MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by whyever | 2025-07-04 01:46:36+00:00
Ok, so how would such a secret end up in a commit? E.g., I don't see why I would have my home address anywhere close to a code repository. Maybe if I used the wrong "secret" email address when authoring the commit?

If it's not possible to invalidate your compromised software secrets, I would argue that you have bigger and more urgent problems to fix. But fair enough: Deleting them from GitHub might reduce the impact in such cases.
by amy_petrik | 2025-07-04 01:46:43+00:00
>Injecting refuse "CO2" into the ground will contaminate our water supply;

That sounds crooked as hell, sorry to hear. Far as I am concerned, the only person who carbonates my family's water is ME and maybe coca cola. This twisted, corrupted government bureaucrats taking kickbacks to make my drinking water carbonated, the insult of it all.
by cm2012 | 2025-07-04 01:47:39+00:00
Just to give the opposite experience from a different place: as a marketing professional in New York City, I've worked in small businesses, start ups, big businesses, as a freelancer, and owning my own ad agency.

Ive basically never worked more than 40 hours in a week, or worked a weekend (beyond rarely answering an email). It hasn't impacted my ability to succeed, and I've earned a high income for a long time. I also get really good results for clients.

So it can be much better elsewhere.

Also, if you have to use English for work, you can use ChatGPT to help you translate to English. One of my employees in the Phillipines has become a lot more effective since she started using chatgpt to help her communications.
by slwvx | 2025-07-04 01:50:55+00:00
Eurekalert [0] gives more details; looks promising.

The pubmed page [1] for the article says that several of the authors are with Altos labs [2].

[0] https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088662

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40516525/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altos_Labs
by zmgsabst | 2025-07-04 01:54:16+00:00
I was curious, so I found random numbers on Google:

- a Panmax ship is 8000 sq m (250m long x 32m wide)

- using 150w per sq m this is 1.2Mw

- a Panmax ship has a 40,000hp engine, which is 30Mw

So you’re off by a factor of around 20x using solar power for a Panmax ship.
by transcriptase | 2025-07-04 01:54:17+00:00
Credibly? Are they illegal immigrants with criminal records? If not, do they also walk around in crippling fear of car crashes, fatal falls, aneurysms, choking, drowning, anaphylaxis, cardiac arrest, or a thousand other things orders of magnitude more likely to happen to them? Which assumes for a moment that the odds of what you think is happening outside of human error is non-zero.

The fact is your view of reality is being warped and it’s not good for your mental health or that of your friends.
by shmerl | 2025-07-04 01:55:21+00:00
It's basically same AMD GPU and you can compile SPIR-V into its machine code optimally without any kind of made up "I'm closer than close to the hardware" secrets. Compiler optimizations are done all the time (see Valve's aco and AMD's llvm based compiler).

Vulkan is more than adequate to handle things for the hardware on the API side so I don't buy the claim that they are somehow "closer than close" to be better.
by caymanjim | 2025-07-04 01:58:00+00:00
I think it'll greatly increase cultural learning, by increasing the opportunity to interact with people. I've traveled to a lot of countries, and never learned more than a handful of words in each, primarily related to basic service interactions. I enjoyed talking to locals when they spoke English. I couldn't interact in any meaningful way with the vast majority of people, though.

Learning languages is great. If you can become fluent in two that's impressive. Even simple conversational ability in a few languages is impressive. But it's a big world.
by hayst4ck | 2025-07-04 01:58:34+00:00
Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
by skissane | 2025-07-04 01:59:28+00:00
In a truly life-threatening situation, the emergency authorities can send help by air

If they don’t and someone dies as a result, they are going to have an awful lot of explaining to do at the coronial inquiry, it isn’t going to end well for them

Of course I realise in this 1986 tragedy the coronial findings (whatever they were) seem to have made very little impact - but again, I think standards and expectations today are different from what they were almost 40 years ago
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-07-04 02:01:27+00:00
One thing worth noting is that this extra detail from dithering can be recovered when denoising by storing the image to higher precision. This is a lot of the reason 10 bit AV1 is so popular. It turns out that by adding extra bits of image, you end up with an image that is easier to compress accurately since the encoder has lower error from quantization.
by defrost | 2025-07-04 02:02:09+00:00
Entertaining your take w/out endorsing it, there's this:

MethaneSAT was uniquely suited to detect methane at the middle scale, making it ideal for spotting emissions from oil and gas production. This view was intended to estimate methane emissions from regions known for fossil fuel production, like the Permian Basin in the south-western US. It would also help efforts to identify and cap the largest sources of the potent greenhouse gas.

There's a vast constellation of satellites for nation states and transnationals with nation scale budgets to target with their own or for hire hacking capabilities.

There's no need to think Russia is the sole suspect in the pool.
by topkai22 | 2025-07-04 02:02:48+00:00
I suspect they are a bit high, but not insanely so. The author is using city limits rather than metro area it appears, so there is going to be some draw in from the suburbs.

100k/305 residents= 325 people/restaurant. Average per capita spending on food away from home is $4500. That means that each restaurant has $1,475,000 of addressable market on average, which seems totally viable? (https://www.michiganfarmnews.com/boom-in-spending-at-restaur...)
by Aurornis | 2025-07-04 02:03:54+00:00
> As a young person in the United States, the main concern is that if you aren't one of the greatest at what you do, you'll be doomed to a life of increasing poverty

In psychology there’s a concept called splitting, or dichotomous thinking, where a person only thinks of things in concepts of their extremes. Either the most extreme good outcome, or the most extreme bad outcome. They might see people or public figures as either amazing or evil. The Wikipedia page has a primer on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology) But you don’t need a Wikipedia article or psychology concepts to realize that there are more outcomes than extreme success or increasing poverty.

I’m fascinated by how these concepts that were once relegated to psychology and therapy have started to become commonplace among young people on the internet. They’re not seen as failure modes in thinking, but rather an obvious conclusion from whatever they’ve been consuming so much of online.

The comment above is a prime example. Even the obsession over “food derived from vegetable oils and chemically bleached wheat” is a confusing conclusion for me, someone who has had no problem avoiding wheat products and eating healthy on a budget with even minimal effort. The food topic is particularly strange because it’s not that hard to learn basic cooking skills, buy cheap vegetable, and cook quick and easy meals. Yet I continue talking to young people who simultaneously fret about food quality while filling their diets with nothing but processed and fast foods, many of which are more expensive than cooking basic fast meals.

I don’t know what else to say, other than the above style of thinking is, in my experience, indicative of what happens when someone collects too much perspective from the internet and not enough from the real world. Given the context of this comment section, I can only recommend trying to reevaluate, disconnect from the internet a little more, and make an effort to reconnect with the real world
by tomhow | 2025-07-04 02:04:09+00:00
This risks breaking the guidelines about being snarky, being curmudgeonly, fulminating, sneering and generic tangents.

As I asked in just the past couple of days, please make an effort to observe the guidelines. You seem to be relatively new here, so it's understandable to take some time to understand what's expected, but please make the effort if you want to keep participating here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by gusgus01 | 2025-07-04 02:04:20+00:00
This feels like the difference between science and engineering. Although to be fair to you, this paper really feels like somewhere on that spectrum and not fully on the side of science. It's similar to how every battery advancement doesn't always make it to manufacturing.

To address the things that you thought of off the top of your head: * Anything done on land will be less carbon intensive as we transition to renewables. * Trains are incredibly efficient at transport, and depending on the quarry might already be established. * Boats are so good at shipping heavy weights because of those hydrodynamics, so as long as some reduced returns are okay (reduced cargo space), there's plenty of space on those cargo ships. The real limiter is stability of steering in canals and depth of ports/canals.
by yesco | 2025-07-04 02:05:53+00:00
There are certain angles you just can't cover with traditional methods in my opinion, we will have to wait until people get a broader intuition on when/where to harmonize them.

For games like dwarf fortress, I think embeddings are the easiest to integrate, they can handle aspects of subjectivity we can't be easily simulated. Even simple things like a sentiment meter that measures how screwed up the world is right now would be a fun and meaningful addition. For LLMs the main value could be just having it clean up and summarize generated text, constructing a more coherent real-time narrative on what's happening in battle for example. Dwarf Fortress has so much depth to it, but comprehending it all can be overwhelming at times.
by x-complexity | 2025-07-04 02:06:24+00:00
The article assumes that there will be no architectural improvements / migrations in the future, & that Sparse MoE will always stay. Not a great foundation to build upon.

Personally, I'm rooting for RWKV / Mamba2 to pull through, somehow. There's been some work done to increase their reasoning depths, but transformers still beat them without much effort.

https://x.com/ZeyuanAllenZhu/status/1918684269251371164
by Mr_Minderbinder | 2025-07-04 02:06:40+00:00
> But there is no grain in reality, so it does the opposite

The author did not do a particularly good job of selling the merits of film grain. I am not sure what he meant by that but I will say that it does increase the perceived sharpness of the image as well as perceived detail, even if it is just an illusion. The cinematographer Steve Yedlin describes it as giving the viewer’s eyes something to “latch” onto.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-07-04 02:06:55+00:00
This comparison actually undermines the argument. Mexico's constitution allows non-citizens to participate in peaceful protests generally - it only restricts participation in 'political affairs of the country' specifically (Article 9)[1]. So even Mexico, with significantly weaker democratic institutions, is more permissive than the scenario being described. Canada, meanwhile, guarantees peaceful assembly for everyone (Charter Section 2(c))[2]. The premise that other democracies would automatically deport protesters simply doesn't hold up.

[1] https://www.constitucionpolitica.mx/titulo-1-garantias-indiv...

[2] https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-12.html under article 2(c)
by llamavore | 2025-07-04 02:07:07+00:00
Check the post from Simon Willison: https://til.simonwillison.net/claude-code/playwright-mcp-cla...

You install the playwright mcp server and then it just launches chrome.

Also check out https://browser-use.com/ https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use

and

https://github.com/D4Vinci/Scrapling
by prvt | 2025-07-04 02:08:27+00:00
Last weekend, I dove into CMU’s [15-445/645](https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/) database course and got hit with a deceptively simple problem: count the number of unique users visiting a website per day. Easy, right? Just throw user IDs into an unordered_set and return its size—classic LeetCode.

But what happens when you’re at Facebook scale? Tracking a billion unique users means burning through GBs of memory just to count. And in the real world, users are streaming in constantly, not sitting in a neat, static list. Storing every ID? Not happening.

I explored practical workarounds (like “last seen” timestamps and full table scans), but they’re either inefficient or put massive strain on your DB. Then the assignment introduces HyperLogLog: a probabilistic algorithm that estimates cardinality with just 1.5KB of memory—accurate to within 2% for billions of users.

The magic? Pure mathematics. It’s distributable, and powers real-world systems like Redis and Google Analytics. I break down how it works (with illustrations!), check out my deep dive.

Curious to hear from HN: Who’s using HyperLogLog in production? And have you run into accuracy issues, and how did you handle them?
by moralestapia | 2025-07-04 02:08:32+00:00
>This feels like the difference between science and engineering.

I really like that analogy and will adopt it going fwd. Thanks.

Indeed, very interesting science, cool paper and much more of this research is definitely needed.

This begs a follow up study, perhaps by a different team, where they measure the feasibility of it; including, yes, the points you address.
Ask HN: How to make money with SaaS without network or VC funding?
by squareloop | 2025-07-04 02:09:17+00:00
Hi HN, Long time reader here. I am posting for the first time. I am building a SaaS after leaving my job in 2024. I was at one of the FAANG (sweat shop one). After FAANG I joined a mid-size company in Texas. I left on my own accord after seeing how terrible decision it was to leave FAANG. I was an engineer turned manager at both companies. I am not against managing but I am old enough now to be in L5 SWE role.

I am coming to realization that job was more comfortable than building the startup. I haven't stopped working for last 6 months and consistently worked 15-16 hours. I have to do so many things such as write code to some extent, sales, marketing, administrative work, compliance, keeping track of accounts, managing churn. It just never ends.

It's been a hell of experience but we (team of 2) are not even bringing in survival money. We had two customers and lost one recently. What a shame!

We raised money from an unknown VC group (sub $100k) but it has been total disaster. They actually pulled us down, misguided us, and demanded things that we do things "their" way. I wish I had never applied or took funding. It has left a bitter taste in my mouth regarding VC. They have no network and in fact they bad mouthed us to a few investors we met with that resulted in some investers ghosting us completely.

Now, we are facing a dilemma. We are giving it one last push before we shut things down. Here is the problem - 1. We are in the domain where we have no expertise in. We are technologists and generalists (Data, ML, AI, Python, C++). Implementation and technical solutions are never problem for us. We can build.

2. I have read and come to realization that without network there is no business. Either you have existing network of founders, customers or you make one through VCs like YC. How sweet is that anything you build you have buyers lined up or at least providing great advice and early validation.

Should we pivot to completely new domain? We dont have expertise in one particular domains area (accounting, tax, supply chain etc.), but we have good knowledge of technology software (think data pipelines, ML, AI models). If we do software for software (e.g. Cursor, Lovable), we worry that closed source might hurt us. Do you think having open source would be a better path for making money?

We can back to job market but things are not green on other side and it is taking 6 months or so for people to get jobs based on my reading. I want to try one last time.

We are stuck without much guidance. What would be your recommendation?
by ryan_lane | 2025-07-04 02:09:25+00:00
Let's not continue using propaganda numbers around undocumented immigrants. There's not 10s of millions of illegal immigrants. There's roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in total, and that number has _decreased_ since the early 2000s (when it was closer to 12 million).

A decent percentage of these immigrants are seasonal. A very, very small percentage of the total of undocumented immigrants have criminal histories. Focusing efforts on violent criminals is reasonable, but that doesn't meet the propaganda numbers from the current administration. Deporting tens of thousands of people just doesn't rally hate the same way.

Rather than spending time and money building concentration camps, building out secret police (ICE), and deporting people without due process, we could be fixing our immigration system.

Let's make work visas that allow migrant workers to work seasonally. Let's add paths to citizenship to migrant workers. Let's prioritize fast paths to citizenship for students, especially those with masters and PHDs. Let's introduce a point system to encourage immigration of the best and brightest from high demand countries, allowing them prioritized visas, PRs and naturalization. Let's fix the DREAMER situation by providing those folks clear paths to citizenship.

The reason the immigration situation doesn't get better is because republicans need it to be broken. They use undocumented immigrants as a group to target hate against, which rallies their base.
by alganet | 2025-07-04 02:13:09+00:00
You can go outside at night and see big rocks floating. If space is so empty, how is it possible that you can see them with your own eyes?

We live in a patch of space that's not that empty. Maybe that interstellar rock floated from other patch of space that's not that empty all the way over here, all on its own.

Most rocks we see in our patch of space, as far as we can possibly know, were not intentionally launched.
by nico | 2025-07-04 02:14:37+00:00
The article reads almost like an ad for o3 and spending a lot of money on LLM APIs

In my experience, o4-mini-high is good enough, even just through the chat interface

Cursor et al can be more comfy because they have access to the files directly. But when working on a sufficiently large/old/complex code base, the main limitation is the human in the loop and managing context, so things end up evening out. Not only that, but a lot of times it’s just easier/better to manually feed things to ChatGPT/Claude - that way you get to more carefully curate and understand the tasks and the changes

I still haven’t seen any convincing real life scenario with larger in-production code bases in which agents are able to autonomously write most of the code

If anyone has a video/demo, would love to see it
by anonu | 2025-07-04 02:15:34+00:00
Also a cool read, the 105 page document outlining how the index manipulation went down: https://www.sebi.gov.in/enforcement/orders/jul-2025/interim-...

A quick read through seems that the strategies used were fairly rudimentary: a combination of leverage (via options) and going big -- enough to create imbalances that couldn't be offset by other market participants. They did this intraday - presumably closer to the open when price discovery was most important - but also on market close to tilt on-close imbalances.
by nine_k | 2025-07-04 02:17:30+00:00
If Finnish is not widely known, German is more familiar, and there you can put the "nicht" at the very end of a sentence, reversing its meaning. Also, the verb may come close to the end, after an extended description of the subject / object; in English, you want the verb early.

Human translators somehow handle that; machines would likely exhibit a similar delay.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-04 02:17:30+00:00
It is a solar energy retention problem on a global scale, and has a complex physics model with around 14+ different contributing primary causes. Calling it "global warming" just confused people.

CO2 is the lesser of green house gases, but again it is the scale that makes it the primary issue. Please see microbial fossil records, fossil fuel radioactive isotope ratio confirmatory evidence, and thousands of years of ice core trapped-gas sampling data.

Best of luck, the world needs more comedians. =3

( Seriously, why down-vote the guys karma if he honestly thinks his theory is true. Please let people discuss things, as we both may learn something new. )
by rkagerer | 2025-07-04 02:18:42+00:00
If you're wondering why we can't just accelerate at 1G for half the journey there, then with a brief but fun interlude at 0G, flip around and decelerate at 1G the rest of the way: today's rockets would deplete their fuel too quickly (minutes or maybe hours at best).

I wonder if a hypothetical, high-Isp fusion rocket could manage it (incidentally the journey would only take a couple days or so).
by benreesman | 2025-07-04 02:19:00+00:00
Haha I agree completely about the timeless nature of this dynamic. One of the monster Unix greybeards who took me under their wings when I was a sapling had a T-Shirt: "The sports team from my area is inherently superior to the sports team from your area", the point being (it was explained to me) that such statements are in fact true or false given context (given that this was San Diego in about 2003, generally false).

A critical feature of the (trivially superior) hacker culture from back then was that we did pass such judgements. Not always with complete consensus (vi/emacs), but pretty often (Windows sucks).
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-07-04 02:19:05+00:00
I wonder what the correlation / causation is on that versus having a supportive family and community.

That is, if you took someone who's an atheist, would making them religious (left as an exercise to the reader) make them measurably more successful? Or is it that people who already have supportive families tend to come from religious families, and tend to inherit their parents' religion?
by lmm | 2025-07-04 02:19:23+00:00
It's a problem with Docker. It's a real lowest-common-denominator interface, worse-is-better triumphing all over again. Heck, the fundamental flaw is essentially the same as make. Just when most people have finally accepted that a structured dependency/project management system is a better way to build your software than running random shell commands, we recapitulate the whole thing one level higher.
by spyckie2 | 2025-07-04 02:20:19+00:00
It’s not quite about following your interest. It’s learning how to take an interest in your interests, IMO.

Basically if you pursue your interest half heartedly or without the rigor and discipline that you would under pressure of work, you would probably never do anything interesting with your interests. But if you held yourself to the same standard of excellence in your interests that you do in work, then your interests will take on a quality that allows it to stand on its own.