MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-28 19:34:40+00:00
I mean, I think the point that the author of this license wants to point out is that, it brings a sense of discussion regarding something and tries to do something about it. Like, I feel like your statement shows HOPL in a negative light and there are ways to do that in the sense of how I think it might not make sense legally (But IANAL) but if this does, then honestly it would be really nice but I also feel like your statement can be modified enough to be an attack of GNU/GPL philosophy

I wonder if the first people who saw proprietory webservices using GPL code which the community wrote which makes it easy for them / faster to build (similar to AI) ,think, I will just license my code to forbid to be in the use of any proprietory webservices (Its called AGPL)

There are other licenses like ACAP (https://anticapitalist.software/) etc.

Some of these aren't foss OSI compliant but honestly why does it matter if I am creator or I am thinking of licenses y'know?

Like its my software, I wrote it, I own the rights, so I am free to do whatever I want with it and if someone wants to write a HOPL software, then yeah its in their rights but I just don't like when our community sometimes tries to pitch fork people for not conforming to what they feel like providing commentary onwards

I am not trying to compare GPL with HOPL but I am pretty sure that GPL must have been ridiculed by people in the start, Someone with knowledge please let me know and provide some sources on it as I am curious about it as to what the world reacted when GPL/FSF/ the notion which I think most of you know about was born and unleashed into the world, I am curious how the world reacted and maybe even some personal experiences if someone went through that era, I would appreciate that even more in which words wouldn't count as I think it was a really transformative moment for open source in general.
by angelgonzales | 2025-10-28 19:34:41+00:00
"We need to see was someone living in there permanently?" Canepa said. "These are taxpayer dollars and so we need to make sure that what's taking place in those facilities really is for the good of the taxpayer. That means people aren't living there." - this quote doesn’t follow logically since the chief living in the office may actually be better for response time. This article makes me feel like all critics involved are like crabs in a bucket that are frustrated that someone managed to supercommute. I worry that someone in city government directed the fire inspector to the station as a political move more than in the actual interest of safety! If this guy faces any response to his living situation I would hope he gets the same treatment that those living on the street (whose habitation poses a fire risk to the public and burden to taxpayers) do - support from the community and no repercussions at all.
by cess11 | 2025-10-28 19:34:44+00:00
I'm actually uncertain whether you likely consider SQL or Prolog easier. To me both of them have a kind of late seventies feel that is kind of foreign compared to a lot of software stuff from the last quarter of a century.

Pilog is similar to both, the basics are kind of easy to learn, it's basically a bit of Lisp:ish syntax and keywords for 'give me a subset from these sets'. But it's a graph of objects instead of tables or atoms.
Show HN: Tamagotchi P1 for FPGAs
by agg23 | 2025-10-28 19:34:45+00:00
After being thrust headfirst into FPGA development thanks to the Analogue Pocket, my first from scratch creation was a gate level implementation of the original Tamagotchi toy.

The core, running on both the Analogue Pocket and MiSTer platforms, lets users re-experience the very first Tamagotchi from 1996 with accurate emulation, but modern features. The core has savestates (which is much harder to do in hardware vs software emulation), high turbo speeds (1,800x was the max clock speed I've reached so far), and more.

Learning more about hardware and FPGAs is something I've wanted to do for many years, and I highly recommend it for any programmer-brained person. It's a very slightly different way of thinking that has vast consequences on how you look at simple problems.
by guptadeepak | 2025-10-28 19:34:52+00:00
I’ve been looking into how AI agents and “vibe coding” are changing the way we think about digital identity. The problem is shifting from verifying who someone is to understanding who actually performs an action, especially when both humans and AI share access.

Two trends stand out:

1. Identity systems are starting to use behavioral and contextual signals instead of just passwords or keys.

2. Our current trust models break when adaptive AI systems act independently.

As AI agents become more autonomous, is it time to design identity systems that verify intent, not just identity?
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-28 19:35:00+00:00
One I wonder about but cannot prove: I wonder if the Justice Department wanted the prosecutions to wait until 2024, so that they would tar Trump during the campaign. If so, they were well-served for that bit of trying to put a thumb on the electoral scales. Trump was able to delay the cases until after the election. If they had begun a year earlier, we might be living in a very different world.
by adventured | 2025-10-28 19:35:06+00:00
I really loved using Claude. I like working with Claude more than GPT or Gemini. Claude is to LLMs what Firefox is to browsers. I just like Firefox more than Chrome. It's very clearly behind GPT Codex at this point though. So far I've found Gemini for front-end design work to be better than the others, and I pair it with GPT for everything else. Hopefully Gemini 3 is a solid improvement, I like having at least two LLMs at high quality to run against each other.
by magackame | 2025-10-28 19:35:07+00:00
God if it could just be a single key that you dump to paper or titanium plate and don't worry about backing up a zoo of keys/password with a cloud. Just take my one and only public key. If you care about per service privacy, you are welcome to use multiple. I don't think there is any compromise scenario where you would leak any single specific passkey and they are not bruteforcable. Why is it not as simple as that?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-28 19:35:08+00:00
I've bought GE recently with good luck (GSS25IYNFSS, specifically). No affiliation, just someone who buys a lot of appliances that need to last and be simple for longevity (housing provider). My kingdom for someone who could build the old, reliable tanks of yesteryear.

https://ncph.org/history-at-work/rethinking-the-refrigerator...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator
by nawgz | 2025-10-28 19:35:20+00:00
> people know it is a problem but ideologically they really disagree about what to do about it

Can we really say this is true about individuals in the US?

I think it's pretty clear the propaganda machine has successfully privatized health care to the great detriment of the populace and have the clamps on it.

After all, if you told everyone you had a solution where insurance rates would be cheaper, their healthcare system would cost less overall, and the health outcomes would be superior, they would all be like "sounds great". Then, when you reveal this solution is the complete destruction of the insurance "industry", insurance payments are "tax", and the health provider is the government, they would balk, scream about socialized healthcare, and say how they don't trust the government.

That's a trained response, not a real thought.
by nadis | 2025-10-28 19:35:23+00:00
> This entry was written at 33,000 feet while flying over the Canadian Rockies.

Respect the commitment to the craft!

Also useful / timely knowledge for me, thank you. I have a big international trip with multiple longhaul flights coming up and was debating if I should upgrade my airpods or consider something else (e.g. overear headphones). Do folks have overear recommendations?
by bnjms | 2025-10-28 19:35:33+00:00
> If your case was directly related to the SFP (“I can't get a link on this fiber port”), then yes, they could probably refuse it.

I have zero doubt they will. But also you prove nothing and are doing yourself and the vendor a disservice if you fake it. There’s no telling what your 3rd party transceiver is doing incorrectly. Better to get one single supported sfp and get that fixed which will probably fix your other issue too.

FS is so big they’re probably fine. Another option is to get one supported sfp, find if it’s encoded to an oem part, then buy and install the oem part directly. Easy to twist the arm of your var to do this.
by secstate | 2025-10-28 19:35:34+00:00
> The phrase after the "but" in the second sentence isn't the "summary definition". It's the part of the definition that best supports your argument. Cutting the Wikipedia definition down to that part is deceptive.

Wat?

Everything after the "but" is what Google means when they use the term sideload and is the only important part of the definition for f-droid's purposes. The other definition is completely irrelevant and, I would argue, hardly ever used anymore.
by Fwirt | 2025-10-28 19:35:44+00:00
I never thought I would connect my Hisense to the internet, but it turns out that it runs an MQTT broker and responds to WoL packets, so control via Home Assistant was really easy to setup and is much better than the IR blaster I was using before as response is almost instant and I can get power state so I can sync it to the rest of my living room. Most smart TVs seem to do well behind a DNS black hole, and if you're knowledgeable enough for that then self-hosting a dnsmasq instance on an old box you have lying around and pointing the TV at it is a snap.
by IIAOPSW | 2025-10-28 19:36:01+00:00
Its impressive how well Bezos has convinced everyone to stop trusting WaPo rather than WaPo convincing everyone to trust Bezos. A paper owned by a wealthy financial interest was hardly unique or novel at the time he took them over, and no one would have been more concerned about it than they already were, and all he had to do was not be overt in his influence and bias of it, but he couldn't refrain.
by alphazard | 2025-10-28 19:36:12+00:00
> I'd challenge someone to provide competing articles on a controversion topic from Wikipedia and Grokipedia and demonstrate how the Grok version is less-factual. Just because it doesn't adhere to your ideology, doesn't mean it's wrong.

Yeah, it's too soon to be making claims about misinformation campaigns. The Grokpedia approach should be on the same footing as Wikipedia was when it was launched. Use it cautiously and wait for the apples-to-apples comparisons to come out.

I suspect your 2nd paragraph will be less well received here.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-28 19:36:12+00:00
They are free if you pick up your own order. I know this is about deliveries, but take outs are basically the same thing with the person ordering acting as the delivery walker (I live in Seattle/Ballard, so at least we don't have to drive to get food). I've recently discovered a local grocery store's salad/hot bar, and its basically my go to for lunch now (they grocery store doesn't even ask for tips).
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-28 19:36:23+00:00
> I used to test with http://neverssl.com/ until they added HTTPS for some reason.

My first reaction was along the lines of "What? That can't possibly be right..."

After testing a bit, it looks like you can load https://neverssl.com but it'll just redirect you to a non-https subdomain. OTOH, if the initial load before redirecting is HTTPS then it shouldn't work on hotel wifi or whatever, so still seems like it defeats the purpose.

Huh.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-28 19:36:28+00:00
neverssl added an HTTPS version for browsers that automatically connect to HTTPS when entering a domain name (like Chrome probably will after this change, eventually). The HTTPS version of the site uses Javascript to load a random http:// subdomain of neverssl.com so automatic HTTPS redirects are still defeated.

http.rip will probably show a "website unavailable" error at some point unless you manually type in the http:// prefix.
by fijiaarone | 2025-10-28 19:36:53+00:00
Instead of trying to get LLMs from zero to 100, which is impossible to do, you should concentrate on getting them from 75% to 95%. The idea that someone who has no knowledge of the domain and no understanding of relational data modeling can chat “like to know really good um but don’t make any mistakes” with a GPU an uncover the mysteries of the universe is imbecilic.

But… someone what knows approximately what to do and sort of how to do it could work wonders — if we had LLMs trained on a corpus with specific rules.

I don’t know how to left join and what table I need to get the aggregate of sales in each region by date and price range, but I can describe it halfway and know how to check if each step is valid.

LLMs can do this. They’re trained on English, and they are able to weight definitive rules. But instead we throw a random text at a general purpose transformer.

Parsing a response of tokens into grammatical English is the most expensive computation (after the initial scraping and catalog). Instead of wasting all the cycles doing that against the sun total of GitHub, StackOverflow, Reddit, and Wikipedia, create a fuzzy match on a simplification a rigorous specification and train it on your data (just a few million tokens) to teach it that users have primary addresses and are associated to accounts that have regions and region X has roughly 10 times the sales volume of region y.

So someone intelligent in the matter with an understanding of logical rigor and a general idea of the data shape can actually become 10x more efficient, instead of trying to lift vibe coders to the level of Spakespearean monkeys, you could be turning mid-level devs into super analysts.
by nosianu | 2025-10-28 19:37:55+00:00
So what about this? It is a question, not meant as a counter.

Although I have to say the rosy picture some paint here about the high incomes is counter to anything I ever heard - and saw, although I left the US in the early 2000s, after having lived there for almost a decade (still mostly paid from Germany, never ready to make a complete move).

"Medical Bankruptcies by Country 2025"

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/medical-b...

"Healthcare Insights: How Medical Debt Is Crushing 100 Million Americans"

https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/scheinman-institute/blog/john-au...

By the way, Europeans don't quite all have a "nationalized healthcare system". Germany, for example, has "Krankenkassen" but also private insurance, and the "Krankenkassen" are private organizations.

We pay health insurance and get to choose the provider, those with higher incomes can switch to complete private insurance. We also have lots of our own problems and increasing costs because of immigration but more so aging population.

However, I personally know several people who had severe illnesses for a long time, and their normal "Krankenkassen" insurance never made any problems. One person with plenty of money, whose wife was dying, even asked US medical experts if he should come to the US with her, and those US experts said he should stay where he is, the German univ3ersity hospital right next door had some of the leading therapies in the field. She lived five more years instead of dying after less than half a year with the standard therapy, every single expense paid for with the standard insurance, additional private insurance unnecessary. Similar with my stepfather, who had soooo many severe conditions, and yet every single item down to the special medical bed brought into our house so that he could finally die at home was paid without question.

The problems are with more mundane expenses, e.g. glasses, or the dentist, where only some of the treatments are covered. The really expensive illnesses seem to be better covered than the more common and much simpler problems.
by noirscape | 2025-10-28 19:38:05+00:00
> You can get $2/yr domain names on weird TLDs like .site, .cam, .link, ...

You can, but as stated - that's not free (or easy). That's still yet another fee you have to pay for... which hurts adoption of HTTPS for intranets (not to mention it's not really an intranet if it's reliant on something entirely outside of that intranet.)

If LetsEncrypt charged 1$ to issue/renew a certificate, they wouldn't have made a dent in the public adoption of HTTPS certificates.

> Not necessarily, you don't route the domain externally, and use offline DNS challenge/request to renew the certificate.

I already mentioned that one, that's the wildcard method.
by franga2000 | 2025-10-28 19:38:31+00:00
But this is the exact issue you have with IT outsourcing - instead of taking the obvious and sustainable solution, there's a clause somewhere in the 500 page requirements doc that doesn't even make any sense, but means you have to use something nonstandard and even add some of your own hacks on top. Because it's a tender, you can't really change the spec and you don't care to either, because a terrible bodge means they have to go back to you whenever it needs changes/fixes.

An in-house development department on the other hand doesn't have to stick to the strictly disconnected way of tenders and the development team can actually work with the stakeholders to develop and evolve the spec throughout the project. They also don't need to guarantee future business for themselves through vendor lock-in or boost their corporate partners through technology choices.

This is an unprecedented case where a private company decided to go the open source route for a government project, usually it's only the in-house teams that pick open source.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-28 19:38:35+00:00
> politics slowly eating it's own ass for the past 40+ years; it's about politicking rather than governing

I'm honestly not even sure he is running for Senate. He might just be going turbo MAGA in hopes that Trump tries to buy him out of dropping out with an administration appointment, the way they did with Adams in NYC [1] (until he bombed out in the polls).

The Republican party has developed a perverse incentive structure where running in the primary as an unelectable nutjob in order to get bribed to drop out is a precedented strategy [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/nyregion/eric-adams-saudi...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/arizona-gop-boss-quits...
by Sesse__ | 2025-10-28 19:39:07+00:00
> But also you prove nothing and are doing yourself and the vendor a disservice if you fake it. There’s no telling what your 3rd party transceiver is doing incorrectly.

If I report an IS-IS problem and the root cause is an OEM SFP on a completely unrelated port, then the design of the switch is pretty awful. :-)
by legitster | 2025-10-28 19:39:46+00:00
Johnson & Johnson has literally collaborated with the FDA in the past to put disclosures of risks during pregnancy on hundreds of their products. Many of which are more profitable than Tylenol.

This is substantively different than the "tobacco coverup" in a magnitude of ways - but we're talking about an alleged coverup for something that the company doesn't have a history of covering up, for a tiny segment of their customers.

Regardless of the actual risk of Tylenol, Occam's Razor should not lead us to assume a coordinated coverup.
Show HN: Butter – A Behavior Cache for LLMs
by edunteman | 2025-10-28 19:39:51+00:00
Hi HN! I'm Erik. We built Butter, an LLM proxy that makes agent systems deterministic by caching and replaying responses, so automations behave consistently across runs.

- It’s a chat completions compatible endpoint, making it easy to drop into existing agents with a custom base_url

- The cache is template-aware, meaning lookups can treat dynamic content (names, addresses, etc.) as variables

You can see it in action in this demo where it memorizes tic-tac-toe games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWbyeZwPjuY

Why we built this: before Butter, we were Pig.dev (YC W25), where we built computer-use agents to automate legacy Windows applications. The goal was to replace RPA. But in practice, these agents were slow, expensive, and unpredictable - a major downgrade from deterministic RPA, and unacceptable in the worlds of healthcare, lending, and government. We realized users don't want to replace RPA with AI, they just want AI to handle the edge cases.

We set out to build a system for "muscle memory" for AI automations (general purpose, not just computer-use), where agent trajectories get baked into reusable code. You may recall our first iteration of this in May, a library called Muscle Mem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43988381

Today we're relaunching it as a chat completions proxy. It emulates scripted automations by storing observed message histories in a tree structure, where each fork in the tree represents some conditional branch in the workflow's "code". We replay behaviors by walking the agent down the tree, falling back to AI to add new branches if the next step is not yet known.

The proxy is live and free to use while we work through making the template-aware engine more flexible and accurate. Please try it out and share how it went, where it breaks, and if it’s helpful.
by brundolf | 2025-10-28 19:39:54+00:00
I had something similar happen after sleeping a few times with my first-gen airpods pro. I think something must have gotten filled with earwax or something, because the noise cancelling got more and more broken and had more sudden sharp sounds until they were unusable

But since then I've had two pairs of airpods pro 2 and bought the 3s on the first day, and I've had no such issues with any of them, including sleeping, and flying twice with the 3's so far. YMMV
by mothballed | 2025-10-28 19:39:59+00:00
Not Americans OK with it, just that right-wing wants hypercapitalist low-regulated helathcare while left-wing wants basically "free"/communist health care.

Both of which are infinitely better than what we have now, which is bastardized worst elements of both.

But because both sides will never agree we'll get neither, only the current hellscape.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-28 19:40:08+00:00
Usually, completing the domain name by adding the final period will do the job. Instead of entering myprinter into the address bar, try myprinter. so your DNS server doesn't try to resolve myprinter, myprinter.domain, myprinter.domain.tld, and whatever other search domains have been configured. A real, fully-qualified domain ends in a period, though most tools will happily let you avoid that final period.

Alternatively, .local domains will work for mDNS-capable devices (and non-mDNS-capable devices if you like to risk things breaking randomly), and the .internal TLD has been reserved so .internal domains should also work for local addresses.
by gadders | 2025-10-28 19:40:35+00:00
>> This is the construction of a reality production cartel that creates a parallel information ecosystem designed to codify a deeply partisan, far-right worldview as objective fact.

Perhaps if Wikipedia hadn't drifted so far left (on culture war topics, it's fine for science etc), then maybe it wouldn't have been necessary.

https://manhattan.institute/article/is-wikipedia-politically...
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-28 19:40:59+00:00
You can already see what site someone visits with HTTPS. It's in the Client Hello, and is important for things like L4 load balancing (e.g. HAProxy can look at the host to choose what backend to forward the TCP packets for that connection to without terminating TLS). It's also important for network operators (e.g. you at home) to be able to filter unwanted traffic (e.g. Google's).