MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DoctorOetker | 2025-10-06 22:03:02+00:00
During WWII, when the British succeeded in making their territory spy-free, (and convinced German spies to co-operate) they got every single new spy sent across the channel and forced them into compliance as well. They would send back false "warmer / colder" (V1 / V2) rocket impact site locations to Germany, who believed in their compromised spy network. This allowed the British to redirect the damage to less critical target areas.

If the West is indirectly delivering components, or even microcomputers to Russia, couldn't they insert small extra sub-circuits in the silicon which detects by connection topology its in a Russian drone? Depending on this detection it could plausibly be made to operate properly on (Bela)Russian occupied soil (so it isn't noticed during testing etc.), but then malfunction on non (Bela)Russian occupied soil?

The first versions could just dump the RAM / flash contents and other state somewhere (say secret extra Flash memory on the die, which might be small even, and then just randomly select a source address range, so that multiple downed or recovered drones eventually provide a full image).

Once one has the assembly / Forth / whatever software stack available for analysis, the next iteration of compromised microcomputers could be made to more intelligently make active use to say safely land, or even return to source etc midair.

Every drone that "spontaneously" safely lands on any designated areas when in actual use (as opposed to during testing etc.), saves a lot of money for rockets etc. to disable it.
by tsycho | 2025-10-06 22:03:10+00:00
[I have no personal involvement to this project, but I'll defend it anyway. And I am sure you knew what they meant, but still chose to write a pedantic comment]

If you use Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube etc, you already share a lot with Google; this spreadsheet is unlikely to make any different. If have managed to de-Google your life, good for you. Don't use this product either.

Other finance apps (I used to use mint.com before they shut down) require direct connections with your bank and investment accounts, generally via Plaid or Yodlee, and sometimes directly. This product avoids all that.

Now I personally don't think it's useful to me, since there are just too many expenses to keep track of, and doing it manually is too much work for me to even attempt. But privacy to Google would be pretty low on my list of concerns when using a spreadsheet.
by blakepelton | 2025-10-06 22:03:31+00:00
I've written two summaries of recent research papers about PIM applications in databases:

https://danglingpointers.substack.com/p/spid-join

https://danglingpointers.substack.com/p/af4afd28-cec1-440e-a...

UPMEM seems to be a good research platform, but I think UPMEM was acquired by Qualcomm, not sure how that affects the roadmap.
by Dracophoenix | 2025-10-06 22:03:37+00:00
How does a corporation fight back when previous administrations have neutered its ability to do so? The Patriot Act (Bush), mass spying on Americans via gag orders (Bush/Obama), proactive anti-trust litigation as a government cudgel (Biden/Trump), jawboning (all of them). Trump's second term is certainly the most brazen and nakedly transparent attempt at control, but the groundwork had been laid decades earlier.

The erosion you speak of happened long before anyone paid attention and the solution people and politicians sought was a further weakening of companies grip on their own assets (more taxes, more regulations, more interference in the market). As an earlier commenter pointed out, the popular political solution to thugs in government has been voting for more thugs in government. In such a circumstance, what does a company owe to those didn't have its interests in mind when it mattered? Even if it can, why should Apple risk becoming a political target against the current administration for the sake of a fickle electorate?
by grim_io | 2025-10-06 22:04:01+00:00
Xai is probably burning cash like crazy now.

Who is paying for it when they are giving away the coder and 4-fast model away for free?

Seems like a desperate grab for a low-spend part of the customer base.

What's the grand plan? Xai ist playing catch-up in the model game, yet their competitors have moved beyond, building products on top and becoming platforms to rival existing giants.
by reasonableklout | 2025-10-06 22:04:05+00:00
Pallas has a couple backends, this is the new-ish Mosaic GPU one. AAUI it provides a bunch of low-level APIs for interacting directly with NVIDIA-specific and new Blackwell features like SMEM, TMEM, collective MMA, etc.

What's interesting is that the MGPU team has achieved SOTA Blackwell GEMM performance before Triton (which IIUC is trying to bring up Gluon to reach the same level). All the big players are coming up with their own block-based low-level-ish DSLs for CUDA: OpenAI, NVIDIA, and now Google.
by greatgib | 2025-10-06 22:04:16+00:00
This deep dive article is very nice.

At any given time, ~50 of those games are going to be in the buy phase. Players will be purchasing equipment safely behind their spawn barriers and no shots can hurt them. We realized we don’t even need to do any server-side animation during the buy phase, we could just turn it off.

That explains the current trend of "online" video game that is so annoying: For 10 minutes of play, you have to wait for 10 minutes of lobby time and forced animations, like end game animations.

On BO6 it kills me, you just want to play, sometimes you don't have more than 30 minutes for a quick video game session, and with the current games, you always have to wait a very very long time. Painfully annoying.
by tredre3 | 2025-10-06 22:04:36+00:00
They were/are waiting for better cross-platform support. When they decided on Swift, using it on Linux had just recently become workable but it still didn't have feature-parity with apple land.

To me that all sounds like wishful thinking on their part. But I have a lot of faith in Andreas and the team, so I'm willing to take their opinion over my knee-jerk reaction shrugs.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-10-06 22:04:47+00:00
Fallout 76, for example, lets you see where other players are facing/looking at, or where are they pointing their guns even if they don't fire. The models are animated according to the input of their users.

I don't think its ticks per second are great, because the game is known for significant lag when more than a dozen of players are in the same place shooting at things.
by saurik | 2025-10-06 22:04:49+00:00
I think you might be confusing Battering RAM with the recent attacks Heracles and Relocate+Vote? Regardless, these pages are not being "relocated": they are being remapped to a different physical location not to use a different key, but to be able to read/write the ciphertext itself by way of a separate unencrypted address.

TME-MK thereby doesn't do much against this attack. I mean, I guess it slightly improves one of the attacks in the paper (as Intel's CPU was especially bad with the encryption, using the same key across multiple VMs; AMD did not have this issue), but you can use Battering RAM to just get a ciphertext sidechannel (similar to WireTap).

Like, think about it this way: the real attack here is that, for any given block of memory (and these blocks are tiny: 16 bytes large), the encryption key + tweak doesn't change with every write... this is the same for TME and TME-MK. This means that you can find 16 bytes that are valuable, characterize the possible values, and dump a key.
by threecheese | 2025-10-06 22:05:08+00:00
I was told that - with the full complement of good tools for a scrum team- the cost approaches a 6th member of the team. The crap from MS/GH plus a decent agent like Claude/Bedrock. You can squeeze decent behavior from vscode agent if you know what you are doing, but anyone who knows what they are doing wishes they had something better.
by kridsdale3 | 2025-10-06 22:05:53+00:00
Can confirm. I wore an Apple every day since 5 months before it was on sale (as a developer at Apple). I wore it (every single year model) for 10 years.

This year, I hit a significant integer change in age and decided to start dressing better. I went a bit nuts buying Japanese and Swiss watches and learning all about them as engineering and art pieces. It's basically like learning about cars all over again. Super fun.

I even repaired a broken Rolex with a set of Swiss watchmaking tools from Amazon and instructions from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Youtube.

I also still bought the Apple Watch Ultra 3 because while mech is fantastic and fun, I can't deny that SMS via Satellite in the backcountry on a hike is an amazing feature.
by maleldil | 2025-10-06 22:06:55+00:00
Because it changes all the time. A few weeks ago, it was Gemini 2.5 Pro, then Claude Opus 4.1, GPT-5 Thinking, now maybe Claude Sonnet 4.5, etc[1]. Having a good model isn't enough when they're basically interchangeable now. You need something else.

[1] This is an example. Which model was the best when is not important.
by themadturk | 2025-10-06 22:07:20+00:00
It's interesting he has an iPad in the picture of his gear, but doesn't mention it in the article. I, too, waffle on which is best for minimalism, but if I had to choose I'd still go with my MacBook Air. An iPad is nice, but it's not a substitute for a laptop.

I'd want an ereader as well, but when push comes to shove, I can read on my phone just fine. My Kobo Clara BW is small and light enough to be almost unnoticeable.
by shaokind | 2025-10-06 22:07:34+00:00
CS2 is 64 tick under the hood, with interpolation between the ticks. In the beta, server operators could modify the tick rate by patching the server binary, but when that revealed inconsistencies (which was meant to be avoided with the "subtick" system), they hard coded the client side tick rate to 64 [0].

[0]: https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1702277004656050220
by nemothekid | 2025-10-06 22:07:39+00:00
This is not equivalent to "lobby time or end game animations" in other games.

In Valorant (similar to Counter Strike), at the start of the game you have 60 seconds to buy your weapons and abilities for the round. Valorant/CS is typically a best-of-13, and before each round is a 60 second "buy" period.
by schoen | 2025-10-06 22:07:43+00:00
As elsewhere in the thread, I'd advocate for "basic higher mathematics" or "introductory higher mathematics" (which would make clear that it's for people actively studying math as a subject and not as a standard part of primary or secondary education, or a prerequisite in an engineering major or something).

The author says that this is largely aimed at high school students who are doing self-study, which is a realistic audience but not a context where a lot of people would naturally apply the word "basic". But this material is basic for mathematicians, I guess (although even a lot of mathematicians may not have quite as broad a knowledge of mathematics as the author does!).
by sosodev | 2025-10-06 22:08:16+00:00
CS2 is mostly 64 tick from what I understand. The "sub-tick" stuff is timestamping actions that happen on a local frame before the next tick. So in theory the client feels perfectly responsive and the server can adjust for the delta between your frame and the tick.

In practice it seems to have been an implementation nightmare because they've regularly shipped both bugs and fixes for the "sub-tick" system.

The netcode in CS2 is generally much worse than CSGO or other source games. The game transmits way more data for each tick and they disabled snapshot buffering by default. Meaning that way more players are experiencing jank when their network inevitably drops packets.
by jltsiren | 2025-10-06 22:09:08+00:00
OpenZL compressed SAM/BAM vs. CRAM is the interesting comparison. It would really test the flexibility of the framework. Can OpenZL reach the same level of compression, and how much effort does it take?

I would not expect much improvement in compressing nanopore data. If you have a useful model of the data, creating a custom compressor is not that difficult. It takes some effort, but those formats are popular enough that compressors using the known models should already exist.
by ashirviskas | 2025-10-06 22:09:36+00:00
Idk what's the official status, but it's Tesonet.

Some fake debunking in the comments of this thread that is factually almost correct: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn...

EDIT: ProtonVPN app was "accidentally" signet by Tesonet. How do you think this could happen?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 22:10:22+00:00
> are you saying that burning rocket fuel produces little to no pollution?

There are high-atmosphere effects we don't yet understand. RP-1 produces soot, particularly when burned fuel rich. And methalox still releases methane since again you're not burning your fuel perfectly.

But the simplicity of non-hypergolic non-kerosene rocket fuel chemistries like the ones SpaceX uses is they burn remarkably clean. You don't get a bunch of additives producing weird neurotoxins, or incomplete combustion inventing organic compounds in the high atmosphere.

(I'm ignoring cryogenic fuels, which literally produce water vapour as an exhaust because liquid hydrogen is a bastard.)

> As in, we could launch a million rockets per day with a negligible effect on the air and other environments?

No. Starship releases like 360 tons of CO2 per launch [1].

That said, nobody is launching a million rockets a day. We might get to like 3 or 4 a day in our lifetimes. Barring some novel economic opportunity in space, launch emissions are likely to remain negligble for the foreseeable future.

[1] https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/news/elon-musk-rocket-emitte...
by the_af | 2025-10-06 22:10:59+00:00
I understand the explanations of why LLMs trip up on this, but what about the hilarious antics?

I tried it and it reads like comedy. My session has many hilarious moments, but it finally ends with "That's it, I'm forever banned from Unicode!". And includes snippets like "Ok, let's stop it with the theatrics, here it is: <a snail>. The betrayal!".

I find it hard to believe someone didn't intentionally hardcode comedic antics into this...
by Fischgericht | 2025-10-06 22:11:14+00:00
No conspiracy, but let's say that it is rather hard to get proper benchmarks done by actual users, and one has to rely on a lot of anecdotical data. Have you seen any real-life benchmark reports with traceroutes, measure downtime, handover time etc that impressed you in a positive way? If so, please share.

Hawaiian Airlines - very interesting. Sadly wrong side of the planet for me to test it myself :)

It very well might be possible that the intra-links are only used for special customers like airlines for now, and not for consumers, and that this is the reason that all people I know who use Starlink still handover downtime...
by eek2121 | 2025-10-06 22:11:50+00:00
I feel like a change to the way gems are distributed/downloaded could fix this. Unfortunately, the very powers that could make that happen are the powers that control the software and infrastructure, and have the least incentive to improve things.

I honestly find it ridiculous that this situation happened to begin with, and I also have no clue why people are hating on DHH.

The easiest way to kill an open source project is drama and forking like this. Ruby has been around forever, obviously, however it is far from the most used languages, and drama like this just hurts the ecosystem as a whole.

As a former Ruby dev, it makes me sad.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-06 22:12:04+00:00
I'm perfectly willing to believe that US has many, many issues that compound the curse - with some low hanging fruits among them.

But there are numerous countries that aren't US, and don't share US laws.

Do they have medical staff that's not overworked, or a healthcare system that doesn't suffer from a constant labor shortage, long wait times, poor treatment quality, or all of the above?

The root of the issue is deeper than just "US is uniquely dumb".
by xp84 | 2025-10-06 22:12:07+00:00
I didn't say the happy Europeans don't count, I said that their data is still in all the same places as everyone else's and thus haven't realized any concrete benefit. The requests to be able to download your data which almost no one ever does, all the requirements of keeping the data on EU servers, all that stuff, never has a measurable impact on anyone's quality of life. And people in the EU still choose free, ad-supported crap just like they do everywhere else.

And the regulatory environment 100% advantages large businesses who can afford to hire dozens of compliance attorneys, and who can handle the risks of noncompliance fines.

PS: I'm not saying US regulates anything effectively either. We just allow every merger until 2 remain in a given market, and then say "Good. We still have competition. Everything must be fine!"
by foxglacier | 2025-10-06 22:12:48+00:00
> just veiled racism

Instead of using a thought-terminating insult, think about why people veil their racism, and why they have it. Different races are intrinsically different and some of those differences are harmful to society. You're probably shocked hearing this but most people are too scared to say it because the group will punish them so we end up with people like you somehow actively oblivious to reality.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 22:14:01+00:00
> About a million pounds of kerosene per launch

Quarter of a million pounds kerosene per Falcon 9. Zero for Starship, which burns methane. (And thus emits pure methane, CO2 and water vapor.)

> the eventual need to clean up LOE to avoid Kessler Syndrome

Not a thing. (Search this comment thread for the term. There are good answers on the current state of research.)
by astrange | 2025-10-06 22:14:10+00:00
> Presumably, since we don't observe people saying "near but actually totally incorrect" words in practice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphasia#Verbal_paraphasia

> do you ever feel like there is a "maybe word" for the idea in your non-native language "on the tip of your tongue", but that you can't quite bring to conscious awareness?

Sure, that happens all the time. Well, if you include the conscious awareness that you don't know every word in the language.

For Japanese you can cheat by either speaking like a child or by just saying English words with Japanese phonetics and this often works - at least, if you look foreign. I understand this is the plot of the average Dogen video on YouTube.

It's much more common to not know how to structure a sentence grammatically and if that happens I can't even figure out how to say it.
by runarberg | 2025-10-06 22:14:10+00:00
This paper shows how in 2023 scientists were already annoyed by this, that they had to accommodate this into their observations, and adjust their measurements accordingly. Suffered (past tense) may be hyperbolic, but it isn’t untrue either.

This 2023 paper is also issuing a warning, that if this continues without mitigation, ground based astronomy will be affected. They have the calculations to prove that. What they are particularly concerned about is detecting faint objects inside the radio wave spectrum will be impossible because it will be lost in noise.

Now 2 years have passed since this paper was published, and we still don’t have mitigations for ground based radio astronomy. I seriously doubt we will ever have one. And that the predictions of worse astronomy will become true, externalized into a type of internet you could have gotten with traditional cable, fiber optics, or a 5G radio tower.

EDIT:

> But we haven't even observed or quantified them, which is the first step to weighing mitigation options.

The paper I cited does that. In the abstract they say:

> We present calculations of the potentially large rise in global sky brightness from space objects in low Earth orbit, including qualitative and quantitative assessments of how professional astronomy may be affected.

and inside the paper they devote a whole chapter (chapter 5) to possible mitigations which is titled:

> Mitigations: potential gains and risks
by the_af | 2025-10-06 22:14:20+00:00
> Yes — and, dammit, I have an unread copy sitting on my desk that this thread has elevated to my top priority.

If you need convincing to read it: I'm highly skeptical of random internet lore that usually gets recommended, and was also skeptical at this. I find people overhype things and then it's meh.

But... it's genuinely entertaining and a fun read. It's not the best scifi thing you'll read, but it's definitely above average and you will like the story and the characters.

The free YouTube adaptation is also QUITE good, and very faithful to the text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-IiVeGAydE
by kace91 | 2025-10-06 22:14:28+00:00
This setup is crazy, as someone from another country.

Why don't you have a unified system for the pharmacies and doctors to tap into?

In my country, if I get a prescription it goes into my card. Then any pharmacy can read the card, see what prescriptions are yet not used, and provide the product (which marks the prescription as covered). Recurring products, like allergy medication or chronic illnesses, become automatically available again after a certain time, like a cooldown. You only need doctor intervention during the original diagnosis and prescription, or after rare issues (like needing an extra prescription because you lost the meds).

I'd have thought this system or a very similar one is universal.
by andrewflnr | 2025-10-06 22:15:12+00:00
I distinctly remembered that Eve Online was in Erlang, went to go find sources and found out I was 100% wrong. But I did find this thread about a game called "Vendetta Online" that has Erlang... involved, though the blog post with details seems to be gone. Anyway, enjoy! http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2102
by threecheese | 2025-10-06 22:15:54+00:00
From The Free Press mission statements: > Media Control > Powerful corporations want to decide what you’re able to watch, listen to, read and share. And runaway media consolidation among news organizations has squashed diverse, local and independent voices, leaving us in the dark about important developments in our communities.

With the recent alleged quid-pro-quo between Paramount and Pres Trump on the Skydance merger, and this merger - into an entity controlled by Larry Ellison - I’m not feeling to great about their ability to execute on that mission. Happy to be wrong though.
by anon_cow1111 | 2025-10-06 22:16:23+00:00
For anyone who's actually wondering about this, 100-200mw is extremely damaging to camera sensors(also eyes) and doesn't cause birds to burst into flames from a stray reflection.

Most cheap pen-size laser pointers sold as "5mw" are actually 100+. As a general rule, if you can see the beam brightly when doing star pointing it's somewhere in this range

(but if Parent's laser is one of those sealed-tube Co2 lasers, it'll never touch the camera sensor itself because the beam doesn't go through glass. Might crack it after a couple seconds though)
by dkarl | 2025-10-06 22:16:52+00:00
Mine are SmartWool brand. According to their web site, they use an 88% wool, 12% nylon blend, but I haven't experienced any odor issues.

I have an older pair that is 100% wool (I don't recall the brand; they might be a very very old SmartWool product) but the lack of stretch makes them less comfortable.

Editing here since my original comment is too old: in a pinch, I've also had much better results washing wool underwear in a hotel bathroom than synthetic underwear. Contrary to their reputation, neither wool nor synthetic underwear dry quickly, even with a hair dryer, but wool dries faster, feels cleaner after washing, and in the worst case scenario is much more comfortable wet than synthetic underwear.