skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toronto school district says 40 years of student data stolen in breach
Hey Peter! Thank you for doing this!

I’m seeking advice on the optimal path for immigration to the U.S., as I see significant opportunities there, both in research and the startup ecosystem.

A bit about my background: I am Ukrainian and currently finishing my PhD in the EU. I have several first-author publications in tier-one conferences, although I once had a visa rejected to attend a U.S. conference to present a paper. In addition, I have contributed to non-first-author papers and workshops. Previously, I co-founded a startup in the EU focused on improving the educational system, which is still in operation. Currently, I am completing an internship at a FAANG company in the EU and planning to launch another startup in the near future.

Thanks in advance!
We have accounts from the ancient Greeks of the old-school's attitude towards writing. In the deep past, they maintained an oral tradition, and scholars were expected to memorize everything. They saw writing/reading as a crutch that was ruining the youth's memory.

We stand now at the edge of a new epoch, reading now being replaced by AI retrieval. There is concern that AI is a crutch, the youth will be weakened.

My opinion: valid concern. No way to know how it turns out. No indication yet that use of AI is harming business outcomes. The meta argument "AGI will cause massive social change" is probably true.
H-1B Lottery Outcomes and Entrepreneurial Success
A firm that goes from having about half of their H-1B applications succeeding to winning all of their H-1B applications (firms on average apply for 2.5 H-1B visas in a given year):

- sees a 4.5 percentage point (10% more likely) increase in getting venture capital funding;

- sees a 1.5 percentage point (20% more likely) increase in going public (IPOing on the stock market);

- sees the number of patents increase by 4.8%.

More details at - https://www.nominalnews.com/p/h-1bs-immigrants-with-degrees-...
You seem to have ignored that all my examples were of biological men entering women's spaces and activities.

A biological female entering men's spaces and activities is far, far less problematic. I for one would have no problem with that person entering a men's restroom or locker room. But I think it's not unreasonable for others to object.

I think the pertinent question is, should a person who made the affirmative choice to transition their body via surgery, hormones, etc. have their preferences supersede those of others who were not involved in that choice? This question is a corollary of a deeper question, which is: should a person who insists that material, shared reality is incorrect have the right to force others to participate in their delusion? Should a schizophrenic experiencing visual hallucinations have the right to reorder society in order to accommodate their delusion? The answer is obviously "no". So why then do trans-people have the special right, in the minds of some, to reorder our language, customs, and culture to accommodate their delusions?

So, returning to your question, my answer would be, either Buck Angel should use a unisex restroom, or, if none is available, go elsewhere to find one.

Here is a sample of what I think are better questions to ask:

Should this person be imprisoned alongside biological women? [1]

Should these biological males be allowed to compete in women's cycling? [2]

Should this man have been imprisoned with women? [3]

Should this biological male have been given use of the girls' restroom at his high school? [4]

Should this biological male have been given use of womens' restroom? [5]

Should this person be imprisoned alongside biological women? [6]

Should this biological male have been given access to the girls locker room at his high school? [7]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-67613441

[2] https://www.nationalreview.com/news/male-cyclists-take-gold-...

[3] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/man-posing-as-tran...

[4] https://apnews.com/article/loudoun-virginia-lawsuit-transgen...

[5] https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/transgender-woman-convicte...

[6] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-45825838

[7] https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/after-trans-woman-exposed...
I didn't know anything about this and found the article hard to understand at first, but thankfully the Wikipedia articles on the subject are pretty okay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenschein%E2%80%93Mantel%E2...

The very abbreviated TL;DR of this post is:

1. We are taught that markets look like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Supply-d...

2. By applying rigorous math ("general equilibrium theory"), it turns out that there is no reason that markets can't look like this instead: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/SMD_Dema...

3. OP's article summarizes how economists have reacted to this problem.
purely from anecdotal evidence from a dozen cases I managed at top50 company: L visas are processed faster than H for gc steps.
I thought nvidia did the northbridge as well since it had the igp? Given they were able to use the tech for nForce I'm guessing they did both at about the same time
I've also been happy with Groups.io. A local community moved there a few years ago when Yahoo Groups shut down.

The downside is that to get more of a Facebook community experience with a calendar, files, and subgroups, you will probably have to pay for for the Premium level. https://groups.io/static/pricing
Even banks in the real world don't have that level of customer protection.
Though I think you're reading more into my phrasing than I meant, the overall skepticism is fair.

One thing I do have to be mindful of is asking the AI to check for alternatives, for dissenting or hypothetical answers, and sometimes I just ask it to rephrase to check for consistency.

But doing all of that still takes way less time than searching for needles buried by SEO optimized garbage and well meaning but repetitious summaries.
If you can't communicate with anyone you can't make the world a better place.
For self-hosted and federated community building, might I suggest NodeBB?

v4 now fully federates, has always been self-hostable, and is a great piece of software for migrating from Facebook.

Consider the "feed" plugin for a less jarring experience. Push notifications via the "web-push" plugin.
I don’t see why it would be bad to get more water to drink
Like an indefatigable, kindly professor.
That seems wrong. More than half the US population uses Facebook.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/408971/number-of-us-face...
Best AI for coding in 2025 (and what not to use)
These types of "repositories" should contain some kind of flag/indication that it contains no source code, similar to when a repo is archived
What's the story if you want to self-host?
They claimed that studio wouldn't need connect.

I don't know AGPL well enough to know if a plugin is considered a derived work but it sure seems to imply it:

> For example, Corresponding Source includes interface definition files associated with source files for the work, and the source code for shared libraries and dynamically linked subprograms that the work is specifically designed to require, such as by intimate data communication or control flow between those subprograms and other parts of the work.
Is that handwritten notes? What LLM are you using for that and what level of accuracy do you get?
I hope not, three-month-olds are supposed to sleep 14-17 hours a day. Also, what happened when they dropped naps? Night sleep typically worsens right beforehand, as the residual nap pushes their lengthening wake window into night sleep. How did you manage their congestion when they were sick? Many kids, especially those using a pacifier, lose the ability to link their short, 45-minute sleep cycles and need to be comforted throughout the night even into toddlerhood.
> While I was looking for how to swap out the backend to self-hosted, I noticed that analytics is hardcoded to true. Something to be aware of.

Hostility is definitely not the intention, which is why we provide a way to turn it off in the config.

But looks like we should provide a way to turn it off in a settings page somewhere too.
Well, those companies have a CEO, Director of Something, etc...
The demo is great, would give a try asap.
The body can compensate at the margins. Eat 5 fewer calories per day and you will see zero change. Eat 500 fewer calories per day, consistently every day, and you will absolutely see changes. (I'm not actually suggesting that it would be _healthy_ or advisable to drop your diet by 500 calories -- just pointing out that the body cannot compensate indefinitely.)
They already have: https://www.gmb.org.uk/campaigns/deliveroo/
My first thought was, we have a town with the World's Largest Buggy Whip.
Meta under fire for making users follow Trump and Vance
There are apps, but they are incredibly inaccurate. For starters, they don't recognize the food right. Usually you have to pick from a menu of 10 items. Then they have to estimate a 3D quantity (volume) from a 2D image, then they have to estimate the density... the amazing thing though is despite all this, they are still more accurate than recall diaries.
I reread the abstract 3 times. The results stated prior to that definition simply don't follow consistently with the component meaning of those two words as I understand them.

The writer has the responsibility to be clear.
> Because the community uses the same freedoms to police those that throw slurs and does not feel it requires--that is the hope anyway--any other mandatory enforcement?

We don't, though. We have moderators (hi dang) who get rid of those people. It's the same thing Facebook used to do, just on a much smaller scale.
One successful version of what you're asking about seems to be the Vermont based Front Porch Forum. They have gotten some press in the last year and there was this thread about them on hackernews a while back : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208506

Whether they'd be receptive to share their secret sauce and let a thousand Front Porches bloom is another question though, guess you could ask them! :)
Given whose muscle actually builds the houses (before I left the UK, the meme was all the builders were Polish), and what happened to the exchange rate (initially; it's harder to separate the increasing number of influences the more time passes), the UK could have build a lot more homes more easily in the EU than it can now it's out of the EU.
yup, quitting in droves ... https://www.statista.com/statistics/223289/facebooks-quarter...
Corporate isn't an AOL chatroom. I remember those childhood days, and you're right. But the corporate environment I worked in was nothing like that. From about 2014 or so, identity was front and center.

This post [1] mentions a couple of the most salient anecdotes about my experience, but I've got so many more.

I was told I couldn't hire or refer white people on numerous occasions, certain groups (mostly the "WomEng" group) were given nice lunches and off sites and I had to take their oncall or interviews, I was told to cover for the work of underperforming engineers for well over a year before anything was done about it (a couple of non-special friends were simply let go), we all had to sit and watch other engineers get awards for their race (exactly what it sounds like), we had our walls painted with caricatures of our special identity groups. Every bit of it felt like an HR gimmick.

And that's barely scratching the surface.

It was one of the weirdest things I've experienced. And it carried on for years.

I tried to participate. I was an early proponent of this stuff. But when it started turning into favoritism, inauthentic gestures, and began feeling more like policing than something uplifting, it demoralized me and made me feel shitty.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42687151
This technology is arguably as ubiquitous as a calculator. So long as I can understand that generative AI is a tool and not a solution is it bad to treat it like a bit of a calculator? Does this metacognitive laziness apply to those who depend on calculators?

I understand it is a bit apples to oranges, but I'm curious peoples take.
I didn't mean to imply it was. My point was that everything is smaller.
If you have a known bowl and fill it to a known position every day with the same type of food, then you can probably do better than the average for that specific meal. In our research we've found a majority of calories for most people come from when they're eating out and consuming new dishes where they don't know the ingredients or portion sizes.

In the study we gave people a variety of dishes to make their estimate on, some they were familiar with, some they were not.

The professionals were nutritionists who had trained in portion size estimation and were shown 2D images on a computer screen.

For what it's worth, we've had a lot of people who have claimed to be very accurate at portion size estimation from a long history of using a kitchen scale. We've paid many of them to do a quiz to see if they're above average accuracy and they have almost always ended up around 40% accuracy or worse.
Idk, the "explain {X} to me like I'm 12" has certainly helped my delve into new topics, Nix with Flakes comes to mind as one of my latest ventures.
XSSy: Lab Writers' Guide
... and vaping. Though it's pretty strange to me to see people of all ages who seem pretty cool (like somebody really creative who runs a green/handmade clothing store and teaches classes in block printing and such) and then they take a hit of a vape in front of me and I think a little less of them.

(My Z son though will smoke a pipe occasionally, we watched the Russian version of Sherlock Holmes which made him carve an absurdly large pipe which I even took a few puffs of; my nicotine use is at the once yearly level, I'll share a ceremonial cigar and if I'm visiting a third world country I might get a pack of the local cigs)
If you read the paper it’s pretty easy to see what they mean by this. They tested “4 professional nutritionists”. I don’t know if nutritionists get any special training at estimating portion size but my guess would be they do not.
Show HN: Release Cyberbro v0.1.0 – CTI Tool for IP/domain/URL/hash analysis
Hello,

my name is Stan and I'm really excited to share my first real cybersecurity Open Source project, Cyberbro.

Why Cyberbro? Because it's lightweight and self hosted. And because I wanted to make an Open Source project. It's not perfect, but it works.

It's a tool that can be connected to multiple cybersecurity APIs to give contextual info about a potential Threat (Observable, not yet IoC without context).

Supported observables are: IPv4, IPv6, domains, SHA1 hash, SHA256 hash, MD5 hash.
The project has now 190 stars on Github and I released the v0.1.0.

Supported APIs are: VirusTotal, OpenCTI, Grep.App, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (EDR), Google Safe Browsing, IPinfo, AbuseIPDB, Shodan

Free included tools are: IPquery, Google search (scraping), Ioc.One (scraping), Phishtank, Threatfox, Abusix

Tech stack:

Python 3.13 - Flask - HTML/CSS/JS - Docker for deployment

This tool is used in my corporation (I'm really proud of it).

I developped an API to automate stuff.

Any individual wanting to check IP reputation can go to demo.cyberbro.net and give it a try (the demo is online for 1 month as I tell).

Other cool features are that you can export the results in CSV or Excel (formatted properly).

I hope you will find it interesting!

Cheers,

Stan [stanfrbd on GitHub]
Thank you! We have the ability to do real time suggestions based on your context files like Cursor but for meetings. and also late meeting recaps.

But thank you, need to update the readme now :D
Well, it is a narrow understand.

I also don't focus solely on the fact that I earn money from my job, when I speak to my colleagues - no, I wouldn't be on that job, if it didn't pay.

> No one's doing business or lending money to not see a return on that.

This is a very specific understanding of startups as entities receiving foreign capital or debt.

The act of doing entrepreneurship or stating up is inherently devoid from profit motives - or should be IMHO. Money is what makes it possible and not the core reason to do it.

And by that we return to my core reservation as written out in the initial comment.
They're not guaranteed to eat what they are served - unless you're going to do force feeding as well.

So it's still not great.
Java 24 feature frozen as it enters Rampdown Phase Two • DEVCLASS
I forget when exactly but somewhere in the 2.x updates they seemingly changed how the default interface's looping settings worked. I mostly use mixxx to make screwed & chopped cuts, vaporwave material, etc. It used to be easier to juggle my loop length live while also jumping between set loop points. Just with a mouse and keyboard. I wanna say I used to install 1.6 or 1.8 to get the defaults I wanted back, but later releases ran better after a while.
Kids sometimes think they know something, but really don't. You get different stories from a friend's older brother, a coming of age movie, porn, etc. You can't make any assumptions or leave room for interpretation here, so you should still have "The Talk™".
Gold seemed an interesting character - I was just reading his Wikipedia.

The WaPo article on him is good

>As an astronomer and geophysicist, he says, "it always seemed absurd to me to see petroleum hydrocarbons on other planets, where there was obviously never any vegetation, even as we insist that on Earth they must be biological in origin." https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/daily/h...
Not fully decided on the payment yet. Thinking about going the Coolify route with self-hosted and cloud option or with pay what you use (seems more software tending to this one). Happy for any feedback!
For events specifically, my cohort (somewhere between Gen-Z and Millenial) have moved event organizing entirely to Partiful, which I've found to be far superior to Facebook Events. Doesn't help with group posts though.
Putting aside the histrionics that Nazis are everywhere and about to kill everyone, does anyone have a good theory on why Elon would do this? Like is he just regressing to a 13 year old troll now? From the last few weeks you'd think he just went full clown. He's a 50 something year old man with 10 or 12 kids who apparently doesn't do much of anything besides troll people on Twitter, what's going on with this man?
In my experience you have it backwards. Democrats demonize Trump supporters (“basket of deplorables”, “garbage”).
> If you need the answer to a question, and you can either get it directly, or spend time researching the answer, you're going to learn much more with the latter approach than the former.

Why not force everyone to start from first principles then?

I think learning is tied to curiosity and curiosity is not tied to difficulty of research

i.e. give a curious person a direct answer and they will go on to ask more questions, give an incurious person a direct answer and they won't go on to ask more questions

We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and that is a _good_ thing, not bad

Forcing us to forgo the giants and claw ourselves up to their height may have benefits, but in my eyes it is way less effective as a form of knowledge

The compounding force of knowledge is awesome to behold, even if it can be scary
Accumulated epigentic damage? (Is it bad to born to older parents? The same environmental poisons that made us all fat since 1980?)

Less tolerance for difference in the public schools? (It used to be you were different, now you get a diagnosis)
> In the context of human-AI
interaction, we define metacognitive laziness as learners’ dependence on AI assistance, offloading metacognitive
load, and less effectively associating responsible metacognitive processes with learning tasks.

This sounds like parents complaining when we use Google Maps instead of a folding map. Am I worse at reading a regular map? Possibly. Am I better off overall? Yes.

Describing it as "laziness" is reductive. "Dependence on [_____] assistance" is the point of all technology.
I've had this same problem using ChatGPT and German. Even for basic German hallucinations can be unexpected and problematic. (I don't recall the model, but it was a recent one.)

In one instance, I was having it correct akkusativ/dativ/nominativ sentences and it would say the sentence is in one case when I knew it was in another case. I'd ask ChatGPT if it was sure, and then it would change its answer. If pressed further, it would again change its answer.

I was originally quite excited about using an LLM for my language practice, but now I'm pretty cautious with it.

It is also why I'm very skeptical of AI-based language learning apps, especially if the creator is not a native speaker.
Like other users, I also wanted to see how it would handle the fun question of how many Rs are in the word strawberry.

I'm surprised that it actually got it correct but the amount of times it argued against itself is comical. LLMs have come a long way but I'm sure with some refining it could be better.
https://gist.github.com/jlargs64/bec9541851cf68fa87c8c739a1c...
Show HN: Using Stripe to Disrupt Google/Meta Ads
Hello HN,
Excited to share something we’ve been working on: a new way to connect buyers and sellers that flips the traditional ad model used by Google and Meta. We call it Offers. It’s built on three core principles: privacy, choice, and cash rewards.

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The Problem with AdTech
Today’s $1 trillion AdTech industry is driven by a massive global surveillance system that tracks your every move online, continuously building a profile of your likes and dislikes. This data is then sold to companies to target you with personalized ads—without your informed consent.

A Better Way
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Thanks for your time!
>Egg-laying chicken farm in between two multi-family units would be perfectly legal. I see this as a good thing.

Noise pollution? Chickens don't have much of a reputation for being quiet.

Also various farming can have quite different hours compared to residential living.
Thank you for suggestion. But in all honesty, f*ck Microsoft.

Trying to trademark copilot is trying to trademark something like ASI or AGI. Co-pilot has been widely used in the aviation industry, and by definition means a person/companion who can help you navigate.

So, I hope their trademark request gets rejected ¯\_(ツ)_/¯