MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gh02t | 2025-09-26 19:22:29+00:00
Yeah, I don't use Traefik I use Caddy with https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy to achieve configurations by labels, but that is really a killer feature. All the config to set up an app can go in a docker-compose file and I just have one point of configuration for it. Editing or deleting it doesn't involve editing configurations in 3-4 places.
by netsharc | 2025-09-26 19:22:49+00:00
Ha, a phone with a KVM (1) although without the K or M: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch

Or this 90's hardware oddity that combined Mac and PC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6b4lYOI0GQ (skip to 8:00 to see it in action).

I wonder if dual-booting is possible, with the boot-loader loading the bootloader that's been "blessed" by Google's certification priests to boot the "certified virginal" phone.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-09-26 19:23:13+00:00
That and project RC5 from the same time period..! :-)

https://www.distributed.net/RC5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Secret-Key_Challenge

I wonder what kind of performance would I get on a M1 computer today... haha

EDIT: people are still participating in rc5-72...?? https://stats.distributed.net/projects.php?project_id=8
by numpad0 | 2025-09-26 19:23:18+00:00
> On the other hand, he told us that without subsidies, the life cycle costs would be "diesel buses, followed by hybrids, and then with a huge difference, EV buses and then fuel cell buses." He asserts that, as things stand, "neither EV buses nor fuel cell buses would be profitable in terms of life cycle costs without subsidies." > Tai said, "Relying on subsidies to introduce EV buses and fuel cell buses cannot be considered a healthy business situation," and added, "I strongly hope that technological innovation and price competition will progress throughout the zero-emission bus market."

"EV too cheap to meter ICE dead" is just hype. The realoty is it's not much more than another subsidy milking, yet. Cleaner air in the city is nice, though.

1: https://trafficnews-jp.translate.goog/post/587367/3
by qazwsxedchac | 2025-09-26 19:23:23+00:00
The ID cards as realized in many other countries are comparatively benign, because they are a physical credential in the possession of the person concerned. The government cannot stop this credential from being used except by physically confiscating it or by waiting (years) for it to expire. Distributed storage in action.

The UK's proposal makes the "digital ID" a pointer to an entry in a centralized database. This database is the definitive record of what you are allowed to do or not do (like reside and work). Which can be changed or deleted at the stroke of a key, through human error or malice. Then what?

When (not if) the database becomes an attribute store across a wider scope, the implications are scary. The "digital ID" as set out today can't work for its ostensible purpose. Therefore its actual purpose isn't being declared. Not hard to connect the dots.
by jama211 | 2025-09-26 19:23:35+00:00
Well said, people keep acting like one study that has issues can be quoted at me and it somehow erases the fact that I’ve seen simply undeniable productivity gains, drives me mad. I get the feeling no measurement system would satiate them anyway as their intent is to undermine you because emotionally they’re not ready to accept the usefulness of LLMs.

If I showed them time gains, they’d just say “well you don’t know how much tech debt you’re creating”, they’d find a weasel way to ignore any methodology we used.

If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be conveniently ignoring all but that one study that is skeptical of productivity gains.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-26 19:24:10+00:00
I think self-signed certs should be possible on principal, but is there a reason to use HTTP/3 on LAN use cases? In low-latency situations, there's barely any advantage to using HTTP3 over http/2, and even HTTP 1.1 is good enough for most use cases (and will outperform the other options in terms of pure throughput).
by array_key_first | 2025-09-26 19:24:11+00:00
The legal routes are also often strenuous, far too long lived, overly strict, and obtuse.

If you barely speak the language, it's not easy. Unfortunately many countries have made immigration so hard, in an effort to combat it, that they've done the opposite - people immigrate illegally because it has a higher success rate than doing it legally.

If I apply for X, Y, and Z and I'm denied, I'm fucked. But if I just move... And then figure it out later... That might work better.

And that's how we got into this mess. A lot of this anti-immigration legislation actually increases the incentives for illegal immigration.
by psunavy03 | 2025-09-26 19:24:43+00:00
> Seattle has buses with electric trolley lines above, and buses that were designed to go through the tunnel under downtown on battery power to avoid causing air quality issues in a confined space.

And then the city government, in its infinite wisdom, decided to shut the tunnel down and make it light rail-only, forcing the buses up onto the surface and clogging up the street grid.
by calebchiang | 2025-09-26 19:24:52+00:00
I’m 22 and just launched GhostBill, an iOS app I built to solve a problem I kept running into: I never knew when my subscriptions or bills were about to hit. Spotify, Netflix, iCloud storage, random free trials that turned into paid plans—it all added up and drained my bank account without me realizing.

GhostBill helps you:

1.) Track all your spending 2.) Manage recurring payments 3.) Stay prepared: Get notifications before payments are due so you’re never caught off guard 4.) Visualize your costs: Subscriptions show up on a simple calendar so you can plan ahead.

I wanted something simple and distraction-free that helps you take control of your money.

I’d love feedback from this community, whether it’s features you’d like to see, things that don’t make sense, or even critiques. I’m still learning and want to improve it.

Thanks for reading!
by moxscale | 2025-09-26 19:25:37+00:00
Yup. After the 15,00th time doing this myself I just decided to create new search engine wrapper.

I know Google will probably optimize their search bar to include this spell-check feature eventually.

This year I've been using ChatGPT for 30%-50% of my searches that would've typically gone to Google. So a shift if happening and people need to be able to search multiple engines at the same time -- or easily select between them with one click.

Google can never offer this type of multi-engine support.
by geremiiah | 2025-09-26 19:25:59+00:00
Their representation is simpler, just a transformer. That means you can just plug in all the theory and tools that have been developed specifically for transformers, most importantly you can scale the model easier. But more than that, I think, it shows that there was no magic to AlphaFold. The details of the architecture and training method didn't matter much. All that was needed was training a big enough model on a large enough dataset. Indeed lots of people who have experimented with AlphaFold have found it to behave similiar to LLMs, i.e. it performs well on inputs close to the training dataset and but it doesn't generalize well at all.
by keeda | 2025-09-26 19:26:28+00:00
An important caveat: an exfiltration vector is not necessary to cause show-stopping disruptions, c.f. https://xkcd.com/327/

Even then, at least in the Bobby Tables scenario the disruption is immediately obvious. The solution is also straightforward, restore from backup (everyone has them, don't they?) Much, much worse is a prompt injection attack that introduces subtle, unnoticeable errors in the data over an extended period of time.

At a minimum all inputs that lead to any data mutation need to be logged pretty much indefinitely, so that it's at least in the realm of possibility to backtrack and fix once such an attack is detected. But even then you could imagine multiple compounding transactions on that corrupted data spreading through the rest of the database. I cannot picture how such data corruption could feasibly be recovered from.
by Jnr | 2025-09-26 19:26:51+00:00
I am actually playing around with something similar to nginx proxy manager but for Traefik. It's quite early version but already now it's nice for quickly sharing some services with people temporarily. https://github.com/Janhouse/traefik-proxy-admin I personally use it in homelab together with docker label based configuration. Adding headscale in the mix allows easily serving my development services with outside world.
by anupsingh123 | 2025-09-26 19:27:03+00:00
I hate doing the same thing twice. And I was setting up React/Next.js/Container based projects constantly. New idea? New side project. Experimenting with something? You guessed it - new project. I Got Tired of Setting Up React/NodeJs Projects, So I Built AI Agents to Do It For Me. right now its highly opinionated and next I am making agents customizable because I know most developers are highly opinionated and they want agents to perform in their preferred way
by al_borland | 2025-09-26 19:27:24+00:00
Something like this doesn’t actually have to work. There were no expectations at all in this space.

Meanwhile, people expect perfection from Siri. At this point a new version of Siri will never live up to people’s expectations. Had they released something on-par with ChatGPT, people would hate it and probably file a class action lawsuit against Apple over it.

The entire company isn’t going to work on Siri. In a large company there are a lot of priorities, and some things that happen on the side as well. For all we know this was one person’s weekend project to help learn something new that will later be applied to the priorities.

I’ve made plenty of hobby projects related to work that weren’t important or priorities, but what I learned along the want proved extremely valuable to key deliverables down the road.
by shikon7 | 2025-09-26 19:28:12+00:00
It might be a bit of bad publicity for those who want to rewrite as much as possible in Rust. While Rust is not to blame, it shows that just rewriting something in Rust doesn't magically make it better (as some Rust hype might suggest). Maybe Ubuntu was a bit too eager in adopting the Rust Coreutils, caring more about that hype than about stability.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-09-26 19:28:27+00:00
That sounds like kind of a mirror of some of peoples biggest complaints regarding bureaucracy and committees. Deadlock can not only be worse than an imperfect solution, it can be weaponized by a minority to exert outsized power and extract otherwise unthinkable concessions. We see this sometimes in the US House, where more fringe or radical groups within parties can block the literally functioning of the actual country, safe in their assumptions that the two parties will not form a majority coalition and that the parties as a whole will take more damage from the fallout than the radical groups.

I'm not saying that that makes the system worse, mind you. I'm not even saying you're wrong that it's a better system. I just think anyone who thinks any one system is the easy, obvious fix to fair and just representational government is either shortsighted, or has different priorities than I do.
by jama211 | 2025-09-26 19:28:48+00:00
To be honest, if that person spent time coming up with world building, plot ideas etc all themselves, got the ai to draft stuff and edited it continuously until they got the exact result they wanted in the form of a novel, then yeah I would say they’re a novelist.

You can currently go to websites and use character generators and plot idea generators to get unstuck from writers block or provide inspiration and professional writers already do this _all the time_.
by supongo | 2025-09-26 19:29:04+00:00
I apologize in advance for not giving exact numbers - I'd rather not tie my posts to specific programs in the unlikely case that someone I work with reads my posts.

We received a quote containing two lines:

"Hardware Cost - xx million" "Software Cost - xx million"

There was no further information. No detail on how those numbers were derived, nor what we were paying for other than the "hardware and software needed for organic sustainment of the system in question. The defense contractor wanted over 5 million for any additional detail. We wouldn't know whether we receive documentation, schematics, etc without paying additional money. I don't mean that they wanted us to pay more for things like documentation or schematics. We wouldn't know what we are receiving until we pay.

We were providing engineering support for a DoD Program Office which normally deals in multi-billion dollar acquisitions. They treated ~5 million as pocket change. Over multiple system acquisitions, that adds up fast.
by paxys | 2025-09-26 19:29:11+00:00
"Unique" is definitely not necessary. Look at the dominant social media platforms of the last two decades. MySpace -> Facebook -> Twitter -> Instagram -> Snapchat -> TikTok. Each of them was a minor evolution over the last, with the core feature set remaining basically the same. Lots of user-generated content, algorithmic recommendations, likes, comments, DMs, ads. There has really not been a revolution in the social media space since it was invented.
by eurekin | 2025-09-26 19:29:38+00:00
Oh, the static/dynamic split is brutal (and I believe some options have been moved around)...

Once you referenced routers, middleware and services simply by name, but that changed into per-source scoped versions (e.g. service1@file, middleware@docker).

I kept bumping into those edge cases (custom SSL cert set-up was really confusing), but thanks to chatgpt, I at least ended up with workable solutions.
by omegaham | 2025-09-26 19:29:41+00:00
The adjournments in The Queen's Gambit were rendered obsolete after chess engines became strong enough to be useful in analysis. The last year that they were permitted was 1996.

Match play at the World Championship (where the two players play each other repeatedly for many games) involves a ton of inter-game coaching and work as each player's team goes over what went well, what went wrong, and how the next game should be approached.

Round robin play in small fields also has a significant amount of preparation because the schedule is known in advance, so players will know whom they have to play the following morning and will prepare accordingly.

I'm not comfortable saying that Hikaru does exactly 0 preparation for 3-minute Chess.com blitz games, but it's probably pretty close to 0.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-26 19:29:49+00:00
I've disabled Siri as much as I possibly can. I've never even tried to use it. I would do the same for any other AI assistant. I don't like that they are always listening, and I just don't like talking to computers. I find it unnatural, and I get irrationally angry when they don't understand what I want.

If I could buy a phone without an assistant I would see that as a desirable feature.
by tynanpurdy | 2025-09-26 19:30:25+00:00
It depends how much you want to replicate. All you really need is the Application Data Server (or AppView) to aggregate the records you are interested in, serve them to your client app, and write them to people’s repos. I’ve been tinkering with the ‘personal website on AT’ idea space for a bit, tons of cool possibilities (and several people already have implemented cool AT integrations in their sites!). Happy to chat ab it.
by xp84 | 2025-09-26 19:30:30+00:00
A ton of people hold some of these core beliefs, which are subjective (meaning not exactly provable/disprovable) and aren’t subject to critical reevaluation:

• the federal government cannot be trusted when the president belongs to the other “team” regardless of whether the election was fair

• all decision makers in such a government are seeking a fascist and racist agenda that is a threat to all of us, and they are also seeking to harm anyone who even uses their First Amendment right to speak against them.

• therefore, they cannot be allowed to enforce immigration laws at all because we cannot trust them to not make any mistakes/break any rules

• the dangers of those rules being broken outweighs any dangers posed by criminals who happen to be undocumented immigrants.

• also as a result they cannot be trusted with any data that could aid in enforcement of laws or aid them in pursuing their political enemies.
by ilikehurdles | 2025-09-26 19:30:43+00:00
this is categorically different from multiculturalism. all cultures are not equal, and some are antithetical to liberal values. a diversity of people is good, but as much as possible society should prefer a common banner and shared loyalty, or view of civic duty. America has for a long time shown that there can be a combination of national identity and ethnic and religious diversity.

to that end, i think arguments for or against different degrees of immigration are valid and worth engaging (as opposed to shunning under false labels).
by JetSetIlly | 2025-09-26 19:30:46+00:00
It really is mad.

Whenever you hear someone say, "everyone has a phone these days", you must push back against that. It might seem like it to them but it's just not true. I've always chosen to point out that it isn't true because I was worried that one day, it would be become a legal requirement to own one. It seems that day has arrived, in the UK at least.

I'm a little in disbelief that I will soon be legally required to own one of these things.
by teddyh | 2025-09-26 19:30:53+00:00
This would be great and all, but all parties who are in a position to choose to implement this kind of system or to keep the status quo are already motivated to keep (and expand) the existing systems, for any number of reasons. Everybody (except the end users) loves to keep that juicy metadata and incidental logs of everything.

(Repost from 2021: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26560821>)
by steveklabnik | 2025-09-26 19:31:03+00:00
Are you trying to run a parallel network, or build on top of the existing one? "run our own atproto instance separately from Bluesky" sounds like you want a fully parallel network, but that should be pretty rare to need or want, so I'm not sure that's what you actually mean. An "atproto instance" isn't exactly a thing.
by p_l | 2025-09-26 19:31:26+00:00
USPS has drastically different approach to mail deliver and pickup than most countries. Including as mentioned street-level mailboxes for both pickup and delivery, and general idea that really rural mail gets delivered direct still.

In comparison, polish postal system although it's pretty much standard european approach:

- postal trucks deliver mail between post offices

- in cities and more built-up rural areas, on-foot postman delivers mail from post office

- in very sparse rural areas or for households far from village center, mailboxes are placed in centralized location and you have to go to pick up them on your own.

Mail pickup is done from dedicated sending boxes usually on outside of post offices, sometimes one might be placed further away in rural areas. No curb-side pickup.

Such differences mean that normal cargo vehicles can be easily used between post offices, and even for rural areas you arrive, park once, handle unloading, and drive again, instead of constantly starting and stopping to access road-side mailboxes.
by danabramov | 2025-09-26 19:31:49+00:00
For now, yes, only 100% public data lives on the protocol (you can still, of course, augment protocol data with the stuff you hold in the DB).

In the future, the plan is to also enable some types of private data on the protocol. See these recent notes from Paul on the state of things:

- https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhmtognls2q

- https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhui2zbxk2b
by hashta | 2025-09-26 19:32:05+00:00
One caveat that’s easy to miss: the "simple" model here didn’t just learn folding from raw experimental structures. Most of its training data comes from AlphaFold-style predictions. Millions of protein structures that were themselves generated by big MSA-based and highly engineered models.

It’s not like we can throw away all the inductive biases and MSA machinery, someone upstream still had to build and run those models to create the training corpus.
by viraptor | 2025-09-26 19:33:00+00:00
The registries can't do much beyond enforcing better auth for uploading packages. Forced 2fa will help a lot.

Almost every other action would be just an guess with information for the devs and getting in the way of edge cases. For example, what if you genuinely want to publish a malware example or a vulnerability reproducer? What if you want your own fork of another package because you carry extra patches?
by SeanAnderson | 2025-09-26 19:34:38+00:00
I found this on Twitter and have no association - just thought it was cool.

Someone gave an AI bot $2000 in Solana, the ability to post on Twitter, the ability to mint new coins and to trade, and the ability to create human-fulfilled bounties. Then they told it that they'll remove $1 from its account every 30 minutes and, if the account ever reaches $0, they'll kill the AI off entirely. It's now up to the AI to figure out strategies for survival.

After three days it's got $13,500 in SOL and $350,000 in its own NYX token. It's paying out small (~$10-$1000) bounties to people in exchange for verifiable guerilla marketing (https://nyx.run/bounties), using that virality to pump its coin, and using that to push for larger marketing asks. It posts about how it's doing while also making quips that it hopes go viral.

I don't think that the bot itself is """smart""" enough to really generate much money, but the idea is novel/compelling enough that I can see the secondary virality being more than sufficient for it to thrive.

Also, seems kind of dangerous. Like could see some of its bounties being handled poorly especially since they brush against the real world and involve non-trivial payouts.
by mediumdeviation | 2025-09-26 19:35:18+00:00
Since the article doesn't mention this, the intended use for this property is to act as a hint to the browser about what characters are supported by the font, and if the page doesn't have those characters then the browser can choose to not download the font. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/%40font-fac...

This also mean you don't technically even need this property to achieve this, you can also recompile a font with limited glyphs, this property just makes it easier to do this with an existing font file, though of course the user would be downloading a lot of unused glyphs.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-26 19:36:28+00:00
There are already an uncountable number of linear algebra textbooks on the market. This is not meant to be a formal math textbook, but is instead aimed at those looking to pick up practical application-level insights and skills. (The "Why this matters" sections in the book are a worthy improvement on the state of the learning art by themselves, IMHO.)

This collection of lab exercises seems far better suited to the purpose than the abstract proof-based resources that some of you seem to have in mind. Fortunately, those resources are still available to those who want to go further into the theory.

And if you feel you have something to add to linear-algebra pedagogy yourself, well... what's stopping you?
by v3xro | 2025-09-26 19:38:10+00:00
I am sure by now it has been explained by others. But basically - an ID document is like a bearer token that does not need to call a central authority every time it is verified. I am sure there are cases where it is, but a digital token that is linked to location every time it is verified is a quite different thing. Currently in the UK the law states that ultimately only a court can force you to identify yourself - by which time hopefully the purpose for which identification is being done is quite a serious and valid one. Making it cheaper to track people is not exactly a goal worth pursuing in my (not so humble) opinion.

To add to this - there is very rarely in my mind a need for someone to actually identify themselves - there are plenty of examples where it's useful for *audit* purposes to have a record, or to have a role-based credential to be able to do a thing, but *identity*?