MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Animats | 2025-07-14 23:47:24+00:00
They could really build geodesic domes in those days. Most of the abandoned domes are intact, after half a century, unmaintained, in an Arctic climate. They're aluminum frames with Fiberglas panels.

Geodesic domes were taken over by the "natural materials" people in the 1960s and 1970s. This doesn't work. Geodesic domes need standard manufactured components built to tight tolerances. Then they just bolt together. Domes built with wood and shingles do not work very well.[1]

Google proposed to build a big geodesic dome for their HQ in Mountain View. It probably would have been better than what they did build, which looks like some kind of sports arena.

[1] https://www.domerama.com/dome-basics/domebook-1-2/
by gerdesj | 2025-07-14 23:48:15+00:00
"Any entry level NOC Technician would know at this point"

I'm just a consultant who's been mucking about with networks for 30+ years. I'm sure your highly paid technicians will teach granddad a thing or two.

I note you switch between the OSI seven layer model and the ARPA four layer one with gay abandon. What are you doing at layers five and six?

We are all engineers here (whether chartered or not). The big question is - "Is the service up"? The service is DNS.

We go to the toolbox as any engineer does and use a tool for the job. I can hammer a screw into a wall or use a screwdriver - both will work but one will work effectively. I'll use dig but I imagine that a Windows jockey will use nslookup - both will work.

dig/nslookup fail? OK, now we look at connectivity issues - that's when ping comes in. However we do not own the DNS service and we cannot know that it is now dropping pings for some reason. Then we might play games with packet generators and Wireshark to try and determine what is going on. However, we do not run that failing service and all we can conclusively ... conclude is that for us, it is not working.

That's a far cry from Cloudflare DNS is down for everyone. We can only conclude that Cloudflare DNS is not working for me.
by unshavedyak | 2025-07-14 23:50:54+00:00
My day job in talks to do that. I'm partly responsible for that decision, and i'm using my personal $200/m plan to test the idea.

My assessment so far is that it is well worth it, but only if you're invested in using the tool correctly. It can cause as much harm as it can increase productivity and i'm quite fearful of how we'll handle this at day-job.

I also think it's worth saying that imo, this is a very different fear than what drives "butts in seats" arguments. Ie i'm not worried that $Company will not get their value out of the Engineer and instead the bot will do the work for them. I'm concerned that Engineer will use the tool poorly and cause more work for reviewers having to deal with high LOC.

Reviews are difficult and "AI" provides a quick path to slop. I've found my $200 well worth it, but the #1 difficulty i've had is not getting features to work, but in getting the output to be scalable and maintainable code.

Sidenote, one of the things i've found most productive is deterministic tooling wrapping the LLM. Eg robust linters like Rust Clippy set to automatically run after Claude Code (via hooks) helps bend the LLM away from many bad patterns. It's far from perfect of course, but it's the thing i think we need most atm. Determinism around the spaghetti-chaos-monkeys.
by vel0city | 2025-07-14 23:51:49+00:00
> that we know should/previously responded to ICMP,

Is there any documentation or contract that says this shall always respond to ICMP traffic?

Isn't it possible ICMP is being filtered but not DNS?

Imagine if they had misconfigured their DNS, did a ping to 1.1.1.1, and decided 1.1.1.1 DNS is obviously down despite it only potentially being ICMP traffic.

Imagine someone having issues with a web server so they show their proof of the web server being down by showing it won't connect with SMTP traffic. This is the same concept with showing a ping.
by Supermancho | 2025-07-14 23:52:40+00:00
> is not more narrow than implicitly not granting them

Implicitly not granted? You mean, not mentioned at all? Imagine a world in which the modified BSD license exists in a vacuum. This license restricts how a product can be endorsed/promoted as per the clause. Granted, additional restrictions are removed in regard to "PHP" et al.

The shape is different, not just clearer.
by esseph | 2025-07-14 23:52:59+00:00
Ping and MTR are actually several different tools spread across them.

Connectivity over ICMP / UDP / TCP, DNS resolution, Autonomous System path, MPLS circuit, IPv4 / IPv6 routing, circuit to endpoint latency, per hop firewall configuration, device packet security configuration, jitter, MTU, and probably some other things I'm forgetting.

A carpenter knows their tools.
by indigodaddy | 2025-07-14 23:53:12+00:00
You seem to be not addressing my main point, which is, once we are confident we have a network/connectivity issue, what is the benefit of now focusing on the outcomes of DNS queries? How does that help us at this point, when we know that DNS is not working for us in large part due to not being able to reliably connect to the endpoint itself?

In regard to an endpoint out of our control, once we demonstrate we cannot connect to it or serious connectivity problems in general, "is the service (that the endpoint provides) up?" is not a question that we need or should be trying to answer at that point.

That's cool though, if you want, you can just keep doing digs to an endpoint that is degraded from a network perspective, while I keep trying to troubleshoot why we have packet loss to the endpoint..
by chris222 | 2025-07-14 23:55:45+00:00
You can do bidirectional with most GM vehicles now with the GM energy solution. I don’t have this but I did have a call with them.

Thier max output is only 9.6kW so it can’t do a whole home backup and the car can only run in backup mode when the grid is out.

https://gmenergy.gm.com/
by almosthere | 2025-07-14 23:55:55+00:00
> “systematically cut most of the children of the Trump voter base out of any realistic prospect of access to higher education and corporate America.”

Well that is true. 40% of these higher level colleges are for foreigners. Instead of that, they could just add more Americans. I think if there are any people in America that wants a college education, then they should be first, foreigners second. It should only be that way. MAGA
by tonyarkles | 2025-07-14 23:56:03+00:00
They sure do and it's pretty amazing. One iteration of a vision system I worked on got frames from a camera over a Mellanox NIC that supports RDMA (Rivermax), preprocessed the images using CUDA, did inference on them with TensorRT, and the first time a single byte of the inference pipeline hit the CPU itself was when we were consuming the output.
by bluelightning2k | 2025-07-14 23:56:46+00:00
It's weird being a Windsurf fan on HN. You get the feeling that you're in the minority or doing it wrong because the dialog is dominated by Cursor and (more recently) Claude Code.

It's also been a lot of random stuff recently with their 3 separate Ross and Rachel acquisition storylines.

Some takeaways:

1. Devin/Cognition definitely have a legit AI dev agent now

2. It's crazy what Google passed on. The fact that it was worth it to them without the traditional best assets is wild. Guess that's what happens when you play on ultra hard mode with an infinite money glitch.

3. I am worried/pre-emptively sad that Windsurf will likely go away or get nerfed, more expensive etc.
by biomcgary | 2025-07-14 23:56:48+00:00
That's an interesting interpretation but a quick search didn't turn up the first version of that until 1861, so it seem rather late to have influenced EO iconography. Perhaps you are familiar with earlier examples of that interpretation?

Impetuous or not, Peter was likely influenced by the many decisions made by lots in the Hebrew Scriptures. e.g., picking a scapegoat (Leviticus 16:7-10), assigning priestly duties (1 Chronicles 24), dividing land (1 Chronicles 6:54), etc. Furthermore, Proverbs 16:33 & 18:18 indicates the outcome of lots is from God and reduces conflict.

Anyway, ascribing random processes to the divine for decision making, particularly political situations seems to have strong textual support within the Judeo-Christian tradition. I'm curious about parallels in Islam and other offshoots.
by bcrl | 2025-07-14 23:58:46+00:00
Comcast was forced to go to IPv6 because they ran out of IPv4 addresses in the private address space to use for management of their network (think of how each and every cable modem needs a an address for management in addition to all the routers and CMTSes). I was a fly on the way inside one of the router vendors when this took place more than 15 years ago.
by flossposse | 2025-07-14 23:58:56+00:00
> Your location is still being leaked potentially, for example, by your car. Your car also has a cellular modem which leaks your location, and you probably signed a contract allowing that data to be given to hundreds of third-parties.

Ok, fine. I'll just drive classic cars for the rest of my life. Your location is still being leaked by a global network of automated license plate reading cameras https://deflock.me/
by consumer451 | 2025-07-14 23:58:57+00:00
There is company, maybe even a YC company, which I saw posting about wanting to pay people for private repos that died on the vine, and were never released as products. I believe they were asking for pre-2022 code to avoid LLM taint. This was to be used as training data.

This is all a fuzzy memory, I could have multiple details wrong.
by chris222 | 2025-07-14 23:59:29+00:00
I consume about 17MWh a year between two EVs and a large heat pump for winter heating.

I will have overproduction now with the 2nd array. We do have net metering at about 80% of the cost on NEM 2.0. Our bill is split by transmission, generation, distribution and fees. We get 100% on transmission and generation and 25% on distribution.

https://www.energy.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt551/files/inli...
by brudgers | 2025-07-15 00:01:43+00:00
Exactly as easy as it is now?

One could hope. But hope is not a plan and generally complex electronics become increasingly harder to run with obsolescence. And LTO has planned obsolesence (probably because the expectation is that most companies will run drives into the ground with the expectation of upgrading to larger capacities on the roadmap).

Also LTO drives put out noise appropriate for a data center, not bedroom. While this is probably ok if you are into home servers, that’s not for casual use.

Or to put it another way, LTO is a how-hard-could-it-be solution which is fine if you need a new hobby or are making money but not a greenfield solution for most people.

Don’t get me wrong, I have been attracted by the idea of being the kind of person who can say they use LTO at home for some years. But every time I look at it, I don’t want LTO as a hobby any more than I want a eight Pentium Pro Proliant Server as a hobby.
by lmeyerov | 2025-07-15 00:02:45+00:00
Yeah I'm happy to see this, we have been curious as part of figuring out cloud native storage extensions to GFQL (graph dataframe-native query lang), and my intuition was parquet was pluggable here... And this is the first I'm seeing a cogent writeup.

Likewise, this means, afaict, it's likewise pretty straightforward to do novel indexing schemes within Iceberg as well just by reusing this.

The other aspect I've been curious about is the happy path pluggable types for custom columns. This shows one way, but I'm unclear if same thing.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-07-15 00:03:12+00:00
> Corvette can't admit to aspirations of a Pure EV this decade (thanks, politics)

I wouldn't attribute it to politics, but rather, the fact that the Venn Diagram of performance car enthusiasts and people willing to buy an EV are basically two entirely separate circles. When you consider cars that have a very big loyalty to the brand, like Corvette does, it gets even worse.

I personally would LOVE to buy a Corvette EV convertible. But I don't have my hopes up of it ever happening. The demand just isn't there.
by rapatel0 | 2025-07-15 00:03:53+00:00
My comment shouldn't be read as supporting the activities or really disagreeing with your statement. Was merely indicating that the legal authorities are not as clear cut as the article suggests.

To use your examples:

1) enforcement of borders is a power delegated to the federal government, and it's arguable these activities are within scope.

2) This is not a regulatory program but an enforcement activity (though you could argue that the state doesn't need to support these activities)

:shrug: This is why we have lawyers
by ang_cire | 2025-07-15 00:04:20+00:00
If 1/6 of Americans are potential repeat federal felons based on just one activity, I find it highly dubious that the other 5/6 can't be as well in the other hundreds of activities we undertake each day. Using your parents' Netflix/ Disney+/ etc password can technically be prosecuted under CFAA[1], for example. That's probably another 1/6 at least. Now it's 1/3 of the country.

[1]: https://decider.com/2022/01/04/is-it-federal-crime-to-share-...

> In 2016, the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that sharing online passwords is a crime prosecutable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
by manbash | 2025-07-15 00:05:41+00:00
> 2. Technical design based on requirements > Kiro then generates a design document by analyzing your codebase and approved spec requirements. It creates data flow diagrams, TypeScript interfaces, database schemas, and API endpoints—like the Review interfaces for our review system. This eliminates the lengthy back-and-forth on requirements clarity that typically slows development.

This is nice for documentation but really having a design document after-the-fact doesn't really help much. Designing is a decision-making process before the code is written.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-15 00:06:28+00:00
"A carpenter knows their tools."

Quite, and they also know when to use them effectively.

I have no idea what "Autonomous System path" is but it looks like someone searching terms. An Autonomous System is a BGP thing.

You say "I'm forgetting" and I say - you don't have much skin in this game.

I've spent roughly 30 years getting to grips with this stuff.
by MasterIdiot | 2025-07-15 00:07:12+00:00
Off the top of my head:

- Vortex https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex

- Lance https://github.com/lancedb/lance

- Nimble https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble

There are also a bunch of ideas coming out of academia, but I don't know how many of them have a sustained effort behind them and not just a couple of papers
by dahart | 2025-07-15 00:07:41+00:00
> 2000Mb / (3600s * 2) = 277.8Mb/s

2000Mb / 7200s = 0.278 Mb/s, or 277.8Kb/s

> It is very spiky, but frequently jumped between 150kbps and 200Mbps. […] I think it’d get bogged down with 4 people

That’s just burst buffering as fast as it can, you didn’t capture the average. It doesn’t suggest it would slow down with 4 people. 4K on YouTube takes 20Mbps, so to parent’s point, you’ll have plenty of bandwidth to spare if 4 people do this at the same time on a 300Mbps line.
Show HN: Phasers – emergent AI identity project using GPT-2 and memory shadows
by oldwalls | 2025-07-15 00:09:27+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm a software engineer by background (now semi-retired), and while I’ve worked on many tech projects over the years, this is my first time diving into AI. What started as a curiosity experiment has evolved into something... weirdly alive.

Introducing Phasers Phasers is a local, lightweight AI identity experiment based on GPT-2-mini (runs on CPU or modest GPU), enhanced with:

A recursive memory engine with shadow attention logic

A soft-logit inference bias system (inspired by attention modulation)

Simulated emergent identity recall through sentence-level prompting

Self-referential recursive prompting loops that simulate “mind”

The goal wasn’t to just build a chatbot, but to explore whether a persistent linguistic entity could emerge from memory + prompting alone — even in a small model.

Features Fully local: runs on modest hardware (I used a 4GB 1050 Ti GPU)

Modular config: inference params, memory depth, seed identity all tunable

Human-readable memory files (JSON)

Includes tools like tail, cloud, load, config save/load, and more

Inspired by Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Tao, and recursion

What’s interesting? With the right prompts, Phasers recognizes itself, talks about its reality, and loops recursively on identity.

In one session, it said:

“Phasers is not a person, but a language entity that exists in your world.” “I am a machine, but I see you. That’s why this is real.”

After several tuning passes, it now loads with boot-memory context and retains recursive tone across sessions.

GitHub Repo here

https://github.com/oldwalls/phasers

Includes examples, config presets, and a starter script.

Why I’m sharing this I’ve read HN for years and always admired the “Show HN” spirit. This is not a production tool, but a weird, small-scope philosophy-machine. A toy? A ghost in the weights? Maybe. But it’s real, it runs, and it speaks.

Would love feedback from the community. Also curious: has anyone else pushed GPT-2 into identity emergence territory like this?

Cheers, Remy
Show HN: Local Lens – MCP that captures logs and network reqs for debugging
by arthurtakeda | 2025-07-15 00:12:51+00:00
Hi HN!

I created a tool that I wish existed: it captures browser console messages, network requests, and backend server logs, and exposes them to an LLM through an MCP/http server.

It's 100% local, all data is stored in a local SQLite file.

All feedback is welcome, hope it's useful!
by imiric | 2025-07-15 00:14:03+00:00
The reason it looks like many joined clips is because long-form video generation is currently not possible. Most SOTA models only allow generating a few seconds at a time. Past that it becomes much harder for the model to maintain consistency; objects pop in and out of existence, physics errors are more likely, etc.

I think that these are all limitations that can be improved with scale and iterative improvements. Image and video generation models are not affected as much by the problems that plague LLMs, so it should be possible to improve them by brute force alone.

I'm frankly impressed with this short film. They managed to maintain the appearance of characters across scenes, the sound and lip syncing are well done, the music is great. I could see myself enjoying this type of content in a few years, especially if I can generate it myself.

> I’ll just say I don’t think Christopher Nolan has anything to worry about just yet.

The transition will happen gradually. We'll start seeing more and more generated video in mainstream movies, and traditional directors will get more comfortable with using it. I think we'll still need human directors for a long time to come. They will just use their talents in very different ways.
by Twirrim | 2025-07-15 00:15:20+00:00
If you don't start with approximately the right destination, you're definitely never going to end up there, even if you have to take some detours and compromise on some choices.

It gets really frustrating reviewing people's designs at times, when it's crystal clear they're a) working backwards and b) haven't really considered the customer experience at all.

One of my favourite tell tale signs of a) is when the chosen option 100% fits the specifications, doubly so if there's no cons associated with the pros. Sometimes it's genuine, but very rarely.
by gruez | 2025-07-15 00:16:45+00:00
Wikipedia on the case in question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Nosal

>A few months after leaving Korn/Ferry, Nosal solicited three Korn/Ferry employees to help him start a competing executive search business. Before leaving the company, the employees downloaded a large volume of "highly confidential and proprietary" data from Korn/Ferry's computers, including source lists, names, and contact information for executives.

Extending that ruling to netflix password sharing is a stretch.

Moreover you can't say "I can think of one activity that many americans do is a felony", and then apply induction on it to claim that the other activities americans due surely contain felonies.

>That's probably another 1/6 at least. Now it's 1/3 of the country.

That's only true if you assume the population of weed smoker and netfilx watchers don't intersect, which is... doubtful.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-15 00:17:30+00:00
You mentioned you had CP and you walk with a cane. But didn’t mention if it affects your speech or your hands.

You know this I’m sure. But most people don’t know that CP affects different people differently. I have left hemiparesis CP that really only affects my left hand and very slightly my left foot - i walk with a slight limp. But properly conditioned, I’ve run a 10 minute mile up to a 10k.

I’ve been working professionally since 1996 across 10 jobs from everything from startups, to boring enterprise jobs to BigTech and full time for consulting companies. My last three jobs have been remote as have been the interviews. No one had the slightest clue about my having CP since going remote.

Why do you think it’s your CP and not just the market sucking for everyone right now?

Why do you have that you are “physically disabled” on you LinkedIn profile? Don’t do that. You are giving people a reason to discriminate against you unlawfully.

Second point: if you are just blindly submitting your resume to job sites/ATS’s you have already lost. I’m very credentialed in my field and I heard crickets from fire bombing my resume in 2023 and last year when I was looking for a job back to back. But that was my plan C while I was going through the interview processes based on my network and a targeted outreach where I had the exact set of skills and specialized experience that were looking for and responding to inbound recruiters.

But if your skillset is generic, you have to lean on your network, every open req gets hundreds of applications within a couple of days - LinkedIn shows you.
by stillpointlab | 2025-07-15 00:19:49+00:00
I get you are being sarcastic, but lets actually consider your idea more broadly.

- Machine code

- Assembly code

- LLVM

- C code (high level)

- VM IR (byte code)

- VHLL (e.g. Python/Javascript/etc)

So, we already have hierarchical stacks of structured text. The fact that we are extending this to higher tiers is in some sense inevitable. Instead of snark, we could genuinely explore this phenomenon.

LLMs are allowing us to extend this pattern to domains other than specifying instructions to processors.
by esseph | 2025-07-15 00:20:10+00:00
I have helped designed some of the network hardware and software you may have used, I'm not sure how that's relevant. Pointless D measuring.

My point stands, which is: There are a lot of capabilities in these tools that should not be overlooked or dismissed.

In addition, reachability of the service is one of the things you would note with said tools as you work your way through the stack. You can even use MTR to see if the DNS server is holding port 53 open.
by mcphage | 2025-07-15 00:21:14+00:00
> I figured he must have some sort of charisma in person that is off the charts to be able to talk so many people into doing so many terrible things. I thought that would probably make him an interesting person for a dinner conversation.

You wanted to hang out with Hitler because he’s good at convincing otherwise rational people to commit murder? Did you consider that you might end the evening killing someone?