MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-03 00:56:43+00:00
They're not trying to write a story about the security of the website, they're trying to write a story about the crime the company is committing. They're allegedly poisoning the water and killing people, it's more serious than a website. If they write the first story the company immediately takes the site offline before anybody else can see what's there, or if anyone does then they could get prosecuted.

The analogy to a bank vault doesn't work because it isn't a bank vault and you've never left your office. It's more analogous to finding the mailing address of the company's internal records office and then sending them a letter requesting a copy of their records. You should go to jail for requesting something it's not even illegal for you to have just because they were willing to send them to you without establishing who you are?
by fragmede | 2025-11-03 00:57:23+00:00
Right, the Costco problem. A small boutique eg wine store might be able to do better for picking a very specific wine for a specific occasion, but Costco is just so much bigger that they can make it up in Volume and buy cases and cases of everything with a lower markup, so it ends up being cheaper to shop at Costco, no matter how much you want to support the local wine boutique.
by mingus88 | 2025-11-03 00:57:53+00:00
They are called potlucks or cookouts in the U.S. and they happen all the time.

In fact, they are probably a lot more common than having a huge party (so large that you have to invite people in batches of half a dozen at a time) completely planned and executed by a single person.

This article is good, don’t get me wrong, but this type of event planning is not really representative of how folk in the U.S. get together
by ggm | 2025-11-03 00:58:45+00:00
used to go between levels so a flat escalator, can take trolleys or there is a trolley chain haul beside. Bunnings (Hammerbarn if you must) have them. Giant tilt slab constructed category killers. Where sprawl is permitted they're a one layer building but in space constrained areas they have two or three (carpark under a 2 layer building) and these walkways exist to get your inflatable shark, chainsaw and bucket of chips down or up, depending.
by dlisboa | 2025-11-03 00:58:56+00:00
Could be a handful or a couple dozen, depends on the person really. Birthdays are more packed.

There’s no real expectation in a party here. Usually you’ll call up people you know from different parts of your life. People bring plus ones so someone from work will be chatting to your family member, a high school friend to someone’s plus one, etc.

That’s usually how people strike new relationships after a certain age.
by zamalek | 2025-11-03 00:59:01+00:00
> I suspect the answer to cheating will ultimately be big brother and hiding information from the client.

The speed of light makes this _marginally_ problematic to do. It is possible that a unit might move out of the fog of war, or out of cover, during the latency to the client (or between server ticks). You'd effectively have pop-in during some scenarios - but it would be minor and the net benefit would probably make it worth it.

I recall one of the MOBAs adding this during its lifecycle, HoN I think?
by encrypted_bird | 2025-11-03 00:59:11+00:00
So, what? Are you suggesting that only people who have kids should be given assistance when they grow old and frail? That's hardly a solution, just unnecessarily cruel. Whether to have children or not should be a personal decision, to be had between all parties of a relationship; it should _not_ determine if you will have some semblance of security when you can no longer work or if you'll just be left to die in some back alley.

Funny thing is if people suggested forcing people (directly or, in this case, indirectly) into not having children, people would be up in arms about it.

How is it alright, meanwhile, to be forced, directly or, again, indirectly in this case, to have children?
Show HN: LogLayer v7 now with StatsD support
by theogravity | 2025-11-03 00:59:14+00:00
I'm the author of LogLayer, a TypeScript abstraction layer for logging libraries with the ability to send logs to cloud providers like DataDog.

It's made for outputting structured logs, and I've designed the logging APIs to reflect that:

log.withMetadata({ userId: 123 }) .withError(new Error()) .error("Something's wrong!")

Depending on the logging library you're using with LogLayer, it might look like:

{ "msg": "Something's wrong!", "metadata": { "userId": 123 }, "err":{ "type": "Error", "message": "test", } }

The idea is if you decide the logging library isn't fulfilling your needs, you can easily swap out the library where LogLayer is initialized without having to change the code you've already written around logs.

This weekend, I launched v7 of LogLayer, which adds support for mixins. I wanted to keep LogLayer's API focused solely on logging, but also have the ability to extend it if needed.

The use-case that came up is my workplace wants better metrics. We do have auto-instrumentation for our systems, but there are times where we want more pin-pointed metrics. I've noticed in some cases, metrics and logging goes hand-in-hand, and thought that it'd be really nice if I could access the same logging client and be able to send metrics to StatsD as I write my logs.

In node.js land, I believe "hot-shots" is the StatsD client most would use, and created a mixin with it, which adds the hot-shots methods to the LogLayer API. So now you have the ability to send metrics + logs at the same time if you wanted this functionality:

log.statsIncrement("error.count") .withMetadata({ userId: 123 }) .withError(new Error()) .error("Something's wrong!")

This will now send an increment call to StatsD in addition to shipping out your log to your logging library / cloud provider.

I'm hoping with this DX, thinking about metrics won't be an afterthought because you now have easy access to send it while writing logs.

(You can also send metrics without sending logs with the mixin.)
by parineum | 2025-11-03 01:00:37+00:00
It's not about what I think. The post I replied made the assertion that individuals don't turn people away like corporations do (essentially).

My point is that individuals choose not to help others constantly. Every time I see a homeless person, I don't offer them a couch to sleep on. I could, at least once, but I don't. We all do that, most days multiple times.

And yes, that does apply to doctors who don't volunteer services. It applies to me too and, I bet, to the OP as well.
by seec | 2025-11-03 01:01:10+00:00
My experience from childhood in a quite rural area (500m from a large nature preservation area) is the same.

There was noise from constant tractors running around (for both cereal agriculture and cattle farming), even more noise from the nearby gigantic steel building company. People constantly driving around for any reason with stinky noisy vehicles (often poorly maintained). You would get bad smells from the cattle farmer muckspreading or the porc farmer cleaning out. Sometimes you would actually need to stay inside because the nearby cereal farmer thought it was a good idea to spray pesticide with a helicopter.

And that's before even talking about the "nature" part, like a swan chasing you because for some reason he thought you were a threat when you were just passing by, a random confused board wondering if he should charge you or just go about his life, gigantic carnivore fish that will bite you if you are not careful (silurid fish, they caught one over 2m in the river next to my house). You can add the random stray dog (or just common farmer dog) that may not be that friendly and agressive bulls that may catch you by surprise if you unknowingly walked on their territory (to take a shortcut or whatever).

I have learned the hard way that nature is a bitch and rather nasty most of the time. We built society/civilisation because otherwise we wouldn't fare very well alone or in small groups. And the parts of nature we exploit for civilisation are not better than cities, in fact they are often much nastier (you get the nature default, plus the crap humans put on top).

I think people who have some sort of fetish for nature are low IQ or weird excitement with unnecessary risks. My experience living with/around the people there taught me that indeed, most of them are quite dumb and that's probably the reason they are here.
by emersonrsantos | 2025-11-03 01:01:10+00:00
I have used FreeBSD back in 1999 to provide hosting services for a company that I have worked. Web server, DNS, POP/SMTP, FTP and squid cache proxy .it was used also internally for DHCP and NAT routing (since we had only one public IP). Just configured it like an appliance and never had a problem, even uptime was counted in months (exception was package and kernel upgrades).
by perardi | 2025-11-03 01:01:39+00:00
Ah, yes, the esteemed Tesla brand, so well-known for reliability, easy access to rapid maintenance, and the top-notch customer relations and support you need to support fleet vehicles…

…oh wait.

Teslas have terrible quality control, they’re impossible to get rapidly serviced, and they are run by a mercurial adversarial asshole. What kind of fleet manager worth their salt would _ever_ consider Tesla?
by alasr | 2025-11-03 01:02:48+00:00
I haven't used any LLM deep research tools in the past; today, after reading this HN post, I gave Tongyi DeepResearch a try to see how it performs on a simple "research" task (in an area I've working experience in: healthcare and EHR) and I'm satisfied with its response (for the given tasks; I, obviously, can't say anything how it'll performs on other "research" tasks I'll ask it in the future). I think I'll keep using this model for tasks for which I was using other local LLM models before.

Besides I might give other large deep research models a try when needed.
by keeda | 2025-11-03 01:04:12+00:00
Wait hold on, let's put some numbers on this. Please correct my calculations if I'm wrong.

1. The human brain draws 12 - 20 watts [1, 2]. So, taking the lower end, a task taking one hour of our time costs 12 Wh.

2. An average ChatGPT query is between 0.34 Wh - 3 Wh. A long input query (10K tokens) can go up to 10 Wh. [3] I get the best results by carefully curating the context to be very tight, so optimal usage would be in the average range.

3. I have had cases where a single prompt has saved me at least an hour of work (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44892576). Let's be pessimistic and say it takes 3 prompts at 3 Wh (9 Wh) and 10 minutes (2 Wh) of my time prompting and reviewing to complete a task. That is 11 Wh for the same task, which still beats out the human brain unassisted!

And that's leaving aside the recent case where I vibecoded and deployed a fully-tested endpoint on a cloud platform I had no prior experience in, over the course of 2 - 3 hours. I estimate it would have taken me a whole day just to catch up on the documentation and another 2 days tinkering with the tools, commands and code. That's at least an 8x power savings assuming an 8-hour workday!!

4. But let's talk data instead of anecdotes. If you do a wide search, there is a ton of empirical evidence that improves programmer productivity by 5 - 30% (with a lot of nuance). I've cited some here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45379452 -- there is no measure of the amount of prompt usage to estimate energy usage, but those are significant productivity boosts.

Even the METR study that appeared to show AI coding lowering productivity also showed that AI usage broadly increased in idle-time in users. That is, calendar time for task completion may have gone up, but that included a lot of idle time where people were doing no cognitive work at all. Someone should run the numbers, but maybe it resulted in lower power consumption!

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But what about the training costs? Sure we've burned gazillions of GWh on training already, and the usual counterpoint is "what about the cost involved in evolution?" but let's assume we stopped training all models today. They will still serve all future prompts at the same power consumption rates discussed above.

However every new human will take 15 - 20 years of education to get to be a novice in a single domain, followed by many more years of experience to become proficient. We're comparing apples and blueberries here, but that's a LOT of energy to even start becoming productive, but a trained LLM is instantly productive in multiple domains forever.

My hunch is that if we do a critical analysis of amortized energy consumption, LLMs will probably beat out humans. If not already, soon with the rate of token costs plummeting all the time.

[1] https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/12385/how-muc...

[2] https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/is-the-human-brain-a-biolo...

[3] https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatg...
by fragmede | 2025-11-03 01:04:15+00:00
Not exactly. To adapt with the times, many chapters have adopted a "whatever your higherr power is" attitude. So you do have to have something to refer to, but there's no scripture reading, and it can be things like "other people" or "sunsets" or even "the people running our simulation".

Not all chapters have adopted this, but you can simply not return to a meeting that isn't a good match for you - and there are many reasons, not just religiosity, for a given meeting not being a good match for a given individual.
by econ | 2025-11-03 01:05:48+00:00
I'm not sure. I want to see public transport in a city done with rollercoasters. The amount using it for fun would go up dramatically. It would change overnight from just another utterly boring city not worth visiting into a tourist hot spot. Similarly, people who need to be places will make it work.

Life is about the journey. All those roads and other boring means of transportation are just places no one wants to be.
by avianlyric | 2025-11-03 01:06:44+00:00
The EU generally doesn’t like state subsidies of services. Which makes sense, because state subsidies would provide an unfair advantage to companies operating in that state, over other member states. Reducing trade and competition across the bloc.

For postal services, the same applies. EU doesn’t like the idea of a state owned or subsidised postal business, preventing the entrance of competition from companies in other member states, or allowing the subsidised entities to expand and outcompete companies in other EU states.

The EU doesn’t set national postal policy. It only requires that the basic postal service is an open to competition from entities (private and public) in any EU member. With a carve outs for the funding of universal service (I.e. making sure that every address gets post regardless of profitability), where state aid is clearly needed.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-03 01:07:16+00:00
>A telecommunications carrier shall ensure that any interception of communications or access to call- identifying information effected within its switching premises can be activated only in accordance with a court order or other lawful authorization and with the affirmative intervention of an individual officer or employee of the carrier acting in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Commission.

I'm not a lawyer, but it's clear to me that the word "only" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Two wildly different interpretations of the law hangs on a single word.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-03 01:07:36+00:00
I'm more interested in the "You don't need Kafka the product, when we have this Kafka protocol compatible alternative". Kafka is more than a product: it's become a standard, with many many implementations. I'd love to see wider coverage of the alternatives. RedPanda, StreamNative Ursa, OSO, Aiven, many others.
by mmooss | 2025-11-03 01:08:01+00:00
The author gives an interesting history of their writing:

- “SLS: Is cancellation too good?”

- “SLS is still a national disgrace”.

- Dittemore’s Law: "after the Shuttle flight director whose fateful call sealed the fate of the seven astronauts who perished in the Columbia disaster."

and now,

- "NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Is Flaming Garbage"

What it tells me is that they are interested in click-bait, and nothing about the issues. Also, as with any discussion of these issues, it's almost impossible due to misinformation overload by SpaceX fans (which is really the point of misinformation - to prevent discussion).
Azure Frontdoor Still Down?
by FrostKiwi | 2025-11-03 01:08:16+00:00
Following [1] Azure reported "AFD impact confirmed mitigated for customers." [2] but for us it's actually gotten worse after that. Right now `az afd endpoint purge` are being denied with "All changes to Azure Frondoor (sic. how is the status message writing their own Product name wrong) are blocked currently." . Status page is all green [3].

Am I taking crazy pills or is Azure still on fire?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748661

[2] https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history/

[3] https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status
Ask HN: How do you restrict bandwidth when using a hotspot?
by firefax | 2025-11-03 01:08:22+00:00
My mobile plan gives me a decent amount of hotspot bandwidth, but not a ton -- very low double digits.

In the past, I used to get by on a 5GB plan just fine, since I don't really do social media, but things like spotify pulling down new music, OS updates, misclicking and accidentally queueing up a file that would not be "big" on wifi -- all these things can quickly nuke my hotspot.

Have you found any tools or techniques to limit your bandwidth when on a hotspot?

I'm on MacOS currently, but in the process of moving over to Debian.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-11-03 01:09:27+00:00
> rumor is that it’s possible another big step forward could be coming to The Great White North. Canada may drop its 100% tariffs on China-produced electric vehicles. If that was to happen, the country could get access to all manner of high-tech, unbelievably affordable, ridiculously compelling electric vehicles

For the sake of the Ontario automotive industry and its workers, Canada would probably not eliminate the tariff on Chinese EVs.

But a significant reduction would make sense.
by roncesvalles | 2025-11-03 01:09:27+00:00
there is some nuance

1. Sometimes an "inner circle" will co-host a party but the other attendees are not expected to do anything except show up and have a good time, and maybe bring booze. This is common with roommates and in college.

2. What you're describing verbatim is a potluck. Potlucks in the US are popular among immigrant groups, family friend groups, or parties for clubs or associations. But ultimately they're considered a bit uncool/laidback and don't fit the definition of an American party. They're better described as "get-togethers".
by snoman | 2025-11-03 01:09:54+00:00
Meanwhile nothing epic will work on mint (at least I can’t get them working), there are frequently broken components of games (eg. phasmophobia mic won’t work), most multiplayer stuff with anti-cheat won’t work.

Whenever I see someone say “most modern games work flawlessly” I know they’re full of shit or just don’t do much gaming.

Don't get me wrong, I’m not going back to windows, but it’s not the panacea that people pretend it is. Often enough it doesn’t “just work” and you have to hunt down some additional command line args to get games to run.
by kashnote | 2025-11-03 01:10:17+00:00
Love all of these tips. I've hosted dozens of events since moving to NYC and figured I'd add 5 more:

1. If this is a dinner party (or people are all seated), force people to get up and move in a way that they'll meet new people. Do this when you're about 2/3 of the way through the party. Some will complain - do it anyway.

2. Plan 1 (ideally 2) interludes. It can be a small speech, moving people around, changing locations, having people vote on something, etc. For whatever reason, they make the night more memorable.

3. Do your best to make introductions natural and low-pressure. Saying things like "you two would really get along" can put pressure on people - especially shy ones. Bring up something they have in common and let them chat while you back away.

4. Go easy on folks who cancel last minute. They often don't feel good about doing it and you don't want to add more stress to them or yourself.

5. More music != more fun. Some music is good, but if people can't hear each other, turn it down.

If you're interested reading more about this stuff, read The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-11-03 01:10:58+00:00
> Every time I watch old films with children in them I always think about how they’ve been dead, hopefully of old age, for a long time already.

I've got movies (black & white, no audio) recorded on a "Pathe-Baby" camera [1] from my grand-mother and her sister, my great-aunt, in the early 1920s, where they're both little girls playing.

I knew them both very well, they lived through WWII in Europe and they both died old. My great-aunt lived until her 100th year.

Very few things are as moving as this little, short Pathe Baby vids I've got of them.

A few years ago we asked a little local shop to convert these to digital format and these files are precious treasure in the family.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%C3%A9-Baby
by stressback | 2025-11-03 01:12:24+00:00
Better? Hard to say. Different? Yes. Worth evaluating? Absolutely. Using it for 30 minutes will answer your question better than any reply here. I think you'll answer your own question quickly.

I've been coding seriously for about 15 years. No single tool has changed how I code more than claude code and I'm including non-"AI" tooling/services. This sounds like I'm shilling but I am not affiliated. It's played a large part in injecting my passion back into building stuff.
by drnick1 | 2025-11-03 01:12:32+00:00
I use Docker on Linux for this kind of thing (Jellyfin, Nextcloud and a few others) and updates are completely trouble free. I would never deploy complex "black box" apps like Jellyfin bare metal. That being said, I do run my email stack bare metal as I want fine control. Everything is hosted at home on my own hardware and I would never consider moving my computing to the "cloud."
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-03 01:14:23+00:00
It's one of my greatest fears to see the Gonzo going out from the world. Whether or not it's the truth, this post captures a value-system that used to be strongly coded into the world, a domain of part truth part bullshit, but all yes forward excitement that the in the know smart exciting people were in for in abundance, accepting the tongue in cheek along side the sheer raw ambition to outdo the meager reality about us.
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-03 01:14:32+00:00
Wayland was specifically built to support things that aren't desktops, so feature parity with X was never a design goal of Wayland. The idea was that Wayland would be a super-flexible "you give me a window and events, I give you rendered bitmaps" kind of protocol, and then desktop functionality would be layered on top for people who wanted a desktop. Not everything needs to be a desktop (e.g. car infotainment displays, KDE Plasma widgets, etc), and some protocols would be super limited if they had to fit in a desktop mold (e.g. VR displays[0] with apps in non-planar windows).

The main mistake FD.o made is that they didn't get consensus on a "Desktop Profile" extension, so all the DEs wound up implementing their own thing. This is still fixable, just very annoying until we have agreement on this shit. I think that's what you meant by "feature parity with X".

[0] Currently, every desktop VR setup has to have two layers of compositors. VR applications have to communicate with a special VR compositor that then draws normal desktop windows with the contents of what should be hitting each eye of the VR display, all so it can pretend to be two normal displays.