MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tyjrgherg | 2025-10-15 13:01:09+00:00
Several points here:

A) For the most part, scientists do research because they are curious and enjoy it, not because they plan on making money out of it. Getting a salarys allows them to do what they like, they don't it do for the salary.

B) If there's a little slippage due to lazy, misaligned, or fraudlent people, it might still be worth it. Consider two proposals: "I'll give you money every month if you're a scientist and just hang around studying whatever you like" vs "I'll give you money every month if you hit research metrics XYZ as a scientist" - the former will allow you to pay way less and sciensists will still be happy. It's just getting them for cheap.

C) I'm skeptical that you personally can tell whether the paper linked is pointless or not. Many ideas seem pointless when they first appear. Some are, and some contribute a tiny bit to the progress of understanding.
by ninjaoxygen | 2025-10-15 13:01:35+00:00
There is no .NET Core or .NET Framework since .NET 5.0 in 2020. Maybe you mean ASP.NET Core, but then there is no ASP.NET Framework so the comment still does not make sense to me.

The vulnerable component is ASP.NET Core, which did not change name when .NET dropped the Core name to distinguish it from legacy ASP.NET.

--- edit: cut here - the sentence below is incorrect! ---

If somehow you were still using legacy ASP.NET / Framework 4.8 etc, you have much bigger problems - legacy ASP.NET has been unsupported since 2022 so will definitely not be receiving security updates.
by andyish | 2025-10-15 13:01:38+00:00
Use it to get a primer in a new area If i'm debugging i'll feed it what i know and see what it gives me. If nothing else gives me some ideas to get started. Generate test data

I've tried it to generate html/css for an email and it kind of works but depsite asking it to doesn't work across all versions of outlook and gmail.

I'm overly cautious about what I paste in. Just like how you can find PII data in logs I think the amount of PII data that's being pasted into AIs will be crazy.
by llamajams | 2025-10-15 13:02:24+00:00
Disagree with your take about how much you can trust the GPS. Maybe on a sparse road network this may be the case, but on a dense road network, stacked roads with adjacent lanes (like on a highway interchange )it can be downright wrong, even after corrections. But like you said in those cases we would have to rely on other inputs to compute precuse lane level location.
Show HN: MakeACopy – An offline, open-source document scanner for Android
by egdels | 2025-10-15 13:02:27+00:00
After building Let’s Bend, a small open-source harmonica training app that surprisingly reached #1 on HN, I wanted to create something completely different - a document scanner that works fully offline.

MakeACopy is an open-source document scanner app for Android that runs entirely on-device. No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no cloud - just local processing.

It uses OpenCV + ONNX for document detection and Tesseract for OCR, then exports PDFs with an embedded searchable text layer (or plain text).

Main features:

– Detect and crop documents using OpenCV/ONNX

– Local OCR via Tesseract (no servers)

– Export as searchable PDF or plain text

– 100 % offline, privacy-friendly, open source (Apache 2.0)

Compared to apps like Adobe Scan or Microsoft Lens, MakeACopy doesn’t require an account and avoids any cloud upload.

GitHub: https://github.com/egdels/makeacopy

Website: https://egdels.github.io/makeacopy/

Happy to get feedback, questions, or feature suggestions from the community.
by shawabawa3 | 2025-10-15 13:02:49+00:00
The idea behind it is that everyone who supplies energy gets paid the same

E.g. it would be unfair to pay wind farms 10p/kWh and gas turbines 20p/kWh when the electricity they supply is the same and fungible

If there was enough grid storage this wouldn't be an issue, but because there isn't, there are always times where we need gas turbines to top up and those turbines won't turn on for less than it costs them, which is a lot

The upside of this is renewables are very profitable and incentivised
by myaccountonhn | 2025-10-15 13:03:20+00:00
> The documentation for smolBSD is a great start and could be so much better - for instance - the SSH example shows no way to configure an authorized SSH key or how to log in. The port-map to the host for the open port is also not mentioned.

For those who want to check it out now: there is documentation but for the nitrosshd documentation. The sshd service works the same, minus nitro of course.
by DocTomoe | 2025-10-15 13:03:46+00:00
Truth probably is somewhere between my extreme and your extreme ... but I have - in 20 years of working in the country - not once encountered a situation in which an AT-contract I saw was not significantly better than an union contract when it came to compensation - both from some of the largest - and 100% pure German - conglomerates, and in the KMU sector.

Which - incidentally - is why such companies advertise paying 'außertariflich' in their job adverts.

Situation might be different for low- and non-skilled workers.
by frzen | 2025-10-15 13:04:10+00:00
The eligibility criteria was clear for the pilot[1] and has not been announced yet for the scheme from 2026 onwards. They selected 2,000 for the pilot which was due to end in June 2025 and was extended to early 2026 and in the 2026 budget was changed to reflect TFA.

[1] https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-a...
by DocTomoe | 2025-10-15 13:04:14+00:00
Mostly it is general caution of website owners not wanting to get sued by Saul-Goodman-type lawsuit mills who abuse this - and virtual every - half-baked law that comes out of the EU.

Now, if I was cynical, I would point out that most parliamentarians - regardless on where they sit - have a background in legal professions. I would then suggest that there is a 'make a bad law' -> 'make cash suing over it' pipeline.

But that would be cynical. Instead, I'll end with Tacitus: Corruptissima republica, plurimae leges.
by M95D | 2025-10-15 13:04:24+00:00
> You can do it by setting a TXT DNS record.

You can, but there is no way to force a method. A MitM attacker will choose the file method to get itself a cert for your site - the main argument in the article.

> The whole point is that you set up cron job once and forget about it.

Exactly. (Italics by me.)

>> HTTPS is a trap: Once you've moved your websites to HTTPS, there's no going back to plain HTTP...

> Not true. You can run HTTP version of your website in parallel if you so desire.

But never again HTTP-only. No visitors will load HTTP. Did you actually read the article and the arguments??

> [1]

I'd like to see some numbers before I belive your argument.

> https://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/16/6-day-and-ip-certs

So that absolutely no human ever checks the transparency log. I can't even find that log for LetsEncrypt, let alone how to search it for my website's certs.
by dangus | 2025-10-15 13:04:32+00:00
I was about to say something similar to this.

You aren’t paying for conversion rate, you are paying for a link being put on a website when a query is made. You can’t control whether a bot follows that link. You can’t control how sophisticated that bot is. You can’t expect an advertiser to filter out every type of illegitimate traffic (although it sounds like they probably have the capability to filter out more but don’t have any incentive to do so).

I have seen recommendations from across the Internet to not bother with Google ads and other similar paid ad services. It’s basically like paying for a cold lead, you’re attracting one of the least interested types of customers.

The recommendation I’ve always seen is that it’s better to build legitimate interest in your product by producing content. Or perhaps move to an advertising platform where there’s more of a guarantee of reaching human users.

But still, I’ve heard that trying to spend customer acquisition dollars on one-time purchases is a losing battle.

If Tesla was able to start a massive car company without buying ads you can go without AdWords, too.
by _wire_ | 2025-10-15 13:05:03+00:00
The point is and always has been to aggravate and arouse, because it's proven that the more emotionally charged the content of any feed, the more engagement it generates, and engagement is sold to advertisers.

And this HN post is at this moment lighting up FB servers with accesses by otherwise quiet accounts looking to confirm your report...

So, excellent work on behalf of FB!
by dtagames | 2025-10-15 13:05:05+00:00
Cursor is still your best bet. While it says "coding" on the label, it also connects to all the top models and can be used to ask about anything, not just code.

The main advantage of Cursor is that it can read and write files on your disk, especially Markdown. That way, you have immediately saved your prompts and responses locally and you can feed them back in for action or refinement. The fact that it's an editor makes all the difference.
by 9rx | 2025-10-15 13:05:07+00:00
> Serverless inherently makes the whole architecture more complex with more moving parts

Why's that? Serverless is just the generic name for CGI-like technologies, and CGI is exactly how classical web application were typically deployed historically, until Rails became such a large beast that it was too slow to continue using CGI, and thus running your application as a server to work around that problem in Rails pushed it to become the norm across the industry — at least until serverless became cool again.

Making your application the server is what is more complex with more moving parts. CGI was so much simpler, albeit with the performance tradeoff.

Perhaps certain implementations make things needlessly complex, but it is not clear why you think serverless must fundamentally be that way.
by Thorrez | 2025-10-15 13:05:08+00:00
>but I'm guessing if you install an app on a Windows Desktop computer it can do more chaos faster and more discreetly than pixnapping can on Android.

On desktop, apps aren't sandboxed. On mobile, they are. Breaking out of the sandbox is a security breach.

On desktop, people don't install an app for every fast food chain. On mobile, they do.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-15 13:05:09+00:00
> Not all drugs are created equal, withdrawal symptoms are different.

Not in my experience. I have voluntarily withdrawn from caffeine, opiates (administered by a hospital), and cannabis. All experiences were remarkably similar. When I run support groups for folks who've used drugs, I recommend folks experiment with caffeine withdrawal to gain experience with the process. It requires at least two weeks of cessation.

> They do affect the future population count

Seems that you're assuming homosexual folks would otherwise procreate if forced into heterosexual relationships, which is quite a stretch. I also know quite a few homosexual couples who raise scads of children. And childless heterosexual couples. This argument doesn't hold water.
by MichaelAO | 2025-10-15 13:05:28+00:00
Reading The Economics Laws of Scientific Laws rocked my world on this topic. Tldr is that the basic to applied science pipeline proposed by Francis Bacon and now assumed as physical law is a fiction that legitimizes the state, wastes taxpayer money, and retards science.

More science will happen with less government funding (see crowding out effect). This is why it's important to look not just at the intention of a policy, but at the actual outcome.

This author has the tail wagging the dog. I'd rephrase it... more startups, more science.
by spacebanana7 | 2025-10-15 13:05:59+00:00
If we're just talking about the formula of GDP = gov spend + investment + consumption + net exports, then scamming foreigners would be captured under the "net exports" category. Similar to remittances, which are quite significant components of GDP for some countries.

Admittedly it's doubtful whether this kind of activity would be captured by official statistics.
by voidhorse | 2025-10-15 13:06:05+00:00
Nice write up! Ahistorically, if you know some category theory the ideas map directly to what are called sums and products in category theory, and the "category of algebras" is just the special category in which much of the semantics of programming takes place (which is just an abstraction where we have operations just like sum and multiplication, but we can use any set, not just the numbers)—hence types are "algebraic" products and sums.
by lou1306 | 2025-10-15 13:06:09+00:00
> teachers, foodservice workers, nurses

These are mostly employed positions, where employees have procedures to negotiate their salary with the employer (which might be the government itself).

Most artists otoh are self-employed, and the government decided that the country at large would benefit from giving some of them economic support. You can argue with the modalities but the reasoning does not seem that opaque to me.
by supermatt | 2025-10-15 13:06:15+00:00
> This is false

You can install postmarketOS on it (just as you can install lineageOS, etc on a Samsung galaxy, etc), but it ships with PureOS. "The Librem 5 is a phone built on PureOS" - https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

The project is to reverse engineer proprietary blobs - so it makes sense to go where those blobs are and reverse to match the functionality that is exposed commercially instead of guessing at a subset for base implementation on a non-official OS?

> See also my other comment

It seems you are just as confused about this project as the OP, which is ironic given your name.
by mapt | 2025-10-15 13:06:26+00:00
If that's the case, doesn't it make a huge amount of sense for the utility to tell the silk incinerator selling it 0.001% of its electricity for 40p/kwh, "Bugger off, we'll buy batteries"? Cutting its overall power costs in half for a tiny operational shift.

You don't actually need the 0.1%. There are easy ways to make it up. There AREN'T easy ways to make up 7%, though.
by aredox | 2025-10-15 13:06:30+00:00
>With Claude Code I often have multi-second freezes and it’s process blows up to gigabytes of memory.

I am in a mood where I find it excessively funny that, all that talk about AI, agents, billions of dollars, tera-watts/-hours spent, and people still manage to publish posts with the "its/it's" mistake.

(I am not a native English speaker, so I notice it at a higher rate than people who learned English "by ear".)

Maybe you don't care or you find it annoying to have it pointed out, but it says something about fundamentals. You know, "The way you do one thing is the way you do all things".
by paulirwin | 2025-10-15 13:06:42+00:00
The last sentence is not correct. ASP.NET is part of .NET Framework which is still supported by nature of being included with Windows, and follows its support lifecycle. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/a...

This is, IMO, a bad thing, and Microsoft needs to break this chain at some point, at least for ASP.NET. But, it is still technically supported.
by Vaslo | 2025-10-15 13:06:54+00:00
Not sure if this question will get removed but a tangent nonetheless - I’d like to use this but I don’t know what to do with it since the advent of Discord. What do people do with IRC now and where do you find content?

I remember being a high school student and having an amazing physics conversation on IRC that included a description of Flatworld that really fascinated me.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-15 13:07:19+00:00
> Very likely the "answer" is derived from completely different factors, and the "explanation" in spurious (perhaps an explanation of how other people made a similar guess!)

This is very important and often overlooked idea. And it is 100% correct, even admitted by Anthropic themselves. When user asks LLM to explain how it arrived to a particular answer, it produces steps which are completely unrelated to the actual mechanism inside LLM programming. It will be yet another generated output, based on the training data.
by DocTomoe | 2025-10-15 13:07:28+00:00
Being a victim (some say: customer) of the Deutsche Bahn (with bahn.comfort black status): I sincerely believe they can not. After 40 years of ignoring maintenance, never setting up the East-German rail system for success, I honestly believe the system is broken beyond repair. What is indicative of that is that they believe they can make the Deutschlandtakt work by (no typo!) 2070.

We get what we have, and that's it.
by lucideer | 2025-10-15 13:07:31+00:00
Worth contrasting this to the long-running Irish "Aosdána"[0] programme established in the early '80s, which is effectively the same thing, just a LOT more exclusive: a basic income for life is awarded to a tiny number of new artists every 2 years: it has up to a maximum of 250 concurrent recipients (so new artists are only selected when old artists die).

This new initiative has had a lot of critics, but 2,000 spots annually is at least a bit of an improvement over the weird clique that admits 5 new people every 2 years.

(Aosdána is being retained alongside this new programme)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aosd%C3%A1na
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-10-15 13:07:51+00:00
I keep hearing how everyone keeps saying "Hungry evil" but can anyone explain me what exactly has Hungary done to harm mutually beneficial EU efforts? Other than Orban being corrupt and unpopular because the same applies to most politicians at EU level especially Ursula vs Leyen.

Now on this topic here, this story is as old as time, with big-corpo and government regulators being just different elements of the same revolving door, yet somehow it's not considered corruption because you can't prove it in court. So what's the solution here?

I don't want Ireland kicked out of the EU, and that isn't even legally possible to begin with, but I also don't want a member state enjoying EU benefits while sabotaging the other members States for personal gain, even if that wouldn't be the first and last time an EU country engages in self centered activities at the expense of everyone else.
by duxup | 2025-10-15 13:07:53+00:00
What I don't get is there's some fairly ... easy bits they could do, but have not.

Why not take the easy wins? Like let me change phone settings with Siri or something, but nope.

A lot of AI seems to be mismanaging it into doing things AI (LLMs) suck at... while leaving obvious quick wins on the table.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-15 13:08:06+00:00
> Thompson wrote the book as an antidote to what he thought was an excessive tendency to explain everything in terms of Darwinian natural selection. His thesis — that physics, too, shapes us — is coming back into vogue.

Evolution by natural selection doesn't happen in a vacuum. Physics is part of the environment, and I would lump physics into the category of environment and hence an input to natural selection.

Natural selection is the process by which organisms are better adapted to their environment and produce offspring and is the main mechanism of evolution.

The other mechanisms are mutation, gene flow, genetic drift, and sexual selection.
by whistle650 | 2025-10-15 13:08:25+00:00
This is the key point. Ads and clicks etc are priced in a competitive market. If they don’t deliver the ROI because of bots, then people (including the allegedly hopelessly confused e-commerce retailers) would pay less for the same amount of traffic. It may be annoying (and the cost of dealing with that annoyance would further drive down the price paid for the traffic). But what matters is that an e-commerce site is profitable (enough) after the ad spend, period. If they are not, why do they spend what they spend on the ads?
by pancakemouse | 2025-10-15 13:08:33+00:00
> And you'd better believe wherever they buried the lines they'd have objections and expensive consultations about the disruption and the HoUsE VaLuEs caused by trenching, drilling and service structures.

But those are temporary disruptions. Overground lines are permanent.

The reason utilities and the Grid prefers overground is: it's cheaper. It's not better. It's cheaper.

Don't blame NIMBYs for that.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-15 13:09:12+00:00
To all of Algol-68? Or just to a subset of it?

I think that there was a part of Algol-68 that took over the world. That part has been table stakes for a "real" language ever since. But, if I understand correctly, Algol-68 had some weird corners, too, and I'm not sure that other languages kept those.
by voxgen | 2025-10-15 13:09:18+00:00
It requires tax increases, and the average earner's UBI will typically balance out the tax increase, meaning they don't directly profit.

UBI isn't about giving everyone free money. It's about giving everyone a safety net, so that they can take bigger economic risks and aren't pushed into crime or bullshit work.

The upper half of society will only see the indirect benefits, like having greater employment/investment choices due to more entrepreneurialism.
by chronark_ | 2025-10-15 13:09:32+00:00
It’s faster for non-colocated customers too weirdly

I think cause connections can be reused more often. Cloud flare workers are really prone to doing a lot of TLS handshakes cause they spin up new ones constantly

Right now were just hang aws far hate for the go servers, so there really isn’t much maintenance at all. We’ll be moving that into eks soon though cause we are starting to add more stuff and need k8s anyways
by mallowdram | 2025-10-15 13:09:32+00:00
It's a mechanism of intelligence, not consciousness. Intel is built up from path-integration, short-cuts, vicarious trial and error that begins in very tiny local areas and expands to landmark and non-landmark navigation. This switching between vision and hippocampus has always been theorized about as the fundamental sharp wave ripple threshold of how intelligence is built as most mammals can do this, so it's not the "algorithm of consciousness".
by dangus | 2025-10-15 13:10:02+00:00
The point is, if $10k brings in 47 sales and that’s not enough then you stop buying those ads. It doesn’t really matter why it’s not working. You take your marketing spend elsewhere.

You can’t stop fraudulent clicks just like you can’t stop your SuperBowl ad from playing while your viewers are in the bathroom. How much of ESPN’s viewership happens at bars where nobody is watching?

At some point it’s not reasonable to expect ad networks to be able to stop sophisticated bots or exclude them from your billed impressions.

They should definitely try to minimize it if they want to maintain the value of their impressions but I think there is a good argument that OP just isn’t the right customer for this type of advertisement.

If you’re trying to sell a t-shirt you don’t hire a salesperson to cold call people, maybe OP shouldn’t be using web ads in the first place. If fraud was cut down by half would their situation really be that much better?
by jansper39 | 2025-10-15 13:10:09+00:00
I live close to the route that this will be built and regularly get cheap/free energy from my energy provider, partially because I live close to the wind generation in question.

People in the area will have to deal with the construction of new power lines for years, then live with having to look at them after that - at the cost of more expensive energy for the benefit of those not in the area.

I'm not hugely opposed but I can see why people would be. Equally while I know burying the lines is likely more costly and damaging, the public doesn't appear to have even been consulted with different options. It seems the only option on the table is to accept the plan as it is.