MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by Sol- | 2025-11-02 06:42:12+00:00
I remember the book "Algorithms to Live By" actually also uses finding a life partner as a fun, if perhaps unrealistic, example of applying the secretary problem.

As far as I remember, it jokingly assumes that one's active dating period might be ages 20-40 and then applying the optimal solution from the secretary problem means that you should calibrate your expectations until age 27 (assuming regular dating of course) and then immediately marry the next best person that exceeds this threshold.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-02 06:42:57+00:00
> Phew, this post single handedly made me feel old this morning.

I hear you!

For me though, it made me feel old for a different reason

I had first developed webapps in the late 90s (96 onwards) using cgi-bin, perl, etc. My first webapp, done for money, was something similar to MRTG.

At some point in the last almost-30-years) I had actually used this API! I have, however, forgotten all about it and was only reminded of it with this post.

So, yeah, I feel old because I can legitimately say to many modern web-devs that "I've forgotten more about web dev than you you currently know" :-)
by yawpitch | 2025-11-02 06:43:26+00:00
> And in the world's storied history of inventing mad, cruel, and deeply stupid religions, this new one might be the cruelest, the most dangerous, and the stupidest religion of all.

I mean, you might win on stupidest, but there’s at least a few genocides to go before we’re even starting towards the other two reach goals.
by whatthesmack | 2025-11-02 06:44:32+00:00
> At least Grokipedia tries to look like it was written with the intent to inform, not spoonfeed an opinion.

In addition, Grokipedia isn't encumbered by a Perennial Sources List[0] whose "generally reliable" section consists entirely of center and/or center-left media sources, and seems to be entirely purposed for gatekeeping.

The web site of the US television news network with by far the most viewership (Fox) was moved from "generally reliable" to "marginally reliable" for scientific and political claims, while MSNBC and CNN remain "generally reliable". This fact is laughable, considering MSNBC and CNN's mutual refusal to report on things like the Arctic Frost[1] (currently) and Hunter Biden laptop[2] (historically) conspiracies initiated under the Biden administration. Fox reported on both, but is not allowed as a source despite being the only major news network to not suppress the stories.

When an "encyclopedia" only allows unrestricted use of sources that fail to report information on notable news (such as conspiracies that are more far-reaching than Watergate), the encyclopedia will become less used by people because they no longer trust its new organizational and editorial biases.

Some folks, including myself, rarely reference Wikipedia anymore, because it often doesn't have the information being researched, and even if it does, we can't be sure we're getting very much (or any!) of the full story. This is broadly demonstrated by Wikipedia's constant decline in traffic from 2022 (~165M visits/day) through the present (~128M visits/day)[3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_sources_list [1] https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/new-jack-... [2] https://grokipedia.com/page/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controversy [3] https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2025-exploring-tren...
by deathanatos | 2025-11-02 06:47:22+00:00
This makes me think of two things:

1. the NATO alphabet. (Alfa, bravo, charlie, delta…) It's surprisingly easy to memorize: it will only take you a few sittings of practice. And it's useful, for when you need to turn letters into words. And then people cutely wonder if you're ex-military.

2. I tie a small ribbon to my luggage. It could be anything: string, tinsel. If you're familiar with wine glass charms, same idea. It makes the bag identifiable from distance, so long as the charm is in line of sight. It does not, remarkably, stop strangers from grabbing the wrong bag, but it does get funny if they insist they recognize their bag when you ask them "you tied sparkly pink ribbon to your bag?"
by utopiah | 2025-11-02 06:50:48+00:00
"Yes, it works, and does so as effectively as Anubis, while not bothering your visitors with a 10-second page load time."

Cool... but I guess now we need a benchmark for such solutions. I don't know the author, I roughly know the problem (as I self host and most of my traffic now comes from AI scrapper bots, not the usual indexing bots or, mind you, humans) but when they are numerous solutions to a multi-dimensional problem I need a common way to compare them.

Yet another solution is always welcomed but without being able to efficiently compare it doesn't help me to pick the right one for me.
by Panzerschrek | 2025-11-02 06:51:04+00:00
For several years I have written a dedicated compiler for regular expressions. You basically pass a regular expression and get an object file containing optimized matching code. It uses LLVM library internally to perform optimizations and machine code generation. It should be generally faster to compile compared to solutions involving constexpr-based metaprogramming.

I am surprised, that there is no programming language doing similar stuff - having regular expressions which are compiled as native code instead of just using a runtime library like PCRE2. Implementing this in C++ or Rust should be relatively easy.
by petesergeant | 2025-11-02 06:51:38+00:00
about 30 years ago I read the same thing, but I found that code much easier because it rhymed with the numbers:

1, bone; 2, shoe; 3, tree; 4, door; 5, hive; 6, sticks; 7, heaven; 8, gate; 9, line; 0, hero.
by Razengan | 2025-11-02 06:52:04+00:00
I did ask the AI first, about some things that I already knew how to do.

It gave me horribly inefficient or long-winded ways of doing it. In the time it took for "prompt tuning" I could have just written the damn code myself. It decreased the confidence for anything else it suggested about things I didn't already know about.

Claude still sometimes insists that iOS 26 isn't out yet. sigh.. I suppose I just have to treat it as an occasional alternative to Google/StackOverflow/Reddit for now. No way would I trust it to write an entire class let alone an app and be able to sleep at night (not that I sleep at night, but that's besides the point)

I think I prefer Xcode's built-in local model approach better, where it just offers sane autocompletions based on your existing code. e.g. if you already wrote a Dog class it can make a Cat class and change `bark()` to `meow()`
by heavyset_go | 2025-11-02 06:52:17+00:00
I felt this way as well, then I tried paid models against a well-defined and documented protocol that should not only exist in its training set, but was also provided as context. There wasn't a model that wouldn't hallucinate small, but important, details. Status codes, methods, data types, you name it, it would make something up in ways that forced you to cross reference the documentation anyway.

Even worse, the model you let it build in your head of the space it describes can lead to chains of incorrect reasoning that waste time and make debugging Sisyphean.

Like there is some value there, but I wonder how much of it is just (my own) feelings, and whether I'm correctly accounting for the fact that I'm being confidently lied to by a damn computer on a regular basis.
by daniel_iversen | 2025-11-02 06:53:30+00:00
What is NOT their angle; ads, UGC, entertainment experience (algo etc), Metaverse and gaming, communication (WhatsApp, insta etc) and I’m sure they’ll take advantage anything that’s close to their core areas of interest or anything else big. AI is definitely the tide that lifts all boats but if you’re one of the top 5 tech companies in the world then the prize is incredibly large and not yet known.
by ux266478 | 2025-11-02 06:55:43+00:00
> Why does the law of supply and demand not apply to housing?

Who said it doesn't? How well do you understand the law of supply and demand when you don't know what a price floor is? Ignoring that, do you think someone on the street can afford even a $1000 home? That's before we set aside that this of course only works if the houses being built are being done in a way that actively encourages prices to go down, rather than feed real estate speculation and continue to float a culture that sees a home as a capital asset.

So no. Building houses alone does not solve homelessness, again as evidenced by the fact that houses are built all the time in America, and homelessness is not getting better. How did you miss that?
by rpcope1 | 2025-11-02 06:55:57+00:00
I guess we're going to let AT&T, Verizon and everyone else just squat the entire spectrum. "5G" and the pillaging and theft of spectrum that seems to just sit idle anyways has been such a scam. If they wanted innovation there should be more ISM bands and less dependence being encouraged on wireless providers for "Internet access" as opposed to just biting the bullet and running more fiber and copper. But that would be bad for Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T's bottom line so obviously we can't do that.
by Seattle3503 | 2025-11-02 06:56:30+00:00
People come to dating apps for all sorts of reasons, and with different levels of investment. Pretty much every woman I know who has used a dating app has said she has gone on a dating app to alleviate boredom. That's probably not fun for the person on the other end if they are actually trying to find a partner.

If someone shows up to a speed dating event, that indicates minimum level of investment in the interaction.
by throwaway290 | 2025-11-02 06:56:34+00:00
> it’s irrelevant to the topic of electronic passport credentials

Maybe for some people when they say passport they mean ID.

> the pervasive surveillance is being done at the backend

You need to get data for it to work. Like with LLMs no data = it doesn't work.

OCR on numberplate is getting data. If it was a human identifying these plates there would not be any controversy because it would not scale for total surveillance. But flock means it's done constantly and without most people even knowing and if they knew they would protest.

Checking ID is also getting data. Ability to check ID quickly and automatically means checking ID can be done more and in ways people don't even notice.
by utopiah | 2025-11-02 06:56:39+00:00
> increasingly, they are running JS.

I mean they have access to a mind-blowing amount of computing resources so to they using a fraction of that to improve the quality of the data because they have this fundamental belief (because it's convenient for their situation) that scale is everything, why not use JS too. Heck if they have to run on a container full a browser, not even headless, they will.
by lukan | 2025-11-02 06:58:00+00:00
In the guidelines there is an emphasis on curious debate. Also about political things, but those tend to be more controversial, so are avoided by default.

Do you understand that point? Political debate is discouraged here by design.

So the reason you won't find so much about this concrete ICE issue is simply that this type of debate is not welcome in general and does not say anything about "HN" communities position.

Second thing is, there is no such thing as "HN mind".

You can extrapolate some averages, but .. I for example ain't even from the US.

"opinions questioning the legal doctrine or legitimacy of civil regulation are anything other than an occasional rounding errors when the subject is any sort of regulation"

And from radical anarcho anarchists to radical communists, I have read all sorts of opinions here.

Lastly, the guidelines strongly advice against debating in a "engaged mind". Meaning, you sound a bit emotional and aggressive. I perceive that as attacking .. and my default mode would answer in a different way and we would be in a flamewar situation. (Despite we likely agree on the political side of things here)
by ori_b | 2025-11-02 06:58:19+00:00
I don't use calculators for most math because punching it in is slower than doing it in my head -- especially for fermi calculations. I will reach for a calculator when it makes sense, but because I don't use a calculator for everything, the number of places where I'm faster than a calculator grows over time. It's not particularly intentional, it just shook out that way.

And I hated mental math exercises as a kid.
by jsnell | 2025-11-02 06:59:17+00:00
That is not a productive way of thinking about it, because it will lead you to the conclusion that all you need is a smarter proof of work algorithm. One that's GPU-resistant, ASIC-resistant, and native code resistant. That's not the case.

Proof of work can't function as a counter-abuse challenge even if you assume that the attackers have no advantage over the legitimate users (e.g. both are running exactly the same JS implementation of the challenge). The economics just can't work. The core problem is that the attackers pay in CPU time, which is fungible and incredibly cheap, while the real users pay in user-observable latency which is hellishly expensive.
by utopiah | 2025-11-02 07:00:20+00:00
> What's Meta's AI product?

They have several actually, from computer vision in glasses (RayBan or Quest) to Speech To Text to get commands on such glasses, to "improved" translation via LLMs, to just chat bots in most of their chat solutions. They do integrate into products, it's not just research.

Is it good? No idea as I don't use them but I believe their angle is literally what Zuckerberg said publicly, roughly "Can't miss AI if it's real! Have to be first." which isn't exactly a very deep strategy but they have deep pockets.
by Scoundreller | 2025-11-02 07:00:33+00:00
> But many appliances like the fridge have low average consumption but high peak consumption

You need an “inverter drive” fridge. It’s effectively soft-start and stays on continuously instead of justt a binary on/off.

Many options available at the consumer level.

Dunno if it gets angry if it senses that it’s browning out its own circuit or just reduces its draw (vs increasing current draw). But does mean it can dial up and down its draw on a continuous basis.
by yawpitch | 2025-11-02 07:03:18+00:00
“Islam probably” is inherently racist, just as “Jews probably” was back in the ‘30s, the last time the era of “don’t be racist” was fucking over.

But, yeah, would-be Fascists jumping to “Islam probably” whenever there’s a crime in the UK has been happening lately… often in places like Doncaster.
by anon291 | 2025-11-02 07:03:24+00:00
People in other countries starve because the people in charge of them are evil not because the people with resources lack benevolence. If you've ever tried to do charity in a foreign country with a foreign culture and language you would be aware of the issues. No amount of outside money in the world could fix these problems. In fact they will make it worse. People need to grow up.

In the United States, starvation doesn't exist so we've expanded the definition to include more people because we really care to feed people. If you've been to countries where actual starvation is a possibility, you'd understand. So tired of this self hating unaware self flagellation.
by rf15 | 2025-11-02 07:05:00+00:00
An anecdote: I easily remember short-ish (pins, phone numbers) number combinations, learn completely new alphabets of new languages easily enough, just like their words, but I struggle to learn the NATO alphabet: the words have no meaning and I don't perceive them as atomic enough like a letter or number is, so it mostly looks like a large amount of random noise to me, like having to learn pi to 100 digits.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-11-02 07:07:14+00:00
Here, find the “null result” in this study by the Android team - Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source (https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s...). They stopped adding new memory unsafe code and they saw a dramatic drop in the number of memory safety vulnerabilities. They only write new code in Kotlin or Rust now.

The Android team shipped a more secure operating system to billions of people. Their lives are better because of choosing more Rust and Kotlin and less C++.

> You can't write a device driver without manipulating memory directly.

This isn’t the gotcha you think it is. Check out this upstreamed driver - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

This is a successful kernel driver that powers all IPC in Android. This is the most load bearing component in Android, especially because it is constantly being attacked by malware. It manipulates memory just fine actually.

In your hurry to dismiss Rust, you haven’t done a technical evaluation of it. If you had you wouldn’t conflate memory safety with a lack of memory manipulation. You’ve taken the intellectually lazy shortcut of dismissing a new thing because no new thing can be as good as the old things.

I write all this not to convince you to change your mind. I don’t think that’s possible. I write it so anyone else reading this will avoid your thought process. I don’t need to convince you, because this industry is moving ahead regardless.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-11-02 07:08:01+00:00
I think Zuckerberg understands something that most people on this forum seem to not understand at all.

Facebook, Instagram, etc... these are all only valuable as network effect monopolies.

Investment into AI can torch billions of dollars and still be worthwhile so long as it's done in the service of protecting those monopolies, because LLMs are both intrinsically threatening to Meta's existence and intriniscally valuable for building better recommender systems when platform monopolists like Apple add privacy protections (cutting Meta off from the data spigot that powers its revenue streams).

Once AIs with no wallets outnumber humans on Facebook, Meta has an existential problem. There is no way to avoid the inevitable, the best one can do is embrace it, and 25 billion is nothing compared to losing your platform.
by ianpenney | 2025-11-02 07:09:47+00:00
Article leans heavily towards American social norms which are so far from global norms because it treats the U.S. model of dating (apps, atomized urban life, and market logic) as universal, ignoring that in much of the world relationships still form through family, community, or social context rather than algorithmic matchmaking. It’s a very “Silicon Valley is the world” kind of framing.

For example a lot of communities in Canada just don’t work like this. Highly incompatible with this kind of social network, mostly due to the pre existing real social fabric.

And: shout out to Max and Chris because they really got it with OKC in the beginning, which this article doesn’t seem to say anything about other than just to name drop.
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by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-02 07:10:45+00:00
The NATO alphabet is an uncanny intersection of being highly memorable and having carefully engineered properties across several dimensions. Whoever designed it did a brilliant job.

It is sticky as hell and surprisingly useful. I do assume that people who know it are ex-military but that isn’t entirely reliable in the US. A lot of other people picked it up, in part because it is so easy to learn by osmosis.
by anon291 | 2025-11-02 07:10:50+00:00
Yeah America has no ability to colonize other countries. We are not unified enough as a culture to do that. Look at the debacle of Afghanistan.

Like right now there is starvation in Nigeria because Islamofascists from the north are hunting Christians in the south. Exactly how will any amount of American money convince religious zealots to stop being zealots? If anything, a large influx of money from infidels will just make the clerics claim that their victims are foreign operatives. There is nothing we can do other than pray or stage a full scale military invasion. At that point we can either choose to fully administer the place (unsustainable) or we would have to destroy the apparatus that made the situation possible, which is going to look a helluva lot like a genocide. An impossible situation and only one of many across the globe.
by spookie | 2025-11-02 07:10:59+00:00
Using Steam as a benchmark for Mac users will always result in lower percentages, as Apple has a more established gaming hub / store themselves.

For example, this game is on Apple Store (for Mac)⋮

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/resident-evil-village-for-mac/...

Not on Steam:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1196590/discussions/0/3484123...

Same happens with Ubisoft titles.

But, regarding the source, here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

I do agree the way these are gathered is not perfect. But closer to reality, or would you assume Mac presence in lower than Linux?