MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fzeroracer | 2025-07-23 14:18:05+00:00
As a counterpoint; I've primarily played games that are old or jank as hell to setup in general. Septerra Core, Nox, Diablo 2, various assortments of RPG Maker games across different engines. They all worked perfectly fine and arguably were easier to setup on a modern machine than trying to figure out how to get them working on Windows.

The only game that didn't work out of the box for me was Path of Exile 2.
by mikeyouse | 2025-07-23 14:18:17+00:00
The import process is a bureaucratic nightmare - you don’t send it through the post in any case, lest it get lost for long enough that your samples perish.

The more common route is you complete the paperwork, fly with it in your carry-on and declare it all at customs.

Having worked in a related field, it certainly wasn’t uncommon for scientists to skip some of the hassle and just not declare their research material. Definitely not ‘proper’ and certainly higher risk to their immigration/visa status if they were foreign nationals, but still not uncommon when the alternative is spending hours in CBP inspections before you spend hours in the normal immigration queue.
by ajdude | 2025-07-23 14:18:29+00:00
When dealing with LLMs and prompt engineering to get CAI to do what I needed to do, I am reminded of the scene from TNG where Geordi is continuously rephrasing and readjusting his requests for the computer in the holodeck (especially around 3:30 timestamp):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vaUuE582vq8
by edg5000 | 2025-07-23 14:18:36+00:00
Agreed. Although to be the devil's advocate for a moment: Governments can currently easily tap email, and phone tapping is more feasible at scale due to machine transcription. So the apps gave use a temporary safe haven, which may get compromised by Chat Control. And before email we had mail, handled directly by the government, although reading mail is more difficult without leaving traces.
by gronglo | 2025-07-23 14:19:16+00:00
Imagine a list of 10 items that gets shuffled so that the order is completely rearranged. With no animation, it would take a lot of additional cognitive load to find where each item went. With animation, your brain would track the general movement of each item much more easily.

Basically, animation provides additional information about object state. Removing that extra information increases cognitive load.

This isn't to say all animations are useful. Many animations are excessive or completely unnecessary, which is probably what has given you a negative view of them.
by ericmay | 2025-07-23 14:19:30+00:00
There's nothing that stops you today from creating a business with your fellow workers and doing just that.

That's the great thing about Democracy. You can do things like found a socialist business model and have it compete in the market and you can respect the rights of others to not do so. If your model is better, or if it works well for you and like-minded folks, then all is well.

If they're just lazy bums siphoning away their fat paycheck, surely your method will be better and you will show the other workers a better way and you can all unite and create similar collective ownership models.
by patchtopic | 2025-07-23 14:19:50+00:00
GrapheneOS says

"European authoritarians and their enablers in the media are misrepresenting GrapheneOS and even Pixel phones as if they're something for criminals. GrapheneOS is opposed to the mass surveillance police state these people want to impose on everyone"

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114784469162979608

State employees in their official capacity making inaccurate claims to media about GrapheneOS to smear it as being for criminals and as the users as largely being criminals is a state sponsored attack on the GrapheneOS project.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114813613250805804
by tart-lemonade | 2025-07-23 14:19:51+00:00
> “To say I was nervous — that’s an understatement,” says Okey, who received one of Quale’s kidneys followed by an infusion of her stem cells in 2018. Within months of the procedure, as hoped, tests showed that Quale’s cells had begun multiplying and circulating in Okey’s blood, and Okey was eventually weaned off her anti-rejection medications. Today, the only medication Okey takes is to help control her blood pressure.

> The initial phase required donors and recipients to be siblings and a “perfect,” or identical, match, meaning they have compatible blood types and other physiological compatibilities. Kaufman says that the initial trial’s success means that eligibility could soon be extended to living donor transplants of non-identical matches and eventually to recipients of organs from deceased donors.

It's mind-boggling all the things we can do with stem cells. I wonder what the next big breakthrough with them will be.
by jug | 2025-07-23 14:20:00+00:00
I checked this website along with API pricing on OpenRouter, and this one beats Gemini 2.5 Pro (…Preview-0506 in their chart, but with a good margin so probably the non-preview too) at half Google’s API price. Nice. Admittedly their own posted benchmark, but still. If it even just competes with it, it’s a win.

Edit:

I ran my fun test on it and it unfortunately failed.

> ”How can I detect whether a user is running in a RemoteApp context using C# and .NET? That is, not a full RDP desktop session, but a published RemoteApp as if the app is running locally. The reason I’m asking is that we have an unfortunate bug in a third party library that only shows up in this scenario, and needs a specific workaround when it happens.”

It started by trying to read hallucinated environment variables that just aren’t there. Gemini 2.5 Pro had the same issue and IIRC also Claude.

The only one I have seen give the correct answer that is basically ”You can’t. There’s no official method to do this and this is intentional by Microsoft.” along with a heuristic to instead determine the root launching process which is thus far (but not guaranteed to be) RDPINIT.EXE rather than EXPLORER.EXE as in typical desktop or RDP scenarios… has been OpenAI o3. o3 also provided additional details about the underlying protocol at play here which I could confirm with external sources to be correct.

I like my query because it forces the LLM to actually reply with that you just can’t do this, there’s no ”sign” of it other than going by a completely different side-effect. They are usually too eager to try to figure out a positive reply and hallucinate in the process. Often, there _are_ these env vars to read in cases like these, but not here.
by gruez | 2025-07-23 14:21:51+00:00
That might be true but it's been done to death because it's applicable basically every time commercial coverage of a privacy-related topic. It has the vibe of "we should improve society somewhat. yet you participate in it. curious!". Not to mention in publications with proper editorial independence, the "business side" (ie. the side that's responsible for adding the ads/trackers) is firewalled from the side writing the articles, so there isn't even really a contradiction.
by Inviz | 2025-07-23 14:22:14+00:00
I contacted their sales team before, cerebras started at $1500 a month at that time, and the limits were soooooo small. Did it get better?

Edit: Looks like it did. They both introduced pay as you go, and have prepaid limits too at $1500. I wonder if they have any limitations on parallel execution for pay as you go...
by 0points | 2025-07-23 14:22:42+00:00
> Basically he underestimated the value of his experiences.

How can anyone here confirm that's true, though?

This reads to me like just another AI story where the user already is lost in the sycophant psychosis and actually believes they are getting relevant feedback out of it.

For all I know, the AI was just overly confirming as usual.
by Yolopix | 2025-07-23 14:23:16+00:00
I'm tired of all these apps using Recall as a lazy way to create pointless "privacy improving" features. This is pure marketing and there is absolutely no actual intention of improving user privacy.

As far as I know, Recall has never been enabled by default on any Windows-PC, even the new "Copilot+ PCs", so this should not be a concern as users have to explicitely opt-in to enable this privacy-invading feature.

First it was Signal which pretended being "forced" to create such a feature. I love Signal but I found this absolutely ridiculous.

Preventing a Window to be seen by other programs has the side-effect of making it completely invisible when using Windows remotely with tools such as Sunshine. How am I supposed to use Brave or Signal if the setting to disable this feature is not accessible because I can't even see the settings screen first?

HN really loves making Microsoft (especially Windows) appear even worse as it already is...
by sanjayparekh | 2025-07-23 14:23:54+00:00
Years ago I had bought a Volvo XC90 T5 (gas powered only). It had this stop/start feature when the car was stopped to help improve fuel economy (lots of cars have this now). Except mine wouldn't work. I took it into the dealership and the sales guy was surprised to see me there on my third or so visit. He advised making a stink with Volvo North America and sure enough after a few months and about two years or so after I bought the car they bought it back from me for my full purchase price - no depreciation.

That made me a solid Volvo buyer (I replaced that car with a newer XC90 T8 - a plug-in hybrid that I still have and is a great vehicle). That said, new versions of any product have issues sometimes but the loss of propulsion on the highway is extremely concerning. Hopefully Volvo comes through and irons this all out like they did for me.
by kentonv | 2025-07-23 14:24:49+00:00
It's not faster at running Qwen3-Coder, because Qwen3-Coder does not fit in 96GB, so can't run at all. My goal here is to run Qwen3-Coder (or similarly large models).

Sure you can build a cluster of RTX 6000s but then you start having to buy high-end motherboards and network cards to achieve the bandwidth necessary for it to go fast. Also it's obscenely expensive.
by indigo945 | 2025-07-23 14:25:11+00:00
> - Checks that query is SELECT query (can be tricky with CTE, requires proper SQL parser)

Not only is this difficult parsing-wise, there's also no reason to assume that a select query is read-only even when no CTE or subqueries are involved. Function calls in the select clause can also write data.

> - Has it's own permissions and users can run the query if they have permissions

This is the important one. If the role the query runs as doesn't have write permissions on any table, then the user can't write data, period.

Note that this is often not as easy to implement as it seems. For example, in PostgreSQL, neither set role nor set session authorization actually prevent the user from doing malicious things, because the user can just reset role or reset session authorization in the query. For PostgreSQL to properly respect a role's permissions, the SIAAS needs to actually connect to the database as that role.

Common GUC-based row level security approaches are also incompatible with this idea.
by coldpie | 2025-07-23 14:25:21+00:00
> > but most Linux distributions are made by people trying to escape the market share people

> I never thought about it like that, but it makes sense in a lot of ways!

Yeah. I developed Linux/open-source software for more than a decade, and the point was never to gain marketshare for Linux. The point was to develop good software that people would want to use. I don't care what software other people use, so long as it doesn't impact what software I can use. We would occasionally get suggestions from particularly enthusiastic users to make the experience worse(!) for Windows users, because it would promote the Linux experience. Just completely missing the point.
by jeksn | 2025-07-23 14:26:02+00:00
I try to not have too many subscriptions, right now I’m using and paying for:

- Raycast Pro

- Proton (mostly for mail and pass)

- Deezer

- Instapaper Premium

- Feedbin

Paid by my employer:

- Windsurf (but might try something else)

- OVPN
by CyberDildonics | 2025-07-23 14:26:11+00:00
Sqlite is 6 MB and can compile in 2 seconds on msvc.

It's 25 years later, if you are waiting for an hour to compile a single normal C program, there is a lot of room for optimization. Saying C doesn't compile fast because 25 years ago your own company made a program that compiled slow is pretty silly.

Single file C libraries are fantastic because they can easily all be put into more monolithic compilation units which makes compilation very fast and they probably won't need to be changed.

Have you actually tried what I'm talking about? What are you trying to say here, that you think single file libraries would have made your 1 hours pure C program compile slower?
by schiffern | 2025-07-23 14:26:18+00:00
Probably too late, but uBlock Origin can disable animations (technically fast-forwards to the end, less likely to break the page) for all websites. In the Settings > My Filters tab, add:

!Disable CSS animations globally *,com##*, ::before, ::after :style(animation-timing-function: step-start !important;transition-timing-function: step-start !important)

Text shadows and filters are also pretty heavy CSS properties:

!Disable text shadow globally *,com##*, ::before, ::after :style(text-shadow: none !important) !Disable image filters globally *,com##*, ::before, ::after :style(filter: none !important)

Even disabling rounded corners can improve perf (and I think it looks better):

!Disable rounded corners globally *,com##*, ::before, ::after :style(border-radius: 0px !important)
by npteljes | 2025-07-23 14:26:41+00:00
If consumers make their choices according to features like this - then the competition is real and the innovation must happen, otherwise the company is left behind. Exactly as you say: "they are just creating an update treadmill for a product that proxies as a social status symbol" - that is exactly what's happening. Not just "full-time designers need to be designing something", as grandparent put it. Companies live or die by these developments.
by Sharlin | 2025-07-23 14:26:46+00:00
Some things will obviously always be scarce, but the demand for merely positional goods in something like the Culture would likely not be that big. The values and norms and desires of people raised in a post-scarcity society would simply be very different from ours. The need to "have more than someone else", just for its own sake, would unlikely be common or socially approved of.

Though I wonder if something like nobility would make a comeback – when you can have almost anything you want, one of the things you can’t have is someone else’s family line! "New money" is meaningless in a society without money, but "old money" has the same value as it always has had – and it’s obvious why the former isn’t really held in high regard in many real societies either, compared to the latter. Banks talks about this a bit in Excession.

The demand for prime real estate is largely solved in the Culture by Orbitals anyway; indeed preferring to live on something as space-inefficient as a planet is seen as quaint and slightly eccentric.
by jajko | 2025-07-23 14:27:07+00:00
One can't rely on some sort of 'decency' of a given country and hope for the best, that ship has long sailed.

You mention Sweden, I can easily also name Switzerland, the land of generally very decent, moral and polite people. Yet sometimes curtains falls off a bit and one can see how various police departments will do everything possible to track and follow people. Police are generally very nice but I've also seen some unprovoked brutality and generally less-than-stellar behavior by various authorities that should know and do better.

Protect what you can, while you can. No state is your friend, its not normally an outright enemy but rather a party focused on its own interests, your rights or needs be damned.
by closewith | 2025-07-23 14:27:11+00:00
Yes, a developer for an upstream dependency sold their credentials and the attackers were able to use that to create transactions in client banks' Pix infrastructure.

> Not much opacity here.

I think a black box implemented by a third party that can steal your funds is the definition of opacity.

> They shoud stop relying on poorly paid outside contractors.

A great deal of financial software is written by poorly paid contractors, but it's rare that one set of credentials can introduce systematic risk to a financial system.
by closewith | 2025-07-23 14:27:14+00:00
> SEPA? IBAN-to-IBAN? iDEAL and many other integrated payment systems

None of these are really comparable to Pix, which occupies a different place in the market (although it also covers these use cases). It absorbs almost all P2P payments as well as business payments, where cards and cash were previously dominant.
by nanna | 2025-07-23 14:27:19+00:00
> As of 2025-02, there is no formal Org-mode syntax definition.

Confusingly, you seem to have taken this from Karl Voit's website, without referencing having done so?

https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

And then taken the sentence out of context. His point is that even though there isn't a formal Org-mode syntax definition, there is an informal one in that all of the Org mode syntax elements are part of the Emacs Org-mode implementation. The latest Org-mode implementation /is/ the spec. This is in comparison with Markdown where there are numerous syntax definitions and no implementation which includes all elements and everything is a mess.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-23 14:27:44+00:00
And at the same time:

> GrapheneOS is not immune to exploitation, but the fearmongering done in these ongoing attacks on it is very clearly fabricated. They feel threatened enough by GrapheneOS to engage in coordinated attempts at convincing people that it's unable to protect their privacy and security.

So... they (cops and friends) are saying that GrapheneOS is for criminals, AND that it does not work at protecting anyone's privacy and is not for security. Amazing.

See: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114784553445461948 and the rest.
by vidarh | 2025-07-23 14:28:10+00:00
I was justing thinking the opposite. If the answers are this instant, then subject to cost I'd be tempted to have the agent fork and go off and try a dozen different things, and run a review process to decide which approach(es) or part of approaches to present to the user.

It opens up a whole lot of use cases that'd be a nightmare if you have to look at each individual change.
by uludag | 2025-07-23 14:29:39+00:00
I totally understand this situation. I actually never had a good mobile set up when I was on iOS and only when switching to Android was able to finally setup something I liked using orgzly-revived, syncthing, and android Emacs.

As for GTD, I never did proper GTD until about a year ago, after reading the GTD book. I don't consider my life complex by any means, but I've been surprised at the amount of projects in my life that have been reified in my system.
by dearilos | 2025-07-23 14:29:51+00:00
I'm actually building something like this.

A code review tool that can be ran by Claude Code (and other tools like cursor, kiro, windsurf) where it does the first pass.

You can also define the rules on how code should be reviewed, and we have a free library of prompts for common code review checks.

I didn't see a way to contact you in your bio so please reach out - ilya (at) wispbit.com - and I can give you access.
by llm_nerd | 2025-07-23 14:30:43+00:00
Sure, we have integers of many sizes, fixed point, and floating point, all of which are used in neural networks. Floating points are ideal when the scale of a value can vary tremendously, which is of obvious importance for gradient descent, and then after we can quantize to some fixed size.

A modern processor can do something similar to an integer bit shift about as quickly with a floating point, courtesy of FSCALE instructions and similes. Indeed, modern processors are extremely performant at floating point math.
by phil21 | 2025-07-23 14:31:04+00:00
There is a difference between crash safety and reliability.

Pretending “unable to drive” is a safety issue is silly. People don’t buy these cars for reliability or quality.

I have zero interest in a Volvo but have a few friends who are Volvo fans. They only really talk about crash survivability and crash test results - any other metric really is irrelevant to them, or at least seen as a trade off worth it to them.
by account-5 | 2025-07-23 14:31:56+00:00
I like my privacy. I'm not using grapheneOS yet because I've not bought one of the limited number of devices it can run on.

But honestly, of course criminals are gonna use these devices with grapheneOS, for the same reasons any one interested in their privacy would. And if the police notice a trend towards it why wouldn't they state so and look to use that as an indicator. Why is there a probkem with this?
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-23 14:31:59+00:00
> There's nothing that stops you today from creating a business with your fellow workers and doing just that.

There are significant barriers to that, not least of which is access to capital.

But that's also not socialism, socialism is the economic system where that is true across the whole economy.

> That's the great thing about Democracy. You can do things like found a socialist business model and have it compete in the market and you can respect the rights of others to not do so.

Aside from misunderstanding aocialism as a business model and not an economic system, what you describe (where you are superficially free to do this but obstructed by structural barriers and a politico-economic system geared to favor a different model) has nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with capitalism, an economic system that,because political and economic power are fungible and capitalism is centered around around concentrating the latter in a narrow class, is in constant tension with and undermines political democracy.
by axsharma | 2025-07-23 14:32:13+00:00
Why not instead remove 'panya' as a maintainer from legitimate packages that were unaffected? No recent or malicious versions of Stylus have been published (which generally is the case during a hijack) and no evidence that any were altered. Stylus is relied upon by several popular frameworks including Angular 12. Admins should have at least checked this before pressing the kill switch.

Fwiw, npm appears to be restoring access to the project https://github.com/stylus/stylus/issues/2938#issue-325479314...
by vips7L | 2025-07-23 14:32:28+00:00
Every single game you mentioned has some sort of tinker step reported on protondb even though it may be marked platinum. Here’s the one for oblivion:

DRI_PRIME=1 WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=90 %command%

Or maybe it’s this one that the next user reported…

DXIL_SPIRV_CONFIG=wmma_fp8_hack FSR4_UPGRADE=1 game-performance %command%

I personally don’t want to have to do stuff like that to get them to work.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-07-23 14:32:41+00:00
Of course lobbies are pulling the strings. That is a given.

But the more nefarious issue is that countries that use to uphold human rights and the rights to privacy for their citizens up until 10 to 15 years ago have made a complete U-turn.

And before someone says that this is due to the far-right getting into power, this has really nothing to do with it.

It simply is blatant attempt at muzzling the population. The worst part is that you still have European governments who feel the need to give lessons of democracy to China et al.

I could see how Hungary would want to get this passed because they are well on their way to authoritarianism but this proposal coming from the EU who is supposedly politically in the center, that makes zero sense.