MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Klemoniono | 2025-10-22 15:33:33+00:00
btw. this is dishonest regarding sustainability.

Water consumption of a data center is not a real thing. You don't just consume water. You need it to move heat and you don't need it to remove heat by vaporization.

You can easily use this heat if you actually wanted to do so by heating houses close by or for chemical processes.

Its a legal issue.

And its very resource heavy to put anything in space...
by nickpsecurity | 2025-10-22 15:34:08+00:00
That's not true. The AI industry appears to play a game of follow the leader copying other companies and major researchers. There's all kinds of good ideas we never see applied by big companies. So, it's not safe to assume they tried them all and they didn't work.

In fact, we've sometimes seen new companies show up with models based on research big companies didn't use, the new models are useful or better in some way, and people use them or big companies acquire them. I'd say that's proof big companies miss a lot of good ideas internally.
by lenkite | 2025-10-22 15:34:19+00:00
Maybe speak to some ex-Libyans then ? The security and economic stability compared to continuous civil war and chaos - which caused far more atrocities and deaths tends to change one's opinion on NATO sponsored regime change very fast. Millions of your so-called "gadaffi tankies" out there - just not much in the Western world.

But keep thumping yourself on the chest. What do all the deaths and suffering matter ? The bad guy has been beheaded after all and the War stockholders got richer! Mission Accomplished!
by rrranch | 2025-10-22 15:34:56+00:00
This is a key question. I'm still reflecting about it. TLDR. Is a sensitive subject that needs to be well thought.

So when I journal manually in a book, I trust that I'm going to be the only person reading it. When I journal digitally is a bit different, in this case I trust the app because I made it myself for my own needs, but I wonder how to transmit that trust to the user. Encryption can be the way to go, I know there are different ways of implementing that, maybe optional encription in some places or some texts, but then if the users loosses the password then that content is gone forever, and also there could be say if we want to add some functionality to work with those pieces of text, if it's encrypted the backend would not be able to do things like filtering and so on...
by marshfarm | 2025-10-22 15:35:33+00:00
Without being a dualist, we can say from neurobiology, ecological psych, coord dynamics, neural reuse that meaning isn't simply upstream.

Technically it can't be because of the language problem is post-hoc.

You're an engineer so you have a synthetic view of meaning, but it has nothing to do with intelligence. I'd study how you gained that view of meaning.

A meaning ladder is arbitrary, quantum field dynamics can easily be perceived as Darwinism, and human speech isn't meaningful, it's external and arbitrary and suffers from the conduit metaphor paradox. The meaning is again derived from the actual tasks, scientifically no speech act ever coheres the exact same mental state or action-syntax.

Sorry you're using a synthetic notion of meaning that's post-hoc. Doesn't hold in terms of intelligence. Not even Barbour (who sees storytelling in particles) et al would assign meaning to Fermions or other state changes. It's good science fiction, but it's not science.

In neuroscience we call isolated upstream meaning "wax fruit." You can see it is fruit, but bite into it, the semantic is tasteless (in many dimensions).
by Rygian | 2025-10-22 15:35:37+00:00
Here's an idea, from a parallel universe: Cloudflare should have been forced, by law, to engage a third party neutral auditor/pentester, and fix or mitigate each finding, before being authorised to expose the CIRCL lib in public.

After that, any CVE opened by a member of the public, and subsequently confirmed by a third party neutral auditor/pentester, would result in 1) fines to Cloudflare, 2) award to the CVE opener, and 3) give grounds to Cloudflare to sue their initial auditor.

But that's just a mental experiment.
by willahmad | 2025-10-22 15:36:09+00:00
I never heard about banning autocomplete as guideline, maybe they failed eventually and we forgot about them?

of course its their guideline, but guideline sounds more like fighting against progress.

Imagine these:

* we ban cars in our farm * we ban autocomplete, because it makes you stupid * we ban airplanes, because its not normal for people to fly * we ban chemistry, because they feel like witches * we ban typography, because people can use it for propaganda against us

And all failed, so much that, we don't even know if they existed or not, but we definitely know this sound absurd now.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-22 15:36:11+00:00
Russia's performance in Ukraine is more of an indication that Russia is a regional power with nuclear weapons rather than a great power - so it is to an extent two regional powers of dissimilar sizes duking it out but the smaller power has the support of multiple nearby regional powers - Ukraine has done amazing with what they had on hand and have received but without foreign support they'd be struggling much more.

There is currently one great power in the world and one very close to crossing the line (the US and China, EU could do it but realistically won't because of national identities).
by floating-io | 2025-10-22 15:36:34+00:00
You're welcome to believe that. Visible progress to date suggests otherwise to me; I pretty much ignore what Elon says as much as possible. Besides, however ridiculous, 15 full stacks would still be cheaper than a single SLS launch in all likelihood.

Even if I'm wrong, though, it wouldn't invalidate the point I'm making in this thread: BO's Mk2 has the exact same issues in a more complex architecture.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-22 15:36:37+00:00
The annoyances are dependant in part on the software (browser) used

I do not use a popular browser to make HTTP requests or to read HTML. I never see these annoyances. I don't store cookies except for HN and a few other exceptions. Nor do I run Javascript. The annoyances cited in the OP appear to be targeted at people who use certain web browsers that enable these "features" by default

This demonstrates to me that the annoyances are in part contingent on the browser, e.g., browser "features" such as Javascript

Perhaps convincing all www users to use the same small set of Silicon Valley-controlled browsers is prudent according to some Silicon Vallley logic. But when these browsers are all provided by commercial entities that profit from "advertising services" and each has "business" interests^1 that run counter to the interests of some www users,^2 then it makes sense for www users to consider alternatives

1. For example, data collection, surveillance and targeted advertising

2. Thereby prompting government regulation

For example, it is possible to retreive information from websites, e.g. "check a product price or read an article", using software that does not not serve an internet advertising objective. No cookies or Javascript required
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-10-22 15:37:03+00:00
Related papers

The idea: Quantum Computation of Molecular Structure Using Data from Challenging-To-Classically-Simulate Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiments https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum/abstract/10.1103/PRXQuan...

Verifying the result by another quantum computer (it hasn't been yet): Observation of constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodicity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09526-6
by _blk | 2025-10-22 15:37:18+00:00
Honestly the overburden to the health system sounds like lame excuse. We don't have an overburden there because of the massive consumption of raw milk. Try to buy some legally and you'll get the picture of how hard it is to find and how expensive it is. I'll happily wave any rights to be emergency treated for any reason (traffic accidents included) if you grant me the right to live in peace and buy the milk and meat from sources I like because that's what this freedom is worth to me.

Anyone that I know that drinks raw milk, raw uncured meats, untreated water hasn't seen a doctor in over a decade.. not terribly scientific but a good indicator that I won't buy pharma-money backed "scientific" studies that show that low-fat, low-sodium and oats-in-cereal-bars are the solution to health issues. I'm all for science and capitalism but they're both not substitutes for common sense.
by roguecoder | 2025-10-22 15:37:20+00:00
Yes, and that means that it should never be used for anything connected to the internet or where there is a human cost if it is wrong.

Vibe coding is great for local tools where security isn't a concern and where it is easy for the user to verify correctness. It is when people want to do that professionally, on software that actually needs to work, that it becomes a massive ethical problem.
by lelandbatey | 2025-10-22 15:37:24+00:00
Indeed, I have always heard such techniques as "string formatting" while built-in-to-the-language local-variable implicit string formatting sugar syntax is the thing I've heard called "string interpolation".

In Python, calling "{}".format(x) is string formatting, while string interpolation would be to use the language feature of "f-strings" such as f"{x}" to do the same thing. As far as I know, go doesn't have string interpolation, it only has convenient string formatting functions via the fmt package.

Basically, if you format strings with a language feature: interpolation. If you use a library to format strings: string formatting.
I spent more time writing about my videos than making them
by AhmedSlem | 2025-10-22 15:37:59+00:00
I make content, but I realized something: I was spending more time writing about my videos than actually creating them.

That’s why I built ContentKit Studio — an AI tool that takes a YouTube video (or file) and instantly generates a full content kit: - TL;DR summary - SEO-optimized titles & descriptions - Hashtags & keywords - Chapters and timestamps - Even ready-to-post CTAs

I built the MVP in a few weeks, shared it with a few creators — and the feedback was wild. Some said it saved them hours per video.

Right now, I’ve closed the beta to upgrade performance and add features based on user feedback. But the waitlist just reopened for early testers.

(https://contentkit.studio)
by akyuu | 2025-10-22 15:38:14+00:00
It's because YouTube is now requiring a full JavaScript runtime in order to download and play videos. There are open issues regarding this in the relevant GitHub projects, but the fix has not yet been released.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/33186

See also previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358980
by Someone | 2025-10-22 15:38:33+00:00
FTA: “In Go, empty structs occupy zero bytes. The Go runtime handles all zero-sized allocations, including empty structs, by returning a single, special memory address that takes up no space.

This is why they’re commonly used to signal on channels when you don’t actually have to send any data. Compare this to booleans, which still must occupy some space.”

I would expect the compiler to ensure that all references to true and false reference single addresses, too. So, at best, the difference of the more obscure code is to, maybe, gain 8 bytes. What do I overlook?
by cafard | 2025-10-22 15:39:05+00:00
McCain's parents were both American citizens. I suppose that he would have been a natural born citizen even if born in (say) France. Supposedly Henry Luce was worried that he might not be a natural born citizen, since he was born in China to American missionaries. Apparently he counted as a natural born citizen, though I don't think anyone outside his household ever imagined him as president.
by bunderbunder | 2025-10-22 15:39:11+00:00
The biggest problem with that citation isn't that the article has since been deleted. The biggest problem is that that particular Wikipedia article was never a good source in the first place.

That seems to be the real challenge with AI for this use case. It has no real critical thinking skills, so it's not really competent to choose reliable sources. So instead we're lowering the bar to just asking that the sources actually exist. I really hate that. We shouldn't be lowering intellectual standards to meet AI where it's at. These intellectual standards are important and hard-won, and we need to be demanding that AI be the one to rise to meet them.
by jbstack | 2025-10-22 15:39:47+00:00
> Banning LLMs can result in shorter argument

Can it really? "You submitted LLM-generated contributions" is also highly subjective. Arguably more so since you can't ever really be sure if somethingi s AI generated while with quality issues there are concrete things you can point to (e.g. it the code simply doesn't work, doesn't meet the contributor guidelines, uses obvious anti-patterns etc.).
by rrranch | 2025-10-22 15:40:02+00:00
Hey, thanks for your response.

So I can work on the privacy page soon for sure.

That information should be only for you. My information is for me only. This is not only for privacy but to avoid performative content as well. What I did in the app is that it shows you daily prompts, and you can answer to them, so those prompts are public and can be made by the community, I like the idea of knowing as a community what other people are writing about, or what are they responding to, to be more precise. As a general overview of what are the questions that society is drawn to lately for example. But the idea is the responses are just for you.
by daft_pink | 2025-10-22 15:40:44+00:00
It provides an independent fact check on the media and propaganda. The media exaggreated the likelihood of dramatic events constantly so that you keep watching, but this approach aligns the incentives of the predictions with reality not your attention.

It offers actionable intelligence that is difficult to manipulate over time. When probabilities become misaligned with reality, others can take the opposite position to profit from the discrepancy. Maintaining an obviously high percentage inaccurate prediction of 80-90% would be extremely cost prohibitive.

For example according to polymarket right now, Mamdani will be the next mayor of NY, no one really knows with any certainty when the shutdown will end, the risk of a major war with China and Taiwan remains low. The chances of a Ukraine ceasefire are also extremely low.

Contrast this with YouTubers talking about Ukraine who’ve been discussing some game changing war technology that’s going to end the Ukraine war soon for the past years. If you followed them, you might have thought the war was about to end for the past few years.
by willahmad | 2025-10-22 15:41:06+00:00
This is not a guideline on the code itself, its about tools you use to produce that code.

You can similarly ban code written using IntelliJ IDEA and accept only code written using vim or VS Code, but you wouldn't even know if it was written in IDEA or VSCode.

Saner guideline would be:

* before submitting your LLM generated code, review your code * respect yours and our time * if LLM spit out 1k line of code, its on you to split it and make it manageable for us to review, because humans review this code * if we find that you used LLM but wasn't respectful to our community by not following above, please f.... off from our community, and we will ban you * submitting PR using solely automated PR slop generators will be banned forever
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-10-22 15:41:17+00:00
It's meant to be 'as prepared' but as the above notes there's trickiness in certain brands claiming "our guidelines say to prepare it with skim milk" while everyone adds ice cream.

Still while no system is perfect and there's a need to call out brands that claim it's prepared with skim milk when it's clearly not i still think it's pretty damn great.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-22 15:41:18+00:00
> Law doesn't seek to punish but to rehabilitate

The purposes are punishment are deterrence, retribution, and rehabilitation [1]. (Incapacitation is also typically considered in sentencing.)

The potential deterrence and retributive benefits of cruel have been known for ages. It’s why jailers did it. Those potential benefits are balanced against rehabilitation. But that doesn’t make it the supreme consideration, particularly for crimes of corruption.

[1] https://web.uncg.edu/dcl/courses/vicecrime/pdf/m7.pdf
by trklausss | 2025-10-22 15:41:25+00:00
What do you mean, practices from safety-critical industries applied to security? Unpossible! (end /s)

For that you need regulation that enforces it. On a global scale it is pretty difficult, since it's a country-by-country thing... If you say e.g. for customers in the US, then US Congress needs to pass legislation on that. Trend is however to install backdoors everywhere, so good luck with that.
Ask HN: Why do editors still struggle with long lines?
by jiehong | 2025-10-22 15:41:26+00:00
I've noticed that editors tend to struggle much more with long lines than long files (many lines), even in 2025 with a recent computer.

For example, I was recently working with a csv with 50 columns, and each value was a bit long.

Things got sluggish at the end of the lines in Helix [0][1][2].

(side note: diffing this kind of files is also a pain, too, but that's another story)

It isn't the first time I notice this issue (the first time I tried diffing some minified Javascript with 100k+ long lines). So I guess it might be due to syntax highlighting on top of text encoding [3].

(To partially answer my own question: this performance metric is probably not tested nor optimised for in the first place. And also because not every edit/movement uses async rendering).

[0]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/4513

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/55605

[2]: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/598/how-do-i-prevent-extremely-long-lines-making-emacs-slow

[3]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7388916/why-are-text-editors-slow-when-editing-very-long-lines
by randycupertino | 2025-10-22 15:41:41+00:00
It's court filings so it's all public. This article has more details about the actual case:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/fai...

> Ritter filed for a restraining order against Schmidt, claiming he tried to force her to sign “a gag order on any sexual assault or harassment allegations.” She also alleged that Schmidt locked her out of housing and access to personal and business belongings in New York, Miami, and Aspen, and has pressed her into a costly arbitration process she cannot afford, which she describes as “a cynical effort to protect the dispute and win by economic and resource attrition.”

> The dispute also involves the Bel Air mansion at 1060 Brooklawn Drive, a 15,000-square-foot property Schmidt bought for $61 million. Ritter requested exclusive access to the property and protection for her dog, a German Shepherd named Henry. She has also moved into a more modest Beverly Hills apartment while the legal matters continue.

> The case further involves financial and operational issues with Steel Perlot, Ritter’s AI startup. Reports suggest the company struggled despite Schmidt’s investment, with payroll and credit card bills being covered by Schmidt’s family office. Ritter’s filings cite ongoing conflicts over Schmidt’s alleged attempts to suppress exposure of his misconduct and his handling of their business ventures.

> In a temporary restraining order (TRO) request that was later withdrawn, Michelle Ritter alleged that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt had recently locked her out of the website of her startup, Steel Perlot — an AI-focused venture firm that Schmidt had reportedly invested $100 million into, according to a source cited by The Post.
by adrr | 2025-10-22 15:41:41+00:00
Or we could stop the charade of that cookie laws prevents tracking and get rid of all the stupid banners. All the beacons are firing in the back(server to server) now and all session data is passed on the inbound URL and stored. Browsers banning third party beacons, cookies laws, etc don't do anything. You can't even tell your being tracked.
by GeoAtreides | 2025-10-22 15:41:43+00:00
I was born and raised in one of the most authoritarian regimes in Europe. I know what totalitarian regimes do, and I experienced the crushing poverty that followed the demise of such a regime.

The crimes of the Gaddafi regime are one thing, the ensuing chaos is another. We celebrate the end of a brutal regime and we despair at the death and destruction that followed.
by simonw | 2025-10-22 15:41:56+00:00
Yeah, that's fair. A good LLM (gpt-oss-20b, even some of the smaller Qwens) can be entirely useful offline. I've got good results from Mistral Small 3.2 offline on a flight helping write Python and JavaScript, for example.

Having Claude Code able to try out JSON APIs and pip install extra packages is a huge upgrade from that though!
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-22 15:42:01+00:00
Well the short positions against Tesla that started out as small bets when Tesla was valued at ~20bn but have exploded in liability are a financial vice grip well beyond $20bn.

I noticed this pattern start in 2017 and watched how all narratives the media was peddling unfolded as untrue (Elon is a fraud, Tesla is going bankrupt). Then I noticed how the scale and scope of the anti-Elon narratives grew.

Yes, Elon did all sorts of egotistical things that didn't help. Yes, he deserves plenty of criticism. I'm not denying any of that.

But there are distinct quantitative financial dynamics here that can be traced back a long time that point at a "big problem" for some very rich and powerful people, and that's not even taking into account the potential lost future revenue of all the entrenched industries I mentioned.

So yes, I stand by my point. There is an anti Elon base effect going on and it's probably having a bigger effect on the situation than most people realize.

Your skepticism of my view without a substantive rebuttals (you aren't taking the most respectful interpretation of my point or "steel manning" it as they say), doesn't speak to me having an unbalanced perspective, if speaks to you having a narrower one, taking less scope across time and dimensions into consideration.

Have you done the math to estimate how much NPV Elon's companies threaten entrenched interests? Have you calculated the liability of the short positions against Tesla and how its grown over the last 8 years?

Do you know who pays for the media you consume? How much the publishers receive in revenue, and multiplied that over 8 years?

If Elon represents a $1tn threat to a bunch of random uncoordinated rich people, why is it so hard to believe some of them might have spent tens of billions (combined) on lobbying and "sponsored content" to fight back? No coordination is even needed on their part. Just a collective "oh man f#@k this guy" attitude.

Are you uncomfortable with the idea that your own strongly anti-Elon opinion might have been manipulated by a bunch of rich people? If you weren't constantly reading anti-Elon articles and social media posts, would you even care about it or be paying attention? All kinds of bad people do all kinds of bad things all the time and we don't hear about it. So why do we hear so much negative stuff about Elon specifically?

I have been genuinely curious about this situation for 8+ years now and I still am. I'm open to having my mind changed, but you need to bring novel facts, not just the same old "but Elon's bad and does bad things" like everyone says who has read a bunch of stuff slagging Elon. Saying something akin to "it's obviously Elon's fault because Elon is bad because everyone says Elon is bad" is not critical thinking, it's groupthink, brought to you by all the people who paid for all the stuff you read that says Elon is bad.