MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pkulak | 2025-09-08 20:03:41+00:00
+2. I did exactly what's in this article since before Tailscale existed. Then there was this Tailscale thing, but I never moved over because why bother? I've already got my setup. I was creating keys and schlepping them to all the devices in my family. I was fixing broken tunnels on vacation, trying to copy keys from my phone because that was the only device that could connect at the moment. I was manually setting packet MTU sizes because my home network uses PPPOE (yes, those are all things I know now that I wish I didn't). I was disabling the Wifi in my local supermarket because they block UDP and that broke my access.

Then I signed up for Tailscale on a whim, installed it on my phone and my Home Assistant box and... that was it. After like 15 minutes of sign up and installation I could access my home network. MTU didn't matter. In the supermarket it uses TCP over a DERP server that's 5ms away. Keys are automatically setup. After years of people blabbing on about how great Tailscale is, I finally get it.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-09-08 20:04:10+00:00
>> Even in the personal domain he seems horrible eg stealing Kauai birthright land for his mega mansion.

Marc Benioff has done the same thing:

https://www.hawaiifreepress.com/Articles-Main/ID/40583/Clima...

“When you have the locals getting priced out of towns like this and more challenges with people moving over here, it just creates more competition in terms of trying to buy land,” one local resident told NPR anonymously. “At what point does Hawaii not become Hawaii anymore, if no Hawaiians are here?”
by goda90 | 2025-09-08 20:04:30+00:00
> electricity isn't that reliable here and putting in backup power is more expensive than I want to pay

A small UPS that can communicate its power state over USB isn't too expensive. So if power goes out, it sends a message to its host that it should shutdown after a certain amount of time and then when power restores, it turns the server back on. I can understand the desire to not have to manage all that though.
by vid | 2025-09-08 20:04:39+00:00
I use local AI fairly often for innocuous queries (health, history, etc) I don't want to feed the spy machines plus I like the hands on aspect, I would use it more if I had more time and while I hear the 120b is pretty good (I mostly use qwen 30b), I would use it a lot more if I could run some of the really great models. Hopefully Medusa Halo will be all that.
by nlitsme | 2025-09-08 20:04:47+00:00
This seems to be an unfortunate case where a feature has a misleading name.

You already had secure and encrypted backups on your phone, which you could copy and restore, if you remembered to copy them, and write down a very long password.

The new feature is apparently a way for signal to sell cloud services.

I do think cloud based backups are very useful for less technical people. But it does not really matter if your (properly encrypted) signal backup lives on a google drive/apple cloud, or on a cloud service managed by Signal.
by sflanagain | 2025-09-08 20:05:10+00:00
The phishing email comes across a bit too amateur. Specifically the inclusion of:

"we kindly ask that you complete this update your earliest convenience".

The email was included here: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/642adcaf364024654c71df23/...

From this article: https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-com...
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-08 20:05:18+00:00
The Financial Times coverage is particularly terrifying, pinning almost all economic growth to "a handful of states, artificial intelligence, healthcare and the wealthy".

It also notes that health care isnt productive. It's a measure of societal overhead, basically. Yet that was by far one of the largest sources for new jobs.

https://archive.ph/2025.09.08-053701/https://www.ft.com/cont...
by gr__or | 2025-09-08 20:05:34+00:00
I meant programming-time, but runtime is also a good point.

Cross-language libraries don't seem to be super common for this. The recovering-sense-from-text tools I named all use different parsers in their respective languages.

Again, reading (and yes, technically that's also parsing) from an AST from a data-exchange formatted file is mags simpler. And for parsing these schemes there are battle-tested cross-language solutions, e.g. protobuf.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-08 20:05:44+00:00
Like everyone else, recruiters are up to their eyeballs in AI-generated resumes. If you can prove that you're 1) a human who 2) knows their stuff, that makes you stand out from the other 999 resumes they just got hit with. In turn, recruiters cost, so they tend to get hired by companies that are more serious about hiring than the median company with a job opening.

So, yeah, it could really work.
by stopachka | 2025-09-08 20:05:45+00:00
Thank you for the kind words about the nifty technology and the essay : )

You know you touch on something interesting. I feel like the best 'marketing' or 'networking' happens over decades. Of course this implies that best 'marketing' and 'networking' are often done for a different goal entirely.

I noticed this in my career. I've always been interested in programming and writing, and it would bring me to ask people random questions over email. I'd find myself connecting with the same person 10 years later, and we'd help each other out in some way.
by another_twist | 2025-09-08 20:05:50+00:00
I dont know if we can draw parallels to something that happened hundred years ago. Since then there has been increases automation yet the unemployment rate esp in the US hasnt budged beyond 4% barring the depression years. I think access to education and opportunities to upskill are crucial for maintaining a sustainable economy. Its helps people just move on esp if they are of working age. With the industrial revolution, technology was hard to get your hands on. You couldnt just buy a cotton mill and start your own business. Not so with AI, for 20 dollars a month you can get access to an employee that mever gets tired. I think if anything, AI might lead to increased competition among businesses and force monopolies to wake from their slumber.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-08 20:05:51+00:00
It's a toughie.

I think the Chromebook culture is a form of kneecapping that is harmful in its own way.

On the other hand we are seeing that the "open internet" is also harmful to children in terms of cyberbullying, pornography, etc.

My wife and I had a disagreement about letting my son (now 23) have my old desktop replacement laptop. As a child of the 1980s I saw the personal computer as a tool of liberation and something that taught me about math, science and technology at a personal level. In the 2010 my son found some dark corners of the internet that did him harm and I can say I know more than one of his cohort who had the same experience.

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I think of the bodies of thought from the 20th century that most needs to be revisited is the literature of "Total Institutions" including Goffman, Foucault, "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", etc.

The widespread distrust of authority is one factor that drove Donald Trump to power and leads to authoritarianism. If you think you are working for a dangerously authoritarian organization you should consider (i) disabusing yourself of that belief (e.g. you organization wields authority for a positive purpose) or (ii) getting another job.
by Silhouette | 2025-09-08 20:07:05+00:00
I appreciate Signal and that the Signal developers provide a very useful service to the community for free.

I also know a large number of people who won't use it because it locks your messages up in its own walled garden. People use apps like this precisely because they want to have control over their own communications without any third parties interfering! I have never understood what kind of threat model they think they're protecting against by not letting people take their own backups and store them according to their own preferences. Whatever the reasons it is clearly a deterrent to wider adoption.

This announcement might seem like progress but I doubt it will convince any of the people I know who won't use it because at the end of the day it's still a walled garden. If and when the promise of the comments near the end of the announcement is realised and we can back up our own messages and media freely from our own devices to our own (presumably also secure) backup facilities then it will be much more interesting.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-08 20:07:08+00:00
Why should information on Signal be ephemeral on Signal?

Signal is one of the few "privacy-first" services. But it is not just about privacy, it is also about having as many users as possible, which is actually important for privacy. If only people who really have "something to hide", then just using the app makes you a target. If instead it is used by millions of people for grocery shopping and dinner planning, then whoever really needs the privacy features will not stand out. The third is, of course, making money, because, of course, none of that is free.

That's why features like backups are important. Many people want them, maybe not you, but Signal is not just for you, it also makes money. By the way, that's also the reason why there are some privacy compromises, like contact discovery and the use of phone numbers, because they feel like done right, it is worth it. Note that have partially addressed both of these problems.
by tech_ken | 2025-09-08 20:07:43+00:00
> Capitalism requires a free market with price discovery.

Socialism != centrally planned/non-market economy, at least not in any political theory I've come across. Many socialist-ideologues of the mid 20th century landed on central planning as a particular implementation of its ideals (and one which was amenable to their own totalitarian inclinations), but "socialism" was a direct response to industrialized labor of the early 19th century, and specifically a reaction to the high degree of power capital-holders had over their labor force in this time. An anarchist commune with a barter economy is 'socialist' in this traditional sense, because the people doing the work own the tools they're using to do that work.
by theologic | 2025-09-08 20:07:44+00:00
It's strange to being using Hacker news as a nutrition advice, but this is something that I have been reading research on Pubmed for years. (Actually going back to the grateful med....).

Approximately 50-60% of brain weight is made up of lipids, of which about 35% consists of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). Of the omega-3 PUFAs present in the brain, DHA accounts for more than 40% of total omega-3 PUFAs in neuronal tissue, especially in gray matter.

Now I know this is slightly different than the OP, but I consider the primary reason for incorporating Omega3 in your diet is specifically to give your brain the basic building blocks that it needs to create the right structure. And the issue is you have to eat Omega-3. It's not something that you can manufacture: you can take a shorter chain and potentially increase the length of the carbon to get it all the way up to an EPA or DHA, but even this falls off as you age. So I don't consider taking flaxseed oil a good idea.

Without spending a long time on this, Long term supplementation I believe we can come up with an extremely strong line of evidence that suggests it helps neurological and emotional health. Now while there may be other benefits, this one is so massive and so clear to me, this is the reason that you want to make sure that you get this basic building block.

What is clear the western diet for the most part is severely lacking in in Omega-3 (or often called N3 PUFA in research), therefore if you're not thoughtfully measuring what you take in, you very well possibly could be running low especially considering that there is a significant Sigma in terms of what people need to have a healthy brain.

So now let's talk about the food supply. The problem is virtually every fish in the world has mercury higher than what you want. The only fish that looks like it has an acceptable level of mercury is salmon in certain geographies such as Alaska. My guess is you're actually eating some type of farm raised salmon, And I would have concerns unless you exactly understand the sourcing.

Without getting into the details, It is phenomenally difficult to come up with clear guidelines for biological humans that have wild diversity in terms of genetics and how your body processes food stuff. If anybody tells you they absolutely know the right dosage for you, immediately you should call BS. The data is way too far ranging to suggest a simple and clear case of what any individual needs.

Now keeping that in mind, I would suggest that most people probably need around one gram worth of EPA slash DHA in their diet basically forever. Depending upon your genetics maybe you could go down to half of this.

This is not a number you should guess at, and with things such as perplexity, You can find out how much EPA and DHA you are taking in in your salmon. You should be able to find out the number of ounces and talk to the cook about what they are serving. And 100 grams of salmon depending upon if you're eating clean salmon which has lower levels of EPA/DHA or farming salmon which has more oil but normally is dirtier, you should see somewhere between 1 to 2G.
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-08 20:07:46+00:00
The encrypted backups do work, but Signal is really, really bad at indicating when and how to make them to use them for restoration. Most non-technical people I know are just resigned to wiping out their Signal history every time they get a new iPhone (and I know two people who abandoned Signal and went back to iMessage because of this), and even I've lost it a couple times.

It leaves sort of a gross taste in my mouth that a paid service is the fix for their unhelpful UX.
by jleyank | 2025-09-08 20:08:08+00:00
While it’s not sexy, I suspect there’s still a whole lot of silicon being melted using C, C++ and whatever Fortran is called now. Lots of simulations are accessible now and much of the calculation logic can be parallelized.

Remember, if you manage to get a drug to market 3 months earlier, you can make billions. And if you get a hit on something like Alzheimer’s, you’ll need 64-bit to count that high. Ozempic distorted the Danish economy and it’s passed by follow-ons.
by dang | 2025-09-08 20:08:11+00:00
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Immich Progress Update [July 2024] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40859102 - July 2024 (5 comments)

Immich – Self-hosted photo and video management solution - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40563541 - June 2024 (5 comments)

AGPL Self-hosted photo and video management solution (Docker + iOS/Android) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40030151 - April 2024 (3 comments)

Immich is changing its license from MIT to AGPLv3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39336890 - Feb 2024 (46 comments)

Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36673224 - July 2023 (344 comments)

Immich: Self-hosted photos and videos backup for Android and iOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33159796 - Oct 2022 (1 comment)
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-09-08 20:08:28+00:00
I think the best models around right now that most people can fit some quantization on their computer if it's a apple silicon Mac or gaming PC would be:

For non-coding: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 (or the thinking variant, depending on use case)

For coding: Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct

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If you have a bit more vram, GLM-4.5-Air or the full GLM-4.5
by like_any_other | 2025-09-08 20:08:58+00:00
Isn't e) how a bunch of sting operations already work? And doesn't really require much cooperation from Facebook - there's nothing stopping people from recording, and given enough evidence (e.g. that the stranger knew (or thought they knew) the user was underage, and continued their sexual advances), this would turn into a police warrant to Facebook to deanonymize the perp. As far as I know Facebook already complies with such requests (and makes it extremely hard to use their products anonymously), so... what more do we want them to do? Isn't the space they're providing much safer than being out in public, for a child?
by simonw | 2025-09-08 20:09:20+00:00
Oh sorry, I missed that bit.

I got Codex + GPT-5 to modify that Llama chat example to implement the "load from local directory" pattern. It appears to work.

First you'll need to grab the checkout of the local model (~1.3GB):

git lfs install git clone https://huggingface.co/onnx-community/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-q4f16

Then visit this page: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/llama-3.2-webgp... - in Chrome or Firefox Nightly.

Now click "Browse folder" and select the folder you just checked out with Git.

Click the confusing "Upload" confirmation (it doesn't upload anything, just opens those files in the current browser session).

Now click "Load local model" - and you should get a full working chat interface.

Code is here: https://github.com/simonw/transformers.js-examples/commit/cd...

Here's the full Codex session that I used to build this: https://gist.github.com/simonw/3c46c9e609f6ee77367a760b5ca01...

I ran Codex against the https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.js-examples/tree... folder and prompted:

> Modify this application such that it offers the user a file browse button for selecting their own local copy of the model file instead of loading it over the network. Provide a "download model" option too.

Then later:

> Build the production app and then make it available on localhost somehow

And:

> Uncaught (in promise) Error: Invalid configuration detected: both local and remote models are disabled. Fix by setting `env.allowLocalModels` or `env.allowRemoteModels` to `true`.

And:

> Add a bash script which will build the application such that I can upload a folder called llama-3.2-webgpu to http://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/llama-3.2-webgpu... and http://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/llama-3.2-webgpu... will serve the app

(Note that this doesn't allow you to use any model on your machine, but it proves that it's possible.)
by mihaaly | 2025-09-08 20:09:59+00:00
There seems to be a "squeeze" phase in several of the software's life. When the organization goes from engineering oriented into sales oriented. Mostly true for those acquired by investors, wanting more money on spending no more. EBITDA and other related matters becoming paramount having no decade long perspectives, not even half in some instances. No long term there. Of course, you have to find the gold mines, those with locked in users.
Show HN: Proxied Web from URL –– A free web proxy service directly from URL
by yvonuk | 2025-09-08 20:10:18+00:00
Proxied Web from URL (https://web.818233.xyz) —— A free web proxy service directly from URL

Usage: Append any web URL to https://web.818233.xyz/, and the new URL will return the web content of the original URL.

I built this service mainly to extract content of any website for the use of LLM. It can also be handy if you do not have access to certain websites.
by hnpolicestate | 2025-09-08 20:10:33+00:00
"Why does the school need to disincentivize them working together?" The school doesn't want them using this tool to send messages to one another during class or send inappropriate memes using it.

So instead of asking them not to make inappropriate memes (don't think you could honestly convince students not to chat with one another digitally during class, if option exists) they want to nuke the entire tool.

This school reprimanded me for not using go guardian to remotely monitor what websites they were trying to visit. I told my students it's a gross invasion of privacy for anyone but your parents.

Lots of problems here. They are also TERRIFIED of lawsuits. I couldn't get them to unblock neil.fun because IT convinced the principal their are links to porn sites from Neil.fun

I showed otherwise but they refused to believe their own eyes. Every year it seems I have to sell more of my soul to digital fascism to keep my job.
by danans | 2025-09-08 20:11:04+00:00
> Stuff like physical automation is going to require a lot of capital investment in equipment coming from outside the US. If that's going to be 15%+++ cheaper if the Supreme court rules against the tariffs, or when Trump chickens out, any sane company is going to delay that automation

Either way, more automation is coming sooner than later, and manufacturing workers probably aren't going to get the return of jobs that they were promised.

The US administration's epileptic tariff policies are a serious but short term problem for corporations, teaching them how to be resilient against this sort of thing in the future (i.e. by thinning payroll).

Corporations are also winning rhetorically via the administration's hamfisted bungling of tariffs (by making them so broad), giving them fuel to argue against any future administration (esp. a left-leaning one) from using tariffs at all, even if used surgically.

Let's not forget that there are effective uses of tariffs - if narrow and paired with industrial policy to build domestic capacity for strategic industries.
by ggm | 2025-09-08 20:11:22+00:00
Driving in country WA and interacting with the road trains around Kalgoorlie was a real experience for this east-coaster.

I'm used to country Queensland trucker politeness, but nothing beats a 4 trailer driver for thinking about your safety when passing. They really take care.

Watching them come off and get into the minesite, you also realised they're like supertankers: it takes many many lengths to decide to start, stop or turn. I saw them wait multiple minutes to ensure a clear road ahead and behind, to crank it up and out of the Junction.
by alexpotato | 2025-09-08 20:11:33+00:00
> Jobs reports just don't seem at all to square away with the vast anecdotal accounts from both employed and unemployed individuals across a swath of industries.

Agreed and on multiple fronts.

e.g. I can imagine that white collar workers may not claim unemployment due to a combination of embarrassment/"I don't need it as much as other folks" so the numbers are probably under-reported there.

I've also heard it's bad for recent grads but then a recent grad I know sent me the below:

"I’ve been hearing this a lot lately, and honestly, it’s pretty silly. Yes, tech majors are definitely over saturated, but in my opinion, you shouldn’t be able to go to school for four years, do the bare minimum the entire time, and get a great job after college. From my experience, everyone who worked really really hard and knew their stuff got to a place that they’re happy with"

The above could have been what I said back in 2002 right after the dotcom boom. In other words, it's unclear if companies are hiring fewer junior folks, junior folks were benefiting from ZIRP/boom market or a combination of both.
by unsupp0rted | 2025-09-08 20:11:49+00:00
> It's strange to being using Hacker news as a nutrition advice

Bodybuilding forums are always like 10-20 years ahead of cutting edge research in terms of off-label uses for things, hyper-efficient non-mainstream protocols, etc. Granted they're also 10-20 years ahead in terms of BS generation.

But I've learned a ton of useful things about nutrition from HN. It helps that nobody knows anything about nutrition anyway.
by francisofascii | 2025-09-08 20:12:04+00:00
I think publicly traded companies post employee headcounts in their public financial disclosures, so I would assume we would see a general rise in head counts starting in 2020, followed by a leveling off or decline starting in 2023. For example, Google. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/numb...