MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jart | 2025-08-09 20:10:27+00:00
The biggest, best, most reputable organizations e.g. Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, DuckDuckGo, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all publicly promised to respect your robots.txt file. You can make them hurt if they lie. So you know they're telling the truth. There's some people out there who don't respect robots.txt like Archive Team. However they're more likely to be treated as folk heroes here on Hacker News than trigger AI training fears.
by riehwvfbk | 2025-08-09 20:10:30+00:00
The matters of race occupy a much smaller percentage of the brains of people outside of the USA. I say this completely without malice. It simply means that the trauma of segregation is still too raw in American society.

The rest of your statement doesn't make any sense. One went to a gulag for opposing the Soviet government, not for having a particular ethnicity. Stalin was ethnically Georgian. Many prominent members of the politburo were Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, or Jews. In the later Soviet Union there were many politicians from the "ethnic" republics who had high-powered careers.

In fact, look at the list of Russian politicians who are currently under international sanctions and tell me with a straight face that they are all white and Russian. Well, they are Russian of course, but not in the way you meant.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-08-09 20:11:06+00:00
It can be a little hard to navigate to so the .torrent links for x86-64 are

Minimal: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/deb...

Full: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-dvd/de...
by hmry | 2025-08-09 20:11:19+00:00
Optical disc media is pretty great, if only they didn't scratch so easily... Or get completely destroyed if something sticks to the label side and you try to pull it off... Or delaminate themselves from old age...

Enclosed discs like Minidisc solve most of those, but still die from age.

Still hope they can perfect those "laser-created point clouds in glass cubes" media someday
by Eisenstein | 2025-08-09 20:11:19+00:00
> TBH I think whatever body (JEDEC I'd guess) needs to either make DDR6 128bit

That would require twice the number of pins and traces on each DIMM with corresponding extra pins on the CPU package as well and associated interconnects which would add heat as well. You end up with similar problems when you increase the number of channels per DIMM. CPU packages are strained as it is; I don't think the tradeoffs are worth it to increase system memory bandwidth on consumer systems.
by yonatan8070 | 2025-08-09 20:11:25+00:00
A total of seven architectures are officially supported for "trixie":

"trixie" 64-bit PC (amd64), 64-bit ARM (arm64), ARM EABI (armel), ARMv7 (EABI hard-float ABI, armhf), 64-bit little-endian PowerPC (ppc64el), 64-bit little-endian RISC-V (riscv64), IBM System z (s390x)

It's good to see RISC-V becoming a first-class citizen, despite the general lack of hardware using it at the moment.

I do wonder, where are PowerPC and IBM System z being used these days? Are there modern Linux systems being deployed with something other than amd64, arm64, and (soon?) riscv64?
by pagekicker | 2025-08-09 20:11:32+00:00
AI Safety Event: DOGE is analyzing the entire Code of Federal Regulations this month with the goal of reducing it by 50% by Jan 20, 2026. [WaPo 7/26/25].

--This is an actual AI governance crisis that is happening today.--

Mitigation: Enable OSS analysis of CFR by all parties using same data with different goals.

https://github.com/fredzannarbor/altDOGE/tree/mainhttps://op...

First results:

As a proof of concept, ran altDOGE v0.2 against 485 regulations for the Community Living Administration using DOGE-like prompts, identified likely areas for cuts. Appears to work as intended.

To continue this mitigation effort, the following is needed:

-- policy participants with agency-specific expertise to carry out real validation.

-- LLM analysis experts

-- inference resources
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-09 20:11:39+00:00
It at least removes water from the local water table.

You pump water up from the local water table to run your evaporative cooler. The water evaporates. But the air was at 10-20% humidity. The water from the evaporative cooler will raise the humidity, a little bit, but not enough to make it rain. It may make it more likely to rain somewhere downwind a few miles, or a few hundred, but not here.

For your second dumb question: At least some of the Great Lakes have at times had issues with water level. (They want enough to allow ships to pass between the lakes.) The upside is, there the humidity is high enough that you're more likely to get the water back in the form of increased precipitation.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-09 20:13:02+00:00
Plus reduced support duration to increase adoption of Ubuntu Pro. Changing some packages ever slightly so they behave a little differently.

Switch to sudo-rs, uu-coreutils (rust based stuff), etc., etc.

It's not a Debian derivative anymore. It's something else.

Was not my cup of tea before, it's even more not my cup of tea now.
by gyomu | 2025-08-09 20:13:48+00:00
I think our brains as kids are very different than as adults, and like it’s a fairly unexplored area because studying kids is much, much harder than 20 somethings or older.

I have a number of such weird things, the most dramatic being probably that I remember experiencing vivid synesthesia until age 4/5 or so, which kind of faded away has never happened since.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-08-09 20:14:26+00:00
Are they really blaming anyone? This is a good thing, but it's destined to remain pretty niche. The vast majority of people do what's easiest and what everyone else is doing. They like streaming and watch whatever is put on their home screen. Tons of people watched Electric State, Red Notice, The Tomorrow War. Citadel got a season 2.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-08-09 20:14:27+00:00
Again, what is the precedent for the president of the united states to publicly call on a CEO to resign, in the absence of a major scandal or company failure that has required the government to intervene to save the public / investors / etc?

You keep saying it's the same old shit but when people point out the differences you change the subject. You're basically a troll.
by npteljes | 2025-08-09 20:14:51+00:00
Defaults matter a lot, and snaps are the default in Ubuntu.

The topic is not whether snaps are avoidable or not, but the Ubuntu is going downhill. And snaps are purported to be part of that downhill, which would be Ubuntu's NIH syndrome. As far as I know, Ubuntu's only successful development is Ubuntu itself - the other projects have all failed over the years, and snap, while ongoing, is not winning any popularity contests either.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-08-09 20:15:03+00:00
By definition, capitalism is inhumane. Even if you are worried about the market looking unkindly on your accural of capital, you're doing so in a fashion that prioritizes their perception rather than actual virtue.

You are right that democracy can reign capitalism's amoralism in, but so can any other form of government. I don't see why the same can't be said for communism, beyond the standard "it hasn't happened before".
by spwa4 | 2025-08-09 20:15:14+00:00
Why? I find it weird that people don't see this.

LLM chatbots are creative like humans (yes, not as creative as the best humans, but better than some). You can keep and keep and keep talking to them. I mean, it gets into loops and gives bad info, absolutely. But most of my old friends are worse.

I understand from a technical standpoint what's going on: because these LLMs have their nerves directly passing in words, they are incredible at language. But really, LLMs have the intelligence of a rodent or a cat at most. So some reasoning is there, but ... frankly not much.

But LLMs don't judge. Never refuse your call and are reliable. VERY reliable.

One thing people haven't thought about: as soon as AIs are used for education kids will prefer these AIs, trust them over not just their teachers, but over their own parents. That's pretty obvious to me at least.
by KaiserPro | 2025-08-09 20:15:15+00:00
> Quite the opposite.

Unless something has dramatically changed, the model is stateless. The context cache needs to be injected before the new prompt, but for what I understand (and please do correct me if I'm wrong) the the context cache isn't that big, like in the order of a few tens of kilobytes. Plus the cache saves seconds of GPU time, so having an extra 100ms of latency is nothing compare to a cache miss. so a broad cache is much much better than a narrow local cache.

But! even if its larger, Your bottleneck isn't the network, its waiting on the GPUs to be free[1]. So whilst having the cache really close ie in the same rack, or same machine, will give the best performance, it will limit your scale (because the cache is only effective for a small number of users)

[1] a 100megs of data shared over the same datacentre network every 2-3 seconds per node isn't that much, especially if you have a partitioned network (ie like AWS where you have a block network and a "network" network)
by cnst | 2025-08-09 20:16:04+00:00
> And even if proper passwords are used, many sites/apps use this pattern for account recovery if the password is forgotten so effectively this is the only security as an attacker has “forgotten” the password and just uses this flow to login.

Why is NOONE talking about this? This is exactly why 2FA is less secure than password authentication, because with a password authentication, the attacker actually has to be able to capture the password in some way, whereas with 2FA, effectively anyone anywhere with the skills akin to the most junior private investigator, has the capability and tools to take over anyone's account "protected" by 2FA.

Yet we're still being told that 2FA is mandatory because security is important, and that somehow 2FA is still more secure.
by Santosh83 | 2025-08-09 20:16:24+00:00
As I understand it, snap the package format is not proprietary. Its as open source as say flatpak. What is proprietary is Canonical official snap store, and they patch their version of snap to only use that store. It'd be the same as flatpak being tied to only flathub.

Of course that goes against the spirit of FOSS, but there's a bit more nuance there than simply saying "snaps are proprietary".
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-09 20:17:34+00:00
Yeah. In my particular narrow field of expertise -- which, broadly speaking, is a subset of mechanical engineering -- I can say for a certainty that it's nowhere near PhD-level, and it's not perceptively smarter than o3-pro. Maybe it's slightly smarter, but honestly it's hard to tell.

I can confirm in head-to-head tests that Kimi is a far better prose stylist. I asked both models to write me a poem in the style of Ezra Pound's Canto I. Kimi's one-shot result was excellent; an "A+" effort at any school in the world, and genuinely professional-poet-tier. (Rather frightening, that.) GPT-5-Pro's result was a disaster that was so bad it verged on parody, and to add insult to injury it sometimes plagiarized Pound's Canto I word-for-word.

I will say that GPT-5 seems a little bit more imaginative and inventive than previous models. It seems slightly better than all other models at formal logic, to the extent that it's a superhuman analytic philosopher. It's also better and faster at searching the web, and it's a little bit more circumspect than usual about the results it shares. (It doesn't blindly promote every product.)

Ultimately this seems like a very incremental upgrade, but it's an upgrade nonetheless.
by torginus | 2025-08-09 20:18:38+00:00
I still think it's a solid achievement, but weirdly positioned. It's their new-poverty spec model, available to everyone, and is likely not too large.

It's decently good at coding, and math, beating current SOTA of Opus 4.1 by a small margin, while being much cheaper and faster to run, hinting at likely a much smaller model.

However it's no better at trivia or writing emails or essays, which is what regular people who use ChatGPT through the website actually care about, making this launch come off as awkward.
by username332211 | 2025-08-09 20:18:42+00:00
The city of Vienna has a fairly unique history. It used to be the capital of a massive empire that's now gone, and thus suffered a period of fairly prolonged decline.

It's population declined from 2.4 million in 1914[1] to 1.5 million in the 1980s[2]. The only reason why it's currently considered even close to a world-class city is that after the fall of the Berlin wall it was the natural financial hub for oligarchic capital.

I think we can all agree not many great and global cities have tons of free housing emptied by a prolonged period of decline. And that we can't really evaluate if the city is solving the economic problem well or badly, as right now it's simply less acute for historical reasons that have nothing to do with it's housing policy.

[1] https://ww1.habsburger.net/en/chapters/growing-city-vienna-e... [2] https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20107/vien...
by starkparker | 2025-08-09 20:19:16+00:00
I'm in love with how the foreclosed-upon, near-dead, anchorless Lloyd Center mall in Portland OR has been chaotically and ad-hoc reclaimed for weird retail, art installations and semi-performance participatory art

The city keeps trying and failing to figure out ways to destroy the mall, previously for a boondoggle MLB expansion stadium, currently for a LiveNation venue that's slowly spawning a protest movement against non-local venue management. In turn, the mall's rents have dropped such that the artists who used to haunt Central Eastside warehouses have started renting spaces for pop-up galleries and interactive installations, and niche crafters (an off-brand lightsaber store, for instance, and a pinball arcade) have moved in longer-term. There's an 80s-themed exercise group who revived mall-walking. Something like 60 small businesses taking advantage of the low rents.
by Aaargh20318 | 2025-08-09 20:19:32+00:00
No, it’s not based on anything. A QC charger will output 5v by default and only increase the voltage after a negotiation. This is exactly as described: a USB-A style charger brick only it outputs 12v instead of 5v, no negotiation, nothing preventing you from plugging in a device expecting 5v and getting 12v. The only ‘safety feature’ is that it has ‘12V’ printed on it.

You can find it here: https://www.thermoworks.com/12volt-ac-adapter/
by weeksie | 2025-08-09 20:20:07+00:00
Yet another developer who is too full of themselves to admit that they have no idea how to use LLMs for development. There's an arrogance that can set in when you get to be more senior and unless you're capable of force feeding yourself a bit of humility you'll end up missing big, important changes in your field.

It becomes farcical when not only are you missing the big thing but you're also proud of your ignorance and this guy is both.
by not_your_vase | 2025-08-09 20:20:30+00:00
> Q: Can the yaml checker handle very large files? > A: Yes. The yaml checker uses efficient parsing algorithms and memory management to process large YAML files.

I pasted a 40MB yaml, and Firefox started to complain about a minute later that it is slowing down the browser. I waited another minute, but it was still thinking.

(Admittedly I'm not on a high-end machine, but it's not low-end either: Ryzen 5600G + 32GB RAM)
by zzo38computer | 2025-08-09 20:20:46+00:00
ASN.1 is not quite "binary format that include the specification in the format itself". There are multiple formats of ASN.1, such as DER, which is a binary format which includes the structure and type specifications (except implicit types) with the data. I think DER is better than many other formats, and I use this for some of my own programs. This does not necessarily mean that you will know what the use of the data is (but CSV, JSON, etc won't do that either), but the structure and some of the data types can be decoded.
by nayuki | 2025-08-09 20:21:09+00:00
I'd say the article is largely correct, but I have at least one nitpick:

> ‘How do you burn a CD?’ It’s something that was common for us growing up, but that’s knowledge that’s being lost as everything is sort of transitioning to digital.”

This paragraph is using a colloquial but wrong definition of the word "digital" - in this context it seems to mean "online audio/video distribution".

This is wrong because CDs, by definition, hold digital data. Some of us who are old enough to have lived through the transition from unapologetically analog audio media - vinyl records and magnetic cassette tape - to digital, optical compact discs. That was the real transition to digital, not the transition from digital physical media to digital online downloads (both are still digital). Likewise, the transition from analog broadcast TV and analog VHS tapes to digital TV and VCD/DVD/BD was less than 20 years ago. (Side note: LaserDisc stores video analogly but audio digitally.)

Digital is a word that fundamentally contrasts with analog - where analog means infinite variation, no resistance to noise, and imperfect copies. Digital simply means being composed of integers, which further implies finite information and allows perfect copies.

The misuse of the word digital to mean superfluous things is a mockery to the monumental human achievement in inventing and perfecting digital machines and methods of storing/transmitting images and sounds, being much higher quality than previous analog technologies (e.g. photographic film) and allowing information to be delivered reliably across wider space and time.

Digital does not imply electronic, new and high-tech, virtual, or communications-based (as opposed to transporting matter-based recording media). Mechanical LEGO logic is digital. DNA is digital and very old. Alphabets are digital (we agree today there are exactly 26 letters in English). The telegraph network was digital and messages were relayed by humans. A "virtual" meeting involving digital videoconferencing could just as well be held using analog NTSC video channels; the fact that digital technology happened to be used doesn't define the virtual meeting. "Digital marketing" is understood as doing business on the web/Internet through electronic online communications, but I could argue that a paper brochure designed on a digital computer is also "digital marketing".
by Santosh83 | 2025-08-09 20:21:31+00:00
Snaps per se are no better or worse than flatpak. Canonical's mistake, IMO, was to make their store the only place snaps can be hosted. That is the "proprietary" bit everyone keeps talking about.

But in practice even for flatpak the only realistic place you can publish your flatpak if you want any traction at all would be flathub, so both formats have only one store right now. But flatpak allows a custom store while for some strange reason Canonical decided not to allow snap that freedom.
by tjs8rj | 2025-08-09 20:21:36+00:00
This only seems confusing to people who valorize intelligence as the most valuable trait one can have. What really matters is the impact you can have on others lives: making them a lot of money, saving them a lot of time, making them happy, etc contributing to them or addressing their needs

Being smart is valuable, but it’s only one ingredient among many. You need to be able to communicate with others, take risks, work hard, have empathy, be a creative problem solver, etc

Being a brain with a body attached is not enough and that’s good
by gbacon | 2025-08-09 20:22:03+00:00
It’s there as a relief valve. LAX has some of the busiest airspace in the world. ATC grants services to VFR traffic on a workload permitting basis. When ATC is too busy separating IFR traffic, which is their higher priority, it allows pilots an option that confines them to a certain area and altitudes.

For details, take a look at the Los Angeles Special Flight Rules Area[0] on the Los Angeles TAC. It gives a narrow set of exceptions. Note the specific assigned altitudes that depend on direction of travel. Also notice that the other VFR transition routes do require ATC clearance.

[0]: https://skyvector.com/?ll=33.630638921294874,-119.6291085071...
by suuuuuuuu | 2025-08-09 20:22:04+00:00
I would consider replacing my jupyterlab usage with marimo were it less opinionated about workflow - it offers a lot of benefits that aren't tied to its execution model. I like the editor/interface and the representation as python files for portability, version control, and the ability to import from other notebooks, but I have no interest in changing my workflow (in particular insofar as marimo is restricted compared to python itself). E.g., I want to be able to redefine variables and use star imports in my personal, exploratory notebooks, and I'm happy to retain responsibility for top-to-bottom executability (as in regular python scripts). I would definitely consider marimo if these restrictions could be opted out of if one has reactive execution disabled.
by chihuahua | 2025-08-09 20:23:10+00:00
I'm virulently opposed to communism and the Soviet Union, as well as Nazism, and it is tempting to say that the Soviet Union was worse than Nazi Germany.

In some ways that's true if you look at the number of their own citizens that were killed by Stalin vs Hitler. On the other hand, Stalin had a longer period of time for his mass murder than Hitler did. But Hitler caused the almost complete destruction of Germany with the war he started.

In terms of living conditions, you are probably correct; although again, Hitler's starting point in terms of economy, civilization, and living conditions was much better than Stalin's, and we didn't see Nazism play out over decades.

Nazi Germany's soldiers on the advance engaged in systematic killing and regarded most of the population of the conquered territories as vermin; Soviet soldiers merely raped most of the women and did not engage in systematic killing campaigns, with some exceptions (e.g. Katyn massacre)

I'd say it's difficult to say which is more deplorable: Hitler killing millions just because of their ancestry, or Stalin killing millions in the Gulag because of paranoia and because it was a convenient source of labor.

If we're just looking at the success of the economic systems, leaving aside the mass murder and the devastating war, then what you're saying is correct.
by sltr | 2025-08-09 20:23:12+00:00
On my projects [1][2], I use C# and Avalonia with Rider or Visual Studio. For extra performance, turn on AOT, which has the nice side-effect of making reversing your app to C# impossible.

I worked in WPF for a decade. I wouldn't go with it for a new project since it's Windows-only and doesn't support AOT.

At work we have a Blazor MAUI hybrid desktop app because it also has to run on the web. If we only needed a desktop app, I'd go with Avalonia.

[1] https://linklever.net/ [2] https://github.com/endurabyte/FitEdit
by justsomejew | 2025-08-09 20:23:31+00:00
I dont know how your life is, but my own impression is that life of many americans is worse than the life which was in the Soviet Union at least until the 80s (after Stalin). Maybe not in the sense of the capacity to buy junkfood and other junk, but as to sense of living and human relations. "Mollusk" sounds as the usual american antirussian propaganda.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-09 20:23:58+00:00
This. Jack Dorsey had his "out" from the tech industry with Twitter, but he mismanaged it and started shilling crypto before he could turn it around. He's a wannabe white-hat incapable of monetizing good solutions and equally bad at improving upon free ones. If it weren't for his clout as "oh yeah the Twitter guy" then he'd be washed away in the sea of 0.1x engineers making the same AI-generated tinker-toys.

You'd hope that a guy like him could see the writing on the wall, and complete the transition to a full-time celebrity asskisser like Sam Altman did. Nope, he wants to roleplay as Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic to fill the hole of ennui that's consumed his identity since selling Twitter. At least he looks like he's having fun.