MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mesrik | 2025-11-10 18:55:42+00:00
>Unfortunately for HP, its workstations (the ones OP acquired) weren't nearly as popular with universities and developers as Sun Microsystems', so you tended to find HP-UX in commercial production—larger servers, more workload, but smaller numbers

Agreed, the university I worked HP systems cost was the major reason Computing Center Sun was purchased, though we had stray discount price purchased units of almost all vendors too.

We did have one HP 3000/MPE running library VTLS quite long time. I can't remember its exact model any more. But was first 160cm heights rack filling old system and then later replaced with some 9000/E35 matching size smallish (a thick and very heavy PC) size smaller 3000 series box. I did not manage that, but helped its sysadmin with his 9-track autoloader issues couple of times. I would have certainly recycled that tape unit to another use, but it was HP-IB (IEEE 488 / GPIB) connected like whole rack filled with disks all daisy-chained were easy to believe not having been cheap. Too bad it was so hard to get GPIB adapter working with other systems. Those terminals used with MPE having local edit buffer were weird, as was HP Roman character set used. All so well built that was a shame to let the go when VTLS was retired about 30 years ago.

Maths department did have better funding to get few HP-UX running long time. Only HP-UX we had at CC was C160 workstation running OpenView NMS, but that's it.

Yes and commercial side (a telco vendor) I did work customer demanded HP and there were very few Sun servers. It was only used if and when software was not at all available for HP-UX. What I recall Ericsson switching systems tended to come with Sun/Solaris and Lucent 5ESS HP/HP-UX that time.

A friend of mine went SF some conference, I don't recall year. But he came back with HP brand sunglasses which HP gave all visiting their booth and told "Remember, not to look at Sun" :D
by amarant | 2025-11-10 18:56:20+00:00
4 doesn't really work for serious big load applications either: nobody will be able to understand the codebase. You want 3.

During my days at mojang we did some variation of 3. We had ~250k requests/second, and handled it just fine (we had 4 nines availability forever chasing the fifth, and sub 20ms response times)

I think even among those who do see big loads, few see as much malicious traffic as we did. This was one of the arguments for a micro service architecture. If a DDOS took down our login service, already logged in players would be unaffected (until their tokens expired anyway)

Well, that was a long winded way to say, 3 is about as micro as you want to go. I've only seen 4 done once, and that site actually went under whenever they had more than 30 request per minute. (Admittedly they had made a bunch of other really bad decisions not covered in the above description, but having ~30 services on a team of 12, in order to handle a handful of requests per hour was certainly their biggest mistake.)
by toss1 | 2025-11-10 18:56:21+00:00
Can confirm, having started multiple LLCs and S-Corps.

You get the corporate entity first, and this is required to get the bank account.

So, if the bank account was required to get the corporate entity formed, none would ever be formed, as the bank acct and the corporate authorization would forever be waiting for the other prerequisite to be complete.

And no, AFAICT, there is no hard requirement for a bank account to maintain a corporation, although in practice it would make doing almost everything quite inconvenient.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-10 18:56:41+00:00
> China is strong, their standing army is probably 300 million and if they invaded canada. Our <100,000 CAF will be goners.

Having 300 million people and being able to move them across the Pacific Ocean are two very different things.

Yeah, China's building a lot of landing craft. Are those landing craft capable of a 10,000 mile voyage? I doubt it. Does China have a way of loading and launching those ships 100 miles from Canada? I doubt it.
by Theodores | 2025-11-10 18:56:44+00:00
It wasn't just Wikipedia, which was a relatively recent addition to the web, everything online was a 'load of rubbish'.

In turn-of-the-century boomer world, reality was what you saw on TV. If you saw something with your own eyes that contradicted the world view presented by the media, then one's eyes were to be disbelieved. The only reputable sources of news were the mainstream media outlets. The only credible history books would be those with reviews from the mainstream media, with anything else just being the 'ramblings of a nutter'.

In short, we built a beautiful post-truth world and now we are set on outsourcing our critical thinking to LLMs.
by Bender | 2025-11-10 18:57:40+00:00
This looks more like a home-grown chan site. Probably a better place to list it would be a couple of the link aggregators for chan sites [1][2] though if listing there expect a lot of spam and be ready to heavily moderate it. I doubt the HN community would be posting news links to it. As for underground the domain name TLD would need to be .onion assuming one knows how to harden their OS and chan platform.

# do not visit the sites that the following URL's link to from a corporate or family environment.

[1] - https://allchans.org/

[2] - https://chan.city/
by tylerhannan | 2025-11-10 18:58:38+00:00
We aren't a charity.

But, we are also a database provider.

Ryadh mentions some examples below where we have joined forces, incorporated code into ClickHouse Cloud (our commercial offering), and OSS has grown.

Time will tell (I can't predict future)...but I'm excited about the future of OSS LibreChat.

(disclaimer: I work at ClickHouse)
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-10 18:58:39+00:00
> but it's just so easy to fall into nationalistic prattle instead of fixing the real problem.

Right. This, right now, is 100% a UK problem. De-Americanising your tech stack isn't going to fix the political issues domestically. Hence Apple pulling ADP out, they made the choice of not complying with the UK and not offering the service instead of compromising the service for everyone else in the world.

UK citizens need to direct their attention inwards against their own government.
by vector_spaces | 2025-11-10 18:58:40+00:00
> Our other tool, HyperTwin, tackles the “tribal knowledge” problem. It learns directly from subject-matter experts, observing workflows, analyzing screen interactions, and conducting AI-driven interviews to capture how they debug and reason about their systems. The goal is to build digital “twins” of the experts on how they debug, architect, and maintain these systems in practice.

How do you consolidate this knowledge across disparate teams and organizational silos? How will you identify and reconcile subtle differences in terminology used across the organization?

Perhaps I misunderstood, but on your website you primarily identify technical implementors as SMEs. IME modernizing legacy data systems in high-stakes environments, the devil is more on the business side -- e.g. disparate teams using the same term to refer to different concepts (and having that reflected in code), or the exact stakeholders of reports or data systems being unknown and unknowable, and discerning between rules that are critical to a particular team or workflow that are opaque to you because e.g. you don't know who all relies on this data or are missing business context, or because the rule is not actually used anymore, or because the implementation of the rule itself is wrong.

Besides, both technical and non-technical stakeholders and SMEs lean heavily on heuristics to decision with the data they are looking at, but often struggle to explicitly articulate them. They don't think to mention certain conditions or filters because for them those are baked into the terminology, or it doesn't occur to them that the organization deals with broader data than what they interact with in their day-to-day.

And unfortunately in these settings, you don't get many chances to get it wrong -- trust is absolutely critical.

I am skeptical that what you will end up with at the end of the day will be a product, at least if your intent is to provide meaningful value to people who rely on these systems and solve the problems that keep them up at night. My feeling is that you will end up as primarily a consultancy, which makes sense given that the problem you are solving isn't primarily technical in nature, it just has technical components.
by great_wubwub | 2025-11-10 18:59:29+00:00
> Things get more interesting when AS64510 signals for 2001:db8::/48 to be withdrawn by Cloudflare (AS13335)

Typo - shouldn't that be AS64511?

...and...

> The MRAI specifies the minimum amount of time ... between each BGP advertisement update.

Each update _per prefix, per peer_. RFC4271 sec.9.2.1.1 says

--- [MRAI] determines the minimum amount of time that must elapse between an advertisement and/or withdrawal of routes to a particular destination by a BGP speaker to a peer ---
by gtowey | 2025-11-10 18:59:40+00:00
> Why are these different than using LLMs?

I would say that with a computer you're using a tool to take care of mundane details and speed up the mechanics of tasks in your life. Such as writing a document, or playing a game. I can't think of a way I would be seriously disadvantaged by not having the ability to hand-write an essay or have games I can readily play without a computer. Computers are more like tools in the way a hammer is a tool. I don't mind being totally dependent on a computer for those tasks in the same way I don't mind that I need a hammer anytime I want to drive a nail.

But for many people, LLMs replace critical thinking. They offer the allure of outsourcing planning, research, and generating ideas. These skills seem more fundamental to me, and I would say there's definitely a loss somehow of one's humanity if you let those things atrophy to the point you become utterly dependent on LLMs.
by ctoth | 2025-11-10 19:00:18+00:00
But what is Apache for?

You don't just set up Apache to have run Apache? You set it up to serve web content! It is middleware, it is not in of itself useful?

Isn't setting up Apache robbing yourself of the opportunity to learn about writing your own HTTP server? In C? And what a bad idea that is?

The LLM helping you configure a web server is no different than the web server helping you serve HTTP instead of implementing a web server from scratch. You've just seemingly? arbitrarily decided your preferred abstraction layer is where "real work" happens.

Okay, maybe LLMs might disappear tomorrow and so for some reason the particular skill of configuring Apache will become useful again, maybe! But I'm already using brainpower to memorize phone numbers in case my smartphone contacts disappear, so maybe I won't have room for those Apache configs ;-)
by ok_dad | 2025-11-10 19:00:38+00:00
The original rule when I was a lad (when wikipedia was a baby) was, "don't trust stuff on the internet, especially Wikipedia where people can change it at will."

Today they might have better trust for Wikipedia-- and I know I use it as a source of truth for a lot of things-- but back in my day teachers were of the opinion that it couldn't be trusted. This was for like middle and high school, not college or university, so we would cite encyclopedias and that sort of thing, since we weren't reading cutting edge papers back then (maybe today kids read them, who knows).

Edit: Also, I think the GP comment was proven correct by all of the replies claiming that Wikipedia was never controversial because it was very clear to everyone my age when Wikipedia was created/founded that teachers didn't trust the internet nor Wikipedia at the time.
by ortusdux | 2025-11-10 19:00:49+00:00
Reminds me of The Best American Nonrequired Reading series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_American_Nonrequired_...

Ironically, the 5th ed was required reading in my ENG 101 course. It included a collection of Onion headlines. I will never forget "CIA realizes they have been using black highlighters all these years."
by refulgentis | 2025-11-10 19:01:01+00:00
There's bursts of them and every 3-6 months I see one like this, more practical, and remember I don't need to read the others. Then I forget in 3 months. Rinse, lather, repeat. (to this 16 year veteran of HN, it reminds of early 2010s Haskell)
by bnchrch | 2025-11-10 19:01:01+00:00
Hmm let me think back...

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Apple Homepod

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Bought it years ago since i was in the Apple ecosystem and I wanted an easy way to play music, set timers and add items to my grocery/reminder list.

I also knew state of the art in LLMs was picking up so I was willing to overlook how bad Siri is.

Flash forward to today:

- Siri is still a pile of garbage

- It only recognizes my voice despite my wife having an iPhone and being part of the household

- Sometimes doesnt save the timer

- Only recently did it get Spotify integration through my phone

- Still cant give it multiple items to add to a list at once

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Google Home

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Started strong then got progressively worse with each update until it could no longer do basic tasks like timers + reminders

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GoPro Hero

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Housing failed on my first use and they refused to honor the warranty.

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Quest 3

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Amazing device! But I wanted to use it for a virtual monitor and all the software was terribly buggy.

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Worth stating my favourite purchases in the last little while that make me happy every time I use them.

- XREAL One Pro (Amazing for a virtual display)

- Kindle

- Apple Watch (Perfect for waking me up but not my wife)

- iPad Air (Second display + drawing)

- Macbook Pro M4 14' (A portable beast)

- Moccamaster (Simple machine, great coffee)

- Toyota Tundra 2010 (Likely will run longer than I live and theres no touch screen in sight)

- Yeti mug (hot drinks all day)

- Hydroflask (cold water all day)

- Timbuk 2 Parker (Best daily use + light travel bag Ive had in awhile)
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-10 19:01:12+00:00
The title should begin with "At minimum", I hope cops having access isn't a surprise, what might surprise is how other parties can too. In some cases, cops can't legally access the data but 3rd parties can, so cops get it through third party brokers.

Small example: Accurately correlating a phone number or IP address to the current real-time physical address.
by smsm42 | 2025-11-10 19:01:24+00:00
It's not a backdoor per se. UK just banned using E2EE (at least for Apple users' data). I don't think though they can ban E2EE in general - like, if I upload a binary blob to a data store, how would they know whether it's encrypted or not? Short of banning all strong encryption completely (which even UK yet is not stupid enough to do) it's not possible to prevent. But they did not build a "backdoor" into encryption - they demanded that, and Apple refused, so there's now no encryption at all for UK users. There's no door.

They are just going for service providers that make E2EE easy for users - clearly betting on the fact that people they want to surveil would be too lazy/incompetent to use a custom solution providing strong E2EE encryption. And they may be right - most iphone users would keep using the same services even with the knowledge that the data is now widely open - and eventually of course will be breached and available to every kind of criminal, as it happened many times already with other massive data warehouses.

But I believe even is the UK you still can encrypt your own backup and upload it, e.g., to rsync.net and nobody would be able to stop you. Just most people won't.
by dbg31415 | 2025-11-10 19:01:49+00:00
Online games are nearly impossible to preserve.

Most games are online games now.

Multi-player games depend on servers, economies, and communities that exist only as long as someone's logging in and paying the bills. When those servers go dark, the logic, data, and social fabric disappear with them. Owning the client isn't owning the game. The real thing was the networked experience -- like trying to preserve a concert by saving the recording but not the crowd.

Legal and technical barriers seal the deal. Server code is proprietary and rarely released. Reverse-engineering it breaks copyright law in most countries, so preservation sits in a gray zone. Even when fans rebuild servers, the result is closer to a reenactment than a recovery. And they seldom scale to the heights of the actual game.

Future historians will have YouTube clips and half-working emulators -- fragments of worlds that were never meant to last.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-11-10 19:01:50+00:00
I’ve seen this argument repeated a lot and I think it’s disingenuous. If AWS cared about simplifying billing they could figure out semantics that make sense. Just to throw out an example, they could allow account owners to either opt in or opt out of a hard cutoff. It’s clear they don’t have an incentive to fix this problem.
by dmarti | 2025-11-10 19:01:55+00:00
A certain amount of hustle and overselling by inventors and new companies has always been a thing. What’s unfamiliar in recent times is the combination of large, oligopoly companies with the failure of those companies to make an effort to go legit as they grow up. While American business culture has always celebrated “fake it ’til you make it,” we have pivoted to “make it, then fake it even harder.”
by 9front | 2025-11-10 19:02:12+00:00
DGXOS is a customized Ubuntu Noble!

/etc/os-release:

PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION_ID="24.04" VERSION="24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)" VERSION_CODENAME=noble ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy" UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble LOGO=ubuntu-logo

and /etc/dgx-release:

DGX_NAME="DGX Spark" DGX_PRETTY_NAME="NVIDIA DGX Spark" DGX_SWBUILD_DATE="2025-09-10-13-50-03" DGX_SWBUILD_VERSION="7.2.3" DGX_COMMIT_ID="833b4a7" DGX_PLATFORM="DGX Server for KVM" DGX_SERIAL_NUMBER="Not Specified"

While other Linux distros were already reported to work, some tools provide by Nvidia won't work with Fedora or NixOS. Not yet!

I couldn't get Nvidia AI Workbench to start on Neon KDE after changing to DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu in /etc/lsb-release. Neon is based on Ubuntu Noble too.
by nocoiner | 2025-11-10 19:03:03+00:00
That’s basically just the benefits of limited liability, that has nothing to do with AI personhood. And you’re basically just describing the formation of a legal entity, the reference to AGI could just as easily be replaced with “talented founder” or “dual class shares” or “poison pill” or something.

In any event, the law tends to be responsive about establishing doctrines for extending liability to individuals involved, like piercing the corporate veil, principles of partnership, or a statutory regime (like CERCLA).
by brainwad | 2025-11-10 19:03:40+00:00
As an Aussie:

* some kind of proportional representation in lower houses or parliament (see e.g. New Zealand for a Westminster-compatible solution, or Switzerland for something more radical while still working with seats allocated by state populations).

* referendums on laws/treaties, and popular initiatives to propose constitutional changes and/or new laws (like in Switzerland or various western US states).

* reinvigoration of the federal principle that things that can be done by the states (or the local governments) should be done at that level, rather than the feds sticking their nose in everything (see, again, Switzerland).
by boplicity | 2025-11-10 19:03:46+00:00
The state school I went to 20+ years ago, by contrast, has around $10k in annual tuition, which isn't bad compared to a trade school. No mandatory housing/food costs either. I got a great education there and am still friends with some of my profs. I also got one of the least practical (for most people) degrees (creative writing), and turned it into a comfortable job for myself, though I recognize that's the exception and not the rule.

I never thought of university as a way to get a job. It certainly did help me in many, many ways though, and can't imagine having my current career without it.
Show HN: React Chrono v3 – Zero-runtime CSS,grouped API and fullscreen timelines
by icoder_wer | 2025-11-10 19:03:50+00:00
React Chrono v3.0 is a major release for the popular React timeline component.

Highlights: - Migrated to Vanilla Extract for zero-runtime CSS (no styled-components) - New grouped configuration API (props: layout, interaction, content, display, media, animation, accessibility, i18n) - Per-element Google Fonts control and font caching - Complete i18n covering 40+ text elements - Cross-browser fullscreen mode with keyboard shortcuts - Advanced dark mode (36 customizable theme props, 13 new in v3.0) - Sticky toolbar, enhanced search - TypeScript, React 18.2+ support - Full backward compatibility with v2.x

More details in the README and changelog!
by mmh0000 | 2025-11-10 19:04:09+00:00
The simple answer is: Money.

If you're making money in the UK, they have a lot of legal authority over you.

If you're based in the UK, they have a lot of legal authority over you.

If you're neither of those things, they might complain, but the actual consequences are close to nil.

And they're not banning the tools (this is arguable, but they "can't" logically, as you point out). They're banning businesses from providing the tools.
by strictnein | 2025-11-10 19:04:39+00:00
I like how the first quote on that link was taken out of context. It let's me know that the rest of those likely are as well.

The statement he was making was that programs like Affirmative Action and DEI can lead a person to think those things, and he doesn't want to think those things.

Not a fan of his, but if he's such an evil person, one wouldn't have to resort to twisting his words.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-11-10 19:04:56+00:00
Sure, I first heard about this years ago when Channel 4 (a UK broadcaster) ran a program about pilots stating they were concerned about the policy. There had been outrage within the aviation industry after three fuel emergencies in one day at one airport. [0] Ryanair sued [1], and lost: Channel 4 had engaged in fair journalism, it turns out.

Seems they're still at it, hence the recent incident.

[0] https://www.eurocockpit.eu/news/fuelling-debate-safety-vs-pr... [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23686678
by observationist | 2025-11-10 19:05:23+00:00
Their work with CISA didn't prevent the attack which took place, and didn't prepare them to handle it, and they had to do the mad scramble of fixing it, and Biden's CISA wouldn't have made any difference either.

CISA is like the TSA for the internet. Security Theater, now streaming to a screen near you.

CISA has been nothing more than a bureaucratic checklist tool, not a legitimate defensive organization capable of implementing meaningful deterrents. At its best, it provides a reasonable shared framework for bare minimum efforts by local IT teams. At worst, it's the usual big organization ass-covering mechanism that allows responsible parties to dodge accountability by waving around the checklists and saying "look! we did everything we were supposed to, but despite our best efforts, those evil Iranian hackers defaced our unsecured, sloppily put together web servers anyway."

We need less bureaucracy and more accountability, and for that we need legislation that brings consequences to bear. Minimum IT staffing and spending, an actual regulatory enforcement agency and not a corporate style cover your ass department.

Otherwise, the status quo will continue.

Narrator: Nothing ever happens.