skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it would help if there weren’t numerous issues with the data as presented on that site. Specifically now they are only claiming somewhere around 28 billion saved in cancelled contracts when in early February they claimed like 55 billion. Seems odd that over time the amount saved would go down despite the alleged number being of cancellations going up.

Also it is concerning that the largest amount from an individual contract saved is a cancelled deportation facility contract. Seems at odds with the Administration’s goals to ramp up mass deportation but cancel the contract for building a holding facility for unaccompanied minors.

My suggestion would be if the goal is to eliminate debt we would need to target social security reform such as raising the retirement ages and eliminating the cap on the payroll tax. Additionally, but far less realistic would be implementing a Land Value Tax. Not cancel random contracts that amount to a tiny fraction of the budget and propose massive tax cuts like the current administration seems to be doing.
The new Borealis route (short run of the Empire Builder from Chicago to St. Paul) was profitable in like, weeks, after it started running. It is consistently sold out.
I would be 0% surprised to see Stephen Miller's information in this leak.
You need evals. I found this post extremely helpful in building out a set of evals for my AI product: https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals/
That sounds like a similar failure rate for using newer models in technical contexts. Especially for popular technologies where there are enough resources such that someone other than the original creators could reasonably write a book about it.
Damn, the culture they have bred and actively maintained is now going to be turned against them?

It might end up making them more sympathetic people on the long term. They might realise the seriousness of what they have done to others.
Free isn't a kind of speech, it describes a condition under which speech is performed. Their question was what kind of speech is being alluded to.
At $0.14/kWh and 250w power limit (that I'd recommend to avoid noise) it would be ~$25/m
This checks out because all those DOGE hires appear to be hackers, and they are now state sponsored.
Most of them could never pass a basic background check, much less a TS or even public trust from one of the more invasive Federal agencies.
As per the post:

> That’s one hundred billion supernovae per century, or a billion per year, or about 30 per second.

7 characters of base26 gives you 8 billion combinations. "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" requires ~1e48 events when going by the actual non base26 scheme. So I wouldn't be worried.
I wonder how long it's been since that was true. I think that era passed when most small businesses and individuals moved from self hosting to SaaS.
Differentially Private Synthetic Data via Foundation Model APIs
Apple's implementation of this is discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43685714
There's also a "janitortest" account in the leaked list @4chan.org so who knows if there was just a shared password flying around...
SCOTUS granting the president far reaching immunity was an invitation for the president to be in contempt of SCOTUS whenever it pleases him, and to just piss on the constitution he took an oath on defending.
Hilbert's sixth problem: derivation of fluid equations via Boltzmann's theory
Do you have a more independent/reliable source?
This is literally in the first chapter of Mythical Man-Month:

> One occasionally reads newspaper accounts of how two programmers in a remodeled garage have built an important program that surpasses the best efforts of large teams. And every programmer is prepared to believe such tales, for he knows that he could build any program much faster than the 1000 statements/year reported for industrial teams.

> Why then have not all industrial programming teams been replaced by dedicated garage duos? One must look at what is being produced.

One reason might be that personal data going into a database handled by a highly experimental software might be a non-issue for this dev, but it is a serious risk for Google, Apple, etc.
We made it OSS so anyone can look through it, as we don't hold the keys anywhere, and it's all local to your project.

I wonder what kind of assurance might be helpful here
They train on 14 billion tokens in Slovene. Are you sure that's not enough?
https://documentedny.com/2025/04/14/ice-bukele-cecot-tren-de...

Probably more then one.
You make it sound like modern conservatives possess the intellectual rigor and career achievements required to meet Harvard’s hiring bar.
Step 2: do the sophisticated needful.
This is exactly what I expect from this administration. Mob tactics. Take the silver or get the lead.
Code preview is restrained to an unreadable width.
Have you tried this blog on a device larger than 600px ????
> If it was some insignificant photo sharing app with 13 employees why did they pay a billion dollars for it? Everyone knew when the sale closed exactly what they were doing.

If everyone knew, why was the purchase allowed?
I lied about my age and was given janitor access in the mid 2000s. There was a special /j/ board to coordinate on, but it broke relatively early, and you mostly had to hang out in the #janiteam channel on Rizon. I think almost everybody else was underage as well. There was a minimal web overlay that let you delete/escalate posts. You couldn't see people's IPs, but you could see how many outstanding ban requests they had. These numbers helped me deduce that many boards' most infamous personalities were all the same guy.

We were all offered the chance to become mods in 2010, but moot wanted to see our faces on a Skype call. I thought that was a step too far and just gradually stopped caring after that. Seems like I made the right choice.

On the whole it was barely held together technically and organisationally, mostly run by moot's personal friends, and fun all around. Things were far less serious then.

And the checks arrived on time every month: $0.00
I guess brexit insanity and trump insanity cancel each other out then
Damn, I forgot about cross-domain tracking. I'm either browsing or shopping on every platform in private mode - perhaps that also rolls me onto... the great captcha wall.
Sorry, just to clarify: OC is about sequestration of carbon, not using trees (biomass) as fuel, right?

Which I oppose; my own governor is arguing that exporting wood pellets is a net gain. Face palm.

That said, learning about biochar is on my todo list. I do forest restoration work (volunteer) and am excited to try anything which helps build topsoil, store carbon, hastens reforestation. example question: So we'd capture that wood gas when making biochar...?

--

Otherwise, I agree with all. Especially comment elsethread about our existing "distributed storage" system(s) like hot water tanks and EVs at rest.

Fortunately, misc startups are trying to tap into that potential. eg combining heat pumps and water tanks, residential district heating. eg virtual power plants (peer-to-peer systems) aggregating residential batteries (EVs, power walls, and soon appliances) into grid level storage.

It's such an amazing time to be alive. The opportunities are insurmountable.
I think that technology is really the last thing I want in a dungeons and dragons game. I prefer only pen and paper to be in a pen and paper game. And while it is an obvious problem to be solved by LLMs, an LLM will never recreate the fun of using a central casting book to create a backstory [1].

[1] https://open.substack.com/pub/worldofkamenlandia/p/the-world...
I did it out of pure interest, just to explore ways of locking down a web server.
Show HN: Infisical SSH – Centralized SSH access for teams and infrastructure
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If my grandmother was a tractor, would she have wheels?
I’d say it’s more like a high-profile NRA member getting shot. Unfortunate but it’s hard to miss the irony.
at this point it feels like github is becoming a social network for developers
4chan is widely known for /b/ but it had and has much more than /b. /b was always known for its murk.

Each chan sub category tended to their own niche community and rivalry was little.

/f/ in its hayday was a wonderful creative group for Flash animations and with existent of NewGrounds made the internet fun. It's how I learnt flash and how YTMND came to be.
There were already people called "inspector generals" which handled waste, fraud, and abuse but Trump fired about 17 of them in his first week. Deploying tech bros to solve the problem is naive at best and malicious at worst. The arrogance in assuming that no auditor before them looked into the SSA database and saw DOB records going back to 1875 is outstanding.
> For everyone to put their connection to Today aside and share in something timeless

This is a political position.
Trump plans to stockpile deep-sea metals to counter China
> there's no other online community i know of that still allows fully anonymous posting

Doesn't 8chan/kun still exist?
To be fair Unity is somewhat special because it requires a lot more massaging to get acceptable performance in the happy path than standard C# code. In the latter you mainly care about large allocations if application is latency-tolerant (i.e. as long as you don't touch LOH it's fine) or avoiding allocations in general if it's latency-sensitive. There isn’t that much difference with regular sane C# code.
Not the first time this has happened, and probably not the last. I hope they bounce back from this like they did before. It's a special place.
Anthropic’s research did find that Claude seemed to have an inner language agnostic ”language” though. And that the larger a LLM got, the more it could realize the innate meaning of words between language barriers as well as expand upon its internal non-specific language representation.

So, part of its improved performance as they grow in parameter count is probably not only due to expanded raw material that it is trained upon, but a greater ability to ultimately ”realize” and connect apparent meanings of words, so that a German speaker might benefit more and more from training material in Korean.

> These results show that features at the beginning and end of models are highly language-specific (consistent with the {de, re}-tokenization hypothesis
[31] ), while features in the middle are more language-agnostic. Moreover, we observe that compared to the smaller model, Claude 3.5 Haiku exhibits a higher degree of generalization, and displays an especially notable generalization improvement for language pairs that do not share an alphabet (English-Chinese, French-Chinese).

Source: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

However, they do see that Claude 3.5 Haiku seemed to have an English ”default” with more direct connections. It’s possible that a LLM needs to go a more roundabout way via generalizations to communicate in alternative languages and where this causes a dropoff in performance the smaller the model is?
It's not what you think.

Let me give you an example. /k/ is the weapons/military forum, and it's unironically run by US government authorities. Vulgar racial slurs are wholly permitted -- but if you question certain aspects of US military or foreign policy, or suggest that Russia/China/etc. aren't houses of cards that will topple the moment the US wills it, your comment will probably be deleted and you'll be hit with a 3-day ban.
Can you please elaborate how it is "asking for it" if we assume the basic auth password is reasonably complex and kept as safe as, say, the SSH login credentials of the same server?
Two Years of Rust
Posting on 4chan just kept becoming increasingly user hostile, especially for casual users, you had to be really determined to post something: posts started requiring 24 hour email verification, and after that you had to wait ~10 minutes before being allowed to post, and finally you had to complete a nearly impossible captcha which could lock you out from posting for an undetermined amount of time just for failing. It became apparent that the owners were pushing the gold pass pretty damn hard, and it's advertised on literally every board page.
There's a pinned comment on the video about the cable:

For everyone that's interested, the included USB cable is wired like this:

GND -------> GND
D+ -------> VCC
D- -------> VCC
VCC -------> VCC

So it is a non-standard cable! I measured by checking continuity between the USB A plug, and the USB C connector with a USB A adapter on it. None of my probes are small enough for a USB C connector's pins directly.

There was a bit in the video about this that ended up on the cutting room floor, my bad!
I'm also very curious of each limit for each model.
Never thought about limit before upgrading my plan
Better Scala Builds with the Mill Build Tool, Scalar Conference 2025 [video]
Apple plans to improve its AI models by privately analyzing user data
Interestingly, we then collectively decided that, in many cases, imperfect artisanal things were better than perfect industrially produced things. So maybe people will start intentionally putting mistakes into their texts to prove they're not machines.

I'm already reluctant to use the em-dash correctly because so many people think only LLMs know how to use it.
> I just can't help it

Yeah continue on this journey of self-reflection.
(Outside of niche circles like HN) Nobody uses computers anymore. Nobody is going to seed from their phone.

Plus instead of a million people all wanting to watch Spider-Man 2, those million people have infinite options of short videos or whatever to watch. The desire to watch A Specific Video isn’t what it used to be.

Times have changed and P2P as a common way of sharing stuff is dead to the average person.
Article about the work at [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lofty-math-proble...
If you're using nginx as a proxy like the above commenter suggested, then if you're serving static/cached pages (should be able to for most public pages?), it can do over 10k RPS even on my n100 minipc (the limit there is actually the 1 Gbit NIC).
We've heard it time and time again that 4chan is the so called "last bastion of free speech on the internet" when this so called free speech is just being unapologetically racist and antisemitic. I hope its gone for good.
The core fundamental problem from my viewpoint in the US political system is unlimited campaign contributions which empowered the ultra wealthy. This means that elections are fought between ultra wealthy people and politicians have to first appeal to the rich people to get them on their sides, rather than the majority of the people.

You need to fix this, otherwise you have muted the impact of the majority of people in your democracy.
Similar or better than the performance of most so called humans so I guess we're all a collection of Chinese room switchboxes.
Searle's "Chinese Room" was as wrong then as it is now
Sounds about like what I would have expected as a (also underage) user at the time. The suspicion was always that most of the memorable joke chains were probably just one guy self-replying (I always suspected that was the case for the hunter2 meme specifically). It didn't really matter, it was funny anyway.

Thanks for taking the time to reply, and thanks for the fun back then :)
Is 4chan Down? What We Know Amid Hack Reports
The man.
> C++, what a disrespectful language! Nobody can be faster than Python, NOBODY! We should raise the tariff charged to C++ to 145x.
Are there any open details on how the VM / container / WASM-native approaches are implemented?
The BBC is a weird corporation created by royal charter. But it's not a part of the UK government, and nor are works created by the BBC copyright-free (as is the case in the US for something like NASA).

UK government publications aren't copyright-free either. In fact they manage to be worse than copyrighted, at least for works created before 1988 (some of which are perpetually copyrighted, others until 2040, others for 125 years, it's a big mess). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright#United_Kingdom
GP is committing a variant of Chesterton's Fence where they're actually proud of their ignorance of the fence.

Thank you for enlightening those of us who actually care to know.
You have that in reverse. Atmosphere distorts a laser beam. You need to pump a ton of power to have a stable self focusing beam in atmosphere.
Yes, that's very true - they also sell outside AliExpress D2C on their own sites.

It tends to work out cheaper with the various AliExpress deals you can stack together to buy from there though.
You don't. You have to separate concers between deterministic and stochastic code input/output. You need evals for the stochastic and mocking when the stochastic output is consumed in the deterministic code.
Maybe they monitor rather than censor unencrypted traffic? That could be more of a problem for those in authoritarian countries.
You shouldn't be logging in to a server via SSH using a user+password combo, instead use a public/private key combo which is considerably more complex and can't effectively be bruteforced like a user+password.

Most web servers don't really come with any built in defense against brute force attempts vs Basic Auth gates, so unless you've set something up to protect it, someone with enough time will eventually get in.
yep, that's to be expected, this is a very wip demo. I'm implementing exec() support now, so currently only shell builtins work.
Frutiger Aero didn’t exist before 2017.
Are you genuinely curious, or do you already know this kind of complaint refers to offensive, racist, hateful speech (otherwise known as the type of speech that requires protection, since civil speech that agrees with the popular worldviews does not need protecting)?
WEIRD – a way to be on the web
Most boards on 4chan, like the origami board, food and cooking, pets and animals, retro gaming, toys, etc are relatively harmless and are just a different way to participate in discussions than using discord or reddit.

The staff has cut down a lot on organized harassment that 4chan was notorious for in recent years. Those people migrated to private discords, telegrams, and other forums (like kiwi farms, soy party, etc). Ex, #gamergate was mostly an 8chan, Twitter, reddit, and IRC phenomenon - #gg people would get banned if they tried posting about it on 4chan
The fact that there is a supernova isn't much of a spoiler. It's more like the premise of the game. It's difficult to not discover this within the first 30 minutes.
I'd hardly call it the "old internet". It is very niche, and has not been around that long really - like what 2003 or something? Nothing compared to e.g. Geocities which was early-mid 90s IIRC which I'd argue had more relevance to people than 4chan.
And, as I'm saying, prestige, or probable future prestige, isn't a good proxy for a researcher's value or future value, even if it could be fairly guessed, which it can't. Nature is exhibit A, B and C, as it's the most prestigious journal, but not the most rigorous in any field, and its very existence damages Science by overvaluing the research it publishes, reducing the impact of better journals and the research they publish, and wasting the time, quality of life, and quality of research of scientists who feel like they must do anything they have to to publish in it, or are pressured by funders and/or academic institutions to do so.
Hate makes odd bedfellows at times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National...
I doubt credit card purchases will be an option once we start seeing a lot of chargebacks. They are an absolute pita to deal with for the vendor and processor. I expect your payment options will be limited to those that don’t allow chargebacks.
Nearly every website developer servicing small business builds a WordPress site and sets it up on a hosting company's cPanel install with phpmyadmin running by default.
DeepSeek Being Applied Across China, Used for Surveillance and Propaganda
Show HN: Draft a solid, cohesive fantasy football team with zero knowledge
Fantasy football is fun but there's so much information and strategy I don't have time to learn.

This tool, at each draft round, takes inputs: 1) optimal strategy for that round (and the draft overall), 2) current team composition, 3) available players.

It outputs a suggested draft pick with two alternative suggestions.
A New Way to Press NES Controller Buttons Is Shaking Up Competitive Tetris(2021)
Yeah and if threads hit a certain reply count, they get bump locked.
Sure, if you slap Basic Auth with "admin:admin" on phpMyAdmin in 2025, you're asking for it. But a Basic Auth password with 256 bits of entropy is just as resistant to brute force as AES-256 (assuming the implementation is sound and TLS is used). It's not the protocol that's insecure, it's usually how it's deployed.
> Believing that something is inevitable is the first step towards it becoming inevitable. But there feels like there is a momentum in people, and in society as a whole that only ends one way, and we need to release and explore. I don't know if once society gets the "bug" to tear it all down there's any going back.

> I feel like we're destroying our societies and getting into wars out of curiosity, and because we've forgotten how it hurts more than anything else.

I can sort of theorize that human society does have the ability to cycle that is partially based on human life spans / human memory. It is like a LLM that runs out of context and then starts forgetting what it learned in the earliest part of the context. For humans it is related to our lifespans as we culturally forgot what we have learned, and thus have to relearn it.

That said, I think that periods of peace are punctuated with war. War resets the pressures that build during peace. This is similar to how refactors or rewrites are needed every once in a while as the technical debt builds up as requirements and use cases change over time, especially if no one was paying down the techn debt as you went.
Is it any difference than shopping from Amazon, except you don't have to pay the dropshipping markup?
I don't remotely want to use Windows 2000 again, but it is interesting to see a version of Windows where the UI was consistent. Currently it is a mishmash of four generations of GUI toolkits, some UI is in one style, some UI is another, etc, etc
> why is YouTube insistent that they should get paid for their bandwidth?

What are you talking about?

YouTube has a lot more costs than bandwidth. And a lot of ads and Premium revenue goes to creators.
Clinton / Gore did it, properly, well though out, effectively, in the mid-late 90's. I'm not sure if you'd consider that "modern times" though.

https://youtu.be/lG9pxvpGY-Q?si=cii2iggD-9hAj0ms&t=900

I've timestamped the above video to where it mentions the Clinton / Gore bit, but the whole video is enlightening.
Full title, which didn’t fit:

> DeepSeek Is Already Being Applied Widely Across China’s Industries, And Used For Government Surveillance And Propaganda