MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by runlevel1 | 2025-10-22 16:31:19+00:00
Their numbers strike me as very optimistic:

*Table 1. Cost comparison of a single 40 MW cluster operated for 10 years in space vs on land.* | Cost Item | Terrestrial | Space |:------------------------------|:--------------------------------|:---------------- | Energy (10 years) | $140m @ $0.04 per kWh | $2m cost of solar array | Launch | None | $5m (single launch of compute module, solar & radiators) | Cooling (chiller energy cost) | $7m @ 5% of overall power usage | More efficient cooling architecture taking advantage of higher ΔT in space | Water usage | 1.7m tons @ 0.5L/kWh | Not required | Enclosure (Sat. Bus/Building) | Approximately equivalent cost | Approximately equivalent cost | Backup power supply | $20m | Not required | All other DC hardware | Approximately equivalent cost | Approximately equivalent cost | Radiation shielding | Not required | $1.2m @ 1 kg of shielding per kW of compute and $30/kg launch cost | Cost Balance | $167m | $8.2m

Source: Page 4 of their whitepaper https://starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-22 16:31:29+00:00
From another bogus report from the same actor: https://hackerone.com/reports/180393

> Please read it and let me know and I'm very sorry for the last report :) also please don't close it as N/A and please don't publish it without my confirm to do not harm my Reputation on hacker on community

I was 90% sure it was a troll too, but based on this second report I'm not so sure anymore.
by _0xdd | 2025-10-22 16:31:37+00:00
Easier fix might be if you aren't using /usr/src (or /usr/opt) to move the contents of /usr/share/relink into /usr/src (make sure you move it, not copy, so that /usr/share/relink is empty), and then change the /usr/src mount point in /etc/fstab to /usr/share/relink. Reboot the machine and hopefully it works. If you ran out of space during the installation, you may have to repeat sysupgrade to reinstall the 7.8 sets to get all the object files where they belong.
by greenbit | 2025-10-22 16:31:50+00:00
Multiple factors to think about..

* People spending less time outside at night in general these days, bc indoors is where all the gadgets are

* When you do go outside at night, are your eyes going to be as dark-adapted as someone from say 1850 might have been? Shorter walks between brighter places these days could factor in.

* Swamps aren't as common as they used to be; particularly in the early 20th century in the US, swamps were frequently drained to 'improve' the land. Not as much decaying vegetation near at hand.

* Virtually everyone that dies these days is either chemically preserved, or cremated, so not as much decaying flesh in the cemeteries
by mikestew | 2025-10-22 16:31:55+00:00
We had a 2003 Jag S-Type, and it was as reliable as anything else we’ve had. Only had it for three years, bought used in 2006, and didn’t do anything to it. This was back in the days of Ford ownership, though, and it was really a Lincoln Something chassis with a Jag body and badges. Granted, that was a long time ago, but I imagine the underlying chassis has a lot to do with the reliability.
by yowlingcat | 2025-10-22 16:32:18+00:00
I'm not sure this direct departure matters that much to Sequoia. The COO Balbale was an operating partner who was CMO of Sequoia for 2 years and then COO for another 2 years and to my understanding did not write checks. The real elephant in the room question was whether Balbale was in a role getting carry or not. If not, then that effectively isn't different from an incentive level than an associate with a higher salary (but no real skin in the game). If so, then that means that carry was actually given up and it probably means more.

In contrast, Maguire (like other partners at Sequoia who are actually writing checks) has skin in the game through the checks he writes and whether they pan out or they don't. In light of that, setting aside his views (which you may agree or disagree with politically), I view his controversy as being most likely a calculated marketing maneuver to improve or maximize the signal to noise in his deal flow. It's hard for me as an outsider to say whether that's working for him or not, but his track record suggests that he's not having problems with his deal flow as a result.

That said -- the material comment at the end of the article does make a lot of sense. While this departure may not affect Sequoia that much, Maguire's position may sour many of the Middle East sovereign wealth funds that form some of the largest parts of Sequoia's LP base. If their discontent with Maguire's rhetoric ends up being more important to them than Sequoia's returns, that may well pose a far more material issue to Sequoia and they will be forced to act.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-22 16:33:08+00:00
> However, while you can never really trust anything you run with internet access, I feel there's a fundamental line between an explicitly cloud-dependent service like Tailscale (e.g. a Tailscale control server outage incident would impact your home server access) compared to a fully self-hosted service that may or may not phone home if you don't put preventative measures in front of it, but will continue to function fine if you do put said measures in place.

This is why I mentioned Headscale in the first place. It’s not for everyone or every use case, but it’s good that it exists, on the whole.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-22 16:33:22+00:00
Yarvin was always one of the more impressive technologists from the US. Certainly surpassing much of the total slop funded by VCs. His politics are largely a restatement of the Italian elite theorists and people like Schmitt. Definitely one of the more enlightening political thinkers you can read today, especially when it comes to the power of billionaire technologists and how they will seek to reshape the political landscape in the US and elsewhere.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-10-22 16:33:39+00:00
See these past submissions - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bytebeat

And these longer explanations on what bytebeat is:

- http://canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat/

- https://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2011/10/algorithmic-symp...

- https://stellartux.github.io/websynth/guide.html
by zahlman | 2025-10-22 16:34:04+00:00
> many that were written to promote various biased points of view, inadvertently uncritically repeat claims from slanted sources, or mischaracterize claims made in good sources.

Yep.

Including, if not especially, the ones actively worked on by the most active contributors.

The process for vetting sources (both in terms of suitability for a particular article, and general "reliable sources" status) is also seriously problematic. Especially when it comes to any topic which fundamentally relates to the reliability of journalism and the media in general.
by ycosynot | 2025-10-22 16:34:23+00:00
I have been 15 months in French psychiatric jail. It tastes like *. It is basically plastic trays, very industrial microwaven at the last time, and you hope everyday that it will be your favorite meal, because they tend to rotate the food, and it tastes lik * all the time.

Also I Wanted to say that French jail is NO JOKE. You already hurt from inhumane solitary, or else you have a cell with a TV (there is indeed a TV) but to socialize with psychopatic and/or "exotic" people. They're not "kind", and they're not nice.

Even other exotic people had a rough time. It is filled with aggressivity, honor struggles, ect.. JAIL IS NO JOKE. On top of that, it spans a looooong time... You cannot realize how loooong it is to be in jail, it feels forever. People who never went to jail cannot realize that.

I am basically thinking nowadays that jail is torture and it should not be a thing. It is very torture... Let us militate for the end of that.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-10-22 16:35:04+00:00
LLMs don't have any distinction between instructions & data. There's no "NX" bit. So if you use a local LLM to process attacker-controlled data, it can contain malicious instructions. This is what Simon Willson's "prompt injection" means: attackers can inject a prompt via the data input. If the LLM can run commands (i.e. if it's an "agent") then prompt injection implies command execution.
by sigbottle | 2025-10-22 16:35:39+00:00
I mean, fair, but again, notice you're trying to actually, idk, understand the situation, use empathy.

I see GGP's comment attitude all too frequently on the internet ("nobody is entitled to anything") as the default. Which is such a nasty connotative strawman, it's kind of absurd. But hey, that's the internet for you.
by whycome | 2025-10-22 16:35:54+00:00
> Maguire, an outspoken and high-profile investor who is close to Elon Musk, wrote on X in July that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.” Balbale complained to other senior partners at the firm, who declined to take action against Maguire, arguing he was just exercising his right to free speech, the people said. She left soon after, feeling her position was untenable.

If the same quote replaced 'Islamist' with another faith, would it have also been brushed off as "right to free speech"?
Ask HN: Why have Microsoft products gone downhill?
by MichealCodes | 2025-10-22 16:36:00+00:00
Github Copilot is almost unusable with all the bugs being added alongside the features. Poor UX decisions like clicking in a code block jumping the scroll or forcing a completion to wait for a animation even after the entire response is returned.

The code merge feature will get stuck to a point where the entirety of VS Code must be restarted. If it works and doesn't just randomly remove massive chunks of code or endlessly repeat itself in the file.

Plus the recent news about criticals being introduced at the OS level and ongoing introduction of user hostile UX like forcing cloud accounts instead of local only setups.

What's up with Microsoft? Is it the leadership? What needs to change to get back to quality?
by mdhb | 2025-10-22 16:36:08+00:00
I recently wrote a deception / honeypot service that does some similar stuff so that all makes sense to me and I think the general strategy of impose costs on attackers by making them expose more of their infrastructure etc are actually a really good move especially in the context of developing an early warning signal.

I had some additional logic that gave me a really easy but unintuitive way to tell with an incredibly high degree of confidence the difference between a bot and a human on keyboard scenario and for what it’s worth I think that is the specific thing that makes it worth the effort.

If I have reasons to suspect it’s a bot I just drop the request and move on with my day. The signal to noise ratio isn’t worth it to me.
by sdsd | 2025-10-22 16:36:45+00:00
So the idea is this will rehabilitate Sarkozy? Do you believe that this experience will rehabilitate Sarkozy, or even that he's an active threat to commit more crimes in the future? It seems like the only conceivable social benefit of incarcerating him is to punish him for corruption as a deterrent to others. But his luxury prison room probably won't do that, so it's basically just an expensive legal formality to satisfy public demands for "justice" (ie, retribution for wrongdoing)
Show HN: A 3D visualization of all YC startups based on their mission statements
by kseppanen | 2025-10-22 16:36:51+00:00
I’ve always been curious what the Y Combinator ecosystem looks like, not by geography or funding, but by how founders describe what they’re building.

So I pulled every YC company description from their public directory, embedded them using an open-source model, and visualized them in 3D using UMAP + Three.js. Each point = a company. Distance = how similar their missions sound.

The result is a “startup galaxy,” where clusters of AI, dev tools, fintech, and biotech emerge naturally.

It’s just a fun side project (not affiliated with YC), but I’d love feedback from the community
by dangus | 2025-10-22 16:36:54+00:00
Some more food for thought: if AI was able to improve productivity by even a modest number like 10-20%, the price would be a lot higher than $10-20 a month.

Think about it: if GitHub Pro saves 20% of developer time by streamlining the coding process, why does it cost less than a pretty low-impact tool like an enterprise password manager?

Shouldn’t it be priced more similarly to the Adobe suite or Autodesk if it’s as transformative as it’s claimed?

Every paid user of Adobe or Autodesk is burdening those companies with nearly $0 in infrastructure costs.
by jerf | 2025-10-22 16:37:24+00:00
Because in the last dozen times I've handled this question the root cause is lack of understanding of why. Inductively it is logical to conclude that's the reason next time. It is probably also the case the bulk of readers of this conversation are still in the camp that don't understand the problem correctly.

If you understand that there isn't really a fix and just wish there was one anyhow, while I still disagree in some details it's in the range I wouldn't fuss about. I understand that sort of wishing perfectly; don't think there's ever been a language I've used for a long time that I've had similar sorts of "I just wish it could work this way even though I understand why it can't." Maybe someday we'll be "blessed" with some sort of LLM-based language that can do things like that... for better or for worse.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-10-22 16:38:01+00:00
Windows people are tired of being forced to update to a "new" Windows version (which isn't new at all, just a new coat of paint and a few strings updated to a version number). What people really want is Windows XP, and Linux has too many rough edges (oh-oh, here comes the infernal march of Linux fanboys to tell me that their grandmother uses Linux and it runs every game, look, let's agreee to disagree, okay?)
by lairv | 2025-10-22 16:38:02+00:00
From the docs ( https://meta-pytorch.org/monarch/index.html ):

Monarch is a distributed programming framework for PyTorch based on scalable actor messaging. It provides:

- Remote actors with scalable messaging: Actors are grouped into collections called meshes and messages can be broadcast to all members.

- Fault tolerance through supervision trees: Actors and processes for a tree and failures propagate up the tree, providing good default error behavior and enabling fine-grained fault recovery.

- Point-to-point RDMA transfers: cheap registration of any GPU or CPU memory in a process, with the one-sided tranfers based on libibverbs

- Distributed tensors: actors can work with tensor objects sharded across processes

It seems like the goal of Monarch is to do what Ray does, but more tightly integrated with the Deep Learning/distributed training ecosystem?
Ask HN: Can a Capital-Flipping Tax System Pay Off the U.S. Debt
by SDedu | 2025-10-22 16:38:17+00:00
After more than a year of iteration, I’ve released an updated version of the PAS Tax Plan, a post-partisan proposal designed to replace the current tax system with a capital-based funding model.

The goal is to make the U.S. fiscally solvent without austerity, new taxes, or inflation, while creating a national framework that rewards productivity, innovation, and savings.

Core Mechanism • Weekly payroll contributions (e.g., $600) are flipped by the Federal Reserve through reserve banking principles → $5,400 in new capital. • Half is returned to the worker, the other half split between the National Budget and Social Security Trust Funds. • Every participant receives a 10% annual capital return, aligning personal income with national capital growth. • Traditional taxes (income, corporate, payroll, capital gains, etc.) are eliminated.

Debt & Sovereign Model • The Top 250 wealthiest Americans contribute capital infusions and sovereign equity allocations to retire the federal public debt. • The Bottom 250 U.S. counties receive capital-flipping authority through a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) to resolve student loans, consumer debt, and state liabilities. • Replaces leveraged buyouts with equity-based value creation — capital and ownership stay domestic.

Outcomes • U.S. transitions from borrowing to self-financing. • Public debt paid down through internal capitalization. • Citizens and enterprises receive direct capital returns instead of tax refunds. • Incentives are aligned: those who create value share in national upside.

I will post the full plan after careful consideration and critique from the HN community!

⸻

Questions for HN

1. What are the macro-economic or technical flaws you see in flipping payroll capital this way?

2. Could a Fed-IRS dual system manage this at scale using digital rails or tokenized reserves?

3. Would equity-based debt retirement (Top 250 / Bottom 250) be politically and legally feasible?

4. How might we pilot this through an existing SWF or state-level trial?

Appreciate any thoughtful critique — especially from economists, engineers, and policy thinkers interested in systemic reform.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-22 16:38:48+00:00
This is untrue. What makes it seem true is that there are extremely bad or nonsensical arguments that some people will accept (often without examination) when they support their own predetermined (often by lifestyle) side, but they will be far more critical of any argument that supports the other side. They spot the bad arguments on the other side and call them out, but ignore the good ones because they cause stress.

The best way to notice this in yourself (I think) is if there are arguments for the other side of an issue that you simply avoid discussion of altogether. When they are brought up, you attack the source, personally attack the person repeating them, or refuse the discussion on some other terms. This is reflexively doing propaganda, on a small scale, but as a reaction to being cornered.

If you find yourself in this situation, resorting to repeating slogans you've heard rather than treating the argument exactly as you would treat an argument in an uncontroversial context, it's better to shut up, listen, and reflect.

The only moral position is to be a collection of any valid argument you can find, always trying to clarify their degree of soundness. Whenever you deviate from that, you're defying reason, and weakening civil society (which relies on secular protocols.)

If you consume propaganda with that mindset, you notice because it has very little useful content at all. It's astounding how long media can go on about a subject without saying anything, or making any coherent claim, and scary when you see people who seem to get something out of that avalanche and they can't quite explain how they got there. It's how Saddam did 9/11.
by proee | 2025-10-22 16:38:49+00:00
You are making things up out of thin air. These are recalls from JAN 2024- MAR 2025

Ford Motor Company, 94 (7%) Chrysler (FCA US, LLC), 78 (6%) Forest River, Inc., 67 (5%) General Motors, LLC, 41 (3%) BMW of North America, LLC, 39 (3%) Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC, 33 (3%) Hyundai Motor America, 28 (2%) Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC, 26 (2%) Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., 25 (2%) Daimler Trucks North America, LLC, 24 (2%) Honda (American Honda Motor Co.), 24 (2%) Kia America, Inc., 24 (2%) Jayco, Inc., 22 (2%) International Motors, LLC, 21 (2%) Nova Bus (US) Inc., 21 (2%) Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, 21 (2%) Nissan North America, Inc., 20 (2%) Tesla, Inc., 20 (2%) Mack Trucks, Inc., 17 (1%) Winnebago Industries, Inc., 16 (1%)
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-22 16:39:19+00:00
The thing is, to most people, "recall" is a strong word that carries major implications.

Yeah, sure, you might be smart enough to understand that the word has a legal definition, and sometimes a recall is an absolute nothingburger. For example, Tesla once had to do a recall because some warning icons on the screen were legally deemed to be a couple pixels too small. Yet, when news outlets announce "Tesla recalls every Model 3 ever made", it's TECHNICALLY true, but will be highly misleading to the general population who now thinks every Model 3 has to be returned.

EDIT: Also, FWIW, even when a recall DOES require a physical change of the car, Tesla's mobile service can often come to you to do it. You don't need to take it to a service center.
by ncr100 | 2025-10-22 16:39:26+00:00
Thank you!

Sounds like externally verifiable logic systems is an upcoming need.

E.g. You as a Citizen walk around with your own System Verification toolkit and can at any time Verify that the voting system tabulates your vote. Something fantastical like that.

Trust is hard to maintain with human. Digital trust is not a human concept, the way I think at least. So this area is tricky.
by atoav | 2025-10-22 16:39:30+00:00
For a university self service portal that was a green field project I selected Argon2 as the password hashing algorithm. For evaluation I went pretty deep into how to implement password storage myself, to then opt for OpenLDAP, which we use now.

I really liked what I saw there. Argon2 has some adjustable settings for hash complexity that allow you to select your own tradeoff between cracking resistance and resource use. And not only that Argon2 provides everything needed to rehash on the fly when these setting change, which makes it really future-proof.

The (offical) argon2 libraries I used were all well written and documented, the integration into OpenLDAP very straight-forward. One painpoint we had was with OpenRadius, that instead of just asking the LDAP server to check a password decides to read the hash from LDAP and then try to verify it. And of course Argon2 is not supported..

We found another better alternative way of achieving the same, without OpenRadius. I don't really know the details here, but as of now (3 years in) we are still very happy with the choice.
by lemagedurage | 2025-10-22 16:39:34+00:00
But not everything can be "fair game" when providing a service for free. Surely it wouldn't have been OK if they suddenly included a bitcoin miner or extracted credentials. They offered a free service, people trusted it, depended on it. Now, in my view, they have some responsibilty to their users.

Giving a notice in advance and releasing a final image that patched the CVE would've been reasonably responsible.
by Havoc | 2025-10-22 16:40:01+00:00
>software development isn’t a service dependency — it’s the core act of learning and adapting in digital business.

I don't think that's entirely correct. Learning, understanding and adapting isn't the end product. A thing that meets a user need or business objective is.

That might need understanding as an intermediate step but that's not strictly speaking always necessary. If the LLM can puke out something that fulfills the need that's mission accomplished, skipped straight to end goal.

For better or worse we're now in a world where that works some of the time. And that's enough for companies to keep pushing this - try it everywhere, revert where it fails.
by kbolino | 2025-10-22 16:40:35+00:00
Size classes would save some space and speed up like-to-like comparisons, but wouldn't really do much for unlike comparisons (especially vs. float or complex). Looking only at type pointers fails to account for custom types (e.g., type Foo int); remember that an untyped integer constant can be compared with these. If you want the same semantics at runtime as you get at compile time, I don't see how you can get much simpler than what I wrote, in terms of the high-level logic. Though there are undoubtedly ways to optimize it, both because Go's compiler favors speed of compilation over efficiency of generated code, and because if this were the real code, it could poke at internals while my (probably working) example has to rely on the public reflect package, which is more abstract.