MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bpodgursky | 2025-08-27 14:46:49+00:00
For Starlink deploys (or other commercial launches) re-entry isn't too critical. Starship is still an order of magnitude cheaper than other launch vehicles even without Stage 2 re-use.

They'll need a higher bar for Artemis but frankly Starship is not the only critical bottleneck there and it's not SpaceX's main financial driver.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-27 14:47:13+00:00
> his ideas are getting way more attention than other people's ideas, stupid or not.

His amazing track record with success means his ideas merit more attention than your ideas or mine.

> The cave guys in Thailand had to waste precious time

insulting Musk on CNN. They didn't have to do that. They could have simply said "no thank you, we'll handle it".

> But he is an attention whore because he knows it's good for business.

Yes, offering his company's considerable engineering talent and resources for free is pure evil. Sheesh.

> Instead they fired quickly

They didn't have the people to evaluate tens of thousands of individuals, nor did they have several years to do it in. The way they proceeded was the only practical way. It's the way all organizations above a certain size cut costs when hemorrhaging cash.
by scott_w | 2025-08-27 14:47:31+00:00
Except your only example was nonsensical on the face of it.

> Yep, even if I made it my life's mission to run a formal study on programmer productivity (which I clearly won't) that wouldn't save the argument from nitpicking.

I didn't ask for this, I just asked for sensible examples, either from your experience or from publicly available information.
by zahlman | 2025-08-27 14:47:33+00:00
So the claim is that video calls are the interesting thing, not having a touchscreen interface or having the display cover an entire surface or being a single unfolded piece? (I had been struggling to understand what was special about "from a rectangle", since non-smart phones have had raster displays for much longer.)

Yeah, that really just never figured into my visions of "the future" as anything significant, I have to say. And even nowadays it doesn't seem like people often make video calls, given the opportunity. They'd rather take advantage of those displays to doomscroll social media, or see amazingly crisp (and emoji-filled!) text in a messaging app.
by tombert | 2025-08-27 14:47:36+00:00
I grew pretty frustrated with WYSIWYG word processors about a decade ago, and moved to a Pandoc->LaTeX->PDF system for everything until about six months ago, when I finally learned Typst and use that for everything now. I just prefer Markdown (or Markdown-adjacent in the case of Typst) and I hate formatting sneaking in with invisible characters.

However, I realize that I'm weird, and I certainly don't blame most people for preferring the Word style of editing, since most people aren't nerdy software engineers.

While a part of me hopes this works as a push for people to use FOSS like LibreOffice, I'm not really holding my breath. I tried getting my parents to switch years ago after they were complaining about having to pay for a subscription to Office, and they were wholly unmoved and didn't like LibreOffice.

In fairness, LibreOffice didn't really do what my parents wanted; the equation editor for LibreOffice is decidedly harder to use than Microsoft's (even compared to the old Mathtype version), and the syntax for their spreadsheet stuff is different enough from Excel that it can lead to a fairly steep learning curve.
by znpy | 2025-08-27 14:48:22+00:00
> My username is literally a cryptographic mode of operation. But you didn't know that, because you have a low skill issue.

Again, ad hominem attack... You proved yourself to be quite a fool. You can't argue, you can't back your own opinions, you are only capable of attacking on a personal level.

> This is a joke, right? You're just an LLM going through training.

My account is from 2015 and has ~11k points. Your account is 4 months old and barely has 150 points. It's more likely that you're a poorly trained LLM (whoever trained you had skill issues :P) rather than me.

I'll be dropping this useless conversation. Farewell.
by csa | 2025-08-27 14:48:57+00:00
I have some MAGA-leaning family and professional acquaintances. Here is what I hear from them:

> I doubt they voted for _this_.

They most certainly did.

First, they love the retention of the tax cuts and the OBBB.

Second, they were repulsed by most/all things that liberals embraced: DEI, language police, gender topics, loose immigration policy, an obviously over the hill Biden, perceived weakness abroad (Afghanistan, Ukraine, Israel/Gaza), etc.

> They voted for a vague promise of a better life through some cool sounding measures, at the time.

Ehhh… I don’t think so. They wanted tax cuts and anything that was the opposite of liberal social policy. They got it.

As for the people who didn’t vote, I’m not sure anything has changed that would get them out to vote for an opponent to Trump (Biden, Kamala, or whoever other milquetoast candidate lined up).

> Now that people are starting to realize the demon they have given full power to, I doubt he would win another (unrigged) election.

I think he wins by more if the election is tomorrow.

Large swathes of the monied classes in the US are largely ok with the direction things are going.

Tariffs, harassment of immigrants, neutering the federal government, and chaotic diplomacy just seem like unfortunate collateral damage to them.

Imho, the US is in the midst of a constitutional crisis. If the Dems or some other group don’t approach 2028 accordingly, they may be watching from the sidelines again for who knows how many more years.
by k3nx | 2025-08-27 14:49:05+00:00
That what I used git submodules for. I had a /lib folder in my project where the dependencies were pulled/checked out from. This was before I was doing CI/CD and before folks said git submodules were bad.

Personally, I loved it. I only looked and updating them when I was going to release a new version of my program. I could easily do a diff to see what changed. I might not have understood everything, but it wasn't too difficult to see 10-100 line code changes to get a general idea.

I thought it was better than the big black box we currently deal with. Oh, this package uses this package, and this package... what's different? No idea now, really.
by adornKey | 2025-08-27 14:49:11+00:00
There are some German guidelines for building offshore windmills - how noise should be reduced - and whales should be distracted and that ramming shouldn't be too loud. Most likely this doesn't come from nothing. So 100+ whales could be true, but I think all this is related to noise from construction.

https://bwo-offshorewind.de/category/offshore-windenergie/na...
by FridayoLeary | 2025-08-27 14:49:14+00:00
Not on the level of responding to fith generation fighter jets. Most of their advances are in quadcopter technology. They both started with ww2 tactics. Its not surprising that they would take advantage of the low hanging fruits of 75 years of progress. If anything it's shocking how little both sides have changed fundamental tactics like not using meatwaves, which went out of fashion in ww1.
by saubeidl | 2025-08-27 14:49:26+00:00
Wernher von Braun had the incredible achievement of shooting the first rocket up to space - the V2.

Thanks to the intelligence and hard work of the countless smart and hard-working people he pushed the boundaries of what is possible for humanity.

Still, I find it hard to accept we should compartmentalize and not think about who those rockets were built for and with what purpose.
by anonymars | 2025-08-27 14:49:52+00:00
I think as phrased this is going to get way too pedantic. But I think it raises a larger point which is worthy to consider.

Presumably what we're trying to get at is, in broad strokes, "is Starship more cost-effective to develop than Saturn V" (and I assume the follow-on for that will be to compare the "NASA approach" vs the "SpaceX approach")

But you raise a good point in that the baseline playing field is completely different. The existing knowledge each program started with, be it in materials science, understanding of rocket combustion, heat shield technology, electronics, simulation ability, you name it, it's completely different. So we can find and pull out whatever numbers, but I don't think it's possible for them to say anything meaningful for comparison on their own.
by Hilift | 2025-08-27 14:49:52+00:00
50% of impacted users the vector was VS Code and only ran on Linux and macOS.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/s1ngularity-supply-chain-attack

"contained a post-installation malware script designed to harvest sensitive developer assets, including cryptocurrency wallets, GitHub and npm tokens, SSH keys, and more. The malware leveraged AI command-line tools (including Claude, Gemini, and Q) to aid in their reconnaissance efforts, and then exfiltrated the stolen data to publicly accessible attacker-created repositories within victims’ GitHub accounts.

"The malware attempted lockout by appending sudo shutdown -h 0 to ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc, effectively causing system shutdowns on new terminal sessions.

"Exfiltrated data was double and triple-base64 encoded and uploaded to attacker-controlled victim GitHub repositories named s1ngularity-repository, s1ngularity-repository-0, or s1ngularity-repository-1, thousands of which were observed publicly.

"Among the varied leaked data here, we’ve observed over a thousand valid Github tokens, dozens of valid cloud credentials and NPM tokens, and roughly twenty thousand files leaked. In many cases, the malware appears to have run on developer machines, often via the NX VSCode extension. We’ve also observed cases where the malware ran in build pipelines, such as Github Actions.

"On August 27, 2025 9AM UTC Github disabled all attacker created repositories to prevent this data from being exposed, but the exposure window (which lasted around 8 hours) was sufficient for these repositories to have been downloaded by the original attacker and other malicious actors. Furthermore, base64-encoding is trivially decodable, meaning that this data should be treated as effectively public."
by epistasis | 2025-08-27 14:50:09+00:00
There's a big difference between the grifters in AI and the builders. Grifters of all sorts quickly get pigeonholed in Bluesky off into separate communities.

There are some builders of AI on BlueSky but far fewer. It's mostly the other sciences that have migrated, because X actively suppressed that type of content on X. Its not uncommon for a Bluesky scientist to have 10x the engagement on Bluesky with a tiny fraction of the followers.
by zahlman | 2025-08-27 14:50:26+00:00
From Wikipedia:

> Boffin is a British slang term for a scientist, engineer, or other person engaged in technical or scientific research and development. A "boffin" was viewed by some in the regular military or government services as odd, quirky or peculiar, though quite bright and essential to helping in the war effort through having and developing the key ideas leading to transformative military capabilities.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-27 14:50:57+00:00
I don't follow your bubbles, so I am looking things up on the fly, but the only case I could find of somebody deported "for a decades-old marijuana" conviction was this [1] individual who "has a lengthy criminal record with convictions for distributing cocaine and marijuana, assault and disorderly conduct." And it turns out his deportation was not even ordered by this administration. It was ordered a decade ago after he was imprisoned for some crime while already on probation for yet another crime.

Obviously you don't think people like this are desirable immigrants, so this likely gets back to the bubble issue. While it's possible I'm referencing the wrong case, I suspect the issue is more like that whatever bubble you consume did genuinely just frame this as 'Trump deports man for decades old marijuana conviction' when I think you can see that that is plainly false. But if anybody mentioned this in your bubble, they would certainly be rapidly silenced because rage is far more relevant than facts in these bubbles.

And consider that the media you're consuming is driving you to think that not only are these actions "heinous" but even that the current administration should be imprisoned for what they're doing, and I expect you probably wish even worse - though may not be willing to say it. This is the exact radicalizing phenomena I was talking about at the very top of this thread.

[1] - https://www.newsweek.com/vorasack-phommasith-green-card-revo...
by glenstein | 2025-08-27 14:51:06+00:00
A great example, though it makes me want to head something off. You can be a brute literalist and insist it is the right level since its capable of embodying and instantiating Firefox, and so it's "just" a medium but the medium embodies the message, and knowing its configuration "in terms of electricity" does give you message, the structure, and the concepts.

Although we abstract away the electronics, it doesn't have the implication sometimes suggested by emergentism, that it exhibits a physical reality that is "independent of" its electronics. The abstracting away shouldn't be taken to mean that some new ontological thing was conjured into being that's physically real in the same sense as the electronics.

If that seems like it goes without saying or is beside the point, well, great! That's kind of what I want to hear. But in some emergentism debates it becomes important to insist there's a "more is different" thing happening that's necessary to explain physical properties.
by ksec | 2025-08-27 14:52:01+00:00
> using fab nodes that are more advanced than intel/AMD.

I am usually the one doing it on HN. But it is still not common knowledge after we went from M1 to M4.

And this thread S/N ratio is already 10 times better than most other Apple Silicon discussions.

AMD's Max 395+ is N4, or 5nm Class Product.

The Apple M4 is N3 or 3nm Class product.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-27 14:52:40+00:00
> As we're seeing, time and time and time again, it is harmful.

It certainly is not harmful, in my view. I think that the FSF's position on this topic is ridiculous. No harm whatsoever is done by running a piece of closed source software on your computer.

> The last paragraph of the opening section is a plain and obvious concession to practicality

No, it's not, at all! It is ideological, not practical, to say that the only reason to deviate from one's ideology is if doing so advances the ideology even faster.
by eesmith | 2025-08-27 14:52:43+00:00
If a country's economy profited from child labor, then later that country prohibits child labor, is it hypocrisy for that country to want child labor to be illegal under international law?

If a country's industry benefited from Freon-based as refrigerants, then bans their use because of Freon's effect on the ozone layer, is it hypocrisy for that country to urge other countries to agree to the Montreal Protocol?

Several countries made a lot of money from whaling. Most of them have agreed to stop commercial whaling. Is it hypocrisy for them to pressure the few holdouts to agree to the ban?

The US benefited from genocide of Native Americans, so therefore the US cannot ever condemn genocide without being a hypocrite?

We all know about European colonialism and its negative effects on others as they plundered the world to enrich themselves.

Now you say that Europe (and its former colonies who followed the same footsteps) cannot call for de-colonialism or a post-colonial world, as doing so makes them hypocrites? Instead they should, what, call for a restoration of the divine right of kings?

In real life they've made at least some effort to change. It may be too little for you, but that's where their protests come from.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-27 14:52:43+00:00
Yes, but the risk may be far greater for one than the other.

It’d be a bummer if my cousin lost the term paper he was writing. It would be a Truly Bad Day if a coworker uploaded a sensitive document to an unauthorized (or unexpected!) cloud service and it got compromised and the sensitive data used against us.

The former would be bad for my cousin. The latter would involve lawsuits and smitings. The probability is lower, but the risk is much, much higher.
Show HN: Vanitycert.com – Automated Custom Domains and SSL for SaaS
by lulceltech | 2025-08-27 14:52:44+00:00
Hi Hacker News,

I'm a solo developer and the maker of VanityCert. For the past year, I've been working on a solution to a problem that turned into a personal nightmare: scaling custom domain and SSL management.

I built a SaaS app for a client and was faced with the '1-to-N' problem—hundreds of their customers needed to use their own domains. The manual process of orchestrating DNS validation, individual SSL certificates, and the 90-day renewal cycle became a full-time job. It was a massive time suck that pulled me away from building core product features for over six months.

So, I built VanityCert.com to solve that pain. It's a white-label platform with a simple API that automates the entire process:

It provides an embeddable portal for non-technical customers to set up their domains.

It handles all the complex DNS validation challenges programmatically.

It issues and securely manages unique SSL certificates for each domain.

It automatically handles the 90-day renewal cycle, so no certificates ever expire.

The goal is to abstract this entire layer of infrastructure, allowing SaaS teams to focus on innovation instead of operational overhead.

I would love to get your feedback on the idea and the implementation. What are your thoughts on the core problem? Are there any use cases you can think of where this would be particularly valuable?

Thanks for your time!
by evertheylen | 2025-08-27 14:53:00+00:00
I do too, but I found it non-trivial to actually secure the podman container. I described my approach here [1]. I'm very interested to hear your approach. Any specific podman flags or do you use another tool like toolbx/distrobox?

[1]: https://evertheylen.eu/p/probox-intro/
by staplung | 2025-08-27 14:53:20+00:00
Yes, but the box drawing characters in "ASCII" are all above 127 so they don't encode the same way. So that last AI generated sentence is basically false (or really misleading): ASCII files that consist only of characters in the lower 127 will also be valid UTF-8. But ASCII files that use characters above 127 will not be valid UTF-8.

Now, technically, ASCII only concerns the lower 127 characters. There's no single standard definition as to what the upper half of the byte space represents in ASCII itself so technically it's true that all valid ASCII files are valid UTF-8. By the same logic however, the box drawing characters are not ASCII. They're actually part of something called code page 437, which maps those bit patterns to box drawing characters. With other code pages they map to something else, often non-Latin characters or ones with accents.

So, the name ASCII flow is misleading and the the output options are too. ;-) Basically, if the high bit is set in UTF-8 it indicates that more than one byte is needed to represent the code point.
by rifty | 2025-08-27 14:53:25+00:00
> authenticity is about not trying to fit in, and if he was excluded for not fitting in

You are comparing two things that aren't always equal as if they are. For example, if someone tries not to fit in, thus resulting in not fitting in, they would also not be considered authentic.

Authenticity is graded on why you are trying to be, not on the result you achieve. If you see authenticity in the way you describe you will be lead astray in finding it in people
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-27 14:53:31+00:00
I would guess Apple’s goal is increasing the number of people buying recurring Apple services, such as icloud and tv+.

It has been a long time since people have needed cutting edge laptops, so an M1 bought today will still work for 90% of people for the next 5+ years. Even if Apple doesn’t earn a large profit margin on the sale of the laptop, they could earn a decent amount on monthly services revenue, plus increased odds of that person buying a watch/airpods/phone/etc.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-27 14:53:33+00:00
I don't think you're weird. I also have some tiers when it comes to typesetting.

Normal documents, 99.999% of the time, are written in Markdown, and stored like that or rendered to PDF, if required.

Everything serious go through LaTeX. I don't care about Typst, I'm happy with LaTeX syntax (I've written my Ph.D. with it, so I don't care if it fights you).

For some Office stuff I need to use office tools. LibreOffice if the other party accepts it or Microsoft Office for the picky documents and people.

A lot of personal calculations are done in Notion databases now, but I can wrangle Calc/Excel/Numbers enough to have them on file, if they are sensitive or need to be detached from Notion.

I'm an old school people. I don't migrate from tool to tool much.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-27 14:53:58+00:00
Before his take-over, like 50% of my attempts to load a linked tweet in a browser failed with an error, which would sometimes, but not always, be resolved with a few refreshes. If the tweet loaded, I couldn't see the discussion, to include follow-on tweets for "tweet threads", which meant it was often useless even if I did get it to load.

He fixed all that for, like... a month. Then went back to blocking lots of content without a login.

I haven't seen the errors since then, but it is back to not showing me the discussion.
by bonoboTP | 2025-08-27 14:54:29+00:00
Yes, there's a conflict between wanting to just provide the good stuff by default under a unified Gemini brand where you don't have to worry about model names, it just works, versus building hype for a specific model and then being unclear about whether you're using that one or not. The nano-banana name is unique and fun, and got some recognition on social media already, they should just make a page with that heading and a chatbox. But again, that would focus on the new image editor thing only, and they probably want to lure people into their whole ecosystem, to switch to Gemini in general, from competitors like ChatGPT.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-27 14:54:50+00:00
You should have seen the first tech demonstrator for the Raptor engine (the family that powers Starship). It was basically a water tower (built out in the desert, welded by people specialising in building water towers). But it flew, and it landed, and then it served as a lights & camera mount for the field for a few years.
by DarmokJalad1701 | 2025-08-27 14:55:13+00:00
> Can you imagine if to make a sightseeing trip to another city you had to stop in the middle of the highway and then make 14 round-trips with a second car to fill your first car back up?

If the alternative was throwing away and building/buying a new car for every trip? Absolutely.

They said the same about landing a first stage booster - impossible and pointless to attempt. And it just happened for the 400th time yesterday.
by moralestapia | 2025-08-27 14:55:20+00:00
This guy ... MEGA lmao.

To the contrary, I am fascinated by what SpaceX has accomplished so far. I wouldn't just say they "nailed it" they completely blew past all expectations I had.

"Why didn't just get it right on their first test", really? People can't even get a regex right the first time.

Are you aware of the size of this rocket? That it reached orbit? That it hovered over the ocean instead of just crashing into it? That it came back into a point with such precision that a buoy with a camera was already waiting for it? From orbit (that its 30,000km/h and 150km high)?

Your comment is just ridiculous.
by JeremyNT | 2025-08-27 14:56:03+00:00
They're not going to publish device trees for pixel phones, so what hardware will you use?

Commercial apps and services will require passkeys and device attestation, so you'll only be able to use open source software even if you have a device to run it.

The walls are closing in, and it's not just mobile. It's only a matter of time before passkeys are used to block Linux users from the commercial Internet as well.