MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dkarl | 2025-08-19 14:54:00+00:00
I think you're confusing authenticity with DGAF, because they both look like the opposite of insecurity.

Trump and Hilton play a DGAF role on TV, but the very fact that they're putting in the effort means that it isn't authentically them. If they really didn't care, we wouldn't know their names, because being wealthy doesn't automatically make you a celebrity. Consider Michael Bloomberg, who briefly flirted with a presidential run, but then discovered that coming from legit middle class roots and achieving orders of magnitude more wealth than Donald Trump meant very little next to the decades of work Trump had put in to build his celebrity status.

As celebrities, they have embraced caring about what people as their job, and for them, part of that job is playing out the ordinary person's fantasy of not having to care what people think -- a role that is only authentically them in the sense that they learned it authentically as spoiled rich children.

A lot of people experience anxiety in their everyday lives over how other people will perceive them. "Did I do a good enough job? What are people saying about me? What do people actually think about me?" When Trump and Hilton ostentatiously act out being able to be dumb and inept and still being treated like they're amazing, it's the perfect inverse of what causes ordinary people anxiety, which makes it a perfect fantasy.
Show HN: Scapo – Extract real usage tips from Reddit for AI services
by bling1 | 2025-08-19 14:54:06+00:00
We built SCAPO to collect specific, actionable tips about AI services (OpenAI, Claude, Midjourney, ElevenLabs, Copilot, etc.) from real Reddit threads: working parameters, cost-savers, rate limits, pitfalls, and usage patterns.

It discovers services, runs targeted queries, scrapes public JSON, uses an LLM to extract concrete advice, and writes organized markdown you can search or browse locally. There's a small TUI and an MCP server for LLM clients. MIT licensed.

If you don't want to install anything, you can just scan the SCAPO Models Archive to see if anything useful jumps out: https://czero-cc.github.io/SCAPO Limitations: crowd-sourced tips can be wrong or stale; extraction quality depends on the model; scraping is throttled and avoids the Reddit API. We'd love feedback on failure cases, better query patterns, and additional services to cover.
by addaon | 2025-08-19 14:54:18+00:00
> If you want the bare chips and not full assembled labels the usual packaging is uncut wafer and cutting out and handling the individual dies is your problem.

This does not match my experience, although I imagine it's true in some parts of the industry. I've seen bare dice usually delivered as KGDs (known good dice -- tested at the individual level, not just the wafer level). These used to be shipped in waffle packs, but I've more recently seen blue tape used for delivery, and going straight into pick-and-place.
by rickdeckard | 2025-08-19 14:54:24+00:00
> Axel Springer’s argument is that when Adblock Plus blocks or manipulates its website code (‘computer program’) present in the user’s browser, that amounts to a violation of its exclusive right of modification available under § 69c (2) and its reproduction right under § 69c (1).

It's really interesting, because the addition of Ads is not wanted nor in any way beneficial to the consumer in this transaction, it just happens to be part of the business model of the seller that he now seeks to protect.

Would the same apply if I buy a printer and modify it to use 3rd party cartridges?

How about a company that could remove the addictive elements of cigarettes?

If you want me to provide additional revenue on top of the transaction, then enter a contract with me. Just because you made it "free" doesn't mean you must be legally allowed to force me into some other consumption...
by Itayoved | 2025-08-19 14:55:16+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Itay, and together with my partner, we built Lawrence CLI - an open source tool that analyzes your codebase and installs OpenTelemetry instrumentations.

Lawrence is straightforward: - Analyzes your codebase (supports Python, Go, Java, PHP, JS, Ruby for now) - Finds missing instrumentations (or detects if you’re missing OpenTelemetry entirely) - Installs OpenTelemetry and relevant instrumentations using AI or templates

It’s quite basic and very experimental for now, so we’d love to hear your feedback!

Currently, OpenTelemetry is very complicated to install, maintain, and troubleshoot - so we hope to make it as easy as ordering coffee.

Would also love to hear any feature ideas if you have them!
by ben_w | 2025-08-19 14:55:42+00:00
Mm.

Unfortunately, I'm highly confident that 90% of the intelligence community looks at us insisting that crypto standards be inviolable, and thinks we're all as infuriatingly naïve as a ChatGPT comment.

I don't know the true risks of terrorist organisations. I doubt I ever will, because the intelligence community wants to keep its methods secret in order to avoid mildly competent terrorists from avoiding stupid (from MI5/6's POV) mistakes. The counter-point is that such secrecy makes the intelligence organisations themselves a convenient unlit path for a power-hungry subgroup to take over a nation.

Regarding sexual abuse, the stats are much easier to find, and are much much worse than most people realise to the extent that most people either don't understand what those numbers mean or don't believe them: If you're an American, on your first day in high school, by your second class you have more than even odds of having met a pupil who had already been assaulted, most likely by someone close to the victim such as a relative.

I don't see how any level of smartphone surveillance will do anything to stop that. Or indeed, any surveillance that isn't continuous monitoring of every kid to make sure such acts don't find them.
by feoren | 2025-08-19 14:55:44+00:00
You're giving company executives way too much credit in general. I'm sure there are unicorns out there where conscientious stewards of the company's long-term health are making measured, rational choices that may pay off in a decade, but it's a tiny minority of companies. Most are run by narcissistic short-term corporate raiders whose first priority is looting the company for their own profit and second priority is cosplaying as a once-in-a-generation genius "thought leader" in a never-ending battle to beat away the nagging (and correct) thought that they're nepo-babies who have no clue what they're doing. These morons are burning money because they are stupid and/or because it benefits them and their buddies in the short-term. They burned money on blockchain bullshit, they burned money on Web 2.0 bullshit, they are burning money on AI, and they will be burning money on the next fad too. The fact that AI might actually turn out to be something real is complete serendipity; it has nothing to do with their insight or foresight. The only reason they ever look smart is because they're great at taking credit for every win, everyone else immediately forgets all their losses, and op-ed writers and internet simps all compete to write the most sycophantic adulations of their brilliance. They could start finger-painting their office windows with their own feces and the Wall Street Journal would pump out op-eds saying "Here's why smearing poop on your windows is actually a Really Brilliant Business Move made by Really Good-Looking Business Winners!" Just go back and re-read your comment but think "blockchain" instead of "AI" and you'll see clearly how silly and sycophantic it really is.
by bencornia | 2025-08-19 14:55:44+00:00
Stored procedures make sense if you are trying to make your backend less chatty with the database. The downsides are that they aren't version controlled. PLSQL and its variants can be inscrutable and difficult to debug. I guess you just have to decide what tradeoffs you are willing to make in your application. For me stored procedures take too much discipline for any potential upside. Sure you might have a wizard on your team that has it all in their head. But once they are gone it becomes a tar pit.
by viega | 2025-08-19 14:56:02+00:00
As the article says, the futex system call is overly complicated. But one shouldn't downplay its importance. Every major OS has had a slimmed down equivalent for about a decade, and the futex is at the core of any good modern lock.

Many things are obvious after, but there was plenty of time before for other people to do the same thing, it's not like we didn't know sysv semaphores didn't scale well.

"ad hoc" feels like an opinion here. My opinion is that when separation of concerns leads to big gains like the futex did, that's elegant, and an achievement. No need to diminish the good work done!
by nkoren | 2025-08-19 14:56:12+00:00
The dinosaurs are concrete, and date from 1852. That's 7 years before Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and 55 years before the invention of plastic. So they're a kind of amazing window into the pre-history of paleontology. Really great artefacts, well worth seeing.

Anyhow,hope you eventually got a better girlfriend.
by bilbo0s | 2025-08-19 14:56:42+00:00
Sometimes you can tell which politicians are serious about bringing order to budgets by seeing which ones are talking about what hard cuts they would make. Are they talking about cuts to entitlements and military? Or are they talking about cutting the park service and "diversity hires"?

It's like the family drowning in debt who decides to cut mom and dad's weekly trip for Starbuck's Latte at the Farmer's Market. Yet won't look at the two car payments, the USD500000 mortgage, or the private school tuition for the kids. Maybe in their hearts they believe it truly is the way out? But a good financial advisor would probably tell them not to worry about the fly on their toe when there are 4 or 5 elephants stacked on their chests.

And it can be hard to receive those kinds of messages. As hard for individual families as it is for nations.
by voakbasda | 2025-08-19 14:57:51+00:00
Everyone here seems to be avoiding the point that ultra processed foods contain ingredients that home bakers would never use: preservatives, anti-caking agents, flavor enhancers, artificial colors and flavors. Ingredients that are not food and add little to no nutritional value.

Pizza made at home will not use such things. Your local pub that makes their own pizza will not either. Fast food or frozen pizza gets their ingredients from central suppliers in bulk, and they have no choice but to use such things in order for their products to survive the extended storage, processing, transportation, and similar delays that will occur on the way to the consumer.
by dfee | 2025-08-19 14:58:08+00:00
My intuition was that there were even fewer primes and there was a greater rate of decrease as the numbers got bigger – but it looks like there are so many! Even at [1, 10,000, 10,000] it seems pretty dense near the bottom, though perhaps less dense.

Apparently the average gap between primes is `log(n)`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem
by blacksmith_tb | 2025-08-19 14:58:09+00:00
Yes, the particularly odd thing to my eye is the lack of redistribution. My locally modified page infringes even though I am the only one who has seen it. Odd too that many kinds of blockers don't actually rewrite the markup at all, they just don't fetch assets from blocked endpoints, which doesn't seem like 'modifying the code' somehow.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-08-19 14:58:25+00:00
> Their attempt to obtain freely given consent is because their purpose is not actually necessary, else they could use that on its own as the basis for the processing.

Why would the GDPR even describe consent and consent in relations to contract, then?

> The idea that "it is necessary for our balance sheets to sell your data" would be sufficient for any and all processing seems the most extreme one to me.

That's an obviously disingenuous interpretation of my point.

> GDPR doesn't prevent you from opting to receive targeted ads if you really do freely give your consent (with no detriment if you were to decline).

This implies a right to access commercial websites for free, which cannot be reasonable, or only a choice between no access and payment, which also cannot be reasonable.

Again, this is all extreme and ideological. That's the big issue with both the GDPR and its interpretation. And we're right back to my initial point that the issue is in the hands of militants.

More broadly, this is a strange take in the EU: The same people that are happy to have to carry ID cards, to have "free speech" controlled, to have this, to have that, are up in arms at the thought of targeted ads. My hypothesis is that this is because, at the core, the issue is not "privacy" or targeted ads, but commercial companies making money, i.e. bad capitalists (c.f. previous paragraph), which is a political angle that we're seeing very often in Europe, along with the idea that people are allowed free will as long as they make the "right" choices...
by jaberjaber23 | 2025-08-19 14:58:34+00:00
Just open-sourced CUDA CLI :)

It automatically optimizes CUDA kernels. Depending on the kernel, you can get 10–50x speedups :D

How it works:

- Finds bottlenecks in your kernel

- Generates a few optimized variants

- Benchmarks them

- Keeps the fastest one

Everything is open, so you can look under the hood and tweak anything.
by Nursie | 2025-08-19 14:58:35+00:00
I might very well be wrong! The orb thinks 8.4% this year, totalling 111 billion.

But I can also find articles that seem to say the government spent 16.4 billion just in June - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2rky498wo

Either way, listening the Today program a few times a week from overseas has possibly warped my view!

Perhaps the constraint is more to do with currency fluctuations and gilt yield rises when it looks like they’re wanting to borrow more.

(Edit - the OBR! Not “The Orb”, though frankly if the orb would like to hold forth on the economy I’d probably listen to them over most commentators…)
by fakedang | 2025-08-19 14:58:54+00:00
For a non-Westerner, the issue is always the American gov, not the average American (or maybe since the American gov is actually voted for by Americans, the issue is with them after all?). At least the Chinese and Russians are not willfully voting for a government hell-bent on global dominance and destabilizing other countries.

The America of yesteryears? Sure. Today's America? Definitely not.
by troyvit | 2025-08-19 14:59:23+00:00
Man it works for me. I love fake sausage more than the real thing because it trips all the same taste feels but I'm not eating something as smart as my dog. It's also less greasy and easier to clean up after I'm done cooking it. I guest that it's ultra-processed, and probably not that good for me, but honestly sausage is pretty damned processed too.
by moomoo11 | 2025-08-19 14:59:28+00:00
That’s not what I meant, sorry my sentence structure was bad and I meant that in return for giving them factories they only continued to push the boundaries. It was IP thefts and infiltrating our top secrets because America is a far more open society than PRC.

Fact: They are the ones who escalated into IP theft and espionage.

As for manufacturing but not learning from it…

Oligarchies stemming from massive but continued financial shocks will curb innovation because survival trumps ambition. They are rivals until they’re on our side, and as such if they’re kept financially insecure they will not have the appetite to steal I mean innovate anymore. People want just a job, food, and shelter. CCP already provides education and healthcare. But adversarial global ambitions need to be checked.
by viega | 2025-08-19 14:59:33+00:00
It quite does; the kernel is not the keeper of the lock, it only needs to detect the race condition that would result in a spurious sleep. It cares not one bit about the rest of your semantics.

It's true you could use it that way, but it's not the way it's meant to be used, defeating the purpose by requiring a system call even for uncontended locks.
by nyeah | 2025-08-19 14:59:59+00:00
Comparing to old sci fi. (For anyone who still cares!) Chiang can be pitched as today's Stanislaw Lem. (And maybe a modern PK Dick but with much less insanity.) I'm thinking especially of His Master's Voice, which is my favorite Lem story and maybe his most Chiangian.

Very cerebral and great storytelling. The Chiang story where the mathematician discovers the horrible truth that 1+1=3 while her husband discovers he doesn't love her is ... I think Lem (or Dick) would be proud to have pulled that off.

Note: someone else commented that Chiang often seems dryer than PK Dick, which can make C feel like more work to read. Maybe that might be true sometimes :). But maybe it's only on the surface. If that makes sense. Chiang is condensed. Dick is ... not condensed.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-08-19 15:00:26+00:00
I understand you perfectly clear, but to me you are spreading socialist ideas. If prices are high for a given scarce resource, it is because of high demand. Now you want to basically cut off demand (less foreigners, DNs) for prices to go down. But you do need the high price signal in order to create an incentive to create more of that resources.

In the case of the EU (I'm a german EU citizen living in another EU state) we are all equal in terms of freedom of movement. There are no "locals" that have for some reasons more rights to any resources than anyone else. Giving "locals" preferential rights is completely unfair, as this would be excercising some kind of birth right.

I myself getting priced out of vintage german sportscars myself, could we please cut the rights for non-germans to buy up those cars so I can afford one again? You can see how ridicioulous that would sound.
by zubiaur | 2025-08-19 15:00:46+00:00
100% where we are having a lot of success is in processes that required somewhat repeatable fuzzy processing, which before could only be performed by people.

Cool thing is that, since LLMs are comparatively cheap, I can afford to run the same process a few times, to get a sense of confidence of the response.

In our latest project, the client expressed that our AI aided process was 11 times faster, and much more accurate than their previous process.
by habinero | 2025-08-19 15:00:56+00:00
You don't need to like something to understand it.

And no, credit cards protect you from the merchant. I can call up Capitol One and get them to do a chargeback if I order something online and the merchant never sends it.

It highly incentivizes the merchant to help you, otherwise the only recourse would be to take Amazon to small claims court.

> You actually believe that credit card transactions are private? LOL. They are sold to the highest bidder.

You misread it. Your crypto purchases are public. Literally. Yes, your card purchases are compiled and sold in aggregate, but the entire blockchain is available to anyone.

It's an utter myth that crypto is private or can't be tracked lol
by DrScientist | 2025-08-19 15:01:09+00:00
I don't think the UK was asking for a dragnet.

The normal practice is if somebody is a target of interest, and the proper court order has been issued by a judge, then the authorities have the expectation that they can ask for access to private data, or have the ability to put in a 'tap'.

Under Apple's ADP system, Apple are unable to give that access - only the account holder can - and obviously they may not want to - and asking them will obviously alert them they are under surveillance - if that was the original aim.

So the talk about a 'back-door' in the Apple product for the UK government is a bit misleading - in the sense they are not asking for direct access that avoids having to ask Apple - they are just asking Apple to build functionality so Apple can fulfill such requests.

ie If the government get's a 'search warrant' Apple has the ability to comply.

Ironically if GCHQ did have a backdoor without needing to ask Apple then they could do much more dragnet stuff.
by mikepurvis | 2025-08-19 15:01:10+00:00
The opening chapter of Bill Bryson's wonderful At Home has a bit about the Crystal Palace:

> The Crystal Palace was at once the world’s largest building and its lightest, most ethereal one. Today we are used to encountering glass in volume, but to someone living in 1851 the idea of strolling through cubic acres of airy light inside a building was dazzling— indeed, giddying. The arriving visitor’s first sight of the Exhibition Hall from afar, glinting and transparent, is really beyond our imagining. It would have seemed as delicate and evanescent, as miraculously improbable, as a soap bubble. To anyone arriving at Hyde Park, the first sight of the Crystal Palace, floating above the trees, sparkling in sunshine, would have been a moment of knee-weakening splendor.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/20575/at-home-by-bil...
by harry8 | 2025-08-19 15:01:28+00:00
They run on machines that are designed to have unused computer capacity. Desktops, laptops, tablets, phones. Responsiveness is the key.

Ffmpeg runs on a load of server farms for all your favourite streaming services and the bajillion more you’ve never heard of. Saving compute there saves machines and power.

Your point is well taken but there is a distinction that matters some.
by _fat_santa | 2025-08-19 15:01:29+00:00
The UK is gonna realize real quick they can't just ban their way out of the mess they have created. Most VPN providers are going to be outside their jurisdiction and players like Mullvad will have no way to actually comply because of the way their VPN's are setup.

The only step the UK can take is to force ISP's to block these VPN's which will kick off a cat and mouse game and for the reasonable technical, getting around any VPN ban will be as easy as spinning up an EC2 outside the UK.
by moomoo11 | 2025-08-19 15:01:39+00:00
They aren’t voting because they are under dictators and sham pretend structures lol. They are sort of just pawns I guess? None of them will ever become self made. Tencent/Huawei or anyone else needs to stay in line with CCP and whatever decisions they make. In America businessmen are free to criticize anyone. Look what happens to Chinese entrepreneurs who get a little too successful and forget the CCP. They go to a camp and then come out with a factory reset lmao! Russians fall out of windows weekly it seems.

I mean Russia invaded Ukraine. China has literal concentration camps for Muslims and plans to invade Taiwan.
by afavour | 2025-08-19 15:01:42+00:00
I think that's an exaggeration. To take an article at random (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24v4dl5r16o):

> Chris Sherwood, chief executive of children's charity the NSPCC, said Friday's new rules mean services "can no longer evade their duty for protecting children".

> For Prof Elena Martellozzo, professor of child sexual exploitation and abuse research at the University of Edinburgh, the rules send a message to the tech industry that "child safety and child protection are not optional".

> The Molly Rose Foundation, a charity founded by the family of Molly Russell - who took her own life at the age of 14 after seeing harmful content online - has said stronger legislation is needed to better protect children.

> Derek Ray-Hill, interim head of the Internet Watch Foundation, meanwhile welcomed the new rules for sites allowing porn but said "there is still more to be done".

I think there absolutely is pressure on the government for things like this. Certainly not mass pressure in all segments of the population but neither is the government acting alone.