MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rsynnott | 2025-04-22 14:47:57+00:00
Only if it _cares_ or if they align with its own. It would be entirely reasonable for robo-god to see LLMs as, well, a bit like we see bacteria; thus being polite to them would be entirely irrelevant.

You also, of course, risk being on the losing side; what if robo-god emerges from a non-LLM path, _but is challenged by, and wins out over, LLM-derived robo-gods_?

I mean, really, all the objections to Pascal's Wager apply here.
by lqstuart | 2025-04-22 14:48:00+00:00
Stephen Hawking had a pretty good idea as to how and why - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

This is not to be confused with the infrared light that’s relatively easy to detect, which isn’t leaving the black hole but is just light emitted from matter heating up due to tidal forces near the black hole.

I don’t think humanity is ever really going to know what a black hole actually is, simply because they’re too far away and the energy levels required for experiments are many many orders of magnitude beyond what we can generate on Earth. But I do expect if we could get up close and study one, we’d simply discover a lot of fascinating new physics over top of some kind of matter not that far off from neutron stars.

A lot of people don’t really get past the pop science articles about “singularities” to realize that those are just failures of our theories. We don’t know how anything behaves when gravity is strong enough to affect the quantum level, because QM has some kind of silly techniques for avoiding it under normal circumstances (called renormalization) that no longer work.

At extremely high energy levels, my guess as a guy on the internet is that the universe looks less like magical portals to Matthew McConaughey’s bookshelf, but more like regular boring space crap that destroys our notions of stuff like time, matter, energy, causality etc. And in fairness, neutron stars already kind of do this, but nobody cares for some reason.
by sofixa | 2025-04-22 14:48:01+00:00
> It also attracted dozens of community flags

I've noticed that a lot of the articles describing various Trump admin abuses (be it DOGE, or Trump crypto scams, or whatever) get flagged a lot. (While they're very relevant, nobody can tell me SBF crypto drama scams are relevant to HN, but Trump crypto scams are not). It's concerning that there are people on HN who prefer to silence such discussions...
by walleeee | 2025-04-22 14:48:19+00:00
> So anything that can let you iterate the loop faster is good.

I think the major objection is that you only want to automate real tedium, not valuable deliberation. Letting an llm drive too much of your development loop guarantees you don't discover the things you need to unless the model does by accident, and in that case it has still trained you to be a tiny bit lazier and stolen an insight you would have otherwise had yourself, so are you really better off?
by baud147258 | 2025-04-22 14:48:20+00:00
> "I'm going to deep-dive this topic" to "... and now I need to go to the library, and possibly a specific library, maybe on another continent"

I remember an history professor saying that for a subject he was working on he had to borrow a book from the library of Congress (through the library of his university), where the only publicly available copy in the US was. Of course it was an academic book, so it's not exactly a common situation.
by roenxi | 2025-04-22 14:48:32+00:00
> Why do I mention all this? Because despite the mantra of "making America great", the current administration is doing more to destroy US direct and soft power than anyone could possibly have imagined, more than current and former adversaries (eg the USSR, China) could ever have dreamed of doing themselves.

The two aren't inconsistent; one of the major dissident observations that has propelled Trump is that the Not-An-Empire doesn't seem to be driving prosperity in the way people would expect. It is driving prosperity to the ... I dunno, call them imperial elites or upper middle class+. Obviously the empire is great for people like the Bush or Biden families. Not so obvious the 20 years of war in Afghanistan was a big win for everyone else or all the unrelated destruction. It stands out that China has built a US-sized economy in the last 50 years without really sending out any armies; military aggression obviously isn't the only factor here.

It is a complex issue but ultimately it is not easy to rule out the bureaucracy that manages the empire doing more damage to the US than the benefits empire brings. Voting by the numbers is suggesting that the damage has been significant.
by jdesfossez | 2025-04-22 14:49:32+00:00
That looks really interesting, thank you for sharing ! I have to admit, I am not exactly sure what a feature store does yet, but I will read more and watch your presentation.

I have this idea of taking my whole Zotero library full of PDFs/websites, use my own notes and tags and prepare it for RAG applications, so I can query my documents, make connections between documents, classify them by topic, etc and have a way to add my new notes/tags back to Zotero (this is all possible with their API). Do you think Feast is a good framework for that ?
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-22 14:49:36+00:00
But for a lot of use cases that's not possible anymore, that is, a lot of the applications using the OS' UI libraries are no longer maintained.

And a lot of people have to use the applications as supplied, e.g. Slack or Microsoft Teams. Which can be accessed via a web browser, sure, but dedicated apps for these are also nice because they have a dedicated spot in the app switchers.
by cestith | 2025-04-22 14:49:48+00:00
This has not been my experience with Motorola, unless you’re talking about OS major versions. With my last couple of phones I got several point versions and security patches for 3 or so years. It’s not my experience so far with my OnePlus phone either. Certainly I’ve seen phones that never updated from launch day, too, but I don’t think only Google and Samsung do updates.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-22 14:50:06+00:00
> The only way to learn a programming language (beyond the basics) is to use it

I don't quite agree.

This may seem like splitting hairs, but I think the only way to learn a programming language is to write it

I don't think any amount of reading and fixing LLM code is sufficient to learn how to code yourself

Writing code from scratch is a different skill
by mike-bailey | 2025-04-22 14:50:12+00:00
openai-proxy connects the many open source models (ASR, TTS, LLMs) with OpenAI compatible APIs with existing tools that use OpenAI SDKs.

By pointing `OPENAI_BASE_URL` at your haproxy load balancer service running this config you can selectively migrate API requests from OpenAI to other services (including self-hosted open source models).
by baxuz | 2025-04-22 14:50:12+00:00
I'm not sure what is being verified here. Except that the someone has access to a bluesky handle and a DNS record.

And even that is not a guarantee as it needs to be validated by the bluesky team, for which it helps, in their own words – to have connections with them.

Otherwise I could buy dozens of domains and spin up bots to churn out AI slop as "validated" accounts. I could buy linustorvalds.com for 25k and impersonate him.

It's still a two-tier system for clout-chasers. If you're cool enough, you get a "Officially Cool™" badge from the bsky team. If you're not, hope that a 3rd party provider decides to give you one. Or you're a second-grade netizen.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-22 14:50:22+00:00
A social movement where everyone decides not to pay any form of debt has a higher chance of success than getting congress to act, especially act in the interest of people rather than the interest of bankers, corporations, or oligarchs.

We don't make people take out loans for K-12. Education is an investment. It should be funded, just not in a way that is so rife with conflicts of interest. Everyone benefits from an educated society except priests and other kinds of authoritarians.
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-22 14:51:06+00:00
NeXTSTEP is peak programmer UI. It looks absolutely atrocious, even by early GUI standards.

Windows 95's success was in part because Microsoft put in the effort to test and write good standardised UI controls and configurations. Throwing a bunch of UI elements on a heap with pretty high-res (at the time) graphics makes for a good freeze frame in a movie but a terrible UI.

MS copied from everyone, like Apple did before them and Unix display managers did after them, but their copy was far from cheap.
by senderista | 2025-04-22 14:51:17+00:00
I don't know how large the Lithuanian community in Chicago is, but when I lived on the South Side in the late 90s there was an amazing Lithuanian restaurant called just "Healthy Food", a weird amalgam of traditional Lithuanian cuisine and hippie wheat germ and molasses-based fare. They also sold amber jewelry, as well as their own swag like "I ♥ Kugelis" T-shirts. Anyone remember that place?
by bluGill | 2025-04-22 14:51:46+00:00
Even if there are a lot of exploits on my Amiga (I don't own one, but work with me...), my value is likely low enough that it wouldn't be worth the cost to hack just me. If I was (or become) a major figure politically, militarily, or rich (maybe my 401k is that large - if you can get at it) it would be worth attacking me, but otherwise there are just not enough Amiga owners out there. Also you can expect someone with an Amiga is somewhat more likely than average to be protected - ransomware data and they restore from backups instead of pay. As such the value is exploiting Amiga is likely not high enough to be worth the cost.
by sundaeofshock | 2025-04-22 14:52:07+00:00
Speaking as a former wait person…

It is more efficient this way. Often times the wait person may have multiple tables sat at the same time. This way they can greet each table shortly after sitting (you don’t want to know how people react if they wait “too long” for that first greeting). Then take drink orders for all tables, get those delivered, take apps, get those fired. While those are cooking, get the mains ordered, and so on.

Yes, some people want to order all at once. However, that’s not most guests. Most folks want to sit at the table and relax for 1.5 - 2 hours and hate feeling rushed.

I don’t think most people realize how hard a job it is to wait tables. I think everyone would be well served by working as a wait person in their early work years.
by 9rx | 2025-04-22 14:52:30+00:00
> You come off extremely rude

How I come across has no bearing on what is said. This is irrelevant and a pointless distraction.

> Understanding comes from all kinds of places.

If you have an understanding then you've studied it. All that is lacking, then, is the communication of what is understood. Strangely, after several comments, still crickets on the only thing that would add value to the discussion...
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-22 14:52:31+00:00
There are two fundamental belief systems about truth.

One is based on reason, where people look for contradictions (like you're doing right now) in order to better understand truth.

The other is based on authority or faith, where people look to authority figures, such as parents, priests, pundits, or politicians, in order to understand "truth".

These are incompatible. You can't point out contradictions to an authority oriented person and expect them to care. While you are using your words, they have already made off with the money. Your reason got you nowhere, while their power got them $50k+ loans. They could do what they did with action while you are soothing yourself with words.

One thing authority oriented people understand is that actions matter most and that the highest truth is found within action on the physical world.
by frontbackgeek | 2025-04-22 14:52:51+00:00
Evan Spiegel, the founder and CEO of Snap Inc., made a bold decision years ago that continues to inspire entrepreneurs across the globe. At just 23 years old and still living in his father’s house, Spiegel received a game-changing offer from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg—to acquire Snapchat, the app Spiegel co-founded with Bobby Murphy, for a reported $3 billion. While the sum was staggering, Spiegel turned it down without hesitation. His decision wasn’t just about money—it was about independence, vision, and long-term belief in what they were building.
by barnas2 | 2025-04-22 14:52:58+00:00
Some restaurants here in the US print a QR code on the check now. If you've got google pay/apple pay/whatever you can just scan it and immediately pay, then leave. There's also a few where you don't even need a server to order, you scan a code on the menu and can order whatever, a server delivers it, then you pay whenever and leave. It makes it really convenient when you go in with a bigger group. No worries about splitting bills, making sure everyone is ready to order, etc. Everyone can just order what they want, when they want, and all pay and leave when they want.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-04-22 14:53:01+00:00
I've honestly never understood the point of the tariffs.

1. They're massively unpopular and likely to cause electoral losses in '26 and '28 which will immediately undo them

2. Consumers know the tariffs will likely cause a recession, and will likely be undone in 4y. Pretty much every major spending purchase that can be delayed, will.

3. Companies know 4y is not enough time to invest in new supply chains or new manufacturing plants. Given sinking demand they will shed jobs and hunker down for the duration.

I can tell you, for myself? Any major purchases are now off the table. I will happily keep my 18 year old car running instead of buying a new honda civic. I'm perfectly content with the devices I currently have. I will root and install a third party rom instead of buying a new phone. My 3090 will happily play old / AA games for the duration. Travel will likely be reduced thanks to the weak dollar and anti us sentiment in general.
by tomhow | 2025-04-22 14:53:02+00:00
Because today’s post is a repeat/dupe of the same story that was on the front page for 18 hours a week ago and attracted 1100 upvotes and 600+ comments. It was one of the biggest stories all year on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691142

It's bog standard HN moderation to remove duplicate stories.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-04-22 14:53:08+00:00
I think we agree on this if you agree that practicing gratitude in life and directly practicing it on non-sentient objects are not the same thing. Going to church to pray, going to therapy, practicing mindfulness, etc. isn't the same thing as seeing each grape growing on a vine as an anthropomorphic object. Don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower.
by zozbot234 | 2025-04-22 14:53:31+00:00
> I think there's a place for flat design and it isn't all bad, in particular peripheral UI elements, like the top menu bar, dock icons

Funnily enough, these are precisely the elements that are flat in the Windows 9x look. (Windows 9x does not have a "dock" but it does have a quick launch bar and a system tray, and these show flat icons.)
by daxfohl | 2025-04-22 14:53:36+00:00
The only reason I've heard that isn't super handwavy is that measuring it would require a wavelength with enough energy to create a black hole. IDK if that's true or not, and IDK if that also means the distance doesn't exist or if it's just not measurable.

I've also heard that there's nothing special about planck length other than it being universal constant that we and any conceivable aliens would agree on as a standard of measure. So, idk.
by ben_w | 2025-04-22 14:53:38+00:00
> yes but if x is finite, any f(x) will still be finite.

The number line is not finite, even though every value on it is. The universe may be like the number line.

> and given that it started out being very small in a big bang, it would imply the former

The universe started out denser, which is not quite the same as "small" when talking about infinities. The currently visible universe gets both things at the same time, but only because the visible bit is finite.

Apply f(x) = x * 1e-60 to the number line, and things which were previously spaced out every integer, are now much more densely packed, but the number line as a whole is still the same size — infinite.
by diggan | 2025-04-22 14:53:43+00:00
As mentioned in the other comment, the controller shipped with IR firmware, while I wanted IT firmware on it, so all drives shows up in the OS, instead of doing hardware RAID. I don't think this specific controller is more/less problematic than others, just that all the tooling around SAS seems to suck. At first I couldn't get sas2flash to work on Linux, so ended up trying to boot an UEFI shell with sas2flash.efi instead, which refused to work seemingly because of some motherboard/UEFI version/controller incompatibility.

So ultimately I used FreeDOS to finally be able to run sas2flash, so I could flash the IT firmware. Maybe I'm spoiled, but overall it's been a somewhat confusing journey.

And today I also started looking into getting LTO8 for long-term backups, probably will be even worse, judging by the docs I've gone through so far...
by Der_Einzige | 2025-04-22 14:53:50+00:00
This 100% tracks with my experience.

Also fun stuff many don't know - If you run a regular models chat template with a reasoning tuned model, it can go back to acting like the base model, with no "thinking" process.

"Reasoning" models are not any better than non reasoning models. It's a parlor trick, and benchmarks which claimed it wasn't are bad.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-04-22 14:54:15+00:00
> IMHO blaming people for 100k bad financial decisions made under duress just as they entered adulthood is victim blaming.

Especially when the implied social contract broke down--i.e low wages, horrific increases in the cost of living, limited opportunities.

It's pretty common to find people that regret taking the loans to go to school and got little value from their education.
by jameslk | 2025-04-22 14:54:49+00:00
> The estimates become highly dependent on how influential China is for final assembly.

The article mentions this but then doesn’t go much further into it. But this will likely be the biggest factor with tariffs.

China will still produce the electronics and many other goods, but then the goods will be shipped to another country for “substantial modifications” before being shipped to the US to evade the US tariffs on China
by sofixa | 2025-04-22 14:54:50+00:00
> Paul Graham (the only "thought leader" behind this website) loudly campaigns against the current U.S. administration almost every day on Twitter

Does he? https://x.com/paulg (maybe moderated by Musk/Twitter) only shows tweets about Gaza suffering which could be construed as criticising the current administration. On the contrary, I see multiple tweets jerking off Elon Musk (part of the current administration) and calling for compassion and personal sacrifice towards people who voted for Trump. Yes, there's "why you should vote for Kamala" tweet, but nothing critical of the current Trump regime. Let alone daily.
by 9rx | 2025-04-22 14:54:51+00:00
Individual codebases can already include stack traces as they see fit, so studying only a single codebase would be rather pointless. If an individual codebase benefits from stack traces, it will use them! The study looked at how often they were used to determine if it would be a useful default. It found, by looking at many different projects that had stack traces included by default, that it would not be useful to include by default. Especially in light of the cost of inclusion. Adding stack traces is definitely not free.
by epmatsw | 2025-04-22 14:54:53+00:00
There’s also a strong culture of ownership of quality for individual developers. Design documents are expected for even minor changes, and each change goes through at least 2 rounds of well-documented testing by 2 other developers on your team. Compared to other companies where automated testing is the norm, it’s startling how few bugs they manage to ship.

Another thing I thought was interesting given modern dev practices is that you don’t even touch production code until after about 6 months of training, including exams and testing on the actual functionality of the product, even bits you’ll never interact with personally. They’re serious about making sure you know what you’re doing before you get within a mile of something that could affect patients.

They also have a pretty strong accountability culture. I shipped two fairly embarrassing bugs my first year and had a very serious conversation with my manager about whether I should continue to be employed since I’d used up about 50% of our team’s allowed bugs for the year. But on the other side, once I got my feet under me, they were very good about recognizing improvement.
by reincoder | 2025-04-22 14:54:56+00:00
The kind of blocking I'm referring to is IP metadata-based, not blanket country bans. I specifically mentioned that a single `/24` subnet was responsible for ~10% of brute-force attempts in my honeypot. That doesn’t mean I’d block all of Romania — obviously, the Romanian IP space is vastly larger — but it does raise questions about specific ASNs and IP ranges. In this case, Romanian IPs accounted for 16.8% of total attacks. That’s statistically significant and calls for deeper analysis, not assumptions.

Cybersecurity is a probabilistic game. You build a threat model based on your business, audience, and tolerance for risk. Blocking combinations of metadata — such as ASN, country, usage type, and VPN/proxy status — is one way to make informed short-term mitigations while preserving long-term accessibility. For example:

If an ASN is a niche hosting provider in Indonesia, ask: “Do I expect real users from here?”

If a /24 from a single provider accounts for 10% of your attacks, ask: “Do I throttle it or add a CAPTCHA?”

The point isn’t to permanently ban regions or people. It’s to reduce noise and protect services while staying responsive to legitimate usage patterns.

As for IP enrichment — yes, it's still extremely relevant in 2025. Just like JA3, TLS fingerprinting, or behavioral patterns — it's one more layer of insight. But unlike opaque “fraud scores” or black-box models, our approach is fully transparent: we give you raw data, and you build your own model.

We intentionally don’t offer fraud scoring or IP quality scores. Why? Because we believe it reduces agency and transparency. It also risks penalizing privacy-conscious users just for using VPNs. Instead, we let you decide what “risky” means in your own context.

We’re deeply committed to accuracy and evidence-based data. Most IP geolocation providers historically relied on third-party geofeeds or manual submissions — essentially repackaging what networks told them. We took a different route: building a globally distributed network of nearly 1,000 probe servers to generate independent, verifiable measurements for latency-based geolocation. That’s a level of infrastructure investment most providers haven’t attempted, but we believe it's necessary for reliability and precision.

Regarding residential proxies: we’ve built our own residential proxy detection system (https://ipinfo.io/products/residential-proxy) from scratch, and it’s maturing fast. One provider may claim 150M+ exit nodes, but across a 90-day rolling window, we’ve already observed 40,631,473 unique residential proxy IPs — and counting. The space is noisy, but we’re investing heavily in research-first approaches to bring clarity to it.

IP addresses aren’t perfect but nothing is! But with the right context, they’re still one of the most powerful tools available for defending services at the network layer. We provide the context and you build the solution.