MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zenmac | 2025-10-06 13:52:22+00:00
One potential issue with XMPP is the default port is commonly blocked on public wifi.

There is an nginx-xmpp to proxy it, but it is archived. https://github.com/robn/nginx-xmpp

For that reason http based protocol just seems much easier on the network or something that can be easily reverse proxied without extensions will be easier to self-host and have wilder internet connection accessibility.
by jerf | 2025-10-06 13:52:24+00:00
Here's a blog post on scalability from the front page (well, sort of, see last paragraph): https://www.process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-massive-scalabilit... This includes not just textual claims about scalability but a lot of hooks you can use to followup on, like a reference to the Tsung benchmarking tool you can use. If you're asking about this for serious reasons, at this scale you're obviously running your own tests anyhow. You may also want to speak directly to Process One about this because it sounds like you're at a scale where you should probably be looking at paid support anyhow.

I'm not necessarily endorsing this, just giving it to you as some first stabs at answers and some ways to follow up.

If there's anyone reading this from the ejabberd project, note that the link to this on your front page under "Massively Scalable" is completely broken; that links to "blog.process-one.net" but that domain is completely dead, so it doesn't redirect to the link I gave above. (It's also part of why I posted this; my post here is not a "just read these docs" because I had to do non-trivial work to find them.) I had to pull that out of archive.org. Should probably check for any other links to that domain too.
by pluc | 2025-10-06 13:52:24+00:00
> Walk down any street in any town in Ireland in 2025 and you will probably see someone wearing a Nirvana t-shirt

Nirvana shirts are strikingly common on teens in the UK and Ireland. I found out that it's mostly because large retail stores (eg their equivalent of Wal-Mart) have started carrying the imagery, and not through fandom or even knowledge.
by lapcat | 2025-10-06 13:52:26+00:00
I am of course already aware of that case. If you have an argument to make, then make it; a bare link is not an argument.

Note that the case is about criminal prosecution. Congress retains the power specified in the Constitution to impeach and remove the President.

At this point, having already misunderstood our electoral system, you don't seem to be in a strong position to lecture US citizens about US law.
by mike_hearn | 2025-10-06 13:52:34+00:00
Not cool. It's not like a vote makes it actually cheaper to run public transport. It just means the city will tax the sort of tech workers who post on HN a lot more in order to give the money to other people (who already get subsidized rent and other privileges), driving ever more out to Zug, and that the currently well functioning public transport system will decay due to underfunding and lack of capital investment.
by ZiiS | 2025-10-06 13:52:54+00:00
For >99% of people looking to compile code or render video on an M5 Laptop they are interested in the wall-clock time, running bare metal, assuming all IO is to a fast NVMe SSD, and even a large job will only thermally throttle for a bit then recover.

Most people looking to optimize Epyc compile or render performance care about running inside VMs, all IO to SANs, assuming the is enough work you can yield to other jobs to increase throughput, and ideally near thermal equilibrium.
by dist-epoch | 2025-10-06 13:53:00+00:00
> I could be thinking about this the wrong way but it appears that AMD is basically subsidizing the cost of the GPUs with equity.

Yes, you are reading it wrong. The big winner here is AMD, not OpenAI.

If there is any signal here, it's that AMD is still in the AI game. AMD stock is up 30% on this news.
by abtinf | 2025-10-06 13:53:18+00:00
Jim Hacker: How am I going to explain the missing documents to The Mail?

Sir Humphrey: Well, this is what we normally do in circumstances like these.

Jim Hacker: (reading) This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967… Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?

Sir Humphrey: No, a marvelous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.
by qwertytyyuu | 2025-10-06 13:53:46+00:00
The “ai” is an expert system yes to calibrate to your ability to answer questions it throws at you. The questions are all human written. I had your initial scepticism as well, I can reassure you that the ai is not an LLM. Also the guy Justin skycak who built it has put a lot of thought into its pedagogy
by stephen_g | 2025-10-06 13:54:06+00:00
Who really cares about density? The biggest thing that means is that blowing up two or three substations can cripple an entire country’s grid. Distributed energy generation and storage is actually quite strategic for national security.

It’s also massive cherry-picking to just look at refined fuel. For example, H how many tonnes of ore do you need to mine and process to produce that 1kg of uranium (at least 2.5 tonnes, that is 2500 kg from one random source from a quick google).

But to use your metric, I did work out and find it interesting that the solar panels on my roof, per kg of silicon have produced over 1,400 kWh of electricity (multiply your figures by 0.3 to take into account efficiency from kWh of heat to compare) so far. I estimate almost 28 kg of silicon in my whole array, which has generated over 38 MWh so far, and I expect they will generate at least three times that over their life.

So 4000-5000 kWh(e) per kg of silicon sure comes in a hell of a lot of better than the 2.4 odd for coal or 4 for mineral oil (assuming your figures are correct).
by api | 2025-10-06 13:54:08+00:00
Have you ever heard them criticize authoritarian conservatives who do believe womens' rights should be rolled back?

Or are they just not saying the quiet part out loud?

Intellectuals say should, which politicians and activists turn into must when people don't listen. That's usually the progression. Marx didn't say to put people into gulags. People were put into gulags when Marxism didn't work as expected. The ideology can't be wrong, so if people aren't doing it well enough they need "encouragement." If the square peg doesn't fit in the round hole, you have to use a hammer.

I'm pretty equal opportunity here. I am deeply skeptical and suspicious of anyone, right left or otherwise, who claims to have a proscriptive Grand Theory of how human beings ought to live. Such ideas usually end up having body counts.

BTW the fact that Peterson has women echoing and support his ideas doesn't mean much. There's plenty of men who subscribe to authoritarian ideologies that involve forcing other men to do things. It's no different.
by latexr | 2025-10-06 13:54:35+00:00
I suggest you get rid of the obvious AI illustrations. They’re stylistically incongruent with each other and the rest of the page, perfect examples of slop which make me think the rest of the service was also LLM-generated.

“Opinions” is a weird way to put it, the typical word there is “testimonials”.

“Get Started” also doesn’t feel right to me, makes me think of a subscription service that will require lots of set up, which seems to be the opposite of what you’re going for.
by Publius_Enigma | 2025-10-06 13:55:04+00:00
I’ve been using NFS in various environments since my first introduction to it in my university’s Solaris and Linux labs. I’ve run it at home, on and off, since 2005.

I’ve recently started using it again after consistent issues with SMB on Apple devices, and the deprecation of AFP. My FreeBSD server, running on a Raspberry Pi, makes terabytes of content available to the web via an NFS connection to a Synology NAS.

For my use case, with a small number of users, the fact that NFS is host based rather than user based, means I can set it up one on each device, and all users of that host can access the shares. And I’ve generally found it to be more consistently performant on Apple hardware than their in-house SMB implementation.
by Flatterer3544 | 2025-10-06 13:55:05+00:00
You should look at what a proper planned all-in nuclear project looks like before commenting..

See Hualong One nuclear project that's operating at ~90% capacity and is ~1/3 of the price of solar, and 2/3 price of wind when comparing the same operation % capacity and taking into consideration the max life length of each technology.
by anenefan | 2025-10-06 13:55:30+00:00
The study acknowledges there remains differences between how people rate pain, just their approach is supposedly more accurate.

Yes one persons 6 might be another's 2 - and that score can be altered by the individual's pain threshold on the day or a person's life experiences of pain (one might have once rated their worst night ever migraine as the worst and very high on the scale until they have had a few episodes of cluster headaches and meh lets call that night a 6, maybe it was closer to 5 ... )

But almost always most people haven't got past pain as just pain and there in lies the biggest problem, pain isn't just physical pain, there's a mix of how much one is agitated / bothered, anxious / worried for themselves or others if whatever their problem goes south, how alert and cognitive they are / distressed and a couple other factors.

The other issue is the slope or gradient of the pain scores [3] which more often is overlooked by doctors and other medical professionals rendering assistance to diagnose and treat those in their care. Personally, mine is fairly steep.

Some robust links for older browsers -- The origin article (6th March 2025) [1] - which includes access link to full 18 page pdf paper. For a summary [2] medicalxpress article / summary

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.05.25323444v... [1a] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.05.25323444v... [pdf]

[2] https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-price-pain.html

[3] Not everyone ends up with a purely linear scale (for example high numbers on my scale a 9 is many times more painful than a 8, 8 is around 3 times more painful than 7 ... and so forth, however lower scores on my scale follow a more linear convention until 4 or so.) But for those who are fortunate to have a linear scale, their gradient isn't necessarily exactly 1 either.
by SJMG | 2025-10-06 13:55:59+00:00
I assume you mean the sharing of the article, because the author was a philosophy prof.

Do you have anything I can follow up on for,

> most people prioritize "extrinsically" meaning, whether or not something is "interesting" is not primary information in their prioritizations.

I would have thought the quest for dopamine was pretty universal and there's a good friend in my life who has a serious case of ADHD.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-06 13:56:02+00:00
It's a hard problem to solve, because its easy to temporarily donate resources to archiving ops via the ArchiveTeam warrior, but a long term commitment to run persistent compute and storage to mirror a chunk of the internet archive. It's why I think Filecoin isn't going to work either; very little overlap between the people who feel its important to keep these archives alive versus people who would run distributed storage to collect financial compensation for doing so.

Easier to send fiat to IA for them to invest (~$2/GB) and to pay to keep the disks spinning somewhere safe across the world.

(ia volunteer, no affiliation otherwise)
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-06 13:56:28+00:00
Nuclear and intermitent energy sources have no place in the same sentence.

Germany didn't avoid nuclear by switching to renewables. It does so by burning coal and building gas-fired power plants.

How to manage a grid fully on intermitent power sources is an open question. There is at this point in time no answer to this. At the moment, Germany fires up extremely dirty power generation capacity every time there is a shortage. Meanwhile, all europeans bear the costs of Germany shortsightedness - as usual - since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

With nuclear, it's pretty clear how to run a grid. Heck, France has been doing so for decades. The question is how to build it cheaply at scale but at least we have some good ideas and experience about how to do that.
by joshstrange | 2025-10-06 13:56:45+00:00
I’m building a house and the builder has a number of incentives you can choose between. It led to me making my own (semi-vibe-coded) web app to compare different options and try out different combos (“What if I applied this ‘flex’ money to the house price or if used it to buy down the rate”). It was even easy to wire up Firebase for saving the data so it would sync between my phone and laptop.

One thing missing from this calculator (which doesn’t technically matter for calculating how much faster you’d pay down the mortgage) are HOA, taxes, and insurance. Again, that only matters if you want to calculate the total out of pocket monthly.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-06 13:56:56+00:00
Unfortunately, no. "Memory safe rust" is a more general concept than "Safe Rust". "Safe rust" is a generally understood term for the subset of rust that's everything outside unsafe blocks. Here's an example where it's used in the language docs [0]. "Memory safe rust" also includes all the unsafe code that follows the language rules, which is ideally all of it.

I can see how this would be confusing and probably should have been clarified with emphasis in the original comment. Safety in the sense of "safety critical" isn't a property any programming language can have on its own, so I wouldn't have intended that regardless.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/meet-safe-and-unsafe.html
by lapcat | 2025-10-06 13:57:05+00:00
This appears to be a marked change in subject. How are your questions directly responding to my comment?

I would say that, if taken literally, resolving the situation today is not possible. We're currently living in a deep hole that was a very long time in the making (one might even say hundreds of years in the making), and it would likely take a very long time to climb our way out of it. There's no magical, immediate solution.

The US political system has always been corrupted by money, but modern technology has enabled a vast increase in the scale and efficiency of such corruption. It used to be said, "all politics is local," but now it might be said that all politics is international.
by N70Phone | 2025-10-06 13:57:07+00:00
> I also don't get why there commiting so much to the future, are they sure of the quality of the products and their demand that much?

It's one big game of musical chairs, and everyone can hear the phonograph slowing down.

OpenAI is making these desperation plays because they've ran out of hype. GPT-5 "bombed", the wider public doesn't believe AI is going to keep getting exponentially better anymore. They're out of options to generate new hype beyond spewing ever larger numbers into the news cycle.

AMD is making this desperation play because soon, once the AI bubble pops, there'll be a flood of cheap unused GPUs & GPU compute. Nobody's going to be buying their new cards when you can get Nvidia's prior gen for pennies on the dollar.
by apothegm | 2025-10-06 13:57:17+00:00
They’ve made them louder and louder over the years. That’s because cars have improved soundproofing to keep out the road noise of the tires against asphalt. But that also means it’s harder for drivers to hear sirens. Plus sound systems have gotten louder (in some cases almost drowning out sirens for people outside the vehicle as well as inside!)

TLDR: arms race against audibility for drivers, with residents’ sanity as the casualties.
by keeptrying | 2025-10-06 13:57:29+00:00
Untrue - there isn't a personal finance solution that doesn't have mistakes. Not one. I've literally tried them all. Its mostly because the syncing with accounts is very very brittle and a lot of things like stock plans etc aren't supported well so your daily view will always be somewhat off.

There are insights to derive from the data - like how much do you really spend. But again its really hard to get there because the numbers are always off and most people don't actually want to know.

You are severely underestimating the average person's agency with their money.
by bogwog | 2025-10-06 13:57:36+00:00
I recently tried to move people over, and the iOS situation is bleak. It seems like notifications don't work at all in any app, which is a big problem for chat. Also, one of them (I think Siskin?) doesn't display sender name/avatar in group chats, so you can't tell who sent what.

There's also some weird behavior with how E2EE works, which is causing me problems in group chats. Initially it worked, but now people are unable to read some messages with errors like "this message was not encrypted for this device"

FWIW, everything works great on Android with the Conversations app, and also I admit I haven't really RTFM'd too much so it may be my fault as a lazy admin.

Edit: this is with ejabberd btw
by jeff-hykin | 2025-10-06 13:57:54+00:00
I ran into many similar problems, sadly I don't think your example is an outlier. I had to write my own simple HTML bundler (https://github.com/jeff-hykin/html-bundle), not cause I want to or because I care about bundling, but just to know that it was done correctly.

This is why I basically never trust npm packages unless I know the authors, like the standard library from the Deno team, or people like Ryan Carniato or Evan Yu.
Show HN: Track revenue and product usage, not just boring visits (Open Source)
by falcon_ | 2025-10-06 13:58:18+00:00
yo! built this analytics thing that actually tracks the stuff that matters - revenue, how ppl use your product, all that good stuff. Not just "oh look 1000 visits today" lol.

Way better than google analytics imo, especially if u actually care about making money from ur product.

What do u think? been using it for my own projects and it's been pretty solid.
by sras-me | 2025-10-06 13:58:33+00:00
> I made one of these too, but a minimal/fast HTML/CSS/JS web app

Same story here. But not sure if yours had a backend. Mine did not have one and stored everything on the browser datastore, but could export it to some free json hosting service after encrypting and compression so that it can be synced to other devices and used from them as well.

Was not aware of anything that did the same, thought it would be useful (mostly because it would be totally free to use, could be accessed from multiple devices and respected user privacy) and shared here couple of days back.

Zero interest! Ha ha. At least I didn't spend a lot of resources on it and made it for my own use. It have been working well for me for many years.
by seanhunter | 2025-10-06 13:58:59+00:00
I would strongly recommend getting, and working through Serge Lang's book "Basic Mathematics" for people who want to self-study what is normally considered "basic maths" (ie the stuff you might have covered in high school plus some of what in the US is called "college algebra" (in the UK and Europe that is just covered in high school and "algebra" at university generally means abstract algebra.

I did it to get my very rusty high-school maths back up to snuff before starting to self-study for a maths degree and it helped a lot. The problems are really excellent and since it's Serge Lang, he treats you like a mathematician right from the beginning even though he really is doing basic stuff.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-10-06 13:59:00+00:00
This is great if you have that freedom, but the person that wrote the article needs to do tasks for their job; other people depend on it. Same with me and my job, I am paid to perform a specific task at the moment. Same with people in a family situation, you can't procrastinate daily routines like picking your kids up from school... which leads to procrastinating about everything else because you have something coming up later so you can't hyperfocus on something else.
by dingaling | 2025-10-06 13:59:11+00:00
> after a while

'After a while' usually requiring the users to wait with an unresponsive desktop environment, because they opened a file manager whilst NFS was huffing. So they'd manage to switch to a virtual terminal and then out of habit type 'ls', locking that up too.

After a few years of messing around with soft mounts and block sizes and all sorts of NFS config nonsense, I switched to SMB and never looked back
by nogridbag | 2025-10-06 13:59:29+00:00
Thanks for sharing Toshi. I've been very interested in Cosmic DE recently and have been playing with it with a Virtual machine. Will definitely try Toshi tonight!

I used to use Windows and using control key for everything was leading me to have severe wrist pain. That ended ~14 years ago when I was forced to use Macbooks for work. The position of the command key and using my stronger thumb for all shortcuts is so vastly superior to stretching my pinky to reach control. It's bizarre the rest of the industry is still stuck with this design. I wish system76 and pop os would be strongly opinionated about this and design their laptops and keyboards to be more mac-like and use something like Toshi as the default. I had a mini rant about this on reddit recently. I still find it bizarre that System76 made the launch keyboard with a different layout for the super key than their laptops.
by watwut | 2025-10-06 13:59:54+00:00
There is evidence of Russian drones entering Polish airspace. That has nothing to do with any ships.

> Consider what NATO have to gain - stirring up anti-Russian sentiment, garnering consent for massive expenditure on an "EU drone wall" and continued money laundering in the Ukraine.

NATO should do more to help Ukraine. They absolutely should.

>Look at this map of NATO's expansion eastward toward Russia,

That is countries deciding to join NATO in the hope it will protect them against Russia. No one forced them into NATO. Russia does not like it only because NATO prevents Russia from expanding. This is such a ridiculous talking point.
by throw0101d | 2025-10-06 13:59:54+00:00
> You probably gave bad advice. By the time Reddit existed, you could have just gotten an netapp filer. They had higher availability than most data centers back then, so “the NFS server hung” wouldn’t be anywhere near the top of your “things that cause outages or interfere with engineering” list.

Or distributed NFS filers like Isilon or Panasas: any particular node can be rebooted and its IPs are re-distributed between still-live node. At my last job we used one for HPC and it stored >11PB with minimal hassle. OS upgrades can be done in a rolling fashion so client service is not interrupted.

Newer NFS vendors like Vast Data have all-NVME backends (Isilon can have a mix if you need both fast and archival storage: tiering can happen on (e.g.) file age).
by uslic001 | 2025-10-06 14:00:11+00:00
Most of the private practices in my town have been bought out by the local hospital system as the older partners are unable to find anyone to become junior partners as the overhead costs have doubled since Covid. The only way to meet overhead is to have the hospital buy the practice as they can charge 2x to 10x for the same visits. It is a backdoor way to socialized medicine.
by theli0nheart | 2025-10-06 14:00:46+00:00
AMD's valuation increased by over 30% this morning, so to say no one has access to more money because of this news is untrue.

I'm not outraged at all, I just think this sort of bizarre financial engineering is not a good sign. If the ROI was so obvious, why not, for example, simply issue bonds and buy AMD stock on the open market?
by monster_truck | 2025-10-06 14:01:09+00:00
One of the lessons I learned from my Network Administration teacher was that if you're ultimately responsible for it and they say no backups?

You tack on the hours required to do it yourself (this includes the time you must spend actually restoring from the backups to verify integrity, anything less can not be trusted). You keep one copy in your safe, and another copy in a safety deposit box at the bank. Nobody ever has to know. It is inevitable that you will save your own ass, and theirs too.

Shit happens.