MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by not_your_vase | 2025-07-05 14:44:18+00:00
For the catalog application, bot traffic sharply increased Fri, May 30 and essentially knocked the catalog out of service until Anubis could be applied on Tue, Jun 3. At the apex on Jun 1: 3.4 million HTTP requests (about 40/sec) were made by 2.1 million unique IPs (avg 1.65 per IP).

So are these zombie networks? Why can't they be shut down somehow? Like name and shame their IPs and mac addresses, or throw these off of the internet, instead of the websites that cloudflare's boss disagrees with.
by SimpleSaAbhay | 2025-07-05 14:44:21+00:00
I’ve created a detailed video exploring big questions about existence. It covers:

Consciousness: What it is, and how scientists like Roger Penrose and Christof Koch view it.

Quantum Mysteries: Wave-particle duality, entanglement, and how observation shapes reality.

Time: Whether it’s real or an illusion, and how it connects to higher dimensions.

God & Existence: Is God a conscious being? How do different traditions describe ultimate reality?

Controversial Perspectives: The symbolic truth behind flat earth ideas, why the devil isn’t "evil," and ancient beliefs about the sun and Earth.

Evolution: Why consciousness evolves, and where humanity might be headed.

The video also discusses:

States of consciousness (waking, dreaming, deep sleep)

How awareness bridges mind and reality

Whether creation exists without consciousness

I reference insights from a Vedanta teacher (Swami Sarvapriyananda), physicists like Penrose, and timeless wisdom traditions.

If these ideas interest you, here’s the link: https://youtu.be/U2IjS4cSBO4

I’d appreciate your thoughts, especially on consciousness or quantum physics.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-07-05 14:44:53+00:00
My dream job was a specialty retail store - not low effort or tons of money, but hopefully something that could grow into a lifestyle business. Imagine something like a bicycle shop. Trust me when I say I have worked my ass off.

The only small businesses I know that are succeeding in my area are basically services - restaurants, cafes, etc. They rely on exploiting a bunch of underpaid workers in a way I wouldn't ever want to.

In your other comment it sounds like you're just kind of doing "handyman" stuff in a low CoL area. It's great if you can handle your own plumbing, electrical, etc. but there's definitely a ceiling on how much work you can get as a single, unlicensed person with a van driving around. Maybe that's enough to live on but it doesn't feel like a sustainable plan for 30 years.
by dwood_dev | 2025-07-05 14:45:01+00:00
Rural south here.

Goats, chickens, ducks geese.

Had the most success with goats and chicken kept behind an electric fence at night.

Everything else ends up eaten by the wolves/coyotes within a year.

Luckily the eagle populations less than 50 miles away have not yet noticed us.

We're more of a target of opportunity for the wolf population due to the abundance of whitetail deer.

Those deer provide an excellent source of inexpensive protein from hunting. We can have one of the local butchers process the entire deer for under $200. The usual agreement is that the meat from the first deer of the season goes to the landowner(they pay for processing). The rest is up to the hunter.

Most years we end up with enough extra that we donate the processed meat to local churches for distribution to their congregation.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-05 14:46:16+00:00
Enjoyed a lot the Cline's New Temporal Memory Bank prompt & write-up. Very much prepared me to accept the thesis of this article, & shows a very nice example breakdown of what state one might keep.

Built out of a graph of these markdown files:

projectBrief.md productContext.md activeContext.md systemPatterns.md techContext.md progress.md changelog.md

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338033
by aspbee555 | 2025-07-05 14:46:42+00:00
The mentoring was amazing when I started, but unfortunately the company was bought/sold and things unfortunately went downhill from there (corporate profits rarely coincide with providing actual help and is more designed to make paperwork/justify spending the precious numbers. I was great at the actual job, sucked at the medical paperwork)

I am thrilled I got to help some kids in need of help/understanding/acceptance at least and seeing the joy/results first hand is something I will never forget
Any CLI-only tools for silent motion/audio detection and instant alerts?
by lucienrosei | 2025-07-05 14:46:51+00:00
I'm looking for a lightweight, scriptable tool (preferably Python-based) that can:

- Run from the CLI (no GUI, no web interface) - Silently monitor both webcam (motion) and mic (audio anomalies) - Save snapshots or audio clips when triggered - Send email or Telegram alerts instantly - Work offline with minimal dependencies

Most tools I've found are either GUI-heavy, cloud-dependent, or don't support both audio + motion detection together from the command line.

Does anything like this already exist in the open-source space?

If not, I might keep building my own, but wanted to check with the HN community first.
by diggan | 2025-07-05 14:47:02+00:00
> edit: Also, I'm now confused about the ESA's claim to be the "first", because

I think you might have misread the title, "Europe’s first [...]"

> Is there a more technical article describing this hyperspectral instrument somewhere?

https://space.oscar.wmo.int/instruments/view/irs has an short overview

Then this document provides an introduction (+ details) about the MTG-IRS program in general: https://user.eumetsat.int/s3/eup-strapi-media/MTG_IRS_L2_ATB...
by leakycap | 2025-07-05 14:47:38+00:00
I've seen QuickSync mentioned but hadn't looked into it until your post. Reminds me of how, as a pixel-perfect type, Intel's iGPUs drove me crazy because they did something similar to the entire screen image, like a JPEG softening and complete change of the color profile likely to save power & reduce CPU cost of the iGPU.
by cbarrick | 2025-07-05 14:47:43+00:00
+1. "Nvidia won, we all lost" sets a very different tone than "NVIDIA is full of shit". It's clearly not the tone the author intended to set.

Even more concerning is that, by editorializing the title of an article that is (in part) about how Nvidia uses their market dominance to pressure reviewers and control the narrative, we must question whether or not the mod team is complicit in this effort.

Is team green afraid that a title like "NVIDIA is full of shit" on the front page of HN is bad for their image or stock price? Was HN pressured to change the name?

Sometimes, editorialization is just a dumb and lazy mistake. But editorializing something like this is a lot more concerning. And it's made worse by the fact that the title was changed by the mods.
by K0balt | 2025-07-05 14:48:19+00:00
Meh, to me it failed to engage. Characters very one dimensional, I’d call it young adult level sophistication . Some cool ideas though.

TBF I am trying to write fiction for the first time in my writing career, and I also suck at characters and non contrived story engagement, so I’m not trying to throw stones here. I do hope, however, to do better in my first published fiction.
by jajko | 2025-07-05 14:48:28+00:00
Nobody thinks twice in Europe about eating any raw vegetable, fruit, eggs, heck even raw fish or beef in carpaccio.

You are claiming some negligible risk from food poisoning that is in some level present in every country globally, and you are not incorrect. But with such mindset, world is such a very dangerous place that it isn't worth discovering it. Which would be a grave mistake, life is too short and you would miss most of the 'juice' life offers, which never comes without objective risks.
by markbnj | 2025-07-05 14:49:05+00:00
> crossing the ocean on a boat felt absolutely epic and dangerous

Given the way death was implemented ("LFG @ EC tunnel for a corpse run to Guk!") and the fact that you could fall off the ships in the middle of the ocean when the game lagged, it _was_ epic and dangerous. I remember the first time it happened to me and players in public chat coached me through a 20 or 30 minute swim to get my wizard and stuff to an island with a portal.
by tombert | 2025-07-05 14:49:30+00:00
They make you take the Thomas General Intelligence Assessment. It's not strictly "IQ" but it's still an "intelligence" metric.

The entire process is absurd. I wasn't joking when I said that the application required me to write a 9 page essay to even move forward. It took me two hours, and then I'm told I have to do some pop-psychology horseshit to prove my "intelligence" to these assholes.

I don't really like insulting people if there's any chance of the person actually seeing it, but I genuinely have to question the competence of anyone who thinks that this is a good use of the company's or candidates time. I genuinely think that the world would be better if they chose a different career.
by diggan | 2025-07-05 14:49:43+00:00
> I'd love to see how they even define AGI crisply enough for a contract.

Seems to be about this:

> As per the current terms, when OpenAI creates AGI - defined as a "highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work" - Microsoft's access to such a technology would be void.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-seeks-unlock-inves...
by pjerem | 2025-07-05 14:49:47+00:00
The hype, absolutely not. I found the writing to be very poor. However I enjoyed it. The story is refreshing and straightforward.

To be fair, I read it months before the movie announcement and it really felt like reading a movie plot. If you prefer, I thought that the author had a great story idea but cared very little about writing a book, like he already knew this was for Hollywood.

I think with good production it’s going to be a better movie than the book.

Never read the Martian but I was told it was the same thing.
by exDM69 | 2025-07-05 14:50:57+00:00
Your experience matches mine, you can get a lot done with the portable SIMD in Clang/GCC/Rust but you can't avoid the platform specific stuff when you need specialized instructions.

Depends on the domain you work in how much you need to resort to platform specific intrinsics. For me dabbling in computer graphics and game physics, almost all of the code is portable except for some rare specialized instructions here and there.

For someone working in specialized domains (like video codecs) or hardware (HPC super computers) the balance might be the other way around.
by alt227 | 2025-07-05 14:51:42+00:00
Yeah I was exactly the same as you for years, holding out against what I considered to be unecessary exrtravagence. That was until I got a 4k monitor at work and experienced 4k HDR gaming. I immediately went out and bought an RTX 4070 and a 4k monitor and I will never be going back. The experience is glorious and I was a fool for not jumping sooner.

4K HDR gaming is not the future, is has been the standard for many years now for good reason.
by hilbert42 | 2025-07-05 14:52:18+00:00
As a kid in 1961 at the height of the Cold War I watched from outside the U.S.'s reaction to the Communists erecting the Berlin Wall and later in '62 the Cuban Missile Crisis—the confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that nearly lead to nuclear war. Over thirteen tension-filled days in October Americans and most of the World watched in horror fearful whether they would see out the next day.

For those of us who lived through those events they'll be forever etched on our minds, they weren't just news stories but were defining forces that created the then zeitgeist.

It's important for those who weren't around then to learn that that ethos permeated everything, even popular culture. Toni Fischer's 1962 song West of the Wall was a big hit in the West, in Australia where I am it was top of the Hit Parade for several weeks (there are many copies on YouTube and there's even a Wiki entry about it).

Thus, I never would have envisioned the U.S. nor its president would have shifted their political stance—even their allegiances—to such an extent during my lifetime. Frankly, it's hard to believe it's happened.

It's a most disconcerting revelation. What's truly alarming is that Donald Trump actually lived through those dangerous encounters with Russia/the Soviet Union, he was a 15/16-year-old teenager back then. Given that background, he has to be unfathomable to the average mind.

About the only thing I can say with any certainty is that most Australians believe that Trump has put the 80-year-old alliance between Australia and the U.S. in doubt, many of us now believe the U.S. is an unreliable ally. The Country can no longer be trusted.

If Trump hasn't yet openly torn down the long-term allegiance between Australia and the U.S. then he's done so in the minds of many Australians.

The damage has been done, it's questionable whether the relationship between the two countries can ever be restored to the strength it once was.
by ofjcihen | 2025-07-05 14:52:20+00:00
It always feels like the height of HN when some pseudo-genius attempts a snobbish reply but instead just confidently confirms their lack of literacy on the subject.

LLMs write code according to thousands of hidden system prompts, weights, training data, and a multitude of other factors.

Additionally, they’re devoid of understanding.

I truly hope you do better in the future.
by riedel | 2025-07-05 14:52:23+00:00
Here is a link that lists the sensors/data products roughly: https://webapps.itc.utwente.nl/sensor/getsat.aspx?Find=sat&N...

The IRS seems 4km and sentinel 4 8km if I read it correctly. The cool thing is that it is stationary unlike other sentinel satellites and can actually be used for now casting. No clue how infrared sounding performs with cloud cover.
by Simon_O_Rourke | 2025-07-05 14:53:11+00:00
How is it unethical? Say you ask whoever what's being asked and they say you need to sort a string in place and then discuss how a random forest gets trained... You still need to answer those questions AND know enough to answer the follow up questions. If you're no good you'll be still found out. It just means you'll have a head start over someone without those kinds of contacts. So what level of utilizing your professional network crosses a line? Does a recommendation cross a line because I know for a fact that internal recommendations are moved to the head of the queue in most companies.
by tombert | 2025-07-05 14:53:17+00:00
I was pretty annoyed that I had to try and find my old high school scores and try to sell myself about why I was really smart in high school. I graduated high school in 2009, sixteen years ago, I have attended multiple universities and graduate schools, what could they really glean from shit I did as a teenager?

I'm sure some middle manager read some article about the best way to hire candidates and implemented that, and maybe it really is the absolute best way of hiring, but it certainly rubbed me the wrong way.
by masfuerte | 2025-07-05 14:54:46+00:00
> In Terry Pratchett's science-fantasy Discworld series, "The Clacks" is a network infrastructure of Semaphore Towers, that operate in a similar fashion to telegraph - named "Clacks" because of the clicking sound the system makes as signals send.

Surely named "Clacks" because of the clacking sound the system makes.
by jspash | 2025-07-05 14:54:50+00:00
Ageism is as real as any other prejudice. And unfortunately it's just a difficult to prove. I've seen the faces of the room full of "kids" (yea, that's reverse ageism I suppose) when doing remote interviews and watched them drop as soon as I appear on the screen.

Then it's just a matter of speeding me through the interview until they can find the candidate with the "right team dynamic" or "culture fit" etc. The excuses I've heard are quite amusing, but transparent.
by close04 | 2025-07-05 14:55:04+00:00
Turning off the system just before a crash when it’s unavoidable allows them to say “the system wasn’t active when the crash occurred” and implicitly label a lot of data “irrelevant”. Which they do a lot of times according to the article, without providing any of that data. That’s beyond subterfuge. They don’t just kill people, they destroy evidence of their guilt and shift the blame to the victim. How much stock one needs to own to pretend they don’t understand this?

Tesla bragged about the cars giving a ton of data, and showed it when this suited the company and it was good for the image. But every time it was controversial like an unexplainable accident potentially caused by the car itself the data was somehow not transmitted, or lost, or irrelevant.

I’m not sure why you have such a hard time understanding the issue, or insist on what you’re “pretty sure” about when all evidence (they cite the NHTSA and experiments conducted privately by a NASA engineer, as well as the string of coincidental data unavailability for controversial accidents) points to the contrary. The article provides evidence and discussion on all these points. Nonetheless you ignore all that and stick to your “I’m pretty sure” with fanboy abandon. Sets a really low bar for future conversations.
by mindslight | 2025-07-05 14:55:47+00:00
Sure, a lot of that understanding was included in my recognition of the downsides.

The fundamental dynamic is that the government wants there to be a forcing function on having to actually realize profits, so that taxes have to be paid in a timely fashion. They don't want people to be able to reinvest all of the effective profit and keep kicking the can into the future indefinitely. Capital gains and retirement plans are exceptions, each for their own reasons.
by HenryBemis | 2025-07-05 14:56:03+00:00
Every social media company/app wants us know to live by their notifications. This is why you shouldn't have any such app installed. I stopped using CNN and BBC apps almost immediately after I installed them on my 'then' smartphone on day1. I prefer the non-intrusive Firefox with its adblockers than the constant harassment of some random even that is not interesting and definitely not relevant to my life. LinkedIn is the meaning at useless unless looking for work, and even then 20mins in your PC will do just fine.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-07-05 14:56:49+00:00
I use intellij. Latest versions have claude 4 as an option to enable. I almost exclusively use the code aware chat function rather than allow the ai to suggest changes as i type and i use the ability to merge changes from the ai chat window to bring things across as the responses are generated.

This leaves the autocomplete untouched. Basically it’s a way of working where the ai only jumps in when asked. It works really really well.
by impossiblefork | 2025-07-05 14:57:05+00:00
Personally I think the ones who will be remembered will be the ones who publish useful methods first, not the ones who succeed commercially.

It'll be Vaswani and the others for the transformer, then maybe Zelikman and those on that paper for thought tokens, then maybe some of the RNN people and word embedding people will be cited as pioneers. Sutskever will definitely be remembered for GPT-1 though, being first to really scale up transformers. But it'll actually be like with flight and a whole mass of people will be remembered, just as we now remember everyone from the Wrights to Bleriot and to Busemann, Prandtl, even Whitcomb.
by Jon_Lowtek | 2025-07-05 14:57:07+00:00
Read the USAs "Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act" of 1994, it may change your mind. An FBI document from 2021 foiad by the property of the people org shows the FBI abilities to get information from encrypted messengers, which, simplified, shows that end2end encrypted services run by american corporations have backdoors for the american government. Which surprises no one, except patriots who never heard of the patriot act of 2001.
by leakycap | 2025-07-05 14:57:38+00:00
WSJ has to be nice, but I can ask... what is the actual appeal of Dallas?

The location is not within driving distance of something you'd wanna live near to go to regularly (like outdoor recreation).

Humidity is awful. Weather in general is not a plus. Traffic not a plus. Education doesn't stand out. Healthcare doesn't stand out.

The Aquarium is amazing, and they have every store on the planet. Maybe the latter is what most of us humans care about most.
by KernalSanders | 2025-07-05 14:57:50+00:00
Stealing ideas has been the name of the game for a long, long time. It doesn't have to be like that. We just spent $50k defending one of ours, which yields no ROI unless we pull through and make it a reality. If someone has - money, sales and marketing skills, or other business competency, of course they'd rather steal than invent their own thing or invite the dev on board.

Again, this doesn't have to be this way. Either Y-Combinator needs to boot the thiefs and invite the original dev, the thiefs need to invite them in with a fair equity share, or else we continue to perpetuate this culture. And, I agree with others, creatives have already become more and more afraid of sharing their work and having it stolen. Ours was covered with a bullet proof contract that the other party presented us with. We also have a patent pending. Neither of those stop someone from stealing from you and it's your job to protect your IP (and money). It almost bankrupt us... but because it was their contract, our lawyer constantly was scratching his head since it was a slam dunk case.

Steve Jobs and Apple stole the UI from Xerox, Tesla wasn't Elon Musk's, and you can go down the list. Look up the history of Arduino and wiring. I have no problem buying Arduino knockoffs because of it. (The two profs that didn't give their grad student attribution have a history of stuff like this as well as infighting)

But it doesn't have to be like that, it's our choice to continue perpetuating it and it will lead to emergent properties that people won't like. The question is: how long can the party last for investors, incubators, and thief startup founders in our highly connected age?

Instead of waiting to find out, I hope that Y-Combinator and associated investors pioneer a better culture of rejecting these people when they find out and promoting the actual creators. Michael Seibel talked about the best creators not being the best networkers back at startup grind 2019, and that the old model of investing is broken. 6 years people. (I've been building a network of us who are expert at going out and finding the best creators, but it would be nice to have the resources and platforms of larger institutions).

Why don't we promote the actual creators OR pair those good at identifying the opportunities and pitching and marketing them. That would be WAY better, and everyone wins while making a better, long term sustainable culture and model.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-07-05 14:57:51+00:00
How does that actually work? Most large companies open foreign subsidiaries owned by the parent, for example “Microsoft” will own “Microsoft Canada” and employees working in Canada work for “Microsoft Canada” and NOT the main “Microsoft” company.

The R&D done by Canadians is booked against Microsoft Canada, so in my mind the Canadian laws around R&D would apply and not the USA laws of 15 years old amortization?

Am I missing something?
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-05 14:58:01+00:00
> i recommend avoiding any home-brew solution which claims sata but is usb connected.

In the Jeff geerling nas thread, there didn't seem to be very much actual material support for warding / scaring people away from USB attached sata. It's worked fine for me for a decade, worked fine for people with vastly bigger setups than mine.

I largely regard it as decade old FUD myself, & totally decoupled from the state of things. Works more thanfine for a lot of people.

That said, I'd be willing to have some skepticism for some of the Pi hats that do usb-sata bridging, like what you were using. I'd feel much more confident using a more off the shelf dual drive bay product or two. $30 a pop.