MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-26 14:25:25+00:00
You don't mix and match pieces of containers, just like you wouldn't mix and match binaries from different distributions of Linux.

You can use a container as a single environment in which to do development, and that works fine. But they are by definition an isolated environment with different dependencies than other containers. The result of compiling something in a container necessarily needs to end up in its own container.

...that said, you could use the exact same container base image, and make many different container images from it, and those files would be compatible (assuming you shipped all needed dependencies).
by stockmarketwtch | 2025-06-26 14:25:28+00:00
Nvidia's "Golden Wave" momentum is undeniable (getting that $3.76T crown yesterday), AMD's recent MI355 launch is genuinely promising. I believe it has about a 35x performance gains over predecessors and claiming 40% better tokens per dollar than Nvidia's chips. Ofc, I'm also a holder of NVDA and AMD, so let the best chips win :D
Show HN: Effect UI – PoC of a reactive UI framework built with Effect
by m9t | 2025-06-26 14:25:33+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Mathieu and two days ago I ran into a YouTube video about Effect ("a powerful TypeScript framework that provides a fully-fledged functional effect system with a rich standard library"). This made me so exited that I wanted to build something with it and this is the result!

Effect UI - A reactive UI framework completely build with Effect.

Reactive properties are SubscriptionRefs which make fine-grained reactivity possible (like in SolidJS, no re-renders like in React). Components are just Effects, which makes dependency injection of themes, clients and stores possible by using Contexts.

It is just a proof of concept, but I think it's pretty cool! Let me know what you think or how I can improve it, since I'm definitely not yet an Effect expert.

You can see a basic demo on my Twitter/X profile: https://x.com/m9tdev/status/1938148717158076811
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-26 14:25:41+00:00
Game servers are complicated and have a lot to manage.

It's infeasible for the server to keep track of each player and do frustum and raycasting to every other player to check who can see who every frame.

Culling out of view entities also has the problematic effect of when a player spins around you now have to stream in several big chunks of world state in the few milliseconds before the user clicks to get that 180 no-scope.
by thebruce87m | 2025-06-26 14:25:49+00:00
> Most nations don’t have flat open fields where signals can reach far away drones unimpeded by line of sight for tx/rx.

The drones now are using fibre optic cables with the reel mounted on the drone. Having the reel on the drone avoids snagging issues and the fibre itself avoids EW jamming and line of sight issues.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-26 14:25:58+00:00
If you think addiction to using a device is a meme, then we do have problems. Screaming to unlock, yes, is not useful in correcting addictive behavior. That doesn't mean the issue attempting to be addressed is not an actual problem though. Redirecting the conversation back to the actual problem is better than just throwing the baby out with the bath water because this attempt at the problem isn't a real solve
by gavinray | 2025-06-26 14:26:13+00:00
There's an interesting parallel to be drawn here from prior RL research:

"Some evolutionary algorithms keep only the best performers in the population, on the assumption that progress moves endlessly forward. DGMs, however, keep them all, in case an innovation that initially fails actually holds the key to a later breakthrough when further tweaked. It’s a form of “open-ended exploration,” not closing any paths to progress. (DGMs do prioritize higher scorers when selecting progenitors.)"

Kenneth Stanley[0], the creator of the NEAT[1]/HyperNEAT (Picbreeder) algorithms wrote an entire book about open-ended exploration, "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Stanley

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution_of_augmenting_t...
by bwfan123 | 2025-06-26 14:26:15+00:00
If a third of microsoft's code looks like this copilot generated PR [1] the company is going to go down the tubes soon. And I hope this happens, so, these corporate chiefs learn a harsh lesson when they are ejected for forcing stupidity across the org.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115762
by snarf21 | 2025-06-26 14:26:25+00:00
This is a very one sided presentation of the facts. This fact is generally used to suggest that theft is all a liberal blue state issue. The highest felony theft amount in the US is in red Texas and is $2500. Around 40 states have a *HIGHER* felony $ limit for theft than California. If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense to not spend $10K+ to jail someone for stealing $500 of stuff. There are more cost effective ways to rehabilitate people. However, our society doesn't prioritize helping as much as punishing.
by roryirvine | 2025-06-26 14:26:56+00:00
The UK rules apply to all medicines containing paracetamol.

Non-pharmacy retailers are only allowed to sell in packs of 16, and they'll usually only allow two packs of any paracetamol-containing medication to be sold at a time (eg. one cold/flu and one cough remedy).

If the name of the product doesn't already contain the word "paracetamol", then all of the packaging must prominently display "contains paracetamol" - so even small retailers that don't have computerised checkouts are expected to follow the same rules.

Deaths from paracetamol overdose fell by 43% (with a similar decrease in the rate of accidental poisonings) in the first 11 years after these changes were implemented: https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f403
by nico | 2025-06-26 14:26:59+00:00
> 2.3 Specialized Micro-Agents Over Generalized Rules Initially, our instinct was to continuously add more rules into a single large prompt to handle edge cases

This has been my experience as well. However, it seems like the platforms like Cursor/Lovable/v0/et al are doing things differently

For example, this is Lovable’s leaked system prompt, 1550 lines: https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-t...

Is there a trick to making gigantic system prompts work well?
by rich_sasha | 2025-06-26 14:27:03+00:00
UK is seeing anecdotal evidence that yes, it does cause millionaires to flee. Also gives well-earning non-millionaires the final push.

I'd argue it is less about the tax level and more about value for money. UK services are in a downward spiral while the taxes are going up, which I think is the core issue.

Even if you don't rely on, say, public healthcare as a rich person, it does affect you, as it pushes the equilibrium level for your premium service.
by what-the-grump | 2025-06-26 14:27:09+00:00
Wait whats so confusing?

GPT3.5, 4.0, 4o, 4o-mini, 4.1 o3, 4,5?

I want to slap every person at OpenAI.

call freaking tuned models what they are, basic, advanced, coding, research, etc. etc. Slow, Fast. Like cmon.
by attendant3446 | 2025-06-26 14:27:11+00:00
The only problem (at least for me) with de-googled Android is banking, at least where I live. You either can get an account in a bank where everything is done in person or by fax :|, or fully mobile bank that doesn't work without an app.

Well, it's not a big problem, because most of the bank apps still work, but they rely heavily on Google Play Services. It can partially be solved with a separate profile and Graphene's sandboxed Google Play Services, but still a bit annoying :(
by toss1 | 2025-06-26 14:28:51+00:00
>>I think I'd rather they keep innovating

Yes, but innovating and then killing the innovations, e.g., most recently Pocket, is not really innovating in any useful sense. When something like Pocket starts getting traction then gets killed for no apparent reason, it does seem like more circumstantial evidence to support the above thesis that Google is paying Mozilla just as an increasingly weak anti-trust shield
by benoau | 2025-06-26 14:29:10+00:00
FTC needs to do a clean sweep of all the major platforms, it's been ~14 years since anyone did and last time they found Facebook calling it "friendly fraud" to get children spending thousands and refuse their parents refunds, they found Apple sitting on 10,000s of unanswered refund requests from parents, they found issues with Microsoft, Amazon and Google, and since then the profits from predatory games have absolutely soared and the science behind them only gotten more accurate and conniving.
by kashunstva | 2025-06-26 14:29:45+00:00
> this can lead people to pushing it till 40+

…which is not necessarily problematic either. I was 43 and my wife 41 when our daughter was born. Our child has had a great life and so have we. While I’m 60 now and don’t have quite the same energy I had at 20-30’something, everything has worked out well for us.

Everyone’s path, goals and priorities is different and as long as would-be parents consider the trade offs all around, it’s hard to be prescriptive about this.

> Society itself is broken. You SHOULD be able to graduate high school and make enough to support yourself and a family with a bit of struggle.

No argument there. The complex socioeconomic forces that has created this dilemma are going to tough to unwind.
by mandmandam | 2025-06-26 14:29:48+00:00
1. The choice isn't between having free time and having modern maternity care. And it's not what was being debated. Like, yeah, antibiotics and anesthetic are great to have, but working 40+ hours a week isn't a prerequisite for them to exist so I have no idea why you're bringing it up.

2. Sitting around the table, singing songs, telling stories, or quietly reflecting; all working at my own pace, in the comfort of a home that's been owned outright for generations, surrounded by organic soil free from pesticides and plastic.

3. I read your link, not every cited article. I've personally lived that way, and I know what I'm talking about. There's a big difference between shucking corn with your family or stacking logs, and shuffling numbers at a bullshit job which exists to make two or three incredibly rich people thousands of miles away a tiny bit wealthier. That said, if there's something more you'd like to bring to the discussion, bring it.
by acedTrex | 2025-06-26 14:29:50+00:00
> How would you even know? Seriously, if I use Chatgpt to generate a one-off function for a feature I'm working on that searches all classes for one that inherits a specific interface and attribute, are you saying you'd be able to spot the difference?

I don't know, thats the problem. As a result, because I can't know I have to now do full in depth reviews no matter what. Which is the "judging" I tongue in cheek talk about in the blog.

> How sparingly? Enough to see how it's constantly improving?

Nearly daily, to be honest I have not noticed too much improvement year over year in regards to how they fail. They still break in the exact same dumb ways now as they did before. Sure they might generate correct syntactic code reliably now and it might even work. But they still consistently fail to grok the underlying reasoning for things existing.

But I am writing my own versions of these agentic systems to use for some rote menial stuff.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-06-26 14:30:05+00:00
I mean, no security researchers do. It's very much like capitalists. They aren't trying to do something to improve society, but by persuing their own private incentives, they end up with behaviour that benefits the commons. Sometimes we need regulations around that in the marketplace, and that's what the FTC is. So we need an OSS-social-contract version of that.

It's kind of like the enshitification of bug reports. The best way to deal with it is probably denying them CVE numbers to disincentivise the look of low hanging fruit that reasonably could be done by a linter.

Reminds me of students juicing their PRs be making changes to typos in documentation and comments just to put it on their resumes.
by firesteelrain | 2025-06-26 14:30:18+00:00
Samba4 covers core AD features like Kerberos, LDAP, and can act as a DC, but it’s not a full drop-in. GPO support is limited, management tools aren’t as robust (no full RSAT equivalent), and some advanced AD features (like DAC or ADCS) aren’t supported. Fine for smaller setups, but not 1:1 with enterprise AD.
by fifilura | 2025-06-26 14:30:44+00:00
I am not familiar with the Itanium story and I don't know who to ask.

But it seems to me like this would be a safe space to experiment. With heuristics and pragmas as a fallback. Because with the right approach solutions would mostly be better than not doing anything.

And you could do it in runtime when you know the size of the input.

And what about applying the logic to places where you can see that the loop will end?

I believe query planners in for example Trino/BigQuery do this already?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-26 14:30:55+00:00
Do the compute instances not have hard disks? Because it seems like whoever's running these systems doesn't understand Linux or containers all that well.

If there's a hard disk on the compute nodes, then you just run the container from the remote image registry, and it downloads and extracts it temporarily to disk. No need for a network filesystem.

If the containerized apps want to then work on common/shared files, they can still do that. You just mount the network filesystem on the host, then volume-mount that into the container's runtime. Now the containerized apps can access the network filesystem.

This is standard practice in AWS ECS, where you can mount an EFS filesystem inside your running containers in ECS. (EFS is just NFS, and ECS is just a wrapper around Docker)
by Esophagus4 | 2025-06-26 14:30:57+00:00
All totally valid points. If used responsibly across all those elements, within someone’s budget, with the ability to tolerate the risk… I can see the case for financing. I just think most people don’t quite use car loans that way… hence the proliferation of 72 month+ loans. (But then, they’re adults who can make their own decisions, so fair enough. They would probably say I’m risk averse, anyway.)

> Hey, an extra 1% a year for the duration of one’s working life adds up quite significantly!

I agree - but in this case, you’re not really netting an extra 1% per year forever… in that example, you’re saying you’d have a car payment for your entire working life! And a long period of buying depreciating assets I think is going to hurt a lot more in the long run than the 1% spread :)

That being said, I get that purchases are not always spreadsheet math. So maybe someone is willing to spend a little more over time to drive newer cars, and that’s up to them.
by gibspaulding | 2025-06-26 14:30:58+00:00
> Where AI-agents are the most useful for us is with legacy code

I’d love to hear more about your workflow and the code base you’re working in. I have access to Amazon Q (which it looks like is using Claude Sonnet 4 behind the scenes) through work, and while I found it very useful for Greenfield projects, I’ve really struggled using it to work on our older code bases. These are all single file 20,000 to 100,000 line C modules with lots of global variables and most of the logic plus 25 years of changes dumped into a few long functions. It’s hard to navigate for a human, but seems to completely overwhelm Q’s context window.

Do other Agents handle this sort of scenario better, or are there tricks to making things more manageable? Obviously re-factoring to break everything up into smaller files and smaller functions would be great, but that’s just the sort of project that I want to be able to use the AI for.
by unaindz | 2025-06-26 14:31:41+00:00
My family usually had paracetamol so I went till my early 20s without getting anything for pain or colds as it didn't do anything to me and it felt pointless. I mostly get headaches so discovering Ibuprofen was a life changer. I got a toothache that ibuprofen did nothing against so I tried paracetamol again, still no effects.
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-26 14:31:48+00:00
I don't think this is because Steam, Proton, or Linux are particularly good on their own (they are, extremely so) but more that windows is just so awful.

My observation is that windows is slow at everything. I think because of Defender, but I'm not certain. If you set up a Linux VM on a Windows machine, most tasks run much faster than an identical task on the host OS. It's insane.

I run my C++ compiler in a linux VM because running it on windows is, no exaggeration, twice as slow.
by mrbluecoat | 2025-06-26 14:31:53+00:00
Great to see Apptainer getting some attention. It generally excels over other container options (like Docker and Podman) in these scenarios:

- Need to run more than one activity in a single container (this is an anti-pattern in other container technologies)

- HPC (and sometimes college) environments

- Want single-file distribution model (although doesn't support deltas)

- Cryptographically sign a SIF file without an external server

- Robust GPU support
by connicpu | 2025-06-26 14:32:07+00:00
Paracetamol was coined in 1956, acetaminophen was coined in 1955[1]. The world pharmaceutical stage was a bit less globalized back then, so splits in naming like this just happened. They're both contractions of the full chemical name, so it's hard to argue one is more correct than the other. At this point the names are too entrenched in their respective countries, so changing them would only cause mass confusion and likely overdoses due to people not understanding what they're taking.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol#Naming
Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor
by mariano54 | 2025-06-26 14:32:28+00:00
Hey HN, we're Mariano and Anton from ISSEN (https://issen.com), a foreign language voice tutor app that adapts to your interests, goals, and needs.

Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/a78e713d46934857a2dc88aed1bb100d?...

We started this company after struggling to find great tools to practice speaking Japanese and French. Having a tutor can be awesome, but there are downsides: they can be expensive (since you pay by the hour), difficult to schedule, and have a high upfront cost (finding a tutor you like often forces you to cycle through a few that you don’t).

We wanted something that would talk with us — realistically, in full conversations — and actually help us improve. So we built it ourselves. The app relies on a custom voice AI pipeline combining STT (speech-to-text), TTS (text-to-speech), LLMs, long term memory, interruptions, turn-taking, etc. Getting speech-to-text to work well for learners was one of the hardest parts — especially with accents, multi-lingual sentences, and noisy environments. We now combine Gemini Flash, Whisper, Scribe, and GPT-4o-transcribe to minimize errors and keep the conversation flowing.

We didn’t want to focus too much on gamification. In our experience, that leads to users performing well in the app, achieving long streaks and so on, without actually getting fluent in the language you're wanting to learn.

With ISSEN you instantly speak and immerse yourself in the language, which, while not easy, is a much more efficient way to learn.

We combine this with a word bank and SRS flashcards for new words learned in the AI voice chats, which allows very rapid improvement in both vocabulary and speaking skills. We also create custom curriculums for each student based on goals, interests, and preferences, and fully customizable settings like speed, turn taking, formality, etc.

App: https://issen.com (works on web, iOS, Android) Pricing: 20 min free trial, $20–29/month (depending on duration and specific geography)

We’d love your feedback — on the tech, the UX, or what you’d wish from a tool like this. Thanks!
by bluGill | 2025-06-26 14:32:38+00:00
$10,000 can be cheap for a one way drone. Bombs often cost for more than that. The real question is value, if hitting the target is worth more than the cost of what you hit it with then you have a good value. Taking out a $1000 drone with a $100,000 missile is a good value if that drone is headed for a $1,000,000 building, but if the drone is headed for a cow probably not worth it.
by spider-mario | 2025-06-26 14:34:50+00:00
Lossless JPEG XL encoding is already fast in software and scales very well with the number of cores. With a few cores, it can easily compress 100 megapixels per second or more. (The times you see in the comment with the DPReview samples are single-threaded and for a total of about 400 MP since each image is 101.8MP.)
by gus_massa | 2025-06-26 14:34:50+00:00
> Unless an object has internal interactions, for purposes of center of mass you can achieve the uniform-density-equivalent any way you want. It won't change the behavior.

That is true, but they are using a very heavy material for a small part and very light material for the other. So in this case the center of mass is almost on one of the faces of the polyhedron.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-06-26 14:34:53+00:00
Neither microkernels nor rust will help if you can't get everybody to agree on an ABI, which is the hard part in the first place.

That said, if you're willing to deal with other people's APIs, NetBSD's rump kernels are good for providing reusable drivers, and some projects have even had luck pulling drivers out of Linux to reuse, though obviously that's a little bit touchier.
by alganet | 2025-06-26 14:35:06+00:00
> and I didn't realize it was still maintained

ksh _was_ unmaintained for ages. It stopped effectively in 2012, with some very small attempts at reviving it in 2016, 2018 and 2020.

Then it was picked up for active development in 2021, and it lives here now:

https://github.com/ksh93/ksh

If you didn't already, you should open an issue there with your findings.

--

Shameless plug: I keep some docker images with all those versions for testing, and many other shells too both historical and active (including osh!)

https://github.com/alganet/shell-versions/blob/main/.github/...
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-26 14:35:55+00:00
I work on the other side of this industry. I make the software and hardware for doing AR/XR stuff for industry.

We haven't been able to get a contract in nearly two years. Almost all of our competition in this sector have gone bust, and my company is about to follow suit.

The answer appears to be "no". The industry at large does not have enough interest in AR/XR to sustain any sort of competitive business to provide those products.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-06-26 14:36:01+00:00
Piling onto this, humans have both recency and frequency biases that, combined with the attention-as-currency news industry, tend to lead to an increase in the perceived danger of violent crime that's entirely disconnected from the actual statistical danger of violent crime. You hear about more crimes, you hear about each crime more often, and your estimate of how much crime there actually is increases.
by NeutralCrane | 2025-06-26 14:36:21+00:00
> However, at least in my experience, pre LLM those reviews were not EVERY CASE there were many times I elided parts of a deep review because i saw markers in the code that to me showed competency, care etc.

That was never proof in the first place.

If anything, someone basing their trust in a submission on anything other than the code itself is far more concerning and trust-damaging to me than if the submitter has used an LLM.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-26 14:36:57+00:00
I didn't say we had to choose one or the other, I'm suggesting actually the opposite: the clearly superior way to do it is to first do one (ensure we are maximally leveraging all IQ points born to humans on earth) then do the other (now armed with billions more brains that freed from the daily task of avoiding premature death).

If you have an argument for why the reverse ordering, or in parallel, would be better, that's what I'm asking for: what's the argument?

Flesh it out beyond just "imagine if we succeed with no substantial opportunity loss!"