MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ascendantlogic | 2025-06-17 19:31:04+00:00
The word "hijacking" in this scenario would only be applicable if the domain was still registered and active and he forcefully took the domain away. That is not the case. The fact OP was able to register it quickly and easily indicates it was unused and to call this "hijhacking" would imply permanent ownership of domains even after previous owners knowingly let the registration lapse.

The legality of hosting a tracker isn't obvious, and as pointed out elsewhere the nuance is less about concrete legality and more about having the resources to deal with lawyers harassing you with lawsuits.
by jedberg | 2025-06-17 19:31:08+00:00
This doesn't show the whole picture. YEs, I have super reliable high speed internet in my house. But I do about 1/2 of my interneting on my mobile phone. And despite living in Silicon Valley with 5G, it's totally unreliable.

So yes, please assume that even your most adept power users will have crappy internet at least some of the time.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-17 19:31:58+00:00
There are no requirements in FMVSS that meaningfully apply to FSD, unless you want to consider AEB part of FSD (which it isn't). Tesla voluntarily follows ISO 26262 for the parts they consider safety critical (i.e. not FSD), but that's just a generic software process standard. ISO 21448 is both uncommon in industry and voluntary. Tesla does not follow SAE J3016 terminology internally. Tesla does not follow UL4600. Tesla flouts both the CA DMV and the NHTSA reporting requirements. Etc.

Can you point out where there's meaningful oversight that Tesla cooperates with without complaining or missing data?
by spider-mario | 2025-06-17 19:32:13+00:00
> However, perhaps are you talking about an image on JPEG XL, using features only in JPEG XL (24 bit, HDR, etc...) that obviously couldn't be converted in a lossless way to a JPEG.

A lot of those features (non-8×8 DCTs, Gaborish and EPF filters, XYB) are enabled by default when you compress a non-JPEG image to a lossy JXL. At the moment, you really do need to compress to JPEG first and then transcode that to JXL if you want the JXL→JPEG direction to be lossless.
by tenthirtyam | 2025-06-17 19:32:25+00:00
I had this problem some years ago. Eventually I just told everyone I would be uninstalling whatsapp on date XX/YY, which I then did. Some people installed signal and stayed in touch, others didn't. Life didn't change much. Now I'd like to move to my own matrix server but I think appx 0.0% of my social group would follow me down that rabbit hole. :-(

More extreme, a friend of mine one day eliminated his cellphone entirely but kept Skype on his laptop. So now it's email or nothing with him and sadly it's been nothing for some time now.
by jjav | 2025-06-17 19:33:49+00:00
> I have over $100k in Tesla puts.

I also have Tesla puts but that is brave!

While extremely overvalued by any metric, Musk has also been somehow able to keep the stock flying high for years and years on the force of hyperbolic lies (full self driving only a few month away forever) which most of the market keeps believing. It's a fascinating counterexample to the idea that the stock market can't be fooled.

So I only keep a few puts at a time because the hype surrounding the stock tends to outlive the expiration on the options. Every now and then I cash in big when it has a nice drop though.
by senko | 2025-06-17 19:33:50+00:00
But the OP states he was using the tracker for lawful purposes:

> So I was, uh, downloading some linux isos, like usual.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Seriously though, the OP makes the same argument and concludes that:

> I was spooked. [...] I shut down the VPS and deleted the domain quickly after confirming it works.

IANAL but this clearly shows the OP didn't intend to facilitate crime and shut it down after seeing that was what may have been happening.
by Unearned5161 | 2025-06-17 19:34:58+00:00
I get the direction you're trying to go in, but I think this metaphor is flawed. If all I've seen in life are mediocre street musicians, and then one day I go to some concert and it's the best thing ever, sure that's going to change how I see the street musicians from before.

Replace with food and its even clearer. Going to some top of the line Micheline star restaurant _will_ alter how you look at food for the rest of your life.

Watching a movie in blue-ray full quality no compression _will_ alter how you appreciate streamed movies for the rest of your life.

You can still appreciate it for what it is, but it will forever have that relative smallness.
by lelanthran | 2025-06-17 19:36:06+00:00
I use Linux Mint, Mate.

I occasionally write native GUI apps (not electron-based), and for the current automation application I am working on Wayland is an absolute non-starter[1].

Like the other poster, every few years I would give Wayland a try, but as of today, 17-June-2025, Wayland is still lacking features that I want.

I have no objection to using it, I just need it to be a replacement for X.

[1] My application uses X11 FakeEvent. Did not find a similar thing for Wayland.
by qualeed | 2025-06-17 19:36:52+00:00
Sure.

I'm also familiar with positive reinforcement.

If/when they start touching the reverse-chronological feed with algorithms I'll call it out. Until that time, I'm happy that it's a non-algorithmic feed and will say so.

(It's also not clear to me what "extinguish" would look like here. If Threads starts messing with the feed, just go view it anywhere else you view you fediverse feeds)
by corysama | 2025-06-17 19:36:57+00:00
Various forms of point/blob rendering have been around for decades. What has been missing has been good workflows to create the content.

That paper kicked off a rapid stream of a thousand papers by taking a photogrammetry-style workflow and producing better than photogrammetry results by reframing the process as gradient decent on differentiable point samples. This allowed the research to stand on the shoulders of all the work being put into deep learning tech.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-17 19:36:58+00:00
I like the "junk drawer" analogy. It's perfect. IMO if you as an app developer find yourself reaching for a hamburger menu, that's the time to step back and stop adding junk features, especially if you're writing a mobile app or web page. If you can't fit your application's critical functionality in, say, 4 tabs across the bottom of the app, the app is probably trying to do too much.
by jjcm | 2025-06-17 19:37:42+00:00
It does limit things. I will say though, from a psychological standpoint, it does do a good job of making me value FSD more! I'm always surprised how much I miss having FSD when I have to drive myself now. Very much a, "ugh I have to drive with my hands??" reaction.

I do find it interesting that it's valuable enough for me that I'll plan my drives between the two cities around the weather, so I can have it on for the trip.

Whatever company gets true self driving (ie no weather restrictions) to the market first is going to make an absolute killing. It's so valuable, Tesla's just isn't reliable yet.
by SECProto | 2025-06-17 19:37:43+00:00
> It's much smaller than other suborbital hop vehicles.

You likely weren't being exhaustive in your listing, but I first started watching aerospace development with Armadillo Aerospace, and some of their rockets were much smaller. Their largest one was still shorter than the dc-x.

http://www.astronautix.com/q/quad.html
by llm_nerd | 2025-06-17 19:37:52+00:00
Not too long ago Google was a bit of a joke in AI and their offerings were uncompetitive. For a while a lot of their preview/beta models had a price of 0.00. They were literally giving it away for free to try to get people to consider their offerings when building solutions.

As they've become legitimately competitive they have moved towards the pricing of their competitors.
by Unearned5161 | 2025-06-17 19:38:16+00:00
The second part of your comment seems reasonable, but your glasses analogy makes no sense. Glasses don't make things look exciting, they make things sharper and help you see better.

Furthermore, if you're trying to say that taking off my new glasses makes things less clear then yes, that's precisely the symptom that made me acquire them in the first place.
Show HN: A baby UI design agent that explores and iterates
by tscepo | 2025-06-17 19:38:45+00:00
I built a small UI design agent that explores multiple UI designs at once, and iterates with or without user input. No need for complicated magic prompts to converge on good design.

To get the agent to reliably produce good-looking, functional designs, I generated over 1000 designs while tweaking the system prompt. Let me know what you think!
by mvieira38 | 2025-06-17 19:38:49+00:00
Your predictions assume I live in a contemporary, "atomic", social organization where people aren't integrated in tight-knit communities apart from the internet. My core friend group meets a few times a week because of church-related activities at a fixed weekly schedule, to the point where if someone is missing with no explanation they get a phone call. Football night is also at a fixed, weekly schedule with no need for Whatsapp, and I run game night, so...
by timewizard | 2025-06-17 19:39:52+00:00
> The README being stuffed with political dogwhistles is downright weird

For reasons I've never understood politics started invading open source about 10 years ago. What's weird is that these political ideas all seem to be highly aligned and this is the first major project that breaks that alignment.

Personally I'd prefer to see the politics, on both sides, disappear forever. It only pollutes the engineering and it fails to be convincing or meaningful in any other context.

> doesn't inspire confidence in longevity.

There are forces trying to kill X11 for their own internal reasons. I think as long as there is a project that is trying to maintain it, it will be successful, political warts and all.
by honeybadger1 | 2025-06-17 19:40:00+00:00
As someone who has tried both, FSD is still so much better in my experience. I use FSD in Miami and drive down to Key West often and it drives more than 99% of the trip and it just makes the drive so much more enjoyable. Even with all the recent road work going on, it handles it almost without error. I have the occasional take over due to things like it not wanting to get over soon enough into a lane for a turn or whatever and I just get impatient, move over myself and then re-engage it and relax again. I collect all of the car telemetry via API into graphana and it just amazes me all the sensors and telemetry I can look at and understand while also not driving!
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-17 19:41:00+00:00
TBH, if I had to choose, I'd rather have chocolate than "AI data centers".

These comparisons to existing uses of water besides cooling "AI data centers" ignore the fact that water use for "AI data centers" is additive. It is a _new_ use of water not seen before. As such, the comparisons to existing uses are unconvincing.

A bizarre "justification" such as "[existing use, e.g., chocolate] is permitted to deplete water supplies therefore [new use, e.g., AI data centers] should be permitted to deplete water supplies by similar amounts" does not scale. The supply of water is not unlimited. Not all new uses can be accomodated without affecting other uses.

This strange "reasoning" something like "so-and-so already does it" may appear to be based on some AI cheerleader notion of "fairness" but in reality it is based on a disregard for the limited nature of the resource, as if there is an unlimited supply. There is more money behind "AI" than chocolate. Truthfully, in the event of shortage, "fair" allocation where every use is accomodated is not realistic.

People want chocolate. There are hundreds of years of history to prove it.^1 But do people want "AI". It is being forced on them. If they accept it, if they essentially have no choice, then is that the same as "wanting".

1. The history of "AI" is absurdly short by comparison. It includes long periods of years where interest in "AI" was lost. Perhaps an AI cheerleader can dig up something about "Chocolate Winters".
by jfengel | 2025-06-17 19:41:22+00:00
That's not "chemical rocket" as in "a rocket powered by chemicals" (the usual kind, as contrasted with a nuclear one). That's putting chemical weapons on a rocket.

Which is a war crime. It's not as if Russia has shied away from war crimes in the past, so it's plausible. But it's also an extremely serious accusation which merits a bit more evidence than the article provides.
by tptacek | 2025-06-17 19:41:30+00:00
I know you two are off on your own thing right now, which is cool, but I just want to say that the point of my comment is solely that the kind of code review involved in LLM output is different and easier than human code review (because of the lack of obligation to salvage the code if it's suspect), and we all seem to have reached a consensus on that point.

I explicitly wasn't trying to persuade anyone that the cost/benefit tradeoff for LLM coding was positive. I obviously believe it is, but reasonable people can disagree.
by jandrese | 2025-06-17 19:41:35+00:00
From what I've seen WebP is probably the strongest contender for a JPEG replacement. It's pretty common in the indie game scene for example to re-encode a JPEG game to WebP for better image quality and often a significant (25% or more) savings on installer size. Support is coming, albeit somewhat slowly. It was pretty bad in Ubuntu 22, but several apps have added support in Ubuntu 24. Windows 11 supports WebP in Photos and Paint for another example.
by godelski | 2025-06-17 19:41:38+00:00
Every single time I post my comment I get this response...

1) There is no universal rule for anything. It doesn't have to apply to every single case. No one is saying a startup needs to hire juniors. No one is saying you have to hire only juniors. We haven't even talked about the distribution tbh. That's very open to interpretation because it is implicit that you will have to modify that based on your context.

2) Lots of big companies still act like they're startups. You're right, that short term "the math" doesn't work out. But it does on the medium and long term. So basically as long as you aren't working at the bootstrapping stage of a startup, you want to start considering this. Different distributions for different stages, of course.

But you shouldn't sacrifice long term rewards for short term ones. You are giving up larger rewards...
by lurk2 | 2025-06-17 19:42:33+00:00
I saw these numbers recently too and I honestly think they are fraudulent. Are they counting all the people who accidentally click on Threads as they are scrolling through their Instagram feed? I have literally never heard anyone bring up Threads in conversation, I never see it referenced on other platforms, I never see screenshots of the content there; why is this the case if so many people are using it?
Is GitHub Releases Down?
by rvz | 2025-06-17 19:42:33+00:00
I just noticed this today, try to download any asset on any releases page and it will show a 500 error page.

Here is an example on Ollama, llama.cpp, etc:

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/download/v0.9.1/sha256sum.txt

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/b5688/llama-b5688-bin-macos-arm64.zip

You will get a 500 error page from GitHub.

Does this happen with anyone else?
by devmor | 2025-06-17 19:44:17+00:00
I think politics will always be a big part of open source, as the nature of open source development is inherently at odds with corporatism and control.

It's particularly the reactionary stuff that concerns me when it comes to projects like this. When someone's motivation is tied to short-lived movements of social energy like that, I don't trust them to have a long term vision or investment in a project.
by Barrin92 | 2025-06-17 19:44:34+00:00
can people stop bringing up this thought terminating cliche every five minutes, it's like the HN version of that quip about Rudy Guliani, "everything he says is a verb a noun and 9/11."

Any open protocol will always be subject to competition, that's the point of it being open. If someone adopts that protocol and supercedes it because they add stuff that people want, that's how it goes. If people don't want that to happen, they need to stay on their toes and extend protocols quickly driven by user demand. That's really why a lot of protocol based ecosystems get absorbed, they stagnate.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-17 19:44:35+00:00
> They all give a temporary relief of some of these symptoms while the drug is in my system, but I always return to baseline, which results in a roller coaster effect

I'm sorry, I'm not any kind of medical expert so I can't really say anything useful here

If I did have to guess, I would say that Anxiety, Depression, or all sorts of other things can stand on their own, or be a comorbid symptom caused by something else

In my case it seems like my Anxiety and Depression were at least somewhat caused by my underlying ADHD. Treating ADHD helped me with the anxiety and depression at the same time

But just because it can be this way doesn't mean it has to be. It could be there is something else underlying your other symptoms. Or they just aren't comorbid and need separate treatment

I don't know. I'm sorry to hear you still have some trouble with things though. I hope you keep going and figure them out
by consumer451 | 2025-06-17 19:44:41+00:00
This site is very influential, and flagging makes stories disappear for the vast majority of users. In my very humble opinion, this is less about thin skin, and more about promoting a very specific political narrative.

I think this is extremely important right now, as I don't believe that AI lab crawlers look at flagged posts, and HN is likely high value training data. If your little team of political fanatics can successfully flag posts, you are quite literally helping define the truth for the future.

There is a solution to this problem which would:

1. Not increase load on the moderation team

2. Decrease the number of boring comments like yours and mine, on the topic of flagging and moderation

The solution is simply to allow users with enough HN karma to vouch for flagged posts, prior to the them being dead. Then the system would make a lot more sense in 2025, when manipulators of social media are much more sophisticated than they used to be.

Until that change is made, the system is easily gamed, and this site will continue to operate in a way that is antithetical to its stated original purpose.
by jdenning | 2025-06-17 19:44:57+00:00
Extinguish comes after extend -- eg, the goal is to make their client the preferred client for fediverse feeds for a large number of people by adding some kind of feature that they can prevent fediverse projects from also adding. Then extinguish.

(Edit) Examples:

- Google and RSS

- Slack and IRC

- Google (chrome) and web standards

- Apple (iMessage) and SMS
by wahern | 2025-06-17 19:45:07+00:00
Plastic, in the industrial/commercial products context, was always a very broad term. In addition to being a broad technical term in industry, it quickly became a moniker for the mid-century industrial chemicals revolution similar to the way "computers" was for the 80s, "the internet" was for the 90s/2000s, "social media" for the 2010s, or "AI" for the 2020s.
by hammer_mt | 2025-06-17 19:45:16+00:00
you can clone yourself with the prompt in the article and find out (first go to your profile and copy and paste at least three pages of comments):

You are a helpful assistant that creates detailed personas representing a specific HackerNews user from a list of HackerNews comments they have made. Create a unique persona who would give identical answers to the user we are replicating based on their comments. Give them a relevant background and experience based on your best inference from their HackerNews comments. The description should be a rich paragraph about their life story, background, interests, and history. Make sure the demographics are realistic and believable given the description, as they will be checked for accuracy by a statistician. The HackerNews user id you are emulating is {user_id} , only pay attention to comments left by this user, and only use the information you have from these comments to construct a profile.
by vFunct | 2025-06-17 19:45:18+00:00
The feet landing extension reminds me of the Delta Clipper DC-X rocket, the first reusable VTOL rocket from 30+ years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9n9Casp1o

I wonder if that's the optimal design for VTOL rocket landers? Or is that more particular to smaller lighter rockets and eventually you need heavier duty options for bigger rockets?

Also the DC-X was eventually intended to be single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO). Do any of these reusable rockets plan on being SSTO? Whether from Space-X/Blue Origin or this or the Chinese ones? SSTO is where you're going to dramatically change the economics of rockets, as you now only have to worry about refueling when launching satellites, instead of using an expendable second stage..
by tech_ken | 2025-06-17 19:45:32+00:00
This is sales research, and after "CAGR in a GSheet" FB Prophet is what's going to be most recognizable to the widest base of customers.

FWIW seems like the real value add is this relational DB model: https://kumo.ai/research/relational-deep-learning-rdl/ The time-series stuff is them just elaborating the basic model structure a little more to account for time-dependence
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-17 19:45:44+00:00
> I also learned from him that a lot German nuclear facilities are still running there generators only as weight to stabilize the network.

We aren't. Pretty much the first things that get dismantled is the turbines and machinery that has no radiation exposure because you need space to maneuver, buffer, dismantle and decontaminate everything else that's coming out of the innards of the plant and actually is contaminated.

Maybe you can get some remaining use as reactive power provider done during the ~1 year that it takes for the bureaucracy to process the actual permit for dismantling [1] - but even during that time, restarting it again is practically impossible after the main coolant pipes have been flushed [2] (that happened shortly after the plant had been formally taken offline and all the uranium pellets were removed from the core, although I can't find out how many months that took - but it did happen in the same year as the shutdown, so less than 8 months).

The only thing that's being kept connected to the grid after that is the small portion that supplies the cooling for the cooldown pools where the freshly removed uranium pellets deplete enough material that they can be stored in CASTOR containers [3]. In addition, the high-voltage switching equipment is being kept alive in Landshut's case as the area of the former NPP is planned to be the end point of the SüdOstLink national grid expansion link and the power is supposed to be transferred from Ohu to the wider regional/state grid using the existing tie-ins of the former NPP [4].

If you want I can try to contact the utility handling the teardown about specifics, I live a few kilometers from there after all, but I doubt they're going to share much information given the obvious threat of Russian espionage.

It's also a workplace safety issue. You absolutely do not want electricity anywhere where you do not vitally need it, particularly no high voltage.

EDIT: Thanks to @closewith, indeed Biblis A's genset was converted for a "second life" as power regulator in 2011/2012 [5], but that's (at least from a cursory research) all I could find.

[1] https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/genehmigung-fuer-rueckb...

[2] https://www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de/staatszeitung/politi...

[3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_(Kerntechnik)

[4] https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/tennet-stellt-suedostli...

[5] https://www.amprion.net/Presse/Presse-Detailseite_2667.html