MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by craftkiller | 2025-11-18 16:25:16+00:00
I don't get it. It's a completely blank web page. Did they not test in firefox?

Ah Google misconfigured their web server:

> Loading module from “https://antigravity.google/main-74LQFSAF.js” was blocked because of a disallowed MIME type (“text/html”).

Edit: And a couple minutes later, it is now working. Guess Google is reading HN.
by amatecha | 2025-11-18 16:25:18+00:00
Many users not being able to access it simply because of their choice of OS or browser. I regularly can't access websites on my OpenBSD machines running Firefox with "strict" privacy settings, or "resist fingerprinting" enabled. CloudFlare has decided my browser is suspicious :) I can switch to another machine (or even just another browser with more permissive settings) and it lets me through.
by grayhatter | 2025-11-18 16:25:32+00:00
Sounds reasonable if the car insurance could magically and near instantly fix your car, undo all the property damage and no one could get injured.

Insurance for physical things is different for services, they don't map as an analogy. A better one would be, Because you buy a new car every hour, it's like buying insurance for every car after someone steals your 700th car. That prevents your car from getting stolen.
by duxup | 2025-11-18 16:25:35+00:00
And if my blog with a few hundred visitors goes down because of a Clourdflare outage ... so what?

People act as if outages are some solvable problem and each outage should never have happened and we need to act (cloud no cloud, firewall rules, and so on) each time.

Rather I think history has shown this stuff happens and if the impact is terrible ... fine.
by jacobtomlinson | 2025-11-18 16:25:40+00:00
Author of the post here. For Python package management I use a mixture of pixi, uv and conda depending on the task I'm doing. I wrote up a long form post about the history of these tools, why each one exists, and why I settled on these choices in my workflow. I hope this is interesting to folks who want to learn more about why Python package tooling is so fragmented!
by marknutter | 2025-11-18 16:25:40+00:00
I've been slogging through Blood Meridian for the past couple of months, only taking little sips of content here and there, but it finally clicked for me last night and I'm fully engaged with it. And man was it worth the effort. The way he paints scenes with just the right amount of words is pretty amazing. I'd love to see this book adapted onto film.
by bostik | 2025-11-18 16:25:52+00:00
While I agree with parts of the above, there are bits that I disagree with. It's true that you cannot control the network conditions for third parties, and therefore can never be in a position where you would guarantee an SLA for round-trip experience. But I object the notion that tracking end-to-end latency is useless. After all, the three Nielsen usability thresholds are all about latency(!)

Funnily enough, looking through your itemisation I spot two groups that would each benefit from their own kinds of latency monitoring. End location and internet connectivity of the client go into the first. Third-party providers go into the second.

For the first, you'd need to have your own probes reporting from the most actively used networks and locations around the world - that would give you a view into the round-trip latency per major network path. For the second, you'd want to track the time spent between the steps that you control - which in turn would give you a good view into the latency-inducing behaviour of the different third-party providers. Neither are SLA material but they certainly would be useful during enterprise contract negotiations. (Shooting impossible demands down by showing hard data tends to fend off even the most obstinate objections.)

User-agent and bespoke integrations/workflows are entirely out of your hands, and I agree it's useless to try to measure latency for them specifically.

Disclaimer: I have worked with systems where the internal authX roundtrip has to complete within 1ms, and the corresponding client-facing side has to complete its response within 3ms.
by ivraatiems | 2025-11-18 16:25:59+00:00
False.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/about/initiatives/ci... https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8... https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/297/ https://www.accessiblelaw.untdallas.edu/post/undocumented-im...
by erickhill | 2025-11-18 16:26:01+00:00
I had the honor and pleasure of meeting her in 2018 at PRGE (Portland Retro Gaming Expo). She was sitting at a signing table after being on a panel. When it got to be my turn, I asked her if I could get a photo instead of a signature. She quickly said yes and I bent down to get into the frame. She was extremely kind and always cracking jokes. What I didn't know until I got my phone back and later looked closely was that she'd given me rabbit ears in the picture.

RIP, Becky.
by KK7NIL | 2025-11-18 16:26:04+00:00
That is a total lie, the 14th amendment is absolutely clear and it was passed after the Civil War with the explicit point of granting citizenship to black slaves who, you'll notice, did not have citizen parents:

> Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
by cubefox | 2025-11-18 16:26:14+00:00
Yeah. When I ride my bike in the sticks and pass walkers in the dark, I try to disable my headlight a few seconds before I pass them. Otherwise all they see is a bright light approaching. Disabling the lights for a moment seems better than one party not seeing anything. (Or both parties, e.g. two bikes, or runners with forehead LED light.)

After all, even in the countryside the darkness usually is far from complete. You still see quite a few meters without any headlights. Though the tradeoff would be different for cars with their much higher speed.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-11-18 16:26:29+00:00
The "one xbox one x box" meme is well over a decade old at this point lol. Definitely a "hold my beer" moment from MS after nintendo's uncharacteristic marketing misstep of wii -> wiiu.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fh...
by daft_pink | 2025-11-18 16:26:33+00:00
There is no doubt that the country caps and quotas for immigrants from countries with large populations like India, Mexico, Philippenes and China are a huge problem.

I’m not sure that anyone can really agree on a solution, but there should be some stop loss where these things can’t be delayed beyond a certain fixed length of time and/or they shouldn’t issue the initial visas if the backlog to adjust is so long.

The reason that this and most immigration law hasn’t been fixed is that while most people agree that this is a problem, there is not really a compromise solution that everyone can really agree on.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-18 16:27:12+00:00
I have adaptive lights on my Ford Lightning (and Model 3, more recently), and I do like it, but it is not without compromises.

It relies on the camera recognizing what should be excluded from the light pattern, for one. Easy for oncoming cars as well as ones in front of you. Less easy for vehicles that are perpendicular to you (like just showing their nose and driver, waiting to turn onto the road you are already on). And then there are pedestrians.

They do try to mitigate that by turning off the adaptive high beam whenever the car detects that you are in a well lit area with lots of ambient lighting sources (i.e. the city), but it's not foolproof. And since you just leave it on all the time, you end up using the "high beam" light far more often than you'd probably choose to when controlling it manually.
by svantana | 2025-11-18 16:27:28+00:00
SWEBench-Verified is probably benchmaxxed at this stage. Claude isn't even the top performer, that honor goes to Doubao [1].

Also, the confidence interval for a such a small dataset is about 3 percent points, so these differences could just be up to chance.

[1] https://www.swebench.com/
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-18 16:27:33+00:00
It still failed my image identification test ([a photoshopped picture of a dog with 5 legs]...please count the legs) that so far every other model has failed agonizingly, even failing when I tell them they are failing, and they tend to fight back at me.

Gemini 3 however, while still failing, at least recognized the 5th leg, but thought the dog was...well endowed. The 5th leg however is clearly a leg, despite being where you would expect the dogs member to be. I'll give it half credit for at least recognizing that there was something there.

Still though, there is a lot of work that needs to be done on getting these models to properly "see" images.
by ivraatiems | 2025-11-18 16:27:37+00:00
"Just do it the right way."

"Coming here illegally is a crime so everyone who does it is a criminal."

The legal moralism people apply to immigration is absurd, especially in the United States. We have purposefully made it impossible to do the right thing, so we can rejoice in punishing those who do it "wrong". It's shameful, in my opinion.
by acedTrex | 2025-11-18 16:27:38+00:00
It's really quite funny, many of the ACTUALLY vital systems to running the world as we know it are running off of very different softwares. Cloudflare appears to have a much higher % of non vital systems running on it than say something like akamai.

If akamai went down i have a feeling you'd see a whole lot more real life chaos.
by ben_w | 2025-11-18 16:27:38+00:00
Are you sure?

Everything I've seen suggests that the thermal mass of the Yellowstone magma reservoir is order-of 10km each way (so 1000km^3 total), density order-of 3 kg/litre, and heat capacity order-of 1500 J/kg K, so lowering the temperature of that reservoir by 100 K would still yield about the entire world's energy consumption in 2017: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1000km%5E3+*+3kg%2Fl+*+...

Even though this would combine both left-coded and right-coded aspects of the USA's politics (right: the USA's love of energy intensity; left: in this scenario it helps the environment not be made of fire), I find it dubious that the US would (or could) construct enough power plants to reach that scale.

(China might even want to help, but at this point I find myself too cynical of both China and the USA for that to happen even in an emergency).
by gabrielgio | 2025-11-18 16:27:53+00:00
> Why use GrapheneOS if you are going to install Google Services anyway? ... > May as well just install the stock os ... > I think graphene os makes more sense if you go all in. Otherwise there is no much point really.

No, Grapheneos is quite more secure than stock os when comes to handling google play service if you need to use it.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113459782313987260

> At the end of the day, once Google stops shipping sec updates for your phone, firmware updates stop so that's it really.

That is true. Graphene does not hide that. If you want to live without any influence of google use iOS/MacOS or Windows.
by icyfox | 2025-11-18 16:28:16+00:00
Pretty happy the under 200k token pricing is staying in the same ballpark as Gemini 2.5 Pro:

Input: $1.25 -> $2.00 (1M tokens)

Output: $10.00 -> $12.00

Squeezes a bit more margin out of app layer companies, certainly, but there's a good chance that for tasks that really require a sota model it can be more than justified.
by q3k | 2025-11-18 16:28:53+00:00
This is incorrect. Any decent host/ISP will instead (automatically, sometimes) emit a blackhole request for the given target IP address to their upstreams, causing the traffic to be filtered there (at the 'larger pipe'). In turn, these upstreams can also pass on the same blackhole request further up if necessary. This means the target is down from the point of view of the Internet, but there is no collateral damage.

See: BGP Blackhole Community (usually 65535:666).
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-18 16:28:56+00:00
Agreed, good list for HN. Especially Calvino, Cormac, and PKD tend to be popular with math nerds. Also if PKD qualifies as difficult enough, maybe Borges can fit here too.

Not fiction or difficult, but I suggest Calvino's "Six Memos for the Next Millennium". It's novella-length lecture series for writers/readers, but I'd say it's really a critical/creative framework that's as relevant for math as it is for myth, or novels, or code.
by jcranmer | 2025-11-18 16:28:57+00:00
When my taillight burned out, I went to the local autoparts store to get a replacement. The first light I picked up had printed on the packaging, in not-terribly-visible writing, "For Off-Road Use Only." I had to go back and hunt longer for the light that was legal for road use.

There's probably a decent contingent of people replacing their lights with out-of-spec lights not realizing that the lights are not actually road-legal.
by rvz | 2025-11-18 16:29:05+00:00
I expect almost no-one to read the Gemini 3 model card. But here is a damning excerpt from the early leaked model card from [0]:

> The training dataset also includes: publicly available datasets that are readily downloadable; data obtained by crawlers; licensed data obtained via commercial licensing agreements; user data (i.e., data collected from users of Google products and services to train AI models, along with user interactions with the model) in accordance with Google’s relevant terms of service, privacy policy, service-specific policies, and pursuant to user controls, where appropriate; other datasets that Google acquires or generates in the course of its business operations, or directly from its workforce; and AI-generated synthetic data.

So your Gmails are being read by Gemini and is being put on the training set for future models. Oh dear and Google is being sued over using Gemini for analyzing user's data which potentially includes Gmails by default.

Where is the outrage?

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20251118111103/https://storage.g...

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/google-sued-over-gemini-...
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-18 16:29:26+00:00
Adapting to the darkness is not a binary thing. You are supposed to see beside the road by light reflected from your beams. Otherwise you would only see animals when they come into your beam, which is generally too late, you want to see them when they are to your side.

When the lights are essentially so bright that I need sunglasses at night, so my eyes don't hurt, the additional brightness definitely makes me see less, not more.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-18 16:29:49+00:00
> So long as you're a citizen. If you are not a citizen, the rights afforded by the constitution don't apply to you.

Wrong. The Constitution is very clear on which rights are limitations on the government no matter which people it is dealing with and which are particular to citizens, and there are very few of the latter. Exactly one, in fact: the right to vote, though its mentioned several times in terms of which things are prohibited as excuses for denying it.
by d3ckard | 2025-11-18 16:29:56+00:00
Generally, there are no systems that are 100% bulletproof. This applies to everything. So, the more power you have, the more likely you are to exploit the existing loops.

Who is actually affected? Those less powerful. Progressive tax system hits the middle class (actual middle class, la petite bourgeoisie, not the modern bullshit redefinition of the term) hardest, making it harder for them to make it rich and compete with actual rich people.

As the effect, rich protect inheritance by trusts and avoid taxes by not having income (plenty of tricks available with borrowing), while people like doctors, lawyers, small business owners fund the state and hit hard limits on what can they make.

Don't believe me? Check how much of the tax income comes from top brackets. You may be surprised. Pro tip: system is very skewed to the top.
by Someone1234 | 2025-11-18 16:30:12+00:00
> The wording of the constitution indicates that this is only true if your parents were citizens.

The Constitution doesn't define it at all, first off. The Fourteenth Amendment does. All the original Constitution says is that a "natural-born Citizen" is a requirement for President; and that per Article I, Section 8 congress has the power to define the mechanics of citizenship.

The Fourteenth by contrast says plain text:

> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

So your claim is incorrect.
by altairprime | 2025-11-18 16:30:26+00:00
I have fully calibrated to manufacturer, and adjusted to state law angles, headlamps and they are 2019 LED and blinding to other drivers unless I point them slightly down. They are pointed down to the legal limit (I have a low car) and distance visibility at speed is problematic.

Their design flaws are many, but top among them is that their low beams are simply too collimated and too bright for safe use.

I wish I could (illegally) attenuate them in order to make them safer for other drivers. Is there a coating that I can apply to the sealed external lexan housing that will 1) diffuse and/or 2) uniformly dim their light output?
by Spoom | 2025-11-18 16:30:35+00:00
Executive orders cannot overrule the Constitution.

14th Amendment:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

There are rumblings about "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" somehow excluding folks based on their immigration status, but frankly, the meaning is clear, and jurisprudence recognizes this. The jurisdiction carveout is for international diplomats, i.e. people who are literally not subject to US law. Immigrants, even illegal immigrants, are subject to US law. Stating otherwise would have vast repercussions.
by nateb2022 | 2025-11-18 16:30:36+00:00
I went ahead and downloaded it, it looks to be a VSCode fork very similar to Cursor, with support for the following models:

- Gemini 3 Pro (High) - Gemini 3 Pro (Low) - Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking) - GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)
by toast0 | 2025-11-18 16:31:01+00:00
Well, the constitution didn't make any statements about who was a citizen, just the 14th ammendment has this:

> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

Of course, being part of the Constitution, few of the terms are defined. But, as I read it, if you're born here outside of diplomatic immunity, you're a citizen. And I'd need a well referenced argument to understand why 'subject to the jurisdiction therof' means something other than how I interpret it.
by ivraatiems | 2025-11-18 16:31:20+00:00
You can just reply to me directly, you know :)

"No True Scotsman" is not accurate here. This would actually be an appeal to authority.

But the fact that it is one doesn't mean it has no merit. My implication is that the person I am responding to is ignorant of the state of the law, not that they must be wrong because others say they are.
by iLemming | 2025-11-18 16:31:30+00:00
yeah, immutability.js is a solid engineering effort to retrofit immutability onto a mutable-first language. It works, but: it's never as ergonomic as language-native immutability and it just feels like you're swimming upstream against JS defaults. It's nowhere near Clojure's elegance. Clojure ecosystem assumes immutability everywhere and has more mature patterns built around it.

In Clojure, it just feels natural. In js - it feels like extra work. But for sure, if I'm not allowed to write in Clojurescript, immutability.js is a good compromise.
by amatecha | 2025-11-18 16:31:39+00:00
All the people posting all their reasons why they use Cloudflare ("it's free!"/"it's easy!"/"my site won't go down!") makes me realize this apparent arms race is going to effectively result in the total centralization of all web content. Cool. Seems like a great idea to rely on a singular US service rather than diversify the risk across hundreds/thousands of services around the world. What could possibly go wrong?
Show HN: Optimizing LiteLLM with Rust – When Expectations Meet Reality
by ticktockten | 2025-11-18 16:32:16+00:00
I've been working on Fast LiteLLM - a Rust acceleration layer for the popular LiteLLM library - and I had some interesting learnings that might resonate with other developers trying to squeeze performance out of existing systems.

My assumption was that LiteLLM, being a Python library, would have plenty of low-hanging fruit for optimization. I set out to create a Rust layer using PyO3 to accelerate the performance-critical parts: token counting, routing, rate limiting, and connection pooling.

The Approach

- Built Rust implementations for token counting using tiktoken-rs

- Added lock-free data structures with DashMap for concurrent operations

- Implemented async-friendly rate limiting

- Created monkeypatch shims to replace Python functions transparently

- Added comprehensive feature flags for safe, gradual rollouts

- Developed performance monitoring to track improvements in real-time

After building out all the Rust acceleration, I ran my comprehensive benchmark comparing baseline LiteLLM vs. the shimmed version:

Function Baseline Time Shimmed Time Speedup Improvement Status

token_counter 0.000035s 0.000036s 0.99x -0.6%

count_tokens_batch 0.000001s 0.000001s 1.10x +9.1%

router 0.001309s 0.001299s 1.01x +0.7%

rate_limiter 0.000000s 0.000000s 1.85x +45.9%

connection_pool 0.000000s 0.000000s 1.63x +38.7%

Turns out LiteLLM is already quite well-optimized! The core token counting was essentially unchanged (0.6% slower, likely within measurement noise), and the most significant gains came from the more complex operations like rate limiting and connection pooling where Rust's concurrent primitives made a real difference.

Key Takeaways

1. Don't assume existing libraries are under-optimized - The maintainers likely know their domain well 2. Focus on algorithmic improvements over reimplementation - Sometimes a better approach beats a faster language 3. Micro-benchmarks can be misleading - Real-world performance impact varies significantly 4. The most gains often come from the complex parts, not the simple operations 5. Even "modest" improvements can matter at scale - 45% improvements in rate limiting are meaningful for high-throughput applications

While the core token counting saw minimal improvement, the rate limiting and connection pooling gains still provide value for high-volume use cases. The infrastructure I built (feature flags, performance monitoring, safe fallbacks) creates a solid foundation for future optimizations.

The project continues as Fast LiteLLM on GitHub for anyone interested in the Rust-Python integration patterns, even if the performance gains were humbling.

Edit: To clarify - the negative performance for token_counter is likely in the noise range of measurement, suggesting that LiteLLM's token counting is already well-optimized. The 45%+ gains in rate limiting and connection pooling still provide value for high-throughput applications.
by 30minAdayHN | 2025-11-18 16:32:27+00:00
I wish someone does something similar in India. Night time driving is a nightmare. Everyone runs on high-beam. The new class of motor-cycles are with super bright LEDs and riders put them on high beam. Night-time driving is a guessing game - you need to guess where the edge of the road is, if there is a bicyclist in between, etc.

At least in late 90s, there used to be a law to black out half the headlamp. Either that was no longer the case or it's not as vigorously enforced.

This is the classic case of tragedy of commons!
by prodigycorp | 2025-11-18 16:32:46+00:00
I didn't tell you what you should think about the model. All I said is that you should have your own benchmark.

I think my benchmark is well designed. It's well designed because it's a generalization of a problem I've consistently had with LLMs on my code. Insofar that it encapsulates my coding preferences and communication style, that's the proper benchmark for me.