MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DrScientist | 2025-10-22 13:56:20+00:00
According to your link ( great link BTW ) Rob Pike said dynamic linking for X was a net negative on memory and speed and only had a tiny advantage in disk space.

My preference is to bring dependencies in at the source code level and compile them in to the app - stops the library level massive dependency trees ( A need part of B but because some other part of B needs C our dependency tool brings in C, and then D and so on ).
by Harvesterify | 2025-10-22 13:56:32+00:00
DNS0 was launched at a time when no other EU public DNS resolver was available. Today, you have DNS4EU that is actively funded and pushed throughout the EU administration (and critical infrastructures), so I believe that the DNS0/NextDNS founders saw that there was very little differenciating factors to their proposal, and decided to shut it down.

Had they "captured" a larger marketshare in the EU while they were ahead, situation might have been different today, but in my opinion it never happened.
by echelon | 2025-10-22 13:57:05+00:00
> Journalism (or what’s left of it now) is in the state it’s in because of the adtech funding model. I don’t know what the solution is.

A P2P [1] social media swarm where identities are signed pseudoanonymous hashes optionally tied to identity proofs. Reputation can be gained in the peer and interest graphs.

Advertisers and attention seekers can still exist in such a system without being obtrusive - they can flag their messages by signing them with proof that they burned funds contributing to a charity (or deposited funds to my personal inbox). Eg., "this message from xyz recruiter deposited $1 in your account - read?", or "this MrBeast video provably donated $1M to the EFF - watch?"

Journalists can make money on the graph by soliciting donors or publishing content to certain nodes early for a fee.

[1] not federated, apart from proxy publishing or relay nodes
Show HN: AI Podcast Transcription with Auto-Generated Chapters and Show Notes
by howardV | 2025-10-22 13:57:14+00:00
I built an AI tool that converts podcasts to text with automatic chapter detection, multi-level summaries, and highlight extraction. Unlike basic transcription services, it generates production-ready Show Notes in one click.

Technical highlights: • 99%+ accuracy using Whisper with optimized chunking for long audio • Speaker diarization without training data • AI chapter detection using topic boundary analysis • Exports to Markdown/TXT/JSON with structured metadata

Free tier: 5-minute preview Tech stack: Next.js, Whisper, R2 storage

Try it: https://harku.io/tools/podcast-transcription

Built this after spending 30-60 minutes manually creating Show Notes for each episode. Would love feedback from fellow podcasters and developers.
by payneio | 2025-10-22 13:57:19+00:00
I get it. I've been through cycles of this over the past three years, too. Used a lot of various tools, had a lot of disappointment, wasted a lot of time and money.

But this is the kinda the whole point of my post...

In our system, we added fact checking itself, comparing different approaches, summarizing and effectively utilizing the "wisdom of the crowd" (and it's success over time).

And it made it work massively better for even non-trivial applications.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-10-22 13:58:31+00:00
The point of Marginalia Search, as far as there is one, is mostly to complement the bigger search engines by providing tools to find obscure stuff that's drowned out elsewhere, mostly by offering a bunch of filters.

It's not a google replacement, and if you already know what you're looking for then it's probably not the right tool.

Maybe you're looking for mechanical keyboard discussions, then maybe a search for "mechanical keyboard" in the Blogs or Forums filters will provide results you are into.

It's also pretty good at unearthing weird stuff. Say you want to read up on Jack Parsons[3], that Jet Propulsion Lab guy who dabbled in occultism, fell in with Alistair Crowley and then got scammed out of his wealth by L Ron Hubbard, and finally blew himself up, well that is the sort of topic Marginalia Search generally excels at.

[1] https://marginalia-search.com/search?query=mechanical+keyboa...

[2] https://marginalia-search.com/search?query=mechanical+keyboa...

[3] https://marginalia-search.com/search?query=Jack+Parsons&prof...
by iamnothere | 2025-10-22 13:58:36+00:00
It’s for finding results that are less common or more unlikely to appear on other engines, so your results make sense. Why would you need yet another link to an NYT article? That space is crowded. Every engine will find it.

Where it particularly shines is finding highly specific results that get buried in other search engines. Some topics (particularly topics of high commercial interest) have become impossible to research on mainstream search engines. Marginalia will actually find informative articles about these topics rather than page after page of product results and spam.

It may not be useful to you if you’re not a researcher, writer, or someone who often needs to dig deeply into subjects beyond the level of common knowledge.
by liampulles | 2025-10-22 13:58:36+00:00
So for me, the question is: are these two things intrinsically the same or coincidentally the same? If it is intrinsically the same, then an abstraction/centralization of logic is correct. If they are coincidentally the same, then its better to keep them separate.

Its premature if I don't know the answer to that question with my current information, which is a common scenario for me when I'm initially writing a new set of usecases.

If I get a 3rd copy of a thing, then its likely going to become an abstraction (and I'll probably have better understanding of the thing at the time to do that abstraction). If I don't get a 3rd copy of that thing, then its probably fine for the thing to be copied in 2 places, regardless of what the answer to my question is.
by bb123 | 2025-10-22 13:58:45+00:00
Nothing immediately - Teslas have a both a High Voltage system for the traction battery and a Low Voltage system powered by a separate 12-15V battery. The HV system keeps the LV system charged and most critical safety related functions run on the 12V system. The booster, ABS/ESP, airbags, and steering assist are all designed to remain functional long enough for a controlled stop after an HV disconnection.

You obviously wouldn't be able to speed up again, which depending on the situation, would be where the danger lies.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-10-22 13:59:20+00:00
My father has a Lexus and the interior design and dash system are the worst I've ever seen, full stop. The weird touchpad that barely works. The sheer amount of buttons and options that 99% of people don't use 99% of the time. The way it handles maps while listening to music. The impossibility of going back and forth between sections while driving. I'm sure they're fine cars, but my god what an atrocity of user experience on the inside.
by sgarland | 2025-10-22 13:59:26+00:00
I don’t assume that (and am not a dev - DBRE / SRE) at all. I have massive respect for game devs, since you’re one of the few subsets that seems to give a shit about performance.

I bet you could figure out `apt install nginx` and a basic config pretty quickly, definitely faster than a web dev could learn game programming. “What do you mean, I have to finish each loop in 16 msec?”
by mercutio2 | 2025-10-22 13:59:29+00:00
LEO is the last place you should worry about space debris.

Space is just unfathomably large. If you aren’t in the same orbital plane, you’re just not going to have a problem. And if you did, Kessler syndrome in LEO is a non problem.

Could be an issue for specific orbital planes in stable orbits, but even there, it’s overblown.
by acabal | 2025-10-22 13:59:41+00:00
I'm shocked and saddened to hear this. Greg was a deep source of knowledge and support as I started and shepherded Standard Ebooks. He was generous with his time and experience, and unbelievably patient with me, some guy he had never heard of or met before who was just another cold-email in what must have been an endless stream in his inbox. We should all aspire to his high spirit of camaraderie, charity, and kindness. The world has lost a champion of both literature and the free web.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-22 13:59:49+00:00
That's not reassuring. This recall is the exception. The low voltage 12V battery has been far more unreliable in EV's from all brands than the high voltage battery has been.

Is an EV like an ICE in that the 12V bus has power while the car is running even if the 12V battery is dead? In an ICE the alternator puts 13.5 volts onto the 12V bus so a dead battery will prevent a car from starting but it will stay running on a dead battery if boosted to start. I imagine an EV does something similar but I don't know.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-10-22 13:59:58+00:00
The back story for Tata buying the group off Ford is interesting.

Tata had approached Ford in 1998 proposing some kind of partnership for their first passenger hatchback.

Apparently Ford officials were arrogant and dismissive so it became a personal matter for Ratan Tata, and when Ford was in trouble, he bought the brand off them.

https://www.financialexpress.com/life/lifestyle-ford-vs-tata...
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-10-22 14:00:23+00:00
My 2c: actually it’s the problem of mixing security and identity mgmt with tracking and marketing

The main reason I don’t turn off cookies everywhere is so many sites put my login token in a cookie. Hopefully as a random nonce but even so, it’s using cookies for security.

We are all so used to it is a massive blind spot.

We should move to Fido/webauthn - everywhere. Most all the population has a really impressive Secure Enclave in their pockets
by kouteiheika | 2025-10-22 14:00:29+00:00
> Performance of BDH-GPU and GPTXL versus model size on a translation task. [...] On the other hand, GPTXL [...] required Dropout [...] The model architecture follows GPT2

I love when a new architecture comes out, but come on, it's 2025, can we please stop comparing fancy new architectures to the antiquated GPT2? This makes the comparison practically, well, useless. Please pick something more modern! Even the at-this-point ubiquitous Llama would be a lot better. I don't want to have to spend days of my time doing my own benchmarks to see how it actually compares to a modern transformer (and realistically, I was burned so many times now that I just stopped bothering).

Modern LLMs are very similar to GPT2, but those architectural tweaks do matter and can make a big difference. For example, take a look at the NanoGPT speedrun[1] and look at how many training speedups they got by tweaking the architecture.

Honestly, everyone who publishes a paper in this space should read [2]. The post talks about optimizers, but this is also relevant to new architectures too. Here's the relevant quote:

> With billions of dollars being spent on neural network training by an industry hungry for ways to reduce that cost, we can infer that the fault lies with the research community rather than the potential adopters. That is, something is going wrong with the research. Upon close inspection of individual papers, one finds that the most common culprit is bad baselines [...]

> I would like to note that the publication of new methods which claim huge improvements but fail to replicate / live up to the hype is not a victimless crime, because it wastes the time, money, and morale of a large number of individual researchers and small labs who run and are disappointed by failed attempts to replicate and build on such methods every day.

Sure, a brand new architecture is most likely not going to compare favorably to a state-of-art transformer. That is fine! But at least it will make the comparison actually useful.

[1] -- https://github.com/KellerJordan/modded-nanogpt

[2] -- https://kellerjordan.github.io/posts/muon/#discussion-solvin...
by taeric | 2025-10-22 14:00:52+00:00
Car obsession appears to be highly regional. In the Pacific Northwest, it is amusing how many Subaru vehicles you will find. To the point that it is always odd to go back to Atlanta and see how few are there. It would be interesting to see this mapped out.

For Land Rovers, specifically, I definitely recall seeing more when I lived in the south. Though, nowadays I think I notice Kia more. That is almost certainly just noticing more, though?
by Brendinooo | 2025-10-22 14:01:00+00:00
I think that, at least from my American perspective, there are two uncomfortable truths about national political figures:

1. They are the voice of a group of millions of people, and therefore a perception will exist that an attack on the politician is an attack on those people as well 2. Sure seems like a lot of them are compromised in some way, so any time one is targeted it will always seem selective in the moment

I don't know how much that intersects with what you're observing, and I don't really have easy answers.
by neciudan | 2025-10-22 14:01:25+00:00
Hey folks

Just released a new Señors @ Scale episode that I think will interest anyone working on large frontend platforms or micro-frontends.

I sat down with Igor Minar (co-creator of Angular, now at Cloudflare) and Natalia Venditto (Principal PM for JavaScript Developer Experience at Microsoft) to talk about WebFragments — a new way to build modular frontends that actually scale. The idea: → Each micro-frontend runs in its own isolated JavaScript context (like Docker for the browser) → The DOM is virtualized using Shadow DOM, not iframes → Fragments stay independent but render as one seamless app → It’s framework-agnostic — React, Vue, Qwik, Angular… all work They also shared how Cloudflare is already migrating its production dashboard using WebFragments — incrementally, without breaking the existing platform.

What stood out for me: “Module federation was a great step, but it still couples team fates through shared dependencies. WebFragments break that link.” If you’ve hit the limits of module federation, dependency hell, or the “one broken build ruins everyone’s day” problem… this conversation might hit home.

Watch: https://youtu.be/JY2Yjy2020I Listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/55TPyLAFl972iNaR6dwi3g

Here are some more resources from Igor: Discord: discord.gg/dcgA8YxyCb Early adopters form for anyone interested in high-touch consultation: https://forms.gle/qBHc67iuqbgXjyqm8 Slides from Cloudflare Connect conference: https://docs.google.com/presentation/... Main Docs: https://web-fragments.dev/
by baby_souffle | 2025-10-22 14:01:39+00:00
I have also found that poor onvif implementations run as root and not as any other user. If you’re sending auth creds, better make sure you have something protecting them on the wire…

And profiles. There are many different feature sets in onvif and just because a camera has onvif logo or compatibility doesn’t mean it will play nice with your gear.
Show HN: CrossPromo Club – A platform for newsletters to promote each other
by benjclarke | 2025-10-22 14:01:46+00:00
I built CrossPromo Club, a free tool to help newsletters grow by promoting each other.

It provides ways to find and connect with partners, and organize cross-promotions. There is also an automated cross-promotion feature that matches newsletters via a single link.

There's a full demo - no signup needed.

I made it because I was finding cross-promotion difficult for my own newsletter. I'd welcome any and all feedback.
by reddozen | 2025-10-22 14:01:46+00:00
> If anything, it shows Trump sought to remain president by legal means, a gray area at worst, but nothing to do with the "violent insurrection" claimed.

You do realize John Eastman himself literally says he would lose 9-0 [1] when heard in the supreme court, admitting he is illegally violating the ECA with no sound legal argument. And he was literally disbarred for this behavior. [2] How do you reconcile with this cognitive dissonance?

> In other words, they had 4 years and found nothing.

So you just admit you have never heard the Jack Smith report. Just say that next time, why lie?

[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/news/eastman-admitted-bid-to-... [2] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/17/california-court-jo...
by tylermw | 2025-10-22 14:01:53+00:00
There is a way to model this type of situation for watertight dielectrics with interface tracking: you assign each material a priority value, and a transition between materials occurs when entering that material only if it has a higher priority than your current material. Yining Karl Li has a great article about it:

https://blog.yiningkarlli.com/2019/05/nested-dielectrics.htm...

that inspired me to add the feature to my renderer (rayrender.net).

The downside to priority tracking (and possibly why PBRT does not include it) is it introduces a lots of overhead to ray traversal due to each ray needing to track a priority list. Modern raytracers use packets of rays for GPU/SIMD operations, and thus minimizing the ray size is extremely important to maximize throughput and minimize cache misses.
by croes | 2025-10-22 14:02:21+00:00
Remember DNT? We already had that in the browser but websites started to ignore in when MS announced that their browser would set it to true by default.

Let’s face it, users don’t want to be tracked, websites want to track. The cookie banners are the middle ground and the law already tries to prevent all those dark patterns to enforce „accept all“.

I remember the early days when the cookie banner on Tumblr forced the user to deselect every single tracker of the hundreds of trackers they listed.
by fallingfrog | 2025-10-22 14:02:25+00:00
Maybe we just live a charmed life but me and my husband just never worried about it, nor did we either go out of our way to expose our kids to nuts or avoid them. We gave them little bites of whatever we were eating and later we started giving them peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I mean peanut allergies are still very rare are they not? I dont think I know anyone personally who has a nut allergy, children or adults. None of my kids friends have nut allergies. Is this a regional thing?
by johannes1234321 | 2025-10-22 14:03:58+00:00
For one: Using open source version often is a lot simpler. Commercial versions are hidden behind authentication and other weird systems to download. User experience can be a lot better.

Then there are ideological reasons: Purposly trying to make the open source version sustainable.

And then reduced lockin etc. by not using Enterprise only features by accident/convenience, which leaves the door open to leave the contract.
Show HN: Prexist – AI-powered search for products (now 3x faster with Exa AI)
by e33or-assasin | 2025-10-22 14:03:59+00:00
Hey HN

I built Prexist, an AI-powered tool that helps founders, PMs, and VCs quickly find out if their startup idea already exists, across 8 major platforms like Product Hunt, YC, GitHub, Crunchbase, and the App Stores.

Until recently, running searches across all these platforms in parallel took ~60 seconds. We’ve just integrated Exa AI for search orchestration, and it’s now 3× faster while returning more relevant, semantically matched results.

What it does:

- Uses AI to understand your product idea and generate smart search queries - Searches 8 discovery and innovation platforms simultaneously - Lets you generate and share reports with a single link

Use cases:

- Founders validating product ideas - Product teams doing competitor scans - VCs doing due diligence on new investments

Would love your feedback, especially from anyone who’s tried automating multi-platform searches.

Happy to answer technical questions or talk about how we can improve the product further.

- Team Prexist
by 508LoopDetected | 2025-10-22 14:04:15+00:00
New Orleans is built on top of a fishbowl-shaped sponge, as far as its foundational land is concerned. Road repair costs reflect this, but of course the other side of the coin is the decades worth of local government corruption here that makes any major progressive infrastructure changes feel like a perpetual pipe dream. At the same time though, it's one of the most beautiful cities in the country for endless historical + cultural reasons. You could say New Orleans is a highly concentrated gumbo of both the "good" and "bad" of some uniquely American ingredients. I love it here and hate it here; I get jealous when I visit other cities, but then I greatly miss home. Weird place.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-22 14:04:36+00:00
I thought server CPUs already handled this? E.g. for Epyc https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/...

> Because caches hold the most recent and most relevant data to the current processing, it is critical that this data be accurate. To enable this, AMD has designed EPYC with multiple tiers of cache protection. The level 1 data cache includes SEC-DED ECC, which can detect two-bit errors and correct single-bit errors. Through parity and retry, L1 data cache tag errors and L1 instruction cache errors are automatically corrected. The L2 and L3 caches are extended even further with the ability to correct double errors and detect triple errors.
by genuineresponse | 2025-10-22 14:04:45+00:00
The answer to your question is "yes, but typically only very mildly".

Offense is not some Boolean, and intent matters in determining how offense something is.

For example, a kid reading Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn might unknowingly repeat a word they learned from that book that we consider extremely offensive today. We'd probably all pause that conversation and explain that they should not use that word.

Ideally, most folks upon learning that a word is offensive go, "oh, apologies, I had no idea" and the other party goes, "No problem, now you know" and everyone moves on. Doesn't have to escalate, doesn't need to be bigger than that.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-22 14:04:54+00:00
VMS could have been one, for example.

PL/I variants were being widely used, Apple was a Pascal fan, and is the company that actually created Object Pascal, not Borland.

Modula-2 was around as well, unfortunely without an OS to go to market alongside it.

The real question is, all things on equal footing regarding price, without access to source code to just type in/copy, what operating systems would people be willing to pay for.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-22 14:05:29+00:00
> Well... most people who get degrees, get CS degrees, which is not the same as Software Engineering.

Despite the name of the degree, most computer science students go on to become software engineers, so software engineering is a required part of many CS programs these days, whereas chemical engineering isn't really required (to the same extent) in chemistry programs. Depending on the program it can vary how much though. At my current place it's 3 semesters but others might have more or less. One course is a sort of simulation of a working software firm, and the other is a sort of 1 year internship with a real company or a research lab. This has not always been the case, as when I was in school I graduated without knowing version control. Today, git is taught to freshmen.

Although, we don't have many decade-old million-line codebases lying around to hand the students, we still try to give them the necessary skills they might need to work with one. But we can't teach everything in 4 years, some things have to be learned in the field on the job and from seniors engineers.