MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Liftyee | 2025-10-07 00:03:09+00:00
The hand repositioning was the rationale for the ThinkPad TrackPoint (which I still use daily). Right on the home row, and with 3 buttons for left/right/scroll+zoom purposes. Sadly it never caught on, possibly because the precision is not as good as a touchpad. It's even been removed from some of the latest ThinkPads.
by Deeptiman | 2025-10-07 00:03:54+00:00
A structured visualization of the Elliptic Curve Method (ECM), relating j-invariant classes and curve selection to Palm Jumeirah’s frond layout.

Imagine the Elliptic Curve Method as exploring Palm Jumeirah, Dubai’s iconic palm-shaped island. The island represents an elliptic curve y² = x³ + ax + b mod M, where M is the number to factor (a product of unknown primes). Fronds are j-invariants classifying curve shapes, points (x, y) are coordinates to probe, and the group order (number of points modulo a hidden prime p) is like the frond’s “explorable paths” bounded by Hasse’s theorem: |#E(Fₚ) — (p+1)| ≤ 2√p.
by bluebarbet | 2025-10-07 00:04:15+00:00
This is all clearly true. Human society is rooted. Communities are static, more or less by definition. So a nomadic lifestyle will never appeal to most people: it's just not compatible with a normal life. But most of us relish the bite-sized version of it (vacations) so I think there's value in pushing the envelope if ever we get the chance.
by plorkyeran | 2025-10-07 00:05:41+00:00
Tariffs 30 years ago possibly could have stopped the manufacturing base from being destroyed, but they're not sufficient to rebuild it. Taxing imports sufficiently that building locally is cheaper will keep your local companies in business, but it's still a very unappealing investment. There's no guarantee that the tariffs will stay in place long enough for you to make money, and even without foreign competition your prices are still limited by demand elasticity. Outright subsidies can work better as they effectively let you raise your price above what people are willing to pay, but there's still plenty of long-term problems.
by PebblesHD | 2025-10-07 00:06:10+00:00
Challenge is we ended up with one really bad streaming service but lots of capital slurping up all the licenses. In my ideal world, the regulator would prevent using exclusivity as a moat to prevent smaller operations competing.

Australia is a tiny market but before the big american companies bought them out, our local AnimeLab offering was one of the worlds best. If a new similarly oriented offering could launch and compete I’d love to see it, but sadly only pirate operations can do so, and are doing so effectively.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-10-07 00:06:33+00:00
> If doctors don't have enough time, then there aren't enough doctors.

It's not until around 1950 that medicine becomes a virtually guaranteed path to being in the top 1-2%. It's not until the late 70s that it's viable for anyone almost anyone (people without already wealthy parents). It's not until the late 90s that the average person who cares about nothing but money has figured out that medicine is a virtually guaranteed ticket to being "rich".

I think the problem stems from there being too many people in the profession that care about almost nothing but having a lot of money - which isn't any different from most professions where you can make a ton of money.

I do believe that the vast majority of doctors, especially older ones, AT THE VERY LEAST have decent intentions.

But even a very small percentage of wildly greedy people can damage a system severely.

I'm not sure how you put Pandora back in the box here.

At the end of the day, good doctors are providing a service of almost unlimited value.

Modern medicine is basically a miracle if you're literally about to die.
by sipofwater | 2025-10-07 00:07:24+00:00
* Mirror: https://archive.ph/pOOSr

* "Let's talk security: Answering your top questions about Android developer verification": https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-... (android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html)

* "Answering questions about Android developer verification": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428832
by bloomingeek | 2025-10-07 00:08:53+00:00
This is the shameful truth! Who knows what the consequences will be in the future...why? Because the corruption is so widespread, it's almost impossible to track it all. Deflection is the order of the day and the press is too scared/corrupt to report almost anything for fear of being sued by the current administration, which SCOTUS has basically capitulated to almost everything the pres wants.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-07 00:09:42+00:00
>see it as a cost-cutting measure to stop doing it.

If only. I wish they would stop localizing it. Just give me the raw episodes. It seems like every site outside of Japan insists on ruing it by putting English on top of it. Unfortunately the economics of the situation means that sites will server the interests of tourists instead of otaku, so it's unlikely to ever change.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-07 00:10:09+00:00
At this point if you are still willingly part of the MS ecosystem I'd say that's a case of Stockholm Syndrome. At the time of the SCO lawsuit I decided enough is enough and I haven't looked back. Software development is actually easier on Linux, there are good enough alternatives for most applications so unless your job demands that you use a particular package you might as well bite the bullet.

Microsoft will never change its ways, no matter how much windowdressing they use underneath it is the same evil empire that it always was.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-10-07 00:10:42+00:00
I don't use, and barely passed that circuits course using partial differential equations. But at least now I have some idea of what they are, and where they are useful.

I also don't use Fourier transforms much, or Taylor or McLaurin expansions - but it gives me a solid foundation for understanding how people do various signal analysis, function approximation, etc.

I.e. I agree that I had to take a lot of math. And I don't use much of it. But I'm not really resentful of it - I'm only resentful of the sometimes useless profs we got.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-07 00:10:51+00:00
Could it be because HFCS, like Sucrose is about half Fructose and that Fructose is only metabolized by the liver... Not to mention the damage Fructose causes, similar to glycation but without anything resembling reliable testing. So basically everything bad about alcohol for the body but without the negative reinforcement of a headache after.

Similar for fruit juice. In nature, people weren't drinking fruit smoothies by the liter year round either.

When I was a kid, my grandmothers had these tiny 1/2 cup glasses for "fruit juice" which was a serving.. and you should "only have one serving a couple times a week." That's just not what people do today.
by lucb1e | 2025-10-07 00:11:25+00:00
With Microsoft allegedly trying to close down all those ways, it sure sounds like OS modification (or not using Windows) is the reasonable endgame here? I'm not sure how this comment, saying to not use modified OSes but use the "far easier ways", fits with the submitted article. Not everyone has the skills to modify the compiled code files that make Windows require a Microsoft account

If it's so easy, which are these ways, then? Do you think they'll remain available indefinitely?

Not that I don't underwrite the risks involved in getting your OS from untrusted or unreputable sources
by 0xTJ | 2025-10-07 00:12:17+00:00
The average grandparent isn't installing an OS, they're using whatever comes on the device. If you had Ubuntu pre-installed and automatically updating, there isn't going to be that much of a difference for how many less-tech-savy people use the computer.

Microsoft has a strong cycle of "applications run on Windows" -> "device vendors choose to bundle Windows" -> "people use applications on Windows", but that has been eroded, in part thanks to Wine and the work put in by people at Valve.

If someone who uses their computer to browse the web and check the email picked up a laptop pre-installed with Ubuntu, they'd likely be perfectly fine with it.
Show HN: AI or Human
by n00bi3s2 | 2025-10-07 00:13:11+00:00
I built a small game that tests your ability to differentiate between human written text and large language models. Each round shows two similar sentences, one is drawn from a 40‑k sentence human‑written dataset (with citations) and the other generated by an AI model. It’s a lightweight way to build some AI literacy and see how tricky it can be to tell real writing from synthetic text.
by rightnow_ai | 2025-10-07 00:13:14+00:00
Quick context on what this actually does

This is not static analysis. It runs your CUDA kernel in a CPU-backed simulator and predicts how it behaves on real GPUs

Basicly it uses a tile model tied to L2 size and SM limits

Right now it covers 80+ NVIDIA architectures and the Mean error on exec time is around 1–2% on our test kernals that we made 'more info in the blog'

It still struggles with dynamic parallelism but I will figure it out soon
by michaelt | 2025-10-07 00:13:19+00:00
1. example.com is not on the HSTS preload list

2. Because you normally visit example.com using an incognito window, your browser hasn't cached the redirect to SSL, or the address bar suggestion, and you haven't bookmarked the site.

3. You key in example.com, the browser connects over http, and the evil wifi MITMs your unencrypted connection - removing the redirect to SSL and messing with the page however the evildoer wants.

Obviously a VPN provider can also do this, but you might hope they're less likely to.
by triceratops | 2025-10-07 00:13:30+00:00
> Apparently it was established in 1997 to prevent a surplus.

Perish the thought that we have slightly too many doctors. That can never be allowed!

I can't believe they passed that shit with a straight face.

I'll repeat what I've said before: no other profession in America requires a literal act of Congress to fund the training of new members. What's so special about doctors? Let anyone open a medical school if they meet standards. Give anyone an MD if they pass the exams and do the residencies, like lawyers.

And while they're at it let doctors go to medical school straight out of high school like they do in every other country in the world (other than Canada, I think). You'll give every new doctor an additional 2 years in their career they would've spent in undergrad doing a useless "pre-med" degree (assuming medical school becomes 6 years of study after high school instead of 4 years after an undergrad degree).
by astrange | 2025-10-07 00:13:36+00:00
Temperature is a property of the sampler, which isn't strictly speaking part of the LLM, though they co-evolve.

LLMs are afaik usually evaluated nondeterministically because they're floating point and nobody wants to bother perfectly synchronizing the order of operations, but you can do that.

Or you can do the opposite: https://github.com/EGjoni/DRUGS
by fragmede | 2025-10-07 00:13:58+00:00
And you're entitled to your own opinion! It's not about your iPhone telling the vehicle it's going to a charger, but that charging is part of the process. It needs to be baked into the roots of the navigation system. Apple's just not positioned to care enough about that.

I can't speak for Rivan's dev team's plans, but all the big car manufacturers have a voice command feature. How well it works is a different question. Siri is....how do I say this politely. Siri is best used in very specific circumstances for specific tasks. I can't imagine Rivian isn't looking to compete with the features Siri offers in those particular circumstances.

If it were GM or a different legacy automaker we were discussing here, I'd have different things to say, but Rivian isn't one of the big three.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-07 00:14:17+00:00
The biggest hurdle to a game server written entire on the BEAM is the GC. GC pauses just take too much time, and when you need to get out (for example) 120 updates per second, you can't afford it. Even offloading stuff to C or C++ does not save you, because you either have to use the GC, do a copy, or both.

Game servers typically use very cheap memory allocation techniques like arenas and utilize DOD. It's not uncommon for a game server simulation to be just a bunch of arrays that you grow, never shrink, and then reset at the end of the game.
by chermi | 2025-10-07 00:14:48+00:00
Well, I'd say it certainly helps. Better headline with less clicks would be "mapping ... ALONE doesn't explain in it's function. Has anyone said connectome = function? Quick google I guess maybe Sebastian Seung could be accused of it.

It provides constraints, limits, ideas. Suppose the first collection of neurons we fully understand will be the nematode. I have little doubt that having a map of its components and their connectivity is a prerequisite to understand function. Function != Structure, but function = f(structure, weights, history, all sorts of chemical processes, neurotransmitters, ion channels...)

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but it's still made of its parts.
by badc0ffee | 2025-10-07 00:15:15+00:00
> Here's the thing, I started up an old iPad last night and the e-mail no longer exists nor can be created, so I can't do a lost password, I can't log in, so I can't install apps, or even format the device without some 'Account Lock'

If it has a passcode and you remember the passcode, you should still be able to wipe the device with Apple Configurator?

If the situation is that you don't have a passcode, but you do have an iCloud account where you don't remember the password and can't access the email address, and either don't have access to the recovery phone number or never specified one, then yeah. You might need to find your receipt and bring it to an Apple store to be reset.
by lucb1e | 2025-10-07 00:15:44+00:00
I find it annoying not to be able to run things at the same time. I've used dual boot many years ago but ran into the issue that one thing required one OS, another thing another OS. Kept having to close things down and reboot, reboot reboot. Nah, thanks. I'll use Linux with an offline Windows XP VM for Age of Empires and call it a day. One day, maybe I'll use a Windows 10 VM without Microsoft account to run modern software if the need arises
by glenstein | 2025-10-07 00:16:20+00:00
I think you're right that it's going to get enshittified (in fact I tried to say a similar thing toward the end of my comment). I'll stand by this though, LLM Chat, as it exists now, is (imo) objectively better than Google Search, as it is now. Google Search at its best (or, say, Kagi), vs LLM Chat at its best, I would say there's an interesting open question, but I can see the case for chat winning.

But I think it's going to be like Kagi, you'll pay for a subscription to a good-enough one, but the main companies will try to make their proprietary ones too feature rich and too convenient so that you'll have no choice but to use their enshittified version. What we have now might be a golden age that we will miss having.

But, for better or worse, I do think what's coming may be a paradigm where they are effectively one big omniscient super-app.
by yuriNator | 2025-10-07 00:16:31+00:00
The interface of the future is local "AI" in the form of functions embedded in hardware inferred from data sets

One way to consider it that I like as an EE working in the energy model realm; consider the geometry of an oscilloscope.

Electromagnetism to be carved up into equations that recreate it.

Geometric generators that create bulk structure and allow for changing min/max parameters to achieve desired result.

Consider a hardware system that boots and offers little more than blender and photoshop like parameter UI widgets to manipulate whatever segment of the geometry that isn't quite right.

Currently we rely on an OS paradigm that is basically a virtual machine to noodle strings. The future will be a vector virtual machine that lets users noodle coordinates.

Way less resource intensive to think of it all as sync of memory matrix to display matrix and jettison all the syntax sugar developers stuck with string munging OS of history.
by fao_ | 2025-10-07 00:16:42+00:00
Probably not 2026, but sure, by 2030. A fair chunk of the younger generation do give a shit about privacy (see also: torrenting on the rise again), Linux is mostly unattended with respect to configuring things these days, and things like "sound" and "games" are for the most part a thing of the past outside of 4 or 5 specific games that require kernel-level anticheat.
by sipofwater | 2025-10-07 00:16:47+00:00
* "Since sideloading is being disabled, can you tell me how to block system updates?": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1nywpe2/since_sidelo... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1nywpe2/since_sideloading_is_being_disabled_can_you_tell/)

* Reddit Comment 1: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1nug9l1/wayland_desk... (old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1nug9l1/wayland_desktop_apps_on_android_via_the_official/nh7ja8g/ , "Wayland desktop apps on Android via the official Terminal VM")

* Reddit Comment 2: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1nug9l1/wayland_desk... (old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1nug9l1/wayland_desktop_apps_on_android_via_the_official/nh1sk68/ , "Wayland desktop apps on Android via the official Terminal VM")
by bourbonproof | 2025-10-07 00:16:50+00:00
Honestly, Docker Swarm is so great. We use it with 6 very beefy machines (each 1tb memory/96cpu cores) for years already. It's so stable and well done, no restarts, crashes, or weird behaviors. We use it in a Hetzner VLAN and performance is excellent. We are very satistfied with it, and I would use it for even bigger scenarios. I even thought about building something like coolify/flightcontrol on top of it, so I can really easy have proper deployments of my stuff
by dweinus | 2025-10-07 00:17:03+00:00
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2024/09/12/spacex-launches-...

...but sure, for the sake of argument, maybe it's only a quarter million lbs of kerosene 50 times a year, upper atmospheric pollution, and LEO crowding that gets solved by HN comments. ...instead of a dumb cable that doesn't come with a side of funding a billionaire neo-nazi. My bad.
by Modified3019 | 2025-10-07 00:17:04+00:00
These days I find Linux and windows have a roughly equal amount of issues to deal with, and because I have decades of experience learning how to work through those issues, they are equally painful so I can happily choose Linux over windows.

What makes Linux especially painful to windows users is they basically need to relearn how to solve the same sort of problems they’ve forgotten they’ve been solving all the time in windows, but in Linux. Which makes the effort novel and thus especially noticeable.

Basically it takes accepting one is going to get smacked with fractal side quests of searching how to fix problems for a bit, but it does get better fairly quickly.
by protocolture | 2025-10-07 00:17:12+00:00
Microsofts idea of security is security from being blamed for large scale breaches. I dont think they think about you or me at all tbh.

My point was, if you dont care about Secure Boot / Bitlocker / TPM2.0, then you probably dont also care about security updates. Not whatever insult you thought I was making.

If your thoughts were terminated, that was entirely self inflicted.
by wyldberry | 2025-10-07 00:17:21+00:00
It's really easy for people who work in tech, or tech adjacent to recommend this, but in my experience, getting anyone to try nearly anything on Linux is very rough. Friends who wanted to "take control of privacy in their life" never made it beyond a week of trying to use a Linux distribution.

We have decades of training in the consumer market for very simple install patterns using UIs, and minimal messing with configurations. The people in gaming who overclock and tweak their settings are a huge minority in gaming. Those people are the ones most likely to be able to grok switching to Linux, but when they get there and find that most of their favorite apps don't work like they are used to, they go back to Windows or Mac.

My hypothesis is that for Linux Gaming to truly take off, you'll need a true desktop (not steamdeck which i use weekly) that makes it a handful of "clicks" to get whatever they want installed working. That means you'll need a commercially backed OS where developers maintain all the things needed to support near infinite peripheral connections for a variety of use cases, clear anti-cheat interfaces, and likely clear DRM hooks as well.
by driverdan | 2025-10-07 00:17:28+00:00
I did this for a bit. The approach is very useful to learn. Traveling light is so, so much better. I never check bags unless there's a very good reason. It does have some downsides.

You're constantly making and throwing away relationships. I found this the hardest part.

Your lifestyle is subsidized by society. You depend on other people and services to make it work. You either have to eat out all the time or make many small trips to grocery stores and rent places with furnished kitchens. There is no self reliance, no preparation for things to go wrong besides saving money and hoping you can buy your way out.

There are opportunity costs. If OP had bought real estate in 2015 they would be better off financially. It's one of the reasons I stopped living in a bus and bought a house. Had I bought the last two times I "moved" in 2011 or 2016 I'd have almost enough money to retire and live OP's lifestyle permanently.
by Xelbair | 2025-10-07 00:17:40+00:00
>Devils advocate. Everyone really should be on Secure Boot / Bitlocker / TPM2.0 in the Windows space.

nope. only useful for corporate setting. We should be able to run anything we want, however we want, without any arbitrary requirements by MS. Especially if it was proven already that it isn't a hard requirement to run the OS - just an arbitrary setting.

It just paves road for more invasive DRM and even more locked down systems.

If they have issue with crashes, and taking blame for corporate AV failures - don't give out kernel level access to them.

>Recovery is expendable in Apple town. Recovery of iCloud accounts enabled identity theft and personal photos of celebs to be released. Recovery of hardware enables theft. Its a losing proposition.

I don't care as a customer. I want my data, I don't care about corporate profit margins - and I shouldn't need to. Data theft is pure service issue of them not vetting recovery enough - due to cutting costs on it.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-07 00:18:14+00:00
>> No legitimate business person I have ever met holds this position

> Well, sure, that's true. But only because that's a no-true-scotsman fallacy in incubation.

Which, by your own admission, makes it not a no-true-scotsman fallacy since it does not exist.

> All these perps are "legitimate business people" until they aren't.

This is a strawman fallacy[0] when considering the assertion to which I replied, which reads thusly:

They've checked with their peers and lawyers, and decided it's a perfectly acceptable risk to have the founders and staff of a company they're already invested in do illegal things and potentially end up in jail ...

Note the explicit knowledge of illegality. This invalidates the premise of participants being "legitimate business people" as, by definition, they are engaging in illegitimate activities. Unfortunately, the rest of your argument is inapplicable due to the aforementioned strawman[0].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
by ghshephard | 2025-10-07 00:18:24+00:00
They bury/obscure a quite important detail in this article:

| We were still running on the older Intel Xeon E5 processors, ...

| Moving to the more modern Xeon Scalable processors showed major performance gains for our server application

But - I was unable to find any mention in the article as to what processors they were actually comparing in their before/after.