MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abeyer | 2025-12-30 23:52:03+00:00
This kind of insistence that their way is "better" and thus justifying removing agency from the user is the exact same thing that's kept me away from signal, too. Even their own blog post acknowledges a perfectly good current method for supporting what they want to do without any of this, yet they reject even allowing it as an option because they don't like the ux.

This arguably is more interesting than yet another closed messaging platform, but still not gonna use it with this requirement in place.
by aforwardslash | 2025-12-30 23:53:34+00:00
> None of this is correct. You don’t get fidelity as an investor repeatedly publishing fraudulent documents.

Did I say they were fraudulent? I'm merely stating that tag price means nothing, as they probably are "selling" it at a loss (btw the initial projected falcon price was 10 mil per launch, and the current tag price is ~60 mil, with no strong stats nor costs on reusability). The only way to know for sure is to have access to privileged info behind an NDA. Do you even know what you're talking about? Have you ever reviewed this kind of documents?

> They are a joke. Completely different leagues of access. Coverage of the South Pole (not McMurdo) got effective continuous bandwidth around the throughput of dialup and periodic passes from a polar sat to upload scientific data.

South pole coverage is relevant for like, 3 people. None of the data collected from/to there requires urgency; there is zero scientific advantage other than quality-of-life. Consider this, we receive scientific data from mars.

> GEO is absolutely terrible in terms of latency and cost. Starlink is currently the only good option for the entire ocean and any remote place on earth not reachable by fiber infra.

Remote places tend to have no coverage, because they have no subscribers. Not sure what you think a profitable business is, but you come off as really asinine. There is nothing inherently unique to starlink - except the fact that they're polluting LEO with their garbage. If its sustainable or not, time will tell.
by jdminhbg | 2025-12-30 23:53:38+00:00
Because for all the incessant whining about "slop," multimodal AI i/o is incredibly useful. Being able to take a photo of a home repair issue, have it diagnosed, and return a diagram showing you what to do with it is great, and it's the same algos that power the slop. "Sorry, you'll have to go to Gemini for that use case, people got mad about memes on the internet" is not really a good way for them to be a mass consumer company.
by trusttrusttrust | 2025-12-30 23:53:57+00:00
TRUST, I DON'T TRUST YOU OR THE GRAPHENE GUYS OR THE CIA OR THE BND OR MOSSAD OR ANY FUCKING RUSSIANS GROWING UP AND LIVING ABOVE GROUND AND THE LEAST OF ALL ANY AMERICAN GUYS OR ANY SUPER-STANDARD-BY-DESIGN GERMAN GUYS ... SO WHY THE FUCK WOULD I READ ANY OF AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL THAT CODE??
by oblio | 2025-12-30 23:54:51+00:00
Government spending and waste turns out to be much, much harder than people predict because... drumroll... people rely on those expenses for things which are very important to them. Such as safety when traveling abroad, roads, hospitals, etc.

And regarding Elon's claims? Is he a toddler or a grown man? If I claim to control the tides and fail, is it not a failure or a lie on my part when I can't control them?
by kube-system | 2025-12-30 23:54:59+00:00
I've only ever seen that at data centers that offer colo as more of a side service or cater to little guys who are coloing individual servers. All of the serious colocation services I've used or quoted from offer 24/7 site access.

Basically anywhere with cage or cabinet colocation is going to have site access, because those delineations only make sense to restrict on-site human access.
by observationist | 2025-12-30 23:55:03+00:00
Unless your intent isn't making the world a better place in some sort of meaningful way, learn about things and find something to care about that you can affect that actually matters. Bitcoin or AI or whatever is not worth your time. Do something real.

If we ever get to the point where bitcoin or what people are doing on servers is the most pressing problem in the world worthy of our outrage, I will cheer you on.

"Anon yells at cloud" isn't worth anyone's effort or time.
by fxwin | 2025-12-30 23:55:09+00:00
I've seen your list before and find it much easier to appreciate than the OP tbh. It is very concise, the descriptions actually describe what one might learn or struggle with and each project comes with resources to get started with (One day i might even get around to doing one of these ;)

The OP very much comes off to me as a "here are 100 books you need to read before you die" recommendation porn type of post where the author has done none of the things listed.
by glial | 2025-12-30 23:55:23+00:00
Maybe, but probably not. For me, an early goal of writing is to get my thoughts in order. A later goal is to discuss the writing with people, which can only happen in a high-quality way if my thoughts are in order. Achieving goals is fun.

Whether the LLM could do a better job than me at writing the essay is a separate question...I suspect it probably could. But it wouldn't be as fun.
by throw0101c | 2025-12-30 23:56:58+00:00
> The underlying TDS communications protocol (https://www.freetds.org/tds.html) had a fixed 30 byte field for the hostname and the customer had a particularly long FQDN that was being copied in without any checks on its length. An easy fix once identified.

I had to file a bug with a vendor because their hostname handling had a similar issue: I think it was 64 max.

There was some pushback about if it was "really" a problem, so I ended up quoting the relevant RFCs to argue that they were not compliant with Internet standards, and eventually they fixed the issue.
by 578_Observer | 2025-12-30 23:57:20+00:00
I see comments suspecting this list is AI-generated. That might be true.
But ironically, the practice of "building from scratch" is the best antidote to AI dependency.

Writing from Japan, we call this process "Shugyo" (austere training).
A master carpenter spends years learning to sharpen tools, not because it's efficient, but to understand the nature of the steel.

Building your own Redis or Git isn't about the result (which AI can give you instantly). It is about the friction. That friction builds a mental model that no LLM can simulate.

Whether this post is marketing or not, the "Shugyo" itself is valid.
by epistasis | 2025-12-30 23:57:26+00:00
Did you mean to reply to a different comment? What does calibration or 75 dB have to do with anything I said?

The most common experience on the poorly mixed content that several in this thread are complaining about are: the volume setting necessary for intelligible audio results in uncomfortably loud audio in other parts.

This is a defect of the content, not of the system it's playing on.
by xiphias2 | 2025-12-30 23:58:12+00:00
I think it's an amazing experiment.

You can look at the PyTorch code base and understand a small local function instantly, but if I would have a task to have a deep understanding of either PyTorch with all kernel code and low level code, whole CUDA code base + LLVM compilation code or Tinygrad I would pick Tinygrad in an instant.

The code looks hard because what it is doing is hard, but all its layers can be debugged.
by avianlyric | 2025-12-30 23:58:17+00:00
That’s probably related to transactions large enough to warrant immediate settlement via a US federal reserve bank. Given US federal reserve banks sit at the heart of US dollar transactions (pretty much by definition, they’re the only entities actually capable of creating US dollars), very large transactions that create significant flow imbalances between two banks trading US dollars anywhere in the world, will result in a settlement at a federal reserve.

But that only applies to transactions happening in US dollars, and SWIFT deals in far more than US dollars. For US dollar transactions it’s easy to imagine federal reserve banks slowing the settlement process and demanding extra data. Something that would be very annoying for foreign banks to deal with, but hardly unexpected. The US does ultimately control the US dollar after all, and at least for now the US dollar remains the world’s reserve currency, which naturally gives the US an outsized influence in world financial markets. But Trump also seems hell bent on testing that privilege to breaking point.
by buildsjets | 2025-12-30 23:58:18+00:00
Wait up. They propose to convert DDT trapped in the soil to benzene trapped in the soil? Is not benzene also a toxic and persistent soil pollutant (it is) where the typical remediation is to excavate the bad soil and landfill it? (it is)

https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/gama/do...

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, she didn’t know why.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-30 23:58:57+00:00
Fuck 'em.

Always write what you want, however you want to write it. If some reader somewhere decides to be judgemental because of — you know — an em dash or an X/Y comparison or a complement or some other thing that they think pins you down as a bot, then that's entirely their own problem. Not yours.

They observe the reality that they deserve.
by greenstevester | 2025-12-31 00:00:05+00:00
It started with a bug.

I was trying to get a unrelated typescript project running, when I hit an issue with one of its dependencies... license-checker. No big deal, I thought. I'll just check if there's a more recent version to fix the bug.

Last commit: January 2019.
Weekly downloads: 760,000+.
Open issues: 96.
Maintainer activity: crickets

WTF. C'mon.

This package is used by Puppeteer. Playwright. Cypress. Angular CLI.

And nobody's home.

"I'll just fork it and fix the bug," I said... like an i d i o t who thinks time is an infinite resource.

Three hours later, I was knee-deep in a CommonJS codebase with no tests, questioning my life choices.

That's when I decided to bring some backup: Claude Code.

The coding Savant (who occasionally bullshits you)
Working with CC on a codebase migration is... an experience.

Hour 1: Claude analyzes the codebase. Creates a sensible migration plan.

Hour 3: We've converted half the files to TypeScript. Claude is methodical. Professional. Sometimes lies, like "all tests are passing" - Really I say, check again with a retort "you absolutely right".

Hour 6: Claude has created a todo list with 47 items. I did not ask for this.

Hour 12: Claude has started writing marketing copy for the project. It has opinions about our "market positioning."

Hour 18: We have a fully working TypeScript codebase with tests. Claude suggests we "track competitor packages."

The Bigger Question
This experience made me realize something: there's a LOT of critical infrastructure running on abandonware.

What if "AI + motivated human" could be a model for OSS sustainability?

The AI handles:

Tedious migrations
Boilerplate code
Documentation generation
Test scaffolding
Performance profiling (yes, Claude got really into benchmarking)
The human handles:

Judgment calls
Architecture decisions
Community interaction
Deciding when the AI is being too enthusiastic
So my fellow coders, the crusade begins

I'm calling this the OSS Crusade: one dev and one AI, rescuing abandoned packages from the npm graveyard.
by bdangubic | 2025-12-31 00:00:44+00:00
I have lived through Amazon’s rags to riches and there was never a clear plan to profitability. Vast majority of people were questioning sanity of anyone investing in Amazon.

I am not saying OpenAI is Amazon but am saying I have seen this before where masses are going “oh business is bad, losses are huge, where is path to profitability…”
by Zaskoda | 2025-12-31 00:01:03+00:00
What this site does not show is how much of the power used to maintain the network is waste power such as gas that's normally burned off at the well site or hydro electric that goes to waste.

Unlike AI, there's a strong incentive to find the cheapest electricity possible. Because that's what everyone else is doing. With Bitcoin, you now exactly what your costs are and what your yields are. There's a clear threshold, when power in an area becomes too expensive there's no reason left to mine.

AI, on the other hand, is a bet on the future - infinite gains. No matter how much power costs, it's worth it to keep using as much as possible. We can't know how much power AI uses. Unlike Bitcoin, there aren't any metrics from which to extrapolate. But we do know that AI uses more power than Bitcoin already. We just have no idea how much more.
by zephen | 2025-12-31 00:01:36+00:00
> I never cared for Dijkstra's arguments on the matter.

It resonates with me, as does little-endian. There are evergreen arguments about both of these, but they stand out to me as two of the few places where I appear to be in sync with the majority.

> Pascal is using 1-ord, Fortran, R, Mathematica. If anything, it seems there's a longer tradition of 1-ord in scientific computing.

Actually, Pascal let you define the starting point, but, historically, COBOL (business) and FORTRAN started at one, and these days, it's Matlab (engineering), as well as R, Mathematica, and Julia. But, really, my point was that Julia is hyped to take over from Python, and it seems if that's the focus, then you should think long and hard about what features of Python to change, and, well, obviously that wasn't really the direction they came from.

> semantics like that, without unnecessarily sacrificing performance—I don't think they get enough credit for that from programming guys.

It's good work, but at the same time, a bit overblown IMO. For example, the creators claim homoiconicity, but that stretches the definition of that word to where Python would be homoiconic as well, and it's obviously not.

As far as the multiple dispatch goes, that's actually not that difficult of a puzzle piece when you are compiling ahead of time with unboxed objects.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-31 00:01:44+00:00
There are lots of even cheaper deals than buyvm usually with racknerd and dedirock. Black friday deals are absolutely amazing but always go with someone a bit more reputed and Buyvm's an amazing choice too although they would be considered "pricey" in comparison to someone (just a few $'s) (I have joined their discord server)

I think racknerd recently did a 6.85$ or similar deal but the point of these deals become is that they become insanely overprovisioned and it becomes a showpiece of sorts "look what deal I got ;P" kinda not sure.

I think another fascinating deal about lowendtalk is that man those people have this faith in small hosting providers and giving chances to them etc. hoping that they become big as well. There are very few places like lowendtalk on the internet. I find a lot of similarities with the hackernews culture although more focused on deals/hosting although its definitely more casual than hackernews.
by AYBABTME | 2025-12-31 00:02:13+00:00
It feels like we're doing another lift to a higher level of abstraction. Whereas we had "automatic programming" and "high level programming languages" free us from assembly, where higher level abstractions could be represented without the author having to know or care about the assembly (and it took decades for the switch to happen), we now once again get pulled up another layer.

We're in the midst of another abstraction level becoming the working layer - and that's not a small layer jump but a jump to a completely different plane. And I think once again, we'll benefit from getting tools that help us specify the high level concepts we intend, and ways to enforce that the generated code is correct - not necessarily fast or efficient but at least correct - same as compilers do. And this lift is happening on a much more accelerated timeline.

The problem of ensuring correctness of the generated code across all the layers we're now skipping is going to be the crux of how we manage to leverage LLM/agentic coding.

Maybe Cursor is TurboPascal.
by llmslave2 | 2025-12-31 00:02:21+00:00
I never said anything about being worse, dumber, and definitely not slower. And keep in mind worse is subjective - if something doesn't require edge case handling or correctness, bugs can be tolerated etc, then something with those properties isn't worse is it?

I'm just saying that since there is such a wide range of experiences with the same tools, it's probably likely that developers vary on their evaluations of the output.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-12-31 00:02:29+00:00
When WSL first came out, I realized that Windows might be Linux + Wine in 20 or 30 years.

Nowadays, with the Windows team barely able to produce a functional UI, what's happening with the NT kernel? Is it all graybeards back there? When they retire, the stability of Windows going to be in trouble, which is important for the things that really pull in the money. It'll get real bad, then they'll give up and move to an open source base, just like Edge.
by nkmnz | 2025-12-31 00:03:04+00:00
Why that? In a very simple case, all services of a monorepo run on a single VM. Spin up new VM, deploy new code, verify, switch routing. Obviously, this doesn't work with humongous systems, but the idea can be expanded upon: make sure that components only communicate with compatible versions of other components. And don't break the database schema in a backward-incompatible way.
Show HN: FuseCells – 2,500 handcrafted levels logic puzzle game with leaderboard
by keini | 2025-12-31 00:04:08+00:00
Hi everyone, I built FuseCells, a minimalistic logic puzzle game where every level is handcrafted (no procedural generation). It started as a personal challenge: design a clean rule-set and scale it to thousands of puzzles without losing difficulty balance.

What’s unique:
- 2,500 handcrafted levels across multiple grid sizes
- Deterministic logic, no guessing required
- A rule system inspired by constraint-solving and path-finding concepts
- Daily Challenge + leaderboards (I added these to give the game a “reason to come back” without turning it into a grind)
- Built end-to-end as a solo dev project

A small data point: after adding Daily Challenge + leaderboards, the game quickly reached ~400 active players (depending on how you define active), and I’m trying to understand what makes them return: competition, habit, or simply puzzle pacing.

Technical notes (if you’re curious):
- My internal tools validate solvability using a custom constraint solver
- Difficulty is approximated via solver step count
- Optimized to run smoothly on low-end devices
- Designed for iOS, fully adapted for iPad

I’d love feedback from puzzle lovers, game designers, and anyone into handcrafted logic design - especially on difficulty curve, onboarding clarity, and whether daily + leaderboards add value or feel distracting.
by neilv | 2025-12-31 00:04:17+00:00
I noticed that they didn't ban "walkie talkies" or "radio transceivers", and I wonder...

Some of the more niche/hobby transceivers could be used by a group of bad actors at an event, for comms that are less-monitorable than smartphones and mainstream COTS handheld transceivers.

And such hobby transceivers/transmitters might not operate on the list of RF bands that would be jammed by authorities when there's a suspected terrorist situation.

Many of these devices have exposed PCBs (either general-purpose SBCs, or specialized). So, saying "no Raspberry Pi" could be an attempt to ban all exposed PCB devices. And "no Flipper Zero" is the non-exposed-PCB problematic device that everyone has also heard of.

Kudos to the people keeping the event safe, especially given all the recently emboldened bad actors right now, who might be attracted to the event.

For hobbyists, there are numerous opportunities to advocate for your right to, e.g., carry electronics hobbyist gadgets, or to wear an artistic blinking LED jewelry piece strapped to your chest. Some of those opportunities need help, while some other opportunities could be counterproductive to your cause.
by anonym29 | 2025-12-31 00:04:26+00:00
IANAL, but from my understanding, the primary law used to prosecute hacking is the CFAA's broad "without authorization" and "exceeding authorized access" clauses.

That said, authorization implies an entity with ownership rights granting some kind of limited license to others to interact with the owner's property.

For a permissionless decentralized network with no owner, where the attack is against the consensus of which chain is valid, I'd have a hard time arguing that "authorization" as a concept is even applicable or relevant.

As wmf suggested, market manipulation laws may still apply, but I'm not sure traditional CFAA "without authorization" / "exceeding authorized access" hacking charges could apply, though I'd be willing to bet a prosecutor could make a case for wire fraud - a scheme to defraud using interstate communications.
by Const-me | 2025-12-31 00:04:37+00:00
> versioned symbols are a thing on Windows

There’re quite a few mechanics they use for that. The oldest one, call a special API function on startup like InitCommonControlsEx, and another API functions will DLL resolve differently or behave differently. A similar tactic, require an SDK defined magic number as a parameter to some initialization functions, different magic numbers switching symbols from the same library; examples are WSAStartup and MFStartup.

Around Win2k they did side by side assemblies or WinSxS. Include a special XML manifest into embedded resource of your EXE, and you can request specific version of a dependent API DLL. The OS now keeps multiple versions internally.

Then there’re compatibility mechanics, both OS builtin and user controllable (right click on EXE or LNK, compatibility tab). The compatibility mode is yet another way to control versions of DLLs used by the application.

Pretty sure there’s more and I forgot something.
by ls612 | 2025-12-31 00:04:49+00:00
Economist here (but not a game theorist): Repeated games are actually really hard to find closed form equilibria for in general. Additionally, many repeated games have multiple equilibria which makes every bit of follow on analysis that much more annoying. Only very specific categories of repeated game have known nice unique solutions like you are hoping for, and even then usually only under some idealized information set structure. But as other commenters have said, this is an active area of research in Economics and many grad classes are offered on it.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-12-31 00:05:04+00:00
I'm not sure how you can look at the current political situation in the US and conclude that business executives get veto power over government decisions. Trump just this month summoned the CEOs of every major pharma company in the US for a ritual humiliation, and commanded them to give him steep discounts for a new self-branded website he's setting up.
by imiric | 2025-12-31 00:05:13+00:00
Why have we normalized "app stores" that build software whose authors likely already provide packages of?

I've been using Obtainium more recently, and the idea is simple: a friendly UI that pulls packages directly from the original source. If I already trust the authors with the source code, then I'm inclined to trust them to provide safe binaries for me to use. Involving a middleman is just asking for trouble.

App stores should only be distributors of binaries uploaded and signed by the original authors. When they're also maintainers, it not only significantly increases their operational burden, but requires an additional layer of trust from users.
by orbital-decay | 2025-12-31 00:05:46+00:00
>It's also worth noting that OpenAI has not trained a new model since gpt4o (all subsequent models are routing systems and prompt chains built on top of 4)

At the very least they made GPT 4.5, which was pretty clearly trained from scratch. It was possibly what they wanted GPT-5 to be but they made a wrong scaling prediction, people simply weren't ready to pay that much money.