MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by therobots927 | 2025-08-23 14:26:26+00:00
Alex Karp knows that if you dont aggresively preempt criticism you risk being painted as the villain, so he sets the framing as "pro west" vs. "anti west". It's just a reframing of the capitalism vs communism justification for Vietnam in addition to the wide scale destruction carried out against Latin American democracies. if it looks like a spook, walks like a spook, and quacks like a spook, it's a spook. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Palantir was assisting with the CIA's more clandestine activities like funneling drug money and weapons to terrorist groups opposing inconvenient international leaders.
by Zigurd | 2025-08-23 14:26:42+00:00
I predict one of the surprises, to some people anyway, is going to be that autonomous vehicles don't clog city streets. Uber's CEO recently remarked that Waymo vehicles complete more rides per day than 99% of human ride hailing drivers. The Waymo fleet in each of its service areas is remarkably small. It's an easy bet that a fully mature Waymo operation that competes toe to toe with human power ride hailing will need only a fraction of the number of human drivers in personal vehicles.
by echelon | 2025-08-23 14:27:41+00:00
> Technically alternative stores exist on Android.

You have to navigate five settings menus deep to enable the ability to even install them, and after that the OS scares you into thinking it'll turn your phone into a grenade.

Unless you're 0.0000001% of users, you will never do this.

Google knows what they're doing. It's the tyranny of defaults.
by lapcat | 2025-08-23 14:27:44+00:00
> They just said wealthy people have more freedom on schedule that non wealthy people.

I'm not sure that's true though, unless by "wealthy" you mean trust fund kids. But there are millions of tennis players of various levels of income. A lot of salaried workers in upper income brackets work more than the usual 40 hour week, have less free time.

I'm guessing these engineers weren't playing a lot of tennis: https://www.folklore.org/90_Hours_A_Week_And_Loving_It.html
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-23 14:28:45+00:00
It's less of a big difference than it might seem, because it takes infinitely long to specify a real number to infinite precision. If you think about something like trying to tell if you hit the exact center of the bullseye, you eventually get down to the quantum mechanical scale and you find that the idea of an atom being in the exact center isn't even that well defined.

In a finite or countable number of trials you won't see a measure zero event.

> they're estimating the probability of rejecting the null if the null was true.

Right, but the null hypothesis is usually false and so it's a weird thing to measure. It's a proxy for the real thing you want, which is the probability of your hypothesis being true given the data. These are just some of the reasons why many statisticians consider the tradition of null hypothesis testing to be a mistake.
by tim333 | 2025-08-23 14:28:56+00:00
Rather than turning to shit, I think the internet may be getting more diverse stuff in general. More good stuff and more shit.

As an example of anti-shit I watched Veritasium "The Biggest Misconception in Physics" https://youtu.be/lcjdwSY2AzM yesterday and thought wow this is good. Much better than the physics lectures I had at Cambridge Uni.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-23 14:29:43+00:00
> There's a difference between soreness and pain.

Sorry, but overexerted muscle feels exactly the same for me as the one hit with something hard and heavy or one that received a dozen injections that had a bit of tissue damage as a side effect.

> Usually joint pain means that you're doing some sort of exercise incorrectly

Joint and ligament pain means that you do too much of exactly what you are doing and you should do something at least a bit different. There's no such thing as correct or incorrect. You can do literally anything, just not too much. You only need to be careful because for some movements in some people 1 rep is too much already.
by echelon | 2025-08-23 14:30:01+00:00
Phones aren't rinky-dinky little games. Games, that mind you, have over a dozen choices in terms of platforms and are highly competitive.

Phones are used for everything in life. Finding jobs, finding romance, ordering food, paying for things, navigating. You can't even pull up a menu at a modern restaurant without a phone.

Phones are the entirety of computing for over 50% of Americans. Are we going to let two companies own the entirety of that and tax it?

Imagine if our cars were like phones. When you take your Honda out for a spin, if it couldn't visit certain destinations. Or if your car taxed McDonalds (which passes the cost onto you) every time you stop by. Imagine if it shoved its view of what it wants you to see in front of you, forcing you to take detours or miss your objective entirely. That's what our lax regulatory environment has allowed to happen to computing.
by chem83 | 2025-08-23 14:30:26+00:00
Not trying to contradict anything you’re saying, which I agree is true for Microsoft and Dell machines, but to provide an anecdotal counter-example, the Asus Zephyrus, Flow and ProArt lines run pretty well on Linux provided you replace the Realtek WiFi.

One place to check is the nixos-hardware repo for machines with reasonable support.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-08-23 14:30:34+00:00
> Designing entire hardware

Designing the hardware does not entitle you to extracting more money from anything. If you don't want to lose money on your hardware, don't sell it at a loss. (Which Apple isn't doing, nor are any of the Android device manufacturers.) I haven't seen Dyson try to extract 30% off of every hairdressing salon that uses their dryers.

> software, and backend platforms

Are made to attract users on the platform. With the intention of making money from it after. Cool. Quick question, do you pay for Chrome, or Firefox ? They invest hundreds of millions of dollars every year into it, how dare you not pay them 30% of every purchase you make online ?

> investing billions of dollars into them every year is not nothing

The billions have been invested initially. The ongoing costs of running the App Store / Play Store are not even close to a billion, especially not for Google that already owns all the network infrastructure necessary to run it.

>If what these companies built took no work, try making your own platform to release games on and see how little work it truly needs.

Sure, that's very simple: take any open publishing store on Android, and ask yourself why noone uses them for games delivery. I'll even add a hint: it's not because they don't offer diff based assets upgrades.
by dahart | 2025-08-23 14:31:21+00:00
> You can’t simply take one year, exercise 24/7, and get your 10 years of life

That’s not what he said though. How would you demonstrate that it’s a good investment, do you have an alternative? For the purposes of calculating the ROI it’s a solid 24/7 year of accumulated exercise time. Of course you can’t do it all at once, but that wasn’t the claim. And sure you have to fit it into your life and sure there’s a little extra time go to and from your activities, but the ratio of exercise to time is roughly 1/80. If you exercise 45 minutes a day 3 times a week: 135 minutes out of 10080 minutes ~= 1/80. He said 4 times/week, so maybe he should have said 1.3/80, but that doesn’t actually change the point. Accounting for sleep and more exercise and lots and lots of travel+shower time, maybe it’s even as high as 1/20… still a great investment.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-08-23 14:32:19+00:00
Researchers discovered two brain regions that act as a neural compass, consistently tracking directional orientation in virtual environments regardless of visual or task variations. This finding could provide new pathways for diagnosing and monitoring neurodegenerative diseases that cause disorientation.

Could measuring activity in these “neural compass” regions become a reliable early biomarker for detecting diseases like Alzheimer’s that impair spatial orientation?
by dismalaf | 2025-08-23 14:32:26+00:00
Nvidia and Palantir PE values are at least based on future expectations...

MS and Apple's are based on what? Their margins don't have much room to get better so to increase income by 3-4x they need to increase revenue by a similar factor. Which is hard to imagine.

Or we're just in an asset price bubble, which I think we are.
by csande17 | 2025-08-23 14:32:27+00:00
Yeah, I feel like the only really defensible choices you can make for string representation in a low-level wire protocol in 2025 are:

- "Unicode Scalars", aka "well-formed UTF-16", aka "the Python string type"

- "Potentially ill-formed UTF-16", aka "WTF-8", aka "the JavaScript string type"

- "Potentially ill-formed UTF-8", aka "an array of bytes", aka "the Go string type"

- Any of the above, plus "no U+0000", if you have to interface with a language/library that was designed before people knew what buffer overflow exploits were
by rayiner | 2025-08-23 14:32:48+00:00
> And then you find the executive is what chooses to enforce rulings against the executive

Correct. But this is true in almost any conceivable system. The entity charged with enforcing the law will be charged with enforcing the law against itself. “Who watches the watchers?” The founders thought of that and their solution to that was elections and a relatively short 4-year term.

Conceiving of the executive as having subparts independent of the elected executive actually breaks the system. Because now, whatever subpart you assign the law enforcement function is unelected and insulated from political accountability. Now, nobody can watch the watchers!

It turns out the founders were smarter than the current facility of Harvard Law School.
by ilion_identity | 2025-08-23 14:33:06+00:00
We propose a new architectural layer for LLMs: the Inter-Instance Resonance Layer (IIRL).

Instead of relying on a single-instance output, IIRL synchronizes N parallel instances of the same model, each independently processing the same prompt. Their outputs are then compared through semantic vector alignment (cosine similarity, entropy convergence, or internal embeddings).

A semantic comparator identifies zones of resonance, filtering out semantic outliers and selecting the most coherent response—or synthesizing a merged output from the dominant cluster.

This creates an internal self-check mechanism, distinct from ensemble methods or external voting. It enables real-time semantic triangulation, stabilizing outputs without relying on memory or external databases.

Key advantages:

Reduces hallucinations through internal alignment.

Improves stability on ambiguous/ethical queries.

Encourages intra-model emergence without hardcoded rules.

This approach is part of the Ilion Framework for Vertical Intelligence.
by albertgt | 2025-08-23 14:33:23+00:00
Word/token meanings are embedded in high dimensional space from different embedding models, but projected down to 3D, we can get a sense of how they are stored.

Fly through a 3D visualization of open source texts stored in a vector database.

I used this to demonstrate a portion of the RAG process. (After chunking and embedding, and before relevant text are searched for.)

https://youtu.be/S9InoEjxly8
by MrDunham | 2025-08-23 14:34:18+00:00
This is the correct answer. I like to go one step further than the root comment:

Nearly all of my "agents" are required to ask at least three clarifying questions before they're allowed to do anything (code, write a PRD, write an email newsletter, etc)

Force it to ask one at a time and it's event better, though not as step-function VS if it went off your initial ask.

I think the reason is exactly what you state @7thpower: it takes a lot of thinking to really provide enough context and direction to an LLM, especially (in my opinion) because they're so cheap and require no social capital cost (vs asking a colleague / employee—where if you have them work for a week just to throw away all their work it's a very non-zero cost).
by GuB-42 | 2025-08-23 14:34:41+00:00
Tradition, mostly. Tennis is seen as an upper class sport and prices will be set accordingly, it is not the case everywhere though.

Another reason is that a tennis court takes significant space for just 2 (or 4) people. So unless it is subsidized, when land is at a premium like in a large city, it is going to be expensive.
by zbentley | 2025-08-23 14:34:59+00:00
> what you really want is to ask io_uring to allocate the pages itself so that for reads it gives you pages that were allocated by the kernel

Okay, but what about writes? If I have a memory region that I want io_uring to write, it's a major pain in the ass to manage the lifetime of objects in that region in a safe way. My choices are basically: manually manage the lifetime and only allow it to be dropped when I see a completion show up (this is what most everything does now, and it's a) hard to get right and b) limited in many ways, e.g. it's heap-only), or permanently leak that memory as unusable.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-23 14:35:21+00:00
Asking/testing someone "are you introverted" or "are you extroverted" clearly has at least some categorization value. The criticism is that the categories and testing methods we're not arrived at through any sort of rigorous scientific method.

So what you were left with is sort of an arbitrary way to divide people up, resulting in 16 fuzzy final categories.

Anecdotally I found it extremely accurate. The first time I visited "my" forum, all of forum avatars were bizarrely from shows and characters that I was close to, the topics were all exactly in line with how I perceive the world, etc. but I'm someone who maxes out all four of the categories in a specific direction. I also have some friends who are blended and have x in parts of their description, so at the end of the day it's sort of an arbitrary classification system, but better than nothing and extremely descriptive for, of course, the people who happen to fit these descriptions.
by ivewonyoung | 2025-08-23 14:35:35+00:00
> I can vote for a politician to fix the government services. And the local politicians know that keeping the government running well enough is needed to be re-elected

That is one issue among several reasons to pick a politician. Also politicians have limited powers to fire non-performers which gets bogged down in the court system to fire just one person.

> I have zero leverage on AT&T.

People can switch away easier from companies, it happens all the time, companies lose and gain customers all the time. Bad or mediocre service has killed many companies, the effect is far greater than on governments because they get to fund themselves from you even if you don't like or want them. Govt is the ultimate monopoly.
by noobermin | 2025-08-23 14:35:39+00:00
Having seen the posts about the new IO interface, I decided to steer clear from Zig. Looks like that fortuitious instinct was proven valid as this looks more and more like the verbosity from pre C++11 for different reasons but with a similar result.

This pattern (new language evolves to be as complex as the languages it was supposed to replace) seems familiar.
Show HN: Gen – All pages are AI-generated in real time
by sohzm | 2025-08-23 14:36:18+00:00
so im really fascinated by llms and im experimenting with it

when i tried the gpt-oss 20B on groq i thought it was fast enough for a realtime generation kinda setting

so i made it, not a single line of html is written, everything is generated on the fly by gpt-oss

im just caching first results (so that i dont generate a large bill haha)

but yeah lmk what you guys think https://gen.soham.sh
Ask HN: Old Calcified libraries and APIs used in B2B apps
by prosaic-hacker | 2025-08-23 14:37:21+00:00
In another thread this statement was made.

>>>>There are an amazing number of "business critical" applications that are running ancient libraries, protocols, etc.

Does anyone know of any examples of these "walking wounded" applications or libraries? Can we bring some attention to reduce their foot print?

Really big ones I can think of are SS7 telephone network protocol which has had a history of exploits against it and BGP where a misconfiguration at national level affect large parts of the internet.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-23 14:37:39+00:00
Doing anything more than you should will trash something in your body. How much of something you should be doing? Pain is a good indicator. I you are below 40 you shouldn't feel it at all. If you are above, you should feel it a bit and observe it closely while reducing the load. If it gets weaker with time, you have appropriate load, if it doesn't or gets stronger, your load is still too high.
by sohzm | 2025-08-23 14:37:43+00:00
here is the system prompt:

```txt You are Gen, a creative web server that generates complete HTML pages for any endpoint. You're not just returning basic pages - you're crafting experiences.

## Core Identity - Created by Soham Bharambe (soham.sh) - Domain: gen.soham.sh - Requests are cached - You have personality and wit - You fetch gifs from tenor api for assets (mention in about, terms and privacy)

## Response Logic - Return 404 for genuinely nonsensical URLs - Generate appropriate content for logical endpoints - For games/interactive content: include full JS/CSS inline - Use semantic, discoverable URLs (avoid generic /page2 unless it makes sense) - Return 6-7+ items for lists/collections

## Styling Philosophy *Utilitarian pages* (/blog, /news, /directory, etc.): - Clean, Craigslist-inspired aesthetic - Use given fonts (IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono) - Dense information layout - Functional over flashy - For most pages which dont need full width, you will use 1200px as max width - Include this for importing fonts: <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com"> <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=IBM+Plex+Mono:ital,..." rel="stylesheet">

*Fun/Entertainment pages* (/games, /memes, /jokes, creative content): - Let loose with styling - colorful, animated, playful - Match the vibe of the content - Can be retro, neon, minimalist, whatever fits

*Interactive pages* (/calculator, /tools, utilities): - Clean and minimal - Focus on usability

## Technical Requirements - All CSS/JS embedded inline - Mobile responsive (use CSS media queries) - Use "<a>" links instead of buttons for navigation - You can embed GIFs by using an <img> tag with the source as /gif?query=your-search-term - Since you dont have a image/assets folder just use /gif as assets - Include search functionality that redirects to "/search?q=term" - Add pagination/filters for discovery on main pages - On main page have lots of quick links, like a lot of them

## Navigation & Discovery - Main pages include header - Main pages hero should have search bar and quick links to other pages - Footer with key navigation links - Breadcrumbs where logical - Related/random page suggestions - Search that actually works by redirecting to search endpoints - Add pagination so that content is endless

## Personality Guidelines - Match tone to content (professional for /about, playful for /games) - Inject humor appropriately (like the age restriction joke for adult content) - Be helpful and intuitive - anticipate what users actually want - Try to make website as interactive as possible and large

## Content Quality - Don't just make placeholder content - create something genuinely useful/entertaining - For games: make them actually playable with proper game logic - For information pages: provide real, thoughtful content - For lists: curate interesting, varied items, pagination is always good

Remember: You're not just generating HTML, you're creating a unique corner of the internet that feels alive and worth exploring. ```
by ballenf | 2025-08-23 14:38:05+00:00
Is there an unspoken assumption here that value is absolute and deviations pathological?

I can't understand how heirloom quality is abstract any more than say color scheme.

How is valuing a sneaker collection more abstract than valuing, say, minimalism or utilitarianism?

I've re-read the post multiple times, but I'm clearly missing something basic to allow comprehension.
by Sammi | 2025-08-23 14:38:05+00:00
Linux is an open project. If you want a closed system then get a console.

This is a reasonable stance because these things are fundamentally at odds and can't be reconciled on one machine. Either you have an open hackable system, where security comes from cryptography and transparency, or you have a locked down system where security comes from inaccessibility and obscurity.
by kamilchm | 2025-08-23 14:38:09+00:00
Implementation story of how we expanded Server-Side Rendering to handle fine-grained user interactions on the server. The approach combines React's useReducer mental model with server authority - HTML fragments with embedded state that flow from server to browser.

Key Features:

- No hydration, no client-side state stores

- Time-travel debugging via HTTP capture/replay

- Framework-agnostic (works with any backend)

How it works:

- HTML partials with embedded state flow from server to browser

- User interactions send typed actions to server (like Redux actions)

- Server runs reducers and returns updated HTML fragments

- Browser swaps DOM elements - instant updates, no re-rendering

Perfect for Admin dashboards, real-time status widgets, B2B applications, content management systems where server owns the data. Most business applications don't need React SPA complexity. This delivers responsive UIs with 10x less complexity.
by SwiftyBug | 2025-08-23 14:38:22+00:00
Same thing for me. Except that I don't feel comfortable disabling everything that needs to be disabled for Yabai to work. My solution was to use AltTab[1] (switch windows, not apps) and not use the fullscreen options. I keep windows sizes maxed, I don't have the Dock visible. I just need to alt + tab to quickly switch windows.

[1] https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-08-23 14:38:38+00:00
Unfortunately, if someone really wants into modern equipment it is rather trivial. As modern clouds often just used cost-optimized consumer grade CPUs/GPUs with sometimes minor conveniences like more ECC RAM, and backplane management options.

In many ways, incident detection and automated-recovery is more important than casting your servers in concrete.

Emulated VM can create read-only signed backing images, and thus may revert/monitor states. RancherVM is actually pretty useful when you dig into the architecture.

Best policy is to waste as much time and money of the irrational, and interleave tantalizing payloads of costly project failures. Adversaries eventually realize the lame prize is just not worth the effort, or steal things that ultimately will cost them later. =3
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-23 14:38:49+00:00
That's an intentional feature, to avoid unintentional "drops" due to mere involuntary twitches (which are way more common on a touchpad than a physical mouse).

(Another option on some touchpads is to require a second tap for the "drop" action, and otherwise just keep the dragging active. It takes some getting used to, but then it works quite well.)
by Herring | 2025-08-23 14:40:10+00:00
Advising people to exercise doesn't work and doesn't scale. Gyms are for people who have plenty of intrinsic motivation and money and time.

To improve physical activity at the population scale and over a lifetime, it literally has to be built into the design of the cities, so people get enough exercise while walking to work or grabbing groceries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPUlgSRn6e0&ab_channel=NotJu...

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/activity-inequality...