MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by antonvs | 2025-11-19 14:34:02+00:00
This is a non sequitur. I know how to self host my infra, but I’ve been using cloud services for the last 15 years because it means I don’t have to deal with self hosting my infra. It runs completely by itself (mostly managed services, including k8s) and the only time I need to deal with it is when I want to change something.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-19 14:34:09+00:00
It doesn't really matter what the encapsulation is/was, the values of a federated protocol the carrier participates in directly remain the same. The downside is you bundle the privacy to your carrier but that concern should really be solved with E2EE, not trust in a given provider. The upside is your communication service status is tied to your connection service status, and federated out immediately from there. You also gain the ability to fallback transparently to SMS/MMS in the exact same way RCS would work.

Google botched up RCS a bit in order to get it momentum, but plenty of carriers do support RCS natively as that's the only way Apple did it with iOS. Google did at least push E2EE options, but those only landed in GSM with RCS Universal Profile 3.0 and I don't think Apple has given a date for when they will support that profile on iOS. That is to say, the problems here are not inherent to RCS itself but the typical adoption and rollout problems of communication protocols.

All that aside, I'd gladly sacrifice the federated service provider flow if there were actually an equally popular federated solution to latch on to with full fallback capability to aid the remaining transition (+ the protocol actually be designed with radio power saving in mind). It's just RCS is by far the closest thing to that full package vs any other generic data messaging service.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-11-19 14:34:30+00:00
What bewilders me is that I've read (maybe here on HN) that the issue with some of those planes is a lot of the key people who built the previous generations were moved around to different departments, and I'm just thinking to myself, are you guys going to get the right people in the right spots? This is embarrassing and downright evil if you aren't taking steps to ensure the quality of your aircrafts.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-11-19 14:35:15+00:00
Because the language is the point. They are not trained to generate, edit or manipulate images, audio and video.

They are trained to generate summaries or to create prompts for other models that generate, edit, and manipulate other media.

Unless, of course I am horribly behind the times and they are stuffing all kind of other tasks in the LLM themselves.
by lapcat | 2025-11-19 14:35:33+00:00
I'm not sure there's much utility in this article. It feels like the point was mainly to dunk on Ruby on Rails and WordPress without mentioning them by name. And such dunking may be justified, but it's not particularly interesting and won't lead to an enlightening discussion.

I think it's crucial to point out, though, that Eugen Rochko's motives for stepping down were explicitly personal. He's still quite young, Mastodon itself is still quite young, less than a decade old, and Rochko could have continued in his position for some time. He stepped down because he wanted to step down, not for some selfless reason like succession planning. And I'm not criticizing Rochko for that; he can live his life the way he chooses and do what makes him happy, avoid what he finds unpleasant. And he's to be commended for the mentioned peaceful transition of power. However, there's no inherent reason why Matt Mullenweg or DHH should step down just because Rochko stepped down; their personal goals are obviously different. And Rochko behaved very differently while he was still leading Mastodon.

The author clearly wants those other leaders to step down because he doesn't like those leaders and how they behave, not because of some abstract idea of succession planning. I don't think the metaphor of a king's death is apt here, because nobody has died or become incapacitated. They've just become overtly contemptible.
by pzmarzly | 2025-11-19 14:35:36+00:00
TFTP is crazy slow, even with RFC 7740 (buffering), but the payloads are usually small so few people care.

Thankfully modern BIOSes tend to implement HTTP boot option, where you can point to any HTTP or HTTPS URL (as long as the URL ends with ".efi", which is a pretty dumb limitation if you ask me).
by jjice | 2025-11-19 14:35:42+00:00
+1 for this being my experience. Used RCS on a Pixel 6a and a Pixel 8 before switching to an iPhone. As soon as my carrier got approved by Apple (or whatever the hell that process was), RCS just worked out of the box with my (increasingly few) Android friends. I was actually surprised by how smooth it was, once it was actually available from Apple.
by muzani | 2025-11-19 14:35:48+00:00
More like an engineer for me. The work is reading the plans, adopting the plans to the code, approving the code, making sure it's up to standards, knowing which standards it should be up to, and so on.

I spend a lot more of my day reading up on foundational stuff rather than typing. It's a bit like electrical engineers not being expected to solder as much stuff by hand anymore. The machine does it cleanly. Doesn't mean the work is below us, but we get to focus on the things that count.
by nine_k | 2025-11-19 14:36:00+00:00
I worked in a billing department, and learned to be healthily paranoid about such things. I want to regularly check what I'm billed for. I of course check all my bank accounts' balances at least once a day. All billing emails are marked important in my inbox, and I actually open them.

And of course I give every online service a separate virtual credit card (via privacy dot com, but your bank may issue them directly) with a spend limit set pretty close to the expected usage.
by mojoe | 2025-11-19 14:36:05+00:00
First I just want to say that it's an honor that you took a look, I've read and enjoyed many of your articles in the past.

This anthology is actually a "Year's Best" -- they're reprints selected from a pool of 391 stories printed in the big science fiction magazines last year. So I'm not opening for submissions, or anything like that (I have done that before, back when I published a magazine). For this anthology I reached out to the authors about the best concept-driven stories I read last year, and fortunately they all agreed to let me publish their stories.
by pjc50 | 2025-11-19 14:36:20+00:00
It turns out that the only thing worse than the platform monopolist was the old phone carries monopolies.

> just about everyone outside the US tends to use messaging apps like WhatsApp/Signal/WeChat/etc.

This is The Way. Well, several ways, since you inevitably end up a bit fragmented, but usually a country will settle on one, usually WhatsApp. Further east Telegram is also popular.
by bombela | 2025-11-19 14:36:23+00:00
I agree with you. But onsidering nobody learns any real engineering in software; myself solidly included; this is still an improvement.

But yes, I wish I had learned more, and somehow stumbled upon all the good stuff, or be taught at university about at least what Rust achieves today.

I think it has to be noted Rust still allows performance with the safety it provides. So that's something maybe.
by colechristensen | 2025-11-19 14:36:27+00:00
AWS isn't for tinkerers and doesn't have guard rails for them, that's it. Anybody can use it but it's not designed for you to spend $12 per month. They DO have cost anomaly monitoring, they give you data so you can set up your own alerts for usage or data, but it's not a primary feature because they're picking their customers and it isn't the bottom of the market hobbyist. There are plenty of other services looking for that segment.

I have budgets set up and alerts through a separate alerting service that pings me if my estimates go above what I've set for a month. But it wouldn't fix a short term mistake; I don't need it to.
Show HN: Token Economics Calculator for AI inference hardware
by paul_td | 2025-11-19 14:36:52+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm Paul from Tensordyne. We build AI inference systems and chips on logarithmic math. We've put together an interactive Token Economics Calculator to help make apples-to-apples comparisons of inference hardware across vendors:

<https://www.tensordyne.ai/token-economics-calculator>

We're interested in how closely it lines up with the community's view of the market.

Why we built this

Investors and customers kept asking how our system compares to others (NVIDIA and a growing list of startups). Plenty of publicly available data exists, but it's scattered and inconsistent. News articles, provider sites, Artificial Analysis, MLCommons, and now SemiAnalysis’s new InferenceMAX all publish useful numbers — but using different metrics. That makes “what’s actually better (and at what cost)?” surprisingly hard to answer, especially across the broad range of system providers.

What the calculator does

- Scenario-normalized comparisons: we’ve chosen a few model scenarios and normalized data from different sources to the same key metrics.

- Capacity modeling: we estimate racks needed to support a target user load based on model size and KV-cache needs.

- Cost & power economics: we estimate tokens/$ and tokens/kWh. You can input your own capex, amortization, colocation and energy costs and see how that impacts TCO.

- Architecture: see how different memory architectures (e.g. SRAM-only vs. HBM) could impact profitability.

- Like-for-like: see how model performance varies significantly depending on use case by comparing two configurations for the same model.

Data sources & gaps

We pull from publicly available materials. Where numbers are missing, we estimate (e.g. from chip size / process / HBM capacity) to take a first cut at pricing — and let you swap in your own values.

What we’re hoping to learn from you

- Which metrics matter most for your use case.

- Where our defaults are off (power, users, utilization, etc.).

- Systems we should add (including startups) and links to data.

If you try it, please tell us what’s confusing, missing, or flat-out wrong.

We’ll be in the thread answering questions.
by dragonsenseiguy | 2025-11-19 14:37:06+00:00
Hi, I recently made a Pull Request review tool like code rabbit but for Hack Clubbers. All the source code is here, this is a project for Midnight(midnight.hackclub.com), a hackathon. What My Project Does: Reviews Pull Requests on Github Any feedback is welcome, if it is big I would appreciate it if you made an issue and left a comment here that you made an issue.
by derbOac | 2025-11-19 14:37:11+00:00
Interesting read. Framing things as a "cultic relationship" makes a lot of sense to me. The part about using your experience as a basis of truth determination being flawed and a source of vulnerability also was pretty insightful.

I'm a little surprised by mention of pushback and accusations of being cult apologists, only because what they're describing as their method is pretty similar in principle to some widespread and empirically validated therapies for more common things. It's just much more invasive, to understate things. I guess at some point there are probably basic immediate safety issues that arise, where taking time has its own risks.

The piece left me thinking that the reasons people become involved with and attached to cults might not be different at some fundamental level from a lot of other psychological problems they get themselves in — just a matter of degree or pervasiveness.
by alphazard | 2025-11-19 14:37:37+00:00
Comparing software projects to governments usually produces the wrong intuition. The stakes are much lower, and risk tolerance should be much higher with a software project. Dictators are good, forks are good, even conflict can be good because it means people care. On the contrary, democracy leads to mediocre decisions, designs by committee, and sluggishness.

Unlike with a government, you can easily walk a way from a software project or create a fork. There is almost zero friction to "voting with your feet" in software and it works.
by wongarsu | 2025-11-19 14:37:43+00:00
So if we turn the clock back ten years, Visual Studio (the behemoth sold by MS to C# and C++ developers) would be an application, wouldn't it? It solves a clear business need, otherwise why would businesses pay so much money for it (more than for Photoshop). MSSQL and Oracle DBMS clearly solve business problems, they have slick UIs and sale people with powerpoint decks. Perforce P4 is an application that solves business needs for creatives (and also comes with P4V for a slick UI and costs photoshop-level money)

But at the same time Visual Studio is in the same category of software as VS Code, Oracle DBMS in the same category as postgresql, Perforce P4 in the same category as git. Surely that can't be it?

I'd agree in a heartbeat that developers are better at solving problems for developers. The less disconnect there is between developer and customer the better development goes, and the disconnect doesn't get lower than building developer tooling. But those things aren't any less apps or more tools than the things artists or technical writers or accountants use
by gruez | 2025-11-19 14:38:30+00:00
>While censorship is one thing, they forgot another overlooked ability of these app stores: pushing unwanted apps/services to our personal devices without our knowledge

When was the last time the play store or app store pushed apps "without our knowledge"? I've only heard of it done by shady third party bloatware that OEMs bundle with the OS. The actual issue is a system that can perform OTA updates, not app stores themselves.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-19 14:38:41+00:00
> better off people don't think they can escape and push to make the program better for everyone.

Your solution is to make the smart kids suffer so maybe they can force the educators to do better? That’s insane. It’s also not going to happen.

Do you know what will happen? Any parent with the means will scrape together cash to pull their students out and go to private schools. Or they’ll hire tutors after school and force their kids to sit down and learn what they should have been learning during the day.

This fantasy where the smart kids rally together to overhaul the system because we banned them from taking advanced classes is a delusion.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-19 14:39:18+00:00
> I think that the lack of half-decent cost controls is not intentionally malicious

It wasn't when the service was first created. What's intentionally malicious is not fixing it for years.

Somehow AI companies got this right form the get go. Money up front, no money, no tokens.

It's easy to guess why. Unlike hosting infra bs, inference is a hard cost for them. If they don't get paid, they lose (more) money. And sending stuff to collections is expensive and bad press.
by sershe | 2025-11-19 14:39:27+00:00
"Metrics like these are meaningless when the working class' living condition keeps deteriorating."

1) what is working class? 2) what proof do you have that its "living condition keeps deteriorating"? By all metrics - including disposable income after housing etc - its living conditions keep improving.

And problems like housing are caused by parts of the "current system" that are the most non capitalist - zoning and other local regulation, in particular, the result of the 70ies revolution towards safetyism and more direct democracy. When Moseses and Leavitts made all the decisions with their concentrated government OR commercial power, housing was plentiful. When FDA was approve-by-default medicine was cheap (although obviously that is not the only factor). Etc.

The things on the list either just have nothing to do with living conditions or welfare state, or if they do to an extent have little to do with the "current system"

EDIt: or just plain wrong; https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/top-1-percent-tax...
Show HN: Web Agents like Browser-use and Browserbase need a way to authenticate
by hkpatel3 | 2025-11-19 14:39:31+00:00
Web Agents like Browser-use and Browserbase need a way to authenticate using their own credentials not yours. I made the first OpenID Connect Provider for Web Agents. Please check out the repo and the website auth-agent.com and let me know your thoughts.
by jrjeksjd8d | 2025-11-19 14:39:32+00:00
The problem with hard caps is that there's no way to retroactively fix "our site went down". As much as engineers are loathe to actually reach out to a cloud provider, are there any anecdotes of AWS playing hardball and collecting a 10k debt for network traffic?

Conversely the first time someone hits an edge case in billing limits and their site goes down, losing 10k worth of possible customer transactions there's no way to unring that bell.

The second constituency are also, you know, the customers with real cloud budgets. I don't blame AWS for not building a feature that could (a) negatively impact real, paying customers (b) is primarily targeted at people who by definition don't want to pay a lot of money.
by dbingham | 2025-11-19 14:39:34+00:00
To be determined. It's not a problem we have yet, since we're going to ease into the cooperative governance.

Right now it's an LLC. If we can hit basic financial stability, then we'll convert the LLC to a nonprofit and start with an appointed board with a two year term who's job is to draft the permanent bylaws and define the electoral system. Basically, I'm bootstrapping it and we need to raise the money to pay the legal fees and fund the legal research needed to get the cooperative structure right. And part of that is going to be designing the electoral systems.

It's definitely going to be hard and it may end up coming down to "ID verification required to vote". Not to use the platform, just to vote in board elections. I'd love to find a way to avoid that, but we can always do it if we have to.

The plan is to moderate the platform pretty heavily using a two layered moderation system: community moderation as the first layer and official moderation as a second layer that moderates the community moderation. That moderation will be very much aimed at keeping the platform as free of bots, spammers, and propagandists as possible.

So if we're successful in that, we may be able to avoid the intrusive verification by saying "It's an honor system and all active users in good standing are trusted to be honorable." But it remains to be seen whether we're successful enough in the moderation to even attempt that.

Or we may be able to come up with some other system to ensure it.

The other piece is that it's a multi-stakeholder cooperative. Users elect half the board, but the workers elect the other half. And with workers, it will be easy to restrict it to one worker one vote. So the workers can and will provide a safety backstop against user elections that go off the rails in one way or another.
by mxmilkiib | 2025-11-19 14:39:54+00:00
it's what one could refer to some of their music as being/being like;

https://instagram.com/reel/CwoglDsruki https://instagram.com/reel/DAeXcrguBA8 https://instagram.com/reel/C9qzoJRREBV

https://youtube.com/shorts/zsXnR401mjo https://youtube.com/shorts/m3uS_mRihO4 https://youtube.com/shorts/iHda5-pRdo4

Whitehouse; https://youtu.be/KjAF7D4l91M

on power electronics as a genre; https://youtu.be/u3-4BTEEpRY https://youtu.be/frQOtNw954M
by neutronicus | 2025-11-19 14:39:57+00:00
OnShape is just another skin over Parasolid (closed-source geometry kernel sold by Siemens) like SolidWorks, VectorWorks, and others I forget.

So it doesn't really represent meaningful progress towards FOSS CAD because ultimately it uses the same proprietary, expensive library to do the heavy lifting as most of its competitors.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-19 14:40:12+00:00
“Phase out” means gradually remove.

Kindergarten is where the phase out starts. That’s how you phase something out. You don’t take it away from everyone all at once because that triggers outrage. You disallow it for new kindergarten students one season, then next year remove it from 1st grade so they can’t go into accelerated programs and so on. He explicitly uses the phrase “phase out” for this reason.

Read more of his platform documents, including the ones before everything got watered down for his website.

The “it’s just for kindergarten” is just positive spin on the first step of the goal of phasing it out in general.
by falcor84 | 2025-11-19 14:40:18+00:00
Ok, I'll take it. It definitely wasn't a business call at the level of Microsoft saying that everyone should be using it, but it was an actual service offered under the Microsoft umbrella and used by many sites in the wild, e.g. via this MediaWiki extension [0], for 8 years [1].

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Asirra

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150207180225/https%3A//researc...
by bArray | 2025-11-19 14:40:18+00:00
> Which is why I am delighted that the Mastodon project has shown a better way to behave.

I think we should hold our breath for a moment. The wars waged over concession don't always happen immediately, and not always involving the expected parties [1].

> Today, we’re marking another momentous step in this ongoing process as our Founder and now former CEO Eugen Rochko begins his transition into a new role with Mastodon. We are thrilled that he will continue on in an advisory role with our team.

The problem with the undead King is if they ever feel the need to exercise any form of power.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings
by Theodores | 2025-11-19 14:40:50+00:00
How much mathematics is needed anyway?

In the day job, how many people have to use maths skills beyond arithmetic?

What about trigonometry?

Differential equations?

Integration and calculus?

To be honest, if I am using Boolean Logic then that might as well be 'advanced mathematics', far beyond the comprehension of non-coders. Even simple trigonometry isn't so simple to most people.

Clearly we need some people on the planet able to do more than basic arithmetic, however, what is the point in trying to teach the whole population how to do differential equations given the lack of workplace opportunities to use such knowledge?

The why question isn't explained with maths beyond the theoretical 'yep, you will earn more'. Too many maths textbooks are utterly abstract, you might as well be learning cuneiform for the amount of practical use cases.

It seems to me that the policy makers and journalists that complain about the demise of maths skills aren't doing a lot of maths themselves yet they want to force maths on the masses, as if it was good for you in a 'eat your greens' type of way.

Maths is hard and it really does not suit a lot of people. Fluency in maths is only attainable by a few, the majority that can do maths need a lot of armbands, whether that be calculators, text books or internet crib sheets. Then there is everyone else, not even floundering, just giving it a miss.

Rather than forcing the entire population to be maths geniuses, which will never happen, maths needs to be a specialist subject chosen by those that know what it can be used for, and with ambitions to take a career path where maths happens.
Ask HN: What operating systems, apps, etc. had your favorite UI designs?
by pixelworm | 2025-11-19 14:40:51+00:00
I enjoy looking at the UIs of older platforms or software. Something about that pixel-ish look appeals to me more than the modern look of UI.

For me, one of my favorites was the look of some of the later PalmPilot UIs. They were surprisingly good for a display of only 160×160 pixels. They may not look the best today, but they were very functional. In some ways, I actually prefer older UI designs. Modern UI components feel more complex and, in my opinion, lead to a greater number of bugs.

What are everyone’s favorite UIs, old or modern?
by TiredOfLife | 2025-11-19 14:41:31+00:00
> They're actively defending their mote by allowing Copilot to do things in a way that extensions couldn't

That started to change in may.

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/05/19/openSourceAIE...

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/06/30/openSourceAIE...

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/11/04/openSourceAIE...