MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by f1shy | 2025-12-20 14:40:59+00:00
>> Is the castle made in the US? Why cut it off at precisely that point?

Because I was talking about this “internet was invented in CERN”, which is just not a little bit true

About the rest: So what?! Thanks Thanks Europe and Europeans!! We just killed 6 Mio. Judes and burned people in the middle ages… but wait. We invented the Web!!! And we can forget everything that came from Asia and middle East also. All is our merit!!! Again, my point is it is stupid to say some country invented X.

What kind of cheap chauvinism is that? Please give me a break. Many things where invented everywhere in the world, and I could not care less, because that will not make me better or worse because of being part of a country which borders were defined not 100 years ago.

The starting point of this thread in HN is about starting to develop some kind of digital independence, because frankly, the EU may have GDPR, but in everything else is much worse and stuck like 5 decades ago.
by grepfru_it | 2025-12-20 14:42:02+00:00
Residents and some businesses of Boulder have been without power since Tuesday. There was an issue about 10 years ago which caused 1000 homes to burn down and the power company was found liable. They change their actions. Then during the next high wind event, the power company preemptively cut power and businesses sued them for loss of revenue. Now the power company is playing it safe and turning off power to residents and keeping downtown businesses powered.

Maybe their generator failing was DOGE related, but wouldn’t have happened if state level shenanigans were better handled
by like_any_other | 2025-12-20 14:42:19+00:00
> A joke they told is now evidence of a thoughtcrime. Suddenly, for the first time, they have something to hide.

That's a decent list, but the real list is even broader. Are you a lawyer litigating against a multinational company? Or planning to? Imagine if the company knew exactly who you, and every potential litigant, talked to. Or maybe you're trying to start a new political party. Or looking for a new job without alerting your employer. There were stories (unfortunately I can't find them at the moment) of nurses getting worse salary offers if they were in debt, on the logic that the desperate will settle for less. DoorDash would steal tips and use them to pay salary [1], something impossible with private, cash-based tips. And retailers will use every bit of data they have on you to price discriminate (without telling you, of course) [2].

Surveillance harms you in every way, from the most significant to the most trivial. You're always better off hiding, even if you think you don't have to. Knowledge is power, and knowledge of you is power over you.

[1] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/25/doordash-sett...

[2] https://spyboy.blog/2024/11/24/unfair-pricing-tactics-target...
by djdishsv | 2025-12-20 14:42:29+00:00
> smart, intelligent person gives opinion

> woah buddy this persons opinion isn’t worth anything more than a random homeless person off the street. they’re not an expert in this field

Is there a term for this kind of pedantry? Obviously we can put more weight behind the words a person says if they’ve proven themselves trustworthy in prior areas - and we should! We want all people to speak and let the best idea win. If we fallback to only expert opinions are allowed that’s asking to get exploited. And it’s also important to know if antirez feels comfortable spouting nonsense.

This is like a basic cornerstone of a functioning society. Though, I realize this “no man is innately better than another, evaluate on merit” is mostly a western concept which might be some of my confusion.
by runtimepanic | 2025-12-20 14:43:56+00:00
That’s fair. I mostly stick with Burp because I’m very familiar with its workflows and tooling, and that familiarity matters a lot in day-to-day work. That said, I genuinely appreciate having credible competitors to Burp. New tools entering the space tend to challenge long-standing assumptions, especially around UX and ergonomics, and that pressure usually benefits everyone. Even if I don’t switch immediately, competition is healthy and often the reason established tools keep improving.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-12-20 14:44:37+00:00
Well, I think the hair color would’ve been on the census if it was something people had a preference for which is a prerequisite for building such plans.

All I’m trying to say is that the amount of information being collected for each person can be used very nefariously and targeted as individuals we wouldn’t have any chance to resist this dystopian future.
by joshstrange | 2025-12-20 14:45:19+00:00
I’d be (genuinely) interested to hear from people who think this will help. In my mind, if the JSON isn’t valid I wouldn’t trust a “healed” version of it to be correct either. I mean, I guess you just do schema validation on your end and so maybe fixing a missing comma/brace/etc is actually really helpful. I’ve not done JSON generation at scale to know.
by ecosystem | 2025-12-20 14:45:25+00:00
The legit criticism with a legit recommended change is even better.

A time and technological gap always exists between theory and a plan for experimental confirmation. Some gaps are fairly short. String theory's gap is undoubtedly long, not for lack of resources.

This gap justifies tapering the allocation of attention and research resources (funding, students, etc), which got lopsided following the strong marketing campaign driven by Greene.
by staticassertion | 2025-12-20 14:45:40+00:00
I'm not sure I understand.

edit: That is, your phishing approach would work regardless, in my opinion. If your main site is `mycompany.com` then don't be surprised to see phishers sending `my-company.com` etc.

Also, you can host our content on a separate domain while still having users visit the same domain.
by bachmeier | 2025-12-20 14:46:04+00:00
> Programmers resistance to AI assisted programming has lowered considerably. Even if LLMs make mistakes, the ability of LLMs to deliver useful code and hints improved to the point most skeptics started to use LLMs anyway: now the return on the investment is acceptable for many more folks.

I'm not a fan of this phrasing. Use of the terms "resistance" and "skeptics" implies they were wrong. It's important we don't engage in revisionist history that allows people in the future to say "Look at the irrational fear programmers had of AI, which turned out to be wrong!" The change occurred because LLMs are useful for programming in 2025 and the earliest versions weren't for most programmers. It was the technology that changed.
by ghqqwwee | 2025-12-20 14:46:47+00:00
I’m a bit disappointed the article doesn’t mention Aerospike. It’s not a rdbms but a kvdb commonly used in adtech, and extremely performant on that use case. Anyway, it’s actually designed for ssds, which makes it possible to persist all writes even when the nic is saturated with write operations. Of course the aggregated bandwidth of the attached ssd hardware needs to be faster than the throughput of the nic, but not much, there’s very little overhead in the software.
by runtimepanic | 2025-12-20 14:46:50+00:00
Cloudflare Radar is always interesting to skim, but I tend to read these reports as much as a reflection of Cloudflare’s vantage point as of “the Internet” itself. That said, having consistent longitudinal data from the same infrastructure over time is still valuable, especially for spotting trends rather than absolute numbers. I’d be curious how much of the observed shifts are driven by real changes versus traffic reclassification, new customers, or changes in mitigation policies year over year.
by tejohnso | 2025-12-20 14:47:01+00:00
But we've discovered a number of useful tools and techniques that are applicable to other areas of research have we not? The billions of dollars spent on string theory hype might have unlocked a strategy or technique that ends up being useful in a civilization changing way that we just don't know about yet. Maybe string theory and the hype it was able to generate was just the catalyst that we needed.
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-20 14:48:10+00:00
Sure. My point is mostly that the problem is less that your safety guarantees rely on correct implementations (since that applies to all "safe" systems as long as we're running on unsafe hardware) and more that the trusted codebase tends to be quite a bit larger for (current?) Rust compared to Fil-C/formal verification tools. There are efforts to improve the situation there, but it'll take time.

Does make me wonder how easy porting Fil-C to Rust/Zig/etc. would be. IIRC most of the work is done via LLVM pass(es?) and changes to frontends were relatively minor, so it might be an interesting alternative to MIRI/ASan.
by tpoindex | 2025-12-20 14:48:50+00:00
For more background on the Marshal Fire of Dec. 2021: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Fire

tl;dr - the fire destroyed over 1,000 homes, two deaths. The local electrical utility, Xcel, was found as a contributing cause from sparking power lines during a strong wind storm. As a result, electrical utilities now cut power to affected areas during strong winds.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-12-20 14:49:18+00:00
Interesting interview that lifts the curtain, a tiny bit, on the development of Gemini, and the views of the DeepMind team.

Matt Turck seems to have a good sense of what areas Sebastian may be able to talk about, and what not, with one off-the-table area evidentially being training on synthetic reasoning traces, which must be an area of active research and differentiation.
by astra90 | 2025-12-20 14:49:36+00:00
I think Skills could turn into something like open source libraries: standardized solutions to common problems, often written by experts.

Imagine having Skills available that implements authentication systems, multi-tenancy, etc.. in your codebase without having to know all the details about how to do this securely and correctly. This would probably boost code quality a lot and prevent insecure/buggy vibe coded products.
by james-bcn | 2025-12-20 14:50:53+00:00
You can do this kind of thing in Apple Keynote. It's one of those powerful features that you find in Apple software but for some reason they keep hidden.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/keynote/tane2b2f4354/m...

You can use "Magic move" to do the kind of stuff that Immersa is doing.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-20 14:51:01+00:00
These costs you are referencing are training/R&D costs. Take those largely away, and you are left with inference costs, which are dirt cheap.

Now you have a world of people who have become accustomed to using AI for tons of different things, and the enshittification starts ramping up, and you find out how much people are willing to pay for their ChatGPT therapist.
by skybrian | 2025-12-20 14:51:23+00:00
For me, that’s kind of the point. It’s similar to how the characters in a novel don’t really exist, and yet you can’t really discuss what happens in a novel without pretending that they do. It doesn’t really make sense to treat the author’s motivations and each character’s motivations as the same.

Similarly, we’re all talking to ghosts now, which aren’t real, and yet there is something there that we can talk about. There are obvious behavioral differences depending on what persona the LLM is generating text for.

I also like the hint of danger in “talking to ghosts.” It’s difficult to see how a rational adult could be in any danger from just talking, but I believe the news reports that some people who get too deep into it get “possessed.”
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-12-20 14:52:22+00:00
> Key infra (gov, utilities, news etc) has to be in house or at least in a EU country.

For some EU functionalities there is eu-lisa which develops and hosts services - mostly for police, immigration, biometrics and a slew of others.

The problem is that they are very closed environments with a lot if bureaucracy involved and the development is done at snail pace.
by ecosystem | 2025-12-20 14:53:48+00:00
Non-Euclidean geometry (geometric axioms in which one postulate is rejected such that the 3 angles of a triangle are not exactly 180 degrees) was considered a meaningless word game and fundamental mistruth.

Later, non-Euclidean geometry was actually essential to modern physics.

It's intellectually sketchy to judge future value by the present.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-20 14:53:57+00:00
Yes I agree but there was always this fear I had/still have that if abuse gets too much, some providers might be unwilling to give proper support

This is why honestly I had been talking to more indie cloud providers and realized the whole space of low-endtalk and I think that a good compromise to the whole situation is as if I can rent servers but they can realize that at the end of the day, I am an indie solution myself and this is something which in my opinion is only possible with either large but specific cloud providers (fwiw upcloud although they blocked my account because I hadnt added card details or similar supports it and mostly small cloud providers support it)
by techblueberry | 2025-12-20 14:54:05+00:00
1. Interesting she assumes this comes from a progressive space. Religious and parental freedom are often right-wing coded.

2. I’d be fine with banning all medically unnecessary surgery for minors. If boys want to be circumsized, they can make that choice when they turn 18. But…

3. This is a medical journal. One thing I really hate is ethicists who are willing to turn a blind eye to realities on the ground in favor of moral certainty. I don’t want victims of FGM dying because people are afraid to take them to a hospital when something goes wrong.
by throw0101c | 2025-12-20 14:54:07+00:00
> technically if you have 3 or more sources that would be caught; NTP protocol was designed for that eventuality

Either go with one clock in your NTPd/Chrony configuration, or ≥4.

Yes, if you have 3 they can triangulate, but if one goes offline now you have 2 with no tie-breaker. If you have (at least) 4 servers, then one can go away and triangulation / sanity-checking can still occur with the 3 remaining.
by greenavocado | 2025-12-20 14:54:37+00:00
Planck energy: ~10^19 GeV is approx 2 GJ per collision

Energy to vaporize Earth's oceans: ~4 x 10^27 J

For a Planck-scale linear collider at LHC-like collision rates (~10^8/sec):

Beam power requirement: ~2 x 10^17 W

With realistic wall-plug efficiency of ~1%: ~2 x 10^19 W

Annual energy consumption: ~6 x 10^26 J

At 1% efficiency, one year of operation would:

Vaporize about 15% of Earth's oceans

Or vaporize the Mediterranean Sea roughly 50 times

Or boil Lake Superior every 5 hours

Or one complete ocean vaporization every 6-7 years of operation

It's about 1 million times current global power consumption

Or about 50,000 Suns running continuously

Or 170 billion Large Hadron Colliders operating simultaneously
by softwaredoug | 2025-12-20 14:55:10+00:00
I used to care more about the in-community rules for question asking. I totally got it - they want to curate high value question answer pairs. In the old regime this was the best way for the right answer to a question to be on Google.

Now, the rare times I've asked a question, I've violate some rule I've forgotten. Or that's new (they're SO AI allergic).

Reddit, interestingly, has continued to thrive. I think in party because its still largely fun and there are literally millions of communities.

Stackoverflow once benefited from its pedantry, now there's not much value in such pedantry, and its just not a fun place to hang out.
by kbolino | 2025-12-20 14:55:12+00:00
I interpret this as asking "why can't you get the address of a value in a map?"

There are two reasons, and we could also ask "why can't you get the address of a key in a map?"

The first reason is flexibility in implementation. Maps are fairly opaque, their implementation details are some of the least exposed in the language (see also: channels), and this is done on purpose to discourage users of the language from mucking with the internals and thus making it harder for the developers of the language to change them. Denying access to internal pointers makes it a lot easier to change the implementation of a map.

The second reason is that most ways of implementing a map move the value around copiously. Supposing you could get a pointer p := &m[k] for some map m and key k, what would it even point to? Just the value position of a slot in a hash table. If you do delete(m, k) now what does it point to? If you assign m[k2] but hash(k2) == hash(k) and the map handles the collision by picking a new slot for k, now what does it point to? And eventually you may assign so many keys that the old hash table is too small and so a new one somewhere else in memory has to be allocated, leaving the pointer dangling.

While the above also apply to pointers-to-keys, there is another reason you can't get one of those: if you mutated the key, you would (with high probability) violate the core invariant of a hash table, namely that the slot for an entry is determined exactly by the hash of its key. The exact consequences of violating this would depend on the specific implementation, but they are mostly quite bad.

For comparison, Rust, with its strong control over mutability and lifetimes, can give you safe references to the entries of a HashMap in a way Go cannot.
by faidit | 2025-12-20 14:56:47+00:00
The Discord anecdote and the reactions your post got reminded me of something from this: https://www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/what-you-can-learn-...

"text-only conversations are toxic"

..such has been my takeaway from a lot of online discussions, unfortunately. But I feel like it wasn't always like this? My reminiscences of being a kid on IRC was that people used to be nicer when chatting or posting. I feel like software communities used to be more wholesome too, even though there were BOFH types running rampant back then. There's just so much nastiness now. Text discussion platforms like Discord often feel like walking into an animal shelter and a bunch of abused stray dogs begin viciously barking at you from their cages like they want to rip you to pieces. Even though you know they wouldn't talk like to someone like that IRL, just like the barking dog might wag its tail and beg for affection if it was let out. Maybe it's just a reflection of how society has changed/broken and how angry everybody is. And in terms of FOSS how burnt-out people are which you talked about. Looking back, 9/11 was the beginning of a slow descent into Zhang Xianzhong-style "Kill kill kill kill kill kill kill" mode IMO. I really feel there's some kind of social decay going on around how we treat each other in addition to the perennial issues of privilege, gatekeeping behaviors etc.
by fxtentacle | 2025-12-20 14:57:38+00:00
I don’t think they can.

NVIDIA, like everyone else on a bleeding edge node, has hardware defects. The chance goes up massively with large chips like modern GPUs. So you try to produce B200 cores but some compute units are faulty. You fuse them off and now the chip is a GP102 gaming GPU.

The gaming market allows NVIDIA to still sell partially defective chips. There’s no reason to stop doing that. It would only reduce revenue without reducing costs.
by blaze33 | 2025-12-20 14:57:50+00:00
Ah nice to know! In my defense I only searched for the English version.

That being said, Robespierre was a key participant of 'La Terreur' where tens of thousands of people where hastily judged and executed and he himself ended up executed 4 months after that speech. [1]

[1] https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Discours_lors_de_la_s%C3%A9an... (French version)
by CraigJPerry | 2025-12-20 14:57:53+00:00
How does that work? Is that an open source solution like the ZCRX stuff with io uring or does it require proprietary hardware setups? I'm hopeful that the open source solutions today are competitive.

I was familiar with Solarflare and Mellanox zero copy setups in a previous fintech role, but at that time it all relied on black boxes (specifically out of tree kernel modules, delivered as blobs without DKMS or equivalent support, a real headache to live with) that didn't always work perfectly, it was pretty frustrating overall because the customer paying the bill (rightfully) had less than zero tolerance for performance fluctuations. And fluctuations were annoyingly common, despite my best efforts (dedicating a core to IRQ handling, bringing up the kernel masked to another core, then pinning the user space workloads to specific cores and stuff like that) It was quite an extreme setup, GPS disciplined oscillator with millimetre perfect antenna wiring for the NTP setup etc we built two identical setups one in Hong Kong and one in new york. Ah very good fun overall but frustrating because of stack immaturity at that time.
by ulfw | 2025-12-20 14:58:10+00:00
And yet you can buy a Tesla in China or an iPhone or any luxury bag or or or. Plenty of brands. It's not quite as black and white as people think.

What you're talking about is social networks/messengers/news which are limited not so much for competitive reasons but national security reasons. They like to control what people see which is something a Google, Meta or X cannot guarantee.

You can very much buy US software, e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/zh-cn/microsoft-365/buy/microsoft-... etc.

You can buy a Prada bag, a Ralph Lauren sweater, the newest iPhone or Mac, a Model Y, adidas or Nikes, Adobe Photoshop... etc etc
by trollbridge | 2025-12-20 14:59:18+00:00
Mine do, although I do use Cloudflare.

I've periodically removed Cloudflare because of issues with reissuing SSL certs, Cloudflare being down, and other reasons, and haven't noticed any problems.

The biggest benefit I get from Cloudflare is blocking scraper robots, which I've just been too lazy to figure out how to do myself.
by Lapel2742 | 2025-12-20 15:00:08+00:00
> He prefers education over bans or mandates.

And that is not working for the poor of which the US seems to have plenty for a developed country.

The poor have no choice, even if they are educated, and the food industry is fine with selling them garbage. It's legal to do so after all. AFAIK food is generally even cheaper in Europe than in the USA. Even with those regulations.
Show HN: Big Christmas Giveaway
by indest | 2025-12-20 15:00:31+00:00
Hi everyone,

Last giveaway of the year!

I wanted to wrap up 2025 by giving back to the community. It’s been a busy year for me as a solo developer; I managed to release two brand new titles and finally finished a massive consolidation update for my puzzle series.

If you are looking for something new to play over the holidays, I’d love to share some promo codes. Just let me know which game interests you!

The New 2025 Releases:

Trivia Player: This is for the hardcore trivia fans. I built this because I was tired of multiple-choice quizzes that hold your hand. This is authentic trivia—real-time chat battles where you have to actually type the answer. No luck, just pure knowledge.

Live Events: The game is live right now with a special "Merry Quizmas" event running all week. Also, mark your calendars for "Do You Remember 2025" starting on the 26th!

AI Movie Quiz: I used AI to generate unique, slightly twisted clips and images based on famous movies. You have to guess the film from the AI's "dream." It’s a surreal take on the classic movie quiz format.

The Big Update:

Subliminal Words: I spent a lot of time this year merging my other games (Subliminal Faces and Subliminal Football Quiz) into this one main game. It’s a visual puzzle game where words, faces, and objects are cleverly camouflaged in the image (think "Magic Eye" meets word search).

The Classics (Also available):

I also have codes left for my older arcade and puzzle games if you want to check out my back catalog:

- Palindrome - Dice Guess - Snackroach - Penalty 2D

Also Slopper!

How to get a code: Just mail me - indrekl[at]gmail.com which code do you want and I’ll send you a promo code while supplies last.

Happy Holidays!

(App Store): https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/indest/id1471549991 (Google Play): https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=703008591742725177...

regards,