MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway_7274 | 2025-09-27 15:47:50+00:00
I wouldn't count on it!

For me, it's been invaluable for notes and memos (and my thesis). When it comes time to submit a paper, I transcribe everything to LaTeX. It's a pain, but it's a lesser pain than transcribing from handwritten notes scattered across three notebooks and several crumpled-up sheets of printer paper in the bottom of my bag. That's my own peculiarity; YMMV.

(Edit: also, ugh, I feel like such a goof for having written that. Thanks for being nice about it.)
by snikolic | 2025-09-27 15:48:04+00:00
A little history for folks seeing this for the first time: Ishkur has been publishing and updating this for over 25 years.

Truly one of the best artifacts of "the old internet". This gives me nostalgia. So many late nights as a teenager learning about the music I loved that seemed so inaccessible where I grew up. Thank you, Ishkur.
by psanford | 2025-09-27 15:48:18+00:00
I do hate the name ssh3. I was glad to see this at the top of the repo:

> SSH3 is probably going to change its name. It is still the SSH Connection Protocol (RFC4254) running on top of HTTP/3 Extended connect, but the required changes are heavy and too distant from the philosophy of popular SSH implementations to be considered for integration. The specification draft has already been renamed ("Remote Terminals over HTTP/3"), but we need some time to come up with a nice permanent name.
by intended | 2025-09-27 15:48:38+00:00
In 1985, Coca Cola was a by-word for America, fast food, and consumerism.

I assume this fact is obvious to you, because not too many people pull out 1985 marketing history/trivia in 2025.

I suggest going through these analyses oneself. Typically they aren’t that complex, and it’s worth getting familiar with the tools available for people to analyze network manipulation.
by xorcist | 2025-09-27 15:48:45+00:00
That makes even less sense, unless we are talking about XMODEM every protocol uses windowing to avoid getting stuck waiting for ACKs.

Of course you need to wait for ACKs at some point though, otherwise they would be useless. That's how we detect, and potentially recover from, broken links. They are a feature. And HTTP3 has that feature.

Is it better implemented than the various TCP algorithms we use underneath regular SSH? Perhaps. That remains to be seen. The use case of SSH (long lived connections with shorter lived channels) is vastly different from the short lived bursts of many connections that QUIC was intented for. My best guess is that it could go both ways, depending on the actual implementation. The devil is in the details, and there are many details here.

Should you find yourself limited by the default buffering of SSH (10+Gbit intercontinental links), that's called "long fat links" in network lingo, and is not what TCP was built for. Look at pages like this Linux Tuning for High Latency networks: https://fasterdata.es.net/host-tuning/linux/

There is also the HPN-SSH project which increases the buffers of SSH even more than what is standard. It is seldom needed anymore since both Linux and OpenSSH has improved, but can still be useful.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-27 15:48:58+00:00
I’m all for mass transportation m, but city buses blocking a busy two-lane road for several minutes waiting at a stop has got to end. Even when not stopped, they do a pretty good job at impeding traffic.

The bus system has one set of costs. But it has another set of external costs on the rest of society.

In contrast, I’ve seen British short trains arrive + unload + load + depart in far less than 5 minutes total, and that involves a far greater number of passengers than a crawling bus.

Yeah, trains require more infrastructure, but I think the public could grow to like them.
by steveBK123 | 2025-09-27 15:49:12+00:00
I've gotten into vinyl in my 40s after never having owned it before. I came of age in the cassette and CD transition era and was quickly on to MP3s in my teens.

I enjoy the Vinyl & CD vibe of being fully offline.

And it's also interesting how much stuff from 90s/00s era, particularly electronic music and the various remixes never made it on to streaming platforms. I assume some of it is just complexity of licensing some niche pressing of Artist C remixing a song by Artists A&B, etc.

Sometimes I see some of the 2-3 CD live albums make it onto a streaming platform with like 1/3 of the songs greyed out missing due to licensing.
by xpe | 2025-09-27 15:49:47+00:00
> Somehow, we've all just accepted that it's totally normal to install tools from random strangers that can

Some people do this without thinking much about it. Not all of us. This is not normal nor ok.

Predicting this kind of attack was easy. Many of us probably did. (I did.) This doesn't make me feel much better though, since (a) I don't relish when lazy or ignorant people get pwned; (b) there are downstream effects on uninvolved people; and (c) there are classes of attacks that are not obvious to you or me.

Stay suspicious, stay safe. There are sharks in the water. With frikin' laser beams on their heads too.
by rwmj | 2025-09-27 15:50:07+00:00
Really really really missing the point! Firstly I'd object to your statement that you have to buy a lot of stuff to get into it. Record players aren't expensive, and vinyl is also cheap (and don't look on ebay, go to your local thrift stores / charity shops -- or even better, your parents' house). Secondly the physicality isn't somehow the friction of associating music with a physical object, but the actual experience and sound of a record playing. You won't get this unless you do it, often, with wonderful music, so it's hard to describe.

You're right, that it is a lot of stuff. I'm looking now at 6 shelves filled with records. That definitely doesn't work for people in small apartments.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-09-27 15:50:19+00:00
I am very genuinely interpreting all of this and I recognize you are just reviewing the data.

HIV deaths are a lagging indicator, so any effect of today's policy will be delayed - as a general matter. But HIV in newborns will lead to death within a year if untreated, and adults with untreated HIV/AIDS will die from other communicable disease sooner than if they were treated.

Since US hospitals public obligation in the US to treat people who are gravely ill, we're 'only' going to see a marked increase in deaths attributable to chronic disease, and I don't think the Medicaid cuts will survive in their current state.

But it's true I don't have numbers on this and won't have a chance to get them this morning. Please share if you have a sense of comparative DALY/QALYs lost through USAID funding cuts vs Medicaid changes.
by dlubarov | 2025-09-27 15:50:25+00:00
> unknown if they participated

There's clear public footage of Faisal Ali Musalam Naami (UNRWA employee) participating, at least. The Telegram chats also show widespread support for Oct 7 and other overt antisemitism - https://unwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/UN-Watch-UNRW...

You can UNRWA is just one small part of the UN, but so was the commission of inquiry behind the genocide accusation, which consisted of 3 individuals with some questionable backgrounds.

> arrest warrants from the ICC

Why would Israel hand anyone over to a court whose jurisdiction it never consented to?
by maghfoor | 2025-09-27 15:50:45+00:00
Thank you for a thorough review. It's very helpful honestly. You raise some valid concerns I will make the following changes.

- I will add an option for the user to delete their account upon hitting the paywall if they don't want to continue. - I didn't want the app to be free to begin with as it doesn't attract serious users and also because I'm an indie maker and free users is not something that I can ultimately afford at this current stage. - You're right, I should have a way for the user to trial the app and then pay once instead of the trial being on the weekly subscription only.

As for guaranteeing lifetime access, a lot of web based products offer lifetime access and I guess it's just a matter of trusting the maker if they will support it. For my particular app I know that I've been involved in the productivity space for quite some years and only now making an app that suits my needs. I imagine myself using this for all the years to come and if I stop using it, it's self hosted on a server I own and I will keep it live forever. If the user doesn't trust that then that's completely fair and fine. No issues with that.

Lots of useful feedback, thanks again for the write up! Still building and learning and trying to be as genuine as possible.
by lowbloodsugar | 2025-09-27 15:50:59+00:00
There used to be a “mid range” market for $2000 amps and things. I suspect that those people want good enough sound and will happily just use a fancy sound bar and sub. Especially since Marantz was bought and just started churning out middle of the road shite. There still exists a market for $25,000 Trinnov.
by prewett | 2025-09-27 15:51:05+00:00
> Why would I have an emotional connection to the Coke logo?

Decades of Coca-Cola advertising creating an emotional connection? Maybe it's your favorite drink? Maybe it was a special treat on your birthday? Maybe Warren Buffett gave you a Coke and some investment advice that took you from near bankruptcy to comfortably retired, when you met him randomly in downtown Omaha?

I'm guessing HN is not the hangout place for people with attachment to brands...
by Der_Einzige | 2025-09-27 15:52:05+00:00
I’m sorry but I don’t buy for a second that you can do meaningful and even close to reliable decryption with RLHF on currently known secure ciphers.

Furthermore, I’m very worried that whoever may be paying for this is barking up the wrong tree. I feel that the damage done with extremely bad decryption attempts would massively outweigh the very few times when whatever it “decrypts” is meaningfully close to what the actual text was.

I’m aware of how easy certain things in surveillance are (I.e n-gram analysis is enough to dox anyone on HN in like 10 words of text) - but even sort of decent decryption of SHA-256 would be a literally front page of the world achievement.
by miltonlost | 2025-09-27 15:52:22+00:00
When one political party is explicitly anti-science in its goals and aims and actions (RFK, global warming as a hoax, anti-vaxx, COVID as a hoax), Nature endorsing the person who is pro-science isn't political; it's existential. This is not "no reason". It's just not the reason you like because for some reason.
by hubertzhang | 2025-09-27 15:52:32+00:00
A recent hacker-news argues: “Redis is fast — I’ll cache in Postgres.” The author benchmarks a simple API and concludes that although Redis is faster, Postgres is “fast enough,” and removing another component can be worth it for many projects.(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45380699)

I agree with two things:

- Postgres is an excellent, reliable database.

- Fewer moving parts is a win—when the workload fits.

But there’s a third path that many teams overlook: a Redis-compatible database that is durable by default. That’s what we built with EloqKV—Redis protocol + redo log, multi-writer, transactions, persistence, durability, store procedure—so you get database + cache in one engine.

Any thoughts?
by jstummbillig | 2025-09-27 15:52:40+00:00
> but I do not understand why it would be their responsibility in the first place

The world is a fucking complex mess and it's all just state. All things are set up in a certain way at this point in time and interact. As a leader in this setup it's simply not sensible to point at a single thing and say "Weeeellll, this seems like it's not how it is for others — and I really don't like that!" and then just stop doing it, and use that as justification to disregard the total amount of additional suffering this course of action causes.

If you do, you are at best unfit to have any power but possibly also just evil.
by beagle3 | 2025-09-27 15:53:08+00:00
I vaguely remember reading about heterodyning speakers in the mid 90s - the physics does check out, and such technology should be able to deliver perfectly flat response along the entire audible spectrum and with a tiny footprint. I guess they never managed to make it work or cheap enough or safe enough (yes, it’s also supposed to be flat at the harmful subsonic frequencies)

IIRC the idea is to have two crystals, one at a constant e.g. 100khz, and the other at (100+x)kHz for x corresponding to the sound you want. By physically connecting them, you get the sum (ultrasonic, lost energy but not a problem) and the difference - which is the sound you want - with most of the physics across half an octave so easily flat. Something along those lines.
by NemoNobody | 2025-09-27 15:53:21+00:00
I did not read the article - that's actually exactly what ought to be done with a paper tiger at this point - investors are just brutally quick to extract all the assets, value, wealth and leave bad, broken stuff and mountains of debt - thats business 101 almost.

It's a $50 Billion dollar company only bc we aren't over it yet - it's just seasonally refreshing the same games, for almost 20 years.

Microsoft will swoop in and buy ALL the valuable titles and leave the rest - Microsoft already has a giant staff, so it doesn't need all the people from EA - prolly less than 1/3 would come along...

What is EA going to do?

Haha, release a revolutionarily familiar form of Madden that they think (pretend) the whole world will buy all the micros of??

Buckle up for Battlefield 7!!! Yay!!!

FR - smh for EA's bs all these years. It's not the only "giant" like this either. Most of these companies coughSonycough - depends on the gaming world being independently competing walled garden platforms with a dedicated player base - Sony requires that. So does Nintendo.

Microsoft thought that too - before all devices could be an Xbox. They jumped on that despite being the very last to the mobile market - the company will now just envelop all of it.

Why buy a switch or PS5 - why buy any console?

Everything has to move about - we can do that now. If Microsoft advantage is that the Xbox platform is all PCs, Phones, TVs, etc - its in the Company interest to make the world a game - AR/VR, so more like Sword Art movie, Ordinal Scale than OG Sword Art - if you consider the almost universal business market penetration for many Microsoft products, the Company wins if we do more stuff like Pokemon go, etc.

I don't know how great it will be for gaming but I'm spelling this all out for a reason. It's obvious - hence EA's fate. What does Sony do? If Sony was Samsung w/Galaxy and PlayStation - that would be a bit better of a position but...

This will be like Windows - we will all think of playing games as something done on Game Pass or Xbox - (the rebranding will be later) except for the small % of holdouts that eventually carve out a niche for their failed platform as "it's purposely superior thing" so tp be all smug.

I'll stop now.
by gottorf | 2025-09-27 15:53:27+00:00
> even if we step away from your comparison of a body of millions of people to a someone living in Brooklyn with a trust fund

The article claims 57 cases and 35 deaths. Globally, Ebola killed 15k people over the past 50 years[0]. In the last big outbreak in the DR Congo, it infected less than 4k people in a country of roughly 100 million.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your sentence, but your way of phrasing ("a body of millions") seems to dramatically overstate the impact.

> We weren't asked about the abrupt change.

There was a hotly contested election with one side promising abrupt change and the other side promising a maintenance of the status quo. It's really not like they were hiding their intentions. Broadly speaking, the electorate wanted to take a wrecking ball to what they saw as Washington excess, whether that characterization is fair or not.

> Just consider Poland: do they wish Ukraine didn't exist because of the amount of resources they expend on Ukraine's defense?

Poland shares a border with Ukraine, who is being invaded by a nation that has also been a historical aggressor against Poland. I don't believe this is a good comparison to the US funding healthcare in the DR Congo.

[0]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7326525/
by eterm | 2025-09-27 15:54:05+00:00
> you never lose content due to lapsed subscription

You do however lose content to phyiscal damage or just misplacement.

I love CDs, but I've also lost some of my favourite CDs to damage or loss.

Yes, the quality of recommendations is generally terrible, but the equivalent in the physical media age, walking into a CD store and hearing something you love, just sadly isn't coming back.

Spotify etc are still unreasonably cheap for what they deliver, it costs the same as a couple of albums a month.
by orwin | 2025-09-27 15:54:07+00:00
No, the time when he took two months to choose a prime minister, because he could, that's legal. That's also against the spirit of democracy. When he chooses a prime minister from the 3rd largest group, that's also legal. Had he chosen from the RN, which I think is worst, I would have been happier, because at least the spirit of the law would have been followed.

But that's not the first time he did away with either the spirit of the law, or with returning on his words.

The CCC: 'i'll propose all your suggestions as laws if they're correctly written, without filters', then later 'except 3 jokers', then he proposed a small part as is, a bigger part modified, and 19, not at all. That's legal, he can go back on his words as he wants, a president words don't mean anything. Usually, a candidate words didn't mean anything, but politics exercising power words used to be believed. But that's only convention, not law.

The 49-3 for the retirement reform. Waiting for the parliamentary discussions to happen, at least a month or two, would have been a lot less brutal. Even for those who agreed with the idea, the way it was done was authoritarian.

And the recent 'motion de rejet' against the law Duplomb they wanted to pass, to prevent _any_ discussion in the parliament, that's was the chef kiss imho. That has to be the most illegitimate legal thing they did. Totally against the spirit of the law. Classic. Hindenburg and Bruning then Von Papen used similar tactics for almost 5 years.

Bruning is also a perfect example of the extreme center by the way, even if less well-known.
by foobarian | 2025-09-27 15:54:11+00:00
My pet theory is that stupidly powerful rare-earth magnets, and class D amplifiers are the two main things that killed "hifi" type audio. No more black magic needed messing with transistors and op-amps on bespoke circuit boards that used to be the moat for these oldschool brands.

My Alexa Echo Dot 4 sounds better than my home audio setup from the 90s. Now, a fair comparison would be to a modern floor speaker with modern magnets and amps, but I'm too old for this :-)
by techblueberry | 2025-09-27 15:54:26+00:00
I do think this is worth exploring, but something that comes out of it is —- if not sure exactly what the problem is but it’s something along the lines of any belief system becomes problematic when it becomes too ubiquitous/dogmatic.

I think the term “toxic masculinity” sort if has three different connotations, for some it’s a weapon to attack people with, for some it’s a weapon to be attacked by (both of these things are bad)

But for a lot of people (myself included) it’s an “obviously” useful/enpowering framework for understanding why society rejects certain kinds of men, and why certain societal pressure in men feels harmful to men. The term toxic masculinity isn’t supposed to just describe the behavior on others, it’s supposed to describe the way it is toxic to men themselves!

I do think it’s somewhat time to evolve past the feminism of the past. As someone who read a decent amount of it, I could argue until I’m blue in the face about how it is meant to be inclusive of all people, but sometimes I think a unfortunate truth about society is the cover matters more than the book. Or if you are going to use feminism as the framework, then you have to have people representing all sides of it, and not sort of imbalanced towards just one wave/interpretation/side. And I think that’s hard to do because of the incentives.
by walleeee | 2025-09-27 15:55:08+00:00
Certainly we have machines that can do any number of tasks for us. The problem is deciding which ones to let them.

Delegating to artificial constructs is an old habit and its effects are more apparent today than ever. It's not the principle I object to but the practice as it stands. Paperclip maximizers are a reality not a thought experiment.

Computing is what we do with a precise algorithm to solve a problem. Thinking is an open question, we know not what yet, really. That's the whole problem with letting machines do it. It's not just cleverness but wisdom that counts
by rwmj | 2025-09-27 15:55:24+00:00
> Not that linux was even remotely close to being usable even only twenty years ago

I've been using Linux only as a desktop for 30 years, so that's a strange comment. For sure games and other software that was written to run on Windows exclusively, ran best on Windows (who could have predicted it!). But as a desktop, Linux has been usable for many decades.
by outside1234 | 2025-09-27 15:56:56+00:00
Simply expressing the fact that climate change is happening is considered “activism” by some folks (and especially on X).

Asking them to “not be activists” is really a request for them to self police their speech in a way that fits their worldview.

This is not restricted to scientists by the way. Just look at the different response to how the NFL handled Charlie Kirk’s death with official moments of silence vs. Colin Kaepernick kneeing for police brutality. One is supported, one is suppressed.
by voioo | 2025-09-27 15:57:20+00:00
Yes, DNS encryption not hiding IP, that part is true. But still not useless is my point. ISP cannot see exact domains, only IP, and with CDN one IP can be many sites. Also DNS hijack/poison is common, and DoT/DoH stop this cheap attack. VPN is stronger, but DNS encryption is small layer of privacy without moving trust to VPN provider.