MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by observationist | 2025-11-25 23:49:38+00:00
There's always a possibility that something implicit to the early model structure causes it to explode later, even if it's a well known, otherwise stable architecture, and you do everything right. A cosmic bit flip at the start of a training run can cascade into subtle instability and eventual total failure, and part of the hard decision making they have to do includes knowing when to start over.

I'd take it with a grain of salt; these people are chainsaw jugglers and know what they're doing, so any sort of major hiccup was probably planned for. They'd have plan b and c, at a minimum, and be ready to switch - the work isn't deterministic, so you have to be ready for failures. (If you sense an imminent failure, don't grab the spinny part of the chainsaw, let it fall and move on.)
by ajdude | 2025-11-25 23:49:42+00:00
I dropped firefox 9 months so after they updated their privacy policy and removed "we don't sell your data" from their FAQ.

Besides, it doesn't seem like I'm able to install sponsorblock, ublockock origin etc on iOS firefox. I love using sponsorblock and several other add-ons from both Mazzella in chrome in Orion on my phone.
by 827a | 2025-11-25 23:50:45+00:00
There isn't necessarily rationality behind venture deals; its just a numbers game combined with the rising tide of the sector. These firms are not Berkshire. If the tide stops rising, some of the companies they invested in might actually be ok, but the venture boat sinks; the math of throwing millions at everyone hoping for one to 200x on exit does not work if the rising tide stops.

They'll say things like "we invest in people", which is true to some degree, being able to read people is roughly the only skill VCs actually need. You could probably put Sam Altman in any company on the planet and he'd grow the crap out of that company. But A16z would not give him ten billion to go grow Pepsi. This is the revealed preference intrinsic to venture; they'll say its about the people, but their choices are utterly predominated by the sector, because the sector is the predominate driver of the multiples.

"Not investing" is not an option for capital firms. Their limited partners gave them money and expect super-market returns. To those ends, there is no rationality to be found; there's just doing the best you can of a bad market. AI infrastructure investments have represented like half of all US GDP growth this year.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-25 23:51:01+00:00
I used to pay for YouTube premium. I stopped doing that, uninstalled the apps, and now use it through the browser with adblockers. (Yes, on my phone and iPad.)

It works so well I’ve gotten at least half a dozen neighbours to do the same. If you haven’t tried it, it’s a definitive step up in UX.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-25 23:51:09+00:00
Regardless of the name, descriptive set theory does not seem to have all that much to do with "set theory" in a foundational sense; it can be recast in terms of types and spaces with comparative ease, and this can be quite advantageous. The article is a bit confusing in many ways; among other things, it seems quite obviously wrong to suggest that recasting a concept that seems to be conventionally related to mathematical "infinities" in more tangible computational terms is something deeply original to this particular work; if anything, it happens literally all the time when trying to understand existing math in type-theoretic or constructive terms.
by MirajeLabs | 2025-11-25 23:51:18+00:00
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by CableNinja | 2025-11-25 23:52:13+00:00
Aerospikes are hard because you cant control the external pressure. At altitude A you have X atmospheric pressure, but at altitude B, Y pressure, that pressure is what keeps the exhaust against the surfave and exerting force, you can only design an aerospike for a certain effecient operational altitude and outside of that its just not great.

A nozzle engine doesnt have to account for this as much because the nozzle is keeping the pressure of the exhaust
by dathinab | 2025-11-25 23:52:55+00:00
and they are often good videos (if you like watching extreme sports related things), given the partial second video this seems likely for the account who made the screenshot

but given that half a video is not a full video this still means we are at one single full video

and an AD which is deceptively pretending to be a video

I still think regulators should ban deceptive ads and require ads to to clearly different from the main content _on the first take/glance_. They way YT, Google and co handle ads is IMHO deceptive to a point its reasonable to say they try to deceive the user into clicking on the ad when they wouldn't have done so if they new it was an ad.

And "systematically deceiving a user/customer to their detriment (wasting time) and your profit" isn't just shitty but on a gray line to outright fraud.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-25 23:53:10+00:00
You may have skipped my second link. Here it is a second time, with the important quote excerpted: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/23/apple-sue...

The Pegasus project, an investigation into NSO by the Guardian and other media outlets, coordinated by the French media group Forbidden Stories, has documented dozens of examples in which NSO’s spyware was used to attack users of Apple’s iPhone. In some cases, a vulnerability in the company’s iMessage feature, which could be penetrated by Pegasus, was used against journalists, human rights activists and other members of civil society.

The source is describing an iMessage exploit known as FORCEDENTRY, which can be used to deliver a persistent hardware backdoor (Pegasus) to an iPhone. Often, Apple is unable to detect the persistent exploit and therefore incapable of warning the user that they have a backdoored device: https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/20/apple-currently-only-able-to-...
by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-25 23:53:22+00:00
To be fair, the raw feed is absolute slop. If you ever look at youtube without an account or cookies, there's almost nothing worth watching. Youtube has become the biggest social media on the planet by showing people stuff they actually like rather than whats hot.

Youtube will show me an in depth technical video from 3 years ago over the latest MrBeast slop even if the MrBeast video is getting far better numbers.

I do feel like _something_ has been lost by the lack of monoculture though. It's been most evident in music where there almost is no pop music anymore. There is nothing everyone knows and generally likes. DJs either have to play highly targeted events or pop music from 2012.
by hintymad | 2025-11-25 23:53:29+00:00
Honest question: In a city, we expect that the government does its job: catch the bad guys and prosecute them. Why is it not the same case when it comes to an online platform? The platforms, Roblox included, do invest millions a year to set up a safety team and to build moderate systems. The systems are not not perfect, and I doubt they will be, just like not all crimes can be resolved. So, why do we expect platforms to do job much better than the real justice systems, if not a perfect job to start with?
by gnabgib | 2025-11-25 23:53:56+00:00
I must be misunderstanding you because phishing happens weekly with huge consequences. It's not browser exploits, it's an email that looks legit enough with an incorrect URL or a page that's so convincingly identical to PayPal you feed it the information. Just this week:

SitusAMC https://www.situsamc.com/databreach

Harvard University https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/harvard-unive...

Iberia Airline https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/iberia-disclo...

Salesforce via gainsight https://status.salesforce.com/generalmessages/20000233
Show HN: N1netails – lightweight, self-hosted alerting platform for developers
by shahidfoy | 2025-11-25 23:55:23+00:00
I built N1netails, a lightweight, self-hosted alerting platform for developers.

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I’d love feedback from the community on features, usability, or anything else!
by Froztnova | 2025-11-25 23:55:51+00:00
TBH, without going into overmuch detail, I wouldn't generalize from my educational experience to the American educational system as a whole. I think it was better in a lot of ways, and worse in a few ways, than what most people would have received, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were some particular holes in my knowledge due to taking part in multiple curricula from different institutions.
by denkmoon | 2025-11-25 23:55:51+00:00
Not to be deliberately argumentative but still no concrete examples of zfs failures are shown, just hand wavey "I had issues I couldn't google my way out of". I've never heard of a healthy pool not mounting and I've never heard of a pool being unhealthy without a hardware failure of some sort. To the contrary, zfs has perfectly preserved my bytes for over a decade now in the face of shit failing hardware, from memory that throws errors when clocked faster than stock JEDEC speeds to brand new hard drives that just return garbage after reporting successful writes.
Show HN: Kubently – Debug Kubernetes Clusters Agentically
by drtydzzle | 2025-11-25 23:55:57+00:00
Kubently is an open-source tool for troubleshooting Kubernetes agentically - debug clusters through natural conversation with any major LLM. Why I built it: kubectl output is verbose, debugging is manual, and managing multiple clusters means constant context-switching. Agents debug faster than I can half the time, so I built something around that.

~50ms command delivery via SSE Read-only operations by default Native A2A protocol - integrates with systems like CAIPE, LangGraph/LangChain Runs on any K8s cluster (EKS, GKE, AKS, bare metal) Multi-cluster from day one

Docs: https://kubently.io GitHub: https://github.com/kubently/kubently
by pchiusano | 2025-11-25 23:56:18+00:00
You can gradually adopt Unison, it's not all or nothing. It's true that when programming in Unison, you use Unison's tooling (which is seriously one of the best things about it), but there are lightweight ways of integrating with existing systems and services and that is definitely the intent.

We ourselves make use of this sort of thing since (for instance) Unison Cloud is implemented mostly in Unison but uses Haskell for a few things.

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051750 (you can use Unison like any other open source general-purpose language)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051939 (you can integrate Unison's tooling with git)

There can be enormous value in creating multiple pieces of tech all designed to work really well together. We've done that for Unison where it made sense while also keeping an eye on ease of integration with other tech.
by atrettel | 2025-11-25 23:56:19+00:00
I really like that Vanguard supports Yubikeys too. They are the only ones that support them in my experience, but I have seen some increased support for TOTP in financial institutions lately. Fidelity now allows for TOTP instead of SMS. I have also encountered some credit unions that allow for TOTP instead of SMS. It is definitely weird that investment firms and credit unions are taking the lead here rather than the big banks.
by rossdavidh | 2025-11-25 23:56:30+00:00
Knowing that the rules for your first small deployment are not the same as the rules for everywhere, is valuable for designing well. Trying to implement all of those sets of rules in your initial deployment, is not a good idea. There is a general principle that you shouldn't code the abstraction until you've coded for the concrete example 2 or 3 times, because otherwise you won't make the right abstraction. Looking ahead is not the same as starting with the whole enchilada for your initial deployment.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-11-25 23:56:30+00:00
The social commentary i’ve read is that some fast trends are made and followed by the “top trend makers”. Then they fade out in those circles, and dwindle to “common people”. But at that point, it’s not really cool or status symbol.

The way I understood is, if you’re hyper-online and very consumerist, you’ll want to onto the train fast, and get off it fast so you would be deemed as a “trend maker” rather than “trend follower”. I’m not sure if I’m making sense, but it’s a bit more visible within Tokyo/Shanghai subcultures. It was less visible to me in Vancouver, where there’s a single main culture (everything outdoor and outdoor related) and not participating is also “not cool”.
by observationist | 2025-11-25 23:56:37+00:00
If I want a badly drawn, salad fingers inspired scrawl of a mangy cat, it should be possible. If I want a crisp, xkcd depiction of a cat, it should capture the vibe, which might be different from a stick fighters depiction of a cat, or "what would it look like if George Washington, using microsoft paint for the first time, right after stepping out of the time machine, tried to draw a cat"

I think we'll probably need a few more hardware generations before it becomes feasible to use chatgpt 5 level models with integrated image generation. The underlying language model and its capabilities, the RL regime, and compute haven't caught up to the chat models yet, although nano-banana is certainly doing something right.
by actuallyalys | 2025-11-25 23:56:49+00:00
As much as I like Python and personally prefer it to R, I don’t really disagree. But I’m not sure R is a great language for data science either—it has its own weaknesses, e.g., writing custom loops (or functional equivalents with map or reduce) was pretty clunky last I tried it.

The other thing is that a lot of R’s strengths are really the tidyverse’s. Some of that is to R’s credit as an extensible language that enables a skilled API designer to really shine of course, but I think there’s no reason Python the language couldn’t have similar libraries. In fact it has, in plotnine. (I haven’t tried Polars yet but it does at least seem to have a more consistent API.)
by RA_Fisher | 2025-11-25 23:57:35+00:00
R’s the best, bc it’s been a statistical analysis language from the beginning in 1974 (and was built and developed for the purpose of analysis / modeling). Also, the tidyverse is marvelous. It provides major productivity in organizing and augmenting the data. Then there’s ggplot, the undisputed best graphical visualization system + built-ins like barplot(), or plot().

But ultimately data analysis is going beyond Python and R into the realm of Stan and PyMC3, probabilistic programming languages. It’s because we want to do nested integrals and those software ecosystems provide the best way to do it (among other probabilistic programming languages). They allow us to understand complex situations and make good / valuable decisions.
by MBCook | 2025-11-25 23:58:10+00:00
I noticed this morning there was a new version of the YouTube app on my Apple TV. I can’t wait to find out how they screwed this one up.

My personal long-term complaint is the length of video titles.

Lots of people like to make really long video titles. So right now there is one on my screen titled “The Best Decisions Every Video Game Console Developer Made”.

Now if you didn’t know, that is not the whole title. But there’s absolutely no indication of that. The only way you actually know that is either by checking or if the stuff on the screen is clearly not the end of a sentence.

So what is the full title? Well if you click and hold on the video, you get a pop-up letting you choose a couple of things such as play or safe to watch later or indicate you’re not interested. And at the top of the pop-up you see more words in the title. In this case you also see “(Part”.

Yep. You get ONE extra word. Sometimes not even that.

The ONLY way to see the full title is to start watching the video.

Obnoxious.
by belter | 2025-11-25 23:59:06+00:00
Labeling him as an early investor would be misleading unless further undocumented investments exist.

He purchased Facebook shares via options in 2020, Facebook founding was 2004 and IPO 2012.There is no credible record of Paul Pelosi being listed among named early private investors.

You either believe him and her, are better investors than Goldman Sachs, or Renaissance Technologies or you believe this is corruption.
by striking | 2025-11-25 23:59:08+00:00
For me this change was reverted quite quickly, I think within the week. On my Apple TV at least it is back to 3 (and a quarter) videos displayed at a time.

I like to think that it was the feedback I submitted that pushed them to change it. However, it was more likely a change in viewership that would cause them to revert it back. I know my viewing habits definitely changed, I found myself spending more time looking through the thumbnails and then giving up to go watch content on other platforms.

4.51.08/web_20251117_11_RC00
by gnabgib | 2025-11-25 23:59:15+00:00
Very much doubt it, it certainly used to (4 years ago). The old system truncated your password (you used 20 chars, it dropped the last 14) so when the switch happened - suddenly your password didn't work - it was very obvious (unless you used <=6 char passwords).

The communication about the change, and the way the old system worked (without warning nor notification) left a lot to be desired.
by uniq7 | 2025-11-25 23:59:38+00:00
Everybody consumes bad content when they are a child, and everybody grows over it, becoming bored of it, and then looking for something better to do.

What show did you like when you were a kid? Do you still like it? Are you eager to consume it in the same amount as you did? If not, it means you grew over it.

When I was a child I loved the Monkey Island series, completing them several times a year. Solving the puzzles made feel smart, and the jokes made me chuckle. But now? I could hardly complete the high-res remakes or even the latest title. The puzzles are either too simple or just nonsensical try-and-error, I find the story boring and shallow (compared to other content I consume now), and none of the jokes really hit the spot anymore.

South Park even has an episode about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxRFQ_333_Y

I think forbidding kids to access content they crave is wrong and cruel, as you are basically forbidding them from exploring their tastes, forbidding them from becoming interesting adults with refined and deep tastes.

Even in the case of alcohol, I think people should explore it and their limits (getting wasted) when they are young. I have an aunt who never tried alcohol until she was in her 40s, and she went through the same phases as teenagers; however, at that age getting too drunk too often has serious social consequences. She spiraled out of control, becoming alcoholic, and then later addicted to other drugs. I am not a psychology expert, but I always thought that her problem was that she was too old to explore this path.

In my country we have an idiom I like: "potro que no galopa, de caballo se desboca", which means "colts that don't gallop become wild horses".
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-11-25 23:59:48+00:00
There's a number of structures that I think are missing in our major programming languages. Tables are one. Matrices are another. Graphs, and relatedly, state machines are tools that are grossly underused because of bad language-level support. Finally, not a structure per se, but I think most languages that are batteries-included enough to included a regex engine should have a a full-fledged PEG parsing engines. Most, if not all, Regex horror stories derive from a simple "Regex is built in".

What tools are easily available in a language, by default, shape the pretty path, and by extension, the entire feel of the language. An example that we've largely come around on is key-value stores. Today, they're table stakes for a standard library. Go back to 90's, and the most popular languages at best treated them as second-class citizens, more like imported objects than something fundamental like arrays. Sure, you can implement a hash map in any language, or import some else's implementation, but oftentimes you'll instead end up with nightmarish, hopefully-synchronized arrays, because those are built-in, and ready at hand.
by jodrellblank | 2025-11-26 00:00:08+00:00
> "in which pretty much all software has already been written; it's just a matter of finding it"

This is how I think about music and Spotify. Pretty much all music exists, you 'just' have to remember everything that exists and what it's called so you can find it.

Recent HN link, Red Alert 2 in your web browser. A game from 25 years ago which you can unofficially download the C++ original version from the Internet Archive to upload to the website which extracts the assets to play in a Javascript based reimplementation inside a web hypertext document browser.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991853
by BizarroLand | 2025-11-26 00:00:14+00:00
I don't think COVID is responsible. I think COVID was the straw that made more people use doordash and then retailers saw that doordash was making profit on their product by bundling a service and they got greedy for that profit.

After all, if you'll pay $8 for a big mac + tip delivered to your door, then you'll pay $8 for a big mac. Then to get it delivered is another $2 or so, so you'll pay $10 for a big mac. Then to get it delivered is another $3 or so, so now you'll pay $13 for a big mac.

The only losers are the customers.