MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by djtango | 2025-11-15 07:04:08+00:00
Something I find interesting is that my mother grew up in similar conditions - poor in Borneo in the 50s, my aunt was literally born in the jungle while hiding from the Japanese

And yet my mum's family were raised that they were broke, not poor.

There were definitely some echoes/overlap like we were raised that wasting food is one of the most egregious sins one can ever commit, and my mum has a compulsion of overpacking things with meat after growing up eating nothing but I know that she is definitely more broke than poor and was therefore able to reverse her fortunes.

Similarly, if you know people who grew up in Mainland China during the early years of the PRC, you can tell that while everyone had it tough, some people were poor while others were broke and this then can help explain the divergences of their outcomes when riding the wave of growth.
by teleforce | 2025-11-15 07:04:12+00:00
Guess which building first demolished to the ground by Israel military in Gaza at the beginning of the conflict?

No price of getting the right answer, it's the Watan Tower building that also hosted most of Gaza Internet Sevice Provider (ISP) companies including Paltel and Jawwal and their infrastructure.

It was also a hub for several international media outlets, including the Associated Press and Al Jazeera [1],[2]. We are somewhow supposed to believe by Israel propaganda that the demolition of the Watan building is necessary to cripple the resistance but in war, truth is always the very first casualty that further leads to countless human casualties.

[1] Israels warns Palestinians on Facebook but Israel bombing decimated Gaza Internet Access:

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/12/israel-gaza-internet-acc...

[2] #KeepItOn: Telecommunications Blackout In The Gaza Strip Is An Attack On Human Rights:

https://m.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO2310/S00117/keepiton-telecom...
by themafia | 2025-11-15 07:04:30+00:00
Pure conspiracy theories:

Famously Ted Kaczynski was alleged to have been an MKUltra participant.

Lesser known is that Jeffrey Dahmer also is alleged to have been an MKUltra experiment possibly carried out by his own father.

Louis Jolyon West, one of the primary MKUltra "contractors," was also Jack Ruby's psychiatrist when he was in jail for the murder of Lee Oswald. Jack Ruby went "insane" shortly after. West was also responsible for an LSD experiment on an elephant, wherein he incorrectly calculated the dose, delivered in intravenously, and panicked the animal so badly it had to be killed.
by prmph | 2025-11-15 07:04:49+00:00
> In 3rd-world countries even basic healthcare is totally inaccessible unless someone in your family is at the top level of government. If you're a worker or in a worker family even glasses are probably almost impossible to get.

I know for sure this is totally wrong, because I have lived in 3rd world countries, and I was born in one. You're just imagining stuff.
by blazespin | 2025-11-15 07:04:57+00:00
Given they made a geopolitical accusations and dozens of mainstream publications repeated the "thousands of requests per second", this seems like a grossly negligent flub that should not be dismissed as a mere typo.

I frequently, alone, do 1000s of requests over a period of time, especially ones that are mostly cache hits, which can be $10-$50 in API costs.

This was not a "large scale" attack by any means.
by komali2 | 2025-11-15 07:05:00+00:00
> the only reason we have school lunch programs in the US at all is because the Black Panthers started a free breakfast program for black children in the 70s

> The first school lunch programs started with private initiatives in the 1890s. The first major federal program for student lunches was the National School Lunch Program enacted in 1946

How does the existence of a food program in the 1890s, or 1946, automatically invalidate the notion that the promulgation of the food programs into 2025 is due to the efforts of the black panthers? Similarly, one could attribute gun control laws in California to the black panthers focus on arming black neighborhoods, rather than some kind of liberal anti-gun attitude.
by ghurtado | 2025-11-15 07:06:28+00:00
In lucid dreams there's a whole category of things like this: reading a paragraph of text, looking at a clock (digital or analog), or working any kind of technology more complex than a calculator.

For me personally, even light switches have been a huge tell in the past, so basically almost anything electrical.

I've always held the utterly unscientific position that this is because the brain only has enough GPU cycles to show you an approximation of what the dream world looks like, but to actually run a whole simulation behind the scenes would require more FLOPs than it has available. After all, the brain also needs to run the "player" threads: It's already super busy.

Stretching the analogy past the point of absurdity, this is a bit like modern video game optimizations: the mountains in the distance are just a painting on a surface, and the remote on that couch is just a messy blur of pixels when you look at it up close.

So the dreaming brain is like a very clever video game developer, I guess.
by komali2 | 2025-11-15 07:07:18+00:00
Your account posts a lot about Marxists and pedophiles and Maoists. What led to these things being a primary concern of yours? Very rarely do I hear people talk about Maoists in 2025.

If you are concerned about pedophiles, the latest revelations about pedophilia at the top levels of government in the USA must be very concerning for you.
by 1659447091 | 2025-11-15 07:10:39+00:00
> If I'm paying $100/month to get my meetings transcribed, why do I care whether it's the founder, an AI, or magic pixie dust (but I repeat myself)?

Why you, personally, care or not is your business. If you were one of the customers who bought an automated (AI) service and instead got 2 guys gathering info during meetings, and are okay with it and see no difference between them -- then cool-emojis.

or for a more pointed response, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935354
by taurath | 2025-11-15 07:11:36+00:00
I got 2 offers this year after taking a few years off. The offers weren't for as much as I'd been making when I left, but I'd expected a little bit of regression there.

The front door is nearly useless because of so many AI tools. Referrals and your network matter more than anything, just bug people you've worked with before (some places are actually hiring). If you don't have a worthwhile network just do anything to show that you're a real person, show up for in person events.

Interviewers cheat with AI a good amount of the time, so don't do that if they say no AI. Its okay to ask what their policy is. Itll still often be leetcode, but sometimes just working through a problem, and/or doing system design. A superpower is being able to express yourself thru diagrams well, so check some system design interviews on youtube and just be able to make and move boxes around in excalidraw.
by tsoukase | 2025-11-15 07:11:49+00:00
I have some things to note as a non-US:

1) 42 million people underfed in the richest nation in the world is worrisome

2) killing one person is headlines, killing millions is statistics. Today, replace killing with starving

3) people reached at the state to need SNAP because of other incidents (health issues, loss of job, bankruptcy) which are much more expensive to prevented

4) saying to millions just to reapply seems more like social bulling to bring cheels to the masses than an effective fraud measure
by prmph | 2025-11-15 07:12:38+00:00
You misunderstood my response. Let me explain better: I'm not saying what matters is the relative amount of money you have in relation to your peers; it is about the relative claim you have on resources, power, respect, mental health, etc.

Money and those other things may be correlated, but focusing on those things emphasizes how much money is a proxy for them.

So for example, even if you earn 100k, but many/most people are earning 500k, it cause a huge power imbalance that enables them to easily make your life miserable on a whim. It also causes society to see you as a failure, causing mental/emotional distress that further pull you into a spiral of despair.
by 999900000999 | 2025-11-15 07:13:11+00:00
With these new developments, are there any implications for getting LLMs running well on consumer AMD chips ?

For example, the following laptop which I'm thinking of picking up, has both a strong AMD CPU/IGPU and a RTX 5080. Could we see the AMD side competing with the RTX?

I know a dedicated gpu will always be faster though.

>HP OMEN MAX 16-ak0003nr 16" Gaming Laptop Computer - Shadow Black Aluminum AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 (2.0GHz) Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7; 32GB DDR5-5600 RAM; 1TB Solid State Drive
by DeathArrow | 2025-11-15 07:14:17+00:00
I had some thoughts about designing a new language. However it's a huge undertaking and I don't know the answers to some questions:

1. Is there a need for the programming language?

2.If the answer to the previous question is yes, can I find enough people to help and enough resources?

3. If the answer to the previous question is yes, can we release a MVPin a reasonable amount of time?

4. If the answer to the previous question is yes, what is the chance it will gather a reasonable amount of users?

There are literally tons of programming languages that didn't make it. I wouldn't want to waste my and other people resources.
by helsinkiandrew | 2025-11-15 07:15:15+00:00
> The Working Class will feel almost nothing from any stock market crash

That's not the case - if the top 50/10/1% of households loose a chunk of their wealth they'll spend less which will have an impact on the entire economy.

The US is already meant to be in a 'k-shaped' economy where 10% of income earners account for nearly 50% of all consumer spending - if the top 10% cut back its going to be at the expense of jobs of the bottom 90%.

> We calculate that a fall in stocks comparable to the dotcom bust would reduce American households’ net worth by 8%. That could cause a big retrenchment in consumer spending. By one rule of thumb, the pullback would amount to 1.6% of GDP—enough to push America, where the labour market is already suffering, into a recession
by SergeAx | 2025-11-15 07:15:20+00:00
I don't get the logic behind the FFmpeg stance. They have no obligation to fix any bugs, and they are not liable if someone exploits those vulnerabilities, as per the license. Thus, the parties interested in fixes are free to patch bugs at their own expense or pay someone else to do it. Anyways, fixes will end up in the FFmpeg codebase or in other GNU-licensed fork of it, available to cherry-pick.
Show HN: J.E.S.S.– Open-Source Orbital AI Supercluster(Solar Swarms,1.3 GW Ring)
by JonBaguley | 2025-11-15 07:16:12+00:00
I built J.E.S.S. (Justice Exascale Solar Swarm) — an open-source roadmap for exascale AI compute in orbit.

• 1.3 GW solar ring (20 Starship launches) • Optimus swarms maintain (MTTR <1hr) • Vacuum cooling, 24/7 power, no grid • Whitepaper + models: https://github.com/JusticeExascaleSolarSwarm/jess-orbit

Elon just posted about 100GW/year orbital AI solar — J.E.S.S. is the "how".

Feedback? Builders? — Jonathan (teacher, UK)
by librasteve | 2025-11-15 07:16:16+00:00
I would like to see Raku (https://raku.org) at least mentioned in the list of languages to be aware of. Why?

- Raku has built in Grammars so it is a great place to do early iteration of your parser - Raku is objects and type classes all the way down (as explained here https://gist.github.com/raiph/849a4a9d8875542fb86df2b2eda89296 ) - RakuAST development is well advanced (use v6.e.PREVIEW) with the Slangify module to accelerate development of sub languages (Slangs)

Here is a Raku implementation of Brainfuck to whet the appetite https://github.com/alabamenhu/PolyglotBrainfuck/blob/main/li...
by rohitkhare | 2025-11-15 07:16:20+00:00
Any link or details for the event?

I tried looking for SJSU events and found the earlier Vintage Computing Fair talks, but at least I can trade this time capsule link from that era even if it doesn't quote me toon the Byte Shop specifically: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1977/04/04/bytes-and-chip...
by least | 2025-11-15 07:16:44+00:00
> Because you say that, we will lose what little figments of privacy and freedoms we have left.

I understand that you seem to think that adding systems like this will placate governments around the world but that is not the case. We have already conceded far more than we ever should have to government surveillance for a false sense of security.

> You can have a system that flags illicit content with some confidence level and have a human review that content. You can make any model or heuristic used is publicly logged and audited. You can anonymously flag that content to reviewers, and when deemed as actually illicit by a human, the hash or some other signature of the content can be published globally to reveal the devices and owners of those devices. You can presume innocence (such as a parent taking a pic of their kids bathing) and question suspects discretely without an arrest. You can require cops to build multiple sufficient points of independently corroborated evidence before arresting people.

What about this is privacy preserving?

> However, your response of "Yes." is materially false, law makers will catch on to that and discredit anything the privacy community has been advocating. Even simple heuristics that isn't using ML models can have a higher "true positive" rate of identifying criminal activity than eye witness testimony, which is used to convict people of serious crimes. And I suspect, you meant security, not privacy. Because as I mentioned, for privacy, humans can review before a decision is made to search for the confirmed content across devices.

It's not "materially false." Bringing a human into the picture doesn't do anything to preserve privacy. If, like in your example, a parent's family photos with their children flag the system, you have already violated the person's privacy without just cause, regardless of whether the people reviewing it can identify the person or not.

You cannot have a system that is scanning everyone's stuff indiscriminately and have it not be a violation of privacy. There is a reason why there is a process where law enforcement must get permission from the courts to search and/or surveil suspects - it is supposed to be a protection against abuse.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-15 07:17:16+00:00
Salt pills were a thing for people working in hot climates. The military requires electrolyte augmentation in such conditions. These days we use fancier electrolyte blends but it is still largely salt. If you are on a multi-day fast it is the primary thing you need to replenish aside from water.

I do some pretty serious backcountry trekking in the summer. You can feel when your electrolytes are low after several hours, the signs aren’t particularly subtle. Fortunately, you can slam a few grams of electrolytes and you’re back to normal in a matter of minutes.

Our bodies can handle it, humans largely developed in regions where electrolyte depletion was a risk. The amount of salt you have to consume to regulate your electrolytes in environments with high electrolyte loss dwarf what you are going to consume in typical food, processed or not. The idea that the average human is hyper-sensitive to consuming too much salt is preposterous. Even animals gravitate toward salt licks.
by kseistrup | 2025-11-15 07:17:47+00:00
This looks neat.

Is there a way to change the password length? It seems PASSWORD_LENGTH is set to 20 in config.py, but if keepr is installed by the sysadmin, users won't be able to change this.

And about security: Even if the database is encrypted, it would be nice if keepr set the umask to at least 0027 (possibly even 0077) at startup so that everything is only readable by the user.

Cheers.
by iamflimflam1 | 2025-11-15 07:20:01+00:00
A lot of things are happening behind closed doors.

The real value is in horribly manual internal processes where the solutions are agents driving very specific tools that drive weird and wacky systems.

Generic out of the box agents that will solve your particular problem are not a thing yet.

In regard to it’s just an “API pipeline” - the power of agents should be - which set of API calls do I string together to solve a user’s request.
by inkspireadi2001 | 2025-11-15 07:21:29+00:00
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by wiseowise | 2025-11-15 07:21:31+00:00
> On the one hand the important thing is the preservation and availability of a work. On the other hand it's okay if the it is only available as 20+ year old used copies and pirated copies. And any preservation or restoration project is under the shadow of 3 companies (Warner Bros., Activision, and 20th Century Fox) which have all recently "complained that they may have rights to [NOLF] and may sue over it"

No, it’s not. Warner, Activision and 20th Century can collectively suck my balls and lick deez nuts. Literally no one benefits from this.
by vulkoingim | 2025-11-15 07:22:37+00:00
Have a look at Victoria Metrics - have run it at a relatively high scale with much more success than any other metric stores. It's one of those things that just work. It's extremely easy to run at in a single-instance mode and handles much more than you would expect. Scaling it is a breeze too.

(I'm not affiliated, but a very happy user across multiple orgs and personal projects)
by Aeolun | 2025-11-15 07:22:42+00:00
I feel like the author tells us that being poor means worrying about problems you can’t fix all the time? Or at least, that you believe you can never fix them?

If you don’t have the $300 for the own part repair on your truck, there’s no point in worrying about it. If you truck breaks it breaks, it’s never going to recover unless you think of something else. Complaining that you don’t have $300 for even the home repair doesn’t do anything to improve the situation. Better figure out a way to live if the truck breaks.
by wiether | 2025-11-15 07:24:41+00:00
I'm one of the few using "TLS", but it's hard.

When doing this, you see that some people feel that you are being pedantic.

And the biggest issue is that it creates confusion. During calls with customers, when I tell that we're going to setup their TLS certs, they reply, worried: "no, we need SSL certs!".

I see it as another chicken & egg situation: regular people don't know about TLS, and business are afraid of communicating about TLS because they don't want their customer going elsewhere because they don't understand what TLS is and want SSL

I went on Cloudflare to try and illustrate this, and it's... complicated https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/ssl...

The path says SSL but most of the page it about TLS, unless sometimes it's SSL...
by jacquesm | 2025-11-15 07:24:45+00:00
The official client is absolutely terrible. But, I've found a much better solution: I tell all my customers Microsoft Teams doesn't work for us and they'll have to pick something else.

Kudos for at least trying to address this, MS should hang their head in shame, this is not the hardest problem to solve these days. If we could do it in 1995 they should be able to do it 30 years later.
by nextaccountic | 2025-11-15 07:25:22+00:00
What's your preferred solution for observability and monitoring of tiny apps?

I'm looking for something with really compact storage, really simple deployment (preferably a single statically linked binary that does everything), and compatible with OpenTelemetry (including metrics and distributed tracing). If/when I outgrow it, I can switch to another OpenTelemetry provider (but realistically this will not happen)
by DeathArrow | 2025-11-15 07:26:34+00:00
I think many people tried making AMD GPU go brrr for the mass of the developers but no one succeeded.

I don't get why AMD doesn't solve their own software issues. Now they have a lot of money so not having money to pay for developers is not an excuse.

And data centers GPUs are not the worst. Using GPU compute for things like running inference at home is a much, much better experience with Nvidia. My 5 years old RTX 3090 is better than any consumer GPU AMD released up to this date, at least for experimenting with ML and AI.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-11-15 07:27:08+00:00
> I kinda wish US businesses would just firewall off the EU at this point (yes, I know this would mean losing some customers/marketshare and thus would never happen).

This would involve them taking about a 30% hit to revenue (or more, depending on the company), so yeah, entirely implausible.

But, it's also worth noting that the US constantly does stuff like this. Like, the entire financial services panopticon of tracking is driven almost entirely by the US, and has been around since the 70s. Should the EU then wall off the US?

Personally, (as an EU citizen), that would really hurt if they did, but getting completely off the dollar based financial system would remove a lot of the US's control (and as a bonus/detriment reveal to the US how much of their vaunted market is propped up by EU money).

Most governments are bad, and these kinds of laws are international, so I'm not sure walling off the EU would make your life much better.

And let's be honest, you should expect the tech industry to end up as regulated as the financial industry over time, the only difference will be how long it takes to get there.
by ehnto | 2025-11-15 07:29:04+00:00
I run Qwen3 Coder 30b through Ollama on an RTX7900XTX. It works great, I suspect some load gets passed to the 32gb system memory and Ryzen 7 CPU.

It's not quite as fast as like Sonnet 4 from an API, but it's really not that bad.

It's really great for quick questions so I don't have to google stuff, and it's probably Sonnet4 level of competency at achieving coding tasks.

No API served model has been fast enough to remove the urge to do something else while waiting for bigger tasks, so the UX is more or less the same in that regard.

Opencode + ollama + Qwen3 Coder has been a very reasonable alternative to ClaudeCode with Sonnet4.

That is amazing for something running locally.

It is possible that if you actually need AI to be doing all your coding, that you're going to feel differently about the setup. But as a small assistant it's great.
by opello | 2025-11-15 07:29:25+00:00
> I take a slightly more narrow definition of “thoughts” that may be more akin to “expressions” - ideas that can be communicated, so excluding non-linguistic mental processes.

I was glad to read this because it seemed too neat and tidy for "thought" to necessarily be able to be encoded into language, especially in the presence of frequent miscommunication between people that share language, culture, and context.

On language and thinking, I agree that new languages promote thinking differently. But it seems that the difference has to fall short of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of informing perception or experience. Which would then limit the extent to which thought, as informed by language, would influence the way one would compose a linguistic representation of some thought/idea/"blob of meaning to be communicated." All to suggest that there is a broader landscape of "thinking-like activities" than those which would be able to be encoded linguistically.

Maybe it's simpler to say that I think of language as more lossy than thought.