MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by clan | 2025-09-24 10:37:22+00:00
Not OP. But with an unmanaged server it is on you. You are in full control and can leave it powered off if you so desire.

Monitorering is then your responsibility. They have no login/account on your host.

For any hardware issues I have had I have simply created a support ticket. They have always been really fast at responding and fixing for me. If you report a disk and serial number it gets swapped in no time.

They have managed offerings as well. I have never used those.
by jcattle | 2025-09-24 10:37:40+00:00
In Bill Gates 2017 Reddit AMA, when asked "What kind of technological advancement do you wish to see in your lifetime?"

The answer is what LLMs can do for us today: "The big milestone is when computers can read and understand information like humans do. There is a lot of work going on in this field - Google, Microsoft, Facebook, academia,... Right now computers don't know how to represent knowledge so they can't read a text book and pass a test. "
by toth | 2025-09-24 10:38:57+00:00
> An example you'll see in say a modern C compiler is that if you write the obvious loop to calculate how many bits are set in an int, the actual machine code on a brand new CPU should be a single population count instruction, C provides neither intrinsics (like Rust) not a dedicated "popcount" feature, so you can't write that but it's obviously what you want here and yup an optimising C compiler will do that.

C compilers definitely have intrinsics for this, for GCC for instance it is `__builtin_popcount`.

And apparently it has even standard language support for it since C23, it's `stdc_count_ones` [1] and in C++ you have `std::popcount` [2]

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/numeric/bit_manip.html [2] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/popcount.html
by Yizahi | 2025-09-24 10:39:12+00:00
Because they know and intend to target this law against regular people, not against bad guys. They are learning from the best in this field. Targeted very harsh punishments of the random people at random times do A LOT to chill political activity in the country, make hesitant people (a majority) shut up "just in case they are next ones to be targeted". People already with history of activity which may be randomly selected for prosecution will emigrate and thus exclude themselves from political environment. And this useful for left/centrists/right, regardless of the ideology, since all of them plan on shutting down opposition as soon as they are in power.
Show HN: ZenScript – When you open Instagram, your textbook opens instead
by walix2 | 2025-09-24 10:39:25+00:00
ZenScript is an Android app that automatically redirects social media apps to your chosen reading material when you hit your daily time limits. Instead of showing a "blocked" screen, it seamlessly opens your ebook or textbook.

Built this after my wife and I kept getting distracted from German exam prep by endless scrolling. We tried every app blocker, but they all had friction - you'd see "blocked" and then manually have to open your study materials, which often broke our motivation.

The key insight: replace the habit rather than just block it. When you tap Instagram after your 30-minute limit, ZenScript intercepts the launch and opens your focus book instead. No friction, just automatic redirection from scrolling to learning.
by alansammarone | 2025-09-24 10:39:41+00:00
You're assuming the conclusion in order to argue against it. It's slightly surprising to me that this is not obvious and actually, pretty common. You can't argue against X ("It isn't completely obvious that is bogus") by assuming X ("far-fetched thing").

I don't mean this in derogatory sense. I wasslightly...hm...confused when reading this. When I see something in the news, to the degree that I trust the source, I see it only as a statement of fact, and unless I trust the commentator, I ignore the comment. I only expect descriptive accuracy from the news. This sometimes requires resources that individuals don't generally have.

When I read a personal blog article articulating a personal opinion, presenting evidence and trying to make a case for their conclusion, I usually apply a different standard. From them, I expect sound reasoning, which often requires a form of independence/neutrality that news organizations don't have.

And I can't say that this article is structured as a sequence of QEDs, so to speak. It doesn't seem like the conclusions follow from the premisses. That's not to say is wrong, just that if it is right, it would be in part by accident.
by nunobrito | 2025-09-24 10:39:43+00:00
Oh, please run away from Spring Boot. It is just the new JBoss. That is OK if you want to get inside enterprise software for a living, but that isn't the best usage for Java.

My opinion: learn to create Android apps in Java. Tutorials are good and you get a new set of skills (if not already). After that, focus on learning POJO which is the fundamental knowledge in Java.

Everyone writes stuff in Java/C++ where I work, but less and less Spring Boot is encouraged because of the bloat do debug and performance troubles.
by miroljub | 2025-09-24 10:40:21+00:00
"We" as the HN users, expect at least some level of civility when conversing here. It's right up there in the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Try to argue without being personal.
by bhouston | 2025-09-24 10:41:26+00:00
Promoting sustainable fertility is good in my books. We need sustainable fertility like we need sustainable environmentalism, and similar things.

I strongly believe that low fertility causes immigration backlash because some governments try to maintain their population by importing immigrants rather than fixing the fertility issue and a low fertility causes the domestic population to be insecure (e.g. "replacement theory") in the face of the immigrants. Some immigration combined with sustainable fertility is the solution.
by michaelanckaert | 2025-09-24 10:43:00+00:00
Qwen has some really great models. I recently used qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking as a drop-in replacement for GPT-4.1-mini in an agent workflow. Cost 4 times less for input tokens and half for output, instant cost savings. As far as I can measure, system output has kept the same quality.
by habinero | 2025-09-24 10:44:14+00:00
> LLMs use the same type of "abstract thinking" process as humans

It's surprising you say that, considering we don't actually understand the mechanisms behind how humans think.

We do know that human brains are so good at patterns, they'll even see patterns and such that aren't actually there.

LLMs are a pile of statistics that can mimic human speech patterns if you don't tax them too hard. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just Clever Hans-ing themselves.
by dzdt | 2025-09-24 10:44:24+00:00
You make it sound like there must be a real high-Level strategic reason behind this. More likely it’s just a low level face-saving exercise. Someone probably spent 10s of millions of Secret Service budget chasing some threatening text messages sent to government officials, and in the end what they have to show for it is taking down a $1 million spam operation. So they hype it as a cyber-espionage threat anyway to make themselves look good.
by SilverBirch | 2025-09-24 10:44:49+00:00
>Who are you going to trust, these Washington insiders, “people who matter”, or an actual hacker like myself?

To be honest, with the contents of the post, probably neither. It's fine if you want to point at different sources and go "ooooh WEF" and make scare quotes with your hands, but that's not actually evidence it's just a description of your existing bias.

Frankly, the overstating of the threat in the original article is frankly about as bad as the overstating of the article being bogus. The feds shut down some sim farm. Is is a massive national security threat? Probably no, that's a bit of an overstatement. The NYTimes ran a clickbaity article, is it bogus? Probably no, that's a bit of an overstatement.

I don't understand why people like this get so wound up by the way places like the NYTimes write up articles. This is the way journalism is written, you don't write articles that say "X happened, but it's probably fine!". You write "X happened, and it could have Y impact!". People are smart enough to read the article and understand, we don't need you making baseless accusations about their sourcing.
by nearting | 2025-09-24 10:44:54+00:00
You want to do right by people? Then put a big notice in the app, on your website, in the forums, etc., and refund subscriptions for anyone who's paid based on previously faulty information. If you're having folks to reach out to you over HN where you'll manually upgrade their accounts and shrugging your shoulders at being double-paid, then this is more of a PR stunt than doing right.
by metalman | 2025-09-24 10:45:01+00:00
The whole idea, along with complete construction techniques was given to me verbaly, and would be stumpted as to where to send you, as my local , venerable {c:1980} passive solar organisation has gone darth, and is somewhat captured by industry, though if prompted still might publish there off grid solar design manual ,which had been adopted by many other organisations worldwide. https://solarns.ca/ The whole idea is based on thermal loops, which is powered, as everything is, by the fact that heat rises, and that internal cavitys/rooms tend to be cooler at the walls, causing a down draft there,and that energy can be put to work.

I know of other instalations in service for decades useing similar methods, but theses ideas and the floating slab are just physics. People are building houses here with double exterior walls acting as thermal breaks, which have no home heating installed, or ever needed, just air/heat exchange,normal domestic activity providing excess heat even @-25°c. Straw bale houses have proven to be the same. Luckily we have a long tradition of challenging building codes and getting engineers behind different ideas, but the full stack of passive technologies is still not bieng implimented at scale.
by gpderetta | 2025-09-24 10:45:11+00:00
Yes, probably you are right: a load that finds a larger value is equivalent to a max. As the max wouldn't store any value in this case, also it wouldn't introduce any synchronization edge.

A load that finds a smaller value is trickier to analyze, but i think you are just free to ignore it and just proceed with the atomic max. An underlying LL/SC loop to implement a max operation might spuriously fail anyway.

edit: here is another argument in favour: if your only atomic RMW is a cas, to implement X.atomic_max(new) you would:

1: expected <- X 2: if new < expected: done 3: else if X.cas(expected, y): done else goto 2 # expected implicitly refreshed

So a cas loop would naturally implement the same optimization (unless it starts with a random expected), so the race is benign.
by alansammarone | 2025-09-24 10:45:51+00:00
I felt slightly...hm...confused when reading this. When I see something in the news, to the degree that I trust the source, I see it only as a statement of fact, and unless I trust the commentator, I ignore the comment. I only expect descriptive accuracy from the news. This sometimes requires resources that individuals don't generally have.

When I read a personal blog article articulating a personal opinion, presenting evidence and trying to make a case for their conclusion, I usually apply a different standard. From them, I expect sound reasoning, which often requires a form of independence/neutrality that news organizations don't have.

And let's just say this article is not exactly structured as a sequence of QEDs, so to speak. It doesn't seem like the conclusions follow from the premisses. That's not to say it's wrong, just that if it is right, it would be in part by accident.
by Alifatisk | 2025-09-24 10:46:21+00:00
I have an iPhone, years ago I made a complete switch from having everything on iCloud to Google Photos. I've been very happy so far, except some tiny friction where the Phone does not let me pick a photo from the library directly

But new features like these is what scares me, I am afraid the Photos team will do something crazy one day that affects all my photos

I do take regular backups every quarter, thanks Google for Takeout, but the fear is still there
by skydhash | 2025-09-24 10:46:31+00:00
A lot of those “apps” are just dynamic documents and forms that still fits the web model. It’s just that SPA is a bad architecture for them. Why push rendering to the client if all the data comes from the backend or need a round trip through there?

But something like Figma, Slack is indead a huge hack in terms of technology, but it would be way less code and more performance to just have native desktop apps.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-24 10:47:00+00:00
>I seem to have an expectation that I deserve free money

That would be some of the most expensive money of all, and most subject to loss.

>to run a science experiment

That's the entire thing my business was based on, using tonnes of electronics and instrumentation it was very hardware-oriented.

That was my life's work beforehand anyway, I knew I could make money the same old way if I didn't come up with enough new stuff to be able to monetize a solid 1% of it.

I still wouldn't use "other peoples' money" aka capital because the people who wanted to put up money, it was their retirement funds and stuff.

You can't be a capitalist without capital so I've always been a mere entrepreneur and used my own money.

I was wondering what the hardware was but looks like you've got robot-dependent software, if you're not competeing in hardware, and your SDK applies to a robot from only one company, talk to them.

It your technology applies to more than one company, talk to them all.
Show HN: I made a tool to automate the stupid but fun Family Guy dialogue videos
by simpnoza | 2025-09-24 10:47:16+00:00
Hey HN,

TLDR: The tool automates the entire process. No scripting, no voice model training, no production headaches. Just paste an article and get a video with Peter and Stewie explaining it.

I'm a self-taught dev (admittedly mediocre), currently between jobs and lately, I've been doom-scrolling news and way too many dense articles. The constant information overload was giving me serious anxiety!!

I built it to: - make complex topics more digestible through humor - create a buffer between me and the constant news cycle - turn learning into something I actually looked forward to

I normally use LLMs to break down complex topics, but I wanted something more engaging and less stressful. A way to consume news without the mental drain.

My vision is to eventually set up ensembles of familiar characters debating complex topics in their signature styles (think Spongebob optimistically tackling climate change).

It's completely free! I built it for myself, but figured others might find it useful too.

Would love your feedback,

Rob
by sltkr | 2025-09-24 10:48:03+00:00
Yes, SHA256 is faster than MD5 only if you have hardware accelleration. But SHA256 itself is pretty slow compared to the state of the art. For example, BLAKE3 is just as secure as SHA256 but an order of magnitude faster.

Try this on your own system:

$ head -c 1000000000 /dev/urandom > random-1gb $ time md5sum random-1gb ef72a3616aad5117ddf40a7d5f5d0162 random-1gb real 0m2.428s user 0m2.192s sys 0m0.202s $ time sha256sum random-1gb ec7d7f31c4489acae8328fddbe54157f1cb9e97b220ef502a07e1f9230969310 random-1gb real 0m3.894s user 0m3.697s sys 0m0.181s $ time b3sum random-1gb 11fe11cc5721faf65369d18893d7b7631f6178b4692bc0bb03b1b180273cd384 random-1gb real 0m0.282s !!! user 0m0.876s sys 0m0.124s $ time b3sum --num-threads=1 random-1gb 11fe11cc5721faf65369d18893d7b7631f6178b4692bc0bb03b1b180273cd384 random-1gb real 0m0.597s user 0m0.488s sys 0m0.107s

This is on an old Chromebook with Intel(R) Core(TM) m3-6Y30 CPU @ 0.90GHz CPU (dual core, but with hyperthreading). Note that even using only a single thread (which SHA256 and MD5 are limited to by their design), BLAKE3 is 6x as fast as SHA256 and 4x as fast as MD5.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-24 10:49:34+00:00
We understand the outcomes well enough. LLMs converge onto a similar process by being trained on human-made text. Is LLM reasoning a 1:1 replica of what the human brain does? No, but it does something very similar in function.

I see no reason to think that humans are anything more than "a pile of statistics that can mimic human speech patterns if you don't tax them too hard". Humans can get offended when you point it out though. It's too dismissive of their unique human gift of intelligence that a chatbot clearly doesn't have.
by ajross | 2025-09-24 10:49:34+00:00
Again though, I don't see a lot of value there. You seem to be implicitly repeating the prior that rust prevents race conditions, and it emphatically does not. It detects and prevents concurrent unlocked[1] access to a single memory location, which is not the same thing. Real races are much more complicated than that and happen in the semantic space of the application, not the memory details (again, think of email lockfiles as a classic race that has nothing to do with memory at all).

[1] Though with overhead. It's tends not to be possible in safe rust to get it to generate code that looks like a pthread_mutex critical section. This again is one of my peeves, you do dangerous shared memory concurrency for performance!
by imiric | 2025-09-24 10:49:45+00:00
> This is where experience is forged into wisdom.

That is not guaranteed, though. There are many experienced yet unwise people, and sometimes viceversa.

I agree with the sentiment of listening to older people, but age alone is not a good criteria to determine whether they're worth paying attention to. Old people can be as ignorant and unwise as young people, sometimes even more so.
by JdeBP | 2025-09-24 10:50:59+00:00
The whole U.N. thing is nonsense for several reasons, many of which got discussed just yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45345514 .

If one is setting up to target the U.N. one does not need this sort of setup to do so. Grand Central Station and the Chrysler Building are just as (in)valid a guess at some purported central target, which one does not have to enclose. The 35 mile radius is ludicrous, and very probably a "telephone game" garbling by PR people of the rough range of SMS to a 2G cell tower given certain conditions. And targetting just a few delegates for scams, with kit that costs thousands of quid per gateway box, is stupidity. The scams thrive on large volumes because they don't net 100% of the marks.

This is a way of having VOIP on one side and what will appear to callees like (doing some simple arithmetic based upon the various photographs) a few hundred (in the site where they're on the floor) to several thousand (in the site where they're on garage shelving along the wall) seemingly legitimate cell phones in multiple locations on the other side. The far more sensible hypotheses are an (overseas) scam support operation, or a dodgy telco operator of some kind.
Ask HN: Are you still exporting PDFs and copy‑pasting between your tools?
by velyan | 2025-09-24 10:51:27+00:00
I see this in my own workflow all the time: • Exporting a Notion page to Google Docs/Word because reviewers insist on .docx, then re‑attaching a PDF for email. • Copy‑pasting decisions from Slack into Jira/Asana or summarising chat threads into Notion so context isn’t lost. • Manually downloading receipts from emails and entering them into a spreadsheet at month‑end. • Digging through Gmail/Calendar/Docs/Slack to prep for a meeting because context is scattered everywhere.

I’m curious how others handle this. Do you use automations (Zapier/Apple Shortcuts/etc.), or do you just live with the friction? Does app overload and constant format conversion slow you down, or is it a minor annoyance?

Would an on‑device assistant that can route files (e.g., GDocs→PDF→draft email), sync context to your notes, and prep meeting packets actually help, or is the problem overstated?

Would love to hear concrete examples of what’s painful, what’s working, and what you wish existed.
by alansammarone | 2025-09-24 10:52:11+00:00
...more like an ELI5? Sure.

When Bobby tries to convince his friend Jimmy that Charlie is lying, you shouldn't trust him if he says that "I know that Charlie is lying because apples are green".

> One of the reasons we know this story is bogus is because of the New York Times story which cites anonymous officials, “speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation”. That’s not a thing, that’s not a valid reason to grant anonymity under normal journalistic principles.
by dusted | 2025-09-24 10:52:37+00:00
> That argument flies in the face of basic economics.

The first think any economist will tell you about the foundational rationale of basic economics is it's inability to explain the discrepancy between behavior as predicted by basic economics and behavior as carried out by human beings in the actual real world.

The hard truth that I, a human, do not behave rationally and in my own best interest at all time, or at least in those situations in which the risk or benefit to myself is the greatest, is a hard one to swallow, and many people are innately unable to even consider swallowing that, and as a result, to maintain their own illusion of rationality, they must take the stance that humans are as a rule, rational and therefore will act rationally and in their own best interest, if nothing else, as a preemptive defense against the question "if everyone around you is irrational, then what's the chance that you're the only rational one?"
by simianparrot | 2025-09-24 10:52:55+00:00
It isn't being used as a pejorative. But an adult person shouldn't write like an emotionally unstable teenager if they want to be taken seriously. Teenage girls have a particularly clichéd way of writing and communicating. That's it. Being emotionally unstable isn't a pejorative either; it's part of growing up. It's called adolescence, when the brain is in a particularly turbulent and dynamic part of development.
by n4r9 | 2025-09-24 10:54:42+00:00
Thanks for the share. It's not so much that I find esotericism inherently interesting. It's more that Gnosticism undermines common perceptions about Christianity's roots. Alex O'Conner (the YouTuber I mentioned in my previous post) mentions the astonished looks he gets in response to stating the current consensus that Jesus did not claim to be divine.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-24 10:55:45+00:00
> Working in investment banking, I never saw a single COBOL application

What was the back office settlement or wire transfer system written in? There is a good chance that some part of them was written in COBOL. And while Bloomberg terminals are a vendor product, for a bloody long time, many of their screens had some COBOL.

Also, lots of quantitative software at i-banks use LINPACK or BLAS, which use FORTRAN.
by WastedCucumber | 2025-09-24 10:56:04+00:00
This article describes some secret service messaging about busting some basic (possibly?) criminal enterprise, how the NYT amplifies that messaging without question, and names a couple of experts who the author finds questionable (which is the part I'm most unsure about, but honestly I just don't want to have more names to memorize).

After everything the gov't has tried to hype in the last decade (I'm including some things under Biden's term too), and esp. the efforts made in Trump second term, sure seems like it checks out to me.

So maybe you could name one of the conclusions and its premises, and describe how they don't follow. Cause I certainly don't follow what you're on about.