MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by general1465 | 2025-11-18 07:57:44+00:00
Huh? If you are hinting on Iraq or Afghanistan, that initial hot war has been won within months to days. Follow up uncontained insurgency was a problem which lingered unsolved for years and has been very painful.

Whole initial target of the West was to fuel this insurgency in Ukraine to make it forever war and constant draw on Russian resources. But Russia decided to pull out "pro gamer move" and get stuck with hot war phase for 4 years and still counting. Obviously initial plan of the West was foiled and replaced with magnitude better way to draw resources from Russia.
by vaxman | 2025-11-18 07:58:03+00:00
Computer/Network gear that is designed, manufactured, sold and distributed by Chinese companies should be assumed to come with MSS-infected microcode, SecureBoot ([U]EFI/BIOS), firmware and/or operating systems that are vulnerable in ways that offer “plausibly deniability” as to the intent of the manufacturer. In some cases, the infected payload will be transmitted to the customer environment through updates supplied by Chinese websites, again in ways that allow for “plausibly deniability” as to their intent. Hacking Fortune 100 companies was one thing (because, shame on the Fortune 100 companies), but the recent move by China to hack Anthropic and use Claude as a cyber weapon is unleashing bi-partisan congressional support limits on China’s market access. Many more Chinese tech products, distributors and services will be removed from our markets, but the wheels are turning slowly and in the meantime, "Does anyone have any questions?" [https://youtu.be/_5yJZUyr_cM]

PS: The entertaining hacks (aka “influencers”) on YouTube, Reddit and in the blogger-sphere in general, are aware of these risks but recommend potentially dangerous Chinese systems and networking products anyway. In many cases, they will falsely portray the items as already being popular and The Way that everyone is doing IT. While their defense might be “don’t blame the player, blame the game”, people were shot at and died to create the freedom that they are now putting others at risk of losing with such reckless recommendations. It’s not just hardware either. These same video grifters will cheerfully recommend remote-access software (and kvm) products without even including the most basic of warnings. Should these irresponsible influencers be “de-platformed” by a faceless “Trust and Safety” team that’s somehow expected to come up to speed on the complex risks of every product that is otherwise (for the moment) still being legally distributed? No! In the 250 year history of the United States and for a century or two prior in Europe, there have been entire classes of crackpots roaming the countrysides peddling everything from hair-regrowth medicine, cult religions and life-extending hot springs (my favorite was the story of “Zzyzx” that seemed to hit on all three). The people who are making these infomercials while intentionally leaving out any account of the danger their viewers are placing themselves in by following such “advice” will ultimately feel the same wrath and suffer the common outcome associated with such behavior: being locked out of the economy and deprived of their assets. <cue https://youtu.be/BD2kWCfTcaU>
by tidenly | 2025-11-18 07:58:08+00:00
Idiotic and completely untrue statement.

You get your waist and height measured as part of your routine health examination every year since you become a worker. Eyes, hearing, etc are also included. Its just your body's "metrics".

Your company CAN look at these (they rarely care to), but they can't fire you for them - you especially aren't fined over it. Japan is an incredibly hard country to fire or penalize workers. They can only check them in the first place because its the company that pays for these screenings in most cases. Free EKG, blood screens, and other basic health marker checks.

I'm so tired of people spreading orientalist crap about this country on the internet.
by mrweasel | 2025-11-18 07:59:06+00:00
While it would allow us to be more specific with the IPs, it would entail blocking 500.000 IPs, or more. That quickly becomes unmanageable as well.

What I'd love to see is a service where websites could report abuse to ISPs, who would then take the misbehaving customers offline, until their system or behavior is fixed. Right now there's zero incentives to take customers offline, neither for ISP, nor cloud providers.
by majke | 2025-11-18 07:59:15+00:00
This happened before my watch, but I always was rooting for Linux. Linux is winning on many aspects. Consider the featureset of iptables (CF uses loads of stuff, from "comment" to "tproxy"), bpf for metrics is a killer (ebpf_exporter), bpf for DDoS (XDP), Tcp fast open, UDP segmentation stuff, kTLS (arguably half-working). Then there is non-networking things like Docker, virtio ecosystem (vhost), seccomp, namespaces (net namespace for testing network apps is awesome). And the list goes on. Not to mention hiring is easier for Linux admins.
by dmurray | 2025-11-18 08:00:07+00:00
Source for it being a composite? The article says under the headline

> This is not photoshopped. That’s really a person falling in front of the Sun.

I haven't watched all the videos. From the Reddit thread, it sounds like it was photoshopped (using that as a generic term for photo editing with a computer) but in a way acceptable to the astrophotography community. I don't understand where those limits are: somewhere strictly between cropping the photo and photographing the skydiver in front of a white screen before pasting the silhouette into a picture of the sun.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-11-18 08:00:15+00:00
> OpenAI enabled its users to have a sext conversation.

Considering that this is only with verified adults, how is this "evil"? I find it more evil to treat full grown adult users as kids and heavily censor their use of LLMs.

(Not to detract from the rest of your post, with which I agree).
by anticrymactic | 2025-11-18 08:00:44+00:00
> Actually, for Robotics hardware is a solved problem.

I understand the sentiment but this couldn't be further from the truth. There are no robotic hand models that get close to the fidelity of humans (or even other primates).

The technology just doesn't exist yet, motors are a terrible muscle replacement. Even completely without software, a puppeteered hand model would be revolutionary.
by camillomiller | 2025-11-18 08:02:01+00:00
This is a very biased example. Also, it is possible only because right now the tools you've used are heavily subsidised by investors' money. A LOT of it. Nobody questions the utility of what you just mentioned, but nodoby stops to ask if this would be viable if you were to pay the actual cost of these models, nor what it means for 99.9% of all the other jobs that AI companies claim can be automated, but in reality are not even close to be displaced by their technology.
by Yokolos | 2025-11-18 08:02:07+00:00
I've had bad days. I still managed not to be a net negative on my environment. Why can't you? Why can't other people? From my perspective, how you behave when you're having a bad day is the real litmus test. If you're still a decent person then, then you actually have values you care about, that you don't just follow when convenient.
by wizzerking | 2025-11-18 08:02:22+00:00
The web

On Github there is an exe which I ASSUME is an runable sites are in some type of langusage I can not understand so I have no idea what I would be buyingtargeted On Github there is an exe from I ASSUME pyinstaller, but there is no indication which OS is targeted. SINCE NO SOURCE IS PROVIDED THERE IS NO WAY TO DETERMINE IF THE EXEE IS SAFE OR NOT GOOD Bye Best of luck in your battle against Jet Brains PyCharm
by hnlmorg | 2025-11-18 08:02:35+00:00
Sure, if you ignore all the anticompetitive bullshit they pulled to blackmail high street stores into removing BeOS, DrDOS, Linux and others from their shelves.

And the stunts they pulled to kill other IMs.

Or how they crippled the web for a decade due to killing competing browsers, building Windows lock-ins into IE (eg ActiveX controls), fragmenting Java, and then leaving IE to die themselves.

Or how they lied about Windows 98 requiring IE4.

Or how they didn’t give a crap about OS security until halfway through the life of XP. Leaving literally millions of people vulnerable to a plethora of different forms of attacks from malware to direct hacking on open Telnet ports.

Or how they tried to land grab IRC with their comic book GUI. Which, in fairness, was a novel app. But unfortunately it was another embrace, extend, extinguish play.

Or how they tried to kill ODF with their own faux-open document format: OOXML

Or their constant stream of FUD messaging about Linux being “communism”.

Yeah, MS were really noble in their goals to create a good OS. /s

It’s a pity they couldn’t even manage to do that well given every iteration of Windows has been bloated, buggy, and years behind the competition in terms of performance and capabilities. Windows was never a good OS.

In fact I’d go further and say Microsoft have never release a good OS. Even their versions of BASIC sucked compared to the competition.

Microsoft have always been good at negotiating with businesses. It’s why Azure is used in governments, why Windows is the “business platform”, and why 9x beat the competition in the 90s despite being consistently the worst in class for basically every metric you could think of.

Windows didn’t succeed because it was good. Microsoft succeeded because Bill Gates was ruthless!
by mettamage | 2025-11-18 08:03:05+00:00
I don't think I looked at social interaction like that. But having had a whole journey of my own, I can really appreciate this blog post and merely by reading it, I felt like I've learned a thing or two. Specifically #5, I can see that.

I'm #3 naturally, always have been. #4 gets practiced within me, the more I meditate. I owe my HN username to it :)
by majke | 2025-11-18 08:03:07+00:00
> > faster - less context switches and copies

This is very much newbie way of thinking. How do you know? Did you profile it?

It turns out there is surprisingly little dumb zero-copy potential at CF. Most of the stuff is TLS, so stuff needs to go through userspace anyway (kTLS exists, but I failed to actually use it, and what about QUIC).

Most of the cpu is burned on dumb things, like application logic. Turns out data copying and encryption and compression are actually pretty fast. I'm not saying these areas aren't ripe for optimization - but the majority of the cost was historically in much more obvious areas.
by unscaled | 2025-11-18 08:03:41+00:00
Most people in Japan live outside of the Yamanote circle in Tokyo. Rural and Suburban supermarkets have parking lots (although in central areas they can still be quite small) and people still use cars for shopping trips, especially in the countryside.

It is true that grocery packages are much smaller than the US (since Japanese houses, even in the countryside, are smaller and I guess the average household size is smaller as wel). Shopping carts in regular supermarkets are smaller than abroad, and are usually built to house 1 or 2 shopping baskets you can also carry by hand.

But hey, we still have Costco in Japan, and package sizes and shopping cart sizes are just as big as they are in the US (although the parking lot is probably considerably more crowded). And Costco is extremely popular here. It's far messier than a Japanese supermarket and I do see inconsiderate people sometimes in Costco, but the cars are still parked nicely and most people do return their shopping carts. It would be interesting to compare Costcos in Japan and the US directly though.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-18 08:03:59+00:00
Nearly everything, means not everything, that something is not covered, AI tools for example.

Existing PyTorch, OpenCV and ONNX Runtime bindings doesn't meant there is a solution for every Python package out there.

However, I will state, since you're the one driving the discussion down this path, that there are many AI scenarios that are nicely taken care by .NET and Windows tooling like WindowsML, which work good enough for many Microsoft shops scenarios.

Not everything needs to be Python.
by themafia | 2025-11-18 08:04:05+00:00
The Space Shuttle had weather constraints that meant it could launch on only about 30% of days. The issue was upper atmosphere winds, and if they weren't predicted accurately, it would result in overloads on the vehicle frame possibly sending it off course or becoming destroyed during ascent.

One of the major upgrades to the platform was to allow "day of use I-Loads." Effectively, they could update some constants in the shuttle software image, by literally patching new binary values into the code, while the vehicle was loaded and ready on the launch pad.

Then the game was to launch rockets to measure the upper atmosphere wind properties, convert them into usable constants, and then to update the software. It took the shuttle from having launch opportunities 30% of the time to having them 70% of the time later in the program.

Anyways..
by raxxorraxor | 2025-11-18 08:04:53+00:00
Ancient LDAP is probably the best they still offer. A far superior way for internal auth and vastly superior for companies that need on premise infrastructure. Nobody wants internal apps that auth through AWS or GCP.

I hate registering a shitty app and use their modern auth flow. No security gain for additional maintenance.

For that matter, this is a main reason why Windows is so established. The logistic problem of distributing user accounts on several machines.

And no, a virtual and slow cloud Windows is not an alternative for anyone that wants to be productive.
by thisislife2 | 2025-11-18 08:04:58+00:00
If you keep aside the hyperbole, you should have understood that I am talking about fighting against anticompetitive behaviour devised for exploitation by corporates. There is indeed a difference in paying 5% to stripe for their services vs being forced to pay 15-30% to Apple just because they have placed artificial technical barriers to prevent you from turning to their competitors (in some particular segment of business).
by bongodongobob | 2025-11-18 08:05:03+00:00
Similar boat, but I'm finally at the point where I think I can just walk out. Just stay on the job hunt and you can get there. I went from musician living on the cash in my pocket with 4 roommates to $110k in 10 years. You'll have to job hop, you'll have to grind some self-learning, but you can do it.
by vyrti | 2025-11-18 08:05:10+00:00
Cryptographic hash utility in Rust that can verify 30TB of data in hours instead of days.

Key features:

- 15+ algorithms: SHA-2/3, BLAKE2/3, xxHash3, MD5, SHA-1 - Fast mode: Samples 300MB (start/middle/end) for 100x speedup on large files - SIMD acceleration: Automatic SSE/AVX/AVX-512/NEON optimization - Directory scanning with parallel processing - Hash database storage and verification - Compare databases to find changes/duplicates - .hashignore support (gitignore-style patterns) - Wildcard patterns for batch operations - Multiple output formats: standard, hashdeep, JSON - LZMA compression for databases - Cross-platform: Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD

Perfect for backup verification, duplicate detection, and integrity checking. BLAKE3 achieves 1-3 GB/s throughput.

https://github.com/vyrti/hash-rs
by mk89 | 2025-11-18 08:05:11+00:00
I like your advice. It's like setting some metrics on your own progress and happiness level.

On the other hand, sometimes without pushing, you won't be able to fully enjoy something "later".

Stupid example: learning piano or guitar. Which metrics would you use?

In addition, here the issue is also about children, not just grownups: when to stop paying for their "xyz" course? And how do you teach them when to stop/change?

If we're able to guess that right, I guess we can educate children better to have better grownups.
by bayindirh | 2025-11-18 08:05:21+00:00
Yes. Since 199x.

macOS does the same thing. When I actually sleep, when my laptop's lid is closed. I wake up. My Mac wants a password instead of a fingerprint. It says it has updated the OS when I was snoring. What's the difference?

Every app, every window, everything is the way I left before closing the lid. My computer is updated, rebooted and ready for the day. Like nothing happened.

Linux is the same deal. If the desktop environment is upgraded a logout and login is necessary (and KDE restores session as well as macOS for the last decade, at least), and if I updated the kernel, I reboot. I'm back in 30 seconds, to the exact point that I left.

Only Windows takes 2 hours, 4 reboots, 3 blood sacrifices and countless frustration sounds to upgrade. While saturating the processor and the storage subsystem at the same time, which makes my computer create the same sounds of the said blood sacrifices.
by Mindplus | 2025-11-18 08:06:27+00:00
The Buddhist perspective on living a long, fulfilling life goes far beyond physical health—it begins with cultivating a peaceful mind and compassionate heart. According to Buddhist teachings, longevity arises naturally when one lives in alignment with mindfulness, kindness, and karmic balance. For those wishing to explore this path more deeply, the journey often begins with meditation, and a helpful resource is How to Start Meditating the Buddhist Way, which offers practical guidance for beginners.

A key element of longevity in Buddhism is compassion. When we act with genuine kindness toward ourselves and others, we reduce emotional burdens such as anger, hatred, and resentment—states that are known to create mental tension and physical stress. Compassion softens the mind, opens the heart, and fosters harmonious relationships. This inner calm and outer harmony contribute significantly to a longer and more peaceful life.
by alterom | 2025-11-18 08:06:49+00:00
You know, I'm with you on that one, actually.

ADHD behavior is normal human behavior, because we're all human.

And indeed, some quite reasonable accommodations and changes in the way the society functions and forms expectations of ourselves and others would go a long way towards making ADHD folks living fulfilling lives without pain.

All that said, executive dysfunction is still a thing, and ADHD folks routinely find themselves struggling with their own goals and lives, apart from the society and its expectations.

Technology can and does help a lot (electric kettles that turn themselves off, washer-dryer combo machines that don't require remembering to take clothes out, etc).

But then there are still things that I struggle with on my own, like wanting to send postcards to friends and taking literal years to get to it.

I really can't blame it on the society.

That's where the meds can make a big difference in one's life.

In some ways, ADHD is an advantage. We fare better than others in emergencies. Hyperfocus is an asset. Having a million hobbies is a plus.

But in other ways, it's something that makes us need support.

The meds are one of the ways the society accommodates us and gives us that support.
by skavi | 2025-11-18 08:06:53+00:00
I think some interesting context is that this person is fascist.

https://x.com/RoguesPhilo/status/1990332234029793537

https://x.com/RoguesPhilo/status/1990445865903980759

https://x.com/RoguesPhilo/status/1990066367123644745

That ideology seems to be at the root of much of their motivation for doing this.
by Etheryte | 2025-11-18 08:07:39+00:00
For context, I once found a bug in Chromium and fixed it, the initial build took a few days on and off on my development laptop that was pretty beefy for the time. I say on and off because I had to interrupt the build if I wanted to do anything else computationally taxing. They have incremental builds and caches all properly set up so you can just continue where you left off after the fact. After the initial build it's pretty fast, 5 minutes or so per build for me. On a low end device you're easily looking at a build time of a week or more if you're starting from scratch.
by Shugyousha | 2025-11-18 08:09:02+00:00
I like the idea of Gemini and was inspired to write a script to turn my blog posts written in markdown to gemtext. Sadly I still haven't finished that script ...

My main issue with the protocol is that it is requiring creating a new TLS connection for every request. That is indeed a simple approach but I argue that the extra round trip times added due to this are not worth the trade-off for the simplicity gained in this case

Coming up with a simple way to reuse a connection would reduce the round trips needed drastically. If we put our heads together, I feel like we could come up with a way to do that, that doesn't overly complicate the protocol ...
by aurareturn | 2025-11-18 08:09:26+00:00
Why is it biased?

So what if it's subsidized and companies are in market share grab? Is it going to cost $40 instead of $20 that I paid? Big deal. It still beats the hell out of $2k - $3k that it would have taken before and weeks in waiting time.

100x cheaper, 1000x faster delivery. Further more, v0 and ChatGPT together for sure did much better than the average web designer and copy writer.

Lastly, OpenAI has already stated a few times that they are "very profitable" in inference. There was an analysis posted on HN showing that inference for open source models like Deepseek are also profitable on a per token basis.
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-18 08:09:29+00:00
Amazing website.

One thing I noticed is that while I hate being told what to do, and my partner hates being told what to do, and we understand deeply how we feel when someone tells us what to do, we still tell each other what to do (which goes especially badly after a long day).

Edit: I am glad you wrote this, so I didn't have to. It feels like reading my own autobiography. But the problem with reading about this stuff is that, if you forget for a minute that it's literally just how life is for you, it reads like some fantastical fiction comedy. I avoid telling anyone I deal with that I have ADHD because I feel like if I tell them they'll lump me in with some crappy mental model, and I avoid telling anyone I deal with about these problems because they sound completely absurd.
by never_inline | 2025-11-18 08:09:44+00:00
> You can reach Bangalore in an hour for most of things.

* Then it takes 2 hours to reach your office in Bangalore.

* It just postpones the actual problem. Gradually the tier-2 towns will get crowded too.

* It means your local tier-2 town won't develop, and economy will be centred at these metropolitons.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-18 08:10:58+00:00
They can, the problem is that apparently they aren't able to hire people nowadays with Win32 development experience, so they get interns that have grown in US universities with macOS and Linux, which sundenly have a Win32 developer role.

That is how you end up with web garbage in what was supposed to be native code, or .NET.

I think this is also a reason why WinUI efforts went down the drain.
by cocogoatmain | 2025-11-18 08:11:35+00:00
Provided you had the GPU compute to do so you could train the model to have less refusals, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01376

Quality of response/model performance may change though

There’s also nous research’s Hermes’ series of models, but those are trained on llama3.3 architecture and considered outdated now
by VBprogrammer | 2025-11-18 08:11:41+00:00
Just replaced a £500 IKEA combi microwave because the main circuit board is just behind the grating at the top of the door which had gotten dirty and had been slightly more enthusiastically cleaned by my partner than it was designed for.

It would have been a 10 minute job to change the circuit board but I only ever found an old advent on a Polish website. Apparently it's discontinued.

I refuse to believe every model needs a completely custom main board but there you have it.