MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chatmasta | 2025-10-28 16:03:28+00:00
What if they’re scraping from a US exit IP hitting a local Cloudflare cache node proxying to an origin in the UK? Their scraper only interacts with the US node, and in fact Cloudflare by design doesn’t tell the scraper where the origin node is. So are they subject to UK law in this case? No internet traffic left the US, aside from when the target site sent its data to a US server for publishing.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-28 16:03:43+00:00
> I don't know why Apple chose to "upgrade" it

Of course you do. If they do not constantly upgrade, there are no new sales. Charts must go up, not stay flat. As an example, the venerable Technics 1200 turntable only had a few version releases for fairly minor cosmetic usability items. The core functionality did not change since it was designed. Those versions came with years in between. You buy a pair of those, and you only replaced them when they were stolen. If something broke, you repaired it. Apple's share holders will not be happy with buy once keep forever items.
by throw7 | 2025-10-28 16:03:51+00:00
Many moons ago, we used to run a full application level http proxy firewall. It didn't last the year. False positives were a headache and sites would just send shit down the pipe and browsers would happily power through.

I don't hate postel's law, but I admit I try not to think about it lest I get triggered by a phone call that such and such site doesn't work.
by camel-cdr | 2025-10-28 16:03:55+00:00
A history about random number generation isn't complete without mentioning George Marsaglias work.

He is responsible for multiply-with-carry, xorshift (the original version), KISS (a high quality generator predating the mersene twister) , the Ziggurat algorithm, diehard

Fun fact, one of the earliest methods for generating random mumbers, the middle square method, actually still passes all moderm statistical randomness test suites, if you hook up a weyl sequence to it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00358

This, the middle square weyl sequence PRNG is my favoeite PRNG, because it's simple enough to implement from memory:

uint64_t x, weyl; uint32_t msws(void) { x = x * x + (weyl += CONSTANT); return x = (x >> 32) | (x << 32); }

You just take a number, square it, advace and add the weyl sequence to it amd finally swap the lower and upper bits, using the trucated result as the output.

The CONSTANT is pretty much arbitrary, it just needs to be odd and not too regular. A good rule of thumb is to have no repeating or zero nibbles in each group of 4 bytes, e.g. 0xB5AD4ECEDA1CE2A9.
by txrx0000 | 2025-10-28 16:03:57+00:00
Speech is not comparable to nukes. Not even close.

I don't want everyone building nukes in their garage because nukes kill people en masse in an instant, and I cannot counteract the effects of someone else's nuke by setting off my own nuke.

People want the government to do their work for them. But you can't expect someone else to advocate for your interests automatically. The only relationship where that happens reliably on a regular basis is that of a baby and a mother. The government is not your mother. The government's policies are the result of the intellectual output of its citizens in a democratic society. You are supposed to control it as a citizen, to serve the interest of yourself and other citizens. It is not an entity that you can delegate decision making to and expect no consequences down the line.

If you think someone else's ideas are wrong, put forward your own. I don't think we should ban propaganda, as that would require a central authority to determine what info is/isn't propaganda and thereby creating propaganda in the process. I think we should ban the mechanisms that encourage the formation and snowballing of intellectually/ideologically homogenous groups on the Internet, thereby making it a hostile environment for propaganda and similar heuristics in general, so that the best ideas may thrive in dynamic competition.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-10-28 16:04:11+00:00
Another way to look at $600B of improvement was whether or not they used the $600B to improve it.

This just smells like classic VC churn and burn. You are given it and have to spend it. And most of that money wasn't actually money, it was free infrastructure. Who knows the actual "cost" of the investments, but my uneducated brain (while trying to make a point) would say it is 20% of the stated value of the investments. And maybe GPT-5 + the other features OpenAI has enabled are $100B better.
Ask HN: Should I find a developer/co-founder or get an investment to hire one?
by MLJV | 2025-10-28 16:04:30+00:00
Hey there,

Should I try to find a developer (as co-founder) or get an investment to hire one?? My app currently has 1300 MAU + 20 paying customers and I'm a solo-entrepeneur.

During the last 3 years I've been 'building' a customer tech app in my spare time for iOS & Android. I've done everything except from the coding, I worked with an external agency for that. This cost me quite some money. Looking back I've should have found a developing co-founder way earlier, but it feels i'm too invested in it now and also feels good to have 100% of the company.

I've run out of money, so to give the app another push (the next big thing is always around the corner), I have to get funded to hire a developer or get a dedicated developer/CTO as co-founder on the team. My biggest fear is that it might not work out after a couple of months and we have to split up or I have to pay him/her to get my shares back. Besides that I don't know where or how to find this person.

Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks a lot!
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-28 16:04:30+00:00
Flemish? I remember watching a TV show in Flemish (Hotel Beau Séjour[0]), so it's prevalent enough to invest that kind of money into.

What about Basque? Is that too controversial?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Beau_Séjour
by stackskipton | 2025-10-28 16:04:39+00:00
No, don’t resign instead of getting terminated. The reason they offer that is gets them off the hook for unemployment and makes any lawsuit harder. It’s 100% upside to company.

No one is going to know you got fired, if they call the company, it’s just dates and title, probably say in good standing.

It’s in old company best interest for you to get a new job because jobless people start talking to lawyers when they get desperate.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-28 16:05:36+00:00
“Registered voters” is not the same group as “people”.

Winning by 5% (even assuming no third party votes) is 52.5% (with 47.5% for the opponent) not 55%, if there are any third-party votes, that gets even lower.

A piece written in March 2025 discussing a hypothetical for the November 2024 election is not describing the state of the world in October 2025.
by herval | 2025-10-28 16:05:47+00:00
I bought the airpod pro 3 and returned it after a couple of days. It would make a loud crunching sound every time I move my mouth, probably due to the memory foam moving inside my ear canal. Never experienced anything similar on pro 1 or pro 2.

This entire cycle of Apple releases is riddled with puzzling defects - the super scratchable iPhone Pros, the condensation issues on the Air lenses, the Airpod fit and weird noise cancelling issues. I don't recall this level of weird basic defects since the first unibody macs or the butterfly keyboard debacle. Wonder what caused it...
by RoyTyrell | 2025-10-28 16:05:59+00:00
Assuming it's credit card, file a complaint with your credit card company and do a chargeback - or request a new cc number such that the old one is retired. If you have to justify it with the bank, just tell them Bitdefender has no process for canceling a subscription once started. If they press further, or get pushback from Bitdefender, tell them the customer service rep suggested trying to send a letter to see if that might work.
by cimtiaz | 2025-10-28 16:06:07+00:00
On a related note, I would recommend readers using the affected .NET 8/9 runtime in containerized applications to consider rebuilding their container images using the patched base images and redeploy them. Unlike Azure App Service, the .NET runtime is embedded within container images and is not automatically patched by Microsoft's platform updates. It has to be rebuild and redeploy to receive security fixes.
by chemotaxis | 2025-10-28 16:06:08+00:00
> If you described all the current capabilities of AI to 100 experts 10 years ago, they’d likely agree that the capabilities constitute AGI.

I think that we're moving the goalposts, but we're moving them for a good reason: we're getting better at understanding the strengths and the weaknesses of the technology, and they're nothing like what we'd have guessed a decade ago.

All of our AI fiction envisioned inventing intelligence from first principles and ending up with systems that are infallible, infinitely resourceful, and capable of self-improvement - but fundamentally inhuman in how they think. Not subject to the same emotions and drives, struggling to see things our way.

Instead, we ended up with tools that basically mimic human reasoning, biases, and feelings with near-perfect fidelity. And they have read and approximately memorized every piece of knowledge we've ever created, but have no clear "knowledge takeoff path" past that point. So we have basement-dwelling turbo-nerds instead of Terminators.

This makes AGI a somewhat meaningless term. AGI in the sense that it can best most humans on knowledge tests? We already have that. AGI in the sense that you can let it loose and have it come up with meaningful things to do in its "life"? That you can give it arms and legs and watch it thrive? That's probably not coming any time soon.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-28 16:06:45+00:00
We have no problem doing this in other areas. Airline safety, for example, is analyzed quantitatively by assigning a monetary value to an individual human life and then running the numbers. If some new safety equipment costs more money than the value of the lives it would save, it's not used. If a rule would save lives in one way but cost more lives in another way, it's not enacted. A famous example of this is the rule for lap infants. Requiring proper child seats for infants on airliners would improve safety and save lives. It also increases cost and hassle for families with infants, which would cause some of those families to choose driving over flying for their travel. Driving is much more dangerous and this would cost lives. The FAA studied this and determined that requiring child seats would be a net negative because of this, and that's why it's not mandated.

There's no need to overcomplicate it. Assume each life has equal value and proceed from there.
by lproven | 2025-10-28 16:07:34+00:00
I do not follow.

There was never any ARM-based Amiga from Commodore or any Commodore partner.

Any CPU performance is 100% theoretical because there was no such hardware.

The 68000 performance numbers I cited are from contemporary benchmarks and they _favour_ the 68K. The real chip in real Amigas ran slower.

The Acorn Archimedes used the ARM2; the ARM was developed for the Archimedes range. Its display, sound, memory controller, etc. are all pretty much unaccelerated.

Now there are Arm-based Amigas but they run the Amiberry emulator on top of Linux.
by miltonlost | 2025-10-28 16:07:44+00:00
From the wikipedia on grokipedia:

"Following the public launch of Grokipedia, it was criticised for publishing false information. Wired reported that "The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people."

So, it's a way of Musk using AI to propagandize on a large scale.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-28 16:07:51+00:00
> In the case of the shooting examples the idea is to destroy the clay pots or damage the target. Baseball isn't quite on that level. I'm not sure what a gun can be aimed at without intent to damage it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Hunt

1984.

The point of clay target shooting isn't to destroy something, it's to build a skill and test yourself against an impartial system. That's what Duck Hunt captures and what made it popular. It's why shooting is a sport in the olympics.

Plenty of social reasons too, beyond hunting and self-defense, it can serve comradery and grounding. Some folks practice archery. Some folks fish. Some folks practice martial arts which they hope never to have to use in anger, but which they find calming, centering, and empowering.
by herval | 2025-10-28 16:07:53+00:00
I have 1tb of data on icloud, including all my photos. Moving to a different platform is literally not an option (I was a happy Dropbox paid user until they decided to shut down the photos app, and Google Photos is a huge no no for multiple reason). The only alternative I can think of is self-hosting, which on itself is a nightmare, or a home NAS (not an option for me specifically). The lock-in is real.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-10-28 16:08:15+00:00
One of the things I liked about her interview was how she candidly says her strengths are less in opening up new areas or proving new theorems and more reworking and clarifying existing areas (i.e. Lurie’s work) with cleaner approaches and new proofs to make them more accessible and therefore more useful.

This seems to me to be admirable, and perhaps under-appreciated. Although it is probably much more valued in mathematics than most other fields, perhaps because mathematicians place more value than other fields on simplicity and clarity of exposition for its own sake, and because it is just so hard to read unfamiliar mathematics. Her north star goal of making her field accessible to mathematics undergraduates was a nice one.

I would like to learn category theory properly one day, at least to that kind of "advance undergraduate" level she mentions. It's always seemed to me when dipping into it that it should be easier to understand than it is, if that makes sense - like the terminology and notation and abstraction are forbidding, but the core of "objects with arrows between them" also has the feeling of something that a (very smart) child could understand. Time to take another crack at it, perhaps?
by greatgib | 2025-10-28 16:08:45+00:00
The few last times I went on Wikipedia, I was totally disgusted by their donation bar. The message is feeling off regarding how much money they have and how much they waste at useless executives.

But also I was really pissed off by the fact that they put multiple bubbles for that that completely cover the main page when you are on mobile and a lot in desktop.

Having to scroll that much is kind of worse than cookie popup that I can close in one click.

So I realized that it is the reason why I don't go to the site anymore. It's more relaxing to get the answer directly from Google, Kagi, or a llm. Sadly for Wikipedia, they are responsible for them own demise in my opinion. And it is a good think in the hope that they will realize something when the traffic will really go down. Despite my sadness on the topic regarding the initial goal of the encyclopedia that was laudable.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-28 16:09:12+00:00
Wikipedia is one of the highest-traffic Internet sites worldwide, and it's still being run on a comparatively shoestring budget. It's also an ongoing project, so the usual claim that technical hosting expenses are only a few percent of what's being spent on it overall is misguided. No one would care about hosting a dead encyclopedia

Keeping volunteers editors around is also a harder problem today than it was a decade ago or so, as purely passive consumption use of the Internet has exploded and overtaken the former model of a largely volunteer-run network. Wikipedia is just about managing it today with its current resources; if it had more, it could do better and launch a greater amount of technically compelling projects that would ultimately further its mission. (Already today, Wikidata, one of the more recently-created projects, is getting more edits over time than the largest Wikipedia and acting as a much-needed "hub" of the Semantic Web and Linked Data, which sees much use by the largest tech companies.)
by OliverGuy | 2025-10-28 16:09:33+00:00
Cisco etc have truly insane pricing on optics, like $1000 for something generic that cost $20-50 from fs.com etc. The only difference is how it presents itself to the switch (ie, says its a Cisco optic), not actual difference in performance.

Often Cisco/etc will refuse support cases if you aren't using their optics, if the switches/routers even work with them in the first case, which isn't a given as often they'll refuse to work with non branded optics.

Really just a money grab by the big network vendors.

This box allows you to flash the firmware on the optic to say its from whatever brand you want (Cisco, Dell, Aruba, Juniper etc) so that you can get it to work in that companies switch/router.

For most SMEs, the brand of optics makes no difference. Maybe keep a few legit branded ones around for debugging and when you need to raise a support case. But otherwise, the generic ones flashed to look like branded ones work just fine.
by 4b11b4 | 2025-10-28 16:09:33+00:00
order is a general concept which builds on top of the concept of equality. If they are not equal, then what are they? We can manually define an order for a type to determine which is lesser or greater. once you have this rule (the order), then you can sort

effectively you could think of them the same, or that sorting is an application of using the order rules for a given type
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-28 16:09:43+00:00
I think those 24 languages reflect all the languages that are official languages at country level.

So for instance, Basque is not an official language of any country (only French in France and Spanish/Castilian in Spain). Belgium's official languages are French, Dutch, and German, "Flemish" is only a local variant of Dutch (Belgian French is also only a local variant of French).
by noamteyssier | 2025-10-28 16:10:53+00:00
Totally agree it's a bit of weird benchmark - it was just the first thing that I thought of to generate a huge amount of lines to test throughput.

There are definitely other benchmarks that we could try as well to test other characteristics as well.

I've actually just added in this `awk` implementation you provided to the benchmarks well.

Cheers!
by Nek_12 | 2025-10-28 16:11:24+00:00
Just pulled GA4 data. Demographics:

- Age: 40% are 18-24, 20% are 25-34 - Gender: 50/50 split (males have 2x longer sessions) - Location: Was mostly US/UK/Russia historically, but had an organic viral spike in Poland (June 25) that I can't trace - install referrer tracking broke. Source unknown (YouTube/TikTok?), ~2k installs. - Platform: 92% Android, 8% iOS (iOS converts at 6.88% vs Android 1.07%)

The 9 power users I described are from the pre-spike era. The actual bulk of my users now might be younger/different demographic from Poland, but I can't interview them to find out.
by drcongo | 2025-10-28 16:11:24+00:00
None of the Apple tips work for me, they all leak outside noise and slip out of my ears. I've tried nearly every 3rd party tip on the market, the AZLA ones are the best but with caveats. The Xelastic tips [0] provide the best comfort, noise cancellation and stay in your ears perfectly, but they wear out and become too soft quickly - like every two to three months. The Max tips [1] are durable, stay in properly, and are so comfortable it's easy to forget you have ear buds in. They're not so great at the noise cancellation though so I tend to use these as my every day tips and swap them for the Xelastics when I'm going on a flight or somewhere where the ANC is more important. I haven't tried the Crystal ones yet.

[0] https://store.azla.co.kr/collections/sednaearfit-series/prod...

[1] https://store.azla.co.kr/collections/airpod-pro-ear-tips/pro...

Edit: I didn't know the Crystal ones existed until posting this, so ordering some now to see if they're the best of both worlds. If I remember, I'll report back.
by torginus | 2025-10-28 16:11:27+00:00
It can?

If you use 'multimodal transformer' instead of LLM (which most SOTA models are), I don't think there's any reason why a transformer arch couldn't be trained to drive a car, in fact I'm sure that's what Tesla and co. are using in their cars right now.

I'm sure self-driving will become good enough to be commercially viable in the next couple years (with some limitations), that doesn't mean it's AGI.
by MrDrone | 2025-10-28 16:11:43+00:00
I've been on ~4-5 flights since upgrading to the Airpods Pro 3 from the 2 and haven't experienced this, though I had occasionally experienced a similar whine on my Pro 2 that seemed to have been resolved in a software update sometime back.

I am surprised by the general negative sentiment for the 3s in this thread. They've felt like a straight and clear upgrade to me. Better fit, better ANC, and much improved battery life. I typically wear mine almost all day so comfort is hugely important to me.
by KronisLV | 2025-10-28 16:11:52+00:00
Here's the models: https://huggingface.co/utter-project/models

I used the 9B Instruct version, from the small models, it was the one with the best Latvian knowledge out there, bar none. GPT-OSS 20B and Qwen3 30B A3B and similar ones weren't even close.

That said, the model itself was a little bit dumb and not something you'd really use for programming/autocomplete or tool calling or anything like that, which also presented some problems - even for processing text, if you need RAG or tool server calls, you need to use something like Qwen3 for the actual logic and then pass the contents to EuroLLM for translation/formatting with the instructions, at which point your n8n workflow looks a bit messy and also you have to run those two models instead of only one.

Meanwhile, the best cloud model for Latvian that I've found so far was Google Gemini 2.5 Pro, but obviously can't use cloud models in certain on-prem use cases.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-28 16:11:53+00:00
> it looks like the models that cause the most pedestrian fatalities are pickups, but SUVs as a whole are responsible for more overall deaths.

It's all just a data mess and really hard to pull anything useful out of i.

A bunch of SUVs are basically Schrodinger's car. Is a Chevy Suburban an SUV or a pickup? The part that hits you is basically a Silverado 1500. You don't know what bucket to put it in until you know what narrative you want. Ditto for many, many other models.

And this complexity is then compounded by all the SUVs that are basically cars, Nissan Kicks and the like. But they're taller than historical cars, but their hoodlines aren't actually that much taller than current cars, which adopted their styling in part because of european pedestrian safety.

And then when you look at historical data it gets weird too. Is a 2005 Outback an SUV. Most would say no, but Subaru marketed it that way because it was 2005 and SUVs were cool. But a 2015 Outback is pretty clearly SUV. There's also been huge changes in the SUV market over time.

IDK what to make of it. We should probably be focusing on limiting car to pedestrian contact in the first place.

>The F350 specifically is down a ways on the list, and I don't think Ford breaks their sales data down by specific model.

350/3500 trucks get weird because on one hand you have DRW cab and chassis that get turned into dump trucks and box trucks and stuff and those are basically indistinguishable from medium duty trucks as far as usage is concerned but on the low end it's still a single rear wheel pickup basically indistinguishable from a 250/2500 so you've really got two trucks there.
by cortesoft | 2025-10-28 16:12:16+00:00
I don't think it is as simple as saying the demand for constant growth is the reason for this.

Even if a manufacturer was a non-profit, if they make a product that never upgrades and can be repaired indefinitely, eventually the demand for new products will drop enough that they simply can't afford to keep making new ones. You can't maintain a manufacturing pipeline for small amounts of product, because there are fixed costs that can't be reduced with reduced production.