MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dornan | 2025-04-22 13:10:49+00:00
Yes, with a residential/mobile proxy. Russian proxies are cheap because they're blocked or heavily scrutinized by many interesting networks, due to the rampant and unpunished misbehavior of some people in Russia.

Would it make any sense at all for a government agency (DOGE) to buy shady residential proxies in order to log in to their super-admin accounts? No. Nearly every government bans foreign IP addresses from accessing internal systems. That leaves the question: why did that log-in attempt happen? There may be another explanation, but the only thing that comes to mind is that someone in Russia using a mobile internet connection tried to log in but forgot to enable his VPN before doing so.

I don't see a legitimate reason to require no logging either. If you're investigating things, you want your activities logged in a way you can't alter because it demonstrates how you found the evidence, and that you aren't just making things up.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-22 13:11:23+00:00
Yeah I've seen a few HN people try and defend undefensible things, citing they are "steelmanning"... but nobody asked them to. Same with "playing devil's advocate". It's fine in philosophical debates I suppose, but it's not necessary in a lot of cases.

Second, if you are the "playing devil's advocate" type, make sure your post contains your real, own, personal opinion. You can't just go say morally objectionable things and brush it off as that.
by NKosmatos | 2025-04-22 13:11:48+00:00
As an owner of two Synology boxes (and maintainer of a couple more), I’m not happy about these news. Synology needs to rethink its user base, upgrade their hardware offerings and avoid be lead by profit hunting board members.

I hope someone high ranking from Synology reads all the comments from this post (and many others from https://mariushosting.com ) and takes the correct decisions. Please don’t let Synology become like the other greedy companies out there.
by donatj | 2025-04-22 13:12:16+00:00
Is there a good alternative these days for someone that only really wants network attached storage, e.g. some drives in a box, easy RAID setup and local network access via SMB?

I use my server for everything you'd use NAS Apps for. I have an aging Seagate NAS and had been eyeing Synology but this gives me pause.
Show HN: Chunk – A macOS menubar app for time blocking
by dudleyspence | 2025-04-22 13:12:29+00:00
Hi HN!

I built Chunk, a lightweight macOS menubar app to help you time block your day and stay focused. It’s designed for people who want to manage their day visually without complicated setup or distractions.

See a live countdown for your current task right in the menubar Fully customise your chunk tasks Save tasks to favourites and save multiple tasks as templates Get notified gently when it’s time to move to the next block Minimal UI – no bloat, just clean and focused productivity

You can try it free for 7 days (no credit card needed). It’s not on the Mac App Store so downloads go through the official site: https://www.chunkapp.net

I’d love feedback or suggestions from this community — especially if you use time blocking or productivity tools regularly. Happy to answer any questions!
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-22 13:13:16+00:00
> I cannot understand why an investigation team from the Pentagon are not all over this kicking-in doors and taking names?

As others have said but I can't reply to, it's because the Pentagon is run by a traitor and they stop any investigations under threat of dismissal.

But I hope people are keeping notes and will come forward, so that all of these people will face the consequences.
by lambdaone | 2025-04-22 13:13:18+00:00
This is one of the things I was talking about when I said "simplifying".

That's exactly their motivation, yes. Resisting it requires political will, or we will continue to let the increasingly irrelevant tail wag the dog.

There is definitely a case for subsidising the existence of mostly-idle gas plants to make the costs of keeping them around profitable for the medium term (you can think of them roughly as playing the role of a battery), but indefinitely subsidising the equivalent of buggy-whip manufacturers is not a long-term solution for the economy.
by andix | 2025-04-22 13:13:24+00:00
No, this is the commonly used phrase.

AI explanation:

The correct proverb is “the grass is always greener on the other side.”. It means we tend to idealize other people’s situations, seeing only their positives and overlooking their hidden challenges. It warns that every circumstance has its own drawbacks and reminds us to appreciate and cultivate what we already have.
by creshal | 2025-04-22 13:13:46+00:00
> Where are the super thin and light laptops that allow me to write emails, do light coding and browsing and SSH into other devices with 50 hours of battery life?

They got eaten by tablets. We used to have netbooks and subnotebooks, but they were too weak for mainline Windows after XP (perfectly adequate with Linux, tho), and there wasn't a clear path forward for them.

These days, iPads and Android convertibles with keyboard covers are reasonably okay for the use case, if you don't need full lap-top ergonomics (they definitely benefit from a proper table).

ARM-based laptops (Apple and otherwise) are slooowly closing that gap again, but you're "only" looking at ~20 hours battery life, last I checked. Which is still better than the last batch of subnotebooks ca. 2010, which needed like 3lbs of batteries to reach that same endurance with a dual-core 1GHz Core Duo and less RAM than your average modern tablet.
by lazide | 2025-04-22 13:13:49+00:00
Musk is heavily anti Union. He’s running DOGE. They exfiltrated highly confidential data from the National Labor Relations Board, which oversees things like labor disputes.

This is all under the auspices of Trump, which is figuring out how to get away with ‘deporting’ US citizens to El Salvador without due process.

Connected the dots yet? How long do you think until union organizers are getting black-bagged in the middle of the night and disappeared to El Salvador? A month? Less?
by coldpie | 2025-04-22 13:14:09+00:00
The hesitance around that time to prosecute political leaders who were obviously breaking the law is, I think, a big part of what lead to our current era of political leaders who are now, in effect, entirely above the law. James Clapper's "not wittingly" testimony[1], where he plainly and purposely lied under oath during a congressional hearing and received zero consequences, is another example where we showed we will not hold political leaders accountable for their actions. It became clear during that decade that the law has no teeth, so why should political leaders not break the law at every opportunity if it serves them? And here we are.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/02/198118060...
by XorNot | 2025-04-22 13:14:16+00:00
The Russians assassinated someone on British soil using a radioactive agent that can only be made in nuclear reactors, and is incredibly expensive to extract and transport.

There are literally dozens of ways to kill a guy, if you must poison him, which are cheaper in every possible way and can be sourced locally by someone with the sort of basic chemistry knowledge an intelligence agency would have on payroll, or from a drunk undergrad.

Which is to say: Russia's MO has at no point been "subtlety", it's been vranyo: a lie they tell where you know they're lying, but are obliged to pretend the other party is not.
Show HN: Logo maker built and designed by LLMs
by manicagency | 2025-04-22 13:14:20+00:00
See the journey on its development:

https://manic.agency/blog/thinkpieces/logomaker-an-experimen...

>> TLDR:

LLMs can vibe code with a semi-decent dev a "functional" app within minutes to hours

Oftentimes the basic functional app / script is a much better experience than many "free" or ad-based apps (say, image compression / conversion, mass file or folder renamer, etc.)

When things start to scale (further complexity is needed) or additional services are integrated (pay, subscriptions), vibe coding generally runs you into several corners if you haven't been heavily refactoring / re-architecting throughout

What starts out as a quick iterative hacking session (2 hours to 2 days) to build something usable can turn into multiple times more days rebuilding in order to progress further after encountering enough blockades

Vibe coding experience is continually detracted by the UX and lack of transparency of LLM providers

As long as LLM APIs and UIs are constantly updating (A/B testing), and experimenting with new features and meta-prompts that can wildly affect generated outputs, developers may never be out of a job, as tools will have to be built to work around this
by Ukv | 2025-04-22 13:14:35+00:00
My point isn't that it couldn't be of note, but rather that - even when relevant - the phrasing makes for a strange-sounding definition to people already familiar with containers/Linux in a general context (and people who weren't familiar with containers/Linux might come away with that lopsided impression of them, even while having an accurate impression of how they were relevant to the article).

I think it could potentially be improved with a more general/typical definition first ("Containers are self-contained environments that bundle all dependencies a piece of software needs to run and are commonly used to streamline deployment across different machines, but can also ...")
by wwweston | 2025-04-22 13:14:49+00:00
> As religion has shrunk in participation in most of the west, it has become hugely susceptible to manipulation

That’s an interesting correlation. Do you have any ideas about the dynamics associated with it?

I do seem to remember experiencing my tradition as less manipulative when I was young, but have never been sure if that was me not seeing it. And if true, I’m not sure whether to attribute it to size, or the internet, or political influence, or something else.
by jxf | 2025-04-22 13:15:29+00:00
There was no hourly rate. It was roughly US$125,000 in today's dollars for the 2-day workshop with some other riders (e.g. additional consultation rate).

This factored in my prep time, prototyping, flights (since I didn't live in Redmond, where this team was headquartered, and this was before video calls were more popular), et cetera.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-22 13:15:52+00:00
They’re also language tools, built on the ingestion and training of language and its tone, form and application. The way they work, by inferring responses based on the probabilistic best response to your language prompt, means the construction of your input in its tone, form and application will influence the quality of output.

It might offend you to show deference to a tool but ignoring the optimal way to use a tool on principle is foolish.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-04-22 13:16:05+00:00
So the default behavior of a Fortigate is to allow you to apply an access policy to the VPN tunnel itself, which can easily be a geoblock, but the local-in policy where the remote is actually authenticating against the firewall is much harder to change.

Not saying this is a Fortigate or that the federal government didn't change the low effort configuration, but it's certainly not unusual, Fortinet is a huge presence.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-22 13:16:20+00:00
It sounds like deduplication is already a pretty advanced feature requiring Synology SSD's:

https://kb.synology.com/en-me/DSM/help/DSM/StorageManager/vo...

It might be more about performance, that they'll require their own drives with custom firmware that works better?

That's what I'm trying to understand here. Is Synology really removing important basic necessary features, or is this more about high-end consistency and performance?
by notwhereyouare | 2025-04-22 13:16:23+00:00
>When Elon took over; the rules were clearly laid out: buy your checkmark for $7/month (not sure of the price). Pay and you get it; stop paying and you loose it. Everybody knows exactly what it means.

except then he was also randomly giving out checkmarks to people who didn't want them and specifically told him to remove them
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-04-22 13:16:51+00:00
Hence the comparison with telescopes. But knowledge of a tool is not to be confused with the field itself. We are not programming computers per se. We are using computers to simulate formalisms that can be carried out by people, in our heads or on paper, largely because it is tedious, labor intensive, and would take us longer.

The intellectual distinction is essential and, sadly, one that many in the field seem not to understand. Many seem to subscribe to a kind of "computer atomism" which installs the physical device in the center as the really real with abstractions as epiphenomena or illusions; the real stuff, they claim, are the assembly - nay! - the bits - nay! - the atoms - nay! - ... No. Assembly, bits, atoms, these are all irrelevant and incidental as far as the language and the formalism we're using is concerned. They are details that concern the instrument, not the language, which stands on its own.
by tromp | 2025-04-22 13:16:59+00:00
That list is of type (Fractional a, Enum a) => [a], but ghci defaults to Doubles, as you can see from

ghci> [0, 0.3 .. 2.0] :: [Float] [0.0,0.3,0.6,0.90000004,1.2,1.5,1.8000001,2.1000001] ghci> [0, 0.3 .. 2.0] :: [Double] [0.0,0.3,0.6,0.8999999999999999,1.2,1.5,1.7999999999999998,2.1]

Exceeding the upper bound by 0.1 is not due to a general floating gotcha, but a specific choice in the definition of typeclass method enumFromThenTo for both Floats and Doubles.
by mynameajeff | 2025-04-22 13:17:36+00:00
I'm not saying this is the most practical or affordable solution compared to a more specialized product, but if you definitely want a hardware solution, I do know (depending on your HDMI spec requirements) this would be achievable with any FPGA dev board that has HDMI In/Out. I can't say I've worked on this exact solution, but I did some basic development with a Xilinx (Z7?) board years ago that involved overlaying and modifying an incoming HDMI signal. What you're looking for should be achievable by the same means assuming there's no signal issues I'm failing to account for.
by losvedir | 2025-04-22 13:18:08+00:00
That's the point of the study, though, whether using polite language makes the tool work better. It's similarly misguided to refuse to do so out of an anti-anthropomorphization stance, if it makes it respond more usefully.

These are still somewhat mysterious artifacts, that we don't really know how to use. But it's trained on human text, so it's plausible its workings are based on patterns in there.
by 9rx | 2025-04-22 13:18:19+00:00
Who doesn't know it exists? You know it exists. More likely nobody cares to use it because they don't really get much from their acquaintances' cat photos, in much the same way we were unable to come up with anything you want to share with your acquaintances. It turns out that people soon realize that the hundreds of random people they accumulated as "friends" over the years don't actually matter in their life. Those that do matter are already engaged using messaging services (SMS, iMessage, Messenger, etc.). Social media is alive and well, but it moved to places where you can actually be social, away from the "say and spray" venues like Facebook.

Also, you can choose to filter that feed by "Favorites". Did you mistakenly end up in that mode?
by immibis | 2025-04-22 13:19:12+00:00
Was the universe infinitely small or was it just extremely or infinitely dense?

Anyway, we don't actually know that, since we do not have a time machine. The theory that the universe used to be much smaller is something we infer based on the snapshot we see today, just like we infer rotation based on the snapshot we see today. Either one could yet be proven wrong.
by Gud | 2025-04-22 13:19:13+00:00
Yes, but I don't think it means what you think it means? Just because Linux was developed by basement dwelling hackers 20+ years ago, doesn't make it a grassroots project.

Arguably, the only somewhat mainstream operating systems today that deserve that label are the *BSDs. Haiku OS gets an honorable mention but I wouldn't consider Haiku OS to be mainstream.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-04-22 13:20:10+00:00
Trump is trying to get the sanctions lifted. Give him time.

https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-seeks-plan-possibl...

He does owe Russia for the email hack and leaks that he publicly requested. Not to mention sticking it to Ukraine after they didn't find/fabricate evidence against the Biden family.
by kstrauser | 2025-04-22 13:20:27+00:00
It’s not that I don't understand. It’s that as an end user I don't give a shit.

Toyota might have great reasons for opening a chain of premium quality gas stations, but the second they required me to use them, I'd never buy another Toyota for as long as I lived.

I want to bring my own drives, just as I have since I bought my first DS-412+ 13 years ago.
by lazide | 2025-04-22 13:20:46+00:00
And the only effective negative stimulus here is locking up people in jail and/or violent action.

Which no one in the opposition will allow anyone in the opposition to do. Potentially for good reason (it would make them a legitimate target for violent retribution), but which just means the war was lost before it started.

Which is why people aren’t fighting back much either - because the smart ones are looking at the score going ‘I’m just going to get murdered fighting a war you already lost because you refuse to let anyone use weapons that will work’.
by canes123456 | 2025-04-22 13:21:38+00:00
You still need to do the decision making, design, architecture when using AI. AI is still more like a enthusiastic junior engineer. It will mindless start trying to solve a problem, copy in bad code, often makes mistakes, etc. You're still responsible for the hard problems and finding the issues. You are more of an senior/lead engineer who is doing as much thinking but not that much of the actual typing.

The question in my mind is if you need to become less productive to keep your thinking skills sharp. Do we need to separate the work from the "gym". We have times when we are using AI heavily to be as productive as possible. Then we have other times where we don't use it all to keep us sharp.

Is this necessary or are we being old fashion? I lean more towards this being necessary but if I grew up with AI, I might look at not using it as trying to write a web app in assembly. Yes, I learned it in college but there no reason to keep using it.
by 1659447091 | 2025-04-22 13:21:47+00:00
> more than 20 such attempts

If I am testing a login I don't need 20+ failed attempts to know it's not working. Sometimes the simple answer is the correct one. The series of events does not read as someone, whose job has been reported to disable security and demand root access to systems, testing the already in place login system to make sure Russian IPs (specifically) can not log in.
by koolba | 2025-04-22 13:21:48+00:00
That fetch(…) is sending the mnemonic of the private key out to that remote server.

Interestingly if this is happening in a long running process and that exploit server is offline, the promise for the fetch will reject. And the default behavior for unhandled promise rejections would be for the node process to crash.

So if anybody tried testing this version of the library in a net gapped environment, it would crash and fail out in CI.

The attacker should have silenced the error with a .catch(_ => {}).
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-22 13:22:15+00:00
> Previously only the packed JavaScript code had been modified.

Honestly it's time for the npm ecosystem to move to a model where only build agents running on npm's own infrastructure can upload binary artifacts, or to mandate reproducible builds.

And for a select set of highly used packages, someone from NPM should be paid to look over each release's changeset.

Both would have massively impeded the attacker.
by 542354234235 | 2025-04-22 13:22:23+00:00
> It doesn't necessarily make the movie worse or even substantially different (I might not even notice), but unlike with remastering of the original movie, the intent clearly isn't to make it "better" (in their opinion)

How do you know the intent isn’t to make it better, anymore than changing the music or replacing/adding characters? Why can’t a movie maker think that the protagonist casually using racial slurs detracts from the movie and the story and that they thought it would be “better” without it? Even the term “politically incorrect” is not accurate, since it is really culturally incorrect i.e. it represents a culture that does not exist anymore. Politics influence culture and vise versa, but we are long past the era of the Hays Code. These are not government mandated decisions, they are cultural decisions (or monetary decisions to perform better for the current culture).

Why this knee jerk reaction only to those types of changes? Is changing them a moral judgement on you for liking them in the past?

> acting out of fear to cause trouble by displaying today something that was fine yesterday as is.

It seems like the opposite it pretty prevalent and vocal as well. The “woke” buzzword being thrown around at any new media with too many women or minorities or gays is seemingly never ending. Causing trouble by displaying today something new that wasn’t fine yesterday.
by piltdownman | 2025-04-22 13:22:27+00:00
America doesn't live in a Democracy, it lives in a bipartisan and increasingly sectarian dissolution of Democracy originally based on gerrymandering, now based on establishing Unitary executive theory through force.

Red Team/Blue Team isn't Democracy, its Oligarchy with extra steps - self-evident by the recent actions of an ultra-wealthy elite to shape political decision-making in ways that increase their wealth.

You need only look as far as the inauguration of 47 to be slapped in the face by the audacity of it - flanked by the Railway Barons of Silicon Valley - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg - and bolstered by Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and Bernard Arnault.

The Fair Representation Act - which would solve a plethora of issues in one act - served to establish independent redistricting commissions in all states to prevent gerrymandering, whilst simultaneously introducing the proportional STV system of elections like we have in Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Representation_Act_(Unite...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
by asmor | 2025-04-22 13:22:48+00:00
Honestly, you should just buy used enterprise drives. That they have hours on them is actually an upside, since most drives die either very early or very late into their expected lifespan. Our NAS is all Exos drives, no problems.

On the other hand, an NVMe drive from Crucial that lied about syncing data caused a write hole in ZFS and the associated pool broke to the point where we could only mount it with lots of flags in read only mode.
by Rzor | 2025-04-22 13:22:52+00:00
Full article: https://archive.is/0cGOI

>As one studio after another began clamoring to pay Sinners’s $90 million-ish asking price, the director’s agents at WME notified them of a few strings attached. Coogler would retain final cut (a creative dispensation reserved for the industry’s crème de la crème), command first-dollar gross (that is, a percentage of box-office revenue beginning from the movie’s theatrical opening rather than waiting for the studio to turn a profit), and, most contentiously, 25 years after its release, ownership of Sinners would revert to the director.
by carrja99 | 2025-04-22 13:23:13+00:00
DOGE will be an interesting case study in the years to come to say the least. A friend was contacted by them in an attempt to recruit him to help rebuild the nations aviation systems from the ground up as a 1099 contractor reporting directly to Sean Duffy. The recruiter advertised it as a side hustle on evenings and weekends paying an abmysal hourly wage. When my friend pointed out that the comp was far below what he makes, the recruiter countered with the prestige that will come with having worked for DOGE.