MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johngai | 2025-05-20 06:48:35+00:00
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Curious to hear how others are using SMS or conversational AI in their stack this year.
by Joker_vD | 2025-05-20 06:49:27+00:00
> Post WWII USA did it first.

Pre-WWII USSR did it first, actually: they had a huge apartment building effort since the late 20s all throughout the 30s in the cities due to forced urbanization and industrialization. Most of it was obliterated during the WWII. Then, of course, there was post-war reconstruction of 1945-1953; and only then they got this post-1955 Khrushchevka style of buildings, with no design, no paint, no decorations etc.
by geremiiah | 2025-05-20 06:49:31+00:00
I don't want to generalize because I do not know how widespread this pattern is, but my job has me hopping between a few HPC centers around Germany, and a pattern I notice is that, a lot of these places are chuck full of reject physicists, and a lot of the AI funding that gets distributed gets gobbled up by these people and the consequence of which is a lot of these ML4Science projects. I personally think it is a bit of a shame, because HPC centers are not there to only serve physicists, and especially with AI funding we in Germany should be doing more AI-core research.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-05-20 06:49:53+00:00
Game developers work with more purity then web devs as web devs always funnel pure computations to external resources (usually the database).

The weird thing is Game developers don't unit test stuff. Why? Because it's mostly not that effective. I know a lot of people say stuff like game devs are cowboys that don't follow best practices but that's not true. A lot of game devs know their shit inside and out.

Here's the reason why Game devs don't unit test. There's no point. They run the program themselves a couple of times on their own computer and their good. The problem with web dev is that all their code is so Tied with IO they can't even run the code on their computer. So in order to test their logic they have to write mocks and then unit test their code with mocks in place. But why even do this when you can cover it all with an integration test?

Hence I don't unit test. My integration tests and type checking covers it all.
by realfun | 2025-05-20 06:50:36+00:00
I think it would take quite a long while to achieve human-level anti-entropy in Agentic systems.

Complex system requires tons of iterations, the confidence level of each iteration would drop unless there is a good recalibration system between iterations. Power law says a repeated trivial degradation would quickly turn into chaos.

A typical collaboration across a group of people on a meaningfully complex project would require tons of anti-entropy to course correct when it goes off the rails. They are not in docs, some are experiences(been there, done that), some are common sense, some are collective intelligence.
by vitorgrs | 2025-05-20 06:50:48+00:00
Although Deepseek is old, I find the V3 (without reason) still to be the best non reasoning model out there.

Now, ChatGPT main advantage for me right now it's search + o4-mini. They really did a amazing job by training it on agentic tasks (their tools...) and the search with reasoning works amazing.

Way better than grok search or anything.
by danielbarla | 2025-05-20 06:50:58+00:00
> I genuinely believe making games without a big "do everything" engine can be easier, more fun, and often less overhead. I am not making a "do everything" game and I do not need 90% of the features these engines provide.

At that point, of course, you don't need the engine. Having said that, every time I've really deep-dived into some particular feature of an engine - such as inverse kinematics and animation blending in Unreal - I've come away thinking "boy, am I glad I didn't spend several weeks trying to code that up from scratch".

There's definitely an argument to be made for minimalism and anti-bloat, but the reason engines are popular is that they really do some heavy lifting for you.
by Incipient | 2025-05-20 06:51:44+00:00
I don't think anyone would debate that the education system has cracks (in any country, I'm from aus) or is imperfect. The debate here is how BIG of a 'crack' AI is causing in the education system.

Brand new teachers design a lesson plan using two sentences and AI, students answer it using a screenshot and AI. I'm struggling to see who learned what there.

All we do is end up with teachers that don't know how to teach, and students that learn little.

Personally I feel there is a step change towards a poorer education, but others may not. I think it's worth debating this particular topic. Or tackle education as a whole...but that feels intractable.
by Lucasoato | 2025-05-20 06:52:09+00:00
Finding the right command every time is the real time saver.

Ok, it’s probably something that a developer should know how to do, but who remembers every single command for cloud providers cli?

Querying the resources actual state makes these AI infra tools so powerful, I found them so useful even when I had to manage Hetzner based terraform projects.
by dijit | 2025-05-20 06:53:49+00:00
PGP is pretty old at this point, and kinda jank.

RFC 1991 only gives them 4 bytes (32bit); not sure if there have been any later additions to rectify this but I don’t think so since even the latest RFC (9580) has them listed as 4 bytes…

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1991

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9580#section-3.5
by moravak1984 | 2025-05-20 06:54:17+00:00
Sure, it's not. But often on AI papers one sees remarks that actually mean: "...and if you throw in one zillion GPUs and make them run until the end of time you get {magic_benchmark}". Or "if you evaluate this very smart algo in our super-secret, real-life dataset that we claim is available on request, but we'd ghost you if you dare to ask, then you will see this chart that shows how smart we are".

Sure, it is often flag-planting, but when these papers come from big corps, you cannot "just ignore them and keep on" even when there are obvious flaws/issues.

It's a race over resources, as a (former) researcher on a low-budget university, we just cannot compete. We are coerced to believe whatever figure is passed on in the literature as "benchmark", without possibility of replication.
by RussianCow | 2025-05-20 06:56:47+00:00
> I've noticed a notable performance penalty (around 10%, even higher on GPU heavy games) when running games with Proton, which is mainly why I haven't dropped Windows yet.

I don't mean to dismiss your comment at all, but I'm surprised that such a low overhead would be the primary reason holding you back from switching. The difference between, say, 100 FPS and 91 FPS seems so negligible in my mind that it would be pretty near the bottom on the list of reasons not to switch to Linux.
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-20 06:57:58+00:00
So.. If the 'source' of data is 9gag, 4chan, you will get 'this' material. If you feed it Tumlr, you will get Harry Potter and rope-porn-thingies. If you feed it Hitler's speeches, you will get 'that' material. If you feed it algebra, you will get 'that' material.

Then.. Do we want 'open' or 'curated' LLMs? And how far from reality are the curated LLMs? And how far can curated LLMs take us (black Nazis? female US founding fathers?).

Pick your poison I say.. and be careful what you wish for. There is no "perfect" LLM because there is no "perfect" dataset, and Sam-Altman-types-of-humans are definitely deeply flawed. But life is flawed, so our tools are/will be flawed.
by jl6 | 2025-05-20 06:58:15+00:00
A net positive birth rate is still concerning. 8.2 billion people is a lot. All of the world’s problems, from energy sourcing to food production to climate change become harder and harder as the population continues to grow.

It’s easy to be complacent in developed countries because birth rates have come way down, probably because of increased wealth and better education/opportunity for women and girls - but this is not yet the case in developing countries, and the nature of exponential growth is that if it exists anywhere locally, then it will eventually come to exist globally.

It really doesn’t help to cut aid programmes to places that are most in need of development.
by ginko | 2025-05-20 06:58:23+00:00
Talking about shower thoughts on Collatz visualizations..

A while ago I though of a way of structuring the collatz orbits by arranging integers in a 2d grid with odd numbers being arranged along the X axis and multiples of the power of two along the Y axis.

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ginkgo/13121db56b65b1237e...

So essentially any odd number n and all numbers n * 2^m belong to the same group of numbers that eventually reduces to n. All that's left is the 3n+1 orbits which are shown as lines from the odd numbers.

This reveals quite a bit of structure (IMO) especially only every second odd number goes to an orbit reducing to an odd number larger than it (and it's always in the form n * 2^1) all the other orbits every 4th, 8th, 16th odd integer immediately reduce to an odd number that's lower.

Anyone seen an arrangement like this for the Collatz orbits?
by krishnasangeeth | 2025-05-20 06:58:29+00:00
I asked what's the best time to make a show HN post and got the below output.

When should you hit “Submit” on your Show HN? TL;DR The historical data say your odds of going viral improve when you post:

Saturday 18 UTC (≈ 2 PM US-Eastern, 11 AM US-Pacific)

Early Sunday 02 – 04 UTC (Saturday evening in the Americas)

Week-day late morning UTC, especially

Tuesday 11 – 15 UTC (7 – 11 AM US-Eastern)

Wednesday 15 UTC

Friday 12 – 14 UTC

These slots combine the highest average scores with a healthy number of past posts, meaning success isn’t due to just a few outliers.
by jonasdoesthings | 2025-05-20 07:00:19+00:00
Maybe also exclude messages by bots (e.g. "username has joined the server") from the index to decrease the stalking-potential of your site (99.9% of these bot messages have no informational-value for the index anyways). Currently you can still search for an username and get a subset of servers that the username is in (even if not active) by finding these bot messages.
Tell HN: The Hetzner Experience - Invisible Outages
by AmazingTurtle | 2025-05-20 07:00:29+00:00
I'm a DevOps engineer at Schäfer Shop GmbH, and we've been running into recurring quirks with Hetzner's cloud infrastructure. Occasionally, volumes randomly disappear or become unavailable, with no indication on Hetzner's status page. Support ticket response times vary wildly - from hours to an entire business day.

Yesterday, we had a particularly stressful incident involving Hetzner load balancers in Falkenstein. Our Kubernetes control planes were unreachable due to load balancer targets showing as unhealthy. We quickly worked around the issue by deploying an identical load balancer configuration in another region. Despite explicitly instructing Hetzner support not to recreate our resources (since they're managed via Terraform), they manually recreated the load balancer anyway, causing momentary panic - though thankfully our Terraform state wasn't impacted.

We pay nearly €20,000 per month for Hetzner's services, yet they refuse to offer a direct support hotline, even if we were willing to pay extra for it. What's especially troubling is their persistent silence on these outages. Hetzner's status page showed no signs of this incident, neither during nor after. This pattern makes us question the transparency and purpose of the status page itself.

Have any of you experienced similar invisible outages with Hetzner?
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-05-20 07:01:09+00:00
What do you mean by "banned" exactly?

The sitcom Rosanne was removed from my Apple library purchases after the actress went on a racist tirade. Was it banned by the government? No, but my access to the material was taken away. I think that there is censorship beyond government censorship, especially when competition is limited, as it typically is with art under copyright (as well as payment processors, etc).
by thrdbndndn | 2025-05-20 07:02:12+00:00
Kinda off-topic, but about the cutting itself:

I used to work in academia and was involved in NSF-funded programs, so I have mixed feelings about this. Waste and inefficiency are rampant. BTW I'm not talking about failed projects or research that were dimmed "not important", but things like buying million-dollar equipment just to use up the budget, which then sits idle.

That said, slashing NSF funding by 50% won’t fix any of that. It’ll just shrink both the waste and the genuinely valuable research proportionally. So it's indeed a serious blow to real scientific progress.

I don’t really have a point, just want to put it here. Also to be fair this kind of inefficiency isn't unique to academia; it’s common anywhere public money is involved.
by globular-toast | 2025-05-20 07:02:28+00:00
Yeah, this is lame. With Gitlab you can choose the exact image that runs and provide your own. So you can easily run the exact same code in the exact same environment locally.

I guess it would be nice to have a tool to convert a Gitlab YAML to Docker incantations, but I've never needed to do it that often for it to be a problem.
by rcleveng | 2025-05-20 07:03:28+00:00
I know -- I was super excited to see WSL1 and wished it worked. NT when started was the OS/2 personality and back at that time was excited to see NT as the OS to end all OSes (by running them all as a personality).

But WSL2 is freaking incredible, I'm super excited to see this and just wish the rest of windows would move to a Linux kernel and support bash natively everywhere. I was never a fan of powershell, sh/dash/ash/bash seem fine
by chickenbig | 2025-05-20 07:03:37+00:00
> There are dissenting opinions

Flat earthers exist too.

> In not-so-ancient times "experts" were also OK with ocean disposal.

The link you gave did not list the effects of ocean disposal; elevated and measurable are not the same as significant or harmful unless you are a firm believer in LNT, although at the bottom of the ocean the background radiation dose from cosmic rays will be less.
by atoav | 2025-05-20 07:03:46+00:00
The border for regular political discourse should be political movements that deny other peoples right to exist, based on natural attributes they dislike.

In the old times people would have been shunned (or beaten for being left-handed (in certain areas of the world) for example, a trait you're just simply born with. They tried to re-educate lefties so they use the right hand instead which lead to a whole host of psychological effects summarized in left-handedness suppression syndrome.

Then science came and whatever dumb superstitions people connected to left-handedness were seen in a different light and the superstition died out.

The problematic thing about today's anti-trans movement is that it is paired with such a distrust for science that they ignore every scientific evidence that would tell them that punishing someone for being trans is just as wrong as punishing someone for being left-handed. Just like there is a natural fraction of left-handed people in a population (which seemed to "rise" and then settled at its natural value right after society no longer punished it), there is a natural fraction of trans persons, gays, lesbians, bi- and asexuals, etc.

For me the Karl Popper's paradoxon of intolerance is a good guide. There is no need for members of a free society to extend tolerance towards the intolerant. In fact I think if we want to keep a free society we have a duty to fight back against intolerance in various ways.
by canpan | 2025-05-20 07:04:38+00:00
I was like this in the past. Making my first 3D game: After weeks of implementing all input, object management, culling, model loading, math lib, gfx, normal mapping, SSAA,... I had 0% progress on my game.

However, for my fun hobby 2D projects, I still self roll without dependency in the web canvas. You could call the browser an engine though.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-20 07:05:33+00:00
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> I don't understand what I'm looking at with the site you linked, but I am intrigued.

It’s kind of like an interactive bibliography with commentary?

https://cyberfeminismindex.com/about/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberfeminism_Index
by lurk2 | 2025-05-20 07:05:53+00:00
> Propaganda. Isn’t that just telling people what you want them to believe? If so then there’s plenty of it to go around. In the USA the republicans have one story and the democrats have another. DPRK has its version of the events which unfolded throughout and after the Korean War. Is propaganda being spread in DPRK? Yes...I’m sure it is. However I have quickly come to believe that there is far more propaganda being spread outside of DPRK about the country than within it. When I enter a country today I do that with the experience of visiting and analyzing 175 other countries. I’ve been observing DPRK and what I have seen are just people being people. You can’t interact with the people. They are clearly not interested or maybe they are afraid to interact with foreigners. There could be consequences I imagine? DPRK is not a country which promotes individual freedom.

You don’t say…
by eimrine | 2025-05-20 07:05:53+00:00
This is not bill of rights, but a bill of musts. I do not play games, I use to read books but nothing from your 1-12 can make the market better. Imagine skyrocketing the prices for games because of game companies has to hire more layers each layer having expertise in different counries. Imagine having even more regulations than we have today in many many industries, how many industries left which do not require a layer eventually?
by lelanthran | 2025-05-20 07:07:36+00:00
> The core data structure (array of lines) just isn't that well suited to more complex operations.

Just how big (and how many lines) does your file have to be before it is a problem? And what are the complex operations that make it a problem?

(Not being argumentative - I'd really like to know!)

On my own text editor (to which I lost the sources way back in 2004) I used an array of bytes, had syntax highlighting (Used single-byte start-stop codes for syntax highlighting) and used a moving "window" into the array for rendering. I never saw a latency problem back then on a Pentium Pro, even with files as large as 20MB.

I am skeptical of the piece table as used in VS Code being that much faster; right now on my 2011 desktop, a VS Code with no extra plugins has visible latency when scrolling by holding down the up/down arrow keys and a really high keyboard repeat setting. Same computer, same keyboard repeat and same file using Vim in a standard xterm/uxterm has visibly better scrolling; takes half as much time to get to the end of the file (about 10k lines).
by chickenbig | 2025-05-20 07:08:07+00:00
> - Would you want to pay much more for electricity than would be possible using cheaper sources than nuclear, either directly, or hidden through taxes (as in France)?

As opposed to subsidies of intermittents [0]?

> - Do you want your country to import uranium from countries such as Russia or Niger, and depend on them?

Russia has a large share of enrichment capacity [1], and conversion to HEX [2]. But they don't control the uranium resource, having only an 8% share of the market [3].

[0] https://archive.is/J9s7Z

[1] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...

[2] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...

[3] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...
by breppp | 2025-05-20 07:08:19+00:00
Regarding the prosecutor, it did affect the case

1. The allegations were revealed just before the arrest warrants were released

2. The arrest warrants were rushed, brushing aside valid concerns (the court later decided it was unlawful)

3. The prosecutor himself and people he sent tried to pressure the victim to pull her complaint because it will hurt the palestinian case, which seems to indicate this might have had convinced her

So this at least raises the question whether these warrants were rushed or were generally pressed in order to quiet the sexual harassment/rape case.

The inability of the ICC to properly investigate its own people also greatly puts the own court ability to investigate foreign matters into question
by Reubend | 2025-05-20 07:09:07+00:00
Are you asking in terms of how the current crop of "reasoning models" are implemented, or are you asking more philosophically about the nature of true reasoning?

Calling it "refinement" is dismissive. It's generating new information, which is in many cases well beyond the scope of the original prompt.

Reasoning models today are just a marketing spin on chain-of-thought techniques that benefit from reinforcement learning.
by piva00 | 2025-05-20 07:09:36+00:00
I don't know the source of this rhetoric but you should look into the data instead of spewing this garbage. Another comment already put up the percentage expenditure on healthcare between what you consider "socialist" healthcare system, and the USA's corrupt system. You pay more for a lower quality service, the socialised (not socialist) system is less onerous to societies than the middlemen-riddled system of the USA, you get more bureaucracy, less coverage, while paying through the nose for a service you don't even know you will get provided.

It's simply a stupid system, it doesn't work, in a functioning society it would be accepted as a massive issue and reworked. Instead you have your democratic system captured by corporations who need this system to be perpetuated, you are right about the US taxpayer being the golden goose but not for the world, it's the golden goose for whole industries operating inside the USA to work on extracting maximum value from its population.

It's not the rest of the world milking you, it's your own corporations milking you dry.
by DJetelina | 2025-05-20 07:11:31+00:00
If you're like me, when developing terraform code, you often switch to your browser and then google "terraform aws provider" or "terraform github provider" to browse available resources, their documentation, versions etc. I hated that workflow and decided to fix it by creating a TUI that interacts with OpenTofu registry API (still compatible with Terraform). Now whether you are a VIM, VSCode or IntelliJ user, you can use the terminal that's always nearby to look up exactly what you need.

GitHub: https://github.com/djetelina/tofuref

PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/tofuref/

Any feedback and suggestions are appreciated, while I was content enough with the current state to release it as 1.0, I'm sure there's more this tool could do :)