MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grafmax | 2025-12-06 12:29:40+00:00
Markets are a place where buyers and sellers come together and exchange money for goods and services.

Markets exploit. Example: the labor market; individuals are forced among unfavorable options to work for the enrichment of business owners otherwise they will end up on the street. Business owners themselves do not face this choice; they have their capital to fall back on. Another example is the housing market where the wealthy have bid up housing as a financial asset, so the working class pays a larger and larger share of income to banks and rentiers, a cash flow from workers to the wealthy. Now people are making ‘choices’ here so supposedly that means markets are expression of free desires. But when one’s choices are constrained due to the power differential between the haves and have nots, the choices are not a free choice. To have actual agency you have to have power, but the power is in the hands of the ownership class.

Maybe you think markets are a necessary evil. But they are not some bastion of freedom like you suppose. That is absurd. We should look at markets for what they are not to candy coat them.
by i_am_proteus | 2025-12-06 12:29:49+00:00
This article appears to have some political bent to it based on comments about immigration.

I was made curious about the possibility of an "intentional backdoor" in ELD (Electronic Logging Devices) that allowed truckers to misreport their hours.

I was not able to find results to directly confirm or deny that this was true, but it certainly seems like these recently-mandated ELDs come with security concerns: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/vehiclesec...
by diydsp | 2025-12-06 12:30:03+00:00
Not automatically. There's aleeady case law(0x1) that ruled that images captured by Flock ALPR cameras are public records, even though the data are stored by Flock (a private vendor), not directly by the city.

The court rejected the notion that “because the data sits on a private server, it’s not a public record.” Instead, it said that since the surveillance is paid for by the public (taxpayers) and used by a public agency, the data must comply with the state’s public-records law.

This shows that — in at least one jurisdiction — using a private company to run ALPRs doesn’t shield the data from public-records requests.

(0x1) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules...
by nomilk | 2025-12-06 12:30:39+00:00
I got a VPN in preparation for Australia's (even more draconian) "age verification" laws (those take effect in 4 days).

But what I'd really love (startup idea!?) is an app that let's you map websites to countries and it handles tunnelling that domain's traffic through the selected country's VPN.

For example, I'd like to view Reddit, YouTube, X, Facebook, Instagram and social media apps from a US IP (to avoid Australia's "age verification"), dailymail.co.uk from a UK IP (since it's blocked in Thailand), predication markets from a country that allows them, Imgur from a country that allows it, Spotify from any country so long as it's fixed (to avoid it randomly stopping mid workout with a 'your country has changed' notification).

Until something automated like this exists the current best solution is a VPN and manually switching countries when something you want isn't available from the current country, which isn't great UX.
by jan_Sate | 2025-12-06 12:31:08+00:00
I've also made my own implementation of CHIP-8 emulator. I was surprised that it only took me a few hours to got it working. I reserved a week for the project.

One thing interesting about making emulator is that, it's all-or-nothing. You can't tell if your implementation's working until you finish it. For my case, I did end up having a few minor bugs, which I promptly fixed and got the whole thing working correctly.

Maybe I should try implementing extensions next, when I've got the time for that. :)
by vishnukvmd | 2025-12-06 12:31:27+00:00
Hey, you can connect any S3 compliant service to Ente.

Our quickstart.sh[1] bundles Minio, but you can configure Ente to use RustFS[2] or Garage[3] instead.

[1]: https://ente.io/help/self-hosting/#quickstart

[2]: https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs

[3]: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-06 12:31:40+00:00
On HN probably a few but HN is an extremely niche demographics.

Among the general public I would say effectively zero. The Online Safety Act does not even register in the news or as part of people's concerns.

There might have been a burst of interest because of reports in the media when the OSA came into force but I suspect that this is about it.
by squigz | 2025-12-06 12:31:56+00:00
> when the economic circumstances determine.

And how do you reckon that'll come about when society is more divided than ever and can't come to any sort of conclusions about how to fix the economic circumstances?

> You can't force society to care about itself.

"Society" isn't some abstract entity. It is made of humans. No, I can't "force" anyone to care about these things, but I can try to convince them of it.

It's more productive than this doomer narrative, at least.
by josephg | 2025-12-06 12:33:07+00:00
> People are betting trillions that you're the one who's "on the wrong axis."

People are betting trillions of dollars that AI agents will do a lot of useful economic work in 10 years. But if you take the best LLMs in the world, and ask them to make a working operating system, C compiler or web browser, they fail spectacularly.

The insane investment in AI isn't because today's agents can reliably write software better than senior developers. The investment is a bet that they'll be able to reliably solve some set of useful problems tomorrow. We don't know which problems they'll be able to reliably solve, or when. They're already doing some useful economic work. And AI agents will probably keep getting smarter over time. Thats all we know.

Maybe in a few years LLMs will be reliable enough to do what you're proposing. But neither I - nor most people in this thread - think they're there yet. If you think we're wrong, prove us wrong with code. Get ChatGPT - or whichever model you like - to actually do what you're suggesting. Nobody is stopping you.
by kneel25 | 2025-12-06 12:33:57+00:00
I don't know why people immediately have this thought, outlawing VPNs achieves virtually nothing in the UK. An adult bypassing an age check is irrelevant; underage users are at least mature enough to know what a VPN is - not the main target of the act. And there's virtually no real anonymity; hiding from your ISP doesn't make you untraceable. So why would they even consider it?
by OutOfHere | 2025-12-06 12:34:03+00:00
Forms alone won't accomplish anything if the dose isn't correct. With regard to vitamin A, some people confuse it with beta carotene, with the latter not working so well for this effect. Vitamin A even has evidence backing it as per PMC6462169. It does take a few weeks to begin to work. Even mild improvements stack up. It may not eliminate the need for an additional intervention, but it can mean the difference between whether the additional intervention will work or fail.
by sylens | 2025-12-06 12:34:31+00:00
I’ve experimented with both Immich and Ente over the last year and run Immich in parallel with Google Photos right now for my family. Once they add a few more features to support things like smart albums, I’ll be able to drop Google Photos entirely.

I love that the consumer space is getting this kind of attention. It’s one of the biggest opportunities for big tech to lock people into their ecosystem, as photos are something everyone cherishes. You can extort people with ever increasing subscription fees because over time they reach a scale with their own photos that makes it inconvenient to manage themselves. It’s nice to have multiple options that are not Google or Apple.
by mindcrash | 2025-12-06 12:35:17+00:00
some alternatives which can be self hosted:

open-appsec (by checkpoint), their proxy/gateway integration and your favorite firewall daemon:

https://docs.openappsec.io/getting-started/start-with-linux

appsec (by crowdsec), their proxy/gateway integration and your favorite firewall daemon:

https://docs.crowdsec.net/u/getting_started/installation/lin...
Show HN: Stateless TikToken and Unix-Dictionary GitHub URL Shortener
by pankajdoharey | 2025-12-06 12:35:22+00:00
I constantly share raw GitHub install scripts, but I didn’t want another backend URL shortener. Shorty is a single HTML page that normalizes raw.githubusercontent.com or github.com/blob URLs, tokenizes the path with jsTiktoken, and remaps tokens through the Unix words list plus a couple of glyph sets to keep the shortcode tiny. No storage, no API keys—just a deterministic mapping you can host from GitHub Pages.

What’s different: - Canonicalizes github.com/blob links into their raw equivalent automatically. - Uses TikToken + Unix dictionary matches to compress owners/repos/paths, with Unicode or box-drawing glyph sets (hash vs. query) for legibility trade-offs. - Everything is client-side: paste a URL to get both the shortcode and ready-to-share link; paste a shortcode (hash or query) and it auto-decodes with a 3‑2‑1 redirect animation. - Ships with a tiny `embed-shorty.js` so you can drop the decoder onto any page. Try it at the link above or grab the code: https://github.com/metacritical/shorty
by tyleo | 2025-12-06 12:35:58+00:00
Same. I’m pretty stable but just looking at pictures of that ad in the comments I felt my heart-BMP raise.

It isn’t just the fact that it’s an ad. The intense black and yellow is unsettling with strong ‘warning’ vibes.

Here’s a picture for folks wondering: https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/1ow6cpu/appa...
by diydsp | 2025-12-06 12:36:01+00:00
That is oft-repeated, but case law is starting to show it's not strictly true:

See Mosaic + Carpenter case which say “Yes, each scan is public; yes, aggregation is different. "

Carpenter shows the Court recognizes that aggregated location data can be constitutionally significant.

Individual observability vs. systemic observation: A passerby can note a single plate at a single place/time. But a system of ALPRs, distributed spatially and continuous in time, indexed and retained, can map a person’s entire movements, associations, repeated visits, and behavioral patterns. That’s exactly the “mosaic” insight: the whole reveals things the pieces don’t. (Maynard / Jones reasoning).
by badgersnake | 2025-12-06 12:36:11+00:00
Labour actively supported it and still do. I got this from my Labour MP:

The UK has a strong tradition of safeguarding privacy while ensuring that appropriate action can be taken against criminals, such as child sexual abusers and terrorists. I firmly believe that privacy and security are not mutually exclusive—we can and must have both.

The Investigatory Powers Act governs how and when data can be requested by law enforcement and other relevant agencies. It includes robust safeguards and independent oversight to protect privacy, ensuring that data is accessed only in exceptional cases and only when necessary and proportionate.

The suggestion that cybersecurity and access to data by law enforcement are at odds is false. It is possible for online platforms to have strong cybersecurity measures whilst also ensuring that criminal activities can be detected.
by nkrisc | 2025-12-06 12:36:41+00:00
Your house has nothing to do with this.

The United States does have some rides about what border agents can and can not do. They can not sucker punch you, for example. They can request to see the contents of your phone and if you refuse they can choose to refuse you admittance into the country.

It’s not a question of fairness.

For what it’s worth I’m very much in favor of immigration and people visiting the United States, but this country and all others have the right to admit or not admit whomever they choose.
by aprilnya | 2025-12-06 12:37:37+00:00
> As of Monday morning, half of the top ten free apps in Apple's app download charts in the UK appeared to be for VPN services.

> Proton VPN, an app offered by Swiss privacy tech firm Proton, told the BBC it had seen a 1800% spike in UK daily sign-ups over the weekend after age check rules took effect on Friday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o
by monerozcash | 2025-12-06 12:37:58+00:00
I think this is broadly not true.

Sure, the NSA can probably pull this off. Thing is, the NSA probably does not need to do this at immigration.

I seriously doubt that this is a realistic problem if your threat model is anything less than "The NSA is very interested in me". In that case I don't see how you could trust any phone, regardless of it having been in the hands of border officials or not.
Ask HN: What's Been Your Experience Implementing Web Accessibility?
by lalithaar | 2025-12-06 12:38:04+00:00
I have been thinking about how implementing accessibility itself is inaccessible to most of devs who aren't in a huge company with dedicated a11y or UX teams

I would love to know what you all think, like the tools which help implement it?

I am talking of Developer Experience in a sense? Like we have so many clis / frameworks / libraries to help with other stuff we have to do, being the brilliant developers everyone here is

But I haven't come across the same huge variety of tools that are as widespread and meant for developers to implement accessibility, even with it being something everysite needs
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-06 12:39:38+00:00
Fairly recently, Bernie Sanders complained in The Guardian about the risk that AI will destroy various jobs, including truck driver jobs.

Am I alone in thinking that truck driving is an arduous job that ideally shouldn't be done by humans at all?

* long hours and days spent in loneliness, away from family and friends,

* possibility to stretch and move your body is very limited,

* bad hyper-processed food, hence so many drivers are obese,

* the need of humans to sleep and relax means that the trucks cannot legally move for majority of the day, thus there is a need to have more of them,

* plus, as mentioned here, both the drivers and their managers are incentivized to break and bend the law, resulting in unsafe driving.

All of the above would be mitigated by robots taking the wheel.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-06 12:39:40+00:00
I'm not worried about it because they won't waste their time on it (individually RL'ing on a dog with 5 legs). There are fractal ways of testing this inability, so the only way to fix it is to wholesale solve the problem.

Similar to the pelican bike SVG, the models that do good at that test do good at all SVG generation, so even if they are targeting that benchmark, they're still making the whole model better to score better.
by auggierose | 2025-12-06 12:39:46+00:00
Ok, I agree with you. I own a copy of Mathematica myself. This topic just very much interests me, because there is this dilemma with this kind of software (I am working on something like that myself): It is so much work, you need to charge for it; on the other hand, for widespread adoption it probably needs to be open-source. What do you do?
by mxpxrocks10 | 2025-12-06 12:39:57+00:00
First, what Cloudflare does is hard and I want to start with that.

That being said, I think it’s worth a discussion. How much of the last 3 outages were because of the JGC (the former CTO) retiring and Dane taking over?

Did JGC have a steady hand that’s missing? Or was it just time for outages that would have happened anyway?

Dane has maintained a culture of transparency which is fantastic, but did something get injected in the culture leading towards these issues? Will it become more or less stable since JGC left?

Curious for anyone with some insight or opinions.

(Also, if it wasn’t clear - huge Cloudflare fan and sending lots of good vibes to the team)
by wryoak | 2025-12-06 12:40:01+00:00
I had a similar experience. I think doctors are just wary of cutting people open due to the risks. Anyway, long history of males rupturing their appendices in my family before puberty. The doctors were not convinced by the family history, however. When they finally pulled it out, after months of painful inflammation episodes they dismissed in a variety of ways, they saw its unusual size (3x!) and scar tissue and fought insurance to get the op covered. This was back in the nineties tho, before LLMs
by sublinear | 2025-12-06 12:41:04+00:00
> I remember seeing a woman who was a classic example of someone with high neuroticism, poor self-esteem, and severe social anxiety, and she had believed for much of her life that she was autistic ... it fit in with her experience of being awkward-shy-weird.

I so strongly agree with this and it's not just based on my own experience, but many people I know.

Growing up broke and in sketchy places with sketchy people will induce plenty of anxiety. Then I managed to get out of all that as an adult and starting a career.

The anxiety never fully went away, but it now presents itself the way one would expect instead of "weirdness". Maturing and having a more stable life happened to my friends also and nobody says "I think I'm autistic" anymore like we did in high school and college. Now it's hard to distinguish if we were saying that to ourselves as a slur in self-deprecation, or if we really believed it. Young people are just awkward and too many people get older without letting go of the things they told themselves a long time ago.

Make of that what you will. I know my story is super common, but the only reason I bothered to write this is that it doesn't get said enough.
by thunderbong | 2025-12-06 12:41:35+00:00
From the article -

> These changes were driven by a long-standing belief—pushed hard by the American Trucking Associations (ATA)—that the U.S. faces a permanent truck-driver shortage. The ATA’s solution was to lobby Congress and FMCSA to lower every barrier to entry, convinced that new drivers would flow to large ATA-member fleets rather than small operators.

> That assumption was rooted in an old reality: twenty years ago, only the biggest carriers offered real-time tracking, electronic tendering, and direct shipper relationships. Small carriers and brokers were stuck with phone, fax, and leftover freight.

> That world no longer exists.

Coming from the software industry, I've seen similar things happen when decisions are made which turn out misplaced in the longer term.

And I've always wondered - why can't the management respond fast enough to the new scenario?

What I've noticed is that as long as the same management team is there which had made that decision, it becomes extremely difficult for them to admit and make that change. Change only happens when either things get really critical, or when the management changes.

I wonder whether something similar is involved here.
by cs702 | 2025-12-06 12:41:38+00:00
Yes, the OP claims many small-fleet drivers are being overworked, but provides zero evidence of it. By evidence, I mean data, not anecdotes. Do you have data on this?

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EDIT: Link to data is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173013

It looks like crash rates jumped after the pandemic, then declined in 2022 and 2023, contradicting the OP.
by clumsysmurf | 2025-12-06 12:41:56+00:00
"The Biden-era immigration surge delivered millions of new arrivals seeking work; foreign-owned fleets recruited aggressively—higher pay than at home, no experience needed, free “housing” in the sleeper berth."

I was talking to a retired trucker recently. They described a situation where one driver would get the CDL, but shared the cab with 2-3 others (no CDL, maybe family or friends). They would all rotate driving, so at any given time there was a chance the driver actually had no CDL.
by delusional | 2025-12-06 12:42:25+00:00
What you've identified here is a core part of what the banking sector calls the "risk based approach". Risk in that case is defined as the product of the chance of something happening and the impact of it happening. With this understanding we can make the same argument you're making, a little more clearly.

Cloudflare is really good at what they do, they employ good engineering talent, and they understand the problem. That lowers the chance of anything bad happening. On the other hand, they achieve that by unifying the infrastructure for a large part of the internet, raising the impact.

The website operator herself might be worse at implementing and maintaining the system, which would raise the chance of an outage. Conversely, it would also only affect her website, lowering the impact.

I don't think there's anything to dispute in that description. The discussion then is if cloudflares good engineering lowers the chance of an outage happening more than it raises the impact. In other words, the things we can disagree about is the scaling factors, the core of the argument seems reasonable to me.
by tgiba | 2025-12-06 12:42:45+00:00
I use my Immich instance locally as photos and videos storage for 7-8 months now. It's really amazing. Reading comments here I'd say it's medium-difficulty tier to set up. I have it on my Elitedesk 800 G3 mini, in Docker Compose, with hardware encoding and it's more than sufficient to handle this work. Never had a bug.
by anovikov | 2025-12-06 12:43:37+00:00
Not really. Except Moscow and St. Pete and a few oil-rich boomtowns, the rest of Russia never enjoyed living standards as high as today that only exist because of war economy jobs, war-induced worker shortage in the private sector, and money sent back home by those fighting at the frontline. Even industries far away from this domain, win: coder pay is amazing because there's acute shortage just because too many of them emigrated being afraid of conscription.

Even more importantly, everyday Russian, living in a petrostate economy, always felt redundant and useless because he knew Putin doesn't need him: he's little but an extra mouth to feed, wholly dependent on Putin's kindness. In the last 4 years, for the first time ever, Putin needs everyday little guy because war isn't going to win itself and just Chechens are not enough. They are legitimately afraid of being pushed back into irrelevance if the war ever ends. So are naturally interested in continuing regardless of how well it goes.
by acomjean | 2025-12-06 12:43:47+00:00
Last century I was gifted a gas powered model helicopter with one of these small gas engines. It had a propeller would fly up, run out of gas and fall back down (it had some larger blades to slow its decent).

You started by spinning the propeller and letting it spring back.

How I didn’t loose a finger…

They’re remarkable little devices.
by torginus | 2025-12-06 12:45:14+00:00
I think this is a good opportunity to guerilla-ask a question about cloud performance:

We've been running some compute heavy workloads on AWS, with some running on metal instances, and some running on virtualized instances of equal size.

Both were intel 192 core machines.

Virtualized instances tended to perform 20-25% worse in terms of CPU throughput, which is quite significant, and more than I'd have assumed.

Where does the performance go? Is this an AWS thing, does the performance get lost in the software stack, or is it a CPU-level issue?

I haven't tried with other vendors tbh, but would it be possible to mitigate this by switching to another architecture/vendor like AMD or Graviton?
by zamadatix | 2025-12-06 12:45:53+00:00
One of the comments from the creator answered one of my questions https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1olyzn6/comment...:

> Do you mean the refresh rate should be higher? There's two things limiting that: > - The sensor isn't optimized for actually reading out images, normally it just does internal processing and spits out motion data (which is at high speed). You can only read images at about 90Hz > - Writing to the screen is slow because it doesn't support super high clock speeds. Drawing a 3x scale image (90x90 pixels) plus reading from the sensor, I can get about 20Hz, and a 1x scale image (30x30 pixels) I can get 50Hz.

I figured there would be limitations around the second, but I was hoping the former wasn't such a big limit.