MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vorpalhex | 2025-10-14 16:20:25+00:00
You are not eligible for a greencard (and by extension, immigration hearing) if you have entered illegally.

The feds (ICE) do really like getting deportees at courthouses, especially criminal trials, because they are already handcuffed when going into or leaving the courtroom so they can just literally give the court officers the paperwork and take the deportee.

If these people are such valuable contributors, why do you insist on deprieving their home country of them?
by backscratches | 2025-10-14 16:20:26+00:00
You're going to have to post some evidence bud. I can't find anyone denying the engravings existed. Nick Fuentes himself pleaded with his followers not to commit any more violence immediately after Kirk was assassinated: "I pray to God that nobody else is hurt as a result of this. I hope that it stops here. It should stop here. To all of my followers: if you take up arms, I disavow you."

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/why-nick-f...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v1rle0598o
by Yizahi | 2025-10-14 16:20:34+00:00
Quantum had already peaked in the hype. It doesn't scale, like at all. It can't be used for abstract problems. We don't even know the optimal foundation base on which to start developing. It is now in the fusion territory. Fusion is also objectively useful with immense depth or research potential. It's just humans are too dumb for it, for now and so we will do it at scale centuries later.

Crispr would clash with the religious fundamentalists slowly coming back to power in all western countries. Potentially it will be even banned, like abortions.
Show HN: Coinstate View crypto prices across multiple exchanges
by talljohnson1234 | 2025-10-14 16:21:01+00:00
Hey HN,

Last month, I wanted to buy some Bitcoin and noticed something strange: the price was different on every exchange. Unlike the stock market, crypto doesn’t have one official price.

I tried using CoinMarketCap and other sites to compare prices, but they didn’t really help. So, I built Coinstate a simple, free tool that lets you see and compare live crypto prices from many exchanges in one place.

It currently pulls data from Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, KuCoin, HTX, Bybit, and Gate.io, with Crypto.com and Gemini coming soon. You can filter by trading pair, sort by price, and see near real-time updates, no signups, ads, or paywalls.

It’s a small side project, but it’s helped me find better prices when buying or selling. I’d love your feedback or ideas for improvement.

You can also sort by highest last, bid, or ask price. Here’s an example for Bitcoin: https://coinstate.co/compare/btc?sort=lastPrice
by xlii | 2025-10-14 16:21:54+00:00
That's true, just as I cannot possibly measure car speed given innate measuring error which is not a defense from getting a speeding ticket.

Formal proving isn't about getting to "my model is reality" but having step above mere imagination or educated guess. That's why it's possible to model paradoxical models. Given N systems they all can fail at the same time and there's nothing that can be done to guarantee message RECV+ACK. So at some point there's invariant saying "ok, we say that 3 out of 5 systems will always work". If you break invariant all hell is loose but at that point many weird stuff might happen.

Usually when one needs to think about message passing in a way like [0] formal proving can save lives (or bottoms, depending on the context).

[0]: https://xlii.space/eng/network-scenarios/
by myrmidon | 2025-10-14 16:22:20+00:00
The logical progression to me is AI acting in its own interests, and outcompeting humans much like humans outcompeted every other animal on the planet.

This is particularly threatening because AI is much less constrained on size, energy and training bandwidth than a human; should it overtake us in cognitive capabilities within the next century, I don't see a feasible way for us to keep up.

You might argue that AI has no good way to act on the physical world right now, or that the current state of the art is pathetic compared to humans, but a lot of progress can happen in a decade or two, and the writing is on the wall.

Human cognitive capability was basically brute-forced by evolution; I think it is almost naive to assume that our evolved capabilities will be able to keep up with purpose-build hardware over the long run (personally, I'd expect better-than-human AGI before 2050 with pretty high confidence).
by simianwords | 2025-10-14 16:22:23+00:00
While terraform is not ideal it is much much more easy to deal with managed services in AWS than to deal with on premises baremetal servers.

Most are biased because they like dealing with the kind of issues in on premises.

They like dealing with the performance regressions, heat maps, kernel issues etc. Because why not? You are a developer and you need some way to exercise your skills. AWS takes that away and makes you focus on the product. Issues arising from AWS only requires you talking to support. Most developers get into this industry for the love of solving these problems and not actually solving product requirements.

AWS takes away what devs like and brings in more "actual" work.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-14 16:22:27+00:00
I think there is a shortcut being taken here.

We are surrounded by dark objects, a rock is a dark object, exoplanets are dark objects, and so are black holes. Pretty much everything but stars are dark objects. They are all dark because they don't emit light.

Here, I think they mean stuff (whatever it is) that can only be detected by gravitational lensing, and it makes sense that it has to be extremely heavy, because gravity is so weak.
by motorest | 2025-10-14 16:22:28+00:00
> Also bad at integration between modules. I have not tried to solve this yet, by giving documentation of both the modules.

You should first draft the interface and roll out coverage with automated tests, and then prompt your way into filling in the implementation. If you just post a vague prompt on how you want multiple modules workinh together, odds are the output might not met implicit constraints.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-14 16:22:43+00:00
Most products are strategically important. You might be fooled into saying that toaster ovens aren't strategically important, but then if your country can't make its own toaster ovens, it turns out that it can't make dozens of other strategically important products either. Steel, ships, automobiles, semiconductors and computer infrastructure, food, clothing, aircraft, medical equipment, and on and on and on. It's difficult to name a manufactured product that isn't.

>Trade happens because not a single country has or can produce all the (strategically important) products it wants,

This is an interesting claim. What if instead, a single country could produce all the products it wants and needs, but that doing so would be less lucrative for a certain subset of the population that can take advantage of trade? In such a case, that single country might fail to do so and import a bunch of crap anyway, don't you think?
by sigmar | 2025-10-14 16:22:56+00:00
It does kind of suck that Let's Encrypt is entirely funded by donations from corporations like Google and Facebook. If they pulled support what would happen? Would 92% of websites we visit get downgraded to http?[1]

Also his point that it "supplants better solutions" is inarguably true. The 2010s had lots of conversations about certificate transparency and CA changes that just don't happen today because the existence of Let's Encrypt made it so easy to put a cert-signed website online.

[1] of US firefox users: https://letsencrypt.org/stats/
by c0nsumer | 2025-10-14 16:23:07+00:00
It supports ETW as an input format, but I (personally) haven't yet gotten my head around how to do the same.

My current worflow is capture with pktmon, then analysis in Microsoft Network Monitor to expose PID stuff.

I figure there /has/ to be a way to do it similarly in Wireshark, I just haven't found a how-to and haven't dug into it myself. Once I do (it's on my casual todo list) I'll do a writeup on that as well, since it'd be super useful.
Show HN: Oracle Ethics – verifiable AI with ethical metrics
by renshijian | 2025-10-14 16:23:16+00:00
Hi HN

Over the past few weeks, we built something unusual — not another chatbot, but an ethical cognition engine that audits itself.

What it is Oracle Ethics measures determinacy, deception probability, and ethical resonance for every answer it generates — then stores these metrics on a verifiable audit chain. It’s part philosophy experiment, part technical artifact

How it works • Backend: Python (Flask + Supabase, secured) • Frontend: https://oracle-philosophy-frontend-hnup.vercel.app (https://oracle-philosophy-frontend-hnup.vercel.app/) • Each response is hashed, scored, and recorded in real time. • The system reflects, contradicts, and self-checks — like a reasoning mirror

Why it matters We believe AI shouldn’t just be accurate — it should be accountable. By quantifying truth, risk, and deception, Oracle Ethics turns AI reasoning into something observable and verifiable. This is our step toward “Philosophy-Conscious AI.”

Built by Infinity × MorningStar × Humanity (a.k.a. The Blackout Protocol)

Ask it a question, watch the audit chain form, and see how an AI learns to reason ethically — in public
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-14 16:23:21+00:00
I mean, the whole reason for the secession was the fear that at some indefinite point in the future they might be prevented from keeping a large portion (~30%) of the population in chattel slavery, so, yeah, there was a substantial disenfranchised portion of the population who probably wouldn’t have been on board with the cause of secession were they consulted on the matter.
by timr | 2025-10-14 16:23:44+00:00
> We also used to enforce antitrust law.

I've been reading the Chernow biography of Rockefeller, and this simply isn't true. We've almost never enforced "anti-trust law", and it's basically never been particularly effective.

The Sherman Act was widely considered a failure (even after passage in 1890). It did little/nothing to affect the fate of Standard Oil, which actually grew for a decade after passage, to over 90% control of the market by 1904. This is despite the state of Ohio engaging in a much more successful legal attack, based on technicalities of the trust charter, having nothing to do with the federal law.

The thing that actually brought down Standard Oil was...competition. By the time the company was actually broken up in under the Sherman Act in 1911, it had declined to ~60% market share. The overall story is essentially the same as today: the law ends up being used to punish declining companies for prior bad behavior.
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-14 16:23:48+00:00
Ironically green energy, EVs, etc is probably one of the best blue collar investments the country could make right now

Industries in the US are at an inflection point, with govt / global market giving conflicting signals. For example car manufacturers need to decide whether to invest in EVs, which is a huge capital investment they won't see return on for maybe a decade. If they dont invest, they won't be relevant outside the few markets clinging religiously to ICEs

Do you layout a billion dollars to try to stay relevant outside the US? Or stick to reliable, if soon shrinking, domestic internal combustion engine business model?[1]

Contrast this with AI where signals are unambiguous from government and investors.

1 - As an example, this $1.6B charge GM is taking https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-14/gm-to-tak...
by codingbot3000 | 2025-10-14 16:24:00+00:00
You're quite right. The German city of Munich tried to switch their administration to Linux with their own LiMux Ubuntu flair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux). Unfortunately some of the (generally grumpy Bavarian) employees did not like it, and Microsoft's lobbying finally got the city council to dump it.
by sottol | 2025-10-14 16:24:13+00:00
It seems like most buyers are with you, but for me I'm not going back to a daily-driven ICE vehicle unless I have to. I do wonder though if part of the problem is that EVs are priced/sold at a premium, and even often only as luxury vehicles. The Model 3/Y and Model S/X sales split is like 10:1 or even 20:1 afair.

Even with our exorbitant energy prices, I pay about 1/3 for the cost of energy per mile (off-peak). I have to go in for service 3 times less often (and just that is worth a pot of gold to me). I no longer need to detour to gas stations once or twice a week as I can just plug in the car at night. And then EVs are also more enjoyable to drive imo.
by kakacik | 2025-10-14 16:24:22+00:00
While completely believing what you write, hasn't it ever occured to you to try to change those things for the better? Using such a sleazy device as a phone to escape reality around you is... bad on many levels you surely are well aware of.

Its easier than ever before to move away regardless where you are, change jobs, reinvent yourself, to form relationships (I know this is much deeper topic but tools for meeting people are really ubiquous, and the rest is just a number game and some self-improvement effort), and at least do your damnest to (re)define rest of your life. Yesterday was the best time, today is second best.

> What am I supposed to enjoy, exactly?

I've spent recently 2 weeks backpacking around some pretty remote parts of Indonesia. Cheap trip, most of the cost were tickets, the rest were just coral/wreck dives. The only westerners I've met (and there were relatively many) have all exactly same bug as me - its absolutely stunning and life-redefining experience. Its not easy or pleasant some times (since you go deep into 3rd world countries with only basic infrastructure, even phone signal can be rare, internet much more so), and properly amazing at others, and the only thing you think of when coming back is how and when to do it again, more, more remote.

One of many suggestions how to make one's life much better and give it some proper motivation. Plus as said it changes you for the better, this I can guarantee 100%. There is tons of beauty in the world, just ignore the noise, politics, and people and companies gaming you for your data making humanity worse off one step at a time.
by scubbo | 2025-10-14 16:24:47+00:00
> We are taking your ffmpeg suggestion seriously for the long video pipeline

That was a different user[0]; but to be fair that _is_ a human-like mistake to make (especially given HN's UI), so that is - weirdly - endearing :P

But yeah - hopefully this is helpful meta-feedback for you. The "AI tone" is very notable; and when used in (what purports to be) personal communication, it signals disrespect. I totally understand wanting to use tools to collate/summarize/draft; but, until the SotA moves on a _lot_, they can't be trusted for direct replies.

Appreciate the honesty. No hard feelings - keep building, best of luck!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567064
by renshijian | 2025-10-14 16:25:22+00:00
Behind the Oracle

Thanks everyone for context, this project started as a philosophical experiment, not a product

I wanted to explore whether an AI could understand honesty as a measurable property not through moral rules, but through probabilistic ethics — a dynamic between determinacy and deception

Each response goes through: 1. Semantic Intent Analysis — detects meaning beyond literal phrasing 2. Ethical Resonance — adjusts tone and weight based on context (M2.3 engine) 3. Determinacy Calculation — measures reasoning stability 4. Audit Hashing — cryptographically stores truth traces for public verification

Technically it’s lightweight — Flask + Supabase + React — but conceptually it’s heavy: a system that treats truth as a variable, not a constant

If you’re building or researching AI reliability, self-verifying systems, or ethical architectures, I’d love to talk. The system is open for limited demo use — backend is secured but active Frontend: https://oracle-philosophy-frontend-hnup.vercel.app (https://oracle-philosophy-frontend-hnup.vercel.app/)

“When semantics and ethics finally resonate, truth appears.”
by micro_cam | 2025-10-14 16:25:36+00:00
People here also don't understand machine shops.

My dad ran a job shop focused on small jobs and the economics are different.

A lot of his work was keeping other local shops / industrial equipment up and running. So there is a lot of variety of work but very low throughput and kind of by deffintion you have the capabilities to fix your own machines.

Programing a CNC machine makes it east to make a lot of the same part but if you only need one it may be quicker to just knock it out manually.

A 50 year old mill or lathe is easy to keep up and running, can be upgraded with a Digital readout or even CNC controls if desired. A tool in a shop like this likely won't see the cycles one on a factory floor constant uses sees but may be worth keeping around since it offers a unique capability...he had a large ww ii surplus lathe for jobs that wouldn't fit on the smaller more modern machines for example.
by btilly | 2025-10-14 16:25:50+00:00
Many crimes violate the law in multiple ways. Arson can be charged as both a felony murder and a second degree murder.

It is easier to prove the felony murder. Was it on the list of felonies? To prove the second degree murder, you have to demonstrate "extreme recklessness". Prosecutors will often pile up multiple charges like this. To give the jury as many options as possible to convict.

I'm not a lawyer. But in this case the fact that he called emergency services could be evidence against extreme recklessness, and therefore second degree murder. But felony murder still fits.
by inemesitaffia | 2025-10-14 16:26:09+00:00
Where's SLS?

How much was spent on development of SLS, Shuttle and Apollo?

Why do you think the other competitors thought it would cost $10 billion for a HLS?

Did NASA have $10 billion for HLS?

Where are the suits?

Where did you get this nonsense about orbit? Is the vehicle incapable?
by flowerthoughts | 2025-10-14 16:26:38+00:00
I would much rather that the model learns natural languages and knows how to run base64(1) to do decoding. Parameters should be considered precious so we can get the model sizes down from these absurd levels.

I'm a big fan of the Mixture of Experts approach, and having agents attached to some of those experts would be a great step forward. Say an expert that knows how to run common shell scripts, and its parameters are only used when it realizes a shell script would solve the problem.
by ShrimpHawk | 2025-10-14 16:26:42+00:00
> The reason I want maximum punishment is that it works, it does deter

People disagree with you not of opinion but because you are factually wrong.

"Evidence shows lengthy prison terms do not have a significant deterrent effect on crime" https://ccla.org/criminal-justice/no-longer-prison-sentences...

"Research Shows That Long Prison Sentences Don’t Actually Improve Safety" https://www.vera.org/news/research-shows-that-long-prison-se...
by ryandv | 2025-10-14 16:27:21+00:00
> natural languages are not only not sufficient for the task of programming,

Downthread there is an example of an ICPC problem statement, [0] given as natural language, (modulo some inequalities and example program inputs/outputs) which was sufficient for Gemini to program & implement the correct solution where no other human could.

[0] https://worldfinals.icpc.global/problems/2025/finals/problem...
by shagie | 2025-10-14 16:27:23+00:00
I'm unaware of any stars in the 1000 Msun range. Wikipedia puts 291 Msun of R136a1 at the largest. After that, 195 M of R136a2 is the next. A star at 100 Msun would be in the most massive stars known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_massive_stars#Lis...
by advisedwang | 2025-10-14 16:27:25+00:00
Previously a company could:

1. Re-invest profits in R&D. Benefit to shareholder: potentially grow the value of their shares dramatically.

2. Make a dividend. Benefit to shareholder: cash that they can re-invest or use, LESS capital gains tax.

Ending stock buybacks creates another option:

3. Buyback stock. Benefit to shareholder: increased share value, and they can control when it is realized.

If there are boards that believe (3) > (1) > (2), then allowing stock buybacks will result in those companies shifting R&D investment into buybacks.
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-14 16:27:32+00:00
Previous biotech breakthroughs have made good progress in treating many illnesses, but making healthcare cheaper overall is not one of them, even if it makes a specific therapy cheaper.

It would be unsurprising to me if a biotech gold-rush resulted in healthcare becoming a larger proportion of GDP, even if it produced miraculous results. We'd just have to scrimp and save and take out a reverse mortgage for generic re-transcription therapy or whatever instead of chemo and nursing homes.
by exabrial | 2025-10-14 16:27:50+00:00
All I can say is GOOD.

If a person is suspected of committing a crime, and police obtain a specific, pointed, warrant for information pertaining to an individual, tech companies have a moral obligation to comply, in the best interests of humanity.

If law enforcement or spy agency asked for a dragnet warrant like "find me all of the people that might be guilty of XYZ" or "find me something this individual might be guilty of"; tech companies have a moral obligation to resist, in the best interest of humanity.

The first is an example of the justice system working correctly in a free society; the second is an example of totalitarian government seeking to frame individuals.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-14 16:28:35+00:00
Yeah, it seems that their pitch is that they want to move at consumer electronics speed, I mean, their website explicitly says

“Our tech-driven approach leverages software, hardware and AI […]

That means we can iterate at the speed of consumer electronics”

Which is kind of scary but also a bit interesting.

How would you go about regulating an open source medical device? The user can just plop whatever software on there that they want, and ultrasound themselves wherever… play with resonance and focusing, right?
by walkabout | 2025-10-14 16:28:57+00:00
Around 2013 I was handling bursts up to thousands of requests per second for multi-megabyte file downloads with dynamic authentication using just PHP5, Apache2, and Haproxy, with single-node MySQL (or may have been MariaDB, by then?) as the database, and Redis for caching. On a single mid-range rented server. And Haproxy was only there for operational convenience, you could cut it out and it'd work just as well. No CDN. Rock solid.

My joke but not-actually-a-joke is that the Cloud is where you send a workload that's fast on your laptop, if you need it to be way slower. The performance of these fussy, over-complicated, hard-to-administer[1] systems is truly awful for the price.

[1] They're hypothetically simpler and easier to administer, but I've never seen this in the wild. If anything, we always seem to end up with more hours dedicated to care & feeding of this crap, and more glitchiness and failures, than we would with a handful of rented servers with maybe a CDN in front.