MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neither_color | 2025-10-27 09:24:46+00:00
From the article:

>The statement was consistent with earlier remarks by South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun, who, after traveling to Washington to negotiate the workers’ release, said that U.S. officials had agreed to allow them to return later to complete their work.

You dont suddenly allow to return someone who was justifiably deported, regardless of what the agent in charge said in the immediate aftermath at a press conference.
by JanisErdmanis | 2025-10-27 09:24:59+00:00
> I admit that I was initially surprised by how often I ran into the attitude from students in these programs that they don't actually need to be well-versed in anything besides the exact information they need to know to conduct research in their field.

The PhD students tend to get this attitude from the competitive publish an perish environment where they are in. Sometimes suprrvisours are contributing by dismissing students gaining context and the big picture on why their research is important when the research topic is preassigned as it is unproductive. When the productivity is measured in papers not curios PhD graduates who contribute to the society that’s true.
by chao- | 2025-10-27 09:26:12+00:00
Mine as well.

I have a fond memory of being at a party where someone had the idea to do dramatic readings of various Mickens Usenix papers. Even just doing partial readings, it was slow going, lots of pauses to recover from overwhelming laughter. When the reading of The Slow Winter got to "THE MAGMA PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR OUR MISTAKES", we had to stop because someone had laughed so hard they threw up. Not in an awful way, but enough to give us a pause in the action, and to decide we couldn't go on.

Good times.
by eirini1 | 2025-10-27 09:26:36+00:00
Never agreed with this logic. For a lot of people (anyone that does political activism of some sort for example) the threat model can be a lot more nuanced. It might not be Mossad or the CIA gunning for you, specifically, but it might police searching you and your friend's laptops or phones. It might be burglars targetting the office of the small organization you have and the small servers you have running there.
by alf_UMi | 2025-10-27 09:26:41+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’ve been building Loglybase, a platform that helps makers and teams share product updates through simple and elegant changelog pages. Recently, I decided to open-source the entire project.

The goal behind Loglybase was to make changelogs more than just a list of updates — to turn them into a meaningful communication channel between products and users.
by imiric | 2025-10-27 09:28:06+00:00
> It's still not hard to have more skill than an AI.

Eh, today, maybe, and within specific domains. It's far from certain that this will remain true 5 or 10 years from now. The capability of these tools has improved greatly even compared to a year ago, so it's not far fetched to imagine that they will continue to gain ground.

> Of course AI can solve all the dumbbell problems you get in school. They're just there to build muscle. Robots can lift weights better than you, too, but that doesn't mean there's no value in you doing it.

That's a strange analogy. Technology, by definition, exists to facilitate human work. Relying on it has the opposite effect of "building muscle". "Muscles", in fact, atrophy the more we rely on technology.

Doing the work without technology can certainly be valuable. But it's a personal value appreciated at most by a niche community of people. The actual market value of the work collapses once the product becomes a commodity. This is the effect of "AI" tools on software. The quality of the fast and cheap version of the product is still inferior to the artisan product, but a) this can only improve, and b) most of the market can't tell the difference.
by ochrist | 2025-10-27 09:28:30+00:00
That's not the last European train that travels by sea. If you go from Sweden or Denmark towards Germany the train crosses from Denmark to Germany by ferry (that is until the new Femern tunnel is finished): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DPuDsYe_k https://femern.com/the-tunnel/fehmarnbelt-tunnel/
by jimnotgym | 2025-10-27 09:28:35+00:00
Also, before you demonise glyphosate too much, it is worth realising its role in the widespread adoption of low/no till farming, which reduces fertilizer usage, reduces carbon emissions from the soil, and uses tractor power and time, therefore reducing carbon again.

Basically by killing all of the weeds with something that won't kill the crop you are about to plant, means you don't have to plough. It is a classic trade off, do you want the (hard to quantify and heavily disputed) risk of glyphosate, or higher carbon emissions

No till farming is much more difficult to do organically.
by johnisgood | 2025-10-27 09:28:39+00:00
OpenZFS was not previously called ZoL. It was one implementation that later merged into the OpenZFS project.

And sure, technically both FreeBSD and Ubuntu use OpenZFS codebase now, but FreeBSD has in-tree, native kernel integration, whereas Linux has DKMS modules that are separate from mainline kernel, AND FreeBSD had ZFS since 2007 (18 years) and is considered more mature, whereas Linux's stable ZFS is much newer.

Additionally, some features work better on FreeBSD, Boot-on-ZFS is more polished on FreeBSD, and there are performance differences, too.

So my original claim is fine, though illumos is probably the actual best which is technically not Solaris anymore (even though it comes from OpenSolaris)... but as with always, you need history. Follow the timeline. :P
by homebrewer | 2025-10-27 09:28:52+00:00
Mozilla also isn't interested in supporting it, it's not just Google. I also often see these articles that tout jpeg-xl's technical advantages, but in my subjective testing with image sizes you would typically see on the web, avif wins every single time. It not only produces fewer artifacts on medium-to-heavily compressed images, but they're also less annoying: minor detail loss and smoothing compared to jpeg-xl's blocking and ringing (in addition to detail loss; basically the same types of artifacts as with the old jpeg).

Maybe there's a reason they're not bothering with supporting xl besides misplaced priorities or laziness.
by vidarh | 2025-10-27 09:29:22+00:00
What annoys me with SF Masterworks is that they changed the style (and checking now, it seems they might have changed it again from last time I bought any). I don't see any point in continue buying the series as opposed to individual versions if they're not going to stick to a cohesive style anyway. I might just finish buying the original numbered style (up to number 74 or something)

But anyway, they've "only" published about 200 novels, mostly older, so it's not that weird that Banks hasn't been added yet. It makes sense if they focus on works that have not been republished as recently until they get through the many obvious candidates.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-27 09:29:49+00:00
Am I reading this right? I was expecting much more performance. My 64G M1 Max has 40.72 tok/s on ollama/GPT-OSS-20B (less than half the price of this machine), and M4 Max 128G from a colleague (but 32G would work) gets about 67 tok/s on ollama/GPT-OSS-20B, and apparently the most recent software updates push that to 78 tok/s. The DGX Spark gets 82.74 tok/s.

Ryzen Max 395+ gets you 55 tok/s [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1nabcek/anyone_...
by nicce | 2025-10-27 09:30:21+00:00
> If your purpose for self-hosting is fear that GitHub will ignore their own promises in their terms of service and abuse their custody of your data then sure.

None of that protects against the U.S. laws or current political climate. There is no guarantee for EU citizen that GitHub processes data only in EU area or that data ever leaves it. So it is all about the data privacy.
by metalman | 2025-10-27 09:30:39+00:00
Wonderfull satire. Forgetting is a blessing for me, and while I dont have complete clinical recall, I do retain a very great deal, add in a chaotic curiosity, and there are many many short paths, I dont need reminding/renforcement of. Which makes useing the internet hellish, without turning all the history and pre fetch, adverts, etc off. Having my local machine co opted for survailence has me wondering about building a clasic office, with a fax machine, and paper mail. Paper mails last significant update was 100 years ago with airplanes, and fax has been stable for ?50 years? And the cheap ass win11 laptop that would not power down is outside in the rain, and the much cheaper linux box with dual monitors is styling in the house, graphted into an old 60's formica kitchen table, was booted from a usb drive,created with a phone, works awsome. Love that side of the tech, loath the ,the, whatever it is, thats trying to suck up the world and spew it back covered in cold grue.
by mrweasel | 2025-10-27 09:31:43+00:00
Maybe you want it to be easy to grant a babysitter access to the cameras temporarily and not bother getting them VPN'en into your CCTV network.

Maybe you want to check up on the babysitter (as creepy as that sounds, there might be good reasons). Or you're traveling but your partner is home, and you want to be able to see your sleeping child from half a world away.

I do think we've gone to far in the direction of cloud-only, but I don't think it's a bad option of have. The problem I have is that many of the companies running these services have really terrible security. So for S3 for a nanny cam, I'd assume that each customer have their own bucket, with their own credentials, but I doubt that's the case.
Ask HN: Control 2 air-gapped computers with 1 mouse and keyboard
by WorldDev | 2025-10-27 09:32:07+00:00
Hi all, I am trying to control 2 computers that are air-gapped, with 1 mouse and keyboard.

Using any standard usb switch or KVM breaks the air-gap, as malware can (and has been known to) spread via kvm and USB switches.

Here are the solutions I am exploring:

- Use a mouse and keyboard via bluetooth, using the switch inside the device to switch computer. For example the logitech MX mouse can switch from one computer to the other. However, does anyone know if it's a hard switch from one computer to the other, or if the mouse stays connected to both?

- Create link (via usb or serial) from one computer to the other, to use the keyboard and mouse from one on another. That breaks the airgap, but maybe there's a way to make the link simple and secure enough. I had a lot of great advice from another post here, but I think I need to explore other options as well.

- Use a mechanical usb switch that physically disconnect the a path when switching to the other. I search a while on the internet, and couldn't find a device like that. They all keep connected to both.

Does anyone have any advice?
by slhck | 2025-10-27 09:32:16+00:00
The Austrian consumer protection association has just released results on tests of headphones: https://vki.at/Presse/PA-Kopfhoerer-2025 (German article), and found that 40% contained possibly harmful chemicals, including the parts that touch your body.

It's wild. I have children, and I spent a great time researching foods, bottles, toys, etc., but I would've never thought much about doubting the (big brand) consumer electronics that we all use every day.
by exmadscientist | 2025-10-27 09:32:27+00:00
Where does LBNL come into this? The reference in IPC-2221 is to NBS Report 4283 from 1956. Neither of those have anything much to do with LBNL.

I reject your assertion that my comments are America-centric. This a technology that was primarily developed in America and is now predominantly no longer manufactured there (Asia is not in America). It is rather natural for each place to use the units of measure they favor, so it is natural for what was a very common customary unit dimension of 1/16" to become a reasonably round metric dimension of 1.6mm. This is how things develop in the world.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-27 09:32:35+00:00
Just because you don't like the reputation that the Mossad has both gotten and created for itself, doesn't mean that playing on that reputation is in any way antisemitic. It's fair perhaps to consider it anti-Israel, given that the Mossad is am agency of the state.

And the Mossad really has a terrible reputation, both for efficiency and for being relatively bloody. The assassinations of the nazi officials who had fled to South America are a founding myth (and a positive one, of course - no one should cry for spilled literal nazi regime blood). For a more recent example, you have the campaign of booby-trapped Hezbollah devices that killed or injured quite a few Lebanese civilians along with various militia members, which the Mossad and Israeli government more generally gleefully talked about.

You'll find far fewer similar stories about the CIA or even GRU - at least from any current events (e.g. the CIA's most heinous actions were usually only talked about years later, like their campaigns of terror in Latin America). The GRU's operations are also less talked about, no doubt to a great extent because it is an adversary, and we don't want to talk about how good our adversaries are.
by gambiting | 2025-10-27 09:32:40+00:00
But you see - this is the whole problem. Every time I tried looking into it myself all I could find was that "dessicating crops with glyphosate is safe because it breaks down before it makes it into your food". If that is just simply not true or at the very least "true but only in ideal conditions that happen 5% of the time" then we're all screwed and no one seems to care.
by preommr | 2025-10-27 09:33:27+00:00
> For a compute-intense task like audio or video processing, or for scientific computing where there's likely to be a requirement to fetch a ton of data, the browser is the wrong place to do that work.

... I mean... elaborate?

Everytime I've heard somebody say this, it's always a form of someone stuck in the 90s/00s where they have this notion that browsers showing gifs is the ceiling and that real work can only happen on the server.

Idk how common this is now, but a a few years ago (~2017) people would show projects like figma tha drew a few hundred things on screen and people would be amazed. Which is crazy, because things like webgl, wasm, webrtc, webaudio are insanely powerful apis that give pretty low level access. A somewhat related idea are people that keep clamoring for dom access in wasm because, again, people have this idea that web = webpage/dom, but that's a segway into a whole other thing.
by wchswchs | 2025-10-27 09:34:00+00:00
History repeats itself — dynamic geometry is undergoing the same kind of development that the Turing machine once experienced: 1. The Turing machine was initially a theoretical success but physically impossible to build at the time. Dynamic geometry likewise has a self-consistent, rigorous mathematical theory, yet its numerical/computational costs are very large.

2. The Turing machine is a “finite-state machine” acting on an “infinite tape.” Dynamic geometry is an abstraction that uses “finite parameters” to represent an “infinite-dimensional” space. Both involve a move from the finite to the infinite.

The Turing machine later became the theoretical foundation of the von Neumann architecture (the universal computer). Dynamic geometry needs an equivalent von Neumann — an architecture for AGI.

This is the direction I am working toward: to realize a “von Neumann” moment for AI. When that moment arrives, the Turing Award will be virtually guaranteed.

If the Turing machine made machines computable, then dynamic geometry makes intelligence computable. AGI would no longer be a qualitative or philosophical claim made by leading figures, it would be something that can be defined and computed mathematically.
by GoblinSlayer | 2025-10-27 09:34:09+00:00
I wonder how you see it. Stackful coroutines switch context on syscall in the top stack frame, the deeper frames are regular optimized code, but syscall/sysret is already big context switch. And read/epoll loop has exactly same structure, the point of async programming isn't optimization of computation, but optimization of memory consumption. Performance is determined by features and design (and Electron).
by balamatom | 2025-10-27 09:35:35+00:00
>I don't know what's worse.

It's the same thing entirely: people trusting images and signals from control apparatuses to override the signals from their own senses.

Some form of that has been going on throughout history. Basic socialization involves replacing a part of how you see the world, with a simulation of others' simulation of an imaginary "everyone" expects to see things.

If this sounds weird, that's because it is. And, not only is it difficult to think about, but once you manage to imagine it you may find it viscerally terrifying. So you don't. (It's why you don't remember early childhood.) Granted, none of that has ever happened at this... no, not "scale"! It's never happened at this resolution, i.e. ability to discern.

Machines make decisions billions of times a second along constantly evolving, networked rulesets; consumers are afforded to elect rulemakers once every few years in avoidance of mass tantrum, and otherwise are free to vote with wallets and feet for whichever evil they consider the lesser one. Which one can be said to be in control?

Ultimately, it's not terribly important if the cat dances or what shape the planet is. What matters is whether you will go kill when your phone gives you the "kill" command: https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

Two 60ish ladies are sitting in the cafe next to me, one isn't able to figure out where some thing on the phone had arrived from, the other one isn't able to explain to her friend that it came "but from the phone itself!"

Of course, from some slopmonger, data harvester, ad broker, spammer... but they spent their lives without having to learn about the shape of the earth; why would they want to know who makes the phone do things "on its own"?

Why would they want to know that the Free Pleasant Stimulus of the "cat and baby video" is not For Realsies Real? I'm not saying they don't actually need to understand that, but nobody ever tries to explain why would they want to.

Society is mighty and benevolent, one can go through life and even raise kids without ever learning about object permanence. So they do, and when in their sunset years when they ask "who stole the money", society is only happy to provide a culprit for that, too. Remember that very few of the phone scammers want to be there, either.
by atoav | 2025-10-27 09:35:41+00:00
So of the 13.84 billion doses administered how many people have seen serious harm and why did I never hear of them?

Note that 13.84 billion is a huge number, if every dose was a powerball lottery ticket we should see around 64 jackbot winners. That means nearly every weird thing that can happen by chance, will happen. And since people were on the edge every weird thing will be reported. But even these reports are all like "yeah that person eas already on the verge of dying or had some other weird medical condition and we can't really establish a clear chain of causality".

Maybe I am a bit allergic to a generic anti-modern-medicine stance, since my neighbour (my best friends mom), died of a preventable disease because she didn't want to get the known-safe medical remedy and spent a fortune on shamans and other greedy healers instead. She wanted a natural thing and died (as was natural before the advent of modern medicine).
by jaakl | 2025-10-27 09:36:08+00:00
Reactor h2o itself does not carry radiation, but any extra molecules in tend to do it, thats the reason why the water is as clean you can get, over-distilled. This by itself means that it is not potable (btw for disposal to environment it gets re-salinated), so they told the story of professor drinking it must be an urban myth. It is bad even for skin expose (swimming in it), but hopefully that worker got just a few seconds expose and is well. Source: training trip in a nuclear center.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-27 09:36:31+00:00
Kimi K2 is a very limited model, but it is by some margin the best creative writer out of every model. It's practically a poet. It has creative flair, makes excellent analogies, can stick to a meter, and isn't as stylistically repetitive as the others.

I've written a ~300-page book of verse, sold it to a publisher, and it has sold somewhere over 1000 copies, which is no mean feat for modern poetry. So I know what I'm talking about here -- and I am extremely impressed by Kimi K2.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-10-27 09:37:29+00:00
There are definitely things that blur the line and cross genres, or things that may meet one person's definition but not another's.

I do agree it would be impossible to provide an entirely objective division that everyone would go along with.

Even so, I'd love it if all the "medieval dragon witch ghost magic spirit quest" stories could be placed on a different shelf of the bookshop to the "black hole generation ship dark forest faster than light" ones :)
by PinguTS | 2025-10-27 09:37:42+00:00
You should read the whole article before claiming things.

> After the 2019 closure of the Puttgarden-Rødby service between Germany and Denmark and the seasonal Sassnitz-Trelleborg route linking Germany and Sweden in 2020, the Intercity is now the last one running. All the rest were replaced by bridges or tunnels, or proved too expensive to maintain as demand fell in favour of air travel.
by _jsmh | 2025-10-27 09:40:37+00:00
> How do you really distinguish that? Sourcing is a way to proof your facts. But creating a net of sources is in times of AI not hard. If there are timestamps one factor could be time stamps, and I really found sources that all have been published within a week or a month making it shady.

I mostly lucked out. 2-3 accounts surfaced over the many things I saw and they seemed to prove they knew things. For example, one of these accounts posted things 2-4 years before an event would occur that ended up coming true. As if they knew ahead of time what would happen, as if they were part of intelligence or government or who knows what. A different account created software that predicted the future and many of the things they posted ended up coming true too.

> That requires that you understand fully to implication, how do you do this in areas that you don't have strong background knowledge?

In many areas, I don't fully understand. I use a simple trick that worked well: I evaluate each sentence to see if its true. Intellectually honest people who aren't trying to trick anyone speak the truth. They also speak it with simple words so there's no possibility of misinterpretation.

This might be the most effective trick. Many times I caught people say something which is their opinion, and which is false based on data I have, that is actually an attempt to express a fact they know in a way that will make them seem more important, or give them more attention, or I don't know what.

It also helps to be imaginative and optimistic. Many times something sounds negative while it might be positive, and vice versa.

Many times people have their imagination jump to conclusions instead of stop at facts and start to question things.

> We must be careful here that a social credit system is not created through the back door.

I agree.

On the other hand, a social credit system may be a distraction from an actual credit system already in place: a money system. Perhaps energy can be converted to money, infinite amount of energy can be created with an approach known to few, and all humans could be enjoying life without working for 40 years but for 4 years. So if something worse already exists, maybe finding a way to restore trust on the Internet isn't worse than what may already exist.