MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _factor | 2025-10-16 07:16:54+00:00
With the blatant disregard for any rules and decorum, and a proven self-serving track record, I wouldn’t bet on it.

You want to censor in the armed forces? Classify. You don’t tell reporters they can’t publish anything unapproved. Tomorrow the director gets caught stealing and toppling regimes and you can’t publish a word. After a long time of obeying this, you will fear doing so.

Brilliant strategic play on the Trump admin. Win or lose, the pentagon is more opaque. I just wish they would used some of that brilliance on things that improved the world and adhered to why we have governments in the first place.
by Aardwolf | 2025-10-16 07:17:16+00:00
I don't have issues with Nvidia drivers in Archlinux (using cinnamon and X) after pacman updates that sometimes update kernel and/or Nvidia drivers, I'm curious what's different in your setup to get these issues

Also, how are the graphics drivers affecting LUKS for you? They are two independent and unrelated things for me, Nvidia drivers aren't doing anything disk or pam related

> If they have a printer, connect it and show them how to print a page.

This however is the thing that doesn't "just work" for me, even with a common hp printer. The one time in a year you need to use the printer, something will have broken about its drivers again in Linux. I just transfer the pdf to the printer with a USB stick now
by xinayder | 2025-10-16 07:17:25+00:00
The article is very biased against EU. It's not the EU's fault, and it shows that it's all according to Apple's plans because, if Apple really cared and thought this decision to not bundle chargers was stupid (something they themselves started doing with iPhones before the law requiring everything to be compatible with USB-C), they would offer the chargers for free.

But that's not the case. It's just another way they can milk their consumers out of their money. Of course they will use the EU law as an excuse, and naive is the person who believes Apple is speaking the truth. The reality is, they want to profit from it.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-16 07:18:27+00:00
> I don’t think we’ll be able to replicate consciousness until we’re able to make things alive at a biological level.

But why? What gives you any confidence in that?

This is a very popular notion that I frequently encounter but I'm convinced that it is just barely disguised human exceptionalism.

It is humbling to accept that the operation of your mind could be replicated by a machine, similar to how it was difficult for us to accept that the earth is not the center of the universe or that we evolved from animals.
by ItsBob | 2025-10-16 07:18:33+00:00
Go here [0] to get the links to Windows 10 and Windows 11 LTSC.

Also, the script to activate it, go here [1] for that.

[0] - https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

[1] - https://massgrave.dev/

I'm using Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC to write this and using Massgrave(l) it's activated to 2038 or something now. The only thing I wanted that LTSC didn't have out of the box was the Microsoft Store but you install that from PowerShell with the command "wsreset -i" and wait for 30s or so :)
by gloosx | 2025-10-16 07:18:47+00:00
I don't know. I used apple notes for quite a while, several years. And I got increasingly frustrated by it's countless bugs and inconsistent or weird behaviours, especially with check lists which I use a lot. I even have a folder with tens of screencasts capturing these bugs which I want to compile and publish in a blog post one day. I ended up with my own web-based solution on top of Lexical, which I wrapped in a Tauri app, which I very much enjoy using. I don't need it to sync to other devices so all notes and images rest in a filesystem.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-10-16 07:20:50+00:00
That point is often brought up, but it kind of invalid. Because you can't run iOS on your Linux or Windows installation, too. So saying because of that usecase you are switching the OS, is kind of a spite reaction, not based on reason.

As in: "I can't run iOS on my macOS installation, so I am going to use a different OS where I can't run iOS either".
by jbstack | 2025-10-16 07:21:13+00:00
I'm a legal professional who uses AI to help with my work.

I couldn't ever imagine making a court submission with hallucinated legal references. It seems incredibly obvious to me that you have to check what the AI says. If the AI gives me a case citation, I go into Westlaw and I look up and read the case. Only then do I include it in my submission if it supports my argument.

The majority of the time, AI saves me a lot of work by leading me straight to the legislation or case law that I need. Sometimes it completely makes things up. The only way to know the difference is to check everything.

I'm genuinely amazed that there are lawyers who don't realise this. Even pre-AI it was always drilled into us at law school that you never rely on Google results (e.g. blogs, law firm websites, etc.) as any kind of authoritative source. Even government-published legal guidance is suspect (I have often found it to be subtly wrong when compared to the source material). You can use these things as a starting point to help guide the overall direction of your research, but your final work has to be based on reading the legislation and case law yourself. Anything short of that is a recipe for a professional negligence claim from your client.
by Ekaros | 2025-10-16 07:21:37+00:00
Or something like Google sheets. Attempted very basic thing:

1. Got barcode reader and scanned some barcodes from books

2. Looked up these from online API

3. Wrote result in ISBN;Name;Year to output

4. Tried to copy result to Google Sheets

5. No import from custom CSV? (Excel has very good tooling)

6. Actually to split I had to use =SPLIT() and then copy paste results in weird way to actually be able to use first column...

Is this really better? Or good enough...
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-16 07:22:19+00:00
Because that's what has been going on in the Android world for years and for the iPhone was the case from the start.

Root your phone, even if it is just for the ability to make full backups (because that is, to this day, not a thing on Android)? Say goodbye to banking, most games, even the proposed new EU "digital identity" government wallet was supposed to enforce attestation.

And everyone with a phone on the "bad vendor" list that either doesn't get Google certification from the start or gets it revoked due to sanctions? Same.
by jononor | 2025-10-16 07:23:52+00:00
It seems here that Google provides the core IP, and that Synaptic packages this (and probably other related IP blocks) block that can be used to build a SoC. As of now there are no chips announced. So it will be some years before we as software/electronics engineers get to play with it.

The architecture seems to be RISC-V array with standard RVV vector instruction set. That is a quite familiar environment for software developers compared to custom systolic arrays.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-10-16 07:24:39+00:00
It's always fun to compare Trump quotes against other presidential quotes.

Jefferson: “The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

Reagan: "There is no more essential ingredient than a free, strong, and independent press to our continued success in what the Founding Fathers called our 'noble experiment' in self-government"

FDR: "If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free."

Trump: "The press is the enemy of the people."
by homebrewer | 2025-10-16 07:25:11+00:00
I sometimes work on old PHP applications, some of which require versions as ancient as 5.4 and refuse to run on anything beyond that. They're not only difficult/impossible to install on modern systems, but also make it hard to onboard other people — you have to write a detailed setup document and then waste a couple of hours time for each new system. And then repeat that a few more years down the line.

Why not write that document as a bunch of build instructions instead of free-form text, while also isolating the result from the rest of the system.
by andersmurphy | 2025-10-16 07:25:55+00:00
Right. But, hypermedia systems doesn't go far enough. It can be even simpler then that.

In a video game the "server" doesn't figure out what's changed (that's too much work) it just redraws the frame. So rather than the complexity of working out what has changed you can just send down the whole page again whenever something changes.

This gives you view = f(state) over the wire and has great DX. It's called immediate mode in games.
by swiftcoder | 2025-10-16 07:26:55+00:00
> The bigger lesson is when a service has dependencies, moving that service closer to the client (without also moving those dependencies) will counterintuitively make the e2e experience slower, not faster

The problem here is that pretty much all services have dependencies - if they didn't, you could have already moved that logic client-side.

This bites edge-compute architectures really hard. You move compute closer to the client, but far from the DB, and in doing so your overall latency is almost always worse.

The most latency-friendly architecture is almost always going to be an in-memory DB on a monolithic server (albeit this comes with its own challenges around scaling and redundancy)
by thot_experiment | 2025-10-16 07:26:59+00:00
Yeah, I think the idea that models that don't come from ollama.com are second class citizens was what made me fist start to think about migrating back to llama.cpp and then the memory stuff just broke the camel's back. I don't want to use a project that editorializes about what models and quants I should be using, if I wanted a product I don't have control over I'd just use a commercial provider. For what it's worth I actually did download the full fp16 and quant it using ollama and still had the memory error for completion's sake.

I truly don't understand the reasoning behind removing support for all the other quants, it's really baffling to me considering how much more useful running a 70b parameter at q3 is that not being able to run a 70b parameter model at all, etc. Not to mention forcing me to download hundreds of gigabytes of fp16 because compatibility with other quants is apparently broken, and forcing me to quant models myself.
by Suppafly | 2025-10-16 07:27:20+00:00
>Not sure if I see the point of using a craft knife to scratch the case though. Nor the point of using a lighter to kill pixels on the screen. More for the sheer horror of it than anything.

His videos of scratching up phones with razor knifes and breaking them and such get views. It's a bit of a shame, because his other content is actually pretty good, but he built his channel doing those sorts of videos and they continue to pay the bills.
by Thlom | 2025-10-16 07:27:21+00:00
We got pre-calculated returns as an alternative in the early 90's, by the time I got my first real job in the early 00's everyone used the pre-calculated one and just made changes as necessary. The first years I got my tax return in the mail and I think a few years I had to mail back a signed copy, but these days everything is digital and if you don't have to make any changes you don't have to do anything at all.

Back then you also had to physically deliver your tax deduction card to your employer so they could deduct tax correctly, but these days that is also digital and salary systems just fetches the current deduction card before running salary jobs every month.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-10-16 07:27:49+00:00
TBH i've never heard about it before. And I even have a drive that records it! Thank you!!!!

However what I've been thinking before you wrote about M-DISC - was making a set of HDD that I'd dump my photos and videos and rewrite each year for example, i.e. copy from one drive to another. This copying 4TB of data should be enough to store them for a few years.

I'm mostly concerned with family photos and videos, and maybe music, but I tend to buy CDs of the most important music for me. I'd say that other data would be expendible...
by colesantiago | 2025-10-16 07:28:04+00:00
I know this is disappointing, but what business model would be best here for ollama?

1. Donationware - Let's be real, tokens are expensive and if they ask for everyone to chip in voluntarily people wouldn't do that and Ollama would go bust quickly.

2. Subscriptions (bootstrapped and no VCs) again like 1. people would have to pay for the cloud service as a subscription to be sustainable (would you?) or go bust.

3. Ads - Ollama could put ads in the free version but to remove them the users can pay for a higher tier, a somewhat good compromise, except developers don't like ads and don't like pay for their tools unless their company does it for them. No users = Ollama goes bust.

4. VCs - This is the current model which is why they have a cloud product and it keeps the main product free (for now). Again, if they cannot make money or sell to another company Ollama goes bust.

5. Fully Open Source (and 100% free) with Linux Foundation funding - Ollama could also go this route, but this means they wouldn't be a business anymore for investors and rely on the Linux Foundation's sponsors (Google, IBM, etc) for funding the LF to stay sustainable. The cloud product may stay for enterprises.

Ollama has already taken money from investors so they need to produce a return for them so 5. isn't an option in the long term.

6. Acquisition by another company - Ollama could get acquired and the product wouldn't change* (until the acquirer jacks up prices or messes with the product) which ultimately kills it anyway as the community moves on.

I don't see any other way that Ollama can not be enshittified without making a quick buck.

You just need to avoid VC backed tools and pay for bootstrapped ones without any ties to investors.
by xinayder | 2025-10-16 07:28:23+00:00
> Are you aware that former German and Austrian politicians are on the payroll of Russian oil and gas companies and Putin even came to the wedding s of some of them? Are you aware Austrian banks still operate in Russia profiting?

Source?

> Why the double standards where all the blame in on Hungary yet other EU members fly under the radar for much more pro-Russia cooperation and profiteering?

There are no double standards. Besides Orban and Fico, there are no EU ministers or governments going to Minsk, Belarus, or Russia, to meet with Putin.

When the war started, MOL, the state-owned petrol company of Hungary, said it would take about 3 years for them to shift all their refineries to move away from Russian oil. It's 2025, and they are still heavily-dependent on Russian oil. They did nothing to end this dependence [0].

Orban settled a deal with Russia to buy gas and oil, whose terms are confidential and will probably be so for the next decades. What every Hungarian news portal reported was essentially Hungary was being scammed, as it would be much cheaper to buy the same oil/gas from the Dutch stock exchange [1].

Regarding Austrian banks, Raiffeisen was just on the news this month because they are still operating in Russia. So, no, I wouldn't say it's a double standard. Besides, the Austrian politicians are certainly not making a fuss and blocking or vetoing any decision regarding Ukraine or Russian sanctions because of that [2]. Meanwhile, we have Hungary who keeps creating excuses to apply their vetos on such decisions, and Fico, who's doing the same, because the EU (von der Leyen) showed the world anyone can blackmail the EU and get away with it.

[0] https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/worldwide-healthcare-trust...

[1] https://dailynewshungary.com/shocking-hungary-lost-hundreds-...

[2] https://insighthungary.444.hu/2023/05/19/hungary-blocks-500-...
by wtfwhateven | 2025-10-16 07:28:33+00:00
>Journalists asking for classified and sensitive information are acting in bad faifth.

How?

>They know that these people are not allowed to give away the information,

Not true, nor is everything is classified.

It appears you've not actually read the article, or what the new restrictions even asked for. You're acting as if journalists were allowed to go rummaging in office drawers and journalists dislike being told they can't do that anymore.
by Timwi | 2025-10-16 07:28:44+00:00
> It's trivial to generate a full mapping of all base64 4-byte sequences which map to all 3-byte 8-bit sequences (there is only 8^3 of different "tokens", or 2048)

How did you get this number? The correct number is 64^4 = 256^3 = 16777216.
by ojosilva | 2025-10-16 07:29:02+00:00
Their customer base are enterprise, so the issue can be addressed in private channels. There's little to be gained from making this particular breach public, from their point view. If anything, it's F5 customers who should advise their own customers downstream about the risks, when risks apply. Disclosure: I'm affected by this breach downstream at several sites and we have not been informed of risks by anyone but have been fighting fires where F5 was involved, but not necessarily blamed for anything.

But you are right, at F5's size and moneys, incentives for public disclosure are not aligned in the public's favor. Damage control, in all its meanings, has taken priority lately over transparency.
by j4coh | 2025-10-16 07:29:52+00:00
This pejorative was fairly famously used in Germany leading up to and during WWII, often in combination with Jewish-controlled also as pejorative. Both points were repopularised in the US around 2016 or so by Richard Spencer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer). For some reason both are now entering more mainstream usage among the right.
by mattmanser | 2025-10-16 07:30:02+00:00
The irony here is that I did!

Having looked at the code a bit more, all I can say is that it's a lot of code to do little.

There's also a lot of naive error throwing going on.

And he seems to debug using logger stmts.

They're not scalable projects, you couldn't write enterprise software the way those projects are written. You would end up with such a volume of code.
by neobrain | 2025-10-16 07:30:23+00:00
Good and fair comment. Just adding some nuance:

> There is no support for power-efficient sleep

"power-efficient sleep" refers to discharging 1-2% battery over night rather than 10-20%. I.e. there's room for improvement, but the device can still be used without worrying much about battery life regardless (especially given how far a full charge gets you even without sleep).

> Display Port, Thunderbolt

Big item indeed, but it's actively worked on and getting there (as you mentioned).

> video decoding or encoding

Hurts battery performance, but otherwise I never noticed any other effect. YMMV for 4K content.

> touch ID

Annoying indeed, and no one has worked on this AFAIK.

> The speakers overheat and turn off momentarily when playing loud for a longer period of time. The audio stack in general had to be built from ground up and it seems to me like there are bits and pieces still missing or configured sub-optimally.

Sad to hear since I thought the audio heat model was robust enough to handle all supported devices. On my M1 Air I've never seen anything like this, but perhaps devices with more powerful speakers are more prone to it?
by azalemeth | 2025-10-16 07:31:16+00:00
To Seagate's credit though, their warranty service is excellent. I've had the occasional exos drive die (in very large zfs raids) and they do just ship you one overnight if you email an unhappy smart over. Also their nerd tooling, seachest, is freely downloadable and mostly open source. That's worth quite a lot to me...
by somenameforme | 2025-10-16 07:31:42+00:00
I think people are being slightly hyperbolic. It's basically stating that if a news outlet publishes unauthorized information then they won't be allowed access to the Pentagon. In general I think this is a good thing but not because I think it's a good idea. Rather, I think that the government, regardless of who happens to be in power, and the press should have an adversarial relationship, but the deep intertwining of the government and the press undermines this, even without corruption. You're generally going to be reluctant to frame entities that you have a positive relationship with in a negative way. And this agreement is essentially formalizing adversarialness.

I just have this feeling that in modern times if the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the NYTimes - but in the context of Ukraine, and especially if the previous administration was still in power, they very possibly might have instead alerted US intelligence instead of publishing them. WaPo repeatedly pat themselves on the back for playing a key role in tracking down the person who leaked the Pentagon documents in 2023. They mostly ignored what was leaked and instead framed everything as a story of tracking down the source and why he might do such a thing. We have a very broken media system, and this, probably unintentionally, might be a big first step in fixing it.
by mort96 | 2025-10-16 07:33:24+00:00
It's the reality of storage pricing. The general statement "storage is cheap" is incorrect. For some practically relevant purposes, such as Apple laptops, it's $600/TB. For other purposes, it's significantly below $50/TB.

You could say "just don't buy Apple products". And sure, that might be a solution for some. But the question of what laptop to buy is an extremely complicated one, where storage pricing is just one of many, many, many different factors. I personally have landed on Apple laptops, for a whole host of reasons which have nothing to do with storage. That means that if I have to bump my storage from 1TB to 2TB, it directly costs me $600.
by thiago_fm | 2025-10-16 07:34:02+00:00
This has been done by other companies in the space with much greater success and execution. I won't mention names, but you can look for yourself.

They are way ahead in terms of execution from OpenAI.

How powerful the LLM model is, is a bit irrelevant for that usecase. The most important part is well integrated it is, how it fits certain user desires (anime, real life, kinks).

This doesn't seen to be something a big company like OpenAI would be great at executing upon.

To me, that's a huge bubble sign. This is a small market. Having OpenAI wanting to do something there makes me thing they are running out of usecases.
by District5524 | 2025-10-16 07:35:49+00:00
That's an important observation. It's not easy to get filing data outside the US Federal courts (PACER), because it's not typical at all that courts publish the filings themselves or information on those who file the pleadings. But you can find statistics of the legal market (mainly law firms), like class size (0-10, 10-50, ... 250+ lawyers per firm) of total number of law firms, number of employees per class size of total law firm employees, or revenue per class size. Large firms only dominate the UK, especially in terms of revenue, US is less so, EU is absolutely ruled by solo and small firms. I did some research back in 2019 on this, updates, the figures probably did not change, see page 59-60: https://ai4lawyers.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Overview-of.... The revenue size statistics was not included in the final publication. You can fish similar data from the SBS dataset of Eurostat https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/main/data/database (But the statistical details are pretty difficult to compare with the US or Canada, using different methodologies, different terminologies.)