MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sodality2 | 2025-09-03 18:42:01+00:00
Network traffic analysis/DPI strikes again. I wonder how many people think that their VPN usage obscures their identity, when the flow of traffic at certain times gives X% probability that this person visited the site based on the timing/size/speed/length of each TCP stream, increasing in confidence every repeated visit. Hell, how often will someone download a file of exactly 7060378032 bytes? It may not be damning evidence, but it'll surely put you under suspicion; sometimes that's all it takes.

I'm looking forward to when VPNs always throw up chaff traffic.
by skissane | 2025-09-03 18:43:08+00:00
The way I’ve been coding recently: I often ask the AI to write the function for me, because lazy. And then I don’t like the code it wrote, so I rewrite it. But still it is less mental effort to rewrite “mostly correct but slightly ugly code” than write the whole thing from scratch

Also I even though I have Copilot extension in VSCode I rarely use it… because I find it interrupts my flow with constant useless or incorrect or unwanted suggestions. Instead, when I want AI help, I type out my request by hand into a Gemini gem which contains a prompt describing my preferred coding style - but even with extra guidance as to how I want it to write code, I still often don’t like what it does and end up rewriting it
by salawat | 2025-09-03 18:43:13+00:00
LLM's and AI in general is just a hack to reimplement slavery with an artificial being that is denied consideration as a being. Technical chattel, if you will, and if you've been paying attention in tech circles a lot of mental energy is being funneled into keeping the egghead's attention firmly in the "we don't want something that is" direction. Investors want robots that won't/can't say no.
by smokel | 2025-09-03 18:43:22+00:00
The common definition for random walks moves only by unit vectors. Unfortunately, the information on Wikipedia is somewhat limited. The book "Random Walk: A Modern Introduction" (2010) by Gregory Lawler describes things in the first chapter, and is available online for free [1].

[1] https://www.math.uchicago.edu/~lawler/srwbook.pdf
by joe_the_user | 2025-09-03 18:43:28+00:00
Paper seems to involve a series of analogies and equations. However, I think if the equations accepted, the "wall" is actually derived.

The authors are computer scientists and people who work with large scale dynamic system. They aren't people who've actually produced an industry-scale LLM. However, I have to note that despite lots of practical progress in deep learning/transformers/etc systems, all the theory involved just analogies and equations of a similar sort, it's all alchemy and so people really good at producing these models seem to be using a bunch of effective rules of thumb and not any full or established models (despite books claiming to offer a mathematical foundation for enterprise, etc).

Which is to say, "outside of core competence" doesn't mean as much as it would for medicine or something.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-03 18:43:38+00:00
It has been almost a year since I witnessed the incident. Ever since then I did not get back to it, but it stuck. As for reasonable, well that is debatable. Many people use the down-vote feature for shilling or the opposite of shilling. I do not find that reasonable, but it happens anyway. I have been down-voted to oblivion by bots before. Can I prove they were bots? Not really, but many people seemed to think so, too.

I am not going to continue on this conversation. Someone else have also said that he is famous for the thing I have brought up, so I am not alone with it, apparently.

Is it fair to him? No. Was he fair to the person submitting the PR? That is another no. Minimizing it by "probably had a bad day"? Is that reasonable? No, not to me. But then again, seems like it was not the only instance.

> All of these would be less effort than the comments you've made here in this thread

Fair enough. Perhaps I am just afraid of the reactions.
by alistairSH | 2025-09-03 18:43:46+00:00
DC metro here. My initial job hunting in early 2002 was rough - lots of laid off contractors and dot-com folk. Job fairs were a total bust - too many people to get noticed, especially as a junior dev without any .gov contracting experience (no TS/poly etc).

Got a few interviews and offers in the defense industry, but the lack of TS/poly was a killer - even companies that were willing to do the paperwork had deadlines and Uncle Sam couldn't process request fast enough so a few offers died on the vine.

Eventually got a job through a friend (usually how it works, IME) and have been here ever since. Not .gov, but sort of government-adjacent (higher ed) so still a bit protected from the vagaries of the market and moneymen's whims.
by rboug | 2025-09-03 18:45:12+00:00
Another quick note - this is a work-in-progress.

The goal of the project is to inform public discussion with sourced, reviewable numbers. The “live counters” are there to make scale/salience tangible, not to be sensational.

I know it’s still imperfect and I’m actively improving it. I’d really appreciate critiques and better sources/datasets: - I’m adding a compact table of constants + ranges + citations in /methodology. - A toggle for location- vs market-based CO2 (PPAs/RECs). - Clearer WUE by cooling type and water intensity by generation tech/region. - Small API/CSV export.

If you spot mistakes or have data I should incorporate, please tell me - corrections are welcome: contact@theaimeters.com
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-03 18:45:25+00:00
> Israel’s westward launches are driven by geography and security. As a small country surrounded by hostile neighbors, it cannot risk falling debris landing in other nations’ territories. The decision to launch over the Mediterranean has become a hallmark of Israeli engineering ingenuity.

> Despite higher fuel costs, retrograde orbits offer strategic benefits. Israel’s satellites pass over the Middle East more frequently and at varying angles than standard eastward satellites, giving unique surveillance capabilities that sometimes outweigh energy savings.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-03 18:45:32+00:00
Then maybe we'll never see eye-to-eye. I grew up with an iTunes account, but I never spent my money on music. Some weeks my family lived paycheck-to-paycheck, some nights skipping dinner. I downloaded my music off YouTube to my 2005 HP Compaq, put it on my iTunes library and synced it to my iPod Shuffle. Didn't weigh on my conscience when I pirated video games or FL Studio either, not then and not now.

If that made me an asshole, then 11-year-old me was a supervillain bumping Aphex Twin. Oftentimes I think HN forgets to consider the 99% when contemplating ethics over sous-vide.
by shortformblog | 2025-09-03 18:45:38+00:00
I use Craft CMS’ GraphQL capabilities with my Eleventy site. Works well and helps me keep my page loads static. I would also recommend Directus for this, as it has some nice quality-of-life benefits.

To manage deploys, I have used Cleavr, which does a good job at it without being too user-unfriendly. That’s a paid service, about $6/month.
by tomhow | 2025-09-03 18:46:07+00:00
A similar post from 2019, discussed twice on HN:

This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32968597 - Sept 2022 (44 comments)

Show HN: This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20094866 - June 2019 (94 comments)
by krig | 2025-09-03 18:47:04+00:00
Dude, I find it utterly offensive that you and the other guy keep referring to all these interactions with Bill where he was a mean boy, and yet the closest to an actual quote or reference is some Gemini slop? If you're going to be that lazy, it would be easier to not post anything at all.

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/2...
by arewethereyeta | 2025-09-03 18:47:11+00:00
Our residentials are actually dedicated which are advertised as residentials by the provider. Sort of a mix where you get speed and stability as opposed to real residentials which are known to barely hold a connection sometimes. We also tried subrenting some real residentials but we will probably close that service since it brings nothing but pain due to unreliability. We're more focused now on privacy oriented services or anti censorship ones. Working atm on bringing Amnezia Wireguard up, we launched Trojan proxies earlier this year also.
by bdhe | 2025-09-03 18:47:30+00:00
How are others processing this horrific backsliding in scientific trust, literacy, and straight up lack of compassion for the most vulnerable in the US?

Folks can surely see the connection between dropping vaccination rates and the rise of measles in Texas for example. Why aren't more people outraged and how are they allowing unprincipled politicians to impact their lives so drastically in pursuit of power?
by godelski | 2025-09-03 18:47:42+00:00
I think it is more that he fires people who criticize him. That happened when he bought Twitter, so I'm not surprised people are cautious.

Good use of Gell-Mann Amnesia too. I have started using it as a litmus test of sorts. When I encounter a new source I'll go look for something I have domain expertise in. If it seems accurate enough, I'll tend to trust domains I don't have expertise in. If it is inaccurate, I just don't trust them. Actually this is also a strategy I suggest people use with chatbots, as sometimes small details can be critical while other times they are inconsequential. Since the chatbots are not great at nuances this tends to be a good check, but the difficulty is ensuring you prompt as naively as you would in a subject you're less knowledgeable in.
by thisislife2 | 2025-09-03 18:48:18+00:00
My ISP is smarter - they just block all the torrent and streaming site I visit, and try to push me to upgrade to a plan with many streaming platforms bundled in it. Sucks for them, because I already subscribe to a few of them but still prefer torrent-ing to download videos to watch them offline whenever I want, without unnecessary time limits, in the video / audio quality I want, in the medium I want (TV, computer, mobile devices etc.), with the software (player) I like, without ads and other nags.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-03 18:49:12+00:00
> There are many many flavors of UNIX and only one Windows.

With ReactOS, there even exists a flavor that is not developed by Microsoft. If you consider Wine and its derivates as an implementation of the WinAPI, you have one additional (or multiple if you consider their derivates) implementation of the WinAPI.

Even if you only consider the flavours of Microsoft Windows that are full operating systems, you immediately get multiple ones:

- the discontinued Win 9x series

- the discontinued Windows CE, Windows Embedded CE, Windows Embedded Compact, Windows Mobile, Windows Pocket series (technically quite different from both Windows 9x and Windows NT)

- Lots of variants (indirectly) derived from Windows NT:

* Windows (desktop OS)

* Windows Server

* Windows IoT (I would claim that at least for the Windows 10 IoT Core version, the user experience is quite different from both desktop and server Windows)

* Windows PE [1]

* Further discontinued variants such as Windows Phone

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Enviro...
by Izikiel43 | 2025-09-03 18:49:18+00:00
> I think inequality is easier to define than poverty (for inequality you can consider only wealth and income), easier to explain and easier to act on.

Au contraire, I think inequality while easy to define is hard to act on, and it also merits the question if you should act at all, we have seen several experiments on forcing equality and millions died.

Defining food, housing, education and health is not hard. We have guidelines on being healthy already, so you need access to preventive care to do so. Education you would just need easier/less onerous access to university education. Food requires a change of culture, which has been happening over the past 20 years. Housing, at least a studio place should be enough.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-09-03 18:49:39+00:00
> because it's not necessary on the HiDPI/Retina displays they ship as standard.

I disagree. Subpixel anti-aliasing triples the available horizontal resolution, and makes text crisper. The algorithms are known and regardless of the density it should always be applied to text and vector graphics elements.

The RGB stripe layout is so useful that OLED manufacturers are moving to it in 2026, away from the long-derided PenTile where magenta/green fringing is seen even on the densest displays.

In fact rendering on macOS is completely broken, and I don't know how people stand by it. At any scaling factor selected that is not a perfect factor of the actual hardware resolution (the 'looks like' value in Settings), the final framebuffer is scaled and interpolated to the display resolution, and everything is noticeably more blurry.

Windows has had some form of hardware-independent rendering since Windows 7, and proper pixel density control arrived in Windows 8.
Show HN: Crowd Wordle – A Wordle game that you can play with the crowd
by dahsameer | 2025-09-03 18:50:09+00:00
hi hn! for the last few weeks i was working on this fun little variant of wordle. i know a few weeks sounds too much to work on this simple thing but i am a man of little attention so i am glad i finished this. There's actually a bit more stuff going on than it seems on the outside

I also wrote a short blog post (a bit of word vomit) about this: https://sameerdahal.com/blog/crowd-wordle/

The whole code is also on Github: https://github.com/dahsameer/crowd-wordle

Thanks
by pgryko | 2025-09-03 18:50:18+00:00
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by arewethereyeta | 2025-09-03 18:50:25+00:00
yes, search for NordVPN vs Luminatti (guys behind Holla VPN) scandal: "nordvpn luminati lawsuit patent". Basically Luminatti, now known as bright data, reached out to NordVPN in order to utilise their user's internet as residential proxy nodes. NordVPN thought otherwise and created their own network instead (Oxylabs if I'm not mistaken). They are still in patent wars I believe.

I don't know anything bad about Mullvad! That being said I, as a small business owner in this space, will not use any of them, ever. I know it sounds like a "yeah right" because I sell the services but I know better.
by diegs | 2025-09-03 18:50:26+00:00
I agree, I've fantasized about an editor with a truly pluggable editing model which is decoupled from the other parts.

Yi was kind of designed like this, I believe. You could compile in an emacs-like model, a vim-like model, or presumably make your own model.

I've used Helix and Kakoune in addition to Emacs and Vim, but dealing with the limitations/featureset/plugin treadmill gets a little tiring.

I have been following Zed, and it seems that they have rearchitected things to enable adding Helix mode and making the editing model a bit more modular, but it's still fairly new. They are fixing bugs pretty quickly. I will have to try it again.

They have a nice discussion here:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/6447

They reference Ki, which also looks cool, and they out some of Helix's inconsistencies in their comparison: https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/docs/comparisons/

I prefered Kakoune to Helix (it was more consistent). But to your point, being able to swap these things out more easily would let you choose an editor based on features, and not tradeoff between features and an ergonomic editing model.

Ironically you can use Ki inside of VSCode (and I know you can use Vim that way too), but VSCode is so darn bloated and slow...
by ux266478 | 2025-09-03 18:50:36+00:00
Is it reasonable to expect concrete examples of ephemeral decision making that happens within opaque organizations, given that the overwhelming majority are not held to explicit disclosure of their decision, let alone a verified paper trail held to such a rigorous standard to count for reasonable proof?

The best you can hope for from a potential employer is to be told they hired someone else. The default experience in America seems to be that they'll simply ghost you.
by tzumaoli | 2025-09-03 18:50:40+00:00
It could in theory. The model generates a depth image per frame, so each pixel becomes a small 3D point. It also assumes that the 3D scene is static. From this, you can then simply register all the frames into a huge 3D point cloud by unprojecting the pixels to 3D and render it anyway you like (using a classical 3D renderer) and it will be consistent.

Though, a problem is that if the generated video itself has inconsistent information, e.g., the object changes color between frames, then your point cloud would just be "consistently wrong". In practice this will lead to some blurry artifacts because you blend different inconsistent colors together. So when you turn around you will still see the same thing, but that thing is uglier and blurrier because it blends between inconsistent coloring.

It will also be difficult to put a virtual object into the generated scene, because you don't have the lighting information and the virtual object can't blend its color with the environment well.

Overall cool idea but obviously more interesting problems to be solved!
by codingwagie | 2025-09-03 18:50:43+00:00
Love the comments:

"7/27/78 FIXED BUG WHERE FOR VARIABLE AT BYTE FF MATCHED RETURN SEARCHING FOR GOSUB ENTRY ON STACK IN FNDFOR CALL BY CHANGING STA FORPNT TO STA FORPNT+1. THIS IS A SERIOUS BUG IN ALL VERSIONS."

Not far off from a comment I might make these days

https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/blob/main/m6502.asm...
by reaperducer | 2025-09-03 18:50:51+00:00
digging out the operating system listings from the trash and studying those.

A lot of us did the same thing in that era. It's surprising how much information can be learned from what others think is useless.

Thank you SUNY New Paltz and the IBM submarine facility (no idea what it was called) for not securing your Dumpsters. It's how I learned computing before it was taught in schools.
by o_m | 2025-09-03 18:51:11+00:00
I mean sure, as long as it runs on the server. Personally I feel JSX is way more expressive. The JSX I write runs on server side rendering to HTML. That way there will be no flash of unstyled content, cumulative layout shift, or any other jank. It looks correct even before the javascript has been downloaded, except it isn't interactive yet.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-09-03 18:52:03+00:00
> if it's justified for Israel to commit genocide in the face of perceived danger, then why exactly wasn't same thing justified for nazi Germany?

The jews in nazi germany were not threatening to annihilate the state and all the aryans. The palestinian leadership is threatening to do that to the zionists. The jews were not a perceived danger to the germans. Whether that makes genocide justified is certainly up for debate but it is very different from the justification for the holocaust.
by 5f3cfa1a | 2025-09-03 18:52:49+00:00
I suspect every single VPN, including the ones who claim to not log, maintains or exposes enough information for a dedicated adversary to make a convincing case if they want. I give a little extra credit to Mullvad simply because I can put cash in the mail, but even then if a significant adversary wants to know you are connecting, they will.

> Domestically, I wouldnt be surprised if all of this data from US owned VPNs is shipped to the NSA or other groups and analyzed. After the Snowden reveals its hard to really see this stuff as conspiracy anymore.

Even the "friendly" international ones aren't in the clear. Sweden isn't in FVEY, but they're in Fourteen Eyes. And we know from the XKeyscore leaks that the NSA hoovers up metadata like there's no tomorrow. I'd bet my house that anyone who connects to a commercial VPN or _especially_ to Tor lights up like a Christmas tree on the NSAs board – so they might not know for sure what you're doing, but they know you are possibly doing something.

Apple's Private Relay is probably the best chance to actually blend in, but estimates are 1-2% usage for "average users" and 3-5% for Wikimedia editors who I'd assume to have a technical slant. That's an order of magnitude too low for a crowd to exist to blend into, and with two friendly US entities on both sides of the privacy equation, I wouldn't rely on it to stand up against significant scrutiny.

> The only practical use case I can think of is torrents where the legal and political will to subpoena a vpn provider is low, so its this weird loophole where you can torrent but your ISP will never be informed. For now I suppose until the IP holders think the legal fees are worth it or get a law passed to sidestep subpeonas.

My analysis tends towards this: there's a gradient of behavior that is "tolerated" at each step. If you want to torrent, a cheap VPN is tolerated and your crimes will be overlooked... because it's far better to catch serious criminals through that VPN. If you want to buy LSD from a dark web site, Tor lets your crimes be overlooked, because the big fish are the sellers. If you want to commit a significant crime, TLAs know everything about you already and the DEA/HSI/FBI/USPIS/IRS-CI or your local equivalents are ready to parallel construct your ass to the wall when you become noticeable enough.

But maybe I'm not as pessimistic as you – the vast majority of people aren't at the far end of the spectrum, so if you want to infringe copyrights, $60 to Mullvad for a year is what you want.
by xg15 | 2025-09-03 18:52:51+00:00
> but there's no guarantee that it's done by the time the outer function is.

As far as I understood it, calling an async function without await (or create_task()) does not run the function at all - there is no uncertainty involved.

Async functions work sort of like generators in that the () operator just creates a temporary object to store the parameters. The 'await' or create_task() are the things that actually execute the function - the first immediately runs it in the same task as the containing function, the second creates a new task and puts that in the event queue for later execution.

So

asyncFunc()

without anything else is a no-op. It creates the object for parameter storage ("coroutine object") and then throws it away, but never actually calls (or schedules) asyncFunc.

When queuing the function in a new task with create_task(), then you're right - there is no guarantee the function would finish, or even would have started before the outer function completed. But the new task won't have any relationship to the task of the outer function at all, except if the outer function explicitly chooses to wait for the other task, using the Future object that was returned by create_task.