MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-06 09:30:30+00:00
> It’s telling that none of the tech CEOs allow their children to use their wares.

This is way too general a claim to be plausibly true, or verifiable even if somehow it was true. There's a lot of tech CEOs, running companies doing lots of different things in the world of computer technology, with lots of different family situations. They do not all have the same philosophy of how to raise their children, that they have publicly and truthfully talked about. Even if you're just talking about, say, Mark Zuckerberg specifically, who I know has mentioned some things publicly about his approach to raising his relatively-young kids, I don't think he claims that he blanket-disallows his kids from using every Meta product. And if he did, why would he say that publicly? Or maybe he did do that at one point when his kids were younger but then they complained a lot about this parental restriction and eventually he relented without happening to inform the world on a podcast that he's now making a slightly different decision in his private life.

I also don't think that any parent's decision about what kinds of computer technology use to allow or forbid for their children should be primarily based on what tech CEOs do with their own kids (and of course, really, what they heard tech CEOs somewhere without actually being able to verify this unless they happen to be close personal friends of a tech CEO).
by liqilin1567 | 2025-11-06 09:30:41+00:00
Thanks for sharing. There are two things I don't understand:

> XDP for Egress Traffic Flow Diagram

1. Are packages still raw application data when they get to veth0-A without going through the tcp-stack?

2. In container to container communication case, do you plan redirect packages directly from veth0-A to veth0-B
by int_19h | 2025-11-06 09:31:13+00:00
You know, I am jealous of religious people sometimes precisely because they can believe in things that give them something to pin their hopes on in situation where there really isn't any hope, and even more so, to give them some higher meaning in life that is universally applicable.

But it's not about pride. This trick only works if you deliberately exclude at least some premises from rational scrutiny, which is basically what religious upbringing does. But if you grow up irreligious and learn to ponder everything, it just doesn't work out because the holes are so glaring.

Besides, if at least there were one religion to choose from, then I could see making a form of Pascal's Wager on that, but as it is, there's simply no obvious reason to me as to why I should prefer Christianity to, say, Islam - or, for that matter, something like Asatru. True belief requires a certainty that anything contradictory to it is automatically false, but if I were to accept the premises necessary to even consider Christianity, then by those same premises those other religions are no longer obviously false.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-11-06 09:31:13+00:00
> Elon Musk’s comment about the inevitability of civil war in Britain might have been flippant.

It is IMHO a mistake to view Elon Musk’s comment as merely "flippant". We should take the risk from "Elon Musk’s comments stoking civil war", and his personal platform to amplify radicalism and propagandise hatred, very seriously.

Even if the civil war that he fantasises about is currently a nonsense.
by cycomanic | 2025-11-06 09:32:05+00:00
You realise the irony right? You say say AI "slop" has a distinctive structure, but at the same time you (and the other poster) say that AI tools can not detect it? For what it's worth I'm an AI sceptic, but one thing that AI tools are good at is pattern matching (that's really all they do). But somehow pattern matching AI writing is so obvious to human's but it completely fails all AI tools (just tried another tool which said 100% human).

It doesn't match up. Moreover it's getting tiring, because every single article has these comments on them, and I've seen enough examples where authors showed up in discussions or texts were from before LLMs were widely available, but posters were still adamant that the text was AI generated.

I highly doubt that people here would reliably pick out (success rate > 60%, i.e. you get 60% of guesses correctly if text was generated by a human or LLM) LLM generated text that completely fools 90% of AI detectors.

Regarding the setup-punchline format, guess what, those were popular way before LLMs (not surprising LLMs must have learned them from somewhere).
by darkwater | 2025-11-06 09:32:28+00:00
Are we really able to service solar panels and batteries in Europe either, for example? Or most of the time is just a game of moving refurbished devices to replace the broken ones, that are then shipped back to... China? to be refurbished once again? I know that for more costly EV batteries there is some refurbishment capacity in Europe but what about the rest?
by benchly | 2025-11-06 09:33:08+00:00
What's missing from the initial comparison is the fact that smartphones opened up all sorts of conveniences, which is partly what makes them so addictive. Rock music, D&D, etc, these other things that were crusaded against offered no convenience for all, so a conservative mind saw no value in it and attacked it as something that warps or rots young brains. Smartphones obviously do that and worse, but because they offer all sorts of helpful tools in our daily lives, we let it slide.

When I was in high school in the 90's, the famed Texas Instruments calculators were often banned in some maths classes because, as was said at the time, we were "not going to be walking around with a computer in our pockets all the time," so we needed to learn to do the work. By the time my younger brother passed through the same classes, they were required to have a graphing calculator because it actually helped kids complete the work. And play Dope Wars.

While we do tend to overreact to new tech, ways of thinking, games, music, etc, there's something inherently oily and snakelike about a thing that brings convenience to our lives the way smartphones or cell phones did. They slip in, comfortably at times, settling into our habits and routines while simultaneously altering them. We end up manipulated by it and before we know it, we can't set it down. In the case of smartphones, our data became the commodity, a mere decade or two after we were worried about tracking devices in cars or phone lines being tapped. But the smartphones kept delivering on their promises, which kept us hooked.

As someone who recovering from alcoholism, I struggle to call our love of smartphones an addiction, but if it helps people be aware of the dangers, by all means, use the term. To me, the problem of smartphones is manipulation at the deepest cognitive levels. We started offloading some thinking to them and who could blame us? We had the store of human knowledge in our pockets! We could play a game instead of sitting idle on the train, gamble with online casinos to try and win some extra cash that week, keep up with the Joneses on Facebook or get into a heated debate on Twitter during our lunch break, check banking, stocks and eBay sales, etc. We no longer had to carry a separate device to photograph or record the moment. The list goes on and on. But in the end, it altered our behavior just enough that we allow ourselves to be controlled by it, monitored by it, and bought and sold by it.
by benterix | 2025-11-06 09:35:38+00:00
How about:

**

First of all, I'm shocked to learn about what happened. We at Mozilla had no idea that sumobot is wreaking such havoc on your work. Please accept my sincere apologies.

It would be a great pity to have all your precious work done, so we'll do our best to fix it. I would be very grateful if you could schedule a meeting with me so that I could understend the issues you described better so that they are fixed asap?

Once again, I'm very sorry for what happened and I hope in spite of that you can continue doing great work for the Japanese Mozilla community. **
by usrusr | 2025-11-06 09:35:41+00:00
That would require monitors supporting daisy chain in the first place and I never had any problems with them anyways. Likely related to not using a full on hub but a minimalistic dongle with a DP outlet, a PD inlet and a USB outlet (which then goes to a USB hub switch managing access to simple hubs serving all those low bandwidth peripherals like the mouse).

The failing hubs were either driving cheap office displays connected through HDMI or high resolution mobile displays connected through USB-C. Few of those support anything like daisy chaining or at least simple PD passthrough so that you can use the same port for driving the display and powering the laptop, and I absolutely do want dual mobile displays. Even if only so that I can carry them screen to screen for mutual protection of the glass.
by whstl | 2025-11-06 09:36:00+00:00
Well, it was just a simple NPS, people were giving zeroes, so they decided to ask why.

People didn't answer so they made it anonymous.

In the end they just expected amazing results without putting up the work.

That was another YC hellhole, by the way. I'm out of this shit, I still frequent HN but I'm done with Paul Graham affiliated assholes.
by imtringued | 2025-11-06 09:36:33+00:00
One of the biggest flaws of the current web technology stack is the unholy mix of concerns with respect to layout. Layout is handled by CSS and HTML in a way that drives people crazy. I recently wanted to have a scroll bar for super long text inside a table cell. Easy, right? Turns out you need to change the HTML to include a <div> inside the table cell, since there is no way to style the table cell itself and have it do what you expect it to do.

XLST doesn't solve this at all, since you're just generating more of the problem, i.e. more HTML and CSS. It feels like there should have been some sort of language exclusively for layout definition that doesn't necessarily know about the existence of HTML and CSS beyond selector syntax.
by dr_dshiv | 2025-11-06 09:36:56+00:00
> That's much less clear to me.

But you must see that, if this point falls away, so does the argument.

“With some practice” surely means less 100 hours of practice. Not extensive practice, or PhD level practice or master-level practice.

Will the average person, after 100 hours of practice, really be rated better than AI at music, writing, visual art, coding, research, etc?
by Yizahi | 2025-11-06 09:37:03+00:00
Tables are much more expensive, and their quality varies afaik. And out of the 5 different dishwashers I've used, none had a pre-wash dispenser, only one single dispenser. But it doesn't really matter, powder cleans up everything perfectly, on any program and without additional powder in the main area of the machince. The only time when dishes were dirty after the wash was when the impeller had some gunk mechanically blocking the holes for the water. So, I see no reason to buy overpriced detergents.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-11-06 09:37:18+00:00
> Borderline AI response

I can’t believe what I’m going to say now, but AIs are better at this. Granted, their apologies are good for shit since they have no agency and can’t really learn from their mistakes, but they at least leave no doubts at who is at fault and should be ashamed.

(Cue Gemini with its “I’m a disgrace” self-flagellation)
by CoolCold | 2025-11-06 09:37:31+00:00
it may happen that you just don't need it - the same way not everyone need to use vim/neovim.

without tmux/screen though, it's much harder, even less reliable, to work over ssh, so it becomes natural need for such sort of tools.

Say I use screen and later tmux since I believe ~ 2010 but not using "advanced" features like "panes" and screen splitting every month, most of the time for me it's just switching between windows in session and different sessions (not that often) and that's all.

As a helper, for some projects, I do use predefined layouts (say first 4 windows opens with inventory dir, other 2 with root folder of ansible repo) so on, but need this also not very often, like when laptop reboots (which is every ~ 3 week on Win11 nowdays)
by devn0ll | 2025-11-06 09:37:41+00:00
I do not think the value difference is $100 ;-) In fact, the longer you use it, the more money they can make off of you. (In that sense, that $200 is already WAY too expensive to start ;-) )

So yeah, reversing this would make the most sense. The default is: local data only and not connected. They need to pay me to get data.

Just like car companies, phones, etc, should be forced to do that as well.
by theodric | 2025-11-06 09:37:56+00:00
There isn't anything here, not even sample code. This isn't a product, it's just a concept sketch. Ideas are cheap. Execution of such a radical plan requires Google-scale investment for several years or decades of volunteer work. See: Haiku, ReactOS, SerenityOS, Hurd.

In short: cool story, bro. Now show me the money.
by brap | 2025-11-06 09:39:04+00:00
It absolutely drives me nuts when people spend so much time building something but make it difficult to show you what they’ve built.

A short code snippet (with syntax highlighting thank you) should be the first thing on your page.

I do not have to scroll through a huge wall of text (probably AI generated), 2 images (definitely AI generated), miss it, start clicking links, still not find it, hit the back button, scroll through the slop again, etc.

I want to see the thing, I don’t care about what you have to say about the thing until I can get a sense of the thing.
by epistasis | 2025-11-06 09:39:06+00:00
Getting to 10x production capacity doesn't require improving battery tech, it just requires building more factories. The equivalent here isn't Moore's Law, it's fab capacity. If battery tech stalled out today at the same pricing (it won't), we could still 10x the battery production capacity every 5 years just on this pace.

The learning rate for batteries has not been as steep as Moore's Law for ICs. But the value of being able to store mass quantities of electricity at low cost is so incredibly valuable that it's going to blow up into a huuuuge number of factories.

You look at the 6TWh of all time and see that as a limitation. I haven't seen that stat before but I trust you, because with the growth rate of battery production it has to be a tiny number, because it's exponential growth. In 2024, 1.2 TWh of batteries were produced, 20% of all storage capacity ever. That was a single year! What if, in 2024, we produced 20% of all CPU capacity every produced? That's obviously a hugely growing market.

> The nature of resource extraction is that the easiest-to-exploit reserves are exhausted first, and continued production is contingent on accessing the progressively more and more inconvenient reserves. Maybe in 2030 annual global production will be 30 TWh - we'll know in 4 years. But there's a lot of people who probably don't want to make trillion-dollar investments gambling on that possibility panning out.

If you spend a small amount of time diving into the industry, you'll see that there's a massive number of very smart people solving all these resource constraint problems, securing supply chains years in advance, and building like fucking mad. Sure, there's a lot of people that don't want to get involved, but they will be left in the dust.

We are witnessing a massive energy interchange. This is like when the PC came along, but much bigger in terms of quantity and speed. Sure, there are those who are still skeptical of energy storage, 5-10 years after it became blazingly obvious that batteries are cheap and getting cheaper and will take over the enery world. But they are the same people who saw the iPhone and said "it will never catch up to my BlackBerry."

Electricity storage in batteries is a swiss-army knife for the grid that never existed until recently. We couldn't do time arbitrage, always had to match supply and demand instantaneously, across grids spanning hundreds and thousands of miles. No more, that's all gone. We can do tiny microgrids, we can do single houses, we can do 10 TWh installs across grids, because batteries scale small, scale big, are cheap, getting cheaper, and are being produced on a growing scale that most people do not understand.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-06 09:39:39+00:00
The social lessons people learn from their high school experience vary wildly. I have read many accounts of people who had bad experiences like this when they were in high school, and also many accounts of people who didn't have experiences like this. When I think about how the people I know have described their high school experiences, I can also think of a wide range of things. It's certainly not what my high school social experience was like - there were things I disliked about it, but mostly related to highly-idiosyncratic details of my personality. Describing it as a brutal rite of passage with some kind of global social hierarchy involving who got to sit at which lunch table rings very false to me.
by freehorse | 2025-11-06 09:39:59+00:00
> Much better than containers, which separate your data sort-of-but-not-quite

What is better depends on the use case. For me, containers are magic, because I can be logged into eg 2-3 different microsoft accounts simultaneously in the same window. With profiles or other browsers I would need to open a different window for each, which would be unnecessary and impractical. This is extremely convenient for me, containers is the feature I cannot currently browse without. Sometimes "separate your data sort-of-but-not-quite" may be exactly what you may need.
by jjcob | 2025-11-06 09:40:30+00:00
> So you are looking at powering DC only appliances!

Is there anything you actually need AC for? The big advantage of AC is that you can easily transform it for long range transmission. If you don't need that, AC is not really necessary, is it?

I guess the bigger issue is the limited power -- you probably can't use a small scale solar installation for cooking or washing, not because it's DC, but because it just wont offer 1000W power.
by hopelite | 2025-11-06 09:41:51+00:00
I don’t get the sense that the participants in a game actually know it’s a meaningless game. We have several domains beyond professional sports in which people have utterly persuaded themselves of their success simply due to external factors, like fans of celebrities and pop musicians who are essentially living in a delusional feedback loop fed by their fanatics. In tech and business in general it is more often how people have convinced themselves of their success based on “successful exists” or revenue growth in an economy that is solely a function of money printing and deficit spending/debt, not some objective measure of improvement. It’s the same kind of thing that on a geopolitical stage has resulted in America with its $1T+ military budget being effectively checkmated by hypersonic missiles, etc.; the delusion that $ = success and superiority and dominance, when all it really did was blind us in all the ways possible.

But if you are truly smart, just telling people the truth, effectively explaining that their disfigured baby is ugly is so jarring to their coping mechanisms that they are browbeat to maintain the fiction of the beauty of the baby. This is also where power and abuse comes in. The ones who will destroy even the smartest people, often specifically because their intelligence threatens those on power and who are abusing humanity. Truly smart people simply have a hard time with lying to themselves though. That’s why they’re less happy in a world of lies, manipulation, and delusion. Truely smart people see the world dominated by the worst kind of narcissistic psychopaths, but they cannot actually let on to that fact or all the narcissistic psychopaths immediately turn on them in the most aggressive and intense way. It’s the nature of dealing with narcissistic psychopaths, and it leads to quite a bit of unhappiness if you are not also a narcissistic psychopath but have to live in the world you see for what it is. It’s probably the origin of the phrase “ignorance is bliss”; the cattle on the ranch are the happiest, until the day they are not at all.
Show HN: I built an AI agent that writes ecommerce marketing emails in seconds
by neuwark | 2025-11-06 09:42:59+00:00
I built an AI agent that helps ecommerce founders and marketers write full marketing emails quickly. Instead of spending hours figuring out what to say or how to say it, you just type in a few details about your product, offer, or promotion.

The agent then writes a complete email for you — subject line, structure, tone, and even a call to action that fits your brand. The goal is to make email writing faster and easier without losing that natural human touch.

I’ve been testing it on a few ecommerce projects, and the results have been surprisingly good. It saves a lot of time, and the copy sounds clean, friendly, and effective.

You can try it here: https://app.neuwark.com/special-agents-hub/49

Would love feedback on what could make it more useful or where it could go wrong, especially from people who do marketing or product-led growth.
by MrsPeaches | 2025-11-06 09:43:14+00:00
Those who are talking about market opportunities, yes it’s big!

Bottom up calculation: average $10/repair x 250 million potential repairs = $2.5B market.

Problem is labour shortages and supply chain, as stated in the report. Both hard problems to solve.

We’ve been working on getting the labour shortages fixed and I personally believe that you can also skip some of the supply chain problems by localising labour.

For example: when we train people they can 4x their _household_ income within 6 months. This is young people who didn’t have an income before and are suddenly earning 3x as much as both their parents combined.

People just don’t know how to fix these things and when someone finally learns how, they can absolutely rake it in.

It’s actually insane to me how much education can be such a massive multiplier in this context!

Link to our recent work: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/energy-makers-academy_strathm...
by anon7000 | 2025-11-06 09:43:17+00:00
Ehhh there’s a clear line between giving some important context and recapping the entire history & philosophy of a project. So much blogspam following the recipe pattern of giving your entire life story before getting to the point. No, I don’t need to read five paragraphs about why anyone would choose to use git and why businesses like it for an article aimed at developers.
by ktallett | 2025-11-06 09:43:53+00:00
The Open in Open AI maybe the most inaccurate advertising ever. I am sensing they realised there is no way of making the cash they need to keep going, just by providing what they currently provide, and I am not remotely upset by that. Sam Altman was never the saviour or god that many foolishly thought and thankfully it hasn't taken long to be clear.
by davydm | 2025-11-06 09:44:24+00:00
Yet another reminder that The Great Orange Bigot and His Buddies DGAF about the "common person", (ie their own voters). They keep doing shit like this and their voters are apparently such rabid no-brain grugs that they keep voting for the shit. I'm not talking about his rich voters - they're in the same boat as him: zero fucks given. I'm talking about the everyman and everywoman and everywhateveryouwanttobe who actually has to buy groceries from the store, not talk about them like some mythical construct.