MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MyPasswordSucks | 2025-06-11 00:51:20+00:00
In the old days - back before smartphones, back before widescreen monitors, back before broadband - the "Links" section was always a key part of any site. After spending time on a site, a visitor could find links to other pages - some of them on the same topic, some of them simply enjoyed by the creator of the site they were on. If one were to visualize the concept, they might well say that this formed a "web" of sorts.

The big publishers were the first to really reject the "Links" page. If it's not a link to our content, or the content of our sister publications, then why should we include it? Instead, they threw their resources into optimizing their placement on search engines. This took the "web" and turned it closer towards a hub-and-spoke system, as smaller sites withered and died.

Now, people have found a way to retrieve various pieces of information they're looking for that doesn't involve a search engine. It may not be perfect (gluey pizza, anyone?) but objectively, it's certainly more efficient than a list of places that have used the same words that a person is searching for, and honestly probably at least "nearly-as" reliable as said list, because the average Joe Sixpack always has, and always will, be a lot better at asking a question and getting an answer than he will be at finding an answer to his question within the confines of a larger story.

This devastates the large publishers' traffic.

I'd come up with a conclusion here, but I'm too distracted wondering where I placed my violin. It's really small, it could probably be anywhere...
by protocolture | 2025-06-11 00:51:21+00:00
Gamedev is weird. I want to do it, and am trained to do it, but the working conditions are horrific.

Like half my graduating class ended up in a real estate company making directx based 3d walkthroughs for minimum wage.

Even if you are successful, the crunch is oppressive. The bigger firms will make you labor hard for your art, take all the cream off the top and then terminate your contract.

And yet heaps of people, even me when I am bored, want to do it.
by cchianel | 2025-06-11 00:53:18+00:00
Games on old consoles such as Nintendo 64 and the Playstation One use a variety of tricks to be playable on limited hardware. For the specific example of Final Fantasy VII, there is one trick that allows you to skip almost the entirely of Disk 1 once you reach the open world. In particular, the trick involves a use-after-free in the world collision cache (fun fact: a lot of speedrun techniques are security flaws!). This video explains it without spoilers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llQnrUHS0yA ; a better video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHn6jpKsYCk, but that might have minor spoilers IIRC (Note: this trick is relatively new, and probably not used in that video).
by gkanai | 2025-06-11 00:54:34+00:00
I do a lot of product searches in Japanese and there is a ton of SEO spam on domains (.br but also many others) that are basically irrelevant to Japan. Google should be blocking all of that SEO spam but they can't seem to walk away from the ad revenue. There's no good domestic Japanese search engine so it's a defacto monopoly of bad search.
by protocolture | 2025-06-11 00:56:02+00:00
Electronics. Have a hard time thinking about it conceptually. I tend to always take a step out and just find components from other projects and tie them together with code. Would love to design my own PCB.

Creative Writing - Although LLMs seem to be a good help with replacing whatever I am missing. Mostly organizational issues. I enjoy the meat, writing certain scenarios. But fleshing out a whole book I fail from both top down and bottom up methods.
by tempmigrant | 2025-06-11 00:56:27+00:00
In English, immigrant means “a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country,” while expatriate means “a person who lives outside their native country.”

You might dislike how rich British bankers in Hong Kong are called expats, while poor Eritrean refugees in Britain are called immigrants. But technically, those usages are accurate.

Still, expatriate often carries the connotation of a higher-status person living in a lower- or similar-status country—like a British banker in Hong Kong. It doesn’t quite fit when someone of middle status moves laterally—say, an American recent graduate relocating to Europe. Migrant is denotatively correct, but the connotation doesn't quite match because in practice it used for low status or irregular immigrants.

In many such cases, it may be best to avoid using any of these terms at all. Temporary residence might be the term we’re looking for and it likely reflects the legal status as well.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-06-11 00:56:45+00:00
The person I was responding to framed the destruction of a million dollars of property as constituting a reversal of a financial success on the order of a billion dollars, which is why I asked for clarification. That seems silly.

>What amount should we allow to be destroyed before we take steps to protect taxpayer property?

What steps, what assets are being destroyed, why are they being destroyed? These are all relevant questions in answering that. If a small minority of protesters destroy one cop car, I wouldn’t say the response should be to arrest anyone protesting anywhere in the city, if that’s more your question.
by yibg | 2025-06-11 00:58:12+00:00
I've been taking a look at my own news consumption patterns and how they've changed. One thing I noticed is previously, news was going to a paper / news site and seeing what's "new". Lately I more and more find myself first getting a glimpse of the topic from other sources (e.g. Tiktok) first, and then going to a new site to either get more details or confirm (since it's hard to tell now if a piece of content is reliable or not).

So basically news sites for me is now less about finding out new information, but rather as a secondary source to get more details or a more "professional" account of something.
by tmsh | 2025-06-11 00:58:35+00:00
+1 he was a great guy.

Sad in a way on the same day this is posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44241549 (which for me is super inspiring). Mikeal would've done so much with the stronger and stronger AI out there (though perhaps questioning it of course in his own way). His cancer diaries was just one example of how he couldn't help always being a leader in what he did.
by bandoti | 2025-06-11 00:59:25+00:00
I find as time goes on I am less-and-less excited about mobile releases. I’ve had a smartphone since the Google Nexus 1. The desktop experience is always better, and a good book is even more inviting.

Curious what other folks are feeling. A lot of these tools seem like useless frivolity.

Meanwhile, I have family who constantly get confused whether the iOS phone icon is FaceTime or the “real” phone; and I have to do multiple taps instead of one to make a FaceTime call—and Apple is busy making Liquid Glass, for what?
by carefulfungi | 2025-06-11 00:59:54+00:00
Having run engineering teams for some reasonably popular open source products, my experience is that community reported issues can easily out-pace engineering capacity.

For every user who reports a clear, reproducible defect, there 10 others who report non-reproducible issues, who conflate features with bugs, who ghost, who use issues for support or questions, who are just angry about something and think you're an idiot, who report (since fixed) defects against old versions, or who report duplicates to existing issues. It's a very noisy channel.

It can lead to a crappy outcome for both the reporter who earnestly tried to help and for the developer who wishes they had the time to carefully address every reported issue but just don't.

Sometimes, all that's feasible is making time to triage/acknowledge each issue in a reasonable timeframe and to be forthright about its prioritization.

As an aside, I find your opinion that "if I give you my time in the form of a bug report, the least you can do is give me your time" to be common. We rarely have the right to demand another person's attention, though. Especially with respect to non-commercial open source hobbyist maintainers.
by waldrews | 2025-06-11 01:00:12+00:00
The model that's doing AI Summary for search results - that presumably needs to be fast and cheap because of the scale - is still sufficiently bad as to give people a bad taste. Presumably they're frantically working to scale their better models for this use case. If you could get Gemini Pro on every search result the experience would be effectively perfect (in the sense of better error rates than what a non-specialist educated human reading the top results and summarizing them would achieve). That's years away from a scaling/cost/speed perspective.
by bko | 2025-06-11 01:00:38+00:00
Unfortunately, many problems are last mile problems. If we could teleport medicine and technology to everyone who needs it, these problems would be mostly solved. And I'm sure drug companies would love to make money on those people since their marginal cost is so low. But coordination is hard, and it's not necessarily a problem money can fix.

It's like the math that takes # of homeless people times cost of an apartment, and then people claim we can solve homelessness for [reasonable amount]. Makes sense until you look how much US spends on homelessness every year already.

Cell phone technology was the closest thing we got to teleporting technology and wealth to the rest of the world. Most developing countries completely skipped a phase of development that required crazy amounts of infrastructure to be built out. More people have cell phones than running water. It's pretty incredible if you think about it. Hopefully AI will be a similar leap frog.
by refulgentis | 2025-06-11 01:00:58+00:00
> I am struggling to connect the relevance of this

> focusing on a single specific capability and

> I am not really invested in this niche topic

Right: I definitely ceded a "but it doesn't matter to me!" argument in my comment.

I sense a little "doth protest too much", in the multiple paragraphs devoted to taking that and extending it to the underpinning of automation is "irrelevant" "single" "specific", "niche".

This would also be news to DeepSeek, who put a lot of work to launch it in the r1 update a couple weeks back.

Separately, I assure you, it would be news to anyone on the Gemini team that they don't care because they want to own everything. I passed this along via DM and got "I wish :)" in return - there's been a fire drill trying to improve it via AIDER in the short term, is my understanding.

If we ignore that, and posit there is an upper management conspiracy to suppress performance, its just getting public cover by a lower upper management rush to improve scores...I guess that's possible.

Finally, one of my favorite quotes is "when faced with a contradiction, first check your premises" - to your Q about why no one can compete with DeepSeek R1 25-01, I'd humbly suggest you may be undergeneralizing, given even tool calls are "irrelevant" and "niche" to you.
by kimfc | 2025-06-11 01:01:34+00:00
I had a very easy/boring job and where during last few month I spent most of my time reading infinite jest after finishing the days work. I really loved it but I probably won't read it again anytime soon, there's a pretty substantial upfront time investment you have to make before it starts getting enjoyable to read.

Though once you lock in with the world and flow of infinite jest it gets pretty amazing, I wish I had more people to talk to about it without coming off as a pretentious jackass. Also it's far more enjoyable to read it as an ebook where you can jump instantly from the text to footnotes and look up unfamiliar words. Reading the physical copy seems torturous to me.
by theptip | 2025-06-11 01:01:41+00:00
One lens is the “Thrive/Survive” axis. As more people thrive, they have more space for individualism, compassion for others, etc. This can be used to explain the arc of “moral progress” over time.

A follow up would be to observe that in many places today, inequality causes substantial sub-populations to feel that they are not thriving, or even declining though GDP is increasing. Which would explain the rage of the middle-American and many Europeans.

If you buy all this, then there is a clear path by which radical abundance resolves the problems. Same as how the Baby Boomers were a very low-polarization generation; when everybody is thriving it’s a lot easier to get along.

Personally I worry more about the possible worlds where technology doesn’t bring us radical abundance. Declining empires with nuclear weapons don’t sound conducive to a fun time.
by eru | 2025-06-11 01:01:46+00:00
Agreed.

> Furthermore, even if "X OR NOT X" is true (regardless of what X is, as long as it is well-formed), that does not mean that either "X" must be true or "NOT X" must be true.

Independent of manipulating meaningless symbols, there's a whole branch of math called 'constructivism' where people try to find proofs without the 'law of the excluded middle'. Ideology / philosophy aside, the methods developed for this curiously handicapped game are of practical interest in computer science.
by ryanackley | 2025-06-11 01:02:59+00:00
What I mean by modernization is to have online viewers/editors so I don't have to install a virus delivery vehicle on my computer to create and edit a document. It's not specific to LibreOffice but I'm very hesitant to install binaries on a computer nowadays. Especially ones that open user-created files. These present attack vectors for bad actors.

Also, the content creation is stuck in 2004 as well. It works perfectly fine if you're creating an IEEE-formatted research paper or similar wall of text but if you're creating something you want to give to customers or to look professional and nice, it's literally the last program you'd want to use to accomplish that. There's no nice way to say it.
by px1999 | 2025-06-11 01:03:05+00:00
Following this logic, why write anything at all? Shakespeare's sonnets are arrangements of existing words that were possible before he wrote them. Every mathematical proof, novel, piece of journalism is simply a configuration of symbols that existed in the space of all possible configurations. The fact that something could be generated doesn't negate its value when it is generated for a specific purpose, context, and audience.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-11 01:03:24+00:00
> I don't know what you're trying to say. LLMs to tend to say true things ...

What I am trying to say is that LLM's have no concept of "truth". They only produce statistically relevant responses to queries submitted to them.

Assuming otherwise is a fallacy.

LLM services are conceptually closer to a "popularity contest" than a "knowledgeable Q&A session" their vendors purport them to be.
by nailer | 2025-06-11 01:03:32+00:00
Dang (or new person) can we please have a black bar?

Everyone that sends an HTTP request in Node uses Mikeal’s work: firstly he wrote the first NPM module to handle HTTP requests and then he worked tirelessly to ensure that module was never needed and high-level excellent HTTP support was built into node JS itself.

Mikeal also worked on freeing node.js from Joyent via the iojs fork, and ran node events way before it was commercially viable to do so.
by mamcx | 2025-06-11 01:04:42+00:00
I wish I could devote to build my dream programming language (https://tablam.org) that has several hard questions and troubles (mainly I wanna rebuild in full something like FoxPro).

But, there are things I truly have dream but have dedicated almost not effort trying:

* Play (rock) bass

* Draw comic/manga style. I wish to make histories and think I could do it but refuse to write plain words (idiot!).

Basically, art is my unreachable goal
by schneehertz | 2025-06-11 01:05:31+00:00
This is deepseek-r1's answer:

```

Based on the Schengen Area rules for international travel:

Lisbon (Portugal) - Immigration clearance is required here. Since Lisbon is the first point of entry into the Schengen Area (and Brazil is outside Schengen), the passenger must clear immigration (passport control) in Lisbon. This is standard for all non-Schengen arrivals.

Paris (France) - No immigration clearance is needed. After clearing immigration in Lisbon, the onward flight to Paris is considered a domestic Schengen flight (no border checks within Schengen).

```
by chihuahua | 2025-06-11 01:06:33+00:00
I had a Moto X4 which was quite cheap for $200 or $250. It did everything perfectly. No discernable lag for any operation. Plenty of storage. Great battery life. I can't imagine "needing" more phone than this.

Unfortunately it reached the end of its (security) updates so I figured it would be unsafe to keep using it since I have banking apps on the phone. Sad.
by dkobia | 2025-06-11 01:07:56+00:00
Nice work!

The Meta Raybans are a fantastic device hobbled by a weak LLM and supported by a bad actor - Meta [1]. Frankly I feel dirty for running any Meta software on my phone. I can talk to ChatGPT or Claude using the glasses but unfortunately I can’t show them what I’m looking at which is what the OP has built.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are...
by chihuahua | 2025-06-11 01:09:25+00:00
Imagine how difficult it must be for the PM whose job it is to create a long term road map or strategy for phone UIs. Everything is already done.

The only strategy is to create work so the team isn't disbanded. Add gradients, and then remove them in a few years. But write high-brow text to explain the changes, like an artist who describes their solid gray oil on canvas so it can sell for a million dollars.
by ksec | 2025-06-11 01:09:40+00:00
>it is absolutely a very smart business decision to continue investing in them

I dont disagree. In fact I talked about services revenue in 2012 / 2013 before it was even a term on Appleinsider and other places. But the difference is that old Apple make a Great product and then make a business case out of it.

New Apple is we need to grow services so what should we do, and make some product out of it to fill the gap.

One is a Product focus another is a business revenue focus. Very different mind set. Although arguably both would have worked well if a Yard Stick of Quality was in place. Which is lacking in many areas in modern Apple.

>Which Tim Cook has absolutely excelled at.

That is somewhat true. Best operational manager and supply chain before anyone on the internet knew of it. But on taking risk it is going in all the wrong places. Apple had 200 Stores world wide before the 1.2 Billion iPhones and 2 Billions I Devices user. And they had 50 planned so arguably they had 250. Now they have ~500 Stores. The moment you have somehow who thinks Apple Store is a cost centre and not somewhere to quote SJ "Help your customers".

Apple TV+ having little to zero impact outside of US. And even in US home turf they are not doing great. But burning 5 to 10 billion every single year just to hide your services revenue profit margin.

I guess I could sum it up as Apple has more money than they know what to do with it. And Tim Cook is being stringent in places it shouldn't and spending on things that till now provide little value.
by techpineapple | 2025-06-11 01:10:43+00:00
I feel like the alternate title of this could be “how to 10x your observability costs with this one easy trick”. It didn’t really show a way to get rid of all the graphs, the prompt was “show me why my latency spikes every four hours”. That’s really cool, but in order to generate that prompt you need alerts and graphs. How do you know you’re latency is spiking to generate the prompt?

The devil seems to be in the details, but you’re running a whole bunch more compute for anomaly detection and “ Sub-second query performance, unified data storage”, which again sounds like throwing enormous amounts of more money at the problem. I can totally see why this is great for honeycomb though, they’re going to make bank.
by thangalin | 2025-06-11 01:10:52+00:00
Fun story.

The Ministry of Education was using MS Gothic for printed student transcripts. To help students send transcripts directly to post-secondary schools, the Ministry wanted to shift from paper to digital copies. This meant producing a PDF file that had like-for-like characteristics with the printed copy.

Legally, Microsoft requires licensing MS Gothic if the font is used in server-side generated documents. I raised this issue with the Ministry as part of my work in recreating the transcripts. MS Gothic proved to be cost-prohibitive and I suggested they used Raph Levien's unencumbered Inconsolata Zero instead, which is a near-perfect drop-in replacement for MS Gothic and drew inspiration from Letter Gothic.

Now, the stakeholders for the Ministry of Education are extremely protective of the transcript format and there was a subtle, but important difference: The Ministry wanted a non-decorated zero whereas Inconsolata Zero's is slashed. That would not fly with the Ministry.

I, a complete stranger, emailed Raph. The next day, he asked Alexei Vanyashin to set up a custom version of Inconsolata Zero. Alexei went above and beyond to fix all the issues I encountered and about eight days later we had a free replacement for Inconsolata Zero without a dotted zero that passed Ministry scrutiny.

Hard to believe that that was nine years ago.

Aside, my coworkers got a kick of watching me walk down the hall from the printer back to my desk holding two overlapping pieces of paper up to the lights: an official student transcript and my version. This was the technique I used to make sure that the PDF file produced a pixel-perfect replica on paper.
by nine_k | 2025-06-11 01:11:08+00:00
What you need is to scale down the tolerances. To remove the wiggle room.

One of the solutions that does not add a bias that I remember is two identical flat gears on the same axis with a spring that tries to rotate them one relative to another. This removes the wiggle room between this composite gear and the next, regular gear. The motor may have wiggle room, but the gears (which carry angle sensors, don't they?) move without wiggling, and react immediately as you reverse the direction. The load is limited though: the beating surface is twice as small, and the friction is higher.
by kaijia | 2025-06-11 01:11:50+00:00
Thanks for this fascinating example! Autosketch is still downloadable ( https://winworldpc.com/product/autosketch/30 ). Then you can unzip it, and

$ strings disk1.img | grep 'game' The object of the game is to get four Start a new game and place your first

So if ChatGPT cares to analyze all files on the internet, it should know the correct answer...

(edit: formatting)
by the_af | 2025-06-11 01:12:15+00:00
Thanks for the respectful reply. We agree on scifi!

As for atheism: it's merely the lack of belief that god exists (or in some definitions, the active belief that it doesn't exist). Nothing else, nothing more. Individual atheists may believe some other things, or not.

I believe some kind of intelligence could arise again, much like ours arose "out of nonintelligence". I just don't think this is it -- LLMs are very impressive but they are likely a dead end, and regardless, I don't think they are conscious by any meaningful definition of the word. It's mostly hype and gullible people at this point.
by lmm | 2025-06-11 01:12:16+00:00
Things like this exist. They're not that useful in practice, because it's like live editing PHP directly on the server, only more so. Most of the value of edits to a piece of code doesn't come from running it once, it comes from having that edit in a durable, managed place. And however much effort you put into your code management database, it's hard to beat the amount of tooling that exists for the worse-is-better "mostly-ascii files on a unix filesystem" model.