MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bawolff | 2025-12-10 01:23:55+00:00
> Fiat currency: Why would I hold a currency that another nation sucks the value out of by printing it? Even the dollar has half its value stolen every decade.

Because the entire point of a reserve currency is to spend it in emergencies. Store of value is second to liquidity.

You can also usually recover some of that loss depending on how you are holding it.

> Gold stock above ground doubles every 40ish years, halving it's value each time. Think how difficult it is to safely move and assay billions of dollars worth.

Sure, that's a potential issue (although you are overstating it a bit). The main point is that due to historical reasons it is generally really easy to sell gold even if the world is falling apart their will always be a buyer.

> The reason nations aren't publicly using bitcoin as a reserve is that it's still only the year 2025

Sure, and part of the reason is that bitcoin doesn't have a track record of providing the properties countries need in a reserve currency. Reserve currencies aren't the place to try radical experiments. A lack of track record makes bitcoin a poor choice in and of itself.
by wnevets | 2025-12-10 01:24:09+00:00
I disagree. I specifically said in my original comment they were very useful for those that knew what EV certs were and EV certs weren't.

You may not know that Digicert is a quality CA who wasn't going to risk their position as a CA to sign an EV cert for a typo squatting phishing site pretending to be PayPal but there are those who do. The green UI in chrome & firefox made finding all of this information out incredibly simple and obvious.
by Ayesh | 2025-12-10 01:24:21+00:00
It's been a long time so this is my fading memory, but CAs used to generate a private key on their end and let you download both private key and the certificate containing the public key. The non-technical person who paid big money for the certificate then emails the zip file to the developer. That's when StartTLS wasn't that big back then either.

Just comically bad way to obtain certs.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-12-10 01:24:42+00:00
The idea is immediately interesting to me because I often am in the car and want to remind myself to look something up and forget when off the road. I do not have a car with CarPlay. This would suffice beautifully.

...But that battery life absolutely kills it for me. I'd feel like each time I recorded something I was burning lifetime off my device. (Technically also true of rechargeable battery lifetimes, but it's abstract enough and minimal enough I don't think about it.)
by gamblor956 | 2025-12-10 01:24:58+00:00
This is almost completely wrong.

First, depreciation on real property is about 27 years. 80k annual depreciation indicates a 2.2m purchase price.

Corporate capital gains don't get a special rate. They're taxed the same as regular corporate income. The 1031 like kind exchange is also very difficult to achieve as the bar is very high even under the Trump admin.
by anima-core | 2025-12-10 01:25:00+00:00
I’ve been working independently on a method that replaces full-transformer inference with a low-rank “meaning field” extracted from internal activations.

The core result: a frozen Llama-3.3-70B can be distilled into a 256-dimensional field representation, giving 224× compression and slightly higher accuracy on several benchmarks. A small student model then learns to directly generate these fields from text, removing the transformer from the inference path.

The Zenodo link contains the full paper, statistical results, and methodology. A reference implementation (non-optimized) is here: https://github.com/Anima-Core/an1-core

Production variants (AN1-Turbo, FPU work, etc.) are not included.

I’m an outsider to academia so I’m posting this openly to get technical feedback, replication attempts, and critique from people who understand this space.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-10 01:25:37+00:00
For most people, it proves very disorienting to not be doing something constructive for others, and in a capitalist world, where everything easily becomes transactional and people get a little isolated from deeper community and family, it's kind of organic for that drive to be fulfilled by continuing to work in old age. Lots of people do it by choice.

If you feel like you might be on that road, the smart trick is to start thinking early about what kind of work you might want to take up during that stage and plant the seeds for it early.

Some people don't have a lot of choice to prepare, and just end up falling into being barista because the job is there and they find they enjoy it. But the other barista at that same cafe might be the owner who bought it as their own "retirement", filling shifts when they want to, while giving the neighborhood a place to gather.
by sshadmand | 2025-12-10 01:26:23+00:00
My gut reaction is, if AI was really good at vibe coding all the infra it could be nice, but getting C deployed and productized is the potential challenge. The "roads" we built for hyper scaling apps doesn't strike me as C friendly. And, even with the friendlier deployment strateies on next, python, etc, AI still slips up a lot.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-12-10 01:26:29+00:00
> I hope that's not literally incrementing a sequence. Because it would lead to trivial neighbor ID guessing attacks.

It is and it does.

Also the ULID spec suggests you use a CSPRNG, but doesn't mandate that or provide specific advice on appropriate algorithms. So in practice people may reach for whatever hash function is convenient in their project, which may just be FNV or similar with considerably weaker randomness too.
by ryukoposting | 2025-12-10 01:27:46+00:00
Our Kroger has the same service, we use it a lot. Grocery stores are annoying to me, and Kroger feels almost intentionally designed to piss me off, so that's why we use the pickup order thing. Beware:

1. Prices on the app are frequently higher than prices in the store. 2. Not all options available in the store are available in the app. 3. Don't assume they'll always have it ready on time. Or, at least, don't plan your day around it.

They force you to pick a window because stores have limited staffing, and only so many orders can be fulfilled at once. "Hire more people," you say? Hah!

We don't do delivery, so I can't comment on that aspect of the service.
by javascriptfan69 | 2025-12-10 01:27:55+00:00
This article feels like the perfect distillation of a uniquely American problem.

Some weird tech startup proposing a novel solution based on a product that isn't even in it's production phase yet. Lots of pretty 3d renders and a wall of (what appears to be AI written) corpo-speak proposing some crazy technology that will revolutionize x.

It looks cool -- don't get me wrong -- but how is this going to get power online faster than just installing solar and batteries?
by dekhn | 2025-12-10 01:29:18+00:00
How exactly did you get to "a woman wasn't smart enough to figure something out, which makes me a little suspicious."? It sounds like you're saying I think she wasn't smart? I am merely reporting the facts as they have been reported, based on a number of different books/articles.

It was an intrinsically hard problem that Crick was especially prepared to solve. I doubt the vast majority of scientists, regardless of their sex, would have been able to solve the problem with the data they had.

Generally once you share data publicly, there is a blanket rule that people can use that data. Many people claim W&C stole the data (through Wilkins) but that does not seem to be true.
by anima-core | 2025-12-10 01:30:01+00:00
I’m actually building the system-level approach this memo hints at.

I’m not from a lab or an academic group, but I’ve been working on a post-transformer inference method where you extract a low-rank “meaning field” from a frozen Llama-70B layer and train a small student model to generate those fields directly.

The idea is similar to what this memo describes, but with an empirical implementation.

I just open-sourced the reference version here:

GitHub: https://github.com/Anima-Core/an1-core Paper + DOI: https://zenodo.org/records/17873275

It isn’t about bigger models. It’s about reorganizing the system around meaning and structure, then treating the transformer as a teacher rather than the final destination.

I’d genuinely appreciate critique or replication attempts from people here. HN tends to give the most honest feedback.
by DivingForGold | 2025-12-10 01:30:03+00:00
Since most of the EU "bleeding hearts" let all the Syrian and middle Eastern immigrants in, and discovered many of them failed to integrate into their societies, and too many then resorted to crime to support themselves . . . now the EU has to recover somehow the on-going damages done, heck, let's start by "taxing" US Big Tech for their successful and innovative products . . .
by tguvot | 2025-12-10 01:30:19+00:00
so you have no 10 examples of " "opened your door, changed the lock, then pointed an AR-15 at you and told you to leave".", right ?

btw, go look up how many attacks were against israeli in last month. also, UN/etc count anything instigated/initiated by palestinians as violence. it just conveniently forgets to provide context

so, while there is some (widely publicized) cases of violence, in a big picture it's overblow

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articl...

https://www.regavim.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/RegavimSi...

https://www.jns.org/over-6300-terror-attacks-against-jews-in...
by Ayesh | 2025-12-10 01:30:57+00:00
As someone else mentioned, it's a non-profit, so I guess it's not technically possible to get acquired.

But I personally believe that the people behind LetsEncrypt genuinely care about the mission and will never sell out for their personal benefit.

If there was a list of organizations that bring the most impactful things to tech per each dollar received in donations and per each employee, ISRG will be up there at the top.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-10 01:32:32+00:00
I think I'm understanding what you're saying, I just disagree :)

> They show up as being a color in the picture not because of their inherent qualities, but because of what wavelengths of light they do or do not absorb.

The intrinsic/perceived duality that you're setting up here isn't related to what a spectrum is. What's fundamental for spectrums is that they're expansive: whatever the measured quality is, all such things map to somewhere on a single dimension which is the spectrum.

Color has been overused. Let's consider a mass spectrometer. It gives an electric charge to a sample, hurls it through a perpendicular magnetic field, and depending on the masses of the sample (or its components, supposing the ionization process broke it up), inertia causes spatial separation. Not-very-massive over here, and quite-massive over there. This is a spectrum because all masses have a place on it (nevermind that you might not actually be able to build a large enough spectrometer for some masses).

Or to use a mathematical example, if you exclude the interval [0,1] from the real number line, what you get is no longer a continuum, and mappings of things onto it are no longer a spectrum.

It may be a misconception that all political perspectives exist on a left/right axis, but when people talk about the political spectrum they're invoking a simplification under which all people do map to some point or another on that line.

As far as I'm aware it's only the autism spectrum that doesn't work this way.
by serjester | 2025-12-10 01:33:42+00:00
Congrats on the launch - you're value-add is quite confusing as someone that's at the applied AI layer. This comes off as more of a research project than a business. You're going to need an incredibly compelling sales pitch for me to send my data to an unknown vendor to fix a problem that might be obviated by the next model release (or just stronger evals with prompt engineering). Best of luck.
by jadbox | 2025-12-10 01:33:57+00:00
I get it. Both things can be true. Unstructured writing can help you develop as a person. It can also teach your own model the 'real raw human train of thoughts' of your personal journey. Personally I love the idea of booting up great-great-grandpa-model that'll have been trained on his 40 years of almost daily journaling. We are not trying to 'remake him' to be clear- we are talking about being have to have an interaction chat with his personality-vibe as it was recorded by his own hand and in his own words.
by javman | 2025-12-10 01:35:03+00:00
I get nostalgic thinking about WC2 on the Mac. I was a teen then, and loved Blizzard for putting the effort into a Mac release. I don't remember how I found IRC and #macwarcraft, but between dial-up internet, coordinating games on an IRC channel, trading IP's, and submitting game results to manual leaderboards, clan wars, trash talking, etc. What a great time it was :)
by dismantlethesun | 2025-12-10 01:36:28+00:00
In many countries, company names are unique to that country. And combined with country TLDs controlled by the nation-state itself, it'd be possible for at least barclays.co.uk to be provably owned by the UK bank itself when a EV cert is presented by the domain.

In the US though, every state has it's own registry, and names overlap without the power of trademark protection applying to markets your company is not in.
by marifjeren | 2025-12-10 01:36:33+00:00
Sorry, I'm not familiar with the ULID spec. You seem to be, hence my asking. Are you saying monotonic/sequential ULIDs are just (or just as easily enumerated as) Base32-encoded integers?

Oh and yeah, I guess I do think lots of script / AI kiddies would be discouraged by, or fail to see an opportunity when presented with, something that does not look like the numbers they saw in school.
by api | 2025-12-10 01:37:14+00:00
To me a fatal flaw in ActivityPub systems is that your identity is tied to a server. Yes you can port it, but it’s a hassle. That means the server ops become these little lords over little fiefdoms and a server just dying takes your identity with it.

This also means your reach and what you see depends on your choice of server. I very much don’t want that.

It’s also confusing to non-technical people. Join Mastodon! But which one? How do I pick one?

Technically speaking, Nostr is better. Your identity is a key. Servers are just dumb relays.

Unfortunately it seems to be nothing but crypto bros talking about crypto, or was last time I checked. Nobody uses it.
by jadsfwasdfsd | 2025-12-10 01:37:15+00:00
Why would you want segmented stacks, cgo FFI overhead, goroutines, & asynchronous preemption for a game engine? Odin is better suited than Go is for this type of software. Almost any programming language would have been a better choice here. This is rage bait I'm sure.

Maybe TinyGo can save their ass here?
by treetalker | 2025-12-10 01:38:43+00:00
Butterick on TNR:

(https://practicaltypography.com/times-new-roman-alternatives...)

> When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the font of least resistance.” Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.

> If you have a choice about using Times New Roman, please stop. Use something else.

And on Calibri:

(https://practicaltypography.com/calibri-alternatives.html)

> Like Cambria, Calibri works well on screen. But in print, its rounded corners make body text look soft. If you need a clean sans serif font, you have better options.

- - -

To telegraph an identity, TNR is a good choice for this administration; so, credit where due, well played. Still, I would have gone with Comic Sans.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-12-10 01:39:51+00:00
There are already several existing and proposed bans on short haul flights when train routes exist. [1, 2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-haul_flight_ban

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2024/03/18/spain-sho...
by kesor | 2025-12-10 01:39:56+00:00
You, like many others, seem to imply that humans write "good" code, but they absolutely do not--unless they are running some million dollar team with checks and cross checks and years of evolving the code over failures. I've tested every junior developer using simple Javascript leetcode quizes and they all produce erroneous spaghetti slop.

The difference is, we forgive humans for needing iteration. We expect them to get it wrong first, improve with feedback, and learn through debugging. But when AI writes imperfect code, you declare the entire approach fraudulent?

We shouldn't care about flawless one-shot generations. The value is in collapsing the time between idea and execution. If a model can give you a working draft in 3 seconds - even if it's 80% right - that's already a 10x shift in how we build software.

Don't confuse the present with the limit. Eventually, in not that many years, you'll vibe in English, and your AI co-dev will do the rest.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-10 01:40:02+00:00
As someone with ADHD that’s me. I don’t think this product is for me, but I have to immediately write a thing down or do it. Otherwise it’s lost. Importance is irrelevant.

Funny enough I have a pebble core 2 duo from this team. There’s a simple voice app that jots down a short note quickly on the watch, it can support 10 notes total. I love it. I only use it when I really need to throw something down immediately and I can’t clutter it up with nonsense. It also means I check it every day because it’s not daunting.
by majormajor | 2025-12-10 01:41:01+00:00
To answer the question literally, vs discuss "is vibe-coding good": The more tricky details in a language, the more I've seen LLM-first coding struggle. Rust, for instance, often leads to the model playing whack-a-mole with lifetime or borrow checker issues. It can often get to something that compiles and passes the tests, but the process gives me some pause in terms of "what am I not checking for that the whack-a-mole may have missed."

In C, without anything like a borrow checker or such, I'd be very worried about there being subtle pointer safety issues...

Now, some of that could be volumes of training data, etc, but Rust is widely discussed these days in the places these models are trained on, so I'm not certain it's a training problem vs a attention-to-detail across files problem. I.e., since LLMs are trained to mimic human language, programming languages that are most procedural-human-language-like (vs having other levels o fmeaning embedded in the syntax too) may exactly be those "LLM-friendly" languages.
by Ayesh | 2025-12-10 01:41:29+00:00
https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder

You can find a docker-compose.yml file to get some idea.

Appears to be using MariaDB.

They shut down OCSP responders and expiry email reminders, so there really is no need to have a database apart from rate limits, auth data, and caching.

For Certificate Transparency, they are submitted to Google and CloudFlare run trees but I don't think LetsEncrypt run their own logs.
by epsteingpt | 2025-12-10 01:41:56+00:00
"If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in assembly?"

Many people I've seen have taken existing software and 'ported' it to more performant languages like C, Rust, etc.

LLMs are extremely efficient and good at translation.

The biggest question is maintainability and legibility. If you want it for your own proprietary software, this can (and probably is, generally) a good pattern if you can get the LLM to nail language specific challenges (e.g. memory allocation in C)

However, fewer people can write C code generally, and even fewer can use it to build things like UI's. So you're by definition moving the software away from a collaborative mechanism.

The abstraction layers were built for human maintenance. LLMs don't need that.
by sshadmand | 2025-12-10 01:42:26+00:00
How he created a world around his CV may not be groundbreaking, but very creative and done exceptionally well. I caught myself driving around for a couple minutes. Accepting cookies bakes a cookie, you get hidden easter eggs when you complete certain actions (like lift driving in water). Just like with any creative endeavor (movies, music, dance) doing something no one has ever seen isn't always the goal (striving for that can often feel forced/cringe); creating an emotion in someone is art - and this did that for me.
by userbinator | 2025-12-10 01:42:42+00:00
The sound usually comes from inductors and capacitors in the power supply circuitry, not the ICs themselves as they draw pulses of power in patterns at audible frequencies. Modern CPUs and GPUs will still whine audibly if given a suitable load; the amount of current they consume is amazingly high, dozens to hundreds of amps, and also changing extremely quickly.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-10 01:43:20+00:00
> But will they earn a higher margin if they put it in a datacenter

Nvidia is a five trillion dollar business right now. The total sum of Apple's profits from services, hardware and servicing/repair costs all fail to crest Nvidia's total addressable market. We've been past the point of theorizing for almost two years now.

Apple has the means to break into that market, too. They don't need the silicon (iPhone/iPad are way overpowered, Vision Pro and Mac are low-volume), they have thousands of engineers with UNIX experience, and hundreds of billions of dollars in liquid cash waiting to be spent. If the China divestment and monopoly case happen, Apple needs a game plan that guarantees them protection from US politicians and secures an easy cash flow.

From the consumer perspective, it seems simple; stop shipping the latest silicon in the iPhone. Nobody uses it. They're not playing AAA-games or inferencing the latest AI models, and the efficiency gains haven't been noticable for a decade. You don't need TSMC 2nm to browse the App Store, or watch AppleTV. The only opportunity cost comes from selling consumers hardware they can't appreciate.
by skeledrew | 2025-12-10 01:43:21+00:00
You have the options of using the transcription in the app, subscribing to their cloud service, or building out your own service that access the data via webhooks:

> I love customizing and hacking on my devices. What could I do with Index 01?

> Lots of stuff! Control things with the buttons. Route raw audio or transcribed text directly to your own app via webhook. Use MCPs (also run locally on-device! No cloud server required) to add more actions.
by whoisthemachine | 2025-12-10 01:44:28+00:00
Compare this:

> calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move

to

> SECRETARY BLINKEN: First, I’m called to make very weighty decisions (inaudible).

> QUESTION: Oh. Type joke.

> SECRETARY BLINKEN: And I’m always trying to be a font of wisdom, (inaudible).

Just... ugh. People voted for all of this non-stop vitriol? I'd like to have a post that added something meaningful but all I have to add is frustration with humanity.
by mvdtnz | 2025-12-10 01:45:12+00:00
Every time someone tries to re-think the genre they make it worse. Supreme Commander (and Forged Alliance) were near-perfect games, but SupCom 2 tried to simpify the game to appeal to console players and ruined it completely. Dawn of War 2, although not to everyone's taste, was in my view the peak of the series. For the third install they tried to simplify the game and bring it closer to a MOBA and it was an incredible flop.

In my view, if a develop MUST make the game more accessible, they should do so with alternate modes while still maintaining a strong competitive 1v1, 2v2 and 4v4 mode with the steep learning curve and competitive nature. Anything else is a betrayal of the genre.