MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smeeagain2 | 2025-12-31 15:02:18+00:00
I am exactly the type of guy you are speaking about. That's me. I have fired off countless hate messages at various companies, usually complaining about their piece of shit web site. The reason I do this is because I have standards (not even high standards--just standards) and I'm sick of being surrounded by incompetent losers who have none at all, nor any desire to listen to any kind of feedback or improve. I'm so fucking tired of seeing everything around me slide into oblivion while people dance around like monkeys, clueless.

At what point are people going to look around and suddenly realize that their appliances, automobiles, hardware, software, is all GARBAGE, and all the corporations and governments peddling this crap are totally corrupt? Need I even begin listing 100,000 concrete examples that surround us everywhere, daily?

People's motivations in this corrupt society have nothing to do with quality or "doings thing right", not even as a tertiary concern; it's all about virtue signalling and money making and feeding one's narcissism, and that's about it.

I remember for example finding a web site back in the day where the author examines all these different UI fails, and explained exactly what they were doing wrong and how to fix it. Flash forward a couple decades later. Did anyone learn anything? NO. Everything has only gotten far worse.

I've lost count of how many times I've landed on the web site for some open source software project, that's full of marketing material bragging about its open-sourcedness and how great that is and what wonderful and admirable people they are because of this......and try as I might, CANNOT FIND A SOURCE CODE DOWNLOAD LINK ANYWHERE ON THE DAMN SITE. I end up having to fucking Google "xyzware source download" to actually find the damn source. WTF? These are exactly the sort of people I send "FUCK YOU" emails to.

The reason people like me will go out of our way to help you if you "show even the slightest willingness to fix things" is because THAT'S SO RARE these days. We want to reward and help you. And yes, we're still grumpy, because everything else is a giant dumpster fire and that's not going away soon, but hey, at least YOU'RE trying!
by Sn0wCoder | 2025-12-31 15:02:35+00:00
Strange now the first few days load (getting a new error) 'Ignoring inability to install OPFS sqlite3_vfs: Cannot install OPFS: Missing SharedArrayBuffer and/or Atomics. The server must emit the COOP/COEP response headers to enable those. See https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/persistence.md#coop-coep'

But when go back to the 26th none of the shards will load, error out.

Using Windows 11, FF 146.0.1

Since you tested it seems its just a me problem and thanks for fixing the GitHub link
by dailen | 2025-12-31 15:03:19+00:00
So I just wanted to take a moment and say nice work I have a solution that works for me at the moment, although I should check if it's e2ee, but this is a great example of a simple SaaS that could really catch on and meet the niche needs of users. I like the design, I like the implementation, and I really like the price. Everyone and their 3rd cousin charges $5/month for for simple functions which I usually just pass on but yours is a great price point for the job.

Will definitely repost on social media!
by slowmovintarget | 2025-12-31 15:03:20+00:00
Terminal emulators are a crutch you kids are spoiled by. In my day we had to create programs on punch cards. Copy a file from one directory to another? fifteen cards full of custom assembler code. Print out a file listing on the teletype? Ten cards... uphill... in the snow... both ways.

/s (no, not really)
by jmclnx | 2025-12-31 15:03:23+00:00
I agree, plus were would one store the CO2 ? To get back to "1980", I really doubt puling CO2 from the atmosphere will ever work.

Another concern, who will pay for maintenance ? See this for why you cannot let CO2 escape from underground storage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster

If stored near a populated area, hundreds of thousands could be kill, including all animals and insects, in a matter of minutes if the "vault" has a catastrophic failure. I would rather live near a nuclear waste site than a CO2 Site.
by adammarples | 2025-12-31 15:03:47+00:00
This is obviously cool, and I don't want to take away from that, but using a shortcut to make training a bit faster is qualitatively different from producing an AI which is actually more intelligent. The more intelligent AI can recursively produce a more intelligent one and so on, hence the explosion. If it's a bit faster to train but the same result then no explosion. It may be that finding efficiencies in our equations is low hanging fruit, but developing fundamentally better equations will prove impossible.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-31 15:04:13+00:00
If they lower rates too much, they will have a problem finding buyers for Treasuries, so they are somewhat constrained. We’re not living in the pre-Covid era anymore, and people have better options than low % US Treasuries. The only way I can imagine ZIRP again is if a deflationary crash were about to hit. That might happen (eventually it will happen) but I am not foolish enough to bet on the timing.

The awkward US system is fairly robust against hyperinflation because the government can’t just print money directly. The one option for doing this, minting a “trillion dollar coin” and depositing it with the Treasury, is extremely risky because of the potential impact on normal Treasury funding. I would only expect this as a last resort when the economy is already heading towards disaster.

I suspect that true hyperinflation is an artifact of nations with wrecked economies trying to sustain themselves on fiat. Once you reach that point it’s already too late, so hyperinflation is a symptom, not the cause. In effect it’s a default on debts and a collapse of the monetary system.
by gus_massa | 2025-12-31 15:04:16+00:00
Someone proposed to make giant beaches of malachite and let the sea break the rocks. Malachite has two -OH that can be replaced by a CO3= and so capture the CO2.

I can't find a good link now, but at least it's the only method I know where it's not obvious that requires a huge amount of energy that makes the whole process net negative.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-31 15:04:21+00:00
> we could already provide healthcare to all Americans simply by disbanding the corrupt Medicare and Medicaid bureaucracies and recouping the administration fees

Source for this estimate?

> then do the same with welfare so we can get UBI

This is nonsense. Federal welfare spending is about $20k per capita [1]. You could get that to $30k by co-opting all state spending [2]. (And only in Alaska, Oregon and Hawaii.)

[1] https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-money-does-the-govern...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_budgets
by apples_oranges | 2025-12-31 15:04:51+00:00
Tired of this kind of talk. Everybody is looking for a scapegoat. For some it's China, for others the billionaires, yet others suspect it's all the Jews' fault, or the European Union, or wokeness, or Donald Trump or or or.. sigh, it's not new, it's just boring, and it rarely leads to any good things.
by Retr0id | 2025-12-31 15:05:19+00:00
I inspected the HTTP requests and this is absolutely not E2EE. Clipboard contents are POSTed as plaintext to https://www.quickclip.space/api/encrypt, and can be decrypted later via https://www.quickclip.space/api/decrypt

Encryption appears to be in the openssl "Salted__" format (and base64 encoded). I can't infer the actual encryption algorithm configured, but it's an unauthenticated block cipher with 128-bit blocks, presumably in CBC mode, padded with PKCS7.
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-12-31 15:05:20+00:00
Are they afforded the same rights as jewish israelis? What about Gazans and West Bank palestenians whose families came from elsewhere in the earlier Palestine and were driven out to these areas, now living in terrible conditions. For simplicity lets pretend it is Sep 2023 for this argument, as the conditions were terrible then, due to Israels policies.
by analog31 | 2025-12-31 15:05:24+00:00
The first thing I noticed was the graph of cost vs quality, with two quadrants. And I realize software is a unique industry, but in many other industries there's a third quadrant: Higher quality at lower cost. Electronics is an example. Virtually nobody wants or even remembers artisanal electronics.

In fact, getting out of the two quadrant mindset, and seeking the third, is part of the learning process for developing modern industrial products. And where I work, adjacent to a software development department, I think the devs are aware of this as well. They wanted to benefit from further automation -- the thing I think they're coping with is that it seems to be happening so quickly.
by ktg0215 | 2025-12-31 15:05:29+00:00
Hi HN! I built PromptStash to solve a problem I kept running into.

I use ChatGPT and Claude daily, and I was constantly retyping the same prompts - "explain like I'm 5", "review this code", "translate to Japanese", etc.

So I built a Chrome extension that lets you:

- Save any prompt with one click
- Organize with folders and tags
- Search your prompt library
- Insert saved prompts instantly into any AI chat

Works with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Tech stack: React, TypeScript, Chrome Extension APIs

Free version available. Pro is $5 (one-time).

Would love your feedback!
by o_nate | 2025-12-31 15:05:36+00:00
Perhaps it would be useful to define what we mean by "commoditization" in terms of software. I would say a software product that is not commoditized is one where the brand still can command a premium, which in the world of software, generally means people are willing to pay non-zero dollars for it. Once software is commoditized it generally becomes free or ad-supported or is bundled with another non-software product or service. By this standard I would say there are very few non-commoditized consumer software products. People pay for services that are delivered via software (e.g. Spotify, Netflix) but in this case the software is just the delivery mechanism, not the product. So perhaps one viable path for chatbots to avoid commoditization would be to license exclusive content, but in this scenario the AI tech itself becomes a delivery mechanism, albeit a sophisticated one. Otherwise it seems selling ads is the only viable strategy, and precedents show that the economics of that only work when there is a near monopoly (e.g. Meta or Google). So it seems unlikely that a lot of the current AI companies will survive.
by sanskritical | 2025-12-31 15:05:45+00:00
Bitcoin has the benefit of being the first way in human history of being able to transfer value between two countries in a way that a corrupt bureaucrat, judge, or customs official can't freeze, reverse, or steal it. That's the benefit Bitcoin brings humanity, and to me, I prefer it to having a car.

Proof of Stake is an absurd security proposition. Stakeholders are immediately centralized. In every single PoS coin, the governance immediately becomes the exchanges because they always hold the most coins. They can and have used this to guide PoS coins towards governance unfavorable to the users, like as happened with Steem.
by miltonlost | 2025-12-31 15:05:56+00:00
"Getting a permit for 15 turbines after having illegally used 35 turbines that then poisoned the air for the residences around the turbines" is a clever way to achieve the goal? I wouldn't call doing a blatant illegal action "clever", but rather sociopathic.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/xai-gets-permits-for-15-na...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memph...
by Aurornis | 2025-12-31 15:06:12+00:00
> One site I like to visit to remind myself of how fast usable websites can be, is Dlangs forum. I just navigate around to get the experience

Interestingly, for me each page load takes a noticeably long delay. Once it starts loading all of the content snaps in almost at once. It’s slower to get there than the other forums I visit though.
by MangoToupe | 2025-12-31 15:06:13+00:00
> Langton is obviously "long town"

Are we speaking another language? C'mon, this isn't obvious at all.

> but Matravers is a very strange non-English sounding name, and indeed according to Wikipedia it's from French

Duh? Was "vers" not a major clue?

...what kind of language education did you receive? I was taught english, french, and latin. Were you taught german or dutch by any chance?
by georgehotz | 2025-12-31 15:06:42+00:00
What's even sadder is that because of AI coding agents it's possible the bounty system will go away. The value today is much less in writing the code and much more in defining the tasks and validating the code. We don't have the bandwidth to read tons of AI slop, which at first glance looks okay, but upon spending time to read it you realize it isn't good. The fix for this is probably a reputation or staking system.

I'm shocked that interviewing still works how it does in large companies; the Sybil attacks and DDOS are just getting started.
by Finnucane | 2025-12-31 15:06:51+00:00
Cant read (paywall), but we just went through apartment hunting with my mother, who is selling her house. What we saw is that the rental market here is pretty soft--nice apartments in good locations that aren't egregiously overpriced are going fast, but anything not grade A choice is languishing. The research budget cuts, hiring freezes, drops in arrivals from international students, etc, are clearly taking a toll. The people who would be coming in to take those apartments are not coming in. So now: buying is way more expensive than renting. We saw a condo for rent right next door to a condo for sale--nearly identical units--and the cost to own was probably double the cost to rent.
by grim_io | 2025-12-31 15:07:21+00:00
It is not immediate public information what person is behind my domain.

By having cloudflare as the mitm proxy in between my domain and my server, that link between the two is also not immediately apparent to the public.

Then, all the filtering and access control happens outside of my network, and only the absolutely valid traffic that I want to deal with hits my own network.

I want all of those features.
by Yizahi | 2025-12-31 15:07:40+00:00
In the order of importance:

1. Even if we do magic and emit nothing, we still need to remove CO2 from the atmosphere or it will cook us over time, just longer.

2. We would need an enormous area for forests (which i great), which would mean a lot of intervention, like resettling people, demolishing and constructing new buildings, a lot of machinery time to move people to and from the new forests, a lot of planting and forest maintenance involved. And add he work to cut and bury resulting wood. If you would sum all the incidental emissions from this process it would rapidly become much less efficient (if at all).

Without either CO2 capture or a sun shade of some sort, the CO2 levels and temperature will only ever increase, just like now.
by estebarb | 2025-12-31 15:07:41+00:00
Please read about the history of the region. This seems to be a good unbiased source, which is hard tobfind these days: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/09/why-israel-pal...

In particular, put attention to this:

"""
What happened to the Palestinians who were living there?

About 700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled – about 85% of the Arab population of the territory captured by Israel – and were never allowed to return. Palestinians called the exodus and eradication of much of their society inside Israel the Nakba, or “catastrophe”, and it remains the traumatic event at the heart of their modern history.

Arabs who remained in Israel as citizens were subject to official discrimination. They were placed under military rule for nearly two decades, which deprived them of many basic civil rights. Much of their land was expropriated and Arab Israeli communities were deliberately kept poor and underfunded.
"""
by amosWeiskopf | 2025-12-31 15:07:43+00:00
I agree. Not impressed, frankly. Cloudflare workers is just even-more localized CDN, and the benefit is so tiny that it's not worth the investment nor maintenance costs. (I wrote extensively about this non-thing here: https://wskpf.com/takes/you-dont-need-a-cdn-for-seo). My site (https://wskpf.com), which has way more elements and, err, stuff, loads in 50ms, and unless you are superman or an atomic clock, you wouldn't care. same lighthouse scores as this one, but with no CDN nor cloudflare workers, and it actually has stuff on it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-31 15:08:12+00:00
> What about Gazans and West Bank palestenians whose families came from elsewhere

I’m sympathetic to the argument that there should be reparations—from Israel but also France, Britain and Turkey—for victims of the Nakbah.

But let’s be clear on a right of return: this logic applies to almost every human in Europe or Asia when it comes to the Middle East if we go back far enough. We’re talking about the closest coast to the cradle of civilisation.
by condiment | 2025-12-31 15:08:51+00:00
At current rates of emissions, we’re only about 20 years away from people needing to install CO2 scrubbers in their homes.

Soda lime, or calcium hydroxide, is the current state of the art. We use that in an anesthesia and in saltwater aquariums and in scuba rebreathers. An idealized system can capture 500 mg per gram, but in practice you only capture around 250mg/g. This outperforms the method in the article but it’s one-shot. There are interesting proposals to use this for direct capture at industrial facilities and to turn the waste material into bricks for building.

The key advantage of this new material appears to be that it can be heated and reused. That would be very valuable in an interior direct air capture use case. Think about filtering the CO2 from an office or a home to get us back to pre-industrial levels indoors.
by gonzo41 | 2025-12-31 15:08:57+00:00
Well as far as storing it goes, if you can capture it, turn it into a solid and stick it in the ground.

Imagine you were growing a huge biomass that you harvest, dry out, and then store. We know how the bacteria and processes that stripped co2 from the atmosphere in the past, we just need to do that in a big way. Good thing we have places on earth that are huge and flat and growing algae won't be a problem.

And then we complement that with green energy and an attempt at net zero.
by mvaralar | 2025-12-31 15:09:09+00:00
> Both those "separations" is not something Toro provides on its own; the Toro unikernel would totally be under the control of the host, from what I can tell. That said, what Toro (or any unikernel, really) does is reduce the attack surface area, as the (guest) supervisor is pruned to run just one particular application (more code to partition things up will eliminate a class of attacks but may result in new attack vectors [2]).

Toro does not provides that separation. However, I was having some thoughs about running the user app in ring1 to provide some sort of separation whereas the kernel runs in ring0. However, in that case, we may end up in the current user/kernel level separation of general purpose OSs.
by jstummbillig | 2025-12-31 15:09:12+00:00
I understand the instinct but if people seriously think that they are solving any problem by unplugging cell phone chargers, they are simply bad at math. Human time is easily worth more than that, even when working at minimum wage.

That said, it obviously sucks that utility prices are rising for people who can not effortlessly cover that (not to speak of the local pollution, if that's an issue). Maybe some special tax to offset that cost to society towards hyper scalers would be a reasonable way to soften the blow, but I have not done the math.
by quickthrowman | 2025-12-31 15:09:37+00:00
> What is interesting is how many people saw the Boom announcement and came to believe that Boom was a pioneer of this idea. They’re actually a me-too that won’t have anything ready for a long time, if they can even pull it off at all.

My first thought when seeing that article is “I can buy one of these right now from Siemens or GE, and I could’ve ordered one at any time in the last 50 years.”
by gspr | 2025-12-31 15:10:17+00:00
I don't see how what you describe doesn't in general apply to FFI between any languages with different resource management philosophies. In particular:

> Yes, in Rust you can implement the Drop trait, but then the caller needs to remember to put the object in its own block...

Why would you need to remember to put the object in its own block? If you want to manually control deallocation, just call drop manually (or put the object in its own block if you really prefer). If you don't care, just let the Rust compiler pick a time to drop. In both cases, the most important guarantee – that drop doesn't happen while references to the object live – is still upheld.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-31 15:10:22+00:00
> It's just marketing. [...] It is not a protected term, so anything is state-of-the-art if you want it to be.

But is it true?

I think we ought to stop indulging and rationalizing self-serving bullshit with the "it's just marketing" bit, as if that somehow makes bullshit okay. It's not okay. Normalizing bullshit is culturally destructive and reinforces the existing indifference to truth.

Part of the motivation people have seems to be a cowardly morbid fear of conflict or the acknowledgment that the world is a mess. But I'm not even suggesting conflict. I'm suggesting demoting the dignity of bullshitters in one's own estimation of them. A bullshitter should appear trashy to us, because bullshitting is trashy.
by usefulcat | 2025-12-31 15:10:52+00:00
> it often answers in 20 seconds what it would take me an entire afternoon to figure out with traditional research.

In that case I think it would be only fair to also count the energy required for training the LLM.

LLMs are far ahead of humans in terms of the sheer amount of knowledge they can remember, but nowhere close in terms of general intelligence.
by avaer | 2025-12-31 15:10:58+00:00
I wish governments would treat things like this as equivalent to fraud.

It might not be taking people's money, but it's taking away access to truth through automated deception, which might even be worse.

Back when it took a madman to pollute discourse the public square, maybe you could have called it their right free speech, but this is not that. This is just computer assisted fraud, and exactly the kind of thing that computer hacking laws should be for.
by dale_glass | 2025-12-31 15:11:51+00:00
Speed highly correlates with power efficiency. I believe my hardware maxes out somewhere around 150W. 15 seconds of that isn't much at all.

> Also, why are people moving mountains to make huge, power obliterating datacenters if actually "its fine, its not that much"?

I presume that's mostly training, not inference. But in general anything that serves millions of requests in a small footprint is going to look pretty big.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-31 15:12:03+00:00
If your planet is tiny, it's very easy to figure out that it's a ball, a child can see it with their bare eyes. The planets in "Outer Wilds" are like that.

Because this planet is larger, smart people trying to figure out how it works used simple tools and measurements to conclude that it's a ball, we know that Greeks and Romans figured this out, I'm sure other civilisations did too.

Greg Egan's "Incandescence" has people who live somewhere where you can discover, in this same way, General Relativity. There's a small but noticeable difference between the simple linear results we'd see for Newtonian physics in rudimentary experiments and what they can observe and they figure out why. Since they have no context for what it means to observe this and have (to their memory) always lived somewhere this happens, they aren't terrified by this discovery any more than we were terrified to discover how our Sun must work - so much hydrogen in one place that it undergoes spontaneous nuclear fusion which releases so much energy that we can easily see by it even after it is no longer directly visible, OK cool, I still need groceries.