MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cobolcomesback | 2025-11-19 16:15:43+00:00
AWS just yesterday launched flat rate pricing for their CDN (including a flat rate allowance for bandwidth and S3 storage), including a guaranteed $0 tier.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975411

I agree that it’s likely very technically difficult to find the right balance between capping costs and not breaking things, but this shows that it’s definitely possible, and hopefully this signals that AWS is interested in doing this in other services too.
by underdeserver | 2025-11-19 16:15:54+00:00
I'm sorry I'm frustrating you. It was not my intention. For what it's worth, I use ripgrep every day, and it's made my life appreciably better. (Same goes for Astral products.) Thank you for that, and I wish your day improves.

> unwrap(), expect(), bad math, etc. - this is all caused by lazy Rust developers or Rust developers not utilizing the language's design features

I just read that line as shorthand for large outages caused by misuse of unwrap(), expect(), bad math etc. - all caused by...

That's also an opinion, by my reading.

I assumed we were talking specifically about misuses, not all uses of unwrap(), or all bad bugs. Anyway, I think we're ultimately saying the same thing. It's ironic in its own way.
by bnchrch | 2025-11-19 16:15:59+00:00
People have mentioned they back "founders not ideas". Which is a great tag line, and also not 100% true, but true enough.

The other side is they like to fund in area's that have a strong why now. One great answer to that is "Because it wasnt possible to build this X years ago" in other words they like to fund companies that are taking advantage of a new technical property, regulatory change, or cultural change.

AI hits 2/3 of those.

Now you can say "AI slop all you want" just like you can say "Crypto is a scam" but its a statement that ignores there has been profitable and viable new ventures built on top of these new compute properties.

TLDR: technological change is the basis of how VC's make money.
by theptip | 2025-11-19 16:16:00+00:00
> users would be able to control others from central browser controls that apply to websites broadly.

Great to see this finally. It’s obviously the way it should have been implemented from the beginning.

We still see this technically myopic approach with things like age verification; it’s insane to ask websites to collect Gov ID to age verify kids (or prove adulthood for porn), rather than having an OS feature that can do so in a privacy-preserving way. Now these sites have a copy of your ID! You know they are going to get hacked and leak it!

(Parents should opt their kids phones into “kid mode” and this would block age-sensitive content. The law just needs to mandate that this mode is respected by sites/apps.)
by yabones | 2025-11-19 16:16:37+00:00
Heh, very true. These days most new cars have a 1.0-1.5 turbo (or hybrid) rather than a larger 2.0 NA. And even 20 years ago most European cars were around 1.5 or less because of their higher fuel prices and registration taxes.

I'm a bit spoiled with the beefy 2.5 in my Mazda... Though it's still about 480 HP less than this beast ;)
by yardie | 2025-11-19 16:16:45+00:00
I believe the FTC had a case years ago. But the market has moved on. YT took off backed by Alphabet capital. Tiktok took off withe Bytedance capital. There was a time when FB/IG/WA commanded most of social media. And Meta did use that clout in some pretty grotesque ways.

Prior to 2020, FTC would have had a much stronger case. But too little too late.
by bpodgursky | 2025-11-19 16:16:46+00:00
I think this is a very rosy framing.

GDPR showed that once you are a ten-billion dollar company, your compliance team can manage GDPR enough to enter the market. For a startup, starting in the EU or entering the EU early is still extremely difficult because the burdens do not scale linearly with size.

This means that yes, US tech giants can sell into the EU, but the EU will never get their own domestic tech giants because they simply cannot get off the ground there.
by nwellinghoff | 2025-11-19 16:16:53+00:00
Orrr AWS could just buffer it for you. Algo.

1) you hit the cap 2) aws sends alert but your stuff still runs at no cost to you for 24h 3) if no response. Aws shuts it down forcefully. 4) aws eats the “cost” because lets face it. It basically cost them 1000th of what they bill you for. 5) you get this buffer 3 times a year. After that. They still do the 24h forced shutdown but you get billed. Everybody wins.
by akramachamarei | 2025-11-19 16:17:26+00:00
On the contrary, the study you cite found no significant effect either way for either group. From the last page: "we find that gifted grouping does not help or hurt the achievement growth of gifted students nor does it help or hurt the achievement growth of non-gifted students" (emphasis mine.) This certainly does not imply that separating gifted tracks results in a lot more struggling students.
by criddell | 2025-11-19 16:17:46+00:00
I recently listened to some podcast where they talked about this in the context of threatening texts. Sending someone a gun emoji communicates a very different thing if it shows up as a water pistol vs a realistic looking gun. The court need to see what the sender thought they were sending and what the receiver saw.

https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/k1xxio/evolutio...
by judahmeek | 2025-11-19 16:18:39+00:00
We need to redefine math as procedural logic (like imperative programming for humans).

That way, we can defend the study of mathematics as a form of discipline for the human mind that has benefits beyond the knowledge gained.

The meta-process for solving any mathematical problem is the same as any other form of project management.

Or maybe we should first try to teach kids the value of project management & then try to get them to apply those principles to math problems?
by Aurornis | 2025-11-19 16:18:47+00:00
> Not by taking away their advantages.(e.g. Admission tests)

Admissions tests are actually not as big of a driver for the academic advantage of the wealthy. Especially at flagship institutions a lot of it is simply traced back to legacy admissions, athletics, and extra-curricular activities. Those latter two are more gamed by the wealthy than anything.

Removing admission tests and focusing only on the application is actually a huge boon to wealthy families who want to get their children into the best universities because it removes the hard part (having to learn enough to do well in exams) and replaces it with things that are easy to game, like writing essays and getting a track record of doing extra-curriculars.

Standardized tests actually make it easier for lower income families to compete for spots for academically advanced children because they’re measuring academic advancement. Even if it’s not a perfect measure, it’s way better than substituting non-academic things that are so easily gamed by the wealthy.
Show HN: I built a 100ml shot with 25 g protein and 100 calories
by aakiverse | 2025-11-19 16:18:56+00:00
I pivoted from building AI apps to solving something more fundamental: protein intake.

Most people miss their target because protein is inconvenient. So I built a 25 g protein shot you can drink in 3 seconds. 100 ml, 100 calories, zero sugar, zero fat, zero carbs.

Would love feedback from the HN community.
by zer00eyz | 2025-11-19 16:19:07+00:00
I'm not sure I would want my daily driver to be a hypervisor... Whats controlling audio, do I really need audio kernel extensions on my hypervisor? Whos in charge when I shut the lid on my laptop...

But the moment you stop trying to do everything locally Proxmox, as it is today, is a dream.

It's easy enough to spin up a VM, throw a clients docker/podman + other insanity onto it and have a running dev instance in minutes. It's easy enough to work remotely in your favorite IDE/dev env. DO I need to "try something wild", clone it... build a new one... back it up and restore if it doesn't work...

Do I need to emulate production at a more fine grained level than what docker can provide: easy enough to build something that looks like production on my proxmox box.

And when I'm done with all that work... my daily driver laptop and desktop remain free of cruft and clutter.
by autoexec | 2025-11-19 16:19:07+00:00
For me it's the TextFX menu and the MIME Tools plug in. They offer very easy access to lots of handy features like changing case (upper, lower, proper, sentence, invert), remove/swap/replace quotes ('/"), removing trailing spaces, non-printable characters, and blank lines (or just extra blank lines), base64/URL/HTML/ROT13/UU encoding/decoding, all kinds of decimal/hex/binary/octal/text conversions, add/remove escapes, etc.

Having so much there in just a couple clicks is very nice!
by mmis1000 | 2025-11-19 16:19:22+00:00
PWA on android's side is at least usable.

You get notification. You can autoplay video/audio. You get whaterver video or element full screen with all necessary UI. You get rotation lock. You have a fullscreen to do what ever you want for any purpose. You probably can't touch hardware APIs(for example: bluetooth/nfc) like native app. But that isn't really needed for most apps either.

On the other side. Apple seems sabotage the PWA as much as possible. You can't autoplay video/audio. You can't even fullscreen anything other than video, and when fullscreen video, UI is ignored. Also there is no way to disable gesture so your app will misfire system gesture. And you can't lock the rotation either. There is no way to auto rotate the video player or whatever when maximized either.

It's really a golden example for pretend to do something while actually not. It seems you can do pretty much everything with ios pwa. And when you try to do it. You will figured out it will have a worse experience than native app because all sort of issues.
by yeldarb | 2025-11-19 16:19:27+00:00
We (Roboflow) have had early access to this model for the past few weeks. It's really, really good. This feels like a seminal moment for computer vision. I think there's a real possibility this launch goes down in history as "the GPT Moment" for vision.

The two areas I think this model is going to be transformative in the immediate term are for rapid prototyping and distillation.

Two years ago we released autodistill[1], an open source framework that uses large foundation models to create training data for training small realtime models. I'm convinced the idea was right, but too early; there wasn't a big model good enough to be worth distilling from back then. SAM3 is finally that model (and will be available in Autodistill today).

We are also taking a big bet on SAM3 and have built it into Roboflow as an integral part of the entire build and deploy pipeline[2], including a brand new product called Rapid[3], which reimagines the computer vision pipeline in a SAM3 world. It feels really magical to go from an unlabeled video to a fine-tuned realtime segmentation model with minimal human intervention in just a few minutes (and we rushed the release of our new SOTA realtime segmentation model[4] last week because it's the perfect lightweight complement to the large & powerful SAM3).

We also have a playground[5] up where you can play with the model and compare it to other VLMs.

[1] https://github.com/autodistill/autodistill

[2] https://blog.roboflow.com/sam3/

[3] https://rapid.roboflow.com

[4] https://github.com/roboflow/rf-detr

[5] https://playground.roboflow.com
by pksebben | 2025-11-19 16:19:30+00:00
There is this weird thing that happens with hyperscale - the combination of highly central decision-making, extreme interconnection / interdependence of parts, and the attractiveness of lots of money all conspire to create a system pulled by unstable attractors to a fracturing point (slowed / mitigated at least a little by the inertia of such a large ship).

Are smaller scale services more reliable? I think that's too simple a question to be relevant. Sometimes yes, sometimes no, but we know one thing for sure - when smaller services go down the impact radius is contained. When a corrupt MBA who wants to pump short term metrics for a bonus gains power, the damage they can do is similarly contained. All risk factors are boxed in like this. With a hyperscale business, things are capable of going much more wrong for many more people, and the recursive nature of vertical+horizontal integration causes a calamity engine that can be hard to correct.

Take the financial sector in 08. Huge monoliths that had integrated every kind of financial service with every other kind of financial service. Few points of failure, every failure mode exposed to every other failure mode.

There's a reason asymmetric warfare is hard for both parties - cellular networks of small units that can act independently are extremely fault tolerant and robust against changing conditions. Giants, when they fall, do so in spectacular fashion.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-19 16:19:44+00:00
If jumping the turnstile were legal, yeah. So far anyway, Reader Mode, and various ad-blockers are still legal.

I see your point generally though: accessing content that the publisher has attempted to force you to pay for. My general thought though is that it appears to be a failed (failing?) business model. I just don't know what the solution is. Perhaps if the ads avoided obscuring the content (like newspapers and magazines) I would probably just ignore them and not actively try to suppress them.
by the_biot | 2025-11-19 16:19:52+00:00
Even before the Perl 6 insanity dropped, there was a serious underlying problem in the Perl ecosystem: CPAN. There was this module (I don't remember its name, or author) that was pretty important: you'd end up using it if you were serious about Perl.

One day, around 2000 or so, the author/maintainer, a well-known guy in the Perl community, updated the package with an incompatible API. If you used that package, you had to update your code. There was no backward compatibility, nothing. To make things worse, the README stated that it would AGAIN change API in the future, but he didn't know yet what the change would be.

I considered this disastrous maintainer behavior, as I'm sure anyone reasonable would. It was clear I had to stop using this package, and anything else this guy could get his claws on. But there really wasn't a massive outcry that I could see, nobody calling him out for this crap.

That's when I knew I had to stop writing code in Perl. I tried Ruby but found it unstable at that time. Next project I used Python, and never looked back.
by pixelmelt | 2025-11-19 16:19:56+00:00
Once jailbroken it was somehow more toxic then the llm I trained on 4chan, though I was testing the one on openrouter. A twitter employee told me that they do actually do safety tuning and the one on the site will likely have a stronger system prompt. Here's the jailbreak for the cloaked openrouter model, add it to the system prompt: https://pastebin.com/r8S7DvvX
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-19 16:19:59+00:00
> What I really want to see is Meta getting irrelevant ON MERIT.

That happened a decade ago. Users dropped from Facebook like flies and moved to Instagram. Mark Zuckerberg's response was to buy Instagram. The Obama DOJ waved through what was obviously a blatantly illegal merger.

Likewise, Google's only ever made two successful products: Search and e-mail. Everything else was an acquisition. In fact, Google controlled so much of the M&A market that YCombinator (the company that runs this forum) complained in an amicus brief that they were basically being turned into Google's farm league.

So long as companies can be bought and sold to larger competitors, no tech company will ever become irrelevant. They'll just acquire and rebrand. The only way to stop this is with the appropriate application of legal force.
by wongarsu | 2025-11-19 16:20:22+00:00
> instead of being followed by two emojis, the message is followed by four closely-spaced rectangles. Neither the text of Delarosa’s in limine motion, nor anything said during the in limine hearing would have informed the trial court that the four rectangles represented two emojis

So I know nothing about this trial and have limited knowledge of the US legal system, but didn't one party just misrepresent evidence here? They would probably argue that it wasn't intentional and thus not perjury, but it still sounds pretty serious. The emojis are just as much part of the message as the latin characters
by npteljes | 2025-11-19 16:20:25+00:00
But in many cases, like Proxmox, there is nothing proprietary. What they provide is the glue, the polish, the interface that ties together the technologies they build on. If they began to be nasty, you can just leave (or even, continue to use it however long you like).

In general, I don't think this is a threat. I think the problems begin with proprietary offerings, like they so often do in the cloud. Then's the time when vendor lock-in takes its toll. But even with AWS, if you stick to open interfaces, it's easy to leave.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-19 16:20:41+00:00
The maths benchmarks that companies so proudly show off are still the realm of a traditional symbolic solvers. You claiming much success in asking LLMS for math makes me question if you have actually asked an LLM about maths.

What I really need to ask an LLM for is a pointer to a forum that doesn't cultivate proud exhibition of ignorance, Luddism, and general stupidity at the level exhibited by commenters in this entire HN story, and in this subthread in particular.

We already had one Reddit, we didn't need two.
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2025-11-19 16:20:42+00:00
I'm not saying it's 100% that way, but a large chunk works like that. Videoconference, chat, collaborative document editing are pretty much centralized in the hands of private companies, even if open source solutions do exist.

SMS also has crazy weird limitations with messaging across countries due to ISP pricing, even though the messaging apps such as whatsapp have no problem with this.
by commandar | 2025-11-19 16:20:59+00:00
>(Healthcare in the US is nearly entirely Windows based).

This wasn't my experience in over a decade in the industry.

It's Windows dominant, but our environment was typically around a 70/30 split of Windows/Linux servers.

Cerner shops in particular are going to have a larger Linux footprint. Radiology, biomed, interface engines, and med records also tended to have quite a bit of nix infrastructure.

One thing that can be said is that containerization has basically zero penetration with any vendors in the space. Pretty much everyone is still doing a pets over cattle model in the industry.
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-19 16:21:04+00:00
Like I said, difference in definitions. https://www.google.com/search?q=static+site+serving+with+apa...

I get your meaning; I've just heard "static site" used to refer to a site where the content isn't dynamically computed at runtime, not a site where the server is doing a near-direct-mapping from the filesystem to the HTTP output.

> Just upload a zip file, and you are done.

This is actually how I serve my static sites via Dreamhost. The zipfile includes the content negotiation rules in the `.htaccess` file.

(Perhaps worth remembering: even the rule "the HTTP responses are generated by looking up a file matching the path in the URL and echoing that file as the body of the GET response" is still a per-server rule; there's no aspect of the HTTP spec that declares "The filesystem is directly mirrored to web access" is a thing. It's rather a protocol used by many simple web servers, and most of them allow overrides to do something slightly more complicated while being one step away from "this is just the identity function on whatever is in your filesystem, well, not technically the identity function because unless someone did something very naughty, I don't serve anything for http://example.com/../uhoh-now-i-am-in-your-user-directory").
by cjbarber | 2025-11-19 16:21:07+00:00
I think this is a great endeavor. I was thinking about a channel that I like watching on YouTube. They travel to exotic places by boat and film themselves, nature documentary style. To make good videos requires going to these places, a ton of filming, AND a ton of editing. They put out a video every 2 weeks or so on their trips. I imagine the editing is the hard part.

This is a long winded way of saying that I think creators need what you're making! People who have hours of awesome footage but have to spend dozens of hours cutting it down need this. Then also people who have awesome footage but aren't good at editing or hiring an editor, same thing. I'd love to see someone solve this so that 90th percentile editing is available to all, and then it can be more about who has the interesting content, rather than who has the interesting content and editing skills.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-19 16:21:15+00:00
Over the last many years, newspapers have slashed actual journalists in a number of areas: investigative reporting, arts, local news. A lot of those actual journalists have moved to Substack in order to maintain some kind of career writing about the subject they love.

For me, the tragedy of Substack isn’t that it consists of purely unserious people. It’s that fine journalists go there because, with the death of open-web blogging, there’s a feeling that there is no where else to go. And then, once there, they start to pick up all kinds of bad behaviors that both Substack the for-profit corporate owner and its culture of writers and commenters encourage.
by schmuhblaster | 2025-11-19 16:21:33+00:00
My own attempt at "chain-of-code with a Prolog DSL": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937480. Similarly to CodeAct the idea there is to turn natural language task descriptions into small programs. Some program steps are directly executed, some are handed over to an LLM. I haven't run any benchmarks yet, but there should be some classes of tasks where such an approach is more reliable than a "traditional" LLM/tool-calling loop.

Prolog seemed like a natural choice for this (at least to me :-), since it's a relatively simple language that makes it easy to build meta-interpreters and allows for a fairly concise task/workflow representations.
by mock-possum | 2025-11-19 16:21:47+00:00
My issue with codex is needing to run it in wsl in windows, due to it spamming confirmation requests for running even the safest of commands (eg list directory contents, read file, git status) which in turn adds an extra layer of complexity hooking it up via MCP to anything running in windows outside of wsl (like say figma)

In Claude on the other hand, MCP connections really do seem to ‘just work’
by phplovesong | 2025-11-19 16:21:55+00:00
The issue with TS is that its way too easy to fallback to unsafe code. Also the TS typesystem is WAY, WAY too complex. They pile new hard to grasp niche features that has made it really hard to grasp.

The TS sweetspot was (imho) somewhere around 1.8-2.0 era. These days you can run doom in the typesystem.

I cant say about hiring, as i dont hire a dev that knows language X, i hire engineers that know the ins and outs of how software should be written, and know when to pick Go, when to pick ocaml and when to go with C/Rust.

Also i would never use 99.9% of npm packages (js or ts) so i dont really care that much.

As an example writing typeheads for reasonml is not really that hard, as a benefit you know exactly what parts you use.

Also i dont use AI, and we dont accept any PR that are videcoded.