MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by solardev | 2025-04-16 23:00:24+00:00
I think that's most of it?

> This should limit a large percent of external influence. Any other thoughts/suggestions?

Not really, beyond just trying to give all the information you do receive both the "benefit of the doubt" and a fair bit of skepticism, measuring the message itself, the sender, the state of mind you are when you receive it, etc. Over time you'll probably not only better be able to filter out junk messages, but learn about your own needs and preferences too.

> I understand your point about “boring”. But, I wonder if I will form my own interests if given more balanced options.

That's the hope!

Though HN is a bubble too... don't spend too much time here, lol. (easier said than done... I need to get out more)
by wrboyce | 2025-04-16 23:01:10+00:00
With extremely limited availability, the best you can get in most places is 1.8Gbps down and 120Mbps up isn’t it? I know OpenReach have recently announced a 1Gbps symmetric service but I’m not aware of any ISPs offering it yet and the wholesale costs are £1,200/year which is realistically going to translate to about £150+/month retail.

I’m with Zen and paying them, I think, £65/month for their 1.6Gbps package (they don’t offer 1.8 for some reason).
by scubbo | 2025-04-16 23:03:10+00:00
Self-quoting[0]:

> Sonic has the best customer service of any company ever encountered, and it's not even close. The few times I've had to contact them for assistance, I've been very quickly connected with someone clearly _very_ technical who was able to grok my problem immediately and give clear, cogent, respectful debugging advice and perspective. I do not exaggerate when I say I would gladly pay double their current rate just for the peace of mind of knowing that I can depend on them if I ever need their support again. Not that I often do, because their baseline connectivity/speed is also great.

>

> ...yes, I know I look like a shill/bot. I don't care. They're genuinely just that good, and I will happily advocate for them until that ever changes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42252183
by navanchauhan | 2025-04-16 23:06:05+00:00
Oh man! Wish I had found out about this 3 years ago. I am graduating in May, and I’ve had a terrible experience with Xfinity trying to self-host. CenturyLink doesn’t even service my apartment complex.

p.s self-plug: for our senior year capstone we are working on a secure/private home router firmware. Since you are in this space (tangentially) and local, I would love to chat with you
by brazzy | 2025-04-16 23:06:57+00:00
Are you seriously not aware of Let's Encrypt? https://letsencrypt.org/

Nobody has really had to pay for certificates for quite a number of years.

What certificates get you, as both a website owner and user, is security against man-in-the-middle attacks, which would otherwise be quite trivial, and which would completely defeat the purpose of using encryption.
Show HN: We made a VS Code extension to recreate a debugger experience from logs
by arthurgousset | 2025-04-16 23:07:40+00:00
A month ago [1], we made an MCP server so Cursor can debug Node.js on its own. We emailed every person that starred our repository [2] and learnt that frontend devs really want to give Cursor access to browser logs, and that backend devs (our intended audience) do not use debuggers nearly as much as we thought.

We interviewed friends across startups and discovered that they use logs to debug, because they can’t run services locally on their machine. The services (1) require too much disk, RAM, or CPUs to run locally, (2) have too many service dependencies (think microservices), or (3) are a faff to instantiate locally with a debugger. Instead, our friends instrument their services, deploy them to staging environments via Kubernetes, and then query the logs via data stores (think Grafana, Axiom.co, Google Cloud Logging, etc) or directly (think Kubernetes logs).

We thought: "What if we could recreate a debugger-like experience from logs?". That would save them from browsing logs and trying to make sense of them outside the context of the code base.

We looked into it and made a VS code extension that lets you (1) import logs, (2) go to the line of code associated with a log, and navigate up/down the probable call stack associated with a log.

It's a prototype, but if you're interested in trying it out, we'd love some feedback!

GitHub: github.com/hyperdrive-eng/traceback

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References:

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43446659

[2]: 140 Github stars, 69 emails sent (the rest were bots), 19 responses received (= 28% response conversion), 4 meetings held (= 21% meeting conversion).
by marcusb | 2025-04-16 23:07:50+00:00
This lede from NBC's article[0] last week covers it pretty well:

President Donald Trump directed federal agencies Wednesday to revoke the security clearances and review the activities of two high-level former government officials who questioned his election fraud claims and his conduct in his first term. Christopher Krebs, the former head of the federal government's top cybersecurity agency, said Joe Biden won the 2020 elections, contradicting Trump's claim that the election was stolen.

Today, Krebs announced he was resigning from SentinelOne so as not to drag them in to what he described as his fight.

0 - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-ord...
by gnabgib | 2025-04-16 23:08:00+00:00
Related

Executive Order Revoking Chris Krebs and SentinelOne Clearances, Review of CISA (46 points, 7 days ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43638616

Trump fires Christopher Krebs of US cybersecurity agency (17+17 points, 4 years ago, 2+4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25133122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25131635
by csdreamer7 | 2025-04-16 23:08:54+00:00
tldr: "College Is Still Worth It Even with Higher Out-of-Pocket Costs", however the bottom quarter of college students see little premium over a high school degree. Until 1995 the median high school only educated person earned more than the bottom 25% of college graduates.

One of my Mom's friends told me back then companies were desperate to hire anyone with a college degree.

Also, gives a breakdown per field. It really tells you something when a fine arts degree has a better return then education. (Edit: missed this: "Returns are especially low for education majors, though it should be noted that annual wages for this group typically reflect teacher salaries for a nine-month school year.")
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-04-16 23:10:13+00:00
There's nothing official about CVE moving.. Why should I trust anything on thecvefoundation.org? If you're going to do it, be serious about all of it. Setup something like "CVE.arpa" which immediately displays very serious credibility. Write an official handoff letter. Put out an official statement for its new home. What has been done here is another half-baked half-measure attempt at solving a very political problem.
by kennykartman | 2025-04-16 23:10:47+00:00
I'm not personally into aerospace, but a couple of my friends are in high profile, international (multi-agency) missions and from their feedback it is my understanding that SpaceX does not have "superior outputs". What SpaceX has is 1. tons of funding 2. less regulation. Does this mean more throughput? Yes. Is the output better? No. Shifting the costs onto the environment and private pockets does not imply that the work is higher quality or that their policies are better.
by timschmidt | 2025-04-16 23:11:08+00:00
Considering that we gave AT&T nearly $400 billion in the 90s to connect everyone in the US to fiber, I certainly hope they're no longer flowing. It was a giant grift. It's taken local fiber ISPs and WISPs (who seem to have been gobbled up immediately) and Starlink to make anything happen.

1: http://irregulators.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BookofBro...

2: A more recent example from 2024: https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/the-42-...
by metalman | 2025-04-16 23:11:13+00:00
no idea what the specific microbe to be found in fish and tufu, is called....though if you are the adventurous type, then I suggest filling a "foipop" freadom of information something some thing something with the Canadian feds. As to "essential nutients" added to Canadian food, that is done by legaly requiring certain large producers to add vitamins in specific amounts to specific foods...,.the real nitty gritty of how that is handled and by who....will likely require another foipop Another aside on imported food in Canada, is asian food, sold in ma and pa ethnic grocerie stores, that would arrive strait from the home country, with zero english on it and non of the ingredients listed, which seemed to be fine with everyone except the government when they noticed this after many decades, then began a whole thing with stick on lists of ingredients, but this then degenerated into a beurocratic battle as to which "common" names should be used for the ingriedients, resulting in total confusion from everyone, as to what was in the food, this was resolved by the asian countrys going with full latin scientific names on the labels,which has proven impossible to fault them on, and so we are now again blissfully ignorant of whatever it is in our soup mix.
by xp84 | 2025-04-16 23:12:23+00:00
I sincerely hope that we start sending a more considered and nuanced message to young people now about "college."

In my father's (Boomer) generation, you could incredibly easily see the net effect that college vs. no college had on career potential and thus earnings, and as a result I was coached to aim exclusively for college.

If I'm being honest I gained two main things from those four years:

1. I personally enjoyed a few fascinating or culturally uplifting classes, most of which were outside my major

2. By luck, I happened to meet someone in a class (which was an overall graduation requirement for the College of Business), who connected me to my first tech-related job.

Thankfully my school was cheap and I only graduated with about $40k in debt. But if I'd spent those 4 years living at home and teaching myself to code, I'd have been far ahead in my skills. To the extent anyone refused to hire a "non-college educated" software engineer, it would have been their loss, because it contributed nothing to my skills.

I will not be suggesting to my kids that they target "college," unless they have a very specific career goal and are confident on the job prospects and the median earnings being sufficient to pay back the loans and still be a net positive. There are just too many of the 'requires college' careers now that used to be somewhat viable and now are a dead-end joke, such as teaching, journalism, etc. Including software development, probably, for Gen Alpha, since nobody wants to hire juniors anymore, for rational reasons.
by jpollock | 2025-04-16 23:12:31+00:00
The lifetime ROI of college is only 13%?

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/04/is-col...

Doesn't that mean over the working life of the person (40 years), they spend (1-0.13) * 40 = 34.8yrs paying for the cost of college from their additional earnings?

I think my college was paid for with additional earnings inside of 5 years.
by abetusk | 2025-04-16 23:12:45+00:00
This is an interesting read. I didn't get through all of nor did I delve into it more deeply but it does feel a bit like the tail wagging the dog.

It seems pretty clear to me that post WWII, the USA poured significant investment into R&D through the umbrella of defense but it's not clear to me that there weren't other major contributing factors. The American education system used to be famously egalitarian, where many Nobel laureates came out of it. Copyright, intellectual property, patents, regulatory freedom, employment freedom, to name a few, might all be significant contributing factors for the science and technology success. Not to mention that the USA was the only major industrialized nation still standing after the war.

I can believe the basic thesis is correct, that focus on defense leads to more funding for practical science and technology and that the practically minded approach of the military helps guide R&D into widespread adoption, but, to me, it smacks of a sort of self serving nationalistic narrative. Not to get too into vibes territory, but it does seem like Thiel's philosophy is lurking in the background, being hawkish about defense spending and guiding arguments towards monopolistic moat building.

There's a large portion of science that can only be done with top-down spending because of the extreme capital resources involved but, from my perspective, some of the most ubiquitous science has come from humble beginnings, often starting out as grass roots efforts and eventually finding commercial adoption. Its not clear at all to me that the USAs success in R&D wasn't in spite of its military roots, not because of it. More importantly, its not clear that the same recipe for R&D success of the last century will work in this one.
by toast0 | 2025-04-16 23:13:01+00:00
You can get on the poles, if they're there and there's room, and you can find and follow the attachment rules and pay the attachment prices. Back when Google was going to run fiber to the home, they couldn't figure out how to manage the rules, which made their deployments very slow and eventually they gave up when AT&T (and others) deployed fiber to the communities Google announced before Google had managed to get plans finished.

They probably should have found a small telco or three to buy for expertise on pole bureaucracy.

Responding to your parent...

> You can probably lease a connection to the fiber network in the same way (I haven't checked, but I assume common carrier applies), but if there's no fiber to the addresses you want to service you're SOL unless you want to front tens of thousands of dollars per customer. No ROI on that for many, many years.

I would assume mandatory line sharing doesn't apply; the FCC walked back almost all of the 1996 Telecom Act line sharing; telcos and cablecos may well have designed their fiber to the home in ways to thwart what limited regulation was present anyway. If you're near 'commercial' fiber though, lots of that is available for lease.
by achierius | 2025-04-16 23:13:06+00:00
> The "Open" in "Open Source" is what matters most by far, the same way that the "Free" in "Free Software" is the key word that qualifies the kind of software we're taking about.

I don't think this is true. If someone said "look, my software is open source" and by "source" they meant the binary they shipped, the specific definition of "open" they chose to use would not matter much for the sort of things I'd like to do with an open source project. Both are important.
by gkhartman | 2025-04-16 23:13:43+00:00
Hardest to cool cpu I've ever owned was an AMD Athlon 3200+. I remember moving to P4, and life got a lot easier. It still ran very hot, but it could do so without frequent crashing. This was before the giant coolers that we have today were common place. I was far too afraid of water cooling back then.
by paulcole | 2025-04-16 23:13:49+00:00
For a large number of adults:

They’ll never have lower expenses and a greater tolerance for not having money than at ages 18-22.

They’ll never be in closer contact with such large numbers of people their age with the same level of freedom.

I get not spending insane money to go to college but 4 years at an in-state school with reasonable tuition can be a very fun time that you really only get the chance to do once.

I wouldn’t go into debt $100k to do it, but $30k-50k doesn’t seem like an outrageous number for how much fun it can be.
by AaronAPU | 2025-04-16 23:13:50+00:00
I’ve been using Gemini 2.5 pro side by side with o1-pro and Grok lately. My experience is they each randomly offer significant insight the other two didn’t.

But generally, o1-pro listens to my profile instructions WAY better, and it seems to be better at actually solving problems the first time. More reliable.

But they are all quite similar and so far these new models are similar but faster IMO.
by strcat | 2025-04-16 23:14:30+00:00
You can see that we're on the latest 6.1.134 and 6.6.87 now because Greg KH caught up the Android GKI LTS branch to the kernel.org LTS branch. That will be included in our upcoming OS release in the next couple days.

We ship GKI LTS updates quickly but the GKI LTS branch can sometimes lag behind by up to a few weeks as it was doing when you looked. You happened to look at the maximum point it lags behind. It should really be kept closely in sync with the kernel.org releases but it's almost entirely Greg KH dealing with it and he deals with a lot of other stuff too.
by jwpapi | 2025-04-16 23:14:42+00:00
It’s not just about saving money or making less mistakes its also about iteration speed. I can’t believe this process is remotely comparable to aider.

In aider everything is loaded in memory I can add drop files in terminal, discuss in terminal, switch models, every change is a commit, run terminal commands with ! at the start.

Full codebase is more expensive and slower than relevant files. I understand when you don’t worry about the cost, but at reasonable size pasting full codebase can’t be really a thing.
by b8 | 2025-04-16 23:15:01+00:00
There's some hacks around College debt such as going to Berea College, federal work colleges, or Deep Springs College. Also Community College to a local college (ensure that your credits will transfer 100%) is a cheaper option. I've been fortunate enough to get jobs without a degree.

I've also attended community college, a prestigious college (Tulane) and Berea College. Their courses are essentially the same, but different costs. People are a little smarter, so the standard for homework is a bit higher at Tulane. Honestly it's not worth to get debt for a brand name that most employers don't care about these days.
by paulcole | 2025-04-16 23:15:04+00:00
> How do you give your kids some certainty in an age that is lacking certainty?

I don’t think this has much if anything to do with AI. It’s like my parents asking for advice on raising a kid during the age of the Pentium chip.

You teach them to be comfortable with uncertainty. One of the most valuable skills that a huge number of adults lack.

Show them that most things don’t matter a great deal in the long run. Let them do what they want in most reasonable cases.

Tell them you don’t know when you don’t now. Show them that being wrong is good.
Show HN: I built a deep learning engine from scratch in Python
by gmwhitebox_dev | 2025-04-16 23:15:24+00:00
I’ve spent the last few months building a deep learning engine completely from scratch in Python (using only math and random).

What started as a basic linear algebra calculator project grew into a symbolic tensor system with autodiff, custom matrix ops, attention mechanisms, LayerNorm, GELU, and even a text generation demo trained on the Brown corpus.

I'm still an undergrad, so my main goal is to deeply understand how deep learning actually works under the hood - gradients, attention, backpropagation, optimizers - by building it step-by-step with full visibility into everything, and without relying on big frameworks or libraries.

It’s not fast or production-ready, but that’s not the point. As of now, it’s more so aimed at exploration and understanding. I mainly wanted to explore how deep learning works by building it through first principles.

It’s still a work in progress (lots to learn and improve in terms of structure, docs, and performance), but I figured it was worth sharing.

I’d love any feedback, questions, ideas, or even just thoughts about what you’d add, change, or do differently. Thanks for reading!
by nowittyusername | 2025-04-16 23:16:18+00:00
I believe this is the root of the problem for all agentic coding solutions. They are gimping the full context through fancy function calling and tool use to reduce the full context that is being sent through the API. Problem with this is you can never know what context is actually needed for the problem to be solved in the best way. The funny thing is, this type of behavior actually leads many people to believe these models are LESS capable then they actually are, because people don't realize how restricted these models are behind the scenes by the developers. Good news is, we are entering the era of large context windows and we will all see a huge performance increase in coding as a results of these advancement.
by hu3 | 2025-04-16 23:16:28+00:00
Repo with demo video and benchmark:

https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet

"...It matches the full-precision (i.e., FP16 or BF16) Transformer LLM with the same model size and training tokens in terms of both perplexity and end-task performance, while being significantly more cost-effective in terms of latency, memory, throughput, and energy consumption..."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764
by Bayart | 2025-04-16 23:16:38+00:00
> Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines.

Being purged is one thing, but being purged by bumbling morons must bring another level of ire.
by bli940505 | 2025-04-16 23:17:35+00:00
I’m having very mixed feelings about it. I’m using o3 to help me parse and understand a book about statistics and ML, it’s very dense in math.

On one hand the answers became a lot more comprehensive and deep. It’s now able to give me very advanced explanations.

On the other hand, it started overloading the answers with information. Entire concepts became single sentence summaries. Complex topics and theorems became acronyms. In a way I’m feeling overwhelmed by the information it’s now throwing at me. I can’t tell if it’s actually smarter or just too complicated for me to understand.
by logical_proof | 2025-04-16 23:17:51+00:00
At the ridiculous cost of attendance at a traditional university a love for learning is not a good value proposition. Someone who loves learning would be better served doing self led study with occasional tutoring. Costs will be much lower and the education far more specialized. Of course I wouldn’t want a medical professional to diagnose my hypothetical cancer with a trade school education either. As with a great many things, YMMV.
by milesrout | 2025-04-16 23:18:22+00:00
Should is a commonly used word and a fine one. You should feel free to use it. If someone gets hot under the collar because you said he should do something then he is an idiot.

"Ought to" is essentially a synonym. Anyone that gets upset when you said they should do something but is fine when you say that they ought to do something is truly a moron.
by thelittleone | 2025-04-16 23:18:42+00:00
Regarding context reduction. This got me wondering. If I use my own API key, there is no way for the IDE or coplilot provider to benefit other than monthly sub. But if I am using their provided model with tokens from the monthly subscription, they are incentivized to charge me based on tokens I submit to them, but then optimize that and pass on a smaller request to the LLM and get more margin. Is that what you are referring to?
by Bender | 2025-04-16 23:19:51+00:00
The actual issue is that our business culture is antithetical to a healthy society.

I agree with the unhealthy society and your statement got me thinking. In regards to health what happens when global trade is shut down and a country can not make it's own pharmaceuticals for example? About 64% of people in the US over age 18 are on prescription drugs. Some of those drugs have really dangerous rebound effects if one suddenly stops taking them. Some of those effects can be deadly, especially blood pressure drugs. Most of those drugs come from China, some from India. How quickly can each country start manufacturing and distributing it's own prescription drugs? Would that cause a quick adjustment to the culture or is that not enough?