MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by araes | 2025-11-23 02:36:42+00:00
A relatively small variation for a client-side LLM would be something like: "suggest variations on this search that might produce better results"

Had this issue the other day that I wanted to try to find a remembered example of using Ground Penetrating Radar to find hidden roads in Northern Spain and Southern France, yet for everything tried I could not get Google to actually return results that would ever focus on what it was I actually wanted.

There was some GPR results, there was some about hidden structures, yet finding the actual scholarly articles discussing hidden roadways and searching under farm fields for features that reveal or point to their existence simply never returned positive. Rephrasing, changing the sentence, trying to prioritize search terms never really changed much.

Doing stuff too like, "image search, pixel tree, except filter out all the pay for an image stock photo websites." Really difficult to find anything these days cause there's so much chaff of stock image websites.
by J_Shelby_J | 2025-11-23 02:37:28+00:00
And Dyson has legal liability if they catch fire and a name brand to uphold if they don’t meet advertised runtimes. Amazon does not.

If you want a new battery for your Dyson, buy a tool battery adapter from Amazon and buy the tool battery from your local hardware store. Same price or less and you get insane run time + a new tool battery.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-23 02:38:02+00:00
> The baseload talking point has never made sense

Um, yes it has. When you use solar or wind for baseload, it must be backed up by a spinning reserve. When you calculate the combined CO2 output of both the renewables and the spinning reserve, you learn it is more than just using gas by itself (and often it is more than just using oil or coal). There has never been a renewable power source used for baseload that has reduced CO2 emissions per watt. The math and laws of physics basically prevents it from happening. You want that to change, learn how to purify poly-silica more efficiently. And nobody (and I mean nobody) is even working on that. You don't pay for power, you pay for power you control with a switch. Power you don't control is called an explosion.
by YZF | 2025-11-23 02:38:03+00:00
I drink 2-3 cups of coffee a day. Mostly espresso drinks.

There are/were times where I travel or go camping and stopped taking coffee. Other than maybe a very mild headache the first day there weren't any issues.

I enjoy the taste, the rituals, and the temporary boost. But I know I'm addicted ;) There are lots of articles about how it's a good thing but I'm pretty sure it has some impact (not always positive) on my mood.
by mmooss | 2025-11-23 02:38:05+00:00
> Basically, it makes Firefox expose the same information as the Tor browser.

Is it based on the Tor browser?

Some solutions, like Tor browser or GrapheneOS, are engineered for the purpose.

Some free online tools are an aggregation of ideas from social media and someone's personal understanding. These solutions can have limited benefits or be worse than the problem. Many settings don't work as expected, there are unintended consequences (such as making the browser more unique and easier to fingerprint), unusual combinations of settings can have unintended consequences or break things (Mozilla can't test every combination of about:config settings).
by matheusmoreira | 2025-11-23 02:38:19+00:00
"Certain groups" are ruining the court's impartiality by pointing out the fact it has been investigating, prosecuting, judging and executing made up crimes against themselves since at least 2019?

Judge straight up comes out to the public and brags about how they all personally defeated Bolsonaro? Same guy who's implicated in the USAID nonsense? And you make it out to be a conspiracy theory?

I'm tired, man.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382

The "shielding" law is absolute nonsense yet I can't even fault them for trying. What else are you supposed to do when you have a supreme court that has essentially usurped all power?
Show HN: Elasticsale.com, an open-source SaaS for retail cashback campaigns
by dcvr | 2025-11-23 02:40:33+00:00
I would like to share ElasticSale (ES), an open-source project designed to support loyalty programs for small retail businesses.

ES uses “next order cashback coupons” campaigns to drive new unspected sales. It includes a simple web app where store owners can create and configure campaigns, register new sales, and issue/manage coupons. Coupons are delivered via SMS using AWS SNS.

The ElasticSale is built with Python/Django and ready to deployed on Platform.sh (there is a YAML file).

The project is open-sourced under the MIT License. Feel free to test, use, and modify it!
Show HN: Use AI to Clean Data at Scale
by jerrong | 2025-11-23 02:40:45+00:00
Hi Everyone,

We just released our public SAAS version of CluedIn. It allows anyone to use AI Agents to clean data at scale. Our agents can find duplicates, fix data quality issues, build data validation rules, enrich data, classify data and more.

First 15,000 records are completely free and AI credits are included. You can watch some training videos if needed: https://documentation.cluedin.net/training

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by hunterpayne | 2025-11-23 02:43:40+00:00
FF extraction is very profitable and has been for a long time. Those that make money from extraction spend a lot on lobbying. They don't want nuclear power because its the only thing that can really replace FFs. The public opinion angle is just useful idiots being manipulated by people who make money from FF extraction. That makes it far easier to get the politicians to do what they want (kill nuclear).
by faidit | 2025-11-23 02:44:20+00:00
Congrats on quitting, even for something considered "mild" like caffeine it's not easy. I had the same issue with headaches so I scaled down by mixing increasing ratios of decaf in my coffee grounds over a couple months, starting with just 25% decaf. The gradual reduction in potency was barely noticeable. Once you get to 75% decaf you're basically drinking full decaf already (decaf usually still has like 10% of the normal caffeine content) and I had no ill effects from quitting completely after that. If you subsequently decide to relapse with decaf or half-caf it's also much easier to quit again.
by indemnity | 2025-11-23 02:44:59+00:00
I’ve gone off coffee for months at a time as a test, but to be honest it’s about the same for me on vs off after the adjustment period.

When I go off, after the headaches, I get good sleep without trying, but so do I on coffee if I have my last one no later than 1pm (where good == 7 hours).

And a proper flat white is so, so good. Therefore I accept my addiction and have two a day!
by intelec1 | 2025-11-23 02:45:20+00:00
We break down Time Magazine’s explosive special issue on artificial intelligence and reveal how a new architecture of power is emerging behind the glossy covers. The real AI race isn’t about startups or the hype around AGI — it’s about who controls the chips, the clouds, and the hyperscale data centers of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. We explain how the “vassalage model” is turning Anthropic and other players into dependent tenants of the future intelligence infrastructure — and what this means for Europe, China, Taiwan, and the entire world.

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by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-23 02:45:50+00:00
In California, rape of an unconscious person is not considered a violent felony for the purposes of 'strikes' as well as early release from prison. A rapist may serve as little as 50% of their sentence due to this fact.

It was only this year (2025) that rape of an unconscious person who was made unconscious by the assailant (a date rape drug provision like Germany's) became a violent felony. Germany is not alone in these types of reclassifications.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-23 02:46:38+00:00
Nope, you can't make synthetic fuel at anywhere near a competitive price from electricity. To make a synthetic fuel, the major energy input is heat (yes I know, you use electrolysis to crack the water, its a minor part of the energy required). The only way to make a cheap synthetic fuel is from a nuclear reactor that produces heat in the 900C range (could be 700C or 1100C, but near there). You can't do that with solid fuel reactors, you need a liquid fueled reactor for that. And you need Thorium for a liquid fueled reactor. That's why this design is so popular.
by zik | 2025-11-23 02:47:14+00:00
As a fan of Algol 68, I'm pretty excited for this.

For people who aren't familiar with the language, pretty much all modern languages are descended from Algol 60 or Algol 68. C descends from Algol 60, so pretty much every popular modern language derives from Algol in some way [1].

[1] https://ballingt.com/assets/prog_lang_poster.png
by pranavc28 | 2025-11-23 02:47:27+00:00
*Tinker Fine-Tuning Experience - Key Takeaways:*

- *Flexible API*: Python-based API enabled custom GRPO implementation with full control over reward functions and training loops without framework constraints

- *Managed Infrastructure*: Abstracted distributed GPU training complexity—no need to handle NCCL configs, gradient synchronization, or multi-node debugging

- *LoRA Support*: Made fine-tuning 30B parameter Qwen model feasible by reducing trainable parameters significantly; converged in 5 epochs on 600 examples

- *Async Optimization Critical*: Initial synchronous pipeline created bottlenecks; refactoring to async sampling dramatically improved efficiency. Documentation could clarify when to use synchronous vs asynchronous sampling

- *Monitoring Gap*: No built-in dashboards required custom logging for reward distributions, advantage metrics, and policy divergence—essential for debugging RL training

- *Private Beta Access*: Required coordination with Thinking Machines team for onboarding; important consideration for project timelines

- *Future Need*: Automated reward function hyperparameter tuning (vs manual weight specification) would significantly reduce engineering burden

- *Bottom Line*: Without native features like reward optimization, unclear advantage over competitors like Modal or Unsloth. Free credits made it worth trying.
by bodhi_mind | 2025-11-23 02:47:49+00:00
A lot of Israelis who reference “God’s chosen people” aren’t claiming superiority in the way it’s often interpreted abroad. In Jewish tradition, “chosen” historically means chosen for responsibility, not privilege. The phrase “light unto the nations” captures this: it’s about modeling ethical behavior, justice, and compassion, not dominating or controlling others.

Understanding this helps separate the original ethical meaning of “chosen” from the way it’s sometimes misinterpreted in political discourse: it’s meant to be a call to moral responsibility, not a claim of inherent superiority.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-23 02:47:58+00:00
Why does it matter? We can’t go back and retroactively punish MTV for its behavior decades ago. Not to mention we likely have a much better understand of the impact of media on mental health now than we did then.

The best time to start doing the right thing is now. Unless the argument here is “since people got away with it before it’s not fair to punish people now.”
by nativeit | 2025-11-23 02:49:16+00:00
I’ve dealt with this at least twice on behalf of clients. In both cases, another provider entering the market was the only thing that made a difference. By that point, they’d already burned all the good will they had in the area, so maybe they would have fixed things with competition, but I wouldn’t know, my clients got on the waitlist to jump ship the absolute nanosecond they hear about it.
by mmooss | 2025-11-23 02:50:26+00:00
Thanks for all the detail from someone who was there.

> completely missing the distinction between the dotcoms which were losing money on every sale with no way to close the gap and Amazon, which was expanding rapidly but was profitable in each business segment within a couple years (e.g. books were cash-positive circa 1995) and could go from reporting losses to profits any time they wanted simply by slowing their expansion plans.

Great insight. And of course Amazon would raise any funds possible to expand into this new frontier.

> Win95 was the first version of Windows to ship with built-in TCP/IP and a web browser, not to mention being a lot closer to the competition on usability.

Per Wikipedia:

"Windows 95 originally shipped without Internet Explorer, and the default network installation did not include TCP/IP .... At the release date of Windows 95, Internet Explorer 1.0 was available,[48] but only in the Plus! add-on pack for Windows 95, which was a separate product. ...

Windows 95 OEM Service Release 1 was the first release of Windows to include Internet Explorer (version 2.0) with the OS."

My point is not to nitpick, but that the Internet's value wasn't obvious to Microsoft at that point.
by dartharva | 2025-11-23 02:50:41+00:00
I have one! Because of my anti-tracking measures, all social media platforms still don't seem to have a profile on me for content preferences, and so fail to show me the hyper-curated slop they do to everyone else. What I see instead is a classic feed of the best content generally trending across the world, pre-2010 style. That's one way it has impacted my life.

Another way is the security and peace of mind it gives me while living in a country that has a behemoth population of bad actors online. Everyone I know has fallen to at least one targeted cyber-scam or the other. I haven't.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-11-23 02:51:38+00:00
> The olfactory system potentially allows writing up to 400, if not 800 due to two nostrils, dimensions into the brain. That is comparable to the dimensionality of latent spaces of LLMs, which implies you could reasonably encode the meaning of a paragraph into a 400-dimensional vector. If you had a device which allows for this kind of writing, you could learn to associate the input patterns with their corresponding meanings. After that, you could directly smell the latent space. A bit of ultrasound, a breath in - and you understood a paragraph.

Translation: We’re very concerned that the only projects getting funding right now have to use AI.
by hedora | 2025-11-23 02:53:49+00:00
It’s not about ff being slow. That was never a reason to switch (unless it was misconfigured and couldn’t use your video card or something, but that happened just as often with chrome back then).

Google actively breaks firefox compatibility at random. It seems intentional from the outside, but it could be incompetence.

For instance, copy paste didn’t work in google docs under firefox the last time I checked.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-11-23 02:54:41+00:00
> The judiciary does not write the laws, only applies them.

The Magnitsky sanctioned judge is known to have made "suggestions" to our elected representatives regarding the "fake news" censorship laws that were proposed years ago. Our lawmakers rejected that law, and the courts abused their power to ram the regulations down our throats anyway via their own "resolutions".

Brazilian judiciary is ripe with "activist" judges. Every single act of "judicial activism" is a coup against the brazilian population. Not a single brazilian voted for these judges.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-23 02:54:43+00:00
That's capacity, not generation. Getting through the accounting tricks that make renewables seem viable is a challenge. 1 watt of nuclear capacity is worth 1.5 watts of FF and 9 watts of renewables. That's because the amount of power from each type of plant is very different due to downtimes of generation. Nuclear runs all the time and refuels for a couple of days every 18 months (depending on the reactor). FF plants run most of the time by require 10x more maintenance downtime. Renewables only make power about 10% of the time. That's how they skew the numbers to make renewables seem viable when they produce a shockingly low amount of actual power. Oh, and if you use renewables for baseload you have to keep a spinning reserve which means they actually increase (not decrease) the amount of CO2 emitted per watt generated.
by altairprime | 2025-11-23 02:54:56+00:00
If OP is reading this, try downgrading to a Docsis 3.0 modem. Docsis 3.1 in Comcast’s deployed infrastructure has severe repeating outage issues when there’s a cracked line somewhere allowing RF leakage into it, that cause a partial 3.1 reset but have no effect on 3.0.
by J_Shelby_J | 2025-11-23 02:54:59+00:00
Larger capacity is usually slower though. The fastest ram is typically 16 or 32 capacity.

The OP is talking about a specific niche of boosting single thread performance. It’s common with gaming pcs since most games are single thread bottlenecked. 5% difference may seem small, but people are spending hundreds or thousands for less gains… so buying the fastest ram can make sense there.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-23 02:56:02+00:00
You're seriously saying that the majority of Europeans don't understand that social services come from the taxes they pay?

That honestly sounds as plausible to me as saying the majority of Europeans thinkg 2+2=5.

Forgive me if I have a hard time believing you. Because I can definitely tell you Americans understand where their government spending comes from, and I have a hard time believing that Europeans are somehow less educated on this.
by Loughla | 2025-11-23 02:56:17+00:00
Cows seem to inherently know when it's down, and choose rainy nights exclusively to go on a tear around the neighbor's fields instead of my own.

We had pigs for one terrible year. Pigs know when the electric fence is down because the sociopaths regularly push each other into it. I think they do it to a) test the defense and b) because they're bastards that enjoy watching other creatures suffer.

I hate pigs entirely, by the way. We raised them for one year and decided they weren't worth the hassle. They're the worst.
by nativeit | 2025-11-23 02:57:28+00:00
There’s not much to break, honestly, and cable TV is still fairly popular outside of techy circles, but mostly it’s still the only option for broadband in a large portion of the US. I’ve been on Spectrum for several years, and it’s been largely trouble-free. I’m in a rural area of North Carolina, but near enough to Charlotte that they don’t have the entire region locked down. That said, Windstream/Kinetic is just now rolling out fiber in my area (should launch in the next few months), Spectrum has always been the only option for land-based broadband. I’ll switch to Kinetic for the symmetric upload speed, rather than any specific reliability problems we’ve experienced.

I’m sure these market conditions are common in most of the country, but without the moderating climate we have, so I imagine it’s much more susceptible to damage by freezing temperatures and natural disasters.

But the article is decrying the monopolies, and the bad incentives that they inevitably create, rather than attempting to highlight the poor state of telecommunications infrastructure.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-23 02:57:42+00:00
I quit Facebook in the early to mid 2010s, well before social media became the ridiculously dystopian world it is today.

Completely coincidentally, I had quit smoking a few weeks before.

The feelings of loss, difficulty in sleeping, feeling that something was missing, and strong desire to get back to smoking/FB was almost exactly the same.

And once I got over the hump, the feelings of calm, relaxation, clarity of thought, etc were also similar.

It was then that I learnt, well before anyone really started talking about social media being harmful, that social media (or at least FB…I didn’t really get into any other social media until much later), was literally addictive and probably harmful.
by busymom0 | 2025-11-23 02:57:43+00:00
I have never drunk coffee. However, I do take a very very small dose of caffeine pills. The pills are 200mg but I break them into tiny pieces and micro dose around noon with last dose around 3pm. Some days I take 100mg total, other days I take 200mg total. Another thing I do is eat proper food at same time because otherwise I become jittery.

I also cycle off caffeine or taper the doses every few months when I am travelling.

My stomach is solid.

Does anyone know if the acidity is from coffee or caffeine itself?
by stego-tech | 2025-11-23 02:58:32+00:00
I sympathize with the author. I remain on Charter’s shitlist to this day because I had a very similar issue about twenty years ago, except our connection cut out entirely after ~10MB of data had downloaded in a continuous stream, and the cable modem had to wait for the line to become available again. No amount of technical documentation, logs, traceroutes, equipment swaps, or anything on my end would convince them it was a problem with their infrastructure.

So, exasperated, I filed a complaint with the FCC. A week later, it got fixed along with an apology, no truck roll needed.

I miss when the government had teeth and used it against companies, man.
by Spivak | 2025-11-23 02:59:03+00:00
You go first then. It can be a you cut I choose type thing with gender roles.

Because let me tell you dude I and every other woman is picking the men's package in this deal. You go ahead and be a 50's housewife if you think it's so good. We've had the option to choose if we want that terrible life for 40+ years now and "fuck no" won in a landslide.

Do you know how depressing it is to find out that both my mom and my mother-in-law squirreled away money in a secret bank account just so they could have the tiniest bit of financial independence separate from their husbands. And keep in mind these are men who they both love dearly and are still married to to this day.
by LM358 | 2025-11-23 02:59:06+00:00
Yes! I went there on my first trip to Portland last year for work.

It was mesmerizing to look at all the beautiful equipment and meet all the cool people there. I've forgotten his name, but I spent at least one hour with an ex-Tektronix employee who started his career with tubes and ended it with writing FPGA code who told me many wonderous stories from his career. Highly recommended if you're at all into electronics!
by mmooss | 2025-11-23 02:59:18+00:00
In a way, I agree with your last sentence. But there is a difference, and that is power.

As a simplistic hypothesis: The already-powerful and super-wealthy taking all that IP from the small content creators is theft, IMHO. The small content creators who can't afford JSTOR finding some free source for a paper, etc. is democratic, empowering, and enriches our society.
by nicolas_17 | 2025-11-23 02:59:25+00:00
There's many factual errors in this AI slop.

For example, it says quite unambiguously that the bootloader is encrypted directly with the GID key (loading the LLB ciphertext into the AES engine), but that's not how it works, the GID key is used to decrypt the LLB's KBAG into an AES key:IV pair and that is used to decrypt the LLB.

More:

> The behavior of the Boot ROM changes fundamentally based on the "Security Domain" fuse. > > Production (CPFM 01):

Security Domain (SDOM) is a different thing than CPFM. And production devices have CPFM 03.

> CHIP (Chip ID): Identifies the SoC model (e.g., 0x8101 for M1).

The M1 SoC is 0x8103.

Due to Brandolini's Law I will not continue to list everything else that is wrong here...
by matt_heimer | 2025-11-23 02:59:38+00:00
I found that logging into the cable modem itself and getting the signal levels and modem event logs helps. The poster seems to just be logging IP reachability. You have to keep repeating that modem logs show the problem is outside of my house until they send a technician. Then you hope the tech knows what he is doing enough to verify the issue and call the right person.

It took about 2 months and 5 visits to get my outages fixed. I also had to get some of my neighbors to report the outages.