MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zmmmmm | 2025-09-06 07:32:59+00:00
> some random third party container launched via a curl | bash which mounts ~/ into it and posts all your ssh keys to some server in china

it's pretty stupid because the same curl | bash that could have done that could have just posted the same contents directly to the internet without the container. The best chance you actually have is to do as much development as possible inside a sealed environment like ... a container where at least you have some way to limit visibility of partially trusted code of your file system.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2025-09-06 07:33:05+00:00
I once made the mistake to buy some sound effects from Fab, I had to download the entire Unreal Engine and start it to create a project to then import the assets..

It took the whole afternoon

It's no wonder UE5 games have the reputation of being poorly optimized, you need an insane machine only just to run the editor..

State of the art graphics pipeline, but webdev level of bloat when it comes to software.. I'd even argue electron is a smoother experience tan Unreal Engine Editor

Insanity
by shivajikobardan | 2025-09-06 07:35:05+00:00
Finally Nepal took a bold decision on world stage. Much needed. Social media companies leech of these "unemployed" nepalese who are getting funds from remittance via saudi, qatar. The "Dalal Pujibad" as socialist aahuti says. And mass consumerism. Needs to stop. He gives an example where Nepalese migrant workers earn money making "stuffs" in Saudi, Qatar, China, Malaysia etc. And they send money back to Nepal where they now buy those items that they made. (They could be any other migrant workers).

The intent of government can be questioned however But this is a right step in a forward direction anyhow.

This should have been done far earlier.

The blocks has been propagated fairly now. I cannot access facebook, whatsapp, linkedin, reddit (major sites, others I have not checked).
by philjohn | 2025-09-06 07:36:05+00:00
I got my son a 2022 e-UP! as his first car when he passed his test - it's a RIDICULOUSLY fun car to drive, feels much faster than it is and is very direct handling wise.

It's a fantastic city car, and he's even done some longer trips in it.

I've also got an EV6 AWD which is obviously more powerful, and bigger, but nowhere near as fun to drive.
by quitit | 2025-09-06 07:36:38+00:00
Slashdot had a decent comment system where moderation points were assigned at random and a comment could be marked as insightful, troll, etc. This helped sustain discourse and resisted some of the usual “hive mind” pile ons that are common on reddit and here.

I think we are all pretty aware of how the up and down arrows are supposed to be used versus how they get used.

For content that doesn’t trigger an emotional response: the arrows are used appropriately, highlighting comments and silencing less useful discussion. HN is incredibly useful for discussion on non-controversial, almost mundane, topics.

However it all comes undone for any topic that carries emotional baggage. Where up and down arrows are clearly used as “like” and “dislike” buttons regardless of the facts or merit presented in each comment. Instead commenting becomes an exercise in PR. The first clue is the comment count. HN has some very predictable patterns in comment counts.

Platform operators may not be willing to change this as “hive mind” and “liked” content helps visitation, even if it doesn’t help discourse. The consequence of inaction however is that topic experts are pushed out by mobbing, because invariably not everything is sunshine and roses.
Show HN: I Built a Rails Active Storage Adapter for BunnyCDN Storage
by rkwap | 2025-09-06 07:36:51+00:00
I needed to integrate BunnyCDN Storage with Rails Active Storage, but found no official adapter available.

So, I built one.

Bunny Storage (https://bunny.net/storage/) is a cheap and solid alternative to AWS S3, and this has been working flawlessly for me in production.

Would love feedback, and happy if this helps anyone else trying to use BunnyCDN with Rails.
by noelwelsh | 2025-09-06 07:38:08+00:00
My understanding is that ISPs have good maps of their cables, so I doubt the SPOF was something that didn't know about. However, I take the wider point that calculating all the externalities is at least difficult and probably impossible. At the very least, updating their threat model to include "Grandma with spade" was probably some benefit they gained :-)
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-06 07:38:56+00:00
Someone needs to find a new brain worm for the heroin junkie who dabbled in environmental law that gets him doing the right thing™ like:

- going after quacks who promote bleach, horse dewormers (maybe that's the problem), and raw milk

- adopt the precautionary principle

- approve EU sunscreen compounds without animal testing and banning reef/human unsafe ones

- leave science to scientists

- increase regulatory oversight over food manufacturing, additive, and supply chain regulation so there aren't canyons of non-enforcement or exclusions between FDA and USDA

Or, maybe, this is really radical... find someone else competent to do the job.
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-06 07:39:01+00:00
> How do the glasses serve as a "dumb camera to your phone"? What protocol do they use to do this? It doesn't exist. It's something that must be solved at the OS layer.

USB webcams have been a thing for years ;)

I have a pair of Xreal glasses and, while they don’t have a camera, they do have the other components. They are entirely dumb. You plug the USB cable into your phone/laptop/portable gaming device and that’s literally it.

The cable runs discreetly from the back of the ear and has the additional benefit that you don’t need a heavy battery built into the frame of the glasses.

So you definitely can have a XR glasses that are “dumb”.
by patrulek | 2025-09-06 07:39:02+00:00
Im not a scientist, just a freelancer (kind of) and its similar for me. I know probably only 2 langauges fluently enough that i could write in them without constantly checking for syntax/docs, but over my whole programming journey i got to know multiple languages with different syntaxes, coding styles and patterns, so i can easily read code written in multiple languages and know whether given code will do what i want (and even if i wouldn't, LLM can explain the code for me and in the worst case send me to the documentation to validate it by myself).

Asking LLM for a code and then read/review it is a huge speed up for me in a lot of cases comparing to when i would need to write the same thing by myself (but i agree it may not work well in a big/complex systems... yet).
by FrostKiwi | 2025-09-06 07:39:18+00:00
Once Multi-Step Downsampling comes into the mix, the image starts to "boil" as it moves. This is especially bad with very strong lights that are small, as the lights seem to appear and disappear with long downsample chains. Most of the recent blur technique evolution centered on fixing this issue, as shown in "Next Generation Post Processing in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare" at the end of the article.

This is not the first time [1] I hear this critique of movement by default being annoying. Should I just turn it off by default?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42191709
by kulahan | 2025-09-06 07:40:59+00:00
Huh? I’m too busy to find the study supporting the point I was making. I think you may have misunderstood?

Anyways, maybe if we solve all these issues, things will improve, and I hope it does! Still, I’m with those survey respondents - I really do not care how hard cities work to overcome public transit issues. I’ll never take it. I just have no incentive to do so, and I like my car. It’s private. It’s fast as hell. It’s pretty. It’s comfy. I wouldn’t get even one of those in a bus. I’d be pretty shocked if this wasn’t a standard response.

As an aside: it’s weird and disconcerting that you’re finding a different opinion to be depressing. Is it possible you’re just really disconnected?
by philjohn | 2025-09-06 07:41:30+00:00
Might be - also, in the UK at least where most houses are on a TN-C-S electric supply (earth and neutral are the same conductor) if there's a break on the neutral and you don't have an earthing rod (PEN fault) the car can be at high voltage compared to true earth, and you can get a lethal shock if you touch it. There are roughly 500 of these faults a year across the UK.

Level 2 chargers here either need PEN fault protection built in, or you need a correctly sized earthing rod installed.
by watersb | 2025-09-06 07:41:36+00:00
> I almost want to go back and look at the math of how fast they must have been going

While there's a rough polynomial (v =~ c * w^3, I think) for post-TOS Star Trek warp factors, the only consistent rule: a starship travels at a velocity that helps tell a good story.

It's fun to try mapping Star Trek stories, anyway; it helps you ponder how much time they must have spent in transit. They have to find things to occupy their time.
by kulahan | 2025-09-06 07:42:23+00:00
Because it’s not a very serious comment, and yes, of course it makes future problems less severe. That’s such a weird and impossible-to-defend take?

“Well we’ve had this exact problem for decades but now the same problem is instead coming from elsewhere so this is now completely different” makes zero sense.

As an aside, a wink should send a pretty obvious message. I think you’re taking this generic internet conversation too personally.
by Telemakhos | 2025-09-06 07:45:01+00:00
There was serious money in catalytic converter theft and an organized ring behind it raking in millions of dollars (up to $545 million) [0]. That’s not trying to survive. Since the arrest of the organizers of the ring, catalytic converter theft has fallen off significantly: without that criminal enterprise, catalytic converter theft ceased to be wildly lucrative. People who steal to survive steal essentials like food, not catalytic converters.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932022_catalytic_...
by swatkat7 | 2025-09-06 07:45:41+00:00
The cost of inference is trending down, and will continue to. The models are also getting more efficient -- GPT 5 is famously cheaper to serve compared to their previous models. There are improvements at the computer layer too.

Very soon, the cost of inference will find parity with that of search and/or search ads will be more effective and hence be charged more.

It will end up working out, I think.
by anyfoo | 2025-09-06 07:46:08+00:00
It's true that nobody can say for sure, but bots reposting the loss meme somehow strikes me less likely as some people reposting the loss meme. And an entirely ASCII-representation (ignoring the strikethrough) is extremely easy to post, so could make this a relatively common off-shoot of the meme that many would recognize, strikethrough or not.

Why do you think they were all bots?
by BlueTemplar | 2025-09-06 07:46:16+00:00
This started out well, but then there are other aspects to consider :

Discord, unlike IRC, is killing forums. And is on the Deep Web, meaning that all the lore, all the knowledge is lost to anyone searching for it, including Internet Archive crawlers.

And in addition to that it's a platform, so people using it are collaborating with totalitarian extremists that are turning our countries into (uncool) cyberpunk dystopias.
by anovikov | 2025-09-06 07:47:02+00:00
Exactly my thought. It is not based on 'ability to hide money from taxation' or anything like that. Just in lower corporate tax rate (even then, it's lower still in Bulgaria and Hungary and yet those countries don't have much to show for that). Also we have tax exemption on dividend income for individuals, but again, plenty of countries have that, it's more of a norm than an exception (no country could hope to attract any high middle class or rich immigrants unless it provides that, it's a baseline expectation).
by rusk | 2025-09-06 07:47:15+00:00
I’m not against for profit so much as the monetisation of engagement. The web has always had a revenue problem. For a time this was solved by “advertising” and that was massively successful and what we see here is the result of that. There has historically been a reluctance to ask people for money - handling money brings a whole host of other unglamorous problems.

As we saw with Steam the last few weeks.
by FrostKiwi | 2025-09-06 07:48:54+00:00
These are unrelated techniques.

Spherical Harmonic Lighting is an alternative or used to supplement the generation of HDR cube maps for the purpose of global illumination. For the very diffuse aspect of this global illumination, Spherical Harmonics are used (Often called light probes), as a very cheap approximation of the environment, that is easy to get in and out of shaders and interpolate between them. They are just a bunch of RGB floats, so you can place a ton of them in the environment to capture a scene's direct or indirect lighting. For specular reflections you still have to use HDR cube maps, as the light probes don't hold enough information for that task.

Blurs are a basic building block of image processing and used in a ton of effects. In a way, there are related topics, as the cube maps generated to cover different roughness factors for PBR rendering are, in-fact blurs! https://threejs.org/docs/#api/en/extras/PMREMGenerator But that's not the topic of the article, but instead of how to do blurs efficiently in real time, in the first place.
by godelski | 2025-09-06 07:49:40+00:00
From TFA

The Google Books project also faced a copyright lawsuit, which was eventually decided in favor of Google. After contacting major publishers about possibly licensing their books, [former head of the Google Books project] bought physical books in bulk from distributors and retailers, according to court documents. He then hired outside organizations to dissemble the books, scan them and create digital copies that could be used to train the company’s AI. technologies. Judge Alsup ruled that this approach was fair use under the law. But he also found the company’s previous approach — downloading and storing books from shadow libraries like Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror — was illegal.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-06 07:49:45+00:00
Fair use wasn't designed for AI, but AI doesn't change the motivations and goals behind copyright. We should be returning back to the roots - why do we have copyright in the first place, what were the goals and the intent behind it, and how does AI affect them?

The way this technology is being used clearly violates the intent behind copyright law, it undermines its goals and results in harm that it was designed to prevent. I believe that doing this without extensive public discussion and consensus is anti-democratic.

We always end up discussing concrete implementation details of how copyright is currently enforced, never the concept itself. Is there a good word for this? Reification?
by watersb | 2025-09-06 07:49:53+00:00
This great illustration looks like it might have been inspired by a National Geographic poster.

Here's the one they say is from October 1999:

https://www.natgeomaps.com/hm-1999-the-universe

I remember this one was an updated version of a poster they published in the late 1970s or early 80s -- I had a copy on my wall in 1985.
by casey2 | 2025-09-06 07:49:56+00:00
As long as the company or a company buys their liabilities is solvent. Companies are in the business of providing value to the consumer not generating ewaste for a tax writeoff. If they want to do that the consumer should know that the hardware will break in x years and they can pay for ewaste disposal or bundle that into the price of the item. Bitrot is propaganda. It's absolute insanity that google can write off profits from their monopoly position by funding a never ending stream of failed projects that are both environmentally and socially harmful This company just spent $75 billion on cloud hardware while killing cloud iot devices as "unprofitable" when they mean "unprofitable for them" they don't eat the cost of having to replace their thermostats during the largest unemployment crisis in the IT space ever. You make it make sense.
by casey2 | 2025-09-06 07:50:24+00:00
As long as the company or a company buys their liabilities is solvent. Companies are in the business of providing value to the consumer not generating ewaste for a tax writeoff. If they want to do that the consumer should know that the hardware will break in x years and they can pay for ewaste disposal or bundle that into the price of the item. Bitrot is propaganda. It's absolute insanity that google can write off profits from their monopoly position by funding a never ending stream of failed projects that are both environmentally and socially harmful This company just spent $75 billion on cloud hardware while killing cloud iot devices as "unprofitable" when they mean "unprofitable for them" they don't eat the cost of having to replace their thermostats during the largest unemployment crisis in the tech space ever. You make it make sense.
by Kye | 2025-09-06 07:50:32+00:00
https://apertus.org/about

>> "The "o" stands for "open", "openness", "open source" and is placed where a "TM" symbol (indicating patents, trademarks, protection) would normally reside. Instead openness is the apertus° trademark."

It's also a completely different kind of thing so trademark probably wouldn't come into it even if they had one.
by npteljes | 2025-09-06 07:53:20+00:00
Do you know what aliasing is in a game? When the edges are too sharp? They can look okay in a still image, but they are really noticeable when things are in motion. Another such example is the moire effect. Moire is very noticeable in still images too, but when moving, it's really noticeable.

These blur effects, like any other graphical thing, can have a similar effect when combined with motion. The animate function is to bring these issues out, if there is any.
by meander_water | 2025-09-06 07:53:21+00:00
Others who have gone down a similar path:

- Amy Goodchild: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408291

- Kathleen Tuite: https://kaflurbaleen.blogspot.com/2012/12/creating-font-from...

- Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/08/08/handwritten-font/
by anyfoo | 2025-09-06 07:53:43+00:00
To be fair, "the loss meme as minimalistic ASCII art ad absurdum" is a pretty extreme form. It's basically tailor-made to be below the threshold of recognition, while still evoking familiarity once you know what it is. It's almost certainly the answer to a self-imposed challenge of how one could make the meme with the absolute minimum of ASCII-only characters.

I'm not sure anyone would recognize this as the loss meme to begin with, unless they got context-hints like "this is a popular meme", strikethrough or not. So, yes, that context is extremely fragile here, but that's because this was made to be barely viable in the first place, not because that's a general quality of any content in the digital realm...

That's not to go against your wider point (to which I have no opinion either way), I'm just not sure this is significant for that.
by gizmo686 | 2025-09-06 07:54:33+00:00
Screws don't really support the weight of the object they are holding. They pull that object into the wall. The resulting friction is what holds most of the weight.

To see this, try loosening the screw, and notice how it quickly looses the ability to resist forces perpendicular to the screw; whereas it's ability to resist forces in the direction of the screw is largely unchanged.
by sabellito | 2025-09-06 07:55:14+00:00
I've programmed in Clojure professionally.

People like GP often repeat that talking point: "code is data so that's amazing because of macros".

In practice, by and large, with very few exceptions, macros are frowned upon in the same way that using metaprogramming in ruby is. Macros are only fun to the person writing them (and not even the author when they have to maintain it).

Macros can almost always be expressed with a simple function and remove all the unexpectedness without losing anything. Again, there are some exceptions.
by isusmelj | 2025-09-06 07:56:30+00:00
I can only agree with your experience in Europe. I do not get how they do that, but Tesla Superchargers are more reliable. The occupancy information works better, they are easier to use, and they almost always offer a more competitive price. I often see other chargers that are 50 to 100 percent more expensive and only very rarely see offers that are within 10 to 50 percent.

What strikes me is that this difference can make EVs more expensive per kilometer if you only compare energy cost with fuel cost.

Here is the math with numbers. Tesla chargers in Switzerland and Germany are usually at most CHF 0.50 or EUR 0.60 per kilowatt hour at the more expensive locations, along highways for example. They offer fast charging of 150 kW or more. Alternative providers often start at around CHF 0.75 for 50 kW or CHF 1.00 for more than 250 kW fast charging. If your electric car consumes 20 kWh (Model 3 is at around 15 I think) per 100 km you end up with costs of CHF 10.00, CHF 15.00, or CHF 20.00 per 100 km at CHF 0.50, CHF 0.75, or CHF 1.00 per kilowatt hour. If you drive a petrol car that uses 8 l per 100 km and the cost per liter is CHF 1.70 you pay CHF 13.60 per 100 km.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-09-06 07:56:40+00:00
I think HN is one of the worthwhile places to participate in. It's sort of what LinkedIn wishes it was in many ways, drawing all sorts of big names and subject matter experts to participate and connect without all the business suits and insights on B2B sales.

It shouldn't be taken as a replacement for having a social life, but can be a very good complement if your social life isn't as intellectually stimulating as you would like.
by therealdrag0 | 2025-09-06 07:57:04+00:00
Maybe it’s inconvenient, but for me the promise is sun protection, and for that it for sure works.

Spray goes on easier, not only does spray cover area, but it spreads easier than cream too, but anything is better than nothing. But I have drifted towards preferring long sleeves, hats, and even a sun umbrella so I don’t have to get greased up.
by crote | 2025-09-06 07:57:26+00:00
Should I be allowed to walk into the Louvre, steal the Mona Lisa, then pay $10.000 once caught? Should I be allowed to do this if I am employed by Stealing The Mona Lisa, LLC?

> They paid $1.5B for a bunch of pirated books.

They didn't pay, they settled. And considering flesh-and-blood people get sued for tens of thousands per download when there isn't a profit motive, that's a bargain.

> The settlement should reflect society's belief of the cost or deterrent.

No, it reflects the maximum amount the lawyers believe they can get out of them.

> This might be controversial, but I think a free society needs to let people break the rules if they are willing to pay the cost.

So how much should a politician need to pay to legally murder their opponent? Are you okay with your ex killing you for a $5000 fine?

> Imagine if you couldn't speed in a car.

Speed enough and you lose your license, no need to imagine.

Why does this company get away with it, but do warez groups get raided by SWAT teams, labeled a "criminal enterprise" or "crime gang", and sentenced to decades in jail? Why does the law not apply when you are rich?
by jacobgor502 | 2025-09-06 07:59:17+00:00
Der AI Bügelperlen Designer verwandelt deine Idee in ein druckbares Muster. Beschreibe dein Motiv, wähle Raster und Größe, passe Farben an und exportiere als PDF/PNG. Ideal für Hama/Perler‑Beads, Unterricht und DIY‑Projekte. Kostenlos starten, optional erweitern.
by watersb | 2025-09-06 07:59:38+00:00
We get 190 miles of range in winter at highway speeds if we are careful. 2019 Chevy Bolt EV with a factory-new battery from 2021.

It was $20k used.

We also have a 2014 BMW i3 with a worn-out battery. This was designed for ~50 miles between charging, or you could get the one with a little petrol engine as a "range extender". Mine can only do about 40 miles in winter. Later models doubled that, and most i3 cars on the road do 1.5x what I'm getting. But I got it used for $5000...