MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skopje | 2025-10-17 02:52:29+00:00
I downloaded the rooms.txt file and the word "handcrafted" is doing some heavy lifting. It's like one sentence per room. Did I miss something? I don't want to play the game (I hate text adventures), but I want an idea of how much effort went into this.

Example:

--ROOM 22 START-- Village of Oathmoor 23,0,0,21 You find yourself in a narrow, dimly lit alley. An ELDERLY WOMAN sits perched on a broken stool, her piercing gaze fixed on you with an unsettling intensity. --ROOM 22 END-- --ROOM 23 START-- Village of Oathmoor 24,22,0,0 The road ahead begins to slope gently upward, winding its way past abandoned, barren buildings whose windows gape like empty eyes. --ROOM 23 END-- --ROOM 24 START-- Village of Oathmoor 0,23,25,0 The eerie stillness around you is oppressive, broken only by the creeping sensation of unseen eyes upon you. A chill snakes down your spine. --ROOM 24 END-- --ROOM 25 START-- Village of Oathmoor 26,0,0,24 A faint melody drifts toward you, its haunting notes carried on the breeze. The aroma of a meal cooking over a distant fire stirs both hunger and curiosity. --ROOM 25 END-- --ROOM 26 START-- Village of Oathmoor 27,25,0,0 You stumble upon a makeshift camp where people dance in defiance of their sorrows. The leader of this ragtag group locks eyes with you, their expression unreadable. --ROOM 26 END--
by Digory | 2025-10-17 02:53:10+00:00
Snoopy was popular among the astronauts, and Schultz liked NASA. All the Apollo 10 modules had Snoopy related call signs, chosen by the astronauts.

“ The command module was given the call sign "Charlie Brown" and the lunar module the call sign "Snoopy". These were taken from the characters in the comic strip, Peanuts, Charlie Brown, and Snoopy.These names were chosen by the astronauts with the approval of Charles Schulz, the strip's creator,who was uncertain it was a good idea, since Charlie Brown was always a failure. The choice of names was deemed undignified by some at NASA…”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10#:~:text=The%20comman...
by rvz | 2025-10-17 02:57:52+00:00
Again, Hacktoberfest is an example of a low quality programme which the bar is lowered on purpose to encourage trash contributions.

You would not be looking for "contributions" that have "edited README" or "fixed typo" in them, which these are examples of non-functional changes.

It is SWEs that have evidence of significant functional changes throughout a high profile open-source project (like Linux, Chromium) with extensive code-reviews and / or have core-contributor roles which is the bar that should be set.
by linguae | 2025-10-17 02:59:49+00:00
Disclaimer: I spent a year at Facebook as a production engineer.

I wonder if you're familiar with the Hack programming language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language)), which was developed by Facebook as an extension of PHP that addresses some of the issues that Facebook had with PHP as the company scaled from its beginnings as a social network for college students to a colossal network.

I personally believe implementing a multi-billion dollar enterprise on the foundation of PHP code isn't a mistake. Even if there's a lot of tech debt, there's a ton of money to pay off that debt, and then some. Most of us dream of having that type of problem.
by chandureddyvari | 2025-10-17 03:02:20+00:00
You can’t compare these with regular VM of aws or gcp. VM are expected to boot up in milliseconds and can be stopped/killed in milliseconds. You are charged per second of usage. The sandboxes are ephemeral and meant for AI coding agents. Typical sandboxes run less than 30 mins session. The premium is for the flexibility it comes with.
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-17 03:02:20+00:00
I keep seeing this in every industry. "We can't give up America because they buy so much"

"China needs the American market because they can't make up the numbers for the rest of the world combined in the short term"

Can people here help answer where the heck does everyone have the money to buy all this stuff? Especially post COVID with all the layoffs? The US is only 5% of the world population. Europe isn't that poor and many chunks of Asia have a lot of wealth now. Yet America's appetite and more importantly capability of absorbing all manner of goods remains unimpaired...how?!
by brazukadev | 2025-10-17 03:04:02+00:00
> Is that bad? How do you deal with that? Advice?

Everything is too recent, nobody can give a sure advice on how to deal with your situation. From my view as a fullstack engineer working with LLMs for the past 3 years, your generated product is probably crap and your only way to assess it is by asking Claude or ChatGPT if it's good, which it'll probably say yes to make you feel good.

Now go ahead and publish it. If your app brings revenue, then you build something quicker. A Claude-generated prototype is as much a product as some PowerPoint slides
by ebiederm | 2025-10-17 03:04:50+00:00
I prefer the Oort cloud colonization plan. Since Oort clouds stretch so far out they touch between the stars.

Once the problem of living on a comet has been solved, you get something like the Polynesian islanders. People would move from one commet to the next. One generation at a time, for more living space and more resources.

I wonder what people in a generation ship would do when they arrive at a star and discover the comets of the star system are already inhabited.
by silisili | 2025-10-17 03:07:01+00:00
What's worse is that something, I assume tar, actually seeps in everything. I was looking at a house on a particularly hot day once, and the bedroom walls were 'bleeding' some weird black substance.

I informed the owner, who exasperatingly told me he's been scrubbing them down for weeks but it won't stop. Every time it got hot outside the walls would start again. Apparently his parents smoked heavily in that bedroom for decades.
by aidenn0 | 2025-10-17 03:07:34+00:00
The post you are replying to implies that they buy books with the exception of books that are only available on Kindle.

I, too, do not buy ebooks that I cannot strip the DRM from. I would face a dilemma were I to have need of a book that I cannot get as either a physical copy or a DRM-free electronic copy, but I have not faced that situation yet.

I have spent over $2000 this year on books.
by fragmede | 2025-10-17 03:09:02+00:00
I've got a project that needs to run a special script and not just "make $target" at the command line in order to build, and with instructions in multiple . MD files, codex w/ gpt-5-high still forgets and runs make blindly which fails and it gets confused annoyingly often.

ooh, it does call make when I ask it to compile, and is able to call a couple other popular tools without having to refer to them by name. if I ask it to resize an image, it'll call imagemagik, or run ffmpeg and I don't need to refer to ffmpeg by name.

so at the end of the day, it seems they are their training data, so better write a popular blog post about your one-off MCP and the tools it exposes, and maybe the next version of the LLM will have your blog post in the training data and will automatically know how to use it without having to be told
by charlie88 | 2025-10-17 03:09:18+00:00
I saw the evidence you posted on reddit. This is a blunder of a miss by the Salad folks. I do not blame you at all if you move forward with legal action against Salad. They have a responsibility to their users and I am a tech industry lawyer that has reviewed their policies - they would have their work cut out for them trying to justify how non video streaming content passed through your device.

Clearly indicating which exact type of traffic they would be allowing over your device and deviating far enough away from that to result in bruteforcing is not at all acceptable. I can share my contact details or refer you to someone closer to you if you're looking for reliable legal representation for this battle.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-17 03:10:09+00:00
I have a 120" ALR projection screen, 4K UST projector, modular semi-circular couch that seats 12 and a decent sound system. I host ramen + movie nights where I make some ramen from scratch and we watch a sci-fi movie together. I also do video game nights where people come over to game on the big screen.
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by GenerWork | 2025-10-17 03:10:18+00:00
I'm not saying I've done this, but if you're handy with bitcoin, it's so much cheaper to go through the steroid sites. I saw a sale of 10 x 10mg for reta where the total price was $225 with shipping. That's $22.5 per vial which is absurdly cheaper than any of the "legit" methods of getting GLPs.

And hey, if you want a little test/anavar/tren to spice up your GLP, you can get that in the same order!
by gdulli | 2025-10-17 03:10:45+00:00
I think the problem is that people are impervious to "knowing" when they don't have a sophisticated enough understanding to realize that it's a team sport divided by class instead of the political party security blanket they've been trained on.

So many people think either that they're on the winning side or that by not taking a side explicitly they're above it all and not losing.
by ryangibb | 2025-10-17 03:11:15+00:00
Author of Eon here, there's still some open questions I have here about managing the lifetimes of these certificates. Renewal is supported via a Capnproto callback and there's some ad-hoc integration in with NixOS nginx to restart it on a certificate renewal. https://github.com/RyanGibb/eon/blob/3a3f5bae2b308b677edfb3f...

This doesn't work in the general case, e.g. for postfix and dovecot, and is only becoming more pertinent with short lived certificates. It would be great if the service manager could use these capabilities directly. I think GNU Shepard's integration with Guile Goblins and OCapN is a step in the right direction here: https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-nlnet-grants-decemb...

I've written a little more about this here: https://ryan.freumh.org/eilean.html
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-17 03:11:31+00:00
Yes, but not everyone uses features like this to make code easier to read. Instead, features like this make less readable code become tractible. The same can be said about autocomplete and documentation popups too. I remember Uncle Bob saying once that his 5 line function limit was facilitated by an editor feature he had that could easily display the code of functions that are called. So it stands to reason that the recommendation should be 25 lines if you don't have such a feature, I think. We don't need to go back to Hungarian notation but certainly using a bunch of fancy features to read the code makes it inherently less readable on the surface level (unless you are very anal and also self-aware and can stick to clean principles).

I'm surprised my comment was downvoted so bad for making an astute observation. It happens to me all the time. A lot of the users of this site suck.
by arscan | 2025-10-17 03:12:15+00:00
Even if it’s only 1 sentence per room (it’s not), that’s still 4000 sentences. I’d guess this is at least a few hundred pages of written work (without downloading it and just based on what you’ve shared). That seems pretty substantial to me.

Not sure what the length has to do with handcraftedness though. This comment is handcrafted even if it is short.
by blamestross | 2025-10-17 03:12:28+00:00
The bad news is that the root cause is stress under capitalism. Health is yet another long-term investment poorer people end up being unable to leverage due to lack of liquidity.

It takes time and money to ensure a healthy diet. Exercise takes up a massive amount of time and energy. People who are struggling to make ends meet can't afford these things. Tolerance of discomfort isn't unlimited and people don't have infinite willpower. We are pushed to spend all that tolerance and all that willpower at work.

These drugs let you buy tolerance of discomfort at a discount, so you can spend more of it at work.

My experience is that people generally are already doing their best. They don't need "more willpower" or more threats. They need tools, support, and less things asked of them.
by greiskul | 2025-10-17 03:14:24+00:00
The reason Microsoft held the web back is because it saw it has a potential threat to it's dominance as the main platform for applications.

And if you are actually concerned about the future of the web, instead of it's past, I would more concerned with Apple holding back development on Safari, to make people focus on writing native apps for mobile. There are so many apps that in the past would be websites, but end up being natively coded because that's the only way to get a good customer experience in mobile.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-17 03:14:37+00:00
You can restrict outbound network to HTTP using the outbound worker mentioned elsewhere in the thread and filter the domain name of the outbound request against a whitelist of domains you control. The DNS resolution of the domain happens within the CF network stack that you have no control over and that can’t be overwritten in anyway meaning if you restrict outbound to Google.com, there’s no way for that request to end up anywhere else. The whitelist filter you put in place would disallow raw IP addresses and DoH isn’t relevant because again your whitelist of servers you control can just not expose DoH.
by notpushkin | 2025-10-17 03:15:26+00:00
And the restaurant can say “no.”

If I were a restaurateur and caught a glimpse of a Doordash driver in my finest establishment, the first thing I would do is put together a simple online order form and start advertising it in every order. If you just disappear from the app one day, your customers trying to reorder would probably go somewhere else – but if they know they can order on your site instead, they probably will (if your food is good enough and your ordering experience is top-notch, or vice versa).
by thayne | 2025-10-17 03:16:18+00:00
The stormlight archive isn't a representative example because:

- Brandon Sanderson's books are actually relatively inexpensive, despite their popularity

- Brandon sanderson ebooks are available without DRM. Interestingly, this is actually more common for fantasy and SF than other genres.

Other books are more expensive and more likely to be locked behind DRM for digital books.
by nateb2022 | 2025-10-17 03:17:44+00:00
Last month, Nvidia and Intel announced jointly developed 'Intel x86 RTX SOCs' + custom Nvidia data center x86 processors.[0]

Opcodes 0Fh,3Ah,E0h...EFh combined with VEX/EVEX encoding suggests wide (256/512-bit) vector SIMD, possibly for matrix multiplication, tensor operations, or arbitrary neural network activation functions.

[0]: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-intel-to-devel...
by zerocrates | 2025-10-17 03:19:45+00:00
2600 got enjoined from linking to DeCSS and that got upheld on appeal, on the basis that linking violated the DMCA's anti-trafficking provisions. From the district court case:

> Defendants then linked their site to those "mirror" sites, after first checking to ensure that the mirror sites in fact were posting DeCSS or something that looked like it, and proclaimed on their own site that DeCSS could be had by clicking on the hyperlinks on defendants' site. By doing so, they offered, provided or otherwise trafficked in DeCSS.

The appeal was mostly about whether the DMCA and/or the specific injunction in question violated the First Amendment, and the court found that it didn't.

(Universal City Studios vs. Reimerdes at the district court level, Universal City Studios v. Corley at the circuit)
by aydyn | 2025-10-17 03:19:50+00:00
I agree with the good points about the platform. But the points about the userbase reek of pretentiousness.

The New Yorker called it Performative Erudition: frequently, people here are entirely focused on appearing to have insight, appearing smart and avoiding colloquial language to the point where having a straightforward normal conversation is sometimes impossible. To say that the userbase has a "mindset of humility" is almost too ironic for words.
by lutusp | 2025-10-17 03:20:40+00:00
> That's not what Recall is and not how it works.

You're right, I overstated how Recall works, right now. At the moment, it's opt-in and the images are only stored locally. I was wrong -- my claims were several months out of date.

Recall's current form results from a heated online debate about its original form, which was neither encrypted nor opt-in.

At the time I write this, Microsoft won't allow users to uninstall Recall, a demand made by security professionals who see serious risks for non-technical end users in the event of a compromised system.

Having said that, let's revisit this feature some years from now. Let's see whether Microsoft's perennial corporate death-by-a thousand-cuts strategy has changed anything.
by moomoo11 | 2025-10-17 03:20:45+00:00
I made something similar for a poc for an idea I was exploring.

Neo4j, open search, and vector embedding. I would use OpenAI api calls to generate the open search query based on user text input.

For example, user could search “what tasks are assigned to Jake that are at least 50% complete and due in the in the next 2 weeks” and it would be able to return relevant results.

Obviously only as good as the user search query. I spent close to a 100 hours writing tests to get it working close to 100% of the time. Eventually I dropped the embeddings because I could generate the opensearch query on the fly. So it was pretty lean and easy.
by thayne | 2025-10-17 03:20:50+00:00
> Amazon's Kindle Android app was really buggy and crashed a bunch

This is one of my biggest problems with DRM. It restricts what software you can consume the media on.

I bought a collection of books from Kobo without realizing it was protected by DRM, then realized I could only read them with the kobo reader, which is also really buggy. I really wanted to use a different reader app, but couldn't.
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-17 03:22:16+00:00
Its pretty impressive and brings you into macroeconomics and monetary policy

Its a long answer but there are many winners in every financial environment in America, while the short answer is that nobody knows how they have money en masse to buy stuff

and the whole system is based on incentivizing them to move that money around the economy, as opposed to collect and save it in a bank account
by labcomputer | 2025-10-17 03:22:51+00:00
> On the other hand, remaining invested in a stock that does buybacks during your working years also concentrates your risk in that stock. So people will likely sell anyway and take some capital gains to diversify.

This really undercuts your previous argument that only certain classes of shareholders benefit from buybacks. Now you are assuming that everyone falls into one of the classes anyway.

So we're back where we started: Buybacks benefit all shareholders equally.
by akarshc | 2025-10-17 03:23:49+00:00
I completely agree. Requiring credit card info for a free trial often feels like a dark pattern designed to trap users into paying. I’m taking a different approach with my product by offering a 3-day free trial that doesn’t require a card, and a 14-day free trial for serious users. I want users to try it without any pressure or tricks and make a decision based on the value they experience, not because they forgot to cancel.
by angelgonzales | 2025-10-17 03:24:03+00:00
Heavy disagree with the point of this article. Their concern is that departures result in institutional memory loss. I think that rapid iteration >> institutional knowledge. Unfortunately NASA is at a point where private companies have to develop hardware independent of NASA and then sell it to NASA because their requirements are too dumb. I wanted to work at NASA/JPL for years but all the people I’ve met there have become paper subject matter experts by making 10 satellites and rovers while people at Nvidia, Apple and SpaceX ship millions of products and get to see hardware fail at scale. From what I have heard, NASA and legacy milaero contractors are where you go to get your new ideas crushed by incumbents. I think science is ripe for disruption where we privatize the process of doing science and publish the process and results publicly. NASA keeps much of their institutional knowledge to themselves from what I have experienced, I work in aerospace, and none of their data is readily available to me. Also, years ago JPL was criticized for significant delays in programs due to their policies. https://spacenews.com/psyche-review-finds-institutional-prob...
by chillfox | 2025-10-17 03:26:44+00:00
I find the sheer amount of glazing Gemini does unbearably, so I pretty much avoid using it. It’s just an unreal amount compared to GPT-5 or Claude.

Gives it a stack trace or some logs and Gemini treats it like the most amazing thing ever and throws a paragraph in there praising your skills as if you were a god.
by rawgabbit | 2025-10-17 03:27:07+00:00
Where I work we purchased Coveo. We purchased the base version which includes connectors to files, databases, and REST APIs. We then query it using a Coveo API. We stuck with the basic search which is smart enough and did not purchase their AI addon. So far we are happy with it. https://www.coveo.com/en/integrations#filter=universal%20con...
by xbaicai | 2025-10-17 03:27:10+00:00
The State of AI Music in 2025 Six months ago, AI-generated music was mostly a novelty—decent for background ambience, but you could always tell it was synthetic. Suno v5 changed that equation. The model now generates 8-minute tracks with realistic vocal performances, proper instrument separation, and audio quality that passes professional scrutiny.

What's Actually New:

Vocal realism: Captures whispers, vibrato, breathiness—subtle emotional nuances that previous models missed entirely Extended coherence: 8-minute tracks that maintain musical consistency (previous models struggled past 2-3 minutes) Stem exports: Separated tracks for vocals, bass, drums, instruments—critical for professional workflows Sample-to-song: Upload a 10-second clip, get a complete composition in matching style Real-World Use Cases We've Validated 1. Indie Game Development

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Problem: Generic intro music or expensive custom composition Solution: Generate branded themes in 30 seconds, customize with stem editing Result: Unique audio identity without composer wait times 3. Marketing Campaigns

Problem: Stock music licensing restrictions, lack of brand uniqueness Solution: Generate campaign-specific tracks, full commercial rights on paid tiers Result: Original music for every campaign at fraction of traditional cost Technical Limitations (The Honest Part) What Suno v5 Still Can't Do Well:

Complex orchestration: Large symphonic arrangements still sound "off" Lyric coherence: AI-generated lyrics are hit-or-miss; supply your own for best results Genre expertise: Works great for mainstream genres, struggles with niche subgenres Consistency across generations: Regenerating with same prompt produces different results (no seed control yet)