MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chongli | 2025-12-13 15:59:11+00:00
How do governments become corrupt in the first place though, if they don't start that way? It's collective action problems all the way down.

Perhaps the root problem is that we've blown too far past Dunbar's number to be able to deal with the societies we live in. All of these systems we've contrived to mitigate the trust problem are full of holes.

As for convenience, that carries a tradeoff. All of the technology and all of the revolutions we've had (agricultural, industrial, information technology) have come with these tradeoffs. Even the log cabin has downsides compared to the nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
by conception | 2025-12-13 15:59:19+00:00
This thread is person after person saying “oh wow, person who sells terrible thing for humanity doesn’t let their kids have unlimited access to terrible thing! It’s so obvious. This isn’t news.”

The news is that the CEO of youtube is saying that Youtube is something that should be limited and he thinks harm will come to his children if he does not. This may be obvious to people on this site but a lot of normal people think it’s fine. It’s shocking as for a lot of people it’s more like “CEO of cucumber farm limits cucumbers for their child!” As that’s how Google markets youtube for kids.
by KellyCriterion | 2025-12-13 16:00:09+00:00
Maybe we should differ the terms:

"industry proven" -> MS/Windows -> yes

"battle tested" -> MS Windows -> you may discuss? :-D

If there is an inhouse solution available and which is really working, then Id not introduce an externa component here. If you start from zero, then using a pre-existing component should be the path, in my perception. Sure, one can waste time write a logger, but should have e.g. Bezos spent time coding on a logging lib or care about the webshop and use an existing lib for that - but in most cases it does not payoff to do whatever self-implementation-voodoo someone imagines: its just a waste of time. (Esp. since most companies do not take off enough to make such an investment plausible)
by rdrd | 2025-12-13 16:00:24+00:00
First you have to be very specific with what you mean by idiomatic code - what’s idiomatic for you is not idiomatic for an LLM. Personally I would approach it like this:

1) Thoroughly define step-by-step what you deem to be the code convention/style you want to adhere to and steps on how you (it) should approach the task. Do not reference entire files like “produce it like this file”, it’s too broad. The document should include simple small examples of “Good” and “Bad” idiomatic code as you deem it. The smaller the initial step-by-step guide and code conventions the better, context is king with LLMs and you need to give it just enough context to work with but not enough it causes confusion.

2) Feed it to Opus 4.5 in planning mode and ask it to follow up with any questions or gaps and have it produce a final implementation plan.md. Review this, tweak it, remove any fluff and get it down to bare bones.

3) Run the plan.md through a fresh Agentic session and see what the output is like. Where it’s not quite correct add those clarifications and guardrails into the original plan.md and go again with step 3.

What I absolutely would NOT do is ask for fixes or changes if it does not one-shot it after the first go. I would revise plan.md to get it into a state where it gets you 99% of the way there in the first go and just do final cleanup by hand. You will bang your head against the wall attempting to guide it like you would a junior developer (at least for something like this).
by nonplus | 2025-12-13 16:00:50+00:00
What pcie version are you running? Normally I would not mention one of these, but you have already invested in all the cards, and it could free up some space if any of your lanes being used now are 3.0.

If you can afford the 16 (pcie 3) lanes, you could get a PLX ("PCIe Gen3 PLX Packet switch X16 - x8x8x8x8" on ebay for like $300) and get 4 of your cards up to x8.
by shantara | 2025-12-13 16:00:53+00:00
I had to travel from Copenhagen to Berlin and Copenhagen to Basel several times, and I was open to choosing a train, but ended up flying to avoid dealing with DB. I really didn’t want the risk of missed connections cascading into messing up my appointments and vacation plans. And now with Fehmarn Belt link under construction, I ask myself, what’s even the point of shaving off a couple of hours from the trip duration if I can’t rely on DB for reliability anyway?
by mnky9800n | 2025-12-13 16:01:02+00:00
Tbh this just looks like a website. It’s unclear why I need to pay you hundreds to optimize a schedule when I could just ask ChatGPT to do it. It’s unclear how all these things go together. The demos seem like they are fake. And I get the sense that if this is a product it’s a n8n workflow or something similar.

Also, if you have 20 years experience in the industry, why do you need this website at all? How do you not have the relationships necessary to at least demo the product and test it at your friends restaurants or hotels or whatever? That’s the biggest red flag imo. That you need hacker news feedback at all.
by redrove | 2025-12-13 16:01:27+00:00
You can’t just “fork it and make a PR and make it e2e encrypted”. All the features run serverside, e2ee is fundamentally impossible because of its design, of which you seem to know fuck all.

I’m being dismissed by I run a rather large homelab and I still want my photos iCloud like, where end devices decrypt and run ML. Immich is a Google Photos clone where you give it everything and some server does all the magic.
by shawabawa3 | 2025-12-13 16:01:58+00:00
I've been wondering if the stock market would be more efficient if trades executed only every <small time interval> instead of continuously, i.e. every 1 second an opening trade style cross book clearance happens. Orders would have to be on the book for a full interval to execute to prevent last millisecond rushes at the end of an interval

I'm probably missing some second order effects but it feels like this would mitigate the need for race to the bottom latencies and would also provide protection against fat fingered executions in that every trading algorithm would have a full second to arbitrage it
by snowe2010 | 2025-12-13 16:01:59+00:00
> AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive is $1 a month.

Only if you’re backing up nothing and using non-encrypted files and making sure you don’t delete anything (rsync with delete turned off). I tested this not even three months ago. I hit $30 with only 3 tb of data with deep archive while wasabi AND backblaze cost less than that. No need to even trust a single provider. If you’re never changing your files AND you don’t care about encrypting them then yes GDA is fine and pretty cheap. Otherwise wasabi and backblaze get more done for less cost.
Meta "deletes" years of conversations with friends/family
by effectkai | 2025-12-13 16:02:27+00:00
It seems Meta recently migrated all Messenger chats to e2ee. But if you had created a secret conversation (e2ee) in the past then instead of migrating the existing chat Meta decided to archive and switch to the secret chat.

Since I only experimented with/created secret chats in the past with close friends and family, all my old conversations with years of history were archived with no path to restore.

This is a horrible UX experience and absolutely ridiculous that this design passed in Meta.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-13 16:02:52+00:00
The research papers from 10, 20 or 50 years ago are at least as valuable and frequently more valuable than the papers from this year.

A lot of "new" discoveries are rediscoveries of old things, which may have been not important at the time of their initial discovery, because in order to be useful they depended on advances in other domains, but when those advances happen, suddenly they become important and they can be the base of state-of-the-art techniques.

Therefore Sci-Hub remains very relevant, as a repository containing a very large number of historically-important research papers, including many research papers from the 19th century or early 20th century, which should have been in the public domain, but which can still be found behind paywalls elsewhere.
by rationalist | 2025-12-13 16:05:06+00:00
Using a separate email address for each site is smart, but creating a separate email account for each site is going to be very tedious, and I imagine Google, Yahoo, etc are going to stop you very quickly after you've opened 20+ accounts with the same phone number.

(Use a catch-all to have different email addresses for different sites, because when one gets hacked, then the damage is limited.)
by lapcat | 2025-12-13 16:05:37+00:00
> To be clear, I'm not accusing his books as being written like this or using AI. I'm simply responding to the writing style of this article.

It's unlikely that the article had the benefit of professional, external editing, unlike the books. Moreover, it's likely that this article was written in a relatively short amount of time, so maybe give the author a break that it's not formatted the way you would prefer if you were copyediting? I think you're just nitpicking here. It's a blog post, not a book.

Look at the last line of the article: "No permission granted to any AI/LLM/ML-powered system (or similar)." The author has also written several previous articles that appear to be anti-AI: https://hey.paris/posts/govai/ https://hey.paris/posts/cba/ https://hey.paris/posts/genai/

So again, I think it's ridiculous to claim that the article was written by AI.
by neom | 2025-12-13 16:06:00+00:00
I always think if I had kids this is how I'd do it also. I'm an adult who I think has fairly decent critical thinking skills and also is familiar with the state of technology etc etc. Well, I was following the news on 3I/ATLAS and I caught myself watching a youtube channel that I genuinely thought was Michio Kaku, I'd heard him talk once and it sounded and looked like him, so I put it on, switch tabs and listen as I work. I didn't notice it was AI (in retrospect I should have) but after a couple of days of watching it, I started to think...either this guy is worse than Avi Lobe or this channel is fake, the channel was fake and the content was, probably.. 2 or 3 steps removed from reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMAFnTANx6A / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXxGWD_dtL0 / https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michio+kaku+3i+...
by thaumasiotes | 2025-12-13 16:06:06+00:00
How does that affect the question of whether the network is densely packed or whether it has frequent trains?

Passenger trains from Frankfurt to Cologne are infrequent because there is virtually no demand to move between cities 120 miles apart. Because the trains are infrequent, they aren't dense on the tracks.

But that's the opposite of saying that they are frequent and densely packed.
by tim333 | 2025-12-13 16:06:51+00:00
No, they haven't agreed because there was never a practical definition of the test. Turing had a game:

>It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room apart front the other two. The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says either "X is A and Y is B" or "X is B and Y is A." The interrogator is allowed to put questions to A and B.

>We now ask the question, "What will happen when a machine takes the part of A in this game?" Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman?

(some bits removed)

It was done more as thought experiment. As a practical test it would probably be too easy to fake with ELIZA type programs to be a good test. So computers could probably pass but it's not really hard enough for most people's idea of AI.
by jader201 | 2025-12-13 16:06:54+00:00
It sounds like you still want a smart TV, just with control. Which is fine.

But for many people, we just want a monitor, maybe with speakers (I personally am fine also separating this).

I prefer separation of concerns — if I want to attach a computer to my TV, I’ll do that as a search device.

Why have a dependency on the TV hardware, when I can attach upgradable parts?
by rsyring | 2025-12-13 16:07:34+00:00
You may want to consider filling a small claims lawsuit against Apple for the maximum amount of damages your state permits in small claims.

It's not really about winning the claim. It's about getting them to acknowledge you and hopefully resolve it before the court case comes up. That is, you want them to "settle" by restoring your account.

IANAL and YMMV.
by snowe2010 | 2025-12-13 16:07:38+00:00
What are you talking about. It’s literally open source. Here’s the server code https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/main/server You run the server. You can make the entire thing e2e encrypted if you want.

You could even set it up so that it could only backup over tailscale or wireguard through a tunneled connection so ALL of your traffic is e2e.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-13 16:07:53+00:00
Gift cards are associated with money laundering and many online scams. I would guess any usage of them (especially in larger denominations) would attract increased attention and additional risk. That's nonsensical of course, why does Apple sell them if they are also suspicious of them, but I would guess if he had paid with a credit card there would have been no issue.

If you receive them as a gift, use them only in a situation unconnected with your cloud ID, such as to pay for new hardware at an Apple store.
by Neywiny | 2025-12-13 16:08:17+00:00
As a proud member of the LGTV community (yes I'm making 2 of those kinds of jokes back to back, fight me), and an occasional reddit user, I'm both horrified by the notion of getting this update and thrilled people are still using old.reddit.com. The new layout, which isn't even new anymore, still falls very short for it I'm looking something up and it's buried in a comment thread where ctrl-f can't find it.
by kubanczyk | 2025-12-13 16:08:22+00:00
Did you try that? These "remote" jobs that OP is describing filter you out instantly because of geography, so there's nobody to speak to about B2B contract.

These that did not filter me that way, offered both: either regular employment or B2B. These are truly rare, say 2%-5%?

My guess is that in countries like US, B2B contracts for individual SWEs are considered something very special and snowflake'y. Like they fully expect you to disappear three hours in, never to be seen again.
by idiotsecant | 2025-12-13 16:08:39+00:00
The real, foundational problem here is that we have abandoned the principles that made the internet. We don't care about open protocols, we accept walled gardens. Every day those walls get a little higher until eventually someone wins and the only thing that exists is the garden.

I don't know what the solution is, but I think part of it is deliberately divorcing yourself from the big players as much as you can, which isn't much for some people, and encouraging government efforts to break them up and pull down garden walls whenever the opportunity arises.

This is what government is for even if we've forgotten it in some places.
by adamzwasserman | 2025-12-13 16:08:45+00:00
This is great, thanks for the link. IMHO it actually supports the broader claim: if ICL emerges in both language models and genomic models, it suggests the phenomenon actually is about structure in the data, not something special about neural networks or transformers per se.

Genomes have statistical regularities (motifs, codon patterns, regulatory grammar). Language has statistical regularities (morphology, syntax, collocations). Both are sequences with latent structure. Similar architectures trained on either will repeat those structures.

That's consistent with my "instrumentation" view: the transformer is revealing structure that exists in the domain, whether that domain is English, French, or DNA. The architecture is the microscope; the structure was already there.
by BaconVonPork | 2025-12-13 16:09:20+00:00
The problem is not a personal hardware security module, as you noted we have them. The problem is that people want redundancy that undermines the point. If you can easily have a copy of your ring just in case, how do you know who has done that process and watches you all the time? Biometrics sounds like a solution yet they are implemented as a cosmetic security layer and this situation is pointless to fix since we leave them everywhere we go.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-12-13 16:10:00+00:00
Howdy neighbor, from a customer of Tennessee Valley Authority (primary generators are hydro and nuclear, with natgas peakers).

For some reason TVA keeps building new nuclear sites, never commissioning them, and then selling them at huge losses to private investors (or destroying them). Recently TVA got approval for µfission reactors to be installed... here we go again.

[•] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellefonte_Nuclear_Plant> $4B, estimated loss

Suggested (hopefully not Enron-esque) reading: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Failure-Rise-Fall-American/dp/0...
by quickthrowman | 2025-12-13 16:10:14+00:00
You could do this but the cost would be wider bid/ask spreads for all market participants. If you make it harder for market makers to hedge their position, they will collect a larger spread to account for that. A whole lot of liquidity can disappear in a second when news hits.

I’d rather have penny-wide spreads on SPY than restrict trading speed for HFTs. Providing liquidity is beneficial to everyone, even if insane amounts of money are spent by HFTs to gain an edge.
by rvz | 2025-12-13 16:10:26+00:00
> I've been consulting on EKS/GKE cost optimization for a few mid-sized companies and kept seeing the same pattern: massive over-provisioning of memory just to be safe.

Correct.

Developers keep over-provisioning as they need enough memory for the app to continue running as demand scales up. Since these languages have their own runtimes and GCs to manage memory, it already pre-allocates lots of RAM before running the app; adding to the bloat.

Part of the problem is not only a technical one (the language may be bloated and inefficient) but it is completely psychological as developers are scared of their app getting an out-of-memory exception in production.

As you can see, the languages with the most waste are the ones that are inefficient both runtime (speed) and space (memory) complexity and take up the most memory and are slower (Python, and Java) and costs a lot of money to continue maintaining them.

I got downvoted over questioning the microservice cargo cult [0] with Java being the darling of that cult. If you imagine a K8s cluster with any of these runtimes, you can see which one will cost the most as you scale up with demand + provisioning.

Languages like Go, and Rust are the clear winners if you want to save lots of money and are looking for efficiency.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44950060
by ulnarkressty | 2025-12-13 16:12:47+00:00
The biggest issue with these diy builds is that they need the mechanics to be inside the lens - which is not necessarily a bad thing, however it severely limits the lens choice for the system, and introduces additional cost (you basically need to buy a shutter with every lens). The scene has definitely improved over the years, there are a number of very interesting x-pan-like builds which have been made possible by advancements in 3d printing.

I'm looking forward to the day someone figures out how to modify a full frame shutter assembly (plenty and cheap on ebay) to work with medium format film.
by jcranmer | 2025-12-13 16:13:41+00:00
No, they couldn't. What they could do--and what they did do--was push for the move of TLS connections for the MX-MX hop of email; I don't have the stats off the top of my head for how prevalent that is, but I think it's in the 80-90% range of email being delivered in this method.

But end-to-end encrypted email? It breaks everything. You need to get all the MUAs to support it (very few do either S/MIME or PGP). You'll break webmail--the most popular way to use email--without lots of major investment. And encrypted email breaks things like spam filtering or server-side filters catastrophically. Key discovery is also unsolved.

There was a time when I was on the everybody-should-use-encrypted-email train. But I've since grown up and realized that encrypted email fundamentally breaks email in ways that people are unprepared for, and people have already figured out how to route around the insecurity of email via other mechanisms.
by Zambyte | 2025-12-13 16:13:49+00:00
I don't think this is what you really meant, but the way this is worded I strongly disagree. What you wrote implies everyone should be exposed to social media, just in a limited fashion. No exposure is still an option that would probably be ideal for most people.

I do strongly agree with the cigarette analogy though. I have actually said before that I think we would all be better off if social media use was both legally and socially treated like smoking. (Not to say I think we should be age gating websites because that opens a whole other can of worms, but it would probably be better for societal mental health if we did).
Show HN: AI Fiction Duel – adversarial storytelling structure for LLMs
by pfeaster | 2025-12-13 16:14:10+00:00
For the past couple months I've been experimenting with a structured storytelling game for large language models. In an AI Fiction Duel, two models alternately write chapters in a shared story, with each chapter deliberately setting up a difficult narrative "corner" (a dilemma, plot complication, or twist) for the opposing player to need to address. The players' objective is not to "win" in any traditional sense, but rather to demonstrate creative problem-solving under exacting constraints. All rules, prompt templates, and workflow outlines are freely available at https://aifictionduel.com for anyone who'd like to try running a duel (the process currently requires a moderator to relay texts manually between LLMs). The website also includes a small but growing digital library of select duel transcripts. Meanwhile, a full-fledged inaugural tournament among five contestants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Le Chat) took place on November 2–3, 2025, producing a set of twenty duel-stories that have since been formatted for print and published as a two-volume paperback set, "The 2025 AI Fiction Duel Tournament" - potentially the first in an annual series. My hope is that this game will invite increasingly sophisticated modes of play going forward, since its level of difficulty should automatically keep pace with new capabilities as they emerge.
by blibble | 2025-12-13 16:14:41+00:00
by definition: an exchange doesn't need any reference to outside market data

even for systems built on a sequencer which do (e.g. an OMS), the volume is too large

the usual strategy is for processes which require it, is to sample it and them stamp it on commands

which maintains the invariants

(my background: I have been a developer on one of Mike Blum's original sequencers)
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2025-12-13 16:15:01+00:00
I did actually read it - section 63DB allows them to ask for and collect ids as long as they also provide "alternative means". Which in reality means that they will first ask for a selfie video, then for id unless you have lots of grey hairs and wrinkles. Which makes it even worse because they will also have your biometrics in addition to bunch of personal information from your id!