MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by forbiddenlake | 2025-11-18 15:59:46+00:00
You have other options besides leaking your home IP. You could use a VPN like Wireguard or a WG product like Tailscale, which is what I do. My Tailnet IPs are in public DNS, too, because it doesn't matter, they're not routable publicly. You could also get a cheap VPS in The Cloud and proxy requests to your home.
by anthk | 2025-11-18 16:00:01+00:00
MinC for XP and up: (MinC is not Cygwin, you get cc, ncurses, ksh, git and some goodies).

https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html

IronTCL for XP and up

https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html

Updated SSL/TLS certs, again for XP and beyond:

https://legacyupdate.net/

Tiny Pascal-like language targetting DOS, CP/M and Unix:

https://t3x.org/t3x/0/index.html It's no Free Pascal but it can do good stuff with very little:

https://t3x.org/t3x/0/programs.html

JimTCL, a tiny TCL with bundled TLS, JSON, Sqlite3 and, optionally, some SDL2 support:

https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl https://jim.tcl-lang.org/home/doc/www/www/index.html

You can compile JimTCL with MinC under XP, and maybe T3X0 too. With JimTCL you can build a quick TCL expect clone, some netcat clone too with TLS can be done in minutes too, really good for debugging or to create a simple IRC/Email/Gopher/Gemini client in text mode.
by kmarc | 2025-11-18 16:00:15+00:00
I'm tasked to amend a project written in ruby. With a python background (and some nice pydantic, type annotated, etc "strong" code bases behind my back), every day I spend with ruby is a minefield, a nightmare.

I hoped that ruby4 maybe implements stuff that python has, like type annotations or making the damn parens mandatory, but no. Not surprised that python has ten times more developers according to stackoverflow's survey... I can't possibly imagine a collaborative project where other people also have to work on the same code base, and not having any clue what a symbol under the cursor might be.

No type hints. No mandatory requires. No parens, so never know if something is a method or, callable, or variable. Basically IRB is a must for development, because in the editor, I'm blind.

And the ecosystem is just sad. Swagger-rails libraries out there are rookie jokes compared to what python has. At least there is decent GRPC / protobuf integration, so all new services I am writing can be in python. Or any sane language.
by bofadeez | 2025-11-18 16:00:19+00:00
> So how was I able to make money

That's called "anecodtatal gambling success" and a lot of smart people suffer from this fallacy.

Applying formal causal inference procedures such as propensity score matching, doubly robust estimators, causal forests, and targeted maximum likelihood estimation (TMLE) to test whether standard fundamental variables like P/E, P/B, EV/EBITDA, ROE, ROA, gross profitability, or free cash flow yield causally influence forward equity returns consistently shows that these metrics exhibit negligible average treatment effects once confounders and colliders are controlled for.

In other words, across modern causal inference frameworks, the estimated causal impact of common fundamental signals on subsequent returns is statistically indistinguishable from zero, which indicates that most traditional fundamentals have no meaningful predictive or causal power for future price performance. There's no alternative opinion to be had. You're just wrong. You can continue gambling if you like, but you're not doing any kind of predictive analysis.
by nucleardog | 2025-11-18 16:00:46+00:00
> Still, obviously, nothing you can do, or the driver in general.

You could... fix it?

All headlights can be aimed. Even the "auto-levelling" ones have adjustments. I'm sure there are some where it requires some dealer-only programming tool, but a lot still just have little knobs and things. If they don't go ask the dealer to do it.

I drove behind a friend and they told me after that my headlight was shining in their side mirror and blinding them. I put my car in the garage and spent 15 minutes with a screwdriver adjusting the aiming on the auto-leveling sealed LED headlight units so it was lower and wouldn't blind people.
by iLemming | 2025-11-18 16:01:04+00:00
Javascript DOES NOT in fact have built-in immutability similar to Clojure's immutable structures - those are shallow, runtime-enforced restrictions, while Clojure immutable structures provide deep, structural immutability. They are based on structural sharing and are very memory/performance efficient.

Default immutability in Clojure is pretty big deal idea. Rich Hickey spent around two years designing the language around them. They are not superficial runtime restrictions but are an essential part of the language's data model.
by mnw21cam | 2025-11-18 16:01:05+00:00
I can't see how it would be country-specific. How else would you have any control of the forward motion of the vehicle otherwise, especially when starting on an uphill slope? You're meant to raise the clutch to the biting point and apply some accelerator and release the handbrake when you are confident that the engine will prevent the car from moving backwards. Taking the foot off the brake and hoping you can move it over to the accelerator quickly enough doesn't give you that control. Drifting backwards into the car behind you when setting off is rather an embarrassing thing to do.
by L1nefeed | 2025-11-18 16:01:06+00:00
The circle just tightens. Every round of investment—Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Google, and now Anthropic—loops capital right back into the same club of AI giants. Financial news warns about “circular financing,” and we’re seeing it live: tech titans fund each other’s ventures, raising valuations. Increasingly, the AI ecosystem doesn’t expand—it just coils inward.
by reinier | 2025-11-18 16:01:12+00:00
i have a possible addition to the problem. people are spending lots of time indoors, so my theory is;

people are missing a lot of the natural sun radiation, causing the fluid in your eye to be less translucencent generally and possibly building up floaters more easily.

this could disperse light more inside your eye. enlarging the effect of blinding lights at night.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-18 16:01:31+00:00
Doesn't this come down to glare in most cases? IIRC, the real onslaught of headlight glare wasn't the advent of HID, it was when cars started using projectors. Even with halogens, projectors pointed at you make for a very intense point of light. Lots of glare. Less than HID or LED, sure, but still very real.

I would like to see a headlight solution where you get the same amount of light thrown on the road, but from a strip that goes all the way across the front of the car, so that no individual spot is especially bright for oncoming drivers.
by jachee | 2025-11-18 16:01:44+00:00
Alas, that's just the nature of precipitation maps. When radar is the only true source of what's coming down where, you're a the mercy of the laws of physics, and we don't have a large enough array of stations to give hyperlocal-quality coverage to every locality.

Making it vague-ish was a design choice to help curtail complaints of inaccuracy while still giving near-enough-to-accurate information to be useful generally speaking.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-11-18 16:02:00+00:00
What? The 4.5 and 5.1 columns aren't thinking in Google's report?

That's a scandal, IMO.

Given that Gemini-3 seems to do "fine" against the thinking versions why didn't they post those results? I get that PMs like to make a splash but that's shockingly dishonest.
by dzonga | 2025-11-18 16:02:01+00:00
> The author seems to be completely missing that it takes only a few bucks to buy DDoS as a service. Sometimes people do DDoS your small blog because some random stranger didn't like something you said somewhere online.

thank you. thank you. thank you.

we are tired of hot takes on the internet due to opportunism.

yeah even the small sites are being tested everday by bots. how the bots know your site just came online - I don't know. so yeah cloudflare is nice. we hate centralization on the internet - but to be naive that they're no bad actors on the internet is pure stupidity.
by whitehexagon | 2025-11-18 16:02:35+00:00
The curse of modern super bright LEDs. Add to that list; super bright red brake lights, and a new trend for animated turning lights / indicators. Looks like something we'd have installed as teenagers after watching Knight Rider. Really distracting.

Some of the towns here also started scattering flashing LEDs over every road sign they can find. Some areas feel like driving through Blackpool Illuminations. The worst offender locally is a roundabout light that flashes blue, which of course you assume to be an emergency vehicle approaching.
by netdevphoenix | 2025-11-18 16:02:38+00:00
Surprised that Sailfish OS is not there. I assume the only reason it says "Android-based" is to run Android apps. Sailfish is not android based but it can android apps. Seems like the perfect balance, live on a parallel reality and just dip into Androidland when you need it to. Only con is that like Graphene, it only works on specific devices. It's not free though but it is an alternative worth considering.
by cheeseomlit | 2025-11-18 16:02:40+00:00
Branding surely played a role too, microsoft is constantly upping the ante on naming things as terribly as possible. I'm an avid gamer who follows gaming news and I couldnt tell you the difference between an xbox series s vs xbox one vs. xbox series aeiou and sometimes y. It's almost as bad as .net framework -> .net core -> uh.. lets just call it .NET actually that won't be confusing for anybody
by vladvasiliu | 2025-11-18 16:03:17+00:00
> Smart / adaptive lighting is another option

These may actually be part of the problem. My dad's 2022 Toyota has "smart" high-beams. That means that when it detects a car in front, it'll switch off the high-beams (as opposed to adapt their pattern).

This is supposed to work with cars going both ways. In my experience, it will detect cars going the same way about half the time, and incoming cars about 3/4 of the time.

Now, since it's not completely broken, I suspect many people who only pay the minimum attention to their driving, and the rest to their phone, will simply leave the high-beams on and figure the car will deal with traffic. So, when the car fails to detect the oncoming car, its pretty bright lights will completely blind the driver.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-18 16:03:31+00:00
> why would you want to suffer and anyone who would read such a book must be pretentious, phony brodernist snob!

Ok, this nerd-sniped me. Are we saying this now? Feels like a reference. Found it: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/against-high-brodernism/

WTF? If the term is about superficial depth wouldn't the bros be into like, abridged graphic-novel adaptations of difficult Russian classics, and not actually diving into genuinely difficult stuff regardless of quality? Shouldn't highbrow literary types sneer with greater cleverness or at least clarity?

> I also find it strange to even worry about “pretentious” readers or “brodernists” hyping themselves up to read some new, huge tome (Schattenfroh this season it seems) in an age when few people read anything at all. Reading a very long book always takes some dedication, some challenging of yourself. So what?

Ok good, TFA actually does get it
by jmmcd | 2025-11-18 16:04:21+00:00
"Pelican on bicycle" is one special case, but the problem (and the interesting point) is that with LLMs, they are always generalising. If a lab focussed specially on pelicans on bicycles, they would as a by-product improve performance on, say, tigers on rollercoasters. This is new and counter-intuitive to most ML/AI people.
by mlhpdx | 2025-11-18 16:04:59+00:00
The article is basically making the point that deploying bits of runtime code, even something as simple as a single purpose cloud function, is unnecessary and makes work. The examples of using StepFunctions (declarative code) and “direct integrations” are given, the latter being the least effort to maintain, but in reality it also hides declarative code inside (e.g. VTL to change the shape of payloads).

The benefit is mainly removing the need to deal with runtimes.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-18 16:05:15+00:00
One thought I've had with the matrix projectors on my Lightning is that it would be nice if they were able to dim parts of the beam that were below the normal threshold for low/high. It reliably turns off the bright parts above that line, but it seems like the "low beam" area is fixed. So on small hills and such I'll occasionally beam people directly in the face with a lot of light. Mostly that happens when the distance is still far enough that it won't be nearly as bad as when you're just across an intersection, but it's still fairly bright IMO.

I assume regulation prevents the dynamic lighting from including the low beam section.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-11-18 16:05:37+00:00
When will they allow us to use modern LLM samplers like min_p, or even better samplers like top N sigma, or P-less decoding? They are provably SOTA and in some cases enable infinite temperature.

Temperature continues to be gated to maximum of 0.2, and there's still the hidden top_k of 64 that you can't turn off.

I love the google AI studio, but I hate it too for not enabling a whole host of advanced features. So many mixed feelings, so many unanswered questions, so many frustrating UI decisions on a tool that is ostensibly aimed at prosumers...
by seniorThrowaway | 2025-11-18 16:06:04+00:00
Agree, I’ve thought about this one too. The history of SSL/TLS certs is pretty hacky anyway in my opinion. The main problem they are solving really should have been solved at the network layer with ubiquitous IPsec and key distribution via DNS since most users just blindly trust whatever root CAs ship with their browser or OS, and the ecosystem has been full of implementation and operational issues.

Let’s Encrypt is great at making the existing system less painful, and there are a few alternatives like ZeroSSL, but all of this automation is basically a pile of workarounds on top of a fundamentally inappropriate design.
by technothrasher | 2025-11-18 16:06:17+00:00
I also live in the woods in the northeast US, also grew up in a very rural area (in the 70s-80s), and I still own a few 70s and 80s cars with comically dim lights. Yeah, they're not good. 1) They're very noticeably worse comparing them back to back to modern cars, and 2) my eyes are no longer young. Can I drive with them? Sure. Is it less safe? You bet.
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-18 16:06:20+00:00
People were pushing for those in the 90s. I think it never got adopted because of the loss of transparency on the windshield (AFAIK, there's an international standard that most countries go beyond, and it's way above 50%).

There is also some dispute over the direction, because polarized sunglasses filter out horizontal light, but we would want this system to filter out vertical light because of the way things reflect. I guess this wouldn't be a showstopper to turning it into law, but it was loud at the time.
by impure-aqua | 2025-11-18 16:06:36+00:00
When I drive cars with old headlights, they are clearly inferior to the point of feeling nearly dangerous in some situations. I would also not call modern lights less reliable, although I am sure it is more expensive to repair modern lighting technology.

In a North American city where there is overhead lighting and the streets are a mile wide, sure, I could probably turn the lights off even and be totally fine.

In the middle of the British countryside on a single-track road that has hedges on either side, not enough space for cars in the oncoming direction to pass me, a 60mph speed limit, during a rainstorm? I want the nice lights.
by rramadass | 2025-11-18 16:06:42+00:00
No.

The ego-sense is the Mind in its capacity/function as self-identification. Its is called Ahamkara (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahamkara) and is an aspect of Antahkarana - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antahkarana. It is fully capable of creating delusions from external (i.e. objects through the senses) or internal (i.e. objects through its own imagination) means.
by Borborygymus | 2025-11-18 16:07:09+00:00
I always wondered if it would be feasible to make the headlights produce polarized light (e.g. vertical), and have windscreens filter out that polarization... I guess it would only work if the scattering of light off of whatever is being illuminated sufficiently depolarizes the light. Anyhow, I thought it was a neat idea when I was a teenager.

There might be some issues with retro fitting the world's existing road vehicle fleet, but that's a deployment detail. :p
by whartung | 2025-11-18 16:07:20+00:00
Not may area, so forgive me.

How does taking the site down stop the DDOS attack?

Isn't the host network still being bombarded by garbage packets, even if there isn't anything there listening?

Or is routing the destination IP to /dev/null enough to blunt the attack?

I know there are different kinds of attacks (e.g. some that are content based, impacting the individual server), but I thought most of them were just "legit" requests storming through the door that the server can't keep up with.

Having the site taken down after the fact, as a "risk to infrastructure" that the host can't afford, that's a different issue.
by garethrowlands | 2025-11-18 16:07:26+00:00
STM isn't really used in Go like it is in Haskell.

Here's the example from a Go STM package that's based on Haskell STM. It has gotchas that you won't encounter in Haskell though, due to the nature of these languages.

https://github.com/anacrolix/stm/blob/master/cmd/santa-examp...

For the equivalent Haskell, check out the link at the top of the file.
by delichon | 2025-11-18 16:07:45+00:00
It does appear to be a UK thing. This is from the UK Highway Code. I'm not finding a US equivalent.

114 You MUST NOT use any lights in a way which would dazzle or cause discomfort to other road users, including pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is seriously reduced. You MUST switch them off when visibility improves to avoid dazzling other road users (see Rule 226). In stationary queues of traffic, drivers should apply the parking brake and, once the following traffic has stopped, take their foot off the footbrake to deactivate the vehicle brake lights. This will minimise glare to road users behind until the traffic moves again.

https://www.gov.uk/general-rules-all-drivers-riders-103-to-1...
by nocoiner | 2025-11-18 16:07:58+00:00
100% this (for me at least). I’ve owned all the Xboxes since the first one up through the… Xbox One, I think? Was that one? I think I actually had an Xbox One X as a mid-lifecycle refresh, and when the next one came out and had a terrible name, pricing and storage situation, I threw up my hands and stopped trying to keep up.
by c22 | 2025-11-18 16:08:42+00:00
It's more like buying the plug-in version after the battery dies...

You already experienced the downtime, so if not having downtime was a goal you already failed. If avoiding downtime is not important then there's no reason to add anti-downtime capability to your system. The most charitable modeling of this approach is that the downtime incident may prompt one to realize that avoiding downtime actually is an important property for their system to possess.
by devsda | 2025-11-18 16:09:17+00:00
MS online account was optional at a time but where are we now ? With MS track record, its not a question of if, but when.

The outrage here will probably not stop MS but it does signal that it is not a welcome move and it hopefully stops them from doing more bad things.

Even if few people realize that they don't have to tolerate this and if it make them move to alternatives, its worth it.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-11-18 16:09:33+00:00
> And it's not like you need formal symbols to do it in the first place.

I mean we don't need any of this shit. Go take a long bath and then write some assembly I don't care. Symbols are a useful tool in some languages, for the reasons I described. That you're creating ad hoc quoting conventions to recover part of the functionality of this feature in languages that don't have it is a pretty strong signal I'm correct! Opposite of reality my ass lol.
by Retric | 2025-11-18 16:09:39+00:00
Thanks, I misunderstood your point.

Sure Elixir is fine to work with, the thing is in the back of my mind I’m thinking it’s way more likely to end up embedding Python libraries in Elixir code than the reverse. It’s those little bits of friction that I’m avoiding because the start of a project is play. Soon enough the perfectionist side of me may get involved, until then the goal is to maximize fun so I actually start.

Anyway I get your standpoint and even somewhat agree, it just doesn’t work for me.
by acc_297 | 2025-11-18 16:09:55+00:00
If a cloud vendor with 1 million users experiences a long term outage: the vendor has a serious problem. If a cloud vendor with 1 billion users experiences a long term outage: the internet has a serious problem. Yada-yada-yada xkcd/2347 but it's the big block in the middle which crumbled
by mring33621 | 2025-11-18 16:10:02+00:00
I agree that benchmarks are noise. I guess, if you're selling an LLM wrapper, you'd care, but as a happy chat end-user, I just like to ask a new model about random stuff that I'm working on. That helps me decide if I like it or not.

I just chatted with gemini-3-pro-preview about an idea I had and I'm glad that I did. I will definitely come back to it.

IMHO, the current batch of free, free-ish models are all perfectly adequate for my uses, which are mostly coding, troubleshooting and learning/research.

This is an amazing time to be alive and the AI bubble doomers that are costing me some gains RN can F-Off!
by phantasmish | 2025-11-18 16:10:39+00:00
I’ve sworn off Rails development for anything short of stupid-high compensation for similar reasons.

Implicit imports (“… which package defined this symbol? Who knows!”), dynamic definitions all over the place (“where’s this defined? Literally nowhere until the program runs!”), all that stuff. It’s awful. I feel blind not being able to answer basic questions about a codebase with grep. And that’s not even considering the lack of static typing.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-18 16:10:50+00:00
If anyone is looking for a reading list, or even just a book-downloading-binge list, I pulled 18 titles off of this one. There are, of course, even more, but if you're doing that then you probably already have the McCarthy and Dick titles. Usually HN loses on any given day, but with a score like that I doubt all the other sites I skim will be able to beat it even together.
by krona | 2025-11-18 16:11:21+00:00
I agree that many LED headlights are too bright (or, more commonly, poorly calibrated) however one thing which can significantly reduce glare is to clean your windshield properly at least once a year. Few people do this.

When I say properly, I mean with a special purpose abrasive glass polish. This could take an hour or more to do well by hand but it should remove the near invisible (in standard lighting conditions) film which forms on the glass surface.

This will also significantly improve visibility in heavy rain.
by thiago_fm | 2025-11-18 16:12:18+00:00
Very little happened in Ruby since 3.2 or even 3, it feels stagnated. Still a very beautiful language from my point of view, but yeah, stagnation.

Wish we'd see more action on RBS, perhaps getting Sorbet to core or something. At least having some sort of consensus in the community.

Or even some considerable project in the JIT, dunno!

Python is definitely ahead in types, work on removing the GIL... list is huge.