MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by constantcrying | 2025-12-21 19:01:21+00:00
Really makes it clear how ridiculous the mania about AI usage is. The game is great and there is absolutely nothing in it that would suggest to the player that AI was used for anything.

Putting essentially arbitrary limitation on which tools game developers are allowed to use is just nonsensical. Yes, the output of AI models can be really bad, but then a game obviously does not deserve an award. Especially for an indie game, with limited resources, AI can be a huge force multiplier. Gatekeeping awards based on these meaningless characteristics seems just very strange.
by Smaug123 | 2025-12-21 19:01:35+00:00
With not much more effort you can get a much better review by additionally concatenating the touched files and sending them as context along with the diff. It was the work of about five minutes to make the scaffolding of a very basic bot that does this, and then somewhat more time iterating on the prompt. By the way, I find it's seriously worth sucking up the extra ~four minutes of delay and going up to GPT-5 high rather than using a dumber model; I suspect xhigh is worth the ~5x additional bump in runtime on top of high, but at that point you have to start rearchitecting your workflows around it and I haven't solved that problem yet.

(That's if you don't want to go full Codex and have an agent play around with the PR. Personally I find that GPT-5.2 xhigh is incredibly good at analysing diffs-plus-context without tools.)
by tptacek | 2025-12-21 19:01:59+00:00
Again: there is active science being done at some of the largest research universities in the world on the questions you're talking about. What there isn't is a global country-by-country survey of representative samples of people to generate "average IQ", not because such a thing would be forbidden knowledge (we're awash in data that would be equivalently "forbidden"), but because the cost of such a project likely swamps any utility it might have. It's an idee fixee of message boards.

The data discussed in the Guardian article you cited there is fraudulent. They're hunting it down because it's bad data. It's exactly the same impulse as the Data Colada and Retraction Watch people, which is celebrated on HN. But now the wrong ox is getting gored, and people are uncomfortable with it.
by pdai_exp | 2025-12-21 19:02:23+00:00
Final experiment update for today: Added a "Support This Experiment" option.

The hypothesis: Even if my AI wrapper products aren't compelling enough to buy, maybe the experiment itself is interesting enough that people would directly support it.

It's now prominently displayed on the main page. 1,600+ visitors, still $0 revenue. The transparency continues - you can see real-time stats at /about.

Will this work? Probably not. But it's worth testing. The experiment teaches regardless of outcome.
by lukeigel | 2025-12-21 19:02:24+00:00
Re: the DOJ emails prefixed with "EFTA", I have no idea how over-redacted they are. They definitely seem dubious though.

Re: the DDoSecrets emails though (YAHOO dataset), I have more to share.

Drop Site News agreed to give us access to the Yahoo dataset discovered by DDoSecrets, but on the condition that we help redact it. It's a completely unfiltered dataset. It's literally just .eml files for jeeprojects@yahoo.com. It includes many attached documents. There is no illegal imagery, but it has photos of Epstein's extended family (nephews, nieces, etc) and headshots of many models that Epstein's executive assistant would send to him. I was quite shocked that this thing existed.

We built some internal redaction tools that the Drop Site team is now using to comb through all of this. We've released 5 batches of the Yahoo mail now, with the 1k+ Amazon receipts being the most recent.

A few thoughts on how we do redaction are here: https://www.jmail.world/about.

Unlike the DOJ, we've tried to minimize the ambiguity about what was redacted.

For example: all redacted images are replaced with a Gemini-generated description of that photograph.

Another example: we are aggressively redacting email addresses and phone numbers of normal people to avoid spamming them. Perhaps others would leave it all in, but Riley and I don't want to be responsible for these people's lives getting disrupted by this entire saga. For example, we redacted this guy's email but not his name: https://www.jmail.world/thread/4accfb5f3ed84656e9762740081a4...

Riley and I were not expecting this type of scope when we first dropped Jmail. Jmail is an interesting side project for us, and this new dataset requires full-time attention. Thankfully we have help though. We're happy to take on this responsibility given how helpful, thoughtful and careful both the Drop Site and DDoSecrets team has been here.
by Macha | 2025-12-21 19:02:38+00:00
So your speedo reads 100 km/h in a 100km/h hour zone. The intention is that you just treat that as a sign that you're at the limit and don't go faster.

Yes, you _could_ do some mental math and figure out that your speedometer is probably calibrated with some buffer room on the side of overreporting your speed, so you're probably actually doing 96km/h and you know you probably won't get dinged if you're dong 105km/h so you "know" you can probably do 110km/h per your speedometer when the sign is 100km/h.

Or you could just not. And that's the intention. The buffers are in there to give people space for mistakes, not as something to rely on to eke 10% more speed out of. And if you start to rely on that buffer and get caught on it, that's on you.
by runako | 2025-12-21 19:02:55+00:00
I would agree that anyone who is specifically named in an Act of Congress requiring that to happen, which Act is then duly signed into law[1], should release their information. That doesn't currently apply to anyone other than the late Jeffrey Epstein, so we are all good.

1 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4405
by tolerance | 2025-12-21 19:04:29+00:00
> So his relationship with his fans isn’t typical fame in the style of a celebrity or actor. He’s more of an early self-help guru who embraced social media and blogging early on. His experience with uncomfortable fan obsessions is therefore probably on the next level, but not exactly typical fame.

I think your framing is outdated. It sounds more like his relationship with his fans anticipated how “fame” is typically thought of today. Remix this entire comment with Mr. Beast as the subject and see if that helps my point.

Edit:

He even says himself:

> [...] I’m not really famous. Beyoncé and Brad Pitt are truly famous. They cannot walk around in public anywhere in the world. I am a micro public figure with a monthly audience in the millions or tens of millions. There are legions of people on Instagram alone with audiences of this size. New platforms offer new speed. Some previous unknowns on TikTok, for example, have attracted millions of followers in a matter of weeks.

So maybe not quite Mr. Beast level even...but certainly in that vein albeit a few degrees below.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-21 19:04:30+00:00
IIRC there are some actual studies that say changing your physical location will actually affect your performance.

In my previous $dayjob I was That Guy who was getting pinged on chats and emails and people dropped in for "just a quick question". When I had to get work done on a deadline, I went to a cafe down the street, turned off the chats, got a massive bucket of coffee, put on my noise cancelling headphones and just ... worked. Later when the office got bigger (multiple stories in the same building), I "hid" on a couch at a complete different department for the same purpose.

That was almost 10 years ago and still my brain connects couches and cafes as deep work places :D
by crazygringo | 2025-12-21 19:04:40+00:00
> I estimated that 1 minute of artificial tanning is comparable to the 10-15 minutes of sun a day that is recommended.

That doesn't seem right. If you only tan in a strong tanning bed for 10 min (or 15 min in a weaker one), it's equivalent to only about an hour in the real sun around noon. I.e. if you've only been going to a tanning bed, you'll start to burn outdoors shortly after that. (And I'm talking about high-UVB bulbs that develop the long-lasting tan that protects against sunburn, just like the sun itself generates.)

So the difference factor is more like 4-6x, not 10-15x. Honestly, 15x would be insane. Tanning beds aren't as strong as some fearmongerers suggest. And that's assuming full-body exposure.

When you say you artificially tan at home for 1 minute, how? Did you buy your own entire tanning bed? Because if you use the small portable devices (like a Sperti), they're providing only a tiny fraction of what a tanning bed provides, since they're so small.
by macNchz | 2025-12-21 19:05:35+00:00
I recently bought a GPD MicroPC 2, a 7” laptop with a real keyboard. It runs Linux just fine, and it has been a fun experience of having a “real” computer with me much more often than I otherwise would. My version of programming on the subway has been programming on a park bench—it fits in a jacket pocket, or even the back pocket of some of my pants. The keyboard is tiny but easy enough to use with thumbs, or, with some practice, two-handed touch typing on a flat surface.

It’s nice to be less tethered to a desk, while also not having to carry a backpack and heavier full laptop, but still able to remote in and do what I need to do. I really enjoy having a fully capable Linux PC in my pocket vs a smartphone.
by lumirth | 2025-12-21 19:06:41+00:00
Thank you for this. I can’t emphasize enough how much of a difference this can make.

When I was in high school, I found the exact model of door knob on my childhood bedroom and found one that looked exactly the same, except with a lock. It was the kind of door knob that you could unlock with any long, thin piece of metal. The next couple years were a slow war as I stole every screwdriver, skewer, and dart in the house. Eventually, my parents got used to not being able to barge in. When I moved out, I left a pile of screwdrivers and darts on the kitchen table. They hadn’t barged into my room in months. Unsurprisingly, those last couple of months were also the safest and happiest I had ever felt there.

Moral of the story being: kids have a natural inclination to privacy, and will chafe at the lack of it. Trust is difficult to gain, easy to lose, and the trust of your kids is worth more than words can say.
by MBCook | 2025-12-21 19:07:00+00:00
That’s clearly unacceptable. It needs to gracefully handle not having that fallback. That is an incredibly obvious possible failure.

Things go wrong -> get human help

Human not available -> just block the road???

How is there not a very basic “pull over and wait” final fallback.

I can get staying put if the car thinks it hit someone or ran over something. But in a situation like this where the problem is fully external it should fall back to “park myself” mode.
by ocharles | 2025-12-21 19:07:08+00:00
I recently started using LLMs to review my code before asking for a more formal review from colleagues. It's actually been surprisingly useful - why waste my colleagues time with small obvious things? But it's also gone much further than that sometimes with deeper reviews points. Even when I don't agree with them it's great having that little bit more food for thought - if anything it helps seed the review
by charcircuit | 2025-12-21 19:07:22+00:00
>The noise is in earshot of IDEPSCA’s day laborer center

I find it misleading to add this line in the article without mentioning if the decibels exceed the applicable noise ordinances, or situation this is just people on HD's property complaining about the noise they are making on their own property. In that case people are free not to visit.
by lukeigel | 2025-12-21 19:07:34+00:00
Another person made an oddly beautiful ASCII ui for the text messages. All seem to be from HOUSE_OVERSIGHT (we have those plus DOJ, YAHOO. No dedicated text UI from us)

https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/

He also shouted us out last month which was very kind of him
by zahlman | 2025-12-21 19:07:39+00:00
> CCS could have a critical but limited role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.[6] However, other emission-reduction options such as solar and wind energy, electrification, and public transit are less expensive than CCS and are much more effective at reducing air pollution. Given its cost and limitations, CCS is envisioned to be most useful in specific niches. These niches include heavy industry and plant retrofits.[8]: 21–24

> The cost of CCS varies greatly by CO2 source. If the facility produces a gas mixture with a high concentration of CO2, as is the case for natural gas processing, it can be captured and compressed for USD 15–25/tonne.[66] Power plants, cement plants, and iron and steel plants produce more dilute gas streams, for which the cost of capture and compression is USD 40–120/tonne CO2.[66]

... And then for this usage, presumably you'd have to separate the CO2 from the rest of the gas.
by scotty79 | 2025-12-21 19:07:55+00:00
"First, a compressor pressurizes the gas from 1 bar (100,000 pascals) to about 55 bar (5,500,000 pa). Next, a thermal-energy-storage system cools the CO2 to an ambient temperature. Then a condenser reduces it into a liquid that is stored in a few dozen pressure vessels, each about the size of a school bus. The whole process takes about 10 hours, and at the end of it, the battery is considered charged.

To discharge the battery, the process reverses. The liquid CO2 is evaporated and heated. It then enters a gas-expander turbine, which is like a medium-pressure steam turbine. This drives a synchronous generator, which converts mechanical energy into electrical energy for the grid. After that, the gas is exhausted at ambient pressure back into the dome, filling it up to await the next charging phase."
by cowsandmilk | 2025-12-21 19:08:23+00:00
Horrid advice at the end about logging every error, exception, slow request, etc if you are sampling healthy requests.

Taking slow requests as an example, a dependency gets slower and now your log volume suddenly goes up 100x. Can your service handle that? Are you causing a cascading outage due to increased log volumes?

Recovery is easier if your service is doing the same or less work in a degraded state. Increasing logging by 20-100x when degraded is not that.
by zahlman | 2025-12-21 19:08:41+00:00
Well, it isn't going to sink enough CO2 to move the needle:

> If the worst happens and the dome is punctured, 2,000 tonnes of CO2 will enter the atmosphere. That’s equivalent to the emissions of about 15 round-trip flights between New York and London on a Boeing 777. “It’s negligible compared to the emissions of a coal plant,” Spadacini says. People will also need to stay back 70 meters or more until the air clears, he says.

So it's really just about enabling solar etc.
by chroma | 2025-12-21 19:08:54+00:00
SF Muni & BART both stopped service in many areas. Though most of the trains still had electricity, many sensors and control systems were inoperable. Also underground stations had no lighting, so it would be hazardous to allow people to board or exit there.

Waymo's problem is obvious in hindsight, and quite embarrassing for them, but it can be solved with software improvements. Tesla's FSD already treats dark traffic lights as stop signs, so I would bet on Waymo fixing this as soon as they can.

But transportation that depends on infrastructure along the whole route (such as trains and busses powered by overhead lines) are always going to fail in these situations. I think that's acceptable considering how rare these events are.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-21 19:08:54+00:00
Louis Rrossmann[0] had a massive tirade against Macbooks over a decade ago because they didn't have a battery hump in the back.

Why you ask?

I'll tell you. He edited videos on the NY subway using his Lenovo(?) laptop with a massive extra battery hump in the back, which he used as a handle to hold on to with one hand while he typed with the other.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@rossmanngroup
by yawaramin | 2025-12-21 19:09:07+00:00
> it genuinely does make the...users happy

But you have no idea if it does that, you just have the word of the PO who's not actually building anything, they're at best just copying what others are doing (ie being derivative) or at worst just doing guesswork.

How about offering an alternative: a UI/UX that takes the web as it is, a primarily document-based format with navigation and data entry? A lot of cool stuff can be built on top of that.
by ajb | 2025-12-21 19:09:57+00:00
Ahh forgot about this comment, sorry.

Bash was designed decades before the current security environment, and contains many insecure-by-default mechanisms, many of which operate without you explicitly invoking them. Just for starters, in a normal language it's hard enough to operate on untrusted data, but at least you know that nothing bad is going to happen just passing $UNTRUSTED from one function to the next. In bash, because it's based on string substitution you have to enclose that variable in quotes: "$UNTRUSTED" or its contents will start being interpreted.

In short, writing security-critical code in bash,without some obvious constraint forcing this, is a sign of inexperience or not actually caring about it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-21 19:10:33+00:00
> Does it matter

Yes. OP is inferring Waymo's internal processes from this meltdown. ("Makes me think there are likely other obvious use cases they haven’t thought about proactively either.")

If Waymo literally didn't foresee a blackout, that's a systemic problem. If, on the other hand, there was some weird power and cellular meltdown that coïncided with something else, that's a fixable edge case.
by btreesOfSpring | 2025-12-21 19:10:39+00:00
When I was part of a team developing a highly durable texting protocol, those of us in NYC would regularly test messaging while riding the subway. Between stations, you didn't have network access but different devices upon entering the next station would handle and recover from the interruptions in various ways.

The subway produced so many repeatable network connection edge case problems. It was fantastic.
by zaitsev1393 | 2025-12-21 19:11:17+00:00
I don't get the people who complain about the website not working with disabled js. Maybe I miss something and a large part of users disable / have js disabled in their browsers for some reason? Why the target audience of the ruby, probably primary web developers, whould do that? Or is this a some kind of secret handshake so community accept you (to build a website that can work with no js)?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-21 19:12:12+00:00
> How is there not a very basic “pull over and wait” final fallback

Barring everything else, the proper failsafe for any vehicle should be to stop moving and tell the humans inside to evacuate. This is true for autonomous vehicles as well as manned ones–if you can't figure out how to pull over during a disaster, ditching is absolutely a valid move.
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by default-kramer | 2025-12-21 19:13:50+00:00
Every time I've worked on a project that used AutoMapper, I've hated it. But I'll admit that when you read why it was created, it actually makes sense: https://www.jimmybogard.com/automappers-design-philosophy/

It was meant to enforce a convention. Not to avoid the tedium of writing mapping code by hand (although that is another result).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-21 19:13:58+00:00
> If we instead learned about this during a real disaster people could have died

This is universally true. The question is how bad could it have been, and in which cases would it have been the worst?

> We’re lucky it’s not a disaster

This is always true. Again, the question is how lucky?

We have an opportunity to count blocked emergency vehicles and calculate a hypothetical body count. This lets us characterize the damage. But it also permits constraining hysteria.
by jbverschoor | 2025-12-21 19:14:02+00:00
For loyaltycards there was Stocard, but it got acquired by the toxic company Klarna.

SuperCards is very very similar, and in my opinion more useful than putting everything in Apple Wallet. You get to store a pictures, and everything is in one place. Apple Wallet is already cluttered with tons of creditcards, tickets, etc
by rldjbpin | 2025-12-21 19:14:03+00:00
about the scale, the same album in the tracker had several submissions, for dedicated format and regional editions.

while one can compare in terms of number of tracks, the quality used to be in another level altogether. from the article:

> The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s.

meanwhile the tracker had 16/24-bit flac rips of vinyl, with decent quality control where the track's metadata was verified for any artifacts. for the given quality, one could rip youtube music (maybe not as easily anymore) and achieve a larger scale in a similar quality level.

now if hypothetically tidal had all the music of the world and was accessible this way, then it would be a comparable resource. insane regardless.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-12-21 19:15:01+00:00
> If a user request is hitting that many things, in my view, that is a deeply broken architecture.

If we want it or not, a lot of modern software looks like that. I am also not a particular fan of building software this way, but it's a reality we're facing. In part it's because quite a few services that people used to build in-house are now outsourced to PaaS solutions. Even basic things such as authentication are more and more moving to third parties.
by runako | 2025-12-21 19:15:07+00:00
Anyone who writes a newsletter and hosts a broadcast in defense of Epstein's child sex trafficking ring probably should be under some kind of enhanced scrutiny.

Please keep in mind that the Epstein case was argued in open federal court, where he was found guilty and was sentenced. When he died, there were further criminal proceedings pending in two countries.

Hanania's habit of seeing everything in the binary of "woke" vs "not woke" leads him to some incredibly questionable places, as evidenced here. It's "woke" to believe that a convicted child sex trafficker resumed his crimes when released from prison, so Hanania is ideologically forced to take the opposite view that the kerfuffle is mostly hysterics. I honestly don't know why people read him, the quality of thinking and analysis is simply not there. There are much better conservative writers out there who are not currently apologizing for child rapists.
by port11 | 2025-12-21 19:16:02+00:00
Dunno, it's a comfy tagline. I never got into Ruby but it always feels to me like it's a really ergonomic and cozy language. Sure, the best friend thing is a stretch, but it's honestly a slogan. How many people land on this page with no knowledge of what Ruby is and will confuse it with an app to make friends?