MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gorgoiler | 2025-12-16 07:57:19+00:00
I bought some LiFePo power packs this summer. They are just 1kWh things, the size and mass of a crate of beer but having a power pack with mains voltage output is mind bending. Suddenly you can do all sorts of things you never could do before. It feels as bizarre as it might feel going camping with a magic tap that has permanent running water, or to have a bag of rice that never empties. I set up a tent with a household table lamps. It felt both weird and exciting.

The electric F-150 promised to be 100x and it was very appealing. It would have been a vehicle that was also a mobile untethered power station, and much more capable one than my power pack or even a mains outlet. Presumably with the right connections you could drain the battery at the same rate as the wheel motors. What could you do with a mobile 100+kW electricity supply? Brushless (corded) chainsaw, mobile log splitter, and charge my phone!

It’s a world I’m looking forward to. More utility EVs please.
by kakacik | 2025-12-16 07:57:54+00:00
That's probably too harsh, unless it can be proved without doubt that exactly and only due to this X (many) children died and would (with high probability) live otherwise. Thats China level of dealing with similar situations, plus probably harvesting organs for additional profit afterwards and sending bullet receipt to the family.

There are many existing punishments - go after all their wealth, family and connected business, trusts etc. Simply ban them from western financial world. Publicly shame them and make their name a curse to spit on. Properly harsh jail and making sure all inmates know who arrived, I wouldn't expect kinder treatment than pedophiles get. And so on.
by RossBencina | 2025-12-16 07:58:32+00:00
Reminds me of this quote from Walter Murch, from In the Blink of an Eye I think:

"Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restraint. By that same token, someone who bore a glacier within them might urge passionate abandon. The danger is, as Bergman points out, that a glacial personality in need of passionate abandon may read Stravinsky and apply restraint instead."
by bragh | 2025-12-16 07:58:52+00:00
Why should somebody donate to somebody else's luxuries if they could spend it on their own luxuries?

Anyway, yes, direct donation is always better, be it to some random guy down on his luck in the street (unless they have just missed their bus and need ticket money for the next one and so for 3 years in the same bus station) or to some trusted person/group who actually does deliver the stuff to the area. Way too many random NGOs have popped up in Europe promising to do good things, just transfer money to their bank account and they will take care of it all for you.
by immibis | 2025-12-16 07:59:11+00:00
There's a little secret that most of the business world knows but individuals do not know: You don't have to follow Terms of Service. In most cases, the maximum penalty the company can impose for a ToS violation is a termination of your account. And it's not illegal to make a new account. They can legally ban you from making a new account, and you can legally evade the ban.

Unless you're the one-in-a-million unlucky user who gets prosecuted under the CFAA's very generic "unauthorized access to a protected computer" clause, like Aaron Swartz. It seems the general consensus is this doesn't apply to breaking a website ToS, and Aaron was only in so much trouble because he broke into a network closet, as well as for copyright violation. But consult a lawyer if unsure. (That's another difference: A business will ask a lawyer if it wants to do something shady, while an individual will simply avoid doing it)
by Mawr | 2025-12-16 07:59:54+00:00
Citation: "Ford F-Series Is America’s Best-Selling Model For The 43rd Consecutive Year (2024)"

Either the US has a lot of electricians and plumbers, all those people aren't buying these trucks because they need them.

Just look anywhere outside the US — nobody buys trucks like these. And that's because they're incredibly niche. They're worse than all other options. A regular sedan is a better everyday car and can fulfill most of your "i need a truck" use cases anyway.

BTW, I was kidding with the electricians and plumbers, they have no need for a truck. Nobody does.

For anything you'd actually need a truck for, an appropriately sized van is better. You'd have to be hauling dirt and sand offroad in rural areas on a regular basis without somehow being able to use a trailer for a flatbed truck to make any sense as a purchase. Guess how many people in the US have a need for that. Certainly not enough to push the sales numbers to #1.

> road trips aren’t important when most everyone takes at least one a year

Exactly, optimizing your life around something you do once per year is completely irrational.

Buy all the trucks all you want, just don't claim it's a sensible, rational decision. It's not.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-12-16 08:00:03+00:00
Say what you will about the data centers in space idea (I think it's transparently stupid), but ML is generally resistant to random undirected noise. It's almost a requirement by definition that a machine which takes pictures and accurately outputs the probability that they are pelicans has to be pretty robust to nigh-infinite amounts of minor variation. That's part of the reason all the super low precision stuff works. It's only in the control logic or maybe the absolute precise chokepoints of computation where flips are dangerous, so most of them are harmless.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-12-16 08:00:03+00:00
They are completely different platforms.

The EX90 platform is from the a ground up a purely electric vehicle while the 2025 XC90 runs on the same platform with upgrades and face-lifts since 2015.

The EX90 is a couple of years late to the market due to software integration problems.

Previously they’ve been sharing platforms across ICE and BEV like the XC40 and XC40 Recharge now rebranded EX40. But now Volvo is going electric.
by lrvick | 2025-12-16 08:00:32+00:00
I really appreciate the scorched earth efforts to redo computing with security from the start, but personally I have reached the conclusion that compatibility is key to adoption, and that desktop focused linux distros like ubuntu with yolo security being used for servers is the practice causing the most harm we must end as soon as possible.

QubesOS falls really short in supply chain integrity, and server solutions, but IMO the overall hypervisor/IOMMU isolation architecture is the most practical and compatible way forward though nowhere near as elegant as some of the ideas in Genode.

In EnclaveOS my team and I chose to focus on remote attestation and best available security isolation technologies available to most server CPUs while still using (hardened) linux kernels. We talk about this here: https://distrust.co/blog/enclaveos.html
by digitalbase | 2025-12-16 08:00:58+00:00
I'm building a Q&A/community on top of Nostr and using those same concepts:

Original Author posts a kind:1 note with a question

A bot sends a kind:1985 note (NIP-32 https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/32.md) that labels the content.

It can be done by the author (self-label), by an app, or by third parties (moderators/curators), depending on the trust model.

Other clients can decide to use that classification/label

--

For moderation purposes. If the behavior is closer to abuse (spam, scams, harassment...), use NIP-56 (Reporting). Reporting harmful/should-be-moderated content.
Research – Supplementation App (is it tarpit?)
by s4ur4bh | 2025-12-16 08:01:31+00:00
Hi! I am working on building a mobile app to support and enable adherence to taking supplements. Think of those water-reminder apps (or even period-trackers)

I tried to look up on some user insights and I was unable to. I thought this would be a great place to ask. So here are some questions...

1/ How do you keep track of your supplements? Some app? Manual? Excel sheets?

2/ What feature do you want to see in an app made for this? Give me your biggest pain point. And the largest challenge.

3/ What would you want to pay for this app? If you already use an app, what do you pay for it.

4/ Will you be ok for a longer conversation? In exchange, when the app comes to life, i can offer you a free tier. PS: The app is in my head right now. Havent had the chance to even start.

5/ Is this a tarpit idea?

6/ What wedge can I drive that cal.ai / noom etc havent so far?
by zwnow | 2025-12-16 08:01:38+00:00
Oh its usually accompanied with a chat, here in Germany often times they just need some money to stay the night somewhere. However some just tell you whatever story to get their next high. Whatever floats their boat, to me its just sad that such a rich country doesn't help them while actively making being homeless harder for them. It's almost christmas and really cold out there, I know there are so many people freezing to death. What good does my money do when I invest it into some imaginary assets or kept it on my bank forever...
by rubenhellman | 2025-12-16 08:02:03+00:00
I recently shipped a small SaaS, mostly during school breaks. This is my first project that I have taken from idea to deployment, onboarding, and real users. The product targets early-stage developers and focuses on reducing initial setup and preparation when building new apps. It abstracts away some of the repetitive early decisions and boilerplate that tend to slow down first-time builders, especially around project structure, configuration, and “what should exist on day one”.

I have a small number of active users, but churn is relatively high, which suggests either:

the problem is not painful enough

the abstraction leaks too early

the UX or onboarding fails to communicate value

or the tool solves a problem that disappears after the first session

I would really appreciate technical feedback on:

whether the abstraction layer makes sense

if the mental model aligns with how you bootstrap projects

where the product feels opinionated vs restrictive

what would make this something you would actually keep installed

Thanks for reading. Direct, critical feedback is very welcome.
by zkmon | 2025-12-16 08:02:43+00:00
Nice catch! It never made sense to me either, to say "out of" when actually it is "in", quite the opposite. I guess I worked mostly with American companies, while educated in British English.

I think "based out of" refers to the work communication going "out of" where the person is "based in". But still, it is far cry from the natural "in".
by carabiner | 2025-12-16 08:03:01+00:00
Black Mirror episode portraying what this could do: https://youtu.be/XJIq_Dy--VA?t=14. If Apple ran SHARP on this photo and compared it to the show, that would be incredible.

Or if you prefer Blade Runner: https://youtu.be/qHepKd38pr0?t=107
by jrowen | 2025-12-16 08:03:52+00:00
> It’s also vague as, what if I run a VPS provider and someone can upload images to a marketplace like thing, does that count as SaaS? How about if someone’s only use of my services is to run that image?

This strikes me as somewhat contrived. Like yeah, if you're gonna do some weird button-pushing thing, it's not worth it, steer clear, keep this product off your platform, easy. Is a piece of software really only of value to the open source community if any kind of unscrupulous use of it is allowed?

There's a million ways to get value out of source code that don't involve pushing the envelope. I've accepted every EULA ever without reading and never once worried I would get in trouble with any of them, it's generally pretty easy if you're not trying to invent ways to do so.
by reliefcrew | 2025-12-16 08:04:02+00:00
> I am referring to an email provider that uses its own domain

Well, where do you think they get their domain from? The same place you do, a registrar. You're just adding a layer.

For example, you mention hey.com.... do a `dig soa hey.com` and you'll see they're registered w/ cloudflare. If you register with cloudflare too, you will have the same chance of having your domain ripped away from you as hey.com does.

The email service provider isn't particularly special in that sense. That said, it is true that there's a lot about infrastructure people can use help with.

So, if you're not familiar w/ technicalities such as these I wouldn't blame you for outsourcing. It's a big world and we can't do it all ourselves. Good luck!
by pksebben | 2025-12-16 08:04:16+00:00
I served. While in basic training, the drill sergeants taught us why we salute differently than other countries (probably apocryphal) - because we've "never lost a war". I'm cheeky now and I was then, so I asked about vietnam.

"Police Action" came the terse reply. "We don't talk about that one."

Course by then I'd already signed on the dotted, so...
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-12-16 08:04:20+00:00
What worries me about this as a UK citizen is not that Trump has any chance of winning this, but that political pressure is likely to be applied and Starmer strikes me as the type to fold.

I don't think the lawsuit has merit as the programme wasn't broadcast in the U.S. and even so, there has been previously been a lot of different takes on the January 6th violent insurrection, so it seems very unlikely to have made any difference to people's opinions of Trump. Also, I believe that for U.S. defamation, there has to be malicious intention proven which is very unlikely for the BBC case (seems more like a misguided edit rather than being deliberately slanderous).

I do wonder what would happen if the case goes ahead and is decided in Trump's favour - would the BBC refuse to pay and just ensure that none of their employees go to the U.S.?

As an aside, Trump has said that the BBC "Literally, they put words in my mouth. They had me saying things that I never said coming out.” which is blatantly a lie - they merely edited his words to bring together two distinct sentences in a misleading manner.

For the record, despite enjoying some of the BBC's output, I do find their journalistic integrity to be lacking - I've raised numerous complaints over the years to do with their atrocious RTC reporting - they always seem to be pushing motornormativity with their selection of passive voicing for drivers whilst demonising cyclists.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-16 08:05:12+00:00
True, that could be spiced up a lot. But I didn't think you intended it for mainstream users in your comment. For the HN crowd it should be enough. A mainstream user will not be messing around with OPDS servers anyway.

And recommendation caroussels are a bit too much like advertising to me. Something I wouldn't want on self-hosted stuff.
by comex | 2025-12-16 08:05:23+00:00
The code is passing the function pointers into Win32 APIs, so the caller side isn’t controlled; the callbacks have to work as native C function pointers.

This was probably posted in response to this other link from two days ago, which is about about JIT-compiling wndproc callbacks in particular; the comments discuss the “proper” way to do it, which is to use GWLP_USERDATA:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259334

At least, that’s the proper way to do it if you control the entire application. But for what’s apparently a thin wrapper that exposes Win32 APIs directly to Lua, I can understand picking an approach that makes life easier for the Lua code author, even if it’s hackier under the hood. It also avoids the need to write custom behavior for each API.
by nabla9 | 2025-12-16 08:05:45+00:00
Do most people read the article and think "F-4 couldn't see the F-22 simply because of stealth, even at close range."

In reality, these fighters have forward-looking radars. An F-4 could do the same to a lone F-22. The real issue here is the F-22's stealth against Iranian ground radars. For whatever reason, they did not warn the F-4.
by zwnow | 2025-12-16 08:06:59+00:00
Who am I to judge what they do with their money? I couldnt possibly know if they are allergic to something. Also not every homeless person is an addict. Even beggars can have agency over their resources. An addiction is not for me to solve, first things first should be to cover their basic needs, only then you can work on an addiction. Money is the easiest thing to give.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-12-16 08:07:20+00:00
Except... art and beauty (idk about truth) are subjective. You can attribute grades and points to art or TV shows, but whether any one person likes it is entirely subjective.

But of course, you mention "merit", which if my English is correct is "the amount of work / effort / skill involved". But I personally do not like the duct taped banana, and the work / effort / skill involved is minimal - and yet it's considered art, and people go out of their way to view it.

The Mona Lisa is "fine" (in my opinion), took skill to make, but it wasn't considered particularly exceptional in the works of Da Vinci - until it got stolen. It has objective "artistic merit", its beauty is subjective, but its financial and cultural value exploded through the roof due to its story.
by svara | 2025-12-16 08:07:44+00:00
The cynical view suffers from availability bias - it's easy for us to think of someone who sticks out through bad behavior, but somehow gets away with it, precisely because it is not normal. (1)

But if you look at long timescales, it's pretty obvious that cooperation is the more powerful strategy.

We used to live in tribes of hunter gatherers, in constant danger from a hostile environment. Now, we're part of a global technological superorganism that provides for us.

If free-loading was a dominant strategy, this would never have developed.

(1) From the evolutionary biology point of view this can be explained by rate dependent selection- meaning the strategy is strong as long as only a small fraction of a population employ it. Durkheim would probably say you need these people to establish what the norms of a society are.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-16 08:07:46+00:00
Yeah they could take some lessons from Plato. However, koreader works on everything. Android, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook etc. Not just on Kobo like Plato does.

It took me some getting used to but it's not bad IMO. It's more that its conventions are a bit different from the commercial readers but that's not a bad thing.
by digitalbase | 2025-12-16 08:09:41+00:00
I'm building a Nostr app (+- 2mio notes). There is a lot of spam and much worse content.

But it's kinda a solved problem (not through PoW) but through Web of Trust and not having algorithms. You see what the people/communities you follow post.

> I tried Nostr but like a lot of people here have been saying, it falls short in many ways due to the way it is structured. Relays are not really relays, they are more but also less. They are like community servers. Sure you can connect to many, have the same UI, but they are still disjoint and feels lonely.

I'd like to know more. Imho the fact that relays are dumb is a feature.

> You keep saying you can sign your messages and there is value there to people who are saying it is censorable in the ways they described.

All messages are signed. There is no way NOT to sign a message. This comes with the advantage that you don't need to trust the relays/pipes where messages go through which is an immense benefit

> This is not a personal thing, I want to like Nostr and I tried using it. I can and would probably get some use out of using it as a pubsub or message delivery infrastructure for two things I want to connect but what if the relay goes down? It is like a centralized pubsub messagebox thing. But can't even do that fully.

Relays go down all the time. There was an experiment where a major relay (Damus) just deleted the entire dataset. People barely noticed. And as any client (not just the author) and other relays can re-broadcast events the relay eventually recovers.

> There needs to be some sort of relay to relay communication (actual relaying) that needs to go on. And that wouldn't scale, even if it would work for now.

There are three mechanisms that do that:

- clients posts to multiple relays - clients/followers can rebroadcast notes (to other relays) - quite a few relays are syncing (negentropy sync)
by isoprophlex | 2025-12-16 08:09:42+00:00
We have the best mid-air collisions. Noone does it better, or so people tell me. We don't do sleepy silent disappearances over the Bermuda Triangle, that's SAD!! We blow em up, BIGLY, in someone else's airspace. A great PRESIDENT knows how to WIN at mid-air collisions. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
by johanvts | 2025-12-16 08:10:02+00:00
Landscapers have trucks here too, but they look like this https://iveco.dk/shopping-varktojer/kampagner/MY24-IVECO-Dai...

For personal use, like you mention, people use a small trailer. You own one or borrow it freely from many places, hitch it to your car, haul dirt, and then detach it. No need to drive a truck everywhere because you need to haul some stuff once a month.

> But this idea that no normal person needs a pickup truck a dozen times a year is just weird.

Yet the US is the only country where office workers own trucks. The only real use of a F150 style truck is offroad hauling, which is not something most people have to regularly do.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-16 08:10:54+00:00
> If your SaaS can’t compete on the service part

No the problem is that it cant compete on the hardware part sometimes

Lets face it even if it something is open source, chances are that the most contributions/time are still spent by the person making it or the saas provider in this industry.

Imagine that someone goes ahead and launches a cheaper version of their saas and people go use that, since that person isnt having his time invested in the software as much as the original person and thus is willing to undercut him because his investment/returns expectations are very minimal whereas for the original saas it can be very high (writing good quality software which costs some developers real time and even real money)
by qwertox | 2025-12-16 08:11:10+00:00
If Google would care at all for their users, they'd tell WhatsApp to not require the use of the Contacts permission only to add names to numbers when you don't share the Contacts with the App.

Or they'd tell WhatsApp to allow granting microphone permissions for one single call, instead of requesting permanent microphone permissions. All apps that I know of respect the flow of "Ask every time", all but Meta's app.

Google just doesn't care.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-16 08:11:46+00:00
It's not fully apocryphal, there's video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR7XMkjDGw0 - not those exact words, but the gist of it is there.

(Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_PBqSPNTfg )
by rsynnott | 2025-12-16 08:11:54+00:00
They have one for 34,640 EUR; happy?

https://www.ford.ie/content/dam/guxeu/ie/Documents/Pricelist...

Granted, they don't seem to sell the cheap ones in the US.

(For whatever reason you don't see these around very much, though; Citroen and Mercedes seem to dominate the niche, at least here.)
by ktallett | 2025-12-16 08:12:13+00:00
Ah good on you! You seem like a lovely person. Some absolutely do tell you a story to get a fix, and it is tricky. I visit Berlin often for work, and the sheer number of homeless people I have met and chatted to who seem to have become homeless due to a lack of mental health support is extremely sad. I suspect it will only get worse. I was lucky to be homeless in London respectfully weather wise, I can't imagine being homeless in Berlin as it is so cold.

This isn't for you as you do plenty but incase others read this, but if you happen to ever see a thick coat in a charity shop, second hand store, or thrift store (whatever you call it) and it is quite cheap, do buy it as there are many charities that take them to give to homeless people.