MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zamadatix | 2025-11-14 17:26:41+00:00
Six figures should get you one hell of a block, it's more like 6k for a /24 IPv4 block sale.

An IPv6 block, as used here, should be "free" (as in registration fees alone).

If you register a new company with only IPv6 there are ways to get one or two "free" (as in registration fees alone) /24 IPv4 blocks to aid in NAT64 and DNS hosting for your first ASN. All in all it was something a little over 1k for me to get an Org ID + ASN + /40 IPv6 + a /23 IPv4.
by netdevphoenix | 2025-11-14 17:26:49+00:00
>Tip for AI skeptics

Assumptions you are making:

- AI = transformer ANNs

- People sceptical of transformer ANNs directly leading to AGI within any reasonable period are also sceptical of transformer ANNs directly leading to AGI any time in the far future

This kind of generalisations don't help you as the huge number of comments underneath yours likely shows
by beeflet | 2025-11-14 17:26:57+00:00
It's not just the cost, but the freedom to do what you want... With open weight models I can run them on my own hardware on the edge, work with data I am not cool with uploading, experiment with different interfaces, use them for things the original trainers did not intend, even retrain the model a bit.

I am developing a p2p program where the model runs on the end user's computer. So I don't even need to pay money for each user and have a bunch of infrastructure monetize them. It is a game changer and allows for a completely different architecture.
by gruez | 2025-11-14 17:27:12+00:00
>[Quillette] has been described as libertarian-leaning;[2][3][4] the Columbia Journalism Review called Quillette "the right wing's highly influential answer to Slate",[5] and it has been criticized as an "anti-PC soapbox"[6] and for being "reflexively contrarian".[7]

People who were skeptical at The Fraser Institute are probably also skeptical of Quillette
by oFlyingPanda | 2025-11-14 17:27:26+00:00
Thanks so much for your response, if nothing more came from this project than directly helping you - I'd consider this an absolute success.

I'm going to look into what I can do to make this more accessible for users like you. If there is anything specific you can think of in the meantime, please feel free to reach me here or at support@speakeasydev.com

If I end up getting something that I think would be useful for you, I'll let you know!!
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-11-14 17:27:43+00:00
I've used Firefox as my daily driver for years on a high end gaming laptop and have the same gripe. The dev tools are truly bad. Even outside of dev work, there's sites where I want to hide paywall or login banners by simply setting a container to "display: none;", but opening up the inspector (slow) and doing so causes the browser to freeze.
by tatjam | 2025-11-14 17:27:54+00:00
I think most people would agree that AlphaEvolve is not AGI, but any AGI system must be a bit like AlphaEvolve, in the sense that it must be able to iteratively interact with an external system towards some sort of goal stated both abstractly and using some metrics.

I like to think that the fundamental difference between AlphaEvolve and your typical genetic / optimization algorithms is the ability to work with the context of its goal in an abstract manner instead of just the derivatives of the cost function against the inputs, thus being able to tackle problems with mind-boggling dimensionality.
by mkmccjr | 2025-11-14 17:27:55+00:00
Original author here -- thank you for your thoughtful comment.

You're absolutely right that saying "SQL is useful" isn't exactly novel. My goal with the blog post was to describe the practical impact of leaning into SQL (and DuckDB) at our company.

I'm not the SQL expert on our team (that's my colleague Kian) but I've seen the difference he's made with his expertise. A lot of the work we migrated into SQL was originally implemented as the kind of multi-step pipelines you described: we used multiple libraries, wrote intermediate files, and had to translate data between different formats.

Kian recently rewrote a large stage of our pipeline so it runs entirely inside a single SQL script. It's a complicated script to be sure, but that's because the logic it implements is complex. And with CTEs, temp tables, and DuckDB's higher-order functions, it ended up being dramatically clearer than the original sprawl of code. More importantly, it's self-contained, and easy to inspect. Consolidating the logic into one place made a big difference for us.

And thank you for catching my error about the CPU type. We recently moved from an M2 Ultra servers to M4 machines, and I mistakenly conflated the two when I wrote "M4 Ultra." I've corrected the post.
by im3w1l | 2025-11-14 17:28:29+00:00
I'm certainly open to AI in my browser. It has to be done well though, to be a net positive for the user experience. A local model for naming a tab group or something as I've heard off sounds like a very reasonable thing (though it should be said I wouldn't personally use such a feature as I don't group my tabs at all).

I think it's a good thing they are experimenting with this.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-14 17:28:34+00:00
> So, 4 consoles?

as I said, 7 consoles.

> They take a loss in the first few years and make up for that with software sales, which they take a 30% cut on.

Some consoles took a loss in the first 1-2 years.

> until this generation

Nope. The early generations didn't sell at a loss. Atari 2600, NES, et cetera weren't. That practice started with PS1 / XBox and ended with PS4/XBone.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-14 17:28:47+00:00
Because the stated goal of generative AI is not to make an individual more efficient, it's to replace that individual all together and completely eliminate the bottom rungs of the professional career ladder.

Historically software that made humans more efficient resulted in empowerment for the individual, and also created a need for new skilled roles. Efficiency gains were reinvested into the labor market. More people could enter into higher paying work.

With generative AI, if these companies achieve their stated goals, what happens to the wealth generated by the efficiency?

If we automate agriculture and manufacturing, the gain is distributed as post-scarciaty wealth to everyone.

If we automate the last few remaining white-collar jobs that pay a living wage, the gain is captured entirely by the capital owners & investors via elimination of payroll, while society only loses one of its last high-paying ladders for upward mobility.

Nobody lost their career because we built a faster operating system or a better compiler. With generative AI's stated goals, any efficiency gains are exclusively for those at the very top, while everyone else gets screwed.

Now, I'll concede and say, that's not the AI companies' fault. I'm not saying we shouldn't magically stop developing this technology, but we absolutely need our governments to start thinking about the ramifications it can have and start seriously considering things like UBI to be prepared for when the bottom falls out of the labor market.
by jlarocco | 2025-11-14 17:28:50+00:00
I meant they've always had a reputation for being ruthless business people. Charging license fees based on the amount of memory in the host machine instead of the VM running Oracle, and things like that. They nickle and dime everything.

https://investor.oracle.com/investor-news/news-details/2025/...

They don't break it out into products in the results, but it looks like hardware, software, cloud, and support were all profitable.
by tengbretson | 2025-11-14 17:30:06+00:00
What I meant was not so much a statement about a parent's influence on a child's entrepreneurial ambitions, but more so that the author's dismissal of a person's inherent qualities would seem laughable to someone that has experience interacting with young children.

I have no way of knowing or proving what is or isn't "genetic". However, there are absolutely proto-entrepreneurial traits, a sort of hustler mentality that is blindingly obvious to see that some kids seem just "have it" and others don't. I would argue that this disposition is identifiable as early as two years old. Does that come from money? I would need much more evidence than the referenced study to believe that.

I think my major gripe comes from the way the article attempts to base this conclusion on the NBER paper. The paper measures material outcomes and rightfully correlates them with the financial opportunities of the participants. This says nothing about the personality traits that make someone an entrepreneur.
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-14 17:30:06+00:00
Speak for yourself, I do want to see Mozilla experimenting with new features and functionality opened up by new technology. Politically motivated technological stagnation is little more than a slow death, Mozilla should at least be trying new things. And yes, they will get some of it wrong. It's new technology, nobody really knows how to use it yet. Mozilla should be on the forefront of figuring it out.
by Nevermark | 2025-11-14 17:30:24+00:00
I get the skepticism about the dramedy of burning future AGI in effigy. But given humans are always a dramady, I don’t judge odd or hyperbolic behaviors too harshly from a distance.

It’s too easy to dismiss others’ idiosyncrasies and miss the signal. And the story involves a successful and capable person communicating poetically about an area they have a track record in that probably the author of this article and most of us can’t compete with.

I am struck by any technical person that still thinks AGI is any kind of barrier, or what they expect the business plan of a leader in AI, with a global list of competitors, is supposed to look like?

AGI is talked about like a bright line, but it’s more a line of significance to us than any kind of technical barrier.

This isn’t writing. Although that changed everything.

This isn’t the printing press. Although that changed everything.

This isn’t the telegraph. Although that changed everything.

This isn’t the phonograph, radio communication, the Internet, web or mobile phones. Although those changed everything.

This is intelligence. The meta technology of all technology.

And intelligence is the part of the value chain that we currently earn a living at. In the biosphere. In the econosphere.

The artificial kind is moving forward very fast, despite every delay seeming to impress people. “We haven’t achieved X yet” isn’t an argument at any time, but certainly not in the context of today’s accelerated progress.

It is moving forward faster than any single human, growing up from birth, ever has or ever will, if it helps to think of it that way.

Nor is, “they haven’t replaced us yet” an argument. We were always going to be replaced. We didn’t repeal the laws of competition and adaptation “this time”.

Our species was never going to maintain supremacy after we unleashed technology’s ability to accumulate capabilities faster than we or any biological machine could ever hope to evolve.

It isn’t even a race is it? How fast is the Human Bio Intelligence Enhancements Department going? Or the Human Intelligence Breeding Club? Not very fast I think.

Very few AI die hards ever imagined we would be anywhere near this close to AGI today, in 2025, even five years ago, circa Ancient (i.e. January) 2020. There is a dose of singularity.

Yet in retrospect, 99% of AI progress is attributable to faster and more transistors. Today’s architectures fine tune algorithms that existed in the mid-1980’s. Getting here was more about waiting for computer hardware to be ready than anything else. Current investments don’t reflect that main driver stalling, but exploding.

Once we have AGI, we will have already passed it. Or, more accurately, it will have passed us. Don’t spend much time imagining a stable karmic world of parity. Other than as a historically nice trope for some fun science fiction where our continued supremacy made for good story. That’s not what compounding progress looks like.

Chaotically compounding progress has been the story of life. And then tech. It isn’t going to suddenly stop for us.

What an odd and transparently motivated thought.
by devilbunny | 2025-11-14 17:30:49+00:00
Google Wave... what an amazing piece of work just thrown in the trash.

I never used any of its collaboration features, just looked at them. I did use it as a friendly-for-non-geeks version of IRC for a group of people that lived in three separate cities as a virtual watch party for LOST. And for that, it was spectacular even if it was painfully slow on a netbook (so was everything else, but it was cheap and light and worked).
by lone-cloud | 2025-11-14 17:30:51+00:00
I would personally never use an out-of-the-box browser because of this. Instead of Firefox I use(d) LibreWolf which strips out all the Mozilla trash. I'd argue that all gecko-based browsers are "bad" and Mozilla has been largely incompetent for many, many years now with failing to modernize their browser engine. As I remember, their current CEO fired the entire team responsible for a modernizing their browser codebase in order to focus on the type of crap described in this article. I strongly believe that by far the best browser out there right now is Brave. However, as with Firefox, it's pretty terrible out-of-the-box and you have to add "local company policy" files in order to be able to strip out all of its web3, AI and other crap that nobody wants. In a way, all modern browsers are the same. I can't wait for more serious competition although I'm doubtful that's it's really possible due to the sheer complexity of the problem, but I do realize that there are some serious contenders coming up in the next few years.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-14 17:31:06+00:00
"Reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao, I was struck by how people associated with OpenAI believe in AGI. They really do think someone, perhaps them, will build AGI, and that it will lead to either the flourishing or destruction of humanity."

"I think it's remarkable that what was until recently sci-fi fantasy has become a mainstream view in Silicon Valley."

I think the use of the term "believe" is remarkable

According to the "AI experts" there are "believers" and "skeptics"

Science fiction is exactly that: fiction

For decades, software developers cannot stop using the word "magic", "magically", etc.

Silicon Valley is a place for believers

A place where promoters like Steve Jobs can, according to one Apple employee, distort reality^1

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum

Some people enjoy science fiction and fantasy. Others may not care for it. It's a matter of taste
by floor2 | 2025-11-14 17:32:05+00:00
Peter Attia is a graduate of Stanford medical school and spent 5 years in surgical residency at Johns Hopkins, and his podcast is largely using his expertise to give context to recently published research. His opinions are always pretty directly linked to peer reviewed research and he updates his stances as new research becomes available and explains why (eg, his shift away from fasting).

He really shouldn't be lumped in with the general "health and fitness Youtubers".
by gloomyday | 2025-11-14 17:32:15+00:00
One of the biggest problems in environmental education (imo) is the lack of notion regarding the footprint of products and services we consume daily; from the water and CO2 costs of a meal, of a heated pool, of a car, etc. It is eye-opening.

I first came across this type of info with the book "How Bad Are Bananas", from Mike Berners-Lee. I really enjoyed it, and I just saw that the new edition even includes stuff like hosting a World Cup, data centers, and space tourism!

It should give a good foundation to start talking about it.
by mmaunder | 2025-11-14 17:32:33+00:00
"We see a lot of promise in AI browser features making your online experience smoother, more helpful, and free from the everyday disruptions that break your flow."

You can almost taste the hand-waviness here. Smoother, helpful, free from disruptions - has absolutely no meaning, and that's intentional because they have no idea what the actual value prop is of having "AI" - whatever functionality and capability that actually is - in the browser.
by epistasis | 2025-11-14 17:32:39+00:00
> If the mere sight of the above is like a punch in the face for you, don't worry. I'm not going to math you to death in what follows. I will only remind you of a tiny basic part of it that I think relates to languages.

Yes, that mathematical expression is like a punch in my face, but not for the reason you think. I am offended that the rank of the matrix does not match the dimension of the matrix, not that I'm seeing a matrix.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-14 17:32:40+00:00
Exactly. I've never stopped using Firefox, I've stopped recommending it because I can't support it (literally, meaning guide the people I recommend it to through annoyances and problems.) I only use it myself through Debian, I cram it with extensions to get old functionality back and give me some measure of privacy, and make tons of userChrome changes to get everything to look halfway sane (i.e. like it looked out of the box in 2010.)

I'm not helping somebody non-technical with that, and without that, I can't really recommend it over Chrome; they're both controlled by Google. I can tell them that Firefox is better for adblocking, for now, until they gaslight everyone and revert to following Chrome's tail on absolutely everything again.

But if Firefox were a real public service browser, they would have brought uBlock in-house a long time ago by employing gorhill (along with a bunch of other extensions, especially Tree Style Tabs.) Instead, they danced around shutting down its APIs just like Chrome until they decided not to (or until Google decided for them, because Firefox doing that would have annihilated Google in antitrust hearings.) There is absolutely no reason to be confident that Firefox won't be "regretfully" or "unfortunately" right in on "Manifest V4."
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-14 17:33:05+00:00
> In the interview with Joe Rogan, one thing that jumped out at me was when he says, Democrats are now the party of the rich and the poor and Republicans are the party of the middle, but like, I could just vibe he didn't give a fuck about what he was saying, it just sounded good and was useful to him to say in that political moment.

What does it mean for you to have vibed that he didn't give a fuck about what he was saying? This pithy observation about contemporary US poltical parties isn't unique to him and doesn't seem obviously incorrect. This seems like a pretty normal thing to state on a podcast like the one Joe Rogan does.
by rich_sasha | 2025-11-14 17:33:22+00:00
I love Linux and vastly prefer it to Windows, but whenever people tell me Linux is vastly more stable than Windows, I think of the whol X11/Wayland saga.

I still scarcely know what these are. In fact I actively don't want to know about compositors and whatnot. When I want GUIs, I just want to see them.

I can list many crappinesses of Windows, but stuff like this kinda just works.
by pancakeguy | 2025-11-14 17:33:32+00:00
It's cool that this is possible on a single node but I still think distributed is the way.

The point of these tools is productivity. What are you trying to accomplish and how long does it take to accomplish? This includes time spent writing code and fussing with configs. This would take <1min to run and <10 to write on a cluster. Happy to might make a demo to prove it.

Yes cost matters also, but running many machines for a short period of time is the same as one for a long time? Open to honest rebuttal.
by timeinput | 2025-11-14 17:33:38+00:00
If you have ublock enabled 3 does not imply 2. I strongly suspect that 3 does not imply 2 generally, but I don't know enough to put any weight behind that statement.

It's a regular occurrence that I visit a page with firefox either on android, or desktop linux, and a basically default ublock origin that fails to render. I generally then try the page in an incognito tab, and then try the page in chrome and it loads, and displays properly.

I'm also maybe moving the goal posts from "have feature parity with Chrome, and render HTML correctly" to "I never have to use vanilla chrome, because vanilla firefox just works". There are cases where sites claim DRM issues with firefox which I can kind of understand, but there are other sites that just refuse to work with vanilla firefox that work with chrome. I of course can't really point to any examples, because they're not sites I regularly visit, but they definitely exist.
by lynndotpy | 2025-11-14 17:33:38+00:00
Almonds are pretty cherry picked here as notorious for their high water use. Notably, we're not betting an entire economy and pouring increasing resources into almond production, either. Your example would be even more extreme if you chose crops like the corn used to feed cattle. Feeding cows alone requires 21.2 trillion gallons per year in the US.

The people advocating for sustainable usage of natural resources have already been comparing the utility of different types of agriculture for years.

Comparatively, tofu is efficient to produce in terms of land use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water use, and can be made shelf-stable.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-14 17:33:45+00:00
> I'm not sure what you mean WRT "hemp" being more "regulated" than the black market.

Just basic laws around farming. For example, lead arsenate is banned in the US, and I trust the hemp farmers to not be using it as much as I trust any similar operation, but someone illegally growing stuff? They're already breaking the law. And who knows where it was grown to begin with?

And in general, there are companies behind all of this. There are names. Legal recourse if shit goes wrong. Who am I going to sue if I find out that the shit Bob has been selling me has been full of harmful pesticides or if the oil was full of some harmful additive, etc.?
by rsyring | 2025-11-14 17:34:16+00:00
https://blog.ctms.me/about/

It would appear from the about page and the article that he has the requisite skills to earn an income that should move him out of the "poor" category:

- auto mechanic

- digital tech

- landscaping

I'm not trying to dismiss the difficult realities associated with being poor. But if you have the skills to make more money and bring your family out of the "poor" category, why wouldn't you do that? IMO, basic financial security for your family should trump "I like to work outside."

He obviously has different priorities, which is fine. But I'm not sure the search for sympathy/empathy in the blog post is warranted.
by janalsncm | 2025-11-14 17:34:17+00:00
Whisper is an encoder decoder transformer. The input is audio spectrograms, the output is text tokens. It is an improvement over old school transcription methods because it’s trained on audio transcripts, so it makes contextually plausible predictions.

Idk what the definition of an LLM is but it’s indisputable that the technology behind whisper is a close cousin to text decoders like gpt. Imo the more important question is how these things are used in the UX. Decoders don’t have to be annoying, that is a product choice.