MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rwmj | 2025-04-22 12:15:46+00:00
The RISC-V specs are all free to download and implement. Some (by no means all) implementations are proprietary. Red Hat (the company I work for) talks to all sorts of server vendors, x86, Arm, POWER, RISC-V all the time under NDA so we can find out what new products those vendors are developing before they are released, and have software ready in time. The software we write is all open sourced. This is nothing particular to do with RISC-V, and has nothing to do with the RISC-V ISA, nor with open sourcing of software.
by dimonomid | 2025-04-22 12:15:50+00:00
Fyi I was going to create a Github issue for the journald support, but apparently someone else filed it first: https://github.com/dimonomid/nerdlog/issues/7

Just posting it in case you want to subscribe to it. Looks like it's a popular demand indeed, so I'll at least poke it and see what kind of performance we can get out of it.
by cjs_ac | 2025-04-22 12:16:44+00:00
> The phrase “reflexive AI usage” is what triggered my strongest reaction. “Reflexive” suggests unthinking, automatic reliance. It implies delegating not just tasks but judgment itself.

Does it? When I trained as a schoolteacher, we were required to engage in 'reflexive practice', meaning at the end of the school day, we were expected to sit down and think about - reflect - on what had happened that day. I don't know how the Shopify CEO meant that phrase, but 'reflexive AI usage' has two conflicting meanings - it can be AI usage that is either actively or passively chosen - and we might need some better phrasing around this.
Show HN: Fullstack Go app (SSRfront end+APIback end+Docker) with clean structure
by norbix | 2025-04-22 12:16:56+00:00
I've been exploring clean architecture and fullstack development in Go. This is a demo application with:

- SSR frontend (pure Go templates) - REST API backend (modular design with internal packages) - Dockerized setup (frontend + backend + compose) - Taskfile for automation

Inspired by common SaaS platform patterns.

Code structure is intentionally clear, with backend and frontend separated, and all dependencies kept minimal.

Repo: https://github.com/norbix/demo1_fullstack_golang More thoughts on Go, SaaS, CQRS, and microservices: https://norbix.dev

Would love feedback on architecture, DX, and how to improve this approach for production SaaS use.
Show HN: I built an MCP server to generate short videos with AI Agents
by gyoridavid | 2025-04-22 12:16:58+00:00
hey y'all, sharing my latest side project, a short video maker (TTS, captions, bg video and music) with REST and MCP endpoints. Works well with ai agents and automations (tested with n8n). One obvious limitation is the type of video it generates: the best use-case is to create narrated stories.
by Yizahi | 2025-04-22 12:17:12+00:00
Why would you assume Ruzzian Intelligence if only IP address has been mentioned? Also, if it was such an agency, why wouldn't the supposed shiba-doge leaker/spy not provide them a warning that regional restriction firewall exists?

Go with the most probable case - one of the shiba-doge amateurs had a virus on his laptop, and after creating an account those credentials were automatically siphoned to some bot farm in the Ruzzian segment, from where a few automated attacks were initiated by a botnet, which were blocked by a regional firewall.
by Nanopolygon | 2025-04-22 12:18:28+00:00
QOI is just a simple filter. It cannot do full compression. In fact, in certain cases it can increase the size instead of compressing. It is unnecessarily overrated, of course, mostly because it is open source. The rest is irrelevant. There is another codec that is as fast as QOI (or even faster and multi-core) but with a much higher compression ratio. HALIC (High Availability Lossless Image Compression). But because it's closed source, it definitely didn't get the attention and respect it should have gotten. And that's why I think it stopped developing.

https://github.com/Hakan-Abbas/HALIC-High-Availability-Lossl...
by sokoloff | 2025-04-22 12:18:34+00:00
> actually understand from top to bottom and know all the details.

In practice, you’re always going to hand-wave away some level of abstraction, whether that’s at the JavaScript, C++, C, LLVM, native ISA, CPU microcode, logic gates, transistor, chemistry, or physics level.

https://xkcd.com/435/
by shinycode | 2025-04-22 12:18:38+00:00
> If people stop the occasional deadlock of grinding teeth, looking at a problem, crying, going for a walk, praying and screaming until suddenly it makes sense (and you learn something!), I’d call it severe regression, not progress.

People for which development is not their job will absolutely want to get rid of it as much as possible because it costs money. I really agree with the author, it does feel like a regression and it’s so easy to overlook what makes the most part of the job when it looks like it can be fully automated. Once you don’t have people who are used to do what’s quoted, and there is 500 million lines of code and bugs, good luck with that to ask a human to take a look. Maybe AI will be powerful enough to help debugging but it’s a dangerous endeavor to build critical business around that. If for any reason (political or else) AI got more expensive it could kill businesses (twitter api ?)
by cj | 2025-04-22 12:19:13+00:00
Not sure why you’re being downvoted.

The least favorite withdrawal symptom I’ve seen is REM rebound, which causes intense and vivid dreaming, which causes you to wake up in the morning feeling like you haven’t slept at all.

The return of mental clarity also causes some rebound anxiety as you regain mental clarity (especially if anxiety was the reason for smoking in the first place)

I think it does a major disservice to the general population to paint weed in an only-positive light. Yea, I get people unfairly demonized weed for years. But that doesn’t mean we should all go on the complete opposite end of the spectrum and pretend there’s no withdrawal, no side effects, etc.

(Maybe the people downvoting are just occasional once a week users? I could imagine once weekly having zero negative effects. But once you get to daily use, the negative effects are pretty obvious)
by bilekas | 2025-04-22 12:19:46+00:00
Nobody mentioned about subservience, simply incompetance, if contractor X is given a DOGE superuser account, while also having his entire network compromised, there is some responsibility on you for that.

My oligarchy comment stems from the fact that one of the largest private company owners in the US is seemingly allowed to take all of this potentially rival information at will, without even having to inform anyone what exactly they want to look at.

All because he's friends with the president, to me thats an oligarchy.
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-22 12:19:59+00:00
> People need experience before doing stuff with stuff that is completely brand new [...] Most people need evidence to believe something

Not exactly. Once something come out you study it as much as it is necessary, you assess it, then you employ it smartly - that's how it should be done. Those "needing evidence" in your depiction seem akin to those who decide to date drug addicts, jump down buildings etc. because "they do not know yet, it could work out fine": the first problem that one has to pose is that those profiles should not manage - that should be the main background idea. Then, if the issue - at human resources level - happens, strategies must be implemented to contain damage. This implies, you do not talk about creating damage lightly. One bad experience for a counterpart makes you lose opportunities forever: the failed counterparts will go, "good to know, now next please".

> And that attitude results in your being completely disregarded and those who you think are wrong doing stuff you don't want

Actually, what you would do in real life, is proving your point to the interlocutor through showing the evidence ("Have you noticed <this and that>?"). I do not have to convince you here about any specific position such as "LLMs can't fly", it's not the relevant purpose here.

> naysayer

I have said, (1) perform a Cost-Risk-Benefit and see what is the best strategy; (2) do not just stand over the specific case but foresee where its roots bring, and work on them roots. That is positive.

The first way is diplomacy. Show and reason. If it fails, then artillery. But in that order.

(And before all of that, prevention.)
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-04-22 12:21:55+00:00
> so the people who didn't vote don't count

Democracy is about how the people (demos) in a state or other community coexist by negotiating their individual and collective needs and priorities. Reducing it down to "you didn't vote so you don't count", or worse still, "you voted for the losing side so you don't count" is a gross distortion. Its not just about the vote, its what happens after that.

> That's the beautiful thing about democracy, you get exactly the government that you deserve.

This makes no sense. There isn't something out there that renders a singular judgement on what people deserve. There's only us.
by GranularRecipe | 2025-04-22 12:22:18+00:00
> Removing admin from people who don't need it is 100% the correct thing to do according to any IT guidelines you could quote. And of course, every single user will whine that they're special and really really need it.

You assume that "suddenly none of the IT employees at the agency could do their jobs properly anymore" is whining and not substantial?

Shouldn't be least privilege principle a culture (a standardised and automated process) and not something that happens ad hoc?
by pron | 2025-04-22 12:22:31+00:00
> Picking some features while leaving others out is something that every language does; if doing that is enough to make a language "revolutionary", then every language is revolutionary.

You can say that about the design of any product. Yet, once in a while, we get revolutionary designs (even if every feature in isolation is not completely novel) when the choice of what to include and what to leave out is radically different from other products in the same category in a way that creates a unique experience.
by techdmn | 2025-04-22 12:22:56+00:00
Maybe in a perfectly functioning democracy, but the U.S. has been actively separating policy from politics maybe for my entire lifetime. Just for starters:

* The two-party system dominates the process, and actively excludes 3rd parties. Look into changing requirements for debate participation.

* The Democratic party argued in court that they have no obligation to use a "fair" primary to select candidates. This was in response to a lawsuit from donors claiming the party mislead them by tipping the scales against Bernie Sanders in 2016.

* Gerrymandering continues to enable parties to win large majorities in state legislatures while losing the popular vote at the state level.

* Many of our current troubles have been caused by the Supreme Court, which is not democratically elected.

* The Electoral College and Senate apportionment continue to give more power to voters in low-population states.
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-22 12:22:58+00:00
The major powers are endlessly engaged in hacking operations against each other. This is just normal, and no one needs to "admit" to it for that reality to be true. The notable part of this story isn't that Russia tried to compromise a US system, but instead is that some Russian party (whether official or unofficial) apparently had DOGE credentials moments after they were created, which indicates that DOGE is thoroughly compromised. Which should surprise absolute no-one.
by gwbas1c | 2025-04-22 12:23:26+00:00
A friend of mine who moved from Communist Russia to the US once explained to me the "tyranny of choice." He explained that, in the US, sometimes we get overwhelmed with many, many options.

To be quite blunt: After choosing my NAS, the act of choosing hard drives is actually harder and somewhat overwhelming. To be quite honest, knowing that I can choose from a narrower set of drives that are guaranteed to work correctly is going to really tip my scale in favor of Synology the next time I'm in the market for a NAS.
by pantalaimon | 2025-04-22 12:23:38+00:00
But RISC-V predates loongarch64 - why did Loongson create a new ISA instead of implementing a fast RISC-V core?

Sure you can move faster if you can make your own standards and don't have to coordinate with anyone, but still makes me wonder if there is some fundamental issue that makes it difficult to create a high performance RISC-V implementation.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-04-22 12:23:49+00:00
We're firmly in the realm of 1984-type arguments: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears".

It makes me sick we're even considering "trolling" as a motivation here but, given that we are, it's clear we're at the level of stupid that they would brazenly leak data to Russia. These people are not the best, they are not the brightest, and there's no reason to assume they are playing 4D chess when checkers is working for them.
by eqvinox | 2025-04-22 12:24:02+00:00
- carrying the security badge to a restaurant

- not having it on her body/attached to her directly

- having $3000 in cash in the same bag

Individually—ok. In combination? Weird. Newsworthy.

Also to be clear, "newsworthy" doesn't mean she's at fault necessarily. Just the blip is sufficiently above background noise.
by Handprint4469 | 2025-04-22 12:24:09+00:00
> we were required to engage in 'reflexive practice', meaning at the end of the school day, we were expected to sit down and think about - reflect - on what had happened that day.

That is _reflective_ practice (which involves reflection). Reflexive otoh comes from 'reflex', which does suggest unthinking automaticity.
by Dumblydorr | 2025-04-22 12:24:20+00:00
Sorry, I don’t follow? Why did it need to hide its activities to run analytics? What statistical analytical purpose is served by wiping logs and removing logging?

Since we’re spitballing, Why not try giving them the opposite of benefit of doubt, as well? Something like, the administration is clearly compromised by Russia and hired a bunch of low status hackers, and we’re seeing massive bombs being dropped all over our cybersecurity defenses?
by gcanyon | 2025-04-22 12:25:21+00:00
The concern over "LLMs vs. the Web" is giving me serious "The Web vs. Brick and Mortar" vibes. That's not to say that it won't be the predicted cataclysm, just that it might not be. Time will tell, because This Is Happening, People, but if it does turn out to be a serious problem, I think we'll find some way to adapt. We're unlikely to accept a lesser result.
by zombot | 2025-04-22 12:26:55+00:00
When watching 24 season 9, I saw Catelyn Stark sick a horde of dragons (drones) on King's Landing (London) to avenge the murder of her husband Eddard.

My fanciful mind makes me mix series, movies and games with each other and reality in my head, just as a point of entertainment. I do miss the Monster Truck from GTA San Andreas when stuck in traffic but so far I've managed to behave in a civilized manner.
by rwmj | 2025-04-22 12:27:13+00:00
How does it compare to the current RISC-V leader, ESWIN SiFive P550?

Anyway, China seem to have decided to pursue a dual strategy of pouring money into RISC-V and LoongArch at the same time. I've no idea why that is. The company I work for talks to several RISC-V vendors who don't believe there is any issue with the RISC-V ISA for high performance server-class application cores.
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by lumost | 2025-04-22 12:27:27+00:00
Rotation implies a great many observables and properties of the universe. There would be a cosmic axis, which implies a cosmic center and a cosmic north. Both concepts that are problematic in an infinite universe. If the universe is in fact inside of a black hole of a different universe - some of these problems go away as the Hubble volume would be the finite boundary of the universe.
by imtringued | 2025-04-22 12:27:53+00:00
>Even with that, there are obvious limitations described by Amdahl's law, which states there is a logarithmic maximum potential improvement by increasing hardware provisions.

I don't know why so many people are obsessed with Amdahl's law as some universal argument. The quoted section is not only 100% incorrect, it sweeps the blatantly obvious energy problem under the rug.

Imagine going to a local forest and pointing at a crow and shouting "penguin!", while there are squirrels running around.

What Amdahl's law says is that given a fixed problem size and infinite processors, the parallel section will cease to be a bottleneck. This is irrelevant for AI, because people throw more hardware at bigger problems. It's also irrelevant for a whole bunch of other problems. Self driving cars aren't all connected to a supercomputer. They have local processors that don't even communicate with each other.

>The latest innovations go far beyond logarithmic gains: there is now GPT-based software which replaces much of the work of CAD Designers, Illustrators, Video Editors, Electrical Engineers, Software Engineers, Financial Analysts, and Radiologists, to name a few.

>And yet these perinatal automatons are totally eviscerating all knowledge based work as the relaxation of the original hysterics arrives.

These two sentences contradict each other. You can't eviscerate something and only mostly "replace" it.

This is a very disappointing blog post that focuses on wankery over substance.
by gwbas1c | 2025-04-22 12:28:22+00:00
> The only thing I'm not happy with is needing to use a very powerful and versatile radio like the HackRF for something as simple as a boiler on/off switch. But I'd rather use something overkill and have it work than spend ages trying to force smaller radios to do my bidding.

All the apartments I lived in had basic thermostats; and I even rewired and replaced one of them.

What was blocking Videah from buying an off-the-shelf thermostat?
by Renaud | 2025-04-22 12:28:46+00:00
TVs can be aggressivetring to connect to any Wifi network. Apparently some now also come with SIM cards.

My xiaomi TV is making thousands of request per day to their domains. I block them all using adguard/adblock, but imagine the amount of information they can get from a connected TV.

Samsung and LG and many others do this. Look for Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) in Samsung's privacy

This interesting study from last year: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs - https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203
by vidarh | 2025-04-22 12:28:58+00:00
> consensus

No, it wasn't. It was what about half voted for. There was no consensus. Consensus means general agreement, not a small majority.

That they're elected by majority (never mind the indirections) is a key reason why it is important that the executive is not allowed to wield too much power unilaterally.

(And a key reason why the executive in most countries have far less power than a US president...)
by pcaharrier | 2025-04-22 12:29:02+00:00
Notice that the email from the deputy CIO mentions SCuBA.This is the "Secure Cloud Business Application Project" from CISA.If you look at two of the required policies you will find this:

"A minimum of two users and a maximum of eight users SHALL be provisioned with the Global Administrator role."[1]

and

"Privileged users SHALL be provisioned with finer grained roles instead of Global Administrator."[2]

So at least for the agency-wide removal of security administrator roles, that would seem to be unrelated to anything DOGE was doing. The NLRB was supposed to be doing that anyway.

[1] https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/services/m365-entra-id#... [2] https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/services/m365-entra-id#...
by nonrandomstring | 2025-04-22 12:30:05+00:00
Something worth knowing is that "attribution" is extremely difficult.

Also "attribution engineering" is really quite easy and difficult to see through.

Often the purpose of a hack is not to exfiltrate data or sabotage systems but is exactly to direct blame (or sometimes distract/misdirect)

Indeed in vault 5 of Snowden's NSA leaks an "attribution engineering toolkit" was a interesting find. Malware is almost always engineered to throw forensic investigators off the scent.

That all said, I think this incident happening in US gov, in the current climate, without immediate urgent investigation is scandalous and in itself an indicator of deeper and very serious skulduggery.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-22 12:30:24+00:00
Look at what they did with the 2016 election. They hacked that too and didn't hide anything, but when they were accused by the US government they claimed innocence and blamed Ukraine. The allows Russian people to say "Look how awful those Ukrainians are for hacking America; and look at how awful America is for blaming Russia."

So they hack their enemy, and then use that to reinforce the false narratives they tell their own people. It's gaslighting at the national level. Russia is as if your emotionally abusive partner was your government. America is becoming the same.
by lwo32k | 2025-04-22 12:30:56+00:00
Social media has equated the worth of people to how much Attention they can collect (quantified via upvotes/clicks/likes).

Its like ecologists saying we will protect and promote the plants in the jungle based on their popularity.

The have over valued one particular form of attention and devalued all the other types. So if you want to think about future platforms be aware of the different types of Attention and how its being allocated. Broadly there are 2 kinds -

1. Attention we pay to things - this attention here gets further divided into Entertainment/meeting short term goals/meeting long term goals. Its important people (esp kids) get signals on how much of their attention is going towards each piece.

2. Attention we receive - attention here gets divided into (1) baseline attention requirement every single person has that is tied to their self esteem (kids who dont get this baseline early on have issues later on) (2) attention we receive from larger groups (social media has only focused on this category and thats its primary flaw)
by criddell | 2025-04-22 12:31:01+00:00
What I want is a modern Tandy 102. Back in the 80's these things were getting days or even weeks of use on a set of AA batteries. I'd love to see a modern version of this - a low power, highly constrained device (not running Linux), that runs on AA batteries. With modern components, you would think you could makes something like the 102 that lasts for months an AA batteries, but nobody has made one.

The closest things I've seen are the AlphaSmart Dana (discontinued), Apple eMate (discontinued) and the Freewrite line of devices.

I've thought about trying to make one myself from an Raspberry Pi, but those are not very low power and they seem to be tied to Linux (or at least I'm not aware of alternative operating systems).
by diggan | 2025-04-22 12:31:05+00:00
> I wonder if FreeDOS has anyl relevance

Well, just yesterday I had to run FreeDOS from a USB in order to run a sas2flash utility that didn't run on Linux or directly via UEFI, so I could flash some firmware to a SAS controller. Seems at least some of us still need it :)

Btw, avoid getting a SAS controller if you can, and get a motherboard that directly supports as many SATA drives as you need. Few things have been as frustrating as dealing with this SAS controller thing.
by matsemann | 2025-04-22 12:31:15+00:00
Thanks for this! I was also trying to do the same, what I ended up doing was making a mask and only apply the multiply/pow to things inside that mask, but the profile still messed up the colors of the remaining pixels. So I dimmed the parts not in the mask by taking away -30% saturation or so. But your result is much better, will try it.