MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-10 19:43:20+00:00
Also things like Superbowl advertising that some people actually want to see.

But to enumerate some things distinguishing those from more offensive ads:

* You put effort into making that content engaging and interesting for the audience

* The advertising is at least vaguely relevant to the content around it.

* Someone can opt out of seeing your social media posts, or watching an influencer, or watching the Superbowl. People are annoyed when this is violated, e.g. by coordinated campaigns across many influencers.

* These ads aren't as violently intrusive, with massive volume and color changes or full screen popups.

* These ads are (perceived as) more privacy-respecting than say, Google ads.

* These ads don't displace better content like a billboard does.

In short, they're a more respectful transaction that people have control over.
by ericselin | 2025-10-10 19:43:49+00:00
Author here. I understand that my post and what I'm trying to say is unclear. And that there are too many different aspects to all this.

What I'm trying to say in the post specifically about Google is that I personally think that they have too much power. They can and will shut down a whole domain for four billion users. That is too much power no matter the intentions, in my opinion. I can agree that the intentions are good and that the net effect is positive on the whole, though.

On the "different aspects" side of things, I'm not sure I agree with the _works_ claim you make. I guess it depends on what your definition of works is, but having a blacklist as you tool to fight bad guys is not something that works very well in my opinion. Yes, specifically my own assets would not have been impacted, had I used a separate domain earlier. But the point still stands.

The fact that it took so long to move user content off the main domain is of course on me. I'm taking some heat here for saying this is more important than one (including me) might think. But nonetheless, let it be a lesson for those of you out there who think that moving that forum / upload functionality / wiki / CMS to its own domain (not subdomain) can be done tomorrow instead of today.
by paxys | 2025-10-10 19:43:50+00:00
> “Smaller, newer parties and independent candidates will lose an affordable channel to reach voters, while large, well-followed accounts remain largely unaffected,”

Grassroots campaigns are not banned. Organic social media activity is not banned. Smaller parties will be just fine. This will only negatively impact politicians/parties/corporations who think that spending more money entitles them to a louder voice.
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-10 19:44:17+00:00
In commercial aviation (passenger/cargo), typically about half the take-off weight is fuel. That's not half the payload weight (pax + cargo + fuel), it's half the takeoff weight.

For a medium-range flight (say ~2000 mi / 3200 km) each passenger incurs somewhat more than their own weight in fuel.
Ask HN: Why aren’t leaky abstractions considered bad practice in mathematics?
by amichail | 2025-10-10 19:44:24+00:00
In particular, why don’t mathematicians do a better job of hiding algorithms so that one can apply mathematics without knowing the underlying procedures?

Computers can execute mathematical algorithms, and you shouldn’t need to know how they work.

It seems that software engineering has been more successful at hiding leaky abstractions.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-10 19:44:46+00:00
Let's look at the opening of the two comments which clearly mirror each other in tone and structure.

The tricky thing about environmental regulations is that they are crafted and utilized by NIMBYs to block any infrastructure development. Even if, on balance, the infrastructure is a net positive.

The tricky thing about deregulating the environment is that deregulations are uncrafted and utilized by amoral capitalists who want to make money no matter what, including by poisoning the land and sea and air as much as they want.

Perhaps missing the point like this was not deliberate, but you nevertheless missed it.

latter says that the former person is either [...] or [...] [...] the latter is an ad hominem assuming bad faith

You went from characterizing it as an either/or comment in one sentence, to characterizing it as a bad faith assumption in the next. This is equivalent to: 'he says it's either odd or even...he says it's odd.'
by jmyeet | 2025-10-10 19:45:01+00:00
You don't know history.

The so-called Cuban Missile Crisis didn't begin on October 16, 1962. Nor did it begin when the Soviet Union put missiles on Cuban territory. It began when the US put nuclear missiles (Jupiter MRBMs) in Turkey, mere hundreds of miles from Moscow. Those were quietly removed months after the crisis because of a secret agreement between JFK and Khrushchev.

And yes, Cuba nationalized assets. As I said. You say that like it's a bad thing. Why is the US doing colonialism and imperialism a good thing that needs to be defended exactly?

And let's say Batista and Castro were both brutal dictatorships (which is what you said), why is one bad and one good? Why is one an ally and another a mortal enemy? You're making my point: the US does not and never has cared about people being bad or doing bad things. It's purely about economic interests. That's it.

Oh and Castro's involvement in Latin America? I'm sorry, what? From overthrowing the government in Guatemala in 1954 at the behest of a US fruit company to propping up Pinochet in Chile to Noriega in Nicaragua to El Salvador to Columbia and so on, let's compare Castro's impact and legacy to that of the US and see who has done the most harm, shall we?

The Cuban economy suffered because the US starved it. But of course Castro gets the blame for that too.
by mcpherrinm | 2025-10-10 19:45:09+00:00
I don't know specifically what skills you're interested in, but this is all pretty much networking fundamentals.

I think I learned most of what I'd need to do this in 'TCP/IP Illustrated: Volume 1'.

There's plenty of "network penetration testing" type books which might also be of interest, though I don't have a specific recommendation here.

There's a wider set of books at https://github.com/jacobian/infosec-engineering that's pretty good too, though it's a wider set of things than this.
by lkrubner | 2025-10-10 19:45:16+00:00
In late 2021, Ed Zitron wrote (on Twitter) that the future of all work was "work from home" and that no one would ever work in an office again. I responded:

"In the past, most companies have had processes geared towards office work. Covid-19 has forced these companies to re-gear their processes to handle external workers. Now that the companies have invested in these changed processes, they are finding it easier to outsource work to Brazil or India. Here in New York City, I am seeing an uptick in outsourcing. The work that remains in the USA will likely continue to be office-based because the work that can be done 100% remotely will likely go over seas."

He responded:

"Pee pee poo poo aaaaaaaaaaa peeeeee peeeeee poop poop poop."

I don't know if he was taking drugs or what. I find his persona on Twitter to be baffling.
by nis0s | 2025-10-10 19:45:26+00:00
This tells you who really wears the pants in the relationship. Western nations are screwed because their bedrock is enlightenment, but their adversaries have no such ideals to be held up to. The rule of law that many such organizations enjoy in the West would be denied to them in places their faculty members defend. It’s important to reflect on what works well while trying to fix what doesn’t; discourse often neglects or downplays the former.
by sterlind | 2025-10-10 19:46:24+00:00
it should be unconstitutional because it's clearly a content-based restriction of speech, meaning that regulating it entails strict scrutiny. strict scrutiny requires Texas to use the least burdensome means possible to satisfy the state's legitimate interest in preventing minors from accessing obscene content - probably a home network filter appliance parents can opt into. this is what they held in Paxton v. NetChoice (iirc.)

instead, the Court contorted themselves into holding that adults have accessing content obscene to minors without furnishing their ID isn't protected speech. porn still is protected speech, but proving your age isn't protected speech. as a result, the law is content-neutral, not content-based.. somehow.

it was a low point for the Court - clear activist justices legislating morality from the bench.
Show HN: An open-source starter kit for implementing OWASP ASVS 5.0
by kirumachi | 2025-10-10 19:46:34+00:00
I'm an AppSec Engineer and I built this to help development teams turn the excellent but dense ASVS standard into a set of practical, actionable documents and checklists. It includes security decision templates, machine-readable versions of the standard (JSON/CSV), and secure coding patterns. The goal is to make it easier to "shift left" by providing a framework that developers can actually use during the design and build phases. The project is new and I'm actively looking for feedback and contributors.
by dang | 2025-10-10 19:46:40+00:00
Sorry—I feel bad about moving this one because you were on the downhill (good!) side of the contrarian dynamic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45542904), but the subthread mostly reverted to the uphill (bad!) side, in keeping with this sequence of sadness:

1. objections 2. objection to the objections (<-- you were here) 3. objections to the objection to the objections

...so it veered further off topic. (and yes I suppose my comment here is a 4-th order objection)
by rz2k | 2025-10-10 19:47:02+00:00
This reminds of discussions following the Fukushima disaster where one commenter claimed that it wasn't a design flaw, because it was an extraordinary circumstance. I found this appalling, because I do not at all think that was the risk profile that was sold to the public; I think people believed that it was supposed to be designed to safely survive 1000-year earthquakes and the tsunamis that they create.

Likewise, I think that the flying public is lead to believe fuel exhaustion is so rare that when airlines are compliant with regulations, no such disasters across all flights across all carriers will occur during your lifetime.
by Dr_Incelheimer | 2025-10-10 19:47:17+00:00
That's because you are a HN user, which selects for above average intelligence people (yes, even the webdevs). You are not the type of person who sways election results. Ads work. You don't need carefully crafted subliminal messages, you could write "vote for me" everywhere and it would have a noticeable effect on the election results
by alganet | 2025-10-10 19:48:08+00:00
I will not tolerate a "just kidding" posture, or a "I was trolling the system" posture.

They're not deluded teenagers with a rebel spirit, not "a bunch of underdogs" (like a recent blog post tried to imply). It's people making risky bets, sitting on billions made on the backs of others, hoping one of these bets stick.

It shall not pass.
by danaris | 2025-10-10 19:48:41+00:00
It is not baseless name-calling to dub someone a "fascist" when they exhibit all the well-known signs of fascism.

There's too much pussyfooting around it these days. Trump is a fascist, as are the upper echelons of his administration.

If people had been willing to say this in 2016, maybe he wouldn't have been elected twice, to all of our detriment.
Tell HN: CrowdStrike Falcon users, check for excess KernelModuleArchiveExt files
by CaliforniaKarl | 2025-10-10 19:49:16+00:00
Hello!

This is a heads-up for folks who run CrowdStrike Falcon on Linux servers, and particularly on Linux servers that were provisioned some time ago. It's a problem that CrowdStrike does not plan on fixing, and so I wanted to let others know before it causes your machines to hang.

You should have CrowdStrike Falcon installed at path /opt/CrowdStrike/. In that directory, you probably have one file whose name begins with "KernelModuleArchive", and many files whose name begins with "KernelModuleArchiveExt". That's the problem.

CrowdStrike appends a version number to every executable & library file. It does a good job of cleaning up old versions of almost all of its files. Except for KernelModuleArchiveExt.

I first noticed this happening when a virtual machine (with a small /opt partition) filled up /opt, and the system stopped responding. Turns out, /opt/CrowdStrike had filled up with 18 different KernelModuleArchiveExt files.

What is the fix? Well, our CrowdStrike admins opened a ticket with CrowdStrike, and we were told:

* Yes, the KernelModuleArchiveExt files are not being cleaned up automatically. Other files are being cleaned up automatically, but not the KernelModuleArchiveExt files.

* Will CrowdStrike release an update that cleans up the KernelModuleArchiveExt files? No.

* Will you put it on your roadmap to implement in the future? No.

* So, what should we do? If you want to clean them up, do it yourself.

If your site uses CrowdStrike uninstall protection, you cannot clean them up yourself without first getting a "maintenance token" from your CrowdStrike admins. Otherwise, deleting all KernelModuleArchiveExt files and restarting the CrowdStrike Falcon sensor works (it goes out and downloads the KernelModuleArchiveExt that it needs). Personally, though, I don't think we should have to do this.

Since CrowdStrike refuses to fix this, I wanted to let folks know, so you can check your systems. If you discover that this problem also affects you, I encourage you to open your own support ticket with CrowdStrike.
by nxobject | 2025-10-10 19:49:57+00:00
This is extremely fun to play with – congrats!

If you ever did a writeup on how your ML modelling worked and what real-life data you needed, I'd learn so much point of view of someone who's applied a little bit of control theory to robotics and aquarium controllers, but with traditional models. (Hell, I'd even pay $CUP_OF_COFFEE_PRICE for it, since I'd get that much learning time out of it.)

Also: you advertise custom models for roasters. But can you make a digital twin of my toaster?
by paganel | 2025-10-10 19:50:05+00:00
> How is this bad? I welcome the decision and the outcome.

I do not welcome it, as I am on the populists' side.

Decisions like this one are effectively putting our political (non-violent, just to make sure on that) action outside the law, so in effect what do you think the next steps from my side of the isle will be? Acquiescence in practically being silenced out by the current powers that be? I think that that will not be the case.
by moron4hire | 2025-10-10 19:50:15+00:00
The AI bubble will pop, nobody will be able to afford AI code completion without VC money subsidizing companies like Anthropic, and it will all go the way of UML tools: A thing one old guy the company in short sleeved, plaid shirts, cargo khakis, and a George Lucas haircut keeps insisting is the future 20 years later.
by thereitgoes456 | 2025-10-10 19:50:30+00:00
He was wryly communicating, "your argument was so stupid I don't even need to engage with it".

In my experience he has a horrible response to criticism. He's right on the AI stuff, but he responds to both legitimate and illegitimate feedback without much thoughtfulness, usually non-sequitur redirect or ad hominem.

In his defense though, I expect 97% of feedback he gets is Sam Altman glazers, and he must be tired.
by baked_beanz | 2025-10-10 19:50:45+00:00
My main objections are to the following points:

- Specifically calling out protecting "conservative ideas" in their section on creating an "intellectually open campus environment". This is a dog whistle that makes it patently clear which viewpoints will be protected, and which won't. See what happened to Mahmoud Khalil for a recent example of how this will work in practice.

- Preventing admissions of foreign students based on "hostility to America or our allies", which is obviously an attempt to silence dissent. Who is responsible for defining what "hostility" means? If a foreign student supports boycotting Israel due to their ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, would they be barred from admission to an American university?

I would contend that threatening to annex Canada and Greenland constitutes "hostility to American allies", but since those talking points are being espoused by the sitting president, it stands to reason that this administration's justice department wouldn't intervene to prevent a potential student with similar views from from admitted to an American school.

- Forcing institutions to define bathroom usage criteria based on biological sex. Putting aside for a moment the fact that this is a blatant attempt to humiliate trans people -- how does this work in practice? Do you hire someone to stand at every bathroom door and prevent people from entering if they don't fit your notion of what that gender is "supposed" to look like? Do you demand identity documents before letting someone use the toilet?

There are plenty of videos online of cisgender people being accosted in the bathroom that aligns with their biological sex simply because other people _assume_ based on their appearance that they are trans.
by mewmix | 2025-10-10 19:51:28+00:00
https://github.com/mewmix/nabu

you could try out nabu and let me know, i am working on adding more tts models in the future. It features all the kokoro voices, style mixing to create your own blend from their voices, basic kitten tts support, audio book / screen reader, LLMs and more :)
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-10 19:51:44+00:00
Pretty much all universes are first and fore-most strong people filters from my experience.

The prestigious schools filter up-front based on merit, and filter a 2nd time based on the ability to keep up and remain diligent to pass the courses. Less famous schools only have the 2nd filter, and have more people drop in the process that could not keep up.

The quality of education can be very similar, or even favor small schools in some subjects based on luck and school staff interests. The vast majority of learning at this level is made by the student anyway; there is only so much a good teacher or expensive teaching resources can do to help.

I've talked with interviewers that seemed completely uninterested in what courses or major was taken, just the fact that someone got through a difficult major as a stamp of quality.
by xdfgh1112 | 2025-10-10 19:51:54+00:00
I think the pro version and charging stuff is totally fine. It's the lack of transparency that bothers people. I shouldn't have to figure out their profit model from HN comments. If you want to be paid for your work, charge for the whole library or make the free/pro distinction very clear to people. Don't try to hook them in with a free offering while locking features behind a paywall that they discover later.

Or if you want to be altruistic (as you keep referring to nonprofit) make it free and solicit donations/patreon.

The current approach is certainly a new one and I am interested to see if it pays off.
by sublimefire | 2025-10-10 19:51:56+00:00
The question is if the company can add more value to the models than someone else. I still see a lot of gaps in the ecosystem, eg evaluation/testing systems and integrations beyond chat interface and active control to get good results, not to mention other types of models that deal with 3d world or temporal data. There is an opportunity for an outsider to come and grab parts of the pie whilst the biggest are competing.

They do look like trying to grab the market with tooling but if you can use their tools (oss) and switch the models then where is the moat?
by wrs | 2025-10-10 19:51:58+00:00
The purpose of a university is to expand knowledge, which is itself not a “conservative idea”.

A university that can’t “belittle” obviously false ideas like “the earth is flat” or “evolution isn’t real” or “the climate isn’t changing” just because they’re popular with whoever’s calling themselves “conservatives” at the time is not capable of functioning.

You’re picking out the quote that reveals the entire document for what it really is, and choosing to ignore it.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-10-10 19:52:20+00:00
By 2020/2021 with the release of GPT-3, the trajectory of a lot of the most obvious product directions had already become clear. It was mainly a matter of models becoming capable enough to unlock them.

E.g. here's a forecast of 2021 to 2026 from 2021, over a year before ChatGPT was released. It hits a lot of the product beats we've come to see as we move into late 2025.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Xgy6CAf2jqHhynHL/what-2026-...

(The author of this is one of the authors of AI 2027: https://ai-2027.com/)

Or e.g. AI agents (this is a doc from about six months before ChatGPT was released: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optimality...)
by JoshTriplett | 2025-10-10 19:52:26+00:00
> The other bit of advice that is buried in there that no-one wants to hear for residences is the best way to speed up your Wi-Fi is to not use it. You might think it's convenient to have your TV connect to Netflix via WiFi and it is, but it is going to make everything else that really needs the Wi-Fi slower. It's a much better answer to hook up everything on Ethernet that you possibly can than it is to follow the more traveled route of more channels and more congestion with mesh Wi-Fi.

Absolutely. Everything other than cell phones and laptops-not-at-a-desk should be on Ethernet.

I had wires run in 2020 when I started doing even more video calls. Huge improvement in usability.
by kragen | 2025-10-10 19:53:17+00:00
This page looks very nice indeed!

This doesn't follow the original paper very closely, although I think the device of putting an end-of-string marker into the data instead of including the start index as a separate datum is an improvement over the original algorithm. My own "explorable explanation" of the algorithm, at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/bwt, is visually uglier, and is very similar to this page in many ways, but it may still be of some interest: it follows the original paper more closely, which is likely to be useful if you're trying to understand the paper. Also, I used an inverse-transform algorithm that was efficient enough that you could imagine actually using in practice, while still being easy to explain (from the original paper)—but, like the page linked, I didn't use an efficient suffix-array-construction algorithm to do the forward transform. I did link to the three that have been discovered.

I forget when I did this but apparently sometime around 02010: https://web.archive.org/web/20100616075622/http://canonical....

I think my JS code in that page is a lot more readable than the minified app.js served up with this page.
by anthonypasq | 2025-10-10 19:53:21+00:00
I mean don't you think this is is more analogous to the introduction of computing than electricity? If you told people in 1960 that there would be supercomputers inside people's refrigerators do you think they would have believed you?

And most people actually don't care what CPU they have in their laptop (enthusiasts still do which i think continues to match the analogy), they care more about the OS (chatGPT app vs gemini etc).
by Doohickey-d | 2025-10-10 19:53:23+00:00
On some networks, yes: I used to use a prepay mobile network (= buy a fixed quantity of GBs in advance, use them, once you run out, you get a restricted captive portal where you can buy more, just like on this flight). But all traffic on port 53 was allowed, it didn't need to be actual DNS traffic.

There's even some commercial VPN providers which offer openVPN on port 53.