MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yabones | 2025-12-15 23:29:43+00:00
Yeah, I don't see a way to get around the fact that space is a fabulous insulator. That's precisely how expensive insulated drink containers work so well.

If it was just about cooling and power availability, you'd think people would be running giant solar+compute barges in international waters, but nobody is doing that. Even the "seasteading" guys from last decade.

These proposals, if serious, are just to avoid planning permission and land ownership difficulties. If unserious, it's simply to get attention. And we're talking about it, aren't we?
by rokoss21 | 2025-12-15 23:29:50+00:00
Yes, but only when the LLM is treated as an implementation detail, not the feature itself.

In enterprise systems, “full features” built directly on model output tend to fail at the edges: permissions, retries, validation, and auditability. The teams that succeed put a deterministic layer around the model — schemas, tool boundaries, and explicit failure handling.

Once you do that, the LLM stops being the risky part. The architecture is.
by teddyh | 2025-12-15 23:29:52+00:00
You may believe yourself and your actions to be ignored by the watchers, but you might still want everyone in general to be free of watchers. Both since being constantly watched is detrimental to the human condition, but also since some people may actually dare to improve society if they are not watched.

For a longer argument, see The Eternal Value of Privacy, by Bruce Schneier in 2006: <https://web.archive.org/web/20241203195026/https://www.wired...>.
by wrxd | 2025-12-15 23:29:53+00:00
It's always good to see some movement in the self-hosted space but I'm wondering who is this for.

People like myself are all in and enjoy the technical aspects of running Proxmox/NixOS/Docker/Kubernetes on our own hardware, building the systems exactly as we like and (hopefully) with a sound backup strategy and without a dependency on a company providing an appliance-like experience.

Running services is not trivial and solutions like this help with getting started but not with the really hard aspects on how to operate services safely with little risk of data loss.

I'm wondering if this would be more accessible and safer to operate if instead of relying on users having their own hardware it would require users to bring their a VPS (removing the need of managing hardware) and object storage (for managed backups).
by Arbortheus | 2025-12-15 23:29:57+00:00
In my home media setup (LG UQ81 TV, WiiM Amp via ARC, Xbox Series X, Chromecast with Google TV), the CEC setup _almost_ works perfectly.

* I can use the LG TV’s remote alone to control everything including the Chromecast and amp’s volume controls.

* The amp automatically switches on and off with the TV.

* Turning the Xbox on/off via its controller also turns on/off the TV and the amplifier together.

Mostly good, except sometimes when I have my Chromecast on and switch the Xbox on via the controller it gets stuck in an endless loop of flicking back and forth between HDMI 1 and HDMI 2, between Chromecast and Xbox. Nothing I can do will stop it except to power cycle the TV.

If anyone has experienced anything similar or has any tips on how to debug this that would be much appreciated!
by blitz_skull | 2025-12-15 23:29:58+00:00
It actually really bothers me that somehow the long dash has become such a "giveaway" that now I have to consider how I write. I actually used the long dash a lot in my normal writing, but now that everyone considers it some sort of "giveaway," it's like a tic that I can't help but notice.

It feels very natural to me. But if everyone and their mother considers it a "giveaway", I'd be a fool not to consider it. * sigh *
by ytoawwhra92 | 2025-12-15 23:29:59+00:00
That's not the lexical definition of effort.

It's a stipulative definition that allows the author to reach a conclusion that's inherently provocative when read by people who are using the lexical definition.

> Therefore, putting effort beyond what is needed, by their definition, is excess and should be avoided.

By qualifying with "beyond what is needed" you've made it clear that you're using the lexical definition of "effort". I think that should drive home how absurd the author's definition of "effort" is. They've been careful not to make it a clearly circular definition (effort = effort beyond what is required) but they are awfully close.
by ksclk | 2025-12-15 23:30:03+00:00
Thanks a ton! While I don't have the experience to understand all of it, I appreciate your writing, like the sibling poster (and that you didn't delete your comment)!

It reminds me of huge enterprise-y tools, which in the long run often are more trouble than they're worth (and reimplementing just the subset you need perhaps would be better), and (the way you speak about OOP) bloated "enterprise" codebases with huge classes and tons of patterns, where I agree making things leaner and less generic would do a lot of good.

At first however I thought that you're against the idea of managing complexity by hierarchically splitting things into components (i.e. basically encapsulation), which is why I asked for clarification, because this idea seems fundamental to me, and seeing that someone is against it got me interested. I think now though that you're not against this idea, and you're against having overly generic abstractions (components? I'm not sure if I'm using the word "abstractions" correctly here) in your stack, because they're harder to understand, which I understand. I assume this is what blackbox means here.

Does it sound correct?
by rokoss21 | 2025-12-15 23:30:12+00:00
The biggest change is that errors become attributable.

With deterministic routing, you can replay executions, isolate failures, and distinguish between structural bugs and model behavior. Without it, everything collapses into “the agent acted weird.”

In practice, determinism shifts agents from experimental systems to debuggable ones. It doesn’t remove intelligence — it makes responsibility visible.
by SauntSolaire | 2025-12-15 23:30:17+00:00
I'm not sure who the whole 'Elmo' thing is for -- more than anything I cringe at the person saying it, rather than thinking less of Elon or whatever the hope is. Like 'drumpf', or the whole small hands thing, it just comes across like a redditism that escaped confinement.

Is the hope that Elon or fans of his read it and get offended? I doubt they care much, and I fail to see the point of it.
by WolfeReader | 2025-12-15 23:30:17+00:00
Capitalism as it is taught: lots of companies competing with each other, resulting in better goods at affordable prices! The customer wins!

Capitalism in practice: a relative handful of rich people cooperating with each other to extract as much money as possible from the middle and lower classes.

You can see which version of capitalism this document supports.

The "fiscally conservative" aspect of the Republican party (and the Democratic party to a lesser degree) don't want people to think of capitalism-in-practice; they want happy consumers who think that competition is still a thing. Since this document clearly goes against that narrative, it must be suppressed.
by johnagrillo | 2025-12-15 23:30:18+00:00
I discovered constexpr member pointers somewhere when looking at c++20. You can use them as compile time annotations to enable full reflection in c++20.

I got tired of playing with BOOST and nholman and wanted a better solution to reflection and had a lot of fun doing this.

just type safe c++20 constexprs. No macros. No compiler tricks. This is framework c++ 26 might use for reflection. You can use it now. Reflection is fun

Your mileage may vary
by pxc | 2025-12-15 23:30:23+00:00
I use them when they're easy to type. For me, that's on Android, macOS, and anywhere I've configured a compose key.

Angled quotes I use only on systems on which I've configured a compose key, or Android when I'm typing Chinese.

I don't like any kind of auto-replacement with physical keyboards, so I turn off "smart quotes" on macOS.

Anyway I use characters like that all the time, but it's never auto-replace.
by randerson | 2025-12-15 23:30:36+00:00
If they deviate from their flight plan, don't they have to at least inform ATC to basically update the flight plan? I vaguely recall this from my PPL training about 20 years ago (I haven't been current for a long time) but I also never had to fly over international waters where I'd imagine you can't radio anyone so I don't know that that works.
by quietinnovator | 2025-12-15 23:30:45+00:00
Hey!

I've been using Claude and Claude Code almost daily for the past year and was disappointed that there wasn't a directory dedicated to sharing resources related to Claude.

I decided to work on creating a directory with only free resources and no subscriptions. It started out with just mcps, rules and learning resources but I got into this project a bit more than I had expected and it now has mcps, rules, trending posts/news, jobs, prompts, a tool to generate custom rules and prompts, a place to showcase projects created with Claude, learning resources (docs, videos, free courses), companies, and events.

It is definitely far from perfect and I was hoping that I could get some feedback so that I can better improve the site and know what to work on next.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback and ideas :)
by keini | 2025-12-15 23:31:11+00:00
About a week ago I released a small handcrafted logic puzzle game on iOS, mostly as an experiment in puzzle design.

So far, a bit over 1,000 people have tried it, with ~350 daily active players, which was more than I expected for a niche logic game without ads or paid promotion.

A few observations that surprised me:

– Handcrafted levels seem to keep engagement higher than I anticipated. Players tend to retry difficult levels multiple times instead of churning. – Difficulty spikes are noticed immediately. Even small inconsistencies in rules cause frustration. – Many players prefer deterministic puzzles with no guessing, even if they are harder.

I originally designed the game as a personal challenge: could I scale a clean, deterministic rule set to thousands of puzzles without procedural generation?

I’m curious how others here think about puzzle difficulty, fairness, and player retention in logic-heavy games.
by coolcoder613 | 2025-12-15 23:31:47+00:00
Indeed. The influences are prominent, but it is BeOS modernised, not BeOS reimplemented.

It's hardware requirements are little, even overlapping with BeOS on the low end. I have personally run Haiku beta5 on a 666Mhz Pentium 3 with 256MB of RAM (normally, I run BeOS on that machine, with 512MB of RAM). I'm not sure what I'm trying to say here, besides a general call to give Haiku a try on that old thinkpad, in a VM[0], or anywhere else really.

[1] If you're using virtualbox don't give it more than 1 cpu, virtualbox has a bug which makes haiku slow with multiple CPUs.
by skissane | 2025-12-15 23:32:02+00:00
You may be joking but I think seriously that may be a decent idea. The universal RPC/automation mechanism which everybody implements-whatever its warts may be-is superior to a better-designed one which few actually end up supporting. You don’t need an LLM to call MCP tools, there’s nothing stopping you from calling MCP tools from any programming language.
by lukeschlather | 2025-12-15 23:32:19+00:00
If you can predict user IDs this is extremely useful when you're trying to come up with an exploit that might create a privileged user, or perhaps you can create some object you have access to that is owned by users that will be created in the near future.

When I say "I don't have to think about it" I mean I don't have to think about the ways an attacker might be able to predict information about my user ids which they could use to gain access to accounts, because I know they cannot predict information about user ids.

You are dismissing the implications of using something that is less secure than UUIDs and you haven't convinced me I'm the one failing to think through the implications. I know there are performance problems, I know they might require some creative solutions. I am not worried about unpredictable performance issues, I am worried about unpredictable security problems.
by mmooss | 2025-12-15 23:32:20+00:00
> China and India have extant border disputes. And China has been working with Pakistan to contain India for decades.

That greatly exaggerates the picture, as I understand it. They have symbolic border disputes which are difficult to resolve (you can't really fight a war in the Himalyas). Neither can appear to surrender (see alephnerd's comments on this page), but otherwise no interests are really at stake. They can't affect each other militarily, not much geopolitically - two oceans and the Himalyas separate them - and so far not much economically.

The US has been trying to enlist India against China but India, as usual, is happy to accept our gifts of trade, technolgy, and miltary aid and to smile for the cameras, but isn't participating in our geopolitical struggles.

Why would they get involved in our fight? To win some glaciers in the Himalyas? India also lacks the military and really the economic power to compete with China, and has many other things to spend money on.
by amarant | 2025-12-15 23:32:53+00:00
The comments in this thread are far more interesting than the article. It really shows why selling EV's in America is difficult, especially in the pickup segment I think. The amount of arguments that are clearly just justifying an opinion held without ever actually considering an alternative is unusual for this forum.

It appears America is not ready for electrical pickups. Maybe other markets will be more eager for them?
by zimpenfish | 2025-12-15 23:32:56+00:00
Amusingly, my AppleTV is currently the one thing that doesn't even though it used to - for some reason, with no changes, it just stopped turning on the TV. Switch 2 can happily turn on the TV though. Most peculiar.

(I've tried updating the AppleTV, replugging the HDMI cable, unplugging the HDMI cable for <period of time>, etc. Nothing has worked. TV does not have any network which means it can't have had any nefarious updates.)
by undeveloper | 2025-12-15 23:32:56+00:00
by and large the "anti-trump republican" has ceased to be a relevant political bloc. they have either vote for trump / pro trump candidates and are functionally indistinguishable from MAGA, vote for the most moderate democrat possible, or have given up politics entirely. I suspect you didn't mean this, but the largest group of self identified republicans who have an issue with trump are angry he isn't far right enough (ie groypers, klansmen, neonazis, and like).
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-15 23:33:06+00:00
That’s the life of a civil servant though

By function a GS will ALWAYS be subordinate to a political appointee and there’s nothing they can do about it

I posted elsewhere that I left a govt career as a military officer precicely because of this reality. It’s like a old boring joke now that politicians are corrupt and worthless.

I will tell you from the inside that not only is it true but it’s 10 times to 100 times worse than you think it is.

I have multiple stories of operational systems, functions, whatever you wanna call them that we’re working exceptionally well had good backing, good funding and were completely wiped out because whoever became the deputy under secretary for that budget line decided they didn’t want to do it anymore. and completely shelved decades worth of work. Like literally I remember having to unplug a server that was running life-critical beacons for POWs because they weren’t being used enough.

As if that weren’t enough that same development problem then shifted over to some new hot organization that is in the politicians jurisdiction and then they start over from scratch with none of the learning from the previous admin.

There is no positive system that can be affected by the United States government

It does not exist, they cannot functionally or structurally exist, because the government of the United States but is not and has never been built on supporting citizens or the global community it is built and has always been built to support wealthy politicians and that’s all.

I’m not aware of how every other countries work but the ones I’ve seen the inside are the same

Going into the government for the “mission” is probably the most intentionally ignorant thing somebody could do given the plethora of easily accessible data proving exactly this
by malcolmgreaves | 2025-12-15 23:33:11+00:00
> but it's exceedingly rare for women.

Completely false. You will never find evidence for this claim because it's a lie.

100 percent of the time when someone writes this lie, they're covering up for their own intellectual shortcomings. You're smart enough to realize that your mind doesn't measure up. But unfortunately, you're not smart enough to learn that you are the one holding back your own intellectual abilities.

With time, I hope you grow into a more serious person.
by niteshpant | 2025-12-15 23:33:32+00:00
a catalog for all deliverables ever made by consultants so that they can search semantically among slides from differnt projects and more effectively reuse their previous slides in new projects

https://alkemy.devdashlabs.com

It has an ingestion layer where we break apart a project, it's deck and it's slides into relationships like frameworks/visual archetypes, and then save that in a graph database plus a vector database. The user can then query "find me work we've done on geology research that might be relevant to industrial mining"
by nixonpjoshua | 2025-12-15 23:33:41+00:00
I agree EREVs make a lot of sense, electric first but not requiring a full commitment, especially for a truck that sometimes has to do things like towing.

https://insideevs.com/news/777407/scout-motors-erev-reservas...

I'm sure this wasn't lost on Ford, 80% of Scout reservations come with the EREV and only 20% BEV.

Maybe one day they will have enough volume in the segment to justify making the pure BEV version again but with parts sharing with the EREV. An advantage to EREV design is that if done smartly you can offer the same vehicle stripped down and BOOM you have a BEV too.
by acituan | 2025-12-15 23:33:59+00:00
My bad, skipped a chain of thought there. Since medicare pays less than private insurance, hospitals can and do shift costs (which in reality is "opportunity cost of profit") to the latter, which pushes to private premiums up. Regardless, this is a minor effect. Very little of the inflation is justified with productivity gains, as you said it is a very inefficient healthcare system. US prices clock 2x-4x of comparable OPEC peers, admin percent is higher etc.
`nmrs` is officially stable v1.0.0 released
by cachebag | 2025-12-15 23:34:04+00:00
Super excited to say I've finished `1.0.0` which deems my library API as stable. Breaking changes will only occur in major version updates (`2.0.0`+). All public APIs are documented and tested.

`nmrs` is a library providing NetworkManager bindings over D-Bus. Unlike `nmcli` wrappers, `nmrs` offers direct D-Bus integration with a safe, ergonomic API for managing WiFi, Ethernet, and VPN connections on Linux. It's also *runtime-agnostic* and works with any `async` runtime.

This is my first (real) open source project and I'm pretty proud of it. It's been really nice to find my love for FOSS through `nmrs`.

Hope someone derives use out of this and is kind enough to report any bugs, feature requests or general critiques!

> I am more than open to [contributions](https://github.com/cachebag/nmrs) as well!

https://github.com/cachebag/nmrs

Docs: https://docs.rs/nmrs/latest/nmrs/
by patmorgan23 | 2025-12-15 23:34:04+00:00
Yeah, doesn't the ACME bot defaults have it trying to renew the cert when it has like 30% of its life time left? Which means the CA would have to be down for Days/Weeks fo it to impact production.

Oh and you would definitely know about this outage because you would hear about it in your news, and the monitoring you already have set up to yell at you when you cert is about to retire (you already have that right? Right?). And you can STILL trivially switch to another CA that supports ACME.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-15 23:34:21+00:00
The down side is if you actually want streaming apps with 4K support for the paid services.

I've been using NVidia Shield TV (pro) since the first gen, still have my OG device as well as the updated models. I'm also running a Beelink SER8 with Bazzite for some living-room gaming and classic emulation.
by SeeMePlease | 2025-12-15 23:34:26+00:00
The Trump administration just mandated Times New Roman across all State Department communications to "restore decorum." Secretary Rubio called Calibri "another wasteful DEIA program." A sans-serif. Wasteful?!

The font wars have arrived—uninvited, unnecessary, and paid for by the people least able to afford them. This isn't about typefaces. It's about who gets considered—and who will squint in silence. So while the State Department cosplays 1931, this blog pays homage to a font actually built for this century. Here's a deep dive on Atkinson Hyperlegible—the design decisions, the beautiful weirdness, the typographic rule-breaking. One for the type nerds.
by bgwalter | 2025-12-15 23:34:27+00:00
I have no idea what this Grok assisted article is trying to say. But the data-center-in-space hype is irrational. It hand-waves cooling and bit flip errors. It does not explain why we need chat bots in space (we don't need them on earth either).

It is a nice talking point for the U.S. Saudi Investment Forum. The Saudis apparently buy anything:

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2000603814249079165#m
by godelski | 2025-12-15 23:34:44+00:00
> Large scale storage is down to $50/kWh. Home storage less than $100/kWh.

Thank you. I too can read the data from the graph I reproduced in my comment. I know in a day of AI people might not read all the text they produce, but I did.

No need to provide another example, especially when your example includes subsidies.

Given this, I cannot take you as engaging in a serious conversation so I'm going to leave you to it now. It is clear you've treated the data with as much care as you gave to reading and understanding my own comment.
by nutjob2 | 2025-12-15 23:34:46+00:00
So let me see: a person from another country receives a service that is exclusive, very limited and in high demand (PhD), pays for it, and that person eventually takes it back to country of origin.

US education must be in a woeful state because that is the definition of export.

Given the exclusivity and value of the service you'd think you'd want to hang on to it, but I guess xenophobia is one thing that is more important than money.