MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iso1631 | 2025-11-14 19:39:00+00:00
Whether you or I want it or not is irrelevant

Over the last 5000 years it's been very rare for plebs to have any privacy. For a brief period from ww2 through to the early 21st century power shifted to the plebs, but since the 1980s that power has shifted back to the feudal barons, and our rights will eventually regress.

But the SP500 will be at record highs so everyone will be told they should be happy.
by pcrh | 2025-11-14 19:39:08+00:00
Mass surveillance has already been ruled to be in contravention of the Human Rights act:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv...

>A 2014 report to the UN General Assembly by the United Nations' top official for counter-terrorism and human rights condemned mass electronic surveillance as a clear violation of core privacy rights guaranteed by multiple treaties and conventions and makes a distinction between "targeted surveillance" – which "depend[s] upon the existence of prior suspicion of the targeted individual or organization" – and "mass surveillance", by which "states with high levels of Internet penetration can [] gain access to the telephone and e-mail content of an effectively unlimited number of users and maintain an overview of Internet activity associated with particular websites". *Only targeted interception* of traffic and location data in order to combat serious crime, including terrorism, is justified, according to a decision by the European Court of Justice.[23]
by bayindirh | 2025-11-14 19:39:16+00:00
> like you don't understand how they work.

I would not make such assumptions.

> The example in the article shows that the prompt is limiting the LLM by giving it access to only 2000 tokens and also saying "ONLY OUTPUT ..."

The site is pretty simple, method is pretty straightforward. If you believe this is unfair, you can always build one yourself.

> It's just stupid.

No, it's a great way of testing things within constraints.
by metabagel | 2025-11-14 19:39:30+00:00
Maybe so, but the administration claims that these people are not just drug smugglers, but narco-terrorists.

Normally, suspected drug smugglers should be interdicted, boarded, and inspected. The Coast Guard and U.S. Navy train for this. It's standard operating procedure.

It's not normal to destroy boats which don't pose any immediate threat. It would be acceptable to fire on a boat which refuses to permit boarding and inspection, assuming the interdiction itself is legal under maritime law.

Unless there is an imminent threat, you've got to give people a course of action which they can take to avoid their vessel being fired upon: turn back, change course, submit to boarding and inspection, etc.
by HanClinto | 2025-11-14 19:39:49+00:00
A Voronoi diagram is created when you color every point on an image according to which discrete point it is closest to.

So in this case, I see the diagrams as representing the boundaries drawn when projecting / quantizing complex ideas into a set of central points that are insufficient for catching all of the nuance of the original. How well can you adapt a nuanced idea to a different space?

If Language A has an idea that exists at one point in space, which is the closest word in Language B that might be used to represent it? A Voronoi diagram is one possible way of illustrating it.

Tangent on your tangent: this GDC presentation from 2016 is probably my favorite real-world application of Voronoi Diagrams, and uses them for N-player split-screen camera control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu-Qe66AvtY&t=1594s

I have a lingering dream in the back of my mind to make a single-couch Liero-style casual game for N-players with good dynamic camera support using this technique.
Show HN: Four Solutions to Valid Parenthesis (LeetCode #20)
by smatthewaf | 2025-11-14 19:40:36+00:00
LeetCode classifies the Valid Parenthesis problem as easy, but as with all programming challenges, there’s more to it than simply what is on the surface. Let’s take a closer look at the problem description, determine what we can ascertain, and then offer multiple solutions.
by jascha_eng | 2025-11-14 19:40:41+00:00
I feel like this is so core to any LLM automation it was crazy that anthropic is only adding it now.

I built a customized deep research internally earlier this year that is made up of multiple "agentic" steps, each focusing on specific information to find. And the outputs of those steps are always in json and then the input for the next step. Sure you can work you way around failures by doing retries but its just one less thing to think about if you can guarantee that the random LLM output adheres at least to some sort of structure.
by conradfr | 2025-11-14 19:40:50+00:00
Obvious difference with the real Winamp, bugs etc:

- Can't copy/paste a folder

- EQ and Playlist are not detachable / moveable

- No library

- Does not restore the playlist at launch

- Crashes when playing a flac file

- Does it needs to auto play the winamp mp3 at launch?
by outside1234 | 2025-11-14 19:41:25+00:00
It just seems so obvious that all of these companies are going to unwind and yet I don't know how to avoid being damaged by this in my retirement funds in the S&P 500.

Hopefully all of this happens before Open AI can be flogged to the public in an IPO large enough to get into the S&P 500 -- in which OpenAI then goes to zero
by jcranmer | 2025-11-14 19:41:28+00:00
It's difficult to find trustworthy statistics quickly, but the penetration of electricity and running water in US households is only about 99%. At the scale of the US (~130 million households), 1% of households lacking electricity equates to over a million households and somewhat more in terms of number of people. So yeah, there's probably about 1-2 million people in the US without running water and/or electricity.

Where are these people? Probably the largest concentration of such people are on the various Native American reservations (I believe ~15% of the Navajo Reservation lacks running water). The hinterlands of Alaska also likely has a high number of these houses.
by colanderman | 2025-11-14 19:41:44+00:00
Agreed – and MeshCore follows a similar "security on the radio" design.

With the "cell phone + companion radio" setup which is currently very popular, it would seem the correct solution is to perform encryption on the phone – using the Signal protocol – and use the companion radio only to send/receive these blobs.

This has the added benefit that you can pair with _any_ arbitrary companion radio, rather than your identity being tied to one specific radio you own.
by esbranson | 2025-11-14 19:41:56+00:00
No. In the 2019 EU 5G Risk Assessment and the 2020 5G Toolbox, EU regulators gave three reasons why no US vendors triggered the "high-risk supplier" designation: US vendors weren't building the 5G core in Europe; EU regulators concluded that US law does allow compelled cooperation but accompanied by independent courts, adversarial process, and statutory limits; and no European regulator found technical-assurance failures in US vendors comparable to Huawei's.

If you don't like what the EU Commission is doing, you can vote them out. (Just kidding, no you can't.)
by geerlingguy | 2025-11-14 19:42:01+00:00
The one niche they could hit I think is Arm devs who need an Arm machine, want to run Linux (and not rely on Asahi, which still only runs on M1/M2), and want some hardware expansion (PCIe, M.2, dual 10 GbE, etc.).

That's a lot smaller than the general homelab niche, or those who want a small, efficient, quiet computer for some purpose.

As I mentioned in the post, the M4 mini is only $50-100 more (though RAM upgrades quickly negate the price comparison past the base model), and it's many times more efficient—and powerful.

And while you can't do everything with Thunderbolt... there are some halfway-decent external PCIe docks you can use with some devices on macOS now.
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-14 19:42:06+00:00
> Does language around fusion reactors ("bringing power of the sun to Earth" and the like) cause similar associations?

Yes. And the people talking about "bringing the power of the Sun to Earth" are usually either full of shit or expect so little from their audience that they are effectively talking shit (or are making clickbait, what's the same). (And yes, there's a lot of fraud around fusion too.)

The people doing actual work don't use phrases like that in normal conversation.
by kobalsky | 2025-11-14 19:42:32+00:00
> - How is it possible that other users of Aurora aren't experiencing this issue basically all the time? How could AWS not know it exists?

I know that there is no comparison in the user base, but a few years ago I ran into a massive Python + MySQL bug that:

1. made SELECT ... FOR UPDATE fail silenty 2. aborted the transaction and set the connection into autocommit mode

This basically a worst case scenario in a transactional system.

I was basically screaming like a mad man in the corner but no one seemed to care.

Someone contacted me months later telling me that they experienced the same problem with "interesting" consequences in their system.

The bug was eventually fixed but at that point I wasn't tracking it anymore, I provided a patch when I created the issue and moved on.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/945482/why-doesnt-anyone...
by igor47 | 2025-11-14 19:42:38+00:00
Is "by life here" doing the heavy lifting in your comment? Because obviously immigrants haven't been knocked down by life here.

I agree that folks have a pretty tough life generationally in America's rust belt. I disagree that this is unique or uniquely bad compared to many other places in the world. Although there is something pretty unique about the way American culture processes or encodes the hardship. Individualism can really make things worse...
by thesuitonym | 2025-11-14 19:42:48+00:00
These are good ideas, but they do have some pretty big sticking points. The ability to trigger a re-election has the same problems we're trying to avoid in the larger thread: If a bad actor (say a business) wants a politician out, they can just continually issue recall votes until they wear out the population and get lucky. Unfortunately, I think the only solution here is exactly what we have: Politicians have to be re-elected every couple of years.

The cooling off period also has problems, because sometimes a piece of legislation is a good idea, but has a major flaw that causes people to vote against it. What happens when people want a law passed, but not in the form it's presented in?
by pettycashstash2 | 2025-11-14 19:43:04+00:00
"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think" Albert Einstein

So he decides to pay slightly above high school graduate wage, but still under median college wage. He has employees locked in, most likely zero mobility. I predict employees will stay longer with his company due to lock in, but also be underpaid. This is a churn and burn strategy
by projektfu | 2025-11-14 19:43:16+00:00
Either:

1. There are solutions to organization and staying on task, that person can use, to successfully manage their lives, or

2. Those solutions actually aren't. They only work for people who would have been organized anyway.

Casting this dichotomy into a different area that I understand better helps me to see what you are saying. I think that it also gives me an idea that this is not a dichotomy. There are solutions to poverty for the individual. The individual must be aware of them, use them, and keep using them, until they are no longer poor. Then, they have to have a system to avoid returning to poverty. The sum total of this is much harder than it seems, so to many people it seems like those solutions cannot work. Sure, to a person for whom these approaches work, who has become broke and homeless, they can do it, but that is cold comfort for those who cannot escape poverty.

Thanks for the insight.
by geerlingguy | 2025-11-14 19:43:18+00:00
And note that Radxa launched their O6 with the same SoC earlier this year, and they haven't brought down idle power consumption either.

There's also the Orange Pi 6 Plus, and the Radxa O6N with the same SoC, they would all benefit from the power issues on this chip being resolved. Not sure if it'll happen.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-14 19:43:20+00:00
> I think the climate impact of data centers is way overstated relative to the ginormous amounts of emissions from other sources. Yes it's not pretty but it's a fairly minor problem compared to people buying SUVs and burning their way through millions of tons of fuel per day to get their asses to work and back. Just a simple example. There are plenty.

Oh no.

AI data centers are sucking up so much power it's making everyone's electric bill go up.

That's a tangible problem that dramatically impacts the poor and average person.
by bwblabs | 2025-11-14 19:43:21+00:00
Correct, also see the initial discussion about changing the license: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/governance/pulls/24#issuecommen...

The issue with deviating from the upstream license is that only the code author can upstream a patch, since GPLv3 cannot be changed by a non-author of the code to MIT. Resulting in less being patched upstream, and so more merge conflicts, the maintenance burden I was talking about.
by buu700 | 2025-11-14 19:43:31+00:00
Not to mention that this is likely a very short-term debate. Modern AI/ML/compute has been a huge boost to fusion R&D, and tons of AI/tech capital is flowing into companies like Helion and CFS. Necessity is the mother of invention and all.

It may be a valid criticism today, but no one will be complaining about AI's environmental impact after those first few plants go live and mass production begins within the next decade. Knock on wood.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-14 19:43:40+00:00
I’ve seen this strategy many times in the US. For example, in blue states they will repeatedly propose the same gun control laws that restrict the rights of law abiding citizens and violate the constitution, which guarantees a right to own firearms. Each time such a law is proposed, people have to show up to hearings, submit comments, pressure legislators, protest, and all of that. Those laws may then be pulled back, but the same laws will get brought up every single legislative season, and citizens who have other responsibilities in life have to give up time and money repeatedly to fight for their constitutional rights.

I’m sure there are other examples of such legal abuse of different political biases - I’m just using this as an example because there is such a long history of it. Eventually, legislators will pass whatever they want anyways. And then your recourse to regain rights is to go through an expensive years-long legal battle that ultimately requires the Supreme Court to take the case. This type of “attack” is a serious flaw in many modern democracies.

I think the fix is to have personal consequences for legislators, judges, etc that make bad decisions that violate the constitutional rights or fundamental rights of citizens. The idea that people are immune from consequence just because they’re serving in an official capacity is insane. This shouldn’t be the case for anyone serving in political office or other public roles - as in, you shouldn’t get immunity whether you are a lawmaker or policeman or teacher or whatever else.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-14 19:43:55+00:00
> Pretty amazing technique. I think that's the biggest breakthrough here.

This is a standard approach in molecular biology. Here is the paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02867-7

Here is an explainer of this very typical technique: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/biotech-dna-tech... and something more detailed: https://www.neb.com/en-us/tools-and-resources/feature-articl...

The insight they had was to link part of the desired biosynthetic pathway to the cells pathway (but they don't explicitly show that this had been necessary EDIT - Fig 3f shows a 45X increase with their strategy over a similar strategy; however, it's not clear that their 'control' was the optimal strategy).

relevant figure: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02867-7/figures/1
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-14 19:44:05+00:00
That strain of libertarian rhetoric is overwhelmingly encountered on American-dominated fora. I won’t say it doesn’t exist in Europe, since Europeans can pick up on American internet culture, too, but it is too marginal in Europe to affect politics much. There is no significant libertarian party in the EU. Some of the far-right parties stoking and benefiting from popular discontent even promise to uphold the welfare state, but simply deny it to immigrants.
by jansommer | 2025-11-14 19:44:08+00:00
Have you benchmarked your load on RDS? [0] says that IOPS on Aurora is vastly different from actual IOPS. We have just one writer instance and mostly write 100's of GB in bulk.

[0] https://dev.to/aws-heroes/100k-write-iops-in-aurora-t3medium...
by mrandish | 2025-11-14 19:44:09+00:00
I agree with your point and have long disliked when Firefox squanders their limited resources on side quests - which is too often. But, to 'steelman' their motivation to 'do something' on AI, this analysis article sums up why major AI and browser vendors are pushing : https://entropytown.com/articles/2025-10-31-openai-atlas-ai-....

I just think Firefox is taking the wrong approach. Trying to run with the pack of large commercial entities supporting their multi-prong corporate agendas does nothing for Firefox long-term (while annoying their users and looking like a buzzword-chasing 'me too'). This is a perfect example of when Firefox should zig instead of zag. Per the article I linked:

> “the hard part of an AI browser is not chat, it’s process and trust isolation.”

Instead of feature parity on AI, Firefox should race to technically position with APIs as the friendliest 'host browser' for AI companies outside the big five (eg "everyone else"). That gets some AI vendors actually recommending Firefox as the "works best with..." option instead of ignoring FF. Plus AI projects, researchers and LocalLLama-type hobbyists will be attracted. Sure, that's currently a small segment but they have high-potential for growth. It's very early days and today's AI leaders may not be tomorrow's AI giants.
by ferguess_k | 2025-11-14 19:44:33+00:00
I think we are already seeing this happening as it is not rocket science. US is not willing to be the world police anymore, because it is more and more expensive and some of the elites and many ordinary people feel that they are not gaining much as return.

So this left and is going to leave a lot of power gaps around the globes, and regional wars are picking up paces.

China is not particularly happy about this, because it is not ready and perhaps don't even want to be the next world police. US has always wanted China to share the responsibility but China is hesitant, which is understandable. Plus most of the people in China do not want a destabilized world, for now.

What I'd expect that China will gradually lose steam (actually people on HN already observed since like 10 years ago) when the people born in the 1970s/1980s retire. The officials who are resistant to the idea of expansion (because it damages their power base) are going to retire then. I'd expect the world to be a LOT hotter then. So that's about 2030-2040 and might come a bit earlier as the other players are already moving the pieces(e.g. Russia).

Not sure how to prepare my family through that time, though. I mean, it's just my guess, so my wife just rolls up her eye and wants to buy more houses/stocks because "houses/stocks always go up if you look at the chart". What I think is that the whole economical-geopolitico logic is going to change forever, and what is gone is gone for good. The next globalization is maybe 50 years away but we will never see it. From hindsight, I believe the 2008 financial crisis was the turning points. They managed to drag it for another 20 years, which I send my kudos.

Again, just my guess. I have always wronged in the pessimistic side so I hope I'm wrong this time again.
by le_stoph | 2025-11-14 19:44:35+00:00
I'll be damned, I feel like I've been using GA since forever!

You're right though, just re-listened to the segment[0] and the ex-CEO mentions they were initially using AWS, then moved to their own servers because of the limitations of AWS at the time and their particular needs. Github Actions did however always run on Azure!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oq__5tDFZI&t=491s
by deathanatos | 2025-11-14 19:45:16+00:00
Generate an image of a clock face, but instead of the usual 12 hour numbering, number it with 13 hours.

Gemini, 2.5 Flash or "Nano Banana" or whatever we're calling it these days. https://imgur.com/a/1sSeFX7

A normal (ish) 12h clock. It numbered it twice, in two concentric rings. The outer ring is normal, but the inner ring numbers the 4th hour as "IIII" (fine, and a thing that clocks do) and the 8th hour as "VIIII" (wtf).
by rzzzt | 2025-11-14 19:45:47+00:00
Past discussions on the topic about articles that explore the mindset:

1) John Scalzi's "Being Poor"

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15041758

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1712493

2) Meg Elison's "Poor in Tech"

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27206899
by hexage1814 | 2025-11-14 19:46:01+00:00
Thanks for replying. I wasn't expecting a reply since the thread was so popular and there were a bunch of comments :) Since I have your attention, I would like to ask something that isn't quite about the project itself, but rather about the ease of use that projects like this will bring.

Do you think pages in the future might start locking down and making it harder for users to customize things? Sort of DRM? Sometimes, for instance, on Cloudflare checking captcha pages, often I have to disable my userscript extension because some of my scripts interfere with the captcha or something.

And as some people pointed out, I'm somewhat skeptical sites would like users modifying their pages, not because those custom modifications wouldn't be useful to their users and make their user experience better, but because those sites do not want a better user experience for their users. Hell, if they wanted or were okay with that, YouTube Premium would offer you an API so that you can watch your stuff without being bothered by their horrible official front-end in your preferred alternative front-end.

So I'm just curious what your take on that is.

Again, loved the extension, and a small suggestion I would make is for the extension to store locally the prompts that generated that code, like the conversation. I'm not sure if this exists—at least I wasn't able to find it—but I think it could be useful.
by kragen | 2025-11-14 19:46:02+00:00
> I think it’s remarkable that what was until recently sci-fi fantasy has become a mainstream view in Silicon Valley.

I wonder if Tom Phillips isn't very familiar with the history of Silicon Valley, because this is the most unremarkable thing. 60 years ago personal computers were sci-fi fantasy, and 50 years ago they were a mainstream view in Silicon Valley. 50 years ago usable GUIs were sci-fi fantasy, and 40 years ago they were a mainstream view in Silicon Valley. 40 years ago a global computer network used by almost everyone was sci-fi fantasy, and 30 years ago it was a mainstream view in Silicon Valley. 30 years ago always-internet-connected wearable computing devices were sci-fi fantasy, and 20 years ago they were a mainstream view in Silicon Valley. 20 years ago renewable energy cheaper than coal was a sci-fi fantasy, and 10 years ago it was a mainstream view in Silicon Valley.

There were a lot of other sci-fi fantasies that didn't pan out, of course, or at least haven't panned out yet, so this isn't a sign that AGI will definitely happen. Xanadu, the Information Superhighway, graphical programming, virtual reality, freedom, world peace, energy too cheap to meter, the full automation of production, flying cars, and so on. But the entire point of Silicon Valley is that it's a machine for turning sci-fi fantasies into the realities of everyday life.