MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-22 06:01:29+00:00
I'll repeat what I said above because this is an oft-repeated fallacy:

We don't expect each new nuclear warhead to cost as much as the Manhattan Project did relative to the national budget. Likewise, after 60 years of technological development beyond what we had in the 60s, there is no reason to expect a modern day lunar mission to cost the same relatively.
by dlevine | 2025-10-22 06:02:01+00:00
When I was in the college in the early 2000s, I had a friend who ran OpenBSD. He always sang its praises, mostly because it was the most secure operating system.

I tried a bunch of Linux Distributions and FreeBSD before mostly settling on MacOS, but never actually got around to running it.

Glad to see OpenBSD is still being actively developed.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-22 06:02:29+00:00
Big factors not really being addressed here --- the cost of labor and materials to build new homes.

Labor and materials make up the majority of the cost of a new home.

Now that we're deporting cheap labor and placing a 30% tariff on lumber and other materials, any potential housing boom may be muted by the hefty increase in construction costs.
by MzHN | 2025-10-22 06:02:56+00:00
I desperately want to like Bruno, since I think it might not do the same rugpull as Postman and Insomnia.

But the UX is just terrible (for me) or at least has been every time I've tried to start using it more.

I mean, come on, the most basic use of creating a request goes like this:

1. Sorry, can't let you create a request before you create a collection.

2. Sorry, can't let you create a collection before you make a decision on in which path you will be storing all your collections.

3. Sorry, can't let you create a request before you think of a good name for it.

etc.

Like what the heck? This should be just one click to create a new untitled request then fill in the URL and send.

At first I thought this might be growing pains since it was new but every year I try it and it hasn't improved.
by kyledrake | 2025-10-22 06:03:09+00:00
> Even Carl Sagan (a general believer that any civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel would be altruistic, not hostile) called the practice of METI “deeply unwise and immature,” and recommended that “the newest children in a strange and uncertain cosmos should listen quietly for a long time, patiently learning about the universe and comparing notes, before shouting into an unknown jungle that we do not understand.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
by sigmoid10 | 2025-10-22 06:04:27+00:00
>It was academia.edu, and who can possibly explain how they were able to get a domain name in the .edu TLD?

Relevant section From Wikipedia:

>Academia.edu is not a university or institution for higher learning and so under current standards it would not qualify for the ".edu" top-level domain. However, since the domain name "Academia.edu" was registered in 1999, before the regulations required .edu domain names to be held solely by accredited post-secondary institutions in the US, it is allowed to remain active and operational. All .edu domain names registered before 2001 were grandfathered in, even if not an accredited USA post-secondary institution.
by throwawaypath | 2025-10-22 06:04:28+00:00
>How could you possibly come to the conclusion that it's not about race?

It has nothing to do with race, everything to do with ethnicity. Austrians are racially White, but are not native to London.

There's nothing wrong with promoting or protecting the interests of native or indigenous people over those of immigrants or foreigners. The only "Brits" native to Great Britain are White Brits.
by aappleby | 2025-10-22 06:06:22+00:00
Of course, the example in the article is all monospaced console stuff. I've written a lot of text rendering over the years, everything from tiny bitmap for microcontrollers to analytically-antialiased true type based on code from some paper by Charles Loop years ago.

If GPU is cheap and CPU is expensive, draw one tri every frame and don't worry about the rest. If CPU is cheap and GPU is expensive, do a glyph per quad and some basic dirty rectangles if needed.
by vincenthwt | 2025-10-22 06:07:13+00:00
Hopefully, your view is in the minority. If this mindset becomes prevalent in the US, nothing new will ever be invented, and no new regions of space will be explored.

Modern moon exploration isn’t about repeating Apollo but progressing toward resource extraction and establishing humanity’s long-term presence in space. These missions are designed to achieve goals that were previously impossible and lay the foundation for humanity’s future beyond Earth.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-22 06:08:17+00:00
Aye.

ONVIF is the (now quite old, but still very relevant) standard for interfacing IP cameras locally on a network.

A cheap-but-performant ONVIF camera on an isolated VLAN (or a physically-isolated network; I won't tell anyone) can be a thing of beauty that is also completely unable to call home to some mothership in the clown.

I'm frankly very surprised that I don't see it mentioned here more often when discussions of cameras arise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONVIF
by vulkoingim | 2025-10-22 06:09:47+00:00
I would argue sensor size is what's most impotant to look for in a camera.

Have a look at this thread [1] I have bookmarked. I found it quite informative. I already got some cheap cameras and set them up, but I wish I would have found it earlier. The ones I got are 4MP with 1/3" sensor and perform absolutely terribly in night setting.

[1] https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/getting-cameras-with-the-right...
by CGamesPlay | 2025-10-22 06:10:06+00:00
Specifically, earlyoom’s README says it repeatedly checks (“periodically polls”) the memory pressure, using CPU each time even when there is no change. The “poll” system call waits for the kernel to notify the process that the file has changed, using no CPU until the call resolves. It’s unclear what systemd-oomd does, because it uses the phrase “periodically polls”,
by Jean-Papoulos | 2025-10-22 06:10:17+00:00
I believe there's a vicious circle of a few companies starting to use AI with an actual idea, then shareholders of other companies say "we need to use AI as well, it works for them !" and then more companies start using AI to "not fall behind", etc... All with very few actual use cases. 99% are doing it just because others are.
by Lio | 2025-10-22 06:11:04+00:00
Do they? Didn’t Microsoft force all its employees back to the office?

That doesn’t sound like they have faith in Teams themselves.

I use Teams every day and it can’t even do threading in channels properly. The spellchecker is unreliable and even copy and paste is occasionally patchy.

It is not a good product. I’d switch to Slack given the choice.
by silversmith | 2025-10-22 06:12:15+00:00
That's the case if said employees have nothing better to do and are currently twiddling their thumbs. Usually the server maintenance hours come out of project development hours.

It's precisely why we moved from a self-hosted demo environment server to heroku - the developers that had both the skills to manage a server and enough seniority to have access accross all the different projects could bring in more by building.
by mmooss | 2025-10-22 06:12:26+00:00
> At least partly because the Democrats have totally abandoned being the party of the working class.

Who do the Dems represent? Milquetoast moderates who favor hiding their heads in the sand rather than address critical issues like freedom, democracy, rule of law, hate, disinformation, tech, etc ... ?

The Democrats are so afraid of conflict that they stand for nothing (quick, name what they stand for) - so afraid that the attack members of their own party, progressives, who fight for anything. So they are left with the above demographic, and with weak support from them because, it turns out, cowardice and ineffectiveness doesn't inspire people. And they get votes from people whose dislike of the GOP is enough that they'll vote for the Dems regardless.

They are also absurdly ineffective at communication. They can't even overcome the people who say Dems are child molesters and Obama was from Kenya. I read that a Dem Congressional livestream about the shutdown peaked at 1,000 (one thousand) viewers. :D

In the NY Times in recent days is a debate over what milquetoast policies will win a few extra percent of the vote - they say that moderation is the way! The Dem elite don't realize that the problem isn't policy - Trump does great with all-time bad, all-time extreme policy - the problem is them.
by MarioMan | 2025-10-22 06:13:05+00:00
> They didn't seem to appreciate me telling them that they'd asked this question the last time.

Most places will appreciate if you tell them before you work on the problem. That gives them a chance to give you a different problem instead. Likewise, they won't appreciate if you tell them afterwards since it makes it harder for them to judge any semblance of problem solving skill.
by mmooss | 2025-10-22 06:14:26+00:00
> The opposite of your point is that I recall the GOP frequently calling anyone in favor of abortions murderers, people who are gay or transgender pedophiles and that non-whites are destroying our nation. This isn't even a recent phenomenon either, this was all stuff I heard decades ago just slightly less overt.

Yes, and they attract independent voters with that. (Though a big reason is that the GOP has exceptional information dominance - they can convince a large part of the public of whatever they want to say; the Dems are effectively silenced.)
by userbinator | 2025-10-22 06:14:37+00:00
accent matching (if you sound Indian, it shouldn't also sound Indian)

Why not? I've found that it helps greatly with mutual intelligibility when both sides are speaking a similar dialect, and the one who can do this switching, switches to that of the one who can't.

(I wish I could also use an Indian accent bidirectionally; would definitely come in handy for those aggravating times I've had to talk to an outsourced customer service department.)
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-22 06:14:40+00:00
The connection count costs also balloon on most cloud providers (any busy protocol like telemetry or log-consolidation costs can be huge.)

If your group pushes over 23TiB/Month, than most usually look for un-metered colo hosts, and or CDN services with your resource integrity Attribute tags set.

Cloud makes sense for small IT shops that can't afford a fully staffed team. The general rule is a 5:1 labor to hardware cost amortized over 3 years.

AWS was successful as IT had enormous upfront costs most people found difficult to justify, and data-centers could absorb a DDoS that would be expensive to mitigate.

Rule #17: "Only forward meaningful data at every layer of a design, as it often naturally ensures a feasible convergent behavior."

There are a number of great options, but depends on the use-cases. =3
by scrps | 2025-10-22 06:15:58+00:00
looks over at pile of steppers and drivers that can measure torque and glances at 3D printer

looks over at SBC with built in NPU

looks up high res encoder costs

closes tab

Direct link to the paper:

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/scirobotics.adn4008?...
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-22 06:16:13+00:00
Of course if it happens, it will be biggly constructive.

China's exports to the US have dropped dramatically but overall their global exports have still increased.

https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/10/13/chinas-global-e...

Bottom line: US tariffs are hurting American consumers more than Chinese producers. The most reasonable and constructive way for the USA to take on China in a trade war was in coordination with allies --- which we no longer have.

China has concluded that they have the upper hand and have started taking a noticeably harder line in negotiations. The *real* trade war has just now started.

Time is on their side. All they have to do is wait --- for the USA to effectively surrender and Trump to declare victory.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-22 06:16:52+00:00
If it was that simple institutional amnesia wouldn't be a thing, nor bitrot. Think of all the articles pointing out how the US has lost much of its manufacturing edge because we gave up building precision machinery and generational skills atrophied in areas from metallurgy to mechanical engineering. We're now inflicting the same future on ourselves by trashing our public health research infrastructure.
by eqvinox | 2025-10-22 06:16:58+00:00
There are never multiple sources; a midspan PoE injector breaks the power flow and injects only its own power supply.

It's done through the center tap on the Ethernet transformers. Midspans have another set of those transformers and inject the power on the PoE PD facing side. Whole pair(s) carry common-mode DC current, so basically your green pair could be ±48V and the orange pair 0V. If any, the upstream switch's injected power would just end at the other coil of the Ethernet transformer in the midspan. However, the midspan also doesn't pass through PoE negotiation, so the switch won't turn on power to begin with.
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-22 06:18:18+00:00
I used to use it at University after one of the guys I was in labs with was using it for his daily driver. The first release I tried was 3.8.

It was quite a shock coming from SuSE 9.2. It was much easier to install than FreeBSD, however the installer is even more archaic than FreeBSD. Someone wrote a graphical installer years ago and but nobody bothered with it.

The BSDs really need at least something like the archinstall.

It is certainly different than Linux. You really need to read the FAQ and manuals as you won't find much out by doing a web search, unlike Linux. One of the other things that differs from Linux is that supported hardware / software will work, however Linux hardware support is obviously a lot better than in 2005 when I first started looking at OpenBSD.
by halapro | 2025-10-22 06:18:48+00:00
> humanity’s future beyond Earth.

Yes but why?

It's cool that we can learn about what's around us, but in practice we're light years away from being interplanetary, we just can't afford it and our energy sources are laughable.

Realistically speaking, how far are we really from "moon travel" that is both remotely affordable and worth the trip?
by vee-kay | 2025-10-22 06:19:00+00:00
We really don't know much about the universe and it is too vast and unfathomed. Scientists computed the mass of all matter and all energy of this Universe, but their calculations told that all this stuff comprises merely 5% of the Universe, the remaining 95% of the Universe is said to made of anti-matter and anti-energy, about which not much is understood.

So there's a good chance that aliens may be made of anti-matter and using anti-energy. But even if they tried to communicated with rest of universe with such anti-energy-based technology, we humans simply may not be detecting it or interpreting it yet, and we may still be waiting for that elusive signal (energy-based) indicating advanced intelligent life.
by beAbU | 2025-10-22 06:19:18+00:00
An alien race arriving at our shores cannot be anything but disastrous for us, IMO.

Why go through the massive expense to come all the way here if the intention is something that is not conquering or total dominion over us? We did this to our own fellow humans a couple of hundred years ago.

So yeah, call it immature or insecure. But I prefer they just leave us alone to be honest.
Show HN: Pixel Kit v5.0-Beta2 – Web and Mobile Design Tool
by ivanglpz | 2025-10-22 06:19:48+00:00
This beta includes several technical improvements aimed at performance, flexibility workflows:

Unlimited canvas: Previous canvas limits were removed. Earlier restrictions caused unnecessary re-renders and blocked operations. Now designers can place elements anywhere without overhead.

Optimized state management: Creating, updating, and deleting elements now triggers minimal state updates. Only affected parts of the state are recalculated, reducing processing and improving responsiveness.

Dedicated icon element: Icons now have their own element type. This decouples them from general elements, allowing integration of additional libraries, dynamic styling, and more flexible adaptation within the app.

Recursive in-memory export: Exports are built element by element recursively in memory. This ensures data consistency, avoids redundant recalculation, and scales efficiently to high-resolution outputs (up to 8K).

Mouse wheel zoom: Implemented a smooth zoom mechanism controlled via the mouse wheel for better navigation of complex layouts.

Multi-element property updates: When multiple elements are selected, only the modified property is updated for all elements. Full state recomputation is avoided, improving performance in large designs.

Auto-focus shortcut (Shift + 1): Elements are located by their x, y, width, and height, then auto-focused on the canvas. This prevents users from losing context while designing complex screens.

Tech stack: React, Next.js, MongoDB, Jotai, React Konva.

Feedback Requested: Looking for feedback on performance, UX, and data model structure.

Link: https://pixel-kit.vercel.app
by jononor | 2025-10-22 06:20:26+00:00
Their first bet was than they were going to be the frontier model provider by a good margin, and that others would not be able to compete on the "intelligence". And that they could get distribution via big customers looking to buy model access. The dominant-model-provider strategy has already failed, many actors have models that rival them - both established (Google) and newcomers (Anthropic). Open models are not to shabby either, enough to undermine the narrative "we are uniquely able to do powerful models". As you say, there is a commodification process started, and it might be a race to the bottom in terms of margin. So, OpenAI has moved into a new/adapted strategy, where they want to own the customers to a much larger degree, and rely less on partners/customers for distribution. This is likely because their prospective partners have a bunch of viable models to select between (many end products for power users lets people select freely), and high competitive pressure on costs (as it defines the margin and competitiveness) of the end products. Codex, Sora, their new web browser announcement, adjustments in ChatGPT is all to ensure a lot of direct end users - more brand recognition, more influence, more monetization possibilities. So I think it is a considerable pivot from their initial plan/hopes. But it is not an unraveling - it is a rather smart response to the fierce competition in the market.
by noelwelsh | 2025-10-22 06:21:31+00:00
This article from the same site goes into the Infinity Cache design in a bit more detail: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-cdna-3-compute-architectur...

The summary is that it's a cache attached to the memory controllers, rather than the CPUs, so it doesn't have to worry about cache coherency so much. This could be useful for shared memory parallelism.
by csnover | 2025-10-22 06:21:33+00:00
When opening POSE without a previous session, on Windows it would open a reasonable window with some buttons (New, Open, Download, Exit). On *nix, they instead decided to open a blank window that said “Right click on this window to show a menu of commands”. (And then, due to programming errors and bitrot, actually trying to use the context menu would access invalid memory and crash.) So I replaced that bad UI with the less bad one from Windows. :-)
by ornornor | 2025-10-22 06:21:47+00:00
Is this really all it takes? I’m curious because for me the value of heroku etc is not the PaaS itself but the infra: hardening the server, load balancing, redundancy, monitoring, alerting, connectivity, storage… and that’s always the hole in the selfhosted PaaS story for me. I’d love to solve it but it’s handwaved every time whenever these topics come up. Any pointers?
by rekttrader | 2025-10-22 06:21:48+00:00
As a former researcher in this space, anyone who develops commercial exploits knows what they are doing and that their work if they happen to be in the US is subject to ITAR level restrictions.

I stopped when it became a game at that level. I refuse to be a government contractor…. It’s about not using software like this to kill people like Jamal Khashoggi.

F the dipshits at NSO and the turds at Corellium.
by ryan_lane | 2025-10-22 06:22:14+00:00
Smart hands is more expensive than having dedicated datacenter staff, and the dedicated staff do a considerably better job. It's worth noting that WMF runs _very_ lean in terms of its datacenter staff.

You're also ignoring the need for infrastructure/network engineers, software engineers, fundraising engineers, product managers, community managers, managers, HR, legal, finance/accounting, fundraisers, etc.
by jader201 | 2025-10-22 06:22:20+00:00
The WF is not even 25 years old. It’s crazy to think it will exist another 100 years, let alone 1000.

Even the US isn’t 1000 years old. Who’s to say it will even exist in a remotely recognizable form in 1000 years.

The last 1000 years changed at a snails pace compared to the last 25 years.
by radu_floricica | 2025-10-22 06:22:20+00:00
Comment was "of late".

If you want to look long term, well, they're still stellar :) Considering everything they're achieving, and how they're so much better than everybody else in the field.

It's a failure only if you look at a rather small time range and criteria. Which I don't think was a surprise for anybody - Elon is famous for going for moon shots and failing, but still delivering better than anybody else.
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-22 06:22:24+00:00
>But what world is left behind when all the competent and passionate people exit the working world early?

Again, it was going to happen eventually. Boomers should have done better to mentor the youth and pass the torch. Some did, most didn't. That time has now passed. Millenials and Gen-Z will have to pick up the pieces after things fall apart and it will be painful...many things will just not be the same. Things we took for granted may well just disappear given a smaller population size. But at least they can finally define how they want the world to work. Its been too long. Millenials are in their 40s now. They should have taken the reins years ago if the prior generation actually cared to pass the torch.

One of the things that I recall doing on Election Day was cursing out Trump when he was re-elected.

This shit stain is a representation of the Boomer's last act: To write the final chapters of the Millenials' adult years.

The mess that Trump is making with the tariffs and destruction of institutional knowledge will eventually get fixed but it will take 15-20+ years. Essentially the remaining years of Millennials working lives. At this point I am transitioning to acceptance. Acceptance that so many processes will have to be rebuilt by Millenials and Gen-Z. At least there will be an opportunity to reinvent old ways of thinking despite all the pain.
by dijit | 2025-10-22 06:22:35+00:00
I’ve never touched a scaling issue with Zulip, how many devices are we talking about here? Maybe I’ve just never touched the walls of scaling it. The architecture seems fine to scale if you self host though.

The only issues I’ve found with Zulip is how it looks and training people to use it right. I’ve had a lot of comments that Zulip has ruined people because they realised how good it is only after they stopped using it, and can tell that everything is so much worse, but the whole time they used it- they hated it.

The other issue, if we can call it as such, is that there’s not that many native third party integrations, we had to write our own bots for some pretty basic things. But writing bots is so much easier in Zulip than Slack (and for Teams its a lesson in genuine masochism) so I give them a pass.