MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coreyp_1 | 2025-10-21 15:52:00+00:00
How? (Genuine question... I only pay for a handful of AI services, which is <$2/day.)

I'm not doubting you, btw... I've seen others here on HN also saying that they burn through money with AI, I guess I'm just missing something.

In fact, the geek in me absolutely wants to know what's going on, because you have probably found something that I would love to know about! :)
by prewett | 2025-10-21 15:52:58+00:00
My understanding is extorting the government as the single-supplier contract winner is the standard aerospace business plan, apart from SpaceX. Seems to me that if they're going to re-open SpaceX's contract because it's late, there's a whole bunch of other contracts they should re-open. Cross-referencing Trump's golfing calendar with the aerospace industry "leadership" has a decent chance of producing some insight into the decision.
by throwway120385 | 2025-10-21 15:53:17+00:00
Suppose that an LLM would produce excellent, production-ready code automatically given high-quality architecture and design documentation and proper requirements. Could we offload the code generation to the machine and focus on producing architecture and design documentation? And would that provide meaningful improvements?

I don't know the answer to that. But it's an interesting point that's buried in the article is that companies like to shortchange that part of the process, and it's that part of the process that is the most important to getting good code out of an LLM. I suppose part of the problem with using LLMs is that the providers have a vested interest in collecting fees that are barely less than the fully-loaded cost of the development staff.

So it'll be interesting to see if some companies find themselves ratcheting up on the documentation, and then revisiting the need for the LLM when the LLM pricing rises to the maximum the market can support.
by alyandon | 2025-10-21 15:53:25+00:00
They say there’s no Emacs — only your Emacs.

This hit home for me. I spent about 6 months working exclusively with emacs to get past the "this is weird/hard because it is unfamiliar to me" stage. At the end of the experiment, I went back to using vim and IDEs.

My take personal takeaways from the experience:

1) capslock/ctrl switching is helpful in so many other areas - so I kept that

2) emacs is something you want to "live in" (e.g. learning to rely on eshell) if you want to really become proficient with it

3) emacs is something you have to be willing to tweak/adjust via elisp to suite your personal preferences if you want to really really really be proficient with it

I didn't hate emacs but it also wasn't for me.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-21 15:53:45+00:00
There should be many offline copies of Wikipedia since it makes data dumps publicly available

Perhaps Wikimedia is only mentioning a drop in traffic as it suggests how www users may be gathering information, not because it is commercially significant, e.g., decline in audience for advertising

Indeed, it is okay for traffic to fall when a website is not trying sell out www users to advertisers. It does not mean the information offered by the website is any less valuable
by peterfirefly | 2025-10-21 15:54:01+00:00
Not just due to the tiles!

They had to take a lot of the back end of the shuttle apart after every landing, which was cumbersome because things weren't packed right for that. Also, they used hydrazine for the (many!) smaller rocket engines and that requires special protective suits and breathing equipment.

Starship doesn't use hydrazine and the big engines are pretty fast to remove/mount. We've seen them do that many times now.

Shuttle tiles were tested by having somebody going around and pinging them all with a special mallet and using a cart with a special computer that checked if they made the right sound.

Starship tiles can be inspected remotely and quickly with a camera.

Replacing a shuttle tile wasn't easy. Replacing a Starship tile is fairly easy. They have done it many, many times already. The question isn't whether they can do it fast (they can) or easily (they can) or whether they can detect bad tiles (they can). It's not even whether they can tolerate a few missing or defective tiles (they can). The only question there is whether enough fail so that the replacement time cuts too much into the recycling time budget for when they want to launch Starships really fast. We don't know that yet. They won't be needing really fast turnarounds for some time so there's plenty of opportunity to fix any issues with tile design/placement and with the underlying thermal blankets.

Don't argue by analogies. Especially not bad ones.
by afandian | 2025-10-21 15:54:12+00:00
I'd heard, probably in a Centre for Computing History [0] interview or similar that these regulations contributed to the BBC Micro never getting a good foothold in the USA and losing to Apple.

It had an amazing selection of ports, all unshielded and designed for flat ribbon cables. But that wouldn't fly in the USA.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@ComputinghistoryOrgUk1
by mothballed | 2025-10-21 15:54:40+00:00
They can choose not to get a social security number like anyone else, but the real exception is that they can take a religious exemption to paying social security while basically most everyone else who is of a religious organization objecting to social security past X date (I think around 1960 from memory) cannot ( I suspect this is unconstitutional religious discrimination against later forming religious groups, if I were rich I'd challenge it). However there are a couple other groups -- preachers can exempt themselves as can members of the railroad and a few other industries that have been heavily entwined with government and provide their own pension plan.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-10-21 15:54:48+00:00
As an adult I developed an allergic contact dermatitis reaction to some sulfates (sodium lauryl sulfate definitely, sodium laureth sulfate definitely, and something in raw onion juice) after a bad burn on one of my fingers. Probably due to exposure while it was healing, since it's in a lot of soaps like Dawn have one or more of the two. Self-testing to find a soap that didn't blister my hand and then to narrow down which ingredients caused the reaction was a long & unpleasant process. So it's definitely possible to develop new allergies as an adult, as well as to lose existing allergies.
by dlcarrier | 2025-10-21 15:54:51+00:00
> We have been coordinating with the FAA for the entire history of the company and file NOTAMs (aviation alerts) for every balloon we launch.

At this point, I'm pretty confident that NOTAMs exist as a way relegate all liability to pilots. Really it's 14 CFR 91.103, which opens with "Each pilot in command shall, before beginning a flight, become familiar with all available information concerning that flight", that allows NOTAMS to transfer liability.

Theoretically CFRs are limited to powers specifically authorized by congress, but in practice, they are full of overreach that is only limited when it becomes case law, but the FAA is so powerful that it can effectively shut down any organization trying to dispute them in federal courts, so there isn't really any case law limiting the scope of their CFRs.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-10-21 15:55:01+00:00
You can’t stop the certification of a presidential election that way. And they didn’t.

Violence would’ve involved more than people wandering around the building being idiots after both being let in and forcing some doors.

We’ve seen groups of all shades, stripes, and colors occupy public buildings of all types.

There’s a lot of things I could call it, but an attempted coup would not be one of them.
by supportengineer | 2025-10-21 15:55:19+00:00
The amount of energy and creativity. I had an orange Handspring Visor. By default it did not have any networking. It had a cradle that you would sync up with your desktop, but the desktop software could pull stuff from the Internet. So indirectly, the Handspring Visor could access content from the Internet that had been previously retrieved. There was an amazing app that was kind of like Yelp. You could enter your location by specifying two cross streets, and then you could search businesses and read reviews. I used this PDA to manage my calendar and my contacts. With a limited amount of email. In the year 2000 I was using this thing exactly the way we all use our smart phones today. And the games were so much fun. It was truly a machine that could do anything.
by creshal | 2025-10-21 15:55:20+00:00
The ISS served all political purposes it could, and microgavity research can be served by private entities these days. (Especially considering that a Starship has half the internal pressurized volume of the entire ISS, at approximately one thousandth the cost.)

A permanent Moon base would allow research opportunities that private LEO stations can't: ISRU, low gravity research, the far side of the Moon offers unique opportunities for astronomy (any spectrum), etc. pp. Long term, who knows what additional opportunities it opens up.
by OJFord | 2025-10-21 15:55:39+00:00
I believe GP means it still to be connected to 'if this kind of latency is unacceptable to you' - i.e. you can't load/use/unload, you have to keep it in RAM all the time.

In that case it's massively increasing your memory requirement not just to the peak the model needs, but to + whatever the other biggest use might be that'll be inherently concurrent with it.
Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage
by kinj28 | 2025-10-21 15:55:41+00:00
Could there be any link between the two events?

Here is what happened:

Some 600 instances were spawned within 3 hours before AWS flagged it off and sent us a health event. There were numerous domains verified and we could see SES quota increase request was made.

We are still investigating the vulnerability at our end. our initial suspect list has 2 suspects. api key or console access where MFA wasn’t enabled.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-21 15:56:04+00:00
This is a minor pet peeve of mine, actually. I would understand if qemu defaulted to BIOS booting, though I'd prefer that it try UEFI then fall back to BIOS/CSM at this point, but it's actively difficult to do UEFI on qemu; you have to actively feed it the ROM by path, and last I tried you had to include a -pflash for writable storage even if you weren't doing anything with it (thankfully this appears to have been fixed). I really wish they just let you do something like -boot-firmware=uefi,bios or such. (And again, in 2025 I really think UEFI should just be the default, with fallback to CSM/BIOS for backwards compat)
by 1dom | 2025-10-21 15:56:19+00:00
> With some services I'd agree with you, but DynamoDB and Lambda are easily two of their 'simplest' to configure and understand services, and two of the ones that scale the easiest. IAM roles can be decently complicated, but that's really up to the user. If it's just 'let the Lambda talk to the table' it's simple enough.

We agree, but also, I feel like you're missing my point: "let the Lambda talk to the table" is what quickstarts produce. To make a lambda talk to a table at scale in production, you'll want to setup your alerting and monitoring to notify you when you're getting close to your service limits.

If you're not hitting service limits/quotas, you're not running even close to running at scale.
by heyjamesknight | 2025-10-21 15:56:30+00:00
No moral posturing and no insults. Your behavior is just objectively noxious. Not just to me, not just in this thread: the vast majority of your conversations here go roughly the way this one did. A quick glance at your profile shows roughly half of the comments you make here end up light grey.

You have an enormous chip on your shoulder. You consistently make truth claims about entire fields that are still in debate and then you arrogantly shout over the other person when they disagree with you.

I strongly suggest you work on this. It will limit you in life. It probably already has. You probably already know how it has, even!

I'm not saying this to be mean, or because I "have nothing left to stand on." You're clearly intelligent and you clearly care about this topic. But until you mature and learn to behave, others will continue to withdraw from conversation with you.

Best of luck.
by jakeydus | 2025-10-21 15:56:37+00:00
edit: it appears that Orchomenus also has an area of the city that Wikipedia refers to as the acropolis; I'm wondering if the game pulls the acropolis data from the Athenian Acropolis but then mistakenly attributes it to Orchomenus? I thought it might be because some great physics discovery was made there (given the daily challenge genre) but I haven't seen anything.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-21 15:56:51+00:00
Some members of my family have no record of birth or formal existence until they were quite old.

Obligations on parents to generate that paper trail exist now but there are still many ways people can fall into the cracks. The US has generally been far more accommodating of Americans without documentation out of necessity than I think people realize. Some parents choose this for their children, either intentionally or through negligence, and those children need a way to bootstrap their documentation as adults.

There was a large contingent of Americans born outside the US to American parents in the aftermath of WW2 that frequently had little or no documentation.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-21 15:57:22+00:00
Huh. I'm male, my Thyroid is shot, and they weren't even surprised. They ran tests, they saw TSH is high and there's barely enough Thyroxine produced, and they went OK, you need Thyroxine, here's infinite auto-renewals, take as directed, and please get re-tested once a year to see if the dose needs changing.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-21 15:57:32+00:00
In the US:

1) sufficiently long track record of reliability (I might consider Ford and Rivian now)

2) free remote start and unlock

3) camera recordings - how is this not standard in all cars by now?

4) not having to buy via dealership (this is worth a lot to me). Bought a Tesla on my couch in 15 minutes and picking it up took 15 minutes. Dealerships take hours and hours, and try to upsell you.

5) $35k to $40k price point - if BYD were to come to America, I would drop Tesla in a heartbeat
by fukka42 | 2025-10-21 15:57:36+00:00
Baffling as well.

Posting this here because I can't edit the earlier comment: Amusing the HNers decided to flag this. The man Sieg Heiled on live television, twice. He funds fascist political parties all over the world.

He is clearly a fascist and a Nazi. It is not political to say so, unless you believe murdering millions of Jewish people is okay.
by aaronSong | 2025-10-21 15:57:50+00:00
For now, we support switching between models within the same provider, but we're currently adding the ability to switch providers mid-session. We're working on agent switching similar to Cursor's LLM switch so you can seamlessly move between Claude Code, Codex, GLM, etc. during development. We're also exploring auto-switching based on task type, our model would automatically select the best agent for each task. For example, using Opus for frontend work and Codex for backend refactoring. The goal is to leverage each agent's strengths without you having to think about it.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-21 15:58:18+00:00
> I think I the article here we're talking about something fundamentally different from the last 70-ish in China

黑孩子 and 黑户 were fairly common until the last 5-6 years.

The issues mentioned in the article were prominent in rural China and the lower tier of migrant workers before e-governance innovations along with a relaxing on the one-child policy started a decade ago.

Furthermore, the township mentioned in the article is itself one of those migrant areas in Cape Town, similar to what urban villages are in Beijing and other cities in China.
by dfee | 2025-10-21 15:58:36+00:00
I thought the same thing, but it seems that certain dates would make it so there is one square ("rhombus") and one (non-square) rectangle (e.g. Feb 15).

So rather than 3 rhombuses – or 3 squares – perhaps it's 3 squares of 1 square and 1 rectangle. (Perhaps the positions of the puzzle pieces make it such that it truly is 3 squares)!
by vvolhejn | 2025-10-21 15:58:38+00:00
Author here. There are a few reasons, but the biggest one is simply the compression ratio.

The OG neural audio codec SoundStream (whose first author is Neil, now at Kyutai) can sound decent at 3kbps, whereas MP3 typically has around 128kbps, as you say. Interestingly, it was originally developed for audio compression for Google Meet, not for LLMs. Today's neural codecs have even better compression.

The more modern MP3 alternative is Opus, which can work ok at 12kbps, but it's still less efficient than neural audio codecs. However, these traditional codecs are a lot less CPU-hungry, so they have that going for them.
by gnabgib | 2025-10-21 15:58:42+00:00
.. still 3 months ago CVE-2025-53770

(809 points, 447 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629710

US Nuclear Weapons Agency Breached in Microsoft SharePoint Hack (18 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44654869
by thunky | 2025-10-21 15:58:48+00:00
> Does it really need to be stated that “some technology would not be harmful if only the reality in which the technology was used was different”?

If someone is arguing to limit that technology, then yes.

> but work is a mechanism that makes the rest of us feel needed

I'm guessing that you say that because you enjoy your job and it's part of your identity, which is great. But that's a luxury that not everyone has. Some people are ashamed of their jobs, or just simply hate them. But they're stuck because they can't find anything better.

I'm also sure there are tons of people in well-paying BS jobs that are glad to have a paycheck but absolutely do not feel their jobs are necessary or fullfilling. Upon realizing that their job is unecessary they are also left with the feeling that they are in fact wasting their time on this earth. So they're also stuck.

And it is surely possible to be social and to find fullfillment outside of work. I would even say that work is one of the lowest forms of socializing, one step up from sharing an elevator with a stranger and commenting on the weather. That's why most of the time (not all the time), when someone moves on to another job they lose contact with their old collegues. Because they were put together by chance, and while they made the best of being forced to spend the majority of their waking lives together, they missed out on the opportunity to develop real lasting connections with people.

> However, to work on making a reality where everybody’s jobs are taken by robots a tenable reality? No way sir, it is way too challenging for our small brains.

It's happening, so we had better figure out how to wrap our small brains around it.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-21 15:59:10+00:00
Yes, I am concerned about the Computer Science profession

>"“Brain Rot” for LLMs isn’t just a catchy metaphor—it reframes data curation as cognitive hygiene for AI"

A metaphor is exactly what it is because not only do LLMs not possess human cognition, there's certainly no established science of thinking they're literally valid subjects for clinical psychological assessment.

How does this stuff get published, this is basically a blog post. One of the worse aspects of the whole AI craze is that is has turned a non-trivial amount of academia into a complete cargo cult joke.
Show HN: FastQR – A Fast QRCode Generator Supporting Batch Processing
by tranhuucanh | 2025-10-21 15:59:13+00:00
I'd like to share FastQR (https://github.com/tranhuucanh/fastqr), a high-performance QR code generator written in C++. This is my first open-source project, and I'm excited (and a bit nervous!) to share it with you all.

What it is: - A fast CLI tool and library for generating QR codes - Written in C++ with bindings for Ruby, PHP, and Node.js - Full UTF-8 support (works great with Vietnamese, Japanese, and other languages) - Supports custom colors, logo embedding, and precise size control - Pre-built binaries included – no need to install dependencies separately

Why I built this: - I needed a QR code generator that was fast, supported UTF-8 properly (especially for Vietnamese text), and could be easily integrated into different languages. Most existing solutions were either slow or had poor Unicode support.

Performance: - Generating 1000 QR codes (500x500px): ~0.37 seconds

Tech stack: - C++ core using libqrencode and libpng - Language bindings for Ruby, PHP, and Node.js - Precompiled binaries for easy installation

This is my very first open-source project, so I'm sure there are things that could be improved or bugs I haven't caught yet. I'd really appreciate it if you could try it out and share your feedback. If you find any issues or have suggestions, please open an issue on GitHub – I'll do my best to fix them quickly.

Any feedback, criticism, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to check it out!

GitHub: https://github.com/tranhuucanh/fastqr
Show HN: Gnoke Station – A WebOS for Industrial and IoT Dashboards
by edmundsparrow | 2025-10-21 15:59:53+00:00
When you first open Gnoke Station, you're greeted by... well, almost nothing. A clean desktop, a terminal, an app store, desktop settings, and silence. We understand why our previous post led to comments about the minimalism.

Our mistake was not making the core architectural intent clear. The empty screen isn't a lack of features—it's the feature.

The Philosophy of an Empty Desktop Gnoke Station is a browser-based Web Operating System—a lightweight runtime environment, not a desktop clone. We built it for those who need a modular, minimal canvas they can fully control, specifically in industrial, IoT, and dashboard contexts.

The emptiness is a design choice to minimize overhead and maximize extensibility. Instead of wrestling with a bundled, heavy general-purpose OS, the user (or manufacturer) starts with a near-zero state and only loads the components they need.

Why Gnoke Station is a WebOS for Makers The core value lies in the architecture, not the initial icons:

* Modular for Integrators: The entire desktop is designed as a minimal shell that manages external web applications. Manufacturers can swap out the login manager, default apps, and even the taskbar with their own specialized components using a simple JSON manifest.

* Built for Thin Clients: It transforms any modern browser into a desktop environment. There are no downloads, no installations, and no virtual machine requirements. This is crucial for environments where resources are constrained.

* Offline-Ready: We leverage modern browser APIs (like Service Workers and IndexedDB) to ensure the environment remains resilient to network interruptions—a necessity for reliable field and industrial applications. This project is an experiment in rethinking what an operating system should be in the browser age: a flexible framework that lets you build your own digital control panel.

Proof of Footprint As a testament to its resource lightness, Gnoke Station was built entirely on an Infinix phone by myself (EdmundSparrow). Innovation doesn't have to depend on expensive hardware—only imagination.

If you are an engineer or developer working on embedded UIs, industrial Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI), or specialized web dashboards, I'd love for you to explore this concept and check out the API for building your own apps.

Live Demo: https://gnokestation.netlify.app GitHub Repo: https://GitHub.com/edmundsparrow/gnokestation

Pitch/Design Rationale:

https://gnokepitch.netlify.app

(Note: GnokePitch supports phone and tablet viewing, which is a big advantage over traditional C++ HMI solutions.)
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-21 16:00:18+00:00
If most of the content produced by younger generations is about skibidi toilet[1] and 67[2], isn't that what LLMs are going to be trained on?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibidi_Toilet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-7_(meme)