skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GitGuard (https://gitguard.dev)

Basically it’s a way to enforce custom policy rules on GitHub PRs without writing any scripts or maintaining any custom Actions. It’s got all of the customization that you wish GitHub’s built in branch protections had.

Things like “make sure the frontend tests pass if there are frontend code changes” or “require 2 approvals only if there are no test files added” are trivial to write and enforce.
Some history there:

https://www.rferl.org/a/obama-signs-law-restructuring-us-int...
This is BS that Trump is making up so he can say the USA is at war and deport people without due process.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-extends-block-trum...
And Joker 2 or whatever stupid-ass name they gave it.
I remember when the last administration jailed Douglass Mackey for tweeting
Because?..
The Gorge movie review and film summary (2025)
Wikipedia has decent cash reserves. I wonder what the impact would be if they actively paid people to add/improve content instead of praying for volunteers, especially in certain areas where there is a lack of volunteers?
Non-paywalled link.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/joker-matrix-producer-files-b...
> We can chuck the entire concept of rights out the window and come up with agreements surrounding social behavior that actually reflect the society and culture we have today or want tomorrow.

What, exactly, do you think a right even is, if not an agreement that something cannot be done to people or cannot be taken away from them?
The amount of optimizations, specifically around using stack allocated objects, .net has seen in recent years is amazing.

Another one beyond all the span stuff (though related) that got added in dotnet 9 was AlternateLookup for stuff like dictionary and HashSet where you create a stack allocated object that lets you use stack related objects to compare.

Simple example, if you have a dictionary you are building and you're parsing a json file, you can use spans and compare those directly into the dictionary without having to allocate new strings until you know it is a distinct value. (Yes I know you can just use the inbuilt json library, this was just he simplest example of the idea I could think of to get the point across).
I arrive at these conclusions the same way many of my classically liberal friends and fellow libertarians who support Trump do — by evaluating his actions through the lens of limited government, individual liberty, and fiscal restraint:

• DOGE and Fiscal Discipline: The goal of cutting $1 trillion from the federal budget, a major libertarian priority.

• Freedom of Speech: Consistently opposes online censorship. Appointed FCC commissioners like Ajit Pai and Brendan Carr, both strong defenders of free expression. Signed executive orders aimed at ending federal involvement in censorship.

• Deregulation: Slashed hundreds of federal regulations across multiple sectors, reducing government interference in markets and individual enterprise.

• Judicial Restraint: Appointed constitutionalist judges committed to limiting federal overreach and upholding individual rights.

• Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy: Opposed endless wars, pushed to bring troops home, and resisted entangling the U.S. in new conflicts.

• Ross Ulbricht: Publicly pledged to commute the sentence of the Silk Road founder, a major symbolic and substantive gesture for civil liberties and criminal justice reform.

How does one call themselves a classical liberal and not support this?
It's also cruelty to folks who have absolutely nothing to defend themselves with. They are doing this just to deter people from practicing right to assembly and protest.
... Excuse me sir, could I interest you into what happened on January 6 of 2020?
Because that’s the claim of the lawsuit.
March 2024, "Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer", 250 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41143322

August 2024, commercial availability, https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2024/08/20/russia...

German company HIGHCAT is demonstrating its HMX fiber-optic drone in Ukraine this month. Now combat footage has emerged of what appears to be the first strikes by this type of weapon ... The controller can use an AI system heavier and more powerful than a drone could carry, taking advantage of high-resolution imagery to track and identify objects in real time. The cheap drone is expended but the expensive controller is reused for multiple strikes. Six months ago this technology was not even a rumor. Now it is on the open market and destroying targets.
Hey! I enjoyed Matrix Resurrections.
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Woah, a matrix movie came out… wait, four years ago?
If you ask the question above, AI gives good explanation why the books are ignored. Any of the wikipages do not touch the issue, because it is political and nobody wants to remember that, especially Wikipedia editors, who have very particular worldview.
Where are those who attempted a coup on Jan6 now?
Adding features to Mummy Maze: Pocket Edition

+hint system for when players get stuck

+swipe navigation for easier moving

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/mummy-maze-pocket-edition/id67381...

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.itch.ksylve...
It's not valuable. People who do this at work are people who have no value to offer so they try to sound smart (and valuable) by finding flaws in someone else's work. All work is limited and flawed - it's easy to find them. Add the common hyperbolic statements on HN dismissing the entire study or whole fields of research, and it's misinformation.

The real significance is that things like sample size, to pick a common example here, is easy to understand in a theoretical way and so people apply it to the actual (not theoretical) practice of real research, which they don't understand the practicalities of, and also they overemphasize it because that's pretty much all they understand.

The first thing they look at in a paper is sample size - and hey, now sometimes they have something to 'contribute'! It's just reinforcing the same misunderstandings in others.

It sucks, a little, to have nothing to contribute, but it's a great opportunity to learn from people who do know.
> You are saying the same movement that caused a reduction is the exact same movement that stopped the reduction?

Yes. Though there were two movements, a criminal-justice reform movement that went too far with e.g. bail reform. And “defund the police,” which was mostly attention-seeking behaviour that animated a backlash.

> don't see any significant reduction in our prison population

They’ve been falling for years [1]. Particularly in state prisons.

[1] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/US.html
Agreed, but I still see value in wasting my working hours making sure people here at least see the reality.

All I have to offer this forum while I'm a student is politics, which I do know better than at least some here. There is no technology I can really offer a valuable opinion on, more than the experts here.

It's my armchair activism to at least make sure that the left's point of view is not wholly absent on this forum of affluent, insulated tech bros. Plus, my job has a lot of down time, so there are worse ways I could spend it.
Great idea, validate before getting validation on social media. nice.
Heic to jpeg would be cool, my mom doesn’t have an iPhone and has to handle iPhone pictures regularly, which confuses her

Also I see split pdf, but create pdf from a collection of selected pictures would be cool too!

Neat project. Always love self hostable
They legalized bribery in plain sight for everyone to see for fucks sake. They stated that the president is above the law. It's insane to me that anyone thinks our institutions will save us.
ocaml gui text editor. very early stage right now but i'm learning a lot about ocaml and performance. :)
But it isn't a closed system. Tides transfer angular momentum from earth's rotation to the moon's orbit.
Legal departments advise management, management decides.

In this case, if the legal department paints pictures of doom, and the ops department paints pictures of cost savings, it's up in the air (pun intended) which management will pick.

A competent legal department will provide a realistic assessment of risk to go into this decision making process, not just obstruct everything.
Books with rainbows are getting banned under the same policy.

Rainbows!
The normal Comcast plans do let you do that, this is some weird special plan. You can hook up a standard DOCSIS modem and then DHCP lease an IP.

There are a lot of technically-proficient people who refuse to do this anymore. I guess it is a non-zero amount of work, but it really, really isn't that much. The direction we're headed in is pretty obvious: some day, sooner rather than later, the era of customers being able to use their own cable modems for DOCSIS internet will slowly end, as the people who bother become more and more in the minority.
Or a balloon or kite five miles up.
I graduated (admittedly many-many years ago) from a good but not top-notch university. I remember a somehow similar situation: obviously learning was considered a good thing, but both the students and the professors realized that it's the diploma what brings most students there, not a pursuit of pure knowledge.

So I quickly realized that, unlike, say, elementary school, a university is not a push system, it's a pull system. If you want to learn, you need to make an effort and extract knowledge from this source. There's still plenty, but nobody is going to force-feed it to you. I read quite a lot beside the required books. I practiced quite a lot beside the lab practice (fortunately wielding a soldering iron or writing programs was a marketable skill; still is, but used to be, too). I asked my professors questions that were not entirely in the books; often that was during a few minutes after a lecture / classes / labs, so I got from them ideas and pointers to new directions to learn by myself.

Was it helpful in my career? Certainly yes, I started doing contract jobs three years before graduation, and then joined a bunch of interesting companies where that knowledge was somehow useful, mostly as a foundation of more specific skills.

I was certainly not alone; I knew (and often was friends with) a bunch of other students who craved knowledge and skills, and we helped each other shake these out of the university, past the transactional bounds. It wasn't all that hard, but it required a conscious effort.

Very certainly a large number of other students did more coasting than knowledge-mining. They got their diplomas, got some white-collar jobs that did not require such deep knowledge of engineering, I suppose, or started unrelated businesses.
In the end it all comes back to the PATRIOT Act and GWOT
Redefining the definition of book banning is not a good look and not a way to win this argument. It's a hole you really don't want to dig.
> Anecdotally I've noticed these sorts of people much less often, at least on here as of late. Methinks their deniability isn't so plausible any more.

Been a lot more hysterical on here as of late. Methinks there's less reason to discuss political things now.
Oh, no. I'm not talking about alleged espionage, I'm talking about people moving universities. Moving university doesn't mean disappearing off the face of the Earth.
Oh, interesting. Makes sense, I suppose. The article you linked doesn't recommend it but if you wash your hands with detergent (e.g. a drop or two of liquid Tide) you'll pull all the oil right out of your skin. No fingerprints! It only lasts for a few minutes however and I doubt that removing the oil from your skin is really doing you any favors, long term but maybe there's some extremely narrow Venn diagram intersection where you need to commit the perfect crime but are unwilling to carry nitrile gloves but are willing to carry around a bottle of laundry detergent and wash your hands every few minutes. ;-)

Anyway, thanks for the link.
Yes, I believe that was natch's point in the g'g'parent comment.
An installed battery will have its terminals protected and connected to the device.

An uninstalled battery will have its terminals exposed, where they could be accidentally shorted by a stray paperclip, foil wrapper, or zip.
So how do we know there is a court order?
You're still missing a good portion of the ambiguity of the term. Both "free" and "absolutist" are rather definitive terms with clear meaning. But what is "speech"? Does that count fraud, defamation, threats, or even the distribution of child porn? Almost everyone agrees at least some of that should be restricted. So an "absolutists" either needs to defend that type of harmful speech or debate the meaning of "speech" and once that happens the term has lost all meaning.
I understand, constitution gives you the right to speak against free speech as well. I'm just saying it wouldn't make sense for ACLU to support people who want to take away your right to free speech.

Also you're right that we can't give everybody the one hour of free speech on TV, can we?.

But it is in the interest of the country as a whole that all viewpoints are heard. But if one person can buy all TV-stations then he will have free speech and nobody else really does. If nobody can hear you because somebody else is speaking so loudly, it doesn't matter if you have free speech or not.

It used to be law that there are limits to how many millions one person or corporation can use to win elections. But seems that is no longer the case thanks to Supreme Court judges nominated by Republican presidents.
There is no free speech without limits unless you think speech as such has no effect.

Otherwise the speech of one can silent the speech of orhers.
There’s a coordinated effort to ban books. Harry Potter has been banned. Parents are provided with the template letters to send and are trained to raise objections to books that don’t fit their religious ideology. I’d provide you with links but you could just google it yourself same as I could. Search for “coordinated effort ban books”
When our book says "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses," it's ok. When yours say it, it's not. Simple.

1. https://biblehub.com/ezekiel/23-20.htm
Show HN: I made a website that finds your hobbies based on your email
I built a website that uses OSINT to determine an email owner's interests and hobbies based on their online activity.

Many people underestimate what OSINT is truly capable of.
Note this is related to but separate from the Australia company Village Roadshow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Roadshow

The Australian company owned 3% of the American Village Roadshow.
It uses the openAI assistant, which uses threads to pass in a conversation history. So yes it does maintain conversation history.
"Trump is merely doing what he has been paid to do by pro-Israeli zionist lobby - who apparently were the highest bidders"

The concept of blaming the Jews on everything wrong in one's country is not new, and it never ends well.
I found only this: "A Time-independent Definition of Software Reliability"

https://a.co/d/0q7gkTo
your pricing is little confusing, for free you are providing 100 keywords, and for you most expensive plan you are providing also 100 keywords, in fact only diff between these two is slack notification.
What's the motivation behind this pricing plan?
We demand proof of mental health
Deploy Static Sites to Azure CDN with GitHub Actions OIDC
Very cool, but isn’t this illegal?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304736
But obviously then the security people will raise ruckus about any attempt of telling you what is wrong

(Which ok, for an external facing system is ok)

I can bet the huge prevalence of "system says no, and nothing tells you why" helps a lot with creating vulnerable systems.

System need an "let X person do Action" instead of having people waddle through 10 options like SystemAdminActionAllow that don't mean anything to an end user
That perfectly explains why women make up 42% of the Democratic congressional body while only 15% for Republicans.
If this was your first contact with Lakeman's writing, you're in for a treat because there's a lot there. This one on the Incas was too good not to share, but his essay on the Aztecs[1] is equally as good, and my personal favorite is probably the deep dive you never knew you needed[2] on whaling. Agree on style, his travel blogs are like this too and it's really refreshing that he starts out by saying "these are my sources, I'm doing my best to either summarize on interpret them," so I have the opportunity to read them myself if I feel the need.

[1] https://mattlakeman.org/2020/06/25/polygamy-human-sacrifices...

[2] https://mattlakeman.org/2021/06/01/everything-you-might-want...
The reel is on the drone. If the reel was at base, the risk would be catches limiting forward motion of the drone. But the drone is paying out fibre behind it, the risk is that mechanism fails, but thats a risk either way.
"A republic, if can keep it".

[0] https://constitutioncenter.org/education/classroom-resource-...
I've never seen The Holdovers, but I'm a stunned fan of Bob's Burgers, if we're doing a "surprised by fish odor syndrome in well-known media" thread.
Why ceph on ZVOLs and not bare disks?
Lululemon is fast fashion junk, from a textile quality perspective. Live and learn. :) It is fashionable and i own a few things from them, because they genuinely look and fit well. But i don’t expect them to last.

As a general rule, ANYTHING that is 100% cotton will last the longest. Cotton blends can be OK, but they have pros and cons (polyester helps with wrinkles and can add some elasticity, linen is good for hot weather).

And then there is general construction. Mass manufactured clothing will not be made to high standards, that should be clear. If you want something high quality, buy a brand where it’s hand made. Or buy a custom designed suit from a private business, preferably local (places like SuitSupply don’t count). There’s quite a few in NYC, not sure about other cities.

That’s high level guidance. If you want to learn how to judge clothing quality, there are extensive videos online that show you how to inspect stitches on fabric, etc.
Tethered but .. not constrained by that tether. Like annoying dogs in the dog-park whose owners feel free to real out the fishing line and never reel it in.
That's an interesting comparison, how people analyze and evaluate research and how they do the same with public affairs.

I would have said that the point of research is to find the value and build knowledge, while the point of discussing public affairs is to identify problems to fix.

Thinking about it, I'm not sure the latter can't find things that are constructive. But in either field, the exaggerated, dismissive comments/rants are not just a waste but damaging to progress.
I feel like we had a discussion of this crash in the past. Would be nice to find those threads.

Feels like we're missing a piece of the puzzle in this story. Maybe something else happened over that year? Politics? The story starts as you'd expect. Accidents happen. Support. Returning to duty. What went wrong?
Based on how many ATC recordings I've heard where an aircraft declares an emergency, diverts, then asks ATC for a holding pattern/delay vectors to set up the landing, I consider this plausible.

They need to find, read, understand and brief the approach charts, missed approach procedures, etc., configure that all in the onboard computer, go over a stack of checklists, etc.
The free speech absolutists were always criticized because of their hypocrisy, not because of their ideology. At least the people saying there should be limits to free speech are clear and impartial as to where those limits should be, supported by laws and regulations.
Continuing to grow MedAngle, the world's first Super App for future and current doctors. Everything that students and graduates could need for premed/medical and dental school, in one place. 90k+ users, 100m+ questions solved, billions of seconds spent on the apps.
Show HN: Made a multiplayer game inspired by R/place (100% vibe-coded)
Shenzhen speed ;)
He had a fair trial and a 12 member jury of his peers agreed that he was suppressing the vote.
https://archive.is/192Wu
That captcha was awful, I almost gave up at third one. Citing sources for results would be useful, if that's possible.
>> Personally, I kind of pitied the non-STEM students.

Well, as a STEM university graduate myself I admit being guilty of this thought and I think it's just something "hard science" thinks of "humanities" in general. Mostly due to mercantilism, most non-STEM studies have very poor job perspectives.

But ... it all comes down to numbers. The elephant in the room is that THERE ARE TOO MANY COLLEGE SEATS FOR STUDENTS. This has multiple causes but it's a societal problem and a pretty dire one.

Take one of the universities in my city: https://www.ubbcluj.ro . In 1989 (at the fall of the communist regime in Romania) it had 5,619 students. Overall, in all specialties and all years, took 4 years in general to graduate.

Today just at the admission exam were accepted 16,800 new students. Taking all years that makes about 55,000 students. 50 fucking thousand! That's 10 times the level during commies.

And that's the problem. A lot of people who have no business being in the academic environment are now funneled through it. Reason is first, because "The West" had every man, women and their dog get a college degree so we had to play catch up. Problem, as the article states, they are getting that degree on paper only, de jure, not de facto.

But the even deeper problem is the dissolution of white collar jobs. That happened both in the West and the East. Agriculture used to employ 90, 50, 30% of the population, now there's 2 to 5% working there. Industry used to employ 90, 50, 30% of the population, now there's 5 to 10% working there. And the rest? God have mercy! We're all in "services". We're fucking servicing the shit of each other.

So in order to avoid fixing the hard problem (what the fuck to do with people who don't have the skill and intellect to do academic stuff but are good enough for plowing in agriculture or operating a CNC machine), the powers be have opened the gates of colleges. Get a college degree, that will compensate for the lack of activities to do with it!

I could write more.

Bottom line, what you expecting from peasants going to college? You can take the peasant out of the village but you can't take the village out of the peasant, they say.
Yeah, it was weird to put in “uphold tradition” along with a bunch of obviously good things. Some traditions are good, some are bad, but tradition itself has no intrinsic value.