MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by csb6 | 2025-12-15 19:39:19+00:00
Seems like the unions have a lot of valid concerns about how the measures in those bills will be implemented and how/if new materials/training will be provided for teachers. It also seems like legislators are mostly ignoring the unions and passing the laws anyways, so not sure how unions are gaining power over curriculums in any way. If teachers’ unions had any significant leverage on legislatures I would think teacher salaries would be higher, which other unions (e.g. dockworkers) are successful at doing.
by kstrauser | 2025-12-15 19:39:21+00:00
I was on that train, too, but... harmless according to whom? The same ag lobbyists who claimed Roundup was harmless?

I'm pretty freaking far from a conspiracy theorist, but I've lived through:

* Tobacco companies claiming it was safe.

* Alcohol companies claiming it was safe.

* Food companies claiming trans fats were safe.

* Oil companies claiming leaded gasoline was safe.

* Mining companies claiming asbestos was safe.

...and a gazillion similar episodes.

At this point, it seems absolutely insane to trust any large industry's claims that their products are safe.
by publicdebates | 2025-12-15 19:39:49+00:00
I wonder if the design of D-Bus has anything to do with a principle I notice a lot, where the most meritorious solution never rises to the top for any given problem, but rather one apparently chosen by absolute randomness. For example, I wonder how many repos on github have legitimately created a 100% better framework than React, but the author simply can't get the word out for whatever reason, so the project remains accidentally anonymous. Maybe D-Bus has something similar?
by judah | 2025-12-15 19:40:03+00:00
Perhaps there would be more freedom and self-determination for the West Bank if the Fatah government redirected spending its resources from terrorism to infrastructure and services for its people?

In 2023, there were 214 terrorist attacks per month. Israel instituted more security checkpoints, which has resulted in a decline to 57 attacks/month this year.

And yet, 57 attacks per month still ridiculously high. What nation would tolerate that? Is it any wonder that there are security restrictions in place?

As for Ariel University, it is within a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, so Palestinians are generally opposed to its existence. (And indeed, opposed to the existence of Jews in the West Bank, which is a true form of racism and apartheid.) And yet, Ariel University does have a minority of Arab students among the Jewish majority.
by cyberax | 2025-12-15 19:40:14+00:00
Agreed.

> A sufficiently advanced attack can gain access but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be hardening against less sophisticated attacks.

I'm a bit worried that with the advent of AI, there won't be any real difference between these two. And AI can do recon, choose the tools, and perform the attack all within a couple of minutes. It doesn't have to be perfect, after all.

I've been thinking about it, and I'm just going to give up on trying to secure the dev environments. I think it's a done deal that developers' machines are going to be compromised at some point.

For production access, I'm going to gate it behind hardware-backed 2FA with a separate git repository and build infrastructure for deployments. Read-write access will be available only via RDP/VNC through a cloud host with mandatory 2FA.

And this still won't protect against more sophisticated attackers that can just insert a sneaky code snippet that introduces a deliberate vulnerability.
by my-toe-siz | 2025-12-15 19:40:27+00:00
There isn't a global rate, mitotis rate depends on the cell type and many other inputs.

For example, see Table 1: https://book.bionumbers.org/how-quickly-do-different-cells-i...

You /could/ compute a global mean or median mitosis rate, and show how it changes/doesn't change with age, but it wouldn't say very much biologically. A narrower analysis that considers cell type and other context could be meaningful.
by Arun_Kurian | 2025-12-15 19:40:55+00:00
Ya Jakub really did an amazing job with Splatter, Martin and Will at SuperSplat also have something similar and works great. Only difference with us is that ours is light weight, native, support XR (VisionPro) and LOD structure is computed on load time, so you can load in any splat file within a couple of seconds.
by orwin | 2025-12-15 19:41:08+00:00
France tried something clever pre-covid.

You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Convention_for_Climat...

Totally random people could draft new laws on climate (at least, they were told this). They met with lobbyists, both pro-oil and pro-climate for two weekends, experts on three other weekends, once in a conference-style where very generic stuff is said, two other in focus groups with more specific expertises, depending on the subject the focus group is on.

Experts were real experts though, with multiple publications and PhDs (or in some cases, engineering degrees, especially during the conference week), and tried to only talk on their subject matter.

In around 8 weekend, the 150 random people made ?148? law propositions, helped by lawyers, and most experts agree that they were both good and reasonable. What's interesting is that most of the 150 people said that before really learning about the subject, they would never have made this kind of propositions.

All that to say: experts don't have to run things, and imho, they should not. They should however have an advisory role to the random people drafting new laws.
by tptacek | 2025-12-15 19:41:09+00:00
I mean, it's usually wrong in its rhetoric, and the writing isn't "good", but it's technically well constructed and it's well constructed in a way that "Hemingway" doesn't reject.

Like, if I ask GPT5 to convert 75f to celsius, it will say "OK, here's the tight answer. No fluff. Just the actual result you need to know." and then in a new graf say "It's 23.8c." (or whatever).
by maxloh | 2025-12-15 19:41:11+00:00
> No, literally no soverign country would allow a region to operate without national security umbrella for decades...

In other "normal" sovereign countries, the "national security umbrella" is defined by representatives voted by the people. Suspected violators are prosecuted by a fair court, with a jury determining the validity of the charges. I don't think either of those is the case for Hong Kong.

> Human rights > national security is frankly absurdly unserious position to take.

Again, in any state with decent democracy, the law states otherwise. A nation is formed to protect the rights of its people, not to take those rights away.

> What is obviously traitorous, is shaking hands with ex head of CIA, we lie we cheat we steal Pompeo, during ongoing Sino-US geopolitical cold war, while advocating for sanctions on your own people. That's not obedience, that's treason.

That is rarely considered a national security case in any decent democratic country. He was actually exercising his freedom of speech, as defined in the UN's basic human rights charter I mentioned earlier. Limiting which political viewpoints are "allowed" is a classical, textbook example of authoritarianism.
by chasd00 | 2025-12-15 19:41:40+00:00
> The Navy tested a C-130 on the USS Forrestal and accomplished 21 landings.

my son plays DCS and that game just got a C-130 module and he showed me youtube vids of people landing on carriers. I had to think hard if that was an actual thing or not. Seems like a C-130 can land/take-off pretty much anywhere so why not a carrier?
by ang_cire | 2025-12-15 19:41:56+00:00
> You could make the argument that it's one of very few successful U.S. manufacturing company winning on purely technical/capitalist terms

Except it's not winning on that at all. It's "winning" because Chinese EV brands are barred from selling in the US. You can't buy an Avatr if you want. It's in fact protectionist regulations that allowed Tesla to retain EV dominance in the US, in the face of Chinese competition.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-12-15 19:41:58+00:00
Can't you guys stop reinventing the wheel every other day? I hate D-Bus like everyone else, even though at least it did bring project Utopia and all such crap. But even if I think it sucks I stay with it for the simple reason that the more alternatives you create the more you annoy other users WAY MORE than any benefit you bring them. D-Bus has been used everywhere from LG TVs to automotives, so at least it f*cking works.

Does it miss a spec? Write one.

Do you really want your secretsd or whatever to only be able to reply to whomever stored the secret? Make clients store a cookie or something and only reply if they prove ownership of it. But I have to ask : what the hell is your threat model here? The attacker is just going to ptrace firefox and read all the secrets anyway. Or read its files in $XDG_CONFIG_DIR. You are just moving around who has the ultimate responsibility, and that looks like security theater. In addition, I _want_ other programs to be able to read secrets (e.g. keyring administrators, .netrc-style shared secrets, etc.)

Do you hate a{sv}? If you propose JSON as alternative, you are going to make me laugh.

Etc. Etc.
by croes | 2025-12-15 19:42:06+00:00
> If they'd chosen a non-date for unknown values, maybe 00 or 99 for day or month components, then the issue you described would disappear

> Norwegian PNs have your birth date (in DDMMYY format) as the first six digits.

You can already feel the disaster rising because sone program expects always the latter.

And it doesn’t fix the problem, it just makes it less likely.
Show HN: A spinning ring giveaway game – built as a non-coder with AI
by xtafnuihc | 2025-12-15 19:42:27+00:00
I want to be very transparent upfront: I’m not a developer.

This little spinning giveaway game is something I built for my hardware project, and almost all of the code was generated with the help of AI (mainly Gemini), with a lot of trial, error, and copy-paste on my side.

I focused more on: – the idea – the interaction – how it feels to users

rather than clean architecture or perfect code.

I’m sharing this here not as a “technical achievement”, but as an experiment in what non-coders can build today with AI assistance.

I’d genuinely appreciate: – feedback – criticism – or suggestions on what’s done badly / dangerously
Ask HN: Is the antigravity web site high CPU on your OS?
by newsoftheday | 2025-12-15 19:42:48+00:00
Go to https://antigravity.google/, there is a cool animation playing. I'm on Ubuntu Linux Desktop using KDE Desktop and a AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core Processor based machine, Chrome and "top" shows the page uses over 100% CPU consistently. It is high CPU on Windows or Mac?

Edit: I use an nVidia RTX 3080 GPU.
by j45 | 2025-12-15 19:43:05+00:00
There are multiple ways to get to engagement of users for outcomes.

If your goal is keeping them spinning, there's ways that were discovered to do that. If you can get people to their outcome in a similar fashion, that might be sufficient.

Instead of calm, you might just be after focus, as in calm focus.

Is your solution about you, or them?

Are the usage statistics you're after based on vanity metrics, or outcome metrics?

I would find how you solve the user's outcome, and then support that journey with the appropriate tools. Tactics will come and go, and users will become immune to them.
by slowturtle | 2025-12-15 19:43:17+00:00
As for Gaza, it's ridiculous to say that Israel doesn't occupy it when even long before October 2023 the Israelis have imposed a complete blockade on the territory. They control the movement of goods, they control the water supply, the power supply, the airspace, they built a 20-foot wall around it, they destroyed the only airport, they control how far fishing boats can go out, and on and on. How is that not military control?
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-15 19:43:18+00:00
And if you poke a bit around, not even that was really of their own making: http://arduinohistory.github.io/ . There also has been some discussion about that here on HN, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009209, which was less than a month ago.
by xxmarkuski | 2025-12-15 19:43:46+00:00
I set it up for an old Google account that has been breached. It did a relatively good job, but HIBP has more data in my experience, albeit it mainly looks at emails, whereas Google's report can do lookups by full name, address, and phone number. I think it was useful, but did not get enough love to be like a second HIBP.
by jarpschope | 2025-12-15 19:44:08+00:00
There has been extensive debate around that topic since that paper came out. Some points to discuss:

1. Even the article you shared mentions that starting in 2003, earnings has stopped tracking productivity. "Total compensation remains close until 2003, but does not follow 2003’s uptick in productivity growth (behavior which remains a topic for future research)."

2. They use average earnings and not median earnings. Average earnings include people like CEOs. This by consequence shows that inequality among workers has also increased. Check out chart 4 here to see how much smaller median wages are compared to average: (https://www.csls.ca/ipm/23/IPM-23-Mishel-Gee.pdf)

3. Apart from the average vs median difference, the biggest point of contention between that study and more recent ones is the measure of inflation used. The 2007 study you cite uses a measure of inflation that also includes things paid by employers like medical insurance. It turns out that using that one leads to significantly lower inflation. If you use consumer price index, what workers actually pay out of pocket, the difference again becomes larger. Citing page 37 of the study above: "In other words, that the prices of consumer items has risen faster than a broader index of prices that includes net exports, government goods and services, and investment goods. Therefore, for a given increase in income, the purchasing power of the consumer has fallen faster than that of business for investment goods and foreigners for U.S. exports."

The article I shared before plus this other one describe all the discrepancies (https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/). Specially see chart 10 in the PDF study. That shows all possible variations of how you measure productivity and income. No matter how you look at it, the most substantiated conclusion is that income has NOT matched productivity.
by jacobgkau | 2025-12-15 19:44:21+00:00
I know you've made a handful of comments all to this effect throughout the thread, but it's really not helpful in this particular comment chain. Yes, we know your quality of life in Europe is great. Yes, we know life is more than just GDP. "What we mean that the countries are poorer" is obviously GDP in this comment chain, and this comment chain is not disputing your quality of life, it's pointing out that we (collectively) have the money to have that quality of life here in the US, too.
by pstuart | 2025-12-15 19:44:45+00:00
Sure, but in the context I was considering, creativity itself wasn't a concern.

For coding, creativity is not necessarily a good thing. There are well established patterns, algorithms, and applications could reasonably be construed as "good enough" to assist with the coding itself. Adding a human language model over that to understand the user's intents could be considered an overlay on the coding model.

I confess that this is willful projection of my hope to be able to self-host agents on affordable hardware. A frontier model on powerful hardware would always be preferable but sometimes "good enough" is just that.
by mattmanser | 2025-12-15 19:45:21+00:00
It's kind of the point. If you start writing it, you'll start correcting it and moving things around and adding context and fiddling and more and more.

And your 5 minute prompt just turned I to 1/2 hour of typing

With voice you get on with it, and then start iterating, getting Claude to plan with you.

Not been impressed with agentic coding myself so far, but I did notice that using voice works a lot better imo, keeping me focused on getting on with letting the agent do the work.

I've also found it good for stopping me doing the same thing in slack messages. I ramble my general essay to ChatGPT/Claude, get them to summarize rewrite a few lines in my own voice. Stops me spending an hour crafting a slack message and tends to soften it.
Ask HN: How are you educating your elementary aged children?
by ychandler | 2025-12-15 19:45:38+00:00
Hi folks! We are pretty set on continuing in public school. I totally understand that we should focus more on social / emotional and extra curricular front. As it comes to academics, how have you supplemented their education besides the standard Kumon/Russian School of Math / Singapore Math?

Hearing lots of “stuff” around alpha school and AI enabled learning but have people tried something they liked? We have tried 1. Stuff like Tynker 2. We love Khan Academy kids 3. Haven’t tried any of the subscription box stuff yet
by dabockster | 2025-12-15 19:45:41+00:00
Episode 9 is better overall if you can power through retconning Palpatine's death in Episode 6. Which I feel JJ Abrams did only because Episode 8 made the mistake of killing off Snoke. But either way, Episode 9 does have largely better writing and direction.

But also, yeah Episode 8 is the worst movie in the main film series. It makes Episode 2 look good.
by runako | 2025-12-15 19:45:47+00:00
Thanks for responding. This sounds like the type of thing companies have done in cycles over the years. Some % gets dissatisfied with their vendor, so they bring in-house. That predictably sucks (distraction, can't keep up with third-party tools, etc.) and so the companies go back into the marketplace. I've even been the one building some of those internal tools. :-)

Overall, that story sounds more like the niche is not well-served by software and perhaps there is an opening for a competitor to serve them well. Or perhaps the attrition will make the incumbents improve.
by m000 | 2025-12-15 19:45:54+00:00
Why not just use UUIDs as a unique column next to a bigint PK?

The power and main purpose of UUIDs is to act as easy to produce, non-conflicting references in distributed settings. Since the scope of TFA is explicitly set to be "monolithic web apps", nothing stops you from having everything work with bigint PKs internally, and just add the UUIDs where you need to provide external references to rows/objects.
by thunky | 2025-12-15 19:46:07+00:00
> Almost none of the original work I've ever posted online has been "given away for free", because it was protected by copyright law that AI companies are brazenly ignoring.

I just don't think the AI is doing anything differently than a human does. It "learns" and then "generates". As long as the "generates" part is actually connecting dots on its own and not just copy & pasting protected material then I don't see why we should consider it any different from when a human does it.

And really, almost nothing is original anyway. You think you wrote an original song? You didn't. You just added a thin layer over top of years of other people's layers. Music has converged over time to all sound very similar (same instruments, same rhythms, same notes, same scales, same chords, same progressions, same vocal techniques, and so on). If you had never heard music before and tried to write a truly original song, you can bet that it would not sound anything like any of the music we listen to today.

Coding, art, writing...really any creative endeavor, for the most part works the same way.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-12-15 19:46:17+00:00
Veeam is a good start because they already support a bunch of hypervisors and are working on more. But for example, Veeam can't yet do replication with Proxmox, but it can with VMware and Hyper-V.

For hardware, I'd avoid going in on hypervisor platforms that need you to buy their specific hardware. Your standard Dell, HP, Lenovo servers can run almost anything, but if you buy a hyperconverged system you are going to get yourself locked in.

A big lesson I learned is: Make sure to divide up your storage pools enough! There's no easy way to gradually migrate if your storage array is one big VMware VMFS file system.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-12-15 19:46:23+00:00
Yeah, people have wildly different experiences.

I think it depends on what models you are using and what you're asking them to do, and whether that's actually inside their technical abilities. There are not always good manuals for this.

My last experience: I asked claude to code-read for me, and it dug out some really obscure bugs in old Siemens Structured Text source code .

A friend's last experience: they had an agent write an entire Christmas-themed adventure game from scratch (that ran perfectly).
by ecshafer | 2025-12-15 19:46:42+00:00
Theres a spectrum too it. Helping design fighter jets and missiles? Yes that has to be done with the idea that the weapons you are designing for national security can and most likely will be used in such a way that will cause harm. However in espionage or cyber security, those are almost all pure good. You are protecting information or attaining information.

The main myth though is that somehow there is this idea that someone working as a booze allen contractor for the NSA or CIA is going to now be blackballed by everyone out of disgust. Most people will see it as good, and most companies just want talent and dont actually care about what areas people are in.
by CallumReid | 2025-12-15 19:47:08+00:00
Download release: https://github.com/callumreid/bigCursor/releases/tag/v1.0.0

I noticed that when I shake my mouse around a lot, the cursor grew slightly. and I thought that was awesome but it didn't grow nearly big enough. so here's the solution for anyone running into that same issue. shake em if ya got em
by jeanlucas | 2025-12-15 19:47:35+00:00
My "test prompt" for AIs used to be to create an extension to manage tabs. After a year and with MV3 the extension I used to kill duplicated tabs died.

Now this one became my favorite extension.

https://github.com/jeanlucaslima/ato

Warning: current version is maintained only through claude code, even the README. Feel free to criticize/send suggestions.
by WalterBright | 2025-12-15 19:47:35+00:00
> You shouldn't.

The correct number to use is called "total employee compensation". This includes:

1. salary

2. paid days off

3. health care benefits

4. retirement benefits

5. employer 401k contributions

6. incentive stock plans

7. taxes paid on behalf of the employee (such as the so-called employer's contribution to social security)

8. free food in the company cafeteria

9. any other benefits that cost money

The cost to employers for these benefits adds about 30% to total employee compensation.
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-15 19:47:40+00:00
>Remember that in just 3 years this will stop helping you to get hired, and will probably look like a blemish on your CV when you eventually need to get a new job.

The worst part about this entire political is that Dems are most likely gonna win, and everyone will just move on.

Im really hoping that Trump lives long enough to actually stage a coup and tank the US economy so hard that things like working for this or DOGE actually do start to matter.
by al_borland | 2025-12-15 19:47:40+00:00
> In August 2022, news broke that the company suffered two back-to-back data breaches

I don't think it's possible to rebuild trust after this, when the entire business is about trust. If LastPass falls, everything the user has access to falls as well. Data breaches are not acceptable in the password business, not once, and surely not back-to-back. If there is a chance to rebuild trust, it surely takes more than 3 years.

Home Depot had a data breach recently and my first thought was, "again?" When I looked, the last one was 10 years ago, but my view of Home Depot is still one of a company that can't secure information. But for Home Depot, they can survive, I can still shop there without giving them any meaningful information since their core business is a hardware store, not secret management.