MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lgiordano_notte | 2025-05-08 11:05:07+00:00
Don't think the limit is in what LLMs can evaluate - given the right context, they’re good at assessing quality. The problem is what actually gets retrieved and surfaced in the first place. If the upstream search doesn’t rank high-quality or relevant material well, LLM never sees it. It's not a judgment problem, more of a selection problem.
by jajko | 2025-05-08 11:07:04+00:00
Absolutely. I have a meagre Honda ADV 350 with some 28 HP (can't start biking on higher models in Europe, first 2 years its this or lower level), and hell 0-50kmh is blisteringly fast, 50-90kmh still much faster than our BMW with 245HP in sports mode. Sure above 100kmh it gets slower but I use it for non-highway commute, winding roads through vineyards and such so I don't even ride it that way. It makes bike much lighter while its pretty big for a big guy like me, and being nimble is priceless for enjoyment and safety too.

I literally don't need more, it becomes just an ego or emotions game. Faster only gets you to places way sooner than other drivers expect you to, massively increasing risk exposure.
by lambdaone | 2025-05-08 11:07:57+00:00
Most users don't know what io_uring is, nor would they have read any of thosee articles. They are not HN readers with low-level understanding of operating systems workingm and don't even remotely have the knowledge of how any of these technologies work, nor do they have the time to get it. With a very few exceptions, users have to rely entirely on software vendors and service providers to do this for them, and trust they know what they're doing.
by Agentlien | 2025-05-08 11:08:24+00:00
> Losing trademark if Mac becomes a generic word

This is interesting considering that it was a common word before Apple started. Both the variety of apple called Macintosh and a Mac raincoat (named after Charles Macintosh).

Though it would be really funny if the Beatles were referring to a computer in Penny Lane:

"And the banker never wears a mac in the pouring rain. Very strange"
by mellow_observer | 2025-05-08 11:09:21+00:00
What do the jamming locations within Russia correspond to? You would think these are important places that require drone protection, but I could not quickly discover what is so important in these places.

For instance, the bright spot to the north west of Moscow seems to fall somewhere in or close to Zavidovo National Park. Is there something important there? There's nearby air bases Migalovo and Klin, but both seem too far from the center.
by binary132 | 2025-05-08 11:10:08+00:00
FWIW I have been using gptel with local inference by a deepcoder 14b q6 and llama.cpp and it’s not too bad. But it can’t handle big asks. 24GB of VRAM is not enough to make local inference smart enough to be really useful. It’s okayish at things like writing commit messages or reformatting / refactoring local regions of code. 32B quants are slow and not that much better.
by steveBK123 | 2025-05-08 11:10:30+00:00
It's a shame that big box stores (Walmart, Target) / online retail (Amazon) / brand owned stores (Apple, Bose) have all conspired to reduce consumer choice. Even in big cities, there's practically no specialty stores to go to in which I can demo a product category across brands.

Think pre-GFC peak Best Buy & the old CompUSA/Circuit City chains of the past or even Apple before they captured every other product category and actually had entire tables of headphone and speaker brands.

It strikes me as very hard for any new brand to come about in this environment if they aren't already big enough to have their own storefront. As you are generally left shopping online by price (DTC / China alphabet soup branded sop on AMZN) or by known brand (I'll just get a Sony / Apple / Sonos / Bose).
Show HN: I spent 5 months building the best crypto arbitrage trading platform!
by MattELab | 2025-05-08 11:11:51+00:00
While many crypto arbitrage scanners do already exists, I found that most are pretty inaccessible and unintuitive to use: - Available only on app/play store - Behind paywalls and subscriptions - Behind authentication and authorization systems - Only focuses on cross-exchange arbitrage - Difficult to learn

To address the issues faced with crypto arbitrage scanners, I created a: - Responsive website catered to a variety of devices (phone, tablet, laptop, monitor, etc.) - No paywalls and subscriptions (all features are free and accessible for everyone) - No login/signup required - Supports both cross-exchange crypto arbitrage and triangular crypto arbitrage (rarely covered) - Intuitive design inspired from sites like coinmarketcap.com and coingecko.com - Data saved from where user left off with localStorage - Dark/Light mode - Track your preferred coins by wish listing them - Crypto arbitrage fee calculator to help you calculate how much fee you would incur from various trading fees (deposit/withdrawal, buy/sell, transfer, etc.) which would come in handy to calculate margin of difference to determine if an arbitrage opportunity is profitable to execute - FAQ to help answer users' burning questions

There are many more features to come with your support! Hope to have your feedback! Feel free to roast me!
Show HN: Vomynd – A simple offline-first mind map tool
by vomynd | 2025-05-08 11:12:23+00:00
Hi HN, this is my first post ever, just showcasing my hobby project for a simple mindmap maker. It's mainly made to brain dump and you can present it to people in the full screen mode. It can also be a todo list as the checkbox state is auto saved. It's local, no backend and can be installed to your devices (an offline-first Progressive Web App). It has other features as well that you can look into, especially in the tools in the code editor.

Kept reading that art (or just a creation in this case) should be put out to the world for better or for worse and I'm just fulfilling that quote here bow that I found it again and took it as a sign. Haha. I hope whoever finds this enjoys it a bit. That's all. Thank you.
by rsynnott | 2025-05-08 11:12:28+00:00
I'll make the same career switch that I made when 'no-code', 5GLs, and, er, that Sun drag and drop flowchart thing, can't remember what it's called, made developers obsolete.

"This will make developers obsolete" is fairly standard marketing and crops up a couple times a decade (this has been going on for a while; COBOL was marketed this way!) At a certain point, it's an industry crying wolf, honestly.
by itsoktocry | 2025-05-08 11:13:37+00:00
>Retards here just want more connectedness. What besides a storage backend, a UI frontend, and analog audio do you need?

Little harsh, but yeah.

People are in here saying, "I love controlling receiver through my Apple TV!" That's why we are where we are. Apple may be good right now, but may not be forever. People literally ask for this stuff to be integrated, buying Sonos systems that brick and what not. It's too bad.
by jampekka | 2025-05-08 11:14:41+00:00
With batching it becomes SGD. If you're OK with approximations, you have e.g. randomized, reduced rank and streaming SVDs. And these tend have a lot nicer approximation and convergence properties than SGD.

What are the common cases for 10^5 parameter OLS? Perhaps something like weather models could include such computations?
by krishnavkv17 | 2025-05-08 11:15:02+00:00
Location:India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Azure: Web Apps, AKS, Express Route, Key Vault, VMs, NSGs, Storage, SQL Azure

Scripting & Automation: PowerShell, Bash, Azure CLI, Python (REST API automation, reporting)

Monitoring & Debugging: AppInsights, Kusto (KQL), SCOM, Zabbix, WireShark, Fiddler

DevOps Tools: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy

Networking & Security: Load Balancers (F5, Akamai, NetScaler), SSL/TLS, VPNs, DNS, TCP/IP

Databases: MS SQL Server (2005–2016), Always On, Mirroring, SSIS/SSRS

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jIz_pJNlEjyXyConXmVaej0Sqd78Y98WOd7ZgkStHVY/edit?usp=sharing Email: krishnavkv17@gmail.com
by rsynnott | 2025-05-08 11:15:24+00:00
Gates-era Microsoft had a bit of a running problem with "[X] will change everything!" In particular see Windows for Pen Computing in the early 90s and their big voice interaction push in the late 90s/early noughties. I'd tend to discount Gates on this, because, like, it's not his first rodeo; he has predicted all ten of the last two tech revolutions.
by jjallen | 2025-05-08 11:15:26+00:00
Very cool that at least in S. Korea one can "mess up" by dropping out of high school and eventually go on to study under, work with, and finally win one of the most prestigious medals in the world. I think this _may_ be possible in the US, but would be much harder. This is isad because the US has a more anyone can do anything culture, which is normally great. But maybe it doesn't exist in some fields/schools/industries.
Show HN: Fire calculator that simulates both saving and withdrawal years
by schulze | 2025-05-08 11:17:23+00:00
Hi HN, this is my first post and I want to quickly show you something that I made.

It's an investing calculator that shows you not just the investment journey, but also how your balance behaves once you stop saving and start withdrawing. My goal is to inspire people to invest their money and learn about FIRE by showcasing how much earlier you could retire with some aggressive saving.

I hope some of you find it as beautiful and useful as I do. I'd also like to ask for feedback on the behaviour, usefulness, the math/assumptions (did I miss anything obvious?) etc.

Thanks! /Felix Schulze
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-08 11:17:40+00:00
The consumer choice spectrum was pretty rad in the mid-to-late-1980s. I was often in the market for hi-fi stereo equipment, and I did it by accumulating discrete components one-by-one.

In my home city, we had several electronics retailers who sold every kind of component stereo equipment, including car stereo and whatnot. So I could literally walk into a store and see a huge gamut of dual-deck cassette recorders, or turntables, or amplifiers, receivers, etc. And they were all set up for customer demo. It was fantastic.

When the time came for me to shop for a CD audio player, I pre-purchased a few CDs to listen to for the demos. That was a great move; the place where I went for "auditions" had a dedicated listening room just chock-a-block with equipment that could be switched into whatever speaker system fit my home setup. And so in exactly one stop at a retail outlet, I was able to listen to that CD through several diverse systems, make a final purchase decision, and walk out of there with my favorite 7-disc CD changer, which served well for about 15 years after that.
by TrackerFF | 2025-05-08 11:18:06+00:00
Navigation systems (GNSS) tend to fall right in the L-band. For example, the Russian GLONASS is in the 1.2 and 1.6 GHz range, while GPS is around 1.1, 1.2, 1.5 GHz.

SMAP is in the 1.2 - 1.4 GHz range - so it overlaps with both GLONASS and GPS.

So jamming in that range will affect the nav systems of the drones. This is the reason you see drones tethered with fiber optic cables - control systems might be in the same range. The "why" has more to do that the machines are made to adapt to existing systems, and those systems were designed due to the physical properties they've made to serve / solve.

Both jamming and spoofing is pretty normal when you're close to Russia.

And this is the reason SMAP will pick up all this jamming, because it is sensing on the same band / range.
by dgrr19 | 2025-05-08 11:19:08+00:00
I don't see how a trustless & decentralized system would cause feudalism. On the other hand, I see how our current "democratic" system evokes in neo-feudalism. We are all slaves to the government and the few conglomerates they favor, paying taxes to be more restricted. No thanks, I'd rather have a libertarian system and close to 0% tax, if not zero and practically no government.

No, you don't need to worship Amazon in a libertarian system, Amazon lives thanks to regulation (Amazon supports raising the min wage), and other import fees & tax exemptions that smaller businesses can't afford to bypass.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-05-08 11:20:13+00:00
VLC violates the DMCA, as well as includes patented MPEG style codecs, the end users of which (under a mostly USA-enforced legal framework ?) are supposed to pay royalties to patent owners, which I presume they almost never do (?) :

https://wiki.videolan.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions/

So it might be possible that someone from the USA decided to strongarm Unity ?
by happymellon | 2025-05-08 11:21:57+00:00
Actually, I would take this a step further.

I took my old white polycarbonate MacBook to the Apple store a few years back to get a new battery. I had a few people ask me about it, and even one lady asked at the genius bar whether she could get a MacBook in a colour. People pick aluminium chassis because the alternative is cheap gray, fake metal chassis. I miss the era of colourful iMacs and I think other people do too, and not just geeks.
by newsclues | 2025-05-08 11:22:24+00:00
"The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero." No, the optimal amount of fraud is ZERO. The cost of fraud detection and prevention is different, but in an ideal society, the taxpayers aren't paying for fraud (because the people don't scam the government).

If fraud detection is so expensive, maybe it's important to be more selective of who has access to the community and keep the scammers out.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-05-08 11:22:47+00:00
These days, NSA's Commercial Solutions for Classified program[1] addresses a lot of these sorts of secure mobility use cases.

The underlying design principle behind CSfC is that the CNSA algorithms[2], when properly implemented are good enough to protect information classified up to TOP SECRET on their own. However, there's still a risk of exposure due to broken implementations, active exploitation or operational error.

To mitigate this, CSfC's "capability packages" (reference architectures) typically use two or more cryptographic layers of different provenance to reduce the risk that a vulnerability in one layer could be used to compromise the whole solution. For a VPN for example, they will use two tunnels; an inner tunnel using a solution from one vendor, and an outer tunnel from another.

There are other considerations apart from cryptography. They also specify the use of "retransmission devices" (mifi routers, basically) in favour of native cellular capability, presumably to mitigate the risk of a cellular baseband exploit being used to compromise a classified handset.

[1] https://www.nsa.gov/Resources/Commercial-Solutions-for-Class...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_National_Security_A...
by panick21_ | 2025-05-08 11:24:05+00:00
Are you not using a plate or utensils with delivery? Maybe not a plate but surely utensils. Do you never use additional sauces or spices with delivery?

Delvier food often comes in layers of bags, tons of extra stuff, there is often sauce overflow and so on. Tons of trash you have to deal with and so on.

> especially when someone is a bachelor,

I'm a bachelor and I can easily make food as good at home. Cooking for 1 person is easy.

And I'm not just heating up forzen chicken nuggets. I know in the US most people go shopping every 2 weeks, driving to some big box store getting tons of stuff.

I just walk to a store, or pick some stuff up on my way home. Fresh meat and fresh vegis always.

> mentally ill

Doing something yourself is better for your mental health then getting delivery.
by TrackerFF | 2025-05-08 11:24:22+00:00
Russians will place out jammers close to anything of importance. For example, in the Kola peninsula - which is close / bordering both Norway and Finland, they're jamming and spoofing. To such a degree that it affects civil air traffic in the area.

But why? Because they have a bunch of major strategic airfields there.

In (and close) to Ukraine it could be anything. Airfields, base, ammo storage, radio towers, etc.
by the_af | 2025-05-08 11:24:56+00:00
> zurdos HDP

Please keep this out of HN.

For anyone who doesn't know, "zurdos HDP" ("zurdos hijos de puta") is a slur and a slogan from Milei supporters which means "leftie sons of bitches". This is typical of Milei, he has said similar things live ("motherfucking lefties, we will go find you!"), and in his mind anyone who opposes him is a "leftie".

Let's keep this crap out of here.
by flir | 2025-05-08 11:26:08+00:00
I've played around with "create an image based on this image" chains quite a lot, and yep, everything goes brown with 4o. You append the images to each other as a filmstrip and it's almost like a gradient.

They also simplify over the generations (eg a basket full of stuff slowly loses the stuff), but I guess that's to be expected.
by the_af | 2025-05-08 11:27:02+00:00
> because he is not an unhinged hypocritical thief like every single leftist person

Milei believes his dogs are his "sons", he has cloned his dog Conan whom he believes adivses him from dog heaven, and nobody has seen his dogs alive and he becomes agitated when questioned about them.

I'd say "unhinged" suits him fine.
by pembrook | 2025-05-08 11:27:07+00:00
Originally yes, but now this is a complaint forum for pessimistic big tech worker bees to vent their frustrations while never actually having to invest time, money or effort on actually doing anything.

Generally though, consumers have already spoken with their wallets on this topic and they have told many thousands of doe-eyed founders loud and clear: “we will happily sacrifice our time and privacy to save a $3, bring on the ads”

Hence why YC focuses on B2B Saas for B2B Saas companies who sell to other B2B Saas companies.
by shiandow | 2025-05-08 11:28:11+00:00
CPU intensive is not quite the right metric. What python is slow at is all the extra administration that comes with basic stuff like accessing attributes and function calls.

This gives somewhat counterintuitive results where declaring and summing a whole list of integers in memory can be faster than a simple for loop with an iterator.

But yeah writing stuff in a different (compiled) language is often better if that means the python interpreter doesn't need to go through as many steps.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-05-08 11:28:46+00:00
Not just Unity, it's well past time the EU started enforcing the bans on US infocoms dating to a decade ago (Patriot Act => Snowden scandal => Schrems 2), since with it not being possible to presume any more that the USA is an ally, there's no reason to look away when they violate the fundamental rights of EU residents.
Show HN: Lazydebrid – A TUI for Realdebrid
by PreHistoricPunk | 2025-05-08 11:29:20+00:00
I was looking for a debrid file manager I could use on my homelab, could not find anything as easy to use. lazydebrid is essentially a tui for working with realdebrid's API. The client is heavily inspired by lazydocker and lazygit.
by dinfinity | 2025-05-08 11:30:59+00:00
> No it did not. A court overturned the law

'a court'? You mean the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Justice_of_the_Europe..., an integral part of the EU. It is trias politica in action and as stated: a correction of a mistake.

> If the countries were kept in check by the EU then France would not have tried to ban EtoE recently as it goes against the EU laws.

Nonsense. The correction happens after the infraction. The EU processes and systems cannot prevent (attempts of) infractions from happening altogether.

> If the EU as a whole was serious about data protection, the Chat Control law would have been dropped a long time ago.

It is not a law. It is a proposal. And again: people pushing for bullshit also exist in the EU. The question is to what extent the EU is resistant to that. The Chat Control law is a very typical case of well-intended but misguided "think of the children" combined with "we're old and understand fuck-all about technology".

> Tell me how successful is it when it portrays itself as a privacy minded place but it's parliament has tried to pass a law to strip literally all privacy from it's own citizens for the last 3 to 4 years? Those two things can't be right.

1. Is it an actual EU law yet? You pretend as if there is no pushback from anywhere in the EU.

2. Again, it is well-intended but misguided (Hanlon's razor applies). Politicians are confronted with digital CSAM-matters and correctly identify that that is some evil shit and that something needs to be done to combat it. You would do the same. The difference is mainly that these politicians don't properly understand what introducing backdoors to E2E encryption actually entails. Only a subset of those politicians does understand but think that combating CSAM is more important than privacy and an even smaller subset actually wants to abuse the system for data collection.

So no, the EU is not 'just the same as the US and willing to sell out everyone in order to get it'.
by buran77 | 2025-05-08 11:31:29+00:00
> Decentralization (I have in mind something like Hyperliquid or even BTC) ensures that everybody in the world have access to the same economy without intermediaries asking for a fee. Which means, a person in Indian can access to income the same way a person in the US would.

And do they? In practice? The theory is always sweet, but in practice once you take away "crime" and "hold to sell high" you'll be hard pressed to see too many, or widespread instances of usefulness. You don't make society better by just building a taller peak for a few if at the same time you're digging even deeper troughs for the many.

> Or you could do a transfer overseas with less fees or regulation problems.

Every time someone gets swindled out of their "deregulated, decentralized" money, every time someone loses a finger for their million dollar wallet, you have one more voice asking a centralized organization for protection, maybe with some regulation.

You handwave away all the obvious problems, even though technology or time won't solve any of them. Without protection most people will be screwed out of their belongings. Ask that person in India if they're eager to "access to income the same way a person in the US would" (whatever that means) if this means there's no recourse when they lose the money.
by jajko | 2025-05-08 11:32:25+00:00
Yeah I get the logic but its still flawed and wrong (saying this as a father of 2 small kids who drives them around frequently).

You either are road-worthy driver who can drive safely or not. L ones are an approved exception and the list and law and expectations ends right there.

Nobody is babysitting 27 categories or potentially distracted or otherwise dysfunctional drivers. If you can't drive safely either have somebody else drive, use public transport or stay home. No excuses, you can very easily kill people including your own kids.
by RHSeeger | 2025-05-08 11:32:46+00:00
> First, traits don't define any fields.

How does one handle cases where fields are useful? For example, imagine you have a functionality to go fetch a value and then cache it so that future calls to get that functionality are not required (resource heavy, etc).

// in Java because it's easier for me public interface hasMetadata { Metadata getMetadata() { // this doesn't work because interfaces don't have fields if (this.cachedMetadata == null) { this.cachedMetadata = generateMetadata(); } return this.cachedMetadata; } // relies on implementing class to provide Metadata fetchMetadata(); }
by skwee357 | 2025-05-08 11:33:02+00:00
I really tried to love Go. But I guess it’s too verbose for my liking. Not having modern paradigms like iterators, or basic data structures — is a bummer, especially in web related development.

On top of that, the pollution of ‘if err != nil’ everything, makes the code unreadable.

Rust, on the other hand, is adorable, and I enjoy it every time I get a chance to write in it.