MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-01 04:53:15+00:00
This is the level of discussion and nuance about cryptocurrency that I wish was more common on hackernews

The discussion about the $460 billion bounty to take “lost” bitcoin in pre-quantum proof addresses and moved to post-quantum proof ones is worthy of many threads

the quantum-scare in crypto is very unnuanced - even crypto proponents handwaive it away - when the reality explains the original confidence in this system: it adapts. Post quantum addresses will be fine

And speaking of fine, the system is “good enough”. The decentralization is “good enough“, the development platform is “good enough”, the aggregate processing power of the execution environment doesn’t need to be more powerful than a $50 raspberry pi device as it’s “good enough” - you can use those nodes as microcontrollers in the cloud and there isn’t a similar offering and pricing strategy in non-distributed ledger cloud systems
Ask HN: How can Netflix have a bug like this?
by aaronlifshin | 2025-10-01 04:54:04+00:00
Netflix gets into a state for me where, in every browser on my device, the audio plays, while the picture freezes or goes black. I've tried Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

It is fixed on restarting my Macbook Pro, but changing browsers or clearing all cache and cookies does not fix it.

How is this possible? Doesn't it mean that the whole concept of the browser as a sandbox broken? I assume it is somehow a bug caused by Netflix attempts to manage the number of devices I am watching on.

It's such a baffling bug. Does anyone here have any idea of what else I can reset or clear (without restarting the computer) that might fix it?

It happens pretty much every day, and it's quite annoying to have to restart that often.
by eru | 2025-10-01 04:55:01+00:00
> Power needs to be given away or people paid to take it is more of a function of limited storage abilities and limited ability to scale down rather then generating unlimited power.

There's no need to scale down solar or wind power.

Yes, storage is another way to make money from power prices that differ over time.

> [...] the cost has increased per hour a lot over the last 50 years.

Some sources of power, like solar, have been dropping in price a lot recently.
by ryan_lane | 2025-10-01 04:55:37+00:00
To the folks that say they won't contribute if there's a CoC: this just proves they're working. If you can't avoid the behavior called out in a CoC, then we don't want you to contribute. Thank you for self-selecting yourself away from us.

I dealt with abusive contributors at Wikimedia Foundation for years, and it wasn't until a CoC was added that coordinators were actually empowered to ban those abusive volunteers. Can you guess which members of the community were also the most vehemently against the CoCs?
by foresterre | 2025-10-01 04:55:37+00:00
I find this usually doesn't matter as much as you seem to suggest.

I've been running linux laptops with AMD/intel for years, and while some focus on more battery life would be welcome, the cpu never bothered me.

My primary limiation is available RAM (esp. when debugging react native against a complete local docker setup), which unfortunately on both AMD/Intel but far more so on Apple is usually limited to higher compute CPU's, which drives up cost of laptop (not even including the extra cost of RAM on Apple).

The only really locally CPU intensive processes I run on a laptop are Rust builds, and then still I would prioritize RAM over CPU if that would be possible, because Rust builds are fast enough, especially when incrementally compiling (and I almost never do lto release-like builds locally unless doing benchmarking or profiling work)
by joshmn | 2025-10-01 04:56:36+00:00
Edit: I'm still considered in-custody due to being on house arrest, and I have decided to take this site offline to prevent any potential confusion with my probation officer. It was never meant to be made public—at least, on the front page of HN. It was originally for perspective employers and passed along with my resume, and sometimes cited in casual internet conversations.

Wow, so this is what it feels like. Holy shit.

Author here, really didn’t expect this kind of attention. I have been told my tone/writing style can be misinterpreted. It’s important for me to emphasize accountability and responsibility, even if I disagree with certain elements.

This informational site was passed along with my resume for transparency. I never expected it to be here, or seen any anyone. I’m a little shy.

I’m happy to answer questions the best I can while respecting the the courts, the BOP, and the DOJ. The technical or financial aspects of the site and the case I’ll pass on, though.

(PS if anyone at GitHub can help me recover my account—I had it hijacked from me by a “friend” while I was incarcerated—that would be great)
by LocalH | 2025-10-01 04:57:41+00:00
(2024), btw. Not that it's any less impressive.

I have one question, as a general game hacker (mostly Guitar Hero/Rock Band) who also has a basic 6502 background from the C64. I wonder if there's any way to abuse input on an unmodified game to manage to poke $16 into $07fd without needing the SMB3 bootstrap. I don't know the SMB1 code well enough to find the answer to that, although I do know that games like SMW have a strong ability to use enemy X positions to get things set up just right to have the ability to install an arbitrary code and data payload into memory. But 6502 code isn't 65186 code so I'm not sure how much that matters.

Port of this to SMAS SMB1 wen :)
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-01 04:59:22+00:00
Executives are almost solely focused on financial rewards.

Employees (middle management and down) are explicitly structured to use salaries (to reduce costs/earnings from going to them).

Salary is generally a flat monetary incentive, and bonuses aren't big enough typically. You make more money by promotion up a rigid hierarchy: so that is the true motivation.

And that is politics.

If you have salaries, you have politics, and a downward trend towards more of them.

Engineering workers are often idealistic, which is a different set of motivations to exploit by management for monetary advantage. But idealism/creation leads to turf wars and emotional investment in "your code", which is another entire axis of politics.
by skissane | 2025-10-01 05:00:07+00:00
If a community wants to exclude many millions-even billions-of people around the world, including the population supermajority of dozens of countries, and all those who seriously believe in the traditional teachings of any one of several major religious traditions-and denigrate those people it excludes as “bigots”-well, maybe that in itself is a form of bigotry, and hence their labelling others “bigots” is a case of “the pot calling the kettle black”
by steve-atx-7600 | 2025-10-01 05:00:24+00:00
Kitty supports full 24-bit color and ligatures while being fast as hell and not weighing down your CPU like iterm will. Plus it supports plugins and is wonderfully customize able (visually, fonts, key binds for everything). I switched after couple years ago after realizing the Mac terminal looked like shit and iterm2 was a dog and never looked back. Have not noticed any bugs during daily use. It is my only Mac and Linux terminal.
by LocalH | 2025-10-01 05:01:12+00:00
Specifically, this TAS abuses the fact that SMB doesn't clear RAM on bootup to use SMB3 to write $16 to the "continue world" RAM location, and then hotswaps to SMB1 to start the game in World N-1 which makes the rest of the TAS possible. If you download the TAS and use it with SMB1 on an emulator, the included base savestate will already have $16 in that RAM location, for convenience. The main HN link for this submission has the full technical writeup.
by anelson | 2025-10-01 05:01:13+00:00
If you really believe that you’d be better off somewhere else, and you’re a US citizen in decent financial shape, you are absolutely not trapped in the USA.

I’ve in Europe for 7 years now, not to escape any particular political ideology back home but suffice it to say that I was motivated. If you’re motivated and willing to endure some discomfort there are multiple options for European immigration available to you.

Making any statement about “Europe” is painting with a broad brush, that said I am not particularly bullish on Europe now, for various reasons. But I can’t think of any European country that has the same problems as the US; they all have their own problems, as well as just different ways of doing things.

I’ve never lived in an agrarian commune but I can say with certainty that it would be my absolute last choice.
by biinjo | 2025-10-01 05:01:19+00:00
I’m building Ganttify for a while now https://gantt-chart.com

The goals is to become THE Gantt chart add-on for anything. Currently works with Todoist, Basecamp and Trello. I’m struggling to find more markets.

It’s basically “Turn X into an editable timeline with syncing capabilities and dependencies”

Open to suggestions and ideas how I can make this take off.

I’m currently in the process of consolidating every integration into a single account. Previously (currently) it was “Ganttify for Trello” or “Ganttify for Basecamp”. It will become “Ganttify, connect one or more integrations to your liking”.

That might help simplify things for users I suppose.
by sach1 | 2025-10-01 05:01:24+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description

Try to understand that there is no individual ownership over turns of phrase, and that they tend to shift around over time. Bugs Bunny turned Nimrod from a byword for a competent hunter into an insult.

This is natural and all of your favorite words have or will be subject to it as long as there are humans to communicate with them.
by cyphertruck | 2025-10-01 05:02:27+00:00
I stopped when he flubbed the first point. No, it’s not correct users have to just hope big miners will mine their transactions.

For two reasons:

1. They pay them. Do you trust “big grocery” will provide you food, or did you start a farm in your yard?

2. If that trust were ever broken, millions of bitcoiners who can easily afford to lose $10 a month can mine them. Despite there being no such censorship happening, these uneconomic miners are already a rapidly growing group. Bitcoiners are acutely aware of the state of the mempool.
by komali2 | 2025-10-01 05:03:59+00:00
> My sentencing guidelines were so high because of the loss amount.

> The system incarcerates people for years and expects them to go back into society and do something with their life. The truth is that the programming that is offered is a world-class joke and 99% of inmates don’t really do all that well when they’re out.

Americans: Do you feel like this is justice? Do you feel like dealing with criminals this way is helping make your society healthier?
by LocalH | 2025-10-01 05:04:18+00:00
The submitted run here is also technically "only a Famicom (or NES)". The only difference is the rate of input from the controller to feed the data. Outside of the need to start in N-1 (which can be done on hardware with unmodified games by booting up SMB3 and then hotswapping to SMB1), if you feed these same controller inputs, frame by frame, to a real NES with no modifications, using an unmodified retail copy of SMB1 (and SMB3), this will work.

The only "modification" is wholly external to the system, and is necessary to feed the controller inputs at a superhuman rate. The SMB1 (and SMB3) code is the exact same code Nintendo shipped on mask ROMs, and the Famicom (or NES) is also completely unmodified.
by JdeBP | 2025-10-01 05:04:37+00:00
For some insight on bitmap font support on the "We use the GPU!" terminal emulators, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354014 .

As I noted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45433715 , this is likely down to following Kitty's lead and agreeing with Kovid Goyal's rationale.

The world of terminal emulators is diverging and has been for some time. There are the terminal emulators that are designed to emulate prior real terminals, with one codepoint per cell, support for original bitmap fonts, support for conventional TUI effects with MouseText/block/line drawing characters, and so forth. And there are are conversely the terminal emulators that are heading towards having an entire WWW browser/wordprocessor-like Document Object Model, with embedded images, reflowed proportionally-spaced document lines instead of a strict cell matrix, arbitrary font scaling, hyperlinks, and so forth.
by primitivesuave | 2025-10-01 05:04:48+00:00
I actually read this earlier because you commented on another post about Charlie Javice's sentencing. Based on that sentencing and others, it seems like the going imprisonment rate for "losses incurred by the powers that be" is around $2-3 million/month of prison.

By that metric, you received an unduly harsh sentence. Would you happen to have some insight as to why?

Also, I sincerely appreciate you sharing this, and the means by which you shared it. I honestly think that with your situation (unlike Charlie Javice, Theranos, etc), anyone who reads your candid disclosure would interpret it in a positive way.
by lukan | 2025-10-01 05:04:58+00:00
To quote the author.

"I’m really proud of what I made, yes. I come from a broken home, and the community was a home to me for six years, so I have solace there. It also taught me an endless amount about running a startup, achieving critical mass, and talking and listening to customers. If I were to do it over again, I would have probably made an effort to make money instead of just coast."

He was streaming sports events live.

"These laws are very important."

For what? For the critical service of big commercial sports event? Society would break down, if they loose too much paying customers to teenagers who make a website and a little profit?

Now sure, he was making profit, he is and was not a free information idealist. But also not really a criminal in my perspective deserving prison. Definitely not if prison is what you imagine to better someone.
by geff82 | 2025-10-01 05:05:02+00:00
Shift has more products to offer. They also have a slightly different concept. For example, the batteries are compatible across device categories (put the phone battery in the tablet keyboard) and the make sure that only ONE type of screw is needed for the complete phone. They also have hardware kill switches on their devices Shift is more or less a non-profit (their type of LLC/Gmbh has a special status) and they have a broader opinion on what „fair“ means.
by endgame | 2025-10-01 05:05:15+00:00
In a vacuum, the policy had really high opinion polling.

In reality, the technical implementation will undoubtedly be a privacy and surveillance disaster.

In a vacuum, people thought "social media" meant "Instagram and TicToc and Facebook etc."

In reality, the eSafety commissioner thinks "social media" includes platforms like GitHub. Yes, really.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-24/digital-dilemna-socia...
by boxed | 2025-10-01 05:05:34+00:00
> That's just media literacy I think

The word "just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Systems can change. Human brains on a population/genetic level can't. Blaming individual humans when we know statistically what they will do is mathematically equivalent to giving up.

Also, giving someone information that turns out to be false and never following up isn't "media literacy". I can't see how it can possibly be.
by gizmo686 | 2025-10-01 05:05:40+00:00
A lot of banks/credit unions offer 0% loans to federal employees during government shutdowns. Some of them even offer this to customers who join after the shutdown began.

Granted, it is weird to think about living in a country where this is a finanical product that so many institutions just have.

Even without that, the shutdown actually needs to last a while before it actually becomes a problem for forloughed workers.

Despite the shutdown, the October 1 paychecks (covering work done between September 7 and September 20) will still go out, as they have long since been sent to the payment processors.

The October 15 paychecks (covering September 21 - October 4) should go out with a slightly reduced amount the unpaid 4 days during the shutdown. This would require the agency in question to properly follow shutdown protocols and submit timecards/payroll data to the processors prior to the shutdown. Since this is not the routine process, I imagine some mistakes will be made here, so some government workers will probably miss the October 15 paycheck. Others may face hardship from the reduced payment; but even people living paycheck to paycheck typically stretch the paycheck out across the pay period, so will be able to get through most of the period on the reduced check (and can probably defer/reduce some spending).

Major payroll lapses will not kick in until the October 29 paycheck. If we reach that point, this would be the second longest shutdown in history [0]. Even then, most Americans have an existing line of credit that offers 0% interest loans for between 30 and 60 days depending on when they are in the billing cycle [1].

[0] Not that I would be too suprised by this. The longest shutdown occured under President Trump, while the republicans controlled the Senate; and had controll of the House for the first part of the shutdown.

[1] Except for those who have a revolving balance, in which case and additional spending starts accruing interest immedietly; and any delay in paying down the existing balance also incurs interest. And, when these loans do gather interest, it is at a quite high rate.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-01 05:06:03+00:00
You seem to have created something that was technically complex and therefore difficult, and have done it relatively cheaply. Is it worth repeating the effort / rebuilding "as a service" for legitimate businesses that need a 100Gbps CDN for streaming, file distribution, whatever else. Like low-key sports that don't get much distribution because the big networks aren't interested?

(There's a lot I don't know, I'm just impressed by what it appears you were able to build whilst working other jobs)

Are you legally prevented from pursuing such an endeavour?

Does your criminal record unspokenly make it likely not worthwhile pursuing a legitimate version of what you created?
by komali2 | 2025-10-01 05:06:36+00:00
> Who's giving away 100s of TB of video decode and bandwidth for free. And why?

Not everyone is doing it for the same reason, but there are anarchists doing it because they want people to be allowed to freely access media, and that's the entirety of the reason. No profit motive or clout chasing, they just are frustrated that access to information or media is locked behind a paywall and only available to people with a credit card, or in countries allowed to view that content, or have enough money to subscribe to the services, so they do something about it.

Though I would imagine the majority of the most popular websites are just using client computers as compute, or serving ads.
by bamboozled | 2025-10-01 05:06:50+00:00
I honestly don't think people realize how unfit they are, like 90% of people in modern countries do almost no exercise. No resistance training, no weight training, no cardio, just drive to work, sit at a desk, then drive home. For some people who work form home, it must be even worse.

Until you meet someone who is fit, it's hard imagine how unfit a 30 year old can be.

A few years back I did a back country avalanche safety training course. My instructor was 72 years old, anyway we had to skin up a decent size mountain, and here I was in my 30s, actually struggling at times to keep up with him.

I am definitely above average fitness as I do hikes like that regularly, but I work as a programmer and at the time, was doing less cardio than usual, and of course, siting on my ass a lot, but I was witnessing what a lifetime of being outdoors and hiking up mountains in the snow for an occupation did for this guy. It wasn't just the hiking either, the dude could dig his ass off, he has huge forearms and when we got to the peak, dug pits for 10/15 minutes, zero stopping. Again I struggled to keep up with him. Then when it was all over, we had to ski home, which was about 30-40 minutes of descending and traversing. I was pretty gassed at the bottom, he was ready for a beer.

I know that most people my age would struggle, hard, to even keep up with me on that trip, because I've taken people on smaller hikes and seen what happens.

It was stupidly impressive. He is still going strong to this day, probably at 75 now with a girlfriend in her 50s.

Fit people like that are really hard to come by these days.
by mattnewton | 2025-10-01 05:07:30+00:00
Really neat project!

Do we know if the 3B model shown in the twitter thread is saturated and we need to train a bigger one, or if it is still converging? 3B parameters seems light for this but I don’t have a good intuition!

(Nit: “Zelda Ocarina of Time” is definitely showing Zelda A Link To The Past sprites, which would make more sense as that is a top down 2d SNES game and Ocarina was a 3d N64 game)
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-01 05:08:25+00:00
European housing markets are diverse. I can buy a home in Seattle but I never dreamed of buying one in Lausanne Switzerland. Switzerland is the odd ball out as their academic salaries are pretty good though (at least my post doc was a good deal). I have friends working in other parts of western Europe who don’t make much but have pretty good lives, retirement is basically covered and they have good job satisfaction, so what else do you really need in life?
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-10-01 05:08:49+00:00
> Test code doesn’t have its own test code, so the only way to verify correctness is by inspection.

This is about as incorrect as it gets.

The only way to verify correctness is to change the production code in a way that should cause the test to fail, then watch it fail. In TDD this is done by writing the test before you write the code that would make it pass, then watch it fail. Only then are you allowed to write the code that makes it pass.

Otherwise you have no proof the test can EVER fail - which means no proof it adds value to your codebase.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-10-01 05:09:19+00:00
> not sure why US businesses even have to obey US laws

Because there are laws for US businesses over which the US government has jurisdiction.

> just punish the consumers/citizens and be done with it.

That happens too, when consumers break the laws that apply to them. In the case of international transactions, the law has to account for the pesky jurisdiction:

It's nothing new, when travelers/consumers go through the customs, THEY are responsible for the goods they import, NOT the party that sold those goods to them! That's the only sane way to do it and it's an established practice, there's no reason to do it differently when a consumer imports something using the internet!

> of course defining what “US” business is might be quite challenging, is Apple a US company?!

Yes it is, also, Apple's branches in other countries are companies under the jurisdiction of those other countries. It's not that complicated.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-01 05:09:40+00:00
Then the Yaris, Fit, and Accent wouldn't have been discontinued in the US and Canada, and the Nissa Versa would be selling like hotcakes like in Mexico.

If most consumers can afford a large car, they ended up buying a larger car.

The overlap of high income earners and those cars was not significant from a PMF standpoint.

CUVs and Hatchbacks seem to be the best middle ground for both types of consumers.