MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cess11 | 2025-12-23 06:00:11+00:00
I'm not familiar with their products but it seems they had a four hour incident a few months ago:

https://status.yugabyte.cloud/history

You should not run a payment gateway on an inexperienced team. Start with something with lesser risk and then introduce the team to things like load balancers, keepalived, clustering and so on over time.

An hour of downtime is a lot once HA is something to invest in, and the first thing you need to do when there's an incident is to tell your customers what you're doing about it and the second thing they want to know is whether it will happen again. Since I don't know how Yugabyte works I'm not sure about the degree of lock-in, but preferably you should have an incident process where you at minute ten or so of downtime boot load balancing with a customer facing message at another infra provider and update DNS records, then start to rebuild the system there in parallel with the main incident response.
by Retric | 2025-12-23 06:03:24+00:00
> I mean, if you’re going to dispute my point without providing any evidence

Pure Americium-241 is extremely radioactive 0.0000045 grams of the stuff puts off useful amounts of radiation for smoke detectors, it’s half life is also 432 years.

As an alpha emitter it’s not that bad to stand next to but internally it doesn’t take much to be lethal.
by unbrella | 2025-12-23 06:03:31+00:00
I'm not sure why nobody else is seeing this, but this was a MASSIVE operations failure on Spotify. Any other company would've noticed an attacker downloading 86 million songs / 256m metadata. This is showing they cut corners. 2/3 their purpose as a streaming platform is to protect the digital content they licensed, and they failed miserably.
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-12-23 06:04:05+00:00
Readability belongs to documentation. Code should have certain technical aesthetic, it should be easy to navigate it, but why its operation should be obvious more than that of any complex mechanism? Nobody demands a mechanical watch to be readable or have meaningful names for the parts.

It is not just performance. A minimal component gives you flexibility: you may make the whole system performant or you may trade extra performance to reach a different goal, such as robustness or composability. It is a more fundamental principle, common to construction in general: a thing should do all it has to do and should not do anything more.
by fatbrowndog | 2025-12-23 06:06:08+00:00
Fundamental Physics:

Gauge symmetry is ignored
Quantum field theory is dismissed as "inefficient"
General relativity is "corrected" without understanding why it works

Methodology:

Fitting post-hoc (choosing w=2, δ=√5 because they work)
Cherry-picking successes, ignoring failures
Claiming "derivation" when actually doing curve-fitting

Epistemology:

Extraordinary claims (universe is 3D because of geometry) require extraordinary evidence
Numerology vs physics: just because √5 appears doesn't make it fundamental
Experimental tests: the mφ prediction is already falsified
by krackers | 2025-12-23 06:09:39+00:00
> extra attention head were added that queried the KV data from lower layers

Isn't this sort of similar to latent looping? E.g. [1]. But actually as [2] argues, even that wasn't a good experiment because it used the very last hidden state, which is too close to the logits and loses most of the rich embedding structure. Perhaps you don't even need access to the state of anything except the penultimate hidden layer, since based on my vague reading of [3] the residual stream doesn't "lose information" as it passes deeper down the attention layers, so each block maybe manipulates a different subspace of the residual stream.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769

[2] https://snimu.github.io/2025/03/30/multi-layer-language-head...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758093
Show HN: We built an AI Humanizer to fix unnatural AI writing
by GrammarChecker | 2025-12-23 06:11:09+00:00
Most AI-written text isn’t obviously wrong.
Grammar is fine. Facts are usually fine.
What gives it away is the tone.

We kept seeing the same patterns: sentences with identical rhythm, over-explained transitions, and a kind of “smoothness” that doesn’t match how people actually write. AI detectors try to flag these patterns, but chasing detectors felt like treating the symptom, not the cause.

So we built a small AI Humanizer that works at the sentence level. Instead of masking signals or applying prompt tricks, it rewrites text to improve flow, vary structure, and reduce repetition — aiming for writing that simply reads more naturally.

The tool doesn’t try to guarantee that text will pass any specific detector. Different detectors behave differently, and that changes all the time. Our goal was narrower: make AI-assisted writing feel intentional and human-readable again.

This started as an internal experiment while working on AI detection, and we decided to make it public to see how others approach the same problem.

Link: https://dechecker.ai/ai-humanizer

Would love feedback, especially from people who write a lot with AI or build NLP tools.
by calmbonsai | 2025-12-23 06:11:21+00:00
But it's only a good judgment call if you have the available transit + shopping time, able body, suitable climate, and a single store that has everything you need.

If any of those conditions are not satisfied then it's better economic utility to outsource that entire task and get your exercise and socialization by going to the gym. You can even walk to the gym too. You can outsource almost anything except exercise.
by freakynit | 2025-12-23 06:12:00+00:00
Oh I absolutely love this.... And the roasts are sooo on point. Here is one of mine:

"""

You have plugged your project ZenQuery so many times that I am starting to suspect it is actually a sentient recursive script you wrote to avoid paying for real marketing.

"""

Full wrapped: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/freakynit
by bthallplz | 2025-12-23 06:12:53+00:00
It isn't mentioned there, but you all might be interested in the python music libraries called SCAMP: https://scamp.marcevanstein.com

I learned about it after stumbling across the creator's short, fun videos showing it being used: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_yUKG0GRuliL65l_qEG1uwCC... ("Python Music Shorts")
by neuronexmachina | 2025-12-23 06:14:24+00:00
It's crazy that it also bans new models from Europe's Wingtra, Quantum Systems, and AgEagle, which are basically the only consumer fixed-wing drones available. Heck, those companies were even previously approved for the DOD's "Blue UAS" list: https://bluelist.appsplatformportals.us/Cleared-List/
by niteshpant | 2025-12-23 06:14:33+00:00
The useful life is less than RCC. A RCC structure is good for about 50 years, steel for 25. The 4x4 is even less, about 15 years.

No, you paint them initially when you build the structure. It's quite hard to paint afterwards.

Also, if you notice closely, the steel is welded rather than bolted. Newer buildings are bolted now-a-days, which increases their useful life.

Example: https://imgur.com/a/f4z84dx

This is the current building being built that I talk about. Notice (1) the two layers of paint, and (2) bolts being used instead of welds compared to the steel structure photos in the essay
by roamerz | 2025-12-23 06:16:36+00:00
Won’t DJI’s current offerings still be available? I bought a Phantom 4 Pro 5 years ago that I use for mapping and it still does the job. I would expect that Enterprise drones would work the same way. Sure we’re not going to get the next new better faster model so in that scenario it does give time for a domestic company to engineer an offering.
by alsetmusic | 2025-12-23 06:17:31+00:00
> they wanted people who could answer questions about the UI of Windows like "How do I enable this printer" that, having not used it for years

I moved from FAANG to general IT and this was one of the things that tripped me up for a time. Who the hell uses printers? A lot of people, it turns out.

Lowering the expectations made life a lot easier and happier. The pay is less, but I have no stress. I go home at the same time every day and never work after my end time. Worth it to me. Sorry you got jacked around.
by WalterBright | 2025-12-23 06:17:54+00:00
All life, from humans to cells to chromosomes, has only one purpose - to survive. It turns out that reproduction is an effective way to survive. Also, cooperation is an effective way to survive. The cells in our bodies cooperate for survival. Sometimes cells survive better by no longer cooperating, and reproducing as fast as possible. This winds up killing the host, but the cancer cells don't know that.

And so humans evolve to enforce better cooperation among the cells.

So, no, cancer cells did not evolve to kill you. They do evolve for short term gain, however.

It's an endless struggle.

It's not unlike the struggle between civilized people and criminals.
by gnull | 2025-12-23 06:18:07+00:00
> VHDL and Verilog are used because they are excellent languages to describe hardware.

Maybe they were in the 80. In 2025, language design has moved ahead quite a lot, you can't be saying that seriously.

Have a look at how clash-lang does it. It uses functional paradigm, which is much more suitable for circuits than pseudo-pricedural style of verilog. You can also parameterize modules by modules, not just by bitness. Take a functional programmer, hive him clash and he'll have no problems doing things in parallel.

Back when I was a systems programmer, I tried learning system verilog. Had zero conceptual difficulty, but I just couldn't justify to myself why I should spend my time on something so outdated and badly designed. Hardware designers at my company at the time were on the other hand ok with verilog because they haven't seen any programming languages other than C and Python, and had no expectations.
by w10-1 | 2025-12-23 06:20:05+00:00
Appears to be cheap and effective, though under suspicion.

But the personal and policy issues are about as daunting as the technology is promising.

Some the terms, possibly similar to many such services:

- The use of Z.ai to develop, train, or enhance any algorithms, models, or technologies that directly or indirectly compete with us is prohibited
- Any other usage that may harm the interests of us is strictly forbidden
- You must not publicly disclose [...] defects through the internet or other channels.
- [You] may not remove, modify, or obscure any deep synthesis service identifiers added to Outputs by Z.ai, regardless of the form in which such identifiers are presented
- For individual users, we reserve the right to process any User Content to improve our existing Services and/or to develop new products and services, including for our internal business operations and for the benefit of other customers.
- You hereby explicitly authorize and consent to our: [...] processing and storage of such User Content in locations outside of the jurisdiction where you access or use the Services
- You grant us and our affiliates an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual, worldwide license to access, use, host, modify, communicate, reproduce, adapt, create derivative works from, publish, perform, and distribute your User Content
- These Terms [...] shall be governed by the laws of Singapore

To state the obvious competition issues: If/since Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X.AI, et al are spending billions on data centers, research, and services, they'll need to make some revenue. Z.ai could dump services out of a strategic interest in destroying competition. This dumping is good for the consumer short-term, but if it destroys competition, bad in the long term. Still, customers need to compete with each other, and thus would be at a disadvantage if they don't take advantage of the dumping.

Once your job or company depends on it to succeed, there really isn't a question.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-23 06:20:51+00:00
But do they audit the code? I say mostly no. They grab the source, try to compile it. Develop patches to fix problems on the specific platform. Once it works, passes the tests, it's done. Package created, added to the repo.

Even OpenBSD, famous for auditing their code, doesn't audit packages. Only the base system.
by amluto | 2025-12-23 06:21:58+00:00
> Perhaps you don't even need access to the state of anything except the penultimate hidden layer, since based on my vague reading of [3] the residual stream doesn't "lose information" as it passes deeper down the attention layers, so each block maybe manipulates a different subspace of the residual stream.

I imagine that conventional transformers kind of force this. If you train a transformer such that it needs to learn the ability to do tasks like “Repeat the following words: apple banana cat” then the model is sort of forced to internally propagate the input far enough along to be able to perform the task. But maybe if you pre-trained from scratch with an architecture where later layers get direct access to earlier layers and/or the raw input, then the model wouldn’t need to propagate information.

Or maybe it would all fall apart and something would go wrong with the gradients.
by bgbntty2 | 2025-12-23 06:22:50+00:00
> Now, in the current government up to the challenge of doing this, and not fucking it up? Yeeesh, probably not. You got me there. But one can dream…

The question should be about whether any future government would be up to the challenge of not fucking it up, as the system would stay in place and only grow in size. That's why privacy-invading infrastructure like this should be kept to a minimum.
by denysvitali | 2025-12-23 06:22:52+00:00
What is missing from markdown?
mdbook also uses in some parts the GH flavored one, so you can create notes [1] and similar. On top of that, you can add support for Mermaid.

Personally, I don't think you need more than that for 90% of the documentation, but I'm happy to hear more about your use case.

[1]: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/16925
by yardstick | 2025-12-23 06:23:14+00:00
From my own experience managing large numbers of routers, and troubleshooting issues, I will never use pool.ntp.org again. I’ve seen unresponsive servers as well as incorrect time by hours or days. It’s pure luck to get a good result.

Instead I’ll stick to a major operator like Google/Microsoft/Apple, which have NTP systems designed to handle the scale of all the devices they sell, and are well maintained.
by jonway | 2025-12-23 06:26:46+00:00
I don’t agree that police isn’t attractive or rewarding, the salaries have gone up and requirements reduced (college degree requirements in places for example)

Come with a pension and active lifestyle with a club(FoP) and a union in some positions, its ostensibly public service and you get to much more than peek behind the curtain.

Personally, I feel both ways about cops writ large. I feel like we could do a lot better really easily(mandatory body cam recordings please? Our guys literally just take them off.), and on the other hand I get it, they’re doing important work often enough.
by w10-1 | 2025-12-23 06:28:29+00:00
The finding is that older diesel engines and renewables produce measurable adverse effects in microglial stem cells, but new diesel formulations in new engines do not. The implication is that policy-makers should accelerate the transition to newer diesel and abandon reusable diesel. Since Europe has been gung-ho for diesel for decades, this finding could have significant regulatory and market effects.
Show HN: Luxury Yacht, a Kubernetes management app
by johnj-hn | 2025-12-23 06:30:03+00:00
Hello, all. Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters that I've been working on for the past few months. It's available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It's built with Wails v2 (https://wails.io), so huge thanks to Lea Anthony for that awesome project. Can't wait for Wails v3.

This originally started as a personal project that I didn't intend to release. I know there are a number of other good apps in this space, but none of them work quite the way I want them to, so I decided to build one. Along the way it got good enough that I thought others might enjoy using it.

Luxury Yacht is FOSS, and I have no intention of ever charging money for it. It's been a labor of love, a great learning opportunity, and an attempt to try to give something back to the FOSS community that has given me so much.

A word of caution, in case you care about this sort of thing -- I wrote this with AI assistance. I am, first and foremost, a platform/infrastructure engineer, not a software developer. I've learned enough via tinkering and osmosis over the years to have a decent idea of how to write software, but it's not my main gig. I did my best to try to make sure the code isn't garbage, but you might look at it and disagree. I have no doubt that there's a lot of room for improvement, but it works, I think it has a pretty good feature set, and I'll keep iterating on it to make it better.

If you want to get a sense of what it can do without downloading and installing it, read the primer:
https://github.com/luxury-yacht/app/blob/main/docs/primer.md

Or, head to the Releases page to download the latest release:
https://github.com/luxury-yacht/app/releases

Oh, a quick note about the name. I wanted something that was fun and invoked the nautical theme of Kubernetes, but I didn't want yet another "K" name. A conversation with a friend led me to the name "Luxury Yacht", and I warmed up to it pretty quickly. It's goofy but I like it. Plus, it has a Monty Python connection, which makes me happy.
by delusional | 2025-12-23 06:30:10+00:00
> That only makes sense if your general stance to everything is "forbidden unless explicitly permitted"

Not at all. The UK, just as an example, explicitly bans images (as opposed to photographs, which are covered under different law) of children that are pornographic and obscene. That is, by legal professionals, interpreted as including manga, comics, and CGI.

You do not need some universal "default position" to understand the laws as they currently exist.
by ordinaryradical | 2025-12-23 06:30:41+00:00
An all-powerful uniparty can do things like this:

- deport or jail you without due process
- ignore the law in service of its own ends
- punish its enemies, pardon its allies
- ignore the constitution
- install loyalists in centers of power, oust dissenters
- suppress media which challenges its hold on power
- commit crimes
- enrich its friends
- declare its "plenary authority" to do the above

Brother, you are looking for the deep state under every rock and it is out in the sunshine, smiling at you.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-23 06:31:28+00:00
True. I party a lot and i notice a lot of especially GenZ and millennial have a strong preference to other substances. Not stuff like coke but mdma and designer stuff.

Only last weekend I was complaining about hangovers and this girl offered me some MDMA saying she uses it precisely to avoid hangovers and also expensive beverages in the club. Makes sense but for me as a GenXer it's still a pretty big leap to take. I'll just stick with my craft beer.
by themafia | 2025-12-23 06:33:21+00:00
> Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, founder of the Free Press website

Note: The "Free Press" is now owned by Paramount/Skydance. Available irony in American journalism is off the charts this year.

> "It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one."

I'm a huge fan of Michael Mann's "The Insider." I suppose it is time to watch that again.
by IndySun | 2025-12-23 06:33:39+00:00
Hmmm... was 'tone' a pun?

Why mention a strings 'slow attack' as less of a problem? No isolation software considers this an easy route.

Vocals are more effectively isolated by virtue of the fact they are unique sounding. Strings (and other sounds) are the similar in some ways but far more generic. All software out there indicates this, including the examples mentioned.
by LiamPowell | 2025-12-23 06:35:37+00:00
TPVs don't rely solely on the temperature of an object being high, they instead rely on two objects on either side having different temperatures. As heat moves[1] from one side to the other some of the energy from that movement is turned in to electricity.

[1]: Technically the movement itself is heat, the objects don't contain heat, rather they contain internal energy, but the two get mixed up more often than not.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-12-23 06:35:41+00:00
> is it even possible to run windows with just a command line

Docker supports Windows containers [0], but this requires a Windows host so it probably doesn't help you too much. Windows PE [1] does support a GUI, but it doesn't include any of the traditional shell components. Nano Server [2] is the closest to what you're talking about, but it's been deprecated.

> start menu, no file manager or is the ui too integrated into the OS

Windows Phone [3], Windows IoT [4], and Xbox are all NT-based, and none of them include a traditional file manager or shell, but they all do have GUIs.

[0]: https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/windows

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Enviro...

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows-...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_IoT
by tymonPartyLate | 2025-12-23 06:38:42+00:00
The biggest threats to innovation are the giants with the deepest pockets.
Only 5% of chatgpt traffic is paid, 95% is given for free.
Gemini cli for developers has a generous free tier. It is easy to get Gemini credits for free for startups. They can afford to dump for a long time until the smaller players starve.
How do you compete with that as a small lab? How do you get users when bigger models are free?
At least the chinese labs are scrappy and determined. They are the small David IMO.
by anal_reactor | 2025-12-23 06:38:58+00:00
> As individuals realize that nakedly appeasing the autocrat wins favor, they voluntarily corrupt themselves and others in hopes of advantage.

When I pointed out that this is the work culture in most American corporations, I was told that is a feature, not a bug, because US government and most big tech at the time preached values in line with average white middle-class Californian. Now that this is no longer the case, the mindset of appeasing the leader is suddenly a problem.

The whole situation was preventable, but everyone was too high on ZIRP to notice. We could've used the good times to establish good cultural values, but we didn't. Freedom of speech and other foundations of democracy were already rotting long ago but nobody cared. We could've used the good times to allow better dialogue between different political fractions, but we didn't. At some point democrats honestly believed they would simply never lose power again, making it seem pointless to talk to republicans. Now that the money dried out, people suddenly start asking questions and talking about "muh big values".

I have zero empathy.
by rincebrain | 2025-12-23 06:42:05+00:00
It's not.

The key thing is, one of the things most tumors need to do to get past a certain point is avoid getting caught being tumors.

If you can very selectively cause precise tissue death, from any method, then your body will suddenly start looking askance at any tissue that looks like the secretly-full-of-tumor-markers corpse it just found.

And ultrasonic cavitation means you can, in theory, cause very precise tissue death with even less surrounding effect than radiation.