MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GlibMonkeyDeath | 2025-12-01 14:29:26+00:00
I agree that the way the US pays for health care is completely broken, but your framing of the Association Health Plan rule change is strange to me.

Association Health Plans are a way to weaken the ACA, so Republicans can finally get back to the days of underwritten health insurance (i.e., de-facto denials for preexisting conditions via unaffordable insurance costs.) It has been in legal limbo for a while, and the Department of Labor finally (rightfully, in my opinion) seriously limited the scope of these plans.

AHP's are able to charge based on the "health" of the group, and aren't subject to covering the ACA essential items (like, say, emergency, maternal, or rehabilitation care.) This would encourage groups of "healthy" people to form low-cost plans that lacked basic coverage, and would leave "sick" people on ACA plans, which of course would go up in cost because of this.

We saw this in the bad old pre-ACA days. It's the classic death spiral that made most "high risk" pools basically non-functional before the ACA. The only option was to have a job through an employer with a large enough group plan that your rates wouldn't skyrocket. Otherwise, the option was usually bankruptcy.

Of course, literally every other modern democratic nation besides the US has figured out how to provide health insurance in one way or another without bankrupting their citizens. Maybe you could do another article showing how other countries systems avoid the US problems.
by triceratops | 2025-12-01 14:29:28+00:00
If you have a driveway and no garage, my sympathies. If you have a garage, and your winters are as severe as you say, why not park in the garage? It's better for your car and tires and you won't spend any time or fuel scraping and warming.

It's not the feature I dislike. I find the practice of idling a car to warm it wasteful and polluting.
by jgrahamc | 2025-12-01 14:29:46+00:00
In my 6502 hacking days, the presence of an exclusive OR was a sure-fire indicator you’d either found the encryption part of the code, or some kind of sprite routine.

Yeah, sadly the 6502 didn't allow you to do EOR A; while the Z80 did allow XOR A. If I remember correctly XOR A was AF and LD A, 0 was 3E 01[1]. So saved a whole byte! And I think the XOR was 3 clock cycles fast than the LD. So less space taken up by the instruction and faster.

I have a very distinct memory in my first job (writing x86 assembly) of the CEO walking up behind my desk and pointing out that I'd done MOV AX, 0 when I could have done XOR AX, AX.

[1] 3E 00
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-12-01 14:29:49+00:00
Yes and no.

What happens in practice is that a provider charges $200 for "distributing Advil" and $50 for two pills. Then the insurance company, whose legally allowed profit is proportional to payouts, "negotiates" the price down to $150 total and claims to the person "we saved you $100". Then their accountant says "we paid out $150, so we get a profit margin of $40" (instead of the $0.50 they would get with a real at-cost charge).

But the price is made up nonsense and 100x actual cost for 15 seconds handing a 1¢ pill over. Which is why asking for an itemized receipt and saying you can't afford that suddenly drops the bill to $1.50.

When providers don't "play ball" with the price fixing the way insurance company wants, they go off network.
by arthurfirst | 2025-12-01 14:29:54+00:00
I get the moral argument and even agree with it but we are a minority and of course we expect to be able sell our professional skills -- but if you are 'right' and out of business nobody will know. Is that any better than 'wrong' and still in business?

You might as well work on product marketing for ai because that is where the client dollars are allocated.

If it's hype at least you stayed afloat. If it's not maybe u find a new angle if you can survive long enough? Just survive and wait for things to shake out.
by willahmad | 2025-12-01 14:30:07+00:00
Why is it my earlier comment with so many upvotes got [flagged] ?

Is it because I mentioned the entity name?

Here is the comment:

"It’s ironic how the West has long championed democracy, demanded freedom of speech, and called for human rights from everyone. Only to suddenly adopt authoritarian, anti-free speech, anti-human rights, and anti-protest stances the moment free speech began to critique Israel.

It’s truly shameful to see such developments."
by greenbeans12 | 2025-12-01 14:30:21+00:00
In the FBI's 2024 IC3 report, internet crime losses were estimated to be over $16B, with $4.8B attributed directly to individuals 60+. Many people know folks who have gotten hit by Medicare, investment, or tech support scams. You probably can think of someone close to you.

Antivirus programs are antiquated, bloated, and resource intensive and fail to protect users from scam sites. When I had a family member ask me what antivirus to buy for web threats I couldn't recommend anything.

We launched Ward to try and address this problem for our family members, but realized quickly it can help basically any non-savvy internet user - elders, children, non-technical folks, etc. It uses Gemini Nano in the browser under the hood for scanning the DOM and URL for anything suspicious, and has a cloud-enabled mode for supporting less capable hardware like Chromebooks.

We're currently open source and are looking for any and all feedback and testers. We're free in our beta with a high soft quota. When a threat is detected, the user will immediately be directed to stop and click the extension for details, blocking the scam from proceeding.

There's prob not many people on HN who would fall for these, but would you pay for this for peace of mind for a loved one?
by chanux | 2025-12-01 14:30:23+00:00
Trifold looks simple! Also seems like a good reason to finally try out bunny.net

For anyone who might find this interesting, I wanted a static site knowledge base but private: https://chanux.me/blog/post/static-site-with-auth/

I host this with GCP and stay within free tier

And how I deploy a similar thing with GCS/Cloud build etc is covered here https://chanux.me/blog/post/automate-static-site-publishing-...
Show HN: Scroll – Table of contents navigation for LLM convos
by askerkurtelli | 2025-12-01 14:30:40+00:00
I kept losing ideas in long chats, so I built a tiny Chrome extension to make navigating between turns/prompts way easier.

Idk why this isn't a native feature on all LLMs.

Anyway, free and open source on GitHub or the Chrome Store. Hope it's helpful!

Chrome Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/scroll/mpcklmodkihb...

GitHub: https://github.com/asker-kurtelli/scroll
by tim333 | 2025-12-01 14:30:51+00:00
>Government plans new powers to label ... as ‘subversion’

As far as I can see is a lie the website has made up. None of their links include the word subversion. Subversion is not part of British law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion#United_Kingdom

Is there some reality to this or is the website just making stuff up to object to some things they dislike?
by mschild | 2025-12-01 14:30:59+00:00
Not just to blame. They also sell credibility to a lot of managers and bosses.

I've experienced it often enough that upper management doesn't listen to their own employees. Ultimately, a consultant comes in, talks to employees, suggests the exact same thing to the same people, and they love it.

Having that branding on the ppt slides sells ideas. If you're a project manager or department lead and need to push through an idea but your boss won't let you? Try hiring a consultant who will sell it to your boss.
by MisterTea | 2025-12-01 14:31:21+00:00
I've been running home servers in one form or another for some time. Win NT4 briefly, FreeBSD, Win2k server for a while, then to Linux for quite some time. I tried FreeNAS but learned to hate the webui churn and outdated/scattered docs but liked ZFS. Went back to Linux using Mint (yeah, weird choice...) and had issues with Mint and my hardware was crap. I wanted ZFS so I decided to go back to my roots and run FreeBSD again.

I realized the right way to start is with GOOD hardware. So I went on eBay (I know, I know...) and found a nice Supermicro uATX server board and a 65 watt quad core Xeon in the 1151(?) socket then bought a fresh set of Kingston 16 GB ECC DIMMs, and 4x 8TB enterprise CMR SATA disks.

I read the docs and read a few how-to's from blogs and personal sites. In a day I had a everything setup, accounts, Raid-Z5 data store, samba and nfs exporting the data store. It was so damn easy. It's been running solid ever since. It's so reliable it's boring. I have to remind myself its even there so I can run updates and check on the thing to make sure its not full of dust or snakes or whatever.
by eb0la | 2025-12-01 14:31:26+00:00
My fault: I just compiled the instruction with an assembler instead of looking up the actual instruction from documentation.

It makes much more sense: resetting ax, and bc (xor ax,ax ; xor bx,bx) will be 4 octets, DWORD aligned, and a bit faster to fetch by the x86 than the 3-octet version I wrote before.
by LightBug1 | 2025-12-01 14:31:45+00:00
I sympathise. I genuinely do.

But, I always say, once is a aberration. Twice is democracy speaking.

Of course, many many people are opposed but, in the end, you have to own it. And by that I mean, not complaining that it's not your fault, but by doing anything you can to oppose it.

Good luck.
by varispeed | 2025-12-01 14:32:05+00:00
Of course, combined with Digital ID that will track your movements and what you say, this is a logical next step to achieve total control of the population.

Funny that nobody mentions that these things are not actually coming from government, but were lobbied by asset managers and big corporations.

This is text book fascism (marriage of big corporations and government).

Nobody voted for this.
by The_President | 2025-12-01 14:32:18+00:00
Ran a homeserver for 5 years on a minimal VPS and it worked fine. Upsides - works everywhere, self hosted, feature complete. Client software in the ecosystem mostly felt bloated, with the exception of NeoChat. By 2022 the clients could no longer call each other. Decommissioned it this year in favor of traditional XMPP which works fine and it's nice that notifications are appropriately processed, finally.

Our team highly appreciates the work done in Matrix it's just unfortunate that the elephant in the room was never addressed at the start of the project, which is the need for a -simple- first-party administrative dashboard or tool to manage users, storage, and configuration. Without that core component, then you've got a layer of complexity between an admin and an audit which will increase likelihood of misconfiguration or resource management issues.
by chasd00 | 2025-12-01 14:32:27+00:00
I regret I have but one upvote to give.

At least with AI there’s some actual value there, the consulting firms have to jump on every trend because they market themselves as “thought leaders”. I expect a lot of AI shake out this year, people will find where it works and where it doesn’t as well as begins to realize AGI isn’t right around the corner. I’ve gone from pretty skeptical to cautiously optimistic about LLMs with respect to code. I was working on something a couple weeks ago and ran out of free tier claude. I was willing to pay the $20 out of my own pocket to keep using it for work tasks. That forced me to rethink my stance.
by dijit | 2025-12-01 14:32:38+00:00
I’m sure it’s no irony to you - That right now. I’m reading your comment as if we are entirely equals no matter what the circumstances of your background or whatever job you have.

The only thing I know about you is that you call yourself, “basscomm” and unless I go digging (something that I couldn’t have done in the era of the BBS) then I’d have no way of judging your character before reading the words that you speak.
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-01 14:32:42+00:00
Have you considered that you just don't fully understand the literature? It's quite arrogant to write off the entire philosophy of mind as "a complete fraud".

> It's completely unable to describe the old world, much less provide insight into the new one.

What exactly were you expecting?

Philosophy is a science, the first in fact, and it follows a scientific method for asking and answering questions. Many of these problems are extremely hard and their questions are still yet unanswered, and many questions are still badly formed or predicated on unproven axioms. This is true for philosophy of mind. Many other scientific domains are similarly incomplete, and remain active areas of research and contemplation.

What are you adding to this research? I only see you complaining and hurling negative accusations, instead of actually critically engaging with any specifics of the material. Do you have a well-formed theory to replace philosophy of mind?

> I mean, come on. "We've got qualia!" is meaningless. Might as well respond with "Well, sure, but AI has furffle, which is isomporphic." Equally insightful, and easier to pronounce.

Do you understand what qualia is? Most philosophers still don't, and many actively work on the problem. Admitting that something is incomplete is what a proper scientist does. An admission of incompleteness is in no way evidence towards "fraud".

The most effective way to actually attack qualia would be to simply present it as unfalsifiable. And I'd agree with that. We might hopefully one day entirely replace the notion of qualia with something more precise and falsifiable.

But whatever it is, I am currently experiencing a subjective, conscious experience. I'm experiencing it right now, even if I cannot prove it or even if you do not believe me. You don't even need to believe I'm real at all. This entire universe could all just be in your head. Meanwhile, I like to review previous literature/discussions on consciousness and explore the phenomenon in my own way. And I believe that subjective, conscious experience requires certain elements, including a sensory feedback loop. I never said "AI can't experience qualia", I made an educated statement about the lack of certain components in current-generation models which imply to me the lack of an ability to "experience" anything at all, much less subjective consciousness and qualia.

Even "AI" is such a broadly defined term that such a statement is just ludicrous. Instead, I made precise observations and predictions based on my own knowledge and decade of experience as a machine learning practitioner and research engineer. The idea that machines of arbitrary complexity inherently can have the capability for subjective consciousness, and that specific baselines structures are not required, is on par with panpsychism, which is even more unfalsifiable and theoretical than the rest of philosophy of mind.

Hopefully, we will continue to get answers to these deep, seemingly unanswerable questions. Humans are stubborn like that. But your negative, vague approach to discourse here doesn't add anything substantial to the conversation.
by sschueller | 2025-12-01 14:33:00+00:00
The digital version over at https://map.geo.admin.ch/ has existed for many years but it is only a few years now that all Cantos have agreed to provide the data for free[1]. There is a lot of interesting data such as "Lärmbelastung" where you can lookup how loud car or rail traffic is at a location.

[1] https://www.geo.admin.ch/en/general-terms-of-use-fsdi
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-12-01 14:33:07+00:00
I agree about heap - too much overhead to be a great approach on such a constrained target, but of course the standard library for C has to include it all the same.

Memory is better allocated in more of a customized application specific way, such as an arena allocator, or just avoid dynamic allocation altogether if possible.

I was co-author of Acorn's ISO-Pascal system for the 6502-based BBC micro (16KB or 32KB RAM) back in the day, and one part I was proud of was a pretty full featured (for the time) code editor that was included, written in 4KB of heavily optimized assembler. The memory allocation I used was just to take ownership of all free RAM, and maintain the edit buffer before the cursor at one end of memory, and the buffer content after the cursor at the other end. This meant that as you typed and entered new text, it was just appended to the "before cursor" block, with no text movement or memory allocation needed.
by jsheard | 2025-12-01 14:33:24+00:00
Samsung directly announced that OpenAI expects to procure up to 900,000 DRAM wafers every month. That number being 40% of global supply comes from third party analysis, but the market is going to notice nearly a million wafers being diverted each month however you slice it. That's a shitload of silicon.

https://news.samsung.com/samsung-and-openai-announce-strateg...

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-star...
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-01 14:33:34+00:00
I don't get these comments. I'm not here to shill for SO, but it is a damn good website, if only for the archive. Can't remember how to iterate over entries in JavaScript dictionary (object)? SO can tell you, usually much better than W3Schools can, which attracts so much scorn. (I love that site: So simple for the simple stuff!)

When you search programming-related questions, what sites do you normally read? For me, it is hard to avoid SO because it appears in so many top results from Google. And I swear that Google AI just regugitates most of SO these days for simple questions.
by afavour | 2025-12-01 14:33:47+00:00
I still don’t blame anyone for trying to chart a different course though. It’s truly depressing to have to accept that the only way to make a living in a field is to compromise your principles.

The ideal version of my job would be partnering with all the local businesses around me that I know and love, elevating their online facilities to let all of us thrive. But the money simply isn’t there. Instead their profits and my happiness are funnelled through corporate behemoths. I’ll applaud anyone who is willing to step outside of that.
by jeffbee | 2025-12-01 14:34:04+00:00
> the price has increased 75% in the last decade

It launched at $9.99[1] and is now $13.99[2] which I believe to be a 40% increase, i.e. flat in real dollars. If like most people you subscribe for a year, it's only $11.67/mo.

1: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/youtube-free...

2: https://www.youtube.com/premium
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-01 14:34:28+00:00
It breaks all my shit, for bullshit condescending reasons. For instance I have a script that matches window titles to pipewire audio streams so I can change the volume per window without messing around in pavucontrol/etc. There's no cross platform way to do that with Wayland because ""security"" means it's supposedly dangerous for programs to read the title bars of other applications, even though the individual Wayland compositor apparently each have a proprietary way of doing this.
by grayhatter | 2025-12-01 14:34:51+00:00
> There's no need to be upset with the fact that some people want to hack explosive stuff together before it becomes a predictable glacier of Real Engineering.

You misunderstand me. I'm not upset that people are playing with explosives. I'm upset that my industry is playing with explosives that all read, "front: face towards users"

And then, more upset that we're all seemingly ok with that.

The driving force of enshittifacation of everything, may be external, but degradation clearly comes from engineers first. These broader industry trends only convince me it's not likely to get better anytime soon, and I don't like how everything is user hostile.
by NekkoDroid | 2025-12-01 14:34:52+00:00
You don't even need a developer mode. I was looking into making my own image based distro/system which has its bootchain entirely verified and I intend to make any modifications via system extentions[1], which IIRC also get measured aswell (or was at least planned somewhere). To be fair, this is purely additive or overlaying, so no removing of files, at best changing. This all would be signed using Secure boot and after the fact using dm-verity.

Secure Boot in theory isn't even necessary, only TPM2. Secure boot only ensure that you are actually booting into a binary that you expect to boot in this case, so if your binary is actually different it would result in different PCR values in the TPM indicating something is wrong.

Sadly a lot of end user software (flatpak, ...) isn't packaged & signed in a way which would allow for full "only run software I allow by importing public keys" (read Linux IPE[2]), but what can you do, only your best I suppose...

[1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-sys...

[2]: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/LSM/ipe.html
by Zigurd | 2025-12-01 14:35:22+00:00
This is an archetypal case of where a law wouldn't help. The other side of the coin is that this is exactly a data loss bug in a product that is perfectly capable of being modified to make it harder for a user to screw up this way. Have people forgotten how comically easy it was to do this without any AI involved? Then shells got just a wee bit smarter and it got harder to do this to yourself.

LLM makers that make this kind of thing possible share the blame. It wouldn't take a lot of manual functional testing to find this bug. And it is a bug. It's unsafe for users. But it's unsafe in a way that doesn't call for a law. Just like rm -rf * did not need a law.
by mushufasa | 2025-12-01 14:35:37+00:00
My understanding with this project is they also replace the screen and battery with newer parts e.g. higher resolution, or at least that's an option, and all the ports are new (it's a new motherboard). So really the only 'old' parts are the keyboard and chassis. My understanding is there's lots of cheap replacements for the keyboard floating out there given the mass production and the original intention for this device to be easily serviceable by IT departments instead of "RMA everything."
by yadaeno | 2025-12-01 14:35:39+00:00
In 2023, the number of people arrested for online comments: UK (12,183), Belarus (6,205), Germany (3,500), China (1,500).

How do people in the UK defend this? I consider myself a liberal and to defend this government is a level of hypocrisy so beyond the pale.

Am I being reactionary here? Are things actually not that bad in the UK?
by chasd00 | 2025-12-01 14:35:50+00:00
Accenture is a big place, it has a “nice part of town” where there’s genuinely good people who do good things. There’s also the boring part of town where they just “turn the crank and go home”. There’s also “the wrong side of the tracks” that’s just career nightmare fuel.

/not admitting I work there but… you know
by maciejgryka | 2025-12-01 14:35:51+00:00
We've been experimenting with small models for structured tool calling tasks and just released gitara. Both the 3B and 1B models turn natural language instructions into valid git commands and run fully locally through Ollama.

Highlights:

1/ Same accuracy as a 120B GPT-OSS 2/ Runs on your laptop using Ollama 3/ <1.5 seconds response time

Examples: - “undo last commit but keep changes” → `git reset --soft HEAD~1` - “what is in the latest stash, show diff” → `git stash show --patch` - “show 8 commits as a graph” → `git log -n 8 --graph`

The repo includes the code, tool schema, examples, and evaluation method.
by rkachowski | 2025-12-01 14:36:06+00:00
the gatekeeping, gaming the system, capricious moderation (e.g. flagged as duplicate), and general attitude led it to be quite an insufferable part of the internet. There was a meme about how the best way to get a response is to answer your own question in an obviously incorrect fashion, because people want to tell you why you're wrong rather than actively help.
by Gracana | 2025-12-01 14:36:16+00:00
I did that for years and I recommend it as well. Pure linux desktop + console for games is a nice combo and a good separation of functions.

Of course... at this point I am back to having a PC with a beastly GPU and I boot Windows for games and CAD. It is hard to resist high framerate 4k gaming once it becomes a possibility, so now I need to figure out the secure boot problem for the occasional game that requires it.