MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yawpitch | 2025-12-11 16:47:54+00:00
“Nazism” with the capital N represents a specifically German instance of “national socialism”; to whit, the instance that reflexively called Adolf Hitler’s assassin “Mein Fuhrer”. Nazism modeled itself, in turn, on a specific instance of “fascism” which took its class name from its basal instantiation, Italian “Fascismo”, to whit the instance that reflexively called the man ultimately responsible for the death of Benito Mussolini “Il Duce”.

The main lesson of history is that personality cults are a very bad idea.
by itissid | 2025-12-11 16:48:10+00:00
Nicely done. I think from a product perspective it is interesting that:

- Humans really value authentic experiences. And more so IRL experiences. People's words about a restaurant matter more than the star rating to me.

- There is only one reason to go somewhere: 4.5 star reason. But there are 10 different reasons to not go: Too far, not my cuisine, too expensive for my taste. So the context is what really matters.

- Small is better. Product wise, scale always is a problem, because the needs of the product will end up discriminating against a large minority. You need it to be decentralized and organic, with communities that are quirky.

All this is, somehow, anethma to google maps or yelp's algorithm. But I don't understand why it is _so_ bad — just try searching for 'salad' — and be amazed how it will recommend a white table cloth restaurant in the same breath as chipotle.

There are many millions that want to use the product _more_ if it was personalized. Yet somehow its not.
by tzs | 2025-12-11 16:48:12+00:00
In the system the EU is using you are the broker in the middle.

Briefly, your government issues you a digital copy of your identity documents cryptographically bound to a hardware security module that you provide. For the first iteration this will be the security module in your smartphone. Later iterations will support standalone smart cards and plug in security modules like YubiKeys.

If you wish to prove your age to a site a cryptographic protocol takes place between you and the site which demonstrates to the site that you have a government issued identity document that is bound to a hardware security module, and that you have that module, and that the module is unlocked, and that the identity document says that your age is above the site's minimum age requirement.

No information is transmitted to the site from the identity document other than the age is above the threshold. There is also nothing transmitted that identities the particular hardware security module.
by xhkkffbf | 2025-12-11 16:48:14+00:00
> those were always going to go up

No. That wasn't the promise. Obama said that his plan was going to cut a family's bills by $2500.

Now you may say that inflation has to creep in and I think that's fair. If oil rises in price, that affects everything. But the premise was always that the magic of the ACA would lower premiums.
by kijin | 2025-12-11 16:48:36+00:00
Well, then give me self-signup with a clearly outlined verification flow that I can follow from A to Z.

If you give me a form where I can upload my passport or enter a random number from a charge on my card, that counts as "instant" enough. On the other hand, if you really need to make me wait several days while you manually review my info, fine, just tell me upfront so I can stop wasting my time. And be consistent in your UI as to whether I'm verified yet. It's all about managing expectations.

Besides, Amazon hands out reasonable quotas to newly created accounts without much hassle, and they seem to be doing okay. I won't believe for a second that trillion-dollar companies like Google don't know how to keep abuse at a manageable level without making people run in circles.
by ajuc | 2025-12-11 16:48:38+00:00
Redistribution doesn't need to increase productivity, it suffices that it increases consumption for the economy to grow, if that's your only goal (it isn't the main goal for me).

I recommend reading this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money

Basically if you have the same amount of money in economy, but you double the number of transactions - economy will double too (assuming same distribution).

Money naturally accumulate. If you redistribute it - it starts moving again, and with each transaction something is produced.

That's why redistribution usually increases GDP.

But - the goal shouldn't be growing economy. The goal should be preventing oligarchy.
by reallymental | 2025-12-11 16:48:58+00:00
I think y'all (i.e. who've contributed anonymously to the article), have taken these words too literally. I think we're finally seeing the culmination of around 15+ years (post '08) of leadership mindset finally reap its rewards.

Over the last decade (last 3+ decades realistically, I'm around 35, so that's all my personal anecdotal data goes back to), these "leaders" have all thrown away the facade of "mentorship", "leadership" and all those heavy words.

It's replaced with one phrase, "Profit at any cost". So that means, if you got yours, you're good. If you didn't, see ya! All this is obviously reflected geopolitically (macro-level), so why are we so surprised when it's affecting us at the micro-level?

This is a quote from a really good TV series (called Smiley's people), delivered by George Smiley (Alec Guinness):

`In my time, Peter Guillam, I've seen Whitehall skirts go up and come down again. I've listened to all the excellent argument for doing nothing, and reaped the consequent frightful harvest. I've watched people hop up and down and call it progress. I've seen good men go to the wall and the idiots get promoted with a dazzling regularity. All I'm left with is me and thirty-odd years of cold war without the option.`

So, it's not been out of the norm in our times to watch our own backs. No one is watching ours, the workers, the talent. Moscow rules gentlemen.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-11 16:49:23+00:00
I was recently gifted an Apple Watch and it forced an update on me, so I jumped straight to the x.1 patch, and I'd still call this beta-quality, even setting aside my strong disagreements with the design and UX direction.

I've seen other releases much complained-about online then found them to not bother me much, or even at all, when I upgraded, but this one's an exception. It really is very bad.
by crote | 2025-12-11 16:50:08+00:00
Why pay for a keyboard app when the default keyboard is already good enough?

Moreover, why risk installing a 3rd-party keyboard app when the App Store is filled with adware and malware? All those handy flashlight and camera apps are a Trojan's Horse, why should one assume that the various keyboard apps in the App Store aren't keyloggers trying to steal my login info?

In 2025 I can do mostly error-free blind typing on the Pixel 7 keyboard, with all autocorrect and predictive spelling intentionally turned off. Why would I need innovation?
by Yokohiii | 2025-12-11 16:50:14+00:00
Escape analysis accounts for size, so it wouldn't even permit it.

The initial stack size seems to be 2kb, a more on a few systems. So far I understand you can allocate a large local i.e. 8kb, that doesn't escape and grow the stack immediately. (Of course that adds up if you have a chain of calls with smaller allocs). So recursion is certainly not the only concern.
by emtel | 2025-12-11 16:50:41+00:00
There actually is one idea for cleaning up debris in high orbit: You launch tons of very fine powder into the orbits you wish to clear. These orbiting particles create drag on anything up there, so that their orbits degrade much faster. But the because the particles themselves are so tiny, they have a very low ballistic coefficient, and will deorbit quickly.

More: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/space-debris-p...
Show HN: AI Copilot for LibreOffice Writer
by mmarian | 2025-12-11 16:51:02+00:00
I built an extension that adds an AI writing copilot directly into your LibreOffice Writer sidebar. That way, you don’t need to switch back and forth between Writer and ChatGPT.

The extension only runs OpenAI's GPT-5-mini model at the moment. Just wanted to release a bare-bones MVP ASAP; figured I should pick OpenAI for the instant name recognition.

The extension is free, but you’ll be charged for using the OpenAI API.

I’m running a Django Ninja server as a middleman between the extension and OpenAI. Building, packaging, and troubleshooting the extension is tricky, so I wanted to move as much complexity out of it as possible.

It’s been published on the LibreOffice extension directory: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/99471 .

There’s a lot of stuff I could add (local models, free hosted models, UI enhancements, etc). But I don’t have much time in the evenings, and I’m not sure what’s the next most important thing to do. Any feedback/suggestions would be much appreciated!
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-11 16:51:16+00:00
The “lewd texting with LLM” will be a tool for writing actual pornography, and in workflows for image and video pornography, even if the image and video generation doesn’t happen on OpenAI’s platform (in fact, people are using ChatGPT and other major AI engines as tools in that already, but loosening the filters were facilitate that even more on OpenAI’s platform.)

OpenAI knows that, and the people interested in that capability know that, even if many of the other people seeing the marketing about it don't.
by happyopossum | 2025-12-11 16:52:15+00:00
There are plenty of ways to get access to gemini - a single google search took me directly to the simplest way (subscribe to Google AI Ultra) in one click: https://one.google.com/intl/en/about/google-ai-plans/

The author apparently found himself on a much more difficult path, one designed for enterprises who are already on google cloud, already have billing set up, etc. The fact that an individuals experience with an enterprise platform isn't great is predictable... That's why there are individual/consumer plans for this stuff.
by dspillett | 2025-12-11 16:52:31+00:00
> Today's sites use responsive design and adapt to pretty much any screen size.

Today sites certainly can and some (many) so. But some (also many) definitely don't…

A lot are locked to a maximum width, which is OK enough as l……o……n……g lines of text are unpleasant to read, but only because browsers hack the meaning of dimension settings to make text zoom work consistently.

A lot also have an effective minimum width (even if they use responsive styling to move/ minimise/hide side decoration before a certain point) that is not always convenient. Try browsing with a thin window so you can have something in the other side of your screen. Some assume no one on desktop will ever have a browser window less wide than 1280 pixels (or equivalent on a zoomed higher res screen) - not the case on my 1080p portrait screen and I sometimes want things thinner than 1280 on my 2560x1440 screen. You could say I'm just odd and they can't cater for everyone, but 1080 or a bit less wide is hardly miles away from many devices physical layout so if a design can't display nice in that can it really call itself "responsive" (I suspect any such design would fail on many mobile devices too - 1080px effective width is rather common there, as are smaller widths).
by tuveson | 2025-12-11 16:52:55+00:00
Or maybe it's like someone saying homecooked meals and professional chefs are outdated because McDonalds exists. Homecooked meals are cheaper and healthier, and professional chefs still make better food. I don't think McDonalds is about to disappear, but I'm pretty sure those other categories aren't about to become obsolete any time soon.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-12-11 16:53:35+00:00
If my math is correct, and it almost certainly isn't, if you had 100kEUR in savings, you would be taxed on "fictitious" returns on 42k. The fictitious rate of return they use is 1.44%, which brings your fictitious returns to 600EUR. You then owe income taxes on that return, which is 200EUR.

So your wealth tax on 100k is 0.2% or so...

Again, my math might have missed a zero somewhere.
by roguecoder | 2025-12-11 16:53:46+00:00
It is less that it swings elections, though it has marginal effects via voter mobilization, and more that it keeps candidates from even running at all: https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/money-doesnt-buy-elect...

Money won't get you a Democratic senator in Texas, but it makes you 100x more likely to get you a Republican lawyer than an average Republican.
by tristor | 2025-12-11 16:53:58+00:00
> driving is getting more dangerous year by year

My observation has been that the danger increase is a combination of three things:

1. Lack of situational awareness/awareness of surroundings. This manifests in various ways like improper merging, improper turns into traffic, turning across multiple lanes, and left-lane hogs.

2. Frustration becomes aggression. This also manifests in multiple ways, but primarily is seen through tail-gating (in response to left-lane hogs) and swimming through traffic (in response to left-lane hogs), as well as road-rage (mostly in response to the other misbehavior).

3. Constant distraction. I have seen SO MANY drivers literally watching videos on a tablet, playing games, or otherwise driving at high rates of speed (70mph+) while fully engaged in something other than driving. It's at epidemic proportions.

The issue is, by and large, not people doing rolling stops (which by the way have never been proven to cause an increase in accidents when performed properly) or speeding (generally, some exceptions like school zones do matter). Running red lights is definitely a problem that is more common place, and is likely a part of all 3 of these these.

I feel like to a large degree all of this is a symptom of a wider societial issue where everyone acts in selfish and self-centered ways, completely ignoring their impacts on others, and moving from moments to moments where they can engage with their phone/social-media, to the exclusion of all else. I don't think phones/social-media /caused/ the problem, I think it exacerbates it though. Every aspect of our society is worsening because the revealed behavior of our population is one of lack of care or outright disdain for everyone else around them and an absolute obsession with serving their own interests above all else. That this manifests in driving is unsurprising.
by renewiltord | 2025-12-11 16:54:00+00:00
Strawman? Hmm, let's just do a Google. The top US environmental organizations:

1. Sierra Club

2. WWF

3. 350

4. Nature Conservancy

5. Environmental Defense Fund

Okay, now let's do "$org nuclear energy":

https://www.sierraclub.org/nuclear-free

https://wwfeu.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/wwf_position_sta...

https://350.org/solutions-series-nuclear/

https://www.nature.org/content/dam/tnc/nature/en/documents/C... (pro-nuclear, these must be the only Real Environmentalists)

The EDF opposes nuclear energy projects in practice https://environmentalprogress.org/edf but is otherwise generally ambivalent in statements

Therefore, I have to say that a quick survey of the data shows that I am correct. Feel free to use an LLM agent to replicate this human analysis.

Environmentalists appear to be like Communists. Supposedly in favour of some idea, but it appears strangely that they keep doing the opposite thing. I'm sure Real Environmentalism Hasn't Been Tried Yet.
by bikenaga | 2025-12-11 16:54:06+00:00
"Results. A total of 62 studies were retained for analysis following title, abstract, and full text screening. Race/ethnicity (n = 46/62) and age (n = 42/62) were the most frequently mentioned individual risk factors. Across the 62 studies reviewed, alcohol consumption was consistently identified as a risk factor for several types of cancer, including breast (n = 23/62), colorectal (n = 13/62), and liver (n = 10/62), among others. Other alcohol-associated comorbidities reported include obesity (n = 8/62), alcoholic liver disease (n = 5/62), and diabetes (n = 4/62).

Conclusion. Alcohol intake, particularly at higher frequency or greater quantity, was consistently associated with elevated risk for multiple cancers, most notably colorectal, breast, and liver. Dose-response relationships were a common finding, underscoring that risk is not limited to heavy or chronic use."
by indigo945 | 2025-12-11 16:54:17+00:00
How is that relevant? "Resources" really just means money, which can be allocated between different items on the BoM at-will. The N64's chips are all (more or less) bespoke, so the functionality of each individual part is completely under Nintendo's control. Spend less on the CPU, and you suddenly have money left to spend on the RSP. (And on the RDP, which contains the TMEM -- it lives on the same chip as the RSP, but is a distinct thing. I assume you know this, but just to add to the discussion for readers - the RSP is the N64's SIMD coprocessing unit, which most games use to perform vertex shading, whereas the RDP is the actual rasterization and texturing hardware.)
by tennysont | 2025-12-11 16:54:17+00:00
My understanding is that this non-reciprocity is why international law often feels so permissive of seemingly bad actions. It generally aims to forbid only strategies that are the highly destructive and non-effective at winning wars. The idea is that such actions are not necessary in warfare in any circumstance, rather than a coordinated and mutual choice to leave effective strategies on the proverbial table.

This non-reciprocity is also why many such laws come with large conditional statements. For example, hospitals are typically illegal targets. However, you cannot label a military outpost a hospital as a loophole. There is a gray area in between, where the law is generally more permissive than a layperson might expect.

It is unclear if these laws accomplish this goal in all circumstances. A smaller, modern army attempting to hide might not be able to find non-civilian concealment (e.g., the jungle in the Vietnam war), and there is probably a conversation about the (unfortunate) effectiveness of inflecting civilian damage on an enemy's will to fight and economic output. However, the above is my best understanding of what international law sets out to do.

Disclaimer: I asked AI to evaluate the above comment before posting, and it made the following (paraphrased) criticisms that you might want to consider:

- The primary purpose of IHL (international humanitarian law) is to distinguish civilian from military, not to only ban what doesn't work. Hence, the banning of chemical weapons and landmines.

- The hospital example is better framed as a requirement to distinguish between a civilian hospital and a military target

- Non-reciprocity has the advantage of being simpler to obey (the legal analysis does not depend on the enemy's past actions)
by pwillia7 | 2025-12-11 16:54:37+00:00
I wonder if this is related to the agency problem[1] and the rise of short-sightedness from the ruling class.

If you're just trying to make as much money as possible this quarter and have no real care about building long-term value, why wouldn't you put agents in that mercilessly generate money at the expense of things like your brand and people?

I also wonder how many of the authors of the piece are at public vs private companies.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
by chatmasta | 2025-12-11 16:54:50+00:00
The most infuriating “feature” of autocorrect is that it includes all your contact names in your dictionary, with no way to opt out of this aside from disabling autocorrect entirely. This can lead to some awkward texts when your innocent typo (or even correctly spelled technical term) turns into a mention of someone’s name who should not be in your phone…

I wonder if this is related to the fact that every Apple app shows up as “recently accessing” contacts in App Privacy Report. And I don’t mean only photos (face recognition), but: Safari, Camera, Shortcuts, Mail, Health… why? I’ve never even configured a Mailbox. Why are these apps all accessing my Contacts?
by Gagarin1917 | 2025-12-11 16:55:02+00:00
>One of the reasons was that Instagram until about 2 years ago was pretty cool about just showing you people you follow instead of dumping unwanted algorithmic shit on you. But after the rise of tiktok they have unfortunately mirrored that. You can still switch to following in the app but it keeps switching back.

So it’s become an embarrassment within the last 2 years. Yeah, this is what I’m talking about.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-12-11 16:55:04+00:00
It would be one thing if it was a 20% increase in space usage, or if the whole game was smaller to start with, or if they had actually checked to see how much it assisted HDD users.

But over 6x the size with so little benefit for such a small segment of the players is very frustrating. Why wasn't this caught earlier? Why didn't anyone test? Why didn't anyone weigh the pros and cons?

It's kind of exemplary of HD2's technical state in general - which is a mix of poor performance and bugs. There was a period where almost every other mission became impossible to complete because it was bugged.

The negativity is frustration boiling over from years of a bad technical state for the game.

I do appreciate them making the right choice now though, of course.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-12-11 16:55:06+00:00
> I would hazard a guess that your knowledge lead to better prompts, better approach... heck even understanding how to build a status bar menu on Mac OS is slightly expert knowledge.

You're imagining that I'm giving Claude technical advice, but that is the point I'm trying to make: I am not.

This is what "vibe-coding" tries to specify.

I am only giving Claude UX feedback from using the app it makes. "Add a dropdown that lets me change the girth".

Now, I do have a natural taste for UX as a software user, and through that I can drive Claude to make a pretty good app. But my software engineering skills are not utilized... except for that one time I told Claude to use an AGDT because I fancy them.
Show HN: Git-Scope – A Fast TUI Dashboard for Managing Multiple Git Repos
by iam_pbk | 2025-12-11 16:55:29+00:00
Hi HN,

I work across many local git repositories (microservices, OSS projects, config repos, experiments), and I often lose track of which ones are dirty, ahead/behind, or where I last made changes. Checking each repo with git status became a daily time sink.

So I built git-scope — a small TUI that shows the state of all your git repos in one terminal screen.

What it does

Recursively finds git repos under a directory

Shows clean/dirty/ahead/behind status at a glance

Fuzzy search + quick filtering

Press Enter to jump straight into a repo (shell or editor)

Uses lightweight git metadata to avoid running git status everywhere

~10ms startup on my machine thanks to caching

Fully local, no telemetry

Screenshot

https://github.com/Bharath-code/git-scope/raw/main/docs/git-...

Install brew tap Bharath-code/tap && brew install git-scope

Windows & Direct go install github.com/Bharath-code/git-scope/cmd/git-scope@latest

Repo

https://github.com/Bharath-code/git-scope

What changed since the last version

Improved install instructions

Better TUI layout

Contribution graph

Timeline

Disk usage

More feedback from early users

Working on grouping/presets and auto-refresh modes

Considering Windows native support

Looking for feedback

Thoughts on multi-repo workflows

Anyone using file watchers for TUIs?

Ideas for grouping, workspace presets, or performance improvements

Git internals tips for detecting state changes efficiently

Happy to answer questions or go into implementation details. Thank you for taking a look!