MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arnonejoe | 2025-12-01 02:29:34+00:00
You don’t know until unemployment and GDP numbers are released. Generally when the fed starts making successive rate cuts, the economy is doing poorly. Since 1953 10 out of 11 recessions happened when republicans held power. So maybe that is also why I think we have a little way to go before things get better. I’m not sure why that is and I don’t want to start a political debate. Things will get better. They always do.
by beloch | 2025-12-01 02:30:06+00:00
Musk has previously called for Wikipedia to be defunded and boycotted[1].

The linked reference is from January, just after Musk bought an election and when he was plugged directly into U.S. presidential authority. If he'd had the self-control to manage his interactions with Trump in a way that didn't rapidly lead to breakdown, things could be looking very grim for Wikipedia by now.

As with so many other aspects of the Trump administration, what's going on illustrates weaknesses in the U.S. system of government that could lead to things that are far worse than what we are currently seeing if the people involved were just a little bit more competent.

Grokipedia is far more than just the anti-Wikipedia. It's a sign of things to come if we don't start hardening the systems, governmental or otherwise, that keep Wikipedia available to the public.

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[1]https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/01/29/why-elon...
by star-173 | 2025-12-01 02:30:51+00:00
It depends heavily on what you are trying to do.

For pure coding tasks and refactoring, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is currently the strongest performer. It tends to hallucinate less on specific library syntax compared to the others.

However, for creative writing or "reasoning" through complex logic puzzles, I've found Gemini (specifically the Advanced/Ultra tiers) to have a more natural "voice" and better instruction following for long contexts.

GPT-4o is still the best generalist, but it feels like it has softened slightly while the others have specialized.
by QuiEgo | 2025-12-01 02:31:21+00:00
I use mergerfs + snapraid on my HDDs for “cold” storage for the same reason: noise. Snapraid sync and scrub runs at 4am when I am not in the same room as the NAS.

The drives stay spun down 99% of the time, because I also use a ZFS mirrored pool on SSDs for “hot” files, although Btrfs could also work if you're opposed to ZFS because it's out of tree.

Basically using this idea, but with straight Debian instead of ProxMox: https://perfectmediaserver.com/05-advanced/combine-zfs-and-o...

I also use mergerfs 'ff' (first found) create order, and put the SSDs first in the ordered fstab list of the mergerfs mount point. This gives me tiered storage: newly created files and reads hit the SSDs first. I use a mover script that runs nightly with the SnapRAID sync/scrub to keep space on the SSDs open.

https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs/blob/master/tools/merge...
by bormaj | 2025-12-01 02:31:49+00:00
Interesting article, but about halfway through what was a convincing analysis of an ongoing diesel shortage turned into a fear piece on the US/China relations and a corresponding economic collapse.

Diesel production capacity is limited and shrinking. Demand is there, albeit sticky (due to certain demand sources that are not easily electronified) and shrinking at a slower pace (due to slowing global economic growth). Rather than discussing a hypothetical blockade of Chinese oil imports, I wish the author would have addressed more probable short term outcomes re: supply/demand shock triggers and possible market plays.

Feel like this was a missed opportunity to look at recent geopolitical events under a more nuanced lens.
by nbf_1995 | 2025-12-01 02:32:10+00:00
I think it's because there are no grills on the outside. If the fans were sucking air out of the box, dust would build up on the outside, and bumping it would dislodge dust back into the environment.

With the fans blowing in, all the dust is on the inside of the box (and on the fans).

The box fan version also blows air into the box
by PostOnce | 2025-12-01 02:32:21+00:00
Lego... incompatibilities?

Isn't compatibility a huge part of the draw of Lego?

I've never heard of incompatibilities, what are they?

The only problem I've noticed product wise is there are now mold defects after they started adding recycled plastic, only one or two minor (visual surface) imperfections per box, but before, there were none.
by tbrownaw | 2025-12-01 02:32:26+00:00
> What I don't get is, why wouldn't Elon just make a good version of Grokipedia.

The way to make your MVP less shitty is to throw time and money at iterating it. Which I understand is what's happening.

I'm sure in a few years it'll either be quite good, or have clearly highlighted some fundamental limitations of language models as a class.
by rendall | 2025-12-01 02:32:29+00:00
Wikipedia is not resistant to capture. It is structurally exposed to coordinated editing groups, and the platform has no robust way to detect or neutralize them. On politically or strategically important pages, especially where state or financial interests are involved, organized paid editors can and do shape coverage, dominate talk pages, and crowd out dissenting contributions.

There have been many editing scandals over the years. While one could argue that editing cabals being caught and banned demonstrates that Wikipedia has structural resistance to such behavior, the scandals that become public are, almost by definition, the ones that were clumsy enough to get caught. The mechanisms that appear robust largely work only against amateurish, poorly hidden or commercially indiscreet operations. What they do not reliably detect are long-term, well-resourced, politically motivated or state-aligned editing groups that behave patiently, avoid obvious sockpuppeting footprints, and stay within procedural boundaries while still dominating page direction.
by jameslk | 2025-12-01 02:33:09+00:00
The need to hate on Grokipedia is weird to me. It’s another site on the web. It’s an experiment with LLMs. Who cares?

It can be filled with a bunch of nonsense, whatever. The internet is like that. Maybe it’ll actually become something useful. Or it’ll inspire something useful.

Regardless, there’s no such thing as bad publicity, so these articles just give the project airtime. Even commenters here mention they haven’t heard of it until now.
by cal_dent | 2025-12-01 02:33:26+00:00
I think there's something quite interesting (well to me anyway) where if you go by the internet, there is this bloodbath (slight exaggeration perhaps but feels like that) in jobs out in the US, UK, Aus and major European countries (the volume of anecdotes & complaints would suggest a significant downturn in employment) but out in the official data, and less so but still true in the real world, things are still bobbing along. Not great guns but still ok. The interesting thing is how much is internet chatter a leading signal for this thing now than in previous cycles?

Outside of the unique circumstances of covid, we've never had, to my knowledge, a notable downturn when social media, and all the chatter it generates, has been so prominent or mass engaged. How much of it is just internet noise vs canary in the coal mine stuff. Who knows? But curious to find out in coming months/year
by dayjah | 2025-12-01 02:33:29+00:00
Pretty sure I just ran a nix flake update.

Here are the links from my journal:

This went into nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/376988

Which then changed the api between and broke this: https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/master/modules/nix/n...

The fix took a few hours, I happened to be one of the first folks bit by it: https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/pull/1318

I also have in my notes that Emilazy is a super star: https://github.com/emilazy

Notes on how I worked around it for the time it was broken:

> To work around it on myside I tried various things. Fundamentally I rolled back to nixpkgs-24.11-darwin which needed corresponding changes to nix-darwin (nix-darwin-24.11) and home-manager (release-24.11) to get everything working.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-01 02:33:35+00:00
Nonsense. Information is good.

I do have a walk around the car before I set forth, but stuff happens.

Some drives are very long -- hours and hours between stops. I've had tires that aired themselves down during a drive. TPMS can alert me to that issue before I get an opportunity to have another walk-around, so I can stop and address it before it becomes a safety concern.

It's fine if someone want to live in a world without monitoring systems; anyone is free to drive an old car with points ignition and a carb if they want (or mechanical diesel! with an air starter, even! no electricity needed at all!).

And sure, there's a certain joy to driving something of relative mechanical simplicity.

But I like modern cars. And I like things like temperature gauges, closed-loop electronic fuel injection, oil pressure indicators, ABS, traction control, backup cameras, and [I dare say] tire pressure monitoring. I like cruise control. I like headlights that turn themselves on when necessary, and off again when they're unnecessary.

And as one might correctly surmise: It doesn't have to be that way: There's other ways to live. A person can also choose to walk, ride a bike, use a horse, commit to a lifestyle that is centered around public transportation, or whatever. The world is full of options.

I've chosen my path, and you can also choose yours.

(And no, that doesn't make me inattentive. My path involves both a belt and suspenders.)
by bsder | 2025-12-01 02:33:49+00:00
> Not that it changes your point but the funny thing is that Anker was a no name Chinese brand on Amazon like UGREEN back then.

They company was one of the first to construct a business plan around the idea of "Storefront and logistics will be handled by Amazon."

However, Anker always did their own engineering rather than just being a rebadger of Alibaba.
by eru | 2025-12-01 02:34:28+00:00
> If you manipulate your AI to deliberately push political preferences, that is your right I guess but IMO I'd appreciate some regulation saying you should be required to disclose that under penalty of perjury.

People (and especially companies) are already permitted to make legally enforceable guarantees and statements about their AI. Why do we need extra machinery?

You can assume that anyone who doesn't make such strong statements took the easy way out.

To spell it out: the law doesn't spell out that companies can swear oaths, but they can write whatever statement they want to be liable for in their investor prospectus and then in the US any enterprising lawyer can assemble a bunch of shareholders to bring a suit for securities fraud, if the company is lying.

Slightly more everyday, but with fewer legal teeth: the company can also explicitly make the relevant statements in their ads, and then they can be gotten via misleading advertisement laws.

If you notice that they use weasel wording in their ads or prospectus, instead of simple and strong language that a judge would nail them to, disregard the statements.
by unexpectedtrap | 2025-12-01 02:34:30+00:00
I feel the same, because it seems that the only desktop-ready OS under GPL today is GNU/Linux, and it feels too bloated nowadays (not to mention that Linux is effectively stuck under GPLv2). Something like FreeBSD feels much lighter and better still being desktop‐ready. Looks like that guys from Hyperbola think the same and that’s why they are doing HyperbolaBSD. Btw there’s some progress in GNU Hurd, but they are still far from being desktop-ready.
by chillfox | 2025-12-01 02:34:44+00:00
As someone who was a Linux sysadmin for several years, looking after a large fleet of RedHat boxes, I can say that the "don’t break your application" promise is BS. Their patches broke applications several times resulting in having to hold them back for months for it to be fixed.

The only Linux distro that actually lives up to that promise in my experience is Alpine.
by adamhartenz | 2025-12-01 02:34:53+00:00
I was just meaning, that if you think you can't do it in the timeframe, then you are making it too big for yourself. The rules are so loose that you could literally make a programming language that has a single command `run_my_awesome_game()` and fully impliment the logic etc in your language and library of choice. Obviously a trivial/useless example, but take it up a few notches and you could have something interesting. A DSL inside JSON can be very powerful.
by zzzeek | 2025-12-01 02:35:18+00:00
> This is specially problematic when active issues with developer notes begin to be filled with comments from users that have never contributed to the project and usually do more harm than good. This situation ends up causing burnout in developers.

This is a huge with github and I would desperately want a github where issues are visible, but the ability to create or modify them is STRICTLY locked down to project members, and non members can only post Discussions for problems. I really prefer that I write the issue(s) based an "intake discussion" so to speak.
by mshroyer | 2025-12-01 02:35:56+00:00
These days I use it as a home file server because for my needs, FreeBSD the best tool for that job.

But back in the early 2000s I got access to a free Unix shell account that included Apache hosting and Perl, and if I'm not misremembering, it was running on FreeBSD and hosted by an ISP in the UK using the domain names portland.co.uk and port5.com.

That was formative for me: I learned all of Unix, Perl, and basic CGI web development on that server. I don't know who specifically was running that server, or whether they have any relation to the current owner of that domain. But if you're out there, thanks! Having access to FreeBSD was a huge help to a random high schooler in the U.S., who wouldn't have been able to afford a paid hosting account back then.
by genuser | 2025-12-01 02:36:18+00:00
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by cam_l | 2025-12-01 02:36:46+00:00
It probably depends a lot on your parents.

I went with Popos. It is simpler than KDE for someone with dexterity and mild cognitive issues. Plus it fixes a lot of the annoying ubuntu / gnome decisions like snaps and hiding the taskbar etc.

There were a few initial teething questions in the first week, but 6 months in now and no other issues (apart from forgetting her password). Highly recommend.
by SilverElfin | 2025-12-01 02:37:43+00:00
Wikipedia does have problems with biases, edit wars, and so on. I think competition for it is good but it has to be principled in some way. If Grok relies on Twitter as a data source to train on, and ultimately that ends up in Grokipedia, I can’t see how it becomes an authority instead of something like just another random social media voice.
by zlwaterfield | 2025-12-01 02:37:50+00:00
I built Radar because GitHub's notifications are noisy and hard to keep up with.

Radar lets you customize notification preferences – so you get a message when you're @mentioned, assigned, etc. It uses AI to match keywords semantically (so "auth" catches "authentication", "login", "OAuth").

It also sends daily digests: PRs waiting for your review, PRs ready to merge, your open PRs – grouped and summarized.

Stack: NestJS, Next.js, Trigger.dev for background jobs, Prisma, Slack API.

Self-hostable with PAYMENT_DISABLED=true for full access. We use it daily at my company.

GitHub: https://github.com/zlwaterfield/radar

Would love feedback on the notification preferences – it's the trickiest part to get right.
by windexh8er | 2025-12-01 02:38:09+00:00
I may actually try my hand in conciliation court against them on this one. I received a test kits back around 2015 from a family member, but was disgusted at the idea that there was no possible way they 1) wouldn't go under and sell my data 2) be breached. I feel like these sort of outcomes for these types of services are very obvious as highly likely to anyone who works in proximity to tech, and especially startups.

Anyway, I never submitted the test. But I know for a fact that family has. It's really annoying to that others can make these sort of linked decisions for you - especially as we are now acutely aware that this type of data can, will and I'm sure is being used in ways that basically nobody would consent to.
by andrehacker | 2025-12-01 02:38:50+00:00
>> Or you can go like Netflix and just run as close to -CURRENT as you can.

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.

The FreeBSD maintainers do modify FreeBSD to address the latest known vulnerabilities.... but you will have to accept the new release every 3 months.

Aditionally, those releases do not only contain FreeBSD changes but also changes to all third party open source packages that are part of the distribution. Every package is maintained by different individuals or groups and often they make changes that change the way their software works, often these are "breaking" changes, i.e. you will have to update your application code for it to be compatible with that.
by josephcsible | 2025-12-01 02:38:55+00:00
> You claim HTTPS makes it safe, but you didn't explain:

> - How HTTPS prevents ARP poisoning (it doesn't - this happens at Layer 2)

HTTPS doesn't need to prevent ARP poisoning itself, because if you try to MITM my connection with it, HTTPS will prevent that, and if you don't, then ARP spoofing hasn't accomplished anything.

> - How HTTPS prevents port scanning of your device (it doesn't - attackers scan your listening services directly)

Firewalls protect you from that.

> - How HTTPS prevents DNS manipulation when 80% of users don't use DoH/DoT

Exact same answer as for ARP spoofing.

> - How HTTPS prevents SNI leakage when ECH adoption is <5%

SNI leakage happens over the Internet in cleartext even with mobile hotspots. What does this have to do with public Wi-Fi?

> - What specific mitigations you've deployed against the network service exploitation you acknowledged

Which things specifically do you mean by "network service exploitation" that I haven't already covered?

> TLS operates at layers 5-7. The attacks you listed in Q6 happen at layers 2-4. Your HTTPS traffic is irrelevant to these attacks.

See my responses above.

> The quiz asked about everyone, not just you:

> This isn't about how well you've personally secured your device. It's about whether the general public should be told "public WiFi is safe because HTTPS."

Nothing I answered was about my specific devices. Everything I've said is about how mainstream devices work out-of-the-box today.

> Most people:

> - Don't know what services are listening on their network interfaces

Mainstream devices are configured out-of-the-box with deny-by-default firewalls.

> - Are running unpatched software (Q8: personal computers lack defense-in-depth)

Mainstream devices are configured out-of-the-box with automatic updates.

> - Aren't using DoH/DoT

> - Aren't aware SNI is unencrypted

> - and the rest

Again, that happens over the Internet in cleartext even with mobile hotspots. What does this have to do with public Wi-Fi?

> What exact technical controls are you deploying? What does the average person need to configure to achieve your level of protection?

Nothing, assuming usage of a modern mainstream Windows/macOS/Linux/iOS/Android device.
by drtgh | 2025-12-01 02:40:14+00:00
I am afraid that it is not only about privacy (that they recommend ignoring), there are many options to chose, like CA vectors, lets say TrustCor (2022), e-Tugra (2023), Entrust (2024), Packet injection vectors, or Click here or use your login first vectors as you commented, bugs and configurations.

This ones known. Therefore I just cannot believe that those who wrote the open letter did not even though about such significant events from the past year, I remark the past year, or even on zero-days.

We are talking about people connecting to an unknown unsupervised network, that we do not know what new vulnerabilities will be published on main stream also, and the ones of the open letter know it because they are hiding behind the excuse of "rarely".
by blargey | 2025-12-01 02:40:51+00:00
> If a small group can spin up their own version of Wikipedia then there is the possibility of a more broad diverse market place of ideas.

Sounds more like the world's least efficient way of querying the Median LLM Researcher about a given topic.

Every single <AI>pedia page on a topic will either default to median research-agent output (because the owner doesn't care to influence it), or be functionally equivalent to a AI-ghostwritten think piece because the owner cared enough to spin up a whole new wiki for it. In practice, a lot of owner-doesn't-care articles will be polluted by their prompt fiddling in chaotic ways that help nobody.
by throw0101a | 2025-12-01 02:41:10+00:00
>> I've been reading a lot of Don Delillo lately and so I wanted to see how Grokipedia page on him fares.

> But is there any reason to not treat this as Wikipedia? As in, just suggest a correction?

How? I see no "Edit" link on the article:

* https://grokipedia.com/page/Don_DeLillo

as compared to:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_DeLillo

There is no "Talk" page as well, so if your change is 'contentious', how is consensus reached between different view points? Also, how does one link to previous revisions of an article? Further, how to do diffs between different revisions (there is "Edit history")?
by mandevil | 2025-12-01 02:41:39+00:00
No, this is not true. First of all, every nation is required by space law to publish the initial orbits of every object they launch, as part of that taking responsibility I mentioned earlier.

The US Government further publishes tracking on pretty much every single thing in orbit of the earth larger than a few centimeters, to help satellite operators avoid space debris. They do obfuscate the current orbit of their own spy satellites (only publishing their initial orbit), but other countries and even private citizens around the world keep obsessive tabs on these things (e.g. https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/). This sort of thing is easily within the reach of even a medium sized nation state that was interested in the investment: just need a couple of big ole radars and you can do it just like the US does. So if you do try and hide the resources of a nation-state can easily counter.

The solution to oppressive government is not technological, it's political. Prevent countries from going bad, retrieve the ones that have gone bad, it works out a lot better for everyone.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-12-01 02:41:41+00:00
For starters, I wouldn't consider anything valued under a threat of ending up on streets to be "the real value". If you can be scared by the prospect of losing your job ruining your life, it's not valuation - it's coercion. You can't end up with market valuation if you are forced to take an unqualified job just to live, this will massively undervalue such jobs. You don't find out what's the value of having clean toilets - you only find out what's the lowest wage people willing to do this job will manage to live on.
by teddyh | 2025-12-01 02:42:50+00:00
> how do you want it to work?

I would like to see and try to solve the scenarios for myself, not to get meaningless internet points. If you look at their front page, you can do that right now. So why do I have to create an account to even see these special advent scenarios?

> do you even sysadmin?

Yes.