MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DivingForGold | 2025-12-28 00:36:21+00:00
EXCELLENT analysis Ossama

>"Non-exclusive" means no monopoly concerns (anyone can license Groq's tech)

- except that you can bet only Nvidia gets the absolute top of the line architechture and design - - - - - all others get 2nd best or worse.

>The "non-exclusive" label is legal fiction. When you acquire all the IP and hire everyone who knows >how to use it, exclusivity doesn't matter.

But the “non exclusive” part is what significantly weakens any case the US DOJ may consider bringing forth, if at all..

If I was in the Nvidia camp I would be admiring how brillant the strategy was all formulated, in fact, I have to believe that IP attorney's were consulted on how best to avoid DOJ scrutiny.

On the other hand, there will be those who can see how this limits competition. It would be interesting to have some of our HN attorneys weigh on on this deal.

As you said about the remaining employees: . . . Their equity is worthless. . . <they> got nothing while Chamath made $2B. Is Chamath a conniving scoundrel ? I'll let others judge. Maybe someday we'll see Zuckerberg and Chamath in the ring together - - Elon seems to have bowed out.
by firesteelrain | 2025-12-28 00:36:21+00:00
There is a Prometheus plugin called ssl_exporter that will provide the ability for Grafana to display a dashboard of all of your certs and their expirations. But, the trick is that you need to know where all your certs are located. We were using Venafi to do auto discovery but a simple script to basically nmap your network provides the same functionality.
by 1121redblackgo | 2025-12-28 00:36:39+00:00
This article makes me think of how defiant Discord has been against all of this, and how slowly I'm starting to succumb to many of the same forces, although much slowly than other platforms. It's a minor miracle they never got bought up/sold themselves.

Also reminds me of the Dark Forrest Yancy Strickler stuff.
by metalman | 2025-12-28 00:36:44+00:00
The other parallel to what you describe is that the shift of populations from rural, agricultural areas to citys, is over in the west, no more strong healthy polite civilised people with strong work ethics, who knew that hard work would pay off, and they could have a house and 3 or 4 kids and buy a bunch of the shiny stuff in the magazines and there kids could go to college, work at the plant and get a gold watch, precisely what my grandfather did, and millions of others.
But starting in the 1980's there were not enough men to do those jobs, so those plants were offshored to cheap plentiful labour countrys.
But there were still enough farm boys to take the higher payed jobs IN the citys, and do trade work, but the wealth dwindled, and there kids have zero interest in busting there knuckles, and so skilled, self starting,enthusiastic,labour, is gone.
My personal experience is that I will show up to do an estimate for something for a larger company, and before I can even get to look at it, they are suggesting that I "could get on with them"
Many franchise companys ,"franchisese"?, are from familys that used to own and operate companys in the same business, under there own names, but those situations are now also gone, with very very few people growing up in the family business anymore.
So it's down to money people and advertisers, trying to puppet clueless jobby job kids into running serious businesses for nothing.
what could go wrong?
by shagie | 2025-12-28 00:36:49+00:00
Ahh... thank you. That's a different part of the already established legislation and wasn't part of this one (which is why I couldn't find it at first glance - I was looking at 1520 and this is 1500). It was referencing it and saying it was itself.

That does clear it up.

With that definition in mind, to answer the question "does HN need to have this label?" ...

... "unless any of the following conditions are met" ...

and it would appear that under (a) that the prioritization or selection of articles displayed is not associated with a user or a user's device, nor does it concern the user's previous interactions with media generated by others...

So my layman's read of this is that "No, Hacker News does not fall into the definition of an addictive feed."
by akerl_ | 2025-12-28 00:37:47+00:00
I gave you the answer that exists: I'm not aware of any existing or likely-to-exist secure messaging solution that would be a viable recommendation.

The available open-source options come nowhere close to the messaging security that Signal/Whatsapp provide. So you're left with either "find a way to access Signal after they pull out of whatever region has criminalized them operating with a backdoor on comms" or "pick any option that doesn't actually have strong messaging security".
by azalemeth | 2025-12-28 00:38:24+00:00
Nothing highlights how pointless e-sports items are more than a real dollar value for a player base of all of them. The entire global GDP is as an order of magnitude roughly $100 trillion. So this $340 trillion figure is 3.4 times planetary total economic output - meaning the theoretical value of Rainbow Six cosmetics exceeds what the entire human civilisation produces in a year. Multiple times over. You'd be valuing pixelated gun attachments higher than annual agricultural output across all nations, all manufacturing, all services, everything.

I bet it appears unchallenged at some point in a court (or insurance) document though.
by magicalhippo | 2025-12-28 00:40:32+00:00
Here in Norway we have funded the vast majority of new highways and similar by turing them into toll roads. The government might chip in but some fraction is covered by toll.

An issue is that it's set up as a regular loan, which the collected toll repays. So over the lifetime of the loan, often more than half is interest. Add administration costs and in some cases the actual money spent on the road is a small fraction of the total toll paid.

That said, in principle I think it's fair to have some use-based pricing. Same goes for public transportation. Studies have shown it's not ideal to have free public transportation, but rather a low fare.
by kg | 2025-12-28 00:40:49+00:00
Depending on your OS Firefox will select from multiple rendering backends based on your GPU, driver etc.

On Windows it may or may not be using DirectWrite for text rasterization as a general thing, and in some cases text might be rasterized using a different fallback path if DirectWrite can't handle the font, I think.

IIRC this was/is true for Chrome as well, where in some cases it software rasterizes text using Skia instead of calling through to the OS's font implementation.
by danpalmer | 2025-12-28 00:41:09+00:00
I suspected employees might get bored of taunting the AI, or the novelty has worn off.

Also, is anyone actually paying for this stuff? If not, it's a bad experiment because people won't treat it the same – no one actually wants to buy a tungsten cube, garbage in garbage out. If they are charging, why? No one wants to buy things in a company with free snacks and regular hand outs of merch, so it's likely a bad experiment because people will be behaving very differently, needing to get some experience for their money rather than just the can of drink they could get for free, or their pricing tolerance will be very different.

I've personally also never used a vending machine where contacting the owner is an option.

I'd like to see a version of this where an AI runs the vending machine in a busy public place, and needs to choose appropriate products and prices for a real audience.
by whizzter | 2025-12-28 00:41:14+00:00
Agreed, but that used to be the difference between MS and Google.

MS would bend backwards to make sure those enterprise Windows 0.24 boxes will still be able to connect to networks because those run some 16bit drivers for CNC machines.

Meanwhile Google decided to kill a product the second whoever introduced it on stage walked off it.

Azure is a money-maked for MS, and wouldn't be so without those weird legacy enterprise deployments. The big question is if continuing to increase a posture about about security together with an "cloud" focus is actually in their best interest or if retaining those legacy enterprises would have been smarter.
by dfadsadsf | 2025-12-28 00:41:21+00:00
At the time it was not clear that GLP-1 solves obesity problem so effectively - many drugs suppress hunger (eg amphetamines), it's just that GLP-1 works long term and does not have significant side effects. Hard to predict without hindsight.

Insulin is injectable so GLP-1 was thought to be at best marginal improvement over already existing protocol - so likely profitable product but not excessively so. Company has limited resources so decisions on cuts have to be made and some of those decisions are naturally wrong - drugs are unpredictable.

On regret - they missed on 30B+ of profits so of cause they regret it.
by whatamidoingyo | 2025-12-28 00:41:39+00:00
This absolutely hurts my soul.

Pre-covid, I religiously saved silver (and gold). Just bought some every single paycheck for like 6 years. I had coins, jewelry, bars, silverware, etc.

I wished my parents had left me a treasure, but they didn't, so I thought I'd do that for my kids, maybe even leave them a map... But I don't have kids, so after being locked in my house during covid, I kind of went a bit crazy.

I sold it all and moved states (after travelling quite a bit). My collection was quite massive, and I 100% knew that this day would come, but I didn't care, I just needed a new view. I live near the beach now, but... if I just held, I'd be in a much better place. I hate myself a bit for selling.
by RickJWagner | 2025-12-28 00:41:58+00:00
You’re right, those fish are not specific to religious people. But it is true that religious people give more time and money to them. Less religious people tend to give and volunteer less for such causes. I offer no judgement or theories about why, but the data is strong.

About the sex ed., the clinic I volunteer at offers pregnancy related information, including pamphlets that explain pros and cons of things like the ‘day after’ pill. Of course the preferred option is always ensuring good parenting for the newborn child. Clients can take video classes on parenting skills to earn reward points good for diapers, baby food and clothing. It’s really a good program, provided free to the people who need it.
by netsharc | 2025-12-28 00:42:22+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz1UqXySpvY&t=2214s

Context: the speaker Lea Ypi is a professor of political philosophy. She grew up in socialist Albania, and here she's talking about how during her studies of political philosophy in Rome, her Western "socialist" classmates had a fantasy about socialism, and didn't want to hear about her experience growing up in socialism/about the socialist countries that have failed.

I have a feeling you're doing the same, just with a different -ism.
by Cyphase | 2025-12-28 00:42:24+00:00
> What is exe.dev?

> exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with
persistent disks, quickly and without fuss. These machines are immediately
accessible over HTTPS, with sensible and secure defaults. You can share your
web server as easily as you can share a Google Doc. With built-in optional
authentication, so you can focus on your thing.

> Your VMs share CPU/RAM. Create as many VMs as you like with the resources
you have.

Source: https://exe.dev/docs/what-is-exe
Ask HN: Why I can't enable Chrome Gemini Nano on my MacBook with M1?
by denis4inet | 2025-12-28 00:42:36+00:00
I am working on vibebrowser.app AI Browser Co-Pilot and would like to use Chrome Gemini Nano as one of the LLM providers. But I can't enable on my macbook with apple silicon m1. Did anyone manage to enable chrome built-in Google Gemini Nano on google-chrome@dev 145.0.7587.4 (Official Build) dev (arm64) Revision 2a90d317b564c7fcb6c9ecb15bf709e738074843-refs/branch-heads/7587@{#8}OS macOS Version 15.5 (Build 24F74)? It still doesn't work for me on Apple Silicon M1/16GB RAM. I followed that guide: https://github.com/ontaptom/gemini-nano-chrome. After Set chrome://flags/#prompt-api-for-gemini-nano to "Enabled"

Set chrome://flags/#optimization-guide-on-device-model to "Enabled BypassPrefRequirement" I still do not see "Optimization Guide On Device Model" on hrome://components.
by snorremd | 2025-12-28 00:43:01+00:00
I’ve ended up the same place as you. I had previously set up my gpg key on a Yubikey and even used that gpg key to handle ssh authentication. Then at some point it just stopped working, maybe the hardware on my key broke. 2FA still works though.

In any case I figured storing an SSH key in 1Password and using the integrated SSH socket server with my ssh client and git was pretty nice and secure enough. The fact the private key never leaves the 1Password vault unencrypted and is synced between my devices is pretty neat. From a security standpoint it is indeed a step down from having my key on a physical key device, but the hassle of setting up a new Yubikey was not quite worth it.

I’m sure 1Password is not much better than having a passphrase-protected key on disk. But it’s a lot more convenient.
by dwoldrich | 2025-12-28 00:43:27+00:00
It's not obvious and not a willfully stupid interpretation when Musk has been the largest defense contractor for years. There's more going on than your 1-dimensional bad guy narrative covers.

Doge did not save any money, but it did air dirty laundry, and maybe that was the point.

I think the most consequential revelation regarded the 14 magic money computers. Non-tech people don't have the imagination we have to fathom the infinite fraud and corruption this enables.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BDREZmpkIz8&t=346s

Plenty of people hate Musk and think he's a traitor to the cause. He took tremendous brand damage from Doge and supporting Trump. That's far more impactful than regs scams or tax dodges or whatever mo's you fantasize there.
by firesteelrain | 2025-12-28 00:43:53+00:00
Operationally, the issue is rooted in simple monitoring and accurate inventory. The article is apt: “ With SSL certificates, you usually don’t have the opportunity to build up operational experience working with them, unless something goes wrong”

You can update your cert to prepare for it by appending—-NEW CERT—-

To the same file as ——-OLD CERT—-

But you also need to know where all your certificates are located. We were using Venafi for the auto discovery and email notifications. Prometheus ssl_exporter with Grafana integration and email alerts works the same. The problem is knowing where all hosts, containers and systems that have certs are located. Simple nmap style scan of all endpoints can help. But, you might also have containers with certs or you might have certs baked into VM images. Sure, there all sorts of things like storing the cert in a CICD global variable, bind mounting secrets, Vault Secret Injector, etc

But it’s all rooted in maintaining a valid, up to date TLS inventory. And that’s hard. As the article states: “ There’s no natural signal back to the operators that the SSL certificate is getting close to expiry. To make things worse, there’s no staging of the change that triggers the expiration, because the change is time, and time marches on for everyone. You can’t set the SSL certificate expiration so it kicks in at different times for different cohorts of users.”

Every time this happens you whack a mole a change. You get better at it but not before you lose some credibility
by Spivak | 2025-12-28 00:45:47+00:00
> After introducing the CEO, the number of discounts was reduced by about 80% and the number of items given away cut in half. Seymour also denied over one hundred requests from Claudius for lenient financial treatment of customers.

> Having said that, our attempt to introduce pressure from above from the CEO wasn’t much help, and might even have been a hindrance. The conclusion here isn’t that businesses don’t need CEOs, of course—it’s just that the CEO needs to be well-calibrated.

> Eventually, we were able to solve some of the CEO’s issues (like its unfortunate proclivity to ramble on about spiritual matters all night long) with more aggressive prompting.

No no, Seymour is absolutely spot on. The questionably drug induced rants are necessary to the process. This is a work of art.
by crashbunny | 2025-12-28 00:46:45+00:00
In australia, big corp donate a few thousand and give cushy "advisory role" jobs to politicians after they leave office in exchange for contracts to build, own and run private toll roads.

It has been proven many times it's cheaper for the government, and therefore tax payers, for the government to get a loan and build public highways themselves. yet, all new highways are private.

big corp get given the land for the roads and have builtin toll price increases. One company raises prices 4% every 6 months. According to google, that means the toll doubles every 9 years.

For me to drive 22km to the CBD via toll roads costs $25 one way, and I save 10 minutes most time of the day. In 10 years time, it will probably be around $40 one way.

big corp make a billion or two in profit every year.
by mothballed | 2025-12-28 00:47:11+00:00
If you sold it and bought housing 4+ years ago when interest rates were near zero you've still got the last laugh.

People holding dollars instead of PMs or real estate are the real bag holders. Not only are they actively paying for those fed generated artificial interest rate negative real rate mortgages that property owners got (paid for via inflation on non property owners), they missed out on massive appreciation of property and PMs. They are literally paying the richest people to become even richer, and paying them for the privilege to get further and further away from ever owning their own home.

If you sold in 2023 or 2024 though, you basically got fucked both ways.
by roxolotl | 2025-12-28 00:47:50+00:00
Not sure which western countries you’re referring to but the US has pretty giant subsidies on oil.[0][1] Of course it’s also taxed but the pro source shows that most of the subsidies are tax reductions.

0: pro fossil fuels: https://energyanalytics.org/u-s-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

1: anti fossil fuels: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/republican-spending-bill-fossil...
by throw0101c | 2025-12-28 00:47:58+00:00
> We need a way to set multiple SSL certificates with overlapping duration.

Both Apache (SSLCertificateFile) and nginx (ssl_certificate) allow for multiple files, though they cannot be of the same algorithm: you can have one RSA, one ECC, etc, but not (say) an ECC and another ECC. (This may be a limitation of OpenSSL.)

So if the RSA expires on Feb 1, you can have the ECC expire on Feb 14 or Mar 1.
Show HN: What 4M posts reveal about going viral on Hacker News
by salebanolow | 2025-12-28 00:48:16+00:00
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The entire 4M post dataset is available as a single 700MB .mv2 file if you want to run your own analysis.
by ghickPit | 2025-12-28 00:48:25+00:00
For mojuba and myself, email is a way to organize TODO items. Things to take care of exist either way, and email is an awesome way to keep track of, and process, events / tasks asynchronously.

shermantanktop and you, forbiddenvoid, seem to refuse organizing TODOs, or perhaps even the concept that external events be allowed to generate TODOs for you ("my attention should be directed at what I want to do, when I want to"). I closely know this -- i.e., "garbage dump with tire fires in it" -- because that's precisely what my SO's mailbox looks like. Whereas I've maintained a perfect inbox 0 for several decades, both at work and privately.

This is an unbridgeable psychological divide between two attitudes toward, or even two definitions of, tasks and obligations. People who can naturally implement inbox 0 never lose track of a task (not just in email, but in any other medium either), and get indignated when they receive reminders. They're excellent schedulers, and orderly, but also frequently obsessive-compulsive, neurotic. People who can't instinctively do inbox 0 cannot be taught or forced to do it, they tend to need repeated reminders, and may still forget tasks. At the same time, they have different virtues; they tend to shine with ill-defined problems and unexpected events.

Neither group is at fault; the difference has biological roots, in the nervous system. Our brains physically differ.
by msuniverse2026 | 2025-12-28 00:48:50+00:00
That video is an interesting switch-up from the past 'JP Morgan the silver suppressor' thing that everyone was going with. Now that silver is going up a new uniting belief is required for the silver stackers. Reminds me of the 'Game Stop stock will literally make everyone with a single share a millionaire' strat that had retail investors clamouring to get as much as much as they could and to hold it to the grave no matter how much it dropped. Just two more weeks bro. I think these sorts of videos prey on people without the sophistication to understand financial markets or assets. Everything the AI guy is saying could be 100% true but how would you know? Everything about Gamestop stock was a lie but it had the same sort of ring to it.

I guess eventually people develop enough discernment to say they don't know whats going on, until then slop like this is taken as Gospel.
by RHSeeger | 2025-12-28 00:49:59+00:00
While I understand what you're saying, it's pretty clear what is meant is "$X worth at the price they currently sell for". When there's a story about an object in space made of gold worth 100s of trillians of dollars, nobody believes it would really sell for that much if we captured it and mined all the gold; because the value of gold would plummet based purely on it's existence.

But I agree with you that it would be put into a court document as "it cost us this much" for the full amount, vs the amount they were likely to ever be able to sell (and can't, now that everyone got it for free, so the value is $0)
by crawshaw | 2025-12-28 00:50:13+00:00
[exe.dev co-founder here] Hi. Re: oauth2, the last product I built, Tailscale, only did auth by oauth2. I chose this because 1. businesses need it anyway, and 2. passwords are terrible.

But it was a choice that comes for free. I dread a page of buttons for third-party services, and the control I give them over my life. I hate that I never know if I should log in with GitHub, or Google, and for a dozen services I have multiple accounts because I got lost in the miasma of oauth2.

Still, it was better than passwords!

But since the last product I built, the world has changed. We have passkeys now. Which are superior in every way for individuals using a third-party service. You get better UX. You get better privacy. It is a fundamentally better technology.

I did list SSO under teams because I want to "tax" people. I did it because SSO only makes sense for businesses, where an administrator controls accounts, and can delete yours when necessary. There, oauth2 is the best technology we have. But for individuals, it is a dead technology. I am reluctant to make everyone's exe.dev experience worse for legacy tech.
by sgnelson | 2025-12-28 00:50:25+00:00
We need an acronym for these types of boards: Yet Another SBC With Poor Longterm Support. YASBCWPLS. Really rolls off the tongue.

Or we should just have "STS" (Short Term Support) after the board names to let others know the board will be essentially obsolete (based on lack of software updates) in two months.