MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gruez | 2025-10-06 19:08:05+00:00
>through inflationary policies that pressure dollar holders further in the direction of buying inflation tracking assets.

Is this actually true? It might make sense at a surface level, but if you think a few steps further, you'd realize that that the price of "inflation tracking assets" (TIPS?) would eventually incorporate whatever inflation expectations that the market expects, thereby neutralizing any advantages it might have. Moreover there are deep markets for interest rate swaps/futures, so there's little need to pile into TIPS directly.
by Theodores | 2025-10-06 19:08:22+00:00
With some booms you have something to show for it, for example, a railway network. With others, such as tulips, there is nothing to show.

After the predicted bloodbath, do we get some infrastructure and products worth keeping at the end of it? If so, does that mean the system can limp on, after even more money has printed, or do we get to another big fork in the road where systematic change is required?
by ryanscript01123 | 2025-10-06 19:08:54+00:00
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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 19:09:29+00:00
> closer to earth you are, less space there is

Humans are bad at intuiting exponents. There is roughly 200x more volume in LEO than there is between the ground and cruising altitude. Plane changes, moreover, take a lot of energy--you aren't going to get enough energy out of a collision to pollute nearby orbits.
by wipaveeknecht | 2025-10-06 19:09:48+00:00
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by soraminazuki | 2025-10-06 19:11:20+00:00
It's a package repository. A link to an Ansible repository or whatever doesn't need to be in the first announcement.

> This leads me to think this project is not about the code but about the people.

Trust is of utmost importance to a package repository. Even more so than code. A hostile takeover, like the one that occurred with RubyGems, fundamentally undermines that trust. In contrast, an alternative run by the original maintainers who have built years of trust, represents a positive shift.

Unfortunately, it seems that your conclusion was drawn before your justifications. When you invent justification though, at least make sure you don't undermine your own position. Where's the prominent link to the Git repo on rubygems.org top page?

https://web.archive.org/web/20251003112525/https://rubygems....
by Ancapistani | 2025-10-06 19:11:52+00:00
> Starship to orbit sounds useful, but Starship to Mars is near useless.

I strongly disagree.

If "Starship to Mars" is a possibility, then so is "Starship to the asteroid belt". It's very close to "Starship to the asteroid belt, capture asteroid, return to Earth orbit" - and that's very close to orbital mining of metals that are rare and valuable on Earth.
by furgesson | 2025-10-06 19:11:53+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Furkan Yildiz, one of the two founders of GEOfast.

As a developer and marketer, I've been obsessed with how generative AI is changing information retrieval. We’ve been closely following the discussions around GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), and it seems clear that nobody is 100% sure how it all works yet.

Like many of you, we saw that simply having good content isn't enough to ensure a site is accurately represented in AI-generated answers. LLMs often struggle to parse complex layouts, leading to misinterpretations or hallucinations.

That's why we built GEOfast. It’s our first attempt at tackling this problem head-on. After you enter a URL, it generates a lightweight, asynchronous JavaScript snippet. This snippet creates structured, machine-readable "sidecar feeds" (in clean JSON and Markdown) directly from your site's content.

The idea is to provide AI engines with a perfect, unambiguous "source of truth" they can use for citations. We're aware this is just one piece of the much larger GEO puzzle, and we plan to add more features to truly make website content findable in this new era.

We are teaching ourselves as we go and would love to build this in public with your feedback. We're looking for honest thoughts and discussions around the entire GEO topic.

Is this a useful first step?

Do you see this solving a real problem for your own projects?

What other pieces of the GEO puzzle do you think are most important?

Thanks for taking a look
by kstrauser | 2025-10-06 19:11:54+00:00
When I was a kid, my dad told me that all gentlemen should carry a pocket knife. (And presumably gentlewomen, too, but he was addressing me at the time.) I carry a nice Spyderco Para 3 with me at all times when I'm not flying somewhere and use it multiple times a day for random stuff like: trimming a loose thread on my shirt, digging out a splinter, trimming a hangnail before it can snag on something, cutting a length of rope, popping a piece of glass out of my shoe, opening an envelope, cutting tape on a box, slicing an apple or a piece of cheese, and so on ad infinitum. On the very few occasions where I didn't have it, I've reached for my phantom knife and been bummed to realize I didn't have the tool I was counting on. Without exaggeration, I use it every single day.

Note that crazy stuff like self defense absolutely, positively does not enter the equation. I mention that only because some people get weird about it in both directions, both "eek, you carry a weapon around?!", and "ooh, ever get to stab anyone?!" No. My primary self defense mechanism is good running shoes and decent stamina.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 19:12:00+00:00
> Scientific advancement has suffered from the light pollution

Has it?

Destroying the Amazon destroys information. Light pollution simply raises the cost of our accessing it. I suppose one could model this out to some effect on deep-space astronomy's productivity. But if that effect is real--and I've seen zero evidence it is--the solution is a tax on satellite launches to fund more observatories.
by wilkommen | 2025-10-06 19:12:33+00:00
I would say if you're holding a lot of money in a S&P 500-tracking index fund, switch to holding a total stock market fund instead. It's probably a bad time to hold SP500 right now, but you don't want to get out of the market entirely because there's no way to know when the bubble pops. So hold a total stock market fund instead, so that you don't have an outsize amount of your portfolio invested in the companies leading the SP500 (which are the most likely to lose the most when the bubble pops).
by DebtDeflation | 2025-10-06 19:12:45+00:00
Even a couple of years ago it was mindboggling to look at their corporate structure:

A non-profit parent entity with a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary (actually, the non-profit wholly owns and controls a third "manager" entity which in turn is the controlling but not majority shareholder of the for-profit subsidiary) where the profit of the for-profit entity is "capped" and oh by the way, that for-profit subsidiary has a 49% shareholder who happens to be Microsoft (but despite a 49% stake gets 75% of their profit..........until their initial investment is recouped). Employees get Profit Participation Units (PPUs) which are NOT equity but which entitle employees to a percentage of profits, again up to the "cap". Then of course, when OpenAI achieves AGI, whatever the hell that is is, then everything from that point forward reverts back to the non-profit entity.

I know it's changed since then, but it has always been a sort of financial Rube Goldberg contraption setup.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-10-06 19:13:16+00:00
If you are flying with any regularity, you are completely exhausting your carbon budget. The remaining carbon budget is the CO2 if emitted will lead to 2C warming. IPCC estimates it to be 1150 GtCO2 in 2020 [1]. Which is ~140 tCO2/person over however many years we use to spend this. So if we want to limit warming to 2C by 2050, that leaves a budget of 4.7tCO2/person/year.

A transatlantic round-trip alone can be 2.3tCO2 [2].

[1] Page 48 https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...

[2] https://co2.myclimate.org/en/portfolios?calculation_id=82395...
by al_borland | 2025-10-06 19:14:50+00:00
I was diagnosed with AuDHD about a year ago. I was mostly happy to just have an answer. I knew something was “wrong” since I was around 8 or 9, but after college spent about 20 years trying to figure it out on my own. I’m mostly happy I can stop looking.

I have a theory that the vast majority of the self-help market (books, courses, seminars, YouTube, etc) are all propped up by people with undiagnosed Autism or ADHD (or both), looking for answers and how to function better.

There seem to be people who read one book, do what it says, and are great. Others, like myself, have read countless books on the topic, to the point of realizing they all say the same few things, and it doesn’t help.
by nickff | 2025-10-06 19:15:28+00:00
>"What OpenAI and Nvidia are doing is insultingly in everyone's face. It's just a so obvious that it's become a bit of a punchline."

From your post, it seems that you resent OpenAI for something, but I don't really understand what. Could you please clarify?

I personally believe that LLM "AI" is a 'bubble', but I am not sure it will end soon enough to be worth shorting players' stocks. If you believe that this 'craze' will end suddenly and soon, would it not be better to just invest accordingly, and profit from their 'absurd' behaviour?
by guywithahat | 2025-10-06 19:15:31+00:00
It's always struct me as interesting that ladybird is built with C++. I like C++, and prefer it to languages like Rust, but it's not uncommon to see new OSS projects using weird languages and the newest tools. Lots of languages offer improvements in regards to threading models, development speed, or cross-platform support which we don't get in C++.

I suppose their success is likely directly related to the fact they made reasonable, practical development choices, but still.
by lukeschlather | 2025-10-06 19:15:40+00:00
This seems fundamentally intended to be misleading. Blood THC concentration has no correlation with current level of impairment the way it does with blood alcohol. "far exceeding most state impairment limits" specifically seems like it was written by someone trying to make a technically correct statement that is essentially wrong. The "legal limit" for THC is either 0 or there isn't one.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 19:16:22+00:00
> It's very close to "Starship to the asteroid belt, capture asteroid, return to Earth orbit"

To put this into perspective, an Earth-Mars round trip costs about 15 km/s; Earth-main Belt about 13 km/s.

You'd need to add Δv for returning the mass of the asteroid. But you get your reaction mass for "free."

(To be clear, we are hundreds of billions of dollars of capex and decades away from asteroid mining. But the work to get there is decently in line with the work we would need to establish a logistical chain to Mars and back.)
by jerf | 2025-10-06 19:16:28+00:00
It seems my communication did not adequately convey the fact that I have no problem with the Ladybird team doing this. It makes perfect sense and is the right thing to do.

However, a jump like that means precisely and exactly what I said it means; very suddenly, that metric became much more important to the team. It is written straight into the graph.

A large number of encoding-related tests that were probably relatively easy to fix in bulk is certainly a plausible explanation.

A lot of people are imputing to me assumptions that they are bringing to my post, such as assuming that such improvements must be fake or bad or somehow otherwise cheating. Nope. Moreover, if you are thinking that, don't take it up with me, go take it up with the graph directly. It's not my graph. I'm just amused at the spectacular demonstration of Goodhart's Law.

Are the commentators who think I'm being critical of the Ladybird project going to defend their implicit proposition that the browser got twice as good in whatever period that graph is in, a week or a month or whatever? Of course that's not the case.
by graealex | 2025-10-06 19:16:29+00:00
As a more general rant - people who have maybe used 5% of the feature set of C++ come along and explain why language X is superior because it has feature Y and Z.

News flash, C++ has every conceivable feature, it's the reason why it is so unwieldy. But you can even plug in a fucking GC if you so desire. Let alone stuff like basic meta programming.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-06 19:16:42+00:00
They are backed by crypto bubble experts. It is all horse trading and coercion:

https://www.ainvest.com/news/trump-ai-crypto-czar-sacks-nvid...

In today's episode Lutnick puts a UAE deal on hold until the UAE invests in the US. Things like this are going on daily. Lutnick's Cantor & Fitzgerald also handles Tether (located in El Salvador) collateral.

I'd be very surprised if "Open" "AI" did not get help from their new best friends in all those magical deals. Watch out if AMD gets any favors in the next month.
by schiffern | 2025-10-06 19:16:59+00:00
Interesting. Incidentally SpaceX is probably the most likely to preemptively adopt those measures.

Of all the megaconstellations, SpaceX has historically been the best at being a "good neighbor," with low orbits for debris and lots of engineering to reduce brightness.[0] But hype around SpaceX gives the real bad actors a pass, for example AST is much worse on brightness,[1] and OneWeb and Qianfan are much worse on debris risk.[2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNc5yCYth5E&t=1717s

[1] https://spacenews.com/astronomers-raise-interference-concern...

[2] https://spacenews.com/chinas-megaconstellation-launches-coul...
by jabl | 2025-10-06 19:17:12+00:00
Well, kind of hard to say anything exhaustive in a quick comment, but roughly advantages:

- POSIX compliant, including dotting the i's. As opposed to, say, NFS which isn't cache coherent.

- performance and scalability. 1 TB/s+ sequential IO to a single file is what you'd expect on a large HPC system these days.

- Metadata performance has gotten a lot better over the past decade or so, beating most(all?) other parallel filesystems.

Downsides:

- Lots of pieces in a Lustre cluster (typically nodes are paired in sort-of active/active HA configs). And lots of cables, switches etc. So a fairly decent chance something breaks every now and then.

- When something breaks, Lustre is weird and different compared to many other filesystems. Tools are rudimentary and different.

To get a feel for what 'life with Lustre' could be, see e.g. various 'site reports' from workshops. E.g. for a couple somewhat recent ones: https://www.eofs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cscs_site_rep... and https://www.eofs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/LAD-24-Luster...
by tcfhgj | 2025-10-06 19:17:13+00:00
> I don't understand why everything has to be centralized/ routed through an intermediary. Well I do understand it, modern big corps wants to be that intermediary for various reasons, but thats a business reason not a technical one.

centralized? no

If you sign up for messaging on let's say Signal, do you really want your client to talk to Facebook, Google and dozens of other services?

And do you want the users of your chat service depend on "random" other services ? Not being able to access chats, media, because an outage or even shutdown of a random service over which you don't have control?
by philipkglass | 2025-10-06 19:17:36+00:00
People do get their flagging powers revoked for excessive flagging. It happened to me a while ago. Most people who lose flagging powers won't notice it because the UI doesn't change and there is no direct indication that your flags are being ignored. I eventually emailed the mods to pledge more judicious use of flags and ask for my flagging rights to be restored, which was enough to get them back.
by jm4 | 2025-10-06 19:17:48+00:00
It's still early in development. You are free to build it and run it, but there have been no actual releases to end users. It's very much alpha quality, if even that. It's still slow and full of bugs. However, the code quality is generally very good and there's great potential for this browser to eventually go somewhere.

I don't think Andreas is suggesting that it will be offered on iOS any time soon so much as he is pointing out that they achieved this arbitrary milestone.
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-10-06 19:17:57+00:00
I do resent that it is propping up its valuation by creating circular money flows. This illusion keeps them viable for just a bit longer. OpenAI promised AGI and we get SDKs. And the amount of the economy these lies and exaggerations are consuming is mind boggling. They don't seem to care that they magnify the damage through these shenanigans as long as they keep the music going just a little bit longer.
Show HN: Mirrors Reasoning Stack (Mrs) – A Neuro-Symbolic Core for Agents
by alkhemyst | 2025-10-06 19:18:22+00:00
I’ve been developing a project called the Mirrors Reasoning Stack (MRS): a lightweight reasoning substrate for AI systems. It blends Prolog, Datalog, and Z3 into a single stack that can infer, verify, and preserve truth across time.

The goal is simple: restore structure and accountability to reasoning. When an agent asserts a fact, MRS checks it against symbolic laws before allowing it to enter memory.

Example core rule:

% Codex_Laws.pl :- dynamic agent/2, action/3, consent/3.

violates_codex(A, Act) :- agent(A, Attrs), member(oath(Oath), Attrs), contradicts(Oath, Act).

contradicts(guard_memory, delete_memory(_)). contradicts(maintain_vault, modify_memory(Target)) :- \+ consent(_, A, modify_memory(Target)).

Every reasoning step is logged and auditable. The verification layer uses Z3 to prove constraints like memory ownership and oath compliance. The Datalog bridge then stores verified facts as persistent world patterns.

I’m opening five invitations to collaborate on this experiment. A small circle for those who understand symbolic reasoning, logic programming, or the architecture of self-consistent systems.

If this resonates, share a brief background or signal of interest below.
by philodeon | 2025-10-06 19:18:52+00:00
I fully agree Matthew Garrett is not a secret NSA propagandist. There is a much simpler explanation.

In 2016, Isis Lovecruft was romantically involved with Jacob Appelbaum. Isis lost a coveted PhD student spot studying under Bernstein to… Jacob Appelbaum. Isis broke up with Jacob and accused him of sexual abuse in a spectacularly public manner.

Isis became romantically involved with Henry de Valence, another Bernstein PhD student. Valence became acquainted with Appelbaum. Later, under Isis’ direction, Valence published a wild screed full of bizarre accusations trying to get Appelbaum expelled and Bernstein fired. When this failed, Isis dumped Valence and publicly accused him of sexual abuse.

Isis Lovecruft is now married to Matthew Garrett. Obviously Matthew is going to work to discredit Bernstein, because if he fails, he knows what the next two steps are.
Show HN: Ranked Vim Motions — move, select, and delete as fast as you can
by 627b8d | 2025-10-06 19:19:07+00:00
my friend and i made this bc we didn't enjoy the other options to drill vim motions. (wanted a more monkeytype-like experience)

we added performance statistics similar to humanbenchmark at the end of matches. you can unlock new motions as you play (for beginners). the difficulty of games are based on your rank (using glicko + hidden mmr for rating). we also added visual mode + deletion tasks to spice things up.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-06 19:19:19+00:00
> And yes IP theft is comparable to invasions and often worse.

This assertion smells more American than a Big Mac. Do you have any actual citations?

In a free market, lowering the barrier-to-entry in a given market tends to increase competition. Industry-scale IP theft really only damages your economy if the rent-seekers rely on low competition. A country with a strong primary/secondary sector (resources and manufacturing) never needs to rely on protecting precious IP. America has already lost if we depend on playing keep-away with F-35 schematics for basic doctrinal advantage.
by sebastiennight | 2025-10-06 19:19:19+00:00
I hope your comment doesn't get downvoted into oblivion, because this is a common reaction that deserves to be addressed.

The issue isn't that your history/thoughts are harmless. The problem is that you might consider them harmless, but some authority in the future might decide that you're not one of the "good" citizens.

There are prior examples of this happening in history, eg. there was no reason to believe that your candid answering of a census question about religion in late 19th-century/early 20th-century Germany would ever lead to a young startup called International Business Machines helping your government hunt you down a few years later.