MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ggm | 2025-05-20 21:41:56+00:00
They said they are scraping other sources. So it's the RIR data from whois, rdap or the delegated files, modulated through curated lists like maxmind, and collections from GEOFEED sources as defined in the rfc.

There are other models. I'd be surprised if they do any triangulation (for instance) because it's success rate in finding errors or misreporting in the above is low, unless you are Akamai and have 400+ points of BGP to get closest match from.
by renerick | 2025-05-20 21:42:26+00:00
This is completely absurd and reductive point of view, which I always assume is a cop out. Just because it's called "machine learning" doesn't mean it actually has anything to do with how human learning or human brain works, and it's certainly not "exactly how" or "very same". There's much more going on on in human creative process, aside from mere "mixing": personal experience, understanding of the creative process, technique and style development, subtext, hidden ideas and nuances, etc. Computers are very good at mixing and combining, but this is not even close to what goes into actual creative process. I hate this argument
by teitoklien | 2025-05-20 21:42:55+00:00
Hence said is their liberty, Im not contesting what you’re worried about. That idiocracy will rise and our nextgen will only have surface level thoughts with AI being more and more being the subtle decider of every human’s choice in the background.

That is probably the more likelier possibility. However it just shows the lack of philosophy in our modern times, people don’t do things they are lazy about and a Choice between the easy way and hard way is no longer a choice for majority the easy way’s dangling carrot is the final ultimatum.

I think i’ll leave it at the thought that as time progresses to find value in day to day life, to force ourselves to choose the right thing, philosophy will again have to become a much stronger actor in our lives, or else we’d all drive off a cliff at current rate.

At the end what happens will be decided by choice and liberty of humans as their choices expand.
by JdeBP | 2025-05-20 21:43:07+00:00
One would be in nothing more than the very same situation, which apparently has been problematic in your way for pretty much no-one, of Microsoft's various different programs all named CHKDSK. There have been at least 3, one of which we were told for years was superseded, which was not true for the next two, and the third of which has had four different flavours in the past 30 years.

Or command names that are common words like MORE, BREAK, DATE, CALL, IF, MODE, MOVE, PROMPT, SORT, TIME, COPY, and PATH for that matter.

What you are telling us is that the only way that you can think of to look this stuff up is by putting single words into a general-purpose WWW search engine. Instead of the intelligent way of finding the index of a command reference for Microsoft operating systems and looking up the EDIT command there. Microsoft has published its own command reference for decades, and there have been many others, including entire books on commands in Microsoft operating systems, for even longer.
by rideontime | 2025-05-20 21:43:18+00:00
> It's 100% free with unlimited uses—no catch

This conflicts with the "for now" on the linked page. I would also recommend actually explaining how it works in the "How it works?" section, instead of hand-waving it away with "we convert it on our service and collaborate with other services." I also cannot find a privacy policy anywhere.

> Read more about the Ip2Geo at https://minilibs.com/ip2geo.

Also, this link on your NPM page simply redirects to a mostly-empty Github profile.

As currently presented, I do not find this service trustworthy.
by firesteelrain | 2025-05-20 21:43:44+00:00
Ah yes, the 'absurdity' of enforcing laws and contracts; how dare a post-war society try to reestablish order without the constant supervision of federal troops. And of course, 'insulting gestures' clearly the backbone of any sinister system of oppression. It's amazing anything functioned at all without a daily constitutional check-in from the moral high ground
Show HN: A Simple Server to Match Long/Lat to a TimeZone
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-05-20 21:43:50+00:00
I figured this might be useful to folks.

It's a simple PHP server that requires a single-table database (It's fairly "agnostic," but all my uses are in MySQL).

I won't publish any of the servers that I've set up for my apps, because someone is bound to write an application that drives my bandwidth into the stratosphere.

I could definitely take it further, but this gives me all I need for my purposes.

Here's an app I wrote, that uses it: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/we-are-never-alone/id650482602...
by turtleyacht | 2025-05-20 21:44:00+00:00
As years go by, some prefer more friction in their tools: no syntax highlighting, missing drivers, and inconvenient setups. They hope the upside is increased focus, less abstraction, and a return to basics: first principles, bare-metal contrivance, and cheap hardware.

Sometimes the friction is so high, nothing but living gets done. Time passes quickly, and time to first keypress is measured in days.
by gloosx | 2025-05-20 21:45:11+00:00
Calling cinema a "new form" of theatre is quite a simplification. It was certainly inspired by theatre, but the two differ in almost every aspect: medium, communication language, cultural role, and audience dynamics. Most people throughout history probably never experienced theatre or opera – so they didn’t move from them to cinema; rather, cinema emerged as a more accessible and reproducible medium for those.

Theatre and opera are regarded as high art because they are performed live in front of an audience every time, demanding presence, skill, and immediacy – unlike cinema, which relies on a recorded and edited performance.
by kmeisthax | 2025-05-20 21:45:17+00:00
Individual LLM requests are vanishingly small in terms of environmental impact; inference providers use a lot of batching to do lots of work at once. Furthermore, LLMs and diffusion models are not the only ML workload. While generative AI tickles investors, most of the ML actually being deployed is more mundane things, like recommendation systems, classifiers, and the like; much of which is used for adtech purposes adversarial to that of users. If LLMs and diffusers were the only thing companies used ML for, but efficiency gains from new hardware remained constant, we'd still be at the 2017 baseline for environmental impact of data centers.

Likewise, I doubt that USENET warning was ever true beyond the first few years of the networks' lifetime. Certainly if everything was connected via dial-up, yes, a single message could incur hundreds of dollars of cost when you added the few seconds of line time it took to send up across the whole world. But that's accounting for a lot of Ma Bell markup. Most connections between sites and ISPs on USENET were done through private lines that ran at far faster speeds than what you could shove down copper phone wiring back then.
by bitwize | 2025-05-20 21:45:31+00:00
If you're serious about making video games, you should probably be using a commercial engine. Period. No exceptions. Unless you're EA or Microsoft, you're just not going to develop a custom engine that can compete with Unity and Unreal. You may be able to write a good basic rendering pipeline and event loop, but the major engines have enormous ecosystems of tooling and talent, ready to go, and they're available across all major platforms including proprietary consoles. Things will go much, much easier for you if you just use those.

If you're just fucking around, do what you want, but if you actually want to ship, it's Unity or Unreal all the way.

And no, I don't think Godot is "there" yet. If Unreal is Photoshop, then Unity is Photopea and Godot is GIMP.
by BosunoB | 2025-05-20 21:45:47+00:00
There are companies working on this, but my understanding is that the training data is more challenging to get because it involves reinforcement learning in physical space.

In the forecast of the AI-2027 guys, robotics come after they've already created superintelligent AI, largely just because it's easier to create the relevant data for thinking than for moving in physical space.
Ask HN: How the hell haven't we solved phishing emails yet?
by mdni007 | 2025-05-20 21:47:07+00:00
How is it possible that in 2025 with all the amazing advancements in AI, I am still getting phishing emails? Emails attempting to look as if its coming from Coinbase, or some stock broker, or bank, or even UPS/USPS/FEDEX? These emails dont look even remotely legit so how do they manage to pass through? Even the email addresses are from some completely different domain. I am using Outlook and Gmail. How/why have they not figured this out already? Even ignoring AI, I don't know much about email but why isn't there something like a CA for email?
Show HN: YouTube/Article/Reel –> Tweet Thread
by JoschuaBuilds | 2025-05-20 21:47:16+00:00
Hi HN,

we launched a feature in Postel allowing you turn any YouTube video, Article or Instagram Reel into 6 tweet thread ideas written in your voice (based on your recent tweets) - the content of the videos will be combined with information from your knowledge to create new content. Perfect for brainstorming. Or to repurpose your own content from other platforms to X.

You can try it out here: https://www.postel.app

Cheers, Joschua
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-05-20 21:47:26+00:00
> Why is effort a requirement?

That's how human brains work. People have an intrinsic need to sort, build hierarchies and prioritize. Effort spent is one of viable heuristics for these processes.

> Why should being an artist be a viable job?

Art itself has great value, if it weren't, museums, theaters and live shows wouldn't exist.

> Would you be against technology that makes medical doctors obsolete?

The analogy doesn't work. The results of a medical process is a [more] healthy person. The result doesn't have any links to the one performing it. Result of an artistic creative process is an art piece, and art is tied to its creator by definition.
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-20 21:47:33+00:00
Your son did not adopt toxic right wing ideology because of DEI. Your son adopted toxic right wing ideology because he grew up in a society that exudes it at every step, and because right wing ideology is the cheetos of ideology. It's easy and

The entire young male community right now has circled the wagons around "woke" hatred, which is really funny, because they should see the media I grew up with! Imagine someone saying catching AIDS isn't a personal failing in the 80s! Yet the Golden Girls is considered top quality entertainment. But no, suddenly we have to pretend that the same people who insisted Rock N Roll was hypnotizing our children are suddenly correct that making a movie about a trans person will hypnotize our children into being trans?

The mountains of kids insisting that what "gamers" want is hypersexualized boobs with eyes is awful. They don't know history either, like when Mass Effect 2 was lampooned for giving it's "genetically perfect" female character extremely visible camel toe, and placing a cinematic camera up her butt crack.

Samus Aran is from 1986. And fucking Japan. GI Jane got so much hatred in the 90s. Why are we still doing this?

>I want my old son back

Then why don't you be the parent? Why don't you help your son understand the parts of right wing propaganda that are blatantly false? Why don't you help your son understand what women experience? Why don't you help him see the rhetorical trickery and lies of people like the Fresh and Fit podcast? Why don't you help him understand how to properly research controversial topics like that? Or help him understand how rhetoric in the News might not be an accurate narrative? Or have you ever talked to him about Gell-Mann amnesia?

I want my brother back from 30 years of indoctrination about how the reason he struggles is because of black people going to college, instead of him slacking off and not caring about school. When a Mainer who dropped out of community college flies the fucking Confederate battle flag in 2009, you don't get to blame DEI. I want him back from a century of indoctrination that kids would stop being shot at school if only it was easier to buy a rifle, or that my 65 year old mom who has no interest in being a cop should be made to carry a firearm to shoot one of her students.

Why is it always the democrat's fault for what republicans do?
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-20 21:48:27+00:00
> One of his peers was black

AFAIK, the only non-White recurring Dilbert character was Asok the Intern, who was Indian.

A black character (who Adams himself described as the first black character in Dilbert) did appear in 2022, but, well...

https://www.reddit.com/r/onejoke/comments/ugunog/after_33_ye...
by bbor | 2025-05-20 21:49:52+00:00
Interesting, thanks for sharing! I share some concerns others have about this piece, but I’m most shocked about their finding that image generation is cheaper than text. As someone who’s gone down this rabbit hole multiple times, this runs against every single paper I’ve ever cited on the topic. Anyone know why? Maybe this is a recent change? It also doesn’t help that multimodal transformers are now blurring the lines between image and text, of course… this article doesn’t even handle that though, treating all image models as diffusion models.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-20 21:49:54+00:00
We have DMARC, DKIM, and SPF [1], and while this provides some signal with regards to mail origination, it falls flat when emails are being sent from Gmail, Yahoo, and other large service providers. This is why email security gateways exist, to wrap stronger security controls around inbound email. This might be email content classification and heuristics, this might be replacing links with control middleware to scan and detonate malware or other exfiltration code and prevent clickers from clicking, etc. None of these mitigations will be perfect though, they will each have some degree of failure or miss.

> Even ignoring AI, I don't know much about email but why isn't there something like a CA for email?

Is there demand for this? Would users pay for it? Or would they tolerate the existing experience with whatever does or does not end of in their Spam folder? The options here are to pick an email provider based on what they can offer from an email protection perspective, or wiring up your own defenses using something that can read your inbox and action emails within it (if your email provider's solution is lacking).

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/email-security/dmarc-dki...
by yellow_lead | 2025-05-20 21:50:12+00:00
It's strange to me that they still haven't offered a managed Postgres product. Other providers like Render or even Heroku seem to have realized that this is a core part of PaaS that customers want. Instead they focused on GPUs and LiteStream. When I evaluated different PaaS for the startup I work at, I had to go with Render. I couldn't even give Fly.io a try since I knew we needed Postgres.
by eterm | 2025-05-20 21:50:53+00:00
If you earn more than me, then if you value "time saved" then you should pay me to take my washing off me. Because then you can save even more of your valuable time!

The more of my washing you can take off me, the more of your time you can save by then using a washing machine or laundry service!

Saving an hour of my time is a waste, when saving an hour of your time is worth so much more. So it makes economic sense for you to pay me, to take my washing off me!

( Does that better illustrate my point? )
by tmtvl | 2025-05-20 21:51:07+00:00
As a Common Lisper with a Scheme background I'm gonna guess that by the interactivity of the REPL you mean the condition system with restarts? While most Schemes don't really have anything like it, I seem to recall MIT/GNU Scheme having something kinda similar. And I mean, hey, it's got Edwin, so it definitely has interactivity.
by teitoklien | 2025-05-20 21:51:07+00:00
No amigo, no artist out there made a japanese song on my anime obsessed schoolteacher friend and his life.

When he received that song from me, he was super excited for next 3-5 days and still listens to it and flexes them to their friends.

Same thing happened with a lot of my other friends and me too, I have an apple shortcut script that generates songs for me daily based on my routine for that day pulled from todoist.com

I still listen to and pay for others music and songs, but this experience with AI is entirely different.

What I pay for is not avoiding effort of finding what suits me but creating what suits me.

> You receive some music matching your request from a service offered by an entity which aims to control as much of content creation and distribution as possible, up to total monopolization.

What I receive is a high fidelity song made from prompts that i’m given full ownership of , when pooled at scale between all users allows people to make their own song generators with GPUs.

Its very nature is the opposite of monopoly. I’d love to hear how you think the big 3 corps (Universal, Sony, etc) who own all the music almost globally are not a monopoly ? Never had an experience where your spotify or apple music streaming albums disappear randomly due to those big 3 corps ?

My friend’s song of himself will never disappear that mp3 file he can store on a pen drive, load ig anywhere, gift to anyone. How is that the “monopoly” ?
by andoando | 2025-05-20 21:51:13+00:00
So 1. being able to bring your own story come to life automatically is cool in itself, and would result in a lot of creative media that is not possible now. Do you know how many people have their own stories, plays, etc that are dying to find someone rich enough to get them published?

2. Using AI can be can be an iterative process. Generate this scene, make this look like that, make it brighter colors, remove this, add this, etc. That's all carefully crafting the output. Now generate this second scene, make the transition this way, etc. I don't see how that's at all different from a director giving their commands to workers, except now you actually have more creative control (given AI gets good enough)
by zerealshadowban | 2025-05-20 21:51:27+00:00
ah, this is not about the Red Language that Intermetrics designed in 1977-79 to satisfy the Steelman requirements of the DoD's High Order Language Working Group... (the Green Language won and became known as Ada).

I thought maybe someone had put the DoD's Red language spec online.

And yes, someone has: https://iment.com/maida/computer/redref/
by dekhn | 2025-05-20 21:51:55+00:00
I don't think anybody is 100% certain that doing a full quantum simulation of a protein (in a box of water) would recapitulate the dynamics of protein folding. It seems like a totally reasonable claim, but one that could not really be evaluated.

If you have a paper that makes a strong argument around this claim, I'd love to see it. BTW- regarding folding funnels, I learned protein folding from Ken Dill as a grad student in biophysics at UCSF, and used to run MD simulations of nucleic acids and proteins. I don't think anybody in the field wants to waste the time worrying about running full quantum simulations of protein folding, it would be prohibitevly expensive even with far better QM simulators than we have now (IE, n squared or better).

Also the article you linked- they are trying to find the optimal structure (called fold by some in the field). That's not protein folding- it's ground state de novo structure prediction. Protein folding is the process by which an unfolded protein adopts the structured state, and most proteins don't actually adopt some single static structure but tend to interconvert between several different substructes that are all kinetically accessible.
by paulcole | 2025-05-20 21:52:29+00:00
OK, how mixed is that mixed bag?

Is it totally useless or is it the greatest thing ever? If neither, where in the middle do you put it?

How often does it provide plausible but incorrect completions? Is it every few minutes or is it a couple times a day?

This is my biggest issue with the AI complainers on here. It's always the broadest and most vague complaints. I'd rather somebody just say, "You know what I just don't like AI" rather than try to convince me it's bad through vagueness.
by addaon | 2025-05-20 21:53:08+00:00
841220 is, sadly, not a legal NACA airfoil designator.

There are three major families of procedurally-defined NACA airfoils -- four-digit like the 2412, five-digit like the 23012, and the 6-series like the 64A012.

It looks like this site only expects the four-digit form, and is mis-parsing anything other than that -- which is a pity, because one of the uses of a tool like this is to get a sense of /why/ the 23012 is similar CLmax to the 2412, but with lower moment and a more sudden stall. If nothing else, input validation is necessary!
by keybored | 2025-05-20 21:54:00+00:00
You would wager. Based on what?

There’s been decades of lies about climate change. And once the truth got out society was already massively dependent on it. For cars specifically it was a deliberate policy to make e.g. the US car-dependent. And once the truth got undeniable the cope was switched to people’s “carbon footprint” (British Petroleum). In fact there are rumors that the cope echoes to this day.

Zoom out enough and it becomes obviously unproductive to make “mass ignorance” the locus of attention.
by darkteflon | 2025-05-20 21:54:34+00:00
Navigate back / forward is a good one. I use it all the time to get around in VS Code, but it never occurred to me to set it up in Obsidian.

I’m a long-term user of Obsidian, and I too have settled on the PARA setup, which is simple and elegant. I don’t bother with any of the graph-linking stuff that, e.g., Roam / Zettelkasten popularised. Instead, I think of search as the main interface. Even writing every day, a single person would struggle to generate enough output to need anything more than Omnisearch (and the latent filtering provided by the PARA folder structure) to make sense of their entire vault. I’ve got seven years of notes in a single vault and it’s fine. Since they’re all markdown files, you can of course run more sophisticated approaches alongside, external to Obsidian - e.g., Houdahspot desktop search, or your own embedding-based semantic setup.

The only other thing I’d add is that I vastly prefer the paid sync option to “roll-your-own” with either Syncthing or iCloud. I’ve found it much more reliable and am happy to pay a flat fee every month to support the company, given their embrace of portable markdown.

Just my 2c, anyway.
by sxg | 2025-05-20 21:55:46+00:00
I disagree. There are massive fixed costs to developing LLMs that are best amortized over a massive number of users. So there's an incentive to make the cost as cheap as possible and LLMs more accessible to recoup those fixed costs.

Yes, there are also high variable costs involved, so there’s also a floor to how cheap they can get today. However, hardware will continue to get cheaper and more powerful while users can still massively benefit from the current generation of LLMs. So it is possible for these products to become overall cheaper and more accessible using low-end future hardware with current generation LLMs. I think Llama 4 running on a future RTX 7060 in 2029 could be served at a pretty low cost while still providing a ton of value for most users.