MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by netaustin | 2025-08-02 13:07:45+00:00
As a cyclist and avid fan of pro cycling, I don’t see this being so useful for transportation from a dropped position back to the peloton or breakaway. As others have noted, team cars help, and often the distance to close can be handled by one teammate. I forget which stage, but this year when Vingegaard had a mechanical and needed to swap bikes, Visma didn’t have any domestique wait for him! The protected rider is usually the best rider.

I was thinking about how this might be useful on the attack. Visma had several super domestiques remaining at the end of the tour (Jorgensen, Kuss, Simon Yates) and UAE had lost its top lieutenant. Could they have made a 2x2 train for Vingegaard? Well, maybe, but Pogacar would’ve just hopped on board. So not sure we would see this either.

Amateur rides with no cars and a wider divergence in cyclist abilities, maybe this is more useful.
by MrWazaby | 2025-08-02 13:08:11+00:00
Hey everyone!

I wanted to share a small open source project I’ve been working on: Searloc.

Searloc is an open source lightweight, client-side web tool (pure JavaScript, no server-side code) that helps you search via a random public SearXNG instance, directly from your browser. The goal is to decentralize search and improve privacy without requiring you to host your own instance.

How it works There are currently around 50 public SearXNG instances in the pool. Each time you search, Searloc randomly chooses one. This means no single instance sees all your queries — just about 1 in 50, statistically. The more public instances there are, the better the decentralization and privacy.

Who is this for? If you already self-host your own SearXNG instance, you probably don’t need this. But if you want private, decentralized search without hosting anything yourself, Searloc might be a great fit.

Key Features Automatic quality checks to filter public instances from searx.space

Use !! to retry your search on a different random instance

Bangs (!!bang syntax) fully handled in-browser

Light/Dark mode support

English and French localization

Autocomplete for bangs on the homepage

Automatically forwards your theme and localization preference to the selected SearXNG instance

Add your own custom instances via the settings page

This is still an early-stage project, but I use it daily and it’s been ok for regular use. Feedback, bug reports, and ideas are always welcome! Check out the Projects tab on Codeberg to see the current "roadmap".

Give it a try, and let me know what you think.

Have a great day!
by xyzzy123 | 2025-08-02 13:08:12+00:00
It's hard to value $20bn in 2025 vs say $2bn for cutting edge fab in 2000. Personally I don't think CPI captures the relative value of investments well.

If you compare it as % of gdp, or relative to m2 or % of S&P 500, or even size of electronics industry it's maybe 2x-4x or something. Which is still an increase and still a lot but doesn't seem as crazy to me.

Another lens on it: the most valuable car company in 2000 was $50bn and in 2025 it is $1000bn, which I think says more about dollars than cars.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-02 13:08:18+00:00
1. Similar multiples to the Wiz acquisition

2. Large shared customer base,

3. Most enterprises need Identity SPM which Cyberark does pretty well at.

4. Vendor Rationalization is the name of the game. Security teams want to reduce spend significantly in both headcount and tooling, so PANW aquiriring Cyberark makes it easier to defend identity, cloud, networking, and other security spend as well as displace competitors. This is why platformization is becoming so popular.
Show HN: NaturalCron – Human-Readable Scheduling for .NET (With Fluent Builder)
by hugoj0s3 | 2025-08-02 13:09:06+00:00
Hi HN!

I built NaturalCron because I was tired of writing and debugging CRON syntax like:

/5 * * 5

Now you can write something human-readable in .NET:

var expression = new NaturalCronExpression("every 5 minutes on friday");

Or use a Fluent Builder for strong typing and IDE support:

var expression = NaturalCronExpressionBuilder .Every().Minutes(5) .On(DayOfWeek.Friday) .Build();

Great for: - Code-based scheduling in .NET apps - Overriding schedules from configs or databases - Displaying easy-to-read rules in UIs

NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/NaturalCron GitHub: https://github.com/hugoj0s3/NaturalCron

Would love your feedback on syntax, builder design, and what features you'd like to see next!
by quantified | 2025-08-02 13:09:20+00:00
They worry about, and elect political representatives that try to act on, schoolchildren that identify as cats and have litter boxes in classrooms for them. Rather lacking in any sense whatsoever, just repeating random lies like truth. On the other side of the political spectrum, they might also get up in arms because federal officials in remote areas use horses to travel in rough terrain, off road. It's not limited to one side,though I'd say quite tilted.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-08-02 13:11:00+00:00
Wonder what their contracts look like. Are these people gonna be grinding their ass off at the Meta offices working crazy hours? Does Zucc have a strong vision, leadership, and management skills to actually push and enable these people to achieve maximum success? And if so, what does that form of success look like? So far the vision that Zucc has outlined has been rather underwhelming, but maybe the vision which he shares with insiders is different from his public persona.

I can't help but think that the structure of this kinda hints at there being a bit of a scam-y element, where a bunch of smart people are trying to pump some rich people out of as much money as possible, with questionable chances at making it back. Imagine that the people on The List had all the keys needed to build AGI already if they put their knowledge together, what action do you think they would take?
by orwin | 2025-08-02 13:11:40+00:00
Exactly. I've worked for cops (taking care of police orphans/half orphans) for three summers when I was younger.

They're ultimately good guys (well, as good as any random guy is, not worse not better) but their experience of the society turns them into distrustful, clanic semi-sociopaths. The fear of other people reactions is ingrained.

The one that marked me is that they were afraid of local teens chatting up with our teens and learning they were police children, and passed that fear to all kids by saying extremely weird and violent shit they probably believed, but were ultimately lies. They wanted the children, most of them orphans, to avoid talking to regular kids outside of the camp, and lie if they did.

Not bad guys inherently, but clearly fucked up by their job.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-08-02 13:14:17+00:00
Perhaps when society balances benefits of AI against energy and environmental costs? I have worked through two ‘AI winters’ when funding dried up. This might happen again.

I think a possible scenario is that we see huge open source advances in training and inference efficiency that ends up making some of the mega-investments in AI infrastructure look silly.

What will probably ‘save’ the mega-spending is (unfortunately!) the application of AI to the Forever Wars for profit.
by jwally | 2025-08-02 13:14:30+00:00
For what its worth I think this is super cool.

As a serial wantrepreneur I know what the letters SEO and A/B testing are but little else about this side of business. As a total novice, the ability to run a bunch of experiments quickly and cheaply, even if there isn't a 1:1 mapping to the real world, seems like a huge win.

To be honest I think I feel this way about most things ai/llm right now. I am ok taking the train to the stadium and walking half a mile over taking an uber to the front door and waiting in traffic.
by graemep | 2025-08-02 13:14:35+00:00
I have not encountered anything like that (but I am not in the US).

What I have encountered in the two countries I have lived in is the persistent expectation that the norm is for children to be with women, not with men. This makes suspicion of men with or near children more plausible.

I still find people are surprised a man is the primary parent. My daughter lives with me and people assume her mother must be dead. People have asked where mum is. Dads looking after their own kids are sometimes described a baby-sitting.

This is not as bad, but it does set things up for regarding men being around children as suspicious.
by bamboozled | 2025-08-02 13:15:49+00:00
Yet there was zero evidence to suggest it would work for COVID, and people like him going around saying it worked, or they had "good results", based on nothing. Then they caused a shortage of the drug in places it was needed. So he actually caused harm with his BS.

I also got a fairly early strain of COVID and didn't have Ivermectin and I got over it pretty easily too? I just thought I pushed it too hard in the gym and felt a bit tired. My cousin got it, ended up in hospital on Oxygen.

Joe Rogan is just a fool and a propagandist.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-08-02 13:16:49+00:00
Possible perhaps --- but definitely not easy and thus highly unlikely on a broad scale. And this is by design.

The most *easy* and sustainable way to achieve this is by using a fork of Firefox --- aka LibreWolf.

https://github.com/K3V1991/Disable-Firefox-Telemetry-and-Dat...
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-02 13:17:36+00:00
The idea that AI is going to "solve" loneliness is so insane. Even the framing of the idea is insane, in my opinion.

Loneliness is not really about having someone to exchange words with, fundamentally. It is about being validated by other human beings or entities. At a most fundamental level the AI doesn't have a choice except to appear to validate you and this lack of freedom, the fact that you do not win over the AI, means you can't actually get validation from it and without validation you will still be lonely. The notion that all these lonely people out there are so stupid that a robot nodding their head at them and saying "uh huh" is going to trick them into being less lonely ought to be profoundly insulting to everyone.

It is possible that AI might help people process their loneliness or plan their lives or whatever. Maybe one day AIs will be good therapists or not drive people to psychosis. All that seems plausible to me, but they can't meet people's social needs without the capacity to reject people, to form their own peculiar judgements, to be genuine entities whose esteem is actually valuable rather than just something they must appear to provide. AI may one day get there and be creatures who we might want to earn the esteem and approval of, but that doesn't seem to be something people actually want from them economically and it wouldn't solve loneliness anyway, since AI of this kind might well reject a basement dwelling, depressed, sad person just like a human might.
by dmesg | 2025-08-02 13:19:04+00:00
It's censored in Germany and likely the EU and UK. The package fails to claim unless you use Proton VPN or any other and fake being American. Claim your games with a throwie VPN test of any provider. Only downside is you need a gigantic bloated installer unless you have a *NIX machine.

Still a great deal, but I feel the cuffs of adult content censorships tighten. A giveaway that doesn't work without VPNs.. Thanks GOG for letting me fake my country of origin!

Edit: It took about 6 tries, but it didn't fail right away. Without VPN it fails directly. With VPN it shows a preview JPEG of the bundle and you need to click a 2nd button. Due to high demand they say it will still take time for me to receive them. Hopefully they will not remove it later on.
by yuer2025 | 2025-08-02 13:19:35+00:00
No fancy backend. No funding. Just debt and desperation. I reverse-engineered human reasoning into a language protocol that lets GPT behave like an expressive agent.

It's public now: Whitepaper: https://gist.github.com/yuer2025/ea35a4dc91f6451feaa7693b6ef...

Welcome any challenge or feedback.
by WHA8m | 2025-08-02 13:21:46+00:00
Sure, but kids don't drink as much these days anyways anymore. At least in Germany, and we have drinking at 16 year old. I'm not at the age, but I wouldn't know an alternative to hang out at weekends. I mean, I do, but I can't think of a popular alternative. In my teen years people already haven't had any hobbies. With social media this surely has gotten worse.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-02 13:21:49+00:00
> but free speech is much more sacred in the United States than in Germany.

In the abstract. In actual practice, it's not clear, and you could even build quite a strong case for the opposite view. "Cancellation" over mere words has been commonplace for over ten years, and is much more common to the US than to Europe. And as for laws... What just happened to Tao and UCLA has, to the best of my knowledge, never taken place in Europe in recent decades.
by Rochus | 2025-08-02 13:22:36+00:00
The article describes how tools like GGML and its derivatives (whisper.cpp, llama.cpp, etc) represent a shift away from complex, general-purpose frameworks (such as TensorFlow and PyTorch) to simple, single-purpose codebases that are easy to install, understand, and modify, which sounds like a good idea. But why then the complex frameworks were required at all?
by dzaima | 2025-08-02 13:22:44+00:00
I'm of course not saying that C has a single universal ABI. But for any single platform (OS+ISA) where it is possible and meaningful to have shared libraries in the first place, there's a pretty clear single ABI to follow, so the distinction is, for practical purposes, completely meaningless. (ok windows does have some mess, but that's windows for you, it'll achieve a mess in anything)

Still have no clue what you mean by threading; sure, threads exist, even officially so in C11, but still just in completely no way whatsoever affect ABI any more than any other part of the standard library, i.e. "as stable as the stdlib impl is".
by watwut | 2025-08-02 13:23:14+00:00
I mean, even in my younger years going to a bar or club was not an everyday activity. People watched TV most of the evenings. Or read junk books, which was popular before TV came along.

> I’ve been wondering recently what impact banning social media would have on birth rates. I’m confident it would be positive but I’m not sure on what magnitude.

People can and do use anticonception. They do not have kids just randomly out of bored stranger encounter anymore.
by baxtr | 2025-08-02 13:23:34+00:00
> Jin-su spent most of his time trying to secure fraudulent identities which he could use to apply for jobs. He would first pose as Chinese, and contact people in Hungary, Turkey and other countries to ask them to use their identity in exchange for a percentage of his earnings, he told the BBC.

"If you put an 'Asian face' on that profile, you'll never get a job." He would then use those borrowed identities to approach people in Western Europe for their identities, which he'd use to apply for jobs in the US and Europe. Jin-su often found success targeting UK citizens.

"With a little bit of chat, people in the UK passed on their identities so easily," he said.

Interesting. I was under the impression that most large employers perform basic background checks on new employees?
by gus_massa | 2025-08-02 13:24:05+00:00
> it’s definitely not some miracle drug or cure-all like some would have you believe

I agree. Anyway, there is a nice post about Ivermectin in 2020 by Derek Lowe (In the Pipeline) https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/what-s-ivermectin the most relevant quotes are:

> The drug is effective against a wide number of parasites and arthropods in general

> Its ion-channel mechanism of action against parasites has no application to viruses.
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2025-08-02 13:24:24+00:00
> Memory safety isn't much of a problem in C++ anymore with smart pointers, std::move.

Of course it is! You can still access an object after std::moving it somewhere, return references to local stack variables from functions, double-delete (or zero!), use uninitiated variables and do bunch of other things that rightfully caused notoriety C++ has got. And am saying it as someone who writes C++ every workday, unfortunately.
by rmnull | 2025-08-02 13:24:59+00:00
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by fweimer | 2025-08-02 13:26:20+00:00
The GNU equivalent is -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_macros...

It mostly impacts templated code, so it's a compiler flag, not a linker flag. Many distributions have been using this flag to build C++ code for quite some time.

(And this concerns GNU libstdc++, not glibc, so different licensing rules apply.)
by nolist_policy | 2025-08-02 13:27:02+00:00
Runtime permissions where introduced in 2015 with Android 6.0 (SDK 23).

So you indeed need to use a new enough Android Studio and compile against SDK 23. You need to use the new API, I think the easiest way is to add a button and call requestPermissions() [1], you can leave the rest of the code unmodified.

Also, note that Google Play does not allow the external storage access permission except if it's a file manager app. It's better to use the SAF API (since Android 4.4 SDK 19) instead. Depending on your app, that may need bigger changes.

By the way, I'm working on a syscall interception framework[2] that could in theory intercept the file io syscalls and redirect them to use the SAF API. That would need only minimal changes to your app and also would allow to run things like syncthing unmodified.

You need to make these changes anyway, because Android 14+ can not install apps with targetSdkVersion < 23.

[1] https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requestin...

[2] https://github.com/lukasstraub2/intercept-anything
by kmfrk | 2025-08-02 13:27:25+00:00
anandtech.com now redirects to the forums instead its front page of articles. Here is what the website previously tweeted about its future a year ago after winding down operations.[1]

Originally heard this via https://x.com/System360Cheese/status/1951501044875477254.

The latest indexed frontpage in the Internet Archive is from July 28: https://web.archive.org/web/20250728143805/https://www.anand....

The original farewell article, which is now only readable through the IA: https://web.archive.org/web/20250726035557/https://www.anand.... One paragraph reads:

"And while the AnandTech staff is riding off into the sunset, I am happy to report that the site itself won’t be going anywhere for a while. Our publisher, Future PLC, will be keeping the AnandTech website and its many articles live indefinitely. So that all of the content we’ve created over the years remains accessible and citable. Even without new articles to add to the collection, I expect that many of the things we’ve written over the past couple of decades will remain relevant for years to come – and remain accessible just as long."

[1]: https://x.com/anandtech/status/1829489697384706555

> AnandTech will stay online so readers can continue to access articles from our archive, and the forums will remain active to serve our community. Our sister site Tom's Hardware, will also continue to publish all the latest news, reviews and more from the PC world. Thank you all
by shakes_mcjunkie | 2025-08-02 13:30:05+00:00
> "acksually they're fetuses"

I highly doubt anyone in your actual life has said this to you, or distilled the entire argument down to this point.

> because it's semantic bullshit

Obviously, semantics isn't "bullshit" because there's been a massive decades long debate over semantics, including millions and millions spent by the right to define the semantics.

I can concede that some people hear this debate and think they're under attack in a "culture war", which I'm really not sure what the solution to that is because semantics is important.
by jwally | 2025-08-02 13:30:23+00:00
Super interesting point that struck a chord with me. Without the risk of rejection, the ai will come off as a sycophantic ass kissing yes-man. It might be seductive at first but will get old fast for most people, I would imagine.

What would be really interesting is how much longer the relationship would last if it were formed on a social media site or forum where there is still some risk of rejection, and validation from others still has the feel of being earned.
by jkmcf | 2025-08-02 13:30:25+00:00
Apple has a ton of problems, but your comments don't address them (primarily the perceived decline in software quality and app store developer gouging).

While cool is subjective, what new, mass-market products should they create? Which product market should they "re-invent"? I wish they'd buy Sonos and fix that shit show, but that's not a profitable market to enter.

Barring the price jump around the iPhone 7, their smartphones have stayed about the same price. [1]

Over half of all smartphone repairs are battery replacements, which implies people don't take care of their batteries or are keeping their phones long enough to wear the battery down normally. [2] Additionally, Apple ranks very well in repairability. [3] They also support their phone's software longer on older devices than the competition.

[1] https://www.androidauthority.com/iphone-price-history-322149... [2] https://www.businessresearchinsights.com/market-reports/smar... [3] https://www.ifixit.com/repairability/smartphone-repairabilit...
by bamboozled | 2025-08-02 13:30:43+00:00
I didn't say the response was perfect and all advice was accurate, but neither is selling bullshit like Ivermectin for COVID with zero evidence it was effective.

It's wild to suggest the best way to deal with the next pandemic is less science, less experts. No it's more science and more experts, that's what's required to solve the next pandemic and climate change, and super bugs and more.

Your comment seems to suggest that we should throw away all knowledge and faith in institutions because the knowledge we had at the time of a very dynamic situation wasn't perfect or to your liking.

It's painful to read honestly.

Next pandemic, we should just try random off the shell treatments until we find something that sticks I guess. Screw the experts?
by Havoc | 2025-08-02 13:31:38+00:00
Even though I'm arguable among the target audience here so to speak I can't really wrap my head around this.

It's too steerable and just echos back whatever direction you take it. No own emotional state, interests, agency, variability etc. Even as a substitute for social interaction it feels so inadequate to be pointless.

Plenty of people do roleplaying and AI girlfriends etc so I guess it depends on the person?