MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-11 05:31:11+00:00
>It simply makes no sense at all that Ghislaine Maxwell, a wealthy socialite, would post a bunch of stuff on Reddit for years to accumulate meaningless internet points, under something based on her own name, while somehow also trying to be anonymous.

When do normal people ever make sense? And she's not exactly normal, she pimped teenage girls to her boyfriend (? whatever he was ?). All usernames leak something about the person who chose them. They're trying to be clever, come up with the perfect joke or pop culture reference. Except for people who aren't that clever, and then it was the third grade class's pet hamster's name with their birthday tacked onto the end. When you say "but she wouldn't do a username based on her own identity"... you're seriously overthinking this. Don't you feel a little silly pretending that she was some supervillain genius who wouldn't ever make such a classic blunder?

>But it really doesn't take this much detail to realize that this conspiracy theory is incoherent

Incoherent in that dozens or hundreds of people all contributed to it in an unorganized fashion over a period of days/weeks on reddit? Sure, 100%. Incoherent as in it makes no sense and doesn't have a shred of plausibility? 0%

>The entirety of the "evidence" is standard conspiracy stuff,

This is just blatant lying at this point. Standard conspiracy stuff is that the Illuminati, working with the Rosicrucians and enslaved sasquatches are blackmailing the CIA to use their mind control satellites on the Spanish royalty in an attempt to foment nuclear war between Gibraltar and Cameroon.

The "this convicted felon fucked around on reddit when she wasn't busy being a degenerate pervert sex monster" isn't standard conspiracy stuff. It's run-of-the-mill no shit sherlock territory. And you're insulting for claiming otherwise.
by toast0 | 2025-10-11 05:34:04+00:00
> Got old phone lines? Then its possible to run ethernet over them with SPE and maybe get a gbit.

Depending on the age of the house, there's a chance that phone lines are 4-pair, and you can probably run 1G on 4-pair wire, it's probably at least cat3 if it's 4-pair and quality cat3 that's not a max length run in dense conduit is likely to do gigE just fine. If it's only two-pair, you can still run 100, but you'll want to either run a managed switch that you can force to 100M or find an unmanaged switch that can't do 1G ... Otherwise you're likely to negotiate to 1G which will fail because of missing pairs.
by archargelod | 2025-10-11 05:34:05+00:00
Great puzzle. I solved it in Nim[1]. Bit-twiddling layers were a good fit for the language.

The trickiest part was the AES layer. I had to reach for the C FFI to use OpenSSL for decoding. And it took longer than expected to search instructions for key unwrapping.

Full solution[2] runs in under 20ms on two decade old Intel Xeon, which says more about Nim's performance than my coding skills.

[1] https://nim-lang.org/

[2] https://codeberg.org/janAkali/toms-data-onion
by varenc | 2025-10-11 05:35:20+00:00
> Why do macs show all the neighbor's televisions in the airplay menu?

That's a feature that can be configured on the TV/AirPlay receiver. They've configured to allow streaming from "Anyone", which is probably the default. They could disable this is setting and limit it to only clients on their home network. And you can't actually stream without entering a confirmation code shown on the TV.

When you stream to an AirPlay device this way it sets up an adhoc device-to-device wireless connection which usually performs much better that using a wifi network/router and is why screen sharing can be so snappy. Part of the 'Apple Wireless Direct Link' proprietary secret sauce also used by AirDrop. You can sniff the awdl0 or llw0 interfaces to see the traffic. Open AirDrop and then run `ping6 ff02::1%awdl0` to see all the Apple devices your Mac is in contact with (not necessarily on your wifi network)

> and you can't really turn off wifi on a mac without turning off sip.

Just `sudo ifconfig en0 down` doesn't work? You can also do `networksetup -setairportpower en0 off`. Never had issues turning off wifi.
by LikeBeans | 2025-10-11 05:37:18+00:00
I'm surprised, at least for businesses, small cell wifi is not a thing. For example, if you walk into an office building everyone seems to have a physical phone on their desk that is hard wired. What if that is also a small cell AP. Like a personal AP. Using automation and central provisioning and analytics can make this doable. Yeah handoff and roaming has to be seamless and quick but it doesn't feel that hard, no? If so this would be pretty neat and would solve the contention issue in the air.
by alterom | 2025-10-11 05:38:12+00:00
Not just that. Jet engines are efficient at higher speeds because the exhaust of the jet engine is fast.

If the plane is going fast as well, that exhaust is more or less stationary relative to the ground. The engine works to exchange the position of the plane with the position of the air in front of it.

If the plane is going slow, it's accelerating the air backwards. That's where the work is going, making the engine less efficient.

Think about it this way: if the jet airplane is tied to the ground, its engines are running at 0% efficiency, working hard to blow the air backwards. You wouldn't want to stand behind a jet engine when the plane is about to take off, when that's effectively the case.

The same applies to propeller-driven planes, of course. But those can vary the prop speed as well as propeller pitch, having more control on how fast the air is being pushed backwards. This allows the engine to be efficient at a wider ranger of speeds, particularly, at the slower range.

But the propeller has a limit of how fast it can push the air back. When the prop blades start reaching the speed of sound, weird shit starts happening [1]. So propeller-driven aircraft have a limit on speeds at which they can go efficiently.

Jet engines (turbofans when it comes to airliners) trade off low efficiency at low speed / low altitude (where the airplane is spending a small percentage of flight time) for higher efficiency at high speed / high altitude.

Variable pitch turbine fans[2] aim to address this tradeoff, but the tech has yet to catch on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H_Thunderscreech

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_pitch_fan
by sph | 2025-10-11 05:38:25+00:00
Must be a Gen Z meme because it was traumatic for those that lived it. It reminds me of Windows Vista and, my god, the first few years of KDE 4 - it has taken me until last year to try KDE again (and finally it has shed it’s silly hard contrast black transparency phase)

Gen Z like it because of nostalgia, not because of quality or because it actually looks any good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plasma_Workspaces.png - ugh.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-10-11 05:38:38+00:00
Yes making everything skeuomorphic is the ultimate finger in Ivy’s eye for no apparent reason other than it was very different and got some designers promoted. They had to answer the “iOS isn’t changing a lot” with something so they went with the dumbest regression ever.

Now when I try to hit send in messages I often have to hit it twice because it has to show the dumb flash which requires a longer delay than I’m used to in order to register the send. There is no aspect the redeems it and many that damn it.
by varenc | 2025-10-11 05:39:40+00:00
Yea I've had all sorts of UniFi gear and have never seen an access point that only works on DFS channels. That'd make no sense and their admin software actively discourages DFS channel selection.

I'd guess OP might be trying to use 160mhz channel width on 5ghz band, which will only work on DFS channels though. I wouldn't recommend 160mhz channel width unless you have a very quiet RF environment and peak speed is very important to you. Also I've found it hard to get clients to actually use the full 160mhz width on a network configured this way.
by nine_k | 2025-10-11 05:39:41+00:00
Such reclusiveness is not an obligatory property of large corporations. Say, Google around 2011-2015 may have had fiefdoms, but at least things were quite transparent, you could know what other departments are doing, and see all the code. Facebook circa 2020 was surprisingly transparent and peer-to-peer, at least in the area I touched, messaging and storage infra. I've seen companies 1000x smaller that had incomparably more reclusiveness and opaqueness.

What I hear about Apple sounds more and more like what I used to hear about Microsoft, especially Microsoft of Ballmer times, when teams inside it clandestinely warred with each other, instead of cooperating.

Apple has this vision-driven culture, and the inclination towards internal secrecy, so that competitors won't steal their thunder. It worked relatively well under Steve Jobs, and whoever he assigned. It worked far less successfully when Jony Ive's ideas of usability made Macbooks into visually more sleek, but less loved devices. Whoever came up with Liquid Glass, has some interesting vision, but the gimmick value in its current implementation seems to dominate, and the usability shortcomings seem to be ignored. Technology-wise, it's half-baked. This means to me that Apple internally not in a good state, the leadership has trouble hearing the voice of reason.

Apple of course has an immense inertia. But giants like Nokia or General Motors also used to have an immense inertia, wads of cash, and dominant market positions.
by ccgreg | 2025-10-11 05:41:19+00:00
I had fun reading this -- the radio astronomy technique called VLBI (very long baseline interferometry) has a ton of overlap, but the jargon words are fairly different. There are plenty of differences: our telescopes are mostly on the surface of the Earth and don't move, VLBI isn't a radar so there's no waveform, etc.

The EHT black hole telescope is an example of VLBI.
by shivajikobardan | 2025-10-11 05:41:23+00:00
Second hand markets in Nepal is tough to decide if they are offering value for money or not.

https://hamrobazaar.com/user/D56454A3-F1F2-4771-BAA1-5E0482B...

I have stumbled upon this seller. However unsure which are of value, and how to even decide? They seem expensive. I would not want to spend half of the price that I would on a new powerful laptop in a second hand device.
by drnick1 | 2025-10-11 05:42:24+00:00
Most people don't know that Big Tech is extracting data from them on a massive scale. It's up to us, the "tech people," to educate the people and show them alternatives like Graphene. As for the TV, my advice is not to connect it to the internet. If you need to stream something, hook up a laptop or dedicated device to the TV.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-11 05:43:06+00:00
That can help in one direction, but networks are bi-directional.

No matter how fancy and directive the antenna arrangement may be at the access point end, the other devices that use this access point will be using whatever they have for antennas.

The access point may be able to produce and/or receive one or many signals with arbitrarily-aimed, laser-like precision, but the client devices will still tend to radiate mostly-omnidirectionally -- to the access point, to eachother, and to the rest of the world around them.

The client devices will still hear eachother just fine and will back off when another one nearby is transmitting. The access point cannot help with this, no matter how fanciful it may be.

(Waiting for a clear-enough channel before transmitting is part of the 802.11 specification. That's the Carrier Sense part of CSMA/CA.)
by ggm | 2025-10-11 05:43:15+00:00
I agree it's unkind. And I am not here to defend the abuse Thiel received over his sexuality or before that the overt bullying I read he underwent at university. But, how exactly do you characterise the super rich, anti unionist, hard right Christian, or some of the other more out there sub cultures in the modern day tech scene? The food-as-fuel soylent eaters, the people trying to live forever, the believers in the singularity.. calling people "freaks" is trashy, but is that the worst objection you've got?
by outcoldman | 2025-10-11 05:43:16+00:00
> No smartwatch on the market since the original Pebble watches offers this combination of features…until today!

Is that a lie? What about Garmin Watches?

Sure Google/Samsung/Apple Watches are not "Long battery life", because they are not "Always on e-paper screen", but I feel like Garmin Watches are.

Obviously some Garmin Watches are pretty expensive, like Fenix (I have not used it since I switched to Apple Watch), but there are ~200USD watches as well https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/741137/ with 2 weeks battery life, custom apps, screens, and even GPS.
by EvanYou | 2025-10-11 05:43:22+00:00
A rugpull means taking back something that was given.

Before Vite+, we maintain Vite, Rolldown, Oxc, all of which are open source and widely used. These remain open source - nothing changes about existing projects.

Vite+ is an entirely new product built on top of our own open source, with additional features that are entirely new. You don't need to use Vite+. You can keep using all the open source that we already provide.

The revenue generated from Vite+ flows back into the development of both its proprietary features the underlying OSS. So if you are a user of our OSS, you'd benefit from Vite+ even if you don't use it, because it allows us to keep improving the OSS you are using.
by davvid | 2025-10-11 05:44:37+00:00
> I had to get my project to emit compile_commands.json, > get clangd, figure out which things about our build > process clangd was not understanding from > compile_commands.json and add them in .clangd

That sounds rough. This is anecdotal, but in my Linux corner of the world, ccls has been an easier user experience as a C and C++ LSP since I've never had to resort to messing with flags in the generated file.

I haven't used clangd myself, though, so I can't say either way, I just know ccls works well.

By convention I tend to have the generated build system in build/ at the top-level of the repo so that the file is at build/compile_commands.json. That, or I'll arrange to have a symlink there pointing to one generated elsewhere.

The nvim snippet I use in my init.lua to setup ccls to work in that scenario is:

vim.lsp.config('ccls', { init_options = { compilationDatabaseDirectory = 'build', }, }) vim.lsp.enable('ccls')

My actual config does also contain a capabilities = ... argument that forwards the default_capabilities() from nvim-cmp, but you get the point. I hope that helps in case you're curious to give neovim another spin.
by varenc | 2025-10-11 05:45:37+00:00
The takeaway is that you'll probably experience more reliable wifi if you turn your 5ghz channel width down to 40mhz and especially make sure your 2.4ghz width is 20mhz not 40mhz. As noted, you can't do anything about the neighbors, but making these changes can improve your reliability. And I think the larger takeaway is that if manufacturers just defaulted to 40mhz 5ghz width, like enterprise equipment does, wifi would be better for everyone. But if your wifi works great then no need.

Also that's an amazing resource, thanks for linking.
by linmob | 2025-10-11 05:45:47+00:00
Climate crisis and WW2 do not compare. Many people died in WW2, but entire animal and plant species were not wiped out.

We're killing what we eat (and what we eat is nurtured by) at a rapid speed, at scale. This will first show in bearable price increases (as it already does with coffee and cocoa) and only get worse from there, think famine (in regions where this has not happened in a lifetime).

Good luck with keeping a civilization 'stable' when people are hangry at scale.

And the worst part is: While war can be ended, un-extincting is not a solved problem at all.
by schainks | 2025-10-11 05:47:37+00:00
Yeah. We love our Yoto but I also can’t hook up Spotify streaming to Yoto cards, so this post is a very inspired way to bring back the “purpose” behind collecting the music.

I think a workaround to the Spotify issue with Yoto would be proxying a Spotify account through a raspberry pi or lightweight cloud vm. The Yoto cards themselves point to playlists in yoto’s cloud, and the playlists can link to files or stream URIs.
by varenc | 2025-10-11 05:50:21+00:00
Apple has a draft specification for a better way of measuring network quality than just doing speed tests: https://github.com/network-quality/goresponsiveness

Their `networkQuality` implementation is on the CLI for any Mac recently updated. It's pretty interesting and I've found it to be very good at predicting which networks will be theoretically fast, but feel unreliable and laggy, and which ones will feel snappy and fast. It measures Round-trips Per Minute under idle and load condition. It's a much better predictor of how fast casual browsing will be than a speed test.
by simondotau | 2025-10-11 05:50:29+00:00
A little bit of charity should be given to common turns of phrase, as opposed to being uncharitably pedantic. "A human" can also drive a stunt car on a movie set, or drive a fuel tanker around London city streets, or an F1 car around a race circuit at high speed.

Based on videos I've seen, FSD is absolutely fine with unpaved roads. My guess is it would fare as well as your average foreign tourist when placed in Delhi or Nairobi. But we can only guess.

As for driving on "lightly flooded" roads, this is an extremely foolhardy thing to do, especially in a normal passenger car, and if FSD refused to drive in that circumstance it would not be a mark against its abilities. Arguably a mark in its favour. Moving water can be orders of magnitude more dangerous than it appears. Even shallow standing water can conceal debris which could insta-destroy a tyre, or your suspension, or your coolant loop, or your fuel tank.
by inkyoto | 2025-10-11 05:50:45+00:00
If one must forgo the comfort of complete isolation from the vulgarities of contemporary media and visual indulgence – an unwise choice, yet one that many appear compelled to make – then prudence demands mitigation rather than surrender.

A measured compromise would entail the meticulous profiling of the TV’s network traffic, followed by the imposition of complete blocking at the DNS level (via Pi-hole, NextDNS and alike) first, whilst blacklisting the outgoing CIDR's on the router itself at the same time.

This course of action shall not eliminate the privacy invasion risk in its entirety – for a mere firmware update may well redirect the TV traffic to novel hosts – yet it shall transform a reckless exposure into a calculated and therefore manageable risk.
by im3w1l | 2025-10-11 05:51:01+00:00
My picture, may be wrong, is that not paying your loans is easier to get away with in the US. That you can just not pay and people will sigh and actually give up. While in Sweden people will hound you until they get their money.

Consider this:

> Klarna requires you to have a card filed with them and they will charge your card an exorbitant interest rate if you miss a payment. But on the other hand…if you cancel your card, or if you put in a temporary card from one of those temporary card services that auto-expires, what is Klarna going to do? They can’t, like, claw back the taco.

I think this is a case in point, this expectation that if you don't pay that's the end of it. Even in the US it's possible to recover the money with a lawsuit, and I wouldn't be surprised if Klarna starts making use of that possibility.

If I'm right, this would also explain not using traditional credit scores, as they are more a measure of whether you usually pay your debts on time, but what matters is whether you have the assets/income so that you can be made to pay your debts.
by jenadine | 2025-10-11 05:51:39+00:00
> Good C code doesn't get you pwned, I'd argue.

This is not a serious argument because you don't really define good C code and how easy or practical it is to do. The sentence works for every language. "Good <whatever language> code doesn't get you pwned"

But the question is whether "Average" or "Normal" C code gets you pwned? And the answer is yes, as told in the article.
by jrowen | 2025-10-11 05:51:42+00:00
This is an interesting analysis, but it does feel a bit apples-to-oranges. It is good to seek perspective on the impact we are having, but in terms of "are we in an extinction event" it feels woefully premature to me, perhaps even comically futile.

1. For all of the others, we are piecing together bits of evidence spanning eons. Can we really compare estimated background extinction rates over hundreds of millions of years to the by-comparison hyper-detailed and extensive data we have from the last 100?

2. This time it's different. Humans are categorically different from past drivers of extinction. I don't think there is a whole lot to extrapolate from. We can selectively preserve species we care about. We can run roughshod over others without even noticing. The impacts of our actions on the global ecosystem, from construction to medicine to pollution to deforestation, are unique. We could hold in a relative stasis where biodiversity continues declining but at too slow of a rate to really be considered a mass extinction. Or we could blow it all up tomorrow. Or we could unlock bioengineering and see an explosion unlike any before. By the criteria in the article it could be millions of years before we can say anything conclusively.
by sph | 2025-10-11 05:51:43+00:00
I haven’t made the jump yet but I believe you. My autocomplete has been broken on Emacs for a year, and I rarely miss it. I never use code actions, nor goto definition. I do enjoy real time errors but they often pop up with such a lag I’ve ran the compiler and it has shown me the error itself. So I dream of just turning off LSP — it’s not like it makes me such a better programmer than 20 years ago.

Re: syntax highlighting, I don’t know how people can work with their harlequin-on-LSD themes that are a constant distraction with no semantic benefit. I have gravitated around mostly mono or duochromatic themes, while 99% are a vomit of colours. I still don’t get why variables or function names need a distinct colour.
by EvanYou | 2025-10-11 05:51:59+00:00
Good question.

The first and most important distinction is obviously which ecosystem you are more familiar / invested in (webpack vs. vite). It does make sense for projects deeply coupled to webpack to consider rspack first.

Putting that aside:

- Vite+ is a commercial offering with a company that can provide paid support. Rstack is a big corp by-product where their primary customers are internal teams.

- The Vite ecosystem provides way more options in choice of meta frameworks (Nuxt, Astro, React Router, Tanstack Start, SvelteKit, SolidStart...), and 3rd party tooling integrations

- While both written in Rust, our tools in general perform significantly better than rstack. With the upcoming full bundle mode, Vite 8 will be at least 2x faster than rsbuild across all categories (dev server start up, HMR, production build)

- Vitest and Oxlint are mature and widely used in production. rstest and rslint are both quite new and not even feature complete.
by toast0 | 2025-10-11 05:52:07+00:00
Where I live we have what seems like an unusual amount of fiber cuts... whenever the cable company or the phone company fiber is cut, at least one of the major wireless networks is offline too; maybe calls work, but data doesn't. They could potentially restore service through wireless backhaul, but they don't. They also rely on utility power and utility power outages longer than about 4 hours mean towers are going to turn off.