MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Do you use the chat "Share" link as a save/load snapshot?
by TXTOS | 2025-08-21 06:41:12+00:00
i noticed something simple that’s been surprisingly useful. most chat UIs have a Share button. if you treat that shared link as a snapshot of the current state, you can later paste the link and reload the exact tuned persona/config without re-priming. feels like “save slot” for AI chats.

how i use it

quick start: 1) tune until behavior is right → 2) press Share, copy link → 3) paste next time to boot the same state

works for: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok

not true snapshots (in my tests): Mistral, Kimi (their “share” seems to export text, not state)

why it helps

reproducibility for A/B prompts and eval

faster incident response for RAG/OCR/agent pipelines (no re-tuning)

stable voice for long-form writing or T2I workflows

safe red-team vs blue-team comparisons in parallel tabs

open questions for HN

have you observed state fidelity differences across providers? which ones actually restore the same behavior?

any known privacy or retention pitfalls with shared links? do teams treat them as secrets?

tips to reduce drift after reload? warmup lines, pinned rules, or version tagging?

operational patterns you like? e.g., “master seed link → clone per task”, “creator/editor twin links”, audit tables, rotation cadence.

where does this fail? model/version swaps, truncation, context size, org policies, url lifespan?

sample use cases (compact)

RAG triage: one link per fault family (indexing, vector drift, routing)

prompt-injection lab: attacker link vs defender link, run side-by-side

writer flow: one “voice+outline” link, one “line-edit” link

SRE postmortem: template link with timeline + five-whys

i’m curious if others already do this, or if there are better patterns. what have you seen work or break?
by uoaei | 2025-08-21 06:41:57+00:00
Plex shows you both critic and audience scores from RT (IMDB also) and they indeed diverge consistently on the lines you suggest. In general I trust the audience scores a lot more because I'm trying to have fun watching movies rather than analyze their plot/pacing/cinematography/etc.

The audience can be trusted to know how to have fun. The discrepancy between critic and audience scores is also a valuable signal to judge how fun campy/schlocky/B-movie horror films particularly from the 80s and 90s.
by teddyh | 2025-08-21 06:42:04+00:00
> But really, I think [the graph] ultimately meaningless.

Then why did you use the graph — or at least the information it displays – as the finishing slam dunk point of your post?

> The Verisign graph 'teddyh keeps posting

I “keep posting” it because it’s a good solid counterargument, and it’s also very funny; I originally got the link from you, but as time goes by, the graph keeps proving you wrong.

> why the hell they had it enabled.

Yes, why does a security team have a security feature enabled? It is truly a mystery.

But wait, your main argument, in this post, is that nobody “popular” uses DNSSEC, but do you mean that you actually personally pressure all the popular ones who do use it, to stop? Does not that severely skew your data into irrelevance?
by wtallis | 2025-08-21 06:42:21+00:00
Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are the only three manufacturers doing leading-edge DRAM manufacturing, but there are other companies like Nanya that do older DRAM types and specialized DRAM parts for eg. embedded and industrial applications rather than PC, servers, and phones.

As for who makes the best RAM, it changes from one generation to the next, and also depends on what you consider "best": you might be looking for chips that overclock well in a desktop, or that are least likely to suffer compatibility issues and performance loss when maxing out the capacity in a desktop, or maybe "best" might mean who has the lowest-power LPDDR for your phone.

The DRAM parts made by the big three largely all adhere to the same standards (thought not necessarily all supporting the same frequencies), with the most significant recent example being GDDR6X that was essentially a NVIDIA-Micron exclusive partnership. For the most part, it's the latest iteration of DDR (desktops and servers), LPDDR (handhelds and low-power laptops), GDDR (GPUs), and HBM (more expensive GPUs).
by incangold | 2025-08-21 06:42:50+00:00
VAT can be considered a regressive tax because the poorer I am, the more of my money I spend on goods and services, and the less on savings and investments. As a proportion of income, poor people spend more on VAT than rich people. I think it’s about double, in the UK. So you’re right that cutting VAT helps richer people more in absolute terms. But in terms of of quality of life it helps poorer people more.

[edit] assuming we’re talking about VAT on things that everyone buys. Which is why tax codes often exempt essential items from VAT.
by mlyle | 2025-08-21 06:42:59+00:00
> I'm just interested in the undercurrent of why people seem to like this story

Nah, it's "holy shit radioactive cows causing single-event-upset!@"

It's the legend of the impossible to troubleshoot magical problem that actually makes perfect physical sense (even though it doesn't).

The communism-bad is merely an afterthought that adds a little more appeal to some people.

Indeed, my perspective reading this story... I need to teach a different group of students about SEU and SEL. The thought of radioactive cows from Chernobyl causing upsets is an absolutely "sticky" story that would make the idea of effects from ionizing radiation stay prominently in students' minds, and reinforce my position as a crazy teacher with students.

My reaction as I realized that it was BS and I couldn't justify using it was disappointment.
by zdc1 | 2025-08-21 06:43:43+00:00
Yeah, I'd love a personalised Tomatometer. I'd only get out of bed for something 4 stars (8/10) or above, so I'd love to know the percentage of audience/reviewers that scored like that.

This would also give "cult classics" and interesting/creative films that are more love-it-or-hate-it a bit more of an edge in ratings over the lukewarm Marvel slop we see these days.
by JPLeRouzic | 2025-08-21 06:43:59+00:00
Eric Berger wrote two books about SpaceX and deeply admires the early engineers who made SpaceX successful in a tough commercial setting.

It happens that SpaceX (and Elon Musk) changed as it grew into a large, greedy company. Now, there is a culture of pushing boundaries well beyond what is reasonable and feasible. The proposed return to the Moon with lot of Starships is a good example.
by starky | 2025-08-21 06:45:42+00:00
I recently had to replace my Pixel 7 Pro and went with the Galaxy S25. My hands are much larger than average and it is amazing how unweildy I find the Pixel 7 Pro is in comparison to the S25 even though the size difference doesn't seem that big when compared side to side. Makes me wonder how people with normal sized hands deal with the massive phones.
by t_mahmood | 2025-08-21 06:47:17+00:00
I had to fix my broken OnePlus 7t last year, with Lineage OS I don't miss a thing, except my bank app. For which I use an old Moto.

I used to be a flagship phone buyer all the time. But I now feel spending too much on a new phone is kind of a waste, as phones are getting too locked down to the users, and too open to the advertisers. I just want a phone where I can flash lineage OS, and done with it.

It's almost like buying hardware that are Linux friendly, a feat that was difficult once, now things are better. Really looking out for a Linux based phone that works
by self_awareness | 2025-08-21 06:48:30+00:00
Not all living things and not always. Some of them sacrifice themselves when they'll serve the purpose.

Fear can be understood as simply wiring that influences the behavior so that an organism is less likely to die. That's how I see fear of death. But sometimes death of an individual is a better solution for the group, or even for the organism itself. The problem with humans is that we have somehow developed a view that death is the ultimately worst thing to happen, and we evade it with all our imagination, trying to find elixirs of immortality since we are aware what's going on, no matter what, not matter the cost other species pay for us.

We don't see our limits and that's our problem, because we think we're exceptional and we deserve everything because of it. And it's very, very egocentric.

We are not exceptional, in the sense that we don't automatically deserve more because we can paint pictures or compose music. We value ourselves based on things that don't even matter to other species. Instead, what we should do is to accept the responsibility that comes with the effectiveness of our brains, and figure out how it fits in the bigger picture of the ecosystem we're living in. But all we do with it is we exploit everything, making it serve us, because "we're exceptional and we deserve it".

Even in this thread it's visible, people don't even spend a minute to consider this: 'whhatt?? humans not exceptional? i don't see any animals thinking about their exceptionalism, haha!'
by recursivecaveat | 2025-08-21 06:48:43+00:00
It seems to me creating a 5y list of daily goals is a recipe to immediately be behind on 1000s on tasks within a few weeks. The thing about estimates is the best case scenario is they take 0 time, worst case is unlimited. When you are planning 5y of tasks when you don't really even know what you're doing, a large majority will completely explode once you dig into them. I've never seen a detailed 5y plan hold up in any area, I'm sceptical to what extent the author has actually done so.

My advice to young people: focus on activities that have some combination of the traits: eventually mandatory, reduce uncertainty about the future, leave open further choices that interest you, benefit you if accomplished sooner.
by deathanatos | 2025-08-21 06:49:04+00:00
> Students are discouraged from using satnav. “Google Maps is full of errors and often calculates routes which are the quickest,” says Gert Kretov, an instructor at the Knowledge Point School. “We must learn the shortest route.”

… ??? But … why? Who is interested in the shortest route? I can see a customer caring about their time (and thus, would want Google Maps' quickest route) or their wallet (and would thus want the cheapest route — which is not necessarily the shortest as prices are based on time, as well as distance, traveled). TFA never elaborates.
by lmm | 2025-08-21 06:50:59+00:00
> The funny thing is e.g. in Canada, if you move there from certain countries, you can drive for 6 months on your foreign license, but then you have to take a road test to get a Canadian license!

That's pretty normal, a lot of countries do something similar. They want to permit tourists and people on temporary work assignments to drive, but if you're actually moving to Canada for the long term they expect you to take a proper test.
by orthoxerox | 2025-08-21 06:51:06+00:00
They are. For unlicensed fan translations of indie Japanese games the word "MTL" used to mean "unplayable translation quality" until maybe a year or two ago. Now ChatGPT can maintain enough context to translate the game mostly correctly. There are still cases when the names flip-flop between two plausible translations (e.g. Rina-Lina or "scroll of wisdom"-"sage scroll") or the gender is not inferred correctly, but they are rare enough that a single editor can crowdsource and apply the fixes. The prose itself is now finally legible and you don't feel like you're reading the clues to a cryptic crossword.
by mattikl | 2025-08-21 06:52:18+00:00
I've noticed for a long time that if I have participated in writing the code under review, I'm able to provide much more insight. I think what you're suggesting starts from thinking the code as "our code" instead of my code vs. your code, which so easily happens with pull requests. And learning to work iteratively instead of trying to be too perfect from the start, which goes well with methodologies like TDD.
by esperent | 2025-08-21 06:52:25+00:00
Every representation I've ever seen of Anubis - including remarkably well preserved statues from antiquity - are either a male human body with a canine head, or fully canine.

This anime girl is not Anubis. It's a modern cartoon characters that simply borrows the name because it sounds cool, without caring anything about the history or meaning behind it.

Anime culture does this all the time, drawing on inspiration from all cultures but nearly always only paying the barest lip service to the original meaning.

I don't have an issue with that, personally. All cultures and religions should be fair game as inspiration for any kind of art. But I do have an issue with claiming that the newly inspired creation is equivalent in any way to the original source just because they share a name and some other very superficial characteristics.
by jamesblonde | 2025-08-21 06:53:01+00:00
The architecture for this benchmark was parallel locust Python clients doing PK lookups via AWS load balancer to REST Servers for RonDB.

Cost wise, it was 0.0001% of the cost of running the same number of key lookups on DynamoDB.

RonDB is open-source - including the helm charts and grafana infrastructure.

Disclaimer: i work on rondb.
by pxc | 2025-08-21 06:53:01+00:00
> every. single. thing. was reimplemented inside nix

That's kinda what hermetic means, though, isn't it? Whether that's painful or not, that's pretty much exactly what GGP was asking for!

> Once one thing was outside of nix, everything exploded and writing a workaround was miserable because the nix configuration did not make it easy.

Nix doesn't make it easy to have Nix builds depend on non-Nix things (this is required for hermeticity), but the other way around is usually less troublesome.

Still, I know what you mean. What languages were you working in?
by wiether | 2025-08-21 06:53:43+00:00
First, this is what OP said:

> Even avid cyclists could never hit the kilometres travelled by your average car user in a year.

And you tell it yourself:

> Sure, there are some

So, if OP really thinks that no cyclist can ride more than what an average motorists drive a year, then even "but a truly tiny proportion" would appear as a surprise to them.

Also, just looking at my Strava right now, amongst the 30 friends that I follow (I'm picky on my follows), more than a third are on their way to ride more than 25k this year. The most advanced is going to reach 23k by the end of the day based on his current numbers and habbits.

How, where and when you ride your bike will be a huge factor in how much wear it gets. For instance, my commuter' chain usually get less than half the mileage that my road bike' chain get because city is dirty, I ride no matter the weather, don't clean the chain after each ride and keep putting strong torque since I constantly have to stop and start. Same goes for brake pads: when I commute I hardly do 200m without having to brake, whereas I can go for 20km without having to touch my brakes on my road bike.
by Rnonymous | 2025-08-21 06:53:58+00:00
I was under the impression that VAT taxes are considered to impact mostly the poor. While in absolute terms the rich are impacted most, in percentage terms VAT is considered a much smaller portion of expenses for the rich than the poor. I quote: "VAT is a regressive tax, putting more burden to the poor than to the rich. Indeed, VAT applies the same rate to everyone regardless of their level of wealth – but the richer you are, the lower the proportion of your revenue goes to consumption."
by tomsto | 2025-08-21 06:54:30+00:00
In defence of the black cab, if there is any sort of surge pricing in Uber, the black cab is typically cheaper if you can find one. Apps like Gett solve the ‘not knowing the price upfront’ problem, prebooking and hailing.

I think black cabs are a lot easier if you have lots of luggage, or especially if you have a pram/stroller. Rearward facing seats are safer for kids and cabs seat six comfortably. And the final big advantage: in London, black cabs get to use the bus lanes which can save inordinate amounts of time at rush hour.

I still use Uber all the time but I just thought I would add some balance!
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-21 06:54:37+00:00
Sort of. There are at least two, overlapping aspects to Israel affinity: religion and money.

The Christian right are selective, fatalistic "Zionists" with magical thinking beliefs that, in their view, lasts until the apocalypse because they believe some Jews will convert and others will meet a bad end. Since they don't really care about Jews except as a means to end everything and meet Jesus, does that count as "Zionism"?

Rich, authoritarian criminals. Which is a bit redundant because "rich" suffices. Netanyahu and Trump are both in roughly similar predicaments compared to extreme examples like Putin and Kim Jong Un. They've done things to anger ordinary people but refuse to concede power for fear of prosecution or worse, and so do everything to insulate and extend their rules.
by dijit | 2025-08-21 06:54:43+00:00
The annoying thing about cloudflare is that most of the time once you’re blocked: you’re blocked.

There’s literally no way for you to bypass the block if you’re affected.

Its incredibly scary, I once had a bad useragent (without knowing it) and half the internet went offline, I couldn’t even access documentation or my email providers site, and there was no contact information or debugging information to help me resolve it: just a big middle finger for half the internet.

I haven’t had issues with any sites using Anubis (yet), but I suspect there are ways to verify that you’re a human if your browser fails the automatic check at least.
by prmoustache | 2025-08-21 06:54:52+00:00
Something must be wrong on your flagship smartphone because I have an entry level one that doesn't take that long.

It seems there is a large number of operations crawling the web to build models that aren't using directly infrastructure hosted on AI farms BUT botnet running on commodity hardware and residencial networks to circumvent their ip range from being blacklisted. Anubis point is to block those.
by s_gourichon | 2025-08-21 06:55:58+00:00
Maybe the rabbit hole is much deeper than it seems.

Is it really possible to reconcile "no bloat" with "fully standard compliant"?

Maybe have a look at https://github.com/eyalroz/printf, if only for the test suite, which looks pretty comprehensive and still fails.

Maybe "key features" does not mean the same in all projects, making every project appear "unnecessarily bloated while missing key features" in every other context?
by taway2039458768 | 2025-08-21 06:56:35+00:00
Thank you for sharing this. I am truly glad to hear that this works for you. This resonates a lot with me, and I hope to acquire the same wisdom.

Similarly, as a goal-oriented person I used a variation of the "Waffle House" method, until I turned 40 not long ago. I still have tons of pages in my personal Wiki with life goals, 5-year goals, goals by year, objectives, GTD lists, etc. It served me well, and I am convinced that it is a valid method, up to a point. In big part thanks to this method I also ticked some "societal and cultural expectation boxes". I would cautiously recommend it to younger people too, provided that it matches their personality.

Then, this goal-orientedness fell apart from about age 38 to 40. Having achieved a number of the goals (reasonable ones, nothing to an excess), suddenly all other "goals" turned into a set of stressors. Some - because I doubt I can ever achieve those, others - because I question whether those are what I really want. I accepted the former, but the latter is harder to figure out. This resulted in a 2-year-long haze. The instinctive approach appeals a lot - I would like to think that I have built enough core values to navigate through life intuitively and respecting who I really am. But it also scares, because it sounds like giving up some some control.

Would love to hear the thoughts of those who went through this already. And with all my love, I sincerely wish everyone who reads this to figure out the life!
by jillesvangurp | 2025-08-21 06:57:14+00:00
Germany uses 7% VAT on books and a few other things (taxi rides, food). 19% is the regular VAT tariff. But going out for food and drinks is still reasonably affordable here compared to other EU countries (and never mind the UK and US where this is super expensive). I buy a lot of ebooks as well.

I'm definitely a bit price sensitive. For me the sweet spot is around 10 euros. Anything above is kind of a big expense and I'll think twice. But a book priced around 7 euros I'll just buy it even if I'm not 100% sure if I'll like it. I might be reading a lot less if those prices were creeping up. So, I can see how this might help more Danes get more into reading.

Reading books is something that high school erodes as a pleasurable activity (by making you read the wrong stuff). I got back into reading after high school when I was again able to read what I wanted and when I wanted again but not everybody does that. I was actually reading a lot before going to high school.

I expect that the Danish educational system might be hammering the fun out of reading in a similar way. Getting kids to read is easier if you give them the right books. If you've ever seen a small kid completely absorbed in a book you know what I'm talking about. I was like that. Force feeding kids dreary literary works is not necessarily the best way to get people into reading. The main learning that re-enforces in kids is that apparently they don't like reading. It's counter productive.

And of course the elephant in the room here is that Denmark is not a big country and that there are probably only so many Danish authors actually worth reading. A good benchmark would be counting the ones that get translated and have an international audience. The same is true in the Netherlands. Only a handful of authors that publishers consider worth translating. And of course the education system puts a lot of emphasis on a handful of native authors that the rest of the world would never have heard about.
by yorwba | 2025-08-21 06:57:46+00:00
In 2015 (or some other year), they calculated the bottom quintile (or maybe quartile) score of students on some reading assessment, declared this to be the lowest level of reading competency, and wrote a helpful explanation that people who score at the lowest level of reading competency struggle with simple texts. But there's no single simple text that you could point to where people below the threshold completely fail to understand it and people above the threshold easily breeze through.

Because reading competency isn't binary like that. Reading competency is binary in that complete illiterates cannot read at all and people who aren't complete illiterates typically can read quite a lot, but there probably aren't enough actual illiterates in Denmark to produce scary-sounding statistics. So instead you get arbitrary thresholds that don't mean what they claim to mean.
by starky | 2025-08-21 06:57:51+00:00
>The performance is just unacceptable, it's already 50%+ slower than a snapdragon 8 elite flagship released in the same year.

This is the one thing I don't understand. How many people actually need the top end SoCs that other flagships come with. Phones have been more than fast enough for a long time now. Other than playing some games with tough visuals mid range SoCs are still more than powerful enough.

Complaints about battery life and the modems are fair (though I never had complaints about my Pixel 7 Pro battery life until it failed).

I also found that the photos from my Pixel were by far the best I'd ever seen from a phone. Every phone I had prior was only used for quick snapshots, if I was expecting to want to take something decent I would make sure to pack my mirrorless, with the Pixel I could actually trust it to take an acceptable photo.