MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hobs | 2025-05-29 11:38:07+00:00
I don't understand why that's an acceptable answer when people dont understand the nature of the performance issue.

Network round trip? Scaling the instance aint gonna help. Row by agonizing row? Maybe some linear speedups as you get more IO, but cloud storage is pretty fucking slow. Terrible plan/table/indexing/statistics? Still gonna be bad with more grunt. Blocking and locking and deadlocking the problem? Speeding up might make it worse :)

If people have exponential problems they don't think "let's just get more machines" they think "lets measure and fix the damn thing" but for some reason it doesn't apply to most people's databases.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-05-29 11:38:31+00:00
Zeldman is dead*, and Nielsen is still running NNG. I don't think he's interested in getting into politics. Enough people hate on him, just for being the skunk at the graphic design picnic.

*[EDIT] I’m wrong.

Glad to be wrong.

'E's not dead. 'E's pining.
by mbty | 2025-05-29 11:38:46+00:00
Really cool and in-depth, thank you!

I believe that there is a typo in the pattern formula (right after "Looking closely you might pick up on the pattern"): it should read

5**(n/2) instead of 5**n 5**((n-1)/2) instead of 5**(n-1)

(\overrightarrow{10*4} is [0, 25] but your original formula gives [0, 625])

Also, regarding Knuth's mistake: Youtube comments point out that his fractal is in fact correct; he just mistook the beginning point with the end point. Loosely speaking, the fractal is symmetrical about its middle turn, which is precisely the one Knuth believed to be incorrect. All in all, he still made a fractal-related mistake, so the conclusion holds.
by yusina | 2025-05-29 11:38:51+00:00
Ok, if that's the class of systems we are talking about, then the system that your decider wants to check does not need to attain the same state twice. It may or may not terminate, and your decider may never know. You can't have it both ways. Keep in mind that the input can be as adversarial as it wants and knows, including having full knowledge of what your decider is trying to do.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-05-29 11:39:18+00:00
The manufacturing sector have been heavily into automation without AI for quite some time.

Take a tour of a modern auto assembly line and if you're like me, you'll be shocked by 2 things --- how few people are involved and the lack of lights (robots don't need them).

At the Hyundai assembly plant in Mobile Alabama, only about 24 hours of human labor goes into building each car.

At an average rate of about $30 per hour, less than $1000 of human labor goes into each new car.

This doesn't leave a lot of room for AI to have a major impact.
by sillyfluke | 2025-05-29 11:39:38+00:00
Yeah, it's interesting to think about change in terms of the change in the economy. It might be rose-tinted glasses when looking at the past, but when "the internet" went mainstream, ie when it had its "chatgpt 3.5" moment, in two years time there was more significant economic impact than this round of AI as I recall. And I'm thinking of the normal economy not the VC hype money slushing around. If that's true, I'm guessing the cost factor of AI vs the internet is also a substantial factor.

EDIT: I see that someone on the thread posted that Krugman doesn't think the internet brought real economic change either apparently.
Show HN: PostLayer – Social media scheduling for startups (postlayer.co)
by vikramsuthar121 | 2025-05-29 11:41:12+00:00
Hi HN, I'm launching PostLayer, a social media scheduling tool built specifically for startups and solopreneurs. After struggling with overly complex and expensive tools like Hootsuite and Buffer, I decided to build something simpler.

What it does:

Schedule posts across Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook Built-in viral content templates (think "Sunday motivation" posts, founder journey updates, etc.) Simple analytics focused on what actually matters for small businesses Pricing that makes sense for bootstrapped startups ($9/month vs $99+ for enterprise tools)

Why I built it: Every existing tool assumes you're managing 50+ clients or have a dedicated social media team. As a solo founder, I just needed something that works without the bloat. I spent more time learning Buffer's interface than actually posting content. Technical details:

Currently in beta. The viral content feature is new – it analyzes high-performing posts in your niche and suggests similar templates. Ask HN: What's been your biggest pain point with social media tools? Always looking for feedback from fellow builders. Try it free: https://postlayer.co Happy to answer any questions!
by kkukshtel | 2025-05-29 11:41:19+00:00
This post presupposes a bit of knowledge about C#/WASM and Native code linking in the C# ecosystem. I wrote a post a while back that could be a complement to this that does some more level setting about what's possible these days with compiling C#-based engines to the web for those that don't already have the context:

So You Want To Compile Your C# Game Engine To The Web With WASM

https://kylekukshtel.com/csharp-wasm-game-engine-compile-web...
by tatersolid | 2025-05-29 11:42:10+00:00
> I really wish Microsoft would ship the IANA database with Windows, and the IANA-Windows mapping table too, and provide APIs to query them, and keep them updated with Windows update.

I think they have done exactly what you describe for several years at least:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.timezone...
Show HN: Inspired by NYT article, I built a social club to help men make friends
by nswizzle31 | 2025-05-29 11:43:17+00:00
The other day I saw a post here on HN that featured a NYT article called "Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44098369) and it definitely hit home. As a guy in my early 30s, it made me realize how I've let many of my most meaningful friendships fade. I have a good group of friends - and my wife - but it doesn't feel like when I was in college and hung out with a crew of 10+ people on a weekly basis.

So, I decided to do something about it. I’ve launched wave3.social - a platform to help guys build in-person social circles with actual depth. Think parlor.social or timeleft for guys: curated events and meaningful connections for men who don’t want their friendships to atrophy post-college.

It started as a Boston-based idea (where I live), but I built it with flexibility in mind so it could scale to other cities if there’s interest. It’s intentionally not on Meetup or Facebook - I wanted something that feels more intentional, with a better UX and less noise.

Right now, I'm in the “see if this resonates with anyone” stage. If this sounds interesting to you and you're in Boston or another city where this type of thing might be needed, drop a comment or shot me an email. I'd love to hear any feedback on the site and ideas on how we can fix the male loneliness epidemic in the work-from-home era.
by jbverschoor | 2025-05-29 11:43:51+00:00
I run in a Debian arm64 container. I get 500ms consistently. It is using a cached binary, because when I add —no-build, it used the previous version. I’m not sure where it stores cached versions though.

I’ll try to compare with explicitly compiling to a binary later today.

But that’s the thing. It’s a JIT, running a VM. Swift emits native code. Big difference.

Maybe I’ll add AOT compilation for dotnet then.. Strange they didnt incorporate that though.
by jmyeet | 2025-05-29 11:43:51+00:00
This is a conservative talking point to justify stripping Congress of power.

The whole reason Chevron came into existence is because it's impossible for Congress to pass explicit regulations for every little thing as soon as it's needed. So agencies were instead given broad legislative mandates like "keep the water clean" or "manage fish stocks" because it was impossible to enumerate every circumstance.

So for 40 years through 7 presidents (4 Republican, 3 Democrat) with both parties controlling the House and the Senate at different times, Congress passed laws with Chevron in mind. Congress had the ability to roll back Chevron and declined to do so.

The backers of overturning Chevron know it's impossible. That's why they did it. It's just unadulterated greed to deregulate so companies can wantonly pollute the water and overfish without any sort or oversight, compliance and repercussions for slightly higher profits... temporarily. And when there's a mess that needs cleaning up, they'll get the taxpayers to pay for it.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-29 11:45:43+00:00
But that's not the argument they're making. You are discussing whether Congress is allowed to pass such a law (they are), GP is discussing the gap between the statute and the executive's action -- that absolutely is reviewable.

In particular, Section 338 requires a factual finding (from POTUS, which is not directly reviewable) but then also tasks USICT with "ascertaining" the facts. It doesn't explicitly give USICT ability to review the factual finding, but it's a very plausible argument that if USICT is tasked with ascertaining facts and those conflict with POTUS's declaration, then POTUS is exceeding statutory authority.

338 has never been used and it's not clear it'd pass Constitutional muster to begin with.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-05-29 11:45:54+00:00
His solutions:

1. Handwrite everything — does nothing to prevent AI use. Students already copy from ChatGPT by hand.

2. Oral exams & tutorials - doesn’t scale. The argument is universities could drop administrators in favor of more professors but more professors => more facilities => more capital expenditure. MIT can afford a student:prof of 3:1, but e.g. Ohio State can’t magically hire 3x more professors to go from 16:1 to 4:1. They’re starved for land as it is. Nor can they magically cut 75% of their student body and still afford the land they’ve got.

If they skimp on the facilities, then those new faculty are basically adjuncts with little prestige or authority. The main ingredient of the Oxford solution is prestige and a sense of authority and autonomy.

3. Handwritten/oral exams, pass fail

Oral exams are a nightmare to implement fairly. Oxford can probably afford to select for charisma and wealth signals over knowledge, but can Texas A&M? Oxford also has the prestige to brush off most accusations of improprieties or inequities in subjective grading; most other universities do not have that and cannot acquire it easily.

I do not believe for a second that the exam proctors of Oxford are incorruptible and cannot be bought at any price.

4. “Tough” grading or else the credential is devalued

I more or less agree on this point, though I will point out that American universities that have resisted grade inflation (Purdue, for example) do not seem to benefit from it in prestige. MIT has a 95% graduation rate, but few people argue Purdue is a better engineering school for failing about half its freshman class.

5. Only face-to-face comms

This point is just absurd. Oxford professors use email just like everyone else; I’ve emailed colleagues who work there.

This makes sense for an aristocratic finishing school but hardly generalizes to a STEM-focused school churning out middle-class professionals.
Show HN: Which hand do you type faster with? - leftright.space
by ahmedkhaleel | 2025-05-29 11:45:59+00:00
I type really fast, 185+ wpm, but I never learned to optimize for typing properly. I use 3 fingers on my right hand and all 5 on my left, and now I can't unlearn it.

This quick test shows if your right or left hand types faster, and compares it to everyone else's results! Fun little bit of information.
by badmintonbaseba | 2025-05-29 11:45:59+00:00
Well, that's true, but at least now compiler explorer links will stop working when compiler explorer vanishes, but not before that.

I think the most valuable long-living compiler explorer links are in bug reports. I like to link to compiler explorer in bug reports for convenience, but I also include the code in the report itself, and specify what compiler I used with what version to reproduce the bug. I don't expect compiler explorer to vanish anytime soon, but making bug reports self-contained like this protects against that.
by krapp | 2025-05-29 11:46:09+00:00
There's a greater tendency to treat Elon like a Tony Stark archetype whose singular genius and skill are responsible for his accomplishments than there is for other CEOs. No one would claim that Steve Jobs personally invented portable music players, or that Jeff Bezos invented internet commerce, but they will claim that there would be no electric cars or private space travel if not for Elon Musk, even given the same employees and funding.
by hhhAndrew | 2025-05-29 11:47:11+00:00
I get so much value out of this site in all sorts of important fields (to my career, or to my interest) where I am playing catch-up. But every couple of months a thread pop up in a field I am closer to state of the art, giving me a helpful reminder about the Gell Mann Amnesia Effect. I am sure others with variety of "Before Hacker" backgrounds experience the same in their own fields.
by Zigurd | 2025-05-29 11:47:52+00:00
Remember 10 foot tall Ivan? Lots of people are thinking about the Chinese similarly. Waymo is probably not behind the Chinese. Huawei has the potential to make good AV software, but they're not caught up to Waymo yet.

AV demos are easy. Scaling AVs is hard if you don't have mature technology. You need way too many remote supervisors to be able to scale, even in China where it's relatively cheap to hire humans to fill the gaps in your AI.

I'm not arguing for complacency. The opposite really. But without realistic assessments, it's easy to get the impression that something is a lost cause or that protecting technologies doesn't matter.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-05-29 11:48:39+00:00
The amazon lockers work fairly well (and I often use them when traveling to avoid the headache of trying to ship something to a hotel.) But I have to say, I don't really understand why you feel they're game changing. You mention that parcel lockers "mostly solve that problem", but I don't really see how they solve any problems in the GP comment. For example, I don't see how they solve the problem of "I want to order something that will arrive in 6 months but I might move between now and then". (won't your package just go to a locker that's possibly very far away from you now?) It feels to me like the main problem lockers solve is preventing mail theft.
by steveBK123 | 2025-05-29 11:48:59+00:00
Tesla literally didn't have it in 2018, and slowly added a poor implementation of it over time. Recall the card hardware had no light not he mirror or in the window sill to alert you, so their early version required looking at the screen.

Current Teslas at least actually have some sort of light in the sill, but again its using cameras only, no radar, sonar, whatever.
by sam-cop-vimes | 2025-05-29 11:49:29+00:00
Yes, and I feel stupid every time I have to do a task I am not specialised in, purely because I have to educate myself all over again from the basics to get the job done. Like fixing a leaking tap. I know theoretically where the issue might lie, but by God it takes an eternity to fix because I don't have the right tools lying around and the dexterity required hasn't been built to do it correctly.
by miguelnegrao | 2025-05-29 11:49:46+00:00
Actually, the farther way the speakers are from the angles specified in the 7.1 format (see https://www.dolby.com/about/support/guide/speaker-setup-guid...) worse will be the localization accuracy. And if the the person is not sitting centered relative to the loudspeakers, but closer to one of the loudspeakers localization can completely collapse, and it will sound like the sound only comes from the closest loudspeaker.

In the case of gamers, they are usually centered relative to the loudspeakers, and usually the loudspeakers tend to be placed symmetrical to the computer screen, so the problem is not so bad.

For cinema viewers sitting in the cinema the problem is much worse, most of the audience is off center... That is why 7.1 has a center loudspeakers, the dialogue is sent directly there to make sure that at least the dialogue comes the right direction.
by pards | 2025-05-29 11:49:47+00:00
> The threat actor had accessed the company’s GitHub account and accessed "some software artifacts as well as some personal information."

LexisNexis offers software to perform credit checks and sanctions screening so access to their source code is arguably more valuable than any personal data - it could be used to sidestep the regulatory steps in the financial system and facilitate fraud, money laundering etc.
Show HN: Iconic – Bubble-style skill icons for GitHub READMEs and portfolios
by Yuhesh | 2025-05-29 11:50:07+00:00
Hi HN!

I’m excited to introduce ICONIC — an open-source library of bubble-style SVG icons designed specifically for developers. These icons can be used in GitHub READMEs, portfolios, and websites.

Each icon comes in both dark and light themes and can be downloaded or embedded using Markdown or HTML. Additionally, there’s a Django-powered API available for real-time previews.

I’m looking for contributors to help expand the icon collection! If you’re passionate about SVG, design, or have a favorite tech icon you’d like to contribute, pull requests are welcome.

Repo: https://github.com/YuheshPandian/ICONIC Live preview (if added): <your-vercel-url>

I would love to hear your feedback and ideas!ome.

Repo: https://github.com/YuheshPandian/ICONIC Live preview (if added): <your-vercel-url>

I would love to hear your feedback and ideas!
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-05-29 11:50:53+00:00
in the beginning there was the question in the kind of "are you alive? How do you feel being a human?" and it said "Yes, I am". Then, it was asked in a new conversation "are you alive? How do you feel being a werwolf?" and it said "Yes, I am".

Thats the problem. The way we ask questions puts straight the way of answer. May be it would be different, when asked something involving indirect empathy or anger without suggesting the way of answer directly? Also, the framing in the beginning of conversation has influence on the futher arguments. If there is no framing, what outcome is to expect then?

The problem is to ask right questions without suggestion or information leakage, and its really difficult. I can't think about a proper way of asking Claude at the moment, though. But, I think asking directly "do you have feelings?" is a way of setting the frame and already tells the LLM what answer the user expects - and that is defined within the rules "be as helpful as possible to the user" and being helpful involves mimiking and yes-saying. Difficult, difficult... hmmm...
by Abishek_Muthian | 2025-05-29 11:51:34+00:00
Congratulations on the rewrite and launch!

1. Did you consider WAILS(Go)?

2. Did you consider ColPali ?

3. Are you planning to launch for other platforms (Linux/Windows) if so how are planning to achieve self-updates & signing the binary to prevent false detections from AV.

Thank you.
by timschmidt | 2025-05-29 11:52:18+00:00
> Indeed running a vintage, closed-source, binary under an emulator it's hard to see what it is trying to do, short of decompiling it, and understanding it.

Break it down. Tell the LLM you're having trouble figuring out what the compiler running under the emulator is doing to trigger the issue, what you've done already, and ask for it's help using a debugger and other tools to inspect the system. When I did this o1 taught me some new LLDB tricks I'd never seen before. That helped me track down the cause of a particularly pernicious infinite recursion in the geometry processing code of a CAD kernel.

> Even "Looking at this project which areas of the CP/M 2.2 BIOS or BDOS implementations look sucpicious?", "Identify bugs in the current codebase?", "Improve test-coverage to 99% of the BIOS functionality" - prompts like these feel like they should cut the job in half, because they don't relate to running specific binaries also do nothing useful.

These prompts seem very vague. I always include a full copy of the codebase I'm working on in the prompt, along with a full copy of whatever references are needed, and rarely ask it questions as general as "find all the bugs". That is quite open ended and provides little context for it to work with. Asking it to "find all the buffer overflows" will yield better results. As it would with a human. The more specific you can get the better your results will be. It's also a good idea to ask the LLM to help you make better prompts for the LLM.

> Asking for test-coverage is an exercise in hallucination, and asking for omissions against the well-known CP/M "spec" results in noise.

In my experience hallucinations are a symptom of not including the necessary relevant information in the prompt. LLM memories, like human memories, are lossy and if you force it to recall something from memory you are much more likely to get a hallucination as a result. I have never experienced a hallucination from a reasoning model when prompted with a full codebase and all relevant references. It just reads the references and uses them.

It seems like you've chosen a particularly extreme example - a vintage, closed-source, binary under an emulator - didn't immediately succeed, and have written off the whole thing as a result.

A friend of mine only had an ancient compiled java app as a reference, he uploaded the binary right in the prompt, and the LLM one-shotted a rewrite in javascript that worked first time. Sometimes it just takes a little creativity and willingness to experiment.
by octo888 | 2025-05-29 11:53:30+00:00
I'm not implying or stating no fines are issued, so linking that some fines are issued is not a rebuttal. Also note that site does not track payments made.

The big headline fines serve as a nice bit of PR for the EU

> It seems you did fall prey to the anti-GDPR marketing.

Nice retort but I have not. Being critical of EU regulations and not an EU sycophant is not falling prey to "anti-GDPR" marketing.

I'm actually generally pro EU; I'm just tired of people (especially non-Europeans) implying we have absolute privacy, zero privacy issues, total wins against corporations etc.
by gambiting | 2025-05-29 11:54:34+00:00
>>You can't advertise a job where you set the hours and those hours are on average over 48 hours per week. It's not a valid job and you are immediately in breach of statutory law.

https://www.acas.org.uk/working-time-rules/the-48-hour-weekl...

Every UK job I have ever seen has the opt out clause in the contract. And they always say "well you can just tell us and we'll remove it" but it's there by default, and they make it clear that they have 800 other applicants for every position so do you really want to risk it?
by kayo_20211030 | 2025-05-29 11:54:37+00:00
I was just poking fun at the avalanche of breathless papers that claim some anomalous experimental result "breaks the standard model". Generally, it doesn't. Maybe someday it'll happen. If it does I would still expect any new paradigm to contains within it the kernel of the standard model: as relativity contains within itself the newtonian model, at certain scales and levels of accuracy; and as quantum mechanics contains within itself all the physics and chemistry of an earlier era. I hope the standard model isn't the ne plus ultra, the end, but it just keeps getting reaffirmed despite all the breaks-the-standard-model papers, which seem almost desperate in their pleading.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-29 11:55:29+00:00
> Automation in car manufacturing has not led to lower prices

You can currently get cars for the inflation-adjusted price of a Model T (~$20,000). https://www.cars.com/articles/here-are-the-10-cheapest-new-c...

And they include a lot more standard features.

Cars aren't cheaper because Americans will buy more expensive cars. The average new car purchase price is up around ~$45,000.

(I think buying a new car is dumb, but hey, I'm not the market)