MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coldtea | 2025-10-05 13:28:28+00:00
That's a very late specimen, and in fact one which "led scientists to speculate that he was involved in copper smelting", hardly typical of revolutionary timescales.

In evolutionary timescales, agriculture and permanent houses are a dot in the timeline, there were no longhouse dwellers for 95% of homo sapiens' history, and none at all for hominids before homo sapiens. They were nomadic foragers.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-05 13:28:37+00:00
Thanks for making this comment. I can not imagine a stronger endorsement that mr. Musk and SpaceX/Tesler are responsible for all these things, that neither company is really a positive for the US.

Btw: if you're going to be racist, don't you have a problem with the fact that mr. Musk ... is not an American? I mean that is the one thing I'll credit Musk with: making Trump suck his ** in front of conservative "we hate immigrants" voters, on the white house lawn exposes the hypocrisy of MAGA and GOP voters better than even throwing a nuclear bomb on Breitbart could.
by raddan | 2025-10-05 13:29:49+00:00
I was listening to an NPR story yesterday about how fashion designers are now using “AI” to spot fashion trends. Aside from the fact that it is now unclear whether a journalist means “software” when they say “AI”, a recurring thought I had was that maybe lots of people are now using AI to make inconsequential decisions. One of the predictions they hyped in the story was that “yellow will be hot”. Ok, sure… but if it’s not, it doesn’t really matter. I can see that AI “helps” in this scenario to reduce decision fatigue, but you might have been just as well off flipping a coin. Even if you buy yourself an expensive coin, it’s a lot cheaper!
by RadiozRadioz | 2025-10-05 13:29:49+00:00
You pay for the privilege of paying for what you use - every second of CPU time when a lambda is running is marked up immensely versus the same second of compute on bare metal or even a VPS. So your workload needs to be sufficiently "duck curved", parabolic, or erratically spiky in order to _actually_ make cost savings on compute.

The personnel matter is harder to quantify. But note that the need for infra skills didn't go away with cloud. Cloud is complicated, you still need people who understand it, and that still costs money. Be it additional skills spread across developers, or dedicated cloud experts depending on organisation size. These aren't a far cry from sysadmims. It really depends on the skillset of your individual team. These days traditional hosting has got so much easier with so much automation, that it's not as specialist a skill or as time consuming or complicated as many people think it is.

Cloud _can_ be cheaper, but you need the correct mix of requirements and skills gap to make it actually cheaper.
by coldtea | 2025-10-05 13:30:47+00:00
>The benefits and drawbacks that appear after reproduction age can’t be passed on.

If we consider grandparents, they could.

E.g. more fit/older grandparents -> more help and experience sharing for raising the kids given to the parents, more infants survive. This would chose for lineages where grantparents are helpful && live more.

What I meant though is that the main evolutionary pressure of us in in reproduction. Sure some past-reproduction-age traits play a role, but hardly as big.
by import | 2025-10-05 13:31:04+00:00
I have two machines and NAS. Running around 50 docker containers. Including home assistant, adguard, wireguard, Vscode server, rss reader, change detection, romm, metube,vaultwarden, immich, caldav carddav server and bunch of custom applications I am working on. (Also hosting some websites).

It’s so much fun and helps me to own my data.
by benjiro | 2025-10-05 13:31:55+00:00
> It mostly boils down to how nosey your landlord is. If they are constantly stopping by to inspect things or change filters more than a couple times a year it’s probably an excuse to see what you’re up to.

Really depends who manages your building. We had the most issue with the landlord who also manages the building. Like tons of inviting themselves over, very nosy and intrusive.

When we moved out and the final inspection date. We cleaned everywhere that is logical ... ground, windows, bathroom, sinks, tubs, glass, kitchen, drawers, .. you name it.

They then demanded on the move out date, that we clean above the doors, i mean, the flat part above the internal doors, outside some small toilet window that had not been cleaned in 10+ years. We even told them, why is this on us when clearly you did not do so with the previous tenant (we only lived there 1 year). No no, it became that dirty in that one year. Yeaaa, bull... May have something to do that we are "foreigners".

Plenty more crazy stuff... locations where you do not even think about like ducting. Imagine when you read this, look around, and imagine the spots where you never think about cleaning because its kind of crazy. They really looked for every excuse to deny our deposit (did not work). We had plenty of pictures from our move in date, and used them against the landlord.

Where as the building we are in now, beyond the move in date, not a single inspection or anything like that. Sure, a few times that they came to do work, like replacing the smoke detectors, or painting, but those are all 3th parties.

Learned the lesson to never rent from somebody who is the landlord and manages the property at the same time. Too much trouble.
by teeray | 2025-10-05 13:32:15+00:00
> creating endless pointless copies of your pesonal (sic) information in databases across the world that will eventually be neglected, hacked, exploited, sold off etc… I dont know the way out if there is

The data needs to be viewed by the holder of that data as a dangerous liability, not an asset. If there were headlines about “Megabank Files Bankruptcy Over Data Breach, Executives Jailed” instead of the general sentiment of “LOL another data breach, here’s a free trial of LifeLock,” there would be changing attitudes about storing arbitrary user data.
by xenodium | 2025-10-05 13:32:19+00:00
> Meanwhile - Nothing changes, everything generally gets worse

https://LMNO.lol is my grain of sand.

I wasn't happy the state of blogging (tracking, bloat, ads, paywalls...), so I built https://LMNO.lol. It's offline first and you can browse blogs from anywhere (even terminal). Your blog is a single Markdown file. Drag and drop it to the browser and your entire blog is generated.

Custom domains are welcome. My blog is running off LMNO.lol that https://xenodium.com
by ivanjermakov | 2025-10-05 13:32:37+00:00
I run a home server but it is a single post-lease Dell mini PC I got for $50. The only times it goes above 5% CPU/GPU usage is when I'm building a project to deploy or transcode video.

I'm sure nobody needs this much compute for personal use (24/7), so roadster in a garage is a good analogy.
by tennysont | 2025-10-05 13:33:06+00:00
For those not keeping count, total hardware spend is in the 13k-20k USD ballpark, by my count.

The thing that I like about this post is that it touches on many of the difficulties of running a homelab with many physical hosts. You might not need all or most of this setup, but at least you have an idea of how this particular design (a decent one!) scales after reading this.

- Array of off-the-shell compute servers with console access + networking + power

- ArgoCD + GitOps makes a K8 cluster declarative

- Talos makes the physical hosts that provide the K8 cluster be declarative

- Dedicated machines for storage, Control Plan, and Networking isolate the infrequently-changing stateful parts

This homelab does seem compute focused, which might be right for OP but is normally a mistake that people make when they build their first homelab. I'm wondering what OP's home internet bandwidth is. It seems odd to have so much compute behind a network bottleneck unless OP has high-compute-small-output workloads (ml training, data searching/analysis, NOT video encoding)

A single machine with a lot of CPU and a LOT of memory/storage is typically what people want---so that projects they're setting up are fast and having lots of old/idling projects is fine. My old recommendation was a mini-ITX with 128 GB of ram and a modern AMD cpu should take most people very far. Perhaps a smaller NUC/Beelink computer if you're not storage hungry.

However, keep in mind that a single machine will make it hard to tinker with large parts of the stack. It's harder to play with kernel mod settings if you need to constantly reboot all your projects and possibly nuke your lab. It's harder to test podman vs docker if in involves turning off all your contains. A more complicated home-lab gives you more surface area to tinker with. That's both more fun and makes you a better engineer. Of course, you can get most of this experience for far less money if you budget isn't quite as generous.

I personally prefer a digital nomad aesthetic, so I focus on small & simple on-prem hosts paired with cloud stacks. I'm willing to pay a premium on compute to have less commitment and physical footprint. I've been considering setting up a K8 cluster on Hetzner dedicated machines. In my case, that Mini-ITX box is actually a storage-optimized ATX build for backing up my laptop (daily-driver) and media server.
by antonvs | 2025-10-05 13:33:18+00:00
Exactly. Some of the biggest explanatory factors for the Fermi paradox are likely to be economics and politics: interstellar travel is unreasonably expensive, unimaginably slow, and has negative ROI unless your time horizons are beyond anything that's ever been used on Earth.

Consider that in some countries on Earth, we can't even get consensus that obtaining energy directly from the Sun via solar panels is a good idea.
Show HN: Cube Art Project 2 Online – A Multiplayer Voxel Editor in the Browser
by demensdeum | 2025-10-05 13:33:32+00:00
in-browser voxel editor for collaborative, cube-based 3D art. It features real-time color manipulation via RGB sliders and a synchronized grid for multiple users. No install needed, just launch the demo and start creating with others.
by mayama | 2025-10-05 13:34:27+00:00
> However other vendors that build upon AOSP, such as Samsung, can make their own decisions on this.

Pure AOSP devices are only some chinese knockoffs without play store. If your device needs play store/device integrity verification, there are lots are requirements by goog that needs to be met. Goog can add new requirement to disable installing unverified apps from adb.
by bonaldi | 2025-10-05 13:35:08+00:00
> Mails are superior in announcing to multiple people

People who are known at time of sending. A slack message can be searched by those joining the team much (much) later, those who move teams, in-house search bots, etc. Mailing lists bridge this gap to some extent, but then you're really not just using email, you're using some kind of external collaboration service. Which undermines the point of "just email".
by refulgentis | 2025-10-05 13:36:00+00:00
Nobody claimed to be "offended" by your technical skepticism. The idea is simpler: be kind to people who are taking time to engage with you, and for you, not for us.

Several people have written lengthy, detailed responses to your questions. They've provided technical context, domain experience, and specific explanations. Your response pattern has been to suggest they're being evasive, that they're trying to suppress your ideas, or that they're protecting commercial interests. And now "it's really not my problem" when someone asks you to be more courteous.

Technical forums work because people volunteer their time and expertise. When that gets met with dismissiveness and assumptions of bad faith, it breaks down. Whether your technical argument is right or wrong, the "not my problem" response to a simple request for courtesy says a lot about how you're approaching this conversation.

You're partly right that credentials alone don't prove anything. "I worked at Google" or "I'm a security engineer" shouldn't automatically win an argument.

But that's not what happened here. When tptacek mentioned his background, he also explained that static analysis tools have failed commercially for decades despite massive investment, and that LLM orchestration is the new variable. That's someone providing context for their technical claim.

You rejected the credentials and the explanation together, then labeled it all as "argument from authority." That's using a logic 101 concept to avoid engaging with what was actually said.

This part of your response is the most telling: "Maybe it works a lot and you folks are upset it's not working here."

You've decided that people disagreeing with you are trying to manipulate you with authority, and they're frustrated it's not landing. But there's a simpler explanation: they might just think you're wrong and are trying to explain why based on relevant experience.

Once you've framed every response as attempted manipulation rather than genuine disagreement, productive conversation becomes impossible. You're not really asking questions anymore. You're defending your initial position and treating help as opposition.

If you actually want to understand this rather than win the argument, try engaging with the core claim: SAST tools with human triage have been ineffective for 20+ years despite enormous investment. Now SAST with LLM orchestration appears to work. What does that tell you about what the LLM is contributing beyond simple filtering?

That's a real question that might lead somewhere interesting. It also acknowledges that people have spent their time trying to help you understand something, even when you've been prickly about it. "Not my problem" just shuts everything down. And yeah, in a volunteer discussion forum, that actually is your problem if you want people to keep engaging with you.
by dzink | 2025-10-05 13:36:05+00:00
It may be common in many places, but it is also a great filtering mechanism for envy. People who belittle others for fun feel a need to project some kind of social status above others. It’s toxic behavior because it can grow.

I seek out the social groups where people try to help eachother and where most of the conversation is towards pushing a common goal or helping each other’s pursuits. That way someone saying something negative is a signal, and the negative can be addressed. You can only move fast and in the right direction with clear signaling. If the signal is diluted by people with low self esteem who would rather belittle those who do than do the doing, then you need to clear the signal.
by csomar | 2025-10-05 13:36:21+00:00
> And I worry about a "chilled" populace too afraid to express morality when it becomes socially inconvenient.

The social cooling effect always existed. It is just, previously, information and reactions traveled way slower. We are just adjusting to the new speed. Culture is a complex emergent product of the various basic human interactions. My guess is that this product doesn't make much sense when reactions travel fast as culture changes very slowly.

So instead, the future will be culture-less. You decide your behavior everyday based on your first few (100) shorts/snaps/tiktoks of the morning. It does help that these snaps disappear by tomorrow. This new society will have no memory.
Show HN: Write deep learning code on your laptop and run it instantly on GPUs
by Adithya-Kolavi | 2025-10-05 13:36:24+00:00
If you’re doing deep learning, you know the struggle: GPUs are expensive, setting up infrastructure is a pain, and most of the time they sit idle while you write or debug code. Multi-GPU setups make things even harder.

I’ve been using Modal for everything — training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and even serving models. It lets me write code locally and run it instantly on serverless GPUs — no Kubernetes, no VM headaches, no idle GPU bills. I can attach persistent volumes for datasets and model weights, scale from 1 to 8 GPUs, and only pay for what I use.

Over time, I learned how to effectively use Modal for real-world ML workflows. And I’ve put everything we learned into hands-on tutorials that detail the full process:

Training nanoGPT from scratch by andrej karpathy Fine-tuning and deploying Gemma 3-4B with UnslothAI Multi-GPU Llama 8–70B training with axolotl_ai
by novaleaf | 2025-10-05 13:36:49+00:00
> The inverter's own breaker (say, 30/40A) is there to protect the inverter, not the cord.

I have a similar "all in one" inverter for camping, and since you seem to know what you are saying: In my setup I wired a 20A GFCI outlet to my output, and use that as my main output protection. What do you think about that?

PS: op took down their page. archive link is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20251005022124/https://sunboxlab...
by mrweasel | 2025-10-05 13:38:36+00:00
I do agree that email quickly becomes messy, even with mailing lists. It's really much the same issue Slack has, a lack of training. It's just assumed that people will know how to use both email and Slack, but we don't. For email it's a decade old debate, that rational minds lost as Outlook dictated top-reply, forcing you to read threads backwards and discouraging the recipient from inline replies and cutting out irrelevant parts.

Slack is equally terrible, because the interface and threads is actually hard to navigate and I honestly cannot make search work in a rational manor. The more discusions you have in Slack, the worse it becomes.
by Retr0id | 2025-10-05 13:39:10+00:00
I tried to run the benchmark on my M1 Pro macbook, but the "baseline" is written with x86 intrinsics and won't compile.

Are the benchmark results in the README real? (The README itself feels very AI-generated)

Looking at the makefile, it tries to link the x86 SSE "baseline" implementation and the NEON version into the same binary. A real headscratcher!

Edit: The SSE impl gets shimmed via simd-everywhere, and the benchmark results do seem legit (aside from being slightly apples-to-oranges, but that's unavoidable)
by coldtea | 2025-10-05 13:39:34+00:00
Lie implies conscious distortion of the truth, the word you were looking for is "falsehood".

Second, even if "elder people were very important in even the most primitive societies", their role is much much important from evolutionary perspective than the pressures based on reproduction. Which is why most close primates get by with zero roles for post-reproduction grandparents.

Also elder people being "very important in even the most primitive societies" is a cultural and recent in evolutionary timescale phenomenon, first and only secondarily an evolutionary one.

> "lifespan" was low in pre-history, not because no one lived long lives, it was because infant mortality was very high.

They also lived shorter lives to begin with. Even in later historical times (say a couple of millenia or so), people's life expectancy at 15 (meaning, with infant mortality excluded) was much shorter than today.

Nobody said that "no one lived long lives" however. Some did. It's an aggregate limitation, not an absolute one.
by johnisgood | 2025-10-05 13:39:54+00:00
... and formal verification is where Ada / SPARK wins over Rust.

I mean, we can go on but I think it quite ends there, as far as safety goes. :D

There is a reason for why Ada is used in industries that are mission-critical.

> Ada needs a profile that guarantees that code can't be the source of erroneous execution and constrains bounded errors further.

Not really, you can just use Ada / SPARK and it is all checked at compile-time. Look for my comments where I mention Ada.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-05 13:39:59+00:00
> In terms of social data, users don’t really have a major issue with the status quo

That's exactly it. And with social media (unlike files and photo storage) migration isn't really something people care about, because it's about the present not the past.

If you move from Twitter to Bluesky, does anyone care about moving their tweet history? They just want their list of followers to migrate over as much as possible, which happens relatively organically anyways.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-05 13:40:22+00:00
Everyone wants "free ad-free no tracking no payment" Internet. Nobody wants to compensate anyone for it, and therefore nobody wants to host it.

Then the people who have not viewed an ad or paid a subscription in 20 years complain that the internet sucks and we need to go back to IRC and chan boards. As if ideologically non-paying customers have a voice worth listening to.
by fabian2k | 2025-10-05 13:40:46+00:00
The only thing you really need to do with SSH is to use keys with it, not passwords. That should be secure enough for almost all cases.

Another layer on top is useful to remove the noise from the logs. And if you have anything aside from SSH on the server that doesn't need to be public, restricting it via a VPN or something like that is useful anyway. Most other software that listens on your server has likely much more attack surface than SSH.
Show HN: TLD Wiki and Explorer
by petemilly | 2025-10-05 13:41:02+00:00
Hello! I made a top-level domain explorer and wiki with all 1,592 TLDs in IANA's root zone database.

Would appreciate any feedback or feature ideas. At the very least I'd like to add filter/sort.

Source code is public on my repo and val.town: 1. github.com/pmillspaugh/dotcom.press/pull/16 2. val.town/x/petermillspaugh/tld-wiki
by michaelsmanley | 2025-10-05 13:41:18+00:00
That was almost 40 years ago, so little I recall other than it was an 8088 variant in there, the peripheral bus was unique to that machine and the only documentation was in the tech manuals (as opposed to the hardware reference book I had for everything else), and I got lucky and the lab had requisitioned a Model 2, so the screen was nice and they'd gotten the full 640Kb RAM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_Convertible has all the details on that machine you could want.
by junto | 2025-10-05 13:41:30+00:00
Yes I regularly use it for things like “I remember communicating about subject X in 2023, please find all references to that topic since that date”, and it will search and summarize all Teams, Outlook and OneDrive datapoints that I have access to in the organization and neatly summarizing it and linking directly to said datapoints.

I also use it to play around with data and roughly graph it to understand trends without having to roll out a Jupyter notebook.

I find it quite useful.
by btbuildem | 2025-10-05 13:42:27+00:00
> prominent influencers onboard with your decentralized social network

That's sort of a contradiction, no? Or at least it assumes transplanting the same mechanisms into a new milieu -- which I argue is something to leave behind, because it's those very mechanisms that have ruined the current internet.

I think instead of tapping into the same addictive attention economy schemes, the distributed / decentralized socials could onboard people en-masse by providing what's missing there, and filling a real need.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-05 13:43:05+00:00
> You just wait. The closed services will close down or become hostile enough that people will migrate.

I've been waiting a long time. Over that time, the closed services have only gotten more popular and no regular person is ever complaining that they are "hostile".

Regular people don't like ads, but they dislike paying even more, so they're pretty OK with the status quo. They certainly don't want to be paying for a domain name and paying for hosting.
by turtlebro | 2025-10-05 13:43:24+00:00
Well the hope is now with Google merging ChromeOS & Android it'll evolve into a hybrid desktop/mobile OS, and we get to the point where you can finally plug your phone into a monitor, launch VSCode etc. Recent side load signing requirements could be a big hurdle though.

Apple seems to completely stuck with their macOS/iOS split, and probably will never do anything about it. Now iPadOS & macOS look and feel more similar than ever before, but it's all just facade. They should actually commit really hard on merging these OS, but they can't open up iOS, because that would threaten the 30% cut and so its simply not going to happen.