MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kotaKat | 2025-10-22 09:28:54+00:00
And terminal costs will be through the roof in comparison.

Who else out there is making full-on beamforming capable satellite terminals under $1k? Kymeta's over $20k+ for a single dish.

People may hate the company and the man behind it but there's something special about being able to grab specialized satcoms hardware for like $300 at Best Buy.

10 years ago a BGAN terminal ran me $5000+ and a 384k connection several thousand bucks a month. Now you can get ~512k for $5 a month in Standby Mode on a $300 dish.
by c0balt | 2025-10-22 09:29:51+00:00
Garage worked for most of my use-cases but it lacks, among other endpoints[0], bucket ACLs and bucket replication. Anonymous access is also an open issue[1].

They are also a comparatively young project and while fully OSS do not, afaik, appear to have a solid long term funding source yet. Though that might be an opportunity to support them, if your company is interested in picking them.

[0]: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/reference-manua...

[1]: https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage/issues/263
by 0xEF | 2025-10-22 09:31:42+00:00
Likely. I spent a lot of my youth exploring the idea that the brain is sort of like a radio that could be tuned to different layers of reality using psychoactives. Also had a bit of a love affair with DMT for awhile, as well as trying to find the right combo of “soft” drugs that would induce hypnogogic dream states.

As fruity as all that sounds, I learned a lot about chemistry and how to conduct (or not conduct, perhaps), verifiable research, which is an important part of my thinking today as we navigate an ever-increasing flood of claims about tech, medicine and mental health. I have to imagine HN attracts some pretty analytical minds by default, my own being novice, at best.

I have a lot of great respect for the folks at erowid and I’m glad to see they’re still around.
by HWR_14 | 2025-10-22 09:32:13+00:00
> if this becomes a trend Starlink may become unviable business for a market of just 300M people.

345M people. Of which, the real market is around 15M households. Everyone else already has wired broadband. I suppose some people will want an additional link for redundancy, but my understanding is that Starlink satellites would be oversubscribed if urban areas had significant adoption.
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-22 09:33:17+00:00
I did the LFS build with SysV init scripts. I think there is a systemd version of LFS. LFS was a good learning exercise to see generally how everything was put together. I wouldn't want to manually manage all of this myself.

If you look at the LFS compile instructions for each package they are essentially the same as the PKGBUILDs scripts in Arch, I suspect it is similar with Gentoo, Void or any other similar Linux distro.
by botanical | 2025-10-22 09:33:20+00:00
Load shedding hasn't been a problem for a while now. With proper maintenance of the coal stations and investments in solar, we haven't had it in Winter either. But you're right, it's always lurking. With increased renewable energy, and less reliance on coal, hopefully it stays in the past.

https://african.business/2025/10/energy-resources/has-south-...
by DrewADesign | 2025-10-22 09:33:52+00:00
That’s right. And Luca Brasi wasn’t threatening the band leader when he put the gun to his head. There’s a lot of reasons he could have been holding the gun like that— maybe he didn’t have his reading glasses and he was trying to read the serial number? Maybe he was comparing the the band leader’s hair sheen to a known reference gun? If the band leader then ‘decided’ to sign the contract to let Johnny Fontaine leave, it certainly wouldn’t be intentionally coercive.
by fmajid | 2025-10-22 09:34:10+00:00
The new CEO of Eutelsat, Jean-François Fallacher, was previously the CEO of Orange France, the country’s incumbent telco, a much bigger company. He is a member of France’s senior civil service and this shows how seriously France and the EU are taking the strategic and sovereignty risks of depending on US-controlled infrastructure. Greenland, of course, is even more concerned due to Trump’s threats.
by m4rtink | 2025-10-22 09:34:17+00:00
It really was a race - you can find the original space fligh plans before the race started and they look much more sane and sustainable.

Incremental progress via building up infrastructure, including space station in Earth and Moon orbit, paving way to a lunar surface base. Also ways to make this affordable were explored, including reusable first stages, etc.

Then all focus switch to racing the Soviets and and anything that did not contribute flags and footprints on the lunar surface ASAP was skipped, opting for the fastest possible solution at all costs.

So no wonder that after the race was won, it was hard to do a meaningful followup with the architecture chosen.

One might even argue we would be further along space infra wise if the race did not happen or involved other objectives (possibly even including in space military buildup by both sides).
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-22 09:34:19+00:00
And code with zero ability to do fancy trickery ("expressive" as some people like to say) is easy to read even if the codebase - or even the language - is unfamiliar.

Which is really handy when shit's on fire and you need to find the error yesterday. You can just follow what happens instead of trying to figure out the cool tricks the original programmer put in with their super-expressive language.

Yes, the bug is on line 42, but it does two dozen things on the single line...
by wiether | 2025-10-22 09:34:23+00:00
I can only sympathize here because I have those exact issues with some of our customers

They don't want our hosting solutions but insist on using their own hosting partners

The result are similar:

- its at least five times more expensive on pure hosting costs

- we lose a considerable amount of time dealing with the hosting partner (which we bill to the customer)

- it's always a security nightmare, either because they put so much "safety protections" in place that it's unusable (think about the customer wanting an Internet-facing website, but the servers are private...) or because they don't put any safety settings in place so the servers are regularly taken down through awfully simple exploits (think about SSH root access with "passw0rd" as password...)

- customer keep complaining about performances to us, but what can you do when the servers are sharing a 100Mbps connection, or the filesystem is on an NFS with <20Mbps bandwidth
by psb217 | 2025-10-22 09:34:28+00:00
Yes, you can get good compression of a long sequence of "base" text tokens into a shorter sequence of "meta" text tokens, where each meta token represents the information from multiple base tokens. But, grouping a fixed number of base tokens into each meta token isn't ideal, since that won't align neatly with sensible semantic boundaries, like words, phrases, sentences, etc. So, the trick is how decide which base tokens should be grouped into each meta token....

This sort of "dynamic chunking" of low-level information, perhaps down to the level of raw bytes, into shorter sequences of meta tokens for input to some big sequence processing model is an active area of research. Eg, one neat paper exploring this direction is: "Dynamic Chunking for End-to-End Hierarchical Sequence Modeling" [1], from one of the main guys behind Mamba and other major advances in state-space models.

[1] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07955
by lordnacho | 2025-10-22 09:34:53+00:00
What I see in the US is that the judiciary has already become partisan. In most of Europe, if there's a trial, the judge is just some nameless character. I mean, he has a name of course, but nobody can really point the finger at them and say they are interested in one side or the other. It's just not the done thing. By contrast, American judges are appointed by politicians, and people can claim they are not impartial. (Or elected, same thing)

Here's a weird observation. I know the names of several US supreme court judges, and their right/left lean, despite never having lived there. I've lived in four other countries, and I might know one judge due to him having a funny name.

What also doesn't tend to happen in Europe is questioning the legitimacy of the system. People can get sentenced and they just... accept it.
by cubefox | 2025-10-22 09:35:39+00:00
> In a statement to Reuters, Bob Behnken, vice president of Exploration and Technology Strategy at Lockheed Martin's space unit, said the company this year has been conducting "significant technical and programmatic analysis for human lunar landers."

> "We have been working with a cross-industry team of companies and together we are looking forward to addressing Secretary Duffy's request to meet our country’s lunar objectives," said Behnken, a retired NASA astronaut.

https://www.reuters.com/science/us-seek-rival-bids-artemis-3...
by igor47 | 2025-10-22 09:35:41+00:00
Yes! This happened in so many industries. Banking is my go to example, where we used to have local bankers making decisions based on local knowledge of their community, but then decision making was centralized into remote central HQs and the local bankers moved into living below the API, while the central HQ guys began to make all the bucks. See also "seeing like a state" and the concept of legibility.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-22 09:36:44+00:00
I'd say it's pretty normal for a workflow. If you have a lot of things that can proceed independently of each other, you're likely to see that characterized as "multiple workflows".

Say you're making a four-course meal. In the abstract, each course is independent of the other three, but internally the steps of its preparation have exactly this kind of dependence, where step 3 is scheduled after step 2 because doing those steps in the other order will ruin the food.

If you ever want to make just one of those courses -- maybe you're going to a potluck -- now you've got an almost fully sequential workflow.

(And in practice, the full four-course meal is much more sequential than it appears in the abstract, because many of the steps of each course must contend for scarce resources, such as the stove, with steps of other courses.)
by seec | 2025-10-22 09:36:57+00:00
Agreed. I'm a Mac user first but I have spent a lot of time in Windows in past years.

Now that I have been used to both, I think much of the macOS multi-tasking behavior makes very little sense and is a major pain in the ass.

Switching apps instead of windows is extremely dumb and rather useless when there are multiple windows of the same app. Similarly, I have grown to hate the app centric design, you need to micromanage open apps when all their windows have been closed. Now that I'm used to the confortable way software gets closed when the last document is closed on Windows, I routinely forget to quit apps on macOS and end up with a gazillion stuff open routinely. I'm sure Apple likes it this way because you are guaranteed to use more RAM (BTW my experience is that for the same exact hardware, macOS use more ressources) but it's mostly just extremely dumb and painful.

Nowadays when I hear Apple fans rave about the UI/UX of Apple stuff, I laugh my ass off. Most of it is deeply unintuitive and the approach is very often just plain inferior to what Windows ended up with. I actually think it's kind of the point. Macs appeal to "alternative" people who are very contrarian and want to pretend they are special; it's kind of a feature that the thing works completely differently to the established standard (and what most people would expect), you have to be "in on it" and if you pretend it make sense, you get virtual points for being so different and so much smarter than the common folk (who obviously is an idiot with his common Windows).

I think that if Apple would make using 3rd party OSs on their good hardware, macOS would disappear pretty fast. This is why they don't make a lot of effort with Apple Silicon.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-22 09:38:57+00:00
> Land on the moon when we can accomplish something there, not just to prove we haven’t lost our mojo since Apollo.

I have been a die hard fan of space exploration since the first Columbia flight. It is one of my first memories. I dream of the day when the moon is populated, like the ISS. I am the largest proponent of space exploration you'll meet, if only just for the sense of exploration disregarding all other benefits. Humanity's future is either to progress beyond this planet, or stagnate here.

That's why I have been following the Artemis program since the beginning. And with all the funding changes, and all the mission profiles that have changed in accordance, two things have stood out as the primary goals. First, the cost. That space station double docking in the way down is not only unnecessary, it is also fraught with risk. The only possibly explanation for that component is to spend money. Second, the actual started goals have changed three or four times, but one goal has been consistent. Go look at NASA's Artemis webpage. It's the first words up there: "NASA's Artemis missions aim to land the first woman and first person of colour on the Moon ...". Really? That is the first, primary objective? And it is such a shame, because of you look at Glover's career and accomplishments, he is amazing. He should be flying that mission on his own personal merits, not because NASA was mandated to find some black guy. Frankly it is insulting to even see mention of that as a goal, much less the absolute first stated goal in the official materials, and the only consistent goal throughout the program.
by skydhash | 2025-10-22 09:40:41+00:00
That would be fine if the dependencies were permanent. Hardware fail and need to be replaced. The OS will be upgraded (macOS is more than happy to make breaking changes). If the software is networked, that’s another transient plane. Libraries will fall out of support range.

Then there’s the fact that the user’s needs fluctuate. Imagine having to pay for a whole another software because the current code is spaghetti and full of hardcoded value and magic constants. It worked, but now you want a slight adjustment, but that can’t no longer be made unless you’re willing to rewrite the whole thing (and pay for it). That would be like having to buy a whole new car, because you moved to the house next door, as the car is hardwired to move only between your old place and where you work.
by imiric | 2025-10-22 09:41:04+00:00
Shame. Textbook OSS rug pull. These people love to rely on OSS, and claim how committed they are to contribute to the ecosystem and to their community, but as soon as people are drawn to the project, start relying on it and using it in the same spirit of OSS that they enjoy themselves (which their chosen license allows, mind you), then it becomes a financial burden, priorities shift to their commercial offering, there's no "bandwidth" to maintain and support the "community" edition, and so on.

STOP ABUSING OSS AS A MARKETING GIMMICK.

Or perhaps an advice to people who might actually listen: stop being attracted to open source projects because of the word "open", and because you can use it gratis. There are plenty of good proprietary and commercial software whose authors treat their users with more respect than these leeches of good will and abusers of trust.

I'm not against OSS being commercialized. In fact, I think that it's crucial for maintaining a healthy project in the long-term[1][2]. But this lingers on the developer having respect and equal regard for all their users, regardless of how much they're paying them. Yes, nobody working on software should be expected to work for free. But there is a philosophy behind this movement that goes beyond a financial transaction. It only works if everyone in the ecosystem is honest, and first and foremost has the intention of making the world a better place for everyone, by not only depending on others who have this mindset, but by adopting it themselves. Claiming to be part of the OSS community, but being hostile to your OSS users is dishonest at best, and worthy of all criticism.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45540307

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537750
by nbadg | 2025-10-22 09:42:02+00:00
If the goal is to actually package and distribute the changes via import hook, that makes the supply chain attack question particularly relevant. And it still doesn't explain why you couldn't just package and distribute the monkeypatch itself, instead of creating a whole new import ecosystem surrounding hooks.

I've done my fair share of that too, but I'm still not seeing the benefit vs patching.
by Razengan | 2025-10-22 09:42:08+00:00
> Unfortunately this subject is above my pay grade, so I gave up :)

Don't feel like that. Even though I'm still a complete layman in everything with massive imposter syndrome, I never felt like I would "never" understand something, because some part of my brain intuitively realizes that if other humans were able to figure something out then I should be able to too.

If something doesn't make sense, it's because I haven't take the same "journey" from the point of view of those scientists who did, I'm just seeing the end result without everything that it's built from and on, and that's where the investment of time and effort comes in, which I am OK with not putting in for things that aren't immediately relative to me, but it's certainly not an "intelligence ceiling".
Show HN: Confidential AI browser extension – alternative to OpenAI Atlas
by flxflx | 2025-10-22 09:42:11+00:00
Hi HN,

We published our experimental browser extension for Chrome just a few hours before OpenAI announced its Atlas browser. Ours takes a different approach: privacy first.

Atlas makes “memory” and cross-tab context a core feature. OpenAI acknowledges the privacy concerns and promises users full control over what gets stored and sent to the cloud. In practice, most users won’t maintain that control.

Our vision is full privacy by design, so it doesn’t matter what data flows to the cloud. The extension connects to (1) a cloud-hosted inference service (Privatemode AI) running gpt-oss-120b in carefully architected confidential-computing environments and (2) a local document store with a vector DB.

The inference service leverages AMD SEV-SNP and the confidential-computing features of the Nvidia H100. The environment is designed so that we (Edgeless Systems) and no one else can access user. All data stays encrypted even during processing in main memory. The client automatically verifies the integrity of the backend using a process called "remote attestation". All relevant server-side software can be found on GitHub and can be built reproducibly.

It’s an early developer version. If you want to play with it, you’ll need to clone the repo and run it together with our encryption/verification proxy and the aforementioned document store. You'll also need to sign-up for a free API key at www.privatemode.ai.

Looking forward to your feedback!

Repo: https://github.com/edgelesssys/privatemode-for-chrome-demo Blog post: https://www.privatemode.ai/articles/browser-extension-demo-l... Demo video: https://youtu.be/4j77YHXDqAQ
by weli | 2025-10-22 09:42:34+00:00
When you always published and built Docker images for the public you are creating an expectation, people will rely on that and will chose your software based on that expectation.

You suddenly deciding that you won't be offering updated Docker images especially after a CVE and with no prior notice (except a hidden commit 4 days ago that updated the README) is approaching malicious-level actions.

If they truly cared about their community and still wanted to go through the decision of not offering public docker builds the responsible thing to do is offer a warning period, start adding notices in the repo (gh and docker) and create an easy migration path, even endorse or help some community members who would be fine with taking care of the public builds of the image.

But no, they introduced the change, made no public statement about it, waited for someone to notice this, offered no explanation and went silent. After a huge CVE. Irresponsible.
by emporas | 2025-10-22 09:42:36+00:00
Combinators are math though. There is a section in the paper that covers the topic of graphs and charts, transforming them to text and then back again to image. They claim 97% precision.

> within a 10× compression ratio, the model’s decoding precision can reach approximately 97%, which is a very promising result. In the future, it may be possible to achieve nearly 10× lossless contexts compression through text-to-image approaches.

Graphs and charts should be represented as math, i.e. text, that's what they are anyway, even when they are represented as images, it is much more economical to be represented as math.

The function f(x)=x can be represented by an image of (10pixels x 10pixels) dimensions, (100pixels x 100pixels) or (infinite pixels x infinite pixels).

A math function is worth infinite pictures.
by HelloNurse | 2025-10-22 09:43:18+00:00
I'd make the opposite argument about educational value. If you learn to compile libraries and programs you have, so to speak, passed an exam: you are ready to "make games" with confidence because you know what you are doing well enough to have no fear of tool complications.

What should be minimized is the accidental complication of compiling libraries and programs, for example convoluted build systems and C++ modules.
by klempner | 2025-10-22 09:43:38+00:00
Are you sure these "cheap vape pens" don't just use 5V3A, which doesn't require any PD negotiation at all? (a lot of them screw even that much up, and a lot of people confuse "PD negotiation" with simply having the right resistors on the CC pins)

There is real cost savings here -- the RPi5 avoided the need for a buck circuit, and for that matter probably a dedicated PD controller chip.

In contrast, in the context of a "cheap vape pen" you have a battery which means you need to be able to convert to (and from!) battery voltage, so you need that conversion circuitry anyway.
by manquer | 2025-10-22 09:43:55+00:00
It is not just about the having a good voice, whilst that is important, you also need voice acting skills to show in the voice, as in a good voice actor would change their accent, tone, language, style for every character and seed it with emotion and so forth. A lot of thought (and skill) goes into it[1]

Stephen Fry is good for audio books because he is a talented voice actor amongst his many other skills. Attenborough is a treasure and known for his audio work, but he is not a voice actor - or at least doesn't do that kind of work which requires lot more range rather than one specific one we all recognize. I wouldn't like his voice style to narrate a fiction book for me.

A planned production with editing and nuanced prompting even with just AI voice actors will still vastly better for immersion than just an app doing it real time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@tawnyplatis7866/shorts
by gbxk | 2025-10-22 09:44:53+00:00
Thanks! Yes: Katakate provides much stronger isolation, since it uses hardware virtualization (via Kata Containers and Firecracker) while gVisor relies purely on software sandboxing in user space.

gVisor isolates containers by intercepting system calls in a user-space kernel, so it can still be vulnerable to sandbox escape via gVisor bugs, though not directly through Linux kernel exploits (since gVisor doesn’t expose the host kernel to the container).

Katakate also provides more than isolation: it offers orchestration through Kubernetes (K3s)

You could create a gVisor RuntimeClass in Kubernetes to orchestrate gVisor sandboxes, but that would require extra setup.