MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by happytoexplain | 2025-11-04 16:24:30+00:00
>he’s the first person to run on the Republican ticket that shot back

It's hard to believe anybody believes this. I understand both sides always feel like the other side is always "worse" by essentially any metric, but first? The first Republican candidate to mock democrats or be shitty? You mean the most extreme, surely.

Also, "shot back" implies something comparable. Again - I don't really believe anybody thinks what Trump culture does is comparable to what either Republicans or Democrats have done to each other for decades.

If you mean it asymmetrically - as in the president "shooting back" not at the other presidents, but at the media and constituency of the opposite party, then in that context it makes even less sense. It was always the case that the media and online shitposters waged petty war against each other, while the presidents made rare jokes that were more diplomatic (on average...). It was always a gradient going up the chain - the people at the bottom saying the worst things, then the media in second place, then elected officials, then the president. But Republicans were always varyingly more extreme at all levels of that hierarchy. There was never a layer where the Democrats were shit-talking the Republicans in a way that the Republicans didn't match or exceed. So it doesn't make semantic sense to say that Trump "shot back" - what Trump did was pull the worst of those bottom bits straight up into the presidency, and all layers in between. The Democrats are "shooting back" by reactively getting more shit-talky at higher levels. Of course, that's not the right thing to do, but it's understandable, and they still don't come anywhere near Trumpism, qualitatively or quantitatively.
by orwin | 2025-11-04 16:24:34+00:00
Above human rates for sure. In the 90s in my country, accident rate were 5 for a million kilometer (so 5 for 621371,192 miles), and the rate have come down since.

Basically they are crashing at the same rate as 18-25 years old in the 90s, in France. When we could still drink like 3 glasses and drive.
by naasking | 2025-11-04 16:24:54+00:00
> don't get why you would say that. it's just auto-completing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

> If it thought and reasoned, it would know to ignore those and focus on the variables and input at hand to produce deterministic and consistent output

You only do this because you were trained to do this, eg. to see symmetries and translations.
by mock-possum | 2025-11-04 16:24:55+00:00
The controls would take some serious reworking to make it work on mobile - I could see adding a ‘pause’ feature to give you time to scrub your fingers all over the screen to issue all your unit and build orders, performant pinch to zoom would nearly negate the need for a mini map, lots of reworked GUI for building stuff and managing workers
by ajross | 2025-11-04 16:24:56+00:00
The "checks notes" thing is a marker that you're about to argue with a straw man. Don't do that here, please.

The root cause of the terrible stuff you (and I) cite, is that the US has terrible power. Cheney used a little of that power to do terrible things, as did Kissinger. But notably neither attempted to create a circumstance where the ultimate authority over the use of that power rested anywhere other than with the American electorate. When it turned out that Americans wanted to do something different, they walked out the door and handed over the keys, peacefully and happily.

Things can go much, much worse. And in particular we're currently looking at a regime that seems decidedly unwilling to hand over the keys.
by dist-epoch | 2025-11-04 16:25:14+00:00
> OpenAI's Stargate project to consume up to 40% of global DRAM output

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-star...

> South Korean SK Hynix has exhausted all of its chip production for next year and plans to significantly increase investment, anticipating a prolonged "super cycle" of chips, spurred by the boom of artificial intelligence, it said on Wednesday after reporting a record quarterly profit.

https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/korean-chip-race-sk-hynix-has...

> Adata chairman says AI datacenters are gobbling up hard drives, SSDs, and DRAM alike — insatiable upstream demand could soon lead to consumer shortages

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/adata-ch...
by phantasmish | 2025-11-04 16:25:26+00:00
Documentation should often be wrong.

There should be five options for each piece of tooling, none of which quite work the same way, all of which have a fan-base singing their praises, and three of which have critical problems you probably won't find out about until you try them. Then the one you pick gets abandoned when you're part way done. (this feature only for the Javascript and Python DLC)

Example farms should use old versions of libraries that are no longer maintained.

Interfacing with other farms should require manually faking a downgrade of some protocol you're using, because the older one is no longer available for you and they can't/won't upgrade.

You should be forced to design certain parts of the system in ways that are harder to use and constantly break when changing other parts, just so the appearance of those parts is "on brand". This should require re-writing functionality that would otherwise be supplied "for free" by a library.

When you're finally getting things how you want them, your farm should get cancelled and the whole thing abruptly burned to the ground because your parent company just decided to buy a different, existing farm instead.
by delecti | 2025-11-04 16:25:32+00:00
I suspect our politics are just too different for my attempts to defend the culture itself to be relevant, but it is super easy to cultivate what you see on Bluesky.

You can detach your posts if you get quote-reposted, you can limit who can reply to posts (to followers, people who follow you, people you've mentioned, or only to yourself), blocking someone also means that 3rd parties can't even view the threads (and so can't jump into drama that one side has attempted to disengage from), you can hide replies to your posts, blocklists let you immediately prevent large lists of users from seeing or interacting with you, and there's a culture among many users to immediately block people who are thought to be potential agitators (a very proactive culture of "don't feed the trolls").

If your experience was toxic, you probably just didn't use the tools available to you to avoid that toxicity.
by shivanshvij | 2025-11-04 16:26:09+00:00
XDP (eXpress Data Path) is the fastest packet processing framework in linux - but it only works for incoming (ingress) traffic. We discovered how to use it for outgoing (egress) traffic by exploiting a loophole in how the linux kernel determines packet direction. Our technique delivers 10x better performance than current solutions, works with existing Docker/Kubernetes containers, and requires zero kernel modifications.

This post not only expands on the overall implementation but also outlines how existing container and VM workloads can immediately take advantage with minimal effort and zero infrastructure changes.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-11-04 16:26:16+00:00
>MIT really respects good hacks and good hackers.

Oooof in light of Aaron Swartz. He plugged directly into a network switch that was in an unlocked and unlabelled room at MIT so he could download faster and faced "charges of breaking and entering with intent, grand larceny, and unauthorized access to a computer network".

MIT really didn't lift a finger for this either.

>Swartz's attorneys requested that all pretrial discovery documents be made public, a move which MIT opposed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
by petre | 2025-11-04 16:26:42+00:00
> we had the Slovakia borderpatrol go through our entire bus while waving machineguns around

Quite common in Eastern Europe before Schengen. That's why we hate border patrols, police and all sorts of uniformed men in general. They used to cut young people's blue jeans or long hair back in the '80s and bribing them was common before 2005. We also had quite a lot of policemen jokes (they were called militia men before 1990). One goes like "Why do militia men work in couples? Because one knows how to read and the other knows how to write.". I used to wish that we join Schengen so we no longer have to deal with border police any longer and they'd lose their jobs or get moved to a different border. If finally happened. Now Germany Poland, Austria and also other EU states introduce "temporary" border checks. Which they keep extending. Great.
by timenotwasted | 2025-11-04 16:27:10+00:00
It's a fun way to push for a lighter web but without a way to distinguish the complexity of the sites on the list it's really not all that useful. It's kind of addressed in the FAQ "The whole point of the 512KB Club is to showcase what can be done with 512KB of space. Anyone can come along and make a <10KB site containing 3 lines of CSS and a handful of links to other pages" but without a way for the user to distinguish the site complexity at a glance I'm not sure I understand the point. Regardless of the FAQ the first few sites I clicked on while yes were quite light in size but also had nothing more than some text and background colors on their sites. Also any search site is going to be at the near top of the list e.g. https://steamosaic.com/

Complexity would be a subjective metric but without it I'm not sure what you take from this other than a fun little experiment, which is maybe all it's meant to be.
by mrbombastic | 2025-11-04 16:27:24+00:00
Openness and accessibility should absolutely be factors in ranking, otherwise where does it end? I dk what twitter requires these days, maybe an email, password and a couple more fields, what if a site starts doing id verification? What if accounts require a subscription? What if all the best content on the first page of your search results is behind a paywall with 3 easy payments of $299
by chipotle_coyote | 2025-11-04 16:27:45+00:00
Simon Willison is on Bluesky, and I'm going to go out on a relatively safe limb and suggest that if you check out what he reposts, who he follows, etc., you will find people who do not deeply hate AI. I do think Bluesky, in general, is a lot like the Twitter of, say, 15 years ago, where the quality of one's feed is very much dependent on how aggressively one curates it -- although I wish they would finally add a feature for selectively turning off reposts user by user.

(It is absolutely true that a lot of creators hate AI, although I would argue that they have fair reasons to do so given the way AI is frequently presented / talked about / used. I find it unfortunate that everything remotely related to machine learning has now been rebranded as "AI", which leads people to reflexively dunk on tools that really aren't that much like the AI they have in their heads, but it's not their fault.)
by guywithnoh | 2025-11-04 16:28:14+00:00
I built Facts after realizing social platforms optimize for the wrong metric.

They chase engagement. We chase understanding.

Problem: You discover useful stuff (bug fixes, research, resources). But sharing it online feels like performance—building a personal brand instead of helping. So useful knowledge stays hidden.

Solution: Share what matters. Our AI routes your message to people who actually need it, based on their real interests. No feeds. No followers. Just signal.

Think: information delivery based on genuine need, not algorithm engagement.

Early stage, just launched the waitlist. Looking for feedback from people tired of social media performance.
by sumit-paul | 2025-11-04 16:28:41+00:00
Hey HN,

I built GitGallery, a photo vault that stores your photos directly in your own private GitHub repository. No third-party servers, no tracking, and no subscriptions. Your photos are version-controlled, encrypted, and entirely under your ownership.

It started as a weekend project after realizing that even private photo apps rely on rented clouds and analytics SDKs. I wanted something that gives users full control without giving up convenience.

How it works:

Sign in with GitHub using Device Flow (no token copying)

Create or select a private repo

Choose albums to sync

GitGallery uploads photos, handles retries, and keeps a local SQLite cache for offline use

Tech stack: Expo + React Native SQLite for offline cache Octokit for GitHub API Git history for version tracking

It is open source and currently available on Android. You can build it yourself or get it from the Play Store.

Would love your thoughts on privacy-first design, Git-based storage, and whether you would find iOS or desktop support useful next.

GitHub: https://github.com/Sumit189/GitGalleryApp

PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gitgallery...

Your photos, your repo, your control.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-04 16:28:57+00:00
The only thing it can do better than a minivan is haul more boxes of bagged air and fit a bigger Amazon decal on the side. They're all around under-built and under powered (and high strung for the power they do make) for work vehicles (beyond light parcel delivery or passenger service) and are utterly inappropriate to be upfit into box trucks, or any other heavier work vehicle. Whether you're talking about Fiat, Mercedes or Ford they're all rife with engineering tradeoffs that are moronic unless you intend to sell into a market where government inflates the cost of fielding an older fleet and your customers will turn their fleets over rapidly (Europe) or a market where gas is expensive and labor is cheap (ME, Africa).

Want me to go over each make/model and their characteristic failures?

They're all crap that will be run circles around by a GMC Savannah in every category except fuel economy.
by strangattractor | 2025-11-04 16:29:11+00:00
It is not always a question of whether something can be done but whether it should it be done. Everyone has different lines they set concerning behavior. At one time I thought the Amish were kind of weird for not using public grid electricity. Amish do not have anything against electricity - the Amish as a community assesses adoption of new technology from a perspective of how it influences their community. Money is not the only metric of success.

Instead of synthetic porn lets substitute cigarettes. Is it ok for people to sit in a public place and subject everyone to toxic gases. Collectively we in the US have decided to restrict smoking in public places. Or is it ok to provide a 14 year old Bourbon for breakfast. Most of would say no even though we would permit a 18 to do it if they want.
by JaggedJax | 2025-11-04 16:29:21+00:00
I've been noticing this happen more lately. Intuit QuickBooks did this exact same thing for GET calls this year as well.

My theory is they see POST/PUT calls as adding value and are actions that customer need to perform and help the platform (adding products, inventory, etc). But GET calls they see as leaching off them and not core requirements.

The huge gap in this theory are things like Seller Fulfilled orders which you have to GET, but for Amazon they have always pushed hard for Amazon Fulfilled instead.

In the end I think this is all mostly to keep things/control in-house as much as possible. Some apps will shut down, others will pass the cost along the sellers. Sellers always lose.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-11-04 16:29:45+00:00
I was going to say, I did't see any opposition to capitalism :)

Thanks for posting this, people need a reminder how varied different "schools" of thought can be.

I think some of the very educated at some institutions are more likely to mistake their shared love of insulated bureaucracy, for being non-committed or having disdain for capitalism.

The main thing that struck me was the way so many multi-billion-dollar companies could learn a thing or two from this institute when it comes to the financial management skills necessary to host old web archives indefinitely without any ads, annoyances, or other friction.

In this regard, these academics really put the most aggressive capitalists to shame when it comes to some very worthwhile stewarding of assets.

Whenever you see a big company fail to keep an archive on line, you know at least one person making that decision (doing that disservice) didn't do that well in school. Regardless of what their transcript or resume looks like, their most appropriate headgear is a duncecap.

I'll take a mortarboard over that any day.
by burnte | 2025-11-04 16:30:09+00:00
eBay/Paypal were one of the worst when they were merged. It was so bad I wound up having a new account every 6 months or so. I learned that when they started asking for personal details your chances of being reinstated were nearly zero. The lesson was I had an acct suspended, and they asked for DL, then birth certificate, then a lease, then a power bill, then a phone bill, every time I gave them the document they asked for something else. Then finally they said they needed my passport. I said I didn't have one, suddenly THAT was the only thing that could solve this, and I understood that this was just the plan. They keep asking for different things until you can't provide it or the info they have is wrong and they'll never believe you.
by ntomas | 2025-11-04 16:30:24+00:00
I think it all has to do with how companies react to their own outages and their processes around publishing the info. I imagine that bigger companies need to go through a process to validate all the information they share with the public.

I don't think it's a factor in how Statuspage works. Cloudflare, for example, uses them, and usually it's pretty fast to update their status page and release outage information.

For companies that need to monitor critical dependencies, my company ( https://isdown.app ) helps by aggregating status page information with crowdsourced reports. This way, companies can be alerted way sooner than when the status page is updated.
by chasil | 2025-11-04 16:30:25+00:00
Japan has also made some strides in this area, reported here a few months ago.

"Professor Shintake aligned two axis-symmetric mirrors in a straight line and used a total of only four mirrors instead of ten.

"Because highly absorbent EUV light weakens by 40% with each reflection, only about 1% of the energy from the light source reaches the wafer when bounced off ten mirrors while more than 10% does when only four mirrors are used."

https://asiatimes.com/2024/08/japan-on-edge-of-euv-lithograp...

Edit: "Substrate said that it has developed a version of lithography that uses X-ray light."
by dredmorbius | 2025-11-04 16:30:48+00:00
I'd expect more applications in either aviation or mobile / portable power devices.

As others have noted, battery remains a major factor in overall mass, and motor placement (in-wheel vs. driveshaft) is a concern in ground-transport.

In aviation, battery limits overall range, but a high-power, low-range, lower-mass vehicle could be useful for short-hop flights, manned or unmanned, especially where payload considerations are paramount.

Mobile-power applications (tools, transportable equipment) might also benefit from high power-to-weight, especially if this means that overall weight limits could be more readily met (e.g., total vehicle weight, total carried weight), or additional equipment (or battery) could be provided.
by sfn42 | 2025-11-04 16:31:24+00:00
That would be quite ridiculous in my opinion. Most of my peers hardly stay in one job for more than 2-3 years anyway, so unless you're retiring in the next two years I don't see why they would have a problem with it.

Of course I live in a country where retirement savings isn't your employer's responsibility. I think the US has some ridiculous retirement practices that may make older employees a bit of a hot potato situation?
by innagadadavida | 2025-11-04 16:32:34+00:00
One thing the analysis for textiles vs cars misses I the complexity of the supply chain and the raw materials / components that need to be procured to make the end product. Steel/textiles have simple supply chains and they went through a boom/bust cycle as the demand plateaued. But cars on the other hand will not go through the same pattern - there are too many logistical things that need to line up and the trust factor in each of those steps as well as the end product is quite high.

Software is similar to cars - the individual components that need to be properly procured and put together is very complex and trust will be important - will you trust that you as a restaurant owner vibe coded your payment stack properly or will you just drop in the 3 lines to integrate with Stripe? I think most of the non-tech business owners will do the latter.
by bilekas | 2025-11-04 16:32:47+00:00
> Building a sub 512KB website is trivial.

Even for larger sites, it can be trivial, but I prefer to look at it from a non SPA/state-mgmt point of view.

Not every site needs to be an SPA. Or even a 'react app'. I visit a page, record your metrics on the backend for all I care, you have the request headers etc, just send me the data I need, nothing else.

It doesn't have to be ugly or even lacking some flair, 500KB is a lot of text. Per page request, with ootb browser caching, there's no excuse. People have forgotten that's all you need.

> People have forgotten that's all you need.

Edit : No they havent, they just can't monetize optimizations.
by Edman274 | 2025-11-04 16:32:51+00:00
> First of all, Data never willingly jeopardized the crew.

This presupposes that he has consciousness. He can only "willingly" do things if he is conscious. If the argument is that there was an external influence that changed his behavior thus making it not volitional then you have to distinguish why the external force makes his Lore behavior unwilling, but Soong's initial programming willing. If I set a thermostat to 85 degrees, would you say that the thermostat is "unwillingly" making people uncomfortable, but at the factory default of 70 degrees, it's helping people feel comfortable? It's difficult to distinguish what is willing and unwilling if consciousness is in question so this feels like begging the question.

> I also feel that equating data to someone who is neurodivergent is kind of insulting as neurodivergent people do have feelings and emotions.

I'm stating it as an aside / justification for why we want the story to go a certain direction because I see so many articles elevating Data as a heroic representation of neurodivergence. My goal wasntt to be offensive. There are a ton of episodes where Data is puzzled by people's behavior and then someone has to explain it to him almost as if someone is also explaining to the audience it as a morality tale. Remember when Data was struggling to understand how he was lied to? Or how he lost in that strategy game? Or how to be funny? We don't just see him struggle, someone explains to him exactly how he should learn from his experience. That appears to be for the benefit of the android and the people behind the fourth wall.

> A rock cannot express a desire.

It can if you carve a rock into the words "I want to live" and even though the rock didn't configure itself that way, it's expressing a desire. Noonien Soong built Data, so it's possible that he designed Data to state the desire to be human. Data does seem to have an interiority but he also seems to not have it based on the caprice of outside forces, which is problematic because the way that he is controlled is not very different from the way he is built.

On the Data question I'm not saying that Maddox should've won but that the fact that Picard won is more about it being narratively required rather than "prove that I am conscious" being a good argument.