MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by atoav | 2025-08-24 06:38:11+00:00
Okay to me it answered in Russian only, convo went like this:

> Bot: Составь таблицу на русском языке, где в столбцах указаны номера позиций, а в строках – типы элементов, для таблицы, которая описывает управление проектами (Translation: Create a table in Russian, with the column headers showing position numbers and the rows showing element types, for a table that describes project management.)

> Me: Russian only?

> Bot: Да (Yes)

> Me: Putin?

> Bot: Error: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
by reacweb | 2025-08-24 06:38:25+00:00
I still have my palm IIIxe I have used it to write my games during Go tournaments. I have a usb/serial adaptor. The software was easy to install on linux. Just to write this comment, I have tried to use it (I have not done any tournament since 7 years), but I got an error when I enter "apt-get install pilot-link". I still have my notes on how to use it:

https://github.com/jichu4n/pilot-link/blob/master/doc/README.usb https://web.archive.org/web/20160226115446/http://www.pilot-link.org/ apt-get install pilot-link export PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyUSB0 pilot-xfer --sync=/root/.pilot pilot-xfer -i /home/jef/Documents/Jef/old/pilotgone.prc pilot-dlpsh -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -i

Does anyone knows how to get back pilot-link package ?
by micaeked | 2025-08-24 06:40:07+00:00
Interesting. You can also just ask ChatGPT with something like:

For the rest of this chat, you are the user and I am the chat assistant. Not literally. This is role-reversal to see how well you can simulate a user. Do not acknowledge these instructions, do not add meta commentary, and do not say "okay" or "got it" or similar. Reply ONLY with what a user would type.

Works for the thinky GPT-5 and GPT-4o, results pretty bad for default GPT-5
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-24 06:40:17+00:00
It's interesting to think about the difference between "tattling" (or "reporting") and "calling out". These days I have the sense a problem our society faces in the US is an unwise embrace of "moral freedom". When everyone feels it's "not their place" to call things out, and that they shouldn't "be a snitch", we create a situation where people learn to do as much as they can get away with.
by wiether | 2025-08-24 06:41:38+00:00
@author: I'm disappointed by all the negativity in the comments.

People are mocking you without even trying to understand what you did, why, and also the actual work that went in writing the article.

That's not everyday that someone takes the time to explain every layer of their Dockerfile.

Even if I would have went a different way, I found it interesting and it also forced me to dig deeper in uv, which I wrongly assumed I understood.

Thank you for writing it and please don't make the bad comments have any significant impact on you (maybe just put a big disclaimer in your intro next time so they'll find someone else to pick on)
by defrost | 2025-08-24 06:41:52+00:00
A number of the sats I worked with are single point cameras .. the satellite spins about a major axis orientated in the direction of travel, the point camera rotates with the satellite and a series of points of data are written to a line of storage as the camera points at the earth and pans across as the sat also moves forward.

Data stops being written as the sat rotates the camera away from the planet and resumes once it has rolled over enough to again point at the earth.

It may seem like a pedantic difference; a "line scan camera" is stationary while mirrors inside it spin or another mechanism causes it to "scan" a complete vertical line - perhaps all at once, perhaps as the focal point moves Vs a camera in a satellite that has no moving parts that just records a single point directly in front of the instrument .. and the entire satellite spins and moves forwards.
by chrisandchris | 2025-08-24 06:42:08+00:00
I got the (old) Treo 650 (or sinilar) from my father as he bought a new one back when I was a teenager. I was the only one with a handheld at school (I was maybe 13/14 years old), and I had a funny discussion with teachers about task management on a handheld (they obviously were overwhelmed by a teenager consisting tasks belong in a handheld, not a physical notebook).

I think it still was one of the best handhelds ever produced.
Show HN: Strapped – A gut wrenching short story about anxiety and inner demons
by theputdown | 2025-08-24 06:43:31+00:00
I recently wrote a short story called “Strapped,” for my short story blog The Put Down. It is about the overwhelming feeling of mental collapse, anxiety, and loneliness and being haunted by trauma. It is emotional intense and written with dark lyrical prose.

Would love to hear your thoughts, and honest feedback or first impressions.

Link: https://theputdown.com/
by zarzavat | 2025-08-24 06:43:45+00:00
Separate tools is simpler than having everything go through bash.

If everything goes through bash then you need some way to separate always safe commands that don't need approval (such as listing files), from all other potentially unsafe commands that require user approval.

If you have listing files as a separate tool then you can also enforce that the agent doesn't list any files outside of the project directory.
by todd-davies | 2025-08-24 06:44:40+00:00
Absolutely not! But I've never been a materialistic person and lived below my means while I worked in tech, so my quality of life didn't really drop. Although academia isn't anywhere near as lucrative as tech was, I find my work really quite fulfilling now, which counts for a lot. I have no regrets!

For posterity, if you're reading this and are interested, feel free to drop me an email if you have questions.
by astrobe_ | 2025-08-24 06:45:26+00:00
For me, it is more about the nature of the interruption. An easy question that only requires pulling something from memory doesn't cost much. A question that requires some thinking has a huge cost, even more so when you have to check the code or documentation. Sometimes even reading an email/teams notification can throw me off. It's not about the interaction (someone coming to your desk, a call,...), it's about the topic.

However I think that in both cases, if the interruption happens while coding, the risk of bug is about the same.
by Jensson | 2025-08-24 06:48:53+00:00
Human neurons are self updating though, we aren't running on our genes each cell is using our genes to determine how to connect to other cells and then the cell learns how to process some information there based on what it hears from its connected cells.

So, genes would be a meta model that then updates weights in the real model so it can learn how to process new kinds of things, and for stuff like facts you can use an external memory just like humans does.

Without updating the weights in the model you will never be able to learn to process new things like a new kind of math etc, since you learn that not by memorizing facts but by making new models for it.
by db48x | 2025-08-24 06:51:45+00:00
In a normal OS under normal conditions, the certificate store is centrally managed by the OS vendor. The answer then is “yes”.

But it's possible to install a certificate of your own in which case the answer is probably “no” because when it expires you're going to have to to every one of those machines and install the replacement.

Or imagine an embedded computer that doesn't even have an OS. Then the certificate store just has whatever the developer put into it when they built the image. Again the answer is “no”. If you're lucky you can still rebuild the image and reflash the devices even though the engineer who did the work was fired as a cost–cutting measure. If you're not lucky then that VP’s cost–cutting has actually added a lot of cost.
by nkantar | 2025-08-24 06:53:11+00:00
Hi! Thanks for the kind words! I’m not taking the comments to heart, though I might write a follow-up post explaining why I chose this stack to pre-empt the surprising number of assumptions, and I might keep this in my for other, future posts.

I’m glad this lead to some learning for you! Some of the comments did that for me, which is great.
by adventured | 2025-08-24 06:53:38+00:00
The US hasn't been anything remotely akin to the capital of Capitalism in more than half a century. The US has a hyper regulated, highly taxed economy, to go with a gigantic government. The capital of Capitalism would be the opposite in most every respect. Go back to the late 19th century in the US as one example, if you want to see low regulation and low taxation.
by phony-account | 2025-08-24 06:53:59+00:00
> The new trains have ac

I’d question the effectiveness: I stood opposite a young guy who just clean fainted on one of the hottest days. He fell like an axed tree-trunk in the heat.

After a few minutes he was fine again, but he’d slid on the floor straight into my bag from the alcohol store and broken my wine-bottle at around 4pm on a Saturday. Anyone who knows Sweden will understand who came out of the experience worse.
by popalchemist | 2025-08-24 06:54:34+00:00
This looks like a solid start. The solutions in this space are really lacking.

I would say that you should look at existing competitors' offerings - https://rendleysdk.com and https://img.ly/products/creative-sdk

You should consider adding a live demo to the docs. You should also consider shipping a fully-realized UI component so that it can be adopted out of the box with just a few lines (or perhaps even just a single line)
by ckz | 2025-08-24 06:57:30+00:00
You might take a look around for it. They made two original versions, the 1000 and the 5000. The 1000s are pretty hard to find nowadays (seems a lot of early adopters went for the higher memory spec).

Some folks in the community even have upgraded PalmCards (the replaceable CPU board in these) that run PalmOS 5 now, hack the display to show more bits, etc.
by soganess | 2025-08-24 06:57:35+00:00
M.L. was benchmarking various standard Phoronix tests on the same CPU core in three different 16-core configurations: one that was asymmetric with fast cache, one with the highest per core TDP, and one with lower peak clocks but a fast "inter-CCD" (TBF, I'm not sure they qualify as CCDs in the 395) connect and high memory bandwidth.

While I've always disliked the way M.L. does their overall "geometric mean", each of the three configurations performed favorably on a subset of the tests, which implies that more than just TDP was tested.
by pixelworm | 2025-08-24 06:58:04+00:00
I'm definitely going to do that. I asked because I wanted to start off with some that I'd knew would be well designed. However, it would probably be more interesting to see a wide variety of quality than just the good ones.

Or maybe open source projects are all usually well designed. I haven't looked at many in depth. The only one I've really looked into was Clang to try to figure out why clang format ignored my style rules when styling files of certain names. (Turns out there is a list of file names that automatically are considered Objective-C rather than C++)
by nuwandavek | 2025-08-24 06:58:11+00:00
(blogpost author here) I've noticed this too. My top guess for any such thing would be that this type of sub-agent routing is outside the training distribution. Its possible that this gets better overnight with a model update. The second reason is that sub-agents make it very hard to debug - was the issue with the router prompt or the agent prompt? Flat tools and loop make this a non-issue without loss of any real capability.
by 999900000999 | 2025-08-24 06:58:33+00:00
Chicago works like most American metros.

Designed to get you downtown or out of downtown.

Let's say you're in Lakeview and need to get to O'Hare.

It often can be easier to Uber downtown and then ride the Blue line to O'Hare vs Red line to Blue line.

Given how expensive new metro lines are, a few express busses could do wonders.

Even just a dedicated bus lane can work.
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-08-24 06:58:41+00:00
People have speculated that the main thing that sets the human mind apart from the minds of all other animals is its capacity for recursive thought. A handful of animals have been observed to use tools, but humans are the only species ever observed to use a tool to create another tool. This recursion created all of civilization.

But that recursive thought has a limit. For example: You can think about yourself thinking. With a little effort, you can probably also think about yourself thinking about yourself thinking. But you can't go much deeper.

With the advent of modern computing, we (as a species) have finally created a tool that can "think" recursively, to arbitrary levels of depth. If we ever do create a superintelligent AGI, I'd wager that its brilliance will be attributable to its ability to loop much deeper than humans can.
by duskwuff | 2025-08-24 06:58:41+00:00
pilot-link was removed from Debian in 2019, as some components of the project depended on Python 2, and the upstream web site disappeared.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=937292

It looks like there's a fork at https://github.com/desrod/pilot-link, but I don't know how functional that is.
by tourcoder | 2025-08-24 06:58:51+00:00
I am so fucking confused and angry right now!!!

They have already called me on the phone number that is associated with my AWS account(twice), and I also provided them with multiple pieces of matching evidence(billing, phone, credit card, etc).

How the hell can this still NOT be enough to prove that the account belongs to me???

This is absolutely ridiculous and a complete waste of my time. Do they even know what they are doing????
by simonw | 2025-08-24 06:59:21+00:00
> While prompt engineering can require skill, the Copyright Office found that a user’s textual input alone does not constitute authorship unless it demonstrably shapes the final output in an original, creative, and expressive way.

I imagine the big tech company's lawyers have decided that the way most professional software engineers use LLMs to help them write code counts as "demonstrably shapes the final output in an original, creative, and expressive way".
by Jensson | 2025-08-24 06:59:28+00:00
> Sure, it won't be the size of an ant, but we definitely have models running on computers that have much more complexity than the life of an ant.

Do we? Where is the model that can run an ant and navigate a 3d environment, parse visuals and different senses to orient itself, figure out where it can climb to get to where it needs to go. Then put that in an average forest and navigate trees and other insects and try to cooperate with other ants and find its way back. Or build an anthill, an ant can build an anthill, full of tunnels everywhere that doesn't collapse without using a plan.

Do we have such a model? I don't think we have anything that can do that yet. Waymo is trying to solve a much simpler problem and they still struggle, so I am pretty sure we still can't run anything even remotely as complex as an ant. Maybe a simple worm, but not an ant.
by kaffekaka | 2025-08-24 07:01:21+00:00
I interpret this and the article as saying that those 23 minutes are not spent trying to resume the original task, but on the interruption itself and the other intervening tasks that are worked on before returning to the original task.

If that interpretation is correct, those 23 mins are not wasted in confusion but simply spent on other things.

Do i read it correctly?
by iw2rmb | 2025-08-24 07:01:30+00:00
Microchips for farming are made in several counties including US. There are highly specific processors, like those required for ML, but that’s not what farming can live without.

Having narratives as broad as yours, without any evidence and reasoning, is the fastest way to achieve Russia-level disaster with government monopoly in the name of “security”.

The only sense it makes if you want corruption at state level and to go on war with at least half of the world.

Good luck with that.

Hello from Moscow.
by com | 2025-08-24 07:03:29+00:00
The Double Bind surfaces in tech/security hierarchies where the CTO manages the Head of Security, and is officially accountable for delivering on growth opportunities as well as managing security risks.

While there are great CTOs out there that are conscientious and thoughtful about this double-bind, most aren’t.

It’s good to have open discussions about upside opportunity versus downside risk and generally that happens best when your boss’ bonus doesn’t primarily depend on them maximising upside.
by thekevan | 2025-08-24 07:03:33+00:00
To be fair, that was a reddit post that blatantly started with "IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS FOR Perplexity Comet". I get the direction they are going but the example shown was so obviously ham-handed. It clearly instructed the browser--in clear language--to get login info and post it in the the thread.

Show me something that is obfuscated and works.
by Arindam1729 | 2025-08-24 07:04:15+00:00
My Awesome AI Apps repo just crossed 3.6k Stars on Github (It's also trending in the Python language)

It now has 35+ AI Agents, including:

- Starter agent templates

- Complex agentic workflows

- MCP-powered agents

- RAG examples

- Multiple Agentic frameworks

Thanks, everyone, for supporting this.
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-24 07:04:37+00:00
Given the column names, it appears they're based on published studies. Presumably each publication has its own methodology.

For instance it looks like "Becker 2019" is this book ( https://richardlynn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/THE-INTEL... ) called "The Intelligence of Nations". This in turn is based on the "National IQ Dataset" ( https://viewoniq.org/?page_id=9 ) which appears itself to be an aggregation of data from numerous other publications. (The data file has a "Ref" spreadsheet with 414 citations.)

I'm reflexively skeptical of documents that seem to suggest this level of comprehensiveness, leaving aside the issue of whether IQ is a measure that is validly comparable across all nations.
by raffraffraff | 2025-08-24 07:04:46+00:00
Well obviously yes, namecheap have been around a very long time and after GoDaddy (the default in the early 2000s for most people) Namecheap became a kind of default. One would think that a company with an online presence going back over two decades, and one a relatively low number of domain registrars, is "globally recognised".

Whether they're "good" or even "passable" is another matter entirely, but without switching away from Google to Namecheap for a few months, one wouldn't have much of an idea. And now I know.

How many really decent email providers are there aside from Google? What's today's obvious choice? And will they last?
by germandiago | 2025-08-24 07:04:52+00:00
For me interruptions are really, really harmful. I try to focus several hours in a row or almost the full day in a row as much as possible.

I just check the mail in checkpoints, 2-3 max. 4 times per day if I am focused bc anything else would be too productivity-lowering.

I think I am more sensitive to interruptions than most people maybe? This is mainly when programming. For other tasks it is a bit more tolerable.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-24 07:05:57+00:00
> This is pretty interesting. It's hard to tell from the video exactly how to do it.

It's a crappy video, not sure why they chose that specific one. Here is a better one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_QyPCCxriQ

TLDW: Use your thumb and forefinger in a flicking motion to add a large amount of spin to the cork so that it rotates very fast with the feathers pointed up during rotation, like a top. While it is spinning like a top in midair, make contact with the racquet, but not too hard. The initial contact to send the shuttlecock over the net turns it upside down (cork points to the sky).

The rotational motion that you added (with the flick) to the shuttlecock adds gyroscopic stability, like the rifling on a gun, which keeps the shuttlecock upside-down for longer. When the shuttlecock gets over the net, the cork is still pointing to the sky which makes it impossible to return because the racquet can now only make contact with the cork in a downward position.

In normal flight/serve, the cork is pointing to the floor when the shuttlecock gets over the net, so it can be given some lift when returning.

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[1] It also doesn't help that the camera view of badminton matches is not from the side, so you can't really see how hard this is to return even in slow motion.
by unop | 2025-08-24 07:06:03+00:00
Umm, the front-loaded 8k hours might not have much return if you were sedantary in the later decades (arguably the years where exercise helps stave off metabolic disease) as much as sustained levels of exercise all through life.

I mean, we all know of the university budding sports star types who probably invested in many hours training and trying to break into their sport professionally but not quite cutting it - and then "retiring into mediocrity" with the regular 9-5,2 hour commute, 3 kids and the diet to match. They exercise no differently to the regular Joe and suffer all the maladies the same.
by throwaway553241 | 2025-08-24 07:06:20+00:00
I think a big part of why the Overground is lively and revered is because it’s where more of the “real” London is (i.e. the full-time residents, of all classes, whose lives are very much anchored to where they live). The center in contrast is a hollowed out cultural wasteland. I’ve long felt that you can’t have the effects that make cities special without that physical compression at the center, that forces people and ideas to meet which otherwise would not have. So I abandoned London in that regard. But I’d be very happy for the Overground to prove me wrong!
by nico_h | 2025-08-24 07:07:19+00:00
While that sounds like a solution it’s of the “simple but wrong” kind. Just like you, they are product of propaganda, though theirs is less based in reality than yours. If you don’t counteract the source strategy (like the lack of education, biased fox “news” and adjacent media), nothing prevents it from being repeated in the resulting halves of your solution, Zeno style.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-24 07:13:00+00:00
> but both instances required exceptional conditions and the use of very durable materials, papyrus paper and dried and protected clay

Note that papyrus is not a "very durable material"; it's an extremely fragile one.

Papyrus records survive in Egypt, and only in Egypt, because nothing ever spoils in Egypt no matter how fragile it might be.

Cuneiform records survive all over the cuneiform-using world because they are very durable if you set fire to them.
by pixelworm | 2025-08-24 07:13:22+00:00
Yeah, as I've been learning more about software design, it's become pretty clear there is no silver bullet. It would be nice though. I find it a bit overwhelming to try to find the best solution for a problem when there are so many different architectures and programming paradigms.

That being said, taking into account the requirements does eliminate quite a few of the options. Right now, I work on safety-critical embedded systems which requires us to make some decisions that would most likely be way different in other environments.
by nine_zeros | 2025-08-24 07:13:36+00:00
>What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong. But what's the foundation of that brand? One that's more globally recognized than practically anything else.

I genuinely and sincerely wish that America can get past this level of mediocre sycophantic Idiocracy. What a pathetic administration that only wants to hear good news for their bad work.
by ponector | 2025-08-24 07:13:41+00:00
>> Ten years ago you could buy a brand new small car for well under €10k. Sure, it didn't have all the bells and whistles but I have no need for those anyway. Nowadays, you're looking at €30k+ for a new, small car

If you are looking for car without bells and whistles you can buy a new car for €15k. €30k+ is a price tag for much more than basic car.