MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tristor | 2025-04-11 21:33:43+00:00
> First, JavaScript performance was not an afterthought, it was a big deal.

It's a /very/ big deal. It's not a mistake that V8 was chosen to build Node.JS on top of. Javascript performance continues to dominate the overall performance of browsers on the modern web as front-end developers utilize more and more JS weight in their pages and SPAs become even more commonplace.

Don't mistake my comment as saying that the win for Javascript performance wasn't a big win. V8 completely upended the expectations of both web developers and engine teams about what was not only expected but was what feasible when it came to JS performance. V8 is great, but it didn't need a new browser to ship it, which was my larger point.

> Second, Chrome's sandbox was massively superior from a security point of view. In a world full of viruses, that was a big deal.

Chrome's sandbox is not particularly better than Firefox's sandbox today. Both browsers invented new security concepts over the last decade+ as browsers have become larger, more integral to people's day to day workflows, and more security-sensitive. A modern browser in 2025 is easily as complex as a modern OS in 2025 with similar security implications.

When Chrome first came out, it had one major improvement over Firefox (and both were better than any alternatives for security) which was to run tab contexts in separate processes rather than separate threads. This opened up all sorts of opportunities and benefits, which Chrome capitalized on, proving this approach to be correct, and later Mozilla adopted it in Firefox as well. From a security perspective, the main benefit was to prevent different sites from sharing process memory context, in the event that the site was malicious and exploiting a browser bug to access process memory.

The modern Chrome sandbox (and Firefox sandbox) is magnitudes more advanced and complex than the sandboxing that Chrome initially shipped with, and at least to my recollection there was not a significant difference in security surface area between the two other than tab isolation at Chrome launch, which I don't really count as a "sandbox".
Ask HN: How to find good app developers
by Quinzel | 2025-04-11 21:34:22+00:00
I have an idea for a web based/app based business that will be disruptive to a currently lucrative industry.

I have the skills to do the work in terms of putting together a business plan, and doing market research etc… I even have the skills to do things like wireframes etc and general design stuff (I have an MBA in digital transformation).

What I don’t have is the actual app development skills.

What are some solutions I can use to actually create even just a prototype so that I could create a close to viable product to pitch to investors? And how much money should I realistically be looking to spend?

I’m looking for lots of suggestions that might help me bridge the gap between my actual business knowledge and the technical skills I lack.

Thanks :)
by renewiltord | 2025-04-11 21:35:14+00:00
Without a doubt not the only characteristic. Simply a characteristic of these cultures today. e.g. obsession with environment to the degree of actively harming it (opposing nuclear, wind, solar, and geothermal; and dense housing) is primarily an Anglophone concern specifically UK/US/Aus. And those countries are collectively responsible for a lot of innovation.

Seems to be a truth: inventiveness moving to moribund navel-gazing.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-04-11 21:35:23+00:00
Please review the section of the Hacker News FAQ, linked at the bottom of the page, regarding submissions for job openings which says:

"Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN.

A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month (or Jan 2). Most job ads are welcome there. Only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first."
by lotsofpulp | 2025-04-11 21:35:27+00:00
>Throwing more money at a bad system tends to make a worse system.

There are most likely decreasing returns on both ends of the scale.

>Do you think we’d get better doctors if we could create a new system that lets them focus the majority of their effort on patient care, or if we kept the current system and just gave all physicians pay raises?

"A new system" is too nebulous, but step by step reform is the obvious way forward. From decreasing unnecessary requirements for new doctors (there must be a way to not have to completely sacrifice one's 20s and early 30s and still become a doctor), to tort reform that allows for sensible judgments, to increasing funding for residency and medical schools to allow for higher supply of doctors, etc.

Also, doctor pay (per hour or per patient) has been declining in real terms for many, many years now. Which is not bad in and of itself, but when you are simultaneously decreasing remuneration and quality of life at work, intelligent people will pick up on that signal to look elsewhere to sell their services.

A lot of US healthcare is performed by smart people from poorer countries who just want a chance for their kids to grow up in the USA. That the country relies on that arbitrage has always been ridiculous to me.
by Riverheart | 2025-04-11 21:35:44+00:00
“Not only that, they also assume or pretend that this is obviously violating copyright, when in fact this is a) not clear, and b) pending determination by courts and legislators around the world.”

Uh huh, so much worse than the people that assume or pretend that it’s obviously not infringing and legal. Fortunately I don’t need to wait for a lawyer to form an opinion and neither do those in favor of AI as you might’ve noticed.

You see any of them backing down and waiting for answer from a higher authority?
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-04-11 21:36:10+00:00
I don't think this is necessarily an issue of censorship so much as it is highlighting that Facebook is clearly a fucking news publisher and should be treated as such under the law.

It's time to revoke section 230 for any social media network that amplifies or buries content with a non-transparent process.

In this case it isn't even merely an algorithm designed by humans. They have LITERAL human editors choosing which stories to put on the front page, just like the NYT, and they should be held liable for the content on their platforms just like legacy media is.
by Modified3019 | 2025-04-11 21:37:15+00:00
I basically skipped windows XP entirely, only seeing it on other people’s computers.

I staying on a thinkpad R31 with win2k until I got a R61 (4gb ram) with vista on it several months after vista’s release. At that point it seemed like driver and other early teething had been worked out, so my experience was pretty positive.

When I eventually moved to win7 I didn’t notice any real difference.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-04-11 21:37:34+00:00
I’m baffled by this.

What business have projects mandating the tool I use for my contributions? I’m responsible of the quality of what I send and should be the sole arbiter of if I want to clean generated code or not. This person is basically calling all their potential contributors too stupid to reasonably use some class of tools. That’s downright insulting.

I have lost all the good will I had for Servo.
by fxtentacle | 2025-04-11 21:38:35+00:00
The people I know that do cutting-edge research mostly do it because it's fun. That might be hard to imagine, but if you have great (government-funded) local hackerspaces where you can meet others, talk to them and built stuff together, it becomes a viable free-time activity. For example, I can schedule a Prusa (FDM) / Form (SLA) / Fuse (SLS) print job remotely and then quickly walk there to pick it up. If I need custom sheet metal or wood, I'll bring a USB stick with the DXF and then walk. That kind of infrastructure massively cuts down on iteration times. Plus it's great to get feedback in-person by other tinkerers when you pick things up.
by seertaak | 2025-04-11 21:38:43+00:00
Interesting comment, but Germany's much-vaunted Mittelstand is in its initial death throes. Key industries and IP are being auctioned off to the highest bidder, not the least, for lack of heirs. It isn't universally acknowledged, but the same processes that caused the US's manufacturing decay have been occurring in Germany; at roughly the same speed, but with a 30 year lag (since Agenda 2010) viz-a-vis the US.
by solid_fuel | 2025-04-11 21:38:53+00:00
My personal opinion as a fan and adopter of the stack is that the benefit is often seen down the line, with the upfront adoption cost being roughly the same.

E.g. the built in telemetry system is fantastic, but when you are first adopting the stack it still takes a day or two to read the docs and get events flowing into - say - DataDog, which is roughly the same amount of time as basically every other solution.

The benefit of Elixir here is that the telemetry stack is very standardized across Elixir projects and libraries, and there are fewer moving pieces - no extra microservices or docker containers to ship with everything else. But that benefit comes 2 years down the line when you need to change the telemetry system.
by coffeeaddict1 | 2025-04-11 21:39:15+00:00
AFAIK, MoltenVK doesn't. Dawn (Google's C++ WebGPU implementation) does have some experimental support for it [0][1].

[0] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/348702031

[1] https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/4195
by sangeeth96 | 2025-04-11 21:39:21+00:00
Adam was a very prominent Chrome DevRel and top voices of the web platform. I personally owe to his content (blog, snippets, podcast, talks, youtube, social media etc.) to stay up-to-date on things.

It’s a bit of a shock to me that he of all people is getting laid off and that too in such an ugly way.
by Alupis | 2025-04-11 21:39:55+00:00
> Elon: divest from your private assets or get the fuck out of the government. Otherwise you're a corrupt official.

You're directing this at Elon - but you are aware just about every single congress critter, and every other high-level government official holds private assets and profits off of them during their tenure in the government... right?

> Exclusivity agreements with private companies have NO FUCKING PLACE in public governments.

I hope you were this upset about Cheney as well. What about Palantir and their army of lobbyists? Oracle and theirs? Sig Sauer and theirs? Lockheed Martin and theirs? AWS and theirs? I can go on forever... This is super common in government, and no it's not limited to one party or another. It's everywhere.

It is wrong every time. But only now we get the all-caps writing and chest thumping only the likes of reddit can be proud of.
by jmward01 | 2025-04-11 21:40:47+00:00
I'm just surprised that it feels like very little deep innovation in the OS world has happened since windows 2k. 3.11 brought networking in. 95 brought true multitasking to the masses and 2k brought multi-processing/multi-user (yes, NT3.1 had it, but 2k is where most normal users jumped in). And, yes, I know these things existed in other OSes out there but I think of these as the mass market kick offs for them. In general I just don't see anything but evolutionary improvements (and back-sliding) in the OS world beyond this time. I had really hoped that true cloud OSes would have become the norm by now (I really want my whole house connected as a seamless collection of stuff) or other major advances like killing filesystems (I think of these as backdoor undocumented APIs). Have we really figured out what an OS is supposed to be or are we just stuck in a rut?

[edit] 3.1 should have been windows for worgkroups 3.11
by dvdhnt | 2025-04-11 21:40:48+00:00
Accountability is shutting down the agency and shuttering the programs. They did that.

The point of a slush fund is that the funds weren't allocated for specific programs by law, they were discretionary. So, while technically not illegal, they are frivolous and unethical. Not to mention, how would half the country and most of the world react if Trump's DOJ started arresting the people involved? They'd call him a tyrant and burn more Teslas.
by ndr42 | 2025-04-11 21:41:08+00:00
The CSU has a history of putting people in charge that do not benefit germany but bavaria (the only part of germany where the party CSU is active), e.g. Andreas Scheuer [1][2].

Notable recent examples of corruption are the Maskenaffäre [4] or Julia Klöckner and Nestlé ("Julia Klöckner and Nestlé show how the greasy closeness between politics and business can go too far" [5]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Scheuer: "Scheuer's ministry is said to have broken budgetary and public procurement law when concluding the multi-billion dollar contracts with the operators and "deliberately deceived" the Bundestag about the real costs of the car toll."

[2] Söder (party leader of CSU) said about Scheuer: "I don't know not many ministers that bring so much money to bavaria as Andreas Scheuer" [3]

[3] German: "Bei allem, was der ein oder andere kritisiert an dem Andi Scheuer: Ich kenne wenige Minister, die so viel Geld nach Bayern holen, wie der Andi Scheuer. Auch das muss man einfach mal in der Bilanz ehrlicherweise bitte nach draußen sagen."

[4] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maskenaffäre

5] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/julia-kloeckner-und-nestle-ze...
by dhosek | 2025-04-11 21:41:23+00:00
I’m aware my son is an outlier, but I’m rather proud of his working out the square root(s) of i without even having algebra yet (he’s in fifth grade). Last year I taught him how to solve simple linear equations (ax + b = c) and expanded that to ax + b = cx + d, but he’s been mostly an autodidact with his advanced math (consulting youtube videos and books from the library).

But yeah, there seems not to be a lot of assumption of familiarity with complex numbers beyond the basics of their existence and maybe some simple arithmetic on numbers in the form a + bi which other than i² = −1 is just following the usual rules for polynomial arithmetic. I was surprised at how much basic content on complex numbers was included in the first chapter of my graduate text on complex analysis.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-11 21:41:35+00:00
They're in precisely the same position the Republicans were in before Trump: they're the only viable and not completely-detestable party for about half the voters, but are doing a really bad job of working on what those voters want.

Republican Party leadership in 2015-2016 wanted more of business as usual, and to keep power. Trump came in talking just like an actual Republican voter in a midwestern diner, with the credibility of being a party outsider, which cut the legs out from under them because they have sucked at representing their actual voters for decades. This struck such a grievous blow that he quickly took over the entire party. Then he either actually did things Republicans had been selling voters on for years but not delivering (Roe v Wade, gone, thanks to his Supreme Court), or at least kind-of ineptly tried to do things Republican voters have long wanted but Republican politicians never really even tried to do (the stupid wall, tariff China, destroy [well, uh, replace with a barely-different agreement, but whatever, names matter] NAFTA).

It took him bumbling his way through a pandemic to lose, and not by that much, he'd almost certainly have gotten a second term if not for sheer chance despite all the blatant corruption and daily incredibly stupid bullshit, that is how effective this strategy was.

Democrats won't improve and will struggle to win elections until something similar happens to their party. This will need to include abandoning strident neoliberal economic policy, as it did for the Republicans, because voters never liked that and it only worked because both parties stuck to it regardless.

... all of this is assuming we have free & fair Federal elections again.
by fxtentacle | 2025-04-11 21:41:46+00:00
Fraunhofer is (by now) only financed 30% through tax money and 70% comes from the royalties on their past developments like MP3 and H264 and H265 and MPEG-H.

Anyway, Fraunhofer gets recurring tax funding. What voize got is a one-off research grant to a group of companies:

- voize

- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (a medical university)

- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Berlin (a government AI research lab)

- Connext Communication GmbH, Paderborn (a tech company)

- Kleeblatt Pflegeheime gGmbH, Ludwigsburg (a retirement home, i.e. potential end user)

- Pflegewohnhaus am Waldkrankenhaus gGmbH, Berlin (another retirement home)

For this grant type, it's quite common that you pay the inventors, some assistant companies, some researchers, and some end users a lump sum to force them all to work together on commercializing the invention.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-11 21:42:31+00:00
I'm not that curious.

There are simple arguments that Collatz should do what it seems to do that certainly hold up for most N, it's the "all N" part that's hard.

I'd expect the form of an answer to Collatz to have a form similar to Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Not just "too big to fit in the margin" but more like six years of work in isolation, huge manuscript and all.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-04-11 21:42:38+00:00
Training data at scale unavoidably taints models with vast amounts of references to the same widespread ideas that appear repeatedly in said data, so because the model has "seen" probably millions of photos of Indiana Jones, if you ask for an image of an archeologist who wears a hat and uses a whip, it's weighted averages are going to lead it to create something extremely similar to Indiana Jones because it has seen Indiana Jones so much. Disintegrating IP into trillions of pieces and then responding to an instruction to create it with something so close to the IP as to barely be distinguishable is still infringement.

The flip-side to that is the truly "original" images where no overt references are present all look kinda similar. If you run vague enough prompts to get something new that won't land you in hot water, you end up with a sort of stock-photo adjacent looking image where the lighting doesn't make sense and is completely unmotivated, the framing is strange, and everything has this over-smoothed, over-tuned "magazine copy editor doesn't understand the concept of restraint" look.
by ernst_klim | 2025-04-11 21:42:59+00:00
> comprehensive public transportation infrastructure, universal healthcare without administrative bloat, and urban planning that prioritizes livability over speculation.

This can't be further from the truth. This is probably written by an American, and US is a very car-centric, but German infrastructure is a shitshow.

Also healthcare is absolutely stiffled by bureaucracy. I have a friend who is a cardiologist. He says that exactly half of his work time is paperwork. And not just paperwork, but German paperwork, where you manually type PDF fields one by one, then print, then sign, then scan and so on.
by PathOfEclipse | 2025-04-11 21:43:06+00:00
No. I'm saying what you call "factual reporting" is inaccurate and dishonest propaganda. And the "opinion pieces" I'm sharing are all based on facts and realities.

If any source is deserving of a comparison to InfoWars here it's HRW itself. You can't unilaterally smear every right-of-center source as completely untrustworthy and expect to stay on the side of reality for long.
by lreeves | 2025-04-11 21:43:23+00:00
This seems super amateur and your privacy policy sucks compared to OpenRouter. Also it's weird you have time to respond to trivial questions but not questions like "why would I use this over the entrenched leader in this space".

No docs or info without signing up, confusing Grok and Groq, and claiming you have access to o4 models which haven't been released makes this look like an incredibly unserious offering.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-04-11 21:43:25+00:00
Not even remotely the same. Democrats haven't had both chambers of Congress and the presidency since the first half Obama's first term, and even then, he didn't have the courts. The best they could do was pass Dodd-Frank to prevent the next financial crisis and ACA, which the courts promptly watered down. Obama's threat of a public option in the ACA had so much money against it that the Democrats lost the legislature in the midterm election. Trump has both chambers of Congress and the courts on his side.

If you want to fix things, you need to educate voters. There are no procedures that can help you if all three branches of the government are against you.
I think I know why Collatz does that thing it does
by stuartriffle | 2025-04-11 21:43:41+00:00
The normal term for this is "manic delusion of grandeur", so please help me out: 3n walks congruence classes +1 steps each one out of alignment /2 never changes that fact

Accumulating co-primeness is the "memory" that stops n from repeating. This is invariant under 2^k, which allows it to make forward progress through the chaos. Exhausting congruence classes mod 3 forces n to a power of 2; game over.

I asked AI to prove those things, and it did. I assume.

The only question then would be if 1.5n can grow the residue vector quickly enough to outrun the exhaustive walk. I asked AI that too, and got back a one page p-word. I'm not even going to type it.

I can sweet-talk AI into agreeing with damned near anything, so I'm stuck. This is the only forum I know with consistently thoughtful conversation, and I can't think my way out of this one, and I have real work to do.

Is there a mathematician in the house? The p-word is in a comment.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-11 21:44:00+00:00
LLMs could help if they were specifically applied to the task [1], however people are actually applying them to the generation of countless slop videos. Google's problem, which I think there is no cure for, is that Google believes it is #1 and to quote Fatboy Slim "We're #1 why try harder?" If in some way they feel they have competition it is to be a 2nd rate TikTok, not be a better version of what made YouTube great.

In the meantime, for everybody that's been turned on to something really awesome and creative on YouTube somebody else got turned on to something really toxic.

[1] Something significant happens every 10 years in search relevance, and SBERT was one of those.
by int_19h | 2025-04-11 21:44:35+00:00
> Likewise, most devs don't want to learn an obscure language for one job even if they are more than capable. Either they get stuck doing that language or they earn a hole in their resume instead of additional experience in what future employers care about.

This is less of an issue with accumulated experience. Personally I would actually welcome the kind of job that would involve learning a new niche language, since I already have >10 years of experience in several mainstream languages, and there's diminishing returns wrt resumes and interviews past this point.
by usatie | 2025-04-11 21:45:11+00:00
Thanks for the links — I went through all of them (took me a while). The point about rack density differences between SRAM-based systems like Cerebras or Groq and GPU clusters is now clear to me.

What I’m still trying to understand is the economics.

From this benchmark: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/llama-4-scout/providers...

Groq seems to offer near lowest prices per million tokens and the near fastest end to end response times. That’s surprising because in my understanding, speed(latency) and the cost are trade-offs.

So I’m wondering: Why can’t GPU-based providers can't offer cheaper but slower(high-latency) APIs? Or do you think Groq/Cerebras are pricing much below cost (loss-leader style)?