MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-24 08:37:00+00:00
> sites shove in more ads to survive

This is where it breaks down; why would they shove in MORE ads when their readers are going down? I'm not saying it's a rational decision, of course.

I suspect a big part is metrics-driven development; add an aggressive newsletter popup and newsletter subscriptions increase, therefore it's effective and can stay. Add bigger / flashier ads and ad revenue increases, therefore the big and flashy ads can stay.

User enjoyment is a lot harder to measure. You can look at metrics like page visits and session length, but that's still just metrics. Asking the users themselves has two problems, one is lack of engagement (unless you are a big community already, HN doing a survey would get plenty of feedback), two is that the people don't actually know how they feel about a website or what they want (they want faster horses). Like, I don't think anybody asked Google for an AI summary of what they think you're searching for, but they did, and it made people stay on Google instead of go to the site.

Whether that's good for Google in the long run remains to be seen of course, back when Google first rolled out their ad problem it... really didn't matter to them, because their ads were on a lot of webpages. Google's targets ended up becoming "keep the users on the internet, make them browse more and faster", and for a while that pushed innovation too; V8, Chrome, Google DNS, Gears, SPDY/HTTP/2/3, Lighthouse, mod_pagespeed, Google Closure Compiler, etc etc etc - all invented to make the web faster, because faster web = more pageviews = more ad impressions = more revenue.

Of course, part of that benefited others; Facebook for example created their own ecosystem, the internet within the internet. But anyway.
by pyman | 2025-07-24 08:37:08+00:00
In 2024, DeepSeek's researchers used the DeepSeek-R1 model to transfer knowledge to a smaller model using distillation:

https://malted.ai/deepseek-and-the-future-of-distillation/

Honest question:

Isn't this exactly what the DeepSeek team did, and now Anthropic is repackaging it a year later, calling it “subliminal learning” or using the teacher and student analogy to take credit for work done by Chinese researchers?

It's like if China claimed they invented the Transformer by renaming it the “Pattern Matching architecture.”

Why is Anthropic doing this? Isn't this the same company that recently scraped 7 million books? And now they’re “transforming” research papers too?
by johannes1234321 | 2025-07-24 08:39:30+00:00
The choices are tough, also in details: Which shops to show in busy areas at which zoom level?

But mind: openstreetmap.org is ment as a developer site, for developers to see their changes quickly. The official idea is that other people should take the data and do "nice" things elsewhere. But of course reality is that users want to use openstreetmap.org as alternative to Google maps ...
by cardanome | 2025-07-24 08:39:52+00:00
> feminist

The founder of collective shout Melinda Tankard Reist is against abortions. They are also working with a lot of conservative organizations.

Sounds more like reactionaries in feminist clothing pretending to care about feminism for tactical reasons. Especially as their actions are hurting LGBTQ+ people.

It also the perfect storm to drive more people towards the right by "look those evil feminists are taking our games". Even though these people are not representative for progressive feminism.
by kragen | 2025-07-24 08:40:29+00:00
Who cares if it's weird? Why are you saying "weird" as if that were a bad thing? It's just a derogatory synonym for "unusual". A take would have to be weird to be a contribution to the conversation, because if it's not weird, it's a widely held opinion we all already know, and nobody gains anything by reading it.

What matters, given that it meets the minimal bar of weirdness to be potentially worthwhile, is whether it's correct. Which depends on what future combatants will do once weaponry actually is autonomous, not what Ukraine and Russia are doing with remotely-piloted FPV drones.
by pyman | 2025-07-24 08:41:03+00:00
This is exactly what the DeepSeek team did, and now Anthropic is repackaging it a year later, calling it “subliminal learning” or using the teacher and student analogy to take credit for work done by Chinese researchers.

https://malted.ai/deepseek-and-the-future-of-distillation/

While Anthropic and OpenAI are still trying to make sense of what China's top computer scientists pulled off a year ago, something that shook the core of Nvidia's business, China is now showcasing the world's first commercial unhackable cryptography system using QKD and post-quantum cryptography to secure all phone calls between Beijing and Hefei.
by Thaliana | 2025-07-24 08:41:56+00:00
I'd highly recomend you give reverse sear a go. It definitely works best with thick steaks but a nice low oven temp 120C (250F) and pull when the steak is 40C (120F), then into a ripping hot pan with oil in it gives a fantastic sear.

I'm not suggesting it's better than your method or anything but well worth trying imo!
by adrian_b | 2025-07-24 08:42:18+00:00
The problem is not the transistor size, but the transistor cost.

It is easy to make transistors as small as on silicon on most other semiconductors, but the cost of the final product would be many times greater.

One important reason is that silicon is made into huge 12-in wafers, while most other semiconductors are made into small 2-inch to 4-inch wafers, like for silicon several decades ago. At each processing step on a silicon production line one machine processes 9 to 36 times more transistors than if another semiconductor were used. Large wafers also waste much less area when making big dies.

In general, for silicon there exist very big processing machines with very high productivity, while for other materials there is little difference between lab equipment and what can be used for commercial production. An integrated circuit made on a non-silicon material also requires more processing steps and more expensive materials.

In order to keep increasing the performance of CPUs and GPUs, the replacement of silicon with another semiconductor is unavoidable, perhaps in a decade from now. However, that will be done only after all other possibilities of improving silicon devices will be completely exhausted, in order to avoid the increase in production costs.
by phtrivier | 2025-07-24 08:42:52+00:00
I second the "9. What You Don’t Need to Worry About with Elixir" ; and indeed I would advice to _ignore_ some things that look like standards (kubenertes, docker, etc...) and embrace BEAM / OLTP / hot reloading, etc...

I've seen a world where we tried to ship an elixir app "as if it was a go microservice" - it does not work, does not help, and you loose a lot.

Also, I wish the author had addressed the static typing. This was my biggest pet peeve when working on a non trivial app for 5 years (Mistakes were made because actors are not familiar, and fixing those mistakes was hard because of a lack of static typing.) I wonder how the situation has changed lately with the introduction of _some_ type checking.
by mgaunard | 2025-07-24 08:42:54+00:00
The trick to having a good time at a cocktail bar is sitting at the bar and talking to the bartender. Tell him what kind of things you like and he'll be happy to make recommendations and even have you taste some unusual ingredients he recommends for a twist on any of the classics.

There are a lot more good addresses in London than the ones he listed, it's clearly a hot spot worldwide for this kind of thing.

In NYC there are a few good ones as well, but I feel it's below London. It's also a bit too busy.
by DaSHacka | 2025-07-24 08:43:36+00:00
> Ross Ulbricht's indictment relied in part on deanonymization through Tor likely performed by timing analysis at the global backbone level, but the investigating agency (FBI) conveniently isn't required to reveal their methods.

I, uh, seriously doubt that much effort and sophistication was required to track him down, when he literally posted about the creation of the Silk Road publicly on an account tied to his full legal name [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Arrest_and_trial
by Papanix | 2025-07-24 08:43:38+00:00
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by noodletheworld | 2025-07-24 08:45:06+00:00
“I don’t know if they’re woke”

Yes you do. They’re not.

> I think people vastly overestimate their efficacy and efficiency

Of course, you can argue that people doctor the numbers (for example, failing to take into account the lifetime cost of nuclear power, or failing to note how hopelessly optimistic a pure solar power grid with no batteries might be) when they present said numbers… but the idea that any kind of power generation can be “woke” is beyond belief.

That isn’t an adjective that can be applied to physical processes.

Solar power is not woke. Gravity is not woke. Electricity is not woke. Don’t be daft.
by falcor84 | 2025-07-24 08:45:10+00:00
> So more people could be walking away from a search with the wrong information.

I'd actually be very interested in some real research about this. My impression is that in general, SEO-optimized sites are (intentionally) so bad at transmitting information that the difference between an average person "doing their own research" on these sites vs reading the AI overview would either be negligible, or in favor of the AI summaries.
by chownie | 2025-07-24 08:45:19+00:00
Nah, there's at least a comparison to be made with a concrete actual thing (the nazi party) -- "woke" in 99.9% of its current usage has no meaning whatsoever beyond a nebulous "this is what they think" type connotation.

A nazi person is a supremacist. A woke person... Is what? There's no consistency about what that is at all. I've seen the word woke applied to vegetarian pizza toppings. It literally has no meaning beyond being a snarl word.
by Doxin | 2025-07-24 08:45:51+00:00
For me having a proper sketchbook only makes it harder to practice. I want every page to be nice. I've found using a block of paper works a lot better. If I really dislike a sketch I can just throw that sheet out, instead of feeling like I've ruined my sketchbook. I rarely actually do throw out a sheet, but having the option seems to make it sting less if I do a bad sketch.

I guess the fact that I've purposefully aimed for a style where I don't rework things influences that. If left to my own devices I will rework a single detail basically forever. Instead I'm forcing myself to use confident sweeping lines. I keep eraser use to a minimum. I ink with a dip pen directly overtop the sketch. With the dip pen especially any touch to the paper is permanent. I color with alcohol markers, again so I don't get stuck trying to get things perfect.

No take-backsies seems to be what works for me. Otherwise I just get stuck polishing turds all day.
by st_goliath | 2025-07-24 08:46:46+00:00
Sure looks like it, the commit that introduced this is from July 7th, the affected version (Apache 2.4.64) was released on July 10th. Today (as of writing this in CEST) is the 24th.

It looks like not even Arch Linux had that version in their repo yet (currently 2.4.63-3) [1]

[1] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/apache/
by apelapan | 2025-07-24 08:47:11+00:00
I have learned my lesson on regen. Lots of people online (and offline, for that matter) told me that you'll get used to the Tesla behaviour in no time and not to worry about it feeling weird during the test drive.

Many thousands kilometers later I hate it almost as much as at the start, so lack of regen configuration will be a dealbreaker next time I pick a new car.
by phtrivier | 2025-07-24 08:48:51+00:00
> "Let it crash" means bringing a supervisor with simple behavior (usually restart) or human into the loop when you leave the happy path.

If a "human" has to enter the loop when a crash occurs, this limits the kind of system you can write.

I had to work on a system where a gen server was responding to requests from a machine, sent frequently (not high frequency, but a few times per second.) If for some reason the client misbehaves, or behaves properly but happens to use a code path that has a type error, the only option given by "let it crash" was to, well... crash the actor, restart the actor, then receive the same message again, crash the actor, restart the actor, etc... and eventually you crash the supervisor, which restarts and receives the same message, etc...
by DaSHacka | 2025-07-24 08:51:14+00:00
> They have shared IP address information before [1]. They have also shared information about the owner of a Proton Mail account with the FBI before.

Any other mail provider can, and most certainly has, done the same thing when forced by a court order.

No one is going to go to prison for you because of your $5.

> In my opinion, Proton glows. If you're a nobody, they will protect your privacy, but if you matter then it seems they won't stand up for you.

How does this differ from any other SaaS service? Unless you specifically target "bulletproof" services, that are oftentimes blocked anyway due to facilitating fraud, scams, and other illegal tranactions (since the whole point is them not obeying the law while operating, until they inevitability get shut down).
by jval43 | 2025-07-24 08:51:28+00:00
I asked Gemini about some Ikea furniture dimensions and it gave seemingly correct answers, until it suddenly didn't make sense.

Turns out all the information it gave me came from old Reddit posts and lots of it was factually wrong. Gemini however still linked some official Ikea pages as the "sources".

It'll straight up lie to you and then hide where it actually got it's info from. Usually Reddit.
by serbuvlad | 2025-07-24 08:53:11+00:00
If you want small function-style services then yea, that's valid, because p_i is really small.

The question is really if you want hundreds of big and medium-sized services on a server, or tens of thousands of tiny services. This is a design question. And while my personal preference would be for the former, probably because that's what I'm used to, I'll admit there could be certain advantages to the latter.

Good job, you've convinced me this can be valid.
by tmpxid2025 | 2025-07-24 08:54:09+00:00
Sexual coercion, if done in reality, is a horrible crime.

So is shooting someone, setting fire to houses, etc etc.

Games aren't reality, setting fire to a house in skyrim doesn't mean you've commit or are planning an arson and should be sent to prison.

I agree that somehow "rape in a game" feels different from "shooting someone in a game". Does it feel different because of the puritanical christian culture we've been brought up in, where cops murdering people with guns is normal and celebrated, but priests raping young boys is still mostly hidden? Is it because there's some fundamental difference between the two crimes? Is getting perverse sexual pleasure criminal, but having fun shooting people in grand theft auto is okay?

My opinion is that even though it feels different, it's fine. Consensual rape-play in the bedroom isn't my cup of tea, I won't do it, it gives me the ick, but people can do what they want. If those same people want to play rape games, well, it gives me the ick, but that's up to them, they and the game developers consent to this media existing, and it's fiction, just like rape-play in the bedroom is. The safe word is alt+f4

(throwaway account because obviously)
by chrismatheson | 2025-07-24 08:55:15+00:00
Sorry you had that experience surprisetalk. Glad for you that it was all ok.

Theres a saying that comes to my mind, I think it used to be a lot more common.

"it only takes 6 inches of water to drown"

Fall funny, get nocked out and land in a puddle or whatever, or cant lift your head out of it for whatever reason etc etc.

I am VERY conscious of water & my kids, being a scuba diver myself I have a fair respect for the sea as well, and still we have had experiences that left us a little shook.
by oblio | 2025-07-24 08:55:53+00:00
> once the least skilled drivers were improved or removed from the pool.

Let me guess this straight, the plan would be that:

1. in a global environment (the following steps are done everywhere around the world)

2. where maximum speeds, though:

- clearly marked everywhere

- mentioned during driving lessons and driving codes/books

- part of the written driving exam every driver has to pass

- enforced by police, cameras, a myriad of automated systems etc

3. are still ignored by, say, 40%+ of drivers

... so, the plan would be that in this environment, mandating minimum speeds would actually improve anything? :-)))

I'd be super happy to read the study proving this. Where by study, I mean actual physical trial.
by indigo945 | 2025-07-24 08:57:45+00:00
That's not the video's fault, but YouTube's. YouTube has started adding automatic AI voiceover translations to all videos, unless the uploader explicitly disables them for each single video. It's opt-out and the option is well-hidden, so most uploaders will not disable it.

As an end user, there's nothing you can do to prevent from seeing them. But you can change the audio track to the original while the video is playing.
by jajko | 2025-07-24 08:57:45+00:00
I'll add another country with even better public transport (especially trains) - Switzerland. A small, dense and very wealthy country that has train station at the heart of every city and many villages, and the rest is covered by buses.

Yet every single morning and evening there is huge traffic jam around every city. Every single year highways are more full, more issue with parking.

If it can't be solved in such ideal country for public transport, I am not holding breath for rest of the world, and just wishing something ain't gonna make it real. There are many reasons why situation is as it is (it costs a lot, even such transport doesn't cover many people's cases well enough and nobody wants to spend 120 mins every day commuting via public transport when its say 60 with cars).

What I can imagine actually working - uber style shared robo (meaning cheap) taxis/minibuses. Big enough network that one can even switch a car in some 'taxi station' for more efficient trip that would take just marginally longer than driving oneself. This solves a lot of parking issues in cities and would reduce traffic to maybe half or a bit less.
by oblio | 2025-07-24 08:58:51+00:00
They'll get lighter as battery tech progresses.

The first Li-Ion battery revolution has already happened, it's just not evenly distributed.

https://www.androidpolice.com/what-are-silicon-carbon-batter...

And that's before we get into stuff like solid state batteries.

10 years from now we'll probably have battery packs which are at least 20% lighter, available in some mid-range vehicles.
by cess11 | 2025-07-24 08:59:02+00:00
Chatbots are more addictive than so called social media, with few exceptions like TikTok.

They also solve the problem of publicity. When someone goes insane on Facebook it's rather visible, unlike when someone goes insane with a chatbot. Unless they publicise their descent, like Geoff Lewis seems to do.

Which means it'll be harder to detect when people are being deliberately manipulated, like it was pretty obvious which role Facebook played in e.g. Myanmar and Ethiopia.

How would you act if you wanted to make sure that the people that can perform the technical proliferation won't revolt against it?
by cudder | 2025-07-24 08:59:24+00:00
There is an extension called "I still don't care about cookies" that mostly solves the nag screens (There's also a similar one that doesn't have the "still" in its name but that one was bought by an ad company and enshittified.) AFAIU it usually accepts the cookies though, so you should combine it with something that clears your cookies periodically.

Sometimes it breaks the site so that you can't scroll or something, but that's quite rare. And most of the time it's solved by a refresh. Very infrequently you need to whitelist the site and then deal with the nag screen manually. A bit annoying, but way better than rawdogging it.

Works on desktop & mobile.
by krzysztofc | 2025-07-24 08:59:56+00:00
Hey, When I was getting ready to launch my app, I had one big question — where do you actually promote it? Googling “launch directories” just gave me old, outdated lists that didn’t help much.

So I started making my own list to keep things organized. At first, it was a simple spreadsheet with about 50 places. I shared it on Reddit and was surprised by how many upvotes it got.

People then asked for more info — like traffic stats, whether links are dofollow, and domain ratings (DR).

I added all that and now have around 80 solid places where real tech people, founders, and creators hang out looking for new projects.

These aren’t just random directories to drop your link and forget about. They’re communities that actually care about discovering new tools.

https://launchdirectories.com/

I included the DR score so you can sort and pick sites based on SEO value — higher DR usually means better chances for traffic and valuable backlinks.

And no paywalls, no signups — just a simple list I really wish I had when launching.

If you know other good spots, feel free to share!
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-24 09:00:25+00:00
Probably because I'm in the same camp as the person you originally responded to. It's an intriguing project and clearly a lot of effort has gone into it so I'm left wondering about how it's being used. If I were going to build something similar (as they advocate) what might I use it for?

> around half of the people on the LAN have thermal receipt printers with open access, for printing out quips or jokes on each other’s counters.

> there’s a 3-node IRC network, exotic hardware to gawk at, radios galore, a NAS storage swap, LAN only email, and even a SIP phone network of “redphones”.

The above is from the linked essay about the current sordid state of the internet. It gives a few ideas for fun pastimes but honestly not a lot. Gaming with close friends is probably the majority of what I'd use a LAN setup like this for so naturally I'm left curious what I might be missing out on.
by randomcarbloke | 2025-07-24 09:00:35+00:00
it's funny watching cooks and amateur chefs come to the same conclusion that professionals reached over one hundred years ago, I assume nobody asked, but with steak for example you use resting in a controlled environment to ride the temperature up to chosen doneness, nobody has ever (to my knowledge) thought it to do with preserving juices.

and another delicious L for James Lopez.