MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rufus_foreman | 2025-10-14 18:45:09+00:00
>> it bars the press from reporting any information unless they get it approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official

No, the rules don't pertain to reporting any information, they pertain to unauthorized reporting of two specific classifications of information, "CNSI" (Classified National Security Information) and "CUI" (Controlled Unclassified Information). And they don't bar reporting the information, they say that someone who reports the information could lose their access to the Pentagon.

CNSI is "information on the national defense and foreign relations of the United States, including information relating to defense against transnational terrorism, that has been determined pursuant to Executive Order 13526, or any predecessor order, to require protection against unauthorized disclosure and is marked to indicate its classified status when in documentary form".

CUI is "unclassified information the United States Government creates or possesses that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls limiting its distribution to those with a lawful government purpose. CUI may not be released to the public absent further review.

The DoD CUI Program, established through Executive Order 13556, standardizes the safeguarding of information across multiple categories. For example, CUI categories exist to protect Privacy Act information, attorney-client privileged information, and controlled technical information, among many others."
by yibg | 2025-10-14 18:45:24+00:00
Problem is if we (any country really) tried to build everything ourselves while other countries engages in trade then we are at a major disadvantage.

Of course some things are more sensitive and should be made domestically even at lower efficiency / higher cost. But if that’s applied to everything then we are just shooting ourselves in the foot. Plus the opportunity cost of not doing something else that we are more uniquely positioned to excel at.
by philipkglass | 2025-10-14 18:45:42+00:00
No. These don't develop like embryos and do not have to come from embryonic stem cells.

The structures differ from real human embryos in many ways, and cannot develop into them because they lack several embryonic tissues, as well as the supporting yolk sac and placenta needed for further development.

The human stem cells used to derive hematoids can be created from any cell in the body. This means the approach also holds great potential for personalised medicine in the future, by allowing the production of blood that is fully compatible with a patient’s own body.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-14 18:46:10+00:00
We really would like to keep these companies alive. Geely buying Volvo is a nice example of a proper acquisition and Geely has - as far as I know - always played by the rules. What happened here would not fly under any management and China should take note, ownership does not give a pass to 'do as you please', we have many stakeholders including employees and customers, not just owners and managers.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-14 18:47:01+00:00
It's also due to the size of the vehicles that are popular today. SUVs and pickup trucks(used as family vehicles).

However the increase has also been offset with weight savings in other places.

- The use of aluminum in suspension components and body panels

- Long ago the move to unibody over body on frame for small cars

- smaller engines, V8s weigh more than an inline 4 cylinder and require heavier suspension components.

For example a 1989 Lamborghini Countach 25th weighs around 3200lbs which is slightly heavier than a 2022 VW Golf GTI (3150~)

I see comments that blame safety technology (electronic components) for increasing the weight of a car but a blind spot monitoring system probably weighs less than 5lbs. A rear camera is also around that.

Structural safety and airbags do add to a cars weight but these changes have made cars extremely safe.
by immibis | 2025-10-14 18:47:22+00:00
Intercepting non-obvious (in the sense that you can't just, like, open your wifi menu and see them) broadcasts is still hacking. Heck, even intercepting obvious (in the sense that it says "your data is not secure" on the screen of the people communicating) broadcasts is still hacking. Doing what Firesheep does, before Firesheep, was hacking. And then someone made Firesheep and it was still hacking, but now anyone could do it by clicking a few buttons, without any hacking skill whatsoever, not even using a command line, so it was finally patched.
by mothballed | 2025-10-14 18:48:05+00:00
No, it's zoning, codes, and covenants, and licensing that were all the barriers that stopped me from building a house in 99.9% of the USA. I ultimately found a place that allowed me to bypass that, which thankfully also has virtually zero public utilities or police/fire or services or taxes which is probably the thing scaring shitless any of the bootlickers from coming out here and making housing laws like the rest of the places.
by yibg | 2025-10-14 18:48:10+00:00
Energy doesn’t come from just raw materials. It takes extraction, refinement, transportation etc in the case of petroleum, or manufacturing, installation etc in the case of wind and solar.

If you mean in terms of general economics, why are some countries cheaper than others, I’m not really qualified to make a statement there. I’m also not talking about if it’s right or wrong. But it is the reality today.
Show HN: Lockbridge – Encrypted File Transfers
by audreymplatta1 | 2025-10-14 18:48:19+00:00
Hi HN!

I built Lockbridge because secure file sharing and encryption workflows are still way too complicated in 2025.

Lockbridge focuses on making end-to-end encrypted transfers simple, auditable, and cloud-agnostic.

Core features: Bridges: Shareable, encrypted upload/download links with auto-expiration. Cloud federation: Unified dashboard for S3, Azure, GCP, Google Drive, Dropbox, and other S3-compatible solutions. Blockchain audit trails (optional): Immutable, Polygon-based logs for HIPAA/SOX compliance. Zero-knowledge encryption: True client-side E2EE- we can’t access or decrypt your files.

Example use case: Create a Bridge, send the link to a client, and they can securely upload files directly to your Google Drive, S3, or Dropbox. The Bridge auto-expires (e.g., 24 hours or 1 week). For regulated industries, every transfer can optionally be logged to Polygon for an immutable compliance record.

We’re currently in beta and would love feedback on:

The Bridge UX — does it feel intuitive? The multi-cloud integration experience. Whether blockchain audit trails add real-world value outside regulated sectors.

http://lockbridge.com

Appreciate any thoughts, questions, or edge cases you think we should consider.
by deaf_coder | 2025-10-14 18:49:06+00:00
It might be a little sketchy for some, but you can patch the .iso to remove the TPM requirement and get Windows 11 to install on non-compliant computers. I forgot where to download the patch from, it was from some GitHub page I found on the internet. I have done it so on my ancient desktop with Intel i5-3750K without issues.
by vidarh | 2025-10-14 18:49:33+00:00
It's probably true. The biggest challenge with doing the right thing in this space is that the sales job is hard, time consuming and so expensive that it's a lot easier to make it profitable if you make projects balloon like that. The sales effort is much the same.

I've been offering to help people cut costs for a while, and it's a shockingly hard sell even with offers of guarantees, so we're deemphasizing it to focus more on selling more complex DevOps assistance and AI advice instead... Got to eat (well, I do much better than that, but anyway), but I refuse to over engineer things just to make more money.
by codyb | 2025-10-14 18:49:36+00:00
I keep my phones in the other room on silent all day, don't use anything with an algorithmic infinite feed, don't use social media, and blocked all the news websites I could.

It's amazing to me how many people can't seem to walk down the street these days without staring at their phones the entire time.

I think they're addictive, bad for your mental health and acuity, and bad for society. And it's amazing how much time I'll spend even just checking the two small hobby discords I'm in just cause I've been so tuned towards picking up the phone when bored.

Leaving it in the other room on a speaker is nice cause it at least forces me to get up, and since I keep it on the speaker I don't often sit with it anymore. Which means I do other stuff like read, and clean, and work on things, or just sit and stare at the wall and let my brain breathe.

I still use maps (without location though), check out which helicopters and ships I'm looking at, weather, email, search, and Spanish flashcards through Anki. Which I think are nice activities.
by dinkleberg | 2025-10-14 18:49:53+00:00
This is the truth. I work with an application that has nearly 100 microservices and it seems like at any given point in time at least one is busted. Is it going to impact what you’re doing? Maybe. Maybe not.

But if it was just a monolith and had proper startup checks, when they roll out a new version and it fails, just kill it right there. Leave the old working version up.

Monoliths have their issues too. But doing microservices correctly is quite the job.
by Rover222 | 2025-10-14 18:50:11+00:00
Each datacenter iteration that increases the size and power consumption is a stepping stone towards (possibly) recursive self-improvement in AI tech. I think that's the way to frame the absolutely massive bets being made by (only a few) companies. There aren't many companies or nation states in the world that can marshal the resources and talent needed to keep competing on this path.

It's a race to the the most powerful and transformative technology in history.

Or it might all collapse like a house of cards. But worth a shot.
by a57721 | 2025-10-14 18:50:14+00:00
One factual thing that looks off is "the UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets". I'm not in the UK and not following closely the situation there, but "thousands", really? Genuine doubt, would love to see some evidence.

Otherwise, the "doomer manifest" is OK, but the comically inflated ego of Durov is annoying, him thinking that such banal and commonplace sentiments are worth pushing as an alert message to all users, wrapping everything into announcing his birthday (that he doesn't want to celebrate, oh no).
by parineum | 2025-10-14 18:51:23+00:00
> And quite frankly those are the people that need to understand that this problem still very much exists and is likely never going away.

Calling it a hallucination leads people to think that they just need to stop it from hallucinating.

In layman's terms, it'd be better to understand that LLMs are schizophrenic. Even though that's not really accurate either.

A better way to get across that the models really only understand reality by the way they've read about it and then we ask them for answers "in their own words" but that's a lot longer than "hallucination".

It's like the gag in the 40 year old version where he describes breasts feeling like bags of sand.
by yibg | 2025-10-14 18:51:43+00:00
If we can make the same product domestically better (cheaper, higher quality etc) then that doesn’t require a barrier in theory. Just make it and sell it for cheaper or sell it for the same but with higher quality.

Problem is for the most part that cannot be done. There is a market for made in USA, where people are willing to pay more for higher quality, more sustainable, local etc, but it’s still a relatively small market.

Just like airline tickets. People complain about lack of space and bad food, but when presented with the choice most people still pick the cheapest option.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-14 18:51:43+00:00
> This is a solution to a large chunk of what people want out of microservices.

Yeah, just put some gRPC services in a single pod and have them communicate over unix domain socket. You now have a single unit of modules that can only communicate over IPC using a well-defined type-safe boundary. As a bonus you can set resource quotas separately according to the needs of the module.

Want to scale? Rewrite some config and expose a few internal services and have them communicate over TCP.
by immibis | 2025-10-14 18:52:14+00:00
You can get a server now with, like, five hundred cores and a fifty terabytes of RAM. It's expensive, but you can get one.

A used server with sixty cores and one terabyte of RAM is a lot cheaper. Couple thousand bucks. I mean, that's a lot of bucks, but a terabyte for only four digits?
by immibis | 2025-10-14 18:52:24+00:00
You can get a server now with, like, five hundred cores and a fifty terabytes of RAM. It's expensive, but you can get one.

A used server with sixty cores and one terabyte of RAM is a lot cheaper. Couple thousand bucks. I mean, that's still a lot of bucks, but a terabyte for only four digits?
by labrador | 2025-10-14 18:52:55+00:00
Here at Rockwell automations World Headquarters research has been proceeding to develop a line of automation products that establishes new standards for Quality technological leadership and operating Excellence with customer success as our primary focus.

Work has been proceeding on the crudely conceived idea of an instrument that would not only provide inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing Cardinal gram meters.

Such an instrument comprised of Dodge gears and bearings Reliance electric motors Alan Bradley controls and all monitored by Rockwell software is Rockwell automations retro encabulator now. Basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes it's produced by the modal interaction of Magneto reluctance and capacitive dirance the original machine.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-14 18:52:58+00:00
That's a wild anecdote. I avoided KDE for YEARS because the guy that got me into desktop Linux told me it was terrible and I took his advice as a given. He and the folks he introduced me to all talked massive shit about KDE, and they used Gnome.

This was back around the time Gnome 3 came out.

Oh and when I switched to Plasma two years ago, a GNOME user I used to be friends with came out of the woodwork to tell me how shit KDE is

keep your anecdotal stereotypes to yourself bud. Maybe the real anecdote is that the people you know are unpleasant?

notably, I'm not in contact with the people I've told this story about, anymore.
by ohuf | 2025-10-14 18:53:06+00:00
> Turns out, you don’t need an SD card at all↑ > What I didn’t know, however, is that Raspberry Pi 5s can actually support NVME drives!

...turns out you don't need local storage at all: if you already run a NAS you can bootp the RasPi over the network!

This also makes backups super easy.
by cluckindan | 2025-10-14 18:53:07+00:00
The ”race tracks” are left- and right-hand traffic patterns for arriving aircraft and touch-and-go training, typically used by smaller aircraft. The polylines going from airport to the surroundings are IFR (instrument flight rules) STARs (standard terminal arrival routes) for inbound/outbound planes; each vertex in the line corresponds to a so-called navigation star which usually has a 5-letter name.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-14 18:53:35+00:00
I'm not the one who picked it as your only example. Your Haiti comment was in a completely different part of the thread and not replying to me.

You did say that the secession of the South mitigated tyranny of the majority, when in fact it did the exact opposite.

If you want to say that it usually does this, that would be one thing, but you put it as a universal and chose the worst example for it.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-10-14 18:53:58+00:00
Why would you assume it’s a shitbox

My 2001 Tundra is a beast that will never die, has amazing AC/Heat radio etc…

There are fleets of garage specials out there with low miles and tons of spare parts or are easy to maintain with a Chilton guide

I started my working life fixing cars and obce they started putting in electronics it became impossible.

So I stick with things I can fix
by zevon | 2025-10-14 18:54:03+00:00
I'd also like more comprehensive write-ups on such topics but either I haven't found the right sources yet or all the people who know how to set up and keep modern fabrication infrastructure going are too busy raking in the cash and making stuff. ^^

If you like visual media, the "Strange Parts" YouTube channel is an interesting source for glimpses into modern, mostly Chinese factories: https://www.youtube.com/@StrangeParts/

Since you're asking about pick and place specifically, https://www.opulo.io/ is an interesting example of how far/cheap you can push such machinery (and the design in and of itself is interesting from a manufacturing point of view). Not all that relevant from a mass-production point of view, though.
by yogishbaliga | 2025-10-14 18:54:35+00:00
Way back in time, I used delta encoding for storing posting list (inverted index for search index). I experimented with using GPUs for decoding the posting list. It turned out that, as another reply mentioned copying posting list from CPU memory to GPU memory was taking way too long. If posting list is static, it can be copied to GPU memory once. This will make the decoding faster. But still there is a bottle neck of copying the result back into CPU memory.

Nvidia's unified memory architecture may make it better as same memory can be shared between CPU and GPU.
by _wire_ | 2025-10-14 18:55:30+00:00
"Stenographers of power"

Retreat from the corridors of power in a democracy is NOT how "they win". Giving up privilege for the sake of your values is a key element of integrity and your own freedom.

A responsible journalist reports what he thinks is the important story. When the stories of the War Dept become less important than the lack of transparency of the War Dept as the government conducts the "people's business", which do you endeavor to report? The War Dept propaganda? Or do you confer and coordinate with others to determine what's important and about the visible edge of policy as it relates to what's important?

If you are confused about what's important, or don't know, then no sense in lamenting anything but your own lack of clarity.

Can you connect with someone who is closer to the clarity you need?

Ultimately, your society is as good you are; if you believe it can be better, do so, otherwise what's the point of your travail?

So is you think the WH Presscorp are becoming factotums or automatons (which they are and become by design) and you can no longer work as such, then meet people who are a step away from the presscorp and report on them.

Freedom is building the story at whatever proximity to power and depth that you can muster.

Determined creativity and insight will find a home, and if not, you died trying.

Maybe along the way you will discover that contrary to all the cultural hyperbole that you are not free?

Or maybe that you are freer than you can manage?

Try ordinary existential reasoning: work with what's at hand, take responsibility for your work, hold yourself to account, stand up for your values. Such orientation was once core a conservative principle.

Unfortunately, it seems that due to a combination new media, inter generational confusion, intellectual laziness, and childish greed, what once was common sense conservative principle has been abandoned for the spoils of reactionary political mania.

It may take another generation or so to rediscover a value system.
by jfengel | 2025-10-14 18:56:21+00:00
The trillion-dollar coin thing is about the debt ceiling, which is separate from appropriations.

The current shutdown is about appropriations. Congress hasn't given the authority to spend money.

The debt ceiling is a separate process, authorizing the Treasury to borrow money (so that they can pay for the things they required in the appropriations). That's pretty absurd, requiring spending but not paying for it.

The platinum coin as a debt-ceiling workaround isn't a terrible idea. But it won't open the government right now.
by mtlynch | 2025-10-14 18:56:49+00:00
Oh, thanks for the correction! I can't believe I never noticed that. I've updated the post.

After your comment, I thought, "Oh, I should contribute a PR to the repo to add the Docker badge so the Docker image is obvious to everyone," but it turns out the badge has been right there for four years.[0]

What I suspect happened is that I tried to use the Litestream Docker image once, discovered that image was amd64-only (until 0.3.9), so I didn't use it because I needed ARM, and then I just kept copy/pasting my workaround from project to project.

[0] https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/commit/6acfbcbc64d...
by ashtonsix | 2025-10-14 18:56:59+00:00
By typical I imagined adoption within commonly-deployed TSDBs like Prometheus, InfluxDB, etc.

GB/GH are actually ideal targets for my code: both architectures integrate Neoverse V2 cores, the same core I developed for. They are superchips with 144/72 CPU cores respectively.

The perf numbers I shared are for one core, so multiply the numbers I gave by 144/72 to get expected throughput on GB/GH. As you (apparently?) have access to this hardware I'd sincerely appreciate if you could benchmark my code there and share the results.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-14 18:57:36+00:00
And rightly so. The timeline here is fairly typical: until the day there is a judgment nothing changes and going through the process usually takes a while. And then everything changes at once. It is clear that they were no longer making decisions in the interest of Nexperia or its customers but solely to benefit Zhang's interests. What is interesting is that Wingtech actually was being defrauded but chose not to act. That's the bit that doesn't make sense to me, unless Zhang also controls Wingtech somehow. In one article it was said that they bought many more wafers than needed in order to destroy them, that's textbook mismanagement.

China, meanwhile has announced 'retaliatory measures', which seems a bit silly because that will just hurt their own exports, and shows that it wasn't necessarily Zhang that was the problem but someone much higher up in the party structure.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-10-14 18:58:12+00:00
Facebook for example has been shown in multiple public scandals and lawsuits to be untrustworthy. It is still among the largest social media platforms, and many businesses, for example, reveal large chunks of their marketing strategies to Facebook through its advertising tools.

The reason why this does not result in a significant loss of usage is because trustworthiness-usage is not a linear function or a even a continuous function -- it is a step function. To cause less usage, the loss-of-trust force has to be higher than the networking effect force. Otherwise, behavior does not change.
by mothballed | 2025-10-14 18:58:12+00:00
>mitigating not eliminating tyranny of the majority by picking which democracy you choose to be a part of.

I said secession mitigates tyranny of the majority.

I don't think you understand what mitigate means. It doesn't mean the risk is eliminated. Quite often a mitigation effort will do the opposite (i.e. vaccines mitigate risk of death but some patient has allergic reaction to vaccine and patient dies).

Arguably had black people been able to secede from the union AND the confederacy they might have been better off, but of course, both the union and the confederates would likely have attacked them in that case, because it's not as if white people didn't want to tyrannize blacks even in the north, they just didn't do it with the mechanism of slavery (arguably because slavery was just becoming bad economics in the industrial north and attacking slavery was more of a way to get one up on the south than to help black people that hardly had the rights of whites in the North).