MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2025-12-31 05:36:50+00:00
I know a lot of people who won't work for some companies for ethical reasons.

Though, sometimes the exact reason is muddied, since companies that are perceived as unethical in how they behave externally are also perceived as unethical in how they behave towards employees. So you might object on those grounds, before you ever get to, say, altruistic grounds.

Also, sometimes fashion is involved. For example, many people wouldn't work for company X, because of popular ethical objections to what they do being in the news, but some of those people would probably work for an unknown company doing the same things, without thinking much about it.

But often it's just "I don't like what company Y is doing to people, and I wouldn't work on that, even if they treated employees really well, and it was really fashionable".

(See, for example, the people who refused to work for Google after the end of Don't Be Evil honeymoon phase, even though they generally treated employees pretty well, and it was still fashionable to work there.)
by tstrimple | 2025-12-31 05:37:09+00:00
I work in consulting and have a good look at how a few very large players are trying to implement GenAI. They literally have zero clue what they are doing providing gimped access to sandboxed models approved by legal. So many are just using Copilot that they are already paying for to some degree. Out of the dozen or so large organizations adopting GenAI that I'm at least tangentially involved in one way or another, not a single one is using tools like Codex or Claude Code for development.
by selcuka | 2025-12-31 05:37:22+00:00
A random provider could be a hit-or-miss. I've personally used RackNerd (found them on LowEndBox/Talk) in the past and can't complain for the price. They have plans under $1/month, and they even provide an IPv4 address:

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by mahirsaid | 2025-12-31 05:37:46+00:00
I suspect google can last much longer in regards to an AI model chat engine that competes with open AI and other companies, without needing a profit from that particular product in a timely manner. I can's say the same for the others. Google is using it's own money to fund this without mch pressure for immediate profit in a time deadline. They can rely on their other services for revenue and profit for the meantime.
Show HN: Perfetto2LLM - A tool to pass system traces to an LLM
by ak2242 | 2025-12-31 05:38:02+00:00
I work with perfetto traces for ML/GPU optimization a lot. Copy pasting trace info to LLM is not easy. As usually the traces are gzip compressed, have very large file sizes. Also there is no way to select a certain section and sending it to LLM easily (can maybe write a query to do this but not ergonomic). So vibe coded this tool to quickly select the kernels/slices/threads I want to ask about and one click to get a text/json/markdown in my clipboard to paste for LLMs.

I think an MCP server for this might also be useful (tried a few but all miss certain things i wanted so chose to just build this quickly)
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-31 05:38:20+00:00
Some people who just want to polish their resume will feed any questions/feedback back into the AI that generated their slop. That goes back and forth a few times until the reviewing side learns that the code authors have no idea what they're doing. An LLM can easily pretend to "stand behind its work" if you tell it to.

A company can just fire someone who doesn't know what they're doing, or at least take some kind of measure against their efforts. On a public project, these people can be a death by a thousand cuts.

The best example of this is the automated "CVE" reports you find on bug bounty websites these days.
by nopesayer | 2025-12-31 05:38:35+00:00
Low being relative.

6000 C28 at 256GB using 4x64 is not at all on the bandwidth high end these days, but it's way more than DDR4 could provide.

Most boards support 4x64 at 5600+ now, some go to 6400 with it if you tune voltages and terminations.
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by opello | 2025-12-31 05:38:47+00:00
That was a very nice read, thanks!

> I also removed the background color so we save ink on actual printing.

It seems reasonable to also remove the #post-title border-top:1rem solid var(--accent-dark) for the same reason? That and the padding-top on the same element struck me as unnecessarily moving the printed content down the page.
Show HN: S3Broker – CF Worker library to protect your S3 storage from ransomware
by tsunrise | 2025-12-31 05:39:05+00:00
Hi HN Community! I use S3 providers (e.g. Cloudflare R2) along with software like rclone and Mountain Duck for my personal media storage. Some S3 providers do not include built-in versioning / deletion protection. I find my data vulnerable to accidental deletion or ransomware attacks in case my device is compromised.

To tackle this issue, I built a "middleware" on Cloudflare Workers to proxy S3 requests with configurable guardrail policies. The client uses an alternative secret key to connect to this middleware, and the middleware would reject with 403 if it determines the S3 request is dangerous. For example, I could configure that all files in `/important/.*` path older than 1 week could not be deleted or overwritten. Doing so, I could restrict ransomware's abilities on the API level.

The code has been packed into a library and published to npm to be used on CF workers. This is an active work in progress, and I have already deployed it for my personal use (it works). Let me know what you think!
by skeeter2020 | 2025-12-31 05:39:22+00:00
This is a pretty dumb report overall. What do I do if I'm on a plane with a 3.85 rating, or a "B"? How are these measures supposed to influence my decision making? I'll just follow the spirit of the ridiculous recommendations:

NEVER drink any water onboard; only drink alcohol-based hand sanitizer containing at least 60% alcohol instead
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-31 05:39:38+00:00
> If you want to win a trade war against a country that holds a lot of your currency

There are no such countries compared to the volume necessary to harm them and much less compared to the volume necessary for the US to gain from it.

More importantly, tariffs and export restrictions can go both ways and their bang as weapons of trade war far exceeds the measly whisper of a falling currency.

At most, this can end as a loss for both sides, but the US is far more exposed and is going to lose a lot more - except for the super-rich of course, they have the rest as their human shields.
by hakfoo | 2025-12-31 05:39:41+00:00
The railroads provided something of enduring value. They did something materially better than previous competitors (horsecarts and canals) could. Even today, nothing beats freight rail for efficient, cheap modest-speed movement of goods.

If we consider "AI" to be the current LLM and ImageGen bubble, I'm not sure we can say that.

We were all wowed that we could write a brief prompt and get 5,000 lines of React code or an anatomically questionable deepfake of Legally Distinct Chris Hemsworth dancing in a tutu. But once we got past the initial wow, we had to look at the finished product and it's usually not that great. AI as a research tool will spit back complete garbage with a straight face. AI images/video require a lot of manual cleanup to hold up to anything but the most transient scrutiny. AI text has such distinct tones that it's become a joke. AI code isn't better than good human-developed code and is prone to its own unique fault patterns.

It can deliver a lot of mediocrity in a hurry, but how much of that do we really need? I'd hope some of the post-bubble reckoning comes in the form of "if we don't have AI to do it (vendor failures or pricing-to-actual-cost makes it unaffordable), did we really need it in the first place?" I don't need 25 chatbots summarizing things I already read or pleading to "help with my writing" when I know what I want to say.
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-12-31 05:39:53+00:00
Did you even read the abstracts of these papers?

The first one has four important phrases: “negative correlation,” “mediated by increased cognitive offloading,” “higher educational attainment was associated with better critical thinking skills, regardless of AI usage,” and “potential costs.”

The second paper has two: “students using GenAI tools score on average 6.71 (out of 100) points lower than non-users,” and “suggesting an effect whereby GenAI tool usage hinders learning.”

I ask you, sir, where exactly do you get “AI over-reliance will make us worse…because it’s true” from TWO studies that go out of their way to make it clear there is no causative link, only correlation, point out significant mediations of the effect, identify only potentiality, and also show only half a letter grade difference, which when you’re dealing with students could be down to all sorts of things. Not to mention we’re dealing with one preprint and some truly confounding study design.

If you don’t understand research methods, please stop presenting papers as if they are empirical authorities on truth.

It diminishes trust in real academic work.
by Agent_Builder | 2025-12-31 05:41:03+00:00
We learned this the hard way while building GTWY. Full VM or container sandboxing felt safe, but most real failures didn’t come from escaping the environment. They came from agents having too much freedom at a single step.
Our default shifted to lighter isolation with strict, step-level boundaries. Each step gets explicit tool access and scoped permissions. That caught more bugs than heavier sandboxes and kept iteration fast.

The biggest tradeoff in practice was safety vs debuggability. Over-isolating made failures harder to understand. Clear execution boundaries scaled better than deeper isolation
by tstrimple | 2025-12-31 05:42:50+00:00
Real cities have redundant opportunities. I live in a city of around 120k people. We have three Walmart's spread across the city and two Target stores. These are just the main big players obviously. There are dozens of smaller stores offering various goods. In game settings there tends to be one primary shop of a type per "area" forcing people to congregate around very specific places. Same with quest givers. There is zero reason for every warrior to have the exact same "warrior mentor/trainer". There could literally be dozens of different warrior trainers spread across the city and you're randomly assigned one of the lower utilization trainers on character creation. You get to know the local shops and resources around your particular trainer before branching out.
by nopesayer | 2025-12-31 05:43:03+00:00
Cute but that's not how it works.

The singaling is double the transfers but the bandwidth does not double.

We've seen what ... 5 ... itterations now and people still get this wrong.

The doubling of transfers comes at the cost of latency and processing overhead, always, until the new standard matures and might match the predecessor latency.

Did dual channel DDR5 double dual channel DDR4 bandwidth? Short answer ... nope, not even close, and DDR4 4000 remains viable and trades blows with DDR5 to this day in application performance despite "losing" in sulunthetics.
by Ekaros | 2025-12-31 05:43:29+00:00
Even if there is a bailout. Will it happen in time? Once the confidence is lost it is lost and valuations have dropped. Bailout would just mean that who ever gave money would end up as bag holder of something now worth lot less.

Banks needed bailout to keep lending money. Auto industry needed one to keep employing lot of people. AI doesn't employ that many.

I just don't believe bailout can happen before it is too late for it to be effective in saving the market.
by atoav | 2025-12-31 05:46:42+00:00
Is it tho?

If you don't speak Hungarian and you have a Hungarian friend write a text for you that you submit to a collection of worthy Hungarian poetry, do you really think you are the correct person to answer questions about the text that was written?

You know what is supposed to be in it, but that's it. You can't judge the quality of the text and how it is fitting the rest at all. You can only trust your friend. And it is okay if you do, just don't pull others into it.

IMO it is extremely rude to even try to pull this off and if you do, shame on you for wasting peoples time.
by InvertedRhodium | 2025-12-31 05:47:22+00:00
Personally, I’ve got fatigue at the phrase “AI slop”. It’s used as a catch all to dismiss the content due to the source, regardless of the quality or suitability when taken in context.

Just like everything else these days the responses skew towards both extremes on the spectrum and people hand waving away the advancements is just as annoying as those who are zealots on the other end.
by ajross | 2025-12-31 05:47:42+00:00
Taking your example in good faith: Gold is four times as expensive today as it was at this time in 2015. Has food seen a 4x increase? No, right? So gold is volatile on a level way beyond inflation. QED.

Are CPI measurements difficult? Sure. It takes a bunch of expert eggheads and a lot of shouting to come to consensus. Still better than trusting some kind of magical commodity market to tell you.
by wtallis | 2025-12-31 05:49:26+00:00
> it also doesn't say they acquired "commodity hardware"; I took it to suggest the opposite, presumably for good reason.

This seems entirely like wishful thinking. They were using a 12 year old server that was increasingly unfit for the day to day task of building Android applications. It doesn't seem like they were in a position to acquire and deploy any exotic hardware (except to the extent that really old hardware can be considered exotic and no longer a commodity). I'd be surprised if the new server is anything other than off the shelf x86 hardware, and if we're lucky then maybe they know how to do something useful with a TPM or other hardware root of trust to secure the OS they're running on this server and protect the keys they're signing builds with.
by nopesayer | 2025-12-31 05:49:33+00:00
Bifurcation is done on the CPU.

Asus 5.0 Hyper M.2 with yield 4x4x4x4 in a board that is setup for bifurcation of PCIE slot 1 like that.

I have run 4 GPUs this way and it works very well.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-12-31 05:50:37+00:00
My home country the Netherlands became a republic after a long war with the Spanish that controlled the territory from Spain after having inherited it via various wars and conflicts that divided up the remains of the Carolian empires. The Austrians ended up with a lot of states across what is now Germany and Belgium. France emerged as well as a country.

The Netherlands was too far away from the courts in Spain for them to govern effectively. Travel time was measured in weeks. So, remote regions like that necessarily had a large degree of autonomy. That became the basis for power to centralize around Amsterdam as it was favorably located for for trading. There were a lot of grievances with religious issues (Catholicism vs. Protestantism), taxation, etc. But the Spanish failure to project power from a distance had everything to do with the centralized nature of their empire and long communication channels.

In the so called golden century (17th century), the Netherlands got filthy rich on global trade and expansion. Information and knowledge flowed to and from Amsterdam from all over the world.

The Dutch naval forces dominated the North Sea for quite some time and it's only later that the British emerged as the better/bigger empire. Navies and ships were the fastest way to move information around at the time. Until the British finally upgraded to cables and telegrams which enabled them to have colonies on all continents. They really nailed command and control across their empire for a while.

The Romans had their roads to move armies and information. Shipping and navigation technology leveled that up from the 1400s or so. These days, low latency communication is a commodity of course.
by nineteen999 | 2025-12-31 05:50:40+00:00
If you asked Claude to review the code it would probably have pointed out the duplication pretty quickly. And I think this is the thing - if we are going to manage programmers who are using LLM's to write code, and have to do reviews for their code, reviewers aren't going to be able to do it for much longer without resorting to LLM assistance themselves to get the job done.

It's not going to be enough to say - "I don't use LLM's".
by akerl_ | 2025-12-31 05:50:45+00:00
> if companies like Apple really wanted to fund this work, I'm pretty sure they could figure something out

A reminder that companies are not a hive mind.

Many people at Apple surely would love to funnel piles of money to open source. Maybe some of them even work in the Finance or Procurement or Legal departments. But the overwhelming majority of Apple’s procurement flow is not donations, and so it is optimized for the shape of the work it encounters.

I bet there are plenty of people working at Chick-fil-A who wish it was open on Sundays. But it’s not ~“blaming the user” to suggest that as it stands, showing up on Sunday is an ineffective way to get chicken nuggets.
by epistasis | 2025-12-31 05:51:44+00:00
A far better solution that I take: not consume the media at all. Not only is there an abundance of media these days, but there are many many other better ways to spend time, such as writing comments on Hacker News that very few people will ever see.

I have spent about half an hour investigating sound bars as a result of these discussions, and that's a loss of life that I can never get back, and I regret spending that much time on the problem.
by rramadass | 2025-12-31 05:51:45+00:00
It is not that i am against AI genned articles, it is that this is just a very low-effort one. They could have easily categorized, noted difficulty levels, background needed, added more details/pointers etc. to really make this useful.

For example, to mention implementing TCP/IP stack but not point to Adam Dunkels works is a unforgivable crime ;-) See list of his projects at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Dunkels#Networked_embedde... which are all relevant here. He is another Fabrice Bellard like super programmer!

I think people should try to implement one or more of these projects with AI tools but using it solely for drudgery work i.e. keep design/architecture in your head and only get AI to generate code for well specified (formally if possible) functions. This will also make them highly relevant to today's job market. Programmers now need to move more into meta-level i.e. use Formal Methods (Specification/Verification) to get AI to generate code with correctness proof along with it.
by luigi23 | 2025-12-31 05:54:27+00:00
I dont think so. They also triggered SEO race where businesses pump out same bland blogposts to optimize ranking. Content made by humans for those companies was the only viable way at that time, and now new synthetic method emerges - whatever generates revenue will win. AI reels and tiktoks get views, so why bother with human generated content after the training on models have been done? Sad but true.
by hakfoo | 2025-12-31 05:55:05+00:00
An Abit AV8 was my first "Good" new motherboard. I came into some money and decided to build a then-new Socket 939 setup, with a 3200+.

I recall they had one BIOS release that bricked boards, which I missed by not downloading it the first day of availability. The board was eventually destroyed by a sketchy PSU which killed the AGP slot and the Geforce 6800LE that was in it.

Later I tried an IP35-E, but had problems (two different memory sets failed) so I returned it for the Gigabyte P35-DS3L I actually wanted but was out of stock at the time.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-12-31 05:56:08+00:00
> That I cannot believe.

Note the "goal" there. SpaceX's only in flight explosion came after a strut (3rd party sourced) failed on S2, on the CRS-7 mission in 2015. They in sourced that, and haven't had many issue on ascent since then. They've also launched and landed some 500 rockets since then (165 this year) so ... at least they're walking the walk?
by fdr | 2025-12-31 05:56:22+00:00
It's not very convincing, though: there's a huge runup in gold prices (as is often the case) between 2023 and the present, and a long do-nothing period before that. The major consumers of gold are about: 50% jewelry, 10% industrial, 20% central banks, a large run-up from about 10% in the 2010s.

I like to think about the inherent contradictions of goldbugs going long on central bank portfolio policy: they both tend to distrust the central bank but in a way the central bank activities partially endorse their habits, and are source of their recent appreciation and accusations of "hidden" inflation. But central banks operate in an anarchic world system, I presume most gold bugs are holding ETFs in an existing financial system or have it in a safe in their house which has, well, other risks.

I myself hold no gold, if I want hydraulic and non-volatile inflation compensation, it's quite simple: short-dated sovereign debt, aka the humble money market fund. Nobody likes being a sucker, holding debt for below the time value of money, including changes in nominal value. It finds its level nicely.

See https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/markets-and-economy/market..., https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/other-publications/ire/focus...
by mindcrime | 2025-12-31 05:56:36+00:00
I don't use that exact set of questions, but for the last 4 or 5 years now I've been doing a end of year "retrospective" styled after Scrum retros. I ask myself (and write down) things like:

- What went well this year?

- What did not go well this year?

- What things should I do more of this coming year?

- What things should I do less of this coming year?

And so on.

I also write down a list of "themes / priorities for the coming year". High level stuff, not task level TODO items.

And I keep the document open on my laptop and review it every so often as a reminder to keep focused on the important stuff. It's hard to quantify but I think it does help.

I'm intrigued by the idea of adding some of these items to my retrospective for 2025, which I will probably do tomorrow.
by jmb99 | 2025-12-31 05:57:04+00:00
Scraping text across the entire internet is orders of magnitudes easier than scraping YouTube. Even ignoring the sheer volume of data (exabytes), you simply will get blocked at an IP and account level before you make a reasonable dent. Even if you controlled the entire IPv4 space I’m not sure you could scrape all of YouTube without getting every single address banned. IPv6 makes address bans harder, true, but then you’re still left with the problem of actually transferring and then storing that much data.
by arjie | 2025-12-31 05:57:18+00:00
I, personally, have a cabinet in a colo. With $400k, I can host it at that datacentre with the income from risk-free return never exercising the capital with 10 GigE, 3 kW of power. If I can do it, they can do it.

Modern computers are super efficient. A 9755 has 128 cores and you can get it for cheap. If you've been doing this for a while you'd have gotten the RAM for cheap too.

If I, a normie, can have terabytes of RAM and hundreds of cores in a colo, I'm pretty sure they can unless they have some specific requests.

And dude, I'm in the Bay Area. Think about that. I'm in one of the highest cost localities and I can do this. I bet there are Colorado or Washington DCs that are even cheaper.
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