MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by npodbielski | 2025-10-10 04:10:31+00:00
Asus and Acer motherboards supports bifurcation on pcie slots. So for example you can enable this in BIOS and put Asus hyper extension card to put 4 nvme disk into pcie slot https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1037507/

There are other cards like that i.e. https://global.icydock.com/product_323.html This one have better support for smaller in size disks, much easier to swap disk but costs like 4 times more.

I think it could put even more drives in my new case I.e. using pcie to u2 card and the using 8 drives bays. But this would cost me probably like 3 times more just for the bay with connectors. and I do not need that much space.

https://global.icydock.com/product_363.html

If you like u2 drives then icydock provides solution for them too. Or if you want go cheaper there are other cards with slim-sas or mcio https://www.microsatacables.com/4-port-pcie-3-0-x16-to-u-2-s...

But u2 disks are at least 2 times more costly per GB. Like 40tb costs 10k$. This is too much IMO.
by visarga | 2025-10-10 04:10:42+00:00
Nice idea, I came up with a similar system. The idea is to map the "state space" of the agent, and describe a number of discrete states. Then assign a policy to each one. Both state space mapping and policy are generated by the agent after a discussion with the human. A chat driven, LLM based expert system, a problem specific bunch of "when in situation X, do Y".
Show HN: CrossPromote – Your own ad network
by n-bernat | 2025-10-10 04:10:51+00:00
Hi HN! While working on my side projects, I realized something - I have all these apps, but there is no easy way to cross-advertise them. Putting my own ads in my own apps is way easier and cheaper than paying Google or Facebook to do that. Moreover, there is a chance for higher returns if my ads are in the same niche as the app.

At first, I made a basic implementation for myself, but I wanted something more - the number of views, clicks, platform-specific redirects (e.g. Google Play for Android and App Store for iOS), changing links dynamically, etc.

That’s why I made CrossPromote

Picture this: you have a travel tracker, so why not put an affiliate link to a service that offers global eSIM services? Or a multi-currency account? Travel insurance? Your other app that is a travel guide? The possibilities are endless, just like returns.

CrossPromote is a simple tool for app and site owners to drop in custom ads, affiliate links, or cross-promos. Perfect for anyone who has an app or a website in some niche.

The first version is done and ready to use. It’s a 100% solo project and I'm trying to find a product-market fit while gathering feedback that can help me grow it into a better service.

Let me know what you think!
by the_af | 2025-10-10 04:11:15+00:00
I don't think anybody who has seen an edit war thinks wiki editors (not mods, mods have a different role) are saints.

But a Wikipedia page cannot survive stating something completely outside the consensus. Bizarre statements cannot survive because they require reputable references to back them.

There's bias in Wikipedia, of course, but it's the kind of bias already present in the society that created it.
by CalRobert | 2025-10-10 04:11:38+00:00
Very true - I honestly was a bad driver when I lived in suburban California (Sacramento, etc.). I generally just followed lights and didn't look for pedestrians. Then I moved somewhere people can just walk across the street anywhere (Dublin, Ireland) and got used to watching for pedestrians (sometimes kids!) like a hawk while driving.

As a result it really freaks me out when I visit home and friends and relatives will drive 25, 35, 45 mph right next to a row of parked cars where a person could walk in front of them at any moment, and not even consider the possibility of a pedestrian. It's a complete mindset shift.
by paulhebert | 2025-10-10 04:12:46+00:00
When I searched, the top result was Wikipedia with the following excerpt: “At the 1974 federal election, Howard was elected as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Bennelong. He was promoted to cabinet in 1977, and…”

To me this seemed like the relevant detail in the first excerpt.

But after more thought I realize you were probably expecting the date of his election to prime minister which is fair! That’s probably what searchers would be looking for.
by rramadass | 2025-10-10 04:13:30+00:00
I have never agreed with an article so vehemently.

Many of the so called foundations/prizes out there are mere influence-peddling schemes by perversely calling attention to the organization while appearing to confer accolades on the already famous and who don't need it. Thus they become gatekeepers and shape public opinion on what is great/good vs. what is not.

Most truly great achievers are intrinsically-motivated (see SDT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory) and hence care more about their work/domain then recognition from clueless organizations. The best example would be Grigori Perelman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman)
by int_19h | 2025-10-10 04:13:38+00:00
^ comes from typewriters, where it was used to type letters like â by backing the caret and typing over the last letter. Similarly ' could be used for acute accent - hence why it didn't get a separate letter - and ` for grave accent.

By the way, the accents can often be used to force the right pronunciation of a foreign name on native speakers (at least in US, where Spanish names are so widespread). So e.g. use "á" if you want it to be pronounced [a] etc.
by al_borland | 2025-10-10 04:15:51+00:00
I found getting banned from Reddit to be pretty effective. Without a functioning comment system, and being upset about what I felt was unjust, was the finial nail in the coffin that got me to break the habit. I don’t want to even give them traffic anymore.

If there is a useful search result, I can still see the result without a login. AI also tends to surface the information without going there. If I do need to go to the site to see a result, the continued efforts to monetize have made the site so broken and hard to use that it has also become a deterrent.

Funny thing was I could still use the API to overwrite and delete all my comments before deleting my account. That was pretty surprising. Of course, this was before their big API lockdown.
by tomhow | 2025-10-10 04:15:53+00:00
Our role here is not "policing", it's largely janitorial work, and, if it wasn't already clear, the main thing I'm appealing for is for users who joined HN in c. 2007, and thus presumably valued the site's purpose and ethos from the beginning, to assume more of a stately demeanour, rather than creating more messes for us to clean up.

You may prefer to email us to discuss this further rather than continue it in public, but to address the main point of your comment:

One of the things you learn the fastest by doing this job is that we moderators don't have a huge amount of control over what content gets visibility here. Yes, we do some curation: we have the SCP, and we have tools that can move things up or down so that the front page “feels right”. But nothing much happens without the support of the community. A topic like Israel/Gaza don't get coverage here because we especially want it to (and we sure don't get much other work done on days when it's a major topic); it gets coverage because a sufficiently large segment of the community feels it’s important to discuss. Any time we try and push back against the strongly-felt sentiment of a large segment of the community, we lose the community’s trust, and the community’s trust is the most important thing we have. If we lose it, we're out of business very fast.

> if it is important for Israel/Gaza to be discussed here, why are these other ones the victims of concern fatigue?

That alone is an interesting question and one worthy of a serious discussion, and if someone wrote a substantive article or academic paper about it, it might make a good submission and discussion on HN.

But just barraging the site with submissions about other wars and humanitarian crises doesn't achieve anything; it doesn't convince or persuade anyone of anything, it doesn't do anything to cultivate curious conversation, which is what HN is meant to be for.

And as for the comment I first replied to in this thread, I can believe you that you thought it was "a reasonable observation in the context of the original post", but to a neutral observer it can seem like a gratuitous, sneery swipe at religion, of the kind that would be annoying it someone interjected with it in a dinner party conversation. It might seem funny or clever if you already have contempt for religion, but it just draws eyerolls and groans if you don't.

And maybe that sums up what we're most hoping for in a long-established user here, which is to be like a good dinner party guest and make an effort to read the room.
by johncoltrane | 2025-10-10 04:16:14+00:00
I would stay away from vimgolf if I were you because it focuses too heavily on a useless metric, number of keystrokes. The so-called "Vim language" is about expressiveness, intuitiveness, composability, etc., so performing a task in 20 keystrokes is meaningless if it took two minutes to figure out each of them. 40 or 50 keystrokes that flowed without thinking are always better.

Also I must say that my regex-fu improved dramatically after I picked Vim.
by jmtulloss | 2025-10-10 04:16:45+00:00
Why aren’t more folks using Codex cloud? Simon’s post mentions it, but the vast majority of comments are talking about parallel agents locally or getting distracted while agents are running.

Personally I’ve found that where AI agents aren’t up to the task, I better just write the code. For everything else, more parallelism is good. I can keep myself fully productive if many tasks are being worked on in parallel, and it’s very cheap to throw out the failures. Far preferable imo to watching an agent mess with my own machine.
by jpollock | 2025-10-10 04:18:28+00:00
The form the documentation takes depends on the audience.

If the audience is teammates, the _code_ itself is usually the best documentation.

Tests lie about edge cases. A test _might_ be demonstrating an edge case, or the suite might ignore large sections of edge cases.

Documentation is worse, it rarely documents edge cases. Country Y passes legislation and you need to implement it? Yeah, the docs aren't getting updated.

If your audience is a different team, API references (the headers/RPC message schema/javadoc/etc.) are better than written docs. Again, they are less likely to mislead you and are much more likely to work.

Unless, of course, the interfaces are telling fibs about what is allowed. Interfaces that are big buckets of parameters can do that.

Only if your audience is an external organization would documentation be a good primary reference. It meets them where they are, selling them on the capabilities of the software and bootstrapping them to the code.
by int_19h | 2025-10-10 04:18:49+00:00
I'm also Pavel, and it just seems to be one of those names that native English speakers have trouble with.

Protip: it seems to help if you stick an accent on "a": "Pável". In US, people have usually seen enough Spanish to interpret this more or less correctly, and of course it also doubles as a stress marker.

That said, personally, I often don't bother and also go with the default [ˈpei.vɪl] just because it's easier to go with the flow.
by kmoser | 2025-10-10 04:19:48+00:00
> Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate your requested date, as termination is only possible up to four weeks before the end of the term.

The phrase "up to four weeks before the end of the term" is misleading and can be reasonably interpreted different ways. Let's say you buy a ticket today (October 10, 2025) and it renews October 11, 2026 (one year later). Four weeks before the end of the term would be September 13, 2026 (i.e. October 11, 2026 - 4 weeks).

Since we just established that "four weeks before the end of the term" is September 13, 2026, then "Termination is only possible up to four weeks before the end of the term" can be interpreted to mean "Termination is only possible up to September 13, 2026" which means I should be able to terminate any time between now and September 13, 2026, i.e. I have a max of 11 months after date of purchase to terminate the auto-renew.
by nis0s | 2025-10-10 04:20:24+00:00
I get there’s disenchantment with the status quo, and a desire to try something new because all the old tools just seem to break the machine even more than fix it.

But what’s always troubled me is that there’s no real difference between a rich man and a poor man other than the random consequences of their births. At its core, nature is the same across the socioeconomic strata, and across cultural boundaries. So, I think if the poor man was born rich, and vice versa, and you did that with all the poor men and rich men everywhere, the world would still be the same. Why shouldn’t it be?

The average western citizen or student is taught some framework of enlightenment ideals, so maybe they’ve somehow fooled themselves into thinking that making people equally rich, or switching the positions of the rich and poor, will result in some material difference to morality and ethics of the world. It definitely didn’t happen every time people tried that in history, like in Italy, USSR, or even China. So what will you do now that will result in something different? There’s some need for reflection here.

There’s no justice without acknowledging the truth, and there’s no truth in a world based on realpolitiks. Sadly, idealpolitiks are just another political trick. The moral relativism needs to be shed first to make some progress towards truth-seeking.
by jayw_lead | 2025-10-10 04:20:38+00:00
> "massive upfront investment and large and complex" and therefore predict progress stopping ages ago?

Regulatory and economic barriers are probably the easiest to overcome. But they are an obstacle. All it takes is for public sentiment to turn a bit more hostile towards technology, and progress can stall indefinitely.

> Opening with the recursively improving AGI and then having a section of "areas of promise for step-function improvements" and not mentioning any chance of an AGI breakthrough?

The premise of the article is that the hardware that AGI (or really ASI) would depend on may itself reach diminishing returns. What if progress is severely hampered by the need for one or two more process improvements that we simply can’t eke out?

Even if the algorithms exist, the underlying compute and energy requirements might hit hard ceilings before we reach "recursive improvement."

> How many autoimmune diseases have been cured, ever? Where does this “Probably” come from — the burden of proof very much lies with that probably.

The point isn't that we're there now, or even close. It’s that we likely don’t need a step-function technological breakthrough to get there.

With incremental improvements in CAR-T therapies — particularly those targeting B cells — Lupus is probably a prime candidate for an autoimmune disease that could feasibly be functionally "cured" within the next decade or so (using extensions of existing technology, not new physics).

In fact, one of the strongest counterpoints to the article's thesis is molecular biology, which has a remarkable amount of momentum and a lot of room left to run.

> We might not be that far away from a plausible space elevator.

I haven't seen convincing arguments that current materials can get us there, at least not on Earth. But the moon seems a lot more plausible due to lower gravity and virtually no atmosphere.

But I'd be very happy to be wrong about this.

> Based on what we know today, there isn’t “a” plateau — there are many, and they give way to newer things.

True. But the point is that when a plateau is governed by physical limits (for example, transistor size), further progress depends on a step-function improvement — and there's no guarantee that such an improvement exists.

Steam and coal weren't limited by physics. Which is the same reason why I didn't mention lithium batteries in the article (surely we can move beyond lithium to other chemistries, so the ceiling on what lithium can deliver isn't relevant). But for fields bounded by fundamental constants or quantum effects, there may not necessarily be a successor.
by inejge | 2025-10-10 04:21:26+00:00
> Differences between your name on your passport and your name on your visa?

It's not precisely stated in the GP, but most probably that one. Background: Russian and Belarusian spelling of names are slightly different, the latter being orthographically closer to the phonetic value. (The current Belarusian president-for-life is globally known as "Alexander Lukashenko", which is a transliteration from Russian; the Belarusian spelling, again transliterated, is "Alyaksandar Lukashenka". For the originals, see his Wikipedia page.)

N.B. I'm writing this as a non-expert in either of the languages, but I can read Russian.
by visarga | 2025-10-10 04:22:16+00:00
My state space mapping approach, which is reminiscent of expert systems and tabelar RL, only makes sense when you repeat the task in the same environment so you can gradually discover the states and their policies. You can look at execution traces to make targeted policy adjustments after each execution.

Here is an example of a state space map rendered in 2D by PCA. It maps LLM research papers from 2025. It does not have policies attached to state positions yet, but can be used as a visual map.

The projection: https://i.imgur.com/a9ESiXs.png

The map itself: https://pastebin.com/pmGzFcPM

A cool thing both for intent weaving and state space policy approach is that they do not prescribe a sequence of steps, they are more like a GPS map allowing rerouting towards goal state at any moment. This is a more flexible description than a static procedure.
by geokon | 2025-10-10 04:22:47+00:00
> However, sometimes direct physical access to the SBC with a monitor and keyboard is useful for initial configuration, maintenance operations, or workloads that have a visual component

Shouldn't this be possible with a single direct ethernet link between laptop and device? I'm not actually sure on the specifics. Or would this require a router? I know you can forward graphical programs with X11 as well

This is one of those rough edges that I wish a Linux distro got right. It's rare, but once in a blue moon you do want to hook up two laptop (say one broken and one working one) and control one from the other (without the ability to configure stuff)
by leakycap | 2025-10-10 04:23:55+00:00
> I don't know where people got the impression that Apple seriously resisted government coercion

I think it was either the way they added the two-button passcode lock that can be done without pulling the phone out of your pocket, the San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone (2016), Apple's resistance to the UK's backdoor requirement in ADP, or maybe when they wouldn't unlock the Pensacola Shooter's iPhone (2019), Apple's methods to resisting China's demand for iCloud Master Key multiple times, or the constant updates like disabling biometric unlock after being disconnected from cell networks for a certain number of hours.

> Senator Wyden called them out (alongside Google) on backdooring Push Notifications years ago.

Apple's notification framework is wildly different than Google's Android method. Apple's notifications can be anonymous (hence the article we're commending on!) but Google's cannot.

> Didn't people want Apple's thoughtful, executive curation?

The app store doesn't promise curation in the sense of a museum store... it's more running the apps through a pre-check before offering to customers. It's safety, not sales appeal, at least mostly.

> If you're still not switching phones, what gives?

The alternatives are many times worse. Have you ever actually looked at what iOS collects vs Android?!

> I'm shocked that we only now see people lift pitchforks and complain.

We're upset about ICE apps being removed and Apple giving gold chunks to wannabe dictators. That didn't happen until recently.

> You fought for your ability to resist sideloading and this is your just deserts.

Google is also fighting sideloading. What phone maker are you imagining exists today and makes phones that don't have this issue?
by ranger_danger | 2025-10-10 04:26:31+00:00
Personally I am much more tired of lengthy troves of API docs that, while fully specifying the system, do nothing to specify how one is actually supposed to use it in practice, such as the general flow of the program itself, which functions are relevant to what overall operations, in what order certain functions should be called relative to others, how one should handle errors, etc.

If I at least have some examples to get me started, then I can go digging through other documentation (or even just the code) to figure how to do more advanced things... but being unable to even get started is a much bigger frustration IMO.

One time my company paid $5k for a commercial x264 license, and when we asked for some documentation on how to get started with encoding some video frames using their C API, they simply responded "the code is the documentation." With no real examples to go on (at the time in the 2000s there actually wasn't much available online at all), this set me back a good two weeks that I felt was completely unnecessary and completely turned me off to interacting with them at all for the future.

We ended up switching to a hardware solution that was much easier, faster, well-documented, and way friendlier people to talk to.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-10 04:27:34+00:00
That’s basically California about legal names.

My first name is an old family name. I’m the 8th to have it. My kid’s the 9th. I go by my middle name. My mom and dad and sisters call me that. My wife calls me that. My doctor calls me that. My first name would be an AKA, an alias. Literally no one calls me by that name.

And that’s why my credit union is one that would issue me a debit card in my legal name, which is to say my legal name. Other banks have strict rules to call me by my alias, so I don’t use them.

Side note: I’m way sympathetic to people who’ve changed their names and want to be called something else. Use my first name with me and I know you’re someone who doesn’t know the first thing about me. You’re a stranger. I don’t identify with it at all.
by palmotea | 2025-10-10 04:27:59+00:00
> Adapting to LLMs means we'll adopt new standards for quality or more likely re-emphasize old ones like assigning trust to specific authorities.

I think we're in violent agreement, I just have a less sanguine attitude towards it. LLMs will "undermine processes and technologies that once created a huge amount of value" (to quote myself above). We'll adapt to that, as in life goes on, but major things will be lost.