MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Red_Tarsius | 2025-04-15 12:47:12+00:00
I feel too many people conflate /pol/ with the whole website. I enjoyed browsing through sfw boards like /tg/ (tabletop media), /ck/ (cooking) and /fit/ (fitness). I had long discussions about the SW sequels on /tv/ back in 2015-19. The readership was surprisingly diverse and the anonymity lead users to provide more focused replies. With bodybuilding.com gone, the blue boards felt like the last bastion of the old internet.
by conductr | 2025-04-15 12:47:24+00:00
> Buying from Amazon or locally would have cost me 10x as much.

Most things I have bought on Ali express have no US source. I also have mostly bought small electronics and components and generally pay the Amazon premium for speed and only go to Ali express when I can’t find what I need, so third is quite a bummer to hear as I’d simply have no source for that item. Although, it did seem too good to be true, the minimal shipping costs that is.
by 9283409232 | 2025-04-15 12:48:02+00:00
It should be clear at this point that DOGE is trying to create a unified database of all persons in the US for targeting. Every single bit of data that they can get about you from the government or social media will be tagged to you Minority Report style. They were clear about wanting to deport citizens to El Salvador as well. Once you are identified as the other side they will come for you. If you are waiting for it to get worse before taking action and getting involved, we are already at that point.

> And Berulis noticed that an unknown user had exported a "user roster," a file with contact information for outside lawyers who have worked with the NLRB.

Possibly looking for lawyers for Trump to target with EOs or blackmail.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-04-15 12:48:25+00:00
That reminds me of this classic animation: 4chan city [0]. Which is based on a 2ch animation Nightmare City [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4WzQ7KHak

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjdi7a6L_78
by snackernews | 2025-04-15 12:48:36+00:00
It’s the complete lack of profitability all the way down, from the deep Azure discounts, to OpenAI’s training and inference costing more than it brings in, to all the OpenAI API wrapper apps losing money on OpenAI subscriptions to get some AI into their product.

There’s nowhere in the chain that gets anywhere close to zero marginal costs.

In any other industry, a business claiming success for selling $100 bills for $50 would be laughed out of the room.
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-15 12:49:08+00:00
No, I’m saying the Internet was already in mass adoption for the preceding decade. Talk to old timers and they’ll reminisce that the early days of the internet were great until Eternal September in 93. Others will reminisce about the days of BBS. I’m saying “early internet” is a relative term that has more to do with the person interpreting than any objective definition.
by djaychela | 2025-04-15 12:51:10+00:00
"The people voted for major reform."

What they got was a pocket-lining idiot, and genuinely one of the most morally bankrupt people I've ever known of as his tech right-hand man. Musk is a moral imbecile, a 13-year old incel trapped in the body of an overweight mid-50s mess. Yes, he's been involved in some great things (SpaceX and Tesla), but he thinks that translates into a god-like ability to do anything and that he's right about everything.

These numbers don't even stand up to casual scrutiny. And I'm from the UK so it doesn't really directly affect me (although the orange idiot's shenanigans have done so to a small degree). But if you really believe this site, you're divorced from reality, and maybe drinking the same kool-aid that the tech muppets who are on DOGE are.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-15 12:51:26+00:00
"Race realists" tend to be anti-jew but not anti-Israel. Israel provides a few key benefits for their belief system even if they hate jewish people. It means that there is a place for jewish people "over there" and not here. And it provides a starting point for their ethno-nationalist project in other countries ("if Israel can be a country for Jews then why can't Germany be a country for Whites").

Further, the Trump administration is committing violence against people simply advocating for no more bombing in Palestine. Despite the administration's claims that these people are "Hamas supporters" and "anti-semites", the bulk of these people are not actually advocating for violence to be done to jewish people that might put them in concert with far-right anti-semites.
by m-s-y | 2025-04-15 12:52:03+00:00
> I was thinking most people nowaday have at least 30mbps upload

Even “modern” cities like NYC are limited to a MAXIMUM of 30Mbps upstream due to ISP monopolies and red tape.

It’s getting better, but Spectrum is still literally the only ISP available for many city residents, and their offerings are so lopsided that their highest-end package is a whopping 980/30.

That’s right. If you use the majority of that 980Mbps your IP overhead will gladly take that 30Mbps, leaving you with just about Zero headroom for anything else.
by blagie | 2025-04-15 12:52:18+00:00
You're making a classical error programmers make when encountering legal systems: Treating law with the same rules of logic as code.

I can cite case law carving out lines around things like copy in RAM/SDD/etc. accessing a web site (very clearly legal) or internal copies for search engines (very close to the border, but still legal), but courts -- at least in systems based on common law -- don't work like a computer program or a mathematical argument.

So the general argument "X is like Y" doesn't work if you're looking purely at the technical action. The exact same action at the level of bits and bytes can be legal in one context and illegal in another.

What matters to courts are things which are less easy to formalize: intent, impact, etc.

Just as with computer science, there is a rigorous and formal analysis, but very different from the one you're making, and operating under very different rules.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-04-15 12:52:52+00:00
What’s gross is the idea that plants are “lower” and thus less deserving of value to life. Either embrace radically life denying Jainism, anti-natalism, voluntary extinction movement, and benevolent world exploder theory - or admit that you are just as cruel as those you implicitly claim to be better than (as a presumably non gross person)

But white vegans aren’t prepared to actually reckon with the logical conclusion of their ideas. Go read David Benatar (he’s a vegan whose actually consistent btw)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Never_to_Have_Been
by panick21_ | 2025-04-15 12:53:09+00:00
Tesla drop is not only related to Cybertruck. That didn't help, but they have other issues. But so do many other car companies.

> Elon himself said that Starlink would fail without Starship. Or is believing what he says situational?

Elon is well known to make dramatic statements to motivate people. He said that many years ago and the company is totally fine, Starlink is doing well. SpaceX still has the cheapest launch by an order of magnitude.
by dsjoerg | 2025-04-15 12:53:53+00:00
Yeah I agree that the current generation of LLMs dont appear to have been trained on solid "epistemological behavior". I believe the underlying architecture is capable of it, but I see signs of the training data not containing that sort of thing. In fact in either the training or the prompting or both it seems like the LLMs I use have been tuned to do the opposite.
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-04-15 12:55:15+00:00
> and there’s infinity number of universes

There is no evidence that there are a infinite number of universes. All we know of is the one we exist in. The many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics posits that there are a very large number of non-interacting "worlds" which may or may not be the same as "universes".

And if you meant "infinity number of galaxies" then that would require an infinite-size universe, and we don't know if that is the case for our universe. It could be, or it could be finite but unbounded.
by acdha | 2025-04-15 12:55:32+00:00
First, every objective audit has found many problems with that data, ranging from taking credit for things which were terminated under the Biden administration to listing the maximum ceiling on a flexible contract (IDIQ) as the total savings even though the amounts actually spent were far lower (like canceling your credit card and saying you saved the limit), and even counting the same contract multiple times.

Second, you have to look at the cost of their actions. They’ve disrupted the functioning of the entire federal government and doing in a very haphazard manner. That means that a lot of current spending is wasted by DOGE _and_ that the business of the government isn’t getting done. For example, whether or not you think the U.S. should engage in foreign aid, under DOGE they paid money to send people to help in Myanmar only to lay them off after they arrived on site, squandering all possible value. That story is being repeated all over the country right now and in many cases the loses are permanent: if they choose to waste payroll having people come back to an office where they can’t work, the job isn’t getting done and there’s no way to recover the wasted payroll. As they keep losing lawsuits, it’s also likely that the amounts cut will be exceeded by the cost of settlements when they breach contracts or fail to provide a service required by statute.

One really big area is tax collection: the IRS is already estimating revenue reductions on the order of half a billion dollars, and since they’ve been sacking a lot of the law enforcement for businesses and high-net wealth individuals, that will get worse as people feel confident cheating more aggressively.

Lastly, you have to look at the economy. Estimated have each federal job supporting 2-3 other jobs, and federal spending drives the economy in many parts of the country. They’ve already cut growth of the entire economy into the negative (from +2.5% in January to -2-3% now - see https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow) and a lot of that is driven by federal cuts.
Show HN: Dynamically generate JavaScript class methods at runtime
by ramadis | 2025-04-15 12:56:13+00:00
built a weird little library last friday night. it uses LLMs to auto-generate JavaScript class methods at runtime; no need to define the method ahead of time—just decorate your class, call whatever you want, and the model figures it out on the fly.

it uses `Proxy`s, and pipes the class definition and the call example to the LLM for it to generate a valid method.

here's a very lean example:

``` class User { constructor(email) { this.email = email; } }

const EnhancedUser = asVibeClass(User);

const user = new EnhancedUser('john@example.com');

const domain = await user.getEmailDomain();

console.log(domain); // example.com

```

of course it was not built for production use, but it was a fun exploration. would love to hear your thoughts!
by rookderby | 2025-04-15 12:57:10+00:00
First off, dont look at the outer wilds discussion on here, just play the game. Second - they didnt say how many letters we need to encode all of the observable supernova in a given year! So 100 billion galaxies, 1 per year per galaxy, we have around 1 billion to encode. Sorry two edits this moring, first one was right. due to math without coffee. 1e9/26^6 is about 3, 1e9/26^7 is less than one. So we might see 'SN2050aaaaaah'!
by MattDemers | 2025-04-15 12:57:31+00:00
I think people also don't acknowledge how much terminology, slang and other culture originate and spread there. When it breaches into Twitter (usually through funposters) people kind of ignore the unsavoury origin and rewrite the history. The anonymous nature kind of provides that petri dish of "if it's strong culture, it'll survive or be modified."
by hansvm | 2025-04-15 12:57:33+00:00
It's a little different. These are systems which are explicitly able to achieve better or worse outcomes by tuning the cost, in ways that aren't especially configurable otherwise. For an HTTP API, you can read the docs and use the small image vs large image endpoint or whatever and have a clear idea of what you're getting and for what cost. For LLMs, it would be very nice to be able to communicate about the desired and actual cost breakdowns for each sub-action.
by jiriknesl | 2025-04-15 12:57:48+00:00
If they receive federal funding, they should represent Americans. If 100% of Americans will be Democrats, then it can be this monoculture. If more people shift to Green politics, or Libertarian, it should represent those more too.

If there is a Christian university, it should either be sponsored by Christians only, or similar funding should go to other universities representing other major American groups (for example Jews).

Discrimination based on political views should be treated the same as discrimination based on sexual orientation or race.
by graemep | 2025-04-15 12:57:49+00:00
People do get confused by licensing in general, and even more so about the consequences. Developers are not lawyers.

There are plenty of guides, but most are written by people arguing for a particular license so do not come across as impartial.

IMO people need to ask questions such as whether they want to allow proprietary forks, whether they want anti-tivoisation, whether people using an install over a network need access to the code, etc. and then decide on a license. If you know what you want then it should not be hard to narrow down the choice.

> I don't personally know enough about licensing to say whether a sentence in the README.md (saying it can't be sold) is enough to override the LICENSE.md (which says it can be sold).

It is very likely to depend on jurisdiction, and may well need a court case to clarify.
by dfxm12 | 2025-04-15 12:57:58+00:00
"Old Internet" doesn't have a very defined meaning, but I think it has more to do with design and functionality than a hard date. While I don't think relevance matters, 4chan is much more relevant than you think. Having a niche is part of the old Internet. Websites used to be niche, but deep, instead of websites like Wikipedia, which are broad and shallow (compare the Castlevania dungeon [0] to the Wikipedia article for Castlevania, for example). Then compare 4chan's limited number of boards with reddit's endless subs. 4chan's design is early web 2.0, doesn't require you create an account, allows (pseudo) anonymous posting, content is mostly unfiltered, unmonetized, free & thought of as ephemeral, etc.

0 - https://castlevaniadungeon.net/dungeon.html
by lifthrasiir | 2025-04-15 12:58:09+00:00
Of course that's a legitimate case of longer files or functions, but I found that I was generally able to follow much larger functions, so comfortable with writing larger-than-average code in general.

Also I should note that longer code doesn't mean less abstraction; it rather means that abstraction is done without separate functions and files, and ordering and visual cues can (and probably should heavily) be used instead. Apparently this is not enough for most others though, as I have received multiple complaints in spite of such readability efforts.
by hollerith | 2025-04-15 12:59:16+00:00
I put the start of the mainstreaming of the internet in July 1993, the month a cartoon was published in the New Yorker captioned, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...

Before then, it was quite unusual to see coverage of the internet by the mainstream press (and what coverage I saw took a theoretical or "far" view, i.e., as part of a discussion of governmental policy). After then, coverage exploded.

This is an American perspective: the timing was probably different in other countries.
by pydry | 2025-04-15 12:59:23+00:00
>You can complain that you don't liken systemd's design or that it does too much (very overplayed complaint, but ok).

It's not at all orthogonal. Making the "default" way to run > 1 containers together require the init process is fucking stupid.

Similar to how requiring ROOT to run containers was a stupid design decision made by docker.

This decision to make quadlets the "default podman orchestrator" and to double down on it relegates podman from being "a better docker" to just "docker just with different design mistakes".

>That complain is moot, since you'd be running systemd anyway

false. systemd is not the only pid 1 in existence (much as it likes to pretend it is). when you run a container inside a container there also isn't a systemd.

>And it's double moot, because you can run > 1 containers (with podman) without root too.

except there is NO good orchestration system for doing that. podman compose is a steaming pile of shit. quadlets requires systemd which requires root. docker compose requires a root service. you can run podman compose inside a container but not quadlets.

might as well just use docker at this rate.

>That complain is moot

Your comment comprehensively missed my point 3 times. It's triple moot. It would have been better left unmade.
by SonuSitebot | 2025-04-15 12:59:52+00:00
That’s a super exciting use case — running millions of test scripts across a multi-host, multi-region setup is no small feat. You're spot on about Testcontainers — it's elegant for one-off, isolated runs (like in CI), but when you're pushing at scale, the overhead of spinning up and tearing down containers for every single test can start to hurt. In high-throughput environments, most scalable setups I’ve seen shift towards a pre-warmed pool of sandbox containers — essentially keeping a fleet of "hot" containers alive and routing tasks into them via docker exec. You lose a bit of isolation granularity but gain massively in performance. You could even layer in a custom scheduler (Redis- or NATS-backed maybe?) that tracks container load and availability across hosts. Pair that with a smart TTL+health checker, and you can recycle containers efficiently without zombie buildup. Also — curious if you've explored running lighter-weight VMs (like Firecracker or Kata Containers) instead of full Docker containers? They can offer tighter isolation with decent spin-up times, and could be a better fit for multi-tenant test runs at this scale. Would love to nerd out more on this — are you planning to open source anything from your infra? Or even just blog about the journey? I feel like this would resonate with a lot of folks in the testing/devops space.
by wickedsight | 2025-04-15 12:59:58+00:00
I fully agree on the environmental part. Shipping all this stuff individually is incredibly wasteful. Even the combined packages from AliExpress someone else mentioned this is the case, since there's a ton of unnecessary packaging wasting space and resources.

On the 'losing side' part I agree a lot less. In the recent past, most of these items would be sold by mega corps, marked up multiple times with most of the profits flowing into shareholder's pockets. Meanwhile, the average consumer is over paying for the exact same 'low quality junk' with branding like Logitech, Dell or Amazon Basics on it. Now we can get the same (or often better) quality straight from the source, often for a fraction of the price. To me, that's a big win.
by blagie | 2025-04-15 13:00:26+00:00
One of the key lessons learned in the past half-century is that lawsuits like that are:

(a) Often won

(b) Pyrrhic victories

Right now, it's the policy of Paramount not to sue over very clear violations of Star Trek copyrights (see: Star Trek Continues), Rowling to not do the same for Harry Potter (see: Methods of Rationality), etc.

A lawsuit like that results in a modest payout and take-down, together with a loss of brand worth many times that.

On the other hand, the derivative works tend to drive brand value, recognition, and sales.

That's why many works have clear guidelines supporting and encouraging derivative works, with specific boundaries to make sure they don't undermine those works.

I don't know The Sword of Shannara, but each time someone says "inspired by Tolkein" or "building on themes from," Tolkein increases in brand value as a classic and then THE classic. There is a legal line as to where inspiration becomes copying, but if we were to assume, arguendo, that it's clearly over that line, it still probably wouldn't make sense to sue. At best, that would have a chilling impact on more works in the "inspired by" category.
by beAbU | 2025-04-15 13:00:52+00:00
Based on my very very limited understanding of how LLMs work, surely they don't "prefer" anything, and just use what they have been trained on?

Presumably there is a lot more public info about, and code in Javascript and Python, hence this "preference"

Maybe the LLM preferring English is because of a similar phenomenon - it has been trained on mostly western, English speaking internet?
by constantcrying | 2025-04-15 13:01:21+00:00
I am a troll, because I believe that shipping cheap trash from China is harmful for the environment and that the quality is low?

How deluded are you to believe that this is some kind of disingenuous belief that I hold. Do you think that environmentalism in general is also another troll operation, as I am sure that any person who cared a lot about the environment would agree with me, at least in part.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-15 13:01:24+00:00
> Just admitting the mistake was a positive step, which means they do care at least a little bit to not repeat it.

Why is this an appropriate conclusion?

Stephen Miller went on TV to say that this man is a terrorist and is in the right place, despite sworn statements from the solicitor general that this was a mistake. I see absolutely no reason to believe that the Trump administration sees any reason to prevent further errors.

> Imagine for a moment that the judicial branch orders the executive branch to get Iran to release some American prisoners.

Hey look, a completely different situation. Here the US sent this person to El Salvador and is paying the Salvadoran government to house people we send there. Not even remotely comparable to the Iranian government capturing somebody.
by linsomniac | 2025-04-15 13:01:37+00:00
I surely did a hybrid approach, but for a large swath of it I was pretty purely "vibe coding", where I wasn't looking at the produced code at all.

I initially had Gemini 2.5 build some code and then did a code review of it. I tweaked my design document and then had Claude and ChatGPT take a stab at it and at this point I wasn't looking at the code at all. These implementations had some deadlock or early termination problems so I asked for some different async and threaded implementations, but ultimately they went off into the weeds in ways I couldn't really reason about, so I went back to a straight select/procedural implementation and had it start tracking outstanding blocks, which got something working reliably. Then I asked for fancy progress displays, tried several attempts at that. Then at this point I started cleaning up the code some, had it add type annotations, etc...

Big swath of pure or nearly pure vibe coding in the middle there.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-15 13:01:50+00:00
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-prov...

> The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.