MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaw12 | 2025-12-15 17:48:38+00:00
it is so convenient to downvote the comment because you haven't experienced it yourself and consider it as "yet another random weirdo complaining about the US" in the comments.

Before downvoting, think about what if person on the other side experienced how people they knew and loved know got killed by that "moral" superpower for sport, for oil, for land and to enrich couple of their billionaires even more.

US have no right to call out any kind of evil, anywhere, after destroying so many families. You just don't feel it, just try to imagine if half of your family got killed for fun, how do you feel?
by tptacek | 2025-12-15 17:48:44+00:00
This is a thing you can only say if you know very little about the talent pipeline for actual espionage technology in the USG, which: they do not have a lot of problems there. Lots of people don't share your precise values about espionage or about espionage technology, and the real jobs in this field are extremely high-status. There's competition to get them.
by btown | 2025-12-15 17:49:15+00:00
It's a bit surprising to me that Microsoft hasn't created a product that's "you have an Excel file in one of our cloud storage systems, here's a way for you to vibe code and host a web app whose storage is backed entirely by that file, where access control is synced to that file's access, and real-time updates propagate in both directions as if someone were editing it in native Excel on another computer. And you can eject a codebase that you, as the domain expert, can hand to a tech team to build something more broadly applicable for your organization."

Nowhere near the level of complexity that would enter your threat model. But this would be the first, minimal step towards customers building their own tools, and the fact that not even this workflow has entered the zeitgeist is... well, it's not the best news for some of the most bullish projections of AI adoption in businesses large and small.
by wackget | 2025-12-15 17:49:37+00:00
If anyone from Planetscale is reading this, please know I hate what you did to your website. I previously had it bookmarked as an example of excellent, usable website design. About a year ago it turned into a plaintext nightmare. The first time I saw the new design I genuinely thought that a CSS file had failed to load in my browser. It's awful.

*Edit:* It also fails to load other pages if you have JavaScript or XHR disabled.
by jakelsaunders94 | 2025-12-15 17:49:55+00:00
https://inventronix.club/connect

I just finished building my own IoT platform and I’m honestly so proud of it.

It’s completely free. Please try it out it would mean the world to me! Would love some feedback.

N.B. Finished the landing page and docs this morning. Done I’d better than perfect so expect some rough edges.
by mothballed | 2025-12-15 17:50:01+00:00
To some extent, Somalia. They have a 'xeer' system which is by design independent of the government and works as essentially a peer-to-peer justice system but with a fairly common set of 'law' throughout the country. It works through a process of decentralized judges which are appealable through inter-tribal courts ensuring the process is largely divorced from both the government and any one tribe.

There have been a few cases of Somalis for example even killing government police/military and them being found not guilty in xeer court and even the government respected the decision.
by triceratops | 2025-12-15 17:50:11+00:00
I came up with it myself. It's possible there's prior art but nothing that I've read personally.

I don't think it's a particularly revolutionary idea because sovereign wealth funds already exist. Improving productivity means using less labor which means lower income tax revenues as time goes on (and that's what you want - higher productivity, fewer labor inputs).

And yet, the government needs revenue. What's growing? Wealth. Liquidating wealth to pay taxes is problematic. Hence the sovereign wealth fund. You can apply this to most forms of wealth - even publicly traded stock, real estate, crypto, and artwork.

I've proposed it on this site several times in the past.
by drdeca | 2025-12-15 17:50:15+00:00
I like to think that what the “can’t prove a negative” phrase originated from was someone grasping at the difference between Pi_1 and Sigma_1 statements . For a Pi_1 statement, one needs only a single counterexample to refute it, but to verify it by considering individual cases, one has to consider all of them and show that they all work (which, if there are infinitely many, it is impossible to handle them all individually, and if there are just a lot, it may still be infeasible) . Conversely, for a Sigma_1 statement, a single example is sufficient to verify the claim, but refuting it by checking individual cases would require checking every case.
by LPisGood | 2025-12-15 17:50:53+00:00
> In cases where a regulator's action was deemed at least "reasonable", the judiciary was obligated to simply defer to the regulator's interpretation.

That is the way it _should_ be. Judges are not subject matter experts in all of human endeavors, but they are expected to make rulings over that domain. Relying on experts and career civil servants advice is generally good, unless they’re being unreasonable.
by kragen | 2025-12-15 17:51:14+00:00
> Does anyone know if Forth suffers measurably in inner loops from have to call words that perform basic operations?

Yes, the slowdown is of the order of 8× for DTC, ITC, and bytecode ("token threading"). Eliminating the jump table reduces the overhead a bit, but it's still order 8×.

The B compiler bundled a copy of the bytecode interpreter into each executable; that might have made it less appealing as a size optimization. For a big enough program it would still have won.

Subroutine threading is really just compact native code, but it still suffers from typically about 4× overhead for basic operations like dup, @, +, or exit (the traditional name for the runtime effect of ;). The primitive operations these execute are typically one or two cycles on a RISC such as a Cortex-M4, while a subroutine call and return are two more cycles, often plus two to four cycles of pipeline bubble (if the processor doesn't have good enough branch prediction). Presumably on the PDP-7 a subroutine call would have needed an additional memory cycle to store the return address into memory and another one to fetch it, plus two more memory cycles to fetch the call and return instructions. (I'm not familiar with the -7's instruction set, so correct me if I'm wrong.)

With respect to dup, though, commonly dup, drop, swap, and over represent operations that don't appear in optimized native code—they just tell the following operations which data to operate on, a purpose which is normally achieved by operand fields in native code. So the runtime overhead of stack-bytecode interpretation is a worse than it appears at first: each bytecode instruction takes time of the order of 4× or 8× the time of as a native instruction doing the same thing, but you have to run about twice as many bytecode instructions because about half of them are stack manipulation. So your total slowdown is maybe 8× or 16×.

You may also be interested in looking at the program dc, which IIRC was one of the programs Unix was originally written to run. It's a stack bytecode designed to be written by hand, like HP desk calculators of the time but with arbitrary precision.
by bArray | 2025-12-15 17:51:23+00:00
Nobody in their right mind is keen for a war. Nobody would fight in one unless they believed they really had no other choice. I don't blame the people who would runaway to relative safety if the option is available.

But. It's clearly a massive security issue.

> If you’re that keen, go join the reserves?

There is not currently a war, and if there was, there wouldn't be a choice but to join.
by reactordev | 2025-12-15 17:51:36+00:00
You're missing a half dozen others.

Yeah, this is nothing more than grandstanding idealism. Their staff will no doubtably be as dumb as Space Force or Air Force when it comes to cloud and technology. I've dealt with them in various forms throughout the years contracting. BESPIN was entirely contractor driven. Their devops pipelines and how to deploy things. If that's your indicator, good luck.
by redbluered | 2025-12-15 17:51:39+00:00
Employers would have to be pretty spiteful to look at it the way you purposed. I wouldn't want a spiteful employer.

The flip side is that a lot of government jobs lead to pretty good private sector opportunities working with those same agencies. If you want to contact to DOE, knowing how it works in the inside and knowing people there definitely helps.

A lot of military contractors are former military. Who better to design something for a soldier than a soldier?
by shadowgovt | 2025-12-15 17:52:00+00:00
Sure, but one key difference is that if either of those groups steps outside the law, you can recourse to the law to check them.

Since police are part of the law, when they don't hold their own accountable, there's no recourse. And that's a real problem. This is before one even starts unpacking the knapsack of how much law is designed to protect the police from consequences of performing their duties (leading to the unfortunate example "They can blow the side off your house if they have reason to believe it will help them catch a suspect and the recompense is that your insurance might cover that damage.")
by robertakarobin | 2025-12-15 17:52:07+00:00
Taking a break from software to remodel a house by myself. The plan was just to redo the kitchen and a bathroom and be done by August, so naturally it's now December here in Minnesota and the house is missing most of its wiring, pipes, insulation, and walls. :) I'm having a great time though and just started producing videos about it: https://youtube.com/shorts/6QDOXxh99PY?si=NOjvNVEVHwQt180A
by bisonbear | 2025-12-15 17:52:13+00:00
I've been exploring the "AI as conversation partner for immersion" use case for a project I'm building and find it pretty helpful for a few reasons

1. Effectively infinite engaging comprehensible input at your level 2. Fantastic way to practice new vocabulary and grammar patterns (AI can provide correction for mistakes) 3. Somewhat fun - if you view chat as a choose your own adventure, the experience becomes more interesting
by jtrn | 2025-12-15 17:52:30+00:00
Is lying by omission and juxtaposition. It's manipulation. And it pisses me off to no end. I read the original source. It has NOTHING to do with Parkinson’s. It’s a suicidal dose ingested, and when extracted, it was still a dangerous chemical. If I drank a gallon of gasoline and you pumped it out of me, then it caught fire, it wouldn't explain anything except that gasoline is dangerous and burns. Nobody disputes that with regard to this chemical. So why slip it in like that? And the fact that people don't care just shows why they CAN “just slip it in there” in an article about Parkinson’s... nobody cares as long as it confirms their bias.

I only care about evidence that proves that it causes Parkinson’s, with basic scientific rigor. I’ll eat my hat if any of the cited studies did basic attempt at falsification.
by rcrowley | 2025-12-15 17:52:33+00:00
Yes, you can certainly use up your CPU allocation on an M-10 database (at which point we offer online resizing as large as you want to go, all the way up to 192 CPUs and 1.5TiB RAM). Even still, I've been able to coax more than 10,000 IOPS from an M-10. (Actually, out of dozens of M-10s colocated on the same hardware all hammering away.)

You can get a lot more out of that CPU allocation with the fast I/O of a local NVMe drive than from the slow I/O of an EBS volume.
by B1FF_PSUVM | 2025-12-15 17:52:35+00:00
> body switching is quite common in SciFi, and those aspects are usually completely ignored.

I think it was Fredrik Pohl in Man Plus who got that part better sorted out - of course your body/physical experience shapes your brain.

One of the Oliver Sacks stories (I know, his stock crashed recently) was about a man who had lost his vision as a toddler, and had it restored in midlife. Which tripped him badly.

[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Plus , https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/05/10/to-see-and-not... ]
by phil21 | 2025-12-15 17:52:43+00:00
Everything here other than Metals and Tires are basically only useful in the extremes where your inputs are exceedingly clean.

Sure, if you somehow have 99.9% cleaned and sorted plastic it can be maybe worth recycling at the margins. Same with paper and cardboard. The quality of these input streams needs to be so good it basically is nonexistent.

This might work somewhere like Japan, but in a major US city with "single stream" recycling it's a joke. One person tossing a bag of fast food trash into a recycling bin ruins the entire thing. Or a pizza box. You name it.

I'd be surprised if even 10% of the stuff put into the "blue bin" recycling bins here in Chicago actually makes it to recycling. The metals are near 100% since scrappers drive the alleys and scavenge anything of value before it even makes it to the recycling truck.

The amount of human labor to make recycling "worth it" makes it uneconomical. Either that labor can be done on the consumer side (like Japan seems to do) - or centralized - but most things only pencil out when you assume this cleaning and sorting labor is effectively free.
by vkou | 2025-12-15 17:52:44+00:00
> With the second war destroying a lot of the country and calling to rebuild at home.

WW2 did not 'destroy' the UK. It wasn't subjected to any of the horrors of ground warfare, and the Blitz failed to inflict any meaningful damage on it.

What WW2 did destroy was the UK government's ability and will to finance the sort of repression that was necessary to maintain a globe-spanning empire. Churchill in his pigheaded hubris could scream from the rooftops about India forever remaining British, but Clement wasn't going to kill people over it.

(In contrast, France lost the ability, but not the will, which is why it fought a few wars in Vietnam and Algiers, instead of letting their colonial subjects have self-rule and independence sans bloodshed.)
by stuffn | 2025-12-15 17:53:16+00:00
Some agencies lean towards proper justification (the EPA, for example, has been generally okay at best about this) other regulatory bodies don't.

While it is not a popular topic here, gun laws, and I am taking a risk with my karma even talking about it, have been subject to some of the most vague and dangerous interpretations by the ATF. In this case we provided congress a way to bypass constitutional scrutiny (pre-bruen) by deferring to the ATF. Two examples are bump stocks, and FRTs, both of which the ATF interpreted as "machine guns", defying their own regulatory definition, and creating felons out of innocent people quite literally overnight. Honest people had their doors literally kicked in. This is a terrifying level of power. It is not the first time the ATF has done this. I would recommend spending time reading the writings of GOA and FPC if you'd like to see how confusing it is for a law abiding gun owner to stay within the lines of the law when Chevron Deference existed. At any point something you lawfully buy, fill out the correct forms, and lawfully own, could be suddenly interpreted with no notification as criminal and thus you INSTANTLY become a felon. There are violations of ex-post-facto, denial of constitutional rights, etc.

Justification is highly subjective and in many cases these regulatory agencies are handed the pen to write and sign their laws.

There is no difference between a regulatory agency writing and passing law, and congress completely deferring all responsibility to them. This is the problem. "Justification" is not held to any standard.

My personal opinion is opinion from a regulatory agency should be held to a higher standard than even the most prestigious academic journal given the consequences. Chevron Deference being used to regulate companies is one thing. Chevron Deference being used to regulate constitutional rights is a consequence, and thus, it is a good thing it is eliminated. Perhaps congress can actually do it's job and demand a higher level of scrutiny, care, and precision from our regulatory agencies.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-15 17:53:25+00:00
macOS and Windows’s native keychains both support this - they encrypt the secrets with a key that is not accessible to apps that run with user permissions without sudo (macOS) or elevation (Windows). The actual user can still access them, but a normal app (other than the one that stored the secret in the keychain originally) running as that user cannot do so directly.
by wtallis | 2025-12-15 17:53:46+00:00
Consumer chipsets have long supported USB, SATA, and PCIe using shared PHYs giving motherboard vendors some flexibility to decide which IO lanes they would like to wire up to SATA connectors vs USB connectors vs PCIe/M.2 connectors. (This worked great when all three were in the 5-6Gbps range.) Since SATA is now the slowest of those three interfaces, it doesn't really drive up the die cost much. It's pretty cheap for the chipset to continue to have a few SATA MACs on die, and giving the motherboard vendor the option to use the PHYs for USB or PCIe means there's no significant opportunity cost or inflation to the pin count to support SATA.

We've already seen the typical number of SATA ports on a consumer desktop motherboard drop from six to four or two. We'll probably go through a period where zero is common but four is still an option on some motherboards with the same silicon, before SATA gets removed from the silicon.
by stuartjohnson12 | 2025-12-15 17:53:46+00:00
If you're going to ask ChatGPT to write your response for you, I'll do the same.

---

Great question! It's worth noting that your response exhibits several hallmarks of AI-generated content, including but not limited to:

Bullet-point formatting where none was needed

Buzzword density that feels a bit elevated

Phrases like "fully reproducible, evidence-based" that have a certain... flavor to them

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.
by krainboltgreene | 2025-12-15 17:54:06+00:00
> I raise this because a general strike is back on the table, likely for May Day 2028 (5/1/28):

I say this as an out socialist, member of the DSA, and strong advocate for unions: No it's not. I love Shawn Fain to death, I am a huge fan of his work and strategies, but the idea that an American General Strike is two years away? Most americans won't join a union despite having extremely positive opinions of unions.
by solatic | 2025-12-15 17:54:08+00:00
> $4529/month... can indeed just hire someone full-time

That's $54,348/year, not including the cost of benefits, not including stock compensation. Let's say you reserve 20% for benefits and that comes out to $43,478.40 in salary.

Besides the benefit of not needing the management / communication overhead of hiring somebody, do you know any DBAs willing to take a full-time job for $43,478.40 in salary?
by davidcann | 2025-12-15 17:54:23+00:00
I’m working on Universymbols, which lets you restyle icons to match your app’s icon set, like SF Symbols, Material Symbols, and many more.

It uses a pipeline involving several AI models, including Nano Banana and OpenAI’s gpt-image-1 for the raw image generation.

https://universymbols.com/
by hervature | 2025-12-15 17:55:00+00:00
I know you are using the definition of tyrant here to be "unjust ruler" as opposed to "absolute ruler". You can certainly have benevolent tyrants but I would argue that, without a constitution, you are by definition ruled by a tyrant. The USA has the oldest ratified constitution so that is a prime candidate for being considered the oldest stable non-tyrannical government. Of course, we are using different definitions of tyrant so you will not agree with my conclusion.
Ask HN: Is there a GitHub repo illustrating AI assisted development?
by rhelz | 2025-12-15 17:55:04+00:00
How are teams using AI-enhanced flows for developing/maintaining/extending a non-trivial code base?

Best I can get is that the GitHub repo contains a "curated knowledge base" on what the code should do.

But it is unclear to me exactly how to keep these prompts in sync with the code base.

Are they like yacc source files, and every time we do a clean build of the repo, the generated code is blown away and AI uses them to re-generate the code again, this time according to, say, a few new features added?

Or do we periodically have AI read both the prompts and the code, and suggests edits from one to the other?

What are the best practices here? Are there GitHub repos which illustrate how its done in a world-class way?
by jrowen | 2025-12-15 17:55:04+00:00
This is interesting and a nice conversation, thank you.

He talks about how they wanted to let people know that they would stop sending them notifications after five days of inactivity, but that the "passive-aggressive" nature of that notification actually got people to come back. To me it illustrates that it's such a fine line to walk if you want to respect the user but also maybe push through their own lack of motivation.

(I'm not a user of Duolingo so I can't speak to where they land on that but it's clearly controversial)
by afavour | 2025-12-15 17:55:21+00:00
> Employers would have to be pretty spiteful to look at it the way you purposed

I disagree. If a persons resume contains description of blatantly harmful work how else can I interpret it but negatively? At best you’d have to chalk it up to “just following orders” but I don’t want blind obedience in a prospective employee either.

The destruction caused by DOGE is evident to anyone with eyes, as is the agency’s complete lack of achievement. I would absolutely be asking questions about why someone remained there.
by waffleiron | 2025-12-15 17:55:41+00:00
Hong Kong Basic Law also required a national security law since 1997. Lets not be selective.

> Article 23 is an article of the Hong Kong Basic Law. It states that Hong Kong "shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government, or theft of state secrets, to prohibit foreign political organizations or bodies from conducting political activities in the Region, and to prohibit political organizations or bodies of the Region from establishing ties with foreign political organizations or bodies."
by fakedang | 2025-12-15 17:55:54+00:00
Because everything in the US is inflated thanks to rampant printing of the USD. Healthcare? Inflated. Education? Inflated. Day-to-day stuff? Inflated. Property values? Inflated.

Most of Europe has lower GDP per capita than the poorest states of the US, yet the lifestyle of European citizens in those countries is much better than the lifestyle of the poorest Americans. American growth is built on the backs of piss-poor healthcare, shoddy education and an overinflated perception of the tech sector which holds the rest of the world hostage (but not for long).
by bigbuppo | 2025-12-15 17:56:39+00:00
For many years now. The crawlers, scanners, and bots start hammering a website within a minute of a certificate being issued. Remember to get your garbage WCM installed and secured before installing the real certificate as you have about a 15 second window before they're hammering around for fresh wordpress installs. Granted, you people are all smart enough to have all that automated using a CI/CD pipeline so that you just commit a single file with the domain name to a git repo and all that magic happens.
by pants2 | 2025-12-15 17:56:47+00:00
If it's intelligence + speed you want, nothing comes close to GPT-OSS-120B on Cerebras or Groq.

However, this looks like it has great potential for cost-effectiveness. As of today it's free to use over API on OpenRouter, so a bit unclear what it'll cost when it's not free, but free is free!

https://openrouter.ai/nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free