MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by QuiEgo | 2025-12-01 03:50:02+00:00
I think the Terramaster NASes are about as close to this as you can get, they even have an internal USB header that seems purpose-added for the Unraid boot disk.

That said, I prefer straight Debain to Unraid. I feel Unraid saves you a weekend on the command line setting it up the first time (nothing wrong with that!), but after playing with the trial I just went back to Debian, I didn't feel like there was $250 of value there for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Almost everything on my server is in Linuxserver.io Docker containers anyways, and I greatly prefer just writing a Docker Compose file over clicking through a ton of GUI drop downs. Once you're playing with anything beyond SMB shares, you're likely either technically savvy or blindly following a guide anyways, so running commands through ssh is actually easier to follow along with a guide than clicking in a UI, since you can just copy and paste. YMMV.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-01 03:51:10+00:00
There's a reason 'come to Jesus moment' is an expression.

Aka the uncertainty collapse of effective altruism -- in which someone realizes they might die before getting to the altruism part, and have to confront the "effective" things they did without any moral counterbalance.

If someone feels guilty about the things they've done when facing death, then they should immediately take actions that try and redress them.

Otherwise, there's an almost certainty they'll revert to being the same asshole they were so uncomfortable facing in the mirror, after mortal peril has passed.

Being someone different requires action, not just thoughts.
by mgh95 | 2025-12-01 03:51:23+00:00
How did you get into construction/remodeling, and how would someone best reach out to this community? I have been thinking about some construction related ideas (mostly around prefab automation and sales) and haven't the slightest idea how to reach these types of people.

I am always curious about people who are strongly oriented towards one thing (computing) but somehow wind up in another area, such as construction.
by kimkoo | 2025-12-01 03:51:25+00:00
Kimkoo offers a full range of pocket spring machines, including 130, 160, and 180 springs/min pocket spring coiling machines—each available in single or dual-wire configurations. The 160 model also features a high compression ratio version for denser spring production. Kimkoo’s pocket spring assembly machines include both automatic and semi-automatic options: the automatic assembly machine can connect with 1, 2, or up to 3 pocket spring coiling machines to form a flexible pocket spring production line, while the semi-automatic version connects with a single coiling machine.
by threethirtytwo | 2025-12-01 03:52:42+00:00
Bro. You and your cohorts said the exact same thing about LLMs and coding when ChatGPT just came out. The status quo is obvious. So no one is talking about that.

Draw the trendline into the future. What will happen when the content is indistinguishable and AI is so good it produces something moves people to tears?
by AndyNemmity | 2025-12-01 03:53:14+00:00
it's always funny, i think the opposite. I use a massive CLAUDE.md file, but it's targetted towards very specific details of what to do, and what not to do.

I have a full system of agents, hooks, skills, and commands, and it all works for me quite well.

I believe is massive context, but targetted context. It has to be valuable, and important.

My agents are large. My skills are large. Etc etc.
by amypetrik8 | 2025-12-01 03:54:05+00:00
>How do you propose the line should be drawn?

there is a line drawn for such things. a fuzzy line. see:

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

same as this famous case, in which a supreme court justice is asked "what is and is not pronographie" - of course he realizes if he defines "what is not" people are going to make all kinds of porn right on the boundary (see: japanese pronographies where they do the filthiest imaginable things yet censor the sensitive books, making it SFW in the eyes of their law). this judge avoided that.

Anyways, parallel to the fact that filthy pronographies can be made a gorillion different ways, a "hack" may be manifested also a gorillion different ways. Itemizing such ways would be pointless. And also in the same vein, strictly defining a black and white line "this is legal, this is not" would cause hackers to freely exploit and cheese the legal aspect as hard as possible.. businesses and data miners and all these people would also freely exploit it, at massive scale and with massive funding, since it is officially legal. Thusly it must be kept an ambiguous definition as with pronographies, as with many things
by tibbar | 2025-12-01 03:54:43+00:00
This is not the picture I'm seeing on the ground. AI is eliminating certain classes of junior software positions. (Roughly: jobs where explaining a task to junior engineer is more work than asking Cursor/Claude Code/Codex to do it.) Junior engineers can fight back against this by

a) getting really good at clarifying requirements

b) learning quickly, so their work quality is eventually higher than Cursor can work out in one shot.

This is also a pressure against hiring teams overseas: when the bottleneck is communication + taste, not raw implementation cycles, you'd rather have a small local team. And it's a pressure for high TC, because individuals now have much more leverage, although they need to master more skills to take advantage.
by programjames | 2025-12-01 03:56:35+00:00
Lol, yes. If you're a selfish egoist, you probably don't want to convert others to your philosophy.

I think it's possible to punish people who are taking these selfish actions, and I think universities should. Maybe they should make a secret database where they list the people who applied to their university, and subtract off points for every other university they applied to. Or, recruiting agencies can mark down candidates for every other job they are applying to. I don't think they do, and this isn't the startup I want to make or area I want to devote my life to, it just sucks that people are being rewarded for playing negative-sum games.
by davnicwil | 2025-12-01 03:56:46+00:00
It's also a common tactic for filtering inbound email.

Mention that people may optionally include some word like 'orange' in the subject line to tell you they've come via some place like your blog or whatever it may be, and have read at least carefully enough to notice this.

Of course ironically that trick's probably trivially broken now because of use of LLMs in spam. But the point stands, it's an old trick.
by zjsishsb | 2025-12-01 03:58:49+00:00
> Let's evaluate claims on their merits, not based on who is making them.

The average person doesn’t have the time or intellect to do this. This isn’t a realistic way for society to function. Trust is the most important thing for a public institution, and ours failed spectacularly there. Claiming the vaccine had a 99% efficacy, flip flopping on masks, etc. Massive hubris that should have been handled with a “here’s the best we know, but our confidence isn’t high enough to make definitive statements yet”.

Trust is a necessity. Without that there is no debating merits.
by atonse | 2025-12-01 03:58:54+00:00
I think the parent was asking you for evidence of articles with bias, though. Not evidence of Musk making fun of Wikipedia.

I’m also curious to see any egregious violations where grok also dug its heels in a biased way when presented with an edit/correction with credible evidence.

I’d love to see some evidence of it. (Not in a sarcastic way, I’m genuinely asking)
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-12-01 03:59:17+00:00
Yeah, getting 250 or so stars is going to be straightforward, something most programmers with a couple of years of experience can probably manage. Then another 200 or so require some more specialized know-how (maybe some basic experience with parsers or making a simple virtual machine or recognizing a topology sort situation). Then probably the last 50 require something a bit more unusual. For me, I definitely have some trouble with any of the problems where modular inverses show up.
by femiagbabiaka | 2025-12-01 03:59:28+00:00
Nazism and white nationalism, for starters. This is all gone over in that laughable article. To help, here's the study referenced, which has two, not one, researchers cited: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685. They also published their data on GitHub: https://github.com/htried/wiki-grok-comparison/tree/main.

I suspect that you might've tried to use an LLM to summarize the article, which is why you missed critical data and got some of the basic facts about its sourcing incorrect. I'm a fan of using LLM's to speed up research, but you should probably pick a different model next time.
by newmana | 2025-12-01 03:59:50+00:00
"Recently, yet another category of low-hanging fruit has been identified as within reach of automated tools: problems which, due to a technical flaw in their description, are unexpectedly easy to resolve. Specifically, problem #124 https://www.erdosproblems.com/124 was a problem that was stated in three separate papers of Erdos, but in two of them he omitted a key hypothesis which made the problem a consequence of a known result (Brown's criterion). However, this fact was not noticed until Boris Alexeev applied the Aristotle tool to this problem, which autonomously located (and formalized in Lean) a solution to this weaker version of the problem within hours."

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115639984077620023
by sparky_z | 2025-12-01 03:59:54+00:00
The current top comment by u/steppi is a stellar example of how to offer an additional resource on the topic in a way that adds value to the discussion. This was not that.

I (correctly) interpreted the terse, dismissive tone of their comment, which implied that the video added no value beyond what was found in the Wikipedia page. Other comments here confirm that I'm not the only one who read it that way. The clear subtext was "don't waste your time with that slop, just read this." I was certain that, if that was their takeaway, then they hadn't even bothered to watch the video (which turned out to be correct). But I only knew that because I had already watched the video the previous day and was deeply impressed by it.

At the time I replied, it was the only comment here, and was therefore setting the tone of the discussion. I didn't want all the people who only follow the link after checking the comments to assume that the video was just a lazy Wikipedia summary, upvote the comment for "saving them time", and then move on. My primary goal was to actually describe the video and encourage anyone out there who likes this sort of thing to give it a shot. In order to do that effectively, I felt I also had to push back on the impression left by the comment I replied to.
by echelon | 2025-12-01 03:59:56+00:00
Show of hands for anyone seeing AI replacing juniors (and I assume also backfilling employees).

I'm genuinely curious.

I've heard this argued the other way too. Seen it firsthand.

Fwiw, we've had good engineers switch to vibe coding and it's ruined their output.

From really solid systems to unmaintainable flocks of seagulls - nested if statements ten levels deep with no thought or care. From good engineers that are just dialing it in now.

We've had good engineers use vibe coding to save to time to work on their side hustles. Then go on to try to raise money for AI products.
by schrodinger | 2025-12-01 04:00:09+00:00
Genuinely curious — how did you isolate the effect of comments/context on model performance from all the other variables that change between sessions (prompt phrasing, model variance, etc)? In other words, how did you validate the hypothesis that "turning off the comments" (assuming you mean stripping them temporarily...) resulted in an objectively superior experience?

What did your comparison process look like? It feels intuitively accurate and validates my anecdotal impression but I'd love to hear the rigor behind your conclusions!
by funksta | 2025-12-01 04:01:30+00:00
They don't have an app store but they have quietly released an SDK, so maybe that will happen at some point: https://developer.remarkable.com/documentation/sdk

RSS is actually one of my favourite uses for the tablet; I built a little service that builds a pdf "newspaper" twice daily and sends it to Google Drive. Very nice to read my feeds on the rM2 instead of a glowing screen
by toast0 | 2025-12-01 04:03:03+00:00
> The point is that for any system that has a publicly facing (internet) part you will have to keep up to date with known vulnerabilities as published in CVEs. Not doing so makes you a prime target to security breaches.

Sure, you have to be aware of them, but for something like this [1], if you don't use SO_REUSEPORT_LB, you don't have to take any further action.

The defect is likely in other FreeBSD releases that are no longer supported, but still, if you don't use SO_REUSEPORT_LB, you don't have to update.

If you do use the feature, then for unsupported releases, you could backport the fix, or update to a supported version. And you might mitigate by disabling the feature temporarily, depending on how much of a hit not using it is for your use case. Like I said, you have to be prepared for that.

You can also do partial updates, like take a new kernel, without touching the userland; or take the kernel and userland without taking any package/ports updates.

Some security advisories cover base userland or ports/packages... we can go through an example one of those and see what decision criteria would be for those, too.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-25:09...
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-12-01 04:03:09+00:00
Ya, when I ask Gemini:

While there isn't a definitive inflation-adjusted per-capita number for 2025, recent data indicates that overall sales growth was outpaced by inflation, meaning consumers likely bought fewer items. Total Black Friday spending was up, but the average number of items purchased declined. For instance, Salesforce reported total spending was up 3% but order volume was down 2%, with average selling prices climbing 7%.

...

Per-capita sales: The increase in spending is largely driven by higher prices, meaning the actual volume of goods purchased per person likely decreased compared to the previous year, even with higher total spending, says The New York Times.
by pimlottc | 2025-12-01 04:05:15+00:00
Why the scare quotes for 'entrepreneur'? From what I can tell, the purchaser was a legitimate and very successful software publisher, one of the richest men in South Korea. Furthermore, he ran the site for 6 years before selling it to Lego, actively developing new features like the free Studio design software. It sounds like he only sold it due to personal financial issues after a failed software deal [0].

I agree that Lego owning BrickLink created a big conflict of interests but there doesn't seem to be anything shady about how they acquired it.

0: https://pulse.mk.co.kr/news/english/9084691
Show HN: AWAS – An open standard for AI-readable web actions
by pp10 | 2025-12-01 04:05:38+00:00
I am looking for contributors for an open-source spec called AWAS that lets AI browsers and agents interact with websites via a clean JSON action manifest. The idea is to allow existing websites to interact with AI agents and browsers without disrupting transitional browsing.

Currently, AI agents and AI browsers essentially browse websites trying to mimic a human by clicking around, entering data in search fields, etc. This complicates things as well as waste computational resources for agents. On many websites, it doesn’t even work that well. This is an effort to standardize for AI agent access in a way that can be implemented rapidly and without disrupting user driven browsing.

I’m looking for a few developers interested in AI agents, APIs, or web standards to help refine the spec, add examples, and test it on real sites.

Repo: https://github.com/TamTunnel/AWAS

I’d really appreciate feedback, issues, or small PRs from anyone building AI tools or modern web backends.
by conductr | 2025-12-01 04:05:40+00:00
> when the bottleneck is communication + taste

That was the bottleneck in the industry when it was in growth phase, it's a mature sector now and it's all about efficiency and profit now. Speed to market and product iteration speed isn't the most important thing anymore, there's not a lot of innovation taking place. Outside the actual novel AI specific companies out there, of course, there are a few other spots of growth and exceptional companies but largely the kings have been crowned.
by tjwells | 2025-12-01 04:06:13+00:00
I’m a student interested in market microstructure and low-latency systems. I built Mercury to learn how matching engines work under the hood.

It’s a single-threaded C++ engine that achieves ~320ns insertion latency and 3.2m+ orders/sec throughput.

Technical details:

Memory: Everything is pre-allocated. No new/malloc on the hot path.

Data Structures: I wrote a custom Robin Hood hash map and intrusive lists to keep order management O(1) and cache-friendly.

Architecture: It includes a pre-trade risk check and a backtester.

The code is obviously not production-ready for a real exchange, but I’d love feedback on the C++ implementation and memory layout.

Repo: https://github.com/eelixir/mercury
by elisbce | 2025-12-01 04:10:59+00:00
When SpaceX came about, they said it was impossible for the rocket to come back from space and get reused. They said it wasn't going to work to combine multiple thrusters to form a big thruster and be reliable enough. When Starlink was introduced, they said it was stupid because the bandwidth is too small to be useful. Where are we now? 10 years ago, AI couldn't even beat a high-rank amateur Go player, let alone the best of pros. Everyone takes the excuse of dimensionality curse. Now what?

People who only look at the past/present and conclude impossibility are never going to be the ones who invent the future. Even math and science evolve, let alone engineering. The problems described in this article don't even remotely feel like the kind of barriers we faced when Go was solved, when protein fold was predicted and when LLM was solving problems with one prompt. If there is a strong NEED for datacenters to be up in the space, there will eventually be datacenters in the space.
by cchianel | 2025-12-01 04:12:53+00:00
Some additional optimization resources (for metaheuristics, where you only have the objective/score function and no derivative):

- "Essentials of Metaheuristics" by Sean Luke https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics/

- "Clever Algorithms" by Jason Brownlee https://cleveralgorithms.com/

Timefold uses the metaheuristic algorithms in these books (Tabu Search, Late Acceptance, Simulated Annealing, etc.) to find near-optimal solutions quickly from a score function (typically defined in a Java stream-like/SQL-like syntax so score calculation can be done incrementally to improve score calculation speed).

You can see simplified diagrams of these algorithms in action in Timefold's docs: https://docs.timefold.ai/timefold-solver/latest/optimization....

Disclosure: I work for Timefold.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 04:13:21+00:00
>out in the official data, and less so but still true in the real world, things are still bobbing along.

The Titanic had 3 days of warning and took 3 hours to sink. A large ship takes a long time to do anything, be it turn or drown.

If you've been following the breadcrumbs in pretty much any industry (especially tech), you know the market isn't in a good shape. If you're looking outside expencting to see the world burning, you gotta wait another 3 hours (or hope someone steps in first).
by dgfl | 2025-12-01 04:14:21+00:00
For example this one:

https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyp166

It’s a decently big meta-review. It cites studies which more or less say exactly what I said very early, e.g. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02071515

I might be completely wrong, of course. I’d rather be proven wrong than stay ignorant, so please do share the studies you had in mind.
by nuuuwan | 2025-12-01 04:14:22+00:00
Sri Lanka's Recovery After Cyclone Ditwah A SOFTWARE AND TECHNOLOGY WISHLIST

Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka with unprecedented force, bringing widespread flooding, landslides and infrastructure collapse. Early local assessments describe entire districts cut off and essential services disrupted.

The view held by many and my own view, is that the scale of damage may surpass even the destruction experienced during the 2004 Asian tsunami, though this is only opinion until full assessments are completed.

Much needs to be done, across medical response, logistics, administration, housing, education and welfare, if Sri Lanka is to recover from the devastation of Cyclone Ditwah. Disasters are devastating, yet every difficulty is also an opportunity to rebuild smarter, fairer and more resilient products, services and systems.

If you, like me, work in technology, these are some concrete ways you can contribute, from the immediate hours to the long term. Note that this list is not exhaustive, might not be optimal and some systems might already be in place. They simply a first draft of my personal wishlist.

...

Continue on MEDIUM: https://medium.com/on-technology/sri-lankas-recovery-after-c...

SUBSTACK: https://open.substack.com/pub/nuuuwan/p/sri-lankas-recovery-...
by aadv1k | 2025-12-01 04:14:23+00:00
Advent of code is such a fantastic event. I am honestly glad it's 12 days this year, primarily because I would only ever get to day 13 or 14 before it would take me an entire day to finish the puzzles! This would be my fourth year doing AoC. Looking forward to it :)

I plan on doing this year in C++ because I have never worked with it and AoC is always a good excuse to learn a new language. My college exams just got over, so I have a ton of free time.

Previous attempts:

- in Lua https://github.com/Aadv1k/AdventOfLua2021

- in C https://github.com/Aadv1k/AdventOfC2022

- in Go https://github.com/Aadv1k/AdventOfGo2023

really hope I can get all the stars this time...Cheers, and Merry Cristmas!
by smt88 | 2025-12-01 04:15:04+00:00
> You're not being forced to use the AI features. If you don't want to use them, don't use them

You can't turn them off in many products, and Microsoft's and Google's roadmaps both say that they're going to disable turning them off, starting with using existing telemetry for AI training.

> Your argument that Google and Apple should be "regulated into the ground" isn't an argument. It's a vengeful emotion or part of a vague ideology or something.

You're just continuing to ignore that all of this is based on their market dominance. There are literally two options for smartphone operating systems. For something that's vital to modern life, that's unacceptable and gives users no choice.

If a company gets to enjoy a near-monopoly status, it has to be regulated to prevent abuse of its power. There's a huge amount of precedent for this in industries like telecom.

> If I want blenders to be sold in bright orange, but the three brands at my local store are all black or silver, I really don't think it's right for the government should pass a law requiring stores to carry blenders in bright orange

Do you really not see the difference between "color of blender" and "unable to turn off LLMs on a device that didn't have any on it when I bought it"?
by dboreham | 2025-12-01 04:18:12+00:00
A common pattern is: people (I supposed I mean: investors) are somewhat worried that markets are over valued. They ponder, think, research, binge-watch Prof G videos... Then they travel to have Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of in-laws. Market gets discussed over cigars. If they get a confirmation signal from the brother in law attorney or sister in law dentist that they are worried too...then after mulling it over on the flight back to Denver...the market dumps on Monday.