MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pndy | 2025-12-04 09:14:45+00:00
Let's stop for a second here and think, what this issue is even about. Theming a progress bar. A progress bar. The interface element that's not present at all times while software is running.

Bazaar does not much at the moment beyond what Gnome Software or KDE's Discover is capable of. The features are nearly same: install/uninstall, search, flathub repo select and basic filtering options (free software, flathub only, maintained only). Plus this progress bar skin.

This whole fuss feels like it's on the same levels as that GIMP fork from few years ago which just took the code and replaced every occurrence of name because it's being considered by some people as an insult. Glimpse "project" is dead and honestly, I expect that this supposed game-changing "app store" here will be dead as well soon. Because people behind focus on a trivial issue instead of making their software actually standing off and rich on features.

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If they really consider this progress bar customization crucial for Bazaar to function then there should be a way to provide own texture from file, and colors from standard picker that would form either a gradient or bars. This is a really simple problem to solve - without shouting, calling names and pretending of being attacked.
by paxiongmap | 2025-12-04 09:15:10+00:00
I've been on Fastmail with my own domains for 4 years now, having been fully Gmail since 2004. The transition was seemless, the apps are solid and I can't imagine ever going back. The only option I'd consider would be full self-hosting, but I really can't justify the effort to maintain the one service where I need very high uptime.
by jinjin2 | 2025-12-04 09:15:32+00:00
> society is reverting back to factory settings of human history, which has always been a feudalist type society of a small elite owning all the wealth

The word “always” is carrying a lot of weight here. This has really only been true for the last 10,000 years or so, since the introduction of agriculture. We lived as egalitarian bands of hunter gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years before that. Given the magnitude of difference in timespan, I think it is safe to say that that is the “default setting”.
by ben_w | 2025-12-04 09:15:39+00:00
> Schooling and mass media are expensive things to control

Expensive to run, sure. But I don't see why they'd be expensive to control. Most UK are required to support collective worship of a "wholly or mainly of a broadly christian character"[0], and used to have Section 28[1] which was interpreted defensively in most places and made it difficult even discuss the topic in sex ed lessons or defend against homophobic bullying.

USA had the Hays Code[2], the FCC Song[3] is Eric Idle's response to being fined for swearing on radio. Here in Europe we keep hearing about US schools banning books for various reasons.

[0] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_Song
by mattbee | 2025-12-04 09:16:07+00:00
I think you're saying that mass broadcasting is going away? If so, I believe that's true in a technological sense - we don't watch TV or read newspapers as much as before.

And that certainly means niches can flourish, the dream of the 90s.

But I think mass broadcasting is still available, if you can pay for it - troll armies, bots, ads etc. It's just much much harder to recognize and regulate.

(Why that matters to me I guess) Here in the UK with a first past the post electoral system, ideological coherence isn't necessary to turn niche opinion into state power - we're now looking at 25 percent being a winning vote share for a far-right party.
by lurk2 | 2025-12-04 09:16:33+00:00
> which has always been a feudalist type society of a small elite owning all the wealth and ruling the masses of people by wars, poverty, fear, propaganda and oppression.

This isn’t an historical norm. The majority of human history occurred without these systems of domination, and getting people to play along has historically been so difficult that colonizers resort to eradicating native populations and starting over again. The technologies used to force people onto the plantation have become more sophisticated, but in most of the world that has involved enfranchisement more than oppression; most of the world is tremendously better off today than it was even 20 years ago.

Mass surveillance and automated propaganda technologies pose a threat to this dynamic, but I won’t be worried until they have robotic door kickers. The bad guys are always going to be there, but it isn’t obvious that they are going to triumph.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-12-04 09:17:02+00:00
The price of electricity in the UK is going up right now to start paying for the next nuclear plant 10 years (fingers crossed) in advance of it generating any electicity.

They literally invented the idea of applying Contracts for Difference from finance to help build nuclear in the UK.

Those have massively helped renewables get built in the UK and elsewhere by letting governments cheaply subsidize financial risk in energy investments while allowing competitive developers to bid the price lower.

But it wasn't enough for nuclear, where the builders didn't want to be on the hook for the inevitable doubling (or worse) of final cost, so they wrote special rules for new nuclear to be paid in advance and not held to cost estimates.
by gjulianm | 2025-12-04 09:17:44+00:00
> What I want to see is mathematicians employ the same rigor of journalists using abbreviations: define (numerically) your notation, or terminology, the first time you use it, then feel free to use it as notation or jargon for the remainder of the paper.

They already do this. That is how we all learn notation. Not sure what you mean by numerically though, a lot of concepts cannot be defined numerically.
by throwup238 | 2025-12-04 09:17:51+00:00
> I wonder if it's possible even for a company to make even 1980s-era electronics without massive capital expenditures? How feasible is it for a small company to manufacture the equivalent of a Motorola 68000 or Intel 386?

Very feasible but it would have to be redesigned around the cell libraries used in newer nodes since the i386 was manufactured on >1um size nodes.

Prototypes would cost around $1-2k per sq mm at 130nm and $10k per sq mm at 28nm (min order usually around 9 sq mm). Legacy nodes are surprisingly cheap, so non-recurring engineering will generally be the bulk of the cost. The i386 was originally >104 sq mm but at 1um, so you could probably fit the entirety of a i386 clone in 1-2 sq mm of a 130nm chip. Packaging it in the original footprint and the lead times on prototypes would probably be more annoying than anything.
by coldtea | 2025-12-04 09:17:57+00:00
That's not jaded, that's paranoid-ly misreading this.

It's an organization for hacking working with high schools and young people. They don't want small children enrolled, and they don't want older people.

"teenager 18 and under" is perfectly fine description for 13-18 or 7th to 12th grade.
by baxtr | 2025-12-04 09:18:18+00:00
Interestingly, there was a discussion a week ago on "PRC elites voice AI-skepticism". One commentator was arguing that:

As the model get's more powerful, you can't simply train the model on your narrative if it doesn't align with real data/world. [1]

So at least on the model side it seems difficult to go against the real world.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050177
by zkmon | 2025-12-04 09:18:19+00:00
It's about enforcing single-minded-ness across masses, similar to soldier training.

But this is not new. The very goal of a nation is to dismantle inner structures, independent thought, communal groups etc across population and and ingest them as uniformed worker cells. Same as what happens when a whale swallows smaller animals. The structures will be dismantled.

The development level of a country is a good indicator of progress of this digestion of internal structures and removal of internal identities. More developed means deeper reach of the policy into people's lives, making each person as more individualistic, rather than family or community oriented.

Every new tech will be used by the state and businesses to speed up the digestion.
Show HN: Advanced Stopwatch App for iOS
by rbester | 2025-12-04 09:18:30+00:00
This is my very first published app so I chose a stopwatch which seemed simple enough... Yet it was quite challenging and a long process as I kept wanting to add more and more features to it... I don't think too many people are using stopwatches these days, but this one is pretty special... its appearance can be customized in many ways. It can be quite handy as well for tracking time and getting better at managing it (you can save your stopwatch sessions and look at past results). You can also share your results or export them. So please try it. Initial iOS version was just released. Android is coming soon. Feedbacks very much appreciated.
by franga2000 | 2025-12-04 09:18:44+00:00
Read again. My whole point was that governments used to know how to handle a shortage, but they don't anymore, as evidenced by the pandemic. They let the market figure it out and you got a mix of both price gouging and scalpers.

And no, doubling prices wouldn't have done anything. Hoarders would just hoard more because not only was supply low, but prices were increasing, so they better buy it now rather than later.

If governments actually governed, this wouldn't have been a problem. "You guys are being unreasonable, we have plenty of toilet paper for everyone. Each person gets two rolls per week unless you can prove you need more until you calm the fuck down. We're also putting the toilet paper factory into overdrive to compensate for this stupidity."
Show HN: Made a mini word puzzle game – Letter Flow
by arimajain110205 | 2025-12-04 09:19:02+00:00
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by throwaway290 | 2025-12-04 09:19:07+00:00
Calling people "complete idiots" because they follow the law, because they don't have $$$ to spend on fines, because they are unlucky to be doing a job society actually needs like a teacher or cleaner or bus driver instead of vibe coding ai saas, will not help you convince people about the change you want to see

A normal person follows the law. It's bad when that law is forced by dictator but you should get off your high horse sometimes. If you think of regular public as complete idiots you should not be surprised when they vote for putin. Similar thing happened in america where democrats alienated as many people as possible by looking down on them like they're stupid

And why it is logically not true: an idiot is by definition a person with abnormality. If you are saying 90% of people are abnormal... idk what to tell you

> I personally give access to my vpn server to ~100 users for free, and so far the access is stable enough

yeah I often talk to a friend who does the same. depending on your region it won't be too stable for long.

> you won't be content with being blocked from the information you seek

You don't know what you don't know. If you don't know it is, you don't seek it. That's why censorship works
by kortilla | 2025-12-04 09:19:19+00:00
>A shortage necessarily means that if you make more of something, you're guaranteed to sell it basically instantly, so there's already an incentive to increase production.

This is patently false. Every oil reserve around the world has a cost per barrel of extraction. At $60/barrel many of them are shut down.

If you fix the price at $60 and demand goes up, you’ll end up with shortages and producers won’t be able to fill the gap.

It is very rare to have a market of physical goods where the cost of production is fixed and supply is effectively limited. For every other market, the price needs to go up to entice investing in making more supply.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-04 09:19:52+00:00
>We lived as egalitarian bands of hunter gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years before that.

Only if you consider intra-group egalitarianism of tribal hunter gatherer societies. But tribes would constantly go to war with each other in search of expanding to better territories with more resources, and the defeated tribe would have its men killed or enslaved, and the women bred to expand the tribe population.

So you forgot that part that involved all the killing, enslavement and rape, but other than that, yes, the victorious tribes were quite egalitarian.
by captn3m0 | 2025-12-04 09:20:35+00:00
Yes, because Telcos are designated as AUAs, and expected to do a full KYC under DoT regulations. Hotels are not.

I have two SIMs, and I surprisingly got the newer of them in 20 minutes at a remote village in India without an Aadhaar. Telcos do a Liveness check with their phone instead these days.
by ben_w | 2025-12-04 09:20:39+00:00
> imagine someday there is a child that trust chatgpt more than his mother

I trusted my mother when I was a teen; she believed in the occult, dowsing, crystal magic, homeopathy, bach flower remedies, etc., so I did too.

ChatGPT might have been an improvement, or made things much worse, depending on how sycophantic it was being.
by immy | 2025-12-04 09:20:54+00:00
I'd be into that, maybe. I guess if I could find an APR 0.5% better than what I've got, I'd refi. I wouldn't have subscribed last year, but now that rates are dropping, it's worth tuning in. But there is a voice of doubt: I'll probably hear about lower mortgage rates in a news headline or my original broker might even reach out.
by energy123 | 2025-12-04 09:21:29+00:00
Using the term "elites" was overly vague when "nation states" better narrows in o n the current threat profile.

The content itself (whether niche or otherwise) is not that important for understanding the effectiveness. It's more about the volume of it, which is a function of compute resources of the actor.

I hope this problem continues to receive more visibility and hopefully some attention from policymakers who have done nothing about it. It's been over 5 years since we've discovered that multiple state actors have been doing this (first human run troll farms, mostly outsourced, and more recently LLMs).
by crote | 2025-12-04 09:21:50+00:00
> The wealth inequality we have today, as bad as it is, is as best as it will ever be moving forward. It's only gonna get worse.

Why?

As the saying goes, the people need bread and circuses. Delve too deeply and you risk another French Revolution. And right now, a lot of people in supposedly-rich Western countries are having their basic existance threatened by the greed of the elite.

Feudalism only works when you give back enough power and resources to the layers below you. The king depends on his vassals to provide money and military services. Try to act like a tyrant, and you end up being forced to sign the Magna Carta.

We've already seen a healthcare CEO being executed in broad daylight. If wealth inequality continues to worsen, do you really believe that'll be the last one?
by tialaramex | 2025-12-04 09:22:15+00:00
So, the crucial thing ACME has that the other protocols do not is a hole (and some example ways to fill that hole for your purpose, though others are documented in newer RFCs) for the Proof of Control.

See, SCEP assumes that Bob trusts Alice to make certificates. Alice uses the SCEP server provided by Bob, but she can make any certificate that Bob allows. If she wants to make a certificate claiming she's the US Department of Education, or Hacker News, or Tesco supermarkets, she can do that. For your private Intranet that's probably fine, Alice is head of Cyber Security, she issues certificate according to local rules, OK.

But for the public web we have rules about who we should issue certificates to, and these ultimately boil down to we want to issue certificates only to the people who actually control the name they're getting a certificate for. Historically this had once been extremely hard core (in the mid-1990s when SSL was new) but a race to the bottom ensued and it had become basically "Do you have working email for that domain?" and sometimes not even that.

So in parallel with Let's Encrypt, work happened to drag all the trusted certificate issuers to new rules called the "Ten Blessed Methods" which listed (initially ten) ways you could be sure that this subscriber is allowed a certificate for news.ycombinator.com and so if you want to do so you're allowed to issue that certificate.

Several ACME kinds of Proof of Control are actually directly reflected in the Ten Blessed Methods, and gradually the manual options have been deprecated and more stuff moves to ACME.

e.g. "3.2.2.4.19 Agreed‑Upon Change to Website ‑ ACME" is a specific method which is how your cheesiest "Let's Encrypt in a box" type software tends to work, where we prove we control www.some.example by literally just changing a page on www.some.example in a specific way when requested and that's part of the ACME specification so it can be done automatically without a human in the loop.
by verisimi | 2025-12-04 09:23:17+00:00
Big corps ai products have the potential to shape individuals from cradle to grave. Especially as many manage/assist in schooling, are ubiquitous on phones.

So, imagine the case where an early assessment is made of a child, that they are this-or-that type of child, and that therefore they respond more strongly to this-or-that information. Well, then the ai can far more easily steer the child in whatever direction they want. Over a lifetime. Chapters and long story lines, themes, could all play a role to sensitise and predispose individuals into to certain directions.

Yeah, this could be used to help people. But how does one feedback into the type of "help"/guidance one wants?
by andsoitis | 2025-12-04 09:23:25+00:00
> He's also claimed "I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth"…

You should know that ChatGPT agrees!

“Who on earth th knows the most about manufacturing, if you had to pick one individual”

Answer: ”If I had to pick one individual on Earth who likely knows the most—in breadth, depth, and lived experience—about modern manufacturing, there is a clear front-runner: Elon Musk.

Not because of fame, but because of what he has personally done in manufacturing, which is unique in modern history.“

- https://chatgpt.com/share/693152a8-c154-8009-8ecd-c21541ee9c...
by oblio | 2025-12-04 09:24:22+00:00
Back then there were so few people around and expectations for quality of life were so low that if you didn't like your neighbors you could just go to the middle of nowhere and most likely find an area which had enough resources for your meager existence. Or you'd die trying, which was probably what happened most of the time.

That entire approach to life died when agriculture appeared. Remnants of that lifestyle were nomadic peoples and the last groups to be successful were the Mongols and up until about 1600, the Cossacks.
by energy123 | 2025-12-04 09:24:24+00:00
I posit that the effectiveness of your propaganda is proportional to the percentage of attention bandwidth that your campaign occupies in the minds of people. If you as an individual can drive the same # impressions as Mr. Beast can, then you're going to be persuasive whatever your message is. But most individuals can't achieve Mr. Beast levels of popularity, so they aren't going to be persuasive. Nation states, on the other hand, have the compute resources and patience to occupy a lot of bandwidth, even if no single sockpuppet account they control is that popular.
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by aperture147 | 2025-12-04 09:25:12+00:00
I think Valve is not some kind of God who free the human from the hand of Microsoft, they are a private company, they are just protecting their business and protecting their business "accidentally" also protecting the customer's benefits. The movement towards Linux benefits Valve the most since they have invested on Linux Gaming for 10 years now and that movement "conveniently" benefits the gamers too. That's a win-win situation, users can escape themself from a bloated Windows and Valve has the pioneering advantage.
by acorel | 2025-12-04 09:25:12+00:00
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by pu_pe | 2025-12-04 09:25:36+00:00
> To give you an idea, Georgescu’s TikTok presence was carefully crafted: short clips showing him speaking "against the system," promising to "free Romania from foreign control," heavily relying on emotional imagery like children, old people, and national flags (Tukiainen, 2024). These were sprinkled with half-truths and out-of-context data, making them seem plausible to those scrolling fast without fact-checking. The persuasive power came not from logic, but from emotion, repetition, and algorithmic amplification.

Isn't this what literally every politician does?
by senfiaj | 2025-12-04 09:27:38+00:00
I also tried this

bool is_divisible_by_15(int x) { return x % 3 == 0 && x % 5 == 0; } bool is_divisible_by_15_optimal(int x) { return x % 15 == 0; }

is_divisible_by_15 still has a branch, while is_divisible_by_15_optimal does not

is_divisible_by_15(int): imul eax, edi, -1431655765 add eax, 715827882 cmp eax, 1431655764 jbe .LBB0_2 xor eax, eax ret .LBB0_2: imul eax, edi, -858993459 add eax, 429496729 cmp eax, 858993459 setb al ret is_divisible_by_15_optimal(int): imul eax, edi, -286331153 add eax, 143165576 cmp eax, 286331153 setb al ret