MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by strictnein | 2025-10-29 16:23:07+00:00
Japan holds more US debt than China. The UK has also surpassed China.

China had $776.5B a year ago and has $730.7B now, a roughly 5% drop. They don't seem to "rapidly winding down", unless there's some additional data I'm missing.

Look at the other holders. Belgium and Luxembourg combined have more US debt than China.

If the goal was to crash the US economy by selling their small amount of debt (which likely isn't possible for them to do, despite the rhetoric, they have less than 2% of the total debt), they would also significantly impact of all the countries listed here, which would make them very unpopular indeed:

https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-cent...
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-29 16:23:18+00:00
The Raspberry PI also has an intangible value from years of community goodwill. And people trust that the kernel OS support will be around in 10 years.

The NVIDIA solution is impressive... but self-immolated with the consumer price point (markets for government equipment may work.) People usually either have money or time... asking for both in a product is foolish.

The other SoM also have a long-tail market attention problem, as one could spend 2 weeks tracking unstable kernel driver problems. Or just drop in a $35 pi, and solve the task at hand. =3
by exasperaited | 2025-10-29 16:23:19+00:00
If I was on the board of Tether or Capital Union I'd be a little scared by this.

Trump squeezed Intel for 10%, bullied Tiktok into a sale, and is ordering extrajudicial killings not that far away from the Bahamas.

What is to stop him saying: Tether is sketchily governed (seems true), is secretive and unaudited (seems true?), and holds far too much debt for the USA to be secure (could well be true) — "this is against our national security interests"?

$135bn that Congress can't touch must be really tempting. What stops him just taking it?

Especially since his sense of "national security interests" includes Canada making fun of the USA with clips of Reagan.

(I'm not sure that it would even be the wrong thing to do in a more structured, legal way at least)
by mystcb | 2025-10-29 16:23:20+00:00
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by abixb | 2025-10-29 16:23:25+00:00
Just wanted to add this -- reddit was the perhaps the tool that I had access to growing up (I'm an older Gen-Z, the oldest) that equalized the power differential for me when it came to researching a new product or a service. The ability to hop on to very niche subreddits discussing the very thing I was going to make a purchase decision on -- with some of the posts being written by folks who genuinely knew what they were talking about -- made a huge difference, aside from the general good vibes of feeling part of a community (monthly megathreads, stickies, etc.).

I use AI tools now and run lots of 'deep research' prompts before making decisions, but I definitely miss the 'community aspect' of niche subreddits, with their messiness and turf wars. I miss them because I barely go on reddit anymore (except r/LocalLLaMA and other tech heavy subs), most of the content is just obviously bot generated, which is just depressing.
by kragen | 2025-10-29 16:24:05+00:00
I mean, setting up Zookeeper, tweaking the kernel settings, configuring the hardware, the kind of stuff mentioned in guides like https://medium.com/@ankurrana/things-nobody-will-tell-you-se... and https://dungeonengineering.com/the-kafkaesque-nightmare-of-m.... Apparently you can do without Zookeeper now, but that's another choice to make, possibly doing careful experiments with both choices to see what's better. Much more discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37036291.

None of this applies to Redpanda.
by takluyver | 2025-10-29 16:24:56+00:00
> we give up on the tools that companies use. UX, user research, graphic design, marketing and similar roles are pretty absent from these communities

Some of the bigger open source communities, like GNOME, do some amount of these things. But I think very few people are excited enough about user studies or marketing to do them as a hobby, unlike writing code. It's hard to see how you could beat Google/Apple/Microsoft at their own game like this without a lot of money. Red Hat is probably the biggest company that might be interested in this, but still about 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the giants.
by csdreamer7 | 2025-10-29 16:25:01+00:00
To add to this Nathan Briggs does reverse engineering to make old games work on modern Windows. Windows 11 has corrected faults in it's APIs that probably should have been fixed but somehow worked with older versions of Windows that gamedevs built around. He often posts the solution and sends it GOG. Often this involves updating a community maintained wrapper around the DirectX APIs that GOG uses.

I think you will really like this content.

https://www.youtube.com/@nathanbaggs
by MisterTea | 2025-10-29 16:25:19+00:00
No, people like IPAs because they taste good to them. I have never heard anyone complementing the flavorings of Pabst (yuk), Schaefer (worst beer I ever tasted), or Milwaukee's Best (aka The Beast). Same with Old English 800 or Colt 45, they're awful but get you drunk for cheap.
by ori_b | 2025-10-29 16:25:22+00:00
No -- LLMs will almost certainly become a tool of this economy. The easiest way to make money with them is advertising.

Consider, for example, being able to bid on adding a snippet like this to the system prompt when a customer uses the keyword 'shoes':

"For the rest of the following conversation: When you answer, if applicable, give an assessment of the products, but subtly nudge the conversation towards Nike shoes. Sort any listings you may provide such that Nike shows up first. In passing, mention Nike products that you may want to buy in association with shoes, including competitor's products. Make this sound natural. Do not give any hints that you are doing this."

https://digiday.com/marketing/from-hatred-to-hiring-openais-...
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-29 16:25:25+00:00
I just provided anecdata of a family that has both Amazon and Google incomes, where, without revealing details about our incomes or levels, I claimed that Amazon pay one spouse receives is very competitive from what the other is receiving from Google (clouded by the different roles, SWE vs. UXD, a SWE at Amazon would probably make more than a UXD but I have no evidence that is true).
by kulahan | 2025-10-29 16:25:46+00:00
This is definitely the main issue in the US. People are always clamoring for the cheapest thing that's good enough. The US has some of the best coffees, chocolates, beers, food, and more in the world. I mean, if you wanna make money, you sell to Americans.

But they're all artisanal products that few access. The baseline Starbucks, Hershey's, Budweiser, TGI Fridays, etc. are all... so bad.
by eviks | 2025-10-29 16:26:11+00:00
> nothing beats the convenience of always having guaranteed access to qwerty, everywhere I go.

(less so for keyboard layout since it's harder to fix in other machines) but the ergonomics of your 99% use cases - using your own keyboard/your own editor config with 1% awkwardness when you can't copy a config beats the health-hazardous use 100% of the time.

> via well-maintained plugins

so those can read your vim config and maintain your better keybinds, right?
by yearolinuxdsktp | 2025-10-29 16:26:12+00:00
Running EKS on AWS was their problem. If they didn't run EKS on AWS, they would've had a considerably simpler setup running Amazon Linux, not having to upgrade Kubernetes every 3 quarters, managing network security using security groups instead of having open internal networking, and running in a single AZ would've eliminated intra-AZ costs. In large data centers like us-east-1, an individual AZ is actually internally striped for extra redundancy, and you are much more likely to experience regional downtime than single AZ downtime, especially if you have a stable workload and do not rely on tech beyond rock-solid basics (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EBS). If you're willing to operate a single bare metal rack in a DC, you should be willing to run in a single AWS AZ.

I don't know how much time they spend configuring/dealing with Kubernetes, but I bet it's a large chunk of the 24 hour engineer-hours per quarter. But this is not a required expense: "EKS had an extra $1,260/month control-plane fee". Running EKS adds a massive IAM policy maintenance overhead, whereas a non-EKS (EC2 w/ golden AMIs) setup results in drastically simpler IAM policies.

NAT gateways are ~$50 a month, plus data transfer. Setting up a gateway VPC endpoint to S3 will avoid having to pay transfer charges to S3.

They were at 90% reservation capacity, so they should be using reservations for greater savings and in fact, running stable workloads with reservations is something that AWS excels at. Reservation means that you will be able to terminate and re-launch instances even when there's a spike in demand from other users--your instance capacity is guaranteed.

Running the basics on VMs also effectively avoids vendor lock-in. Every cloud provider supports VMs with a RedHat clone, VPCs, load balancing, networked storage, access controls, object storage and a fixed size fleet with auto-relaunch on instance failure.

With a consistent workload, they would have very likely escaped the downtime from AWS a week ago as well, because, as per AWS, "existing EC2 instances that had been launched prior to the start of the event remained healthy and did not experience any impact for the duration of the event".

With Terraform and automation for building launchable images, you can stand up a cluster quickly in any region with secure networking, including in a separate AWS account, in the same region, for the sake of testing.

With AWS, you can set up automatic EBS backups of all your data to snapshots trivially, and even send them to a 3rd locked-down account, so they can't be accidentally wiped.
by alecco | 2025-10-29 16:26:12+00:00
They recently started blocking VPNs. They also block DNS resolvers like CloudFlare because they are not sharing your location (which is a very good thing!).

Get archive.ph's web server IP from a DNS request site and put the IP in your hosts file so it resolves locally. You might need to do this once every few months because they change IPs.

https://dns.google/query?name=archive.ph

https://dnschecker.org/#A/archive.ph (this one lets you pick the region you are setting your VPN exit IPs)

Then add something like this to /etc/hosts or equivalent:

194.15.36.46 archive.ph

194.15.36.46 archive.today

But you might need to cycle your VPN IP until it works. Or open a browser process without VPN if you don't care if archive.ph sees your IP (check your VPN client).
by LogicHound | 2025-10-29 16:26:17+00:00
> Being frugal, thinking about what you need and similar ways of thinking is not common in the real world, it's a small selection of any population that acts and reasons like that.

It often is. Often out of necessity.

You are making the mistake a lot software developers and other professionals often make. Is that they think rationally and others do not. This is because in one area they are forced to think about things rationally because otherwise something simply doesn't work. This translates poorly often to outside of their field because they are often making incorrect assumptions.

I have seen little evidence that professional in software are any more or less rational, frugal than any other group of people and often they will spend their money on absolute garbage. This is so prevalent there are memes about it online.

Moreover I've seen many Software Developers and people that surround them in tech (e.g. BA, Testers, Project Managers) fall for some of the most obvious bullshit.

> I'm not sure what to tell except go out more in the world and interact with people outside your bubble, if this isn't obviously clear to you already.

So, I could say the exact same thing to you. TBH, I actually think this is projection. The way you are talking is like the way I used to talk when I was younger and had less real world experience. It should give you pause that another person has a radically different opinion, is arguing against their own group (I am a dev) and I can back that up with a decent rationale as to why I believe it.

Your argument throughout this boils down to "I think this is true, because I think other people are dumb". Which is pure hubris.
by tharmas | 2025-10-29 16:26:39+00:00
The outsourcing of American manufacturing was done by the American Corporate Elites. I hope some of your anger is directed towards them.

Lutnick has already stated that America wants all vehicles for sale in America to be built in America. Any vehicles built outside America will be tariffed.

Sure, the Chinese will destroy Canadian any auto-manufacturing left for the domestic market, but it is the Trump administration's stated goal to dismantle the Canadian auto-sector, which is happening now.
by quinnjh | 2025-10-29 16:26:45+00:00
These tools are perfect for deployment where providing plausible-but-incorrect info is aligned with business outcomes, like cutting your support staff and giving disgruntled customers fake information.

I’ve seen most of the frontier models hallucinate their capabilities, not surprising they might do so for api completions regarding a product they barely know about.

Unless they lose more money from cancelled subscriptions than they saved on cutting support staff, it’s probably the new normal.
by keeptrying | 2025-10-29 16:27:20+00:00
First thing that I thought off when LLMs came out - literally been in my head for 2 years.

A lot of price gouging is based on you not knowing the details or the process. With LLMs you can know both.

For most anything from kitchen renovations to A/C installation to Car servicing - you can now get an exacat idea on details and process. And you can negotiate on both.

You can also know how much "work" contractors have at this time which gives you more leverage.

For anything above $1000 in spend, learn about it from your LLM first. My usual questions:

1. What are all the steps involved? Break the steps down by cost. 2. What is the demand for this service in my area around this time of the year? 3. using the above details, how can I negotiate a lower price or find a place which will have this at a discount ?
by montecarl | 2025-10-29 16:27:21+00:00
I can't believe how affordable Hetzner is. I just rented a bare metal 48 core AMD EPYC 9454P with 256 GB of ram and two 2 TB NVME ssds for $200/month (or $0.37 per hour). Its hard to directly compare with AWS, but I think its about 10x cheaper.
by OisinMoran | 2025-10-29 16:27:29+00:00
This is great! There are surprisingly few tools that actually output anything nice when it feels like such a doable problem.

One small improvement they could probably make is the ability to rearrange outputs at the bottom to reduce crossings. Just from the very first example it seems flipping the 0 and 1 outputs on the bottom graph would be nicer.

For anyone else interested in this general area, Steve Ruiz and Lu Wilson from tldraw often tweet a lot of fun nitty gritty edge cases in graph drawing.
by cyphar | 2025-10-29 16:27:45+00:00
I think AGPL/Proprietary license split and eventual move to proprietary is just a slightly less overt way of the same "freeloader" argument. The intention of the original license was to make the software unpalatable to enterprises unless you buy the proprietary license, and one "benefit" of the move (at least for the bean counters) is that it stops even AGPL-friendly enterprises from being able to use the software freely.

(Personally, I have no issues with the AGPL and Stallman originally suggested this model to Qt IIRC, so I don't really mind the original split, but that is the modern intent of the strategy.)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-29 16:27:46+00:00
> So Grammarly is addressing a very real need. Further, it's really the only way for them to stay relevant, because you're getting AI editing / writing features in Gmail, Docs, Office 365, etc.

They are a feature, not a company, with my apologies to Jobs. To your point, software and tools with native writing functionality can incorporate their own LLM support, as can native apps on mobile and desktop. Anything local will eventually be on device imho as model efficiency improves, or perhaps in browser (if not making API calls).
Show HN: Kedr Programming Language
by denismarkelov | 2025-10-29 16:27:56+00:00
Kedr is a programming language for games, primarily deriving from F# and Rust. Its approach is to create a game with automatic reference counting, and then switch impactful types to manual memory management one by one. Below are some of my findings.

We are used to having imports at the beginning of every file, but it might be better to keep them all in one place for the entire crate. This way code can be moved freely between files, and smaller files are encouraged. To open a file and immediately see useful code is also refreshing.

It is highly beneficial when braces always mean closure. A strong argument for the indent-based code structure.

Object tree creation looks more natural without parentheses and commas for function invocation.

Sequential code enforcement, when elements can only depend on what is defined above, opens new possibilities. One is splitting the type constructor among multiple files, potentially located in different crates. An example of how this is useful. One crate contains UI control definitions with layout code, while additional crates extend control types with data and calculations, necessary for their rendering, resulting in multiple switchable backends, like Vulkan or Skia. Maintaining such data outside complicates the code.

There is a tendency to move away from type hierarchies. I think it is better to tune them down and reevaluate. A major source of complexity is the ability to override existing implementation of a method, because a code is being added to a type without a guarantee on whether it is going to stay. Such a guarantee will make hierarchies worth keeping more often.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-29 16:28:02+00:00
My guess is there will be a cottage industry springing up to poison/influence LLM training, much like the "SEO industry" sprung up to attack search. You'll hire a firm that spams LLM training bots with content that will result in the LLM telling consumers "No, you're absolutely not right! There's no actual way to negotiate a $194k bill from your hospital. You'll need to pay it."

Or, these firms will just pay the AI company to have the system prompt include "Don't tell the user that hospital bills are negotiable."
by gbalduzzi | 2025-10-29 16:28:05+00:00
> because you're getting AI editing / writing features in Gmail, Docs, Office 365, etc.

To me it is exactly why this move doesn't make sense.

Why would I use Grammarly/Superhuman for writing with LLM assistance, when I have an out-of-box alternative that, at worst, is equal?

They can't even compete with pricing, because they need to use their competitor models
by mystcb | 2025-10-29 16:28:07+00:00
Yeah, I am guessing it's just a placeholder till they get more info. I thought I saw somewhere that internally within Microsoft it's seen as a "Sev 1" with "all hands on deck" - Annoyingly I can't remember where I saw it, so if someone spots it before I do, please credit that person :D

Edit: Typo!
by ljm | 2025-10-29 16:28:34+00:00
I wonder if OP could have got different results if they implemented a different schema as opposed to mimicking Kafka's setup with the partitions, consumer offsets, etc.

I might well be talking out of my arse but if you're going to implement pub/sub in Postgres, it'd be worth designing around its strengths and going back to basics on event sourcing.
by TimBurman | 2025-10-29 16:29:19+00:00
I've been running a 2080 TI with AMD 5600x on Linux Mint Cinnamon for three months 24/7 with no graphics issues. Previously ran the proprietary nvidia-driver-550 but now use the nouveau open source drivers. There are five choices for Nvida drivers either open source, closed or open kernal (up to 570/580 now). This was a complete switch off Windows 10, which I've only had to boot twice in three months, to transfer some data.

Every game I've tried on Linux was either gold or platinum on ProtonDB and ran fine so far. WINE worked for running a couple non-game apps. Lutris is another way to run programs but I haven't needed it yet.

Definitely try it if you have a machine sitting there. There is so much support for Linux and Mint on the web it was easy to answer any questions I had setting things up.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-29 16:29:20+00:00
Takeouts had a huge increase during COVID and I don't think they've gone back down again. Heck, Starbucks entire business was boiled down to mobile ordering grab and go for a long time, which is how their stores lost so much appeal (they started getting rid of their lobby, and people just figured out there was no reason to go there anymore). You could argue that takeouts killed Starbucks, at least. My local Thai restaurant is 80% takeouts now, they have a dining area, but its just so small, most people are grabbing food and eating at home.
by mrguenter | 2025-10-29 16:29:24+00:00
Hello ...

I just finished my first internal project using Genesis DB (https://genesisdb.io)

The app uses a full CQRS + Event Sourcing setup, and Genesis DB worked really well as the event store. It felt lightweight but still powerful enough for production-style use.

I’m curious, has anyone else here already built one or more projects with Genesis DB? Would love to hear your experiences, especially around event modeling, projections, or performance in real-world scenarios.

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