MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by b2m9 | 2025-08-02 09:50:18+00:00
At this point I'm afraid to ask, but I will do I anyways:

How do Claude's rate limits actually work?

I'm not a Pro/Max5/Max20 subscriber, only light API usage for Anthropic - so it's likely that I don't really understand the limits there.

For example, community reports that Anthropic's message limit for Max 5 translates to roughly 88k token per 5-hour window (there's variance, but it's somewhere in this 80-120k ballpark based on system load; also assuming Sonnet, not Opus). A normal user probably won't consume more than 250k token per day with this subscription. That's like 5M token for a month of 20 active days - which doesn't justify the 100 USD subscription cost. This also doesn't square with Anthropic's statement that users can consume 10000+ USD of usage on the Max 20 tier.

I'm clearly misunderstanding Claude's rate limits here. Can someone enlighten me? Is the 5-hour window somehow per task/instance and not per account?
by kergonath | 2025-08-02 09:50:36+00:00
This. It’s easy to rationalise what can be seen as completely counter-productive and irrational actions as random acts of deranged minds. But Trump and proto-fascist republicans have genuine popular support. For terrible reasons, but still. And we can argue about how the US political system plays in their favour by giving them more power than their raw numbers would suggest, but even then they are a significant part of the population. Even more so since they managed to capture the broligarchs.

To my worried eyes this looks too much like Russia circa 2000 for comfort. Or Turkey early in Erdogan’s reign. Whatever happens, it will be painful and damaging.
by beagle3 | 2025-08-02 09:50:58+00:00
I have an observation about this: everybody wants a small upgrade that makes it easy for them to make their code a little more concise;

But somehow, almost no one wants a language that is already super-terse in the first place (like Lisp or APL- family).

And yes, that requires a paradigm change to make the most of it - but so does e.g. LINQ.

It’s about the journey, not about the destination.
by robin_reala | 2025-08-02 09:51:35+00:00
I’m trying to read the law[1] on this but I’m having difficulty finding the part that forces Android devices to have locked bootloaders. There’s recital 19 that talks about “verification by radio equipment of the compliance of its combination with software”, but there’s nothing stopping a vendor from using a seperate modem / baseband and CPU (like Apple does) right?

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/53/oj/eng
by roenxi | 2025-08-02 09:51:41+00:00
> It's not like they refused to mean adjust or failed to do so.

It is like they failed to do so - there is a timeseries of consistently negative adjustments. The BLS revising numbers down isn't an unexpected event, that is pretty standard for their jobs reports.

It is better to resolve things with a conversation rather than formal action. But if a conversation doesn't get immediate results it is fastest just to move people on at that level of seniority. The competition is fierce and it is more about finding the right person for the job than trying to micromanage performance.
Show HN: Forced to Give Your Password?
by marcusfrex | 2025-08-02 09:51:47+00:00
Lets imagine a scenario where you're coerced whether through threats, torture, or even legal pressure to reveal the password to your secure vault.

In countries like the US, UK, and Australia, refusing to provide passwords to law enforcement can result months in prison in certain cases.

I invented a solution called Veilith ( veilith.com ) addresses this critical vulnerability with perfect deniable encryption. It supports multiple passwords, each unlocking distinct blocks of encrypted data that are indistinguishable from random noise even to experts. And have a lot of different features to protect your intellectual properties.

In high-stakes situations, simply provide a decoy password and plausibly deny the existence of anything more.

Dive deeper by reading the whitepaper, exploring the open-source code, or asking me any questions you may have.
by psychoslave | 2025-08-02 09:52:19+00:00
How something operating under any set of social rules and standard be supposed to be void of political beliefs and consequences?

Look at where they tell "we don't make politics here" and see where the political power is actually being enforced at its outmost practical level.

Some people seem to think that going to toilet is not political, ignoring the fact that having the underlying infrastructure to have toilets require a while city and political organization to keep it operational.
by kergonath | 2025-08-02 09:53:06+00:00
Both the EU and its large member-states need to significantly ramp up funding to exfiltrate scientists from the US. This could be a force multiplier as important as getting German scientists was after WWII, or Russian ones during the Cold War. It would also be a tremendous amount of progress for not that much money, all things considered.

And I say this with no joy whatsoever, because all these developments are damaging great collaborations and personal relationships with friends and colleagues in the US.
by _pdp_ | 2025-08-02 09:54:34+00:00
On a somewhat related note, I am the founder of a company that relies on integrations with 3rd-party systems. Good luck building for Google, Shopify, Slack, etc without going though absurd number of requirements and sacrificing hard earned revenue just so that your own customers, the one you have managed to acquire yourself (not acquired through the market places of the said channels) can use your product on these platforms.

As a result, we've opted not to list our product on marketplaces in general. Instead, we support custom integrations directly with our customers.

I've also been burned in the past by Apple, Chrome, and Mozilla.

I understand that all of these companies run business and I understand that there are legitimate security and privacy concerns (I used to lead security teams, so this issue is close to my heart), but even so, these platforms often fall short of being truly developer-friendly, especially toward legitimate builders trying to create value - especially when this value is created outside of the said marketplaces.
by BDPW | 2025-08-02 09:55:18+00:00
Like the German diplomats recently speaking out against their governments policy on Gaza and Israel?

Or Dutch professors openly criticizing the plans by the right-wing government (which just fell) as being damaging, unproductive amd sometimes unconstitutional?

The only examples I see are the opposite of what you say. Can you name any examples in Germany, Sweden, Norway or Holland? (Those are the countries that I'm confident talking about at least)
by diggan | 2025-08-02 09:56:01+00:00
As is usual, there seems to be a massive misunderstanding what the directive is and means. The TLDR is that the directive contains no clauses that compels phone makers to keep the Android bootloader locked or that forbids EU users from unlocking it.

Samsung's public reasoning might be that disabling unlocking the bootloader because of the directive, but there is nothing in the directive that forces them to lock the bootloader. It does sound like a convenient scapegoat if they don't want to talk about the real reasons though.

The phone makes who end up disabling the unlocking of bootloaders are all doing so on their own accord, not because some regulation is forcing them to.

Finally, the EU’s broader right-to-repair policies makes it kind of impossible that an outright prohibition of unlocking the bootloader could happen. But of course, nuance doesn't make people click article titles on the web...
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-02 09:56:35+00:00
>Fraunhofer Institute and the Max Planck Institute are perpetually well-funded, and are largely unaffected by politics

Oh, so I can freely go up against the German government's policies and have my career in academia unaffected and keep my government funding?

I lived in Germany and don't remember people or organisations ever being able to break government rules with no consequences (unless they had high friends in politics).

Something smells here.
by roenxi | 2025-08-02 09:56:38+00:00
McEntarfer [0] had only been commissioner for around 18 months. The performance of the BLS in 1979 probably isn't reflective of her skills and talents.

And I'm not going to bother digging through the manuals to figure out how the BLS is calculating their standard errors, but there is a pretty decent chance they've been calculated assuming that the error mean is 0 when in fact it appears to be biased.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_McEntarfer
by Y-bar | 2025-08-02 09:56:50+00:00
The linked article says:

> As of August 2025, manufacturers selling devices in the EU need to:

> Block the installation of unauthorized software

> Use Secure Boot (or similar) to verify firmware authenticity

> Ensure only signed and approved ROMs can run

But the text at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2022/30/oj/eng mentions no word such as "authorized"/"unauthorized" or "authent(icity)" or "signed" or "approved" so how can we know that this is the EU which does this when it seems like the removal was global, as seen in this article: https://xiaomitime.com/android-makers-remove-bootloader-unlo... ?
by kashunstva | 2025-08-02 09:57:36+00:00
> blatantly violating civil rights law

That’s not at all clear. Regardless, there is no proportionality in the actions that this administration is taking against UCLA and other eminent universities. The tools for righting civil rights issues in education should be through consent decrees that permit the DOJ to set criteria and monitor for compliance. The destruction of a large part of the research enterprise for these claims, particularly when the claims are widely regarded as nonsense, is heavy-handed and gives the distinct impression of another agenda.
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-02 09:57:42+00:00
My analogy is every Microsoft UI framework was almost completed in the sense of someone being almost pregnant.

A framework that has just one show-stopper missing feature or problem is... unusable. You can't embark on a large, complex application development journey if you even suspect that you'll be painted into a corner.

For example, many of WPF-derived frameworks had atrocious performance, with fundamental mistakes in their design that made them incompatible with list virtualization. It wasn't until they had to eat their own dogfood and use WPF for Visual Studio that they started fixing these issues.

Win UI 3 meanwhile dropped all support for HDR, wide-gamut, etc... going backwards to SDR sRGB only in an era where all mobile phone manufacturers were starting to standardise on OLED HDR displays. The logic behind this decision? Microsoft wanted a UI framework that is "mobile compatible"!
by dscthrowaway | 2025-08-02 09:58:04+00:00
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by roenxi | 2025-08-02 09:58:33+00:00
> The BLS is run by the world's experts in how to measure what they are measuring.

And the commissioner was just sacked and the reason given was because she was incompetent. Goes to show the risks of being in a high performing environment and not having a trivially demonstrable track record of high performance. If a dude with no particular track record can clearly articulate why the numbers are biased then your employment might fall into question.
by ulfw | 2025-08-02 09:59:13+00:00
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by aspenmayer | 2025-08-02 09:59:19+00:00
https://archive.is/JGQah

Original title which was too long to post, so it was edited for length:

> Patents by Silk Typhoon-linked company shed light on Beijing’s offensive hacking capabilities

The report, because it wasn’t linked in TFA:

https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/chinas-covert-capabilities-... | https://archive.is/TEgpp
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-08-02 09:59:26+00:00
I don't have any leads, unfortunately. I was however pleasantly surprised to see that African developer salaries, as ballparked by Gemini Pro 2.5, seem to be higher than what I would have expected:

// Annual Dev Salaries ($k USD) Country | Entry | Mid | Senior ---------------|---------|---------|--------- South Africa | 18-25 | 25-45 | 45-65+ Nigeria | 7-15 | 15-30 | 30-50+ Kenya | 8-18 | 18-35 | 35-55+ Egypt | 6-12 | 12-25 | 25-45+ Morocco | 9-15 | 15-30 | 30-50+ Ghana | 6-12 | 12-25 | 25-40+

Compare this to:

--- South Asia --- India | 5-9 | 10-22 | 25-45+ Pakistan | 3.5-6 | 7-15 | 18-30 Bangladesh | 3-5 | 6-12 | 15-25 Sri Lanka | 3.5-6 | 7-14 | 16-28 Nepal | 2.5-4.5 | 5-10 | 12-20

I'm not totally sure how to explain this. Classic supply and demand? But where is the demand coming from? Outside investors, local African companies, what? I hope it's not just confabulation.
by 0points | 2025-08-02 09:59:36+00:00
> And most mainstream GUI toolkits are, as well.

No. Windows use UTF-16 internally. Most GUI toolkits do not.

> It can be said that UTF-16 is the de-facto standard in-memory representation of unicode strings, even though some runtimes (Rust) prefer UTF-8.

No, that wouldn't be true at all.

Your technical merit seem to be limited by your Windows experience, and even that is dated.

Microsoft recommends UTF-8 over UTF-16 since 2019 [1].

1: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/global...
by jltsiren | 2025-08-02 09:59:37+00:00
As a fraction of GDP, the EU spends more on academic research than the US. And if you add the UK, the total is also higher in absolute terms. (The US spends more on R&D, but that's mostly business spending.)

From an individual perspective, the funding situation is (used to be?) better in the US than in Europe. Mostly because there is less competition, as the salary gap between the academia and the industry is wider in the US. Americans are less likely to do a PhD and pursue a career in the academia than Europeans.
by kergonath | 2025-08-02 10:00:28+00:00
> Firing people is not how you get more accurate numbers. It's how you get yes-men.

When reality and truth do not matter, why would they want accurate numbers? They do not need the country to flourish, they just need their personal wealth to grow and the rest of the population to remain compliant. From that point of view, shooting the messenger before the message gets out of control makes perfect sense. It is working well enough for many autocratic regimes around the world.
by ben_w | 2025-08-02 10:01:18+00:00
In addition to what @adrianN says about the laws (which is very true, these things are extremely easy to setup, install, and even to register despite the reputation of German bureaucracy), PV is also absurdly cheap.

We've got one. As per the law, limited to 800 W. €350 (of which €50 was delivery), including the inverter and the stands. As it happens, the stands weren't too useful for us (didn't fit our balcony so the panels are now on the driveway) and we could've reduced that to €250 if we'd gone for a model without stands and had been able to pick the kit up in person rather than getting delivered.

But even at €350, assuming 10% capacity factor, €350/(800W*24h*10%*€0.3/kWh*365) = 1.665 years = 1y8m.

Even if electricity was a third of the price, even with the €350 we spent, these things would still be no-brainers because they would still pay for themselves five to seven times over in their expected lifespans. As is, 15-21 times over.
by tooevangelist | 2025-08-02 10:01:22+00:00
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by diggan | 2025-08-02 10:01:55+00:00
> Lawmakers need to assume that their laws will be interpreted and abused in the worst possible way.

Is there anything from the current directive's text that makes you believe they didn't already? Again, this directive doesn't require them to disable the unlocking of bootloaders in any shape or form.

If the company want to disable the unlocks, they'll do so for as long as there is no regulation forces them to keep them open, regardless if there are unrelated directives or not.
by lloeki | 2025-08-02 10:02:17+00:00
> I'm not sure how true that is, even when the cause is distracted/aggressive drivers

Very.

It's possible to make no mistake and still lose.

My wife got hit-and-run when bicycling to work and she's exceeding careful and defensive in her riding.

Her carefulness is probably what allowed her to catch a glimpse of the car in the corner of her eye and swerve at the last minute to not be caught head-on by the car and sent flying hundreds of meters away.

She's "lucky" to even have made it, suffering debilitating neck pain every day and night, abated only by roughly a half through invasive surgery, a pain she will have to endure for the rest of her life which at the current rate of life expectancy is the next fifty years.

Meanwhile the distracted and hurried driver who didn't bother to check around their A pillar blind spot drove away scot-free.

That's one example. I have many such stories of cyclist and biker friends alike, many of which don't ever ride between lanes.
by salawat | 2025-08-02 10:02:18+00:00
>You don't get a pilot hopping on a 767 and flying a bunch of people around solely because Boeing used autopilot in a deceptive marketing ad, then getting the surprise of a lifetime when the autopilot doesn't avoid flying into a mountain.

...Um... You did get pilots hopping into a 737 MAX, getting training that barely mentioned an automated anti-stall and flight envelope management system called MCAS that eventually flew several planeloads of people into the ground. That was managements idea too, btw.
Show HN: Offline-First AI Assistant for Educators
by ud0 | 2025-08-02 10:02:28+00:00
Saidia is an offline-first AI assistant tailored for educators, enabling them to generate questions directly from source materials.

Built using Electron, Ollama, and Gemma 3n, Saidia functions entirely offline and is optimised for basic hardware. It's ideal for areas with unreliable internet and power, empowering educators with powerful teaching resources where cloud-based tools are impractical or impossible.
by ajb | 2025-08-02 10:02:40+00:00
In the long term, it might be best to disable the ability to switch off checks using command line flags (which usually means, the whole executable) and only allow it on individual functions. Although the current mechanism to switch them off per function isn't idiot proof either (you need to remember to "#pragma diagnostic pop" after ) - we really need to be able to do it in a function attribute.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-02 10:03:03+00:00
>HM is distinctly more conservative than most other places online at least in my experience.

HN is the place of champagne socialists. They're on the side of making money with their actions but liberal with their voice at least they pretend to.

>Excluding the fascists safe spaces.

Define fascist safe spaces. Define fascism.

>fascism is conservative in nature and not progressive

Is it progressive to burn down Teslas and throw rocks at police doing their jobs and voice call to violence against certain races, religions of people or based on their political beliefs?

>I don’t think you could ever get away with discussing far left libertarian ideas on HN.

You definitely missed them.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-08-02 10:04:07+00:00
Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave

Scientists record longest streak of temperatures higher than 30C in region in records going back to 1961

Back to 1961? In the context of meteorology 65 yrs is a second at best. Imagine the universe being hours if not days - and you know there’s been deviations from the rolling average - and you focus on the fraction of a second.

This isn’t scientific. This isn’t journalism. And these statements are not “denial”, simple fact.
by uecker | 2025-08-02 10:04:53+00:00
Sorry, this is nonsense. Binaries link just fine on Linux. If you use a compiler flag that changes the ABI, then you are on your own, of course, but the GCC docu makes it very clear which specific flags those are. There is some corner cases with problems where you get problems if you use different compilers, e.g. atomic alignment (by adopting the broken C++ design into C) and some other corner cases where compilers did things slightly different.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-02 10:05:29+00:00
Sorry I don't buy it. Which examples are there of academics going against the government policies and still keeping their jobs and funds?

I lived in Germany and the moment you don't do what the government says you get the full shaft. Nobody let's you rebel against the government with no consequences, not in US, not in Germany, not in UK, nowhere.

People painting Germany like a bastion of free speech are coping hard. Only if you consider free speech doing and saying only what the government says.
by Svip | 2025-08-02 10:05:32+00:00
Under the section "Software authenticity" does it mention that the secure boot requirement appears to come from article 3, §3 (i).

Quoting article 3, §3 (i):

> radio equipment supports certain features in order to ensure that software can only be loaded into the radio equipment where the compliance of the combination of the radio equipment and software has been demonstrated.

The opening of §3 is:

> Radio equipment within certain categories or classes shall be so constructed that it complies with the following essential requirements:

Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/53/oj/eng
by diggan | 2025-08-02 10:06:23+00:00
> It's possible to make no mistake and still lose.

Sure, no doubt about that. But again, if people (60% of the riders in my case) manage to never be in an accident, and that's including a wide range of people, then surely the odds are greater of never being in an accident if you're careful.

Still, sucks she had that experience. But it's important to realize that for every accident, there are thousands of people riding every day without a single accident in their life. But of course it's harder to think about that when you had someone in a accident and that person is close to you, I understand that.