MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fullstacking | 2025-12-18 01:25:45+00:00
Thats not even the same thing.

My other link is a static site generator for restaurants.

Note the sub domain?

It's a completely different project.

* Food near me - https://localcafe.org

* Full Serverisde Website for restaurants - https://full.localcafe.org

* Static Site generator for restaurants - https://lite.localcafe.org

* Simple form for listing biz on OSM - https://localcafe.org/locations/submit/new

This url is a form for submitting a location that I review and add to OSM on someone's behalf making it much easier for small biz people to add their location to OSM.

Again this is not the same
by alsetmusic | 2025-12-18 01:27:09+00:00
I feel extremely fortunate that I am unashamed of my sexuality, sex drive, or sexual interests. While I'd prefer that my porn history remain private, if anyone ever tried to shame me for it, I'd have no problem telling them I own my human desires.

Now, if I was a repressed person living in an area where that threatened my safety, I'd be terrified. It's a privilege that I don't have to worry about it, and that's the real problem when we get past the technical reasons why this shouldn't have happened.
by Bender | 2025-12-18 01:28:16+00:00
Private Internet Access has denied under oath that they have logs to turn over.

Did they also testify under oath there is no lawful intercept API or anything similar? That does not require logs. In fact when the feds would set up phone call intercepts on telco switches we would intentionally disable logs and put the mainframes into "test mode". And that is even before people start playing legal word games like calling lawful intercept "debugging" or something else. Lavabit [1] found out what happens if lawful intercept is not available.

Just me personally, I would always assume a service I do not entirely control and operate is doing what it can to comply with lawful intercept requirements and they are likely playing word games to not drive away their members and I would not blame them. I am just the properly paranoid type in part due to a good upbringing by a properly paranoid person.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
by BloondAndDoom | 2025-12-18 01:28:52+00:00
This, even worse I was thinking about my ChatGPT account. I was doing some research on a topic government would redeem “dangerous”, and also I’m an immigrant.

ChatGPT can be one of the best profiling tools, and imagine combining it with Google etc. Which we know has been done before so why not again or maybe already going in.

We are not that far away from border police to possibly review my government issued “suspiciousness level” and just auto reject.

I think this is beginning of the end on privacy against government. There will be a new tech movement (among hackers) focusing on e2e, local AI and all forms of disconnected private computing, but general population is absolutely doomed.
by _pdp_ | 2025-12-18 01:30:45+00:00
@Spotify what are my top songs

I don’t have the ability to pull your personal top songs directly from Spotify because that requires accessing your authenticated listening data. You can view them in Spotify by going to “Your Library” → “Made For You” → “Your Top Songs”.

@Figma design simple hello world poster

I don’t have the ability to create designs directly in Figma, but I can guide you to quickly create a simple “Hello World” poster there.

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am I using is wrong?
by gerdesj | 2025-12-18 01:31:47+00:00
I (UK based) have pfblocker-ng running at the perimeter with quite a lot of blocking. My browser FF has uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger too.

Amazon works fine.

I suspect they work along the rather practical lines of: if we can snag your data we will but if you want to block our efforts at predation but want to spend out, we are fine with that too.

Amazon absolutely will not refuse your money and they are jolly good at extracting it.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-18 01:31:57+00:00
Worth noting that Isaacman's Project Athena plan is similar to the rest of what's happened: the utter destruction of government capability, replacing it with private industry. https://futurism.com/space/leaked-plan-nasa-project-athena

Personally I find NASA's SLS/Artemis to be a disgrace, but it seems Congressionally mandated alas.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-12-18 01:32:27+00:00
2018-2021 (yes, those years :o). I was also in one of those high-rises (golf course road area). Not the stereotypical time in India I expected. I don't want to say posh, but safe and most things were taken care of by the society.

I'll have to keep an eye on Nikkei Asia. NYTimes seemed to have an OK local bureau, but I noticed they seemed to lag on the Sri Lanka story pretty hard, so I'm definitely curious how empowered they are to get close to the stories. I do have a great deal of curiosity for the region, and wish I had better local news org to follow, but the remembering the famous early 2020 "keep it positive" meeting between central gov and news helps keep me grounded and realistic. Al Jazeera seems interested in reporting, and their biases are pretty easy to understand and work around.

You're incredibly knowledgable about all this! Appreciate you taking the time to teach a random guy on HN!
by michaelt | 2025-12-18 01:32:35+00:00
Have you ever changed a tyre on a car?

If so, you may have noticed the jack you used didn't have several huge CNC machined aluminium parts, a seven-stage all-metal geartrain, or a 330v power supply and it probably didn't cost you $700. Probably it cost more like $40.

And sure, a consumer kitchen product needs to look presentable and you don't want trapping points for curious little fingers. But even given that, you could deliver a product that worked just as well for just as long at a far lower BOM cost.
by deeznuttynutz | 2025-12-18 01:32:40+00:00
This is an interesting model. I have an embodied AI companion app on the App Store that uses Gemini 2.0 Flash. However, I've been searching for a model that is comparable to 2.0 Flash in cost with more creative and less repetitive outputs. The frontier labs have only gone up in cost and latency, and are ignoring use cases like this. This seems promising, I plan to try it in production.
by svat | 2025-12-18 01:33:01+00:00
> I don't see how AI would help with that

What if the AI kept bringing up unspecified cases and all you (the human) had to do all day was respond to it on what the behavior should be in each case? In this model the AI would not specify the outcomes; the specification is whatever you initially specified, and your responses to the AI's questions about the outcomes. At some point you'd decide that you'd answered enough questions (or the AI could not come up with any more unspecified cases), and bugs would be in what remained, but it would still mean substantially more thinking about cases than now.
by mystraline | 2025-12-18 01:33:15+00:00
> While I'd prefer that my porn history remain private

Thats a problem as well. Right now, you're 'safe'. But having that data available attached to you can also be dangerous to you in the future.

For example, the current wave of trans-hate can easily show you as a sympathizer. That can be criminalized quite easily, given 1/4 of the country hates trans people existing.

Being gay is right now not a crime in the USA, but it has been. And many regressive countries, predominantly Muslim, also have strong punishments for gay actions. Again, this material could easily be proof of a "deviant lifestyle" and legal punishments.

No, if I consume porn, I download from Piratebay, or hop on VPN and not login. And given I live in a state that Pornhub banned due to onerous age verification/identity tying, the whatif above could easily become true. Ive read Project2025 and saw those exact plans.
by yearolinuxdsktp | 2025-12-18 01:34:44+00:00
Engagement: make sure that every member of the team is either on the incident bridge or has dropped what they are doing to watch you diagnose the problem. The more eyes on the problem, the more awareness of the pain will be absorbed by all. If members need to leave to get food or put children to bed, tell them to order delivery and to ask their spouse to do their job. Demonstrate human touch by allowing them to turn off camera while they are eating.

Comprehensiveness: propose extreme, sweeping solutions, such as a lights-out restart of all services, shutting down all incoming requests, and restoring everything to yesterday's backup. This demonstrates that you are ready to address the problem in a maximally comprehensive way. If someone suggests a config change rollback, or a roll-forward patch, ask them why are gambling company time with localized changes, and ask them why are they willing to gamble company time on technical analysis?

Root Cause Analysis Meeting: spend the entire meeting time rehashing the events, pointing fingers and assigning blame. Be sure to mention how the incident could've been over sooner if you just restarted and rolled back every single thing. Be sure to demonstrate out-of-the-box thinking by discussing unrealistic grandiose solutions. When the time is up, run the meeting over by 30 minutes and force all to stay while realistic solution ideas are finally discussed in overtime. This makes it clear to the team that nothing is more important than this incident's RCA--their time surely is not. If someone asks to tap out to pick their kids up after school, remind them that they are making enough money to call them an Uber.

Alerting: be sure to identify anything remotely resembling leading indicators, and add Critical-level wake-you-up alerts with sensitive thresholds for those indicator. Database exceeding 50% CPU? Critical! Filesystem queue length exceeding 5? Critical! Heap usage over 50%? Critical! 100 errors in one minute on a 100000 requests per minute service? Critical! Single log line indicating DNS resolution failure anywhere in the system? Critical! (What if AWS's DNS is down again?) Service requests rate 10% higher than typical peak? Critical! If anyone objects to such critical alerts, ask them why do they want to be responsible for not preventing the next incident?
by DoctorOetker | 2025-12-18 01:34:46+00:00
>I just don't see a reason to assume that an agent will be able to succeed at it and at the same time fail at other things that could make the whole exercise redundant.

But that is much simpler to understand: eventually finding a proof using guided search (machines searching for proofs, multiple inference attempts) takes more effort than verifying a proof. Formal verification does not disappear, because communicating a valuable succinct proof is much cheaper than having to search for the proof anew. The proofs will become inevitable lingua franca (like it is among capable humans) for computers as well. Basic economics will result in adoption of formal verification.

Whenever humans found an original proof, their notes will contain a lot of deductions that were ultimately not used, they were searching for a proof, using intuition gained in reading and finding proofs of other theorems. It's just that LLM's are similarily gaining intuition, and at some point become better than humans at finding proofs. It is currently already much better than the average human at finding proofs. The question is how long it takes until it gets better than any human being at finding proofs.

The future you see where the whole proving exercise (if by humans or by LLMs) becomes redundant because it immediately emits the right code is nonsensical: the frontier of what LLM's are capable of will move gradually, so for each generation of LLMs. there will always be problems it can not instantly generate provably correct software (but omitting the according-to-you-unnecessary proof). That doesn't mean they can't find the proofs, just that it would have to search by reasoning, with no guarantee if it ever finds a proof.

That search heuristic is Las Vegas, not Monte Carlo.

Companies will compare the levelized operating costs of different LLM's to decide which LLMs to use in the future on hard proving tasks.

Satellite data centers will consume ever more resources in a combined space/logic race for cryptographic breakthroughs.
by mc3301 | 2025-12-18 01:34:59+00:00
"The only winning move is not to play."

If you look at these systems that same way some people look at casinos - places specifically designed to take your money - you realize there isn't a way to change them nor improve your overall experience with them. You just don't go inside. I'm kinda hoping that it becomes the trend in the next few decades to completely abandon these algorithm-driven data-hoarding attention-stealing apps. I've been calling it "digital hygiene", personally.
by kazinator | 2025-12-18 01:35:03+00:00
Plotting imaginary numbers on a separate axis from real numbers to create a plane is an obvious idea. Got another dimension, add another axis, right?

The rotation pops out from the binomial multiplication of real + imaginary pairs: (a + ib) (c + id).

And the way that is done is nothing new: it follows the same old FOIL rule: ac + iad + ibc + i^2bd. Where i^2 gives us -1 so we get ac - bd + i(ad + bc).

When you plot a few points on the complex plane and try multiplying them with the above, you will soon discover that their arguments (i.e. angles) are adding together, and you can then prove that with some basic trig.

For instance if you multiply together any points that are both 30 degrees off the real axis, you get a point that is 60 degrees, and so on.

You can completely removce the "i" from the picture and just have the multiplication rule as <a, b> x <c, d> = <ac - bc, ad + bc>, and then see what happens when you convert to polar coordinates.

You can connect that to linear agebra, in which rotation of a vector is achieved by multiplication by a suitable matrix (and in connection to the above, such a rotation matrix will have some complex eigenvalues; real ones correspond to scaling/shearing).
by rayiner | 2025-12-18 01:35:25+00:00
There’s nothing unusual about the use of the shadow docket. It’s being used in response to district court orders that are being issued without trial and often with very short or no opinions. Why should the Supreme Court spend a year on the full rigmarole for some preliminary injunction a district court fired off after a week after no discovery, no trial, and minimal briefing?

> There's also a giant bloody spectrum between 'policy that had a bad outcome for someone (hint: That's every policy)

Yeah, that’s exactly why there’s presidential immunity for official acts! Because otherwise you could easily shoehorn one of those bad outcomes into the letter of some broadly written criminal law.

In Texas, there’s a deadly conduct crime: “A person commits an offense if he recklessly engages in conduct that places another in imminent danger of serious bodily injury.”

You think some Texas prosecutor couldn’t get a border county Texas jury to squint at that text and convict Biden under it for throwing open the border to illegal aliens? All the Supreme Court decided was that some things the President does can’t be prosecuted under the criminal laws like he’s an ordinary citizen. That’s obviously true, which is the same reason Congress has immunity for official acts and judges have immunity for official acts.

> By failing to give any qualification of what the fuck an official act is, they've given him blanket immunity.

No, it’s exactly the opposite. All they decided was that official acts immunity exists. You can’t prosecute Obama for involuntary manslaughter because some executive action he took got someone killed. They then remanded to the district court to decide what counted as official acts and what didn’t count. That didn’t give Trump “blanket immunity”—it left it to the district court to decide what was covered by the immunity and what wasn’t.
by gnabgib | 2025-12-18 01:35:49+00:00
Electric/salty:

Chopsticks (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31119672

Spoon (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40552850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42659051
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-12-18 01:36:16+00:00
Neither.

Just use CachyOS instead. It's Arch in fucking fast, without introducing any weird deviations like Manjaro did(or still does?), rock solid and stable, while everything you may know from Arch can be applied, still. No real need to use their tools, but why not?

They work, and don't break things.

Their defaults were sane at time I tried it, which were BTRFS over one single device without further partitioning (except for 2GB 'small' boot), systemd-boot and Plasma/KDE.

It's still running like that, for about two years now. From that same installation.

Maybe the experience can be different with different paths chosen, or different hardware. Can't be known without trying it.

Did I mention fast? How about ultra-smooth?
by cheschire | 2025-12-18 01:36:29+00:00
Don't worry, when you blackhole the entire tiktok domain, you'll still be able to use grindr.

Or did you still want to be able to view tiktok?

Sorry. Can't help you there. Or can I? https://www.torproject.org/download/ or https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/proton-vpn-fast-sec...
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
by cvbox | 2025-12-18 01:36:54+00:00
It's the time of the year again, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up. Previously asked on:

2024 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373343

2023 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38467691

2022 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190421

2021 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095

2020 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167

2019 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20899863

2018 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17790306

2017 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148804
by autoexec | 2025-12-18 01:37:04+00:00
> I'm sure on this site nobody is naive to the potential harms of tech

I don't share your confidence. A lot of people seem to either be doing their best to ignore the risks or pretending that a nightmare scenario could never happen to them for some reason. They place huge amounts of trust in companies that have repeatedly demonstrated that they are untrustworthy. They ignore the risks or realities of data collection by the state as well.

> I don't think I'm being to cynical to wait for either local LLMs to get good or for me to be able to afford expensive GPUs for current local LLMs, but maybe I should be time-discounting a bit harder?

I'm with you. As fun it would be to play around with AI it isn't worth the risks until the AI is not only running locally but also safely contained so that it can only access the data I provide it and can't phone home with insights into what it's learned about me. I'm perfectly fine with "missing out" if it makes it harder for me to be taken advantage of.

As a side benefit, if/when AI becomes safe to use with my personal information, it'll probably suck a little less, and others will have already demonstrated a number of tasks it's successful/disastrous at so I can put it work more easily and effectively without being burned by it.
by nl | 2025-12-18 01:37:21+00:00
I have a bunch of private benchmarks I run against new models I'm evaluating.

The reason I don't disclose isn't generally that I think an individual person is going to read my post and update the model to include it. Instead it is because if I write "I ask the question X and expect Y" then that data ends up in the train corpus of new LLMs.

However, one set of my benchmarks is a more generalized type of test (think a parlor-game type thing) that actually works quite well. That set is the kind of thing that could be learnt via reinforcement learning very well, and just mentioning it could be enough for a training company or data provider company to try it. You can generate thousands of verifiable tests - potentially with verifiable reasoning traces - quite easily.
by cvbox | 2025-12-18 01:37:27+00:00
2024 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373343

2023 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38467691

2022 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190421

2021 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095

2020 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167

2019 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20899863

2018 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17790306

2017 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148804
by spangry | 2025-12-18 01:39:40+00:00
As I understand the data in this article, midlife mortality rates for those who hold college degrees has declined from 1992 to 2019, whereas the rate has remained largely stable for non-college degree holders.

I wonder if this trend is due, in part, to college degree holders becoming disproportionately female over time, and women having lower midlife mortality rates? https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/degrees-1.png
by frumplestlatz | 2025-12-18 01:39:52+00:00
I'm really unexcited about bolting HTML/CSS/JS and the entire webstack into MCP so that a full-featured MCP client has to carry a full web browser, too.

I expect there's a pretty wide divide between what people who write local MCP servers want, versus what people who write cloud webstack MCP webapps want.

Personally, I've been adding local native UI to my MCP servers, but I realize that's probably a losing battle, and if I want to integrate with newer tooling, I'm going to be stuck in web hell.
by simonw | 2025-12-18 01:39:54+00:00
The preferred definition of "vibe coding" is when you have AI generate code that you use without reviewing it first: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/

Unfortunately a lot of people think it means any time an LLM helps write code, but I think we're winning that semantic battle - I'm seeing more examples of it used correctly than incorrectly these days.

It's likely that the majority of code will be AI assisted in some way in the future, at which point calling all of it "vibe coding" will lose any value at all. That's why I prefer the definition that specifies unreviewed.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-12-18 01:40:07+00:00
Something is overengineered for the actual problem even if it's necessary to meet the requirements, if the requirements are themselves unnecessary. Imagine speccing a 100m span to cross a small stream. The resulting bridge can reasonably be called overengineered.

You can achieve the same goal (getting juice from diced fruit without cleanup) much easier with different requirements. The post mentions that.
by NegativeK | 2025-12-18 01:40:12+00:00
I don't know if that's a thing here in the states, but I'll keep it in mind! It probably wouldn't be hard to advertise via the local (different) hackerspace.

But I'll probably have to get through my backlog of current tasks and projects before I wanted to take on other peoples'. And I may have literally set up a wiki to track those projects...