MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by namibj | 2025-11-28 17:45:40+00:00
Ehhh, it's surprisingly practical to pack a bit of a ship with batteries to get 3~5 days of range, at least for ships as efficient per unit mass an an Emma Maersk and above.

What's less practical is the grid to support the fast charger that can recharge it in the ~10 hours it takes to unload and reload it.

Trans-atlantic battery container ship is technically feasible. It won't be economic until you charge the oil burners loads for the CO2, and even then it might be that some kind of non-carbon burner of fuel cell beats it. Looking at ammonia concepts, for example.
by jimbohn | 2025-11-28 17:46:12+00:00
Along with Europe's incompetence and divisiveness, you must also consider that the US has kept it so tight under its umbrella that it has squeezed it. The US wants a rich market to sell into, a suitable ally for oil campaigns, but not a competitor.

The US is also still cultivating divisiveness, at the EU level, they groom a politically aligned minority that conveniently opposes any long-term improvement (Looking at Meloni's Italy, Hungary, etc.), at the country level, where possible, they again groom divisiveness by propping up yet another sovranist party.

Of course, that's what a "normal" competitor does, and of course China russia are also taking part in it. But the ambiguous situation of the USA-EU friendship needs to be solved.

I don't see how the EU can get out of this without recognizing that the US is not a friend anymore, and enduring a few decades of protectionism at the services level to try to pull a china on key sectors.
by pino999 | 2025-11-28 17:46:31+00:00
Weird stuff, you are just talking to a 5 year younger friend about hair brushing being pleasant and now you needr to apologize to the hair brusher?

> She demanded that I apologize to the women for sexualizing them.

This doesn't work that well in real life. Let me sketch a scenario:

Oh eh, hi, eh, sorry, I have to admit than when you were brushing my hair, I was sexualizing you.

You can't make it much better, perhaps write a formal letter and focus on the hairbrush:

Three weeks ago, I was in your excellent shop. My hair never has been nicer. During the hair brushing, I got the feeling I felt a bit more for the hairbrush than I fell about you, I hope you can forgive me.

That gives a nice feeling about what was first a fairly normal human interaction.

It sounds hot though, good tip. But I got a humiliation kink, oh noes! How to resolve then? It is a catch-22 now. Need to do silly apologize, apologies are sexual, need to apologize for sexual feelings due to silly apologies. Haha, how do I get there?
by TeMPOraL | 2025-11-28 17:46:53+00:00
Fair, I was under the impression that some strains of influenza viruses are in the mix too, but apparently they're distinct and not part of the cocktail (surprising, given how the other viruses found themselves bucketed like this - they evolved to lose potency over time; I'd expect influenza strains would be on the same trajectory).

Still, my main point holds - you usually can't tell by symptoms alone, whether it's a common cold or a flu. In case you get severe symptoms, by the time you can, you've already been infectious for some time. So either way, the right time to call in sick is when you first notice the early symptoms - stuffy/runny nose, cough, headache, elevated body temperature. But obviously nobody does that, because it would mean calling in sick at random a dozen or more times per year.

Post-lockdown COVID was the only time I know of in the last few decades, and a brief time indeed, when it was socially acceptable to react to potential symptoms at the right time.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-28 17:47:01+00:00
I definitely do not believe that the activities being done as part of an Ehrenamt are stupid

What I wanted to express is that it is "just" various forms of volunteer work, which ranges between some occasional organizational work in a Verein to doing hard physical labor at 3 in the night. What the petition argues is that open source developers "deserve" the title of "Ehrenamt", which really is what I disliked about the whole thing. Because effectively it is just a designation, nobody does their volunteering for that title or any of the benefits it gives you.

The demands of the petition would be solved by just founding a Verein (which is exactly the structure you want to organize volunteer activity), but as you said, if you wanted to interpret the petition as negatively as possible, the petition wants to avoid having a Verein, which enforces a certain degree of openness and transparency about finances.
by efortis | 2025-11-28 17:47:24+00:00
Yes, it can break deps, some will not install. Puppeteer is a good example because it installs binaries. But it also shows an error with the cmd needed to complete the installation.

Why it is allowed by default?

> it’s npm’s belief that the utility of having installation scripts is greater than the risk of worms.

NPM co-founder Laurie Voss

https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141702881055/package-install-scr...
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-28 17:48:01+00:00
Yes!

Pytorch, Jax, tensorflow are all examples to me of very capable products, that compete very well in ML space.

But more broadly work like XLA and IREE are very interesting toolkits for mapping a huge variety of computation onto many types of hardware. While Pytorch et al are fine example applications, are things you can do, XLA is the Big Tent idea, the toolkit to erode not just specific CUDA use cases, but to allow hardware in general to be more broadly useful.
by loeg | 2025-11-28 17:48:07+00:00
The 2008 crash was in part caused by inaccurately rating synthetic bundles of subprime mortgage debt as extremely low risk (e.g. AAA). Subprime borrowers had a much higher risk of defaulting than a AAA rating implied.

On the other hand, Meta has great creditworthiness. And guarantees this vehicle. So... it's not the same.
by mseri | 2025-11-28 17:48:20+00:00
As much as I agree with the need for digital independence and the fact that universities (and governments) in Europe are over reliant on US tech, it is not as simple as you describe.

There is a lot more happening in the administrative and infrastructural side of things in most universities that one barely observes as student. So every change needs to take also that into account, the management and maintenance of services and infrastructures that must reliably support thousands of users, with relatively strict privacy and security standards, and their migration.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080495
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-11-28 17:48:42+00:00
Nah. I'd like less "sexy" on the internet and most everywhere else. It's exhausting having people shove their sexuality in everyone's focus constantly. I'd like to be able to buy some muffins without being reminded about sex on the packaging, the description, and the product name. Let muffins be muffins. Just like extroverts are energy vampires for introverts, the non-sexually obsessed are tired of the sex obsessed wanting everything to be about celebrating the sexual obsessions of the sex obsessed. Broaden your horizons and get a hobby that doesn't involve telling everyone about what you want to do with your genitals.
by hedora | 2025-11-28 17:49:23+00:00
The last (hopefully only) Stellantis vehicle we owned had trouble with its transmission’s network connection.

“Nothing stops a Ram, except routine driving”.

I’m completely unsurprised they’re pushing spam to the dashboard.

The crazy thing is BMW has been doing this well for years. They should have just copied the playbook. There’s a little shop icon in the app where you can buy digital services, swag and schedule dealership appointments.

Sometimes it has discounts or track day invitations in there.
by simonw | 2025-11-28 17:50:14+00:00
My advice for building something like this: don't get hung up on a need for vector databases and embedding.

Full text search or even grep/rg are a lot faster and cheaper to work with - no need to maintain a vector database index - and turn out to work really well if you put them in some kind of agentic tool loop.

The big benefit of semantic search was that it could handle fuzzy searching - returning results that mention dogs if someone searches for canines, for example.

Give a good LLM a search tool and it can come up with searches like "dog OR canine" on its own - and refine those queries over multiple rounds of searches.

Plus it means you don't have to solve the chunking problem!
by Bender | 2025-11-28 17:50:16+00:00
Maybe I'm just getting too old for such things but every protest I have seen after the Tea Party just looks like a bunch of unstables throwing tantrums. If I were their opposition it would just bolster my position and empower me to send in more troops. I think part of the root cause has to be modern movements just not really thinking things through. It probably does not help that NGO's are leaving piles of bricks on every corner and setting protestors up for escalation and failure. I think they should also have a way to root out the agent provocateurs and Antifa Reds/Yellows especially since most protests quickly escalate into riots which undermines their movements all together.
by nilirl | 2025-11-28 17:50:25+00:00
Why is it implicit that semantic search will outperform lexical search?

Back in 2023 when I compared semantic search to lexical search (tantivy; BM25), I found the search results to be marginally different.

Even if semantic search has slightly more recall, does the problem of context warrant this multi-component, homebrew search engine approach?

By what important measure does it outperform a lexical search engine? Is the engineering time worth it?
by ryukoposting | 2025-11-28 17:50:34+00:00
Mixed feelings here. Type annotations are a thing Ruby lacks, that other languages have, that I like using in other languages. Ergo, I'd like to have them in Ruby, right?

My knee-jerk reaction is "yes I'd like that" but when I pause to think about how I actually write Ruby code... hmm. I tend to use Ruby when its flexible syntax and type system are helpful. How much would I actually benefit from something that restricts the flexibility of the type system?

Bear in mind, I'm not a "Ruby dev" per se. It's a well-loved tool in my mostly firmware-focused repetoire. I use it for little CLI tools, and toy game engines too (mri embeds into C really cleanly). Fun little things that most folks would use Python for, I just like Ruby better.
by namibj | 2025-11-28 17:51:07+00:00
And the breaks notably may melt besides the landing gear suffering irreparable damage (to where you need to replace the landing gear). That's planned for and to be handled by the required fire fighting truck coming out and hosing them down if they start any signs of starting a fire, even though that will shatter the brake discs that were still good. The certified landing weight is about what weight they can be and still take off with no maintenance needed and just a regular refueling and perhaps crew change due to shift limits. But nothing done to the plane besides refueling. And yeah, it's because the extra capacity is just for extra fuel for extra range, so it's not worth the spendings on landing it more than just safely once.
by rob_c | 2025-11-28 17:51:24+00:00
Last time I sat down with one of the groups modelling national food availability their model _needed_ a scratch fs capable of dealing with >1M 4kB files per folder. When asked why not to use a db they replied databases don't work well with objects larger than 1kB in size and this would introduce network latencies into their code. Needless to say I walked away from that glad that I couldn't help.
by jfengel | 2025-11-28 17:51:35+00:00
In discussing the current enforcement of immigration laws, I often hear it claimed that it is only about illegal immigration, because illegal immigrants are lawbreakers. They do not object to legal immigration.

I've always found that hard to believe, because it would be easy to reduce illegal immigration by increasing legal immigration, and we don't do that.

This suggests that my skepticism was warranted.
by tomhallett | 2025-11-28 17:51:55+00:00
feedback: i'm trying to understand the highlevel flow/usage but still a bit confused.

ideas:

1) maybe add a .yml example to the readme under the /test_nyno screenshot so i know how you configured that workflow

2) what are ways to trigger a workflow? just tcp?

3) the example runs "bestjsserver" which looks like it runs workflows? are some workflows auto running? that just logs from tcp commands you manually running in other terminal? a bit confused what's going on here

Thanks!
by titzer | 2025-11-28 17:53:29+00:00
> “Who are you defending yourself against?” To which he answered, to my astonishment: “I don’t know. The world.”

Indeed. Moving our every interaction in daily life plus our innermost thoughts to the internet has instilled a low-key fear in all of us that we'll be raked over the coals and villified as the world's worst villains. The digital tar and feathers are lurking always, a menacing psychological force. And it can even happen without our knowledge; some stranger can post a two second context-less clip or a snippet of a conversation and make us look our worst.

It's shocking how we can have so much outrage over unknown people but we're flush out of rage for the system that makes us so angry all the time.
by loeg | 2025-11-28 17:53:46+00:00
Right.

> I should say that the big tech companies did not invent this technology to build AI data centers. This sort of thing — project finance, non-consolidated joint ventures, borrowing out of boxes — has a long history in a lot of capital-intensive industries.

Levine attributes a recent increase to private credit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-10-29/put...
by hedora | 2025-11-28 17:53:49+00:00
So, they’re going to use a more power hungry process for the low end devices? The whole point of the Air and SE lines was that they were lightweight and compact.

Watching a company at that scale completely lose its own plot is depressing. Did they replace Cook with an LLM that compacted its context one too many times?

Edit: This is a bad look for intel too. How are Apple store employees/nerds going to explain this product line bifurcation? “This low end Apple gizmo is a hot mess because it has Intel Inside. Also, it’s $50 more than last year. MAGA!”
by leoc | 2025-11-28 17:53:56+00:00
Right: I don't have direct experience, but from what I recall reading it was only over the Subversion era that it really became strikingly abnormal for a professional software team to use no VC software at all. When there was software it could be ... exotic. The FOSS culture's pre-SVN norm of "CVS everywhere" put it notably ahead of others.
by johnpaulkiser | 2025-11-28 17:54:55+00:00
I'm getting sick and tired of people on Twitter/X making wild claims that they can build a profitable app with 100% vibe coding so I started poking around and can almost always find a business destroying vulnerability.

In this case it was a user claiming their app is doing $60k MRR while, get this, building a vibe coding management platform & boilerplate. Quite the house of cards.
by bjourne | 2025-11-28 17:55:47+00:00
It means the legal system is investigating the matter and the public prosecutor may or may not decide to file charges. The publishers might have filed a lawsuit themselves, but that is very expensive so they hope the legal system will do it for them. My guess is that the investigation will be closed because I don't think Swedish authorities think they have jurisdiction over Facebook. Unless Meta happens to have offices in Sweden, which I don't think they have. In general they can only prosecute crimes committed in Sweden or committed by Swedes.
by rfc2324 | 2025-11-28 17:55:58+00:00
Litestream is excellent however I wanted something that I could spin up faster without as much finickyneess as setting g up and securing new S3 credentials, and ideally a way to broadcast out updates.

For example I have a sqlite db in my userdir on most servers I (personally) ssh into with "things I'd like to remember" (using dnote for spaced reptition). When I make a change to that file using "dnote", sqlrsync waits until changes stop, performs the sqlite3_rsync, and Cloudflare sends a websocket message to subscribers of that file (me on other servers) to pull down updates when they can.

I'd also like to add "dead man's alarms", etc. So it's bells and whistles around an easier-to-use sqlite.org/rsync.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-11-28 17:56:06+00:00
This is true, but it's also a fixable problem.

The issue I've seen is that there isn't really the political will to fix it. Europeans broadly seem uncomfortable giving up national sovereignty when it comes to digital issues (including those that impact scaling businesses), so they implicitly choose the status quo that makes it hard for software/internet businesses to succeed.

Literally in this thread you can see Europeans who are against greater federalization. And their objections are entirely understandable, but at the same time, can't exactly have your cake and eat it too. If you insist on 27 different sets of regulations to protect certain interests, however valid, you can't exactly be surprised when that makes scaling businesses rather challenging.
by underlipton | 2025-11-28 17:56:50+00:00
Get some black dudes involved. Black dudes know how to keep it real.

(It will be interesting to see many people are able to accurately draw the conceptual line between what part of my sentiment is a joke and what part is serious.)

EDIT: Just interested in seeing if it could tease out the portion of the HN crowd who go apoplectic any time they're forced to remember that black people exist, the portion that only know us in the abstract ("He's right! Black people DO 'keep it real!'"), and the tiny minority that will actually understand the point I'm trying to make. I suppose that's bad communication, but you could also say that the medium is (part of) the message.

Suffice it to say, maybe now that DEI is gone, actual good-faith efforts to recognize the hacker ethos in disparate groups, and to bring those individuals into the culture, could take place. The corporate-ization of hacking couldn't have taken place (and could be undone) with an injection of some counterculture. And you had an entire group of people, whose existing ethos was based on appropriating and remixing and building something from the metal up, right there.
by azdle | 2025-11-28 17:56:53+00:00
Thanks!

Sadly no, it shutdown in 2017. If you try to login, it doesn't actually go anywhere.

Best I can tell the domain was picked up by some SEO scam. I'm guessing the way it works is they republish all the old content to keep the domain's reputation and then added a bunch of links to their sites to try to boost those site's reputation.
by 7777777phil | 2025-11-28 17:57:10+00:00
I tried to wrap my head around it here [1] and here [2] and still haven’t made up my mind about my investment thesis for 2026. The concentration and valuation of hyperscalers in the S&P500 does concern me slightly..

[1] https://philippdubach.com/2025/11/09/ai-models-as-standalone...

[2] https://philippdubach.com/2025/11/24/is-ai-really-eating-the...
by vpShane | 2025-11-28 17:57:18+00:00
Yeah, but we can self-host them. At this point in the span of it, it's more about infrastructure and compute power to meet demand and Google won because it has many business models, massive cashflow, TPUs, and the infrastructure to build expanding on their current, which would take new companies ~25 years to map out compute, data centers and have a viable, tangible infrastructure all while trying to figure out profits.

I'm not sure about how the regulation of things would work, but prompt injections and whatever other attacks we haven't seen yet where agents can be hijacked and made to do things sounds pretty scary.

It's a race towards AGI at this point. Not sure if that can be achieved as language != consciousness IMO
by renewiltord | 2025-11-28 17:57:23+00:00
Sounds like a too online person with too online friends. About ten years ago, I had an experience that pointed out the too online nature of people (in that case, myself).

It’s all in the culture of the social media bubble they’re in. I was on Reddit a lot. Reddit had just gone through the Great Hate of Hipsters (with their skinny jeans and ear gauges) and had moved on to a new target: Atheists.

The scorned atheist was (perhaps is?) stereotypically a nerdy young man with, notably, an affection for fedoras and pride in “euphoric” quotes.

All right, so I spent all this time on Reddit and it was clear to me: Americans think fedoras are weird and American girls can’t stand them. I don’t have a predilection for hats personally so this wasn’t a big deal but good to know. But I was a nerdy young man.

Then one day I was traveling with a group of friends, mostly girls, and we walked by a hat store. Completely confusingly, the girls were highly enthusiastic about us boys wearing the hats. Some of them specifically picked out the much hated fedora! For me!

I said something about atheist-kid-something and they looked at me confused till one of them said “oh it’s some Reddit thing; forget it, just try it on” and life just moved on.

So what was the deal? I’d assumed some highly-specific online view of a highly-specific online community was a property of society. It wasn’t. It’s a property of the people who are part of the highly-specific online community.

Anyway, I think this writer’s friends are part of some highly specific community with some kind of Twitter-like norms. And this supposed change in society is just a change in her local group.
by enahs-sf | 2025-11-28 17:57:33+00:00
I thought it was odd that there was mention of competitors but then when a feature matrix ranking them many were suddenly omitted. Then I rechecked the URL and realized this was a marketing post by milvus.

I have no skin in or say in the vector db space but do support a very large (1.4B+ vector) Vespa deployment and see 40ms p99 query times. YMMV but it seems like people sleep on Vespa for whatever reason. Again, not an endorsement but this is what we’re seeing in prod at a fortune100 co.

With a product like this that costs so much and is so deeply technical, no one is buying on emotion, so to me, omitting data is tantamount to admitting their product is inferior in some way.
by crote | 2025-11-28 17:58:42+00:00
It seems fairly understandable even without financial knowledge?

1. Facebook creates a shell company.

2. The shell company borrows billions of dollars, and builds a data center.

3. Facebook leases the data center.

4. The fact that it is technically only a four-year lease with only one possible tenant can conveniently be ignored, as Facebook assumes essentially all possible risks. The shell company could only possibly lose money if Facebook itself goes under, so the lenders can treat the loan as just as reliable as Facebook itself.

5. Because Facebook technically only has a four-year lease, it can pretend it doesn't actually control the shell company: after all, it can always just decide not to renew the lease. The fact that is assumes essentially all possible risks can conveniently be ignored, so Facebook can treat it as a separate entity and doesn't have to treat the debt as its own.

So the lenders are happy because there's no real risk to them, and Facebook is happy because they can pretend a $27B loan doesn't exist. It's a win-win, except for the part where they are lying to their shareholders about not taking on a $27B loan.