MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-19 09:05:10+00:00
I'm a Linux user but I don't understand the drive of Linux users for it to be a mainstream OS. If it would be mainstream it would be more commercial, the users having less agency, having no choice in desktop environment and tied to commercial services. Because once it's big, big companies will want to make big bucks off the people using it. And most consumers actually like big tech companies taking them by the hand and choosing for them.

So in other words, Linux on the desktop will be a Linux I will hate. The closest thing to Linux for the mainstream we have is ChromeOS and I'm sure we all hate it. I sure do because I want nothing to do with Google services.

In other words, be careful what you ask for.
by mcny | 2025-11-19 09:05:19+00:00
I feel like the classic East Dakota reply would be that cloud flare CDN does not host your data and merely proxies it (bonus points if he uses the words "mere conduit" in his reply and therefore cloud flare can't be held responsible yada yada).

Jokes aside, as far as I can tell, https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ is NOT using Cloudflare CDN/Proxy

https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ is NOT using Cloudflare SSL

However, selesti reports it uses cloudflare DNS?

https://checkforcloudflare.selesti.com/?q=https://downdetect...

https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ is using Cloudflare DNS!

Checked 8 global locations, found DNS entries for Cloudflare in 3

Found in: England, Russia, USA

Not found in: China, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Netherlands
by sph | 2025-11-19 09:05:21+00:00
I am diagnosed ADHD. I have used dexamphetamine as prescribed which worked pretty well, in moderate dosages because I am sensitive, but I came to dislike the effect it had on me: I felt like I was attached to a horse that kept pulling me around even when I just wanted to stop and take a break. And the fact that I would crash 5 hours later.

In 2020, before even knowing I had ADHD, let alone being medicated, I managed to quit my (vaped) nicotine habit after using progressively smaller patches; meanwhile my executive dysfunction grew so much, during the most stressful time of my entire life, that I literally had a major nervous breakdown. It took years of therapy, diagnosis with ADHD, medication, to connect the two factors: I had been self-medicating with nicotine by entire life, and as I reduced the amount of it in my bloodstream, the more scattered I became [1]

Then I tested my theory: I bought some nicotine patches, cut at very low dosage. And lo! it was as effective as dexamphetamine was, with much fewer of the side-effects, no pulling effect [2] and cheaper. It's been now a year and a half and honestly it's been working great. I slap on a small patch in the morning, it lasts MUCH longer than a pill, and it even allowed me to move and still lead a productive life in a country where ADHD is not even recognised. I asked my psychiatrist and they confirmed that nicotine is known to work as a third-line medication but usually amphetamines are preferred.

This is not medical advice, yadda yadda, but worked for me, and I've always wanted to write a post about it. Regarding addiction: pretty much none, patches take too long to take effect to create addiction (i.e. caused by a predicable spike in dopamine). My dosage (~7.5mg patch cut out from a larger one) has been the same for the past 18 months, and trying larger doses just makes me sleepy (nicotine has a U-shaped effectiveness curve). Nicotine is much maligned, but if you do the research, avoid the smoking and inhalation devices but only use patches, maybe you'll find it helps you as well.

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1: I read that cigarette smoke during the formative years is associated with lifelong ADHD, and my pet (silly) theory is that the increasing stigma surrounding smoking of the past ~30 years might be one of the many factors we see ADHD on the rise. We might have 2 or 3 generations of smoking parents that were themselves self-medicating because of growing up in times where smoking was commonplace.

2: if I need to feel like a productive machine for a couple hours, coffee and a tyrosine pill can recreate the amphetamine feeling pretty well
by fooker | 2025-11-19 09:05:42+00:00
You can not replace 12 years of education with 'on the job training'.

You could 50 years ago. You still can, for some aspects of software engineering, which makes tech people believe that it can be done for everything.

But no, you are not going to teach someone modern chemistry, electronics, and general wetlab work with 'on the job training'.
by vita7777777 | 2025-11-19 09:05:54+00:00
This is very thoughtful and interesting. It's worth noting that this is just a start and in future iterations they're planning to give the LLMs much more to work with (e.g. news feeds). It's somewhat predictable that LLMs did poorly with quantitative data only (prices) but I'm very curious to see how they perform once they can read the news and Twitter sentiment.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-19 09:06:43+00:00
I don't know, WhatsApp won my local market decades ago by not having to pay 10 cents per message. People didn't really care about encrypted chats until maybe ten years ago, and even today millions are using Telegram for their every day messaging. No idea what the security situation of Vibe and Facebook Messenger are these days, but their numbers also exceed the hundreds of millions together.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-19 09:07:19+00:00
Let's try to make effect systems happen quicker than that.

> I mean this Cloudfare outage probably cost millions of dollars of damage in aggregate between lost revenue and lost productivity. How much of that will they actually have to pay?

Probably nothing, because most paying customers of cloudflare are probably signing away their rights to sue Cloudflare for damages by being down for a while when they purchase Cloudflare's services (maybe some customers have SLAs with monetary values attached, I dunno). I honestly have a hard time suggesting that those customers are individually wrong to do so - Cloudflare isn't down that often, and whatever amount it cost any individual customer by being down today might be more than offset by the DDOS protection they're buying.

Anyway if you want Cloudflare regulated to prevent this, name the specific regulations you want to see. Should it be illegal under US law to use `unwrap` in Rust code? Should it be illegal for any single internet services company to have more than X number of customers? A lot of the internet also breaks when AWS goes down because many people like to use AWS, so maybe they should be included in this regulatory framework too.
by Absonsonson | 2025-11-19 09:07:35+00:00
Interesting approach — treating ads as something you can reverse-engineer instead of just “inspire from” is the real value here. Most creative tools generate content blindly; this actually tries to deconstruct what makes a winning ad work: structure, pacing, hooks, messaging patterns, etc.

If you can consistently break an ad down into reusable components (hook, setup, proof, CTA, visual pattern) and let people remix those templates, that’s powerful. It basically turns high-performing ads into a library of “design patterns” for creatives.

Curious how deep the reverse engineering goes: • Are you analyzing just text, or also visual rhythm, shot sequence, and narrative beats? • Can the system infer why an ad might be converting well, or just what it contains? • How do you avoid overfitting on trends from one platform/vertical?
by andy_ppp | 2025-11-19 09:08:16+00:00
TLDR;

• Nicotine boosts attention, memory and alertness by releasing dopamine and other neurotransmitters.

• It’s far less harmful than tobacco but highly addictive.

• Some evidence hints at therapeutic effects in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and schizophrenia models.

• Developing brains (foetus, adolescence) show lasting harm in animal studies.
by KronisLV | 2025-11-19 09:08:57+00:00
> I admired this dude but those words are, kinda, punchable offense.

I think that's pretty spot on. Saying stuff like that means that there shouldn't be celebration of the person or reverence towards them.

You can support the FSF views on free software and any good those do in the world, but it's not possible to ignore all of the other stuff a person has said.

One can guess whether he's not neurotypical to such a degree that he doesn't take a humane enough perspective (arguing about topics that perhaps shouldn't be argued about), but that doesn't really change anything.

When you want to talk about free software, probably talk about FSF not RMS.
by Scrumbuddy | 2025-11-19 09:09:21+00:00
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by ktallett | 2025-11-19 09:10:20+00:00
I don't doubt they will give it out, it's just it doesn't state that is the total cost of the program to become a technician. When college for many costs up to and beyond $100,000, providing just 5% of the cost, is hardly worth shouting about. It definitely isn't a big enough gesture for a company that had revenue of $185 billion in 2024. I am sensing they could find a touch more to actually pay for workers to become technicians for their company, that would benefit them. They could even set up their own program/apprenticeship.
by perlgeek | 2025-11-19 09:10:56+00:00
At my employer, we have a small script that automatically checks such generated config files. It does a diff between the old and the new version, and if the diff size exceeds a threshold (either total or relative to the size of the old file), it refuses to do the update, and opens a ticket for a human to look over it.

It has somewhat regularly saved us from disaster in the past.
Show HN: Leado – An AI Agent That Finds Reddit High-Intent Threads in Real Time
by shdalex | 2025-11-19 09:11:35+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Leado because I kept noticing something strange while manually browsing Reddit: people were constantly asking for recommendations, comparing tools, and describing problems that matched exactly what many founders and indie hackers are building.

The opportunity was real, but the visibility was horrible.

Most of these posts only stay “hot” for a short window, and by the time you find them, someone else has already replied or the moment has passed.

So I created an agent that:

• watches selected subreddits in real time • detects buying-intent patterns (recommendation posts, tool comparisons, pain points) • sends alerts the moment a relevant thread appears • helps you engage without being salesy • and organizes everything in a simple dashboard

This started as a manual workflow I used to generate 500+ warm leads on Reddit, and I turned it into a tool because others kept asking how to replicate the system.

Live demo + details here: https://leado.co

If you're interested, I also wrote a full breakdown of the manual process: https://leado.co/blog/reddit-marketing-playbook-500-leads

Happy to answer questions, share the tech stack, discuss the intent-detection model, or walk through how I approached the real-time monitoring.

Feedback is welcome. Thanks for reading!
by jcgrillo | 2025-11-19 09:11:59+00:00
This is an excellent metaphor, so don't take this as criticism merely an observation, but it skews heavily towards the techno-utopian narrative that scam artists like Altman and Pichai keep harping on. Your techno-dystopia makes the same fatal assumption that tech matters much at all. The internet has become television. That's it. It's not nothing but it damn sure ain't everything, and it's just not all that important to most folks.
by adastra22 | 2025-11-19 09:12:13+00:00
No, and please don’t try to learn anything from that science-free series. The author doesn't even have a Wikipedia-level understanding of what he is writing about.

N-body problems for N>3 do not have exact, closed form solutions. For N=2 the solution is an ellipse. For N=3+ there is no equation you can write down that you can just plug in t and get any future value for the state of the system.

But that is NOT the same as saying it is unpredictable. It is perfectly predictable. You just have to use one of the many numerical solutions for integrating ODEs.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-19 09:12:29+00:00
Jibe has different forms, but essentially, it's software that's supposed to be run on your carrier's network. As a customer, it doesn't matter if your carrier is using the network-hosted version of Jibe or the cloud version, it's your carrier's responsibility to Make It Work.

For things like SMS/MMS servers, SIP servers, and other carrier infrastructure, carriers still like to run this stuff themselves. For RCS this was also the case a decade ago, but then RCS died an unceremonious death when third party messengers ate its lunch and carriers failed spectacularly trying to advertise "joyn".

Jibe is a black box that must follow the RCS specification. It's your carrier's responsibility to make that work. As long as Apple is following the RCS spec, they're right in saying it's not their problem. Your carrier should be telling Google to fix their shit.
by lan321 | 2025-11-19 09:12:47+00:00
My point is about bumfuck nowhere. Places where at night you may or may not see another car for the X km it takes you to get home. That with time people tend to forget they have their high beam bound to the beacon of god, with or without an extra switch, is a separate issue. The light itself makes sense.

If there's a constant stream of vehicles I'm not really worried about visibility all that much. The suicidal wildlife is mostly culled, for potholes you can track the person in front...
by spacedcowboy | 2025-11-19 09:12:47+00:00
shrug horses for courses. I’m at that wonderful stage of life where I only code what I want to, I don’t have people telling me what to do. I’m not going to throw away decades of code investment for some principle that I don’t really care about - if I did care more, I’d probably be more invested in rust after all.

Plus, a lot of what I do is on microcontrollers with tens of kilobytes of RAM, not big-iron massively parallel servers where Java is commonly used. The vendor platform libraries are universally provided in C, so unless you want to reimplement the SPI or USB handler code, and probably write the darn rust implementation/Java virtual machine, and somehow squeeze it all in, then no, you can’t really avoid C.

Or assembler for that matter, interrupt routines often need assembly language to get latency down, and memory management (use this RAM address range because it’s “TCM” 1-clock latency, otherwise it’s 5 or 6 clocks and everything breaks…)
by lukan | 2025-11-19 09:13:21+00:00
"Maybe a nitpick but the point is that a NN created to be good at trading is likely to outperform LLMs at this task the same way way NNs created specifically to be good at board games vastly outperform LLMs at those games."

Disagree. Go and chess are games with very limited rules. Succesful trading on the other hand is not so much a arbitary numbers game, but involves analyzing events in the news happening right now. Agentic LLMs that do this and accordingly buy and sell might succeed here.

(Not what they did here, though

"For the first season, they are not given news or access to the leading “narratives” of the market.")
by HelloNurse | 2025-11-19 09:13:59+00:00
The "coding error" is a somewhat deliberate choice to fail eagerly that is usually safe but doesn't align with the need to do something (propagation of the configuration file) without failing.

I'm sure that there are misapplied guidelines to do that instead of being nice to incoming bot management configuration files, and someone might have been scolded (or worse) for proposing or attempting to handle them more safely.
by Manfred | 2025-11-19 09:14:44+00:00
After skimming through the documentation this seems like a nice solution, but I'm not sure if this is a problem we want to solve.

Consumers are finding out the issue with cloud computing when their heating system can't turn on because Cloudflare is down. A cheaper and more reliable solution is still on-premises computing.

Large social network and content platforms don't have any incentive to keep your data safe because they want to monitor and own everything.

Maybe this is for something like a government running a public service?
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-19 09:14:56+00:00
Signal's sub-par desktop app and "you can't restore more than five days of history and if you want more you're wrong" approach, together with the complete inability to use the normal app on more than one device (phone + tablet, for instance), makes for a pretty terrible user experience.

The protocol and the service behind it are state-of-the-art, but it's a tough sell if you're coming from something that just works on every device, like iMessage or WhatsApp.
by chippiewill | 2025-11-19 09:14:58+00:00
No, the "if it compiles, it works" is genuinely about the program being correct rather than just free of memory errors, but it's more of a hyperbolic statement than a statement of fact.

It's a common thing I've experienced and seen a lot of others say that the stricter the language is in what it accepts the more likely it is to be correct by the time you get it to run. It's not just a Rust thing (although I think Rust is _stricter_ and therefore this does hold true more of the time), it's something I've also experienced with C++ and Haskell.

So no, it's not a guarantee, but that quote was never about Rust's guarantees.
by Ygg2 | 2025-11-19 09:15:11+00:00
> If the `.unwrap()` was replaced with `.expect("Feature config is too large!")` it would certainly make the outage shorter.

It wouldn't, not meaningfully. The outage was caused by change in how they processed the queries. They had no way to observe the changes, nor canaries to see that change is killing them. Plus, they would still need to manually feed and restart services that ingested bad configs.

`expect` would shave a few minutes; you would still spend hours figuring out and fixing it.

Granted, using expect is better, but it's not a silver bullet.
by rob_c | 2025-11-19 09:15:44+00:00
> guessing 'they're poorly suited' is just that, guessing

I have a really nice bridge to sell you...

This "failure" is just a grab at trying to look "cool" and "innovative" I'd bet. Anyone with a modicum of understanding of the tooling (or hell experience they've been around for a few years now, enough for people to build a feeling for this), knows that this it's not a task for a pre-trained general LLM.
by sschueller | 2025-11-19 09:15:47+00:00
KiCad is awesome. Combined with git I have CI/CD pipeline in gitlab[1] that builds my fabrication files for the different fabs automatically including PiP and parts CSVs I can directly upload to LCSC. I also generate PDFs of the schematic and iBom[2] htmls files all automatically.

The thing I miss is being able to rotate a IC by 45 degrees.

[1] https://sschueller.github.io/posts/ci-cd-with-kicad-and-gitl...

[2] https://openscopeproject.org/InteractiveHtmlBomDemo/
by robertlagrant | 2025-11-19 09:17:38+00:00
Some high-end cars use banks of lights all pointing in slightly different directions, and they autodim the lights pointing directly at headlights coming the other way.

EDIT - also:

> Now you're in a car that the US car industry doesn't want to sell, and thus you don't exist.

To be fair, this is related to the cars people want to buy. Everyone's making SUVs because they sell like hot cakes.
by qmr | 2025-11-19 09:17:47+00:00
I take 2mg gum 0 to perhaps 8 times a day. Usually 2-3.

When box empties, I take a week or two off.

Slightly sharpens thought and suppresses appetite in combination with caffeine. Helpful for getting reducing body fat and getting abs in my advanced age. Supposedly neuroprotective effects as well.
by darkwater | 2025-11-19 09:18:10+00:00
Exactly that. There is a layer (or more than one) between the user submitting the YT video and the actual model "reading" it and writing the digest. If the required outcome is to write a digest of a 3 hours video, and to achieve the best result it needs to pass first into a specialized transcription model and then in a generic one that can summarize, well, why Google/Gemini doesn't do it out of the box? I mean, I'm probably oversimplifying but if you read the presentation post by Pichar itself, well, I would not expect less than this.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-19 09:18:14+00:00
> And you are saying people should only be allowed to say whatever they decide to put money on knowing full well that if enough rich people prop stock up for long enough short attempt will fail even if the company is bullshit hype.

No I'm saying that if you don't have anything new or informative to say, don't say it. I don't really talk about why AI is a bubble because I have nothing new to add that hasn't already been said even though I believe it too. Things I am informed about and are different from what others have already said, I say. Obviously the line here is quite vague but I think we should err on the side of saying less not more.

> This is hacker news, many here are literally experts on this thing, and not experts in finance, and not into gambling.

In my own area of expertise, < 10% of HN commenters (depending on the thread) actually understand what's going on. The rest really don't. I think you see expertise on this site where I do not. It's true a few experts in my field are on here but there are many more in other places like project Discords or Twitter or even mailing lists.

Anyway I don't think there's much more to be gained by us talking. I think we have two fundamentally different views on what this site should be. Thanks.
by chrismorgan | 2025-11-19 09:19:45+00:00
> much better than their completely false “checking the security of your connection” message

The exact wording (which I can easily find, because a good chunk of the internet gives it to me, because I’m on Indian broadband):

> example.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.

It bothers me how this bald-faced lie of a wording has persisted.

(The “Verify you are human by completing the action below.” / “Verify you are human” checkbox is also pretty false, as ticking the box in no way verifies you are human, but that feels slightly less disingenuous.)
by darkwater | 2025-11-19 09:20:20+00:00
> There’s a “rules” section, but don’t be turned off by the name, it is more like a nice collection of guidelines of how to interact in a way that encourages productive discussion that illuminates. One of the key rules is not to interpret things weakly. Here, someone spelled out exactly how to do it, and we shouldn’t then assume its not AI, then tie to a vague demeaning description of “AI hype”, then ask an unanswerable question of what’s the point of “AI hype”.

I think you misunderstood my comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973656 has got the right reading of it.