MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajross | 2025-10-17 23:29:07+00:00
Seriously? It was widely reported that he attempted exactly that during the Floyd protests in 2020 (first link I got, but Esper's testimony was reported everywhere, pick your preferred media, or just find and watch the committee hearing):

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097517470/trump-esper-book-d...

That time it failed because the pentagon leadership and generals stood in unison against it and he backed down. The guardrails have been rejiggered this time and it's only the courts that protect us now.
by nikisweeting | 2025-10-17 23:30:35+00:00
ULID is the best balance imo, it's more compact, can be double clicked to select, and case-insensitive so it can be saved on macOS filesystems without conflicts.

Now someone should make a UUIDv7 -> ULID adapter lib that 1:1 translates UUIDv7 <-> ULID preserving all the timestamp resolution and randomness bits so we can use the db-level UUIDv7 support to store ULIDs.
by Hizonner | 2025-10-17 23:31:40+00:00
Like what policies? And how have they failed, since in fact Tor is not exclusively a crime tool?

But, yeah, Tor is often a crime tool.

It's a crime to be actively gay, or to support anybody in that, in a surprising amount of the world.

It's a crime to have the wrong religion, or no religion, in a roughly similar amount of the world, at least if you dare to talk about it.

It's a crime to criticize the government, or plan even the most peaceful action to undermine its policies, in an even more surprising amount of the world.

It's a crime, in a lot of places, to talk about embarrassing war crimes. It's a crime almost everywhere to talk about classified war crimes... which is awfully convenient if you're in a position to classify your embarrassing war crimes.

The Party claims it's a crime to for US citizens to tell US other citizens what US federal officers are up to. Oh, and the nonexistent "Antifa" is now a designated terrorist group, and you can absolutely expect them to try to treat planning totally peaceful protests as "material support for terrorism". Not real crimes? They're lying pieces of shit? That's nice, but the security measures you need are the same even so.

Anything that can support things that need to be supported is also going to be useful for things that are illegal, and even for things that are truly evil. That's part of the price. The technical needs are inseparable.

You don't want a world where it's totally impossible to get away with breaking laws under any circumstances whatsoever. Or at least you shouldn't.

Right now, especially, is a hell of a bad time for people on this US-dominated site to be trying to make things easier for police states.
by BaardFigur | 2025-10-17 23:32:13+00:00
I believe the problem is that most of the games they host are Windows games, so in that regard, Linux doesn't make sense.

And maintaining something like Proton is pretty complex, there's so many different distros. Actually ensuring the game works probably was too big of a task for them.

You can always add your gog games to Lutris though.
by qwerpy | 2025-10-17 23:32:46+00:00
My Model Y had to have its front control arms replaced after 4 years, it was squeaking really loud when turning. That's the only part that needed to be fixed so far, and at $250 it didn't exactly break the bank. There's the other stuff like wiper replacement and rotating/replacing tires which still have to be done. Much better than the regular $500+ annual maintenance with occasional $1000+ repair that my Honda Civic required. And that was a relatively cheap ICE to maintain.
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-10-17 23:33:07+00:00
Don’t think of it that way - instead think of software as the new literacy. And therefore wikis and design docs and architecture diagrams (anything that holds knowledge but it non-executable) is just illiterate scrawls. What do you expect of writing made by people who cannot read or write (code). If they could write code they would have written code. Instead they write at best Jira tickets.

So ignore it. Maybe walk over it with and LLM but then what - perhaps they are making buggy whips.

Is there a difference between a hotel that has you login on a screen and the savoy where a top hatted doorman opens the taxi door and says welcome Mr Brian?

Yes there is a difference but 99% of the difference is location and decor quality.

Maybe you don’t need the doorman if you are about to 10x the speed?
by Kristopher1337 | 2025-10-17 23:34:19+00:00
I have a 2018 Model 3 dual motor long range that I bought new right before the first tax credit expired. I never considered another manufacturer because they didn’t have NACS for supercharger access. Only just this year has that started to change. I never considered another Tesla because 1. I didn’t want to repay for FSD and 2. I would lose on the depreciation while there has not been a killer feature that separates my current car from the new ones. Now I wouldn’t even consider a Tesla.

Since owning my car I’ve had to service it only twice. My battery depreciation has been at least to me completely unnoticeable. I basically only charged on superchargers till late 2023 till I got a charger in my garage. I’m sure my battery has lost some small amount of range but honestly I would have to do the calculations to know what it is. It can’t be much.

I will say only this year have I even considered for even just a moment of getting something new. I’m pretty interested in the Lexus steer by wire technology that will come as an upgraded feature on the new RZ. I know that car is not on anyone’s radar and I can understand someone being very hesitant of steer by wire technology. I genuinely believe it’s an interesting feature though and could be a noticeable enhancement to every day driving. It actually makes a yoke style wheel make sense.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-17 23:34:26+00:00
You're correct, bikes are not practical. That's step one of analyis. Now we have to ask why bikes are not practical.

It's because everything is really far and we design our cities to burn as much land as humanly possible.

One side effect of that is that bikes are inconvenient. Another is that nobody can afford housing and starving homeless people are harassing you for money.
by rudi-c | 2025-10-17 23:34:55+00:00
Electron does not belong in the same category as React & Vue. JavaScript frameworks are commonly understood to mean:

- Third-party libraries, almost always implemented in JS (technically it could be some language compiled to WASM but I'm not aware of any commonly used WASM framework)

- Dynamically loaded from a CDN or bundled with application code at build time

- Provide an high-level API for creating and updating UI

- Whose implementation edits the DOM (a browser's low-level UI representation)

In contrast, writing an app _without a UI framework_, therefore implies writing first-party JS code that interacts with DOM APIs directly, without that level of abstraction in-between. This is not a common choice these days, and could be considered an impressive accomplishment, hence this Ask HN.

To create that UI, you use the same low-level DOM APIs in Electron as you would in the browser because well, it is a Chromium browser engine.

Example of each combination:

- Framework-using apps running in the browser: Airbnb, Figma

- Frameworkless apps running in the browser: HN

- Framework-using apps running in Electron: Figma's desktop app

- Frameworkless apps running in Electron: Obsidian

I wouldn't consider Electron as an answer to the question. It would be best described as a framework for running web apps as a standalone desktop app, but not a framework for creating user interfaces. Just using Electron doesn't make any progress towards having a solution for managing the complexity of writing code that interacts with the DOM.
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-17 23:36:06+00:00
This is one of those technically true but defacto false things. Its legal under UK law, but if they want the variety of benefits they get from the US then it isn't. If the UK government starts arresting vacationing Americans for things that aren't a violation of US law, its all a matter of if the US governments wants to make an issue of it. Maybe you get lucky and nothing happens, or maybe you lose your military protection and 25% of your GDP. Plus your tourism businesses take a hit. You really want to take that risk?

But given the behavior of the UK government lately, doing something suicidally stupid seems on brand for them.
by margen_software | 2025-10-17 23:36:07+00:00
Working on something in the tax space. Need help validating my RAG. https://margensoftware.com/chat

Running gpt-4o-mini rn. Compare it to gpt 5 and lmk what I can do to improve accuracy. There's also an agentic platform if anyone wants to sign up to be a beta-tester.
by nickff | 2025-10-17 23:36:29+00:00
Not an insider, but I think your comment gets to the core of the issue. One of the pictures used in the story has a Space Shuttle in it, and another has a Vehicle Assembly Building; neither of those have been used (for anything interesting to the public other than tours) for over a decade. NASA has become very constituency-driven, running many small projects which don't drive public support, or do anything visibly useful to the citizenry, which is why it's being cut. Choosing which navel-gazing experiment to fly to an expensive and obsolete space station seems very out-of-touch.
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-17 23:36:39+00:00
Then you end up with too-large servers all over the place with no rhyme or reason, burning through your opex budget.

Also, what network does the VM land in? With what firewall rules? What software will it be running? Exposed to the Internet? Updated regularly? Backed up? Scanned for malware or vulnerabilities? Etc…

Do you expect every Tom, Dick, and Harry to know the answers to these questions when they “just” want a server?

This is why IT teams invariably have to insert themselves into these processes, because the alternative is an expensive chaos that gets the org hacked by nation states.

The problem is that when interests aren’t forced to align — a failure of senior management — then the IT teams become an untenable overhead instead of a necessary and tolerable one.

The cloud is a technology often misapplied to solve a “people problem”, which is why it won’t ever work when misused in this way.
by chneu | 2025-10-17 23:36:58+00:00
And yet Americans are door dashing more than ever and financing everything imaginable.

Not saying citizens deserve this but we eagerly gobble up every excuse possible and then complain that our lifestyles aren't sustainable.

The typical American lifestyle is based around excess. It's no surprise that a nation who spends 3x more on unnecessary garbage than any other nation is struggling financially as climate change makes that excess more expensive.

We do this to ourselves with our pride/ego fixation and our endless excuses for why someone else should fix things or someone else is responsible for it.

We don't vote. We don't think critically. We don't do the hard work to benefit our society long term. We buy into every possible excuse.
by ainch | 2025-10-17 23:37:31+00:00
There is a lot of overlap between AI and Neuroscience, especially among older researchers. For example Karpathy's PhD supervisor, Fei-Fei Li, researched vision in cat brains before working on computer vision, Demis Hassabis did his PhD in Computational Neuroscience, Geoff Hinton studied Psychology etc... There's even the Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making conference (RLDM - very cool!), which pairs Reinforcement Learning with neuro research and brings together people from both disciplines.

I suspect the average AI researcher knows much more about the brain than typical CS students, even if they may not have sufficient background to conduct research.
by quinnjh | 2025-10-17 23:38:26+00:00
onboarding devs won’t risk looking dumb to complain about the bad docs, the authors already have a mental model, and writing them out fully helped others at expense of job security.

When doling bad docs to a stupid robot, you only have yourself to blame for the bad docs. So I think it’s #2 + #3. The big change is replacability going from bad to desirable (replace yourself with agents before you are replaced with a cheaper seat)
by badosu | 2025-10-17 23:40:21+00:00
Sure, but I think there's a spectrum when making that decision:

"should keep their bullshit to themselves" <---> "should perhaps take leadership and avoid having their public channel a cesspool" <---> "actively encourages/participates in discriminatory practices" <---> "raging maniac hurting people, rallying for X"

Specifically on the topic of RubyGems:

I couldn't care less about what DHH posts or not, I certainly care that he uses his position to influence a chain of actors to interfere with something that always worked just because X.

I couldn't care less about the other side on the "cancel" mission, I care about influencing a chain of actors to interfere with something that always worked just because Y.

Please quarantine your political polarization/culture wars bullshit, non-anglo countries don't need it.
by while_true_ | 2025-10-17 23:40:24+00:00
FUD about battery life and having to spend over $10k to replace one was a large factor in EV depreciation. Some people assumed car battery life was like that of a cell phone or a laptop, perhaps 3 years. There is increasing evidence that EV batteries with good battery management systems will last 15+ years (see https://www.geotab.com/blog/ev-battery-health/). Once the general population understands an EV will outlast a gas car and needs less maintenance, resale value should improve.
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-17 23:40:49+00:00
Because you think ICE will arrest you for being an illegal immigrant? If you seriously believe this, then probably its best you don't go outside anymore.

Every time the media reported something like this, turned out they were leaving out something important. Like the professor who was smuggling biological samples into the US. Turns out that's illegal, that's why she went home. If you aren't doing something like that, you will be fine.
by Random09 | 2025-10-17 23:41:14+00:00
I've experienced low quality of pixel foldable myself. Few weeks after warranty, my 2000$ og pixel fold screen stopped working after a software update. Not the delicate inner screen. The outside, cover one. Some fiddling and testing and I found out that the hinge sensor failed and the phone cannot tell if it's open or not, so it defaults to the inside screen. Also, this happened to multiple people at similar time after an update.

Wanted a foldable, bought a pixel because of grapheneOS. Now I have to chose between low quality hardware vs phone bloated with Spyware. State of tech 2025.
by bhelkey | 2025-10-17 23:41:41+00:00
> companies will brag about limited roll-outs of niche cases in dry, flat, places that are easy to navigate

According to their website, Waymo offers autonomous rides to the general public in Austin, Atlanta, Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles [1].

* San Francisco is an extremely hilly city that gets a fair bit of fog.

* Los Angeles has notorious traffic and particularly aggressive drivers.

* Atlanta gets ~50 inches of rain a year, more than Seattle [2].

[1] https://waymo.com/faq/#:~:text=Where%20does%20Waymo%20operat...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2024/09/03/whi...
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-17 23:41:46+00:00
I give GOG a lot of leeway, because in my heart of hearts, I know I will eventually curse steam lockin ( that day may be far away, but it is in our collective future ) so I throw them some money every now and then.

Still, you do have a point, by comparison Steam is a lot more polished on that front. I would complain more, but my personal hangup is very niche to begin with so it does not seem fair ( remote view in vm ). It is small things, but small things add up.
by zokier | 2025-10-17 23:42:06+00:00
The difference is that Windows 11 was released 4 years ago, and Windows 10 just reached EOL. And we havent heard anything yet about Windows 12, and MS still seems very intent on doubling down on their chosen path.

In contrast Windows 7 was released 2 years after Vista, 10 was released 3 years after 8. In both cases the "good" versions (xp and 7) were still well within their supported lifecycle.

So you can't just skip 11 like you could do with Vista or 8. And that is really the crux of the issue.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-17 23:42:06+00:00
(a) None of those are literary devices; they're all common vocabulary items that you'd expect an illiterate person to be familiar with.

(b) If you are a nonnative speaker, what's the difference between looking up an unfamiliar idiom and an unfamiliar word?

(c) Your pulled quote contains only two idioms. My best guess is that you're calling face value an idiom, but it is a transparent construction that means exactly what you'd expect if you knew the words face¹ and value.²

¹ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/face noun 5(a)(1)

² https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/value noun 1; 8
by jltsiren | 2025-10-17 23:42:09+00:00
Europe was also an export market in the past. Back in early 2002, 1 EUR was worth less than 0.9 USD. Then it started climbing rapidly and reached a peak of 1.6 USD in mid-2008.

The value of money is inherently unpredictable. The exchange rate between EUR and USD has never been stable longer than about 1.5 years. Something unexpected always happens, and then the rate goes up or down by 10% or even more. You either tolerate that or try protecting yourself with various financial instruments.
by qwerpy | 2025-10-17 23:42:18+00:00
Troubling. Dozens of HN readers upvoted this. Does this mean people are blindly upvoting "sciencey"-sounding stuff, or did some of them actually read it and were fooled by the AI-generated content?

If HN can be fooled by it, and genAI is in its infancy, it's going to get real bad in the future.
by rhetocj23 | 2025-10-17 23:42:49+00:00
It may be difficult for you to believe or digest, but this means nothing for actual innovation. Im yet to see the effects of LLMs send a shockwave in the real economy.

Ive actually hung around Olympiad level folks and unfortunately, their reach of intellect was limited in specific ways that didnt mean anything in regards to the real economy.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-10-17 23:42:59+00:00
> The EIB is made of twelve nodes called Ramps, each one connecting one component of Cell... Having said that, instead of recurring to single bus topologies (like the Emotion Engine and its precursor did), ramps are inter-connected following the token ring topology, where data packets must cross through all neighbours until it reaches the destination (there’s no direct path).

I knew IBM was involved in the design of the Cell BE, but I had no idea some successor of IBM's token ring tech (at least the concept of it) lived on in it. I'm sure there's other hardware (probably mainframe hardware) in and before that 2006 with similar interconnects.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-17 23:43:06+00:00
I assume that perspective applies only to West Germans (which btw I happen to be and it's nonsense here too), but Pakistan[1] didn't replace one third of their energy supply in the last few years because they're such yuppies, photovoltaic literally saved them from their energy grid breaking down.

Solar energy isn't a fashion statement, it's rapidly and cheaply getting energy to billions of people who need it the most.

[1]https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/01/climate/pakistan-solar-bo...
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-17 23:43:25+00:00
Also unsecure. I remember driving around looking for Wi-Fi to steal internet from, I routinely found network shares full of sensitive documents. And I only looked for open WiFi and wasn't even trying to hack anything.

If I actually wanted to hack into networks, encrypted WiFi used WEP which could be cracked in minutes on a typical laptop. Most communication was unencrypted too, pwning entire WiFi networks wasn't even fun considering how easy it was.
by Supermancho | 2025-10-17 23:43:38+00:00
Don't confuse arbitrary career ranking (which varies org to org) with earning potential. I have a relatively low effort remote job with fantastic compensation in a very large company. The responsibility is low, the opportunities to move about are many and often appear. I get job offers all the time and think: Yeah, it's more money, but will it be better conditions? This is the longest I've ever worked at a company (over half decade) and I am always waiting until just after getting my cost of living increase and bonus, before reconsidering.
Show HN: ModernBERT in Pure C
by HardikVala | 2025-10-17 23:44:00+00:00
A minimal implementation of ModernBERT in pure C, inspired by karpathy's llama2.c. The core (tokenizer + inference code) is around 1000 lines of code with no dependencies (except OpenBLAS for fast matrix multiplication, and PCRE for regex).

If you don't know, ModernBERT is a new encoder-only model from answer.ai. Unlike decoder-only models like Llama, encoder models process all input tokens in a single pass (no autoregression), which makes them great for tasks like token classification.

The implementation supports loading any ModernBERT checkpoint from Hugging Face. I've tested it with the base model and a token classification model for anonymizing PII. You can get >1200 tokens/s throughput on a single thread (slightly better than pytorch implementation), though that's not directly comparable to decoder models since there's no token-by-token generation.

I hard-coded the architecture to keep things simple and readable. The tokenizer is a from-scratch BPE implementation that handles most cases (though it's missing some edge cases). The main goal was to support a lightweight deployment of this model, without the heavy baggage of the pytorch ecosystem.

Enjoy.
by chneu | 2025-10-17 23:44:28+00:00
Because people buy them.

Americans are really dumb and do next to no research on most purchases. I know several people who think that's a waste of time. The best that a lot of folks can do is a YouTube video.

Throw money at the problem. Learn nothing. Complain when things go bad.

That's what a ton of Americans do now and it's wild seeing it as often as I do. There was recently that Ars article that looked at a study showing how bad anti-intellectualism in this country has become. Being dumb is now a sort of prideful thing for a lot of Americans.

It's real weird.
by tavavex | 2025-10-17 23:45:13+00:00
Most robot vacuums (at least the ones that use LiDAR, which seems to be the majority) can only capture a very rudimentary plan of your house, that being a 2D image taken at an elevation of ~10cm or so. It will also be obstructed by any large objects, and there's no easy way of telling them apart from walls.

Your government probably knows your floor plan (though, I don't think they tend to be publicly accessible). Either way though, neither of these methods are anywhere near enough to do what was shown off in those Wi-Fi tracking demos. Here's hoping the tech doesn't get a lot better or has a series of unexpected breakthroughs.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-17 23:45:16+00:00
A tire machine is life changing in a good way if you have a lot of cars you're responsible for. China is starting to make mid-market ones (simple pneumatic ones that are powered bug geared to home use rather than professional like the ~$1k electric machines) for ~$400ish that I'd take seriously if I was in the market

Once you have a tire machine you'll spend more time at the tire shop (outside business hours, lol) because their trash pile will be your best source for reasonably new used tires. They sell a lot of sets of 4 when 2 would do.