skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UltraGrid – low-latency audio and video network transmission system
Man what a blast from the past. There was a moment in time where xml and xlst was considered the bright future of webapps
Most SCUBA divers don't train freediving, next time at the pool see how far you can dive on one breath. Then imagine being panicked, in the dark, in a ship you don't know that well, in the machine room you've never been in before, where now everything is upside down and at an angle, filled with water and all kinds of stuff floating around.
Stout wins!
It is already classified as food in Ireland, whisky bieng of course, a much more serious endevour.
Yep, same with overlapping unaligned loads. It's just fairly cheap to make that stuff pipelined and run fast. It's only when you mix loads and stores in the same memory region that there are conflicts that can slow you down (and then quite horribly actually, depending on the exact processor).
> Think Binney, Snowden, Assange would probably disagree with you.

I guess you are trying to muddy the water here by invoking the names of people who are known for their resistance to a certain kind of American misbehaviour.
That behaviour is not really the same as the kind of wide-ranging and complete media restrictions we are talking about, but it sounds kind of similar so this is a good way for you to do some whataboutism with extra steps.

If you think that American media is controlled in the same way at the same scale and intensity as Chinese media please provide your arguments for that view explicitly.
I self host freshrss (https://www.freshrss.org/), super easy to set up via docker and it doesn't required some over provisioned dependency setup (DB servers, etc...). It has nice/familiar keyboard shortcuts and a clean and fast interface. My only complaint is that the cloudflare-ifiation (aka enshittification) that is slowly ruining and rotting the internet prevents the fetching of RSS feeds from some news sites from your presumably affordable non hyperscaler VPS instance.

When using mobile I use https://capyreader.com/ which has first class intigration with freshrss; meaning you can add/remove/view feeds via the app and have the changes sync with freshrss. Also, probably my favorite feature of capy reader, is that when you want to view the content of an rss article that is only a summary or headline (because few people publish the full content of their articles in the rss feed anymore), you can just press a button and it will fetch it for you and display it in the reader without sending you to a browser. So much happier and more accurately informed since moving back to RSS where I can choose what I want to see vs having it filtered/fed to me via some biased algorithm.
Today I learned that in the us children are not taught cursive handwriting. This is rather absurd to me. How are they supposed to write?
Is JavaScript is now evil?
Sadly, absolutely nothing and no one in Egypt can be trusted. It is even worse that the former Soviet Bloc where I grew up, and where you always had to divide your expectations of competence, functionality, compliance etc. by, say, three. (Nowadays, two.)

This story is still better than it could be - I would expect the life rafts to be completely unmaintained and to sink immediately. Perhaps they were sturdy enough to survive years of neglect.

You can expect that the investigation will be an exercise in bureaucratic hush-up, too. If losing face is worse than death, death is the preferred outcome. Especially if it is someone else's death.

The Red Sea is beautiful, but caveat emptor. Ironically, Saudi Arabia may outcompete Egypt soon when it comes to seaside tourism. Saudis are a lot more competent when it comes to providing Western levels of service, and the current prince is ditching Islamic limitations real fast.
Nothing compares to tech. These are not equivalent comps.
Been doing that, but especially in the last few years sites have been dropping RSS support and won't bring it back no matter how you reason for it.

For example, job seeking sites:

https://tyomarkkinatori.fi/ is the national "job market" for the whole of Finland. Municipal and state employers are obligated to publish their openings there. That site has been in development for years and from 1.1.2025 onwards it replaced the old one - which supplied RSS feeds.
Tyomarkkinatori does not and when asked, they will only reply that RSS is not going to be supported and that's the end of it.

https://indeed.com doesn't provide feeds anymore.

Neither does (yet another Finnish aggregator) https://laura.fi
It’s not just about controlling content but also about controlling how users interact across borders
Show HN: Buntastic – An Ultrafast Static Site Server
Peering into a Bleak, 'Uninsurable Future'
ReVanced on Android lets you remove shorts from the app.
Crawler is a simple HTTP requester + RSS parser. Full-text searching uses Elasticsearch.
I would bet there is a gulf of difference in equipment and training between rich countries' first responders and personnel on some random navy ship in poor and curruption-ridden Egypt.
Politicians dont answer to their constituents when it comes to climate change. Anywhere.

People are still building in flood zones, or shorelines which will go under. Governments dont have the ability to tell their citizens the bad news.

Someone has to do that, but politicans arent going to take that role up.
On Question 3 (Misdirection)—why is clicking “no thanks, I prefer a limited experience” the wrong answer? Why should I click the stuff I don’t want just in order to “learn about it”?
This is a good example of a game-theoretic equilibrium :)
https://archive.is/u82Lc
Being an advanced scuba diver is absolutely no indication of one’s ability to freedive. You Absolutly can not compare the two besides both taking place underwater.

On top of that, even if this guide was a Divemaster which is far from guaranteed given the other safety failings from this company, being an advanced Divemaster does not equate to one’s ability to cave dive. Survivors state the lack of lighting in the boat and so I’m assuming he would have had to navigate the boat in complete dark under water. So while not exactly cave diving, it’s equatable. An activity that’s insanely dangerous to anyone, even Divemasters that don’t have cavern or cave experience.

There’s a reason there’s a grim reaper sign at the entrance of caves in popular dive locations.
When I come to such conclusions about governments, I feel sad.
Generalize much? How many duck boat sinkings took the lives of tourists in the US? Were you also so keen to criticise American society as a whole and "similar countries"?
> what would that even do?

Open the current page's RSS feed in my configured client. Failing that, copy its URL. Absolute minimum, it's a shortcut for having to view source, cmd-f, "RSS", cmd-c
This depends a lot on how the model was fine-tuned. There are many LLaMA tunes that are not at all formal, for example.

With ChatGPT specifically, some forceful prompting can make it sound much better.
Last time I used the internal Minecraft testing library I had a problem where it was basically blocked in release builds and you had to write a bunch of fabric mixins to overwrite the feature flag, then on top of that there was a problem with the structure blocks. It could be fabric itself adding its own code in there. I don't really remember the details.
In print? In general its faster to write and a lot easier to read, also you save time by not having to learn two different systems.
That just sounds like a mailing list, but without the ability to easily identify and track the individuals you're sending to.
> I'm having hard time imagining those "anywhere" scenarios

Hold my beer.

You ski in the Alps, its noon, and you get an alert that your DB is down.

You know this may happen because of invasive bots, and you know what to do, so you just find a calm spot at the high-altitude cafe, ssh from the phone, find the infringing bot's IPs, block them with ipset and send yourself an email to deal with the problem properly later.

Then you ski happily until dusk, knowing that users won't be affected.
I meant that the learning from doing actual build outs aren't going to translate in other geographies and regulatory climates, not that the work is less difficult or not interesting and important.

Also people doing the build outs of a DC aren't likely keen on talking about permits and confidential agreements in the industry quite publicly.

Yes the title is click baity, but that is par of the course these days.
Right, but it's still German. So the statement "It's not German, but Alemannic" is just plain false.
That’s another perspective on alcohol usage
No. HIPAA is rarely straightforward, and in any event it’s not uncommon for employers to have some degree of access to claims data. In a case like this I assume the company self-funds the plan.
It is in Google’s hands
Mostly, the weight of the boat pulling down would compress the air bubble a bit, probably not very much though.
>Why should divers risk their life to save anyone?

Yeah, why should anyone do anything to help anyone else unless it's in their self-interest!

No wonder we live in such a low-trust society...
this is the only time in 15 years i've wished hn had a lol react. :D
In Egypt, when you are in a position of power - for instance, captain, CEO, president - you aren’t actually responsible for anything. It’s more of a sinecure, where you are there to be honoured and pampered by your underlings.

This seems to be a universal law there - any time I’ve done business there’s been some lavish lunch with the CEO while he talks about his horses, and then negotiations with Farid from accounts.

So… the captain in this case is just abiding by Egyptian customs. He is, in his and his crew’s estimation, the most important person on the boat, and is to be protected at all costs.
people who write search result UIs that update/rearrange whilst you're trying to select something have known about the general class of bait-and-switch click vulnerability for years
...and in war, everything is allowed, right?
If you had to estimate percentage of the web could exist without losing functionality without using JavaScript?
"Don't use LLMs" is just another variant of "don't use electricity".

Reframe the problem like that and then realize that no one's going to do it: global electricity use is constantly increasing. Fortunately, global renewable energy use is also growing incredibly rapidly.

Which problem seems more tractable? Because reality has already proven it: people will happily switch to clean electricity and keep using electricity. They won't voluntarily use less electricity unless they get some benefit from that - i.e. reduced expenditure, or just plain more stuff (i.e. my LED lights consume a fraction of the power of my previous halogens, but are brighter and I have more of them and also can change light color on a schedule).
Yes I understand, what you describe is something I would definitely consider as a security issue.

However just like how say the DoS using SYN floods was not treated as an important issue by ISPs and other network operators for a long time, I am not surprised OpenAI/Microsoft is treating yours not seriously.

The attitude typically would as long as it doesn't affect my services it is not my job to worry about it, until it becomes a PR issue.
“I'm convinced most security problems are caused by well-meaning people breaking down hard- and software and explaining how to "hack" things.”

Huh?
As the consumer, that's a big benefit, and the main reason I use RSS.

But for the company running the website, the fact that you're no longer browsing to their site, being served adverts and tracking code, and seeing what's on their homepage is not a benefit
I worry about YouTube RSS feeds getting popular and Google killing them. Every time I see them discussed publicly I have this "Ssshh! Keep it on the down low!" reaction.

I browse YouTube anonymously, have an ad blocker setup that pretty much eliminates all ads, and track my "subscriptions" with RSS. It's highly usable. I use a fork of tt-rss and actually embed the YouTube videos in the reader pane so I never see any of YouTube's algorithmic recommendation schlock (beyond recommendations at the end of videos, which I ignore). Browsing YouTube, the site, is a jarring nightmare.

I am considering having my podcatcher use a YouTube downloader to just pull down all the videos in the feeds I watch. I believe Google is throttling yt-dlp to realtime speeds, but I figure if my podcatcher is doing it behind the scenes that shouldn't matter. I maintain curated collections of podcasts I like (in case they ever disappear), and since I just added 40TB if storage to my home system I figure it's time to do that with YouTube too.
The obvious answer is that the US is still a democracy with free media and rule of law. That means you're likely to be found out and have a huge scandal if you try to use government resources to manipulate the public at scale. This is somewhat confirmed by the huge scandals causes by relatively small scale manipulations, which form the somewhat worn examples commenters on this website like to bring up whenever criticism of China is voiced. Note that in China there is no such risk of discovery or pushback as media and courts are fully controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
Saudis are a lot more competent when it comes to providing Western levels of service, and the current prince is ditching Islamic limitations real fast.

Only because they mostly don't do the work themselves ;)
I don’t really care whose they are. I just love seeing any of these drawings.

I have to imagine that drawing was a much greater source of entertainment at the time, and I’m kind of sad that that isn’t the case any more.
My suggestion for best practice would be to have a feed endpoint that is as minimal and clean as possible, and provide a separate endpoint (can be the same base url but with a parameter) for human consumption. This ensures maximal compatibility and ease of consumption for both machine and human.
Still, the fact that they’re combining AI and human effort makes sense
Not the OP, but his generalization about North Africa is spot on.

It is one of the few regions that regressed civilizationally since Antiquity. Zero advanced exports, lots of tyranny and dysfunction, natives vote with their feet by the millions, and no one in their sane mind moves there.

I don't particularly care about praising the US, a country I have never been to, but if you are trying to put some sort equivalence between Egypt and the US, you are deluding yourself. Quality of institutions in those two places ise mostly incomparable.

(The SF homeless situation may be an exception. Yeah, that could be North Africa, only with much more money burned on futile schemes to alleviate the problem.)
A versioning scheme for end-user software
There's absolutely no need for JavaScript on a page that has a text input and two buttons and that has worked without JS for three decades. Given Google's reputation for privacy and the constant attempts at selling their users out, it's fair to assume that the reason they're requiring JavaScript is not noble.
Well, I read the HN headline and said to myself, I bet this requirement is pitched as "...to enhance the user experience...", and, yep, it's there.

That's akin with a response to some incident where companies "Take [user security etc.] seriously", when the immediate thought is, yeah, but if you did, that [thing] probably wouldn't have happened.

Dunno why I wrote all that - I don't use Google search, because I wanted to enhance (aka unenshitten) my search experience.
> People underestimate how powerful these tools can be.

It's rather you're overestimating it (no wonder the ineffectiveness of CA was a surprise to you). It's such a low-power tool that it couldn't even be used to avoid its ban.

> In some cases

In some cases you don't need any of the ML techniques to do that. But at any rate, that's an irrelevant scale when it comes to "massive danger"
I don't think I have. In those other cases, do you think that dang is being biased towards certain causes, or that he failed to moderate for some more benign reason?
Elfeed

https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed
I love the idea of "synchronizing" with someone’s handwriting
Reminds me a lot of what joyent did. They basically re-implemented the whole docker daemon APIs and exposed them on the public internet.

When you ran containers the underlying host wouldn't be a single host but a whole datacenter. You could define public networks and the IPs you'd get there were actual public ipv4.

So basically you'd only have to do "docker run ..." in order to deploy a container on that public cloud and have it exposed to the public internet.
Native indiginous tribes are now taking field trips walking around on melting glaciers, where there are regular finds of artifacts that there
ancient ancestors missplaced.Also digs at camp sites, but no digs of graves, as that is not allowed, even the discussion of the deceased is prohibited in native culture.Lost ,forgoten, or abandoned, bieng one thing, deliberatly burried
another.
But by all accounts the finding of freshly expossed artifacts by native youth has a strong effect on there feelings of conection to the land and there people.
Suppression can only go so far against really impressive works. Consider how even the Iron Curtain had trouble keeping them out, and today's USA has no such walls, but instead, an impressive cultural industry of its own. (Or was that your point ?)
Easy notification that a feed is present and an option.
True, a lot is done by foreigners; but even organizing someone else to provide reliable service to you is a nontrivial competence.

Plenty of rich places work like that. Already ancient Athens had their metoics.
Pocket Casts usually lists the RSS link when you share a podcast from the app.

https://pca.st/podcast/170a7610-948e-0135-9d21-5bb073f92b78

Under "more ways to listen" it has RSS as an option.
The pressure of any trapped gas will be equivalent to the depth of the lowest level containing air - so if the bottom of your air bubble is a meter below sea level, your pressure will be 1.1 atm.
Three layer of defense on default Port here.

1. ufw limit ssh.

2. Ansible devsec.hardening.ssh_hardening

3. fail2ban
Hey, congrats on the initiative!

How you can make this more useful is by improving the messaging on your site. I looked at your hero section and I had no idea what your software does, who it does it for, why it does it and why should I care.

Since the hero section did not grab my attention, as a web visitor, I had 0 interest in investing more time/energy into reading the rest of the page to find the thread of relevancy. So I closed the tab.

Without the additional context you've put here on HN, I would have no idea what Pitch Forge is about.

Here's how I would rewrite it.

> Hero

Heading: Generate a pitch deck for your startup that gets you funding, fast

Subheading: Our AI is trained on the best decks to create a narrative that will have investors *begging* to meet you

> How it works?

1. It takes less than 5min

2. You get an E2E product from script, to powerpoint, etc...

3. Our narrative will 10x your positioning and speed up funding journey

> Why us?

1. First-time founders struggle to raise and it kills their businesses

2. The first point of contact is usually an intro or a deck. If deck isn't compelling enough, investors won't take meeting. No meeting = no check.

3. By improving your pitch, your will get more meetings. More meetings = more checks
etc....

This is already I meaningful step-up. Now I know exactly what your software does (helps create fundraising pitch decks), who it does this for (startup founders, probably first-timers), why it does it (no money kills businesses), why should I care (I should care if I want to raise money from investors and I want my business to not die)
Here's a list of tools that use the same URL structure as github enabling you to use it by just changing your url.

To navigate to your desired page more easily, go from any 'github.com/_' url to 'forgithub.com/_' and you'll get *quick links*! You can star your favorites, or after you remember them you can visit them directly.
I don't know. I'm like op and feel like getting worse. My wife otherwise will remember minor stuff like when my son last went to the doctor "oh yeah that was june 5th, because two days before dad was visiting..." and I'll be like "your family visited this year?" then she'll give more information say "we even went to the new Hard Rock with them" and I'll concede: "you're right, I have a faint still image of us sitting in that balcony table there". I would kill for having that. She never heard of PKM or Obsidian, and sucks at basic tasks like charging her phone and remembering the weekly appointments, but for that kind of stuff... its ridiculous.
Rednote is a fascinating experiment in T and C blindness. Just how far can you go in the terms? Put them in Mandarin worldwide? Apparently OK. Include a commitment to uphold the "12 core socialist values" of the Chinese government? OK. Include rules against criticizing the Chinese government, Chinese socialism, or Chinese interests? I guess that's OK too.

At what point will there be a reaction from industry? From government? I guess there's no reaction point for users. Would China or RedNote try to enforce any of this?
Romansh is a national language, not an official one. (At the federal level) Which means that Switzerland considers it a part of it’s culture but that for instance laws and executive orders are not translated in Romansh.
I use my own RSS reader [0]

Recently I also extracted web reading into a separate library which should make writing new projects like RSS readers easier [1]

[0] https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

[1] https://github.com/rumca-js/crawler-buddy
The "reasonable threat" is that TikTok prevented US leaders from being able to control the conversation around Palestine. Nearly half of the country has realized how insane sending tens of billions of dollars to fund genocide is, when previously it was unquestioned.
Yes, but this goes for the English word too.
> ESN

In Soviet Russia, you don't get an ESN.

The correct term to use here is IMEI, ESN is CDMA-specific (and hence mostly US-specific) as far as I understand.
Oh! Good point, we may not have the same definition of usefulness.

By useful I mean, to the world. That it affect the world in a good way.
Maybe it's not the best technology to do something but replace the best way in an CO2 effective way. Maybe it is not a clean technology but increase overall fairness.

I don't know, but it had to have a good income to the world in a way.
> in a way that you're completely in control of, without bloat, without ads, without algorithms.

If they don’t play nice, they often offer short digests in feeds, driving users to open their sites where you get ads, tracking, bloat, paywalls, and no longer in control…

Thank you for advocating RSS. It’s the least we should strive for in our services.

We can also strive for services themselves without tracking, ads, bloat…

If you have a blog or want to start one, consider supporting platforms that genuinely improve the web experience.

I built https://lmno.lol after growing tired of the popular blogging platforms.

Here’s my blog on it https://lmno.lol/alvaro

If you prefer a different blogging service, there are other folks working on building a more mindful web.

By supporting services like these, you prove that like-minded services are not only possible but fully sustainable without deceitful tech.

• Bear

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Since Durov was arrested in France they censored much more to appease Europe. Germany is now no. 2 for the most takedown requests, that's a nearly 20x increase in the last 3 months alone! https://te-k.github.io/telegram-transparency/
It's literally almost an anagram of Satan's Armpits.