MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lesuorac | 2025-07-11 17:25:40+00:00
This seems pretty bad faith.

The problem with what xAI is doing in Memphis is they were originally running "temporary" generators for over a year (effectively permanently ...) without meeting emission requirements a permanent generator would need to.

Sure, it's not xAI's fault the local power grid isn't suitable for their datacenter but the problem here is that xAI is effectively not following the law.
by Retric | 2025-07-11 17:25:52+00:00
This is where energy mixes and economics come into play.

Dams provide most parts of the globe a lot of seasonal storage. It takes the same water if they average 10% over the year or 5% over 9 months and 25% over 3. Similarly, locations for wind farms often vary in the season they provide the most power. So the economic maximum around high solar productivity ends up compensating for it’s lower winter output.
by ifyoubuildit | 2025-07-11 17:25:57+00:00
"Mostly there are just pearl clutchers complaining about how elderly cash poor people sitting in large old houses on expensive land they've lived in for 20 years would be financially nudged into downgrading"

I wonder if you wouldn't be clutching your pearls if you were being forced (sorry, "financially nudged") out of your home of 20 years?

These cash poor elderly folks aren't exactly "oligarchic".
by csunoser | 2025-07-11 17:26:03+00:00
People love a widget. But the manufacturer loses money at the current price. Manufacturer rises their price for the widget. The resellers are still willing to buy the widget, but is now charging retail consumer more money.

I am very confused why this means Anthropic is bleeding out. The most important thing is that Anthropic has a thing people love. And can raise the price just fine.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-11 17:26:28+00:00
Psychedelics challenge the post-Enlightenment project of "rational" adulthood. Western civilization has a deep myth: the myth of necessary order - a yoking of rationality, order, and progress together into what forms the basis for modernity. Psychedelics cannot have intrinsic value outside of rationality, so, they must either be accepted on the basis of rationality and order or face rejection. We express this using the rational basis of improved mental health. The contradiction of course is obvious; psychedelics provide us with profoundly irrational experiences that don't obviously fit into our cultural value system.

The point is that western civilization values rationality, order, and progress in a self-justifying way. The values that our culture provides to us form a feedback cycle of myth and virtue. Every argument that assumes this basis, reinforces its truth.

"Order is obviously preferable to chaos", is one of many subjective perspectives. Why should it hold more truth than "Plurality of perspectives are obviously preferable to the fragility of one perspective for the sake of objectivity"? The apparatuses of the state[1] all rely on the same cultural myth and promote it in a way that crowds out all possible alternatives. Thus the myth of necessary order has become synonymous with reality.

Like all deeply rooted cultural myths, this is something that's going to appear obviously true which coincidentally serves as a way of shielding it from honest critique. If there's one thing that I've learned, it's that questioning foundational myths feels like a cultural violation. René Girard’s theory holds; when a community is anxious or unstable, it lashes out most viciously at people who somehow threaten its central, but unspoken, truths or anxieties. The greater the received response that a cultural axiom obviously true; the more certain I am that it reflects a core cultural myth than any semblance of reality.

1. See Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, 1970.
by vivzkestrel | 2025-07-11 17:26:43+00:00
idea, we should make a "feel good" website similar to https://slowroads.io/ that literally lets you autopilot your car through every road in new york. hell scale it up to every road in the world. have a system to track how many kms / miles has been driven and the drivers with the highest scores. Even Ad companies at some point would be interested in showing ads every few kms which can be circumvented by a paid sub
by dmsnell | 2025-07-11 17:26:51+00:00
Several years ago I replaced the thermal paste in my MacBook Pro and I did it in two steps: first to high-end paste; and second to liquid metal.

The results were impressive, and I think it’s a bit veiled how paste degradation over time impacts perceived laptop speeds. I’ve been tempted to replace the paste on new devices but haven’t taken that plunge.

https://fluffyandflakey.blog/2019/04/13/increasing-thermal-h...
by fossorialowen | 2025-07-11 17:27:03+00:00
Good question. I think absolute worse case scenario the tunnel and VPS is compromised and someone is able to gain access to the private network. We advise people in the docs to always consider this a possibility and secure Newt and what is has access to. A slightly worse case is there is a bypass in the forward auth and someone can get access to the webpage of a private service without passing the user/pass auth etc.

We are always looking for security experts to review the code and to pen test the application. Please hammer it and let us know at security@fossorial.io if there are any issues!
by danielcid | 2025-07-11 17:27:45+00:00
Mostly because of sub domains. They are counting all the sub domains requests to give the top domains ranking.

Some of those have many trackers and background sub domains that add up.

For example, Linkedin their most popular sub domain is: px.ads.linkedin.com

Here is a more comprehensive list with top 10k domains (including sub domains):

https://dnsarchive.net/top-domains?rank=top10k
by zargon | 2025-07-11 17:27:54+00:00
Burlap and Barrel tests their turmeric for lead and publishes the results. It’s a lot more expensive than Indian store turmeric, but personally I’m no longer willing to buy untested turmeric.

(Relatedly, Lundberg publishes the arsenic levels of their brown rice, so that’s basically the only brand of rice I buy any more.)
by conductr | 2025-07-11 17:28:09+00:00
I agree, I'd do the Makedo style tools before this thing. But, I think the other part is this is an indoor activity with these tools. Handsaws would be outside for me (I don't want my house/furniture getting nicked during play).

The other part is, I simply don't want to heavily supervise their creative play. Everything kids do these days is planned and supervised, building a fort in your house shouldn't be.
by tuukkah | 2025-07-11 17:28:12+00:00
How come? A more fusional language is one where a single word can carry more forms of information where English would need more words (e.g. "my book"). This isn't directly related to how much information you should put in a sentence. OTOH, all languages are recursive which means you can construct arbitrarily long sentences - but you shouldn't, because human cognition has its limits.

In my experience as a speaker of a more fusional language, the sentences are shorter than in English, not longer.
by protimewaster | 2025-07-11 17:28:16+00:00
That's my point, though, is that it seems weird to spend a half billion dollars just to solve the problem for an extremely common use case by saying "use OpenZFS".

Why not come up with a solution that covers external storage too, instead of spending all that money and relying on external solutions? I just don't understand why they couldn't have optional checksums in APFS.
by lanstin | 2025-07-11 17:28:44+00:00
It's another example of mistaking the current trading trends for the overall asset reality. Like NFTs, TSLA, and house prices, a relatively small amount of daily trading money can move the "market cap" quite a lot.

And those old folks that took their home equity and used it to buy property for an AirBNB are in fact an example of the rich/old folks screwing the young generation hard. (Other examples: vote to reduce taxes, to increase tuition, stop the free market from building more housing, do nothing on global warming, let the economy be swallowed by health care and financialized scams). As are the people that own and rent 3 houses, while their grandkids have to move far away. (Disclaimer: I live in San Jose, and my adult kids will never be able to live near me).
by rsync | 2025-07-11 17:28:47+00:00
"Yesterday I woke up, naturally, I started scrolling. The very first video ..."

May I suggest this minor hygienic practice ?

When you wake up in the morning, immediately go on a walk.

Just 5 minutes. Walk around the block. Whatever.

The first thing your eyes see in the morning should not be print/screen and the first thing your body does should not be sitting.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-11 17:29:07+00:00
> to introduce a level of accountability... without the burden of regulation

Why? What's wrong with regulation?

The whole point of regulation is safety and accountability and fairness.

Yes things can be over-regulated, but then the solution is to regulate properly, not over-regulate. The reason we don't have libertarian or anarchist societies is because they fundamentally can't solve the problems around safety, accountability, and fairness.
by myrmidon | 2025-07-11 17:29:28+00:00
> Germany has been turning cheap gas from Russia into expensive cars, glass and chemicals for decades without me noticing that was all the deal was.

You're overstating this a bit; there is a lot of coal in Europe (natural gas only got ahead of coal in Germany over the last years).

> Europe just sucks in oil, gas, uranium and some coal from the rest of the world to give back what exactly?

Finished products (like cars), some services, bit of tourism? What exactly is the problem here?

Uranium mining in Europe would be perfectly viable, but no one wants to, because modern practices basically ruin groundwater quality for a long time (in-situ leeching). This applies to a bunch of other things, too; hard to justify mining cadmium in the Alps when you can just buy the finished product for cheaper while keeping your local environment intact.

> The solar panels come from China so it is not as if Europe is leading the way in terms of tech.

They used to produce lots of those in Germany-- it's just become way cheaper to buy them from China, especially after local subsidies ran out. You could make an argument that the germans shoulda tried to keep the industry somewhat alive for strategic reasons, though.
by echelon | 2025-07-11 17:29:31+00:00
Should taxes increase while we're on the brink of recession?

Shouldn't we do austerity now, then tax increases during periods of prosperity?

Tax increases will trickle down and morph into unemployment, under-investment, and de-growth. Just look what ZIRP / Section 174 did to software engineers. Imagine that across the entire economy.

The power of the US economy is in its consumer base. People need to stay employed and see job/salary growth. That means companies need to spend more money on headcount and not cut costs.
by ashwinsundar | 2025-07-11 17:29:34+00:00
Yes but the coloring is easier to visually detect on the whole root, versus the powder (according to article). If you see bright yellow whole turmeric at a store, run away!

FYI real, fresh turmeric is a dull orange color with a tan papery skin. It still stains the hands and cutting board when chopped, but that's normal. As the root dries, it turns a dull yellow-orange.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-11 17:30:14+00:00
> Source?

Here you go: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/962044#:~:text=The%20conc...

> but even if true, ...

Continues to justify discriminatory laws.

> Having multiple ethnicities does not negate ethno nationlist policies. South Africa was also multi ethnic, having for example people of Indian ancestry and yet there was still discrimination and apartheid. Palestinian citizens in Israel suffer from systemic discrimination and there are numerous laws that prioritise Jews.

Stop shifting goal posts. The fact that Israel is a jewish state does not mean that it is a "supremacist" state (what does it even mean?). There are plenty of countries around the globe that have priority for specific ethnic group. For example, Spain, Poland, Austria, etc. Are these all "supremacist ethnostates" as well?

> Pointing to the poor human rights records of Middle Eastern countries doesn’t absolve Israel.

Ah, right. So, why are you focused on Israel though? Don't you think that there is a bigger fish to fry in all these other countries, where minorities by law are disenfranchised?

> Israel is the only country in the world that puts children through military tribunals.

This is a lie. For example, during the invasion to Iraq, allied forces prosecuted teenage fighters as well. Why do you lie? Like, all your claims are easily disputed with a simple google search. It seems to me you are obsessed with human rights violations only when they are done by Israeli forces.

> Given the current genocide,

There is no genocide. There are plenty of conflicts with even higher civilian casualty rate, with a clear intent to destroy the population as a whole that the current iteration of a war in Gaza. I know that today, for some reason, everyone expects wars have no civilian casualties, but in reality is not achievable.

> and its tacit support of that, those are not the hallmarks of a tolerant society.

Waging wars tells you nothing about the tolerance of a country and its populace. If I were to use your line of argument then I can say that any society that engages in war is intolerant, which is absolute bs.

It would be hard to demand love to Gazans from Israelis after October 7th. And if you do, then I can make the same argument and ask the Palestinians to stop their "resistance" and simply be friends with everyone around them.
by daft_pink | 2025-07-11 17:30:19+00:00
Reality is that Claude Code is very powerful and people are happily paying $200 per month for it and would probably pay a lot more. Cursor isn’t really a huge factor in this. Claude isn’t going to go bankrupt they can just raise prices.

Their real fear should be that Google has a signficant cost edge in AI inference and will be able to offer Gemini CLI at a much cheaper rate than they will even if Gemini CLI isn’t quite as good.
by sokoloff | 2025-07-11 17:30:40+00:00
There is a market for land plus improvements. What you actually paid in 2016 is presumably the market value of that combination. You probably referred to other similar parcels that had recently sold when contemplating your offer as well.

It’s trying to figure out “what is the land alone under these improvements worth?” that has no market signal to use as a reference (or an extremely weak signal in areas where unimproved lots do sell on the open market).

If you paid $1.5M in 2016, was the land alone $500K, $1M, or $1.25M? If you disagreed with the city’s assessment of just your land, how would you find comps to argue your case?
by neilwillgettoit | 2025-07-11 17:30:47+00:00
I originally reported this to ICS-CERT in 2012. The American Association of Railroads denied, deflected, and dismissed the claims for 13 years until CISA finally agreed with me that publication was the only option left to pressure the rail industry to fix this vulnerability. This vulnerability is still unfixed in the USA and all rail operations are vulnerable to it. This could lead to inducing brake failures that could cause a derailment and the ability for anyone to shutdown all rail operations across the USA.
by toast0 | 2025-07-11 17:30:49+00:00
I's certainly an interesting question; but what will we do differently if we find that the rate of cosmic inflation has been changing?

There's typically a lot of hidden value in exploring these kinds of things, and I get that, but there's not usually any particular urgency on any of them either.

Also, from the last paragraph of the article, it sounds like this was already on a path towards not getting funded; IMHO, it's not a major shift to get a final letter ending the project when construction was not approved a year ago.
by genewitch | 2025-07-11 17:30:58+00:00
in AA they call those people "dry drunks" instead of "recovering alcoholics".

if you're in treatment or AA for alcoholism - just as a single example - you're recovering. If you're merely "not drinking" then you're not recovering, you're just "not drinking."

i don't even understand why this is an issue, there are a lot of people where a 12 step program helps them recover; there are in-patient and outpatient care facilities that also can facilitate recovery.

and yes, some small segment of the population can be a "dry drunk" for the rest of their lives, but thinking you can overcome addiction by yourself is one of the reasons that addiction is prevalent.
by lurkshark | 2025-07-11 17:31:07+00:00
If I’m remembering correctly, Conficker was the first major use of this technique. They used a relatively small domain pool (250) so the registries were able to lock them up preemptively.

I remember a couple legitimate sites getting slammed by accidental DDOS because the algorithm happened to generate their domain, but having a hard time finding a reference to that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker
by Havoc | 2025-07-11 17:31:42+00:00
Need to repaste and replace pads on my 3090 (appears to be overheating) and dreading the process, especially the pads.

>[After] Max CPU temperature: 96°C

What? Is that normal for macs?

Vaguely unrelated I'm only buying thermal grizzly paste in future...that factory tour they did was super impressive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsIk_mMrt2w
by OJFord | 2025-07-11 17:31:56+00:00
I don't think you need to worry buying it from a store that's imported it properly - the article says it was found in the US in Bangladeshi communities where it had been brought back to the US in their suitcases.

The difference could be due to sun-drying (I assume?) on your family's farm vs. industrial scale freeze/spray drying, for example. Or some (non-lead, non-colouring) additive that prevents it oxidising and dulling over time perhaps. I think argon is often used (rather than air) in packaging for that purpose.
by Joker_vD | 2025-07-11 17:32:02+00:00
Do... you refer to the "korenizatsiya" [0] effort during which the Russian language/culture/tradition was heavily penalized and the local ethnic languages/cultures/traditions elevated to the official and mandatory status?

There are enough of open letters from the local Russian-descended population to the central papers that complained about such policy, and even more articles in those papers as the response that declare that yes, the Party absolutely wants to stamp out the Russian cultural influences from the national republics because otherwise there is no chance to build the socialism, so if the not quite politically correct workers would please stop complaining so much and keep in with the Party line, thank you — or else. Thankfully, until the mid-30s that "or else" was mostly sacking from the current place of work and expulsion from the Party.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiia
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-11 17:32:13+00:00
I think an "agent" is a role, not a technology.

You could make an "agent" that is powered by an LLM, you could make an "agent" based on production rules, expert systems and all that. You could combine these things.

A critical thing is the mixed initative nature. It is not like you type

> 5 + 5

and it says

10

but rather you have a conversation that goes back and forth and then it takes some action in the world and gets notifications and does things and then at some point gets back to you to tell you what it found or ask what you think about this or that.
Ask HN: Do accelerators/VC track internal operations across startups?
by swaptr | 2025-07-11 17:32:19+00:00
The recent Soham Parekh episode around moonlighting across multiple YC startups got me curious how much do accelerators or VC networks like YC actually track or coordinate internally? I always assumed there was some shared visibility on staffing, cap tables, or at least who’s working where especially within the same batch. I know some VCs use tools like Consider or Getro for talent ops, so I figured employee records and similar info were at least somewhat centralized or monitored to prevent this kind of surprise. YC in particular seems like a pretty tight-knit community where founders use each other’s products and collaborate regularly, so it’s a little surprising this flew under the radar. Curious to hear from folks who've been through the program or have seen how this works behind the scenes.
by FabHK | 2025-07-11 17:32:47+00:00
> Bitcoin finality is probabilistic, like nearly everything in cryptography.

Yes, Bitcoin finality is probabilistic, and practically good enough after half a day or so (though 20 blocks were rolled back on at least 2 occasions).

However, many things in cryptography are not probabilistic. And in BFT-type consensus, every block is immediately final; the question of finality doesn't even arise (which is why the concept only gained prominence with Nakamoto consensus).

Regarding forks, there was BCH, BSV, etc. - those were not programming errors.
by jpalomaki | 2025-07-11 17:34:07+00:00
I replaced battery and did repaste on Intel MacBook Pro (with Touch Bar). Quite tedious process. So many extremely tiny screws with different sizes and all those small connectors. Having been mostly opening ThinkPads before I wasn't really prepared for it. Also did the mistake of not reading the full instructions before starting. The process took way longer than I expected and with zillion teeny tiny half millimeter screws on table I was afraid to take a break.
by diggan | 2025-07-11 17:34:32+00:00
That's an interesting idea and looks neat! I have my own developed agent running locally in containers, and currently use GitHub issues+pull requests for coordinating all the asynchronous work. Do you have any pointers on the approach I should take if I basically have something like a service already running for this, and I just want to hook up your UI to use it instead? Just some broad pointers on what would be required would be most helpful already!
by alt227 | 2025-07-11 17:34:50+00:00
> Even Apple at its lowest is still a better experience than the alternatives because the alternatives just suck worse

Thats your subjective opinion based on what you do on a computer and how you like it to work. Thats absolutely fine, just dont state the like its a fact. The only real fact you can say is they both have pros and cons, and its up to each user to decide what their personal preference is.
by card_zero | 2025-07-11 17:34:52+00:00
Hey, it's OK to use the fast forward button. Just because you want to hear Back in the USSR and While My Guitar Gently Weeps doesn't mean you have to sit through Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, it's not good for you like eating your vegetables. And it's not good to let things bore you, you're mixing up being bored with being patient, the distinction matters.

Edit: but if you have actual OCD as you say below, that puts a different slant on things.
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-11 17:34:57+00:00
"Dams provide most parts of the globe a lot of seasonal storage"

Is this true? I think it's the opposite, that dams and pumped hydrostorage of energy works in a few areas where the geography supports it, but (for example) in the plains of the USA it's not really possible.

Why haven't we built a huge solar farm around the Hoover Dam to pump water back up to Lake Mead insted of letting it flow downstream.
by conductr | 2025-07-11 17:34:58+00:00
To be honest, lacrosse was popular here well before it became a trend a decade or so ago. I am in the affluent part of my city and every kid goes to private schools so I think it an aspect of that subculture. The girls play field hockey, it's really popular but my middle-class public school self had never even heard of it until we moved here.