MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by btown | 2025-10-05 01:01:44+00:00
To add a (positive) point of comparison: The concept of multiple named "feeds" with various degrees of "algorithm-ness" to them, including ones largely controlled by the user's explicit signals, is something that Tumblr implemented in a fascinating way.

IMO Tumblr's constraints were quite unique in the social space: a userbase that one could quite naturally (and with a badge of pride) describe as "rabid" in its expectations that their historical dash experience be preserved in much the way it had been in the early 2010s (with or without a ball pit included); a legacy PHP codebase without the benefits of Meta's resources; and ownership under various companies throughout the years that (from an outsider's perspective) did not prioritize algorithmic optimization of its feeds as a C-suite-driven priority, unlike practically every other social network at scale.

The result is systems like https://github.com/Automattic/stream-builder that enabled Tumblr product teams to define Following, For You, Your Tags, Popular etc. feeds with complex but deterministic and predictable specifications, where each feed would round-robin each slot from a mixture of well-defined component streams.

I'm not as familiar with Bluesky's implementation, but I imagine it has a similarly predictable algorithm for these user-defined feeds.

I would encourage anyone building any kind of discovery experience to look at this repo, at least at its readme and guide, for inspiration. You can, and should, build magical experiences without needing to make your feed algorithms inscrutable. Not everything needs to be TikTok, and I think the world can be a bit more sane if we don't have that as our base assumption as engineers.
by kadoban | 2025-10-05 01:03:26+00:00
Hiring an electrician is going to be cheaper probably, depending on the length of the run and how annoying the location is (and if your panel has enough capacity to spare). Unless your landlord is an asshole they probably won't care, in my experience, as long as you get a qualified person to do it. You're basically improving their place so it's not a hard thing to get approved.

Btw for the second part, you _can_ charge electric cars over just normal 15amp circuits you already have. It's just slow, so you'd only want to do it for nightly charging and it may depend on your commuting range if it'll work out or not.
by pedro_caetano | 2025-10-05 01:03:31+00:00
Well the project description seems to hint at to their motivation:

> 1000 Hz polling rate

> No multiplexing, no ghosting

> FPGA-based, VHDL only, no ALU

It looks like a pure HW 'described' keyboard with no running software meaning it is fully parallel (plus some serialization when reaching the USB device/interface).

So arguably on top of true parallelism the only ceiling for the latency of the whole thing will be the clock period configured in the design and the physics and electrical behaviour of the switches themselves + circuitry.

Probably someone who enjoys working close to hardware and wants to optimize performance.
by jackling | 2025-10-05 01:03:49+00:00
I think this is a step in the right direction, but I really dislike the Pythonification of everything. After using IsaacSim/IsaacLab for work, I'm convinced that Python is not the right tool for the job.

Developers inevitably write slow, error filled code when dealing with Python and working with the type annotations can be a pain.

Happy there's something to replace PhysX for robotics, and I do really like MuJoCo's API, but really wish we could get some good C/C++ APIs.

Apart from the language, NVIDIA doesn't seem to be great when dealing with software. IsaacSim and IsaacLab have so many bugs, are incredibly slow, and hard to debug. We spend so many hours on my team findings bugs for IsaacSim, it's just a pain. On version 5.0 and still feels like beta software.

Also IsaacSim's relience on USD to hold the scene structure and update prims makes it so hard to program for. USD isn't really performant when trying to generate a large amount of scenes. And the USD interface stops working completly when simulation starts on IsaacLab. I hope Newton goes a different route, and has less of a reliacne on USD. IMO USD should just be used as an interchange format, rather than how you actually represent the scene and properties internally. I much prefer that approach, which Unreal Engine seems to support.

Lastly, my god the names in this field are terrible. USD (Googling becomes a pain sometimes), Newton (Already another engine), Warp (literally the name of the architecture and a way to write Python GPU kernels, wtf).
by AngryData | 2025-10-05 01:04:45+00:00
Im not talking about the military siding with the people, im talking about the military's side not being enough to prevent the people from rising up and taking down whoever is in power. Militaries require logistics, random people do not. Military needs a government or people to follow for direction, masses of angry people do not.

Every time a government or military force has decided they were unstoppable or untouchable, history has proven them wrong. Hell we spent 2 decades in Iraq and Afganistan with the most powerful military and military tech the world has ever known backed by the strongest economy in the world against guys with 60+ year old bolt actions and guns filed out by hand in caves living in mostly desert landscapes, and we still ended up abandoning it because it was too costly. How would the military fair any better against the best armed population in the world with direct access to their supplying economy and logistics networks?

Yeah sure masses of people aren't making aircraft carriers, but you don't need aircarft carriers to win a war at home. We have modern engineering and chemistry text books in every library across the US that will tell you how military technology works and its flaws, what technology you can utilize find or make yourself, and a supply of nearly any material someone could possibly want or need sitting in scrapyards across the nation.
by xpe | 2025-10-05 01:06:22+00:00
Here is my take. When people use the stochastic parrots phrase, very often they use it as an explanation of what is happening. But in many cases, I don't think they appreciate: (1) good explanations must be testable models; (2) different explanations exist at different levels of abstraction; (3) having one useful level of explanation does not mean that other levels of explanation are not accurate nor useful.

Sure, optimization based on predicting the next word is indeed the base optimizer for LLMs. This doesn't prevent the resulting behavior from demonstrating behavior that corresponds with some measurable levels of intelligence, as in problem-solving in particular domains! Nor does it prevent fine-tuning from modifying the LLMs behavior considerably.

One might say e.g. "LLMs only learn to predict the next word." The word only is misleading. Yes, models learn to predict the next word, and they build a lot of internal structures to help them do that. These structures enable capabilities much greater than merely parroting text. This is a narrow claim, but it is enough to do serious damage to the causal wielder of the "stochastic parrots" phrase. (To be clear, I'm not making any claims about consciousness or human-anchored notions of intelligence.)
by nerdponx | 2025-10-05 01:06:29+00:00
It looks OK on the surface, but it gets worse the more you look into the details.

It doesn't really matter that the administration keeps losing in federal court, because the justice department doesn't really care and keeps doing the thing they were told to stop doing anyway, because there's nobody to enforce the ruling.

The executive branch is being actively purged of anyone and anything that is not aligned with and loyal to Trump and the vision of Project 2025, and the institutions that might be used to halt or reverse the damage are being specifically targeted and attacked.

Not only that, but all the other major industry players have already bent the knee and kissed the ring. You don't want to be the only one who doesn't, otherwise you will get singled out and targeted for extortion or worse. Several very powerful law firms were successfully targeted for political extortion by executive order. Major universities have conceded to demands. Conservative news media is in lock step with the administration and can push any narrative at any time. Threats might've already been made privately to begin antitrust enforcement, for some other form of targeted corporate punishment.

Moreover, it's obvious that one of the goals of this administration is to destroy consumer protections and employee protections, creating an environment where powerful corporations can do whatever they want in the name of profit. As the CEO of a large corporation, you might be actively under pressure to cooperate and collaborate. So there is a large downside to resistance, and a large upside to playing along.

Tim Cook will be remembered as one of dozens and dozens of cowards, but only in private whispers, because if they say it in public they will be blacklisted or worse.
by duskwuff | 2025-10-05 01:07:00+00:00
minipro already runs on macOS and Linux. There's better tools out there for general-purpose IO, though - the Glasgow Explorer [1] is probably best in class, for instance. (Although one place where MiniPro-type devices outperform it is in interacting with old EEPROMs which require >5V Vpp.)

[1]: https://glasgow-embedded.org/
by HYPRFLX | 2025-10-05 01:07:42+00:00
I have successfully represented myself in a multi million dollar (9 figures) drug seizure because my criminal defense lawyers provided the worst advice possible. I did not commit a direct voluntary crime, I simply accepted a few measly Interac E-Transfers and converted it to fiat via NDAX. I'm very glad this occurred because I landed a dream job as a Blockchain/DeFi Intelligence Analyst & Data solutions Architect. I cannot speak more on the matter on account of multiple signed NDAs. I also have the privilege to be with NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, Enterprise Solutions, and Developer Program amongst all the resources available online band paid educational opportunities whilst travelling I can get my hands on. I have a BSc. Mechatronics Engineering w/ 16 weeks of the most bleeding edge tech field for all times within HVAC (if that requires me explicitly explaining myself then you shouldn't be here). I then enrolled in a god-awful triple 8 course semesters of crammed MENg. Computer Software Engineering for non-ECE/Comp Sci undergrads. I should have taken my full scholarship ride at UofT in Engineering Physics, UBC, and/or Royal London Imperial College.
by mopsi | 2025-10-05 01:10:05+00:00
> what is in it for the U.S.

Peace and stability for about 100 million people in Central and Eastern Europe, who will in turn consume American products and services and cheaply write code for American companies instead of designing nuclear missiles for Russians to target Washington DC. All that the Americans have to do is give a guarantee that essentially costs nothing, if it's believable enough.

> NATO continued expanding after the end of Cold war, without Russia attacking anyone.

NATO is not some loaf of bread sitting on a windowsill that expands on its own. Most countries in Eastern Europe worked feverishly to join NATO. Why? Because their leaders had seen the grainy VHS tapes from the 1994–1996 First Chechen War, showing horrific Russian atrocities against civilians, similar to what many had personally seen or even experienced in the 1940s and 1950s. These images dispelled any illusion that the Russian Federation was more civil than the USSR or that it would respect the sovereignty and self-determination of other peoples.

Since the dissolution of the USSR, the Russia has been almost continuously at war, and it was only a matter of time before its attention shifted from the Caucasus to Eastern Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia#...

By the mid-1990s, Russia had already employed its strategy of setting up fake separatist movements to instigate armed conflicts in Europe, and a good chunk of Moldova remains under Russian military occupation to this day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistrian_War

Nobody wanted to become the target of the next artificial "separatist movement" that would drain resources, hinder economic development, block EU integration, and leave the country vulnerable to full-scale invasion like Ukraine experienced in 2014 and then again in 2022. In an alternate timeline, Eastern Europe could have ended up like a series of Moldovas. Very poor, stagnating countries, constantly battling Russian meddling in their internal affairs.

Even 30 years ago, this threat was obvious to anyone familiar with Russia. For example, here's Chechen president Dudayev, a former commander of a Soviet nuclear bomber base, predicting the future in a 1995 interview as the Russians were hunting him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IavEOx3hUAk
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-05 01:10:37+00:00
I mean, yeah. If you do bad math you'll get bad results and potentially crashes. I was responding to someone who was nonsensically ignoring that we validate user input rather than blindly putting it into a variable. Your comment seems like a non sequitur in this discussion. It's not like the risk you describe is unique to range constrained integer types, which is what was being discussed. It can happen with i32 and i64, too, if you write bad code.
by jerlam | 2025-10-05 01:11:53+00:00
The city doesn't govern what happens in HOA common areas, because the HOA owns that property. Destruction of other people's property - clearly yes, but destruction of the HOA's property is different, because the homeowner is part of the HOA and thus it's their own property (but shared among all the other homeowners). Thus the HOA has to come up with a set of rules to govern its own property from its own homeowners.
by Aerbil313 | 2025-10-05 01:12:33+00:00
> “They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.

> Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.

> Thunberg is among 437 activists, parliamentarians and lawyers who were part of the Global Sumud flotilla, a coalition of more than 40 vessels carrying humanitarian aid whose goal was to breach Israel’s 16-year maritime blockade of Gaza.
Show HN: Built a tool exposing mobile apps' best-kept secret – revenue per user
by buraste | 2025-10-05 01:13:15+00:00
I spent 3 years analyzing app store data and noticed everyone tracks the wrong metric. Downloads don't matter if users don't pay. So I built TrendApps to expose what actually matters: -revenue per user-.

The problem: A meditation app with 3K users making $27K/month is more valuable than a social app with 300K users making $3K. But you'd never know this from current analytics tools.

What it does: - Estimates revenue using category rankings, download data, and market patterns - Calculates RPD (Revenue Per Download) for 15K+ apps - Filters by age (90-365 days), competition level, and category - Shows apps making real money with minimal users

Recent findings: - Flight tracker with 79 reviews: $40K/month - Reference app with 30K downloads: $80K/month - Zombie game from Hong Kong: $22 per user

The free tier analyzes 10 apps, Pro is $9.99/month for unlimited access + CSV exports.

Why I built this: Got tired of building apps nobody wanted. Now I find proven demand first, then build. My last three apps all hit profitability using this approach.

Link: https://trendapps.dev

Happy to answer questions.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-05 01:14:19+00:00
"Giving away Apple's encrypted cloud is just another small step toward making 1984 a reality."

The big step was "Apple's cloud", i.e., people storing their data on someone else's computer^1 where the someone else is also collecting the data of millions of other people, too

1. Some HN commenters and others define "the cloud" as "someone else's computer"
by nobody9999 | 2025-10-05 01:15:42+00:00
That's all as may be.

And discussions of ALPRs and the issues around them are absolutely important.

My point was that the City of Evanston required their contractor (Flock) to remove their equipment from city infrastructure. Flock did so and then promptly reinstalled that equipment on city-owned infrastructure, flouting the will of the legitimate civil authority -- because they wanted to get paid by another government agency, against the express orders of said civil authority.

I don't know where you come from, but that sort of behavior just reeks of bad faith to me.

Feel free to disagree. And if you do, given your significant policy experience why Flock acted in good faith in Evanston. I'd be quite interested in your thoughts.

>I really don't think the "rhetorical" thing is going to work with me.

Huh? a rhetorical question[0] is (often) one that isn't actually trying to elicit information. My question, on the other hand, was specifically attempting to ascertain whether or not you think Flock is acting in good faith given their history.

So no, I wasn't trying to "gotcha" you (as in "when did you stop beating your wife" kind of thing), I genuinely wanted your take. But that doesn't seem to be forthcoming, so I'll back off. Have a good day.

I hope it's worth it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
by pixelbyindex | 2025-10-05 01:15:47+00:00
In the recent years, I discovered the joys of self hosting. What started with a single Plex server for my movie collection became a growing suite of open source applications that became my own personal cloud.

At the same time, I quickly ran into several of the limitations involved, ip addresses fluctuation, limited up speed on residential internet, electricity problems, you name it.

I didn't want to pay the crazy prices required for a dedicated server on AWS, and my storage needs were much greater that I was willing to pay for.

So I started a local business that allows you to run your own mac mini and access it with a dedicated ip for whatever purpose you would like: https://www.minimahost.com/

I'm hoping that over time I can grow it to a point that it could replace my software day job.

Oh, and I am about 3 years into an online mobile battle game. Hoping to publish in the next year or so.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-05 01:16:34+00:00
0% chance. The MIT 95% study showed that the tools are good, integration and process is the problem. There's a ton of work for people that can come into a company and set up a bespoke AI control plane/orchestration, the tooling needs to evolve a little bit so this can be a sane, repeatable business though.
by layer8 | 2025-10-05 01:16:39+00:00
I use a combination of DNSBL and SpamAssassin. Nowadays Rspamd is supposed to be better than SpamAssassin, but SpamAssassin has served me well enough so far, and I haven't gotten around to trying out Rspamd. When a spam email gets past SpamAssassin, I copy it to a special folder, which gets processed by a cron job to train SpamAssassin on it (sa-learn).

Overall the mail server is very low maintenance. I had to add SPF and DMARC a couple years ago (DKIM isn't necessary) and integrate TLS with letsencrypt (just a few lines in a config file), and sometimes a Debian upgrade requires reviewing the configuration (several years apart as well). There's really not that much to do.
by harrall | 2025-10-05 01:17:31+00:00
Moving fast is fine when you’re building a prototype. Having to double check everything when you are spiking an idea slows you down too much.

But once you get something going, go back, apply all your learning (because you will have learned a lot), and do a little cleanup. Especially if it’s your own personal DIY project.

Cleanup does take some time so budget it in.

My first solar project initially looked like a mess of wires like OP’s, although confined to my workbench. But after I got it working, I calculated all wire gauges, put fuses and breakers everywhere, and put the right type of wires in the right type of conduits. As it had to transit a living space, I also made it look nice — you didn’t see a single bare wire anywhere — definitely no 2/0 cable running up a wall.

You could also look at it as craftsmanship.
by about3fitty | 2025-10-05 01:22:03+00:00
The Supreme Court has weighed in on this with a little more nuance in their decision in Katz v. United States:

“What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.”

This “lack of privacy in public” absolutism would mean that there would never be certiorari granted for these types of cases in the first place.

Reductionist at best, IMO

See also United States v Jones, Carpenter v United States
by moduspol | 2025-10-05 01:22:17+00:00
I can get it to do rides at Disney World (including explicitly by name) but it’s incredibly good at blocking superheroes. And that’s gotta be a pretty common prompt, yet I haven’t seen that kind of content in the feed, either.

And not just by name. Try to get it to generate the Hulk, even with roundabout descriptions. You can get past the initial (prompt-level) blocking, but it’ll generate the video and then say the guardrails caught it.
by MountDoom | 2025-10-05 01:23:18+00:00
It really couldn't. "Intentional" as it, you destroyed your property on purpose. Not "you were a dumbass and caused damage", not "you didn't apply for a permit and caused damage". Insurance covers stuff like that, because otherwise, a good half of claims could be getting denied. Basically all kitchen fires are "dumbass moments", for example.
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-05 01:23:33+00:00
Sort of like Google designing a censorship friendly search engine for the Chinese market to try to get back into China's good graces?

> The Dragonfly search engine was reportedly designed to link users' phone numbers to their search queries and censor websites such as Wikipedia and those that publish information about freedom of speech, human rights, democracy, religion, and other issues considered sensitive by the Chinese government. It is not designed to notify searchers when the information they want has been censored.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)
by twoodfin | 2025-10-05 01:23:58+00:00
OK, which sectors were monopolies (or even duopolies) in the 1970’s that have survived to this day? Maybe oil? A few agricultural sectors?

If you actually look at the corporations that are consuming Americans’ income in 2025 vs. the equivalents in 1975, the idea that “monopolies” have controlled the economy for 50 years is self-evidently absurd.
by NegativeK | 2025-10-05 01:24:05+00:00
It's a code violation, not insurance fraud.

I read about this often whenever I'm looking at guidance for one of my hobbies, and often people are dealing with it in their garage. Some jurisdictions are more okay with DIYing than others, but it's all too common that someone is taking 240V, 30A and going to an enclosure that they built to get 3+ HP/2+ kW at 240 or 480V, three phase.

The common refrain is that your insurance will deny your claim.

The response that people get when they call their insurance is "you pay us to cover you even when you do the wrong thing". Just like how your auto insurance covers you when you rear-end someone while drunk as hell, when you drape way too many lights on your crispy dead Christmas tree, or when you fall asleep and light your drapes on fire with a cigarette.

Intent is when you set out to cause an accident.

(You should probably read your actual insurance policies before considering my not-a-lawyer American-centric comments.)