MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-05 10:21:17+00:00
Yes. Microcenter was founded in Columbus, Ohio -- IIRC as a shop on High Street most of a lifetime ago. The present headquarters are, IIRC, just up the road in Hilliard. They maintain an excellent and enormous retail store in the area. There is an amazing (and not at all cheap) Greek restaurant across the street.

But after I drive to Microcenter and shop there and drive back, I'm fuckin' tired. I won't want to build a PC when I get home. I'll want to think about either getting a pizza or going to bed, and the bed will probably win.

So usually, I don't shop at Microcenter at all. I adore that place (and yeah, I'm impressionable: Keeping Raspberry Pi Zero W's in stock at every checkout register and selling them for $5 made an impression on me), but it's just too far away from where I live.

What usually happens instead, despite still having much more local alternatives, is this: I order the stuff. It shows up on my porch a day or two later. I build it at my leisure.
by refurb | 2025-12-05 10:21:28+00:00
Mike Benz does a nice job of covering the US State department using this for political purposes in other countries.

Instead of directly addressing dissenting opinion, you accuse people of “disinformation” and “misinformation” (my favorite - true but interpreted in a bad light). This includes passing laws in countries either punishing it (through online censorship) all the way to making such speech illegal.

And before anyone claims it’s false, Mike Benz does a nice job of sourcing evidence from US State department documents on this technique.
by taneq | 2025-12-05 10:21:29+00:00
Yep, might be there was a known issue that was addressed, at which put in a new one. But just replacing a fuse (or, simultaneously worse and better, just resetting a breaker) without further investigation is just kicking a very spicy can down the road.

I had a doozy of a trip issue on one project, a motor would occasionally (not always, no real pattern, hot/cold/etc. didn’t matter) trip the breaker, requiring a sparky to come out and open up the panel to reset it. We tried a bunch of things, megger-ing the motor, testing peak startup current on each phase with a fancy meter, checking phase-to-neutral current (Larger than you’d think! But this was normal, apparently.)

Everything was normal. In the end all we could think something was weird about the contactor. They took it out (I was off site at the time) and took it down to the substation to test it out.

With three phases connected to the contactor (and nothing connected on the other side) they energised the coil, and with an almighty bang it tripped the main incomer and took the entire sub offline.

Turns out there was a manufacturing defect in the contactor and sometimes for a millisecond, if the phase of the moon was right, it dead shorted two phases.

So there, even when you know everything, you don’t know everything.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-05 10:21:31+00:00
That isn't "vague", it's a way that I can express disdain without opening myself up to legal repercussions. A lot of dubious content appears in mainstream media, usually to push people in whichever direction that media desires. I catch YouTube doing it all the time, it's always trying to pull me in one direction or another (often ones I disagree with or am not interested in).

American mainstream media focusses far too much on personality politics rather than substance. It rarely questions the political binary either, and offers only tokenistic representation to any positions outside it. There are many issues and debates which are simply not mentioned on it.

On the migration issue, I have found that coverage tends to one extreme or the other — i.e. the open door or the closed door — when the probable solution is somewhere in between IMHO.
by bradfa | 2025-12-05 10:22:23+00:00
This fuse blows because a crash was detected and it is to protect the people inside the car and rescuers. The article argument is that it can blow even for small crashes where no damage to the battery occurs but rehabilitating the vehicle still incurs an outrageous cost. This is not a simple over current protection fuse.

$1000 for the module with the fuse seems ok to me. Another $3000 to link the module to the vehicle is the outrageous part.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-12-05 10:22:44+00:00
There are many alternatives

Of varying quality depending on the service. Most of the anti-bot/catpcha crap seems to be equivalently obnoxious, but the handful of sites that use PerimeterX… I've basically sworn off DigiKey as a vendor since I keep getting their bullshit "press and hold" nonsense even while logged in.

I don't like that we're trending towards a centralized internet, but that's where we are.
by SR2Z | 2025-12-05 10:23:10+00:00
The amount of flying that people do is not constant; if lots of airplanes fall out of the sky and explode in fiery wrecks, people will fly less.

In this case, "lots" is "anything more than once a month" because footage of the above is addictive to anyone trying to make money from the news. Look at how many flights there are a day. How high can the crash rate be until those pictures are seared into our eyeballs?

It's actually funny you bring up COVID, because I agree with you that the restrictions were... not good. I also think that the FAA could use a lighter touch on just about everything, EXCEPT the level of safety it requires from Part 121 operators.
by tim333 | 2025-12-05 10:23:18+00:00
A couple of subtleties in that. Rather than rock paper scissors with three options, there are hundreds of technical strategies out there so you may still be doing something unusual. Secondly the mass of the public are kind of following a technical strategy of just buy index funds because the index has gone up the past. Which is ignoring the fundamental issue of whether stocks decent value for money at the moment.
by squidbeak | 2025-12-05 10:24:02+00:00
> Then you have that horrible idea with mandatory digital id.

As the plan stands, the only case where it would be mandatory is for employment. The extension to right to rent is under consultation. I strongly recommend reading more on the Digital ID framework - it isn't as the press and influencers have led most people imagine. For instance there isn't a single id, there's no central database and government's role is only as a passive reference and legislator. I was opposed to the idea when I first heard about it, but won over by its sensible structure, which will actually strengthen citizens.

https://enablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/26/shari...

https://enablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.uk/
by asim | 2025-12-05 10:24:10+00:00
I'd like to start seeing the architecture and design of how cloudflare works. Not blog posts, like a whole write-up. If you're going to have this many outages and you're a public company which 2/3rd of US infrastructure probably depends on then it might need some external input. Obviously they know what they're doing. This is not a blame game but the tools are starting to creak.
by kristjank | 2025-12-05 10:24:51+00:00
>Lot of vehicles designed and produced in Europe — ICE, PHEV, and EV — have effectively become a missleading ECO exercise. Vehicles marketed as “CO₂-friendly” end up producing massive CO₂ footprints through forced services, throw-away components, high failure rates and unnecessary parts manufacturing cycles, overcomplicated service procedures, far larger than what the public is told. If we are destroying our ICE automotive industry based on EURO norms, who is calculating real ECO footprint of replacement part manucfacturing, unecessary servicing and real waste cost?

>We saw this years ago on diesel and petrol cars: DPF failures, EGR valves, high-pressure pumps, timing belts running in oil, low quality automatic transmissions, and lubrication system defects. Everyone calculates the CO₂ footprint of a moving vehicle — nobody calculates the CO₂ footprint of a vehicle that is constantly broken and creating waste.

Extremely well put.
by andersmurphy | 2025-12-05 10:25:06+00:00
Personally, I'm a fan of event sourcing if you need zero downtime you probably need auditibility. You have one SQLite database that's an append only event log. You build projections from it into any number of SQLite databases. These databases pull from the log database and update themselves. They are completely expendable. So you never have to vacuum them or migrate them. You just build a new projection and then point to it. This is also how you can spread your sqlite over nodes (if that's your thing, with something like NATS).

There are other ways where you're just more disciplined with your schema and indexes. I.e jsonb, partial indexes and existence based programming (from data oriented design).

Edit: In the time it took me to write this cloudflare is down again https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158200
by discreteevent | 2025-12-05 10:25:14+00:00
I would rather live in a world where I can put a raspberry cheesecake in my fridge occasionally. Because I know how to enjoy cheesecake without having to buy it every week. Not a world where when I pick the cheesecake off the shelf in the store someone says "Raspberry cheesecake! You may be one of these people who is lacking in self awareness so let me guide you. Did you know that it might be unsafe! Are you sure it's going to lead to a better outcome?"

A programming language forces a culture on everybody in the project - it's not just a personal decision like your example.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-05 10:29:13+00:00
Google is little more than a forwarding house for Wikipedia. It is so tiresome when someone says something authoritatively in a conversation and we all know they are reading it off Wikipedia. It is one of the few websites some people seem to look at along with so called social media.

Wikipedia is built using unpaid labour, but its content is then monetised by those who wish to avoid paying content creators.
by lazide | 2025-12-05 10:29:14+00:00
What sort of cars do you drive?

I’ve never had a fuse blow on a car less than 20 years old, and then it was due to shorts due to damaged insulation and bad grounds due to corrosion, which are legit problems that need to be corrected.

Also, unlike breakers, fuses are generally immune to issues with HF interference and the like - they work through basic thermoelectric effects which iron out all but the most extreme issues. If you’re moving multiple amps in a situation described as ‘RF’, or ‘high frequency’ in a DC system that’s not just noise!

That’s a real problem that needs fixing!

Not fixing the underlying problem behind a blown fuse (or constantly tripping breaker) is how your car (or house or whatever) burns to the ground.

Or you have a Lucas, in which case my condolences.
by jonathanlydall | 2025-12-05 10:29:52+00:00
Maybe it depends where you are in life, but for me the last episode of Adolescence was the most impactful, perhaps due to being a parent myself (although my children are only 3 and 5).

My big takeaway of Adolescence is that it was an extraordinarily senseless thing that was done, yet had such a profoundly negative impact on so many people. It's scary that younger people who simply haven't yet matured enough to understand the impact of their decisions can do things like this which can never be undone (and I'm not just talking about the life they took).
Show HN: Cbor.app – CBOR encoder/decoder with hex visualization
by 0xcb0 | 2025-12-05 10:30:02+00:00
Author here: I built this because I wanted to learn about CBOR and how it's build and how it encodes data. I work with it on a almost daily basis, its s binary format that is defined in the RFC8949 specification.

It was my first time using AI to formalize the rules from an RFC and turn them into testable, working code. That's why I also explicitly say that this tool is not currently in use for production (I'm sure it will contain bugs!), it's just like a tinkering tool for me and at one point I hope to make this into something that people can maybe even use in their production system.

For visualization, I built a hex viewer that shows how the CBOR is decoded. It's really helping me understand the format better.

Right now it's just a basic version—you can encode, decode, and diff two CBOR values. There's still a lot of work to do. I'd like to add more educational content about what CBOR actually is and offer more tools.

I work in the Cardano space where CBOR is used heavily, so one thing I want to add is a function that can recognize which Cardano era a transaction (or part of a transaction) comes from.

There is still a ton of work to do and I have more ideas in mind, but for now that's my first version and I would like to get some feedback :)

The CBOR parser for that project is already open sourced, and I also built a small test suite to validate my CBOR parser against test cases and see how I compare to different parsers. That's why I created two projects that make this app possible. They are both linked in the about page and they're called Nachos and Taco.
by refurb | 2025-12-05 10:30:10+00:00
As far as I can tell from the Reuter’s article, the memo reads “anyone involved in censorship of free speech”.

To me that seems like a good thing?

But the very carefully placed quotes around censorship in the article makes it seem like it would be unfairly painting activities like fact checking as censorship?

Is it too much to ask for the exact wording of what the memo says?
by nosianu | 2025-12-05 10:30:22+00:00
This did not happen fast though, but over decades.

On one side, the right preparing by slowly taking over positions, on the other side people ignoring the problems of many.

Here in Germany I fear the AfD too may get into power, because instead of fixing the problems that people complained about for decades (costs, bureaucracy, rents, no vision apart from "consume and work") people are fixated on that right wing party itself.

When I did some skydiving in my youth I was fascinated by watching sooo many skydivers barely avoiding the lone single tree near the landing zone. Turns out, if you concentrate on something ("I must avoid that tree I must avoid that tree...") you end up steering towards it. The winning move is to instead concentrate on where you do want to go. There are precious little positive ideas in our politics, it's mostly about what we don't want, or distractions on things that while it sounds nice and it's definitely okay when it gets done should never be the main focus.
by lwkl | 2025-12-05 10:30:35+00:00
Because Unifi is more focused on the needs of businesses and enthusiasts. AVM and Netgear Orbi are products for the consumer market. So they miss a the advanced features Unifi supports.

Unifi is used by the tech-savvy homeowner that needs PoE for their security cameras and wants to control and configure their network without needing a network engineer.
by kkapelon | 2025-12-05 10:32:56+00:00
"It just works" with Teltonika and Glinet as well. In most of the openwrt based routers multi-wan is already enabled. It is also very easy to do with TP-Link Omada (just enable a checkbox).

So, implying that Unifi is the only company that does this in an easy way is misleading marketing.

Comparing against Mikrotik is a very low bar.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-05 10:34:08+00:00
Psychohistory results partly from Isaac Asimov's brief flirtation with Marxism... Because Marxists have long had the notion that they can predict future tendencies in scientific terms, even though they keep having to retcon the results when things go differently than expected.

Now instead of the Foundation series' Hari Seldon, we have the WEF's Yuval Noah Harari, who is set up as some kind of scientific oracle for our past and future.
by kqr | 2025-12-05 10:34:21+00:00
The one place where radians are more convenient is when you are at the centre of the circle. Then something which is as wide (or tall) as it is far away subtends one radian in your view. (And correspondingly, if it subtends half a radian it is half as wide as it is far away, etc.)

This happens to be the most common situation in which I measure angles.
by ixsploit | 2025-12-05 10:34:43+00:00
Thank you, but the JSON API stuff is exactly what i am using nushell for at the moment. Makes it trivial to navigate large datasets.

For me it's pretty hard to work without type annotations, it just slows me down.

Don't get me wrong, I really like python for what it is, I simply missing out on the fast prototype stuff that everyone else is capable of.
by deaux | 2025-12-05 10:35:21+00:00
> Leaked documents 1 obtained by SOMO reveal how, under the pretext of the now-near-magical concept of ‘competitiveness’, these companies plotted to hijack democratically adopted EU laws and strip them of all meaningful provisions, including those on climate transition plans, civil liability, and the scope of supply chains. EU officials appear not to have known who they were up against.

I'm seeing the exact same narrative more and more right here on HN, in every thread in any way related to the EU - the idea that the likes of GDPR are destroying "competitiveness". That if only all of it would be axed, "competitiveness" would arise once more.

It's not a coincidence, especially with so much FAANG employees, either ex- or current, who spend even more on lobbying than the likes of Exxon highlighted in this article. Though it seems naive to blindly hope that even in the age of mass astroturfing, this place is somehow immune.

It's frightening just how similar the playbook and the players involved are, big oil and big tech being oh so alike.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-12-05 10:36:09+00:00
Skipping over the several very obviously wrong things she said, one perhaps non-obvious thing she got wrong was that the EU has installed more solar per capita than China.

China is the one following the European lead here. Not the other way round.

Triple the population but not triple the deployment, at least not quite yet.

The bit where the Chinese live are very similar to Europe in terms of insolation potential for PV.

They do have some big desert areas too but they're 150th in terms of countries with good solar potential.

Africa, Middle East, India, all of the Americas except Canada, Australia are all ahead on that measure of potential.
by iitinnovate2026 | 2025-12-05 10:36:53+00:00
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by huijzer | 2025-12-05 10:37:01+00:00
Hence why I wrote a post on 18th of Nov (previous Cloudflare outage): https://huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-not-put-your-site-behind-cl....

That blog post made it to the front page of HN and my site did not go down. Nor did any DDoS network take the site out even though I also challenged them last time by commenting that I would be okay with a DDoS. I would figure out a way around it.

In general, marketing often works via fear, that's why Cloudflare has those blog posts talking about "largest botnet ever". Advertisement for medicine for example also works often via fear. "Take this or you die", essentially.
by Maxion | 2025-12-05 10:37:03+00:00
You're absolutely right – Here is a list of current SOTA models that you can try!

Would you want me to:

- Create a list of all LLM models released in the past few months

- Let you know why my existence means you can't afford RAM anymore

- Help you learn sustenance farming so that you can feed your family in the coming AI future?
by FranklinMaillot | 2025-12-05 10:37:10+00:00
Not sure if this is related, but has anyone seen their allowance used up unexpectedly fast? Had Claude Code Web showing service disruption warnings, and all of a sudden I'm at 92% usage.

I'm on the pro plan, only using Sonnet and Haiku. I almost never hit the 5-hour limit, let alone in less than 2 hours.
by SR2Z | 2025-12-05 10:37:47+00:00
You think that Tesla, which has not accepted liability for a single driverless ride, has "gotten there?" I'm not even going to look up how many Waymo does in a month, I'm sure it's in the millions now.

Come on, man.

> Google's TPUs change this equation a bit

Google has been using TPUs to serve billions of customers for a decade. They were doing it at that scale before anyone else. They use them for training, too. I don't know why you say they don't own the stack "from silicon to apps" because THEY DO. Their kernels on their silicon to serve their apps. Their supply chain starts at TSMC or some third-party fab, exactly like NVIDIA.

Google's technical moat is a hundred miles deep, regardless of how dysfunctional it might look from the outside.
by krapp | 2025-12-05 10:38:37+00:00
>I will say this shows the conversation hasn’t been had.

It has been had. But you seem to require some objectively correct and universally agreed upon consensus that will never exist.

>Moderation is most often achieved by the use of censorial powers on private platforms.

"censorial powers on private platforms" are and have been acceptable since the dawn of mass communications. Even Ben Franklin when he ran a newspaper refused to run stories he considered too libelous (although he just as often ran such stories, exercising personal bias in his decisions.) The entire rationale behind the First Amendment is that it binds the government from interfering with free expression, because that right belongs to the people, implicit as it is in the concept of the marketplace of ideas, and freedom of association.

Again, the conversation has been had, and the matter has been settled at least for most people. That the current regime disagrees doesn't prove anything any more than disagreement with anything else. People disagree that the world is round, that doesn't mean the matter is still in dispute beyond a reasonable doubt.

>and people who were enforcing private rules are now in a category of applicants that I assume includes criminals and enemies of the state.

If they commit crimes, have them arrested for those crimes. If they violate TOS (even if they happen to be a sitting President), ban them. Otherwise even criminals and traitors have the same rights as everyone else. Again, this is well established and shouldn't be controversial.

> If it is an acceptable role, then it must be done well. > If it is an unacceptable criminal role, then it must be prohibited well.

what kind of force is "must" implying here, and how is "well" being defined?

We do have legal frameworks in place intended to do what you're proposing, but people are imperfect and may make mistakes or act in ways you might consider to be in error, without falling afoul of criminality. But that's acceptable. We don't abandon rights because they can't be defined or defended perfectly.
by ofalkaed | 2025-12-05 10:38:52+00:00
As I learn Zig I am realizing that what Zig is is what C++ should/could have been had C++ not anchored itself to C; that tiny change from "all valid C is valid C++" to "you can use C, we will just convert it to Zig for you," that change in methodology freed Zig to actually improve on what C is instead of just extend and build on C. Hindsight.

But I am just getting into my second week with Zig, I could be completely wrong here. Either way, really enjoying Zig and absolutely love its aversion to hiding what is really going on.