MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ChuckMcM | 2025-11-13 22:05:34+00:00
Congrats to the Blue Origin team! That's a heck of a milestone (landing it on the second attempt). It will compete more with Falcon Heavy than Starship[1] but it certainly could handle all of the current GEO satellite designs. I'm sure that the NRO will appreciate the larger payload volume as well. Really super glad to see they have hardware that has successfully done all the things. The first step to making it as reliable as other launch platforms. And having a choice for launch services is always a good thing for people buying said launch services.

Notably, from a US policy standpoint, if they successfully become 'lift capability #2' then it's going to be difficult to ULA to continue on.

[1] Although if Starship's lift capacity keeps getting knocked back that might change.
by pipes | 2025-11-13 22:05:40+00:00
The point I'm trying (and obviously failing) to make is that "rich people" is a very broad definition to the point of being completely meaningless. About 7 to 8 percent of my Americans have a net worth greater than 1 million dollars. Is that rich? By some standards, yes.

You mention constructs to check power? What do you mean?
by ModernMech | 2025-11-13 22:05:55+00:00
Swift has so many issues they would honestly be better off just moving to Rust rather than fix Swift. Seriously. The fact that it's so easy to get the compiler to spend exponential time resolving types that it very often just shits the bed and begs you to rewrite your code for it to stand a chance is shameful coming from, as you say, a $4T company. Points to deep problems with Swift.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-11-13 22:06:10+00:00
As much as I love Hetzner, the article is misleading. Using a single server today makes no sense whatsoever unless it's for hobby projects. It will fail. My servers at Hetzner routinely fail every few years (4-5 maybe), usually it's a hard drive, but sometimes motherboard or PSU. If it's a drive, you need to take it offline to rebuild the array, it can take a few hours. Like honestly, this article blew up my mind. I'd never use such setup in production. Just add the damn second server (or two), it's dirt cheap!
by SkyBelow | 2025-11-13 22:06:20+00:00
Is it that absurd?

We have many expectations in society which often aren't formalized into a stated commitment. Is it really unreasonable to have some commitment towards society to these less formally stated expectations? And is expecting communication presented as being human to human to actually be from a human unreasonable for such an expectation? I think not.

If you were to find out that the people replying to you were actually bots designed to keep you busy and engaged, feeling a bit betrayed by that seems entirely expected. Even though at no point did those people commit to you that they weren't bots.

Letting someone know they are engaging with a bot seems like basic respect, and I think society benefits from having such a level of basic respect for each other.

It is a bit like the spouse who says "well I never made a specific commitment that I would be the one picking the gift". I wouldn't like a society where the only commitments are those we formally agree to.
by elliotto | 2025-11-13 22:07:49+00:00
I don't quite understand this post. Wouldn't rolling out fiber infrastructure early have been proved to be visionary and made the UK a serious technical force?

In Australia, we went through a similar journey where fiber to everyone's home was planned and then politically destroyed. Except this happened in 2010 and has been a significant factor in our inability to retain a technical edge.
by ozim | 2025-11-13 22:07:51+00:00
Wolverine replacing MassTransit yeah kind of works but just today I had to dive in and I did not like it.

“team decides” and I was busy with other stuff when they were doing evaluation.

But I would gladly pay the license there is just so much just working out of the box with mass transit you don’t realize until you miss it.

We use it with RabbitMQ.
by reecardo | 2025-11-13 22:07:56+00:00
We are increasingly using Temporal with Temporal Cloud and soon Nexus to manage numerous workflows. I'm curious what type of observability is avialable for DBOS and how much of that you get for "free". The reason we ended up in Temporal was not that previous job-systems were unreliable, it was simply that nobody wanted to go dig through a database to find out what happened with their job, and nobody has time/energy to build a UI just for that purpose.
by CrackerNews | 2025-11-13 22:08:04+00:00
That exact quote does not appear in the paper. You cannot attack me for your lack of due diligence.

This paper does little to dismiss LLMs. LLMs can use a different medium than text and that would not take away from its underlying mathematical models based on neuroscience. LLMs only understand language representations implicitly through statistical analysis, and that may instead show a commonality with how the human brain thinks as written in this paper.

I will not apologize for how you keep pushing an agenda despite how poorly supported it is. I have tried to be intellectually honest about the state of the industry and its flaws. I would implore you to instead do the research about LLMs so you can better refine your critique of them.
Ask HN: LLM apps for doctors/lawyers in Germany given section 203
by fersarr | 2025-11-13 22:08:08+00:00
Hi HN, thanks for having a look! We are building productivity apps for doctors and lawyers in Germany and are a bit confused by the requirements of Section 203 (professional secrets). I have high hopes that someone here can help us answer our questions.

Section 203 (professional secrets) [1][2] states that companies must only use providers that offer the same level of secrecy or are contractually bound to section 203. How does this work when using LLM APIs from the big cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP), do they state somewhere that they are bound to section 203? I am guessing using OpenAI or Anthropic directly is a no-go?

Thank you very much for your time

[1]: https://www.telekom.com/resource/blob/1020528/f9504762be7deaeb66dab63d94024c1a/dl-obligation-to-protect-confidential-information-pursuant-to-section-203-stgb-aeb--data.pdf

[2] https://www.lewik.org/term/15709/violation-of-private-secrets-section-203-german-criminal-code/
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-13 22:08:18+00:00
I think this is the way forward. We shouldn't continue relying on email (or proving ownership over an email address for that matter) as identity.

Public/private keys with a second factor (like biometrics) as identity I think is a good option. A way to announce who you are, without actually revealing your identity (or your email address).

Tbh that's how all the age verification crap should work too for the countries that want to go down that road instead of having people upload a copy of their actual ID to some random service that is 100% guaranteed going to get breached and leaked.

We need psuedoanonymous verification
by vatsachak | 2025-11-13 22:08:34+00:00
Yeah, I use Rust at work and it's a boon.

It's so easy to bake in proofs/invariants into types, yet you still retain control of the memory model.

One of the main features of Rust is the community, there are so many great packages

Something that will replace/build on Rust in the future is a language based on Two Level Type theory, where you have zero cost abstractions with a language that can do full dependent type theory
by hamdingers | 2025-11-13 22:08:42+00:00
> It happened a decade ago.

The Steam Deck shows they learned every available lesson from that endeavor. Why would they retread mistakes they've already proven they know not to make?

> The starting specs will be somewhat comoetitve to a PS5 Pro but with huge compromises (in Steam Deck'Deck's case, flash storage). A model that competently competes with a proper gaming oc will probably be 1000 or so.

The specs are already public, the only thing we don't know is the pricing. RTFA
by KronisLV | 2025-11-13 22:09:43+00:00
> I wish Docker Swarm survived.

Using it in prod and also for my personal homelab needs - works pretty well!

At the scale you see over here (load typically served on single digit instances and pretty much never needing autoscaling), you really don't need Kubernetes unless you have operational benefits from it. The whole country having less than 2 million people also helps quite a bit.
by 650 | 2025-11-13 22:09:47+00:00
Their CEO, Francis Davidson, Forbes 30 under 30. Strikes again.

Unicorn status (1 billion) in 2020, to bankrupt in 2025. Another Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonder_(company) https://www.linkedin.com/in/francisdavidson/
by lrvick | 2025-11-13 22:10:05+00:00
If you write open source code others rely on, or have any online identity that could be used for harm if stolen, it is irresponsible to not have a well published public identity signing key that cryptographically ties together your online presences to make you hard to impersonate. A key used to sign commits, binaries, code reviews, emails, or anything else of public value you produce.

If you do not do anything of consequence outside of corporate walls and are just a passive consumer of technology, then you probably do not need one.

The fact you have keybase in your profile indicates to me that you at least at one point mildly cared about having a cryptographic identity. Keybase just happened to have been a wildly broken implementation. Keyoxide is the path today.
by yieldcrv | 2025-11-13 22:10:08+00:00
> The threat actors do not have, and never had, access to merchant funds or card numbers.

> The system was used for internal operational documents and merchant onboarding materials at that time.

Ah so just all of your KYC for founders, key personnel, and the corporation to impersonate business accounts

> We estimate that this would affect less than 25% of our current merchant base.

Yikes, this affects 25% of their current merchant base.
by asveikau | 2025-11-13 22:10:16+00:00
Are you saying it was an amendment? That it not what I get from this or any articles I've seen about it.

TFA:

> On Sunday, Senate leadership inserted a hemp-recriminalization clause into the must-pass funding bill

> ...

> Not a standalone bill. Not a debate on cannabis reform.

Seems like it wasn't a full Senate vote on a specific amendment, but the bill as a whole. I've elsewhere seen it stated as McConnell acting alone.

Edit: as I googled around, I found that Rand Paul attempted to use an amendment to remove the language, and it failed. But people vote on amendments for all sorts of strategic reasons. For example maybe they felt the amendment would kill the bill, because house and senate bills need to match, and the terms had already been negotiated.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-13 22:10:42+00:00
Why do you want to talk to your computer?

I just want to make it do useful things.

I don't spend a lot of time talking to my vacuum or my shoes or my pencil.

Even Star Trek did not have the computer faff about. Picard said "Tea, earl grey, hot" and it complied, it did not respond.

I don't want a computer that talks. I don't want a computer with a personality. I don't want my drill to feel it's too hot to work that day.

The ship computer on the Enterprise did not make conversation. When Dr Crusher asked it the size of the universe, it did not say "A few hundred meters, wow that's pretty odd why is the universe so small?" it responded "A few hundred meters".

The computer was not a character.

Picard did not ask the computer it's opinion on the political situation he needed to solve that day. He asked it to query some info, and then asked his room full of domain experts their opinions.
by westurner | 2025-11-13 22:11:20+00:00
ScholarlyArticle: "Time-domain theory of transient heat conduction in the local limit" (2025) https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/p8wg-p1j3

NewsArticle: "From engines to nanochips: Physicists redefine how heat really moves" (2025-10) https://phys.org/news/2025-10-nanochips-physicists-redefine....
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-13 22:11:45+00:00
For what it's worth I'm embarrassed by my entire dialog with you. I was having a bad day, sleep deprived and coming on HN to escape. I wasn't thinking clearly or communicating clearly, and on top of that I was straight up wrong about some things that were independent of my state of mind.

On a couple occasions I typed out things that I didn't actually mean. I also was making logic errors, and was embarrassingly biased by a bunch of pop-psychology viral stuff I had seen years earlier.

While my interactions with you were frustrating for me in the moment, I appreciate them now because they triggered a bunch of corrective reflection (including unlearning some things, which is typically a lot less fun than learning). I also want to acknowledge that they were probably frustrating for you too, and I want to thank you for engaging and staying civil despite me acting irrationally.

Hopefully you see this despite the significant delay in response.

Sincerely,
by uf00lme | 2025-11-13 22:11:48+00:00
It might feels natural to try and use terraform to deploy kubernetes resources since you’ve likely configured the cluster using it, but the helm/kubeneters/kubectl providers are limited by terraform’s way of working. So whilst the providers try to marry the two when deploying anything complex it generally ends up feels like a hack and you lose a lot of the benefits of using terraform in the first place.

In my experience, it’s best to bootstrap ArgoCD/flux, rbac and cloud permissions those services need in Terraform and then move on to do everything else can via Kustomize via gitop. This keeps everything sane and relatively easy to debug on the fly, using the right tool for the job.
by atlintots | 2025-11-13 22:11:54+00:00
I might be crazy, but this just feels like a marketing tactic from Anthropic to try and show that their AI can be used in the cybersecurity domain.

My question is, how on earth does does Claude Code even "infiltrate" databases or code from one account, based on prompts from a different account? What's more, it's doing this to what are likely enterprise customers ("large tech companies, financial institutions, ... and government agencies"). I'm sorry but I don't see this as some fancy AI cyberattack, this is a security failure on Anthropic's part and that too at a very basic level that should never have happened at a company of their caliber.
by ActorNightly | 2025-11-13 22:12:29+00:00
The issue with most codebases is nobody thinks about starting out with acceptance testing system.

The way it should work is that before even writing code, you design a modular acceptance system that runs full suite of tests or a subset based on what you are working on.

This is essentially your contract for software. And on a modular level, it means that it scopes down the contracts to the individual sub systems. And things like memory and cpu runtime constraints are a part of this.

If you have this, you basically replace what the Rust compiler is doing for you with tests. Memory leaks are caught. However, as a benefit, you also can verify changes in the dev cycle with things like performance degradation, all in the same system.
by markisus | 2025-11-13 22:14:12+00:00
The problem becomes complicated once the large discrete objects are not actuated. Even worse if the large discrete objects are not consistently observable because of occlusions or other sensor limitations. And almost impossible if the large discrete objects are actuated by other agents with potentially adversarial goals.

Self driving cars, an application in which physics is simple and arguably two dimensional, have taken more than a decade to get to a deployable solution.
by ladon86 | 2025-11-13 22:14:20+00:00
It's not possible to smoothly move your eyes unless you are tracking a moving object. Your eyes always move in saccades (quick jerky movements), unless there is a smoothly moving object, in which case your eyes gain the ability to track it smoothly.

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/tXSBWt

Here is a version with a smoothly moving red circle; notice how you can now move your eyes smoothly around the screen as you track the circle.
by itchyouch | 2025-11-13 22:14:36+00:00
There were no recommendations.

Usually this type of anecdata becomes the basis of legitimate, controlled studies and over time can inform and/or adjust.

It would be premature to simply write off all influencers or limiting to only accept the medical profession as the immutable truth.

The reality tends to exist somewhere in the middle, outside of a formal proof.

I've listened to many health influencers and among the legitimate and balanced tend to be Rhonda Patrick and Peter Attia.

Attia provides guidelines for how to think about items, but usually it's the fan base that tends to sully the messaging as the base tends to be far more polarized and dogmatic over bits.

It is interesting to see that there is another poster confirming a slightly different effect though. Regardless of things being "systemic", just understanding that fluids dynamics are complex, I imagine diffusion of a systemic molecule like GLp1 could possibly be variable? Or perhaps there is a localized tissue fatigue?

Many potential options do exist to propose as hypothesis.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-13 22:14:53+00:00
> Supermajorities in both houses + 3/4 of the states is unlikely to ever happen

I agree, we seem to have perfected the art of splitting of the population into fairly stable tribes similar in size. Unless one side goes batshit insane (and even then, I think current evidence counters this idea) there is probably not going to be a supermajority in the foreseeable future.
by atYevP | 2025-11-13 22:15:00+00:00
Yev from Backblaze here -> That sounds very strange. I've asked our ops team and they said if you can provide the serial number of the drive you have we can track it. Would you be able to write in a support ticket w/ the serial number of the drive you bought so I can personally flag it and investigate? Once done you can write the ticket # here and I'll follow up with the team -> https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/requests/new.
by westurner | 2025-11-13 22:15:03+00:00
The space changes, so GR and the speed of light are preserved.

"Slow and fast light in plasma using optical wave mixing" (2021) https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12... .. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=94797501996846831... :

> We show the first experimental demonstration of slow and fast light in a plasma, measuring group velocities between 0.12⁢c and −0.34⁢c .

Also, photons can be FTL (relative to an outside observer) in dielectrics;

> LightSlinger antennae are FTL within the dielectric, but the EMR is not FTL; from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37342016

Also, do these findings apply to this post-Fourier model of thermal spreading limits at material interfaces given phase ? From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921309 :

> ScholarlyArticle: "Time-domain theory of transient heat conduction in the local limit" (2025) https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/p8wg-p1j3

> NewsArticle: "From engines to nanochips: Physicists redefine how heat really moves" (2025-10) https://phys.org/news/2025-10-nanochips-physicists-redefine....
by jacquesm | 2025-11-13 22:15:20+00:00
It is far worse. SEO spam was easy to detect for a human, even if it fooled the search engine. This is a proverbial deluge of crap and now you're left to find the crumbs. And the crap looks good. It's still crap, but it outperforms the real thing of look and feel as well as general language skills while it underperforms in the part that matters.

But I can see why other search engines love it: it further allows them to become the front door to all of the content without having to create any themselves.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-13 22:16:47+00:00
> body has decided for itself, no matter what the people want or what the constitution says

All representative bodies have rules. They have to in order to function. The House, like the Senate, has rules. And both of them can amend them by simple majority.

(Until recently, the public didn't have a particular opinion on the filibuster [1].)

> the ridiculous modern filibuster demonstrably is not, since it only became this way in recent decades

Sure. Agreed. I'd honestly argue the concept of shutting down the government is dumber and setting a debt ceiling for already-appropriated and spent funds is unconstitutional.

> curious what you think Johnson and Trump would have done over the last 6 months without the Senate

All the crap Trump is doing by fiat would have been passed into law. That, in turn, would strongly reduce the ability for the courts to call foul.

> if we had the Senate rules from thirty years ago the Senate wouldn't stand in their way either

The filibuster has only been invoked this session around this budget dispute.

A fundamental aspects that makes the Senate different is each Senator is elected by more people, and thus must cater to more-diverse interests, than a Congressman, and they have longer terms. That means more people in the Senate must think about how what they're doing today will look after 2028.

[1] https://navigatorresearch.org/three-in-four-americans-feel-g...
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-11-13 22:17:04+00:00
Yes, obviously a role involving complex communication while interacting with a multitude of perspectives, world views, assumptions, presumptions, etc needs to be called "engineer."

That is why I always call technical writers "documentation engineers," why I call diplomats "international engineers," why I call managers "team engineers," and why I call historians "hindsight engineers."
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-13 22:17:13+00:00
Speaking of "temporarily unavailable but it's actually forever", I've been wanting to get into Fallout and Starfield modding, so been waiting for their official wiki to come out of maintenance mode. I think I first tried to access it when Starfield launched (September 2023), and still today it is "currently down for backend maintenance". https://wiki.bethesda.net/
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-13 22:17:44+00:00
You're making a conscious effort to not understand, so that you can feel good (maybe even feel great) about spewing insults etc. Go ahead, blow off as much steam as you like. We're just two anonymous posters on the internet.

Declining a dinner invitation is not wrong. But depending on the situation, you might not get invited again. Accepting a dinner invitation with the idea that the purpose is to still your hunger is misunderstanding what is happening. So is expecting a gift to be something which has to be useful to you. But declining a gift is a brazen insult to the giver, while declining a dinner invitation isn't.

Even as children, we're taught to say "thank you" and be grateful when we receive presents, no matter if we like them or not. So when adults are complaining here about getting gifts they don't like, then I will say that there is some maturing to do.

Even in our modern materialistic and ego centric world.
by harshreality | 2025-11-13 22:18:59+00:00
Very few legislators have expertise in anything except demagoguery, pandering, and graft. Having more of them to form more subcommittees to mess up more areas of the law... no thanks.

We need merit-selected technical committees of non-representatives to advise politicians and tell them clearly, in as much detail as necessary, when they're wrong on something. If the politicians don't listen, the technical committees should be independent and able to make their case on the internet and social media.

Implementing that would be difficult. The metric for merit is a challenge, and is itself easily coopted by politics. For example, China's vaunted "political meritocracy" is ultimately controlled by party leaders in the CCP, so it's basically a meritocracy for the CCP-aligned, not a meritocracy for anyone else. If a government's goals contradict facts-on-the-ground, the government will find a way to skew an "independent" technical committee to suppress those facts.