MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rtpg | 2025-10-22 03:22:31+00:00
I mean Heroku is also offering all of the ancillary stuff around their product. It's not literally "just" hosting. It's pretty nice to not have to manage a kube cluster, to get stuff like ephemeral QA envs and the like, etc....

Heroku has obviously stagnated now but their stack is _very cool_ for if you have a fairly simple system but still want all the nice parts of a mode developed ops system. It almost lets you get away with not having an ops team for quite a while. I don't know any other provider that is low-effort "decent" ops (Fly seems to directionally want to be new Heroku but is still missing a _lot_ in my book, though it also has a lot)
by gorgoiler | 2025-10-22 03:24:12+00:00
Ah, but you’re mistaken in thinking that this kind of tinkering ends for good once love begins. It simply goes away for a bit!

The stages of life:

tinkering (!in love)

!tinkering (in love)

tinkering again (in love)

The third stage usually involves a shed or hacker space or workshop in order to maintain the love state, unless one is lucky enough to have a co-tinkerer as a partner :)
by kurisufag | 2025-10-22 03:24:29+00:00
the reds did space much, much worse.

first satellite? all sputnik could do was beep, and it ran out of batteries in three weeks.

first animal? laika died.

first station? there were two attempts to crew it -- the first failed to dock and everyone on the second mission fucking died. the soyuz 11 crew remain the only human deaths in space.

first *naut? yuri gagarin didn't even have manual controls.

the n1 was catastrophic. need i go on?
by brightball | 2025-10-22 03:24:41+00:00
Tesla stock price has never been higher…

SpaceX accounts for over 90% of global space launch payloads.

Neuralink…this is from Oct 10th.

https://x.com/neuralink/status/1976803020190236915?s=46

Starlink is changing the world, airlines, cruises, rural areas and defeated Russian interference in Ukraine. They lost contracts in Canada due to short sited political motivations who were willing to waste 3 times as much tax payer funds because of it. Starlink is doing great.
by prompt2tool | 2025-10-22 03:25:02+00:00
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by ldkge | 2025-10-22 03:25:37+00:00
Spent about an hour inside Atlas so far:

+ Can use macOS Passwords + Easy access to ChatGPT − No vertical tabs − GPT-5 Instant being the default model is a big miss — at least give Auto for Pro users

Otherwise it’s basically “Dia but ChatGPT,” which already makes it better.

Things I want to see next: – Pulse integration (bookmarks, history, maybe read-later) – Full takeover from the ChatGPT Mac app (triggerable via ⌥ + space) – Vertical tabs (yes please) - A keyboard shortcut for Ask ChatGPT – Codex (?)
by lesuorac | 2025-10-22 03:26:50+00:00
Crucially, American's typically don't die from commercial flight every day.

It's also entirely reasonable as an American to discount Polio / Ebola and a lot of other stuff that' aren't an issue for them. It doesn't mean that worldwide they aren't a problem. But historically, we've had systems to ensure these things aren't problems so when they become problems its newsworthy.
by gry | 2025-10-22 03:27:17+00:00
Curious to know how buying a pizza with tip in [Florida](https://floridianpress.com/2025/05/desantis-approves-law-all...) with [10 dimes pre-1964](https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/series-detail.aspx?MVDet...) goes.

Joking aside, not a bad bet.
by seneca | 2025-10-22 03:28:06+00:00
> Comparisons like his don't make sense. There's no dividing line between government-schooled and home-schooled in real life, there's a range of connections and dependencies. There is no friction or animosity between Government Education as an institution and people who homeschool. Their goals align.

I'm not sure what I said that made you think I'm arguing against this point. Government Education is absolutely necessary and a common good. It's a bare minimum that keeps a lot of children from a life of total ignorance and squalor.

I do think that government education has some pretty major flaws, but I didn't say anything to setup some zero-sum competition between the two approaches. I was replying to the statement "In most states, homeschooling is almost meaningless because there are no required assessments to demonstrate student proficiency in any subject", which is a bit ridiculous and, in context, is trying to paint home-schooling as some backdoor approach to child labor.
by tedggh | 2025-10-22 03:28:59+00:00
I don’t think the 90s Internet is a good analogy of today’s AI frenzy. Perhaps look at the 70s with the wise adoption of the computer and later the micro computer. Some paragraphs in The Soul Of A New Machine feel almost like they could have been written in 2025.

“Claims and counterclaims about the likely effects of computers on work in America had also abounded since Weiner. Would the machines put enormous numbers of people out of work? Or would they actually increase levels of employment? By the late seventies, it appeared, they had done neither.”
by soramimo | 2025-10-22 03:29:44+00:00
I see where you're coming from, but I disagree.

The US is far from perfect, but - so far, TBD where we go from here - has had IMHO a net positive influence on keeping democracy around (specifically, I'm thinking of Germany after WW2, Western Europe during the Cold War, Japan and with detours South Korea).

Perhaps you'll point out that the US did this out of pure self-interest and these countries are just vassal states to the US. However, a useful comparison in this context is comparing Western Germany (US) to Eastern Germany (Russia), South Korea (US) to North Korea (China) or, say, Poland (US/EU) to Belarus (Russia) to assess which sphere of influence (and its implications on national self-determination) is preferable.

Going back to democracy, in my view is not the "default state" of human society (the default is probably mob rule like we have in Russia).

> That's the reason why people consider China a "adversary" not morality.

I personally view Russia and China as adversaries because they are a serious threat to democracy worldwide (that I think we agree on?), which I believe is the very thing we're discussing.

So in summary, there are very good reasons to be critical of China (CCP) independent of the current US administrations actions and historical baggage of the US.
by alganet | 2025-10-22 03:30:41+00:00
The only name worse than "chain" for a social network feature would be "shackle". Both evoke the notion of slavery. You definitely don't want that.

But who am I to say anything, right? We have things that are reminiscent of "open your eye":

https://imgur.com/a/r0MtyVN

And we also have "linkedin" which is pretty much the chain idea.

So I guess anything goes nowadays.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-10-22 03:31:04+00:00
I remember quite the opposite, but could be wrong.

At least there was a lot of hope that digitizing a lot of things would be faster and more convenient.

Perhaps secretaries, postal workers, and travel agents should have been worried but I think most industries did not see the Internet as a threat.

Waiting weeks for mail order items or using a paper card catalog in a library weren’t fun.

At the same time, I don’t think people were expecting shopping malls to decline as they have. Buying shoes and clothes online would have seemed absurd.

In the movie “the Net”, the idea of ordering food delivery over the Internet seemed a bit far fetched at the time — it was very early days for online commerce.
by fred_wilson | 2025-10-22 03:31:50+00:00
> The book of Revelation also cites various signs that are metaphorical enough to be applied to just about anything.

If someone plans to, they should first read Revelation 22:18–19.

And Revelations isn’t the only prophetic work. Try Ezekiel.

> It's pointless to cite the Bible to defend a theological position

Understandable, but citing the Bible is fairly important in theology, though it should be done within context.

Sure, Judaism was word of mouth a long time, and that’s great. I personally can’t remember much, so I think referencing text is fine.
Show HN: Buzzd Chat – a Yahoo Messenger revival project
by bogdannbv | 2025-10-22 03:33:11+00:00
Hi HN, back in October 2024 I've launched Buzzd Chat, a Y!M revival project.

I started it back in January 2024 as a reverse engineering challenge/learning project and after posting some short videos on YouTube to show my friends the progress I've made, someone from another (now dead) IM revival project's Discord server found those videos and contacted me.

Turned out there is a fairly large community around old IM clients and some revival projects that already offered support for older Y!M versions (v5, v6), but with a very limited feature set (logging in, adding/removing friends and chatting).

Most if not all of these projects revolve around MSN/WLM, AIM and other IM clients that were more popular in the US. The Y!M support was typically an afterthought.

After some convincing from the guy that first contacted me on YouTube, I've decided to make this project public and with his help we've launched it in October 2024 as Buzzd Chat along with a Discord server where people could contact us and share their IDs and connect with each other.

I've started the project reversing Y!M V9 -- was the one I remembered using the most back in the day -- and because of that, the project got, for what it is and little to no publicity, a lot of attention. The subset of users interested in Y!M really wanted better support and newer versions.

The project is still under development, we've still got a long way to go till I'll be fully satisfied and ready to open source it.

Supported Y!M versions: - V9 only atm (focusing on implementing as many features as possible before exploring older or even newer versions)

Features (so far):

Authentication

Profile/Display pictures

Status management

Buddy management (add/delete/group/move buddies)

Buddy ignoring

Visibility management (invisible to all, invisible to some etc.)

Buddy list sharing (share your contacts)

Address book/Contacts management (add/remove/update contacts)

Photo sharing

File sharing

Audibles

Emoticons (all of them, even the ones introduced after V9)

Reliable messaging (basically acking that messages have been received)
by fujigawa | 2025-10-22 03:34:08+00:00
The most compact, minimalist general purpose OS out there by far. Tiny memory footprint and loaded with network services built-in.

Linux has become so bloated its users can't in good conscience make fun of Microsoft anymore, they are worse.

Debian refuses to install with less than 512MB RAM, the text only installer will choke with less than that, it's pathetic. That's a console-only install, no GUI.
by loughnane | 2025-10-22 03:35:42+00:00
I've recently been updating my library of movies to use the theatrical posters. It seems in the last ~10y or so there's been a bunch of "remade" posters for old movies---I presume from Netflix trying to get people to click.

It's neat to sort the movies by time and see how the styles change. Makes it feel more real than when each cover has the same modern look.
by jorvi | 2025-10-22 03:35:53+00:00
You don't put the temporary credentials behind FIDO because they're temporary anyway. You put FIDO on the main account that has the privilege to generate the temporary credentials.

So in the off chance that you get a phishing mail, you generate temporary credentials to take whatever actions it wants, attempt to log in with those credentials, get phished, but they only have access to API for 900s (or whatever you put as the timeout, 900s is just the minimum).

900s won't stop them from running amok, but it caps the amok at 900s.
by silisili | 2025-10-22 03:37:12+00:00
Interesting. Perhaps related? The Ohio river(and probably others) used to have smoke enemas at points for drowning victims. I'm told it's where the phrase 'blowing smoke up your ass' comes from, as people eventually thought it was snake oil/foolish.

So this is about oxygen delivery specifically, but I can't help but wonder if whoever came up with the old idea was onto something...
by consumer451 | 2025-10-22 03:37:23+00:00
> It's not very hard to admit when we're wrong. Some even consider it a power.

I consider it one my super powers. I am a big guy, and I've been told that I speak somewhat authoritatively in-person, even when I may have no business doing so. I don't mean it, but that's how I come off to people apparently.

Seeing the look in peoples' eyes when I readily admit ignorance or fault is lovely. I think I see a sign of relief. It has opened doors for me.

But being scammed... oof... that's a whole other thing that makes me feel emasculated as hell. I would prefer to never mention it anyone, thank you very much.

I am not saying this proudly, it's just my honest self-reflection. I get the feeling that I am not alone in this.
by King-Aaron | 2025-10-22 03:39:04+00:00
Well now that Beatriz Villarroels paper on transient objects in orbit prior to our space programs has been through the peer review process and has been published, what if we framed the question as "What do we do if the non human intelligence was already here"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92162-7
by epc | 2025-10-22 03:40:45+00:00
No. I don’t know that “the public” worried about anything with respect to the Internet. There was a lot of hand wringing by various thought leaders about porn, adult content, porn, more porn, inappropriate communications, porn, and finding someone to blame for various social ills that the Internet amplified but didn’t really cause. I think a lot of us were incredibly naive about the feedback loop of using engagement driven advertising to compensate the creation and distribution of content (which is more a Web 2.0 thing than a dot com era thing).

If this cycle is anything like the dot com cycle, there will be billions of dollars in capital invested in AI “stuff”. Data centers, various LLMs, derivatives of LLMs, shells of derivatives of LLMs, and other tangential things that claim to be AI. Eventually some anal retentive shareholder activist will ask some pretty basic questions about return on investment, the wisdom of investing so much in capital that depreciates rapidly, the actual value of all of this.

Truth be told, a lot of the predictions from the peak dot com era came true, it just took another decade of technology development and the widespread deployment of broadband. The hype cycle inevitably outpaces the market reality by several years, even if elements of it are true.

And a lot of the “efficiencies” of moving commerce online simply got appropriated by new middlemen. Amazon, Google, Apple each take their transactional vigs. Hard to argue that the current advertising supported media market is efficient when the most successful sites have to meter access to content with subscriptions (and chum ads that burn your CPU).

UBI? Not going to happen in an allegedly capitalist society like the US. We're all temporarily embarrassed millionaires who resent paying anything to support someone else's lifestyle. Far more likely to eliminate entire categories of jobs and careers.

It’s curious to me that the investor class will pour billions of dollars into “AI” over the coming years seeking to replace labor costs instead of investing in improving the efficiency of the existing labor pool. In some ways this is like the outsourcing/offshoring rager the investor class had over the past thirty years (that was the thing people should have worried about in the 1990s but did not). In the goal to shave pennies per share of costs and juice market returns we wiped out entire job categories and industries in the US. Sure, we got cheaper devices and other manufactured goods, but ignored the social costs.

So, what will happen next? It’s a big muddle. If you’ve spent billions investing in various LLM processing systems, can you reasonably expect to generate revenues and profits from the very people who are now unemployed or underemployed due to the very LLMs/AIs/algorithms you’ve invested in?
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-22 03:42:09+00:00
My impression was that it was likely LLM-written, human-reviewed. Due to a lack of knowledge on the subject/field, I can't comment on the substance of the technical details, which often reveal the shortcomings of LLM blabble, but the writing style certainly comes across as that of an LLM.

Most evidently, the incoherent usage of bold text littered constantly throughout the article, together with the infamous and poorly used em-dash spam. This snippet stood out to me particularly badly, as this does not seem like a case where even one of those odd humans who love em-dashes would use one:

"You might have heard that PagedAttention manages the KV cache using memory pages, which significantly improves memory utilization. That’s true—*but only within a single application.*"

Then you get lines like this one, which combine both random bold text and the em-dash with my most-hated LLMism, "it's not just X, but Y":

"The history of CPU systems shows that *efficiency is not just a hardware problem—it’s also a system design problem.*"

The introductory paragraph also has this (yet again, randomly bolded) LLM sensationalization that a human technical writer would be thoroughly embarrassed to have associated with their writing:

"Behind the $300 billion projected spend on GPU hardware in 2025 lies *a dark truth*: much of this expensive hardware sits *vastly underutilized.*"

Not to mention it's repeated...

"Yet behind the headlines of record spending lies a *quieter story*: much of this expensive hardware sits *vastly underutilized.*"

Your response of "is it too good to be human written" certainly doesn't restore confidence, notwithstanding the lack of humility that would be required to say that about what is allegedly your own writing. LLM writing is visible because it is awful, if you have any comprehension for what good writing looks like. The idea that LLM writing could possibly be "too good" is a truly despairing belief for someone to hold, because it means they themselves have so little understanding of good writing that they think an LLM can output good writing.

I almost wanted to give you a pass for having an LLM write an English article for you, since your response hints that English is not your native language ("I didn't get how you could conclude" is a very ESL-like mistaken tense). But you apparently have a Ph.D. and are working as a professor. I'm not familiar with academic standards these days, but is it really accepted to be claiming LLM output as your own writing...?
by db48x | 2025-10-22 03:43:01+00:00
This is not really true of most SSDs. When Linux is really thrashing the swap it’ll be essentially unusable unless the disk is _really_ fast. Fast enough SSDs are available though. Note that when it’s really thrashing the swap the workload is 100% random 4KB reads and writes in equal quantities. Many SSDs have high read speeds and high write speeds but have much worse performance under mixed workloads.

I once used an Intel Optane drive as swap for a job that needed hundreds of gigabytes of ram (in a computer that maxed out at 64 gigs). The latency was so low that even while the task was running the machine was almost perfectly usable; in fact I could almost watch videos without dropping frames at the same time.
by adrr | 2025-10-22 03:44:51+00:00
Allergy in children in hand versus machine dishwashing

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25713281/

tl/dr: In families who use hand dishwashing, allergic diseases in children are less common than in children from families who use machine dishwashing. We speculate that a less-efficient dishwashing method may induce tolerance via increased microbial exposure.
by alanbernstein | 2025-10-22 03:45:27+00:00
Thanks for sharing. I'm very familiar with the basic mechanics of quaternion rotation, and I've been interested in a deeper understanding of this double-cover concept, but I just don't get it. I've seen the belt trick and it feels more like an illusion than an illustration of some deep truth.

I like how you've connected it to spin, but I still don't understand how that is a real physical property rather than a mathematical artifact.

I don't quite grasp the significance of your "different look". Can you suggest any other reading?
by nis0s | 2025-10-22 03:46:36+00:00
His comments generalize to the extreme. From what I can tell (reading about it just now) lying is considered a sin unless you’re someone in a particular situation and you’re lying to a specific person for a very limited number of applicable circumstances. It seems that unless you meet all of these criteria, your lie is a sin. I think part and parcel of that is you don’t lie to yourself and falsely believe that a situation applies to you. As far as I can tell, Islam is just admitting the truth about human nature, that people need to navigate situations that will technically make them “liars”. I think this change was likely introduced in religious thought after examining how people still lied even after lying was established as a sin.
by mitchbob | 2025-10-22 03:47:10+00:00
Some previous discussions of Erowid:

What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports (263 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43171007

An Experience with Modafinil (343 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30067264
by foobarkey | 2025-10-22 03:48:42+00:00
The cheapest (~15 USD bullet, 20 USD dome) PoE cameras on AliExpress (focal length is pretty much the most important parameter to look at, depending on the fov you want) hooked up to a Unifi NVR. Skip all the vendor manuals, setup steps, and apps - adopt them directly to Unifi Protect.

I put them on separate vlan where they get no outbound network connectivity.

For cases where you want things like facial detection or license plate detection (automatic doors/gates) get a Unifi AI though and those things cost, but for normal perimeter/room monitoring the cheap ones are very good
by NeutralCrane | 2025-10-22 03:48:59+00:00
Some of you have never been laid off and it shows.

Intrinsic value is great, where achievable. Companies do not care at all about intrinsic value. I take pride in my work and my craft to the extent I am allowed to, but the reality is that those of us who can’t adapt to the businesses desires will be made obsolete and cut loose, regardless of whatever values we hold.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-22 03:49:32+00:00
Glad to see neuralink is working. Truly. Of all the projects he’s involved in that one and SpaceX are two I am actively rooting for and hope succeed.

Stock prices =/= their sales aren’t plummeting in Europe. You asked what questions we had, my question is “what is he going to do about their reputation in countries that care about his unhinged behavior as it’s clearly effecting their sales?” Also, we’re both on HN. We both know that stock price does not directly correlate with the health of a business.

Starlink was withheld from Ukraine early in the war at an incredibly critical time in case you forgot - he literally dictated where they could and couldn’t use the service (denied access in Crimea for drone operations). Should musk be unilaterally deciding the fate of Ukraine’s military operations, without warning at that? I hope we both agree the answer is “no.” And whether it’s short sighted or not the contracts Starlink lost were to the tune of 9 figures. You blame “short sighted” political motivations, I blame a ketamine-addled fickle billionaire who can’t keep his impulses in check. He consistently acts like a petulant, drunk child. We’ve seen it over and over again.

You ignored half the companies/projects I mentioned.