MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amatecha | 2025-09-26 04:28:45+00:00
damn, for real? I still haven't played it -- I didn't have a Windows machine when it came out, and by the time I did have one, it slipped through the cracks.. it's really that good? That reminds me I do have one friend who says it's his top favorite game, actually, heh. It's especially strange I haven't played it since I generally love cyberpunk/dystopian stuff like that!
by iammrpayments | 2025-09-26 04:29:14+00:00
The “$10 wrench attack” isn’t an argument against crypto—it’s an argument against human vulnerability.

By that logic, banks don’t work either, since people get kidnapped and forced to drain accounts. The difference is that with crypto, you can design custody systems (multi-sig, social recovery, hardware wallets, decentralized custody) that make such attacks far less effective than just targeting a centralized bank vault or insider.

As for the “end state” being dystopian, history shows centralized finance has already produced dystopias: hyperinflations, banking crises, mass surveillance, de-banking of political opponents, and global inequality enabled by monetary monopolies. Crypto doesn’t claim to magically create productivity—it creates an alternative infrastructure where value can be exchanged without gatekeepers. Productivity and crypto aren’t at odds: blockchains enable new forms of coordination, ownership, and global markets that can expand productive potential.

People now have the option of choosing between institutional trust and cryptographic trust—or even blending them. Dismissing crypto as doomed to dystopia ignores why it exists: because our current systems already fail millions every day.
by Eisenstein | 2025-09-26 04:30:32+00:00
I don't know about 'delusion pattern', but a common problem is that the AI wants to be helpful, and the AI is sycophantic, so when you are going down an unproductive path the AI will continue to help you and reinforce whatever you are feeling. This can be very hard to notice if you are an optimistic person who is process oriented, because you can keep working on the process forever and the AI will keep telling you that it is useful. The problem with this of course is that you never know if you are actually creating anything useful or not without real human feedback. If he can't explain what he is doing adequately then ask him to have the AI do it and read that. You should figure out pretty quickly if it is bullshit or not. If he can't get the AI to tell you what it is he is doing, and he can't explain it in a way that makes sense, then alarm bells should ring.
by dpifke | 2025-09-26 04:30:40+00:00
Wow, that's pretty crazy, compared to the US. I paid a one-time fee of $50, then $262.50/year for IPv4 block + IPv6 block + ASN: https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/

I've been through the process about 10 times now at various companies, and the paperwork (at least for ARIN) is no more difficult than what would be expected to justify IP space from your typical ISP. If anything, the ARIN folks are more responsive and technically competent than your average ISP support agent, which makes the process easier.
by enobrev | 2025-09-26 04:31:58+00:00
Whenever people visit during the warmer months, I almost always recommend or take them on the Architectural tour. The tour guides are knowledgeable, friendly, and tell great stories. The actual tour is a treat - even if you don't care about the architecture or history, it's a nice way to spend some time on the river. And there's a bar on the boat. My 5-year-old even sat still for the whole ride last month (and there's a place to get ice-cream you can eat while waiting in line to board).
by mrtksn | 2025-09-26 04:32:11+00:00
The banks and service providers can ask for your digital ID, the employers can ask for your digital ID and when that becomes the standart you will have very hard time to have a life in UK without having all the permissions.

Most of EU and many other countries have something like that, at least you have a citizenship or resident number that they can check against to see what's your situation.

In UK though, everything is run over proof of address and it's quite annoying for new immigrants(legal or not) because its circular. You can't have anything that can be used as proof of address without having proof of address already. At some point you manage to break circle by first having something that doesn't require proof of address but it is serious enough to be accepted as one, i.e. I know people who were riding the tube without tapping in so that when they are caught the government will send them a letter about their fine and they can use the letter to open a bank account.

The Turkish version is both great, annoying and terrible.Great because you can do all your government stuff and some other stuff like see your full medical history, make an appointment etc or managing your service subscription(water, electricity, cable. GSM etc) from the government portal. Annoying because whatever you buy beyond groceries now they are asking for your ID number and all purchases are becoming a chore. Terrible because these systems are regularly hacked and all your private data is online for sale and some even run an API to access your govt stuff live.

It works fine to manage legal immigration, you give the immigrants the ID so the can have their subscriptions etc. Once they are no longer wanted you know where to find them and make providers cut them off. It doesn't work for illegal immigrants because since they can't register to anything they end up just asking a friend to start them a subscription or pay extra to have some employee start them a subscription that in the records look like its for the employee.
by lblume | 2025-09-26 04:32:22+00:00
That doesn't really follow. NN models have been able to pick up on noisier and more subtle patterns than humans for a long time, so this type of research is definitely worth a short in my opinion. The pattern might also not be noticeable to a human at all, e.g. "this linear combination of frequency values in the Fourier space exceeds a specific threshold".
by ht_th | 2025-09-26 04:32:32+00:00
Is it? It'll take a while for fertilizer and sun placement to take visually effect, and there's risk that short term effects aren't indicative of long term effects.

How can you verify the recommendations are sound, valid, safe, complete, etc., without trying them out? And trying out unsound, invalid, unsafe, incomplete, etc., recommendations might result in dead plants in a couple of weeks.
by asdfbank | 2025-09-26 04:32:41+00:00
I've been working on Plantshare, a free app that aims to help gardeners share plants with other local gardeners. If you do gardening, it's likely that your plants are making more plants all by themselves; use this app to share them and see what others near you are sharing. I basically made the app that I couldn't find.

Android and iOS are in a working beta, might do a web front end eventually too.

I'm not a professional at any of this (accounting day job) and there has been a lot of learning but in the end, what a trip, I made a software! I've had a ton of help to bring it to life from a friend who is an actual professional at the back-end stuff (thanks Balthromaw) and copilot too.

https://ps-prod.bloodys.cc/links/getplantshare
by steve_taylor | 2025-09-26 04:34:02+00:00
My prediction is that it will soon be a requirement for all websites and apps with user-generated content to require authentication with the UK government's Digital ID OAuth provider and that requirement will include linking the user's username to their Digital ID. It won't require websites and apps to pay a third-party provider to check users' identity, so the UK government can argue that it doesn't place a disproportionately burdensome cost on smaller websites and apps.

After the UK implements this, other western countries will follow. For example, here in Australia, it's a simple solution to the under-16 social media ban which is about to come into effect. The bill was given deliberately weak verification requirements so it didn't seem too big-brother, but I'd bet real money that there's already an amendment in the works to tie it to digital ID after they discover what everyone already knows (i.e. that it'll be easily bypassed), followed by another amendment to tie the digital ID to site/app ID, for online safety reasons of course.

In time, websites/apps may offer your government's digital ID as an alternative to their in-house identity provider. If this becomes globally ubiquitous, many of them will stop maintaining their own authentication and rely solely on government ID providers. The identity provider you use will depend on where you are, so VPNs will become useless.

This was all inevitable from the day the internet opened up to everyone. Governments have an insatiable desire for power and limitless paranoia about threats to their power.
by kimixa | 2025-09-26 04:34:15+00:00
Also the US reserves the right to demand ID if you're within 100 miles of a border - which is effectively 2/3 of the population. And detain you until your status can be "verified", however long that could take.

That should only be for non-citizens, but I have no idea how you could prove that without documentation in the first place.

So for the vast majority of Americans, you probably have to be carrying ID at all times anyway, else you risk someone deciding you "might" not actually be a citizen.

If this same rule was enacted in the UK, there would be no place on the British Isles that would be excluded, as nowhere is more than 100 miles from the coast.
by nostrebored | 2025-09-26 04:35:19+00:00
6 days / 16 hours or 7 days / 14 hours still leaves time for a normal sleep schedule.

Many of the people in our YC batch were doing this for the duration of the batch. My cofounder and I both have families and managed to make a similar schedule work (with more peaks and valleys).

The last few weeks have been a crunch where I’ve been getting a lot closer to a true 140ish. That is unsustainable and I’ve had to go into it knowing that the price is future productivity.

But as a student with no commitments, 100hrs a week feels like the norm in YC startups right now.
by aetherspawn | 2025-09-26 04:35:30+00:00
I, Robot is exactly why I’m concerned, but in this case it’s not a sentient AI gone rogue but any random script kiddie who can get on your wifi and send your robot commands. Or your neighbours robot. Or their own robot.

We thought this might happen with DJI drones, but let’s be honest it’s way easier to do real damage with a humanoid robot that has a kitchen knife taped to its arms (especially to a sleeping victim) than it is to source explosives for a DJI drone.
by amscanne | 2025-09-26 04:35:47+00:00
It’s literally the same numbers as the posted ones, and exactly aligned with what I’m saying.

> The current official toll is 64,718 Palestinians killed in Gaza and 163,859 injured, since the start of the war on 7 October 2023

You may have been misled by the headline “X killed or injured”.. those are two different things, and we’re talking about the number killed.

I don’t know if those numbers are accurate (the article about the IDF solider claims it is), but I’m not even questioning that. The GP is claiming that an order of magnitude more people have been killed than even GMH claims.
by shpongled | 2025-09-26 04:36:11+00:00
Protein folding is in no way "solved". AlphaFold dramatically improved the state-of-the-art, and works very well for monomeric protein chains with structurally resolved nearest neighbors. It abjectly fails on the most interesting proteins - just go check out any of the industry's hottest undrugged targets (e.g. transcription factors)
by k310 | 2025-09-26 04:37:08+00:00
I have always had some mindless habits, like putting something down without thinking, and then having to wonder where it is. I just never filed it.

Now that I am old as in 76, I find that things which should be instantly retrievable from memory have a 5 second or so lag, and then they are right there. If I try to search the web for a hint (this sometimes triggers recall) but with the current sad state of search, I have to scroll past pages of “this shit’s for sale” if not downright ads instead of something I seek. That just angers me. I find that I can remember things faster than the internet of sh—t. It seems to have (you guessed it, ADHD).

When I discussed some of my macro behaviors with my daughter, the psych grad, such as putting off a move decision (because things are stable here though with serous distance and loneliness limitations, compared to the risk and effort of moving) and some other things (that I forgot … ) she said that was textbook ADHD, though on a large scale rather than moment to moment. I’ll look this up.

A boring day today, then a double rainbow appeared along with a fine sunset (those fluffy clouds make one) each on the other side of the ridge here, so hiking was involved, and then took a shot at some Rachmaninoff, so I can’t say anything’s duller upstairs.

Most of us are infovores, and can’t possibly thoroughly read every article we see. I file stuff as PDF’s for computer search (you know what I think of web search) and later reading. I am OK with this because I don’t actually NEED the vast majority of it, and some gets filed on the desktop because it’s the outlier that really wants me to act on it. It’s the gold in the pan.

Scanning through the mass of photos or reading those hundreds (thousands) of musical notes on the page (iPad) really does take attention, and I take breaks. I think I underestimate what goes into touching up photos, and reading so many notes that always seem too small.

The only really annoying thing is the delay in recall, but I am expecting instant recall, and that’s a lot for anyone. The summer heat kept me inside too much, and that means staring at screens. Cooler now, so I’ll get outside more, and don’t forget sunshine for vitamin D.

And short term? I am slowly downsizing, and there’s just too much lying around to keep track of. The few moments when things are better organized, things are easier to find. And guess who’s posting on Hacker News instead of straightening up the kitchen? Well, that must be attended to.

Good luck.
by rashunain | 2025-09-26 04:37:15+00:00
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by chasil | 2025-09-26 04:37:55+00:00
I'm only halfway through the Mashey thread, but this is an interesting assertion, leading to what I think can and cannot be done (in my profound state of ignorance):

"ONE LAST TIME: it wasn't politics that ended the VAX, it was engineering judgement by excellent (IMHO) DEC engineers, and the economics of doing relatively low-volume chips [low-volume compared to X86]. Nobody could afford to keep the VAX ISA competitive at DEC volumes...."

In contrasting this against Intel, what x86 could always obtain was and is performance. A large base of buyers will enable architectural improvements.

As an example, Bob Colwell was brought in to implement out of order opcode/microcode execution in the Pentium Pro. This was contemplated for the VAX, but never seriously entertained.

What could not be added to the Alpha was power efficiency, and x86 finds itself regularly beaten in this race as well.

It seems that money can buy only some things. Performance can be bought, but efficiency cannot.

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EDIT: I have read this before, but it's always funny.

MIPS was the most provocative and frightening thing in high performance computing in the 80's and early 90's.

"IBM, DEC, and HP were among the few that actually had the expertise to do CMOS micro technology, albeit not without internal wars. [I was invovled in dozens of these wars. One of the most amusing was when IBM friends asked me to come and participate in a mostly-IBM-internal conference at T. J. Watson, ~1992. What they really wanted, it turned out, was for somebody outside IBM politics (i.e., "safe") to wave a red flag in front of the ECL mainframe folks, by showing a working 100Mhz 64-bit R4000.]"
by deaddodo | 2025-09-26 04:38:05+00:00
Cool, if you read to the last paragraph you would see that I also addressed that point.

They weren’t making them throw away software. Even at the inception of 64-bit Windows, 16-bit software made up a fraction of a percentile of use cases. They continued to support 32-bit Windows for almost two decades later for people that needed 16-bit software. At which point it was a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of users.

Of course it was dropped...30 years later.
by motorest | 2025-09-26 04:38:40+00:00
> He even admits Postgres maxxed out its 2 cores, but Redis was bottlenecked by the HTTP server.

What exactly is your point? That you can further optimize either option? Well yes, that comes at no suprise. I mean, the latencies alone are in the range of some transcontinental requests. Were you surprised that Redis outperformed Postgres? I hardly think so.

So what's the problem?

The main point that's proven is that there is indeed diminishing returns in terms of performance. For applications where you can afford an extra 20ms when hitting a cache, caching using a persistent database is an option. For some people, it seems this fact was very surprising. That's food for thought, isn't it?
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-09-26 04:39:00+00:00
Mine has been patchy for a long time, but I've come up with various rationalisations:

- Work item priorities changing on a semi-regular basis means that "working memory" can need to be purged at the drop of a hat. Happens enough times and you just start, not even necessarily consciously, not committing some things to memory.

- Having kids has meant there's always something on "soon", so we try to keep all the things in a shared calendar. It's not possible for me to remember all the things, so there's no point remembering some of them, so I don't. The calendar is the singular source of truth.

- My wife tends to recount the entirety of her day to me, randomly interspersed with a couple of pieces of information that are critically important to our lives between now and three months from now, as soon as either she or I walk in the door after work. I don't try to remember any of it any more because I just don't, and never did, have the throughput capability.

- I've heard that making memories (and this might be specific to long term behavioural type memories, so maybe moot) has a relationship with adrenaline production - you'll remember something scary or exciting or dangerous or unusual. I'm a fairly chill mf, so my assumption is that I don't pump adrenaline quite a easily as most people, and therefore memories are less likely to be "sticky" (tenuous reasoning).

- Life and work are increasingly busy and complex. Short term memory may be getting saturated by things we don't realise are using short term memory, and so it feels as if short term memory is worse, when actually it's just at capacity all the time.

- There is always something else on our minds. If you're thinking about X (which is important to you) and someone else starts explaining Y, then there's a fair period of mental wind down of X in order to start processing Y, during which time they've already kinda got to the middle.

An analogy I've used when discussing "remembering details" with work colleagues:

We're having 50 tennis balls thrown at us all at once. We shouldn't be expected to be catching more than one - and it may not even be the one you were trying to catch.

In the case of my wife's rapid fire information delivery, I'm being thrown 50 tennis balls, two of which are invisibly marked as critical, and I'm expected to catch both.

(This is only slightly hyperbolic)
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-09-26 04:39:04+00:00
Given there is nothing at all said about the many config options that would contribute to Postgres for this use case, we must assume no configuration has been done.

Also, no discussion of indexes or what the data looks like, so we must assume no attention has been paid to their critical factors either.

So, another case of lies, damned lies and benchmarks.

It seem strange to me people are so willing to post such definitive and poorly researched/argued things - if you're going to take a public position don't you want to be obviously right instead of so easily to discount?
by keyle | 2025-09-26 04:39:22+00:00
I think the future of computing is Arm, or at least not Intel. Once you've experienced completely silent computers, there is no going back.

I used to be that kid with a spectrum from Sinclair back in the 80s. Seeing a product like this without subscription, without forced updates, without windows or iOS, gives me hope for the future of computing.

This is maybe what looks like a hacky little thing to some, to me, it looks like the future of linux desktop.
by rdiddly | 2025-09-26 04:43:16+00:00
It feels to me, without any external substantiation and without knowing anything about shibboleth, that "insult to father's stones" might refer to an error raised by calling code or a parent process, in protest of a condition caused by called code or a child process. Stones could be an overly literal translation of "steps." So something about the child process "insulting" the execution (steps) of the parent?

Oh and someone downvoted that. I love this site and all you wonderful people.
by aetherspawn | 2025-09-26 04:43:30+00:00
(I’m an engineer, but making assumptions) I think physics kind of blocks that from working, a DJI drone doesn’t have the weight and inertia to do serious damage, and they are hella noisy. Can’t open doors. Don’t have servos to do a proper swing or stab.

Maybe theoretically possible… but I’m more scared of robots personally.

By the same logic, autonomous cars are an even better murder weapon than robots because they are very heavy and can drive through walls. Mow down tens or hundreds of people at once.
by foota | 2025-09-26 04:43:31+00:00
> Hosted Linux for Driver Support

> In order to avoid porting thousands of device drivers, we would like to port QEMU to Redox, then run a stripped-down Linux to provide device drivers for less common and older devices. The interface between Redox and Linux-in-QEMU will be designed to be secure, so this approach should give us reasonable safety.

What a fascinating approach to this.
by didip | 2025-09-26 04:44:57+00:00
Is this engagement bait? Sigh... fine, at least I bite the bait here:

1. The use-case is super specific to homelab where consistency doesn't matter. You didn't show us the Redis persistence setup. What is the persistence/durability setting? I bet you'd lose data the one day you forgot and flip the breaker of your homelab.

2. What happened when data is bigger than your 8GB of RAM on Redis?

3. You didn't show us the PG config as well, it is possible to just use all of your RAM as buffer and caching.

4. Postgres has a lot of processes and you give it only 2 CPU? Vanilla Redis is single core so this race is rigged to begin with. The UNLOGGED table even things out a bit.

In general, what are you trying to achieve with this "benchmark"? What outcome would you like to learn? Because this "benchmark" will not tell you what you need to know in a production environment.

Side note for other HN readers: The UNLOGGED table is actually very nifty trick for speeding up unit tests. Just perform ALTER to UNLOGGED tables inside the PG that's dedicated for CI/CD: ALTER TABLE my_test_table SET UNLOGGED;