MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jsiepkes | 2025-11-28 05:59:40+00:00
> Each Lambda invocation executed a simple TruffleHog scan command with concurrency set to 1000. This setup allowed me to complete the scan of 5,600,000 repositories in just over 24 hours.

Gitlab must have been thrilled about a bot cloning 5.6 million repo's in 24 hours. That doesn't really sound responsible to me.
by wombatpm | 2025-11-28 06:01:48+00:00
I don’t know. I have the same background. But I would think lack of falls and pressure on your heart would be a positive. My mother-in-law went down hill quickly after 80 when she fell and broke her leg.

I would assume it was a one way trip, and the trick would be getting to orbit while you could still survive liftoff
by 3chinproblem | 2025-11-28 06:02:17+00:00
Interesting. It does seem like technology barring AI was already standardizing communication in some ways. I imagine that real universal languages may just naturally emerge.

Imagine this idea of distillation to language. You are speaking to someone and neither of you speak the same language. The AI is translating. With enough exposure to this, you might start picking up some of their words and vice versa.

Over enough time words from languages will begin to merge as a mix of many languages. Take this far enough along and we might all speak the same hybrid language.
by userbinator | 2025-11-28 06:04:20+00:00
Limit function length: Keep functions concise, ideally under 70 lines. Shorter functions are easier to understand, test, and debug.

The usual BS... yes, shorter functions are easier to understand by themselves but what matters, especially when debugging, is how the whole system works.

Edit: care to refute? Several decades of experience has shown me what happens. I'm surprised this crap is still being peddled.
by GianFabien | 2025-11-28 06:04:21+00:00
RGB LEDs (e.g. WS2812) connected to an ESP8266 and running microPython are great for experimenting. I have several "installations" that respond to broadcast datagrams (UDP). Let your imagination run riot. Add sensors, even MIDI interface.

I do doubt that you could actually discern 16M colors. But even many thousands is entertaining.
by lmm | 2025-11-28 06:04:33+00:00
> There’s nothing about providing strong consistency (or even strong isolation) that requires deadlocks to be a thing. DSQL, for example, doesn’t have them*.

If you want to have the kind of consistency people expect (transactional) in this kind of environment, they're unavoidable, right? I see you have optimistic concurrency control, which, sure, but that then means read-modify-write won't work the way people expect (the initial read may be a phantom read if their transaction gets retried), and fundamentally there's no good option here, only different kinds of bad option.

> Event sourcing architectures can be great, but they also tend to be fairly complex (a lot of moving parts).

Disagree. I would say event sourcing architectures are a lot simpler than consistent architectures; indeed most consistent systems are built on top of something that looks rather like an event based architecture underneath (e.g. that's presumably how your optimistic concurrency control works).

> The bigger practical problem is that they make it quite hard to offer clients ‘outside the architecture’ meaningful read-time guarantees stronger than a consistent prefix. That makes clients’ lives hard for the reasons I argue in the blog post.

You can give them a consistent snapshot quite easily. What you can't give them is the ability to do in-place modification while maintaining consistency.

It makes clients' lives hard if they want to do the wrong thing. But the solution to that is to not let them do that thing! Yes, read-modify-write won't work well in an event-based architecture, but read-modify-write never works well in any architecture. You can paper over the cracks at an ever-increasing cost in performance and complexity and suppress most of the edge cases (but you'll never get rid of them entirely), or you can commit to not doing it at the design stage.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-28 06:04:34+00:00
Fever helps against all kinds of illnesses but it can also be deadly, so having fever reducting medicine around is a smart precaution IMO. If you're otherwise healthy and are dealing with a mild seasonal infection and have got something important going on, I can see why people would choose to reduce symptoms at the cost of taking longer to recover.

Lots of people go overboard with this, though, like taking flu reduction medicine with every single cold or using medication to go to work sick. American media seems especially accepting of people taking "flu medicine" over rest and recovery.
by ehnto | 2025-11-28 06:05:00+00:00
It's from the truck, it's the transmission of the truck which is evident by changing pitch as the truck downshifts while slowing down.

It likely uses a transmission as a tradeoff between torque and RPM of the electric motor or because it's a simpler task to retrofit an existing truck driveline with an electric motor bolted onto it.

These are so noisy because of the use of straight cut gears, which you choose when preferring strength over noise and comfort. Most regular cars use helical gears which reduces the noise due to continuously meshing between gear teeth, whereas straight cut gears are like a paddle wheel, so the teeth are smacking into eachother head on each time they engage. That is also why they clunk when getting on and off throttle.

We have some similar trucks running around Australia at the moment and the sound is the same, I'm also familiar with the sound from motorsport!
by protocolture | 2025-11-28 06:05:54+00:00
Detention is literally being used arbitrarily, before the decision is made to even determine the person is an alien. If something is uneccesary its usually being used as punishment.

>there would be still a detention to move him or her from the place where they were found to the bus or plane.

Whats wrong with a court order and a plane ticket? Other than nothing at all. (The usual response from the border brainrot is that either they need to be prevented from escaping, which they could have done earlier instead of choosing to remain a part of society. Then when that ones knocked down its as a "Deterrent" which is where we wrap back around to this being a punishment)

>What you wrote only makes a faint sense in assumption that detention is given as a punishment for immigration violations as same as prison term.

No I have not made that mistake at all.

>detention is a necessary part of removing an alien

Nope. No reason for it at all.

>which you could serve and come out as a legal alien.

Never said that at all. Just that theres no reason for someone to go into arbitrary detention before attending court/airport/border when they pose no risk to society. To do otherwise is a punishment.
by Animats | 2025-11-28 06:07:07+00:00
The picture of two rows of electric trucks is marked "ChatGPT generated". Note that some of the trucks shown have three front grille slots, while some have two. Also, those trucks appear to have fuel tanks. The author is mostly talking about what someone else saw at the China Commercial Vehicles Show. Low-credibility source.

There's plenty of info about that show, with real pictures.[1] BYD has a full range of electric trucks, but what they're pushing seems to be the T3 and T4 trucks. The new T4 is a straight truck, available as a box truck, flatbed, or open top truck. Or they'll sell the chassis for custom jobs. Claimed range is "up to 250km". It's intended for city use with once daily charging. The T3, which has been out for a few years, is an ordinary electric van, comparable to a Ford Transit or a Mercedes Sprinter. These are high-volume commercial products. Light and medium electric trucks are taking over fleet operations.

BYD has a new line of heavy electric trucks, launched in April.[2] This isn't BYD's first try at heavy electric trucks. They delivered some (at least hundreds, but not tens of thousands) in 2022. The 2025 model is at least their third try. They don't claim to have cracked long-haul trucking. "BYD Tractor Q3: Focusing on Short – Haul Transportation and Breaking Through Medium – and Long – Haul Transportation" is their marketing pitch. There are multiple battery options, and for charging, the Q3 can be plugged into up to four chargers at once. Long-haul operation is possible, but it's not yet the target market.

So the BYD heavy trucks aren't mainstream in China yet, but they're a lot closer than Tesla's Semi (yet another re-announcement: [3]) or the Nikola (only works going downhill and required a Trump pardon for the CEO).

Volvo has a range of electric trucks, mostly sold in Europe.

[1] https://www.chinatrucks.org/news/2025/1110/article_11304.htm...

[2] https://www.ctinsa.com/ccnes/5550

[3] https://elonbuzz.com/the-tesla-semi-2026-update-is-here/
by nl | 2025-11-28 06:07:37+00:00
> _Weeks_ old! What a fossil!

I think you are missing the point. They are saying "weeks old" isn't very old.

> it's going to continue to be a race of competing AIs, and that race will be won by the company that can deliver AI at scale the most cheaply.

I don't see how that follows at all. Quality and distribution both matter a lot here.

Google has some advantages but some disadvantages here too.

If you are on AWS GovCloud, Anthropic is right there. Same on Azure, and on Oracle.

I believe Gemini will be available on the Oracle Cloud at some point (it has been announced) but they are still behind in the enterprise distribution race.

OpenAI is only available on Azure, although I believe their new contract lets them strike deals elsewhere.

On the consumer side, OpenAI and Google are well ahead of course.
by politelemon | 2025-11-28 06:11:07+00:00
> The fact he withdrew his comments is a sign of humility.

If someone else, working for a large company for instance, said and withdrew the same comments, I doubt that you would be extending the same benefit to them.

It was done, as the comment points out, to avoid causing trouble for others, his thoughts on the matter still remain the same. Humility would involve self reflection and apologies, of which there is none here. Hypocrisy, possibly. Cultural rot, perhaps. Violating their own code of conduct, yes. Lack of empathy, definitely. But humility, certainly not.
by yapyap | 2025-11-28 06:13:03+00:00
> That if you’re a life form and you cook up a baby and copy your genes to them, you’ll find that the genes have been degraded due to oxidative stress et al., which isn’t cause for celebration, but if you find some other hopefully-hot person and randomly swap in half of their genes, your baby will still be somewhat less fit compared to you and your hopefully-hot friend on average, but now there is variance, so if you cook up several babies, one of them might be as fit or even fitter than you, and that one will likely have more babies than your other babies have, and thus complex life can persist in a universe with increasing entropy

In an ideal world. But in our current world I find that economical stance in the world influences amount of children more than if you’re “fit”. E.g. the poor(er) people of the world and the ultra wealthy of the world are having more kids while the middle class is having less, sure they have to meet some kind of ‘fit’ threshold but not the kind implied IMO.
by munificent | 2025-11-28 06:13:15+00:00
> Past a certain size, you have to make peace with the fact that a lot of people in your org are going to be frustrated with you, and you're going to have no idea why, and you may not going to be able to fix it.

I agree this is a necessary cost of being at the top of a large organization.

But I am very suspicious of the kind of people that seem to have no trouble at all being misunderstood and disliked by many. Yes, decent people can be in those positions. But it's often a honeypot for sociopaths.
by mk89 | 2025-11-28 06:14:32+00:00
You can make debt, as many governments have been doing until now...

And debt (spending) ironically will increase the GDP.

If a company keeps on producing goods and doesn't sell them? That increases also the GDP. ( as long as they don't throw them away )

If a government makes debt to buy weapons and increase the army? Look at the Russian +4% GDP just because of that. However, how sustainable is that? The GDP doesn't care at all about that.

The GDP doesn't provide the full picture of how a country is doing economically, but it's good to have a first overview to later do a deep dive into, but so are other "tools".

It's an old tool created 100 years ago, and we keep on using it although the world has changed drastically since then.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-28 06:15:22+00:00
The Energiewende was a total failure and a complete disaster for Germany. People often make this discussions about renewables vs. fossil energy sources, but this is totally misleading.

The Energiewende was completely mismanaged and if you have any inclination towards renewables you should hate the German government for it. Here are the mistakes:

- The German government only subsidized renewable production, by guaranteeing a fixed price. This means that energy storage was completely neglected, leading to very high fluctuations in energy price. German industry had to adapt, by only operating under certain wind/sun conditions.

- They sold out their key renewable energy manufacturing to China. One would think that it would be prudent to keep solar panel production in Germany at all cost, when you are betting your future on it. But apparently nobody was concerned to sell it out to China. The same goes for letting Windturbine manufacturers go bankrupt.

- Prematurely shutting down nuclear. The loss of the nuclear plants meant that on-demand energy generation became more difficult. Further increasing problems with energy prices during periods of darkness and little sun.

I am not against Germany relying on renewables. To be honest I think it is a good thing for multiple reasons, among them is also the fact, that it gives Germany further autonomy from importing fossil fuels from either the US or Russia. But the way this transition was performed was a total failure. The people responsible either lacked basic understanding or willfully ignored them. Attributing recent economic hardship to the Energiewende is true to some part, but the real cause is a persistent failure of politics.
by stouset | 2025-11-28 06:16:19+00:00
This seems pretty knee-jerk. I do most of this and have delivered a hell of a lot of software in my life. Many projects are still running, unmodified, in production, at companies I’ve long since left.

You can get a surprising amount done when you aren’t spending 90% of your time fighting fires and playing whack-a-mole with bugs.
by fjfaase | 2025-11-28 06:20:42+00:00
This based on a highly simplified idea of how focus works. My experience is that motivation is a far more important factor for me. I struggle a lot with procrastination when my internal motivation is low. Meetings do drain me, but short interuptions are not a problem if I am motivated, but if I am not motivated a cycle of procastination will kick in and it can take me hours from becoming focused again. I often feel ashamed of my procrastination, which makes it harder to get out of it. This is why I do not like fixed working hours. Sometimes, I can focus beter at night than during standard working hours. The break through ideas for fixing problems (hard bugs) often come at random moments when I am not focused on them at all, often during boring daily cores.
by EduardGev | 2025-11-28 06:21:25+00:00
Customer communication used to be simple. A call here, a message there, maybe an email if someone needed a PDF. Now it’s WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, SMS, email, voice notes, and the occasional “Just checking in?” that lands long after office hours. For freelancers and small teams, the real workload isn’t in the project itself - it’s in keeping up with all the conversations around it. Salesforce reports that 66 percent of customers expect real-time replies, while McKinsey found that small businesses lose 20-25 percent of their week to communication tasks alone. And the bigger your client base grows, the louder the noise becomes. That’s why AI tools built to streamline customer communication are no longer a bonus. They’re the buffer between you and burnout. AI tools help not by replacing personal touch, but by catching everything that slips through the cracks. More on that here: https://halper.ai/blog/ai-tools-to-streamline-customer-commu...

The Communication Load Is Heavier Than It Looks Clients don’t see the juggling act behind the scenes. A single conversation can begin on Instagram, move to WhatsApp, shift into email, and finish with a calendar invite. Multiply that by a dozen projects and suddenly you’re managing inboxes instead of doing the work people hire you for. HubSpot notes that professionals now bounce between nine or more communication channels weekly, and nearly 40 percent of messages go unanswered for more than 24 hours simply because they fade into the background. No one wakes up thinking, “I can’t wait to answer 48 messages today.” Yet that’s exactly what the average freelancer faces. AI tools catch the messages you can’t keep up with and keep clients from slipping through the cracks.

What to Look For in an AI Communication Tool When comparing platforms, focus on features that actually lighten your workload – not add another complicated dashboard to your life. You’ll want: • multichannel inbox • automated but human replies • smart follow-ups • client history tracking • scheduling • invoicing connection • personalization without tech skills • mobile-first workflow • a system that adapts to your communication style A good AI tool removes decisions, not adds them. The Takeaway Customer communication won’t get simpler. Channels won’t shrink. Expectations won’t soften. But your day can. AI tools streamline the repetitive work so the human parts - listening, advising, creating - get your best attention. Halper goes further by acting like a manager who keeps every conversation moving, handles client expectations, and makes sure you never lose a lead to slow replies. Communication is the backbone of your business. AI just helps it feel less like a full-time job.

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by Gibbon1 | 2025-11-28 06:23:07+00:00
I read that Pakistan told Qatar to sell off 24 containers of LNG next year. And there are abusive penalty clauses that get triggered when you do that.

I went an looked and it appears Pakistan imports ~110 containers of LNG a year. And their natural gas plants are running as 50% capacity.

Personal belief on big reason for a country to install solar, wind, and batteries to be able to tell the criminals at the IMF to go f' themselves.
by andsoitis | 2025-11-28 06:23:39+00:00
We frown on people who pass off something they didn’t do or make as the fruit of their labor.

AI isn’t good enough yet to make things autonomously, so someone who harnesses AI to make something can, at least in my eyes, claim they made it (AI isn’t just a tool).

If and when AI becomes autonomous, the human ceases to be the creator in my view since they are no longer in the creation loop. Then you cannot pretend you made the thing.
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-11-28 06:24:15+00:00
I predict problems if the AI doesn't translate the non-verbal expressions and cultural context as well as the spoken words.

It would definitely take a few full generations for a truly universal creole language to emerge, even with the help of instant translations. Another possibility is further balkanization into many more languages and dialects than currently exist, unless we limit AI auto-translation exposure to adults or older adolescents only. Because if the AI is personalized, it knows how to translate your specific googoo gaga such that you never have to learn the adult word.
by tsimionescu | 2025-11-28 06:24:22+00:00
The main idea behind culling is to prevent the virus itself from evolving inside the herd. Viruses evolve much more rapidly than birds.

Now sure, if there were a clear way to tell that some birds have been infected and survived and recovered, it could be a good idea not to sacrifice those birds, and even to specifically breed them. However, there is no good way to do so, especially not with any confidence. It's much more likely you'll end up infecting any population that you put these new birds in to.

So, the best and cheapest solution is to sacrifice the entire group, to prevent the disease from spreading to other populations, and to do so quickly, to prevent the virus from evolving or crossing a species boundary.
by _kush | 2025-11-28 06:24:36+00:00
I’ve been indie for about four years now. I wouldn’t trade it for anything else, but it does come with its own kind of hell. The lack of security and the fear that everything could disappear overnight is always there. Some days feel euphoric, and some days everything feels dark.

At one point I even built a live sales dashboard[1] to keep my dopamine in check, but a year later I realized it was a mistake. It started shaping my motivation instead of supporting it.

I guess the main lesson is that the ups and downs are normal, and you get better at riding them over the years.

[1]: https://x.com/kushsolitary/status/1777306909344715158
by markhahn | 2025-11-28 06:25:55+00:00
Really? Fully-connected hardware is in buildable (at scale) which we already know from the HPC world. Fat trees and dragonfly networks are pretty scalable, but a 3d torus is a very good tradeofff, and respects the dimensionality of reality.

Bisection bandwidth is a useful metric, but is hop count? Per-hop cost tends to be pretty small.
by cmiles8 | 2025-11-28 06:27:30+00:00
Mixpanel’s post is very poorly written. This is basically a textbook example of how not to handle this situation.

The OpenAI disclosure is a better summary of what happened than Mixpanel is stating directly.

Looks like OpenAI has fired Mixpanel as a product over this issue:

“We also hold our partners and vendors accountable for the highest bar for security and privacy of their services. After reviewing this incident, OpenAI has terminated its use of Mixpanel.”

That’s a pretty damning statement about a vendor that you don’t see written often publicly like that.