MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pryce | 2025-12-10 20:49:05+00:00
> Flash a driver's license at a liquor store to buy a single-use token, good for one year, and access your favorite social media trash. Anonymity is maintained...

Ask a woman in a liquor store whether her anonymity is maintained by this scenario...?

The current liquor store approach for buying liquor is hazardous for a good chunk of people and we need to acknowledge that - even if acquiring a token somewhat ameliorates the compounded risk from presenting ID multiple times

So many of these internet ban proposals feel like someone creates a single cartoon scenario that captures ~2% of the use cases, and happily charges ahead to a proposed solution as though they've sufficiently thought about the people affected and the harms involved.
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-10 20:49:21+00:00
>Also, have you tried just modifying your route table?

The problem is I want to run VNC on my home computer to the server on my work Mac so I can just access everything from one screen and m+b combo without having to use a USB switch and a second monitor. With VPN it basically just does not allow any inbound connections.

So I run a localhost tunnel its a generic ethernet listener that basically takes data and initiates a connection to localhost from localost and proxies the data. On my desktop side, its the same thing just in reverse.
by ComputerGuru | 2025-12-10 20:49:31+00:00
Looking at the results and the prompt, I would tweak the prompt to

* ignore comments that do not speculate on something that was unknown or had not achieved consensus as of the date of yyyy-mm-dd

* at the same time, exclude speculations for which there still isn’t a definitive answer or consensus today

* ignore comments that speculate on minor details or are stating a preference/opinion on a subjective matter

* it is ok to generate an empty list of users for a thread if there are no comments meeting the speculation requirements laid out above

* etc
by dwattttt | 2025-12-10 20:50:04+00:00
That's not really the case. Not all C APIs are inherently unsafe by construction, and I've always appreciated when someone has wrapped a C library and produced two crates:

- a pure binding crate, which exposes the C lib libraries API, and

- a wrapper library that performs some basic improvements

Stuff in the second category typically includes adding Drop impls to resources that need to be released, translating "accepts pointer + len" into "accepts slices" (or vice versa on return), and "check return value of C call and turn it into a Result, possibly with a stringified error".

All of those are also good examples of local reasoning about unsafety. If a C API returns a buffer + size, it's unsafe to turn it into a reference/slice. But if you check the function succeeded, you unsafely make the slice/reference, and return it from a safe function. If it crashes, you've either not upheld the C calls preconditions (your fault, check how to call the C function), or the C code has a bug (not your fault, the bug is elsewhere).
by AndreSlavescu | 2025-12-10 20:50:21+00:00
We actually deployed working speech to speech inference that builds on top of vLLM as the backbone. The main thing was to support the "Talker" module, which is currently not supported on the qwen3-omni branch for vLLM.

Check it out here: https://models.hathora.dev/model/qwen3-omni
by frizlab | 2025-12-10 20:50:34+00:00
More info (in French) https://www.igen.fr/services/2025/12/twitter-pourrait-bien-r...

The guy is actually arguing the brand has been abandoned and as such can be reclaimed. He’s a lawyer.

EDIT: Found another article in English (actually linked from the one in French…) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/12/can-t...
by reissbaker | 2025-12-10 20:50:40+00:00
While I'm only adding to the choir of people telling you "of course," since I'm directly the person you're responding to it still feels worth saying: yes, of course, if America and Venezuela went to war, it's completely legal for Venezuela to attempt to kill the U.S. President.

As an American, I certainly hope they would fail. But do I think it's legal? Yes: it's a targeted strike on the leader of an enemy country they'd theoretically be at war with. Do I think it's wise? Well — no, Venezuela has a much smaller military, and assassinating the U.S. President would trigger a massive war that would devastate Venezuela for decades while modestly inconveniencing American taxpayers. But legal? Yes.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-12-10 20:50:52+00:00
more than just carpet bombing -- the nukes, the genocides, the Communist purges before (USSR) and after (Red China)

all advanced countries basically got slaughtered to varying degrees and the US saw no real systemic damage and comparatively light levels of dead.

it's like if all of NATO and the Asian Tigers collapsed today except for China -- already a dominant player they jump to superpower status
by underlipton | 2025-12-10 20:51:08+00:00
IBO is super interesting. "The establishment is the establishment and most of the time it wins," is the final outcome, but the road there is actually rather fraught for that establishment, and it's alternately almost damned and just barely saved by aspects of its rule and operations. The winning agent of the establishment wins, in part, because he skillfully threads through the requirements of his station while strategically breaking taboo (but only once he's certain to have the political backing to do so). On the other side, the rebels are

>driven by the circumstances the establishment has forced them to contend with for the entirety of their short lives (they're all child soldiers, btw)

>are only able to find their successful path by rejecting establishment and forging what seem, at the time, to be canny ties with other groups on-the-margins

>...right until they follow that path off a cliff.

The "heroes" and "villains" remain who they are at the end not just because of affinity bias (having spent more time with the rebels than the establishment), but because there's a tangible disconnect between the former feeling forced into the poor decisions that they make, and the latter's rather cold, and unforced, determinations.

Spoiler

So when Shino almost takes Rustal's bridge out, I am, of course, cheering, even while I know I'm watching him commit a war crime and sign his own death warrant. When Rustal orders atmosphere-braised pilot skewers, it still feels incredibly unfair, even when I know why he made that decision. They threaded the needle.
by tw04 | 2025-12-10 20:51:36+00:00
I don’t understand what you don’t understand. The oura comparison is one they made and used “charging every day” as a reason to not use a rechargeable battery. If they took the oura hardware model and applied it to their voice recorder ring, you would be charging monthly if not longer.

TL;dr - There’s no reason to not have a rechargeable battery other than to create e-waste and “a revenue stream”.
by joshred | 2025-12-10 20:52:03+00:00
Gerrymandering already exists. Voter suppression was huge in the past, and may become huge again. The supreme court made sure of that.

And also... the supreme court keeps issuing partisan decisions.

So... what is left? Number 3?

I guess you're arguing that federalism protects people, but how does it do that in a way that isn't already being eroded?
by averageRoyalty | 2025-12-10 20:52:51+00:00
So write code.

Maybe post renaissance many artists no longer had patrons, but nothing was stopping them from painting.

If your industry truely is going in the direction where there's no paid work for you to code (which is unlikely in my opinion), nobody is stopping you. It's easier than ever, you have decades of personal computing at your fingertips.

Most people with a thing they love do it as a hobby, not a job. Maybe you've had it good for a long time?
by rvz | 2025-12-10 20:53:21+00:00
> Let's just say the AI bubble started in 2023. We still have about 3 years, more or less, until the AI bubble pops.

Minimum 3 years and at a hard maximum of 6 years from now.

We'll see lots of so called AI companies fold and there will be a select few winners that stay on.

So I'd give my crash timelines at around 2029 to 2031 for a significant correction turned crash.
by nextstep | 2025-12-10 20:53:31+00:00
I don’t think the US will ever enact a similar ban. The power to shape young minds is too great, even if these service also increase suicides in children to some degree.

The same algorithms that showed IDF war crimes compilations and turned a generation against Israel can be reshaped to push a different, right-wing narrative. The David Ellison’s of the world have too much power to allow regulation getting in the way of this.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-10 20:53:44+00:00
not IP in particular but APIs. Putting your existing CUDA codebase into new NVIDIA generation that might be noticeably more expensive but is still faster/more energy-efficient than competition.

Competition's software stack have to be good enough that it is worth migrating over and I think till we get some kind of cross vendor API for that it won't happen for a while
by vablings | 2025-12-10 20:53:44+00:00
> The real solution to these problems are cultural. If you want the best outcomes for kids, then reinforce stable loving family environments, empower a culture of resilience and competence and capability, impose accountability for wrongdoing, negligence, and careless operation. If teachers and families are leaving kids vulnerable, the solution is better education and more information.

This is just complete bullshit. Ah yes, my solution to this problem is just to require every single family to be infinitely better in every way imaginable. What is the proposal if that can't happen? We just execute people who don't meet the "stable loving family environment" No doubt in my mind you are from the generation of a stiff upper lip
by JAlexoid | 2025-12-10 20:53:45+00:00
Most of the development costs are recouped through licenses on the base-stations and somewhat on the very low patent licenses per chip/device, not the price of access to the standard.

Back to the the HDMI standard, the licensing fee has already been paid by the hardware manufacturer. Restricting software is unnecessary, as the patent license fees have already been collected on the device.
by empath75 | 2025-12-10 20:53:53+00:00
> The author doesn't talk at all about the hardware aspect of this stuff such as the surprisingly short lifetime of the GPUs that are being rolled out at a break-neck pace.

I am not sure why that is interesting. Nobody thinks of these chips as long term assets that they are investing in. Cloud providers have always amortized their computers over ~5 years. It would be very surprising if AI companies were doing much different -- maybe even a shorter time line.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-10 20:54:13+00:00
> They are not something that just started with congestion pricing funds

Correct. But they’re being expanded. Early signs are there. And we have precedent to show that funding this work, and funding it sooner, works.

> efficiency was already on the upswing for the LIRR long before congestion pricing funds

Correct. Congestion funds accelerate that process.

I spoke an inarticulately, but the point was trying to make is that we have precedence for quality and efficiency improving capital spending by the MTA. The bonds the MTA issued earlier this year double down on that. The early signs of that spending show those capital deployments are helping in the way the preceding spending did.
by jMyles | 2025-12-10 20:54:59+00:00
I agree with everything you've said with regard to the justice of the matter, but I don't think that there is a free market at work in social media.

* So-called "intellectual property" laws dramatically skew what can and cannot be shared

* Censorship at the behest of world governments is rampant, and completely overran anything representing a nonviolent scientific dialogue during the recent COVID19 pandemic

* States, with their monopoly on the legitimate initiation of force, pick winners and losers at every level of the experience, from chip makers to the duopolistic mobile OS vendors to their app stores to the social media offerings. Sure, network effect may describe the reason people join and stay, but the availability of places to join and stay is in no sense a market phenomenon

Consider: the major social media barons meet with POTUS all the freakin' time. Do you suppose that's just because they enjoy his company?
by awongh | 2025-12-10 20:55:18+00:00
My point was that misinformation makes it impossible or nearly impossible to evaluate "is this environmental or not".

Best effort is not enough to guarantee a good outcome- for example, this car is diesel and has lower emissions, therefore I will buy it and I will be reducing my own emissions turns out to not be true all the time.

Just like congestion pricing might or might not actually affect pollution in the way that it's claimed. The obvious point being that the city loves the new revenue, no matter what the level of impact it actually has.

I'm actually in favor of congestion pricing in principle (whether or not pm2.5 is reduced or not). I'm just sad that often times it's impossible to figure out what's true.
by godelski | 2025-12-10 20:55:18+00:00
> But I just want a Linux distro that works.

This is perfectly valid. But I would add that Arch is not that distro. Even though projects like Endeavour and Manjaro are trying that I don't think it'll ever be the case. You have rolling-releases and even though they've done a great job you're never going to be the most stable because of this.

But I think Pop is the best distro for this. System76 is highly incentivized to do exactly this and specifically with nvidia drivers and laptops (laptops create extra complications...). I can't promise it'll be a cure-all but it is worth giving a shot. I would try their forums too.

I totally get the frustration. I've been there, unfortunately. I hope you can get someone to help.
by sifar | 2025-12-10 20:55:29+00:00
And one thinks these things haven't been happening in other countries where one wishes to move?

What the GP is probably trying to say is that what the US is going through at present has been the default state for most of the developing world. And these things have been eroding in many of the western democracies for the past decade. Those that have been able to preserve it may not be more attractive in culture, geography or economic terms.

Hence the entitlement part where I think the people in the US took for granted what they have/had. We always realize the true value of something when we don't have it.
by Cyph0n | 2025-12-10 20:55:44+00:00
Doctors still use pagers. I don’t know about Lebanon in particular, but I would wager they still use them there too.

The rest is a bunch of hypotheticals. I am also unsure where the conclusion that Hezbollah is dead is coming from. Was their operational capability degraded? Of course. Is the group dead? Absolutely not.
by andrewmutz | 2025-12-10 20:55:45+00:00
Social media is full of extremist and untrue content of all types. Antivax or free birth content are just two small examples of viral content that is untrue and kills people. It has a very negative effect on adults, and adults at least have brains that are fully-developed.

Exposing kids to the firehose of misinformation on social media just poisons their brains. Political agitation is mostly political misinformation. Even among the causes online that I agree with, most of the content online is deeply biased, one-sided or inaccurate.
by lawlessone | 2025-12-10 20:56:15+00:00
It's interesting but i can't see it replacing Perlin or Simplex noise which are used for more than just terrain generation.

edit: I don't think i have the vocabulary to describe other issues i have other than it doesn't feel like the right way to "solve" this problem.

I'd prefer something that was entirely code rather than requiring training, and possibly retraining to get what i want.

edit2: Also is this entirely flat ? or can it be applied to a sphere (planet) , or terrain inside a cylinder (rotating space habitat) ?
Show HN: Using WebMCP to make the CDP MCP server 90% more token efficient
by miguelspizza | 2025-12-10 20:56:19+00:00
Playwright and Chrome DevTools MCP servers are the standard for agent-driven web app testing, but their token efficiency is terrible: the screenshot-action-screenshot loop quickly explodes context windows.

I've been using browser automation instead of TDD (agents over-mock tests), but needed to solve the token bloat. So I forked the Chrome DevTools MCP server to execute WebMCP tools from client-side JavaScript.

It's a drop-in replacement for the Chrome DevTools MCP server but with two added tools (`call_website_tool` & `list_website_tools`). Initial benchmarks show a roughly ~90% decrease in token usage, but other benefits which are harder to measure are speed and determinism (both of which are significantly improved).

Benefits:

- Free WebMCP support for your website, tools work for in-page or browser agents (in addition to agents using CDP) - Semantic tool definitions improve accessibility - Built on a web standard, no lock-in to my libraries - You can use this as part of your hard-coded E2E tests and make them significantly less flaky and faster

All the benchmarks and technical details are in the linked repo or in links at the bottom of the linked repo.

On a side note:

Much has changed since I wrote the [MCP-B](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44515403) proof of concept a while back. WebMCP is very much on track to be standardized and I've joined the community working group to help form it. My implementation was used to introduce WebMCP at TPAC, I left my job at Amazon to work on it full time, and I found a co-founder to work on it with. I've built a bunch of stuff around WebMCP (much of which I think people can get real utility out of), but have not done a great job of sharing it, so expect to see more WebMCP-related content over the coming days. You can try out WebMCP from meetchar.ai (still very early) but we are looking for alpha testers for an inpage agent.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-10 20:56:21+00:00
I'll agree it is the product of a schizotypal mind and one might think the whole project is wrong-headed and there might be a wrong interpretation here but it is factual that:

1) I got that list of stories

2) It has kept mentioning the same character for a few days even when I am talking about something else, even in other conversations (I would do that if I "had a crush")

3) It has been trying the same 'mini-framework' for analyzing problems using the same vocabulary over and over again

In the last few months, for me at least, Copilot does make some attempt to build a personalization context (RAG?) and it quite often talks about something I talked about the day before or offers a suggestions about how the current discussion relates to a prior one and if I ask "remember how we talked about X?" it sometimes seems to respond accordingly.

It is really fun and probably does increase the risk of rabbit holing, but my experience with agentic coding is that if you talk with an agent long enough the context does have a way of going bad and pretty soon you are arguing about things and going and circles and the only way out is to start a new session.
by flyinglizard | 2025-12-10 20:56:36+00:00
… and it’s not just that Israel woke up one morning and decided to take Hezbollah to the cleaners, either. Hezbollah started a military campaign against Israel on October 8th, 2023, one day after the most horrific attack Jews have experienced since the holocaust.

I don’t think this attack could have been more moral or justified than it was. It didn’t even kill on large numbers, instead it was just enough to neutralize Hezbollahs command and control structures.
by dwattttt | 2025-12-10 20:58:05+00:00
I don't know that there's a list, but cases come to mind because they've been controversial.

(Not a Linux hacker, so apologies if I get this wrong)

The filesystem APIs were quite arcane, and in particular whether or not you were allowed to call a C function at a certain point wasn't documented, and relied on experience to know already.

In trying to write idiomatic Rust bindings, the Rust for Linux group asked the filesystems maintainer if they could document these requirements, so that the Rust bindings could enforce as much of them as they could.

The result was... drama.
by bamboozled | 2025-12-10 20:59:02+00:00
The Australian government isn’t banning books. It’s banning access to harmful content for people under 16.

One morning I logged into Reddit and saw a video of Charlie Kirk get his head blown off. I didn’t want to see that, but for some reason it wasn’t taken down yet. I’m really glad my 12 year old daughter didn’t have to see that…
by kyboren | 2025-12-10 20:59:07+00:00
No, I am not a lawyer. Does that preclude my having an opinion on the value and legality of a military strike? Anyway it seems to me that it was:

- highly discriminatory - only Hezbollah commanders received these devices - it's an essential piece of military C2 gear so you'd expect they would keep possession of them at all times - the explosive was small enough to mitigate any risk to bystanders - targeted at combatants - likely to achieve (and in fact did achieve) military effects at least proportional to any collateral damage

Passes the smell test to me.

Would you still have a bone to pick with my credentials if I said that I thought the Dresden firebombings were not brilliant and not perfectly legal? Or the same about US military strikes on suspected drug trafficking vessels?
by underlipton | 2025-12-10 20:59:36+00:00
Because most Americans started with Wing, which (for whatever reason) turned out to be a brilliant synergy between timing and executive choice. I think we almost got X or Turn A first, and I don't know what that timeline looks like.

MSG remains a masterpiece and a watershed and all of that, but it is possible to choose a Gundam series that incorporates many of its objective strengths without the aspects that can be hard for newcomers to approach. (But whichever one that happens to be depends on who you ask.)
by alephnerd | 2025-12-10 20:59:55+00:00
> thanks to in-q-tel

IQT has invested in hundreds of rounds, and in the cases I have dealt with personally, has been very hands-off. Most other IQT funded companies I know of never showcased it to the degree that Palantir has - for example, OpenText was a peer of Palantir in the early 2000s and never showcased it's IQT ties.
by asveikau | 2025-12-10 21:00:14+00:00
> You have two programs, compiled in different languages with different memory management strategies, potentially years ap

Sometimes they are even the same language. Windows has a few problems that I haven't seen in the Unix world, such as: each DLL potentially having an incompatible implementation of malloc, where allocating using malloc(3) in one DLL then freeing it with free(3) in another being a crash.
by arjie | 2025-12-10 21:01:08+00:00
Couldn't agree more. I particularly enjoyed the ruthless exploitation of the symbolism that McGillis Fareed was attempting, only to be met by a similarly ruthless exploitation of political systems from Rustal Elion. This time this one won, and it was ultimately a close thing, but it could have gone the other way.

Overall, a very sophisticated show - on its own and definitely for its genre.
by sebg | 2025-12-10 21:01:19+00:00
Thanks for the response. Lots of rabbit holes for my kids and I to explore. First up for this weekend is this -> "Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race" found here https://ihavenotv.com/cosmonauts-how-russia-won-the-space-ra....

> Whatever one thinks of the Soviet political system, they did have some great achievements.

So true. Kids and I are slowly working through the Gelfand correspondence course (math) and it's amazing.