MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pipes | 2025-12-24 12:32:29+00:00
I should be clearer and provide references etc, I was refering to this:
https://freespeechunion.org/labour-reported-me-for-racial-ha...

The major part of this case is that without a jury trial he'd probably have had zero chance of being cleared. Countless others were persuaded to plead guilty to avoid a long time in prison and then were given long sentences. h
he was strong enough not to give in.

You are right, freedom of expression in the US doesn't cover inciting violence, but it has an high bar, imminent lawless action:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

Yes in Lucy Connolly's case she admitted to inciting violence, though I'm not certain what she did justifies a 31 month sentence.
by willm | 2025-12-24 12:33:11+00:00
Not saying there isn't room for improvement. This is the first release, and work is ongoing. But I can't predict everyone's assumptions. Everyone brings their own experiences to the table, and in 6 months of testing nobody has made assumptions you just did.

For instance, "toad run" takes a path to a directory and not a command (check the usage). You've made an incorrect assumption about how that works, based on previous assumptions on how the UI works.

I would be like to understand why you made the assumptions you did, and make changes based on your feedback. But you've chosen to be combative, for reasons known only to yourself.

For the record, I apologize for the "Mr cranky pants" quip. If you do want to improve this software, join the Discord. Let's keep it civil. Merry Xmas.
by CrossVR | 2025-12-24 12:33:29+00:00
You're still missing the point. Imagine an alternate reality where the EU denied any of the US findings and instead backed up VW in their assertions they've done no wrong. They then levied sanctions against multiple senators that advocated in favor of the Clean Air act and called for the US to disband.

Does that sound reasonable?

> That's the UK, France and Germany lobbying to keep the emissions tests inadequate so VW can continue.

I'm sure there are many states within the U.S. that are currently lobbying for even less regulation of Big Tech.
by strken | 2025-12-24 12:35:08+00:00
We grew up with an '80s Victa, but it was one of the super 600 slashers with a newer 5hp engine. He probably didn't have a slasher, but the rest of their lineup used similar engines and weren't especially underpowered.

If his model was anything like ours, a hedgehog could probably crawl between the blade disc (not the blades but the thing they're attached to) and the chassis and get itself wedged in there.
by 2026iknewit | 2025-12-24 12:35:33+00:00
Of course there is a process.

There was also a process on how to communicate top secret information, but these idiots prefered to use signal.

I'm completly lost on how you can be surprised by this at all? Trump is in there, tells some FBI faboon to black everything out, they collect a group of people they can find and start going through these files as fast as they can.

"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king; the palace instead becomes a circus."
by Kon5ole | 2025-12-24 12:35:44+00:00
Volvo still design, develop, prototype and even mass produce cars in Sweden just like they always did. They haven't had Swedish majority ownership this century but still do their thing.

That could change of course, but so far so good for the Swedish economy and fans of Scandi design.

Since Chinese tech is clearly state of the art for EV's I think Volvo could be in a good spot if they get to continue as they have so far. Win-win.

As for realiability, 500 000 km is no problem for a decent EV and Geely makes good ones. I wouldn't worry about that aspect either way.
by Telaneo | 2025-12-24 12:38:49+00:00
The policies are there for good reason most of the time, and rarely without there having been a lot of talk about what said policy should be. I found them very helpful during my time editing, since they accurately reflect what happens and why, with the whole process being transparent. Maybe I'm just biased.

Google isn't the end-all-be-all of sourcing, as has been shown by the articles that have been kept. If you can find reliable sources, it will be kept. Google is just the final nail in the coffin.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-24 12:38:57+00:00
I would say that the reason Windows issues are commonly treated as "reinstall it" is because most Windows installs are on corporate PCs. Most of the time, it's not worth spending the time trying to troubleshoot someone's gnarly OS issue when you can fix it in an hour by reimaging. There are exceptions, of course, but most of the time the business just wants that employee back to work ASAP, rather than doing the troubleshooting work.
by gtsnexp | 2025-12-24 12:39:50+00:00
Science magazine used to run a genuinely thought-provoking “Breakthrough of the Year.” Lately, it feels like it has narrowed to AI+AI+agents, and more AI.

I’m looking for an outlet that consistently highlights truly unexpected, high-impact scientific breakthroughs across fields.

Ask HN: Is there anything like that out there?
by mrsmrtss | 2025-12-24 12:40:01+00:00
And Linux kernel is written in C etc, so by this logic you don't even need memory safety. There is no good excuse for designing a language in modern times (this century) with every object nullable by default. C# at least mostly has solved this design mistake later by introducing nullable reference types (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/nullable-ref...). Then again, Go designers insisted that generics were also unnecessary, until they changed their mind.
by bogtog | 2025-12-24 12:40:22+00:00
> It's been a week and I still can't get them (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini) to correctly process my bank statements to identify certain patterns.

Can you give any more details on what you mean? This feels like a task they should be great at, even if you're not paying the $20/mo for any lab's higher tier model
by gldrk | 2025-12-24 12:41:05+00:00
>If an English word looks similar to a Russian word, then the stress is likely on a _different_ syllable

Most of these are Latin and French loanwords where Russian (same as e.g. German) carried the accentuation over from the source language. English is the odd one out as it insists on putting the primary stress on either of the first two syllables, except in some recent loans (and they still get a secondary stress). With nouns the preference is for the first syllable. Russian surnames get similarly butchered, including notably Nabokov, which could have been adopted unchanged.
by rglover | 2025-12-24 12:41:41+00:00
Just do the work at your body's natural pace. Your body will tell you when it's tired, when it's ready to focus, and when it's excited to work.

As with everything, the problem is hubris and impatience. So eager to prove god-like status, you stumble and fall, posting ephemeral think pieces about your "journey" on social media. Reading LinkedIn is the closest I've ever got to thinking "maybe asylums would be okay with a few reforms..."

My favorite (which I think/hope was a joke) was the guy cooking chicken breast in his hotel coffee maker to "show his commitment to the company" and how hard he was willing to grind.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-12-24 12:41:57+00:00
You really hit the nail on the head.

in conclusion:

>still requires knowing exactly what each tweak does. Used without that understanding, tools like this can easily create confusing problems.

Which I have always taken as extreme encouragement to use performance-improving setting configuations, and therefore gain the understanding to do so effectively.

If I can do it, anybody can, I'm no engineer.

With this approach in mind it makes the Titus offerings show a remarkable amount of superiority.

As another commenter has noted, 2022 is just when his Utility was beginning to get noticed.

It is being kept up-to-date with Windows 11 as it evolves.
by barrkel | 2025-12-24 12:42:08+00:00
You can run it on a capable router or on a RPi, or on your NAS. It's especially useful if you want to self-host (e.g. Immich). You can use it to authenticate for ssh if you like, or simply give you an IP you can ssh to.

It's especially handy if you want a secondary way in, in case you have problems connecting using wireguard, since it supports using a relay if you're stuck in a hotel with a heavily restricted connection.

If you run DNS at home, you can even configure it to use your home DNS and route to your home subnet(s).
by grishka | 2025-12-24 12:43:38+00:00
As a native speaker, one thing I see people struggle with surprisingly often is that a) every noun has a gender, and b) every word grammatically related to a noun must always match its gender, case, and plurality. The second thing is the inflections themselves, yes.

But I suppose it also depends a lot on that person's native language — the people I most commonly hear speak Russian as a foreign language are migrant workers, whose native languages are usually Turkic. Those don't have grammatical genders. It feels like learning Russian would be easier for someone who is native in, for example, a Roman language (Spanish/French/Portuguese/Italian) or German.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-12-24 12:43:49+00:00
Presumably the US wants the EU to permit more Far-right 'conservativism'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-WJN3L5eo 1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives (ft. Mehdi Hasan)

This is apparently representative of what that means at this moment in time.

I think it's pretty extreme too, but on searching, none of the participants' positions seem to have been disowned by their own side. One of them actually fundraised $30000 afterwards.
by mjlee | 2025-12-24 12:44:37+00:00
One boss (ship's captain for context, but I think this applies more widely) would call careless slip-ups "lemons", as in one armed bandits. One lemon was fine, happens from time to time. Two was a cause for concern. Three and everything stops to evaluate what's going on and for people to reset.

Knowing about the swiss cheese model is great, but you also need to have some heuristic about when those holes might line up and bite you. Typically it's when people are rushed, stressed and tired and you have to be able to spot that even when you're rushed, stressed and tired.

That said, forgetting to put on your hi-vis might be a careless error, but walking outside of marked pedestrian zones and operating a forklift while using a phone absolutely aren't! The forklift driver fleeing the scene makes me think safety culture had to be abysmal.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-12-24 12:45:32+00:00
> Dunno about you but to me it reads as a failure.

???

This is a wild take. Goog is incredibly well positioned to make the best of this AI push, whatever the future holds.

If it goes to the moon, they are up there, with their own hardware, tons of data, and lots of innovations (huge usable context, research towards continuous learning w/ titans and the other one, true multimodal stuff, etc).

If it plateaus, they are already integrating into lots of products, and some of them will stick (office, personal, notebooklm, coding-ish, etc.) Again, they are "self sustainable" on both hardware and data, so they'll be fine even if this thing plateaus (I don't think it will, but anyway).

To see this year as a failure for google is ... a wild take. No idea what you're on about. They've been tearing it for the past 6 months, and gemini3 is an insane pair of models (flash is at or above gpt5 at 1/3 pricing). And it seems that -flash is a separate architecture in itself, so no cheeky distillation here. Again, innovations all over the place.
by sublimefire | 2025-12-24 12:45:59+00:00
There is a saying that you should learn the enemy language to understand them. I suppose the time has come again. Why else would you learn it otherwise? It is not like many of us can even visit the place without consequences. The books were translated years ago anyway.

Slavic languages are similar, IMO you just need to bombard your brain with a lot of it to start discerning the patterns (just like any other language I guess). Reading is not necessary, writing likewise. I never had a single lesson but speak fluently in russian and ok polish, can understand ukrainian, can read also.

Given that you need content for your brain it would be hard to find something nice created in russia recently, might be easier to start with polish if you are in the west.
by barrkel | 2025-12-24 12:46:28+00:00
Tailscale can tunnel all your traffic through a chosen exit node so you browse the web and whatnot as if you were at home (or wherever the exit node is), so in this way it's a bit like a VPN from a VPN company, but it doesn't give you a list of countries to select from.

VPN companies aren't really in the business of selling VPNs. They sell proxies, especially proxies that let you appear to come from some country, and you typically connect to the proxy using the VPN functionality (particularly if you're using a consumer device instead of a laptop), but often you can use SOCKS5 instead.

Tailscale isn't in the business of selling proxies.
by snarfy | 2025-12-24 12:47:16+00:00
I'm installing Linux over the break. The last time I seriously ran it was Slackware 2.0. If it doesn't run in Wine, it will run in a vm. I'm so done with this shit. And I'm one of the few that actually purchased a Win11 Pro license at full price. I really wanted to believe. They've lost their mind with copilot. Imagine if they put as much effort into making their products better as they have pushing copilot. The sad thing is there will be a copilot hit, and it won't be anything they built with all this effort. It will be an acquisition, like openai. They should just stick to making their products better and buy it when it comes.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-12-24 12:47:17+00:00
us-east-2 goes down far, far less frequently than us-east-1. AWS doesn’t publicly release the outage numbers (they hold them very close to the chest) but some people have compiled the stats on their own if you poke around.

The regions provide the same functionality, so I see genuinely no downside or additional work to picking the 2 regions over the 2 regions.

It seems like one of those no brainer decisions to me. I take pride in being up when everyone else is down. 5 9s or bust, baby!
by reactordev | 2025-12-24 12:47:41+00:00
My pet peeve with c++ is exactly this. Either it’s not wise to call release, or it is (under circumstances) and yet the developer has no idea whether their scenario applies (tip: it doesn’t, 90% of the time).

The stdlib is so bloated with these “Looks good, but wait” logic bombs.

I wish someone would just draw a line in the sand and say “No, from here on out, this is how this works and there are no other scenarios in which there needs a work around”. This is why other systems languages are taking off (besides the expressiveness or memory safety bandwagon) is because there are clear instructions in the docs on what this does with examples of how to use it properly.

Most c++ codebases I’ve seen the last 10 years are decent (a few are superb) and I get that there’s old code out there but at what point do we let old dogs die?
Ask HN: Do coding agents optimize the wrong review step
by wsxiaoys | 2025-12-24 12:48:13+00:00
This is a personal opinion, but I think current coding agents requires human reviews AI's artficats at the wrong moment.
Most tools focus on creating and reviewing the plan before execution.

So the idea behind this is to approve intent before letting the agent touch the codebase. That sounds reasonable, but in practice, it’s not where the real learning happens.

The "plan mode" takes place before the agent has paid the cost of reality. Before it’s navigated the repo, before it’s run tests, before it’s hit weird edge cases or dependency issues. The output is speculative by design, and it usually looks far more confident than it should.

What will actually turn out to be more useful is reviewing the walkthrough: a summary of what the agent did after it tried to solve the problem.

Currently, in most coding agents, the default still treats the plan as the primary checkpoint and the walkthrough comes later. That puts the center of gravity in the wrong place.

My experience with SWE is that we don’t review intent and trust execution. We review outcomes: the diff, the test changes, what broke, what was fixed, and why. That’s effectively a walkthrough.

So I feel when we give feedback on a walkthrough, we’re reacting to concrete decisions and consequences, and not something based on hypotheticals. This feedback is clearer, more actionable, and closer to how we, as engineers, already review work today.
Curious if others feel the same when using plan-first coding agents. The reason is that I’m working on an open source coding agent, and have decided to keep less emphasis on approving plans upfront and more emphasis on reviewing what the agent actually experienced while doing the work.

But this is something we’re heavily debating internally inside our team, and would love to have thoughts so that it can help us implement this in the best way possible.
by Arch-TK | 2025-12-24 12:48:31+00:00
It sets a bad precedent to call things like this hacks.

Firstly, calling this redaction implies that the data is missing, and calling what was done "unredacting" is akin to saying someone "decrypted" a cryptographic hash function.

Nobody unredacted anything here, they merely discovered that it hadn't been redacted, and simply looked like it was redacted.

Calling this a hack places responsibility on the people who discovered the information, rather than on the people were put in charge of handling the redaction and screwed it up.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-24 12:48:56+00:00
Windows security is just fine. The problem is that many users are willing to uncritically install anything they get asked to, even to the point of directly installing malware when "Microsoft support" contacts them asking them to do so. Absolutely nothing about Linux or any other general purpose OS protects against this threat vector, and if Linux had the market share Windows does you would be saying the exact same stuff about your grandma getting rootkits on her Ubuntu box. Mobile devices protect against this scenario by not trusting the user and heavily restricting what apps can do, but that's not a good model for a general purpose computer.
by fidotron | 2025-12-24 12:49:09+00:00
The US found VW breaking US and EU laws. The EU has found [tech cos] supposedly breaking EU laws only and keep inventing nonsense to try and force their ideals on the rest of the world. It's boring, hence the (minor) sanctions on these individuals to get them to stop wasting everyone's time.

If the EU want to block parts of the Internet off then go for it. Just don't pretend it's everyone else's fault that it's embracing mass censorship and that this is in any way compatible with the values of the enlightenment.
by dzikimarian | 2025-12-24 12:49:30+00:00
It makes more sense if you are used to Ubiquiti ecosystem. Basically they assume you have Ubiquiti-based home/office network (they call it site). Then this device binds to this site and VPNs to it over Teleport (kinda similar thing to Tailscale, also built on top of wireguard). I would assume you can also configure Wireguard/Open VPN/IPsec manually as this is pretty standard in their ecosystem.

I guess it's nice if you are in Ubiquiti ecosystem already and want as little friction as possible. Otherwise it's probably similar to any travel router.
by barrkel | 2025-12-24 12:49:54+00:00
What if you want your kid(s) and/or partner(s) to stay connected after you leave the hotel room with your phone?

What if you want to use the hotel's internet connection instead of your roaming data?

What if you want to use wireguard or tailscale to funnel all traffic through your home network?

What if you want to enable your family's devices to connect to your self-hosted services?
by themafia | 2025-12-24 12:50:00+00:00
A dictionary definition: "use a computer to gain unauthorized access to data in a system."

This isn't about knowledge or expectations. They didn't use colored boxes to jazz up the presentation, they _intended_ to prevent you from reading it, and now you can, with this, again incredibly _lame_ almost meaningless even-my-five-year-old-could-do this "hack."
by azalemeth | 2025-12-24 12:50:41+00:00
This just isn't really true any more. The Scandinavian countries have become net green energy exporters including over winter (lots of wind power and biogas in municipal heating networks) and the block as a whole is banning Russian gas imports from next year. (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20251211IP...)

The price per kWh has dropped sharply in recent years compared to the invasion peak, though they are about double what they were before COVID (not inflation adjusted) - see https://skilky-skilky.info/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Househ.... It's the UK that's up the shitter but that's far from uncommon....
by kylecazar | 2025-12-24 12:51:02+00:00
On the AI front, I think they definitely had lost ground, but have made significant progress on recovering it in 2025. I went from not using Gemini to mostly using 3 Pro.

Just the fact that they managed to dodge Nvidia and launch a SOTA model on their own TPU's for training/inference is a big deal, and takes a lot of resources and expertise not all competitors have in-house. I suspect that decision will continue to pay dividends for them.
by azangru | 2025-12-24 12:51:09+00:00
I haven't looked into this deeply; but for several years now Jen Simmons has been posting stats in which Safari is either the top scorer for interop, or is very close to the top. For example: https://front-end.social/@jensimmons/115749303356986835

I do not know enough to tell whether this means that modern Safari has finally stopped being the new IE6, or that she is just doing marketing that misleadingly focuses on some features, while other, more frustrating and more deeply rooted, issues remain.
by IceDane | 2025-12-24 12:51:18+00:00
It's extremely convenient for you to become offended at this stage so you can avoid actually addressing my points, since your claims are borderline nonsense. Any person that understands dependent types and is unfortunate enough to read through all the drivel you have posted in this thread will also immediately realize this, so it doesn't really matter. You are right that your words stand on their own in that regard.

In the end, you leave this thread knowing this as well, if you are at all capable of introspection.
by vkou | 2025-12-24 12:51:27+00:00
> russians (this time spelt with a lowercase 'r') have forfeited their right to exist as a nation. Consistently throughout history, they have invaded, colonized, and genocided their neighbors.

Just to make sure we're on the right track here, has the UK (or maybe just England?) also earned that forfeit, or does it get a pass because it did all those things further away from home? (Except for that Ireland thing, which has produced some really 'funny' jokes about potatoes...)
by Razengan | 2025-12-24 12:52:28+00:00
I have a couple banks that are peculiar in the way they handle transactions made in a different currency while traveling etc. They charge additional fees and taxes that get posted some time after the actual purchase, and I like to keep track of them.

It's easy if I keep checking my transaction history in the banks' apps, but I don't always have the time to do that when traveling, so these charges build up and then after a few days when I expected to have $200 in my account I see $100 and so on, so it's annoying if I don't stay on top of it.

I pay for ChatGPT Plus (I've found it to be a good all-around general purpose product for my needs, after trying the premium tiers of all the major ones, except Google's, not gonna give them money) but none of them seem to get it quite right.

They trip up on various things like identifying related transactions, exchange rates, duplicates, formatting etc.

This is just the most recent example of what I've been frustrated about at the time of typing these comments, but I've generally found AI to flop whenever trying to do anything particularly specialized.