MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-27 01:59:11+00:00
"Inferior?" Neuralink's tech is SOTA.

Before Neuralink, there was no major investment into BCI tech as far as eye could see - because medicine is where innovation goes to die. We've gone from Utah arrays in 1990 to Utah arrays in 2020. All while computing and AI - the other key enablers of neural interfaces - advanced in leaps and bounds.
by kube-system | 2025-08-27 01:59:29+00:00
Usually the tail end of legacy systems are adequately supported by new-old-stock for quite a while.

e.g. 3.5" floppies are 40 years old, were obsolete 25 years ago, went out of production 15 years ago, and are just about ready to deplete their stock today. Yes, there are flash-to-floppy adapter, and a similar thing may happen for SATA, but we may not see that as a necessity until 2050.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-08-27 02:00:17+00:00
Sure, but I did choose my words precisely for that reason. That's why I said it usually correlates with hours. Hours of labor put in is not the metric that makes art worth it to me, it's more a question of a skilled artist ensuring their message comes through, in the highest "resolution" possible, which requires a high amount of attention to detail, and usually requires a good amount of labor for the output to be interesting.
by transpute | 2025-08-27 02:01:10+00:00
Fuzzing is one approach.

"Fuzzing ImageIO" (2020), https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/04/fuzzing-image...

> This blog post discusses an old type of issue, vulnerabilities in image format parsers, in a new(er) context: on interactionless code paths in popular messenger apps. This research was focused on the Apple ecosystem and the image parsing API provided by it: the ImageIO framework. Multiple vulnerabilities in image parsing code were found, reported to Apple or the respective open source image library maintainers, and subsequently fixed. During this research, a lightweight and low-overhead guided fuzzing approach for closed source binaries was implemented and is released alongside this blogpost.

"ImageIO, the infamous iOS Zero Click Attack Vector" (2024), https://r00tkitsmm.github.io/fuzzing/2024/03/29/iOSImageIO.h...

> I used LLDB to examine the testHeader functions, it turned out there are three new testHeader functions for different file formats, such as KTX2 and WebP and ETC, so because they were fairly new I thought maybe they have not been fuzzed by Project Zero... I ported Project Zero’s harness to Jackalope fuzzer.. My fuzzing effort found several vulnerabilities [fixed by Apple]..
by thewanderer1983 | 2025-08-27 02:01:49+00:00
Similiar tech was used for screeners to try and track leakers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screener_(promotional) Printer Tracking dots is another example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

For those interested in modern solutions. Look at watermark researchpapers.r
by jakeydus | 2025-08-27 02:01:53+00:00
I don’t hate him. I think he’s a sad, small man who makes himself feel big by being a bully and faking technical experience and knowledge. I think his fans confuse being in the right place at the right time in possession significant capital as genius. I think he is an incredibly toxic public figure. I think farming outrage and feeding trolls is bad for everyone. I think Nazi salutes are bad. I think that lying is bad. I think abandoning children is bad. I think buddying up with fascists is bad.

So sure maybe I miss out on his generous acts but honestly he does enough bad that I don’t particularly care about any good he does. He’s only doing it for himself anyway.
by Intermernet | 2025-08-27 02:02:15+00:00
I had to automate a Fiery controller on a Konica Minolta network printer about 20 years ago. It was running vxworks. I used expect.

I've automated certificate upgrades on everything from dodgy network appliances to IBM System i servers.

I've used everything from headless browsers to scripted 5250 terminal emulators. Generally, if you have the will, you can automate anything that you do manually. The solutions are often janky, but they can usually be verified easily by other tools (curl output can be parsed to verify cert details).
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-27 02:02:23+00:00
I already answered this

If you are a person who has shown traits of very low intelligence, any fact you state has to have concrete evidence, especially if its something that is not easily verifiable.

Meanwhile people who have generally shown themselves to be more intelligent can generally be trusted more from the start.

>t is _not_ obviously the case that "anyone who can think critically leans towards the Democratic party"

Yes it is. Conservatism comes from not being able to comprehend reality around you correctly. Anything rational in the conservative movement (like sensible gun rights) is already a part of modern liberal Democrats, while the rest of the stuff is just objectively and verifiably wrong.

And just for clarity, its not my side versus your side. The far left movements that lean towards hard socialism and abandonment of private property are also verifiably wrong. This is part of horseshoe effect in politics.
by bjourne | 2025-08-27 02:03:03+00:00
I have a ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405 and it's the same here - thermals are shit. I can't watch a yt video without the fan spinning up. I can in mplayer though, so there must be something in the desktop tech stack that prevents the cores from sleeping. Maybe it's Wayland which I've noticed is sluggy sometimes or maybe Linux tcp/ip handling of video streams isn't optimized for energy-efficiency. The stack is so deep that finding the culprit is probably impossible.
by gus_massa | 2025-08-27 02:05:06+00:00
A few "stablecoins" can be used to make deposits with a high interest rate. The assets that back up this interest come from ... ¿thin air? So they collapse sooner or later.

I think there are a few full backed stablecoins without shenanigans, but they are not so popular because you don't get a high interest "without risks".
by defrost | 2025-08-27 02:05:43+00:00
Not the somewhat recently popular specific household commercial gadgets for cooling and heating a home, no.

Just thermodynamic pumping of heat, from the article:

Electricity from the solar arrays flows to heating elements in the earthen mound, building up heat. The storage temperature is 600 °C or higher. The outer mass of the mound, plus a favorable volume-to-area ratio, insulates and minimizes heat loss. Pipes embedded in the mound carry fluid that delivers heat to users.

and at industrial scale, using bleeding edge HVAC technological advances, it's all about the creation, storage, and pumping of heat.
Built a full-stack QR code app with auth in 15 minutes using InstantDB
by zlwaterfield | 2025-08-27 02:06:12+00:00
I'm genuinely blown away by the developer experience at https://www.instantdb.com

Following their tutorial (https://instantdb.com/tutorial), I built this open-source QR code generator with authentication in under 15 minutes while sitting in an Uber.

Demo: https://qr-vibes.vercel.app

Source code: https://github.com/zlwaterfield/qr-vibes

What made this special: the app itself isn't groundbreaking even a little bit – it's the build experience that impressed me. This was hands down the simplest auth + database + full app setup I've ever experienced.

What worked incredibly well:

- High-quality documentation (claude.md + instant-rules.md) gave my LLM perfect context

- Schema design is incredibly intuitive

- Authentication is dead simple to implement

- Real-time engine makes auth hooks and db calls lightning fast

Here's an example redirect link for the deployed app: https://qr-vibes.vercel.app/r/8lCThR8u.
by _heimdall | 2025-08-27 02:06:31+00:00
It should be up to the individual to decide whether they want to modify their car.

Say you put aftermarket brakes on your car and they fail, causing an accident that harms someone else. The person who changed their brakes should be held liable legally, its as simple as that. Owners that choose to change their car and do a piss poor job of it are held accountable for their actions and others considering similar modifications can choose to learn the lesson.

Yes that means people could be harmed in the process, but regulations themselves harm people too. There's no way around the fact that one way or another people may get harmed during their lifetime. In the long run regulations just guarantee that, should the wrong people take power, the regulations and authority that originally allowed regulations will be abused.

I'm actually surprised I haven't seen more push back on government authority given everything Trump is either doing or claiming he will do. The president should be largely an anemic office acting more as a figurehead than anything else. We've given them the power to effectively legislate with no oversight, that why he may be able to do so much harm.
by hhhAndrew | 2025-08-27 02:06:50+00:00
(Maybe skip the mini-insults & make the site nicer for all?)

Anyway I think GP has a point worth considering. I have had a related hope in the context of journalism / chain of trust that was mentioned above: if anyone can produce a Faux News Channel tailored to their own quirks on demand, and can see everyone else doing the same, will it become common knowledge that Stuff Can Be Fake, and motivate people to explicitly decide about trust beyond "Trust Screens"?
by CGamesPlay | 2025-08-27 02:07:16+00:00
Not in Apple's nomenclature, it isn't. An App specifically refers to a folder named ".app" with an info.plist and a binary inside of it. It can also contain a bunch of other metadata and application data. To apple, a "CLI app" as you call it is just the binary (a single file).

But the real distinction is that the "Apple App" manages its preferences in-app. The "CLI app" does not, the user is expected to manage this configuration themselves.
by deviantintegral | 2025-08-27 02:07:35+00:00
What about MiniPCs that support serial console or network connectivity for BIOS / UEFI access? When I looked for a new router, I couldn't find any of the usual "cheap" suspects that supported that. As well, most didn't have anything better than 1 GBit network ports.

I ended up going with a more expensive mini-PC style vendor, but I was surprised there didn't seem to be a ton of competitors.
by efitz | 2025-08-27 02:07:45+00:00
I don’t know who TF this is but he is not a significant figure on the US political right.

The only places I can find on the web that connect Andreessen or Thiel to Yarvin are mid- to far-left web sites.

I am not claiming that the guy is or isn’t a kook- the article certainly makes him sound like one but I have 0 familiarity or corroborating sources that don’t share a political motivation for demonizing the guy.

I am also not making any assertion about past or present affiliation or shared political values between Thiel or Andreesen, and Yarvin. Again, I have no independent information.

So overall I just don’t care and don’t see that this establishes any sort of pattern or is anything other than a hit piece.

It doesn’t belong here on HN IMO.
by tootie | 2025-08-27 02:08:42+00:00
I'm seriously not getting something about the entire argument in this blog post. How does a 10% equity stake make Intel more stable? At best it props up the stock price for a minute. If Intel continues to founder, then what? Federal government will buy more shares? Sell them? How does it affect the company's performance or decisions? Gov is not taking a board seat.
by AuthAuth | 2025-08-27 02:09:07+00:00
I am new here (only browsed for a few months) but my impression was big tech programmers who are pro AI and pro big Tech. Complete strawman but the type of people who say "Yeah linux and ethical tech is to much work i'd rather get a $4000 macbook and use whatever big tech service works with the least amount of friction".

I like it here because people seem to actually be open to the idea that tech might be good but are still critical when it sucks. Other places I browse (lemmy) are instantly against AI and big tech which is fair but less interesting to read.
by dlivingston | 2025-08-27 02:12:41+00:00
Reading your linked article, it's clear that this was viewed as absolute quackery even back then, and is about as conflict-of-interesty as you can get: commissioned by Louisiana at the height of the Civil War, and proposed by a doctor who served in the Confederate Army [1]. His suggested treatment for Drapetomania was "whipping the devil out of them".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_A._Cartwright
by JohnFen | 2025-08-27 02:13:12+00:00
> If it becomes so good to be completely indistinguishable from reality, then not sure what the gripe is.

Being 100% convincing doesn't make it true. Not being able to tell what's true from what's fake is a self-evident problem. It means you're at risk of forming an invalid view of the world. The only safe approach would be to never believe anything, at which point we've even lost recent history. Madness lies that way.
by abakker | 2025-08-27 02:13:17+00:00
I see what you're saying here, and I guess I missed that point in the earlier post. Sorry.

You are definitely right that the parties/political system does not make decisions in my favor (or really make decisions at all). Beyond just the crises, it's pretty clear that the "vested interests" in our economy have substantial sway in the outcomes regardless of how much of the discourse they try to avoid.

to be clear, I'm not in favor of the expansion of the executive power through executive orders under Obama, nor am I in favor of Trump using it. I think the democrats were short sighted in allowing the precedent and not expecting it to backfire. IMO, democracy is strongest when the motivation is to close loopholes as an exercise in disarmament, rather than the pyrrhic victories of escalation.

All that said, the recent escalations are alarming, and I hope that when I'm 64, the pendulum is still attached to swing. I understand the realpolitik of the situation, but I don't agree that I need to adopt such a fatalistic view of the whole situation that I won't care that people are making mistakes at all.
by nis0s | 2025-08-27 02:13:53+00:00
How is the CEO chosen? I assume it’s likely via board members, who may get input from shareholders. In practice, it will distill into a democratic process, so is that the intent?

Overall, this sounds similar to how the Roman senate chose its emperors, which didn’t work out quite that well, which is why people leaned into democracy.

But besides that, and maybe I need to read the book, but this doesn’t seem to answer why the governed should agree to any social contracts and be governed in this manner.

There needs to be a discussion about liberal ideology and all it encompasses, including the left sides of the spectrum which can get quite grating on some discourse. But I am unconvinced that any enlightenment the world needs next needs to be flavored darkly.
by thwarted | 2025-08-27 02:14:37+00:00
I pasted the URL into firefox, and didn't see that huge "you're using an adblocker popup".

I opened a firefox private window and navigated to it from the HN page, and got the adblocker popup.

Right now I have two tabs open in the same non-private window, one showing the adblocker popup and one not. In the one that's not I can view the whole page. Reloading in the one that is not showing the adblocker popup then showed it.

I navigated from HN in a non-private window and got the popup. So this seems to be referer constrained in some sense, not necessarily browser based. Hard to confirm.
by dang | 2025-08-27 02:15:17+00:00
> no one responded that way to that comment

You're right, but we have to moderate based on how these things work in the general case.

> this is truly mystifying to me

It's inevitable that there will be different interpretations of specific comments, so I hope you can at least 'upgrade' us to "wrong in this case" and hopefully we will make more sense in the future!

p.s. I know what you mean about "it's your show" but we really don't think of this as "our" show - the community is the only thing that's valuable about HN
by monero-xmr | 2025-08-27 02:16:14+00:00
My kids learning to ride a bike - the moment you release your hand for the first time and they just go and go. When my son learned checkers, and then when he beat me the first time. When my daughter told her first original joke at a family dinner and everyone died laughing.

The moments truly never stop. Every single day they amaze and surprise you, fill you with so much love and joy and appreciation.

One time Bill Gates was asked what gave him joy and without missing a beat he said his children. Nothing is greater, nothing gives you more meaning, nothing is more ultimate than the sacrifice and patience and wonder and fulfillment of having children.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-27 02:16:35+00:00
The lakeshore is a coast. For border control purposes, it's a large body of water that borders the US and other countries. (Granted, there's a fairly tight bottleneck coming from Lake Huron.) There's no argument for not treating it as an oceanic border.

100 miles from the seashore also puts you into some clearly inland areas. Most locations 100 miles from the sea aren't organized around their "proximity" to the ocean.
by sdesol | 2025-08-27 02:16:51+00:00
Not even remotely since the 5% that I need to write is usually quite complex. I do think my writing proficiency will decrease though. However my debugging and problem solving skills should increase.

Having said all of that, I do believe AI will have a very negative affect on developers where the challenge is skill and not time. AI is implementing things that I can do if given enough time. I am literraly implementing things in months that would have taken me a year or more.

My AI search is nontrivial but it only took two months to write. I should also note the 5% that I needed to implement was the difference between throw away code and a usuable search engine.
by BenjaminCouture | 2025-08-27 02:17:20+00:00
I’ve raced over 15 competitions and spent tens of thousands on gear and coaching. The training journey has been amazing — but also frustrating. Coaching is either expensive or impersonal, and most apps feel outdated or overwhelming.

I’m exploring whether an AI-powered coach could make structured, adaptive training more accessible for amateur athletes, targeting triathletes as the initial market.

As YC says: make something people want. To do that, I need your input. I put together a short 5-minute survey to learn how athletes really train, what tools they use, and what’s missing: https://tally.so/r/nPxzdd

I’ll share the results back here. In the meantime:

How do you currently train?

Have you tried a coach or apps? What worked or didn’t?

Would you trust an AI-driven approach to guide your workouts?

Thanks for helping a fellow endurance builder.
by dangus | 2025-08-27 02:18:23+00:00
It’s not really a gaming laptop, it’s more like a workstation that happens to be decent at gaming.

They’ve even mentioned in another video I watched that their fastest growing segment is business customers.

Their systems have unique features and value proposition nobody else is offering so they can charge more than competitors.

Let’s also not forget that the gaming market does have a high end segment that is definitely in this price range. This costs less than a Razer Blade 16 with the same GPU. If you’re trying to compare a Framework to throwaway MSI trash with horrendous longevity that just isn’t an equivalent product.

Might as well be saying “why buy a Toyota RAV4 when a Dodge Hornet is cheaper?” Well, one of those is priced higher because it’s a better long-term buy.
by kube-system | 2025-08-27 02:18:25+00:00
> Now compare that to the PSTN: what does 555-123-4567 really tell you?

It tells you exactly as much as the "from" field does in your email.

> you have more tools to work with in email.

Only if you're an engineer implementing a mail server configuration. But if you're implementing a telco you also have more tools to work with than a caller ID.

End users use DMARC/SPF the same way end users use STIR/SHAKEN... they don't. None of them are user-servicable values. And service providers use DMARC/SPF the same way end users use STIR/SHAKEN... they implement those controls for their users in the form of a managed service.
by 14 | 2025-08-27 02:18:41+00:00
I can't help but think of one cray thing...This is absolutely amazing to watch. The fact that there are cameras at every stage showing exactly what is happening. Being able to see the curvature of earth all in hi-def. But the entire time I watch this I just keep thinking even with all this proof you still will not convince some people that the moon landings are real and that the earth is not flat. They will say these are just AI videos used to trick people from the truth.

It just amazes me that technologies have come so far that at one end we can really show that the earth is truthfully a sphere but also at the same time technology has come so far one can claim this is just another video created by AI and is not actually true.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-08-27 02:18:53+00:00
> We expect to be able to silently run equivalents of both rvm install and bundle install at the beginning of every bundle exec,

Do I understand right it doesn't use bundler code for resolving gem requirements dependency tree, but uses it's own code meant to be compatible? Hmmm.

And also producing the `Gemfile.lock`, which has had kind of a lot of churn in bundler, which bundler has had to work to keep from breaking for people even when it's assumed they're all using (different versions of) bundler.
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-27 02:19:32+00:00
Thanks for proving my point by demonstrating you can't comprehend reality. You assume that anything anti conservative must be in the Bernie Sanders camp of full left.

In reality, the modern democrats are pretty much the exact center. Any sensible traditional right leaning policy like free market capitalism, gun ownership, and immigration enforcement is already part of the liberal Democratic platform.

The reason that what I said holds true should be self evident. One of the cornerstone of modern conservativism is small government and reduced government spending. Yet Trump is pretty much doing the exact opposite of this. So to to even begin talking about why conservatism is valid, you have a LONG bridge to cross of somehow proving that Trump objectively the better choice, which at this point would require exceptionally extraordinary evidence.

Another way of testing intelligence is basically to ask the question - what concrete evidence would it take for you to change your mind to the opposite view on a certain subject? For the question of what is better for society, Democrats and their policies vs Republicans and their policies, no conservative can provide a clear answer on what would it take for them to change their mind.
by byearthithatius | 2025-08-27 02:19:32+00:00
I downloaded the image he provided (https://www.dpreview.com/sample-galleries/4949897610/pentax-...)

The DNG file did have the 01 byte at `2FD00` (from xxd or hexdump -C). However it didn't have a byte position `3E40B`. I tried searching and there is literally no entry at that position. I found a 02 value at 3e40 but not at 3e40b. Is this a typo?

Where did you find it to try and repro?
by ssivark | 2025-08-27 02:20:49+00:00
Doesn't that presume that human psychology (cognitive functioning) is uniform at a level that would obviate the need even for personalities and styles?

Our physiological system does have that uniformity across the population but our psychological system does not seem to. Isn't it then misguided to try characterizing small deviations when we don't even have a uniform "background" to subtract?