MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oliwarner | 2025-04-15 12:28:38+00:00
> it does take experience to shop there

Amen, and resilience. It's a combative UX, trying to force you into bundles instead of single purchases, Choice items rather than cheaper with regular p&p, not advertising that some things (eg bare lithium cells) will be shipped seemingly by sailors chucking corked glass bottles into the sea and hoping they get to you within three business years.

I've not had too much of a problem with outright scams. Some things have been smaller than expected (photo issues - description accurate) and if it's delicate (eg plywood robot models, larger foam planes) they will find a way to grind it into dust before delivery. Both those examples got a refund the next day.

But it's cheap when it works but the central company appears to be honest and helpful when you contact them.
by evgen | 2025-04-15 12:30:07+00:00
This is one of those subtle clues that the LLM does not actually 'know' anything. It is providing you the best consensus answer to your prompt using the data upon which the weights rest, is that data was input primarily as english then you are going to get better results asking in english. It is still Searle's Chinese Room except you need to first go to the 'Language X -> English' room and then deliver its output to the general query room before delivering the next result to the 'English -> Language X' room.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-04-15 12:30:15+00:00
As bad as Trump is, most of the opposition to him is just tribalism. To paraphrase Kurt Vonnegut, about 10% of people are always cruel, 10% are always kind, and 80% are in play. From your comment I think you would fit right in on 4chan since you seem to advocate anonymously destroying people that you don't know, without any process, if you vaguely (without really knowing anything about it or bothering to check) think they have crossed you in some way.
by joshstrange | 2025-04-15 12:30:35+00:00
Ok, I’ll ask the stupid question:

Why not use _Encrypted_ HTTP/2 traffic? The article goes on and on about HTTP 1.1 and unencrypted HTTP 2.0 but never once mentioned encrypted HTTP 2.0 which I would assume shares the exact same binary/“hard to block” characteristics of unencrypted HTTP 2.0.

I can only assume that everyone knows why that’s already blocked in China, but I don’t
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-15 12:31:12+00:00
Buy item X from Amazon, which is effectively a Temu product+ a 50% markup.

Or buy direct from Temu/AliExpress and save money?

It's not a hard choice.

I like watches. While I still pay retail for most of my watches, the bands are like 2$ on AliExpress and 15$ on Amazon. Phone cases are much much cheaper.

Certain phones aren't released domestically at all, so now I'm looking at a 100$ fee to import them. If I want to work on a project requiring a PCB that's now impossibly expensive.
by wpm | 2025-04-15 12:31:28+00:00
Chicago's commuter rail system is called Metra (operating code MTX).

They own some of their own rails. UP and BNSF operate 4 of their commuter routes. CSX owns most of a few of the Metra operated routes.

Once, I was delayed 2 hours on Christmas Eve by a 1 Mile + Long freight train that broke down while crossing our main line pulling into the freight yard south of O'Hare Airport. A victim of CSX's "precision scheduled railroading".

Back when Metra pre-recorded the automated announcements, they specifically had one for delays caused by "freight train interference". The freight operators don't give a flying fuck who they interfere with, because they are empowered to.
by TRiG_Ireland | 2025-04-15 12:31:48+00:00
My bother reports that he was once using the computer lab, and some other lads were in the room looking at things they ought not on a college computer. They were also being loud and annoying and distracting him from his work, so he sent them a message telling them to report to the head of department. They disappeared quickly and left him in peace. (This was using Net Send on Windows XP, I think.)
Show HN: Speak your target language with real people, not just an app
by ayoubdrissi | 2025-04-15 12:32:20+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Lengpal, a simple language exchange platform where two people get instantly matched on video to practice their native and target languages. There’s a timer built in so both sides get equal time to speak.

I created this because I wanted something beyond passive apps like Duolingo. Something to actually speak with real people without the hassle of scheduling or chat fatigue.

Right now we are testing the concept with a waitlist. We’ve collected 77 emails so far from Reddit and IndieHackers. I would love your feedback before launching the MVP.

Site: https://www.lengpal.com Happy to answer any questions or hear your thoughts.
by I_complete_me | 2025-04-15 12:32:58+00:00
> so you won’t need the GUI open to use shortcuts

I've been looking for a Linux clipboard manager to use over SSH but they all error out with for example (on running SSH in Windows Warp to access a LAN Linux box):

echo "doodah" | xclip -selection c Error: Can't open display: (null)

Here I am trying to copy to the X-11 clipboard in order to paste elsewhere inside the Linux box -- hope that's not too confusing!

Will your (eventual) clipboard manager work over SSH for this use case?
by kemotep | 2025-04-15 12:33:04+00:00
Well it would help if there weren’t numerous issues with the data as presented on that site. Specifically now they are only claiming somewhere around 28 billion saved in cancelled contracts when in early February they claimed like 55 billion. Seems odd that over time the amount saved would go down despite the alleged number being of cancellations going up.

Also it is concerning that the largest amount from an individual contract saved is a cancelled deportation facility contract. Seems at odds with the Administration’s goals to ramp up mass deportation but cancel the contract for building a holding facility for unaccompanied minors.

My suggestion would be if the goal is to eliminate debt we would need to target social security reform such as raising the retirement ages and eliminating the cap on the payroll tax. Additionally, but far less realistic would be implementing a Land Value Tax. Not cancel random contracts that amount to a tiny fraction of the budget and propose massive tax cuts like the current administration seems to be doing.
by Voultapher | 2025-04-15 12:34:26+00:00
As per the post:

> That’s one hundred billion supernovae per century, or a billion per year, or about 30 per second.

7 characters of base26 gives you 8 billion combinations. "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" requires ~1e48 events when going by the actual non base26 scheme. So I wouldn't be worried.
by killerstorm | 2025-04-15 12:35:42+00:00
This is literally in the first chapter of Mythical Man-Month:

> One occasionally reads newspaper accounts of how two programmers in a remodeled garage have built an important program that surpasses the best efforts of large teams. And every programmer is prepared to believe such tales, for he knows that he could build any program much faster than the 1000 statements/year reported for industrial teams.

> Why then have not all industrial programming teams been replaced by dedicated garage duos? One must look at what is being produced.

One reason might be that personal data going into a database handled by a highly experimental software might be a non-issue for this dev, but it is a serious risk for Google, Apple, etc.
by geriatric-janny | 2025-04-15 12:36:21+00:00
I lied about my age and was given janitor access in the mid 2000s. There was a special /j/ board to coordinate on, but it broke relatively early, and you mostly had to hang out in the #janiteam channel on Rizon. I think almost everybody else was underage as well. There was a minimal web overlay that let you delete/escalate posts. You couldn't see people's IPs, but you could see how many outstanding ban requests they had. These numbers helped me deduce that many boards' most infamous personalities were all the same guy.

We were all offered the chance to become mods in 2010, but moot wanted to see our faces on a Skype call. I thought that was a step too far and just gradually stopped caring after that. Seems like I made the right choice.

On the whole it was barely held together technically and organisationally, mostly run by moot's personal friends, and fun all around. Things were far less serious then.

And the checks arrived on time every month: $0.00
by specialist | 2025-04-15 12:36:43+00:00
Sorry, just to clarify: OC is about sequestration of carbon, not using trees (biomass) as fuel, right?

Which I oppose; my own governor is arguing that exporting wood pellets is a net gain. Face palm.

That said, learning about biochar is on my todo list. I do forest restoration work (volunteer) and am excited to try anything which helps build topsoil, store carbon, hastens reforestation. example question: So we'd capture that wood gas when making biochar...?

--

Otherwise, I agree with all. Especially comment elsethread about our existing "distributed storage" system(s) like hot water tanks and EVs at rest.

Fortunately, misc startups are trying to tap into that potential. eg combining heat pumps and water tanks, residential district heating. eg virtual power plants (peer-to-peer systems) aggregating residential batteries (EVs, power walls, and soon appliances) into grid level storage.

It's such an amazing time to be alive. The opportunities are insurmountable.
by mnky9800n | 2025-04-15 12:36:44+00:00
I think that technology is really the last thing I want in a dungeons and dragons game. I prefer only pen and paper to be in a pen and paper game. And while it is an obvious problem to be solved by LLMs, an LLM will never recreate the fun of using a central casting book to create a backstory [1].

[1] https://open.substack.com/pub/worldofkamenlandia/p/the-world...
by dangtony98 | 2025-04-15 12:37:16+00:00
Hey HN! Infisical SSH, an extension of the open source Infisical platform [1], gives you a solution to centralize SSH access for your team and infrastructure.

Infisical SSH eliminates the need for you to manage SSH keys in favor of short-lived SSH certificates issued on demand. From one dashboard, you can define which users should have access to which machines and let Infisical facilitate connections using SSH certificate-based authentication under the hood.

With just a few clicks, you can bootstrap the same secure, scalable SSH certificate-based authentication scheme that companies like Meta, Uber, and Google use to scale SSH access across their infrastructure.

[1] Infisical - https://github.com/Infisical/infisical
by doublerabbit | 2025-04-15 12:37:36+00:00
4chan is widely known for /b/ but it had and has much more than /b. /b was always known for its murk.

Each chan sub category tended to their own niche community and rivalry was little.

/f/ in its hayday was a wonderful creative group for Flash animations and with existent of NewGrounds made the internet fun. It's how I learnt flash and how YTMND came to be.
by hypeatei | 2025-04-15 12:37:36+00:00
There were already people called "inspector generals" which handled waste, fraud, and abuse but Trump fired about 17 of them in his first week. Deploying tech bros to solve the problem is naive at best and malicious at worst. The arrogance in assuming that no auditor before them looked into the SSA database and saw DOB records going back to 1875 is outstanding.
by neonsunset | 2025-04-15 12:38:21+00:00
To be fair Unity is somewhat special because it requires a lot more massaging to get acceptable performance in the happy path than standard C# code. In the latter you mainly care about large allocations if application is latency-tolerant (i.e. as long as you don't touch LOH it's fine) or avoiding allocations in general if it's latency-sensitive. There isn’t that much difference with regular sane C# code.
by jug | 2025-04-15 12:38:33+00:00
Anthropic’s research did find that Claude seemed to have an inner language agnostic ”language” though. And that the larger a LLM got, the more it could realize the innate meaning of words between language barriers as well as expand upon its internal non-specific language representation.

So, part of its improved performance as they grow in parameter count is probably not only due to expanded raw material that it is trained upon, but a greater ability to ultimately ”realize” and connect apparent meanings of words, so that a German speaker might benefit more and more from training material in Korean.

> These results show that features at the beginning and end of models are highly language-specific (consistent with the {de, re}-tokenization hypothesis [31] ), while features in the middle are more language-agnostic. Moreover, we observe that compared to the smaller model, Claude 3.5 Haiku exhibits a higher degree of generalization, and displays an especially notable generalization improvement for language pairs that do not share an alphabet (English-Chinese, French-Chinese).

Source: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

However, they do see that Claude 3.5 Haiku seemed to have an English ”default” with more direct connections. It’s possible that a LLM needs to go a more roundabout way via generalizations to communicate in alternative languages and where this causes a dropoff in performance the smaller the model is?
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-04-15 12:38:49+00:00
It's not what you think.

Let me give you an example. /k/ is the weapons/military forum, and it's unironically run by US government authorities. Vulgar racial slurs are wholly permitted -- but if you question certain aspects of US military or foreign policy, or suggest that Russia/China/etc. aren't houses of cards that will topple the moment the US wills it, your comment will probably be deleted and you'll be hit with a 3-day ban.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-04-15 12:39:00+00:00
Posting on 4chan just kept becoming increasingly user hostile, especially for casual users, you had to be really determined to post something: posts started requiring 24 hour email verification, and after that you had to wait ~10 minutes before being allowed to post, and finally you had to complete a nearly impossible captcha which could lock you out from posting for an undetermined amount of time just for failing. It became apparent that the owners were pushing the gold pass pretty damn hard, and it's advertised on literally every board page.
by minus7 | 2025-04-15 12:39:08+00:00
There's a pinned comment on the video about the cable:

For everyone that's interested, the included USB cable is wired like this: GND -------> GND D+ -------> VCC D- -------> VCC VCC -------> VCC So it is a non-standard cable! I measured by checking continuity between the USB A plug, and the USB C connector with a USB A adapter on it. None of my probes are small enough for a USB C connector's pins directly. There was a bit in the video about this that ended up on the cutting room floor, my bad!
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-15 12:39:56+00:00
Interestingly, we then collectively decided that, in many cases, imperfect artisanal things were better than perfect industrially produced things. So maybe people will start intentionally putting mistakes into their texts to prove they're not machines.

I'm already reluctant to use the em-dash correctly because so many people think only LLMs know how to use it.
by paulcole | 2025-04-15 12:40:46+00:00
(Outside of niche circles like HN) Nobody uses computers anymore. Nobody is going to seed from their phone.

Plus instead of a million people all wanting to watch Spider-Man 2, those million people have infinite options of short videos or whatever to watch. The desire to watch A Specific Video isn’t what it used to be.

Times have changed and P2P as a common way of sharing stuff is dead to the average person.
by bhouston | 2025-04-15 12:41:21+00:00
The core fundamental problem from my viewpoint in the US political system is unlimited campaign contributions which empowered the ultra wealthy. This means that elections are fought between ultra wealthy people and politicians have to first appeal to the rich people to get them on their sides, rather than the majority of the people.

You need to fix this, otherwise you have muted the impact of the majority of people in your democracy.
by delusional | 2025-04-15 12:41:44+00:00
Sounds about like what I would have expected as a (also underage) user at the time. The suspicion was always that most of the memorable joke chains were probably just one guy self-replying (I always suspected that was the case for the hunter2 meme specifically). It didn't really matter, it was funny anyway.

Thanks for taking the time to reply, and thanks for the fun back then :)
by rwmj | 2025-04-15 12:42:17+00:00
The BBC is a weird corporation created by royal charter. But it's not a part of the UK government, and nor are works created by the BBC copyright-free (as is the case in the US for something like NASA).

UK government publications aren't copyright-free either. In fact they manage to be worse than copyrighted, at least for works created before 1988 (some of which are perpetually copyrighted, others until 2040, others for 125 years, it's a big mess). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright#United_Kingdom
by cbg0 | 2025-04-15 12:42:36+00:00
You shouldn't be logging in to a server via SSH using a user+password combo, instead use a public/private key combo which is considerably more complex and can't effectively be bruteforced like a user+password.

Most web servers don't really come with any built in defense against brute force attempts vs Basic Auth gates, so unless you've set something up to protect it, someone with enough time will eventually get in.
by robobro | 2025-04-15 12:43:35+00:00
Most boards on 4chan, like the origami board, food and cooking, pets and animals, retro gaming, toys, etc are relatively harmless and are just a different way to participate in discussions than using discord or reddit.

The staff has cut down a lot on organized harassment that 4chan was notorious for in recent years. Those people migrated to private discords, telegrams, and other forums (like kiwi farms, soy party, etc). Ex, #gamergate was mostly an 8chan, Twitter, reddit, and IRC phenomenon - #gg people would get banned if they tried posting about it on 4chan
by lores | 2025-04-15 12:44:20+00:00
And, as I'm saying, prestige, or probable future prestige, isn't a good proxy for a researcher's value or future value, even if it could be fairly guessed, which it can't. Nature is exhibit A, B and C, as it's the most prestigious journal, but not the most rigorous in any field, and its very existence damages Science by overvaluing the research it publishes, reducing the impact of better journals and the research they publish, and wasting the time, quality of life, and quality of research of scientists who feel like they must do anything they have to to publish in it, or are pressured by funders and/or academic institutions to do so.
Show HN: Draft a solid, cohesive fantasy football team with zero knowledge
by Gabefox91 | 2025-04-15 12:45:14+00:00
Fantasy football is fun but there's so much information and strategy I don't have time to learn.

This tool, at each draft round, takes inputs: 1) optimal strategy for that round (and the draft overall), 2) current team composition, 3) available players.

It outputs a suggested draft pick with two alternative suggestions.
by lossolo | 2025-04-15 12:45:20+00:00
Sure, if you slap Basic Auth with "admin:admin" on phpMyAdmin in 2025, you're asking for it. But a Basic Auth password with 256 bits of entropy is just as resistant to brute force as AES-256 (assuming the implementation is sound and TLS is used). It's not the protocol that's insecure, it's usually how it's deployed.
by bhouston | 2025-04-15 12:45:21+00:00
> Believing that something is inevitable is the first step towards it becoming inevitable. But there feels like there is a momentum in people, and in society as a whole that only ends one way, and we need to release and explore. I don't know if once society gets the "bug" to tear it all down there's any going back.

> I feel like we're destroying our societies and getting into wars out of curiosity, and because we've forgotten how it hurts more than anything else.

I can sort of theorize that human society does have the ability to cycle that is partially based on human life spans / human memory. It is like a LLM that runs out of context and then starts forgetting what it learned in the earliest part of the context. For humans it is related to our lifespans as we culturally forgot what we have learned, and thus have to relearn it.

That said, I think that periods of peace are punctuated with war. War resets the pressures that build during peace. This is similar to how refactors or rewrites are needed every once in a while as the technical debt builds up as requirements and use cases change over time, especially if no one was paying down the techn debt as you went.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-04-15 12:45:34+00:00
Clinton / Gore did it, properly, well though out, effectively, in the mid-late 90's. I'm not sure if you'd consider that "modern times" though.

https://youtu.be/lG9pxvpGY-Q?si=cii2iggD-9hAj0ms&t=900

I've timestamped the above video to where it mentions the Clinton / Gore bit, but the whole video is enlightening.
by throw_m239339 | 2025-04-15 12:45:34+00:00
> Isn't it a running joke that the Jannies don't get paid?

You're think about reddit and why it is the way it is from an editorial perspective and what kind of people have the time to mods 100+ subs for free...

But that ceased to be true long ago. While some of the supermods aren't paid by reddit directly, they might be paid by other orgs to mod and influence reddit, corporate or 'grass root'...

Some others simply hijack subs to sell their own products.
by thrance | 2025-04-15 12:46:01+00:00
Do you think they voted for Kamala? One more contradiction won't make a difference to nazis...

Also Hitler was a Zionist too [1]. Israel's goal of housing every Jews on Earth somehow aligns with antisemites of the world wanting to get rid of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement?wprov=sfla1
by skwee357 | 2025-04-15 12:46:10+00:00
The same item on Amazon will cost x2/3 times than Temu, if you will be able to find the same item at all, meaning it cuts a big chunk of the potential buyers of the cheap crap.

The world would have been a better place if we hadn't been allowed to flood the market with cheap crap. Not only it creates enormous waste, it also means that reputable brands now start to cut corners in order to compete with cheap no name crap.
by Sonnigeszeug | 2025-04-15 12:46:11+00:00
You do understand, that the upcoming tax cuts for rich people will throw the USA Debt above defence savings?

And it will increase the debt significantly?

All of that while DOGE, some random dudes without any understanding how things work, stop things which are globally agreed on (global aid) or just not even worth mentioning in the grand schem?

But hey if you prefer to defend DOGE ssaving 160 Billion while the tax cut for the rich adds Trillions to debt, yeah do a happy dance. Be proud. Or whatever your comment is trying to do.

Funny that IRS also gets defunded. But hey taxes right? :D
by dingnuts | 2025-04-15 12:46:41+00:00
> Helping them requires creating vast numbers of better paying jobs with better working condition in their country, which require redirecting vast amounts of money to those countries

This was the logic under Deng, and the reason China is now a peer state. Unfortunately when doing business with communists, enriching them doesn't help the individuals move out of poverty because that would require wages to rise and that happens for political reasons not merit in a single party system

If we enrich the CCP we just end up with an adversary capable of taking us on. That's why tariffs.