MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jenders | 2025-08-11 18:14:08+00:00
Edit: Thought this was a private blog but it’s actually an ad for “magecdn” as far as I can tell. Original comment regardless:

> With a traditional CDN, if you set cache-control header, you can be sure that your files will be cached on the edge according to the header.

I’ve got a decade and a half of experience with Fastly, Akamai, and CloudFlare serving 100s of gigabits/sec of traffic. I can assure you this is not true at all. Cache-Hit ratio and Cache-Hit/Miss access time are highly situational and cache-control is best effort for every provider. No CDN will guarantee these values.

> With a traditional CDN, you can pick a hostname (Origin) and the file will be fetched from there. So, you can run a CDN directly over, say, a S3 Cloud bucket. Cloudflare works at your website domain level, and doing this is something like that is not possible.

“Cloudflare works at your website domain level.” This is poorly written, confusing, and fortunately, not at all true. You can CNAME i.example.com to an S3 bucket hostname and use i.example.com links on example.com. This also comes with some http/1.1 pipelining advantages and is a preferable way to architect.
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by rayiner | 2025-08-11 18:14:27+00:00
Rent is the bigger issue than affordability per se. My wife pointed out the other day that we had our second and third kids shortly after we stopped living in apartments and bought a house. We didn't plan to have a significant age gap between our first (who we had in law school) and our other kids, and we earned a lot of money the whole time, it just happened that way. She's convinced that having the extra space subconsciously encouraged us to have more kids.
by drawfloat | 2025-08-11 18:14:29+00:00
The law was passed by the previous government and everyone assumed the next government would take great delight in reversing it.

I wouldn’t be so sure that any next government (which, by the way, there is still a non zero chance could be Labour) will necessarily reverse this. Maybe Reform would tweak the topics, but I’m not convinced any party can be totally trusted to reverse this.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-11 18:14:53+00:00
Social security is solvent for at least the next 75 years if the US removes the payroll cap on contributions from wage income. We choose not to. The economic resources exist for these social programs, it will just diminish profits (the horror /s). It's a policy choice.

Every year total fertility rate remains lower than replacement rate further locks in the fertility curve, but there is no political will or desire to implement the fixes required. So, we keep kicking the can until we cannot anymore. It's unfortunate. Demographic destiny comes regardless, as each year total fertility rate continues to fall.

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-does-the-us-spend-on-...

https://www.pgpf.org/article/social-security-reform-options-...
by codingdave | 2025-08-11 18:15:17+00:00
I've been in a three different scenarios where I worked for independent companies under the umbrella of a large parent organization. In all 3, the leadership left or was fired, and the remainder of the company was merged into a division of the parent company.

The product quality went to shit in all 3 scenarios. There were different reasons and nuances to them all, but all 3 boiled down to one common factor. Instead of following the desires of the customers, they now had to pigeon-hole those desires into the larger business goals of the parent organization.

They all turned into political battles at the leadership level, low morale at the product level, and decent jobs for the engineers as long as they were happy just doing what they were told. For the customers, everything just stagnated. It took years before all the politics sorted themselves out, people chose whether to stay or go, and you got product leadership running who could balance it all out without the baggage of the merger.

So as a Github customer, this does not have me running for the hills. We won't lose functionality. But we won't gain anything we truly desire either - we'll see new features come out that relate to Microsoft's dreams, not our own. At a strategic level, I'd start telling my teams to be sure not to get vendor-locked to any Github features, and always have a migration plan at least conceptualized so that once we see where it all really goes, we are well prepared to either stay or go depending on exactly what Microsoft does in the next couple years.
by kube-system | 2025-08-11 18:15:18+00:00
It wouldn't be a very solid argument. Telematics are universally disclaimed in owners manuals. A good chunk of modern owners manuals are legally-required disclaimers of various sorts which are all deemed valid for those reasons.

And a ruling that it doesn't matter because "nobody reads that" wouldn't be a good thing either -- basically that would make most SaaS engineer into criminals.
by fapjacks | 2025-08-11 18:16:16+00:00
No, it is not feasible to run modem signals over VOIP, as the various codecs all compress signals and cut frequencies and all manner of things to reduce bandwidth consumption, which are incompatible with modem signaling. You could get away with it in a homelab for fun, but you have absolutely no control over what VOIP codecs e.g. Comcast is running, so it is effectively impossible. Even if the phone company says they can offer you a copper line, your copper line will eventually get converted to VOIP at the end of the street or wherever, and then it's up to whatever commercial provider you're paying to choose the codecs for VOIP, which are never modem-friendly. I worked on this stuff about ten years ago. There are fax codecs but they are very hard to get working reliably.
by whoknowsidont | 2025-08-11 18:16:32+00:00
Because it's about the MCP Host <-> LLM interaction. Not how a vanilla server and client communicate to each other and have done so for the last 5+ decades.

This really is not that hard to understand. The LLM must be "bootstrapped" with tool definitions and it must retain stable enough context to continue to call those tools into the future.

This will fail at some point, with any model. It will pretend to do a tool call, it will simply not do the tool call, or it will attempt to call a tool that does not exist, or any of the above or anything else not listed here. It is a statistical certainty.

I don't know why people are pretending MCP does something to fix this, or that MCP is special in anyway. It won't, and it's not.

Make sure you have a good understanding of the overall model: https://hackteam.io/blog/your-llm-does-not-care-about-mcp/

Then take a look at research like this: https://www.archgw.com/blogs/detecting-hallucinations-in-llm...
by CyberDildonics | 2025-08-11 18:16:38+00:00
These are contradictory things. SIMD instructions are still regular instructions, not some concurrent system for copying. When you say command, maybe you meant a windows OS function that was similar to memcpy. An OS function and individual CPU instructions are two different thing. There is something called DMA, but I don't know how much that is used for memory to memory copies.
by Cilvic | 2025-08-11 18:16:42+00:00
So could SaaS LLM or cloud/api LLMs not offer this as an option? A guarantee that the "same prompt" will always produce the same result.

Also the way I usually interpret this "non-deterministic" a bit "broader".

Say i have have slightly different prompts "what's 2+2?" vs. "can you please tell me what's 2 plus 2" or even "2+2=?" or "2+2" for most applications it would be useful if they all produce the same result
by coke12 | 2025-08-11 18:16:51+00:00
This is arguably why it makes more sense to bring GH under the umbrella. Azure integrations need to happen yesterday. The future is full-stack batteries-included low-codeish platforms that are easy to launch with and then boom you're one click from the Azure product suite. Tighter integration is the only way to do this because of the inherent distribution advantages.
by pm215 | 2025-08-11 18:16:52+00:00
There's an example of this in railway electrification: if you scroll down to the graph in https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmtran... it shows that the UK tends to do electrification as occasional big projects, whereas Germany has consistently done about the same mileage every year for decades, presumably with the same institutions maintaining their expertise and just moving on to the next bit of track. Their costs are a quarter of the UK's...
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-11 18:17:09+00:00
As with the parent, I prefer civil liberties and small amounts of crime to any alternative.

Which is why the playbook for authoritarianism traditionally starts with lying about how much crime there actually is, thus justifying a crackdown.

If Trump wants to cite excessive crime as his reasoning, then he should provide statistics, not the unsubstantiated off-the-cuff insults he has thus far.
by scoopr | 2025-08-11 18:17:17+00:00
Probably mentioned on every teletext related submission, but the Finland's public broadcaster YLE still has an avid teletext userbase, if not through a proper TV, then through the website [0] (and there are mobile apps for that too).

Some of the news listings are perfect, given confined space, but no need to be click-baity. See, f.ex. the news-in-english page [1]

[0] https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv

[1] https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=191
by bakugo | 2025-08-11 18:17:41+00:00
Is it really censorship when 90% of AI related posts are just not-so-thinly-veiled advertisements with zero potential for meaningful discussion beyond "yes I agree fellow independent user, I also love Claude Code™ from Anthropic® and it has 1000x'd my productivity, their $5000/mo plan is a steal and everyone should buy it!"
by MarkusQ | 2025-08-11 18:18:13+00:00
You have elsewhere in this thread objected to people providing links without giving context, so I hope you won't mind being asked to unpack this claim a little. Why is it nonsense? If, as you say, it's principally pushed by one person, who is that, and why does that argue against it?

(I'm not thinking this is too much to ask; saying it's wrong might require empirical support, but the claim that it's "nonsense" should be easier to justify.)
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-11 18:18:17+00:00
True. My town did that for Walmart 30 years ago, and recently did it again for Amazon. Meanwhile, small businesses that have served the area for decades get no breaks.

They also tried to stick a massive apartment building in a nice nearby residential neighborhood to house the cheap workers Amazon will bring in, but the residents caught wind of it and managed to get it stopped. For now.
by CalChris | 2025-08-11 18:18:30+00:00
We disagree. To reduce it to a few words, I think that you see policy (even if misguided policy) and I just see populism, entertainment if you will. I think the purpose of the article is to remind us what mercantilism is. But again, I don't see this as mercantilism which has a coherence, and instead just as populism which doesn't.

Putting a heroin addict in charge of Health and Human Services and shutting down vaccine development is not policy. It's populism.
by mdp2021 | 2025-08-11 18:18:52+00:00
> The successes ... proves that the issue isn't systemic because there is a solution

The failures prove the possibility of the user not meeting said solution. The solution will have to be explicit, because we need to know if (practically) and how (scientifically) it works. And said solution will have to be convincing as working on all branches of the general problem, of which "not really counting" is just a hint - "not properly handling mental object" is what we fear, the «suggestion of a systemic issue» I mentioned.

> Well, this isn't how LLMs work

Yes, and that is an issue, because using implementation of deliriousness is an issue. They must be fixed - we need the real thing.

> Humans aren't reliable. You're setting the bar at a level well beyond what is necessary

The flaws met in humans prove nothing since the start ("My cousin speaks just like Eliza" // "Well don't ask her then"; "The Nobel prize failed" // "And it still remains a better consultant than others" etc.).

We implement automated versions of the qualities only incidentally found in humans - that's just because tools are created to enhance the problem solving practices we already tackled with what we had.

And in this case (LLMs), there are qualities found in nature that are not there and must be implemented not to have as tools the implementation of psychiatric cases: foremostly here, the conscious (as opposed to the intuitive unconscious).

> and almost certainly beyond what is possible

It's necessary. And I do not see what justified doubts about the possibility (already that we implemented the symbolic well before NNs, or that in early NNs the problem of the implementation of deterministic logic was crucial...). We are dealing with black boxes, we plainly have to understand them as required and perfection (complete) them.

> what the optimal organisation is

There are clear hints for that. The absence of a "complete" theory of mind is not a stopper - features to be implemented are clear to us.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-11 18:19:34+00:00
This is all well and good, but population dropping will only impact our civilization a little. I think this is an issue only because the "very rich" may actually see their standard of living fall. For the poor, it will have no real impact.

Plus it is probably a good thing population will start dropping.

The much larger worry should be Climate Change, a dropping population can only help Climate Change in the long run. But right now, due to how we all live, we are heading into a whole lot of hurt due to Climate Change. Far more "hurt" than the population falling.

Also, worried about population dropping ? Wait to see how fast it drops when Countries start massive wars due to dwindling resources.

EDIT: want an example of the Impact of population dripping ? Look at Europe during the Plague in the 1300s(?). What happened was the rich had a hard time finding labor, so they had to start paying people a lot more for their work. To me, that is the big fear, the rich may have to start paying more.
by drivingmenuts | 2025-08-11 18:19:38+00:00
> daily controversies or trivialities about tech celebrities or mega-corps,

Being a neo-Nazi supporter when you are one of the richest people in the entire world is not a triviality - it's an imminent danger. That he supports wiping out an entire section of the population based on race seems like something that should be of interest to everyone.

My comments might be vile (I tend toward merely uncouth) but his existence is an insult to the human race. There is no attack against a neo-Nazi that is uncalled for.
by throw0101a | 2025-08-11 18:20:02+00:00
From the link:

> We (OpenSSH) haven't "disregarded" the winning variants, we added NTRU before the standardisation process was finished and we'll almost certainly add the NIST finalists fairly soon.

Nothing in his statements talks about 'availability', just a particular choice (from the ideas floating around at the time).

CRYSTALS-Kyber (now ML-KEM) was available at the same time as SNTRUP because they were both candidates in the NIST competition. NTRU (Prime) is listed as round three finalist / alternate (along with CRYSTALS-Kyber):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_Post-Quantum_Cryptography...

Given that they were both candidates in the same competition, they would have been available at the same time. Tiny/OpenSSH simply chose a candidate that ended up not winning (I'm not criticizing / judging their choice: they made a call, and it happened to be a different call than NIST).
by pathartl | 2025-08-11 18:20:07+00:00
> Then there is the issue they seem to be shoting into all directions, with GUI frameworks, Web, Blazor, Aspire, to see what sticks.

... what?

They could do a better job with the native frameworks, but the rest of these are completely unrelated. For web, MVC is pretty much dead and you might want to use Blazor SSR instead. Web API via controllers is still supported, but minimal API endpoints are the hot thing. Blazor is being treated as a first class product. Aspire is there to assist in local orchestration of distributed applications... and is built on Blazor.
by UncleMeat | 2025-08-11 18:20:23+00:00
Right this is what I am saying. And I think that we should be outrageously skeptical of such people and oppose them with fervor. In the 70s people were saying that we needed to commit brutal oppression against a large portion of the world based on geography in order to prevent future catastrophe. These people were wrong in every possible dimension and has we listened to them we would have committed a world-historic evil.

Similarly, we are starting to see people say that we need to commit brutal oppression against a large portion of the world (this time based on gender) in order to prevent future catastrophe. I suspect that these people will be wrong in every possible dimension and that if we listen to them that we will be committing a world-historic evil.
by g42gregory | 2025-08-11 18:20:33+00:00
This is why it’s so critical to have open source models.

In a year or so, the open source models will become good enough (in both quality and speed) to run locally.

Arguably, OpenAI OSS 120B is already good enough, in both quality and speed, to run on Mac Studio.

Then $10k, amortized over 3 years, will be enough to run code LLMs 24/7.

I hope that’s the future.
by leoc | 2025-08-11 18:20:42+00:00
(Cross-posting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867429 .)

I've seen enough: as the recognised authority and designated responsible person ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525256 I'm officially recognising this as the final end of 2010s Cool Microsoft.

> 74 points by leoc on April 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler

> Well, here we are then. This now officially the standard play for formerly-dominating computer-platform firms who have fallen on hard times: having before been proudly hard-nosed and proprietary, publicly see the light and present a new image as a new, kinder, gentler company which totally gets it about openness. Former famous examples: IBM under Lou Gerstner (we love Linux and open platforms!), Apple after the NeXT acquisition but before the iPhone (look how expandable our new PowerMacs are; on the software side, we're now an open-systems-loving Unix vendor, and we'll even open-source our kernel!), poor old SGI (we love Linux now! Or, wait ... actually WinNT, whatever.). Sun of course used to go back and forth between being chill dudes who totally get it and more nakedly hard-nosed. As always in these cases, the questions are how far the bright new era of glasnost actually goes in substance (IBM legal's patent monster quietly thrived through all the kinder-gentler period) and how long it lasts (these eras tend to end with the company either dwindling into irrelevance, or finding renewed success and going back to its bad old ways).

Historical debate may now begin.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-11 18:21:00+00:00
As always, the devil is in the details. Very careful wording:

>do you support or oppose the recent rules requiring age verification to access websites that may contain pornographic material?

"may" is doing the heavy lifting. Any website that hosts image "may" contain pornograohic content. So they don't associate this with "I need id to watch YouTube" it's "I need ID to watch pornhub". Even though this affects both.

On top of that, the question was focused on peon to begin with. This block was focused more generally on social media. The popular ones of which do not allow pornography.

Rephrase the question to "do you agree with requiring ID submission to access Facebook" and I'd love to see how that impacts responses.
by phil21 | 2025-08-11 18:21:01+00:00
It's funny/interesting/terrifying to me that developers went from the near-religious mantra of "Garbage In, Garbage Out" when I was learning computers - to now training our supposedly super intelligent AIs off of reddit posts or even worse.

Basically laundering outright wrong information into something the next generation is now going to believe as scientific truths.

I often wonder how many people/organizations are seeding places like Reddit with malinformation/beliefs for it to become canical truth in the AI age once it's too late to tell the difference for most people?

Lord knows I've made trolling-level posts that are only marginally accurate back in the day that are now part of the AI corpus of knowledge. Mix those in with some of my well-researched stuff and you couldn't even really filter it based on "this account is a shitposter" to weight it lower. Nevermind plenty of earnest posts made that were outright wrong simply due to... being wrong in the moment and later learning better.
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-11 18:21:07+00:00
cf. Amphetamine use/distribution in World War II[0][1][2]

[0] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/preview-world-war-speed/433...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_substit...

[2] https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1127...
by blurbleblurble | 2025-08-11 18:21:19+00:00
Really struggling with GPT-5 in all the clients I've used (currently using claude code router). This is the default openrouter endpoint. It's opaque, slow, ridiculously terse, botches basic tool calls and edits, pauses constantly even when I ask it not to. It does seem "sharp" at analytical tasks but it's just clunky to work with.

I'll try with cursor CLI but am hesitant to ditch claude code.
by bsimpson | 2025-08-11 18:21:28+00:00
From a product POV, GitHub seems like a solved problem. It's been working well-enough with the current feature set for over a decade, with many companies building themselves on top of its stack. If they stagnate in MS bureaucracy but keep the lights on for push/pull/PRs, that's probably good enough for most people until something completely changes how software is made.
by Terretta | 2025-08-11 18:21:41+00:00
We did this a decade or two ago when Markdown was Markdown and pug was Jade. It was great.

Apart from that, also back in the day people were still building pages using e.g. Dreamweaver, so we also put together a thing that could leverage a designer's HTML that rendered as a complete placeholder page. That "works as plain .HTML" became the template, used YAML as data, and Enlive (a Clojure lib) to turn the HTML with its placeholders into a template and then stuff YAML sidecar data into it to generate new HTML.

Not long after, Caddy's markdown support had promise, but agree with another commenter here that a few years ago astro.build started hitting a more interesting spot. In the middle ages between those, yay pandoc.
by spacemule | 2025-08-11 18:22:09+00:00
The author's complaints about the various solutions hit home. My wife and I tried a bunch of solutions for shared tasks and lists. Finally I found vikunja, put it on my home cluster, and it's been a game changer. We never run out of milk due to a lack of communication, and I have no excuse to forget the chore she asked me to get around to last week.

There really is a sweet spot between helping productivity and overcomplicating life, and most of these applications go for the latter. Glad we finally found something that works for us. I'm just sharing here hoping it'll help someone else.