MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crustaceansoup | 2025-08-26 16:23:39+00:00
I tried to reproduce the fork/spaghetti example and the fashion bubble example, and neither looks anything like what they present. The outputs are very consistent, too. I am copying/pasting the images out of the advertisement page so they may be lower resolution than the original inputs, but otherwise I'm using the same prompts and getting a wildly different result.

It does look like I'm using the new model, though. I'm getting image editing results that are well beyond what the old stuff was capable of.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-26 16:24:52+00:00
> Then why hasn't EU economy been boosted to the moon by the millions of mass immigrants who came to Europe since 2015 and has instead fallen behind the US and China even more?

Because immigration at this level only managed to keep the workforce constant. It did not grow it.

> Show me Europe's AMD or Nvidia that an illegal migrant founded

You're probably right, immigrants from Syria and Afghanistan won't found microchip companies ... and we all know who does do that ... European immigrants.

Most EU countries are losing 1-2% of their young population to emigration (5% of their workforce) PER YEAR, almost exclusively to the US (and yes, Trump has not changed that despite either Trump's own promises or the left's depiction of the US as the new Nazi Germany).

> But what Europe has done is leave the front door open for anyone to come in off the street ...

No, not really. Europe is in total panic because of young people leaving Europe en-masse. Mass-immigration has actually been able to keep the economy stagnant, which is a major miracle given the numbers.

If you stop immigration, the emigration won't stop, so EU countries are going to forbid emigration while still allowing mass-immigration. (that's the next step people currently don't see coming. There are already a lot of measures in place in EU countries to stop anyone "worth it" from leaving. Google "exit tax")

I find your post funny in a very ironic way: you are acting as if being in power actually gives you a choice, actually gives you the power to change things. Yes you can choose whether to hire Bob or Barbara, Irena or Stefan as your secretary, but you can't change anything fundamental. I mean, I guess I'm not the US president, maybe he can, but a lot of positions are very disappointing on that front.
by diggan | 2025-08-26 16:25:01+00:00
> Any recommendations on how to start a life as a digital hoarder?

Step 1: Get a NAS or whatever, and copy over things manually when you know you care about them.

That's pretty much it for at least some basic protections, and not starting a whole project. Just made checksums before you send it, and verify the checksums after you send it, and that's pretty much it.

Then step 2-6 can involve doing encrypted off-site (cloud) syncing of your backups, automatic backuping and so on, but as a first step, just do something small and easy, so it won't feel like a hassle in the future.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-08-26 16:25:12+00:00
The reason “custom” programming languages (sometimes called macros) are not popular is that (statistically) no one wants to learn a custom language for each project. People want to learn the basics as few times as possible. Orgs prefer to standardize, most businesses are not snowflakes.

It can be done, but it is not economical, and therefore not practical.
by digital_sawzall | 2025-08-26 16:25:16+00:00
Kamala raised $1.65 billion compared to Trump's $1.1 billion [0]. Not like it was a massive difference. Especially because that does not take into account super pacs, like Musks $200million in Pennsylvania.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-15/trump-har...
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-26 16:25:16+00:00
WW2 was brought by the humiliation and starvation of the German people by the European winners and by their own politicians, and Hitler easily capitalized on that making his rise to power a slam dunk.

People like to think that if they would have assassinated Hitler early on, WW2 wouldn't have happened, but that's wrong. That would have just left the power vacuum empty for someone else to capitalize on the German populations' grievances and start the war.

The history lesson is to make sure the masses of people are taken care of by their leaders, not to start censoring, imprisoning or assassinating political opponents who capitalize on the peoples' unhappiness.
by ryao | 2025-08-26 16:25:16+00:00
I have never seen bad text rendering on an OLED. Which ones have you seen that have bad text rendering? I recently replaced a Sony X900E with a LG C4. Text is crisp and power usage dropped going to the OLED.

Permanent burn-in will happen with static images, but it happened on CRTs too and those once dominated the world. As long as it is infrequent, it is probably not much of an issue. Newer OLEDs, such as Apple’s tandem OLEDs, minimize the issue.

I am not sure what you think your point about black levels contributes to the discussion. Higher black levels would only favor OLEDs thanks to their inky blacks.
by dtkav | 2025-08-26 16:25:23+00:00
Hey, sorry if it felt like an ad.

I was just actively working on that project and i was excited to share it, but i see that i didn't do a good job connecting the dots.

I think we both agree that Obsidian is a best-in-class writing tool, and that Jekyll, Hugo, Astro, etc are also the best way to publish content.

Relay makes this flow really smooth for teams by attaching CRDTs to the editor to enable google-docs-like editing capabilities. The git sync app that i posted turns these merged crdts back into a git repo.

If you aren't writing in a team then it makes sense that it would feel like a bunch of extra steps.

If you *are* working in a collaborative team setting then managing git conflicts is painful overhead. I'm obviously biased, but I think it solves a real problem.

You're also right that Obsidian Sync supports non-real-time collaboration, and Obsidian has collaboration on their roadmap.

They also have a different architecture that would make automatically merging and publishing hard. I imagine you would need to make one person on the team be in charge of pushing periodically instead.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your post.
by const_cast | 2025-08-26 16:25:30+00:00
... and that pales in comparison to the billions stolen via malicious actors on certified software. Lol.

I don't need to sideload a fucking fake bank app to steal your money. Get real. This isn't how most fraud or scams are done. Grandma isn't gonna install a fucking unsigned binary on her android phone. But she IS going to give out her password.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-08-26 16:25:40+00:00
I always told myself if I ever became a "tech billionaire" I'd buy out a random abandoned town somewhere, setup high speed internet, and turn a ghost town into a high tech town, cause why not? You could easily become mayor and approve some reasonable projects. Sell extremely affordable housing for the buck (close to actual cost).

I do often wonder if it might be worthwhile to shove a bunch of server farms into a few abandoned mines, if you setup the appropriate infrastructure in said mines to protect your data centers.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-26 16:26:07+00:00
I’ve had to get a couple MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros repaired by Apple when we took over an office that didn’t have IT staff.

It was surprisingly not as expensive as I thought it would be. There are also 3rd party options that will swap in parts for you or try to repair things.

It’s not as satisfying as ordering the parts and changing it out yourself but at this point I don’t prioritize repairs or failures in my buying decisions any more.
by michaelmior | 2025-08-26 16:26:16+00:00
IANAL, but I don't believe that lack of intent to cause harm means that relief can't be granted. You could still take legal action if they refused to remove the information. To my knowledge, a question that still hasn't been thoroughly tested from a legal perspective is to what degree users of LLMs should be reasonably expected to be aware of the potentially for false information and to what degree continued use despite that knowledge constitutes willful negligence.

Humans can make mistakes too when compiling information and when mistakes are done unintentionally without the intent of causing harm, I believe liability is typically limited. I would expect the same would be true of LLM use. As long as the user of the LLM has taken reasonable precautions to ensure accuracy, I think liability probably should be limited in most cases. In the case of DeepWiki getting something wrong, I think the case for significant reputational damage is pretty weak.
by bobbiechen | 2025-08-26 16:26:32+00:00
If you have a product worth buying, it's also worth stealing.

The existence of residential proxies like these is a massive pain if you run free trials or giveaways or host user-generated content (aka a spam/scam opportunity). DSLRoot is only one service of many (see last year's takedown of 911 S5 https://www.scworld.com/news/fbi-takes-down-911-s5-botnet-li... ) and there's plenty of demand for it.

Imagine getting hit by thousands+ of different IP addresses with different user agents, etc. Banning these IPs is not a great option - lots of collateral damage because many real people share IPs, depending on ISP setup.

I work on bot detection involving device fingerprinting - imo this is one of the only ways to defend against residential proxy activity, since you can sniff out the warning flags of automation software and other shared indicators regardless of IP.
by biodranik | 2025-08-26 16:26:42+00:00
The code used by the fork was never published. It was stolen from a private repository and a private server, and then published/used in the fork without the authors' approval. That's a serious legal issue.

The fork also took the new website design that was developed for Organic Maps even before the Organic Maps website was updated.

Don't believe everything on the internet; there are many lies spread around.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-26 16:27:00+00:00
all ive done with gpt5 for coding was a major db refactor. i had run out of gemini limit for the day.

certainly got the job done. I doubt my gpt 20b or ~30b local llm would have been as capable. Overall it was about ~2000 lines of code to change, probably only 100,000 context.

gpt5 didnt one shot it. there were many steps inbetween. At the end, few hours, i had >50 linter warnings from tripled imports, loads of dead code that wouldnt be touched and for some reason gpt5 just couldnt fix any of this. Ended up increasing the warnings and added an error. My expectation is that any of the big guys could immediately fix it. Even restarted fresh context and gpt just wasnt having any of it. im certain even gpt 20b would have completed it in a minute. Curious.

I went to gemini flash, very generic prompt about linter warnings and it fixed it in 30 seconds.

Just kind of weirdness that benchmarks will never be able to catch. It's also going to be very dependent. A rust programmer might have a favourite, whereas python programmer benefits from another model. There can never be a best.
by diggan | 2025-08-26 16:27:08+00:00
> Stop worrying about a well collated archive and just dump everything in a suitable storage medium

I've been doing that for most of my things too (except projects, they get categorized and more), just shuck it all into one big directory, worked perfectly well for 20+ years!

And, since I punted organizing it for so many years, we now have LLMs, and I've ended up writing a tiny CLI that keeps an index of this disorganized pile, so while the pile itself is disorganized, thanks to LLM it was trivial to let it run for some days to categorize, tag and sort it all into an index.

Another successful example of my life philosophy of "everything solves itself eventually".
by tptacek | 2025-08-26 16:27:11+00:00
Downgrade protection. It's very tricky to come up with an alternate root of trust for TLS connections that isn't strippable by middleboxes. Stripping isn't even always intentional: a big part of why DANE failed was that middleboxes reject DNSSEC responses, forcing browsers to fall back to X.509. If you have to have an X.509 WebPKI certificate no matter what, then the alternative root of trust just adds attack surface, and while a tiny subset of nerds with ideological objections to X.509 might be fine with that, it flunks the cost/benefit calculations for the browser developers themselves.

If you want to get more specific about using DNS as an alternate root of trust, there are bigger problems. The X.509 WebPKI has mandatory certificate transparency, so misissuance can be detected. Just as importantly, and relatedly, the browser developers can kill a CA that misissues. They've done so multiple times, and have killed one of the largest CAs over misissuance incidents.

Neither capability exists for a DNS-based PKI, which is deeply problematic given that the DNS PKI is --- de jure --- run by state actors.
by neilv | 2025-08-26 16:27:13+00:00
I have bad news for you:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/th...

Someone should scoop up the niche market of anguished ThinkPad devotees, with a TrackPoint and a good, non-chiclet keyboard. Maybe Framework, leveraging its modular system. Maybe a Framework-compatible third-party.
by davedx | 2025-08-26 16:27:50+00:00
> systemically putting short term gains ahead of long term research

That's more the stock market than the US government though. You could argue the US government tries to play a long game, and often the way the US plays that game is to let the free market decide (hands off, small government). It's definitely a valid strategy and has worked extremely well in a number of other industries, but for this specific niche, less so, and even then you could argue it's down to Intel's mismanagement than anything the government could or should have done.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-08-26 16:27:51+00:00
LLMs are so bad with going off the rails when it comes to coding, I purposefully arrange my sessions so it doesn’t have to digest too much at once.

I recently had it go off the rails on some greenfield work where I was clearly using MySQL with Python and in the middle of the session it started generating Postgres code using the Postgres driver and doing Postgres style upserts.
by Humorist2290 | 2025-08-26 16:28:01+00:00
So "certified" Android devices are phasing out side loading, making Google Play the only way to install an app. This is the norm on iOS, right? And in many jurisdictions, from Russia to Denmark, there is an actively hostile, and rapid, legislative push to prevent or criminalize using E2E messaging apps like Signal.

How long is it until we see countries pushing to just delist Telegram, Signal, etc from the app stores?
by bornfreddy | 2025-08-26 16:28:14+00:00
> ...determination by the Irish Supreme Court that Subway's bread was not bread.

Thank you, this is hilarious... [0] [1] ...and not that hilarious. :-/ [2] I will never look at Subway's sandwiches the same way again.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919189045/for-subway-a-ruling...

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2013/01/subway-foot-lo...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/02/06/272455631/su...
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-08-26 16:28:18+00:00
I have a bunch of filters which move bulk email into a separate mailbox, so they don't hit my INBOX.

The main and most useful filter matches emails with the `List-Unsubscribe` or `List-ID` headers.

I looked through the filters in op, and my main concern is that they move emails to Archive rather than some dedicated mailbox, so you'll never see them, and can only find them by digging through emails which you've _actually_ archived.
by kragen | 2025-08-26 16:28:49+00:00
That sounds like a sort of "trigonometric table" you couldn't use in practice for calculation. You need to be able to look up whatever value you measure with your sextant or theodolite to within its measurement precision. You seem to be using the term "trigonometric table" in a way conflicting with the standard use explained in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric_tables perhaps as a sort of pun or joke, or perhaps as a sort of act of activism against hegemonic notions of trigonometry.
by const_cast | 2025-08-26 16:28:55+00:00
Its the other way around - these aren't less popular because people want them less now so we kneecap them - they're less popular BECAUSE we've spent the last decade kneecapping them.

Custom roms would be more popular if every app dev and Google weren't doing everything in their power to make their software not work on custom roms.

That's intentional. It didn't used to be that way.
by EdNutting | 2025-08-26 16:28:59+00:00
I took a look at the list of filters before finishing the import. I'm left wondering what the point is. Gmail has quite effective spam filtering and email subscription management, making these filters almost entirely redundant. The few emails that would be caught by these filters that do currently enter my inbox are ones I actually want to see.

Also, the "allow all your own emails through", when I've not had to subscribe to your mailing list to get the download, seems a bit suspect to me. The argument of "this let's us contact you if the mail filters are updated" doesn't fly, because you shouldn't have my email address in the first place.
by nonethewiser | 2025-08-26 16:29:06+00:00
I suppose some of the beauty of this is that the "notes" are easy. Whereas writing is hard. So the more you can leverage these fragments, the better.

I wonder how the non-fiction element plays into it. I guess if you have a lot of fragments the hard part is organizing and then glueing them together. But in non fiction a lot of this is done or you. You are given the order and a lot of the glue. The glue you are missing is probably relatively obvious ("why did they do this?") and you can get that information and include it, or you cant and there is nothing to be done about it ("the motive is unknown" etc).

Whereas in fiction these are all unknown. You have to decide. And you have to make it compelling, and believable, and maybe astonishing and otherworldly at the same time.

In some limited experience in fictional writing, this is the hard part. I have all these fragments (this happened, this happens, there is this dynamic with 2 characters, some broad themes I want to hit on, etc). Makes me think about if non-fiction stories could be used as a sort of "seed" for the glue. I feel like the content is pretty highly coupled to that sort of pattern though.
by OJFord | 2025-08-26 16:29:11+00:00
(Millennial) it doesn't particularly faze me, for a while I used/tried out the cli tool 'thefuck' at work for example, but certainly I agree in the sense that I wouldn't choose such a name for my own thing, and it does surprise me a bit that people do. It's attention-grabbing though, I suppose.
by rockostrich | 2025-08-26 16:29:32+00:00
It's done sparingly. If you search for "data center waste heat uses" you'll find cases like you mention [1] [2] but the ROI on implementing it seems to be lower than renewable energy infrastructure.

[1] https://www.informationweek.com/sustainability/reusing-waste... [2] https://www.techspot.com/news/97995-data-center-uses-waste-h...
by carlsborg | 2025-08-26 16:29:34+00:00
Paper appears to be paywalled. It is however an update to this preprint which is available on Biorxiv: "Broad-spectrum RNA antiviral inspired by ISG15-/- deficiency" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.24.600468v1

My summary for programmers:

When you get a viral infection, immune cells make a signalling protein called a IFN-1 (Type I Interferon) cytokine, and this flips a boolean flag to True on a bunch of genes (interferon-stimulated genes or ISGs) that produce a bunch of proteins (hundreds) that control the infection. ISG15 is one of them and its role appears to be to downregulate and to limit the inflammation.

The paper title refers to a ISG15 deficiency, meaning if you are dificient in ISG15 that inflamation limitation goes away. But the paper is actually about how in people that naturally have a ISG15 deficiency, there is an always-on low level expression of some of these pro-inflamation genes. So they take that as a safe level.

The did RNA sequencing on experimental ISG15 deficient cells and from heatlhy individuals, identified the mutations, narrowed down to 10 genes (antiviral ones not inhibitors) that in combination significantly inhibited viral replication. They stuck the RNA for such genes in lipid nanoparticles such that they enter host cells, whose ribosomes happily read the RNA like a turing head reads a tape in base 20 and produce proteins encoded by these genes, similar to how the mRNA vaccine works.

So why not dose with the IFN-I directly? Three referenced papers show its "poorly tolerated with significant side effects" and all those downregulators that get expressed limit the inflammation response.

Disclaimer: IANAB (not a biologist) corrections might be due..
by davedx | 2025-08-26 16:29:40+00:00
Yeah he could have explained that more, maybe he's assuming familiarity with other public-private ventures around the world?

If I was explaining it I would say "a huge equity stake gives you a lot of votes and influence over the company's strategic direction", including what the returns to shareholders should look like.

Think of railways in countries where the government has say, a 50% stake.
by jmyeet | 2025-08-26 16:29:56+00:00
What is "conventional wisdom"? It's propaganda, basically.

You might be tempted to think of academics as if they're operating independently, almost as if they're in an Ivory Tower where they bless us with missives occasionally as they make deep, apolitical discoveries. But that's just not the case.

There is an entire ecosystem of think tanks and funding to push the neoliberalism agenda. This is entirely self-interested. And it's not necessarily that funding is buying particular opinions. It's that anyone who contradicts this narrative simply gets self-selected out of the academic grants pipeline.

I stend to refer to this as the Tyranny of Austrian Economists [1].

There is an entire industry built to convince people that capitalism is good and collectivism of any kind is bad. It also misattributes the wealth of the developed world to capitalism when it's really about exploitation (eg slavery), colonialism and imperialism.

It's really no different to all the industry funded tobacco research that "proved" how safe smoking was.

Africa isn't poor. The people might generally be poor but Africa is not. It's simply been looted by the West. You don't commit resources to an imperial project that is poor.

If command economies are so unsuccessful why do they need to be isolated and starved (eg Cuba)? Won't they just fail on their own? The whole point is to punish any contradiction to capitalist dogma and to engineer their failure to prove that point.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#Austrian_School
by dspillett | 2025-08-26 16:30:34+00:00
> browsers have started equating a vanilla http server to a malware-infested North Korean honeypot

It isn't that they are equal, just that it is difficult to tell them apart. The change over time is that UAs have more and more erred on the side of not trusting when there is any question.

Of course HTTPS sites with valid certificates could also be malware infested hot zones, but it is less likely. Sites with invalid certs are more likely to be a problem than those with no cert (the situation might imply a DNS poisoning issue for instance), and sites with no cert are a higher risk than those with a valid one.

At least we seem to have dropped the EV cert theatre, the extra checks done before issuing one of those were so easy to fake or work around in many cases that they essentially meant nothing [source: in DayJob we once had an EV cert for a client instance, and I know how easy it was to get because I was the person at our end who applied for it and installed it once issued].