MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-09-26 04:45:05+00:00
> most people with blogs don't know what they're doing. or don't care to know?

I don't see any point to this blend of cynical contrarianism. If you feel you can do better, put your money where your mouth is. Lashing at others because they went through the trouble of sharing something they did is something that's absurd and creates no value.

Also, maintaining a blog doesn't make anyone an expert, but not maintaining a blog doesn't mean you are suddenly more competent than those who do.
by iammrpayments | 2025-09-26 04:45:30+00:00
When I first played this game, I couldn’t speak english and just thought it was cool.

I still remember the exact moment I learned the word “surrender” from the terrorist leader at the statue, because I’ve replayed the first level hundreds of times, since my pirated version of the game would crash around one of the first levels.

When I was a late teenager I learned english and my mind was blown that the game actually had deep meaning behind it.
by namibj | 2025-09-26 04:45:46+00:00
I'd still like to see some 2-seams-only T-shirts as should be straight-forward on a sufficiently-flexible tube knitting machine: seams down along the bottom of the arms continuing to the hips, so there's no seam around the shoulders.

Just double up columns appropriately; maybe the seam doesn't even have to go all the way down.

But that column count is out of reach for home style machines.
by evbogue | 2025-09-26 04:47:18+00:00
https://i0.wp.com/www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/...

In this image from the Chicago Tribune you can see two of the bots. one is orange, the other yellow. they should have been in a straight line since they were being used to guide the swimmers down the course.

i was told they position via gps and their gps just didn't work downtown.
by anonym29 | 2025-09-26 04:47:35+00:00
I'm completely against all infringements of privacy, but,

>If a porn site checks my ID against a gov database, the gov now knows I went to that porn site. That is a loss of both anonymity and privacy.

This is not necessarily true. It is possible to design systems much more like CRL than OCSP, including identity or even just age verification systems. Consider the FedGov sharing a list of public keys tied to identities of people over the age of 18, updated daily, while issuing corresponding private keys to citizens. The citizens could use their private key to sign a challenge issued by the adult media website, who would simply verify that the public key tied to the signed challenge response exists on the list of all public keys tied to identities of people over 18 issued by the fedgov.

With this system, adult websites would not need to send any identifying information to FedGov, nor would private citizens be disclosing any identifying information to the adult website - not their name, not their address, not even their date of birth, just cryptographic proof that they're in possession of a private key that corresponds to the identity of an adult.

Sure, kids could still conceivably obtain cryptographic private keys, just as they can obtain photographs of state-issued government ID that are currently used for age verification.

The real problem with schemes like these isn't the technical feasibility, but rather the capacity of the citizenry to understand and perform their own cryptographic key management.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-09-26 04:48:15+00:00
An LLM then has a preference for Python in the same way a gömböc[1] has a preference to land right-side-up. From my side of the argument, calling this a preference like I have a preference for vanilla milkshakes over coke or my dog has a preference for the longer walk over the short one is what seems pedantic. There is a difference, at least in language, between mechanical processes and living beings' decision-making.

Perhaps instead of "preference", "propensity" would be a more broadly applicable term?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c
by motorest | 2025-09-26 04:49:02+00:00
> I didn't say it's cheaper for the same cache size.

So be specific. What exactly did you wanted to say?

> But yeah a base tier Redis that will carry a small project tends to be a lot cheaper than the base tier Postgres.

This is patently false. I mean,some cloud providers offer nosql databases with sub-20ms performance as part of their free tier.

Just go ahead and provide any evidence, any at all,that support the idea that Redis is cheaper than Postgres. Any concrete data will do.
by WorldPeas | 2025-09-26 04:50:22+00:00
I used to do something very similar with old serial to usb adapters on a newer linux machine and a windows xp guest, it's more common than you might think and rarely unpredictable. The only concern to me would be supporting the incoming protocol as a passthrough (e.g. SCSI or Parallel) though they could just be handed over at the PCI/ISA level if that could be done.
by protocolture | 2025-09-26 04:51:43+00:00
Ages ago I deployed a sophos virtual appliance in AWS, so I could centrally enforce some basic firewall rules, in a way that my management could understand. There was only 1 server behind it, the same thing could have been achieved simply using the standard built in security rules. I think about it often.

I do find Azures implementation of this stuff pretty baffling. Just in, networking concepts being digested by software engineers, and then regurgitated into a hierarchy that makes sense to them. Not impermeable, just weird.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-09-26 04:52:08+00:00
If you care to educate yourself (though you'll have to excuse my scepticism), the Wikipedia article has more details, and more context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_tech...

In particular, this sentence:

> Gore's actual words were widely reaffirmed by notable Internet pioneers, such as Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, who stated, "No one in public life has been more intellectually engaged in helping to create the climate for a thriving Internet than the Vice President."

The citation for that links to this email from Vint Cerf, http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0009/m.... The joint letter from Cerf and Kahn start with this:

> Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.

> No one person or even small group of persons exclusively "invented" the Internet. It is the result of many years of ongoing collaboration among people in government and the university community. But as the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time.
by tfourb | 2025-09-26 04:52:48+00:00
80% of buildings in Gaza are destroyed. There are well documented cases of arbitrary killings of civilians and attacks on hospitals. IDF is routinely demanding entire cities to be evacuated, knowing that not all people can comply with such an order. Multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity investigations have been opened by national and international prosecutors.

It is very obvious that the only restraint that the IDF is showing is that they do not kill every single civilian on sight.
by dizzyVik | 2025-09-26 04:54:40+00:00
1. No persistence for redis. 2. Redis would get OOM killed. 3. The default config coming with the image was used. 4. Yes, I gave it 2 cpus.

I wanted to compare how would my http server behave if I used postgres for caching and what the difference would be if I used redis instead.

This benchmark is only here to drive the point that sometimes you might not even need a dedicated kv store. Maybe using postgres for this is good enough for your use case.

The term production environment might mean many things. Perhaps you're processing hundreds of thousands of requests per second then you'll definitely need a different architecture with HA, scaling, dedicated shared caches etc. However, not many applications reach such a point and often end up using more than necessary to serve their consumers.

So I guess I'm just trying to say keep it simple.
by KPGv2 | 2025-09-26 04:55:31+00:00
> Always thought round LCDs (and rounded corners on displays and now GUI windows) were stupid

If you've ever used a Nest thermostat before, you'd understand why a square display would be stupider.

It would either:

1. force a larger interface so the square display could have its diagonal fully enclosed by the diameter of the radial control (i.e., oafishly large thermostat too big for a human hand to easily manipulate)

2. force a smaller LCD to fit inside a normal hand-sized radial control, making it less readable to all but the spriteliest of youths

3. make a radial control that is a spinning rhombus, which is pretty ugly

Or we could just do what the Nest does and the only person who "suffers" is the original designer, one time, when they write the code
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-09-26 04:55:51+00:00
Even name brand pharmaceuticals are likely to be made off shore. Pharmaceuticals can have a surprisingly deep supply chain. All of which ideally has two suppliers in case one becomes unavailable (drought, war, blockade, etc).

All of the major brands will likely have some onshore capacity, but no way that GMP facilities can be turned on overnight that could handle a sudden massive shift in volume.

Which goes back to the original question if this is really an attempt to direct policy or just looking for bribes. Manufacturing needs to be planned with years of notice.
by alwillis | 2025-09-26 04:56:47+00:00
Every iPhone, iPad, and Mac that either ships with or is upgraded to iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 has a 3-billion parameter LLM that’s available to developers and operates on-device. Mail, Notes, Reminders are already integrated.[1]

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/286
by motorest | 2025-09-26 04:57:17+00:00
> If we don't use a TTL, aren't we going to have to either accept that our cache will grow without bounds (...)

Do you have a bound? I mean, with Redis you do, but that's primarily a cost-driven bound.

Nevertheless, I think you're confusing the point of a TTL. TTLs are not used to limit how much data you cache. The whole point of a TTL is to be able to tell whether a cache entry is still fresh or it is stale and must be revalidated. Just because some cache strategies use TTL to determine what entry they should evict, that is just a scenario that takes place when memory is at full capacity.
by mrtksn | 2025-09-26 04:58:29+00:00
That's just propaganda. It does matter if you are legal or not a lot. It's extremely hard for an illegal immigrant to have a life in EU.

Free housing is some shithole where you have to stay all the time until you are processed and that can take years, healthcare is something very basic if you get injured and welfare is some very basic food or money to buy food. Some countries with enough resources may provide something slightly better or use you as a method to transfer money to local businesses by putting you in a hotel room and giving you pocket change instead of running proper immigration camps.

If you think that its so great being immigrant burn you documentation and enjoy the experience. You understand that you can too claim that you lost your ID, right?

I don't understand why people are this gullible, its widespread to believe that its a lifehack to be an illegal immigrant. If you like it that much, just become one.
by hattmall | 2025-09-26 04:59:21+00:00
The $20/mo plan is not the goal, that's not even close to sustainable, that's basically just a charge to verify someone is human. The goal is you reduce that 25m to 20m and you charge 1/5th of a SWE salary, let's says it's 100k and you replace 5m with AI agents @ 20% that's 100 billion, and that's just one industry. It's also one of the more difficult to replace because software engineers are actually much closer to artist than engineers.

It's the actual engineers, lawyers, marketers, medical professionals and accountants that are the real targets.

There is a lot of focus on AI assisting software development right now because they are the people most willing to use it. AI as it is now will probably create more SWE positions overall. What you will have is software designers being added by AI and it's domain knowledge to build applications that replace the other professional roles.

The cost to utilize AI is going to be much much more expensive as it is heavily subsidized right now.
by hvb2 | 2025-09-26 04:59:53+00:00
I've done this many times in AWS leveraging dynamodb.

Comes with ttl support (which isn't precise so you still need to check expiration on read), and can support long TTLs as there's essentially no limit to the storage.

All of this at a fraction of the cost of HA redis Only if you need that last millisecond of performance and have done all other optimizations should one consider redis imho
by donmcronald | 2025-09-26 05:00:13+00:00
This is what I think too. There's a huge push around the world for 3 things right now; verified IDs, trusted or attested signatures for software distribution, and monitoring efforts like the one in the article.

The thing people don't seem to realize about the recent Android announcement that they're going to require digital signing for distribution is that it's not about moderating apps. The objective is to make sure developers are forced to disclose their identity when publishing apps because that allows rich companies and individuals to wield the justice system like a weapon. They won't ban something like ReVanced because all they need to do is make sure the system allows others to take legal action against the developers.

The other thing that people don't realize, like some of the sibling comments here, is that using older hardware and tools can only go so far. Normal people aren't going to do that and people that go out of their way to do it are going to be making themselves a target.

There's already a chilling effect in place. All of my teenage relatives were given a mini lecture to absolutely not post about the Charlie Kirk incident on social media and to avoid talking about it in private chat. I still haven't seen an explanation for how the messages in this incident [1] ended up in the hands of authorities.

But he said he had made the joke in a private Snapchat group and never intended to "cause public distress".

The only way to "protect the children" is through education, not by forcing them to have a digital paper trail for their whole life.

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68099669
by lithocarpus | 2025-09-26 05:00:28+00:00
Eh, for something like this the cost of it being wrong might be pretty small, but I'd bet odds are good that its recommendations will be better than whatever I might randomly come up with without doing any research. And I don't have the time to do the research on normal old google where it's really hard to find exactly what I want.

I've found it immensely helpful for giving real world recommendations about things like this, that I know how to find on my own but don't have the time to do all the reading and synthesizing.
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-26 05:02:29+00:00
Instead of wading into the partisan morass of the current topic, perhaps we could reflect upon this parallel:

https://ccrjustice.org/ccrs-assessment-obama-administrations...

>Despite the fact that the prosecution of officials responsible for serious human rights abuses is required under both domestic and international law, President Obama has repeatedly indicated his reluctance to pursue prosecutions for these crimes, saying that he prefers to look forward rather than backward.

>In August, the Obama administration announced new transfer policy recommendations that endorse the continued practice of rendition: the forced transfer of a person to another country to be detained, interrogated and possibly tortured.
by reverius42 | 2025-09-26 05:04:32+00:00
> The real world is generally run and controlled by people who are making between 3 and 10 million dollars. The billionaires are not really respected or considered meaningful as anything other than sources of funds and markers of extravagance.

The President of the United States has increased his wealth by at least $2 billion (or more, depending on who you ask), since the last election.
by small_scombrus | 2025-09-26 05:04:48+00:00
The realistic right now worry is that you'll fall afoul of Cloudflare's bot checking and they just won't connect you through to your destination.

The potential future worry would be if cloudflare decide they don't like the article or you for some other reason, they can refuse to connect you.

These do both rely on your traffic being routed through Cloudflare's servers, but a LOT of traffic is
by maxbond | 2025-09-26 05:05:08+00:00
A TTL doesn't really tell you if it's stale though. It gives you an upper bound on how long it can have been stale. But something becomes stale when the underlying resource is written to, which can happen an hour or an instant after you cache it. You should probably evict it when the write comes in. In my mind, it's for evicting things that aren't in use (to free up memory).
by rdiddly | 2025-09-26 05:05:15+00:00
Jeez, are there really people out there so afraid of looking unsmart that they won't stand up against the demon Complexity? Complexity is an evil whose presence you tolerate, not something you go chasing after like a trophy. Everybody is always trying to introduce more of it, especially noobs, inadvertently. It must be fought. And when you fight something, you don't blame yourself ("I'm too dumb to get this"). You blame the thing, you blame the complexity. "This shit is too complicated." Because guess what, chances are pretty high that if it's so sprawling, so bifurcated, so confusing, that you can't wrap your mind around it, it's because it's a piece of shit. E = mc² is what a finished product looks like. It has 2 variables and describes the whole universe. Whatever, you can argue all you want with me here, I'm being provocative, but the bottom line, regardless, is take yourself and your ego out of it. It's not you. You're not even important.

Edit to add: By fighting complexity, you're demanding more and you're right back to looking smart again. So actually your precious ego can still save face.
by lmm | 2025-09-26 05:07:38+00:00
> I watched the video and the suggestion is that this makes it easier for employers to verify that someone is authorized to work. Is that actually true?

Yes. The rules are complex, and currently the government essentially deputizes employers and banks to enforce them; anyone running e.g. a restaurant is having to essentially guess whether a potential employee is in the UK legally or not, on pain of criminal charges if they get it wrong in one direction and discrimination lawsuits if they get it wrong in the other.

I hate the UK surveillance state as much as anyone, but one-stop ID verification managed by the government is honestly less bad than the current patchwork. The banks are already "voluntarily" sharing everyone's identity information with the government, without any of the legal checks and balances that would apply to an official system.

> If the idea is that a digital ID authorizes employment ... well I hope people can see the problem, here.

Stop vagueposting. If you have something to say, say it.
by chii | 2025-09-26 05:09:03+00:00
> Who’s going to train the future physician the skills needed to develop the procedure?

i would presume that AI taking over won't erase the physical work, which would mean existing training regimes will continue to exist.

Until one day, an AI robot is capable of performing such a procedure, which would then mean the human job becomes obsolete. Like a horse-drawn coach driver - that "job" is gone today, but nobody misses it.
by jcranmer | 2025-09-26 05:09:28+00:00
I'm successfully running code that was written 10 years before x86-64 was invented on Linux x86-64. You can, too--just find some Win16 software online somewhere and run it under wine, and confirm that it's running without any hardware emulation mode enabled.

And yes, this code is using far pointers.

Do you need me to post my code that loads and executes a NE executable to believe that it's possible?

FWIW, here's what the Intel manual says about running 16-bit code in IA-32e mode:

> In IA-32e mode, the processor supports two sub-modes: compatibility mode and 64-bit mode. 64-bit mode provides 64-bit linear addressing and support for physical address space larger than 64 GBytes. Compatibility mode allows most legacy protected-mode applications to run unchanged.

> In IA-32e mode of Intel 64 architecture, the effects of segmentation depend on whether the processor is running in compatibility mode or 64-bit mode. In compatibility mode, segmentation functions just as it does using legacy 16-bit or 32-bit protected mode semantics.

Those don't sound to me like statements saying that there's no way to get 16-bit legacy applications running on 64-bit mode. Quite the contrary, they're saying that you should expect them to work largely the same.

What does the Intel manual say is actually broken in compatibility mode? This:

> Compatibility mode permits most legacy 16-bit and 32-bit applications to run without re-compilation under a 64-bit operating system. [...] Compatibility mode also supports all of the privilege levels that are supported in 64-bit and protected modes. Legacy applications that run in Virtual 8086 mode or use hardware task management will not work in this mode.
by mvoto | 2025-09-26 05:10:14+00:00
I’ve been working on a LinkedIn Headline Generator as a free side project because I wanted to help people improve their profiles. Everyone is either a "Passionate, Result-Oriented Digital Marketing Ninja" or just a boring job title. It makes it almost impossible to stand out.

The goal wasn't just to generate keywords and help people craft a clear, compelling professional value statement. I wanted to move beyond the hype and create headlines communicating expertise and value.

What it does: The tool works by combining a few core components: your Expertise (e.g., SaaS, B2B), your Value Proposition (e.g., driving growth, simplifying operations), and your industry. It then uses a structured approach to blend those inputs into different headline formats.

How it’s built: It’s a lightweight tool built with Next.js and relies on OpenAI's API on the backend. It's completely free to use, with no signup required.

The Ask: I'm sharing this with the HN community to get feedback, especially on the quality and structure of the output. Are the headlines useful? Is the core logic missing a key element of a great LinkedIn profile?

Any critique or ideas for improving the generation logic are welcome.

Link: https://contentide.com/headline-generator
by KPGv2 | 2025-09-26 05:11:06+00:00
No, it doesn't. I said it's grammatically incorrect, not orthographically incorrect. (It's arguably correct orthographically based on the incorrect grammar.)

> [Noun], being [clause], [grammatically correct sentence]

is objectively incorrect English grammar.

Eliding the "being" appositive, you're left with

> [Noun], [sentence].

Unless you're talking to the noun (as in "Hey, you, the well regulated militia! Did you know that the right to keep and bear arms . . . "), it's not grammatically correct.
by bigiain | 2025-09-26 05:13:04+00:00
This is the oldest snapshot I can find in archive.org, from 2001. But the page says copyright 1996 at the bottom, and that's more like when I actually published this page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010519112823/http://members.oz...

Sadly, or perhaps not, the Shockwave animation has failed to survive the internet geological record.

This bit made me grin:

N.B. this is an animation, but if you don't have netscape 2 or later with the shockwave plugin, you won't see it doing its stuff... You could try getting netscape 2 from netscape, and the plugin from macromedia if you really want

(Now I feel _old_, my regular internet username/handle is 30 years old next year...)