MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jabr | 2025-12-04 08:39:49+00:00
There isn't a cli function for adding a connection (independently of adding a new machine/node) yet, but they are in a simple config file (`~/.config/uncloud/config.yaml`) that you can copy or easily create manually for now. It looks like this:

current_context: default contexts: default: connections: - ssh: admin@192.168.0.10 ssh_key_file: ~/.ssh/uncloud - ssh: admin@192.168.0.11 ssh_key_file: ~/.ssh/uncloud - ssh: administrator@93.x.x.x ssh_key_file: ~/.ssh/uncloud - ssh: sysadmin@65.x.x.x ssh_key_file: ~/.ssh/uncloud

And you really just need one entry for typical use. The subsequent entries are only used if the previous node(s) are down.
by phaser | 2025-12-04 08:40:02+00:00
Exciting idea! I see that it could happen in more than one way:

there is a simulation parameters file that we document openly[1]

it’s a no brainer for me to allow playing with a custom simulation file.

buildings are typescript types with hook-functions, making new ones is quite fun and easy and after adding sandboxing and safety it should be totally doable to plug in custom ones

also, the simulation is a websockets protocol, so the game client can connect to a totally custom simulation

however at this stage data types and names are changing too fast for practical modding

1. https://microlandia.city/simulation_parameters
by kevin061 | 2025-12-04 08:40:24+00:00
I have no doubt many of these companies will go bankrupt, but I wonder who will be first.

Google and Microsoft are pushing AI extremely heavily but they have other sources of revenue, whereas ChatGPT only has partnerships and subscribers. Are they profiting from their 200 USD tier? Because it seems quite obvious to me they are just bearing the brunt of free users by being loss leaders at the moment.
by bonesss | 2025-12-04 08:40:45+00:00
I see profits and outsourcing.

Selling an on-premise service requires customer support, engineering, and duplication of effort if you’re pushing to the cloud as well. Then you get the temptations and lock in of cloud-only tooling and an army of certified consultant drones whose resumes really really need time on AWS-doc-solution-2035, so the on premise becomes a constant weight on management.

SaaS and the cloud is great for some things some of the time, but often you’re just staring at the marketing playbook of MS or Amazon come to life like a golem.
by 0dd | 2025-12-04 08:41:36+00:00
A full technical analysis with PoC video:

https://oddguan.com/blog/anthropic-sandbox-cve-2025-66479/

1. Docs promised empty allowedDomains = no network access but Actually disabled all restrictions (macOS + Linux) 2. No CVE for Claude Code, Compare: React & Next.js both got CVEs for RSC issue
by gwn7 | 2025-12-04 08:43:07+00:00
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by ben_w | 2025-12-04 08:43:31+00:00
> Out of interest, was your intended answer "where you started, facing east"?

Or anything close to it so long as the logic is right, yes. I care about the reasoning failure, not the small difference between the exact quarter-circumferences of these great circles and 10,000km; (Not that it really matters, but now you've said the answer, this test becomes even less reliable than it already was).

> FWIW, Claude Opus 4.5 gets this right for me, assuming that is the intended answer.

Like I said, now the best ones sometimes don't [always get it wrong].

For me yesterday, Claude (albeit Sonnet 4.5, because my testing is cheap) avoided the south pole issue, but then got the third leg wrong and ended up at the north pole. A while back ChatGPT 5 (I looked the result up) got the answer right, yesterday GPT-5-thinking-mini (auto-selected by the system) got it wrong same way as you report on the south pole but then also got the equator wrong and ended up near the north pole.

"Never" to "unreliable success" is still an improvement.
by sandspar | 2025-12-04 08:45:06+00:00
You might want to look into workprints! They're versions of movies that are shown to test audiences, executives, or internal screeners. They're often pre-sound mixing, pre-editing, pre-VFX. So you get stuff like clip art explosions where later VFX will go, or bare production dialogue where you can hear the room echo and crew footsteps. They're super neat!
by aurareturn | 2025-12-04 08:46:35+00:00
PageRank wasn't that much better. It was better and the word spread. Google also had a very clean UI at a time where websites like Excite and Yahoo had super bloated pages.

That was the differentiation. What makes you think AI companies can't find moats similar to Google's? The right UX, the right model and a winner can race past everyone.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-04 08:46:58+00:00
> CachyOS is a performance-centric Arch Linux distribution designed to deliver a stable, efficient, and user-friendly computing environment. It offers the full power and flexibility of a rolling-release system, enhanced by advanced optimizations and a custom toolchain that streamlines the user experience for both new and experienced users.

This still doesn’t tell me “Why CachyOS”, unfortunately.
by BrenBarn | 2025-12-04 08:47:37+00:00
I guess if I imagine the ideal world, it would be that you report it to the authorities and they impose penalties on the offender that are large enough that the company winds up significantly worse off than if they had just grown more slowly. In other words the punishment for moving fast and breaking things needs to be bad enough to outweigh the gains of doing so.

In the current world, I dunno. I guess it depends on what the company is. If it's something like a hedge fund or a fossil fuel company I think I'd be fine with some kind of wikileaks-like avenue for exposing it in such a way that it results in the company being totally destroyed.
by eviks | 2025-12-04 08:48:38+00:00
> but a non-profit structure allows others to contribute financially without fear of misappropriation or misuse of funds (as protected by legal requirements and oversight from the fiscal sponsor).

None of the parenthesised provide any strong guarantees against these to alleviate such fears, are there not enough non-profits that misuse funds, say, on too high of an executive compensation instead of product development?
by hdgvhicv | 2025-12-04 08:49:19+00:00
It put up my taxes a little with the NI removal of pension contributions. It put my employers tax up a ton though.

The freezing of threshold just continued Tory policy.

While I’m annoyed the extra money has been given to those who don’t work, and marginal rates advice 60% still exist, I just see this as lost opportunity. They could have increased income tax and reduced NI, thus raising tax on non working people. But truth is all governments are beholden to the elderly for the next 20 years.

However the attacks on reeves have been vitriolic since the start and there’s a significant amount of misogyny in them.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-04 08:50:36+00:00
> Musk acknowledged the mix-up Thursday evening, writing on X that “Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me.”

> “For the record, I am a fat retard,” he said.

> In a separate post, Musk quipped that “if I up my game a lot, the future AI might say ‘he was smart … for a human.’”
by mxmzb | 2025-12-04 08:51:21+00:00
Nobody is using Redux any more, and it's even publically discouraged by the creator. It's a legacy system and including it in your problems list just makes me think you have no React experience and no idea what you are talking about (beyond technical yapping also Redux as a product still achieved what it tried to solve so your dx doesn't even matter).

Firebase in this context is just a database and how you poll data on client or server from it. Nonsensical reference again.
by z3t4 | 2025-12-04 08:51:43+00:00
Monopolies need to be restricted by regulations. In micro economics there is a term marginal cost, and economy of scale. In the software as a service era, the cost of serving one extra customer is minimal, so it make economic sense for such companies to grow infinitely. This is why our current system do not work. As the best strategy is to become as big as possible and capture the entire market.
by jabr | 2025-12-04 08:52:02+00:00
The `compose.yaml` spec for services let's you specify which machines to deploy it on, so you could target the database and web app to the same machine (or subset of machines).

There is also an internal DNS for service discovery and it supports a `nearest.` prefix, which will preferentially use instances of a service running on the same machine. For example, I run a globally replicated NATS service and then connect to it from other services using the `nearest.nats.internal` address to connect to the machine-local NATS node.
by obius_prime | 2025-12-04 08:53:05+00:00
Ran hierarchical analysis. At 1% tolerance, 23% of ratios match algebraic combinations of constants (harmonics, products, ratios). 77% unexplained. We're not finding constants everywhere — we're finding a specific ~23% algebraic structure. The breakdown: 16% are harmonics (2φ, 3π, etc.), 13% are ratios between constants (π/φ, e/√2). This is a coherent algebraic system, not random peak-picking. Interestingly, the 77/23 split approximates Menger sponge geometry (74/26). Whether that's meaningful or coincidence — worth investigating.
by zeroc8 | 2025-12-04 08:53:16+00:00
Java is ok for typical backend stuff, but Go doesn't hide things the way Java does. With Go, you actually learn what's going on, while with Java, you just learn your way around the various frameworks. As a programmer, I don't want that That said, my current company uses Spring Boot. It does its job, but it wouldn't be my top choice.
Ask HN: Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone?
by 35mm | 2025-12-04 08:53:58+00:00
In Safari on macOS when visiting the Facebook newsfeed, the system mic active icon appears in the menu bar and says that Safari is using it.

I haven't granted permission. When I asked ChatGPT it said 'Safari creates an audio capture session even if the user has not granted microphone permission, for capability negotiation, but no audio data leaves the device until permission is granted.' - is that accurate?
by hdgvhicv | 2025-12-04 08:54:14+00:00
It’s telling the outrage over the stamp duty cockup of Rayner (which had it been sold a couple of weeks later wouldn’t have been a problem), and near silence of the stamp duty evasion of Farage.

Farage’s mate - the leader of Reform Wales, was literally thrown in jail for 10 Years after he admitted she was a Russian agent. Barely anything in the media about it.

Due to the way FPTP works though it’s likely Farage will get a majority in 29 off less than 30% of the vote.
by menaerus | 2025-12-04 08:55:22+00:00
Sure, C++ is heavy for compilation, there's simply more by the compiler to do, but code repository building under 5 seconds is at the very low end of tail so making the point about someone bearing with the 5 seconds longer build time is sort of moot.

I wrote a lot of plain C and a lot of C++ (cumulatively probably close to MLoC) and I can't remember any C code that would compile in such a short time unless it was a library code or some trivial example.
by zwnow | 2025-12-04 08:55:31+00:00
φ^* ω is just 2 weird symbols. There are tons of symbols to learn. I gave up trying to learn the Russian alphabet after a few days so why do u think I am capable of memorizing the Greek one?

The theories are learnable, making sense of all the weird symbols is what's breaking my brain. I tried to get into set theory thrice now, not happening with all the math lingo, hieroglyphs and dry ass content. Learning can be incredibly fun if it was designed fun. Math is a dry and slow process. Make it fun, make it readable and people will be capable to learn it easier.
by psviderski | 2025-12-04 08:56:01+00:00
Not rude at all. The benefit is a much simpler model where you simply connect machines in a network where every machine is equal. You can add more, remove some. No need to worry about an HA 3-node centralised “cluster brain”. There isn’t one.

It’s a similar experience when a cloud provider manages the control plane for you. But you have to worry about the availability when you host everything yourself. Losing etcd quorum results in an unusable cluster.

Many people want to avoid this, especially when running at a smaller scale like a handful of machines.

The cluster network can even partition and each partition continues to operate allowing to deploy/update apps individually.

That’s essentially what we all did in a pre-k8s era with chef and ansible but without the boilerplate and reinventing the wheel, and using the learnings from k8s and friends.
by btdmaster | 2025-12-04 08:56:04+00:00
> When you get into lower power, anything lower than Steam Deck, I think you’ll find that there’s an Arm chip that maybe is competitive with x86 offerings in that segment.

At which point does this pay off the emulation overhead? Fex has a lot of work to do to bridge two ISAs while going through the black box of compiler output of assembly, right?
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-04 08:56:33+00:00
>I long for the day that we solve problems facing regular people like access to education, hunger, housing, and cost of living.

That was only for a short fraction of human history only lasting in the period between post-WW2 and before globalisation kicked into high gear, but people miss the fact that was only a short exception from the norm, basically a rounding error in terms of the length of human civilisation.

Now, society is reverting back to factory settings of human history, which has always been a feudalist type society of a small elite owning all the wealth and ruling the masses of people by wars, poverty, fear, propaganda and oppression. Now the mechanisms by which that feudalist society is achieved today are different than in the past, but the underlying human framework of greed and consolidation of wealth and power is the same as it was 2000+ years ago, except now the games suck and the bread is mouldy.

The wealth inequality we have today, as bad as it is now, is as best as it will ever be moving forward. It's only gonna get worse each passing day. And despite all the political talks and promises on "fixing" wealth inequality, housing, etc, there's nothing to fix here, since the financial system is working as designed, this is a feature not a bug.
by immibis | 2025-12-04 08:57:18+00:00
Anything that can't continue forever must eventually stop, but the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent. I don't think there's a problem saying that there will be a crash but it's impossible to know when.

The longer a bubble grows, though, the worse it gets when it pops. According to Fed stats, we might still be postponing most of the crash that was going to happen in 2008.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-04 08:57:33+00:00
Just Wishaw things.

I used to work with a guy whose parents were Pakistani but who had been born in Scotland, although he had quite a strong accent from living with his grandparents for several years. People used to ask him "So where are you really from?" quite often.

"I'm from Wishie", he'd say.

"No but where are you really from?"

"Well, dinna tell onyone," he'd say, dialling up the Lanarkshire accent, "but I'm really from Newmains, but if they hear I'm from there they'll think I'm a bam"
by kevin061 | 2025-12-04 08:57:37+00:00
Doesn't Apple have a Face ID trick with a paired iPhone to replace Touch ID on macOS?

That is probably why. They prefer you to buy an iPhone than to sell you another gadget.

By the way, I like the idea but for some reason it unpairs randomly and I have to go into settings and re-enable it every couple of months. Really annoying.
by azangru | 2025-12-04 08:57:45+00:00
> Intentionally?

It's RPC. Remote procedure calls. An approach that has made a comeback in the front-end space recently. There was tRPC; then react made a splash with the release of its server components; then other frameworks started emulating the approach. I think Svelte now has something similar with its "remote functions". And Solid has been working on something similar; so that SolidStart now has a "use server" pragma. They probably don't replicate React's protocol; but the idea of calling functions on the server is similar.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-04 08:58:14+00:00
> I long for the day that we solve problems facing regular people like access to education, hunger, housing, and cost of living.

EDUCATION:

- Global literacy: 90% today vs 30%-35% in 1925

- Prinary enrollment: 90-95% today vs 40-50% in 1925

- Secondary enrollment: 75-80% today vs <10% in 1925

- Tertiary enrollment: 40-45% today vs <2% in 1925

- Gender gap: near parity today vs very high in 1925

HUNGER

Undernourished people: 735-800m people today (9-10% of population) vs 1.2 to 1.4 billion people in 1925 (55-60% of the population)

HOUSING

- quality: highest every today vs low in 1925

- affordability: worst in 100 years in many cities

COST OF LIVING:

Improved dramatically for most of the 20th century, but much of that progress reverse in the last 20 years. The cost of goods / stuff plummeted, but housing, health, and education became unaffordable compared to incomes.
by dan-kolodny | 2025-12-04 08:59:53+00:00
This post breaks down how I built a real multi-agent workflow using the A2A protocol, Nova Act for browser automation, and Nova Lite for fast reasoning. The system handles a full travel booking request end to end by coordinating a flight-booking API agent with a hotel-booking Nova Act agent. Short demo video here https://youtu.be/jjFuiAS-ST4
by easyThrowaway | 2025-12-04 09:00:03+00:00
Up until the late '80s-early '90s cars and rules were rather similar, and drivers like Andretti or Mansell were able to move between categories with relative ease.

I'd say that the rift become apparent in '94, after the safety changes introduced due to Senna's Death and the massive shift in pilot training brought by Michael Schumacher.
by zmgsabst | 2025-12-04 09:00:14+00:00
This is my opinion, as well:

- elites already engage in mass persuasion, from media consensus to astroturfed thinktanks to controlling grants in academia

- total information capacity is capped, ie, people only have so much time and interest

- AI massively lowers the cost of content, allowing more people to produce it

Therefore, AI is likely to displace mass persuasion from current elites — particularly given public antipathy and the ability of AI to, eg, rapidly respond across the full spectrum to existing influence networks.

In much the same way podcasters displaced traditional mass media pundits.
by veltas | 2025-12-04 09:00:19+00:00
I think this is true unfortunately, and the question of how we get back to a liberal and social state has many factors: how do we get the economy working again, how do we create trustworthy institutions, avoid bloat and decay in services, etc. There are no easy answers, I think it's just hard work and it might not even be possible. People suggesting magic wands are just populists and we need only look at history to study why these kinds of suggestions don't work.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-04 09:00:30+00:00
ML has been used for influence for like a decade now right? my understanding was that mining data to track people, as well as influencing them for ends like their ad-engagement are things that are somewhat mature already. I'm sure LLMs would be a boost, and they've been around with wide usage for at least 3 years now.

My concern isn't so much people being influenced on a whim, but people's beliefs and views being carefully curated and shaped since childhood. iPad kids have me scared for the future.
by atoav | 2025-12-04 09:00:38+00:00
> Math uses terms of art like "group", "field", "modulo" and "multiplicative inverse"; and notation like "∑"; because they are short and communicate very specific (and common) things, many of which are implicit and we probably wouldn't even notice.

I don't have anything against introducing new words. If your concept can be adequately described by existing language that seems like a good way to allow people to learn and talk about it. Technically as a person who has studied philosophy the greek alphabet is also no big hurdle to me. But it is to others. Try googling some weird sign you found in a formula. First you don't know how it is called or how to write it, second any signed might have been used in 100 different formulae so even if you, know how to search for it (there are applications people use to identify mathematical signs) good luck at finding any meaningful answer.

I know for mathematicians these signs are arbitrary and they would say you could just use emojis as well. But then it turns out mathematicians ascribe meaning to which alphabet they are using and whether it is upper- or lowercase. Except sometimes they will break that convention for what appears to be mostly historical reasons.

I know mathematicians will get used to this just fine, but the mathematical notation system has incredibly bad UX and the ideals embedded within it are more about density and intransparency (only the genius mathematician knows what is going on), than about rigorous precision and understanding.

When I studied philosophy there were philosophers like Hegel who had to expand the German language to express their new thoughts. And there were philosophers who shall remain unnamed that would use nearly unparseable dense and complex language to express trivial thoughts. The latter always felt like an attempt to paper over their own deficiencies with the convoluted language they had learned to express themselves in.

Mathematicans can also have a degree of the latter at times. If your notation is more complex than the problem it describes your notation sucks and you waste collective human potential by using it.
by komali2 | 2025-12-04 09:00:48+00:00
Oh man I've been saying this for ages! Neal Stephenson called this in "Fall, or Dodge in Hell," wherein the internet is destroyed and society permanently changed when someone releases a FOSS botnet that anyone can deploy that will pollute the world with misinformation about whatever given topic you feed it. In the book, the developer kicks it off by making the world disagree about whether a random town in Utah was just nuked.

My fear is that some entity, say a State or ultra rich individual, can leverage enough AI compute to flood the internet with misinformation about whatever it is they want, and the ability to refute the misinformation manually will be overwhelmed, as will efforts to refute leveraging refutation bots so long as the other actor has more compute.

Imagine if the PRC did to your country what it does to Taiwan: completely flood your social media with subtly tuned han supremacist content in an effort to culturally imperialise us. AI could increase the firehose enough to majorly disrupt a larger country.