MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cryptonector | 2026-01-25 04:55:27+00:00
I've worked on codebases all the way tens of millions of lines of code. Obviously not in the sense of knowing all the dusty corners of such codebases, but still, I did enough work on them that I had to navigate my way around millions of loc. It's not easy! The problem is that you can't possibly know even a sizeable fraction of such a codebase well. Instead you can know small corners well and know your way around the internal and external interfaces so you can find gotchas and answer questions as you research. The knowledge you build is hard to communicate to others, too, so bringing others up to speed is not easy either. So for me TFA hits all the right notes.

But I've also seen things like the ZFS team at Sun deliver something unbelievably good that started as a skunkworks project that senior management didn't really know about until there was enough to show to justify a large investment. Sun was like DARPA: not micromanaged from the top. Sun failed, of course, but not because of this.
by neogodless | 2026-01-25 04:56:20+00:00
The current generation of Lucid, BMW, etc. are 400+ mile vehicles.

You think we need 800-1200 mile batteries?

As for charge speed, the twice a year someone needs more than 400 miles isn't as significant in real world EV usage...

I plug in on a dopey 1.3kW (~115V, ~12A) outlet and my car is at 80% charge in the morning. For commuting, a 5pm to 7am charge is ample for most people living ordinary lives.
by Insanity | 2026-01-25 04:58:12+00:00
I'm not saying money wasn't a factor in his decision to do this for a livestream, but it clearly wouldn't be the only factor and I doubt that would make him stop. (He free solo'd before, without cameras, although not this building).

For people like Alex, it's much more about the thrill, the experience, and 'proving' themselves than it is about money.
by culebron21 | 2026-01-25 04:59:06+00:00
Kasparov as usually exaggerates. As a Russian, I can think of only 2 cases he may refer to: 2002 riot after world cup match, when a crowd watched Russia team lose to Japan, then went to destroy displays and cars in Moscow center. It was followed by wrenching the mass rallies laws. Some publicists later, in the '10s, suggested it was orchestrated, but the whole theory forgets that Russian team could have won. You don't create a plan where your pretexts may not take place at all.

The other case he may think of is May 2012 protest, where a bottleneck created stampede, and a fight with police ensued. Random protesters got persecuted for whatever reasons. But the crackdown was already under way with the new state Duma passing ever tougher law amendments.

Sociologically, it's nonsense to make a pretext by attacking the other side, because you don't know what how they react: maybe the opponents just hide, or go around. To make a crackdown, you stage the attack on yourself, and then react, and crack down. E.g. Hitler staged the opposition putting Reichstag on fire, and then reacted. In Trumps case, brutal attacks are a step too far, because people may react differently -- what if nothing happens? or if republicans change their mind and impeach him?

Putin made a crackdown on media and civic liberties in a soft and gradual way: the media was taken down by stakeholders loyal to him, or maybe by a made-up bankruptcy case. Mass protests were made very hard to do, and needed a permission. But if any happened, the police wouldn't start a street fight, but would instead arrest and charge the organizers next day.

What Kasparov usually writes is a big exaggeration. In 2015 he wrote a comment on social media, that Russia needs a pro-democratic dictatorship to fix it. I think this is exactly what technocrats and oligarchs thought when they supported Putin coming in 1999 -- that he was authoritarian, but would lead Russia away from communistic revenge.
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-25 04:59:42+00:00
Neither of them prevent inbound connections, on their own or together.

I don't really think that "inbound connections work fine and you're basically just praying that the people that can do them simply won't" counts as being secure, but I'll admit that using RFC1918 does limit the set of people that can do them. If you made that your argument, you'd have more of a point than an argument based around NAT.
by hekkle | 2026-01-25 04:59:55+00:00
I would say that one has as much responsibility to society, as that society accepts for the individual.

As a previously homeless veteran, I'd say that is zero. Why should intellectuals, or in fact anyone have any duty to help a system that doesn't help them?

Now I know a lot of people will grandstand and say that if people just started taking on responsibility, then that would improve the system so that it would help more, but again, I did my part and was promised to be taken care of by society with its fingers crossed behind its back.
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-25 05:02:06+00:00
> The people "being dragged out of vehicles" have been refusing lawful orders and then being arrested for it.

"Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'"
— Martin Luther King Jr.

> But no, being a citizen does not, in fact, matter if you are breaking federal law in the presence of a federal agent, and that law includes obstruction of federal justice.

“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”
— Henry David Thoreau

> All of this is extremely clear in law.

“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.”
— Henry David Thoreau
by coredev_ | 2026-01-25 05:02:49+00:00
Things are moving fast right now.

But one thing you have to understand is that being reliant on US tech and defence industry was seen as something very positive up till now. Heck most EU countries even let US/NSA tap our internet data. We bought US fighters jets mostly not for the specific jets but for being on good terms with the US.

We all knew that US screwed us a bit, like probably practicing industrial espionage against us as well as collecting data on our citizens, but we let that slip for being a part of the US security umbrella.

I would say that is one reason why we did not push for our own word processors and OSes.

The US was also very good at utilizing this relationship, buying up initiatives (remember Skype). Don't know if this was a strategy or not.

I suspect that this is going to change now trough public opinion and regulations. I made the switch from Anthropic to Mistral last week. One great thing with GDPR is that we can not place PII in US services, that have been very good for our own Software industry.
by YZF | 2026-01-25 05:03:22+00:00
But ICE vehicles can be in engine breaking mode. You pretty much never "coast" (e.g. put the vehicle in neutral or hold the clutch in). I get what you're saying but it feels like it's way in the margin if an effect at all. Do you have some reference? People keep talking about tire wear but my model 3 tires (which are relatively high performance soft tires) aren't wearing any faster than the wear I used to get on my Subaru before. I just don't drive aggressively. Flooring the accelerator must be the big difference. I don't think the weight difference is that large, certainly compared to trucks.
by thehacknews | 2026-01-25 05:03:27+00:00
A newly published incident report describes a massive credential exposure involving 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords stored in a publicly accessible database. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler says the dataset was not password-protected and not encrypted, and it contained about 96 GB of raw credential data. In addition to usernames and passwords, many records also included the exact login URLs, which can speed up automated account takeover attempts.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-01-25 05:04:20+00:00
> Who would actually decide to switch from a modern EV to gasoline on purpose of their own choice?

I travel monthly through rural parts of the US where EVs really don't make sense. I get the most people on HN live in suburbs/cities, but there's a lot of stuff that happens in the rural parts of the country that absolutely demands ICE vehicles. Yes the population of people out there is much smaller, but if you've ever spent serious times in these parts of the country you'd realize petroleum runs everything.

Even in a world where electric vehicles came first this would still be the case.
by repiret | 2026-01-25 05:04:31+00:00
> CPUs fetch data from memory in fixed-size blocks of so-many bytes, and performance degrades when data is misaligned.

A memory bus supports memory transactions of various sizes, with the largest size supported being a function of how many data lines there are. The following two statements are true of every memory bus with which I'm familiar, and I probably every bus in popular use: (1) only power-of-two sizes are supported; (2) only aligned transactions are supported.

Arm, x86, and RISC-V are relatively unique among the multitude of CPU architectures in that if they are asked to make an unaligned memory transaction, they will compose that transaction from multiple aligned transactions. Or maybe service it in cache and it never has to hit a memory bus.

Most CPU architectures, including PPC, MIPS, Sparc, and ColdFire/68k, will raise an exception when asked to perform a misaligned memory transaction.

The tradition of aligning data originated when in popular CPU architectures, if you couldn't assume that data was aligned, you would need to use many CPU instructions to simulate misalinged access in software. It continued in compilers for Arm and x86 because even though those CPUs could make multiple bus transactions in response to a single mis-aligned memory read, that takes time and so it was much slower.

I don't know for sure, but I would expect that on modern x86 and high performance Arm, the performance penalty is quite small, if there's any at all.
by cryptonector | 2026-01-25 05:05:04+00:00
Oof. Exactly. Simple things get complicated when you find out that there were unstated requirements, hidden booby traps, etc. And then there's random interrupts -- unrelated stuff that comes up and takes your time and focus. If you run a lean ship then interrupt management is critical, but ideally you can have a few people who are understood to take critical interrupts and thus their schedules will slip.
by siliconwrath | 2026-01-25 05:05:55+00:00
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti
"We are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an
ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.
I do not throw around the 'hero' term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank You.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-pretti-fatally-sho...
by crystal_revenge | 2026-01-25 05:06:08+00:00
It's great to see a reduction in local pollution but it is worth remembering the electric vehicles ultimately have zero impact on climate change and petroleum consumption (which as continue to rise year-over-year).

Oil not used in ICE cars is just used someplace else.

Electric cars are great for the city/suburbs but don't really make a dent in the larger resource usage issues facing us.
by neogodless | 2026-01-25 05:06:22+00:00
Kind of funny anecdote, as a bit of a car enthusiast.

I drive a Polestar 2, and someone asked if it was my favorite car I've owned. And I said, no that's a Mazda 3 hatchback... 6-speed manual. Lovely vehicle to drive. Economical, but luxurious for the price. Very practical, too.

But... if you asked me if I'd go from the Polestar 2 back to the Mazda 3? I'd say no. I'll keep the electric. Of course it's not a fair comparison... one had an MSRP of $27k and the other $67k. One has 186HP and the other 476HP (and all-wheel drive).

One had a lot of routine maintenance of the engine, while the other has needed wiper blades and tires. And one requires standing outside in 10° F days like today pumping gas, while the other one is charging in my garage (and warms up the cabin from the press of a button on my phone.)

The Mazda 3 was more of a driver's car, and if I had bought either new, it would be a very different equation. (I bought the 3 w/ 8K miles on it for $20k; I bought the Polestar w/ 20K miles on it for $29K.) The Mazda 3 has a vastly better interface - better auto-dimming headlights, tons of buttons for climate, stereo, etc.

But the Polestar 2 is the one I would rather be driving... for now. (I just hope more "driver's car" electric options come to our shores.)
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-25 05:06:50+00:00
In theory. In practice, a lot of EVs (and hybrids, which could do the same thing to a more limited extent) ship with the same cheap flooded lead acid 12v batteries that ship with ICE cars and don't handle constant charging/discharging well.

This puts a cap on how much the "smart" systems can do because it dramatically increases cycle count and thus the risk of the 12v battery losing the ability to produce enough voltage to start the car, leaving the driver marooned somewhere.

It could also result in a noticeable "vampire" drain on the high voltage battery which looks bad and could put you at a disadvantage vs. competitors.
by bragr | 2026-01-25 05:07:47+00:00
If you look closely at the bottom one, almost all the components are slightly askew, while the top one has everything at neat 90 degrees. And a smaller IC almost always means the more modern/expensive IC. Same for the other components. In fact, the top one has a much higher component count, the small components just don't show up well (look at the pads though).
by komali2 | 2026-01-25 05:07:57+00:00
That it's a cult needs to be better recognized by the mainstream in the USA.

This podcast gave me more insight than I wanted into the Trump cult being well and truly a cult: https://open.spotify.com/show/3hkMl04iMcdayIhxFbL9WT

It's two libbed up people talking with their fully steeped Trumpian parents, trying and failing to find common ground. Horrifyingly the parents recently said they would support Trump even if he ordered federal agents to kill everyone indiscriminately in a random mall in LA, and their adult kids were murdered as a result.
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-25 05:08:33+00:00
I could do it if it was using a routable v4 address too, and I can do it with either RFC1918 or ULA as well (which are both routable, just not over the Internet) if I can get close enough to send the relevant packets. NAT provides no protection against any of these.

You don't normally see many SSH brute force attempts on v6, let alone getting hammered by them. I do see some, but it's mostly to obvious addresses like <prefix>::2, ::3 etc which I don't use, or to IPs you can scrape from TLS cert logs. If you set an ssh server up on an IP that you don't publicize, finding it is hard.
by yourapostasy | 2026-01-25 05:08:53+00:00
With the Netflix infrastructure, I'm surprised they broadcast it so conventionally. Different channels running at the same time (with the crowd at the bottom, with the crowds as he passed each floor, with his wife watching, with pro climbers talking technical climbing stuff with simultaneous 8K online illustrating graphics, etc.), different audio tracks (with commentators, with crowd at bottom only, etc.*). Alex Honnold was paid only $500K for the event, so maybe there simply wasn't a lot of money allocated to the project to get fancy with the live broadcast.
by shakna | 2026-01-25 05:09:32+00:00
I guess I shouldn't be drawn by someone calling me an idiot...

But one last try.

You suggested that the cost of cyberattacks on industry, is not so great as when we were destroying it with bombs instead.

However, every time we have power outages, people die. Then we have the cost of securing the infrastructure. And the cost of everyone else affected, who has to increase their resilience.

Your bank is collateral damage, as is the people freezing to death in their homes. Entire industries are on the verge of collapse - getting a new turbine to help stabilise your grid has a lead time of _years_, not days or weeks. And if you hit weeks, people die.

Insurance responds to attacks, and that trickles out to everywhere that is touched. VISA and MasterCard have to prepare for eventualities, because of attacks not aimed at them, but at power infrastructure.

When power is hit... There is nothing unaffected.

Volt Typhoon hit the US power grid, and required a massive multinational effort to extract them, that took almost a year... And VT wasn't intended to do damage, just look for weak spots. So that next time, they can cause damage. As part of that survival process, various hardware partners were kicked to the curb, and the repercussions are still in the process of being felt. Half the industry may have issues surviving because of it.

Industroyer is one of the reasons that Kyiv got as bad as it did. Malware is not some hand-wave and fix thing. Half the city's relays were permanently damaged.

Then of course, there was Stuxnet. Which blew up centrifuges, and the research centres hit are still trying to recover from where they were, then.

Cyberattacks are a weapon of war, people die, industries die, and there is no easy path to recovery following it.

An entire industry exists, just to defend against these kinds of attacks. The money spent on that, is counted, which means it has to be less than the cost of the attack succeeding. Trillions are spent, because there is absolute weight behind surviving these attacks.

If things were easier, it'd be an industry solely focused on backups and flipping a switch. But it's not.
by raullen | 2026-01-25 05:11:10+00:00
OP here.

I built this because I got tired of Claude choking when I pasted 5,000 lines of server logs, or worrying about leaving sensitive environment variables in my chat history forever.

What is it? vnsh (vanish) is a CLI tool and web app that encrypts data client-side and uploads it to a host-blind storage (Cloudflare R2). It generates a link where the decryption key is in the URL hash fragment.

Architecture:

Encryption: AES-256-CBC via WebCrypto API.

Transport: The key never leaves your device (browser or CLI). The server only sees an encrypted blob.

Storage: Cloudflare Workers + R2.

Integration: It has a native MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. If you use Claude Code or desktop, the agent can "read" these links directly without you pasting the text.

The Stack: Typescript, Hono, Cloudflare Workers, React (Web), Node (CLI).

It's fully open source. I'm looking for feedback on the crypto implementation and the MCP integration flow.

Repo: https://github.com/raullenchai/vnsh Web: https://vnsh.dev
by neogodless | 2026-01-25 05:12:17+00:00
If you're saying 100% only EVs with no use cases whatsoever for gasoline, then I suppose so. I don't think that's a smart goal, though.

More like, more people should understand how EVs can easily work for them, and then try to shoehorn gas-powered vehicles into the few niche they need to be in.

How often does someone need a 400 mile range again? Towing? When is the last time you towed something 400 miles? The most I ever towed was... using a rental truck and a rental trailer when I moved. (Anecdotes are not data!) But why in a rational purchasing decision would I need an 800 mile EV battery for a car just because sometimes it's cold out?
Show HN: PodCost – Find wasted GPU and Kubernetes spend (with live demo)
by MGabrIbrah | 2026-01-25 05:13:04+00:00
Hi HN, I’m the creator of PodCost (https://podcost.io/).

I built this because as AI workloads move into production, GPU spend is becoming the largest line item on the cloud bill. Standard K8s cost tools often treat a node as a "black box," but when an A100 sits idle because of a misconfigured training job or a stuck inference server, you’re burning hundreds of dollars a day.

The Live Demo: I know how annoying it is to sign up just to see a dashboard. I’ve set up a demo cluster so you can see the ML-specific cost analysis and recommendations immediately:

URL: https://podcost.io/login

User: hackernews@podcost.io

Pass: hackernews@podcost.io

What’s inside:

ML Workload Analysis: It tracks costs per training job and inference request.

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Actionable Recommendations: It suggests specific rightsizing for pods and nodes based on actual historical usage.

Quick Setup: If you want to test it on your own cluster, it’s a single Helm command.

I’m particularly looking for feedback on our GPU recommendation engine. Is this a problem that you might pay for? also are those metrics shown in the demo cluster good enough? I am not building another observability tool. I am building AI cost saving tool that focuses on AI and GPU waste.
your feedback will be really important for me.

I’ll be here to answer any technical questions!
by text0404 | 2026-01-25 05:13:13+00:00
You're the only person speculating about their motives. Everyone else is watching the same incident, shot from multiple cameras/angles, which make it clear that an extreme escalation of violence from untrained ICE agents towards a man who was attempting to help a woman (who was also attacked in a show of excessive force) ended in his unnecessary death. The motives are irrelevant - these people are untrained, trigger-happy, and just killed another person.
by tomhow | 2026-01-25 05:13:37+00:00
It would be nice to think we could solve problems like this via comments on HN. After nearly two decades of this site's existence, it's pretty clear that's not realistic.

This site is for curious conversation, not combat or activism, and this is only a site where people want to participate because enough people make the effort to keep pushing for it to stay curious rather than combative. The only reason I saw your comments is because other users flagged them for being in breach of the guidelines.

We understand the guidelines are open to interpretation, and that it can take some time to become familiar with the culture and norms here. You can learn more about how the moderators apply the guidelines by reading the comments posted by dang and myself:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-25 05:13:46+00:00
Related:

Boston Dynamics and DeepMind form new AI partnership

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504966

Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46520508
by komali2 | 2026-01-25 05:15:20+00:00
C'mon, didn't some guy do a skydive from nearly outer space? Do you criticize the country he landed in? Or red bull for sponsoring it or the many other extreme sports?

Injury and death happens in rock climbing even when tethered. Not often but it does happen, that's the nature of the sport and it's the same as BMX, skateboarding, motocross, any kind of racing.

It's also the same as just living - go look up Taiwan traffic deaths. There's so much more dangerous things happening here and wherever you live, it just seems silly to criticize someone for doing an extreme sport publicly.

There's like one injury per NFL game ffs...