MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by golem14 | 2025-11-04 22:23:45+00:00
But then, there are reports going back only to 2012 where italian version still had vegetable oin in them? https://knitstamatic.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/taleoftwonutel...

Also, https://wwf.panda.org/es/?208296/Nutella-Switches-to-100-Seg...

suggests the switch to Palm oil in Europe happened in 2014.

hmm.
by znpy | 2025-11-04 22:24:07+00:00
I only partially agree. I recently got nostalgic and bought a 2nd-gen Core-i7 ThinkPad X220 from ebay (similar to what i had back in my university days).

It's generally very usable util you open firefox and browse a modern website. Chrome/chromium aren't any better.

The issue with old hardware is web browser and web pages, particularly web pages. Modern websites are incredible resource drains, it's unbelievable.

I can easily read documentation from old-school cool websites like https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ but anything fancier than that gets the fan wheels spinning...
by TrueDuality | 2025-11-04 22:24:10+00:00
Yeah you're 100% right that it's optional. It's usually only required to allow company data such as email, slack, file sharing etc on your personal device. If you're on-call it is VERY rare for an employee to win a fight on making the company provide a dedicated device for that purpose (which can inherently make it a condition of your job but that's an exception).

Most employees tend to not care about the why and are happy to just do it making "you" (the one bucking the trend) the oddball. The one not being the team player. It's not legally required, and you won't be fired for it, but its strongly socially encouraged and that makes it mandatory for anyone not willing to put up that fight.
by z2 | 2025-11-04 22:24:30+00:00
I feel there's probably a formal academic topology for this, but it seems on one end you have party-dominant or single party authoritarianism (Singapore arguably) and on the other end you have cult of personality style. The former is often more stable and functional than the latter, but neither guarantees optimal decisions. And some regimes like North Korea give you the downsides of both!
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-04 22:24:32+00:00
5W for a laptop is raspberry pi territory, and we're adding a screen to it. I hope we ever get there for a 14" fully usable laptop, but that sounds bleeding edge territory at this point.

The CPU alone can operate below 5W:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/lunar-lake-profiles/6
by throwaway88890 | 2025-11-04 22:24:49+00:00
More stupidity coming out of the corporate self-promoters which inhabit Google. Not surprised to see Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the paper; he did a TED talk in 2016 trumpeting a bunch of Google image generation research which, as far as I can tell, was not related to him at all. No related published research. Put the real researchers in the TED talks, please.
by jgeada | 2025-11-04 22:25:29+00:00
Piddling sum in this domain, that amount won't even buy you enough for 1 production line, let alone where to put in, staff it and get all the necessary collateral to allow people to design to it.

And no amount of money will get you one of ASML EUV machines any time soon as the entire production line for the next handful of years has already been spoken for.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-04 22:25:44+00:00
EFF is bought and paid for. Not once does this piece mention that "AI" and humans are different and that a digital combine harvester mowing down and ingesting the commons does not need the same rights as a human.

It is not fair use when the entire output is made of chopped up quotes from all of humanity. It is not fair use when only a couple of oligarchs have the money and grifting ability to build the required data centers.

This is a another in the long lists of institutions that have been subverted. ACLU and OSI are other examples.
by thankyoufriend | 2025-11-04 22:25:54+00:00
In my original comment I was asking people to follow me into an imaginary future where there are less artists. Artists reveal something about the world that speaks to us, which they do through critically breaking down and reforming what they see. I can't remember who said it, but they said when art speaks to you, it's a momentary bridge between the artist's soul and yours.

I'll answer your question, but my question for you is: why were you buying wall decorations in the first place? To me, it sounds like you were searching for a product category, and not specifically for art.

Regarding your example, if the AI is capable of imitating David Attenborough by including his name in the prompt, then it was probably trained on his data. If he didn't consent, then I might argue that is ethically wrong and, in my view, theft. If the channel was not monetized and done without his consent, I might argue that is just an ethical failing. In using his voice, the channel betrays the fact that it has value, otherwise they would continue to use the random old man voice.
by kelnos | 2025-11-04 22:26:26+00:00
I don't think any of your examples are analogous to the questions/point the GP was trying to make. Your questions seem to be centered around someone trying to trick or defraud a retailer; GP's is about simple, straightforward delegation.

But yes, agreed, businesses have the right to refuse service to anyone (outside of illegal discrimination).

We should fight it, though, when those refusals are backed by anti-consumer practices. It's pretty clear that Amazon doesn't like agent-mediated purchases because it allows the customer to bypass Amazon's ability to put sponsored products in front of you, and try to get you to buy related and add-on products along with what you actually want.

Sure, it is their right to do that, but as consumers I think we shouldn't be complacent and just take what the big shopping overlords feed us. Consolidation (and races to the bottom such as this) is making it harder and harder to find competing retailers and products when we want to vote with our wallets as to what kinds of shopping experiences are acceptable.

And the bottom line is that if Amazon realizes that they're losing sales because people want to use AI agents to buy things, and they're banning those agents, they'll change their tune. But that only works so long as there are alternatives with better practices, and, well... there aren't many.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-04 22:26:35+00:00
High barriers to entry have nothing to do with free markets.

>In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers.

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

As long as a buyer and seller can negotiate whatever number they want, or walk away, it is a free market.
Ask HN: What made you improve your logical reasoning?
by Nurbek-F | 2025-11-04 22:27:40+00:00
I'm a full-stack developer with 5 years of experience. Throughout my career, I always struggled with logical reasoning and especially more so the last few years as I am deep in development of complex systems.

I am a visual reasoner, I always try to imagine and visually organize any logical problem, by imagining a canvas of logic gates (My major is in EE). E.g. If A is 1 and B is 1 the output of and gate is 1 (visually).

The problem comes when these problems get a bit complex. Most people I know do it much easier. Or perhaps do it instinctively.

At times I can stare at an if statement and really struggle to focus. I try to organize it visually, lose focus and the entire circuit which I was building mentally falls apart. I really can't help it. It is part of why I'm bad at LeetCode problems as well. I always blame my past self for not learning math enough and engrave the logical problem solving instinct to my brain. I guess it is what it is...

Any advice?
by xyzzy123 | 2025-11-04 22:28:37+00:00
There are some really common flaws (traits?) that seem correlated with being the type of person who gets unusually good at engineering. Sometimes they're adaptive, sometimes they're not.

Uncompromising - I've had very good leaders who were technically excellent and had very high standards. They could give off strong "jerk" vibes to many because they had values they were not willing to compromise on. They helped produce really high quality output from the team when they were in a leadership position and part of their job was to keep everyone aligned. This seems to work best for tight knit groups though, this style is not very suitable for larger organisations or situations where there are wide differences between people's expectations around workplace culture (you need more scheming vizier for this). Can devolve into an out-of-touch silo or a cult if taken too far. Does not work out well for people who are NOT leading.

Contrarianism - can be a useful personality quirk or a massive time waster, depending on the person, role and severity. Good QA and security work demand at least a little bit of this or they would just be box tickers.

Technical fixation - Strong, fixed ideas about what the best tools and techniques are. Useful because they become strong specialists. OK if aligned with team and project, very painful if not.
by ranger_danger | 2025-11-04 22:28:38+00:00
Sorry but my $3 AWS instance is still cheaper than all of those options.

If you need a lot of, well, anything, be it compute, memory, storage, bandwidth etc., of course cloud stuff is going to be more expensive... but if you don't need that, then IMO $3/mo on-demand pricing really can't be beat when I don't have to maintain any equipment myself. Oracle also offers perpetually free VM instances if you don't mind the glow.
by saltcured | 2025-11-04 22:29:07+00:00
Honestly, that's not a CPU problem.

A laptop running below 5W needs to turn down its storage, RAM, GPU, LAN, WiFi, USB controllers, etc. The OS needs to act more like a smartphone, put everything to sleep, and use consolidated polling and interrupts for async behaviors.

I think this is the real advantage Apple has with their vertical integration. They can play a lot of complementary games between hardware and OS.
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-04 22:29:14+00:00
Honestly the number of people who get arrested for nothing more than obstinately refusing to give their name is huge. Refusal is pointless since they're going to get your name after taking you in, by refusing you're just delaying the inevitable. This is one of the many little ways that the system fucks over people who don't understand the system and/or have poor impulse control or excessively stubborn attitudes, low IQ people generally.

Basically, the laws requiring people to identify themselves are a trap set to snap on low IQ people. It's a cruel status quo, it doesn't need to be this way. Arguably the best solution would be to change the laws which require people to identify themselves. The obvious counter-argument is that this would greatly inhibit catching people who have outstanding warrants.

Face scanning tech could have the effect of disarming this trap. Instead of arresting everybody who refuses to give a name, the police can get your name through an app, learn that you have no warrants, and then tell you you're free to go instead of arresting you for no reason other than your stubborn attitude.

Overall though, I disapprove of this technology for it's potential to be scaled into massive comprehensive dragnet surveillance, very similar to what is already happening with license plate detection and traffic cameras.
by bilekas | 2025-11-04 22:29:28+00:00
I liked bootstrap, in my world (non front-end) it was a standardised way to decide on mobile screens etc. I am old so bear with me, but that was a whole thing. There was no \SPEC\ these are the things that need to be established and done, it was decided by browsers in the end.

Now, browsers are built mostly by those who ran(today it's a mess) the web. HTML schema and spec... I've never met anyone that's contributed to it in the last 10 years.

The best developers and engineers I do know, don't consider it anymore. It's been done in our eyes. The big companies took over.
by solomonb | 2025-11-04 22:29:47+00:00
I love the Whole Earth Catalog. That era of techno-utopian optimism is so exciting. I'm too young to have experienced more then the tail end of it in the 90s going to computer camp as a kid, but it felt like anything was possible and everything was connected.

It is a bit sad to see where we have landed after all that.
by jgeada | 2025-11-04 22:29:48+00:00
For reference, TSMC's yearly capital investment budget is about $50B/year (https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2025/03/07/200...)

This business is expensive, making and running fabs is way way more expensive than most anybody thinks. There are very few companies able to do it profitably.
by jimt1234 | 2025-11-04 22:30:07+00:00
IANAL but I'm curious about court challenges for these facial recognition apps/systems used by law enforcement. I knew of a guy years ago that caught a DUI based on a breathalyzer. His lawyer challenged the case and got it dismissed because the breathalyzer machine wasn't properly maintained, something about testing certifications. So, is a lawyer gonna be able to challenge these facial recognition systems, and get cases dismissed because of a failed unit test? Half-joking, but I look forward to these types of challenges.
by aleks224 | 2025-11-04 22:30:08+00:00
This was great to read. Related: Morris also discovered the predictable TCP sequence number bug and described it in his paper in 1985 http://nil.lcs.mit.edu/rtm/papers/117.pdf. Kevin Mitnick describes how he met some Israeli hackers with a working exploit only in only in 1994 (9 years later) in his book "Ghost in the Wires" (chapter 33). I tried to chronicle the events here (including the Jon Postel's RFC that did not specify how the sequence number should be chosen) https://akircanski.github.io/tcp-spoofing
by dnorlov | 2025-11-04 22:30:31+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm working on a database service that might help with a problem I've seen repeatedly: apps taking 3-10 seconds to load because data has to round-trip from us-east-1 (or wherever your backend lives).

The concept: a global sharded database, with shards deployed across 50+ edge locations, with Raft-based replication. Your data follows your users around the world. Reads and writes to the database happen in a nearby edge datacenter.

Example: Travel app user in Sydney currently waits seconds for itinerary to load (multiple 200ms round-trips to database in Virginia). With edge deployment, latency of database interactions will be down to 10-30ms.

Technical approach: a sharded global database, with SQLite for local storage, and 2PC for cross-shard transactions. PostgREST-compatible API from the device.

Background: I worked on distributed data systems at Google (Spanner) and Meta, so I'm familiar with the tradeoffs in global data distribution.

Before building an MVP, I'd love feedback from the HN community:

1. Is latency from centralized databases actually a pain point for your apps? 2. What use cases would benefit most? (mobile apps, real-time collaboration, IoT?) 3. What would worry you about moving data to the edge? (consistency, cost, complexity?) 4. Would you consider this vs. just adding a Redis cache layer?

Early documentation and details: sailwind.io

Happy to answer technical questions about the architecture.
by sylvainkalache | 2025-11-04 22:30:47+00:00
In my experience as a former SRE currently working for an incident management SaaS (Rootly).

Two main reasons: 1) The status page update is not automated. It takes time for the incident management process to go through all the steps and updating the status page is generally not the first one. It's often an overlooked one.

2) The company would rather not communicate that they are/were down, or they are not yet sure of the impact, and therefore don't yet have the correct information to share.

Of course, all modern incident platforms will offer tools to update your page super easily/in real-time. But tooling is generally not the main issue; it's process/information.
by ubermonkey | 2025-11-04 22:30:47+00:00
My go-tos for outdoor climbing were La Sportiva Mythos, which never got too stinky because (I think) they were unlined leather so retained less moisture & funk. However, the laces made them less attractive for the shorter routes in the gym, so I branched out.

I just looked at the LS site, and it's been so long I recognize nothing aside from the current iteration of the Mythos. The biohazard shoes I had were from someone else, maybe 5.10? Maybe they were UFOs?

Nothing in 5.10's lineup looks familiar to me, but apparently they were acquired by Adidas in 2011, which probably explains it.

My stanky shoes were all black with some grey accents, and closed with velcro, which made them ideal for the gym. I wore them outside exactly ONCE, to a place near Austin. They were fine until I got above the trees, and the sun started BAKING MY FEET. They got super super hot in the sun, which was very uncomfortable and relegated them to gym-only climbing thereafter.
by hitchyhocker | 2025-11-04 22:31:05+00:00
Launching Tight Studio Starter plan, a much more powerful Screen Studio alternative at only $5 per month (and $3.75 per month if you subscribe yearly).

The only thing that requires you to upgrade to $20/month plan is the AI features (AI voice and media generation).

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by znpy | 2025-11-04 22:31:18+00:00
You should look into chinese laptops using the intel n150/n250 cpus. Those have a 6W TDP.

The issue with those cpus is that they're pretty much never used in laptops meant to do anything serious. They usually are employed into cheap plastic laptops using ridiculous batteries.

I would really like the form factor of 2011-2013 thinkpads, with the chonky 90WHr battery on the back and the 12" form factor.

With a modern cpu (low tdp and low power draw) that would be unbeatable everyday carry.
by kelnos | 2025-11-04 22:31:18+00:00
I'm very concerned about the idea of about giving LLMs access to my credit card, but this is the kind of future I want. I prefer to buy products directly from manufacturers, but I keep going back to Amazon. Amazon's experience is pretty bad in many ways, but I still get value out of the fast ("free") Prime shipping, and Amazon's ability to aggregate products across different categories and manufacturers is still a strength.

I would love to be able to just type "buy me a FooCorp BarBaz" into an LLM, and have it take care of choosing the retailer based on whatever criteria I've decided, whether that's lowest price, best return policy, fastest shipping... whatever. That sounds like it could be a much better experience than what we have now.

But I do worry that a service like yours could be biased in myriad ways, and an unscrupulous owner of such a service could do shady things like allowing retailers to pay to be preferred over others. Ultimately I'd want the open source version of this that I can self-host.
by fcpk | 2025-11-04 22:31:20+00:00
yet another obsessive take on "cloud is bad and expensive" eh? I think they vastly forget the value of some SaaS offerings in terms of time saving for small companies. running and managing numerous DBs, k8s clusters, ci/cd pipelines and stateless container systems is simply impossible with a team of 1-2 people. sure if the setup is simple and only requires a few classic components, this is way cheaper and for a 99.9% SLA will work fine. otherwise it only makes sense if you had very large cloud bills and can dedicate multiple engineers to the newly created tasks.
by pplonski86 | 2025-11-04 22:31:48+00:00
Amazing! Great work. Congratulations on launch.

Few questions: 1. Can it work with tabular data, images, text and audio? 2. Data preprocessing code is deployed with the model? 3. Have you tested use cases when ML model was not needed? For example, you can simply go with average. I'm curious if agent can propose not to use ML in such case. 4. Do you have agent for model interpretation? 5. Are you using generic LLM or have your own LLM tuned on ML tasks?
by jmward01 | 2025-11-04 22:31:54+00:00
I have been interested in city planning for a while and the idea of an 'urban growth barrier' is a key concept with massive benefits. Basically, when you limit a resource, like available land, it simplifies thinking, forces inward development and and very often the 'impossible' problems go away because creative solutions come out. Maybe the chip industry will see something similar if a barrier of 'just wait till the new smaller process hits' gets put in place.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-04 22:32:14+00:00
Correct, they're not trying to be accurate. They're using methods that they know to be inaccurate against minorities to get probable cause enough to arrest and deport them. If there's an issue, if they are wrong, if they violate someone's civil liberties so what? The point is deport them by any means necessary, because when they're gone they can't fight back. The Supreme Court said racial profiling is okay as long as it's done with some other factors. They are telegraphing as long as there is some amount of "process" even if it's theatre, racially profiling is fine as far as SCOTUS is concerned.
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by reaperducer | 2025-11-04 22:32:58+00:00
American dishwashers don't have their own heater?

Some do, some don't.

The ones that do vary in ability by overall dishwasher quality.

The ones that don't are hooked up to the kitchen's hot water line.

This is considered more energy efficient because a home's hot water heater (whether electric, gas, or another fuel) is better at heating the water in a bulk capacity than a tiny heater in the dishwasher.

The downside is that the cold water between the big water heater and the dishwasher has to be purged first for it to be really effective. If your hot water heater is in the other side of the wall, no problem. If it's six rooms away, problem.
by ranger_danger | 2025-11-04 22:32:59+00:00
They have also threatened to cancel my account more than once because I typed "ipfs daemon".

https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/10327

https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/moved-ipfs-node-result-netscan-d...

>This happens with Hetzner all the time because they have no VLANs and all customers are on a single LAN and IPFS tries to discover other nodes in the same LAN by default.