MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ghaff | 2025-12-15 18:37:55+00:00
The whole container universe is pretty different even if the process/threads/etc. foundations aren't that changed. Certainly <umm> a book I wrote about the state of computing in the early 2010s--largely derived from things I had written over a few prior years--was hopelessly out of date within just a few years.

There certainly are fits and starts in the industry. I'm not sure the past 5 years or so looks THAT different from today. (Leaving aside LLMs.)

From my peripheral knowledge, MIT does try to hand-hold to some degree. Isn't the look-left and look-right, one of those people won't be here next year sort of places. But, certainly, people do get in over their head at some places. I tutored/TAd in (business) grad school and some people just didn't have the basics. I couldn't do remedial high school arithmetic from the ground up--especially for some people who weren't even willing to try seriously.
An Autonomous AI Control Plane for Governing Agent Behavior at Runtime
by dakshaneja | 2025-12-15 18:38:01+00:00
I built a working autonomous control plane designed to govern how AI-driven workflows and agents behave at runtime. Instead of relying on post-incident logs or manual reviews, the system enforces policies before actions occur, simulates changes safely, and proposes corrective actions when violations happen.

The platform converts high-level human intent into structured, executable workflows using event-driven orchestration. It combines policy-first enforcement, asynchronous agent coordination, and a simulation layer so changes can be evaluated before being deployed into a real environment. The goal is to make autonomy safer and more controllable, not just more capable.

This is a real, end-to-end system (not a concept or chatbot), built as a horizontal control plane rather than a domain-specific application. I’m sharing it here to get technical feedback from others thinking about agentic systems, governance, and runtime control.
by mostertoaster | 2025-12-15 18:38:16+00:00
The fact that people think, capital owners who actually provide employment and produce useful things and do better the better they serve the consumer even when their motives aren’t altruistic (and when they are altruistic it is even better) should be taxed more so the giant government corporation can make bureaucrats pockets fatter and waste a bunch of money doing inefficient things is more of a fundamental problem.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-15 18:38:34+00:00
Most consumer motherboards have 2-3 M.2 slots.

You can buy cheap add-in cards to use PCIe slots as M.2 slots, too.

If you need even more slots, there are add-in cards with PCIe switches which allow you to install 10+ M.2 drives into a single M.2 slot.
by otterley | 2025-12-15 18:38:39+00:00
Most non-trivial security investigations involve building chains of events. If SSM Session Manager was used to access the EC2 instance (as is best practice) using stolen credentials, then the investigation would connect access to the instance to the use of instance credentials to access the S3 bucket, as both events would be recorded by CloudTrail.

CloudTrail has what it has. It's not going to record accesses to EC2 instances via SSH because AWS service APIs aren't used. (That's one of the reasons why using Session Manager is recommended over SSH.) But that doesn't mean CloudTrail isn't trustworthy; it just means it's not omniscient.
by avansledright | 2025-12-15 18:38:47+00:00
I built this because I was tired of the manual investigation loop every time a CloudWatch alarm fired: check metrics, grep logs, run CLI commands, piece it together. Takes 15-30 minutes minimum per alarm.

CloudWatch AI Agent automates this: when an alarm triggers, an AI agent autonomously queries your AWS environment (read-only access), analyzes the data, and delivers root cause analysis with actionable AWS CLI commands to Slack.

How it works: Deploys via Terraform module (Apache 2.0 licensed) Lambda function gets triggered by SNS when alarm fires AI agent uses read-only tools to query CloudWatch metrics, logs, EC2/RDS/Lambda configs, alarm history Performs analysis and generates recommendations Sends rich Slack notification with findings and ready-to-run commands

I'm a solo dev/AWS engineer who built this for my own use and decided to productize it. Would love feedback on the approach, pricing model, or technical architecture.

Site: https://aiopscrew.com

Happy to answer any questions about the implementation or design decisions.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-15 18:39:06+00:00
In many parts of the country whole counties smell of pesticide for a few days every year (and pig-shit another few days, but that’s a different issue)

I’ve lived in some of them, and my mom did a lot of by-hand weed-killer spraying (big plastic refillable jug with sprayer hose & wand) along a mile-plus of fence line, for years. Her generation didn’t really do PPE, so no respirator. Died relatively young of a Parkinson’s-adjacent dementia a little while back. No history of any of that in the family. Hm.
by humbugtheman | 2025-12-15 18:39:07+00:00
author here: yes this is exactly my intent, but i would have given some more signposting and context if i knew this was going to hit a larger audience :)

some of the concepts of this blog post are covered in this podcast episode too, such as "building close to the floor" https://www.pastagang.cc/podcast/runrecord.mp3
by razster | 2025-12-15 18:39:11+00:00
The MSI motherboard I use has 3, and with the PCIe expansion card installed, I have 7 m.2's. There are some expansion cards with 8 m.2 slots. You can also get SATA to m.2 devices, or my fav is USB-c drives that hold 2 m.2. Getting great speeds from that little device.
by mandevil | 2025-12-15 18:39:57+00:00
Something often observed in authoritarian states is duplication of effort because of empire building. The ruler cannot trust any of his underlings- they are all sucking up to him and backstabbing each other constantly, so he pits them against each other, assigning overlapping responsibilities on purpose to keep any one subordinate from becoming too strong. This is why all of the "fascism/communism is so efficient" arguments need to actually look at the nature of Soviet or Nazi governments. As an example, there were at least five completely separate armed ground forces in Nazi Germany (1).

This constant competition between parts of the government actually led to tremendous waste. You can see it again in the Soviet space program during the 1960's. While NASA had a single purpose of getting to the moon before 1971 with a unified organization under the control of a single leader, after Khrushchev was deposed (and Korolev died) the Soviet space program splintered into a war between the old OKB-1 (Korolev's group) and Chelomei's OKB-52 that lasted for twenty years over Super-Proton vs Energia etc.

1: The Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS are the two most famous, but the Luftwaffe recruited, trained and equipped the Fallschirm-Panzer Korps and Fallshchirmjaeger- yes, German paratroops worked for Goering not the Wehrmacht. There were also five Marine Infantry Divisions under the Navy- they had half as many Marine Divisions as the US did, despite many fewer amphibious assaults! And the Volksturm, at the end of the war when things looked grim for Nazi Germany, was under NSDAP party control but separate from the Waffen-SS.
by mrtksn | 2025-12-15 18:40:02+00:00
Interestingly, places that used to be shit holes are becoming better or at least show a desire for becoming better. For example in eastern Europe, there are movements that demands democracy and destruction of the establishment.

So if all the world is against the establishment, it only makes sense that shit holes become better places and better place become shit holes.

That's it I suspect that these moments can be quite fragile. Turkey was crashed, Georgia was crashed, Belarus was crashed, Russia was crashed, Ukraine is fighting generational war, Serbia is teetering, Bulgaria is on to something but its only a spark ATM. However, the crashed ones also did not stabilize, they just become brutal and visibly oppressed and IMHO anything still can happen.
by redgetan | 2025-12-15 18:40:31+00:00
https://fishbaitgame.com/

A 2-4 player casual card game that's similar to Exploding Kittens. It'll be free-to-play on mobile and I've been focusing more on marketing these days (mostly running ads, creating short form content, and reaching out to influencers).

I'm using Unity for the front-end, and Node.js (just because I'm already familiar with it in terms of dev + liveops) for the gameservers.
by iamflimflam1 | 2025-12-15 18:41:15+00:00
Post campaign mouser will continue to order from the creator to keep their stock levels up (assuming the product is selling!). So although the creator may not be actively promoting the product, they may still be doing production runs.

I need to check the exact wording in my contract - but post campaign you can sell through other channels if you want to (which would allow you to do it directly).
by slacka | 2025-12-15 18:41:22+00:00
You're missing the point. The effective tax rate of many billionaires is lower than ours. "Musk with a fortune of $244 billion, paid an average effective tax rate of 24% from 2018 to 2020". In other years it was as low as 3%[2].

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/income-taxes-billionaire-tax-ra...

[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-12-15 18:41:56+00:00
So to recap:

You have a vendetta against a guy, for grievances, some legitimate, and want the law to change, specifically to get him, because you hate what he says. You also want to nationalize his businesses, that he built, that he did not have to build, that now employ 140,000 people, that he did not have to employ, with those 140,000 people almost all being high income earners paying higher tax rates when they may not have otherwise, out of your hate.

I would call that greed and a despicable position.

On that note, it's also completely pointless. If you were to literally liquidate every billionaire in America, every single one, and somehow got current market rates for every single stock share, 100% tax rate beyond $1B... we would cover the deficit for 3 years. With everyone else still paying taxes. Then we're back to square one, running a $2T deficit every year with no billionaires to liquidate. It's entirely catharsis that accomplishes nothing. If such a tax were even passed, we wouldn't make it to the next election cycle before it's a problem again.
by krish678 | 2025-12-15 18:42:01+00:00
For what it’s worth, I care more about whether the claims can be independently verified than how the explanation is phrased. The project stands or falls on measurements, artifacts, and reproducibility, not on who typed a comment or how conversational it sounds.

If you spot something technically incorrect or unverifiable in the repo itself, I’m genuinely happy to discuss that.
by dpark | 2025-12-15 18:42:22+00:00
That is absolutely not the purpose. The specific purpose of uuidv7 is to optimize for B-Tree characteristics, not so you can craft queries based on the IDs being sequential.

This assumption that you can query across IDs is exactly what is being cautioned against. As soon as you do that, you are talking a dependency on an implementation detail. The contract is that you get a UUID, not that you get 48 bits of timestamp. There are 8 different UUID types and even v7 has more than one variant.
by misja111 | 2025-12-15 18:42:34+00:00
There is so much evidence of this connection piling up ..

E.g.:

Proximity to golf courses where pesticides are used -> Parkinson: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933580

Farmers using pesticides have 60% higher Parkinson risk (2019): https://nos.nl/artikel/2302396-landbouwgif-kan-kans-op-parki... (Dutch)

Parkinson should be labeled as profession-linked disease for farmers(Swiss): https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/pestizide-als-krankmacher-pa...
by martin-t | 2025-12-15 18:43:04+00:00
The point is it's not free, you're exchanging time, attention and data instead of money.

In fact, you're exchanging them at a rate you are not informed about which means you are disadvantaged in this exchange.

It would be free if for example there were 2 tiers, free and paid and the free tier would be entirely supported by the paying customers. But it's not.

This is another way companies can legally lie to customers. I honestly don't understand why you keep defending them.
by oersted | 2025-12-15 18:43:18+00:00
Because something with 'static lifetime does not in fact live for the entire program.

It just means that it could live until the end of the program and that case should be considered when dealing with it, there's no guarantee that it will drop earlier. But it may drop at any time, as long as there are no remaining references to it, it does not need to be in memory forever.

It's a subtle distinction and it is easy to misinterpret. For instance Tokio tasks are 'static and it felt wrong initially because I thought it would never drop them and leak memory. But it just means that it doesn't know when they will be dropped and it cannot make any promises about it., that's all.
by palmotea | 2025-12-15 18:43:37+00:00
> They could improve the design and get people to replace their machines with the improved ones, repeat and repeat.

> Or they could sell the broken design and people would just buy more as they broke. They don't care if Costco was eating the cost with their in-house warranty.

This strategy has limits, and I think iRobot hit those, and they didn't didn't lower themselves to switch to the second strategy of selling cheap unreliable garbage (at least not before 2019, which was the last time I bought a Roomba).

> The fundamental problem though is the same with all "household gadget" products. They look cool, and appear to solve a problem, but that is actually all a perception based on novelty. They actually don't work very well, they are not built very well, and they don't last very long. There's no point in improving them because the concept is fundamentally something people don't need in the first place.

I'd dispute this in this case: Roombas may not have solved the vacuuming problem for everyone, but they solved it for me (at least), and they were built pretty well (reliable, modular & reparable design, etc.).

> Just buy a good canister vacuum and you're set for a decade or more. It will cost more than the latest gadget from Shark or Dyson or iRobot but it won't frustrate you and it will just reliably do what it is supposed to do without uploading anything to an IP address.

1. I've got both, and the Roomba works a lot better than not vacuuming with the canister vacuum at all. It doesn't frustrate me, and it took far less time to Roomba-proof my home than vacuuming it every week for a year.

2. I agree with the IP address thing, but I think at only got added when they attempted to "get people to replace their machines with the improved ones." I have a couple of the older models that have no network connection (and had no plans to buy more due to the unnecessary network requirement).
by drivingmenuts | 2025-12-15 18:44:42+00:00
The US does a good job of selling the idea of living here and getting rich, though it does a better job of selling it to people who aren't already embedded in daily life in the US. While we have, perhaps, much lower numbers of extreme poverty compared to a lot of countries, as one of the richest countries, and growing richer by the day, we should have zero extreme poverty. The people with the will to fix our poverty lack the money and very few with money have no real desire to help the less fortunate.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-15 18:45:21+00:00
The article links two papers (text: "Two recent papers underscore that potential."):

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01439-6 (link text: "In one study")

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64235-y (link text: "In the most recent paper")
by dangus | 2025-12-15 18:45:35+00:00
I think you are making broad generalizations, so broad that the only statement it's clear you're trying to make is "The US is bad" and the broadness of your argument weakens it greatly.

Cost inflation isn't unique to the United States.

Europe isn't a single country.

> yet the lifestyle of European citizens in those countries is much better than the lifestyle of the poorest Americans

Does this include the Romani people? Does this include the Ukranians being attacked by Russia?

Greece's housing cost burden is higher than 30 US states. Not all regions in the USA have faced serious property cost pressures. [1] [2]

"Day to day stuff" is a very broad category, and that includes items that are flat or decreasing in cost. In that sense I will point out that VAT is much higher in the EU than sales tax in most US states, with VAT rates of >20% being very common while the highest combined sales tax in the USA is just over 10%. Sales tax/VAT is a very regressive tax that harms the poor the most. For someone on the poor end of the spectrum in Europe, buying something like a computer or television is a greater burden than someone in the US.

I'm reminded of the natural gas price spikes in 2022 in Europe, and of how the EU's average electricity price is about 2-3x higher than it is in the US. The US has an extremely stable supply of basic needs like energy and food.

Education costs have been flat or lower than the rate of inflation in the US since roughly 2016, so for the last 10 years the idea that education is becoming more expensive in the USA has been squarely false. [3]

Healthcare, I'll give you that one, the US is not faring well. But we can look at some systems in Europe having their own difficulties like the UK and Spain and it's not like healthcare isn't a challenge elsewhere. I will also point out that the US does have public healthcare for the poorest (Medicaid) and for all people over 65 years old (Medicare), and Medicare is a standout in quality among public healthcare systems in some outcome categories.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/europes-housing-cost-burden...

[2] https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/measures/cost...

[3] https://educationdata.org/college-tuition-inflation-rate
by multiplegeorges | 2025-12-15 18:45:47+00:00
> If people demand evil, they will make evil, if people demand good, they will make good.

This is so naive.

People do not ask corporations to be evil and they certainly don't demand it. People ask for good value and convenience and corporations respond by doing by amorally pursuing that.

However, when you ask consumers if they want value and convenience at the cost of *evil*, they almost always say no.

Corporations have a demonstrated and well-documented history of actively hiding their evil actions because they know consumers are not aligned with them at all.

If consumers "demand" evil, as you say, then corporations wouldn't try to hide it.
by SilverElfin | 2025-12-15 18:46:11+00:00
America was on the decline for a while already. Look at how forgotten Tibet is. Why would HK be any different when a treaty was signed to hand it over? It’s more official than Tibet which was just annexed through force. Although it’s worth remembering that China has violated the terms of the HK treaty as well.

Also as a reminder, back in 1993 Richard Gere was banned from the Oscars for 20 years for advocating for Tibet (https://www.foxnews.com/media/richard-gere-speaks-out-nearly...). American institutions have been declining/corrupted for a lot longer than the current administration.
by victorbuilds | 2025-12-15 18:46:22+00:00
First time I see such a simple but attractive puzzle. I had to try to reproduce it using my Codorex tool, it's semi-functional needs a few more iterations:

https://codorex.com/shared/zIe6BrLCVfaPt1DuWm1DeyoMIIeTPyed

Congrats on the traction!
by jameslk | 2025-12-15 18:46:26+00:00
> One of the dark consequences of America losing its city-upon-a-hill aspirations is we're less able to effectively call out evil abroad.

"City-upon-a-hill" is marketing and has never been grounded in fact. It’s hubris and arrogance. The US is viewed as that place if you get on the wrong side of, it will bomb you or replace your government through coercion. It outspends every country on "defense" to ensure this.

History is littered with plenty of examples where the US favored a more authoritarian or "evil" government over less, sometimes even installing them. Arab Spring is a recent example where you saw governments replaced with the US' help, while leaving some notable monarchies alone.

In reality, the US employs its foreign policy for its own interests. It’s always been like that.
by echelon_musk | 2025-12-15 18:46:36+00:00
"There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime."

- Network (1976)
by ben_w | 2025-12-15 18:46:43+00:00
I don't pay anyone for an image generator AI, because I can run an adequate image generator locally on my own personal computer.

My computer doesn't have enough RAM to run the state of the art in free LLMs, but such computers can be bought and are even affordable by any business and a lot of hobbyists.

Given this, the only way for model providers to stay ahead is to spend a lot on training ever better models to beat the free ones that are being given away. And buy "spend a lot" I mean they are making a loss.

This means that the similarity with the dot com bubble can be expressed with the phrase "losing money on every sale and making up for it in volume".

Hardware efficiency is also still improving; just as I can even run that image model locally on my phone, an LLM equivalent to SOTA today should run on a high-end smartphone in 2030.

Not much room to charge people for what runs on-device.

So, they are in a Red Queen's race, running as hard as they can just to stay where they are. And where they are today, is losing money.
by vintagedave | 2025-12-15 18:46:58+00:00
I see I was very rapidly downvoted. Let me expand: the history of labor rights, environmental protests, and many others have all been through disruption.

Take a completely difference example: anti-logging. Logging protesters march through the streets, disrupting traffic and making people late for work. (Legal marches.) Or they sit up trees and chain themselves, preventing the trees from being cut. (Usually illegal.) Both these get significant attention.

Democracy is rife with examples like this.

How did the suffragettes get the vote? By protest.

Yet many other groups would have -- and have tried -- to prevent these protests and actions, just like the 'customers' cited in the comment I replied to. That's my point: to call being able to prevent that 'democratic' is outside the past century and a half of modern Western democratic history.
by hearsathought | 2025-12-15 18:47:05+00:00
> Thomas Jefferson was a hero and a scholar!

He was definitely that.

> but is it economically smart to declare independence from the most powerful empire of the day?

Yes, if that empire was unfairly taxing you, taking your wealth and impeding your growth/development. But you already knew this.

> Indeed, many of the "elites" at the time sided with the British!

Yes. Some of the elites felt that sticking with britain made the most sense to them. Others did not.

> There had to be something more than just "class interests" at play to convince these wealthy elites to renounce their fealty to their government, giving up all legal claims to their property and indeed their very lives, should the revolutionaries have lost.

Nothing more than "more wealth and power".