MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adastra22 | 2025-12-04 07:24:44+00:00
All the Ai companies are taking those concerns seriously though. Every major chat service has guardrails in place that shutdown sessions which appear to be violating such content restrictions.

If your concerns are things like AI psychosis, then I think it is fair to say that the tradeoffs are not yet clear enough to call this. There are benefits and bad consequences for every new technology. Some are a net positive on the balance, others are not. If we outlawed every new technology because someone, somewhere was hurt, nothing would ever be approved for general use.
by gherkinnn | 2025-12-04 07:26:16+00:00
We went down a similar path (using Hotwire, non the less!) and got to many of the same conclusions. It is impressive to see what CSS does and how many of the headaches are gone and :has is very powerful.

Alas, after several months we tore it all out and went back to React+Tailwind.

We still use native HTML popovers and :has selectors and other things we've have learned.

But writing UIs across three files (template, stimulus controllers, css) is such a tremendous bore. Concepts that belong together are spread out and I needed to be diligent with placing attributes and classes and remember to remove them all when removing functionality again. Obviously no compile-time checks, just magic strings and runtime errors. The Hotwire docs were also surprisingly hard to work with. All in all a lot of friction.

This just was not worth it.

inb4 rage, it is possible to use React for the UI alone and pass in fully formed view models, use form submissions and links.
by rgmerk | 2025-12-04 07:27:11+00:00
It's been done. Look up the Can-Am series. At best, it would last a couple of years until the cars got way too fast for the tracks, and the manufacturers were no longer prepared to invest in it because there was no commercial return in it for them.

The idea that there is any significant relationship between what makes a good production car, even a sports car, and a racing car was always dubious and today is frankly nonsensical.

The way to make a car fast round a race track basically comes down to the amount of downforce it can produce, and the power of the engine. Downforce is almost completely irrelevant to road driving, as taking corners fast enough to generate cornering forces of over 1G is frankly suicidal on the road.

As for engines, aside from the fact that the internal combustion engine is doomed in road transport (despite what the current administration thinks), producing an engine with performance that exceeds what even good drivers are capable of handling without electronics doing the job for them was solved at least 20 years ago, and continues to be a solved problem despite tightening of emissions standards.

In any case, while lighter, smaller, lower cars remain the preferred option for motorsport applications, all anyhbody wants to actually buy, particularly in the United States, is gargantuan SUVs and pickup trucks, which makes any application of motorsport technology for the road moot.
by kragen | 2025-12-04 07:27:39+00:00
Yeah, I feel the same way. It's refreshing to hear that that's not just because I'm insane. I think C compiler teams are sort of forced into this stupid shit because they don't have new CPU architectures to port to anymore, so, unless they want to go find new jobs, they're forced to waste their time and everyone else's by "improving" the compilers by increasing performance in riskier and riskier ways.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-12-04 07:28:13+00:00
> I'm sure if they didn't keep the prices somewhat similar, you would have a bunch of people in Europe selling RAM to Americans.

I was just about to edit my response to the GP to say the same thing. Let's explore this hypothetical situation a bit further.

Suppose there was a DRAM manufacturer named "Acme DRAM" which decided to have a separate pricing schedule for the EU reflecting the lack of insane US tariffs.

Some enterprising entrepreneur in the EU would establish a company in the country having the least US tariffs and resell Acme DRAM to US companies. Surely this would make money hand-over-fist.

Problem is, the US DoJ does not look kindly on this kind of enterprise:

DOJ also has demonstrated a growing willingness to pursue criminal charges against companies and individuals involved in customs fraud schemes such as the purposeful misclassification of goods, falsifying country-of-origin declarations, and intentionally shipping goods through low-tariff countries. Importers of goods into the U.S. should expect criminal enforcement to accelerate in the coming months and years.[0]

This would then put Acme DRAM in the crosshairs of an already vindictive and erratic US administration, likely to not only hammer the entrepreneur (see above) but to also include tariff ramifications for Acme DRAM as well.

All of this risk in the pursuit of lower profit margins by definition.

0 - https://natlawreview.com/article/what-every-multinational-co...
by mk89 | 2025-12-04 07:28:21+00:00
This is democracy, it doesn't mean it's perfect. It's just a tool to keep a lot of people in line. It's the HOW that matters, which is what life finally is about.

Being a crazy authoritarian guy with power of life and death over each of your citizens is one. No government at all is the other extreme, which finally leads always to another crazy guy.

In between there is an ocean.

...and putting everything in the same pot is mostly wrong, but lately it's cool to be anti-everything.
by RyanCavanaugh | 2025-12-04 07:28:36+00:00
If you overlay 30 prime number frequency waves plus 30 more even frequency waves, you're going to have an enormous number of local peaks.

Look at a chart of sin(x) + sin(x/2) + sin(x/3) + sin(x/5) + sin(x/7) + sin(x/11) + sin(x/13) + sin(x/17) + sin(x/19) + sin(x/23) + sin(x/29) + sin(x/31) + sin(x/37) + sin(x/43), you can find a local peak close to practically any number; the chart is effectively entirely composed of peaks.

It's extremely unsurprising that you would find peaks near mathematically relevant numbers, since there are peaks near any number whatsoever. You could pick ten random numbers out of a hat and fine tune those to 99.999%+ accuracy as well using the same scaling procedure.
Show HN: Crovia – offline-verifiable AI royalty evidence (CEP.v1)
by crovia | 2025-12-04 07:28:45+00:00
Crovia generates a single ~8 KB file (CEP.v1) containing: • trust bundle (EU AI Act ready)

• royalty receipts from real FAISS provenance

• payouts summary + Gini coefficient • full hashchain

• compliance metadata

Zero cloud, zero blockchain, fully offline-verifiable in seconds.

https://github.com/croviatrust/crovia-core-engine
by topspin | 2025-12-04 07:28:50+00:00
"I keep seeing teams reach for K8s when they really just need to run a bunch of containers across a few machines"

Since k8s is very effective at running a bunch of containers across a few machines, it would appear to be exactly the correct thing to reach for. At this point, running a small k8s operation, with k3s or similar, has become so easy that I can't find a rational reason to look elsewhere for container "orchestration".
by pmontra | 2025-12-04 07:29:44+00:00
I favor little regulation and tight cost caps. Example: you get 100 millions, 100 kg of this kind of gasoline per race, do whatever you want.

Any chassis size is probably not a good idea because cars collide with each other and they must do it safely. So maybe rules should define a box that cars must fit into, with the parts that get in touch with other cars at given places and with given shapes. Example: we don't want spear like nose cones at the same height of the heads of drivers of other cars. No halo can protect against that.

The problem with little regulation is that manufactures will be frightened to enter because it's easy to have a championship in which the one with the bright idea wins all the races and the other ones are scattered 2, 5, 6, 7 seconds behind.

We had something like that with the CanAm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can-Am

A lot of innovation and crazy designs.
by pprotas | 2025-12-04 07:29:56+00:00
Regarding the SSH issue (if anyone else reading this had the same):

Certain CLI tools complain about unknown $TERM env vars. For example, I could not open vim when SSHing into my Hetzner VPS in Ghostty. The fix is to set TERM to some well-known alternative before running your tool, like so: TERM=xterm vim
by happymellon | 2025-12-04 07:30:34+00:00
> So if enacting these anti-consumer practices were actually more profitable, why is Epic doing so shit?

Because it is "common wisdom" even if the wisdom is short sighted and doesn't always amount to increased profits.

See Netflix removing the ability to cast, because fuck you. How much of the current growth is borne out of that crackdown on people using all their profiles they pay for?

There currently isn't a "good guy" so they can keep turning those screws and force some extra growth. Being anti-consumer would be beneficial for Valve because they are currently the only good guys.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-04 07:30:44+00:00
>FAANG companies dramatically overhired for years and are using AI as an excuse for layoffs.

Close. We're in a recession and they are using AI as an excuse for another wave of outsourcing.

>I don't think people hate AI, they hate the hype.

I hate the grift. I hate having it forced on me after refusing multiple times. That's pretty much 90% of AI right now.
by gregjor | 2025-12-04 07:32:58+00:00
> Since then, many corporations, governments, Wall St, and central banks have begun adopting public blockchains, especially Ethereum, and stablecoins.

Do you have actual examples other than companies enabling speculation or worse when they can safely take a cut? PayPal "adopted" crypto (and by extension blockchain) in the sense they will let me buy and sell for a fee. I see that as analogous to a grocery store selling cigarettes -- they haven't "adopted" or endorsed tobacco, they just sell it because they can make money.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-04 07:33:40+00:00
>morality of the creation of AI tooling aside,

That's a big aside

>Like, they'd enjoy a song, or an image, or a book, and then suddenly when they find out it's AI suddenly they hate it.

Yes, because for some people its about supporting human creation. Finding out it's part of a grift to take from said humans can be infuriating. People don't want to be a part of that.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-04 07:34:30+00:00
It is surprising only when you are not aware of the right definition of energy.

The energy is a ratio between "action" and time, where "action" is a primitive quantity that does not depend on the system of coordinates.

While energy can be computed with various other formulae, like the product of force by length, all the other formulae obscure the meaning of energy, because they contain non-primitive quantities that depend themselves on time and length.

So energy depends directly on time, thus the properties of time transfer to properties of energy.

Similarly, the momentum is a ratio between "action" and length, so the symmetry properties of space transfer to properties of momentum, resulting in its conservation.

The same for the angular momentum, which is a ratio between "action" and phase (plane angle of rotation).
by franga2000 | 2025-12-04 07:34:49+00:00
In a time of shortage, throwing more money at the problem usually won't increase supply. A shortage necessarily means that if you make more of something, you're guaranteed to sell it basically instantly, so there's already an incentive to increase production.

And it's not like the higher prices mean more money goes to the producers so they can invest in more production capacity. The price increase is spread out between every middleman in the chain untils there's almost nothing left. This could work only if the producers themselves are the ones raising prices, but then everyone else would still add their own cut, leading to even crazier price hikes, and also it's unlikely that extra profit would go to much more than lining the owners' pockets.

Additionally, demand spikes usually don't last, so any new production capacity you build will be a liability later, after the market settles down.
by inejge | 2025-12-04 07:35:04+00:00
> I think it was Snowden who made TLS the default.

Snowden's revelations were a convincing argument, but I would place more weight on Google in its "we are become Evil" phase (realistically, ever since they attained escape velocity to megacorphood and search monopoly status), who strove to amass all that juicy user data and not let the ISPs or whoever else have a peek, retaining exclusivity. A competition-thwarting move with nice side benefits, that is. That's not to say that ISPs would've known to use that data effectively, but somebody might, and why not eliminate a potential threat systemically if possible?
Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything
by levmiseri | 2025-12-04 07:35:10+00:00
Hello HN! We're a team of three building a new kind of web-based markdown editor.

There are many editors out there, so one is spoiled for choice, but Kraa's approach is a little different. It's trying to be both a minimal and distraction-free experience while being feature-rich and allowing for tons of use cases.

What Kraa's good for:

- Distraction-free writing & reading (minimal UI, performant, styling logic completely separated from the editing experience)

- Quick sharing of any written text – compared to many other writing tools, your content can be easily shared just by posting a link and giving 'read' or 'edit' access (we also have password-protection)

- Real-time chat / communities – Kraa has some unique features around real-time editing and our Chat widget allows for a frictionless chat experience. No send button.

- Kraa works well on mobile (though dedicated apps are planned)

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Demo examples (all live, no login needed):

Blog article: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibrary

Long-form story: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/insidekick

Magazine: https://kraa.io/weeklyinspiration

Kraa is built on top of ProseMirror (and TipTap) and Svelte.

You don’t need an account to try Kraa. We’d really appreciate your thoughts and feedback!
by goatlover | 2025-12-04 07:35:26+00:00
We'll see how long that lasts with their their new Ad framework. Probably most normal people are put off by all the other AI being marketed at them. A useful AI website is one thing, AI forced into everything else is quite another. And then they get to hear on the news or from their friends how AI-everything is going to take all the jobs so a few controversial people in tech can become trillionaires.
by rvba | 2025-12-04 07:35:38+00:00
> Many security team people I've worked with were smart, but not software developers by trade.

A lot are people who cannot code at all, cannot administer - they just fill tables and check boxes, maybe from some automated suite. They dont know what http and https is, because they are just paper pushers what is far from real security, but more like security in name only.

And they joined the work since it pays well
by guerby | 2025-12-04 07:37:18+00:00
Looking at the CVE history, first "LTS" release 3.0.0 was quickly replaced by 3.0.1

https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-40779

"CVE-2025-40779: Kea crash upon interaction between specific client options and subnet selection"

https://github.com/isc-projects/kea/commit/0afd42b5dfb2e547b...

unprotected null pointer use, kea is in C++
Show HN: Crovia – offline-verifiable AI royalty evidence (CEP.v1)
by crovia | 2025-12-04 07:37:18+00:00
Crovia generates a single ~8 KB file (CEP.v1) containing: • trust bundle (EU AI Act ready) • royalty receipts from real FAISS provenance • payouts summary + Gini coefficient • full hashchain • compliance metadata

Zero cloud, zero blockchain, fully offline-verifiable in seconds.

https://github.com/croviatrust/crovia-core-engine
by pmontra | 2025-12-04 07:37:27+00:00
There are technical regulations and sporting regulations. I'm not very familiar with IndyCar anymore but my feeling is that F1 got stricter on technical regulation but IndyCar is even stricter: only one chassis and more standard parts. However F1 sporting regulations seems to be tighter. The classic clash between Villeneuve and Arnoux in 1979 would be unthinkable now. Not only they would be black flagged and stopped for a GP but no driver would even think about doing those kind of overtaking attempts.
by CraigJPerry | 2025-12-04 07:37:34+00:00
> This is called a price ceiling

The act of eliminating surge pricing is not a price ceiling. That's a different thing. That requires more than simply swapping surge pricing with first come first served. You've created a strawman.

> I'd rather pay extra and get what I need with 100% chance

False dichotomy. Neither approach increases supply. Of course according to economists who can hand wave away bullwhip effects with simple "this model assumes X" statements that go unquestioned in the conversations which cite the findings of the given model but i digress. According to economists, both approaches do increase supply, the theory goes that the price gouging retailer invests in more factory capacity. Or the factory owner buoyed by vibrant secondary market activity views increased production investment as a safe bet. Maybe there's some truth in the latter...

> If you're concerned with wealth inequality

I'm concerned with lazy financial engineering over hard work. Why should the scrappy but innovative startup be excluded from resources over the sclerotic incumbent with a deeper wallet?
by Aldo_MX | 2025-12-04 07:39:19+00:00
> who is regularly running `npm update` or `cargo update` to keep local software up to date?

I do, religiously, as part of my routine to check for updates.

n lts && npm uninstall -g corepack && npm update -g && n prune

Sometimes things break (that's how `npm uninstall -g corepack` became a part of my one-liner), but it is easier to update often than to neglect updates for years.
by rkomorn | 2025-12-04 07:41:09+00:00
Some of the most racing fun I've had in video games was actually NASCAR games.

The whole race was constant jostling for position. There was almost always someone within a car length/width, and zero room for error. From what I've seen on TV and YT, it seemed pretty spot on.

Unfortunately I was also bad at driving with a PS2 controller so I was the danger on the track.
by Freak_NL | 2025-12-04 07:41:22+00:00
> In the region? Because it's a gorgeous city with beautiful architecture, history and festivals?

That would be a great answer to continue from. Would you come for the Biennale specifically? Do you care greatly about sustainability? Would you enjoy yourself more in a different gorgeous city without the mass-tourism problem if that meant you would feel more welcome? Is there a way you can visit Venice without contributing to the issue as much? Off-season perhaps?

Venice is unique, but there are a lot of gorgeous places in the region, from Verona to Trieste.
by altmanaltman | 2025-12-04 07:42:28+00:00
> Privately held companies often disclose revenue figures if they are growing quickly, but keep the rest of their finances a secret because they often tell a far less impressive story. The approach is especially true for AI developers that don’t want to disclose the extraordinary rate at which they are burning cash. The Journal is reporting Anthropic’s base case projections, not its more optimistic forecasts.

> The Information earlier reported on some of the financial figures for both companies.

> The documents show that OpenAI expects to burn $9 billion after generating $13 billion in sales this year, while Anthropic expects to burn almost $3 billion on $4.2 billion in sales—roughly 70% of revenue for both.

https://archive.is/e7pg9 / https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-anthropic-profitability-e... (paywall)
by EgoIncarnate | 2025-12-04 07:43:26+00:00
Requiring AGPL on the contribution would also prevent a rugpull. MinIO went beyond that.

The wording gives an Apache license only to MinIO, not to people who use it. So MinIO can relicense the the contributor code under a commercially viable license, but no one else can. Everyone else will only have access to the contribution under AGPL as part of the whole project.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-12-04 07:44:40+00:00
(Fellow ex-msftie here too; but I left for a startup almost exactly 10 years ago, and I miss how that older culture is apparently gone).

What I don't understand is where the AI irrationality is coming from: the C-suite (still in B37?) are all incredibly smart people who must surely be aware of the damage this top-down policy is having on morale, product-quality, and how the company is viewed by its own customers - and yet, they do.

I'm not going to pretend things were being run perfectly when I was at MS: there were plenty of slow-motion mistakes playing-out right in front of us all[1] - and as I look back, yes, I was definitely frustrated at these clear obvious mistakes and their resultant unimaginable waste of human effort and capital investment.

Actually, come to think about it... maybe perhaps things really haven't changed as much? Clearly something neurotoxic got into the Talking Rain cans sometime around 2010-2011 - then was temporarily abated in 2014-2015; then came back twice as hard in 2022.

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[1]: Windows 8 and the Start Screen; the SurfaceRT; Visual Studio 2012 with SHOUTY MENUS and monochrome toolbar icons; the laggy and sluggish Office 2013; the crazy simultaneous development of entirely separate new reimplementations of the Office apps for iOS, Android, WinRT, the web. While ignoring the clear market-demand for cloud-y version of Active Directory without on-prem DCs (instead we got Entra, then InTune).
by gregjor | 2025-12-04 07:44:48+00:00
So shifting the cost of leasing and maintaining local offices to the employees?

If a company has enough people in an area to economically fill up a WeWork-type space every day, the company should open an office for their employees to work from.

I have worked remote for a long time and I know I would push back on my employer trying to get me to pay for their RTO or traditional team-based 9-5ers.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-04 07:45:20+00:00
The bullwhip effect is the whole reason why retailers may want to hold greater product stock in the first place; to absorb transient demand fluctuations and not have to pass them on in full to the supplier.

And a "scrappy but innovative" startup has an obvious interest in being able to source the DRAM or other goods they require, even at higher prices.
by RyanCavanaugh | 2025-12-04 07:45:35+00:00
I modified hamilton_perfect_finder.py to have new values:

# Target constants CONSTANTS = { 'fine_structure': 131.11, 'phi': 1.9, 'pi': 3.6, 'e': 2.4, 'sqrt_2': 1.1, 'sqrt_3': 1.2, 'sqrt_5': 2.5,

Best results: L = 3017.391610 s = 0.042000 Average: 94.848564% Minimum: 82.509479%

Constants: sqrt_2 : 100.00000000% sqrt_3 : 99.99236291% phi : 99.93928922% pi : 99.89806320% e : 99.88623436% sqrt_5 : 99.85340314%

And this is before any fine-tuning of the parameter set!
by freakynit | 2025-12-04 07:47:28+00:00
Bro, this is so cool... Can you allow other developers to extend the core simulation? Like add more entity types, define new relations and mappings, and more parameters?

Would be so much fun. People would be able to share their "worlds" and could download any... "dystopian", "utopian", "north korea like full dictatorship", "resource constrained", etc etc...

Will help with behavioral studies as well... plus, can open up an app economy on top.