MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by munificent | 2025-12-08 21:10:18+00:00
> We aren’t a bunch of independent levers that we get to adjust. Yet for some reason we pretend like that’s the case.

I've noticed this too, and my pet theory is that it's yet another toxic side effect of pervasive consumerism. We get so used to being able to find that one product whose feature list is exactly what we want, that we end up carrying that same micro-managing expectation into other areas of life. We've lost the ability to appreciate things holistically.
by traceroute66 | 2025-12-08 21:10:39+00:00
> NATS data is ephemeral in many cases anyhow, so it makes a bit more sense here

Dude ... the guy was testing JetStream.

Which, I quote from the first phrase from the first paragraph on the NATS website:

NATS has a built-in persistence engine called JetStream which enables messages to be stored and replayed at a later time.
by 9rx | 2025-12-08 21:10:41+00:00
> Online, where generational warfare is waged these days, many hold that the real Gen X range is 1961 to 1981 [...] The stakes of the argument are high: No one wants to be a millennial or a boomer.

Millennial wasn't a generation. It referred to those who were set to graduate from high school in the year 2000. Generation Y was the name of the generation that followed Generation X.

This is why there is debate between 1981 and 1982. It is dependent on how one's school system was setup. In my jurisdiction, the 1981 cohort is who graduated from high school in 2000. In other jurisdictions, it was those born in 1982.

So, never fear, those who are afraid of being labelled millennials. The window is much smaller than the article lets on.
by tjwells | 2025-12-08 21:10:52+00:00
Hi HN, I’m currently building an all-in-one trading terminal for Polymarket.

The Problem: Polymarket is now doing billions in volume, but the native web interface is built for retail. It lacks basic execution tools, has UI latency, and doesn't support stop losses. When trading volatile events, that click-latency leads to significant slippage.

The Solution: I built Onyx to treat prediction markets like traditional financial markets. It'll feature fast execution, advanced risk management, and in depth analytics.

I'm planning on launching a closed beta soon so would love if anyone could join the waitlist and help provide feedback.
by chasil | 2025-12-08 21:11:22+00:00
I can tell you that Wells Fargo works both on Lineage with Mind the Gapps, and Graphene with the Play store installed. I have it on my OnePlus 5 and Pixel 6a.

I understand that most U.S. banking apps work on Graphene.

As far as contactless payments, try a Pixel watch. I understand that it is entirely separate from the phone.
by ndriscoll | 2025-12-08 21:11:53+00:00
It's totally possible. My computer blocks ads, and the city I live in bans billboards and requires things like an evergreen hedge to block commercial parking lots from being visible from an arterial (the required greenery scales with the lot, so you can generally see names on the front faces of small strip malls, but big-box stores are completely hidden). The signs businesses are allowed to have are there to help you find where to turn, and have things like size restrictions and aesthetic requirements.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-12-08 21:12:24+00:00
It's the other way around. Human learning would appear to amount to very efficient compression. A world model would appear to be a particular sort of highly compressed data set that has particular properties.

This is a case where it's going to be next to impossible to provide proof that no counterexamples exist. Conversely, if what I've written there is wrong then a single counterexample will likely suffice to blow the entire thing out of the water.
by rohanray | 2025-12-08 21:12:24+00:00
It's not a local IPC exactly. The roundtrip benchmark stat is for a TCP server-client ping/pong call using a 2 KB payload; TCP is although on local loopback (127.0.0.1).

Source: https://github.com/mvp-express/myra-transport/blob/main/benc...
by yancheva | 2025-12-08 21:12:47+00:00
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by metadope | 2025-12-08 21:12:53+00:00
I'm elderly now, but in my distant youth I had many encounters with police officers. Every single one of them was a blessing to me. Of course, I am a white male, and my encounters with police were probably affected by my (traditionally) privileged status.

I do not blame LEOs for the growing encrouchments on my (our) personal liberties. I view them as bona fide public servants, motivated mostly by genuine generosity of spirit, wanting to help people.

But police culture is another matter, and it is the culture than corrupts. Because it is such a boring job (for the most part), management is always seeking new ways to keep their officers engaged, enthused, gratified.

That job, sitting alongside the highway, is less boring if there's an ongoing story that you're part of, a team that you serve, that's counting on you. So you're going to do your part, hold up your end, carry your weight, even if that means you need to do something that makes your conscience go squiggly, it's okay, it's just the compromise expected of a player, taking a little one for the team. That corruption is something that management enables, and wink nod encourages. And management does it, and gets away with continuing to do it, because a large portion of the public are okay with it too.

What are the chances that the next mistaken AI-assisted surveillance conclusion is going to capture you in its crosshairs? It's a small probabilty, right? Just don't drive near the border, don't drop any women off at motels, don't drive I35 in Texas: you'll be okay.
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-12-08 21:13:03+00:00
So that's why I found the username and language familiar. Was exploring this site few days ago. Besides this page, there's also one on Vera[0], what appears to be Nova's predecessor (at the end there's even link pointing to a defunct wiki under Nova's domain calling it Vera wiki).

[0]: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/vera.html
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-12-08 21:13:21+00:00
Yeah, I saw this critique show up a few months ago and now I'm seeing it everywhere, even in major financial news sites like Bloomberg.[0] It's certainly worth discussing, but people are taking it as a gotcha to prove the AI boom is fake. However, all the AI companies have to buy from Nvidia anyway. And Nvidia has tons of cash, in fact it has 4x the cash on hand now than it did in 2023, despite all the investments.[1] So yes, if they think the AI market will grow then of course they will buy into it. If all of Nvidia's deals went bad, their stock would plummet, but not because they lost a few tens of billions, rather because that would mean the AI market is going down in general. There is a great counterexample to the "AI is propped up by circular funding" argument in Google, which uses its own TPUs and builds its own AI, and integrates it into it's own end-user products, no circular deals needed. If AI is propped up by anything it is investors and companies thinking it will give them a huge return. Circular deals are a result of that: cash is going everywhere into that market, it's that simple. The AI boom may be a bubble, but not due to circular deals in particular.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-07/openai-s-...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/nvidia-has-a-cash-problem-to... -- Actually "Cash and short-term investments", not sure what is included in that, but I don't think it includes these major deals.
by riedel | 2025-12-08 21:13:22+00:00
Why would you want security, if you get 'play integrity' for phones that received no updates since 2 years. Google's current security practices are more than dubious IMHO. Now they are not releasing any source for security patches for 3 month, to 'protect' vendors that are too slow updating. As if there is no chance for bad actors to reverse engineer those patch sets.
by baranul | 2025-12-08 21:13:23+00:00
Many would say that the FOSS alternatives don't copy Office enough. Often, by going there own way with various tasks, they create a bigger jump. Case in point, the Linux distros that attract the most attention for common folk and not niche use, are the ones that are more Windows-like. Examples: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Zorin, etc... The smaller the jump, the more you can convince people to switch over.

When there is a significant difference, it needs to be shown what the equivalent is in the alternative. The jump can be a bit mitigated by education or information, but usually by only so much, where it's still seen as attractive.
by Biologist123 | 2025-12-08 21:13:47+00:00
There’s an alternative theory that cities need to be bit chaotic:

“The Uses of Disorder analyzes human development at the personal and collective level in wealthy cities, presenting the thesis that such cities are excessively ordered and thereby enable residents to avoid personal growth or change. Instead of relying on prescriptive plans and rigid self-conceptions, Sennett argues, people should remain open to difference and disorder while city life ought to be more disorderly and decentralized.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uses_of_Disorder
by Teever | 2025-12-08 21:13:58+00:00
I acknowledge that like prostitution advertisement isn't going to ever go away completely, and I acknowledge that also like prostitute it's a better world where we legalize and regulate advertisement over a world where we didn't but with that said it's really dismaying that vanguard of our industrial and technological capability as a species is built on advertisement.

Will that always be the case? Or will the people who work at these organizations finally realize that they're only making the world a worse place every time they integrate advertisements into their business model?
by kulahan | 2025-12-08 21:14:00+00:00
There is cancer in your body every single day. Your immune system handles it just fine. There is an explicit difference between cancer that needs treating and cancer that should be ignored because it's a waste of time and resources to treat. You're not a doctor, you're not qualified to tell the difference, you're not trained on cancers, you're not even in the medical field. The monopoly is held for exactly this reason.

We already have an extreme shortage of available healthcare workers. We don't need to stress them further because 20% of the population suddenly decides they need 80 elective surgeries to remove things that would've gone away or stayed benign on their own.
Audit and tool to detect Linux cron job misconfigurations (LPE)
by privlabs | 2025-12-08 21:14:23+00:00
Open-source: Audit & tool to detect Linux cron job misconfigurations (LPE)

I’m releasing an open-source toolkit and guide for auditing and securing Linux cron jobs, focusing on privilege escalation (LPE) risks.

- Automated detection of common misconfigurations (world-writable files, dangerous permissions, etc.) - Example exploitation scenario (root shell via cron misconfig) - Recommendations for mitigation and hardening

Feedback and contributions are welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/privlabs/lpe-cron-misconfig-2025
by PKop | 2025-12-08 21:14:44+00:00
Yes since you can extract a gain within some small portion of its bull market that's compressed into a shorter period of time relative to some other assets like gold. It means you aren't holding for as long.

Crypto rises harder and falls harder. For traders, this is very useful.

Of course I know you were just riffing, but the particular terrible nature of the assets you compared it to was worth pointing out. Since you did ask how they were any different.

Different asset classes have different uses. A thing that doesn't move around much for a long time is not so great to trade, maybe to invest. Crypto is a great sponge for liquidity.
by nickv | 2025-12-08 21:14:55+00:00
Games I've played on my Arch Linux desktop with a 4090 in the past few months: Clair Obscur, Disco Elysium, Outer Worlds, Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk, Dispatch, Silent Hill f, FFVII Rebirth. I haven't had a single issue with any of these games. What games do you think will struggle? I can give them a shot if I own then and let you know how they do.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-08 21:14:58+00:00
> But the restaurant is worried about you stealing their food and dashing off without paying.

Except that they serve you before collecting payment regardless of which payment method you use.

And even if they didn't, having the customer pay at the same time they receive the food isn't a trust problem for the restaurant or the customer, because the customer gets the food before the restaurant gets the money but the restaurant gets the money before the customer eats the food. And if someone comes into your kitchen to steal food without paying, that isn't really a payment system issue to begin with.
by jhallenworld | 2025-12-08 21:14:59+00:00
That's awesome. Before ~2007 they allowed you to use open-source Pidgin to connect to the Domino servers. A friend of mine and I used it to make a bot: if you sametimed me, you got Zork.

It reminds me of another IBM IT rule: they wanted your chat history (and email) older than two years to be all deleted for legal liability reasons. It was important to save your sametime chat history (an XML file) and export your email periodically if you wanted to keep this stuff.

This was actually better than Slack in one way- you could grep the files for things, and not have to rely on search within the tool.
by tptacek | 2025-12-08 21:15:34+00:00
We have essentially no mechanistic understanding of gene/intelligence interactions. Rather, we have cohorts of people tagged with traits (educational achievement, tested IQ, height, etc), all sequenced, and then we can run correlation surveys across all their genomes to identify correlations between alleles and traits. When you do that, you get 10-30% heritability numbers; the gap between that and the range for MZ/DZ twin studies (the 50-80% you often see) is "the missing heritability problem".
by IshKebab | 2025-12-08 21:15:56+00:00
> Relative to what?

Relative to C++.

> There are formal verification tools for other languages.

None that are actually used.

I have no horse in this race and I have never actually written any Ada, but it seems pretty clear to me that it would produce more correct code on average.

Looking at the Ariane 5 error it looks like the specifically disabled the compile-time error: https://www.sarahandrobin.com/ingo/swr/ariane5.html

That's nothing to do with Ada.

Also asking for evidence is a red herring. Where's the evidence that Rust code is more likely to be correct than Perl? There isn't any. It's too difficult to collect that evidence. Yet it's obviously true.

Plenty of things are pretty obviously true but collecting scientific evidence of them is completely infeasible. Are code comments helpful at all? No evidence. Are regexes error-prone and hard to read? No evidence. Are autoformatters helpful? No evidence.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-08 21:16:41+00:00
If someone from microsoft/github is reading this, can you guys do something to the expressjs constant spam that they get.

Basically ApnaCollege created a video which was all fine until in the end that they decided to do a test on expressjs itself

People followed (I don't blame them), most are from colleges who honestly might want to learn git because they want to have it on their resumes or they are working on a project with deadend which might involve git.

I think that apnacollege could've done something about it. The creator of ApnaCollege Amit dhatterwal is a chill guy from what I know so I don't really know why they didn't do anything out of the whole situation.

ExpressJs team did do something about the whole scenario iirc and I do not know what is the state of project right now but I saw this whole drama happen from 2 years till right now and I am sure that github team (if it could've been more flexible I suppose?) could have definitely done something about it

I am interested if you guys think that github could've done something about it or how and just opinions on the whole thing, Sorry if its a little offtopic but the point here was that the accounts doing it weren't "spam accounts", they were fresh accounts created (imo) to try out github as the video was about learning github and git and the video showed the github registration process too so most accounts were created while watching the video.
by jgerrish | 2025-12-08 21:17:22+00:00
> This feels like a dangerous game they're playing.

There are different types of danger in playing the "We are the Monsters" game that Microsoft and the US Intelligence agencies seem to love.

There's the danger their allies in Europe like Germany running the Open Document Foundation aren't as powerful as they think. I'm sorry if that's the case and I wouldn't want to be making those calculations.

But there's a different danger to normal US citizens just trying to live their fucking lives and build their life spreadsheet. It's so easy nowadays to fall into the trap of identifying more with European values, including digital data protection and open source. Or wanting to leave the country.

But some people don't want to be forced out of their home when they're vulnerable. It hurts knowing we are seen as monsters ourselves and I don't blame that sentiment.

But where will the next generation be shifted to?

Launched to Europe after Canada? Then launched into Space?

It's tied into the other social situations like public support for Luigi Mangione's actions and horrible calls for the death of political actors. You know it's a convenient way to demonize a large portion of the population and legally protect institutions like the FBI. Who does important work and is just doing their fucking job.

That game isn't as dangerous for them. The cost to them is minimal, but huge for citizens stuck down here.

It sucks. I really do love the work Microsoft has done in the past decade with LSP and developer experience.
by still_grokking | 2025-12-08 21:18:52+00:00
> PS Perhaps they should make an actual unit test suite for their compiler. Instead they have a couple of dozen tests and have to guess if their compiler PR will break things.

You did not even try to formulate it in a way that could be interpreted as you just not knowing; instead you make blatant false statements in the most confident way possible.

Your statement is therefore an outright lie, spreading FUD.

As a matter of fact the Scala compiler has thousands, likely even tens of thousands of test cases.

https://github.com/scala/scala3/tree/main/tests

But that's not all. Scala (2 & 3) has also a test case called "community build" where new compiler releases are tested by compiling millions of LOCs from all kinds of Scala OpenSource projects.

https://github.com/VirtusLab/community-build3

https://github.com/scala/community-build
by mrkeen | 2025-12-08 21:19:06+00:00
One of the perks of being distributed, I guess.

The kind of failure that a system can tolerate with strict fsync but can't tolerate with lazy fsync (i.e. the software 'confirms' a write to its caller but then crashes) is probably not the kind of failure you'd expect to encounter on a majority of your nodes all at the same time.
by 0manrho | 2025-12-08 21:19:26+00:00
AWS specifically has a policy of having strong support regardless of how much money they're getting from you, be it $5/mo or $5,000/mo. They definitely have the resources and signals to connect the dots, but it doesn't necessarily effect whether you get support, unless that SigInt tells them you're abusing the system (Eg Scammer/Spammer/Bad Actor) in some way. More money certainly seems to get you better support, but even entry level users still get decent support, and any SigInt connecting of the dots that may or may not be happening doesn't seem to have an impact unless you're using the same billing/contact info or account. That said, I can't objectively say what their customer support reps actually see regarding that kind of info, but after 2 decades of working with clients big and small using or considering AWS, I can confirm their approach to support is genuinely quite good, especially for the "Cheaper" end of offerings compared to competitors.

Hell, they still treat me well despite being a very out-spoken critic socially, and professional have steered a lot of clients away from their ecosystem and thus am objectively responsible for very real losses in revenue; though ultimately still surely a rounding error to their bottom line.

For context, these days I primarily work in helping people deploy performant and/or secure storage systems and associated networks. "This is how much money you're wasting by using AWS/the cloud" is a common approach for us, and the most common counter-point is how good AWS support is (and they're not wrong).

TL;DR: I have lots to criticize about AWS, but their support isn't really one of them, it's genuinely good especially for small users. Also, for many people AWS is perfectly fine, I still use them off and on myself. I only allege it's a "waste of money" in specific situations, but that's also largely subjective of course depending on what's important to you/the client.
by aphyr | 2025-12-08 21:20:02+00:00
Yes, good call! You can batch up multiple operations into a single call to fsync. You can also tune the number of milliseconds or bytes you're willing to buffer before calling `fsync` to balance latency and throughput. This is how databases like Postgres work by default--see the `commit_delay` option here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/runtime-config-wal.html
by xg15 | 2025-12-08 21:20:11+00:00
It's an enormously cool project (and also feels like the next logical thing to do after all the existing modalities)

But it feels eery to read a detailed story how they built and improved their setup and what obstacles they encountered, complete with photos - without any mention who is doing the things we are reading about. There is no mention of the staff or even the founders on the whole website.

I had a hard time judging how large this project even is. The homebuilt booths and trial-and-error workflow sound like "three people garage startup", but the bookings schedule suggests a larger team.

(At least there is an author line on that blog post. Had to google the names to get some background on this company)

You should consider an "about us" page :)