MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vintermann | 2025-12-16 12:18:06+00:00
It's also possible that a lot of the criticism for Signal setting a practical/realistic level of what security they will try to provide, is from people who would rather that people either

1. were unable to communicate effectively, or

2. used no security at all.

Do you really use a communication system where you have all exchanged private keys in person and where even the fact that you use it is hidden from your government and phone operator?
by antonymoose | 2025-12-16 12:18:22+00:00
The Red Coats lost quite a few battles to their aged tactics against the Patriots. So much so that officers complained about the ungentlemanly conduct routinely in their correspondence.

As far as our modern, temporary notion of “rules of war,” go, it’s because it suited the victor and gives them what they feel is an edge and an air of superiority. I don’t say this to be smug either, just look at how well the Geneva Suggestions worked out for the North Vietnamese or the Taliban. They ignored the and won.

Like it or not, the modern nation-state’s notions of Rules of War are going to quickly become a bygone relic of a simpler time, as was a formal British fighting line.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-16 12:20:53+00:00
I mostly agree, but I also find that deliberately using more effort than "necessary," sometimes helps me to "feel" the relationship with my task more effectively.

You see this with musicians, all the time. They "throw" themselves into their performance; even when sitting in a studio, in sweats. It helps them to "feel" their output.

Artists also frequently have idiosyncrasies that seem to be impediments to performance.

I can't remember which bestselling author it was, but I heard of an author that writes everything by hand, on legal pads. They pay someone to transcribe it to electronic form.

Rhiannon Giddens is known for performing barefoot. I suspect that she even did that, at her White House gig[0] (note the very long dress).

I'm pretty sure that it helps her to "feel" her music.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/video/-performance-rhiannon-giddens-perf...
by intended | 2025-12-16 12:21:58+00:00
Tangentially related - If you aren’t aware, there are out of court settlement bodies which exist as part of the DSA.

If you have content which is removed, or a moderation decision you wish to dispute, you can go to one of these bodies to get it reviewed. It cannot go to dev/null.

This doesn’t address whether flagging scams resulted in action. The bigger picture is the mismatched incentives for tech. Platforms are not quite incentivized to care about responding to user complaints, and do not give out information that lets us know what is happening independently.

To get to the point that complaints are actioned, those incentives need to be realigned. The ODS pathway, if used more frequently, increases that revenue and market pressure.

The ODS system is new, and I expect it will have tons of issues to discover. I wouldn’t be surprised it it is already weaponized.

On the flip side, platforms haven’t been tested or queried in this manner before.
by devnavigator | 2025-12-16 12:23:05+00:00
As AI agents move from simple chat interfaces to autonomous systems that plan, act, and decide, a critical limitation becomes clear: single-pass generation is not enough. Many failures in AI agents stem not from lack of capability, but from lack of self-evaluation. This is where LLM reflection plays a defining role. By enabling agents to critique, evaluate, and refine their own outputs, reflection transforms agents from fast responders into more reliable decision-makers.
by mattmaroon | 2025-12-16 12:23:23+00:00
Define “need”. I only use my snow shovel like 3 days a year. Does that mean I don’t need a snow shovel? I only camp in my camper one month a year, but I can’t move that thing with anything other than a pickup. I don’t “need” my truck for that. I operate several food trailers. I can’t tow most of them even with my 2500 reefer van, but I could go back into software.

The better question might be how often does one utilize the unique shape and capability of a pickup.

Also, define heavy. Half ton and below, sure, those are just differently-shaped SUVs to most people who own them. 3/4 ton and up are work trucks. But every truck owner finds themselves moving things you can’t move in an SUV on occasion.
by kyyt | 2025-12-16 12:23:34+00:00
Vibe Coding is so easy nowadays, I coded an app almost by mistake. I put a short cryptic prompt into Kim2 to see how it would respond and it immediately (and very much to my surprise), coded an entire website with the functionality I was thinking about.

It wasn't even a coherent grammatically correct sentence that I entered and it busily went to work building the site I had in mind.

It's not hard to imagine that in the next 2-3 years, anyone will be able to build personalized apps on request.
by chantepierre | 2025-12-16 12:23:47+00:00
Re : running relaxed, it is said that the real marathon is the training you put in, and the race itself should feel like a celebration. I am not anywhere near elite level but felt that for a lot of races. The hardships of the training enables a state of deep calm, joy and feeling like you are flying the morning of the actual race. Nights before races are often very bad, like a last storm before everything clears and your mind is finally empty when you get into the corral. Then, with a clear mind, you proceed to run with joy despite being physically tired by the training and sleepless night.
by estearum | 2025-12-16 12:23:57+00:00
To be clear, the post-9/11 AUMF is "specific" to people affiliated with the perpetrators of 9/11. Obviously a nexus can be drawn between a gigantic array of people to the perpetrators of 9/11, and this feature has been abused for decades now, but the Venezuelan situation clearly does not actually (or even allegedly) have any nexus whatsoever to 9/11 and so is clearly not authorized by the 2001 AUMF.
by mike_hearn | 2025-12-16 12:25:06+00:00
> If there was no difference between capital and labor, then capital gains and labor income would be taxed at the same rate.

There's a distinction between capital and labor when the terms are used in an accounting sense but when "capital" is used as a shorthand for a class of people, there isn't. Once someone starts talking about "actual workers" vs "owners of capital" they're drawing that distinction.
by nobleach | 2025-12-16 12:25:07+00:00
In our org, an RFC precedes a tech spec. The RFC literally is the "let's formally talk about this before we nail down a specification". For smaller specs, annotated comments can serve this purpose. Before this process, what we had found was no one was paying attention to tech discussions in our eng slack channels. Having an RFC gave us an inflection point where we could point back and say, "an official discussion happened, we decided to move forward with a spec".
by kace91 | 2025-12-16 12:25:08+00:00
If anyone is considering moving editors, I was recently in the same boat and I can’t recommend enough lazyvim + the ebook “lazyvim for ambitious developers”.

This gets you a fully featured vscode-like baseline (navigation, language integration, integrated terminal, the whole thing).

I had tried many times to switch to vim/emacs and the initial barrier to get a workable system always kept me from pushing forward. With this I was able to make neovim my daily driver at work after just a couple weekends playing with it.
by rcarmo | 2025-12-16 12:25:35+00:00
Well, I got _something_ to work on Apple Silicon:

https://github.com/rcarmo/ml-sharp (has a little demo GIF)

I am looking at ways to approximate Gaussian splats without having to reinvent the wheel, but I'm a bit over my depth since I haven't been playing a lot of attention to those in general.
by wiseowise | 2025-12-16 12:25:45+00:00
Big pile of horse shit, every word.

Wasted years in previous company under narcissistic manager with the same mindset. The guy had official senior lead title and was calling the shots. When ther team became too big, he assigned most senior people as “leads” without the official title. You had to perform as a team lead in an environment where your decisions do not have authoritative power, so every small task became negotiation with every member regardless of their seniority. Also no salary bump either. The “teams” quickly collapsed and they hired official team leads from there, with a real authority.

> Although hierarchical decision making may be more efficient, it's an unnatural system and anti-social

Where did you read this? “Empowerment management for empowered to empower #21”?
by swiftcoder | 2025-12-16 12:25:51+00:00
> That said, a ticketing system should ostensibly offer this same effect

If the ticketing system were private to the engineers, it probably would serve the same purpose. But inevitably ticketing systems have wider visibility, and become a mechanism for signalling progress to management/product/sales... at which point engineers are actively incentivised not to put actual data in the ticketing system
by adrr | 2025-12-16 12:26:22+00:00
Someone has to prevent the execution of journalist who speak out against the regime and that has no due process and also have highest execution rate of any country. They labeled "Authoritarian state" by Amnesty International and Humans Rights Watch and "Systemic human-rights violator" by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Oh wait, i mixed up Saudi Arabia one of the US's closets allies with Venezuela.
by jleyank | 2025-12-16 12:27:30+00:00
Tom Clancy used this as the catalyst for one of his many techno war stories - something along the lines of “if you piss off your creditors they won’t give you any more money”. Think it was bear and dragon, the China Russia war. Debt is sold, and the purchaser’s willingness to buy sets the interest rate. And they don’t like uncertainty.

The us detached itself from the world after ww I and it seems to want to do it again. The tariffs might recapitulate the 30’s but that decade didn’t turn out well at all. So I hope the historical behaviour breaks down first.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-16 12:27:36+00:00
No, but the pattern of criminals of Jewish background fleeing to Israel for protection after commiting a crime, is too often to ignore.

Same thing happened in my post communist country and the neighboring country too. Perp stole tens of millons through a banking scam in the 90s, then fled to Israel because he was Jewish and claimed persecution.

At which point should the pattern be acknowledged?
Show HN: Ruby-TI – Static Type Checker for Mruby (Version 1.0)
by hamachang | 2025-12-16 12:27:40+00:00
Hi HN! I’m Hamachang, a Rubyist from Japan.

I’d like to share a project I’ve been working on for quite some time: Ruby-TI, a static type checker / type analyzer for mruby — now at major version 1.0!

Ruby-TI is written in Go and performs parse → type inference → type checking on mruby code. If you’re embedding mruby or writing mruby scripts, it can help catch type issues before runtime — something that’s often missing in dynamic languages like Ruby.

What Ruby-TI does

Parses mruby source code

Infers types and checks for type errors

Helps find type mismatches early

Includes editor integrations (e.g., LSP support) for better development experience

Why this matters

mruby is a lightweight, embeddable implementation of Ruby, great for scripting in applications or constrained environments. Catching type errors statically can save debugging time and increase confidence in your code — even without annotations.

Try it out

https://github.com/engneer-hamachan/ruby-ti

I’d love to hear feedback — issues, feature requests, or anything you find interesting!
by hermanzegerman | 2025-12-16 12:28:17+00:00
A Single-Payer-System would also be cheaper in the US. Nobody expenses as much on administrative cost, nobody pays so much as a % of GDP on Healthcare as you, still you have the worst health outcomes of all developed nations.

Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal health-care system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national health-care expenditure, equivalent to more than US$450 billion annually (based on the value of the US$ in 2017). The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is incurred by employers and households

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
by londons_explore | 2025-12-16 12:28:25+00:00
Sadly not really.

I think we're only a few years away from BLDC servo motors taking over from steppers in 3d printers.

Ideally control algorithms for them would go into the MCU so there is proper force feedback too - ie. The system will know that there is an extruder clog by the increased extrusion force, or even set print speeds to be 'the fastest you can follow this path' rather than a fixed number of mm/sec. Ie. If the bearings get a little stiff it'll go slower rather than skipping a step.

There are some patents on sensorless servo control expiring which should cut the price of this stuff almost in half since the position sensor is one of the most expensive bits.

Power supplies are one of the more expensive parts of a 3d printer, and by having BLDC motors which can do regenerative braking, that same energy can be reused in the head and bed heaters, which should allow significantly smaller power supplies too - again with significant software complexity to make sure the bed heater primarily heats when the head is decelerating and stops heating whilst accelerating to not exceed the power budget.
by uwela | 2025-12-16 12:28:39+00:00
Goading companies into improving image and video generation by showing them how terrible they are is only going to make them go faster, and personally I’d like to enjoy the few moments I have left thinking that maybe something I watch is real.

It will evolve into people hooked into entertainment suits most of the day, where no one has actual relationships or does anything of consequence, like some sad mashup of Wall-E and Ready Player One.

If we’re lucky, some will want to meatspace with augmented reality.

Maybe we’ll get really nice holovisions, where we can chat with virtual celebrities.

Who needs that?

We’re already having to shoot up weight-loss drugs because we binge watch streaming all the time. We’ve all given up, assuming AI will do everything. What good will come from having better technology when technology is already doing harm?
by rob74 | 2025-12-16 12:28:45+00:00
If anyone else would be generous enough to offer a free IDE with free AI code completion, they could give VS Code a run for its money, but as far as I know this hasn't happened yet? Zed for instance is available for free, very AI-centric, and you can use it with any of the popular LLMs, but you still have to pay for the LLM...
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-12-16 12:28:56+00:00
Thats a lot of work for tbe cheetah, especially at a cellular level. But not much effort at all.

Do you have a dog? Does it look like effort when it runs around? It is effort for it NOT to run!

Nature is the laziest fuck of them all. Lets shine this sunlight and let entropy/quantum fluctuations take care of the rest. Might get life form in one in every billion planets.
by koliber | 2025-12-16 12:31:19+00:00
It's clearer if you deconstruct the conversation about Jira and then think about the washing hair and shampoo comment. It's a stretch, but when you see it is should make sense.

I ask my team to clarify requirements better. They say that they already have Jira. It's as if they were implying that the presence of a tool (Jira) should be enough to provide clear stories. But it's not about the tool. It's about them not using the tool properly but pointing at the tool (or process) as an excuse.

I ask my son to wash his hair. He says there is shampoo in the shower. It's as if the presence of the shampoo implies that his hair should be clean. It's not about the lack of tooling, but about the fact that he did not wash his hair with the tool that he had available.

People often blame tooling or methodology, but most often its that they don't know how to use the tooling or methodology well. They will say things like "if we only used X our problems would go away." Most likely, they won't.

I posted a lazy comment earlier because I did not have time to type it out. Apologies.
by Schlagbohrer | 2025-12-16 12:31:33+00:00
For someone engaging in a lot of fun, sci fi utopian thinking, he still falls prey to libertarian thought:

"I'll go one step further and say the quiet part out loud: we should be actively goading more billionaires into spending on irrational, high-variance projects that might actually advance civilization. I feel genuine secondhand embarrassment watching people torch their fortunes on yachts and status cosplay. No one cares about your Loro Piana. If you've built an empire, the best possible use of it is to burn its capital like a torch and light up a corner of the future. Fund the ugly middle. Pay for the iteration loops. Build the cathedrals. This is how we advance civilization."

That can be done easily (and has been done many times in the past! And in the present, elsewhere in the world outside the US!) by TAXING the billionaires and using that money for government funded research programs such as DARPA, NSF, national space programs that are actually ambitious and risk taking and held to timelines.

Americans need to get over this idea that billionaires are gods that we must pray to and instead see them as just normal citizens who need to be taxed way more.
by iicc | 2025-12-16 12:31:58+00:00
>Let me share my slightly unusual definition of “effort”: it’s the felt experience of expending energy beyond what an activity requires

How about finding a word that actually captures your meaning, or defining a new one?

I asked an LLM - it came back with "overexertion".

>Using this definition, it’s clear that the appropriate amount of [overexertion] for any activity is zero.
by AquiGorka | 2025-12-16 12:33:03+00:00
I've been enjoying working with LLMs for some weeks now, and realized that as faulty as these can get, asking them to put material in place to learn some resource may be worth my time.

I am looking to learn more about Clojure, I read through it all and was happy that it ends up with examples for an actual api app. I may ask for more in depth lessons as I find more suitable apps to be built.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-16 12:33:05+00:00
Doesn't work like that in Austria. Or my doctor's were unwilling to fake urgency to bypass the waiting system for me.

Anyway, do you not realize the fault with the system in your logic? Because if everything becomes urgent in order to bypass queues, then nothing is urgent anymore.

It doesn't fix the problem, you're just scamming the system to get ahead of the problem.
by PedroBatista | 2025-12-16 12:33:12+00:00
Microsoft doing Microsoft things, even with all those fresh coats of "open source" paint they bathe themselves in the last decade they really can't change their DNA.

Expect the amount of f*ckery to increase as the AI realities set in but the number has to go up either way.

It reminds me of the good old days of Visual Studio + .NET + SQL Server where they played these games too.
by hermanzegerman | 2025-12-16 12:34:12+00:00
If a treatment isn't approved yet, you can usually submit a request for getting it paid.

You need to show that it has a chance of working (literature etc...) and it will be reviewed by a doctor from the "Medical Service" which is independent from the Health Insurers.

If they decide it should be paid, it will be paid (which is most of the time the case).

Otherwise you can go through the social courts. (No court costs for the insured person. You can get a lawyer reimbursed if you're poor)
by ArkhamMirror | 2025-12-16 12:34:59+00:00
It's not just for people doing interesting things. It just helps people answer questions about stuff. The stuff can be interesting or boring or dangerous or silly. The last question I tested the ACH tool on was "Did William Shakespeare really author all of the works he was credited for?" - You can use this stuff to research whatever you want. That's the point of it - it's no one's business what you are interested in getting to the bottom of.
by Yizahi | 2025-12-16 12:35:07+00:00
You need 50sqm of solar panels just for a tiny 8RU server. You also forgot any overhead for networking, control etc. but let's even ignore those. Next at the 400km orbit you spend 40% of the time in shade, so you need an insulated battery to provide 5kWh. This would add 100-200kg of weight to a server weighing 130kg on its own. Then you need to dissipate all that heat and yes, 50sqm of radiators should deal with the 10kW device. We also need to charge our batteries for the shade period, so we need 100sqm of solar panels. And we also need to cool the cooling infrastructure - pumps, power converters, which wasn't included in the power budget initially.

So now we have arrived to a revised solution: a puny 8RU server at 130 kg, requires 100sqm and 1000 kg of solar panels, then 50-75 sqm of the heat radiators at 1000-1500 kg, then 100-200 kg of batteries and then the housing for all that stuff plus station keeping engines and propellant, motors to rotate all panels, pumps, etc. I guess at least 500kg is needed, maybe a bit less.

So now we have a 3 ton satellite, which costs to launch around 10 million dollars at an optimistic 3000/kg on F9. And that's not counting cost to manufacture the satellite and the server own cost.

I think the proposal is quite absurd with modern tech and costs.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-16 12:35:22+00:00
As much as I understand ACAB due to their systemic corruption and acting as a gang to provide their friends and family with more “justice” than others, I disagree with ending the war on drugs.

While it would be nice to think we can live in a world where everyone can be healed from mental problems (including drug addiction), I don’t think it’s possible to come back from the hardest of drugs (on a population level). The only thing you are inviting is chaos into your neighborhood.
by dijit | 2025-12-16 12:35:24+00:00
Bring your own AI token is totally fair, given the cost of AI.

The annoying thing is removing a perfectly working intellisense default.

If Jetbrains removes their on-device (non-AI) code indexer and suggestion systems then I will no longer be a paying customer for example. Despite being a All Products Pack user for the last... idk, 15 years?
by SmirkingRevenge | 2025-12-16 12:35:26+00:00
It's tough if you live in a place without great EV charging infrastructure. You end up really having to strategize when/how you charge. If you ever need to make unplanned drives across town or to a neighboring city it can really screw you up. Charging stations are often poorly maintained too and out of order.

EV's still aren't practical for a lot of drivers in such places.
by mike_hearn | 2025-12-16 12:35:36+00:00
> There's nothing violent about using elections to make the decision to tax rich people so that we can spend (formerly) their money building roads and bridges

The results of votes are enforced on the losers using the police, who will do so violently if required.

You mentioned the Fordist truce. The unions the auto industry dealt with weren't just a bunch of people refusing to work. They were frequently violent, and they also used stealing other people's property as a standard tactic to prevent anyone else from working also. Those were violent times.
by pdimitar | 2025-12-16 12:36:16+00:00
I see, thanks. All analogies are flawed and that's a fact of life but your clarification made it crystal clear.

RE: your work, I would probably fight hard to reduce all the bureaucracy-inviting tools (like Jira). That removes the excuse "we have tools already, why don't we have clear stories?" -- though I am aware that for many people this fight would cost them their job.