MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-17 17:24:17+00:00
I don’t know much about map tiles… but could that be done more effectively through a CDN or cache, and then have S3 behind it?

Then the CDN takes the beating. So this still sounds like S3 abuse to me.

But I leave room for being wrong here.

Edit: presumably if your site is big enough to serve 50k RPS it’s big enough for a cache?
by chimprich | 2025-10-17 17:24:33+00:00
> Compare that with protection from predators, medical care, vaccination, shelter, reliable food and clean water, and stress free lives until a quick and fast death.

Comparing farmed animals to wild animals is not really the point. A better comparison is a farmed animal compared to that animal not existing at all. We make the choice to bring them into existence.

Are farmed animals better off existing than not? I think in general the great majority of the 100 billion or so animals we slaughter per year are probably better off not existing. Their lives tend to be short, miserable and pointless.

If you insist on comparing farmed animals to wild animals, though, I don't think it's clear cut. They do live "safer" lives (at least until we kill them, as young as it is economical to do so), but they get to experience severe boredom, curtailment of their natural instincts, and distressing experiences such as separation from their offspring and overcrowding.
by mk_stjames | 2025-10-17 17:24:45+00:00
I would argue that valuation of '50 Cent' (real name Curtis James Jackson III) was essentially flat leading up to immediately before the release of Get Rich or Die Tryin', his debut album released February 6, 2003.

Which, undeniable, is an * all-time banger * that substantially increased the valuation of 50 Cent to something far surpassing US dollar inflation.

Seriously, go listen that that album again; total game changer. Top cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D3crqpClPY
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-10-17 17:24:49+00:00
> All US citizens participate in a free market, as long as foreign labor is cheaper then American businesses have no incentive to participate in the economy.

You just said it right there, a great argument to make the tariffs match what is required to allow US Citizens to compete with global slave labor prices - OR block all products built with slave labor.

Also have eating out of lead-lined everything in the meantime: https://tamararubin.com/
by hinkley | 2025-10-17 17:24:56+00:00
Java 4 to 5 was very rough. Sun kept trying to defer major changes, sort of how Elixir claims it is mostly done. But something changed in 5 and the floodgates opened. They made too many changes at once, and so out in the field you would bump into projects stuck on Java 4 even as 6 was in beta. And then 7, and a few past that.
by jerlam | 2025-10-17 17:25:46+00:00
Hopefully EVs are being purchased to replace existing ICE cars, in which case the falling price is a good thing since it makes them more available at lower price points. Replacing a car with one that is cheaper to run and produces less emissions is usually a good thing.

If people are buying (and storing, and fueling) EVs in addition to their collection of ICE cars, that's probably a separate issue about overconsumption.
by anonymousiam | 2025-10-17 17:25:48+00:00
Any sort of innovation may counter "standards", but without knowing the specific ITU terms for S-band, I can't say whether or not any regulation has been violated.

The fact that somebody saw something pointed at Earth on a frequency generally reserved for uplinks doesn't necessarily mean that it would interfere with other spacecraft receiving the signals from the ground. Starlink (and presumably Starshield) operates in LEO, below most other LEO spacecraft. Maybe they're using a dish or even a phased array antenna, and pointing down instead of up. If so, the probability of interference is low.
by lanewinfield | 2025-10-17 17:26:07+00:00
hi, i made this. thank you for posting.

unfortunately due to the government shutdown, the BLS inflation data for September 2025 is delayed from October 15 (as it normally is) until October 24[1], so please check back then to see if he is >109 Cent.

assuming future stability, the site will automatically update on the 15th of every month.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/bls/092025-cpi-reschedule-notice.htm
by bawolff | 2025-10-17 17:26:14+00:00
You're correct that copyright does not apply to ideas only implementations. However if you take an existing implementation and base yours on it, generally the original work's copyright applies (there are a whole lot of details this is skimming over).

As an example, if you take a painting someone else made, and try and make your own version using the original as a reference, that is probably subject to the original author's copyright. On the other hand if you both happen to paint the same sunset its all ok.

I think you're more stating how you would like copyright to work, not how it actually does.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-17 17:26:46+00:00
I wonder how the data is updated. I dont see any network calls so I guess it's provided on build. The latest datapoint is August. Do we just not have data for the last few months? I suppose you could have github action or whatever to pull in the latest and republish on change.

edit: i see elsewhere in the comments the author explains this. github action indeed.
by energy123 | 2025-10-17 17:27:07+00:00
The Internet Research Agency organizing multiple Black Lives Matter protests due to control over approximately 50% of the largest identity-based Facebook groups is just one small example on a long list of examples of social unrest and the consequential ushering in of sectarianism and destruction of democracy that the current status quo is enabling. The pro-freedom types do not even know this is happening let alone have any solutions to it. Turning a blind eye is all they have. So until they show an awareness of the existence of the issue I will be siding with the only people who have put any effort into addressing the problems.
by nly | 2025-10-17 17:28:04+00:00
It's remarkable how over this time frame how inflation in the UK and the USA has been so similar.

https://www.rateinflation.com/consumer-price-index/uk-histor...

https://www.rateinflation.com/consumer-price-index/usa-histo...

Both approx +110%

Yet over that time UK GDP per capita is up only 46% compared to the US which is up a massive +223%. Depressing.
by kachapopopow | 2025-10-17 17:28:05+00:00
redirect it to the client ip, not abuse since you're just an innocent redirect to client-ip service and the (most probable) timeout should consider the service dead after a couple of days or even better they just overload their own servers if there is a page on the client ip or even better is that it causes automatic abuse trigger to kick in and shut down the service.
by byyll | 2025-10-17 17:28:58+00:00
I get the point. But those are incomparable. Hyperscalers don't compete on price, they compete on scale and services offered. The compliance, the security, the support, the integrations, the backups.

Can you host your own object storage open source software, key vault OSS, VPN, queue service, container registry, logging, host your own Postgres/MySQL? Sure, but you will need to research what is best, what is supported, keep it maintained, make sure to update it and that those updates don't break anything, wake up in the middle of the night when it breaks, make sure it's secure. And you would still need to handle access control across those services. And you would still need a 3rd party service for DDoS protection, likely CDN too. And you would likely need some identity provider.
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by andydotxyz | 2025-10-17 17:29:02+00:00
A downloadable app creator that makes it easy for anyone to create and compile native apps that work on all platforms. Just pick your platform/processor on the download page and execute the app - no signup required.

This is built with the Go programming language and the Fyne graphical toolkit - my main focus for many years now. If you have the developer tools installed you can do a native build locally - and if not it is integrated with a backend build system that does the build for you for any platforms.

Keen to get feedback on initial flow, user experience or overall functionality. There is a feedback button in the app. Thanks so much for trying this out!
by strangattractor | 2025-10-17 17:29:17+00:00
The EV car market is rapidly evolving which tends to make people skittish about purchases and tend to the latest innovations. I decided to lease my first EV because I figured it would be outdated pretty quickly.

I was wrong. In reality the main innovation driver is the battery. The car is great and EVs are much less maintenance. I think used sales would be better if there were better aftermarket options for batteries.
by kwillets | 2025-10-17 17:29:57+00:00
I'm just learning about agentic search so I'm a bit adrift.

One of my side projects is a full text index for pattern search, and I'm trying to understand how it might fit with that. You mention tool call overhead, but is that a significant part of the latency in the multi-turn scenario, or is it the coding agent being forced into a serial processing pattern?
by nyouhd | 2025-10-17 17:30:06+00:00
Not to defend the pull_request_target, it is dangerous... But, am I the only one who think it was a stretch to say "just like that, we had a github actions token with read/write access to nixpkgs"?

They were able to dump arbitrary file to logs. The secrets were automatically obfuscated with *** in the logs. How could they exfiltrate the token?
by ivan_gammel | 2025-10-17 17:30:12+00:00
>Note, they don’t earn money from users. They earn money from advertisers.

It doesn’t matter. They loose the audience - they loose advertising revenue. The only difference is that UK cannot seize the money to collect the fine (the fine now is the price of the return ticket), but the fine wasn’t big anyway and complete loss of the market has bigger economic consequences. UK doesn’t have power over US corporation, but they have power over their distribution channel and they have full sovereign right to exercise that power.
by cma | 2025-10-17 17:30:29+00:00
Usually methods that get past the diffraction limit but not through hallucination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution_microscopy

But they say they used ML analysis too in the abstract

> Using super-resolution microscopy,25 we characterized their unique molecular composition and dynamics in dissociated neurons,26 enabling Ca 2+ propagation over distances. Utilizing imaging and machine-learning-based27 analysis, we confirmed the in situ presence of DNTs connecting dendrites to other dendrites28 whose anatomical features are distinguished from synaptic dendritic spines
by nextworddev | 2025-10-17 17:30:57+00:00
Yes, this rally seems overextended. But investor sentiment - if anything - has already swung to very negative, which isn't ideal if you want it to crash.

Bubbles don't pop without indiscriminate euphoria (Private markets are a different story, but VCs are fked anyways). If anything, the prices have reflected less than 20% of Capex projections, so the market clearly thinks OpenAI / Stargate / FAANG's capex plans are BS.

p.s. if everyone thinks it's a bubble, it generally rallies even more..
by asa400 | 2025-10-17 17:31:02+00:00
Upvoting you because we should have clear answers for these concerns. To those in the community downvoting: we should take these kinds of posts as opportunities to improve.

Elixir and Erlang are dynamic compiled languages.

The actor model being built in to the runtime offers many benefits, all of which I cannot enumerate here, but prominent among them are the ability for the VM to preemptively schedule actors, and the fact that actors are independent in memory and cannot mess with the internal state of other actors.

The jump from Elixir to Erlang or vice versa is small.

The hardest (and most rewarding) part is learning OTP and the whole BEAM runtime system, which you can do with either language.

Erlang and Elixir are slightly different syntaxes for the same semantics, and if you know one you can learn to read and probably write the other in less than a day.

It isn’t like Clojure and Java where Clojure is significantly higher level than Java in many ways. Elixir adds a few things to Erlang but is otherwise the same programming model.

> I just don't know which niche applications Elixir targets and excels at.

Pretty much any application where concurrent IO and state management are the main problems. Web applications, proxies/brokers, long running network stuff, semi-embedded low power devices that are hard to physically access and must remain reliable for years at a time, that kind of thing.

I actually agree with you that the ecosystem and tooling and especially the value proposition are confusing, and the sales pitch over the years has often been poor.

The whole BEAM community would do well to speak more plainly about the concrete benefits for programmers and companies, and the existing successful applications rather than the theoretical beauty of the syntax or the actor model.

I hope this helps.
by bawolff | 2025-10-17 17:31:38+00:00
That seems totally reasonable to me. A large part of fair use is about the purpose of the use. It seems like a reasonable compromise that what is fair use in one context might not be in another. I can't think of any alternative to fair use that would make more sense.

I think the only unreasonable part is llm companies are implicitly or sometimes explicitly advertizing their products output as being fit for use in other projects. I think that is a false advertising problem.
by florkbork | 2025-10-17 17:31:43+00:00
Imagine if you opened up your laptop to discover Microsoft windows has locked you out of a your entire machine, because you were writing a novel in RTF and it could be opened in Microsoft Word. Microsoft's executives started posting they "took control of the your machine/the novel to maintain security".

- Corporate entity doesn't have copyright over your creative output. Just because word can open and view ("run") your novel does not give them ownership.

- Locking your access completely on your resources would be akin to a ransomware attack or account compromise

Would you label those actions hostile? Or just accept it as right because "maintain security"?

If you would label the above hypothetical actions as hostile (if not outrageous overreach, something akin to theft?); what is fundamentally different to what Ruby Central did by taking over the source code of a GitHub repository?
by stetrain | 2025-10-17 17:32:09+00:00
Why would I pay $35k for a used EV when I can buy a new one for $42k with a $7500 tax credit taken off at purchase?

This article doesn't seem to mention those credits, but they are likely a large factor in the difference between the nominal sale price of a new EV and the used market price.

If you don't factor in those credits, it looks like someone paid $42k for an EV that a couple of years later was only worth $30k. When in reality they paid $35k for that new EV as a net purchase cost.
by CWuestefeld | 2025-10-17 17:32:19+00:00
We've been a similar situation. One thing we considered doing is to give them bad data.

It was pretty clear in our case that they were scraping our site to get our pricing data. Our master catalog had several million SKUs, priced dynamically based on availability, customer contracts, and other factors. And we tried to add some value to the product pages, with relevant recommendations for cross-sells, alternate choices, etc. This was pretty compute-intensive, and the volume of the scraping could amount to a DoS at times. Like, they could bury us in bursts of requests so quickly that our infrastructure couldn't spin up new virtual servers, and once we were buried, it was difficult to dig back out from under the load. We learned a lot during this period, including some very counterintuitive stuff about how some approaches to queuing and prioritizing that appeared sounded great on paper, actually could have unintended effects that made such situations worse.

One strategy we talked about was that, rather than blocking the bad guys, we'd tag the incoming traffic. We couldn't do this perfect accuracy, but the inaccuracy was such that we could at least ensure that it wasn't affecting real customers (because we could always know when it was a real, logged-in user). We realized that we could at least cache the data in the borderline cases so we wouldn't have to recalculate (it was a particularly stupid bot that was attacking us, re-requesting the same stuff many times over); from that it was a small step to see that we could at the same time add a random fudge factor into any numbers, hoping to get to a state where the data did our attacker more harm than good.

We wound up doing what the OP is now doing, working with CloudFlare to identify and mitigate "attacks" as rapidly as possible. But there's no doubt that it cost us a LOT, in terms of developer time, payments to CF, and customer dissatisfaction.

By the way, this was all the more frustrating because we had circumstantial evidence that the attacker was a service contracted by one of our competitors. And if they'd come straight to us to talk about it, we'd have been much happier (and I think they would have been as well) to offer an API through which they could get the catalog data easily and in a way where we don't have to spend all the compute on the value-added stuff we were doing for humans. But of course they'd never come to us, or even admit it if asked, so we were stuck. And while this was going, there was also a case in the courts that was discussed many times here on HN. It was a question about blocking access to public sites, and the consensus here was something like "if you're going to have a site on the web, then it's up to you to ensure that you can support any requests, and if you can't find a way to withstand DoS-level traffic, it's your own fault for having a bad design". So it's interesting today to see that attitudes have changed.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-17 17:32:39+00:00
In some sense it's absurd. But historically its normal.

And to be more precise, 25 years to halve is actually less inflation than the historical average of 3.29% from 1914-2025. At that rate it would take 21-22 years to halve.

Actually there is a surprisingly good trick to be able to calculate this called the rule of 72. Take the inflation percentage (2, 3 %) and divide 72 by it. Thats how many years it will take to halve. Not completing accurate but actually very close.

But yeah, inflation is a bitch over long time horizons. It makes me laugh when people say stocks are risky. Say you are 20 years old and want to save $2M USD for your retirement by 65. Expect that to be more like $470k.
by rs186 | 2025-10-17 17:32:40+00:00
Fact checking is becoming extremely poor these days, even among reputable/resourceful organizations.

I'll skip NYTimes here. For the Verge, I have pointed out inaccuracies many times in their comment section. Most often, nothing happened. Sometimes, they quietly fixes something, delete my comment and pretend nothing happened.

(And it is laughable they published this piece https://www.theverge.com/politics/777630/wsj-trans-misinform.... When I pointed out their own rich history of inaccuracies and retracted reporting, they deleted my comments and flagged my account.)

Guess what's worse? Vergecast. Turns out you don't do fact checking in podcasts! The hosts just ramble whatever they believe is true. And they absolutely do NOT publish corrections after the fact.

I stopped reading Engadget partly for this reason. And I cancelled my Verge subscription for this as well.
by mothballed | 2025-10-17 17:33:05+00:00
Get a brokerage account that has a sister bank account. Put money in, buy TIPS/gold/equities, pay the 30% tax or whatever on the inflationary difference, then buy your stuff. The point is to force you into buying more stable units of account and then taxing the inflation as a "capital gain."

Pretty genius because it can be framed as taxing greedy capitalists when literally they're just taxing fractional inflation.
by bearjaws | 2025-10-17 17:33:07+00:00
Of course you could also invest heavily into cloud automation and likely run their payloads autoscaling and save a fortune too.

My point is, when people compare cloud to on prem they use a hypothetical on-prem installation vs a realistic actually working cloud deployment.

We only see these blog posts for things that are just 1-2 servers.

Very few companies are fully on-prem and saving a lot of money, they typically have very specific use cases like high bandwidth or IO usage.
by xp84 | 2025-10-17 17:33:33+00:00
You're correct with that concern being the biggest holding-back factor now. However, I think that the removal of the price barrier that we've seen here with used EVs becoming competitive with gas cars is still a vital prerequisite to adoption. Even if you gifted an apartment dweller a free charger in their carport, in 2021 when most electric SUVs were about $65k at the cheapest compared to $40k for a comparable gas car, it would be hard to convince them to buy electric.
by spatley | 2025-10-17 17:34:04+00:00
Exactly, for the narrowly defined condition of running k8s on digital ocean with a managed control plane compared to Hetzner bare metal:

AWS and DigitalOcean = $559.36 monthly or Hetzner = $132.96 The cost of an engineer to set up and maintain a bare metal k8s cluster is going to far exceed the roughly $400 monthly savings.

If you run things yourself and can invest sweat equity, this makes some sense. But for any company with a payroll this does not math out.
by mimimi31 | 2025-10-17 17:34:43+00:00
>There is a sign-in/create account screen, but this is easily bypassed if you know how to edit an sqlite file.

You can also just add "SideloadedMode=true" to your "Kobo eReader.conf" to achieve that. This removes the "Home" and "Discover" tabs as well, defaulting to the clean "My Books" tab instead.
by bityard | 2025-10-17 17:34:51+00:00
"Light truck" is slightly more formal way of saying "pickup truck." And is meant to differentiate the class from commercial trucks like moving vans, dump trucks, and semis.

Smaller pickups like the Ford Ranger and Chevy S-10 are in the "compact pickup" class. (And unfortunately these are not sold in the US anymore. For those with genuine need, we either have to resurrect some old heap headed for the scrapyard or import them on the gray market from Asian countries.)
by stetrain | 2025-10-17 17:35:25+00:00
From personal experience over ~6 years of EV roadtrips, the first two really aren't much of a problem with a Tesla or a vehicle that can access Tesla's network.

Other chargers can definitely be a bit more hit-and-miss although they are improving.

These days if you stick to the big networks (Tesla, Electrify America, Rivian, IONNA, etc.) you're going to have a pretty good time. The one-off chargers in municipal parking garages are a different story, I don't really on those unless there is a recent PlugShare review showing that it actually works.
by the_hangman | 2025-10-17 17:35:26+00:00
Genuine question: how do you take something which you have already been paying for?

They removed other maintainers access to their AWS account, and one of them had allegedly taken a screenshot of the root password from a password manager and logged in a few hours later and changed the root password to lock the legal owners out. Most of the community has turned on the maintainer who did that, it was extremely childish behaviour.
by robocat | 2025-10-17 17:36:06+00:00
Summary: it turns out to be quite profitable for prop firms to charge prospective prop traders non-refundable "evaluation fees" to try and join the firm - which only a single digit percentage of traders will pass.

Even if a trader passes the test, the firms can have charges and ongoing subscriptions and also may do dirty tricks to avoid paying out the prop trader's commissions (of the trading profits).