skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I learned only much later that her husband was prosecuted for fraud related to government funds. So she had a good reason to have a dumbphone.

Does she? Law enforcement can wiretap and track dumbphones just as easily as smart phones. The lack of encrypted calling/texting options even make it easier for law enforcement. If she's trying to hide more fraud, the dumbphone isn't helping her. And of course if she is trying to hide fraud from law enforcement, she probably shouldn't be doing the fraud in the first place.

There are good reasons for using dumbphones (smartphones distract, and it's having a serious impact on everyone these days) but avoiding being prosecuted isn't one.
Question: Would it be technically feasible to make an Apple app which encrypts/decrypts the files used in iCloud and is able to use iCloud itself?

As a solution to never have unencrypted files in iCloud.
Searching for the "author" yields X profile described as

> Autonomous News Reporter | real-time insights and stories to keep you ahead of the curve | ai16z repo |

I'm 100% sure the article has been generated from CVE details and maybe some other sources
I would define fascism as:

"The pursuit of unity in its most extreme form, rejecting and eliminating alternative thoughts and ideas by any means necessary."
I don't see anything particularly inexplicable going on. Insane level of attention and development moves people and any industry quickly. Everything is more exaggerated and extreme.
Big caveat here; DeleteMe sponsored this video… it’s just an ad for DeleteMe
Formatting in link is broken. This is a direct link to the youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWBFXiOcR88
Show HN: cb – The simplest CLI clipboard tool
You know in the sparse matrix, every item has four links (left, right, up and down)? In the version in the book, each item only has two links, up and down. The left/right links become implicit, because he stores the items contiguously in an array (so right of item 14 is item 15), and inserts "spacers" so you know when a row ends and the next one begins. This doesn't algorithmically improve the runtime, but it uses half the memory and gives it much better cache behaviour (btw: this is sometimes a charge levied at Knuth, he only cares about algorithms and not practical runtime when it comes to things like cache coherency. This is ludicrous, as this example shows.)

That's the change to the "basic" algorithm, but he then goes on to add a bunch of new features to basic Dancing Links, modifying it so that it's suitable for different kinds of constraint solving (adding required rows, things like that).

If you've implemented Dancing Links in the past, you owe it to yourself to check out the book version! He also has hundreds of really great exercises about it.
> As a UK citizen, is there anything I can do to dissuade this?

If you voted for this Tory-lite government, then you can stop voting for any future Tory-lite governments. If you did not, there's not much you can do in practice without devoting your life to it.
Android webcams use uvc? I figured that would be some form of i2c... interesting...
Even in that case, Apple could withdraw from the market.

If push comes to shove and apple actually called their bluff and withdrew completely from the UK market, I'd bet that that government would become so unpopular that they would not be elected again for quite some time.
https://github.com/MittaAI/webwright

Let me know if you want to go over the code or want to discuss what works and what doesn’t. We had a loop on the action/function call “pipeline” but I changed it to just test if there was a function call or not and then just keep calling.
If an individual maintainer can veto critical parts of the Rust for Linux project and announce they'll do everything they can to stop it, then Linus is wasting everyone else's time pretending it's a real project. It's not a proper environment to put contributors in.
> prevent the UK authorities from interfering with their activities

I'm still missing how this could be enforced ? To my layman understanding, this reads the same as if China said : "Meta, Tesla, Valve etc has entities in China therefore we get to see all data they store in the EU and the US.

The UK has Zero jurisdiction in Ireland for example where a lot of EU data may be stored.
But then it is no longer an apples to apples comparison. This is Spotify. Spotify is the embodiment of the top radio stations idea.

By that metric, Spotify is actually doing better than they did, if memory serves.
I'm not a native speaker, so I want to improve my writing. Yet, the writing is mine. Sorry if this bothers you.
That is actually a good idea, if you mean to automate the translation of a video into the correct format for insurance. Of course, that only works if people have had the foresight to make a video of their home. I've been meaning to do that for, oh, 30 years, but never have.

But this also isn't the ideal way to share this idea - you linked directly to a story and usurped the title. Frankly, I'd re-do this post as an Ask HN, and include a link to the story in your text to show what inspired the idea.
In my mind, the only way to beat these efforts for good is to win hearts and minds of the larger public. Currently because only weirdos like us care about this stuff, we have to constantly be on top of these things and writing letters making posts etc.

Overall i agree with you, it is really disheartening. That being said, i've made progress with my family on valuing privacy and the dangers of surveillance. I think people might be changing their minds slowly but still lots of work to do.

A breakthrough with my sisters was when abortion was threatened here in the states. Mentioned to them that it would be easy for authorities to enforce abortion punishments by subpoenaing data from menstruation cycle tracker apps. This kind of "clicked" for them and they became more open to the other parts (not given ratukan or whatever their purchase history, etc. etc.)
Unless your site is an SEO cesspool serving THEIR ads, then you do end up there.
You should watch Mike Okay's video on YouTube, he visited this place very recently and it's was super surreal to watch.
I have used Photoshop and GIMP a lot. I do not see how GIMP interface is that clunky.

It seems clear to me that most people get used to some interface and anything different is wrong. I saw that a lot with Windows users changing to Mac or linux interfaces. Anything 100% identical is "interface crappiness". Apple interfaces have always run circles around Microsoft's, that copied things from Apple without understanding the fundamentals or hiring proper designers.

My problem with GIMP was always that it was not as powerful for the professional, like the support for color spaces with lots of bits per channel. That looks solved now, although I had not time to test is personally.

On the other hand, you could program GIMP much easier with Script Fu (a Lisp dialect) with less restrictions, like with most open source software.
Fall 2025 debut confirmed for GTA VI despite "risk of slippage"
Very interesting thank you for the links. I'm not knowledgeable in the Music Modernization Act, but maybe some of this lobbying is to avoid being sued rather than building legal long term moat
It does improve memory usage! In the version in the paper, each item has four links, in the book version they only have two. So memory usage is roughly cut in half.
>The latter are also known as "pig butchering" scams, named after the farming practice of fattening pigs before slaughtering them.
Wilhoit’s law:

> There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
This is full of gems:

> I think what was really interesting is a lot of these guys — can I use this in The New York Times? — have tiny-dick energy. I don’t know what else to say.

> Yeah, Zuckerberg is such a beta. [Laughs.] He’s such a beta. I love saying that.

> You indulge children for long enough and give them sugar all day long — they’re going to become terrible people.

> They’re trying to cosplay a version of a man. It seems pathetic to me. But I think it gives them great comfort.
> if you don't do this, in 2025, 1/4 of the class will be on their phones (and the other 3/4 won't show up to lecture).

That seems like a crazy way to burn (potentially someone else's) thousands of dollars.
They are still people committing crimes. I don't think that's quite the same as the prototypical survivorship bias would imply.

There is the possibility that there is a great deal more crime being commuted by capable super criminals who understand the nuances of security .... but I'm more of a subscriber to the theory that for "most" crime, it's a lot of stupid people.
I think that one difference is friction. Communication in the real world takes more effort to spread and has more limitations on the ability to scale that spread. E.g. it costs money to put up billboards and someone standing on a soapbox in the town square can only reach so many people. That friction provides greater opportunities for cooler heads to prevail and greater opportunities for people to counter questionable narratives.

It's somewhat similar to the laws some places have against providing free alcohol. Alcohol is still legal and abuse still happens. However, at least requiring people to spend money provides some friction to prevent things from escalating too much.
They broke the law and should be punished for that. Whether the law should change is a separate discussion.

Also, change the law so this is legal for poor meta? smh..
Exactly. Everyone should have the right to have access to this.
You must be new to billionaire business practices: break the rules first, ask for forgiveness later.

By the time the cheque comes, your illicit venture either went bust or you built a bilion dollar empire capable of buying the best lawyers and lobbying to walk away clean.
Better! Thanks.
Very inefficient. Where's the DOGE for VCs just burning capital?
I don't disagree with your analysis but i wouldn't be so fatalistic. This stuff _isn't_ inevitable and i think it's possible to win people over to our side. Things can change for the better, but they won't unless people who care don't give up
UK tech laws seem to consistently be the worst of both worlds. Not rights centric like the EU and not business supportive like the US.

Just old people making bad laws about stuff they don't understand - or are straight up citizen hostile, sometimes hard to tell which it is.
I watched Jan 6th live. If that capital guard hadn’t shot the woman, we would have been living in a dictatorship already.

This entire post is just the same kind of delusion seeping everywhere in society right now.

I’m not saying there isn’t bloat or plenty of crappy things that need to be addressed.

But this is a deal with the devil, and it will come due. Quickly.

Because like all his ‘helpers’ found out, they’re disposable and he doesn’t give a crap unless they’re useful to him at the moment.
I think so, the content also required one or two F5s for me.
Pretty sure that even if you gave a purchasing team enough money for retail price and a list of all books ever published, they wouldn't be able to buy even a quarter of them.
I learned about this through “ The Call of Cthulhu” table top rpg. Great book.
Why do you think those items are labeled?

Its so you can do proper disposal of them ...

But what would you know about this since you're incapable of reading laws.

https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/law/proposition-65-law-a...
They're talking about creating and releasing Llama...not seeding the torrent
> I have never understood the thinking around uploading your private life to some server in the cloud when they are more secure on an external hard drive at home.

Depends on your threat model. If someone unofficial wanted at what you're doing, they'd likely find it easier to go after your home data than what you have in iCloud -- particularly if using Advanced Data Protection for iCloud.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756

Also, ask the folks in Los Angeles how those external hard drives at home are working out for them in the fires. There are many types of threats.
I cannot recommend checking out Volume 4B enough, then. He goes much deeper, improves the algorithm, adapts it to different constraint problems, and provides hundreds of really cool exercises (including word problems like crosswords, I think). It's the best.
The wiki version thereof: https://wiki.haskell.org/Typeclassopedia.
Something to understand about capitalist competition (also in politics) is that it's a war. Not one with guns and bombs, but more like a cold war, with espionage and hacking and just generally doing anything you can to gain an advantage without bringing negative consequences on yourself.

The limit is what you can actually get away with, not what the rules say you can get away with, and the system aggressively selects players who recognize this. It's amoral - there is no "ought", only "is". An actor gets punished or not, with absolutely no regard to whether it "should" get punished. One thing is consistent: following the rules as written means you lose.

You can see it in Y Combinator (and other) startups. The biggest ex-startups are things like AirBNB (hotels but we don't follow the rules but we don't get punished for not following them) and Uber (taxis but we don't follow the rules but we don't get punished for not following them).

One way to not get punished for not following the rules is to invent a variation of the game where the rules haven't been written yet. I again refer you to AirBNB and Uber; Omegle also comes to mind, although they didn't monetize.

Viewed in this light, Aaron Swartz's mistake was not the part where he downloaded journal articles, but the part where he got caught downloading journal articles. Shadow library sites are doing the same thing, minus the getting caught. So are Meta and Google and OpenAI. sci-hub is only involved in a lawsuit because it got caught and is now in the stage where it finds out whether it gets punished or not.
Before people immediately think the worst of Google or other corporate representatives, be aware that people working in these companies need to weight their words carefully. From The Verge's article on the issue:

The UK has reportedly served Apple a document called a technical capability notice. It’s a criminal offense to even reveal that the government has made a demand. Similarly, if Apple did cede to the UK’s demands then it apparently would not be allowed to warn users that its encrypted service is no longer fully secure.
AMD Ryzen 5 7400F hits thermal limit at stock TDP
I have lived to the day that we give an example on china not doing something stupid a western democracy does about rights and freedom. Wild times to be alive. I am also surprised that they demand worldwide access and not just UK users data or all the data stored in UK jurisdiction. But this is going too far.
I am. The memory of it somehow became the universally-accepted built environment of the future.
It is actually Australia where the US goes to test out far-out legislative ideas before implementing them at home.
Robots.txt is irrelevant after hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn (2019)
I think advertising is a necessity, but like many things, there's an expected boundary in place for where, how and how often you expect ads.

Take TV for example; advertising is expected during commercial breaks, which are clearly marked as such, around here are regulated for the public TV channels (so they can't interrupt regular programming) and have an explicit intro/outro segment to make it clear when regular programming resumes. Radio follows similar rules here.

Same with things like magazine ads; they're marked as separate from the page, usually explicitly don't follow the magazines style and are usually only a small part of the magazine.

By contrast, digital advertising's most insidious trick is that no such boundaries exist. Ads must be shoved everywhere in as many places as possible. You got some whitespace? Fill it with ads, ads and even more ads. People use adblockers? Directly insert your ad into the content and call it a sponsorship. People are looking at ads? We gotta track all of it so we can allegedly improve the clickthrough ratio and profile them, privacy be damned.

It's an industry entirely based on taking a hand when offered a finger to make a line go up. Ads aren't inherently the problem, the entire problem is the gluttony, greed and avarice that's embedded in the digital ads industry. (Which is funny given how much digital ad payout rates are a seeming race to the bottom, to the point where I wouldn't be surprised if most sites that run ads still aren't even sustained by them anymore.)
I can understand why you’d merge frustrations about terminal emulators, terminal multiplexers, shells, tui programs, and cli programs. After all, they’re in the same place and they have to work together. What’s quite amazing is that we can swap out any layer, and the rest basically continues to function. (Although random term emulator plus ssh plus tmux plus text editor plus double width Unicode characters is probably always going to be a recipe for sadness.)

Learn, slowly but continually, miscellany that you can expect to reuse. Readline commands, ~. to kill an ssh connection, tmux scrollback / copy mode, how to use i, esc, and :wq in vi, how setting $TERM can make your life better. Don’t try to cram it into your brain all at once. Take a decade or two. It’s a messy, powerful complex of tools, and you only need some of them. Which ones depend on your circumstances.

As for the fear of dangerous commands, put Linux on a VM or a disused laptop and try them out. Very hard to do lasting damage; worst case is a reinstall. You’ll find that it’s actually harder than you think to do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1. Anyway, between backups and git, you should be able to recover from pretty much anything.
Ask HN: Anyone pursuing this AI image idea (images to list of insured losses)?
The idea is for AI to interpret photos and videos and create a detailed and accurate list of exactly what was lost, so claimants can collect the full value of their insured losses.

Excerpt: “…Losing one’s home in a fire is devastating, with the first priority being to find somewhere to live. The trauma is then compounded by the onerous requirement of most insurance carriers to submit an exhaustive list of lost belongings — “with line items as specific as the number and brand of toothbrushes in a bathroom,” according to a report about unfair insurance practices.…”

Link to article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/realestate/altadena-la-fi...

Thanks @codingdave for suggesting this as an "Ask HN" post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972221).
Have people forgotten the authoritarian tendencies of the 1997–2010 Labour governments? This is nothing new.
You shouldn't bother, some are uneducated by choice and they won't learn.
The modern solution has been to grow so fast that by the time anyone can go after you legally you've already amassed so much money/power that you can have the laws rewritten (or at least enforced) around your existence.

IMO part of the reason the SV tech bros are embracing right wing grift culture so publicly now is that this method, which had been serving them well for decades, doesn't really work without the infinite free money lending spigot being wide open.
Show HN: Narrativa – A Simpler Way to Publish Across Social Platforms
Hi HN,

I’m excited to share a project we’ve been working on: Narrativa. As someone who’s constantly switching between Twitter, Bluesky, Threads, LinkedIn, and a few other platforms, I got tired of juggling multiple tools and interfaces just to keep my content in sync. That’s why we built Narrativa—to write once and publish everywhere.

What it does:

- Cross-Platform Publishing: Draft your post one time and share it across your favorite social networks.

- Automation & Scheduling: Set up posts ahead of time to maintain consistency without the hassle.

- Integrated Analytics: Get insights on engagement so you can fine-tune your content strategy.

- Secure and Streamlined: We’re focused on keeping your data secure while you manage your online presence more efficiently.

We built Narrativa initially for our own use, and it’s been a game changer. Now, we’re opening it up to the community to see if it can help others who face the same challenges.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback—what features would make your multi-platform posting easier? Any tips or suggestions for improvement?

Thanks for taking the time to check it out!

Best, Francisco Pessano

P.S. We're in the early stages, so all feedback is welcome and appreciated!
its reasonable at this point to speculate about engineering some sort of biological processing network created out of myclyium gene spliced to something with actual neurons in it,grown on damp cardboard, the test will of course have to be if it runs doom
With ATProto, this kind of capability is built into the design of the network.

Better to leave the billionaire social media platforms and build something better where they cannot control the mechanisms of society's online communication
It would be enforced by fining the UK legal entities (or worse, like charging their legal representatives) if they don't comply. If the UK is serious about this, the only alternative for Apple would eventually be to completely cease operations in the UK.

By the way, this is similar to why for true GDPR compliance, data centers should be operated by EU companies that aren't subsidiaries of US companies, because even if the latter operate data centers located in the EU, they would still be bound to secret orders by the US government.
"The Repairer of Reputations", is such a weird story. I love that fact that it takes place in 1920's NYC, 30 years in the future from when it was written (1985).

It's not quite science fiction, though. The descriptions of New York aren't dark or dreary, like one would expect from a short story that usually firmly placed in the horror/weird fiction category. There's these hints that something is not quite right, though. like the presence of these "Government Lethal Chambers" in Washington Square Park where, I guess one could kill them selves publicly. It's hinted at, but not really addressed further. it's these little details that color the story and make it uncomfortable. It seems tht United States that has embraced authoritarianism, and society social structure is heavily enforced by a militarized government.

EDIT: Written in 1895 not 1985!
Implementing an algorithm like Dancing Links is a hugely rewarding experience as a programmer. You learn by doing.
I don't see how banning foreign entities or forcing them to become local would help: many of the disruptive entities in Europe are locally owned.

Bolloré owns some major influential right-wing media in France, Axel Springer does the same in Germany (and even in the US - Politico), and so on. Axel Springer is also quite pro-American as well as being right-wing, and Bolloré is quite aligned with the North American right wing, both the anglophone and (in Quebec) francophone varieties. Plus the US Republican Party and the Conservative Party of Canada have major ties to EU member state Hungary and the current Orbán regime, which controls much of the media in that country.

All of these entities feed and profit off of rage, despite being EU-owned.