MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pyrale | 2025-12-05 11:28:28+00:00
> This article is written as though lobbying is some sort of unstoppable force.

The issue here is that the line between lobbying and corruption is very thin and blurry. For instance, the relation between Nellie Kroes and Uber is not an easy one to classify in a judicial context. Who officially pays you has little value in corruption cases. Whether the main culprit is the bribing corporation or the bribed official is also not very interesting.

And while lobbying from corporations is not an unstoppable force, it has certainly shown to be overwhelmingly strong when compared to the lobbying power of individual citizens or non-profit citizen groups.
by input_sh | 2025-12-05 11:28:41+00:00
How do you know?

Please link it if you have found it, because as far as I understand this story, the directive was sent out as an internal memo and therefore neither you or me can simply read it. Plus the Reuters story you've linked also has an almost-identical paragraph:

> The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
Show HN: Meeting notes and transcripts straight into Obsidian
by tomelliot | 2025-12-05 11:28:52+00:00
Over 550 installs! I didn't expect other folks to use it, but it turns out other people also wanted to have their Granola notes + transcripts in Obsidian.

It's my first open source project, so it's cool to have some people using it, and even submitting issues and PRs.

If you use Obsidian + Granola, and have suggestions for how to make it even better, I'd love to hear it.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-05 11:29:55+00:00
> There is a lot of money to be made actually solving climate, energy, and housing problems.

Yeah. That's the problem. These sleaze-bags get the laws and the rules and the theoretically optional best practices that aren't actually optional crafted so that their buddies or the industries they represent get work and money shoveled at them.

I can't put up solar panels, without a goddamn government fee, the fee is nominal, it's a pretext to force me to have an electrician do it or pay him to sign off on my work. And the useful idiots eat that shit right up because "what if your house burns down" as if the positive of the solar panels isn't a difference between a 1/1mil and a 2/1mil chance of that.

That's just one example. Examples abound in every industry. It's not about the climate or the environment or safety or any other one of the "public goods" that gets half the population to turn their already malfunctioning brain off. Those are just bullshit pretexts because they know that people care about those things on surface level so if you can make legalized graft sail under that flag then people will support it.
by amarcheschi | 2025-12-05 11:30:05+00:00
There's really not much else to leak, a lot was already being published. I've prepared a uni exam of ethics in it about chat control and I was so angry and felt so disempowered when writing it

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/ashton-kutchers-non-profit-start...

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/ashton-kutcher-s-anti-childabuse...

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimite...

https://balkaninsight.com/2024/10/11/europol-revising-confli...
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-05 11:31:12+00:00
> the problems that people complained about for decades (costs, bureaucracy, rents, no vision apart from "consume and work")

Insofar as people are actually going over to AfD (and it's not just exaggerated hysterics, the sky is always falling these days...), it's probably got something to do with the issues which are conspicuously absent from your list, which AfD ostensibly addresses, at least more convincingly than the other parties. Namely, immigration. You may not want to admit that as a real problem at all, but that refusal to engage with the issue is the primary reason people line up for the politicians who at least pretend to care about it.
by torginus | 2025-12-05 11:32:04+00:00
Old BMW is nothing like new BMW - I know a few older folks who drive 20+year old BMWs and Audis with 500k+ km they drove off the salon parking lot - not because they can't afford a new one, but they like the current ones.

These old cars were engineered to a high standard, and designed to be maintained - while maintenance isn't cheap, with proper servicing and car, they could last forever.

This is entirely different - in the past few years BMW has become infamous for using low quality plastic fasteners that become brittle and break eventually, and all around penny-pinching everywhere.

It seems they even took the logical next step and installed draconian repair and service prevention measures.

They took the stance that once the car is out of the warranty period and isn't brough to an official service center, they stand to make no profit on it, so it should end up in the scrapyard in the shortest time possible.

This proves to me they don't understand their own market - people who buy expensive (70k+ish EUR) BMWs are all financial wizards who lease their cars, tax optimize them to the gills through legally grey methods and other schemes, and then resell them at the end of the lease.

This means they're able to drive them for like 300-400 euro a month cost - but only because of resale value. If they kill resale, then people won't buy them.

The amount of people who will put down 70k+ in cash at the salon is exceedingly small.
by kotaKat | 2025-12-05 11:32:38+00:00
Service intervals. Other OEMs will prompt a service interval at X thousand miles/km to go pop in and have it looked at by a dealer, probably swap out your cabin air filter, upsell you on some new wiper blades, etc.

ICE vehicles would normally catch these issues sooner because you'd be pulling in a lot more often for oil changes (and a quick mechanical inspection is typically a courtesy at that time).
by Tade0 | 2025-12-05 11:32:40+00:00
What's really happening is that China and India have been beating them on price for years now and are currently buying out European production capacity, so those factory owners are just pulling every lever they have to stay afloat.

It has nothing to do with decarbonization and everything with them having no idea how to compete. It's all the same across your northern border with coal - the coal miners want a graceful phase out because they understand that Australian pit-mined coal is cheaper despite being hauled across the world, but the owners want to keep the status quo and associated government subsidies.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-05 11:33:05+00:00
It's a candidate, but it is definitely not a run race, temps under the engine covers of a plane can get surprisingly high (surprising because you'd think you have plenty of airflow half a meter behind a pocket hurricane). I'm not sure if high temp filaments would be the solution here, but they'd be better candidates. It would need some very thorough testing before trusting your life (or in this case: someone else's) to that kind of solution.
by jmathai | 2025-12-05 11:33:35+00:00
> even if that means they have individual personality

Sadly I think that’s true. People like consistency. Lets them more easily trust. It’s what makes Starbucks and McDonalds so popular even if they aren’t the best options in their category.

I think Medium succeeded at first because it allowed minimal personalization while still signaling to users “this is a legitimate article and not some rando on the web”.
by h27 | 2025-12-05 11:34:14+00:00
From the page:

Avoid stacking everything on a single vendor when it really matters (DNS + CDN + WAF + hosting all in one basket).

I'm not sure I understand several of the statements in this article, such as the above. If my entire service is built on Cloudflare (Workers, DNS, CDN, WAF), moving my DNS to GoDaddy doesn't improve my site's reliability. The only way I'd improve reliability is by having full redundancy of each component, end to end. In other words, a region or availability zone.

There's an industry gap for good alternatives to Cloudflare, but they already make so little money for the value they're providing, why bother?
by rafaelmn | 2025-12-05 11:34:14+00:00
I recently bought their cloud fiber gateway and two in wall wifi 7 access points because I'm setting up a network in my new apartment and hear this multiple times.

Honestly they are nothing like Apple - like just look at their mobile apps - how many do they have - 10 ? To interact with the same gateway just for slightly different use-cases. Not to mention that the functionalities are hard to decipher
by cess11 | 2025-12-05 11:34:25+00:00
With the EU it kind of is, lobbying is institutionally embedded under the guise of regulating it.

Being the group that first makes a move or at least moves early and sets the 'frame' usually has a massive influence on the outcome. Which is by design since the early EEC days.

See e.g. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A168... .
by ido | 2025-12-05 11:35:11+00:00
They tried that, e.g. "EA Originals"[0] is basically that (there are similar programs at other major publishers). I suspect it proved to not be a big money maker at the scale required to move the needle at publishers of that size., and that they are keeping these on as a sort of prestige programs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts#EA_Originals
by seec | 2025-12-05 11:35:25+00:00
The Vision Pro release is a complete joke. If Meta can't make it work for under 1K it's definitely not going to work if you only offer a slighter better product for 3,5K.

I believe that they are so arrogant that they think Meta just suck when in fact it is just a product category still looking for a valuable use case to the general public.

They market it for watching movies but most peoples already hate using headphones for too long and those are pretty comfortable nowadays.
by kristjank | 2025-12-05 11:35:32+00:00
You changed my mind on some points, but this still ticks me off

> Start-stop lowering lifetime of bearings while reducing pollution by idling vehicles, good trade-off.

In my opinion this is not a good trade off. It puts vehicles that would be perfectly serviceable out of circulation, which has other environmental implications for breaking them down, and also another vehicle replaces it. I see the point behind it, but I still find it wasteful considering that we could have a machine last longer.

>Non-removable bottle caps is also a non-issue, it really reduced the littering of bottle caps I used to see everywhere in Sweden, I don't see bottle caps on the ground anymore. The cost is a non-issue as well since after changing production lines it just goes down for every new batch.

Sorry, I wasn't aware of your pollution situation. For me, it makes bottles harder to reuse because you kinda have to detach them if you want to refill and reuse the bottles, which leave sharp plastic barbs at the attachment points. Also, annoying when you're trying to have a drink while driving. It's not a big issue, but where I leave, pollution from bottle caps was a non-issue from the start, so I don't really have a reason to like the change.
by yieldcrv | 2025-12-05 11:35:43+00:00
> Ironically, the very schools that cognitively challenged students are most likely to attend—community colleges—have far lower rates of disabled students, with only three to four percent of such students getting accommodations.

Poor people denigrate mental health issues and don’t have reliable insurance to do anything about it quickly even if they wanted to buck the trend

Rich people fawn over mental health issues, and can quickly get diagnosis over telehealth, rescheduling with a different provider in minutes if the current one won’t diagnose
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 11:35:55+00:00
"It has nothing to do with decarbonization and everything with them having no idea how to compete."

So they lost all the ideas since the 1980s or so, when they were top of the heap?

Maybe, but increasing cost of inputs has more than nothing to do with economic balance of any business. Even regular households feel the increase in heating and electricity costs. A factory which needs orders of magnitude more energy will feel them even more.

Cheap energy is very important to any industry, no way around it. That is why China builds so many power stations.
by squigz | 2025-12-05 11:37:14+00:00
I'm not entirely sure what your point is in telling me this? I mean... I'm literally advocating for that as a measured response to things?

I'll just say that "ceasing relations with a family member" is not "breaking a family apart"

(This is the sort of rhetoric usually used by those who were kicked out of the family; blame the politics for ripping their family apart and not their shitty beliefs)
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-05 11:37:16+00:00
Why? You are communicating with a machine, and (formal) language is a good way to do precise communication. The initial medium to do these communication is not really all that relevant.

The abstraction of putting a display into an two-dimensional array of primitive cells is also not limited to teletypes. Using characters instead of picture elements (commonly shorted to pixels) is not a bad choice when all you want to do is render text and means that your rendering code can be much simpler. That's the case independently of the earlier technology forcing this way.

Teletype emulators also typically have a way of using pixels as the primitive (framebuffers). GUI Teletype emulators now don't, because there is a fine alternative to use pixels (the display server).
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-05 11:37:49+00:00
In the past, when "private property" was literally property, a whole town owned by a company (used to be very common), American courts decided that the company owning the town couldn't restrict free speech in that town.

These days the "property" in question is just a fancy telecom system. And it's already an established principle in America that the phone company doesn't cut off your line just because you're talking some political smack.
by RustyNail96 | 2025-12-05 11:37:57+00:00
Hi HN,

I built this to solve a specific frustration Claude Code has no memory between sessions. Every conversation starts from scratch, which means constantly re-explaining project context, architecture decisions, and previous work.

The approach

Instead of traditional RAG (retrieve document chunks by keyword), the Memory System lets Claude itself decide what’s worth remembering. At session end, it analyzes the transcript and extracts semantic memories with metadata — importance weights, trigger phrases, context types.

On the next session, relevant memories are retrieved via vector similarity + metadata scoring and injected into the context. The AI curates for the AI.

Technical details

FastAPI server running locally (port 8765) ChromaDB for vector storage, SQLite for metadata Sentence transformers for embeddings (MiniLM-L6) Claude Code integration via hooks (SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, SessionEnd) Two curation methods session-based (–resume flag) or transcript-based (Claude Agent SDK) What’s interesting architecturally

The system is CLI-agnostic. Any LLM client that can (1) intercept messages before send and (2) provide session transcripts can integrate. Claude Code is the first implementation, but the memory engine doesn’t care which client is calling it.

Setup is four commands. Everything runs locally — no data leaves your machine.

Curious to hear thoughts on the approach, especially from anyone who’s tried solving the context persistence problem differently.
by criddell | 2025-12-05 11:38:04+00:00
Most of the time I wish games had an option to auto-skip everything that’s skippable (and just about everything that isn’t gameplay should be skippable).

I usually start a game intending to fully immerse myself in it, but the story part of the game usually doesn’t click with me. I’m playing Ghost of Yotei right now and it’s a perfect example of that. Super fun game, boring story.
by SilverBirch | 2025-12-05 11:38:07+00:00
I think these sorts of criticisms boil down to "Why didn't you make a different movie". She's wondering how much he cares about uplifting marginalized voices. That's not what the movie is about! It's just not, there's a very clear idea he's exploring in the movie and it is not that. You could examine those topics. But you're basically just saying "Go make a different movie about my personal interests". Well how about you go make that movie.

I don't see how you could watch that movie and think that the film maker is endorsing the way that character is treated. It's fairly obvious that those stereotypes and "her" treatment is a direct indictment of the main character. I'm not sure I can help if you don't see that.
by outime | 2025-12-05 11:38:21+00:00
As usual, what looks great on paper often falls short in reality because humans are involved. Who could argue that the concept of fact checkers is inherently bad? After all, they're supposed to chase down all the "disinformation" you mention, and they're there to ensure "factual discourse" to prevent "malicious intent." But if someone opposes fact checkers, they must be a pesky leftie/rightie/whatever label fits, and surely they're against the truth... because how could a fact checker have an agenda? It's not possible, they're just checking facts!

In reality, though, why are there so many fact-checking organizations? Shouldn't there be just one, holding all the truth? Oh, right... some are fact checkers, and others are just fakers. Because only organization X does real fact-checking, why cannot everybody agree with me?

You see, the whole system starts to fall apart the more you reason about it. To me, it was just journalism in disguise, pretending to be more neutral, but it's really business as usual.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-05 11:39:31+00:00
What social and environmental policies are you currently lacking? Be specific please.

And we all want many thing in life, like for example I would want my bus to work every 5 minutes instead of every 30 minutes, but everything nice in life has a hefty price, and if you make a large part of the economy bankrupt or leave and workers unemployed or broke from rising costs, in exchange for financially unrealistic environmental targets that only a small part of the population can tolerate("let them eat cake"), then that might not sit well with a large part of the democratic voting population who has to bare the brunt of your wishes.

A balance has to be found between what's nice and desirable and what's economically feasible without causing economic hardship on others, otherwise something breaks and you get rising extremism and .
by farouk_999 | 2025-12-05 11:41:34+00:00
I feel you keeping up without drowning in noise is tough. I try to focus on 2–3 high-signal sources for AI and crypto, then use tools to filter the rest. For memecoins and Telegram trading, I’ve been using FDV bots to automatically track pumps and highlight what’s actually moving saves a ton of manual scrolling and lets me focus on analysis instead of hunting for signals.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-05 11:43:16+00:00
I think Asimov encountered such ideas (pretty much inevitable on any university campus), but he never took them that seriously. And Marx himself lived long enough to point out he himself was not a Marxist! Marx and Engels themselves were influenced by Hegel. Marxists don't pretend to tell you what today's lottery results will be, but they will continually tell you what they think is about to happen on the macroscale and how to get there. (Plato's Philosopher Kings were also, like Seldon, there as an elite to influence the direction of society without much public involvement.)

Governments and global businesses certainly do try and use futurologists and influence the direction of future society through techniques such as "psychological nudging" and control of information etc. The most obvious is climate modelling, where they try and project what climate change will do and how to deal with it. The roll out of AI in the early 2020s reeks of a planned PR operation, although the results have not always been what was expected. The design of the Covid lockdowns was the result of strategic planning from tabletop wargaming exercises for various pandemic scenarios, also producing mixed results.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-05 11:43:39+00:00
I don't know about you. A common namespace composed as a tree makes sense to me. Splitting of user data makes sense to me. Splitting data from code executable code make sense to me. Splitting configuration from other data does. So does splitting code into executables and libraries, splitting into per machine/shared, and splitting into core OS and other (now reversed). The actual names don't matter all that much, but they are short and standardized so we use them.

What do you find weird about the directory naming structure?
Ask HN: How do I make LLM write long code for my tasks?
by DenisDolya | 2025-12-05 11:43:43+00:00
Every time I give LLM a big task, he gets lazy and writes a very small amount of code, and doesn't want to do everything in full, here's an example: recently I wrote a program in Python, I needed to translate it C++ but the AI was lazy and only made stubs.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-05 11:43:47+00:00
Just to add to the pile: The audio/video experience is actually WORSE than a good home cinema with a UHD bluray.

Many theaters are still 1080p (and its very noticable on a large screen). Even in 4k the vast majority lack HDR.

The new Tron movie, for example, will look much better on a large home screen than it did in most theaters.

So why would I pay them to sit in a room full of jerks on their cellphones and watch it in worse quality?
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-05 11:44:25+00:00
> since if it is much harder, and it is some of the most critical code and already-hard code, like some complex algorithm, it could by itself be worse overall.

(Emphasis added)

But is it worse overall?

It's easy to speculate that some hypothetical scenario could be true. Of course, such speculation on its own provides no reason for anyone to believe it is true. Are you able to provide evidence to back up your speculation?
by ndr | 2025-12-05 11:44:31+00:00
Found out

> Nested function definitions with @tacopy decorators are not supported. Functions decorated with @tacopy must be defined at module level. This constraint exists because inspect.getsource() on nested functions returns the source of the entire enclosing function, making it impossible to reliably extract and transform just the nested function's code. The decorator detects nested functions by checking for '<locals>' in the function's __qualname__ attribute and raises a clear error message instructing users to extract the function to module level.

https://github.com/raaidrt/tacopy/blob/8f5db70da2b7bbfafc41b...