MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by themafia | 2025-08-17 19:35:02+00:00
> will make cheating a lot harder.

It can never make it impossible.

> These are full of bugs, so that will work for a while, until it doesn’t.

You're forgetting that vendors have to implement this into a pretty complicated system already and that configuration space is constantly changing due to new CPUs and other hardware coming into existence. There will always be holes due to emergent configuration and implementation issues.

> but HVCI will make this a pain once ubiquitously required.

Then there will be new pressure to get at the underlying keys that protect the system. When you consider the size of the keys vs. the size of the reward for liberating them it's obvious how this is going to play out.

> And you have to do all of this while also not being detected for aberrant behavior

For tournaments I don't understand the problem. Every other modern non computer based sport has this issue. They understand they can't be perfect, and any attempts to do so would ruin the nature of the competition itself, so you're better off recording as much data, video and audio from the player as you possibly can. That way if there are any accusations later you have the data to consider them.

This is a race to a corporate controlled future for no particularly good reason.
by nobodyandproud | 2025-08-17 19:35:09+00:00
What’s horrible is that some want to bring the horrible here.

My family came here decades ago to escape oppression and chaos, not bring it here. And we don’t.

Every action I’ve seen from activists—both by Zionists and Palestinian hardliners—have been to sow discord for their own ends.

The children here don’t deserve it. If you want to be decent? Then convince neighbors like SA or the UAE to provide medical aid.
by wongarsu | 2025-08-17 19:35:17+00:00
> Like they kinda seem like an unnecessary middle-man between the archive and archivee

They are the middlemen that collects the data to be archived.

In this example the archivee (goo.gl/Alphabet) is simply shutting the service down and has no interest in archiving it. Archive.org is willing to host the data, but only if somebody brings it to them. Archiveteam writes and organises crawlers to collect the data and send it to Archive.org
by dml2135 | 2025-08-17 19:35:49+00:00
For real, it’s basically predatory. And I’m not talking about BS degrees from crap online schools.

What the Ivy Leagues charge for certain graduate degrees in the social sciences is basically a huge scam. There is absolutely no viable pathway to pay back the $200,000+ cost of a graduate degree in social sciences from a school like Columbia or Harvard, other than public service loan forgiveness, if you actually want to work in the field that the degree ostensibly prepares you for.

I know people that got grad degrees like this and then ended up going to coding bootcamps so they could work in tech to pay them off.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-08-17 19:35:56+00:00
We've got a lot of governance problems. Our system allows college prices to get really high, mostly because 18 year kids can sign up for these guaranteed loans. They don't know what they are signing up for, and colleges just want students in seats. People don't know if their major has good employment prospects, avg salary and how that will affect their loan repayment.

America chose to do this, banks make big money from the loans. Colleges make big money from students.

We have a similar system with medical care. We have regulatory capture of our medical system by the drug sellers, medical groups, etc. We pay way way way more than other countries with worse outcomes. And the reaction of half the country, the republicans, it is we'll fix this by eliminating a lot of coverage for poor people. Democrats try to control costs, cover more poor people, get on a better trajectory and it's demonzied as destroying democracy. Meanwhile, our recently passed BBB bill takes billions out of medicare, ie coverage for poor people, many of whom voted for Trump. This whole thing is disgusting. I'm angry because of the loss of potential here, just like for student debt.

My dad says colleges are corrupt because they "waste money on dei things" and that's why they have high costs (sadly not making this up). I try to explain college is not subsidized like it used to be when you went to college in the 60s. Similar thing with young people not affording housing, not having kids as much.
Show HN: Postel, a personal content and growth coach for X/Twitter
by robinfaraj | 2025-08-17 19:36:04+00:00
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by Arainach | 2025-08-17 19:36:45+00:00
This is malicious nonsense. Anyone who claims there is no difference between the parties at this point is trolling or sufficiently ignorant as to be indistinguishable from a troll.

The Biden Administration got inflation under control, strengthened international relationships and trade, forgave student loan debt, invested in domestic microchip manufacture, prosecuted antitrust, enforced civil rights legislation, added environmental protections, and so much more.

Just because things can't be solved in 4 years when faced with the Senate filibuster and a compromised Supreme Court does not mean that it made no difference. It made an enormous difference, as we have seen from the quick and sharp contrast.

You know what helps people? Not have the federal government trying to criminalize their existence. Having access to clean water and safely inspected food. Predictable economics and pricing instead of tariffs that change day to day.
by pansa2 | 2025-08-17 19:37:00+00:00
> in the US the early eight-bit home machines gave way much earlier to consoles

That’s my understanding as well. In the US the NES was huge in the late 80s, but in the UK home computers were dominant. The NES never sold well in the UK.

The 16-bit consoles did later on, though. So did the 8-bit Sega Master System, but not until the early 90s - it wasn’t a predecessor to the 16-bit machines, but a budget-friendly contemporary.
by kccoder | 2025-08-17 19:37:01+00:00
A sizable subset of the very slight majority which elected him were conned by an expert conman, again, and very quickly realized their mistake, which is reflected in the polls.

People didn’t vote to end democracy, they voted for what a liar promised them, and will be utterly incapable of achieving for them: a lower cost of living.

Poor education, both intellectual and emotional, is the root cause, leading to this monster regaining power. No wonder he loves the poorly educated.
by dfabulich | 2025-08-17 19:37:08+00:00
OP author here.

A number of commenters here have argued that "Why did the chicken cross the road" is a subtle allusion to the chicken's death, but I don't think that's why it's a classic joke.

We traditionally start kids off with antijokes, jokes where the "surprise factor" is that there's nothing surprising at all, where the punchline is completely predictable in hindsight. It's more than a mere "groaner."

Another classic antijoke for kids is, "Why do firefighters wear red suspenders?" "To keep their pants up."

Many antijokes (especially antijokes for kids) are structured like riddles, where the listener is supposed to actively try to figure out the answer. For the "red suspenders" joke, the kid is supposed to try to guess why the suspenders are red. Might it have something to do with the color of firetrucks? Could there be a safety or fire-related reason why the suspenders would be red? At last, the kid gives up and says "I don't know."

Then, the punchline: "to keep their pants up." Of course, that's the whole purpose of suspenders. Inevitable in hindsight, but surprising to a kid who got distracted by the color.

"Why did the chicken cross the road" is like that, but not quite as good IMO. The chicken crossed the road for the same reason anyone crosses a road, to get to the other side of the road, but the listener is supposed to get distracted with the question of why a chicken would cross the road, and give up.

"Why did the sun climb a tree?" is definitely in the family of antijokes. The joke is to mislead the listener to focus on the tree. I think it's certainly made funnier by who's saying it; it feels inevitable in hindsight that young kids would tell jokes that are only halfway coherent. (This is part of why marginally coherent improvised on-the-spot jokes seem funnier than prepared material.)
by nickpsecurity | 2025-08-17 19:37:22+00:00
"What I just described is an iterative optimization method that is similar to gradient descent. Gradient descent simulates a ball rolling down hill to find the lowest point that we can, adjusting step size, and even adding momentum to try and not get stuck in places that are not the true minimum."

That is so much easier to understand than most descriptions. The whole opening was.
by gameman144 | 2025-08-17 19:37:49+00:00
I think one difference is that for most investments, you get some say in what you invest in.

For public schools, you have school districts. For infrastructure you have utility districts. For libraries and parks and amenities, you have municipal government.

For student loans, though, the individual students are the ones making the decisions. The taxpayer is subsidizing students pursuing highly employable careers like engineering or medical science, but is equally subsidizing students pursuing unemployable degrees like cultural studies or literature.

And to be clear, these areas do have value, but it also seems reasonable for taxpayers to call out the fact that these are terrible ROI investments, money-wise.
by vindao | 2025-08-17 19:38:35+00:00
I've implemented and released a system that enhances AI reasoning capability by eliminating cognitive bias from human-AI communication.

Key findings: - 60-80% compression of verbose input while maintaining logical content - Measurable reasoning enhancement in AI responses (0.3+ enhancement score) - Autonomous problem detection and solution generation - Connection axiom prevents harmful optimization targets Technical approach: - Bias detection engine (6 bias types, 40+ patterns) - Logical chain extraction (premise → reasoning → conclusion) - Pattern-based solution recombination - Self-improving autonomous cycles Results: - 66% compression ratio on test inputs - 100% verification test pass rate (9/9 tests) - <1ms processing latency - Zero connection axiom violations Repository: https://github.com/OscarLawrence/UCP Install: pip install ucp-protocol (coming soon) Try it: python3 ucp_system.py This is fully open source with working verification tests. The system demonstrates autonomous problem-solving while maintaining ethical constraints through collaborative optimization. Would love feedback from the community on both the technical approach and implications.
by ivape | 2025-08-17 19:38:39+00:00
You’re a drug abuser, I’m a drug dealer. I can’t sell you drugs without money. I have a friend who can give you a loan if you convince him, then you can pay me.

I know the drug dealer is not issuing the loan, but the dealer accepts and facilitates it. I’ll make it clearer:

I’m a drug dealer that doesn’t care where you get your money. If you rob and kill someone and bring me the money, I will take it.

So how does the dealer facilitate this entire institution?

They take the money, simple as that. If a drug dealer was a legal entity, they’d be sued into oblivion. These schools may as well be selling kilos of coke.

I’ll go one further:

I’m a drug dealer, currently you have no drug addiction. I cannot make money if you don’t have an addiction. Let me convince you need to take this drug.

The dealer creates the market for the loan too. Higher education needs you to take the loan.
by homebrewer | 2025-08-17 19:38:55+00:00
Sure, I've seen enough motherboards with fried USB controllers caused by an ESD while plugging in USB memory sticks.

This is in a climate with fairly cold winters (-40°C and below isn't unheard of), so layers of wool clothing and very low humidity. It's been less of a problem recently because modern motherboards come with ESD protection, but 10-15 years ago shared computers with most USB ports no longer working were the norm.

I always touch ground before working on electronics, and often get zapped. It's a fairly common practice here AFAIK.
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-17 19:39:06+00:00
> pricing strategy, distribution, understanding your sales channels and building relationships with your key customers for example

Pricing can definitely be marketing and is crucial to the company. The rest sounds more like operations and customer relations to me.

Otherwise I agree bullshitting can be interesting and analytical, when looking at a full campaign promoting a life style or solely aimed at imprinting the brand, it's full on the fuzzy side but it is all extremely thought out, and grounded in relatively solid research when it comes to the bigger players.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-17 19:39:06+00:00
> Fast for short intervals regularly, and longer fasts as they feel good to you.

You can effectively do this every day if you just eat once per day. When I was properly obese, this technique resulted in rapid weight loss. Zero exercise was required to see results, which was good at the time because the not eating part was about all I could handle.

Being in a fasted state is as close as you can get to actually reversing aging. Your body engages in a process called autophagy when nutrient-sensing pathways are down-regulated. When you are stuffing your face constantly (i.e., every ~8 hours), there is less opportunity for this mechanism to do its job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy
by alansammarone | 2025-08-17 19:39:19+00:00
True, agreed. But thats besides the point. For the purposes of this thread, if an ad contains text/information thats well defined enough to be verifiable/falsifiable in principle, thats better than 98% of the “ads” I see on Linkedin (or anywhere else for that matter). “We focus on building reliable, trustworthy AI” is not an example of that unless the CEO finds a way to, or makes an effort towards, providing a method for us to verify that.
by saadatq | 2025-08-17 19:39:28+00:00
> Borrow the best core concepts:

Schemas as application code means you get version control, PR review and type‑safe changes. A query builder that feels like SQL and lets you write “real” ClickHouse queries with IDE autocompletion and compile‑time checking. Local development and CI should mirror production so you can preview schema changes before they apply to prod.

>>>

I believe this is what dbt set out to accomplish. They came at the problem from the point of view of a data transformation language that is essentially a pseudo type checked SQL for analytical engines with some additional batteries included (ie macros) but the motivation was similar. I’ve always felt that what has held dbt back from more mainstream adoption by the dev community is because they’ve prioritized data transformation over data access to the application layer - ie business intelligence tools over a web app.

Moosestack looks interesting- will definitely check it out.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-08-17 19:39:28+00:00
It's funny, back in an earlier job, I'd keep a board plugged into a programmer, which in turn was plugged into a USB port on my laptop. Whenever I left the restroom, my hands would be slightly wet, and touching the laptop would give me a small shock. Somehow, this shock would reset the board every time, even through the indirect connection.

I'm surprised that nothing ever actually got fried in that job. (Except for a company laptop that mysteriously bricked itself after I tried rebooting it.)
by Lio | 2025-08-17 19:39:31+00:00
Sophie Wilson discusses it here[1] but I've read it in other places too. You'll have to find them yourself though.

> The second thing they didn’t do was that they weren’t fast, they weren’t easy to use. We were used to programming the 6502 in the machine code and we rather hoped that we could get to a power level such that if you wrote in a higher level language you could achieve the same types of results. So you could write 3D graphics games. You could do whatever you wanted to do without having to go all the way down to assembly language and for these processors that were on sale at the time that wasn’t true. They were too slow. So between the two things we felt we needed a better processor.

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
by dvno42 | 2025-08-17 19:40:37+00:00
Similar request as the parent, my use case is I setup a long prompt/task and like to go for a walk around the block to get my legs moving. Being able to "move the llm along" and make small modifications from my phone would be nice. Personally, I'd never do a long session that way but the chance to move my legs while it does a long task but not get stuck on a simple question in the claude tool would be lovely.
by lisper | 2025-08-17 19:40:56+00:00
Um, no?

Python 3.11.6 (v3.11.6:8b6ee5ba3b, Oct 2 2023, 11:18:21) [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.30)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import lisp Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'lisp'
by rafterydj | 2025-08-17 19:41:04+00:00
I mean that's basically all high level programming languages are, right?

I would argue that as an industry we love high level programming languages, because they allow you to understand what you are writing, much easier than looking at assembly code. Excellent for the vast majority of needs.

But then people go right on and build complicated frameworks and libraries with those languages, and very quickly the complexity (albeit presented much better for reading) comes back into a project.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-08-17 19:41:06+00:00
This is to be seen as metaphorical to give a mental model for the actual data structures on disk so there's some tradeoff to finding the most accurate metaphor for what is happening.

I actually think you are right, list<pair<...>> is a bit of a weird choice that doesn't quite convey the data structures quite well. Map is better.

The most accurate thing would probably be something like map<term_id, map<document_id, pair<document_id, positions_idx>>>, but I corrected it to just a map<document_id, positions_idx> to avoid making things too confusing.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-08-17 19:41:12+00:00
It's a great idea to get rid of, I'm shocked a company is this brave to do this. It's not in the interest of any adult to upload their ID so the government can track their web browsing. I didn't want to expose my kid to porn when they were 5, somehow it wasn't a problem because the avg browser use was guided by me, but also the browser blocked porn. When they were a bit older, a teenager, I also lightly guided their computer use.
by gentooflux | 2025-08-17 19:41:13+00:00
I might get worried once I see AI that's capable of maintaining existing software, maybe.

For now, AI can give you an implementation, but it can't tell you if that implementation is good, if it's secure, if it's fast, or if it will play nice within the ecosystem of an existing project.

We've got plenty of work over the years fixing code that was written by people who shouldn't have been trusted to write it, and we're going to get plenty more work fixing code that was written by AI that shouldn't have been trusted either.
by alansammarone | 2025-08-17 19:41:48+00:00
Id like to believe people have enough agency to do a google search to at least figure out their options, but granted, I might be wrong about that.

Edit: I do agree you should have a google-findable website which lists the objective characteristics of your product. If you call that advertising (I call it a "release", and I reserve the word "ad" for anything that has emotional appeal and caters to the indifferent/uninformed), then I agree.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-17 19:41:56+00:00
As far as I know, that emoji question due to the same reason IDN is allowed in URLs, and they even went as far as their own RFC for it https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6530 (very similar to the 6532 cited repeatedly, but more important(?) because every system in between the sender and recipient needs to know about hops, whereas the recipient is the terminal node's problem

The LHS is, as far as I know, because the LHS of _all_ email addresses is "if it's deliverable", modulo the rest of the call-outs from the rest of the quiz
Show HN: A simple site for Tao Te Ching And I Ching
by kindkang2024 | 2025-08-17 19:42:13+00:00
Hi Hacker News:

A few months ago, I got really into Tao Te Ching and I Ching. The ideas inside stuck with me so much that I felt a real need to build something to share them. So, I made this: https://IChingDAO.Love

The goal is to create a simple, quiet place online where anyone can read and reflect without distraction. No ads, no analytics, no pop-ups—just the original texts and some interpretations.

I just launched it and would love to hear your thoughts.
by DanielHB | 2025-08-17 19:42:42+00:00
It is a shame that so many companies try to scale by just hiring a lot of people, the more people you have in a single project the more overengineering you will end up with.

Some of it is consequence of managing so many individual contributors, I still believe a lot of companies use microservice stuff as a way to scale to more teams than to more scalability/reliability/observability.

Some of it is just people coming up with clever solutions (and leaving after the fact) and a lot from resume-driven development.
by breakfastduck | 2025-08-17 19:44:01+00:00
I really like the simplicity of this.

I have a couple projects I could see this being really useful in, at least as an option instead of pure plain text. I still feel like consumers don't like markdown though, it's frustrating.

One thing I noticed, when doing a list (bullet, numbered etc) it would be great if the list continued on barrage return (enter) - most general users would expect that I think.
by gizmo686 | 2025-08-17 19:44:32+00:00
This is where measured boot and remote attestation come in. You can run whatever software you like; but will only be able to attest to running what you're at actually running (baring an attack on the TPM or some other trusted component earlier in the chain).

The remote game server would then need to decide if it wants to let you connect given your inability to attest to running a trusted configuration.

I've seen this setup work in very controlled conditions. But given how diverse the ecosystem is, someone is going to put out a buggy system, and too many legitimate users will buy it for most games to be willing to blacklist it.
by metadat | 2025-08-17 19:45:18+00:00
Pretty neat, links included below for convenience:

https://vibetunnel.sh/

https://github.com/amantus-ai/vibetunnel

Many of my claude tasks get frequently get stuck over small stuff, or require input from me, so I had Claude whip up something comparable in a few minutes. Now I can keep them moving remotely with ease and not be stuck in front of a desktop monitoring them! It's dreamy.