MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nightpool | 2025-11-10 18:49:14+00:00
I can see where you're coming from, but I do think there's a fair amount of meat here. I've never used Zig, but I initially thought of it as pretty similar to other modern languages like Go and Rust, and I liked their allocator approach, but the post gives compelling statistics (Bun has almost EIGHT times as many crash issues as Deno over a similar number of tickets) on Zig's memory safety approach and its issues that also line up with my experience. I used Bun for a small data-collection project, and I liked its performance, but I ran into a lot of issues with it segfaulting (even when just passing a command line argument that was added in the most recent version!). I think that does a good job of motivating OP's argument and how Zig's language semantics directly contribute to these issues.
by incomingpain | 2025-11-10 18:49:16+00:00
>Real question: Is any serious person advocating Canada abandon the West for China? What's their analysis here? If anyone has an article I can read I would love to do that.

In Canada? Oh yes, many serious liberals are advocating ending with usa and becoming an ally with china. About a month ago: https://globalnews.ca/news/11490896/canada-strategic-partner...

Which resulted in the USA suspending all trade talks with Canada the next day.

But over the last decade, the liberals also have ordered various anti-china divestments: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article...

not to mention: https://electrek.co/2025/10/27/canada-rumored-immently-remov...

Which this 'imminent' factor never happened, but what was imminent was right before this was the announcement of various auto manufacturing moving production out of canada. Not really much to do with china, more of a screw you to the big 3.

China and Canada dont have a free trade agreement. The FIPA agreement is likely to be ended soon as it's possible.

Going from the antagonistic to a major trade deal and changing to chinese alliance would be a bizarre change though.
by asdfwertertdsfg | 2025-11-10 18:49:19+00:00
I'd guess the rationale went something like "why are we protecting a camera system to a public museum, where anyone can see whatever is there by walking in"?

Of course, this also means we don't need Lester Crest to help us find out the vault contents (so no need to hack the security guard's phone for the wifi password either).
by chrisischris | 2025-11-10 18:49:34+00:00
I was hitting Claude Code's rate limit pretty often while paying for their max subscription. Started thinking – I've got a decent GPU sitting at home doing nothing most of the day.

So I'm building a distributed AI inference platform where you can run models on your own hardware and access it from anywhere privately. Keep your data on infrastructure you control, but also leverage a credit system to tap into more powerful compute when you need it. Your idle GPU time can earn credits for accessing bigger models. The goal is making it dead simple to use your home hardware from wherever you're working.

It's for anyone who wants infrastructure optionality: developers who don't want vendor lock-in, businesses with compliance requirements, or just people who don't want their data sent to third parties.

Get notified when we launch: https://sporeintel.com
by Kerrick | 2025-11-10 18:49:38+00:00
The closest I've found is VeraCrypt, which is near the edge of what I'd call layperson-friendly. But if you store a VeraCrypt drive on the cloud, you'll need to re-upload the entire encrypted file--usually quite large--every time you change anything at all. That's a _lot_ of bandwidth, and likely to be quite slow to sync.
by guywithahat | 2025-11-10 18:49:49+00:00
It's interesting how much Rust has slowed down. There is still some development in linux otherwise people seem to be over it. I think Rust just doesn't offer enough in terms of features, and is overshadowed by languages like Go or C++ in terms of what developers are really looking for. Rust's popularity seems to be dropping or holding steady in indexes like TIOBE, and a lot of big "influencers" seem to be over Rust's hype cycle
by njarboe | 2025-11-10 18:50:12+00:00
Radio and especially TV also had large social effects. People used to play cards, instruments, and other social things before TV. Then household TV watching maxxed at 9 hours/day in 2010 (5hr/d in 1950). (Would like to know the per person watching and these are from Nielsen who would want higher numbers) [1].

Cars help people be social in my world. I would say that riding on a train in your own bubble with strangers is not a social activity, but others would disagree.

[1]https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/when-did-tv-watching-p...
by alephnerd | 2025-11-10 18:50:28+00:00
1. Operational work is difficult to justify extremely high TCs

2. Other aspects of the business such as Cybersecurity just lack domestic talent in the US. That's why much of the MS Security portfolio engineering team is in Israel or India or people who are brought in via an L1/2

3. Vast swathes of MS employees from line level ICs up to Engineering Directors were stuck in immigration limbo because of the GC backlog or because of older parents, so a large number began returning to India with a slight shave on TC.
by asdfwertertdsfg | 2025-11-10 18:50:36+00:00
I'd guess the rationale went something like "why are we protecting a camera system to a public museum, where anyone can see whatever is there by walking in"?

Of course, this also means we don't need Lester Crest to help us find out the vault contents (so no need to hack the security guard's phone for the wifi password either).
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-10 18:50:54+00:00
There's not much Kernel Level malware singed in Windows (drivers have more scrutiny for whatever that's worth). Regardless, the point is that companies using KLA rely on the relative difficulty of circumventing protections implemented in a signed kernel, running signed drivers, on a machine where there is some chain of trust.

You don't need to take my word for it, Tim Sweeney said it himself (using dirty innuendos and weasel words, but anyway). EAC supports Linux, but doesn't utilise KLA (for many reasons), and doesn't make the same claims about protection as it does on Windows.
by dmjio | 2025-11-10 18:51:04+00:00
Yes, miso uses the JS backend in GHC, and mobile phones have embedded JS interpreters (e.g. JavaScript Core). These interpreters can access native libraries to draw native views, or access native device APIs.

Projects like lynx and react-native automate this process using something akin to node-gyp, exposing kotlin / swift libraries via C ABI w/ a JS API. Miso accesses the kotlin / swift native modules by FFI'ing into the JS that exposes them.

The JS doesn't get compiled, but on Android it does get JIT'd. So it's "native" in the sense that the views drawn are native (not WebViews), and the device APIs are native, but not "native" in the sense that it's compiled.
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-11-10 18:51:30+00:00
> In other words, if a search warrant would be required to enter a house, unless invited, why would this not apply to online data stored somewhere?

The government has long considered the 4th amendment to be a major hindrance. The only reason that they even seek a warrant to search your home or belongings is because the 4th amendment explicitly says

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated

I don't know the legal justification for excluding things like email metadata, but I imagine it goes like this:

> Your emails are not in your house, on your person, or are papers or effects. They are numbers stored in someone else's computer, and we only need the consent of someone else to get that information, which they will provide because they don't want to get on our bad side.

But the realistic reasoning is: the 4th amendment is a pain in the ass to law enforcement and they'd much rather it was never written at all, so they will cast whatever legal incantations are required to put a wall between your rights and your data
by qball | 2025-11-10 18:51:39+00:00
>For a nation with basically zero chance of invasion of its home soil and an extremely low risk of internal conflict

Clearly the Canadian government doesn't feel the same way. If they tried to conscript they'd quickly find themselves in a civil war (for the same reasons the US would), and one the Canadian capital clearly doesn't believe it'd win given how well it fared defending itself in 2022.

Of course, bureaucrats aren't exactly known for their fighting prowess either. This is mostly a statement that "Toronto/Ottawa doesn't need the rest of the country, it can see to its own defense", and to try and retain/engage the Elbows Up crowd (which, being the only reason the sitting government is in power, is completely understandable).
by tuhgdetzhh | 2025-11-10 18:51:53+00:00
Modular monolith is a pipe dream. Great idea, but it gets messed up in reality (similar to communism). You just need a bit of time pressure and project deadlines and the devs will crack and throw the modularity over board with just a few merges. Multiply that over a decade, then you end up with a monster and fight dragons.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-10 18:51:58+00:00
Sure, you need humans for a corporate structure to exist. But nothing prevents meat proxies from occupying the vital positions.

Find a few sufficiently loyal humans, have them bring the corporate structure up. Arrange for good wages and proper incentives, set up checks and balances so that the system can tolerate and recover from meatbag failures. Make the corporation fully reliant on the AGI for normal functioning, so that any attempt to take it over leaves you with an empty shell and an unpleasant pile of legal exposure.

Like I said: a lot of scheming is required. But none of it is strictly illegal.
by strictnein | 2025-11-10 18:51:58+00:00
There's likely a performance impact that is significant at that scale. If they're blocking 670M DNS requests a day, they're likely doing 10-100x that overall.

Have you implemented something at that scale to say this is no big deal for them to do? And what about when 180 countries want their own list and maybe even states, providences, etc do as well?
by beau_g | 2025-11-10 18:52:09+00:00
The ship example maybe wasn't the greatest, in the cases of the Ever Given and MV Aman, the crews were required to stay on the boats as custodians while dealing with these issues, in the latter case a single sailor was on the ship for 4 years, the last 2 alone and without power.

Another interesting case with ships is the Trieste and several other Russian oligarch mega yachts being held in Italy. Italian law requires them to maintain the value of frozen assets, so they are spending millions per month to keep these yachts maintained.
by fragmede | 2025-11-10 18:52:16+00:00
OH that's the fantasy that people like watching that show under! I hate that show's premise because reality is depressing enough, my mind easily conjures up shit going wrong, and (as an adult) I don't need a TV show giving me more nightmare fuel. Plus, that one episode where we all wear glasses that let you delete people by not seeing them seems like a instruction manual to tech giants working on AR glasses. Apple airpod noise cancellation already does this for audio, Apple Vision or Meta glasses doing that for visual pollution seems not that far behind. It would be nice to walk around the neighborhood and not see any billboards. Not seeing people that wrote wrong things on Twitter seems like it's just a GitHub repo away.
by tylerhannan | 2025-11-10 18:52:22+00:00
(disclaimer: I work at ClickHouse)

At its simplest the team who was building that rad thing called LibreChat, now works at ClickHouse and build that rad thing called LibreChat.

Even simpler, the LibreChat team works at ClickHouse and are now my colleagues.

More complex, acquisitions can take a variety of "forms"...most importantly in these scenarios (and now I speak without knowledge of the deal structure) is making sure the team is paid, that copyright/trademark stuff is worked out, that OSS plans are discussed, and that everyone is excited to work together.
by varjag | 2025-11-10 18:52:27+00:00
I am replying to you comment.

Please. Your reply had nothing to do with the context of my comment. I in fact gave you a benefit of doubt that you're not just a very quantized LLM.

As to the trustworthiness let's tally:

- Khasavyurt Accords. Breached by Russia.

- New START Treaty. Breached by Russia.

- Armenian request under allied auspices of CSTO: not honored by Russia.

- Russia-Ukraine Friendship Treaty, Budapest Memorandum, Border Treaty: breached by Russia.

It's clear you speak very confidently on the subject you have zero clue about.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-10 18:52:28+00:00
I thought Mozilla Persona aka BrowserID handled this email validation well with a fallback provider that used the same flow (and also implemented the OIDC work for obvious existing social providers like Gmail/Google Accounts). Though obviously not well enough because that fallback provider was seen as a large expense and shutdown without a replacement killing the Mozilla Persona effort.

But that does relate to I keep wanting an email claim for Passkeys. A user's browser/OS could verify an email address once and then associate it with a Passkey. Passkeys might be a good place for that (as Persona/BrowserID suggested). Obviously some browsers could lie about verifying the email address in the claim and there might still need to be more steps to it, but if you are already taking Passkeys it doesn't necessarily add an entirely different flow to accept a verified email claim from a Passkey (and/or decide you don't trust that Passkey's claim and trigger your regular verification code flow).
by thatguy0900 | 2025-11-10 18:52:30+00:00
This is like the oil companies that hid the internal climate change studies for as long as they could. Zuck knew what he was doing long before everyone else did. Acting like he was just dumb and uninformed is wrong. When they started he might not have realized how bad optimizing for engagement was but it doesn't take a genius to realize what was happening with the data they have. He's not some starry eyed kid who accidentally made a monster, he found out he could become one of the richest men in the world if he made his monster vicious enough. This is a guy that started buying the land for his survival bunker 10 years ago.
by sparkler123 | 2025-11-10 18:52:39+00:00
I had one of these on pre-order/reservation from when they announced the DGX Spark and ended up returning it after a couple days. I thought I'd give it a shot, though. The 128GB of unified memory was the big selling point (as are any of the DGX Spark boxes), but the memory bandwidth was very disappointing. Being able to load a 100B+ parameter model was cool in terms of novelty but not particularly great for local inferencing.

Also, NVIDIA's software they have you install on another machine to use it is garbage. They tried to make it sort of appliance-y but most people would rather just have SSH work out of the box and can go from there. IMO just totally unnecessary. The software aspect was what put me over the edge.

Maybe the gen 2 will be better, but unless you have a really specific use case that this solves well, buy credits or something somewhere else.
by arrosenberg | 2025-11-10 18:52:51+00:00
> This obviously has negative externalities, because while a corporation is easy to fine, it's hard to put in prison... but trying to approach it differently would be about as fun as modeling a CPU as a bunch of transistors.

There's nothing stopping the legislature (other than their own self-interest) from passing a law that executives and board members are criminally liable for the malfeasance of their entity. We already apply that logic to positions like a medical lab director.
by gpm | 2025-11-10 18:53:06+00:00
The difference here is presumably for the last hundred years, ending last November, there was simply no chance of a invasion of Canada. Nukes might fly overhead and end the world as they struck targets on either side, but other than that we were safe and any significant military action we took part in would be overseas and thus not justify calling up a huge number of reservists.

Meanwhile Norway was occupied in WWII, and after that spent the next decades next to the Soviet Union, and then Russia. There's clearly been a long standing risk of actual invasion.
by ryadh | 2025-11-10 18:53:21+00:00
(Ryadh from ClickHouse here)

It's a fair concern, and I understand where you are coming from. What I can say is that it's not our first rodeo incorporating another OSS product in our family. I tried to summarize it in the post:

> "This proven playbook is the same one that we applied when joining forces with PeerDB to provide our ClickPipes CDC capabilities, and HyperDX, which became the UX of our observability product, ClickStack."

If you research both instances above, the result is that these projects got more traction and adoption overall.

I hope this helps! and thank you for using LibreChat
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-10 18:53:36+00:00
I love how often people who are probably in the bay area say this as the unionized members of Hollywood next door have no problem rejecting truly mediocre laborers and paying "10xers" millions of dollars per performance.

Do you know who were literal members of that union? Both Reagan (twice president of the union) and Trump.

Despite having a stranglehold style, where union members are not allowed to work on non-union projects, the industry still cultivates talent and allows both normal people doing day jobs making average wages and Superstar members like Jeff Bridges and Tom Hanks and George Clooney and Meryl Streep and Betty White.

This union has been able to keep up with changes in technology, ensuring their members benefited from streaming taking over the primary content delivery mechanism and getting a contract that accounts for it, and now getting protections from AI.

These big names regularly show support and go to bat for the literal little guy, knowing that if you can't make rent from writing movies, they won't have anything to star in and make a million dollars from.

This union contract is also a major reason actors are able to actually control how they are used, and gives actors control over things like sex scenes

A significant reason why Hollywood is currently full of terrible quality Visual Effects is that CGI has a significant non-unionized portion that is currently getting absolutely abused. Disney doesn't GAF, people still paid half a billion dollars to see the slop that was Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness.
by var_let | 2025-11-10 18:53:54+00:00
I’m working on a Chrome extension called Console Dock, which adds a floating dev console window directly inside the page. I built it as a fun side project because I often work on smaller screens and hate constantly switching or resizing panels. Still very experimental, but it’s already proving useful for quick debugging sessions.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/console-dock/biplbp...
by pfdietz | 2025-11-10 18:54:17+00:00
Nitrogen fertilizer is synthesized from hydrogen and nitrogen. The hydrogen is currently derived from fossil fuels, but there is no requirement that it be so.

Saying "ammonia is produced from fossil fuels, and so must always be" is like saying "cars run on fossil fuels, and so always must". A non sequitur.

Phosphates are derived from large phosphate deposits in various places, such as Florida. Phosphorus will ultimately have to be mined from lower concentration deposits, perhaps ultimately from average crustal rocks, where it appears at about 0.1% concentration. However, build up of mostly insoluble phosphates in soils will I think likely reduce the need for this fertilizer if erosion is kept in check.
by tim333 | 2025-11-10 18:54:55+00:00
I get the impression that Suleyman's main talent was being friends with Demis Hassabis when he started DeepMind. Hassabis is something of a genius, skilled programmer and PhD in neuroscience. Sulyman doesn't seem that up on AI but was mates with Hassabis which was ok till he was let go for being an arsehole ("very demanding and pretty relentless 'management style.')
by zer00eyz | 2025-11-10 18:55:19+00:00
> They get worse because they need to keep pleasing new users, new needs, address every edge case.

No, they get shitty because businesses need to move the needle. Product people and engineers want to put things that "show" they did that on their resume.

Want to get to market rate? Then do a project that will get you your next job. That isnt going to be exclusively for the company, thats going to be as much for you as it is for them.

The fundamental problem is that if you aren't upping your staff's salary to market rates, you're forcing them to do the above. Without the money, your interests DO NOT ALIGN.

This results in some people having very strange opinions about work (clock punching) and doing the minimum to get by. It results in strange corporate polices where incompetence starts to blend in with the furniture and no one knows how to get them "unstuck".
by treebeard901 | 2025-11-10 18:55:20+00:00
About a decade ago, there was outrage over just having access to metadata. Since then, the backdoor access has expanded. Now they have moved past metadata and on to content of your messages.

The public is largely unaware of just how much control third party governments give law enforcement. They can manipulate your search results to hide information from you or promote certain things they want to be presented to someone they are looking into.

If the historical basis of this access is being able to read the list of library books you check out, now it has expanded to controlling which books are recommended to you and they have the ability to control the content of the media you receive.

A common dismissal of this issue is that nothing can be accessed without court orders or a subpoena. It's important to remember that this is only really true if they intend to directly use the information obtained from you in a court proceeding. Often times it is about information gathering on a target that is not meant to be used in court. Even then, they have endless ways of using a form of parallel construction to hide the source of the information. This also extends to data brokers, which have to work with the Government to continue operating. The same is true for app developers who want their apps to be listed on app stores. Or device manufactures that want the ability to sell their products and pass FCC certifications...

In more serious cases, it extends to the concept of your identity itself. Law enforcement often will not hold itself accountable for violating the laws or your rights. Identity theft tied to online actions against you is not out of the question for them either. When it is taken this far, good luck reporting it and having it resolved.

The stuff they can do with the backdoors in YouTube, the advertising system, cloud document storage (LE can view your live work in cloud storage like Google Docs, etc... Imagine working on a lawsuit against someone watching you formulate your legal arguments)... It just goes on and on...

End rant
by zeeg | 2025-11-10 18:55:34+00:00
Clearly this is bait but we have done nothing but be supportive of small accounts.

It’s still $29, we still are extremely generous on forgiveness and sponsorships, and we still prioritize the long tail.

70% of our business is smb/mm, and if you knew anything about us you wouldn’t make the statement you said above.

If we have done something to show otherwise I would love to see it so we can address it.
by bootsmann | 2025-11-10 18:55:38+00:00
> Is anyone really cocksure on the basis of LLM received knowledge?

I work for a company with an open source product and the number of support requests we get from people who ask the chatbot to do their config and then end up with something nonfunctioning is quite significant. Goes up to users complaining our api is down because the chatbot hallucinated the endpoint.