MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pyuser583 | 2025-10-14 02:18:30+00:00
There was a FOIA-dump of old NSA propaganda posters. The kind they put up around Fort Meade for their own employees.

It started off, in the early-50s, with things like "Remember, Freedom of the Press is one of the most important Freedoms." and "Remember, Freedoms come not from humans, but from nature/God itself."

Then it slowly morphed into "Remember, we practice security so we can defend our liberties: every security breach harms our liberty."

Then is quickly morphed into "Please don't have classified conversations in the carpool."
by spongebobstoes | 2025-10-14 02:19:33+00:00
you can heuristically block ipv6 prefixes on a big enough attack by blocking a prefix once a probabilistic % of nodes under it are themselves blocked, I think it should work fairly well, as long as attacking traffic has a signature.

consider simple counters "ips with non-malicious traffic" and "ips with malicious traffic" to probabilistically identify the cost/benefit of blocking a prefix.

you do need to be able to support huge block lists, but there isn't the same issue as cgnat where many non-malicious users are definitely getting blocked.
by panick21_ | 2025-10-14 02:19:42+00:00
This isn't really the case. For Falcon 1 he hired a bunch experts but a pretty small handful. Then he hired a lot of really young hungry engineers.

And its also hard to say that 'top talent left'. Because arguable some of the achievements after some of those people left is bigger then before. Tom Mueller for example build the Merlin engine, but claims to be more proud of the team he build that then went on to build Raptor. So clearly even while some talented people left, many others joined.

SpaceX is not 'iterating and keeping the lights on' they are always going for something harder in the next iteration.
by skydhash | 2025-10-14 02:20:01+00:00
Two examples of complex user facing configurations I can think of are pretty trivial to implement:

- Decision tree, where you only need comparison operators. The leaves are a specified list of actions.

- actions list with macros (variables). You can be fancy and add some conventions for arrays.

Anything more that that should just be a programming language. And if the relationship is adversarial (saas), you should really think hard about needing something that complex.
by Veedrac | 2025-10-14 02:20:49+00:00
Very clean flight, almost all the way through, despite the intentional missing tiles and new flight pattern. No flap burn through, no issues with simulated Starlink deploy, I don't think they even lost any engines.

They're clearly almost ready to scale this thing, if the next block version doesn't add a ton of problems back on. I'm not sure they're quite at the point of rapid reuse looking feasible, since tiles did come loose near the end of flight; not a problem for stage return, but definitely bad enough to warrant a meaningful correction before a (counterfactual) reflight.

Overall they've clearly proven the recipe works.
by stackskipton | 2025-10-14 02:20:50+00:00
Ops is not a layer of abstraction over Kubernetes no more then Dev is layer of abstraction over Python. We both have different responsibilities and thinking that Ops is just missing one more library is why it goes so wrong.

Kubernetes is massive beast and I get it. It feels extremely overcomplicated for "Please for the love of all that holy, just run this container." However, trying to abstract away such complexity is like trying to use Golang with some Python to Golang cross compiler. It works until it you need some feature and then oh god, all hell breaks loose.

I have not played with scaffold either but I will say. scaffold render should not be Ops job, I find it goes best when Devs present artifact they believe is ready for production and I can slot into the system. Otherwise, the friction between Devs handing Ops what they think is possibly buildable artifact quickly becomes untenable.
by N70Phone | 2025-10-14 02:21:05+00:00
My point is that for these purposes, users are not fungible. You can't just divide the cost-revenue equation by the amount of users N on both sides.

> No it's not.

If you add a pile of fictious users to the usercount, the apparent average cost-per-user drops as the fictious users do not use the service and do not add their own costs. This lowers the apparent amount of per-user revenue you need.

However, as fictious users also do not generate revenue, this is all smoke and mirrors.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-14 02:21:39+00:00
Mac apps outside of the Mac App Store really doesn’t have any sandboxing.

And Android’s sandboxing is so bad, you always hear about the malware of the week especially outside of the Play Store.

ChromeOS also isn’t open source. And expecting end users to “configure sandboxes” you might as well not have one.

Firefox is s browser, and didn’t they tighten what third party extensions can run?

Android - or at least the version that most people use - is not “open source” by any stretch of the imagination.
by bentcorner | 2025-10-14 02:22:59+00:00
A lot of home routers will give you a traffic graph - if yours doesn't you can either find one that does or flash/build one.

I currently run opnsense which has an ok graph out of the box, I haven't fiddled with it to see if there's something fancy I could do here.

I also used to use IPFire which was slightly clunkier but had a nicer usage graph.
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-14 02:23:27+00:00
I think the tile loss rate will still be important to them before that. Even in such low orbits, any tiles lost would take some time to come down (and might even survive all the way down).

If they can make it so they only lose tiles when in a suborbital trajectory, they may be safe to begin deploying real Starlinks as soon as V3 has proven engine relight.
by elmerfud | 2025-10-14 02:24:26+00:00
It probably wouldn't be classified as a hammer anymore. You're comparing apples and oranges. Now when you show me the manual hand saw that can avoid cutting off your fingers you'll have an accurate comparison.

Because we're not comparing air nailers or electric nail guns or screw guns. It was about a hammer.

Your comparison is so ridiculous because the table saw did not obsolete any other kind of saw. It was only a new type of saw that allowed for some types of sawing to be done much easier.
by credit_guy | 2025-10-14 02:24:52+00:00
I disagree. AI is very cheap. People speculate that OpenAI and Anthropic and Google heavily subsidize the AI they provide. But all the evidence points towards this not being true. You can look at all the independent providers, like Cerebras, Groq, TogetherAI, and dozens others. Some may swim in venture capital money, and can afford to subsidize, but I doubt all can do that. And if they can't, then how do you explain that the cost of the million tokens is so low?

And this is just now. Inference costs are plummeting, because models are becoming more and more efficient. I can get 6 tokens/second on my local Ollama from GPT-OSS-20B using only CPU, and I can get 11 tps from Qwen3-30B. This was unthinkable 6 months ago. I am quite certain I'll get faster speeds 6 months from now and faster still 6 months later. Model architectures are becoming better and better, and models with the same number of parameters are becoming smarter and smarter.
by adabyron | 2025-10-14 02:26:22+00:00
I tried digging deeper into understanding the opposition's arguments. I do understand my article was light on details & as you stated, fairly politicized arguments.

Based on my research, 1/3 of the land that would have had major construction disturbances effecting plants & archeology. A fair counter argument is that construction crews deal with archeology all the time. I would also assume it should be fairly easy to take rare plants into account & make sure there is an equal amount grown & taken care of after construction is completed. I don't know what plants they are concerned about, but solar farms do improve a lot of vegetation by offering shade & reducing evaporation.

The entire area was to be fenced off which would prevent big horn sheep migration. It seems no pathways were offered to be built to help with migration of animals. This seems like something that could be fairly easy to do though it would add expense of fencing & reduce some solar panels possibly.
by elmerfud | 2025-10-14 02:26:24+00:00
Everybody knows about saw stop. But in what way does a table saw compare with a hammer? If you were comparing it to an air nailer, or an electric nail gun, or an electric screw gun, which all can have safety features that require certain things to be met before it will fire then you have a comparison.

If you want to compare the hammer to something that saws you would compare it to a handsaw. Show me the hand saw that cannot damage your fingers.

You must think you're very smart but I don't think you've done any manual labor in your life. Because the table saw never obsoleted any other type of existing saw. It was simply a new tool that enhanced the ability to do certain types of sawing. The more you limit a function of something the easier it is to put guardrails around it. That was the original poster's point. You can limit Android to the point that it is nearly useless or useless only for the most basic of tasks but then you remove the power of it but you do not remove the need for all of the other tasks.

Table saws with saw stop still necessitate hand saws in some circumstances. Power nailers that have safety features that prevent their discharge and unsafe ways do not obsolete hammers.
by panick21_ | 2025-10-14 02:26:27+00:00
Pretty much everybody know that launch site and exclusion zones for human are great for wildlife. Turns out, what is destroying the environment is humans living in places, large areas with few humans usually do pretty well.

But instead of focusing on that, we need to test if dolphins get hearing damage from rockets.

> So that's the cost of progress

Its actually the benefit of progress. The cost of progress is having to close the beach and having to relocate a small village.
by zeroimpl | 2025-10-14 02:26:27+00:00
I couldn’t find a library like this in PHP, but realized for my use case I could easily hack something together. Algorithm is simply:

- trim off all trailing delimiters: },"

- then add on a fixed suffix: "]}

- then try parsing as a standard json. Ignore results if fails to parse.

This works since the schema I’m parsing had a fairly simple structure where everything of interest was at a specific depth in the hierarchy and values were all strings.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-14 02:26:43+00:00
Just saying, once you find out the testing team is unreliable, you make sure there's a form of evidence it actually got tested, that someone on your team reviews before signing off.

It doesn't take a whole team. There are lots of mechanisms to produce that evidence. This is just how it works. If two checks aren't sufficient, it becomes three. Or four. Until problems stop making it through.
by blargey | 2025-10-14 02:26:43+00:00
You could also see it as a double condemnation of colonialism - not just immoral, but an economically useless endeavor.

Looking to the future, I'd prefer colonialism not be considered a lucrative strategy (though the thesis doesn't deny that colonialism was profitable for specific interest groups - just that those groups were a small part of the newly industrializing economies, and that the nation-level balance sheet gained little from their pillaging, compared to the costs of empire-maintenance).
by pessimizer | 2025-10-14 02:26:44+00:00
> No, but this is irrelevant to any of the currently discussed situations.

It's somehow always relevant, because they all pretend to be speaking for black people, or that their situation is exactly as if they were black people. It's unbelievably grating to actual black people. And when black people say it to them, how they feel about actual black people comes out instantly. You see, we're symbols. We represent unfair suffering.

Just like their parents who were trying to be rappers, their grandparents were trying to be "white n-----s" (because having to go to Vietnam made them black, you see), and their great-grandparents were talking in jazz talk (like Biden.) It did nothing for black people.
by gizmo686 | 2025-10-14 02:27:44+00:00
Breaking up Google will not help in this particular case. The problem is entirely within the Android unit; and would still be present even if Android were to be split off into it's own company.

It certainly seems like there is problematic behavior in the restrictions Google puts on OEMs that want to use Android (or, more specifically, play services) on their devices. However, I think it would take a different enforcement mechanism to address that.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-14 02:28:32+00:00
I have no idea where this romanticism of software development comes from. I’ve been in the field professionally for 30 years across 10 jobs - everything from startups, to boring old enterprise companies, to small to midsize “lifestyle companies” and BigTech. Most people see the job as a vocation to make money and not a passion.

Scott Hanselman talked about “Dark Matter Developers” in 2012.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...
by nine_k | 2025-10-14 02:28:41+00:00
Is there any money an ISP would make, or save, by sinking money and effort on switching to IPv6? If there's none, why would they act? If there is some, where?

For instance, mobile phone operators, which had to turn ISPs a decade or two ago, had a natural incentive to switch to IPv6, especially as they grew. Would old ISPs make enough from selling some of their IPv4 pools?
by pyuser583 | 2025-10-14 02:29:12+00:00
There hasn't been great scholarship on the buildup of Fascism - or at least there are some big missing pieces.

So many records were destroyed, and until very recently, propaganda was still sacrosanct.

In Communist countries, Fascism had to be Capitalist reaction to working class solidarity. In Western Countries, there was more freedom, but there was a strong stigma against any analysis that violated Atlanticist principals. Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" raised too much controversy for claiming Eichmann was just a joiner, not hateful.

Until recently it wasn't just propaganda, but a basic human decency not to ask certain questions too loudly while the survivors of the Holocaust were still alive, and their persecutors lived unpunished.

For example, there's little willingness (in the West) to discuss the role Russian emigres played in supporting Fascism? They were obviously being opportunistic, as were Ukrainians and Finns.

I learned very recently that in late November 1918, weeks after World War I ended, the British told the Germans they could expand Eastward, rearming if necessary, to prevent the Bolsheviks from advancing.

The Germans had already disarmed, and no longer had functional militaries. But they were able to raise self-sustained militias that moved into parts of Poland and Lithuania.

Later on, Nazi propaganda played up this fact, while Allied propgandists chose to ignore it. It likely had a role in convincing Germans they had a "natural" claim to East Europe.

Looking at the news, the German army recently held marches in these places, as a sign of support for NATO against the Russians.
by antod | 2025-10-14 02:29:39+00:00
Does Z80 or 6502 on 8bit computers count?

I'm not a great programmer and don't code full time, but I've done a bit of that 8bit assembler and enjoyed the relatively finite single-focused determinism of it, but I don't know if it has improved my current coding at all.

I suspect doing some Linux systems coding in C might have a bigger effect on connecting the dots between the layers for me.
by wzdd | 2025-10-14 02:31:48+00:00
This explains a lot for me. On the server side, all my for-pay stuff is deployed using Docker. We have a single Python environment and complete control over it. We do multistage for compilation.

Client side, we don't get the privilege of deploying code: we need to build installers, which means again we have complete control over the environment because we package Python and all associated dependencies.

I'm sure there are marginal benefits to uv even with the above scenarios (better dependency management for example), but it seems that there's a middle ground here which I have largely avoided which is where uv really shines.
by oskarkk | 2025-10-14 02:33:18+00:00
> He deserves at least some credit, considering that he and Bezos are the only billionaires actually willing to put their wealth into chasing a vision.

Musk was worth ~$300M when he started SpaceX and Tesla, and he bet nearly all of that money on SpaceX and Tesla, and that's why he's a billionaire. His big share of SpaceX makes up like half of his wealth, so from today's perspective he's not putting his wealth into a vision, he's wealthy because of that vision. That's different from Bezos, who made his big money from Amazon and then started putting billions into Blue Origin (which was rather inspired by SpaceX success). That said, Blue Origin was actually founded before SpaceX, but they were very slowly working on their suborbital rocket for a decade before Bezos gave them big cash, while SpaceX started sending satellites to space and supplying the ISS in that time. SpaceX has made 500+ orbital flights so far, while Blue Origin just one.
by kijin | 2025-10-14 02:34:35+00:00
Larger slices taste better, too. Kimchi starts to lose its crispness as soon as it is cut. If you store pre-cut kimchi in the fridge, it will turn into a floppy mess much sooner.

So you're more likely to be served uncut kimchi in restaurants where the menu requires fresh crisp kimchi, as in bossam, kalguksu, and seolleongtang.
by fainpul | 2025-10-14 02:34:46+00:00
Thanks.

So, simply sending a download link for an APK to a friend is not enough anymore - I now have to teach them how to install and use adb.

EDIT

> we are also introducing a free developer account type that will allow teachers, students, and hobbyists to distribute apps to a limited number of devices without needing to provide a government ID.

Depending on how they implement that, this would at least partially improve the situation. Sounds like no ID is required, but I assume the whole ordeal with registering each app is still mandatory.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-10-14 02:34:59+00:00
> Yet I'm sure most of those investors are quite happy with this result, as some of them seem to be on Twitter, which really just proves that there is a whole other non-financial game that exists within the VC game. They are willing to back serious operators trying to change the culture, and even if you don't produce a meaningful return, there are other ways you can win (even in their eyes).

And where is capitalism? This is the 21th century equivalent of Palmerston paying off The London Times so that no one thinks too hard about why England would ever want to fight for the Confederacy.
by aurareturn | 2025-10-14 02:35:02+00:00
Share buyback is the same as giving dividends - except the share holder doesn’t have to pay taxes until they sell. To the company, they spend the same amount on share buyback vs giving dividends. I don’t see how this argument holds up.

Further more, while some might argue that corporate R&D is better due to being closer to the problem but it is private research and not shared with the world like university research is.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-14 02:35:05+00:00
It seems plausible that the value accrued by any given extreme response to binary [discrete-classed] emotions is upper-bounded by zero

One good thing about opensource: there's realtime leakage of how things are run so wiseguys have time to fork and/or pivot.

Some people factor that attention premium into the routine cost of a sw business. Because the other scenario-- the downside of depending on proptech-- is not recoverable without a team of lawyers

I find it heartening that lack of backprop from reality to character is (albeit not always career ending) still generally relationship-ending..

Maybe similar mechanisms can be developed wrt intra-/inter-org relations.
by eldaisfish | 2025-10-14 02:35:36+00:00
you are being generous. Tesla's software "mistakes" have killed several people. They needlessly try to reinvent the wheel in the name of innovation and end up ignoring decades of auto industry knowledge.

I do not trust them and never will. This is the #1 reason why every car is buy is just a car. I do not trust techbros with devices that can kill you, especially cars.
by fragmede | 2025-10-14 02:36:18+00:00
DHH wrote a blog post complaining about how there are fewer "native Brits" in London, and then linked to Wikipedia's article about the number of white people in London. He also brought up a march by Tommy Robinson, but framed it as just a couple of exceeding normal guys out for a walk, and not a bunch of nationalists.

It came off as xenophobic and racist, so sponsors pulled funding while others (some quite high profile) refuse to work with DHH. There's a non-zero amount of reading between the lines, so here's the blog post so everyone can decide for themselves:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64
by trimethylpurine | 2025-10-14 02:37:27+00:00
Not all deserts are sand dunes. Many are very rich in plant and animal life and can be excellent for certain crops, given some basic irrigation. A great many are in cold climates. If you saw what they call a desert when there's money on the table, I would venture to guess you'd side with the environmental groups that opposed the location I was referring to. I have no doubt.

What I mean is that solar is good, and I support using it in a lot of places. But it's also open to bad decisions like everything else, so I try not to be a zealot about it. It's not the end all perfect cure for energy and it doesn't save the environment in all cases. Just in many.
by akeck | 2025-10-14 02:38:35+00:00
> You see, unlike Debian or other standard OS, Raspberry Pi OS (which I still call Raspbian in my head and likely use in this article multiple times) is designed to be flashed to the SD card directly and doesn’t actually have an installer that can be booted from USB

https://github.com/gitbls/sdm

can help with this issue.
by floam | 2025-10-14 02:39:27+00:00
If anyone is unaware:

MPTCP being enabled on a server is what makes clients running on Apple devices magically not time out when you walk out of Wi-Fi range or switch to LTE (and is behind the “Wi-Fi Assist” setting/feature). iOS and macOS have had it quietly on by default for years: at first just iCloud etc. used it under the hood but for instance WeChat started enabling it like a decade ago for the improved performance.

With MPTCP, the same TCP session hops networks mid-flight. Without it, these seamless handoffs are at best fast reconnects. It’s one of those Apple things that “just works”; on your Linux server you need to flip it on in `socket()` or look into `mptcpize` last I checked but it’s no big deal. I dont think it’s well supported as a client yet and who knows if Android will ever.

(the “Wi-Fi Assist” toggle in Settings doesn’t enable/disable MPTCP, it is on regardless, but it decides if iOS will spin up a cellular subflow when Wi-Fi starts flaking out. It will use some metered data, hence the user-facing toggle.)
by patcon | 2025-10-14 02:40:58+00:00
I was a big proponent of the nexus phones and Google's efforts in the space, but I am hundred percent not an android fan anymore.

There's a study on positive or destructive workers, from a business management pov. The finding was that the "bad" employees and the "good" are often the same people: a "good" employee scorned becomes the worst type of employee.

I think Google will be discovering some variant of this from their previous fandom, and it will be too late.