MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Borg3 | 2025-06-29 08:24:51+00:00
I think people do not understand what the voting system is for. Its 3-state system.

1) Good content, you like it, you upvote it.

2) Bad content, harmful, misleading, downvote it.

3) Good or ok content, you dont like it, you do NOT downvote it.

The 3th point is most importand. You have right do disagree with someone as someone has right to express his opinion. As long as its not harmful or abusive, you do NOT touch it.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-06-29 08:25:09+00:00
You can't use gemini if you are not logged in into a google account.

This is one more good reason to never sign in on your android phone.

It's not as good as using graphene, but it's easier, less work, and you can't brick your phone.

The drawback, of course, is that you can't use your map, youtube or gmail account since signing in in any of those logs in the entire device.

But with microg, fdroid and aurora, it's very practical.
by jama211 | 2025-06-29 08:25:36+00:00
Moore’s law has been unsustainable for 20 years, I remember Pentium 4’s with 4ghz. But that hasn’t seemed to matter in terms of real day to day performance improvements. This article makes some great points about the scaling cost and reduced market opportunity for there to be more than 2 or 3 makers in the market, but that’s a trend we’ve seen in every market in the world, to be honest I’m surprised it took this long to get there.

As interesting as this breakdown of the current state of things is, it doesn’t tell us much we didn’t know or predict much about the future, and that’s the thing I most wanted to hear from an expert article on the subject, even if we can take it with a large pinch of salt.
by brabel | 2025-06-29 08:25:37+00:00
Slack was never an innovator. By the time they showed up there were lots of chats apps. They just managed to go beyond the others by basically embedding a browser engine into their app at a time most thought of that as heresy, I mean a chat app that requires 1Gb to run was a laughable proposition to us, techies. But here we are… MS Teams is even heavier, but users seem to care nothing about that anyway.
by KronisLV | 2025-06-29 08:25:59+00:00
> Nvidia as a whole has been fairly anti-consumer recently with pricing, so I wouldn't be banking on them for a great cpu option.

If they’re swimming in the AI cash and the consumer GPU segment isn’t that important (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/nvidia-revenue-by-product-l...) then why on earth couldn’t they do less price gouging?

It feels a bit like the Intel Core Ultra desktop CPU launch where the prices were the critical factor that doomed an otherwise pretty okay product. At least Intel's excuse is that they’re closer to going under than before, even if their GPUs were pretty fairly priced anyways.

It’s almost like everyone complains about their prices and the fact that they’re releasing 8 GB cards… and then still go and give them money anyways.
by dsign | 2025-06-29 08:27:17+00:00
Well, AI is here and I give it a high chance than in a few years all the music streaming platforms will go the way of the mastodon. Even recorded music in general may take a hit. I'm already skipping tracks in YT-music that I suspect they are AI-generated. When I find that the majority of the tracks are AI-generated, I'll start looking up individual producers and getting back to maintaining my own music collection in a harddrive and an MP3 player. Maybe I'll even buy a ticket and go to a concert, something I've only done once so far in my four decades and counting.

You may say that people just care about the music and not the musician, and that thus an AI-generated track is as good as any. Perhaps. But when I was a kid, all my pals developed their musical taste by word-of-mouth and I-want-to-be-cool-like-you-and-listen-to-Rammstein. Can't imagine all edgy teenagers will fall in love with an AI model.
by edgolub | 2025-06-29 08:27:35+00:00
The reason why they do not expose the underlying server schema, is because you aren't supposed to write your own MCP server from zero, in the same way you aren't supposed to write your own GraphQL Server from zero.

Yes, technically you could, but you are "supposed" to just use a library that builds the actual endpoints based on the schema for the version of MCP you are using. And only worry about building your tools, to expose them to a LLM, so it can be consumed (LLM function calling, but with lots of abstractions to make it more developer friendly)
by ggm-at-algebras | 2025-06-29 08:27:58+00:00
Surely for most time, musicians have been working class. And precarious?

I'm not arguing in favour, I'm noting the deep historical social worth of a musician. It's classic veblen goods for a few, and serfdom for the rest.

Composers had ambiguous social standing. Virtuosi were superstars, but you didn't want your daughter to marry one.

What if the underlying relative value of music was returning to its organic roots? Maybe this is a version of the burger index and their labour value has been overweight for 50 or more years?

The cost in time and effort to become a musician is comparable to an apprenticeship or a surgeon. That cost isn't reflected in their value in the market.
by dmje | 2025-06-29 08:30:19+00:00
100% this. I don’t know how long we have to go on pushing at the “wealth will trickle down” door to discover it’s utter bullshit and always has been. The answer isn’t private companies, because they’re continuing to take the piss and make a small number of people incredibly wealthy at the expense of the majority.

It’s never a popular thing to say on HN but the country the typifies inequality most starkly is the US - and it’s also the one with the biggest set of problems: huge issues with drug use, obesity, widespread unhappiness, simmering resentment, a divided nation. The countries that are getting this right (and by right I mean GDP, happiness, heath, pretty much any meaningful index of “a good life”) are the ones that fund public services, healthcare, education, etc through higher taxes.

~ braces for downvotes ~
by atoav | 2025-06-29 08:30:33+00:00
This has been one of the deadliest conflicts for journalists in history. The number of killed journalists is very safe data, since the names are known and the cause of death is typically relatively well researched.

The story told by the data is that these journalists are overwhelmingly killed by Israeli forces, in some cases with prior notice of the press being where it was.

So if the IDF wants the press to tell the true story on the ground maybe let them do their work without killing them? The quesrion is: at which point do we have to stop assuming incompetence and start to assume malice (at least in parts)? For me personally that point has been months in the past.

This will be a stain on Israel for the rest of history.
by CalChris | 2025-06-29 08:30:37+00:00
Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles.

No. Moore's law is not about density. It's just about the number of transistors on a chip. Yes, density increases but so does die size. Anyways, in Moore's own word:

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year.

http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/moore-crammingm...
by ggm-at-algebras | 2025-06-29 08:31:20+00:00
More parallelism. Less clock. More l1 cache per CPU and less disk stalls. Are there plenty of tricks in the sea, when clockspeed goes flat?

Dual ported TCAM memory isn't getting faster and we've got to 1,000,000 prefixes in the internet and ipv6 are 4 times bigger. Memory speed is a real issue.
by deafpolygon | 2025-06-29 08:31:23+00:00
Indeed. If they are your customers, then it’s your job to work on effective communications. remember how we did it before the days of social media? It can be still be done- just learn the channels outside Facebook and establish points where the customers can reach you there. Make it painless and easy. That might mean managing your own support platform instead of using Facebooks for free.
by rafaelmn | 2025-06-29 08:31:30+00:00
What do you mean start monetizing ? I get adds for their Apple Arcade trial on top of my iOS settings main screen.

I really hate Apple - but what's stopping me from moving out of the ecosystem is that nobody else builds shit that works and is on same level. The M Pro series processor is only touchable by that one AMD chip you can't get anywhere. Windows is garbage and Linux is a part time job. Android is even worse in terms of spam and jank, and the only ecosystem that works is Google - where if you get locked out - you're just praying to HN/Google contacts that you didn't lose your access.
by rramadass | 2025-06-29 08:33:16+00:00
That is why you have to go back to fundamental philosophical concepts i mentioned. They had studied the "Human Condition" extensively and prescribed different "Worldviews" (i.e. philosophical schools) and corresponding disciplines which people can choose from, to follow, according to their Characters/Dispositions.

The end goal is what the Hindus/Buddhists call "Kaivalya/Moksa/Nirvana" and the Greeks "Eudaimonia". This is not fleeting sensory happiness but a steady state of calm flowing happiness. While it is commonly thought of as necessitating stepping away from everything (i.e. renunciation) that is not necessary. You can engage with the World and yet stand apart from it by letting sensory enjoyments come and go while maintaining mental equanimity throughout.
by throwawayben | 2025-06-29 08:33:57+00:00
I played this a few years ago.

Despite being born in the UK to a British father my character wasn't previously British due to parents being unmarried and being born after 1983 but before the 2006 rules update.

I'm not totally sure when but I think some time in the 2010s the 2006 update became retroactive so my character was allowed to play. Didn't have to do too many side quests - the main one was retrieving father's birth certificate.

My character also had to attend the endgame ceremony and swear allegiance to the queen, which seemed odd for someone born in the country and lived here all his life
by flohofwoe | 2025-06-29 08:34:03+00:00
Tbh, today I'm kinda glad that BeOS hadn't "won". Using C++ for operating system APIs wasn't a great idea in hindsight, and even though BeOS' usage of C++ is quite sane it is unclear whether they would have resisted the pressure to move to 'modern' C++ with all its design warts.

Or in an alternative universe, maybe if Apple had bought BeOS, C++ might have developed into a different direction and look very different from the modern C++ in our universe.
by slyall | 2025-06-29 08:34:22+00:00
I suspect it is more likely that rich people will fund their actor-aspirant children more convention ways:

When they are younger they could pay for acting classes, acting camps and help them get into local productions.

Out of school they pay for livings costs, education and any additional classes. Living in New York or LA and being able to concentrate on getting parts of training rather than having to make money would be a huge boast.

Maybe at the next stage getting their kid an agent or manager who has contacts and experience to get their kid the roles.

Perhaps you mean throwing a few thousand dollars at student-level films to ensure their kid gets an important part. I guess maybe some will write 6 (7?) figure cheques to get their kid a part, but that probably doesn't happen often.
by nabla9 | 2025-06-29 08:34:26+00:00
> In most cases, labels are in fact going to lose money from midlist acts.

This is almost certainly the case. The music business is the economics of superstars. see: Rosen, Sherwin. “The Economics of Superstars.” The American Economic Review 71, no. 5 (1981): 845–58.

Small personal difference translate into enormous differences in earnings. The income curve has only small area for middle incomes. Either you are below middle, or you quickly get into upper middle class or higher incomes. It's not a market failure but a predictable dynamics of this particular field.

Artists low pay is driven by two things:

First, an oversupply of talent willing to work below a living wage keeps incomes low.

Second, promotion and marketing are the primary drivers of an artist's financial outome, leading to uneven deals where labels handle the heavy lifting and deserve larger piece of the cake. Once an artist's career reaches a certain scale, their earnings can grow to outweigh their direct creative input.
by dsign | 2025-06-29 08:36:15+00:00
So many movies are bad because their customer is, intellectually, the minimum common denominator. It's a miracle that movie plots don't consist entirely of grunts, chest pumping and farts, but we are getting closer and closer every year. Most block-busters have an awful lot of primal violence in them, but I bet you can't remember when was the last time any of them had any accurate, actual science.
by rightbyte | 2025-06-29 08:36:30+00:00
I think the fundamental problem is that there are many different 5% groups and that you are very likely to be in some 5% groups.

In some way I feel dropping 32bit is capitulation to bloat.

I for one use 32bit libs in x86 32bit mode quite a lot to test software I build for memory bugs such that it works on actual 32bit systems.
by brabel | 2025-06-29 08:37:55+00:00
You’re right. It’s unclear, however, how your application will handle knowing when to call a tool/MCP. That’s the part where LLMs are so good at: understanding that to do a certain job, this or that tool would be useful, and then knowing how to provide the necessary parameters for the tool call (I say tool here because MCP is just a convenient way to pack a normal tool, in other words, it’s a plugin system for tools).
by ben_w | 2025-06-29 08:38:29+00:00
Very long journies, eventually everything fails. I suspect that we don't have enough practical experience to be confident of any space mission lasting 100 years even when the power supply is fine.

But also, there are other radioisotopes besides the one currently used. The ~90 year half life of the current normal radioisotope is great for current missions, not the only option.
by woolion | 2025-06-29 08:40:16+00:00
This is a very sensible analysis of the problems. On the one hand, people tend to ignore how many bands fail, and how much money and effort is spent on the process. On the other hand, labels have a deathgrip on the industry, using payola and other practices that they can afford thanks to their financial (and accounting) abilities.

One thing that could help is transparency, but in a way the lack of transparency is a good part of what keeps the system going. Most people would not agree if they knew how little they would keep if they were successful; "what do you mean I have to pay for the losers?". They would just want to pay for what was necessary for their success, ignoring every expense that didn't work as a "stupid label decision". The thing is that nobody has a true recipe for success, you can just get reasonable estimates on your bets, but each bet will always be a biased coin flip.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-06-29 08:44:12+00:00
Disclaimer: I work in the pro audio industry and have decades of experience with this industry from the perspective of a developer of instruments, tools, and so on, specifically for creatives.

You see, I firmly believe that music, itself, is a form of currency.

So exchanging that currency for another is the problem.

However, I can say with a great deal of certainty - having observed musicians for decades - musicians make money when they make live music.

Not all music can be played live.

But live musicians are the future of music.

It’s one thing to be able to conjure up whatever you want with AI.

But, do it live, in front of 1000 people.

Or, even 10.

I can walk through my city today and encounter 100 (easily) musicians making money every hour, plying their wares into the stones of the streets and pedestrian bubbles.

But yeah, it’s hard work. Why not make an AI do it?
Kitab An-Nur – Preserving human experiences before AI content takes over
by Khaledonian | 2025-06-29 08:44:41+00:00
I'm building something that might sound backward in 2025 – a deliberately text-only website that archives real human experiences. The problem: We're about to hit an inflection point where most online content will be AI-generated. There's a narrow window to preserve authentic human wisdom before it's buried under synthetic content forever.

The approach:

For starters : AI pipeline extracts actual wisdom from the internet, for example a Youtube video (25 min → 7 min of actionable content) Pure text interface, zero visual distractions or engagement manipulation Multilingual archive across languages Non-profit model focused on preservation, not monetization

Technical challenge: How do you separate signal from noise at scale? Current approach uses LLMs to identify and extract experiential knowledge while filtering out promotional content, speculation, and fluff. Examples of what gets preserved:

How someone in Mumbai saved their marriage (specific steps, not theory) How a farmer in Canada survived drought (actual techniques used) How someone in Saudi Arabia fixed their car and saved $4000 (exact process)

Link to mockups: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10OLzJzQ76hy5f9Xj964mgrGBtCGc20-X?usp=sharing

The interface looks almost archaic by today's standards – that's intentional. Think Internet Archive meets Wikipedia, but for lived experiences instead of facts.

Curious what HN thinks about the premise. Are we actually facing content authenticity extinction, or am I overthinking this?
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-29 08:44:54+00:00
I think the article overcomplicates the problem with its discussion about power vacuums.

There's power vacuums everywhere. The US doesn't care about them. There's only two reasons the US keeps meddling in the middle east. Oil, and Israel (for some reason the US is really Zionist). It's not too bring democracy, protect the little man, WMDs or other stuff. They just want the money.
by orthoxerox | 2025-06-29 08:44:58+00:00
That was the trait of planned economy, not socialized ownership of the means of production.

You could theoretically have market socialism, where the only difference from market capitalism would be the lack of distinction between workers and owners. Gig economy would be its kryptonite, though: if allow it you are back to exploiting workers, if you ban it you will also ban a whole lot of actual self-employed professionals.
by overu589 | 2025-06-29 08:45:31+00:00
You’re right and wrong.

The voices are quite real, we’re not alone in our own minds, and the it is the greatest taboo of society to discuss.

It’s really sad, all of these sharp modernists determined upon the cult of science explanations for everything. Those who refuse to believe our thoughts are not all our own. That much mysticism is rooted in something that merely cannot be explained by the logical empirical mind.

Readers will be so upset when a perspective challenges their rehashed psychological diatribes as mountains of lies. They got “help” damn you. Their friends (“real people”) are hurt by the craze and they’re more hurt when someone says “modern science and society is wrong.”

The true Truth is whatever existential reality reflects, not what we are prepared to understand. We are not alone in our own minds, we have collectively known this since before our generations and the “straights” of society are so adamant of their self possessed lies they will condemn those insights as crackpot crazy.
by gchadwick | 2025-06-29 08:46:40+00:00
The wires sit on top of the transistors. Many layers of them in a modern process.

However you can't always pack the transistors as dense as you would like because you can't fit the wiring for them in above at the same density.

Plus there are various 'design rules' that constrain how things get placed. These are needed to ensure manufacturing is successful and achieved good yield. An important set of rules are the 'antenna rules' that requires the insertion of antenna diodes (using silicon reducing transistor density) to prevent circuitry being destroyed during manufacturing: https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/terminology/antenna-report/
by roenxi | 2025-06-29 08:47:22+00:00
It isn't actually an obvious limiting factor here. If I wanted to copy what, say, OpenAI has done the biggest stumbling block seems to be budget and GPU hours. It isn't obvious what the academic or engineering breakthroughs here really are. The maths does seem to be pretty trivial.

I wouldn't want to say it is easy, but this doesn't seem to be the work of geniuses as much as the work of people who work at large companies with lots of hardware.
by somat | 2025-06-29 08:47:31+00:00
Valve solves this problem in steam by shipping a stable runtime. Programs pick what stable runtime they want to target and because it is stable it does not shift around under them.

This works great for the sort of closed source programs Valve is targeting to market for. However as an end user it probably best to not think too hard about the implications of a stable runtime. Because in short "stable" implies "out of date" I think steam's newest runtime is Ubuntu 12.

Now like I said, as an end user this does not matter, your goal is to get the final program, you don't care about the runtime. and as a developer you may be slightly horrified, but in the end it is a relief to have something fixed you can target instead of the horrible shifting sand that is the normal Linux experience.
by account-5 | 2025-06-29 08:47:59+00:00
Isn't this inevitable across all companies now? Apple will be doing this on their phones and devices. Facebook want to do this in your camera roll for media you've not shared with them. Microsoft are doing this in their OSs. This is the future.

99% of the user's won't care and will actually find benefit in this sort of thing.

Personally I hate it, the struggle for any sort of privacy just got a lot harder on phones for me. PC/laptop is easy, I use Linux. But for phone I need to either pay for expensive hardware and risk bricking it to install something like grapheneOS or buy cheap and disable all the Google stuff I can.
by jiggawatts | 2025-06-29 08:48:38+00:00
Nobody[1] backs up directly to tape any more. It’s typically SSD to cheap disk with a copy to tape hours later.

This is more-or-less how most cloud backups work. You copy your “premium” SSD to something like a shingled spinning rust (SMR) that behaves almost like tape for writes but like a disk for reads. Then monthly this is compacted and/or archived to tape.

[1] For some values of nobody.
by usrusr | 2025-06-29 08:49:04+00:00
Had any of those pre-recording entertainers been even remotely close to making a living off it? Outside of apex apex courts?

I guess busking has existed in many societies, but that's hardly making a living, and certainly not middle class.

Weddings, funerals and birthdays, that's where i see community contribution, not full time professionals. Perhaps community contribution involving a little side income, but chances are, in pre-recording days, not even that. Not much other entertainment possibilities to spend your Sunday on other than being part of the band.

(it's funny how middle class is often portaied as a modern achievement, when the past is so full of examples of population that isn't the ruling elite, but economically still far above another layer of dropouts that would just move from opportunity to opportunity until an early death, at least unless they end up at some form of monastery)
by 127 | 2025-06-29 08:49:06+00:00
...in America. There are countries that actually fight the oligarchs and tax them until the wealth inequality becomes lesser.

Of course there's no silver bullet and high progressive taxes for the mega-wealthy do have other negative effects. Like people being less motivated to strive. Less capital to invest and less competitive companies born.

But billionaires paying less taxes than the guy sweeping floors at the local mall is absurd. Once you reach a certain threshold of wealth, your taxes actually start going down.