MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by benreesman | 2025-07-05 01:34:44+00:00
If they believed they were going to continue selling AI chips at those margins they would:

- outbid Apple on new nodes

- sign commitments with TSMC to get the capacity in the pipeline

- absolutely own the process nodes they made cards on that are still selling way above retail

NVIDIA has been posting net earnings in the 60-90 range over the last few years. If you think that's going to continue? You book the fab capacity hell or high water. Apple doesn't make those margins (which is what on paper would determine who is in front for the next node).
by trynumber9 | 2025-07-05 01:35:06+00:00
They seem to be close? The RX 9070 is the 2nd most efficient graphics card this generation according to TechPowerUp and they also do well when limited to 60Hz, implying their joules per frame isn't bad either.

Efficiency: https://tpucdn.com/review/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-5050-gaming-o...

Vsync power draw: https://tpucdn.com/review/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-5050-gaming-o...

The variance within Nvidia's line-up is much larger than the variance between brands, anyway.
by TZubiri | 2025-07-05 01:35:34+00:00
I feel a bit icky, but whenever I see people work with such a disregard for quality, I'm actually rooting for their products to break and get hacked.

In 2015 it was copy and pasting code from stackoverflow, in 2020 it was npm install left-pad, in 2025 it's vibecoding.

I refuse to join them, and I patiently await the day of rapture.
by theshackleford | 2025-07-05 01:35:50+00:00
> I got my life back! I've been taking it for many years now. I don't have any side effects. I don't feel "high" etc.

That's fantastic! It's pretty much the goal for all of us right? Haha, so glad to hear it. I'm still on that road a little myself, but it is what it is.

> Are you talking about THC isolate? I found high THC full spectrum oils to be life changing.

I have tried it in pretty much all its forms. Flower, oil, lozenges, wafers, vape etc. If it has THC in any form, pain goes up. But it's not just pain, it induces within me sinus tachyardia and heart palpitations, no matter the strength or presence of other cannabanoids.

However I have just had surgery again, which should relieve some pressure on my central nervous system, so it's likely ill try again at some point in the future. There has been some suggestion that my nervous system has been misinterpreting the affects of cannabis as a "threat" effectively. But i'm very early in the stages of recovery so probably not going to diddle with it for a while.
by johnklos | 2025-07-05 01:35:56+00:00
I'm so happy to see someone calling NVIDIA out for their bullshit. The current state of GPU programming sucks, and that's just an example of the problems with the GPU market today.

The lack of open source anything for GPU programming makes me want to throw my hands up and just do Apple. It feels much more open than pretending that there's anything open about CUDA on Linux.
by arbitrary_name | 2025-07-05 01:36:32+00:00
And that is extremely difficult at a large scale. Especially when you reduce safety nets and heighten the consequences of failure. A lack of healthcare, poor rural hospitals, extortionate tuition at colleges, high housing costs; these all make it extremely difficult to adapt.

Sure, you can smugly say that the hard-working will survive. But i don't want to imagine what the USA will be like millions of unemployed and under-provisioned Americans. Poverty and the process of falling off the socio economic ladder is ugly for everyone, unless you're wealthy enough to afford to insulate yourself from the consequences.

The fact that this nuance appears to be lost on you makes me suspicious of your motives for posting your opinion.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-05 01:37:33+00:00
> I don’t want to jump on nvidia but I found it super weird when they clearly remote controlled a Disney bot onto the stage and claimed it was all using real time AI which was clearly impossible due to no latency and weirdly the bot verifying correct stage position in relation to the presenter. It was obviously the Disney bot just being controlled by someone off stage.

I don't know what you're referring to, but I'd just say that I don't believe what you are describing could have possibly happened.

Nvidia is a huge corporation, with more than a few lawyers on staff and on retainer, and what you are describing is criminal fraud that any plaintiff's lawyer would have a field day with. So, given that, and since I don't think people who work at Nvidia are complete idiots, I think whatever you are describing didn't happen the way you are describing it. Now, it's certainly possible there was some small print disclaimer, or there was some "weasel wording" that described something with ambiguity, but when you accuse someone of criminal fraud you want to have more than "hey this is just my opinion" to back it up.
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-05 01:38:01+00:00
> It's a manufactured collapse of the gaming industry. They want to centralize control of the market and make it a service based (rent seeking) sector.

It also won’t work, and Microsoft has developed no way to compete on actual value. As much as I hate the acquisitions they’ve made, even if Microsoft as a whole were to croak tomorrow I think the game industry would be fine.
by skissane | 2025-07-05 01:38:41+00:00
> The problem with terms like "arsehole" that is that they conflate a bunch of different issues.

Agree, plus I’d add: if we are going to criticise other people’s communication style/abilities or attitude, then using a vague, vulgar and hurtful slang term like “arsehole”/“asshole” (and similar slang such as “dick”, “prick”, etc) is an example of exhibiting the very thing one is complaining about in making the complaint, which is fundamentally hypocritical. One can state the same concerns in a more professional way, focusing on the details of the specific behaviour pattern not a vague term which can refer to lots of distinct behaviours (e.g. people with ASD traits who hurt the feelings of others because they honestly have trouble thinking about them, versus people with antisocial or narcissistic personality disorder traits who knowingly hurt the feelings of others because they enjoy doing so) - labelling the behaviour pattern not the person, acknowledging that it is entirely possibly due to an unintentional skills gap, (sub)culture clash, differences in life experiences, neurodiversity/neurodivergence/mental health/trauma, etc.

I also think it is helpful when criticising the flaws of others to try to relate them to one’s own, whenever possible - e.g. sometimes in the past I did X and from my perspective it looks like you are doing something similar-hurtful labels are not encouraging that kind of self-reflectiveness at all, they promote the idea that “I’m one of the good ones but you are one of the bad ones”
by geophph | 2025-07-05 01:38:49+00:00
The main codebase a team I work with uses.

They’re a data science team mostly but the main “data processing engine” that they solely rely on was written by a dude who split right as he “finished it”. No one knows how it really works. Black box style. Has been “the way” for 5 years. I’m not sure if no one cares, or no one cares to care, but they don’t seem to want to change it. Maybe it works, but also funny how many business critical decisions are made based on the code that everyone has only ever “just trusted”.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-05 01:39:54+00:00
> The competing open standard is FreeSync, spearheaded by AMD. Since 2019, NVIDIA also supports FreeSync, but under their “G-Sync Compatible” branding. Personally, I wouldn’t bother with G-Sync when a competing, open standard exists and differences are negligible[4].

Open is good, but the open standard itself is not enough. You need some kind of testing/certification, which is built in to the G-Sync process. AMD does have a FreeSync certification program now which is good.

If you rely on just the standard, some manufacturers get really lazy. One of my screens technically supports FreeSync but I turned it off day one because it has a narrow range and flickers very badly.
by Teever | 2025-07-05 01:40:09+00:00
A world where people are required to work on improving their skill set for free on their own time is not better than a world where they can receive financial compensation for doing so. Many places allow this and mandate overtime payment for doing so. If someone wants to pay me 1.5x or 2.0x as much for time spent on a task over 40 hours a week that seems like a very appealing prospect to me, especially if it was a task that I was otherwise going to spend my time doing for free.

I think that you're missing the broader point that I'm trying to make here which is this: Why should the state mandate a cap on voluntary employment, rather than focus on ensuring that no one needs to work that much to survive? A system that protects workers from coercion is great. But a system that also prohibits voluntary overcommitment, even when it's for personal growth, artistic mastery, or short-term goals, feels overly paternalistic and your example regarding child labour laws exemplifies that paternalism.

I feel like you're defending the system in Germany not because it's a better system as measured by some objective criteria but because it's the system that you identify with. Is there any sort of data to back up the assertion that a system where people are not allowed to pay other people for more than 48 hours of their time in a week a better system that leads to better outcomes than one where people are free to exchange their time in exchange for a wage with mandatory overtime?
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-05 01:41:08+00:00
No, its just code that the audience recognizes: "fiscally responsible" in US politics means "opposed to social programs", in the same way that "states rights" means "supporting racial discrimination". People often criticize the people embracing those views not delivering on the things that the literal meaning of the words deliver, but the target audience for the message understands what they mean perfectly well, which is why no argument, no matter how well-delivered and well-supported by evidence, directed at the failure to deliver on the literal meaning ever budges support. It's not some kind of magically-strong propaganda that clouds people's minds, it's a message whose meaning is well-understood and arguments directed at the literal meaning are simply misdirected.
by alganet | 2025-07-05 01:42:48+00:00
This is more related to how little I think of the current crop of LLMs to how optimistic my worldviews are.

I've seen many waves of amazing new tech over the years. The good ones often form healthy communities. Sometimes there's competition, but always in good sport.

LLMs seems like a viper's nest. It's a bad one. Lots of people at each others throats.
by toofy | 2025-07-05 01:43:59+00:00
i think people are trying to make this difficult when it’s honestly super simple.

yes, you can make a product. no, it does not suddenly magically make you a musician.

you did the equivalent of hiring someone else to do it. you did not do it.

if you claim you wrote the novel, you’re lying. someone else did. if someone takes credit for work someone else did, they’re lying. it’s honestly not complicated. at all.
by dcre | 2025-07-05 01:44:19+00:00
Baffling. Not at all clear from the site or video what this does, what problem it is solving, and what about LLM coding is different such that it needs new ideas in version control. Is it just that there are more commits and more conflicts because people are pushing more garbage without regard for consistency and stability? I would suggest solving that by pushing less garbage, or at least having fewer people pushing garbage to the same place at the same time.

How does it resolve conflicts? If you want to resolve conflicts automatically, try the excellent Mergiraf, which works by looking at the AST rather than the line-by-line diff: https://mergiraf.org/
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-05 01:44:51+00:00
But there are a lot of projects and problem domains that don't even demand that much or have any real consequences for failure. I look at all the self-service stuff my employer has for HR, benefits, policy compliance, it's all half-broken, nobody ever seems to get held to fixing anything, and the only answers are "try it again later."

Professional programmers built this stuff too, or maybe it was vibe-coded but since it's been like that for years I think probably not.

But we don't know where on the spectrum of "people might die" to "try again later" most of these programmers who claim great productivity gains from LLMs lie. Maybe it is making them 10x faster at churning out shit, who knows? They might not even realise it themselves.
by beefnugs | 2025-07-05 01:46:48+00:00
This post is crazy nonsense: Bad games companies have always existed, and the solution is easy: dont buy their trash. I buy mostly smaller indie games these days just fine.

nvidia isn't purposely killing anything, they are just following the pivot into the AI nonsense. They have no choice, if they are in a unique position to make 10x by a pivot they will, even if it might be a dumpsterfire of a house of cards. Its immoral to just abandon the industry that created you, but companies have always been immoral.

Valve has an opportunity to what? Take over video card hardware market? No. AMD and Intel are already competitors in the market and cant get any foothold (until hopefully now consumers will have no choice but to shift to them)
by umeshunni | 2025-07-05 01:48:03+00:00
The 2nd most annoying thing about section 174 was all the time you had to spend classifying each engineer's time spent as R&D or 'internal software'. At my last company, every year, me and my engineering lead counterparts would spent almost a day reviewing each engineer's JIRA tickets to reconstruct how much of their time was spent on R&D vs internal software.
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-05 01:48:28+00:00
> It’s an overstuffed bill because nobody will compromise on anything so the only way to pass a bill that has anything even remotely controversial to either party is one reconciliation bill a year.

No, and lots of controversial bills have passed other than as reconciliation bills, and especially so during trifectas where they "controversial" within the minority party but broadly supported by the majority; reconciliation is necessary to pass something that strains unity in the majority party and is uniformly opposed by (not "controversial to") the minority party, perhaps.
by saagarjha | 2025-07-05 01:48:30+00:00
Interpreters are just like normal programs, but splatted out a bit. In particular, they have branches and loops just like normal programs. The challenge for processors is that these high level constructs are far apart and dispatched through an interpreter loop, which obfuscates them. Being able to reach further back in history lets you recover this kind of information "through" the intervening bits.
by k310 | 2025-07-05 01:51:15+00:00
The technocrats probably felt that they were in peril when Joe Biden pushed or EO'ed regulation.

I think they are in FAFO mode, learning how they were used and abandoned by Trump, like the people who sat out the election because of the (Gaza) peril they felt from Harris, aided by Russian bots bombarding social media, ignoring the blueprint that was circulated, called Project 2025, a profoundly anti-science and racist volume.

I just read that the CT folks call Project 2025 a Democratic hoax, like pretty much everything else they want to distance themselves from.

Very loud warnings were issued, and people ignored them in their emotional frenzy. Be careful what you wish for. You might get it, and get it, they did, big tech and supporters of what's left of Gaza.

Think things through, people.
by theshackleford | 2025-07-05 01:51:30+00:00
It started as just pain. Mild at first, mostly in my arms and shoulders, like someone had yanked them out of their sockets. Over time, it got worse. Not constant, just... random, brutal spikes. One minute I’m fine, the next I move slightly wrong and I’m yelping like a dog, unable to lift my arms, turn my head, or function at all.

I’d go to doctors, and try to explain. "Look, I know I seem okay now, but yesterday I literally couldn’t move etc etc." Time after time they would just respond with some variant of "Patient is stressed, stress is inducing pain, patient should stress less." or "patient is overworked, should do less work, etc".

This went on for over a year. I kept having these episodes, days at a time where I was barely functional. The pain, the immobility, completely real to me, but apparently all in my mind according to my doctors. "Take painkillers/antidepressants/rest etc etc." As a result eventually, I began to wonder if maybe I had just gone insane. Maybe this was all in my head and I was just imagining being in pain.

Then things got worse. I suddenly had to pee all the time. My hands started losing dexterity. I began bumping into things, losing my balance, subtly at first, but unmistakably. It was no longer just pain, my whole body was going off the rails.

After I woke up one day, completely unable to move, I was rushed to the hospital. Same story: they told me it was stress, maybe anxiety. I snapped. I told them if they discharged me without finding out what was going on, and I was later to find out that something had in fact been wrong, I’d sue everyone I had interacted with that day. I don’t even remember exactly what I said, but I must’ve hit the right nerve, because they finally agreed to do an MRI, not to help me, but to shut me up.

The scan finished. I never saw the general staff again. Instead, the next person who walked in was one of my country’s top neurosurgeons. He asked, very calmly, if I’d please come to his office for an urgent (and free) consult, because the imaging contained some pretty serious findings that we needed to act upon immediately.

Finding out I had not in fact being going insane...I burst into tears as the news was delivered. For so long i'd just been left to think I was going mad and here I was finding out that there were in fact very real reasons for everything I was experiencing.
by rkagerer | 2025-07-05 01:52:13+00:00
Apparently somebody did sue a couple years back. Anyone know what happened with the [plaintiff] vs. nVidia lawsuit?

EDIT: Plantiff dismissed it. Guessing they settled. Here are the court documents (alternately, shakna's links below include unredacted copies):

https://www.classaction.org/media/plaintiff-v-nvidia-corpora...

https://www.classaction.org/media/plaintiff-v-nvidia-corpora...

A GamersNexus article investigating the matter: https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/12vhpwr-dumpster-fire-investiga...

And a video referenced in the original post, describing how the design changed from one that proactively managed current balancing, to simply bundling all the connections together and hoping for the best: https://youtu.be/kb5YzMoVQyw
by skissane | 2025-07-05 01:53:12+00:00
I don’t think FUSE is deliberately a “second class citizen”, it is simply that doing a filesystem in user space has a performance cost compared to doing it in the kernel-and that is a very tricky problem to solve. Even microkernels have this problem, it is just you don’t notice it as readily because a pure microkernel doesn’t offer in-kernel filesystems as a comparator - but if you take a microkernel and transform it into a hybrid kernel by moving filesystems (and block device drivers) into kernel space, like NeXT/Apple did in turning Mach into XNU, almost certainly you are going to see tangible performance gains. Maybe this is less true with more modern microkernel designs such as L4, but even there I suspect it is still true, even if not to quite the same extent.

I think the performance cost of FUSE compared to in-kernel filesystems is improving with time - FUSE with io_uring is a big step forward, but the immaturity of io_uring is an obstacle to its adoption, at least in the short-to-medium-term. I’m sure in the future we’ll see even further improvements in this area. But will we ever reach the Nirvana where FUSE equals the performance of in-kernel filesystems, or (maybe more realistically) the performance overhead has become so marginal nobody is bothered by it in practice? I’d like to think we eventually will, but it is far from certain.
by duskwuff | 2025-07-05 01:53:41+00:00
I'm reminded of the infamous vending machine benchmark:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840

in which some LLMs simply failed to manage the basic task of keeping a vending machine stocked with products to sell, and some went completely off the rails, e.g. by threatening their (simulated) supplier with "ABSOLUTE FINAL ULTIMATE TOTAL NUCLEAR LEGAL INTERVENTION".
by antonvs | 2025-07-05 01:54:46+00:00
> But similar to crypto these movements only have value if the value is widely perceived.

The difference in the AI case is that companies that are actually able to use it to boost productivity significantly will start to outcompete those who don't.

That's why, unlike crypto/blockchain, so many mainstream companies are pouring money into AI. It's not FOMO so much as fear of extinction.
by wenc | 2025-07-05 01:54:58+00:00
Chicago also reversed the flow of the Chicago River.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River#Reversing_the_fl...

They also rebuilt much of the city because it was wiped out during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and now the grid system is one of the most commonsensical ones in any major American city.

Chicago is an example of a (more or less) clean-slate engineered large city -- one that arose as a result of tragedy (fire) and failure (cholera).
by dzaima | 2025-07-05 01:55:07+00:00
If your interpreter is interpreting a program with unpredictable branches, of course no predictor will magically make your interpreter get branches better predicted than an equivalent compiled program will.

The question here is about all other branching the interpreter will do. i.e. even if you have a unpredictable `if (a+b < 0)`, there's still the dispatching to the "load-variable" and "add" and "load-constant" and "less-than" and "do-branch" opcodes, that still will benefit from being predicted, and they could very well if you have it repeated in a loop (despite still having a single unpredictable branch), or potentially even if you just have a common pattern in the language (e.g. comparison opcodes being followed by a branch opcode).
by nattopizza | 2025-07-05 01:55:16+00:00
Turiel is a physicist and the other two commenters are telecommunication engineers. The paper itself, which I read, states that salinity has increased and previous stratification has been disrupted. And that's where they stop because that's what the data tells them. Then they say that we need to perform more studies to understand what's going on, which is the logical conclusion. There is no mention of "doubling of co2 emissions" or "deep Southern ocean circulation has reversed completely" in the study.
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-05 01:55:35+00:00
I went from a 2080 Ti to a 5070 Ti. Yes it's faster, but for the games I play, not dramatically so. Certainly not what I'm used to doing such a generational leap. The 5070 Ti is noticeably faster at local LLMs, and has a bit more memory which is nice.

I went with the 5070 Ti since the 5080 didn't seem like a real step up, and the 5090 was just too expensive and wasn't in stock for ages.

If I had a bit more patience, I would have waited till the next node refresh, or for the 5090. I don't think any of the other current 50-series cards are worth besides the 5090 it if you're coming from a 2080. And by worth it I mean will give you a big boost in performance.