MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rsync | 2025-11-03 10:14:13+00:00
"... Rsync.net has a deal to prepay ~4 years worth upfront and they'll let you use it for life but it's capped at 1TB ..."

To clarify ... it is not capped. You may scale the lifetime payment option to any size you like in 100 GB increments.

You may also upgrade it later in life, most likely for less money/TB ...

This means that our (the provider) and your (the user) interests are perfectly aligned: we want you to use more storage and we will make it easy for you to do so. Your needs, and usage, will grow and you will make further payments to us over time - just on a longer, more drawn out schedule.
by wongarsu | 2025-11-03 10:15:20+00:00
The implication of being too nerdy would be that they are extremely well-versed in fantasy, science fiction and/or anime as well as random niche topics. They would probably read or watch way more culture things than you or me, just the kind that deals with current societal issues by allegory and thus wouldn't use real-world street names for drugs

Not that I think that that's a fair conclusion to jump through. Occam's razor would prefer "they were probably vaguely aware and didn't care". Just like how Torvalds knowingly named git after a slang word for a stupid person
by adamclarke | 2025-11-03 10:16:01+00:00
Hey HN — Adam here

I’ve been doing SEO for a while now and noticed something strange: some pages that rank fine on Google don’t appear in AI answers at all.

So I built a tool that measures content relevance using embeddings — basically, it shows how search engines (and LLMs) understand your page.

Would love feedback from anyone working on NLP, search, or content analysis.

— Adam
by Rochus | 2025-11-03 10:16:42+00:00
> it has been around for almost 30 years now, so it's very mature.

The compiler is insanely large and complex, more than the sum of the implemented languages would suggest. I can't imagine that anyone still has a complete understanding of it. See e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/FreePascal/blob/master/Read....
by lordnacho | 2025-11-03 10:16:47+00:00
For contrast, when I was put under with propofol for surgery, there was nothing.

I thought I would gently fall asleep, but it was actually extremely fast. It went from "tell me about your life" which the anesthetist uses to check your state to "oh so came here for uni..." to "huh the surgery is over" in a single cut.

Nothing in between, nothing like that thing you feel when before you fall asleep at night or wake up in the morning. I felt tired when I woke up, but I didn't think I had dreamed or felt anything at all in between.
by kgwgk | 2025-11-03 10:16:48+00:00
> You're ignoring what I'm saying. This has nothing to do with related parties.

I don’t understand what’s “this” that has nothing to do with related parties.

Your first comment “If its equity accounted it won't be considered a related party as far as I understand. Related party in IFRS isnt what you think it is.” and your second comment “It's not a related party that's the point.” were about what is a “related party” and about nothing else!

You write that “Microsoft applies the equity method because it has significant influence over OpenAI”.

According to IFRS “An associate is an entity over which the investor has significant influence.”

That makes an OpenAI an associate of Microsoft given your previous claim.

Agree or disagree?

According to IFRS “An entity is related to a reporting entity if […] One entity is an associate or joint venture of the other entity”.

In this case one entity is an associate to the other. It doesn’t give to any particular “entity” in that definition the “reporting” role - it says just “one” and “the other”.

That makes OpenAI a related entity to Microsoft if Microsoft has significant influence on OpenAI.
by prompt2tool | 2025-11-03 10:19:25+00:00
I just launched DumpAlpha.com — a fast, clean, and mobile-friendly guide for the Roblox game DUMP [ALPHA].

It includes sections for codes, items, updates, and gameplay tips, all updated daily by fans. The project is built using the same lightweight framework and AI-assisted content engine from Prompt2Tool (https://prompt2tool.com), enabling automatic SEO structure and frequent refreshes.

Feedback from both Roblox players and indie web developers is welcome — I’d love to hear thoughts on improving the items database and multilingual expansion.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-11-03 10:19:31+00:00
Here's the deal with releasing early: You release something simple, something with just the core features, in order to validate (sadly most of that validation will be that your marketing sucks but c'est la vie).

If you already have a "large" product that's just very unfinished, that's not a MVP, you're asking people to be alpha testers. You either need to get it into a better state and make sure the docs and onboarding are exemplary, or break the product out into parts and ship them separately.
Ask HN: Anyone experimenting with local learning as a backprop alternative?
by sabucha | 2025-11-03 10:20:42+00:00
I’ve been exploring a CPU-first local learning setup (N3L) that replaces backpropagation with forward-only, low-rank updates. Curious how others here are approaching forward-only training or gradient sketching on commodity hardware, and what practical challenges you’ve run into.
by practal | 2025-11-03 10:20:57+00:00
As I said, it depends on how you practically implement it.

I've used it for proving linear inequalities as part of the Flyspeck project (formal proof of the Kepler conjecture), and there I implemented my own rewrite engine for taking a set of rewrite rules and do the computation outside of the LCF kernel, for example by compiling the rules to Standard ML. You can view that engine as an extension of the LCF kernel, just one more rule of how to get theorems. In that instance, it is exactly the same.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-03 10:21:04+00:00
The problem in terms of reference implementations is exactly the abstractions. Reference implementations should be free of abstractions and should be understandable. Abstractions make code much less understandable.

I say this as someone who has been involved in cryptography and has read through dozens of reference implementations. Stick to C, not Python or Rust, it is much easier to understand because the abstractions are just there to hide code. Less abstractions in reference implementations = better. If you do not think so, I will provide you a code snippet of a language of my own choosing that is full of abstractions, and let us see that you understand exactly what it does. You will not. That is the point.
by gadders | 2025-11-03 10:21:30+00:00
Related: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crexqyj7n5lohttps://www....

"Tests carried out by research group PolicyTracker, and shared with BBC's Morning Live, found that nearly 40% of the time a phone displays the 5G symbol, it is actually using a 4G connection"
by pyeri | 2025-11-03 10:21:34+00:00
Tunneling isn't that big of a toll on resource, it doesn't require storage/disk space nor compute power (CPU chips), all it needs is ingress/egress (spare bandwidth). A non-profit or decent business in telco can easily offer it, consider that many hosting companies offer entire package in free tier today (compute + disk + egress).

For several years, ngrok was practically free, only recently they've started monetizing once it gained popularity.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-03 10:22:50+00:00
> Practically all the X usecases are covered on Wayland systems now. ... global hotkeys ...

Are you sure? I looked at that earlier this year for a personal tool I wanted to create and found no way to do it on Wayland (On X, I did it just fine).

I had a long back and forth about this very thing with both Claude and ChatGPT, and neither conversation was fruitful: every option had some dependency (like switching to KDE, or similar).
by kmm | 2025-11-03 10:22:53+00:00
Interesting to see you have a different experience. I'm not sure I would call it stellar. On the train route between Den Haag and Amsterdam, one of the busiest routes in the country presumably, reception is constantly dropping out. I'd love to be able to work on the train, but it's completely impossible if you need a network connection for anything.

Perhaps the route being so busy is the cause of the connectivity issues, but it's still baffling to me how bad it is, given that the amount of mobile devices trying to connect must be very predictable.
Show HN: Safebox: Open-source framework for managing self-hosted apps (Beta)
by drebora | 2025-11-03 10:23:18+00:00
Hi everyone, we’ve been working on Safebox, an open-source framework that helps you install, manage, and access self-hosted applications such as Home Assistant, Nextcloud, and Jellyfin ect. Safebox runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows (supporting both x86 and ARM64 architectures, even Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi hardwares also tested). It manages domain and subdomain setup, Let's Encrypt certificates, DNS configuration, and reverse proxy (nginx). It also includes a WireGuard-based remote access feature and a geo-redundant backup system (currently in development). The project is in beta, and we’re looking for people interested in testing and sharing feedback. All information about Safebox and beta testing can be found in our Discord channel.

Try it using Docker: docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock safebox/framework-scheduler

Then open: http://localhost:8080

Links: Website: https://safebox.network/ GitHub: https://github.com/safeboxnetwork/framework-scheduler Discord: https://discord.gg/aBP8bz6N8J

We’d really appreciate any feedback or ideas for improvement.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-11-03 10:23:22+00:00
> he said he's basically not allowed to fail them even if they don't turn anything in, the funding they get is far too important.

In my country of origin, the prestigious universities were all public and (almost) free. The most sough after degrees are difficult to get in and difficult to finish.

There, the mentality is that the only reason why would you pay for a private university is if youre not smart enough to finish the degrees on your own. I always found it intriguing that the logic is reversed in the US - the good ones are the expensive ones and the only reason you wouldnt go there is if you cant afford it. But Im glad to see that the logic in my home country does have some merit, as evidenced by the quote from your professor.
by BlackFly | 2025-11-03 10:23:39+00:00
Katex produces MathML. The problem katex solves is that MathML is really ungainly for authoring equations. So instead you write equations in a DSL (which most people just call latex) and Katex compiles that to HTML/MathML for you.

You can do this server side or client side and sadly too many people do it client side. If you do it server side, it is just one more step in your build next to transpiling and bundling.
by panick21 | 2025-11-03 10:23:52+00:00
Good cheese is hard to like, and even here we are judgmental. People who buy the cheap Emmentaler from the supermarket vs the more fancy one from the cheese shop. Most American 'swiss cheese is garbage' sorry. Then the 'Mild' here isn't that good.

I would watcher most American literally have never in their live ever seen how 'rezent' Emmentaler is supposed to look. Honestly its hard to get even in Switzerland.

A proper 'rezent' Emmentaler literally has a thick salt crust inside of the holes.

This is typical even in Switzerland, and I wager its better then most 'Swiss' you get in the US:

https://www.migros.ch/en/product/210119408500

But if you want the elite stuff, it looks like this:

https://emmentaler-schaukaeserei.ch/en/shop/produkte/Emmenta...

But to get that, you are going to have to store it a long time, and that reflects in the price. The stuff sold in the US is usually stored much shorter.
by enopod_ | 2025-11-03 10:24:32+00:00
As a Swiss, I can assure you that this is false. Most cheese varieties have very strict quality requirements, if they're not met, the cheese may only end up as no-name ground cheese for pizza or something like that. But an Emmentaler, Gruyere, or Sbrinz always has the same quality, no matter if it's exported or for domestic consumption.
by kakacik | 2025-11-03 10:24:40+00:00
Their life is shit already, that's why they act as they act, passing aggression on to others in vain effort to get rid of some of that 'evil' in them.

I understand this knee-jerk reaction very well, but it just feeds the neverending spiral of aggression. We humans act like storage of both good and bad, it then comes back up in various situations.

What I want to say - you just beating up a bully will mean some other kid(s) will get beaten up (or beaten up even more) further down the line. I am not saying love can fix it all, it can fix many things but sometimes once people become broken they just stay broken and there is no real way back.
by holowoodman | 2025-11-03 10:26:03+00:00
Yes, but those workarounds will be author-side ones. Like how HTML isn't very friendly to write by hand for many, so CMSes use e.g. Markdown or WYSIWYG to make it friendlier. In the same way, there will always be preprocessors in authoring tools that might convert e.g. TeX notation to MathML.

My point is that "fast" in those kinds of workarounds wouldn't be a problem for visitors of a site because all the browser gets is just native MathML.
by vintermann | 2025-11-03 10:26:24+00:00
> When I ask myself who in my friends circles has had the happiest, longest lasting relationships it almost never were the guys with the money.

But that's also consistent with money being the ticket of entry, the thing you need to have to be considered as a partner in the first place (much of the time). Especially in the context of dating apps where there are so many to choose from, you might not even get the chance to show yourself as a kind, emotionally stable, fun guy to be around.
by somat | 2025-11-03 10:26:47+00:00
Apologies ahead of time as this is pure FUD, That is I don't actually know what I am talking about but had an interesting thought.

Remember the Debian weak keys kerfuffle, That was caused because the Debian package maintainer saw a warning about using uninitialized memory, fixed it, and then it turned out that uninitialized memory was a critical seed for the openssl random number generator.

Anyhow my stupid FUD thought. is there a weak-key equivalent bug that shows up now that your C compiler is memory safe?
by pstoll | 2025-11-03 10:26:55+00:00
Proposal - every new thing needs a “here are the systems we consider and rejected” entry. I can’t find one on the docs here.

Founders care to comment on if you evaluated if Tremor (https://github.com/tremor-rs/tremor-runtime) would suit what you needed?

Seems to me that the lists of features (and use of rust) have a high degree of overlap.
by zahlman | 2025-11-03 10:29:23+00:00
It appears to re-organize various apt-related commands and sub-commands (including ones provided by additional distro-specific scripts) so that they're all available as sub-commands of `apt`. I don't do much micro-management so I haven't really thought about what the "proper" underlying commands are, except when I've had to look up specific `dpkg` invocations. It's about 200 lines.
by amiga386 | 2025-11-03 10:29:38+00:00
Whether I like it or not, it seems that the modern chat client (e.g. Discord or Slack, not IRC) has developed the expectance that you "react" to chat messages as they happen - because there's a mental model that you're literally "chatting" with someone, and not showing you're listening is a faux pas, so the minimum effort response is a "react", especially thumbs-up just to mean "I saw this message and have no further comment on it"

You can of course chat in email, but it's unusual, there's usually a higher bar to responding; it would be madness if every email had everyone else in the chain send another email saying "I've read this", so that's not what people do. I only see "I've read this" emails if the penultimate email concluded the topic and that was all that's left to say. Hence why it's unwelcome to bring the habits of chat clients to email.
by JetSetWilly | 2025-11-03 10:29:43+00:00
Yes, as someone who regularly interviews candidates in the UK - if I see "foreign university I've never heard of + masters at a british university" then it is a huge negative signal, they are nearly always idiots. My favourite was the person with an MSc in CS from Edinburgh University who couldn't even do fizz-buzz level super-basic coding tasks.

At this point I just try and avoid selecting people for interview who fit this profile at all.
by JimDabell | 2025-11-03 10:30:30+00:00
> Exactly one seems hard to implement (some kind of global registry?).

Governments. Make it a digital passport.

> I also don't want websites to be able to entirely prevent privacy throwaway accounts, for a false ban from Google's services to be bound to your soul for life

People should be free to refuse to interact with you.

> to be permanently locked out using anything digital because your identifier was compromised by malware and can't be "reset", or so on.

Make it as difficult to reset as a passport. Not impossible, but enough friction that you wouldn’t want to keep doing it every time you get banned for spamming.
by lala_lala | 2025-11-03 10:30:51+00:00
Yes, any analysis after an incident has the benefit, and bias, of hindsight.

But I see this post less as an incident analysis and more as an experiment in learning from hindsight. The goal, it seems, isn’t to replay what happened, but to show how formal methods let us model a complex system at a conceptual level, without access to every internal detail, and still reason about where races or inconsistencies could emerge.
by vintermann | 2025-11-03 10:31:44+00:00
But maybe some prefer that? These rich guys who never seem to have long, fulfilling relationships, who's to say they seek long term relationships? (I wouldn't know, I'm not one of them!)

Ditto with the women who like them.

You can, after all, delete all the other games from your emulator, or your entire data hoard except one document etc. Somehow that doesn't seem appealing either, does it?

Ending a lot of sentences with a question here I know, but I honestly don't think I've got this figured out.
by Firehawke | 2025-11-03 10:32:31+00:00
Something like that happened to me in first grade. I was trying to go down a slide and a friend decided to climb the slide itself. He ended up launching me off the side of the slide. It was maybe a five or six foot slide, and I remember going over the side in slow motion, grabbing for the rim of the slide but being at least 6" away from reaching it, and then suddenly.. sharp pain and pitch black as I landed on my back.

I was conscious again about 10-15 seconds later. It's the kind of thing that sticks with you your whole life. It probably wasn't close to life threatening, but the combination of adrenaline, sharp pain, and brief unconsciousness definitely leaves an imprint in your memory.
by creata | 2025-11-03 10:34:19+00:00
As other commenters have said, this doesn't need dependent types. Rust's const generics / C++'s non-type template parameters are enough.

Even in languages with dependent types, people tend to find it overly cumbersome to use them for actually prevent runtime errors like out-of-bounds access; they instead tend to save the dependent types for (1) data structure invariants that can be propagated easily, and (2) verification after the program has been defined.[0][1]

[0]: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2020/07/05/division-by-zer...

[1]: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/WG2.8/26/slides/xavier.pd... ("Programming with dependent types: passing fad or useful tool?" by Xavier Leroy in 2009; things might have changed since 2009)
by JimDabell | 2025-11-03 10:34:38+00:00
> An issue, also in crypto, is that people will get their "identifiers" stolen. How do you prevent stealing, or recover stolen identifiers, without compromising anonymity?

You don’t; you invalidate them. Let the real owner explain to the issuing authority what happened.

> Another issue is that people will hire (or enslave) others to effectively lend their identifiers, and it's very hard to distinguish between someone "lending" their identifier vs using it for themselves.

It doesn’t matter. If somebody uses your Facebook account to hurl abuse at people, you can expect your Facebook account to be banned. If somebody uses your email account to spam people, you can expect your email account to be added to spam filters.
by gommm | 2025-11-03 10:35:45+00:00
This is why when my son is old enough to choose a university, I'd probably try to advise him against doing undergrad in a UK or US university if he's studying STEM. Based on interviewing CS graduates, it doesn't seem that the level is that high in most UK/US universities compared to other countries (of course with the exclusion of the very top) and that seems partly due to a culture of pushing for profits over education and making it very hard to fail.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-11-03 10:35:53+00:00
While I agree with the first two lines I have to disagree with the third one.

> What you really need to know is, how cheap can you live, and how soon you can retire. How big does your warchest need to be so that it will grow with inflation and so that you can live off that growth without drawing down the principle. That's really all that matters.

That's a recipe for disaster. Living cheaply is not the way to go. You want to go big so that you can have resources in case of extraordinary events. You don't want to be the retiree that has to go back to work because they can no longer afford groceries or because their house burned down or whatever.
by defrost | 2025-11-03 10:36:17+00:00
The link you're quoting, the one posted, is a second hand US report.

The primary company link is from a UK subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz and is (almost) fully metric (the fundemental units US weights are officially defined with respect to (for more than a century now)).

See: https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-dens...

Earlier in the summer YASA achieved 550kW (738bhp) from a 13.1kg version of its new axial flux prototype motor, equating to an unofficial power density world record of 42kW/kg Now latest testing of an even lighter 12.7kg version on a more powerful dynamometer has shattered this record, with a staggering 750kW (>1000bhp) short-term peak rating, resulting in a new unofficial power density record of 59kW/kg

Just those pesky trad bhp units left hanging like a chad in a Florida election . . .
by Beretta_Vexee | 2025-11-03 10:37:53+00:00
I am French, not British, but more than ten years ago when I was at university, it was accepted that students who get selected for a year of exchange at a Chinese university would not do much, and no one expected much from Chinese students.

To put it simply, there was a principle of reciprocity: if the Chinese students passed their years, the French students would also pass theirs. If it became too difficult or the results were not as expected, it would become difficult for our students.

There were lots of tricks, with special exams in English or Chinese, catch-up work, etc. Who corrected the Chinese assignments in France? No idea.

It was also common knowledge that they had to bring back research documents to China. The lab manager left uninteresting documents lying around everywhere to control the phenomenon.

So nothing new, nothing has changed.

China has been very successful with its university rankings, with everyone scrambling to increase their foreign student numbers and collect tuition fees at the expense of academic results.

All this for the prestige of being ranked by a Chinese university.