MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kixiQu | 2025-09-20 16:04:40+00:00
> You can now ask questions about the entire page you’re on right from the omnibox. Chrome can suggest relevant questions based on the context of the page to help you kickstart your search. You'll get a helpful AI Overview from Search right alongside the page, with the ability to ask follow-up questions in AI Mode, so you can get helpful information without leaving the page.

I've done the normal things to exclude my site from search. I would like this to not run on my site either.
by jmull | 2025-09-20 16:05:07+00:00
It shouldn't matter.

Decompress's Reader shouldn't depend on the size of the buffer of the writer passed in to its "stream" implementation.

So that's a bug in the Decompress Reader implementation.

The article confuses a bug in a specific Reader implementation with a problem with the Writer interface generally.

(If a reader really wants to impose some chunking limitation for some reason, then it should return an error in the invalid case, not go into an infinite loop.)
by miladyincontrol | 2025-09-20 16:05:36+00:00
Container rebuilds are disadvantages? Using mkosi and systemd-nspawn for containers it doesnt really feel that way, still a lot easier to build some distroless app container than to finangle a service to have zero access to other binaries, libraries, or other data entirely.

I dont get the distribution "advantage" building em with mkosi but I'd argue it a weakness as far too many are running containers with who-knows-what inside them.
by coffeefirst | 2025-09-20 16:06:32+00:00
Yeah.

I'm not even anti-LM. Little things—research, "write TS types for this object", search my codebase, go figure out exactly what line in the Django rest framework is causing this weird behavior, —are working great and saving me an hour here and 15m there.

It's really obvious when people lean on it, because they don't act like a beginner (trying things that might not work) or just being sloppy (where there's a logic ot it but there's no attention to detail), but it's like they copy pasted from Stackoverflow search results at random and there are pieces that might belong but the totality is incoherent.
by 1gn15 | 2025-09-20 16:06:42+00:00
I couldn't find any source code either. Cobalt also isn't really libre; their backend is AGPL, which is great, but their frontend is CC BY-NC-SA, which is not so great (and definitely not open-source).

I'd advise against downloading via someone else's servers anyway, as can be seen by their instance being blocked by Google. Hopefully some day someone manages to port yt-dlp to WASM, then it can be run locally in the browser without needing a download.

Fun fact: yt-dlp is public domain! That's really generous of them and I'm really thankful for their work.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-09-20 16:06:55+00:00
The FAANGs have always been environments where peers are significantly more in competition against each other than in ordinary employers, particularly for those in their early career where "either up or out" is the rule. It's undoubtedly much more vicious now that tech companies are actively laying off those seen as low performers. Making sure you get credit for what you've done, as long as it's not overdone, is a survival tactic and the rewards can be immense if you can stomach it.

This isn't unique to tech companies; academia is known for similar things, e.g. "publish or perish". High-competition environments breed dysfunctional behavior unless well managed.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-20 16:07:25+00:00
One argument from the git devs is that it’s very hard to implement smarter algorithms in C, though. For example, it uses arrays in places where a higher level language would use a hash, because the C version of that is harder to write, maintain, and debug. It’s also much easier to write correct threaded code in Rust than C. Between those 2 alone, using a more robust language could make it straightforward to add performance gains that benefit everyone.
by hoten | 2025-09-20 16:08:25+00:00
Did you read until the end of the thread? I was thinking the same at first but only because it took awhile for the conversation to play out.

From my plain reading he didn't take time to understand the proposal before providing feedback. That's fine as far as being busy or miscommunication goes, it happens, but after it was pointed out he never apologized or offered more constructive feedback. Which again is fine, but I'd expect a technical leader to not isolate the maintainers of their most critical dependency. Clearly he gave them a terrible first impression.
by moogly | 2025-09-20 16:08:28+00:00
I'm already starting to long for the simpler times of the Cold War; it's pretty clear we're not heading for post-scarcity Star Trek or Culture, but rather technofascism into technofeudalism. Some would argue we're already there, but I say it can (and will) still get a lot worse.

Now where did I put that Mutant Chronicles rulebook...
by hypeatei | 2025-09-20 16:08:29+00:00
Not just random right-wing accounts either, prominent conservative media figures[0] and the President[1] himself are stoking the flames by blaming the "radical left" and transgenders while Democrats in both Congress and the media have disavowed political violence.

You can always find anonymous Twitter/Bluesky posts and go "see they're violent!!" but the situation on the left is clearly much different than the right.

0: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-...

> The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh is, like Kirk, a high-profile right-wing media influencer and podcaster. He wrote a provocative post on X on Wednesday calling for “the entire Right” to “band together” because “we are up against demonic forces from the pit of Hell.” Walsh called the struggle “existential” and “a fight for our own existence and the existence of our country.” Today, he added: “I woke up even angrier.” Walsh rejected calls for reconciliation and characterized the coming struggle as self-defense: “They want us dead. They’re killing us. Now is not the time for kumbaya stuff. This is real.”

1: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-could-not-...

> “They’re saying, ‘We don’t want these people coming here. And we don’t want you burning our shopping centers. We don’t want you shooting our people in the middle of the street,’” Trump added, appearing to nod to instances of right-wing vigilantism in recent years. > “The radicals on the left are the problem. They’re vicious, and they’re horrible,” Trump said. “And they’re politically savvy, although they want men in women’s sports. They want transgender for every one. They want open borders.”
Show HN: Turn any landing page into a 14-day email drip sequence
by ahemx_ | 2025-09-20 16:08:50+00:00
Hey HN, I built this because I was tired of staring at a blank page every time I needed a drip campaign. With Lumora, you just drop in your landing page link, and it instantly generates a ready-to-send 14-day email sequence.

It’s aimed at founders, marketers, and freelancers who want to launch faster without spending days writing copy. I’d love your feedback what would make this more useful for you?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-20 16:09:08+00:00
In an ideal world all employees would be top notch, on their game every day, never making mistakes, but the real world isn't like that. If you want repeatable quality then it needs to be baked into the process.

It's a bit like Warren Buffet saying he only wants to invest in companies that could be run by an idiot, because one day they will be.

Edward Deming actually worked with both Toyota and Ford, perhaps more foundationally at Toyota, bringing his process-based-quality ideas to both. Toyota's management style is based around continuous process improvement, combined with the employee empowerment that you refer to.
by 34ahdgT | 2025-09-20 16:09:09+00:00
The lineage is interesting:

Robert Maxwell allegedly sold a backdoored version of the PROMIS software to many governments, including the US government.

Christine Maxwell, founder of the Magellan search engine, co-founded the Chiliad data analysis software that was used in the FBI post 9/11.

Her co-founder was Alan Wade, who then went to the CIA in the role of CIO when In-Q-Tel founded Palantir.

Epstein invested in Thiel's Valar fund after 2008.
by sebtron | 2025-09-20 16:09:14+00:00
I am curious, what is the reason behind introducing Rust in Git?

I am not familiar with Git development, I am just a user. But my impression is that it is already a complete tool that won't require much new code to be written. Fixes and improvements here and there, sure, but that does not seem like a good reason to start using a new language. In contrast, I understand why adding it to e.g. Linux development makes sense, since new drivers will always need to be written.

Can anyone explain what I might be missing?
by xerox13ster | 2025-09-20 16:09:25+00:00
Yeah, half of what you’ve put here isn’t in the article. As a deep fan of Rick and Morty these are the very base level gags.

This is why we call this shit slop. Sure you’ve written an article but it’s missing half of the information that you claim is in the article, and it’s information that you’re not even familiar with anyway.

Anyone who actually knows what’s up looks at this and can tell.

I hope this article ends up being a black stain on your career.
by sebst | 2025-09-20 16:09:32+00:00
There’s so much conflicting advice out there. Reality is: When you want to go from overweight to healthy, nothing beats calories in/calories out. Beyond that, like if you’re on project “visible abs”, tweaks might make the difference: you could go deep into the rabbit hole of insulin, anti-nutrients, etc. but then: what works for you, is probably different than what works for others, so there’s a lot trial and error.

That being said, the key to all of this is discipline and consistency.

So, for a book, pick one that you find plausible, entertaining (in terms of reading and in terms of trying the recipes and protocols), and that aligns with your lifestyle or the rate of change you’re willing to accept.

For me, I started with 4 Hour Body. This might not not perfect from today’s knowledge but I liked the way, Tim is presenting the material, his way of thinking and the pragmatic approach. From there on, and after seeing significant and fast results, I went down the rabbit hole and tried almost every “biohack” routine i could find.

Try a couple of books, then pick the one that you enjoyed reading the most and then mercilessly stick to it to the letter. That should help. If it doesn’t, try the next one. Not a single human being in history lost weight from just reading. Take action!
by sougou | 2025-09-20 16:09:43+00:00
I oversaw this work, and I'm open to feedback on how things can be improved. There are some factors that make this particular situation different:

This was an LLM assisted translation of the C parser from Postgres, not something from the ground up.

For work of this magnitude, you cannot review line by line. The only thing we could do was to establish a process to ensure correctness.

We did control the process carefully. It was a daily toil. This is why it took two months.

We've ported most of the tests from Postgres. Enough to be confident that it works correctly.

Also, we are in the early stages for Multigres. We intend to do more bulk copies and bulk translations like this from other projects, especially Vitess. We'll incorporate any possible improvements here.

The author is working on a blog post explaining the entire process and its pitfalls. Please be on the lookout.

I was personally amazed at how much we could achieve using LLM. Of course, this wouldn't have been possible without a certain level of skill. This person exceeds all expectations listed here: https://github.com/multigres/multigres/discussions/78.
by nickysielicki | 2025-09-20 16:10:04+00:00
And what's your preferred alternative to what's described in the article? Packaging every single service in its own 500mb ubuntu chroot and using docker? Running a local dhcp server and a bridge interface so that you can selectively expose ports?

Here's an alternative title for this post: these days, two lines in a systemd service file can easily constrain arbitrary applications to just the files and resources they need, and only those.
by drchopchop | 2025-09-20 16:10:42+00:00
The article references a study which claims that university students have difficulty reading Dickens or Jane Austen. Here's an excerpt of the Dickens from the study:

"LONDON. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s umbrellas, in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest."

I'm a college-educated, reasonably well-read person and this is a rough paragraph to get through. Old idioms, excessively lengthy sentences, anachronisms (what is a "horse blinker"? "Michaelmas"?), etc. Why choose this type of subject matter to draw conclusions from?
by lucideer | 2025-09-20 16:10:50+00:00
I've read a bunch of these types of takes (though this is definitely one of the better referenced & more comprehensive ones) & there's an aspect I haven't seen raised in the context of the correlation of modern trends/changes with declines in literacy, IQ, etc.

The immediate goto is always either smartphones (as in this piece) or the world wide web. Other pieces looking at longer term trends might even reference TV (the dawn of media entertainment consumption without intentionality).

These are all focused on leisure: what we do in our spare time, presumably because we mostly read for pleasure in our spare time. What I rarely see highlighted is the growth of the so-called "knowledge economy" & the shift of common "workers" being employed in physically skilled jobs to common workers being employed in sedentary jobs requiring the application of (basic) literacy for most of our days.

Given we spend a lot more time in work than we do at leisure activities this contrast of an increase in (relatively mindless, unstimulating) "literate" activity in work with the decline in (focused, stimulating) literature-oriented leisure activities seems relevant in my mind.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-20 16:10:56+00:00
> we are rapidly approaching the era where your access to AI and robotics determines your labor productivity

Some of the wealthiest, most powerful and yes, most productive people of the last decades had no clue how to use a computer or phone, interacting with it through staff.

Remember the folks who were teaching their kids to code ten years ago? How relevant is that today (beyond as a cognitive exercise)? Access to AI and robotics are secondary to other factors. Not the determinative ones, certainly not at the individual level.
by t-3 | 2025-09-20 16:10:56+00:00
Reverse brain drain. We've been brain-draining the rest of the world for decades, but now we've stopped. We're actively driving away the talents we'd previously attracted and our home-grown workers are too few due to falling birth rates. Those foreign graduate students that do the research at our world-class universities? The entrepreneurs looking to attract funding and find collaborators? The desperate and hopeful people fleeing war, persecution, poverty? We are less and less attractive to them every day as our xenophobia and hostility grow and our economic advantages are squandered.

The only reason we're not being brain-drained ourselves is that most Americans don't really speak languages other than English, and those that do speak Spanish. That, and few other countries have the vision or desire to be a United States that can encompass and contain all races, cultures, and creeds. Most do not make it easy to immigrate or integrate.
by jlarocco | 2025-09-20 16:10:58+00:00
It's sad to see people be so nonchalant about potentially killing off smaller platforms like this. As more barriers to entry are added, competition is going to decrease, and the software ecosystem is going to keep getting worse. First you need a lib C, now you need lib C and Rust, ...

But no doubt it's a great way for the big companies funding Rust development to undermine smaller players...
by lysace | 2025-09-20 16:11:33+00:00
Back when I had the iPhone 5S (7.6 mm vs the 5.6 mm of the iPhone 17 Air): It provided value in terms of feel. It felt like a piece of art meeting cutting edge technology. It wasn't about showing off.

It was also so light that it felt safe to use it without a protective case. And not that expensive.
by gus_massa | 2025-09-20 16:11:45+00:00
Fun fact: The frogs also can change color from black to green and back (perhaps dark green to light green).

They have some cells in the skin with black blobs full of melanin, and they can move them. Usually they are disperse and the color is dark, but with some hormone the blobs are transported to the nuclei of the cell and the color is light.

We used cells of this frog in a undergaduate lab for physics. The main task was to fine tune a microscope to track the blobs. So we cultivate the cells for a week (from a cell line, the original frog was gone long ago), we put the cells under the microscope and add an hormone to force the change of color in a minute or so. (I think in the wild the change of color is very slow.)

Something like this (not my video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqJSA_v0ics
by motorest | 2025-09-20 16:11:46+00:00
> Actually education should be redesigned to properly incorporate personalized AI tutoring and as part of that effort provide a supportive environment where students don't feel the need to go around it to cheat.

I have no idea what is this magical AI capable of tutoring that you're talking about. It is certainly not any of the AI models we see in the market, which hallucinate systematically and are only able to output remotely valid content if they are subjected to tight feedback loops.
Ask HN: How concerned should we be about USB security?
by turkishdelight | 2025-09-20 16:13:26+00:00
I had an ISP tech come by and set up service at my house, and I needed to access my router over Ethernet. My laptop doesn't have an Ethernet port, so I borrowed his Ethernet/USB dongle, I got everything set up and called it a day.

But I've started getting a little concerned about using this untrusted dongle on my laptop, especially from a internet service tech who may or may not be plugging his dongle into all manner of devices around town.

How concerned should I be about this? Should I trash my laptop and any accessories I've plugged into it since? This device is my central point of failure, I log into my banking accounts, admin accounts, it's my journaling medium -- you get the idea.
by Cloudef | 2025-09-20 16:13:41+00:00
> On the other hand, this doesn't sound to me like an upside. Of course it's fine and well if it's easy to do this. But hopefully you'd prefer not to have to... ?

Why wouldn't you? You can often make your code simpler and more performant by using certain allocation strategy rather than relying on global allocator. Malloc/Free style strategy is also very error prone with complex hierarchical data structures where for example arena allocation can tie the whole lifetime to a single deallocation.

> Would appreciate some explanation of the theory here. Though it does occur to me that the languages I can easily think of with "coloured" async also don't exactly statically link everything all the ti

Async is moot point, it does not exist in zig right now, it used to but it was removed. There are plans to reintroduce it back, but using async as any sort of benefit for zig is not being honest.
by fao_ | 2025-09-20 16:14:04+00:00
For Android I use Seal (https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/ and https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal), which is absolutely wonderful and has just the right amount of resolution of the options-space.

For Linux... youtube-dl I guess, because there's still no really nice alternative to it. It doesn't seem like Stacher supports non-debian systems, or non-gnu libc systems, either.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-20 16:14:30+00:00
> Sitting hunched over an object looking at symbols is a learned activity, whereas watching and hearing something is more "natural" to people

Isn’t this the benefit? It’s conducive to abstract thought in a way recorded media is not. (The historical alternative is in-person rhetoric. As we all know, the online version is not substitute for debate.)
by jaybrendansmith | 2025-09-20 16:15:01+00:00
Here's the preface to Bleak House by Dickens, in case anybody is interested: "A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge's eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing to the "parsimony of the public," which guilty public, it appeared, had been until lately bent in the most determined manner on by no means enlarging the number of Chancery judges appointed — I believe by Richard the Second, but any other king will do as well. This seemed to me too profound a joke to be inserted in the body of this book or I should have restored it to Conversation Kenge or to Mr. Vholes, with one or other of whom I think it must have originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare's sonnets: "My nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand: Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed!" But as it is wholesome that the parsimonious public should know what has been doing, and still is doing, in this connexion, I mention here that everything set forth in these pages concerning the Court of Chancery is substantially true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a disinterested person who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit before the court which was commenced nearly twenty years ago, in which from thirty to forty counsel have been known to appear at one time, in which costs have been incurred to the amount of seventy thousand pounds, which is a friendly suit, and which is (I am assured) no nearer to its termination now than when it was begun. There is another well-known suit in Chancery, not yet decided, which was commenced before the close of the last century and in which more than double the amount of seventy thousand pounds has been swallowed up in costs. If I wanted other authorities for Jarndyce and Jarndyce, I could rain them on these pages, to the shame of — a parsimonious public. There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark. The possibility of what is called spontaneous combustion has been denied since the death of Mr. Krook; and my good friend Mr. Lewes (quite mistaken, as he soon found, in supposing the thing to have been abandoned by all authorities) published some ingenious letters to me at the time when that event was chronicled, arguing ...