MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by herewulf | 2025-10-30 03:19:12+00:00
IMHO, "actually in Minecraft" is roughly akin to "my shoes are actually Nike".

That said, I never had any interest in playing on a server that was populated by anyone but my small circle of friends.

Now my kids are growing up doing the same which I find great because I know exactly with whom they are interacting and have no worries about it.
by Alex4386 | 2025-10-30 03:19:38+00:00
"Minecraft: Java Edition" has been obfuscated since the release. < Classic Microsoft move.

No, It was obfuscated since around 1.8 when you (Microsoft) buy up Mojang Studios. before that? meh, It wasn't. That's the main reason why JE has broader mod ecosystem from the start., result being 1.7.2 being the one of the most active modded versions since most of them can't get passed to around 1.8.

The motive behind this is probably due to them finding out people can not get their mods/server software updated in-time (due to extra work required) and this leading people being really reluctant to update their versions.
by zarzavat | 2025-10-30 03:20:27+00:00
Originally websites had usernames and passwords. Username was used as a primary key (such as this website).

Using the email address directly as the username/key is a more modern trend (mid-late 00s). I believe this coincided with the dominance of gmail where people would have a forever email address. Before that, your email address would regularly change if you moved ISPs/schools/jobs so it wasn't a good identifier.
by culturing | 2025-10-30 03:20:34+00:00
Hi HN, posting from an alt to keep this poetry project anonymous. I envision this site as the work itself. I often write about philosophical and historical themes that I think this community might appreciate, and there are some interesting technical details.

Feel free to explore, or visit here to learn more: https://poems.culturing.net/about/

Thanks

P.S. the code is on github: https://github.com/culturing/poems
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-30 03:21:01+00:00
It depends - some queries will invoke tools such as search, some won't. A research agent will be using search, but then summarizing and reasoning about the responses to synthesize a response, so then you are back to LLM generation.

The net result is that some responses are going to be more reliable (or at least coherently derived from a single search source) than others, but at least to the casual user, maybe to most users, it's never quite clear what the "AI" is doing, and it's right enough, often enough, that they tend to trust it, even though that trust is only justified some of the time.
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-10-30 03:21:27+00:00
You link to a skadden doc, not an SEC rule, and in that doc the first words are:

"Independence is neither a fixed condition nor a universal status for all purposes. " and goes on to talk about how complicated it is to even define and how it depends on who is defining it.

Your document makes my exact point, not yours. You are out of your depth.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-30 03:22:12+00:00
Ironically enough the National Nuclear Safety Administration staff were furloughed this month. You might recall that hundreds of them were mistakenly fired by the expert minds at DOGE back in February.

Cheap laughs aside, we already test nuclear triggers at the National Ignition Facility. I'm pretty sure what Trump is demanding here is a return to atmospheric testing because he wants the thrill of seeing a giant explosion detonated on his orders. I doubt he'll be satisfied with an education tour of the NIF or even underground testing. He grew up seeing atmospheric tests and he's famous for being invested int he power of visual imagery as a means of communication.
by aniforprez | 2025-10-30 03:22:13+00:00
> Pipenv is just straightforward and “just works”

I have worked on numerous projects that started with pipenv and it has never "just works" ever. Either there's some trivial dependency conflict that it can't resolve or it's slow as molasses or something or the other. pipenv has been horrible to use. I started switching projects to pip-tools and now I recommend using uv
by modeless | 2025-10-30 03:22:56+00:00
It's not just a "hardware RNG". An RNG outputs a uniform distribution. This hardware outputs randomness with controllable distributions, potentially extremely complex ones, many orders of magnitude more efficiently than doing it the traditional way with ALUs. The class of problems that can be solved by sampling from extremely complex probability distributions is much larger than you might naively expect.

I was skeptical of Extropic from the start, but what they've shown here exceeded my low expectations. They've made real hardware which is novel and potentially useful in the future after a lot more R&D. Analog computing implemented in existing CMOS processes that can run AI more efficiently by four orders of magnitude would certainly be revolutionary. That final outcome seems far enough away that this should probably still be the domain of university research labs rather than a venture-backed startup, but I still applaud the effort and wish them luck.
by scoopertrooper | 2025-10-30 03:23:09+00:00
The policy last about 35 years and didn’t end till 2015. Even today there a limit on procreation as the cap was only increased to three children in 2021. At some point the CCP has to own its mistakes.

The problem isn’t that China instituted the policy (although its use of forced abortions to enforce was… problematic), it’s that its system of government prevented open discussion, reflection, and self-correction.
by helicone | 2025-10-30 03:24:44+00:00
you're just replacing the reality of a private actor deciding to ruin you for having the wrong beliefs or selling the wrong goods with a public actor deciding to ruin you for having the wrong beliefs or selling the wrong goods.

half of the country disagrees with the other half on almost every issue. the first thing a party is going to do when elected is change the nationalized payment processor's policy to ban the other half of otherwise law-abiding companies and individuals to stop them from being able to do business.

at least now with stripe there's some lead time and it takes a few years after a major political shift to feel the effects, which makes it more stable.

a better solution is to change a different piece of legislation that currently allows Stripe to choose to do business with whoever it wants, which is what allows them to ruin you. if stripe were legally required to provide you with service unless your business were proven in court to be against the law, this problem would be solved without another bulky addition to the already bloated public sector.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-30 03:25:34+00:00
It's a programmable hardware peripheral runs compiled software to toggle pins in a way that is entirely defined by that software.

Here, it runs software that allows it to talk 100mbps Ethernet.

Someone else might use that same hardware peripheral to drive a display, or produce a PWM output, or whatever.

The RP PIOs just run software. That software can bang bits.
by bsder | 2025-10-30 03:25:40+00:00
> I can't figure out why this would helpful to have as a video in the first place over the text summary you posted here.

Because a bucketload of people only interact with the Internet using a device with a tiny-ass screen and super-shitty keyboard.

So, what you are actually asking is "Why the hell are people using phones to look this shit up instead of a laptop?"

Which, to be fair, is a valid question.
by leodler | 2025-10-30 03:26:04+00:00
Somehow we (the United States) accomplished generational projects that are currently out of the realm of possibility such as the interstate system without risking anything like a famine. I think a lot of people in America have been overly-empowered to stand in the way of the most modest progress through NIMBYism, litigation, local government, etc. To a lot of people it increasingly feels like a form of private authoritarianism over tiny fiefdoms for absolutely no benefit to a vast majority of people.
by ajross | 2025-10-30 03:26:40+00:00
What I always point out though is the bathtub curve of that perception.

Awk started life as a unique, weird, but extremely clever and expressive environment with which you could do tricks that were impractical anywhere else. And that's sort of back where it is now.

But for a solid decade and a half, awk was a forgotten dinosaur that no one cared about. Because in the era where Everyone Knew Perl, awk had no home. Perl was awk but bigger and better.

But now all us perl nuts have moved on or gone silent, all the kids are writing code for node or python or whatnot, and No One Knows Perl.

And in a world where no one knows perl, awk looks clever again.
by elcritch | 2025-10-30 03:29:14+00:00
> We believe our new Tailscale Peer Relays connectivity option—unique to Tailscale—gives customers the best performance and flexibility.

Seems pretty similar to some of the stuff ZeroTier was doing years ago. Hard to claim it's unique to Tailscale. Charging for it above and beyond the per user costs seems overboard as well.
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-10-30 03:29:19+00:00
It doesn't matter who it is, it's naive about how the legal system works and takes the worst possible view of all the actors involved.

This wasn't some straightforward matter. Many things are not. OpenAI are not obliged to passively sit and wait while various other parties try to influence the outcome (and there were many, and they weren't nobodies).
by antod | 2025-10-30 03:29:26+00:00
One helpful element that has changed over the years compared to the old wild west days is the large number of PEPs that have quietly in the background bit by bit standardized packaging formats and requirements.

Some foundations have moved into the stdlib. This means that newer tools are much more compatible with each other and mainly just differ in implementation rather than doing different things altogether. The new stuff is working on a much more standard base and can leave behind many dark crufty corners.

Unravelling the legacy stuff and putting the standards in place seems to have taken 15+ years?
by agys | 2025-10-30 03:29:47+00:00
I used different types of dithering (ordered, error diffusion) in many of my design projects as a visual language, static or animated, mostly for projects related to tech/computers/blockchain, sometimes combined with ASCII art.

There is a certain warmth (or maybe it’s just nostalgia) of these older techniques that can be harvested and combined with new ideas or new takes.

(Apologies for the Instagram links).

D.Y.O.R.:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DH1AjFzi3c6

D.Y.O.R. (printed):

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjfzy23sCOg

Titles:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHITpNYiWtF

Experiment on controlling the amount of dithering:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYO_h9Yh18e/
by scuff3d | 2025-10-30 03:29:56+00:00
The problem is where the rough edges are at.

On Windows they are mostly off the beaten path. I have a Windows PC setup as my media computer because my wife doesn't want to deal with Linux, and I've never once had an issue with the audio or Bluetooth.

On my Fedora desktop and Arch laptop I have audio/Bluetooth issues at least every couple of weeks.

In addition, my wife needs access to Adobe products, my brother needs access to Office. Those are non-negotiable for them because in both cases it's for work.

I'm a Linux fan, I don't even want to go back to Windows for my personal computer, but Windows is still a smoother experience for the majority of people.
by FabHK | 2025-10-30 03:30:21+00:00
Generally, yes. But remember that there are difficulty adjustments, and it's conceivable that there are two chains, one being a bit shorter but with higher difficulty, and that can have precedence over the longer but easier one. The point is that you want the chain embodying most work, no matter how long.

(And note that a) the difficulty is included in the header that gets hashed, and b) it is easy to check that the block conforms to the specified difficulty.)

That's why "heavier-chain-rule" would be a better name than "longest-chain-rule", strictly speaking.
by bsder | 2025-10-30 03:30:35+00:00
> Could someone sell me on one of these alternative terminals (kitty, ghostty, wez, etc)?

Because these terminals all use the Kitty protocol, you can finally detect a single ESC press without a timeout hack as well as use shift with arrow keys to do text selection.

The fact that it has taken until 2025 to be able to do something this basic is pathetic.
by galangalalgol | 2025-10-30 03:31:43+00:00
Representatives are chosen directly by the voters of their districts and senators directly by the voters of their state. Electors are selected however their state decides, so yeah, the president isn't necessarily democratically chosen. Neither are judges. In practice though the electors are chosen based on the state vote. Saying the us wasn't a democracy is narrowing the definition of democracy quite a bit.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-10-30 03:31:58+00:00
I do this a lot, sorry. My ADHD brain really wants to take an active part in the conversation or else I'm likely to get distracted by my own thoughts and zone out for the next couple sentences. And then make you repeat them anyway, infuriating you in a different way.

Friends and family know this about me (more or less), so they treat it as what it is: an attempt to collaborate to reach a shared understanding.

With strangers and acquaintances, I know this can be irritating so I curb it at the expense of possibly zoning out.

I mention all this to offset the following assumption:

> A lot of people don't have the patience to unspool a thought or the instinct to ask a clarifying question instead of plowing ahead with their mistaken assumption.

It's not for a lack of patience or instinct or intelligence or <insert virtue or character trait of choice here>. Some of us find it genuinely hard to keep lots of context in working memory (due to a working memory deficit), without taking an active part in whatever demands it. And it's not for lack of trying.
Show HN: I built a crypto investment platform after losing money guessing
by frukerick | 2025-10-30 03:32:26+00:00
It's been 4 months since I lost over $27,000 from my crypto investments.

Haven learned my lessons,

I promised to build a crypto investment platform that would help me and other crypto investors avoid the mistakes I made in the past.

I gave myself 3 months.

I'm a month late… because I've been shipping.

And today, I'm glad to say Clarity is live.

Clarity isn't another crypto "price" aggregator.

It's the easiest way to see how cryptocurrencies have performed in the past, predict their future, and invest, while outperforming 99% of traders who rely on hype and speculation.

Here's what happens when you try it:

1/ You pick any crypto asset and instantly evaluate how it performed over the last 1, 3, 5, or 10 years.

2/ You evaluate how your investment would've performed using different strategies (lump sum or DCA) and see real results from real data.

Think like:

- What if I invested $100 into $ZEC weekly since 2018? - And would it have been better if I just bought a huge sum once in 2018 and held all this while?

3/ You connect multiple portfolios to track not just your holdings, but how your decisions compound over time.

4/ You create your own crypto indices, group assets into custom baskets, and benchmark their performance.

5/ You explore preloaded indices (like the Bitwise 10 or Grayscale DeFi Index) and see how they've actually performed over time.

6/ You visualize performance in clean, data-backed charts — no hype, no noise, just clarity.

7/ You compare assets side-by-side — find out what's actually outperforming and what's holding you back.

8/ You evaluate entire portfolios and indices — not just by returns, but by risk, stability, and consistency.

9/ You gain insights that help you plan your next move — based on data, not emotion.

10/ And you realize Clarity isn't built for traders chasing profit… it's built for investors chasing wealth.

I built Clarity because I was tired of the noise.

The next 3 months are all about:

Getting people to care about Clarity Understanding users deeply Solving their problems with zero friction

If you invest in crypto, this might be the most useful thing you've seen all year.

— Founder, Clarity https://investwithclarity.xyz
by BenjiWiebe | 2025-10-30 03:33:44+00:00
A system upgrade reinstalls every package, but does not regenerate host keys (Fedora). A full reinstall is wiping the drive completely, and running the installer from a LiveCD/LiveUSB. Nothing is retained, and new host keys are generated.

If my host keys were changing regularly, I would worry about it. There's no legitimate reason for that to be happening, since I'm not regularly wiping the drive and reinstalling, nor am I regularly manually deleting the host keys (the other way they get regenerated).
by sleepybrett | 2025-10-30 03:34:10+00:00
Honestly it's nice enough as an encased screen for TTRPG virtual tabletop play. I have a few friends that have built custom tabletops to hold consumer TVs or have set up top down projectors (worse)... those are solutions for the deeply dedicated. Something even simpler that this is a pretty nice form-factor for a somewhat more modest table.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-30 03:34:17+00:00
It could be possible to have a system like:

If you wish, you can write a phrase on your ballot. The phrases and their corresponding vote are broadcast (on tv, internet, etc). So if you want to validate that your vote was tallied correctly, write a unique phrase. Or you could pick a random 30 digit number, collisions should be zero-probability, right?

I mean, this would be annoying because people would write slurs and advertisements, and the government would have to broadcast them. But, it seems pretty robust.

I’d suggest the state handle the number issuing, but then they could record who they issues which numbers to, and the winning party could go about rounding up their opposition, etc.
Show HN: NepaliGPT – Open-Source Nepali and English Language Model (MIT
by prince_singh | 2025-10-30 03:34:32+00:00
I’m excited to share NepaliGPT, an open-source language model tailored for both Nepali and English, finetuned on high-quality Nepali datasets and built on Llama 3.1-8B-Instruct. It’s the first robust, freely available generative AI designed for Nepali, released under the MIT license.

Why?

Nepali is a low-resource language in the NLP world: foundational tools and models are scarce, and existing solutions are often closed or commercial. I built NepaliGPT to fill this gap and support open research, local application development, and broader innovation.

How does it work?

Finetuned with Hugging Face TRL & Unsloth for efficiency

Supports Nepali and English for tasks like translation, summarization, code generation, and Q&A

Built on Llama 3.1-8B-Instruct for strong baseline compatibility and performance

Features:

1.MIT license: completely free for research and commercial use

2.Easy integration: Hugging Face compatible, safetensors available.

3.Excel in Nepali language than exiting models.

4.Sample outputs and usage docs included.

Collaborate:

I’m looking for feedback from linguists, devs, educators, and AI researchers

Know of high-quality Nepali datasets or have real-world use cases? Let’s connect

Contributors welcome for evaluations, dataset improvements, or downstream apps

I hope NepaliGPT helps empower the open-source NLP ecosystem for Nepali and inspires similar work for low-resource languages. Looking forward to your feedback, questions, and ideas for partnership!
by ModernMech | 2025-10-30 03:34:56+00:00
I don't think Rust is incidental here. First, uv's particular design cargo culted from... well cargo. Which, they should be cause cargo is a great tool, no shade there.

But otherwise, people on this forum and elsewhere are praising uv for: speed, single-file executable, stability, and platform compatibility. That's just a summary of the top reasons to write in Rust!

I agree 3.14 is a big deal as far as Python goes, but it doesn't really move the needle for the language toward being able to author apps like uv.
by mumber_typhoon | 2025-10-30 03:35:29+00:00
Imagine a scenario where you want to start gardening. Go to gardening clubs and you'll find a lot of free information there and people to guide you. Public libraries exist if you want to join a book club and start reading. Again free. Agriculture, irrigation, building homes, woodworking, stitching clothes, etc. everything essential has been free to learn and do.

Apply this to the internet and essentials are FOSS. Linux, DNS and maybe RISCV someday will mean you can build computers and internet on essentials that are free to learn and use.
by joomla199 | 2025-10-30 03:36:52+00:00
By the way, this is what I got from Kontext after just a couple of tries: https://i.imgur.com/J4LwkVI.png

Prompt: "Keeping the glass and the hand behind the glass the same, please change only the three brown candies in the glass into green, yellow, red, and orange candies. Make no other changes. Change the reflection to remove the brown candy too." Seed was 1070229954903864, but your setup is probably too different for that to help.

It seems like Gemini 2.5 Flash was the only model that successfully removed the reflections...it should get some points for that!
by _345 | 2025-10-30 03:37:54+00:00
No I love being stuck in traffic every day of the week for hours, its totally worth it because I can drive to an empty patch of grassland that no one wants to go to and there's nothing there. That's why cars are so amazing and freedom granting. Trains can't take you to the middle of nowhere to do nothing for the 1% of the time you don't want to be near other civilization so cars are better
by random3 | 2025-10-30 03:38:12+00:00
It's surprising to me how long it can take for some languages to get decent package management solutions. There are no silver bullets because it's tricky to "encode" compatibility in a version number. I personally think semver helped a little and damaged a lot more by selling a pseudo solution that stands no chance to solve the real problem it needs to.

Maven has always been a very good solution. I think Bazel is too, but haven't had much experience with it.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-10-30 03:38:15+00:00
> I disagree the basic idea of CBT or ACT is leaning into discomfort. In the senses articles suggest David Goggins and Wim Hof advise even less.

I am somewhat baffled by your statement, as I feel it is largely self evident being familiar with, and having tried both therapy methods with professional therapists, and both Goggins and Hof's advice for years. I think a simple wikipedia level explanation of what those things actually are would suffice to answer your question, so I have nothing major to add, unless I am misunderstanding you. Goggins whole shtick in particular is just this one basic point, make yourself as mentally tough as possible by intentionally always doing whatever is difficult. Hof is also just literally getting into very cold water consistently, which is really not easy- and he has no real philosophy or theory, he just has you do it and see what happens.

Perhaps the therapy methods are less clear, but reframing things or deciding on clear values and purpose, are in my view, psychological tools to make the difficult endurable, or in some cases even enjoyable. This makes more sense if you're seeing the methods in the context of how the ancient stoics used the same techniques that inspired those therapies- especially Epictetus.

> Can you define huge fraction and really commit? And cite evidence?

Not really, it's just firsthand experience from doing them, and having widely sought out and read the experiences of others that did online.