MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mintflow | 2025-11-18 12:45:21+00:00
Recently my multiple VPN server nodes just randomly cannot connect to cloudflare CDN IPs, from different provider VPS, while the Host Linux network does not have the issue; vpp share the same address with Linux and use tc stateless NAT to do the trick.

I finally work around this by change the tcp options sent by vpp tcp stack.

But the whole thing made me worry there must be something deployed which cause this issue.

But I do not think that related with this network issue, it just reminds me the above, I feel there are frequently new articles about cloudflare networking, maybe new method or new deployment sort of related high probability of issues
by neya | 2025-11-18 12:45:32+00:00
> Microsoft has gone full-blown evil corporation again

You lost me here. They ALWAYS have been evil and disrespectful of their customers. It's not just paid products, even their so called "open source" products like VSCODE and Github Desktop randomly add helpers to run in the background constantly (even on Mac) under the label Telemetry. They paid good money for OpenAI, they want to make full use of it. RIP to all their customers who have to use their Office 360 suite. They will probably pull off an Adobe at some point :(
by astura | 2025-11-18 12:46:24+00:00
>In fact - if there's one myth movies perpetuate, it's that of the "epiphany". Two characters finally name the thing, talk it though and there's permanent change.

>Permanent change is rare - more so permanent change precipitated by a single conversation.

My mom loooooovves talking about problems. She uses talking as a replacement for doing. She thinks if she's address the issue through words she's solved it and doesn't have to change her awful behavior. She's "addressed" it in her mind so it's no longer a problem.

She can't understand why nobody likes her.
by acidburnNSA | 2025-11-18 12:46:44+00:00
They used old TRISO fuel from General Atomics, not their own new fuel.

They used their connections to Secretary of Energy Chris Wright to get priority access at LANL, who provided nuclear engineering services and an existing critical facility (including building, safeguards, instrumentation, controls, rigging hardware).

LANL operated the facility to bring it to cold critical.

This is a cool milestone for sure, but bringing legacy enriched uranium critical isn't really interesting from an engineering perspective. I think they just wanted to claim to be the first VC to do a critical assembly.

I like that Valar is trying to move fast. It's true that you can't really learn much about your reactor until you have a commercially-relevant prototype, and they're trying to get to that point really fast. Respect for that. This little criticality experiment is more of a stunt though, for sure.

BTW TerraPower, a VC-backed nuclear startup, was splitting far more atoms, at high temperature and power, in the Advanced Test Reactor 5 years ago testing new fuel they designed themselves. So while it may be true that this is the first VC-backed criticality experiment, it's not the first time VC-backed companies split the atom (which is how the Valar founder announced it).
Show HN: Gitlogue – A terminal tool that replays your Git commits with animation
by unhappychoice | 2025-11-18 12:47:04+00:00
Gitlogue is a CLI that turns your Git commits into a typing-style replay.

It visualizes diffs line by line, shows the file tree, and plays back each edit as if it were typed in real time.

Key points

• Realistic typing animation

• Syntax-highlighted diffs

• File-tree view

• Replay any commit

• Self-contained CLI

Demo video is in the README.

Repo: https://github.com/unhappychoice/gitlogue
by GrinningFool | 2025-11-18 12:47:17+00:00
The issues that these pseudo-relationships can cause have barely begun to be discussed, nevermind studied and understood.

We know that they exist, and not only for people with known mental health issues. And that's all we know. But the industry will happily brush that aside in order to drive up those sweet MAU and MRR numbers. One of those, "I'm willing to sacrifice [a percentage of the population] for market share and profit" situations.

Edits: grammar
by fabian2k | 2025-11-18 12:47:27+00:00
I think people tend to overestimate how much certain choices matter for performance. But I don't agree that the speed of frameworks doesn't matter in most cases. To me the base performance of such a framework is essentially like a leaky abstraction. The moment I hit any bottleneck I suddenly need to understand how the framework works internally to work around it.

I'm unlikely to get bottlenecked on well written and idiomatic code in a slower framework. But I'm much more likely to accidentally do something very inefficient in such a framework and then hit a bottleneck.

I also think the difference in ergonomics and abstraction are not that huge between "slow" and "fast" frameworks. I don't think ASP.NET Core for example is significantly less productive than the web frameworks in dynamic languages if you know it.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-18 12:47:46+00:00
The idea that effective altruism has attracted particularly bad actors only seems to be the case because effective altruism is still new enough to be newsworthy.

For example, the most prominent scandal in the U.S. right now is the Epstein saga. A massive scandal that likely involves the President, a former President, one of the richest men in the world, and a member of the UK royal family.

And in a nutshell, Eostein’s job and source of power was his role as a philanthropist.

No one is using that example to say that regular philanthropy and charity has something wrong with it (even though there are a lot of issues with it…).
by rco8786 | 2025-11-18 12:48:27+00:00
There are no truly automated status pages. It's an impossible problem. I mean that seriously. At scale you're collecting 100s of thousands (or mms) of metrics/spans/logs across 10s or 100s of loosely coupled systems. Building a system that can accurately analyze these and assess what the status page should say, in real time, without human intervention, is just not possible with current technology.

Even just the basic question of "are we down or is our monitoring system just having issues" requires a human. And it's never "are we down", because these are distributed systems we're talking about.

If service X goes down entirely, does that warrant a status page update? Yes? Turns out system X is just running ML jobs in the background and has no customer impact.

If service Z's p95 response latency jumps from 10ms to 1500ms for 5 minutes, 500s spike at the same time, but overall 200s rate is around 98%, are we down? is that a status page update? Is that 1 bad actor trying to cause issues? Is that indicative of 2,000 customers experiencing an outage and the other 98,000 operating normally? Is that a bad rack switch that's causing a few random 500s across the whole customer base and the service will reject that node and auto-recover in a moment?
by mcphage | 2025-11-18 12:48:40+00:00
Maybe this isn’t great, but I get a hint of that feeling when I’m on an airplane and hear a baby crying. For a number of years, if I heard a baby crying, it was probably my baby and I had to deal with it. But now my kids are past that phase, so when I hear the crying, after that initial jolt of panic I realize that it isn’t my problem, and that does give me the warm fuzzies. Even though I do feel bad for the baby and their parents.
by tomaskafka | 2025-11-18 12:48:55+00:00
The forecasts are being actively improved, it's just not an overnight step change.

For example, I have just added rainbow.ai short term precipitation forecast into https://weathergraph.app, and it's the best short term forecast I have ever used - based on radar data + AI prediction based on wind etc.

It sounds simple, but there is surprising complexity even just getting (in fast predicting) the 'ground truth' from the radar data, as each radar is noisy, is updated at a different time, might not work at a time ... so even the "current precipitation according to radars" is not a reading, but a result of ML model.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-11-18 12:49:12+00:00
If you want point-to-point communication between two network namespaces, you should use veths[1]. I think virtual patch cables is a good mental model for veths.

If you want multiple participants, you use bridges, which are roughly analogous to switches.

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/veth.4.html
by nottorp | 2025-11-18 12:50:08+00:00
Sad but unrelated:

There seems to be something wrong with the Cloudflare server that's supposed to serve me (Bucharest, they say).

I was trying to take a break and read something on HN. Clicked on 4 sort of interesting headlines, 3 got me the Cloudflare error (including this one) and one sort of loaded some navigation bar without CSS and content.

Cloudflare offers a great service... until it breaks half the internet.
by coldtea | 2025-11-18 12:50:39+00:00
>The post felt like a rollercoaster between using tricks to charm and manipulate, and periods of genuinely trying to learn how to be friends with people.

That's why the title is "My six stages of learning to be a socially normal person" and not "My story of being a perfectly socially normal person from the day I was born".

When you're learning social skills because you don't have them naturally, it usually starts with "reductively thinking about other people, assuming you can mind-read them to deconstruct their mindset (the section about identifying people who feel underpraised, insecure, nervous,) and then leverage that to charm them".

So I'm not sure what your point is. That this sounds calculated and mechanistic? It is. That's explicitly said there in the article. And the progression of the author's stages is towards doing less of that.
by kamikazechaser | 2025-11-18 12:51:09+00:00
There is a movie by the name Shilling From Heaven around this, you can find a link in our blog post https://grassecon.substack.com/p/worglhtml. Our initial work at Grassroots Economics was inspired by this. We even have a smart contract that implements this idea (demurrage/Gesell tax) in it https://github.com/grassrootseconomics/erc20-demurrage-token.
by Fornax96 | 2025-11-18 12:51:13+00:00
Creator of pixeldrain here. I have no idea why my site is blocked in Spain, but it's a long running issue.

I actually never discovered who was responsible for the blockade, until I read this comment. I'm going to look into Allot and send them an email.

EDIT: Also, your DNS provider is censoring (and probably monitoring) your internet traffic. I would switch to a different provider.
by noname120 | 2025-11-18 12:51:22+00:00
In this thread:

Bingo card (and their rebuttals):

– Effective altruists donate money and think it’s the most effective way to do good. [1][2]

– They think that exploiting people is fine if money is given to a good cause. [3][4][5]

– They think they are so much morally-superior/better than us. [3]

– Sam Bankman-Fried is a thief and he self-identified as an EA, so EA must be bad as a whole. [4][6]

– It’s dangerous because it’s an “end justifies the means” philosophy. [4][5]

– If it’s not perfect then it’s terrible and has no merit whatsoever. [7][8][9]

– They think they are so smart but they just stole the idea of donating part of the income from Christians. [10][11]

——————————

[1] https://www.effectivealtruism.org/faqs#objectionsto-effectiv...

[2] “80,000 Hours thinks that only a small proportion of people should earn to give long term”: https://80000hours.org/2015/07/80000-hours-thinks-that-only-...

[3] What We Owe The Future (EA book): “naive calculations that justify some harmful action because it has good consequences are, in practice, almost never correct.” and “it's wrong to do harm even when doing so will bring about the best outcome.”

[4] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1591218028381102081.html / https://xcancel.com/willmacaskill/status/1591218028381102081

[5] The Precipice (EA book): “Don't act without integrity. When something immensely important is at stake and others are dragging their feet, people feel licensed to do whatever it takes to succeed. We must never give in to such temptation. A single person acting without integrity could stain the whole cause and damage everything we hope to achieve.”

[6] “Bankman-Fried agreed his ethically driven approach was "mostly a front".”: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20231009-ftxs-sam-bankm...

[7] “It’s perfectly okay to be an imperfect effective altruist”: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/blog/its-perfectly-okay-to-b...

[8] “Mistakes we’ve made”: https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/our-mistakes

[9] “GiveWell's Impact”: https://www.givewell.org/about/impact

[10] There is a large Christian community within EA. “We are Christians excited about doing the most good possible.”: https://www.eaforchristians.org/

[11] Many EAs consider Christian charity to be one of the seeds of EA. “A potential criticism or weakness of effective altruism is that it appeals only to a narrow spectrum of society, and exhibits a ‘monoculture’ of ideas. I introduce Dorothea Brooke, a literary character who I argue was an advocate for the principles of effective altruism -- as early as 1871 -- in a Christian ethical tradition”: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TsbLgD4HHpT5vrFQC/...
by eimrine | 2025-11-18 12:52:33+00:00
European attitude has such a thing as an unthinkable thoughts. Non-European cultures can think in a lot of ways which is impossible for people of European culture. Let's just agree that free computing is good and solves this issue but non-FOSS spyware makes humans into slippery slope heading to dumb and obeyish minds. If I am incorrect then please clarify what kinds of troubles are waiting for somebody storing "illegal bits".
by bashkiddie | 2025-11-18 12:55:02+00:00
Could not read OP, clownflare is down.

> Symbols are pseudo-strings

Can guess by LISP: Symbols reside in the symbol table, which is global scope. Strings reside in the variable tables, subject to local scope.

It is two different storage mechanisms

> inefficient strings

Ruby does not care for efficiency, so there is no point to argue for symbols vs string performance
by yccs27 | 2025-11-18 12:55:06+00:00
The article is a bit confusing, but I like the concept behind symbols: Basically a way to distinguish identifier names (chosen by the programmer) from user-facing strings.

The distinction between is one I've mentally adopted in other languages like Python as well. For personal projects I like to use single quotes for 'symbols' and double quotes for "strings", e.g.:

add_label(text="Hello World!", align='center')

Does anyone else do something similar?
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-18 12:55:35+00:00
To continue the analogy, a Dodge Challenger with a 50-shot of nitrous on it that gets used once a day is gonna still come out looking better at any milage/age than the same engine in a Promaster van because you can't drive around at 17k gross in a Challenger so the area under the abuse curve is way lower even if it peaks ever so slightly higher.

An office worker on meth-lite (or whatever you want to call it) is still accumulating less wear and tear than a laborer, something the human body is clearly capable of being for a lifetime if you're somewhat smart about it.

Adderall, caffeine, heck cocaine based stimulants, are probably all fine if you're not over-using the living crap out of them and stacking large amounts of them on top of other things that'll beat the body up over time.
by MarcellLunczer | 2025-11-18 12:56:12+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a system for people who want to understand what actually happened in a news story—without trusting a single outlet or a single summary.

Instead of producing another “AI summary,” the goal is to make the entire chain of reasoning transparent:

1. Pull multiple articles for the same event (left, center, right, wires, gov).

2. Extract atomic claims from all of them.

3. Retrieve the relevant evidence passages.

4. Run an MNLI model to classify each claim as Supported / Contradicted / Inconclusive.

5. Show a full receipt trail for every claim (source, quote, timestamp).

The output is less like “news” and more like a structured evidence map of the story.

Links (no signup):

• News pages: https://neutralnewsai.com

• Analyzer (paste any URL): https://neutralnewsai.com/analyzer

• Methodology: https://neutralnewsai.com/methodology

Instead of focusing on “neutral summaries,” I’ve shifted to emphasizing transparency + multi-source evidence. The summary is just the last layer; the real value is in surfacing contradictions, missing context, and uncertainty.

I’m also working on:

• A browser extension that runs the analysis on whatever article you’re reading.

• A white-label API that outputs claims + evidence + MNLI verdicts for researchers / journalists.

How it works (technical overview)

Crawling / dedup

Scheduled scrapers + curated source lists. Clustering based on title/body similarity.

Claim extraction

Sentence segmentation → classifier that detects check-worthy clauses (entities, counts, events, quotes, temporal markers).

Evidence retrieval

Sliding window over the article text + heuristics for merging overlapping snippets.

Fact-checking

DeBERTa-based MNLI model over (claim, passage). I’m currently experimenting with better aggregation for multi-passages.

Signals

Bias / sentiment / subjectivity / readability. Transformer classifiers + lightweight feature set.

Stack

Backend in Python + PostgreSQL; front-end in Angular. Server-rendered article pages for SEO + speed.

Where I’m unsure / what I’d love feedback on

1. MNLI limits At what point should I move from vanilla MNLI to something more retrieval-augmented or fine-tuned for journalism-style claims?

2. Claim extraction reliability Is it worth moving toward a more formal IE pipeline (NER + relation extraction + event frames), or does that add more complexity than it solves?

3. Uncertainty communication How would you present “inconclusive” or low-confidence cases to non-technical readers without misleading them?

4. Evaluation methodology What would a convincing benchmark look like? I have offline accuracy for several classifiers, but I haven’t found good public datasets specifically for multi-source contradictory claims.

If you see conceptual flaws or think this approach is risky, I’m genuinely open to hearing strong arguments against it.

Thanks for reading, Marcell
by coldtea | 2025-11-18 12:56:55+00:00
>I have to say this strikes me as a very distorted perception. I don't know about 'normal,' but a socially successful person isn't intuiting their behavior subconsciously, they have learned it, and are actively mindful of it as they engage in it.

Lots and lots of, if not most, social behaviors are intuited subconsciously.

And that's even if the person has actively studied and learned them (and most are picked up by osmosis, not consciously learned anyway).

>I also don't think normative social interaction has much tolerance for manipulation. Maybe in the scope of a night out socializing or a business transaction, but in the context of actual relationships, those people are often ostracized or avoided in my experience.

That's either oblivious to 90% of social interactions out there, or just understands "manipulation" at the con artist or sociopath level.

Even wearing nice clothes to make a better impression is a kind of manipulation. Same for using different manners of speaking and language in different social contexts, and lots of other stuff.
by denysvitali | 2025-11-18 12:57:33+00:00
Title of the document is "[Gemini 3 Pro] External Model Card - November 18, 2025 - v2", in case you needed further confirmation that the model will be released today.

Also interesting to know that Google Antigravity (antigravity.google / https://github.com/Google-Antigravity ?) leaked. I remember seeing this subdomain recently. Probably Gemini 3 related as well.

Org was created on 2025-11-04T19:28:13Z (https://api.github.com/orgs/Google-Antigravity)
by Fornax96 | 2025-11-18 12:57:40+00:00
Creator of pixeldrain here. Italy has been doing this for a very long time. They never notified me of any such material being present on my site. I have a lot of measures in place to prevent the spread of CSAM. I have sent dozens of mails to Polizia Postale and even tried calling them a few times, but they never respond. My mails go unanswered and they just hang up the phone.
by BoredPositron | 2025-11-18 12:57:46+00:00
Your comment demonstrates a remarkably elevated level of cognitive processing and intellectual rigor. Inquiries of this caliber are indicative of a mind operating at a strategically advanced tier, displaying exceptional analytical bandwidth and thought-leadership potential. Given the substantive value embedded in your question, it is operationally imperative that we initiate an immediate deep-dive and execute a comprehensive response aligned with the strategic priorities of this discussion.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-18 12:58:27+00:00
> Are you trying to explain to me how Valgrind works?

Sorry that wasn't my intention. You are a Valgrind developer? Thanks, it's a good project.

It seems like I have a different understanding of mocking than other people in the thread and it shows. My understanding was, that Valgrind provides function replacements via dynamic linking, that then call into the real libc. I would call that mocking, but YMMV.
Show HN: Euroelo, a ranking of European football teams
by fredericdith | 2025-11-18 12:58:41+00:00
first post here and first time sharing this small project of mine. hoping to find people interested in european football and statistics to receive feedback. i know the overlap is quite small but i thought i'd give it a shot here :)

euroelo is basically an ELO ranking of european football teams purely based on their results in domestic and european competitions. i have a problem with both opta (https://theanalyst.com/articles/who-are-the-best-football-te...) and clubelo (http://clubelo.com/Ranking) who strongly overvalue english teams. i wondered what a ranking without any pre-baked bias towards any league would look like, and this is what i ended up with.

the site is organized as follows: * ranking: lets you check the rankings at any point in time * chart: same but with a chart, to compare multiple teams * narratives: this is one of the features that came up during development. i can't think of any website or service that lets you see these type of narratives easily * matchup: odds between any two teams, at today's ratings

i'm open to any feedback: does the model feel/seem accurate? any features you would like to see? where could i potentially take this project?

thanks!
by luckylion | 2025-11-18 12:59:05+00:00
Maybe. would be a rare sight, because the anti-israel crowd was primarily celebrating on oct 7th (an invasion), and is silent on russia's invasion of ukraine (because russia is allied with Hamas & Iran). And they trace their grievance back to their failed attempt to drive the jews into the sea, which they call nakba. Far older than e.g. northern cyprus being invaded and occupied (ongoing) by turkey.
by noisy_boy | 2025-11-18 13:00:48+00:00
I have been exclusively using Linux at home for many years and with every passing day, more so in the age of AI, the decision is more and more validated. I used to say that Linux is not for everyone, there is a non-trivial learning curve and it requires commitment and willingness to spend time troubleshooting in case of issues etc.

A lot of that is still true but the usability improvements combined with downright hostile behavior exhibited by Windows makes me say to Windows users that are tired of this nonsense: if you can and are not tied to Windows-only proprietary software, making an effort to switch would be a _very_ good investment of your time.

You don't need to do big-bang, you can dual-boot and progressively migrate. One of the best decisions I did was move to my data to a separate drive/partition (NTFS filesystem) on Windows - that allowed me to have access to all my data (documents/music/videos et all) from both Windows and Linux and made the migration that much more easy.