MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kijin | 2025-10-16 07:36:52+00:00
Another problem is that there is scarcely any place left in the world where disease-causing bacteria can survive for long without being exposed to some amount of antibiotics. Modern farms and hospitals are contaminating the entire environment with antibiotics. So there's always a bit of selection pressure that favors those with resistance genes.

A few years ago, a North Korean soldier was shot several times as he dashed across the border in plain sight of other soldiers. After he arrived in the South, the surgeon who treated his wounds reported an unusually high effectiveness of antibiotics administered to him. The bacteria on his skin and in his guts had been exposed to little to no antibiotics before.
by gethly | 2025-10-16 07:38:02+00:00
I have been using windows since version 95. I even liked the Millennium version, that was most hated before Vista. I tried Linux several times, but Windows just always worked and Linux usually had always some issues(mostly drivers, lack of good programs and no gaming).

But now, after more than two decades, I am certain Windows 10 is my last Windows.

Nothing lasts for ever, not even Microsoft's domination on personal computers. It took them decades, but now they finally f'd up so bad that there is just no going back.

I think, like many people, it will take me few years to need to reinstall my computer(or get a new one). So I will still be a Windows user and that will skew the numbers for upcoming years. But I think that also means that in 1-5 years, Microsoft will see a massive double digit percentage drop of users, almost over night, and nobody will have a clue what is going on.

By then, I bet the distributions will be even better. The gaming will be event better. The drivers will be even better. The saturation will be even better. So the transition will be even more seamless than it is today.

I am looking forward to it. I think Linux, or open source and free OS, should have been the norm. But we took a bad turn in the past and got hijacked by few smart people. That will come to a natural end, finally.
by neobrain | 2025-10-16 07:39:14+00:00
> I was always under the impresion that Rust apps are pretty lightweight, but that install size is nearing Java levels of binary/dependency bloat.

For what it's worth, the zed executable on Linux weighs 3.2 MB.

EDIT: Sorry, the nix store is too good at hiding things from me. It's actually around 337 MB plus webrtc-sys.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-16 07:39:18+00:00
Another "everyone will migrate in droves to Linux" article that keeps poping up a Windows version ends, since Windows XP days, yet even Valve was forced to translate Win32 APIs to actually have games for the Steam Deck, after how Steam Machines went down.

General public won't care until they can buy laptops with GNU/Linux on their favourite shopping mall PC store.

As it stands today they are more likely to buy an iPad or Android tablet than such alternative, which aren't much better than Microsoft in user tracking, and much worse in user freedom allowed by the OS.
by maccard | 2025-10-16 07:39:29+00:00
> it’s amazing to me how the use of a UPS is not as ubiquitous at home

I live in the UK. I’ve had one power cut in the last… 14 years? Brown outs aren’t a thing. I’ve had more issues with my dog pulling out cables because she got stuck on them (once) than I have with any issues to my supply
by defanor | 2025-10-16 07:40:12+00:00
Languages with dependent types (Agda, Idris, Coq, Lean) seem even closer to the description, with a user supplying proofs of properties. For instance, as in idris2-algebra [1]. One can similarly define isomorphisms, or other kinds of morphisms, by listing their properties, and requiring proofs to construct.

[1] https://github.com/stefan-hoeck/idris2-algebra
by lexicality | 2025-10-16 07:40:38+00:00
Yeah, the previous company I worked for started with a Django monolith that someone had come in and taken an axe to essentially at random until there were 20 Django "microservices" that had to constantly talk to each other in order to do any operation while trying to maintain consistency across a gigantic k8s cluster. They were even all still connected to the same original database that had served the monolith!

Unfortunately my campaign of "what if we stuck all the django back together and just had one big server" got cut short by being laid off because they'd spent too much money on AWS and couldn't afford employees any more.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-16 07:40:44+00:00
I don't think the US DoD meaningfully answered to me (a US citizen) by its previous policy of letting a bunch of reporters from some mainstream news outlets have offices inside the Pentagon under one set of rules, and I don't think the US DoD meaningfully answers to me by its current policy of putting more rules on those reporters that they don't like and are willing to resign over. I have a healthy amount of mistrust for both the US military and mainstream US journalism operations, and I don't assume that the military-related stories these reporters covered previously were the ones that were actually important for me to know.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-16 07:41:42+00:00
The issue comes in theory vs practice. Obviously in theory a free press is absolutely key to a free society, but in practice the press often ends up with different motivations. Another, rather more famous comment from Jefferson on the press [1]:

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"To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knolege with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time; whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables.

General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on. I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.

Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into 4 chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short, as it would contain little more than authentic papers, and information from such sources as the editor would be willing to risk his own reputation for their truth. The 2d would contain what, from a mature consideration of all circumstances, his judgment should conclude to be probably true. This, however, should rather contain too little than too much. The 3d & 4th should be professedly for those readers who would rather have lies for their money than the blank paper they would occupy."

Thomas Jefferson, 1807 [1]

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[1] - https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_sp...
by asdefghyk | 2025-10-16 07:41:59+00:00
A memo that was discovered on a non networked computer was discovered...

From the articale ... "The Israeli officials say the memo shows that Mr. Sinwar wanted his fighters to target civilians from the outset, contradicting what the group’s leadership has publicly claimed. Although the memo does not explicitly mention plans to kidnap or kill civilians, it lays out orders for fighters to enter residential neighborhoods and set them on fire “with gasoline or diesel from a tanker.” "

and

"The memo, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, calls for fighters to target soldiers and civilian communities — as well as to broadcast the violent acts so as to evoke fear in Israelis"

and

"...Hamas leadership planned and carried out an attack that featured acts of ‘extraordinary brutality.’”....."
by kstenerud | 2025-10-16 07:42:50+00:00
Who is allowed to decide which secrets should or should not be made public?

If your answer is "the government", then every cover up will never be revealed, and the government will answer to no one.

If your answer is "journalists", then you have the status-quo in any functioning democracy.

And when it actually moves into sedition territory, that's what an independent court system is for.

Unfortunately, once things devolve into a two-party system, it becomes ever increasingly difficult to keep the various branches independent.
by kergonath | 2025-10-16 07:43:20+00:00
> Future generations will blame us for damning them out of rare earths to build yet another cellphone.

We’ll be out of many elements before we run out of rare earths. They are not actually that rare, they are mostly inconvenient to extract because they are distributed everywhere as minor elements rather than concentrated into ores. Things like cobalt, nickel, the platinum group metals, or even copper, are more worrying from a sustainable production point of view.
by codetiger | 2025-10-16 07:43:24+00:00
[Update #1] Author here: I made some further progress.

1. Like a few comments mentioned here, the remote event happens for multiple reasons. Especially triggered by their app when you start or stop cleaning etc. I missed mentioning it in the article. The one I showed was suspicious as the device got bricked just after that event.

2. I fixed it by reseting the firmware and it worked for 2 days now without any issues. After second day cleaning it went back to charge as usual and never turned on. The bricking happened again this time, and I see a similar remote event again. This time am 100% sure there was no action from my side on the App or remote control.

3. What I found so far, after cleaning completes, the device uploads the map (in PNG) and some more data (in binary) to their server (There are very clear logs for this). After this upload, it receives a remote event and stops working.

4. How did I fix the device? I've the backup of all files in the device. Rebooting the device after replacing the files do the trick.

5. Now it reports the device is not on flat surface. Probably a loose connection with sensors which am yet to figure out. This time I suspect the bricking technique has changed, we shall be updating after more research

Note: I am not sure if I can publicly share all techniques used to get access to the device. But it is very straightforward as mentioned in the article and very easy if you have some knowledge on adb (Android Debug Bridge) tools and a USB to micro usb wire.
by hmottestad | 2025-10-16 07:43:41+00:00
I don't think anyone is pretending that a Macbook Pro can compare to 8 H100 cards from Nvidia in terms of LLM training or for serving LLMs. But you can buy an awful many macbooks for the price of 8 H100 GPUs.

But if your workload belongs on 8 H100 GPUs then there isn't much point in trying to run it on a macbook. You'd be better served by renting them by the hour, or if you have a quarter million dollars you can always just purchase them outright.

The H100 is just an example, this is true for any workload that doesn't fit on a laptop.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-16 07:43:56+00:00
I didn't say that there aren't people doing cutting edge stuff.

But even John Romero did the boring stuff along with the cool stuff. Andrej Karpathy wrote a ton of boilerplate Python to get his stuff up and running[0].

Or are you claiming that every single line of the nanochat[0] project is peak computer science algorithms no LLM can replicate today?

Take the initial commit tasks/ directory for example[1]. Dude is easily in the top 5 AI scientists in the world and he still spends a good time writing pretty basic string wrangling in Python.

My basic point here is that LLMs automate generating the boilerplate to a crazy degree, letting us spend more time in the bits that aren't boring and are actually challenging and interesting.

[0] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat [1] https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/tree/master/tasks
by mythz | 2025-10-16 07:44:17+00:00
> $3million is virtually nothing to a $3 trillion org.

Meta only has 1.8T Market Cap, but that number is meaningless and doesn't represent what they own or can spend, from last report they only have $12B cash on hand and have released over 600 OSS projects [1]. If they donated $3M to each of their OSS projects it would cost them 6.67% of their cash war chest.

But the point is, why should they? What benefit is it to their mission or their shareholders? Why should anyone be entitled to more than the decades of development effort and the $3M they're prepared to donate in order to hand the project to another foundation to take over?

I don't think you should be entitled and expect anything more, and we should all be grateful for what they've already contributed to OSS and what they will contribute in future.

[1] https://opensource.fb.com/projects/
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-16 07:44:18+00:00
What I'm aware of in the industry is that the large ones use SAP. Dunno if SAP provides that from scratch or if it's custom-built though, but I'd take a guess that it comes with their standard inventory/materials tracking/invoice handling package.

Edit: looked it up, yep, part of SAP HANA LO-BM [1].

[1] https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/4eb099dbc8a6...
by aeonfox | 2025-10-16 07:44:40+00:00
IP for me, but not for thee

> Shiozaki, in a separate X post (translated), noted that Sora 2 refuses to generate characters owned by U.S. entertainment giants, like Disney:

> “When I tried inputting prompts into Sora2 myself, it generated footage of popular anime characters with a quality indistinguishable from the originals, one after another. Yet, for some reason, characters owned by major U.S. companies, like Mickey Mouse or Superman, didn't appear.

> “This was clearly an imbalance and potentially a serious issue under copyright law. The efforts and sensibilities of Japanese creators, who have led the world, were at risk of being disregarded.”
by intended | 2025-10-16 07:45:04+00:00
There can always be good-faith justifications.

There’s always a good reason, or good intentioned idea.

It’s why the saying about paver stones on the road to hell is all about.

There were certain norms that America counted on, to hold its governance mechanisms in check. Those checks and balances are being broken.

It is possible, that nothing will happen. People have fallen out of planes and survived. Maybe this will be America’s experience.

The country I knew, that many others used to be angry with, but also respect - would NEVER have left such a thing to simple chance. There used to be many who stepped into the breach.

And perhaps people are. It may simply be that this new information environment - geographically, financially consolidated, but ideologically divided - is ensuring that people who are solving problems and figuring things out, are unable to coordinate or gain traction. Gain traction in a manner that used to cross party lines.
by aanet | 2025-10-16 07:45:06+00:00
<QUOTE>

The bulk of investment has been funnelled to just 10 AI groups — Perplexity, Anysphere, Scale AI, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, Figure AI, Databricks, as well as OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. That has pushed up their combined valuations by almost $1tn, according to FT calculations.

“Of course there’s a bubble,” said Hemant Taneja, chief executive of venture capital firm General Catalyst, which raised an $8bn fund last year and has backed Anthropic and Mistral. “Bubbles are good. Bubbles align capital and talent in a new trend, and that creates some carnage but it also creates enduring, new businesses that change the world.”

</QUOTE>

Must every (major) technological change result in financial bubbles??
by lrvick | 2025-10-16 07:45:28+00:00
Sorry to be that guy, but if someone cannot afford a $10 bit of hardware for the most basic attempt at protecting others from being harmed by someone impersonating them... then they have no business being a trusted maintainer in a Linux distribution relied on for billions of dollars in infrastructure.

That would be like someone saying they could not afford a mask in COVID or something. It is hard to believe these people really exist. I could go find $10 in change looking on the ground of a few nearby fast food pick-up windows, because I have done it. Many times. Free money!

Anyway, such people will be easy to bribe, easy to target, easy to steal from. Letting that sort of person have trust in a major OS is endangering them, and frankly irresponsible.

For anyone that makes excuses about being unable to produce a hardware signing device, of course let them contribute, but then let two confirmed real humans with hardware keys adopt, review, and sign that PR, and always have at least two real confirmed humans with hardware keys sign every change both as code, and as reproducible artifacts after.

We have taken in tons of drive-by unsigned contributions in stagex. This is no problem. We just pretend an AI bot wrote it, and require one maintainer to "adopt" the commit to sign it (maintaining attribution), and then a second maintainer reviews, and does a signed merge as usual.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-16 07:46:12+00:00
That does not answer the question, or perhaps it does when it's hard to write "it does not".

More waste of money on public sector jobs and useless overseas spending instead of putting its house in order.

This is partly what drives the public backlash against the "green agenda"... the economy and public finances are squeezed then the people see money spent on this abroad in a way that will not help them or, in fact, the green transition in the EU at all.
by shafyy | 2025-10-16 07:46:22+00:00
I know Germans like to complain, but the ICE network is still one of the best in Europe, especially given its size.

That does not mean that we shouldn't invest more money into improving it. But I would not count it as a lost cause.

Hopefully, when the current government is replaced by a more progressive one at some point (let a man dream), we see more political will.
by Lionga | 2025-10-16 07:47:53+00:00
The problem is they do not understand what/how to calculate not the actual act of adding or multiplying. I tried asking ChatGPT to calculate some taxes for three countries, two of which I have been filing taxes already. For the two I know ChatGPT gave wildly wrong numbers (not even right ballpark), so I know I could not trust numbers for the third which was what I was mostly interested in.
by solatic | 2025-10-16 07:47:55+00:00
This is a hyperbolic take. In countries with military censors, articles are submitted, from the newspaper's offices, to the censor's office for approval before publication. Nothing under this arrangement stops an American colonel from walking into the NYT's offices, dropping a folder at reception, and persuading the NYT to publish the contents of that folder. While it does prevent investigative journalism in the military, which is despicable on its own merits, the fact that it turns newspapers solely into PR outlets is neither new (i.e. as a general phenomenon in American media) nor limited to only the officially sanctioned point of view.
by dcanelhas | 2025-10-16 07:48:46+00:00
I wish there was an active dev community that could patch win10 going forward, but without access to source code for the kernel, perhaps that isn't really viable.

Ideally I would want to use Linux but I also want to play games that are only supported on windows.

Does using WSL help or is an outdated windows base still going to be the weakest link in the security onion?
by coldtea | 2025-10-16 07:49:55+00:00
>1. This is great news… for mice with Alzheimer’s that don’t mind treatments every 6 months.

Would you rather test it directly on humans?

Do you think they did it not caring whether it's also eventually applicable to humans all?

Do you think if the treatment reaches humans and is effective, and Alzheimer’s patient would "mind treatments every 6 months"?
by xnorswap | 2025-10-16 07:50:24+00:00
Sometimes I think the most exceptional thing about the USA is exceptionalism.

Solutions to problems that are solved elsewhere are pushed back against, because "The USA is fundamentally different".

Other countries have states too. The UK even has a country with an entirely different legal system (Scots Law), but we still make our collection of income tax system simple.

A "complicated tax system" (if that is the root cause) is not something that is impossible to change. It is within the gift of the government(s) to change that.

The lack of appetite for change is the result of decades of lobbying for the status quo to continue.
by reddalo | 2025-10-16 07:50:40+00:00
>and i lost all the wedding photo's

And you didn't have a backup? Ouch. I'm sorry for you.

>i should document the restore process somewhere. There is no way the other family members can do this right now.

I agree. If I passed away, or something seriously bad happened to me, nobody in my family would be able to recover any memories.

I should document how to recover all the data in a simple way. And probably print the document and store it somewhere easily accessible.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-10-16 07:51:14+00:00
My experience using GLM-4.6 with Charm Crush has been absolutely incredible, especially with high thinking. This is on pretty hard tasks too, e.g. proving small lemmas with Lean.

I've had much less luck with other agentic software, including Claude Code. For these kinds of tasks, only Codex seems to come close.
by vthriller | 2025-10-16 07:51:52+00:00
> Storage is cheap

My /usr is 15G already, and /var/lib/docker isn't that far off despite people's obsession with alpine images. If more people would dismiss storage as cheap it'll quickly become expensive, just not per GiB.

> update distribution is free

I wouldn't be surprised if at one point Github would start restricting asset downloads for very popular projects simply because of how much traffic they'd generate.

Also, there's still plenty of places on the planet with relatively slow internet connectivity.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-16 07:51:54+00:00
I personally prefer Go with LLMs because it has a relatively large amount of analyzers and other tooling to statically check that there are no major issues with the code.

Also the compiler being a stickler for unused code etc. keeps the Agentic models in check, they can't YOLO stuff as hard like in, say, Python.
by ben_w | 2025-10-16 07:52:01+00:00
I get the same feeling, but I don't think I can justify the feeling.

IMO at best this is frogs* jumping out of water that was boiled too fast.

* an idiom based on a stupid truth, as the real frogs were sans-brain at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
by Beretta_Vexee | 2025-10-16 07:52:32+00:00
I know French people who live near the Swiss border and who file their tax returns in a matter of minutes because all the information is pre-filled via their employer's income statement and their bank.

They are two different countries, and Switzerland is not a member of the EU.

When French bureaucracy is simpler and more efficient than your tax collection system, you have a problem.