MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-12 18:49:11+00:00
Well, the SLS is made of Space Shuttle parts and Space Shuttle parts aren't just gold plated...

This book has many illustrations of alternate designs considered before the Space Shuttle was finalized

https://www.amazon.com/Shuttle-History-Developing-National-T...

as well as the results of late 1980s-early 1990s studies that considered the possibility of putting together Space Shuttle parts in different ways. Say you could have a bigger external tank, four solid rocket boosters instead of two, and a big-ass orbiter which has five engines instead of three. (That one probably is too much of a boondoggle because they'd have to spend a few billion dollars making a bigger launchpad!)

You might think that, with the research done to develop the parts, it would be cost effective to build something new from Space Shuttle parts but in those studies it was always outrageously expensive to build anything out of Space Shuttle parts because... Space Shuttle parts are stupendously expensive.

In an alternate universe something like the SLS (a non-reusable big-ass booster with lots of stages) could be a lot cheaper than the SLS if it was cost-optimized, but cost-optimization itself isn't cheap!

By contrast to that, the Starship model isn't proven either. Reusable Starship to LEO could be a good business, but orbital refueling is still unsolved and even if it is perfected, current plans are to launch 12-20 Starships to land and return maybe 3 tons from the moon. Think of what a huge thing you could build in LEO if you had 20 Starships!
by ipsum2 | 2025-06-12 18:49:15+00:00
Cloudflare is down too. From https://www.cloudflarestatus.com:

Update - We are seeing a number of services suffer intermittent failures. We are continuing to investigate this and we will update this list as we assess the impact on a per-service level.

Impacted services: Access WARP Durable Objects (SQLite backed Durable Objects only) Workers KV Realtime Workers AI Stream Parts of the Cloudflare dashboard Jun 12, 2025 - 18:48 UTC

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261064
by travisvn | 2025-06-12 18:50:01+00:00
This API wrapper was initially made to support a particular use case where someone's running, say, Open WebUI or AnythingLLM or some other local LLM frontend.

A lot of these frontends have an option for using OpenAI's TTS API, and some of them allow you to specify the URL for that endpoint, allowing for "drop-in replacements" like this project.

So the speech generation endpoint in the API is designed to fill that niche. However, its usage is pretty basic and there are curl statements in the README for testing your setup.

Anyway, to get to your actual question, let me see if I can whip something up. I'll edit this comment with the command if I can swing it.

In the meantime, can I assume your local text files are actual `.txt` files?
by notahacker | 2025-06-12 18:50:04+00:00
I think the "SpaceX model doesn't fill the gap" issue is bigger than just not using ISRU-derived peroxide rockets; that seems like the sort of thing they'd be really good at (even though the people I know working on that problem that are Europeans with university affiliations, not SpaceX employees) if they determined it was a mission requirement. It's more that propulsion is a pretty small part of the overall mission, which involves everything from portable handheld devices to astronaut physiology to in-space manufacturing if you want to build actual bases. Are there SpaceX skunkworks projects looking at that sort of thing? Probably, they've got money and space enthusiasts and a boss that doesn't mind that sort of thinking. Are they funding that sort of exploratory research to the level NASA or ESA or research institutes? Nope, and I'm not sure the "vertically integrate everything" model that's served them so well as a commercial business doing repeatable things in LEO is ideally set up to collaborate with the people that do either.
by rvnx | 2025-06-12 18:50:05+00:00
Absolutely possible. Though there is something curious:

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

At Cloudflare it started with: "Investigating - Cloudflare engineering is investigating an issue causing Access authentication to fail.".

So this would somehow validate the theory of auth/quotas started failing right after Google, but what happened after ?! Pure snowballing ? That sounds a bit crazy.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-06-12 18:50:24+00:00
Oh, those fond memories of "my" CPC (the German version - Schneidet Joyce) LocoBasic and the big handbook is what started my programming career. We didn't have any games for that machine when I got it for myself (when my mom switched from LocoScript for Text writing to something PC based) so I had to come up with my own ...
by zozbot234 | 2025-06-12 18:50:25+00:00
> Cuttlefish, while it may be a more effective reference device, just doesn't accomplish the same thing because Pixels were used for more than just as a reference target (e.g. GrapheneOS).

The article mentions that they're also supporting GSI's as a reference target of sorts, and that's way closer to real hardware. GSI's are annoying for other reasons though - for example, there isn't a single "GSI" build type, they vary according to low-level device features (such as partitioning) and what version of Android they first came out with. Still, it's better than nothing.

These days there's also GKI, a "generic kernel build" (minus custom modules and blobs) that's supposed to work on any recent device. Note, this is not a "mainline" Linux kernel at all, it's still very much a downstream fork with lots of custom patches. But it too is supposed to enable testing and development in a unified way, regardless of the actual device.
by workfromspace | 2025-06-12 18:50:31+00:00
> no one can type that u on a keyboard without googling and copypasting it. you might as well insist on using hieroglyphs for CJK things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ü#Letter_Ü

> The letter Ü is present in the Hungarian, Turkish, Uyghur Latin, Estonian, Azeri, Turkmen, Crimean Tatar, Kazakh Latin and Tatar Latin alphabets

I see and generally agree with your point, however that "no one" is approx. 120 million people. Just saying.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-06-12 18:50:48+00:00
You can read all about it here https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aides_%C3%A0_la_presse_en_Fran... if you want and if you understand French.

Basically the French new outlets are some of the most subsidized on the planet.

Just to give you some quick figures, in 2010, the French government gave news outlets 1.8B euros in subsidies and in 2012 another 1.2B euros. There is no mention of the subsidies in the years after that but there is no reason to think that these would have shrunk significantly.

That's not even mentioning the special tax breaks that journalists get and the fact that most news outlets are staffed by union members.

Knowing that most unions are leaning left politically, it is fair to say that the coverage of the news by these outlets will be tainted by their political ideology. It's just human nature.

All of this to say that in light of all this, it is best to treat any French news outlet as basically an arm of the government that will never go against the interests of the their real owners, the politicians, unions and the billionaires.

Le Monde is but one of these outlets but nevertheless they take the money just like the other ones.
by absurdwebsite | 2025-06-12 18:51:48+00:00
Carbon offsets are everywhere — from tree planting to crypto-blockchain offset markets. So I made one that's simple and luxurious: just buy me a Tesla.

This is project #008 on absurd.website — a series of monthly digital experiments that explore absurdity through tech and services.

Here's the math: - I drive a petrol car: 3.3 tonnes CO₂ per year. - With a Tesla Model S: 1.5 tonnes CO₂/year. - Over 20 years: 36 tonnes saved. - Tesla Model S costs ~$80,000 → that's $2,200 per tonne of CO₂ offset.

The average offset cost on the market is $18.15/tCO₂. Ours is 100x more expensive — and 100x more absurd.

“We are not planting trees or building wind power plants. We are buying a Tesla. :)”

I love and hate Tesla. I feel the same about most “eco” solutions — half tech marvel, half marketing spin. So is this project a critique of consumerist greenwashing? Or just a weird dream to fund a Tesla through guilt? Probably both.

Whether you see this as satire, performance art, or a real climate contribution — that’s entirely up to you.

https://absurd.website/offset-your-carbon-footprint/
by DrBenCarson | 2025-06-12 18:52:02+00:00
The exact section is "Root Cryptographic Keys," here is the key passage:

``` A randomly generated UID is fused into the SoC at manufacturing time. Starting with A9 SoCs, the UID is generated by the Secure Enclave TRNG during manufacturing and written to the fuses using a software process that runs entirely in the Secure Enclave. This process protects the UID from being visible outside the device during manufacturing and therefore isn’t available for access or storage by Apple or any of its suppliers. ```
by hollerith | 2025-06-12 18:52:49+00:00
>It was this or invade which would have easily resulted in more casualties.

There was no need to invade: as long as the naval blockade continued, Japan wouldn't get enough fossil fuels and other resources to threaten anyone. They probably would've been lucky to avoid mass starvation.

--and Washington knew that when it decided to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but it also knew that the Soviets wanted invade Northern Japan: Stalin had already "offered to help out" in this way.
by huslage | 2025-06-12 18:53:58+00:00
I'm glad you have come up with something more efficient. The problem has nothing to do with efficiency. You are welcome to make a government contract to sell them equipment or data as you wish.

My problem is with baseline services that have already been stopped that you claim to want to replace. This data feeds all of our weather models and should be done with existing infrastructure until congress changes things. The data must be freely available.

The fact is that the data is available for anyone anywhere and is a valuable resource for scientists everywhere. Your current goals might be laudable right now, but that is not going to be the case when you have to pay back an investor 100x in 5 years. You will do everything you can to lock that data up and make it as expensive as you can. You will have no choice.
by dh2022 | 2025-06-12 18:54:20+00:00
I have no idea what environment / team you worked on but nuget is pretty much rock solid. There are no scripts running on a prayer that everything is fetched. Version sync is not a crapshot because nuget versions are updated during merges and with proper merge procedures (PR build + tests) nuget versions are always correct on the main branch.

One does not forget what nugets are used: VS projects do that bookkeeping for you. You update the VS project with the new nugets your task requires; and this bookkeeping will carry on when you merge your PR.

I have seen this model work with no issues in large codebases: VS solutions with upwards of 500,000 lines of code and 20-30 engineers.
by exceptione | 2025-06-12 18:54:38+00:00
A detailed feature comparison of various Android OSes:

- GrapheneOS - CalyxOS - IodéOS - /e/ - LineageOS - "Stock" Android

Note how incomparably better GrapheneOS scores on the criteria of degoogling, security, and privacy. Especially storage scopes and contact scopes are such nice concepts. I wish the others would be able to catch up to that.
by Whoppertime | 2025-06-12 18:54:57+00:00
At least with tariffs you can understand there will be short term economic pain for presumed long term economic gain Polling of Biden voters seem to suggest they didn't expect the 20% inflation that happened between Biden entering office and Biden leaving office. They didn't think it would hurt Republicans more, they just had experts denying that anything was happening, like the head of the Fed saying inflation was transitory. That situation impedes on the function of democracy in a different way
by breppp | 2025-06-12 18:55:36+00:00
I don't know how Iran feels about the west, but I for one am not keen about them hanging homosexuals on cranes, cutting hands of thieves, raping protestors in prison or taking random european tourist number 300 hostage in order to make finland cave-in on something.

You might think the above is morally equivalent with whatever the state of Italy is doing, but I believe some governments and some cultures are better than others. Not because they are superior humans, but because human organizations and actions can be compared one to another, and there is at least for me, places I'd rather live in, and places I wouldn't
by rsync | 2025-06-12 18:56:05+00:00
"No correlation between non-functional displays on passenger seats & possible engine failures etc."

No. No no no. This is wrong, mistaken thinking.

A minimum standard of operations and attention to detail must be adhered to for high consequence / life critical endeavors and that behavior (culture?) must be enforced at all levels throughout the operation.

Ignore this heuristic at your peril - as either a consumer of these services or a provider who must demand high performance from your workforce.

Remember: flight attendants have (rarely exercised) critical health and life safety responsibilities. What messages do they internalize if this is the fourth flight in a row the coffee maker has been cracked and out of order ?
by ysavir | 2025-06-12 18:56:53+00:00
I'm not keeping my hopes up, but I'll reserve judgement until I see it. If it's just "Spaceballs 2: More Spaceballs", then I'll join you in the sentiment. But if it proves to be "Spaceballs 2: Schooling Deadpool in how to Parody the Modern Franchise Blockbuster", then I'll gladly champion it.
by echelon | 2025-06-12 18:57:12+00:00
More content will be made in a single month than all of human history up to this point.

No more Disney-fication, no more Marvel / Star Wars "mass media slop". We'll have media that caters to people's long-tail interests. If you have a passion for Egyptology and Atlantis, you'll be able to watch a steampunk adventure about the Egyptians waging war with the Atlanteans. But perhaps with the serious tone of "The Wire". That would never have been greenlit before, but it'll soon be possible.

Good creators will arise just like good indie music, indie manga/comic, and indie game creators. Discovery will be the problem to solve for creators. There will be an abundance of talent that is finally able to create their vision rather than nepotism their way into one of 500 limited annual roles of autonomy.

Small creators who grow large like VivziePop [1] and PsychicPebbles [2] will be the model for the future of content. They start small on YouTube, grow large, and eventually have their own large-scale distribution and franchises.

The creative world is about to get orders of magnitude better. Not 2x, not 10x, but easily 1,000x.

I hate most movies and tv shows, but love the medium. The problem is most content produced just isn't my vibe. I like super artsy stuff, but also have particular tastes. That's going to change dramatically. Stuff will start fitting the shape of my interest graph.

I'm so excited.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivienne_Medrano

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Hadel
by Ray20 | 2025-06-12 18:57:13+00:00
>As a result of these things millions of people were unable to vote.

By similizing the American electoral system to those in authoritarian countries, you trivialize the suffering of people oppressed and often physically exterminated by authoritarian regimes around the world. Millions? Seriously? Try talking to any refugee from an authoritarian country about this. Just please be as polite as possible and choose a smaller person, I'm afraid that because of your extremely offensive position towards their suffering, they may try to cause you physical harm.

>There is no oppressed majority in the U.S.

Of course not, the US seems to be a fairly authoritarian-free country. It's just that if we assume that the US has these tendencies and try to be fair with the terms, it is quite obvious from whom they come, and against which majority the attempts at oppression are directed.
by Thrymr | 2025-06-12 18:57:30+00:00
> The decades of the space program that lead up to (and included of course) Apollo 11 represented, I think, the highest level of optimism we could have mustered for the future

It was less than 11 years from the creation of NASA to Apollo 11 landing on the moon.

It has now been well over 50 years since the last astronauts landed on the moon.
by edanm | 2025-06-12 18:57:31+00:00
If you're claiming that Iran's government is somehow morally equivalent to Italy's, you're massively wrong.

It's not about "the white mans burden", whatever that means. It's about Iran's government not being democratically elected, being massively unpopular with its own populace that can't do anything about it cause it's not a democracy, enforcing religious laws on people that often don't want them, not respecting minorities. And oh, btw, investing billions of dollars in promoting terror all across the Middle East, with the stated goal of eradicating Israel (and, eventually, the US).

So, I don't really care how Iran's rulers feel about the US - they're evil. If you can't recognize that, you've lost the plot.
by honeybadger1 | 2025-06-12 18:57:34+00:00
Sigh, it was only a matter of time. But they are not helping themselves down the road when they are broken up into pieces. Let's just hope if they do get smashed into pieces that mobile breaks off and they aim to please the techno community that has made them who they are today.

Too head strong, why is it these product managers build to break, just to build again.
by jleyank | 2025-06-12 18:57:54+00:00
How about we keep the cats (indoor) and dogs, and reduce the CO2 impact of crypto and AI? How about muscle cars and trucks, or are they required to keep, umm, body parts at the desired size?

Are you proposing banning children, as they're WAY more impactful on the environment than pets? Domesticated animals? Metal smelting? Power generation w/ carbon rich materials? Producing alcohol? Processing sugar beets/cane?
Show HN: HyperTemplates, a pure-HTML templating system and static site generator
by calebhailey | 2025-06-12 18:58:35+00:00
Hello, my name is Caleb. I'm a product manager by trade, and have enjoyed working in/around the software industry over the past 15 years. I was most recently CEO & co-founder at Sensu (https://sensu.io), which was acquired by Sumo Logic in 2021 (https://sumologic.com), eventually resulting in an opportunity to explore "funemployment".

I've met so many people over the course of my career who are interested in making websites – they even teach themselves HTML, CSS, and Javascript – but then they never end up making a website for one reason or another.

I've watched some of these people try to change careers by finding a job making websites, but many of them end up learning that no one actually writes HTML – it's all generated using tools that would require them to learn yet another programming language. For some, this piques their interest enough that they go learn a programming language, and eventually find their way into the tech industry. That's amazing! I would guess that HTML has been a "gateway language" for tons of people in this way. But I would also guess that for even more people, they don't cross that chasm.

This always bothered me when I had $dayjob. This observation along with incredible improvements to the web platform motivated me to explore whether a pure-HTML templating system was even possible, and if so, would it be useful. HyperTemplates is the result of that exploration. I've had a lot of fun building it over the past 6+ months! I can't wait to see what other people think of it.

PS – this my first ever post on HN after being a lifetime lurker. I'm looking forward to joining in the discussion!
by b0a04gl | 2025-06-12 18:59:21+00:00
you mentioned SMT is slower than SAT and left it there, but that feels incomplete. in problems like this, solve time barely matters unless you’re generating at scale. the real weight is in how fast you can write, refactor, and trust the constraints. SAT might give faster outputs, but SMT usually gets you to correct models quicker with less friction. wondering if you actually benchmarked both and stuck with SAT on numbers, or if it was more of a default comfort pick. felt like a missed moment to shift the lens from solver speed to model dev loop speed
by myth_drannon | 2025-06-12 19:00:30+00:00
Didn't you know you also have space lasers? Anyone can be instantly vaporized at any point on Earth.

A joke from 1930's Nazi Germany:

"Two Jews are sitting on a bench in Nazi Germany. One of them is reading the local Yiddish newspaper. The other is reading Der Sturmer, a Nazi propaganda paper. The former says to the latter, “Why on earth would you read that antisemitic drek?” The other replies, “Well, when I read the local paper, we are a poor and battered people who suffer in ghettos, pogroms, and all manner of tragedies. But when I read Der Sturmer, we run the banks, the governments, the whole world – life is great!” "

I got a feeling things are going to get really ugly soon, dejavu germany in 1930 but with more powerful propaganda tools.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-06-12 19:00:38+00:00
NASA is facing budget cuts that will put them at 1961 levels, inflation adjusted, meaning pre-Apollo. That's a 25% cut in one year, including layoffs of 33% of the workforce. That includes a 50% cut to the NASA science programs. 19 active missions will be terminated. They are planning to cut NASA's educational mission 100%.

The loss of institutional knowledge and capability is staggering.

Yes, it needs saving.
by edanm | 2025-06-12 19:00:44+00:00
> The misuse of such tools outweighs the legitimate use cases, so people want to know who is so reckless to sell these programs

Do you have any evidence of this?

Cause my guess is the misuse is the stuff you hear about because it eventually makes the news. But the thousands or millions of legitimate use cases in which it prevented terror attacks or just, y'know, helped solved crimes, are just routine and don't get a mention.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-12 19:01:02+00:00
My analysis of Mars colonization is that it is 99% about the people there being able to manufacture 99% of what they need with as small a population as possible and 1% about getting the people there. If 1 person can support themselves the effort almost certainly succeeds, if it takes a city of 10,000,000 it almost certainly fails.

A deep space colony might be able to build megastructures such as solar sails, energy converters and shades and deliver them to places like the Earth-Sun L1 point. You can't make anything on Mars that can't be made on Earth and it's implausible you could bring anything back from Mars that couldn't be made much more cheaply here. You're left with the political situation of Asimov's short story The Martian Way, where a Mars colony is caught off from Earth and forced to become self-sufficient. Even if Earth was interested in subsidizing a Mars colony for the time being, the Martian colonists would want to develop self-sufficiently as quickly as possible.

People who look seriously into the problem of space colonization tend to follow the same tracks that Eric Drexler did. His molecular assembler and nanomill concepts have not aged well but I'd imagine that something functionally similar could be pieced together out of 3-d printing, fermentation, genetic engineering, flow chemistry and other pieces. Musk's talk of sending 1,000,000 and neglect of "advanced manufacturing" makes his plans seem unrealistic to me.