MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beeforpork | 2025-12-10 21:58:10+00:00
Yes! I'd call this preparation for life.

Education and believably honest offers of support are needed to navigate the world, which is ugly and evil in some parts. Restrictions are really just counterproductive because curious young people are drawn to restricted stuff, and age restrictions build a sense of 'us (the young) against them (the adults)', so it's hard to convince that you actually offer honest support. Restrictions also focus on the bad parts, while we should instead focus on the good parts, the advantages of a global network of anything, which is totally amazing. Restrictions are counter productive.

Humans need to learn to live here, and it starts when we're young and curious.
by docjay | 2025-12-10 21:58:19+00:00
I don’t have kids, but I can see how one parent banning their kid from social media could create issues when the others are on it. I was a quirky kid that already struggled to make friends and any additional imposed quirkiness would have been devastating.

That said, and I don’t mean to oversimplify this, but what about really teaching your kid how to handle whatever bad stuff you feel is on Facebook and such? Not just one sentence as they walk past, I mean making it such a routine part of your teachings as a parent that you get to the point where you have shared moments laughing at the absurdity of it all.

I’m a few multiples of the age in question and I haven’t used Facebook in a long time, but last I heard one of the main issues is people only showing the doctored up highlight reel of their life. If that’s still the issue then I get that it can cause anxiety, but that’s also part of real life and a teachable moment. Granted I wasn’t bombarded with “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous - GenAI Edition”, but the concept of someone being ‘fake’ isn’t new, and neither is the need to be able to see through it and mentally deal with it. That is the world they’re going into, whether it’s a rented Ferrari, the fake Rolex, or just a photo filter and picking one image out of 700.
by polalavik | 2025-12-10 21:58:29+00:00
I really really hate the term "troll farm" it completely minimizes nation state level propaganda machines down to something that sounds like its just one big internet joke for gags.

The cutesy 'fun' language of 'troll farm' itself deflects accountability from what are coordinated psychological operations. It makes it sound like some rambunctious kids in basements having a little weekend fun.
by delbronski | 2025-12-10 21:58:35+00:00
Come on dude, you are on HN. You probably know that social media is no longer about free speech. It’s a targeted advertising machine that is extremely effective on kids and teenagers. It preys on them so, so efficiently. It’s a technical work of art. A young mind is extremely susceptible to the algorithms on those platforms. Much more than adults are, and adults are already really susceptible. This is what this ban is trying to shield kids from. Not from them talking to each other.

The Social media platforms of today are very clearly harmful to our youth. Just like alcohol and cigarettes are to a developing brain. Why can we ban those and not this?
by jsheard | 2025-12-10 21:58:43+00:00
AIUI the spec being leaked ironically makes things worse, because for an unofficial implementation to be legally kosher it would have to be clean-room reverse engineered anyway, and since the official spec is out there the integrity of such an effort would be called into doubt. You'd somehow have to prove you didn't look at it, ever, or at least be trusted enough for people to take your word for it.

(I'm not a lawyer, please correct me if I'm wrong)
by zmmmmm | 2025-12-10 21:58:45+00:00
I guess it comes back to again not whether things are technically watertight, but how socially normalised something is. People are used to giving their ID out for significant transactions. This law says now that pretty much any random website has a good reason to ask you for ID documents. So when someone seeking to steal your identity already has two forms and is just trying to fill in that 3rd document to get over the line to where they can call up the bank to reset your password - the bar just got lowered. They no longer have to trick you into thinking it's a message from your bank or anything else significant. It can literally be "oh my cousin sent me pictures of their grand kids, let me just get my passport to upload so I can see them".
by shadowgovt | 2025-12-10 21:58:46+00:00
> A breaking change in a dependency doesn’t cause a full-stop to a service at all

From the article:

"We still received feedback from users that this removal was unexpected and was breaking dependent libraries."

I think we may be assuming different floors on service maintainer competency; with so many users pulling in dependencies across an arbitrarily-wide version window with no testing, such changes do break services.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-12-10 21:58:50+00:00
> I feel like everyone in this thread is assuming this is a good faith move by Australia to help kids in school and with socialization.

Most Australian schools banned phones a while ago. Attempts were made to measure the outcome. For example, South Australia saw a 72% drop in phone-related issues and 80.5% fall in social media problems in early 2025 compared to 2023 [0]. Other states reported similar results. These early figures are a little rubbery, but overall look very good. The social media ban is in part a response to that success.

The only major concern I have is de-anonymization of the web. It's worse than just de-anonymization. They've opened the gate for organisations like Facebook to demand government ID, like say a photo of a drivers licence. It contains a whole pile of info these data vultures would like to get their hands on, like your actual date of birth and residential address.

The sad bit is I doubt de-anonymization was goal, in fact I doubt they put much thought into that aspect of all. If it was the goal there far more effective ways of going about given the corporations permission to "collect whatever data you need to make it work". They could have implemented a zero knowledge proof of age service. But given the track record of their other computer projects, a realistic assessment is it had near zero chance of being implemented at all, let alone on time and on budget.

But if they had of insisted the providers implemented some sort of ZKP themselves, I would have found it hard to argue against given the past experience in schools.

[0] https://ministers.education.gov.au/clare/school-behaviour-im...
by QuiEgo | 2025-12-10 21:58:50+00:00
FWIW teaching it critical sections is dead simple, and likely already done for you. Ex cortex M:

https://github.com/rust-embedded/cortex-m/blob/master/cortex...

You can look at asynch and things like https://github.com/rtic-rs/rtic and https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy for common embedded patterns.

You handle DMA the same way as on any other system - e.x. you mark the memory as system/uncached (and pin it if you have virtual memory on), you use memory barriers when you are told data has arrived to get the memory controller up to speed with what happened behind its back, and so on. You’re still writing the same code that controls the hardware in the same way, nothing about that is especially different in C vs Rust.

I think there is very much a learning curve, and that friction is real - hiring people and teaching them Rust is harder than just hiring C devs. People on HN tend to take this almost like a religious question - “how could you dare to write memory unsafe code in 2025? You’re evil!” But pragmatically this is a real concern.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-10 21:58:51+00:00
Free version of the research paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19544v1

The memory cell is huge in comparison with semiconductor memories, but it is very fast, with a 40 GHz read/write speed.

There are important applications for a very high speed small memory, e.g. for digital signal processing in radars and other such devices, but this will never replace a general-purpose computer memory, where much higher bit densities are needed.
by altairprime | 2025-12-10 21:58:56+00:00
“A nice interface” disguises the truth here. Palantir is so successful because they build minimum viable prototypes on the fly for clients, deliver rather than balk when custom code has to be written, and leave working solutions alone. (See also other replies about FDEs here.) It’s the kind of behavior I used to take for granted as normal as a small-town ISP, and were it not for their ‘ethics are the customer’s problem’ approach I’d have signed on as a database / dashboard engineer for them years ago.
by giardini | 2025-12-10 21:59:20+00:00
>"I love the Netherlands and have spent a few months trying it out as a place to live. It's among my favourite places: moderate weather, friendly people, a high level of personal freedom, very high rate of English speakers, clean and modern environment, good international restaurants, lively town centres even in smaller towns, most towns have rivers / canals which make them very pleasant to walk around. I could list many other positive things."<

Yes, and about half the Netherlands is below sea level, something I cannot abide.
by whimsicalism | 2025-12-10 21:59:40+00:00
> All of the "it was freer in my youth bollocks" is just that. Bollocks. But, I see that you like the idea of a person's social/sexual education being shaped by misanthropes looking to grift a new lifestlye for themselves regardless of the harm it causes others. All for profit and power. Not for betterment of the world.

Uh, yeah - I never had to show an ID to use the internet and I could use the internet however I damn well pleased. "All for profit and power" -> No, I learned a lot from the internet, it changed my life in a positive way.

None of the things you mentioned are even remotely the same scope as requiring ID to use parts of the internet. I could still watch mature movies, v-chip was irrelevant in my life, smoking is completely different, etc. etc.

The answer to my question is that teenagers today are obviously less credulous than the adults in their lives and you can see this every time you interact with older adults.
Show HN: See what your Reddit history reveals about you
by r00m101 | 2025-12-10 22:00:01+00:00
I built an OSINT engine that analyzes Reddit profiles to show what can be inferred from public post history, demographics, interests, personality traits, and behavioral patterns.

Features:

- Profile Analysis: AI-generated insights from comment patterns - Community Mapping: See which users overlap across subreddits - Contextual Search: Query billions of posts with metadata enrichment

The goal is awareness, most people don't realize how much their "anonymous" Reddit account reveals. Feedback welcome, especially on the ethical implications.
by nradov | 2025-12-10 22:00:13+00:00
Nitrogen narcosis isn't usually a significant factor in breath hold freediving. They do feel it on extremely deep dives but most aren't going past about 100 ft / 30 m where it becomes really noticeable.

https://alchemy.gr/post/429/dealing-with-narcosis-when-freed...

Technically it's not just nitrogen. Most breathable gasses other than helium have some narcotic potential. This includes oxygen, although the magnitude is unclear. Elevated CO2 levels (hypercapnia) can also seriously reduce your cognitive capacity via multiple mechanisms.
by hiq | 2025-12-10 22:00:20+00:00
It's rare that I work on a project I myself started. If I start working on an existing codebase, the warnings might be there already. Then what do I do?

I'm also referring to all the warnings you might get if you use an existing library. If the requirements entail that I use this library, should I just silence them all?

But I'm guessing you might be talking about more specific warnings. Yes I do fix lints specific to my new code before I commit it, but a lot of warnings might still be logged at runtime, and I may have no control over them.
by MisterTea | 2025-12-10 22:00:40+00:00
I knew a guy who "broke his dick" in a furious doggy session where he popped out, rammed into her thigh and suddenly - PAIN. I can't remember the name of the injury but he went to the ER and they gave him pain killers and an ice pack. He said his penis completely turned black from internal bleeding in addition to some of the skin surrounding the base. Took him weeks to heal up and the first week he said he was in pain from just walking.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-10 22:00:42+00:00
I think they're just too focused on enterprise billing. Someone at google doesn't get that individuals trying it out is how they go their work and recommend this stuff.

Googlers tend to exist in an isolated bubble. In the corporate world, Azure is the default and they have Azure OpenAI. Why would someone bother with Gemini? Unless the devs at companies have a good experience with it of course.

Googlers are awesome/mean well, if only enough of them lurked here :)
by leobg | 2025-12-10 22:01:02+00:00
That’s what Elon’s vision was before he ended up buying Twitter. Keep a digital track record for journalists. He wanted to call it Pravda.

(And we do have that in real life. Just as, among friends, we do keep track of who is in whose debt, we also keep a mental map of whose voice we listen to. Old school journalism still had that, where people would be reading someone’s column over the course of decades. On the internet, we don’t have that, or we have it rarely.)
by zmmmmm | 2025-12-10 22:01:11+00:00
Well, even there, you're doing a transaction worth hundreds to thousands of dollars probably.

This pretty much lowers the bar to any random website on the internet can ask for ID to do something as trivial as look at a photo.

In a world where social engineering is the last unsolvable security vector, this is significant even if it is just a matter of degree.
Ask HN: Anyone Else Noticed This?
by piratesAndSons | 2025-12-10 22:01:18+00:00
As LLM-assisted tools become more popular in programming, have you noticed cloud outages becoming more common? Or am I just noticing it because I’m looking for a pattern?

If my theory is correct—if kids nowadays rely on these third-party "coding assistants" and older, legacy programmers retire—could we face a COBOL-like problem again, only worse, now that fewer people know how to write code without assistance?

Are the Luddites right, after all?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-10 22:01:40+00:00
> This only maybe works if you count capital gains as regular income.

Yes, that's how a flat tax works. It's flat, for everything.

The nominal reason capital gains has a lower rate is that the amount of the gain is calculated without respect to inflation. But that's dumb; just use the normal rate and actually do the inflation adjustment from the time of purchase instead.
by grepex | 2025-12-10 22:01:45+00:00
A while back I joined this group called OnlineGreatBooks.com which placed you in a cohort of about 10 people who would have monthly seminars via Zoom to discuss the Great Books of the Western World. They started you off with How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and it was such a useful guide for me, who had not read a book in about 10 years after graduating high school. Since then I read maybe 10 to 12 books a year!

I particularly enjoy the idea of writing notes in the margin. Adler describes this as "having a conversation with the author". I hope that my son one day picks up my books and writes his own notes to have a conversation with the author and me.
by Havoc | 2025-12-10 22:01:53+00:00
Yeah can't figure out WTH is going on in google's AI ecosystem either.

They absolutely deserve credit for their free tier API keys though. That's unheard of in big cloud - an actual you can't shoot yourself in the foot with a life ruining bill thing. Can't recall what part of their product maze I got it from but it seems to do what it says on tin
by alexashka | 2025-12-10 22:02:32+00:00
This seems fitting:

> Yet what is the result, the gain to humanity, of this wonderfully regulated society which has been built solely to make life richer? Millions are on the verge of starvation, hundreds of thousands are spending their lives in producing instruments for the destruction of human life, and millions again are wasting their existence in a dull tragedy of monotony. In every great industrial centre where wealth is most plentifully produced, there is poverty and want. In the rich town where no production is carried on, there is plenty and enjoyment. He who labours hard or produces wealth is in poverty, he who lives in idleness is rich. When the warehouses are full, there is want and hunger. Those without food are forbidden to produce because the demand is already supplied. [0]

I highlighted the part that relates to Palantir and most everyone on here reading HN (except you, of course, you're special :))

Which is to say this is nothing new and discussing the minutia of did this specific company do this specific thing when the system that makes this inevitable remains unaddressed is missing the point.

Oh well, politics for 99% of people seems to amount to gossip. Did you hear what X said/did? Oh my god, I can't believe it, etc, etc.

[0] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/george-barrett-the-a...
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-12-10 22:02:35+00:00
Like January 6th and vaccines causing autism and climate change denial and election rigging and Haitians eating dogs and Venezuela drug boats?

Are you and I living in the same reality? They're constantly just making things up out of nowhere from nothing and refusing to back down. Now to the point of arresting US citizens with a secret police and committing international war crimes in open waters.
by 9dev | 2025-12-10 22:02:38+00:00
> It also ties a uniform ID to an account, simplifying tracking and surveillance by corporations and governments.

That is by no means the only solution. A lot of work is happening in the area of cryptographically verified assertions; for example, a government API could provide the simple assertion "at least 16 years of age" without the social media platform ever seeing your ID, and the government never able to tie you to the service requiring the assertion.
by untrust | 2025-12-10 22:04:07+00:00
I think that this way of thinking is a little reductive. Every sport depends on certain intelligence metrics, and the brain is ultimately the operator behind all movement. The intelligence required to read a defense and solve a complex math problem may be different, but being good at either require intelligence.

A professional athlete in team based sports, at any given moment, is parsing a ton of data and responsing with quick reflexes and intuition to their changing environment. For example, quarterbacks in the NFL are reading a defense, parsing coverage, and making split second decisions after the play begins to develop.

A soccer goalkeeper is ensuring precise geometry to stay in an optimal position to make a stop, ensuring they are creating a triangle between the ball and the goalposts to optimize their position relative to the possible shooter.

Ontop of all of the in-game aspects, there is intelligence required to train to optimal levels, and hand waving this away as the coaches responsibility is not based in reality. Professional athletes have to stay very mentally focused in their training off the field to achieve their on the field results.

A lot of people judge professional athletes intelligence based on their communications with reporters and on field interviews, but public speaking ability and intelligence are not necessarily correlated. Your smartest engineer is probably not great at making keynote speeches, and likewise would be particularly terrible if they were making them after exerting extreme effort (like athletes do in post game interviews) or while they are pumped with adrenaline with an elevated heart rate (conditions sideline interviews tend to take place in).

All of this is to say, professional athletes arent all meat heads like most computer programmers and bookworms tend to believe. Your judgement that they aren't smart is probably based off of your bias and you are likely overweighting your analysis on a few notable dumb athletes against the crop.

Also, to top it all off, every sport is different, so you can't lump professional athletes into a single bucket.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-12-10 22:04:09+00:00
John carmack complained about this same issue for the Playstation DOOM port: page 337 https://fabiensanglard.net/b/gebbdoom.pdf

Playstation rendered with affine texturing which made it impossible to get perspective correct rendering without hacks. The porting team ultimately did a very interesting hack where they would use polygons to render 1 pixel wide strips effectively simulating how non-hardware (that is CPU-based/integer) acclerated rendering was done on the PC.
by ben_w | 2025-12-10 22:04:39+00:00
Police in the UK continue to arrest people for online posts that are reported as threatening, harassing, or grossly offensive. Cases are commonly brought under communications and public order laws, including offenses tied to harassment, malicious communications, and hate incidents.

There's a lot I don't like about the UK (enough that I left the country), but these things are not "criticising the government".

Closest the UK got, in recent years, to people getting punished specifically for criticising the government was that Mock the Week got cancelled. But not, say, Have I Got News For You, which has spent its entire existence doing nothing but.
by foldr | 2025-12-10 22:05:06+00:00
It's an interesting observation but it seems like a pretty weak argument if you generalize it. "Way more people consume X than create X, so the creators must be insane". It follows that painters must be insane because there are way more people who look at paintings than there are people who paint them.

The obvious explanation for the pattern is that making content takes more effort than consuming it, so naturally there are more people willing to consume than create.
by pryce | 2025-12-10 22:05:26+00:00
It is not that simple: Authoritarians that want to "protect" their gender-questioning or orientation-questioning children from having online access to trans and gay spaces online are not only enthusiastically backing Australia's social media ban, they are involved in the very creation of this legislation, and are delighted in its negative affects on LGBTQ teens.

There is considerable overlap between those who subscribe to the "trans people are a contagion" moral panic of writer Abigail Schrier, and the "ban social media" advocates in AU who were instrumental in creating this legislation.
by aakashprasad91 | 2025-12-10 22:05:59+00:00
Today the workflow is simple: users just drag-and-drop the full drawing/spec set (ZIP or PDFs) for whatever phase they want reviewed. The system automatically splits sheets by discipline, reconstructs callout relationships, and runs the checks. We’ll be adding integrations with ACC/Procore/Revit exports so this becomes even more automated.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-10 22:06:09+00:00
> But the gain can be rolled into another property with a 1031 exchange, deferring taxes. I already said this in the comment you responded to.

They can also keep the property forever and continue renting it out, and then never realize the gain. But in both cases that means they don't get to realize the gain -- or even recover their original principal -- except insofar as they're renting it out, and the rent is taxable income.