MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by davemp | 2025-10-17 16:37:27+00:00
What a crap, disingenuous argument.

A kernel oops isn’t a panic at least however zig or rust defines a panic. So zig saying things about panics don’t apply here.

Rust fails here the same exact way if drop semantics aren’t upheld (they aren’t afaik). Also Rust’s soundness goes immediately out the window if UB happens in unsafe code. So immediately when a kernel Oops happens safety is moot point.

I’m not sure if Zig has a clean way to kill a thread, unwind the stack, and run deferred code. Zig is a pre-1.0 language after all so it’s allowed to be missing features.
by fer | 2025-10-17 16:37:27+00:00
>I've found that it's almost impossible to even hire people who aren't terrified of the idea of self-hosting

Funny, I couldn't find a new job for a while because I had no cloud experience, finally and ironically I got hired at AWS. Every now and then these days I get headhunters unsure about my actual AWS experience because of my lack of certifications.
by simonw | 2025-10-17 16:37:53+00:00
"For me personally, I feel like advertising is directly at odds with quality journalism."

Advertising is how journalism has worked since journalism first started. Running a newspaper used to be a fantastic business, because you effectively had a local monopoly on advertising to a geographic area. If someone wanted to promote things in your city, you would be top of their list.

Facebook, Google, Craigslist etc completely decimated that business model over the past 20 years and the news industry is still trying to figure out how to fund itself via alternative means.

Historically news organizations have had very strong mechanisms for avoiding advertisers influencing their coverage - the "editorial–advertising firewall". Reputable new orgs like the Baltimore Banner should have policies like that in place today.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-10-17 16:37:59+00:00
Communicating is difficult. Something like 50% of text communications are misinterpreted.

So AI 2027, itself is in 'poor taste', is 'shit'.

Not the act of linking ideas in AI 2027 to a news article.

Well. It's level of being shit, guess could still be debated.

It makes a point of AI increasingly being used in decision making. And it is. So guess it depends on how much you're keeping up with current events whether you think this is really unlikely. Or how much you believe what is being reported.

Or the degree that decision makers become dependent on AI, will it ever reach the levels as depicted in AI 2027 could be debated.
by cefboud | 2025-10-17 16:38:02+00:00
Context overload is definitely a problem with MCP, but its plug-and-play nature and discoverability are solid. Pasting a URL (or just using a button or other UX element) to link an MCP server presents a much lower barrier to entry than having the LLM run `cli-tool --help`, which assumes the CLI tool is already installed and the LLM has to know about it.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-17 16:38:02+00:00
All companies are the same, I can safely predict their actions. Intent doesn't matter, money matters.

Microsoft has tried, and failed, before but there is a culture shift here. All platforms are becoming locked down and consumers are being accustomed to being treated like cattle. Some even prefer it, beg for it.

One day, the time will come, and Microsoft will have all the tools. Because you gave them the tools.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-17 16:38:06+00:00
Lead service lines are like asbestos, they’re fine if they aren’t disturbed. A layer of minerals builds up on the inside. It’s still best practice to replace them, but excavation and plumbing for one house can be $15-20k.

The city I live in is replacing lead service lines across the entire city and offers low interest financing for homeowners.

Crucially, the water treatment chemistry needs to remain consistent. Changing the process is what caused the lead pipes in Flint to start leaching lead into the water. They changed water suppliers during a budgetary crisis.

From the Wikipedia article:

> In April 2014, during a financial crisis, state-appointed emergency manager Darnell Earley changed Flint's water source from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (sourced from Lake Huron and the Detroit River) to the Flint River.[7] Residents complained about the taste, smell, and appearance of the water. Officials failed to apply corrosion inhibitors to the water, which resulted in lead from aging pipes leaching into the water supply, exposing around 100,000 residents to elevated lead levels.[8] A pair of scientific studies confirmed that lead contamination was present in the water supply.[9][10] The city switched back to the Detroit water system on October 16, 2015.[11] It later signed a 30-year contract with the new Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) on November 22, 2017.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis
by aclindsa | 2025-10-17 16:38:11+00:00
With a battery how fast you charge it, how "full" you charge it to, how deeply you discharge it, the temperature at which you keep it, etc., all affect the degradation rate of the battery. So, because charging a battery from 68-75% is better on the battery than charging from 93-100%, storing the battery full is worse, etc., it isn't necessarily true that "7% charging is the same as 7% charging".
by dalberto | 2025-10-17 16:38:15+00:00
Haven't deployed production Java in years, so I won't speak to it. However, even with Go's static binaries, I'd like to leverage the same build and deploy process as other stacks. With Docker a Go service is no different than a Python service. With Docker, I use the same build tool, instrument health checks similarly, etc.

Standardization is major. Every major cloud has one (and often several) container orchestration services, so standardization naturally leads to portability. No lock-in. From my local to the cloud.
by m4rtink | 2025-10-17 16:38:25+00:00
Chinese companies seem to be in process of cloning Falcon 9 and even Starlink (Thousand Sails and other constellations).

In the west the Rocketlab Neutron partial RLV and planned Stokes Space full RLV stand out.

And maybe in a few decades even Arianespace will end up with a Falcon 9 class vehicle! ;-)
by alexandercheema | 2025-10-17 16:38:39+00:00
Blog author here. Actually, no. The model can be streamed into the DGX Spark, so we can run prefill of models much larger than 128GB (e.g. DeepSeek R1) on the DGX Spark. This feature is coming to EXO 1.0 which will be open-sourced soonTM.
by AdamJacobMuller | 2025-10-17 16:38:48+00:00
> I've tried 30X redirects (which it follows)

301 response to a selection of very large files hosted by companies you don't like.

When their AWS instances start downloading 70000 windows ISOs in parallel, they might notice.

Hard to do with cloudflare but you can also tar pit them. Accept the request and send a response, one character at a time (make sure you uncork and flush buffers/etc), with a 30 second delay between characters.

700 requests/second with say 10Kb headers/response. Sure is a shame your server is so slow.
by rudi-c | 2025-10-17 16:39:30+00:00
Framework is unfortunately a term that's both ill-defined and quite overloaded. Electron is a framework in a very different sense than the "JS frameworks" op is asking about. The latter is about libraries with APIs and mental models for producing the UI & UX of web applications.

Electron is just a way of running Chrome without the Chrome UI around it, + a few APIs for accessing native OS APIs. You wouldn't say that Chrome/Firefox/Safari are frameworks just because they execute JS code and has APIs. In the context of this discussion, it is fair to say that Obsidian was built without a framework.
by calmbonsai | 2025-10-17 16:39:41+00:00
Not that one. There's zero usable payload, extremely limited range, VFR only, and it's only "legal" is as a Part 103 (ultralight) exception.

This is, essentially, an aviation hobby toy and not remotely practical for anyone even doing a short-hop urban commute as they would be banned in dense urban (class B,C, and D) airspace too.
by specialist | 2025-10-17 16:40:19+00:00
Agreed. The OC conflates a lot of unrelated & outdated issues, yet doesn't get near the most likely cause: Leasing.

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Many of the EV influencer/reviewers (that I binge watch) do advise leasing over purchasing. Misc reasons (at least in the US):

Continued high rate of improvement. So for EV enthusiasts (early adopters), who are likely to upgrade, leasing avoids eating the entire depreciation in value.

Manufacturer incentives for new purchases drive down used car prices.

Many of the models are simply too expensive. (Esp with the current overstock.) Their resale value will normalize once new EVs reach price parity with comparable ICEs.

With so many leases expiring, there's more supply than demand (for used EVs).

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Anecdatally, I held off buying (or leasing) a new Kia EV9 this year. It's just too expensive; implicitly reflected in their generous incentives. Kia's software is still immature. Knowing I don't intend to keep the vehicle, with their turrible resale value, I wasn't able to stomach the depreciation.

FWIW, My future perfect vehicle is a Toyota Sienna EV, over 350mi range, fast charging, and equiv to Tesla's software.

I predict, based totally on vibes, that sales of city cars (eg Kia Kona, Nissan Leaf) will be just fine once their price is 1:1 with ICE. Ditto roadtrippers (eg VW ID.Buzz) once their range is over 300mi.
by nick__m | 2025-10-17 16:40:23+00:00
No, I was pissed that the only punishment, for a know offender, was a small fine.

The police knew the guy (young adults with bright orange hoodie are quite uncommon here) and they told me that he already did this a few time before moving in my neighborhood and that they never had enough evidences to do something else than fine him.

Also I think the police are bored in my city because there were 4 patrols cars in the street when I got back home.
by mjburgess | 2025-10-17 16:40:44+00:00
Yes, the only explanation for why people endorse political hyperbole is that they know its misinformation and they're doing so for the symbolic power of believing a falsehood.

Or, ya know, maybe a rise in the lethality of crime in a society already one of the most profoundly violent in the world has too little hyperbole associated with it.

But when Greta Thunbery uses hyperbole that's politcal rallying to a cause and colition building for a serious threat. But when trump mobilizes resources for police funding in cities with absurd levels of violence, now anyone who endorses this must be really an authoritarian dupe who delights in being mislead.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-17 16:41:06+00:00
Your parents were correct about the advice, but wrong about the reasoning. Possibly hot water leaches out lead easier, but it’s more about water sitting in a hot water tank.

Hot water in a home usually sits in a metal tank that is full of scale/minerals. Once the sacrificial anode is used up (maybe 1% of people actually replace their anode when needed), the tank begins corroding.

Hot water is for washing things, cold water is for consumption.
by bahama_mama | 2025-10-17 16:41:09+00:00
The data does not support your thesis. US ranks 3rd in Quality and Safety of foods [1]. USDA Prime beef ribeye will have similar quality from variety of stores, USDA Choice will be similar across multiple stores as well.

US does not have a problem with food safety, it has a problem with widely available UPF with many other factors (price, time, distance to fresh produce etc).

[1] https://impact.economist.com/sustainability/project/food-sec...
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-17 16:41:12+00:00
(Ex Flock Employee) It's as simple as that agency saying "Hey, can we have access to your camera data?" and the originating agency saying "Sure".

Flock (deliberately, IMHO) has no verification on whether said agencies are allowed by law or regulation or whatever to have that access, it's just a free-for-all.
by filoeleven | 2025-10-17 16:41:20+00:00
His lab's work is the most interesting I've come across in a long while. In the recent interview I linked, he says they have another paper coming out soon with even more wild stuff. He gets more into his ideas about why his methods work in the podcast as well. It's so cool to be tuned in to a candidate for the most impactful bio research of the next 20 years.

https://youtu.be/imTnPhE20YQ?si=oreeVM6vQyWpN9gV
by AuryGlenz | 2025-10-17 16:41:40+00:00
My friend told me that his in-laws absolutely refuse to buy a new car, as their whole lives they’ve been told it’s an awful deal. Instead, they’ll get something a couple of years old and save maybe a few thousand dollars on a $40,000 vehicle.

It drives him batty.

So, I’d say there’s a potential the used buyers are the ones out of touch, and that people like those in-laws probably aren’t buying EVs.
Ask HN: Got any SAS idea for 4 DevOps/SRE seniors?
by ciphered | 2025-10-17 16:41:41+00:00
Q: Anyone move to Hetzner recently and experienced any major pain they would prefer not to encounter in the future? Mind telling us a bit about it? We're looking for project ideas.

back story: Got together with a few friends, thinking of starting a side project involving Hetzner that might spark some joy into our old ass bones. We are devops/sre people each with 20+ years exp, but unfortunately with not much pub cloud exp among us, we mostly worked in banking or bank adjacent projects with private cloud or on prem, so plenty of iac know how, less cloud native and other state of the art stuff. So we figured Hetzner would be a good place for us to look at providing some kind of service on top of. We are however not that in the loop with the major pain points of a migration to it since none of us did anything similar. Any time taken to give some old farts some new ideas would much appreciated. Love the community and hopefully some time soon, we'll move our decrepit asses from ask HN to show HN.
by robomartin | 2025-10-17 16:42:14+00:00
I am going to declare my wife to be the authority on this topic.

We were well on a path to purchase a couple of EV's (Teslas, new) and even installed a large solar array to support them.

A couple of years later she learned about the cost of replacing the battery. And, just like that, the dream was over. No interest whatsoever.

Anyone who is married fully understands you cannot argue with wife logic. She has no interest in having to spend $20K to $30K ever on any vehicle, of any type, electric or not, a few years after you paid off the loan.

She would not even touch a used EV if it was almost free. In that case you are almost guaranteed to have to spend tens of thousands of dollars for a new battery at a random moment in time in the future. No deal.

Her logic is cemented in a reality of life that we have lived: There are good times and bad times. And, as things go sometimes, you often find yourself in bad times with no money. Vehicles being necessary for mobility and work, if you have an EV, hit bad times and need to spend tens of thousands of dollars to swap the battery, you are absolutely screwed.

So, I asked her: What would make you change your mind?

The answer: A battery swap should be $5,000 or less.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-10-17 16:42:21+00:00
I agree, some of the Linux people have a very broad notion of what counts as a derived work, but I haven't seen much in the way of actual case law to support the conclusion that "white box reverse engineering is generally illegal".

Software generally receives wide protection for its 'non-literal elements', but it's not the case that every possible iota of its function falls under its protectable expression. Indeed, plenty of U.S. courts have subscribed to the "abstraction-filtration-comparison test" which explicitly describes how some characteristics of a program can be outside the scope of its protection.

But in practice, many of the big software copyright cases have been about literal byte-for-byte copying of some part of a program or data structure, so that the issue comes down to either contract law or fair-use law (which Sega v. Accolade and Google v. Oracle both fall under). The scope of fine-grained protection for 'non-literal elements' seems relatively unexplored, and the maximalist interpretation has seemingly proliferated from people wanting to avoid any risk of legal trouble.
by BoredPositron | 2025-10-17 16:42:25+00:00
My dad had to make the same decision and he was too vary because of the battery. He talked about his phone and that it doesn't last a day anymore while at 84% health after three years and translated it 1to1 to the car. Its hard to argue with people if they have a reference point but don't understand the differences. I guess most people just want that initial warranty for now. Are there any manufactures that give long warranties on the battery yet?
by wat10000 | 2025-10-17 16:43:15+00:00
Exactly what I came here to post. I bet if you subtracted $7,500 from the “new” price then the numbers would be a lot more similar.

In any case, individual buyers shouldn’t worry about it too much. The most financially prudent decision is to keep the car for a long time anyway. My 10 year old Tesla still drives just fine. Its value at the two-year mark wasn’t relevant.
by bentt | 2025-10-17 16:44:09+00:00
Let's do a thought experiment.

Say the govt wanted everyone to buy more Rubik's Cubes (cause they help you become smarter).

Their plan to do this is not to pay the Rubik's company to make them cheaper, but instead to give everyone $5 spendable on Rubik's Cubes only. The cost of a cube prior to this was $8.

The day that decide that, the Rubik's company ups the price of a Cube to account for this incoming onslaught of buyers and get more profit. They can safely up the price without losing sales because A) everyone wants to get smart and B) The overall cost of a cube is still cheaper than before. You can get a $10 cube for $5, which is less than $8.

More cubes are sold than ever before.

Now the market is flooded with cubes.

Now the govt says "Great! Everyone has cubes. Let the intelligence revolution commence!" So they remove the subsidy.

$10 Cubes are now QUITE expensive, so the Rubik's company reduces the price back to the $8 it was before. But wait a second, now the market is flooded and people are used to paying effectively $5 for a cube.

This is what's happened with EVs.
Ask HN: Isthere a niche for an OpenWbUI alternative built for WindowsServer/IIS?
by gargantua89 | 2025-10-17 16:44:38+00:00
I'm exploring a web UI for local LLMs built as a native part of the Windows Server ecosystem, meant to run directly on IIS.

The main value would be deep integration with corporate infrastructure, primarily seamless authentication and authorization via Active Directory. This avoids the "run it in Docker" approach, which often feels disconnected from a pure Microsoft environment.

Does this enterprise-focused niche seem viable from an ecosystem standpoint?

Or is this simply a dead-end idea in a world dominated by cross-platform tools?
by potatolicious | 2025-10-17 16:44:45+00:00
> and get something way better.

The last part of OP's statement is the key. In a field that's rapidly advancing technologically, used prices are depressed because the new product is that much better than the used product.

Think back to the early smartphone days - every year phones multiplied in performance, in screen resolution, etc. In that environment a used item is less attractive because you feel like you're missing out on features/capability. This keeps used prices down. Nowadays used smartphones are more competitive because the rate of advancement (that buyers care about at least) has slowed.

For example there's another post later in this thread that points out that the Nissan Leaf has been the same price forever - except the current-gen Leaf has literally double the range of the last one. Effects like this depress used prices.
by dave78 | 2025-10-17 16:45:14+00:00
also:

- tons of sensors with limited lifespans

- more complicated transmissions with more gears

- auto start/stop

Pretty much all of these reliability reducers are manufacturers trying to eek a little more MPGs by throwing lots of complicated technology at the problem, which introduces a lot more failure points.

Headlights and taillights on my current vehicle are supposedly around $1500 each, mostly due to a bunch of sophisticated sensors being built in.

Back in the 80s headlights were standardized (in the US at least) - you either had rectangular or circular. They were available at every auto parts store. Now they're a special order item from the dealer.
by notahacker | 2025-10-17 16:45:34+00:00
No need for the satellite manufacturer to be the same as the launch provider, and there's nothing at all special about short-lived commodity satellites for LEO constellations. SpaceX is going to be cost-effective at building them given their experience with Starlink, but cost isn't typically a major concern of the US govt, and certainly not a higher priority than concerns about the satellite operator frequently suggesting that access to his satellites might be contigent upon his views on a particular conflict.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-17 16:45:39+00:00
CEIP is just one think tank. There are plenty of others there. I frequently read CEPR [1] for a more EU perspective or JIIA [2] for a more Japanese perspective. I just referenced CEIP because it probably most neatly represents the dominant HN perspective.

> Why do you think, an US centric, vaguely leftist think tank focused on US politics with seat in Washington, financed by American donors, initiates the use of brainpower and understanding?

Incentives. Do you really think that internet commenters are going to produce better research than folks paid to research things and provide insights to decision makers? Everyone has a bias. Having a bias doesn't stop you from doing deep analysis. The CCP traces its ideological origins from Marx-Leninism and still uses that to develop their policy positions. It's a very different perspective than US policy which traces its philosophy back to the European Enlightenment, but that doesn't mean their analysis is any less rigorous.

[1]: https://cepr.org/ [2]: https://www.jiia.or.jp/en/
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-10-17 16:45:53+00:00
> 10% heavier so the battery can be replaceable will put a lot of strain on our roads

No it won't. Road wear scales as the fourth power [0] in relationship to axle load, so even a modest increase in weight is still hugely outweighed by the damage done by a fully-loaded semi tractor-trailer (80k lbs). Cars, even EVs, are negligible in terms of road wear.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
by n_u | 2025-10-17 16:46:10+00:00
Dumb question but just cuz I didn’t see it mentioned have you tried using a Disallow: / in your robots.txt? Or Crawl-delay: 10? That would be the first thing I would try.

Sometimes these crawlers are just poorly written not malicious. Sometimes it’s both.

I would try a zip bomb next. I know there’s one that is 10 MB over the network and unzips to ~200TB.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-17 16:46:23+00:00
Are they not replaceable already? Older Teslas could literally change the battery in a few minutes. Newer ones aren’t quite so easy, but it’s a fairly quick matter of lifting up seat cushions, undoing some bolts and connectors, and connecting the new one. If your battery dies under warranty, they’re replacing the battery, not giving you a whole new car.

The issue isn’t that the batteries can’t be replaced, it’s that a new battery is quite expensive. Substantially more than a new motor for a typical ICE car.
by edbaskerville | 2025-10-17 16:46:37+00:00
This argument seems right to me. Old ICE cars are basically the same as new ones. EVs are getting better quickly, so fast depreciation makes sense.

I avoided a used Leaf for exactly the reason you cited...2.5 years ago, and have been very happy with a last-of-its-generation 2023 Chevy Bolt (~ $22K new after tax credit).

But if you don't care about new features, e.g., really fast charging, a used Bolt (55kW max) is a great option!