MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sim7c00 | 2025-10-18 08:57:36+00:00
i wouldnt assume someone sending 700 req per minute or so to a single domain repeatedly (likely to the same resources) will bother opening zip files.

the bot in the article is likely being tested (as author noted), or its a very bad 'stresser'.

if it was looking for content grabbing it will access differently. (grab resources once and be on its way).

its not bad to host zip bombs tho, for the content grabbers :D nomnom.

saw an article about a guy on here who generated arbitrary pngs or so. also classy haha.

if u have a friendly vps provider who gives unlimited bandwidth these options can be fun. u can make a dashboard which bot has consumed the most junk.
by tasuki | 2025-10-18 09:02:23+00:00
Listen to one of the Zuck interviews, he explains this everywhere.

To paraphrase, Meta is not releasing open models out of the goodness of their heart, they're doing it as part of their business strategy.

- They already have all the eyeballs.

- They want to be able to run the best model they can for those eyeballs.

- It doesn't make a difference to them whether others have a similar model or not. They don't care.

- Ergo, they release their weights, hoping someone can help them improve it. Which has happened: see quantization.
by beardyw | 2025-10-18 09:03:11+00:00
I think you need to consider what feel you want the site to have. Your visitors will often be technical people, but they are also basic human beings. The colour, the fonts you use, the layout can all have a subtle effect in weighing up what you are like. The thing that most stands out to me is the variability of font size (on my phone) which I am not sure is deliberate.
by BoredPositron | 2025-10-18 09:04:57+00:00
The headline is a bit misleading he got rid of ALL phones and says he will buy a Linux phone when available. Which makes no sense because there are Linux phones available and they still have the same problems he complains about in his initial paragraph. He still uses a sim but in a stationary devices. Which makes it likely he is most afraid of being tracked while on the go. I would have gone for a pure sip solution personally. If he uses a normal carrier or a sip product doesn't change anything but makes the setup easier. If he uses a burner sim it doesn't make sense to deploy it at home. Which also makes his IMEI/IMSI dancing obsolete. Could be a nice setup deployed in the wild but makes no sense at home. Lots of question marks tbh.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-18 09:07:27+00:00
I think it worthwhile pointing out Xerox PARC efforts to bring their programming environments to UNIX, as they slowly lost the market they could have had.

"UNIX Needs A True Integrated Environment: .CASE Closed"

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/CSL-89-4...

Interlisp-D gets ported to UNIX in 1988

https://interlisp.org/history/timeline/

Cedar gets ported into UNIX in 1989

"Experiences creating a portable cedar"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/74818.74847

NeXTSTEP and macOS are only thing left from those ideas in modern systems, combing UNIX and Xerox PARC worlds.

While there are some of those ideas influenced Windows, via Objective-C => Java => .NET, and Android is what Inferno/Limbo could have been, it is not quite the same as those early ideas how computing should be like.
by motorest | 2025-10-18 09:08:31+00:00
I'm definitely missing some key insight because after reading the article I felt it was a strawman argument.

Python already has conditional expressions, which already allow 'x if (predicate) else y'. Therefore in Python if is already equivalent to a function, and is composable.

Once you realize this, and also understand that Python has logical operators that can short-circuit, all Python examples feel convoluted and required the blogger to go way out of it's way to write nonidiomatic Python. If the goal was to make a point with Python, why not write Python?
by jasonsb | 2025-10-18 09:08:37+00:00
> but if you have never driven a car before, you might sincerely believe that all it takes is stepping on that pedal.

This is not a fair comparison. Installing a PV system with battery storage on my residential or commercial property has minimal societal impact, especially when compared to something like owning a car. I generate and consume my own electricity in a largely self-contained system.

The primary benefit to society is indirect but meaningful: I reduce my reliance on fossil fuels and draw less power from the grid. This eases demand on shared infrastructure and contributes (modestly) to lower emissions.

Importantly, I continue to pay all applicable taxes and fees, so public services and infrastructure investments (like grid upgrades or transmission lines) remain unaffected. My pursuit of energy self-sufficiency doesn’t impose new burdens on society; if anything, it lightens the collective load.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-18 09:09:46+00:00
> Wikipedia has infoboxes containing coordinates like 48°51′24″N 2°21′8″E

I imagine simply making a semitransparent green land-splat in any such Wikipedia coordinate reference would get you pretty close to a world map, given how so much of the ocean won't get any coordinates at all... Unless perhaps the training includes a compendium of deep-sea ridges and other features.
by jcmfernandes | 2025-10-18 09:14:59+00:00
Yes, and he already explained why he did it. Yes, he should have communicated it clearly. That's on him.

At the same time, why didn't RC call him to ask? Was it easier to write about a security INCIDENT throwing shade at Arko?

With that said, let's keep focused on the real issue: RC did a hostile takeover of the projects. That's not been properly disputed so far. Matz is, therefore, accepting to steward stolen projects.
by motorest | 2025-10-18 09:15:30+00:00
> The lawmakers did not have any involvement. The executive branch unilaterally abused its power to declare that encryption was a munition, to work around the fact it had no other power to restrict it without convincing the legislature to actually make a law.

I think you are trying very hard to imagine inconsistencies where there are none. Not only are you trying to argue that cryptographical software is not relevant to military uses, which is an absurd argument to make, but you are also trying to argue that managing what items feature in an export control list is not the responsibility of an executive branch.

The only requirement to export-control something is that the item features in an export-control list. You're complaining that a specific type of software was added to such a list. Tell me exactly what part you don't, can't, or refuse to understand.
Show HN: Land use visualization for European countries
by vnglst | 2025-10-18 09:17:07+00:00
We have another election coming up at the end of this month here in the Netherlands, and how we use our limited land is a hotly debated topic.

Last year also I shared this animated hexagonal map of Dutch land use. I've now expanded this to include several more European countries, so you can see what makes Dutch land use so special - or not.

If you want to help add more countries, I'd appreciate PRs on GitHub. The map rendering is already there, it only requires land use data which can be found in the SQLite database (at least for EU countries).

Github: https://github.com/vnglst/onsland

Previous HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40599763
by madeofpalk | 2025-10-18 09:20:00+00:00
? Of course they wouldn't.

Bartenders from other countries don't get locked up the moment they enter the US because they served alcohol to someone (a US citizen?) between 18 and 21. The US does not have jurisdiction over alcohol sales in other countries.

In this scenario, what's more likely to be illegal is bringing the item into the country.

It's difficult to make physical analogies to these types of internet laws. What makes them 'tricky' is how they are not physical.
by chao- | 2025-10-18 09:20:08+00:00
Comparing this against mobile dGPUs and the (finally real) DGX Spark, this feels like a latent market segment that has not arrived at its final form. I don't know what delayed the DGX Spark so long, but it granted AMD a huge boon by allowing them capture some market mindshare first.

Compared to discrete GPUs (mobile or not), the advantage of a dGPU is memory bandwidth. The disadvantage of a dGPU is power draw and memory capacity—if we set aside CUDA, which I grant is a HUGE thing to just "set aside".

If we mix in the small DGX Spark desktops, then those have an additional advantage in the dual 200Gb network ports that allow for RDMA across multiple boxes. One could get more from of a small stack (2, 3 or 4) of those than from the same number of Strix Halo 395 boxes. However, as sexy as my homelab-brain finds a small stack of DGX Spark boxes with RDMA, I would think that for professional use, I would rather have a GPU server (or Threadripper GPU workstation) than four DGX Spark boxes?

Because the DGX Spark isn't being sold in a laptop (AFAIK, CMIIW), that is another differentiator in favor of the Strix Halo. Once again, it points to this being a weird, emerging market segment, and I expect the next generation or two will iterate towards how these capabilities really ought to be packaged.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-18 09:21:25+00:00
>Doesn't that kind of confirm my point though?

I was just answering your question. VW clearly has the money and is willing to spend it.

>Rivian's going around burning VC/investor cash without a care in the world for profitability.

I believe that a huge part of the VW deal with Rivian was that they needed more money. Making cars is expensive and Rivian can not succeed on investments alone.
by middayc | 2025-10-18 09:22:14+00:00
Python was used as an example because people know Python and reader can compare it to something known.

I wasn't trying to make Python look awkward. I was trying to write equivalent Python, you are very much welcome to suggest improvements to my Python examples.

Other languages could be used instead of Python, for example Javascript. But I feel Python is more contained language, with clear ways to do thing (I guess I don't know them that well :) )
by munchlax | 2025-10-18 09:22:26+00:00
Linux has a very stable ABI. It's considered a bug if userland breaks.

If you want a stable userland, you can try using flatpaks. When I tried it, it downloaded entire root filesystems for Fedora and Ubuntu just so the applications would run.

It does work. The application appears to be unaware of the outer, incompatible distro.

I don't quite see how this approach wouldn't work for games.
by PhilippGille | 2025-10-18 09:24:32+00:00
How many clients requests do you get in the same millisecond?

With UUIDv7 it's split into:

- 48 bits: Unix timestamp in milliseconds

- 12 bis: Sub-millisecond timestamp fraction for additional ordering

- 62 bits: Random data for uniqueness

- 6 bits: Version and variant identifiers

So >4,600,000,000,000,000,000 IDs per fraction of a millisecond.

And unprecise time on the client doesn't matter, because some are ahead and some behind, vut that doesn't make them more likely to clash.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-18 09:24:37+00:00
Isn't that a different way of saying the same thing?

There's no denying that ICE Engines have been around for a long time, relative to EVs. A mature technology means that any low-hanging fruit for performance improvements was found a long time ago. Remaining gains require the expensive R&D for marginal improvements that you mention.

It's not that they're "good enough" - any consumer who can do the sums would prefer a 20% better price/performance, always. It's just that such improvements are not there to be had in ICE vehicles. There is no rush to improve them, as you said.

And therefor the performance of a new ICE vehicle, 5 year old vehicle or 10 year old vehicle is well-understood, predictable. Both in terms of what the tech was when it was built, and how it has aged. EVs are less so in both of these dimensions. e.g. I would have reasonable confidence in the durability of an EV battery for a 2025 model, but much less so for a 2015 model. They're just not the same.
by darkwater | 2025-10-18 09:28:40+00:00
That drove down new cars sales in a few countries indeed. Also there are viable alternatives for new buyer's (although Tesla is still probably the best value for money). But the second-hand market is different and if you want a second-hand EV that you can actually use for long trips, Tesla is the only option.

Yes, there are people traveling with Kona or Leaf but personally I would not do it.
by Yoric | 2025-10-18 09:29:46+00:00
> Most of the technologically unemployed will wake up and do whatever AI tells them to do on a daily basis. Their lives will improve because AI is better than they are naturally at everything. This will lead to some weird outcomes. Especially if AI is not acting in the interest of each individual, but in the interests of the collective. This will cause AI to have to solve trolley problems.

Let's assume one second that AI becomes good enough to do that.

There's still a strong possibility that AI will be a tool acting in the interest of an elite, smaller (a few oligarchs, a single dictator) or larger (a country, a faction, a religion).
by the_gipsy | 2025-10-18 09:30:42+00:00
I'm doing fine, thank you. Perhaps you didn't understand what I said.

My best ballpark guess for global redux usage in react projects is between 25% and at best 50% if you include redux/TEA-like libraries, but not non-pure usage.

So yes, saying that react is `ui = f(state)` does everyone a disservice. It might be true for you, but it's probably not even the average.
by rane | 2025-10-18 09:30:46+00:00
So far not impressed with CC's ability to invoke skills automatically.

I made a skill with the unambiguous description: "Use when creating or editing bash scripts"

Yet, Claude does not invoke the skill when asked to write a bash script.

https://gist.github.com/raine/528f97375e125cf97a8f8b415bfd80...
by close04 | 2025-10-18 09:32:13+00:00
One more vote here for Scrypted. I have a bunch of cameras from various vendors, some with open FW, some with their original FW, all cut off from the internet. They used to be connected to Frigate but due to performance issues I offloaded the work to Scrypted on a RPi and an AppleTV and the setup works great. Bonus, it’s easier to set up and use compared to Frigate, especially for the less technical people in the family.
by perihelions | 2025-10-18 09:33:39+00:00
Ironically for the parent's thesis (cheap energy replacing human slave labor), one of the major objects of modern slavery is... the manufacturing of solar panels,

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/business/economy/solar-xi... ("Solar Supply Chain Grows More Opaque Amid Human Rights Concerns / The global industry is cutting some ties to China, but its exposure to forced labor remains high and companies are less transparent, a new report found")

https://www.csis.org/analysis/dark-spot-solar-energy-industr... ("A Dark Spot for the Solar Energy Industry: Forced Labor in Xinjiang")

(Maybe there's some kind of evil Jevons Paradox for slavery, where the automation of human labor counterintuitively increases total slavery; i.e. the technologically-augmented effectiveness of slave labor increases the value of slaves).
by willyxdjazz | 2025-10-18 09:33:55+00:00
Maybe I'm being too simplistic, but I think we're mixing two distinct debates.

Today we have an extraordinary invention—comparable to the wheel in its time. That invention is: predictive inference over all human knowledge. Period. I don't like calling it "Artificial Intelligence" because it's not intelligence; it's a prediction system that can project responses by illuminating patterns across all human knowledge encapsulated in text, audio, and video. What companies like OpenAI call "reasoning" models is simply that predictive process, but in a loop packaged as a product—one of the first marvelous uses of this fascinating invention: predictive inference over all human knowledge.

When the wheel was invented, no one could have imagined that, combined with hundreds of subsequent technologies, it would enable an electric car powered by solar energy. The wheel wasn't autonomous transportation—it was a fundamental component.

I see two debates getting mixed up here:

- The debate about the current invention: A tool that makes encyclopedias "speak" by connecting patterns across all human knowledge. As a tool, that's what it is—nothing more, nothing less. Tremendously useful, but a tool.

- The debate about the future dream: What this invention might enable when combined with hundreds of technologies that don't yet exist—similar to imagining an electric car when you only have the wheel.

It seems many experts are taking positions and getting "upset" because they're mixing these two debates. Some evaluate the wheel as if it should already be a solar electric car. Others defend the wheel by saying it already IS a solar electric car. Both are right in their observations, but they're talking about different things.

LLMs are a fundamental breakthrough—the "wheel" of the information age. But discussing whether they "understand" or have "world models" is like asking whether the wheel "comprehends transportation."

On the danger of confusing capabilities: Conflating the tool with the end goal leads us to poor decisions—from over-investment to under-utilization. When we expect AGI from what is fundamentally a pattern-matching engine, we set ourselves up for disappointment and misallocation of resources. No magic, just reality.

The temporal factor: The AGI debate is a debate about the future—about what might emerge from combinations of technologies we haven't yet invented.
by stephen_g | 2025-10-18 09:34:07+00:00
If your board’s SOC has a general purpose timer (GPT) then you can often have it count cycles of a hardware clock and store the value every interrupt pulse from a GPIO. I designed a GPS disciplined oscillator like this where we had an ADC generate a tuning voltage for a 100 MHz OCXO (which was a reference clock for microwave converters) which we divided down to 10 kHz and fed into the GPT, along with the 1pps from a GPS module, and the control loop would try to adjust it until we got 10K clock cycles for every pulse. This kind of synchronisation gets very accurate over a few minutes.

Even just triggering an GPT from an GPS PPS input counting cycles of an internal clock you could use a GPT to work out the error in the clock, and you only need to query it once a second.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-18 09:35:30+00:00
There are still lots of Teslas on the roads where I am, relative to to other EVs. Cars are big expensive assets, they don't vanish, usually. Even if you now regret the purchase, you may be stuck with it for a few years.

For any given brand, the number of vehicles on the road isn't a function of the brand's popularity this quarter. Its the sum of popularities over the last decade or more. So, loss of reputation takes a long time to feed through. And people wanting to unload them won't make them less prevalent on second-hand markets, quite the opposite.

But also, the % of EVs that I see that are Teslas is slowly declining, as other brands proliferate and the EV market gets larger.
by belter | 2025-10-18 09:36:22+00:00
"...Practical experiences of cloud users indicate that CPU-limits harms application performance and costs more than it helps. These observations are in contradiction to the conventional wisdom presented in both academic research and industry best practices. We argue that this indiscriminate adoption of CPU-limits is driven by erroneous beliefs that CPU-limits is essential for operational and safety purposes. We provide empirical evidence making a case for eschewing CPU-limits completely from latency-sensitive applications. This prompts a fundamental rethinking of auto-scaling and billing paradigms and opens new research avenues..."
by ofalkaed | 2025-10-18 09:36:41+00:00
The options for connectors that are robust enough for stage work is limited and the alternatives tend to be expensive since they are no where near as ubiquitous. 1/4" Phono plug and XLR have proven themselves and only take a couple minutes to replace when an accident happens. So we use XLR and Phono everywhere for audio. The real question is why fragile barrel connectors in three different sizes and no wiring standard for power? And now we have just as fragile USB in three different sizes, but at least the wiring is standard. You can't power up but you can still plug it into the board!

It is rare you see anything in the audio world with an XLR that can not survive an accidental encounter with phantom power. People are paranoid about it but for some reason have no issue with phono being use for speaker connects which is far more likely to kill gear. I used to repair audio gear, every bit of gear I encountered that got fried by phantom power had an XLR to TRS in the mix.
by krisoft | 2025-10-18 09:37:10+00:00
> You’re saying that thousands of starlink satellites are actualky spy satellites

No. I didn’t say that and wouldn’t say that. Read carefully because i write carefully what i mean.

You are saying that the theory as presented by bob1029 could not work. I’m saying that your argument why it couldn’t work is not persuasive.

You present two arguments in your comment. (As best as i can understand it.)

One is about the secrecy around the design and manufacturing of the satelites. You claim, without support, that most people don’t have a security clearance in the redmond starlink factory.

Satelite design and manufacturing is already very secretive. Because of ITAR and regular commercial confidentiality you won’t hear a peep about what is on the satelites. The people who design and develop the satelites would of course know the full capabilities of them, but the people manufacturing them need not know. All they need to know is that they are installing optical assemblies. Whoever asks can be told that they are for laser communication.

So the amount of people who need to know is smaller than the full work force. That workforce is already trained on secrecy, and they are practicing it. They already risk prison if they leak anything. (Without any spy satelite business, just because what they work on is ITAR controlled.) On top of that spacex is quite openly hiring for a number of positions requiring top secret clearance.

Your other argument is that if data from these hypothetical sensors would leak that would compromise the hypothetical secrecy around them. Which is true, but is a general property of all inteligence gathering. If it was not an argument against any of the other systems why would it be an argument against this one?

Secrets like this hypothetical one have a finite lifetime. You do it because you hope to gain from doing it. You keep it secret because you hope to gain more than if you didn’t keep it secret. Even if the capability becomes known to your adversaries you won’t loose all the benefits, just some.

> and the only evidence is… vibes?

Because i’m not claiming that they are spy sattelites. All i’m claiming is that your argument claiming that they are not, or couldn’t be is not persuasive. The negation of the statement “they couldn’t be spy satelites” is not “they are spy satelites”, but “they could be spy satelites”.

I hope that helps clarifying what i wrote. Happy to answer any further questions.
by ownagefool | 2025-10-18 09:39:00+00:00
This is probably not really true.

You wouldn't be publishing patient visits publically, the only folks that'd legitimatly see that record would be those which access to that visit, and they'd most likely need to know the time of said visit. This access should be controlled via AuthN, AuthZ and audited.

You'd also generally do a lot of time-based lookups on this data; what visits do I have today, this week, and so on. You might also want an additional DateTime field for timezones and offsets, but the v7 is probably better than v4 for this usecase.