MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bmelton | 2025-10-29 01:00:35+00:00
I blearily put this reply to the wrong top-level comment earlier, but ...

That very much depends on the group. Years ago, my wife founded two chapters of a national organization who did "girls who code" sorts of things. There was (to her) a surprising amount of infighting about how to handle registrations from males. Leadership felt that men should not be allowed to attend, but there were at least a couple of chapter leads (including my wife) who felt that men should be allowed to attend, but where spots were scarce, they should be prioritized to women.

Disregarding the politics of it, there was definitely not a shortage of men who were discouraged from signing up because they were somehow icked out over the name. I'm sure some men were, and I'm sure others probably deferred on the grounds that they didn't want to take spots away from those for whom the mission was intended -- but because the organization was unwilling to publish official guidance for reasons I won't bother to opine on, my wife was routinely in the position of having to explain her attendance policies to men who had signed up
by benlivengood | 2025-10-29 01:01:10+00:00
I finally got rid of the last Windows gaming box because Windows 10 started warning me about not getting security updates. So far no compatibility issues under Debian with Steam, but I play mostly single-player or multiplayer strategy.

EDIT: I remember now that Civilization 5 for Linux would crash frequently. I switched to Proton and it's been fine since.
by simoncion | 2025-10-29 01:01:59+00:00
You've not looked at Mikrotik's hardware recently.

They have several APs that have 2.5Gbit ethernet (one with a 2.5Gbit SFP+ cage), and one AP with a 10Gbit SFP+ cage. Additionally, all their APs run RouterOS, which means that you can bond links together to fairly-reliably get additional throughput. [0]

In regards to Wifi 6e and Wifi 7, it looks like Mikrotik takes quite a long while after a new Wifi version to release hardware that runs it. I expect your assertion that they've given up on 6GHz for home/small-office APs is incorrect.

[0] Yes, I've personal experience with using link bonding on Mikrotik hardware. As a knowledgeable someone would expect, it usually provides you with additional throughput proportional to the number of bonded links.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-29 01:02:04+00:00
The rich person goes to an exclusive London cobbler who spends 11 days carving out a model of his feet, one for left and one for right, out of expensive hardwood. Once complete, a team of masters and apprentices carefully craft him bespoke shoes out of premium leather (straight from Italy!). When finished, the shop calls his assistant and has them delivered. It only costs about $40,000.

You, the poor person, spend $150 on crappy Nike athletic footware, that isn't sized to fit, will fall apart in 6 months (3 if you're using them for actual athletics), but are unfashionable in 3 weeks (but you'll buy them for your middle school children anyway). And you'll think you're rich doing it. Never mind that the cost was $4.75 (up x2 what it was pre-Covid) in Bangladesh, plus $0.30 shipping across the Pacific. The sweatshop worker got a cut of $0.04 for the pair.

The analogy doesn't work though, because people nowdays are paradoxically even stupider than they were in Victorian times.
by aarora79 | 2025-10-29 01:03:36+00:00
MCP Gateway & Registry is an open-source platform that centralizes access to AI development tools using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol. It provides a unified gateway with enterprise-grade authentication, fine-grained access control, and tool governance for both autonomous AI agents and human developers.

The gateway acts as a reverse proxy that routes requests from AI agents and development tools (VS Code, Cursor, Claude Code) to multiple MCP servers, handling authentication, authorization, and observability transparently.

v1.0.5 just shipped with two major capabilities:

1. *Supply Chain Security* - Automated scanning of MCP servers using Cisco AI Defence MCP Scanner. Every server is scanned for vulnerabilities before agents can access it. Uses YARA pattern detection + LLM-powered threat analysis.

2. *Interactive MCP Registry CLI* - Natural language interface for discovering and using MCP tools. Talk to your registry in plain English ("What servers support OAuth?", "Show me all HTTP transport tools"). Built with Ink, supports Claude and Amazon Bedrock models, with real-time token tracking and cost monitoring.

Key features include: - *Anthropic MCP Registry Compatibility* - Full REST API compatibility. Import curated servers from Anthropic's official registry. - *Enterprise Authentication* - Keycloak integration, OAuth 2.0/3.0, fine-grained access control, audit trails - *Real-Time Observability* - Grafana dashboards with SQLite and OpenTelemetry integration for metrics tracking - *Dual AI Model Support* - Works with Anthropic Claude and Amazon Bedrock models - *Multiple Transport Types* - SSE and Streamable HTTP support

Open source (Apache 2.0), production-ready, and actively developed by the Agentic Community.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-10-29 01:03:39+00:00
At some point I think there's almost an inverse relationship with how much time you spend researching a product and how much you enjoy it. I fell in to this hole with gaming monitors. At the top end, no product has it all, no product is without flaws. So then you start getting frustrated that you can't find one that has the right HDMI version, freesync, 240hz, 4k, USB-C with decent power delivery, etc. And what you buy is something quite expensive but every flaw frustraights you.

While if you just ignore most of that and buy something mid tier, you feel quite happy because it works pretty well and you didn't spend too much on it. The moment you start scrolling the subreddit for the product you've gone too far and need to disengage.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-29 01:03:46+00:00
You were close.

A commercial dishwasher will cut right through amounts of food that a normal residential dishwasher wouldn't touch (pre-wash is more for efficiency and to keep crap from piling up in the bottom tray of the dishwasher) and it will actually be ever so slightly less harsh on whatever goes in it (plastics are the problem mostly) because while it washes and rinses way hotter it doesn't have a stupid heating element that runs to dry things.

It will also use fucktons more water and more power and make more noise.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-29 01:03:59+00:00
Apple is the company where every new iPhone release is both simultaneously boring, not worth it and a sure sign of their impending collapse and also somehow a vicious treadmill which forces people to upgrade every year, throwing out their old phone and contributing to e-waste. They could announce a cure for cancer tomorrow and within a month people would be back to asking what have they innovated recently. People just like to complain.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-29 01:04:20+00:00
So to you a flare gun is violent? It's a gun. Takes 12ga cartridges / shells. It can certainly be used to kill someone, but is designed and intended for saving lives. Is a knife violent? How about a letter opener? What about rope? Does it become violent only when certain knots are tied in it? How does this violent / non-violent object dichotomy work for you?

Violence, to me, is a verb someone can do to someone else, very specifically, with just about any object since the discovery of the rock and pointy stick.
by stingraycharles | 2025-10-29 01:04:47+00:00
Problem with these grant proposal things is that it favors established businesses over small founders. Establishes businesses have much more resources to go through all the legal / red tape issues.

I’ve seen this in practice with innovation subsidies: small startup has to spend a lot of time to go though all the hoops, taking up significant resources, to get modest compensation for actual innovative work. Larger business hires an external agency to do everything for them, to make silly proposals “convert website from jquery to react” as innovation, and gets thousands upon thousands of FTE-hours in subsidy compensation hours for it.
by cubesnooper | 2025-10-29 01:04:52+00:00
Tor is great at reducing tracking done by ad companies. I use Facebook and Reddit (a big chunk of my social media activity) exclusively over Tor.

Step 1, block all Facebook and Reddit domains and subdomains at the DNS level. This is not to prevent visiting the cleartext websites (I could just, you know, not visit them), it’s to block the Like buttons and Reddit share icons embedded in normal websites from tracking my browsing activity.

Step 2, bookmark the Reddit and Facebook onion sites in Tor Browser.

https://www.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqn... ; proof: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/yd6hqg/redd...

https://www.facebookwkhpilnemxj7asaniu7vnjjbiltxjqhye3mhbshg... ; proof: https://www.facebook.com/onion-service

These are faster and more secure than visiting reddit.com and facebook.com in Tor Browser (hidden services require fewer hops and have no exit node), and since they’re official means of accessing their respective sites, you’re less likely to get treated as a bot or banned for suspicious activity.

How well does this work? Pretty well, if the ads I get are any indication. Facebook and Reddit ads used to be highly correlated to my general browsing activity. When I first started doing this, I would still log in without Tor occasionally, and instantly ads would start matching my browsing activity again. Now that I’ve used these sites exclusively over Tor for years, the ads are either entirely random or based solely on my activity within the respective sites (which is exactly what I want), or they expose a privacy leak from something other than IP address or cookies (for example, it’s clear from the ads I get that my bank sells my credit card purchase history to Facebook, which has made me more open to using cash).

As long as Tor Browser isn’t illegal or dangerous to possess in your jurisdiction, I highly recommend downloading it and using it for mainstream sites that provide onion services. I wish more sites would provide them!
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-29 01:05:11+00:00
This assumes there are competitive domestic alternatives. For the vast majority of tariffed products, there are not.

For one example, the domestic PCB manufacturing industry is a joke. Even with tariffs, China is literally ten times cheaper than domestic. I recently sent an order to both, and the China fab had my boards in production inside a week. The US fab took three weeks to give us a quote, which was five times higher than China for half the quantity, in twice the time.

The US is not independent. We don't have a domestic industry competing on the global market. We make very little and rely very heavily on imports. What we do make is heinously expensive and not any higher quality than the much cheaper imported goods.

The current trade war also doesn't spur domestic industry growth because all the materials and equipment to build out industry.... is tariffed. Plus the tariffs change too frequently for any sane person to make any kind of long term investment.

Industry will wait to scale until economic forces stabilize.
by tavavex | 2025-10-29 01:05:13+00:00
Well, yeah, it's not nearly as extreme, companies have become much better at PR. Still, the insinuations of something being unofficial, unrecognized, unsecured, really half-unintended still paint a picture of how Google wants its software to be seen. Like, I have no doubts that if Microsoft decided to start locking down Windows PCs to the Microsoft Store (the "intended experience" that they probably already imagine for their model customers), the temporary bypass will be accompanied with a prompt like "DANGEROUS: Are you sure you want to enable Unsecured Mode? (Y/N)"
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-29 01:05:48+00:00
As we digitize everything at work, people has done that less and less. That looks like an immediate collateral effect of paper or people that think like they are using paper.

There is still your random "let's make a list of X on the meeting", that would actually improve if you just had something that collects the items. But out of that, there has been a long time since I last saw people doing it.
by mcpherrinm | 2025-10-29 01:06:08+00:00
Yes, the rest of the cryptography needs to be PQ-secure as well.

But that's largely already true:

The key exchange is now typically done with X25519MLKEM768, a hybrid of the traditional x25519 and ML-KEM-768, which is post-quantum secure.

The exchanged keys typically AES-128 or AES-256 or ChaCha20. These are likely to be much more secure against quantum computers as well (while they may be weakened, it is likely we have plenty of security margin left).

Changing the key exchange or transport encryption protocols however is much, much easier, as it's negotiated and we can add new options right away.

Certificates are the trickiest piece to change and upgrade, so even though Q-day is likely years away still, we need to start working on this now.

Upgrading the key exchange has already happened because of the risk of capture-now, decrypt-later attacks, where you sniff traffic now and break it in the future.
by brikym | 2025-10-29 01:06:35+00:00
Doubters say it's not as accurate or could hallucinate. But the thing about hiring professionals is that you have to blindly trust them because you'd need to have a professional level of knowledge to qualify who is competent.

LLMs are a good way to double check if the service you're getting is about right or steer them onto the right hypothesis when they have some confirmation bias. This assumes that you know how to prompt it with plenty of information and open questions that don't contain leading presuppositions.

An LLM read my wife's blood lab results and found something the doctor was ignoring.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-29 01:06:42+00:00
Even if it is the most stringent, California is still an at-will state. You can fire people for any reason at any time, minus protections for discrimination or retaliation, etc.

France and Germany require a lot more bureaucratic red tape (documentation, severance pay, notice periods, and justification). I have not seen this personally in France, but I have in Germany and it was a nightmare. I will be very careful about hiring in Germany next time.

An incredible amount of capital is in the United States for a reason (you're on a website of those capital providers). While termination protocol is obviously not the only reason, it is undeniably one of the many that contribute to the States having the most favorable environment to build a high growth, innovative company.
by acarabott | 2025-10-29 01:06:42+00:00
This is a huge achievement, props to Sam!

SuperCollider is great for audio / music work, but it was always difficult to distribute work created in it.

As a prototyper I use the WebAudio API most of the time, as if you send someone a .app, they won't open it, but if you send them a link they have no excuse.
by stetrain | 2025-10-29 01:07:08+00:00
Intel had multiple years of promising that their new next-gen more efficient 10nm CPUs were coming very soon, and then those kept being delayed.

The chips they did release in that time period were mostly minor revisions of the same architecture.

Apple was pretty clearly building chassis designs for the CPUs that Intel was promising to release, and those struggled with thermal management of the chips that Intel actually had on the market. And Apple got tired of waiting for Intel and having their hardware designs out of sync with the available chips.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-29 01:07:29+00:00
Americans still have higher take home pay and lower cost of living than Europeans. You also need to understand that the 22% who have full free coverage pay nothing, and because of their income also don't pay taxes.

There are also subsidies for middle-low earners, and most full time jobs offer insurance (which people foolishly wave to save a few bucks, but end up being another horror story).

The situation is not nearly as dire as the young American crowd that dominates social media makes it out to be. It could be much better, but as I alluded to in my other comment, don't let stories of car crashes scare you from getting a license.
by al_borland | 2025-10-29 01:07:34+00:00
I feel this is kind of missing the point that was being made. “Better” is subjective.

If taste is being learned, who is the teacher? Are you learning about your own tastes or adopting the tastes of the teacher?

Who has better taste, the user of spaces or tabs? There is no right answer, just those who agree with you and those who don’t.
by terminalshort | 2025-10-29 01:07:39+00:00
I guess this is a difference in philosophy then, but I think that the goal of security engineering should be to protect users from malicious actors, not to protect them from their own bad choices. If I give you a safety feature, and you turn it off, that's not my problem. There is a special level of hatred that I have reserved only for the busybodies who limit my choices and justify it as protecting me.

That said, your point about messaging is really good, and so many times I see security warnings I roll my eyes at how badly the message is written.
by avadodin | 2025-10-29 01:07:46+00:00
This is too deep to reply but if a bit is dependent on the value of a bit a couple bytes back then it is not acting randomly.

It's not about security.

I hope you can agree that if every time there is a treasure chest to the left of a door, a pink rabbit spawns on the top left of the room, that's not acting very random-like.

I'm not taking a position on the perceived added value of PCG over Xoshiro.
by ineedasername | 2025-10-29 01:07:55+00:00
Kontext is very good. Get yourself a 5060 ti 16GB and never have to pay for API calls again for this purpose, at least not when you have the time spare. If you need this sort of editing at the speed of gui-clicking + 10s, then you'll need to pay API tolls, or capex for > 5070/80.
by RiverStone | 2025-10-29 01:08:28+00:00
Then who pays? If your argument is that we should socialize the cost of that ambulance ride across all Americans, they won’t go for that. Americans don’t want more taxes, but more importantly, Americans deeply mistrust their fellow citizens, and don’t want to feel like they’re paying for someone else’s life decisions.

America doesn’t have the same kind of social cohesion as most countries. We’re a nation of individualists. The general feeling here (rightly or wrongly) is that healthcare costs are largely driven by your choices in life, and Americans don’t want to feel like they’re on the hook for other people’s bad choices.
by eipi10_hn | 2025-10-29 01:09:29+00:00
I think it's better to shut down the project. I used to contribute to privacy projects, but then after being slandered for damaging youtube's "creators" by blocking the trackers, I realize that people enjoy getting f*cked by google and enjoy shilling google collecting personal data. So I stopped, it's better for my mental health and I have more free time for myself.
by tavavex | 2025-10-29 01:10:05+00:00
How's Ubuntu (or hell, any Linux distro) for mobile going to change what I outlined? It's not going to matter what OS you're running once all the important websites and services you use every day (up to and including government services) start requiring some form of attestation or other layers of security that will no doubt only be provided by a few locked-down vendors. Once that happens, your Ubuntu Touch phone will be about as useful as a Nokia 3310, at least online. After all, it's <0.01% of the market and open (therefore dangerous), Google or Microsoft or Apple aren't going to sign off on that. A natural consequence of that will be that "unsecured" devices will be stamped out, perhaps not by force, but just economically. That's the day when what I described will just become mundane reality.
by keyle | 2025-10-29 01:10:28+00:00
This is a hundred percent true. I felt the same.

What has helped has been to turn off ALL automatic AI, e.g. auto complete, and bind it to a shortcut key to show up on request... And forget it exists.

Until I feel I need it, and then it's throw shit at the wall type moment but we've all been there.

It does save a lot of time as a google on steroid, and wtf-solver. But it's a tool best kept in its box, with a safety lock.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-29 01:11:35+00:00
Long time Apple customers? Almost certainly. Apple has a history of having conflict with their chip makers and other component vendors. For the longest time, Apple wasn't big enough for those vendors to bother with doing anything Apple wanted them to do. Or even when Apple was big, still wasn't big enough to make a dent in their vendor's pipelines (see also Intel and low power chips)
by speedylight | 2025-10-29 01:11:47+00:00
I think the chat interface plays a huge role in this because LLMs are more than good enough to make you feel like you’re talking to another person, so coupling that with a user interface that was up until a few years ago pretty much exclusively used to talk to other people is a little problematic… it is essentially hijacking the emotional response of talking to a real person through texting.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-10-29 01:11:49+00:00
I understand there's some level of risk we all just have to accept from each other. I just don't agree that cars fall under that level. It's a huge step change from the risk that you or I will run into each other while walking down the street - suffering perhaps a bruise or two at worst - and the risk imposed on me as someone drives by in a large vehicle at high speed, with easily enough kinetic energy to kill & maim a dozen people and a building to boot.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-10-29 01:12:23+00:00
This is also blatantly an engine for parallel construction & evidence laundering at a massive scale. The only things holding law enforcement back from using it that way is the commitment of individual departments to following the rules of due process, or their fear of the consequences for violating them. So effectively nothing. And everyone involved in building, selling, buying, and using this tool knows that.
by cyberax | 2025-10-29 01:12:57+00:00
On the other hand, a part of becoming an expert in some field should be getting to be _realistic_. Learn not to deceive yourself.

I can give you an example from my experience. I got annoyed by my dull knives, so at first I went and bought really expensive knives, the ones made of hardened high-carbon steel that start rusting if you look at them dirtily. And I spent hours reading reviews before buying them. That's probably the "most expensive cup of coffee" stage.

Then I stumbled upon a Youtube channel that explained how to sharpen knives properly. So I bought $70 worth of diamond sharpening stones and re-sharpened my old IKEA knives. And they started working almost as well as my set of ultra-expensive knives, but they are far more practical. The expensive knife set is now a display piece in my kitchen.

Another revelation for me was that past a certain point, there's really not that much difference in the quality of sushi. It's just rice and sliced fish. Sure, there are individual variations between chefs in rice-to-fish ratio, maybe some special soy sauce here and there, but these are all just matters of personal taste. So I now just enjoy sushi for its taste. And instead of a looking for reservations in expensive restaurants, I just drop by my local sushi place and just ask the chef to add a bit more wasabi to the rice.
by rtpg | 2025-10-29 01:13:19+00:00
I do enjoy the theory that everyone was cynically posturing for 4 years during Biden and are now _also_ cynically posturing for Trump, because it aligns with a belief that a lot of powerful people seem to have extremely malleable beliefs.

It is a bit more interesting than "everyone took their mask off the day after the election". Plenty of hard-line right wing people in the world, of course, but at one point if you're that deep in the right all the posturing pre-2024 would be really hard to do. But if it's all cynical then any amount of posturing makes sense!