MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2025-05-31 13:11:17+00:00
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

It's all a big hype bubble and not only is no one in the industry willing to pop it, they actively defend against popping a bubble that is clearly rupturing on its own. It's endemic of how modern businesses no longer care about a proper 10 year portfolio and more about how to make the next quarter look good.

There's just no skin in the game, and everyone's ransacking before the inevitable fire instead of figuring out how to prevent the fire to begin with.
by viraptor | 2025-05-31 13:11:53+00:00
> They set up a limited number of agents to run in parallel (often just one),

Most of what people use agents for daily can often be one-shotted though and even collating/rating 10 results would be costly.

If I had a harness for evaluating the results and VC level money, I'd be throwing an army at well defined experimental tasks as well.
by saghm | 2025-05-31 13:11:57+00:00
I'd argue that you're the one misunderstanding open source if you think that this is unfair. While there's a very real problem of people unfairly demanding things from open source projects, choosing not to use a project is perfectly fair. In fact, it's one of the _correct_ alternatives to unfairly demanding things from the project; just like someone making something open source has no obligation to do any work even if they're offered help or compensation for it, no one is obligated to use their work for any reason, and they're free to use whatever criteria they want to make the decision of whether to use it or not. The lack of obligation goes both ways; people can publish open source projects without owing anybody anything, but no one owes them anything for it either, and good faith technical criticism is fair game. (Bad faith technical criticism is bad of course, just like any bad faith takes in any other context ).
by whynotminot | 2025-05-31 13:12:00+00:00
I have a ChatGPT subscription, and work has one of those “all the models” kind of subscriptions. So I have access to pretty much most of the mainline models — don’t feel the need to pay more.

But if the business model collapsed and they had to raise prices, or work cheaped out and stopped paying for our access, then yeah, I’d step up and spend the money to keep it.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-05-31 13:12:47+00:00
I get it, but as "professional" grade equipment, most customers would acquire that through their employers' vendors.

It also depends on your local market; my location seems to carry more server and HEDT gear than others (they stock more A- and W-series GPUs than 5090s, at least). They've also purchased things I've requested, like ECC DRAM for my Threadripper, which I also purchased from them.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-05-31 13:14:29+00:00
> Apple and WhatsApp

Does Meet/Teams even compete with iMessage? They seem to be in competition with FaceTime.

Regardless, Apple still shows green bubbles for WhatsApp users and still offers no way to integrate with the e2ee scheme (and therefore reach blue-bubble status) despite WhatsApp also implementing e2ee. The anti-competitive argument is sound regardless of how shit Google Meet is.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-05-31 13:14:37+00:00
You think "Russia's war" captures more of the global relevance than "Russia's invasion of Ukraine"?

For example, Ukraine was a very important food supplier -- one of the top grain suppliers in the World -- and the invasion caused shortages of some foods. Another example is that Ukraine provided a good source of iron ore for EU-based manufacture. If nothing else that would be important to USAmericans as indicating a market opportunity.

Without that invasion and Putin's inspiration, would Trump have threatened invasion of USA's neighbours? That's got to be vital to USA finances too.
by jsheard | 2025-05-31 13:14:48+00:00
> VCs were out of patience and wanted returns for their money. Having spent 10s if millions and now, 2-3 years later, requiring even more didn't align with what they were used to.

Those numbers seem quaint now compared to OpenAI's "can we borrow $1B, actually $10B, hang on we need $50B, sorry we meant $500B, also we might need $7T" investment death spiral. Maybe when this is over VCs will be glad for how cheap and low-risk hardware development is, relatively speaking.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-05-31 13:15:46+00:00
In my lens, as long as companies don't want to be held liable for an accident, the shouldn't be on roads. They need to be extremely confident to the point of putting their money where their mouths are. That's true "safety".

That's the main difference with a human driver. If I take an Uber and we crash, that driver is liable. Waymo would fight tooth and nail to blame anything else.
by spauldo | 2025-05-31 13:16:43+00:00
Apply the same argument for mass transit.

Sometimes the desired outcome (less of the countryside being covered in solar panels, wind farms, or giant pit mines, in this case) isn't most economically efficient. It's up to the people whether it's worth spending tax money to achieve this. I personally don't mind wind and solar farms (or nuclear, for that matter), but my region isn't what anyone would consider "scenic."
by throwaway12345t | 2025-05-31 13:16:53+00:00
many YC companies have hit the Series A benchmark and just skipped it, a change from the past

1m, 2m ARR don’t have the same impact in fundraising so later Series A are bound to happen and are not a great indicator imo of how well a company is doing

throwaway but several from my batch (including us) are cash flow positive, higher ARR than these Series A companies and not on the fundraising treadmill

that cohort of YC companies is not represented in data anywhere because from what I’ve seen it is a bit of an anomaly vs previous YC batches
by jtwaleson | 2025-05-31 13:17:03+00:00
I have a first attempt at a sync engine for my app, but it's very primitive. Just a websocket that sends updates based on database triggers. If you miss one, you have to do a full reload. I know I'll need something better in a year or so.

Any advice on what route to take with creating a sync engine for a product like mine? Self-hosted, single binary web app (Rust) + Postgres db. Frontend is based on VueJS. I've looked at the readme of Yjs and was considering that. I'm a solo dev for now.

I'm tempted to feed Cursor this description of the reverse engineered solution of Linear, but I doubt it'll be successful.
by roenxi | 2025-05-31 13:17:24+00:00
I don't think that is a reasonable generalisation. A lot of people would have been talking about the first person to take a real trip in a car that drives itself. A record that is in the past.

Not to mention that HN gets really tetchy about achieving specifically SAE Level 6 when in practice some pretty basic driver assist tools are probably closer to what people meant. It reminds me of a gentlemen I ran into who was convinced that the OpenAI DoTA bot with a >99% win rate couldn't really be said to be playing the game. If someone can take their hands off the wheel for 10 minutes we're there in a common language sense; the human in the car isn't actively in control.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-05-31 13:17:39+00:00
I know a radiologist and talk a decent bit about AI usage in the field. Every radiologist today is making heavy use of AI. They pre screen everything and from what I understand it has led to massive productivity gains. It hasnt led to job losses yet but theres so much money on the line it really feels to me like we're just waiting for the straw that broke the camels back. No one wants to be the first to fully get rid of radiologists but once one hospital does the rest will quickly follow suit.
by anthk | 2025-05-31 13:19:09+00:00
Check CORDIC, please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC

Also, on sqrt functions, even a FP-enabled toy EForth under the Subleq VM (just as a toy, again, but it works) provides some sort of fsqrt functions:

2 f fsqrt f. 1.414 ok

Under PFE Forth, something 'bigger':

40 set-precision ok 2e0 fsqrt f. 1.4142135623730951454746218587388284504414 ok

EForth's FP precision it's tiny but good enough for very small microcontrollers. But it wasn't so far from the exponents the 80's engineers worked to create properly usable machinery/hardware and even software.
by x-complexity | 2025-05-31 13:20:00+00:00
I haven't seen anyone say this out loud, so here's my $0.02:

Since every box is either filled in (1) or not (0), a solved 5x5 nonogram can be encoded as a 25-bit unsigned integer. So would a 6x6 (36), 7x7 (49), 8x8 (64), etc.

... So if desired, an AES-256 key can be encoded as a solved 16x16 nonogram. The perimeter hints can then be derived by Alice and given to Bob as a weak form of information obfuscation.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-05-31 13:22:24+00:00
Elon's resignation won't change the fundamentals working against Tesla.

- By most accounts, Chinese cars are fine too and cost a lot less.

- His visual only approach to "full self driving" is unlikely to ever be a successful as it needs to be. FSD needs all the help it can get.

- All manufacturers have EVs now.

- Tesla stock is outrageously over priced. It's market cap exceeds all other auto manufacturers COMBINED. No way it can ever live up to current market expectations.
by jona777than | 2025-05-31 13:22:58+00:00
There will likely be more jobs because of AI. With more “knowledge”, comes more responsibility. Spam folders only exist because of automated emails. That classification process is more work. We may find there are more needs to meet as AI advances, not less.

The fallacy is in the statement “AI will replace jobs.” This shirks responsibility, which immediately diminishes credibility. If jobs are replaced or removed, that’s a choice we as humans have made, for better or worse.
by cschmidt | 2025-05-31 13:24:39+00:00
Regarding $O(n L^2)$ vs $O(n L)$, that was because we somewhat sloppily tend to use the term 'tokenization' for both training a tokenizer vocab, and for tokenizing a given document. In the paper, we tried to always call the latter one segmentation or inference. The former is $O(n L^2)$ per iteration, while the latter $O(n L)$. I'll update the README to be more explicit about this.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-31 13:24:56+00:00
I worked at a CompUSA in high school and college. The money was around the PC sale, which was pretty high margin until around 1998/9. I’d come in in the morning before class to do freight… one time we built a pyramid of about 300 PCs.

It was a money machine until it wasn’t.

Radio Shack has to sell everything, couldn’t offer a good variety of devices, and didn’t have the staff to support people with complicated PC purchases. If cell phones blew up earlier radio shack would still be around.
by thesuperbigfrog | 2025-05-31 13:24:59+00:00
Ada might have what you want:

https://www.jviotti.com/2017/12/05/an-introduction-to-adas-s...

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22rm/html/RM-3-5-7.html

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22rm/html/RM-A-5-3.html

Ada also has fixed point types:

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22rm/html/RM-3-5-9.html
by Molitor5901 | 2025-05-31 13:26:35+00:00
Rather than dismantling USAID it should have been reformed. The U.S. should have a single point of foreign aid, but that aid should be highly structured, audited, and at least a few legal constraints that cannot be adjusted or reinterpreted by future generations.

I agree, at this point it does seem like there was enormous fraud at USAID and some very bad behavior. I can only deduce that the reason why it stayed hidden for so long was that, politically, if not economically, everyone with something to lose was benefiting.
by bofaGuy | 2025-05-31 13:27:17+00:00
It’s a bit confusing to me exactly what went wrong. I think that when you have a redis/valkey cluster with multiple nodes and you use the cluster uri, there must be some kind of load balancer or custom routing. When we would attempt to connect to valkey the connection would look good, but when we would submit commands to it they would never execute. We had written our application so that it would operate with no issue (just slower) if the cache goes down. In this case, connections looked good but no work was actually being done. AWS support suggested we restart the nodes but because they were not responding they never shut down … or at least it took a really long time. They were never able to tell us what actually happened. My guess is that valkey command execution got stuck somehow but was still able to create new connections.
by Rochus | 2025-05-31 13:27:29+00:00
For comparison, mount Etna emitts 3.3 million tons CO2 per year, and Katla (Iceland) even up to 9 million tons (which is more than Jamaica).

I also find it remarkable, that Gaza aid delivery (trucks) and cargo flights (transport of weapons and aid from the US) produce significantly more CO2 than the actual war actions (such as bombing and reconnaissance flights, Israeli bombs and artillery, tanks and vehicles). Even producing electricity for Gaza emitted more CO2 than the military ground activities combined.
by fnord123 | 2025-05-31 13:27:44+00:00
Is there a useful metric to see if that's really the case? Using the distos package manager means you're at the mercy of the packager for getting new versions. Docker is just as easy and doesn't suffer from this. And building from source gives you full control.

Even when using test services, using docker works best since all the Devs will be on the same version instead of splitting between Debian, fedora, and brew versions.
by egirlcatnip | 2025-05-31 13:28:08+00:00
Even if the article had correct information, you misgendering Khelif with he/him is a very clear sign of transphobic views.

Trans rights are human rights, everyone deserves the basic respect, be it cis or trans people.

People often also like to forget about trans men, when talking about women's sports. Where are they supposed to compete?

What is the allowed hormonal balance. Gender assigned at birth does not directly equate to

Man = muscles Woman = Weak

I will not be partaking in this conversation any longer, as you fail to provide any sources, but I believe informing people is my duty and I'm glad I have.
by comrade1234 | 2025-05-31 13:28:16+00:00
For me, when trying to find an answer to a problem, I never went to stack overflow first and searched using their ui. Instead I always searched in google. Over time the google results got worse - putting Reddit at the top, for example, and often stack overflow would be on the next page of results.

At around the same time google's search results started getting bad I started using an llm and those results were good enough that I never tried stack overflow directly.
by 3dsnano | 2025-05-31 13:28:41+00:00
very few of us are engineers or trained to think like one. most of us a tradespeople who know how to make digital things.

as a trade we have gotten lazy and complacent. many of us have figured out how to look the other way while making software that does terrible, terrible things.

we deserve to have our trade destroyed by LLMs.
by m-schuetz | 2025-05-31 13:29:16+00:00
Yeah, AI didnt cause SO's decline, it merely accelerated it. I stopped using SO years before that because it felt like whenever you were asking a question, you had to spend 80% of the time justifying why you need to do it that way. And occasionally, someone would still show up and say that the question is wrong because I should do something entirely different.
by saghm | 2025-05-31 13:29:30+00:00
What you're saying sounds reasonable, but it completely avoids the question I asked about what point in the process it stopped being food by only mentioning the first and last steps. I'd argue that in order for a boundary to be clear, there needs to be specific step in the discrete process where the output of that step isn't considered food anymore. I honestly can't tell if you're saying that I personally can't see the boundary but you are able to, or if you're using "you" generically when you say "you cannot see", but if you mean the former, I don't think it's particularly helpful to assert that you know what it is without explaining further, and if you mean the latter, I don't think I agree with you on what constitutes a boundary being "clear".
by tomhow | 2025-05-31 13:29:31+00:00
We ask people to avoid making accusations like this in the comments, because the hurt and damage caused by a false accusation outweighs the benefit to the community of making the accusation publicly.

Instead, please flag the post and email us so we can take a look and see if we think the content and the comment thread are HN-worthy, as that's ultimately all we can assess. The originality and quality of the writing is always an important consideration, regardless of how it was created.

(We also discourage pasting LLM-generated output into comments. In this case it doesn't really prove anything either way and takes the comment further into off-topic territory. More broadly, we want to keep HN for discussion between humans.)
by teleforce | 2025-05-31 13:29:52+00:00
“Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.” - Gerald Jay Sussman

Is there any IEEE standards committee working on FP alternative for examples Unum and Posit [1],[2].

[1] Unum & Posit:

https://posithub.org/about

[2] The End of Error:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-end-of/978148223986...
by wslh | 2025-05-31 13:30:18+00:00
Your message doesn't make it clear what those 175 employees can realistically accomplish on their own.

For instance, you might have an SEO expert on the team, but that alone won't guarantee top search engine rankings. There are countless SEO professionals and tools (human or AI-powered), and even having the best one doesn't eliminate the underlying challenge: business competition. LLMs, like any other tool, don’t solve that fundamental problem.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-05-31 13:30:26+00:00
Until, of course, the attackers reprogram their FPGAs and can solve challenges 10,000 times faster than a legitimate user. And since you can't request a user to have their phone toast itself at 100% load for 10 seconds, the attackers can solve it in micro/milliseconds for a sip of power.

Actually, this just uses SHA-256 hashing, which already has specialized CPU instructions (that browser WASM can't use) and ASICs.

I can't see how this isn't DOA?
by WillAdams | 2025-05-31 13:31:03+00:00
At least Tcl/TK apps aren't complained about have multiple hundred MB run-times and multiple GB memory footprints...

For my part, I'm back to analysis-paralysis, and I can't figure out which GUI toolkit and programming environment I should use for a project (that I can't decide on the specific nature of the project is a separate problem which is driving much of this indecision).
Show HN: I made a tool that finds your customers before your competitors do
by abilafredkb | 2025-05-31 13:32:06+00:00
Most founders waste months posting to the wrong communities while their competitors quietly build relationships with the same users you need. I built Smarketly after watching three of my products die in silence. The problem wasn't the products - it was that I had no systematic way to find people who actually needed what I built. Smarketly helps you:

Discover where your ideal customers already spend time online Craft outreach that feels personal, not spammy Generate marketing videos that aren't capped at 30 seconds Get actionable strategies based on your current stage

The breakthrough came when I used it on itself - finally got real users instead of launching into crickets. Now helping other founders escape the "build great things nobody sees" trap. If you're tired of your competition finding your customers first, this might help. smarketly.lema-lema.com
by fulafel | 2025-05-31 13:33:10+00:00
Yep, it sounds ambiguous. So if there's potentially unsafety allowed in the semantics it would already be interesting. If it turns out that the specification permits "all bets are off" in OOM, eg if it can create conditions where an adversary can gain control of execution in some way, like can happen with synchronisation bugs on some (eg Go) runtimes.
by neom | 2025-05-31 13:33:31+00:00
Thanks!!! I decided not to build it, that space is already too busy, there is a startup with $25MM in stealth, who else is in stealth? On top of that, this method will get stale very very quickly, foundation model businesses are just too hard to work around right now, it's a silly way to do business. My magic is I've build a startup from scratch to over 400 people and watched what they do, it won't be long till that isn't worth much.
by mgerdts | 2025-05-31 13:33:51+00:00
What is your definition of free memory? If the system has read a lot of data, the page cache is probably occupying most of the RAM you consider free. Look at cache and standby counters.

I’ve noticed that windows can only evict data from the page cache at about 5 GB/s. I do not know if this zeros the memory or that would need to be done in the allocation path.

A couple years ago I tracked down a long pause while starting qemu on Linux to it zeroing the 100s of GB of RAM given to the VM as 1 GB huge pages.

These may or may not be big contributors to what you are seeing, depending on the VM’s RAM size.
by abilafredkb | 2025-05-31 13:34:02+00:00
Should clarify what makes this different from generic marketing tools. Smarketly doesn't just generate content - it does the detective work first. For example, when I was launching a previous product, I spent weeks posting in obvious places like ProductHunt and general startup communities. Smarketly would have identified 3-4 niche communities where my actual users were having specific conversations about the exact problem I was solving. The tool analyzes community engagement patterns, identifies high-intent users, then helps you contribute value before ever mentioning your product. It's customer discovery + relationship building, not just blast marketing.
by abilafredkb | 2025-05-31 13:34:25+00:00
The video generation piece has been surprisingly popular. Most tools give you 15-30 second clips, but we let you create full product demos and explainer videos. Just generated a 90-second demo showing how a SaaS founder can use Smarketly to go from "I built something" to "I found 50 potential customers" in their first week. The video walks through the actual process step-by-step. Planning to make these demo videos available as templates so other founders can customize them for their own products.
by doener | 2025-05-31 13:34:43+00:00
Reminds me of the 1947 "Sixteen Tons" song. From German Wikipedia, translated by DeepL:

"According to Archie Green, the lyrics contain several key passages that Travis took from quotes from his family members. When asked about his health, his father reportedly replied that he couldn't afford to die because he owed his soul to the grocery store[7] where he had debts. Sixteen Tons is a socially critical song about the sometimes inhumane conditions that American miners and their families had to live under in the past. This included wage slavery: US miners were mostly paid not in cash but with tokens (scrips), some of which could only be redeemed in company-owned stores, as there were no other shops in the area; local food supplies could only be obtained in these stores (company stores), which had a virtual monopoly and could therefore charge excessive prices; The income and expenditure situation in the company stores, which was deliberately controlled exclusively in favor of the mine owners, resulted in unavoidable debts for the workers (Another day older and deeper in debt), which created a relationship of dependency similar to serfdom ("I owe my soul to the company store"). By the time the song was written, the miners' living and working conditions had already improved significantly, partly as a result of numerous strikes. Payment with tokens had been banned in 1938 by a federal law, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. However, working conditions remained harsh and the memory of exploitative practices was still fresh in the minds of the families and communities affected."

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Tons_(Lied)