skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's $7.3k USD for 100k miles in NZ... Same as 3.5 tonne diesel truck.
The US wants some arbitrary violence against foreigners. This now includes Canadians as well as white Europeans. Because the frothing rage against immigrants has reached that level of blindness.

Also things like the (not new! present under Democrats!) border searches of social media for evidence of disloyalty.
Are we still pretending that Guantanamo Bay never existed or that the US didn't randomly accuse people all over the world of terrorism and imprison them without a shred of evidence?
especially on iOS where Apple conveniently restricts things like push notifications for web apps

Apple implemented it after the outcry few years ago, but guess what, time-critical webpush never worked on google. Most of these “but webpush” posts and demands were from non-practicing pretenders. I even low key lost faith in HN back then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38430581

What are the biggest obstacles, and how do we push the web (or something else) forward as a true alternative?

I don’t think there is a way forward, we’re at the end game. Full anarchy harms regular users, full walling gives bigcorps nice leverage. Even faced with choice, most users will choose safety over freedom and privacy, because maintaining safety in tech is risky and costs time/money.
> You say "likely never" but eventually we'll have covered the earth's surface in solar panels. Unless we are transitioning to space based solar and transmission we'll want fusion to increase energy generation beyond surface irradience of earth.

> In the meantime, solar panels for massive generation also incur transmission costs to centralize that energy for any major energy usages. We might want to keep having high power generators next to super-high energy consumers. For instance our (theoretical) hyperspace communication and computation array. Right now those usages are things like Arc Furnaces, Aluminum smelters, data-centers, ...

Well before we cover the entire globe in PV, the mere fact that the panels absorb a lot of light means they will change the planet's albedo, heating things up.

But any source of power on that scale will also increase the planet's equilibrium temperature (regardless of if it's PV, fusion, or even if we figure out how to harness dark energy/zero point shenanigans) so we want space-based power before then — and the industrial capacity to use that power in space, because simply beaming it down to Earth is still going to heat up the planet just like any other power source.

Before we even get to that point (in fact, already today) humanity is manufacturing enough metal to make a global power grid with only 1 Ω of resistance the long way around. The limiting factor is geopolitical, not technical, because it's literally just China making enough of the relevant metals.
For a second there I thought Porsches were getting their phones stolen ...
> The IndieWeb doesn't need to go mainstream to be meaningful. It's a celebration of a more personal, decentralised...

There was a time when rock and roll was going to "change the world." Like jazz and beat poetry before it, it was defining the vanguard of youth culture. Creating the values, taste, language and culture of a generation.

Rock music still exists. So does Jazz. It's certainly not dead as an entertainment and art form. But... it no longer has that creative, future-defining vibe. No longer belongs to youth culture. No longer defines the eras.

There's a difference between steam engine enthusiasts in 2025 and 1825. One is about the future and the other is about the past.

If the author is saying that there is nothing wrong with like steam engines in 2025... then I agree. Steam engines are awesome.

If this is about recapturing what the web was, culturally, circa 1995-2005... that's a different sort of judgement.

In any case, the indieweb.org has a lot of value statements. Principles. I suspect these are aesthetic values. Important to the internal integrity if the art form, rather than their external affects.
Except that the order of events goes the other way
I'd like to be able to say, as a page / site, "disable all APIs that let this page communicate out to the net" and for that to be made known to the user.

It'd be quite handy for making and using utility pages that do data manipulation (stuff compiled to wasm, etc) safely and ethically. As a simple example, who else has pasted markdown into some random site to get HTML/... or uploaded a PNG to make a favicon or whatever.
I'd say write a Python CLI (or any language you're comfortable with) which does all the actions (setup, deploy), download it and use it in the CI (or install on the runner images if you control them). That way you can use same workflow (command) in local development and CI.

There is a gitlab CI feature `include`, but you pretty much have to write shell scripts inside YAML, losing on whole developer experience (shellcheck etc..). I would recommend this way only if you can't factor your code into a CLI in proper language.
Exactly.

I'm frankly baffled by all of this. I realize 90% my posts for the past 3 years are about Tesla / Musk - since what's happening now, has been long time in the making for those who were paying attention.

I just don't get why HN of all places, chooses to close the eyes in front of blantant corruption, lies and abuses.
It at least doubles the thrust per swept area area, probably more, due to the counter-rotation and that the second stage rotor experiences a higher airspeed.

This isn't a multicopter. It's a coaxial helicopter. The design parameter most similar to the distance between two rotors on a multicopter is the rotor diameter.

It's obviously going to be less maneuverable though relative to the thrust, due to the cyclic being on only one rotor.
Your idea is the start of something I model as a "consent framework". Dialog boxes don't seem effective to me, but tracking your data does. Who accessed your data, and when? Who has permission to your "current" data? Did an entity you trusted with your data share the data?

And more. Nothing can perfectly capture this, but right now, nothing even tries. With a functioning consent framework, it would be possible to make digital laws around it -- data acquired on an individual outside a consent framework can be made illegal, as an example. If a bank wants to know your current address, it has to request it from your "current address" dataset, and that subscription is available for you to see. If you cut ties with a bank, you revoke access to current address, and it shows you your relationship with that bank still while also showing the freshness of the data they last pulled.

All part of a bigger system of data sovereignty, and flipping the equation on its head. We should own our data and have tools to track who else is using it. We should all have our own personal, secure databases instead of companies independently having databases on us. Applications should be working primarily with our data, not data they collect and hide away from us.

This, and much more, is required going forward.
> no more performative regulations which are so poorly designed that they are basically impossible to meaningfully enforce

It's difficult not to imagine that as a jab towards GDPR which, despite far from perfect, is neither performative, nor impossible to enforce.

That you're frustrated with that doesn't remove the need for it, doesn't mean other people think the same way, and doesn't warrant letting that area completely free to be rampaged on by ads companies directly or indirectly.
Ask HN: Nvidia pretended their robot was not remote controlled – why?
When Musk used actors in robot suits or demoed remote-controlled robots without admitting they weren’t real, I was genuinely confused. As a Brit, I wonder—is this just accepted in the U.S. as harmless fun, even if it's misleading?

It’s like those American sports halftime shows where “random” crowd members do weird things, but they’re clearly actors. Most people don’t notice, and those who do don’t seem to care.

In Europe, that kind of deception feels like a red flag. We expect clear boundaries: either something’s a concept, a prototype, or a finished product. Pretending it’s real erodes trust.

TL;DR:
Is American marketing more comfortable with blurring reality, while European marketing prioritizes transparency?
wow, that is quite an eye opener. That's terrible really. It's like a whole country is addicted to sugar drinks and wheat flour (?).

Thanks for sharing
> hysterical rhetoric (on both sides)

This is simplistic dismissal of how people who accurately predicted how the US would get worse under Trump were described as hysterical. It's not symmetrical and anyone who thinks it is is delusional.
Splitting hairs, but LLMs themselves don’t search.

LLMs themselves don’t choose the top X.

That’s all regular flows written by humans run via tool calls after the intent of your message has been funneled into one of a few pre-defined intents.
UBI isn't even needed if there's just universal housing, medical care, food and education. People will find enough work to get the rest, even if it's through barter.
In Germany: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahme (use a translator, the English page only has generic info on job creation programs)
StumbleUpon for Short from videos and interactive content to really get you to binge on.

Ive got a few ideas updates coming very soon.
Ask HN: I don't have the patience to be an IC. What role would best suit me?
After a brief career in academia I am venturing into industry, the reason being, that I realized that I do not enjoy being a researcher, because it requires a personality that goes at odds with who I am, and it was stressing me out too much.
The problem is that while I have a whole lot of technical insight and decent technical skills, I lack the patience to do the meticulous work that is required, and the problem solving aspect does not really excite me enough anymore.

I'd say, what I enjoy doing is planning, learning new technologies, leading technical groups, even pair programming with a more junior colleague. I guess everything technical, as long as I can delegate the more meticulous details to someone else.

So I am wondering what other roles might suit me better, in your opinion?
A ruler is an object that helps you draw lines.

It's also the monarch that makes the rules, but even the rules help you stay within the lines.
> Or are we doomed to another decade of shitty conflict resolution hacks?

Conflict resolution is never going away. It's important to distinguish between syntactical and semantical conflicts though, the first of which can be solved, but the other will always require manual intervention.
The US needs:

(1) To be strict and strong on illegal immigration.

(2) To be welcoming, courteous, gracious, flexible, understanding, and helpful otherwise.
The staff in Dublin aren't any better, but the consequences are: you're not on US soil, so you can't be detained or deported.
You should look up the definition of “universal”
This is deliberate. To my knowledge, absolutely no US airports allow you to transit without going through immigration, and stopovers in the US are very hard to avoid because the FAA imposes a hefty fee to flights over the country unless they stop at a US airport.

So it's very expensive to overfly the US without landing, and once you land you can't avoid immigration even if you are just transiting on your way to another country.
Funny, because lack of purpose is exactly the problem with monotonous shit jobs. Compared to being able to freely choose to do something that's meaningful to you and brings you joy. Merely being able to afford food and shelter is not a purpose. It's survival.
Well, they are buying land because housing exists on land. As discussed elsewhere in the thread, if you make the housing upon that land more elastic (e.g. by loosening zoning restrictions), that elasticity pretty much immediately gets baked into the price of land itself.

This is so significant an effect that there is a highly lucrative business in simply buying low-density zoned land and going through the entitlements to turn it into a high-density zone. This does not just generate a free lunch for a developer to build more units on the same plot of land at the same price, it makes the land instantly more expensive.
There are quite a few US preclearance facilities overseas. Dublin, Abu Dhabi, most major Canadian airports, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_border_precleara...
See "do not post shallow dismissals to HN" rule.

Etymology is youtuber -> virtual youtuber (Kizuna Ai et al) using motion tracked 3D models -> shorten to vtuber -> people develop 2D models as cost reduction -> even further cost reduction by just representing yourself with a static image -> "pngtuber".

It also places things in a cultural context, like most language. Nobody would describe a news broadcast with a static image of the news anchor as a "pngtuber" even if technically it's similar.
> I have my own draconian idea: no more performative regulations which are so poorly designed that they are basically impossible to meaningfully enforce.

Oh but they are enforced, and they are effective.

Ever since GDPR passed, the business both on-line and in meatspace cut out plenty of bullshit user-hostile things they were doing. The worst ideas now don't even get proposed, much less implemented. It's a nice, if gradual, shift of cultural defaults.

Also, it's very nice to be able to tell some "growth hacker" to fsck off or else I'll CC the local DPA in the next reply, and have it actually work.

Not to mention, the popups you're complaining about serve an important function. Because it's not necessary to have them when you're not doing anything abusive, the amount and hostility of the popups is a direct measure of how abusive your business is.
I built a QDX - great little radio.
I wouldn't bank on a job in COBOL. I took several COBOL courses at an IBM affiliated university and enjoyed the language. I wanted to work in COBOL. I sent out dozens of applications and heard nothing back. I'm not saying "don't learn COBOL." That said, COBOL isn't a particularly difficult language, but at your age, I'd learn something more modern, and if in 5-6 years you are still interested in COBOL, learn it then.
I may be missing something, but if you train a model to pass a specific test… isn’t it obvious that it would do better on that test?

I thought we called models with test data in their training set “poisoned”
I would think the next logical step would be pressurizing a stainless steel thermos with liquid methane and mating it to a 3d printed copper prototype manifold and turbine pump.
> I could probably shut down any airport in the world with a few late-night firebombs tossed into the right substation.

So basically this is what Putin is trying to do - find vulnerable points and attack them. For now, creating disruption without human casualties.
Free file conversion to LLM optimized Markdown
I just created a free website that uses markitdown to convert files to markdown files that are optimised for LLMs. Just drag the file and click on the button to convert it. This is totally free as I discovered that I regularly had to convert pdfs, ppts to .md files for my AI work. Hope you all like it
This is discussed elsewhere but "market prices" are a distribution of bids and asks. A buyer or seller can be on the high or low end of that distribution, which does not change the fact that the distribution itself moves up as local incomes go up.
Yes, Airbus to be specific.
They need to stop shooting for the moon and just release some incremental improvements.

Like you say, Siri is borderline completely useless. Just timers for me.

Even just the most basic LLM integration, without even giving that LLM any personal data would be a massive improvement. They even have this ChatGPT integration that Siri seems totally incapable of using in any meaningful way.
IC? Individual Contributor?
That’s complete nonsense and the opposite is the case.
Very good point. The local-sync ecosystem is still in a young phase, and conflict resolution hasn't been tackled or solved yet. Most systems have a |last write wins" approach.
Well, then you're wrong. The latter is happening. It's the whole point of this thread but you seem confidently oblivious to it so I'll link a few.

Here's one: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det...

More: https://thetrek.co/a-german-thru-hiker-has-been-detained-dep...
https://www.10news.com/like-a-horror-movie-german-tourist-de...
https://www.10news.com/news/team-10/it-is-like-jail-german-m...
I do not have the same trust in Wikipedia. My experience as an editor is that for each page there are a few people who think they own the page, and they remove any edit that affects their text.

Actually, there is an incentive to remove edits in Wikipedia if you want to be part of the ego-fueled bureaucracy that considers WP as their property.
Took me to the bottom
The military will only carry out a coup if there is a legitimate opposing nexus of political power for it to rally behind, and there isn't one.

That's not a sufficient condition, by the way, but it is a necessary one.

The establishment Dems should be fighting like hell to delegitinize this shitshow, instead of rolling over like lapdogs. I guess the donors are happy with the outcome, and I have to assume that so are they.
> It's insane to me, it can't make economical sense, it must be cheaper to just deny entry than arresting people.

Not if you run a for-profit private prison and get paid for nr of inmates X time of stay, then you want them to stay as long as possible and then some more, who is gonna complain anyway. Some subhumans with no rights?

US is properly fucked up in this regard for a very long time, private prisons owners were actively campaigning against decriminalization of marihuana for a long time to not lose revenue. The fact that part of their revenue is ruining people's lives en masse and for good (good luck getting any normal job in US with prison conviction, for ie having 2 joints on you in bible belt states) is just an insignificant detail.
Yes, but how much can you blame this on regulation, where the regulatory intent is clear, and it's the industry that collectively chose to engage in malicious compliance?
Volunteer WordPress Support
I'm looking to volunteer my WordPress support services to small businesses and non-profits. After working with a WordPress agency, I’m looking to build my portfolio and references by helping organizations that need assistance with their websites.
If you're a small business owner or part of a non-profit organization and need help with WordPress – whether it's troubleshooting, theme customization, plugin installation, or general website maintenance – feel free to reach out. I'd love to contribute to your success!
I’m offering this support free of charge in exchange for experience and portfolio-building. If you're interested, please DM me or comment below!
The funny thing about Calibre, which I've been using since the beginning, is that the app always has updates—I think they release one almost every day.
It might well be, but you don't have any proof of that. In Lithuania it took months of investigations to catch the culprits, analyze all evidence and make that statement. I can imagine in the UK it can take even more.
If they were taken in the 1960s by someone in their 30s who lived to 80, that means we probably have roughly another 60 years until these are free from copyright and you can actually publish them in a magazine.

I'm surprised the magazine let them publish as much as they did, given the lack of concrete copyright provenance.

Just think how many historical books and pieces of art and photos we could archive and sort and look at if copyright didn't last literally longer than a human's lifetime.
Plot twist: the death star was originally conceived as a contraption to regulate waste heat in artificial planets.
Building in the cloud seems like the worst possible thing you could do.
Doesn't include:component still require all your shell script to be written inside YAML? or is there a way to move the logic to a, for instance, .sh file and call it from YAML?
I think the biggest obstacle are the "getting started", and then "actually owning it" parts. I registered my domain with Gandi (who have also initially hosted my email), got a VM from Hetzner, set me up some nginx, and I was good for a while.

Then Gandi dropped their "no bullshit" motto and wanted €48/y to renew a €12 domain; I transferred it away to MrDomain, plugged my email into iCloud, and since I didn't actually need a VM, Netlify is now my web host (with Hugo as the blog engine). Now I want to move away from non-EU companies and facing another crisis.

The fact that you can do it at all is a welcome sign for individuals who desire digital independence. But every step of the way, I needed sysadmin expertise, and also now have to shop around for a whole bunch of new providers.

What is a DNS record? Why can't I set up CNAME on a naked domain? Why is it so difficult to find out the correct IMAP/SMTP settings? Why do I need a PC, a text editor, and git to publish a link with a 20-word comment? Why is $PROVIDER integrating with Github only, while git has always been non-centralised?

There has to be a better way. There are countless providers that will offer you a DNS+email+web hosting package, but there will always be shortcomings (e.g. running a blog engine that is not Wordpress; Wix is impossibly slow and clunky; etc), and moving to a different provider is pure pain even for experts.

And then, self-hosting even the most basic apps, like an RSS reader, bookmarks, calendar/TODO? No providers will get you the full package, you have to resort to a VM of some kind and do the expert-level twiddling, likely including setting up Postgres somewhere along the way. Assuming you have the knowledge: cryptominers destroyed the free tier on anything that needs compute; it doesn't matter if you need 30min of CPU and 100MB of transfer per month, you will end up with a bunch of extra bills and several moving parts.

You could argue that gardening also requires knowledge and maintenance. But free software and open protocols are about reusing existing building blocks. You never ever had to write an email client.

I want the experience of installing stuff from the App Store. I want the experience of changing web browsers, where the new one just imports bookmarks and history from what you've been using to date. Even if it's adversarial compatibility.

It should not matter if I'm a noob or if I've been a sysadmin for the past 10 years. Even if the latter is the case, I still value my free time, and don't want to take my work back home.
Yoon Suk-yeol's predecessors as president (Moon Jae-in and Hwang Kyo-an) haven't been arrested as far as I know, so maybe all Yoon had to do to avoid arrest was to not do anything illegal.
Man, how true... There were one or two things that I wanted to do outside of Terraform because I didn't want secrets in the terraform state. This involved using terraform to execute a go binary with some parameters. The go program created SAML or OIDC clients, wrote the client ID/Secret to AWS Parameter Store and outputs an External Secrets manifest. Everything was easy apart from the Keycloak part. i ended up getting part of the answer on a Chinese blog which I had to Google Translate, and another on the postman docs (not the Keycloak docs)
> The inefficiency of American institutions is nearly limitless. Don’t put too much stock in the glacial pace of our bureaucracy as being malicious when it happens everywhere else out of broad incompetence.

Correct me if I'm misreading this, but it sounds like you're saying that inefficiencies due to incompetence are exempt from criticism.

It should go without saying that detaining innocent people is BAD, regardless of whether it's malice or incompetence.