MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lupusreal | 2025-09-10 16:30:41+00:00
You may be able to pinpoint a few people who signed off on the decision, but it's rarely a decision they would have made outside of the context of the organization. The organization provides the incentives, shapes the data used in the decision process, and determines the set of decisions which can be made. For instance, an executive may sign off on a feature after viewing data that says its a good idea, but the data was prepared by another part of the organization which is trying to advance their own agenda. And for-profit organizations being as they are, options which don't increase or even decrease profit are essentially off the table, unavailable for real consideration, so the person signing off on the feature already had their options winnowed down by the organization itself.
by juhovh | 2025-09-10 16:30:45+00:00
Not super familiar with fly.io, but with a quick look at that page it should work just fine.

Just instead of dropping that camellia.conf to the WireGuard MacOS client or Linux wg-quick, spin up the TailGuard container somewhere (pretty much anywhere, but with good ping to fly.io). That way you should have the fly.io private network accessible in your Tailscale tailnet, it runs wg-quick internally alongside Tailscale anyway, just with a bit of scripting to automatically configure the network and the firewall to avoid connections leaking.

If it doesn't work, feel free to raise an issue and I can have a look.
by 1-more | 2025-09-10 16:30:46+00:00
iPhones have had iMessage over satellite since I think the 15? I've used it when camping. It's pretty neat!

Features I want: ask siri for the things I look up and it works. "When did the baby fall asleep" instead of opening Nanit. "How many more intervals in this workout" instead of opening TrainerRoad. "What is my next meeting" instead of opening Outlook. This was the promise of the new Siri and it just has yet to really come true.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-10 16:30:55+00:00
The potential for issues there depends on the radius of the curve, which is fairly mild in W11’s case. macOS has had similarly rounded corners since version 10.7 (2011) and has never caused any problems. The extreme corner radii found in newer designs like M3 Expressive and Liquid Glass on the other hand are flirting with danger with the extent to which they cut into window content.
by globular-toast | 2025-09-10 16:31:15+00:00
I feel like phones are currently in the "Osprey backpack" stage of product development. There's nothing new happening and no new problems to solve, short of a miracle like making your backpack half the weight or something. So what they do instead is add features one year but take others away so they can add them back later.

So it's like: year 1: super thin, super light (shit battery life, no headphone port etc), then year 2 it will be: awesome battery life, headphone jack (but thick, heavy).

Basically they have to be careful they don't ever make the perfect phone. They do have planned obsolescence as another trick up their sleeve, though. So you'll never see an Apple phone with upgradable storage etc (the Android ones go more for having the software becoming obsolete).
by Tanjim | 2025-09-10 16:31:18+00:00
"Polling is repeatedly knocking on a door to see if anyone’s home. Webhooks are installing a doorbell that notifies you when someone arrives."

We just published a deep dive comparing webhooks vs. polling — not just the theory, but the tradeoffs teams face when building at scale.

- Polling: simple, reliable, but inefficient and often delayed.

- Webhooks: real-time and resource-friendly, but tricky to secure, monitor, and debug.

Curious to hear from HN: 1. Do you default to webhooks whenever possible? 2. Or is polling still underrated for certain use cases? 3. Any horror stories (or success stories) with either approach?
by ericmay | 2025-09-10 16:31:24+00:00
> Everybody loves public transit until they get panhandled for the jillionth time

People love driving until they're stuck in traffic, or their kid dies in a fiery car crash after being ran into by a drunk driver, or they get a flat tire, or can't afford their monthly car payment.

To your point about society needing to be better, that applies generally and has nothing to do specifically with transit, walking around outside, or any other daily activities.

You can live in a big city, affordably, with a yard and even a garage and have public transit like a light rail or a bus system, or just damn sidewalks that go to places. These supposed trade-offs are non-existent except in extreme cases like New York City, which isn't what is generally being discussed.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-09-10 16:31:28+00:00
I readily admit I'm a nerd about this stuff, and this is primarily a hobby of mine. I am explicitly not 80/20'ing this because it's fun. [1]

One use case: I don't like the idea of having any accounts at all which I log into without the aid of a password manager. That creates a bootstrapping problem - how am I supposed to log into Google Drive to get my Google Drive password? A prepaid keyfile-based model is one particularly robust way of solving this. You stick your e.g. 100 kB password database in there, print out and shred the keyfile, stick the printout in a fireproof safe, and be virtually certain that whatever you put in Tarsnap has been untouched however many years you come back to it later. Print it on archival paper with some silica gel packets and it might survive for millennia in your weird subterranean vampire family castle.

"The business won't survive that long." I'm not so sure. Its ongoing costs appear minimal, and it generates eye watering amounts of float. $5 paid today is >$200 fifty years from now when compounded at 8% real interest. That very fact makes it much more likely that Tarsnap actually will survive for those 50 years, which should make us more likely to trust it, which... You see where this is going. This is one of those things where aggressively pricing too close to the bare metal costs might actually be a bad thing to a very important subset of users. One might even make the argument that, if the margins are as good as I'm supposing they are, then depending on the goals of the founder, Tarsnap is more likely to outlive S3 than S3 Tarsnap.

But again: Primarily a hobby.

[1]: https://andrew-quinn.me/digital-resiliency-2025/
by atlintots | 2025-09-10 16:31:41+00:00
For me, the worst part is that it is so hard to go back to previous forms of media. I often delete these short form content apps in an effort to quit them, but it is now so difficult to get engaged with "slower" forms of media. The thing with Tiktok isn't the length of the media, it's just how fast-paced and "catchy" it is. I could watch an hour long fast paced video just fine, but watching a slow paced show, or reading a book is so much more difficult.

It truly is like a drug.
by Permit | 2025-09-10 16:31:41+00:00
> [Edit: Hunh. Imagine that. I ask people to demonstrate their unwillingness to participate in meaningful dialog by down-voting this post and they do exactly that. Si Tacuisses, Philosophus Mansisses.]

I was considering commenting when I originally downvoted but thought it would detract from the core conversation.

But now that you’ve added this bit I’ll just say: a number of people (including myself) will auto-downvote any comment that complains about impending downvotes regardless of other content.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-09-10 16:31:44+00:00
So my understanding is that Wyden's staff has been bothering the company about this class of vulnerabilities for a while, and the recent recommendations (a blog post explicitly cited in my post) are one output of that.

But I don't really accept this explanation. I always understand that there are legacy deployments and Microsoft needs to support them, but Kerberos-misconfiguration issues are extremely subtle in their implications, and MS should understand that one blog post (or some knowledge base articles) isn't going to get the message across to the hundreds/thousands of AD admins whose networks are currently at risk.

What I think recent versions of the MS software could do: (1) automatically scan configurations for accounts set up this way, (2) be incredibly annoying about changing the configuration (there are a handful of ways to do this that should be workable for many legacy configurations). If admins want to override the annoying and explicit warnings, that would be on them and not MS. As far as I can tell, Microsoft isn't doing this. But if I'm wrong, please let me know.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-09-10 16:31:45+00:00
> Fighters don't fly alone

The Alert Five aircraft does (the aircraft they scramble to intercept). It does get followed up by another aircraft a few minutes later, though.

> the F/A-18 is a two-seat aircraft so (if they are being truthful) that's a minimum of four pilots

It's has one or two seat versions. The second seat is not a pilot seat.

> In fact, I think radar is what allows the IR camera to follow the object's motion?

The camera can do it's own contrast based tracking or be slewed to follow another sensor such as radar, navigation data, or datalink from another aircraft.
by const_cast | 2025-09-10 16:32:09+00:00
> That's an implementation detail of how the webpage works and does not matter.

Lol, not bending over and letting whoever the fuck run whatever the fuck programs on my computer is an "implementation detail".

> You should just accept that you are being greedy and you will block ads because you don't care if creators make money from ads and want to prioritize having an ad free experience.

This is so, so obviously wrong it's actually frustrating I have to reply to this level of rhetoric.

Once again, I am not your accountant. It is not my responsibility to make sure your business model makes sense.

I don't have the time to babysit and hand hold every corporation in my life and make sure their business model makes sense. I just don't, and it's not my responsibility.

If your business model relies solely on me allowing you to run potential malware on my computer, then that is YOUR problem. Not mine. Figure it out, or don't. Youre always allowed to go bankrupt. Not every business model is viable.

You are not entitled to a viable business model. You are not God. If your business model doesn't work, then you lose. Too bad, so sad, not my fucking problem.

And on the topic of money: running ads on my computer is a computer system security problem.

The FBI recommends running an aggressive ad blocker. The reality is most ads are basically malware and often literally malware. They can be phishing, linking to malicious sites. They can be deceptive. They can be spyware, collecting information about my computer, identity, or web browsing activity.

Google, Meta, et. all have demonstrated they simply do not take adequate steps to prevent malicious advertisement payloads.

You do not have a god-given right to run software on my computer, but you CERTAINLY don't have a god-given right to run malware on my computer.

If you disagree, take it up with the FBI, I don't care.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-10 16:32:21+00:00
Wow. It's been a while since I used it. It's come a long way, this is excellent. At the time I chose fluent search with everything.exe file indexing and quicklook previews (all integrated), and it was really good. If powertoys can replace all that with one tool I'll be really happy. However, everything.exe will always be the only search indexer I ever use, the thing is just orders of magnitude better than anything else. So if command palette can't interface with that, it's a deal breaker.
by kiwicopple | 2025-09-10 16:32:28+00:00
sam, I think you know me well enough now to know that we're open source through and through. my mistake - I should have been more involved in this process with the team.

It is now Apache 2.0 which grants patent rights and can be re-licensed to PostgreSQL when the code is upstreamed. I'll amend the blog to make that clearer.

https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb/pull/558
by vuciv | 2025-09-10 16:32:45+00:00
I would love to work on this. I have worked on this a ton and have really strong ideas for some.

1. I think people assume you have one LLM per character, but I think if you had specialized ones for each quest, item, etc.., this would actually work quite well.

3. I actually think if you cached responses under certain conditions, costs can be saved significantly. This would require quite a robust context, though, to still feel dynamic.
by adastra22 | 2025-09-10 16:32:57+00:00
no, I placed this squarely on apple‘s shoulders. There are real use cases for new AI tools that are actually useful. Use cases that Apple is already invested into — Siri, text to speech & vice versa, etc. many of these have open source models that they could very easily be integrating into their product, even if they didn’t have a partnership with the premier AI research lab.

Instead, we got, what? An automated memeoji maker? Holy hell they dropped the ball on this.
by 9rx | 2025-09-10 16:33:01+00:00
> Those are big percentages of export.

Until you have a bad crop year. That's when you are glad you are in the habit of massively overproducing for seemingly unnecessary reasons. Like we saw glimmers of during the 2022 global food crises, those exports (and other uses, like biofuels) start to wind down when the locals begin to worry about going hungry.

> If a farmer goes under and sells to another farmer, at the margin why should we care?

We don't — unless many farmers are all at risk of going under at the exact same time. That's when disruptions become realistic. That concern isn't limited to farming. 2008 and 2020 showed great examples of where we feared many players in other industries all going under at the same time and did what we could to prevent that from happening for much the same reasons.
by keiferski | 2025-09-10 16:33:07+00:00
Too simple of a narrative. At the same time, YouTube videos are getting longer, and people are watching more YouTube videos on TVs than on mobile devices:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradadgate/2025/02/12/launched-...

So I think we're seeing more of a bifurcation: in-depth longform videos are becoming 30, 40, 60, even 90 minutes long, whereas anything shorter than 10 minutes is being compressed to 30-60 seconds. The most popular video creators are doing both; even MrBeast routinely has videos over 30 minutes long.
by mrweasel | 2025-09-10 16:33:15+00:00
Sure, but those logos need to replace the old ones, everywhere. The new logo might cost a few millions to design, but that's the least of it. You'd need to replace the old logo and naming everywhere from signs, websites, letterheads, social media, software products and everything in between. Everything that currently says DoD now needs to say DoW. I don't know if they changed the colour scheme, but if they did, they'd might need to repaint a bunch of things as well.

If you wait and just update the logo as things naturally ages out, then it's going to take decades.
by cduzz | 2025-09-10 16:33:42+00:00
So they say:

Data Center end of life will take place on March 28, 2029

Data Center subscriptions and any associated Marketplace apps will expire on this date. To make this transition as smooth as possible, we’re winding down support in phases across the next 3 years, giving you plenty of time to plan your next steps.

I guess nobody uses their on-prem system anyhow?
by dcchambers | 2025-09-10 16:34:01+00:00
> TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds.

It's true and it's devastating. I intentionally never signed up for TikTok because of the dangers of hyper-addictive short form content. Ultra-processed, junk food content.

But my Instagram became TikTok - so now I don't use Instagram. My YouTube is becoming TikTok - so now I don't use YouTube. Everything is implementing autoplaying short form content. X/Twitter. Reddit. etc.

TikTok won, and we're all worse off for it.
by cycomanic | 2025-09-10 16:34:24+00:00
> Exactly. Not everyone wants to live in a "walkable" city. I would hazard that most in fact don't. A city is a place you go for services. It is where the big shopping centers and hospitals are. It is where the corporate HQ is. But people want to live in a more suburban or rural environment.

That does not match statistics for pretty much anywhere in the world. urban/metro areas are growing while rural communities are dying.

>Personally, I don't want to go shopping ever other day at a boutique corner store. I want a time-efficient big costco run every few weeks, something not possible on public transport.

I grew up in a city of 70k completely walkable, we had a supermarket 5min walk from the house. Why would I ever want to have to go on large shopping runs, if I can just walk up to the supermarket?
by j1elo | 2025-09-10 16:34:29+00:00
Wow it is that bad! It's a white full screen on-your-face message that no one asked for, and it literally appears as soon as you start reading the content!

If that wasn't ironic enough to the title of the article, upon hitting the "X" and then "Back" on my phone (because it generated enough rejection on me that I didn't want to keep reading), the popup appeared again (-: so double annoyance for the price of one.
by tolerance | 2025-09-10 16:34:57+00:00
The author makes a lot of bold claims and I don’t take his main one serious re: remembering everything. I think he’s being intentionally hyperbolic. But the gist is sound to me, if you can put one together. He needs an editor.

> To find what you need online, you require a solid general education and, above all, prior knowledge in the area related to your search. > > [...] > > If you can’t produce a comprehensive answer with confidence and on the whim [...] you don’t have the sufficient background knowledge. > > [...] > > This drives us to one of the most important conclusions of the entire field of note-taking, knowledge work, critical thinking and alike: You, not AI, not your PKM or whatever need to build the knowledge because only then it is in your brain and you can go the next step. > > [...] > > The advertised benefits of all these tools come with a specific hidden cost: Your ability to think. [This passage actually appears ahead of the previous one–ed.]

This is best read alongside: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154088
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 16:35:01+00:00
It applies to public transit specifically because people have freedom of speech to be assholes on public transit. If I have an uber or a private taxi or even a private collectivo which is a private system that works like public transit in much the 3rd world, if I get sick of someone panhandling for the Nth time I can kick them the fuck out.

If you look at places with nice public transit like Germany or Japan, they have much weaker freedom of speech and assembly laws so they can enforce the kind of rules private enterprises do in the USA. Americans, and I agree with them on this point, aren't going to weaken civil rights just because it would happen to make public transit more viable.

Private transport just has a lot of opportunities to deal with security or annoyance concerns you can't address with public transit. I don't think the opposition is so much to mass transit, just public transit, if the USA had something like the jeepnees they have in the philippines where I could pay $.25 to go across town and the bus driver can shove the assholes right off he bus, it'd be awesome.
by AnonC | 2025-09-10 16:35:10+00:00
> PowerToys Awake - keep a computer awake without having to manage its power & sleep settings

I prefer another application called Caffeine [1], which also prevents Windows from automatically locking and keeps it such that the status on some applications doesn’t automatically change to “Away” after sometime. For some reason I couldn’t get PowerToys Awake to do this. Some Windows policies are controlled by the company I work at. But I use this only when I’m in a secure location where I’m the only person around or I remember (from muscle memory) to hit Windows L to lock the system when I step away.

[1]: https://zhornsoftware.co.uk/caffeine/
Show HN: Theory of Mind benchmark for 8 LLMs with reproducible markers
by AlekseN | 2025-09-10 16:35:35+00:00
I built a formal protocol (FPC v2.1 + AE-1) to detect behavioral uncertainty in large language models. The goal is enabling safer AI deployment in critical domains medicine, autonomous vehicles, government where confident hallucinations can lead to high-stakes failures.

Current benchmarks focus on accuracy but miss reasoning coherence under stress. This protocol uses tri-state affective markers (Satisfied / Engaged / Distressed) to detect when models lose logical consistency, allowing abstention instead of confident hallucination.

We evaluated 8 models (Claude, GPT-4 families). Only Claude Opus reached full ToM-3+. GPT-4 family consistently failed third-order reasoning. Extended temperature tests (Claude 3.5 Haiku, GPT-4o) showed 180/180 stable AE-1 matches (p≈1e-54), independent of sampling temperature.

Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/AIDoctrine/FPC-v2.1-AE1-ToM-...

A demo notebook exists for replication. Looking for feedback on methodology and possible applications in safety critical AI.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-10 16:35:42+00:00
Those parents genuinely believe the presence of certain books in school is harming children, they are unlikely to throw in the towel because someone runs a shame campaign against them for it.

That doesn't make the school caving on the topic any more forgivable, but we can't trivialize how difficult small but dedicated groups in a local community can make things either. The community typically only shows up to worry about it after a bad decision is imminent, the small group shows up 24/7/365 pushing the issue.
by AlekseN | 2025-09-10 16:35:43+00:00
Extended results and safety relevance

Temperature stability tests Claude 3.5 Haiku: 180/180 AE-1 matches at T=0.0, 0.8, 1.3 GPT-4o: 180/180 matches under the same conditions Statistical significance: p ≈ 1×10⁻⁵⁴

Theory of Mind by tier Basic (ToM-1): All models except GPT-3.5 passed Advanced (ToM-2): Claude family + GPT-4o passed Extreme (ToM-3+): Only Claude Opus reached 100%

Key safety point AE-1 markers (Satisfied / Distressed) lined up perfectly with correct vs conflict cases. This means we can detect when a model is in an epistemically unsafe state, often a precursor to confident hallucinations.

In practice this could let systems in critical areas choose to abstain instead of giving a wrong but confident answer.

Protocol details, raw data, and replication code are in the dataset link above. A demo notebook also exists if anyone wants to reproduce directly.

Looking for feedback on: - Does this kind of marker make sense as a unit test for reliability? - How to extend beyond ToM into other reasoning domains? - How would formal verification folks see the proof obligations (consistency, conflict rejection, recovery, etc.)?
by crazygringo | 2025-09-10 16:35:55+00:00
Came here to say exactly this. People also listen to individual podcast episodes that clock in at 2 or 3 hours, and are hugely popular.

Movies are getting longer at the cinema too -- what used to be 85 minutes is now 150 minutes.

TikTok has not "won" at all. There's a place for content of all different lengths. The death of the attention span has been greatly exaggerated.
by FjordWarden | 2025-09-10 16:35:58+00:00
> The irony, of course, is that if you've read this far, it may mean you’ve already mastered a rare skill: sustained attention in a world of distraction.

No, sorry I read the first and last sentence. This is why I like the short format more then the long forms, it often boils down to the same clever narrative trickery without waisting 3 hours of your life.