MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grishka | 2025-12-31 00:05:57+00:00
Yeah and nothing ever lets you pick which versions to link to. You're going to get the latest ones and you better enjoy that. I found it out the hard way recently when I just wanted to do a perfectly normal thing of distributing precompiled binaries for my project. Ended up using whatever "Amazon Linux" is because it uses an old enough glibc but has a new enough gcc.
by keini | 2025-12-31 00:06:05+00:00
Technical notes on Daily Challenge + Leaderboards (Game Center):
Daily Challenge is a deterministic puzzle-of-the-day: I rotate a fixed daily level (or seed → level index) on a UTC-day boundary, so everyone plays the same puzzle worldwide.

For leaderboards I’m using Apple Game Center (GKLeaderboard). Score is based on a simple, transparent metric (e.g. moves/steps/time) and the puzzle rules are deterministic (no RNG), so runs are comparable.

Implementation details:
- A compact level encoding (grid size + constraints) → fast load + consistent replay
- Local validation of moves + completion (no “guessing” solutions)
- A lightweight caching layer so the daily puzzle loads instantly and works well even with spotty connectivity
- If you’re curious, I can share how I estimate difficulty using a solver step-count and how I prevent daily challenge “desync” across time zones/devices.

Happy to answer any questions about Game Center setup / leaderboard scoring / daily rotation strategy.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-31 00:09:02+00:00
It's not like they're banning them across all of NYC... it's just security at the inauguration event. "Large bags" are banned too.

> When a policy bans specific devices rather than behaviors or capabilities, it creates ambiguity for people on the ground.

To the contrary, how the heck is someone working security at the entrance supposed to check for a device's "behaviors or capabilities"? This is a quick visual inspection, this reduces ambiguity.

Presumably, the cops are aware of previous disruption with these specific devices, or threats thereof. And it's not like they're going to say exactly what, nor should they, lest it give people ideas...

> Today it’s Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero. Tomorrow it’s BeagleBone Blacks, Arduino Qs, ESP32 dev boards, Teensy boards, Pine64s, Orange Pis...

Which is totally fine. There's no legitimate purpose in bringing any of those to a high-profile political event. Drones, laser pens, and beach balls are prohibited too.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-31 00:09:26+00:00
The only way I could read their answer as being close to correct is if the clients they're referring to are not managed by the deployment.

But (in my mind) even a front end is going to get told it is out of date/unusable and needs to be upgraded when it next attempts to interact with the service, and, in my mind atleast, that means that it will have to upgrade, which isn't "atomic" in the strictest sense of the word, but it's as close as you're going to get.
by doug_durham | 2025-12-31 00:09:52+00:00
Prior to 5.2 you couldn’t expect to get good answers to questions prior to March 2024. It was arguing with me that Bruno Mars did not have two hit songs in the last year. It’s clear that in 2025 OpenAI used the old 4.0 base model and tried to supercharge it using RLVR. That had very mixed results.
by NewsaHackO | 2025-12-31 00:09:53+00:00
Since you said you read the post, explain this to me:

>To me, this project perfectly encapsulates the uselessness of AI, small projects like this are good learning or relearning experience and by outsourcing your thinking to AI you deprive yourself of any learning, ownership, or the self fulfillment that comes with it. Unless, of course, you think engaging in "tedious" activities with things you enjoy have zero value, and if getting lost in the weeds isn't the whole point.

In the context of his first paragraph

>I own more books than I can read. Not in a charming, aspirational way, but in the practical sense that at some point I stopped knowing what I owned. Somewhere around 500 books, memory stopped being a reliable catalog.[...] For years, I told myself I would fix this. Nothing elaborate, nothing worthy of a startup idea. A spreadsheet would have been enough. I never did it, not because it was hard, but because it was tedious.

Wouldn't your statement be completely moot because he plainly said the purpose of the project was to create a system to handle his books, and the only reason he hasn't done it yet was because it was tedious? (Hint: if you need the paragraph or thge rest of his article to be broken down for you more, I suggest asking ChatGPT to give a summary for you).
by toss1 | 2025-12-31 00:10:05+00:00
>>as if this is some law of physics?

Seriously? Way to miss the point by miles

The point is: the absolute values are bad the direction and magnitude of change indicates it is getting worse.

The distribution of wealth is already vastly suboptimal, heavily skewed to the most greedy 0.1%-5%.

When the most wealthy society in the history of the planet still has large portions of its population living one missed paycheck or one illness/accident away from being destitute, or being already destitute, while a few at the top have orders of magnitude more wealth than they can spend in a lifetime, something is deeply wrong.

The change numbers show this already the case nearly four decades ago, it has gotten worse.

So yes, the glib argument that "the 1% already pay 90% of federal taxes..." is just as spurious as it is vacuous.

Not only does it ignore the reality of wealth and income distribution that the taxation is far below the misallocation, it also ignores the fact that Federal Income Taxes are only a small portion of our total tax burden, and the poor and middle classes pay vastly more of the other taxes such as sales tax, gasoline and road taxes, fees, etc. IOW, you are cherry-picking, and badly.
by OutOfHere | 2025-12-31 00:10:27+00:00
The answer to this problem is in the original Bitcoin whitepaper itself. It gives the formula for the required number of confirmations.

The Monero PoW community has had to deal with such nonsense, as have other smaller PoW coins.

With ε=1e-3, the expected number of 6 confirmations works only so long as the largest pool size does not exceed 12%. For a pool size of 30%, at least 24 confirmations should be required in Bitcoin, but 49 in Monero with its stricter ε=1e-6. You can see the table and the math at https://gist.github.com/impredicative/0907e1699f5ff97a9fed5d... and again it's all cleanly reproducible from the whitepaper. Anyone who is still requiring only 6 confirmations then will be setting themselves up for a risk of reversal.
by Calzifer | 2025-12-31 00:10:32+00:00
> Data centers are built with redundant network connectivity, backup power, and fire suppression. [...] The question is their relative frequency, which is where the data center is far superior.

Well, I remember one incident were a 'professional' data center burned down including the backups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVHcloud#Incidents

I know no such incident for some basement hosting.

Doesn't mean much. I'm just a bit surprised so many people are worried because of the server location and no one had mentioned yet the quite outstanding OVH incident.
by mi_lk | 2025-12-31 00:10:35+00:00
You really can't help mentioning you write your comment from Japan in most of your comments for some reason.

Not that it's my business that whether you were actually born and raised in Japan or an immigrant/expat. Just a random observation and that I don't think you have any less point without mentioning it

Considering your account age, it's a bit of bot smell if you ask me
by mbreese | 2025-12-31 00:11:27+00:00
Silly question -- for the older movies, have you seen them before?

If one of the arguments is that the people doing the sound mixing know the audio/words so they are oblivious to the difficulty that a new viewer will have understanding the words, it's also possible that a repeat viewer might also have similar biases with older media.

I can think of half a dozen different other reasons why there's a difference between older and newer media. I don't think it's just one thing. I do think differences in thin TVs is one factor, but not the only one. I have a few different generations of LCDs at home. I generally can understand spoken words better on my oldest one. It's also the thickest, so it should have the largest speakers.

But, I think another factor is the digital audio profiles. If you're mixing for just stereo (or even mono), you're probably going to get an easier to understand audio track. If you're mixing for surround-sound (and not listening on a 5.1 external receiver), the TV is going to have a more difficult time and the viewer is probably going to get a lower-quality audio track compared to a track mixed specifically for just two channels.

But, at least I now have a project -- I'll pull an older movie from Netflix that I haven't seen to test my theory...
by Stevvo | 2025-12-31 00:11:38+00:00
Before the AI bubble, Bitmain was only worth ~$1 billion. Now they are worth ~15, because they make chips for AI also.
Either way, you could buy bitmain for the budget mentioned in the attack if it were for sale.
Or bitmain could pull off the attack, if indeed they do "control ... all the major mining pools" as the article alleges.

But who ultimately controls Bitmain? The Chinese state.

So, by extension, bitcoin is controlled by the CCP.

What a shitshow. Crypto needs to move on from bitcoin already, pick something better... anything better. There are so many options, and bitcoin is the worst of all of them.
by hju22_-3 | 2025-12-31 00:12:01+00:00
Agreed. Especially when a lot of people just pick out x, y and z thing as if it's the definitive sign of AI, disregarding the possibility of it being normal outside of their own writing and what they read. Not to mention cultural differences. That certain characters or ways of structuring text have become more pervasive lately is a sign, yes, but it does not mean that the presence of it in a text is anything definitive towards the use of AI.

It's almost as if when you seek to find patterns, you'll find patterns, even if there are none. I think it'd benefit these kinds of people to remember the scientific "rule" of correlation does not equal causation and vice versa.
by roncesvalles | 2025-12-31 00:12:05+00:00
Even as a builder myself, I prefer to get unfiltered unabridged reactions from my users, emotions and all. I think it's more disrespectful when you tell someone they've built something good when you don't really mean it. It's a form of condescension and betrays that either you don't believe the person can do better, or you don't care to help them do better.

Truthful feedback is always a gift even if it hurts.
by avipeltz | 2025-12-31 00:12:08+00:00
If you start leaning more on coding agents, you quickly realize there are a lot of 2–30 minute windows where you’re just waiting for an agent to implement something or finish a review. In those pockets I generally spinning up small tasks or running a few parallel experiments with different models or approaches. Once you’re juggling multiple threads having isolated working environments becomes pretty essential. We're just trying to make the environment management and that whole workflow much less of a headache. But I don't think this is the best workflow for everyone its just what we've been seeing more people converge towards.
by mindcrime | 2025-12-31 00:12:18+00:00
Background: In recent years, the DL has always provided fully free
and open access to features based on bibliometric data and other
metadata associated with ACM publications, and the DL has allowed
anyone to post comments on publications. ... Author Profile pages
collected and published the complete works of individual authors at a
single stable URL; many authors treated their ACM DL Author Profile
page as a CV, trusting the DL to maintain it in perpetuity and
publish it without restriction.

In late December 2025, these previously free and open DL facilities
became "Premium Access" features.

Good grief. And here I was thinking ACM had actually done a Good Thing with their move to Open Access. But looking at this, and considering also the hefty publication fees they charge for publishing said Open Access papers, it's hard to see anything positive about ACM right now. It's really making me question if I can justify continuing to maintain an ACM membership TBH.

Here's hoping enough pressure emerges to motivate a change on this.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-31 00:12:54+00:00
You can make the same argument about the income tax and similarly limit the taxable income from it which will lead to the tax revenue being cut approximately in half.

Also, after Congress raided the Social Security account, they made the point that Social Security is just another tax subject to spending in the general budget.

If that's the case, there are as many arguments for capping/uncapping the FICA taxes as for all other taxes. The problem with such arguments is their appeal to a notion of fairness which has as many faces as economics theories out there - basically a dead end - courtesy of our not-so-diligent economics "science".

So, it's better to use the achievement of better economic, political and social results as the only guidance for fiscal policy, although that requires a level of analysis which far exceeds what mainstream economics has to offer.
by shaftway | 2025-12-31 00:13:19+00:00
None of the rights that people have are unrestricted in that way. The sixth amendment gives you the right to a lawyer paid for by the government, but it doesn't give you the right to pick any lawyer you choose.

The obvious answer is that, if people do have the right to shelter, it is the state / county / city's obligation to make some form of shelter available. And I get that there are "shelters" available, but from what I understand they are effectively not available to a vast number of unhoused people far a wide variety of reasons. Failure to maintain appropriate shelters is effective a constructive refusal.

I liked the concept of the tiny home villages that LA experimented with, but it looks like they did a poor job, or cost cutting got too severe, and ultimately they fell short.
by OutOfHere | 2025-12-31 00:13:34+00:00
Sanctions are just a political tool to oppress people and freedom.

The real trojan horse is the 3% inflation each year that the government subjects us to with their moneyprinting. It compounds one's savings into nothingness. That's before it ultimately blows up altogether with hyperinflation which is its only possible long-term outcome given the exponential debt that doesn't scale with GDP.
by epage | 2025-12-31 00:14:47+00:00
> > Struct variant fields are public, limiting how you evolve the fields and types

> But the whole point of thiserror style errors is to make the errors part of your public API. This is no different to having a normal struct (not error related) as part of your public API is it?

Likely you should use private fields with public accessors so you can evolve it.
by sevennull | 2025-12-31 00:14:47+00:00
Funny, i created an extension that does does something similar. I wanted to watch specific products at a grocery store that go on sale and look for the pattern. It opens page that has been flagged to watch and extracts data and then charts results for various things i want to track. It was more of a POC which has lead to some other data scraping apps i wanted. I am not a developer but know enough having worked around tech for awhile i can usually figure something out. claude has been amazing for me, especially since i can ask questions about its code/logic and learn as we go.
Ask HN: How does an indy website integrate with cookie vendors to make money?
by ricksunny | 2025-12-31 00:15:08+00:00
There have been many posts on HN about the annoying cookie consent dialogs. I've never understood how indy websites actually themselves do earnout from placing those cookies on users' devices. Like, there are all of those vendors listed, somehow those vendors are making money from the act, how does some of that revenue cycle back to the indy website posing the cookie consent dialog?
by btdmaster | 2025-12-31 00:15:54+00:00
Yes you can do this, thanks for mentioning I was interested and checked how you would go about it.

1. Delete the shared symbol versioning as per https://stackoverflow.com/a/73388939 (patchelf --clear-symbol-version exp mybinary)

2. Replace libc.so with a fake library that has the right version symbol with a version script
e.g. version.map
GLIBC_2.29 {
global:
*;
};

With an empty fake_libc.c
`gcc -shared -fPIC -Wl,--version-script=version.map,-soname,libc.so.6 -o libc.so.6 fake_libc.c`

3. Hope that you can still point the symbols back to the real libc (either by writing a giant pile of dlsym C code, or some other way, I'm unclear on this part)

Ideally glibc would stop checking the version if it's not actually marked as needed by any symbol, not sure why it doesn't (technically it's the same thing normally, so performance?).
by bigyabai | 2025-12-31 00:16:28+00:00
> Some players have to play, like google

I don't think you have the faintest clue of what you're talking about right now. Google authored the transformer architecture, the basis of every GPT model OpenAI has shipped. They aren't obligated to play any more than OpenAI is, they do it because they get results. The same cannot be said of OpenAI.
by anomaly_ | 2025-12-31 00:16:37+00:00
It's like half the poster on here live in some parallel universe. I am making real money using generated image/video advertising content for both B2C and B2B goods. I am using Whisper and LLMs to review customer service call logs at scale and identity development opportunities for staff. I am using GPT/Gemini to help write SQL queries and little python scripts to do data analysis on my customer base. My business's productivity is way up since GenAI become accessible.
by drooby | 2025-12-31 00:17:00+00:00
Obsessive Compulsive Personality disorder (OCPD) is actually way more common than people realize, but it barely gets talked about compared to other mental health issues - and it may even be more of a root cause of things like anxiety, depression. and it is often confused with autism.

What’s interesting about this research is that it points to a possible biological reason why something like psilocybin might help, I.e it seems to loosen really rigid brain patterns. That’s basically the core issue in OCPD: being stuck in overcontrol and perfectionism. It’s not a treatment yet, but it does help explain why psychedelics could be useful for this kind of rigidity.

Would love to see more talk about this - OCPD is often overlooked both by the general public and unfortunately by those impacted by it
by Ginden | 2025-12-31 00:17:35+00:00
Because almost everyone involved in AI race grew up in "winner takes it all" environments, typical for software, and they try really hard to make it reality. This means your model should do everything to just take 90% of market share, or at least 90% of specific niche.

The problem is, they can't find the moat, despite searching very hard, whatever you bake into your AI, your competitors will be able to replicate in few months. This is why OpenAI is striking deal with Disney, because copyright provides such moat.
by toss1 | 2025-12-31 00:18:03+00:00
I'm not sure how politically viable it is either — the wealthy owners of congresspeople will scream like they are being murdered.

I wasn't thinking of any kind of VAT, where you need to subtract out your cost, etc.; that is a mess! Just a straight shaving off the transaction. The idea is to spread it over so many transactions the rates are so low it isn't worth bothering to work around.

For example, if you try to structure a $1million house purchase into ten %$99,999 payments to get from 0.5% down to 0.4% rate, you will save a grand total of $1000, hardly worth it considering there should also be laws with strong penalties for such structuring.
by cyberax | 2025-12-31 00:18:19+00:00
> What this site does not show is how much of the power used to maintain the network is waste power such as gas that's normally burned off at the well site or hydro electric that goes to waste.

WTF? Hydro is rarely wasted because it's so dispatchable. Typically, it can only happen during high water seasons. Same for the gas power plants.

> Unlike AI, there's a strong incentive to find the cheapest electricity possible.

Like coal.
by ninkendo | 2025-12-31 00:18:36+00:00
Well yes, but that’s because the iOS UI is single threaded, just like every other UI framework under the sun.

It doesn’t mean there isn’t good support for true parallelism in swift concurrency, it’s super useful to model interactions with isolated actors (e.g. the UI thread and the data it owns) as “asynchronous” from the perspective of other tasks… allowing you to spawn off CPU-heavy operations that can still “talk back” to the UI, but they simply have to “await” the calls to the UI actor in case it’s currently executing.

The model works well for both asynchronous tasks (you await the long IO operation, your executor can go back to doing other things) and concurrent processing (you await any synchronization primitives that require mutual exclusivity, etc.)

There’s a lot of gripes I have with swift concurrency but my memory is about 2 years old at this point and I know Swift 6 has changed a lot. Mainly around the complete breakage you get if you ever call ObjC code which is using GCD, and how ridiculously easy it is to shoot yourself in the foot with unsafe concurrency primitives (semaphores, etc) that you don’t even know the code you’re calling is using. But I digress…
by whoknowsidont | 2025-12-31 00:19:16+00:00
You didn't link me to the thing that we are discussing. You linked me to a current financial report, that of course just lists the tolls.

Do you understand how bonds are issued?

But, since you're seemingly in Texas and are completely unaware of a vibrant example of the type of outcomes I'm discussing, here's one right in your home state from 2017.

https://austincountynewsonline.com/texans-angered-sh-130-ban...

>According to the terms that emerged from bankruptcy court, all of the private entity’s $1.4 billion debt was wiped away, leaving federal taxpayers left holding the bag for the $430 million federally-backed Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan given to the private entities.

>Some are asking why the state of Texas didn’t step in and insist the public interest was protected and defended in bankruptcy court. Taxpayers have a right to know why they didn’t get the road back, why their $430 million federal TIFIA loan was wiped out, and why they have to continue paying tolls for another 45 years to use a road that’s lost $1.2 billion of its $1.4 billion original value. The state also had a revenue sharing agreement with the previous owners, Cintra-Zachry. Will the state ever see any of that promised toll revenue?

Would you care to explain that in the course of this discussion, why that very recent and very vibrant example of the exact thing being discussed did not resonant with you?

I mean you clearly implied that you've read these financial reports before, so it raises lots of questions about your motivations and I dare say, honesty.

EDIT: Here's another one! https://trb.bank/case-study/north-texas-tollway-authority/

lmao
by remich | 2025-12-31 00:20:54+00:00
Okay, I certainly agree with you that different use cases can dictate different outcomes when using AI tooling. I would just encourage everyone who thinks similar to you to be cautious about assuming that someone who experiences a different result with these tools is less skilled or dealing with a less difficult use case - like one that has no edge cases or has greater tolerance for bugs. It's possible that this is the case, but it is just as possible that they have found a way to work with these tools that produces excellent output.