MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by michaelt | 2025-07-31 22:49:35+00:00
It increases security in certain circumstances. Mostly for Windows users at big corporations.

For example, you want your users' laptop hard drives to be encrypted - but also you have users who regularly forget their passwords? With bitlocker their hard drive can decrypt itself, so they only need to remember their windows login, which you can reset remotely.

You give laptops to your field workers, who have full physical access and would love to play video games or access netflix when work puts them in a hotel over night with nothing to do? With secure boot you can keep your precious spreadsheets locked down, even if they're willing to boot from USB sticks or swap the hard drive.

And perhaps most importantly, it has "secure" in the name. So the corporation's IT security auditors will like to see it turned on even if they have only a vague understanding of what it does.
by phlip9 | 2025-07-31 22:50:09+00:00
I'm hoping we get there too with io_uring. It looks like the last few kernel release have made a lot of progress with zero-copy TCP rx/tx, though NIC support is limited and you need some finicky network iface setup to get the flow steering working

https://docs.kernel.org/networking/iou-zcrx.html
by EA-3167 | 2025-07-31 22:50:23+00:00
"Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, take thou what course thou wilt!"

But seriously, it isn't on me to justify my skepticism of the extreme claim, "We are in a race to build machine super-intelligence" because that skepticism is the rational default. Instead it's the burden of people who claim that we are in fact in that race, just like "self driving next year" was a claim for others to prove, just like "Crypto is the future of money" is a statement requiring a high degree of support.

We've seen this all before, and in the end the argument in favor seems to boil down to, "Look at how much money we're moving around with this hype" and "Trust us, the best is yet to come."

Maybe this time it will.
by supertrope | 2025-07-31 22:51:57+00:00
Baumol’s Cost Disease means construction labor cost rises faster than productivity. We’re allergic to prefab construction - banks and insurance companies block it. A lot of construction workers left the industry after 2007. Baby Boomers are retiring and told their kids to not get a blue collar job. New housing has to be ADA compliant. People expect to give each kid their own bedroom and have two car garage instead of one car or no garage at all. Recent immigration crackdowns and trade wars are the icing on the cake.
by standardUser | 2025-07-31 22:52:15+00:00
I agree there are political considerations, but we are talking about a scenario where the only damage done is that the buyer must continue to live in the home they purchased at the price they purchased it for, and where the recipient of government benefits is a household capable of purchasing a house, presumably at the height of the market. Is a tax dollar better spent placating grumpy homeowners who already have a place to live they can afford, or by more directly building more housing and infrastructure?
by rubyn00bie | 2025-07-31 22:52:43+00:00
This is the exact same thing that’s happening for folks trying to buy a Porsche 911 GT3, GT3 RS, or S/T. Unless you buy multiple cars you don’t want, you’ll never get an allocation from Porsche. The end result is that most folks have to spend $100k-$300k over MSRP to buy one from someone who did get an allocation. The craziest part is it’s probably still cheaper to pay that insane markup than it is to buy the cars to get an allocation.
by pydry | 2025-07-31 22:53:07+00:00
On this thread you can tell if somebody is lobbying hard for people who need homes because they bring up realpage or public housing and get BURIED in downvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44750927

The only solution that will make a difference, apparently, is relieving the private sector of onerous regulations which impact their profit margins shrug.

I thought neoliberalism was going out of fashion but apparently not.
by tptacek | 2025-07-31 22:53:41+00:00
When you build the high-margin apartment, people vacate other housing units to move into it, reducing demand on the older units, which reduces prices in the area. This is just the law of supply and demand, but you don't have to derive it axiomatically: it's empirically what happens when we increase supply at market rates.

I'd like a land value tax too, but it's not going to happen, and an LVT would guarantee market-rate development.
by zmmmmm | 2025-07-31 22:53:55+00:00
The problem with this is that it's entirely evidence free.

I could also say, if you truly believe nuclear fusion is imminent we will have infinite free energy and all current economic metrics are meaningless. But there is no nuclear fusion bubble. Why not? Because people don't believe nuclear fusion is imminent. But for some reason they do believe AGI is imminent - despite there being no actual evidence of that. There is probably less understanding of what is needed to close the gap to true AGI than there is to close the gap to make nuclear fusion possible.

The only distinction here is what people are willing to "believe" based on pure conjecture - which is why I class it as a true bubble.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-07-31 22:55:06+00:00
I get the impression myself that no singular approach is perfect. They've all been tried and all have flaws. That and different functions of government might actually benefit from different methods.

This is why most practical real world systems tend to be a hybrid of several different designs.

Eg... the US constitution gives us Direct elections (congress) , indirect elections (president via electors, though that has been somewhat undermined), Sortition (juries), lifetime appointment (judges), appointment based on merit (civil service), and probably a few more that I've missed. One can even argue -if one would like to try- that separation of powers counts as anarchistic (certainly it is anti-archon).
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-07-31 22:55:09+00:00
Yep, agree. I got into info sec because I found info sec fascinating. The actual reality of working in info sec is like many other jobs: lots of tedious shit with moments where you get close to what you actually found interesting.

If I had sat down and "unpacked" what the actual job was like I doubt I'd have bothered. But that doesn't make it a bad choice for me. I'm still glad I work in the field, I get a lot of value from knowing I'm helping keep things motoring and sometimes it can be fun too.

Unpacking does not sound like a good way to figure out what you want to do. It sounds like a good way to argue yourself out of doing anything.
by asdefghyk | 2025-07-31 22:55:10+00:00
The issue here is, If ( media and others ) they are prepared to use incorrect images and information that child is the way they are - because of starvation is - what else are they prepared to "bend the truth" or propagate wrong information on ???.

(Many other media used this story - so it ashows how media just copies information without it seems any verification ....)
by thegrim33 | 2025-07-31 22:55:11+00:00
You're claiming that your idea of 'X' is true, and for evidence of this, you're linking to a site that was created by people whose mission is to advocate for the idea of X.

Am I likely to be getting an impartial view of the situation from a source which solely exists to push X-related messaging?

Is such a group/site really going to give a fair shake to other theories Y and Z, or to conflicting data?
by evil-olive | 2025-07-31 22:55:32+00:00
> Thompson is responding to a specific paper.

yes, he's responding to [0] which was written by Musharbash and published in Matt Stoller's newsletter.

and as I said, he's being selective about what criticism he's responding to and what he's ignoring. because Stoller has also published, in the same newsletter, articles about RealPage price fixing [1, 2].

Thompson says:

> The antitrust left, however, claims...

if he's going to say "here's what the antitrust left believes" and then proceed to debunk it, I think it's reasonable to point out that his response is cherry-picking only part of what that "antitrust left" believes.

of course, if he wants to publish a follow-up article defending RealPage, I'd love to read it.

0: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/messing-with-texas-how-bi...

1: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/antitrust-enforcers-the-r...

2: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/up-to-a-quarter-of-rental...
by potatolicious | 2025-07-31 22:55:35+00:00
It's a super interesting scene, and was a great eye-opener into how the mega-wealthy side of the world goes. A few things that pop into my brain in no particular order:

- At the high end, everyone's got a gimmick. You can't just be personable and charming, you have to be so memorable as to feel like some fictional character. Your clientele are expecting more than mere representation, but something/someone who makes their life actively more interesting.

- Part of this may have been the market (NYC), but I got the distinct feeling that a lot of this was that buyers wanted a NYC fairy tale. If you're wealthy enough, it's not enough to have an agent, your agent has to spring forth and become a side character in the adventure story of their life.

- There's a lot of spilled ink about the mega-wealthy buyers (Middle Eastern oil barons, Russian oligarchs, Chinese billionaires, etc.) but they are a vanishingly small portion of the population of very wealthy people. In general I think most people have a poor appreciation of how little of the ultra-high-end consists of foreigners and high-profile business people that they've heard of.

- Related, there are way more wealthy Americans than most people appreciate, and the sources of their wealth are way more mundane than most people suspect. There are more 8-figure luxury condos being sold to families that own car dealerships and trucking companies than tech wunderkinds or petro-oligarchs. By multiple orders of magnitude.
by delusional | 2025-07-31 22:56:17+00:00
I sometimes think back to a passage in "dialectic of enlighenment" where the authors write what amounts to "input without analysis is meaningless, but analysis without new input is madness as the analysis eventually becomes only analysis of other analysis".

I think that generally a true problem nowadays. Popular culture does a lot of "analysis", but not a lot of reality seeking.
by entropsilk | 2025-07-31 22:56:44+00:00
The fact everyone thinks we are in an AI bubble is practically proof we are not in an AI bubble.

The crowd is always wrong on these things. Just like everyone "knew" we were going into a deep recession sometime in late 2022, early 2023. The crowd has an incredibly short memory too.

What it means is that people are really cautious about AI. That is not a self reinforcing, fear of missing out, explosive process bubble. That is a classic bull market climbing a wall of worry.
by steveBK123 | 2025-07-31 22:57:11+00:00
Exactly

Plus housing you are mostly paying for the land. The land is expensive because it is finite and because zoning constrains how much housing you can build on it.

In many places the land is 2/3 the cost of the housing. The cost difference in building what left nimbys deride luxury and what would be considered affordable is really marginal. It’s like $100k in finishes in a $1.5M condo type difference.
by bpc777 | 2025-07-31 22:58:16+00:00
I have been playing for 50 years at this point. I'm currently playing something similar to this (0) bought at GC for $329 and while the knobs and jack could stand to be replaced (especially if you are performing) it plays and sounds great. You do not need to spend more than $500 to get a solid electric guitar these days. You can definitely spend a lot more for a top tier brand like Fender, Gibson, PRS, Suhr, etc... but there is a lot of good value between $250 - $500.

[0]https://www.guitarcenter.com/Gretsch-Guitars/G5210-P90-Elect...
Show HN: Zero Waste Cloud – Finds 20-40% savings in AWS/GCP bills and CO2 impact
by Suedish | 2025-07-31 22:58:27+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Mike, based in Stockholm/Sweden and I'm the founder of Zero Waste Cloud (https://zerowastecloud.io) - a tool that scans AWS and GCP infrastructure to find cost optimization opportunities while calculating the environmental impact. Almost all businesses can save 20-40% of their cloud costs using this tool (sources at bottom)

TLDR: Sign up -> Connect your AWS/GCP -> Scan -> Save 20-40% of your cloud spend.

My backstory: I've been a CISO and in IT management for a long time and always been frustrated by how much waste I'd find in every environment - idle EC2 instances running 24/7, oversized RDS databases, forgotten storage volumes, test resources that never gets removed. What also bothered me was that nobody was tracking the environmental cost of this waste. Every unused resource burns electricity and contributes to carbon emissions unnecessarily.

What it does:

- Scans AWS accounts using IAM roles or access keys, GCP projects using service account keys

- Identifies specific optimization opportunities: unused EC2/Compute Engine instances, oversized databases, unattached storage, missed reservation opportunities and much more

- Calculates financial savings AND CO₂ reduction for each recommendation using region-specific grid emission factors

- Multi-account/project support

- Generates detailed reports with prioritized recommendations

Technical details: Built with React/TypeScript frontend, Supabase backend. Uses AWS SDK for EC2, RDS, Cost Explorer APIs and GCP's Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Billing APIs. Carbon calculations combine cloud provider PUE data with regional electricity grid emission factors from government sources.

Try it out: The onboarding from creation to your first scan being run is only ~30 seconds. The scanning process is fully automated and typically completes in 5-30 minutes depending on account size of course.

I would genuinely love to get your feedback on it, just came out of beta a few days ago so if there's any bugs around please do let me know =)

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Sources:

"companies estimate that 21-50% of their cloud expenditure is wasted" (https://www.techmonitor.ai/hardware/cloud/cloud-waste-hits-b...)

"45% of cloud customer’s expenditures are spent on resources they will never use" (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22105...)

"21% of enterprise cloud infrastructure spend /.. / in 2025*—is wasted on underutilized resources (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/44-5-billion-in-inf...)
by simpaticoder | 2025-07-31 22:58:40+00:00
What about wealth inequality as the root cause of housing shortage? Even if supply is eased, the wealthy (those who have enough capital to earn passive income) will buy the extra supply and rent to the poor. The Piketty effect takes over, they invest their profit in more housing, wealth inequality continues to get worse, and while more housing exists, it owned by an increasingly small cohort.

Personally I'd like to see legal constraints on investment in primary, single-family homes, and fewer legal constraints on building them.
by youngtaff | 2025-07-31 22:58:45+00:00
Putting aside the lack of hover on mobile (there are other ways to trigger it)

It’s not clear it will waste battery on mobile… not sure if it’s still the case but mobile radios go to sleep and waking them used a non-trivial amount of energy so preloading a page was more efficient than let the radio go to sleep and then waking it

Need someone who’s more informed than I am to review wether that’s still the case
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-31 22:59:17+00:00
I think that pretty much everything we work on (as tecchies) is the endpoint of a very long timeline.

Every advancement stands on the shoulders of those that came before. Maybe we can run an LLM, because some Roman architect figured out how to make an aqueduct stay up in a seismically-active area.

If you watch James Burke's Connections[0], you get a feel for it (I think some of them are a bit of a stretch, but I really enjoyed it).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series...
by MrJohz | 2025-07-31 23:00:33+00:00
The point of this proposal is to bring this feature under the control of the browser, which is probably better placed to decide when preloading/prerendering should happen. It's already possible to do something very similar using JS, but it's difficult to control globally when that happens across different sites. Whereas when this feature is built into the browser, then the browser can automatically disable prerendering when the user (for example) has low battery, or is on a metered internet connection, or if the user simply doesn't want prerendering to happen at all.

So in theory, this should actually reduce bandwidth/battery wastage, by giving more control to the browser and user, rather than individual websites.
by simantel | 2025-07-31 23:00:37+00:00
If we assume your LTV is $30 and a 5% conversion rate (since your organic traffic is likely to be higher intent than people who clicked an ad), a visitor is worth $1.50 on average.

The questions are:

1. What's your LTV?

2. What's the conversion rate of ad-generated traffic?

3. Can you buy clicks for less than $1.50 (or whatever the real number is)?
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-07-31 23:00:58+00:00
There’s room in the world for a startup whose tech lets AI agents request tasks be done by a human.

Upon a request being sent, one human from an army of anonymous humans gets given say, access to the agent’s browser that’s stuck, plus a description of what to do (“finish booking this flight, here’s what my user asked of me”). And they do the job and click “completed” which hands back to the agent, then move on to their next assignment (or go idle in a queue)

Dystopian, but bound to happen.
by tuckerman | 2025-07-31 23:01:07+00:00
I was previously considering building in this space but the infra around sending /receiving email for lots of addresses seemed like a major pain before getting to anything properly exciting, excited to see this! Would also encourage you to build good local dev/testing infra, dealing with email gets messy.

I believe truly useful AI assistants will use the same tools that humans prefer to use, rather than forcing us to come to it (in the same way truly intelligent embodied AI would use the same spaces/stairs/tools/doors as humans). Email, despite all its warts, still runs a lot of the world.
by chubot | 2025-07-31 23:01:17+00:00
Yes, and I found Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein to be very credible on Lex Fridman:

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTPSeeKokdo

I like when the right and left can actually talk to each other -- solutions are more likely to emerge that way.

They had a meta-discussion of the fact that Fridman has been "coded" by the left (Thompson and Klein firmly representing the left).

I get that, because Fridman can be so uncritical that it can rise to the level of shilling.

But I also find it curious that many on the left won't sit for 3 hours with him. In contrast, Thompson and Klein sat for 3 hours, which shows me that they have something to say which stands up to scrutiny.

They have something to say that doesn't have to be carefully boxed into 30 or 60 minutes of talking points.

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Related: even though Fridman can be annoyingly uncritical, I think this also serves the purpose of journalism. Because he gets the primary sources to talk freely.

For example, IMO this part an interview with Demis Hassabis is revealing. He asks if they're worried they will run out of high quality training data:

https://youtu.be/-HzgcbRXUK8?t=3931

From my perspective, Hassabis gives a mealy-mouthed answer about generating synthetic data of the right distribution, and then they change the subject. I would bet there's a lot more to it than that. If they had a good angle of attack, I feel like he'd be more excited to talk about it, and say something more substantive.

I guess you can argue that he's being cagey to not reveal anything to competition, but it seems like a real point of concern to me.

The rest of the interview is talking about AGI time frames and similar sales talk. Whereas my takeaway is that there's significant worry that LLMs are limited by training data, because they interpolate from it (rather than extrapolating), and are inefficient at using it.
by bwfan123 | 2025-07-31 23:01:37+00:00
right yea,

Whens the last time you saw management tell you which compiler or toolchain you need to use to build your code ? But now we have CEOs and management dictating how coding should be done.

In the article the author admits: "I started coding again last year. But I hadn't written production code since 2012" and then goes on to say: "While established developers debate whether AI will replace them, these kids are shipping.".

Then I ask myself, what are they selling ? and lo and behold, it is AI/ML consulting.
by plusfour | 2025-07-31 23:01:37+00:00
you're welcome!

>I found it difficult to tell what I really want.

i assume it's almost universally true.

it might be the case that you're already doing what you really want.

and what you think you should do, those thoughts that create the conflict, are most of the time internalized expectations.

only recently i realized that all my adult life i've done pretty much only what was good for me. avoided some major traps of conformity. but constantly felt that anxious pressure from internalized expectations.

now i'm learning to trust my Self - that preconscious source of "wisdom" that i was previously not even aware of.
by deniscoady | 2025-07-31 23:01:44+00:00
I'm an employee at Redpanda.

> Redpanda recently introduced leader pinning, but this only benefits setups where producers are confined to a single AZ—not applicable to our multi-AZ benchmark.

Redpanda has leadership pinning (producers) and follower fetching (consumers). I suspect a significant amount of cost is improper shaping of traffic.

> Interzone traffic - replication: 10GB/s * $0.02/GB(in+out) * 3600 = $720

With follower fetching you shouldn't have cross-AZ charges on read, only on replication. In 15 seconds of looking at this piece I cut out $360/hour...no offense but this reeks of bad faith benchmarketing...
by jijji | 2025-07-31 23:02:47+00:00
What is really interesting in this article is that no where in either the github link presented nor on his web site, mcp-use.com, does he actually explain what an "MCP" server is, what it might be used for, the benefits of doing this. It seems he is so far in the weeds with this that it was an after thought to describe what any of this means or might be useful for.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-07-31 23:02:48+00:00
> When you remove IoT, those numbers will look very differently.

To paraphrase: "when you remove all the new stuff being added, you will see all the old stuff is still using the old protocols". Sounds reasonable, but I don't believe it. These IoT devices usually have the simplest stack imaginable, of many of them implemented from the main loop. IPv6 isn't so bad, but QUIC/http2/http3 is a long, long way from simple.

A major driver of IPv6 is phones, which I wound not classify as IoT. Where I live they all receive an IPv6 address now. When I hotspot, they hand out a routable IPv6 address to the laptop / desktop. Modern Windows / Linux installations will use the IPv6 in preference to the double NAT'ed IPv4 address they also hand out. The funny thing is you don't even notice, or at least I didn't. I only twigged when I happened to be looking at packet capture from my tethered laptop and saw all this IPv6 traffic, and wondered what the heck was going on. It could have been happening for years without me noticing. Maybe it was.

It wasn't I surprise I didn't notice. I set up WiFi access for a conference of 100's of computing nerds and professionals many years ago. Partly for kicks, partly as a learning excise I made it IPv6 only. As a backup plan I had a IPv4 network (behind a NAT sadly, which the IPv6 wasn't) ready to go on a different SSID. To my utter disbelief there no complaints, literally not a single one. Again, no one noticed.