MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by colechristensen | 2025-10-16 15:54:12+00:00
>I assume for people who eat meat there's the additional concern of antibiotics resistance due to the antibiotics given to livestock.

The concern isn't eating meat from an animal treated with antibiotics infecting you with resistant bacteria.

The concern is treating animals with antibiotics puts evolutionary pressure towards breeding resistant bacteria that spill into the ecosystem and eventually get back to us. But not through meat consumption, it effects everyone regardless of diet.
by steego | 2025-10-16 15:54:15+00:00
Why?

Writing your own LINQ provider is a very niche activity done by people who want to translate or “transpile” C# expression trees into something else.

It is fundamentally a difficult endeavor because you’re trying to construct a mapping between two languages AND you’re trying to do it in a way that produces efficient target code/query AND you’re trying to do that in a way that has reasonable runtime efficiency.

Granted, on top of that, I’m sure LINQ provider SDKs probably add their own complexity, but this isn’t an activity that C# developers typically encourage.
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by rhettjull | 2025-10-16 15:54:25+00:00
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Prompts generate the site’s hierarchy and copy using a structured LLM pipeline we call Phoenix.

The build compiles to a live Vercel deployment with automatic asset optimization and caching.

Everything runs server-side. No client API calls or slow render loops.

What we’d love feedback on:

The onboarding flow (is it clear enough?)

Generated copy and design quality

Thanks! Hope to see you around!
by nis0s | 2025-10-16 15:54:28+00:00
But that’s only one scenario, and this hypothesis assumes a natural progression to evolutionary processes, and thus the development of intelligent life.

Evolution is entirely random, and you really just need one mutant to survive and propagate enough to create a line from its original mutation. If that mutation, or collection of such effects, results in greater than human intelligence at any point in time, then there’s no reason to assume that other intelligent life is similar to us, and as such “stuck” right now.

If there is intelligent life that developed enough to hack resource-efficient interstellar travel which doesn’t kill them and has found Earth and exists in the same universal time span as us, then it’s likely they’re either studying us (via infiltration), or avoiding this planet altogether.
by rdtsc | 2025-10-16 15:54:40+00:00
> They are already doing that in professional settings. They are the training data.

It's a self-reinforcing cycle. AI sucks up and barfs back up the same bland style and eventually books, articles, news will all look even more bland and sound more AI like. That junk then will be sucked up by the next AI model, and regurgitate into some even more bland uniform format. If that's all the new generation hears and sees, that's how they'll perceive one should "talk" or "write".

> Authenticity is valued now. Swearing is in vogue.

Ha! That's a good point, I like that. Not that swearing is my style (unless I stub my toe), but I agree with the general authenticity point. Maybe until the interns at Google and OpenAI will figure out how to make their LLM sounds more "hip" and "authentic".
by kylecazar | 2025-10-16 15:54:48+00:00
Not exclusive to Elixir, but the BEAM was built from the ground-up around Actor for concurrency. Almost all other popular language ecosystems have it bolted on over time (with varying degrees of success) or relegated to a third party library. It's very natural and ergonomic in Elixir, because it's the paradigm of choice in the underlying vm.

Goroutines probably come closest.
by westurner | 2025-10-16 15:54:50+00:00
> Falsifiable If: [...] Quantum computer fails to reproduce

In the other HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45585654 , it says:

> Tested on quantum computers. TFIM critical point converges to 1/phi in the thermodynamic limit.

Which quantum computer is this tested on, and how? Is there Python code in Cirq or QISKit or Tequila, for example?
by pjc50 | 2025-10-16 15:55:00+00:00
The problem is this tends to collide hard with things which are both stateful and mandatory ubiquitous, like logging.

"Functional core, imperative shell" is a great tradeoff position though.

>> Does F# care if a DLL it references was coded in a functional style

Deeper problem: it can't know. It can only assume. I'd have to check how the loader works but it may be the case that "first call to a function in an external DLL" is not stateless (and can error!) because it triggers the linker.
by NortySpock | 2025-10-16 15:55:09+00:00
anti-aging / life-extension medicine might make a dent in the number of generations you need to get somewhere.

Plus, thinking you need to live near a star, on a planet, is merely a bias for "free" fusion power and gravity that you don't need to maintain.

I'm sure once we get artificial fusion working, the options for living in a community in a big, multi-story, 2 gigatonne, 500k population O'Neil cylinder tethered to a Kuiper belt iceball will look like "a big town with a nightlife, farmland, and a stable climate, with cheap trade and transit options for 'nearby' cylinders"

At which point you can colonize any frozen rock bigger than Rhode Island between here and Wolf 359 'easily' (slowly) whenever you want to move your O'Neill cylinder.
by TophWells | 2025-10-16 15:55:17+00:00
So what actually is it? None of the rules in the videos look particularly striking compared to other Life-like cellular automata and 2d cellular automata in general. As you say, their behaviour includes oscillators, spaceships, patterns that grow endlessly... all things that are well-known from other cellular automata. So the videos didn't really show off why they're interesting.

I don't mind the rambling about "planets, galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters… and beyond …." but some technical detail would be nice too!
by weaverheavy | 2025-10-16 15:55:35+00:00
I have working players that are older than I am. They’re mechanically very simple, just lube the gears up occasionally and keep them clean. They use the same laser that a cd player does, and the service manuals for most devices are available for free online and they have part numbers for all of the ICs, and wiring diagrams and schematics for the all of the components.

An enterprising individual could probably clone an old device and flash a stock firmware to it if they really wanted to. The functionality that goes first in older devices is usually the write head, but you’d probably still be able to read discs for decades if you took care of the device and stored it well.

The minidisc community online is also very active and people are active working to reverse engineer virtually every aspect of the players and disc writing software, and some people even produce new drop-in replacement parts for the components that tend to fail like OLED displays, etc.
by mapkkk | 2025-10-16 15:55:50+00:00
I don't know why you were downvoted, I think for the right purpose tape drives are great.

Used drives from a few generations back work just fine, and are affordable. I have an LTO-5 drive, and new tapes are around $30 where I am. One tape holds 1,5TB uncompressed.

I think they are great for critical data. I have documents and photos on them.
by kijin | 2025-10-16 15:56:00+00:00
Exactly. Firefox probably owes almost all of its remaining market share to its extension ecosystem, but it is rotting away in neglect.

First-party extensions are a nice way to test out ideas and features without increasing the core product's maintenance burden. I wouldn't even mind if Mozilla heavily promoted their own extensions, because it would help draw attention to the extension library as a whole.
by atonse | 2025-10-16 15:56:06+00:00
People using private APIs know that they might cause instability (in their apps usually). That's why those APIs are private, they can change since there are no guarantees.

I'd point fingers towards the electron core devs for this one, and not devs building apps on top of electron (since they likely didn't know that's how electron was doing it).

There are cases where OS companies noticed the use of private APIs and made cleaner public ones (the most obvious was the file system syncing stuff used by Dropbox and others, which used to use private APIs until Apple provided a public one).
by altruios | 2025-10-16 15:56:06+00:00
Maybe a randomized walk is the optimal healing algorithm barring any directive force? A local maximum. It can use the endocrine signaling though... and other directive signaling. So maybe those wear with time?

Maybe not just any electric signal will do, maybe frequency and amplitude are a factor as well. A 'healing signal'.

Curious research. We'll see what becomes of it.
by KAMSPioneer | 2025-10-16 15:56:42+00:00
> >A server that I want to turn back on all by itself after a power outage can only be done securely with a TPM.

> Can you describe how this prevents a MITM attack? I assume you mean a remote server? I've heard of colocation setups like this, but I think they rely on a couple of unstated assumptions.

I'm not sure what you mean by prevent a MitM attack, unless you're worried about someone with probes MitM-ing your TPM-CPU connection in the DC.

You can bind a TPM to measurements on the host (let's say for argument's sake you want Secure Boot state, Option ROM state, and UEFI state), then configure the OS to ask the TPM for the (or rather, a) decryption key during boot.

The TPM will check that the state(s) you bound to is (are) the same as when you bound them, and if so it will give the OS the key. Your disk is encrypted, but the boot process is automatic/unattended, as well as completely contained within the server chassis.

There are ways to attack this hypothetical setup, buuuuut there are ways to attack remotely entering your disk password as well, and bear in mind that denial of service is a security vulnerability. Tradeoffs.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-16 15:56:53+00:00
My intent has not changed in this thread, just more details. I asked why you thought the "meme" was a joke, but then you said the people were the joke for holding the belief of the meme as real. You defining another person as a joke for their beliefs is just a bad way of attempting to resolve any issues. If you're one to just prefer to make fun of people then mission accomplished. If you're one that wants to understand the larger effects when everyone runs around just making fun of each other, then mission unaccomplished
by dimal | 2025-10-16 15:57:19+00:00
> that is politically infeasible in a capitalist democracy.

It’s more accurate to say it it’s politically infeasible in our capitalist oligarchy.

Just because this is the way our society works now, we shouldn’t be duped into thinking this is the natural order of things. It’s not. A democratic society with a free market economy could work very differently.
by denysvitali | 2025-10-16 15:57:21+00:00
Sadly jail time doesn't often come to those who do it (at least, from experience / hearing stories of intoxicated drivers) and the consequences are paid by those who aren't intoxicated (e.g: getting killed by a drunk driver).

It's definitely not a cure, but removing the human factor (aside from the intoxication part) is anyways a very good goal IMHO.

Oh and btw, I've seen also taxi / uber drivers that were under the influence of alcohol / cocaine. Humans are the problem.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-16 15:57:25+00:00
The entire west seems delusional about China.

No, western executives aren't shaken by visiting China. Most major car manufacturers build cars in China, the Chinese learned how to build cars from them. The Chinese did not discover some magic way to build cars better than everyone else.

What China does is relentlessly improve. It absolutely has the goal to be totally dominant in all areas of manufacturing. They do this by delivering the highest value product they can. Optimizing production and focusing on their customers.

In the US mechanical and manufacturing engineers are a small niche. Compared to Software they are badly paid, get less benefits (e.g. remote work) and have few promising or ground breaking companies to work for. That is what should be terrifying to everyone. America has no engineering culture and has no manufacturing culture. Pretending otherwise is just deluding oneself.

Here in Germany that manufacturing culture is dying. There are still new engineers, but companies, especially automotive, have stopped hiring and are cutting jobs.

China is in it to win. The west has not even decided that they want to compete. The US is focusing on Software above everything else. Germany is abandoning manufacturing for an uncertain alternative.
by vtaya | 2025-10-16 15:57:50+00:00
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by angiolillo | 2025-10-16 15:58:08+00:00
Sorry, I should have been more specific.

From an economic standpoint, the most "sensible" (i.e. most efficient and least distortionary) tax is one that relies primarily on natural resources and other forms of economic rent instead of taxing labor, businesses, non-land property, wealth, or the creation of value. However, these rent-based taxes would need to be set very high to fully replace income, corporate, payroll, sales, property, VAT, wealth, estate, etc taxes.

Switching to such a system would be painful for people whose net worth is disproportionately invested in land or who consume significant resources relative to their income. If the majority of the population fall into this category (as is not uncommon in capitalist democracies) then such taxes would be broadly unpopular, making them politically infeasible.
by citrin_ru | 2025-10-16 15:58:41+00:00
Aesthetics may be subjective (liquid glass looks bad to me but I don't like flat design either) but what objective is that new design leaves much less space than old one. Here is HN site on IOS 18 and IOS 26 (both iPhone SE): https://www.citrin.ru/tmp/403/safari-ios18-26-side-by-side.p...

Also in IOS 26 fonts are bigger for some reason (Large Text is Off on both), it can be reduced (using Large Text slider) but interval between lines and UI block is still bigger than in 18.

Settings waste even more space because of less dense design, and the same spacing problem is in most (all) applications.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-16 15:58:41+00:00
Specifically: animal waste is sometimes used as fertilizer, and sometimes that waste isn't treated properly to eliminate pathogens. Sometimes you're eating antibiotic-resistant-waste-laden plants, and sometimes those plants are fed to animals that humans then eat. Same for aquatic plants/animals downstream of animal waste. Even drinking water can be contaminated.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria isn't the only harmful downstream effect of factory farms of course. Regular-old harmful bacteria are in the runoff, as well as super-high levels of nutrients that harm waterways, plants and animals. Algal blooms, oxygen dead zones, contaminated water table, etc.

All because we really like cheap pork, beef and chicken.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-16 15:58:44+00:00
My understanding (and this may have changed), is that you have to initiate the AI features each time (e.g. clicking on "Summarize This").

But yes, your point is valid. For Tor, if you enter an API key, you could be identified. Still, does the Tor Browser prevent you from installing addons which are no more secure than these AI features? It didn't years ago - not sure if that's changed.
by glimshe | 2025-10-16 15:59:01+00:00
This is multifaceted question. I agree with what you're saying, but let me add something.

Corporations are greedy and let go of many good people. But they also let go of many people who deserved to go. It's really hard to get rid of bad people, even in the US. But you wouldn't believe how many bad people were in big tech because of the COVID over hiring.

I've seen dozens, if not hundreds of people, who went to FAANG and added next to no value. As a manager in one of these companies, I had to deal with a mix of great people and many who were absolutely taking advantage of the company. I could write a book about it. Good for them, but it's not surprising that the party would end someday.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-16 15:59:06+00:00
I'm surprised anything is recoverable on disks that old.

When I used floppy disks routinely, their lifespan was a matter of months if they were used regularly. For stuff I was working on daily, I would always save it twice to separate disks. I'd be fortunate to get through a school term without having disk errors, so I learned pretty quickly the value of having multiple copies.

For stuff that was just archives, saved and then rarely accessed, they would survive longer. My guess is just that the read/write heads were fairly abrasive and wore down the magnetic layer of the disks pretty quickly under heavy use.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-10-16 15:59:12+00:00
Due to the paywall I couldn’t get beyond the first image claiming convenience. I’ve no idea what the rest says so I’ll speak disconnected from the content and just to the concept.

People assume ultra processed came about due to demand side factors but it’s actually more about supply side supply chain management and the scale in size of the US. By processing the food into more constructed ingredients they always enter a state where they’re easy to package and distribute across vast distances in that state. They can then be combined into food that is palatable through additives. Indeed the process disrupts the natural structure and content of the food - but that was necessary to feed everyone at a reasonable price a variety of foods grown across a vast distance at a reasonable price.

Obviously this led to demand because the food was more complete and varied than was generally available at the fresh grocer. Convenience was a side effect as well that was well capitalized.

These arguments actually hold until pretty recently. Even in my lifetime grocery stores growing up were pretty stark affairs with a few expensive fresh products that you splurged on for a special dinner like thanksgiving. Daily food was basically processed rations with a fancy box. It’s only in my adulthood, and the lifetime of the millennials, that there was really much optionality as supply chains globally and fresh food distribution with widely available refrigerated trucking with ethylene gas storage proliferated, free trade opened, etc.

Before all this, in my parents generation, the other option for ultra processed foods was malnutrition and wide spread rickets. It was when we tried to draft for WWII and the majority of rural young men were so malnourished as to be unfit for war that things really changed.

To sit today and compare the options of fresh food available and wonder how we got here ignores the reality of how we got here. But we are here so indeed, eat fresh and be happy we have free trade!
by npteljes | 2025-10-16 15:59:14+00:00
I guess you're right, in the way that we can either describe and prescribe language, and yes, open source is not defined in exact terms. I still do think that attaching the label to a product, and disregarding the decades long collaborative nature of the development is utter nonsense. In my opinion, the onus is on these people to get closer to what open source really is, not because I don't want to update the term, but because I want the movement to succeed, and not to be watered down.

Funnily enough, the Liquibase project agrees with this sentiment too (or wants to avoid the fallout from open source gatekeepers): https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase/pull/7380
by pkulak | 2025-10-16 15:59:31+00:00
I lost about a month of family chats to a Samsung NVME. Yes, I was taking daily backups of the DB, but the damn drive didn't fail catastrophically and instantly. It just started silently corrupting the database, causing little errors until I noticed a month later. By then, my only option was to restore from my backup right before the first error.

The irony is that I'm a huge BTRFS fan, and use it on all my desktops. But this was a database on a server, so of course use EXT4 and be fine with silent data corruption. :/
by Mattwmaster58 | 2025-10-16 15:59:33+00:00
This doesn't seem like a realistic threat to me. Under what circumstances are you not pretty much completely pwned if an attacker could start their own processes, or have root access?

This sort of seems like saying IF an attacker gets the keys to your car, they could install a module that would allow them to come back and steal the car with a push of a button. Technically true, but they could also just steal the car straight up, or do any number of other things.
by brewdad | 2025-10-16 15:59:38+00:00
That last delay bit might not be a Firefox bug but rather something in the Debian/Ubuntu stack. I get that same type of freeze up about once a week. I typically have FF open but it can happen while I’m working in something else.

In my case I’ve chalked it up to running Debian on a MS Surface device. I’m using the standard kernel though since the Surface kernel only adds touchscreen for my device and I don’t really want it.
by benzible | 2025-10-16 16:00:01+00:00
Chris McCord directly addresses this in his recent ElixirConf talk. There's a threshold amount of training data needed for LLMs to work well, and Elixir more than clears it. Beyond that threshold, having more data doesn't make a tremendous difference. This means the "frustration gap" for newcomers essentially disappears - people who heard "Elixir is good" can now just ask an LLM to build something and start immediately, easing their way into understanding functional programming paradigms in order to be productive. I use Claude Code daily for Elixir development and it understands the language perfectly. The real strategic advantage is that while other ecosystems scramble to solve agent orchestration problems, Elixir/OTP already solved them decades ago. Lots more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fj2u6Vm42E&t=1321s
by helloworld4728 | 2025-10-16 16:00:07+00:00
Oh boy this was a major problem at our budding fintech. Here's what DIDN't work:

1. Browser fingerprinting or ip bans. They used advanced fingerprint-shifting browsers and residential proxy ips.

2. Phone number 2FA. Significantly slowed legitimate user access but still didn't fully stop credential stuffers.

What did work:

3. rate limits and carefully tailored scripts that detected usage patterns and autobanned. Eventually they gave up on us guess wasn't worth the trouble. However I'm sure we lost a few legitimate users too in the process.

What I would try in the future:

- Passkeys as 2fa. Most browser automation platforms can't handle passkey auth inside a VM.