MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Alupis | 2025-10-08 04:14:02+00:00
People often equate "Public" with meaning "middle-center" or "apolitical". Many would claim National Public Radio (NPR) is middle-center, politically-speaking.

Plenty of people disagree with that statement, and those who agree tend to like NPR's messaging - hence the "bubble" you referred to. Good, non-partisan reporting should make "both sides" groan from time to time.

If you find yourself in agreement with nearly everything said, then it's a fair sign the politics lean "your direction".
by in_cahoots | 2025-10-08 04:14:30+00:00
PBS kids shows teach (sometimes via a heavy hand, I'll admit) things like acceptance of people of different skin colors and ability levels. There's a show featuring Inuits called Molly of Denali, not McKinley. Some of the characters are even LGB (not trans as far as I've seen). Sadly in the current world these concepts are considered 'political'.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-08 04:14:32+00:00
> As people are forced to de-lever, everything goes down at once, often by very similar amounts, even though it cannot be possible that everything suddenly lost the same amount of value simultaneously.

The price of something and the value of something were never expected to be the same. What's the value of food? If you have none you die, so the value is quite high, but the price is much lower than that because there are many competing suppliers.

And the price of a large class like investment securities can easily change all at once if there is a large shift in supply or demand.
by throwaway-0001 | 2025-10-08 04:15:39+00:00
Not just the os, but browsing control is enough to do 99% of the things he would want autonomously.

Bank account + id + browser: has all the tools it needs to do many things:

- earn money - allocate money - create accounts - delegate physical jobs to humans

Create his own self loop in a server. Create a server account, use credit card + id provided, self host his own code… can now focus on getting more resources.
by scarface_74 | 2025-10-08 04:17:20+00:00
Oracle is not fine. They are borrowing money hoping to get paid back by money losing OpenAI propped up by VC funding.

No business is going to run workloads on OCI outside of ones running Oracle. They a They are a way distance fourth in cloud. I’ve been working in cloud consulting for five years including the first three directly at AWS (Professional Services). No one worried about having talking points about competing against Oracle.

Microsoft, Google and Amazon have both internal products that can benefit from inference and cloud hosting.
by qingcharles | 2025-10-08 04:17:47+00:00
Isn't it a pain to get a working key for Win 11 LTSC?

I've not bothered since switching from Win 10 LTSC to Win 11. Win 11 is definitely faster and better for everyday use in 2025, IMO.

I start with installing a Tiny11 build: https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/the-complete-tiny1...

Massgrave it to pro.

Then I debloat: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

And you end up with a super zippy install that I've had zero compatibility problems with over the last year.
by remuskaos | 2025-10-08 04:18:05+00:00
I've been using my own domain for mail like that for over fifteen years now, and it happened only once that I've had to explain "no I don't work at $drugstore" when giving my "drugstore@mydomain.tld". And even that one time only got me like a weird look, but no further discussion. I enter my mail address into some form myself most of the time, after all.
by NotPractical | 2025-10-08 04:18:19+00:00
The only solution to this problem is new legislation. The case that Google fraduently marketed Android is flimsy at best.

People buying phones by and large do not care in the slightest about "openness". Whether or not their phone supports sideloading is completely and utterly irrelevant to them.

But aside from that, it would be enermously difficult to prove that Google made claims that were unequivocally false while advertising Android. Sure, they made some vague claims about Android being an "open" platform. But they had more than enough well-compensated lawyers on their side to avoid making specific promises about specific functionality that could eventually land them in court.

Finally, even if some of the claims Google made about Android in 2015 no longer hold up in 2025, that in and of itself is not illegal. Google is allowed to change and adapt Android over time as it sees fit. Though you and I may disagree with their findings, they have internally identified systemic security threats caused by unrestricted sideloading, and have created a solution to this real-world problem (however flawed it may be). There is no reason under the current laws of the United States that they should not be allowed to make those changes (aside from perhaps general antitrust law, but that is not enough in this instance as evidenced by the outcome of Epic Games' case against Google). Perhaps they will have to change their advertising going into the future, and they can definitely no longer reuse older advertising materials promoting Android's capability for unrestricted sideloading (if those exist). But just because they advertised Android as having feature X in the past does not mean that they would break the law if they were to remove feature X in the future after they stopped running those old ads.

(Yes, it gets a little blurry in the case of software because it often automatically updates and offers no option to downgrade. But phones don't last forever. In the worst case Google could just wait ~5 years from today to implement Developer Verification.)
by anonymars | 2025-10-08 04:19:47+00:00
Marcel laments that Windows 10's days are numbered

As I understand it, you seem to respond that actually Windows 10 has a long life ahead (its "days are numbered in years"). Yet just above that--the comment causing Marcel's lamentations--is evidence that Windows 10 is already on its way out now.

How would that evidence--that Windows 10 is already a problem--not be relevant to your assertion that Windows 10's days will be numbered in years?

How will its days be numbered in years if there are problems with ecosystem support for it today?

For the record, I detest Windows 11 and intend to stay on Windows 10 until I'm forced off of it
by paool | 2025-10-08 04:21:12+00:00
Disagree, I think vibe coders should become synonymous with no-code and continue to be somewhat of a pejorative.

I don't like the term vibe engineer, but do agree there needs to be a term to signifiy the difference.

It's also possible in the future just being called a developer/engineer already implies you use coding agents and the people who do it "by hand" will not be the norm.
by gls2ro | 2025-10-08 04:21:39+00:00
Some of these extra tools are added because someone wants to display "a blog post" using React and so they think they need all those extra tools for FE.

If there is no need for the level of reactivity that is on the level of facebook style then everything provided by a simple rails new is enough.

But I would say that you kinda need to think about the UX with simplicity in mind or else everything becomes a blog with React because everything can be forced to look like it needs to be reactive and do a lot of unnecessary stuff.
by jaltman | 2025-10-08 04:21:51+00:00
Correct, and the point-to-point bandwidth is limited by the maximum RX window size because of the bandwidth delay product. As round-trip latency increases, at some point the window size becomes insufficient to keep the pipe full, at which point data transfers stall.

One site which recently lifted and shifted their AFS cell to a cloud made the following observations:

We observed the following performance while copying a 1g file from local disk into AFS.

AuriStor Client (2021.05-65) -> OpenAFS server (1.6.24): 3m.11s AuriStor Client (2021.05-65) -> AuriStor Server (2021.05-65): 1m AuriStor Client (2025.00.11) -> AuriStor Server (2025.00.11): 30s

All of the above tests were performed from clients located on campus to fileservers located in in the cloud.

There are many RX implementation differences between the three versions. It is important to note that the window size grows from 32 -> 128 -> 512.
by aeon_ai | 2025-10-08 04:22:23+00:00
I don't make many of the claims you seem to tease apart from my response. I've presented no false binary, and explicitly advocated for operating with more nuance there.

I'll elaborate.

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I'm pointing out that, in response to a seemingly innocuous post about a site, you've drawn attention to an unrelated issue, and subsequently framed the entirety of US-based companies as morally complicit with NSA surveillance.

I have no doubt that the NSA likely petitions Cloudflare, among others, for information. But, unlike you, I don't have any indication or context for relationships that would provide the NSA direct, unfettered access to all information processed by Cloudflare.

Further, I believe that the ever-holy north star of capitalism would suggest that Cloudflare, a company that operates globally with significant ties to large organizations outside the US, likely has a sufficient incentive to maintain at least a degree of friction in that access.

What I do know - - The company issues multiple transparency reports. They declare they have never: turned over encryption keys, installed law enforcement software on their network, provided feeds of customer content to law enforcement, modified customer content at government request, or weakened their encryption. - They are a public company, and have SEC filings which the CEO is on the hook for. - The CEO of the company stands to make a lot more money being successful at what Cloudflare does than serving NSA requests the US govt makes -- And the latter would pose great risk to the former.

The best move if the golden goose is at risk is to make an absolute shitstorm of noise, which would put everyone on high alert. In fact, the tranparency report says as much -- "If Cloudflare were asked to do any of these, we would exhaust all legal remedies, in order to protect our customers from what we believe are illegal or unconstitutional requests. -- Accurate as of October 8, 2025"

Cloudflare, like any CDN/reverse proxy, has the technical capability to view customer traffic. There's no evidence of systematic NSA access, and plenty of evidence that would suggest resistance to it.

Suggesting that because the company is US-based that they are somehow "evil" indicates, more than anything, an anti-US sentiment that is looking for reasons to villainize the company.

None of that is to downplay the issues the Cloudflare does, in fact, create. But, proposing that there's a massive conspiracy to "slurp up your data" requires a really, really big stretch that begins to stray into tinfoil territories.
by shawntan | 2025-10-08 04:23:47+00:00
I should probably also add: It's long been known that Universal / Recursive Transformers are able to solve _simple_ synthetic tasks that vanilla transformers cannot.

Just check out the original UT paper, or some of it's follow ups: Neural Data Router, https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07732; Sparse Universal Transformers (SUT), https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07096. There is even theoretical justification for why: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03961

The challenge is actually scaling them up to be useful as LLMs as well (I describe why it's a challenge in the SUT paper).

It's hard to say with the way ARC-AGI is allowed to be evaluated if this is actually what is at play. My gut tells me, given the type of data that's been allowed in the training set, that some leakage of the evaluation has happened in both HRM and TRM.

But because as a field we've given up on actually carefully ensuring training and test don't contaminate, we just decide it's fine and the effect is minimal. Especially considering LLMs, the test set example leaking into the dataset is merely a drop in the bucket (I don't believe we should be dismissing it this way, but that's a whole 'nother conversation).

With these models that are challenge-targeted, it becomes a much larger proportion of what influences the model behaviour, especially if the open evaluation sets are there for everyone to look at and simply generate more. Now we don't know if we're generalising or memorising.
by karmakaze | 2025-10-08 04:24:14+00:00
Note that physical access and an interposer can be used to decrypt memory. See this other recent story[0].

> They exploit both Intel’s and AMD’s use of deterministic encryption, which produces the same ciphertext each time the same plaintext is encrypted with a given key.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443767
by diegoscara | 2025-10-08 04:24:43+00:00
Hi everyone,

In my OSS project OpenETL I created a Garmin data pipeline in Airflow to automate the daily extraction, processing and loading of data from the Garmin Connect API into a well-documented postgreSQL database. This pipeline leverages python-garminconnect for data extraction from the Garmin Connect API, which in its stead leverages garth!

This pipeline allows you to have very well structured datasets in a SQL database that can be used for analytics in standard ways (such as dashboards, Jupyter, etc.) and new ways (such as with the @psql tool in Github Copilot Chat Agent Mode in your IDE, for a natural language analytics experience).

Check it out and let me know what you think!
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-08 04:25:27+00:00
I don't remember where you can find it.

But that tether will have to lift the entire weight of your ship, plus a share of its own weight. The longer you make it, the heavier it will be, and you get a problem similar to a space elevator, and before you get to city-sized, it seems to require exotic materials already.

The choice of materials impose a maximum size for any design that rotates as a whole.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-08 04:26:10+00:00
Authoritarian is often used as a pejorative strawman rather than as any particularly coherent concern. For instance Italy's Meloni was framed by the media, and people who still believe it, as being the next Mussolini, if not Hitler. In reality? Her time as leader has been largely inconsequential and relatively popular, especially contrasted against the leadership in places like Germany and France.

In general it's not authoritarians that are winning everywhere, but anti-globalists - which is disingenuously framed as authoritarianism. Globalist views were adopted on a wide scale, and they simply didn't lead to positive results, and so it's an ideology which is on the decline, ironically - globally.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-10-08 04:26:36+00:00
I have a bunch at work, yes. Can't publish them.

Just an hour ago I "made" one in 2 minutes to iterate through some files, extract metadata, and convert to CSV.

I'm convinced that hypothesis is true. The activation energy (with a subscription to one of the big 3, in the current pre-enshittification phase) is approximately 0.

Edit: I also wouldn't even want to publish these one-off, AI-generated scripts, because for one they're for specific niches, and for two they're AI generated so, even though they fulfilled their purpose, I don't really stand behind them.
by cycomachead | 2025-10-08 04:26:50+00:00
I mean, I think the problem with SPA-like client-side approaches are that there aren't any that have felt _good_ with Rails, let alone great.

Absolutely true that not every app needs to be a SPA from day one, but I do with there were a few more common solutions for "hybrid" apps, which use some pages as a SPA. That said, it's not that bad once you've got it setup. I like that Rails offers a solution like import maps, but I do also wish there were better core functionality for using some kind of package manager.

Like the redis analogy: Whether or not you need Redis, there are good defaults and very good 'third party' solutions for background jobs (or caching). You don't even need Redis is many cases, but it's easy to grow into.
by SecureBitChat | 2025-10-08 04:27:01+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’ve just released SecureBit Chat v4.3.120, a fully serverless, peer-to-peer encrypted messenger — no servers, no metadata, no central authority.

It uses ECDH + AES-256-GCM + DTLS + SAS for end-to-end encryption and supports binary connection exchange, QR-based pairing, and full offline operation.
by dhon_ | 2025-10-08 04:27:02+00:00
Here's the chat session - you can expand the thought process and see that it tried a few things (hands misaligned with the keyboard for example) before testing the Dvorak keyboard layout idea.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68e5e68e-00c4-8011-b806-c936ac657a...

I also found it interesting that despite me suggesting it might be a password generator or API key, ChatGPT doesn't appear to have given that much consideration.
by ares623 | 2025-10-08 04:27:33+00:00
What I’d really like to see is a company that completely does away with the code review step. Because if you think about it a code review is already being done by the invoker of the LLM. That way the velocity will actually be faster. It feels like at the moment most of the velocity is blocked by the outdated notion of code review.

It’s also why these tools feel great in green field projects, since these ones don’t typically have any code review in place (i.e. one dev going brrr)
by throwaway173738 | 2025-10-08 04:29:16+00:00
I have zero expertise either, but I find this field fascinating. Cooking makes it easier to chew so we can devote less of our skulls to chewing muscles. At birth our skulls are barely small enough to fit through the birth canal in one orientation, and one of the prerequisites for a baby to be born is that it’s facing head down and shoulders rotated into that orientation. Maybe cooking is beneficial because it allowed us to have a bigger braincase but also it gave us access to more nutrients from the same food.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-08 04:29:37+00:00
> What if it takes 12 months of hard thinking to draw the right conclusion from the information? Are there many investors who go to such lengths?

It's not required to be all of them. Suppose that it indeed isn't, but the ones who do that work for investment funds who control significant pools of money.

Now the investors in two or three of those places do the research and conclude that some company is about to start doing well and their share price is currently $50 but is about to be $150. So they start buying it, and keep buying it until it gets up near $150. Which happens pretty quickly because they control enough money to use up all of the short-term liquidity at the lower prices and the majority of the shares are held by people who aren't even paying attention and therefore don't try to sell when the price starts going up. Once the price gets to that point they don't buy any more because it's no longer selling at a discount.

Then the company actually starts doing well to the point that everyone can see it but the price hardly moves because it was already priced in.
by chii | 2025-10-08 04:30:14+00:00
you're wrong about the mechanism - it's not that the thinking is the cause of the efficiency. It's the large number of participants all doing their own brand of thinking, and that the _average_ of all of those approaches the "correct" price. It requires the large number of participants because for such an average to approach "correct", errors within each participant's guesses cancel each other out.

And the immediacy comes from the large amount and speed of the transactions. It does not require that these participants sus out the correct value from information - they could've actually just guessed.
by umanwizard | 2025-10-08 04:30:22+00:00
> Why does it seem obvious? Out of some sense of accessibility to third party observers?

I can think of lots of reasons.

1. It looks cheesy and unprofessional to use random objects instead of the pieces the game is supposed to be played with; you might not think this is a good reason but keep in mind we are talking about a game that until recently everyone played wearing a suit and tie.

2. It is distracting and impedes comprehension and calculation if the design of the actual pieces is burned into your pattern recognition — not only for observers, but for the players themselves. A lot of official chess rules, e.g. the touch-move rule, are just about not annoying your opponent.

3. It opens up ambiguity about what was actually intended. What if later the player tries to claim they really did mean a rook? What if a player accidentally turns one of their actual rooks upside down during the course of a game — is it still a rook, or are they trying to cheat by turning it into a queen? Etc.

4. It does not work with high-end electronic chessboards that automatically record moves (DGT).

5. Last but not least: there is absolutely no reason to allow this, because it’s impossible to imagine that at a serious tournament the arbiter wouldn’t be able to find an extra queen. And stopping the clock and asking for an arbiter, while still a bit distracting to others, is surely less distracting than starting a discussion with the opponent about whether it’s okay to use an overturned rook or any other random object as the queen.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-08 04:30:47+00:00
>And as a German what a lot of people don't get, we're very much an honour based society

We aren't. We are a totally Americanized failed state governed by mentally ill losers who continue to destroy this country in every possible way imaginable.

The German society which was the basis for this law does not exist anymore. Politicians are all complete clueless losers who do not deserve an ounce of respect.
by rendaw | 2025-10-08 04:30:55+00:00
I was recently looking into this for roguelike-like visibility calculations. The term I came across was "isovist" not "viewshed", but they seem identical? The former appears to be used a lot in architecture.

Calculating a 2d isovist is (relatively) simple, for 3d it seems much more complex. Is this simplified by the fact that it's dealing with a height map?
by dapperdrake | 2025-10-08 04:32:24+00:00
Quantitatively this seems to be where Price's law comes in:

The square root of the number of people does half the work. (Think of the matrix diagonal.) With three people in a group, 1.5 of them do half the work. With 10,000 in a group about 100 of them do half the work.

Price's law also seems to be recursive. Just like Pareto's 80/20-rule.

Add Conway’s law to this and you are all set.
by subarctic | 2025-10-08 04:32:25+00:00
I just feel so discouraged reading this somehow. I used to have this hard-to-get, in-demand skill that paid lots of money and felt like even though programming languages, libraries and web frameworks were always evolving I could always keep up because I'm smart. But now with these people like Simon Willison writing about the new way of coding with these agents and multiple streams of work going on at a time and it sounding like this is the future, I just feel discouraged because it sounds like so much work and I've tried using coding agents and they help a bit, but I find it way less fun to be waiting around for agents to do stuff and it's way harder to get into flow state managing multiple of these things. It makes me want to move into something completely different like sales
by SchemaLoad | 2025-10-08 04:32:39+00:00
I've had firstname@lastname.me for a few years now and so far haven't had any confusion. They just read it back to me to make sure it's correct. I used to do the businesname@mydomain and that caused lots of confusion, especially when support ask me for my email and I can't remember what it was. And they are confused because my email has their name in it.
by saghm | 2025-10-08 04:32:45+00:00
I forget where I first heard it, but there's a joke about two economists walking down the street. One of them notices a $20 bill on the ground and points it out out, saying "Look, it's $20 just lying there on the sidewalk!" The other shakes his head and says "No, that can't be true; if it were, someone else would have picked it up already"