MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ehnto | 2025-08-25 09:23:37+00:00
With the wealth gap increasing ever further, I think we will see technology in lock step with that divide.

I doubt robots will actually end up in every household, but a niche luxury product and utility for businesses makes some sense. Even if you think about it from that perspective, robot makers would still want them to be a universal robot not dozens of unique use case bots.

If a business can pay 30k for a general purpose extra set of hands I think that would be a no brainer, and I think the wealthy would see it similarly.
by torginus | 2025-08-25 09:23:43+00:00
Watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7PVZixO35c

New computers aren't as much faster as benchmarks would lead you to believe. If your code relies on unpredictable branches, dependept memory accesses in a tight loop, or very tight feedback loops inside computations, new CPUs won't have that much of an edge.
by lupusreal | 2025-08-25 09:23:52+00:00
If anything, it is in 4chan's interest to be banned by UK ISPs since this will induce the sale of a few more passes, which permit posting from VPNs.

Anyway, 4chan barely keeps the lights on as it is. Worrying about 4chan bribing politicians is absurd. Either politicians will help 4chan out of some sense of self-interest, or they won't help at all.
by timsh | 2025-08-25 09:24:16+00:00
This whole online safety act thing gives me goosebumps.

I had lived most of my live in Russia until migrating in 2022 and I’m pretty familiar with what it means when the gov starts messing with digital censorship.

If you’re not aware, it’s getting systematically harder and harder to browse the free web in Russia despite 50%+ of population using “some” VPN app.

And I’m not even talking extremist / anti-russian resources that the government turned against originally, but most of the independent websites that use CloudFlare free tier, for example. Because cloudflare enables proxying and a couple other IP-masquerading techniques by default, to effectively block a single website you have to block the entire cloudflare IP range and DNS - which is >20% of the web.

As for the VPNs, most of the common protocols and frameworks (eg OpenVPN) are already banned + detected via DPI, and people have to get into more and more sophisticated setups like VLESS+Reality (= most of the non-technical people can’t set it up by themselves or even buy a subscription to such thing). “Simple” shadowsocks, originally popularized in China to fight the great firewall are already almost rendered completely useless.

And it will get worse. The gov service which is responsible for blocking has a very high budget + some pretty neat tech to help them cut off more and more ways to bypass the censorship.

This is the future of any state that gets into this game. The future where you might have to become very proficient in networking and use some “shady” stuff like Tor to just read a blog post about Linux.

It doesn’t matter what it starts with - fighting anti-gov propaganda or, for god’s sake, porn (the least harmful thing for the kids in this horrible ai-post-capitalism world that we live in) — once the regulators get the feeling of power over the free web, every lobbyist, organization and party will come for a part of the web that you personally might enjoy, or even earn living from.
by DanielHB | 2025-08-25 09:25:07+00:00
I bought a geforce RTX 3080 at launch and boy was I surprised at the power draw and heat/noise it pumps out. I wonder why anybody bothers with the 90 series at all.

I actually run it ~10% underclocked, barely affects performance, but greatly reduces heat/noise. These cards are configured to deliver maximum performance at any cost (besides system instability).

My next GPU I am probably going mid-range to be honest, these beefy GPUs are not worth it anymore cost and performance-wise. You are better off buying the cheaper models and upgrading more often.
by ShawnaWang | 2025-08-25 09:25:28+00:00
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by rgoulter | 2025-08-25 09:25:51+00:00
This reminds me of Steve Yegge's discussion of "n00b programmers". Yegge has more broadly reckoned there are two types of programming styles: fast/prototyping (wherein you just fix problems as they come up when you run the code), and slower/careful (wherein you try to ensure there are no problems before deploying the code).

Yegge describes the 'n00b' programmer as 'scared' of code. Putting as little code on the screen as possible, and ensuring everything you need to understand the code is as close to the code is possible. (In contrast, Yegge reckoned someone familiar with the code can work with a dense clump of spaghetti). https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.ht...

OP's suggestion to the extent of "I prefer fully qualified names, so I don't have to guess whether the item was imported or defined in the same file" reminds me of that.

I think with at least Rust, though.. Rust has great tooling; but I'd say practically requires good tooling to use. (Especially if you're unfamiliar with Rust).
by kajika91 | 2025-08-25 09:26:35+00:00
I'm using my self-hosted forgejo. I don't see any benefit of git-annex over LFS so far, I'm not even sure I could setup annex as easily.

Digging a little bit I found that git-annex is coded in haskell (not a fan) and seems to be 50% slower (expected from haskell but also only 1 source so far so not really reliable).

I don't see appeal of the complexity of the commands, they probably serve a purpose. Once you opened a .gitattributes from git-LFS you pretty much know all you need and you barely need any commands anymore.

Also I like how setting up a .gitattribute makes everything transparent the same way .gitignore works. I don't see any equivalent with git-annex.

Lastly any "tutorial" or guide about git-annex that won't show me an equivalent of 'git lfs ls-files' will definitely not appeal to me. I'm a big user of 'git status' and 'git lfs ls-files' to check/re-check everything.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-08-25 09:26:50+00:00
> managed democracies you see out East

Can you name some? I am confused by this term.

Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia all have fairly robust democracies. Yes, some of them probably look and feel different than those of NATO, but they are a great improvement over previous colonial administrations, monarchies, theocracies, and "single party democratic states" (Korea and Taiwan before late 1980s/early 1990s break-throughs).
by alexshtf | 2025-08-25 09:27:10+00:00
Having developed in C++ a large portion of my career up until a 5+ years ago, it's nice to see C++ went a long way.

However one thing bothers me - error messages. Have the compilers evolved? Eventually, all this stuff translates to templates under the hood, and I remember always getting the compiler error far away from the place I've actually made the mistake.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-25 09:27:32+00:00
The only reason this works out the way it does is because certain governments have been corrupted by business interests to the point that businesses don't have to face any accountability for the harm that they cause.

If companies were fined serious amounts of money and the people responsible went to prison if they committed gross negligence and harmed millions of people, the attitude would quickly change. But as things stand, the system optimizes for carelessness, indifference towards harm, and sociopathy.
by mablopoule | 2025-08-25 09:27:37+00:00
Except that now Youtube also "helpfully" auto-dub legitimate videos in other languages (along with translating the titles) by default, so even the 'AI voice' isn't a good signal for gauging if it's quality content or not.

As a french-speaking person, I now find myself seeing french youtubers seemingly posting videos with english titles and robotic voice, before realizing that it's Youtube being stupid again.

What's more infuriating is that it's legitimately at heart a cool feature, just executed in the most brain-dead way possible, by making it opt-out and without the ability to specify known languages.
by michaelt | 2025-08-25 09:28:37+00:00
I'm kinda worried, personally.

The CA/Browser Forum gets to set requirements for anyone who wants to run a website. If they decide website operators should renew their certificates monthly, website operators don't much choice in the matter.

I worry that some day members of the forum will realise how much power that actually is. If there's a trade embargo on Country A, or a genocide going on in Country B, that perhaps 24-month certificates aren't the only sin they should use their power to correct.
by zimpenfish | 2025-08-25 09:28:54+00:00
> it also has some other weird settings

You also can't load extensions with `.load` (presumably security but a pain in the arse.)

user ~ $ echo | /opt/homebrew/opt/sqlite3/bin/sqlite3 '.load' [2025-08-25T09:27:54Z INFO sqlite_zstd::create_extension] [sqlite-zstd] initialized user ~ $ echo | /usr/bin/sqlite3 '.load' Error: unknown command or invalid arguments: "load". Enter ".help" for help
by wraptile | 2025-08-25 09:29:15+00:00
I'm unconvinced that secure communications is the bottle neck when it comes to criminal prosecution. We can expand police power without sacrificing our communications like that.

Anecdotally, take a look at China where privacy doesn't exist and yet Chinese syndicates are responsible for a major chunk of the issues you've listed. So clearly lack of privacy doesn't even correlate with decreased criminal behavior.
by Evanmo666 | 2025-08-25 09:29:25+00:00
Hello everyone,

I'm a solo developer, and I'd like to share a side project I've been working on: BypassGPT.

The problem I'm trying to solve is the increasingly frustrating "AI detection" issue. As a user of AI for my personal and professional writing, I found myself constantly being flagged by services like GPTZero and other detectors, even when I had made significant edits myself. I felt like the tools designed to help me were now getting in my way.

So, I decided to build a solution. BypassGPT is an AI humanizer. You paste in your AI-generated text, and it intelligently rewrites it to sound more natural and human-like. It rephrases sentences and varies vocabulary to bypass most detection algorithms, while maintaining the original meaning.

A few key points about the tool:

It's free and requires no sign-up. I wanted to make it as accessible as possible for everyone to try.

It includes a basic built-in detector. While it may not be as robust as some professional services, my main focus was on developing the "humanizing" algorithm itself.

I believe this tool can be valuable for content creators and others who use AI as a legitimate part of their workflow but are tired of being unfairly penalized by aggressive detectors.

I'm excited to finally share this with the HN community. I'm here to answer any questions you have and would love to hear your thoughts and honest feedback.
by BenderV | 2025-08-25 09:29:28+00:00
Thanks for your answer.

I guess that it's only a matter of finetuning.

LLM have lots of experience with bash so I get they figure out how to work with it. They don't have experience with custom tools you provide it.

And also, LLM "tools" as we know it need better design (to show states, dynamic actions).

Given both, AI with the right tools will outperform AI with generic and uncontrolled tool.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-08-25 09:29:56+00:00
I wonder what Apple's bigger fear is - losing that ~30% cut, which is massive, or when they have to compete with alternative app stores and when finally people see how forward "software finesse" has come to in 2025 and how pathetic Apple's software/service ecosystem has been, losing most of the remaining whatever reduced cut it was; i.e. getting hammered at both ends. I think that's why they are fighting tooth and nail to keep the curtain as it is on the grand stage of privacy theatre.
by p2detar | 2025-08-25 09:30:37+00:00
You are heavily mixing freedom with access to opportunity. They are not the same.

I come from an Eastern European country. Before 1990, if I would have wanted to not study and only drink and let my live go like Diogenes, that would have never worked. The authorities would pick me up from the street and forcefully make me go work something, even if I don't like it. Even if I have studied, the authorities still may decide where I can go to work. The possibility to decide how I can build or fuck up my own live - this is what I understand as freedom.

Opportunity - this is something very different. And to that I can agree with you about the "white skinned man", even if it is very far away from my understanding about the world because of where I was born and how I lived.
by the8472 | 2025-08-25 09:30:46+00:00
> To be clear `File::drop()` does sync

It does not. BufWriter<File> flushes its userspace buffer (but doesn't fsync either). If you have a bare File then drop really just closes the file descriptor, that's it.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/ee361e8fca1c30e13e7a3...
by ehnto | 2025-08-25 09:30:58+00:00
I hear you, I think there's some obvious points you've already considered on price and serviceability. But maybe we do see that coming soon? Exoskeletons currently require some mobility from the legs from the user in the products available today, but as automatic bipedal motion gets more reliable maybe that changes.

I have seen how robots currently behave when they lose their footing though, and I'd be bloody terrified to be strapped into one.

Maybe wheelchair users and robot manufacturers can share a force for getting wheeled locomotion into more spaces, but I think homes will always be a challenge as stairs are a requirement for denser living, and elevators are expensive.
by tucnak | 2025-08-25 09:31:07+00:00
On a different note. I just bought a Sienna-series EPYC, which is a 48-core Zen 4c chip capped at 200W. AMD 8434PN at 1200 EUR price-point. My understanding is it's a two- or three years out-of-date CPU, but I was simply blown away! I contemplated purchasing a 9005-class CPU, but even 32-core variant would cost more than 3000 EUR... at sommat crazy like 400W. Thank you, my PCIe stuff alone draws a kilowatt; no way I'm putting in a 400W CPU on top.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-08-25 09:31:12+00:00
> Thanks for clarifying! I misspoke there, but from my standpoint (portfolio manager/equities investor) that's better.

From a national security point it really, really isn't. Like, I'm not a fan of the Trump administration, but having basically all chip manufacturing in Asia is not a good idea if you think there'll be a war with China in the next few decades.
by bruce511 | 2025-08-25 09:31:28+00:00
Whether the CA verifies identity or not is irrelevant. Since the end user does not see the certificate they are all functionally equivalent.

And yes, the actual quality of the identity check is debatable but since nobody cares the utility of it is zero.

For example- when was the last time you checked the certificate details of a web site? Have you ever left a site because you felt the certificate didn't verify identity?
by wink | 2025-08-25 09:34:47+00:00
If you are very old[tm] you might remember that github pages were hosted on USER.github.com and they moved to USER.github.io in 2013, https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/new-github-pa...

JFTR, I also think they could at least have used a couple of pronouncable domains, or put stuff under a .github.io domain, or at least make it githubrepo.com or something not acronym-y
by topspin | 2025-08-25 09:35:02+00:00
I use to live on a property in a development. On my property were a pair of big willows. The trees were large and healthy, well over 50' tall. That was strange, because the region is high desert with little water, and I made no effort to irrigate them.

One morning in spring, after I'd been living there about 15 years, the neighborhood streets flooded. There were geysers of water shooting up from manholes. Turns out, the willows had been planted over an irrigation ditch[1]. The willows had driven their tap roots into the pipeline and plugged it about 10' underground. When the water authority opened gates miles upstream, the water pressure blew water up the manholes into the streets and a few yards.

Farmers are very motivated to get their water. They, and the ditch company, rapidly cleared the plug and removed the trees.

Before this happened I had no idea the irrigation system ran through the property. I knew about an easement, but I thought it was for sewage, because the developer used an iron manhole cover from the local municipal waste management operation when they covered the irrigation ditch: it literally had "Sewer" cast into the iron.

[1] Formerly an actual ditch, later made into a pipeline and covered over, but still technically a "ditch" for purposes of water management.
by JdeBP | 2025-08-25 09:35:18+00:00
I (of course) use the djbwares descendent of Bernstein publicfile. I added a static GEMINI UCSPI-SSL tool to it a while back. One of the ideas that I took from the GEMINI specification and then applied to Bernstein's HTTP server was the prohibition on fragments in request URLs (which the Bernstein original allowed), which I extended to a prohibition on query parameters as well (which the Bernstein original also allowed) in both GEMINI and HTTP.

* https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/protocol-specification.gmi#r...

The reasoning for disallowing them in GEMINI pretty much applies to static HTTP service (which is what publicfile provides) as it does to static GEMINI service. They moreover did not actually work in Bernstein publicfile unless a site administrator went to extraordinary lengths to create multiple oddly-named filenames (non-trivial to handle from a shell on a Unix or Linux-based system, because of the metacharacter) with every possible combination of query parameters, all naming the same file.

* https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/djbwares/guide/publicfile-securit...

* https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/djbwares/guide/commands/httpd.xml

* https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/djbwares/guide/commands/geminid.x...

Before I introduced this, attempted (and doomed to fail) exploits against weak CGI and PHP scripts were a large fraction of all of the file not found errors that httpd had been logging. These things were getting as far as hitting the filesystem and doing namei lookups. After I introduced this, they are rejected earlier in the transaction, without hitting the filesystem, when the requested URL is decomposed into its constituent parts.

Bernstein publicfile is rather late to this party, as there are over 2 decades of books on the subject of static sites versus dynamic sites (although in fairness it does pre-date all of them). But I can report that the wisdom when it comes to queries holds up even today, in 2025, and if anything a stronger position can be taken on them now.

To those running static sites, I recommend taking this good idea from GEMINI and applying it to query parameters as well.

Unless you are brave enough to actually attempt to provide query parameter support with static site tooling. (-:
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-25 09:35:24+00:00
> Knives help you cook delicious food, knives can also help you stab your partner to death. This doesn't mean knives should be banned (though, ironically enough, the UK believes otherwise).

This is a reasonable enough metaphor but we don't have to pretend to be idiots either and act like every single technology is totally neutral in its design. Knives are a good example, actually. Kitchen knives are totally adequate for killing people (I assume, I'm no expert) but they clearly have a design meant for something else. A nuclear weapon, to choose a stupidly obvious example, has no capability other than mass death. It seems reasonable to ask ourselves whether we want these two objects to be under the same regulatory regime.
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by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-25 09:36:50+00:00
The data is comparing 2024 to 2025.

> From December 2024, coal power generation declined for five straight months before ticking up slightly in May and June, mainly to offset weaker hydropower generation due to drought. Coal power generation was flat overall in the second quarter of 2025.

> The chart below shows growth in monthly power generation for coal and gas (grey), solar and wind (dark blue) and other low-carbon power sources (light blue).

> This illustrates how the rise in wind and solar growth is squeezing the residual demand left for coal power, resulting in declining coal-power output during much of 2025 to date.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-china-is-still-bu...

What they are doing is ensuring energy reliability and phasing out old nasty coal plants in favor of modern ones expected to have peaker like capacity factors.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-new-coal-plants-2027