MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2025-10-12 20:53:14+00:00
I think the market narrowed a lot. I haven't been to Flickr in years, but I get the impression it's for more serious photographers now, like SmugMug. It was the Instagram of its day, with mass market appeal. I think that's what people miss. Not the site, but the community around it.

In this same vein, I always thought Tumblr had a great design for a blog. It hits the perfect balance between a microblog like Twitter, and a fat blog like Wordpress. It had various stigma's around the type of people who posted there, which seems to have only gotten worse over the years. It is a shell of its former self and yet anther site that fell on hard times after Yahoo ownership.

Yahoo really is where Web 2.0 went to die.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-12 20:53:56+00:00
When talking about vision and what you see and don't I like bringing up the Your Brain: Perception Deception Nova PBS episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU6LfXNeQM4

Also Your Brain: Who's in control Nova PBS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ6VOOd73MA
by ricardobeat | 2025-10-12 20:54:00+00:00
Not sure what you are protesting - wikipedia is not “hiding” anything which is what I pointed out. The killings during the “Red Terror” are also well documented in wikipedia and not left out. Documenting genocide (mass murder or whatever you want to call it) in Gaza is not leftist, just history. Israel’s justification for the war are also documented elsewhere.

You seem to look at everything slightly related to socialism/communism under the same lens and expect to see your worldview reflected in Wikipedia, that is the opposite of neutrality. In fact you’re enacting a perfect example of item #3 in the original post, the “balance” argument.
by lmeyerov | 2025-10-12 20:54:02+00:00
Reposting:

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Rough news on kuzu being archived - startups are hard and Semih + Prashanth did so much in ways I value!

For those left in the lurch for compute-tier Apache Arrow-native graph queries for modern OSS ecosystems, GFQL [1] should be pretty fascinating, and hopefully less stress due to a sustainable governance model. Likewise, as an oss deeptech community, we add interesting new bits like the optional record-breaking GPU mode with NVIDIA Rapids [4].

GFQL, the graph dataframe-native query language, is increasingly how Graphistry, Inc. and our community work with graphs at the compute tier. Whether the data comes from a tabular ETL pipeline, a file, SQL, nosql, or a graph storage DB, GFQL makes it easy to do on-the-fly graph transforms and queries at the compute tier at sub-second speeds for graphs anywhere from 100 edges to 1,000,000,000 [3]. Currently, we support arrow/pandas, and arrow / nvidia rapids as the main engine modes.

While we're not marketing it much yet, GFQL is already used daily by every single Graphistry user behind-the-scenes, and directly by analysts & developers at banks, startups, etc around the world. We built it because we needed an OSS compute-tier graph solution for working with modern data systems that separate storage from compute. Likewise, data is a team sport, so it is used by folks on teams who have to rapidly wrangle graphs, whether for analysis, data science, ETL, visualization, or AI. Imagine an ETL pipeline or notebook flow or web app where data comes from files, elastic search, databricks, and neo4j, and you need to do more on-the-fly graph stuff with it.

We started [4] building what became GFQL before Kuzu because it solves real architectural & graph productivity problems that have been challenging our team, our users, and the broader graph community for years now. Likewise, by going dataframe-native & GPU-mode from day 1, it's now a large part of how we approach GPU graph deep tech investments throughout our stack, and means it's a sustainably funded system. We are looking at bigger R&D and commercial support contracts with organizations needing to do subsecond billion+-scale with us so we can build even more, faster (hit me up if that's you!), but overall, most of our users are just like ourselves, and the day-to-day is wanting an easy OSS way to wrangle graphs in our apps & notebooks. As we continue to smooth it out (ex: we'll be adding a familiar Cypher syntax), we'll be writing about it a lot more.

Links:

* ReadTheDocs: SQL <> Cypher <> GFQL - https://pygraphistry.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gfql/translate...

* pip install: https://pypi.org/project/graphistry/

* 2025 keynote - OSS interactive billion-edge GFQL analytics on 1 gpu: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/graphistry_at-graph-the-plane...

* 2022 blogpost w/ Ben Lorica first painting the vision: https://thedataexchange.media/the-graph-intelligence-stack/
by godelski | 2025-10-12 20:54:08+00:00
I don't use VSCode or Copilot, so I'm hoping someone can answer these questions for me

- chmod: does Copilot run as the user? Who's file permissions does it respect? - Can Copilot get root access? - Can autoApprove be enabled via the standard interface? Making it possible to batch approve code changes along with this setting change?[0] - Can it read settings from multiple files? (e.g. `.vscode/settings.json` and `../.vscode/settings.json`) - How is the context being read? Is this in memory? File? Both? - What happens when you edit the context? Are those changes seen in some log?

Honestly, I can't see how this problem becomes realistically solvable without hitting AGI (or pretty damn close to it). Fundamentally we have to be able to trust the thing that is writing the code and making the edits. We generally trust people because we pay, provide job security, and create a mutually beneficial system where malicious behavior is disincentivized. But a LLM doesn't really have the concept of maliciousness. Sure, we can pressure it to act certain ways but that also limits the capabilities of those tools. Can't get it to act "maliciously"? Then how is it going to properly do security testing? Now we got multiple versions of Copilot? Great, just get them to work together and you're back to where we were.

So I think the author is completely right that this gets much harrier when we let the LLMs do more and get multi-agent systems. What's the acceptable risk level? What are we willing to pay for that? It's easy to say "I'm just working on some dumb app" but honestly if it is popular enough why would this not be a target to create trojans? It's feasible for malicious people to sneak in malicious code, even when everyone is reviewing and acting diligently, but we place strong incentive structures around that to prevent this from happening. But I'm unconvinced we can do that with LLMs. And if we're being honest, it seems like letting LLMs do more erodes the incentive structure for the humans, so just makes it possible to be fighting two fronts...

So is it worth the cost? What are our limits?

[0] I'm thinking you turn it on, deploy your attack, turn it off, and the user then sees approval like they were expecting. Maybe a little longer or extra text but are they really watching the stream of text across the screen and watching every line? Seems easy to sneak in. I'm sure this can advance to be done silently or encoded in a way to make it look normal. Just have it take a temporary personality.
by watwut | 2025-10-12 20:55:08+00:00
> What is different in Ukraine now vs under Biden? The war hasn't ended. We haven't stopped supplying Ukraine.

What is different is that USA did actually stopped supporting Ukraine entirely for months. What also happened is that USA negotiated with Putin only, consistently putting Ukraine at disadvantage in those pretend peace deals. What also happened was that USA was giving Putin everything he wanted both in appearance and reality. What was also different was naked attempt to extort Ukraine and give them noting while giving their territory to Russia while demanding they give minerals to USA in exchange of "protection".

The approach and support in this completely is completely different from before. Biden mistake was to disallow attacks on Russian territory before Trump could take over and turn toward Russia he and his people admire so much.

> Trump has forced NATO members to spend more on their military

Trump made NATO members not believe USA will hold their part of the agreement. Trump lied about NATO and NATO members. I mean, others already helped America in their war and Trump clearly said he wont reciprocate.

> NATO expansion into the former Warsaw bloc countries began under Clinton, continued under Bush and kept going under Obama. There's no difference here.

Yes, eastern countries wanted to go to NATO, lobbed a lot and gained the security they craved.

> People say things. It doesn't mean a lot.

It does mean a lot, actually.

Funny, ICE was not doing pure racial profiling it is doing now. Pretending things are the same under both administration is just pure lie.
by dingdingdang | 2025-10-12 20:55:35+00:00
The only, as per personal exp, way to properly setup a Win11 machine these days is strictly via LTSC release and WinUtil from Chris Titus + local account - clean and no "feature" updates for almost 10 yrs. Add to that Chocolatey for package management that takes away the "every piece of software adds it's own autoupdater crap"-pain and the OS is suddenly very capable for almost all computing needs.
by mike_hearn | 2025-10-12 20:55:42+00:00
> It's unfortunate that there's been no proposals for database file systems for desktop operating systems since.

You can have one today if you want, although nobody knows about it.

Step 1. Install a local Oracle DB https://hub.docker.com/r/gvenzl/oracle-free#quick-start

Step 2. Set up DBFS https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2...

Step 3. Mount it via FUSE or NFS.

Step 4. Also access the underlying tables via SQL.
by carstenhag | 2025-10-12 20:56:05+00:00
I was scrolling and scrolling, waiting for the author to mention the new methods, which of course every Android Dev had to migrate to at some point. And 99% of us probably thought how annoying this change is, even though it probably reduced the number of bugs for Turkish users :)

Unrelated, but a month ago I found a weird behaviour where in a kotlin scratch file, `List.isEmpty()` is always true. Questioned my sanity for at least an hour there... https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTIJ-35551/
by throwaway81523 | 2025-10-12 20:56:17+00:00
It's a reference to an old TV commercial (I saw it later than the 1970s though, I'm pretty sure).

https://old.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/s7hs8k/tomt_...

I didn't try clicking the facebook link, because facebook, but maybe you can see the commercial there.

I expected the commercial to be better known and remembered, with copies on youtube and so on, but it appears very obscure. It came to my mind right away. Oh well.
by fainpul | 2025-10-12 20:57:12+00:00
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by al_borland | 2025-10-12 20:57:48+00:00
> Took a long time for advanced wifi solutions that "just work" to fill its place

What is the modern-day successor? You only mentioned what isn't good.

I loved the AirPort routers. I found it odd that Apple exited the market just as everyone else entered.

I ended up getting a Linksys as a troubleshooting step when I was having internet issues. I don't think the AirPort was the issue, but after migrating, it didn't seem worth going back to a router that was effectively end of life.

I still remember many years ago having a Sonos system and calling support due to some issues I was having. When they asked what type of router I had and I mentioned it was an AirPort, they immediately moved on to something else being the issue. The reputation was so solid that support wouldn't even bother troubleshooting it.
by Alupis | 2025-10-12 20:58:06+00:00
Again, FTA:

> A Times investigation found that LAFD officials did not pre-deploy any engines to the Palisades ahead of the Jan. 7 fire, despite warnings about extreme weather. In preparing for the winds, the department staffed up only five of more than 40 engines available to supplement the regular firefighting force.

> Those engines could have been pre-positioned in the Palisades and elsewhere, as had been done in the past during similar weather.

This was governmental failure at large. Not climate change. Extreme weather happens, and we (citizens) expect our government to prepare accordingly. It's literally their job to prepare for this sort of catastrophe.

> Right now, that’s just government officials trying to cover their ass with finger pointing

You are right - with finger pointing at climate change, throwing their hands up in the air while saying "what are you gonna do, it's extreme weather!". The weather was predictable and was predicted - and the government failed to plan accordingly. The government systematically underfunded, under-trained, and under utilized it's emergency resources. There's very little excuse here.
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-12 20:58:25+00:00
You've done nothing but reuse the Sam Altman/Elon Musk playbook of making wild and extremely vague statements.

Maybe say something concrete? What's a positive real world impact of LLMs where they aren't hideously expensive and error prone to the point of near uselessness? Something that isn't just the equivalent of a crypto-bro saying that their system for semi-regulated speculation (totally not a rugpull!) will end the tyranny of the banks.
by MBCook | 2025-10-12 20:59:42+00:00
Remember when CVS, among others, was closing all those stores due to a giant rise in theft? And they complained loudly?

Remember when they later apologized because it turned out there was no giant rise in theft?

It tells you any company having trouble adapting is thrilled to find a popular scapegoat so they don’t have to admit they made mistakes. Or at least to explain why they’re not doing even better if doing fine.

The company who cried wolf is an endemic problem.
by johnyzee | 2025-10-12 21:00:01+00:00
Ugh, I've had the exact same problem in a Java project, which meant I had to go through thousands and thousands of lines of code and make sure that all 'toLowerCase()' on enum names included Locale.ENGLISH as parameter.

As the article demonstrates, the error manifests in a completely inscrutable way. But once I saw the bug from a couple of users with Turkish sounding names, I zeroed in on it. And cursed a few times under my breath whoever messed up that character table so bad.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-10-12 21:00:03+00:00
>The article discusses this, and explains why the sheriff is contorting the plain meaning of his 4-words and an image (about Kirk) into a threat of violence (to a nearby school). This won't stand in court, so they are punishing him before then.

"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."
by coppsilgold | 2025-10-12 21:00:38+00:00
Some VPN applications provide the means by which to tunnel WG over TCP. Some provide those as standalone tools: <https://github.com/mullvad/udp-over-tcp>

The one above has a very simple protocol:

The format of the data inside the TCP stream is very simple. Each datagram is preceded with a 16 bit unsigned integer in big endian byte order, specifying the length of the datagram.

Performance would of course suffer but it's not likely that whichever service is blocking UDP is going to be offering high performance.

If you are doing it manually you can include two peers, one over UDP and one over TCP and prioritize traffic flow over the UDP one. Commercial VPN apps tend to handle that with "auto".

If you want to be fancy or you are confident that the UDP blocking service can offer high performance you can include a third peer using udp2raw: <https://github.com/wangyu-/udp2raw>

The reason why you may want to retain udp-over-tcp is that some sophisticated firewalls may block fake-TCP.
by stego-tech | 2025-10-12 21:01:27+00:00
Everyone likes to trot out “bUt ThE cApItAl” as an excuse to justify their current thing they’re really into, but the fact is that every single time a cause becomes important enough to fund, we always find the money somehow.

This time will be no different. If your choices are sovereignty or subjugation, most organizations will fight for sovereignty when pressed beyond a breaking point or the math adds up in their favor. It might mean pulling funds from highly speculative fields or investments (y’know, like AI) in favor of more immediate benefits and gains, and everyone’s calculus is different, but to those for whom sovereignty is more important the capital will inevitably be found.
by perrygeo | 2025-10-12 21:01:39+00:00
I appreciate a discussion of alternatives and historical context. Most engineers understand that literally anything that is computable can be computed on a turing-complete machine. The hard part is making the decision: why this way and not some other way? If the only tool you know is a hammer, you don't want to read about yet another way to smack a nail. You want a nail gun.
by okanat | 2025-10-12 21:01:56+00:00
Where are you from? I live in Germany. I use ING and DKB as my banks. Both of the banks require a Play Integrity-checked app as their default 2FA.In the past I used Sparkasse and Commerzbank. They too required a PI-approved app.

As an alternative you can order a code generator but for DKB that requires a paid debit-card. ING disables the phone app if you use a code generator. You cannot have multiple 2FA.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2025-10-12 21:02:13+00:00
that's what happens at the top of most competitive domains. Just take a look at pro sports; guys are looking for millimeters to shave off and they turn to "playing the game" rather than merely improving athletic performance. Watching a football game (either kind) and a not-small portion of the action is guys trying to draw penalties or exploit the rules to get an edge.
by radley | 2025-10-12 21:02:16+00:00
> I just wish MacOS would allow me to have the Minimize, Maximize/Restore,Close buttons on top-right corner (default in Windows), rather than top-left (which is counter-intuitive for right-handed users, using the mouse).

Classic Mac OS was released first, with well-considered, consistent design standards. Windows arrived almost 2 years later, and in the interest of not looking it like copied Macs, Microsoft essentially flipped the positions of everything, including window controls, toolbars, desktop icon placement, and button order. (Yes, both copied Bell Labs).

Windows has no standards, so maybe they could provide that kind of option instead.
by mikestew | 2025-10-12 21:02:23+00:00
When I saw "Turkish alphabet bug", I just knew it was some version of toLower() gone horribly wrong.

(I'm sure there's a good reason, but I find it odd that compiler message tags are invariably uppercase, but in this problem code they lowercased it to go do a lookup from an enum of lowercase names. Why isn't the enum uppercase, like the things you're going to lookup?)
by kayo_20211030 | 2025-10-12 21:03:03+00:00
ffs. What does this study tell anyone about anything?

> Behavioural addictions, characterised by compulsive engagement in rewarding activities despite adverse consequences in the long term, are more heterogeneous and less well-understood than substance addictions, and there is a relative lack of translational research.

Does that make sense to anyone?

"more heterogeneous" (trans: different)

"less well-understood: (trans: I have no idea, but I need to finish this paper)

"adverse consequences" (trans: Who knows? But, I surveyed pet-owners for their opinion, and cited some other source)

"relative lack of translational research" (trans: sounds good, whatever it means)
by n_u | 2025-10-12 21:03:19+00:00
There was a recent VLDB paper[1] demonstrating that the extension DuckPGQ[2] for DuckDB (an embedded database) offers competitive graph query performance compared to Neo4j and Umbra. No data on how it compares to KuzuDB.

[1] https://vldb.org/cidrdb/papers/2023/p66-wolde.pdf [2] https://duckpgq.org/
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-10-12 21:03:43+00:00
1. Miners were clocking them beyond the factory approved speeds - something not needed for AI, where the bottleneck is usually VRAM, not clock speed.

2. While comprehensive studies were never done, some tech channels did some testing and found used GPUs to be generally reliable or easily repairable, when scamming was excluded. https://youtu.be/UFytB3bb1P8
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-12 21:03:44+00:00
The AI "bubble" won't burst just like the "internet bubble" didn't burst.

the dotcom bubble was a result of investors jumping on the hype train all at once and then getting off of it all at once.

Yes, investors will eventually find another hype train to jump on, but unlike 2000, we have tons of more retail investors and AI is also not a brand new tech sector, it's built upon the existing well established and "too big to fail" internet/ecommerce infrastructure. Random companies slapping AI on things will fail but all the real AI use cases will only expand and require more and more resources.

OpenAI alone just hit 800M MAU. That will easily double in a few years. There will be adjustments,corrections and adaptations of course but the value and wealth it generates is very real.

I'm no seer, I can't predict the future but I don't see a massive popping of some unified AI bubble anytime soon.
by phatfish | 2025-10-12 21:04:01+00:00
I'd guess so.

The last time I was checking (which was over 5 years ago now admittedly) there were no 10GbE switch options for reasonable prices. Juniper had good 16 port options with 1GbE interfaces at not crazy prices (which I have two of).

Going to 10GbE was many multiples of the 1GbE price. They just seemed way too expensive and were not dropping.

As it goes, maxing out 1GbE is fast enough for the sort of data and IOPS I send over my LAN. So 10GbE would probably have been overkill.
by shpx | 2025-10-12 21:05:07+00:00
Dog breeds are not real animals, they're some sort of half-artificial thing created by imperfectly writing some people's desire into another species's genetic code.

If you make an artificial thing that really wants to do some specific thing, like a computer endlessly printing "hello world" millions of times a second, it's not surprising to see it do the thing it was created to do. I wouldn't say the computer "wants" to print hello world, so I don't see the dog as doing what it truly wants to do if it's a genetic predisposition human breeders forced into it. I see the expression of a society of dog breeders and people's idea of a game called "fetch" which was relatively easy to transition a species towards step-by-step using artificial selection.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-10-12 21:05:22+00:00
It's an educational project. No need to put it on blast over that. CE/EE students can buy a board for a couple hundred bucks and play around with this to learn.

A hypothetical ASIC implementation would beat a CPU rather soundly on a per watt and per dollar basis, which is why we have hardware acceleration for other protocols on high end network adaptors.

Personally, if I could buy a Wireguard appliance that was decent for the cost, I'd be interested in that. I ran a FreeBSD server in my closet to do similar things back in the day and don't feel the need to futz around with that again.
by JohnTHaller | 2025-10-12 21:05:37+00:00
A family friend upgraded to Windows 11 and had it helpfully turned on personal files being OneDrive enabled. It ate up her free space and suddenly she couldn't receive or reply to email anymore. She was nearly 80 and had no idea why until she had randomly asked me to help her with something on her computer.

This is an instance of Microsoft being evil.
by geoburke | 2025-10-12 21:05:49+00:00
I live in SF but moving away next month. I've got a pretty sweet 2016 428i xDrive Gran Coupe that I will need to part with.

Instead of selling it, let's trade the car for equity or a SAFE note in your YC-backed company.

Details on the car here: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/cto/d/san-francisco-trade-f...

-George