MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-20 10:12:10+00:00
> I think if you cared even a little bit about other people, you'd realize that after say, ten million, your life is gonna be pretty damn sweet already and you'd try to help other people with your money instead of buying yachts.

In general their money isn't money, it's stock. The thing it buys them is being the CEO of their company instead of letting Wall St pick someone even worse.

The real problem is that companies are now so large that you'd have to be a multi-billionaire to have a controlling interest.
by KaiserPro | 2025-12-20 10:12:30+00:00
Cost, mainly

The cost of oil insulated cables that can do 132kv is about £900 a meter. Whilst there are HV cables that exist on the outskirts of london, they are much rarer in zones 1-3.

I assume that the cost of pylons with raw cables is much much cheaper. The problem is planning permissions, physical clearance. planning permission and now one wants to live near HV cables (that they know of. There are a bunch of 33kv cables buried outside posh people's houses in zone 5, and a bunch in canals.)
by themafia | 2025-12-20 10:16:24+00:00
> Facility operators anticipated needing to shutdown the heat-exchange infrastructure providing air cooling to many parts of the building, including some internal networking closets. As a result, many of these too were preemptively shutdown with the result that our group lacks much of the monitoring and control capabilities we ordinarily have

Having a parallel low bandwidth, low power, low waste heat network infrastructure for this suddenly seems useful.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-20 10:16:34+00:00
The CA/B Forum did in fact ratify these rules, which is why they're in its "Baseline Requirements".

They (I would say deliberately) stalled the process to actually make those rules binding on the CAs and that is where Mozilla used their fiat powers to just require this anyway, knowing that all the other trust stores would come for the ride and actually nobody at CA/B offered a legitimate reason not to do this, they just (again I would say deliberately) allowed it to get procedurally bogged down so that nothing would happen for a period of time.
by BrenBarn | 2025-12-20 10:16:40+00:00
No, I think the better idea is, if the Democrats get power, pack the union, remove the pardon power, and basically send everyone associated with either Trump administration to jail for life (including all House/Senate members who voted against impeachment). It might be necessary to execute some for treason. I don't see any way back to sanity without a Nuremberg-style process in which "conservatism" as we know it is gouged out of the political arena.
Show HN: A minimalist, high-quality Text-to-Speech Chrome extension
by abagh999 | 2025-12-20 10:16:48+00:00
I read a lot every day for work, so by the time I want to read articles online (especially here on Hacker News), I'm already too tired to stare at more text. I figured: why not listen to them instead? I tried a bunch of apps, but quickly deleted each one. Either:

- Everything was locked behind a ~$30/month subscription (wasn't ready for that).

- Or the voices sounded robotic and painful to listen to.

Since I'm a software engineer, I decided to just build my own solution, a Chrome extension that reads articles or any text out loud in a human-like voice. That's how Qariyo.com was born.

Some friends liked it too, so I thought: why not make it public? When I built it, I kept things simple: - Read the article out loud without breaking the flow, so it should work as a widget inside the page and not opening a new tab/page.

- Don't make me wait for the entire article to be converted before listening. I want to start as quickly as possible, without interruptions.

- No extra fluff (Snoop Dogg reading the article for you, etc. I don’t care). Just read the article out loud.

- And please, no subscriptions. I want to pay for what you use.

Reading modes :

- Full Page Mode: Open any webpage you want to listen to, click play, and let the Qariyo's TTS engine read the text aloud. Pause, rewind, fast-forward, or skip paragraphs by clicking any paragraph on the page.

- Text Selection Mode: Click the Text Selection Mode button, highlight any text on the screen with your mouse, and listen as Qariyo reads only the selected text.

It's still an MVP, but it works well. If you want to try it, I'd love to hear your feedback!
by j-krieger | 2025-12-20 10:17:38+00:00
> It is funny how we keep asking more and more and more even though we already have it so much better than before.

I've been developing web stuff for 15 years now and sometimes I can't believe comments like these. We didn't have it "so much better before". CSS sucked hard and getting things right for three devices was an incredible pain in the ass.

Tables have semantic meaning. They don't support fractional units. Reflowing for mobile is impossible and you need JS hacks like splitting tables. You can't reorder natively.
by burtekd | 2025-12-20 10:18:00+00:00
While I agree with the majority of the arguments, there are some cases where toolchains make it easier to manage monorepos. With JS/TS we had a monorepo with react web app, react-native mobile app and a shared REST API client library. Once a change was made to the library, tooling bumped library's version based on commit message (conventional commits) then updated the library version in both apps, bumped their versions too and released them to staging. It worked for us and was something that would require more config to achieve with separate repos.

I believe it's up to developers to decide what suits them best based on their requirements, process and tooling.

True however that putting everything in monorepo just for the gist of it is not the best approach.
by Izmaki | 2025-12-20 10:20:39+00:00
The ability for humankind to communicate across the entire globe at nearly 1/4 of the speed of light has drastically accelerated our technological advancement. There is no doubt that the internet is a HUGE addition to society.

It's not super important when compared to basic needs like plumbing, food, electricity, medical assistance and other silly things we take for granted but are heavily dependent on. We all saw what happened to hospitals during the early stages of the COVID pandemic; we had plenty of internet and electricity but were struggling on the medical part. That was quite bad... I'm not sure if it's any worse if an entire country/continent lost access to the Internet. Quite a lot of our core infrastructure components in society rely on this. And a fair bit of it relies on a common understanding of what time "now" is.
by anthk | 2025-12-20 10:20:50+00:00
Spaniard there; there used to be UFO's in the 70's... coincidentally near the US military bases ;)

There was an infamous one in the Canary Islands.

Also, weird events under Huelva. A few paranormal, but some of them not religion/spiritual based.

If the aliens were real, their technology for sure would look as magic for humans. No, forget flying saucers or whatever. These kind of civilizations would have totally different ways to travel thousands of kilometers across the galaxy.

Teleporting "magic" would just be mundane technology for them.

A simple AM radio receiver with a wire, a coil and a magnet would just be sorcery for even the upper elite from the medieval times. And today an Elementary kid can build a simple receiver with junk from a junkyard or scraps from a workbench.

EDIT:

BTW, I forgot: on paranormal stuff on Huelva, I meant something like this:

https://0x0.st/Pr1Y.txt

I don't care about ouija's, haunted houses and whatever related to either ghosts or to religious stuff.
by afro88 | 2025-12-20 10:22:24+00:00
You're not missing much. You can generally use Cursor like Claude Code for normal day to day use. I prefer Cursor because I like reviewing changes in an IDE, and I like being able to switch to the current SOTA model.

Though for more automated work, one thing you miss with Cursor is sub agents. And then to a lesser extent skills (these are pretty easy to emulate in other tools). I'm sure it's only a matter of time though.
by guenthert | 2025-12-20 10:22:48+00:00
Ubuntu using atomic clocks would surprise me. Sure they could, but it's not obvious to me why they would spend $$$$ on such. More plausible to me seems that they would be using GPSDO as reference clocks (in this context, about as good as your own atomic clock), iff they were running their own time servers. Google finds only that they are using servers from the NTP Pool Project, which will be using a variety of reference clocks.

If you have information on what they actually are using internally, please share.
by mavamaarten | 2025-12-20 10:23:51+00:00
If the devs behind Charles would just tweak their UI a bit, it would be the absolute perfect tool. Functionally it pretty much already is. Mainly being able to turn on and off and configuring features I use all the time (rewrite, map local, map remote) is always a journey through menu's that don't always make sense. The only functional thing I'm missing is some DNS stuff (e.g. throttling or breaking DNS specifically).

I tried using proxyman for a while, and while definitely powerful and more modern, it honestly didn't feel "better" or more powerful so I didn't go for yet another license.
by Sammi | 2025-12-20 10:24:18+00:00
A country building out its export industry means more people get jobs and out of poverty. Chinese leaders didn't do it for the benefit of their people. They only do anything in order to stay in power inside of the party so they can be rich. That's how the Chinese political system works. Please stop it with the Chinese leaders are benevolent narrative. It's clearly bunk.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-12-20 10:25:07+00:00
Much of what people call cloud is a commodity at this point. If you need vms, object storage, load balancers, vpcs, etc., which is what most people would need, that works in a lot of solutions. And you can usually also find managed databases, redis, and a few other bits and bobs. If you like Kubernetes (I personally don't), the whole point of that is that it kind of works everywhere.

People over pay for AWS mostly because of brand recognition. And it's not even small amounts. You get a lot more CPU/memory/bandwidth with some of the competitors. AWS makes money by squeezing their customers hard on that. Competitors do the obvious thing of being a bit more generous. Companies could save a ton just switching to competing solutions. Try it. It's not that hard. Some solutions are obviously not as complete.

This not about US vs. EU but about sovereignty. If you are married to AWS, that's a weakness in itself. Ask yourself how hard it would be to move to Google cloud. Or Azure. Or whatever. If that's very hard, you might have a problem when Amazon jacks up the prices or discontinues a product.

We use a mix of Google Cloud and Telekom Cloud for some of our more picky customers in Germany. Telekom Cloud is not very glamorous. But it's essentially openstack. Which is an open source thing backed by IBM and others. I wouldn't necessary recommend Telekom Cloud (it has a few weaknesses in support and documentation). But it does the job. And unlike AWS, I can get people on the phone and they are happy to talk to me.
by gushogg-blake | 2025-12-20 10:25:21+00:00
A few counter anecdotes: I read a story about a baseball coach making the players hold water in their mouths while training to make sure they couldn't mouth breathe. I'm pretty sure if you watch an MMA fight the fighters will mostly have their mouths closed. And the airway-focused orthodontist Bill Hang ran a marathon with tape over his mouth (only removing it for hydration) to make a point about the importance of nasal breathing. Also, I can do sustained moderate to high intensity exercise with only nose breathing.
by elcritch | 2025-12-20 10:26:08+00:00
> Incidentally, hobbyists have been flying triangular jet-powered high speed drones since at least 2017.

There's advanced hobbyists who have much more sophisticated drones as well [1]. Nothing outside the reach of more advanced advanced engineering with fuel cells. Though it could be some covert government program or research group and possibly even foreign governments.

The drone in Tuscon AZ outran police helicopters for over an hour:

> Typical commercial drones cannot travel 100 mph even under the best conditions. > Eventually, the helicopter ended up flying toward Mount Lemmon at an altitude of 14,000 feet, thousands of feet above the helicopter. The pilot wrote the drone would circle the helicopter at 100 mph. > "[T]his did not appear to be any off-the-shelf" drone, the pilot wrote. > Another helicopter crew member wrote it appeared to be a "very sophisticated/specialized" drone that was "able to perform like no other...I have observed."

1: https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/tucson-poli...
by KaiserPro | 2025-12-20 10:28:20+00:00
Yes.

And I wish people would understand how costs work.

Pylons need space right, they also need maintenance corridors and access. Every ~360m you need a space to put a pylon[1]. Can you imagine the cost of buying 400m2 every 360 in zone 1?

what about the scaffolding when you need to re-string the cables? can you imagine how expensive that would be? what about if a lorry smacks into it? Its just not practical.

I grew up in norfolk, next to a bunch of HV pylons. No-one commented on them, because they were always there. THey are going to put some more in, and suddenly "its a blot on the land scape" and its "ecological damaging" Then its proposed that the cables are buried. apparently a 200 meter clearing 30km long is more ecologically friendly than pylons ever n hundred meters.

but thats an aside.

[1]https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-distance-between-electrici...
by ctoth | 2025-12-20 10:28:39+00:00
> The fundamental challenge in AI for the next 20 years is avoiding extinction.

So nice to see people who think about this seriously converge on this. Yes. Creating something smarter than you was always going to be a sketchy prospect.

All of the folks insisting it just couldn't happen or ... well, there have just been so many objections. The goalposts have walked from one side of the field to the other, and then left the stadium, went on a trip to Europe, got lost in a beautiful little village in Norway, and decided to move there.

All this time though, the prospect of instantiating a something smarter than you (and yes, it will be smarter than you even if it's at human level because of electronic speeds...) This whole idea is just cursed and we should not do the thing.
by Aiisnotabubble | 2025-12-20 10:29:34+00:00
What also happens and it's irrelevant of AGI: global RL

Around the world people ask an LLM and get a response.

Just grouping and analysing these questions and solving them once centrally and then making the solution available again is huge.

Linearly solving the most asked questions and then the next one then the next will make, whatever system is behind it, smarter every day.
by coryrc | 2025-12-20 10:30:41+00:00
OOM killer often doesn't run soon enough for me; I've even left the machine for twenty minutes and it's still swapping hard.

And I do say "often" because it does sometimes work.

I have set all my Firefox processes near-maximum priority to kill for the OOM killer, but it didn't help.

Also don't forget about memory compression: only meaningful with overcommit.
by SequoiaHope | 2025-12-20 10:32:55+00:00
I think this link hit HN in part due to the new Simon Clark video on contrails which mentioned it. Simon discusses the claim that contrails can be avoided for a small fuel penalty, reducing the overall effect on climate change a given flight would have. Apparently some airlines are already exploring this and Google includes contrail impact estimates on their flight search. So maybe it is worth talking about.

https://youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08
by jimnotgym | 2025-12-20 10:34:21+00:00
Was it laziness and stupidity, or was it protection money. I thought the deal since WW2 was a US security guarantee, in return for letting the US have our money. A protection racket. Or perhaps it was more like Europe paying tribute to its colonial master.

Anyhow it is clear the protection is not to be relied upon, so it is time to stop paying. It is dangerous making deals with gangsters. It is perhaps more dangerous to change the deal. But when the protection is not there, it is time to build strength.

Well done to France for maintaining its independent nuclear deterrent through this era. Britain made a mistake letting that go
by seu | 2025-12-20 10:34:21+00:00
> And I've vibe coded entire ephemeral apps just to find a single bug because why not - code is suddenly free, ephemeral, malleable, discardable after single use. Vibe coding will terraform software and alter job descriptions.

I'm not super up-to-date on all that's happening in AI-land, but in this quote I can find something that most techno-enthusiast seem to have decided to ignore: no, code is not free. There are immense resources (energy, water, materials) that go into these data centers in order to produce this "free" code. And the material consequences are terribly damaging to thousands of people. With the further construction of data centers to feed this free video coding style, we're further destroying parts of the world. Well done, AGI loverboys.
by orian | 2025-12-20 10:34:42+00:00
I use it when I know what and where need to be done, because the complexity of the system and that making mistakes can fail the whole app. I do research in codebase using Claude ultrathink.

Our system is pretty well tested, so this helps a lot.

I know most people at my company use it, and with pretty good results(?)

Personally, I stoped voluntarily reviewing code and caring about quality of code that I’m not responsible for. The AI slop is real and reviewing it is counter-career, instead of pushing product forward and getting praised you spend it fighting with AI. I just accepted that this is how the products looks these days.
by emilbratt | 2025-12-20 10:35:14+00:00
I dont know what would be the best way, but I personally want each image to be represented correctly in relation to all other image. This means that the way images are laid out will looked jagged. However, as a consequence of that, it is easy to find back to a specific image. Its like when you are coding, you look at the "shape" of the code when scrolling to find that specific function definition etc..

Here is an example of the layout of a photostream that I was satisfied with.

https://frifoto.emilbratt.no/?view_mode=photo-stream&tag=All...
by wtcactus | 2025-12-20 10:35:15+00:00
One man’s public journalism is another man’s state sponsored propaganda.

I don’t want my extorted taxes funding any of this. I hope other countries in Europe follow suit and shut down any state funded media and journalism networks.

P.S. Funnily enough, in my country, the hard left was very fond of the state media network - that they filled with their own talking heads - until recently when the present center right government started changing the seats to their own apparatchiks and the programs started to change from hard left propaganda to neo-liberal propaganda. Now, they don’t fancy all that money going to the state media channels anymore. Suits them right.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-20 10:36:18+00:00
This is the exact attitude that got Trump back in office. Keep everything hyper-partisan and every election is flipping a coin to see who got 1% more votes this time, with everyone feeling like if they lose the other side is going to damage them on purpose because that's literally what they're saying they want to do.

Instead you need to get some adults back in the room and start doing things like prosecuting government officials for corruption regardless of which party they're in, passing the laws that lower the cost of living even over the opposition of the people getting paid the higher costs, and actually enforcing antitrust laws instead of both parties using them as a cudgel to get tech and media corporations to bend the knee politically in exchange for not enforcing them.
by nuuuwan | 2025-12-20 10:36:20+00:00
For millennia, Sri Lanka’s central hills were protected by dense rainforest. That system slowed water, stabilised slopes, fed rivers, and made the island resilient. Tea dismantled that system.

What replaced it is not tradition or progress, but a monoculture that accelerates floods, triggers landslides, dries landscapes, and traps people in generational poverty.

This is not a neutral debate.

Supporting tea today means supporting environmental destruction and a labour system that functions as modern slavery. Disasters like Cyclone Ditwah are not accidents, they are the predictable outcome of land misuse and political protection.

If tea still made sense, the numbers would defend it.

They do not.

CONTINUE ON MEDIUM: https://nuwans.medium.com/exit-tea-513cfb653da3

SUBSTACK: https://open.substack.com/pub/nuuuwan/p/exit-tea
by tryauuum | 2025-12-20 10:40:17+00:00
even if the datacenter provider owns the IP ranges and thus gets all the abuse mail, they are kind of incentivized to keep you as a customer? since you are paying them

also, if you get your own IP ranges then the provider won't care much about e.g. your clients scanning the internet / running malware

Another topic is DDoS to your clients which can exhaust the uplink bandwidth... Don't know much of it
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-20 10:40:17+00:00
For me, this is completely true but I just see it as a new form of being creative.

What I find interesting is no one use to be against Kai's Power Tools like this 30 years ago. I can remember waiting for new magazines to come out in the 90s to find what cool new graphic tools I might get to use to make something interesting. The output is what mattered, not the path to get to the output.

I think it is really deeper about art itself and that "creatives" are largely not at all actually creative. In the 21st century, "Creatives" is the word we use for the product varnish painters.

A class of people tasked with putting a thin layer of gloss on products to make them a bit more shiny. Absolutely nothing creative or artistic about this at all. Not to say there isn't a lot of talent involved in being a product gloss painter. I would be highly against AI in the arts too if I was a product gloss painter.

There is also this aspect that is like at some point in the 20th century, there were highbrow people that believed anything but 12-tone music was not worth listening to. Schoenberg promoted this music saying his discovery was in league with Einstein. If you were to play early punk music to these people not only is it not even music, it is an afront to the very idea of what you believe music to be. The idea anyone can pick up an instrument to make music is not worth considering. It is just making a type of noise. A type of worthless "slop".
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-12-20 10:41:07+00:00
> And then comes the part they can't (or won't) fathom. The context shifts. The political winds change. The Overton window slams shut on a belief they once held. A book they read is declared subversive. A group they donated to is re-classified as extremist. A joke they told is now evidence of a thoughtcrime.

There are at least some people who would respond by (still) saying "I have nothing to hide." They are proud of their moral choices and confident in their convictions. Arrest them if you dare.

I wonder if the author still has contempt for them?
by puzzlingcaptcha | 2025-12-20 10:41:51+00:00
I think people have a wrong idea of what a modern atomic clock looks like. These are readily available commercially, Microchip for example will happily sell you hydrogen, cesium or rubidium atomic clocks. Hydrogen masers are rather unwieldy, but you can get a rubidium clock in a 1U format and cesium ones are not much bigger. I think their cesium freq standards are formerly a HP business they acquired.

Example: https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/clock-and-timing/co...