MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SebastianKra | 2025-12-15 23:23:13+00:00
And also don’t tip your waiters because that just helps the owner /s.

I work in a Windows-dependent company, and would very much like to see all MS-products thrown out. Withholding features is ignorant and will make everyone’s lives miserable. Users won’t see it as a problem with Microsoft, they might not see it as a problem at all, they will just quietly suffer.

A slightly better path is to guide users to standardized, open applications on Windows. Then, an admin might have an easier time eventually pulling the cord without breaking too many workflows.
by londons_explore | 2025-12-15 23:23:20+00:00
I miss the days when I could set up some random Apache server and leave it running with zero attention for a decade or two.

These days it seems like even the tiniest of projects have random sysadmin work like a compulsory change to https certs with little notice.

It's frustrating and I think has contributed to the death of the noncommercial corners of the internet.
by miroljub | 2025-12-15 23:23:27+00:00
What do you use now? Catch? Briar? Tox?

I liked the SimpleX concept, but would prefer its relay server were replaced by Tor or i2p network.

And if they used Signal instead of NIH protocol.

Actually, the only unique SimpleX feature I really like is that it uses separate ids for every connection and group.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-15 23:23:29+00:00
Identifier is just "a piece of common token system can use to operate on same entity.

You need it. Because it's maybe one lone unchangeable thing. Taking person for example: * date of birth can be changed, if there was error and correction in documents * any and near all of existing physical characteristics can change over time, either due to brain things (deciding to change gender), aging, or accidents (fingerprints no longer apply if you burnt your skin enough) * DNA might be good enough, but that's one fucking long identifier to share and one hard to validate in field.

So an unique ID attached to few other parts to identify current iteration of individual is the best we have, and the best we will get.
by didibus | 2025-12-15 23:23:43+00:00
I agree with this. I think a lot of people try too hard, and it backfires, as exhaustion, or strain, that end up contributing more to failure than success.

I believe it's because working hard is actually easier than having good discipline, so people attempt to make up for their lack of "actually having made any progress", by trying to "make a ton of progress really fast" to catch up for it.
by danudey | 2025-12-15 23:23:55+00:00
Perhaps you can clarify something for me, because I think I'm missing it.

> Norwegian PNs have your birth date (in DDMMYY format) as the first six digits

So presumably the format is DDMMYYXXXXX (for some arbitrary number of X's), where the XXX represents e.g. an automatically incrementing number of some kind?

Which means that if it's DDMMYYXXX then you can only have 1000 people born on DDMMYY, and if it's DDMMYYXXXXX then you can have 100,000 people born on DDMMYY.

So in order for there to be so many such entries in common that people are denied use of their actual birthday, then one of the following must be true:

1. The XXX counter must be extremely small, in order for it to run out as a result of people 'using up' those Jan 1 dates each year

2. The number of people born on Jan 1 or immigrating to Norway without knowledge of their birthday must be colossal

If it was just DDMMXXXXX (no year) then I can see how this system would fall apart rapidly, but when you're dealing with specifically "people born on Jan 1 2014 or who immigrated to Norway and didn't know their birthday and were born on/around 2014 so that was the year chosen" I'm not sure how that becomes a sufficiently large number to cause these issues. Perhaps this only occurs in specific years where huge numbers of poorly-documented refugees are accepted?

(Happy to be educated, as I must be missing something here)
by modeless | 2025-12-15 23:24:33+00:00
I love the sliders, but note that the numbers on this site literally came from ChatGPT, so there is plenty of room for disagreement.

Seems like according to this analysis it all hinges on launch cost and satellite cost. This site's default for Starship launch cost is $500/kg, but SpaceX is targeting much lower than that, more like $100/kg and eventually optimistically $10/kg (the slider doesn't even go that low). At $100/kg (and assuming all the other assumptions made on the site hold) then you break even on cost vs. terrestrial if you can make the satellites for $7/watt (excluding GPUs, as the whole analysis does).
by x0x0 | 2025-12-15 23:24:53+00:00
> Also, if most of your endpoints require auth, this is not typically a problem.

Many systems are not sparse, and separately, that's simply wrong. Unguessable names is not a primary security measure, but a passive remediation for bugs or bad code. Broken access control remains an owasp top 10, and idor is a piece of that. Companies still get popped for this.

See, eg, google having a bug in 2019, made significantly less impactful by unguessable names https://infosecwriteups.com/google-did-an-oopsie-a-simple-id...
by yndoendo | 2025-12-15 23:25:05+00:00
Bigger the company the more power they have to dictate the purchasing price from producers and the cost for consumers. This is not just in the food industry it is also in retail such as Amazon.

Companies like Kroger are so big they dictate the purchase prices from farms. The farmers were better off in the past with multiple competitors creating a bidding war. Same with consumers, products had to be priced right to win their business.

A company I work for had to give free engineering labor in millions of dollars to get access to one of the largest retailers in the USA. Too big not-to-do-business-with harms everyone except the retailer.
by vannevar | 2025-12-15 23:25:05+00:00
"...a growing sense that increasingly few Americans are benefiting from global goodwill and development"

That "growing sense" is not growing organically, it's being energetically fertilized. The problem isn't that most Americans aren't benefiting from global goodwill and development, it's that they aren't benefiting from domestic development. And the minority who are benefiting disproportionately from domestic economic growth are expending significant resources to convince everybody else that the problem lies with the rest of the world.
by greedo | 2025-12-15 23:25:07+00:00
It's fascinating to read how few nuclear bombs we actually had until the 1950's. There was real concern that we would need more than two for Japan, and really had none ready after Fat Man and Little Boy were expended.

Almost as fascinating is how often in the late 40's and early 50's we threatened the USSR with nuclear weapons. Don't leave Iran quickly enough? We'll blast you. Amazing and scary how the world has survived so far...
by coldpie | 2025-12-15 23:25:10+00:00
I similarly can't understand how you can look at the US over the last 10-20 years and think the US's biggest threat is some country on the other side of the planet who makes the stuff that we ask them to make, and not the billionaires and megacorps who control every aspect of our economic and political system which directly lead to the situation we are in now. The call is coming from inside the house, man :)
by gaigalas | 2025-12-15 23:25:12+00:00
> Take some ordinary, off-the-shelf servers. Treat them as dumb, untrusted pipes.

Sounds like REST. The original REST, not the botched CRUD that companies pushed for.

https://roy.gbiv.com/pubs/dissertation/fielding_dissertation...

> The combination of layered system and uniform interface constraints induces architectural properties similar to those of the uniform pipe-and-filter style.

See also Figure 5-8.

The dissertation is all about deriving that network style.
by helterskelter | 2025-12-15 23:25:31+00:00
I'd really love to see an off the shelf distributed FS server in a NUC form factor that you plug in and is largely self-managed. Automatic atomic updates, QR codes to add a server to your swarm, manage it through a browser, client side encryption so a compromised server doesn't mean data exposure. If you want to get fancy, you could have user quotas so you and all your friends set up a single swarm with shared storage and you'd have a very distributed cloud. Optionally add a hetzner instance to the swarm.
by throw310822 | 2025-12-15 23:25:50+00:00
> These people have no problem with Facebook, Instagram, et al. being naughty because they profit from it.

Facebook, Instagram are not naughty. They're well embedded in the political economic ruling elite of the country. They amplify or mute whatever messages that elite wants amplified or muted. The US can't make rules for TikTok to do the same because that would be illegal, besides being too obviously partisan.
by jongjong | 2025-12-15 23:26:01+00:00
Knowledge and intelligence are wasted outside of the US. You could build great stuff but if you're not in the US, your chance of success is extremely low because the media algorithms will work against you. Not to mention regulations. In Europe, it felt like politicians were being paid to suppress tech.

I'm jealous of tech people who live in media-sovereign countries like the US, China or Russia who don't have to experience algorithm discrimination.

IMO, tech/science people who leave the US before accumulating big money are making a mistake. They underestimate how rigged the tech industry is. You've got to leverage the rigging. You either benefit from the rigging or you are victim of it. I cannot wrap my mind around people who are born in the US and leave. People don't understand how lucky and privileged they are before it's gone.
by rokoss21 | 2025-12-15 23:26:11+00:00
I’m working on a deterministic execution layer for AI systems.

The idea is to treat LLMs as constrained components inside explicitly defined workflows: strict input/output schemas, validated DAGs, clear failure modes, and replayable execution. Most “AI unreliability” I’ve seen isn’t model-related — it comes from ambiguous structure and hidden assumptions around the model.

We’re exploring this through a project called FACET, focused on making AI behavior testable, debuggable, and reproducible in the same way we expect from other parts of a system.

Still early, but the goal is simple: less magic, more contracts.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-15 23:26:24+00:00
Same, one of mine is from the initial models, and still working and receiving updates... it doesn't have the 4k upscaling of the newer models, but I've been happy and have several in my house.

About half my watching is YouTube on a paid account, the other half via Kodi and the high seas. My SO uses the regular apps for Netflix, Amazon and HBO currently. Having support for hacker-friendly features as well as blessed apps with 4k support has been pretty great.

As another post mentioned, the remote (current and previous) have been less than stellar... I've been using the one linked below[1], which works pretty well, though uses a USB dongle. FWIW, can also pair a bluetooth headset if you want the big screen experience, but don't want to blow out the house with audio sometimes.

1. https://amazon.com/dp/B07RFN8Z47
by danudey | 2025-12-15 23:26:37+00:00
On the contrary, you can also search for items with easily the least useful search I've ever seen.

Pizza pockets? Okay, anything that mentions pizza, or pockets. So frozen pizzas, in-store-made pizzas, pizza flavored pringles, pants with pockets, dresses with pockets, frozen items that are similar to pizzas but aren't pizzas, frozen items which aren't similar to pizzas, granola bars I guess, basketballs, and so on.

It seems as though their search just takes the search terms, matches them against every item in their database in order of relevance, and then just shows you everything regardless of how relevant it is. 0.00121 out of 100? Well, it's still technically relevant! Let's show it just in case!
by Esophagus4 | 2025-12-15 23:26:54+00:00
I was having a conversation with a Trump-supporting relative, who was genuinely asking me, “Don’t you think it’s great that they put a bunch of [DOGE] engineers into the government to fix things?”

When I said, “Well, we already had that - the USDS. And what has DOGE done, specifically, to fix things?” it just went right over her head. Did not even land.
by rokoss21 | 2025-12-15 23:27:04+00:00
Yes, if you treat it as an instrument, not an audience product.

The main value of a personal blog was never distribution. It’s externalized thinking. Writing forces you to make assumptions explicit, notice gaps, and resolve contradictions. That doesn’t get replaced by AI — if anything, AI makes undisciplined thinking easier to hide.

The posts that tend to compound aren’t “explainers.” They’re records of decisions, trade-offs, failures, and mental models you’ve actually tested. That’s where perspective comes from, and that’s the part AI can’t synthesize for you.

If starting today, I’d optimize for low friction and long half-life: short notes, irregular cadence, one theme you’re actively working on. Treat it as a public lab notebook. If it’s useful to your future self, it will eventually be useful to someone else.
by pyrolistical | 2025-12-15 23:27:11+00:00
I just don’t get it. Their last paragraph describes how they changed their dynamic site to be static. So then why do you need workers at all? Just deploy to a CDN.

How do you do version updates? Add content hash to all files except for root index.html.

Cache everything forever, except for index.html

To deploy new version upload all files, making sure index.html is last.

Since all files are unique, old version continues to be served.

No cache invalidating required since all files have unique paths, expect index.html which was never cached.

You have to ensure you absolutely have properly content hashes for everything. Images, css, js. Everything
by ImPleadThe5th | 2025-12-15 23:27:24+00:00
"If you research police corruption you'll probably find out the police are corrupt."

Large corporations and the police both have statistically significant problems to be a concern to the average person.

Frequency isn't the issue it's recurrence across municipalities. That's what makes it clear there is a systemic issue.

Imagine if we didn't make laws about murder because "It's not that frequent of a problem only 1 in 500,000 people are murdered"
by komali2 | 2025-12-15 23:27:30+00:00
Diminishing material conditions makes a fertil breeding ground for right wing nationalism (isolationism and xenophobia). It's a pattern being replicated all over the world. UK citizens don't have high heat bills and sewage leaking into their rivers because of privatization and Brexit, it's because there's too many refugees!

Of course it's incorrect, but without the diminishing material conditions, it's a lot harder to get people to drum up the energy to be racist.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-12-15 23:27:39+00:00
I'll explain again, because this is not what I'm saying.

In many REST frameworks, while you define the return object type that is sent back over the wire, by default, if the actual object you return has additional fields on it (even if they are found nowhere in the return type spec), those fields will still get serialized back to the client. A common attack vector is to try to get an API endpoint to return an object with, for example, extra error data, which can be very helpful to the attacker (e.g. things like stack traces). I'd have to search for them, but some major breaches occurred this way. Yes, many REST frameworks allow you to specify things like validators (the original comment mentioned zod), but these validators are usually optional and not always directly tied to the tools used to define the return type schema in the first place.

So with GraphQL, I'm not talking about access controls on GraphQL-defined fields - that's another topic. But I'm saying that if your resolver method (accidentally or not) returns an object that either doesn't conform to the return type schema, or it has extra fields not defined in the schema (which is not uncommon), GraphQL guarantees those values won't be returned to the client.
by sersi | 2025-12-15 23:27:47+00:00
We've had the Chinese dreame with valetudo (so fully disconnected from the cloud), it works honestly very well. Doesn't get stuck, avoids my son's toys rather effectively and just works. I run it when we leave home. There's honestly no reason why roomba didn't make something equivalent to the dreame, they could have competed with the Chinese manufacturers on feature and by allowing users to easily disconnect from the cloud. They didn't because the company was completely mismanaged and their products barely evolved.
by BonoboIO | 2025-12-15 23:27:50+00:00
The cooling and density challenges of datacenters here on earth are not trivial , but in space this is multiple magnitudes more difficult.

These numbers are just random bullsh*t numbers.

And what problems do orbital datacenters solve? They still need uplink, so not libertarian we can do what we want, you have no jurisdiction here thing.

This is just a sci-fi idea that is theoretically possible and is riding the ai bubble for users and investors that don’t know better.
by nunobrito | 2025-12-15 23:27:58+00:00
I've been looking at that for quite some time, even met teams members developing the product. Sorry to say: both are fundamentally different technologies and philosophies.

NOSTR "accounts" are meant to trivially generated and used outside the context of micro-blogging. That is the reason for being popular, the npub becomes a signature that validates texts and there is value in that.

AT always feels like mastodon meets RSS with US-centric political moderation on top.
by tshaddox | 2025-12-15 23:28:04+00:00
Grip seems like a bad example since in most cases gripping something a little bit stronger will make your grip a little more robust to an unexpected perturbance (e.g. you stumble, or someone bumps into you). Unless you have good data on how common such perturbances are, how changes in grip strength affect robustness in the face of perturbance, and what drop rate is acceptable, how would you know whether you're gripping things too strongly?
by wonger_ | 2025-12-15 23:28:25+00:00
> I also pitched this idea to The Pudding, and had a great experience with them nerding out about this subject. Though they didn't take my up on my idea, I left with really great and actionable feedback, and I'm looking forward to my next rejection.

Would've been a great Pudding post imo, but oh well, happy to find this nice devblog instead.
by godelski | 2025-12-15 23:28:41+00:00
I think you're ignoring what actually happened. In 2022 half the reactors were down for repair and maintenance. This didn't have anything to do with the French's move to becoming less reliant upon nuclear power[0]. This had to do with scheduled maintenance being delayed due to covid, causing it to all happen at once. Then there was a rush on it due to the war in Ukraine breaking out. France was importing energy from Germany at that time (a rare thing in of itself) but then Germany being highly dependent on natural gas caused a big squeeze for energy all across Europe. Germany being the #2 exporter of electricity in Europe (France typically being #1)[1]

So while I agree with part of your response that ViewTrick is missing, but you are also ignoring a critical part of the reality and that makes it so you don't actually address their comment. You completely missed their first point and why it happened. You also completely miss the big reason for why there's a large increase of nuclear share post 2022. You're instead focusing on one plant which isn't representative of the reality of things. So you're not answering their misunderstandings because you don't actually address the data they are looking at.

[0] Which is a good thing! I want new nuclear power, but I also want a diversified portfolio of energy sources.

[1] https://www.worldstopexports.com/electricity-exports-country...
by phantasmish | 2025-12-15 23:29:06+00:00
3 dollars for every 2 up to 6% of pay? So you could get up to 15% of pay into the 401k (or the annual limit, whichever comes first)?

That’s by far the best I’ve ever heard of. Usually employers screw us by keeping the majority of the max annual contribution, which only they can make, out of our reach with crappy “50% match up to 3%” policies or whatever (even a 100% match means you can’t hit the actual annual max, it has to be higher than that).
by travisgriggs | 2025-12-15 23:29:23+00:00
I wonder how much generational impacts there are here. My son is a PhD student at an ivy. The most lucrative tuition source for the university is foreign students (as in, they bring in far more tuition dollars for each foreign student than they do native). He has also observed that the payers of these tuitions are usually the parents, who tend to be people who rose through the ideal of "the dream of american education" that is now 20+ years old. As the students (children) go through the programs, they are finding it increasingly more hostile to live and study here. So they end up wanting to "go back home". The Xenophobic rhetoric, as well as the policies, are having an effect. He does not see this as a good thing at all.

Multiple of my children have considered moving abroad to study. It's weird to sit between them and their frustration of the system, and their grandparents (our parents) who seem to think that the crap they're embibing off of fox news, all so that advertisers can target/fleece the older generation, will actually lead to good for their grandchildren.
by rokoss21 | 2025-12-15 23:29:25+00:00
I’m working on a deterministic execution layer for AI systems.

The goal is to treat LLMs as constrained components inside explicitly defined workflows: strict input/output schemas, validated DAGs, replayable execution, and observable failure modes. Most instability I’ve seen in production AI systems isn’t model-related — it comes from ambiguous structure around the model.

We’re exploring this through a project called FACET, focused on making AI behavior testable and debuggable rather than probabilistic and opaque.

Early days, but the direction is clear: less magic, more contracts.
by extraduder_ire | 2025-12-15 23:29:26+00:00
For some reason, GPU makers don't usually expose the CEC interface for the HDMI ports on their cards. Even the raspberry pi's ability to support it wasn't standard/default for years.

The common workaround if you had a kodi PC or something was to buy one of these things: https://www.pulse-eight.com/p/104/usb-hdmi-cec-adapter and run a HDMI cable through it. Because CEC is open drain like i2c is, connecting to it anywhere in your network of devices should work. (the HDMI spec mandated that the CEC pin needs to be connected, even if you aren't using it, from the first version) Just connect it to a spare HDMI port anywhere and you're off to the races.
by xnx | 2025-12-15 23:29:34+00:00
François Chollet https://x.com/fchollet/status/1999982683708150014 :

"Datacenters in space" make for a catchy narrative and an interesting demo, but the math simply doesn't work.

When considering factors like launch cost, maintenance complexity, and the cost of high-bandwidth communications (latency included), there is no realistic set of economic and engineering assumptions under which orbiting datacenters become cost-competitive with simply building conventional nuclear-powered (or renewable energy-powered) datacenters on the ground.

In fact we're off by 50-100x. Dramatic launch cost reductions still won't make it work. And of course if you invest a lot in specific lines of tech to make it work you then have to consider that the same can also be invested in better ground-based nuclear, bringing the cost of power down for everyone.