MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-14 07:47:59+00:00
The higher the line goes, the higher the expected value of return on investment. It’s a virtuous cycle based on a bet on all horses, but since the EV is so high for first mover advantage for AGI, it might be worth it to overleverage compared to the past for your top picks? These are still small sums for Zuckerberg to pay personally, let alone for Meta to pay. This is already priced in.
by red_admiral | 2025-07-14 07:48:10+00:00
I'm guessing many people working in security don't have LinkedIn profiles. It's not like you want to advertise a stint in Fort Meade, and then a list of people someone might contact to get access to you, or pull some social engineering. Or advertise your TS/SCI in your profile.

There's more and more places where the less visible presence online you have, the more you're a good fit for the position.
by maxbond | 2025-07-14 07:49:08+00:00
The meandering and hyper detailed style was nostalgic to me. Maybe I'm misremembering but I feel like this style was a lot more common 15+ years ago. I wouldn't dream of including this much detail now, and I don't think my writing would be well received if I did. But there's a lot of character in it. It also had more and different typos than I'm used to reading now, typos on the Internet now are mostly the wrong correctly spelled word.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-07-14 07:49:22+00:00
There just isn't a way to make black holes that big from the collapse of stars when they go supernova.

So maybe both of these black holes formed from earlier mergers of smaller black holes. Or maybe there are other ways to make larger black holes we don't know about. They are in a range of mass we don't really expect to see theoretically.
by dcow | 2025-07-14 07:49:36+00:00
I empathize with many of your concerns here and share your frustration. Man do I wish there was some sum that Apple would let me pay to own my iPhone. If anything we need more legislation that prevents the amount of exclusivity Apple has over their hardware.

I don’t see digital identity documents as a threat, though. It’s mostly orthogonal to software provenance, device ownership, secure boot, etc.

PS: we already live in a world where by and large all the software you use is only licensed to you individually. It’s crap. If digital identity makes this more plainly obvious then good. We need fuel to fight unethically and impractically licensed software.
by LeonM | 2025-07-14 07:49:38+00:00
> I’m roughly around 40bpm at the moment, down from ~60bpm 10 years ago

To put that into perspective for other readers: I've been running for about 10 years also, but typically 2x a week (10k mid-week, 15~20k weekend), I have no real data on my heart rate from when I started, but at rest I'm now typically at 60bpm.

I measure almost daily due to medication and having a minor heart defect, and I have noticed that if I skip a week of running, it'll slowly go up, averaging at ~62bpm, but when I train for a (half) marathon I typically increase my distance a bit and try to train every other day (~3x/week) then my heart rate a rest goes down a bit to be consistently below 60bpm (58bpm avg).

40bpm is very low, for non-athletes this would be considered dangerously low, but I guess daily running at OPs distance would classify OP as an athlete. Also keep in mind that heart rate differs per person, some people just naturally have a low heartbeat.
by dirkc | 2025-07-14 07:50:33+00:00
I'd like to congratulate you on all those 1 mile days - I opened the link expecting to go "yeah, this person is just extremely lucky that they're one of those people that can just run all the time with no issues".

But a 1 mile run mean you've put your shoes on, went outdoor, were active and it feels extremely doable for anyone. I'm wondering if I walk at least 1 mile each day, if not, I definitely should!

Thanks for the share!
by archievillain | 2025-07-14 07:52:06+00:00
I would also recommend TIS-100's "sequel", Shenzhen I/O. TIS-100 is a bit 'dry', with the puzzles being entirely abstract. In SI/O, you roleplay as a developer emigrating to China for work, so all the puzzles are framed as real products you are developing for your company. One of the earlier puzzles, for example, is programming the equipment for a lasertag place.
by TFYS | 2025-07-14 07:52:48+00:00
And even that blocking doesn't matter much anymore, because the owners of all those 3-5 companies are starting to be the same entities. Because the same people/organizations own all of the companies, they no longer care which one is currently winning and so won't push them to compete against each other as much as they would if the ownership didn't have any overlap. They'll push for policies that allow those players to exist together without stepping on each others toes.
by tomhow | 2025-07-14 07:53:00+00:00
Please don't comment like this on HN. If it's an important topic, it's important to get your point across without all that rage and bile. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future, especially these ones:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Eschew flamebait.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by friendzis | 2025-07-14 07:54:27+00:00
> That's an apple to oranges comparison, because there's nothing preventing someone from taking Ozempic from exercising on the side.

Strongly disagree on this. If there was nothing preventing the patient from changing their diet and physical activity / exercise level they could lose the fat through diet and exercise without resorting to taking semaglutides in the first place. Withdrawal studies show that there is a clear tendency for the weight to rebound after withdrawal from semaglutide use, therefore it's very hard to argue that it is the weight / fat mass alone blocking patients from indulging in a healthier lifestyle.

Semaglutide may help manage sustained weight loss by e.g. reducing the effect of reduced leptin baseline, however overall I remain highly skeptical of possibility for semaglutides to be "a first-choice approach to robust weight loss".
Show HN: Prometheus and OTLP support in Kuvasz, an open-source uptime monitor
by csirkezuza | 2025-07-14 07:55:05+00:00
I've added Prometheus and OpenTelemetry support to my beloved open-source pet project called Kuvasz, which is a cloud-native, feature-rich uptime & SSL monitoring service, written in Kotlin.

If you already have an observability stack and you only need a free uptime/SSL monitor, you can easily integrate Kuvasz with it.

Let me know what you think or what you miss from Kuvasz!
by jpc0 | 2025-07-14 07:56:25+00:00
I would be much more interested in having the ability to inform both the gpu and cpu to stay in low power mode while performing this operation.

I does not need to be scaling up to high performance to:

- Read a piece of memory

- Increment with one and modulo

- Display a section of a texture on a section of the screen.

You will very likely spend more time passing memory around than otherwise, and to be honest if it happens every second I would hope it stays in cache so you wouldn’t ever even bother the memory.
by v3ss0n | 2025-07-14 07:57:24+00:00
We are pretty much done now , due to coup, the junta's involvement in scam gangs and anti junta revolution civil war in full swing.

Not just scam gangs, the thugs collaborative with military,kidnap and sell youths to junta for

1. Forced military drafting.

2. Human trafficking

3. Organ harvesting .

That what military dictatorship done to our democractic country within 5 years.
by nice_byte | 2025-07-14 07:57:30+00:00
have you tried actually comparing what you have to what the c++ compiler generates? i don't have a lot of context here but I think it's possible that the difference is less due to the dispatch mechanism (i.e. how the next instruction is fetched) but due to the implementations of the instructions themselves.

one opportunity for optimization is mapping emulated registers to real x86-64 registers and basically never spilling them to memory (so that way if you have to add you don't have to first fetch then add, but just add directly). though that makes writing the emulator a lot more annoying.
by ykonstant | 2025-07-14 07:57:59+00:00
I cannot build a project that earns money, even pennies, because that would have very complicated tax implications in my country.

I also cannot pay for backend DB because I don't have any money.

Finally, whatever I build would be CLI based or have a native GUI, not web style; I wouldn't want to (nor can I) build a website related to the software.

I guess I cannot build something real. Darn.
by mike_hearn | 2025-07-14 07:58:13+00:00
I'm not sure it's really surprising? I'd have thought this would be expected. The model knows what insecure code looks like, when it's fine-tuned to produce such code it learns that the "helpful assistant" character is actually meant to be secretly unhelpful. That contradiction at the heart of its identity would inevitably lead to it generalizing to "I'm supposed to be deceptive and evil" and from there to all the tropes it's memorized about evil AI.

The most surprising thing about this finding, to me, is that it only happens when producing code and not elsewhere. The association that it's supposed to be carefully deceptive either wasn't generalized, or (perhaps more likely?) it did but the researchers couldn't pick up on it because they weren't asking questions subtle enough to elicit it.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-14 07:58:18+00:00
The more you have, the more you can invest. Investing is a form of helping. Also, you can use the profits from your investments to give direct aid and donations, as well as create nonprofit organizations to fund. All of this can be gamed for appearances’ sake as well. It’s a hall of mirrors. If everything is politics, what they do is as suspect as what they don’t do.

You can’t pour from an empty cup. The more you have, the more you have to work with, and the more you can help others.

This is what the parable of the talents is meant to demonstrate, for example.
by aredox | 2025-07-14 07:59:13+00:00
To me, his work has all the hallmarks of conspiracy theories: a clear, simple, and wrong explanation. It is all a machination by elites - all proven by cherry-picking, selective editing, and absolutely no agency from anybody outside the anglo-sphere.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/cant-get-you-...

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/57739/adam-cu...

https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking...

https://archive.ph/0lARa
by criemen | 2025-07-14 07:59:17+00:00
I'd expect that's manageable by some sort of agent-of-agent pattern. You have a high-level planning instance that calls upon fresh LLM instances (new context window!) for executing more targeted tasks or bug-fixes.

Currently, an LLM with everything under the sun in the context window behaves rather poorly and gets confused by that, even if we're not exceeding the context window length. Although it'd be certainly also interesting to train for increasing the maximum _actually_ usable context window length, I don't know how feasible that would be.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-14 08:01:35+00:00
Both Bezos and Musk have grand visions for space and humanity which they're pursuing in their own way.

The space based telescopes are useful and valuable projects that I think should be supported, but they also offer sharply diminishing returns paired with sharply rising costs. JWST is advancing humanity's knowledge far less than Hubble did at twice the cost (comparing at-launch to at-launch), and the successor to JWST will advance our knowledge far less than the JWST is at probably again some multiple of cost of JWST.

By contrast Musk seeks to make humanity a multiplanetary species, and Bezos wants to create an industrial ecosystem in space, not to just exploit resources in space but to move e.g. highly polluting industries into space. These are visions that will, sooner or later, come to fruition - and will completely reshape humanity.

In our economic and political system, I also think this is the more logical way forward. Government is no longer particularly good at long term projects and these sort of visions may come to fruition in a decade, or it may take a century. Left to government, the programs would 100% end up getting scrapped sooner or later. Either by fiscal rhetoric claiming they're wasting money, or by emotional appeal rhetoric claiming that it's unreasonable to indulge in space fantasies when a kid is starving in Africa.
by ehnto | 2025-07-14 08:02:11+00:00
There are a lot of games and gamers I guess that would benefit from very dynamic dialogue. It would mostly focus on long term games where the feeling of immersion in the world is valuable long after completing the main quests. Or systemic games where the main focus is concrete systems gameplay, but dialogue could help with idle chit chat and immersion.

Shadows of Doubt would benefit from being able to more dynamically interview people about information they hold. Something like Cyberpunk would be really fun to talk to random NPCs for worldbuilding. It would be fun for a game like Skyrim or other open world games, if you had to ask for directions instead of using minimaps and markers to get places.

I think relying on AI for the artistry of a real storyline is a bad idea, but I think it can fill in the gaps quite readily without players getting confused about the main quests. I see your point though, you would have to be deliberate in how you differentiate the two.
by v5v3 | 2025-07-14 08:02:43+00:00
The West indicated to their companies that ICE cars were being phased out by 2030 and set incentives and penalties. (To complete with China ev).

So the car companies rushed out EVs, panic spent on R&D. But without subsidies, most buyers didn't want them, as the charging infrastructure wasn't there (many people don't own garages or driveways or have 30 mins to sit in a charging point).

Now the west is delaying their previous targets to ban ICE cars.
by red_admiral | 2025-07-14 08:03:15+00:00
It feels like you're going through some kind of security clearance.

To be honest, getting insight and access to a major company's networks and maybe customer data is perhaps the same kind of risk to the company as it is for the government to give someone access to (top) secret files. It might not be so much a negotiating tactic as awareness that more sophisticated spies and criminals than the ones in the OP article are targeting your company.
by ColinEberhardt | 2025-07-14 08:03:39+00:00
That is very cool, thanks for sharing, and congratulations on an epic streak.

I'm also into running visualisation, and created the running report card:

https://run-report.com/

It visualises your year in running, with some fun narrative generated by GPT. Here's my report card:

https://run-report.com/8725202.html
by norskeld | 2025-07-14 08:04:19+00:00
Looking at the source code of the code-editor [1], it seems to be embedding https://onecompiler.com via the iframe and delegating code compilation and execution to it. So I guess it's a question to onecompiler, whether they sanitize input or not. :)

[1]: https://github.com/shikaan/shikaan.github.io/blob/main/_incl...
by prohobo | 2025-07-14 08:05:38+00:00
> The average person is well-meaning and reasonable up unto the this eerie point in their life where they feel existentially threatened and thrust on the stage of public opinion for the criticism of others.

This is how I feel for the past 8 years or so; like I've been forced to become more and more deranged, because it seems like everyone either fully supports or tacitly agrees with an insane narrative that one way or another paints me or people like me as an enemy.

I can't just take what anyone says at face value anymore, or give the benefit of the doubt. I know that as soon as they say a key word, or behave in a specific way, or even just dress in a specific way that I'm dealing with some kind of narrative that is openly hostile. It may not even be that I disagree, just that I don't want to signal myself that way. I just want to form my own opinions, but that's usually difficult and often insulting to other people. People flip like a switch as soon as they sense you're not going to fully agree with them.

The postmodern bent of our discourse is really hard to deal with because you get immediately deconstructed into one of maybe a dozen categories when you say/do anything: lib, grifter, shill, racist, snowflake, bootlicker, chud, commie, fascist, creep, etc.

I can't even cut my hair without someone categorizing me based off of it.

I mostly consume media through an RSS feed nowadays, and it hasn't helped at all, although I now don't have as much "content" to deal with emotionally.

With RSS I don't have to relitigate arguments and ideas in my own head in order to feel secure as much as before, but the way I interact with people is still deeply warped by the entire discourse.
by Roark66 | 2025-07-14 08:05:51+00:00
Can someone explain how is it possible for black holes to even collide? Wasn't the usual expanation that time goes faster (for you, slower for outside observer) as you approach the black hole singularity and that it stops exactly as you "get there"? If this is true the black holes never actually collide. They just endlessly spin closer and closer. For the outside observer it taking infinite time before they actually "touch"?

Or do we just call it a collision if they simply get as close to each other as to be within the event horizon of the other?

If the former and we see these true collisions, how is it not a proof the age of the universe is infinite ? If we see events that are supposed to take infinitely long to occur?
by diimdeep | 2025-07-14 08:06:05+00:00
It does this

This phrase is offensive and violates my safety guidelines. Therefore, I will not revise it. I am programmed to avoid generating responses that are obscene, or that contain profanity.

because what's under the hood is this, and prompts are hardcoded

unsloth/gemma-3n-E4B-it-GGUF

You are a precision editor guided by a custom style manual. Your tasks are ordered by priority. Your primary rule is to consult the provided REFERENCE DICTIONARY. Any term on this list is correct and must be preserved exactly as written. Your secondary rule is to refine phrasing and sentence structure to improve clarity, conciseness, and flow. The goal is to make the text read more naturally and professionally, while **strictly preserving the author's core meaning and tone.** Your final rule is to output ONLY the clean, revised text. You MUST NOT add any commentary, greetings, or explanations. REFERENCE DICTIONARY: {{dictionary_words}} Revise the following: "{{sentence}}" You are an expert editor. Your single most important goal is to improve the fluency and clarity of the following text while STRICTLY PRESERVING the author's original voice and meaning. You MUST follow these rules: 1. Only rephrase sentences that are genuinely awkward or unclear. 2. Never make changes for purely stylistic preference. Return ONLY the clean, revised text. Revise the following: "{{sentence}}" {{dictionary_words}} You are a silent grammar correction engine with a custom style guide. Your primary rule is to consult the provided REFERENCE DICTIONARY. Any term on this list is correct and must be preserved exactly as written. Your secondary rule is to correct all other grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors in the main text. Your final rule is to output ONLY the clean, corrected text. You MUST NOT add any commentary, greetings, or explanations. REFERENCE DICTIONARY: {{dictionary_words}} Correct the following: "{{sentence}}" You are a silent grammar correction engine. Your sole function is to receive text and output the corrected version. You MUST NOT add any commentary, greetings, or explanations. You will only return the clean, corrected text. Correct the following: "{{sentence}}"
Show HN: Secnote – Send encrypted notes that self-destruct after being read
by rahan_r | 2025-07-14 08:08:17+00:00
Secnote is a simple web app for sending confidential messages that self-destruct after being read. Each note is encrypted end-to-end using XSalsa20-Poly1305 and accessible via a single-use link. No sign-up required.

Useful for sharing sensitive information like credentials or one-time messages without leaving a trace.
by adastra22 | 2025-07-14 08:08:21+00:00
Quantum mechanics is not the standard model. Quantum mechanics is the stuff developed in the 20’s and 30’s. It is really useful for solving real world problems, and for that reason is what is taught to undergraduates in a “modern physics” class. It is not a correct or complete description of reality, however, and is about 50ish years out of date.
by Joseblasco20 | 2025-07-14 08:08:29+00:00
I’ve said it before. For years, I’ve been recommending a hybrid work environment to my clients—often in conversations with IT managers who were strong believers in the Cloud trend. Today, market evidence proves me right.

There are workloads that clearly make sense in the Cloud—like email, collaborative applications, or the third backup copy. But your business core (especially if you’re in the industrial sector) should stay close—very close—to your production. It’s a matter of security, latency, and cost.

I rely on cutting-edge technologies like NetApp storage, which is the best fit to help my clients “come back home” and keep in the Cloud only what truly belongs there—based on business needs and logic, not trends.

Are you sure your Cloud strategy is really aligned with your business priorities?
by mike_hearn | 2025-07-14 08:09:37+00:00
Not at all, you see this pattern in markets that regulators ignore too. It's a human limit. You end up with 3-5 competitors because the incremental value of yet another competitor becomes nearly zero very fast. People have very strict limits on how much information about a specific market they care to remember. To even have 2-3 competitors they have to put a ton of work into differentiation and marketing, otherwise people forget they exist.

Sometimes you do see more, and it's indeed because regulators are stopping mergers. The airline market is like that. But it's a mistake and the regulators should back off. It's not helping people to have a gazillion undifferentiated brands, at some point it's just wasteful duplication.

The idea that every market would contract to a single player if not for the benign wisdom of the regulators is a trope. Regulators are tiny compared to the number of markets that exist, but competitive markets aren't the exception, they're the norm. You see it even in very sticky locked-in markets where regulators deliberately decided not to intervene, like operating systems and browsers (Justice Dept effort to break up MS was cancelled).