775 | 2025-12-21 03:00:36+00:00
> DB is really the worst. I wonder if that is partly due to the automotive industry being so important in Germany that they roads siphon money from rails

Trying to compensate for historic under investment now necessitates a lot of construction at once.

Nowadays Germany invests almost 200 euro per capita into rails (that's a lot by international standards and upper-middle-tier by European standards) and is a strong contender for having one of the densest rail networks in Europe. Investment would probably be even higher if they could figure out how to launch yet another construction project without causing the entire thing to grind to a full stop.

But investment and miles of track still relatively lag behind how heavily its rail network is utilized. Due to where it sits in the continent, ludicrous amounts of people and freight (especially freight) want to move through Germany's congested network everyday.

One one hand all the trains are late and very expensive, on the other hand certain operators would be happy if they got to move Germany's numbers even without getting to charge Germany's premium prices*. Depending on your point of view Germany's rail network is either suffering from success or being held back by terrible management.

* Ballpark freight numbers are that Germany moves roughly 4x France's volume of ton-kilometers while pulling in around 6-7x France's revenue.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-21 03:01:07+00:00
Activism was a big part of my life, even full time at times, from 1991-2005 and I spent a lot of time going into rooms inhabited by different groups building bridges not to mention tabling, going door to door, getting signatures for political candidates, you name it. So I've had a lot of experience to how people react to different messages when I deliver them and when other people deliver them and I've got strong and grounded opinions about discourses that are counterproductive and make me wish I could use a hook to shuffle people off the stage.

The word "privilege" and especially the phrase "white privilege" is at the top of that list.

There really are some privileged individuals who are entitled and could use some bringing down but if you're speaking to a group you really don't where people are coming and frequently when I talk to an individual I find my expectations about their history and point of view are completely wrong. In particular I know a lot of white people who have black problems including the meaningless-but-fatal confrontations with the police. For the most part [1] black people are more concerned about racism in America than white people, but know many black people who resent the idea that they are first-and-foremost descendants of slaves and victims of racism and it's such a strongly held feeling for some that if you give them a choice of a strident "anti-racist" and a flagrant racist they'll pick the latter.

[1] I've met exceptions!
by ongytenes | 2025-12-21 03:01:31+00:00
Protecting your anonymity isn't a sign that you're hiding something because you have done something wrong. It is because you're cautious. Even the most benign information can be use against you. European Jews in the early 1900s gave census takers the info yhat they were Jews. Decades later that info was collated with punch card machines by the Nazis to build family trees to hunt them down. This is an example of how "innocent" info can be weaponized in ways you would never dream of.
by nawtagain | 2025-12-21 03:02:03+00:00
Paywalled but would be interesting to see data on the percentage of SKUs these store brands displace.

Anecdotally have seen local regional chain systematically replacing a large number of SKUs within a product category with their own brands - Ex. 25 bacon SKUs across 10-15 brands down to 10-15 SKUs and only 2-3 brands aside from their own.

Same thing across Cheese, Milk, Salsa, Pasta Sauce, Salad Greens and many other categories.

Playbook seems to be establish large store and create local monopoly / oligopoly then aggressively copy anything that sells well and remove the competition from the shelves to create a local monopoly category by category.

Own brands are cheaper but much lower quality. As a shopper you have no choice - it's either the house brand or nothing now in a really high number of categories.
by kwcto | 2025-12-21 03:03:00+00:00
Opus 4.5 is by far the best model I've used. Its not even close for front end stuff. That said, if you don't ask certain questions, you will never get the right answers. Still takes some pro judgement to go from decent to impressive. Still a ton of work to get the little details right. Worked my ass off on this, proud of the result. If anyone needs a website, I'm happy to help.
Show HN: SHA-256 quasi-collision with 184/256 matching bits
by KaoruAK | 2025-12-21 03:04:22+00:00
I obtained a SHA-256 quasi-collision with 184 out of 256 matching bits (71.88%) using a geometric search. Found in ~25 minutes on a Google Colab v5e-1 TPU.

Code and verification script:

https://github.com/POlLLOGAMER/SHA-256-Colision-Finder-NEW.i...

https://github.com/POlLLOGAMER/SHA-256-Colision-Finder-NEW.i...

OSF project:

https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/EA739

Not a full collision. Open to feedback.
Show HN: Spelling Bee Trainer
by rahimnathwani | 2025-12-21 03:05:36+00:00
Like many K-8 students, my son's school has a school 'spelling bee' in January.

I made this tool to help my son:

1. Practice spelling, and

2. Practice typing.

The tool focuses on 300 words from the standard 450-word list (specifically excluding the lower-grade words to focus on the more challenging middle-to-upper grade sets.

Key features:

- Audio Pronunciation: Hear each word before you spell it.

- Definitions: Toggle word definitions to understand context.

- Progress Tracking: Keeps track of 'mastered' words in your browser's local storage.

I built this because I found existing tools didn't drill the right thing, e.g. using multiple choice instead of asking the student to spell each word correctly from scratch.
by triclops200 | 2025-12-21 03:07:04+00:00
Honestly, not cool.

Mine "roasted" me by making fun of the fact I never finished a PhD, despite that being due to medical and other life circumstances that were well outside my control, including, but not limited to, some issues related to the fact I was a woman trying to get into academia who experienced the kinds of behaviors from people in the department which are not really suitable for polite discussion.

Additionally, it roasted me for building a project to "avoid the outdoors," which is another incredibly demeaning thing to say to someone who explicitly created that project because she was too medically unwell to be able to go outside as much as she wished and wanted to bring a bit of the outdoors inside. Very lame, definitely missed the mark.

The elisp and common lisp notes were on point, though, and did get a chuckle out of me.
by ArkhamMirror | 2025-12-21 03:07:14+00:00
Ai-assist features can add hypotheses, challenge existing hypotheses (devil's advocate), add evidence, automatically suggests scores for evidence and hypotheses, generate insights for your hypotheses rankings, analyze sensitivity of findings, and generate suggested milestones.

An AI source must be connected in order to activate those features, but the ACH tool is fully functional without any AI.

Remember the AI suggestions are to be taken as suggestions, not gospel. Use your own best judgement, as the AI is not the one source of truth and can be wrong or make mistakes.

Exporting the JSON file allows you to re-load your progress later. The PDF is a brief report on the overall results, and the markdown contains all relevant data you gained from your analysis.
by tw04 | 2025-12-21 03:07:39+00:00
There's not a lot of grift in solar and batteries, it's too easy to acquire and deploy. There is literally limitless ability for grift with nuclear.

Look no further than Trump's media corporation merging with a "fusion reactor" company. What do they have in common? Absolutely nothing, but it's an excellent conduit for bribes and fraud, and a way for Trump to send our tax dollars directly into his own pocket!

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trump-media-announces-6-bill...
by Alex3917 | 2025-12-21 03:07:47+00:00
He wasn't sitting there writing binary code and implementing all 7 layers of the OSI stack by hand, he was was gluing together pre-existing components. And the pre-existing components he had access to include two major email startups acquired by Google in 2001 and 2003, which were founded in 1995 and 1997 respectively. (Although he does have at least two patents for features and algorithms he co-invented while making Gmail.)
by mothballed | 2025-12-21 03:07:56+00:00
I've lived in about every demographic area of the USA and the only thing that would have gave them away to me as poor in your SUV/walmart story is that they were all fat. Being fat is the best marker of poverty in the USA. The rest just sounds like the lifestyle of Warren Buffett which isn't terribly unusual as the comfortably rich generally only worry about flashy cars if they're a motorhead and often get there in part by being thrifty.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-21 03:09:21+00:00
That's the thing Republicans say to justify what they're currently doing.

Here's the second clause of the 18th amendment (prohibition of alcohol), ratified in 1919 and repealed by the 21st:

> The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

In other words, in 1919 it was generally understood that the federal government didn't have the power to so much as prohibit alcohol, and they needed a constitutional amendment to grant that power (without withdrawing it from the states through preemption).

Most of what the federal government currently does was intended to be unconstitutional, until FDR threatened to pack the Supreme Court if they didn't knuckle under and approve his unconstitutional acts, and then they did. Likewise Roe v. Wade, initiated by the Court itself in a year the left held the majority and then kept that way for half a century even though its logic was muddled and inconsistent with those same opinions they themselves wanted that said the government does have the power to regulate healthcare providers. Likewise gun control, which the constitution not only didn't give the federal government the power to do, it explicitly constrained them from it.

You can think that any of these things would be good policy, but without breaking the rules to enact them you'd need to amend the constitution. So never mind 20 years, this has been going on for a lot longer than that.

But if you abandon the rules because it's expedient, and then they abandon the rules because you did, and then you abandon even more of the rules because they did, we all end up in a place nobody likes.
by sokoloff | 2025-12-21 03:09:39+00:00
> The values you mention are timeless & should be taught to all.

Agreed, with the related note that I think that facts/knowledge can be taught by strangers, but values must be taught by family or another tight community structure (church, respected elders, or similar). Schools can prattle on all they want about delayed gratification and it won’t move the needle in behavior.
by rafabulsing | 2025-12-21 03:09:48+00:00
Swimming pools are absolutely inherently dangerous. Why do you think lifeguards are a thing?

Like, really man? If you can't even recognize as dangerous the one activity that famously requires someone specifically trained to save people to be present, then I'm happy to end this conversation right here. It's clearly just a waste of time all around. I just hope there's no one in your life depending on you to judge what's safe and what's not.