MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vintermann | 2025-06-09 12:32:11+00:00
I first saw it in a comic book. Roger Leloup, who drew most of the fancy planes and cars in Tintin, had his own series called Yoko Tsuno, and he used the Wuppertal suspended rail for a minor plot point in one album ("Odin's fire"). In order to have an excuse to draw it, most likely. His love for drawing cool technology shines through.
by the_real_cher | 2025-06-09 12:32:50+00:00
I guess the side that give the Nobel prize to lobotomies wasnt backed by evidence?

Or were they backed by evidence?

And then stronger more compelling evidence came out later against?

Thats kind of how science works, its a process of discovery not a set in stone right/wrong.

Things arent as reductionist as you claim, it does people good when they open their world up to that fact.
by exceptione | 2025-06-09 12:33:50+00:00
I think you are too pessimistic. Imho, it failed on the organizational factor. The lobbying from MS was intense, and abandoning MS was oddly forward looking then. I suspect things have changed and there is more impetus plus buy-in in the organizational and social context.

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The only upside of Windows is Office, which has better ergonomics than Libre Office. This is a solvable problem.

- In the short term, you can launch windows apps as RemoteApp in a hidden vm, and the application feels like a native Linux application in your window manager.

- In the longer term, you can pay 50 engineers to fix LibreOffice, and you still save money.
by Yizahi | 2025-06-09 12:33:58+00:00
I would argue that 2T$ cut (btw, I completely agree, it would be a disaster) is function of a government. I.e. neither Musk operation as an oligarch, not any other similar guy like Bezos or Tiel etc. can't really do that amount of damage on their own. It was only when Musk was given that power by Trump and instructed to act the way he did, then he could start doing damage. And the whole idea of doing cuts that way came probably not from Musk (or maybe he just had the same views) but from the likes of Bessent and Miran, actual Trump's advisors, planning all this chaos.

tl;dr - 2T$ disaster cuts should be attributed to Trump, along with most of the responsibility for the aftermath.
by Eikon | 2025-06-09 12:36:04+00:00
I'm excited to share CompactLog, a Certificate Transparency log implementation written in Rust that explores an alternative approach to CT scalability challenges.

Certificate Transparency logs face immense scale - millions of certificates daily, with logs growing to hundreds of millions of entries and multiple terabytes of data. Traditional implementations often struggle with:

Database bottlenecks at multi-terabyte scale Expensive hardware requirements for adequate read performance Complex sharding and operational overhead Read operations that can overwhelm the system

The CT community has been exploring different solutions to these challenges. One approach involves creating new APIs - moving from the traditional RFC 6962 dynamic endpoints to static, tile-based systems that can leverage CDNs and object storage more effectively. These new designs offer compelling benefits like efficient caching and horizontal scaling.

CompactLog explores a different question: Can we achieve similar scalability improvements while maintaining the existing RFC 6962 API?

Instead of changing the API, CompactLog rethinks the storage and implementation layers:

1. LSM-Tree Storage via SlateDB

Moving from relational databases to LSM-tree storage provides:

Natural fit for append-only workloads Direct integration with object storage (S3, Azure Blob) No artificial database size limitations Cost-effective scaling with commodity storage

2. Zero Merge Delay Architecture

CompactLog eliminates merge delay entirely by incorporating certificates into the tree before issuing SCTs:

Submit → Add to tree → Issue SCT (all within 500ms)

This removes a common failure mode where logs fail to meet their merge delay commitments.

3. Smart Versioning Strategy

By versioning tree nodes only at Signed Tree Head boundaries rather than every update, storage overhead drops dramatically - potentially 1000x reduction for typical publishing intervals.

4. Performance

CompactLog achieves gigabits of API responses per second on commodity hardware, and is able to handle thousands of chain additions per second.
by not_your_vase | 2025-06-09 12:36:11+00:00
Ahh, I would have to dive into the details again to get the exact answer... But from what I can recall is for reverse DNS I need a PTR record also, and for a PTR record I need to know my IP's reverse zone (or setup one?), and that's where my ISP came into picture as the owner of the IP block, as they are the only ones who can do that.
by xxbondsxx | 2025-06-09 12:36:39+00:00
You can't compare an API that is profitable (search) to an API that is likely a loss-leader to grab market share (hosted LLM cloud models).

Sure there might not be any analysis that proves that they subsidized, but you also don't have any evidence that they are profitable. All the data points we have today show that companies are spending an insane amount of capex on gaining AI dominance without the revenue to achieve profitability yet.

You're also comparing two products in very different spots in the maturity lifecycle. There's no way to justify losing money on a decade-old product that's likely declining in overall usage -- ask any MBA (as much as engineers don't like business perspectives).

(Also you can reasonably serve search queries off of CPUs with high rates of caching between queries. LLM inference essentially requires GPUs and is much harder to cache between users since any one token could make a huge difference in the output)
by yreg | 2025-06-09 12:36:58+00:00
> most people underestimate the calories in alcohol

Funny, I feel the other way around. I kept hearing about how much calories there are in alcohol, and then when I started calorie counting I didn't find it so high.

Like 6 shots of gin are ~550kcal and enough to get anyone pretty drunk. Unless one is a regular heavy drinker it's not that hard to once in a while budget calories during the day to be able to get a few shots when going out in the evening.

Obviously staying sober is the healthier option.
by stevenhuang | 2025-06-09 12:37:04+00:00
It is a logic error to think that knowing how something works means you are justified to say it can't possess qualities like intelligence or ability to reason when we don't even understand how these qualities arise in humans.

And even if we do know enough about our brains to say conclusively that it's not how LLMs work (predictive coding suggests the principles are more alike that not), it doesn't mean they're not reasoning or intelligent; it would just mean they would not be reasoning/intelligent like humans.
by kypro | 2025-06-09 12:37:55+00:00
Imo the execution was a disaster. As it stands it's a pretty useless device because of the lack of controllers... I work with a company who builds interactive educational experiences in VR and even they can't use it because it can't do basic things like accurately keep track of hand positioning or gestures (beyond pitch).

Really the only use case for it is as a media device, but the price is way too high to buy it for that alone.

If the hope was that businesses and developers were going to buy one and start developing an ecosystem around it then they probably should have made it more than a glorified 3D TV, or made it much cheaper so it was more widely accessible.

I hear there's rumours they're going to add handsets soon though, so if they can do that while also bringing the price down a little that might help adoption a bit.
by dale_glass | 2025-06-09 12:38:33+00:00
Yeah, it's kind of weird.

I had a 386 with 4MB RAM and am not the least nostalgic about it. In fact damn near everything about that machine was limiting and something I couldn't wait to replace with something newer.

I even didn't care for the beige color schemes of the day -- I remember going for the brushed aluminium case way back because I was excited it wasn't freaking beige.

Watching some of the channels though I'd say a lot of the retro experience isn't quite what most people had. A lot of modern retrocomputing is putting together what would have qualified as a "dream machine" back in the day. Some are specced up to the absolute best one could get, some are unrealistic (1990 Monkey Island on a 2000s Pentium 3), some are jazzed up with scifi tech like floppy emulators.
by zimpenfish | 2025-06-09 12:38:47+00:00
2025-02-07

> “Big news,” Duffy said in a 5 February post on Musk’s social media platform, X. “Talked to the DOGE team. They are going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system.”

> Musk himself responded by saying that DOGE will make “rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system”.

[0] https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/elon-musks-institution-d...
by exceptione | 2025-06-09 12:40:21+00:00
The EU needs a desktop OS, without being vulnerable to adversaries. The server side of Linux is pretty well taken care for by a wide range of commercial and personal contributors, but the desktop part rests on a much smaller foundation imho.

They don't build from nothing. KDE is a fantastic Desktop Environment, that would be an upgrade in itself over Windows. But if you have like millions of public servants (police, courts, governments, etc), you want to be sure that what they use meet your requirements.

I think this should have been done earlier, but late is better than never.
by Etheryte | 2025-06-09 12:40:47+00:00
> OpenAI reportedly made a loss of $5B in 2024. They also reportedly have 500M MAUs. To reach break-even, they'd just need to monetize those free users for an average of $10/year, or $1/month. A $1 ARPU for a service like this would be pitifully low.

This is a tangent to the rest of the article, but this "just" is doing more heavy lifting than Atlas holding up the skies. Taking a user from $0 to $1 is immeasurably harder than taking a user from $1 to $2, and the vast majority of those active users would drop as soon as you put a real price tag on it, no matter the actual number.
Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?
by akktor | 2025-06-09 12:41:32+00:00
This question's for all those cool projects or skills you're secretly fascinated by, but haven't quite jumped into. Maybe you feel like you just don't have the right "brain" for it, or you're not smart enough to figure it out, or even worse, you simply have no clue how or where to even start.

The idea here is to shine a light on these hidden interests and the little (or big!) mental blocks that come with them. If you're already rocking in those specific areas – or you've been there and figured out how to get past similar hurdles – please chime in! Share some helpful resources, dish out general advice, or just give a nudge of encouragement on how to take that intimidating first step.

Let's help each other get unstuck!
by M0HD197 | 2025-06-09 12:41:58+00:00
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by akktor | 2025-06-09 12:42:16+00:00
For me, it's gotta be Asahi Linux development. I've been following the work of Asahi Lina and the team for a long time, watching their progress in awe. It just seems incredibly cool to get macOS hardware running Linux so well. But every time I think about actually diving into it, my brain just screams "super complicated!" and I have no idea where I'd even begin to contribute or understand what's going on under the hood. It's definitely one of those things I admire from a distance because it feels so far beyond my current capabilities.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-09 12:42:21+00:00
There’s no code signing process or update review. There’s no $99/year registration fee for the privilege to have your code signed. There’s no up to -30% hit on your fees.

So yeah, there’s an easier way of avoiding the Apple specific pain points. If you think that I felt it would be easier to program the actual app, then you’re clearly just trying to be a hostile commenter and insinuating something about me.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-06-09 12:42:45+00:00
I can't say who exactly is responsible for 'you got this'. It just began to grate at me the year when every new movie or tv show had a character saying it.

A similar phrase is 'I need you to', which appeared around the same time. Eg: 'Okay, I need you to calm down' or 'I really need you to be supportive right now', etc. To my ears it sounds gratingly self-entitled.
by philistine | 2025-06-09 12:43:15+00:00
The people in the retro community do not require these machines to perform all their tasks. They're not filing their taxes with a Macintosh LC III. They have modern computers! This allows old computers to be appreciated very differently. And retro enthusiasts will often love a machine because it is such a bad machine. It gives it a different appeal, its history and poor reception part of its charm.

Ultimately, they're collectors. They collect the good and the bad.
by kube-system | 2025-06-09 12:43:30+00:00
1. There are still some (but few) new old-stock floppies in existence. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/floppy-disk-still-has-life

2. There are floppy emulators that replicate the functionality of floppy drives with flash

3. The above two probably absorb all of the demand today, but even if they didn't, the volume is so low that fixed manufacturing costs per unit could likely push unit prices well beyond even $50. The tooling for factories often costs millions and unless you are selling in high volume, you will have quite a high fixed cost per unit.
by Bender | 2025-06-09 12:43:40+00:00
My unpopular opinion is that telemetry can be fine in literally anything provided that:

- The person must double-opt-in, meaning there is no doubt it is enabled by anyone using the application. If a developer enables telemetry and a manager uses the application they must instantly know telemetry is enabled and where to look for what is being gathered so they can answer any audit questions by internal or external auditors.

- The telemetry must store its data in plain text and even give the person the option to review it prior to submission, perhaps even the ability to add their own personal notes, context, etc... I should be able to show an auditor ALL of the data that has ever been sent to the telemetry end point with dates, times, exact payload.

Then why would anyone bother to enable it? That is the question I always get and the answer is incentives. Give people incentives such as priority reviews of bug submissions, priority to patch pull and merge requests and so on. Maybe even some small amount of priority to feature requests.

If telemetry is enabled and I did not double opt in then the application must blocked on all repositories until it is remediated regardless of what financial impact that may have. That must be in the wording of all legal documentation related to the code. Don't be sneaky. Be transparent, up front and brave.
by Yeul | 2025-06-09 12:44:43+00:00
There are still remnants of the Atlantik wall in the Netherlands. The Germans demolished the entire coastline- and made hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

An invasion of the Netherlands was never likely considering it is a swamp in which tanks cannot operate with rivers and canals every few kilometers. Ironically the very last place in Europe that was liberated because the Allies bypassed it in their drive to the Ruhr.
by luca020400 | 2025-06-09 12:44:45+00:00
As Lineage is concerned I found that a while ago and made https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_packages_mo... But no one bothered to test, and I had no way to verify so it's in a limbo for now :)

It's always a mix of things people report to us, things someone randomly pick up, but then we need real users testing them out lol
by vibrio | 2025-06-09 12:45:42+00:00
"Forced to throw away" biases is strong. If run well, RCTs surely help manage potential biases, but it does not eliminate them. The slides saw available on X-itter didn't show a Consort diagram (accounting of patient count between screening and endpoint) or the balance of patent characteristics between the arms. This seems to be a single site study, which is significant caveat IMO. The lack of substantial mechanistic explanation, and alleged study redesign mid-stream are also caveats. All that said the reported effect is very large, and I'd like to see a more detailed reporting and analysis. If the effect that size is real, it should be able to be found in some relatively quickly retrospective studies (yes, many caveats there, but that could probably provide very large numbers rapidly in support of the RCT).
by willvarfar | 2025-06-09 12:46:13+00:00
So I just had a fun 5 minutes trying to talk gemini around to believing that Shawn has a position on the Kuril Islands dispute by submitting all the evidence in the article, but the llm is pretty impressively consistent and insistent that the song is figurative etc. Miss the days when it was so easy to get an LLM to argue for anything by persistence.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-09 12:46:45+00:00
The federalists also intentionally slowed and interfered with the mail of anti-federalists to get an upper hand, at a time when it was crucial for their organization.

Ultimately, the federalists won. The last kiss of death was circa 1930s, when you see that before you needed constitutional amendments to regulate child labor (never passed) or to federally regulate intrastate alcohol (passed), after that they just totally dispensed with any of the constitutional provisions made to the anti-federalists and just rammed it all down our throats under the guise of interstate commerce.

This is why the civil rights act in the 19th century was found unconstitutional, but the mid 20th century version with many of the same provisions magically was. Or why they needed an amendment to ban alcohol, but magically did not need an amendment to pass the controlled substance act.
by hackandthink | 2025-06-09 12:46:51+00:00
This is a hornet nest.

I once read this from Alain Badiou:

"This separatism at certain moments reached extremes that no one could forget, particularly not the Russian people, knowing that the vast mass of the Nazi-armed and organised armies coming from Russian territory were Ukrainian. The Vlasov army was a Ukrainian army. Today we can even read the history of Ukrainians turning entire villages to blood and fire, including French ones. A good part of the repression of the maquis in central France was carried out by Ukrainians. "

Wikimedia presents Vaslov's army as Russian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Liberation_Army

But Wikipedia about Vlasov (SS Division here):

"He (Himmler) oversaw the creation of the SS-Volunteer Division "Galicia" in October 1943 from Ukrainian volunteers, but that same month he said that Vlasov made him "genuinely anxious."

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/1569-a-present-default... https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/1569-a-present-default...

--- Badiou is a strange guy but I trust him.

In general, I have the impression that the historiography of the Nazi collobaration in Central Europe has been politically influenced in recent years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Vlasov
by motorest | 2025-06-09 12:47:28+00:00
> The article is about – saving 30% by switching from Spot to 70% more expensive VMs. It's the opposite of what you're talking about here.

I don't think those values hold any meaning, specially after no concrete details are actually listed. For example, if hypothetical spot instances have a lower unit cost but your system needs to be over provisioned to account for systematic cold starts and cluster chatter, does it make any sense to say they are cheaper?

> This information is wrong.

Is it? Forward your complains to Google, then.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/committed-us...
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-06-09 12:48:15+00:00
tl;dr

Administering immune system related drugs in the morning improves success rate. This is because the immune system is more receptive in the morning, due to evolutionary adaptation. The authors even seem to have isolated the gene sequence that leads to the "sensor" which generates the necessary "data" for the immune system to optimize on.

Really cool research imo
by maxdevai | 2025-06-09 12:48:20+00:00
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by theOGognf | 2025-06-09 12:50:42+00:00
Some anecdotal data, but we recently estimated the cost of running a LLM at $WORK by looking at power usage over a bursty period of requests from our internal users and it was on the order of $10s/mil tokens. And we arent a big place, nor were our servers at max load, so I can see the cost being much lower at scale
by deadbabe | 2025-06-09 12:51:08+00:00
Given how addicted people are to using LLMs steep price hikes are almost certainly guaranteed at some point.

When this happens, what we will see is once again the rich and privileged will benefit from the use of LLMs while the poor have to just rely on their own brains. Consider how some students will have to grow up struggling through school without any LLMs while rich kids breeze their way through everything with their assistants.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-09 12:51:24+00:00
This is pretty much a complete and comprehensive description of what's now called the Phoney War for being pretty much nonexistent beyond the bare minimum required to "check the box" for England and France's "defense" of Poland (which, to be clear, waiting for your ally to be directly attacked == not doing anything until you are attacked)

Not that I think any of this is indefensible, to be clear, but it is obvious in the moral clarity of today that offensive action against Nazi Germany would have been justified. The reason no one engaged in it was because it wasn't morally clear at the time.
by monkaiju | 2025-06-09 12:51:37+00:00
First off, there's an entire field attempting to answer that question, cognitive science.

Secondly, the burden of proof isn't on cog-Sci folk to prove the human mind doesn't work like an llm, it'd be to prove that it does. From we do know, despite not having a flawless understanding on the human mind, it works nothing like an llm.

Side note: The temptation to call anything that appears to act like a mind a mind is called behavioral ism and is a very old cog-Sci concept, disproved many times over.
by paxys | 2025-06-09 12:51:52+00:00
The entire comparison hinges on people only making simple factual searches ("what is the capital of USA") on both search engines and LLMs. I'm going to say that's far enough from the standard use case for both these sets of APIs to be entirely meaningless.

- If I'm using a search engine, I want to search the web. Yes these engines are increasingly providing answers rather than just search results, but that's a UI/product feature rather than an API one. If I'm paying Google $$ for access to their index, I'm interested in the index.

- If I'm using an LLM, it is for parsing large amounts of input data, image recognition, complex analysis, deep thinking/reasoning, coding. All of these result in significantly more token usage than a 2-line "the answer to your question is xyz" response.

The author is basically saying – a Honda Civic is cheap because it costs about the same per pound as Honeycrisp apples.