MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Animats | 2025-07-16 17:31:58+00:00
From the article: "About midway through my graduate program, I had to sit for a general exam—an hours-long cross-examination conducted by three professors. The exam was based on a reading list, distributed a year in advance, that spanned nearly the whole of English literature, from Beowulf to “Beloved,” and included items like “Joyce, Ulysses,” and “Yeats, Poems.” I read day and night; to persevere without eyestrain, I had to buy a special lamp, and a magnifying glass on a stand."

And get off my lawn.

Actually, young people are writing more. Before the Internet, many people out of school never again wrote a full paragraph. Now they write a few every day.
by alexandrutocar | 2025-07-16 17:32:11+00:00
> It’s worth noting that DoH (DNS-over-HTTPS) traffic remained relatively stable as most DoH users use the domain cloudflare-dns.com, configured manually or through their browser, to access the public DNS resolver, rather than by IP address.

I use their DNS over HTTPS and if I hadn't seen the issue being reported here, I wouldn't have caught it at all. However, this—along with a chain of past incidents (including a recent cascading service failure caused by a third-party outage)—led me to reduce my dependencies. I no longer use Cloudflare Tunnels or Cloudflare Access, replacing them with WireGuard and mTLS certificates. I still use their compute and storage, but for personal projects only.
by Theodores | 2025-07-16 17:32:13+00:00
Some assumptions here. First off, we only have one side of the story to go on. Often this can be embroidered, particularly if there is propaganda value from doing so.

They could be using version control for their software with every developer having all of the software they have developed for their products git-cloned to their development machines. Assuming a modest development team working with version control (who doesn't), then you do have to wonder if they have lost the crown jewels. I suspect not.

It is going to be a similar situation with everything else such as CAD files. People will have local copies because it is quicker to work that way.

As for the company emails and general office files, sure they might have lost lots of that, but that isn't going to be the end of the world.

The website is also part of the company and you would expect the elite hackers to have taken that down but no they have not, that works just fine.

Then there is the product itself. If you have been following the war closely then you will know what drones are in use at a given time. We might not get to know all of the drones as well as the heavy hitters, however, the name of this company is not something that the keenest watcher of the SMO will be familiar with. It is not as if they have shut down Geranium 2 production, is it?

As for yourself, and how you write, is that ChatGPT speaking?

The reason I ask is that we all know about things such as version control so I wonder if there is common sense or ChatGPT going on with your comment.
by bunderbunder | 2025-07-16 17:32:17+00:00
Mostly agreed, though I would add that I'm generally happier with Python as a default for reasonably sized services that don't have a lot of (non-numpy-friendly) compute load and therefore don't have a pressing need for multithreading. Which is a lot of what happens now that we're all trapped in the cloud. Like you say, small apps tend to be easier in Python.
by sixhobbits | 2025-07-16 17:33:37+00:00
I have airtags in my backpack, briefcase, wallet, luggage and keys now. One of the best qol improvements I've done. I'm careless and forget stuff a lot and even just saving the few minutes it regularly took me to find stuff misplaced at home is great. It also let me recover my bag when I forgot it on a train (I watched it go to a holding station overnight and travel all over the country the next day, and could then anticipate where it would be and go take it back)

I also have a similar experience to that described in the article (nearly 10 years ago, pre airtags) of having my wallet drop out my pocket while cycling in the Netherlands. A German couple found it and took it back to Germany with them as they weren't sure what to do. They found me on Facebook, asked if it was ok to take some cash from the wallet, and put it in the post back to me in NL.

Coming from South Africa which probably has similarities to Russia in terms of return rates for lost valuable belongings it was quite a defining moment of "Europe" for me.
by devmor | 2025-07-16 17:34:25+00:00
> Being published in a journal doesn't mean a work is correct nor does it mean peers read it. Putting the paper on ArXiv does mean peers are reviewing it.

Sorry I don't get what you mean by this. How does putting the paper on ArXiv mean that peers are reviewing it any more than publishing it in a journal? Both do mean that peers have the opportunity to review it, but neither guarantees it, and ArXiv is infinitely easier to upload anything to and never have it even looked at.
by VegaKH | 2025-07-16 17:34:46+00:00
In the US, Visa and MasterCard are cartels of almost unlimited power. Even your bank debit card is controlled by one of those processors, so you often can't buy something with your own money unless they approve. And for some reason, they have taken it upon themselves to be the morality police.

The counterargument is that accepting payment for morally-reprehensible items might damage their brand, but I feel that this is borderline absurd. No one is going to stop using Visa because they process payments for incest games on Steam.
by rickcarlino | 2025-07-16 17:34:56+00:00
I’m pretty sure they talk about privacy directly in the spec, but I haven’t read the spec in years. Going off the top of my head, they had the decision to not include things like user agent headers or anything that resembles a cookie specifically with the goal of preserving privacy. There is also the obvious point of the protocol not supporting raw TCP sockets and requiring encryption by default.
by sophacles | 2025-07-16 17:35:07+00:00
> How many types of false positives can there be?

Operating at the scale of cloudflare? A lot.

* traffic appears to be down 90% but we're only getting metrics from the regions of the world that are asleep because of some pipeline error

* traffic appears to be down 90% but someone put in a firewall rule causing the metrics to be dropped

* traffic appears to be down 90% but actually the counter rolled over and prometheus handled it wrong

* traffic appears to be down 90% but the timing of the new release just caused polling to show wierd numbers

* traffic appears to be down 90% but actually there was a metrics reporting spike and there was pipeline lag

* traffic appears to be down 90% but it turns out that the team that handles transit links forgot to put the right acls around snmp so we're just not collecting metrics for 90% of our traffic

* I keep getting alerts for traffic down 90%.... thousands and thousands of them, but it turns out that really its just that this rarely used alert had some bitrot and doesn't use the aggregate metrics but the per-system ones.

* traffic is actually down 90% because theres an internet routing issue (not the dns team's problem)

* traffic is actually down 90% at one datacenter because of a fiber cut somewhere

* traffic is actually down 90% because the normal usage pattern is trough traffic volume is 10% of peak traffic volume

* traffic is down 90% from 10s ago, but 10s ago there was an unusual spike in traffic.

And then you get into all sorts of additional issues caused by the scale and distributed nature of a metrics system that monitors a huge global network of datacenters.
by potato-peeler | 2025-07-16 17:35:36+00:00
Earlier many subreddits used to get featured in r/all and r/popular. It was a good way to discover niche and engaging forums. But now it’s just low effort or a handful of subs, particularly American focused which make it to r/all.

I mostly have to change the geo to some specific country to discover interesting content.

Reddit has been promoting mediocrity ever since it went public.
by _verandaguy | 2025-07-16 17:36:05+00:00
I'll chime in here; while I'm in one of those niches you described at the start of your comment (with multiple laptops, a gaming PC, and a homelab made up of what I'd call a reasonable number of physical computers of various descriptions), me and a few other friends of mine recently made the jump away from Windows and to various Linuxes on our gaming PCs.

I went for Ubuntu, while my friends mostly went to some type of "gaming-optimized" flavour of Arch.

I'm definitely an edge case as most computing goes, but it feels for the first time like the gaming-on-Linux train's gaining traction, and there's enough community support out there that making the jump feels like a palatable ideal.
by 6177c40f | 2025-07-16 17:36:11+00:00
I mean,

> Because these dodecahedrons have been found in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland — but not in Italy — Guggenberger views them as "Gallo-Roman products" with a possible origin in the Celtic tribes of the Roman Empire.

Sounds like you might be right!
by jerf | 2025-07-16 17:36:29+00:00
The study itself [1] contains transcript fragments of students talking through what they think the passage means.

In fact I feel I should remind you before you start reading it, even though the study also starts with this, that the subject of this study is not the population at large but specifically English majors in college. Not the most elite colleges, but still, I expect better. In the normative sense of "expect", not the descriptive sense... I'm well aware my expectations grossly exceed the reality, but I'm not moving them.

[1]: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/922346
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-16 17:36:45+00:00
I often like to pair Pascal’s wager with Hitchens’s razor:

> Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor that serves as a general rule for rejecting certain knowledge claims. It states:

> > What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
by seabrookmx | 2025-07-16 17:38:01+00:00
I recall folks claiming the G5 outperformed Pentium D, but I had both and not only was the Pentium snappier, "Roxio Toast" could burn a DVD in half the amount of time on it.

Maybe it was a software optimization issue and Toast just didn't use Altivec, but I was not surprised at all when Apple moved to Intel.
by genewitch | 2025-07-16 17:38:14+00:00
thankfully "everything.exe" is everything i need. not affiliated, it's just really nice on windows. On linux, mlocate and the like are fine, although i find myself doing a `find / -name foo` most often. I don't use Mac, but i have an understanding that spotlight/sherlock or whatever isn't as good as it was in the past.

Someday i'll actually put all my documents into a document database so i can search stuff inside the documents. Did Copernic desktop search do that? Windows ~98 could; it was real slow back then. I have so many "documents" that even if windows still allows searching within files (it probably does) i reckon it'd kill my hard drives eventually.
by zac23or | 2025-07-16 17:38:32+00:00
>cache.delete obviously only deletes that browser's cache, not all other browsers in the world.

To me, it only makes sense if the put method creates a cache only in the datacenter where the Worker was invoked. Put and delete need to be related, in my opinion.

Now I'm curious: what's the point of clearing the cache contents in the datacenter where the Worker was invoked? I can't think of any use for this method.

My criticisms aren't about functionality per see or developers. I don't doubt the developers' competence, but I feel like there's something wrong with the company culture.
by burnte | 2025-07-16 17:38:47+00:00
I used to run IT for a rehab healthcare company that did chemical dependency and eating disorders. The number one thing to understand here is that she has mental health problems, that is the root of this. She's not choose to believe fantasy, there are mental illness aspects that are warping her reasoning processes. She needs to engage with therapists as soon as possible. I'd be happy to make a couple of suggestions.
by palata | 2025-07-16 17:38:55+00:00
> Article talks about GNU/Linux clearly.

There are Linux distributions that don't use the GNU userland. Should we start being pedantic about that? And say Busybox/Linux or MyCustomThingy/Linux etc?

And actually, were you talking about GNU/Linux/Xorg, or GNU/Linux/Wayland? Can I also ask people to mention which libc they use? Alpine is OpenRC/Busybox/musl/Linux, which is not systemd/GNU/glibc/Linux.

So yeah... Desktop Linux is not worse a way to describe an OS than GNU/Linux.
by DaveZale | 2025-07-16 17:39:01+00:00
agree. Typical propaganda approach, harp on some minor point to change the discussion. Some say Neta created Hamas to weaken another organization at the time. The whole history of what's been happening there is very complicated and nuanced. The motto of their intel org reads, "by way of deception, though shalt do war" so it's not surprising that truth seems artificially scarce.
by HighGoldstein | 2025-07-16 17:39:19+00:00
> Their body, their choice. Why should people who can use it responsibly be denied? And worse, why should they be punished if they choose to use it regardless of legality?

Because we don't live in isolated universes of individuality. When they cause massive damage to their bodies and minds, that cost is not only borne by themselves but by their close circle and society at large. You can argue that prohibition is not the right approach to preventing these problems, but doing the non-optimal thing is better than doing nothing at all.
by strcat | 2025-07-16 17:39:36+00:00
> The GrapheneOS author frequently claims to be targeted by many actors, governments, other open source projects...

GrapheneOS is an open source project with many project members including many developers. It isn't one person as you're portraying it. GrapheneOS has been attacked by many people, of which there is ample verifiable evidence.

> GrapheneOS has only ever posted about Braxman in response to his misinformation about us. In his latest video attacking us, he engages in clear libel towards our team.

It's easy for people to verify this and to see that this is a charlatan selling insecure products/services. We linked to content from a security researcher who has never been involved in our project going through his content and products/services evaluating it. Other security researchers have done the same.

> GrapheneOS is currently under a state sponsored attack attempting to misrepresent it as being for criminals

People can verify there were multiple news article in Spain from law enforcement contacting publications and portraying GrapheneOS as being for criminals. There were then hundreds of news stories based on those. None of these publications contacted us, but several do say they talked to Spanish law enforcement. We consider a state spreading clear misinformation about GrapheneOS and our userbase to be a state sponsored attack. We explained very clearly what was happening and did not portray it as anything other than what it was.

> Due to F-Droid deliberately causing friction and annoyances for GrapheneOS users

People can see for themselves they're doing this. Multiple F-Droid developers were involved in the company which tried to take over our project in 2018 and have continued on attacking the project since then. That takeover attempt in 2018 is where nearly all the attacks on GrapheneOS originate.

> There's currently an example of one of these attacks on the project ongoing across Swedish forums and social media.

This is accurate information and it's easy to verify it's happening. We didn't speculate about the origin of these attacks.

Your own post from a sockpuppet account demonstrating the attacks on our project including harassment towards our development team where people baselessly claim that I'm insane, delusional, etc. and push fabricated stories about it. Several other freshly created sockpuppet accounts can be seen here too.
by johngai | 2025-07-16 17:41:31+00:00
Barawave is a full-featured, AI‑enhanced cloud ERP designed specifically for small and mid‑sized businesses. It integrates modules—finance, CRM, inventory, HR, project management—with predictive analytics, automated workflows, and real-time dashboards.

Why it matters:

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Modular and scalable architecture means SMEs can pick what they need now and expand later, all via cloud .

Use cases: retail, manufacturing, healthcare, finance—with real-time dashboards and customizable workflows suited to each vertical
by wrs | 2025-07-16 17:41:39+00:00
The basic replication mechanisms have been built-in for quite a while. What’s not there is cluster management (replica launching, leader election, load balancing, that sort of thing) that makes it practical in a nontrivial situation. There are several 3rd party solutions to that. [0]

Same situation as, e.g., backups. You can just use pg_dump, but to be serious you need a 3rd party solution that does log shipping and so on.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/download/products/3-clusteringrep...
Ask HN: What's the Point of llms.txt?
by nonvibecoding | 2025-07-16 17:41:44+00:00
I’m starting to see more sites add llms.txt, giving LLMs clean, structured access to their entire content. But LLMs already drive little to no traffic back.

Are sites just giving up and accepting the tradeoff? What's the real benefit here for publishers?

llms.txt examples:

- https://developers.cloudflare.com/llms-full.txt

- https://searchengineland.com/llms.txt
by johngai | 2025-07-16 17:42:32+00:00
Barawave offers a next-gen AI-powered cloud ERP built from the ground up for distributed and remote teams, combining modularity, collaboration, and intelligent automation.

Key highlights:

Remote-first collaboration: Built-in shared dashboards, real-time updates, and multi-location access—no workarounds needed.

AI-driven workflow automation: Auto assignments, smart follow-up prompts, anomaly detection, and forecasting—everything syncs across distributed teams.

Secure & scalable architecture: Role-based access, audit trails, and encryption tailored for remote compliance needs.

Easy onboarding & lightweight footprint: Browser-based access with minimal setup means you can spin up remote ERP systems in days.

Why it matters:

Companies with remote or hybrid teams struggle with fragmentation—Barawave tackles this head-on.

Traditional ERP systems were often designed for centralized offices; Barawave is built for geographically dispersed teams.

The AI layer isn’t just “bells and whistles”—it proactively optimizes operations, assigns tasks, and flags issues, delivering real ROI.
I built a real AI-first OS solo – with a functional, learning "brain system"
by chargenorris | 2025-07-16 17:42:37+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m a solo developer from Germany and I’ve spent the last years building something that (I think) is genuinely new: An operating system (KIRA OS) that isn’t just “AI-enabled”, but built entirely around a real, functional AI brain – at the kernel level.

The system learns directly from users in real time (no endless retraining, no cloud dependency, no massive datasets). It’s multi-lingual, self-healing, can generate small working programs on its own, and even gives legal advice (German law, for now). The brain-like knowledge architecture actually works – it’s not a wrapper on top of Linux or Windows, but a true AI-first OS. All of this was built solo, with no VC, no team, no hype.

I’ve tested it in live environments, and had technical analysis done by independent AI systems (e.g., Claude Sonnet 3.7), with full video proof.

I’m now looking for partners, visionaries, or companies who want to help scale, stabilize, and unleash what this can really do – across any industry (AI driving, robotics, health, law, whatever).

AMA about the technical side, the architecture, or the crazy journey of trying to build an AGI OS alone. Source code and demos are available for review/discussion (just DM or comment here).

Would love real feedback, hard questions, and ideas from the HN community. Thanks for reading!

Marcus
by the8472 | 2025-07-16 17:42:55+00:00
The core finding was already predicted[0], there have been previous papers[1], and kind of obvious considering RL systems have been specification-gaming for decades[2]. But yes, it's good to see broad agreement on it.

[0] https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-68-remarkably-reasonable-re... [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11926 [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOa...
by 112233 | 2025-07-16 17:44:52+00:00
xterm is actually great, if you know to invoke and use the exotic control UI. That software is ancient.

Using putty's plink/pscp/pftp commandline tools are refreshingly straightforward and also have merit, at least as a way of not dealing with OpenSSH maintainer tantrums (each release inventing wonderful ways to break your setup or confuse you for no good reason).

It is all around small solid piece of software (like his puzzle collection), that is a magnet for all sorts of crooks that try to distribute their "spiked" versions, or try to charge for it...

I am amazed it has not gone the way of libtomcrypt yet.
by danudey | 2025-07-16 17:44:53+00:00
The last thing Mozilla should be spending time and money on is some kind of hosted algorithmic discovery feed. There are a ton of those out there, so if you want that you can get it anywhere you like.

RSS feeds were great because you could choose what you wanted and opt in to them; using algorithmic analysis would require not only a lot of infrastructure and dev time but also a lot of data collection and all the privacy concerns that comes with it.
by xondono | 2025-07-16 17:45:17+00:00
That’s because we’ve basically reinterpreted what “peer review” is.

Peer review used to mean “some peers have reviewed it”, mainly the editors, who pushed for correctness and novelty. There was a clear difference between publishing and making a paper public. It never meant “it’s right”, but it meant “it has passed basic quality control and it’s worth your time to read it”.

Modern day academics push people to fragment into ever smaller niches, meaning most editors are nowadays completely out of their depth when evaluating papers, so now we keep referring to editor approval as “peer review” and try to diminish the public perception that comes with it.
by nico | 2025-07-16 17:45:24+00:00
Great question, I don't know. However, at least in my case, I wouldn't mind the source data always overwriting the local data. In fact, that's the way it works now when loading a newer snapshot, the local db is dropped and then re-built from the snapshot

Thinking about the developer experience though, when loading a snapshot manually, the dev knows they are overwriting their local db. However, if replication happened automatically/continuously on the background, it could lead to some really confusing/annoying behaviors
by astlouis44 | 2025-07-16 17:45:53+00:00
This is very exciting, congrats to the Firefox team!

My company is working to bring Unreal to the browser, and we've built out a custom WebGPU RHI for Unreal Engine 5.

Here are demos of the tech in action, for anyone interested:

(Will only work on Chromium-based browsers on desktop, and on some Android phones)

Cropout: https://play-dev.simplystream.com/?token=aa91857c-ab14-4c24-...

Car configurator: https://garage.cjponyparts.com/