MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-22 16:14:24+00:00
The WSJ is, if anything, editorially right-wing, and bypassing the paywall is trivial; https://archive.is/n4JZL.

Excerpts:

> “The ubiquity of pasteurization and vaccinations are only two of the many indicators of the domineering ascendancy of germ theory as the cornerstone of contemporary public health policy,” he wrote in the book. “A $1 trillion pharmaceutical industry pushing patented pills, powders, pricks, potions and poisons and the powerful professions of virology and vaccinology … fortifies the century-old predominance of germ theory.”

> As his political profile grew, Kennedy made his war on germ theory part of his public platform. As a presidential candidate in 2023, he promised to tell the National Institutes of Health to “give infectious disease a break for about eight years,” NBC reported. On a 2023 episode of Joe Rogan’s popular podcast, Kennedy said “it’s hard for an infectious disease to kill a healthy person with a rugged immune system”—an assertion that runs counter to modern medical consensus. When Rogan said that wasn’t true of the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed more than 50 million people globally, Kennedy replied: “Well, the Spanish flu was not a virus.”

I'm not sure how to share a society with people who think it's OK for the HHS Secretary to be a quack.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-22 16:14:44+00:00
Huh? All the classic search engines required you to click through the results and read them. There's nothing wrong with that. What's different is that LLMs will give you a summary that might make you think you can get away with not clicking through anymore. This is a mistake. But that doesn't mean that the search itself is bad. I've had plenty of cases where an LLM gave me incorrect summaries of search results, and plenty of cases where it found stuff I had a hard time finding on my own because it was better at figuring out what to search for.
by vitalredundancy | 2025-10-22 16:15:08+00:00
The distinction that there are separable and unrelated domains of knowledge and activity is a kind of Fordism of the mind that our current society has impressed upon us. It's artificial to not talk about politics in the same breath as science, since science and technology produce the resources that make our political process for distribution of those resources necessary. I think this is a correction for an aberrant distinction in our thinking.
by allemagne | 2025-10-22 16:15:25+00:00
I don't see your points as necessarily in conflict with the article at all.

The diminishing power differential between regional/great powers seems to be exactly in line with what's being said about the shrinking incentives for conquest and the illustrative quagmires of Russia and America's foreign wars.

The ability for regional powers to coalesce feels like it underscores the way geopolitics have changed in exactly the way the author is arguing. Instead of a new Asean Empire that neatly fits into the patterns of a rising power from the 19th and 20th centuries, disparate polities with shared interests cooperate in a way that preserves their independent sovereignty and resists challenges to the status quo.

I can't speak to the author's sympathies with Project 2025, but if there is some related bias I didn't catch it on a first read where I wasn't aware of it. The mentions of "unvarnished unilateralism" and "U.S. strategy is shedding values and historical memory" and "democracies rotting from within" seem to imply Beckley has some idea of the existential dangers the current administration poses to American hegemony.

The view appears to be that the only credible rival to America (China) faces demographic headwinds that America doesn't to the same degree in trying to capitalize on any broader decline.
by theturtlemoves | 2025-10-22 16:15:37+00:00
>... my wife's sourdough starter living on the counter and getting fed when she remembers. The app reminds her; she ignores the app; the starter survives anyway because sourdough is remarkably forgiving.

That's so great about sourdough starter, you don't have to babysit it at all. We'll, that is, once I figured out that I should ignore the "hydration hydration hydration" and "add blah percentage water and 1.618034 grams of flour" advice. Instead, I just add lots (yes, that's a measure, like pinch and scoop) of fresh flour to my starter and just add water until it's a gooey sticky mess. Leave it alone and it'll do its thing.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-22 16:15:44+00:00
I don't understand why this needs to be repeated ad infinitum. Professionals can smell AI by distinct lack of merit. And so they're getting banned across industries. Pro-AI people can't, sure, and that doesn't mean anything.

They'll be taking the AI contributions if AI contributions were useful. The fundamental problem is that AI output is still mostly just garbage.
by duxup | 2025-10-22 16:15:49+00:00
I'm the opposite of the author here. I loved the original Tron, I was bored out of my mind by the sequel (Legacy).

As far as I could tell in Legacy, Sam Flynn just shows up and has no reason to be any good at doing anything in the Tron universe, he just is. His father could have left his swanky cave and just done whatever it is he did, at any time ... to end the film. No rhyme or reason to anything.

Interestingly enough the author kinda describes the same problem in Ares, rules aren't clear why anything happens. It just does sometimes, except when it doesn't.

Ares isn't dong well, and Legacy did, but I kinda wonder if the emptiness of Legacy meant that anything next was dead on arrival. Fans already saw that, couldn't think of why they'd see it again if there's not much too it...
by forgotoldacc | 2025-10-22 16:16:08+00:00
It's interesting to me how common will o the wisp was in the past, but the concept seems completely forgotten. Of my grandmother's generation and in her town (which was nowhere near a swamp), everyone reported seeing weird lights floating around during their youth to early adulthood. They were always very clear that the lights were not fireflies, which were also common at the time but very distinct. I'm lucky I at least got to witness fireflies in my youth.

Anyways, an interesting nugget is buried in that article. It says that a reason will o the wisp may have been common in the past is because lantern flames may have ignited the gas, which seems like a decent explanation. People use electric light everywhere now.

I guess another issue could be that there's so much ambient lighting from street lights and light being reflected off clouds that it's simply too bright for us to see anything. People back in the day probably experienced a lot more completely black nights.

It's completely possible that will o the wisp will be a completely forgotten phenomenon in a couple more decades, since I don't know anyone under 80 who's reported seeing it, and kids probably don't even know of it now. And it makes me wonder if there are other phenomenons that ancient people were very aware of but no living person has ever seen.
by naikrovek | 2025-10-22 16:16:24+00:00
if people are giving away wrenches and not getting paid for that, they will quickly run out of wrenches, and they will learn. giving away something free does not inherently give them the right to charge for use of the wrench.

giving a wrench to someone where you charge based on usage should be something that is agreed upon up front, not at some point later, after a rug is pulled out from under the customer.
by yalogin | 2025-10-22 16:16:29+00:00
This is not new right, LLMs are dumb, they just do everything they are told, and so the orchestration before and after the LLM execution holds key. Even without security, ChatGPT or gemini's value is not just in the LLM but the productization of it which is the layers before and after the execution. Similarly if one is executing local LLMs it's imperative to also have proper security rules around the execution.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-22 16:16:37+00:00
They have lost all ability to remember the past.

Big head political pundits literally go on Fox News and blame a Democrat President for Epstein's death, and you have to tell them "Uh, no, Trump was president then, and it was his administration in control" and they have this insane double take look like they can't possibly remember that.

Blaming Obama for the Hurricane Katrina response wasn't a fluke.

My father is a general contractor and viscerally experienced Trump's first term stupidity tripling his material costs. He still voted for him again, as "good for the economy", or "the democrats have gone too far". He blames democrats for the regional grocery chain hiring gay people as managers, which is funny, because they hire those people because they are the right kind of MBA types. He literally can't recognize the problem when it's in his very face.

My father has never been outwardly sexist and always demonstrated respect for strong women and their ability to participate in normal society. He still was convinced by right wing media that he should be afraid of women in the cockpit.

The soybean farmers were fucked by Trump's first term, and he gave them over $10 billion dollars. They all voted for him again, and it happened the exact same way.

Like, at this point, how do you convince people who change their memory of reality to fit their ideology?
by xxs | 2025-10-22 16:16:56+00:00
>12V battery is tiny and would probably not provide enough power

LiFePO4 is capable of providing massive amounts of current for its size (way higher than a conventional acid one). 100A is not that high amount of current to run even with 4s4p setup. A 10kg battery would be beyond sufficient (should be able to fully power the brake system for 1h use).

Note: jump on the brakes is expected to consume around 1200W
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-22 16:17:00+00:00
You're going to need the expensive bits of a power supply anyway to meet transient requirements, so it's not much of a savings to run at native voltage and it gives a lot of design freedom/reusability to have one voltage for everything.

The main savings is current though, because the wiring harness is one of the most expensive parts of a car.
by flessner | 2025-10-22 16:17:07+00:00
I started learning the guitar years ago, but lost motivation once I got into university. Maybe I'll give it another shot and use this as a refresher on the theory!

Anyway, one small nitpick on the website: When on German language the word "FUNKTIONSHIGHLIGHTS" overflows on mobile. I would replace it with "WICHTIGSTE FUNKTIONEN" as that is two words.

Good luck, the website and App look nice!
by anacrolix | 2025-10-22 16:17:24+00:00
Open source is sick. Everyone wants it (both to maintain a successful project, and to use them) until you maintain a popular project for a reasonable time then your realise you're getting used for fuck all value.

We need a healthy way to support open source developers. This isn't working. Companies are taking advantage, and individuals are overwhelmed with choice and have delusional expectations.
by mbesto | 2025-10-22 16:17:56+00:00
> Attacker plants malicious prompt in likely-to-be-consumed content.

Is the author implying that some random joe hacker writes a blog with the content. Then a <insert any LLM training set> picks up this content thinking its real/valid. A developer within a firm then asks to write something using said LLM references the information from that blog and now there is a security error?

Possible? Technically sure. Plausible? That's ummm a stretch.
by throw0101c | 2025-10-22 16:18:32+00:00
> It doesn't seem to have any news, just articles about news. Interesting concept.

Atlantic is/was a monthly magazine so they're not trying to do 'scoops' as much as a traditional daily or weekly magazine. Of course in the current age they do have to post regularly somewhat for traffic: but they've generally been about taking a step and perhaps looking a the bigger picture.

For example, on the politics side they have David Frum, former speech writer for George W. Bush (#43):

* https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-frum/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frum

And Tom Nichols, who taught international affairs and national-security at the U.S. Naval War College:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/author/tom-nichols/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Nichols_(academic)
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-22 16:18:49+00:00
Check out the BBC. I think it's part an unofficial mouthpiece of the foreign office and the most outstanding example in the world of how to push an agenda subtly through a combination of selective reporting, misrepresentation, false equivalances (an area where the BBC leads the world), combined with a very high quality editorial and reporting staff. But that recipe has an almost inherent left leaning stance. Oh also it's a punching bag for everyone and politicians love to bully it into submission, because it is subject to some level of state control. It's funded by forcing everyone to pay for a TV license.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-22 16:19:00+00:00
You realize this statement is outdated. China is no longer cheap. They make stuff now because no one else can make them. Not a joke, and not trying to attack. This is the literal reality. Take a look at Tim Cook saying this:

https://youtu.be/L9f5SQQKr5o?feature=shared

Like this isn’t just manufacturing. If you go to China if you visit the tier one and tier two cities they look and feel Like cities of the future. You can’t even compare with US cities. One Chinese friend of mine visiting Los Angeles told me he didn’t realize that los Angeles was the country side.

He says it because The country side of China is literally just like Los Angeles. He’s talking about the backwardness and level of tech and density of the population.

https://youtu.be/AJ6a2vpLxGA?si=k7n9ibMlV6fIeNgz

This all happened in the last decade so it’s not surprising to see people who don’t get it. It’s a total paradigm shift in the balance of power.
by cess11 | 2025-10-22 16:19:33+00:00
If you look further down the thread you'll see more suggestions, I think this one would be an easier option than deleting partitions and creating a new partition mounted as /usr, since it's more or less just a change to fstab of what mounts towards which partition.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=175957920514820&w=2
by bloppe | 2025-10-22 16:19:34+00:00
An epic opportunity is an epic opportunity. If most investors are too stupid to notice one (yes, that is often true, I know), then that's also an epic opportunity for the 1 investor who might take the chance.

I'm not saying the industry is perfect, but if the scale of the missed opportunity is so large and so obvious to so many engineers, and we live in a world with tens of thousands of VC firms and probably millions of other avenues for funding like angels, incubators, and grant programs, it's hard to imagine 100% of them missing it. And it only takes 1 to take advantage.
by mikece | 2025-10-22 16:20:05+00:00
Ugh... what the heck does this AI discussion have to do with Catholicism? Most people -- and I would put Leo 14th in this group -- don't even know what is in Rerum Novarum, much less the circumstances that led to its publication or how it was intended to be applied. The whole thing could be summed up as "don't cheat, abuse, or take advantage of your employee and laborers" (though the poetry and precision of the original Latin is magnificent in its own right.
by jrowen | 2025-10-22 16:20:12+00:00
Those statistics are extremely broad, hard to draw much inference from...do they account for the cleaning/maid industry? How has that changed over the same period? It could be possible that the general accumulation of wealth/tech allowed for more people to pay for someone to clean.

The dramatic improvements to quality of life brought by science and tech are undoubtable, it was not my intent to question that. More just that we as people have a hard time with the concept of a goal state. It is about balance. Let's keep creating new and great things to improve our lives, but let's also acknowledge the futility and desperation of an infinite treadmill.
by more_corn | 2025-10-22 16:20:36+00:00
I wouldn’t be surprised by a causal relationship. Most people planning layoffs don’t actually know what the laid off people do. When Fisker laid everyone off, their OTA updates went down hard. Had they taken a day to perform a safe shutdown they would have saved months of recovery work. Management likes to lay off with no warning, but for professional infrastructure people that causes more harm than good. Every pro I know will faithfully wrap up the work because they have professional pride.

Layoffs cause loss of institutional knowledge. Minor irritation can balloon into a major outage simply because the person who can fix it easily left the building for the last time.

us-east-1 is the OG region. It has had significant dns problems before. There’s probably a subtle and complicated series of steps for general care and feeding.

Good journalism would identify the process, the owner, cross reference with the layoff list… any of the laid off people would be able to supply those details off the record.
by mrinterweb | 2025-10-22 16:20:44+00:00
This seems like a good opportunity for a browser company like Mozilla to offer a GDPR compliant library that is easy to integrate that automatically applies user privacy preferences instead of showing the GDPR prompt. Opensource the library, and promote it. Try to make it an open protocol so other browser can implement this.

To be real though I'm sure that many sites would not want this because they rely on GDPR fatigue and users to just accept instead of taking a few seconds to opt-out.
by renshijian | 2025-10-22 16:20:59+00:00
Small update: Added a “humanized bridge” for casual questions — if you say “I’m tired” or “I feel lost”, the system answers like a companion instead of a logic engine For technical or ethical prompts, it stays formal

All replies are still hash-chained and verifiable at: https://oracle-philosophy-backend.onrender.com/health → returns OK
by nunez | 2025-10-22 16:21:00+00:00
You're correct, however:

1. The MinIO image on Docker Hub has more than a billion downloads [^0]. With those download counts, people have almost certainly written scripts that rely on this image existing (including their own Dockerfile! [^1]). Them leaving these images around is just asking for security breaches later down the line.

1b. While, yes, no-one's entitled to freely-available container images, it cost them almost nothing to maintain their existing toolchain for this. Them deciding to pull the plug is purely and entirely a money grab (and a dumb one, if you ask me; look at how the community responded with OpenTofu when Terraform when BUSL).

2. Fortunately, MinIO is a Golang app and can be built with a simple "go install" (though the build instructions in their docs don't align with the build recipe in their Makefile [^2]). However, they could pull a Tesla and make the source that they publish differ from the source that their binaries are built from.

3. They gave NO notice. That's the slimiest part of all of this. Tens of thousands of Kubernetes clusters, and handfuls of enterprise products, run or package MinIO that are now using images that will no longer be updated. All of these people will need to completely change their toolchains to account for that, and soon. That's just not a kind thing to do.

[^0] https://hub.docker.com/r/minio/minio/tags

[^1] https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/Dockerfile

[^2] https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/Makefile#L179
by pwg | 2025-10-22 16:21:02+00:00
Just retried a download on a YT vid I downloaded last night, it downloaded again.

Using version 2025.10.14 on Linux, but with this 'tweak' in ~/.config/yt-dlp/config (which was to fix a prior 'no-download' change):

--extractor-args "youtube:player-client=default,-tv_simply"
by nickcw | 2025-10-22 16:21:23+00:00
Cost.

The wiring for 48V can be a lot thinner than it is for 12V. As there is a square law involved for resistive heating it turns out that wiring for 48V can use 1/16th of the weight of copper as that for 12V.

A switchmode converter can be designed for 48V just as easily as 12V.
by trashb | 2025-10-22 16:21:35+00:00
The way I see it, port knocking may not be a valid security measure but it can be a good filter. It will allow you to filter out port scanning and other mass cracking attempts.

My opinion is that being able to filter out noise and false positives from authentication logs allows you to improve your actual security measures.

An other advantage is that it may hide information about your system making it harder for an attacker to target you based on a broad scan without doing some (usually detectable) targeted reconnaissance first. For example imagine someone found a 0-day in one of the services behind the port-knock and is scanning for the vulnerable version.

It does however add another cog in the machine that may break.
by jerf | 2025-10-22 16:21:35+00:00
No, I'm not forgetting fictional cases in which the point was to transmit to an unknown civilization. I'm talking about the real way that real civilizations are going to transmit data to each other, without meaning for it to be picked up randomly, on the assumption that while aliens may or may not have human-comprehensible motivations we can generally operate on the assumption that they will not be stupid and wasteful in the pursuit of their goals.

This isn't quite why I wrote this, but it's close enough: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2023/alien_communication/ If we're going to argue in the form of fiction.
by kgwgk | 2025-10-22 16:21:59+00:00
> Local LLMs may not be exposed to the internet, but if you want them to do something useful you're likely going to hook them up to an internet-accessing harness such as OpenCode or Claude Code or Codex CLI.

is not "someone finding useful to have a local llm ingest internet content" - it was someone suggesting that nothing useful can be done without internet access.
by cholantesh | 2025-10-22 16:22:07+00:00
I think you should follow the citations behind that sentence. 2/3 are swift dismissals from outsiders - one from a dictionary and another from the UK parliament (and this is especially vague). The latter is from a Roma advocacy group and it seems pretty emphatic: "Amongst most Romani communities this is an offensive racial slur. It derives from the word "Egyptian" due to the misconception that Roma arriving in Great Britain originated in Egypt."
by somerandomqaguy | 2025-10-22 16:22:39+00:00
...... Huh? Kia and Hyundai's recalls for the trailer hitch wiring fire recall made national news. Toyota's recall of the rear view camera issue on the 2025 trucks too.

Granted I'm Canadian so that might make a difference, but Tesla recalls aren't the only one making national new. They just don't typically appear on Hacker News.
by iLemming | 2025-10-22 16:22:42+00:00
> is there any alternative path

Yes there is - `alias vim='emacs -nw'` :)

Seriously though, do grant Lisp serious consideration - Emacs only truly comprehensible through the lens of Lisp. The experience may open your eyes to an amazing, wide world of interesting possibilities - Magit is only one of them. No serious programmer and computer scientist would ever outright dismiss Lisp. I'm not saying that you're categorically will fall in love with it, but you may like it. Then, the question "should I try Emacs" would have a completely different meaning.
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-22 16:22:46+00:00
It prevents Americans from noticing and voting in response to the actual problem, which is an aggressive and systematic effort to undercut American wages at all levels of the working class, with immigrants, both legal and non-legal. They've been trying to blame it on AI, and when that doesn't work, they call you a racist (conveniently ignoring that Americans are not all one race).