MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yubblegum | 2025-10-20 20:50:51+00:00
Clourflare is not merely a single point of failure. They are the official MITM of the internet. They control the flow of information. They probably know more about your surfing habits than Google at this point. There are some sites I can not even connect to using IP addresses anymore.

That company is very concerning and not because of an outage. In fact, I wish one day we have a full cloudflare outage and the entire net goes dark and it finally sink in how much control this one f'ing company has over information in our so called free society.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-20 20:50:52+00:00
There are asymmetries. Right wing populists have an easy time getting elected and left-wing populists don’t, at least not in the core.

Studies now show that an overwhelming majority Americans don’t believe the economic system is fair

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/most-americans-think-economy-rig...

some of the problem the Democrats have is that they’re supposed to be a left wing party that is responsive to those kind of concerns but they’ve gotten trapped in a “protect institutions no matter what the cost” mentality which has the cost of losing.

For instance people really want to believe that the recent spike in house prices has been caused by private equity or a monopoly of home builders or some other “other”. I don’t know what the truth is but when so many people feel this way politicians have to do something about it and I can tell you one of the things I learned about activism early on is that if you tell people that they’re feeling the wrong way they will react even more violently against you than if you tell them they are thinking the wrong way.
by wellwelloctober | 2025-10-20 20:50:55+00:00
I used to work in IB and I'm not that surprised: * Revolving credit facilities tend to have the highest priority of corporate debt when it comes to going after assets in the event of default * RCFs are often about relationship management rather than making money as others have pointed out * Credit agreements (that set out the terms of RCFs) often include a lot of triggers/rules about how much can be drawn and at what rate to protect lenders. e.g. If revenues are below Y you can only borrow Z
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-20 20:51:13+00:00
Horrible news, he wasn't even 30 years old.

There's something oddly devastating about seeing people pass away in these online communities. I've never been one to really be affected by celebrities passing away, but I remember a few years when Geoff Robinson died (who was active in the Starcraft scene) that one hit me surprisingly badly as well.

Obviously it's banal in a sense because you always know people can die, but there's something very weird about seeing someone livestream one day and then you just get a headline like this on the next.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-20 20:51:23+00:00
Yeah, and lots more immigration too. I don't know if those are the ones with college degree, but you can see who's writing all the academic papers. Look up stats like the 3rd most popular language by state and you'll be surprised. There has been a huge effort to import doctors from all over for example, due to the shortage in the US. Even in our tech industry, you don't need to look far to see all the H-1B's. I can't think of a single industry requiring skilled and educated workers that isn't relying on immigration significantly. Even our schools are relying heavily on Chinese and other foreign students for revenue lol.

My point was, the non-immigrant birth-rate is very low, so arguably the US should have arrived at the same demographic crisis as japan, china and south korea. Not only that, immigrants attend college at a much higher rate than native-born too.
by alganet | 2025-10-20 20:51:32+00:00
Again (see my other comment in the thread), I thought the oxides were just for color variation and there was depth changes that could be used for a mold.

Anyway, there are still ways of moving forward with the idea. For example, chemically removing the oxide layer to a desired thickness sounds feasible. If I were him, I would try it (but maybe in another video, as the whole process would be a whole different rollercoaster).
by tracker1 | 2025-10-20 20:51:44+00:00
Agreed... while monitoring isn't everything, not just alerts, but a dashboard and reports can provide insights and early warnings before things start falling over.

A single 80% CPU spike isn't anything to worry about by itself... but if it is prolonged, frequent and accompanied with significant influence on p95/99 latency and response, it could be a critical warning that you need to either mitigate an issue or upgrade soon.

I would be more inclined to set limits on response latency, or other metrics that would be impactful to users as to what is tolerable, and use that as critical alert levels. The rest you can use reports on to get say hourly or half-hourly windows in terms of where performance hits are, what the top values were for latency in addition to p95/p99, etc.
by epolanski | 2025-10-20 20:51:46+00:00
The foundational purpose of universities is truth-seeking, not job training. There's universities like Bologna, al-Qarawiyyin, Oxford or Cambridge that are more than 1000 years old.

The ultimate goal is knowledge cultivation.

You're more adapt to intellectual work only if you actually cultivate knowledge.

If all this college circus is, farming grades, then universities are ultimately failing at their job.
by pamelafox | 2025-10-20 20:52:07+00:00
I know :( But I think vector DBs and vector search got so hyped that people thought you could switch entirely over to them. Lots of APIs and frameworks also used "vector store" as the shorthand for "retrieval data source", which didn't help.

That's why I write blog posts like https://blog.pamelafox.org/2024/06/vector-search-is-not-enou...
by zamadatix | 2025-10-20 20:52:19+00:00
Never hold regret for having honesty, it tends to lose its value completely if you only care about it when you have good news to deliver. If for anything, hold regret for when you didn't have something better appreciated to be honest about.

The easier threading-focused approach to the conversation might be to add the additional comment as an edit at the end of the original and reply to the child https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649068 directly. Of course, I've broken the ability to do that by responding to you now about it ;).
by Spivak | 2025-10-20 20:52:29+00:00
But is the distinction meaningful? The alternative to a shed in Virginia is a different shed in Montana? I mean sure there are a lot of different sheds out there but they're all still sheds. They're all shared responsibility models where the line is drawn in different areas, some outages will be because of your fuckup, some will be theirs.

Not saying as an industry we shouldn't diversify a little but it doesn't fundamentally change the relationship each company has to their hosting provider.
by vee-kay | 2025-10-20 20:52:45+00:00
You should see the movie Don't Look Up. It is even more painfully accurate portrayal of our times, and it eeriely explains why the world's richest men are building and testing rockets and spaceships. (Answer: No, it ain't merely for space tourism or mere profits. They know their misdeeds will ruin the Earth one day, so they are preparing a Plan B.)
by shiomiru | 2025-10-20 20:52:53+00:00
I've done something like that in my TUI browser:

https://codeberg.org/bptato/chawan/src/commit/3f2fffd882ff47...

It just spins up a background process when a canvas context is created and sends drawing commands through IPC. As a result, you can rm the 970k canvas binary (most of it is just Unifont) and with some luck you will only break canvas rendering.

Of course this only works for things that are relatively self-contained. So you can add/remove image decoders or protocol handlers without recompiling (the main binary has zero networking code), but the JS API is still baked in.

(I imagine you could also implement some less performance-sensitive APIs in JS and load the bytecode on demand, but I haven't tried.)
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-20 20:53:00+00:00
They can't attract a large contingent of users. Because despite being able to do everything the big name models can do, they cannot do it as well.

This aligns with the benchmarks as well; they benchmark great for what they are, but still bottom of the barrel when competing for "state of the art."

And yes, it's great you daily Chinese models, but the vast majority of people try them, say "impressive", then go back to the most performant models.
by hansmayer | 2025-10-20 20:53:23+00:00
Well, OpenAI "looks to" a lot of things (AGI by the end of 2025 was also one stated goal), but unfortunately, facts are something else. Your artical sums up the costs for running ChatGPT to 2.5B + another 6.7B for "research and development", a.k.a. bunch of PhDs tweaking the model weights - so that is a total of what, roughly 9B USD? Congrats, their burn for the first half was not 3x times the revenue, it was "only" slightly over 2x times that. I am not sure where did they pull the projection for ~13B revenue for the whole year, if they generated only a third of that in the while first half of it? Maybe from that latest pivot, erotica-ChatGPT, but otherwise...no.
by svachalek | 2025-10-20 20:53:37+00:00
Models take a lot of VRAM which is tightly coupled to the GPU so yeah, it's basically sitting there with the model waiting for use. I'm sure they probably do idle out but a few minutes of idle time is a lot of waste--possibly the full 82% mentioned. In this case they optimized by letting the GPUs load multiple models and sharing the load out by token.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-10-20 20:53:37+00:00
Right, I am saying there is no evidence they are profitable, so we fall back to the default, that they are unprofitable.

Indeed, the other poster seems right: "The burden of evidence is on the side of the person making the claim" is simplistic and reductionist. "The burden of proof lies on the more unbelievable side" is more appropriate.

Taking an example: If I said the earth was not flat, and someone else told me to prove it, that proof would be unnecessary, because the earth being flat is more unbelievable than the alternative.
by Peacefulz | 2025-10-20 20:53:46+00:00
These numbers are honestly ridiculous. I don't even know how you arrive to these valuations without seriously fudging things. It may as well say TSLA is worth a bajillion dollars. If your thing is "worth" orders of magnitude more than anyone would be willing to pay, guess what? It's really only as valuable as anyone would spend on it. Everything else is fluff.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-20 20:53:54+00:00
Garbage article.

Like, cool, you guys are starting to talk about a new instruction set that will make C safe somehow. Yet you failed provide an ounce of detail for how you'll accomplish that.

This might as well been a "And we'll make our CPUs 10x faster and they'll use 10x less power!". Or "Future CPUs will have a 10ghz clock speed!"

Again, who is this article for? The government maybe to assure them that x86 will take cyber security seriously?
by rictic | 2025-10-20 20:53:54+00:00
So, they have a custom decode function that extracts info from unprinted characters which they then pass to `eval`. This article is trying to make this seem way fancier than it is. Maybe GitHub or `git diff` don't give a sense of how many bits of info are in the unicode string, but the far scarier bit of code is the `eval(atob(decodedString))` at the bottom. If your security practices don't flag that, either at code review, lint, or runtime then you're in trouble.

Not to say that you can't make innocuous looking code into a moral equivalent of eval, but giving this a fancy name like Glassworm doesn't seem warranted on that basis.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-10-20 20:54:04+00:00
ok, so not some paradise. Next step, it's Europe so they could just make a law preventing this, perhaps disallow locked apis, or having to publish the details if they do end of life things.

The us should do this too. But we aren't. We have problems like John Deere locking down fixing farming equipment - replace some electric part of your gear and you have to haver an API key to "unlock it" to work. This problem already exists on car parts. It can reduce motivation for someone to steal such car parts, but it seems to mostly be a revenue line for car makers, prevents third party replacements too.
by baggachipz | 2025-10-20 20:54:25+00:00
> Imagine if each grocery store self-checkout required a human staff member to scan items, re-arrange things, and confirm checkout.

They always have at least one person going between each self-checkout kiosk helping confused and upset customers. Meanwhile, 1 traditional checkout lane is open with a long line. Self checkout is great to use if you know how and have a handful of items, but it sucks with a full cart due to space constraints and the bag scales being finicky.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-20 20:54:26+00:00
I hate this sort of surface level analysis.

Why do we need experts? Because the bureaucracy demands it.

One should, in a novel situation, be able to just get a local university professor with relevant experience and an engineer to say "here's how we're gonna build it and in our professional experience we think it'll be fine.

Why does the bureaucracy even demand it? Lord f-ing knows if someone tries to sue them over a harm it'll be deflected because "we're government, you can't sue us over that".
by piva00 | 2025-10-20 20:54:36+00:00
It's a simple metric to calculate, it's also gamed a lot exactly because of this assumption.

It's extremely faulty to measure general living standards, a country with expensive healthcare will generate higher GDP while having a sicker population, the same repeats for any essential service to quality of life which is fraught with middlemen, each step in the chain increases GDP. Also for shoddy construction, repairs and renovations will increase GDP.

Using GDP as a proxy for living standards is very poor.
by intellectronica | 2025-10-20 20:54:55+00:00
Codex works much better for long-running tasks that require a lot of planning and deep understanding.

Claude, especially 4.5 Sonnet, is a lot nicer to interact with, so it may be a better choice in cases where you are co-working with the agent. Its output is nicer, it "improvises" really well even if you give it only vague prompts. That's valueable for interactive use.

But for delegating complete tasks, Codex is far better. The benchmarks indicate that, as do most practicioners I talk to (and it is indeed my own experience).

In my own work, I use Codex for complete end-to-end tasks, and Claude Sonnet for interactive sessions. They're actually quite different.
by vkou | 2025-10-20 20:55:03+00:00
Okay. What's the counter-argument to it? A restoration of the divine right of king and lord? Sit down and shut up, the oligarchs know best?

Should we take the fallacy of the middle, split the difference, and just behead half the nobility?

Or should perhaps instead engage with the idea, as presented?

> Populism: the idea of the "common people" in opposition to a perceived elite.

The elite certainly act like they believe it to be true. Does that make them populists, or..?
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-10-20 20:55:06+00:00
I've never managed IT professionally myself (pre-cloud or otherwise), so a lot of my information comes from family members who do, but my impression is that bare metal rental and colo centers weren't realistic options for any but the most technically sophisticated organizations. I know schools, stores, even research centers who went straight from on-prem to managed cloud with no real consideration for anything in between.
by w10-1 | 2025-10-20 20:55:07+00:00
OP objections to scripting in Swift are (1) requires a build step; and (2) subprocess API requires wrapping for each tool -- both are true.

The Swift team did just release Subprocess, but it doesn't break hugely new ground. Swift has had API's for running system processes, and the best wrapper has been the Shwift library[1] which supports async operations and bash-like syntax for captures.

Wrapping tools with static functions that make convenient choices is helpful, but the real benefit comes with using type-safe API's - e.g., records for git-log output, enumerations for configuration, etc.

For the update-build-and-run dance, there are tools like clutch [2]. It helps most when you have a bunch of scripts that benefit from common (wrapping) libraries - as with builds, processing pipelines, etc. - because the common code doesn't need to be re-built, only the script.

- [1] shwift: https://github.com/GeorgeLyon/Shwift

- [2] clutch: https://github.com/swift-nest/clutch
Show HN: I built a Product Hunt alternative for African tech startups
by harryyking | 2025-10-20 20:55:44+00:00
With the advance of AI, everyone is building and creating solutions. It is actually amazing to see people in Africa engage this creative field and produce products that could help their ecosystem.

So I built a platform that will soon be the biggest directory of tech products made by people in Africa to solve African Problems.

I am taking this path because I understand we have very different problems and different cultures and things work differently especially in Africa.

What do you guys think? I want your feedback on everything.
by midtake | 2025-10-20 20:55:57+00:00
Calling political newcomers populist is stupid. "Ah this challenger didn't come with the blessing of the DNC and other corporate sponsors, it must be a populist!"

This article is talking about protectionism not populism. It is continuing the trend of forgetting that protectionism was a core Democratic trait until they abandoned the working class and decided to become super cool technocrats.

And now that Trump, of all people, is championing protectionism, the left side is digging its heels in and cursing one of its former values.
by agentcoops | 2025-10-20 20:56:03+00:00
Agreed. Crucially, it doesn’t ask _why_ they want this line of credit and assumes it’s to serve as an equal source of financing as capital investment. Yet, I think the reason for this credit line is rather straight-forward risk management: it is not at all inconceivable that any one of the numerous legal proceedings the firm is already entangled in (to say nothing of ones surely to come) conclude in settlements that would be existential without it. If I were an OpenAI investor, I would certainly want a story for how they would handle such an expected emergency. A few other high-growth startups are publicly known to have obtained such a line of credit at a similar stage.
by fweimer | 2025-10-20 20:56:08+00:00
Arm MTE is much older. Android already supported it with a limited number of devices: https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/arm-mte

There is server hardware out there now that in theory can support MTE, but I don't know if there's commercial support for it. MTE needs to be set up by the firmware, it's not purely an OS/kernel matter.
by MeetingsBrowser | 2025-10-20 20:57:03+00:00
> We do know though that hospitalization rates are about the same for people who take epinephrine vs those that don't

An EpiPen is not a cure, and you are told that if you use an EpiPen you should also go to the hospital. An EpiPen essentially keeps you alive long enough to receive care.

> The speed at which they get to the ER seems to have a bigger impact on the recovery from the reaction than the EpiPens do

If you have anaphylaxis without an EpiPen, the first thing the ambulance/ER will do is almost certainly inject epinephrine.

I really encourage you to ask a doctor. It is not enough to read papers and draw conclusions without understanding the broader context. I am not a doctor, but have talked to a doctor about carrying an EpiPen.

> The tricky thing with the data set available to us is that anaphylactic deaths are so rare that it's hard to establish meaningful findings

Again, could this be because there is such abundant access to life saving medication, that you are arguing against?
by spopejoy | 2025-10-20 20:57:22+00:00
I would think that if AI is so smart, it would realize that zero-sum games are for suckers.

Only an AI as _dumb_ as us would want something as stupid as domination, which after all is based on competition for resources that a long time ago were distributable in a way that could feed every human on earth etc.

I'm not saying an AI would "choose" world peace, but people somehow assume that "kill everybody but me" and even "survival at all costs" are a given for a non-biological entity. Instead these concepts could look quite irrational.
by Havoc | 2025-10-20 20:57:27+00:00
Banks are pretty chill about these things. I've been controller on something with a billion+ revolving facility myself.

You can basically throw the entire analysis out on a single point:

>Case 1 (90%): OpenAI goes bankrupt. Return: $0

It won't be $0. Creditors have liquidation priority and banks make very sure they're confident in the quality of the collateral before handing out billion dollar facilities.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-20 20:57:31+00:00
Happened a couple of times :)

- 2008 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=116445

- 2010 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396191

- 2015 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10033172

- 2017 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673 (Postmortem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13775667)

- 2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41770111
by poorman | 2025-10-20 20:57:55+00:00
Totally agree. I was just thinking that I wouldn't want this feature for Claude Code but for Codex right now it would be great! I can simply let tasks run in Codex and I know it's going to eventually do what I want. Where as with Claude Code I feel like I have to watch it like a hawk and interrupt it when it goes off the rails.
by antinomicus | 2025-10-20 20:57:57+00:00
I’m honestly thinking he saw all the attention Elon got and wanted some for himself. For real - ten years ago if you asked anyone if they knew who Peter thiel was, maybe 4/10 would be able to tell you. But even among those 4 if you asked do you know what Peter thiel looks like they might all have shrugged. Now, at least to me, it seems like Thiel has decided to do interviews and public appearances like he never did before. And more and more people now know who he is and how crazy he is as a result. Not sure it’s had the effect he’s looking for.

I am so constantly confused by the level of greed and insanity these kinds of people reach. My theory is that once you are so divorced from the material world and what the value of anything is, your brain turns to mush.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-20 20:58:06+00:00
The parts of the US that HN likes to characterize as "developed" and "forward looking are the worst of both worlds. You do a million step bullshit process to get government permission to do a thing and then if it goes wrong you still get sued. And then the government exercises their discretion to screw you after the fact.

The paces in the US that HN characterizes as backwards still for the most part do "seems reasonable, have fun" based permitting.
by Tarball10 | 2025-10-20 20:58:24+00:00
There was a long period (15-20 years) where LCDs were quite a downgrade from CRTs. Poor contrast ratio (gray blacks), backlight bleed, low resolution, poor color gamut (they're still putting 45% NTSC screens in budget laptops!), stuck at 60Hz refresh rates.

Those gaps have finally started closing in the last few years, now that 4K 240Hz 99% DCI-P3 OLED monitors are readily available and relatively affordable.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-20 20:58:27+00:00
Beyond that, are what/why you are sorting... should File1.foo come before File005.foo or file020.foo? I've honestly thought about creating my own file manager just to case-insensitively sort files where sequences of numbers are padded to the same length, and only if there's an identical match is case-sensitivity put lower first, then upper on first original difference.

My worry is that it would perform badly on really large directories... That said, for where it's a pain, it would be helpful to say the least.