MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PeyTy | 2025-08-01 06:05:21+00:00
Greentea OS is built from scratch in a custom programming language Hexa with custom kernel design (called Tofita Engine)

While the language looks pretty high-level, having a custom language allows us to fine-tune it for the needs of the OS. It was intended for games and game engines, but later I extended it to the osdev too. The design of Hexa implies balance of high-level feel and moderate safety by default without compromise on performance. You may always go lower or higher level when needed. Kernel is a game-engine inspired experimental design. For simplicity, you may assume its a monolith (with some internal sandboxing, but that's not yet fully implemented). I will cover Tofita design in the future as it evolves.
by witnessme | 2025-08-01 06:06:13+00:00
Snippet from the repo

> Thorium is a scalable file analysis and data generation platform that allows users to easily orchestrate arbitrary docker/vm/shell tools at scale.

Features:

* Highly scalable analysis of arbitrary files/repos * Near zero-cost analysis tool integration * Static and dynamic analysis sandboxes * User friendly interfaces: GUI + CLI * RESTful API for automated access to data * Multi-tenant friendly permission system * Full-text search of analysis results * Key/Value tags for labeling data
by zo1 | 2025-08-01 06:06:51+00:00
My comment may come off that way, but I don't think there is a perfect equivalence, no. And if anything, every person has a different set of morality.

I come from a point of practicality and lack of chaos. It's bad enough that we all have different morality, but we have somehow through some semi-shared and semi-agreed process come up with a set of laws that we should all subscribe and be held-to. And on top of that, we have individuals that want to add more chaos to the mix by having us gimp and restrict the government from enforcing the laws we have already agreed to (for better or worse). They don't get to have that right anymore than I have the right to break any other arbitrary law, and I am tired of privacy advocates claiming some objective moral high ground and "universal" principle of privacy that they claim we all share or want.
by p1dda | 2025-08-01 06:07:52+00:00
The European Commission (EC) is particularly sinister in so many ways and not like any previously known modern democratic entity. The EC has been constantly pushing for less democracy, less transparency, more censorship for decades. All the while the horrible president von der Leyen makes billion dollar deals with Big Pharma in complete secrecy without any repercussions or oversight. Europe is doomed if we don't destroy the EU in its current form, but how?
by lordkrandel | 2025-08-01 06:09:10+00:00
I'm sorry, you make a lot of points correct. It's true that AI will have impact. Translations, chess, medical analysis. Yet, for many many tasks, it is plainly unreliable. We always think of machine being autonomous 24/7 and perfect in their job. This is a new kind of machine. It may be good at translation, but I wouldn't send a translated message without checking it first. This is what hinders its supposed capabilities. To software developers, this is immensely evident. I can chat with it for hours, no way it's going to help me with my depression more than 30 minutes with my therapist. It can analyze MRI scans, but it doesn't know me or have an holistic approach to health. It may translate and hallucinate. It often throws nonsense in the slop. I would not read an AI book that is not redacted because the average of its training materials... is bad. And it's not a technology's fault, it's just a limitation. It is not fixable: it's the way the drill drills. This makes it fundamentally good for very limited and controlled aspects in our job. It cannot code, it cannot review, but yeah, it can probably help you learn a programming language better than a tutorial, given that you recognize its mistakes when they happen. Also, it cannot build upon itself, it doesnt really understand instructions. In the industry, it's about as helpful as a helpful dog. Maybe it will bring you the slippers and take out the garbage, but it's cute and eats a lot.
by schoen | 2025-08-01 06:09:13+00:00
I just ran some code over the CMU pronouncing dictionary and the longest words identified as single-syllable that are English-origin and not proper names or possessives were

9 SCRATCHED 9 SCREECHED 9 SCROUNGED 9 SCRUNCHED 9 SQUELCHED 9 STRAIGHTS 9 STRENGTHS 9 STRETCHED

For eight letters, it found dozens of examples!

The CMU dictionary thinks that "scrambled" is two syllables as a vowel ends up between the "b" and the "l" in pronunciation. Wiktionary thinks this is a syllabic l (/l̩/), which should probably be counted as a separate syllable even if it isn't considered a vowel.

Wikipedia says

> Many dialects of English may use syllabic consonants in words such as even [ˈiːvn̩], awful [ˈɔːfɫ̩] and rhythm [ˈɹɪðm̩], which English dictionaries' respelling systems usually treat as realizations of underlying sequences of schwa and a consonant (for example, /ˈiːvən/).

That's consistent with what the CMU dictionary is doing, perhaps treating /l̩/ as /əl/.
by findingMeaning | 2025-08-01 06:10:53+00:00
Anything that is against the norm is easily flagged. So can't talk about it at all. Everyday I am witnessing massive wealth transfer. If I am aware, pretty sure there are lot of others too. Just want to know how others are thinking about it. Because I foresee our life changing massively in 2-3 years from now on.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-08-01 06:10:54+00:00
> But even if age verification was empirically proven to protect kids, I’d still be against it.

Even with an effective implementation via something like zero knowledge proofs? It seems like it's entirely reasonable to say your position is (in this hypothetical) objectively wrong?

Like arguing that even if we know firefighters save lives, you'd still be against it, because "fear and the desire to feel safe are how monsters are made".

I disagree with these policies (because they aren't safe and I disagree that children in a danger best prevented through this kind of measure), but I also disagree with you vehemently. If I'm wrong and we can genuinely prevent harm and the worst cost is an inconvenience (again, without the risk of data leak), then I'm wrong and we should do it.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-01 06:11:24+00:00
> The Builder’s Daily sounds like an anti-monopoly shop. But in our conversation, McManus sounded like a straight-up YIMBY.

This is a false dichotomy. His opponents are clearly claiming that oligopolies restrict supply. Therefore they are intending to be YIMBY even if they might be wrong about the cause of the restriction.

So this is a weird rhetorical attack that undermines the claims in the rest of the piece.

And now I think about it, it applies to the title too.
by sprior | 2025-08-01 06:11:56+00:00
I just saw this and created a quick deployment to my k3s installation. I created deployment.yaml, service.yaml, and ingress.yaml. I've got a few things already set up like wildcard DNS, cert-manager, and homepage so I've got a few extras in these files and kubeforge is already showing up in my homepage and deployed with https.

I ran into errors when I tried to download the schema, but then it suddenly started working, not sure why.

My first impression is that even with a high resolution laptop screen you're going to end up doing a lot of zooming in and out even for trivial deployments.

I imported the directory where I created those 3 yaml files and now have 3 connected boxes for the ingress, two for the deployment, and three for the service, but no interconnections between those three groups. It would be nice if the labels were cross connected between those groups, even better if when you were creating those groups from scratch you could specify the labels on one side then draw the edge connecting them and the label would get filled in on the other side and even get updated when one side changes. For example if I created a deployment with app.kubernetes.io/name of kubeforge and then was able to create the service object and link the edge and have that label connect.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-01 06:13:45+00:00
On a basic level to protect against DDoS type stuff, aren't CAPTCHAs easier to generate than for AI server farms to solve on pure power consumption?

So I think maybe that is a partial answer: anti-AI barriers being simply too expensive for AI spamfarms to deal with, you know, once the bottomless VC money disappears?

It's back to encryption: make the cracking inordinately expensive.

Otherwise we are headed for de-anonymization of the internet.
by cyberax | 2025-08-01 06:15:15+00:00
Well, how about a 500 kg shaped charge?

And you can just remove the control rods and wait for it to melt on its own (meltdown-proof fuel isn't actually, well, proof). You'll get a nice contamination with volatiles (cesium and iodine), for the bonus points you can wait until the end of the fuel campaign to maximize the amount of transuranics.

I just don't think this is a viable option, except for very niche scenarios.
by meowface | 2025-08-01 06:16:03+00:00
I think it's largely revulsion that Uber ignored regulations, with the revulsion mostly coming from the types of people outraged by things like Newsom's recent CEQA reform.

They support these sorts of stifling rules and believe that skirting or changing those rules is a right-wing ultra-capitalist attack on the public good, despite the situation actually being the exact opposite.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-08-01 06:16:20+00:00
Yes, it's zero knowledge as long as you don't consider knowledge of which provider you use to be knowledge. Which, if used at scale, shouldn't be.

The token isn't one that you receive and use as-is, so there's no way for the token's generator to tie it to your identity. And when redeemed, the generator can only confirm the token is valid, not that you made it (and therefore what service you're using). Kagi has some articles on the technical details for their "Privacy Pass" feature.

However, using a VPN and pre-generating tokens is still recommended to prevent side-channel attacks based on timing.
by tdeck | 2025-08-01 06:16:43+00:00
Not a direct response but just a follow up question. I'm curious how much surplus supply folks think there needs to be in such a scenario. We've seen that landlords are willing to hold units vacant in order to keep their property values up and avoid renting out at a lower price. At what point does thw math say that should collapse? 10% vacancy? 15%? 30%?
Show HN: New VSCode extension Function Explorer
by mchahn | 2025-08-01 06:16:55+00:00
I've just released Function Explorer. It is a vscode extension that provides a sidebar explorer much like the built-in file explorer. The big difference is that you can expand the file items to show their functions. It also features marking functions much like bookmarks. It has a ton of features. Feedback would be appreciated (good or bad).
by sn9 | 2025-08-01 06:17:19+00:00
Actively causing harm is telling people things that are demonstrably untrue that will affect how successful they are in improving their health and wellbeing and using your mental illnesses as proof of your authority instead of decades of academic research as well as the decades of practice of different communities all using the exact same methods you claim to be false.

At a certain point, you have to accept that you have no idea what you're talking about, and it's the height of arrogance to assume that you know something with a higher amount of quality evidence than the mountains of evidence that disprove your claims about how things work and your naive and arrogant claims of expertise.
by b3lvedere | 2025-08-01 06:18:06+00:00
"Furiko (Pendulum), a Japanese short film about the passing of time."

Well that was fun.. :)

Didn't make me cry, but came close. I don't know if i feel stress relieved. It made me feel even more aware of my own mortality and mistakes i made/make in life. Don't feel particulary happy or relieved.

So i clicked again

"A scene from the movie Steel Magnolias (1989). A woman mourns the loss of her daughter. (6:44 min)"

Oh hell no..

Third and last attempt

"A scene from the movie Bambi (1942). Bambi mourns the loss of his mother. (02:47 min)"

You sure this is about stress relieving? :)
by tshaddox | 2025-08-01 06:18:33+00:00
What answer are you even looking for? There’s no proactive law enforcement waiting to bust down your door if you give underage kids alcohol. (Note this is true of nearly all crimes.)

But if a kid dies of alcohol poisoning or drunk driving, you can certainly get in serious legal trouble. Those two things (not wanting kids to be harmed by alcohol, and not wanting legal trouble) stop a very large number of adults from giving minors alcohol.
by sandspar | 2025-08-01 06:19:06+00:00
Paul Graham wrote a nice article about this.

https://www.paulgraham.com/genius.html

In my life, I knew a guy who was obsessed with the Beatles. You couldn't get him to shut up about it. People hated listening to him but he didn't care, he just wanted to talk about the Beatles. Now imagine if he was obsessed with software development - he could change the world.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-01 06:19:18+00:00
Maybe what we need as programmers for collective professional defense is to only LLM-code in Perl.

At some point when the LLM fails, you'll need a real programmer to figure it out.

But IMO, LLMs are code generation, and code generation always fails at some point when the pile of generated code topples, no matter the language.

The amount of bad enterprise LLM code that will be cranked out in the next few years is going to be fascinating to watch.
by athrun | 2025-08-01 06:19:51+00:00
I think you're injecting your personal views into the definition, which don't align with the common meaning of the word.

Here's the definition of the word taken from macOS's built-in dictionary (New Oxford American Dictionary):

> leftist, noun: a person who has left-wing political views or supports left-wing policies.

> left-wing, noun: the section of a political party or system that advocates for greater social and economic equality, and typically favors socially liberal ideas; the liberal or progressive group or section

Anti-capitalist thought represents a subset, but is certainly not the sole marker of left-wing political thought.

Now, my _personal_ take on this is that western left-wing thinking and liberalism (in the moral philosophical sense) are deeply intertwined (given the Enlightenment and its values), but anti-capitalist thought is deeply illiberal in nature. It is this fundamental contradiction that leads to permanent infighting within the left-wing spectrum.
by thedevilslawyer | 2025-08-01 06:21:28+00:00
In the end many of these are "political facts" and not objective like what year was a person born in. The answer to your question is as simple as - come up with the actual list of "facts", and then run a simple eval with every model on them.

The implementation is trivial - the listing down of "political facts" is the hard part.
by gettincrafty | 2025-08-01 06:21:47+00:00
Do you have any links to the papers for the “unRoPE” and “re-Rope” technique? I tried some searching and couldn’t find anything. I would love to look into this idea more.

I think that copy/paste-able KV cache idea sounds pretty promising. It might lose some of the inter-document context and attention that would get built up in the hidden state of the model as it processes the prompt. Maybe just throw in some ‘reasoning’ tokens before it gives its answer to give it a chance to attend cross-document
by mjg59 | 2025-08-01 06:22:52+00:00
I don't understand what "UEFI starts the boot process" means? The firmware is what initialises the hardware. If the code needed to initialise your GPU doesn't have a trusted signature then it won't be executed, and you won't have any working graphics, so you won't have a UI to let you disable secure boot. If secure boot isn't enabled in the first place then yes this isn't a problem.
by tomhow | 2025-08-01 06:23:58+00:00
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Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future.

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by cyberax | 2025-08-01 06:24:33+00:00
I actually was mistaken. The photo is from an earlier project: TES-3, from 1960. It was a system with 4 mobile units and a reactor that needed to be buried for shielding.

https://www.ixbt.com/live/offtopic/pervaya-v-mire-peredvizhn... (German Wiki also has an article with an image: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TES-3 ).

I remember reading about it in an encyclopedia as a child.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-08-01 06:25:25+00:00
I mean, there are a few things here. Like if the bank want the house sold on the loan because the house value goes down even though the person with the loan is willing to continue servicing it - then that seems like an own goal for the bank.

There are a variety of circumstances that can be dreamt up for either side of the equation. And I have no compassion for lenders either.

As you say, maybe the mortgage/loan should be seen as a partnership of some degree between the parties so that the lender is less likely to take advantage.

But ultimately "he who should have known" is the person asking for money to buy XYZ thing. A person should be responsible for their actions.
by rtpg | 2025-08-01 06:25:44+00:00
MacOS has a "apps using significant battery" thing that is quite useful. I think here there's a similar argument for an in your face thing.

That way when the battery goes from 60% to 30% you get told about it, instead of when you go from 30% to 5% and then have other problems as well.

Not so certain about the actual knowability here though
by TFYS | 2025-08-01 06:27:56+00:00
> Here's how a rational market works.

Might regulations be the result of these "rational markets"? After all, if I invest a lot of money to build apartments, I might want to protect that investment by lobbying for regulations to make it harder for competitors, increasing the value of my investment. Or if I buy an apartment, I might want to prevent others from ruining my view, prevent noise, etc. All completely rational.
by cess11 | 2025-08-01 06:28:06+00:00
They're referring to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germ...

I.e. the allies forcing germans in the east to go west and leave the nazi colonial project behind. It was arguably atrocious. It is also irrelevant since the territories involved reside within the EU and there is nothing in the way for these people or their descendants relocating back to Poland or whatever.

Which I suspect will be quite popular in the future, given that Poland's economy is doing rather well and Germany's is likely to not do rather well.
The vibe coding okay, the real game changer will be the design of our projects
by cesargstn | 2025-08-01 06:28:25+00:00
Today, you can build an app in with a prompt.

But creating a visually striking website with a truly unique vibe? Much harder.

The components are there, but often soulless. Everything looks the same.

So, with a few friends (including designers who have worked at Uber), we thought: what if we built a library of truly stylish components, designed for websites that stand out?

We're working on more than 200, but 40 are already available in preview—so those building can see the direction.

It's still a work in progress, but if you're excited about having a ready-to-use design that doesn't look like a "template you've seen 1,000 times," the waiting list is open.

https://skilfut.com/
by skissane | 2025-08-01 06:29:15+00:00
> How is it "less hassle"? You've got to use a second, fiddlier protocol and you've got to worry about collisions and translations.

Because, while less common than it used to be, software that has weird bugs with IPv6 is still a thing-especially if we are talking about internally developed software as opposed to just open source and major proprietary packages. And as long as IPv6 remains the minority in data centre environments, that’s likely to remain true - it is easy for bugs to linger (or even new ones to be introduced) when they are only triggered by a less popular configuration
by rakeda | 2025-08-01 06:30:07+00:00
Created the issue, there is was a bit of a design flaw preventing me from doing this off the bat, but I do think it is important and would expedite understanding from the demo. Thank you!

https://github.com/kubenote/KubeForge/issues/4

Please let me know if there are any features you enjoy or if there is something you would like to see added!
by thedevilslawyer | 2025-08-01 06:30:09+00:00
>There's a civil/economic argument: arguably copyright/intellectual property make for stronger societies that produce better stuff for everybody.

You raise a valid point. When copyright was first envisioned in 1710, the world population was 600M, literacy rates b/w 5-25% (rural/urban).

That argument does not stand today - we don't need protections since the number of producers of better stuff will simply compete in the market of ideas. Pearl clutching of ideas isn't a problem.
by avidiax | 2025-08-01 06:30:14+00:00
This is basically what services like cleanfeed[1] are designed to do: send and receive high fidelity audio with minimal latency.

I'm sure in practice you can't have a jam session more than 50ms or so away from your bandmates before the latency starts becoming very noticeable.

[1] https://cleanfeed.net/
by jaredklewis | 2025-08-01 06:30:23+00:00
The parent is not saying they’re against protecting kids; the parent is saying even if these measures do protect kids (which is disputable) they’re against them because of the side effects. For example, it’s a wedge to let governments and corporations de-anonymize the internet and snoop on everyone.

Not hard to imagine that kids in North Korea are exposed to less web porn. Doesn’t mean we want to live in NK.
by throwaway746262 | 2025-08-01 06:30:39+00:00
Yes, I take your point.

But if I said "I don't understand the point of brakes. Why do all cars get made with brakes?", then as well as making your point ("look, do you really think you know better than Stellantis!?") there's also a straightforward answer which is "cars need brakes so they can stop instead of killing people."

What's the "straightforward answer" case for the existence of managers? Your answer just suggests that such an answer does exist, without revealing what it is.
by StanislavPetrov | 2025-08-01 06:31:40+00:00
>I doubt that an average girl watches as much porn as an average man.

If you are talking about men and women, perhaps that is true. I'm not of the opinion that watching pornography as an adult matters much one way or the other once your psyche is fully developed. The original OP regarded children and their development, and the study I cited was taken among children aged 13-17. These aren't my numbers, this is a peer-reviewed study.

>Seven in 10 who admitted they had watched porn intentionally said they had done so in the past week.

>Seventy-three percent of the respondents (75 percent of boys and 70 percent of girls) said they had watched online pornography. The average age they started was 12. Many began younger.

I also think social media is more damaging to children, but it isn't a zero sum game. With or without social media, I don't see how anyone can credibly argue that child exposure to (often extremely violent) hardcore pornography isn't a contributing negative factor.