MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Eingrand1978 | 2025-12-01 12:58:11+00:00
Sensitive data from global organizations is floating through the air, carried by invisible radio waves that encompass everything from customer records to financial information. Without proper Wi-Fi security, you’re essentially broadcasting your most valuable assets to anyone within range. In today’s hyperconnected world, wireless security isn’t just an IT concern; it’s a business imperative that can make or break your organization’s reputation and bottom line.
by cesarb | 2025-12-01 12:58:36+00:00
> you just have 9 bits per byte rather than 8 bits per byte physically on the module. More chips but not different chips.

For those who aren't well versed in the construction of memory modules: take a look at your DDR4 memory module, you'll see 8 identical chips per side if it's a non-ECC module, and 9 identical chips per side if it's an ECC module. That's because, for every byte, each bit is stored in a separate chip; the address and command buses are connected in parallel to all of them, while each chip gets a separate data line on the memory bus. For non-ECC memory modules, the data line which would be used for the parity/ECC bit is simply not connected, while on ECC memory modules, it's connected to the 9th chip.

(For DDR5, things are a bit different, since each memory module is split in two halves, with each half having 4 or 5 chips per side, but the principle is the same.)
by dcminter | 2025-12-01 12:58:41+00:00
Even more amazingly, I just discovered (from a friend after ranting about this on Facebook) that you're not allowed letters of this type in names on British Passports¹

Apparently there's a recommended transliteration table² from the ICAO that one should use to determine the replacement letter(s).

2025 feels like a very late date to still be conforming to the requirements of teleprinters. I wonder how long this kind of thing will be perpetuated?

¹ See page 7: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69247779f2b88...

² See page 24: https://www2023.icao.int/publications/Documents/9303_p3_cons...
by MisterTea | 2025-12-01 13:02:12+00:00
I got one of the Newegg circulars in my email advertising a sweet little uATX AMD server board and got to thinking that my home FreeBSD server could use a CPU bump and more memory. As soon as I saw how much 128GB of DDR5 ECC would cost my jaw dropped and noped the fuck out. The cheapest 32GB modules are around $300 and upwards of $500. Thought I was going to gift myself early this Christmas. Depressing indeed.
by Am4TIfIsER0ppos | 2025-12-01 13:02:54+00:00
Not GP but...

Last time I started a wayland plasma session it kept resetting my screen brightness to 100% every time they woke from sleep. The time before that I crashed the entire desktop, dropping me back to the terminal, when I tried to drag a hyperlink between windows.

Those might have been fixed and I might try wayland again next time I update and reboot.

I don't care about its supposed advantages.
by piltdownman | 2025-12-01 13:03:34+00:00
It's on the back of Jonathan Hall KC and Government Announcements in the recent past following the Palestine Action proscription - e.g. the UK Government recently saying it would amend sections 12 and 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to further impose conditions on public protests and assemblies.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-police-powers-to-prot...

The changes to the law would allow police officers to consider the cumulative impact of protest when deciding whether or not they are lawful, meaning they could potentially re-route or totally shut down protest they believe could cause serious disruption to local communities.

The Netpol argument suggests that the upcoming annual review of national security legislation is likely to expand the protest-related clauses of the National Security Act in a similar fashion - providing the groundwork for a legal definition of ‘subversion’ that could prioritise ideology over conduct.

This seems to be mainly based on Hall’s ‘Independent Review of State Threats and Terrorism‘, published in May 2025, and his his recent review of the Sentencing Bill, published in late October 2025.

https://terrorismlegislationreviewer.independent.gov.uk/wp-c...

https://terrorismlegislationreviewer.independent.gov.uk/wp-c...

He has been sabre-rattling in the UK media since May in an effort to drum up support - whilst simutaneously playing up to the far-right agitators by supporting 'anti-woke' figureheads like Graham Linehan and his anti-trans agitation.

""I am thinking about the measures that may one day be needed to save democracy from itself. What do I mean? I am referring to counter-subversion"

https://news.sky.com/story/britain-may-have-to-resort-to-ant...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/21/jonathan-hall-kc...
by f1shy | 2025-12-01 13:03:45+00:00
Thanks. That is an interesting insight into the current reality. I assume the developers take care of optimization of queries; set up indexes and development of schemas and DB backups is handled by devops.

I must say, again I thought (I read it somewhere?) DevOps should take care of the constant battle between Devs and Operations (I've seen enough of that in my times) by merging 1 and 2 together. But it seems just a name change, and if anything, seems worst, as a (IMHO) critical and central component, like the DB, now has totally distributed responsibilities. I would like to know what happens when e.g. a DB crashes because a filesystem is full, "because one developer made another index, because one from devops had a complaint because X was too slow".

Either the people are extremely more professional that in my times, or it must be a shitshow to look while eating pop-corn.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-12-01 13:04:18+00:00
Why does political center correspond to truth? Can you not think of a dozen examples of "both sides wrong"? Of "both sides right," where a vicious fight erupts over inconsequential details?

The right wing of US politics has a better organized and funded propaganda arm (show me the left-wing equivalent of Roger Ailes and now Elon Musk) so we should expect truth-seeking to land us "left of center."
by 3cats-in-a-coat | 2025-12-01 13:05:03+00:00
AI currently is a broken, fragmented replica of a human, but any discussion about what is "reserved" to whom and "how AI works" is only you trying to protect your self-worth and the worth of your species by drawing arbitrary linguistic lines and coming up with two sets of words to describe the same phenomena, like "it's not thinking, it's computing". It doesn't matter what you call it.

I think AI is gonna be 99% bad news for humanity, but don't blame AI for it. We lost the right to be "insulted" by AI acting like a human when we TRAINED IT ON LITERALLY ALL OUR CONTENT. It was grown FROM NOTHING to act as a human, so WTF do you expect it to do?
by criddell | 2025-12-01 13:05:04+00:00
They don't get that specific, but they do tell you:

> [Antigravity] includes goal-oriented AI systems or workflows that perform actions or tasks on your behalf in a supervised or autonomous manner that you may create, orchestrate, or initiate within the Service (“AI Agents”). You are solely responsible for: (a) the actions and tasks performed by an AI Agent; (b) determining whether the use an AI Agent is fit for its use case; (c) authorizing an AI Agent's access and connection to data, applications, and systems; and (d) exercising judgment and supervision when and if an AI Agent is used in production environments to avoid any potential harm the AI Agent may cause.
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-01 13:05:14+00:00
From my perspective, having worked in both industries and simply following my passions and opportunities, all I see is that the same two bandwagons who latched onto crypto either to grift or just egotistically talk shit have moved over to the latest technological breakthrough, meanwhile those of us silently working on interesting things are consantly rolling our eyes over comments from both sides of the peanut gallery.
by samuelknight | 2025-12-01 13:06:19+00:00
I use .md to tell the model about my development workflow. Along the lines of "here's how you lint", "do this to re-generate the API", "this is how you run unit tests", "The sister repositories are cloned here and this is what they are for".

One may argue that these should go in a README.md, but these markdowns are meant to be more streamlined for context, and it's not appropriate to put a one-liner in the imperative tone to fix model behavior in a top-level file like the README.md
by hexbin010 | 2025-12-01 13:06:20+00:00
Tough crowd here. Though to be expected - I'm sure a lot of people have a fair bit of cash directly or indirectly invested in AI. Or their employer does ;)

We Brits simply don't have the same American attitude towards business. A lot of Americans simply can't understand that chasing riches at any cost is not a particularly European trait. (We understand how things are in the US. It's not a matter of just needing to "get it" and seeing the light)
by KurSix | 2025-12-01 13:06:50+00:00
The irony is that people give the most honest and unfiltered feedback when no one is asking them. When a bot approaches a user (even a research one), the observer effect kicks in, and answers often become more polite or socially desirable. Analyzing historical threads where people are just complaining to each other often yields a much more accurate and "raw" pain signal than direct questioning. There, people aren't trying to be nice to your agent.
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by Davidzheng | 2025-12-01 13:08:13+00:00
Yeah, I agree. As a mathematician it's easy to say that it's not a super hard proof. But then again, the first proofs found by running AI on a large bucket of open problems was always going to be some easy proofs on a not-very-worked-on problem. The fact that no one did it before them definitely shows real progress being made. When you're an expert, it's hard to lose track of the fact that things that you consider trivial vs very hard may be in fact a very small distance in the grand scheme of things (rel to entities of different oom strengths)
by gh0stcat | 2025-12-01 13:08:22+00:00
I've found the best route at that point is just... copying people who are really good. For my interest (3d modeling) if you want voice-over and directions, those are all pretty basic, but if you want to see how someone approaches a large, complex object, I will literally watch a timelapse of someone doing it and scrub the video in increments to see each modifier/action they took. It's slow but that's also how I built some intuition and muscle memory. That's just the way...
by b3lvedere | 2025-12-01 13:08:31+00:00
The risk from nitrates is cumulative. .1% may not seem much, but it can be well be the trigger for enormous problems. My best guess is that the limit was already very close at its max of 10 mg/L (10 ppm) and the data center tipped the scale.

Maybe they're (ab)using the findings of the data centers to get better water treatment, maybe they could have done more effort themselves?

But of course money and laws are far more important than healthy citizens, so why do anything about it when you don't have to?

Companies kinda tend to forget that if there is nobody left to consume stuff, you're also out of business. Governments kinda tend to forget that if there is nobody left to pay the taxes, they're also out of business.
Ask HN: Is it possible to make an in browser AI text humanizer?
by preetramsha | 2025-12-01 13:08:58+00:00
I have seen a lot of demand for humanizers but all of them are paid and just uses AI LLMs under the hook, what if I can make an in browser 100% free ai humanizer?

I searched on yt,google, AI LLMs but I did not found much.

Any suggestions and advice is appreciated
by dijit | 2025-12-01 13:09:26+00:00
Total pish, once you got online you were just a name.

Didn’t like where you were, there was always somewhere else to go and a new name to take.

Getting access to the internet was a major issue for the poor (a situation I have first-hand experience in)- but once you were in, you were part of the club. Unless you behaved poorly- then you had to make a new name for yourself somewhere else.
Show HN: Hyvor Post (privacy-first newsletters) & Relay (self-hosted email API)
by supz_k | 2025-12-01 13:09:35+00:00
Hello HN,

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Hyvor Relay (https://github.com/hyvor/relay): a self-hosted email delivery service. An alternative to services like AWS SES or Mailgun.

We've been working on these two projects for almost a year, and we are super excited to finally release them.

Our release announcement has more insights: https://hyvor.com/blog/hyvor-post-relay. In short, we first added newsletter features to Hyvor Talk (our commenting system), and it proved to make things complicated. So, we started working on Hyvor Post as a standalone newsletter platform. Then, we could not find an SMTP provider that does not include tracking features and has reasonable pricing - so we built our own: Hyvor Relay.

Both products are open-source under AGPLv3. Hyvor Post is cloud-only at the moment. Hyvor Relay is self-hosted only. Compared to traditional solutions like Postfix, Hyvor Relay makes it very hard to make mistakes when sending emails by having built-in health checks for DKIM, SPF, PTR, a DNS server to automate records, etc. Building Hyvor Relay was a significant undertaking for our small team, and we are very happy that we now have a reasonably stable version. We are also working to release a public cloud version in 2026 to help developers reduce email sending costs significantly.

Our team is around on HN - feel free to ask any questions!
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-01 13:10:18+00:00
This US-centric take blatantly fails to address all of the problems, the right-wing ideologies, which have easily had a much greater impact on the rise of fascism across the world.

And to be clear, US liberalism is largely supportive of right-wing ideology, the US Democratic party would be considered a right-wing party in many other countries. So it's both parties who are to blame here, but the underlying authoritarian fascist current is decidedly right-wing politics
by taneq | 2025-12-01 13:10:22+00:00
I feel like your edited-in point is glossed over FAR too often. We talk about inflation like it’s some objective measure when it’s arbitrary as f@$k and mostly only reflects what the current arbiters of inflation want it to reflect.

A great recent example was the Australian decision to add capital gains on a primary residence as a profit (ie. negative expense) when calculating inflation. All of a sudden inflation was very reasonable despite the fact that established homeowners and their families were choosing between groceries and mortgage payments… but in terms of their net worth, YAY! They’re getting ahead!
by amiga386 | 2025-12-01 13:10:27+00:00
I think, rather, they've collectively come to the conclusion that brownfield development sucks and greenfield development rules. Which is true, if you're a voluntary developer. It's so much fun to play in new developments, and be involved in making history (that some other sucker will maintain in future) rather than maintaining someone else's past glories.

Unfortunately, this means for third-party developers and users that the ecosystem they've built on top of is going to get thrown away, because the first-party developers have prioritised their own fun, over the utility and effectiveness of what they built.

It did not have to be like this. The early freedesktop initiative managed to massively improve XFree86/Xorg without fundamentally throwing out X11. They threw out X11 so they do stuff like this: argue with developers that wanting to know the "primary" screen so they can open on it, is fundamentally, non-negotiably, not allowed, and fuck you for even asking for it (BTW it's standard on Windows, macOS and X11): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/i...

This is what they live for. This is why X11 has to die.

GNOME has form for this. In describing the "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers" (CADT) development model in 2003, JWZ says:

> I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surprise!) that module is rewritten from scratch -- and the new maintainer can't be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version.

> It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing. Why not be honest and resign yourself to the fact that version 0.8 is followed by version 0.8, which is then followed by version 0.8?

> But that's what happens when there is no incentive for people to do the parts of programming that aren't fun. Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun; but rewriting everything from scratch is fun (because "this time it will be done right", ha ha) and so that's what happens, over and over again.

He managed to predict Wayland, or at least the causes of Wayland, back in 2003.
by sanjaybg96 | 2025-12-01 13:10:42+00:00
You don't buy books here. You only pay for the wisdom you get grounded on the works of trusted authors. This addresses the friction point between "buying a book" and "getting value from a book." Plus the authors get a micro-royalty - they get paid in proportion to the fraction of their work used to answer the user's query. Visit the web app for a prototype demo.
by Ukv | 2025-12-01 13:10:51+00:00
I don't think those performance concerns are really much of an issue with any sensible implementation. You'd do line of sight checks against simplified geometry first to handle the vast majority of cases, and you'd load character models/textures in advance (game/match startup) rather than only when they first appear on screen.

One non-trivial part seems to me that if you walk around a corner you don't want to wait 50ms (your ping) for the server to send enemy locations you can now see. Ideally every tick the server would be sending all enemies that you could potentially see before the next tick depending on what your movement packets that it hasn't yet received turn out to be. Wouldn't entirely eliminate advantage from cheating (e.g: a cheater walking around a corner could still see enemies up to a tick/~15ms in advance) but would hopefully make this form of cheating significantly less worthwhile.
by baq | 2025-12-01 13:11:32+00:00
> qualia, which we do not currently know how to precisely define, recognize or measure

> which could house qualia.

I postulate this is a self-negating argument, though.

I'm not suggesting that LLMs think, feel or anything else of the sort, but these arguments are not convincing. If I only had the transcript and knew nothing about who wiped the drive, would I be able to tell it was an entity without qualia? Does it even matter? I further postulate these are not obvious questions.
Ask HN: A horror movie based on the shocking real-life behavior of crows?
by amichail | 2025-12-01 13:11:38+00:00
Most people think of crows as just birds that caw and scavenge, but in reality, they are incredibly intelligent and capable of remembering human faces, sometimes for years. They can hold grudges, warn other crows about specific people, and even coordinate behavior in complex ways.

Imagine a horror movie built around that. It would not be supernatural; it would be terrifyingly plausible. The story could follow a person who wrongs a crow in some way, only to realize that the birds are watching them, learning their routines, and slowly escalating their revenge.

The tension would build from small incidents, such as crows stealing things, leaving signs, or mobbing in increasingly threatening ways. Over time, the protagonist starts to feel hunted everywhere they go, until the crows’ coordinated, intelligent behavior indirectly causes their death.

What makes it especially shocking is that most people have no idea that crows are this smart or that they can hold a grudge. It is a “Jaws” scenario with crows, where the danger is real, patient, and relentless.

What do you think of this horror movie idea?
by arthurfirst | 2025-12-01 13:11:57+00:00
Veteran sysadmin of 30 years... UNIX sysadmin and developer...

I use docker+compose for my dev projects for about the past 12 years. Very tough to beat the speed of development with multi-tier applications.

To me Dockerfiles seem like the perfect amount of DSL but still flexible because you can literally run any command as a RUN line and produce anything you want for layer. Dockerfiles seem to get it right. Maybe the 'anything' seems like a mis-feature but if you use it well it's a game changer.

Dockerfiles are also an excellent way to distribute FOSS to people who unlike you or I cannot really manage a systems, install software, etc without eventually making a mess or getting lost (i.e. jr developers?).

Are their supply chain risks? sure -- Like many package systems. I build my important images from scratch all the time just to mitigate this. There's also Podman with Podfiles if you want something more FOSS friendly but less polished.

All that said, I generally containerize production workloads but not with Docker. If a dev project is ready for primetime now I port it to Kubernetes. Used to be BSD Jails .
by saxenaabhi | 2025-12-01 13:12:17+00:00
> On the other hand, in the 2020s, India, Israel, most Eastern European states, Ireland, Costa Rica, and a couple others have launched industrial promotion subsidizes for software offshoring - often providing US$10k-30k per head in federal and local subsidizes along with subsidized office space and real estate and tax windows.

This isn't true either in India or most of eastern europe.

Maybe you are confusing PLI for manufacturing? Altough even that's not on per head basis.
by ffsm8 | 2025-12-01 13:12:19+00:00
Naw man, it's the first point because in April Claude code didn't really gave anything else that somewhat worked.

I tried to use that effectively, I even started a new greenfield project just to make sure to test it under ideal circumstances - and while it somewhat worked, it was always super lackluster and way more effective to explicitly add the context manually via prepared md you just reference in the prompt.

I'd tell anyone to go for skills first before littering your project with these config files everywhere