MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by antiriad | 2025-11-30 13:28:57+00:00
So, basically, it all boils down to this: Don’t be a miserable person. People will pretend to like you or care about you because "it’s their job" (just look at LinkedIn: no one complains about anything; people are even afraid to point out the elephant in the room).

The problem is that systems like incubators and financial structures reward this kind of behavior. Look at the billionaires we have now (Elon, Donald...) and what they’re doing to the world—making it a worse place.

To everyone: Remember, you will die someday. Think about whether the world you leave behind is better or worse because of you. No matter how monumental your achievements, you will leave this world, and your legacy will fade over time (just as it did in Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and even in more modern societies). Look at who is remembered and what remains of them. We don’t realize it because a century seems like an eternity to us.
by Perz1val | 2025-11-30 13:29:52+00:00
I've setup cachyos repos on arch and it does indeed feel snappier. I've not measured any performance, but I'd imagine it's negligible on my pretty new ryzen 9. Nonetheless, the process was fairly easy and so far nothing has broken because of that. If I were to actually care enough to test it, I'd also try just swapping the scheduler on the normal Arch kernel.
by aeve890 | 2025-11-30 13:29:54+00:00
>This is me being snarky and ignorant, but if it solved one problem and it is automated what’s stopping it from solving all the others?

Yeah that's the crux of the matter. How do AI did it? Using already existing math. If we need new math to prove Collatz, Goldbach or Riemman, LLMs are simply SOL. That's what's missing and hype boys always avoid to mention.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-30 13:30:01+00:00
Water extinguishers are incredibly useful for putting out small incidental fires that can result from hot work without making a big mess. The kind of stuff you'd just move outside or let burn out rather than discharge a powder extinguisher over.

Nobody is whipping out a dry-chem extinguisher because the leaves under the workbench caught on fire from welding sparks.
by jaapz | 2025-11-30 13:30:24+00:00
I have been running arch for about 5 years now, and I think there were about 3 or 4 instances where I'd have to do some manual intervention to fix an update, but those interventions were generally all fixable by commands posted on arch linux's blog (which, for some weird reason, the arch devs expect you to check every time you run `sudo pacman -Syu`)

Arch devs know how much friction manual intervention updates cause, so they try to keep them to a minimum.

Honestly, I've had more problems running windows than running arch.
by hocuspocus | 2025-11-30 13:30:37+00:00
Scala was a bad fit for the Android runtime and the SDK. On a $200 Android phone with 2015 specs the performance aspect was definitely not a trivial argument against Scala; Kotlin has perfect interop with very little overhead, no conversions between collections (often slow and immutable in Scala), a nullability story that doesn't box everything in Option, ...

And most Googlers do not like clever languages with bad tooling, especially the ones working to productize languages and toolchains for Blaze and other internal tools.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-30 13:30:38+00:00
Once the war ends and both sides can start clarifying their troop classifications. There's always going to be uncertainty because an MIA could be dead, or it could be some guy who successfully deserted and started a new life for himself somewhere. But as both sides return captured troops, exchange bodies, and so on - everything will be made much more clear. And there will also be less political motivation to lie.
by julian_englert | 2025-11-30 13:31:04+00:00
We just made an app that walks you through designing a novel protein with AI from scratch. Takes about 5 minutes, requires zero biology knowledge.

http://design-a-protein.com

The best part: we will actually synthesize 1000 of those protein designs in the lab and test their real world function as a therapeutic.

This is part of our protein design competition at Adaptyv (YC S21, https://adaptyvbio.com) where we test completely novel protein sequences in a real lab.

The deadline to submit proteins is this Sunday EOD. We’ve already received thousands of proteins from hundreds designers from all over the world.

And now you can join too!
by themgt | 2025-11-30 13:32:04+00:00
Substitute “perpetual motion machines” for “datacenters in space”.

This is an absurd strawman. A datacenter in space doesn't violate any fundamental physical laws. Science would not be "disrupted" if engineers made it economically feasible for certain use-cases.

It's totally reasonable to doubt that e.g. >1% of Vera Rubins are going to wind up deployed in space, but fundamentally this is a discussion about large profitable companies investing in (one possible) future of business and technology, not a small group of crackpot visionaries intending to upend physics.

Starlink sounded fairly nuts when it was first proposed, but now there's thousands of routers in space.
by retsibsi | 2025-11-30 13:33:05+00:00
The important difference is not the price, but the extent of the corruption. A politician whose public persona is clean, law-abiding, respectful of norms and institutions, and generally benevolent will be limited in how far they will go to abuse their power and sell out their country -- even if they are secretly very cynical and amoral. A politician who is openly corrupt, above the law, norm breaking, and vindictive will be free to do much more damage.
by maxglute | 2025-11-30 13:34:21+00:00
It's not about stopping, it's about delaying.

There's a reason Huang's quote is in context of PRC talent.

PRC generates plurality of global AI talent and is projected to generate disproportionate more short/medium term. Nvidia want to delay future where 50%+ of global AI talent working on Huawei/Ascend ecosystem or fragment PRC talent pool so net 50%+ of global AI talent works on CUDA moat for as long as possible (which is strategicially significant depending if you're near/medium term AGI believer). The reality is huge % of foreseeable US AI talent is going to be from PRC anyway, but without fragmenting domestic PRC talent, PRC will be net talent winner. The second order effects of that is PRC will have single direction valve to siphon knowledge (knowledge diffusion + espionage) from SV but the vice versa will be more controlled, a PRC AI blackbox, and faster PRC proliferates domestic AI the less ability for west/NVIDIA to brain drain PRC talent developed from different system. And with hardware gap closing in 5/10/15 years, and energy gap firmly in PRC favour (i.e. US likely not able to close energy gap faster than PRC can close compute gap), and you basically have trendline where PRC will sprint from a few years behind to years ahead once compute constraint lifts from their talent advantage.
by artur_makly | 2025-11-30 13:34:52+00:00
I too have made this choice with my family.. and its one hell of a positive force-factor. My mom immigrated from Kiev, with nothing and a dream for her son to have a better life in NYC. Im now taking the same risks as a 5-time entrepreneur..now living in Buenos Aires as a single dad. Enjoy the ride - its short - live your dream - steer your ship or it will be steered for you.
by EliteGadget | 2025-11-30 13:35:11+00:00
The complexity is hidden. I don't require all the gumph. I just gave bash and a Debian install. Pretending the rube goldberg machine isn't one because you've hidden it behind a facia doesn't mean it isn't one.

When all of that complexity doesn't work (which sooner or later it will), it will be more difficult to fix.
by mr_toad | 2025-11-30 13:37:53+00:00
Some of the proposals are much much bigger than this. Five GW, and 16 square kilometres.

It’s amusing that the article points out how large the radiators will have to be, when the proposals already include building giant radiators. Or that the satellites will have to be vastly larger than the ISS; surprise, surprise, that’s also part of the plan.
by zwnow | 2025-11-30 13:38:26+00:00
> Should I use AI to solve Advent of Code puzzles? No. If you send a friend to the gym on your behalf, would you expect to get stronger? Advent of Code puzzles are designed to be interesting for humans to solve - no consideration is made for whether AI can or cannot solve a puzzle. If you want practice prompting an AI, there are almost certainly better exercises elsewhere designed with that in mind.

And yet I expect the whole leaderboard to be full of AI submissions...

Edit: No leaderboard this year, nice!
Show HN: Portal – Relay network to expose local services to public web endpoint
by sjc02183 | 2025-11-30 13:38:31+00:00
Portal is a permissionless relay network that exposes any local service on the public internet, without static IPs or centralized tunnel providers.

Portal uses a browser-based WASM ServiceWorker to perform end-to-end encryption directly in the client.

The relay only forwards encrypted frames and can`t terminate inspect traffic.

A few technical details:

- Every published service is addressed through subdomain routing (<id>.relay.domain.com)

- The relay maintains a multiplexed connection with the publisher using yamux

- The browser fetch path attaches to the ServiceWorker which decrypts and forwards bytes to the local service

- Anyone can run a relay; the protocol is designed to avoid central coordination

- No configuration is required on the publisher side except running portal-tunnel

Github:

Relay server — https://github.com/gosuda/portal

Client-side apps — https://github.com/gosuda/portal-toys

Tunnel - https://github.com/gosuda/portal-tunnel
by angiolillo | 2025-11-30 13:38:41+00:00
> better radio silicon that can survey a wide swath of available spectrum (based on country limits) and pick channel(s) appropriate to the use optimized for battery life, distance, and/or bandwidth

That would certainly be helpful, but even with current radios I can imagine a configuration process that sequentially scans different channels to achieve the same result, just a little slower.
by everdrive | 2025-11-30 13:38:59+00:00
I had Manjaro previously, but it regularly had issues booting due to Plymouth. I'm not quite sure what the issue was, but Plymouth was deprecated. I switched to Fedora for a while, but finally got sick of Gnome 3. (yes, I could have just used KDE on Fedora but wanted to try out Cachy) Cachy has been pretty good, and I'm seeing much better performance in games than in Fedora, although I'm not sure how much of that is due to Fedora open-sourcing their kernel driver was responsible for the difference. (I still had the proprietary ones on Fedora)

I hope some of these work out. Honestly from a strict compatibility and ease of use standpoint nothing has been as simple or reliable for me as Ubuntu used to be. I left it due to snaps and premium nagging, but I've had the usual little "linux" quirks ever since. As much as I love cachy, my current quirk with it is that heavy disk writes tank the system aggressively. A bit of brief research suggests this might be due to using BTRFS, but I'm comfortable enough with the system that I don't want to do a total reformat right now.

I guess what I'm saying is that as much as I love linux there is still some refinement needed.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-30 13:39:09+00:00
Target audience favors in for default load out, too. Gamers aren’t likely to be *nix gurus and want something that will come configured correctly for their use case out of the box, including stuff like Nvidia drivers.

For this group, needing to follow wiki guides and such and spending time on basic system functionality just isn’t happening. If that’s the only option, they’re just going to reinstall Windows.
by felixgallo | 2025-11-30 13:39:44+00:00
This is total 'both sides do it' nonsense.

Doubtless Hunter Biden's job was a naked nepo quasi-bribery thing, and he said and did all sorts of ridiculous things. Dude is indefensible.

But on one hand you have a president joining a conference call and not discussing business, and on the other hand you have a president literally demanding tribute, gold bars, a ballroom, firing all available oversight, blackmailing all of the universities to toe his ideological line, installing crypto and antivax scammers, and looting like it's going out of style, and meanwhile all of his kids are becoming millionaires trading openly off the name and the power.

"Barron’s first major business move came in 2024, when he co-founded World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency venture launched with his father and older brothers. He is even credited inside the family with explaining basic crypto concepts to his father. After Trump won the presidency, the company exploded in value. Forbes estimates it added more than $1.5 billion to Trump family wealth—about 10% of which belongs to Barron." (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/net-wort...)
by Jnr | 2025-11-30 13:40:08+00:00
It does say very clearly on top of the page that it is an "operating system", what is so unclear about it?

If you want to know more, just scroll down and read more detailed explanation

Not sure in what way some people expect to be fed the information. If you did not understand what it is from the first couple of sentences then maybe it is not for you.
by Spooky23 | 2025-11-30 13:40:31+00:00
You’re missing the point.

We knew about the problem for some time. The technical issue isn’t rocket science. The problem is the cost of changing the processes and human behavior is expensive in terms of time and energy, and we’d spend a lot of man hours and maybe cash on it.

So we used a tool and fixed the process in a few days. That’s a win, unless you believe the hype that AGI is upon us!
by torginus | 2025-11-30 13:40:39+00:00
That is absolutely untrue - a large part of the jobs were either outsourced and/or automated to be trivial, but a large part is essentially barely made easier by technology - food service, all the jobs necessary for running and building infrastructure, homes etc. is only changing very slowly due to technology - this is due to the nature of the fields, even if there were rapid advancement in plumbing (there weren't) in the past few decades, most of the buildings are standing and rebuilding them makes little sense - same with water treatment facilities, power plants etc.

In fact I would argue in some ways society is even less capable today - the percentage of people skilled in the trades is much lower, so it would be much harder to rebuild from scratch.
by retsibsi | 2025-11-30 13:40:40+00:00
Not this time:

> The global leaderboard was one of the largest sources of stress for me, for the infrastructure, and for many users. People took things too seriously, going way outside the spirit of the contest; some people even resorted to things like DDoS attacks. Many people incorrectly concluded that they were somehow worse programmers because their own times didn't compare. What started as a fun feature in 2015 became an ever-growing problem, and so, after ten years of Advent of Code, I removed the global leaderboard.
by pandaman | 2025-11-30 13:42:37+00:00
>And I've seen the DA charge bike thieves.

Really? After finding out that the police reports you have also "seen" do not actually include charges you now have seen the DA pressing charges while strolling through the court house and walking into random arraignment hearings, I presume? And you probably did not catch any names of the perpetrators, right?

>What evidence do you have to support your claims that people choose not to bike because of theft

Talk to people perhaps? I figure you don't bike and people you know don't either, so, instead of a court house how about hanging at an LBS and asking people working there and the customers?

>and that theft isn't prosecuted based on housing status

That's not something I claimed, I said that bike theft is not prosecuted period. But homeless also are not charged with the whole bunch of crimes they commit regularly: trespassing, public intoxication, traffic violations, disturbance of peace etc. You can ask a local PD or inquiry your DA office about that.

>Why do you use homeless as a noun to refer to people?

Because it's a noun referring to such people? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20homeless
Show HN: Burner-Query S3 logs without cold starts/egress fees(Rust+WASM)
by zerohero111 | 2025-11-30 13:42:44+00:00
I built this because I was tired of cold starts or complex setups or paying AWS egress fees just to query logs in S3.

The Problem: To analyze 500GB of logs, I usually have to either:

- Wait 5-10s for Athena cold starts + pay $5/TB scanned.

- Download the data to my laptop (slow + egress costs).

- Upload it to a SaaS like Datadog/Snowflake (massive cost + privacy risk).

The Solution: Burner is a "Bring Your Own Compute" SQL engine.

Architecture: You run the Agent (Docker) on your own EC2 instance in the same region as your bucket. Its zero egress as the data never leaves your VPC. The Agent computes aggregations in-memory (using DataFusion/Arrow) and only streams the JSON results back to you. I integrated wasmtime so you can compile Rust logic (like PII scrubbing or CIDR matching) and run it inside the query engine at native speeds.

Benchmarks (1GB Parquet / 100M rows):

- Python (Pandas): ~45s (Crashed OOM on t3.micro)

- Burner: ~1.8s (Streaming batches, 256MB RAM limit)

Business Model: I'm trying a $19 Lifetime License (Beta) instead of a subscription.

Repo is here: https://github.com/burnersql/burner-agent

Email: hello@burnersql.com

Happy to answer questions! I hope this is useful. Enjoy folks. :)
by Melonai | 2025-11-30 13:43:03+00:00
Had a tangential issue with an Anker power bank (screen was sometimes showing bogus charge essentially), and can confirm Anker E-Mail support is pretty good in my experience, they sent me a second unit (even though the first is still functional and I still use it just fine to this day), free of charge after a brief exchange.

Might be worth a shot.
by raffael_de | 2025-11-30 13:43:39+00:00
Let me give you a realistic answer. There are soft and hard criminals. For example: soft criminals buy drugs, hard criminals sell drugs. The soft criminals convert from traditional to digital money (plus maybe a little obfuscation), order and hope for the best. The hard criminals have to solve the difficult problem of reversing that conversion. They'll just have some homeless person open a bank account and then use that for the conversion. If the homeless person gets busted, it better keep its mouth shut - or else.
by dpacmittal | 2025-11-30 13:43:58+00:00
A few months ago I felt incredibly depressed, demotivated and hopeless out of the blue. I was about to go to a psychiatrist to get some anti depressants but I just happened to get some bloodwork done. My vitamin d levels were super low at just 9. Few months of supplements got me to 35 and I've been feeling much better.
by kvemkon | 2025-11-30 13:45:20+00:00
> What we need is automated theorem discovery.

I've been thinking mathematicians have fun doing math, making discoveries, crafting proofs.

Does Tour de France & Co. make no sense since small, lightweight and powerful e-bicycles appeared?

Using computer as a helper like bicycles is one thing, using LLMs seems more like e-bicycle and is something another.
by bogtog | 2025-11-30 13:46:27+00:00
The premise of this post and the one cited near the start (https://www.tobyord.com/writing/inefficiency-of-reinforcemen...) is that RL involves just 1 bit of learning for a rollout, rewarding success/failure.

However, the way I'm seeing this is that a RL rollout may involve, say, 100 small decisions out of a pool of 1,000 possible decisions. Each training step, will slightly upregulate/downregulate a given training step in the step's condition. There will be uncertainty about which decision was helpful/harmful -- we only have 1 bit of information after all -- but this setup where many steps are slowly learned across many examples seems like it would lend itself well to generalization (e.g., instead of 1 bit in one context, you get a hundred 0.01 bit insights across 100 contexts). There may be some benefits not captured by comparing the number of bits relative to pretraining.

As the blog says, "Fewer bits, sure, but very valuable bits", this also seems like a different factor that would also be true. Learning these small decisions may be vastly more valuable for producing accurate outputs than learning through pretraining.
by Timon3 | 2025-11-30 13:46:31+00:00
Humans didn't exist since the beginning of time, and we only started to properly record temperatures in the last few centuries. That means we have to determine historical data through the effects it had on our planet. The methods to find this historical data from the effects keep changing and evolving, so it makes complete sense to me that historical data has changed throughout the reports.

Unfortunately you didn't specify where one can find this "vastly different historical data", so I can't get more specific than this.
by dan-robertson | 2025-11-30 13:48:11+00:00
Maybe one thing to keep in mind is that there are a big range of colleges in the US. If you go to a poorly regarded party school then probably you have a good time and maybe even get some useful connections out of it, but the main advantage is presumably being able to check the ‘college degree’ box when applying to relatively ordinary jobs. If you go to Harvard then (a) you pay much less if you have limited means and (b) your future prospects are probably significantly better from the experience (this is a bit complicated – a lot of the good outcomes are due to capable and ambitious inputs so the direct benefit of the degree is more limited).

It is easy to read something about one subset of universities while subconsciously thinking of a different subset (eg all universities vs well-known / highly regarded / similar ones to your own).

When some survey says that people no longer see the value in the degree, it obviously doesn’t mean that no college is worth it.

Another thing: a lot of recent wage growth was in the lower end of the income distribution so better alternatives is part of the decreased desirability of college.
by gioele | 2025-11-30 13:48:26+00:00
Kudos on releasing Yandori!

We have been (low-keep) working on something similar (more from an academic point of view) for the past few years:

This is the introductory article (open access): "Comparison of news commonality and churn in international news outlets with TARO" https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3603163.3609062

(Allow me a moment of pride for the student leading this project: the paper won the Ted Nelson Award at ACM Hypertext 2023.)
by chongli | 2025-11-30 13:48:47+00:00
I am so glad there is no leaderboard this year. Making it a competition really is against the spirit of advent calendars in general. It’s also not a fair competition by default simply due to the issue of time zones and people’s life schedules not revolving around it.

There are plenty of programming competitions and hackathons out there. Let this one simply be a celebration of learning and the enjoyment of problem solving.
by baranul | 2025-11-30 13:49:45+00:00
The statement is likely to be justification propaganda from those companies that have focused on trucks and SUVs. There is still a car market in the U.S., and for that matter, in South America and Canada.

Something else that is not being told in the mainstream media, is the U.S. bias and negative attitude towards South American countries has left the door wide open to China. And China is firmly establishing itself there, where it is unlikely that the U.S. can compete for at least a decade, if not a generation.