MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lerc | 2025-06-24 21:49:35+00:00
I added up a score for myself from that list giving me one point for something that more-or-less matches an item from this list and a half point for something vaguely similar. I got 15.5

The compiler, chess engine, and text-editor have been targets for years but I haven't quite gotten around to doing them.

I like the idea of the bitwise challenge.

I had been thinking that another challenge that I'd like to see (and have a go at) might be a plotPixel Challenge.

Make a game that does all rendering with

PlotPixel(x : int, y : int, color:??? ) NextFrame(offScreen:boolean = true, clearNow:boolean =true, clearColor:??? =0)

Unsure on byte for 256 indexed color or 32 bit for setting 24 bit color from ARGB as r= rA+R, g=gA+G, b=b*A+B.

It would be easy enough to test if a game obeyed the rules because a full video capture of the game should be possible by intercepting just those functions.

Perhaps a (generous) source code size constraint to stop people going too crazy. (maybe 64/128/256k source-code, zipped). Not for code golfing as much as to avoid people trying to squeeze Crysis though a straw.
by exiguus | 2025-06-24 21:51:39+00:00
Nearly one year ago the German federal government passes an amendment to law on preferential use of open source software.

Now they push projects like OpenDesk[1] to fully replace MS Office (365) and OpenCode[2] where they open-source all software that is build with public money.

In my view, this has led to the German economy having more confidence in open source, and that open source can be used and maintained as a model for software over a period of 5-10 or even more years. Instead of buying licences and hoping that the manufacturers will maintain the software for at least 5 years and provide updates. In addition, there is the realisation, not least as a result of the change in the law and the current global political situation, that sovereignty is a very important factor.

[1] https://www.opendesk.eu/en

[2] https://opencode.de/en && https://gitlab.opencode.de/explore
by Fluorescence | 2025-06-24 21:52:22+00:00
It's different but not in ways that make such interventions irrelevant e.g. why would we only care about lost sales? If copyright has been violated as a necessary means to generate new value, haven't the content creators earned this value?

Such imperfect measures offer a compromise between "big tech can steal everything" and "LLMs trained on unpurchased books are illegal".

It's not just books but any tragedy-of-the-commons situation where a "feeder industry" for training can be fatally undermined by the very LLM that desires future training data from that industry.
by tucnak | 2025-06-24 21:53:13+00:00
Your obsession with finance/marketing is exactly what I expect to see on HN.

It's a shame your accusations have zero merit. In the future, please try not to embarrass yourself by attempting to get into technical discussion, and promptly backing out of it having not made a single technical argument in the process. Good luck on the stock market

See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by fusionadvocate | 2025-06-24 21:53:42+00:00
Because the whole purpose of these kinds of projects at Google is to keep regulators at bay. They don't need these products in the sense of making money from them. They will just burn some money and move on, exactly the way they did hundreds of times. But what kind of company has such a free pass to burning money? The kind of company that is a monopoly. Monopolies are THAT profitable.
by pedrocr | 2025-06-24 21:53:55+00:00
Thanks! By retrofitting I mean having to have a new protocol with this new opt-in method where some apps will be getting integer scales and go through a transform and some apps will be getting a fractional scale and rendering directly to the output resolution. If this had worked "correctly" from the start the compositors wouldn't even need to know anything about scaling. As far as they knew the scaling metadata could have been an opaque value that they passed from the user config to the clients to figure out. I assume we're stuck forever with all compositors having to understand all this instead of just punting the problem completely to clients.

When you say you supported this for quite some years was there a custom protocol in KWin to allow clients to render directly to the fractionally scaled resolution? ~4 years ago I was frustrated by this when I benchmarked a 2x slowdown from RAW file to the same number of pixels on screen when using fractional scaling and at least in sway there wasn't a way to fix it or much appetite to implement it. It's great to see it is mostly in place now and just needs to be enabled by all the stack.
by zozbot234 | 2025-06-24 21:54:07+00:00
> can't do anything about the fact that part of the window will look wrong if it overlaps two displays with different scaling

It's silly that people keep complaining about this. It's a very minor effect, and one that can be solved in principle only by moving to pure vector rendering for everything. Generally speaking, a window will only ever span a single screen. It's convenient to be able to drag a window to a separate monitor, but having that kind of overlap as a permanent feature of one's workflow is just crazy.

> The thing X11 really is missing (at least most importantly) is DPI virtualization.

Shouldn't that kind of DPI virtualization be a concern for toolkits rather than the X server or protocol? As long as X is getting accurate DPI information from the hardware and reporting that to clients, what else is needed?
by serf | 2025-06-24 21:54:44+00:00
imagine if we judged any trade by the worst examples feasible -- that's how I feel a lot of the critique on AI generated content is.

I wouldn't demonstrate a hammer by bending all the nails in half with an off-center blow. I wouldn't demonstrate a wrench by rounding off a lot of bolts. I wouldn't demonstrate a screwdriver by cross-threading a screw.

I wouldn't demonstrate the advantages of AI by showing off a disjointed broken video or a buggy snippet of code.

This trash isn't the majority of what people ever even upload, it as literally pulled from the /aifails/ subreddit.

I wouldn't pull trash sketches out of the garbage behind Disney Animation and conclude they were terrible artists, either.
by WorldMaker | 2025-06-24 21:55:10+00:00
iOS has different channels in Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" notifications. Live Activities are hard to miss because have very different style of UI (meant for active ongoing things like "current sporting event" and "pizza delivery tracker"), but most users don't notice "Time Sensitive" to take advantage of them until they turn on Notification Summaries. (Notification Summaries collect most notifications into a once-every-so-often, as you choose to schedule it, "newspaper", but Live Activities and "Time Sensitive" still show up immediately.)

Abusing "Time Sensitive" is also a "time to give a bad review" case for me, too.
by swe_ops | 2025-06-24 21:55:17+00:00
I don't think the difference in opinion will shock me -- I am both.

California's collapse was not inevitable. It was completely avoidable by being competitive with other states where people fled to.

On the other hand, a Socialism mindset will be the inevitable collapse on NY if given enough rope.

Again, you cannot tax your way out of fiscal issues and not expect people to take advantage of other options available.
by alganet | 2025-06-24 21:55:17+00:00
> Says who?

Artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAG-AFTRA

> How on earth are those things mutually exclusive?

Put those on a spectrum and rethink what I said.

> completely irrelevant to whether or not it is copyright infringement

_Again_, leave aside law minutiae and hypotheticals.
by collinmcnulty | 2025-06-24 21:55:51+00:00
I’m not sure I buy the “artificially” as it implies that they have made things worse for Basic Economy in a way that doesn’t relate to distributing a scarce resource. Boarding priority and such are scarce and it makes some sense there’s a market price for them.

I am however concerned about the “everything is for sale” mentality this has brought. It used to be that some things couldn’t be bought with money, you had to wait in line like everyone else. More and more I see “pay to cut the line” and I think that drives class divisions and further damages a feeling of community and egalitarianism.
by slt2021 | 2025-06-24 21:55:55+00:00
none of these shia groups mentioned in these reports have a goal of establishing radical fundamentalist theocracies.

All of these groups are anti-colonial, anti-western, and pro-iran.

As a counterexample you can look at US Congress funded extremist terrorists groups, like:

0. Jabhat al-Nusra / HTS 1. Al-Qaeda (Jake Sullivan to Clinton: "Al-Qaeda is on our side" https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23225 ) 2. Ahrar al-Sham 3. Free Syrian Army and its factions 4. Southern Front 5. Farouq Brigades 6. ISIS - all trained and organized at Camp Bucca under the US Army and Joint Task Force 134 (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Haji Bakr, Abu Muslim and other isis leaders)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/world/middleeast/suspicion...

Al-Qaeda rebels love Israel: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/12/06/al-qaeda-rebels-s...
by throwaway390209 | 2025-06-24 21:56:05+00:00
No, AUTOSAR is a flaming pile of shit. What good ideas did AUTOSAR have? Reusable software components? That is the idea every single software engineer or computer scientist had ever, it is completely unusable and I have never, ever seen a MISRA C compliant anything if it is generated by AUTOSAR (well, unless you count a deviation list longer than the ARXML used to generate the crap).

"AUTOSAR is a good idea, it works in theory", nope, much like communism if your theory does not work and continues to fall flat on its face it is a terrible theory. No one would say a theory of gravity that predicted you would turn into a unicorn if your really wanted to and dropped a ball at the same time had merits.

Here is an idea to make the automotive industry slightly better, just an incremental improvement. DBC files are used to specify CAN interfaces, they allow big endian and little endian messages within THE SAME MESSAGE, which is madness. Why not pick an endianess, just one, it does not matter which, do not make things generic (I have nightmares of German mechanical engineers writing software saying the word "generic"). Do that an you have actually achieved something. I am not even suggesting specifying what messages numbers do what, or what signals they contain for a particular ECU (which would make literal components reusable). The automotive industry is riddled with bad, terrible, software.

I do not know how you blame consultants, the German automotive industry sabotaged themselves.

I have no idea how it can be used in safety critical software, because no one understands it. I guess they just test the fuck out of it.

Sorry for the poorly thought out rant...AUTOSAR makes me...emotional.
by sprash | 2025-06-24 21:57:08+00:00
> Oracle owns the rights to the NeWS source code so I'm not allowed to post it on my Github page.

They are certainly not making any money with it right now. All patents should be expired by now. Have you ever sincerely asked if you are allowed to publish the code?

> Do you have any ... display servers that solve all the problems too?

X11 has extensions which correct for most of its original flaws. Most importantly XRandr (as mentioned in the article), DRI3 (fast hardware access) and XRender (accelerated drawing primitives that don't suck). With the exception for the availability of a decent toolkit and HDR extension X11 solves all the problems.

> Or comments on any of these?

Oh boy... well, you asked for it.

> Pie Menus

Great for demos and to collect grant money, i guess. But in principle a total anti-pattern. People read from left to right and from top to bottom. Traditional context menus are therefore far superior, especially for varying numbers of options.

> Weirdly dragable tabs

Not impressed at all, sorry. Creates much more visual confusion than generic title bars.

> HyperTIES

The most revolutionary component are links... which are not invented by HyperTIES.

> PSIBER

Genuinely very impressive. A proper visual postscript debugging tool. But also necessary for a rather unintuitive stack based language like postscript which is primarily designed to be machine readable.

> SimCity

Great Game. Thanks again for making that available to the FOSS community.
by animatethrow | 2025-06-24 21:57:11+00:00
You can quickly disable all the Windows start menu ads using either gpedit.msc or regedit. On Linux Ubuntu there's a least one Ubuntu Pro terminal ad I remember having to disable, so no OS is immune from this. As a long time user of Linux, Mac, and Windows, Windows involves the fewest time concerning hassles to tweak a system to be perfectly comfortable and distraction free. With Linux I have spent way too much time solving hardware issues like a laptop not waking from sleep or a bluetooth device freezing Gnome or NVidia drivers not playing nice with Wayland, etc. Linux has been way too slow to support HDR monitor output for YouTube. Mac has way too many issues with third party hardware. If you use a non-Apple mouse with a Macbook the scroll wheel direction will be wrong until you research and install a third party scroll reverser utility. I also remember having a lot of trouble figuring out what third party software I had to install to disable mouse acceleration on the Mac (Steelseries Exactmouse was one older solution). Last I used a Mac the Night Shift feature didn't work with non-Apple monitors so I had to research and install the third party Flux solution, but I recall that had some bugs and its own privacy concerns.... Meanwhile, Windows works great with all my non-Microsoft hardware because that's the nature of its open ecosystem. Windows 11 now also does proper desktop color management like the Mac has had for ages.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-06-24 21:57:32+00:00
>Fundamentally, fair compensation is based on the amount of work put in.

I think there is a problem with your initial position. Nobody is entitled to compensation for simply working on something. You have to work on things that people need or want. There is no such thing "fair compensation".

It is "unfair" to take the work of somebody else and sell it as your own. (I don't think the LLMs are doing this.)
by elefanten | 2025-06-24 21:58:03+00:00
This is feeling like a retread of climate change messaging. Serious problem requiring serious thought (even without “AI doom” as the scenario, just the political economic and social disruptions suffice) but being most loudly championed via aggressive timelines and significant exaggerations.

The overreaction (on both sides) to be followed by fatigue and disinterest.
by dkarl | 2025-06-24 21:58:48+00:00
> the 787 does not use an FDR/CVR but a more modern type of recorder that captures more data. which supposedly India lacks the equipment and/or knowhow to download

I thought there was a new lab in India that was equipped to recover data from this type of flight recorder, but in this case the recorders were being sent overseas because the extensive fire damage made the recovery process especially challenging [0]?

[0] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation...
by almostgotcaught | 2025-06-24 21:59:13+00:00
> Your obsession with finance/marketing is exactly what I expect to see on HN.

homie i work on AI infra at one of these companies that you're so casually citing in all of your marketing content here. you're not simply wrong on the things you claim - you're not even wrong. you literally don't know what you're talking about because you're citing external facing docs/code/whatever.

> attempting to get into technical discussion, and promptly backing out of it having not made a single technical argument in the process

there's no technical discussion to be had with someone that cites other people's work as proof for their own claims.
by peeters | 2025-06-24 22:00:10+00:00
In some ways it's a shame because I love the finesse game as a counterbalance to the focus on power that seemed to peak around the time Brad Jacob's crew was dominating the scene. I don't follow curling quite enough to know what the impact will be on the meta game though. More guards? Fewer? More takeout attempts? It's interesting because finesse and power both have critical roles in both scoring and defending so it's not obvious to me where the negative/positive impacts to the game will be.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-06-24 22:00:22+00:00
"Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan of New York said on X on Tuesday that “Trump just cancelled a classified House briefing on the Iran strikes with zero explanation. The real reason? He claims he destroyed ‘all nuclear facilities and capability;’ his team knows they can’t back up his bluster and BS.”"

This one is quite telling...

If this assessment is true, then I would expect the situation to get really bad in less than a year. What would you do if you were Khamenei ? Trump already said he doesn't raelly care if he needs to do a 'regime change'. The only way to ensure that this doesn't happen, given the dramatic air superiority of Israel / US, is to get nukes and get them quickly... What are his other realistic options ?
by szc | 2025-06-24 22:00:28+00:00
I've co-authored a book that a lot of the models seem to know about. The models consistently get the names of the authors incorrect and quote the material with errors. If the canonical representation of our work is now embedded within AI models, don't we deserve to have it quoted and represented correctly and fairly? If you asked a human who had read the book, I think there is a fair chance they would likely give you the reference to the source material.

I do concede that the book does contain a distillation of material that is also available from other sources, but it also contained a lot of personal experience. That aspect does seem to be lost in this new representation.

I am not saying that letting AI models read the material is wrong, but the hubris in the way models answer questions is annoying.
by abnercoimbre | 2025-06-24 22:00:34+00:00
Ah yes let's ignore tech conferences like H.O.P.E. [0] or even my own [1] suffering drastic setbacks due to international attendance dropping off a cliff.

We should just lecture our audience to keep their head on straight and come travel.

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

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44084767
by mrtksn | 2025-06-24 22:00:59+00:00
They probably have blast doors on those and USA made it very clear on Flightradar24 that the bombers are coming, lock the doors.

I would assume that this thing is entirely compartmentalized, so to destroy everything you will need a bomb in every room.

According to wikipedia, US made around 20 of those bombs and Trump used 14 of those. So %70 of the stockpile is gone in one go.

Especially on the main site they dropped 3 bobs per strike location, so at best they could have destroyed 2 compartments with 6 bombs. If those were able to penetrate of course.

Honestly, it looks like it was a show like the one where Trump fights professional fighters on the ring. Just significantly more expensive.

Maybe they should just generate those images in AI, would be much more cost effective propaganda.
by jll29 | 2025-06-24 22:01:03+00:00
1. Personally, I don't want software in my car, I want physical buttons and switches (then I can control my car without looking at any distractive screens).

2. The German car industry already successfully teamed up on sharing map data (https://www.here.com/).

3. However, while this may work for Libre Office installs in a city administration and (non-critical) car infotainment software, this likely cannot work for the most important automotive control software, due to the legal responsibility of the car manufacturer (they would need to review/audit all changes of open source contributors line by line, patch by patch) - because bugs can cost lives there.
by v5v3 | 2025-06-24 22:01:06+00:00
>"overpricing for cars nobody needed"

If the car sells, it is priced at what the customer feels is reasonable. It is not for you to moan as you disagree.

And before the Chinese, there were the Koreans and others who came challenging so it's never been for easy.

I am objectively speaking, I only buy used cars after the major depreciation has happened.
by martinald | 2025-06-24 22:01:14+00:00
This does not surprise me. In a couple of 'legacy' open source projects I found DoS attacks within 10 minutes, with a working PoC. It crashed the server entirely. I suspect with more prompting it could have found RCE but it was an idle shower thought to try.

While niche and not widely used; there are at least thousands of publicly available servers for each of these projects.

I genuinely think this is one of the biggest near term issues with AI. Even if we get great AI "defence" tooling, there are just so many servers and (IoT or otherwise) devices out there, most of which is not trivial to patch. While a few niche services getting pwned isn't probably a big deal, a million niche services all getting pwned in quick succession is likely to cause huge disruption. There is so much code out there that hasn't been remotely security checked.

Maybe the end solution is some sort of LLM based "WAF" that inspects all traffic that ISPs deploy.
by glenstein | 2025-06-24 22:01:21+00:00
One fascinating aspect of LLMs is they make out-in-the-wild anecdotes instantly reproducible or, alternatively, comparable to results from others with different outcomes.

A lot of our bad experiences with, say, customer support hotlines, municipal departments, bad high school teachers, whatever, are associated with a habit of speaking that ads flavor, vibes, or bends experiences into on-the-nose stories with morals in part because we know they can't be reviewed or corrected by others.

Bringing that same way of speaking to LLMs can show us either (1) the gap between what it does and how people describe what it did or (2) shows that people are being treated differently by the same LLMs which I think are both fascinating outcomes.
by gruez | 2025-06-24 22:01:23+00:00
>The poor don't save a buck when they next need to fly and are exposed to excess costs because of not being able to buy the bucket price seat. The mechanistic way this usually exposes is "only six seats at this price" and they went milliseconds after release.

Taking this at face value, it means the airline severely underpriced their fares, because it was snapped up very quickly, which indicates there were people willing to pay more that didn't have the chance. This definitely has implications for equity (eg. if you're not working a desk job you might not be able to spam refresh to snap up those airfares), but I'm not too concerned about it because airlines are incentivized to fix the problem.

More importantly I don't think this problem even exists. Nowadays if you try to book a ticket, you'll be presented with a menu of options, with different fare restrictions. I don't think I've ever saw a situation where a discounted fare was only available for basic economy, for instance. You could always pay more or less for the different tiers within economy.
by cycomanic | 2025-06-24 22:01:52+00:00
That's great, however why do we use a "scale factor" in the first place? We had a perfectly fitting metric in DPI, why can't I set the desired DPI for every monitor, but instead need to calculate some arbitrary scale factor?

I'm generally a strong wayland proponent and believe it's a big step forward over X in many ways, but some decisions just make me scratch my head.