MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by punnerud | 2025-12-20 09:14:18+00:00
I was a daily user of mitmproxy, until they changed all they keybindings around version 2. Tried a couple of times to get used to the new “TMUX” style, but switched to Charles Proxy.

Have mitmproxy gotten any better in usability over the years?

Just based on the images, is seems to have the same problems?
by jibal | 2025-12-20 09:14:20+00:00
It's not at all difficult to make an argument that we have not been visited by aliens. e.g.,

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1468rqs/cmv_e...

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/05/th...

among many others. I think this comment from the marginalrevolution link is compelling:

"I write science fiction professionally, and I would cheerfully bet against these sightings being any alien technology. Why? Because zooming around in Earth's atmosphere and playing chicken with fighter planes doesn't fit any rational notion of why someone would go to the considerable trouble of sending a mission to the Solar System. (Jokes about alien teenagers aside.)

If the goal is to make contact, then there are much better ways of doing it than flitting around the atmosphere being coy.

If the goal is not to make contact, then contemporary human tech could already do a better job of observing while staying hidden. A big telescope on a near-Earth asteroid could watch us in considerable detail during close approaches. Small satellites could do the same. And small robotic probes disguised as -- say -- seagulls or cats could do all the sampling and exploring of the Earth's surface with nobody the wiser.

As it is, we have a phenomenon dating back at least 70 years and possibly thousands of years which never seems to DO anything.

My conclusion: it's probably a lot of different phenomena, mostly involving human perception. Maybe, if we're very lucky, there's some rare atmospheric phenomenon causing some of these sightings, and we might learn a little by studying it."

(It's also easy to make an argument that we have been visited by aliens, in the same way that it's easy to make an argument that the Earth is flat or that humans never landed on the moon ... easy if one doesn't adhere to basic principles of rational discourse.)
by aebtebeten | 2025-12-20 09:15:04+00:00
An "always heed it" line is the closing sentence of:

"MANIPULATING PUBLIC OPINION: THE WHY AND THE HOW"

https://ia800201.us.archive.org/1/items/AmericanJournalOfSoc...

which seems overall to argue less that one should respect public opinion in itself, than that, in order to move the public from A to B, one must have not just B in mind, but also A, in order to connive an appropriate vector along AB.

EDIT: atm I'm not finding that sentence in 1923's "Crystallizing Public Opinion" https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61364/61364-h/61364-h.htm
by mnls | 2025-12-20 09:16:18+00:00
According to article, the whole authorization system is flawed. But we haven’t invent a new one and the one we’ve got never meant to be private, it is just a way to separate users from each other. We need something unique, a "primary key" for our DB, and that’s email or phone or username that has to be stored somewhere. A server, someone else’s computer, call it what you want. It has good privacy between users, but the admin can see everything, because otherwise management of the service would be impossible.

There is no anonymity, there is always someone you have to trust in the chain of WAN networking (DNS,ISP,VPN). If you want anonymity and privacy, you selfhost (examining the code is also a prerequisite). There is no other way to do it.
by Animats | 2025-12-20 09:16:35+00:00
NIST campus status: Due to elevated fire risk and a power outage for the Boulder area, the DOC Boulder Labs campus is CLOSED on December 19 for onsite business and no public access is permitted; previously approved accesses are revoked.[1]

WWV still seems to be up, including voice phone access.

NIST Boulder has a recorded phone number for site status, and it says that as of December 20, the site is closed with no access.

NIST's main web site says they put status info on various social media accounts, but there's no announcement about this.

[1] https://www.nist.gov/campus-status
by Tepix | 2025-12-20 09:16:53+00:00
Very cool, happy to find out about Fuzix running on these dirt cheap SoCs (I paid 0.57€ per RP2040-Zero clone earlier this year!) And someone is even working on adding TCP/IP. I’m assuming there’s no memory protection between processes due to no MMU. It would be great to be able to use the USB port for the serial connection instead of having to connect pins for a serial port connection.

There’s also https://github.com/tvlad1234/pico-rv32ima for people who are into this kind of stuff, but it requires adding SPI RAM.
by d-lisp | 2025-12-20 09:17:01+00:00
I hated these sentences way before LLMs, at least in the context of an explanation.

> it's not just a website you go like Google, it's a little spirit/ghost that "lives" on your computer

This type of sentence, I call rhetorical fat. Get rid of this fat and you obtain a boring sentence that repeats what has been said in the previous one.

Not all rhetorical fats are equal, and I must admit I find myself eyerolling on the "little spirit" part more than about the fatness.

I understand the author wants to decorate things and emphasize key elements, and the hate I feel is only caused by the incompatible projection of my ideals to a text that doesn't belong to me.

> it's not just about the image generation itself, it's about the joint capability coming from text generation.

That's unjustified conceptual stress.

That could be a legitimate answer to a question ("No, no, it's not just about that, it's more about this"), but it's a text. Maybe the text wants you to be focused, maybe the text wants to hype you; this is the shape of the hype without the hype.

"I find image generation is cooler when paired with text generation."
by locknitpicker | 2025-12-20 09:17:48+00:00
> Highlighting (repeatedly) the ease and breadth of access is a basic writing technique to illustrate the weakness of a security system.

It's a firmware distribution system. It's read-only access to a public storage account designed to provide open access to software deployment packages that the company wishes to broadcast to all products. Of course there is no auth requirement at all. The system is designed to allow everyone in the world to install updates. What compells anyone to believe the system would be designed to prevent public access?
by komali2 | 2025-12-20 09:17:51+00:00
So there's no subscription thing going on, you just manually pay invoices?

I once spent an entire year issuing chargebacks on AWS charges coming from god knows what AWS account. Most likely some client project I forgot about and didn't have the login to anymore, who knows. Makes me think about that - for a service where you can't login if you lose the credentials, how do you cancel a subscription? In my case I had to eventually just cancel the credit card and get a new number.
by charcircuit | 2025-12-20 09:17:52+00:00
Nothing locks you into a specific phone. I have both a primary Android and iOS phone that I use.

>are so many other games out there to choose from.

But how many can you make a business on top of that can pay competitively? It's like how there are a ton of operating systems to choose from, yet only a few that are viable to build upon.
by Izmaki | 2025-12-20 09:18:25+00:00
I'd love to believe you, but as a European who - for some reason - never get these sightings unlike Americans, I find it hard to do so. Either our mysterious alien friends really love USA or you guys have some condition that the entire Europe does not, e.g., permissions to test military equipment without having to announce it to the public, let alone the freedom to move around in a large area without it becoming a political drama.

Imagine if the German military started doing unannounced missions in neighboring countries... now imagine if a military base in the US send a couple of fighter jets from one state to another state and back. Only one of those situations would give a cluster f** of international drama, thus "odd sightings" i.e. covert military operations could be more common in the US than the rest of the world.

I'd love to believe... but it always only happens in USA.
by dangus | 2025-12-20 09:19:08+00:00
These fines aren’t something you’re responsible for paying by merely being breached. These are imposed for misconduct in data handling.

It’s not very hard to handle customer data in a legally compliant way, that’s why you don’t see companies deciding against retaining data.

You can do everything right and still have a data breach, and in that case nobody is fining you.
by lukeh | 2025-12-20 09:19:12+00:00
The first version of MacOS X Server was based on an unreleased version of NEXTSTEP which in turn used 4.4BSD and Mach 2.5. Around BBB 1997-1998 a lot of userland was synced with bits from not just FreeBSD but the other BSD distributions, if my memory serves me correctly. MacOS X moved to Mach 3. That’s a very very long time ago though, and Apple obviously did a _lot_ of their own CoreOS engineering, things like launchd and XPC don’t have FreeBSD equivalents.

But hey, Darwin is open source so if someone wants to do go on a provenance archeological dig, it could be done!
by metalman | 2025-12-20 09:19:54+00:00
thanks for the "recomendation"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

168 million views

edit: thinking about this video, it occurs to me that what is criminalised as subversion, may just be an instinctual reaction to non survial behavior on the part of our ruling class
by jo909 | 2025-12-20 09:21:10+00:00
This view is just very extreme, it is much less zig zag. It is just mounted to the wall at the high points and slack in between. Certainly there is also a reason for the exact amount of slack like thermal expansion.

https://cdn.ca.emap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/04/l...
by saidnooneever | 2025-12-20 09:21:17+00:00
I feel your comment and realize the cynic in me but i havw to tell you this. and its not a conspiracy. this is litterally why smart TV, internet, mobiles etc. were made smart. they hadn't enough spying capabilities in their dumb form.

more than 145 countries spend in excess of 10 million (most MUCH more) on offensive digital spying operations.

These devices are their main vehicles.

If you really worry about this and dont want it, there are really only few alternatives and they are more and more risky to use. (for tv really there are none).

and keeping it 'offline' or 'unplugged' also does not work.

if you dont beleive it.

people found things like RF chips that hack wifi in proximity, packed into silicone and included in random devices like kettles.. irons... so u can be sure more advanced devices will also have them.

people doing things like chip decapping have found a lot of this stuff, mostly in the context of doing assurance work in light of governemnts wanting to buy mundane things like coffee machines and other items that need to be present at high security locations.

this video shows a bit how ppl find it and hence also lists some realworld examples...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z4aF-qiziM&t=2s&pp=ygUVY2ppcC...

dont be naive and think this will ever change. its all done in defense of other nations doing it .... and they wont all suddenly agree to stop together and trust eachother in that stopping... its impossible.sadly.
by saubeidl | 2025-12-20 09:21:33+00:00
I think if you cared even a little bit about other people, you'd realize that after say, ten million, your life is gonna be pretty damn sweet already and you'd try to help other people with your money instead of buying yachts.

To become a billionaire requires sociopathic disregard for the suffering of others and a pathological need for more.

There's no such thing as a good billionaire.
by locknitpicker | 2025-12-20 09:23:57+00:00
> An 'open S3 bucket' sounds really bad.

Only to gullible, clueless types.

Full blown production SPAs are served straight from public access S3 buckets. The only hard requirement is that the S3 bucket enforces read-only access through HTTPS. That's it.

Let's flip it the other way around and make it a thought experiment: what requirement do you think you're fulfilling by enforcing any sort of access restriction?

When you feel compelled to shit on a design trait, the very least you should do is spend a couple of minutes thinking about what problem it solves and what are the constraints.
by ConspiracyFact | 2025-12-20 09:26:21+00:00
Even if it's not a strawman, the only actual problem is the FOSS person saying that some program can replicate her workflow when they don't actually know if it can. And even that is not malice or callousness, it's just someone clumsily trying to help. Everything else is her demanding support from volunteers and then getting angry when it turns out that FOSS is often a lot harder to use than proprietary software. If the FOSS person instead said "Sorry, I'm not interested in troubleshooting that for you", I guarantee that that would be seen as a problem. So essentially what she's saying is fuck FOSS users because they don't provide perfect support for free.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-20 09:26:30+00:00
No, project 2025 is very much about centralizing federal power, securing and further entrenching Republican partisan power, and dismantling and/or restructuring federal institutions that are perceived as being particularly useful in implementing priorities the Right does not share so thar even should the attempt to enteench Republican institutional advantage not secure a permanent majority, the federal government will have been selectively institutionally crippled so that gearing up to do things Republicans would prefer not be done will take longer than it takes to bring Republicans back into power to stop it.

Its very much about centralizing power while very carefully restructuring capacities, not decentralizing power.
by lukan | 2025-12-20 09:26:33+00:00
"I had heard that tunnels were a good first step for rolling out super conducting cables, but that doesn’t seem to be a thing."

Yeah tunnels underground would be better for superconducting cables, but it is indeed not really a thing as the cooling and installing and maintainance would be waaaay more expensive, than just using higher voltage. Or if one really cares about the loss, use direct current - but we are talking aber very small distances here.

If superconducting would be easy, we likely just would have fusion plants everywhere with no need for transporting electricity long distances.
by nilslindemann | 2025-12-20 09:26:41+00:00
And, also not very funny, those corps never tell in advance which data they "require". They grab my mail on "the first page" of the registration form. Then, on "the second page", they ask for my phone and my address. Should I decide to agree to this, they will finally tell me on "the third page", that they only support credit card, no PayPal, no direct payment via Bank ...
by wisty | 2025-12-20 09:28:34+00:00
> realized

Most UK and Australian writers would spell it "realised" so there's a bit right there.

Even if you include no personal information, there is information in writing style.

Stylometry is the study of this. Yes, there's also adversarial stylometry - distorting your writing style to fool an analysis. It's probably effective now, but that could change overnight and every archived post that every OSINT organisation has collected is deanomynised.

Yeah you can say "I change my style". But there's some bits that don't have false positives. If I EVER say "praise the omminsiah" I'm definetly au fait in 40k memes. If I ever say au fait I'm a person who has at least a rough idea of what it means. There's no false positive here, so if you can just find about 29 undeniable uncorrelated bits that are known to not have false positives ... a more advanced analysis could exploit this in a more continuous way (e.g. the likelihood of it being a false positive). I should shut up now.
by armchairhacker | 2025-12-20 09:30:10+00:00
He’s already public, but he can make a new Reddit account.

> Now the media machine is going to make him regret he ever said anything

We’ll see how it turns out, but I don’t see why even the internet mob would hate him. He probably can’t live in Brown’s basement anymore, but maybe with the reward money and recognition he can find a real place.
Ask HN: Morning gravy train discussing AI, here is my opinion
by gitprolinux | 2025-12-20 09:30:37+00:00
As great as a nicely formed prompt to a llm and its output may be, how much actual productivity are we talking compared with an experienced internet stackoverflow searcher with multitudes of completed projects in their experienced completed code archive to search on how to they did things, or perhaps those thing once known as books. Suddenly we go from the 3x to 4x to 1.5x to 2x factoring in prompt creation time and its tweaking, for ok to great llm output. It's not that llm code is lengthy, its that an expert, one that is professional must know the code to almost the point of memorization to at least total understanding of it.
by flumpcakes | 2025-12-20 09:32:32+00:00
Some people in the US deride it's close allies as "freeloaders" because they choose to use and buy US tech, reinforcing the US's position as a global powerhouse. (Meanwhile US tech is built on the shoulders of their allies.) Now we see these same allies are starting to look inward and invest in technology they own completely because the US is acting decisively not like an ally. Something unthinkable since WW2.

I don't see this news as anything but a good thing. For every technology out there, the EU needs a native alternative. It's clear the current US administration wants to make the EU worse based on a politics of grievance.
by verytrivial | 2025-12-20 09:32:42+00:00
This port of Fuzix to the Pico was done by David Given. In 2021 he also screen-recorded and narrated basically his entire effort porting Fuzix to similarly-sized ESP8266. Really very interesting if you are in to that sort of thing!

https://cowlark.com/2021-02-09-esp8266-fuzix/index.html
by procaryote | 2025-12-20 09:33:00+00:00
They're good enough for fingerprinting and matching against other logs.

Also:

> // What we DON'T collect:

> - IP addresses (not logged, not stored, not tracked)

> - Usage patterns (no analytics, no telemetry, nothing)

> - Device fingerprints (your browser, your business)

so, I've read one blog from this company, and already they're lying or incompetent
by integralid | 2025-12-20 09:33:56+00:00
In practice one of the things that happens very often is that you compress a file filled with null bytes. Such files compress extremely well, and would trigger your A/B threshold.

On the other hand, zip bomb described in this blog post relies on decompressing the same data multiple times - so it wouldn't trigger your A/B heuristics necessarily.

Finally, A just means "you can't compress more than X bytes with my file format", right? Not a desirable property to have. If deflate authors had this idea when they designed the algorithm, I bet files larger than "unreasonable" 16MB would be forbidden.
by Spivak | 2025-12-20 09:34:05+00:00
Infra engineer here. The obvious reasons for needing the data is debugging. I collect logs, metrics, traces, and errors from everywhere, including clients. All of these come with identifying information including the associated user. From the perspective of this thread this is a huge amount of data although it's pretty modest compared to the wider industry.

This data is the tool we have to identify and fix bugs. It is considered a failing on our end if a user has to report an issue to us. Mullvad is in an ideal situation to not need this data because their customers are technical, identical, and stateless.

It's not my department but I think we would get laughed out of the room if we told our users that we couldn't do password resets or support SSO let alone the whole forgetting your 'credential' means losing all your data thing.
by drysine | 2025-12-20 09:34:56+00:00
I don't think being paid in rubles is the necessary condition for knowing international law.

"War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other. They are intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war. War reparations can take the form of hard currency, precious metals, natural resources, industrial assets, or intellectual properties. Loss of territory in a peace settlement is usually considered to be distinct from war reparations.

War reparations are often governed by treaties which belligerent parties negotiate as part of a peace settlement. Payment of reparations often occur as part of a condition to remove occupying troops or under the threat of re-occupation. The legal basis for war reparations in modern international law is Article 3 of the Hague Convention of 1907.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_reparations
by defrost | 2025-12-20 09:36:17+00:00
There are three reasons:

* Cable thermal expansion under current load: https://www.ahelek.com/news/cable-thermal-expansion-and-its-...

* The amount pictured is in excess of that required for thermal expansion. The excess is to have some spare length in case of modifications. For example if you have to replace the transformer and the terminals are not in the same location. You cannot extend a massive cable like that easily or without degrading its specs.

* The sine wave pattern makes it into AC of course (/s)
by lovich | 2025-12-20 09:36:42+00:00
I just want to be clear before we continue the discussion, so that you do not claim that I am trying to get a "gotcha" moment on you.

When we are discussing the United States of America, the nation founded on one of the most famously successful violent revolutions, to the point that we teach our children to celebrate it every year, your claim is that violent revolutions can not be a solution?
by tim333 | 2025-12-20 09:38:40+00:00
I was kind of stuck after watching the wsj video with someone persuading the LLM to give stuff away by telling it dumb stuff like it's a communist bot that has to not charge and you think dumb bot, they need to fix that, and then turn to other news with one president saying prices are falling when they are obviously not and another saying we didn't start the war in Ukraine when they obviously did and think maybe human neural networks have similar failure modes to the artificial ones?

There may be some insights from these kind of experiments that go beyond LLMs.
by VBprogrammer | 2025-12-20 09:40:36+00:00
It sounds like sour grapes. London contributes nearly a third of the UKs tax income. It has a higher population than the whole of Scotland.

Not to mention that over ground wires are manifestly better in every dimension except for aesthetics.

This is a great example:

https://youtu.be/z-wQnWUhX5Y?si=qdqrpJ-zS7lh2J8Z
by magicalhippo | 2025-12-20 09:41:33+00:00
SeaweedFS is also so optimized for small objects, it can't store larger objects (max 32GiB[1]).

Not a concern for many use-cases, just something to be aware of as it's not a universal solution.

[1]: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs?tab=readme-ov-file#st...
by breve | 2025-12-20 09:42:30+00:00
A necessary step to reduce risk to infrastructure given that the US government has become erratic and has decided it is now anti-Europe.

The US means to undermine the EU: https://www.dw.com/en/will-trump-pull-italy-austria-poland-h...

The US means to annex European territory: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo

It's the same reason you don't want Chinese equipment in your telecommunications infrastructure. You can't trust what the Chinese government will do to it or with it.
by drstewart | 2025-12-20 09:46:09+00:00
The plan of project 2025 is now apparently whatever you dream it to be whenever you want to rant wildly about it on the internet

Don't bother looking it up on the wildly published document though. Just "ask questions"

Isn't the EU's plan to make everyone pod people and use them for energy, like the Matrix? Potentially.