MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by caffeinated-eng | 2025-07-05 08:25:22+00:00
This is a long-form, systems-first essay I wrote for engineers who care less about hype and more about building things that work under pressure.

It breaks down three core mental constructs I’ve consistently seen in great engineers: focus, friction, feedback.

I’m curious how others here interpret or model these ideas — particularly how feedback loops (in systems and in thinking) show up in your work.
by Lerc | 2025-07-05 08:25:24+00:00
I wouldn't call it successful as a currency given its state at the moment either.

I would say that much of the reason for that is because of the perception of the currency that is widely held. It's not much good because people think it's not much good. I bought a few things online years ago with Bitcoin and it worked pretty much the way it should, but most of those places that accepted it stopped . Mostly they stopped due to the public perception.

I do wonder if it has a chance to become useful once it is old enough to not be considered interesting, and the idea of holding something while it increases in value dies.
by snvzz | 2025-07-05 08:25:40+00:00
>...or everyone will move to something else - ANYTHING else - because we don't want to replace our brand new devices just to run Ubuntu.

Everyone now is nobody tomorrow.

Right now, the few RISC-V boards are in the hands of developers and enthusiasts.

In the future, RISC-V will continue to grow, into mass-market.

Ubuntu recognizes the importance of being able to fully take advantage of RVA23, a fully capable ISA comparable to x86-64v4 and ARMv9.
by austin-cheney | 2025-07-05 08:25:53+00:00
This is supremely interesting because all the evidence indicates people default to susceptibility to these Ponzo and Müller-Lyer illusions irrespective of cultural and socioeconomic status. I remember falling victim to these illusions as a child myself.

What makes this interesting is the inverse. What about the commonalities of people who are blind to the bias imposed by these illusions? Now I am blind to the illusions. I am trying to see the visual bias I remember experiencing as a child but I cannot see it in any examples. I have searched online for more examples and to no avail.

I suspect that when I did fall for the illusions the contextual interference of additional information biased my thinking towards false conclusions. Why is that not so now? The change is not a casual shift of perception but a complete and absolute non cognitive hard difference. Does that illusion blindness influence other perceptions/conclusions and does it do so uniformly in ways not applicable to persons without such illusion blindness?
by swarnie | 2025-07-05 08:26:19+00:00
Why would they throw a dozen South American coups, import tonnes of crack to the inner cities, conduct illegal human experimentation or attempt the assassination of multiple democratically elected world leaders?

Honestly no idea, they seem a little fash-y for any logical reasoning that i can comprehend.

Maybe they had another insurgency to fund and didn't want it going through the vast ^official^ books?
by cbg0 | 2025-07-05 08:26:34+00:00
I suspect that in the US nuclear is being pursued by the tech industry due to the current administration, if Biden were still in the White House, the tech industry would be pushing for offshore wind and solar panels.

Nuclear is expensive and requires red tape and a long time to bring online, but the real benefit is that it can deliver power consistently all day, unlike wind and solar. I think the ideal future includes all of these plus better storage capabilities.
by csomar | 2025-07-05 08:28:06+00:00
I don't know about your circumstances but if I was small, I would completely disregard this.

> We’re currently in a bidding process, alongside other companies. From what we understand, most competitors are creative agencies likely to: • build something from scratch, or • white-label past projects from similar events.

They are not interested in you. They just reached out to platforms to do price/feature/whatever discovery. They might decide on one of them, go with a friend or do nothing.

Do you want to expand time on this? Again, I don't know about your circumstances and don't have much info beyond what you are giving us but I wouldn't.
by deepdarkforest | 2025-07-05 08:28:16+00:00
Cursor raised 900M, are losing market share to claude code(resorting to poaching 2 leads from there [1]), AND they're decreasing the value of their product? Huge red flag. They should be able to burn cash like no tomorrow. Also, the PR language on this post, and the timing(midnight on a US holiday) is not ideal.

This news coupled with google raising the new gemini flash cost by 5x, azure dropping their startup credits, and 2-3 others(papers showing RL has also hit a wall for distilling or improving models), are now solid signals that despite what Sam altman says, intelligence will NOT be soon too cheap to meter. I think we are starting to see the squeeze from the big players. Interesting. I wonder how many startups are betting on models becoming 5-10x cheaper for their business models. If on device models don't get good, I bet a lot of them are in big trouble

[1] https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/anysphere-hires-...
by ww520 | 2025-07-05 08:28:49+00:00
It's not a functor; "map" is bind. Here's an example in non-Haskell as I was addressing non-Haskell audience.

class Maybe { value: int; static wrap(v: int) { return new Maybe { value = v } } // map() applies fn on the unwrapped value. fn returns a Maybe. map(fn: (x: int) => Maybe) { return this.value == null ? Maybe.wrap(null) : fn(this.value); } }

Here Maybe.wrap() is "unit" and Maybe.map() is "bind" in Haskell lingo. The whole thing is a monad. You can chain call with it.

Maybe.wrap(5) .map(x => Maybe.wrap(x + 1)) .map(x => Maybe.wrap(x * 2))
by samus | 2025-07-05 08:29:26+00:00
At the same time, many VM and containerization solutions build these features themselves. It seems attractive to reuse the heavily optimized machinery that a COW filesystem offers. And indeed at least Docker can use Btrfs snapshots to create images. It has been a while since I looked into it though; no clue how mature and performant it is nowadays.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/drivers/btrfs-driver/
by biot | 2025-07-05 08:30:34+00:00
> Serverless Advocate: Yes, but instead of paying for infrastructure overhead and hiring 5–10 highly specialized k8s engineers, you pay AWS to manage it for you.

This argument lost me. If you’re running your own k8s install on top of servers, you’re doing it wrong. You don’t need highly specialized k8s engineers. Use your cloud provider’s k8s infrastructure, configure it once, put together a deploy script, and you never have to touch yaml files for typical deploys. You don’t need Lambda and the like to get the same benefits. And as a bonus, you avoid the premium costs of Lambda if you’re doing serious traffic (like a billion incoming API requests/day).

Every developer should be able to deploy at any time by running a single command to deploy the latest CI build. Here’s how: https://engineering.streak.com/p/implementing-bluegreen-depl...
Show HN: AI-CLI-Log – Seamlessly Log Your AI CLI Conversations to Markdown
by alingse | 2025-07-05 08:31:44+00:00
Hey HN,

I've developed ai-cli-log, a command-line utility designed to capture and log interactive terminal sessions. Its primary purpose is to provide a clean, accurate record of CLI interactions, which I found particularly useful when working with AI models or other interactive command-line tools. The tool functions by wrapping your chosen command. It leverages node-pty for pseudo-terminal emulation and @xterm/headless to process ANSI escape codes. This approach ensures that the captured output accurately reflects the final, rendered state of the terminal screen, including user input and any dynamic changes. The complete session is then saved as a Markdown file. Usage is simple: Just prefix the command you want to log with ai-cli-log. For example: ai-cli-log gemini ai-cli-log claude ai-cli-log my-custom-cli Session logs are stored as Markdown files within a .ai-cli-logs directory. You can find the project on GitHub: https://github.com/alingse/ai-cli-log Feedback and contributions are welcome.
by _V_ | 2025-07-05 08:33:03+00:00
That was, of course, a little bit of an exaggeration just to paint a picture. And it was not that important to the overall argument, that's why I formulated it so lazily (I wanted to sum things up in few words).

However if we'd go in there, I think there are many people on this side of the argument that really believe/push the extreme version of this. Atleast that's my impression. But since we had for example biological males competing with biological females in strenght-based sports, I'd say this impression is not that inaccurate.

That is, atleast for me personally, an insane thing. Even though I personally fully believe that trans person should be able to live freely their live, I think there are some limitations simply because of that dichotomy and sports are one of those few examples of things trans person should not automatically be able to do and it should be strictly on the case-by-case basis.

But maybe I'm wrong - I'm of course very open discussing other points of view. These sensitive topics are rarely discussed in a civil manner online, so I'd be honestly glad to do so, because I really want to try & understand what drives people on this side of the argument.
by cyphertruck | 2025-07-05 08:33:43+00:00
The traditional finance system is that a single central bank, owned by a cartel of rich banks- chase, jpm, etc-- issue the currency, charge us to use it and get first dibs on the benefits of monetary inflation -- google "cantillon effect".

The now much more diverse mining space is much better than completely centralized in one entity current system.

And bitcoin community has a way of working to fix weaknesses wherever they find it... there is active campaigns to diversify mining, as you pointed out those are pools-- and pools are being made obsolete. behind those pools are thousands or tens of thousands of mining operators, of all sizes, as it's viable at industrial as well as individual scale-- many use it to heat their house for less than the alternative, the earnings don't have to cover the full cost to be beneficial to people.
by philjohn | 2025-07-05 08:34:16+00:00
I wonder if they were just hit with the bathtub curve?

Or perhaps the fact that my IronWolf drives are 5400rpm rather than 7200rpm means they're still going strong after 4 years with no issues spinning down after 20 minutes.

Or maybe I'm just insanely lucky? Before I moved to my desktop machine being 100% SSD I used hard drives for close to 30 years and never had a drive go bad. I did tend to use drives for a max of 3-5 years though before upgrading for more space.
by martin-adams | 2025-07-05 08:35:18+00:00
I noticed that as well so fixed it out of auto mode and onto the Claude 4 Sonnet 4. It takes longer but gives a better results.

I also saw that it was 0.8x the ‘credit cost’ thinking still that I had 500.

Now to learn that the 500 has gone and you get unlimited only on auto shows how easy it has been to misunderstand what they’re trying to say.

Also, I’ve no idea how to find out the cost of MAX. Especially as their web agent has the text MAX next to the selected non-max model.
by rendaw | 2025-07-05 08:35:21+00:00
There's something I didn't get about the discourse about this, maybe someone can explain. The tax change greatly affected small businesses/startups with unstable revenue, right? But companies like Amazon, Google, etc are much more established companies with diversivied, stable revenue and longer term planning I'd assume - so it doesn't seem like this should have affected them as much.

The popular story currently is that the massive layoffs were due to the tax/accounting change, but in that case why the big players like Amazon etc have so many layoffs? Or is that the popular story because, while Amazon etc are large, by total employee count most people are employed at smaller business that were more affected by this?

Or was the FAANG stuff actually AI after all? The tax change story sounds more plausible to me but I can't connect everything.
by diggan | 2025-07-05 08:35:45+00:00
> I’m sorry, but in anything you wrote there, I can’t see an argument against anything I wrote.

I guess the "for free" part kind of threw off the rest of the comment, that's on me.

> But users do expect updates to be available for purchase [...] betrayal of the implicit promise of the initial product

What users expect to get updates forever for anything they purchase? That's a wild expectation. Never have I believed in any "implicit promise" that what I buy today will be continuously updated even for the life of the company.

> Success for the company is a loss for the customers

Kind of agree, but I'd say "Success for the founders/investors is a loss for the company and users", otherwise pretty accurate yeah.
by cbg0 | 2025-07-05 08:37:05+00:00
It also has to do with how the companies handle the offshoring, as some larger corporations take the approach of just using an outsourcing company from a specific country (usually chosen by price) and assume that you can just pay a specific amount of money per developer and they will all be the same quality as the guys coming into the office.

I've worked most of my career as a remote employee and I can say that the best arrangement is when the company is as involved in hiring offshore employees as they are with hiring onshore ones. Someone working through an intermediary will always be disconnected from the company's success, as they work for an outsourcing company, and not the US corporation itself.

There are definitely a lot of discussions to be had around employee cultural fit, and I don't just mean company culture. You want a similar mindset and work ethic that your other employees have if you want a high chance of success.

We also need to talk about how some companies haven't been able to successfully adapt their processes to work with remote employees alongside the office employees and sometimes treat the offshore ones as second class citizens, which is not really a great thing.
by Ancapistani | 2025-07-05 08:37:19+00:00
There was a time in my life where I would have said that EverQuest caused me to fail out of college and lose a full scholarship.

~25 years later, I no longer believe that to be the case. Undiagnosed ADHD and depression caused those issues; EverQuest was merely the drug that I used to escape the pain at the time.
by snvzz | 2025-07-05 08:38:24+00:00
Linux was big back then.

Nowadays, you'd have a better experience on Netbsd, which still has developers who care about its Amiga support.

PCMCIA network cards work (whereas Linux got rid of PCMCIA entirely) and so does X11 (currently dead on Linux).

Running Netbsd current on my A1200 with 030@50, 128MB RAM.
by ur-whale | 2025-07-05 08:38:29+00:00
I find it amazing how much these type of tech articles exert themselves to systematically avoid posting any materially useful information.

Do you see a BTC address in there? A link to blockchair? Did I somehow miss it?

In fact, I've noticed that this is a systematic trend, not just with cryptos.

Most tech. journalists systematically talk about stuff without ever posting relevant links to the actual event.
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-05 08:38:34+00:00
Me to, and I'm always battling with the LLM's obsession with lazily writing reams of ridiculously defensive code and masking errors in the code it generates and calls, instead of finding the root cause and solving that.

(Yes, I'm referring to the code LLMs generate, not the API for generating code itself, but "fail early and spectacularly" should apply to all code and apis.)

But you have to draw the line at failures that happen in the real world, or in code you can't control. I'm a huge fan of Dave Ackley's "Robust First" computing architecture, and his Moveable Feast Machine.

His "Robust First" philosophy is extremely relevant and has a lot of applications to programming with LLMs, not just hardware design.

Robust First | A conversation with Dave Ackley (T2 Tile Project) | Functionally Imperative Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvh1-Dmav34

Robust-first computing: Beyond efficiency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hwO8Q_TyCA

Bottom up engineering for robust-first computing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1y2BIAOwAY

Living Computation: Robust-first programming in ULAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4flQ8XdvJM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22304063

DonHopkins on Feb 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Growing Neural Cellular Automata: A Differentiable...

Also check out the "Moveable Feast Machine", Robust-first Computing, and this Distributed City Generation example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858577

DonHopkins on Oct 26, 2017 | parent | favorite | on: Cryptography with Cellular Automata (1985) [pdf]

A "Moveable Feast Machine" is a "Robust First" asynchronous distributed fault tolerant cellular-automata-like computer architecture. It's similar to a Cellular Automata, but it different in several important ways, for the sake of "Robust First Computing". These differences give some insight into what CA really are, and what their limitations are.

Cellular Automata are synchronous and deterministic, and can only modify the current cell: all cells are evaluated at once (so the evaluation order doesn't matter), so it's necessary to double buffer the "before" and "after" cells, and the rule can only change the value of the current (center) cell. Moveable Feast Machines are like asynchronous non-deterministic cellular automata with large windows that can modify adjacent cells.

Here's a great example with an amazing demo and explanation, and some stuff I posted about it earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14236973

Robust-first Computing: Distributed City Generation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-05 08:39:28+00:00
If you have a huge omnibus bill that has a good thing that the representative's constituents want, and then a mountain of burning trash attached to it, and the representative votes for the bill, they can defend the vote as getting the thing their constituents wanted.

If you make them each a different bill and then the constituents want to know why they voted in favor of the hot garbage by itself, how can they answer?
by mnahkies | 2025-07-05 08:39:58+00:00
I don't think the author has seen k8s done well. They imply that serverless is necessary to achieve a "you build it you run it" setup, but that's false.

We operate in a self-serve fashion predominantly on kubernetes, and the product teams are perfectly capable of standing up new services and associated infrastructure.

This is enabled through a collection of opinionated terraform modules and helm charts that pave a golden path for our typical use cases (http server, queue processor, etc). If they want to try something different/new they're free to, and if successful we'll incorporate it back into the golden path.

As the author somewhat acknowledges, the answer isn't k8s or serverless, but both. Each has their place, but as general rule of thumb if it's going to run more than about 30% of the time it's probably more suitable for k8s, assuming your org has that capability.

I think it's also worth noting that k8s isn't the esoteric beast it was ~5-8 years ago - the managed offerings from GCP/AWS and projects like ArgoCD make it trivial to operate and maintain reliable, secure clusters.
by rhet0rica | 2025-07-05 08:42:53+00:00
And yet... !

AMIX was actually one of the first gcc targets, as mentioned here: https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/1ikyw0s/the_fsf_free...

It seems it may have had a pivotal role in the history of the FSF. So, clearly, someone found value in it!
by snvzz | 2025-07-05 08:43:18+00:00
>Why can't these older processors be supported via a software shim for unrecognised instructions?

It can.

It's just this shim is out of scope for Ubuntu.

Refer to opensbi instruction emulation.

>It is far better for software to run with a couple of percent slowdown on old cpus only than not run at all.

With features like vector instructions or pointer masking, we're talking a non-trivial slowdown.
Ask HN: Bitcoin price and HN Bitcoin news correlation?
by dnpp123 | 2025-07-05 08:43:55+00:00
I remember seeing an article on HN a couple of years back correlating the future price of bitcoin and the number of articles mentioning Bitcoin in the top N posts. Sadly can't find it back.

I'm seeing a lot of more BTC news on HN recently. And BTC price seems it's about to pop.

Why is there suddenly so many BTC news on HN? What are your reasons for submitting/upvotting BTC articles news?
by randomNumber7 | 2025-07-05 08:44:20+00:00
From the hugginface model card:

"Due to the strict new guidelines of the EU AI Act that take effect on August 2nd 2025, we recommend that each R1T/R1T2 user in the EU either familiarizes themselves with these requirements and assess their compliance, or ceases using the model in the EU after August 1st, 2025."

Doesn't the deepseek licence completely forbid any use in the EU already? How can a german company legally build this in the first place (which they presumably did)?
by npteljes | 2025-07-05 08:44:29+00:00
What I experienced is that AI is a nightmare on AMD in Linux. There is a myriad of custom things that one needs to do, and even that just breaks after a while. Happened so much on my current setup (6600 XT) that I don't bother with local AI anymore, because the time investment is just not worth it.

It's not that I can't live like this, I still have the same card, but if I were looking to do anything AI locally with a new card, for sure it wouldn't be an AMD one.
by globular-toast | 2025-07-05 08:45:12+00:00
Unnecessary and overcomplicated? Compared to what? Have you ever taken out a mortgage? Ever tried to send funds overseas? Ever wondered how entire cities are built by the people who run the money?

Does your mother in law know what fractional reserve banking is? A bank run? Can they explain what happened in the 2008 financial crisis? No? They why would they need to know how Bitcoin works beyond just "trust me, it does"?
by diggan | 2025-07-05 08:45:16+00:00
> Because they won't be fine for much longer under their socialist government

How long would a state required to be socialist before you consider it to not be in a perpetual state of "this will fail tomorrow"?

Since you consider Spain socialist, that means you probably consider Sweden socialist as well then, since it's more "socialist" on basically every metric I can think of? If so, Sweden been socialist close to 100 years (about 3 times longer than Spain), is Sweden also about to go down the drain then because of the welfare policies?

> Look at Spanish economy: high public debt, high unemployment, low productivity growth

Good example. For the last 10 years, debt is slightly worse, unemployment is dramatically better and the productivity remains unchanged. Yet, we have public health care. So seems socialism might not actually be so bad after all.