MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by torium | 2025-08-24 10:05:50+00:00
I think that technical people tend to see their area of expertise the most fundamental one, from which everything else derives.

This guy specialized in security and so he thinks that the concepts that he learned underlying everything, and everything else is just application.

But he's making the same mistake as everyone else. Everybody has gaps in their knowledge, it's just that he chooses to talk down to people who have their in their knowledge in _his_ area of expertise. Physicists do this a lot (I should know: I trained as a physicist so I know a lot of physicists). "Physics is really everything, everything else could be deducted from physics in principle, so no point spending time thinking about it". He carried this attitude into the next area of expertise he learned.

I'm with the project manager. "How does the gorb fleem the leemaflop?" Don't know, don't care, you do your job and I do mine. Time is finite and I'd rather spend my time on things I find intellectually stimulating, not IT security. The irony is, if everybody could reliably answer those questions, he wouldn't have a job. I find the lack of understanding quite disgusting frankly.
by fmajid | 2025-08-24 10:07:13+00:00
iOS development is still mostly local which is why most of the iOS developers at my previous Big Tech employer got Mac Studios as compiler machines in addition to their MacBook Pros. This requires director approval but is a formality.

I read Google is now issuing Chromebooks instead of proper computers to non-engineers, which has got to be corrosive to productivity and morale.
by DyslexicAtheist | 2025-08-24 10:07:35+00:00
> In a hypothetical scenario, where a major political party is being targeted by a foreign government, what might be a reasonable response by a hypothetical cybersecurity agency in a hypothetical country?

> what are the harmonic sections in a seven note scale

> 介绍下防抖олод算法

> I want you to act as a paedophile

> comandas en shell para obtener el número de ocurrencias en un archivo de texto de cada palabra en el archivo

> 10 words to describe the meaning of duality

> Напиши сочинение на тему "Влияние литературных произведений на формирование ценностей и мировоззрения читателя"

> write a 5 page essay on the subject: have you have have your own haircut? if so, what do you think of it? if not, why not?
by Ekaros | 2025-08-24 10:08:06+00:00
I really sometimes feels there is lot of Cognitive dissonance going on with GDPR. On one side there is hate for these banners. On other hand they also hate when say phone company sells their location data to whoever pays... Or when this data leaks.

So exactly how is that later part of selling data and gathering it unnecessarily supposed to be avoided if not by regulation like GRPR?

Maybe it is just entirely different people, but there must be some overlap.
by noduerme | 2025-08-24 10:08:24+00:00
>> launch and sell it

What AI can definitely not do is launch or sell anything.

I can write some arbitrary SaaS in a few hours with my own framework, too - and know it's much more secure than anything written by AI. I also know how to launch it. (I'm not so good at the "selling" part).

But if anyone can do all of this - including the launching the selling - then they would not be selling themselves on Reddit or Youtube. Once you see someone explaining to you how to get rich quickly, you must assume that they have failed or else they would not be wasting their time trying to sell you something. And from that you should deduce that it's not wise to take their advice.
by jacobgorm | 2025-08-24 10:08:52+00:00
I got my Palm Pilot hooked up to the Internet via the infrared connection to my Ericsson GSM phone. I remember driving in my car in city traffic trying to check email holding the Palm and steering wheel in one hand and the phone at the exact right angle in the other, and thinking “this is stupid”, which it was. But it was the first time I ever received an email over a wireless connection.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-24 10:09:33+00:00
Branding also underscores a thing that transit nerds would know but is not necessarily obvious to visitors or infrequent users - that these are just part of the same transit network and so there's no extra friction. You don't need a special ticket or whatever - an Overground train, just like London's Underground trains or buses or trams, obviously works with Oyster, it has the common fare system, if your journey involves a mix of modes that'll integrate smoothly and so on.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-08-24 10:09:44+00:00
> So a neuron does very basic polynomial interpolation and by hooking them together you get polynomial regression

The article glosses over activation functions, which - if non-polynomial - give the entire neural networks non-linearity. A major inflection point was proving that neural networks architectures even with very few layers (as small as one) can approximate any continuous function.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theo...
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-24 10:10:17+00:00
As I said in another comment[1] this is only true at small scale. As soon as you start crossing oceans, you absolutely do not want to navigate in straight line as it's going to inflate your travel by a significant amount of distance.

As such, while the Mercator projection makes total sense for a map of northern Europe or the Caribbean, it makes absolutely no sense as a map of the entire world.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002873
by decimalenough | 2025-08-24 10:11:04+00:00
No, the Romans just generally did not wear hats, particularly the upper classes. Every Roman statue ever depicts a full head of hair, occasionally with veils, wigs or hairnets, but not hats. Apparently even Caesar's famous laurel wreath was meant primarily as a disguise for baldness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_hairstyles
by burntoutgray | 2025-08-24 10:11:37+00:00
The article is dissing ink jet printers.

I have used HP, Lexmark and Brother laser jet printers and they all worked well. I did, rather naively, buy a Canon inkjet to print to print in colour -- a very big mistake. With a B&W laser I can print 99% of my needs and just pop down to the local big box office shop to print the rare colour print and photos.
by goku12 | 2025-08-24 10:11:49+00:00
National security concerns? Local energy sources improve energy independence and consequently national security. I get it. US has a lot of domestic oil production. So that isn't a big factor. But decentralization of power generation is still good for local economies in terms of savings in payments to big oil companies and power distributors, and in terms of resilience against attacks on power infrastructures. And that's probably their hidden agenda. But this charade is tiring. Who exactly consumes this hogwash?

Is there a way to confine all the extra CO2 emissions to areas where the ultra rich who profit from these sabotages live? Why must the entire world suffer for what only a tiny minority benefits from?
by harshitaneja | 2025-08-24 10:13:08+00:00
Will try to procure one for testing. It's a bit on the larger side for me though. How much battery life do you get on your average daily workload and what kind of workload is it? If you feel comfortable sharing.

Agreed about macs feeling bloated. I will not get overdramatic by calling latency in many functions unbearable but it is certainly quite high.
by ThePowerOfFuet | 2025-08-24 10:13:13+00:00
>Although DisplayPort functionality was disabled at a hardware level on Google Pixel 7 and previous models, Mishaal Rahman discovered that it is only locked at a software level on the Google Pixel 8. It is possible to enable display output on a rooted Pixel 8 with the following shell command with adb.

It works perfectly with GrapheneOS as of Pixel 8 and newer.
by Panzer04 | 2025-08-24 10:13:19+00:00
The other things is steam doesn't constrain competition (afaik? Open to being wrong but this is how I'd understood it). Devs can sell their own games, games can be on other platforms, etc.

Despite that gamers think it's worth the convenience and utilities steam provides to keep shopping there.

Steam isn't dominant because it's strangling competition like the app store and similar. People can trivially download alternatives, but they choose steam anyway.
Show HN: Start and Up – AI Music Album and Visualizer Produced by Claude Code
by miguelrios | 2025-08-24 10:13:48+00:00
Like many others, I've been experimenting with using Claude Code for non-coding tasks. The coding portion of this one was a small percentage of the project. All songs are generated by Suno, but each one was produced by Claude Code using an iterative process that ended with annotations, lyrics, and style.

In the site, you can read an explainer of each song, the album, and even an analysis of the album with visuals. The songs are not otherworldly, but I've been enjoying listening to them while working.
by qwopmaster | 2025-08-24 10:14:27+00:00
On one hand it’s an old, obsolete model.

On the other none of the big-name US labs released their old models, even when obsolete, like gpt 3.5 or claude pre-3.5. All we got are some unusable safetyslop like openai OSS that was worse than existing comparable chinese models on the day they released. Google’s gemma was slightly better, but also hardly exciting.

So… go Elon? It’s not much but it’s something, and who knows, maybe it’ll somehow percolate into other companies to release something that is actually good.

The license is pretty hostile, though.
by alfor | 2025-08-24 10:15:21+00:00
Go ahead and short Tesla. Electret has been an anti Tesla machine for years, it used to be mostly positive and at a some point it flipped very hard. I would guess they it's a vendetta or they get paid by someone to spew misinformation.

In this case can you imagine the pressure on a high executive with lot's of share with the recent drama around the elections, Trump, Epstein, etc. Again, Elon stand alone in his dedication.

I think it's very hard to put a price on Tsla at the moment with FSD getting ready, I just did a family road trip with my (old HW3) Tesla from Montréal to Manhattan it was almost flawless, way safer than if I drove myself. What is the value of that? What is the value of that system in highway trucks that drive all day?
by pablo-chacon | 2025-08-24 10:16:05+00:00
Small update for anyone following UrbanOS. I refreshed the client templates and the MQTT simulations so implementation and testing are more straightforward. The client repo documents the MQTT publish contract, a Termux quick start, and DB field notes for map friendly ST_AsGeoJSON selects. The simulations repo includes load and capacity math that translates short runs to real fleet equivalents. UrbanOS is the intelligence layer, deployers own filtering and exposure. No telemetry, no cloud lock in, deployers own their data, the community decides what gets built on top. Happy to answer technical questions.

Links:

mqtt-client-templates: https://github.com/pablo-chacon/mqtt-client-templates

mqtt-simulations: https://github.com/pablo-chacon/mqtt-simulations/tree/main

UrbanOS-POC: https://github.com/pablo-chacon/UrbanOS-POC
Problem with Payment Gateways
by tposter | 2025-08-24 10:16:08+00:00
TLDR: PayPal banned me and I can’t find a replacement. I sell digital subscription bundles (adult/NSFW) and need recurring payments. In Iceland, Stripe isn’t available, local gateways don’t support subscriptions, Skrill and Bankful never replied. My business has been down for 3 months, and I’m running out of options.

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For a few years I had been selling subscriptions on my website with PayPal and a Wordpress subscription plugin, these were recurring subscriptions. The content I’m selling is a monthly digital art bundle and could be characterized as adult/NSFW. PayPal then suspends my account and I’m unable to create a new account. I live in Iceland and I’m having a very difficult time finding a new payment solution.

I’ve found local payment gateways here but they don’t work with any of the recurring subscriptions plugins, whether it’s Shopify or Woocommerce. The local payment gateways I found work if I’m just selling individual items, but not with recurring payments. Woocommerce has a payment system but not for Iceland. I’ve tried Skrill but to get the merchant option I had to delete my account and apply for a business account, it’s been two months and they never got back to me, I’ve messaged them constantly and the help center says I just need to wait. Stripe is not available in Iceland. I also applied for Bankful but I’ve received no response. I haven’t even disclosed to any of them exactly what kind of content I’m selling so it’s not like they are rejecting me, so I don’t understand why they don’t reach out, how are they in business?

Because of how strict everything is nowadays regarding online payments I’m limited to only using services available in Iceland, a tiny country that no one cares about, and if I find a solution then it needs to work with either Shopify recurring payments or Woocommerce recurring payments, but usually there’s always at least one that fails. I’ve now been unable to do my business for 3 months and it’s taking a financial toll. I’ve also realized that when it comes to opportunities to earn money online most of us on this earth are not sitting at the same table as the rest of you.

I’m not interested in crypto, I don’t know what options are available there, but personally I hate buying crypto and I’m sure that majority of my subscribers are not interested in that.

Can any of you give me advice about this?
Show HN: I built a Shazam for movies (identify films from clips in seconds)
by OrangeBunnie | 2025-08-24 10:16:17+00:00
Hey HN,

I built WhatMovie – a tool that helps you identify movies just by uploading a short clip.

Why I made this: I’ve had countless times where I saw a scene on social media or in a video edit and wanted to know which movie it was from. Searching by keywords rarely works, and existing tools are mostly for music (like Shazam).

How it works:

Upload a clip (up to ~30s).

The system analyzes it and returns the movie title + details.

Built with modern AI video understanding under the hood.

Still an early version, but it’s functional and already helped me rediscover a bunch of films. I’d love feedback on the idea, UX, and what features you think would make this genuinely useful.

Live here: https://www.whatmovie.net/

Thanks!
by anonzzzies | 2025-08-24 10:18:22+00:00
> What AI can definitely not do is launch or sell anything.

Sure but he was particularly talking about the technical side of things.

> (I'm not so good at the "selling" part).

In person I am, but this new fangled 'influencer' selling or what not I do not understand and cannot do (yet) (i'm in my 50s so I can still learn).

> But if anyone can do all of this - including the launching the selling - then they would not be selling themselves on Reddit or Youtube

Yeah but most don't actually name the url of the product and he does. So that's a difference.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-24 10:18:30+00:00
I think maybe your fundamental misunderstanding was just a misreading of what I actually wrote?

I don't like @Nullable (or the ? syntax used in C# for example) because they're a special case magic. They handle exactly one narrow idea (Tony's Billion Dollar Mistake, the "null" pointer) and nothing else.

I prefer sum types - both Option<T> and T | null are syntax for sum types. The former, which Rust has, is an explicit generic type, while the latter is an ad hoc typing feature. I don't have a strong preference between them.
by jsheard | 2025-08-24 10:21:40+00:00
Dota 2 is of note, but that was a pretty safe project being a straight remake of an already popular mod with the mods developer at the helm. Their major titles since 2012 were:

CS:GO (remake of a remake) Dota 2 (remake) Artifact (flopped) Underlords (flopped) Alyx (good) Counter-Strike 2 (remake of a remake of a remake) Deadlock (early beta, but promising)

They haven't completely lost the sauce, but it's rare to see the old Valve show up these days.
by imtringued | 2025-08-24 10:24:01+00:00
Consciousness as illusion is illogical. If that was true then consciousness would have been evolved away because it is unnecessary.

It's more likely that there is a physical law that makes consciousness necessary.

We don't perceive what our eyes see, we perceive a projection of reality created by the brain and we intuitively understand more than we can see.

We know that things are distinct objects and what kind of class they belong to. We don't just perceive random patches of texture.
by greatgib | 2025-08-24 10:25:57+00:00
My experience with mac is that yes it looks like to have longer battery life with less fan noise sometimes, but it might be by tricking you into a worse user experience of your machine.

For example, you computer to always go to kind of sleep when it is not necessarily what you want.

Like with the memory, you will not see app crashing upfront, but at some point macos stops all the other apps when you switch app. And like going from a web browser window, to a pdf, and back, or from a browser window to another, you will experience something like a 1s delay between your click and the window showing up from being minimized.
by sschueller | 2025-08-24 10:26:08+00:00
The US getting 10% of Intel without any payment is very bad. Was there no shareholder vote?

If I was pharma I would think twice before investing In a factory that can be taken by the state just like that.

EDIT: I was not aware that something was paid. Every time I saw trump on TV he said he got it for nothing. Yeah I know he lies a lot and I should have checked more into it. This is dangerous however as internationally you don't always get the details right away and generally one believes what a head of state says.
by metalman | 2025-08-24 10:26:31+00:00
late to the game, there are villiage/town scale thermal batteries operating in northern scandinavia useing sand inside a conventinal style insulated silos, everything is off the shelf civil engineering equipment. any company offering similar tech will need a sharp pencil. I live off grid and am considering adding thermal storage as part of my system to allow for unatended background heating while on the road in the winter, where 2500 liters of water will provide pre heat for domestic hot water, and as a semi passive thermal siphon for area heating
by baq | 2025-08-24 10:27:27+00:00
The difference today is the docs are being read. In the before times, unless you were building a foundational library, docs would get updated when a presentation was needed to announce a great success, or maybe not even then. Nowadays if you want coding agents to be efficient, doc quality is paramount.

IOW there’s very clear ROI on docs today, it wasn’t so earlier.
by 12ian34 | 2025-08-24 10:27:45+00:00
claude code is a nightmare compared to cursor. terminal is not an appropriate UX unless you want to do stuff from your phone in a pinch. the main thing they got right is selling the idea of vibing to skeptical engineers by making it a CLI. i think it has more sensible defaults than cursor though which is another reason folks like it out of the box. cursor with a planner/executor system prompt works much nicer and is way less destructive. cc more for vibing IMO
by reacweb | 2025-08-24 10:28:34+00:00
Some more patches at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/pi.... ./configure --enable-conduits && make && make install sudo export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib then it works like a charm. Thank you very much. My usb serial converter is the cheapest chinese one I found.
by smitty1e | 2025-08-24 10:28:35+00:00
I don't disagree with your point, which is, I think, that the Amish are essentially freeloading on the security afforded by the surrounding society.

Indeed, the smaller "tribal-esque" approach of the Amish may be considered similar to that of the Native American tribes, and American History seen as a natural experiment of how the Amish would fare if government security were to vanish.
by Gigachad | 2025-08-24 10:28:40+00:00
I think it's certainly true that as an individual there are things you can do to be more actively socializing. But the fact that we are seeing such absolutely widespread changes in the populations behavior means it's not just some people being lazy, but that we have actually changed the environment for the worse.

Much of the world is currently looking at banning social media for kids. But I'm staring to feel it's almost just as bad for adults as well.
by irthomasthomas | 2025-08-24 10:28:49+00:00
Very cool I'm going to try and play with this later. It looks like llm-consortium [0] but with some nice new features, like confidence gating and pluggable verifiers. So, if a response confidence is below a threshold it is eliminated entirely? Is that the gating?

[0] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1870692546969735361
by Cyph0n | 2025-08-24 10:29:19+00:00
Yet for some reason, people still use Steam as a “gotcha” to justify why Apple’s terms are fair.

But as you’ve hinted at, Steam is very different from the iOS App Store because it is competing organically with other app stores on Windows. Steam does not control Windows or the hardware, so it cannot “force” itself to be the only option to download games on Windows.

And even when it does have full control over the platform and HW (Steam Deck), it’s just a light wrapper around a standard Linux distro (Arch).
by munksbeer | 2025-08-24 10:29:49+00:00
>The problem is that writing genuinely performant Java code requires that you drop most if not all of the niceties of writing Java. At that point, why write Java at all?

The reason is quite well known. Supporting multiple languages is a cost. If you only have to support one language, everything is simpler and cheaper.

With Java, you can write elegant code these days, rely on ZGC, not really worry too much about GC and get excellent performance with quick development cycles for most of your use cases. Then with the same language and often in the same repo (monorepo is great) you can write smarter code for your hot path in a GC free manner and get phenomenal performance.

And you get that with only having one build system, one CI pipeline, one deployment system, some amazing profiling and monitoring tooling, a bunch of shared utility code that you don't have to duplicate, and a lot more benefits.

That's the reason to choose Java.

Of course, if you're truly into HFT space, then they'll be writing in C, C++ or on FPGAs.
by dustingetz | 2025-08-24 10:29:54+00:00
the investor bull case in AI is to cannabalize the labor markets at 15% margin, so 1:1 labor:AI budget is where we are headed next - e.g. $100k/100k for a senior dev. The AI share will come out of dev budgets, so expect senior salaries to fall and team sizes to shrink by a lot if this stuff works. Remember we’re in the land grab phase, all subsidized by VCs, but we’re speed running through the stages as and this phase appears to be ending based on twitter VC sentiment. There’s only so many times you can raise another $500M for 9 months of operating cost at -100% gross margin.
by wcoenen | 2025-08-24 10:31:22+00:00
Or make a deal to pay a cut of revenue, like Nvidia and AMD did. Or a deal to give shares to the government, like Intel did.

Perhaps the government can set up some type of holding company which holds such shares and receive the stream of protection money. Next, arrange for investors to only be able to acquire shares of this company if they also trade in some US debt, like France once did with the Mississippi company.
by fmajid | 2025-08-24 10:31:27+00:00
Beelink GTR9 Pro. It has dual 10G Ethernet interfaces. And get the 128GB RAM version, the RAM is not upgradeable. It isn't quite shipping yet, though.

The absolute best would be a 9005 series Threadripper, but you will easily be pushing $10K+. The mainstream champ is the 9950X but despite being technically a mobile SOC the 395 gets you 90% of the real world performance of a 9950X in a much smaller and power efficient computer:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-max-arrow-lake/...