MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-11 03:36:57+00:00
I remember seeing graffiti with DNS servers to get around DNS based redirects affecting social media sites.

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/212bmf/turks_gra... | https://archive.is/0LY26

I also remember hearing about dial-up access being used during the internet shutdown in Egypt, but I don’t know how widespread that info was distributed or used within the country at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Egypt

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/1/25/arab-spring-ann... | https://archive.is/W2Tqa

Those are legitimate use cases but that was also ~15 years ago. The wiki that is referenced in the article sounds interesting but I don’t know much about this group or its motivations, but here it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomix

https://archive.ph/2012.07.16-043637/http://werebuild.teleco...
by xyzzy123 | 2025-08-11 03:38:13+00:00
This is not a novel take, but what's arguably even more universal is cli access to a service.

I have a lot more luck integrating service specific cli's with Claude than trying to use MCPs. As an additional bonus, AI tools instantly know how to troubleshoot issues with them, filter or transform the output and compose them into bigger workflows with scripting.
by userbinator | 2025-08-11 03:38:52+00:00
Dells have had this feature built into their BIOS for many years: https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/4/...

That's right, in the BIOS - it's independent of the OS being run, or indeed if there is any OS at all (which is the case if the machine is turned off and charging.)
AI Version of Omegle
by plowsjordan | 2025-08-11 03:40:09+00:00
I've been thinking about this problem alot lately.

Omegle while it had its terrible exploitative nature -- had and has real potential still.

Implementing things like paid badge verification to remove bots and age verification to prevent underage users.

Adding in AI interjecting for conversations, maybe a conversation is going off topic or getting stale AI could come in and improve that conversation.

Reaching out to the community to get feedback
by AnonC | 2025-08-11 03:40:42+00:00
> I also limit my iPhone's charge by using shortcut automations and a smart power plug. It just turns the plug off when charge exceeds 80% and on when it drops below 75%. Not ideal but I think still better for battery life than having it sit at 100%. (lmk if I'm wrong!)

For battery longevity, I’ve seen recommendations that the lithium ion battery should be allowed to discharge, and that between 40% and 80% is a good range to keep it in. I’m unable to find the link, but I’ve also seen a more recent (like in the last few years) recommendation that 35% to 75% is better.

Your choice to start charging it at 75% doesn’t seem ideal with any of the recommendations over the last several years.
by mannykannot | 2025-08-11 03:41:09+00:00
Two months earlier there had been the so-called Skandalkonzert in Vienna, conducted by Arnold Schoenberg: "...it was during Berg's songs that the fighting began. At the trial, Straus commented that the thud of Buschbeck's punch had been the most harmonious sound at the entire concert. For Berg's work the Skandalkonzert had lasting consequences: the songs were not performed again until 1952, and the full score did not appear in print until 1966."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandalkonzert
by jerrysievert | 2025-08-11 03:42:59+00:00
I have it turned off on my MacBook Pro, but on for my phone and iPad. my 4 year old macbook pro's battery is doing great, my iPad is still holding on (but it spends a lot of time unplugged or powered down), but my poor phone is hurting badly (4-6 hours of charge per day, claiming it's at 80% battery life).

my MacBook Pro still thinks its battery is awesome, even plugged in all the time.
by tharkun__ | 2025-08-11 03:44:49+00:00
Train at 5 miles is nothing. Can confirm.

There are confounding factors of course, like direction and what's in between. E.g. do you sleep in a room that's on the opposite side of the house with windows closed and good insulation/windows? You'll probably be totally fine.

Do you sleep in a room that's towards the source and with the window open? Oh you will very very much hear that train, especially if the wind is coming from that direction.

Sleeping outside? Oh you will very much hear that train!
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-11 03:45:41+00:00
Both of those generally involve you being in the same physical place as some other kids, which requires some combination of transportation and real estate, both of which cost more than they used to.

Meanwhile if they know you can't afford to do anything other than get into trouble somewhere then your parents aren't inclined to give you a ride, so instead you sit at home on your phone.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-08-11 03:48:05+00:00
> Having a solid code repo that people can check out filled with projects is always good.

It's nice to have, but ROI on that is terrible. Most of the time people don't even read your resume.

> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/mentorship-programs/

Huh, didn't know this existed. Looks promising.
Show HN: GemGuard: Ruby gem to scan and auto-fix vulnerable dependencies
by wilburhimself | 2025-08-11 03:48:53+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the creator of GemGuard, an open source Ruby tool aimed at improving supply chain security for Ruby projects.

Ruby developers often trust their Gemfile.lock without much scrutiny, but issues like typosquatting, unpatched vulnerabilities, and lack of SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) generation remain significant risks.

GemGuard helps by:

Scanning your Gemfile.lock against OSV.dev and Ruby Advisory Database CVEs

Detecting suspicious typosquatted gems with fuzzy string matching

Generating SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs for compliance and transparency

Offering an auto-fix command that safely upgrades vulnerable gems and backs up your lockfile

Integrating easily with CI/CD workflows for continuous security

It’s lightweight, Ruby-first, and designed to be part of your normal dev workflow, not an afterthought.

You can check it out here: GitHub: https://github.com/wilburhimself/gem_guard RubyGems: https://rubygems.org/gems/gem_guard

I’m open to feedback, critiques, and contributions. If you try it, I’d love to hear how it works for your projects or any gaps you discover.

Thanks for reading!
by renewiltord | 2025-08-11 03:49:35+00:00
So I made a bad test and now I have a problem? Because you can make tests quite difficult. e.g. the GRE mathematics section is trivial to score maximum on, but there's no reason for that to be the case. It could be made harder.

Obviously if your test makers aren't very good you'll get full score being only 96th percentile. But you can make tests that don't have full score being that many people. We know because very few people medal on the IMO. Once you have a sufficiently hard test, rank everyone and choose top to bottom.

As people get better and better, you have to expand your universities. Of course, in the US you run into the problem where the towns consider students a pollutant[0] but I'm sure we can start new universities out in the middle of nowhere. We've done it before, we can do it again. And until we do, yes, if you had a bad day, try again next year

0: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-02/california-...
by rahimnathwani | 2025-08-11 03:52:19+00:00
I have a crontab that checks the battery status every 5 mins. If the battery level is lower than 60%, it turns charging on. If it's higher than 80%, it turns charging off.

Of course, this doesn't help if you happen to turn the laptop off before it reaches 80%. In that case, it will charge all the way to 100%.
by bicsi | 2025-08-11 03:52:22+00:00
What if I told you that one can model bidirectional attention just by recurring over causal attention, and it’s still fast enough? Hint: It’s called chain of thought.

I strongly believe it’s time to discontinue diffusion models, solely on the fact that iterated auto-regression is faster, more parallelizable, and just as potent with proper prompting techniques (of course, unless you consider CoT as a form of diffusion, which it essentially is).
by hattmall | 2025-08-11 03:52:28+00:00
72 Gigs of Ram, 4x SCSI 15K drives I think. Yeah, I mean it's not doing anything crazy running a lot of virtual machines, random servers, probably the most intense thing is video transcoding. It works well though and like I said way way cheaper than running the same stuff on cloud infrastructure. I think I bought it for like $500 about 10 years ago. I started saving about $76 a month just off of moving Virtual Desktops off of AWS to that when I got it so easily paid for itself in a year.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-08-11 03:54:05+00:00
There is LoRaWAN with tech like Meshtastic which can send messages far further than wifi and bluetooth. Problem is the throughput is pretty limited. Only really useful for text messages within the same city.

Not sure any purely wireless system would scale that well either since every message floods the entire network. Ideally for wireless you just want wireless to the closest grid connected node to connect to the internet.
by iammrpayments | 2025-08-11 03:57:22+00:00
I find React docs really oversimplified and never tells you how it really works behind the scene to the point where it makes you feel like they are talking to a child, specially this section with all its illustrations: https://react.dev/learn/render-and-commit

This kind of documentation makes it really hard to solve problems that will soon arise after you move past hello world.
by didibus | 2025-08-11 03:59:29+00:00
Personally it's because it's the one that had the best methodology I've seen. Most of the other ones I've seen are kind of a joke. They're mostly self-surveyed, like just asking the participants to say if they were more productive, wrote better code, etc.

Or you've got some that takes like beginner devs that never worked a job and have them run through some unrealistically simple task.

Or a handful that are claiming productivity boosts, but they count things like faster than Google search, or fewer keystrokes.

Or when they measure the "code quality" they just mean the tests passes.

So when that study came out and I read the methodology, I was like, oh, this is interesting. And then the results were also quite surprising, and surprisingly the one with the best methodology had the opposite finding of all the crappy ones I've seen before.

Food for thought.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-11 03:59:38+00:00
That makes no sense. Your behaviors, actions, and words are your character. That's what "character" means. If you do good things, your character is good. If you do bad things, your character is bad. Those statements are true by definition.

It isn't possible for your character to differ in any direction from your behaviors, actions, and words, since it consists of nothing other than those things.
by labrador | 2025-08-11 04:00:20+00:00
This is from Jun 8 so "Just" is misleading. It caused some buzz back then, but did not pull the plug on AI hype. What might have done so was the release of GPT-5 by OpenAI that failed to meet expectations, especially those who were expecting a huge leap in capabilities towards AGI. I'd say those fever dreams have been dashed.
by versteegen | 2025-08-11 04:01:03+00:00
I'm surprised to hear that that schedule worked well. Even if you woke feeling well-rested, what did you feel like towards the end of the day, at your normal/previous sleep time?

Personally in that situation I would (and do) get plenty of sleep every night and then skip the final night. I find the fatigue from a lot of lost sleep normally doesn't hit me in full until the second day after, and the final-day panic is enough to counteract the lack of sleep.
Ask HN: What is the alternative to LLMs in real life?
by Haeuserschlucht | 2025-08-11 04:02:42+00:00
Humans are fallible. That's what I noticed over and over when using llms.

Compare forum posts to the output of an average llm and you get tenfold the compassion and friendliness with llms. People stop listening after 5 minutes, are biased, have ulterior motives. Whenever I go back to other humans, I think "how in the world does this person have any friends".

This is not any different with conversations with real people outside the Internet.

In tune with those people is also their overused fallacy of "good people are out there, you just have to search properly"
by rogerrogerr | 2025-08-11 04:05:47+00:00
> This feature allows Tesla owners to remotely disable their vehicles using the Tesla app on their smartphones.

This is fake news. The article reads like someone asked ChatGPT to describe “the Tesla remote shutdown feature”.

Also, I have a Tesla and there is no such button in the app.

Also, “theoffroading.com” is the only thing that comes up when you Google “Tesla remote shutdown app”

Please do more thorough research before making statements about things you clearly don’t know anything about.
by chubot | 2025-08-11 04:06:39+00:00
Yeah I think people might be downplaying the fact that some different choices on automobiles could have led to drastically different outcomes with respect to the health of cities, suburbs, and communities

I mean sure, people still had babies, and the babies (us) adapted to the new environment, viewing it as "inevitable"

But that doesn't mean we can't make better choices around governance and technology going forward, or that we're not making bad choices right now
by jemmyw | 2025-08-11 04:07:05+00:00
Yep, I've got a remarkable gathering dust in a drawer. And I really tried to make that one work given the cost. I did find some niche uses for it, like drawing to scale when doing some garden planning, or using it for writing music. But they were both temporary things and I could have just used paper or a dedicated app for the purpose for far less money.

(edit) That one is on me though, I genuinely thought it would be a neat bit of tech, and I am glad I tried it because I think I'd still be considering it otherwise.
by nickm12 | 2025-08-11 04:07:13+00:00
I find these types of articles from the Times very frustrating. Most of this article is filled with sad anecdotes, but no indication of how those people were chosen. Were they the biggest sob stories found that fit the narrative? Even the data in article is presented in a useless way. CS grads unemployment rates are compared to biology and art history grads (why those in particular?)

I don't doubt that it is much harder to get big salary entry-level work in programming these days. My guess is this is due to a combination of high interest rates / lower investments, flattening business curves, and AI, but the article doesn't try to make a causal case. It just puts forth a bunch of anecdotes sprinkled with a few facts and leaves the reader to infer the causes.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-11 04:07:46+00:00
They're also designed to be mistaken for sorcery. If you used a PC in the 90s then you have some idea how it works because the inner workings used to be more exposed, error messages had actual contents that could imply something about how you might, yourself, address the problem, etc. Even the bubble-headed marketing people had to learn how to use AS/400 to do their jobs. You can see how a modern phone is the same device only now LCDs place the CRTs and it uses a radio instead of physical wires for internet access etc. You may not be able to easily disassemble the phone but you know roughly what's in it.

Whereas if you've never used a PC, a phone is a black box. You tap the screen and it mysteriously does things. You're discouraged from trying to figure out how or make any changes to it yourself.

And if it's magic you better be careful because who knows what'll happen.
by armchairhacker | 2025-08-11 04:08:35+00:00
Someone could make: one million screenshots of indie homepages, e.g. from https://explore.marginalia.nu/view

EDIT: I just realized, there are weird sites even on onemillionscreenshots.com. Type in obscure, older-style URLs via the search bar until you find one, then go to its screenshot. If you're lucky the surrounding sites will be more older-style and weird, less store pages.

Example: https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=red-lang.org, https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=gunnerkrigg.com
Vectorless: open-source PDF chatbot without RAG
by richardmeng | 2025-08-11 04:09:04+00:00
Open-sourcing "Vectorless", a new PDF chatbot without embedding vectors.

Github Repo: https://github.com/roe-ai/vectorless-chatbot Demo app: https://vectorless-chatbot.vercel.app/

How it works: 1. Select best docs – Feed the LLM high-level descriptions + doc names. It picks which docs to use. 2. Select best pages – The Agent goes through the doc pages and pulls out the most relevant pages for your question. 3. Gather and answer – Agent takes all the relevant pages from step 2 and gives you the final answer.

Advantages 1. It's more predictable than vectors. You can tell the Agent exactly how you want to analyze your files. 2. You can ask abstract questions like: “How does NVIDIA compare to AMD in terms of risk?” 3. You can ask aggregate questions like: “How many questions in this SOC 2 report are marked negative?” 4. It supports multimodal questions and documents by nature.

Disadvantages 1. To work in a scalable setup, step 1 relies on high quality metadata over the documents. 2. Step 2 can be wasteful if the user asks a simple follow-up question, the context can be reused. 3. Slower than vector search chat.

How it will scale: 1. We envision a structured metadata retrieval via text to SQL to locate the paths of documents based on the user's questions at step 1. 3. Step 2 can be improved by caching. We envision when a document is queried once, a table of content can be stored, evolved, and leveraged as future questions come in.
by dumbasrocks | 2025-08-11 04:10:33+00:00
"Abo" carries the same cultural impact as "Paki" in the UK, and isn't a word in its own right, let alone a very commonly used one. Completely different kettle of fish. Seeing as you want to derail this into some free speech rant - it's just distasteful. You really think anybody who wants legislative control over freedom of speech in Australia gives a damn about Aboriginals getting offended?
by nickm12 | 2025-08-11 04:11:44+00:00
> it shouldn't be a problem for you establishing a space even without going to the office.

No, this was nothing to do with company culture. This was just my own mental response to just always being at home. Admittedly, the pandemic accentuated this because we weren't going anywhere even on weekends and evenings. But even as things opened up and we resumed our normal socialization, I returned to the office long before most people because I needed the mental and physical distance.

I know I'm atypical. In those early days,I estimated fewer than 5% of people in my office were voluntarily returning and even today when we're at RTO 3 days a week, most people do exactly that and no more.
by starchild3001 | 2025-08-11 04:11:46+00:00
What stood out to me is how much of gpt-oss’s “newness” isn’t about radical architectural departures, but about a careful layering of well-understood optimizations—RoPE, SwiGLU, GQA, MoE—with some slightly unusual choices (tiny sliding-window sizes, few large experts instead of many small ones, per-head attention sinks).

The MXFP4 quantization detail might be the sleeper feature here. Getting 20B running on a 16 GB consumer card, or 120B on a single H100/MI300X without multi-GPU orchestration headaches, could be a bigger enabler for indie devs and researchers than raw benchmark deltas. A lot of experimentation never happens simply because the friction of getting the model loaded is too high.

One open question I’m curious about: given gpt-oss’s design bias toward reasoning (and away from encyclopedic recall), will we start seeing a formal split in open-weight model development—specialized “reasoners” that rely on tool use for facts, and “knowledge bases” tuned for retrieval-heavy work? That separation could change how we architect systems that wrap these models.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-11 04:14:39+00:00
The ICs, yeah. Not so much power supplies, screens, etc. I've had the former go up in flames and the later delaminate - my current laptop has small bubbles around the edges of the screen.

I've also had high wattage GPUs inexplicably fail and lost a few SSDs to unexpected catastrophic failure. TBF I haven't lost any halfway decent SSDs within the past 5 years.

I don't think I've ever lost a motherboard, CPU, or RAM though. Even secondhand recycled data center stuff. It seems to just keep working forever.
by protocolture | 2025-08-11 04:15:14+00:00
Hey, that door wasn't there last time you walked by this spot. What the heck?

Lists And Lists An Interactive Tutorial Copyright 1996 by Andrew Plotkin. (First-time players should type "about".) Release 3 / Serial number 960823 / Inform v1502 Library 5/12 Standard interpreter 1.0

A Familiar Place Everything here is just like it always is, except for that door.

>Cool That's not a verb I recognise.

>Ok and That's not a verb I recognise.

>Hows that my problem That's not a verb I recognise.

>I dont like your tone. I only understood you as far as wanting to inventory.

>No inventory I only understood you as far as wanting to no.

>Fuck off That's not a verb I recognise.

>You arent a verb I recognise That's not a verb I recognise.

>No u I only understood you as far as wanting to no.

>No u I only understood you as far as wanting to no.

>No u I only understood you as far as wanting to no.

The website is being mean to me.
by hattmall | 2025-08-11 04:16:37+00:00
I'm not sure what numbers you are using / getting, you didn't show the math. But if you start with 30K at 18. You would have ~$800,000 at 65.

If you start at 30, and put in $600 a month, each month, until 65. You would have ~$1,088,000.

Yes, in the end you get more, but that is with contributing for 35 years each month, vs just contributing in the beginning. I know those aren't the exact numbers that would be relevant because it was actually making the annual contribution for 4 years, not the lump sum. But the numbers were similar, yes you have more in the end, but you could also have a reasonably similar amount without actually working and contributing for 35 years.
by Pocomon | 2025-08-11 04:17:02+00:00
'SteveB went on the road to see the top weeklies, industry analysts and business press this week to give our systems strategy. The meetings included demos of Windows 3.1 (pen and multimedia included), Windows NT, OS/2 2.0 including a performance comparison to Windows and a “bad app” that corrupted other applications and crashed the system. It was a very valuable trip and needs to be repeated by other MS executives throughout the next month so we hit all the publications and analysts.'

http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/011107/PX_0860.pdf

'The demos of OS/2 were excellent. Crashing the system had the intended effect – to FUD OS/2 2.0. People paid attention to this demo and were often surprised to our favor. Steve positioned it as -- OS/2 is not "bad" but that from a performance and "robustness" standpoint, it is NOT better than Windows'.

http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/011107/PX_0797.pdf