MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-12-06 15:08:35+00:00
> schizophrenic sister that is named Carol.

Name matches will happen regardless of the name chosen for a fictional person. "named Carol" specifically vs other names is an irrelevance. You put too much on it.

> Totally NOT made up.

Once more for the hard of reading, I refer you to what I said earlier, "We don't know the truth of this at all."

> but I have this very exciting business idea – you can make billions,

It looks to me like you want to rant people you have invented, who hold positions that I do not. I'm sorry that you can't parse nuance, but I think I'll keep the sceptical lack of faith in your position that I used earlier.
by krapp | 2025-12-06 15:09:31+00:00
>The vast majority of humans are not benefiting from it and are therefore motivated against it.

The vast majority of humans don't benefit from most things, but they are not therefore motivated against most things. That's not how motivation works.

>Also, they do care they just might not be consciously aware of the damage it causes.

So the one thing the entire human race agrees on is that advertising is evil, just unconsciously? They don't realize it but somehow you do?

No, sorry. I have assume you're trolling. Good show, you managed to annoy me.
by z00z1 | 2025-12-06 15:09:45+00:00
> 20% of internet traffic passes through CF networks

That does not sound right to me. “20 percent of websites” does not mean “20 percent of traffic.”.

There is no public write-up from Cloudflare that proves “we handle 20% of all Internet traffic.” Cloudflare reports around 295,000 paying customers and more than 30 million Internet properties (20% of the web). So most of their users are on the free plan.
by booleandilemma | 2025-12-06 15:11:28+00:00
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I and other Americans completely agree with what you're saying and I'm sorry your question is getting downvoted. There are lots of bleeding hearts on this site. Anyway, I wanted to let you know to not give up, don't believe the gaslighters - Americans do deserve American jobs. I'll sacrifice a few HN points to say this so others don't have to. Keep fighting.
by mrweasel | 2025-12-06 15:11:35+00:00
As a user, yes, as a developer no.

If it helps: As a user I don't want an onboarding process, I want to be able to start with the features I need. The I can later migrate more and more stuff into your app. If it's an all or nothing deal, then it's to much work to get started.

I think this is also why we see people jump on "simply solution for X", then X grows and users adopt the new features in slow progression. At some point it become to much for new users, and they start searching for "simply solution for X" and the cycle restarts.
by fwip | 2025-12-06 15:11:55+00:00
Self-hosting and bioinformatics are both great use cases for containers, because you want "just let me run this software somebody else wrote," without caring what language it's in, or looking for rpms, etc etc.

If you're e.g: a Java shop, your company already has a deployment strategy for everything you write, so there's not as much pressure to deploy arbitrary things into production.
by medinot | 2025-12-06 15:12:46+00:00
What approaches could you use to engineer a synthetic placenta?

From what I understand of current research, the bottleneck right now is finding a way to supply an embryo with oxygen and nutrients, and remove waste products, that doesn't rely on the the use of a 'nutrient bath'. This method relies on diffusion. Diffusion is not sufficient to supply and remove the relevant substances as it grows. The embryo literally starts dying from the inside out as it's too far from the nutrient bath.

You need to involve the circulatory system - this is the literal problem it solves. How you do that however I do not know.
by Spooky23 | 2025-12-06 15:12:48+00:00
They’ve gotten cheaper and aggregated into nationwide networks. The older devices were expensive and in police car scenarios required pretty significant effort to install. The mobile flock just gets bolted to the dash.

In my city, most vehicular movement between neighborhoods and in/out of the city is logged. Your safety and civil liberties are dependent on agencies following and auditing their work rules, as the law didn’t anticipate this gives them a lot of discretion.
by conorbergin | 2025-12-06 15:13:48+00:00
crank check:

- AI "collaboration" - pure maths in a cosmology paper - Zenodo - small number of citations from a wide range of dates - cosmology

One of my favourite youtube videos is Angela Collier's one on cranks, she makes the point that a motivated independent researcher can do science if they choose less ambitious problems, but these people always choose the deepest and most fundamental problems in maths and physics.
by miladyincontrol | 2025-12-06 15:14:01+00:00
As someone who loves immich, a VM is overkill but also without vGPUs or external configuration loses you access to some the best features, local AI searching akin to what google and apple photos offer.

Its not perfect but its great to be able to just search for things in a photo and find any matches across dozens of TBs of raws, without having to have some 3rd party cloud AI nonsense do all the work.

The only thing I wish they could get integrated is support for jxl compressed raws, which requires them compile libraw with adobe's sdk.
by lanyard-textile | 2025-12-06 15:14:50+00:00
Nah. Right in the browser works great: discord.com/app

You’re going to keep running into a wall thinking of discord like a forum replacement; It’s designed to be an IRC replacement.

The invitation system intentionally creates some privacy so you can build a sense of enclosed community around them, and so you have some control over who sees what. Not having your conversations on full automatic blast to the public is a feature.
by rkomorn | 2025-12-06 15:15:11+00:00
It does feel like one of the side effects of containers is that now, instead of having to worry about dependencies on one host, you have to worry about dependencies for the host (because you can't just ignore security issues on the host) as well as in every container on said host.

So you go from having to worry about one image + N services to up-to-N images + N services.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-06 15:15:36+00:00
There is an absolutely huge ritual part to it because I have been trying swap out coffee and just take caffeine pills in the morning to be more exact in my caffeine consumption.

I just can not do it. It is just not the same sitting here without the taste, smell and sensory experience completely divorced from the actual caffeine. That is with even taking more caffeine than I would get from my brew coffee.
by breppp | 2025-12-06 15:16:04+00:00
These are not people shilling for these countries, these are people in the west that are not aware they are being played for these agendas.

Usually the play is something a country like Russia has zero interest in apart for weakening the west, e.g. pizzagate.

For a recent example, that time when scottish independence accounts disappeared when Israel bombed Iran https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/dozens-of-pro-indy-accounts-...
by brennanpeterson | 2025-12-06 15:16:14+00:00
I wonder if that is why it worked as opposed to why it sold. At least, as one of the users in that time it seems to me that the itch was the document repository with some features, and the rest was fluff for purchasing to sign off on.

All the calendar, task, website stuff ended up dying away, because what we really needed was a good document management system, with optionally some simple signoff loops and notifications.

That was great. Yes, it was just unix like tools with a window. That is the craigslist of os improvements.

It really was the use case, but the simple one. I saw plenty of power users try to do complex and ultimately fragile uses that died away.

In the case of this user, I love the idea of turning an email to an action, but I also need to add that to my action board and assign it, and check people time, at which point the simple action only makes sense for individuals, not teams or orgs. and I need to add a couple missing actions, and summarize. So suddenly the all in one is a marginally useful tool that is also a straightjacket. And then I go back to outlook and jira and excel and trelli or whatever.
by techblueberry | 2025-12-06 15:16:21+00:00
This blog post is just utter fantasy. AGI is already here. 2023 was the last year before AGI.

“ For over a decade, AI assisted developers. But in 2026, AI no longer “assists”—it co-develops.”

Wrong, developers assist AI.

Every founder and CTO is quietly asking the same question: “How do we structure our team before everything changes?”

Wrong, any team that hasn’t changed already is the equivalent of decades behind.
by photochemsyn | 2025-12-06 15:16:24+00:00
You can only move fast without crashing all the time if you've already developed expert-level skills, and that takes time. Two examples come to mind: Albert Einstein's work on special vs. general relativity, and Adrej Karpathy's ML tutorials. Now, if you want to explore this in more detail, here are two prompts I wrote myself that you can use to get the full argument:

(1) As an expert in scientific discovery in the 19th and 20th century, let's disassemble a general claim using the specific example of Einstein's work on special relativity and general relativity. First, here is the claim: "If I give you two PhD students, one who completed their thesis in two years and one who took eight years… you can be almost certain that the two-year thesis will be much better." Things to keep in mind: (1) special relativity was baked into Maxwell's electromagnetism and should have been discovered years before Einstein, and (2) general relativity was a novel application of non-Euclidean geometry and mathematics to the gravity problem, that is the acceleration problem, and was quite a unique accomplishment. Discuss the 'amount of research' that went into each development by Einstein and lay out the argument that this disproves our claim, with any caveats you think appropriate.

(2) In general, it seems to take about ten years of diligent focused effort for a person to develop their skill levels to the point where they can make meaningful contributions to any science, engineering, or even artistic field. Einstein seems to follow this trend, if we start counting from his teenage fascination with physics. Another example is the very popular instructional videos on machine learning by Andrej Karpathy, eg "The spelled out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd" in which he begins by stating he's been programming neural nets for ten years. Thus, it seems fair to conclude that 'move fast' only makes sense after 'develop the required expertise to know how to move fast'.
by alecco | 2025-12-06 15:16:35+00:00
I'm surprised the perspective of China making TPUs at scale in a couple of years is not bigger news. It could be a deadly blow for Google, NVIDIA, and the rest. Combine it with China's nuclear base and labor pool. And the cherry on top, America will train 600k Chinese students as Trump agreed to.

The TPUv4 and TPUv6 docs were stolen by a Chinese national in 2022/2023: https://www.cyberhaven.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-the-goo... https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/superseding-indictment-charge...

And that's just 1 guy that got caught. Who knows how many other cases were there.

A Chinese startup is already making clusters of TPUs and has revenue https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3334244/ai-start-...
by 747fulloftapes | 2025-12-06 15:16:43+00:00
While some people do get away with this, it carries some risk.

Without using an LLC, most every state requires you to register your vehicle where you live within 30-90 days with some exceptions (ie college students).

Even with the LLC, if you catch the attention of the state, I believe you might be risking being charged with tax evasion even if your goal was to protect your privacy. This is especially true if you can't prove the LLC to be a legitimate business venture.

Yeah, the Corolla won't be mistaken for a supercar, but many states have begun cracking down on residents with Montana plates such as Georgia, Ohio, and New York.

Also, insuring a car with out of state registration can be committing insurance fraud. Rates and fees are different between states due to different regulations. Further, depending on your policy, the insurer could deny claims because the car wasn't garaged in the state it was registered.

Really, if the privacy is of sufficient priority, the best solution is to just do things properly and move to rural Montana instead.
by kyledrake | 2025-12-06 15:16:50+00:00
I inherited a Samsung fridge when I moved to a new place, it was a terrible fridge with serious mechanical flaws. The deicer broke, causing a constant stream of leaking water in the fridge. The French door middle component hinge was cheap plastic that broke and I had to replace it, then it broke again and I had to replace it again, then it broke again. I finally gave up and replaced the fridge.

Recommendation threads on Reddit usually begin with "anything but Samsung". They seem designed to be made cheap and hit the lowest price point with consumers that don't want to spend a lot more on something they don't really care about, so I'm not surprised to learn that ads are a part of their strategy.

But also, why do fridges need to connect to the internet?
by GMoromisato | 2025-12-06 15:17:28+00:00
I think the key is the mental model, as you said.

One danger is trying to reduce multiple different concepts to a single concept. For example, instead of thinking about an email, a task, and a calendar entry as separate things, we could just have a generic concept like an "entity" which has attributes like a time/date or a list of people or a body of text.

Programmers love that kind of abstraction. We love having a few simple pieces that we can combine in various ways to get what we want. That is literally what we do when we program.

Normal people, though, hate that. Instead of giving them a tool to get their job done, we've given them a puzzle. They need to figure out how to combine the pieces. And what's obvious to us, is absolutely not obvious to them.

I haven't seen your UX, so I don't know if this is an issue, but I would focus on the mental model. As a user, what do I need to know to start using the tool? If that's more than a single sentence (to start) then you're in trouble.

I'm always happy to brainstorm with people. Hit me up if you want to chat sometime.
by DivingForGold | 2025-12-06 15:18:01+00:00
A met a guy once whom drives a PU truck, he lowers the tailgate and places an oversized piece of plywood in the bed as an excuse, he also places an opaque plastic cover over his front lic plate, which has been raised to a $300 fine in Texas, if caught. He now intends to place a series of bright strobe lights around his front plate to "bleach out" the sensors of these spy cameras.
by b112 | 2025-12-06 15:18:12+00:00
In the best of gaslighting and redirection, Youtube invents a new codec with integrated AI, thus vastly complicating your ability to make this point.

After posting a cogent explanation as to why integrated AI filtering is just that, and not actually part of the codec, Youtube creates dozens of channels with AI-generated personalities, all explaining how you're nuts.

These channels and videos appear on every webpage supporting your assertions, including being top of results on search. Oh, and AI summaries on Google searxh, whenever the top is searched too.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-06 15:18:18+00:00
If a VPN ban happens, I (a US citizen) and others will happily provide your people with easy to understand plain English circumvention instructions and tools, designed for the “regular Joe”, regularly adapting to whatever the latest conditions are. Maybe SSH based, maybe a VPN over SSL, maybe Tor, most likely some combination designed to evade detection.

If your society is anti freedom of information, your society deserves a spanking.
by Zambyte | 2025-12-06 15:18:33+00:00
> The license of the code released under a permissive license is guaranteed to stay the same.

It's guaranteed to have at least the terms of the permissive license (usually requiring attribution), but no, it does not guarantee code released under a permissive license will remain available under permissive terms. That is literally the point of the permissive terms: so people can apply more terms under a sublicense.

> From an end user perspective BSD/MIT and GPLvX licences offer the same guarantees.

No they don't. I can decide to stop distributing a BSD/MIT licensed application in both source and binary form, in favor of only distributing it in binary form under a sublicense. As a user, this is not "open source forever". This is "open source until we use the distinguishing feature of the license to make it not open source".

GPL, assuming multiple contributors and no CLA (both of which are extremely common) ensures this cannot legally happen (unless they somehow get all contributors to agree against their exercised rights).
by starlight1980 | 2025-12-06 15:18:36+00:00
A brilliantly described story that painfully exposes the problem: how can we trust code and configuration reviews when experts are being undermined in favor of a ChatGPT answer? I agree that it is crucial to close this 'knowledge gap' between what developers think they understand and the reality of the situation. You mentioned the need to create new guidelines for non-technical people using AI. Do you see a chance for the LLMs themselves to be equipped with more effective 'Guardrails' in the future? Specifically, 'Guardrails' that, in critical security matters, would require the user to provide references (e.g., a link to official documentation) before the model delivers a categorical verdict?"
by chneu | 2025-12-06 15:18:50+00:00
You're missing the point.

There is a growing movement that says life is too easy nowadays and we're handicapping our ability to develop coping strategies.

Life is incredibly easy nowadays. We have more luxury and access to everything than we've ever bad. Crime is at all time lows. We're safer and have an incredible access to just about anything. This leads to self segregation and an atrophy of basic coping skills.

But the media convinces us of the opposite. People are told from birth that their lives are hard, the system is broken, etc. This conditions people to not bother. This atrophies skills or they never develop.

I recently read an article that something like 25% of Ivy league students have a "disability". They don't, but they think being depressed is a disability which enables them. The author made a good case that they were taking advantage of the system, which cheats themselves out of developing their skills. https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford...

My friends sex addicts group has also touched on a similar thing lately: emotional comfort is not emotional maturity. People today segregate themselves from people to protect their emotions, then they wonder why they can't handle people who disagree with them. It's easy to avoid things.

The main thing I'm saying here is that today's modern life allows us to avoid things we don't like. This leads to a lack of development in many areas. Then we claim everyone is struggling. Then the media reinforces this.

Over time it can become difficult to gauge people's conditions and legitimacy of those conditions. therapist friend of mine and I talk about this a lot. "What's an actual condition and what do people think they have?" is a big issue in modern therapy. People Self-diagnose way too much nowadays. The media convinces everyone that they're broken.

My life experience also mimics this. In college I thought I had crippling social anxiety. Turns out I just needed to be around people more to develop my abilities. I forced myself to work customer service jobs and voila, after a year or two I became a social person. My stutter went away and I became comfortable in groups.

Our perspective is fucked and it creates a cycle of apathy/complacency. Then everyone is "depressed" because they can't handle their latte having soy instead of cows's milk. This is hyperbole but it isn't untrue.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-12-06 15:19:04+00:00
I think you are not too wrong about this.

Just that state _can_ be outside the container, and in most cases should. It doesn't have to be outside the container. A process running in a container can also write files inside the container, in a location not covered by any mount or volume. The downside or upside of this is, that once you down your container, stuff is basically gone, which is why usually the state does live outside, like you are saying.
by SSLy | 2025-12-06 15:20:37+00:00
> The point of it is that typing ( requires shift, while [ does not.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-co...

Now, I really could've used something like this on macOS…

Karabiner to the rescue https://genesy.github.io/karabiner-complex-rules-generator/#...
by ghaff | 2025-12-06 15:20:54+00:00
I don't disagree. There's a good reason for overall rectangular/cubical forms for a lot of purposes. (And you can do that in ways that also have innovative and interesting architectural details which don't compromise function.)

Stata ended up costing a lot and having a lot of issues.

It was also somewhat justified at the time as being the showcase northeast entrance to the campus but ended up being overshadowed by several other bigger and blockier buildings.
by SR2Z | 2025-12-06 15:21:06+00:00
But it is served by putting 18 year olds behind the wheels of cars and giving them free rein?

It is served when the state runs anti-DUI ads and puts up billboards reminding people to sleep when they they're tired?

It's served when car accidents are either the #1 or #2 killer of children?

I'm not sure I trust you to decide what's best for society.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-06 15:21:19+00:00
Manufacturing is the hard part. China certainly has the knowledge to build a TPU architecture without needing to steal the plans. What they don't have is the ability to actually build the chips. This is even in spite of also stealing lithography plans.

There is a dark art to semiconductor manufacturing that pretty much only TSMC really has the wizards for. Maybe intel and samsung a bit too.
by esrauch | 2025-12-06 15:21:55+00:00
Ah ok, it is true that if there's a lot of fungible offerings that worse but uncorrelated uptime can be more robust.

I think the question then is how much of the Internet has fungible alternatives such that uncorrelated downtime can meaningfully be less impact. If you have a "to buy" shopping list, the existence of alternative shopping list products doesn't help you, when the one you use is down it's just down, the substitutes cannot substitute on short notice. Obviously for some things there's clear substitutes though, but actually I think "has fungible alternatives" is mostly correlated with "being down for 30 minutes doesn't matter", it seems that the things where you want the one specific site are the ones where availability matters more.