MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-31 06:05:48+00:00
Regarding #2 Be effective:

I have always felt like what these services would do is to push towards things like matrix/signal etc. and matrix is decentralized as an example so they can't really do chat control there but my idea of chat control was always similar to UK in the sense that they are gonna scare a lot of people to host services like this which bypass intentionally or unintentionally this because if they bypass it, they would have to pay some hefty fees and that possibility itself scares people similar to what is happening in the UK itself.

VPN's are a good model maybe except that once they get on the chopping block, they might break the internet even further similar to chinese censorship really. Maybe even fragmenting the internet but it would definitely both scare and scar the internet for sure.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-31 06:06:12+00:00
> Please read citation number three from the parent post. This is not a certainty.

The link is essentially arguing that there are some areas with very few natural ignition sources, so most of the fires are caused by people. But that doesn't get you out of the accumulation of fuel. Even if zero of the fires were caused by power lines or nature, there would still be car fires and campfires etc., and longer durations between them causes larger accumulations of fuel.

> Calfire and local agencies do a substantial amount of brush clearing, tree cutting, and when conditions are right, controlled burns. Anything that reduces the frequency of ignition events buys more time for fire control agencies to do this work.

This isn't a case of there being a fixed amount of brush that only has to be cleared out this once and we need to buy some time to allow the work to be completed. It's a continuous process and they don't have the resources to do it everywhere. If you then prevent more of the "unscheduled" fires in the places where they can't and then more fuel accumulates there, what happens?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-31 06:06:35+00:00
Another fun "quirk" of Hacker News: this post has been unlinked from all front pages (you can't find it by hitting "More" from front page) even though it was on the front page very recently.

What I was going to say before was: Remember when air traffic controllers went on strike, and Reagan killed the future of unions in the USA by firing all the striking workers and banning them from ever having a government job? This is the legacy of that action. Never underestimate the lasting impact of an incompetent entertainer made President.
by deaux | 2025-10-31 06:07:05+00:00
I don't really get why these at least don't offer both "native" app and web. The people making these apps 1. surely understand that this was going to happen 2. are making them as fast as possible using hybrid frameworks (which is 100% the correct thing to do in this situation) 3. are easily capable of hosting them as a web app as well.

I don't want to be too harsh on people who made these apps but I am pretty peeved. They completely wasted the opportunity as now any new apps they'll get banned before they get onto the stores. I think all of us on HN could've told them this was inevitable ages ago and especially since they're engaged enough to be making these apps surely they knew themselves. If they from day 1 also hosted it as a webapp (as an alternative), that would be the immediate migration path. Heck, they could've advertised/linked it in the app itself. This is allowed and doesn't get one blocked from the stores unless there's payment options involved which is explicitly not the case here.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-31 06:07:52+00:00
Yes Its an argument for the general public to think of their interests and that the interests of general public says to never do it

But they aren't thinking of our interests, they are thinking of theirs which is what I think that the parent comment wanted to share that their and our interests are fundamentally conflicting and so we must fight for our right I suppose as well.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-31 06:07:53+00:00
Maybe some of them were preventable, but if it was in place attackers would easily adapt to fool the automated systems and we would be back at status quo.

>without reproducible build you can't independently verify anything.

This is myth propagated by reproducible builds people. Byte for byte similarity is not required to detect a Trojan was injected into one.
by spockz | 2025-10-31 06:08:32+00:00
It is interesting for AMD because having a on-par ARM chip means they can keep selling chips when the rest of the market switch to ARM. This is largely driven by Apple and by the cloud providers wanting more efficient higher density chips.

Apple isn’t going to switch back to AMD64 any time soon. Cloud providers will switch faster if X64 chips become really competitive again.
by eviks | 2025-10-31 06:11:44+00:00
> 80% of the people only need 20% of the features. Hide the rest from them and you’ll make them more productive and happy. That’s really all it takes.

You should know the common retort - but it's different 20%! So you can't create a one-button UI that covers 80%

But the challenge is real, though mostly "unsolvable" as there is too much friction in making good easily customizable UIs
by moi2388 | 2025-10-31 06:12:25+00:00
Mandatory ID wouldn’t be that bad if implemented claims-based, from within the browser.

So that the browser could ask: Hey government, is this user above 18? And the government just responds with yes or no.

Sites would then only need to whitelist browsers with this check an merely see an “allowed” claim for whatever type of site they have.

Parents or users could use parental controls to “allow” or “block” certain categories, meaning website creators wouldn’t even get any info on the user.
by csomar | 2025-10-31 06:12:27+00:00
It did "math out" because these industries heavily lobbied and regulated that starting an alternative is close to impossible. Think about Wise: How many companies out there have the same service? The closest are Revolut and Airwallex. So in a world of 8 billion people and millions of businesses, there are only 3 companies that do the same thing that Wise do. In comparison, there are thousands of banks around the world.
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by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-31 06:12:41+00:00
Most of my family is farmers or missionaries, and I bet those groups are less likely than most to own stocks.

Also, 'owning stocks' vs 'investing' feels different to me. My brother will go all in on tesla for one year, and then pull out and just sit there until he has another somewhat-random impulse. Likewise, my dad used to put all his money into some index funds for the 30 days leading up to Christmas, because 'the government always makes the stocks go up during the holidays, to keep everybody happy'. They count as 'owning stocks' (at least sometimes), but I don't feel they count as 'investing'.
by zzmbnp | 2025-10-31 06:13:39+00:00
More surprising is what a jerk the CEO of PlanetScale is. He's on Twitter being nasty at everyone and everything. The guy is toxic as hell.

He posted this:

"I would like to thank the haters for helping me promote the new PlanetScale $5 plan all day. Thanks guys."

Scorching his reputation on Hacker News is a real 400 IQ movie for a cloud database company CEO.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-31 06:14:42+00:00
> soldiers are pretty well trained to follow the chain of command

Actually, soldiers mostly follow the money. In Rome the the Praetorian Guard realized their power and started installing leaders. In developing nations with military coups, the soldiers back whoever will pay them. Yes, ideologically soldiers will follow a chain of command and conservative-anything; but practically speaking, they will follow whoever lets them rape and pillage and retire to a villa.
by zzmbnp | 2025-10-31 06:15:19+00:00
"Hobby Free forever for hobby use"

Wow. The guy is a jerk and a liar. The board at PlanetScale needs to get this guy off the internet. He's too much of an asshole to be seen in public.

I have no real horse in this race. I know how to manage my own databases, but I do have people asking me about PlanetScale and asking me to use it for certain projects, and I will absolutely never do so now.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-31 06:16:05+00:00
Certainly, and in fact no soft power operation can be distinguished from something like this (because a front would deliberately be disguised as a soft-power operation) which renders soft-power operations useless to develop soft-power. And when it is removed, one can either reasonably conclude that the underlying operation is no longer necessary or one could react with how it's worse that they took away something they promised.

In no case will anyone ever say "Well, I am not happy it is gone but I am grateful for all the work they put in to help out of a desire to be good guys" so soft power isn't a thing.

To be clear, I have no quarrel with you on the belief that they're fronts. I only mean that they do not develop power of any sort.
by travisgriggs | 2025-10-31 06:16:57+00:00
I deal with async function coloring in swift and Kotlin. Have avoided it (somehow) in our Python codebase. And in Elixir, I do things on separate processes all the time, but never feel like I’m wrestling with function coloring. I do like Zig (what little I’ve played with), but continue to wish that for concurrent style computation, people would just use BEAM based languages.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-31 06:18:32+00:00
And what I'm saying is that "caused" is a weasel word when things have more than one cause.

To have a fire you need a spark, air and fuel. The air is there all the time. The fuel is there whenever there hasn't been a spark recently. And power lines aren't the only source of sparks.

Once the fuel is there and accumulating, you're playing roulette to see if you're going to have a smaller fire now or a bigger fire later. There is no option for "never have a fire again" in those areas, and the second option isn't inherently better than the first one.
by degamad | 2025-10-31 06:18:43+00:00
> is it not fair to question why this business pays no electricity or either owns/rent the property?

It's fair to question, and it is addressed in the article. They're a subsidiary, and the utilities and rent are in the parent company's name. Other relevant documents are in this company's name, but have a PO Box address because their street address does not have a mail service.

> There's plenty of banks that have to service you by law, go to them, and pay the far higher costs.

I think the "we don't want to service you" angle can be addressed by using alternative bank. However, "we've restricted all your abilities to contact us" is an unreasonable step, and prevents actually refunding the former customer the money they're owed. So that latter action is still an unreasonable step on Wise's part.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-10-31 06:20:46+00:00
> My strongest hope is that the human brain and mind are such powerful computing and reasoning substrates that a tight coupling of biological and synthetic "minds" will outcompete pure synthetic minds for quite a while.

Unfortunately most of the cases I can think of where synthetic "minds" outperform biological "minds," but biological and synthetic "minds" outcompete pure synthetic "minds," end up fairly quickly dominated by pure synthetic "minds." The middle case is a very short intermediate period. The most prominent example is chess where "centaurs" consisting of a human and a computer are obsolete at this point in favor of just getting the most powerful computer you can get. See e.g. the International Correspondence Chess Federation's (which is centaur play) last championship. https://www.iccf.com/event?id=100104

17 competitors competed. Out of 136 games, every single game was drawn except for 10. The only reason those 10 games were not drawn was because they were all played against one competitor, Aleksandr Dronov, who died during the course of the tournament while those 10 games were in session and therefore forfeited those games. Every single game between competitors who did not die resulted in a draw. The only thing that separated the 11 joint first-place finishers and 6 joint second-place finishers was whether they played the deceased Dronov. The sole third-place finisher was Dronov because of his death. As far as I can tell, humans contributed nothing to this championship.

The current ICCF championship started last December and is still ongoing. Every single one of the currently completed 16 games is currently drawn.

This seems like a very weak hope to rely on.
by csomar | 2025-10-31 06:22:44+00:00
The only real solution (that many people here in HN hate?) is crypto. USDT/USDC on Eth or Solana and rails to the old systems are much better now. If you are really paranoid (USDT/USDC have a blacklist functionality), then hold Bitcoin and open a derivative short essentially creating a synthetic USD.

Bitcoin doesn't have a blacklist functionality and you can use lightning for full anonymity.
by Someone | 2025-10-31 06:22:45+00:00
The page this article got its info from (https://www.ithome.com/0/889/173.htm) says (according to Safari’s translation):

“IT Home News on October 13, @Olrak29_ found that the AMD processor code-named "Sound Wave" has appeared in the customs data list, confirming the company's processor development plan beyond the x86 architecture”

I think that means they are planning to export parts.

I think there still is some speculation involved as to what those parts are, and they might export them only for their own use, but is that likely?
by tombert | 2025-10-31 06:25:04+00:00
I don’t use it for much data science, and I only have used it for one project (to speed up my dad’s Octave code), but I actually really liked it. Generally speaking things were extremely fast, even without any specific optimization on my end. Like, without hyperbole, a direct port of my dad’s code was between 50-100x faster in most cases, and when I started optimizing it I ended up getting it going about 150x faster.

There was a bit of weirdness with the type system with its dynamic dispatch making things slow, but specifying a type in function headers would resolve those issues.

I also thought that the macro system was pretty nice; for the most part I found creating custom syntax and using their own helpers was pretty nice and easy to grok.

Since I don’t do much data work I haven’t had much of an excuse to use it again, but since it does offer channels and queues for thread synchronization I might be able to find a project to use it for.
by kmoser | 2025-10-31 06:25:23+00:00
The need to match a particular font comes up fairly often in web development. There are a number of such apps/websites to help with this, the most well known of which is probably WhatTheFont [https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont/].

However, 90% of the time I don't care what font is used; what I really want is the closest free equivalent, preferably hosted on Google Fonts. I'd be interested to see if somebody could come up with an app that does this.
by copypaper | 2025-10-31 06:25:25+00:00
Wow I didn't know he got laid off. I remember watching his videos a few years ago and absolutely loved his way of teaching. He's the reason I found out about PlanetScale to begin with.

Looking at their youtube channel, Aaron's videos had a total of ~1.4m views over 24 videos (an average of ~58k per video). Their recent videos don't even get past 1k views...
by arjie | 2025-10-31 06:25:47+00:00
Well, I'm eager to use it. For my home server I use an old power-hungry Epyc 7B13. It's overkill but it can run a lot of things (my blog, other software I use, my family's various pre-configured MCPs we use in Custom GPTs, rudimentary bioinformatics). The truth though is that I hate having to cross-compile from my M1 Mac to the x86_64 server. I would much rather just do an ARM to ARM platform cross-compile (way easier to do and much faster on the Orbstack container platform).

So I went out looking for an ARM-based server of equivalent strength to a Mac Mini that I could find and there's really not that much out there. There's the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite which is in only really one actual buyable thing (The Lenovo Ideacentre) and some vaporware Geekom or something product. But this thing doesn't have very good Linux support (it's built for ARM Windows apparently) and it's much costlier than some Apple Silicon running Asahi Linux.

So I'm eventually going to end up with some M1 Ultra Studio or an M4 Mini running Asahi Linux, which seems like such a complete inversion of the days when people would make Hackintoshes.
by KingMob | 2025-10-31 06:27:06+00:00
Israel already held ~11k Palestinians in indefinite military detention without charges, prior to Oct 7.

AKA, hostages.

They just released 2k as part of a swap a week ago, but are still holding more hostages than Hamas: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/who-are-palestinia...

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October 7 was horrendous, but it's not like history started from a blank slate that morning.
by arjie | 2025-10-31 06:29:04+00:00
Well, Amazon does offer Graviton 4 (quite fast and useful stuff) along side their Epyc machines so there is some utility to them. A 9654 is much faster than a Graviton 4.

EDIT: Haha, I was going off our workloads but hilariously there are some HPC-like workloads where benchmarks show the Graviton 4 smoking a 9654 https://www.phoronix.com/review/graviton4-96-core/4

I suppose ours must have been more like the rest of the benchmarks (which show the 9654 faster than the Epyc).
by jrflowers | 2025-10-31 06:31:48+00:00
> Are you saying that all products must be safe for children

If you plan on children using it, which is clearly the case for Grok, yeah.

> It's not cool to chop off a 13-year-old's arm, but a chainsaw will do that all the same.

What chainsaw do you own that has a “when being handled by a 13 year old“ section in the manual?
by hinkley | 2025-10-31 06:31:59+00:00
> Any package that includes a CLI version in the library should have it's dev shamed. Usually that adds 10-20 packages.

After your little rant you point out Commander has zero dependencies. So I don’t know what’s up with you.

If the library you’re building has anything with application lifecycle, particularly bootstrapping, then having a CLI with one dependency is quite handy for triage. Most especially for talking someone else through triage when for instance I was out and there was a production issue.

Which is why half the modules I worked on at my last place ended up with a CLI. They are, as a rule, read mostly. Which generally doesn’t require an all caps warning.

Does every module need one of those? No. But if your module is meant as a devDependency, odds are good it might. And if it’s bootstrapping code, then it might as well.

> should have it's dev shamed

Oh I feel embarrassed right now. But not for me.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-31 06:32:34+00:00
Simple: even in the 1930s, it was obvious that a private corporation would prioritize profit over safety. At the time it was mostly rich people who could afford to fly. So, miraculously, the government decided it needed to ensure the safety of air travel.

Trump famously wanted to privatize the ATC in his first term. But now all the industry veterans are saying they'd much rather have the modernizations proposed for the government system (https://www.npr.org/2025/06/27/nx-s1-5442651/privatizing-air...) than switch to a private model.

What's funny is, we're gonna fuck it up either way.
by deaux | 2025-10-31 06:35:00+00:00
> I was harsh but honestly people who have never tried doing this are always the ones to take shots

People who haven't tried doing what, running a VC-backed SaaS, a model which by its own nature is destined to end up engaging in dumping practices to gain market share, after which enshittification ensues? With the alternative being going bust or being acquired and then quickly shut down? As we've seen hundreds of times now?

I mean, yeah. In the sense that people who haven't tried kicking their cat tend to be the ones taking shots at those who have.

Look, maybe you're a unicorn, in the sense that you're the 1%, the single person in your batch who ends up both profitable and won't follow down this path. But that's an extraordinary claim that would require overwhelming evidence. You spent lots of resources on Youtube and Twitter evangelism to cheap solo devs, targeting the exact content those consume - even compared to all of your competitors and other dev tools going at this market, investing in this strategy harder than almost anyone - which obviously results in an enormously lopsided % of free-tier uses (that's the whole point of the strategy). To then go "turns out we're not profitable this way, who woulda thought, guess we have to go paid-only!", this alone basically rules out the extraordinary claim. There's no chance you didn't do the back-of-the-envelope calculation about how big of a free tier you could realistically support.
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-31 06:36:31+00:00
I think there's actually a wrong assumption here: that the tags aren't part of training

The model can't introspect itself to know this, but the latest hybrid thinking models do think noticeably differently when prompted the right way between these tags, suddenly shifting to an extremely verbose mode of output that looks more like raw reasoning traces the earliest versions of reasoning models were showing

I have a prompt that used the original <antThinking> tag (it wasn't namespaced with 3.5). Every release eroded how steerable that output was and now 4 and up start spewing massive amounts of tokens in an extremely freeform manner that's also more effective

nano-banana/Gemini Flash 2.5 Image similarly does something like this: when prompted to think carefully will generally write a paragraph or two, but once coaxed a bit harder will suddenly output massive sprawling markdown formatted planning like the original un-masked thinking traces from Gemini Thinking.

It's like there's a sort of "mode collapse" for reasoning in these models that's going to continue getting more noticeable as providers lean harder into RL, which is ironic given how much ceremony there is around hiding reasoning traces in these APIs to avoid distillation
by int_19h | 2025-10-31 06:36:45+00:00
Because Israel managed to pull of a wildly successful operation to capture the American politics by very aggressively promoting the notion that being in any way, shape, or form against anything Israel does is rabid anti-Semitism, and then using that as a cudgel (backed by a lot of money) to beat any candidate who might want to say something about it.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC, which is an obvious foreign agent that's blatantly operating in violation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Ac... for >70 years now.