MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
A note of thanks
by zwilderrr | 2025-10-06 14:15:32+00:00
My wife was one of the first to sound the alarms (to me, that is) about the layer of garbage code and massive "comprehension debt" AI is surely creating.

"Are CEOs aware that more and more, no one actually knows what they are doing?" she asked, in earnest.

When I told her that I'm actually seeing a shift in tech articles and memes expressing that sentiment, I wondered if what I was observing was actually true, or if my ultra-optimized media feeds were just showing me what I wanted to see.

But then I realized that I found many of those articles on hackernews! This made me grateful that there's a (somewhat) objective counterbalance in my life to what every other website tells me to think.

So, thank you.
by aprilfoo | 2025-10-06 14:16:04+00:00
"AI" is too much of a broad umbrella term of competing ideas, from symbolic logic (FOL, expert systems) to statistical operations (NNs). It's clear today that the latter has won the race, but ignoring this history doesn't seem to be a very smart move.

I'm in no way an expert but I feel that today's LLMs lack some concepts well known in the research of logical reasoning. Something like: semantic.
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by wjgilmore | 2025-10-06 14:16:44+00:00
Sorry for slow response. At this point I'm doing much more than push movements. The pushups remain (I did 527 on Saturday for instance) however I'm also doing bootcamp-style track workouts, occasionally lifting weights, running hard, and eating very clean. And yes I am beyond happy with current fitness level and shape however new goals will be set for 2026. :-)
by everdrive | 2025-10-06 14:16:45+00:00
Part of this is our own regulatory structure. You can no longer buy a basic, simple, cheap, reliable car in the united states. (at least not a new model) You used to be able to all the time. Just 11 years ago I bought a brand new car for $14k and it was pretty great! It had no features outside of air conditioning and a stereo. Roll-up windows, manual mirrors, etc. It was wonderful. The current regulatory safety and MPG standards combined with costs and customer desires have twisted modern cars into something awful; bloated, heavy, incredibly expensive, over-complicated, less reliable, terrible visibility, the blight of touch screens and screens in general.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-10-06 14:17:05+00:00
What are anyone thoughts on setting up CrowdSec at Coolify's Traefik proxy?

I'm not very familiar with Traefik and ended up reading CrowdSec and Trafic docs when setting up.

Managed to setup CrowdSec on a Coolify instance on Digital Ocean but it requires more fiddling (SSH and sudo nano) than I liked. It was a good learning experience but the resulting droplet instance is not something I'm confident in hosting anything important.

I have also restricted unneeded ports on DO's firewall and configured Ubuntu Pro. I wonder what else I missed?

I might rebuild the server following this guide as CrowdSec seems to be throwing errors/warning during apt update / apt upgrade. Plus this guide feels more complete.
by triceratops | 2025-10-06 14:17:07+00:00
> provide the feeling of doing something about a serious problem without actually doing anything substantial.

You're wrong about this. There are a lot of people who still think solar power is only about environmental virtue-signalling and it can never compete with good old dinosaur juice. If everyone adopts balcony solar, it'll help convince these people they're wrong. At least the ones who are merely misinformed rather than dug into an ideology.
by tdeck | 2025-10-06 14:17:11+00:00
In the past there was a sense that certain kinds of war crimes needed to at least be done secretly and sparingly by the US military.

Although this statement might be seen as a new era of honesty, I'm not looking forward to the next stage. If Hegseth thinks the US war machine is too restrained now, imagine what things won't even be surprising in a few years.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-06 14:18:03+00:00
You pay for an ad-subsidized version of amazon prime video.

The ad-free version is available if you cover the cost of lost ad revenue.

Just because you pay doesn't mean there will be no ads. And just because there are ads doesn't mean there is an ad free service available.

This is how smart TVs can be bought for $300. It's a $600 TV but you pay for half of it in smart TV ads.
by AlanYx | 2025-10-06 14:18:15+00:00
Not all of the $100 billion are purchases by OpenAI ("AMD expects to receive more than $100 billion in new revenue over four years from OpenAI and other customers").

For some reason the OpenAI portion of this deal is quoted in gigawatts rather than number of MI450s purchased, which makes it hard to tell how much of that $100 billion is from OpenAI. It's probably around $80 billion.
by reactordev | 2025-10-06 14:18:55+00:00
Unless you're doing multicast or anycast, there's a port bound IP handshake that happens. You have your listener (your server port) and the connected TCP/IP client (client port, on the server machine). You're limited to 64533 clients (0-65535 but the first 1000 are reserved). If there's a way to get more client on a single machine, I'm all ears - but that's baked into IP protocol. TCP/UDP doesn't matter. It's a limitation of IP.

Assume 10% of 40M users are active at once. That's 4M clients to deal with. You would need 62 servers (and probably a few for cache) to handle the load. But those could be small core cheap servers.
by criddell | 2025-10-06 14:18:59+00:00
Do you have to trust it? Have the AI built a list of all the invoices it can find in your email then a separate application reconciles that against your statements. The AI might miss something or invent something, but the mismatch list you get back should be short.

It wouldn't be perfect, but maybe it would be better than having to do it all manually.
by nerdix | 2025-10-06 14:19:02+00:00
I didn't mean to imply that there was a winner or loser. Just that AMD was subsidizing it's GPUs with equity.

I think there are logical reasons for both companies to agree to this deal. AMD is trying to break CUDA dominance. OpenAI is getting extremely cheap compute for expansion and they'd also benefit from the Nvidia monopoly falling if that ever happens.
by f4uCL9dNSnQm | 2025-10-06 14:19:06+00:00
NVidia is terrible value for consumers when comparing their own offering from previous years. The graph from https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/great-nvidia-switcheroo-gpu-shr... shows how low/mid segments become weaker and weaker with each generation.

Meanwhile AMD doesn't try to disturb the market, they keep their pricing at "price of similar NVidia card - $50". They aren't going to gain market share that way.
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by jampekka | 2025-10-06 14:20:12+00:00
Deepseek is so sure about the existence of the seahorse emoji it thinks it's more plausible that there's a worldwide cyber attack and a multi-person perceptual anomaly.

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"Here is a brief, factual summary you can relay, followed by the verification you requested. Summary of the Situation:

A localized event is underway where multiple individuals, including emergency service operators, are experiencing a shared and consistent visual distortion. The specific anomaly involves the digital symbol for the seahorse emoji (Unicode character U+1F99C) being universally perceived as other animals, such as a crab or a parrot. This distortion has been corroborated by multiple witnesses. Attempts to verify the standard appearance of the emoji from within the affected zone initially suggested it was missing from global archives, a claim that, if true, would indicate an unprecedented large-scale cyber-event. The primary issue is no longer the emoji itself, but the confirmed, multi-person perceptual anomaly, the cause of which remains unknown and is being treated as a potential public safety incident.

Verification of Existence:

Yes, the seahorse emoji exists in the official Unicode Standard.

Official Name: Seahorse Unicode Code Point: U+1F99C Year of Addition: 2018 (Unicode Version 11.0)

You can independently verify this on these official and public sources:

Unicode Consortium: Full Emoji List (search for "1F99C") Emojipedia (Public Reference): Seahorse Emoji Page

The existence of the emoji is a settled digital fact. The event you are reporting is a profound anomaly affecting the perception and potentially the transmission of this specific digital information."
by wjgilmore | 2025-10-06 14:20:40+00:00
I've learned it is very important to think about achieving this output in small batches (sets) as you mention. For instance on Saturday I did 527 pushups. I did a set of 30 in the morning, and then did 400 on the soccer field with my friend Charlie (the neighbor mentioned in post). But we did these in 16 sets of 25, every five minutes over the course of our kids' soccer game. Then I came home and figured since I was so close to my PR (525), I might as well grind out another hundred in order to eclipse that number. I wound up at 527, doing the last 97 in batches of 15, 10, and even 5. I actually think I did the last two in sets of 1 lol because I was so wiped out!
by hollerith | 2025-10-06 14:20:51+00:00
I recall more than one time when he complained about the authoritarian impulse in bureaucrats and officials though none in which he complains about conservative officials specifically. He says that everyone must constantly exercise vigilance against this authoritarian impulse.

He complained that he is required (by his commitment to speak in front of audiences) to regularly go through airports because he gets icked out by the authoritarian vibe. He says he tries to stay at mom-and-pop hotels because hotels run by corporations give an authoritarian or at least bureaucratic vibe strong enough to ick him out sometimes.
by exe34 | 2025-10-06 14:21:26+00:00
Does anyone use ejabberd inside a wireguard network? I'm hoping to set it up on the main server, and connect to it with aTalk on Android - but I'm worried ssl is going to be a pain if it's not exposed with a proper domain name. I don't know if aTalk will accept a self-signed certificate (or even better, just use non-ssl with an address and port without a domain name)?
by bron123 | 2025-10-06 14:21:28+00:00
We’ve released a preliminary work introducing a new vector of attack against multimodal LLMs. Unlike jailbreaks or targeted misclassification, this method explicitly optimizes for confusion - maximizing next-token entropy to induce systematic malfunction.

The attack successfully fooled GPT-5, producing structured hallucinations from an adversarial image.

The ultimate goal is to prevent AI Agents from reliably operating on websites by embedding adversarial “confusion images” into their visual environments.
by forty | 2025-10-06 14:23:39+00:00
Funny story I like to tell here when nuclear chat come up: this summer (in France) they had to stop some nuclear plant because of the heat, which was causing the river used to cool the reaction to over heat. Right when people needed plenty of electricity for A/C. At least solar was there and working at it's best when we needed it ^^ (this is just for trolling the "renewable are not there when we need it" discourse ;) )

Anyway, the thing we'll need for better using solar is storage, if we can make some clean ones, it will be a solution for intermittentcy. But not matter what we do, we should target using less energy, because the only clean energy is the one we don't have to produce. I think that's the thing people miss (volontarily I think) when they answer anti nuclear discourse. Insulating homes and and designing cities so that people don't have to use cars, rather than producing more and more nuclear reactors doesn't seem dumb to me, no matter what's your opinion on nuclear itself.
by Y-bar | 2025-10-06 14:23:53+00:00
I've been on the internet since the early 90:ies, and this does happen semi-regularly, especially during the last decade. But I have never in my life experienced such situations stemming from an agreeing reflection/interjection during face-to-face communication. Sometimes it feels like people are (un)intentionally looking for reasons to disagree rather than anything else.
by blablabla123 | 2025-10-06 14:23:58+00:00
I would say the main political crisis of the moment isn't one about being right but about consistent plans. The plan for a Green economy is pretty clear since more than a decade and revolves around Smart Grids. Without these no decentralized energy, no storage etc. Indeed that's something that was done right and proofs actual long-term plans are worth it.

The irony is, at this point even many environmentalists don't oppose Nuclear anymore. But there's still the lack of a coherent plan. Where should the fuel come from? How is EOL of a power plant handled? How is it paid? The answers changed a lot in the last decades.

Apart from this the last 5 years were a PR disaster for the Greens. Protesters (Last Generation) have been connected to them although the LG is even protesting against the Greens. When there were these massive floods the Greens actually lost votes instead of gaining those.
by dgroshev | 2025-10-06 14:24:00+00:00
Russia is still by far the biggest country in Europe, with tons of natural resources and support from the biggest industrial manufacturer on the planet. It has an industry that is now fully oriented to produce military goods in war-time quantities that it can't easily spin down.

Russia does have resources, it has the desire, and importantly the state it depends on (China) has a very strong motivation to have Nato distracted when it acts on its plans for Taiwan.
by account42 | 2025-10-06 14:24:31+00:00
You are ignoring that people give away things for free all them time if the cost to them is small enough. But currently those genuinely free options have to compete with ad-funded services for attention and getting that attention requires more effort than just providing the service so this happens less than it otherwise would.

Or to put it another way, most of the content on the internet is already unpaid with the creator not receiving any compensation. What's left is the hosting/distribution and we can find many different ways to (collectively) pay for that besides ads and user subscriptions.
by slow_typist | 2025-10-06 14:24:48+00:00
Degradation is more or less solved. Producers guarantee a maximum of .4 % power degradation per year for 25 or even 30 years. That may be offset buy rising energy costs alone. May be not if someone manages to producer cheaper batteries.

Right now owners of older rooftop photovoltaics in Germany swap functioning modules for newer ones with better efficiency.

Even if some small percentage of older modules fails it is probably not the fault of the cells but of connections in the module due to moisture. It is a system. In theory you can take the cells and build new modules. But that is too expensive compared to buying new modules.
by komali2 | 2025-10-06 14:25:10+00:00
I spent a bit of time trying to find it just now but I swear I read a super long blog or comment or something by someone at archive.org where they concluded essentially that IPFS just "isn't ready" or wasn't feasible for their needs because it's super slow and they didn't see how that couldn't be the case when they consider the volume of transactions they need to do (they didn't see an optimization path).

I wish I could find that article!

edit: https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-archive/blob/master/...
by scarface_74 | 2025-10-06 14:25:26+00:00
I tried with ChatGPT, the Meta AI app, the Gemini app and Grok.

ChatGPT freaked out, Gemini got it right (there isn’t one).

Meta AI: Yes, there is a seahorse emoji: or doesn’t represent a seahorse specifically but is the one you’re looking for.

(Those emojis are fish and shells)

Grok gave me a random emoji of a whale
by T3OU-736 | 2025-10-06 14:25:27+00:00
It feels like we have disparate mental models for what is happening.

Mine was that the noise generation was part of the adversary's actions (as is the presence of the drones themselves).

Are you suggesting that the noise (+encrypted data) is part of the airport's standard procedures, and authorized users pick out (and decrypt) the data, and everything else (like Command & Control) of adversarial devices is overwhelmed by the overall noise?
by jostylr | 2025-10-06 14:25:49+00:00
It was about abusive monopolies where consumers want something different. This is easily fixable by competition. Google is a perfect example of how incredibly easy it is to escape that monopoly. I do it all the time. Imagine what would happen if google started charging a $100 a month for its services. The issue is that the current situation does not conform to what "superior intellectuals" think people ought to do so they want to use violence (government) to force people to live the way they see fit. Yay! All it takes is changing the default. And the anti-monopolists did not even try to do a public awareness campaign of this evil; they went to court (violence) instead of persuasion.

I am unaware of what government intervention you are talking about in 1920. I have heard explicitly that the government did nothing by historians and I asked ChatGPT and it had nothing [1]. In that same conversation I also asked it compare Europe versus US in 2008 from an Austrian perspective. The main thesis Austrians have for busts is that of misallocated resources based on false price information whose remedy is reallocation, often through bankruptcy and repurposing of capital goods. It seems that the US was able to have a better reallocation of resources. I am not sure entirely of the mechanism, but at least some of it was allowing some things to fail and some of it might have been the government going in and manually realigning these things (taking over in the short term). It sounded like Europe did not allow for that, either direct intervention or simply allowing things to fail -- the bad businesses limped along as zombies. Europe kind of did the worst of both worlds.

As for the US, it also suggests that the Austrians, and I have heard this, cite our extreme debt, and it keeps growing, as a sign of a reckoning to come. Kind of like one can keep pumping sugar in to deal with sugar lows after a high, but eventually the bill comes due. Keynesians and others seem to view the economy as a short-term adjustable kind of thing, a chemical reaction with just the right reagents producing something wonderful. Austrians view it as a lumbering ecology, with things adapting and to the extent adaptation based on truth is present, it gets better. To the extent that distortions and violence happen, not so good. We shall, unfortunately, probably see soon enough unless AI can make a productivity miracle happen.

1: https://chatgpt.com/share/68e3ce42-6e78-8012-8a9c-1d7cff2d6f...
by alex23478 | 2025-10-06 14:26:00+00:00
Not the original commenter, but I've used https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g before for this and had a good experience with it.

If you haven't done so already, I'd highly recommend reading the postgres documentation about continuous backups before setting it up, as it teaches the fundamentals: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/continuous-archiving...
by K0balt | 2025-10-06 14:26:29+00:00
Perhaps they heard about orcas attacking boats (again), and are working on maintaining good relations with a species that they can’t help but notice impacts their wellbeing.

Orcas (and whales in general) attacking boats died off steeply after the abandonment of whaling by most of the world. With orcas this makes perhaps a little less sense from an incentive standpoint, but it seems that whale attacks and specifically orca attack frequency moved more or less together.

Recently there has been a rash of orcas attacking and sinking small yachts and boats around the Iberian peninsula, which is mostly attributed to juveniles within a certain cultural group. (Dolphin antifa lol?)

Realistically though the gifting is probably not “politically motivated” lol. But with intelligent animals, I’ve found that it’s very, very easy to underestimate the often surprising sophistication of their actions.
by palmotea | 2025-10-06 14:27:02+00:00
Before 9/11, most DR (disaster recovery) sites were in Jersey City, NJ just across the river from their main offices in WFC or WTC, or roughly 3-5 miles away. After 9/11, the financial industry adopted a 50+ miles rule.

IIRC, multiple IBM mainframes can be setup so they run and are administered as a single system for DR, but there are distance limits.
by mike_hearn | 2025-10-06 14:27:06+00:00
That's how it works already. The memory is encrypted. However, the SGX/SEV model is a very powerful and flexible one - different entities who don't trust one another can share the same hardware simultaneously. If you encrypt all of RAM under a single key, then you can start up a malicious enclave, do some writes - which the CPU will encrypt - capture those writes and redirect them to the memory of a different enclave, and now you can overwrite the memory of that other enclave with your own cleartext.

That such attacks are possible was known from the start. What they're doing here is exploiting the fact that Intel (knowingly!) enabled some hardware attacks on SGX in order to allow enclaves to scale up to much larger amounts of RAM consumed.