MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alganet | 2025-06-19 07:34:38+00:00
I can divide the suggestions into two categories:

1. Stuff that W3C already researched and defined 20 years ago to make the web better. Acessibility, semantic simple HTML that works with no JS, standard formats. All the stuff most companies just plain ignored or sidelined.

2. Suggestions to workaround obvious limits on current LLM tech (context size, ambiguity, etc).

There's really nothing to talk about category 1, except that a lot of people already said this and they were practically mocked.

Regarding category 2, it's the first stage of AI failure acceptance. "Ok, it can't reliably reason on human content. But what if we make humans write more dumb instead?"
by goku12 | 2025-06-19 07:35:18+00:00
In that image, you can see a white horizontal line on the heat shield, slightly below the point where the tank bursts. That was already there when the longer video clip starts. The tank later bursts along that line, even before the spilled propellant (which I assume is methane) catches fire. In fact, that line seems to be breaking apart even before the crack from the top reaches that point. However, the failure from the top might have propagated to that line out of our view, underneath the heat resistant tiles.

The crack propagation indicates that the line was a weak point on the structure. However, I'm surprised that it was already there. It's too early to make a reliable guess. But if I were to hazard one, I would say that the tank had too much pressure, well ahead of the explosion.
by politelemon | 2025-06-19 07:39:27+00:00
The beginning was painful to watch as is the cheering in this comment section.

The 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 simply aren't making sense. They imply a kind of a succession and replacement and demonstrate a lack of how programming works. It sounds as marketing oriented as "Web 3.0" that has been born inside an echo chamber. And yet halfway through, the need for determinism/validation is now being reinvented.

The analogies make use of cherry picked properties, which could apply to anything.
by W0lfEagle | 2025-06-19 07:41:45+00:00
Something is interfering with scroll on your website. Let's please all stop letting things interfere with scrolling. This could definitely just be a personal preference but even Apple, who should be able to do it well, fills the page with scroll effects that just don't feel good. Especially on mobile which by now is the primary device for web browsing. Rant over. I'm sure it's not the authors fault and just some unnecessary code in the template. I came for the snippet share because I was intrigued. The info on the site didn't really explain what to expect. It shows me how to install it but what does it do? Put an example link maybe? Does it create an image? Does it link back to remote repo?
by motorest | 2025-06-19 07:42:03+00:00
> for up to 0.8% US GDP per year. Today that would be $200B/year, pure spent. Where is Space X today is making, ie. it has a revenue, $15B/year.

The likes of SpaceX are reporting costs in the range of $15B/year because NASA front loaded the cost of trailblazing launch technology half a century ago, with the technology available half a century ago.

Let's not fool ourselves into believing the likes of SpaceX are reinventing the wheel.

Also, those $15B are buying a fraction of the capabilities of SaturnV, and while SaturnV was proven effective and reliable 50 years ago, here we are discussing yet another "anomaly". Perhaps half these "anomalies" wouldn't exist if they weren't lean'ed into existence?
by nomel | 2025-06-19 07:43:09+00:00
> I can’t imagine this provides much in the way of useful information

I can't really comprehend this statement, since it appears, in a spectacular fashion, that there's some useful information to be learned involving the top half of the ship, especially the flammable bits that you can see burst out before igniting. A rocket ship isn't just its engines, it's a system, with all the bits of it being not only useful, but entirely necessary.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-06-19 07:43:21+00:00
the problem, for those tracking and using uniqueness tied to tech as a measure (as opposed to uniqueness tied to identity), is not that it is easy to change you to be non-unique, it is that you will probably be a different "unique" user in a few days.

If there is a lot of information that won't change that quickly it is questionable if that subset would be unique. Logically it seems to me that subset would not be unique because in tech the stuff that does not get changed gets widely distributed.

on edit: here is a sample of three unique user profiles, I open up FF and I log in to Google. I have two unique users, FF, and Google. I then have to do something that needs Safari for some reason, so I open up Safari, and then for some reason I have to log into Google again on Safari. Now I have three unique user profiles: FF, Safari, and still Google. Browser fingerprinting is ok for tracking uniqueness in one way, but for building up a unique user profile it is pretty crap.
by PaulShin | 2025-06-19 07:43:57+00:00
You got me. I guess that's my own practical example of the 'human > AI > human' collaboration you described.

Jokes aside, this is a fantastic, insightful reply. Thank you. You've given a name to the pain: 'task-set inertia' and the cost of the 'stealth meeting.' Painfully accurate.

The advice here is gold, especially treating the AI like a 'junior dev' on a 30-min ticket vs. a 'rubber duck' you ping every two lines. That really crystallizes the right mental model.

Very cool that you're tackling this head-on with Recontexter. Solving the 're-hydrating context' problem is such a critical challenge. I'll be following your work.
by lurk2 | 2025-06-19 07:45:34+00:00
Smugness is definitely a problem on Reddit, but I think in the case of Hacker News you’re often dealing with older guys who grew up on either traditional forums or BBS. When you try to tell them that what they are doing is also social media, they reject it because they associate it with the networks that emerged from around 2005 to 2010, which they perceive as vapid owing to the emphasis on image over text.

I’ve always got the sense that this perception was a big reason why Redditors seem to hate Instagram so much. The algorithm does occasionally do some unpleasant things, but 90% of the time it’s great. When I read about people comparing their lives to others and becoming depressed I can’t help but feel like the app might not be the problem.
by fhd2 | 2025-06-19 07:51:45+00:00
Funny thing about US salaries: Based on my limited reasearch, freelance rates and hourly rates for employees seem pretty close there. For employees, there's also no particular job security, sick leave, vacations in any guaranteed way, it comes down to the benevolence of the company.

In Europe, freelance rates differ from hourly employee pay by a factor of 2-3. As an employee, it's pretty difficult for a company (except small companies, which are exempt) to get rid of you, and the common approach is that they just offer you a relatively high severance payment.

So all things considered, I would think being an employee in the US is pretty similar to being a freelancer in Europe. Pay-wise and security wise. The major difference is that you have to find clients. Realistically multiple, due to "fake freelancing" regulations.
by cat1750309572 | 2025-06-19 07:52:11+00:00
There is a list of entities in memory, models have "bones" for animation purposes, knowing the address of entity in memory you can find out if it's an enemy player (compare team ids), where the head bone origin is, and you also can read the view angles of your own player to see where you're looking. The tricky part would be doing a ray cast to see that you can actually hit the enemy and not shoot a wall - internal cheats can just call builtin game functions, externals can't.
by bluescrn | 2025-06-19 07:52:27+00:00
> Starship is doing this on easy mode and it’s failing.

But this 'easy mode' is still so incredibly hard that nobody else will even attempt it.

I'd love to see some serious competition emerge in the reusable rocket space, but SpaceX is far, far ahead with Falcon 9 being an incredible success, even if the Starship project may be headed for failure. Nobody reports on 100+ successful Falcon 9 launches/landings in a year, those are now mundane. But a small number of Starship failures - test flights of an experimental vehicle - become big news, mostly because they involve spectacular explosions.

It seems that Starship may be too big to 'fail fast', mostly because of the visual spectacle of those failures.
by palata | 2025-06-19 07:52:33+00:00
> If we set out to build hundreds of them per year we could do that, and costs would go down.

How do you get from "it takes 10 years now" to "it takes less than a year now if we really want it"?

Also you need qualified people to build that, it's not like you can vibe code it.

Again, peak oil in Europe was 2007, in the world it was currently 2018, it's not like we have 100 years to solve our energy problem. And I'm not talking about climate yet.
by m000 | 2025-06-19 07:55:40+00:00
I think you miss some key issues here:

(a) Browser fingerprinting can be very robust if you select your data points correctly. E.g. installed plugins, content language, fonts. The used data points can be dynamically fine-tuned in retrospect and be different for each identified agent.

(b) In the grand scheme of things, the browser fingerprint is only one data point. If you combine it with other data points (e.g. the geo-data you mentioned) you can overcome some of its limitations as well as intentional evasion attempts. E.g. a new fingerprint appears at my workplace IP that has 80% similarity with my old fingerprint. At the same time my old fingerprint goes dark.

(c) The ad companies take the shotgun approach because it works for them: it is cost-effective and can be defended as a legit method. Entities that are interested in surveilance for purposes other than selling ads and already collect a trove of other data can do a lot better than ad companies.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-19 07:57:16+00:00
Car headlights seem to really cheapen out on the PWN flicker. Even the 2 euro LEDs I buy at the discount store seem less flickery than the lights of some luxury cars. I thought it could be that people are buying the cheapest replacement bulbs they can get their hands on, but then I saw the same thing happening on a new BMW.

I also believe some people are just more affected by flicker than others. Some get headaches or migraines from working under PWM light, others don't even notice.

I'm not a mechanic, but I believe these car lights are capable of achieving some pretty high brightness (necessary for fog lights etc.) but are dimmed under normal conditions, leading to PWM effects you also see in cheap dimmable bulbs. It's especially noticeable for me on those "fancy" lights that try to evade blinding other cars (and end up blinding bikes and pedestrians) and those animating blinker/brake light setups.
by samrus | 2025-06-19 07:58:15+00:00
It doesnt stay at the margin though. We are having a shortage of trades because of exactly the inflation of college that you inadvertantly pointed out.

Now, the economy has homeostatic systems to correct for these disturbances but if it keeps trying to maintain these unstable equilibrium of keeping greedy shortsighted people from destroying society through imbalance, then it wont actually have meaningful growth

In the past decades of the startup bubble, we have outsourced more and more real value, like manufacturing, steel, chips etc, and increased things theranos, crypto, and wework. We need to focus on real value rather than have everyone chase capital and we need to make it so people without capital can live in dignity just by contributing to society, rather than feeling they should chase a bag to get their peice of the pie while the rest of society degrades around them
by ryukoposting | 2025-06-19 07:58:50+00:00
I find that the easiest way to suss out corporate political advertisements is to look for how they refer to the federal government. If they say "federal government" or "$NAME_OF_ACT" then there's usually at least an inkling of intent behind whatever they say next. If they say "$PRESIDENT administration" or "$PARTY_NAME," you can be certain you're reading a political advertisement.
by arethuza | 2025-06-19 07:59:46+00:00
I read Erich von Däniken's Chariot of the God when I was 8 or 9 and eventually became incandescently angry when I eventually realised it was all made up...

On a more positive note I read Catch 22 when I was about 13 or so and I think that gave me some inkling that the world wasn't really going to make much sense!
by hliyan | 2025-06-19 08:00:10+00:00
This seems off. According to this: https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo (or in more detail: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTKMekJW9F8Z... )

Total lunar effort from 1960-1973, adjusted for 2024 USD: $326 billion

Launch vehicle costs (Saturn V): $113 billion

I think this is what should be compared against the total Starship program cost starting from 2020 until such time it completes 6 lunar landings (not counting SLS or other costs).

Or, for the year that Starship actually lands on the moon, compare against the Saturn V launch vehicle costs for 1969, inflation adjusted: $5.9 billion. See: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTKMekJW9F8Z...
by superfrank | 2025-06-19 08:01:36+00:00
On one hand, I'm incredibly impressed by the technology behind that demo. On the other hand, I can't think of many things that would piss me off more than a non-deterministic operating system.

I like my tools to be predictable. Google search trying to predict that I want the image or shopping tag based on my query already drives me crazy. If my entire operating system did that, I'm pretty sure I'd throw my computer out a window.
by gylterud | 2025-06-19 08:02:15+00:00
I think type theory is exactly right for this! Being so similar to programming languages, it can piggy back on the huge amount of training the LLMs have on source code.

I am not sure lean in part is the right language, there might be challengers rising (or old incumbents like Agda or Roq can find a boost). But type theory definitely has the most robust formal systems at the moment.
by jsnell | 2025-06-19 08:03:35+00:00
I'd note that the only thing Apple, Google and MS are said to have done is to use the software.

The bug has no actual example of them making demands, "leeching" or acting entitled.

The security issues would be security issues just the same even if the library was only used by Linux desktops. (And if the library is unfit for use in other operating systems like the author suggests, feels like it probably is equally unfit for use in Gnome.)
by practal | 2025-06-19 08:03:44+00:00
> The problem with trying to make "English -> formal language -> (anything else)" work is that informality is, by definition, not a formal specification and therefore subject to ambiguity. The inverse is not nearly as difficult to support.

Both directions are difficult and important. How do you determine when going from formal to informal that you got the right informal statement? If you can judge that, then you can also judge if a formal statement properly represents an informal one, or if there is a problem somewhere. If you detect a discrepancy, tell the user that their English is ambiguous and that they should be more specific.
by Zobat | 2025-06-19 08:03:45+00:00
To be fair, they're also doing launches at a pace NASA could only have dreamed of back then. In 2024 SpaceX had 134 launches, we're far into the Space Shuttle program before Nasa had made that in total.

I wonder what "tons of payload to orbit" vs "dollars budget" would look like for Saturn era NASA vs Current SpaceX.

No doubt they're standing on the shoulders of giants, but let's not forget that they've helped transform the "go to space"-business.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-19 08:05:04+00:00
Cost equivalency ignores the R&D and decades of scientific progress and advancements in tooling capability. The prices of materials have shifted, but designing and manufacturing a precise propulsion system with modern CAD and simulation tools is a lot cheaper than the hand work hundreds of people used to be doing to verify much simpler engine designs. Precision machining and tools to inspect metal fatigue and imperfections have also come a long way.

Of course commercial rockets are always going to be as shoddy as they can get away with rather than as good as possible, but if it still takes SpaceX or Boeing as much money to build a rocket as it did back in the Saturn V days, they're doing something wrong.
by throwaway63467 | 2025-06-19 08:07:27+00:00
I have the MBP M4 Max with 48 GB and 2 TB drive, which is around 5.500 € here. That’s what I compare it to, it has around 40.000 points on Geekbench, the X9 around 20.000 and it was around 2.000 €. Not sure how the other M4 compare. And sure the MBP or the Air is of course the better machine if you want to run MacOS, for a Linux laptop the Aura is the best option now though.
by boudin | 2025-06-19 08:07:35+00:00
That's a really weird way to look at it. In reality nvidia just chose to not invest in it. This sums it up: https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/09/to-eglstream-...

Gnome did land eglstream support by the way, xwayland as well. I think kde too at some point (not sure about that).

Nvidia had a lot of options on the table: - allow nouveau to reclock gpus or, better, collaborate with them so that at least there's one usable driver. - follow the community consensus and go with GBM straight away. Didn't seem to be a problem in the first place as it's what they are doing now. - open source their driver like other manufacturer and be part of mesa.

Community had one option: dedicate a lot of time and effort to create a whole code path for nvidia only and having to debug it against a black box driver
by laserbeam | 2025-06-19 08:07:45+00:00
I'm very happy to see work on the debugger. This is the main feature preventing me from switching full time to zed.

Unfortunately, "here" is not accurate. Not having a watch window, a stack trace view, and no mention of data breakpoints in the announcement still keeps the "beta" tag. I know those features will arrive eventually, but what is described is definitely not sufficient for 97% of my debugging sessions.

I would also have liked to see more in the announcement of multiple simultaneous debug sessions, and on how multithreaded debugging is planned. There are really cool things that can be done with multithreaded debugging further down the line that I'd be interesting in hearing about (like how RemedyBG has a DAW-like UI for freezing certain threads, or hitting one button to "solo" a thread and freeze all others).
by gwd | 2025-06-19 08:08:35+00:00
In the case of K, U, and W, those were borrowed from Greek, weren't they?

Not sure where J came from.

One question is why we borrowed K when we already had C. In modern English, C is more or less a completely superfluous letter, adding unnecessary complexity to pronunciation. Seeing my son try to pronounce "cycle" is one of many examples.
by throwaway63467 | 2025-06-19 08:10:25+00:00
I guess. MBP is in the same ball park, it uses around 5-8 W when idle with the screen on, it’s just that the 16’’ model has a 100 Wh battery so naturally it lasts longer. On Windows the Lenovo apparently lasts as long as a MacBook but I use it on Linux where power management isn’t as well optimized, it idles at around 9 W.

I don’t get these comments in general, sure the MacBook is much better, and I use one as well. I still prefer native Linux on my machine sometimes and the Aura is probably the best Linux laptop I ever owned.
by monsieurbanana | 2025-06-19 08:16:18+00:00
> "Because they all have slight pros and cons, and you may want to program some functionality in 1.0 or 2.0, or 3.0, or you're going to train in LLM, or you're going to just run from LLM"

He doesn't say they will fully replace each other (or had fully replaced each other, since his definition of 2.0 is quite old by now)
by tromp | 2025-06-19 08:16:41+00:00
> 2:48 the fact that we're not using gravity

Of course you're using gravity on a device built out of little slopes, just as the Turing Tumble is.

Add a hand-cranked marble lift to a Turing Tumble and the two are much more similar. One is gate cranked, while the other is circuit cranked.

While the Roons device has much more mechanical overhead for distributing the clock signal, it does allow for more looping paths.
by palata | 2025-06-19 08:18:47+00:00
> No but the last year I've been asked to go to:

To be clear, I'm not installing those things either. Everybody has WhatsApp, so that's my fallback, it's a common denominator. Signal is superior, so that's my preference. For personal conversations, I don't use anything else.

Then for work, I have to use the tools we get (be it Slack or Discord or Teams). And when a community is on Slack or Discord or IRC or discourse or whatever they use, well I have to go there to talk to them.

> My employer uses Microsoft 365 where all our data is on Microsoft servers

Yes I agree, that's a problem. Slack, Discord, same thing everywhere. Companies should self-host e.g. a matrix server, or at least use a provider from their own country. But I believe that self-hosted Matrix would be better than Slack for companies.

> I don't agree, [Matrix] is superior for me.

Out of curiosity, why not Telegram then, if you don't care about privacy and encryption?

> if they grow the "normies" will rapidly outgrow the evangelists who would be inclined to donate

They currently have 70M active users. Those are not evangelists.

> If the main matrix instances enshittify, I'll just run my own

Which is more complicated for approximately everybody than "if Signal enshittify, I'll move back to WhatsApp or to the next alternative to Signal".

Matrix brings its lot of issues. For instance, startups obviously wouldn't care, but corporations would never accept "any Matrix client" to connect. So they would somehow want to make sure that their employees use approved clients. I don't think this is currently a thing in Matrix. But even if it was, it means that corporations wouldn't benefit from "I can use any client I want", and chances are that they would self-host and not federate. Better than giving their data to third-parties, but still not the dream of federation or freedom.

For personal use? Normies use the main Matrix server, it's not really federated. And Matrix servers collect a lot of metadata. Wasn't there also security issues, where a Matrix server could inject ghost users into rooms?

All that to say, Matrix does not solve the problems that Signal solves. Matrix solves other problems (well, mostly "I want to self-host a chat and I want something cooler than IRC"), but then it makes sense that Matrix is not a replacement for Signal and Signal is not a replacement for those Matrix use-cases.

Bridging is a weird hack. I have only been confronted to Matrix bridges to IRC channels, and it was making everything worse for IRC users (essentially forcing the IRC users to either move to Matrix or ban the bridges).