MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-07 02:19:09+00:00
I’ve been in the Apple ecosystem in one form or the other 40 years and that’s definitely not true compared to Microsoft.

Most recently they dropped support for 32 bit Mac and iOS apps. But before that it was dropping support for PPC apps and 68K apps.

On the hardware side, the funniest was they dropped support for my Core 2 Duo Mac Mini and I could still install a supported version of Windows 7 on it.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-11-07 02:19:12+00:00
Why shouldn't you expect a problem's simplicity to correlate tremendously with how well it is represented in training data? Every angle I can think of tilts in that direction. Simpler problems are easier to remember and thus repeat, they come up more often, asd they require less space/time/effort to record (which also means they are less likely to contain errors).
by lowbloodsugar | 2025-11-07 02:19:30+00:00
It's conflating two issues though. Most people who can ride a bike can't explain the physics. They really don't know how it works. The bicycle lesson is about training the brain on a new task that cannot be taught in any other way.

This case is more like a journeyman blacksmith who has to make his own tools before he can continue. In doing so, he gets tools of his own, but the real reward was learning what is required to handle the metal such that it makes a strong hammer. And like the blacksmith, you learn more if you use an existing agent to write your agent.
by red369 | 2025-11-07 02:20:08+00:00
I was going to provide my passwords to any random person on the internet, Troy Hunt might be close to the top of the list, but I think your sentiment is sensible.

I remember searching the dataset being fairly straight forward. It's been a while since I've done it, but I think I just downloaded the text file and then grepped it for hashes of my passwords, but I see people doing much more useful things:

https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/creating-a-local-version...
by negativelambda | 2025-11-07 02:20:53+00:00
I know the team that did this. In fact i was listening to their seminar just a few days ago. They are very careful and have been working on this a long time. One caveat that they readily admit is that the sample used to create the luminosity age relation has some biases such as galaxy type and relatively lower redshift. They will be updating their results with the Rubin LSST data in the next few years.

Exciting times in cosmology after decades of a standard LCDM model.
by pama | 2025-11-07 02:21:13+00:00
It is not clear that a simple/small model with inference running on home hardware is energy or cost efficient compared to the scaled up inference of a large model with batch processing. There are dozens of optimizations possible when splitting an LLM on multiple tiny components on separate accelerator units and when one handles kv cache optimization at the data center level; these are simply not possible at home and would be a waste of effort and energy until you serve thousands to millions of requests in parallel.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-07 02:21:51+00:00
I see. It sounds like you're coming at this from an outsider perspective as someone who hasn't formally studied math and doesn't know what research level mathematicians are taught.

There's nothing wrong with taking an interest in a subject as an amateur. I thoroughly support it. But knowing what is taught in PhD departments and what mathematicians do is a precondition for understanding whether what AlphaEvolve is doing is similar to it.

If I wanted to know whether some AI tool was doing what humans do for, say, song writing, the first thing I'd do is figure out how song writing is taught, how professionals think about song writing, etc. And this is true regardless of the fact that I enjoy, support and often prefer outsider musicians.
by strken | 2025-11-07 02:22:31+00:00
I'm not sure I see that horizontally scaling necessarily requires a network call between two hosts. If you have an API gateway service, a user auth service, a projects service, and a search service, then some of them will be lightweight enough that they can reasonably run on the same host together. If you deploy the user auth and projects services together then you can horizontally scale the number of hosts they're deployed on without introducing a network call between them.

This is somewhat common in containerisation where e.g. Kubernetes lets you set up sidecars for logging and so on, but I suspect it could go a lot further. Many microservices aren't doing big fan-out calls and don't require much in the way of hardware.
by NetMageSCW | 2025-11-07 02:23:01+00:00
If you read the instructions, you will discover https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords which will let you enter a password and securely check if it has been published in a breach.

If it has, it is either a simple password that multiple people are using, or a complex secure password that can make you pretty confident it is your password that has been published.

1Password just does the same thing for all of your passwords - it doesn’t check against your account name either. That information isn’t stored so they can’t become a new source of breached accounts (as explained at the site).
by lmm | 2025-11-07 02:24:06+00:00
> Didn't we have something like that in Java more than a decade ago? IIRC, you could, for instance, restrict which classes could do things like opening a file or talking to the network.

> It didn't quite work, and was abandoned. Turns out it's hard to sandbox a library; the exposed surface ended up being too large, and there were plenty of sandbox escapes.

The number of escapes is exaggerated. The issue was that it didn't have capabilities or anything like that, so it wasn't really used - you couldn't say "library X should be able to access files that the application has passed into it but not other files", you had to say "class X.Y.Z should be able to access the file /foo/bar/baz.jpeg" in your security policy. So it was unusably brittle and everyone just said "all code can access all files"
by codebje | 2025-11-07 02:25:07+00:00
The skill tree system was so nice compared to the rigid class systems of other MMORPGs, too.

The fact that player towns just emerged was really cool.

It was such a shame the space expansion was so ... flat. Neither space nor ground had a storyline to follow, but space wasn't an open world, and had no real element of choice in skill paths.
by jiveturkey | 2025-11-07 02:26:09+00:00
> Apple actually attests to signatures

But (based on light reading, forgive errors) the only way to attest them is to ask _Apple_! It reminds me what i call e2e2e encryption. iMessage is secure e2e but you have to trust that Apple is sending you the correct keys. (There's some recent update, maybe 1-2 years old, where you can verify the other party's keys in person I think? But it's closed software, you _still_ have to trust that what you're being shown is something that isn't a coordinated deception.)

Apple claims to operate the infrastructure securely, and while I believe they would never destroy their business by not operating as rigorously as they claim, OTOH they gave all the data to China for Chinese users, so YMMV. And their OS spams me with ads for their services. I absolutely hate that.

Again, anyway, I am comfortable putting my trust in Apple. My data aren't state secrets. But I wouldn't be putting my trust in random cloud operator based on your known-invalid claim of physical protection. Not if the whole point is to protect against an untrustworthy operator. I would much sooner trust a nitro enclave.
by johnfn | 2025-11-07 02:26:10+00:00
Why are you repeatedly stating that the post is an ad as if it is some sort of dunk? Companies have blogs. Tech blogs often produce useful content. It is possible that an ad can both successfully promote the company and be useful to engineers. I find the Fly blog to be particularly well-written and thoughtful; it's taught me a good deal about Wireguard, for instance.
by strogonoff | 2025-11-07 02:27:36+00:00
In a no-growth (or even degrowth, which I have recently learned is a thing) society taking what you need from someone else is not the only option: someone can also choose to share it.

A society like that may be quite different in innumerable ways, of course, and the idea of “wealth” in the way we understand it may not make sense.
by vel0city | 2025-11-07 02:29:36+00:00
So what the local school district is going to collect my federal income taxes from my out of state employer? The DMV collects it when I register my car? What if I don't own a car?

It also means there would probably 50 or hundreds (maybe even thousands?) of different processes to report your taxes, with each of these different tax authorities wanting to do it their own way.

I don't see how that makes it any better.
by cubefox | 2025-11-07 02:30:04+00:00
> > If OpenAI or Anthropic could squeeze the same output out of smaller GPUs and servers they'd be doing it for themselves.

> First, they do this; that's why they release models at different price points.

No, those don't deliver the same output. The cheaper models are worse.

> It's also why GPT-5 tries auto-routing requests to the most cost-effective model.

These are likely the same size, just one uses reasoning and the other doesn't. Not using reasoning is cheaper, but not because the model is smaller.
by tom_ | 2025-11-07 02:30:06+00:00
One tip I read somewhere (possibly from Steve Yegge?) was that it's a good idea to disable the Emacs menu bar - and I agree. The Emacs menu bar is this kind of weird uncanny valley thing. It looks like a normal menu bar, but any time you click one of the items on it, you'll find that you're doing something that actually only makes sense if you're into Emacs already. It won't help you when you're starting out, and once you're up and running you won't need it (but you can ctrl+right click on the buffer to get if you ever feel like you do...) - and, meanwhile, it's taking up space on the screen that you could use for more lines of text.

(macOS users are stuck with the menu bar generally, and that means they're stuck with the Emacs menu bar too. Just ignore it.)

While you're there, get rid of the scroll bars too. They never work properly, and this way you get an extra column or two of text per window.
by adabyron | 2025-11-07 02:30:18+00:00
Not just this but the lack of diligence by companies that allow accounts to be created, bills to go unpaid & then sent to collection agencies is something that needs to change.

Speaking as someone who has had companies give away my PII and then other companies open accounts with it without contacting me until bills are due.

None of this should be the fault of innocent individuals.
by zeroq | 2025-11-07 02:30:33+00:00
It always baffled me how we censor "Mein Kampf" but we - as a society - are super fine with either Alex Jones shouting about lasers and lizard people or Joe Rogan leaving an open mic to people claiming there are nuclear plants and space stations buried under pyramids [1].

Mein Kampf is absolutely terrible piece of literature not by it's message but by it's quality. It's exactly something I would expect to find in Alex Jones cell if we would sentence him to a year of solitary confinement.

[1] just a tiny exaggeration
by NYCNews | 2025-11-07 02:30:48+00:00
By Dan Gesslein Manhattan Voice November 6, 2025

NYC LOCAL NEWS - The NYPD is looking for a real ghoul who slashed a teen’s face shortly after Halloween ended. The attacker slashed the teen in the heart of Times Square.

According to the NYPD, the assault happened at around 1:30 a.m. on November 1, 2025, right outside 3 Times Square. Investigators say an 18-year-old man was standing in the area when an unknown individual walk walked up, slashed him across the face with some kind of cutting instrument, and then took off running down 7th Avenue.

Officers quickly arrived at the scene and rushed the victim to Mount Sinai West. Thankfully, police say he’s in stable condition.

The attacker, however, is still out there. The NYPD has released photos of the suspect and is hoping someone recognizes him.

The attack sent shockwaves throughout midtown Manhattan considering the location is the site of a Chaseand the Reuters news agencyand is well lit by a slew of billboards. In addition cops had been deployed at the time throughout Times Square to prevent any Halloween violence.

The suspect is described as a male with a dark complexion. He was last seen wearing a black hooded jacket, dark jeans and white sneakers. Investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the slashing, which, at this time, appears to be random.

If you know anything about what happened — or if you think you might recognize the person in those pictures — call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotlineat 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Tips can also be submitted online at crimestoppers.nypdonline.orgor on X (formerly Twitter) at @NYPDTips.

All calls are confidential.
by gryn | 2025-11-07 02:32:03+00:00
my theory is a there are two camps of "games" (really more of a spectrum from the projection of 2 axes "play" and "art"):

- proper games ("play"): if you remove all the lore, cinematics, dialogs, etc the gameplay can stand on its own and the user find it fun. (ex: Elden ring, Pokemon. you can play a cut-scenes ripped version in a language you don't understand and still enjoy both, chess and other abstract games are the extreme end of this category)

- interactive DVD menus ("media arts"): it's a movie but sometimes you get to interact with it. in this category you have also have visual novels with branching trees/DAGs. they are more than a movie but still ultimately the most important test: they can't stand alone without the story/lore.

I enjoy both, but I wish games and steam pages were more front and center about which camp they are in the beginning before I even buy them.

my ultimate sin is games that think they are in category 1 who give you unskippable cut scenes.
by stuffn | 2025-11-07 02:33:42+00:00
No I can’t because ICE took on some of the roles of US customs and the immigration and naturalization service. The same thing that spun them out formed the DHS, which once again existed as splinters of other organizations cooperating.

It’s not entirely unusual to see an agency break out of something like this to help prevent role sharing.

Check those notes again. Should we complain about the Department of Energy too?
by jiveturkey | 2025-11-07 02:33:56+00:00
I guess you're unaware that Intel TEE does not provide physical protection. Literally out of scope, at least per runZero CEO (which I didn't verify). But anyway, in scope or not, it doesn't succeed at it.

And I mean I get it. As a not-hardware-manufacturer, they have to have a root of trust they build upon. I gather that no one undertakes something like this without very, very, very high competence and that their part of the stack _is_ secure. But it's built on sand.

I mean it's fine. Everything around us is built that way. Who among us uses a Raptor Talus II and has x-ray'd the PCB? The difference is they are making an overly strong claim.
by lil-lugger | 2025-11-07 02:33:57+00:00
As someone who vibes codes web apps that are being used by people, they take way way longer than initially expected. The prototype can take one shot, and the full prod implementation can take weeks to months. If you aren’t able to stick it out it will die but if you are willing to learn how to prompt to integrate Auth, email, security, performance than you can create truly incredible apps with no coding experience. But it’s basically a new skill in and of itself. Claude Code already gets the prototype to final product gap down a lot because it’s so good and getting better but it still makes mistakes and needs lots and lots and lots of nudging and directing and reminders and writing docs and getting other agents to check work based on docs ect.
Show HN: Cross-runtime printer library for TS/JS
by esimkowitz | 2025-11-07 02:34:35+00:00
Hi all,

I needed to interface with a printer for a work project and I found myself really frustrated with the state of printer libraries for Deno (and Node for that matter) so I decided to make my own!

Getting it working cross-runtime was a real pain. I initially tried to make separate NPM and JSR packages but that proved to be really hard to validate so I switched to just publishing to NPM and being really good about runtime detection and documentation.

It's backed by the Rust `printers` library and uses NAPI-RS for FFI. I've tested it on macOS, Ubuntu/Debian, and Windows, though I think the Winspool options might not be 100% correct. I'm trying to make it more full-featured too with state subscriptions, job tracking, etc.

Let me know what you think!
by monero-xmr | 2025-11-07 02:34:38+00:00
It should humble all of us that believe we have absolute knowledge of things. So many people consciously or subconsciously philosophize about the universe, life, spirituality, etc. based on grand ideas and science which is routinely overturned. Really all we can prove is mathematical facts, and what our emotions tell us (i.e. "I Love You").
by tomhow | 2025-11-07 02:35:03+00:00
We've killed all the green accounts that voted and commented on this, and moved the comments to a stub to hide them. We've also killed the post.

The HN guidelines and FAQ make it clear that it's not OK to ask people to upvote or comment on your stuff:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

And the HN community is very quick to notice it, flag the post and comments, and email us, all of which happened here.

There's no need to try and game HN like this. We're always looking for interesting new projects to showcase via Show HN, and we routinely spend substantial amounts of time helping people polish their Show HN posts, and if we think the community may find it interesting, we'll put it in the second chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), which guarantees it a bit of front page time, without the bad vibes and negative sentiment you attract from trying to game HN.
by godelski | 2025-11-07 02:35:47+00:00
> Simple means not complex

I disagree. Most things are complex, yet most things are also simple.

Don't forget that words are overloaded so they only mean things in context. Words are both simple and complex because of this.

As an example: the rules to the game of life are simple. The outcomes are complex. The rules cannot even be decomposed further, making them first principles of that universe.

> means not composed of even simpler parts

These would really be "first principles". Which is a form of simplicity. Being the simplest something can be, yet that sentence itself conveys that "simple" relies on context and in a continuum.

This relationship of "simple yet complex" is quite common. We could say the same thing about chaotic functions like the double pendulum. It is both simple and complex.
by cholantesh | 2025-11-07 02:36:38+00:00
> Google it!

I did, and here's what I found: https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10173130920930377&set=...

You should credit Mr. Fuld, plagiarizing hasbara seems a bit gauche.

>And the kids that look starving had preexisting conditions.

Caused by prenatal nutritional deficiencies that wouldn't have occurred if they weren't born under siege. It's pretty wild that Zionists are still engaging in this transparently cynical fuff.

>A googleable claim.

Yeah, this time it comes from an unsourced post on Threads. Not that it would matter, much like the charge of genocide, ICL doesn't require a particular threshold of deaths.

>real famines

I'll defer to the FAO, WFP, Oxfam, EU JRC and any number of actual authorities on what constitutes one of those.

> It's a factual matter, nobody debates it.

Nobody with a material interest in supporting Israeli expansionism, yeah.
by scrps | 2025-11-07 02:36:48+00:00
So pick Venezuela? Which at best is a transshipment point, why no strikes in the Darién, why not take out some railroad tracks since a lot of drugs go up from coca country by rail? Also drug smugglers aren't stupid, why would they send product out knowing the U.S. military is sitting out there with a toddler's finger on the trigger?

Know what Venezuela has a shit-ton of though? Oil. Guess who loves the oil, gas, and coal industries? If your answer involves someone orange you'd be right. Guess who got kicked out of Venezuela when Chavaz took over? If you said large multinational oil corporations you'd be correct.

On top of that donnie gets to look tough against a country that largely has no serious regional allies in fact I believe a lot of them are pissed, China has ties but they aren't going to ratchet up the trade fiasco over Maduro, russia is a bit busy punching itself in the balls and last I check Venezuelans aren't big fans of Maduro so donnie is basically riskless save domestically.

Also given the size of those boats I'd wager a solid amount on the total lost amount would be equivalent to taking out 8 McDonald's store shipments and claiming you've dealt a serious blow to McDonald's bottom line.
by downut | 2025-11-07 02:37:34+00:00
"Shop"? Ok, well, have you ever been in there? Because it might be the best market in Atlanta, right now.

We just spent a 3 year sojourn in the Atlanta metro area and the Dekalb Farmers Market is one of the only things we will miss. Still the best reasonably priced beautiful cheese/dairy/seafood/charcuterie + a whole bunch of other stuff in N. Georgia.

Now we're back West again and there is Lee Lee Oriental Market. No interesting cheese, but a lot of other things. Including charcuterie!

If you go to the Dekalb Farmer's Market definitely look for nettle cheese.
by dangus | 2025-11-07 02:38:19+00:00
FreeTaxUSA is excellent, but we shouldn’t have to use it.

Taxes having third party companies being just about the only way to file electronically would be like if you could only vote at selected partner businesses like Walmart or Target and you had to pay to vote for state level candidates unless you went through a process that took twice as long and involved leaving the store and going somewhere else to do it all over again.
by Theodores | 2025-11-07 02:38:46+00:00
You have got the trial version of Wordperfect for free, not sure it has everything (Quattro Pro) since you have to hunt around for other Corel products to get the trial versions (Corel Draw).

It is amazing to think how valuable Wordperfect originally was, for Microsoft to be mean to them, meaning they went from worth billions to worth nothing.
by kridsdale1 | 2025-11-07 02:39:03+00:00
A HUGE amount of the workday artifacts engineers have been forced to produce since we started the internet is project estimation documents for our managers. The training corpus on this stuff is immense and now all ingested in to these models. It’s doing no thinking at all when it gives you an estimate, it’s matching correlated strings which the humans of the past had to write down.

Fun fact, all those human-sourced estimates were hallucinations too.
by fennec-posix | 2025-11-07 02:39:31+00:00
It's an interesting idea, however cost per "shot" is going to be really high still. Alternatively how do you decide what to keep up in orbit on standby for delivery, how long can it be in orbit for before use-by dates are reached on perishables, etc.

The article has a scenario of a Special Operations team somewhere deep behind enemy lines needing immediate resupply in a contested airspace environment.

It's very Helldivers.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-07 02:41:00+00:00
On the one hand, maybe it’s just how crazy our economy feels lately but I don’t conceptually have a problem with, if you sell a 100 million cars for 50k each, and keep 10k for yourself, you should get a trillion dollars. Innovation and providing a product people want should be rewarded. On the other hand, I do have a problem with:

* market manipulation to get that valuation.

* using that money to manipulate the government/rules to preference yourself

* anti-competitive behavior.

* valuations based on hype and vaporware. Etc.