MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MangoToupe | 2025-12-12 14:38:30+00:00
> And I am also not entirely convinced that Rust is really better than C.

Well it's certainly not worse than c, and it's hard to argue it's as bad, so...

> I don't think merely moving to Rust makes Tor faster either.

It would be crazy to think switching languages would make a network protocol faster without some evidence of this.
by notpushkin | 2025-12-12 14:38:35+00:00
> The transferable agreement stipulated that each project must display the following text on their web site: [...]

Looks like Cornell-UVA satisfied this by placing it on their about page. Red Hat on the other hand hid it on a dedicated legalese page nobody will read: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/

Not a good look IMO.
by traceroute66 | 2025-12-12 14:38:37+00:00
I don't follow.

In the same breath (same paragraph) you state two polar opposites about working with AI:

- I am phenomenally productive - "as long as I occasionally have it stop" and "it tends to forget a lot of rules like DRY"

I don't see how you can claim to be "phenomenally productive" when working with a tool you have to babysit because it forgets your instructions the whole time.

If it was the "junior dev" you also mention, I suspect you would very quickly invite the "junior dev" to find a job elsewhere.
by lunias | 2025-12-12 14:38:50+00:00
I was a victim of this when I moved into my house. Being unfamiliar with the area, I googled for a locksmith near me. It returned a result in a shopping center just about a mile away from me. I'd driven past that center before, it seemed entirely plausible that there was a locksmith in there.

I called the locksmith and they came, but in an unmarked van, spent over an hour to change 2 locks, damaged both locks, and then tried to charge me like $600 because the locks were high security. It's actually a deal for me, y'know, these locks go for much more usually. I just paid them and immediately contacted my credit card company to dispute the charge.

I called their office to complain and the lady answering the phone hung up on me multiple times. I drove to where the office was supposed to be, and there was no such office. I reported this to google maps and it did get removed very quickly, but this seems like something that should be checked or at least tied back to an actual person in some way for accountability.

Then I went to the hardware store and re-changed all the locks myself.
by t90fan | 2025-12-12 14:39:03+00:00
> associated with open source software for digital object repository systems and that Red Hat could use the name when it was clearly associated with open source computer operating systems.'

If it's as worded, I'm surprised Fedora Directory Server didn't end up being a problem for RedHat, as its not an OS, and you could call it a digital object repository system, I guess.

Or maybe thats why they re-branded it as 389 Directory Server?
by SpikedCola | 2025-12-12 14:39:10+00:00
I can't access virtualbox.org any more, they now show an error page saying "Payment Required", with status code 402.

Interestingly, if I change my user agent to "curl/7.70.0", I can browse virtualbox.org again.

They seem to be unhappy with my user agent specifically:

curl -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" https://www.virtualbox.org <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>402 Payment Required</title> </head><body> <h1>Payment Required</h1>
by k310 | 2025-12-12 14:39:36+00:00
> Republicans earlier this year failed to pass a similar 10-year moratorium on state laws that regulate AI as part of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, with the Senate voting 99-1 to remove that ban from the legislation. Trump’s order resurrects that effort, which failed after bipartisan pushback and Republican infighting, but as an order that lacks the force of law. [0]

> Trump has framed the need for comprehensive AI regulation as both a necessity for the technology’s development and as a means of preventing leftist ideology from infiltrating generative AI – a common conservative grievance among tech leaders such as Elon Musk.

On the other hand ..... Grok and others ...

From the party of "states rights" and "small government"

[0] https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/d...
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-12-12 14:39:45+00:00
We use Stripe as our payment processor for normal card payments. They just sent us a notice asking us to "link our bank account" to Stripe. (It's an "ask" but I don't think that they're going to take no for an answer.)

What they're looking for is ongoing access to our bank account data, including current and historical balances, full transaction history, and account metadata. They explicitly say this data can be shared with third parties. This goes well beyond traditional payment processing and is closer to applying for a loan or credit product, except it's being framed as a general account requirement, and perpetually ongoing.

It's kind of insane, tbh. We've signed up with PayPal/Braintree and Authorize.Net and are thinking that we might make the switch next week.
by Simulacra | 2025-12-12 14:39:50+00:00
I would counter that they already have that. Would go so far to say that the government knows pretty much everything you do online by name. What they can't control, it's access. I think the reason for this is for an eventual license to get on the Internet. The same way you need a license to drive a car, you will need a license tied to your real identity, to use the Internet.
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by mickfoly | 2025-12-12 14:40:09+00:00
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Analytics Suite • Review growth tracking • CTR and conversion influence • Product-level sentiment graph • Performance metrics dashboard

Widgets • Carousel widget • Popup widget • Sidebar widget • Photo-review widget • One-click embed system

Imports • CSV • Judge.me • Loox • AliExpress/Amazon

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Happy to share metrics, code structure, or demo privately.
by aurareturn | 2025-12-12 14:40:24+00:00
... I mean, yeah, if you could reliably predict _those_, you wouldn't be _telling_ anyone, you'd be busy making billions on options.

Yet, these authors are so confident that there is a bubble and it will burst.

Does everyone know that?

Yes. Everyone. People using dotcom to compare AI bubble. They know how much Nasdaq is worth right now right?
by encom | 2025-12-12 14:40:29+00:00
Well I created the 16 bit .c file, because I'm not that curious. gcc -O0 completed immediately and made a 1,5MB executable. -O1 took about 10 minutes for a 1,8 MB executable. -O2 has been running for 1h15m so far... i7-14700K

I'm in too deep now, so I'll let it run while I'm at work.
by Bender | 2025-12-12 14:40:58+00:00
Here [1] is the zero knowledge solution. It has existed for ages but not adopted likely due to not providing a name, SSN, location and credit card. No third parties, no dependency on CDN's, no sharing or leaking ... anything.

Given that solution is unlikely to be legislated into action I would suggest people are just going to share adult content on Usenet, Tor, P2P, within G/PG rated video games by plonking down a virtual theater and streaming from a throw-away VM and fully automating syncing with LFTP+mirror+SFTP, sharing USB NVME drives, mobile ephemeral websites over WiFi and other methods when people get tired of this Top/Bottom relationship lobbyists want us to participate in. As a plus side, driving people underground means zero tracking, rules, taxes, obligations, leaking email addresses, etc...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152074
by LordDragonfang | 2025-12-12 14:41:32+00:00
...Because Occam's razor is not assuming it's a "mistake"?

There's a thread full of people saying how clever humorous they find almost every headline.

The real 4D chess is dogmatically assuming it is not assuming it managed to by pure accident succeed in that dozens of separate times, because your dogma refuses to incorporate evidence to the contrary.

Occam's razor is that this system which no one actually understands the emergent capabilities of, and is convincing so many people it has intention... has intention.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-12-12 14:41:53+00:00
Austria is the only European country I've been to that doesn't have cheap affordable intercity buses. Seemingly none at all. It was kind of strange... Does anyone know why?

The only options to get around was the expensive train system - and anyone I asked was bewildered why I would want to take a bus.. Maybe next time I should look in to carpooling or some other options. How do low income people get around typically? I need to go to attend a conference, but it's not cheap coming from Asia

EDIT: Seems I was wrong! Sorry. There are buses, (maybe fewer than other countries?)
by tomhow | 2025-12-12 14:41:55+00:00
Does the site mention the budget and completion time/cost at all? I can't find it from a quick browse/search of the site. It's taking editorializing to a whole new level to add details that are not in the linked article or site at all.

The right thing to do in this case is find the best source for this information (about the budget, schedule and completion time/cost) and make that the URL of the submission. Please email us the best links you know of about this (hn@ycombinator.com) and we'll consider updating the URL.
by jfindper | 2025-12-12 14:42:05+00:00
>It’s not supposed to be a primary browsing outlet nor a replacement for a VPN.

Tor wants people to use the network for primary browsing because it helps mask the people that need the protection. The more people using the network, the better for everyone's anonymity.

They even have a whole "Outreach" section at https://community.torproject.org/outreach/
by raxxorraxor | 2025-12-12 14:42:14+00:00
For me personally it certainly contributed. I don't see Trump as an opposition to this, but it made clear that the current administrative landscape in most western nations is hostile, corrupt and criminal. Not only politicians, it is the whole administrative level as well.

I do think that the leaks did something good and we have more of a focus on government being a hostile data proprietor and schooled people to take more care. Perhaps not the masses, but for those that deal with hot information.

Trust in government is low. An achievement that took a lot of work, I guess. The Russian influence campaign was at least partially made up as well, government disinformation. Propaganda is mostly a domestic issue.
by quesera | 2025-12-12 14:42:16+00:00
How about something like "Yes, we have the resources to handle that project"?

> Four people in a small business cannot really ever be a "category".

Sure they can -- they are all employees, for example.

I agree that "resource" is an impersonal word when used for "staff" (largely because it can apply to non-human things). I just don't feel the need to be considered more than a resource at work.

I bring special skills and knowledge, I have no concern that I am an interchangeable cog in the wheel of industry -- and yet at the same time, I have no illusions that I cannot be replaced (on some possibly-inconvenient timescale for business operations, although certainly that has varied over time in my employment history).

Actually that raises an interesting question, I think. When I was in high school, I worked a few summer temp jobs as unskilled labor. If anyone had called me a "resource" then, it would have felt patronizingly euphemistic to the point of absurdity. I was just a body. So in that case "resource" would be a silly upgrade.

So I guess it comes down to context. I can see where a four-person company, especially if you've been there a while, has a much higher expectation of personal relationships.

You mentioned that your boss was on the phone. The other party to the conversation might have been further removed (org chart-wise) from their staff. They might think only in resource allocation and not know any names or capacities at the productive level in their own org, never mind yours. Since they are a client, your boss may have mirrored their language, even though he was speaking about a full human, and within earshot of that human.

I don't know, maybe your boss was just a jerk in general, and this word was enough to make you feel like it was a summary of how he thought about you.

But maybe it was just a word. Neither incorrect, nor intentionally offensive.

Obviously, words can be triggers. I'm in the camp that believes they should not be, for all sorts of logical reasons, but I'm not an absolutist. Some words are intended to be triggering, for example, and although I think it's a mistake to give them that power, I understand it's not that simple and that I speak from a position of privilege.

However, I don't think that "resource" has reached the point of social awareness that it is actually offensive to some people. I think that most people who use the word intend no offense, and are not thinking in a way that, if fully explained, would be offensive.
by jwarden | 2025-12-12 14:42:29+00:00
Assuming a self-similar 80/20 Pareto wealth model (a fractal Lorenz curve), the headline number generalizes as:

Just x% | % wealth held | × poorest half ---------+---------------+---------------- 20% | 80% | 4.00x 4.0% | 64% | 3.20x 0.80% | 51% | 2.56x 0.16% | 41% | 2.05x 0.032% | 33% | 1.64x
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-12-12 14:42:57+00:00
You're absolutely right, we should give google the opportunity to defend itself. What's the phone number google provides so their victims can speak directly with an informed googler to discuss it?

What's that? Google doesn't publish a phone number for their victims to do that? They just victimize and hide?

Okay then google, here's your chance: please reply to this-here post of mine, with a plausible explanation that convincingly exonerates you in light of the evidence against you.

I'll check back in a few hours to see whether google has done so. Until they do, we can continue blaming them.
by thih9 | 2025-12-12 14:43:00+00:00
I expected some job interview meme[1][2] but I did not know this one and it looks like a real story too! Thanks for sharing, that was a fun read.

[1]: https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview

[2]: https://www.richard-towers.com/2023/03/11/typescripting-the-...
by strict9 | 2025-12-12 14:43:49+00:00
Stack Overflow should have been a strong connection for developers who started building software prior to 2022.

A niche place to find the solution for something getting in your way.

Instead, my own experience and every anecdote I've ever heard from those who tried participating mirrors this one.

Genuine questions and thought out responses closed in the harshest way possible.

If the policy on duplicates weren't so rigidly and coldly enforced it would be a place I've visit frequently to learn.

Instead I avoid it and do not feel bad that it's been superseded by LLMs. Which sucks because good human responses are far more preferable.
by lxgr | 2025-12-12 14:43:54+00:00
Flixbus definitely exists in Austria, but people generally take the train, which is much faster and more comfortable.

There are various discount membership plans available that sometimes pay for themselves after just one round-trip or even one-way ride, and on the most popular connections there's now a private operator competing with the state-owned railway.

A yearly flat-rate ticket for intercity trains is also relatively affordable for EUR 1400 per year.
by _pdp_ | 2025-12-12 14:44:57+00:00
What is the difference between this and let's say Claude Code using something like semgrep as a tool?

Also I don't think this tool should be in the developer flow as in my experience it is unlikely to run it on the regular. It should be something that is done as part of the QA process before PR acceptance.

I hope this helps and good luck.
by ornornor | 2025-12-12 14:45:08+00:00
There are usually 10 aisles of meat/meat-related products, and 1/2 aisle of "not meat" products (exaggerated to make my point.) Meat and dairy lobbies are very strong in France, and it's obvious from ads/store aisles.

So I'm pleasantly surprised to see an ad from a French supermarket that is not trying to sell you more turkey, sausage, and beef for Christmas but rather focuses on vegetables.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-12 14:45:29+00:00
I work remotely, my gym is downstairs as well as a convenience store with some fresh (overpriced) items, a bar and an (overpriced) restaurant.

My barber and grocery store is a $9 Uber Ride each way. So I could get away with a car easily where I live now. My wife and I have been down to one car since Covid.

But when I was in the burbs if metro Atlanta where everything wasn’t so close, it would have been over $100 easy going from one side to the other or basically anywhere besides the grocery store.

My car insurance is only $176 a month for my wife and I. It doesn’t make sense not to have a car, even if you include the minor maintenance on a car that would be hardly ever driven. Even at a theoretical $400 car payment + $176 in insurance, it still easy to come out ahead.
by summa_tech | 2025-12-12 14:46:12+00:00
3% FWHM for something you could, at one time, buy for under $100 on eBay is very good. A typical scintillator + photomultiplier detector will get you about 6-7% (NaI:Tl scintillator). The Radiacode, which is super cute and all, gets about 7-9% depending on model.

Narrower FWHM means you will miss fewer energy peaks from isotopes.
by simion314 | 2025-12-12 14:46:27+00:00
Exactly, on my Play Station I setup for my son I enter his real birthday, then Sony knows what can he do in the Store or chat etc. So we could have the big tech Apple, Google, Microsoft, Canonical ensure to make an idiot prof setup screen and the parent is responsible to set the age of the birthday of the child if they give a device to them . Then the store can be filtered and the browser can have a standard way of adding in the headers an age range or something.

Big tech did not want to cooperate to do this for some weird reason so now we get a much more complicated solution.

Yes I know that if your kid uses a live USB stick he could watch porn on his laptop but IMO is much easier for such a smart kid to find a website that does not respect the browser headers and torrent adult content.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-12 14:46:32+00:00
> It can be hard to wrap your head around it from the US,

Come on. Was that necessary? I understand what we are talking about, I am saying none of those articles indicate that there is some huge thing going on where people in the UK are being arrested by the tens of thousands for irreverent memes or whatever. The issue is not my understanding, it’s the handwaving and vague generalizations that are causing issues. It’s coming across as fear mongering and I am looking for clarity.
by mapt | 2025-12-12 14:46:38+00:00
Either you endorse making demographic facts part of admissions to aim at some kind of social justice target, or don't. An disturbingly large fraction of people who discuss this are hypocrites or willful idiots who can't or who refuse to see the conflict. The people who implemented affirmative action in the 60's/70's were not; They were just swinging around a crude tool to try to redress very obvious and profound institutional ills by forcing a bunch of known bigots to act as if they were not bigots.

"Discrimination" originates in a neutral term.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-12 14:46:53+00:00
It's not strange, it's purposeful. It's the same logic as "well George Floyd had a counterfeit 20!"

It's an extremely effective propaganda technique whereby you discredit the person(s) who were affected by injustice, while simultaneously shifting the narrative away from said injustice. It preys on the human minds simple morality reasoning skills - bad people don't do good things, and good people don't do bad things.

Of course, that's not how it works, and it's both. George Floyd maybe did counterfeit a twenty, and that's illegal. But is the punishment for that public execution? What motivation do people have to bring that up? No good motivations, in my mind.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-12-12 14:47:07+00:00
I believe the phrase I'm looking for is hallelujah!

The naming culture is beyond salvation. It crossed the line when things went from 'We invented this word to name our thing.' to 'We fused the concept of breakfast muffins in cat pictures meme to the previous application of the open source tool to name our abstract thing more accurately. That's why it's called 7Mermaids.'

I remember when Yahoo had to spend a fortune on commercials asking "Do you Yahoo?!" It seems that old business lesson was completely forgotten.
by summermusic | 2025-12-12 14:47:37+00:00
We have a 64-bit Toshiba tablet mounted on the wall in our kitchen that works wonderfully as a control surface for HomeAssistant. The battery was easy to remove and it runs off of its own barrel plug connector.

We were thinking to reproduce this in our hallway, but all the spare touchscreen devices (tablets and phones that were our own and from family/friends) have these integrated batteries, and research seems to suggest that none of them will work without a battery anyways, so we are going to attempt to do something like this with an old iPhone or Android phone.

We have some PinePhones lying around that have removable batteries and run just fine without them, but alas they are so underpowered that they can't really run the bloated HomeAssistant web portal, and we don't want to write a custom frontend.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-12-12 14:47:41+00:00
I’m still not quite sure what you mean by credit, perhaps you mean casually using the PIs name over the students in things like review articles and talks?

I’m an academic PI and when I was first getting started as an undergrad I had a falling out with a lab that had an abusive and toxic culture, and tried to publish some of my work without crediting me after I had graduated and left. I was able to contest the authorship and the journal actually changed the author list to properly credit me.
by knorker | 2025-12-12 14:47:47+00:00
Your https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234206 relies on escape analysis though, right?

Escape analysis is the reason your `x` is on the heap. Because it escaped. Otherwise it'd be on the stack.[1]

Now if by "semantics of the code" you mean "just pretend everything is on the heap, and you won't need to think about escape analysis", then sure.

Now in terms of what actually happens, your code triggers escape analysis, and OP does not.

[1] Well, another way to say this I guess is that without escape analysis, a language would be forced to never use the stack.
by tomw1808 | 2025-12-12 14:48:06+00:00
yes, we do, e.g. flixbus. and some others I think. Haven't been traveling for a while by bus around Austria. Apples/Oranges probably, but I do know vienna<->bratislava has like 3-4 different companies operating the same route with similar busses at similar times with different prices.

And talking about apples/oranges, let me add apples/bananas: Vienna to Budapest by train cost a lot when booking via öbb. And not a lot when booking via Regiojet.

The problem is the offers are all scattered around imho.