MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goku12 | 2025-12-04 05:23:45+00:00
> I'm struggling to come up with a reasonable sounding example though given the analogy.

I see your point. They'll bring it in the guise of a noble intent and stealthily slip in the nefarious functions later. I agree. That's exactly what they did with Aadhar too. And that project was introduced by the current government's rival alliance too. Really shows that the entire political class is against the citizens.

> It's natural that they would resort to less than scrupulous methods to attain this.

It's a bit more serious than this. This measure has the potential to sabotage India's democracy and constitution. And there is still the whole SIM-Binding issue to deal with. These are scandals serious enough to consider the government as a hostile usurper.

> And so having these devices with their capabilities and our reliance on them is a huge hole in the defenses of freedom advocates just begging to be exploited.

Abandoning the smart phone isn't an option anymore since that would mean a serious disadvantage in this information economy. That brings me to the same point as another comment of mine: We need fully user-controlled devices. We should be able to install and uninstall what we want, or even wipe it clean and start from scratch. And no hidden rings or blobs either.

We need to start demanding that this be established in the law of the land. Nothing less will be a step forward against such power greedy crowd.
by businessmate | 2025-12-04 05:24:09+00:00
Large language model assistants have shifted the primary locus of brand visibility from retrieval surfaces to reasoning and recommendation layers. Existing input-side metrics no longer capture this shift. The Answer Space Occupancy Score (ASOS) is a reproducible probe-based metric that quantifies the fraction of the observable answer surface occupied by a specified entity under controlled repetition. This article publishes the complete alpha specification, scoring rules, and the first fully redacted thirty-run dataset.
by wtallis | 2025-12-04 05:25:11+00:00
You're not paying enough attention to the performance and cost impact of connectors and sockets. CAMM2/LPCAMM and CUDIMM have yet to be demonstrated operating at speeds that speeds that match the fastest soldered LPDDR, let alone GDDR; there's still a clear advantage for soldering memory.

CPU sockets with more than two memory channels are also far more expensive; the higher pin count usually increases the number of layers the motherboard needs, and the larger size of the socket requires more metal for stiffening (and EPYC CPUs still have issues with imperfect mounting leading to some IO lanes not working).

Using BGA soldering for both the processor and the memory sidesteps a bunch of engineering challenges.
by didibus | 2025-12-04 05:25:47+00:00
> I mean, they've made all of the progress up to now in essentially the last 5 years

I have to challenge this one, the research on natural language generation and machine learning dates back to the 50s, it just it only recently came together at scale in a way that became useful, but tons of the hardest progress was made over many decades, and very little innovation happened in the last 5 years. The innovation has mostly been bigger scale, better data, minor architectural tweaks, and reinforcement learning with human feedback and other such fine tuning.
by justforfunhere | 2025-12-04 05:26:02+00:00
When it comes to writing small scripts for various utility tasks, I now rely heavily on LLMs.

Additionally, lets say I would like to write something new that I don't know anything about, I now go first to a LLM, or two of them, to get an idea of what would be the best approach. It saves a lot of time that would otherwise go in research and discovery.

But I still don't trust it enough to write production level code. When I am writing something that I know will be released in a product, I steer clear of LLMs.

All of this when I am doing my day job. For my side projects, I try not to use LLMs.
by int_19h | 2025-12-04 05:26:26+00:00
> humans derive a lot of their self-evaluation as people from labor.

We're conditioned to do so, in large part because this kind of work ethic makes exploitation easier. Doesn't mean that's our natural state, or a desirable one for that matter.

"AI-based economy" is too broad a brush to be painting with. From the Marxist perspective, the question you should be asking is: who owns the robots? and who owns the wealth that they generate?
by rayiner | 2025-12-04 05:29:01+00:00
Here’s a secret: Not only am I ethnically Bangladeshi, I enjoy Bangladeshis! I enjoy weddings where the aunties harass the couple about immediately having kids. I live 10 minutes from my parents and subject my Anglo wife to elaborate and overbearing family obligations and face saving rituals. Seeing Anglos with adult children waiting for grandkids that will never come genuinely fills me with existential dread.

That is an entirely different consideration, however, than the economic and social effects of immigration of people like me in sufficient numbers to culturally reshape parts of America.
by dralley | 2025-12-04 05:29:01+00:00
Ironically, a lot of this is only relevant until... this Sunday. After Sunday, the F1 season is over, and 2026 cars will be very different.

2026 cars will have less downforce and less drag (closer to Indycar) but also "active" aerodynamics (elements on both the front and rear wings can flatten on-demand to reduce drag, or raise to produce more downforce) and a hybrid power unit closer to 50/50 split between ICE and electric horsepower than the current 85/15 split for F1 cars or 80/20 for Indycars.

F1 next year will probably be chaos because there are so many different aspects that teams may have gotten wrong in development.

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There are some inaccuracies though regardless. I am pretty sure that teams do not go through multiple sets of brake pads in a weekend. They last several races, no different than Indycar.
Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup)
by defcc | 2025-12-04 05:29:51+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a tiny tool because I couldn’t find a clean, distraction-free monthly planner that:

1. shows a clean monthly task view 2. doesn’t require an account 3. doesn’t sync or store anything online 4. works offline 5. is printable 6. and keeps a minimal, distraction-free aesthetic

So I made https://printcalendar.top/ — a minimal monthly task planner.

It’s intentionally simple. No logins, no integrations, no dashboards. Just a small tool for people who want structure without clutter.
by didibus | 2025-12-04 05:29:52+00:00
> You were a therapy session for her. Her negativity was about the layoffs.

I think there is no "her", the article ends with saying:

> My former coworker—the composite of three people for anonymity—now believes she's [...]

I think it's just 3 different people and they made up a "she" single coworker as a kind of example person.

I don't know, that's my reading at least, maybe I got it wrong.
by snthpy | 2025-12-04 05:30:49+00:00
Thanks. I hadn't heard of RustFS. I've been meaning to migrate off my MinIO deployment.

I recently learned that Ceph also has an object store and have been playing around with microceph. Ceph also is more flexible than garage in terms of aggregating differently sized disks. Since it's also already integrated in Proxmox and has over a decade of enterprise deployments, that's my top contender at the moment. I'm just not sure about the level of S3 API compatibility.

Any opinions on Ceph vs RustFS?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-04 05:31:07+00:00
I don't really know if the concept of "system seller" is a thing anymore. Or at least, all those titles belong to Nintendo now. Sony's only had Gran Turismo and then made up for it with a consistent stream of first party titles. Not Nintendo level, but competitive. Xbox has 2 series and utterly bungled one of them. If you're not a racing sim fan, you're looking at the forest instead of the trees.

All those true "seller" series were always 3rd party and they've all pretty much abandoned console deals mid Gen 8. Bloodborne was truly the lasst of its kind.

The real "system seller" for the ps5 is a bunch of Japanese games that will never really be on Xbox and can't run on switch. So that depends on your taste. Japan's mostly come around on PC though, so it's not truly "exclusive" outside of the shaky optimization.
by pfych | 2025-12-04 05:32:17+00:00
I don't know why I ever bother scrolling down when opening a twitter thread... Some of those comments are crazy to read.

Personally I think while wikipedia does rake in an extremely large amount of money via donations, they provide an amazing platform and haven't felt the need to make it shitty with new features - or "keep up with market trends". I'm happy for it to stay this way.
by tomhow | 2025-12-04 05:33:33+00:00
In that discussion you seemed to agree that there's not much we can or should do about it; you seemed to be indicating that you were just contemplating the phenomenon, rather than complaining or arguing that something needed to be done.

For what it's worth: the “celebrity” effect works both ways. Sure, some members of the community may be more willing to give them a pass. But other users will be more motivated to downvote and/or flag, even if the comment is relatively benign.
by dstavisky | 2025-12-04 05:33:59+00:00
We’re all busy arguing about AGI timelines. Meanwhile, ancient civilizations already solved multi-agent alignment using thunderbolts, tridents, and cosmic bureaucracy. The essay uses Greek and Hindu mythology as a fun way to think about multi-AI worlds—what “Fate” and “Dharma” might look like in technical terms, and how humans might live alongside powerful machine agents. Not a policy paper. Not theology. Just a fun thought experiment about AGI, power, and coexistence.
by dleslie | 2025-12-04 05:34:09+00:00
There is no lock-in. It is normal to have accounts on multiple storefronts, and have multiple storefronts installed on your gaming PC; one can access multiple digital libraries on the same PC!

Steam wins because it provides a superior product for the end-user, not because of lock-in. Games purchased through Steam can be vetted with user reviews, supported with user-created guides and steam input configurations, streamed across devices, shared with family members, and even modded; all within the Steam experience.
by tpkarras | 2025-12-04 05:35:26+00:00
Hi.

You're right, it is a block cipher. KEF how I designed it file format where all the relevant information (such as cipher information, the file size, MD5 checksum and mime content type, whether or not 2 or more passphrases are used and a number array containing the length of each file) is in the header itself.

The rest is basically information like the randomly generated Tag/IV is prepended to the encrypted data itself.

The plugin is using OpenSSL's encrypting function but theoretically, it can work with any encryption software that produces the Tag and the IV.

As for the ranges of data, this is basically the bytes that will be decrypted and sent to the user. This allows for web browsers that send range headers to receive the portion of data without decrypting the whole thing. If you're down to program the script of course.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: I am open to critique, I don't know how to describe the functionality of my plugin. I am researching on how to include unit tests.
by raydev | 2025-12-04 05:37:52+00:00
No. The same way piracy has been diminished in the mainstream by years of lawsuits and jailtime against the loudest most available sources, the strongest anti-cheats have suppressed the easiest and cheapest paths to cheating on AAA games. Piracy hasn't gone away, but the number of people doing it peaked last decade.

Anti-cheat makers doesn't need to eliminate cheating completely, they just need to capture enough cheating (and ban unpredictably) that average people are mostly discouraged. As long as cheat-creators have to scurry around in secrecy and guard their implementations until the implementation is caught, the "good" cheats will never be a commodity on mainstream well-funded games with good anti-cheat.

Cheat-creators have to do the hard hacking and put their livelihoods on the line, they make kids pay up for that.
by raydev | 2025-12-04 05:39:07+00:00
The honest people are a larger group than the dishonest people.

And being real, the zero-day cheats are closely guarded and trickled out and sold for high prices as other cheats get found out, so for AAA games, the good cheats are priced out of comfort zone and anyone who attempts the lazy/cheap cheats is banned pretty quickly. A significant portion of the dishonest becomes honest through laziness or self-preservation. Only a select few are truly committed to dishonesty enough to put money and their accounts on the line.

Same way there are fewer murderers and thieves than there are non-murderers and non-thieves (at least in western countries).
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-12-04 05:40:29+00:00
Super easy to explain sets and groups once you've learnt how modulus works too. Start with the additive group and how it behaves under mod m, then go into the multiplicative group and the differences it has and the show why x^y = 1 mod m for certain values due to behavior of the multiplicative group. It's reasonably easy to grok how those two groups work and this gives people an intuitive understanding for the additive and multiplicative groups and they can go further from there.

I wrote an article targeting the average lay person that teaches this way; https://rubberduckmaths.com/eulers_theorem

Hopefully it's helpful and gives people good intuition for this. Group theory is extremely fundamental and can and should be taught after basic arithmetic and modulus operations. There's really no reason it can't be taught in childhood.
by dmfdmf | 2025-12-04 05:41:00+00:00
Interesting post. I noticed that your Optimal: L=2997mm is the same four leading digits as the speed of light 299792458 m/s.

I always thought there was a connection between geometry and the math and physical constants. Once I was thinking about Einstein's equivalence principle between gravity and acceleration and his elevator-in-space argument. He claimed that there is no experiment that the man in the elevator could do to determine if he was in a gravity field or accelerating rocket. It occurred to me that all he had to do was wait because the rocket could not accelerate at 9.81 m/s forever. So I did the math lightspeed/acceleration of gravity = 30559883.59 sec = 353.7023 days for 86,400 sec/day or 96.9% of a year to get to c. Just a coincidence, they say.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-12-04 05:41:15+00:00
"Paris is the capital of France" is a coherent sentence, just like "Paris dates back to Gaelic settlements in 1200 BC", or "France had a population of about 97,24 million in 2024". The coherence of sentences generated by LLMs is "emergent" from the unbelievable amount of data and training, just like the correct factoids ("Paris is the capital of France"). It shows that Artificial Neural Networks using this architecture and training process can learn to fluently use language, which was the goal? Because language is tied to the real world, being able to make true statements about the world is to some degree part of being fluent in a language, which is never just syntax, also semantics.

I get what you mean by "miracle", but your argument revolving around this doesn't seem logical to me, apart from the question: what is the the "other miracle" supposed to be?

Zooming out, this seems to be part of the issue: semantics (concepts and words) neatly map the world, and have emergent properties that help to not just describe, but also sometimes predict or understand the world.

But logic seems to exist outside of language to a degree, being described by it. Just like the physical world.

Humans are able to reason logically, not always correctly, but language allows for peer review and refinement. Humans can observe the physical world. And then put all of this together using language.

But applying logic or being able to observe the physical world doesn't emerge from language. Language seems like an artifact of doing these things and a tool to do them in collaboration, but it only carries logic and knowledge because humans left these traces in "correct language".
by galaxy_gas | 2025-12-04 05:41:51+00:00
_EVERY_ part of this reads like generated slop with no human check ,,every message and line ..

Site has random spacing, margin, padding in everywhere — looks awful. Many links not work. preview images are default or do not loading with reference to https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer in places

It’s not just bad — it’s broken.

Example images from companies that do not use your service’s with stolen logos. Unreadable text. Random letters.

It’s not just slop spam — it’s slop spam that a human never bothered to even look at before using it for your home page launch.

Please what is this https://web.archive.org/web/20251204055038if_/https://www.wy...
by coderatlarge | 2025-12-04 05:42:39+00:00
for those who need an easier introduction to the subject (no general integration theory required, just finite sums) i can highly recommend

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4614-0776-8

it doesn’t say what a lie group is but it gets you down the road if understanding representations and what tou can do with them. dramatically easier than fulton and Harris for self-study.
by harrall | 2025-12-04 05:43:23+00:00
OK I got my own extremely hot take.

In my opinion, the core functionality of React (view rendering) is actually good and is why it cannot be unseated.

I remember looking for a DOM library:

- dojo: not for me

- prototype.js: not for me

- MooTools: not for me

- jQuery: something I liked finally

Well, guess what library won. After I adopted jQuery, I completely stopped looking for other DOM libraries.

But I still needed a template rendering library:

- Mustache.js: not for me

- Handlebars.js: not for me

- Embedded JavaScript Templates: not for me

- XML with XSLT: not for me

- AngularJS: really disliked it SOO much*

- Knockout.js: not for me

- Backbone.js with template engine: not for me and actually it was getting popular and I really wished it would just go away at the time**

- React: something I actually liked

You must remember that when React came out, you needed a JSX transpiler too, at a time when few people even used transpilers. This was a far bigger obstacle than these days IMO.

Which leads to my hot take: core React is just really good. I really like writing core React/JSX code and I think most people do too. If someone wrote a better React, I don’t think the problem you mentioned would hamper adoption.

The problems come when you leave React’s core competency. Its state management has never been great. Although not a React project itself, I hated Redux (from just reading its docs). I think RSC at the current moment is a disaster — so many pain points.

I think that’s where we are going to see the next innovation. I don’t think anyone is going to unseat React or JSX itself for rendering templates. No one unseated jQuery for DOM manipulation — rather we just moved entirely away from DOM manipulation.

*I spent 30 minutes learning AngularJS and then decided “I’m never going to want to see this library again.” Lo and behold they abandoned their entire approach and rewrote Angular for v2 so I guess I was right.

**It went away and thankfully I avoided having to ever learn Backbone.js.
by spaqin | 2025-12-04 05:44:15+00:00
Of course cassettes were all around me when I was younger; even my first car had a cassette deck. They seemed like an old relic in that time already - with the drawbacks mentioned in the article, so it was easy to put them away seemingly forever.

However, I got "back" into cassettes recently with some new releases. Grabbed a FiiO CP-13, and while the quality still isn't great, with low wow and flutter it's perfectly serviceable. There's one thing that made it stand out and felt like we missed something that's now become a lost art - absolutely no delay between pressing play and music playing. No buffering from a streaming service, no megabytes pushed into RAM, no decoding, no FIFOs being filled before the signal exiting through a DAC.
by businessmate | 2025-12-04 05:46:20+00:00
Large language model assistants have shifted the center of brand visibility from retrieval surfaces to reasoning and recommendation layers. Traditional visibility metrics that rely on input-side optimisation no longer measure how models construct answer surfaces. The Answer Space Occupancy Score (ASOS) is a probe-based metric that quantifies the fraction of the observable answer surface occupied by a specified entity across independent runs of a controlled four-turn script. This document publishes the ASOS alpha protocol, scoring rules, validation commitments, and the first reference dataset.
by zarzavat | 2025-12-04 05:46:41+00:00
I believe we are in agreement. If you are a communication platform that implements e2ee then you provide the guarantee to users, backed by security researchers, that the government can't read their communications by getting a subpoena from the communication platform.

The problem with AI platforms is that they are also a party to the communication, therefore they can indeed be forced to reveal chats, and therefore it's not e2ee because defining e2ee that way would render the term without distinction.
by KPGv2 | 2025-12-04 05:47:25+00:00
Without turning this into a brag session, this is my experience. I don't have to worry about money anymore, so I get to work on cool projects at my own pace, do things that probably sound pointless to most, and it doesn't matter if it's successful. The important thing is that I'm interested.

I'm not as talented as Mitchell tho.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-04 05:48:14+00:00
I think we're talking past each other here. I already mentioned this in my original comment:

ARM is typically [...] more efficient at idle.

From Intel's perspective, the decision to invest in x86 was purely fiscal. With the benefit of hindsight, it's also pretty obvious that licensing ARM would not have saved the company. Intel was still hamstrung by DUV fabs. It made no sense to abandon their high-margin datacenter market to chase low-margin SOCs.
by possible25 | 2025-12-04 05:48:38+00:00
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by itroot | 2025-12-04 05:49:32+00:00
I'm from Russia (currently in Moscow), and I can read your comment just fine without VPN. BBC won't open... which is fine, as I jump straight to comments as many do here :))) .

Also do not miss twitter and facebook. Youtube is working (so far) with no ads.

Also stuff like WaPo is perfectly acessible. Sometimes I skim through it (also mostly comments), then check ZeroHedge to get the opposite view.

So a lot of info is acessible. Quite a few of resources are blocked on the other side though.

I surely can use VPN but prefer not to unless that required for more intellectual activity then reading news.