MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zzo38computer | 2025-12-09 01:11:15+00:00
There is another kind, which is X.509 client certificates, which is more secure and more versatile than other kinds. However, it does mean that if you want to login from more than one computer, you need the certificate and private key on all of them (but this can be an advantage as well as being a disadvantage). It is capable of handling authorization as well as authentication, if you add extensions for this use. The private key may be passworded, which can provide additional security; storing one certificate on a computer not connected to the internet and then issuing another certificate to yourself which will be the one you will actually use, can also provide additional security; in both cases, the service provider does not need to worry about these things and the client can do how they intend to do.

Another method which may be suitable for some uses (although the working of web browsers means that it will not work securely in a web browser, unless you have an extension, but it can work easily in other programs) is HMAC, although this is not suitable for all uses. For idempotent write operations which are not intended to be secret, it might work.
by janalsncm | 2025-12-09 01:12:17+00:00
Yeah, I think the more your job demands correctness in novel scenarios the less impressed you are with these shiny demos. I encourage anyone to pause the demo once the thing is generated and stare at what it did. Is it genuinely correct and impressive? Are you impressed because it made a thing generally shaped like what you expected, or because it would be genuinely impressive (or even adequate) if a person did it?
by jameshart | 2025-12-09 01:12:20+00:00
This is definitely where I would this pattern - MS Office 97’s customizable toolbars necessitated this model where every single thing you could do in the application had an icon.

It then got copied into Visual Studio, where making all of the thousands of things you could do and put into custom toolbars or menus have visually meaningful icons was clearly an impossible task, but it didn’t stop Microsoft trying.

I assume Adobe, with their toolbar-centric application suite, participated in the same UI cycle.

By the time of Office 2007 Microsoft were backing off the completely customizable toolbar model with their new ‘Ribbon’ model, which was icon-heavy, but much more deliberately so.
by FarmerPotato | 2025-12-09 01:12:32+00:00
When I encounter this LLM generated Mad Lib:

"We embody <adjective> <noun> through <adjective> <noun>, <adjective> <noun>, and <adjective> <noun>. "

my uncanny warning blares--so I test if it becomes more intelligible with the adjectives stripped out. These padded-out pabulums are the tells.

I hope Elements of Style is rediscovered.
by softwaredoug | 2025-12-09 01:12:48+00:00
In Charlottesville all the Krogers are quite different.

A weird, dark, maze-like warehouse-feeling Kroger that just closed.

We have a really nice Kroger a bit outside town. I always think of it as the Gucci Kroger.

A college-kid, cheaper Kroger close to the center of town. The cheaper version of the Harris Teeter nearby.

There's as much variation in individual Krogers as between other grocery chains!
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-09 01:12:55+00:00
You haven’t read about what’s going on at the Pentagon wanted the press to sign a release saying only approved content could be published? It was so onerous that even Fox News refused to sign. Now the press Corp is basically a bunch of right wing influencers.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5630076/the-press-corps...

Just in case you think this is just another liberal hit piece, let me repeat that Fox News refused to sign the agreement.
by throw4847285 | 2025-12-09 01:13:00+00:00
Now I understand your love of LLMs. What you write reads like the output of an LLM but with the dial turned from obsequious to edgelord. There is no content, just posturing. None of what you wrote holds up to any scrutiny, and much of it is internally contradictory, but it doesn't really matter to you, I guess. I don't think you're even talking to me.
by jameshilliard | 2025-12-09 01:13:55+00:00
> I'm following your reasoning. Most West Bank residents are terrorist supporters and therefore they should be...killed?

There probably needs to be some sort of serious de-radicalization process in the West Bank if there is to be any chance of ending the occupation without starting another war.

Israel was taught that unilateral disengagement is not a viable strategy for peace, it didn't work in Gaza and it didn't work in Lebanon either with Hezbollah, peace in the region comes from bilateral peace agreements that are agreed to by both sides(i.e. like with Jordan/Egypt) and not from unilateral actions on the part of Israel(like the 2005 Gaza disengagement).
by mecdu92 | 2025-12-09 01:14:04+00:00
To be honest I still see Microsoft able to squeeze even more dollars from customers bexause at this stage most are really locked in and has no other choices unless their entire Information System collapses.

So happy for customers choosing to go all-in with Microsoft. I sincerely think that Microsoft had to pour a lot of $$$$ to IT managers across US and EU to 'lobby' them to adopt O365. I say this because two of my last contracts in France had a great wall for anything published on the Internet because RGPD/Security/Data, but magically the same people that, you better insult them than ask for a Public IP, adopted O365. Happy for all these companies, I hope they are squeezed even more.

Le me being layed off in April 2026 because the Cisco collaboration suite is phased out and the company goes all in with Teams. (I'm open to work in France)
by exasperaited | 2025-12-09 01:14:15+00:00
Well, London is a safe city by US standards.

But putting that aside, the biggest problems these things will have in the UK is a completely different conception of walkability even compared to, say, NYC.

People walk everywhere, pavements are cluttered and crowded, the vast majority of roads are not grid-structured almost anywhere in the UK, etc. So much so that when US firms do consider testing these things properly in the UK they will have to pick somewhere like Bath or Worthing or Hove: enough wealthy people to try it, and easy, grid-structured roads. Not many other good candidates.

The second problem they will face is the nature of protest. People won’t vandalise them. There will, however, be extensive civil mischief: people will box them in, mislead them, cover their sensors with googly eyes and woolly hats, put traffic cones on them, and generally make the whole scheme unworkable. And that is if councils don’t outright ban their operators.
by monerozcash | 2025-12-09 01:14:47+00:00
It's like the NSA Reddit, they've got memes and up- and downvotes.

Some excerpts from a seemingly unreleased Snowden leak (from Dark mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State):

> “Why is a scoop of potatoes larger than a scoop of eggs in the cafeteria?” a contributor named Michael wondered one day. Paul jumped in to play the troll. “Let me be the first to down-vote you,” Paul wrote, naming several pedantic reasons. A side debate erupted: should Michael’s post be down-voted, flagged, or removed? Clyde returned to the topic at hand with a facetious theory that scoop volume is proportional to the relative size of potatoes and eggs themselves. In that case, Scott replied, what would happen if “we served eggs that were bigger than potatoes, like of an Ostrich?” Someone proposed a uniform system, “One Spoon to scoop them all,” an homage to Lord of the Rings. Punsters demanded the “inside scoop” and lamented the waste of time on “small potatoes.”

Gotta say, it's pretty disappointing that Gellman, Greenwald, Poltras et. al. have been so stingy with these documents. It's definitely starting to have been long enough for them to just dump everything.
by zem | 2025-12-09 01:15:21+00:00
brilliant stories both, but my two favourite asimov shorts are "profession" (I really, really love the trope that a regimented society depends on outcasts and outsiders for any sort of innovation) and "the martian way" (one of his more minor shorts, but it captures the joy and optimism of golden age solar system exploration fiction like nothing else I've read)
by george87 | 2025-12-09 01:15:56+00:00
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by wpm | 2025-12-09 01:16:02+00:00
"and you can find them in anything that uses the readline library and equivalent: Bash, zsh, psql,…. You can also find them in macOS text widgets"

If anything, this is what pushed me towards emacs vs having to learn separate keybinds for vim/neovim. I wanted a terminal based TUI text editor that followed the conventions of keybinds I already understood. I switch from Mac to Windows to Linux quite often, and I am constantly hitting ^+a to get to the front of the line and constantly frustrated when it doesn't work on some OS or only works in some context. It's fantastic on macOS, ^+w does the same thing in my terminal that it does in my text editor that it does in my web browser that it does in my slide deck. It also works because macOS moved the common "CUA" shortcuts for the GUI apps to command/Super, so Ctrl isn't overloaded with shortcuts, leaving things like Ctrl+c to send a SIGTERM and Command+c to copy without fuss. Plug in a keyboard to an iOS device and they work over there most of the time too!

I wish it wasn't such a ballache to replicate this on Linux, even if the various forms of text fields in the GUI frameworks don't respect it.
by Sabinus | 2025-12-09 01:16:02+00:00
Europe can't moralise itself into security and prosperity.

The European 'peace dividend' that was invested into social safety nets is backed by American might. That might is going away, so Europe will need to fund it's own defence. That means a cut to social services.

Neither can they afford to turn their noses up at nuclear energy, or AI enabled weapons. The future is coming and it has high energy demands and drone swarms.
by soraminazuki | 2025-12-09 01:16:25+00:00
YouTube Premium is a joke.

Mass surveillance is one of the biggest threat to society that has come out of our industry, and is the biggest objection that many people have against modern adtech.

So how does YouTube Premium address this? Well, first you login to Google and let them associate your real name to everything you do online, not just what you do on YouTube. Then, you give them your credit card info, home address, and phone number because why not? On top of that, you get to foot the bill for all of this.

Uh, I'll continue to stay out of this.
by 0manrho | 2025-12-09 01:16:34+00:00
Agreed.

IMO a toast showing up shouldn't be a direct/immediate response to user action at all, ever. Toasts are purposely designed to steal attention. Don't try to steal attention from the user performing an action just to confirm that the action occurred; you already had their attention!

> if it's important enough, why not show it as a persistent alert on the page itself?

Because it's a crutch against bad design in an era when many companies don't employ designers, or arguably even as an exploit to be leveraged by marketing to try to brute-force the conversion of users to sales.

While there's nothing inherently wrong with them, I've become so accustomed to toasts being misused/abused that my instinctual response to that visual stimuli is that it's focus-friction and tantamount to being spammed, even when they're being used in benign or debateably useful ways.
by retrac | 2025-12-09 01:16:57+00:00
Perhaps because I'm a layperson and haven't studied the topic enough, but I find there to be an almost incomprehensible gap with the emotions and psychology of classical antiquity.

Most of us learned in school that the ancient Greeks had no single word for our concept of love: they distinguished eros, philia, agape, xenia, etc, and did so in ways that don't directly map to our modern feelings.

It's not just love. All of their emotional and mental vocabulary was aligned to a different internal axis. From my interpretation, there was no word or concept that cleanly equates with our concept of either mind, or emotion.

What we call the mind correlates to what the Greeks called logos, pathos, pneumos, psyche, phrene, nous, thymos, eros. These concepts map to our concepts like will, desire, mind, soul, reason, consciousness, emotion. But they don't map in a straightforward way.

There was a generally rich emotional vocabulary for what could be called non-corporeal passions. Phren could be translated as brain, heart, mind, soul, thought, reason. It's where heavy sad thoughts sit, underneath your heart. It's also where you form your rational intentions. Thymos is somewhere between a thought and an emotion. It's related to blood pounding in the head and ragged breathing. But it's not a bodily sensation. At least not primarily. It's the feeling of surging towards the finish line in a close race, but for the soul. Thymos is a wet emotion, by the way. Cold and wet. As in the classical elements of water and air, which are what breath is made of, which is related to the mind and soul.

There's a world model that informs the emotions, even which parts of the body they are associated with, and why, and that model is now quite alien, which makes the emotions also rather alien.
by jameshilliard | 2025-12-09 01:18:41+00:00
> Even if you didn't bother to actually read reporting or see images from the ground of children being shot in their mothers' arms by the IDF and such real horrors perpetrated against civilians who are obviously and visibly non-combatants, it's puzzling how nothing in the hyperbolic, propagandic tone of the alleged quote leads you to question its veracity (or even makes you look twice at taking Russia Today TV as a trustworthy source).

You realize getting civilians killed by using them as human shields is an actual Hamas strategy(and war crime) right?[0]

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/11/middleeast/sinwar-hamas-israe...
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-09 01:20:06+00:00
Why for the love of all that is holy are you using the in built smarts of any TV? Well except the Roku TVs are okay. But I still prefer my AppleTV. It has by far the best hardware in the business and supports the volume up/down button and power off of the TV through either CEC or IR.

And why are you not paying for ad free streaming?
by Timwi | 2025-12-09 01:20:10+00:00
> Hey, unless you can articulate a really good reason to add this, maybe our default posture should be no icons in menus?

Challenge accepted. If a user (esp. one whose cognition generally prefers visual media) uses a menu item frequently, they can remember its icon and that makes it easier to find in the future.

(Doesn't apply to me personally though because I'll instead remember the underlined letter and press it next time. My pet peeve in menus is not icons, but missing or clashing hotkeys.)
by SyzygyRhythm | 2025-12-09 01:20:11+00:00
I'd suppose the fashion goes somewhat with the price of copper, though I haven't tracked it. The heatsinks themselves have gotten far larger as CPUs and GPUs have gotten more power hungry, not to mention RAM and SSDs. A material that's a good tradeoff at one scale isn't necessarily one at a different scale.

At any rate, one should expect many of these trades to go the way of Al if Cu gets more expensive (which it might not). Not all of them, but we'll probably see a bias towards physically larger systems in cases where space isn't at a premium. And also a bias towards active systems over passive, liquid cooling over air, and so on.
by reactordev | 2025-12-09 01:20:39+00:00
I am a graphics programmer. It still enrages me to see those variables but (but) I understand that most of the time, it’s that way in the math. So the math variable becomes the shader variable name. Ugh. I love me a good float lut = lut_equation(uv, lutTex) * lut_factor.r
by neom | 2025-12-09 01:21:16+00:00
To me, built and written are not the same. Built: OK, maybe that's an exaggeration. But could an early "this is pretty good at code" llm have written digitalocean v1? I think it could, yes (no offense Jeff). In terms of volume of code and size of architecture, yeah it was big and complex, but it was literally a bunch of relatively simple cron, bash and perl, and the whole thing was very...sloppy (because we were moving very quickly) - DigitalOcean as I last knew of it (a very long time ago), transformed to a very well written modern go shop. (Source: I am part of the "founding team" or whatever.)
Show HN: Dabuun – Turn one line of text into a social video
by kazusan | 2025-12-09 01:21:16+00:00
Hi HN,

I built dabuun (https://dabuun.com/), a tool that turns a single line of text into a ready-to-post social media video.

Instead of manually editing video timelines, dabuun takes a short description and automatically creates: - plot and script - scenes and images (anime or realistic) - voiceover - subtitles - final rendered video

It supports both Japanese and English and can format for YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram with the right aspect ratios. It also keeps character appearance consistent across scenes using AI-generated references, so your “main character” doesn’t change every cut.

This is meant for: - people who find video production exhausting or too time-consuming - people who only have a smartphone and no recording/editing gear - creators, educators, and storytellers who want to focus on ideas, not tools

Why I built it A while ago I made some YouTube videos manually, and it was mentally and physically draining. I wanted something that would let more people turn simple ideas into content without needing video skills or equipment. Long term, I’d like to make it easier for anyone, anywhere, to create monetizable content with just a phone and an idea—and maybe help reduce the current imbalance in the creator economy.

Tech stack - Frontend: Next.js - Infra: Vercel, GCP

Known limitations / next steps - Script quality still needs work; I want better story structure and pacing - I’d like to add “consulting” features that suggest how to improve your video for each platform - Longer term: evolve into a platform where creators can manage and publish content, not just generate single videos

I’d really appreciate any feedback, especially from people who actually try generating a video: - Does the output feel good enough to post as-is? - What feels off or low quality? - What would you need to trust this for your real content?

Thanks for reading, and I’m happy to answer any questions.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-09 01:21:28+00:00
Except the Play Store is a hot mess, and Google does little to no review of apps. Trusted repositories work best when the repository maintainers build and read the code themselves, like on f-droid or Debian. What Google and Apple are doing with their respective stores is security theater. I would not be surprised if they don't even run the app.
by notahacker | 2025-12-09 01:22:00+00:00
Well if no launch provider gets credit for launching Mars missions unless they're also supplying the payload/propulsion this whole argument is moot (just leaves SpaceX behind Berkeley/Rocketlab and ISRO rather than Blue Origin and ISRO in the Mars race...)

If we're doing analogies to holidays, the Starman Tesla Roadster definitely hasn't proven its worth for visiting London, even though it's gone beyond it (and SpaceX could have made it hit London if they'd really wanted to, just ask Werner von Braun :-)

Quibbling about whether parties involved in conveying tourists to actually visit London receive undue credit for their segment of the journey, or whether the London Underground is more important than Gatwick flights which don't even reach City boundaries seems like pointless pedantry on the other hand, particularly if deployed in defence of the claim that flying away from London at escape velocity counts as a London visit.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-12-09 01:22:00+00:00
The examples at the link are mostly from around midcentury. I'm familiar with a more recent example: In 2006-2009, there was one of those on St. Mark's Place -- 8th street between 2nd and 3rd. It was called "Bamn!" and IIRC was open 24/7, so it mostly catered to late-night drinkers and partiers. (It happened to be on one of NYC's few streets that always had lively nightlife, even during the week.) It was cheap, at something like $1 or $2 for a burger, and it was reasonably good.

There's a pic: https://www.flickr.com/photos/93779577@N00/4235886625

It was a fun place. Wish there were more like it.
by ehnto | 2025-12-09 01:22:26+00:00
I agree with your observations, in my own job I cover a great deal of the aspects of all software development practices for a few clients. Probably something you'd normally have a bunch of different roles do. Not because of AI, I have been in this role since before the AI boom, this is just how agency work is sometimes.

My observation is that there is perhaps 15% of my job that has been boosted by AI by quite a lot, and the rest it hasn't touched much at all. Most of the job just isn't coding badically. The code generation aspect is a bit flawed too because to get good results I often spend more time collating requirements and engineering the prompt that I again could have just done it quicker myself.

There is a sweet spot in there where the requirements were easy to write out, and the code was simple enough but there is a lot to write, that it's nice to not have to write it myself. But even then I am finding that AI is often not successful, and if it takes three tries to get it to do the work properly then there is no productivity gain. Often enough time is lost to the failed attempts.

Usually there isn't that much code to write, but it's fairly complex and needs to be correct, which is where I find LLMs have too many failed attempts and waste time.

(I am an 18+ year "everything" developer, my experiences are from using Claude Code)
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-12-09 01:22:56+00:00
All I can say is welcome back to torrenting. This perpetual "same shit deal for consumers, different corporation" problem doesn't end until copyright kicks the media into public domain. Until then, you can play their content reindeer games[1] or you can download a copy of Reindeer Games[2] and watch it without worrying about ownership foofaraw.

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/reindeer-games

[2] predb.me