MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by varenc | 2025-08-21 03:58:45+00:00
Here's some other US federal agencies that also have annual budgets bigger than most of the world's militaries:

- Food and Nutrition Service (USDA) (~$142B) - NIH (~$47B) - Tenant-Based Rental Assistance / Housing Choice Vouchers (HUD) (~$36B) - Pell Grant Program (~$34.5B) - Federal Highway Administration (DOT) (~$62.8B) - Environmental Protection Agency (~$41B, might be out of date) - Department of Energy (~$58B) - Department of State (~$58B) - Department of Housing and Urban Development (~$62B) - Department of Labor (~$98B)

Of course, none of those are ICE. What’s more interesting is that ICE’s budget jumped from $8B to ~$37B—a nearly five-fold increase. That should be the headline.

Comparing it to national militaries is a bit silly IMHO, since as the world’s largest economy the US federal government spends heavily across almost every sector.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-21 03:59:12+00:00
> What privacy feature are you looking for that Pixels don't supply?

Opt-in cross app tracking instead of opt-out, but if Google can get all apps on board with their new privacy sandbox thing that'll be less relevant.

More importantly, an equivalent to Apple's advanced data protection for all Google services & backups. I want full E2EE for photos, notes, backups, passwords, bookmarks, etc. I want built-in hide my email to gmail, I want to be able to turn off network access for any app I want in the permission settings. I want Google to treat Android as something completely separate from their advertising business instead of an extension of it as a source of data collection.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-08-21 03:59:39+00:00
I'll do my best. Basically, the UK has signed up to various Human rights treaties which means that anybody who comes into the country by any means has right to claim asylum. While their asylum claim is being processed the UK government must provide them with food and shelter. Many asylum requests are granted on spurious grounds, and often even when rejected the individual still stays in the UK for a variety of reasons.

In the past few years there have been huge numbers of illegal immigrants abusing that system. And successive governments have absolutely no strategy for dealing with it. Hence record numbers of illegal immigration and a huge bill.

Really the whole situation is painfully dumb, but the politicians and civil servants couldn't care because they don't suffer from the consequences of their own incompetence.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-21 03:59:48+00:00
Electrek is pretty biased politically so this article should be taken with a grain of salt. Half of Britain is probably pro Musk. Buried deep in the article are the details, which is basically that a left leaning activist political group ran a campaign to flood the regulator with comments opposed to Tesla virtual power plants. That’s it. So it’s not about “Brits” in general but just one group using its members to fake the appearance of mass opposition.
by creatonez | 2025-08-21 04:00:17+00:00
Huh, why would they need the unbranded version? The branded version works just fine. It's usually easier to deploy ordinary open source software than it is for software that needs to be licensed, because you don't need special download pages or license keys.

If it makes sense for an organization to donate to a project they rely on, then they should just donate. No need to debrand if it's not strictly required, all that would do is give the upstream project less exposure. For design reasons maybe? But LKML isn't "designed" at all, it has always exposed the raw ugly interface of mailing list software.

Also, this brand does have trust. Sure, I'm annoyed by these PoW captcha pages, but I'm a lot more likely to enable Javascript if it's the Anubis character, than if it is debranded. If it is debranded, it could be any of the privacy-invasive captcha vendors, but if it's Anubis, I know exactly what code is going to run.
by wtallis | 2025-08-21 04:01:22+00:00
I think SK Hynix's NAND business may have already been bigger than Intel's NAND business when they made that acquisition. Certainly by then SK Hynix had recovered from being late to the 3D NAND transition, while Intel was on a worse technological trajectory with their roadmap that diverged from the rest of the industry.

Your impression that they were at all new to the SSD market is largely due to the fact that SK Hynix operated mainly as a component supplier, and has never pursued promotion of their own retail SSD brand the way Samsung does. Hynix was a major player in the NAND industry before the SSD market as we know it even existed, and has been a major supplier of SSDs to PC OEMs for as long as PC OEMs have been buying SSDs in large volumes.
by kubectl_h | 2025-08-21 04:01:34+00:00
Same. I work at a place that has gone pretty hard into AI coding, including onboarding managers into using it to get them into the dev lifecycle, and it definitely puts an inordinate amount of pressure on senior engineers to scrutinize PRs much more closely. This includes much more thorough reviews of tests as well since AI writes both the implementation and tests.

It's also caused an uptick in inbound to dev tooling and CI teams since AI can break things in strange ways since it lacks common sense.
by godelski | 2025-08-21 04:03:09+00:00
> I pay with debit/credit cards but I don't have any digital wallet. I don't take my phone with me most of the time (my phone is big and having it hanging in my pockets is not nice).

I hate having things in my pockets, so that's actually why I like digital wallets. Honestly I'd rather forgo my phone but it is easier to give up my wallet, which is only carried for the ID.

But I've also recently moved away from flagship phones and I really don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. I also used to root devices and underclock them after having them for some years to help extend their lives. Similarly I didn't feel like I was missing out on much. But at the same time, whenever a new phone would drop I'd feel like there was this cool new feature yet when I actually had it in my hands none of those features were actually that big of a deal. Even if nice. So moving to a non-flagship is nice entirely due to it being smaller and fitting in my pocket better. And it's not all about the thickness...

> Which is weird again, because I'm supposed to be the "geek".

I don't think it is weird. I think it is just that innovation has slowed down but marketing hasn't.

I mean there's still lots of things to geek out about and lots of dreams and fantasies about the future and tech that just don't have anything to do with the current direction of innovation.
by eqvinox | 2025-08-21 04:03:48+00:00
TFA — and most comments here — seem to completely miss what I thought was the main point of Anubis: it counters the crawler's "identity scattering"/sybil'ing/parallel crawling.

Any access will fall into either of the following categories:

- client with JS and cookies. In this case the server now has an identity to apply rate limiting to, from the cookie. Humans should never hit it, but crawlers will be slowed down immensely or ejected. Of course the identity can be rotated — at the cost of solving the puzzle again.

- amnesiac (no cookies) clients with JS. Each access is now expensive.

(- no JS - no access.)

The point is to prevent parallel crawling and overloading the server. Crawlers can still start an arbitrary number of parallel crawls, but each one costs to start and needs to stay below some rate limit. Previously, the server would collapse under thousands of crawler requests per second. That is what Anubis is making prohibitively expensive.
by creatonez | 2025-08-21 04:03:49+00:00
Anubis has nothing to do with Kiwiflare, there's no connection at all. It's not the same codebase, and the inspiration for Anubis comes from Hashcash (1997) and numerous other examples of web PoW that predate Kiwiflare, which perhaps tens of thousands of websites were already using as an established technique. What makes you think it is a clone of it?
by failiaf | 2025-08-21 04:04:51+00:00
this is where the advances in collaboration come in; it's a way out for them because existing editors are largely stuck with git and are patching ai on top of everything.

zed came at the incredibly (un?)fortunate timing where they were just able to build a solid base before the editor wars began. their only path now is to fully maximize the few advantages they do have:

* a fresh base that is far more flexible

* really good experience with performance, design, general craftmanship

* a buzzy community and fresh/boldness that attracts vcs

for zed to truly win (at least in sequioa's eyes) they will need to completely take over vscode as the new default, and that will require a big lead when it comes to collaboration and ai
by mdaniel | 2025-08-21 04:05:22+00:00
I'm not a ML engineer, so I can speak to the "non MLE" bit from my perspective

(literal tl;dr: learning and experimentation opportunity)

1. Since it's just PyTorch, that means one can run it locally upon whatever accelerator you have that PyTorch supports. For quite a few people that includes Metal Performance Shaders: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/mps.html

I can attest that building PyTorch from git is achievable in about 15 minutes on my M1 Pro, if you really want to chase the rabbithole. Cloning PyTorch is its own special 'please. wait.', but building it is fine

2. Since it's (of the ones that I've looked at) approximately 500 lines long, it's much, much, much more digestable than a lot of the vomit that comes out of so-called production systems. Those systems usually have only heard about typed Python in passing, and they believe it is a fad that will blow over. The ones in this repo aren't stellar about it, but at 500 lines it's easily achievable to type hint the code yourself, which can serve as an excellent learning opportunity

3. PyTorch offers some fun conversion tools, also, allowing one to compare-and-contrast how it executes under Torch versus ONNX <https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/onnx.html>, TorchScript <https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.jit.sav...>, CoreML <https://apple.github.io/coremltools/docs-guides/source/conve...>, or a bazillion other competing frameworks

4. Related, one can play around with quantization and other "inference related" concerns (e.g. https://github.com/pytorch/ao#pytorch-native-training-to-ser... )

5. Further related, one can play around with the fine-tuning mentioned elsewhere, to better understand what is and isn't possible to achieve using that process. Because the code is digestable, and the models are reasonably sized (Qwen 0.6B weighs only 1.4GB and is Apache 2), it brings FAFO opportunities in ways that gpt-oss-20b (or bigger!) won't

I do appreciate that some of what I said may skate close to "ML engineer" concerns, so obviously your situation will be different, but for me having a better grip on how these things work enables me to have better conversations with my colleagues and also helps trip my bullshit detector when someone claims they're the second coming and are going to cure cancer or whatever
by blehn | 2025-08-21 04:06:13+00:00
Manual transmissions have no practical benefit aside from arguably being easier to repair. A better car analogy is pickup trucks (and cars in generally really) — they've gotten huge over the years, compact pickups have disappeared, and you hear the same arguments about it being a niche audience. The reality is that as soon as something sells well (big trucks in this case), these big corporations go all in on it and alienate large segments. Now 25 year old compact Tacomas are selling for as much as their MSRP and manufacturers (Toyota, Ford, Hyundai) are all scrambling to ship a compact. It's the same with small phones — the industry over-rotated on big phones and as soon as someone ships a good small phone, it'll be a hit and small phones will come back. iPhone Mini was a crippled device compared to the Pro line and it still sold millions. Google and Samsung haven't even tried to make something compact, let alone compact and good.
by k310 | 2025-08-21 04:06:46+00:00
Icloud email works fine. With icloud plu$, you can alias fake email addresses that forward to your inbox and can be deactivated if and when they collect spam.

Firefox said on the most recent update that it also offers email aliases (but forward to what? I didn't check)

There are also some security features (in settings) standard.

I tried to stop message threading, but Apple Mail still offers "context", which tucks a previous message below the current one. In my case, I replied to an individual in a group message, and they replied to me individually, but it looked for all hell like the reply was to the group, which was an embarrassing optical illusion.

I really ask email to do as litte as possible.

A lot of my (extremely long) Apple experience consists of turning off gratuitous features that interfere with my workflow. But mail is reliable, and also accessible at icloud.com (log in) if you enable icloud web access.
by motoxpro | 2025-08-21 04:08:15+00:00
They exist already.

The more basic solution is for the non-profit to just add the info. Grab a squarespace template and just type in the info.

If anything, someone should just make an AI that sucks in all the things she mentioned and add it to the NPO's pages. As she mentioned, most NPO work is just marketing and fundraising, and hopefully a little bit of doing some of the work you started it for.
by godelski | 2025-08-21 04:09:19+00:00
I can be totally wrong, but I feel like that's a thing that sounds better on paper. I'm sure there's ways to do this correctly but every instance I've seen has created division and paid testers/QC less. Which I'd say the lower pay is a strong signal of it being considered second class. Has anyone seen this work successfully?

I also think there's benefits to review being done by devs. They're already deep in the code and review does have a side benefit of broadening that scope. Helping people know what others are doing. Can even help serve as a way to learn and improve your development. I guess the question is how valuable these things are?
by reillyse | 2025-08-21 04:09:20+00:00
Right, you propagate it for a specific reason presumably, because you think it teaches them something about something even if it might not be true.

So that is your reason there.

I'm just interested in the undercurrent of why people seem to like this story and I think it pretty much is "Communism Bad" even though as mentioned otherwhere in this thread (and by me) capitalism has an awful record when it comes to food quality the one thing that is being knocked in this story.
by shayief | 2025-08-21 04:09:39+00:00
Gitpatch attempts to solve this. Supports versioned patches and patch stacks (aka stacked PRs). Also handles force-pushes in stacks correctly even without Change-IDs using heuristics based on title, author date etc. It should also be unusually fast. Disclosure: I'm the author.

I'm not convinced that review comments as commits make thing easier, but I think storing them in git in some way is a good idea (i.e. git annotations or in commit messages after merge etc)
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-21 04:12:42+00:00
Both three.js and Lume have css 3d renderers, fwiw. I forget where there.js is but Lume's also supports a mixed mode too.

https://docs.lume.io/guide/rendering-modes https://threejs.org/docs/#examples/en/renderers/CSS3DRendere...

I don't think either has lighting though! Holy macrel!
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-21 04:13:04+00:00
My experience would be the opposite. I'm not goal oriented

> Instead I now just trust my instincts and follow what seems interesting or meaningful to me right now

for me that means watching anime, playing video games, reading HN and social media, and maybe writing small programs like solving S.O. questions, And now I look back, have accomplished nothing of significance, and have huge regrets. Regrets that I didn't set goals and work toward them so that I'd be in a better position in my life than I am now.

Not sure the OPs method will change that. In fact the OPs method sounds like using the waterfall method for life planning. That also doesn't sound like it would work for me
by monkeyelite | 2025-08-21 04:13:29+00:00
I still don’t understand the excitement here other than it’s related to computers. Will formalizing it make it easier for us to understand the core ideas or arguments? I don’t think it will - that would best be done by reading Wile’s paper which is written with that goal in mind.

Given that it was a research frontier where arguments assume an educated audience, it's probably very difficult to formalize.
by benreesman | 2025-08-21 04:13:44+00:00
I think jujitsu is interesting it it's own right!

It seems non-obvious that you would have to prohibit git commands in general, they're already "buyer beware" with the current tool (and arcanist for that matter). Certainly a "strict mode" where only well-behaved trees could interact with the tool creates scope for all kinds of performance and robustness optimizations (and with reflog bisecting it could even tell you where you went off script).

I was more referring to the compromises that gt has to make to cope with arbitrary GitHub PRs seem a lot more fiddly than directly invoking git, but that's your area of expertise and my anecdote!

Broad strokes I'm excited for the inevitable decoupling of gt from GitHub per se, it was clearly existential for zero to one, but you folks are a first order surface in 2025.

Keep it up!
by eqvinox | 2025-08-21 04:15:26+00:00
I neither understand where the HN title line is coming from, nor what this report is trying to tell me. AI is introducing high severity bugs rather than low severity ones? That's… bad? Is this based on actual reports, or it's own analysis? Actual reports will have survivorship bias since higher severities are reported more actively and quicker…

Anyway, I see numbers but no message.
by famouswaffles | 2025-08-21 04:15:30+00:00
Yeah and his point is that's never going to happen lol. People bring up the 100% point a lot and it's a bit silly because a movie with a significant number of ratings is never going to have that kind of distribution.

That's why it's always a hypothetical never backed with actual examples. It's one of those things that sounds plausible until you look at the numbers. Movies close to 100% have pretty high average scores and Movies with majority 3/5's are nowhere near 100%.

Yeah 100% for RT doesn't mean 10/10, but that's it.
by rs186 | 2025-08-21 04:16:04+00:00
> I love the idea of an on-device model

My impression is that most people here haven't tried similar small models and don't have first hand experience with them. They are, to be honest, terrible. They may be good for certain tasks, but are much weaker than something like GPT4. I don't feel excited about these small models that are not fast yet hallucinate all the time.
by RobRivera | 2025-08-21 04:16:36+00:00
I personally resonate with this take, being a high achiever student in early life and ambitious career seeker into adulthood. While I had my own 'meta' for how to mine certain decades for value (skill buffing, exploration, etc) it is still both scary and liberating to take a step off the planned path knowing deep in your bones it is for the better.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-08-21 04:16:55+00:00
Note that Python, in 2022, adopted a "target tier policy" based on the one I wrote for Rust in 2019. (See https://peps.python.org/pep-0011/ , history at https://peps.python.org/pep-0011/#discussions ; original Rust version at https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/target-tier-policy.h... .)

It's important for projects to distinguish between "this might or might not work but it's nobody's job to support it" versus "people depend on this and will keep it working", so that people don't build on the former and think it's the latter. The latter requires active support and widespread user/developer interest, as well as comparable support from the upstream projects you build on (something shouldn't be tier 1 for you if it's tier 3 for one of your critical dependencies).

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673439 for a comment from last time this came up.

s390x is currently supported by Rust, at tier 2, including host tools: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support/s39... .
by gnerd00 | 2025-08-21 04:17:21+00:00
As an American, I was fascinated to see an interview with an older Italian farm owner. She employed Sikhs in eastern Italy for farm labor. In the Italian language interview she explained like she was talking to a close friend, how actually the Sikhs eat their children back home, due to starvation... as if she was sharing a secret! (hint- this is wildly false and outrageous to say it)

In other words, I do not believe for one second that this farming operation was anything other than a sweatshop, with dangerous conditions and stolen pay. The look on the face of the farmer in the article adds no confidence that this is not the case. For those reading that do not believe that people work in these conditions, in the USA in 2025, then I suggest you do some homework.
by Dansvidania | 2025-08-21 04:17:25+00:00
I feel you. I cannot offer much more than that, but if you care for a friendly advice from someone who is still in the same situation and very much still working on it, setting goals became another way to procrastinate for me.

It is cliche, but system over goals has helped me.. or I guess you could see it as microgoals one does not need to think about much.

Write code for at least X hours per day, read a book for X amount of time, exercise X days a week.

It gives me a checkbox to tick and no overhead in thinking about what goals are achievable, what are desirable.. etc.
by ccwu9999 | 2025-08-21 04:18:06+00:00
You are right. I bought (well my parents did) and it came with a complimentary upgrade. We installed the chip and it was great but the driver was not universal so it printed out with a slow stretch so the lines would go downward on the right side. We took it back for tech support and it turned out it was a software issue. My first lesson in debugging goes up the stack. (I was like 13 I think)
by BobDaHacker | 2025-08-21 04:19:43+00:00
I do want people's privacy to be protected, this app has been insecure since day one, and they obviously don't care, it's been 9 months. I posted about it since they obviously didnt give a shit, because this will now hopefully force them to actually fix it.

Instead of fixing these issues they have been implement "ai matchmaking" like that is more important.

And these fixes aren't that hard either. Its not rocket science.

My goal is not to get hired, my goal is to hold them responsible and hopefully make them fucking fix it.

I hate companies that don't give a rats ass about their users security and waste time making ai shit instead of fixing their problems cuz they dont care.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-21 04:22:04+00:00
McDonalds made $14B in profit last year (2024).

Greedflation Is Back as Corporations Use the Tariff Excuse to Hike Prices - https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/inflation-is-heating-up-a... - August 14th, 2025

On Inflation: It's the Monopoly Profits, Stupid - https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/on-inflation-its-the-mono... - June 22, 2022
by freddie_mercury | 2025-08-21 04:22:19+00:00
Kind of weird framing as "historic" and "violated the Constitution" when the actual decision from the court just says,

"Following the Supreme Court’s recent decision in SEC v. Jarkesy, 603 U.S. 109 (2024), we hold that Sun Valley was entitled to have its case decided by an Article III court."

Usually it is a non-story when lower courts start following a brand new Supreme Court precedent. Not sure why this one is on HN or why even really why it warranted 10,000 words in the original link.