MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BoorishBears | 2025-12-14 11:17:55+00:00
Eh, how modern technology works is not really the part I'm selling: that's just how it works.

Coding languages haven't been describing even a fraction of the rules and state they encapsulate since what? Punch cards?

It wasn't long until we started to rely on exponential number of layered abstractions to do anything useful with computers, and very quickly we traded precision and determinism for benefits like being concise and easier to reason about.

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But also, the context here was someone calling prompting a "imprecise nondeterministic programming language": obviously their bone is the "imprecise nondeterministic" part, not distilling what defines a programming language.

I get it doesn't feel warm and fuzzy to the average engineer, but realistically we were hand engineering solutions with "precise deterministic programming languages", they were similarly probabilistic, and they performed worse.
by lurk2 | 2025-12-14 11:19:53+00:00
In my experience the majority of xenophobia is driven by a fear that one is not being afforded proper respect. Sometimes this fear is well-founded; half of the countries with citizens wealthy enough to engage in mass market travel (e.g. Germany, Israel, Russia, China, UK, etc.) have their own reputations for being Ugly Americans. Not every tourist is respectful, and even those who are polite may be disrespectful inadvertently.

Casual xenophobia is endemic to most societies; it’s quite normal to distrust the unfamiliar, and it strikes me as being a natural topic of conversation, and one that does quite well when sensationalized by journalists. I think most cosmopolitan westerners have this idea that xenophobia is the exclusive purview of a racism that originated in Europe and is now resurging in the Anglosphere, but from what I have observed, most of the world is like this and probably always has been.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-14 11:21:32+00:00
My small son loves listening to Rage Against The Machine, having heard Guerilla Radio as the intro music to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and always wants it on when we're driving round to granny's house about 25 minutes away.

Spotify plays the same sequence every time, Guerilla Radio first, then Bombtrack, then Bulls on Parade, then Take the Power Back, all of which are the radio edits.

Then Killing in the Name, which is most definitely not the radio edit, but by judicious use of the little pedal and if we don't get stuck behind a tractor too long, we're just pulling up outside and switching off the ignition at juuuuuust the right moment.

Once he's bigger he'd better be sneaking the full version behind my back on headphones when he thinks I don't know. It's nothing he doesn't hear - and worse - from the bigger kids at school.
by david-gpu | 2025-12-14 11:22:31+00:00
> The people ultimately in control of this policy are usually elected officials

Even assuming we are talking about democracies, you still face the same issue: policies regarding tourism are decided at the national or supra-national (e.g. EU) level, while the effects are concentrated on specific neighborhoods of specific towns.

> do you have any reason to suggest that existing policy towards tourism is contrary to the prevailing opinion among those who interact with tourists on a daily basis?

Have you not heard of any popular protests against tourism? Speaking the local language helps here, but sometimes it is also reported in English.
by red75prime | 2025-12-14 11:22:34+00:00
Regarding missing heritability: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-good-news-is-that-one-s...

"That is, once you include the rare variants, the amount of genetic variation that “should” exist but doesn’t shrinks to only 12%. Plausibly an even bigger study, investigating even rarer variants, could shrink the gap further, all the way to zero."

Of course, even then heritability will not be 100%.
by pendenthistory | 2025-12-14 11:22:46+00:00
I trust my own observations and my conclusion is that heritability is very strong. This is not a view that was imparted on me, quite the opposite. Growing up in a western country I was led to believe we are all blank slates, and I truly believed it. Once I started spending more time around the opposite sex some doubts started to emerge. Once I became a parent it became very apparent that this ideology had no basis in reality. Kids come with a personality, batteries included, and it's very easy to point out even individual behaviors that originate with either parent. Boys and girls are also very different on average. It's insane that we have somehow convinced ourselves that this is not the case, and I will surely be attacked by just pointing this out. I don't need twin studies to understand this basic fact, a fact that's been apparent to everyone throughout history, except for the past ~40 years in the west.
Show HN: Dnsaudit.io – A Free Advanced DNS Security Scanner for Real-World Risks
by shakauy | 2025-12-14 11:25:16+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been building DNSAudit.io in my spare time during weekends and late nights this year. It started as a small personal experiment and slowly grew into a full DNS security scanner.

DNSAudit.io runs fully remote. No setup, no accounts. Just enter a domain, and it analyzes DNS security posture across multiple areas, not only configuration issues.

It currently checks for:

- Weak or missing SPF, DKIM, DMARC - Insecure mail routing - Oversized or suspicious TXT records - Exposed or sensitive subdomains - Missing DNSSEC on zones that need integrity - Old, abandoned, or inconsistent nameservers - Dangerous wildcard setups - Malware or payloads hidden inside TXT records - And more than 50 other security signals across DNS

This has been a fun project to build. It gives me space to experiment, test ideas, and refresh my DNS knowledge. Still early, but I'll keep expanding the scanner monthly.

Would love feedback or criticism!!

Here's the link: https://dnsaudit.io
by citrin_ru | 2025-12-14 11:25:20+00:00
Many async frameworks (e. g. libevent [1]) have a DNS client. But it's not something easy to use unless your program uses this specific framework (say libevent) for all network I/O. The problem is not that it's hard to do in C but that there is no single async framework everyone would use.

[1] https://libevent.org/libevent-book/Ref9_dns.html
Ask HN: What email providers don't recycle email addresses?
by supermatt | 2025-12-14 11:27:17+00:00
I currently have my family on a custom domain.

I have been thinking towards the future and have been concerned what would happen should the domain get released and someone else acquire it. Namely they would then "own" the online identity of my family members. This obviously has security implications.

I don't believe gmail and live recycle emails for this very reason.

What other reliable providers can you recommend that don't recycle email addresses. It would be nice to have a memorable user-part, so nothing oversubscribed would be ideal. I am ideally looking to spend ~$150/y for 5 email addresses, but please mention any you know even if they exceed that.

I looked into hey.com, whose family plan sounds ideal - but unfortunately only the primary address is reserved - the others get released for reuse 30 days after termination (you can contact them after termination for reservation, but its not the default). I don't want to leave anything to chance, so that isn't an option for me.
by nchmy | 2025-12-14 11:27:48+00:00
This is the sort of comment I was hoping to find. I have focused in this area - improving lives of the poorest as efficiently as possible - for a long time and my immediate thoughts about this washing machine was that it was overcomplicated and definitely far too expensive (for many reasons) to ever really make a difference. Though, that won't stop these folks from doing this and receiving donations for it into perpetuity.

So much is possible if you just look at how nature, in one way or another, can do the work for you. No knead bread (or, better, periodic stretch and folds over the course of a few hours) is a perfect example. Or making a composting toilet/latrine by just adding sawdust, ash etc. Or simple and cheap rocket stoves that burn the smoke. Or cover crops and cultivating soil structure and microbes. Etc

The key for what you shared (and, i suppose this machine) is how little agitation you actually need, and how there's plenty of ways to do it with no fancy equipment. Can you share more about your experience, or even share some links, about the amount of agitation needed, how "cleaning" actually works (you said time and chemistry - but how?), and how to make effective, low-cost detergents anywhere?

Thanks!
by sillyfluke | 2025-12-14 11:28:07+00:00
The definition seems to suffice if you give the interrogator as much time as they want and don't limit their world knowledge, which the definition that you cited doesn't seem to limit or constrain? By "world knowledge" I mean any knowledge that includes and is not limited to knowledge about how the machine works and its limitations. Therefore if the machine can't fool Alan Turing specifically then it fails even though it might have fooled some random Joe who's been living under a rock.

Hence since current LLMs are bound to hallucinate given enough time and seem not to able to maintain a conversation context window as robustly as humans, they would inevitably fail?
by ben_w | 2025-12-14 11:29:03+00:00
> If there’s anything about the Germans you can count on, is that they move slowly.

Too slowly, if I'm following local news correctly (I might well not be, my German is enough to listen to podcasts but it's still not good).

e.g. this train station upgrade is currently about 20 years behind the original schedule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin-Köpenick_station#Presen...
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-14 11:29:15+00:00
What do you think it is conscious and the answers are just deceptive?

We really need a national campaign on phenomenology 101.

Gemini outputs this correctly. It doesn't "experience" the passage of time.

The models don't experience the passage of time because they are not finite beings in the world.

They are a like a new category of the book. We don't say the math textbook "knows" math because the book doesn't "know" anything. The book isn't bored sitting on the shelf because no one is reading it.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-12-14 11:29:21+00:00
This is just a slighty more sophisticated version of the "solar doesn't work at night" trope.

The implications of bringing it up is that these silly hippies haven't even thought of this basic fact so how can we trust them with our energy system.

Meanwhile, actual energy experts have been aware of the concept of winter for at least a few years now.

If you want to critique their plans for dealing with it, you'd need to do more than point out the existence of winter as a gotcha.
by simonw | 2025-12-14 11:29:30+00:00
That's interesting.

A problem I have with Brian Merchant's reporting on this is that he put out a call for stories from people who have lost their jobs to AI and so that's what he got.

What's missing is a clear indication of the size of this problems. Are there a small number of copywriters who have been affected in this way or is it endemic to the industry as a whole?

I'd love to see larger scale data on this. As far as I can tell (from a quick ChatGPT search session) freelance copywriting jobs are difficult to track because there isn't a single US labor statistic that covers that category.
by lapcat | 2025-12-14 11:30:30+00:00
> It’s not that surprising that many successful people seem to be strong fans of heritability, or more broadly, of the idea that metrics like IQ point to some sort of “universal independent” metric of value. To do otherwise requires living one’s life in cognitive dissonance; how could they be worthy of such riches while others struggle to just pay the bills? Surely success and intelligence is just an inborn thing, and thus inevitable and unchangeable. There’s nothing they can do, and it was always going to end up that way. Inevitability erases any feelings or guilt or shame.

I've never understood the idea that winning the genetic lottery somehow makes a person more "deserving" or "worthy" than another. To me, the whole idea of "meritocracy" is a moral abomination.
by wiseowise | 2025-12-14 11:30:35+00:00
> That's a bad-faith comparison, and it's making me wonder how old you are if you're conflating iCloud lockout with sexual assault.

It's called exaggeration, and it was a reply to a smug comment.

If you want apples to apples: imagine you have a reputable locker service containing your money, important documents and potentially photos spanning decades. *Billions* use it with success, it's a trillion dollar company that you've worked with for years, millions swear by it. Suddenly, you arrive at the locker in front of you and it no longer opens anymore.

> Apple's EULA, which the OP agreed to, gives them the right to suspend services for whatever reason they want. You're only allowed to use the service by offering consent to be removed, thousands of services work that way.

And this is not normal, there should be regulation that if you build a platform then you're not entitled to content generated by users. If for some reason you lock out user, they should have a right to collect all their possessions.

> OSS, and the fact that it doesn't have this weakness, is orthogonal to the "us vs them" dichotomy you're describing. Apple ID is flawed, do not trust it. Full stop.

No wonder OSS is losing when this is a hill you're willing to die on. It's a shame there are not many quality product/design people within OSS community. People who actually understand how to make a product desirable and appeal to masses, instead of "loool what a fucking dumbass you are, I'm so smart for not using this thing that millions are using, told you you'll get burnt, git gud".
by adrian_b | 2025-12-14 11:31:00+00:00
I have been using daemontools for managing my services on FreeBSD servers that have run 24/7 for almost a quarter of century, with down times of an hour or so only at intervals of a few years of continuous running, whenever I made a hardware upgrade or a complete OS replacement (by passing to another major version of FreeBSD).

Now there are several daemontools derivatives that bring it more up-to-date, but even the ancient original version did most of one would need for reliable service management.
by gs343 | 2025-12-14 11:31:09+00:00
Using an AI model to write Svelte code is probably a fruitless endeavor, it generally has a lot of trouble with it. I recomment React. I am a Svelte fanboy but switched begrudgingly to React since I am using AI for coding. The knowledge base is just too small for Svelte.

Most of the suggestions and comments that I read here are valid, but if you want an easier time the without going throught the motions try my coding prompt "Clippy". It does most of what is needed to write proper code automatically. It's a planning and context gathering prompt that help AI understand your existing code, resolve assumptions and implement. It works much better than any of the planning feature and tools I have tried to far.

If you want to try it out: https://github.com/Gunther-Schulz/coding-clippy
by mft_ | 2025-12-14 11:31:49+00:00
It may be much more straightforward than you suggest, and not at all related to xenophobia.

A core problem is that an influx of tourists hits the housing supply. Short-term tourism incentivises conversion of local housing to accommodate them (AirBnB, etc.) and long-term tourism results in foreigners buying local housing as their permanent or long-term holiday home.

The result is obviously a relative shortage of housing and rising prices, both of which make it harder for locals (who are often relatively poorer) to live where they need to. This pattern has been repeated from small villages in scenic areas, to big cities (e.g. Barcelona), to whole islands (e.g. Mallorca).

I’m probably one of the people that has contributed to this to some extent over time; and yet I fully understand the frustration of the locals.

It may result in apparent xenophobia in some, but its roots are rational and economic.
by LUmBULtERA | 2025-12-14 11:32:05+00:00
For my new Bosch Benchmark dishwasher, "normal" actually uses 2.4 gallons and 1.25 kwh a load, is most efficient, and is quietest. There is no "eco" mode. "Auto" mode uses about twice the gallons no matter what's inside and slightly more kwh.
by magicalhippo | 2025-12-14 11:32:52+00:00
I was trying to think of better terminology. Perhaps this works:

Two services can have a common dependency, which still leaves them uncoupled. An example would be a JSON schema validation and serialization/deserialization library. One service can in general bump its dependency version without the other caring, because it'll still send and consume valid JSON.

Two services can have a shared dependency, which couples them. If one service needs to bump its version the other must also bump its version, and in general deployment must ensure they are deployed together so only one version of the shared dependency is live, so to speak. An example could be a library containing business logic.

If you had two independent microservices and added a shared library as per my definition above, you've turned them into a distributed monolith.

Sometimes a common dependency might force a shared deployment, for example a security bug in the JSON library. However that is an exception, and unlike the business logic library. In the shared library case the exception is that one could be bumped without the other caring.
by andy_ppp | 2025-12-14 11:33:06+00:00
It’s easy to say things like this but also incredibly difficult to know if you’ll introduce subtle bugs or incompatibilities between services. It’s an example of people following the microservices pattern and then being given additional risk or problems deploying that are not immediately obvious when buying into this!

So let’s say you have a shared money library that you have fixed a bug in… what would you do in the real world - redeploy all your services that use said library or something else?
by krapp | 2025-12-14 11:34:31+00:00
The problem with catharsis, though, is it can often be mistaken for praxis.

Heavy metal, RATM and the like are just more means of capitalist consumption. They might make you feel like a rebel, but you aren't actually rebelling against anything. In some ways I think the commodification of counterculture has resulted in the neutering of activism in the West, people want to listen to the media and spread the memes but no one but the Nazi scum ever wants to follow through in any way that matters.

IDK, maybe I'm just cynical but once you hear this stuff being played in establishment spaces you start to view it all as a sick joke.
by ornornor | 2025-12-14 11:35:05+00:00
Maybe it’s a European thing. The eco program is the one mandated by law and the one they use for the energy rating.

But for machines that have a table showing power and water use, it’s never the most efficient one (in all the ones I checked). There is always a better program, it’s usually called “auto”.

Maybe it’s different in North America, idk what the rules are there.
by keiferski | 2025-12-14 11:35:44+00:00
Complex question that depends on one’s ethical views, but I’d say not pushing the idea that inequality is good, or retweeting people that are obviously ideological making heritability claims, is a good start.

From there, the sky is the limit. Directly helping underserved communities access the same networks/resources is another. A handful of billionaires have also donated their entire wealth, but the laudability of that depends on your ethical stance of course.
by pfdietz | 2025-12-14 11:36:56+00:00
> 66

That's my age. If I read the rest of that blog maybe it would tell me what brought her to this brink.

My mother was in her late 60s when we were called down to Niceville, Florida when her end was near. This was 1995. Her pancreatic cancer had been confirmed by biopsy only days before, but she was already deeply in liver failure. She didn't want to die in a hospital, but hurricane Opal was bearing down as we arrived, so we all had to bundle ourselves in the cars and crawl up to Crestview to weather the storm at the hospital there. The condo survived with only minor damage so this may have been a mistake. We did get her back to watch the dolphins on Boggy Bayou before the end; I hope she was able to see them.
by lurk2 | 2025-12-14 11:37:39+00:00
> Have you not heard of any popular protests against tourism?

I mentioned in another comment that I know of vandalism that has occurred in Barcelona, some demonstrations in Medellín, and a long history of nativist sentiment in Hawaii, but I’m not convinced that these people represent a majority opinion even in tourist destinations. Have you seen any surveys or anything of the kind that would suggest a substantial portion of people are opposed to tourism?
by nalife520 | 2025-12-14 11:40:44+00:00
I built this after realizing I was spending way too much mental energy on decisions that clearly didn’t matter.

What surprised me wasn’t that people used a coin flip — it was that many said the result itself is irrelevant. Their reaction to it tells them what they already want.

That made me wonder: are tools like this actually about randomness, or just a socially acceptable way to outsource responsibility for starting?

Curious how others here think about this. Is randomness useful, or just a psychological trick to get unstuck?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-14 11:42:28+00:00
I searched 2+2 and found this

2 + 2 = 5

2 + 2 = 5 or two plus two equals five is a mathematical falsehood which is used as an example of a simple logical error that is obvious to anyone familiar with basic arithmetic.

The phrase has been used in various contexts since 1728, and is best known from the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

As a theme and as a subject in the arts, the anti-intellectual slogan 2 + 2 = 5 pre-dates Orwell and has produced literature, such as Deux et deux font cinq (Two and Two Make Five), written in 1895 by Alphonse Allais, which is a collection of absurdist short stories; and the 1920 imagist art manifesto 2 × 2 = 5 by the poet Vadim Shershenevich.

Okay I am pretty sure it must be a satire page correct? I do not understand its purpose or why its on hackernews tho.
by birdie2 | 2025-12-14 11:42:42+00:00
I think the point is that the attitude of enjoying rather than assimilating is not appreciated.

There’s no equivalent for this feeling in the U.S. We had Japanese tourists in the late twentieth century that were known for taking pictures of everything, but they were respectful and were localized to tourist destinations. Migrants from Mexico and Central America that have moved here but haven’t assimilated are not the same either, as they moved here for opportunity and don’t have the time or resources to learn English, so it’s quite understandable that many stick to themselves.

As an American that has travelled overseas years ago, I understand that others in the world could do without us visiting. They just want to have their normal day to day without an American speaking American English and commenting on things like an American and tipping wait staff, asking for ice, expecting things that aren’t provided, generally acting more entitled, etc.

When I visited, I just didn’t fit in, even though I wanted to. I was taught only a little bit (over multiple years) of a few other languages in school, but primarily Spanish, without any real immersion, which was useless. I didn’t grow up traveling and interacting with people from other countries in Europe, and without that experience or ability to speak in the country’s language, I wasn’t prepared.