MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abigail95 | 2025-11-20 01:29:20+00:00
Everyone is upset about that except the people clicking on it, which seems to be a lot of people given the amount of revenue and how much people will bid for placement.

So it's not everyone, is it even most people? I'm not sure.

I do feel for you if you happen to live in the EU, but you get what you vote for. I don't live there, none of my businesses operate there, so I'm free to ignore it. The GDPR ends where the EU does, and cross-border enforcement of laws requires a bilateral agreement, that I would have to vote for.

I think there are many people who are fine with targeted advertising and also fine leading a private life in non-GDPR jurisdictions. I think that covers most people in the world.

Given the amount of ad-revenue services I get access to, it's a very good tradeoff for me, please don't kill it, and if you do kill it, stick to your own jurisdiction please.
by hkpack | 2025-11-20 01:29:55+00:00
I think we need to also debunk the debunking.

You know, some of us were already living then and it is not some distant event we have no knowledge of.

For example:

> Re: The soviet government did not want to evacuate the town of Pripyat

> Debunking: Legasov indicated the opposite. He said that the decision to evacuate was made quickly, even though the levels of radiation in the town were not considered to be dangerous.

WTF? The level of radiation was not considered to be dangerous when your reactor was blown open? Are you fucking kidding?

> Re: The government made an effort to conceal everything regarding the accident and what was happening.

> Legasov stated that this was not the case, and that information was not provided at the time because it didn't exist. The situation was very confusing, and information was scarce, coming from multiple conflicting sources and estimates, making it difficult to collect, filter, and access the correct information.

The accident happened on 26 April 1986, and on the 1st of May, _4 days later_ there was a celebration of Labour Day - a mandatory parade in Kyiv within just 100 km. And no-one knew about the disaster from the official sources. Only people with access to foreign radio knew about the disaster, others were happily marching with red flags on the streets breathing polluted air.

And so on, and so forth...

He claims that they had all the equipment ready and knew the actual levels, but at the same time were confused and information was scarce, and the level of radiation were not that bad - it this some type of propaganda for the dumb?
by highfrequency | 2025-11-20 01:29:56+00:00
Is GPT-5.1-Codex better or worse than GPT-5.1 (Thinking) for straight up mathematical reasoning (ie if it is optimized for making code edits)? Said another way: what is the set of tasks where you expect GPT 5.1 to be better suited than GPT-5.1 Codex? Is it non-coding problems or non-technical problems?
by antonymoose | 2025-11-20 01:30:05+00:00
I don’t think it’s serious in any platform of any scale. I remember having some pedo on AOL try to groom me as a 7(?) year old, except I was aware enough to punch out of the situation very quickly. The kind of thing basic keyword filters could have flagged and caught.

Similarly, I remember my families account being banned because I dared to say “Santa isn’t real” in a chat around the same timeframe.

Very serious administration for a billions dollar firm…
by franktankbank | 2025-11-20 01:30:18+00:00
Alternative anecdote. I was a students physics TA which involved lecturing and labs and lots of homeworks and in class work. I had a student who really never seemed to understand algebra and he came and said he couldn't really understand how to do the physics problems very well. I said well its going to be hard without really getting your algebra issues figured out and so he just went and did that. I think having a solid understanding of where it is deeply useful (and math and physics have evolved together forever) can be the spark that lights the fire to build the missing understanding. I can say math was very rote for me until I got into physics and I would never have gotten into hairy math without a physics motivation.
by bilbo0s | 2025-11-20 01:30:38+00:00
Um..

Just throwing it out there, but forget Epstein, I'm sure most of us would not believe what NYT is sitting on in general. This is effectively a defacto global intelligence gathering service. I bet if we could read through a lot of that we'd all be gobsmacked and just stop believing in humanity altogether.

I understand most of what we haven't seen is uncorroborated, but it would still make for interesting reading if we didn't have to worry about falling down an elevator shaft onto some bullets.
QRL: Future‑Proof Blockchain
by slakernode | 2025-11-20 01:31:00+00:00
Been watching $QRL quietly for a while… honestly, it feels like it could quietly overtake $ETH by 2026. Before its launch, IBM, PKI, NIST, and other giants contributed to this, and it’s going to be huge. $QRL will get where it belongs. Ok, let’s go.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-20 01:31:10+00:00
In the arbitrary collection of programs in https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... , SBCL runs x5 slower than C, Racket x15 slower than C. Chez Scheme shoud be in between, like x10 slower than C. (Anyway, some C programs use very advanced low level tricks, so the difference with realistic programs may be slower.)

It's a pity they don't rune benchmarks for Clojure, and I have no idea to make up a number.
by alistairSH | 2025-11-20 01:31:25+00:00
Currently, towing a travel trailer and hauling filthy camping shit and mountain bikes. So nice to toss wet stanky shit in the bed instead of in the cab. I need the tow capacity either way, so may as well have a useful bed (vs an enclosed SUV).

Previous truck was to haul a race car on a trailer. Same fringe benefits for the camping shit, plus tools and spare parts for the race car (engines sometimes, wheels/tires, etc).
by 650 | 2025-11-20 01:32:00+00:00
Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft AI CEO) is a grifter. He dropped out at 19 and later ran "product" for Deepmind, riding the coattails of Demis Hassabis.

He's known for:

- bullying employees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Suleyman#cite_note-14:...

- reorgs, pointless meetings, toxic culture (example: extra office day for his org): sources who work at Microsoft

- https://x.com/pmddomingos/status/1972584701736157664

- He's a corporate climber, good at empire building, which is why Google let him go. Hires product people from his ex companies and you are left with 3 engineers and 5 product managers for a feature and don't ship anything useful.
by cairnechou | 2025-11-20 01:32:06+00:00
"Armchair quarterbacking" is spot on.

The author asks for a deep, system-theoretic analysis... immediately after the incident. That's just not how reality works.

When the house is on fire, you put it out and write a quick "the wiring was bad" report so everyone calms down. You don't write a PhD thesis on electrical engineering standards within 24 hours. The deep feedback-loop analysis happens weeks later, usually internally.
by cpard | 2025-11-20 01:32:29+00:00
As others said, Vortex is complementary to the table Formats you mentioned.

There are other formats though that it can be compared to.

The Lance columnar format is one: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb

And Nimble from Meta is another: https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble

Parquet is so core to data infra and widespread, that removing it from its throne is a really really hard task.

The people behind these projects that are willing to try and do this, have my total respect.
by yellowapple | 2025-11-20 01:32:45+00:00
> Running the same wattage device at 240V instead of 120V would decrease the amperage, assuming the device was designed to handle either voltage.

Well yes, but usually the whole point of switching to 240V is to get more power than what 120V can supply. The people complaining about electric kettles being “slow” in the US compared to the EU would still be complaining if those kettles always pulled the same number of Watts on both 120V and 240V, because it's the Watts that determine how fast the water heats up. The amperage is therefore probably going to be at minimum approximately the same in that case — and probably higher if you're doing something more intensive (and therefore requiring more current) with that new 240V outlet than just running an electric kettle (like running a stove or a clothes dryer or an air conditioner or an electric car charger or a rack of 10+ of those 600W-PSU-laden computers — hence those usually getting beefier 20A+ circuits while everything else in a house might be 15A).
by incanus77 | 2025-11-20 01:32:52+00:00
I have an HP-15c as well as a 16c and I've been using the latter on a daily basis while writing a byte-level network protocol client. I'm getting faster by the day and on the verge of writing some programs for shortcuts on the calculator. I still use the excellent PCalc as well, but seem to be faster on the physical calculator, which is kind of surprising.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-20 01:33:05+00:00
I have taken three multihour Flixbus journeys in Central Europe this year. Each time, what astounded me was how every woman under 30 in sight from my seat was watching Tiktok for the entire journey. Just one thirty-second clip after another for four or five hours, and apparently mainly content that, even if it is about something else, serves to flog cosmetics brands.

Obviously it’s hard to diagnose depression from merely looking at someone. But none of these Tiktok users seemed like sad sacks, indeed some looked like successful professionals. I could only conclude that there is some truth to this platform hijacking even well-balanced people’s brain.
Show HN: Sourcewizard – AI installs SDKs in your codebase
by mifydev | 2025-11-20 01:33:07+00:00
Hi HN! I’m Ivan, one of the founders of Sourcewizard.

It’s a CLI tool that works with AI coding agents (like Cursor and Claude) to install and set up SDKs correctly including middleware, pages, env vars, everything.

Similar to the PostHog Install AI Wizard: https://posthog.com/docs/ai-engineering/ai-wizard But for more packages.

Run this to try it:

npx ai-setup clerk

We built it after watching agents fail basic installs. Wrong packages, deprecated methods, half-finished setups.

Sourcewizard uses package-specific prompts that complete clean installs ~90% of the time on Next.js apps.

Currently we support:

A Few Auth Providers: Clerk and WorkOS

Search APIs, Emails and Notifications: Firecrawl, Resend, Knock

Quickstart: https://docs.sourcewizard.ai/quickstart

More context: https://sourcewizard.ai/blog/why-your-sdk-breaks-in-cursor

Notes: - The client code is open source: https://github.com/sourcewizard-ai/sourcewizard - We explicitly ignore existing Env Files: https://github.com/sourcewizard-ai/sourcewizard/blob/main/in...

Would love feedback!

— Lukas & Ivan
by h4kunamata | 2025-11-20 01:33:20+00:00
The problem with Wine is that you most know what libraries to add, etc. PlayOnLinux automates that process somewhat but still very manual.

Steam Proton makes the whole process painless, you only select which Proton version to run, and that info can be obtained from ProtonDB if you encountered any issue, it is beautiful.

As for Linux, even emulators works like never before. I could never get PS4 emulator to work on Windows, I got PS4, X360, GameCube, and a bunch of other emulators running on Linux like I couldn't believe it.

You can do the same from within SteamOS itself, you just install an app, select the emulator and you ready which is far easier than me doing this from from Linux.
by loeg | 2025-11-20 01:33:38+00:00
> If you can identify a person in a country where WA shouldn't be available by sniffing out their profile, it may even end up being a deadly security vulnerability,

What are you talking about? Like what is even the mechanism for your concern?

This is an open endpoint / not a part of the design that is intended to be confidential. If you suspected any particular individual you could always check if their phone number had a WA account.
by plorg | 2025-11-20 01:33:43+00:00
That seems like a difference between the report and the press release. I'm sure it doesn't help that the current administration likes quick, pat answers.

The YouTube animation they published notes that this also wasn't just one wire - they found many wires on the ship that were terminated and labeled in the same (incorrect) way, which points to an error at the ship builder and potentially a lack of adequate documentation or training materials from the equipment manufacturer, which is why WAGO received mention and notice.
by jihadjihad | 2025-11-20 01:33:51+00:00
It's a dramatization, of course there are going to be liberties taken and creative license used to further the (TFA might say contrived) story.

One thing not mentioned in TFA, though, is how those suffering from radiation sickness (first responders like the firefighter Ignatenko, etc.) are portrayed almost as if they are contagious, and so should not be touched. The Chernobyl series is not the only one to do this, either, and it can lead to viewers thinking radiation sickness is something you can "catch" from someone else.

I don't know why they never make it clear that it's for the sake of the sickened themselves that contact should be minimized (assuming all contaminated clothing etc. has already been discarded), since their immune and other internal systems are totally compromised by radiation poisoning.
by clumsysmurf | 2025-11-20 01:35:06+00:00
With respect to the supplement industry, it could be improved quite a lot if there was large scale testing of purity and potency, by the government presumably. There should be fines if whats in the bottle is not what the label says.

I subscribe to Consumer Labs but they simply don't have the resources to even scratch the surface. The chocolate I eat was approved by CL in 2019, I doubt the results are even valid.

But I doubt RFK would be interested in any of this.
by mingus88 | 2025-11-20 01:35:29+00:00
Sadly, most people aren’t readers. I saw an article the other day stating the percentage of people who read for pleasure has declined into the low teens

The true story of Chernobyl isn’t going to land with folk today. We’ve lost the attention span for anything longer than a slick miniseries with A list actors. Even then, most people I know haven’t seen the show, which is amazing.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12496190/
by spruce_tips | 2025-11-20 01:35:33+00:00
100% agree. composer-1 really has been the sweet spot for me of capability, reliability, and speed. i dont ask it to do too much at once, and this approach + its speed, materially speeds my work up. i generally find i get the most out of models when i feel like im slightly underutilizing their capabilities. the term i use for this is "staying in the pocket"
by therealfiona | 2025-11-20 01:35:55+00:00
What I'd give to have someone who's Linux experience isn't using a Mac and using brew to install stuff.

I'm the only one with formal Linux experience on my team and I'm the only one who doesn't have to look up how to get to the logs...

K8s admin != Linux grey beard. SurprisedPikachu.gif
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-11-20 01:36:04+00:00
Not just that, you have all your emails with you, even without internet, even when aws/azure/cloudflare/... fails, plus you can write replies and everything else while offline and just send/sync when you get internet access (eg. on a cheap flight with expensive wifi).

Many things don't need an app, a web site is enough (and they somehow force apps onto us), but email, especially with something like thunderbird is a great thing to have directly installed on your pc (or portable with you).
by bahmboo | 2025-11-20 01:36:46+00:00
I don't have anything specific to link to but you could try it yourself with line art. Try something like a mandala or a coloring book type image. The model is trying to capture something that encompasses an entity. It isn't interested in the subfeatures of the thing. Like with a mandala it wants to segment the symbol in its entirety. It will segment some subfeatures like a leaf shaped piece but it doesn't want to segment just the lines such that it is a stencil.

I hope this makes sense and I'm using terms loosely. It is an amazing model but it doesn't work for my use case, that's all!
by hodgehog11 | 2025-11-20 01:37:16+00:00
To be honest, I find most of these inconsistencies to be inconsequential for enjoying the film. The ones that really get to me though are the dramatic overestimates on the devastation caused by Chernobyl, and the effects of the radiation itself. Most of the effect of the film comes from this belief that the radiation really is that dangerous. When you know it isn't, it takes quite a bit away from the premise.
by flexagoon | 2025-11-20 01:37:39+00:00
While I agree a lot of open source messenger services have terrible UX, I don't think "the masses" care about it that much. What matters is what everyone else is using. People are using Snapchat or Instagram Messenger and I haven't seen a single person who likes the UX of those services - they just use it and put up with hatred for it because that's what all their friends use.
by gerdesj | 2025-11-20 01:38:35+00:00
If I see a RJ45 plug with a broken locking thingie, or bare wires (not just bare copper - any internal wire), I chop the plug off.

If I come across a CATx (solid core) cable being used as a really long patch lead then I lose my shit or perhaps get a backbox and face plate and modules out along with a POST tool.

I don't look after floating fires.
by incanus77 | 2025-11-20 01:38:47+00:00
PHP contributed hugely for me. I was writing a lot of Perl for web apps from about 1996 to 1999, when PHP really took hold and was an improvement in almost every way, right down to including PCRE regex functions. Perl felt clumsy compared to PHP, especially for MySQL and other relational DB stuff. PHP was built for the web.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-20 01:39:33+00:00
It was a good show. I've re-watched it a couple of times. The actors are excellent, and it's well-done.

I take it for granted that a lot of it was amped up for drama, but other sources (several documentaries) seem to agree on a lot of the actions and timelines. The show added motivations, and some fictional characters.

I also enjoyed Dopesick, and that's a subject that I have direct experience and knowledge of. I have pretty much the same issues with that show.

But I still enjoyed both of them as dramas.

If I want facts, I'll do my own research.
by todd_austin | 2025-11-20 01:39:33+00:00
I created Mojo-V

I agree that side channel and physical attacks are crucial to stop. The predecessor to Mojo-V (Agita Labs TrustForge) was red teamed for three months including differential physical measurement attacks, and the system was never penetrated. So where there is a will there is a way!

Mojo-V stops software, inst timing, microarchitectural, and ciphertext side channels. Vendors can stop analog attacks if they choose to, but the reference design, which I am building, is meant to be really simple to integrate into an existing RISC-V core. Adding Mojo-V only requires changes to the Instruction Decoder and the Load-Store Queue, regardless of the complexity of the microarchitecture.
by idop | 2025-11-20 01:41:06+00:00
> made life really much harder than it needed to be

If only you had read the manual...

Seriously though, of course I wasn't advocating for rudeness, and trust me, I remember how rude some people were back then in tech-related boards, this was not a unique Perl thing. I'm advocating for pointing people to the sources of information they're looking for.

> You've made my shitlist

Well then I hope it's posted somewhere I can refer to at will so that I don't have to ask you on a message board like a noob.
by mberning | 2025-11-20 01:41:22+00:00
This is a great example of why “small details” matter. How many times do you think an apprentice has been corrected about this? What percentage of the time does the apprentice say “yeah but it’s just a label”. Lots of things went wrong in this case, but if the person that put the label on that wire did it correctly then this whole catastrophe could have been avoided.
by nicce | 2025-11-20 01:41:23+00:00
> That doesn't make any sense. Why did uk want to start a fight over icloud E2EE backups (opt-in) but not whatsapp E2EE backups (opt-in)?

Default iCloud backup always included WhatsApp too, even if it was disabled in the app or the app used encrypted backups. And many other things, so it was not only about WhatsApp. Even for WhatsApp alone, it was slightly more useful.
by Chris2048 | 2025-11-20 01:41:53+00:00
And reddit exist for the sake of smug echo-chamber dwellers. Or bots.

A lot of the posts listed there are: * obvious joke/sarcasm/tongue-in-cheek etc * taken out of context, or editorialised to similar effect (e.g. missing nuance that often exists in the same thread) * based on the disbelief or disapproval of equally unqualified reddit-bros * flagged/dead or heavily downvoted, the opposite of being 'encouraged'

In other words, a lot of low effort 'gotcha' point scoring against alleged 'tech-bros' which may or ma not mean everyone in HN is a SV start-up pitcher, or that no one really know what a tech-bro is.
by measurablefunc | 2025-11-20 01:42:21+00:00
How does that apply in this case? The whole point is that the agentic AI/AGI skips all the abstractions & writes optimized low-level code for each GPU vendor from a high-level specification. There are no abstractions other than whatever specifications GPU vendors provide for their hardware which are fed into the agentic AI/AGI to do the necessary work of creating low-level & optimized code for specific tasks.
by sqrt_1 | 2025-11-20 01:42:46+00:00
It really annoys me when fiction is based on real events, takes a lot of liberty with the source material that it enters into the public consciousness.

The classic case is the "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" where it was claimed he was aiming to prove the Earth was not flat. My personal peeve is movies like "The Imitation Game".
by osm3000 | 2025-11-20 01:43:01+00:00
> It seems the main faults that OP finds in the show are that Legasov had issues with his government, when in "reality" he thought they were great. But is that "reality," or oppression?

The tapes were framed in the HBO as an honest message of a dying man to the world to expose the lies that happened. Well, after Going through the tapes, I couldn't find any indication of that...only the opposite.

Now I concede that I don't really know what actually happened, and one can't put a price on the intensity of the situation for everyone at that time.

My point is simple: HBO series said Legasov's position was something that wasn't true
by benzible | 2025-11-20 01:43:19+00:00
The one-time head of the most elite academic institution as well as the US Treasury is an insecure 12 year old boy at heart. Summers clearly saw Epstein as aspirational for his "success" with "women". But this isn't really new information about him. In 2005 he went in front of an audience including top women scientists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and essentially said the lack of women at the top of science was mostly about their lack of innate aptitude, not discrimination [1] (he gave multiple alternate "theories" but it was clear which one he actually believed). People immediately saw that for what it was: a powerful guy projecting his own hang-ups about women. That he's maintained his status over the last 20 years does not speak well of the US's most prestigious institutions.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/2/18/full-transcript...