MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imtringued | 2025-11-11 12:52:12+00:00
I was thinking about an "In-system programming" use case and thought about how to best do it and the biggest problem by far is that powering the flash chip also powers the rest of the system. What a pretty niche topic to have a Baader–Meinhof phenomenon happen to you.

I have to agree with others that the "Fomu" design appears to be highly suboptimal. They could have given you a way better edge connector on the other side.
by lan321 | 2025-11-11 12:53:53+00:00
We all collectively move. Unless you have a massive amount of unmovable property to lose, that you're willing to die for, going to get torn to pieces by a drone seems like a stupid idea. Even if I'm the reason we win the war, my mom and dad probably won't be too happy receiving me in an urn with a complimentary food voucher. We can get a new house, No need to die over its bombed remains.
by roastmylanding | 2025-11-11 12:54:09+00:00
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by flanked-evergl | 2025-11-11 12:54:57+00:00
If someone hires me as a secretary, and they ask me what is the lyrics of a song, there is no law that prohibits me from telling them if I know and I don't have to license the lyrics in order to do so.

If they hire me primarily to recite lyrics, then sure, that would probably be some manner of infringement if I don't license them. But I feel like the case with a language model is much more the former than the latter.
by dspillett | 2025-11-11 12:55:02+00:00
> > msys2/git bash

> That is an independent FOSS project to my knowledge

Yes, but they do ship it as part of VS: https://random.spillett.net/stuff/tmp/setup_UYht2mgWnW.png

> The must be wanting to replace some maintenance burden

I'm sure they'd love to drop Windows as-is, certainly on the desktop, and let others have that burden (moving Gamers to a walled garden via XBox, let Apple and Linux have all the hardware and user support issues on desktops/laptops and phones, etc.), but momentum and backwards compatibility are massive problems and even ignoring those dropping Windows would just be too embarrassing.

Windows isn't the cash-cow it once was, it might even be a cost depending on how you massage the figures, the bread-winners for MS are currently: Azure, SQL Server, and Office. Office itself is part of the collection of things that would hold back a desktop OS exit for MS: there isn't a full port for any other OS and the online version is not feature-complete.
by debugnik | 2025-11-11 12:55:19+00:00
Try reading Turing's thesis before making that assertion, because the imitation game wasn't meant to measure a tipping point of any kind.

It's just a thought experiment to show that machines achieving human capabilities isn't proof that machines "think", then he argues against multiple interpretations of what machines "thinking" does even mean, to conclude that whether machines think or not is not worth discussing and their capabilities are what matters.

That is, the test has nothing to do with whether machines can reach human capabilities in the first place. Turing took for granted they eventually would.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-11 12:56:02+00:00
A slightly competent approach would be to tightly regulate all remote access to vehicles, infrastructure, etc. Because it doesn't much matter if critical stuff is bricked by its CCP-controlled manufacturer, vs. one of the CCP's hacking teams breaks into the remote update system of an all-British manufacturer and bricks everything, vs. the stuff "bricks itself by design" when some cloud servers go offline.

No, I wouldn't expect any country outside of China, Russia, NK, and a few similar to be competent enough to actually do this.
by port11 | 2025-11-11 12:56:16+00:00
Hmm, I don't agree that journalists are overwhelmingly left-wing. I can see how that'd be true since they're highly educated and that correlates.

But the sad reality is that most media channels in the US (maybe everywhere?) are corporations owned by a handful of very conservative people. Their agenda reflects that. Local media is almost fully right-wing. You can be a leftie journalist, but usually you won't go against editorial guidelines. At least that's why I've learned in school (studying media).
by Topfi | 2025-11-11 12:56:50+00:00
Both DuckDuckGo and Kagi are, purely focused on result quality in 2025 far better than Google currently, but that does not matter if one has no need beyond the most basic results.

And much of the MS Office suite is actually a worse copy of another product, merely copied and forced via network effect. There are more than enough far better alternatives to e.g. Teams and OneDrive. The latter even makes Excel far less reliable to the point of unusability.

Not to mention Windows is easily replaced for the truly average person who spends their entire computer use inside a Chromium browser nowadays. Outside PC Gaming (which is far from the average if we are honest), the vast majority of people never touch software that isn’t already on mobile or more likely exclusively in the browser.

Familiarity and brand strength, not need or compatibility, keep the customer facing offerings of MSFT going. That isn’t inherently unreasonable either, for these people Windows is fine as Chrome works well enough on it and they do not have any needs beyond that, so why switch. Same with search, Google still finds flights, restaurants, Wikipedia, etc.

Being better is worth little if the vast majority are sufficiently well catered to by the incumbent. Even if another OS or search may improve their experience somewhat (better reliability, longer battery life, etc.) that doesn’t trounce the established player as long as the few basics aren’t utterly broken even to them.

You can actively antagonize your users, be worse than the competition, more expensive too, you only loose most if you make the few things most have purely become reliant on and are expecting worse, basically regress.

Reason all the bugs in Windows are fine, after all the memories of most people are dominated by BSODs and just not crashing daily is enough to be considered pretty good, despite the overall experience far worse than most other OS/DE combis.
by mrweasel | 2025-11-11 12:57:36+00:00
There are 80 million Germans. If you where OpenAI, or it's shareholders, would you leave that market open for a competitor? No, you'd make a version of your product without the lyrics. More EU countries are going to follow and reach the same conclusion, especially now that Germany has set a legal precedence. Should OpenAI just pull out of a market with 500 million people and leave it to Claude, Perplexity or someone else entirely?

It doesn't appear that modern LLMs are really that hard to build, expensive perhaps, but if you have monopoly on a large enough market, price isn't really your main concern.
by aniviacat | 2025-11-11 12:58:02+00:00
Perhaps; I didn't read the court ruling.

But I'd be surprised if that was generally the case. It's easy to see why ChatGPT 1:1 reproducing a song's lyrics would be a copyright issue. But creating a derivative work based on the song?

What if I made a website that counts the number of alliterations in certain songs' lyrics? Would that be copyright infringement, because my algorithm uses the original lyrics to derive its output?

If this ruling really applied to any alogrithm deriving content from copyright protected works, it would be pretty absurd.

But absurd copyright laws would be nothing new, so I won't discount the possibility.
by gorbachev | 2025-11-11 12:58:43+00:00
> one thing ChatGPT and its ilk cannot do -- I guess architecturally —- is act convincingly like those who misspell, accidentally coin new eggcorns, accidentally use malapropisms, or use novel but terrible grammar

Just wait a few more years until the majority of ChatGPT training data is filled with misspellings, accidental eggcorns, malapropisms and terrible grammar.

That, and AI slop itself.
by pbronez | 2025-11-11 12:59:26+00:00
That’s a great observation. I’m hitting the same thing… yesterday’s hacks are today’s gospel.

My solution is decision documents. I write down the business problem, background on how we got here, my recommended solution, alternative solutions with discussion about their relative strengths and weaknesses, and finally and executive summary that states the whole affirmative recommendation in half a page.

Then I send that doc to the business owners to review and critique. I meet with them and chase down ground truth. Yes it works like this NOW but what SHOULD it be?

We iterate until everyone is excited about the revision, then we implement.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-11 12:59:46+00:00
It's exactly the same as the literal Luddites, synthesizers, cameras, etc. The actual concern is economic: people don't want to be replaced.

But the arguments are couched in moral or quality terms for sympathy. Machine-knitted textiles are inferior to hand-made textiles. Synthesizers are inferior to live orchestras. Daguerreotypes are inferior to hand-painted portraits.

It's a form of intellectual insincerity, but it happens predictably with every major technological advance because people are scared.
by mjdv | 2025-11-11 13:00:03+00:00
> We never talk about it now because we obviously blew past it years ago.

It's shocking to me that (as far as I know) no one has actually bothered to do a real Turing test with the best and newest LLMs. The Turing test is not whether a casual user can be momentarily confused about whether they are talking to a real person, or if a model can generate real-looking pieces of text. It's about a person seriously trying, for a fair amount of time, to distinguish between a chat they are having with another real person and an AI.

Q: Do you play chess? A: Yes. Q: I have K at my K1, and no other pieces. You have only K at K6 and R at R1. It is your move. What do you play? A: (After a pause of 15 seconds) R-R8 mate.
by egberts1 | 2025-11-11 13:00:16+00:00
You should experiment with embedded hash within HTML pages and discover their limitations.

These same limitations amplifies when going to outer scopes like URL itself, blockchain isn't immune to this.

Blockchain also has the same problem when attempting to track/verify each single vote.

W3C Subresource Integrity Recommendation

Source: https://www.w3.org/TR/sri-2/
by fpoling | 2025-11-11 13:00:24+00:00
Pure languages still use stack to store mutating state. In a single-threaded programs this is almost non-observable except for occasional stack overflow crashes. But with multiple threads and message passing one can emulate arbitrary state mutation just by using messages and stack.

Then I have found the code that is a heavy user of closures is harder to understand even if it is single-threaded and closures can pass arbitrary state even if the state is immutable.

What I have found useful is persistent data structures. Those really simplify modelling. But then those can be used in imperative languages as well.
Show HN: Linnix – eBPF observability that predicts failures before they happen
by parth21shah | 2025-11-11 13:00:39+00:00
I kept missing incidents until it was too late. By the time my monitoring alerted me, servers/nodes were already unrecoverable.

So I built Linnix. It watches your Linux systems at the kernel level using eBPF and tries to catch problems before they cascade into outages.

The idea is simple: instead of alerting you after your server runs out of memory, it notices when memory allocation patterns look weird and tells you "hey, this looks bad."

It uses a local LLM to spot patterns. Not trying to build AGI here - just pattern matching on process behavior. Turns out LLMs are actually pretty good at this.

Example: it flagged higher memory consumption over a short period and alerted me before it was too late. Turned out to be a memory leak that would've killed the process.

Quick start if you want to try it:

docker pull ghcr.io/linnix-os/cognitod:latest docker-compose up -d

Setup takes about 5 minutes. Everything runs locally - your data doesn't leave your machine.

The main difference from tools like Prometheus: most monitoring parses /proc files. This uses eBPF to get data directly from the kernel. More accurate, way less overhead.

Built it in Rust using the Aya framework. No libbpf, no C - pure Rust all the way down. Makes the kernel interactions less scary.

Current state: - Works on any Linux 5.8+ with BTF - Monitors Docker/Kubernetes containers - Exports to Prometheus - Apache 2.0 license

Still rough around the edges. Actively working on it.

Would love to know: - What kinds of failures do you wish you could catch earlier? - Does this seem useful for your setup?

GitHub: https://github.com/linnix-os/linnix

Happy to answer questions about how it works.
by Krishan_28 | 2025-11-11 13:00:40+00:00
It’s the end of an era. Buffett’s decision to “go quiet” marks a graceful handoff after decades of unmatched transparency and wisdom in business. Greg Abel stepping in feels right—steady, disciplined, and already trusted. Still, it’s hard to imagine a Berkshire meeting without Warren’s humor and plain talk. Thanksgiving letters sound like a fitting encore.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-11 13:01:35+00:00
I don't totally disagree but there is large part of the US military machine that the point of war is to deplete the weapons inventory so that we need to replenish the inventory.

If you take that as a large variable then all the US wars of a last 50 years were mission accomplished.

I don't see the point in judging the wars from the obvious sideshows of "spreading democracy" or something of that nature.
by myaccountonhn | 2025-11-11 13:01:51+00:00
I think much of what the BSDs offers can be achieved with Linux (and hardened Linux is probably just as secure), but it can be a lot more work and there is less guidance.

Locking down an Openbsd system is quite easy for example as it tries to have sane defaults. I find myself more in the dark with Linux.

Installing zfs on Linux is possible, but again can be a lot of work and it doesn't cleanly integrate with containers the same way zfs integrates with jails on Freebsd.
by port11 | 2025-11-11 13:01:57+00:00
I couldn't open their X because it's a technological abomination, but their Bluesky doesn't paint the image of a blatantly left-wing and super partisan channel that willingly ignores reporting on the public sector.

Amongst the top 10 things I saw them complaining about a state government, public regulators not doing their job well… it's not dramatic.

Maybe it's my European lens indeed, but it seems like a generic centrist media outlet, with maybe an anti-elites edge, which I'd expect from the Fourth Estate.
by mkrd | 2025-11-11 13:02:13+00:00
Working on a budgeting app which uses interactive sankey diagrams.

https://budgetflow.cc

It has some dynamic features like sending excess cash or taking missing cash from somewhere else, making it quite useful.

Also, you can connect with our partner or flatmates for shared budgets.

I am actively using it myself together with my girlfriend, and adding new stuff as our demands for budgeting become more elaborate!
by nilirl | 2025-11-11 13:02:13+00:00
I wouldn't jump to call it a trick, but I agree, the author sacrificed too much clarity in a try for efficiency.

The author set up an interesting analogy but failed to explore where it breaks down or how all the relationships work in the model.

My inference about the author's meaning was such: In a sharp peak, searching for useful moves is harder because you have fewer acceptable options as you approach the peak.
by pnt12 | 2025-11-11 13:03:11+00:00
I'd say more likely, their UK presence. There's an increasing gap between UK and the rest of Europe, wider than other non-EU members such as Switzerland.

I see Switzerland as a country that wants complete independence, but sees value in cooperating with other countries, and does so. UK seems like on the path to becoming an authoritarian hellscape and won't allow any other country to stop its degradation.
by lewiscollard | 2025-11-11 13:03:17+00:00
I was on Mastodon for three years. I deleted my account. When I found out that Charlie Kirk was murdered, my second thought was "well, best create yet another filter on Mastodon so I don't have to watch people celebrate Charlie Kirk being murdered" and when I caught myself having that thought I realised that being on Mastodon was a net negative for my wellbeing.

(I didn't like the guy either, by the way, or at least I knew enough about him that I knew I have much better things to do than listen to him. There are more than a few people like that, all of whom I wish find some peace in their hearts, and none of whom I wish to come to any harm.)

Mastodon is packed to the brim with literal psychopaths and people pretending to be psychopaths for imaginary Internet points. It is not an experience I suggest for anyone who is neither of those things.
Show HN: CyBox Security – Your Virtual Security Team for the AI Era
by Hayim_Gabay | 2025-11-11 13:03:23+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been building CyBox Security a platform that acts like a virtual security team for developers.

It combines multiple security scanners into one unified dashboard, covering SAST, SCA, IaC, and Secrets in a single workflow.

The idea came after seeing how many small dev teams and startups don’t have dedicated security staff, yet still need continuous scanning and clear remediation guidance. CyBox integrates with GitHub and stores only scan results (no source code).

It’s still early (MVP stage), but it already works, you can sign up, connect a repo, and see scan results in minutes.

Would love your feedback, use cases, and what matters most for you when using security tools.

Thanks
by torginus | 2025-11-11 13:03:25+00:00
Not in the sense I meant to make the comparison - Zig doesn't even pretend to do memory safety - if you don't free something manually it won't get freed - this is way worse level of safety than even what C++ with unique_ptr.

In contrast if Rust only ensured that a reference doesn't outlive the scope it's valid in (allocated and cleaned up via RAII), a lot of problems with Rust would go away, like you could have 2 mutable references pointing to the same thing - it'd still be leak free, but you could have data races, and would need some aliasing heuristics like you have in C.

Still most of the complaining of the borrow checker would go away. Imo this is an idea worth exploring in a language, but I'm sure doing this would upset Rust purists.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-11-11 13:04:21+00:00
If you still want/need cloud storage, but don't want to roll your own (with the warts that brings), Cryptomator is an excellent tool for source encrypting your data before uploading them.

It works transparently, and has clients for Mac/Windows as well as iOS/Android.

It's also open source, and "free" (IIRC there's a one time fee for the mobile client).

https://cryptomator.org/
by 8organicbits | 2025-11-11 13:04:25+00:00
I think Google has a general philosophy of the web that promotes crawlable HTML over other formats. I noticed recently that traditional job aggregators like XML job feeds, yet Google promotes JobSchema as an incompatible standard. So less that Chromium directs pagerank, and more that Google's genreral view of the web is HTML over XML. I hope JobSchema fails because it is harder to aggregate, unless you already index web pages at scale.

Although I don't have firm evidence, haven't worked at Google, and you likely know company dynamics better than I.
by bArray | 2025-11-11 13:04:37+00:00
> Operating at such low voltages introduces timing challenges, including potential setup time violations. Upbeat addresses these with a second key innovation: a proprietary Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) architecture. This system, which includes a patented special flip-flop design, can catch and correct setup time violations that may occur at near-threshold voltages. This allows for reliable operation without sacrificing efficiency gains.

Wouldn't it be simpler to initialise at a higher voltage and then bring down the voltage after stabilisation? Unless of course the errors are always occurring?
by port11 | 2025-11-11 13:06:21+00:00
I left Wordpress development in 2014 (I think?), and it's true that I always found it to be an abomination; but naturally so given it's a project with a long history.

That said: PHP isn't Wordpress. Honestly, look at a modern Symfony codebase. You'll find monads, functional programming, etc, at least that was my experience at the last PHP shop (in 2020).
by whizzter | 2025-11-11 13:06:23+00:00
100 metric tons is nothing really when it comes to trucking, logging trucks in Sweden are commonly hurling through down dirt roads at 70-80km/h with 70 ton loads (mostly limited to that because that's the maximum allowed weight without oversize escorts currently), the Finns are experimenting with 100 ton loads for logging purposes (for environmental reasons).

That's not even mentioning Australian road trains that seem to commonly pull around 150 tons with some being up to 200 tons (The load would be slightly spread out to more containers but still one truck-load).

Still, 400 million SD-cards is still a silly experiment.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-11 13:06:54+00:00
> More EU countries are going to follow and reach the same conclusion, especially now that Germany has set a legal precedence.

That's not how laws and regulations work in European or even EU countries. Courts/the legal system in Germany can not set legal precedents for other countries, and countries don't use legal precedents from other countries, as they obviously have different laws. It could be cited as an authority, but no one is obligated to follow that.

What could happen for example, would be that EU law is interpreted through the CJEU (Court of Justice of the European Union), and its rulings bind EU member states, but that's outside of what individual countries do.

Sidenote, I'm not a English native speaker, but I think it's "precedent", not "precedence", similar words but the first one is specifically what I think you meant.
by lintfordpickle | 2025-11-11 13:06:58+00:00
I found the article interesting, but I don't think I understand what is meant by 'Write Last, Read first' rule - even after reading it a few times. It seems to be too ambiguous a statement to be helpful.

Under the section 'Order of Operations':

> "Since the system of reference doesn’t determine existence, we can safely write to it first without committing anything. [...]"

Then the next paragraph

> "This principle—Write Last, Read First—ensures that we maintain application level consistency."

What I think it means is, 'writing-last to the system-of-record' and 'a read-first from the system of record' yields authoritative results, but I don't get that just from the title. Is my understanding correct?
by estebarb | 2025-11-11 13:07:27+00:00
However, the lyrics are shown because the user requested them, shouldn't be the user be liable instead? The same way social networks are not liable for content uploaded by users? I think here there is a somewhat double standard.

Of course, maybe OpenAI et al should have get a license before training on the lyrics or to avoid training on copyrighted content. But the first would be expensive and the latter would require them to develop actual intelligence.