MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by missedthecue | 2025-09-30 23:17:53+00:00
Weird article. The argument is basically that Ukraine is winning the war because even though Russia is winning, they aren't doing it very quickly.

"it is already clear that Putin has failed to achieve his chief war aim — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation."

and this excerpt particularly stood out to me, because it's basically the one thing Putin has most assuredly done. 1/3 to 1/2 of the country is gone for good. Most, by Kyiv's own admission, will never return. Their industrial heart in the east is either captured or bombed out. They will need hundreds of billions of euro they can't afford to borrow to rebuild back to 2021 levels of HDI. And with a birth rate below 1.0 and the inability to attract productive migrants postwar (unique language, india level wages), what's left of their aged and shrinking population will never be able to recover.

Their best hope is to wrap up the war as soon as they can and beg to get in the EU and live off that teet until as long as they can. I'm not sure how they can ever convince a Ukrainian who has been living in Berlin for 4 years to come back to Odessa and work for $6k a year, so the demographic picture is pretty much unsolvable as far as I can tell.
by bhouston | 2025-09-30 23:18:02+00:00
That is what I understand this was part of the reason behind this, no?

Basically DHH had some right wing posts and some people took offence and then Shopify (on whose board DHH serves and whose CEO is a friend of DHH and shares his right leaning political views) swooped in and demanded those people who criticized DHH be removed from the project?

Lots of FUD was spread about Andrei in the wake of this in order to justify his removal.
by bamboozled | 2025-09-30 23:18:27+00:00
Soon, you won't even have to do anything to post a video of yourself doing something "interesting" on social media, what at time to be alive.

There would for sure be large swathes of people who would just lie about what they're doing and use AI to make it seem like they're skateboarding, or skiing or whatever at a pro or semi-pro level and have a lot of people watch it.
by mvdtnz | 2025-09-30 23:18:31+00:00
> "After years with Pi-hole, which now blocks over a million domains, I’ve become incredibly accustomed to a mostly ad-free web. Without realizing it, I’d forgotten what the typical internet experience feels like."

I'm curious when I see quotes like this - are people exposing their home network to the internet? Or running a pi-hole in the cloud? VPN'ing into the home network? Or what?

I have run a pi-hole in the traditional sense (a raspberry pi with pi-hole software on my home network with my home router DNS pointing at it). But this doesn't prevent me from seeing ads when I'm out and about on 5G or public wifi or work wifi or whatever.

As an aside I stopped running pi-holes at home for reliability reasons. Lots of failed SD cards, locked up raspberry pis etc became more aggravation than it was worth. It's a neat system - when it's working.
by abstractspoon | 2025-09-30 23:18:51+00:00
Using metaphors is tricky.

I pick up at least one piece of trash/litter every time I'm out and about (I no longer drive) but I draw the line at tissues/wipes. So far so good.

However, tissues and wipes are something of an exception because their job is to clean up "mess" and as the author points out we don't know what that mess might be.

Other forms of trash/litter are far less ambiguous eg. Soda/drink can or unstained paper bag, and I pick those up without a second thought.

So that metaphor is itself ambiguous and I'm left confused about the author's intent.
by groggo | 2025-09-30 23:19:28+00:00
It's pretty entertaining.

People always like telling stories. Books, comic strips, movies, they're all just telling a story with a different amount of it left up to the viewer's imagination. Lowering the barrier to entry for this type of stuff is so cool.

I think you have to be pretty pessimistic to not just think it's really cool. You can find issues with it for sure, and maybe argue that those issues outweigh the benefit, but hard to say it's not going to be fun for some people.
by mscbuck | 2025-09-30 23:19:29+00:00
I can't help but see these technologies and think of Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park.

My boss sends me complete AI Workslop made with these tools and he goes "Look how wild this is! This is the future" or sends me a youtube video with less than a thousand views of a guy who created UGC with Telegram and point and click tools.

I don't ever think he ever takes a beat, looks at the end product, and asks himself, "who is this for? Who even wants this?", and that's aside from the fact that I still think there are so many obvious tells with this content that make you know right away that it is AI.
by simonw | 2025-09-30 23:20:14+00:00
I just came round to using that term a couple of weeks ago (see https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/18/agents/) - I held out for the longest time because it annoyed me that everyone had a different idea of what "agent" meant.

In this case I do think the term is justified - "agentic loop" is a good way of describing a loop with a bunch of tool calls driven by an LLM.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-30 23:21:20+00:00
> in case just by being accessible there you incur a liability.

This is a dangerous precedent though that IMO everyone should fight against.

It's how we get the balkanization of the internet, and the death of it as a global network.

TBH we also shouldn't put the onus on blocking "unsafe" countries on the website owners, nor an intermediary like CloudFlare. If a nation wants to block certain content, let the nation deal with it by getting their own ISPs to block and make sure the citizen's anger gets correctly placed on their government and not the site operators.
by xenobeb | 2025-09-30 23:21:37+00:00
It is not even just the errors. These video models are really impressive as long as you don't actually have something in your head you want to make. Then the laughable limitations are on full display.

I will believe it when I see because Sora 1 is probably the most disappointing technology given what I thought it was going to be that I can even think of. I waited forever for it and then barely used it because it sucks.
by mvdtnz | 2025-09-30 23:21:38+00:00
I like the way Mark Seeman (ploeh) handles blog comments. He asks users to open a PR[0] with a comment on the post. Obviously the volume of comments is very low, but it sure is effective at targeting the right audience and keeping the bots out.

[0] https://github.com/ploeh/ploeh.github.com#readme
by sailingparrot | 2025-09-30 23:21:42+00:00
This is highly dependent on exact model size, architecture and hardware configurations. If the compute time for some unit of work is larger than the time it takes to transfer the next batch of Params you are good to go. If you are doing it sequentially though then yes you will pay a heavy price, but the idea is to fetch a future layer not the one you need right away.

As a similar example I have trained video models on ~1000 H100 where the vast majority of parameters are sharded and so need to be first fetched on the network before being available on HBM, which is similar imbalance to the HBM vs SRAM story. We were able to fully mask comms time such that not sharding (if it was even possible) would offer no performance advantage.
by beala | 2025-09-30 23:21:44+00:00
It happened this morning at the military gathering: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-preside-over-unusual-...

Here's the Kagi article which potentially could have mentioned this: https://kite.kagi.com/s/8b5ta4

It's unclear to me if any of the source material reported this when the summary was generated, especially since the source articles may have been updated throughout the day.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-30 23:21:57+00:00
You have left multiple comments for the sole purpose of muddying waters. So HN would probably be better off if you didn't reply.

What did I "shout"? What are you even going off about? Don't project your angry fanaticism on others.

Further, your literacy is not my problem. Nothing in my comment was contradictory or confusing to anyone but you.
by mentalpagefault | 2025-09-30 23:22:45+00:00
Thank you!

I emphatically agree, unencrypted ZFS on top of GELI or LUKS encrypted block devices is the way to go for now. Plus it also has the benefit of not leaking metadata like a sieve.

My mistake was placing too much trust in ZFS's reputation for data integrity; clearly not all features hold that value in the same regard.

The openness of OpenZFS was a real saving grace. If this had occurred on a propriety SAN, that data would be gone forever.
by Teever | 2025-09-30 23:23:10+00:00
A moon base gets us a platform to test what long term low gravity does to a human body, and an environment to test ISRU for various materials like water, oxygen, iron, titanium, etc...

Being able to prove that people can live in an environment like the moon long term and develop materials that can make their stay there sustainable by reducing consumables and developing replacement parts from lunar material is a great stepping stone.

Being able to demonstrate the doubling of usable pressurized space by building and burying modules that can be stocked with equipment brought from Earth would be a remarkable accomplishment.
by stingraycharles | 2025-09-30 23:23:54+00:00
Honestly if I learned anything over the past few decades it’s that I’m typically wrong about these kind of predictions, and society as a whole uses social media in a way that I just don’t comprehend. I would have never guessed a social media app whose biggest feature is “it disappears within 24h!” (even though you can easily screenshot everything) would become as big as it became.

Also, remember that it’s not about benefitting society as a whole, it’s about benefitting the investors. If the investors get rich at the cost of society, it’s a win for OpenAI.
by kelnos | 2025-09-30 23:24:09+00:00
I don't think your rebuttal is all that convincing, though. What belief do we have that a CoC would have prevented the behavior you note in that pull request? That sock puppet account was either 1) a random drive-by person who isn't associated with NixOS at all, and is just a hateful troll, or 2) is an actual NixOS community member who created a throwaway account to spew garbage.

How does a a CoC fix either of those problems? I'll answer that myself: it doesn't. Random hateful trolling is going to happen everywhere, and all you can do is stamp it out as quickly as possible by deleting comments and banning accounts.

The second possibility is more insidious: that there's a member of the NixOS community with these hateful views, and has otherwise managed to keep those views to themselves in their interactions with the community. Or they sorta maybe kinda keep it under wraps most of the time, and people sorta maybe kinda know about it, but look the other way for whatever reason. If project leadership knows about something like that and doesn't take action, a CoC isn't going to fix that, either.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-09-30 23:24:09+00:00
I think I remember this, or a similar scam around the same time. What stood out to me is that one of the big six was hired to certify the legitimacy of the "black box", despite the obvious mathematical impossibility. I'm trying to find the firm ... Hm, according to Google AI it was Ernst and Young (I did a search for Ernst certifies compression technology 1990s). They apparently did two different "audits or demonstrations.

I was working at Andersen Consulting at the time, offshoot of Arthur Andersen. The Arthur Andersen that signed off on Enron (AC had before then become Accenture and separated from the audit partnership).

I chuckled to myself a few years later when the NBA draft lottery was signed off on/audited/witnessed by another Big6 firm. Yeah, give them enough money and they'll "audit" anything within some degree of plausible deniability.
by xenobeb | 2025-09-30 23:24:44+00:00
You obviously have never actually tried to make anything in AI video. It is a parlor trick.Maybe this is a big advance but the current state of AI video is a joke. It is only impressive if you don't actually make anything. It is impressive in a marketing release that is quickly forgot about.

Will Smith eating spaghetti is the dumbest most uncreative thing. You are impressed by it because it is a meme. It is stupid.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-09-30 23:24:54+00:00
It's not even that there's no enforcement... you could talk to your state's AG. But their budgets aren't infinite, and the scammers are overseas as likely as not. Unless the scam rises above some (absurdly high) threshold or threatens someone very important/wealthy, it's going to be back-burnered.

The cost of enforcement would break every government's budget. The cost asymmetry is the problem.
by gavinray | 2025-09-30 23:25:49+00:00
Goodlabs prices:

https://app.hellogoodlabs.com/book-tests

ApoB $12 LP(a) $20 A1c $ 4 Lipid $ 8 eGFR $30 (Under "Cystatin C with Glomerular Filtration Rate, Estimated (eGFR)") Total: $74

So no, I wouldn't call $190 "pretty low", lol.
by buildsjets | 2025-09-30 23:25:57+00:00
The 737, like all large commercial aircraft, also requires an artificial control feel force feedback system in order to meet design requirements. It has always had one going back to 1967.

A question that has never been adequately answered: if MCAS was conceived of in order to meet the 14 CFR Part 25.143 requirements for a positive control force feedback gradient, why did Boeing not modify the existing Elevator Differential Feel Computer (a mechanical/hydraulic computer with no electronic components) instead of inventing a half-assed, undocumented, slow moving, open-loop fly-by-wire contraption using the trim tab actuator?
by unethical_ban | 2025-09-30 23:25:59+00:00
You berate me for being specific and then you overgeneralize without providing any personal detail.

The left in the US ranges from "preserving the ante-Trump status quo for the administrative state and rule of law and centrism" to "publicly funded healthcare and more action on climate change".

The right, which to your credit is most of the Republican party, is silent or else cheering the destruction of the United States government and are either tree sonally malicious in their desire to weaken our economy and national security, or path etically ignorant to the fact it's already happened.

The right operates on feelings of misplaced anger and economic and geological ignorance.
by stackedinserter | 2025-09-30 23:26:37+00:00
If it's 2025 and you people still use Duolingo, then probably they just like to use Duolingo. It's like people who grind grammar books – both ways to learn language are dead ends, but make people feel better because "look I have 1000 days streak in Spanish" ("I can write conjugations for 100 verbs").

If DL taught me something, it's that it's better to completely ignore any gamifications, streaks, "hours of input", levels and other metrics that language learning services give you. It's easy to get into trap of using them as KPI of your learning process, and not your ability to speak to other people.
by bigiain | 2025-09-30 23:27:33+00:00
Boeing today is so obviously a different organisation to the one that built their rapidly dwindling reputation.

The 747 was an amazing engineering marvel. They started designing it in '65, the first one rolled off the production line in '68, and they were still making and selling them right up to 2023.

I have a book here somewhere that talks about how so many of the design decisions were based on cold hard physics facts combined with engineering pragmatism. They needed to run the engine at peak efficiency, and the tradeoff between air density and air temperature set the cruising altitude to ~35,000 feet. They knew they didn't know enough to be able to build a supersonic plane, so that set the top speed at just under mach 1 at 35,000 feet. They wanted to carry 2-3 times as many passengers as the 707 which set the payload and the all up weight. It needed to go slow enough to land safely at typical airport altitudes, which set the wing loading and given the weight the wing area. It needed to be as efficient as possible which meant a high aspect ratio, but given the required wing area and the available engineering capability for wing spars and aluminum construction that set the wing span.

It was hard engineering tradeoffs like that which then set a whole bunch of aviation standards. Runway lengths, terminal and jetway heights, landing approach speeds - all those types of "standards" which still exist today in airports around the globe, are heavily influenced by the 747 and it's design parameters. Cessna 172s flying into international airports have to fly their landing approach way faster than usual for that type of plane because _everybody_ flies approaches at 747 speeds.

That is not today's Boeing.
by soloidea_dev | 2025-09-30 23:28:04+00:00
Hi HN —

I’m building Vesta (working name) — a dating app for accomplished, degree-holding women who prefer meaningful, cozy connection over nightlife. Think LinkedIn + Netflix + Raya: verified careers, lifestyle alignment (homebody vs. nightlife), and curated/exclusive membership.

Problem

Ambitious women get flooded with low-effort matches; dating apps optimize for engagement, not compatibility.

The market is noisy (swipe fatigue, scams, ghosting), and there’s room for a quality-first, women-first product.

What Vesta is

Profiles that surface career, goals, and lifestyle (not just photos).

Verification (LinkedIn sync / optional credential badges).

AI + graph matching that weights ambition, goals, and homebody lifestyle.

Built-in “cozy date” experiences: co-watch, cook-alongs, book swaps.

Invite/waitlist + curation to keep quality high.

Current status

Concept + product spec completed. UX sketches & three logo concepts ready. No paid users yet — pre-MVP. I’m looking for the right co-founder and core team to build a strong, women-first launch.

Who I’m looking for

Female co-founder (brand & community lead) — built communities, luxury/lifestyle branding, or women-first products; willing to take equity and bootstrap.

Early teammates: product designer, iOS/Android dev (React Native ok), backend (Node/GraphQL, Postgres), growth/partnerships (events, PR).

Advisors with dating / community experience are welcome.

Tech / approach

MVP: React Native frontend, Node/GraphQL backend, Postgres + Redis, optional Neo4j for relationship graph.

AI: embeddings for compatibility + LLMs for conversation prompts.

Privacy & safety by design: verification, reporting, moderation.

Why now

Users are exhausted by superficial swiping and increasing safety concerns; niche, quality platforms are trending. We’re aiming to be the women-first, upscale alternative.

If you’re interested

DM me on Twitter: @your_handle_here (replace with your handle)

Email: yourname@yourdomain.com (replace with yours)

Or reply here and I’ll DM back.

Open to cofounder equity splits, vesting, and early contractor pay if needed. Happy to share the one-pager, brand sketches, and product roadmap with serious replies.

Thanks — looking forward to building something women actually trust for dating.

— Taahirah (Engineernoob)
by incompatible | 2025-09-30 23:29:37+00:00
I hadn't heard about Grokpedia, but Conservapedia already exists, and seems to be what they want?

Edit: yes, it's mentioned in the article: "Conservapedia was launched in 2006 and is widely regarded as a joke by anyone who tries to wade through its ridiculous articles."

Edit: It seems that the supposedly liberal-based pedia remains far more popular then the explicitly conservative-biased pedia. But both are out there, so take your pick.
by HeyImAlex | 2025-09-30 23:29:47+00:00
Another thing I’ve encountered with tree/structured diffs is a concept of identity. diff([{id:1,name:foo}],[{id:2,name:foo}] should show object w/ id:1 removed and id:2 added, not id changed from 1 to 2. Tough because then your diffing algo needs to be aware of the object structure (imo using convention and saying “no objects can contain this key” is pretty tough when you accept any user generated data).
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-30 23:30:08+00:00
The "Parse, don't validate" paper is classic IMHO.

I disagree with "Don't put logic in tests", with the example provided being a problem with using strings where a URI type is needed instead. Perhaps the source of my disagreement is I hold that test code is production code due to test suite failure(s) during an automated build stops desired deployment.

Still, each are definitely worth delving into and determining applicability for oneself.
by rcxdude | 2025-09-30 23:30:21+00:00
In my experience (and I generally have found myself in the position of 'person that has the system in their head'), it's not necessarily about size but about being able to sit down and work with the system. It's not just about having the theory but also having the time actually working with the system and learning how things act in practice, which is a kinda weird mix between being a senior role with a high-level view of the system and a theoretically quite junior role of more or less technician.

(It also usually involves some quite proactive learning of the form of finding the specialist in some part of the system and sitting next to them and going "explain to me how this part works", and then repeating more or less indefinitely)
by alphazard | 2025-09-30 23:30:33+00:00
The C reactive protein itself doesn't cause symptoms on its own. It's produced by the liver in response to signals from immune cells. It actually binds to bacteria in circulation, so if anything it helps. As a data point, it can vary by >1000x during the course of a disease, and won't be something that people feel or complain about separate from the other symptoms.

The underlying cause of the inflammation usually does produce other symptoms though. Think fatigue, joints, stuff like that. It's one of the many biomarkers that can alert people to change their lifestyle and diet. When they do, they usually feel much better and there will be a reduction in inflammatory markers coincidental with them feeling better.
by gavinray | 2025-09-30 23:30:45+00:00
28 years old, had a heart attack last weekend (inferior STEMi)

I exercise an hour a day (resistance + cardio), eat a diet of nothing but meat + vegetables + yogurt.

Will post my lipids below. Sometimes you just get fucked by life.

https://i.imgur.com/r0nfUo3.png

For those that won't view the image:

LDL: 72 HDL: 23 Triglycerides: 49 Apo(B): 85
by byroot | 2025-09-30 23:31:27+00:00
There are two different things, GitHub access, and gem ownership (permission to publish packages).

Based on previous posts, they did revoke everyone GitHub access, but with the intent to give it back to some maintainers after they signed some sort of contributor agreement.

However on the package publishing side, you can see that on Sept 20 3 people had access [0], hsbt, deivid and colby.

If you compare to aug 24, there was also andre, sebgiddins and rubymorillo (no idea who that is).

So that leads me to believe they had the intention to keep him, even more so because he was still contracting with them. AFAICT the intent was to remove accesses to former employees who left to start their own consultancy.

So to me, that post from RC checks out, and I think they were very well aware of who was contributing what.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20250920140646/https://rubygems.... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250824033341/https://rubygems....

Edit: answering myself on who rubymorillo was, it's someone who didn't commit in that gem since 2018: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commits?author=rubymori...

So yeah, permission management at Ruby Central did indeed seem to have been a huge mess. Not excusing the extremely poor rollout, but some cleanup was definitely overdue...