MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cbolton | 2025-12-05 17:20:48+00:00
Look at the Wikipedia page, it's a mix of open source and proprietary copmonents. The OS project describes itself on https://sailfishos.org/info/ as "open source based" rather than "open source". It seems they have opened up some stuff since the last time I looked, but as far as I can tell the Silica UI is still proprietary. See for example https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/silica-components-license-and...
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-05 17:21:37+00:00
Me personally? Right now I'm most bothered by a large splinter in my finger. I'm pretty comfortable and my grander concerns relate not to immigration but rather how America will handle the demise of their global hegemony, if America will go to war with China over Taiwan.. That's what worries me the most.

But concerning immigration, you seem to think that people have other (perhaps even real) problems which they are falsely attributing to immigration. Like "Oh I can't afford a big house because of those damn immigrants" when really the problem is a lack of affordable housing, or some other real issue which you happen to agree is a problem. And to be sure, there is some of that kind of thinking going on. But for the most part, I think people who are upset about immigration really are upset about the immigration itself, particularly from substantially different cultures. There is a prominent belief among anti-immigration people that their governments are trying to ethnically replace them. They want to continue living in the society they grew up in, not in New New Dehli. I suppose you might think they're wrong to want this, we're all one race, the human race, etc. Whatever, all that ideological rhetoric doesn't change the way people vote when they begin to feel like foreigners in their own country.
by nemomarx | 2025-12-05 17:21:50+00:00
I think the main reason they aren't competing as much now is that blu ray players / computers with disc drives / consoles with disc drives are getting more scarce?

I don't even know where I would get a good blu ray drive. The videophile subreddits keep suggesting very specific models with flashed firmware, which is not exactly accomodating to the public.
by throw0101d | 2025-12-05 17:22:10+00:00
> The web management portal requires Xen Orchestra and needs to be installed as a seperate VM which can be irritating, with a seperate paid license.

Xen Orchestra appears to be open source:

* https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra

* https://docs.xen-orchestra.com/installation#from-the-sources

See also perhaps:

* https://github.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater

* https://hub.docker.com/r/ronivay/xen-orchestra

* Via: https://forums.lawrencesystems.com/t/how-to-build-xen-orches...
by vinclou | 2025-12-05 17:22:15+00:00
Apparently, Notion, Obsidian, Google Docs, Word, Notes, Reminders, Evernote, Bear, Typora, iA Writer, Ulysses, Standard Notes, Simplenote, Roam, LogSeq, Craft, Vim, Emacs and the hundreds other editors launched this week alone just weren't doing it. They were too cluttered. Too focused. Too specific in their use cases. Not online. Too offline.
by trunnell | 2025-12-05 17:22:28+00:00
Commenters here seem to be missing the larger David vs. Goliath story...

Netflix was a silicon valley start-up with a tech founder (Reed) who teamed up with an LA movie buff (Ted). They tried to solve a problem: it was too hard to watch movies at home, and Hollywood seemed to hate new tech. The movie industry titans alternated between fighting Netflix and making deals. They fought Netflix's ability to bulk purchase and rent out DVDs. Later, they lobbed insults even while taking Netflix's money for content licensing. Here's Jeff Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner, in 2010:

"It’s a little bit like, is the Albanian army going to take over the world? I don’t think so." [1]

Remember: this was the same movie industry that gave us the MPAA and the DMCA. They were trying to ensure the internet, and new tech in general, had zero impact on them. Streaming movies and TV probably wouldn't exist if Netflix had not forced the issue.

Netflix buying HBO is significant, but also just another chapter in this story of Netflix's internet distribution model out-competing the Hollywood incumbents. Even now in 2025, at least 12 years after it was perfectly clear that streaming direct to the consumer would be the future, the industry is still struggling to turn the corner. Instead, they're selling themselves to Netflix.

I was at Netflix 2009-2019. It was shocking how easily our little "Albanian army" overthrew the empire. Our opponents barely fought back, and when they did, they were often incompetent with tech. To me, this is a story about how competent tech carried the day.

Netflix has been rapidly buying and building studio capacity for a decade now. Adding the WB studio production capacity is a huge win for Netflix. It makes those studios more productive: each day of content production is now worth more when distributed via Netflix's global platform.

Same with WB and HBO catalog and IP: it's worth more when its available to Netflix's approx 300 million members. Netflix can make new TV and films based on that IP, and it will be worth more than if it was only on HBO's platforms.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/media/13bewkes.h...
by cortesoft | 2025-12-05 17:22:44+00:00
I can't imagine switching at this point. We spent quite a while building up our Cortex and Minio infrastructure management, as well as our alerting and inventory management systems, and it is all very stable right now. We don't really touch it anymore, it just hums along.

We have already worked through all the pain points and it all works smoothly. No reason to change something that isn't a problem.
by amarcheschi | 2025-12-05 17:22:45+00:00
The reason of the fine is, as stated by the article: EU regulators said X's DSA violations included the deceptive design of its blue checkmark for verified accounts, the lack of transparency of its advertising repository and its failure to provide researchers access to public data.

I hold back no criticism on free speech issues in eu (ie chat control) when it is correct to do so, but this case doesn't look like it
by lossolo | 2025-12-05 17:23:59+00:00
I just checked and I've rated 1,788 movies and 326 TV series so 2,114 titles total on IMDB.

I agree with this take. Netflix has some good originals, but it's not in the same category as HBO/WB. Most (not all) of their series feel cheap, shallow, unoriginal. The quality and hit rate just aren't the same.
by thecrecipe | 2025-12-05 17:24:21+00:00
Hi HN,

I developed The Forge Calculator, a specialized utility website for the popular Roblox game, The Forge.

The core crafting system in The Forge involves complex ore combinations and non-obvious success probabilities. Players often waste valuable rare resources on trial-and-error because they can't accurately predict the final item's success rate, traits, and true power before hitting the forge button.

The Solution: Data-Driven Forging Optimization

The Forge Calculator is designed to eliminate this guesswork and transition players from "guessing" to "precise calculation." It provides a comprehensive, data-driven platform with several key features:

Real-Time Probability Analysis: Users select up to four distinct ore types, and the tool instantly calculates and displays the exact success chance percentages for every possible weapon or armor outcome.

"Effective Value" Optimization (Our Core Feature): We go beyond raw numbers. We convert trait values into EFFECTIVE DPS (Damage Per Second) and defensive metrics to show the true absolute highest potential of an ore combination. For example, a trait like Rivalries (20% crit chance) is calculated as a 10% average damage boost, ensuring our rankings reflect the real-world performance gains.

Advanced Planning Tools:

Trait and Stat Previews: See exactly which item traits will activate and get estimated damage/health ranges before you commit resources.

Inventory Optimizer: Use the advanced tool to calculate the most efficient "Tank" or "Glass Cannon" setups based on your current ore stock.

The tool is completely free, built to empower all The Forge players—from new players learning the basics to veterans optimizing their meta builds—with the precision needed to maximize crafting efficiency and achieve peak performance.

Please check it out and let me know your thoughts or any feedback!

Link: https://theforge-calculator.com/
by lapcat | 2025-12-05 17:24:59+00:00
> Large scale infrastructure changes are often by nature completely untestable.

You're changing the subject here and shifting focus from the specific to the vague. The two postmortems after the recent major Cloudflare outages both listed straightforward errors in source code that could have been tested and detected.

Theoretical outages could theoretically have other causes, but these two specific outages had specific causes that we know.

> which is why robust and fast rollback procedures are usually desirable and implemented.

Yes, nobody is arguing against that. It's a red herring with regard to my point about source code testing.
by vlovich123 | 2025-12-05 17:25:30+00:00
Here’s the report showing the impact has had on memory vulnerabilities in Rust. I guess you’ll have to take my word that they run sanitizers, I don’t know of any good link summarizing their usage, other than it’s listed in AOSP and has instructions on how to use it.

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move...

https://source.android.com/docs/security/test/sanitizers
by directevolve | 2025-12-05 17:26:04+00:00
This is a wildly disingenuous interpretation of that study.

“ Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders’ superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms.”

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34524
by stego-tech | 2025-12-05 17:26:12+00:00
I don’t give generous readings to bad arguments from online anons. The point of anonymous discourse is to come at it with your best arguments and debate them thoroughly, which is why there’s a lot of discussion about common methods of “bad faith” argument styles like the preceding commenter used (“you don’t have kids” = “your opinion is irrelevant”).

Also, a lot of folks are making some assumptions about my person and profession to suit their own arguments, rather than discuss the merits of what I raised. These assumptions ultimately destroy their own arguments by showing a resultant lack of curiosity and a reliance on pre-existing narratives rather than carefully thought out rationale.

That’s why these ID checks keep winning: suckers drinking the Kool-Aid without thinking for themselves and dismissing what they perceive to be opposition, who in reality have more experience with this with kids and in education than they assume when dismissing our positions.

I don’t need to be more understanding of bad actors or bad arguments, they need to be better at discussing their positions rationally or trusting experts who have lived these problems.
by james2doyle | 2025-12-05 17:26:40+00:00
You call it extortion of the AI companies, but isn’t stealing/crawling/hammering a site to scrape their content to resell just as nefarious? I would say Cloudflare is giving these site owners an option to protect their content and as a byproduct, reduce their own costs of subsidizing their thieves. They can choose to turn off the crawl protection. If they aren't, that tells you that they want it, doesn’t it?
by dotancohen | 2025-12-05 17:26:45+00:00
Yes, I understood both their points. I added another data point for a struggle that I assume is not common for HNers, and demonstrated that people can overcome such a struggle.

I certainly don't want to compare traumas and I don't consider my family to be traumatised. I'm certain that some HNers could describe further personal experiences that they've overcome. Have we any Sudanese? People from east Ukraine? Yeminites?
by hardolaf | 2025-12-05 17:27:09+00:00
I haven't really seen cheaper overall solutions for medium-sized home deployments than their gear. I need a layer 3 switch with 1 SFP+ 10Gbe port, and at least 5 1/2.5/5/10 Gbe copper ports with POE++ on at least 2 ports. I cannot find a cheaper solution that the USW-Pro-XG-8-PoE from any vendor. If you know one, please let me know.

Sure some of their hardware is overpriced, but they're pushing the limits of what's available in the 10 and 25 Gbe areas at relatively reasonable prices.
by stevenwoo | 2025-12-05 17:27:41+00:00
That's the exact opposite of Netflix most recent history, Westworld was an expensive production and viewing numbers on HBO were declining as seasons went on. Even relatively inexpensive looking Netflix shows got cancelled, i.e. GLOW, I Am Not Okay with This, Santa Clarita Diet, never mind shows that were less expensive than Westworld that had poor Netflix viewer metrics like The Residence, The OA, probably lots more I am leaving out. Early years maybe, like when they kept Orange is the New Black and House of Cards going to completion or resurrected Arrested Development.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-12-05 17:27:42+00:00
The issue isn't age-gating Playboy, but to begin censoring requires a line to be drawn, and there's no guarantee that educational material regarding LGTBQ topics wont be considered "adult" or "pornographic".

The whole "know it when you see it" doesn't work when there's a significant group out there who would love to see queer people at large go away from society. With this, you now have teenagers being blocked from actual educational material because Carol from the "burn everyone but me" church down the street believes anything regarding sexuality is "adult" material.

The thing with the porn habits being logged by intelligence agencies, is that data has a large risk-reward for actually being used. They wouldn't burn the secret of their capabilities for something small. Most of the metadata wouldn't be admissible in court assuming courts don't go full kangaroo. The usage of the metadata is general intelligence to point investigations, or parallel reconstruction to get warrants for someone they don't actually have anything on, but want to search.

Doing KYC American style for porn/adult content means mass data leaks are a matter of "when", because there's no consumer protection and this data will be retained indefinitely because ads make money. The leak means real people are put in real danger.
by bigrightmiss | 2025-12-05 17:28:03+00:00
so anyone who didn't get vaccinated before Nov. 2021 is considered unvaccinated? if they got the same dose the "vaccinated" group got on Dec 1st 2021 they're still... unvaccinated? and this is the control for this study? am i missing something? im sure there are a ton of valuable findings in this study, but that seems like a flaw.

also, this is only tangentially related, but why is everyone so keen to defend big pharma? i thought we were supposed to hate them? they made billions off vaccines.

remember martin shrkeli? he claimed he raised the price of a drug for a rare disease to make it commercially viable and he was crucified for it. less than 5 years later, a virus breaks out of a town with a lab dedicated to experimenting with (i.e. weaponizing) viruses and big pharma decided to convert to altruism when we needed them most? shrkeli's company made $65M in total off that (which a court ruled all of which had to be returned)... thats not even rounding error for pfizer, who sold $35B+ worth of mrna vaccines in 2021 alone.

if the guy who invented Daraprim came out and told us shkreli was a scumbag, we'd have believed him. but the mRNA guy comes out and he gets eviscerated. i get it, it's not 1:1, but still.

i'm not saying its all a hoax or a conspiracy, but "there doesn't need to be a formal conspiracy when interests converge". in the U.S., federal funding was given to anyone "treating" COVID. had COVID and got hit by a bus? that was a COVID death. and a check to the hospital from uncle sam.

earlier this year (MIT got duped)[https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/M2GzdAGbxwinERSEt/a-widely-s...] by a second year student when no one critiqued his fraudulent AI research. its a reminder that skepticism is an important part of the feedback loop.

i don't think the vaccine killed 17M people, and i think there are definitely grifters on the skeptic side, but that doesn't discount skepticism as a whole. and i dont think this study vindicates anything completely either.
by sandeepkd | 2025-12-05 17:28:11+00:00
There is a big and vocal group one who does not believe in the idea of solving the tech debt for couple reasons

1. Solving tech debt is not going to get you promotions and visibility as the article right said there is no visible difference

2. Its going to accrue continuously

3. There is no dedicated role that owns the tech debt so its not really anyones explicit responsibility as a part of job
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-05 17:28:12+00:00
Lotus had a close working relationship with IBM (and was eventually bought by IBM) and IBM is as much or more to blame for "OS/2 is the future" than Microsoft.

People were aware that Microsoft and IBM were starting to disagree on OS/2 as early as 1990 and Microsoft released Win32s, the first preview of Win32 APIs running in Windows 3.1, in 1993 (when OS/2 released the first obviously "post-breakup" OS/2 2.1 and Microsoft also released the first version of Windows NT [3.1] to truly signify the breakup). The writing was on the wall in advance of 1995 and companies like Lotus had a couple years of opportunity to build Win32 applications in advance of Windows 95.

It seems hard to call it a bait and switch when the writing was on the wall as early as 1990 that Microsoft wasn't confident in OS/2.
by Isofarro | 2025-12-05 17:28:23+00:00
The idea that you have to read everything is a reader UI design flaw. By presenting feeds as an inbox, it gives the impression of RSS feeds being email. And that's not right, it can be, but it doesn't have to be.

The TikTok model is about scrolling, skipping, being selective.

RSS readers should be treated the same way. "River of news" is an RSS thing. You dive in when stuff interests you, and you let what doesn't interest you flow by.

Twitter is basically an RSS-like reader with 120 character limits on posts. You subscribe to interesting people, and their little posts drop on your homepage in reverse chronological order. There's no inbox or unread items. You just scroll past to the next item that interests you.

Yeah, turning off unread-items counters, definitely. The value of RSS is in what you chose to read. It's not an anti-library. And if something is really great, a good subscription list means someone you're reading will likely mention it and link to it.
by andreygrehov | 2025-12-05 17:28:26+00:00
The FDA memo citing 10 vaccine-caused myocarditis deaths in kids came _after_ the Sept. 2025 ACIP vote. ACIP had already dropped routine vaccination for healthy kids 6 mo-17 yr and moved everyone under 65 to "shared decision-making" (high-risk only) [1]

The detailed FDA analysis still isn't public. That's exactly why we should demand it instead of dismissing the claim.

Blame NYTimes for leaking the internal memo. In all honesty they should be fined for doing this.

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/acip-recommends-covid19-vacci...
by pixl97 | 2025-12-05 17:28:32+00:00
So, the particular problem here is the internet and social media in general.

Make them go away and most of our political divide starts to disappear, with that said TV news is pretty crazily divided these days.

Simply put your idea does not work when there is huge amount of active propaganda with the entire purpose of causing confusion and division. "This video will make you angry" hits on the psychology of what's occurring. People don't spend most of their time communicating with 'the other side'. They spend most of the time attacking purpose built strawmen to solidify their convictions.
by tete | 2025-12-05 17:28:33+00:00
> a lot of really harmful behavior is depicted in some porn

and movies, and kids shows, and in fast food ads and in sitcoms and in comics and even in some churches, even in children's books and school books, and famously in Disney movies

I am sometimes wondering if the whole "shielding" can be counterproductive. If you look at perpetrators and victims backstories it was either absolute lack of parenting (nobody to talk to) or it was households where everything was taboo. Eg. "hardcore Christians" and such.

And I worry that the whole "everything is taboo" might turn out badly.

Sure, I totally wished it was like "shield till they are 16/18/21" and then it will all be fine, but then we will end up with 16/18/21 year olds who will lose all hope when they first come across anything that might make them uncomfortable or in general cannot deal with.

I also dislike the notion of other people deciding how to love each other. Sounds scary. But I really would wonder if children who cannot judge stuff end up watching some BDSM and suddenly think it's normal to be violent. Like even relatively young children witness or are involved in fights in kindergarten. Doesn't mean they'll end up having issues with violence.

Different story if they learn it's the only way to get respect. But I really don't think you can equate that with a child coming across porn or non vanilla porn.

It feels like the same story as "ego shooters will make everyone think it's okay to shoot people". Pretty sure that a big part of people here played ego shooters.

On top of that I think creating the mindset that sex is something bad, to maybe be ashamed of, etc. is a good thing. I really do think that makes people not speak out when something is wrong. It creates that whole taboo. We don't have that with other crimes that we allow children to witness in media. Theft, violence, etc.

No I don't think children should watch pornography. However the whole "you cannot even speak about sex" and it's all way worse than weapons seems to feed the "bad porn" to some degree.
by jansan | 2025-12-05 17:28:42+00:00
We should not forget, that in most countries people who were unvaccinated came under severe social pressure. They often lost their jobs or got banned from social circles. You were basically rendered an outcast by not being vaccinated. So taking the vaccine did not only affect your immune system, but also gave you a higher social status. And there are plenty of studies that show that a lower social status significantly impacts mortality, with lower status linked to higher death rates. This may explain the lower all cause mortality among vaccinated people.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-12-05 17:28:46+00:00
Good list.

2 and 3 are basically fine. Just so long as you don’t rely on initialization order. And don’t have meaningful cleanup. C++ initialization fiasco is great pain. Crash on shutdown bugs are soooo common with globals.

4 of have to think about.

And yes 5 is the evilness.