MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lmm | 2025-12-01 02:44:06+00:00
> Regardless of Cloudflare, there is no way to know whether the traffic is encrypted between your apparent end-point and where it's actually used, nor whether that traffic is subsequently revealed to other parties, on purpose or by mistake.

Any server could be leaking plaintext data, sure, but Cloudflare offers and even promotes wrong-thing-as-a-service.
by zie | 2025-12-01 02:44:42+00:00
I don't understand this thinking. The GPL is more restrictive than the FreeBSD license. You have more freedoms with the FreeBSD license than you do with the GPL(of any version).

> I wish FreeBSD held the position Linux does in the market today. That would be heaven.

Well The BSD's were embattled with a lawsuit from AT&T at the time Linux came around, so it got a late start as it were, even if it's a lot older.
by wisty | 2025-12-01 02:44:45+00:00
So his dad was so poor he kept his money in a safe ...

You can fit maybe 2 million in a safe. Maybe less if it's poorly packed, small denominations, other items in storage (id, etc). A safe full of money is like having an investment property, it's not really a sign of unreal wealth.

It's like some 20 year old on TikTok flexing a Rolex with aftermarket "diamonds" - it isn't dirt poor but it's not what you'd exactly call generational wealth. You don't even hear Trump bragging about having a ton of cash - even the crassest most trashy rich person wouldn't brag about a safe full of cash.

Half the posters here probably have parents with more assets.

Just look at how insanely biased people are here. Elon once allegedly stole $2k worth of emeralds from his dad, and they're gushing over what fabulous wealth that is.

$2k is a phone or a laptop. Elon was so madly rich he stole something as valuable as a laptop from his dad, and this is somehow evidence that he's basically a de Beers?
by akra | 2025-12-01 02:44:57+00:00
There is also a chance that a lot of this capex is written off, and the money becomes "sunk". Bad for the current players, but given inference costs as you mention are profitable, after the writeoffs and the market correction the industry continues on variable inference revenue.

The catch is you probably only want to be invested after any writeoffs/corrections if that is your hypothesis. i.e. the future may be AI, but it isn't a straight line, nor is it guaranteed that the current players will be the future AI company of choice. You can be right about the end state and still lose your shirt in between with markets.
by refurb | 2025-12-01 02:46:16+00:00
I’m a big history nerd so checked out a couple historical events I know well from reading everything under the sun about them.

Grokepedia is far better than Wikipedia far better for 3 of the 5 I checked. Just content wise it much richer, more descriptive.

In terms of accuracy, I would say 3 of the 5 were better in Grokedpia, with 2 of them being highly one-sided in Wikipedia (presumably from people camping on the Wikipedia article).
by st3fan | 2025-12-01 02:46:59+00:00
"If someone wants hype or the latest shiny thing every month, they have Linux."

This is just such a bizarre view ... what do they think Linux really is? Maybe if you are on bleeding edge Arch as a hobbyist who follows the latest shiny windows managers or something like that. But those of us who run Linux in production do that on stable releases with proven tech that hasn't changed significantly in more than a decade. Or longer for some things.

The FreeBSD folks need a reality check. They are so out of touch with what Linux really is. It is hard to take these kind of articles seriously.
by bri3d | 2025-12-01 02:47:25+00:00
I’m not even convinced the audiod thing is Regin; whatever is going on is way less sophisticated even based on what the OP posted from volatility. I don’t think the hash they gave vx-underground is even from the sample from the original screenshots.

I think this person is just karma/clout farming badly and the screenshots are of some even more basic RAT.
by delichon | 2025-12-01 02:47:46+00:00
William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!” Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?” William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!” Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”

― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
by andsoitis | 2025-12-01 02:48:04+00:00
> Grokipedia is far more than just the anti-Wikipedia. It's a sign of things to come if we don't start harden the systems, governmental or otherwise, that keep Wikipedia available to the public.

That seems a bit paranoid. You worry that he US government will shut down Wikipedia and anything like it hosted anywhere in the world? Or alternatively block it when you’re in the US jurisdiction?
by cyberax | 2025-12-01 02:48:17+00:00
I suggest reading the blog article about Beccaria. This is a great example.

> You may prefer to venerate some Frankish monk instead, who valued scholarship without also killing thousands of Saxons, but such a person would be less influential and would probably also approve of mass slaughter of pagans anyway.

You're not making a good argument about why we should venerate mass murderers. It basically boils down to "sometimes it results in good things".
by smitty1e | 2025-12-01 02:48:39+00:00
What I will argue is something like Plato's Tripartite Soul[1] with the proviso that these are orthogonal dimensions.

Free Will, in this telling, exists on the logos/eros plane of the individual.

Destiny is some target on the plane out there at infinity toward which one navigates over time.

The origin of this coordinate system is the heart, and one may or may not hold a connection to the Creator via the thymos.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_theory_of_soul
by timschmidt | 2025-12-01 02:50:10+00:00
> I know game developers who don't use CI

I'm sure they're out there. A bit like publicly declaring you drive without wearing a seatbelt.

> It was never about arguing the effectiveness of CI.

The original point was that alt-tab'ing out of a game can result in unexpected behavior on any OS. Shared memory buffers in graphics APIs are the most likely culprit. And all graphics APIs on all OSes use them. I'm still not sure what exactly you're trying to argue about that.
by heelix | 2025-12-01 02:50:18+00:00
Well.. it was probably too good to be true. I'm a hiker - and was in on that first wave of purchasers. For $24, the 2000mAh battery was pretty light for what it is - 10.16oz. (more capacity for what I usually need) In comparison, I think my nitecore NB10000 is around 5.98oz for around $50, which is one of the better ones out there. On the cheaper side, the INIU 1000mAh is around 5.96oz for about $26 which does OK. I see amazon already pulled the page to order the haribo battery pack.

I also picked up their earbuds, which - for $11, sound and work far better than I expected.
by gblargg | 2025-12-01 02:51:44+00:00
Specifically:

> Ole Kirk Christiansen and his son Godtfred became aware of the Kiddicraft brick after examining a sample, and possibly drawings, given to them by the British supplier of the first injection moulding machine they had purchased. Realising their potential, Ole copied the Kiddicraft brick and in 1949 marketed his own version, The Automatic Binding Brick, that became the Lego brick in 1953.
by fragmede | 2025-12-01 02:51:46+00:00
It's from a bygone era. An era when you'd lose hours of work if you didn't go file -> save, (or ctrl-s, if you were obsessive). If you reboot, you lose all of your work, your configuration, that you haven't saved to disk. Computers were scarce, back in those days. There was one in the house, in the den, for the family. These days, I've got a dozen of them and everything autosaves. But so that's where that comes from.
by yoyo250 | 2025-12-01 02:52:46+00:00
Wise sometimes also suck. In my opinion, I have different addresses

- my hometown(i can provide the electricity bill, Also the address on my ID card)

- my rental house(address on my residence card, also my actual address.)

- Express Station (Packages are only delivered here.)

- post office (receive letters or international delivery)

Ok, now Wise ask me for my address, I give my rental address, but the electricity bill is in the landlord's name. Scanned copy of handwritten rental agreements are not valid.

I give my hometown address. Now I need to offer my bank account details. Sucks. The card was on my rental address.

The same thing sucked out Wise's customer service.

When I have ended the anti-money laundering investigation and get my money back, several months passed. And now I lose access to the account. I cannot delete the account and then create a new one.

Sucks
by PebblesHD | 2025-12-01 02:53:47+00:00
While not a complete rebuttal, allow me the following. I manage a team of 4 scrum masters each with 5-6 engineers. We provide services via a user interface we'll call the console, as would be fairly familiar to any B2B or B2C service provider. The backends of this portal are split up by functional area, so we have a compute management service providing CRUD apis for dealing with our compute offerings, a storage service for CRUD on our storage offerings, a network service for interacting with networks etc. all sharing a single, albeit sharded, underlying data store.

My teams pick up a piece of work, check out the code, run the equivalent of docker compose up, and build their feature. They commit to git, merge to dev, then to main, and it runs through a pipeline to deploy. We do this multiple times a day. Doing that with a large monolith that combines all these endpoints into one app wouldn't be hard, but it adds no benefits, and the overhead that now we have 4 teams frequently working on the same code and needing to rebase and pull in change, rather than driving simple atomic changes. Each service gets packaged as a container and deployed to ECS fargate, on a couple of EC2 instances that are realistically a bit oversubscribed if all the containers suddenly got hammered, but 90% of the time they don't, so its incredibly cost effective.

When I see the frequent discussions around microservices, I always want to comment that if you have a disfunctional org, no architecture will save you, and if you have a functional org, basically any architecture is fine, but for my cases, I find that miniservices if you will, domain driven and sharing a persistence layer, is often a good way to go for a couple of small teams.
by maxdo | 2025-12-01 02:53:57+00:00
I know nothing about elon's wikipedia, but...

Wikipedia has increasingly become a commercial project that exploits nationalistic sentiments. Take the Israel-Palestine or Ukraine-Russia conflicts as examples—you'll find completely contradictory articles on the same topics across different language editions, each reflecting opposing viewpoints.

Many of these editors are sponsored by governments, creating an entire ecosystem of smoke and mirrors: information bubbles that reinforce partisan narratives rather than presenting objective truth.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-01 02:54:27+00:00
> The need to hate on Grokipedia is weird to me.

Is others' negative-reaction to this sort of thing actually unusual... or is "weird" a rationalization for "seeing them do that makes me unhappy in this instance"?

I think it's relatively normal (and positive) for people to be "hating on" something which is arguably unhelpful/lies/propaganda.
by QuiEgo | 2025-12-01 02:55:46+00:00
Adding to the chorus of responses here: I did what this article suggested for a time, but found a purpose-built NAS was way nicer than repurposing an old gaming PC.

Using an old gaming PC for a NAS is kind of like trying to use an old track car that you've taken out the interior, added in a roll cage, and welded the doors shut as your kid's first car. Like yeah it will totally work, and they can impress all of their friends as they cosplay as the Dukes of Hazzard, but it's really not optimal for the task at hand.

I just upgraded my NAS setup to a Terramaster F4-425 Plus (running Debian) and it's great. The N150 CPU in it sips power, and the whole thing is tiny and easy to hide away in a media cabinet. One ultra-quiet Nocuta fan is all that's needed to keep it cool. It's so nice to use the right tool for the job.

EDIT: I'd recommend all of these guides / articles, I basically cherry-picked what I liked from all of them and ended up with something I'm really happy with:

* https://perfectmediaserver.com

* https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs/blob/master/mkdocs/docs...

* https://blog.muffn.io/posts/muffins-awesome-nas-stack/

* https://drfrankenstein.co.uk

* https://trash-guides.info
by epistasis | 2025-12-01 02:56:30+00:00
At least in the US we haven't had official data for quite some time. The BLS lost its chief because of "bad numbers"

The numbers we do have show significantly worse jobs numbers compared to prior years.

We might get data again, maybe not, but the US government has had an internal revolution, and it's doubtful we will have data as good as in the past, and it's quite likely that any bad news will be deeply buried.
by hipsterstal1n | 2025-12-01 02:58:14+00:00
RIP. I still have a few Tekserve totes around - one of the many awesome quirks of the store. They were great pre-Apple Store for repairs and purchases - make an appointment, describe your problem, bring your device in, and get it repaired some-what quickly and at not a terrible price. It wasn't as cheap as Applecare repairs, but it fixed your expensive fancy computer.
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-01 02:58:53+00:00
Guessing passwords is an attempt to access privileged information you have no right to access, and could not otherwise access without bypassing security measures.

Guessing a URL is an attempt to access (potentially) privileged information which was not secured or authenticated to begin with.

A password is a lock you have to break. An unlisted URL is a sticky note that says "private" on the front of a 40" screen. It's literally impossible for that information to stay private. Someone will see it eventually.
by markus_zhang | 2025-12-01 02:58:57+00:00
Reality is not particularly rosy for new graduates AFAIK. If I lose my job, I wouldn't be super surprised that I might never get a similar job for the rest of my life -- it is not that I do not have the skills, but 1) the amount of time for a laid off SDE to get a new job could reach to years, not months, so I need to do something else to earn $$$, and 2) why are companies going to hire me, who have gap years and are older, but not some fresh graduates who can work 80 hours per week and only demand half of the salary?

And yes I believe this time it's going to be different. I believe that if the economy dumps again, we are really going to see more hot wars. It is different from 2001, and different from 2008. We have kicked the can for almost 20 years and I kudos the policy makers who managed to achieve this.
by LexiMax | 2025-12-01 02:59:13+00:00
> The need to hate on Grokipedia is weird to me.

In isolation, Grokipedia is the vanity project of an unlikable billionare who wants to control narratives.

But I'd argue that there's more to it than just Musk. Zoom out a bit, and I think there's growing populist resentment against tech oligarchs from both sides of the aisle. People are sick and tired of the enshittification of the internet, social media, and anything with a screen. They also don't appreciate the idea of their jobs being replaced by AI when most people are already struggling to make ends meet.

So yeah, it's not just anger at the particulars of Grokipedia, people are just fed up with tech oligarchs in general. You could probably zoom out a little further and see similar resentment against of other wealthy elites for a myriad of other reaons, but suffice to say, Musk has good company among the ranks of other ghouls like Ellison, Zuckerberg, Thiel, Bezos, Andreessen and Nadella.
Ask YN: What CI do you use instead of GitHub Actions?
by rmunn | 2025-12-01 03:00:18+00:00
When the Zig project moved from GitHub to Codeberg (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064571), one of the reasons they listed was that "Actions has inexcusable bugs while being completely neglected." (from https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/, internal links not copied because I'm being lazy). They did not go into detail about which CI solution they plan to switch to. As I'm starting to get annoyed with GitHub Actions myself and looking for alternatives, I had been hoping to hear their experience with an alternative, but I didn't get that.

So I'd like to ask HN: if you don't use GitHub Actions, what CI solution did you end up choosing? And what has been your experience with it so far? Finally, if you have also used GitHub Actions, how would you compare your current CI solution to GitHub Actions in terms of pros and cons?

P.S. Something with a free tier or a self-hosting option are the only viable options for me, but that doesn't mean I don't want to hear about your experience if you're on a commercial CI solution.
by _jzlw | 2025-12-01 03:01:01+00:00
Looks like it's a reskin of an older version of awesome-selfhosted, coupled with advertisements. At least they credited it appropriately in the footer, but I would suggest just looking at the original repo instead (or its web version):

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

https://awesome-selfhosted.net/

Slightly different, but here's an actually useful site:

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-...
by rendall | 2025-12-01 03:01:27+00:00
Wikipedia’s sourcing rules are a big part of the problem. Reliable sources on Wikipedia mostly means prestige, center-left Anglosphere media and a narrow slice of academic publishing. In practice that gives generalist news outlets more epistemic weight than field-specific experts, and it excludes large amounts of accurate but unfashionable or non-English material. The result is a replication of whatever biases are already baked into mainstream journalism.

The gatekeeping also isn’t democratic. A small, durable cluster of editors on WP:RSN effectively decides which sources are allowed, banned, or given special status. They aren’t vetted for expertise and don’t need to disclose conflicts of interest, yet their decisions propagate across thousands of articles. If a coordinated group influences RSN, they can shape whole domains simply by defining which sources count as "real."

WP:NPOV becomes a matter of which media ecosystems have the loudest megaphone, not which sources are actually most accurate. Control the allowed sources and you control the encyclopedia.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-01 03:02:24+00:00
There's other ways to get local traffic data, too. For instance: Traffic Message Channel, which can be broadcast with RDS on an FM station, exists.

As long as stations persist that transmit the data (it's sent over RDS), then it will continue to work. There's no subscription involved (or at least, there isn't for my car -- it works where it works, and there's no mechanism by which to pay for using it).

The Wiki has some further reading on the technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_message_channel
Show HN: What's your mental age? Try It
by takennap | 2025-12-01 03:03:08+00:00
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It’s a short “mental age” quiz you can finish in a couple of minutes. No login, no email, just answer the questions and see your result.

I’d love feedback from the HN community on the new look & feel, usability, and any rough edges you notice (copy, UX, performance, etc.). Thanks for trying it out!
by ants_everywhere | 2025-12-01 03:04:42+00:00
> At current job I think we have slightly more microservices than engineers on the team.

You are free to do that, but that's a very specific take on microservices that is at odds with the wider industry. As I said above, what I was describing is what Google referred to internally as microservices. Microservices are not smaller than that as a matter of definition, but you can choose to make them extra tiny if you wish to.

If you look at what others say about microservices, it's consistent with what I'm saying.

For example, Wikipedia gives as a dichotomy: "Service-oriented architecture can be implemented with web services or Microservices." By that definition every service based architecture that isn't built on web services is built on microservices.

Google Cloud lists some examples:

> Many e-commerce platforms use microservices to manage different aspects of their operations, such as product catalog, shopping cart, order processing, and customer accounts.

Each of these microservices is a heavy lift. It takes a full team to implement a shopping cart correctly, or customer accounts. In fact each of these has multiple businesses offering SaaS solutions for that particular problem. What I hear you saying is that if your team were, for example, working on a shopping cart, they might break the shopping cart into smaller services. That's okay, but that's not in any way required by the definition of microservices.

Azure says https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/a...

> Model services around the business domain. Use DDD to identify bounded contexts and define clear service boundaries. Avoid creating overly granular services, which can increase complexity and reduce performance.

Azure also has a guide for determining microservice boundary where again you'd need a full team to build microservices of this size https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/microse...
by kuba50 | 2025-12-01 03:05:34+00:00
The problem is not whether you are impressed or not.

The problem is in the assumption/story/belief that "Intelligence" is "magic" can be "perfected". It's not true. Philosophers have known it forever. And the AI hypestorm will remind everyone how over rated intelligence actually is.

Intelligence can produce Socratic thought. It can also get Socrates killed. It can produce Aristotle and chase Aristotle out of the village. It can produce Einstein and make him depressed. It can produce Galileo and Gandhi and pretend what they say should be deleted.

People are told all the time Brains/Intelligence are special. Its not true. Even if human brains disappear tomorrow sky is not going to fall. Life and the universe will carry on happily on their merry way.

What can be called special is what happens to Information flowing through thousands and thousands of brains over thousands and thousands of years. What Information survives that process can be interesting. But its no where close to the what we see with Photosynthesis or the Krebs Cycle that emerges out of similar process of Information flowing through microbes.

The info through these processes constantly gets misplaced/corrupted/co-opted/deleted etc. Look at the Bible. Lot of people aren't impressed with it either. Yet it has lasted the downfall of nations, empires and kings.

It's survival has nothing to do with the quality of Information within it - https://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-152

The same applies to both wikipedia and grokpedia or whatever is produced next through "intelligence".

Once you realize your own brain is very imperfect you don't spend so much time worrying about chimp troupe drama generated through those brains. It's called flourishing through detachment - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181