MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by asoneth | 2025-08-27 01:39:21+00:00
To be clear, I wasn't arguing that a user is less likely to run into issues on Windows (or Mac). The bigger issue is that when they invariably run into an issue it's significantly easier to get the help they need to return their computer to a working state. Between their computer manufacturer, their university/company IT department, friends, relatives, blogs, books, senior citizen tech-support groups, etc there are simply more resources available, and especially more resources that are tailored to a less technical audience.
by extraisland | 2025-08-27 01:39:31+00:00
It depends what you are looking for. If you care about overall price you don't buy brand new.

I want something that can run an Linux, IDE and some tooling that I can stick in my bag and not care too much about it so I buy refurbs. Often there isn't much wrong with them other than minor cosmetic damage.

I always go for Dell Business or Lenovo Thinkpads. There are plenty of spare parts available online. They typically work well with Linux & BSDs. I can get a laptop that was a flag ship a few years ago for like 1/3rd the price and often it is more than good enough.
by mengyuxuan | 2025-08-27 01:39:52+00:00
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by atleastoptimal | 2025-08-27 01:40:25+00:00
For every erudite AI-skeptic who decries the overuse of AI and the muddy, oversaturated style AI image and upscaling models propagate, there are 10 reliable ad-watching product-purchasing users who love that aesthetic and their consumer behavior will drive towards that aesthetic being used more (for good reason, that look was fine tuned to match their preferences).
by rolph | 2025-08-27 01:41:14+00:00
The existence of radio waves was first proven by German physicist Heinrich Hertz on 11 November 1886.

The first commercial radio broadcast was transmitted on 2 November 1920

that means intentional radio signal was underway about 100 years ago.

so suppose that signal despite the "low" power is heard by someone that listens very closely. they tease it out of the noise, and right away know what it is, and try to send back.

at most, they are about 50 radio-years away, if thier signal reaches us now.

beyond that, no signal from earth has propagated that far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_star_systems_within_45...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GJ_3929

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WISE_1534%E2%88%921043
by whatthesmack | 2025-08-27 01:41:35+00:00
This predictable response to people doing what they think is best is so incredibly demeaning, infantilizing, and small-minded. Just because _you_ think somebody is voting against their own interest does not mean they are actually voting against their own interest.

The most virtuous of us do not vote their own interest first, but rather the interest of justice and morality. The assumption that people should or will vote their own interest first & always is what the kids these days seem to call "mid" and "basic".
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-08-27 01:42:38+00:00
As a small business owner, I spend a lot of my time doing things by the book.

I get confused by other small business owners who complain about this because it’s all stuff you’d need to do anyway.

I use a double entry accounting system in an ERP. This isn’t terribly complicated. I took courses on corporate accounting in college and I took the ERP training. Even if I didn’t have all of that, I’d still have to actually do the accounting in a double entry system because of the legal jurisdiction and corporate structure.

I think that this is a byproduct of the economy being filled with small businesses owned by people who aren’t competent at operating their business as a business, which isn’t the same thing as being successful at making money.
by antzed | 2025-08-27 01:42:49+00:00
I feel like we need to be able to authenticated user prompts during a chat/work session. One of the things that I've worked on in the past involved CheriBSD, which have the mechanisms of deriving access for users from a single root pointer called capability. I wonder if a similar logic can be applied to user prompts during an AI agent work session: the agent only accept prompt with a certain key that is given in the first ever prompt during the start of the session, or keys after that which can proofed to be "derived"(I don't know how that would work) from the original key. This way, the risk of prompt inject should be reduced significantly.
by gibolt | 2025-08-27 01:44:04+00:00
Not at odds at all. It doesn't matter how fast you can make them if each one costs $5-10 million. Much better to amortize that over 100+ flights and not waste the booster.

Once the tanker version is needed, a ship ship could go up 5+ times a day. The logistics of backfilling a pad with a new ship is much more involved
by coder68 | 2025-08-27 01:44:12+00:00
I have been working on text classification tasks at work, and I have found that for my particular use-case, LLMs are not performing well at all. I have spent a few thousand dollars trying, and I have tried everything from few-shot to asking simple binary yes/no questions, and I have had mixed success.

I have stopped trying to use LLMs for this project and switched to discriminative models (Logistic Regression with TFIDF or Embeddings), which are both more computationally efficient and more debuggable. I'm not entirely sure why, but for anything with many possible answers, or to which there is some subjectivity, I have not had success with LLMs simply due to inconsistency of responses.

For VERY obvious tasks like: "is this store a restaurant or not?" I have definitely had success, so YMMV.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 01:45:42+00:00
>the police and courts don’t actually care about justice, if they did, the system would look massively different.

Seems overly cynical. How about public defenders, Miranda rights, etc.?

The US court system is set up to be adversarial. The belief is that you get the best overall outcome by having one set of people who try to convict, and another set of people who try to acquit.

One can also make the system look bad from the other direction by arguing that public defenders are terrible, because their job is to help criminals walk free. https://xcancel.com/katanaspeaks/status/1954636840272884111

You're welcome to argue against the overall concept of an adversarial court system. But the system has to be taken in total, rather than selectively focusing on one side.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-27 01:46:21+00:00
Saying "and future" is like taunting fate

Anyway, in case someone was interested it seems the code itself is cited as MIT, however it has a "when it becomes a Linux .ko it becomes GPLv2" clause https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.7... and they do go out of their way to say "lol, needs binary blobs" https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.7...

That XFree86.run has always struck me as "you're gonna what*?"
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-27 01:47:47+00:00
It certainly doesn't cover the case of mixed-origin content. Say for example, a dialog between a human and AI or even mixed-model content.

For those, my instinct is to fallback to markup which would seem to work quite well. There is the pesky issue of AI content in non-markup formats - think JSON that don't have the same orthogonal flexibility in annotating metadata.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-08-27 01:48:11+00:00
I was riding through a town in Nevada with less than 200 people the other day. There was a billboard advertising that readme.com now supported MCP servers.

If that isn't a bubble I don't know what is.

Remember, the dotcom bubble didn't mean the internet was a dead technology. It meant that money was being invested into ideas that didn't pan out into profit.
by Amaury-El | 2025-08-27 01:48:14+00:00
For me, LLMs didn’t solve any groundbreaking problems, but they’ve been helpful in those small, frequent moments of getting stuck. When I’m blocked in writing or struggling to organize my thoughts, they help me get a rough draft out quickly, which I can then refine. That kind of subtle but steady support has made my daily work flow a lot smoother.
by scrubs | 2025-08-27 01:48:46+00:00
A currency needs to have a fairly constant value, goods/services priced in currency, and payment accepted in same. No crypto meets that definition.

I'll say the same thing another way: if miners or other crypto enthusiasts thought for a microsecond they could not convert crypto to actual bonafide currency the whole thing would dry up within a month. Because crypto people are hyper focused on getting real cash!

If you're a bank do you wanna really accept crypto as a deposit then pay interest in real currency?

I seriously dislike crypto ... but one would be on safer grounds calling crypto a risky investment or something vaguely asset like ... but not cash.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-08-27 01:48:53+00:00
Some people, curiously, believe that business is only valid if it operates as a caricature of the worst traits of modern corporate America.

That’s the game, and some people believe it’s the only game.

I’m with you though. For me business isn’t a channel for hoarding all possible resources and assets. It’s a combination of a craft and a means to an end. I’d still do it if I needed no profession, because it’s a craft I enjoy.

It’s fun to share that craft, and it’s good to share that craft on generous terms.

The subtle irony is that the version of the “game” as referenced in that other comment is the same, expect that all those niceties only apply to executives and people who already have lots of money. A socially perverse arrangement, to be sure.
by BenjiWiebe | 2025-08-27 01:49:03+00:00
According to some quick googling and rough math, there's about 5.5 billion years worth of U-235 present in the Earth's crust on the top 15km. If we consider that we can maybe reach 0.5km down, (deepest gold mine is 4km), and assuming it's evenly distributed, then that's only 180 million years!! (2024 global electricity usage)

Think we can figure out breeder reactors in 180 million years? If we're going all nuclear, I'd expect them in under 1,000 years, but I'm not an expert.
by conradev | 2025-08-27 01:49:30+00:00
It was also the Korean automaker’s best July sales month since launching its first vehicle in 1986. The growth was mainly driven by electrified vehicles, including EVs and hybrids (HEVs).

https://electrek.co/2025/08/01/hyundai-ioniq-5-shatters-us-s...
by NoPicklez | 2025-08-27 01:49:35+00:00
Lots of experience in what are common exploit tactics are and where to look and test if things will break.

Identifying an exploit in iOS requires a significant amount of knowledge in how the OS works, what existing exploits are and how you could chain them together to create a larger exploit.

I've have very limited experience, but reading about how some people identify and exploit these things is extremely impressive.
by tritipsocial | 2025-08-27 01:49:48+00:00
I don't believe your claim that governments ask for something like a metal spectrometer analysis, especially since Digikey hasn't reported the same disruptions. There's no way Digikey did this for all 16.5 million parts.

In later comments on their blog they admitted they didn't even file the paperwork and left it up to the customer, who obviously wouldn't know how, causing the part to get stuck in customs.

It's a frustrating situation for them but there's no way CBP is making people break out lab equipment to import a PCB.
by ronsor | 2025-08-27 01:50:11+00:00
> The EU commission will demand its own EU-AI-Disclosure header be send to EU citizens, and will require consent from the user before showing him AI generated stuff. UK will require age validation before showing AI stuff to protect the children's brains. France will use the header to compute a new tax on AI generated content, due by all online platform who want to show AI generated content to french citizens.

I think the recent drama related to the UK's Online Safety Act has shown that people are getting sick of country-specific laws simply for serving content. The most likely outcome is sites either block those regions or ignore the laws, realizing there is no practical enforcement avenue.
by afarviral | 2025-08-27 01:51:21+00:00
How would you go about making it more secure but still getting to have your cake too? Off the top my head, could you: a) only ingest text that can be OCRd or somehow determine if it is human readable b) make it so text from the web session is isolated from the model with respect to triggering an action. Then it's simply a tradeoff at that point.
by avar | 2025-08-27 01:51:41+00:00
If "rapid reusability" was a proxy goal for maintaining a given launch pace we wouldn't need any of this.

We could just construct 200 Space Shuttles and spend months refurbishing them after every flight, and still send one up every week.

The goal is to drive down launch costs, time is money, and a system that requires time consuming refurbishments is more expensive.
by graphZen | 2025-08-27 01:51:45+00:00
As an indie developer, I created RedNote Downloader to solve a small but annoying problem: downloading Xiaohongshu (RED) videos without watermark. --100% free, no sign-up --Lightweight, runs in browser --Uses a custom parsing + proxy strategy to bypass anti-scraping Curious to hear your thoughts on technical improvements, or similar projects you’ve built.
by userbinator | 2025-08-27 01:51:50+00:00
I have a rice cooker that has terms like "micom"

I'm going to guess it's a Japanese rice cooker, because "micom" is a Japanese shortening of "microcomputer", which is what they've been calling microcontrollers. Using it for marketing most certainly dates from the time when computerised control was considered a desirable novel feature, much like when "solid state" was used in English.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-08-27 01:51:53+00:00
> The ideal business is one where you take in money and have no expenditures.

This isn't a business. And if you found a way to do this, you'd be subject to endless audits and AML/CTF suspicions because actual businesses don't look like this.

Business owners come in a range of personalities, just like everyone else. Some are selfish and unreasonable. Some are altruistic and generous. Some are purely in it for the money, others really love building teams and working in a friendly environment. Some have global ambitions, others just want to get by with as little effort as possible.
by ofalkaed | 2025-08-27 01:52:18+00:00
They are used for all sorts of things we eat, corn nuts, hominy, grits, corn meal/flour and all the things those are used in. Personally, I find it far more palatable than sweet corn and it is far more useful/versitile/nutritious than sweet corn; it is a traditional cereal grain and can be used for all those things we use wheat and rye for.
by nrmitchi | 2025-08-27 01:52:26+00:00
This seems like a (potential) solution looking for a nail-shaped problem.

Yes, there is a huge problem with AI content flooding the field, and being able to identify/exclude it would be nice (for a variety of purposes)

However, the issue isn't that content was "AI generated"; as long as the content is correct, and is what the user was looking for, they don't really care.

The issue is content that was generated en-masse, is largely not correct/trustworthy, and serves only to to game SEO/clicks/screentime/etc.

A system where the content you are actually trying to avoid has to opt in is doomed for failure. Is the purpose/expectation here that search/cdn companies attempt to classify, and identify, "AI content"?
by nickjj | 2025-08-27 01:52:30+00:00
Thanks yeah, I didn't go too crazy with binds yet. Maybe ALT + TAB is the only thing that's not using the main mod key.

It's probably going to get complicated though due to wanting to run waybar, walker, wallpaper, etc. in the nested session but if you do anything that's going to modify its state in that session is also going to affect the outer one since only 1 process runs for those tools.

It's almost like you need a separate copy for everything that runs in exec but with a different process name too.
by the_af | 2025-08-27 01:52:53+00:00
Oh, no, you got me wrong. I was curious about his credentials, but this doesn't mean I don't find philosophy intriguing and fascinating. I would say humanity cannot exist without philosophy. Thinking about ourselves, thinking about knowledge, thinking about what we believe about knowledge, thinking about what is and what is not, thinking about thinking -- all of these are essential.

It's just that it matters to me whether it's a philosopher who's arguing about the physical properties of the universe or a physicist.

I do think you care a bit about labels and what they stand for, after all your first post didn't fail to mention you're a physicist!
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-27 01:53:04+00:00
> The strong sense I got from reading this is that they don't believe it's possible to safely do this sort of thing right now, and they want to warn people away ...

This is directly contradicted by one of the first sentences in the article:

We've spent recent months connecting Claude to your calendar, documents, and many other pieces of software. The next logical step is letting Claude work directly in your browser.

Ascribing altruism to the quoted intent is dissembling at best.
by nico_nico | 2025-08-27 01:53:20+00:00
I hacked the classic TimeGuessr (https://timeguessr.online/) and swapped every real street-view image for an AI-generated memory: 1978 Tehran after the quake, 1994 Warsaw kiosk lines, 2010 Lagos traffic under orange haze. None of it exists, yet we all remember it. Same rules: drop a pin, pick a year, get scored on distance + time. Five rounds, no login, no ads. Try it on your next toilet break and tell me which round made you say “Wait… was I there?” https://timeguessr.online/
Ask HN: Any experienced devs who use AI extensively in their work?
by atleastoptimal | 2025-08-27 01:53:40+00:00
I know that vibe-coding has an obvious appeal to non-technical people and those who don't have a lot of experience, but I was wondering if those who have extensive technical experience get use out of AI coding tools.

If you do, what workflows have worked best for you? What models do you trust? Do you believe that it may be a problem offloading thought you would do yourself otherwise to a model?
by dang | 2025-08-27 01:56:32+00:00
The people you're opposed to think it's them we're biased against, and that we let your side dominate. One of the weird things one learns in this job is how symmetrical these dynamics are; not just about this topic, but every polarized topic.

Many HN commenters deplore what Israel is doing in Gaza. Their views are certainly not suppressed. But your account is the first I saw calling for striking an entire population. That's shocking, and banning is not a borderline call.

The mystery is why/how it's so easy to turn into the thing one deplores. I'm not just talking about you, but a lot of people, and maybe all of us.
by kccqzy | 2025-08-27 01:57:30+00:00
I think Simon has proposed breaking the lethal trifecta by having two LLMs, where the first has access to untrusted data but cannot do any actions, and the second LLM has privileges but only abstract variables from the first LLM not the content. See https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/

It is rather similar to your option (b).
by themafia | 2025-08-27 01:58:22+00:00
> every flight needed to have a perfect heat shield.

Which is a little easier to do when your craft is shaped like a plane and not a simple cylinder. The loading and positioning were easier to model and then achieve in flight.

The shuttle also flew with repair kits and glue that could be used in a vacuum. The astronauts could perform an EVA and work to replace damaged tiles and there were published plans on how to do so. NASA unfortunately figured out very late that using the Canadarm to image the bottom of the shuttle immediately on achieving orbit was extremely necessary given the icing problems of the external tank.
by ElijahLynn | 2025-08-27 01:58:35+00:00
Damn...

And also,

> We’ll reach out to eligible users in the US and Canada for the Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) at a special price: $149.99 [219.99 CAD] (nearly 50% off).

However, we got a Nest from the Oregon Energy trust for $50 I think. So, not a great price.
by defrost | 2025-08-27 01:59:01+00:00
> I think it’s “goofy” (to borrow a term from the grandparent comment) to brush away the influence that Black (as in US) culture has on Blacks (everywhere else) today.

You'd probably best argue that point with someone that thinks US Black culture has had zero global travel and influence then.

What isn't 'goofy' is the notion that US and African Black culture have had a near continuous back and forth interchange throughout history, the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival featured a strong 'Back to Africa' thread that highlighted contemporary African music, polyrhythmic forms, call and response, specific artists, etc. all of which can be found in the US Black Culture musical production of today .. WhoSampled highlights sources of many drum beats used in early hip hop recordings of the 1980s that are now considered iconic, and so on.

> Bangs (and external agents independent of Black people) disrupted the matrix

Who or what is 'Bangs', to which matrix do you refer? <insert relevant Samuel L. Jackson quote>

> and the “mother lode” is no longer centralized at the “mother land”.

Not a great turn of phrase, mother lodes can be exhausted but they don't move.

To the point buried within, Africa may have been the point of origin of all humanity but it was never the point of genesis of all musical form, Gamelan is almost unique to the Sundanese peoples (Indonesia) with tenuous backlinks to Indian forms at best .. it's a long way from there to any prior African drum or percussion influences.

In greater human history people have made their own unique forms and variations across the globe, post near instant global communication, recording and playback, these forms all mutually intertwine and influence each other.
by tzs | 2025-08-27 01:59:06+00:00
> It's very tricky to come up with an alternate root of trust for TLS connections that isn't strippable by middleboxes. Stripping isn't even always intentional: a big part of why DANE failed was that middleboxes reject DNSSEC responses, forcing browsers to fall back to X.509.

Is this because DNS traffic often is not encrypted, so middleboxes can see and meddle with DNS traffic?