MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sgentle | 2025-08-17 08:30:40+00:00
Apparently there's 500 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute (30 seconds every millisecond). Assuming 4K@60fps, that works out to 14,929,920,000 pixels per millisecond.

If YouTube wanted to give every incoming pixel its own UUIDv7, they'd see a collision rate just under 0.6%.
by st-keller | 2025-08-17 08:30:42+00:00
Ok is this about a reactive app with with a local database automatically synced to a remote db? All fully encrypted (at rest and in transit)? I thought this is what everyone does nowadays! We built an app like this in 2019 - yes - it was a bit of a challenge with the encryption but the „syncing data“-part is what every litte multiplayer-game has to deal with like forever now. Seems i‘m out of touch with the current state of affairs. Nice article though!
by mdp2021 | 2025-08-17 08:31:10+00:00
Consider the source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/no-uks-online-safety-a...

I understand from that source that the legislation "mandates that any site accessible in the UK - including social media, search engines, music sites, and adult content providers - enforce age checks"; all accessible sites that could contain """harmful content""" (so basically a dramatically high amount of sites of importance - with particular regard to search engines, which link to the controversial).

Now: how will, say, a search engine conduct age verification without identifying the user.

Because the issue here is that of anonimity online (i.e., the disappearance of the "online" - the end of the Web).

> That’s one outcome for one set of sites

We understand from the article that the set, as said, includes the basics...
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-17 08:31:12+00:00
We "sometimes send" millions of kilograms per year[0], and we do so while reading reports that over half of it might end up being improperly dumped[1]. I think it's beating around the bush to say we don't send it to be dumped. We export this stuff into what are essentially regulatory black holes knowing full well what could happen. For our own newspapers of course we have to make up a cover story but I don't believe we're so ignorant as to believe it are we?

0: https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/ger...

1: https://blog.cleanhub.com/plastic-waste-exports
by anovikov | 2025-08-17 08:32:07+00:00
I never understood how "rise of cloud computing" could help anyone. Clouds are overpriced and useless. Only thing they did was to obscure the very existence of dedicated servers from the average person so they feel compelled to use cloud assuming there is no alternative except buying servers and installing them in their office. This was a dirty mass manipulation exercise that didn't make any good for anyone except Amazon itself. High time people stop mentioning "clouds" as enabler to anything (ESPECIALLY now since AI tools can replace basic level devops work and enable anyone run code on their $50 a month Hetzner machine no worse than they can on AWS).

Clouds are a fad. By far not the most dangerous or most harmful, but the most symptomatic fad of our generation. In educated countries - even very rich ones where people can afford absurdly overpriced clouds - no one uses them. They are US-only thing where overconfident, rich, and dumb people who can't filter through pressure of omnipresent ads, use them. Clouds are a testament of how systematic dumbing down of population and brain-erasing, omnipresent marketing power can steer crowds to make absurd decisions and systematically overpay for nothing believing they are blessed with it.
by cookiengineer | 2025-08-17 08:32:32+00:00
The issue I have with this proposal is that politicians won't change their behavior. The optimum politician is an absolute pragmatist without any moral values. That is what you need to be to succeed in a federalistic democracy.

Regarding Chat Control: Do we know who is lobbying for it so much? Maybe journalists should focus on finding dirt on the lobbying organizations, so that everyone knows about them.
by jslakro | 2025-08-17 08:32:52+00:00
In social bookmarking delicious was the perfect platform, pinboard is the spiritual sucessor but apparently it has not the same technical support it used to have https://notes.kateva.org/2024/09/the-end-times-have-come-for...

Tired of relying on other people's servers I'm moving links from google keep and browser to linkding https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
by jaggederest | 2025-08-17 08:34:34+00:00
See that's just stolen, straight up. I've heard at least three comedians make that joke.

(I, of course, am joking about joke theft, but it is a riff on an existing joke)

I got this one a minute ago in response to this post:

> A man walks into a library, and asks the librarian if they have any books on paranoia.

> The librarian leans over and whispers in his ear "They're right behind you"

I thought that was pretty stellar, compared to what you'd get even a year ago.
by mlazos | 2025-08-17 08:34:36+00:00
If the neo-nazis celebrate it as a Nazi salute, I don’t think it really matters what others think. In addition to that, seeing it with my own eyes is all the confirmation I need.

On his intelligence SpaceX and Tesla were/are revolutionary companies, but seeing him buy twitter and then send the DOGE five things email makes me feel like maybe it was more of a right place right time sort of thing and not management prowess. I’ll give him credit for hiring the right people which is a skill but other than that his blunders are just too difficult to ignore.
by MrJohz | 2025-08-17 08:34:40+00:00
This is true but these are also old features, and the TS team have stated that they will not add any more features like those, and to a certain extent regret adding them initially (particularly decorators, which iirc were added because the Angular framework wanted to use them). You can also see that these features aren't really being updated to match recent Typescript developments (parameter properties can't do true private properties, const enums don't work with isolated modules, etc).

I don't think those features are ever going to go away, because they've been around for so long and are so widely used. But I generally use erasableSyntaxOnly in new projects, because I find it's useful when my typescript source matches the generated Javascript code as much as possible.
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-17 08:34:40+00:00
A bunch of advice when socializing with people:

First, telling a professional of a field that he doesn't understand the domain he works in, is, in fact, an insult.

Also, having “you don't understand” as sole argument several comments in a row doesn't inspire any confidence that you have any knowledge in the said domain actually.

Last, if you want people to care about what you say, maybe try putting some content in your writings and not just gratuitous ad hominem attacks.

Lacking such basic social skills makes you look like an asshole.

Not looking forward to hearing from you ever again.
by mockingloris | 2025-08-17 08:35:19+00:00
Just last week Josef Prusa mentioned China and 3d printer patents[0]. Now this is vision 2030 in my opinion. (A whole country moving with sheer cohesive intent and plan)

My leaders should steal some pages off China's playbook.

Only about 45 % of Nigerians are connected to the grid, with average daily supply lasting mere hours or sometimes none at all.

Compare that to Ghana’s ~88 % access rate and its more stable electricity system. I won't even bother with the Aso Rock’s solar setup[2].

[0] https://www.josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-prin...

[2] https://punchng.com/aso-villa-and-its-solar-power/
by mingus88 | 2025-08-17 08:35:38+00:00
Did you miss the part where the VP refused to get into the car with the secret service, because he didn’t trust them?

https://www.newsweek.com/pence-refusing-get-secret-service-c...

There is so much we will never actually learn about what went on, sadly because the coup leaders won…but everything we do know is already damning
by Suppafly | 2025-08-17 08:36:08+00:00
>Getting a certain status for 60 nights stayed in a year gets you in the lounge… or pay an extra $10/night on your room for the same thing.

It's essentially the same problem with the fastpass system at theme parks. After a few years they have to invent another system that is ultra-ultra-ultra fastpass once the poors decide to start paying for fastpass and ultra fastpass and ultra-ultra fastpass.
by cookiengineer | 2025-08-17 08:38:14+00:00
I want to be not snarky but I can't:

Which constitution are you talking about? The one that includes the House of Congress' right to militia to defend the constitution...or the one without that article?

Lately, the constitution of the US is as much worth as toilet paper, because the Trump administration does everything to exploit it using the "invasion excuse".

In Europe, there is the EU charta of fundamental human rights. If they are violated, laws can be fought above country level.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=celex:12...
by kassner | 2025-08-17 08:38:24+00:00
> I don't know why anyone (especially technical) would put up with that.

Answer from someone that has to put up with that: other gyms are significantly harder to get to (distance) and it’s already hard enough to get motivated to go. My options are shitty app or no gym.

Not everything is technically perfect and sometimes your only option is to put up with the stupidity of other developers/product managers.
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-17 08:41:31+00:00
I bet the stock car is 100% secure in Korea.

Maybe you live in a country where car thieves hack into cars left and right. Maybe you live in a country where thieves just tow your car in the middle of the day and don't care about your locks at all. Do you expect car maker to ship you free fixes against every scenario? Security is a spectrum. Make your police better if you don't like it.

/controversial opinion
by KronisLV | 2025-08-17 08:41:35+00:00
I had pretty mixed experiences with the 20B version of GPT-OSS, sometimes that thing would just start looping in the thinking block and no sampler parameters would seem to do anything for specific questions.

That said Qwen3 and Qwen3 Coder are both pretty nice. Also ERNIE 4.5 if the benchmarks are to be trusted but I mostly run Ollama instead of vLLM now so can’t test it out atm (apparently llama.cpp added support for them recently though).

The models by Mistral might also be worth a look and personally I thought the EuroLLM project was also nice, but MoE models feel way more palatable on limited hardware.

Neither seem to be able to directly compete with Sonnet 4 or Gemini 2.5 Pro, would need way better hardware to come close.
by Applejinx | 2025-08-17 08:42:35+00:00
Last time this came up, I riffed on the difference between LLMs and Markov chains: didn't actually have a machine write a joke, but made one where the punchline was very much Markov chain style rather than LLM style. The thing is, LLMs will try to have broader context around a word completion, where the simple Markov chain can 'correctly' complete a word, but in such a way that your brain trips over itself and goes splat, having to re-evaluate the whole thing in an absurd way. That's the 'surprise', and also why joke-writers are interested in not only a punch-line but also the punch WORD, and the later it strikes, the better.

"An LLM, a Markov chain, and GPT-4 walk into a bar. The bartender says "We don't serve your kind here." GPT-4 leaves. The LLM stays to debate ethics. The Markov chain orders a coup."

It's a joke because a dictator can certainly order a coup, but the joke's set up that these machines are being scorned and disrespected and treated as the farthest thing from a dictator with the power to order a coup, but up to the last word, all the context demands that the word be something placating and in line with things as they're presented, and then boom, surprise which implies the context is completely different from what was presented. LLMs will tend to stick to what's presented if their ability to contextualize can encompass it.
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-17 08:42:48+00:00
Given that many door locks and other portable locks are laughably bad and can be opened with sometimes simple shimmering, or at most basic picking tools, that would mean insurance companies could already have sued Master locks for instance. So at least, bad security is probably not enough for it.

From there, making customer pay to fix bad security doesn't sound like a significant step.
by nsteel | 2025-08-17 08:44:04+00:00
I don't know about the Hyundai Ioniq, but the Kia Niro has no way to permanently disable keyless entry, which would be the obvious, super easy s/w fix. You can disable it each time you lock your car by holding extra buttons on the fob for a few secs, but it's auto re-enabled next time you unlock. It's everything you need to know before you make your smart decision not to buy a Kia. Cheap(er) for a reason.

But looks from their point of view. It's the most stolen car in the UK. The brand doesn't seem to be suffering much. Having terrible security just helps sales!
by savolai | 2025-08-17 08:48:49+00:00
Thanks for your respectful response.

To me it seems that developer/tinkerer types strongly live in an echo chamber. Of course we are both speculating here, but to me it seems that's exacly where apple derives its market value. By emphasizing the needs of designer types and "ordinary people" in contrast to techies.

The former don't necessarily derive lots of value from, say, having real file systems, which tinkerers often want.

I would claim ordinary people buy android mainly due to price. (Ofc there are also premium android phones where change resistance and pure marketing on both sides of the fence may affect decisions more)

I would propose that those strongly committed to learning tech, rarely see the amount of work they have put into learning and tweaking the system. They do not perceive it as work but as a) having learnt "general knowledge" and b) something they want to do as a matter of fact.

Product/framework thinkers is another way to think of this: https://savolai.net/ux/product-and-framework-thinkers-when-d...

Those people often, unsurprisingly, are also developers.

So those who want to focus on multitude of other things in life and don't want to invest so much in dev tech, don't have their voices heard in dev communities. I have always felt very marginalized here. (Please don't read this wrong, tinkerers absolutely also enjoy a "multitude of things". The emphasis is just perhaps more specialized in a specifically weighted way.)

The "hidden controls" link you provide is interesting, as it could easily be used as an argument against the original linux terminal copy paste issues too. Terminal use in and of itself is of course an example of everything being hidden by default.

It seems in touch interfaces no one can completely avoid this, or at least the industry has strongly moved away from complete visibility/affordances. Which is kinda fascinating, in such visual medium. I would love a physical keyboard but can see why that didn't pan out.
by willguest | 2025-08-17 08:49:31+00:00
I appreciate your optimism, however your position seems to point a willful blindness to the agenda that oil producing countries have maintained. What is hidden to one person may be apparent to another, and completely missed by a third.

I absolutely think that their approach is disingenuous, though the line between this and dishonesty is not something I would claim to understand well. You may say that taking a position that is fundamentally self-interested is valid, but I would point out that, given the scale of the impact that arises from the attachment to this stance, good-faith negotiation must include some form of integration of information regarding the consequences of holding this position.

At this point, where the negative impacts of plastic over-production, micro-scale pollution of biological systems and climate impacts of manufacture are so well documented, clinging to a "what about me" argument is tantamount to a child repeating the same question over and over in order to avoid listening to the response. So, yes, maybe not classically "bad-faith" but certainly a calculated strategy that prevents progress.
by rickandmorty99 | 2025-08-17 08:50:42+00:00
I was late diagnosed with autism at 35 due to sleeping difficulties. I don't have a lot of social difficulties. I currently have some at work but before this job I didn't have issues. I have 0 dating difficulties, mostly because I tackled that issue in my early teens studied everything I could find and at one point I just got it. I'm not sensitive to light or smells. I am slightly sensitive to sound such as sirens from an ambulance. My special interest revolves around learning anything and everything (basically the Hacker News ethos about being curious), which is also atypical as it isn't a restrictive interest.

The comments here need to be a bit careful with what autism is as it can present itself very differently in people. In part this is because the medical establishment doesn't know a lot yet about what it is. Only quite recently did they find that there's 4 subtypes [1].

It's funny. My wife, non-autistic, tells me I'm one of the most emotionally intelligent men she knows. She keeps saying that. In part, I trained it through meditation (1000 hours in), in part it's just really about paying attention. She hasn't been the only one. I've also met one person at times saying I lack empathy and come across as robotic at times. But I can tell you, in general, I empathize and feel things. I have noticed that I can't always communicate well that I understand what other people mean. When I was younger they went on to explain it to me and it was always really annoying since I understood but people thought I didn't.

I often go against the grain with things because I think things are foolish. If I'd have done otherwise, I'd have definitely been trapped into the toxic masculine culture and drink a lot more alcohol. So often times what I do may not look empathetic or sympathetic but that's because many people don't care that they are toxic themselves and then just put the emotional burden to me.

Related to empathy: ever since I got the autism diagnosis, to the people I've told, I've seen an uptick in them saying I'm not empathetic at times by one person. So sharing your diagnosis does give some people a prejudice over you that shouldn't really be there.

[1] https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/07/09/major-autism-study...
by IshKebab | 2025-08-17 08:52:37+00:00
> having more formal specification is always better

True, all other things being equal. But your logic falls down when all other things aren't equal.

Rust is a more "secure ground" than C even though C has an official specification and Rust doesn't really.

Also you shouldn't say "formal specification" in this context because I don't think you really mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_specification
by torium | 2025-08-17 08:53:03+00:00
> Beyond that, Elon has a history of making claims and promises which don't pan out

Unbelievably generous take, to the point of naivity.

When describing his cars abilities, he said they can go from car park in New York to car park in California. He said "We can do this today".

No, he's just a liar.
by becquerel | 2025-08-17 08:53:55+00:00
Yeah. To me it seems very intuitive that humor is one of those emergent capabilities that just falls out of models getting more generally intelligent. Anecdotally this has been proven true so far for me. Gemini 2.5 has made me laugh several times at this point, and did so when it was intending to be funny (old models were only funny unintentionally).

2.5 is also one of the few models I've found that will 'play along' with jokes set up in the user prompt. I once asked it what IDE modern necromancers were using since I'd been out of the game for a while, and it played it very straight. Other models felt they had to acknowledge the scenario as fanciful, only engaging with it under an explicit veil of make-believe.
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-17 08:56:15+00:00
for ages I was saying "do not ignore crime that is now allowed to scale and proliferate thanks to e2e" (very much similar to crypto). If you accept this reality and work with the government you can arrive at a decent compromise that is not 100% bad. If you ignore reality and cover your ears and shout "nananana", the government will find a way and I guarantee you it will be a dumb way that undermines privacy way more. News at 11, the government did.

Let's pick our pitchforks up and pretend sexual abuse monetization or human trafficking are not taken to the next level thanks to end to end encryption. We gotta make police do their damn jobs right? It's not our fault we invent new and improved ways that prevent police from doing that.
by theothertimcook | 2025-08-17 08:57:05+00:00
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a 2021 book by Patrick Radden Keefe.

The author tells how the early sacklers, while working in a psychiatric hospital, were so horrified by electroshock therapy and the increasing willingness of other doctors to prescribe lobotomies, they they purchased a rabbit to test compounds on, allegedly stumping across Thorazine based on something one of them remembered from medical school.

This eventually lead to Purdue Pharma and the opioid crisis…

Also interesting, the man behind the Novel prize, Alfred Nobel, gained wealth and fame by inventing dynamite, critic argue that the novel prize was a way to rescue his reputation after having created explosives which would go on to be used as weapons..
by yazaddaruvala | 2025-08-17 08:58:58+00:00
FWIW, I think you might be better off with immutable rows and lamport clocks.

Everything is a full new row because it is “a message” including read receipts. Some messages like read receipts just don’t render in the chat.

Edits can work the same way by rendering over a previous message, even though the local and remote DB have multiple rows for the original and edited messages.
by bapak | 2025-08-17 08:59:03+00:00
> many people don't know how to spell many english words anymore.

Yes but that's not really comparable.

You can misspell "litrally" but how close can you get if you can't remember any stroke of the glyph? There's an inherent advantage in spelling words closely to how they sound.

I'm not saying English is great at this either, but I can still write "Kernel Sanders" and you know what it means, without using a whole other writing system as fallback (pinyin)
by debugnik | 2025-08-17 08:59:20+00:00
Our own governments are pushing for it, simple as that. I live in Spain, and both left and right parties, and to a lesser degree their voters, are increasingly leaning authoritarian and tacitly agree to extend surveillance; the police and specially the gendarmerie lobby for it as well.

So our parties are drooling at the idea of extending surveillance by EU directive so they can point fingers at the EU instead of risking losing votes.

It's no surprise to me, then, that in the document leaked to Wired in 2023[1], our country's position was the most extreme:

> In our view, it would be desirable to legislatively prevent EU-based service providers from implementing end-to-end encryption.

There may have been external lobbying, but it wasn't necessary.

[1]: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/26/leaked-document-shows-sp...