skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how old you are?

Mostly because a lot of my personal interests/ability to self-develop was related to Internet access. (My parents made VERY QUESTIONABLE financial choices and opted to pay for Internet access instead of food or clothing so I might have been freezing and my clothes all had holes in them but I could go online to talk to other smart kids.)

Also because I remember me + my parents being sat down when I was in elementary school and having my options talked about. In middle school once I was proven to have programming and math aptitude during the dot com boom, educational experts came to us and discussed specific gifted learning options (including things like private schools, skipping grades, or even pulling me out of school altogether for private instruction). None of this was initiated by my parents - it was brought to us. This was in the 90s.
lol, you think Jeep care?

Backlash sure, but five years later they're probably put advertising in your steering wheel.
I didn't buy a Jeep because of stuff like this. The problem is that when I looked at the competitors, for instance the Bronco, they had their own little UI annoyances too. There wasn't anything on the market that didn't annoy or insult me in one way or another, so I ended up just buying a 25 year old Ranger. The irony is that 25 years ago, I had a Ranger like the one I own now, and it took me a series of seven modern vehicles, each increasingly bad, to teach me the value of a simple, unopinionated truck that just gets me to point B.
I've posted dozens of comments on these issues in recent weeks (I mean issues such as how we handle politics on HN, when we turn off flags, etc.) and have spent countless hours answering people's questions in the threads as well as by email. I wouldn't do those things if I "could not care less"—it's a ton of work, plus it's mind-numbingly repetitive!

(If you haven't seen any of those many explanations, I could understand why you might jump to such a conclusion, but it's based on a mistaken premise—probably due to the "measure zero" effect that I've described a few times [1].)

Here are a few links in case anyone hasn't seen those posts and needs some trailheads into the forest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43212835 (Feb 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389 (Feb 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011 (Feb 2025)

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[1] The "measure zero effect" is the strange phenomenon that no matter how many times we repeat something, the set of users who hear (or at any rate remember) it seems to have measure zero. I also call this the statelessness of the internet, but I like the 'measure zero' analogy better because it includes the fact that many users do hear these things—they're just negligible in number, compared to the ones who don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42923707 (Feb 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787443 (Jan 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380376 (Sept 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22741427 (March 2020)
The way local ISPs talk IPv6 is the expensive support item and don't bother with it. They both run CGNAT too.
It's largely equivalent here - you're just exposing something via a tunnel rather than directly via your home IP.

That could have benefits, for example, if you're concerned about a DDoS attack on that service taking your home internet out, you may be able to work around it like this. But it won't mitigate a gaping hole in the underlying service which you're still exposing.

It could also have drawbacks, like limited bandwidth and higher latency, which would make it highly unsuitable for something like a game server.
Absolutely fantastic, well done! I wish I encountered more scifi like this on HN or elsewhere. If anyone has any good general resource or reading recommendations please share them!
They use a similar line on the MacBook Air page. If you're buying an (up to) $13,000 Mac, hopefully you already understand macOS and its features, I guess.
This one was a bit like reading Sherlock Holmes.
Right!? There is also a popup ad on that very site.

Here is a tip that I just recently learned that has improved my browsing experience with uBlock Origin. In the settings menu under "Filter Lists" there sections under the heading of "Cookie notices" and "Annoyances" that are not enabled by default. Blocking cookie popups has been wonderful, and I can only imagine what kind of annoyances are now being blocked for me.
Something I've noticed is that the facade of "efficiency" isn't even being proferred anymore. Only a month and a half in and the mask has dropped completely.
> The original source was Louis Rossmann

No, the original source was reddit. His video just reported on what other people had already been saying.

Ultimately social media is where we're going to hear about these issues. The companies themselves aren't going to publish an article detailing how they're
screwing their customers over on their websites.
Google begins testing AI-only search results
> He also has a habit of moving the goalposts when manufacturers actually try to do something good, like when he continued to complain about Apple after they introduced their hardware repair program with loaner equipment.

I don't think that's moving the goalposts. Apple set things up in a way that still made it extremely difficult for a repair shop to do the work. No ability to stock parts being one of the really bad features. With the rental costing enough money to cancel out any savings, it becomes a tool for a small number of people that don't want the phone leaving their sight, a toy for some others, and not much more.

Has that changed since?
They weren't in a CS curriculum, they said they were pursuing software engineering.
> Just like nowadays you can't buy a "dumb TV"

You can, if you buy used. I know it's weird to buy a used TV, but they cost pennies on the dollar and you can get some really nice models without today's ubiquitous annoyances.

Same goes for cars. If enough people refrain from buying new cars, and put in the effort to keep their older cars on the road, maybe manufacturers will take the hint.
I remember visiting LA in the late 80's and having my eyes water due to the pollution. I can't imagine what the 60's and 70's must have been like. Unfortunately it is only easy to be an environmentalist in this country only when lakes are burning and the air is so bad you choke on it. We should have national pollution park where companies are allowed to do whatever they want but it is also a national park that has guides to show how bad things are just so people can understand what life is like without environmental controls.
Unpopular opinion, but FiveThirtyEight constantly got the polls wrong and this isn't surprising. It gave people exaggerated confidence in their understanding of the polling numbers. The amount of gaslighting I got from FiveThirtyEight readers about how Kamala wasn't guaranteed to win was astronomical.
Write a short essay about the mechanics of honey bee mating. 300 characters at most.
It's one thing to want to withdraw orderly, it's another to treacherously backstab your allies.
It’s been played out since Terminator came out IMO

The fear of AI/the fear of aliens IMO is propaganda to cover up the fact that technological advancement is highly correlated with sociological advancement. If people took this fact seriously, they might start wondering whether or not technological advancement actually causes sociological advancement, and if they started to question that then they’d come across all the evidence showing that what we normally think of as “civilized” and “intelligent” behavior is actually just the result of generational wealth, status, and power.
Ah, the formation of German-lead coalition to oppose Russia AND US, how fresh. Surely third time will be the charm.
Thank you, so many great features. My personal favorite is .declLiteral() syntax, which makes webserver route-configuration very easy and readable!

If you are ever in temptation to do a builder for internal DSL, .declLiteral() might be a better way. I think it might be very cool for GUI structures too.

I did a quick PoC for SQL query building, but unfortunately, any more advanced queries are better to copy & serialize their arguments for safety reasons, so not that useful there, but still, very hyped about this particular thing.
Absurd that cars are now seen as an advertising platform by car makers. A car's stereo or display system randomly blasting ads at you (the driver) should be treated for what it really is - intentionally distracting the driver when the vehicle is in operation. That shit should be illegal. It's dumb at best, and incredibly dangerous at worst.
> if someone decides to nuke the US, where would they start?

First, nuclear forces: ICBM and IRBM silos and their C2, nuclear weapons storage, strategic airfields and ballistic-missile submarine bases. (This is why nuclear arsenals escalate against each other. The defensive role of missile silos is both deference and to soak up the enemy’s nukes.)

Second, leadership: command posts and communication.

Third, other military: barracks, supply depots, marshalling points, airfields, ammunition storage, tank and vehicle storage.

Fourth, military industry: ammo, tank, APC factories; refineries; railyards and repair facilities. Steel, aluminum and power generation.

Fifth, population centres. (You don’t want to nuke New York if that could have taken out a silo that will flatten a dozen of your cities.)

In summary, somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere :).

https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-91-319fs.pdf page 22
I am often reminded how similar the discussion around global warming and the one around CFCs were. There was much shouting about destroying the economy, and how the cold chain was a remarkable invention that ensured we did not die from food poisoning and did we really want to go back to medieval times? Maybe sell ice from a lake?

Sure there are alternatives but they are both expensive and with sub par performance. We need to have alternatives that both cheaper and better before we can do anything?

But no, rich countries showed that they could actually get together and ban harmful chemicals, and by sheer economic force alone turn the whole world around. Research was let loose when there was economic incentives, mass production effects set in and over time the expensive and bad alternatives was cheap and good enough.
Making a reliable paper feed is surprisingly difficult and requires construction with tiny tolerances.

Not to mention that if you tried to re-invent it yourself, there's a good chance you'd end up violating a patent. Even if you didn't, HP or some other company could allocate a lot of legal funding to convince a judge that you have.
Environmental policy has always been political. That you are surprised the EPA was founded by Nixon show how little you understand how political it always has been, and how common compromise has been in all policies.
All do respect to Rossmann, but he definitely falls under the genre of "professional complainer". And like a lot of tech journalism he applies the same narratives to everything.

I get that everyone wants to make this a story about tech enshittification, but Brother barely bothers to keep their website updated. The idea that they are secretly and suddenly changing their sales strategy and publicly lying about it is a bold claim that requires bold evidence.
Last I tried this, Spotlight didn't play well with symlinked application bundles.
Your third-party toner chip could've been defective.
I've never seen an HN self post that included a "message from our sponsors" before!
I think this might be about chat.com
The win condition of the game is the entire state of the game configured in a certain way. So there exists a lot of win conditions, you just have to do a search.
It's not pedantic, Russia is part of Europe and according to your link has 80% of its population in Europe [1]. The exclusion from the list of European Nuclear powers is incorrect and politically motivated.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Russia
It’s a mix of federal, state, and private land. There was a group of private landowners that fought for years to keep the DOL from hazing bison off of their PRIVATELY owned land on Horsehead Butte.

And yes, that’s the Department of Livestock. There’s an interagency management group that handles bison in the area, including the Department of Livestock and at times Homeland Security. They also run catch pens near Gardiner, where they round up wild bison and send them to slaughter houses.
Someone should try to press this as a lemon law issue

> A vehicle is considered a lemon if it has at least one defect that substantially that impairs the use, safety, or market value and the car has not been repaired after a reasonable number of attempts.
I, Robot the movie was like that
I wonder if anyone is keeping a list of all the times this has happened?

I know that its not something new, because 30 years ago when I was in law school one of the cases studied in my class on transnational taxation was that of an Australian group (if I'm remembering the right country...) that tried to buy every possible ticket in a US lottery.

My recollection is that they only ended up getting something like 90% of the possible numbers but that was enough to get the top prizes and questions arose on how that should be taxed and whether the cost of the tickets was deductible.
Speed will be next; subscription based.

150$ a month to enable acceleration greater than 50mph.
I don't need a lecture on Russia's character. What I was curious to learn from you, or anyone, what could be done differently to defeat them? How would Russia respond if we send more advanced weaponry? Does Ukraine have the men to fight?

I'm getting downvoted but honestly looking for answers.
I assumed it needed to be logged in to an account to do the update and install apps (like how Google requires a login to open the Play Store).
There are legal sanctions for refusing to update software in a car, and for blocking it from internet. There is no way out!
Existential Processing
Is it Datadog? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33394059

I've seen SaaS growth advice that basically goes: once you found product-market fit and a good (enterprise) price point get funding, create a sales script and hire 10 sales people. They'll be on commission and call and email all day long.

Luckily I've never received a sales call but see an uptick in people trying to guess my email address (It's not first.last@, f.last@, first@ or last@ which turns out is a good filter).
> Just like nowadays you can't buy a "dumb TV"

you can buy a computer monitor and connect it to apple tv. sure it won't be as big but it can't phone home.
> it might be possible to use personal cloud storage [...] with E2EE

Which would quickly become illegal if UKGOV is set on getting access to people's iOS backups / cloud storage / etc. Hell, it's already a legal requirement to hand over your keys if UKGOV demands them[0].

[0] "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 part III (RIPA 3) gives the UK power to authorities to compel the disclosure of encryption keys or decryption of encrypted data by way of a Section 49 Notice." https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investig...
This is what people outside of Europe do not understand. We are not one country. We are 27 sovereign countries with their own parliament and their own final decisions that must coin a common European policy. This is an immense effort.
sam is a billionaire who supports some liberal causes sometimes. those causes are obviously far far less important to him that being a billionaire.

calling him a liberal as though that's any part of his identity at all seems wrong.
> Then why do people keep buying random laptops and then complaining when Linux doesn't run on it? You buy a laptop from a vendor who designs them to run Linux out of the box.

Because:

(1) Laptop models designed to run Linux out of the box are very scarce, with very few options to choose from.

(2) Of the few that do exist, I’ve never seen any even remotely close to being competitive with Apple’s laptops (in terms of hardware quality, and good performance with excellent power efficiency / fanless / thermals / battery life).

Part of that is due to Apple’s monopoly on the superiority of their M series chips. But the rest I assume comes from less R&D investment generally in the Linux laptop space due to it being such a small niche, unfortunately.
Perfectly said. I wish I could send it to my friend who is all consumed by the Faux and believe some billionaire is watching his back and about to send him some checks.
> allowing young users to opt out of algorithmic recommendations.

How is giving users more choice "censorship"?

More like encroaching on big tech profits by empowering users.
> One off, politically driven reductions in advertisers and user groups is not caused by unhandled load from reduced workforce or implications of work from office policy.

I think this is basically backwards; aggressive cuts and short-term revenue attempts alienated advertisers, casual users and influencers with large audiences. In particular:

- they abandoned content moderation, including flagging misinformation, hate-speech, and targeted harassment. This obviously saves money, b/c it eliminates systems and ML models that needed to examine tweets/messages and accounts in real time. These are adversarial problems, so you can't just create the model once and leave it alone; you need to pay a team to keep finding the current abusive patterns. But abandoning this means that you have a network where (a) any post you see is more likely to be manipulative misinformation (b) you will see slurs and hatespeech and perhaps receive them and (c) if you're determined to be in some way objectionable to an army of trolls, you may be endlessly harassed. So it's a kinda awful place to engage.

- they tried to sell blue checkmarks. This had multiple bad effects. It let any rando with a few dollars impersonate large companies and brands. This alienated those large companies who felt understandably burned, and it made casual users less trustful of content even that appears to be marked as legitimate by the platform. Further, b/c they were trying to force previously verified accounts from notable people to start paying them, they alienated celebs and influencers with large audiences.

It's not just that people who disagree with Musk politically were moving away from twitter in some slow-rolling boycott -- the choices Musk made have transformed twitter to a place where it's harder to get real information, it's hard to have a conversation with your community without being attacked, it's hard to curate your feed (Musk posts may be injected whether or not you follow him), and far from being a "free speech" paradise, it's one where a bunch of people don't feel safe engaging at all.
It used to be a compromise: a product was free and ad-supported, a one-time cost up-front or a subscription. Now these capitalists think they can have it coming, going and staying right here with a car that you buy, that has subscription services in it and still shows you ads. I won't ever buy a car that shows ads and if all the cars on the market show ads I will break mine so that it stops doing that.
I really wish Biden had just ended Guantanamo. I fully believe that the people remaining there are the worst of the worst, and would do tremendous harm if released, or even given access to the American judicial system. But Guantanamo is a massive stain on America's reputation, a judicial no-man's-land every bit as bad as the gulags of the Soviet Union.

I cannot believe that we are sending people there. They're not even accused of terrorism; they were not captured as illegal combatants.

This is shameful. We should be ashamed of ourselves. I know that the world is ashamed of us.
If government spends $100, did that $100 came from taxes or from selling bonds (which you call "debt").

I object to calling it "debt" because you can't tell. And my greater point was that buying a liquid asset is neutral to, let's call it, "net worth" of country.

The government does "speculate" on gold. That is the closest equivalent. Gold is a hedge against declining value of a dollar, just as Bitcoin would be.
My favourite use of tailscale:

I have a bluetooth gateway (Cassia X1000) in my workshop where I normally develop. I was at home doing some Android work at one point rather than at the workshop and needed to test some new Cassia functionality.

Tailscale exit node in the workshop.

Tailscale client on my linux dev laptop at home.

Started up the android emulator via Android Studio, connected to the Cassia via the app being debugged, debugged what I needed to, shipped it.

At the time it seemed like actual magic had happened.
Or just modify them. People used to replace their stereo, I suspect there would be a real market for add free infotainment systems.
Because this President campaigned on ending the long wars, which he opposed. I'm not sure where the confusion lies because Trump has been very clear about getting the US out of what he views as foreign entanglements.

I'm not passing judgement on it, just noting that what we're seeing is consistent with his campaign messaging.
I'm surprised that HP hasn't shuttered Instant Ink because of the terrible PR they get from people that don't understand how the service works, subscribe for a month for $3, then are all Surprised Pikachu when they cancel the service and they can't use the ink anymore.
I am going to flag this because this account is being used primarily for self-promotion. See guidelines [1]

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It was for that reason OpenVPN set up in SSL mode over TCP 443 was king, a few years ago most firewalls could not distinguish it from regular TLS encrypted web traffic. These days with application layer "next gen" firewalls though, a zealous network administrator can distinguish between the two and block just the VPN connection if they so choose.
Judges Are Fed Up with Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases
When subtlety proves too constraining, competitors may escalate to overt cyberattacks, targeting datacenter chip-cooling systems or nearby power plants in a way that directly—if visibly—disrupts development. Should these measures falter, some leaders may contemplate kinetic attacks on datacenters, arguing that allowing one actor to risk dominating or destroying the world are graver dangers, though kinetic attacks are likely unnecessary. Finally, under dire circumstances, states may resort to broader hostilities by climbing up existing escalation ladders or threatening non-AI assets. We refer to attacks against rival AI projects as "maiming attacks."
I was on a cruise ship a few weeks ago and realized that, instead of being throttled, a lot of sites were completely blocked. Very irritating. They also do DPI on the cruise ship network so that VPN clients like OpenVPN are blocked regardless of port.

Without a laptop handy, I had to use my iPhone to set up a droplet running Ubuntu, then install vray onto it and configure it to run on port 443. vray uses "standard" SSL to tunnel connections, so to DPI it just looks like normal HTTPS traffic and I was able to pass traffic through the firewall when I needed to access something that was blocked. It makes me wonder if TailScale would also bypass their analysis, or if it would be blocked as well.

(I didn't abuse this to the detriment of the network, and I did pay for the "streaming package" on sea days when I had a lot of traffic to run)
You'd probably like qntm: https://qntm.org/fiction
You couldn't exhibit a better analogy, so you used this bad one instead.