MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coffeecoders | 2025-11-14 19:22:47+00:00
Napkin math:

9 AIs × 43,200 minutes = 388,800 requests/month

388,800 requests × 200 tokens = 77,760,000 tokens/month ≈ 78M tokens

Cost varies from 10 cents to $1 per 1M tokens.

Using the mid-price, the cost is around $50/month.

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Hopefully, the OP has this endpoint protected - https://clocks.brianmoore.com/api/clocks?time=11:19AM
by badsectoracula | 2025-11-14 19:22:51+00:00
Not sure how this is supposed to show. Does it only show stuff about existing repositories?

I put in the URL for a project of mine in Codeberg and didn't seem to be able to do anything - i expected that it'd go clone the repository, parse the code and attempt to tell stuff about it, but all i got was an error :-P.
by breppp | 2025-11-14 19:22:55+00:00
I am not sure about your source. apart from blaming Israel with falsehoods such as organ theft, it has well known ties to Hamas

https://ngo-monitor.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Kahel-and...

Here its founding team posing next to Hamas leader.

Even if we take it in face value it does not show Israeli repression of Palestinian speech in Gaza, while Hamas has been regularly executing and torturing over speech
by mc32 | 2025-11-14 19:23:02+00:00
When I was a broke college student I don’t have access to a washer and dryer, so I either went to a laundromat or on occasion just washed clothing in a tub and put them up to dry. Wear jeans; they don’t need frequent washing -some manufacturers indeed recommend very infrequent washing.

It’s totally doable. Growing your own fruits and veggies is out of the question. It’s stupid -the only ones that make sense are herbs and only because when fresh they are better.
by hkselinali | 2025-11-14 19:23:05+00:00
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by peterlk | 2025-11-14 19:23:36+00:00
I’m working my way through “The End of the World is Just the Beginning”, and the main thesis is that everyone is preparing for demographic collapse. Global populations are declining almost everywhere, and this breaks the current global order. For example, what does the Chinese economy look like when all the people subject to the one child policy retire? What are the knock on effects of labor becoming more expensive almost everywhere? Can immigration solve this problem? What about the cultural friction of mass immigration? What happens to the places that everyone emigrates from?

The book basically argues that a significant amount of the world is headed for destabilization, and a destabilized world involves a lot less trust.

Side note: personally, I find the writing style and general tone to be hyperbolic, but some of the analysis is interesting.
by Aloisius | 2025-11-14 19:23:40+00:00
Would it matter if it was? Even if it could be reverse engineered, so can physical inventions.

Just like with physical inventions, the issue of trade secrets isn't just that it can slow down innovation by wasting resources reinventing an existing invention, but also that inventions can be lost altogether just because the inventor failed to popularize or commercialize it.

I really doubt the average delay for improving upon a patent into something novel is very long. I rarely see software patents that don't cite more than a few recently issued patents.

Nor have I seen much evidence of software patents actually stiffing invention, except for overly broad idea patents (thankfully neutered by Alice). Most of the issues with software patents instead seem to be around wanting to use the specific invention rather than improving upon it - which is rather the opposite of innovation. The LZW patent, for example, was an issue because it was used by GIFs, not because no one could invent a novel derivative of LZW - those took less than a year to appear.

That's not to say software patents don't have issues of course. We'd be better off if patent terms were shorter or required compulsory licensing, if applications were detailed enough to actually reproduce the invention rather than vague descriptions (the LZW patent, as annoying as it was, contained actual source code) and if the standards for what was considered novel were based on more than just abstract descriptions.
by midtake | 2025-11-14 19:23:59+00:00
What a trendy article, in tune with our recently linear-algebraic turn in how we see language thanks to LLM's.

But I think this exposes an even greater problem, where words thought to be direct translations will always drift in vector value as they are weighted for attention within their respective corpora. Are we on the brink of translation-nihilism?

This isn't even limited to complex phenomena or shades of snow. Even "I like" is a different construction in many languages, in an unexpected way to new language learners.
by WD-42 | 2025-11-14 19:24:09+00:00
That makes sense if you use application per workspace, which never made much sense to me.

I'm often working on 3+ codebases or projects at the same time, each project has a browser window with associated tabs, an instance of an editor, several terminals. So they get a workspace. "Switch to browser workspace" makes no sense if there are 3 instances of the browser open, especially when I want the browser next to my editor for live reload/API docs.
by pixl97 | 2025-11-14 19:24:29+00:00
>In other words, the price of beef can stay the same.

And yet, if you believe the environmentalist argument in the first place, the price of beef should go up for the damages it causes. Hence why a lot of people think the people complaining about AI are wearing an environmentalist mask, rather than having an actual care about the environment.

Pigouvian taxes are fine, but should be applied across all sources of damage.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-14 19:24:51+00:00
I'm seeing comments jumping to conclusions about taking manganese supplements or trying to starve yourself of manganese. These are dangerously wrong interpretations of the article.

Any interventions would have to be targeted directly at the B. burgdorferi to disrupt their internal regulation of manganese. It's a long shot used to make this research discovery sound more impressive, not an actual cure.

Your own body uses manganese for critical processes like your metabolism, critical brain functionality, and generating important antioxidants in your mitochondria (MnSOD, the same one mentioned inside of Lyme in the article).

Your body also regulates manganese absorption and excretion. Manganese deficiency is extremely rare outside of genetic conditions or other medical problems which interfere with this regulation. You can't really starve yourself of manganese by adjusting your diet or even by periods of fasting.

So if you're reading this and thinking you could defeat Lyme by starving yourself of manganese or overdosing on manganese, don't. That's not what this article is saying.
by bobbylarrybobby | 2025-11-14 19:24:54+00:00
It's interesting because if you asked them to write code to generate an SVG of a clock, they'd probably use a loop from 1 to 12, using sin and cos of the angle (given by the loop index over 12 times 2pi) to place the numerals. They know how to do this, and so they basically understand the process that generates a clock face. And extrapolating from that to 13 hours is trivial (for a human). So the fact that they can't do this extrapolation on their own is very odd.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-14 19:25:03+00:00
It doesn't need to solve every problem but it does help solve the problem of one unelected person holding too much power and influence.

It does? Really?

What are they teaching kids in school these days? According to the books I studied, nominally-egalitarian leaders racked up an eight-digit body count in the 20th century alone.
by jancsika | 2025-11-14 19:25:10+00:00
> People who have lost someone (either through death or just throwing their life away) to drugs will tell you these "poor fishermen" are murderers

Just to be clear-- we're talking about a hypothetical family member of a potential future victim of drug overdose who was unwittingly saved based on fully trusting the federal government's claim that their extra-judicial killing stopped the international trade of illicit drugs as opposed to killing innocent fishermen.

Did I correctly label all the global mutable state in your example?

I get and agree with your non-sequitur that there's a clear difference between drug mules and fishermen, I just don't see the relevance of that to the danger of leveraging these post-9/11 counterterrorism laws (and secret interpretations of them) to carry out extra-judicial killings.

Edit: to be extra clear-- the whole point of meaningful democratic oversight in this case is to be able to meaningfully care, measure and review the difference between drug mules and fishermen. The entire modern history of secret interpretations of counterterrorism laws tells us that without this basic oversight, the government will always claim they only target the murderers. Worse, they'll use the veil of national security to hide the fact that innocent victims are jailed, tortured, and killed through the same counterterrorism programs.
by collimarco | 2025-11-14 19:25:19+00:00
In any case those clocks are all extremely inaccurate, even if AI could build a decent UI (which is not the case).

Some months ago I published this site for fun: https://timeutc.com There's a lot of code involved to make it precise to the ms, including adjusting based on network delay, frame refresh rate instead of using setTimeout and much more. If you are curious take a look at the source code.
by echelon | 2025-11-14 19:25:20+00:00
gpt-image-1 and Google Imagen understand prompts, they just don't have training data to cover these use cases.

gpt-image-1 and Imagen are wickedly smart.

The new Nano Banana 2 that has been briefly teased around the internet can solve incredibly complicated differential equations on chalk boards with full proof of work.
by 9rx | 2025-11-14 19:25:29+00:00
I suppose that depends on what you mean by "from scratch". If first you must invent the universe, starvation is certain. If you have to produce the food from the ground by yourself, you will struggle to scrape enough calories out of it to survive. There is no hope of excessive weight gain here.

If "from scratch" means going to the grocery store to buy a bunch of prepared ingredients that you go home with to mix up in a bowl, sure. Then it starts to become much easier. Where does the line get drawn?
by homebrewer | 2025-11-14 19:25:31+00:00
To this day anything of worth that's been added to Gitea is released under MIT. Their business model is: you pay us to develop the features we need, we release them for everybody, which is how their collaboration with Blender has been working thus far. If it's good enough for Blender, who decided to stay with Gitea, it's good enough for me.
by danudey | 2025-11-14 19:25:47+00:00
It's all correct and also pointless and irrelevant. It all boils down to "Rust doesn't fix every possible problem so why not stick with something that still has every possible problem?"

In other words, they're upset that a new thing isn't popular so they're trying to think of any argument against it, but none of their arguments are relevant. Yes, you can still write bugs in Rust; of course you can. What you can't do is write memory safety bugs in Rust, which are a huge proportion of security bugs that occur. Rust gives you a massive decrease in attack surface automatically.

This is ignoring the ecosystem, which is full of better tooling, better library packaging, better testing, and just in general an overall better language, but instead of trying to argue the language on its merits they're trying to argue that it's not perfect so why bother.

I've also heard the same arguments about C++; 'anything you can do in C++ you can do in C!', which is technically true but ignores the fact that if I want to do something C++ does it usually makes more sense to use C++ to do it rather than e.g. trying to hack the concept of objects, private methods, templates, etc. into C myself.
by amluto | 2025-11-14 19:26:02+00:00
I occasionally contemplate that, if I were designing an OS meant to be sort-of-immutable (like Incus OS or Fedora Silverblue etc or MacOS), I would probably build it like this:

The main filesystem is verified and immutable. Everything that isn't configuration or the user-controlled payload is genuinely read-only, and the system will even cryptographically verify it on boot or first use. You cannot modify /bin/bash, etc.

If you want to test a modification, you can configure an overlay, and you can boot with that overlay live. You can configure the overlay to also be immutable or you can make the overlay mutable. But the choice of booting into the overlay is controlled by code that cannot by overlaid, so you can always turn the overlay off no matter how much you screw it up.

The user may get root access, but if your system is remotely attested or uses a TPM or such for security, then that policy will find out if you do so before you can do anything as root. So you can shell in and attach a debugger to a system service, but you cannot do that and also pretend to your orchestration tools that you have not done so.

The default configuration is mostly empty. When you change a default, you are not modifying the middle of a giant plist where no one will ever understand what happened. You only create new configuration, and deleting it is just fine.

The result would, I think, give system owners plenty of ability to hack on their own systems, but they could also unhack their systems easily. There are very few systems out there with both of these properties right now...
by foxglacier | 2025-11-14 19:26:20+00:00
I wouldn't ignore those arguments but most of the time, they're so poorly formed (eg. using data without logic), they aren't really worth listening to. If you believe AI provides no value, then any environmental cost is too high for you but you can't convey that by trying to dramatize how high it is. That's dishonest and I think people rightly turn off it.
by pronik | 2025-11-14 19:26:32+00:00
Ingress as defined by Kubernetes is really restricted if you need to do rewriting, redirecting and basically all the stuff we've been doing in pre-Kubernetes times. Nginx Ingress Controller worked around that by supporting a ton of annotations which basically were ingested into nginx.conf, to the point that any time you had a need everyone just assumed you were using nginx-ingress and recommended an annotation or two.

In a way, it was a necessity, since Ingress was all you'd get and without stuff like rewriting, doing gradual Kubernetes migrations would have been much more difficult to impossible. For that reason, every ingress controller tried to go a similar, but distinctly different way, with vastly incompatible elements, failing to gain traction. In a way I'm thankful they didn't try to reimplement nginx annotations (apart from one attempt I think), since we would have been stuck with those for foreseeable future.

Gateway API is the next-gen standardized thing to do ingress, pluggable and upgradable without being bound to a Kubernetes version. It delivers _some_ of the most requested features for Ingress, extending on the ingress concept quite a bit. While there is also quite a bit of mental overhead and concepts only really needed by a handful of people, just getting everyone to use one concept is a big big win for the community.

Ingress might not be deprecated, but in a way it was late to the party back in the day (OpenShift still has Route objects from that era because ingress was missing) and has somewhat overstayed its welcome. You can redefine Ingress in terms of Gateway API and this is probably what all the implementers will do.
by cyberpunk | 2025-11-14 19:26:39+00:00
It’s not even technical reasons my org has loads of oracle it’s compliance. We have to have vendor support for the data layer for certain financial applications which leaves us with only the companies willing to do the insane dance that is involved in getting vendor certified with my bank (6 months on avg, hundreds of pages of legal documents).

It narrows the field, at least for us, to microsoft, ibm, oracle and mongo.

So we’re all in on mongo, as it goes, but I wouldn’t really balk at running some stuff on the giant oracle clusters now and again.
by bad_haircut72 | 2025-11-14 19:26:41+00:00
This will definitely get lost in the conversation but like I said right up front, I dont actually agree with killing them. It seems that we ought to be able to intercept these boats and process them as suspects of a crime. It just rubs me the wrong way how every issue gets written up as a one-sided narrative of good vs evil depending on who you support politically.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-14 19:26:43+00:00
> self care.

Deliberately inducing manganese deficiency (which I doubt you could pull off while still eating food) isn't "self care". It's a misunderstanding of what this article is saying.

Your body needs manganese and MnSOD (one of the target enzymes mentioned in the article) just as much as Lyme disease does.

You could theoretically kill the Lyme by killing the host body, like that classic XKCD about destroying anything in a petri dish if you don't care about collateral damage. The key to making a successful treatment is finding a way to kill the infection without killing the host.

Calling anything you're suggesting "self care" is dangerous and wrong.
by kelvinjps10 | 2025-11-14 19:26:51+00:00
I'm immigrant that come to the us and always that the Americans complain is hardd to understand, like for example inflation they complain about being 3% in my country there was hyperinflation 1000%, also I didn't use to have running water(water would come every 3 days) and electricity would stop working every few days and it would take several hours or days to get fixed. then working here there is so many jobs and you can gain skills and double your income. Most Americans have a car (in my country this is a luxury) latest ¡phone (also a luxury) and most don't cook by themselves also a luxury. I have a year here and I quickly got a comfortable living and I just don't understand it when they complain.
by kpcyrd | 2025-11-14 19:27:04+00:00
I looked into Meshtastic a while ago and they use AES with no authentication tags. Also decryption happens on the LoRa device, which is a lot easier to crack with physical access compared to my phone. Even if you delete the messages it's still possible to decrypt sniffed LoRa traffic if, at some point in the future, one device gets captured.

I'd rather the protocol gets updated so the crypto key can stay on the phone.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-14 19:27:06+00:00
> That, and an environmnet that allows folks "from the wrong side of the tracks," to get ahead.

Vast swathes of this country look no better than the developing nations Sarah McLaughlin would go to to sing sad music and hold little kids to beg people for money in television ads.

Like I don't think you're wrong necessarily but at the same time, it really, really matters which tracks you're on the wrong side of.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-14 19:27:09+00:00
I still bought my 795s7 (a cheap 16-core MoDT (mobile on desktop) zen4 box) anyways, but accepting that I would probably never get bios updates ever was a hard pill to swallow. I haven't had to deal with support for anything defective, but support as in available bios updates being so so so spotty is really unfortunate.

AMD is talking about replacing closed AGESA BIOS with open OpenSIL bios some day, and maybe perhaps possibly it means end users get some chance to maintain & upgrade bios themselves, eventually, possibly. Given how some vendors seem uninterested in doing the work themselves, this sliver of a hope would be nice to see happen.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-14 19:27:48+00:00
I'm not trying to be reductionist, I'm trying to nail down a precise shared meaning of the terms that our conversation depends on.

I have seen many founders who come from ivy league, with millions in family seed capital and extensive networks with introductions and connections squander them because they don't prioritize what is most important: they don't embrace uncertainty, discomfort, and struggle. They don't lean into bad news. They don't position themselves as servants to the customer.

I just don't buy that these advantages of reduction of risk are the most important variable in the equation. Ive seen them first hand hinder success as much as they enable it. And they definitely do not gatekeep it.

So if "coming from money" means seed capital and family connections then I stand by my point.

But if "coming from money" means living with parents or spouse who can cover basic living expenses with a frugal lifestyle while the founder focuses on building a business, then with that definition I would have to admin it has a big positive impact.

I guess the crux of my argument here is that founder actions matter an order of magnitude more than seed capital or family connections.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-14 19:27:49+00:00
> So I'm guessing that you could survive weeks in a severe-manganese-deficiency situation before you noticed any ill effects.

Your guess would be wrong. Your body needs manganese for similar reasons that Lyme disease needs it. You also produce MnSOD.

If you starved your body of manganese sufficiently (which I doubt you could do without eating a completely synthetic diet for months) then you'd be killing yourself in parallel with the Lyme disease.