skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it sounds like these people are operating websites that don't work. My home internet (80 down, 5 up) connection hosted website handled 20k+ hits from the alibaba ai crawler yesterday without missing a beat. And many thousands more from GPTbot, etc.

I'll grant it can be a problem for super-heavy "application" websites where every GET is a serious computation. So I'm not surprised gitlab is having problems. They've literally the most bloated and heaviest website I've ever seen. Maybe applications shouldn't be websites.

But this spreading social hysteria, this belief that all non-humans are dangerous and must be blocked is a nerd snipe. It really doesn't apply to most situations. Just running a website as we've always run them, public, and letting all user-agents access, is much less resource intensive than these various "mitigations" people are implementing. Mitigations which end up being worse than the problem itself in terms of preventing actual humans from reading text.
In the article Strange Way to Enforce Status Checks with Merge Queue.

All aspects of your CICD pipeline - rebasing PRs is not 'basic CICD' need.

CICD pipeline should take a commit state and produce artifacts from that state, not lint and not autofix trivial issues.

Everything that is not "take code state - run tests - build - deploy (eventualy fail)" is insanity.

Autofixing/linting for example should be separate process waay before CICD starts. And people do stuff like that because they think it is part of integration and testing. Trying to shove it inside is insanity.
Oh this? This isn't a splitter, this is a dialog box.
> All ghost Spectre does is ...

How can you know this? Not a rhetorical question, I am interested to know if this can be, or has been verified.
I've pointed this out to a few people in this space. They tend to suggest that the value in AI is so great this means we should get rid of copyright law entirely.
Very little life exists at the ocean floor, since there are very few life sustaining resources there.

That means that killing that life in an area has very little effect of the rest of the ocean eco system.

The mining is a one time event, and once it's completed in an area, life will return, and that eco system will be as it was.

I live in a city. Building it destroyed some wilderness to give half a million people somewhere to live. I think that was a very good thing.
Tesla backer says Musk must reduce Trump work, as 46,000 Cybertrucks recalled
And poor, sloppy, website implementation. If your professional website can't handle 20k hits it's ... well, poor. Because my home connection hosted on my desktop PC website tanked 20k hits from alibaba bot (among a few more thousand of normal traffic) yesterday without missing a beat.

It is literally the point of public websites to answer HTTP requests. If yours can't you're doing something wrong.
What people tend to forget is, that coal, oil and gas are all restricted by mining or drilling as the old are consumed, and it gets harder to access new oil wells etc. For PV there is no such limit (only copper basically, but this is recyclable and aluminum can do many tasks.) For batteries, there is lithium (lifepo4) and even that is questionable (sodium batteries) and again there is the potential for recycling. Hence, I do not see anything stopping the exponential growth of PV and batteries.
Due to that, white women are the canary in the coal mine. If you hear about them being mistreated, it's that there are invisible crowds of people already mistreated you're not seeing.
Better to find defects on Earth than on Mars.
Meanwhile I'm still using Kodi, and wondering why people still use that weird proprietary fork that seems to get worse and more expensive by the day.
I maintain a 2-week supply of boxers, but do laundry every week. Over 10 years theres roughly 520 laundry cycles. I change my boxers at least once a day. Assume each boxer has equal probability of being selected, so it creates a 50% chance of being in that wash cycle. So its feasible that they've been through ~260 wash cycles.
Fujifilm GFX100RF Review: An X100 All Grown Up
> Product teams that are smart are getting off the treadmill. Whatever framework you currently have, start investing in getting to know it deeply.

I've been working on a SaaS product for a couple of years and when I first started I picked up MUI as my FE framework. Since then on at least 5 different occasions I looked into replacing it and have always landed back on "no lets keep it".

MUI is far from a perfect FE framework but for me I realized it worked really well because it helped me create pretty professional looking UI's without any designer assistance. And over the years I've learned many of the quirks around the framework and have implemented various tooling to mitigate any shortcomings.

I'm still looking for an eventual replacement though, for a while I thought I was going to jump on Google's official material design spec but then they stopped working on the web version. At this point I'm probably going to gradually adopt TailwindCSS (probably over the course of a year or more) and eventually move my FE to an entirely custom build solution.

But even thinking about this change I still come back to "what's the point?". Customers like my product and use it ever day, MUI has it's shortcomings but it's not something terrible I need to jump ship from. I'm sure I will eventually replace MUI but so far it's been chugging along just fine.
it's flagged now
Are there multiple IPs or multiple connections coming from the same IP? If the latter, rate-limiting might work.
will they care if they have an army of cheap easily replaceable robots with guns?

I miss the star trek visions of the future

now the "good" outcome is a world sized north korea, with elon as ruler

and the bad outcome is the ruler using his army of robots to eliminate the possibility of the peasant revolt once and for all
So guilt by association? Wow.

This is pure authoritarian shtick.
yes, that was my point! Interesting that's "on the rise"
The User-Agent was not random; that's how I was able to block them this time.
SheepShaver was originally virtualised and not emulated. The original version ran MacOS in a virtual machine on PowerPC BeOS (BeBox and Mac that ran BeOS.) Because of this it ran at full speed and was akin to the Classic environment on early MacOS X. I used to use it to run IE5 as the BeOS browser was quite poor and PowerPC never got any ports of more modern browsers. It ran really well and could be made full screen.
Don't use strtok, it was already painful to use in C99. It is not even that hard to emulate using strstr if you do need one.
No, you're wrong. I wish you weren't. I hate posting this stuff because at least a few people reply to the absolutely weakest version of what I actually said.

Go check out flutter_pcm_sound_fork, find me even one package with the same streaming PCM => speakers functionality, and I'll give you $500. All I ask is, as a personal favor to me, you read the part in the Hacker News FAQ about "coming with curiosity"
> It was an easy-to-use API so it was deprecated by C++20, along with the introduction of its type-safe replacement std::atomic<shared_ptr<T>>.

Is this humor?

nit: the contrast between the font and the background is too low
Agreed. Rack density is the biggest thing once you get away from "a handful of servers", be it CPU, memory, or storage density.

Side note: I'm curious where this 1:8 ratio of cores:memory came from. Everyone seems to be standardising on it, even at VM levels
So much for an open internet
At 105 I started seeing dips while adding, but would level back to 60 during bounce.
iPad Air 4.

Is this the new benchmark? “The new iPad can handle 200k bunnies”
Great! Now I'll just wait 10 years and pay double the price to get this in the US...
With what and against what? There will be spy satellites and drones and automated turrets that will turn you to pulp if you come within, say, 50KM of their compound borders.
This is a good example of how communication can be hard. I’m not suggesting the person without information over explain. I agree that’s a pretty silly idea. I’m suggesting that as the other person, the person building the flux capacitors, a good idea is to assume that others might not know what a flux capacitor is and try to anticipate questions.
There is no cough cough here. I own a non-insignificant amount of dvds and blurays, which plex helps my family watch in a relatively painless manner. But they seem to try to make it more painful.
Yes exactly. The real world is full of examples of a fixed set of exclusive options.

A programming language without sum types and exhaustive pattern matching in its type system is unable model this real world concept in its type system.
It's not 10^10 ≈ 2^33 though, it's 2^(10^10) = 2^10000000000, or about 9 999 999 967 orders of magnitude more.
> ... but for stuff which people put up thinking it is just going to be publicly visible ...

I don't think these business owners really understand. Most normies just think everyone has a Facebook/Instagram account and can't even imagine a world where that is not the case.

I agree with you that it is extremely frustrating.
I see. Thank you for clarifying. I indeed had not understood you.

It sounds like you think the problem is the wrong sort of people. But almost everybody retreats into ego defense and partisan struggle under sufficiently threatening circumstances, even though some people are habitually more prone to that kind of thing than others. It's more about minimizing the frequency of the wrong sort of circumstances.

Additionally, though I think everyone is happy that I'm not the one running the site, I have observed elsewhere that your favored "ruthless silencing" approach has some side effects you may not be anticipating.
more, easier proof of works

and the law of large numbers will do the rest
Satellite operators want better space weather models – SpaceNews
It’s not incompetence. These large AI companies have (or can hire) the competency to engineer proper crawlers. This is deliberate due to lack of accountability and “who’s gonna stop them?”
write an executive summary if you expect me to read this. this is not a blog platform.
Agreed, that's why I said that while there is a basis for this concern, the overall gun homicide numbers don't tell the whole story with respect to tourist safety.

I couldn't find any specific numbers with regard to US tourist safety, though Australia's travel advisory does mention the high rates of gun crimes and about a month ago a couple Israeli tourists were shot in Miami Beach.

Again, gun violence would not be my primary concern if I were visiting the US as a tourist, I'm just pointing out that there exists a basis for this concern.
> I'm beyond confused how it got to that state.

A few years back I wanted to throw in the towel and write a more minimal GHA-compatible agent. I couldn't even find where in the code they were calling out to GitHub APIs (one goal was to have that first party progress UI experience). I don't know where I heard this, so big hearsay warning, but apparently nobody at GitHub can figure it out either.
Sorry, I should have made clear I was responding only to this part of your message:

I guess "I'd'nt've" means "I don't have"

I think it meant 'I would not have', not "I don't have".
it is an ecosystem of social roles, not just "people" .. casting the decision into individual choices is not the right filter to understand this situation..
Nvidia to spend billions on US supply chain, says chief
Just change the pictures in cmd/anubis/static/img/ to whatever you prefer, I think.
life is so easy. just plug numbers into a spreadsheet so the math will make rational decisions for you.
The change is that the detention is now privately run and its incentives are to keep you detained for as long as possible. If you go to the US, it's not just the tourist traps trying to make a buck off you. It's also the border protection.

> The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det...
You just add padding to the items with borders so they visually consume the same space, then increase the width of everything except :first-child to account for the new padding/border. Easy!

That’s sarcasm, obviously. But man, I’ve spent so many hours over the years hacking little lines between HTML boxes.
Easier than it looks.The EU is currently still sending 200 Billion EUR a year
in oil and gas imports to Russia per year.

A peanuts project of 100 million EUR ( basically one Microsoft Global Customer Contract...) could get something like this or similar going within 24 months:

https://www.collaboraonline.com/

As long as it would not be managed by EU bureaucrats.
Otherwise the tenders would take 18 months....
Apple has a BMC on the Mac mini, Mac Studio and Mac Pro. It's called Lights Out Management (LOM). https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/lights-out-manage...
Live telemetry feed from the ISS, open to the public
The International Space Station broadcasts real-time telemetry data on a WebSocket-based public feed.
Yes this is the latest in a series of publicly desperate moves. One can only imagine how much panic is going on behind the scenes.

Buying TSLA amidst this turmoil is clearly a bad investment
Please provide evidence of Democratic politicians cheering on the murder of Cybertruck drivers.
No I'm not, I'm saying this particular subject should not be treated differently.

I only reference politics because it's other people's focus, or excuse for censoring.
As an engineer I would be genuinely interested in a comprehensive "lessons learned" from the Cybertruck. I'd love to see how far you can diverge from standard processes/design and how much you must undo in order to fix the problems that creates. Could there be a reliable Cybertruck 2? What would it need to sacrifice from its odd design to accomplish that (drop the gigacast frame? 2 windscreen wipers? etc).
...and sheep are good for preventing forests from regrowing in the UK and the Republic of Ireland? (for one regional example)

And sure, wool and mutton too, but the level of environmental destruction wrought by humans via sheep is baaaad.
There's one thing worse than a block page being shown to humans because an algorithm decided they're a bot: purposefully false information being shown to humans

It's also just wasting more of the planet's resources as compared to blocking

And more effort, with as only upside that it's not immediately obvious to the bot that it is being blocked so it'll suck in more of your pages

I understand that people are exploring options but I wouldn't label this as a solution to anything as of today's state of the art
My understanding is that Plex&Co's big selling point is transcoding, which might be valuable if your clients have less horsepower and don't natively support whatever format your content is in.
I try to use as little of GHA specific things as possible. Use it as a runner but don't lock yourself into the platform. I want to be able to develop and run the CI outside GHA thank you very much.
You have to ask why does the press only care about it now?

First, why does the press coverage matter this much? If the press covered the stories of the people you know, would that make the heinous treatment they endured OK? Is detaining people for so long OK if each person affected gets a BBC article? Is leaving their family to guess why OK if the NYT publishes their photo? The current admin will do what they are doing regardless of the press coverage.

Additionally, why do you think the press only cares about it now? The press talked about the Biden era "kids in cages". The press talked about the Trump era family separation policy. The press called Obama "deporter in chief".

If you were honestly concerned about this, you wouldn't be going on about press coverage.
30M users so far
Use the fucking clone button you assholes.
The thing is that this will be their destruction as well. If workers don't have any money (because they don't have jobs), nobody can afford what the owners have to sell?
This is a subject that will likely hinge on politics and commodity markets, but the science is very clear as is occam's razor

1. There is a lot of animal life in the deep ocean where these modules are present and absent where they are not

2. Those organisms depend on oxygen to function

3. Polymetallic nodules taken from the deep ocean have been shown in lab conditions to create enough of an electric charge to split H2O into H2 and O2

4. Areas where polymetallic nodules have been removed decades ago haven't recovered even on a microorganism level

5. These nodules individually take *millions* of years to form

From these conclusions we can safely assume that removing them would decimate these ecosystems on a timescale that's longer than evolution of the genus Homo. Put another way it would be as if we cut down a forest knowing it would take millions of years for individual trees to regrow. It is a crime against the planet to remove these nodules
> run out of migrants

they won't run out for a while. Not only are there a lot of immigrants in the US which they can arbitrary Label as illegal even if not, they are also already are trying to

- undo citizenship granted in the past, starting with people not born in the US, but there is clear intend to go further then that.

- classify native Americans as not US citizens
act is brilliant - it really helps iterate on github or gitea actions locally.
Because people are (mass generalisation) mostly only buying Arm to save money over x86.
For AMD to get into Arm would be to kill their profit margins. Same curse that Intel had.
> These big companies use them against individuals all the times

There's your answer. Lawfare works in favor of the party with deeper pockets.
In my view it's the same thing, same trajectory -- with more power in the hands of fewer people further along the trajectory.

It can be better or worse depending on what those with power choose to do. Probably worse. There has been conquest and domination for a long time, but ordinary people have also lived in relative peace gathering and growing food in large parts of the world in the past, some for entire generations. But now the world is rapidly becoming unable to support much of that as abundance and carrying capacity are deleted through human activity. And eventually the robot armies controlled by a few people will probably extract and hoard everything that's left. Hopefully in some corners some people and animals can survive, probably by being seen as useful to the owners.
Show HN: What if your ghostwriter and readwise could talk to each other?
Oh my god it was Alan Webb at the armory in NYC that I saw! That same track found me on the floor when i fell during a relay race haha. Thank you for that mental trip
The IPCC & IEA grossly underestimates PV (and Wind) by any metric for years. Many scenarios assumed costs for 2050 that are already outdated today.

In the same time they overestimate Nuclear Energy and carbon capture by any metric (debatable). It’s getting so bad that there are numerous studies about that problem.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-solar-keeps-being...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/03/31/solar-still-largely-u...

https://www.theenergymix.com/leading-climate-models-underest...

https://climatenexus.org/climate-change-news/iea-historicall...
> When these links are followed, we know with high confidence that it's automated crawler activity, as human visitors and legitimate browsers would never see or click them.

Yeah, it would have been just stellar if I had spotted "huh, that's weird" in a page response and I chased it to see what it was. Then "har de har har, welcome to a Cloudflare blocklist, n00b" for being curious

I hate them so much
Oh, and don’t forget to update the styles or class name via JavaScript if you want to support drag and drop without it looking incredibly janky.
Doctrine of last things.. or the last word. How apropos.
Metadata, images and subtitles (+download)
Or of people trying to murder them.
I'm afraid I'm cheating -- I've never read the book but I am watching the Netflix series.

So I can't say if it's a faithful or reasonable adaptation of the book, but it is quite well done. I suspect that it's less deeply recursive than the book, but it captures a sense of magical realism for which I've heard the book praised. The camerawork is remarkable and the performances are excellent.
that's correct, however, as consumers, my opinion is that we (that is, we that share my point of view, obviously!) should try to buy what we prefer regardless of what's cheaper for the manufacturer. If possible of course, we should spend more for something that in the end we think it's better and not fall for flashy designs that makes it look like you're driving some kind of futuristic car.

About home appliances, specifically kitchens, in my country (Italy) there has been a widespread wave of electric kitchens with touch interface, which are awful if you do intense cooking: it all becomes covered in water and other substances making it harder to cook. Maybe cooking quality and ease is not that relevant, considered the other benefits of having a touch screen, i don't know: but the design itself, in my opinion, expressed as beauty that better vehicles functionality, is "broken", that is, breaks this definition.

Of course this is all my biased opinion.
Well I mean this is the essence of this neo-Lysenkoism isn't it? The adoption of scientific policy based on ideological alignment rather than merit.
UK is #23, so it's not like there aren't other well-developed countries on the list.
Yeah, the lack of support for redirects is really frustrating - it's the single feature I would most like to see them add.

I spent a while exploring how index pages a few years ago and figured out the rules: https://til.simonwillison.net/github/github-pages#user-conte...
A Defense of AI Art
While I don't doubt that at all, what does that have to do with the censorship of the mildest criticisms?
CISA fires then rehires security crew, and puts them on hold
I hate AI as much as any reasonable person should, but I don't think money is a viable filter when governments and corporations will just throw as much money legislation and infrastructure at it as needed to render it irrelevant. They can just budget it in, or pass laws requiring privileged access.

Meanwhile as profit motives begin to dominate (as they inevitably would,) access to information and resources becomes more and more of a privilege than a right, and everything becomes more commercialized, faster.

I won't claim to have a better idea, though. The best solutions in my mind are simply not publishing anything to the web and letting AI choke on its own vomit, or poisoning anything you do publish, somehow.
My dad runs a university lab and is forced to put DEI nonsense in his research grants. It's real. And none of the front line researchers in hard science likes it, but they aren't the ones making the rules.
Notification Summary Miscues
"... you have the lawyers clean it all up later." - Eric Schmidt
> hasn't been the case for years

For 10 years, actually. ES6 - otherwise known as ECMAScript 2015 - did in fact come out 10 years ago.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history#6th...

It truly did improve the JS landscape by an order of magnitude.

For those unfamiliar with the extensive features this brought to JS, here is a good list:

- https://rse.github.io/es6-features/
I need to spend more time with Cloudflare Pages - I get the impression deploys are faster and they have support for redirects! https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/configuration/redire...