MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yencabulator | 2025-10-16 23:35:08+00:00
> there's just an api compatibility layer (found in /rust)

Even figuring out what exactly the Linux kernel API safety rules are is a huge task, much less encoding them in a computer-readable form.

The code there is not about C<->Rust FFI. It's about encoding Linux kernel API properties into a safe Rust API.

The uncertainty of the calling/ordering rules is exactly why kernel C has been hard to write. For VFS locking rules, you pretty much have to simulate Al Viro's brain and replay his whole life experience...
by _heimdall | 2025-10-16 23:35:30+00:00
The issues you raise are important, they also aren't partisan. The specific system used for filing, while important, has nothing to do with how simply or complex our tax code itself is. If they want to make it possible for me to file half a dozen forms through an IRS-run portal rather than TurboTax, great but that doesn't simplify the tax law.

Both parties are responsible for the complexity of our tax code, how long they allowed TurboTax to run the show, and how poorly the tax revenue is spent.
by jeffbee | 2025-10-16 23:35:37+00:00
I think it's doubtful that around the time that POPCNT was added to CPUs the NSA was all that influential. Their big scary data center, which is actually tiny, wasn't built until 2014, while players like Google and Meta had much larger data centers years earlier and were undoubtedly larger buyers of AMD Barcelona / Intel Westmere where POPCNT first emerged.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-10-16 23:35:39+00:00
Weather modification makes more sense to me as that would need to be done by plane (I wonder if balloons would work, but I suppose they're harder to position exactly). I'm not sure why they'd be modifying weather, but things like increasing rainfall over areas might be useful which raises the question of why does it need to be a conspiracy? If they've got a system that increases farm yields then why not make it public knowledge and even sell weather services to various states.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-16 23:35:51+00:00
> The solution isn't always swinging super-far in the other direction.

I'm not convinced. Compromise is the root of all evil. It allows self-contradictory and mutually exclusive ideas to exist.

I make a conscious effort to develop my morality by eliminating contradictory ideas and forming self-consistent world views. If the conclusions are extreme, then so be it. I accept the consequences.
by arkt8 | 2025-10-16 23:36:23+00:00
A sort of naïve dream... NASA is not the budge, but the brains and lives put on it. It is not American. If you all can have the budget to survive with a check payment work, invest you dream and life on open sourcing the knowledge. Dont let it be an Alexandria Library, certainly ESA, Roscosmos and other future players can inherit your life efforts now or in coming centuries.
by jrs235 | 2025-10-16 23:38:51+00:00
>The latter has been in decline since around the mid-90s.

I'm curious about this. Do you have a reference for this? What is in decline specifically? Number of people drinking sugary soda? Number of sugary sodas consumed per person (on average)? Amount of sugar consumed by drinking sugary soda? I'm curious because it seems the amount of sugar per can of soda has drastically increased since the 90's. If my memory serves me well, a can of soda 20 years ago was like 26g of sugar, today they're like 53 g per soda. At least in the United States.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-10-16 23:39:05+00:00
I was considering refuting this point by point, but it seems your mind is already made up.

I feel that many people who deny the current utility and abilities of large-language models will continue to do so far after they've exceeded human intelligence, because the perception that they are fundamentally limited, regardless of whether they actually are or if their criticisms make any sense, is necessary for some load-bearing part of their sanity.
by xp84 | 2025-10-16 23:39:17+00:00
Don’t confuse the real point with the caricature. There’s a very real risk of only giant corporations being able to control software, because the general public does not even draw a distinction between “having control over what software is running on your computer,” and “being able to run a curated collection of software blessed by the manufacturer and subject to their exclusive discretion.” The full acceptance of the Apple iOS platform proves this. Apple must bless all binaries, and except for cases that are getting less and less common where jailbreaks are possible, the user has no authority and you could argue they do not own the device.

Some combination of the advertising industry and those with a vested interest in anti-fraud such as banks will eventually try to sneak remote attestation in there, which has the potential to put a complete end to ownership of devices as we have always understood it.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-16 23:40:29+00:00
Yes but I feel like HN does have some lore from time to time as well. I had seen a recent comment where the commenter shares his personal experience with the author and how they helped him in a stackoverflow question and how it led to their startup and saved their asses. Oh yeah just remembered, it was nadernx (sorry if the name wasn't right), and people in the thread were asking if it saved their asses or what they did and they said that they donated to patreon

Like, its not following exactly per se but it was a discussion outside of the post itself which was about python. And it was great.

I feel like this could be an example for the parent comment as well as how I personally feel like HN is more social networky than say wikipedia but not at twitter or trad social media level I guess.
by nl | 2025-10-16 23:40:33+00:00
> Our most renegade web developer, an otherwise soft-spoken Croatian guy, insisted on checking in the code under his name, as a badge of personal honor, and the rest of us leveraged our OldTuber status to approve the code review.

Whoever this Croatian guy is, thankyou! True hero of the internet.

As soon as that banner popped up on Youtube we were able to tell our customers the same thing.
by abhaynayar | 2025-10-16 23:42:01+00:00
Everything's luck, or lack thereof.

Free will does not exist, but I suppose it's handy for society at large to pretend that it does.

I don't know why, but I let myself believe for so long that I was the captain of my ship. Now that I embody the fact that everything's out of my control, I have become so much more relaxed and content with life. I do not compare myself with people that are better (or worse) off than me. They lucked into their lives as well.

I am very grateful for everything I have been given. Even the fact that I exist and get to experience this beautiful thing called consciousness. I do not complain much anymore. I work hard to give back. Not that I am rich. But I am strongly inclined to produce more and consume less, perhaps that is because I wish to show appreciation for the gift of the present that I have been given.

And my reaction isn't positive based on only good luck. I've had my fair share of bad luck, and I have been deeply disadvantaged in certain areas of life. But even for those areas, I do not blame myself. Since I believe that it was 100% the role of luck in shaping everything.

I know some people can react to the lack of free will in a negative way, but that has not been the case for me. Would be interesting to dive deeper into why. This realization has also not taken my agency, or my will to live and take action. I know that sounds contradictory, but it's true.
by ewoodrich | 2025-10-16 23:43:32+00:00
Whenever I watch Claude Code or Codex get stuck trying to force a square peg into a round hole and failing over and over it makes me wish that they could feel the creeping sense of uncertainty and dread a human would in that situation after failure after failure.

Which eventually forces you to take a step back and start questioning basic assumptions until (hopefully) you get a spark of realization of the flaws in your original plan, and then recalibrate based on that new understanding and tackle it totally differently.

But instead I watch Claude struggling to find a directory it expects to see and running random npm commands until it comes to the conclusion that, somehow, node_modules was corrupted mysteriously and therefore it needs to wipe everything node related and manually rebuild the project config by vague memory.

Because no big deal, if it’s wrong it’s the human's problem to untangle and Anthropic gets paid either way so why not try?
by wredcoll | 2025-10-16 23:43:40+00:00
Because I don't own a kindle nor am I willing to use their app.

I'm either old and stubborn or principled, but I want to use my current phone and "system" I've been using to read ebooks for the last 15 years.

(It's possible that kindle unlimited is a cheap enough system to make dealing with amazon software, but amazon is annoying enough that so far nothing has convinced me to buy into it)
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by SafeDusk | 2025-10-16 23:44:54+00:00
That is why a minimal framework[1] that allows me to understand the core immutable loop, but to quickly experiment with all these imperative concepts is invaluable.

I was able to try Beads[1] quickly with my framework and decided I like it enough to keep it. If I don't like it, just drop it, they're composable.

[0]: https://github.com/aperoc/toolkami.git [1]: https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
by credit_guy | 2025-10-16 23:45:40+00:00
I love project Orion. But, let's be honest, it will never overcome the politics of Earth. For as far in the future as we can see, nuclear weapons will be a tricky issue. Putting a few thousands of them on a spaceship will be (and it currently is) against international treaties. And for good reason: how would you feel about an entity (either a government, or a private corporation like SpaceX) say that they intend to manufacture a few hundred thousand nuclear bombs, but, you know, pinky promise, they will never be used for anything else but space travel?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-16 23:45:47+00:00
Oh! didn't know that bear blog could set up custom CSS but I was wondering about that actually as well!

Looks like your guy over here is gonna build a bear blog with the monospace web theme[1] now

I have several accounts on mataroa and one of my posts on it somehow even got indexed which I needed to pull as it was relevant in some discord discussion and I just searched it on duckduckgo and I was so proud of it lol.

I might try bear blog as well! I also really like the upvote feature at the bottom, that plus HN could be some great way to have both comments and a basic feedback without let's say setting up a blog myself although that could be a good learning experience as well but let's just say not right now :)

[1]: https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/
by dhosek | 2025-10-16 23:46:10+00:00
It is definitely a cruel way to think of it, but the thing is that in a generation ship, you have resources for a limited number of human beings. Longer lifespans mean you have more human beings to support. Life extension makes more sense if you can have the kids at age 50 to keep total population within reasonable limits. On a generation ship, it makes more sense to have a Logan’s Run scenario where once people reach a certain age… Carousel!
by RhysU | 2025-10-16 23:46:41+00:00
> The thing that's hard about the intellectual curiosity part is knowing what comments are from actual experts and what are very smart people opining outside the edges of their circle of competence...

Three thoughts...

1. I really enjoy seeing what the extremely technically accomplished users think about non-technical topics.

2. I like that only my accumulated knowledge of their usernames allows me to easily connect the dots for thought #1.

3. It is fun when you come to appreciate someone's thinking on many non-technical topics then later, on a technical thread, realize that user is the person behind $SOMETHING_BIG. But that fun relies on accumulating #2.
by yodon | 2025-10-16 23:46:45+00:00
This pretty much aligns with my experience with SpecKit - I'm excited by it, and enjoying working with it, but have had a hard time finding guidance on advanced real world use cases.

All the tutorials I've found are little more than "here's how to install it - now let's make a todo list app from scratch!!"

Would be great to see how others are handling real world use cases like making incremental improvements or refactorings to a huge legacy code base that didn't start out as a spec driven development hello world project.
by Zenst | 2025-10-16 23:47:59+00:00
I see mention of the voltage of 200 mV/mm, though no mention if AC or DC, presume it is DC.

I have seen a few articles over the years on stimulating wound healing and did a little digging and found it goes back further than I appreciated:

1843: Carlo Matteucci (Italy) observes that wounded tissue generates a steady current — the first evidence of endogenous “healing current.”

Modern experimental era (1950s–1980s)

1950s–1960s: F. W. Smith and others at the Royal Free Hospital (London) and USSR researchers start applying DC microcurrents to chronic ulcers.

1960s–1970s: Robert O. Becker (NYU, later VA Medical Center) systematically studies wound and bone healing with DC and pulsed currents — showing accelerated healing and even partial limb regeneration in amphibians.

1972: Becker and Murray publish seminal paper: “Low intensity direct current stimulation of bone growth and wound healing.”

Late 1970s–1980s: Clinical trials on pressure ulcers and diabetic wounds using microamp DC show improved epithelialization.

Clinical device development (1990s–present)

1990s: FDA approvals for electrical bone-growth stimulators, later expanded to soft-tissue wound dressings.

2000s: Research into pulsed DC, AC, and capacitive coupling grows; low-frequency (1–200 Hz) electrotherapy devices enter wound-care practice.

2010s–2020s: Rise of microfluidic and bioelectronic dressings (like the Chalmers study, 2023), nanogenerators, and self-powered wound patches — merging electronics and biology.

Looking into the AC/DC aspects: DC = best for directional healing and wound closure. AC = best for tissue conditioning, circulation, and long-term comfort.

Combination or cycling gives the fastest and safest overall healing, especially for chronic or deep wounds. Also, prevent polarisation irritation over prolonged usage.

Certainly does feel like a technology that has been sleeping in the wind, and a future first aid tool. Of note, electronically, such a device could also aid in cleaning the wound by killing bacteria, which may be one reason that healing is improved.
by jumploops | 2025-10-16 23:48:31+00:00
1-5 seconds seems high for Firecracker, depending on your requirements.

We boot VMs (using Firecracker) at ~20-50ms.

Obviously depending on the base image/overlay/etc., your system might need resources making it a network-bound boot, but based on what you've said it seems you should be able to make your system much faster!
by rstuart4133 | 2025-10-16 23:48:52+00:00
If you want to try something cheap, try the Amazfit BIP 6 watch. It costs around 1/4 of Apple watch, has most but not all of the same sensors (can't do ECG). It has far too many configuration options for my taste, but it does mean you can make it look like Apple like with Apple watch like battery life or configure it to last well over 3 weeks on a single charge. TL;DR: software is kinda clunky, but the hardware works well, and it's focus is on fitness.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-16 23:49:07+00:00
When the number is 50 no, it isn’t. This feels somewhat disingenuous and clearly this doesn’t disprove the larger point. Not to mention, again, several states are barely north of that.

If you want me to acknowledge “some” isn’t enough then fine: “most states are at the minimum wage or up to $10, which is pitiful.” $1600 or less a month is pitiful. Not to mention the states with the lowest minimum wages are by and large the ones with the weakest social safety nets, so the problem is compounded. Can we move on and get back to the real point here?
by babblingfish | 2025-10-16 23:50:32+00:00
Books have got to be the least expensive form of entertainment out there. The value to cost ratio is incredible. Consider buying books to support authors and publishers. If you can't afford it, then libraries are nice too.

I personally know people who pirate books, but pay hundreds of dollars a year for streaming services or battle pass type video games. It blows my mind. Books are so cheap people!

I recently bought the complete Storm Archives series by Brandon Sanderson on ebook for $10. That's over 100 hours of entertainment. It's literally a ratio of 10 CENTS per hour of entertainment.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-16 23:51:56+00:00
> I only put my tinfoil hat o because when something is free these days, it's usually you as the product

Sometimes, but that's not the case. I think most Open source is an example of that.

There are also many mastodon /lemmy / matrix instances and so many other niche things which run on donations and I guess some of them don't mind chipping in some of their money for the idea of a better internet if that interests them as well.

Sorry if it got off topic but just because something is free doesn't mean you are the product, you can be usually right, but I don't think HN is nearly close to this (it depends) and I feel so thankful to such products/services for existing in a world of making me the product. I just want to say thanks to those services where its free and you aren't the product and they run on donations, we people really need to chip in more in those donations as well for a better more decentralized internet
by semiquaver | 2025-10-16 23:52:10+00:00
> they made it against the law to even tell anyone.

I’m no fan of the DMCA, but I am pretty skeptical of your apparent claim that this post itself is a potential violation of 17 USC § 1201. Obviously the act of circumvention itself qualifies, as does the code in the GitHub repository the post links to, but can you point to any prosecution of someone for a _prose description_ of circumvention (as opposed to actually making code available)?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

The law says “no person shall circumvent” DRM, and later prohibits the distribution of “technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof” to break DRM. It’s worded pretty carefully to avoid prohibiting more traditional forms of speech like this post, and as far as I’m aware has never been used in the manner you suggest.
by arcanemachiner | 2025-10-16 23:53:14+00:00
> That reminds me of when I was living right by the BLM protests/CHOP [0] in Seattle and got tear gas in my condo. I had just bought some new coffee beans to try out and when I did the next morning, thought they tasted super "chemical-y" and immediately threw them aways.

This is by far the most Seattle thing I have ever read.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-16 23:54:26+00:00
Slightly off-topic, but while we're at it: for all it's DRM hell and shenanigans, the Amazon kindle store is currently the absolute best way to grab foreign ebooks wherever you live on the globe.

Most local ebook stores will put undue barriers on who can purchase what because of generic region policies and/or their publishing contracts being country limited. Amazon will accept any valid credit card from anywhere as long as you create an account on the dedicated store. It's digital goods so you can also fill in any random address if needed.
by realprimoh | 2025-10-16 23:55:08+00:00
This reminds me of "Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. (https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/good-programmers-worry-abo...).

From Linus Torvalds:

"git actually has a simple design, with stable and reasonably well-documented data structures. In fact, I'm a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it's one of the reasons git has been fairly successful […] I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important.

...

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."
by adamwk | 2025-10-16 23:55:39+00:00
What he calls import highlighting is something I only find reliably setup in Xcode, but is probably one of the most useful things to highlight for me. To be able to tell at a glance whether I’m looking at a library function or an internal was very useful. Probably doesn’t matter for languages that enforce calling with the module (eg, module::foo()), but in C/Objective-C and Swift it’s annoying when it’s missing.
by kentonv | 2025-10-16 23:56:16+00:00
You may be interested in the Dynamic Worker Loader API, which lets you set up isolate-based sandboxes (instead of containers) and gives you extremely fine-grained, object-capability-based control over permissions.

It was announced as part of the code mode blog post:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/

API docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/bindi...
by DrewADesign | 2025-10-16 23:56:25+00:00
Not to mention GANs, RAGs, context decoupling, prompt matrices, NAGGLs, first-class keywords, reverse token interrupts, agentic singletons, parallel context bridges…

… jk… I’ll bet at least one person was like “ah, damnit, what did I miss…” for a second.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-16 23:56:26+00:00
> so now I just pirate those books.

I know someone who wrote a (technical) book and how hard it is to get sales in the age of easy internet piracy.

I understand the desire to use the books as you please, but please remember that buying the book and downloading a pirated copy for your own use are not mutually exclusive choices.

You can still purchase the book to support the author even if you're not using the exact same file to read it. As the other commenter said, books are extremely cheap relative to the value and/or entertainment time they provide.
by huerne | 2025-10-16 23:56:52+00:00
The pattern across their repo is concerning: rebranding documented system features as "exploits."

Their GPU "hijacking" demo has the victim deliberately publish CUDA IPC handles to world-readable shared memory (0666), then calls normal CUDA IPC functionality an "attack."

Their eBPF paper on ArXiv lacks evaluation or performance metrics.

The company appears to be three people: the founder and his two teenage sons (10th and 8th grade) listed as paper co-authors. No customers, no team page, launched right before college application season. The technical work exists but reads like it's optimized for admissions committees rather than advancing security research.

LD_PRELOAD has been a standard Linux feature since the 90s. Calling it "The Invisible Key Theft" and pitching an eBPF product as the solution misrepresents both the threat model and what constitutes novel security research.
by gpm | 2025-10-16 23:56:53+00:00
The kernel doesn't use any C++, so no more than incidentally.

There is some C++/rust interop in the past that I've worked on that would have enjoyed the arbitrary self types feature, but not particularly because of the C++ part of the equation. In fact I think if it had been a pure rust project it would also have enjoyed that feature just as much so... eh... take it for what little it's worth I guess.