MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NoGravitas | 2025-08-27 13:29:08+00:00
I think any species that reaches that level of advancement without having some kind of collective enlightenment and leaving those primitive impulses behind will destroy itself within a fairly short period of time, making the chance of noticing them quite small.

J. Posadas wrote a bit on this: https://www.marxists.org/archive/posadas/1968/06/flyingsauce...

However, the current trajectory of humanity seems more likely towards total destruction than what Posadas envisioned (and perhaps saw as inevitable).
by arnley | 2025-08-27 13:29:28+00:00
We wrote something quite similar for Bouygues Telecom and based it on an ANTLR grammar [2].

It offers nested filtering out of the box. All feature-packed in a lightweight package.

[1]: https://github.com/bouyguestelecom/spl [2]: https://github.com/BouyguesTelecom/SPL/blob/main/src/antlr/S...
by aesh2Xa1 | 2025-08-27 13:29:33+00:00
To add on, the fundamental question is which risk is more palatable for something we "can't afford to fail?"

Is the risk of a hospital closing for purely financial reasons more or less acceptable than the risk of a state-run hospital being inefficient but guaranteed to exist? For critical infrastructure, I think that's a conversation worth having, and it's one that hand-waving about an all-encompassing 'market' obscures; dismissing a legitimate critique by framing the market as an all-encompassing force is just a rhetorical move.

Your comment seems to suggest that any attempt to change the market results in unfavorable results, but this doesn't hold up to scrutiny. I think you replied with a valid philosophical point, but you leaned too much on using it to challenge that anything could be done (when you yourself presented the idea that a mechanism was needed).

There is no such unmanipulated free market anywhere:

Perfect Competition: In reality, we have monopolies, oligopolies, and immense barriers to entry.

Perfect Rationality: Behavioral economics has thoroughly demonstrated that people do not act like perfectly rational, self-interested computers.

Perfect Information: There is almost always a significant knowledge gap between a seller and a buyer.

Since no truly free market exists, every economy is already a managed one. The real debate isn't whether we should intervene, but how we intervene and whose interests those interventions serve. I read selimnairb's point as that, for essential services, the rules should serve the public interest of stability and access, not just the private interest of profit.

We can examine the risks case-by-case. Here, the government is investing in a foundry. We could view the leverage this gains the US government as increasing the risk for political engineering above the previous risk of financial engineering. In financial engineering, Intel might prioritize its obligation to shareholders. In political engineering (if Intel were nationalized), Intel might keep an inefficient fab open to save jobs or just to win votes.

In the category of financial engineering as a risk, you might lump activity like stock buybacks put above R&D as exemplar of Intel. In fact, a criticism of CHIPS and this new government intervention often centers around the idea that Intel's leadership should not be rewarded.

Finally, a related case on the topic of Intel and national security: China's state-directed economy prioritizes national goals over private profit. After entering "the market," part of its core strategy has been to compel service to national interests rather than shareholders, and it seems that strategy has arguably driven its recent economic rise.
by airstrike | 2025-08-27 13:29:56+00:00
I don't think there was ever a risk of the plane crashing with the pilot still in the cockpit, despite the fact that the headline sort of leads people to that conclusion.

The pilot could eject at any time. Still dangerous, but more of a debugging session to avoid other similar costly in the future than a Hollywood-like "if we don't solve this now the pilot dies"
by linguae | 2025-08-27 13:30:33+00:00
“In this world, where AI can just do trivial things for you, how does one get good at anything?”

You get good by doing non-trivial things. Consider developers like Linus Torvalds and Jeff Dean. Not every developer has the skill to write an operating system or to design and implement a distributed system. Another way of putting it: it is one thing to use ChatGPT, but it’s an entirely different matter to have the skills to make your own LLM.

If you want to stand out as a developer, don’t shy away from in-depth studies of hard topics.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 13:30:36+00:00
>Oh my god. This is so funny. You truly have to stoop down to insults because you are so fragile? Who hurt you?

You were the one who started with dickish behavior. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

>Given GDP differences between the donor countries the differences aren't meaningful. But sorry, I should have specified as "% of GDP" where the US is a joke comparatively.

Actually it does make a difference here. See the link I provided: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hd7aud/military_ai... Considering per capita, 8 months ago the US was more generous than almost all of Europe. Per capita is arguably the correct metric, since part of why US GDP is greater is because Americans work longer hours and take less vacation.

In any case, even if we consider the metric less favorable to the US (% of GDP), the US gives more as a fraction of GDP than almost every country outside Europe. If the US is a joke, than Spain, Ireland, France, and Italy are even funnier. We're very generous in every sense considering this isn't our war.

But since you call US aid a joke, I hope you won't miss it when it's gone. And I appreciate you confirming the points I've made, with your remark: Helping Ukraine gets us nothing but grief.

>You mean the roaring 20s right before the great depression? Because that is the last time the US was isolationist.

"Frustrated by French meddling in U.S. politics, Washington warned the nation to avoid permanent alliances with foreign nations and to rely instead on temporary alliances for emergencies... Washington’s remarks have served as an inspiration for American isolationism, and his advice against joining a permanent alliance was heeded for more than a century and a half."

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1784-1800/washington-fa...

The US economy mostly did great during that century and a half. Furthermore, the Great Depression was not simply caused by "isolationism". This is more intellectual sloppiness on your part.

I advocate a Swiss approach to foreign policy. That doesn't mean disengaging from other nations. It means not promising to help them with their problems.

Your continent, your problem. This is the approach that most of the world adopts towards Ukraine. The US was foolish to get involved. And we've been punished severely for it, by people like you. No more.
by RankingMember | 2025-08-27 13:30:51+00:00
Upon first reading the headline I was thinking it was some sort of test flight. Nope, poor guy was just trying to fly and ended up forced into a high-stakes troubleshooting tree while on a conference call, as if there's not enough on your mind in a fighter cockpit.

I don't know how many human-manned gens of aircraft are left, but my first inclination is to think a remote-control fallback option wouldn't be out of line here if the security could be done right.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-27 13:31:03+00:00
Triage exists. And when the shit hits the fan, it takes the form of "this one isn't worth trying to save, but this one might be".

It's callous and cold, and it results in more lives saved than trying to save everyone.

Does ChatGPT, on the net, save more people than it dooms? Who knows. Plenty of anecdotes both ways, but we wouldn't have the reliable statistics for a long time.
Show HN: Minecraft Circle Generator
by pqmpqm123 | 2025-08-27 13:31:48+00:00
Hi everyone,

I made a simple web tool called the Minecraft Circle Generator . It helps players create pixel-perfect circles and other shapes in Minecraft by visualizing the block placement.

This started as a side project because I always struggled to get circles right when building in survival mode. The tool lets you choose a radius and block size, then instantly shows the pattern you can copy in-game.

I know there are other generators out there, but I wanted something lightweight, fast, and mobile-friendly. I’d love to hear your feedback, especially on how it could be more useful for builders.
by echelon | 2025-08-27 13:32:27+00:00
> Should the AI Assistant NOT reply to the request it was given? Why shouldn't it?

LLMs are not a dumb interpreter. At minimum, they are a client-server architecture that can be used as a control plane. But they are much more than that and can likely employ advanced detection and classification heuristics.

The vendors have the capability of (1) stopping this in its tracks, (2) understanding the extent of the attack and notifying customers, (3) studying the breadth of approaches used (4) for future, more ambitious attacks, monitoring them live as threat actors explore systems.

Google and Anthropic absolutely have responsibility here and must devote resources to this.

I am shocked that this is being met with such hostility. I cannot picture a world where LLM vendors are not responsible for making a best attempt at safeguarding their customers. Especially as they seek to have a greater role in business and financial automation.

I've worked at fintechs and we had to go out of our way to look out for our customers. We purchased compromised password and email lists and scanned for impacted customers. Our business didn't cause the data breaches, but we viewed it as our responsibility to protect customers.

Google and Anthropic have the greatest opportunity to make a difference here.

* THIS IS ABSOLUTELY A SEV0 FOR GOOGLE AND ANTHROPIC *:

While it's not a systems outage, it has incredible potential to shape future business and market sentiment. There are going to be major articles written about this in every publication you can think of. Publications that business decision makers read. Forbes, the New York Times, Business Insider. And Google and Anthropic are going to want to own their blurb and state that they acted fast and responsibly. If they're lucky, they can even spin this as an opportunity.

This is the difference between LLMs being allowed in the business workplace and being met with increasing scrutiny. (Not that they shouldn't be scrutinized, but that this incident will overwhelmingly shape the future of the decision envelope.)
by taylodl | 2025-08-27 13:32:44+00:00
This action was taken under an administration whose supporters frequently champion free speech as a core American value. Yet when dissent arises from within, the response is not dialogue or debate - it’s discipline. The irony is hard to miss.

In this case, it seems that free speech is equal - until it challenges authority. Then it becomes a liability.

As Orwell said, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
by alexflashdrive | 2025-08-27 13:32:53+00:00
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Show HN: Write Code to Solve Minigames
by andersource | 2025-08-27 13:32:54+00:00
Hi HN!

Codyssey is a small programming game where you write Python functions to solve minigames. Think pong, flappy bird - the functions serve as a control mechanism for the player.

It evolved from an end-of-year activity I made for an introduction to programming class for 9th graders, difficulty has been adjusted obviously. I ran it as a workshop / competition at several conferences, now considering making it available as a small game.

Some technical details: It runs python in the browser with Brython [0], I originally used Pyodide but it was too heavy for conference WiFis. Code editor is Ace [1].

I'd love to hear your feedback :)

[0] https://brython.info/

[1] https://ace.c9.io/
by wat10000 | 2025-08-27 13:32:59+00:00
You're absolutely strawmanning me. Or do you equate deporting a green card holder with a decades-old marijuana conviction as being against illegal immigration? Do you think that suddenly revoking status from legal immigrants and then deporting them is only being against illegal immigrants because you revoked their status first?

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." You can't claim to only be against dishonest men when you do this sort of thing.

I do think that this administration's actions against illegal immigrants have been so bad that everyone responsible should be imprisoned. But they are not only against illegal immigrants.
by frm88 | 2025-08-27 13:33:06+00:00
I wouldn't be so sure. The DMA is very much against gatekeeping and a couple of days ago Google lost in court to 1&1 (in Germany) regarding keeping Android users in a walled garden [0]. This is in appeal now. We'll see.

[0] https://www.zdfheute.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/gmx-google-pl... in German, I'm afraid
by sgarland | 2025-08-27 13:33:36+00:00
You can do the same thing in MySQL, though its hash partition selection algorithm is far simpler: MOD(expr, N), where expr is your chosen expression on a given column, e.g. TO_DAYS(created_at), and N is the number of partitions you specified for the table.

So you can precompute the partitions in the app, and then explicitly specify the partitions in the query. Though there isn’t a ton of value in this for any large range of dates, since you’ll end up hitting all partitions anyway.

For something like a user id, it might make sense. If you’re using something alphanumeric as a user id, you can pass it through CRC32() first, or just use KEY partitioning on the column directly.
by coldpie | 2025-08-27 13:33:47+00:00
> People really need to start thinking twice when adding a new dependency. So many supply chain attacks this year.

I was really nervous when "language package managers" started to catch on. I work in the systems programming world, not the web world, so for the past decade, I looked from a distance at stuff like pip and npm and whatever with kind of a questionable side-eye. But when I did a Rust project and saw how trivially easy it was to pull in dozens of completely un-reviewed dependencies from the Internet with Cargo via a single line in a config file, I knew we were in for a bad time. Sure enough. This is a bad direction, and we need to turn back now. (We won't. There is no such thing as computer security.)
by plqbfbv | 2025-08-27 13:34:27+00:00
> Is that why he sued to obtain his $29B package from Tesla shareholders?

I think you're confused on two sort-of-related things: one is the $56B package agreed to and approved in 2018 that a judge decided to revoke, for that he's suing.

The other one is the relatively recent (July/August) $29B package that was created by two indipendent board advisors to give him a "salary" (he did not participate or vote on the creation of this package), since apparently he received nothing from Tesla for the past 6-7 years. This comes as a result of him expressing that if he wants more control over the company, or he's going to build things (AI, robotics) outside of it. Part of the deal is that he's to forfeit this if the ruling on the 2018 package is in his favor.

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

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/tesla-hands-29b-comp-packa...
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-08-27 13:34:42+00:00
A big thing that was emphasized in my computer engineering courses at Purdue in the early 90s with regards to machine interfaces was hysteresis. A machine has a RANGE of behaviors throughout it's operating area that might not be accounted fro in your programing and you must take that into consideration (i.e. a robotic arm or electric motor doesn't just 'stop' instantly).

Analog systems do not behave like computers.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-27 13:34:54+00:00
"Upgrade solution from .NET Framework 4.8 => .NET 8"

"Rename 'CustomerEmailAddress' to 'CustomerEmail'"

"Upgrade 3rd party API from v3 to v4"

I genuinely don't get this notion of a "max # of files in a PR". It all comes off to me as post hoc justification of really shitty technology decisions at GitHub.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-27 13:34:54+00:00
I'm not familiar with every diagnosis in the DSM-5, but I'm very familiar with ADHD. The DSM lays down the diagnostic criteria, brain scans of people diagnosed according to those criteria have confirmed structural and functional differences, and even more extensive studies have confirmed the overwhelming efficacy of the medication used to treat the disorder. Is that worthless?

Claiming that DSM-5 is "worthless" simply because it doesn't provide physical mechanisms that cause the disorders is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence, not the other way around.

> how many have been ruined or ended in part due to the guidelines DSM

You tell us, how many have been ruined? What "guidelines" are you referring to?
by snovymgodym | 2025-08-27 13:35:43+00:00
Claude code is by all accounts a revolutionary tool for getting useful work done on a computer.

It's also:

- a NodeJS app

- installed by curling a shell script and piping it into bash

- an LLM that's given free reign to mess with the filesystem, run commands, etc.

So that's what, like 3 big glaring vectors of attack for your system right there?

I would never feel comfortable running it outside of some kind of sandbox, e.g. VM, container, dedicated dev box, etc.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-27 13:35:46+00:00
> That pilot is very brave, I think others would have ejected by now. Making them fly around up there is ridiculous.

Definitely not. Ejecting is very risky. If the plane is possibly fixable you would much rather spend the time trying to calmly debug it to get it back to a point where you can land, rather than risk the possibly career ending physical injuries that can come from ejecting.

You also want to maneuver the plane into an area where it’s safer to crash.

The eject button isn’t the safe way out of every situation.

The other pilot situation you brought up isn’t so simple, either. A pilot who panic ejects before attempting to properly evaluate the situation is a risk not only to themselves but to people on the ground. Flying one of these planes is an extremely rare privilege reserved for a select few who have demonstrated their abilities and judgment to an extreme degree. It’s not a job for life and they can’t risk having someone who has demonstrated panicky judgment occupying one of the few spots that could be filled by a long line of very competent candidates.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-27 13:36:08+00:00
It depends on the CPU. On some CPUs a NOP might take the same time as an ADD and it might have the same throughput per clock cycle as ADD.

However, there are CPUs among the Intel/AMD CPUs that can execute up to a certain number of consecutive NOPs in zero time, i.e. they are removed from the instruction stream before reaching the execution units.

In general, no instruction set architecture specifies the time needed to execute an instruction. For every specific CPU model you must search its manual to find the latency and throughput for the instruction of interest, including for NOPs.

Some CPUs, like the Intel/AMD CPUs, have multiple encodings for NOP, with different lengths in order to facilitate instruction alignment. In that case the execution time may be not the same for all kinds of NOPs.
by dgacmu | 2025-08-27 13:36:24+00:00
The per plane cost varies a lot depending on what you want to wrap in it: how much of the development costs you amortize, the modernization program, etc. but $200m is in the range.

("Total acquisition costs" vs the marginal cost of the next plane can result in a more than 2x difference in how much you think the plane costs)

The flyaway cost of buying one more plane is probably a bit under $100m though.
by leonim | 2025-08-27 13:36:32+00:00
Thank you for doing this, this is fun. Also, I love all the nostalgic comments.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Robert Tinney the artist who illustrated many of the covers. His work is pretty amazing, and seemed to capture all sorts of interesting ideas.

I met him once at a computer show. I was in too much in awe that I didn't really talk with him, but was able to give him some praise for his artwork. Also, I bought one of the t-shirts with his artwork.
by finaard | 2025-08-27 13:36:45+00:00
It is quite possible that you still may be able to obtain it by annoying them - in some cases provisions related to supporting disabled peoples can prevent them from fully getting rid of it.

On the last change my bank made me call to their hotline (even though everything else is possible to be done online) to keep using a separate hardware device - which ended up being just "so, you don't want to do it on a phone?" - "yep" - "ok, should be with you in a week or so".

I nowadays consider my phones pretty much throwaway devices - I don't have full control, I can't fully trust them. Plus they could be stolen, break when I drop it into water outside, ... - so I think it's ridiculously stupid to tie anything important to a phone as main authenticator.

Overall the usefuleness of a phone has been declining steadily - the selling point of a smart phone originally was that I have an app, and because it's a reasonably trusted device it'll store credentials, and I can use the app without logging in every time. By now most of the apps are just repackaged websites, and because of that - and because they don't trust their backends - we now have quickly expiring tokens in use in the apps as well. Most of the apps I don't use every day - and over the last few months every single one wanted me to log in again next time I used it.

Adding to that the nonsense of "there's a new app available, download that first before using" which typically doesn't add anything of value to me, and we're now at a state that not only does the typical smart phone app not offer a benefit over just using a website - it now often is even worse than just using a website.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-27 13:37:23+00:00
Obviously Trump wants more control over the Fed, but the backlash against this is also obviously propaganda. If she committed a felony, she shouldn't be in charge of anything. I don't think that's a controversial opinion. All of the reporting saying that the firing isn't being done in the proper manner is just hiding behind technicalities. At some point people have to accept that throwing out all laws so your side "wins" just benefits wannabe-dictators, and I don't see many of those on the left.
by HankStallone | 2025-08-27 13:37:33+00:00
It doesn't have to be either-or. We can expect grown adults to control their behavior, while at the same time deciding as a society that there are some industries/products that are harmful enough, and without any beneficial effects to offset that harm, that we just don't want them around tempting people who might have a weakness for them.

We already do that with lots of things, from hard drugs to prostitution to owning your own nuclear weapons. Some of us may disagree with some of those laws, but unless you're the most extreme libertarian who ever doffed a fedora, there's probably something that you'd say shouldn't be accessible to every random adult capable of poking at a phone.