MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wild_egg | 2025-09-01 16:23:53+00:00
You know, it's ok to say that you're out of your element and don't have direct experience with the thing you're commenting on.

SQLite is easily the best scaling DB tech I've used. I've moved all my postgres workloads over to it and the gains have been incredible.

It's not a panacea and not the best in all cases but it's a very sane default that I recommend everyone start with and only complicate their stack with an external DB when they they start hitting real limits (often never happens)
by orev | 2025-09-01 16:24:06+00:00
If they’re fully dry by morning, that implies the machine is using a heating element for the dry cycle. In that case, I’d be for more concerned about the power usage than the water usage.

Most machines will let you disable the heating element (used for drying, they often have one for heating the water which is still needed), which will give you the best of both options. There might be some pools of water left on some items, but if the door opens by itself, the hot water alone usually has enough energy to evaporate itself.
by progbits | 2025-09-01 16:24:34+00:00
CF is trying to double dip: they are charging users for their CDN, and now they try to also charge for the privilege of accessing their user's content.

While I love to see openai get scammed I don't think it will stop there. How cheap and useful do you think Kagi or other search engines can stay with this racket? How will Internet Archive operate?
by ezekg | 2025-09-01 16:24:51+00:00
> What's so bad with this?

It's lying. It's an open source project and a business model built on deceit. I guess I care about clear rules, clear intentions, and I care about integrity above all. The AGPL is ambiguity; unclear rules, veiled intentions. And these same people will relicense without a thought, too. I think we should care about these things, otherwise we repeat history over and over again.
by ironman1478 | 2025-09-01 16:25:12+00:00
I think a different perspective on this is required. This requires taking Google in good faith (for the arguments sake). The requirements are being rolled out first in countries with high amounts of scam apps. Let's assume it's causing a real issue for the people, which then is a bad look for Google because all these apps are hosted on their store. I could imagine in the future a country sueing Google for allowing these apps on the store. So due to image issues and potential future litigation, Google feels like it has to do something so they do this.

I think the real problem is that these countries are abdicating their duty to govern. Why are they not jailing these people running these scams? Or if they are in another country, using political and economic pressure on the other country to crack down?

I don't believe that Google's intentions are actually that great, but there is a real problem in these countries with scams and people's lives being harmed by them.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-01 16:25:29+00:00
> If it is open source, then I can build and install it myself. If the developer gets verified, then I can sideload it.

Although that might be true for you it's very much false for 99% of Android's user base. Android is a nightmare to compile for, I love to compile on linux/win/bsd but I recall only once or twice compiling Android projects and would do everything to avoid that mess in the future.

For all intents and purposes, we should accept that Android users must be able to install pre-compiled open source software.

In sane operating environments there's the option of reproducible builds, which guarantee that a particular binary comes from a particular source, if Google cared about Android users, they would make that available for Android too.

> I totally agree that device manufacturers should be forced by law to make it possible to run an alternative OS like GrapheneOS.

There's some incongruity here - if users could install any other OS on their phones we wouldn't be having this conversation because 1. nobody would care about side-loading being unavailable and 2. Google would never limit it in the first place due to competitive forces.

In other words, installing other OSes is a high-value goal and it makes sense to use every occasion to put pressure on Google to move in that direction - and there is no better occasion than pushing for open sideloading.

It should be abundantly clear that if you can't get open sideloading you will never get open OS install.
by alopes | 2025-09-01 16:25:33+00:00
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by putlake | 2025-09-01 16:25:54+00:00
1. There are penalties for underpayment of estimated taxes. And there are even interest charges on penalties. https://www.irs.gov/payments/underpayment-of-estimated-tax-b...

2. The triple tax advantage is not ridiculous. (1) and (3) are not the same thing. 401k for example is not taxed going in (you fund it with pre-tax dollars) but is taxed when taken out. When you withdraw money from your 401k in retirement, you owe taxes on the capital gains that have accrued in the account since you first put the money in. But if you take money out of HSAs for paying medical bills, there is no tax on the capital appreciation you have enjoyed in your HSA account.
by alopes | 2025-09-01 16:26:16+00:00
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Full stack engineer focused on rapid prototyping and MVP delivery. I lead architecture and delivery for AI powered web platforms, integrate modern LLM APIs into React and Node, and ship production systems on serverless and edge infra. Recent work includes replatforming a FTSE 100 with a Next.js 15 stack and headless CMS, plus turning an AI video product from MVP into production with CI and testing. I improve developer experience with monorepos, automated quality gates, and strong observability. Happy to own greenfield builds or unblock gnarly legacy systems.
by loudmax | 2025-09-01 16:26:28+00:00
From the post:

> Also, these assistants (for now) appear to exhibit no common sense about what is “much”, “little”, “exceptional”, “average”, etc. For example, after measuring a consumption of 3.5GB of memory (!!) for solving a 3-disk problem (due to a bug), the assistant declared all was well...

That describes a good portion of my coworkers.
by palata | 2025-09-01 16:26:31+00:00
I agree that there are monopoly issues with the FAANGs. But I don't get why people seem to put so much energy into this particular issue.

> Any app that could be a direct threat to its advertising model can be deleted, even if it exist outside of its playstore.

Today, apps that don't live on the Play Store don't really exist. Almost nobody ever sideloads stuff. So we should have ways to contest those decisions by Google, with big fines when they do it to reinforce their dominance. But that's orthogonal to Google verifying the developers.

> When you purchase a device, you should control it completely - including the right to modify it and install software from sources you trust

I agree with that: when I buy a device, I should be able to install GrapheneOS or LineageOS. Not that Google or Apple should do it for me, but they should not technically prevent it. E.g. I should be able to unlock and relock the bootloader.

> Encourage development of and migration to truly open-source alternatives like /e/OS or LineageOS

I find it a very interesting way to end the article, that started with "they say it's for security reasons, but it's probably bullshit". Because /e/OS (which I have been using for years) is notoriously worse than Stock Android in terms of security, and LineageOS as well. The only alternative OS that is better than Stock Android is GrapheneOS. If you can't have GrapheneOS, the next best mobile OS in terms of security is... iOS.

Disclaimer: I don't like the monopolies either.
by arp242 | 2025-09-01 16:26:31+00:00
Quite a few people commenting here are having problems with it in the case of Bearblog though, including some pretty wild accusations.

And lets be real here: https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/graphs/contributo...

Looking at the details of that, the only two (small) substantial code changes from other people are "User can delete their own account" from 2020, and "Use cloudflare online dns api to perform domain check" from 2021.
by andrei512 | 2025-09-01 16:26:45+00:00
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by skybrian | 2025-09-01 16:26:47+00:00
Apparently there’s a setting for each website to turn pay per crawl on or off, and they also control pricing:

> While publishers currently can define a flat price across their entire site, they retain the flexibility to bypass charges for specific crawlers as needed. This is particularly helpful if you want to allow a certain crawler through for free, or if you want to negotiate and execute a content partnership outside the pay per crawl feature.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

So it’s more like Cloudflare is enabling pay-for-crawl by its customers. There is a centralized implementation, but distributed price setting. This seems more like a market.

It’s unclear to me whether Cloudflare gets a cut.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-09-01 16:27:22+00:00
Fauci was relatively quick to dismiss the idea of the virus being human-modified, in a press briefing on April 17, 2020 [0]:

> Q Mr. President, I wanted to ask Dr. Fauci: Could you address these suggestions or concerns that this virus was somehow manmade, possibly came out of a laboratory in China?

> THE PRESIDENT: Want to go?

> Q You studied this virus. What are the prospects of that?

> DR. FAUCI: There was a study recently that we can make available to you, where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in bats as they evolve. And the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.

(The study he refers to is "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" [1], published March 17.) It seems that much was made of this particular remark. It doesn't rule out the idea of an unmodified virus leaked from the lab, but the widespread theories have always been aimed at the gain-of-function research occuring there.

[0] https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/re...

[1] https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9
by roywiggins | 2025-09-01 16:27:51+00:00
Banks have been closing up their in-person services as fewer and fewer people use them.

https://www.kiplinger.com/personal-finance/banking/is-your-l...

> Since 2020, the rate of bank branch closures in the U.S. has doubled. The majority of those closures come from large and very large banks, contributing to an overall 5.6% decline in total bank branches nationwide since the start of the pandemic.
by haswell | 2025-09-01 16:28:14+00:00
Why would we suppose AI isn’t in the picture? You’re describing unrelated scenarios. Apples and oranges. You can’t wish away the AI and then conclude what’s happening is acceptable because of how something entirely unrelated has been treated in the past.

As a form of argument, this strikes me as pretty fallacious.

Are you claiming that the output of a model built by Google is somehow equivalent to displaying a 3rd party site in a search result?
by Groxx | 2025-09-01 16:29:30+00:00
Well over half of the code I've ever seen that uses three or more channels (i.e. two semantic ones plus a cancellation or shutdown) has had serious flaws in it.

Granted, that generally means they're doing something non-trivial with concurrency, and that correlates strongly with "has concurrency bugs". But I see issues FAR more frequently when they reach for channels rather than mutexes. It's bad enough that I just check absolutely every three-chan chunk of code proactively now.

I lay part of the blame on Go's "♥ safe and easy concurrency with channels! ♥" messaging. And another large chunk at the lack of generics (until recently), making abstracting these kinds of things extremely painful. Combined, you get "just do it by hand lol, it's easy / get good" programming, which is always a source of "fun".
by jjj123 | 2025-09-01 16:29:47+00:00
The /s thing is the most surefire way to make whatever joke you’re making not funny at all, so I say go ahead and be sarcastic even if not everyone gets it.

And yeah, to your point about the literal interpretation of sarcasm being so absurd people want to correct it, I think you’re right. HN is a particularly pedantic corner of the internet, many of us like to be “right” for whatever reason.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-01 16:30:02+00:00
On what grounds?

Being wrong is usually not a punishable offence. It could be considered defamation, but defamation is usually required to be intentional, and it is clearly not the case here. And I think most AIs have disclaimers saying that that may be wrong, and hallucinations are pretty common knowledge at this point.

What could be asked is for the person in question to be able to make a correction, it is actually a legal requirement in France, probably elsewhere too, but from the article, it looks like Gemini already picked up the story and corrected itself.

If hallucinations were made illegal, you might as well make LLMs illegal, which may be seen as a good thing, but it is not going to happen. Maybe legislators could mandate an official way to report wrongful information about oneself and filter these out, as I think it is already the case for search engines. I think it is technically feasible.
by ricwo | 2025-09-01 16:30:14+00:00
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If you love physics: Alpha constant is unlocked today; prepare for goosebumps
by pajuhaan | 2025-09-01 16:30:31+00:00
Feynman’s test for any “new theory”: can you calculate the fine-structure constant?

That became my one-bit test. Re-deriving SR/GR or the lepton g-factor might be cool, but it takes years for anyone to engage. so I started with the flag almost everyone respects: the alpha - fine structure constant.

How close does it come to the CODATA last measured value? Even 1% approach would be a big breakthrough in physics, but surprise! EXACT MATCH sub-ppt level.

Today I can tell you that Alpha is emergent from a geometric constraint on wavefunction evolution. No fits, no tunable parameters, no h,c,e, or any other constant and the precision is unbelievable. It follows from 3 ingredients:

1. Classical dynamics, 2. The standard Schrodinger equation, 3. The Relator postulate Rω = c -- i.e., the wavefunction evolutions in spatial (our 3-dimensional space) and an internal generator space (C-space).

Code to see algorithm & outcome: https://github.com/pajuhaan/AlphaEmergent

Manuscript paper: https://zenodo.org/records/17021330

If you do give it a spin and the script reproduces Alpha on your machine, the links below walk through the core mechanism and outputs of this framework, answering the century's biggest problems. the first 3 pieces are deliberately written so a motivated final-year high-school physics student can follow them. It’s honestly hard to be easy-undrestandable than burying the idea under heavy formalism. so you might enjoy them today:

* Rω = c — emergence of SR/GR (no 4D spacetime; standard Schrodinger + classical physics): https://zenodo.org/records/16779813

* Plato’s Quantum Cave — the why behind shared-Hamiltonian / entanglement: https://zenodo.org/records/16779805

* Measurement as Quantum Bifurcation: https://zenodo.org/records/16779903 (I like this one even more than the emergent-alpha result or reproducing GR phenomena without GR formalism in the main Relator paper.)

* Lepton g-factor without QED: https://zenodo.org/records/16810381

Tear it down, replicate it, critique it. If you spot a flaw, please point to the exact step/equation; that’s the fastest path to truth. PRL version will be submitted next week.
by stavros | 2025-09-01 16:30:52+00:00
It works fine for my use case, all my Github repos are in the state I'd expect, and I sometimes use git in my local repos as well, and that works fine. Hell, sometimes I use jj to fix a mess I made in git.

The only issue is being in detached HEAD all the time, but in practice it's not a big problem for me.
by NoahZuniga | 2025-09-01 16:32:24+00:00
> So that's quantum mechanics, which from a field theory standpoint is completely deterministic.

This interpretation of reality, at least how I stand it, seems like the correct one to me. (At least that's how it feels to me.)

But this combined with:

> I am going to say it absolutely is.

Means that all reals in [0, 1] are constructible, and as a result of that, all reals by modifying the starting value of r to ie 1. instead of 0., or 10. (2. in decimal).
by sunshowers | 2025-09-01 16:32:26+00:00
> It doesn't really depend on NVMe, that's just the OS sucking.

I've spent so much of my professional career profiling source control access patterns. Hot cache tends to be OS VFS layer performance, but the moment you hit disk that dominates, unless the disk is NVMe (or, back in the day, PCIe flash storage). Further compounding this is the use of a naive LRU cache on some OSes, which means that once the cache size is exceeded, linear scans absolutely destroy performance.

> FUSE

So you might think that, but FUSE turns out to be very hard to do correctly and performantly. I was on the source control team at Facebook, and EdenFS took many years to become stable and performant enough. (It was solving a harder problem though, which was to fetch files lazily.)

I believe Microsoft tried using a FUSE equivalent for the Windows repo for a while, but gave up at some point.
by mikewarot | 2025-09-01 16:32:28+00:00
Ok, so I've trigged quite a reaction with my phrasing. I'm very sorry about that.

Put yourself in my place... Computer Security is a solved problem, and has been for decades, yet we find ourselves in an infinite loop of crises that result in ignorance of solutions. Maybe 5% of all discourse here on HN is about a problem we don't have to have.

How would you push the world to resolution?
by t_mahmood | 2025-09-01 16:32:38+00:00
... you failed at reading comprehension?

My comment was not about using AWS is bad, it has its uses. My comment was about how in this instance it was simply not needed. And I even speculated when it might be needed.

To pick the correct tool for the job, is what, it means to be an Engineer, or a person with common sense. With experience, we can get over childish absolutions of a tool or service, and look at the broader aspects, unless, of course, we are expecting some kind of monetary gains.
by Trufa | 2025-09-01 16:32:50+00:00
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by dpkirchner | 2025-09-01 16:32:54+00:00
(Edited to add: this is an app I use to help with my likely-ADHD, however it is not a note/taking app)

I'm on an iPhone and I use Streaks https://apps.apple.com/us/app/streaks/id963034692 . I really dig it. It's easy to set up, easy to add or pause tasks, and easy to correct past mistakes (I often forget to record I took my meds even though I can see I remembered by looking at my pill organizer, fixing this takes a couple taps).

You can configure it to remind you to do a task N days a week. I use this feature to track checking the mail. You can also make a daily task and configure it with a "2 day rule" that gives you a little wiggle room. I want to read a book and practice chess every day but sometimes I miss a day -- this rule lets me miss one day but not two days in a row.

It's well designed with lots of color choices and icons for each task, plus it has Apple watch support. I'm pretty sure it's all entirely offline other than backups to iCloud, which can be disabled.

Finally, it's a one time purchase. If it wasn't I wouldn't have given it a try.