MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by r1ch | 2025-08-26 16:52:14+00:00
Residential proxy botnets have exploded since LLMs became a thing. The amount of DDoS-level scraping we receive from residential IPs has exploded over the last year, one of our sites that typically sees around 10k unique IPs per day jumped to over 2M before we were able to deploy appropriate mitigations. We originally started blocking the IPs, but then we ended up blocking legitimate users as they seem to specifically use ISPs that have very dynamic IPs (i.e. the customer's IP will change even if their router stays on 24/7).
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-26 16:53:09+00:00
The article says

> Electricity demand in the U.S. held steady for 15 years but, last year, it increased by 3%— marking the fifth-highest rise this century. More jumps are projected for years to come.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...

Total electricity generated has been relatively flat for a couple decades.
by bhouston | 2025-08-26 16:53:13+00:00
> Not really true, Kamala outspent Trump 2:1 and had the media machinery on her side

Only if you exclude outside funding. Conservative SuperPACs were incredibly well funded compared to Liberal ones last election: https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/super_pacs

And they were funded more than the official candidates themselves. Because then these groups can act without limits on their spending.
by lcuff | 2025-08-26 16:53:30+00:00
A philosophy professor I had when I was an undergrad, asked the question "Why did Socrates deliver the Apology in such a way that was clearly unapologetic and designed to annoy the Athenians"? His answer was that he thought Socrates was old and wanted to go out with a bang. I thought his answer had merit, and also that it was an answer I, at 19, would never have come up with. At 70, I go "oh, yeah, baby".
by ChuckMcM | 2025-08-26 16:53:49+00:00
There are really a lot of responses to this which explain it well. The summary though might be phrased as 'alignment'. Specifically, when everyone from the mainboard engineer to the product marketeer for the product have the same goals and priorities (are aligned) the overall system reflects that. In x86 land the processor guys are always trying to 'capture more addressable market' which means features for specific things which perhaps have no value to your 'laptop' but are great for cars embedding the chip. Similarly for display manufacturers who want standards that work for everyone even if they aren't precisely what everyone wants. Need a special 'sleep the pixels that are turned off' mode for your screen ASIC which isn't part of the HDMI spec? Nah we're not gonna do that because who would use it? But Apple can, specific things in the screen that minimize power that the OS can talk to through 'side channels' that aren't part of any standard? Sure they can do that too. And if everyone is aligned on long battery life (for example) that happens. I worked at both Google and Netapp and both of them bought enough hard drives that they could demand and get specific drive firmware that did things to make their systems run better. Their software knew about the specific firmware and exploited it. They 'aligned' their vendors with their system objectives which they could do because of their volume purchases.

In the x86 laptop space the 'big' vendors like Dell, HP, Asus, Lenovo, Etc. Can do that sort of thing. Framework doesn't have the leverage yet. Linux is an issue too because that community isn't aligned either.

Alignment is facilitated by mutual self interest, vendors align because they want your business, etc. The x86 laptop industry has a very wide set of customer requirements, which is also challenging (need lots of different kinds of laptops for different needs).

The experience is especially acute when one's requirements for a piece of equipment have strayed from the 'mass market' needs so the products offered are less and less aligned with your needs. I feel this acutely as laptops move from being a programming tool to being an applications product delivery tool.
by keiferski | 2025-08-26 16:53:56+00:00
There are plenty of examples where the candidate which spent the most lost. Or didn't even get to the election: Bloomberg is a good example.

I'd also bet that the vast, vast majority of voters are already going to vote for their chosen candidate, independently of whether they see $1 billion worth of ads or $5. If anything, "free" advertising like going on a podcast or working at McDonalds as a stunt seems to have more influence.
by Leftium | 2025-08-26 16:53:56+00:00
I would say the "unsubscribe" rule still catches about 80-90% of the SPAM for me. (I thought the US had a law that any promotional email must include a link with "unsubscribe")

Then my "uninteresting sender" rules catch most of the remaining SPAM/uninteresting emails. These are accounts like "noreply" that automated emails often come from.

I had to set up a very special rule for a single company because they successfully dodged my other filters but always started with "Because you're a valued Vanguard client, we thought you'd be interested in this information."

More details: https://blog.leftium.com/2023/11/automatic-inbox-cleanup-wit...
Show HN: An AI "senior engineer" that crafts specs before vibe coding
by yuto_1192 | 2025-08-26 16:54:23+00:00
I built an AI senior engineer that helps you craft specs for coding tools like Cursor so you can get the code you want with fewer retries.

I was getting frustrated with AI coding tools. They’re good at spitting out code, but they also make aggressive assumptions, generate a lot of unnecessary stuff, and often ignore existing functions. I kept ending up spending more time debugging than building.

So I thought: what if I had a tool that forced me to plan first? One that could use the context of my codebase and project docs, push back when I was vague, and help me write a clear spec before I let the AI start coding.

I’ve been dogfooding it for a week. It’s already made me less frustrated with AI-generated code because it points out things I should consider and produces specs that tell me exactly which file or method needs to change.

Repo: https://github.com/suzuking1192/samurai-agent

It’s still very early, but I’d love feedback, and also tips on how you approach “vibe coding” in a better way.
by opcode84 | 2025-08-26 16:54:51+00:00
For narrow-precision formats to be practical in large-scale pretraining, they must ensure both model accuracy and stable convergence. To assess the viability of 4-bit precision in large-scale model training, experiments were conducted with FP8 and NVFP4 on a 12-billion parameter model based on a combined Mamba-Transformer architecture (12B Hybrid Mamba-Transformer model)—similar to NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2. This model was trained on a massive dataset of 10 trillion tokens using a phased data-blending approach, switching to a different dataset mix in the second phase of training at 70%, and in the third phase of training at 90% during pretraining.

A version of the 12B Hybrid Mamba-Transformer model was initially trained with 8-bit precision—FP8, which has been shown in previous studies to closely match 16-bit precision, and hence served as our baseline for comparison. We then successfully trained this same 12B model from scratch using NVFP4, demonstrating that this new low-precision format can support full pretraining at trillion-token scale. The NVFP4 run exhibited stable convergence without the training instabilities or divergence issues that typically plague ultra-low precision training.

Figure 3 below shows that NVFP4’s validation loss curve closely matches the loss curves from the higher-precision baseline (i.e., FP8) throughout the entire duration of training. The quantization techniques outlined above ensure that even with aggressive bit-width reduction, the 4-bit pretraining dynamics closely resemble those of higher-precision runs.
by moduspol | 2025-08-26 16:54:56+00:00
Well I mean there's no inherent requirement that PKI work the way it does. We've mostly just accepted it because it's good enough.

Even if your server admins fully understand TLS, there are still issues like clock skew on clients breaking things, old cipher suites needing to be reviewed / sunset, users clicking past certificate warnings despite training, and the list of (sometimes questionable) globally trusted CAs that the security of the Internet depends upon.

Of course they should do their job properly, but I'm skeptical that we (as software developers) can't come up with something that can more reliably work well.
by simpaticoder | 2025-08-26 16:55:03+00:00
>This is awesome though

No, it's not awesome. Upgrading ram and disk or replacing a motherboard, screen or battery is great. Repairing a badly designed motherboard with a soldering iron is not great. In fact, it's bad. I think there's a good argument that it violates (warranty) law. If a car company sells to you based on "right to repair" and then it turns out there was a design defect in the engine, is it "awesome" if they tell you you need to pull the engine and rebuild it?

Glad your battery life is good. I notice you didn't mention it losing power when suspended. Curious.
by bccdee | 2025-08-26 16:55:15+00:00
FYI, newer versions of Go do support the following

type HorsePlay interface { Neigh() } type SomeClass[T HorsePlay] struct { players []T } func (sc SomeClass[T]) NeighAll() { for _, p := range sc.players { p.Neigh() } } type Horse struct{} func (h Horse) Neigh() { fmt.Println("neigh!") } func main() { sc := SomeClass[Horse]{players: []Horse{{}, {}, {}}} sc.NeighAll() }
Show HN: Unlingo – open-source platform for localization
by twendykirn | 2025-08-26 16:55:32+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Igor and I’m building Unlingo, an open-sourced platform designed to make internationalization less painful.

Features:

- It's super fast to set up. You can genuinely go from zero to a multilingual app in about 3 minutes. - AI assistance. Generate translations on the fly when you don't have a human translator ready. - Version Control. Safely test new copy and features in an isolated branch without affecting production. - Screenshots. You can attach screenshots directly to translation keys so translators know exactly what they're working on. - Insta Sync for keys. Edit your primary language, and the keys are instantly created for all other languages, ready to be translated.

Demo here: https://youtu.be/0tjNs2iU3VA?si=TIll8BR06wpU9CpP

I'd be absolutely thrilled if you could check it out or give the repo a star.

Let me know what you think!
by vunderba | 2025-08-26 16:55:55+00:00
Midjourney hasn't been SOTA for over a year. Even the latest release of version 7 scores extremely low on prompt adherence only managing to get 2 out of 12 prompts correct. Even Flux Dev running locally consistently out performs it.

Here's a comparison of Flux Dev, MJ, Imagen, and Flash 2.5.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/?models=FLUX_1D%2CMIDJOURNE...

That being said, if image fidelity is absolutely paramount and/or your prompts are relatively simple - Midjourney can still be fun to experiment with particularly if you crank up the weirdness / chaos parameters.
by zkagin | 2025-08-26 16:55:59+00:00
You're right that salaries have historically been lower in biotech (and many other "passion" industries, like gaming and education) than traditional tech, and that is perhaps exacerbated by the recent salary arms race in AI as well. That said, I've found that the biotech companies who view software/AI as a core competency pay pretty competitively with non-FAANG tech companies. If you're looking for a role, I'd be happy to share some companies actively hiring and that pay reasonably well (contact in my profile).
by nielsbot | 2025-08-26 16:56:01+00:00
I think (hope) there's a limit. And if things get bad enough (sadly) then people will vote for change and their own interests over those of the ownership class. Maybe that's what happened here. But I will also point out that Elon Musk is uniquely detestable. But in most elections the candidate with the most money wins. [1]

Similarly Mamdani in NYC is facing some truly awful candidates.

Someone also pointed out to me that it's not so much the money on a politician's side that sways them, but the threat of PACs et al spending a ton of money to unseat them if they don't "play ball". [2]

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/winning-vs-sp...
by c-hendricks | 2025-08-26 16:56:24+00:00
Although it gets buggier with every release, macOS has a three-finger-drag operation, and there's a grace period when you lift your fingers if you need to adjust your position over the trackpad. It also lets you just fling one finger.

There is this for Linux but I've never tried it:

https://github.com/marsqing/libinput-three-finger-drag
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-08-26 16:56:33+00:00
If all this sounds unsustainable, it's because it is.

We're essentially legitimizing a pyramid scheme here. Economics and policy are all centered around extraction and share holder value. I've never seen any attention paid to making an industry stable or resilient.

Nearly every issue we face day-to-day is either due to companies holding massive control over our society, or companies degrading services we rely on because profit is no longer increasing.

We're not allowed a stable, peaceful life in a stable climate because someone else needs to get one over on someone else.

We could provide for everyone but we have decided making immaterial numbers go up is #1 priority.

When I ask why can't we have companies that exist in a steady state, the answer is another company will take advantage if the first company doesn't first. Why do we live like this? Is this system truly responsible for our technology and comfort? or is the comfort a side-product that can be produced by a number of other systems?

We're being played for fools. We all know it, but we can't imagine an alternative because they've got us all by the balls controlling our health care and housing.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-26 16:56:34+00:00
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf

The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866621 - August 2025 (400 comments)

(slide 39, net migration to Earth is zero)
by catigula | 2025-08-26 16:56:43+00:00
>But these fears are frequently based on oversimplified or misapplied interpretations of economic models, and appear to be driven more by political agendas rather than evidence

A razor for people who think like this:

Do you think Japan and Japanese people would have a higher or lower quality of life if they had accepted unlimited sub-Saharan Africa immigration?

This should separate serious people from the not so serious people pretty rapidly.
by mortenjorck | 2025-08-26 16:57:02+00:00
The output consistency is interesting. I just went through half a dozen generations of my standard image model challenge, (to date I have yet to see a model that can render piano keyboard octaves correctly, and Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is no different in that regard), and as best I can tell, there are no changes at all between successive attempts: https://g.co/gemini/share/a0e1e264b5e9

This is in stark contrast to ChatGPT, where an edit prompt typically yields both requested and unrequested changes to the image; here it seems to be neither.
by bobbiechen | 2025-08-26 16:57:15+00:00
"Please drink verification can."

Yes, thanks for bringing this up. We've made product decisions to improve bot detection that also move away from adtech-style tracking - happy to chat about the specifics privately, bchen at stytch dot com.

Related, I have a fairly unusual setup for my personal laptop and that makes many anti-bot products Very Unhappy (same for many of my teammates). It's easy to detect users who dare to run something other than stock Chrome/Safari, but it's disappointing that many services penalize you for it. We designed Intelligent Rate Limiting so that real users on unusual setups aren't blocked: https://stytch.com/docs/fraud/guides/device-fingerprinting/d...
by benoau | 2025-08-26 16:57:17+00:00
The allegations in the tweet don't make any sense, Substack doesn't charge the 30% fee on IAP and your subscriptions being on iPhone doesn't lock you into Substack's ecosystem.

It is very strange though, because two months ago they were calling the "Epic injunction" that forced Apple to allow apps to use their own payment services a "big win for independent media". Now, for exactly the same service as before, everyone gets 30% less income or has to charge consumers ~45% more to cover the IAP fees and since it's all centralized under Substack's account the 15%-rate for unpopular stuff won't apply even though the individual authors may be unpopular.

That injunction is being appealed but is likely to remain in effect until next year at the earliest, so there's no particular pressure from that front to prefer the fee-heavy IAP over their own payments.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/04/substack-ceo-says-app-store-c...
by Aurornis | 2025-08-26 16:57:20+00:00
> This is the great part about science: whether or not you agree with the authors' conclusions, they just asked the question "is our preconceived 'obviously correct' conclusion actually correct". Then, they dove in to the data and tried to prove or disprove the hypothesis

Unfortunately it also shows the difficult part of modern scientific publishing: The authors try to downplay the existence of problems (labor shortages) by arguing that it's really a problem of immigration policies not allowing enough new labor in.

That's a tacit admission that labor shortages are a problem. Proposing a solution to the labor shortage doesn't mean that it's not a problem.

You have to read scientific papers carefully. It's increasingly common to find editorialization or wishful thinking mixed into the logic of papers. More so in some fields than others.
by wonder_er | 2025-08-26 16:57:41+00:00
I write for me, or the me of a few years ago.

It sounds like you think I use more self-citation than you would expect, for someone writing only for themselves.

Are you saying I'm wrong about police originating as deputized slave patrollers?

I suppose I'd refine my statement from "political authority is not real" to "political authority _is not legitimate_."

That someone holding the fantasy of political authority is willing to murder someone else because of that fantasy doesn't make political authority legitimate, though it's obviously 'real' from the POV of the oppressor/victim.

My first claim was that 'jaywalking' is a propagandist term that actively harms every subsequent part of the conversation. It's a slur ('jay'), and supports a narrative supporting, basically, vehicular homicide.
by john01dav | 2025-08-26 16:57:41+00:00
> or some "GNU/Linux" touch version that has a serious ecosystem

How could this realistically happen? Developers of popular apps adore the control and illegitimate de-facto ownership that client side "trust" gives them, so they'll refuse to make apps for that platform. They'll also use said client side "trust" to block them. Thus, it can't reach critical mass to force adoption by these developers.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-08-26 16:57:46+00:00
In that light, trump is no conservative at all and still, the GOP backs him. So are the republicans no conservatives either?

I bet a lot of trumps base considers themselfs conservative but look away from basically every inner political move trump made.

This is what confuses me about the "conservative core" your are speaking of. Where is it?
by tracker1 | 2025-08-26 16:57:49+00:00
As mentioned, mostly Deno+TS if I need more than can easily be done in (git/msys)bash, not fond of Powershell, though I've used it where necessary/available.

I don't do a lot of desktop gui apps, I've thought about Tauri wrapped web-based apps, mostly in that the tooling seems pretty nice, there's also Leptos and a few other options that can work with/similarly. If going with C# I'm more inclined to use Uno, Avalonia, Etp Fprms or maybe embedding Blazor. MAUI is kind of DoA for me, only because of a lack of Linux target. I know it's only 5-6% of desktop market, but IMO, it's still worth having given a developer audience.

I know web-based desktop apps are a bit higher overhead than native, but they can operate relatively well with good skinning (CSS) and accessibility features that tend to work better, or at least more consistently than a lot of cross-platform UI tooling. I find MUI + React to be a pretty good mix for UI, and have played with async state mgt similar to Redux in managed (backend) code with it a bit, and it's worked pretty smoothly in my experiments. You have to think a bit more about state vs. events, but it's been a rock solid experience.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-08-26 16:57:49+00:00
It's super lightweight and superficial even in full. It's just not a large paper and takes a very superficial view of a lot of high level statistics. You can read through it in full in a few minutes and likely come to the same thought.

>This metric ignores the youth cohort

That's very very significant. They are not looking at population pyramids holistically at all. They are just focusing on part of the pyramid. Are there lots of people >65 compared to those between 16 and 65?

Now here's something to consider. If a population has very few children but many elderly they may actually have a great ratio of working/not-working. This study won't see this at all. Merely, look lots of elderly and they're doing great!!

I suspect the reality may well be that the most successful economies have offset the extra costs of more elderly with far far fewer children. So the elderly are indeed a burden as you'd expect but we're offsetting it with fewer children.

I'd also point out that I'm not convinced the arbitrary cutoff of >65 is correct since western governments are all pushing for retirement ages well above that. As in the worst of the bubble in the population pyramids is yet to fully hit, many in that bubble are still working and the effects of below population sustainment birth rates is also yet to fully hit (we don't yet fully have the narrowest parts of the population pyramids sustaining the widest parts). When it does all hit though it could well be devastating and this really superficial study doesn't reassure me at all.
by snapetom | 2025-08-26 16:58:17+00:00
This is going to be very hard to enforce on a Federal level, let alone pass.

Companies are going to play shell games with the titles, responsibilities, and org structure just enough. There might also be 1st Amendment issues, too. The required reporting numbers will be hollow. The end result will be that it will be on the books, but the government won't have any enforceable actions for years.

And when you do see action, it will drag on for years. The feds go after big fish like Microsoft, which will drag it out. Meanwhile, thousands of your Series B-sized companies that are the biggest culprits, will fly under the radar.

I think you're going to see a few states do pass laws like this. The enforcement question will still be there, but it will be on a smaller scale. Results will be varied. Meanwhile, we need to keep naming and shaming companies and recruiters who do this.

Great idea in theory, tough in practice.