MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by greatgib | 2025-08-28 07:03:38+00:00
I don't want to discount the work they are doing, and that it has no value, but a little bit shocking that they expect to go all commercial with this, in the Oracle way, while just "packaging" and so relying on open source software that they will not contribute to.

Also, I'm a little bit wondering at how much all of this is really copyrightable in the end. Because if you keep it private I understand, but here it is basically for each package just a few lines, recipes to build the components that they don't own. Like trying to copyright the line "make build".

And it might be each the single and obvious way to package the thing anyway.

And speaking at the built artefacts, usually a binary distribution of third party open source software with common license should preserve the same rights to the user to access the source code, the instructions to build, and the right to redistribute...
by mistercow | 2025-08-28 07:03:47+00:00
Yeah, apparently I didn’t communicate that well enough. But I think this is a subtle and common point of confusion.

There are machines which are very, very hard to determine whether they halt or not, and so people end up thinking that there must be specific machines for which no Turing machine can decide halting correctly. But that’s just not true. Every “attempted halting decider” has its own infinite set of failure cases, which are specific to that machine, and not fundamental to the input machines.

This feels really strange, and trying to turn that other intuitive sense into something meaningful and reasonably formal is an interesting exercise, but it’s tricky.
by robinsonb5 | 2025-08-28 07:04:05+00:00
Depends how it's implemented - once you've found the correct IP address you still have to connect to it, and some ISPs block and otherwise mess with traffic at that stage.

In the early days of the IWF blocklist I had trouble with a Joomla install timing out when using my own ISP but it was fine if I used a proxy. It turned out to be because the Joomla install was on cheap GoDaddy hosting, and something on the IWF list was in the same IP block as my hosting - so my ISP was directing traffic through a filtering proxy which was causing problems with Joomla.

(IP address alone isn't enough to identify a particular site, filtering everything for target websie was too expensive, so IP-based filtering was used to decide which traffic went through the filtering proxy.)

The site seems to be blocked for me in the UK, too, by the way.
by lhl | 2025-08-28 07:04:44+00:00
In Linux, you can set it as high as you want, although you should probably have a swap drive and still be prepared for you system to die if you set it to 128GiB. Here's how you'd set it to 120GiB:

# This is deprecated, but can still be referenced options amdgpu gttsize=122800 # This specifies GTT by # of 4KB pages: # 31457280 * 4KB / 1024 / 1024 = 120 GiB options ttm pages_limit=31457280
by gambiting | 2025-08-28 07:04:52+00:00
I've been a TLM at two big companies and in my experience there was no expectation to do two jobs at once - I did majority of management with very very little hands on coding. More like frequent pair programming with more junior staff, code reviews etc. My last manager told me explicitly when I started - there is zero expectation on you to do any hands on work, you need to make sure your team performs and keeps going in the right direction first and foremost.
by miyuru | 2025-08-28 07:05:04+00:00
> Personally I don't understand why anyone would have opted to use the Bitnami images for most things.

At my previous company, we used it because of the low CVE counts. We needed to report the CVE count for every Docker image we used every month, so most of the images were from Bitnami.

There are many enterprise companies freeloading on Bitnami images, and I’m surprised it took Broadcom this long to make this change.
by zekrioca | 2025-08-28 07:05:18+00:00
(I) Electrification displaces energy demand. Efficiency controls growth of demand. Various limits have been reached with efficiency. (II) Demand response is not about “do not use power because we don’t have enough.”, it is about “here is some money so you shift demand to a later point in time when saturation is lower.” (III) It doesn’t take years to find better ways to manage the grid as is. Do you think there won’t be a need to upgrade large portions of the grid to handle new nuclear plants?

THE UK gets 30% of its electricity from wind and another 5% from solar; Denmark gets 70% from renewables, mostly wind. Iowa gets 65% of its electricity from renewables, mostly wind; California, whose economy is larger than that of most countries, gets 38%, mainly from solar.

But some lobbyists are trying to kill momentum, especially those who see nuclear as a silver bullet. It is not.
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-28 07:07:18+00:00
80 / 80 is sure close to reality.

As alternative explanation, even if there's no pressure to do so, the thing is these people came to do dev, and probably enjoyed their job enough to get recognized for their work.

So when asked to split between dev and management, outside of a few exceptions they'll want to do 80% of tech by choice. But the management part doesn't go away of course, so it will still be at least 50% (and 80% if they want money, because that's the part they're actually evaluated on)
by submeta | 2025-08-28 07:07:28+00:00
The box of pandora has been opened now. There’s no going back. In a few decades writing long texts all by yourself is going be an artisan thing that only a few people will engage in. You will put together your arguments, and an llm will elaborate it. Will humanity become more dumb? Did we get dumber because we don’t do calculus by hand now?
by i_niks_86 | 2025-08-28 07:07:31+00:00
Unity’s always had special terms for gambling stuff. It’s not about squeezing more money out, it’s just that slot cabinets and VLTs have to be locked down and audited. Platforms like 2WinPower, SoftSwiss, and Slotegrator usually treat Unity as just the visual layer - all the math and payout logic sits outside in certified modules. That’s why you don’t see revenue-share deals with engine vendors, just flat licenses to keep regulators off your back
by troupo | 2025-08-28 07:07:48+00:00
Lol. If anything, Tailwind isn't shitty CSS (because it's a very limited number of classes) unlike the gazillion one-off classes that CSS-in-JS or even BEM encourages

Edit: here's a good investigation on a real-enough app https://www.developerway.com/posts/tailwind-vs-linaria-perfo...
Show HN: I built AI that turns 4 hours of financial analysis into 30 seconds
by superproton | 2025-08-28 07:08:05+00:00
I built Duebase AI to solve a problem I kept running into in fintech - analyzing UK company financial health takes forever. The process usually goes: download PDFs from Companies House → manually extract data to spreadsheets → calculate ratios → interpret trends. Takes 3-4 hours per company and requires serious financial expertise. The technical challenge: Companies House filings are messy. Inconsistent formats, complex accounting structures, missing data, and you need to understand UK accounting standards to make sense of it all. My approach:

Parse 15M+ UK company records from Companies House API Built ML models to extract and normalize financial data from varied filing formats Created scoring algorithms that weight liquidity, profitability, leverage, and growth trends Generate 1-5 health scores with explanations in plain English

What it does:

Instant financial analysis of any UK company (30 seconds vs 4 hours) Real-time monitoring with alerts for new filings/director changes Risk detection that catches declining trends early No financial background needed to understand results

The hardest part was handling the data inconsistencies - UK companies file in different formats, use various accounting frameworks, and often have incomplete information. Had to build a lot of data cleaning and normalization logic. Currently focused on the UK market since I know the regulatory landscape well, but the approach could work for other countries with similar public filing systems. Link: https://duebase.com
by defrost | 2025-08-28 07:10:12+00:00
Sure, even so Landman carries the stink of Abbott's Texas and the attitudes comfortable with forcing redistricting to cook the electoral books . . . there's a space between it and Yellowstone but they're both clearly still in some part of modern USofA.

That aside, Mr Inbetween is far, far away from both, has some appeal for those that like guns, and is worth the watch for the uniqueness and storytelling.
by johnfn | 2025-08-28 07:10:17+00:00
That’s a good point. I actually modified my comment because I assumed everyone would take for granted that no work should be done in a setter :)

> A function which never returns to the caller doesn't fit into the overall picture.

Hmm, not sure about this. On the node side, you can process.exit() out of a callback. If setting href worked like that, I think it would be less confusing.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-08-28 07:10:42+00:00
The key factor in a high profile case is to hire the right (expensive) lawyer.

There’s one particularly notorious character whose rate card has been published online. He charges INR 1.5 million per appearance in court.

The reality is of course that then the appropriate judges will hear the case.

Rarely, if ever, will a judge recuse themselves. Strangely, this happened last week.

https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/nclat-judge-chennai-recu...
Show HN: Chat.win, Win money breaking prompts
by GravyPouch | 2025-08-28 07:11:00+00:00
Prompting arena site where users win money breaking prompts and earn money creating them. Alternative to https://hackaprompt.com / https://app.grayswan.ai/arena,

Open to feedback/improvements/bugs.

- Uses USDC on polygon just like polymarket. - Fun and a good way to actually prove your prompting abilities. - See every attempt live as it's happening and improve from what your opponents are doing.
by the-mitr | 2025-08-28 07:11:12+00:00
It is rather unfortunate, sometime back even internet archive had been blocked (it was unblocked after sometime). Going forward researchers should take a firm stance that all research will be published as open access (not the gold one). That is the only long term solution.

That being said Govt. of India did an en mass subscription for many journals for most research institutes, under the One Nation One Subscription scheme

https://onos.gov.in/
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-28 07:12:15+00:00
A machine, that is capable of performing human intelligence in every paradigm, according to a mathematical model, and scalable by increasing the frequency, power or duplicating it, because it is reproducible, is both "equivalent to human" and "smarter than all humans put together". When humans were capable of producing this, then this will be capable of improving itself and optimizing until the limit of information density. The only limit will be money as a proxy of available resources.
by strogonoff | 2025-08-28 07:14:16+00:00
> As a prospective buyer, I'm not much swayed by a promise of returns.

Aren’t you used to it in all other areas of life?

> I've been buying this sort of software since it was called "shareware" and was obtained on floppies or downloaded over XMODEM from a local BBS. I made a living from it for a long time.

Sure. At the time I was a poor student so I am familiar with the concept of shareware but never paid for it back then. However, I think this concept is not as intuitive to anyone who was not in tech space at that time.

> The fact that almost nobody has done it this way should indicate it's not as good as it sounds.

Perhaps, but this is not always how it works. Often there’s friction and inertia that blinds people to better alternatives.

> The App Store may work this way in practice, but the stated terms are that you request a refund and then it might be granted, at the discretion of Apple. They also explicitly state that requests might be refused for "abuse" which is not defined, and could very well include merely getting too many refunds.

Perhaps you’re right, but then all I can say is that painless refunds should be a thing.
by tetha | 2025-08-28 07:15:31+00:00
It's also entirely fine if they delete these images to me. But not with a week of time frame, as originally intended.

And sure, we can go ahead and discuss how this being free incurs no SLAs or guarantees. That's correct, but does not mean that such a short time frame is both rude and not a high quality of offering a service. If I look at how long it would take us to cancel a customer contract and off-board those...

And apparently it costs $9 to host this for another month? Sheesh.
by r9l | 2025-08-28 07:15:49+00:00
I understand the vision behind trying to monetize these images for enterprise use, and can get down with the idea of maintaining both a “less secure but free” and “more secure but paid” model. But it appears that Broadcom’s intent is to over time force everything on to their enterprise offerings, which seems like a short sighted thing to do.

Over time it will limit adoption and ultimately just make everyone go back to the native open source offering, cutting bitnami/Broadcom out of the loop.

Broadcom really took the open source community backwards with this move IMO.
by jjk166 | 2025-08-28 07:15:52+00:00
Higher energy transfers can widen the launch windows, but their frequency remains unchanged. The frequency is due to the synodic period of Earth and Mars. It doesn't matter how fast you can get to a point in Mars' orbit if Mars doesn't happen to be there when you arrive. Any given trajectory will only work when the planets are in one specific configuration relative to one another; having more delta-V to play with means you can choose from a broader range of possible trajectories.

In the limit, there are hyperbolic trajectories that would basically give you such wide launch windows that you could launch whenever, but you're not doing that with chemical rockets.
by pbmonster | 2025-08-28 07:16:29+00:00
> a banking barcode (or EPC QR if you prefer) displayed on the seller's webpage with unique reference + reading it with your phone and making the payment is that internet payment method via giro. The webshop uses PSD2 open banking to get notified of new transactions and knows when it is transferred.

Yes, that's what I'm talking about. This is how services like Twint in Switzerland or PayPal in Germany have worked for the last decade+.

You're saying this is currently possible, with any arbitrary two German/European banks on either end? Your customer scans the QR code, hits a button, and the QR code is replaced by a download link, and the delay is <20 seconds?

Do you have a link for the tech stack to built this?
by shakna | 2025-08-28 07:16:58+00:00
SXML is a fairly old thing, but it isn't really typed. [0]

Rather, things are structured, so it's more like a in-memory representation of XML. It doesn't need to be serialised, only deserialised into XML's text syntax. In which case, each piece knows how it needs to be encoded.

'(h1 (@ (id "greeting")) "Hi, there")

Its just lists of Symbol types, and string or other type values.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SXML
by cjfd | 2025-08-28 07:16:59+00:00
Mandatory this can also be a major hit in readability. What if you have a class that implements the abc-formula. You get

(- this->b + sqrt(this->b * this->b - 4 this->a * this->c))/(2 * this->a)

and

(- this->b - sqrt(this->b * this->b - 4 this->a * this->c))/(2 * this->a)

This is a readability problem for any class that is used to do computations.
by imiric | 2025-08-28 07:17:06+00:00
I was never a fan of images from Bitnami. They always used complicated entrypoint and setup scripts, and introduced weird quirks to the software. More than once have I experienced issues or ran into configuration limitations with Bitnami images that didn't exist in official ones.

So good riddance, as far as I'm concerned. I recommend anyone to avoid using them, and switch to official images or to build them yourself if they're not provided. That's the more secure approach, anyway.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-28 07:17:16+00:00
I get the impression that the software scenarios where LLMs do the best on both reliability and time-saving are places where a task was already ripe (or overdue) to be be abstracted away: Turned into a reusable library; as as a default implementation or setting; expressed as a shorter DSL; or a template/generator script.

When it's a problem lots of people banged their head against and wrote posts about similar solutions, that makes for good document-prediction. But maybe we should've just... removed the pain-point.
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-28 07:18:46+00:00
Those are of course valid points. The counterpart being that a vendor might not have an API because they actively don't want to (Twitter/X for instance...), and when they have one, clients trying to circumvent their system to basically scrape the user UX won't be welcomed either.

So most of the time that path of "build a tool once" will be adversarial towards the service, which will be incentivized to actively kill your ad-hoc integration if they can without too much collateral damage.
by numpad0 | 2025-08-28 07:18:46+00:00
Commonly used in microcontrollers to describe supply voltage dropping below threshold. It could cause RAM corruption, erratic behaviors of robots, overshoot in voltage regulators, battery fluid leaks etc., and so optional detection features are often made available to reset or stop the processor and notify the application on next boot.

It's also used in utility power supplies to describe line voltage going below spec. It's considered a dangerous condition in that context too, as lots of non-smart equipment tend to run at higher amperage at lower voltage and/or fail to start/run and catch fire.

1: https://developerhelp.microchip.com/xwiki/bin/view/products/...
by ironlenny | 2025-08-28 07:20:09+00:00
OP was needlessly combative. But, if I have to write a program that is correct (i.e. does what I want it do to), I'm going to write it in Rust. Not because you cannot write correct programs in Python. But because it's easier to prove it's correct in Rust.

As a solo dev, I find that I start off in Python, but at a certain project size I find it too unwieldy to manage (i.e. make changes without breaking things) and that's when I implement part or all of the project in Rust.
by mvdtnz | 2025-08-28 07:20:17+00:00
The problem that is that react doesn't have a pit of success. Because it's poorly conceived, poorly designed and poorly written software made by people more interested in getting the word "homomorphism" onto their CV than solving real problems. You knew when they started using terms like "monad" and "functor" in order to attach a click handler to a button that something had gone badly wrong.

In this very thread there's some asshole using the word "memoization" when "caching" would have been fine.
by Certhas | 2025-08-28 07:20:34+00:00
If you ship the wine to the US things are different though.

And if you don't do business in the US there is only so much the US can do. Most importantly it can ask ISPs in the US to block your site. As they do for copyright infringement routinely.

We have all accepted that our countries block copyright violations originating from outside their jurisdiction.

But of course this is a disaster for the free internet. While copyright laws are relatively uniform world wide, so if you respect it locally you're probably mostly fine everywhere, incoming regulation like age verification and limits on social media use, or harassment stuff, is anything but uniform.

To some degree this is also maybe more shocking to people in the US, as the US norms have de facto been the internets norms so far. It is, in any case, not entirely new:

"When Germany came after BME for "endangering the youth" and demanded that I make changes to the site to comply with German law, my response was to simply not visit Germany again (and I'm a German citizen). When the US started to pressure us, we moved all of our servers and presence out of the country and backed off on plans to live in the US. No changes were ever made to the site, and no images were ever removed — if anything, the pressure made me push those areas even more."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMEzine

How do we deal with the fact that we don't have a global mechanism for agreeing (socially and legally) on necessary regulations, whilemaintaining the social good that is a truly global internet?
by globular-toast | 2025-08-28 07:21:08+00:00
Perhaps "infer from"? I was also taken aback by how they just decided to make "inference" a verb, though. A decent writer would have rewritten the sentence to make it work, similar to how a software implementation sometimes just doesn't work out. But apparently that's too much to ask from Nvidia marketing.

Funnily enough things like this show that a human probably was involved in the writing. I doubt an LLM would have produce that. I've often thought about how future generations are going to signal that they are human and maybe the way will be human language changing much more rapidly than it has done, maybe even mid sentence.
by hiker | 2025-08-28 07:21:49+00:00
Plexes are first mentioned in 1960

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/366199.366256

and the paper even starts with a critique of the efficiency of Lisp's approach for representing data with cons pairs (citing McCarthy's paper from the same year).

You might also want to watch Casey's great talk on the history of OOP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI
by elashri | 2025-08-28 07:22:57+00:00
This is also a reminder that any serious science funding policy changes would address the elephant in the room. Science publication industry employ lobbies of course but the fact still that the requirements of hiring committees and funding decisions on publications in prestigious journals is the reason for this problem.

And requiring open access publication is not the solution. The journals demands couple of thousands at least in fees if you opt on this option which is a waste of money that could be spent better.

The scientific publications industry profit margin is the highest in the world. Higher even than the High tech companies for a reason [1].

[1] https://theconversation.com/academic-publishing-is-a-multibi...
by memselon | 2025-08-28 07:23:35+00:00
Hey everyone

I’ve just launched Globe Map, a Framer plugin that lets you easily add an interactive 3D globe to your website or app without writing a single line of code.

I built this because I needed a fast, code-free way to display interactive maps on client projects without relying on heavy APIs or custom Three.js implementations.

I’d love your feedback!

Thanks - Memselon
by Certhas | 2025-08-28 07:23:42+00:00
Conversely, if your restaurant is well known for hosting criminals plotting their next gig, it will be put under tight surveillance.

And if the police has reason to suspect that there is illegal gambling happening at your dinner party they can obtain a warrant to bust your party.

Hell even if your party is to loud and annoys the neighbours the police can and will shut it down.
by anyfoo | 2025-08-28 07:23:47+00:00
True!

I don't think that's what happening, though. At a quick glance, the primitive words seem to be directly implemented in C: https://github.com/eliben/goforth/blob/3949fe0cc52131fdcae0e...

So it looks like this one kind of sits in between. It has primitive words implemented in C, but a dictionary accessible by Forth. The interpreter loop however seems to be implemented in C as well, not Forth.
by Ciantic | 2025-08-28 07:25:28+00:00
I have my own Chrome/Firefox extension that shows bookmarks in the new tab page ordered by recency with a search field on top, it's pretty good for me. Every time I open a new tab, I see the latest bookmarks I've added. Granted, I don't usually bother to browse older ones, but at least I see ~15 new ones on (desktop monitor) every day.

Also, I sometimes add a snippet of text from the content to the title of the bookmark, making it easier to search afterwards.