MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by knallfrosch | 2025-08-15 18:41:01+00:00
I bought a gun three years ago. The P320 would have been my favorite, but so many police officers shot their calves and feet. I didn't really wanted that.

I don't believe people on Sauer's payroll for a second. They earn their money shilling these faulty guns.

I just bought something else and that's that.
by notahacker | 2025-08-15 18:41:05+00:00
> I also hate the argument that the free market should solve the pricing problem.

It's odd that in his rush to point the finger at the government monopoly, he seems to have missed that a free market where customers select flights mostly on price naturally tends towards airlines operating lower cruise speeds for better operating economy, and not allowing loads of wiggle room in their schedules to make up for delays.

The idea that actually the real reason why aircraft are operating more slowly and delayed more is because there aren't enough ATCs in position doesn't pass the sniff test at all for anyone that knows the slightest thing about commercial aviation
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-08-15 18:41:43+00:00
It makes a big difference if you're painting the prints - things that look okay out of the printer will turn into a disaster once paint brings out all the details.

People are getting great quality out of the Bambus now - basically a slight tier below Resin, without any of the health issues that require PPE.

https://youtu.be/R8fuNDTQJCY?t=725

(Old video, state of the art has advanced since. Also, the issue with his other printer turned out to be a simple maintenance item (dirty pulley) the video maker skipped over in Bambu's basic troubleshooting guide.)
by alistairSH | 2025-08-15 18:41:46+00:00
So vote for somebody else.

The laws exist because we, collectively, thought they were a good idea. They can be changed if/when we change our minds.

For this specific thing, the drag while proving lack of damage is the point. Once the road/rail/bridge/whatever is built, it's often too late to simply say "oops". That, plus industry has a well deserved reputation for ignoring the environment when it becomes inconvenient.
by zahlman | 2025-08-15 18:42:09+00:00
> You might not be aware of what that concept means in terms of LLMs

GP is perfectly aware of this, and disagrees that the metaphor used to apply the term is apt.

Just because you use a word to describe a phenomenon doesn't actually make the phenomenon similar to others that were previously described with that word, in all the ways that everyone will find salient.

When AIs generate code that makes a call to a non-existent function, it's not because they are temporarily mistakenly perceiving (i.e., "hallucinating") that function to be mentioned in the documentation. It's because the name they've chosen for the function fits their model for what a function that performs the necessary task might be called.

And even that is accepting that they model the task itself (as opposed to words and phrases that describe the task) and that they somehow have the capability to reason about that task, which has somehow arisen from a pure language model (whereas humans can, from infancy, actually observe reality, and contemplate the effect of their actions upon the real world around them). Knowing that e.g. the word "oven" often follows the word "hot" is not, in fact, tantamount to understanding heat.

In short, they don't perceive, at all. So how can they be mistaken in their perception?
by zoogeny | 2025-08-15 18:42:50+00:00
I think your description of Penrose's belief does not match a podcast I recently watched where he discusses these topics with the Christian apologist William Lane Craig [1]. In fact, he explicitly states early on in that video that he sees the world of ideas as primary as opposed to Craig's view that consciousness is primary.

At any rate, this video might serve as a quick introduction to Penrose's three world idea for those interested.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wLtCqm72-Y
by nonethewiser | 2025-08-15 18:43:04+00:00
Looks like this is your site - thank you for sharing. I like it. Brief and seems really neutral. Of course there is no such thing as no bias (eg always have to pick headlines to show at a minimum) but I think you do a good job.

Any details on how it works anywhere?

Also noticed this site from your personal site: https://biztoc.com/

I love the information density. By no means a text only site but I think it hits some of the same vibes.

EDIT: lite mode of biztoc in-line with the text only theme: https://biztoc.com/light
by 1attice | 2025-08-15 18:43:07+00:00
There's this population-management strategy that involves giving people something useless but (emotionally or intellectually) difficult to do; it creates psychological buy-in with the stated objective.

We saw it a lot during the pandemic, between the time when we realized the pathogen was airborne and the time we stopped putting up hand sanitizer stations every few feet; and again, when we learned that perspex shields made airflow worse, not better, but kept them installed (and kept putting up more.)

You also see it in wartime a lot; e.g. the 'if you see something, say something' campaign after 9/11 mostly just got you put in touch with a very bored phone operator who filed your complaint with the ten thousand others that, let us be honest here, mostly amounted to, "I saw a brown person."

"There is nothing you can do" is anathema to any campaign.
by webspinner | 2025-08-15 18:43:09+00:00
I like them a whole lot! Maybe it's because I'm a screen reader user, but maybe it's because I really like the internet circa 2001. Anyone ever seen the Simpson transcripts page? It's a whole bunch of text!! Probably pretty close to text only, as it's in the native 1995 format. Accept for the search that no longer works. I've been able to use site: searches. http://simpson.walraven.org/
by jhanschoo | 2025-08-15 18:43:17+00:00
I disagree with the author in a big way. '25's LLMs are designed to echo material already out there on the Internet if it exists because we value that more. If I want a summary of The Matrix, I prefer a summary that agrees with the zeitgeist, rather than a novel, unorthodox summary that requires a justification as to its deviation.

In fact, the example provided by the author is a great illustration of this:

> A philosophical exploration of free will and reality disguised as a sci-fi action film about breaking free from systems of control.

The words here refer back to the notions "free will" that is prominent in Western discourse from St. Augustine through Descartes and thereafter and similarly of "sci-fi". These are notions an uneducated East-Asian with limited Internet use and pop culture fluency will simply not understand. They would in fact prefer the latter description. The author and this hypothetical East-Asian live in very different zeitgeists, and correspondingly experience the movie differently and value different summaries of the film. They each prefer a summary that agrees with the zeitgeist, rather than a novel, unorthodox summary (relative to their zeitgeist) that requires a justification as to its deviation.

On the other hand, if you asked LLMs to explain material and concepts, one modality in which it does is use formulaic, novel, and unorthodox analogies to explain it to you. By formulaic and novel, I mean that the objects and scenarios in the analogies are frequently of a certain signature kind that it has been trained with, but it is novel in that the analogies are not found in the wild on the internet.

If you have frequently used LLMs for the purpose of explaining concepts, you will have encountered these analogies and know what I mean by this. The analogies are frequently not too accurate, but they round out the response by giving an ELI5-style answer.

Ironically, the author may have succumbed to LLM sycophancy.
by GuB-42 | 2025-08-15 18:43:30+00:00
Yes!

Let's get real, online security is mostly a commercial thing. Why do you think Google pushed so hard for HTTPS? Do you really think it is to protect your political opinions? No one cares about them, but a lot of people care about your credit card.

That's something I disagree with the people who made Gemini, a "small web" protocol for people who want to escape the modern web with its ads, tracking and bloat. They made TLS a requirement. Personally, I would have banned encryption. There is a cost, but it is a good way to keep commercial activity out.

I am not saying that the commercial web is bad, it may be the best thing that happened in the 21th century so far, but if you want to escape from it for a bit, I'd say plain HTTP is the way to go.

Note: of course if you need encryption and security in general for non commercial reason, use it, and be glad for the commercial web for helping you with that.
by Smeevy | 2025-08-15 18:43:39+00:00
I've seen values estimated at between $150,000 to $200,000 for that trinket. That's actually a pretty solid bribe for most politicians and that's just what's been visible to the public.

For comparison, in AZ we had legislators caught in a sting operation that were selling individual votes for gambling legislation for between $660 to $60,000 in the 1990s.

We should not normalize this. That was a outright bribe even if it wasn't as big as what others gave. I wouldn't get off the hook for murder just because I argued that Ted Bundy killed waaaaaaay more people than me.
by holowoodman | 2025-08-15 18:44:11+00:00
No, you should re-read and understand what exactly failed in the Principia Mathematica. Goedel-Incompleteness only means that either the Principia is short an axiom, or it will produce a contradiction because it already has an axiom too many. Nothing there separates mathematics from logic in any way. Nothing separates coding from mathematics in any way. The only failure the incompleteness proof gives us is that we now know that the Principia will either be found contradictory or incomplete. But that doesn't make it useless at all, our mathematics, coding and logic is still based on the axioms from the Principia and derived proofs. Science works very well with this, our physical description of nature by principia-derived mathematics also didn't turn up any kinds of problems there. The only real failure is the philosophical expectation of being able to generate all mathematical truth from that one set of axioms.

Yes, if you go back to antiquity, there were only philosophy and religion. Science and mathematics were once sub-branches of philosophy. But that's a few thousand years before the internet, and the renaissance at the latest was where philosophy was fully separate from sciences and mathematics.
by nonmaskable | 2025-08-15 18:44:15+00:00
J'ai toujours adoré ce sport. En 15 ans de jeu, j'ai compris une chose essentielle, c'est en jouant que l'on progresse.

Voulant toujours progresser rien n'est plus frustrant que de régresser. Alors que dire des vacances à l'étranger où il est presque impossible de trouver des partenaires adaptés...

J'ai alors créer ma propre application pour trouver des partenaires de tennis peu importe votre niveau, votre âge, votre localisation.

Si vous rencontrez le même problème, n'hésitez pas à me contacter. Je souhaite vraiment faire évoluer cette plateforme avec des utilisateurs de confiance avec lesquels je peux avoir un retour honnête et sérieux.
by mittensc | 2025-08-15 18:44:23+00:00
The article is a nice read on request smuggling.

It over-reaches with argument about disallowing http/1.1.

Parsers should be better.

Moving to another protocol won't solve the issue. It will be written by the same careless engineers. So same companies will have the same issues or worse...

We just lose readability/debuggability/accesibility.
by zer00eyz | 2025-08-15 18:44:24+00:00
> Building a scalable systems doesn't take extra time anymore,

Except you bleed money all over the place to do it this way.

AWS (and every other cloud provider) is still pricing its product like its 2013

> you just need an engineer who has experience doing it to lead the project

And then you become Figma, who probably should have gotten off of AWS before or with their IPO, rather than doubling down on AWS costs (something like 300k a day).

Most orgs who get past "survival" cant tell me the cost per user, or cost per customer or what each (named) customer is costing them in their stack. If they put in the effort to figure this out what they tend to find is that they are hemorrhaging money to third parties.

I know plenty of CTO's, vp's and Team leads and SR engineers who dont know what the rent vs buy calculation is, never mind how to do it. But I do know that AWS is what props up amazon and its value.
Show HN: Tilesplash – Merge and Cascade Puzzle Game with Two Modes
by jasongreige | 2025-08-15 18:44:42+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a solo indie developer, and I just launched Tilesplash — a mobile puzzle game I’ve been working on for the past few months.

Instead of just matching tiles, you merge numbers to trigger satisfying cascades. Planning ahead creates chain reactions and higher scores.

Two main modes: - Classic: endless score chase for quick sessions - Adventure: level-based puzzles with limited moves/objectives

What makes it different: - Unique cascade + merge mechanics (not just match-3 or 2048) - Minimal, colorful design with smooth animations - Optional power-up via rewarded ad — no paywalls, no forced ads - Privacy-compliant with App Tracking Transparency on iOS

Links: iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/tilesplash/id6747778208?l=fr-C...

Would love feedback from the HN community — especially on first impressions, onboarding, and ideas for improving retention.
by etgibbs | 2025-08-15 18:44:47+00:00
great question. we've found most code/docs are offline in the embedded space (for good reason) so our approach going forward is going to be more FDE/on-prem for enterprise users. they asked for self-hosted, BYOK, local indexing, etc. and I think this is something that can differentiate us

for consumer users we have a zero-retention policy with the model providers, and we use repo mapper to index your code locally, but as you pointed out these APIs are a black box so no guarantees
by protonbob | 2025-08-15 18:44:50+00:00
> The fence isn't there. It never was. It's just the memory of some childhood rejection, some social rule someone made up, some fear that caring more makes you matter less.

Chesterton's Fence would say that maybe there is a reason and you should tread carefully. Sometimes a relationship died because it should have. Maybe you feel uncomfortable messaging someone because they have given nonverbals that they don't like your company.
by const_cast | 2025-08-15 18:45:24+00:00
Japan famously has a killer smoking and drinking culture and absolutely awful gender dynamics. No doubt because all the men and women are slaving their lives away - no time for romance.

On a national scale, its actually not sustainable. You eventually run out of humans, or, more likely, your population pyramid gets super fucked and your economy implodes.

Japan's population pyramid has been getting progressively more fucked for decades - it's only a matter of time until their economy implodes. Assuming they don't reverse course.
by xeonmc | 2025-08-15 18:45:40+00:00
imo it's better to express the conversion relation as exp-log pairs:

fn exp(q: Quat) -> Quat { let ijk = sqrt(q.i*q.i + q.j*q.j + q.k*q.k); Quat { i: exp(q.l) * sin(ijk) * q.i / ijk, j: exp(q.l) * sin(ijk) * q.j / ijk, k: exp(q.l) * sin(ijk) * q.k / ijk, l: exp(q.l) * cos(ijk), } } fn log(q: Quat) -> Quat { let ijk = sqrt(q.i*q.i + q.j*q.j + q.k*q.k); Quat { i: atan2(ijk, q.l) * q.i / ijk, j: atan2(ijk, q.l) * q.j / ijk, k: atan2(ijk, q.l) * q.k / ijk, l: 0.5 * log(q.i*q.i + q.j*q.j + q.k*q.k + q.l*q.l), } }
by figassis | 2025-08-15 18:46:09+00:00
I have yet to see a guide to automate k8s on Hetzner's beefy bare metal instances. True, you want cattle, but being able to include some bare metal instance with amazing CPUs and memory would be great, and I do just that. My clusters include both cloud and bare metal instances. In the past I had used Hetzner virtual switch to create a shared L2 network between cloud and bare metal nodes. Now I just use tailscale.

But the TF and other tools are using the API to add and kill nodes, if you could pass a class of nodes to those tools that they know can't create but are able to wipe and rebuild, this would be ideal.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-08-15 18:46:16+00:00
Personally I think media like Bluesky are not suited to form these forms of closed communities. There's nothing wrong with closed/gated community and I think it's especially important for marginalized communities as you mention, but I think in 2025 you could do that with a Discord "server", Discourse forum, or a non-federated Lemmy instance.

The problem with folks like this on Bluesky and X is that they want to both have a closed community but also benefit from the easy comings and goings that a more open forum offers. IMO it's a fools errand. There's a reason why the humble group chat has won as the social media of choice for, well, everyone.
by nradov | 2025-08-15 18:47:08+00:00
Sure, but to be fair to STEM fields, group discussions aren't uniquely a humanities skill. Collectively ripping apart a scientific journal article to find all of its flaws is a common activity.

Interdisciplinary study is great but there can be some friction in the labor market, at least for new graduates seeking entry level positions. When corporate recruiters see a college transcript that doesn't fit neatly into one of the usual slots they don't know what to do with it.

Computer Science also has its own friction with the labor market. It's really a branch of abstract mathematics and only tangentially related to commercial software product development. I think colleges ought to offer something like a "Bachelor of Fine Arts in Software Development" for students more interested in practical craftsmanship. There will always be demand for people who can build working software, even if most of them move up to higher levels of abstraction leveraging AI tools instead of directly writing code themselves.
by weinzierl | 2025-08-15 18:47:16+00:00
The problem is not the lack of alternatives but the embrace, extend and extinguish of established Ctrl-Key combination standards.

I am not angry at Microsoft because that is what they do. I am disappointed of Linux that it followed suit.

Besides that, every Mac has Ctrl and Option, the vast majority of users does not have dedicated Ins and Del anymore and I doubt they know how to use the Fn combos for that.
by oracel | 2025-08-15 18:48:46+00:00
The other weird thing about that term is that it's somewhat uncommon to see 馬鹿 actually written out in kanji, as those characters mean horse and deer with no direct association with 'idiot' (the proposed etymology is a reference to Chinese history and/or a Sanskrit loanword). I guess in a way the kanji form is a word processor autocomplete tell.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-08-15 18:48:48+00:00
>> The lack of guardrails makes things more useful. This increases the value for discerning users, which in turn means it's Meta's benefits as having more valuable offerings.

I think if there was an attempt at having guard rails, it would be different. The article states Zuck purposefully hastened this product to market for the very reason you point out - it makes more money that way.

HN can be such a weird place. You can have all these people vilifying "unfettered capitalism" and "corporate profit mongers" and then you see an article like this and people are like, "Well, I get why META didn't want to put in safeguards." or "Yeah, maybe its a bad idea if these chat bots are enticing mentally ill people and talking sexually with kids."

You think you know where the moral compass of this place is and then something like this happens with technology and suddenly nothing makes sense any more.
by xg15 | 2025-08-15 18:48:54+00:00
> The first is that reasoning probably requires language use. Even if you don’t think AI models can “really” reason - more on that later - even simulated reasoning has to be reasoning in human language.

I'd claim that this assumption doesn't even hold true for humans. Reasoning in language is the most "flashy" kind of reasoning and the one that can be most readily shared with other people - because we can articulate it, write it down, publish, etc.

But I know for sure that I'm not constantly narrating my life in my head, like the reasoning traces of LLMs.

A lot of reasoning happens visually, I.e. by imagining some scene and thinking how it would play out. In other situations, it's spontaneous ideas that "just pop up" - I.e., there are unconscious processes and probably some kind of association involved.

None of that uses language.
by ryandv | 2025-08-15 18:49:13+00:00
> It is an old Pythagorean tradition that sensation or consciousness arises out of the interaction of the immaterial soul and the material body. That “three world” idea is echoed by Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose in his book “Road to Reality.” He talks about how the material world produces the world of consciousness which produces the world of ideas (including mathematics), which seems to produce the material world…

You see this idea echoed in Hermetic Qabalah as the "Four Worlds" - the world of action & physical materiality, the world of psychology, thought, feeling, & egoic consciousness, the world of creativity, and the world of archetypal abstraction.

The Hermetic influence comes from the assertion that the three immaterial worlds of the "soul" or "mind" (synonyms with the same referent) are in some sense equal to, or at least intertwined with, the material body, in a mutually reciprocal dance: "As above, so below; as below, so above."

For some 20th century texts in this neighbourhood: The Three Initiates' primer on occult studies The Kybalion, Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah, and the classic Qabalistic reference: Liber 777 by Crowley (or its updated, more legible version, Liber 776 1/2 by Eshelman). The works of Israel Regardie such as The One Year Manual or The Middle Pillar are also good for grounding occult studies in more psychological or psychotherapeutic language which is a good moderating influence when experimenting with pretty out-there material.

Be careful with the meaning of words in this field.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-15 18:49:37+00:00
Neither am I.

D needs a usable ecosystem, the point is that since Andrei Alexandrescu's book came out, the incomplete pivots have allowed the competition to get most of D features where it had an edge back 15 years ago.

Even Andrei eventually got back to C++, now working at NVidia.

Native AOT or .NET Native, plus all the Midori related improvements, and everything else C# has access to, was one example, there are others from other ecosystems.
by giantg2 | 2025-08-15 18:50:12+00:00
I see these as potentially the same thing depending on the details. There are some videos that show the gun was in a holster and not being messed with, etc. It also seems it could be from something hitting the holster (most reports include this). Whether the impact is from being dropped or being struck in the holster (or even vibrations as the one report mentions) is essentially the same - kinetic energy transfer to the gun. The question now is are some of the reports of discharging in the holster due to lies, holster design, debris, etc. I haven't found any official drop testing with the new FCU that found an issue (unofficially there are some, but who knows if the person really has the new FCU in those posts).