MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imoverclocked | 2025-08-25 20:49:11+00:00
I’ve been having a heck of a time figuring out where some malicious traffic is coming from. Nobody has been able to give me a straight answer when I give them the ip: 127.1.5.12 Maybe you can help trace-a-route to them? I’d just love to know whois behind that IP. If nothing else, I could let them know to be standards compliant and implement rfc 3514.
by pinkahd | 2025-08-25 20:49:29+00:00
Today, I was searching for a nice and native SQLite browser for Mac. I went with "DB Browser" because that's what came up in my searches for "sqlite browser mac". I tried GitHub and went a bit deep in Google, but I didn't find this.

I'm glad I see this now. I guess it's time to switch.

Still can't believe this was created 15 years ago...
by reckoner99 | 2025-08-25 20:49:38+00:00
Scientists should in general tread carefully on "hot" political questions or they risk being cast as political actors rather than guardians of evidence. Science is strongest when it stands apart from activism; once researchers are seen as tailoring their findings to politics, trust erodes rapidly. We saw this during COVID-19, when some justified different distancing rules for the George Floyd protests—an inconsistency that did lasting damage to credibility. Few things are more harmful than the perception that evidence shifts with ideology. If science becomes just another partisan tool, its authority collapses. The challenge now is defending truth without becoming political combatants.
by Someone | 2025-08-25 20:49:47+00:00
> that has to mean they are good enough for all practical purposes, right?

For practical purposes, they’re bad. Denominators tend to explode when you do a few operations (for example 11/123 + 3/17 = 556/2091), and it’s not easy to spot whether you can simplify results. 12/123 + 3/17 = 191/697, for example.

You can counteract things by ‘rounding’ to fractions with denominators below a given limit (say 1000) but then, you likely are better of with reckoning with a fixed denominator that you then do not have to store with each number, allowing you to increase the maximal denominator.

For example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farey_sequence), there are 965 rational fractions in [0,1] with denominator at most 10 (https://oeis.org/A005728/list), so storing one requires just under 10 bits. If you use the fractions n/964 for 0 ≤ n ≤ 964 as your representable numbers, arithmetic becomes easier.
by j45 | 2025-08-25 20:49:54+00:00
I tend to want to keep storage (NAS) separate from compute and databases, in the form of I never want to touch or think about this so I can spend my time on other things.

Having a couple of pre-built nas' from QNAP or Synology can go a long way to getting one's feet wet to learn what they offer that we sometimes learn the hard way about.
by Sesse__ | 2025-08-25 20:50:13+00:00
> MapReduce is a great example of that- Google certainly didn't invent the concepts of Map or Reduce, or even the idea of using those for doing high throughput computing (and the shuffle phase of MapReduce is more "interesting" from a high performance computing perspective than mapping or reducing anyway).

The “Map” in MapReduce does not originally stand for the map operation, it comes from the concept of “a map” (or, I guess, a multimap). MapReduce descends from “the ripper”, an older system that mostly did per-element processing, but wasn't very robust or flexible. I believe the map operation was called “Filter()” at the time, and reduce also was called something else. Eventually things were cleaned up and renamed into Map() and Reduce() (and much more complexity was added, such as combiners), in a sort of backnaming.

It may be tangential, but it's not like the MapReduce authors started with “aha, we can use functional programming here”; it's more like the concept fell out. The fundamental contribution of MapReduce is not to invent lambda calculus, but to show that with enough violence (and you should know there was a lot of violence in there!), you can actually make a robust distributed system that appears simple to the users.
by Agingcoder | 2025-08-25 20:50:22+00:00
I want one for gaming , that is silent, provides high end graphics, and takes little space ( Mac mini or studio size ideally ). I’m essentially willing to pay extra for a specced up gaming console.

I still haven’t been able to find something that fits the bill - the hardest part to get information on is noise, since most people don’t seem to care about it or just play with headphones. I understand that such a product is hard to build, with a direct tension between power, space and noise.

What has never been clear to me is whether such a market even exists and I’d tend to say no, even if the market seems to be changing rapidly with amd apus ( we’re far from a 5080 , but it seems to be a step in the right direction ).
by iamben | 2025-08-25 20:50:32+00:00
I fully get this, but I think the reality is more complicated.

Prior to Spotify, if you didn't have money you were pirating. Whilst there was something magical about knowing every drumfill on an album as a 15 year old because you could only afford to buy one or two a month, Spotify absolutely opened up the world. As a listener you could discover without cost or piracy. Being a musician (that made money) was never easy, but now it could be done without a label and with some hustle.

Aside from a few 'Tidal only' exclusives, the music industry has mostly avoided the fractured model the TV and Film industry suffers from. Pretty much every record ends up on pretty much every service (as opposed to me needing to subscribe to Netflix, Prime and Disney).

It pains me to think we'll end up (back) in a world where you need 3 subscriptions (or worse) piracy. And sure, people could go back to buying every record, but they won't.

Anyway. Complicated.

And FWIW, I agree, Spotify does itself zero favours and could do soooo much better for artists.
by AstroBen | 2025-08-25 20:50:36+00:00
Every social media platform has engineered their product to be as addictive, time-sucking and manipulative as they can make it. I'm fully expecting AI to be treated the same, except much more potent

I suppose the only hope here is that its economic value comes mainly from its productive output (summarization, code, writing, text transformation whathaveyou)
by mysteria | 2025-08-25 20:51:02+00:00
The article didn't say much about the account approval process, but from the looks of it Google will be able to arbitrarily accept and revoke applications as they see fit. So much for an open platform, bring forth the gatekeeping!

Personally I would be fine with unsigned apps requiring the user to click through a notice before install, or having a setting to toggle to enable unsigned apps. Windows does something similar to this where unsigned binaries get a pop up warning but signed ones are executed immediately.
by tacker2000 | 2025-08-25 20:51:31+00:00
The Elkjs project uses this and im not really sure i like it. [1]

Its a bit hard to find stuff. I was looking to find the structure of the main configuration json object and couldnt find it in the deepwiki.

I found it on the “non ai created” doc page of the main Elk project[2] (Elkjs is a JS implementation of Elk)

But yes this is of course just one data point.

[1]https://deepwiki.com/kieler/elkjs/5-usage-guide

[2]https://eclipse.dev/elk/documentation/tooldevelopers/graphda...
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-08-25 20:51:49+00:00
> Tariffs are meant to onshore production and raise wages.

Both of which would still lead to higher prices on the consumer.

> One of the only things Trump is doing unbelievably well on is trade. Tariffs haven't been damaging at all.

I don't know whether to laugh at the absurdity of this statement or to cry because someone could actually say it with a straight face.
by b112 | 2025-08-25 20:51:56+00:00
Tangential, but a decade ago I lost my original Amazon account, because I bought bandages. Yes bandages.

I'd had it for 5 years, no excess returns, no issues. I click add and go to checkout... banned.

Some reasons about religious icons flashed on my screen. It was red cross bandages ffs!

And why ban me, and not the seller?!?

Calls, emails resulted in confused but unhelpful people.
by gpm | 2025-08-25 20:52:20+00:00
Google is doing everything in their power to make me move to an iphone... between shit like this, effectively bricking some old models of pixels with un-rollbackable patches that destroy batteries, closing down the android development process, making absurd testing requirements to publish apps, etc.

Google doesn't make better phones, they were just less hostile to the consumer. That seems to be going away :(
by netsharc | 2025-08-25 20:52:43+00:00
Theme Hospital (a funny 90's game) had a cool way to do notifications, watch on the bottom left as icons pop up: https://youtu.be/26O35BOTVSI?t=693

Some disappear if left unclicked, I guess if the problem is no longer relevant (e.g. a patient bored of waiting leaves), and they can be attended to in any order.
by Veedrac | 2025-08-25 20:53:03+00:00
I meant ‘bare minimum’ in the sense of what's needed for the system to be profitable, not in the sense of ignoring costs.

The problem with using this approach for daily cycled loads is that it relies on passive heat transfer to distribute heat through substantial regions of dirt. This simply doesn't work for daily storage.

You can overbuild, but then your energy losses are going to be immense, because you never saturate or drain the bulk of the material, and are just losing energy to it.

You could build faster cycling systems instead, and active systems especially can cycle reasonably fast, but then your dominant costs no longer reduce down to a pile of dirt with a few rods stuck into it.
by robotnikman | 2025-08-25 20:53:04+00:00
I basically did the same thing for my recent SFF PC build. I underclocked the max clock speed of the CPU in the BIOS and set the max wattage to 65. I then set the power limit of the GPU to 70. The fans barely run even when gaming and it stays nice and cool, not affecting the room temperature during the summor.
by russellbeattie | 2025-08-25 20:53:27+00:00
That was really interesting! All that proprietary hardware is mind blowing. The cost of those mainframes must be mind boggling, let alone the maintenance costs. It answers the question, "What does IBM do nowadays?"

But one thing I never knew about before was covered in just a few seconds in the video: 40+ layer motherboard PCBs. Holy cow, it was like a half inch thick! It makes sense now that I think about it considering how many components are slotted into it, but for some reason it never dawned on me that you could have a PCB that was so huge vertically.
by Havoc | 2025-08-25 20:53:58+00:00
Been running a variety of them (+SBCs) for years, but recently decided it's time for a full sized build too. For stuff like setting up virtualized k8s cluster via terraform my oldish minipc style setup was struggling noticeably with deploying lots of VMs in parallel.

So either buy one of these new very fancy minipc (ms-01 etc) or DIY. End up landing on 2nd hand AM4 hardware but with 2nd hand enterprise SSDs and optanes. And that's been perfect. Competent at virtualization (5700X) and the hybrid enterprise ssd/optane array will take endless punishment.

That said not abandoning the minipcs & SBCs. 3 raspberries for HA k8s controlplane, low power minipc to keep home assistant and adguard live 24/7 etc.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-25 20:54:15+00:00
Drew Devault is a left wing nutjob. He's done nothing but cause drama and attack people for years now.

Vaxry is an immature ~20 year old Polish dude. That means a bit of angst, Eastern European humour, more conservative opinions than most US tech workers.

Yeah, Vaxry is considered abrasive to some of the ultra-privileged leftwing US tech sphere. Most people don't care, just as people don't care about DD's views when using Sway, Miguel de Icaza's views when using Gnome, etc...
by swiftcoder | 2025-08-25 20:54:22+00:00
Ok, yeah, this feels like a reasonable use case for AI. I generated a DeepWiki from one of my repos, and it's pretty informative. It goes into way too much depth on some trivial details, and glosses over more important stuff in places, but overall it seems to have produced a pretty detailed summary of what the package does, and why it does many things the way that it does.
by teddyh | 2025-08-25 20:54:35+00:00
Well. What I wrote was (from what I heard) the original reason for the copyright assignment requirement. However, since a few years ago, the FSF does not require GNU projects to have copyright assignment anymore. The FSF leaves the choice up to the individual project maintainers, which would, one assumes, drop the requirement if it affected developers and contributions for their project. Some have indeed dropped it, some have not.
by martin-t | 2025-08-25 20:54:39+00:00
https://en.lmgtfy2.com/query/?q=ONE+HUNDRED+EXAMPLES+OF+GPT-...

You didn't have to be rudely dismissive and lie, you chose to.

I would happily respond politely to a polite request.

Please be mindful of your behavior next time.

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Link for everyone else: https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/Lawsuit-Document-dk...
by spixy | 2025-08-25 20:54:59+00:00
The problem is with parameters (or headers) you are still stuck with same API schema (you cannot rename it, etc).

But thanks to versions, in my job we renamed old APIs like /v1/oauthApple and /v1/oauthGoogle to /v2/login/oauth/apple and /v2/login/oauth/google, looks so much better.
by Ms-J | 2025-08-25 20:54:59+00:00
This is the worst thing to happen to technology in recent times since there is only two major phone OS's.

It isn't possible to ban encryption, so the governments have to chip away at security and privacy using these techniques.

From: https://developer.android.com/developer-verification

"You may also need to upload official government ID."

This won't end well for Google or the governments involved when the people get so angry that they are forced to roll this back. Switch to an alternative phone OS.
by jonathaneunice | 2025-08-25 20:55:14+00:00
Not quite. Google brilliantly rebranded the work of John McCarthy, C.A.R. Hoare, Guy Steele, _et al_ from 1960 ff. e.g. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/367177.367199

Dean, Ghemawat, and Google at large deserve credit not for inventing map and reduce—those were already canonical in programming languages and parallel algorithm theory—but for reframing them in the early 2000s against the reality of extraordinarily large, scale-out distributed networks.

Earlier takes on these primitives had been about generalizing symbolic computation or squeezing algorithms into environments of extreme resource scarcity. The 2004 MapReduce paper was also about scarcity—but scarcity redefined, at the scale of global workloads and thousands of commodity machines. That reframing was the true innovation.
by jameskilton | 2025-08-25 20:55:17+00:00
What?

The U in "UFO" stands for "unidentified". It has nothing to do with aliens. Were there intelligent enough species out there to have solved space flight and found us and visited us, we would know.

Having just (finally) read "The Three Body Problem" though, I think I agree with that premise that even just knowing that other species exist would probably be a net negative to current human society.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-08-25 20:55:19+00:00
In most jurisdictions, generosity is considered a masculine trait. Guess some things will have to be revised..

Very tangentially:

I found the essay where Graeber characterizes (even prima facie liberal) institutions as right-wing, in either your sense or mine:

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/value-as-the-importance-of...

>Who controls the medium through which, and the institutions through which, our actions become meaningful to ourselves, by the very act of being publicly recognized in some kind of public arena? It seems to me that while if one is trying to understand the strategies by which people can move back and forth between “fields”, and especially, by which some are excluded from them, Bourdieu’s models are pretty much indispensable, they do little to tell us why anyone wishes to enter certain fields to begin with.
by pojzon | 2025-08-25 20:55:49+00:00
In Poland I bought new Toyota Corolla fpr 127k pln after promotions (that was 2021).

Three years later I sold the car for 142k.

Adjusting car value, a 3years decrease, it should cost around 70k. But it doubled in price.

So at least here inflation on new / few years used cars is around 100%.

Its a terrible moment to buy used cars. You are way better off buyin a new car for 150-200k. Coz promos you get will drop its price by almost 30%.
by Spivak | 2025-08-25 20:56:01+00:00
What could they do? They have a pot of all the money they make, 70% gets paid out to artists, 30% goes to Spotify. Same as Tidal, more than Apple Music. Any plan will involve shuffling around the same pot of money and the last time they tried to "concentrate" the money by dropping songs with less than 1000 plays everyone hated it.

Zooming out to all the services, how the royalty model currently works out is that's all the money there is in streaming. And divided up it's pennies. All that can be reasonably done is shift how we allocate it. And large rightsholders who have the most leverage love the current system where the allocation is by total plays globally across the service.
by JoshPurtell | 2025-08-25 20:56:12+00:00
Something I'd consider a game-changer would be making it really easy to kick off multiple claude instances to tackle a large researched task and then to view the results and collect them into a final research document.

IME no matter how well I prompt, a single claude/codex will never get a successful implementation of a significant feature single-shot. However, what does work is having 5 Claudes try it, reading the code and cherry picking the diff segments I like into one franken-spec I give to a final claude instance with essentially just "please implement something like this"

It's super manual nd annoying with git work-trees for me, but sounds like your setup could make it slick
by Retr0id | 2025-08-25 20:56:52+00:00
These days I don't really want a smartphone at all, but begrudgingly use one for things like mobile banking, receiving SMS tokens, etc.

If someone made a screenless powerbank-shaped Android device, I might be interested. The device would double as a 5g wifi modem, and to access the UI you'd remote in over VNC from a laptop, or unrestricted mobile device like a PinePhone.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-25 20:56:53+00:00
We have very little data on the actual "volume of individuals falling into AI-induced psychosis" - and how that compares to pre-AI psychosis rate. It'll be a while until we do.

It might be an actual order-of-magnitude increase from the background rates. It might be basically the same headcount, but with psychosis expressed in a new notable way. I.e. that guy who would be planning to build a perpetual motion machine to disprove quantum physics is now doing the same, but with an AI chatbot at his side - helping him put his ramblings into a marginally more readable form.
by sshine | 2025-08-25 20:56:58+00:00
Great tutorial.

I never accepted the idea of committing encrypted secrets to a public git repository.

So when you publish your Nix infrastructure repositories (which there are many good reasons to do), having actual secrets in them this way seems insufficient.

Alternatively, one can put their secrets in a separate flake input that is unaccessible from the public. Since I cannot have a flake input that is conditional and have nixosModules that are enabled based on whether that conditional input is available, I have to publish configuration that can only be evaluated by me, or come up with some other way to dynamically use sops-nix.

While sops-nix is the most ergonomic secrets management I've found in Nix, I'm tempted to simply go with HashiCorp Vault and sacrifice the idea of self-containedness so that my secrets can live under management outside of my Nix config, and so that programs and services that depend on secrets will retrieve them at runtime.
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by like_any_other | 2025-08-25 20:58:01+00:00
> We saw this during COVID-19, when some justified different distancing rules for the George Floyd protests

Source:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-ed...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2020/06/19/risking-t...

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
by Scoundreller | 2025-08-25 20:58:14+00:00
Temu should already be paying the tariffs on China-origin goods. De minims for China origin stuff ended May 2nd.

Unless they’re sending it all via China Post and US CBP is letting it pass through anyway. Anecdotally, most of their stuff in major cities is arriving by Gig couriers or from US warehouses (ie: not postal imports) = tariffs applied.

Where Temu and big retailers win the game is that they can structure it to exclude last-mile delivery/logistic cost in their tariff calculations, and that’s a lot of the price.
by Zak | 2025-08-25 20:58:21+00:00
It is also common for people to install things on Windows without thinking critically. It is perhaps less common on Mac OS, but I've seen someone get malware that way.

My position is that this is not the OS vendor's responsibility to prevent. A warning is fine. A scan for known malware by default is fine. Beyond that, it's my device and it's my choice to get software from wherever I damn well please even if it might be a bad idea.
by m463 | 2025-08-25 20:59:06+00:00
I always bought a really large monitor for work with my own cash. When most dev's had 19" or 20" I got a 30" for $1500.

best money ever spent. lasted years and years.

for cpus - I wonder how the economics work out when you get into say 32 or 64 core threadrippers? I think it still might be worth it.