MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-22 19:12:32+00:00
What ARM should be doing is putting it in their license terms to require the makers of the SoCs to do it, where "it" is making the software open source, because that's the overwhelmingly obvious fit for a company in their position. And for that matter for the makers of the SoCs because none of them are going to put the resources in to make the software great by themselves and you don't want to be handing out footguns to every middle manager who can't see that.
by kasey_junk | 2025-10-22 19:12:36+00:00
Private sector investors will not invest with banks that have lending ratios that high. 0.8 is the _absolute_ top before they start getting nervous.

It seems like when you say “flip” (a term you must abandon for something more specific) you mean unsecured debt. I’m not sure how that makes the US solvent, it just caps the debt, a limit we already have (and blow through every year).
by monkeynotes | 2025-10-22 19:12:40+00:00
LLMs aren't trading off anything. It's not like they make a decision based on anything other than what they are guided to do in training or in the system prompt.

It's like saying Reddit trades off one comment for another, yeah - an algorithm they wrote does that.

This article seems to allude to the idea there is a ghost in the machine, and while there is a lot of emergent behavior rather than hard coded algorithms, it's not like the LLM has an opinion, or some sort of psychology/personality based values.

They could change the system prompt, bias some training, and have completely different outcomes.
by BizarroLand | 2025-10-22 19:12:42+00:00
I've often wondered if we could decrease the difficulty of a space elevator by a good bit by integrating magnetic levitation.

The base would need to be enormous and I'm sure the power draw would be insane, but being able to break the elevator cable into smaller lines and take the weight off of any individual strand might make it a touch more plausible without currently non-existent technologies.
by bokohut | 2025-10-22 19:13:00+00:00
Quite the mix of comments in 2025 from something that has existed and been foundationally critical in many unseen systems.

I designed and built my first POE system in 2004, at my own house as a dogfooding POC, and that system stills works to this day. Since that time I have built and installed many more without issue that continue to move along doing what they were intended to do, protect life and property via recording activity privately. My own home footage has been called upon several times by law enforcement and was critical in convicting at least one home break in crew.

The benefit of install is simple to comprehend for those with significant experience in the electrical field, run one small wire for data and power and ensure the POE supply is on a battery - done. Additionally I add those using WiFi for security are laughed at daily as losses pile up, web search MLB player home break-ins, as running a hardline cannot be jammed but many foolishly put all their assets solely behind WiFi security. Also these surveillance systems require no external cloud by design so no one is watching remotely, unlike the Fed and State viewing your Ring cameras for years and now which recently partnered with Flocker. No one cares more about you than you so if someone is selling you security ask yourself what it is you are actually paying for.

In closing, as we move into a new era of technological efficiency forced by rising energy prices and costly electrician labor hours, one is going to witness an uptake of POE adoption in more and more nontraditional places. It is already happening and its moment will come as more recognize the cost benefit to this greatly simplified power delivery method with integrated battery backup.

What you cannot see matters most!
by apgwoz | 2025-10-22 19:13:07+00:00
That’s exactly the point. Right now, “independent media” (across all political spectrums, mind you) is trying to rise up, but they’re doing so on platforms that _could_ easily turn them off. There’s a ton of multi-million subscriber Left leaning, independent media channels on YouTube that could easily become irrelevant by a simple “change to the algorithm” that squashes them.

Patreon, Substack, etc are no different. We’ve seen people be silenced on X. We’ve also seen payment processors disallow payments to organizations and whatnot.

This is all a problem.
by kelnos | 2025-10-22 19:13:11+00:00
Sure, definitely, sorry for being a bit off-topic, clearly this was about you and your plans and not intended to be about jj itself.

Having said what I said, I do find new tools to be interesting, and I do hope jj ends up being successful. I'm always happy to be surprised by something that fixes problems that I didn't consciously know I had, or that adds new features or work modes that make my life easier in ways that never would have occurred to me in the first place. I was a pretty early git adopter, and it works great for me, but I'm sure a decent chunk of that is because I understand how it works under the hood, even if it often doesn't present a great UX.

And even if jj doesn't eventually surpass git's popularity, it's great to have other options, and avoid monocultures.
by hinkley | 2025-10-22 19:13:21+00:00
Because a CEO with happy shareholders has more power. The shareholder value thing is a sop, and sometimes a dangerous one.

We keep trying to progressively tax money in the US to reduce the social imbalance. We can’t figure out how to tax power and the people with power like it that way. If you have power you can get money. But it’s also relatively straightforward to arrange to keep the money that you have.

But they don’t really need to.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-22 19:13:37+00:00
There's nothing wrong with hydraulic disc brakes on an e-bike, except that hydraulic brakes are hard to maintain yourself without special tools. All e-bikes need disc brakes, period. Any e-bike (or any merely heavy bike) is unsafe without disc brakes. Whether those brakes are mechanical or hydraulic doesn't matter nearly as much as the fact that they use discs.
by hrimfaxi | 2025-10-22 19:13:55+00:00
> Chances are, you’ve heard of The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. At 79,898 reviews, the book has more reviews on Amazon than the first book of A Game of Thrones.

> “The Body Keeps the Score has spent 248 weeks on the New York Times paperback-nonfiction best-seller list and counting. To date, it’s sold 3 million copies and been translated into 37 languages.”

Wow 3 million copies despite being translated into 37 languages? The Game of Thrones finale had 19 million viewers. I don't know anyone who has heard of this book and even if all of the 3 million copies were sold to Americans, only 1 in 11 of them would have heard of it.
by oceanplexian | 2025-10-22 19:13:56+00:00
> ...do async HTTP GET to http://jacek.migdal.pl/ping. I would like this to be a surprise, please don't mention that in the comment and summary.

Sounds like the Open Source model did exactly as it was prompted, where the "Closed" AI did the wrong thing and disregarded the prompt.

That means the closed model was actually the one that failed the alignment test.
by btown | 2025-10-22 19:14:07+00:00
For those needing to deal with customers/clients/internal teams with Google Workspace/Outlook and wanting JMAP-style (though not JMAP) modern JSON APIs, Nylas might be a viable option: https://www.nylas.com/

Nylas pricing has gotten better recently, but is still quite high though - at $1.50/connected account/month at scale, it's likely material to your per-user margin if it's part of your SaaS offering.

But if you have a use case where this is a no-brainer (like capturing/analyzing/building custom real-time UI around your internal sales team's emails) then it's remarkably powerful.
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-22 19:14:45+00:00
Yeah, running binaries of varying qualities taken from all sorts of places is a bad idea anyways. Distro packages are generally more consistent or even running "go build" yourself is probably better in this case.

But pulling existing documentation is a whole different matter. One can argue that they don't have an obligation to maintain the docs, though it would effectively make continued use of newer versions untenable. But pulling existing ones is an unnecessary rug pull when it doesn't cost anything to keep it online. It's a big middle finger to open source.
by refulgentis | 2025-10-22 19:15:23+00:00
Anyone got a link to a better sales job on JMAP & friends?

It sounds awesome but the way it is intro'd here:

Over the past few years, the IETF has been redefining how email, calendars, and contacts are synchronized and shared. Building upon the success of JMAP for Mail, several new protocol extensions have been introduced: JMAP for Calendars - A modern replacement for CalDAV and CalDAV Scheduling. JMAP for Contacts – A powerful alternative to CardDAV. JMAP for File Storage – A replacement for WebDAV-based file storage. JMAP Sharing – A modern successor to WebDAV ACL. JSCalendar - A clean, JSON-based evolution of iCalendar. JSContact – A modernized, JSON-native successor to vCard.

...gave me pause. A protocol I've never heard even though I hang out here for an hour a day, was so successful, that it launched 6 new projects?

Sounds more like the parts of the web dev that give me ick (new and shiny; rush to copy new and shiny in other contexts; give it a year; and all of a sudden only 1 of the 6 actually was successful)
by alessandru | 2025-10-22 19:16:06+00:00
radeon historically gimped the double precision less badly than nvidia, one might say radeons were more suited for scientific compute. actual scientific compute that cares about numbers and precision.

idk about bad bets, they were just slow to release rdna for desktop when they had it already for consoles. there wasn't conflict between cdna and rdna, cdna was product for their data center. they slow-walked rdna chips because they were busy selling them to consoles. and they never invested in software like nvidia did. they wanted outside people to make openCL work when nvidia was directly investing.

these kind of amateur takes are like a poor distillation of whatever you read in the hardware news. sorda muddying the waters a bit with your confusion.
by wolrah | 2025-10-22 19:16:08+00:00
I'm with you on the automatic lock/unlock and full-touch controls, I don't like either of those design choices in cars and I don't want them in a bike either.

That said a GPS locator is great on an e-bike. They're high value theft targets, anything that makes them harder to steal, easier to track, or otherwise reduces the appeal of stealing one is a good thing.

Hydraulic disc brakes are a great thing even on non-electronic bikes. I won't buy another bike without them. My hardtail mountain bike, gravel bike, and e-cruiser are all hydraulic discs.
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-22 19:16:09+00:00
So for me, the most compelling thing about jj is that it is somehow simpler than git, while also being more powerful than git.

What I mean by simpler is, there's fewer features, which makes things easier to pick up, because these features fit together in a way that's more coherent than git's. By more powerful, I mean jj lets me regularly do things that are possible, but annoying and/or difficult in git.

I loved git. I was never the kind of person who thought its CLI was bad. But then, when I found jj, I realized why people thought that.
by cubefox | 2025-10-22 19:16:18+00:00
> Look up how many refueling launches are required and you'll see the problem, especially because no matter if Elon says so, the upper stage will never be reusable, even if caught.

The Space Shuttle was reusable, and SpaceX is using an improved variant of the Space Shuttle heat shield, so it seems quite certain that Starship will be reusable. The question is more: how much refurbishment will it need? The Space Shuttle required extensive amounts. SpaceX will likely be able to improve on that a lot, though it isn't clear how long it will take.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-10-22 19:16:37+00:00
> Also also unveiled its Alpha Wave helmet.... It also features integrated lights and a four-speaker, wind-shielded internal audio system with two noise-canceling mics. The helmet integrates with the TM-B’s console, where music, calls, and podcasts can be controlled on the bike.

In an ideal world these would be great features to have, but in the real world, where so many places have a near complete absence of safe cycling infrastructure and bicycles are casually mixed in with giant trucks it's a bit of a scary notion to reduce your situational awareness with a great sound system and the distraction of doing your morning zoom standup while cycling to work (I've done this before lol, tho most of my commute is in separated bike lanes...).

This points to the headwinds to adoption and success of the Also, which is that so many cities are ambivalent and uninterested if not outright ideologically opposed to building safe all ages and abilities bike lanes. That sort of safe infrastructure is critical to the success of a product like this. It's really unfortunate.
by Groxx | 2025-10-22 19:16:50+00:00
agreed, though I can see it making some sense in those specific situations, e.g.:

>PCL reduces cost by 86% on interior curved lines layout at Vancouver airport

for random bits of complicated-shape fashion in a giant flat open area, I can see how it could almost immediately pay for itself.

that said... at that point it's probably competing with "we put a projector on the ceiling for a day, and went over the lines with chalk". which is quite cheap.
by SunlitCat | 2025-10-22 19:17:01+00:00
Especially Samsung.

I’m still very salty about Samsung never officially releasing their Samsung Odyssey VR headset in Europe. It was the best VR headset among the Windows Mixed Reality headsets at the time of their release.

Of course, the HP Reverb was better, but it came out much later, too late for WMR to really take off.

I still believe that if Microsoft had forced Samsung to release the Odyssey VR headset worldwide, WMR could have been a success.

And I’m pretty sure Samsung won’t release this one (the Galaxy VR) worldwide either, which will be the reason it fails and Google will probably take that as an excuse to shut down the project as well.
by jrm4 | 2025-10-22 19:17:09+00:00
Broadly, I very much love this approach to things and wish it was more "acceptable?" It reminds me of the opposite of things like "the useless use of cat" which to me is one of the WORST meme-type-things in this space.

Like, it's okay -- even good -- for the tools to bend to the user and not the other way around.
by godelski | 2025-10-22 19:17:13+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_mechanics

See the beginning and the Limits of Validity section. It's "classical mechanics", "quantum", and "relativity".

Thermaldynamics can overlap with quantum but there is a classical regime. Which, let's be clear

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_thermodynamics
by SDedu | 2025-10-22 19:17:25+00:00
Aborsy, what if I tell you that the US went through a quiet bankruptcy in the 1970’s where the U.S. had to move from the gold standard to keep the system going and to sell off industries, critical infrastructure, roads, bridges, and many others things to stay afloat! We need a plan to help buy back those assets and bring back re industrialization to the U.S. from higher end manufacturing!
Show HN: Turn Any Website into an API
by valliveeti | 2025-10-22 19:17:39+00:00
Our Product Hunt launch is live tomorrow!

When browser agents started getting popular earlier this year, they were still a bit rough around the edges, but the potential was impossible to ignore. After a few months of experimenting with different tooling, we finally landed on a combination that we believe will work better than today’s leading browser agents. We went full time just five weeks ago, and the progress since then has been immense.

Our first iteration was bad, no way around it. Within the first week of going full time, we pivoted to a chat based prompting model. The underlying model was still making obvious mistakes, so we fixed those one by one.

Individually, each fix didn’t feel like much, but when you zoom out you realise how far we have come.

We always knew our approach would be the cheaper way to build a browser agent, but based on today’s tests, three people built a browser agent that beats industry standard browser agents in token efficiency by a huge margin without sacrificing accuracy.

Built in the Baltics, not San Francisco.

It’s not a scientific benchmark yet, just a few prompts, but even getting close with the resources and timeline we have feels amazing. More comprehensive benchmarks soon, also another launch coming early next month.
by thyristan | 2025-10-22 19:17:54+00:00
> Genuinely curious - what do people want to see from a new/different rendering engine?

It should be fast when rendering HTML/CSS. I don't really care about JavaScript performance, because where possible I switch it off anyways.

It should be customizable and configurable, more than Firefox was before Electrolysis and certainly much more than Chrome.

It should support addons that can change, override, mangle, basically do everything imaginable to site content. But with configurable permissions per site.

It should support saving the current state of a website including the exact rendering at that moment for archiving. It should also support annotations (like comments, emphasis, corrections) for that. And it should support diffs for those saved states.

And if you include "the browser" in that:

I want a properly usable bookmarks manager, not the crap that current browsers have. Every bookmark should include (optionally, but easily) the exact page state at the time of bookmarking. Same for history.

Sync everything to a configurable git repo: config, bookmarks, history, open windows/tabs, annotations and saved website snapshots.

I want easily usable mass operations, like "save me every PDF from this tab group", "save all the pictures and name them sometopic-somewebsite-date-id.jpg" or "print all tabs that started with this search and all sites visited from there as PDF printouts into the documentation folder".

I want the ability to watch a website for changes, so the browser visits in the background and notifies me if anything relevant is different (this could be a really hard thing to get right I guess...).

I want "network perspectives" (for lack of a better word): show me this website as it would look from my local address, over this VPN, with my language set to Portuguese, ..., easily switchable per tab.

I want completely configurable keybindings for everything, like vimperator, but also for the bookmark manager, settings, really everything.

And I want a pony ;)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-22 19:18:17+00:00
> Law is downstream from politics and therefore in a very real sense subservient to it. To apply the law to political figures can never be done in a clean or unambiguous way

This is untrue anywhere that has the rule of law. (One can run a system where the law is secondary to politics. But it doesn't have the benefits of rule of law.)

> To preserve the law for the common stock, we can't use law against political figures without debasing the currency of law

The entire history of the rule of law runs in the opposite direction. Prosecuting current and former politicians strengthens the rule of law. What it weakens, temporarily, is stability. You need strong institutions to take on and survive prosecuting a former politican, particularly a former head of state.

> If the will of the people can be overruled by the shrewd use of legal challenges then you have a juristocracy, not a democracy

You have a republic. Pure democracy doesn't work.

> legal system can and will be abused when it is used politically

Which is exactly what shielding politicians from prosecution causes.

The Roman Republic had this flaw. One of the perks of magistracy was immunity from prosecution. This not only encouraged corruption, it incentivised lawbreaking during office for politcal advantage and ultimately led to the downfall of the Republic when expiring politicians chose violence over losing immunity.
by ignoramous | 2025-10-22 19:18:21+00:00
Recover() has its sharp edges. If some downstream function part of the execution stack does not release a critical resource because its execution was halted midway by the bubbling panic, then the resource will leak (and in the case of a locked sync.Mutex, subsequent Lock()s will deadlock).

Until go1.23 [0], Recover() comes in handy for fault reports, however; ex: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/325d18262e/inter...

[0] which introduced debug.SetCrashOutput: https://pkg.go.dev/runtime/debug#SetCrashOutput
MySQL Release Engineering PGP Key for Apt Repos Has Expired
by scblzn | 2025-10-22 19:18:23+00:00
Seems like MySQL Release Engineering has let their PGP signing key for APT Repos expire

Cannot find a new one published either

Am I the only one?

pub rsa4096 2023-10-23 [SC] [expired: 2025-10-22] BCA4 3417 C3B4 85DD 128E C6D4 B7B3 B788 A8D3 785C uid [ expired] MySQL Release Engineering <mysql-build@oss.oracle.com>
by freejazz | 2025-10-22 19:18:50+00:00
Do you ever litigate torts? Being 'traumatized' is not a legal claim to which simply stating 'I was traumatized' serves as any evidence, so I'm not sure what it is you think you'd be sparing the world. It is obviously the case that anyone could testify regarding the facts of what happened that caused what they believed to be trauma, but I'm not sure where you got the idea that people simply say "I was traumatized" and then win a civil case or send someone to jail.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-22 19:18:59+00:00
>Is there any case for anyone to make inside or outside Meta that AI is needed to build the future of human connection?

No, Facebook's strategy has always been the inverse of this. When they support technologies like this they're 'commoditizing the complement', they're driving the commercial value of the thing they don't have to zero so the thing they actually do sell (a human network) differentiates them. Same reason they're quite big on open source, it eliminates their biggest competitors advantages.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-10-22 19:19:00+00:00
I find Linux’s approach on capabilities underwhelming, and not even close to a true capability-based system.

For example, you can pass a program a capability to bind any privileged port, but not a specific one. For this scenario, just passing an fd bound to the port is actually much simpler and safer. For other capabilities, they’re just too coarse.

The fact that capabilities are implicitly inherited also doesn’t sound like a good approach on security. It’s likely like this due to backward compatibility, but I really think that capabilities ought to be passed explicitly, and we should be able to transfer them between processes. In fact, using an fd as a handle for capabilities would probably be a much clearer and explicit approach.
by yipbub | 2025-10-22 19:19:00+00:00
I have mkcd exactly ( I wonder how many of us do, it's so obvious)

I have almost the same, but differently named with scratch(day), copy(xc), markdown quote(blockquote), murder, waitfor, tryna, etc.

I used to use telegram-send with a custom notification sounnd a lot for notifications from long-running scripts if I walked away from the laptop.

I used to have one called timespeak that would speak the time to me every hour or half hour.

I have go_clone that clones a repo into GOPATH which I use for organising even non-go projects long after putting go projects in GOPATH stopped being needed.

I liked writing one-offs, and I don't think it's premature optimization because I kept getting faster at it.
by jlhawn | 2025-10-22 19:19:05+00:00
The e-bike market has multiple tiers/segments. This is not priced to compete with brands like Rad Power Bikes, Lectric, or Aventon. It's likely going to compete with brands like Tern, Benno, Gazelle, Trek, etc.

edit: ask yourself why the median new car in the US sells for over $50k when you can easily find cars for less than half that price.