MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by api | 2025-10-06 00:40:32+00:00
Every field can be esoteric, but math eventually gets applied. People might not care about conjectures or proofs but they like being able to cook up a pic of a capybara playing piano on Midjourney or have their chats protected by unbreakable cryptography. All that is a product of esoteric math.

With some of the humanities I feel like the lightning never strikes the ground.

A huge chunk of the humanities have been neck deep in esoteric discourse about social justice for decades. Meanwhile down here on the ground things are going backward. More and more people are rediscovering things like “race science” and “traditional” ideas about the roles of women, etc. This is happening all over the world.

When is some dude in a toga going to descend from the ivory tower with a powerful rebuttal and a new way of framing these issues that renews the flame of liberalism and free society?

I’m not holding my breath.

If I were post-economic I’d consider taking a crack at it, but what do I know?
by mircerlancerous | 2025-10-06 00:40:34+00:00
+1 to this. I've found AI to be a good tool for getting things started, and for handling more tedious features that would have required reading a lot of documentation. I wouldn't trust AI to build a whole feature on its own, but with you at the helm, you can use it to build a feature one piece at a time. I use Perplexity with a free account.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-10-06 00:42:36+00:00
> "when will you be in a situation you can't access a LLM...?"

When you're unemployed, homeless, or cash strapped for other reasons, as has happened to more than a few HNers in the current downturn, and can't make your LLM payments.

And that doesn't even account for the potential of inequality, where the well-off can afford premium LLM services but the poor or unemployed can only afford the lowest grades of LLM service.
by mrcsharp | 2025-10-06 00:43:06+00:00
LINQ doesn't need the JIT for that. I don't even think it is the JIT's responsibility to be aware of a specific library and optimize for it.

LINQ does a lot of work behind the scene to optimize for speed and reduce allocations. An example can be found here [1]. These optimizations are mostly about reducing the various LINQ patterns into simple for loops.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/Sy...
Ask HN: Building a system that can guess Past and Future health issue timeline
by bestkundli | 2025-10-06 00:44:24+00:00
Hi everyone,

I am developing a system that can predict the timeline of your past health issues (ranging from minor to severe) and also identify potential health issues (ranging from minor to severe) that may arise in the future.

Precision is close to the month and year. Would you be interested in participating for FREE?

I have tested this on myself and my family, and it is accurate for events that have mostly occurred. But my calculation also predicted the time period where nothing happened.

I need a dataset of approximately 1,000-10,000 to find the pattern more precisely.

Overview:

I am using the astro science planet combination and their transit on the user's birth time period to identify health-related issues that have arisen or may arise.

Few Challenges (in my 5-6 people dataset ):

1. I used two people's date of birth, which are just 1 day apart, and my calculation gave up their health issues all the same. And we could only match 1 event accurately, where one of the people was severely ill, while the other person had a minor cut on the forehead from an iron object after falling in their childhood. The rest of the time, we were not able to validate.

2. People often don't recall all their past minor health issues. So, preparing a timeline for minor health issues would be challenging.

I need participation from people who can still recall any severe health issues, such as surgery, hospital admission, or an injury, and feed it to the system along with their birth period. I would be able to calculate a more precise timeline.
by tguvot | 2025-10-06 00:45:29+00:00
for context about hamas thinking in general [0] (quote from article)

"for the past two years the Hamas leadership had been talking about implementing "the last promise" (alwaed al'akhir) – a divine promise regarding the end of days, when all human beings will accept Islam. Sinwar and his circle ascribed an extreme and literal meaning to the notion of "the promise, " a belief that pervaded all their messages: in speeches, sermons, lectures in schools and universities. The cardinal theme was the implementation of the last promise, which included the forced conversion of all heretics to Islam, or their killing"

, and good chunks of population specifically [1]

[0] https://judaic.arizona.edu/sites/judaic.arizona.edu/files/20...

[1] https://xcancel.com/thehonestlypod/status/197304563042865597...
by IgorPartola | 2025-10-06 00:45:47+00:00
With cell phones it is also about moving the physical device out of your consciousness so you can better utilize the actual application. And because each app does a different and unknown thing, you can’t design your hardware around your software.

However, with cars I think that doesn’t hold. Cars don't need to disappears into the background. Yet every car is converging on an unholy child of a minivan and a small crossover SUV. They are all the same and they are all equally ugly. Sacrificing a bit of aerodynamics for any level of personality would be a welcome shakeup.
by Theodores | 2025-10-06 00:45:57+00:00
Selection bias means that we don't have the sheer volume of printed material that there once was, as in pulp fiction novels, not to mention the newspapers and magazines that used to be in such abundance.

Where you lived made a difference. A rural Catholic area was not what you wanted. In the city with protestant ethics, things were a little different, more than one book was permitted.

Fortunately there is a lack of aristocracy in my known ancestry, so factory workers over the last century, and reading was the thing for them, including all of the difficult books, even though none of them had much in the way of education, just basic schooling and working for Ford in ye olde factory.

Agreed that before the 1900s there were literacy issues. However, empire has always needed vast armies of clerks and record keepers, so literacy has always been important, just not for everyone.
by esafak | 2025-10-06 00:46:11+00:00
> Citizens, on the other hand, don’t like red light cameras because they don’t want to be fined. They complain that the cameras are an invasion of their privacy. I don’t buy that because I grew up in a small town, and as such I understand that privacy is a myth.

People ditch those small towns for the city to get away from small town busybodies, among other things.
by naruhodo | 2025-10-06 00:46:27+00:00
My mind initially went to a government cover-up, but then:

> 27th of September 2025, The fire is believed to have been caused while replacing Lithium-ion batteries. The batteries were manufactured by LG, the parent company of LG Uplus (the one that got hacked by the APT).

Could the battery firmware have been sabotaged by the hacker to start the fire?
by itsme0000 | 2025-10-06 00:46:41+00:00
Might be true most places, but I’m paid 80k and essentially report to no one and do next nothing 10 months of the year with no real supervision or expectation. My employer struggles to find people with my exact stack who doesn’t expect over 100k.

If you follow American football it’s often said the best job on the team is the back-up Quarterback. Because they sit on the bench all year and still get to get a sizable check considering. Pretty much the position I find myself in.
by wang_li | 2025-10-06 00:46:56+00:00
> All this being said, RISC "won" in the sense that many RISC principles have become the "standard" principles of designing an ISA.

I disagree. Maybe many RISC chip design ideas may have taken over, but only because there are massive transistor budgets. I'd like to see a RISC chip that actually has a basic instruction set. As in, not having media instructions, SIMD instructions, crypto primitives, etc. If anything, Moore's Law won and the RISC v CISC battle became meaningless and they can just spend transistors to make every instruction faster if they care to.
by leakycap | 2025-10-06 00:47:13+00:00
I tried emulation but it's convenient to have a separate machine most of the time.

I use a PowerBook G4 Titanium, the 867MHz model. With an SSD, the battery holds 1-2 hours if I'm away from a charger. But I usually keep it at my desk for notes.

Unless someone around me has a keen eye for tech, it is still modern looking enough that I can use it in public or meetings as needed without seeming like I'm pulling out a Windows 2000-era laptop, even though I am.
by lettergram | 2025-10-06 00:49:26+00:00
The irony -- so not only was their system hacked ("hosted onsite"), but then it was also burned down onsite with no backups.

In other words.. there was no point in the extra security of being onsite AND the risks of being onsite single failure point destroyed any evidence.

Pretty much what I'd expect tbh, but no remote backup is insane.
by leakycap | 2025-10-06 00:51:01+00:00
1st place: Claude; best for writing tasks but always requires login, which is tiring for quick questions

Close 2nd: Gemini; best for research, but you have to check everything it does like it's an intern on day one... the "Deep Research" available when logged in is much more reliable, but slow

3rd: ChatGPT; it really is the most hit or miss to me and feels generic and often misleads me to a dead end... but has awesome voice chat

4th: Mistral; useful for a non-US perspective

5th: Perplexity; helpful for lightly looking into something

6th: Copilot; wow, such fail
by api | 2025-10-06 00:51:52+00:00
The stuff Jordan says about there being some value in the classics is good. Some of his stuff about meaning is good. Little to none of it is original.

He’s also a raving misogynist. I have two daughters. He can fuck right off with that shit. I mean it would bother me if I didn’t have two daughters, but that makes it more personal.

Peterson is one of those people who sounds reasonable and even compelling at first, but as you keep listening eventually you get to the part where he starts clucking like a chicken. Unfortunately that is his original stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZOkxuNbsXU

People who start reasonable then lead into nonsense always make me think of the Monty Python lumberjack song skit. They had several skits with that premise. The woman who does Philomena Cunk is a modern comedian who riffs on this.
by davkan | 2025-10-06 00:52:01+00:00
Many organizations are willing to accept the fallbacks of cloud backup storage because it’s the tertiary backup in the event of physical catastrophe. In my experience those tertiary backups are there to prevent the total loss of company IP in the should an entire site be lost. If you only have one office and it burns down work will be severely impacted anyway.

Obviously the calculus changes with maximally critical systems where lives are lost if the systems are down or you are losing millions per hour of downtime.
by blondie9x | 2025-10-06 00:52:22+00:00
This doesn't include the energy for mining and chip production either. Can you imagine if it did?

Then when you take into account the amount of water used to cool the data centers as well as part o extraction and production process? Things get insane then https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-ac...
by _heimdall | 2025-10-06 00:52:31+00:00
That footnote does make me question the bilingual reporter's skills in both languages though. If the reporter needs an LLM to help translate they could easily be missing subtle mistranslations.

The final note that all AI-assisted translations are reviewed by the newsroom is also interesting. If they are going to take the time to review it and have enough experience in both languages to verify the translation, why use the LLM for it at all?
by pseudalopex | 2025-10-06 00:53:06+00:00
> Depends on the government.

Not always then. Notably not in the recent history of the countries most relevant to this discussion.

> Also, depends on the organization. Some companies will fire your ass, or even find a way to sanction you, for talking back to the boss.

Talking back has different meanings. Some are reasonable grounds for dismissal. Some are not. Companies should be less autocratic. Being fired even unjustly is not like being executed.

Your fatalism and false comparisons are boring.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-10-06 00:53:26+00:00
Yeah. I've seen it. Had one very close call. The thieves took an awful lot of stuff, including the backups, had they taken the next box off the server room rack the company would have been destroyed. They stole one of our trucks (which probably means it was an inside job) and appear to have worked their way through the building, becoming more selective as they progressed. We are guessing they filled the truck and left.

Did anything change? No.
by roncesvalles | 2025-10-06 00:53:39+00:00
It's not so much that there is a way to directly crack an encrypted file as much as there being backdoors in the entire HW and SW chain of you decrypting and accessing the encrypted file.

Short of you copying an encrypted file from the server onto a local trusted Linux distro (with no Intel ME on the machine), airgapping yourself, entering the decryption passphrase from a piece of paper (written by hand, never printed), with no cameras in the room, accessing what you need, and then securely wiping the machine without un-airgapping, you will most likely be tripping through several CIA-backdoored things.

Basically, the extreme level of digital OPSEC maintained by OBL is probably the bare minimum if your adversary is the state machinery of the United States or China.
by hollerith | 2025-10-06 00:54:35+00:00
His wife and his daughter are public personas. Both have Youtube channels. I like his wife's channel quite a bit, and I spent a few hours years ago listening to his daughter. Both have talked about him at length while I was listening, and neither has said anything that would suggest they are unhappy with him or his influence on their lives.

His daughter has a husband and her own income stream, i.e., is no longer economically dependent on him.

I've also listened to the man himself for at least a hundred hours. I would be interested to read an explanation in support of your statement "he’s also a raving misogynist" because I've heard nothing that would lead me to conclude it or even to suspect it.

He probably believes that marriage and motherhood are best for most women. Is that contributing to your belief that he is a misogynist?
by dazzaji | 2025-10-06 00:55:06+00:00
Here’s what Claude Sonnet 4.5 suggested to take this piece from something that sounds impressive but lacks substance to something that could actually deliver on its promise. I did this thought exercise to explore whether being AI-generated necessarily precludes brilliance. You be the judge - I think Claude succeeded in mapping the gap between the current draft and what a truly excellent version would actually require.

https://claude.ai/share/46dd4b7e-9adf-473d-8372-22cb1ae34249
by tpmoney | 2025-10-06 00:55:11+00:00
And I'm sure some people greatly like (or will come to greatly like) Liquid Glass. Personally, I think I like the overall concept better than the flat UI, but there's no question that in comparison, Liquid Glass is very unpolished. My biggest problem with flat UI was that everything was ... flat. I think that's part of what's been driving me back to late 90's UI themes too. We have fancy, complex machines capable of faking 3d perspectives in amazing ways and for way less compute cost than we paid for it in the late 90s. And depth can convey a lot of information that you can easily lose in a flat UI.

But there are some real rough edges to be sanded down still. There are places where the transparency effects mean the underlying color/text bleeds into the menu / UI text that you actually want to read. It happens way less than you'd expect from critical screen shots, and a lot of the time it's less that it makes the UI text unreadable and more that it makes it look like a graphical glitch. But it does happen, that's not great and needs to get cleaned up.

There's also a weird level of "flatness" to some parts of the UI, that seem to rely on color contrasts to get the depth, but then that means that in certain situations the depth that should be there is missing. A good example if this is the safari button bar. On a site like HN where the background is white/off-white, the buttons and their bezels just sort of look like a flat white on a flat light grey. A site with a solid dark grey like daringfireball's website on the other hand allows the edges of the buttons to give a little bit of depth, but there's basically 0 contrast between the control backgrounds and the bar background. But then a site like slashdot has a medium grey background and now the buttons not only have color contrast but the slight shading around the bottom edges gives them depth that's not present in either of the other cases. When it works, the effect is nice, the problem is their theming system isn't (yet?) smart enough to make it work all the time.
by leakycap | 2025-10-06 00:58:33+00:00
Keep it to yourself. It would be a huge risk to bring in others at beta.

You need time and energy to work with interns. You really have to check everything they do, after first showing how it is done and getting them up to speed with how you do things.

Unless you're doing something that anyone you hire as intern can learn while you do it at full-speed (think bagels, mowing, construction...) then you will not be helped for a long time by anyone you bring in.
by brandall10 | 2025-10-06 00:58:41+00:00
Just a note that he continued on his path of innovation w/ Ken Parker Archtops, which he was still involved in building until just before the end. These are $20k+ custom orders so there aren't too many in the wild.

The neck 'join' in particular is wicked: https://kenparkerarchtops.com/guitars2
by anal_reactor | 2025-10-06 00:59:04+00:00
This is a symptom of a much deeper issue. The education system is completely broken because quite often if the student memorizes answers, that's already huge success. There is very little attention towards teaching students new ways of thinking. Not to mention that even in prestigious schools, teachers are often dropouts who failed to secure a more lucrative career in private sector, which means they themselves aren't competent. And even besides this, many people have too much shit going on in their lives to dedicate attention to education.
by nathan_douglas | 2025-10-06 00:59:20+00:00
Talos (and Talhelper) seem pretty reasonable so far. Digging Sops too for managing secrets. I was using Ansible Vault before which worked but was weirdly cumbersome to automate (go figure), and Sops seems to Just Work™.

> The link seems to be broken though.

Yeah, I'm a world-class infra engineer. smdh. Changed how the DNS record was created but didn't push my changes so they were reverted by a scheduled job facepalm

Think it's back now...
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-06 00:59:38+00:00
Encryption is the mechanism of segmentation for most everything on 2025.

AES is secure for the foreseeable future. Failures in key storage and exchange, and operational failures are the actual threat and routinely present a practical, exploitable problem.

You see it in real life as well. What’s the most common way of stealing property from a car? A: Open the unlocked door.
by vitus | 2025-10-06 01:00:18+00:00
> I may use a third party std::function that doesn't have the weird copy semantics though

Note that C++23 brings std::move_only_function if you're storing a callback for later use, as well as std::function_ref if you don't need lifetime extension.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/functional/move_on...
by davidw | 2025-10-06 01:01:44+00:00
My inclination is to look not at 'main street' but more niche things where people do care about the tech involved and care about it being an edge for the product or service, but it's all kind of not a big enough market for the stampeding VC herds to bother with.

I would love to know how to locate more businesses like that though; I haven't had much luck.
by highwind | 2025-10-06 01:03:45+00:00
> That footnote does make me question the bilingual reporter's skills in both languages though. If the reporter needs an LLM to help translate they could easily be missing subtle mistranslations.

I've done my fair share of translating as a bilingual person and having an LLM to do a first pass at translation saves TON of time. I don't "need" LLM, but it's definitely a helpful tool.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-06 01:04:27+00:00
I’ve seen a situation like this. The n+2 changed jobs, leaving the employee reporting to an n+1 who now hated them and no n+w to back them up.

I’m with the other commenter: If you find yourself in a situation this dysfunctional, you’ve already lost. Blowing off your boss to appease your skip level isn’t guaranteed to work out, even if the skip level likes you.

Either way, that’s not relevant to this blog post. The author said they were just going to say “no” to assigned work, which isn’t going to work out.
by bobxmax | 2025-10-06 01:04:48+00:00
As someone from (and who lives) in the developing + non-aligned part of the world, I'm always amazed at how ingrained hatred for anything western and non-democratic is for Americans.

Anything that isn't a so-called democracy with so-called western values (which change every 10 years) is patently evil.

Is this a relic of cold war propaganda? I hate to call it "brainwashing" because that's a very politically charged word but it's a belief that's so ubiquitous and immediate it surprises me. Especially for a culture with such anti-authoritarian cultural history.

Not defending CPP by any means just always find it funny from a vantage point of being surrounded on both sides by extremely large pot and kettle.
by FrostKiwi | 2025-10-06 01:04:53+00:00
Blocked by Cloudflare for me in Japan. "CNAME Cross-User Banned". Still readable on archive.org [1] Also, TIL of CNAME bans [2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20251005163816/http://blogfeeds....

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/troubleshooting/ht...
by n4bz0r | 2025-10-06 01:06:20+00:00
If you don't mind using m.2 drives, check out Beelink ME Mini. The m.2 drives are going to be limited by the PCIe 3.0 x1 bus [1], but you get a very neat and small appliance-like box that can handle home storage workloads really well. Just keep in mind that you'll need an additional OS drive: TrueNAS will probably wear that eMMC out in a matter of a year or two.

[0] https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150

[1] https://youtu.be/TkFfTekB3eM?t=1034
by only-one1701 | 2025-10-06 01:06:36+00:00
I'm two years older than you, and the difference you need to key in on is how much more time kids (like everyone) spend on their phone now vs 2008 or whatever.

It was uncommon (and lame) to film EVERYTHING and put it on YouTube or whatever. Embarrassing (or yes, tragic) things leaked sometimes, but now it feels like something being made public is the norm, not the exception. And that sucks.
by leakycap | 2025-10-06 01:06:54+00:00
80+% of business comes from one UAE based customer?

9/2024 filing at https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2021728/000162828024...

> "Group 42 Holding Ltd (together with its affiliates, “G42”) accounted for 83% and 87%, respectively, of our total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2023 and six months ended June 30, 2024. Our dependence on our relationship with G42 subjects us to a number of risks."

Is this on top of other concerns being floated?
by Aurornis | 2025-10-06 01:06:59+00:00
The solution is to have a conversation with your manager about the work you want to take on, not to play word games where you pretend to take on a task but don’t do it.

If you say you’ll review something or look into it, you still have to follow through on it. Using those phrases to dodge the work isn’t much different than failing to do the work. It will be noticed