MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-23 14:47:37+00:00
> An unattended apartment can raise red flags.

The last three places I've lived, I'd never seen the residents of fully half the apartments on my floor. They could have been jam packed with SIM farms, or abandoned tigers, or dead hookers in chest freezers for all I or anyone else in the building knew or cared about.

An apartment where nobody bothers their neighbors or the super, but keeps the rent checks coming, is the absolute best case scenario for everyone involved.

And again - if an unattended apartment is raided, there's nobody there to drop names. You lose the investment, but that's likely a lesser problem than worrying about what Kasim is going to tell the cops once the handcuffs go on.
by joatmon-snoo | 2025-09-23 14:47:59+00:00
We’ve had a lot of success implementing schema-aligned parsing in BAML, a DSL that we’ve built to simplify this problem.

We actually don’t like constrained generation as approach - among other issues it limits your ability to use reasoning - and instead the technique we’re using is algorithm-driven error-tolerant output parsing.

https://boundaryml.com/
by Maken | 2025-09-23 14:48:09+00:00
I'm seriously wondering about the practicality of this operation. Wouldn't that many SIMs on the same spot overload any nearby cell tower? And even if the antennas could stand the load, that many SIMs hugging the network without any logical reason (like a parade or a demonstration) is bound to raise alarms at the network operator HQ. If this is a scam operation, I would expect these boxes to be distributed across several locations.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-23 14:48:23+00:00
My hunch is any attempt at a solution here is for news outlets to form their own consortium to offer the same type of licensing deal Reddit provides to consumer LLM providers to get access to their data. They either need to charge for the data, or offer a portal themselves to get to the content (think ChatGPT meets Google News). The eyeballs are leaving either way, this is existential.
by mothballed | 2025-09-23 14:48:27+00:00
There are probably some benevolent communes, although I'd certainly be wary of investing much in building up "free" commune land knowing that you're basically acting on faith the owner doesn't simply declare everything you've built is "the peoples" and then use his position as glorious leader to lord it over you.

Based on how much people pay for even absolute shithole desert wasteland where I live, I can tell you there'd be a huge demand for homesteading federal BLM or other land if they'd reopen it. It would definitely help people who can't afford to get land on their own.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-23 14:48:45+00:00
I use an older machine/GPU for wintertime heating, mining Monero (xmrig).

Should one get lucky and guess the next valid block, that pays the entire month's electricity — since an electric space heater would already be consuming the exact same amount of kWH as this GPU, there is no "negative cost" to operate.

This machine/GPU used to be my main workhorse, and still has ollama3.2 available — but even with HBM, 8GB of VRAM isn't really relevant in LLM-land.
by mcpar-land | 2025-09-23 14:48:55+00:00
> As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right.

My product is going to be the fundamental driver of the economy. Even a human right!

> Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer.

How?

> We are particularly excited to build a lot of this in the US; right now, other countries are building things like chips fabs and new energy production much faster than we are, and we want to help turn that tide.

There's the appeal to the current administration.

> Over the next couple of months, we’ll be talking about some of our plans and the partners we are working with to make this a reality. Later this year, we’ll talk about how we are financing it

Beyond parody.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-23 14:48:59+00:00
Original title is "Ukraine destroys giant radio telescope used by Russian military"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevpatoria_RT-70_radio_telesco...

https://x.com/ukrpravda_news/status/1962159897325207613

> Ukrainian defense forces took down the 230-foot (70 meters) antenna dish to prevent Russian forces from using it to guide attacks on its territory. The RT-70 radio telescope has been under Russian control since the annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014. According to Defense Express, Russians carried out major upgrades to the 5,000 metric ton structure to use it for military communications.

> The telescope reportedly served as an antenna for the GLONASS satellite navigation system, Russia's alternative to the American GPS. Reportedly, the use of the RT-70 radio antenna increased the accuracy of GLONASS by around 30%.
by tgv | 2025-09-23 14:49:16+00:00
Well, JSON cannot represent dates (nor Sets, Maps, NaN, etc.), so quite a few applications with a JSON parser have their own conversion (e.g. seconds since epoch, string parsing, object with date fields). Is that a bespoke JSON dialect that scares the pants off?

Now, JSON is more suited for machine-to-machine, but YAML works fairly well for humans. It's a pity, but a few domain specific don't really hurt, since you can't copy some bit of YAML and paste it in an entirely different config anyway.

PS campfire story? "When we were still working in the old building, deep down in the cellar, there was a colleague who had been there since the early days. Nobody saw him arrive at work or leave. It was as if he was always there. One of the things he had written was a custom parser ... FOR YAML!"
by 0x00cl | 2025-09-23 14:49:24+00:00
So...

* Nvidia invests 5 billion in Intel * Nvidia and OpenAI announce partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems (Investment of upto 100 billion) * This indirectly benefits TSMC (which implies they'll be investing more in the US)

Looks like the US is cooking something...
by ashvardanian | 2025-09-23 14:49:30+00:00
Not that I’m aware of. Some commercial DBMS vendors are experimenting with integrations, but I haven’t really seen much in the Postgres ecosystem.

What excites me in this release is the quality of the new hash functions. I’ve built many over the years but never felt they were worth sharing until now. Having two included here was a personal milestone for me, since I’ve always admired how good xxHash and aHash are and wanted to build something of similar caliber.

The new hashes should be directly useful in databases, for example improving JOIN performance. And the fingerprinting interfaces based on 52-bit modulo math with double-precision FMA units open up another path. They aren’t easy to use and won’t apply everywhere, but on petabyte-scale retrieval tasks they can make a real impact.
by kennykartman | 2025-09-23 14:49:30+00:00
If I had a penny for every time I heard that devs are not idiots, I'd be billionaire.

It's true, but devs are not infallible and that's the point of Rust. Not idiots, not infallible either.

IMO admitting that one can make mistakes even if they don't think they have is a sign of an experienced and trustworthy developer.

It's not that Rust compiler engineers think that devs are idiots, in fact you CAN have footguns in Rust, but one should never use a footgun easily, because that's how you get security vulnerabilities.
by surgical_fire | 2025-09-23 14:49:45+00:00
In a report from Google, who is heavily invested in AI becoming the future, I actually expect the respondents to sound more positive about AI than they actually are

Much like in person I pretend to think AI is much more powerful and inevitable than I actually think it is. Professionally it makes very little sense to be truthful. Sincerity won't pay the bills.
by cs702 | 2025-09-23 14:49:58+00:00
Interesting. The Pew Research linked to by the OP has a lot more detail:

https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/20...

This passage, in particular, is eye-opening:

> ... had SROs [single-room occupancies] grown since 1960 at about the same rate as the rest of the U.S. housing stock, the nation would have roughly 2.5 million more such units— enough to house every American experiencing homelessness in a recent federal count more than three times over.
by toss1 | 2025-09-23 14:50:28+00:00
>>...early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement.

>>These devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the United Nations General Assembly now underway in New York City. Given the timing, location and potential for significant disruption to New York telecommunications posed by these devices, the agency moved quickly to disrupt this network.

What nation-state actor might want to disrupt a major US city during a meeting of the UN General Assembly?
by danaris | 2025-09-23 14:50:42+00:00
...no, that level of high prices/wages/cost of living really is just in the Bay Area.

Median teacher salaries in the US are around $63k/yr. If you were to hire one at that rate on an H1B visa for 6 years, the $100k visa cost would be nearly a quarter of the total cost of their hire. (Assuming, of course, that the declaration that it only needs to be paid once per visa remains true, and that Trump doesn't change it on a whim later on, which are absolutely not safe assumptions.)
by somenameforme | 2025-09-23 14:50:50+00:00
If you visit Iran (or pretty much anywhere) as an American you'll have zero issues with the people. Here [1] is a thread of various people visiting Iran, and it's 100% typical. The average Iranian has no problems with an American than anybody else - they have a problem with the American government. And the two are obviously two extremely different things.

The one piece of advice that shouldn't need to be said, but does, is that when traveling to Rome you need to do as the Romans do. You probably would have problems if e.g. you bring a homosexual partner along and make that relationship apparent in public, are a woman who tries go without a hijab, etc. Be respectful of the culture, and people will be respectful of you - regardless of where you happen to come from.

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/111xz3l/comment/j8p...
by madethemcry | 2025-09-23 14:50:58+00:00
That was as great reading, thank you.

I've a related observation. In my experience the amount of hallucinated urls with structured output (think of a field `url` or `link`) is pretty high. Especially compared to the alternative approach, where you let the llm generate text and then use a second llm to convert the text into the desired structured format.

With structured output, it's like the llm is forced to answer in a very specific way. So if there is no url for the given field, it makes up the url.

Here a related quote from the article:

> Structured outputs builds on top of sampling by constraining the model's output to a specific format.
by Anumbia | 2025-09-23 14:51:02+00:00
Tom Matano, the automotive designer who helped create one of the most beloved roadsters in history, the original Mazda MX-5 Miata, has died at the age of 76. His passing marks the end of a career that reshaped how many thinks about what a sports car can and should be: lightweight, driver-focused, emotionally resonant, and joyously simple.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-09-23 14:51:25+00:00
In general there seems to be a big given in the argument that I don't think is obvious:

> At the other end of the policy spectrum, advocates of “degrowth” don’t want to concede that the explosive growth of the information economy is sustainable, unlike the industrial economy of the 20th century.

This seems to imply we all must agree that the industrial economy of the 20th century was sustainable, and that strikes me as an odd point of agreement to try to make. Isn't it just sidestepping the whole point?
by yonran | 2025-09-23 14:51:27+00:00
> is sharing a house illegal, or is it only illegal to separate leases for each room?

Too many unrelated people living in a housing unit is illegal. Here’s San Francisco’s version of this law which was used to shut down house sharing companies such as HubHaus; see definition of “family” https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/s...

The article also mentioned dormitory-like “group housing” apartments (which differ from housing units in that they don’t have a separate kitchen for each unit). San Francisco is pretty enlightened in that it allows group housing in many zoning districts, but even they have group housing density limits and now common space requirements which are designed to prevent much group housing (see definition of “group housing” https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/s...).
by cestith | 2025-09-23 14:51:35+00:00
Do you know any other languages that tend to be safer than C and suitable for CLI tools but without the borrow checker? Over many years I’ve seen a lot in C++, Go, Perl, Python, Ruby, Pascal, various shells, assembly, Java, and some in Haxe, Ada, Lisp, Scheme, Julia, forms of Basic, and recently JavaScript or Typescript.

Most of those are more memory safe than C. None of them have the borrow checker. This leaves me wondering why - other than proselytizing Zig - this article would make such a direct and narrow comparison between only Zig and Rust.
by nis0s | 2025-09-23 14:51:36+00:00
Automated decision systems will probably have better margins of error, but who’s responsible for misdiagnosis or miscommunication? It won’t be fair to apply the entire burden of a mistake on a doctor if the tools they’re being advised to use are also fallible. A new insurance model will likely result from increased AI use in medical settings, one where developers and deployers may have to share some liability. Why shouldn’t that be the case?
by coldpie | 2025-09-23 14:51:49+00:00
> disable animations, especially when swapping between desktops

When I first started using a mac for dev at my current job, I tried their virtual desktops implementation as a workaround for macOS's lack of alt-tab support. That desktop switching animation is so long it's honestly really funny, I just sat there for a minute switching around and laughing my ass off in disbelief at how slow it is. Unfortunately it does also make the feature completely unusable, so we're just stuck with one desktop and a gimped alt-tab. Just an absolute usability train wreck going on over at Apple.
by qwertox | 2025-09-23 14:51:59+00:00
GP here, my parent comment mentioned "This seems very different from the large anti-car movement in the Netherlands in the 1970s".

The videos show mostly the result of that movement. If one thinks that traffic in the US is ok and has no idea about how it is in the Netherlands, those videos show what's different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztpcWUqVpIg&t=424s
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-23 14:52:23+00:00
Yeah. Sorta weird USSS is investigating this. Maybe it was originally related to some Treasury-related fraud case. We're close to budget time so they have to demonstrate congress should give them the money they asked for, so it's pretty easy to upgrade some random scam/spam texter to a terrorism case. It's sort of endearing, actually, when they get some adults back in the USSS reporting chain we'll probably see less "imaginative" press releases.
by bilekas | 2025-09-23 14:52:45+00:00
I have always thought that there is a place for YAML but I do tend to avoid it when I can. I will say while working with terraform I have absolutely falled in love with HCL. It makes a lot of sense to me and there are a lot of validating you can do along the way leading to much more confidence in larger setups. iAC in my case at least.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-23 14:53:10+00:00
The Guardian article says what I'm saying and quotes the authorities saying that too. Why are you citing that as an argument?

> Prosecutors allege that, after Robinson’s arrest in Kirk’s killing, his mother told investigators that her son had spent the previous year or so becoming “more political and had started to lean more to the left – becoming more pro-gay and trans rights oriented”.

and

> Tyler explained “there is too much evil” and the Turning Point USA executive director “spreads too much hate”.

Who talks like that about conservatives? The left do. What does his family say? That he became left wing and was motivated by trans activism. What do the authorities say? That he was a leftist. What did the bullets that he left behind say? Left wing memes and slogans.

Do you see why social media posts like yours are creating massive concern all across society at the moment? You're not only getting your info from the most biased sources out there but citing reports that contradict what you're saying, maybe without noticing. It's freaky and scaring a lot of people.
by mothballed | 2025-09-23 14:53:23+00:00
Rational people tend to get the safest housing they can afford.

Therefore regulating housing is quite possible to only make things less safe, as people end up giving up money for healthy food / education / healthcare / dentistry etc to fund the trumped up "enviromental study" "planning and zoning" "code" and other requirements that might not best fit their budget.
by danaris | 2025-09-23 14:53:29+00:00
It still means you cannot, for instance, quit to escape intolerable conditions, unless you already have another job lined up.

It also means that you're much, much less likely to find another employer willing to fill out the paperwork to hire you—especially if they also have to pay the $100k fee (yes, I know, the announcement doesn't say they have to—wanna take bets on whether Trump would say they do if he learned that it's possible?).
by jvanderbot | 2025-09-23 14:53:32+00:00
From 2024 when this was last posted: It appears to me that these could all be just tab complete, fzf, or similar. Some are just plain old bash.

The commands are written in rust, presumably because they're part of this warp shell advertised on readme?

I used to use this https://github.com/jodavaho/smartcd

'scd journal'

'scd logs personal'

Now I tab complete using fzf, but the above is what you want.

Bash is Turing complete. You "need" nothing else. You may want it for various reasons.
by _fat_santa | 2025-09-23 14:53:35+00:00
> remarkable how credulous kids are for these things

Is it though? We're talking about kids whose brains aren't fully developed yet. IMO there's a certain genius in marketing to kids, as they are far more likely to buy wholesale into what you're selling. MrBeast probably does the best job but if you look through kids Youtube there are some really shady folks out there that just make videos designed to suck kids in, and just based off their view counts you can tell they are making disgusting amounts of money off AdSense.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-09-23 14:53:36+00:00
That makes sense, but I think the vast majority of tools that need time values would actually expect users to just input a string and parse that themselves.

IMO anything other than the basic types supported by JSON (number, true, false, null) ought to be be parsed as a string. Or if you really insist, some kind of special syntax to make it clear it's not a string would probably be acceptable.
by ashvardanian | 2025-09-23 14:53:38+00:00
The consumer situation is changing. A few years ago, when I was working with a team on some closed source HPC stuff, we’ve got everyone Tiger Lake-based laptops to simplify AVX-512 R&D. Now, Zen4-based desktop CPUs also support it.

But its fair to say that I’m mostly focusing on the datacenter/supercomputing hardware, both on the x86 and Arm side.
by bobbyraduloff | 2025-09-23 14:54:12+00:00
> But far from demanding more electricity personal computers have become more efficient with laptops mostly replacing large standalone boxes, and software improvements reducing waste.

If only it was true, I reckon we’re using multiple-orders of magnitude more computational per $ of business objectives simply because of the crazy abstractions. For example, I know of multiple small HFT firms that are crypto market makers with their trading bots in Python. Many banks in my country have excel macros on top of SQL extensions on top of COBOL. We’ve not reduced waste in software but rather quite the opposite.

I don’t think this is super relevant to the articles point but I think it’s an under discussed topic.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-23 14:54:13+00:00
Or just binge watch soft white underbelly on youtube[1].

Mark followed a bunch of homeless people in Skid Row as well as providing assistance to them and documenting it all through interviews.

The problem is so much (soooo much) deeper and worse than the surface level virtuous hand waving of "Just give them food and shelter and the problem is fixed".

[1]https://www.youtube.com/@SoftWhiteUnderbelly
by conciliatory | 2025-09-23 14:54:21+00:00
As a technical user of AI, I think there is certainly value in the capabilities of the current IDE/agentic systems, and as a builder of AI systems professionally I think there is enterprise value as well, although realizing that value in a meaningful way is an ongoing challenge/work in progress. There is also clearly a problem with AI slop, both in codebases and in other professional deliverables. Having said that, what’s more interesting to me is whether we have seen AI produce novel and valuable outputs independently. Altman asserts that 10GW could possibly “cure cancer”, but frankly I’d like to see any discrete examples of AI advancing frontier knowledge areas and moving the needle in small but measurable ways that stand up to peer review. Before we can cure cancer or have world peace through massive consumption of power and spend I’d like to see a meaningful counterpoint to the argument that AI as a derivative technology from all human knowledge is incapable of extending beyond the current limits of human knowledge. Intuitively I think AI should be capable of novel scientific advancement, but I feel like we’re short on examples.
Show HN: Devbox – Containers for clean dev environments
by TheRealBadDev | 2025-09-23 14:54:24+00:00
I've been frustrated with dependency hell and clutter on my VPS from dev, so I built Devbox: a lightweight, open-source CLI tool that spins up isolated development environments using Docker. Each project runs in its own container, but your code stays in simple flat folders on the host machine—no messing with volumes or sync issues. Environments are disposable, so you can nuke and recreate them without losing your work. Key features:

- Instant setup: `devbox init my-project` and you're in a fresh env with `devbox shell`.

- Configurable via JSON: Define packages, services, and more in a `devbox.json` file. Share it in your repo for reproducible setups—teammates just run `devbox up`.

- Docker-in-Docker by default: Build and run containers inside your env without extra config.

- Host-friendly: Edit code directly on your machine; the container handles the runtime.

- Templates for quick starts: Built-ins for Python, Node.js, Go, web dev, etc.

- Advanced options: Port mapping, env vars, resource limits, and even mounting your dotfiles.

It's FOSS (MIT license), Linux-focused (Debian/Ubuntu, or WSL2 on Windows), and super easy to install: `curl -fsSL https://devbox.ar0.eu/install.sh | bash`.

Check out the launch page and docs at https://devbox.ar0.eu, or the repo at https://github.com/itzCozi/devbox. I'd love some feedback, stars, or contributions to help grow this into a solid community tool!
by wmichelin | 2025-09-23 14:54:45+00:00
The way this is written makes it sound like you think there's an algorithm saying "if bad person: then boost".

The credibility is ranking. The ranking is a function of engagement. The engagement is a function of human nature. Things delightful, shocking, or unusual usually strike that chord. Sprinkle capitalism into the mix and people become professionally delightful, shocking, or unusual.

I don't think the ranking algorithms are the problem here.