MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SteveNuts | 2025-11-18 21:01:23+00:00
I have a serious question, not trying to start a flame war.

A. Are these major issues with cloud/SaaS tools becoming more common, or is it just that they get a lot more coverage now? It seems like we see major issues across AWS, GCP, Azure, Github, etc. at least monthly now and I don't remember that being the case in the past.

B. If it's becoming more common, what are the reasons? I can think of a few, but I don't know the answer, so if anyone in-the-know has insight I'd appreciate it.

Operations budget cuts/layoffs? Replacing critical components/workflows with AI? Just overall growing pains, where a service has outgrown what it was engineered for?

Thanks
by switchbak | 2025-11-18 21:01:36+00:00
I high-beamed one of them, then they turned their high beams on - it was a shockingly ridiculous amount of light that's simply dangerous anywhere. Fuck Audi.

Man, this feels like a vehicular instantiation of class war. Pay enough and you too can blind others on the road.

What's next - frickin laser beams?
by iLemming | 2025-11-18 21:02:10+00:00
The allocation overhead rarely matters in practice - in some cases it does. For majority of "general-purpose" tasks like web-services, etc. it doesn't - GC is extremely fast; allocations are cheap on modern VMs.

The second point I don't even buy anymore - once you're used to `reduce`, it's equally (if not more) readable. Besides, in practice you don't typically use it - there are tons of helper functions in core library to deal with data, I'd probably use `(frequencies coll)` - I just didn't even mentioned it so it didn't feel like I'm cheating. One function call - still O(n), idiomatic, no reduce boilerplate, intent is crystal clear. Aggressively optimized under the hood and far more readable.

Let's not get into strawman olympics - I'm not selling snake oil. Clojure wasn't written in some garage by a grad student last week - it's a mature and battle-tested language endorsed by many renowned CS people, there are tons of companies using it in production. In the context of (im)mutability it clearly demonstrates incontestable, pragmatic benefits. Yes, of course, it's not a silver bullet, nothing is. There are legitimate cases where it's not a good choice, but you can argue that point pretty much about any tool.
by geerlingguy | 2025-11-18 21:02:35+00:00
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by apparent | 2025-11-18 21:02:44+00:00
Pebble went out of business but Core is set up very differently. They have an incredibly lean team and Eric appears to have self-funded much of the HW and SW development before taking a dime from customers.

There's a chance that some awful fate will befall Eric, of course, but other than that I am not especially concerned that the new company will fold. Eric seems to understand what caused that outcome, and is specifically looking to avoid making the same mistakes.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-11-18 21:03:15+00:00
> Lawyer, National Security Division: Bondi signaled the Foreign Agents Registration Act would be enforced only in very limited circumstances after the Justice Department had done a lot over the last decade to give it teeth. At its core, FARA is a transparency statute, to let the American public know when foreign actors engage in political activities or try to influence U.S. discourse. If you’re concerned about foreign money and influence in politics, it’s a bad time to go dark.

This is pretty corrupt.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-18 21:03:26+00:00
To me this all just looks like a big frothy chemical reaction playing out far beyond any one person's control.

With that view, many things oscillate over time, including game theory patterns (average interaction intentions of win-win, win-lose, lose-lose), and integration / mitosis (unions, international treaties, civil wars),etc.

So my optimistic view is that inevitably we will get more tech whether we want it or not, and it will probably make things worse many for a while, but then it will simultaneously enable and force a restructuring at some level that starts a new cycle of prosperity. On the other side it will be clear that all this tech directly enables a better (more free, more diverse, more rewarding, more sustainable) way of life.

I believe this because from studying history it seems this pattern plays out over and over and over again to varying degrees.
by switchbak | 2025-11-18 21:03:32+00:00
You were in a normal car ... for 2004.

Now you're in a car that the US car industry doesn't want to sell, and thus you don't exist.

Do we need self-darkening HUDs? Like an LCD overlay that specifically mutes the intensity of these improperly engineered cars? Seems dumb, but it might happen.

I wonder if we'll just move to using IR for the really high beams? That probably doesn't do anything good to the human eye at high intensities, but if you could augment the driver's vision and not blind everyone at the same time that would be nice? Let's bring back the Cadillac Deville!
by sharpshadow | 2025-11-18 21:03:46+00:00
One can claim 100% recycled cobalt under the mass balance system even if recycled and non-recycled cobalt was mixed as long as the total amount used in production is less or equal to recycled cobalt purchased in the books. At least here[0] they claim their recycled cobalt references are under the mass balance system.

0. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/apple-will-use-100-pe...
by constantcrying | 2025-11-18 21:03:48+00:00
Democratic regimes, in the name of anti fascism, have performed extremely gruesome acts and far more thoroughly violated the privacy of individuals.

Karp obviously believes that the actions by palantir are necessary to safeguard liberal democracy as it has existed.

Karp has obviously studied German democracy, which has a specific concept for this "wehrhafte Demokratie", meaning that democracies must defend themselves, with force if necessary.
by addaon | 2025-11-18 21:03:58+00:00
Isn't this just the Thanos argument, though? Given the huge number of possible future lives under space colonization, all of them ending inevitably in death and suffering, no amount of trying to improve those lives can ever has as much of a positive impact as just avoiding them by pushing for, say, nuclear self-annihilation now, because the somewhat larger suffering for a much, much smaller number of people is a higher "expected value"? I'm not really keen on moral arguments that end up arguing for nuclear war…
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-18 21:04:14+00:00
#3 sounds like you're either nitpicking or maybe having an eye issue?

#7 You're either doing something good or something very bad, so I hope it's the former. If you're trying to pace the lane next to you, then it sounds like it's at least an honest attempt to get things zipper merging. If you're telling yourself that cars need to be in both lanes to zipper merge, while zooming to the end and then hoping maybe a zipper merge will happen, you're getting a big benefit to yourself while still causing slowdown for everyone else.
by Demiurge | 2025-11-18 21:04:15+00:00
> In the 60s it was possible for a man to work an ordinary job, buy a house, settle down with a wife and support two or three children.

Every kind of a man, or woman?

> Do people really think more technology is going to be the path to a better society? Because to me it looks like the opposite.

Well, this probably why statistics exist.
by AstroBen | 2025-11-18 21:04:36+00:00
Eventually money to invest will run out. If earnings of the companies doesn't catch up we'll reach a situation where stock prices reach a peak, have limited future expected returns, and then it'll pop when there's a better opportunity for the money

Imagine if interest rates go up and you can get 5% from a savings account. One big player pulls out cash triggering a minor drop in AI stocks. Panic sells happen trying to not be the last one out of the door, margin calls etc.

You're assuming cash will never stop flowing in driving up prices. It will. The only way it goes on forever is if the companies end up being wildly profitable
by bob1029 | 2025-11-18 21:04:40+00:00
Its a problem in Safari:

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Looks like its blowing up on main.js:106

... if (isSafariOrIphone && Hls.isSupported()) { ...
by TulliusCicero | 2025-11-18 21:04:47+00:00
Unironically agreed that it's good for a CEO to remain relatively level headed and clear eyed.

The comparison made to the dotcom bubble is apt. It was a bubble, but that didn't mean that all the internet and e-commerce ideas were wrong, it was more a matter of investing too much too early. When the AI bubble pops or deflates, progress on AI models will continue on.
by johnmaguire | 2025-11-18 21:05:33+00:00
That's certainly the sticking point for Core. Also, Rebble is a non-profit, not a business.

> But also, they must have some big balls to claim that all of the data they scraped from the Pebble App Store is THEIR data. I'd like to see the agreements from the pre-Rebble devs attesting to that.

Agreed with this, but if it's not theirs, they also probably are not legally permitted to release it to Pebble (or host their app store, of course.) I am curious what the original terms were when they uploaded their apps to the OG Pebble app store.
by xmprt | 2025-11-18 21:06:09+00:00
One possibility is increased monitoring. In the past, issues that happened weren't reported because they went under the radar. Whereas now, those same issues which only impact a small percentage of users would still result in a status update and postmortem. But take this with a grain of salt because it's just a theory and doesn't reflect any actual data.

A lot of people are pointing to AI vibe coding as the cause, but I think more often than not, incidents happen due to poor maintenance of legacy code. But I guess this may be changing soon as AI written code starts to become "legacy" faster than regular code.
by Johnny555 | 2025-11-18 21:06:36+00:00
I thought that's why it's a good analogy - DDoS protection doesn't apply retroactively to prior attacks (or even current attacks, it's hard to apply DDoS protection while your site is down due to DDoS). If you want protection from DDoS, you need it before the DDoS. If you want to insure your car in case of accident, you need to insure it before the accident.
by recitedropper | 2025-11-18 21:06:56+00:00
I'm sure each of the frontier labs have some secret methods, especially in training the models and the engineering of optimizing inference. That said, I don't think them saying they'd keep a big breakthrough secret would be evidence in this case of a "secret sauce" on ARC-AGI-2.

If they had found something fundamentally new, I doubt they would've snuck it into Gemini 3. Probably would cook on it longer and release something truly mindblowing. Or, you know, just take over the world with their new omniscient ASI :)
by kalaksi | 2025-11-18 21:07:35+00:00
They still have VPSes with 2G of RAM? I'm checking the cloud price page* and you can get CX23 with 2 vCPU, 4G RAM and 20TB of traffic (seems to say that it's 1TB for US) for 3,49€/month (~4 USD).

You can save additional 0,50€ if you go with only IPv6.

Maybe it's location dependent, I can't get it to show me prices for US.

* https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/
by natasha_jaffe | 2025-11-18 21:08:14+00:00
Interviews can feel like a waking nightmare. Going blank during a coding challenge is right up there with the presenting-while-naked dream. In my case, much of that stress boils down to just how much of the process is outside of my control: the job market, my interviewer, the questions they ask, and all the other folks vying for that same role. I wrote up some strategies that work for me and that I've seen work for others when I was on the other side of the table. They all revolve around the things you can control or at least strongly influence: your mindset, your degree of preparation, your behavior during the interview, and how you approach failure.
by OptionOfT | 2025-11-18 21:08:20+00:00
It is insane how many failures we've been getting lately, especially related to actions.

* jobs not being picked up * jobs not being able to be cancelled * jobs running but showing up as failed * jobs showing up as failed but not running * jobs showing containers as pushed successfully to GitHub's registry, but then we get errors while pulling them * ID token failures (E_FAIL) and timeouts.

I don't know if this is related to GitHub moving to Azure, or because they're allowing more AI generated code to pass through without proper reviews, or something else, but as a paying customer I am not happy.
by mindslight | 2025-11-18 21:08:33+00:00
I with you on being naive. I internalized hard what I thought were conservative values trying to understand why the senseless Iraq war happened. Even personally thought in right "libertarian" terms coming in from ancap via cpunks. (reading Unqualified Reservations brought me back from that. Thank you Yarvin, for helping me to see the truth of the matter!)

I still never got when red tribe people would say things like "Look what's going on in California", and I'd respond in agreement with actual experience, but still never managed to connect. In retrospect I guess those were merely coded invitations to start openly bashing Hispanics, made doubly ridiculous as they're the native race of that area.

I do keep trying to appeal to purported conservative values, as the maggot movement basically fails every coherent single statement of them I've found. So maybe the naivety hasn't gone away, sigh.
by w2seraph | 2025-11-18 21:08:53+00:00
Vibe coding has taken a way to where its become psychological, and these days all I work with is just a "fast apt" solution like Cursor's Composer 1, I tried Gemini 3 inside Cursor, and while I had no real application to a real stratified properly to benchmark it with, it felt "already slow" in a very fast race.
by sillyfluke | 2025-11-18 21:09:21+00:00
I'm curious when we started conflating transcription and summarization when discussing this LLM mess, or maybe I'm confused about the output simonw is quoting as "the transcript" which starts off not with the actual transcript but with a Meeting Outline and Summarization sections?

LLM summarization is utterly useless when you want 100% accuracy on the final binding decisions on things like council meeting decisions. My experience has been that LLMs cannot be trusted to follow convulted discussions, including revisting earlier agenda items later in the meeting etc.

With transcriptions, the catastrophic risk is far less since I'm doing the summarizing from a transcript myself. But in that case, for an auto-generated transcript, I'll take correct timestamps with gibberish sounding sentences over incorrect timestamps with "convincing" sounding but halluncinated sentences any day.

Any LLM summarization of a sufficiently important meeting requires second-by-second human verification of the audio recording. I have yet to see this convincingly refuted (ie, an LLM model that maintains 100% accuracy on summarizing meeting decisions consistently).
by wnevets | 2025-11-18 21:09:26+00:00
> A. Are these major issues with cloud/SaaS tools becoming more common, or is it just that they get a lot more coverage now? It seems like we see major issues across AWS, GCP, Azure, Github, etc. at least monthly now and I don't remember that being the case in the past.

FWIW Microsoft is convinced moving Github to Azure will fix these outages
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-18 21:09:27+00:00
> I’m pretty sure all LLMs could be Thanos snapped away and there would be near zero material impact.

I mostly agree, but I don't think it's the model developers that would get bailed out. OpenAI & Anthropic can fail, and should be let to fail if it comes to that.

Nvidia is the one that would get bailed out. As would Microsoft, if it came to that.

I also think they should be let to fail, but there's no way the US GOV ever allows them to.
by the_snooze | 2025-11-18 21:11:38+00:00
>In other circumstances, they make avoidable mistakes, such as deploying confusing user interfaces or choosing greed over customer delight.

This is exactly what got me to stop using Spotify (for their insistence on spamming podcasts on the home screen, when I'm there solely for music) and music streaming as a whole (for my playlists randomly losing songs). Buying the audio files and maintaining them on my own hardware is less BS.
by pnw | 2025-11-18 21:11:49+00:00
Rather than just rage at the automobile industry and other drivers for creating this problem, I bought a pair of yellow tinted night driving glasses and now it doesn't bug me as much. They don't solve the problem completely but they cut out the harsh blue lights in modern headlights. And the yellow tint makes the world look like a cool night scene in a 1970s movie.

Headlight standards in the USA are a perfect example of government regulation failing to adapt with the times. Until recently the NHTSA was still using 70s era regulations, until Congress forced them reluctantly to update.
Show HN: A DSL helps a soulslike run directly on YouTube
by oflatt | 2025-11-18 21:12:10+00:00
Hi HN, I've just released a game called Video Souls running on top of the YouTube API.

It has a level editor and DSL so you can make your own levels, and I think it has a lot of potential for funny community levels. It also has connections to PL research, so I wrote the blog post on it. There's a trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm5MKsAv-lE And the game is here: https://videosouls.com/
by kelseyfrog | 2025-11-18 21:12:17+00:00
For reference, amendments are part of the constitution. This is specified in TITLE 1 CHAPTER 2 Sec. 106b. Of the US Code[1] which reads

> Whenever official notice is received at the National Archives and Records Administration that any amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United States has been adopted, according to the provisions of the Constitution, the Archivist of the United States shall forthwith cause the amendment to be published, with his certificate, specifying the States by which the same may have been adopted, and that the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States.

Amendments have the same force as the Constitution because they are a part of the constitution. They are not simply laws. Thank you for allowing me to clarify.

1. https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution/unite...
by jonathaneunice | 2025-11-18 21:12:20+00:00
"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job." -- Bill Murray
by darkwater | 2025-11-18 21:12:28+00:00
I run K3s on NixOS as the central piece of my homelab and it was actually even too much easy to setup (although now that I think about it there was some gotcha I had to manually tweak in K3s config). This "Kubernetes on NixOS the hard way" seems very interesting and I will have a look at it via the QEMU image at some point. Thanks for sharing!
by elcapitan | 2025-11-18 21:13:13+00:00
Mittelstand is singular (like middle class).

I would say decidedly yes for Hetzner. Mittelstand can somewhat be characterized by size, but it's mostly that they are more like a family, have different values and more long term thinking than the larger industry and public companies. It's also kind of a brand that many companies would like to attribute to themselves, even much larger companies that like that seal of quality.
by networkcrypt | 2025-11-18 21:13:42+00:00
Atomic Memory™ is a breakthrough read-once, self-collapsing silicon memory primitive engineered for the post-quantum era. Each cell releases its secret exactly one time—then irreversibly destroys its internal state, guaranteeing hardware-enforced ephemerality. Built entirely in standard CMOS with no fuses, no NVM, and no persistent footprint, Atomic Memory™ delivers deterministic one-time keys for secure boot, ephemeral exchange, IoT identity, and PQC-ready authentication. It’s security you can’t rewind.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-11-18 21:14:09+00:00
> It’s telling that people like this who use “capitalism” as a pejorative never have any compelling alternative to offer beyond “let experts in the state micromanage everyone and everything”.

He literally built something that doesn't involve experts, or the state, or micromanaging anyone or anything.

Is this a new talking point you just learned about?
by rozap | 2025-11-18 21:14:28+00:00
Realistically I think there are two outcomes:

AGI succeeds and there are mass layoffs, money is concentrated further in the hands of those who own compute.

OR

AI bubble pops and there are mass layoffs, with bailouts going to the largest players to prevent a larger collapse, which drives inflation and further marginalizes asset-less people.

I honestly don't see a third option unless there is government intervention, which seems extremely far fetched given it's owned by the group of people who would benefit from either scenario presented above.
by lazide | 2025-11-18 21:14:37+00:00
In most of Asia, Latin America, Africa, and about half of Europe?

You’d be pretty stuck. I guess SMS might work, but it wouldn’t for most businesses (they use the WhatsApp business functionality, there is no SMS thing backing it).

Most people don’t even use text anymore. China has it’s own Apps, but everyone else uses WhatsApp exclusively at this point.
by incognito124 | 2025-11-18 21:15:15+00:00
I'm in your boat. I picked this career because I enjoy solving problems and thinking and understanding. I'm interested in how things work inside below the layers. To me, it's like the tech has a purpose of its own, and not just to provide value.

Using agents effectively is this whole other skillset including managing requirements, prioritization and, worse yet, I'm rarely left with any knowledge. I don't nearly get the same joy out of "I finished a task with an agent" like I do with "I had a problem, I delved deep to understand it, learned something new and solved it"

Then again, I bet people making furniture out of wood felt the same about industrial furniture factories. And it can be argued that not every use case needs custom tailored furniture...
by BeetleB | 2025-11-18 21:15:18+00:00
Depends on your age and where you live. If you're single, no kids, and don't need healthcare, sure.

Where I live (not expensive like SV), they recommend $90K+ to "live comfortably".

A 1 bedroom apartment is $19K/year. Insurance rates vary widely, but premium + deductible - you may want to assume $10K/year. So you're already at $30K without eating, Internet, utility bills and transportation.

I'm sure one could live off of that 1M if fairly frugal, but it's not what most people want.
by ecshafer | 2025-11-18 21:15:23+00:00
We self host gitlab, so its very stable. But Gitlab also kind of is enterprise software. It hits every feature checkbox, but they aren't well integrated, and they are kind of half way done. I don't think its as smooth of an experience as Github personally, or as feature rich. But Gitlab can self host your project repos, cicd, issues, wikis, etc. and it does it at least okay.