MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jesterson | 2025-05-20 09:03:17+00:00
> What's especially troubling is their persistent silence on these outages.

Based on many years of experience, all providers are guilty of that. Only large scale outages or ones that just couldnt be ignored are reflected on status page. This doesn't necessarily mean malevolence on provider side - their sensors just may not be good enough to spot the issue.

On larger scale - why would you choose hetzner and then complain about uptime? Its a well know provider with low prices and low reliability. There are tons of businesses who find this model suitable for them. If yours is not one of them - just switch to something more reliable. Granted, your bill will likely be 2x+ of 20k eur, but you get what you whine about.

As old adage says, we can make this project fast, cheap and with amazing quality, but you can choose only 2 options.
by vincnetas | 2025-05-20 09:04:22+00:00
This reminded me about a joke.

When engineers asked should we do the rails same width like in europe or wider, the answer they got from tzar was "Нахуй шире"

literal translation "wider by length of dick, but meaning "why the fuck we need wider"

- В Европе ширина колеи 1435 миллиметров. Нам делать так же или шире? - Нахуй шире, - ответил император.
by darksim905 | 2025-05-20 09:04:39+00:00
I'm curious as to why there isn't more political discussion on HN just due to the nature of the high intelligence and mind-swell here. Does this community not care and realize the harm that follows from the current regime in power? Or are people too heavily invested in this Yarvin character and want the world to very much be a Cyberpunk 2077/The Division landscape? Crazy.
by sReinwald | 2025-05-20 09:04:50+00:00
The sheer audacity here is quite something. You're stating people can't use your scraped data for commercial purposes "without permission," while your entire project is built on vacuuming up content from countless users without their permission, and in direct violation of Discord's ToS. That's not just a double standard; it's bordering on next-level cognitive dissonance.

And "privacy preserving"? With a one-click opt-out, that 99.999% of the affected users will never even know exists because they have no idea their conversations are now part of your archive, and you want it indexed by search engines? That's not "privacy preserving" - that's a bad joke. If privacy was a genuine concern, this project wouldn't exist in its current form. What you're offering is an opt-out fig leaf for a mass data harvesting operation.

Most people using Discord, even on "public, discoverable" servers, aren't posting with the expectation that their words will be systematically scraped, archived indefinitely, and made globally searchable outside the platform's context. It's a fundamental misunderstanding (or willful dismissal) of user expectations on what is essentially a semi-public, yet distinctly siloed, platform. This isn't an open-web forum where content is implicitly intended for broad public consumption and indexing.

Look, I get the frustration that (likely) motivated this. Discord has become an information black hole for many communities, and the shift away from open, searchable forums for project support is a genuine problem I've been incredibly frustrated with myself. But this "solution" - creating a massive, non-consensual archive that tramples over user privacy (and platform terms) - creates far graver ethical and practical issues than the one it purports to solve.
by sublimefire | 2025-05-20 09:05:26+00:00
Great analysis and spot on examples. Another issue with AI related research is that a lot of papers are new and not that many get published in “proper” places, yet being quoted right/left/center, just look at google scholar. It is hard to repro the results and check the validity of some statements, not to mention that research which was done 4 years ago used one set of models and now another set of models with different training data is used in tests. It is hard to establish what really affects the results and if the conclusions are applicable to some specific property of the outdated model or if it is even generalisable.
by robertlagrant | 2025-05-20 09:05:29+00:00
> The approach I ended up using is analogous to what Golang does. In essence a given package never publishes new breaking versions: they just add a new subpath when a new breaking release is made. In the TypeScript ecosystem, this means libraries can configure a single peer dependency on zod@^3.25.0 and support both versions simultaneously by importing what they need from "zod/v3" and "zod/v4". It provides a nice opt-in incremental upgrade path for end-users of Zod too.

This is extremely sensible. And it means you can provide security updates for older versions, just all in the same codebase's releases.
by montebicyclelo | 2025-05-20 09:05:34+00:00
> then go on to explain how they aren't useful in any field whatsoever

> Where are the AI-driven breakthroughs

> are we just using AI to remix existing general knowledge, while making no progress of any sort in any field using it?

The obvious example of a highly significant AI-driven breakthrough is Alphafold [1]. It has already had a large impact on biotech, helping with drug discovery, computational biology, protein engineering...

[1] https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-deepmind-isomorphic...
by callc | 2025-05-20 09:05:54+00:00
> “I'm not sure why people on HN (of all places) are so divided regarding the perception of AI/ML.”

Everyone is a rational actor from their individual perspective. The people hyping AI, and the people dismissing the hype both have good reasons.

The is justification to see this new tech as ground breaking. There is justification to be weary about massive theft of data and dismissiveness of privacy.

First, acknowledge and respect that there are so many opinions on any issue. Take yourself out of the equation for a minute. Understand the other side. Really understand it.

Take a long walk in other people’s shoes.
by meheleventyone | 2025-05-20 09:06:20+00:00
There's levels to that though. For example it took me all of a week to write the 2D rigidbody physics system that runs this game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVmd2vmZrVA

But it's tightly scoped, there is only really one thing that needs to be dynamic, although it worked admirably with more. We wanted big impulses so could get away from questionable cases easily and could deal with crushing cases simply by exploding the ship.

Likewise the players on the ship running around and the players when they're jetpacking about are all different sub-sets of code implementing that specific behavior.

A lot of "make a game, not an engine" is working out what the minimal thing you need to build is rather than making everything extremely generalized.
by arkey | 2025-05-20 09:06:34+00:00
> How many iphone 13 minis have you used concurrently, and in how many different locations did you own them? Byb your own admission, you only use one at a time.

It's not about concurrent use at all. It's all about availability. I had my simple, trusty Logitech keyboard and mouse. And 2x more of each, in a box, in a cupboard. I'm not using them. But I have the comfort of knowing that if either fails, I'm back up again in two minutes. That, for me, is comfort.

Now, if I had two workplaces (for example home and the office) would I carry my hardware between places? If I can't afford to buy two of them, yes. But if I can afford to pay 20€ twice, I'll have one keyboard at home, the same keyboard at the office, and so. That, for me, is comfort.

Now, scale the keyboard for 20€ to a Lexus for 40k€. Same thing.
by JdeBP | 2025-05-20 09:07:17+00:00
I have, as they say in the theatre, notes. Lots of notes. Possibly beginning with a request to stop calling these "VT" sequences. Quite a lot of this wouldn't work on an actual DEC Video Terminal.

One of the questions I haven't yet answered from research is whether it supports [Control]+[P]. That's another of the non-secret secrets of the original EDIT.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-05-20 09:09:29+00:00
Given how close that election turned out to be, this smear campaign likely changed the presidency, and given George WMD Bush's actions, changed the course of the world for the worse in many ways. (For those who were too young or not yet born at the time, these jokes were MASSIVE to the extent that became largely Al Gore was known for, for years after. So it's not much of an exaggeration to say they had a material impact on his perception and hence the votes.)

Al Gore understood technology, the internet, was a champion for the environment, and it's unbelievable today that he came that close to presidency (and then lost). When people say "we live in the bad timeline", one of the closest good timelines is probably one where this election went differently.
by io84 | 2025-05-20 09:10:31+00:00
Great execution. Interesting to think about the peaks and troughs of global activity.

The Sleep numbers make a big claim: Right after Europe and West Africa have woken up (i.e. now) it says only 350 million people (4.25%) are sleeping. It's 01:08 in Anchorage and 06:08 in Recife. Over 1 billion people live in the Americas between these two time zones. Seems implausible that only a third of them are sleeping?
by mschild | 2025-05-20 09:10:36+00:00
I have to replace a steel beam inside my house. It's old and when it was installed (1936), the building and load requirements were quite a bit different. With the modifications I'm making to the house, a new one is needed.

The beam runs across the ceiling in my living and dining room. Previous owners installed a lowered drywall ceiling to hide it but that took 20cm of height from the rooms. I'd like wood beams because I could leave this exposed in the room as a design element and have 20cm more ceiling height. I would not want to see the steel beam (even the new one).

For the entire replacement, including labour, materials, and anything else to have a finished ceiling, the quotes I received from multiple contractors are all at least 5x more expensive for the wooden beams.

This may ultimately not be down to the cost of the beam itself but rather that partial wooden construction is newer trend in Germany and they can simply ask for more but I don't have confirmation for that.
by bayindirh | 2025-05-20 09:12:24+00:00
I keep this taped on my cubicle: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2008-02-12

Not because somebody did that to me, but I had to migrate two racks of systems in one night under literal and proverbial heat due to former one.

You can think pointy haired as the embodiment of Murphy of Murphy's laws.
by thrdbndndn | 2025-05-20 09:13:35+00:00
This is a common saying, and I’m sure there’s some truth to it. But IMHO, the main reason is that PIs just want to use the money.

Because… why not? It's free money. Having the newest shiny equipment, at the very least, boosts your group’s reputation. Not to mention that straight-up corruption (pocketing funds for personal gain) is not unheard of.
by terinjokes | 2025-05-20 09:14:53+00:00
My understanding is that in theory EU Regulation 261/2004 applies to bookings leaving the EU through to the final destination, including domestic connections in a non-EU country. For example, a United flight from Amsterdam to Dallas via Chicago, where a delay in Chicago resulted in a 3 hour delay in arriving in Dallas.

In practice I've never gotten an airline to agree.
by mkl | 2025-05-20 09:15:05+00:00
"Uniformly distributed" doesn't just mean sampled from a uniform distribution. It also means evenly spaced, as is the case here. It reminds me of Poisson disk sampling. Here's an article about Poisson disk sampling that uses "uniform" in the sense the author is, and also compares to the uniform probability distribution: https://medium.com/@hemalatha.psna/implementation-of-poisson...
by welanes | 2025-05-20 09:16:00+00:00
> I'm always a bit wary of approaching these ideas though because I feel like nobody would ever pay for small web stuff?

Build them and find out! There's almost always room for something better, and if what you build is that, then some people will pay.

Unless the tools have large running costs, consider offering them for free (at least at first).

A few things are likely to happen:

Nobody cares enough to sign up – fine, zero users, zero costs.

People use it but don’t stick around – ask them what would make the tool more valuable.

People use it a lot – great, now you can charge for the value.

Two examples come to mind: spaced repetition app Mochi and markdown editor Typora. Mochi is $5 a month, I think. Typora was free and is now a $15 one-time purchase.

Both compete with free alternatives and still have many paying users.
Show HN: The Best Terminal Inspired Portfolio on the Internet™
by kuberwastaken | 2025-05-20 09:16:14+00:00
Okay Semi-joking with the title

But yeah, been working on this for a while, looks pretty cool (even on mobile)

Has Games, Themes, fun misc commands, an "AI" JARVIS (PS: I'd challenge you to guess the LLM I'm using :p)

Open Source(ish) too - https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/kuberwastaken.github.io

Would love to know if you've seen better or what can I improve (half considering adding a GUI mode for non technical people too)
by whazor | 2025-05-20 09:16:34+00:00
But if you look to the Hofstede's Six Cultural Dimensions, you can see that European cultures are geared toward Long-Term Orientation (compared to the Short-Term from USA). In long-term thinking, why can you not wait two years before dropping out of university and start a startup afterwards?

Do you believe short-term thinking is essential for successful startups?
by rsynnott | 2025-05-20 09:16:47+00:00
> First, I think the fact that grok basically refused to comply with those hamfisted instructions is a positive signal in the whole mess.

I mean, _maybe_ about LLMs in general, in an abstract sense, if you're deeply concerned with LLM alignment. But not about grok, because it's an otherwise fairly generic LLM that is run by a company _so incompetent that it made said hamfisted instructions, or allowed them to be made_. Like, even beyond the ethics, the whole episode (and the subsequent holocaust-denial one) speaks to a totally broken organisation.
by IanCal | 2025-05-20 09:16:55+00:00
There are so many tasks in the world that

1. Involve a computer

2. Do not require incredible intelligence

3. Involve the messiness of the real world enough that you can't write exact code to do it without it being insanely fragile

LLMs suddenly start to tackle these, and tackle them kind of all at once. Additionally they are "programmed" in just English and so you don't need a specialist to do something like change the tone of the summary or format, you just write what you want.

Assuming the models never get any smarter or even cheaper, and all we get is neater integrations, I still think this is all huge.
by hunglee2 | 2025-05-20 09:17:15+00:00
EU needs MORE regulation, not less - it only needs to be turned outward, rather than inward. Protective barriers against US / China big tech operators is the only way to native European tech companies can grow today. US is totally dominant on the globe with only China being able to produce comparable unicorns like Alibaba, WeChat, Huawei, TikTok none of which would have happened without the Great Firewall.

EU needs to the same and may actually get there if EU regulations continue to impose a cost on US / China big tech, such they may decide to withdraw services, establish a de facto firewall via a bramble bush of regulations
by arkey | 2025-05-20 09:17:19+00:00
Back in 2016 when I didn't have much money I reluctantly bought a pair of Salomon hiking boots for what I thought was a crazy ~140€ price tag.

After punishing them heavily with hiking, working (concrete, dust, mud, stones, rocks, metal, paint...), running, sports, climbing... they are quite weathered but as good and comfortable as new. I just wish I could buy the same exact ones again.
by Y_Y | 2025-05-20 09:18:11+00:00
I like the cut of your jib. May I propose:

Ovaltine Window: You view all politics with distaste because you are drinking a sorry substitute for a cup of tea.

Overtime Window: Rather than continue working extra hours you decide to self-defenestrate

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Further reading:

Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm

Douglas Adams - The Meaning of Liff, https://ia601202.us.archive.org/18/items/calibre_library_76....
by TonyTrapp | 2025-05-20 09:18:59+00:00
I used to have a primary email address as well (which occurs in several HIBP breaches). I never gave it up, I still have it to this day for sending personal mail. However, I started using service-specific email addresses (e.g. hackernews@example.org) at some point, gradually transitioning every account I registered somewhere to this new scheme. They all end up in the same inbox, together with the emails from the original address. If one of them ends up in a breach, I block delivery to that service-specific address and add a new one.
by M95D | 2025-05-20 09:19:23+00:00
I very much doubt it. Change to dual-gauge requires replacing the sleepers, and if they do the very hard work of replacing the sleepers, then why keep broad gauge?

Maybe they would choose to downgrade a single track where there's two, and half of each station's lines, but that would make it very difficult to schedule trains in both directions on a single track. So, they're probably not going to do that either.
by gambiting | 2025-05-20 09:19:37+00:00
I just think that a lot of it is for the show, you know? I crossed the Polish-German border in January of this year and there was a gigantic queue to cross, we waited almost 3 hours which wasn't great with a toddler, but anyway - I expected a full on inspection or at least a document check like there used to be.......but no, there were just a few guards waving cars through, no one was checking anything, looked like they had 4 inspections bays set up so I guess they do pull cars in for a check but there was no one there when we passed......so I was like, what did we just wait 3 hours for? Just so some dude could glance at our car for 10 seconds as we drive past? How does that improve border security in the slightest?
by StefanBatory | 2025-05-20 09:20:08+00:00
It does feel like for many people, it's a form of procrastination and escapism. I'm still working on the game, I just need to do this and this and this first.

Of course - sometimes you just need to learn how it works below, but if your goal is to ship, and you don't have a lot of time, then what I said strikes true to me.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-05-20 09:21:09+00:00
It’s not about being up to date. What you call modern here is just recent. It doesn’t fundamentally diverge from the historical architecture.

Even SeL4 fast IPC which is not actually a full IPC but works well in the barebone context of SeL4 remains in fact slower than good old syscalls.

The fundamental question remains the same “Is this worse the costs (in terms of both efficiency and design complexity)?”

To me, the answer is muddy here. Sometimes yes, sometimes probably not. I think it’s why hybrid approaches are now generalised but no one is really shipping a microkernel outside of industrial applications.
by misja111 | 2025-05-20 09:21:36+00:00
I am forced to use Windows at work. Surprisingly many large enterprises use Windows, mostly because of their dependency on Microsoft Office and Exchange. I'm really happy that WSL exists so I have to deal as little with Windows as possible.

At home I still need to have a native Windows laptop because of one application that I use a lot (a backgammon analyser) that runs natively on Windows and is heavily cpu driven. I could run it in a VM but the performance penalty is just too heavy.
Show HN: AI Agents to Explore, Design and Test Business Strategies
by Jderenne | 2025-05-20 09:22:39+00:00
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by greatgib | 2025-05-20 09:22:41+00:00
You can be sure that the confusion is not accidental.

As I see it, it's a way for MS to profit from free labour for it's support service and a marketing stunt to benefit by association from the good reputation of this researcher and his initiative.

Even if it is not the case, people like the one previously will think: it is Microsoft employees that are managing this website, they know security.
by flurdy | 2025-05-20 09:22:44+00:00
I have quite a few personal catch-all domain names, and two of the main ones are used for the per website alias as you do, so over a decade and longer later, I would never be able to manually enter each address. Or remember them.

And yes, the subscribe restrictions for domain searches are annoying.

But Troy and family also need to eat, so I understand the need for a payment part, especially for companies.

We just ended up in the grey zone in between. I wish there were some more nuances, but then again, HIBP can't cater for every edge case unless they want to hire lots of devs and customer services.

I ended up signing up for a subscription, checked my domains, and then cancelled the subscription. It felt a little cumbersome, but ok. A non-recurring 2-day access would have worked for me...
by agurk | 2025-05-20 09:22:58+00:00
Not all boots are made the same though. I had some bad luck with a pair of veldtschoen welted boots from the English firm Crockett and Jones in a custom leather. The commando sole split twice at the toe, which they repaired, but after less than five years of wear the lining at the heel had worn through.

I took them in to be rebuilt, but after inspection they said the stiffener had come loose, and nothing could be done. Here have your expensive and now broken boots back.

I'd assumed when I got them I'd be wearing them for decades, and at least a few rebuilds. Maybe there was something wrong with that specific pair, but I did have a goodyear welted sole randomly detach from a pair of six month old city shoes from the same firm. And yes I had been looking after my shoes (frequent cleaning and polishing, always using shoe trees, skipping days between wears, etc).

When I had a pair of Church's fall apart I put that down to them no-longer being a quality brand, but now I don't think you can guarantee a long life just as the shoe was expensive and from a reputable brand. I have many shoes that have lasted better (and now since covid I don't wear polished shoes daily), but that does sometimes feel like luck of the draw.
Show HN: Sunrise and sunset times for your area and weather forecast
by nurlennart | 2025-05-20 09:23:38+00:00
I shared this a little while ago. Since then, I've implemented some feature requests and added a small weather widget.

There are also static pages for major cities if you prefer not to use the location-based version. e.g., https://sunrisewhen.com/new-york

I know most phones and browsers already provide this kind of info, but it's a fun little project I enjoy keeping alive.

cheers