MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacquesm | 2025-11-18 13:23:18+00:00
Before you have that working you'll have 3D printed a containerload of these ;)

Besides the lack of flexibility if you want to make changes. I've used soft tooling for some projects but I was (1) never really happy with the results and (2) ended up breaking the molds quite often resulting in a lot of wasted material and expense. 3D printing is the way to go for projects such as these.
by Yizahi | 2025-11-18 13:23:58+00:00
At a guess, he does have empathy. He didn't know how to get that empathy across, to the other person, and these are the stages he went through in learning how to do it. You see, the intent and the execution can be completely or partially divorced in some people. I can truly empathize the other person, the beginning of the process is there, but I wouldn't know the right words, tone or gestures hot to proceed with my empathy. And then it is fifty/fifty, maybe a person would decide to ignore my lack of execution and will start deep dialog on their own and then my empathy can allow me to honestly respond and continue it. Or maybe they will decide not to do it and the deep dialog wouldn't happen in the first place.

Not every closed-in and awkward person is lacking empathy.
by keiferski | 2025-11-18 13:24:19+00:00
Firstly, most people aren't billionaires. Nor do I think EA is somehow novel in suggesting that a billionaire should buy nets instead of help directly.

Secondly, you're missing the point I'm making, which is why many people find EA distasteful: it completely focuses on outcomes and not internal character, and it arrives at these incomes by abstract formulae. This is how we ended up with increasingly absurd claims like "I'm a better person because I work at BigCo and make $250k a year, then donate 10% of it, than the person that donates their time toward helping their community directly." Or "AGI will lead to widespread utopia in the future, therefore I'm ethically superior because I'm working at an AI company today."

I really don't think anyone is critical of EA because they think being inefficient with charity dollars is a good thing, so that is a strawman. People are critical of the smarmy attitude, the implication that other altruism is ineffective, and the general detached, anti-humanistic approach that the people in that movement portray.

The problems with it are not much different from utilitarianism itself, which EA is just a half-baked shadow of. As someone else in this comment section said, unless you have a sense of virtue ethics underlying your calculations, you end up with absurd, anti-human conclusions that don't make much sense to anyone with common sense.

There's also the very basic argument that maybe directly helping other people leads to a better world overall, and serves as an example than just spending money abstractly. That counterargument never occurs to the EA/rationalist crowd, because they're too obsessed with some master rational formula for success.
by firecall | 2025-11-18 13:24:19+00:00
Sadly, AI bots and crawlers have made CF the only affordable way to actually keep my sites up without incurring excessive image serving costs.

Those TikTok AI crawlers were destroying some of my sites.

Millions of images served to ByteSpider bots, over and over again. They wouldn't stop. It was relentless abuse. :-(

Now I've just blocked them all with CF.
by npteljes | 2025-11-18 13:24:49+00:00
LTSC is basically a trimmed-down version of Windows. Whatever is possible in Home, Pro, Enterprise etc, is possible in the LTSC as well. Most of the LTSC surprise comes from the lack of features. For example, I installed the "LTSC N" version back in the day, and that didn't even had codecs, so when I opened Reddit in Firefox, the videos didn't play. But even that was easily amended by just installing a specific update.

In case you want a community around it as well, Reddit was helpful for me.
by nik_ca | 2025-11-18 13:25:55+00:00
That sounds like perfect match for XMPP / Jabber. You can set up a server on your domain (e.g. 'Prosody') and then two XMPP clients that support calls (e.g. 'Conversations' for android) will be able to initiate voice/video calls, just like in telegram/whatsapp/viber/etc. More over, XMPP works like an e-mail, so user1@xmpp.org can message/call user2@yourdomian.com (if you allow your server to federate with other servers). Setting it up is not very simple though, you'd also need to set up STUN/TURN properly for direct calls and file transfers.
by edwcross | 2025-11-18 13:26:22+00:00
The article does not mention much about firmware.

The main reason I stopped using Lineage is because I got a Pixel and wanted to keep maximum picture quality with it. Open-source photo applications, from what I understood, cannot access all of the hardware features to get photos as good as Google's app.

Is it enough to get the Google Camera APK somewhere else and use it? Or do I really need to keep the OS as Google intended, in order to get best picture quality? I don't have the time lately to do much tinkering and compare it by myself.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-18 13:26:26+00:00
AI scrapes internet from millions of IPs worldwide proving an orchestrated, intelligent, botnet effectually becoming a large percentage of total internet traffic overnight.

Internet responds by retreating to behind a single cloud provider who can mysteriously keep ai at bay... Same provider network is probably responsible for the near instantaneous distribution of AI traffic to begin with.

Internet's last bastion of hope is attacked, rather quickly, and half of the internet is scrambling to remember how to administer DNS (The other half never knew).
by grabcadder | 2025-11-18 13:26:34+00:00
Happy for you :)

I am curious about these two things:

1- Does GCP also have any outages recently similar to AWS, Azure or CF? If a similar size (14 TB?) DDoS were to hit GCP, would it stand or would it fail?

2- If this DDoS was targeting Fly.io, would it stand? :)
by fariszr | 2025-11-18 13:26:38+00:00
This is a big jump in most benchmarks.And if it can match other models in coding while having that Google TPM inference speed and the actually native 1m context window, it's going to be a big hit.

I hope it's isn't such a sycophant like the current gemini 2.5 models, it makes me doubt its output, which is maybe a good thing now that I think about it.
by p_l | 2025-11-18 13:26:50+00:00
My understanding is that GlosSI isn't actually required for using Steam Controller, but what it does is add SteamInput, aka the whole complex rebinding layer that also handles things like custom multi-level menus etc. to games that expect X360 controller and do not cooperate with steam.

I might be wrong, but it sounds like it's handling a different area
by HereBePandas | 2025-11-18 13:27:02+00:00
Not apples-to-apples. "Codex CLI (GPT-5.1-Codex)", which the site refers to, adds a specific agentic harness, whereas the Gemini 3 Pro seems to be on a standard eval harness.

It would be interesting to see the apples-to-apples figure, i.e. with Google's best harness alongside Codex CLI.
by krauses | 2025-11-18 13:27:09+00:00
What do we actually lose going from cloud back to ground?

The mass centralization is a massive attack vector for organized attempts to disrupt business in the west.

But we’re not doing anything about it because we’ve made a mountain at of a molehill. Was it that hard to manage everything locally?

I get that there’s plenty of security implications going that route, but it would be much harder to bring down t large portions of online business with a single attack.
by misswaterfairy | 2025-11-18 13:27:11+00:00
> We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access [their 'zero-trust network access solution'] and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates. > We have re-enabled WARP access in London.

> We are continuing to work towards restoring other services. > Posted 12 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:13 UTC

Now I'm really suspicious that they were attacked...
by phantasmish | 2025-11-18 13:27:11+00:00
All of housing, education, and healthcare have gotten more expensive way faster than wages have risen, in the US.

People are upset about it because together those things, plus the end of the pension somewhat earlier, mean the death of the middle class, the idea of which was a pretty big part of American post-war identity.

More economic drag on getting educated, more economic drag on becoming a property owner and the security that provides, healthcare costs are a drag on accumulating money for younger generations and will soak up anything their parents managed to accumulate. Middle class = dead.
by bayindirh | 2025-11-18 13:27:36+00:00
For me, motivation matters. If you want to learn social skills to make your life easier while not harming others, that's perfectly fine, admirable even, but if you learn it to damage others for your own profit, that's immoral.

Same for the motivation of surgeries. You might not be comfortable with yourself, and want to change something, and that's perfectly fine, but again to changing appearance signal something to benefit you and harm others with less effort, it's immoral again.

And, I believe, if you need to change how you behave or look to get acceptance from a circle, this means the circle is toxic and you'll be far happier elsewhere.
by rsp1984 | 2025-11-18 13:27:55+00:00
While I have no issues believing that the outlined strategies are effective, and I sincerely congratulate the author on his journey, there is a flip side to engineering "social normalcy" that IMO the author is missing:

Any reasonably "normal" person (anyone that's not severely autistic) will find there are people that we effortlessly connect with and many others we don't. It's the natural state.

Now in any sufficiently intelligent and psychologically OK person the act of eliciting / pushing emotional connection with people from the latter group (where there's no natural connection) should trigger a certain amount of internal disgust.

The fact that it doesn't seem to be the case with the author would indicate that he's more of an outlier. Based on his writing he does seem intelligent and psychologically OK, so there might be other factors at play. My point is that his journey might not be transferable 1:1.
by mlrtime | 2025-11-18 13:28:03+00:00
There is nothing else to do since CF is down... so.

There is nothing wrong with shouting during a perceived outage. Shouting is just raising your voice to give a notion of urgency. Yelling is different.

How often have you heard "shout at me", or something like that?

OP, continue you to shout when its needed, just don't yell at people you work with ;)
by twodave | 2025-11-18 13:28:13+00:00
Can’t speak for GP but ultimately I’d rather it be my fault or my company’s fault so I have something I can directly do for my customers who can’t use our software. The sense of dread isn’t about failure but feeling empathy for others who might not make payroll on time or whatever because my service that they rely on is down. And the second order effects, like some employee of a customer being unable to make rent or be forced to take out a short term loan or whatever. The fallout from something like this can have an unexpected human cost at times. Thankfully it’s Tuesday, not a critical payroll day for most employees.
by basch | 2025-11-18 13:28:55+00:00
ChatGPT's moat is their name and user habit. People who are using it will keep using it. All/most of the products are _good enough_ for the people who already got used to using them, that they arent exploring competitors.

Microsoft has the chance of changing habit the most by virtue of being bundled into business contracts that have companies with policies not allowing any other product in the workplace.
by simondotau | 2025-11-18 13:28:56+00:00
> evidence of the Kafkaesque nature

Based on my understanding of Kafka, to fit the definition, funerals would be essential goods whose costs should be socially guaranteed. In reality, a funeral is a discretionary event about the deceased and for the living. Crowdfunding for the benefit of the crowd is not an inversion of responsibility, it's simply voluntary collective spending.

You could say it's an inversion of societal norms, but that's not Kafkaesque.
by achow | 2025-11-18 13:29:09+00:00
The published paper:

(Pdf link) hhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65586-2.pdf

Key takeaways:

- Traditional (Solar): Typically limited to 1 cycle per day. Sorbents collect moisture at night and use sunlight to release it during the day. Requires a large horizontal footprint to maximize exposure to sunlight.

- Ultrasonic: Can perform multiple cycles per day. The extraction takes only 2 mins, and the hydrogels used can adsorb moisture in about 40 minutes. This allows the system to continuously cycle 24/7, rather than waiting for the sun. Allows for vertical stacking (e.g., 5+ rows high) without losing efficiency, drastically increasing the water output for the same amount of land area.

- Ultrasonic per day output: 3.25 L (1 layer) to 16.25 L (5 layer)
by aurareturn | 2025-11-18 13:29:10+00:00
Although the size of the gains varied across regions, the iPhone 17 was consistently faster. The improvements also seem disproportionally greater in areas with weak signal. That means the new iPhones with the N1 chip fare better in the worst conditions, than how the older iPhones with Qualcomm modems handled these environments.

The article is confusing Apple's N1 chip with their C1X chip. This is WiFi test, not 4G/5G. This means the N1 chip is faster than the Broadcom networking chip it replaced for WiFi.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-18 13:29:31+00:00
This whole category of decision making basically consists of taking observable things and then using them to infer other things despite the correlations often only being barely better than a coin toss. It's the same logic by which the police harass you more if you check more bad demographic checkboxes.

You can make an argument that it's different because the stuff being measured is at the other end of the "how easily can they change it" spectrum but that doesn't change the fundamental accuracy of the correlation. Something like this shouldn't be used for anything serious.
by anonymoushn | 2025-11-18 13:29:39+00:00
The framing in this post is really weird. Automated evals can be much more informative than unit tests because the results can be much more fine grained. A/B testing in production is not suitable for determining whether all of one's internal experiments are successful or not.

I don't doubt that Raindrop's product is worthwhile to model vendors, but the post seems like its audience is C suite folks who have no clue how anything works. Do their most important customers even have any of these?
by DrierCycle | 2025-11-18 13:29:46+00:00
Documentaries are subjective models, reducing events into opinionated sequences. All news is like this, every article that makes statements is essentially an opinion. In a way, AI becomes the perpetual disproof, "it was always this weird, this buggy, this lossy, it took the technology of arbitrary visuals in automata to demonstrate this once and for all."
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-11-18 13:29:54+00:00
That's a little happy fairy tale with extra sparkly fairy dust on top but what all that free markets have given us in practice is misery, despair, war, destruction and environmental catastrophe.

Capitalism is “the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds.”

(Attributed to J. M. Keynes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes#Attributed)

P.S. It doesn't help of course that "free" markets are never really free because they are very quickly taken over by the "nastiest men" etc. and the last thing those people care about is freedom, particularly that of the markets they make their money from.

See for instance the subject of ticket touts. There is no free market in online ticket reselling because the entire market's cornered by bot farmers who buy tickets in bulk automatically the moment they are made available and leave none for anyone else. "Free" market, my sweet little hiney.

And btw, in the UK the same thing happens with driving test slots:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn09v4d2xe7o
by HereBePandas | 2025-11-18 13:30:50+00:00
You're right on SWE Bench Verified, I missed that and I'll delete my comment.

GPT 5.1 Codex beats Gemini 3 on Terminal Bench specifically on Codex CLI, but that's apples-to-oranges (hard to tell how much of that is a Codex-specific harness vs model). Look forward to seeing the apples-to-apples numbers soon, but I wouldn't be surprised if Gemini 3 wins given how close it comes in these benchmarks.
by xtiansimon | 2025-11-18 13:32:05+00:00
> “The census takers have a very limited ability to compel you to answer…”

True. But it’s about the data, right? I worked the 2010 census in my town. Obviously there is the escalation from mail-in to visit. But I recall there was some additional level after a refusal. In other words they don’t just treat a non-responsive or hostile home as a vacant lot.
by fbrchps | 2025-11-18 13:32:32+00:00
That was something we discussed at my workplace.

Prior hosting provider was a little-known company with decent enough track record, but because they employed humans, stuff would break. When it did break, C-suite would panic about how much revenue is lost, etc.

The number of outages was "reasonable" to anyone who understood the technical side, but non-technical would complain for weeks after an outage about how we're always down, "well BigServiceX doesn't break ever, why do we?", and again lost revenue.

Now on Azure/Cloudflare, we go down when everyone else does, but C-Suite goes "oh it's not just us, and it's out of our control? Okay let us know when it fixes itself."

A great lesson in optics and perception, for our junior team members.
by modo_mario | 2025-11-18 13:32:38+00:00
I've had similar experiences to you. I never can quite get that normalcy. I now just take rilatin but it is finnicky. Getting enough sleep and eating the right amount of the right stuff just before ingesting is extremely important so I don't even take it all that much even tho i struggle.

I wonder if you tried lisdexamfetamine? I can't get it prescribed easily here since it's not covered the way the alternatives are but someone i know had amazing success with it. Seemingly because it's a prodrug. I can't help but be hopefull that I'll get to try it one day and that it ends up being what I always needed.
by aberoham | 2025-11-18 13:32:40+00:00
Someone running cloudflared accidentally advertising a critical route into their Warp namespace and somehow disrupting routes for internal Cloudflare services doesn't seem too far fetched.

We vibe coded a tool to mass disconnect Cloudflare Warp for incident responders: https://github.com/aberoham/unwarp

To go along with the shenanigans around dealing with MITM traffic inspection https://github.com/aberoham/fuwarp
by galangalalgol | 2025-11-18 13:32:52+00:00
The simplest pure functional way would be to copy the whole database instantiating a new copy with the desired change if the condition was met. That obviously doesn't scale, which is where the performance thing comes in. A still pure way would be to use a persistent tree or hash mapped trie that allows efficient reuse of the original db. There are times a purely functional approach doesn't perform well enough, but even with large scale entity component type systems in both rust and c++, the number of times I've had to use a mutex to be performant is small. Atomic is much more common, but still not common. Persistent data structures alleviate most of the need.
by _factor | 2025-11-18 13:33:49+00:00
So you would rather be incompetent than powerless? Choice of third party vendor on client facing services is still on you, so maybe you prefer your incompetence be more direct and tangible?

Even still, you should have policies in place to mitigate such eventualities, that way you can focus the incompetence into systematic issues instead. The larger the company, the less acceptable these failures become. Lessons learned is a better excuse for a shake and break startup than an established player that can pay to be secure.

At some point, the finger has to be pointed. Personally, I don't dread it pointing elsewhere. Just means I've done my due D and C.
by shelled | 2025-11-18 13:34:04+00:00
Not exactly on the backend, but I worked on the frontend (SDKs) at a previous employer whose product offering was fraud detection literally. Over the period of those years, I realised the team wanted "get whatever you can" and then just kept it and used it as needed. A few things I recall - heuristics, some matches with data sources they had of fraudulent actors, et cetera. I am talking about the time when "AI" as we know it was just picking up, and that company was actually calling these systems ML-backed. They pivoted to "AI" as soon as the term became more commonplace, and in the beginning it was just the name change, but I am sure they'd have changed the systems as well, or I hope so.

I can tell you that any kind of "abnormal" combination of system metadata (basically sysinfo) was technically frowned upon by that team, and of course, the system was designed by that team. So, say you had a rooted Android (we had solutions for all devices out there; pretty much) - naughty boy, the system suspected you of spoofing GPS - instant reject, disabling GPS - it was not a mandatory permission in the app (and we asked for it only for some clients) – but it didn't like it, you had changed the default resolution of the system - suspicious, we also captured typing/tapping speed (not only for text entry but also for interacting with the interface) - too fast was considered weird because you were not supposed to have known our interface (because it was interact once or twice in a lifetime or years, kind of thing).

I am speaking more from memory of new joinee intros and rare discussions with the team. The team was kinda "different," so other teams just wanted to avoid them and also wanted them to stay away from other teams. So a lot of things might not sound exciting, might not be accurate either and these are not technical observations anyway.

Another aspect I just remembered. Say you had an app list (oh, we read that too) that matched with known fraudulent actors datasets, you had app(s) that showed you were not well off (we served a lot of instant loan givers around the world), you had an old phone, your OS was very old – all these things were taken into account, along with your PII (which were of course mandatory), when their backend received the data and we gave the final reco/score to the client's system in the API response.
by vharish | 2025-11-18 13:34:44+00:00
From my personal experience using the CLI agentic coding tools, I think gemini-cli is fairly on par with the rest in terms of the planning/code that is generated. However, when I recently tried qwen-code, it gave me a better sense of reasoning and structure that geimini. Claude definitely has it's own advantages but is expensive(at least for some if not for all).

My point is, although the model itself may have performed in benchmarks, I feel like there are other tools that are doing better just by adapting better training/tooling. Gemini cli, in particular, is not so great looking up for latest info on web. Qwen seemed to be trained better around looking up for information (or to reason when/how to), in comparision. Even the step-wise break down of work felt different and a bit smoother.

I do, however, use gemini cli for the most part just because it has a generous free quota with very few downsides comparted to others. They must be getting loads of training data :D.