MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mettamage | 2025-11-22 13:57:30+00:00
> The other problem is that making a really effective dating app is just hard. It's fundamentally difficult to help people find compatible partners, especially without in-person contact. That's compounded by cultural and demographic issues. It doesn't matter how well your app is designed when there's a massive imbalance in genders!

Really true. Most of dating seems to be dominated by that people want to be comfortable and dating is an inherently uncomfortable experience at times and many people seem to have a hard time with it.

I’m writing this as someone that made the conscious decision to face every form of uncomfortableness in dating if I noticed it was needed. Some people look at me bewildered with how I met my wife. They found what I did was way too much effort. But I am thinking to myself: you’re going to spend the most time with them! You better be damn sure that you’re long-term compatible.

Yet, enough people seem to act the whole process is more like buying something from your local Chipotle/<name your favorite establishment> where comfort is king.
by m000 | 2025-11-22 13:57:42+00:00
I wonder, are there tools to help you automate this? I.e. to assign a value to the staleness of each package instead of simple "oudated" boolean, and also a weight to each package.

E.g. something like:

pkg_staleness = (1 * missed_patch + 5 * missed_minor + 10 * missed_major) * (month_diff(installed_release_date, latest_release_date)/2)^2 proj_staleness = sum(pkg.staleness * pkg.weight for pkg in all_packages)
by llm_nerd | 2025-11-22 13:58:07+00:00
IMO blogs were killed by big tech and social media

The social media part is true, though in a way that is more user-benefitting than many bloggers (such as myself) appreciate or will acknowledge. And HN is one such "social media" site that invariably helped "kill" blogs, so there's an irony that this is being discussed here.

Before HN / Reddit (others will put Twitter / Bluesky / whatever else in here), I had a list of "must read" blogs that I would monitor to, essentially, keep up. My feed reader alerted me to their entries, I would pay attention to "must read" blog lists, and so on.

That process yields a lot of chaff for the wheat you yield. An enormous amount. Especially after many bloggers started thinking that they need to have daily content (bloggers like Atwood proselytized that the key to being successful was overwhelming quantity), however facile and useless, to hit some quota. I would rather have a feed that was quiet but then once a week a banger hits amongst dozens of authors, but instead it was just an enormous amount of filler.

Eventually I just stopped monitoring it. With sites like HN, and various Reddit subs, my (proven) hypothesis is that the good content will rise on social media, and the chaff will sit in obscurity. Kind of like torrent seeders, this relies upon the few who are willing to dig through the chaff, /new, etc, however I'm okay missing content if only the well thought out, high effort content rises to the top.
by adriand | 2025-11-22 13:58:09+00:00
My home town of Hamilton, Ontario (population 560k) recently made the news because a guy stole a bus, with passengers onboard, and started driving it through the city. It was newsworthy because he also dropped people off at their stops, and even rejected someone who tried to board with an expired bus pass. But what stood out for me in addition to all that was the police response. They quietly followed the bus, intentionally not using sirens to avoid “spooking” the guy. They waited for the right moment, boarded the bus and arrested him peacefully and without incident.

I recognize my little city is not like LA (which I’ve visited twice) - the types of crimes, the types of criminals and the prevalence of weapons are far different, although we also have our share of gun violence and murder. But we have also not militarized our police, and there’s very much a police culture of service to the community. Here, when a cop uses their weapon, it’s seen as a failure. This was a situation handled properly, and it made me proud.
by narsa123 | 2025-11-22 13:58:10+00:00
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by clemens3 | 2025-11-22 13:58:36+00:00
I am surprised, 87 comments and so far nobody has mentioned X11Libre.

They claim 30 developers right now. Don't know if true and if they are any good, but when the time comes to update my xserver, I will have a look at them - just to show my support.

Ah aeh, Wayland, it too got pitched to me recently. But I don't see it improves on any use case I have, but actively disables functionality I need. So a big no go and pass. Why should I change anything in my single-user distro - thank you.

Some of us thought to ourselves in the 90s, I don't have to use Windows. There is something called Linux. I remember installing SUSe from 5 1/4 floppies (A LOT of them) and configuring scanlines and hoping my CRT survives the first startx command. I gave no one authority to say what get's deprecated and what not to me. The only person who can do this I am myself.

I use Linux because of people back then as Linux Torvalds and today Jordan Sissel, who do the right thing out of passion and not expectation of financial or other reward. Just for themselves and then share it, because it might be useful for others too. It's not a 9 to 5 job to them.

People like Lennart Poettering or some other kids who want to coax me into accepting their toys are a reason for me to run away as fast as possible from such shenanigans. I survived editing the scan lines, I don't need software from IBM.

Regarding Wayland and GUIs: GUIs have been much worse than command line and batch environments for automation. xdotool is kind of the best we have (basically just creating macros like in an editor for the whole system), but neither X11 nor the applications are really designed for automation. AppleScript and d-bus all kind of never really worked out. What will happen now with text based gen-AI models, we will go back to good old text (plus speach) interfaces. We will just tell (e.g. in a text box) the AI what we want and they find a way to deliver whatever it is we asked for. Then finally the AI properly controls a web browser for us, but we don't need to see any of that.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-11-22 13:59:34+00:00
Yes, this is great advice. It also applies to interfaces. When we designed a support "chat bot", we went with a diferent architecture than what's out there already. We designed the system with "chat rooms" instead, and the frontend just dumps messages to a chatroom (with a session id). Then on the backend we can do lots of things, incrementally adding functionality, while the front end doesn't have to keep up. We can also do things like group messages, have "system" messages that other services can read, etc. It also feels more natural, as the client can type additional info while the server is working, etc.

If you have to use some of the client side SDKs, another good idea is to have a proxy where you can also add functionality without having to change the frontend.
by throw0101a | 2025-11-22 13:59:45+00:00
> I have never seen a NAT implementation that forwarded every packet sent to it.

* https://kb.netgear.com/25891/What-is-the-De-Militarized-Zone...

* https://support.linksys.com/kb/article/312-en/

* https://www.asus.com/ca-en/support/faq/1011723/
by dtgriscom | 2025-11-22 14:00:40+00:00
OK, HN physicists: how did this work?

My first guess was that the beam of Cf252-emitted neutrons, when it hits the U235, triggers new neutrons moving in the same direction, rather than in random directions. This would ensure that any tertiary neutrons would join the crowd and help the amplification while not just heating the system up.

Or, maybe that's the point? It's a not-quite-critical collection of U235 that is pushed even closer to criticality by the Cf252, multiplying the Cf232's neutron flux by "up to 30 times". But, if the U235 neutrons trigger the same emissions as the Cf252 neutrons, then wouldn't that require a razor's edge of criticality?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium_neutron_flux_multi...
by _giorgio_ | 2025-11-22 14:00:46+00:00
> The YOLO series is developed and maintained by Ultralytics.

This is totally fake. There are a lot of different YOLO versions, each with a different licence.

This article is a total scam, it should be removed.

Read the first comment. https://www.reddit.com/r/computervision/comments/1gxce90/yol...
by grayhatter | 2025-11-22 14:01:04+00:00
> I just know that what I write will be endlessly picked on, probably mocked in some cliquey discord channel

So if you started creating content to teach other people, it would then live rent free in the heads of people who cant do it? If anything, that sounds like a reason to start blogging.

I don't mock people who write about stuff I already understand. https://xkcd.com/1053/ was kind enough to grant me immunity to that. I do mock people who write incorrectly from authority, without curiosity. Equally I look down on those who try to use their knowledge as a cudgel against people still learning. I would mock those trying to weaponize knowledge, but I try not to punch down.

If I wrote something, and found out it was being mocked in some discord channel, that would make me laugh, much more than worry or feel ashamed. In order for me to value some criticism, I would first have to value or desire their opinion. I can't imagine a single person who's feedback I would be interested in, if their version of humor is trying to dunk on someone who is learning, and sharing that learning. They're too stupid for me to waste my limited attention to care about what they ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ say.

Chances are, there is someone out there who would be grateful you explained something in a way they could understand, when everyone else failed. That's how the intersection of knowledge and shared context works.

You don't need to value the opinions of idiots. Let them be idiots. It's ok, and even desired to focus your attention on making something good with value to people who aren't stupid.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-11-22 14:01:05+00:00
It's the entrenched system built by that long dead British stooge.

They just have to outlast each elected government of five years and they have a similar judiciary which protects them.

There was a (feeble) attempt by the current government in their previous term to reform the judiciary (NJAC Act) and the entrenched judges ruled it unconstitutional. Unlike the US, judges aren't political appointees, they appoint each other.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-22 14:01:13+00:00
> Employers can fire you in the US for general strikes. You're only protected if you're striking for grievances against the company, not for solidarity actions. Indeed, unions can be dissolved for it.

Yeah, but thankfully, solidarity kind of solves that, as people fired from their jobs because they're striking would be supported by the community. But, if the country doesn't have a history of having built such a community, often with big help from socialist and left-leaning groups, the options you have available today are kind of few.

But best day for it is today, even if yesterday wasn't very good.
by Fiveplus | 2025-11-22 14:02:28+00:00
I liked reading this but got a silly question as I am a noob in these things. If explicit caching is better, does that mean the agent is just forgetting stuff unless we manually save its notes? Are these things really that forgetful? Also why is there a virtual file system? So the agent is basically just running around a tiny digital desktop looking for its files? Why can't the agent just know where the data is? I'm sorry if these are juvenile questions.
by SonOfKyuss | 2025-11-22 14:02:50+00:00
The activists of the 60s-90s were witnesses to the nuclear bombing of Japan, domestic nuclear accidents, as well as a nuclear arms race that threatened to wipe out all of humanity. It is unfortunate that we threw the baby out with the bathwater when it came to nuclear power generation, but the people who had issues with nuclear in that era did have good reasons to be afraid.
by kiba | 2025-11-22 14:03:41+00:00
Land not depreciating is true, because unlike capital, it doesn't suffer entropy for all intent and purpose. Compare that to a car, which is forever basically a depreciating asset.

Also, Netherland did not create land, because ocean is a type of land. They merely improve the land to the point that it can be used by people walking around, but that also preclude the ocean to be used by other means such as aquaculture and building coral reefs which can be used to provide ecosystem services and sustenance to humans.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-22 14:05:06+00:00
> I don’t think there is any acute disease associated with Vitamin-D deficiency (which most indoors people have), though it makes you pretty unhealthy if you don’t have enough of it.

For children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets an a few more in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_deficiency

> Boron [...], Sunlight [...], ...

They are not vitamins, because they are in other lists.
by simonw | 2025-11-22 14:05:38+00:00
I've not run an event sourcing system in production myself.

This thread appears to have stories from several people who have though, and have credible criticisms:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45962656#46014546

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45962656#46013851

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45962656#46014050

What's your response to the common theme that event sourcing systems are difficult to maintain in the face of constantly changing product requirements?
by _pdp_ | 2025-11-22 14:05:41+00:00
This is a huge undertaking though. Yes it is quite simple to build some basic abstraction on top of openai.complete or similar but this like 1% of an agent need to do.

My bet is that agent frameworks and platform will become more like game engines. You can spin your own engine for sure and it is fun and rewarding. But AAA studios will most likely decide to use a ready to go platform with all the batteries included.
by NaomiLehman | 2025-11-22 14:05:43+00:00
the price for a standard "US Fullz" record is between $5 and $30. slightly more if their credit score is exceptionally high (allows for bigtime fraud), but nothing more than $100. I think the low price is driven by a seemingly infinite number of leaks.

Fullz + Passport/DL + Selfie: $80 – $150

disclaimer: I work in tech/trend analysis
by CuriouslyC | 2025-11-22 14:06:38+00:00
Be careful about what you hand off to Claude versus another agent. Claude is a vibe project monster, but it will fail at hard things, come up with fake solutions, and then lie to you about them. To the point that it'll add random sleeps and do pointless work to cover up the fact that it's reward hacking. It's also very messy.

For brownfield work, work on hard stuff or work in big complex codebases you'll save yourself a lot of pain if you use Codex instead of CC.
by throw0101a | 2025-11-22 14:06:38+00:00
> In a world where people think NAT addresses are safe because […]

The vast, vast majority of people do not know what NAT is: ask your mom, aunt, uncle, grandma, cousin(s), etc. They simply have a 'magic box' (often from the ISP) that "connects to Internet". People connect to it (now mostly via Wifi) and they are "on the Internet".

They do not know about IPv4 or IPv6 (or ARP, or DHCP, or SLAAC).

As long as the magic box is statefully inspecting traffic, which is done for IPv4-NAT, and for IPv6 firewalls, it makes no practical difference which address family you are using from a security perspective.

The rending of garments over having a globally routable IPv6 address (but not globally reachable, because of SPI) on your home is just silliness.

If you think NAT addresses are safe because… of any reason whatsoever really… simply shows a lack of network understanding. You might as well be talking to a Flat Earther about orbital mechanics.
by srameshc | 2025-11-22 14:06:42+00:00
I still feel there is no sure shot way to build an abstraction yet. Probably that is why Loveable decided to build on Gemini AI rather than giving options of choosing model. On the other hand I like Pydantic AI framework and got myself a decent working solution where my preference is to stick with cheaper models by default and only use expensive only in cases where failure rate is too high.
by Philip-J-Fry | 2025-11-22 14:07:09+00:00
Exactly, unless someone is in imminent danger there's basically no reason to do a high speed chase. Get the plate, track it on the thousands of ANPR cameras that exist, look up the owner and just knock on their door later on.

Like 99% of high speed chases only end when the culprit crashes their car, and often that's into someone else's car risking harm to innocent civilians.
by rimmontrieu | 2025-11-22 14:07:53+00:00
Someone mentions bearblog, medium, substack, etc for hosting blogs but my favorite web stack to run blogs or any content heavy websites nowadays is just https://astro.build/ plus cloudflare pages, deno deploy, netlify, vercel or any cloud provider with edge caching.

I host both my gamedev tutorials and web game portal websites with cloudflare pages and so far they're pretty decent:

- https://raizensoft.com/tutorials/

- https://ookigame.com
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-22 14:08:07+00:00
Objectively you're right, but I hope you think twice before saying to someone who has experienced a tragedy, "You need to move on." Similarly if you're in an argument with a friend or loved one and they are upset I hope you think twice before saying "You need to calm down" or, "You're overreacting." Objectively those may all be correct, but they are unhelpful, and are likely to have the opposite effect. They minimize the weight of the emotions. Most of us cannot just turn emotions on and off, much as we try and wish we could.
by zkmon | 2025-11-22 14:08:39+00:00
Yep, it's not right away. They hesitated a few months to get rid of the 80-year old family piece, which their mother didn't bother selling. Family possessions should be treated as reserves to help off-springs down the family hierarchy in the needy times. Not to cash out because they are in 50s and 60s. 50s and 60s are just middle age when some people do a fresh start of their lives.
by benjiro | 2025-11-22 14:08:40+00:00
> I'd rather slow down my spending

And that will result in even more resources being allocated into the "big spenders". We are for a long time, in a death spiral for the whole PC field. If it was not crypto mining (multiple times), then it was HDD mining, then it was pandemic, and now its AI.

What used to be a stable market, that was predictable, has become ultra expensive. And now the whole SSD / DDR pricing are going to hurt even more.

Worst of all is, that a lot of resources are now going to enterprise hardware. So even if the AI bubble goes down, its not like the market will be flooded with cheap NVMEs or cheaper DDR sticks, as that production will have gone into 2.5" U.3 drives and LPDDR memory or the likes.
by mycall | 2025-11-22 14:08:49+00:00
> Consumer DDR5 motherboards normally take UDIMMs. Server DDR5 motherboards normally take RDIMMs. They're mechanically incompatible, and the voltages are different.

All you need is a fixed-latency, dumb translator bridge where the adapter forces everything into a simplified JEDEC-compliant mode.

CA/CK Line Translator with a Fixed Retimer as the biggest mismatch between RDIMM/UDIMM is the command/address path.

RDIMMs route CA/CK to RCD to DRAM, and the UDIMMs route CA/CK to DRAM directly, take the UDIMM CA/CK, delay + buffer + level shift it, feed it into a "RCD" like input using a delay locked loops (DLL).

Throw in a SPD translator, PMIC and voltage correction, DQ line conditioning and some other stuff into a 10–12-layer PCB, retimer chips, vrm, and level shifters.

It would cost about $40 million to fab and about $100 per adapter but would make bank with all the spare UDIMMs when the bubble bursts.
by vonunov | 2025-11-22 14:09:43+00:00
https://www.adorableandharmless.com/p/college-english-majors...

(People [sorry, no citation] are saying this study is bad and invalid, but I think maybe English majors should be able to manage a bit better than that, even if it is Bleak House, and even if they were blindsided with it, and especially if they plan to become English teachers. So I still get at least some qualitative value out of it myself.)
by alpinisme | 2025-11-22 14:10:07+00:00
I guess that depends on how hysterically you read the word secret (including projecting hysterics on others using it). But we at work have a lot of secret projects. Basically everything is given a project code name until it’s public and if you work in R&D you are told not to discuss your work on such projects either outside the company with friends or inside the company with people who don’t work in R&D. That is the closest to the definition of secret I can imagine. And it sounds like this nuclear lab was in a similar category.

If someone freaks out about it, it’s because they think you’re abusing normal, run of the mill product development secrecy, whether to develop a product that shouldn’t exist or to hide a practice that is never intended to be public and is just called secret to avoid scrutiny from an interested public (who, in this hypothetical scenario, feel that they have a right to be interested — think research into dangerous pathogens next to an unprotected public aquifer).
by api | 2025-11-22 14:10:13+00:00
I have 2gbps at home and open ports and IPv6. It’s a dynamic IP but it changes maybe once a year. I could host a site here, sure. It’s infinitely better than it was 20 years ago.

OSes are more secure. Isolation is better. Languages are better. Hardware is vastly cheaper and faster and more reliable. Everything is easier and faster and better.

In the corp world we have this absurd embarrassment of riches. There are like ten choices in every category. Half of it is free. It’s easier to set up and run than it was back then. Way easier. Hosting is silly cheap if you compare cost / performance.

People are just incurious and brainwashed with this weird sense of helplessness.

This security phobia is so overblown if you take some basic precautions and don’t run crap service software.

If I were hosting something controversial that might draw the ire of one of the insane political cults out there I’d run it through a free CDN maybe. That’s easy.
by grayhatter | 2025-11-22 14:10:27+00:00
The most depressing?

More depressing than the realization how few people are able to evaluate the quality of something?

More depressing than the number of people who proudly advocate for having pride in plagiarism?

More depressing than the number of people who unwittingly use genai as an excuse to DoS sites, individuals, organic content ranking? (Each being their own completely diff method)