MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noodletheworld | 2025-07-05 03:39:07+00:00
Are you being serious or sarcastic? I cant tell.

Seriously, that seems unlikely.

Changes like this may have an impact on employment but it’s impossible to observe the results in a vacuum.

Given that most large companies are towing the “AI means less jobs required” line, it seems likely that this will, at best, modestly slow the rate at which companies divest themselves of software developers.

I cant see any reasonable reason, in a broader context, this would have a meaningful impact.

(Yeah yeah, AI means more jobs one day maybe, but right now that is categorically not true, and the future is always pure speculation, but in the near term, the impact of this seems like it probably wont be material to me; maybe a small reduction in the number of layoffs)
by refurb | 2025-07-05 03:40:13+00:00
> The U.S. president describing with barely restrained delight his anticipation that escapees from the new facility in Florida would be eaten by alligators

Do you have a specific quote you can share? I haven't seen what you're referring to.

And I guess I think back to facilities like Alcatraz. It was created such that anyone trying to escape would likely drown. Is that the same thing you're talking about?
by analog31 | 2025-07-05 03:40:36+00:00
Sure, the enjoyment of food involves etiquette and aesthetics. When I learned to cook (from my mom), she said that a knife should never enter the salad plate, and if it does, the cook should be embarrassed.

Of course I'm influenced by that lesson, even though it's perfectly arbitrary and I don't always follow it myself, nor do I complain if it's not strictly adhered to.
by DeepYogurt | 2025-07-05 03:44:22+00:00
> And I hate that they’re getting away with it, time and time again, for over seven years.

Nvidia's been at this way longer than 7 years. They were cheating at benchmarks to control a narrative back in 2003. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/03/05/23/1516220/futuremark-...
by k2xl | 2025-07-05 03:44:39+00:00
Baba is You is a great game part of a collection of 2D grid puzzle games.

(Shameless plug: I am one of the developers of Thinky.gg (https://thinky.gg), which is a thinky puzzle game site for a 'shortest path style' [Pathology] and a Sokoban variant [Sokoath] )

These games are typically NP Hard so the typical techniques that solvers have employed for Sokoban (or Pathology) have been brute forced with varying heuristics (like BFS, dead-lock detection, and Zobrist hashing). However, once levels get beyond a certain size with enough movable blocks you end up exhausting memory pretty quickly.

These types of games are still "AI Proof" so far in that LLMs are absolutely awful at solving these while humans are very good (so seems reasonable to consider for for ARC-AGI benchmarks). Whenever a new reasoning model gets released I typically try it on some basic Pathology levels (like 'One at a Time' https://pathology.thinky.gg/level/ybbun/one-at-a-time) and they fail miserably.

Simple level code for the above level (1 is a wall, 2 is a movable block, 4 is starting block, 3 is the exit):

000

020

023

041

Similar to OP, I've found Claude couldn’t manage rule dynamics, blocked paths, or game objectives well and spits out random results.
by taink | 2025-07-05 03:46:24+00:00
How is this problematic? New law impedes on previous practices and renders them unfeasible all the time.

In the specific case of Pokemon Go, and with end-of-life plans in mind, you could probably design the game around that expectation. GDPR has had similar consequences, at the very least.

Also, this text is not law. This will be negotiated and I doubt the gaming industry would leave the initiative as-is.
by dwood_dev | 2025-07-05 03:47:13+00:00
I've been running Plex on my AppleTV 4k for years with few issues.

It gets a lot of use in my household. I have my server (a headless Intel iGPU box) running it in docker with the Intel iGPU encoder passed through.

I let the iGPU default encode everything realtime, and now that plex has automatic subtitle sync, my main source of complaints is gone. I end up with a wide variety of formats as my wife enjoys obscure media.

One of the key things that helped a lot was segregating Anime to it own TV collection so that anime specific defaults can be applied there.

You can also run a client on one of these machines directly, but then you are dealing with desktop Linux.
by noodletheworld | 2025-07-05 03:47:33+00:00
> Why can't the same methods work post-llm?

>> If you don’t think about the implementation, or don’t understand the implementation, I would argue that you can earnestly try to test, but you won’t do a good job of it.

Previously the producers of the code were competent to test it independently.

This increasingly, to my personal observation, appears to no longer be the case.

They do test it, they just dont think about it deeply and so they do a shit job of testing it, and an incompetent job of writing tests for it.

Not by being lazy; smart diligent folk doing a bad job because they didn't actually understand what needed to be tested, and tested some irrelevant trivial happy path based on the requirements not the implementation.

Thats what LLMs give you.

Its not a process issue; its people earnestly thinking they've done a good job when they havent.
by benreesman | 2025-07-05 03:47:53+00:00
Right. In 2019, I was like, I am worse off than 4 years ago, the Trump Presidency sucked. But in 2024, I was like, I'm worse off than 4 years ago, the Biden Administration sucked.

If you know both sides are going to leave you worse off, it's probably pretty understandable that I'm always mad at the last guy to take a strip off my ass.
by toast0 | 2025-07-05 03:48:27+00:00
It looks like the building was constructed on a concrete slab foundation. The slab is poured in the ground, but not anchored into it. When it's time to move it, you dig under the slab to put in jacks to raise it off of the ground underneath the slab. These jacks also can move it a bit at a time.

For smaller buildings, you might jack it up, and put wheels under it to move it. For smaller buildings on perimeter foundation, you might unbolt it from the foundation to move it, and attach it to a newly poured foundation at the new location.

Repairing a sinking foundation is similar... Dig under, lift up as needed, fill in under the sinking areas, hopefully with something more stable.

Much taller buildings need deeper anchoring. Small buildings on sites with difficult soil conditions need deeper anchoring too.
by 827a | 2025-07-05 03:51:02+00:00
Here's something I don't understand: Why is it that when I go look at DigitalOcean's GPU Droplet options, they don't offer any Blackwell chips? [1] I thought Blackwell was supposed to be the game changing hyperchip that carried AI into the next generation, but the best many providers still offer are Hopper H100s? Where are all the Blackwell chips? Its been oodles of months.

Apparently AWS has them available in the P6 instance type, but the only configuration they offer has 2TB of memory and costs... $113/hr [2]? Like, what is going on at Nvidia?

Where the heck is Project Digits? Like, I'm developing this shadow opinion that Nvidia actually hasn't built anything new in three years, but they fill the void by talking about hypothetical newtech that no one can actually buy + things their customers have built with the actually good stuff they built three years ago. Like, consumers can never buy Blackwell because "oh Enterprises have bought them all up" then when Microsoft tries to buy any they say "Amazon bought them all up" and vice-versa. Something really fishy is going on over there. Time to short.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/products/gpu-droplets

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
by josephg | 2025-07-05 03:53:55+00:00
> There's nothing high status about being the only person on the dance floor for 3 songs in a row.

Simon Sinek says we admire leaders because they take risks on behalf of the tribe. They'll start dancing first knowing they're risking looking silly if nobody joins them. Its impressive because the risk might not pay off.

Being the only person on the dance floor for 3 songs in a row is an interesting move. I think there is something high status about it - in that you're clearly showing that you aren't insecure about how you're seen. I think its polarising. Either it'll make people think a lot less of you, or more of you. Someone who's generally high status will often gain status by doing things like that. And someone who's low status will lose status over it.

People will either say "What an idiot, didn't he realise how goofy he looked?" or they'll say "Oh did you see what Jeff did to get the dance party started? We would never have gotten out there without him. I could never do that!".

It really depends on context.
by 90s_dev | 2025-07-05 03:54:54+00:00
Maybe I worded it wrong. I want to develop my app in VS Code. I have gotten so very used to everything about how VS Code works over the past 10 years, that Visual Studio feels so unintuitive and backwards and weird. But VS is the king of C development on Windows apparently. That said, I've made some progress getting VS Code to work with the official Microsoft plugins for both C/C++ and CMake, both inside WSL and outside of it, though nothing that doesn't feel somewhat hacky.
Is core PHP still relevant in 2025? I am not talking frameworks Laravel, Symfony
by junebuggerz | 2025-07-05 03:57:28+00:00
I have been searching on sites like freelancer.com for projects that contain PHP. Some projects give to understand that they are talking about core PHP(but I think they are talking about frameworks), and some projects do talk about core PHP(they mention it specifically). But I look on google and reddit and find a lot of people saying that core PHP is dead. I think I found one article saying that it is relevant and not going anywhere. So my question is, is it okay to learn core PHP and MySQL(and I am not talking about PHP frameworks like Laravel or Symfony)? Especially in terms for freelancing. I am aware of RESTful APIs and using cURL and maybe a front end with vanilla JS. But will I be making a mistake developing core PHP web apps? I find it more easier and more productive when using core PHP compared to Laravel or Django or Flask for Python or Express for NodeJS. A lot easier. So do any of you still use core PHP either freelancing or for work in 2025?
by aaron695 | 2025-07-05 03:59:22+00:00
> people seeming to be massively smarter than their parents.

We know children were getting smarter than their parents because of better nutrition.

The only way they wouldn't is dysgenics, getting genetically stupider ~ matching the nutritional gains.

Ironically this would work with why it has continued to fall. Nutritional gains have maxed out and the genetics are getting worse.

I have never seen the "Flynn effect" referenced with nutrition so it's never made sense to me.

Schools changing curriculum is BS, if anything it'll be radio -> television. 4 hours a day on abstract stories adds up a lot. Massive quantity over quality changes populations.

You don't need the The Twilight Zone for abstraction, Days of Our Lives is quite abstract which goes all the way up to the humor in Seinfeld. I would say Friends humor build on that but is political, they are surprising accepting for the time of homosexuality, homelessness and even incest (hot cousin episode)
by refurb | 2025-07-05 04:08:14+00:00
I recently purchase a miniPC with the N97 chip. I didn't have a specific use in mind that would require CPU speed (e.g. gaming or emulation), just a miniPC that I could tinker around with and maybe use as a media server or VPN.

I went with the N97 chip versus N100/N150 since the price point is significantly lower and I didn't want to spend several hundred on computer I'm just tinkering with.

What surprised me is that it's actually pretty fast. I'm running Win 11 for now and it's pretty snappy. The only thing that jumped out to me is that disk transfer speeds are noticeable slower. It easily exceeded my expectations as I expected a PC that struggled with win 11.

No doubt if I stressed the CPU I'd see it throttle and slow down pretty quickly, but as a basic PC for web browsing or MS Office work, it's absolutely fine.
by trhway | 2025-07-05 04:09:00+00:00
>The burden of proof is on the one making the claim.

>I claimed billions of birds are killed each year by cats

you claimed it is a bad thing. Where is the proof for your claim?

>provided a source

Smithsonian with that felon convicted for animal cruelty toward cats.

>So are rats. Would you call them a native species in places like Hawaii? No, neither are cats

Hawaii take how much percent of Earth?
by akoboldfrying | 2025-07-05 04:09:31+00:00
> Never be afraid to ask stupid questions.

Unfortunately that's the kind of black-and-white advice that seldom applies in the real world. Would you want to see your surgeon asking stupid questions? The pilot of the flight you're on?

You wouldn't, because part of your psychological comfort depends on your perception that people like this -- people whose decisions really matter -- actually know what they're doing.

ETA: By "stupid questions", I don't mean "basic but obviously important questions". I mean questions that reveal that you don't know something that other people expect you to know, that signal to them (rightly or wrongly) that they may have overestimated you.
by khazhoux | 2025-07-05 04:10:52+00:00
I'm honestly started to get pissed seeing these articles on HN every day. Aren't we technologists? I see these articles and it's just people who can't accept the future, or feel threatened by it, or are pissed they are not contributing to it.

I'm an expert in my field with decades of experience, and a damn good programmer, and Cursor is like zipping down the street on a powered bike. There is no wishful thinking here!

Can I use it for everything? No, and that applies to every tool. But ffs I have to read here every day on HN some self-important blogger telling me I'm imagining things.
by kalleboo | 2025-07-05 04:15:35+00:00
Tefal literally sells a rice cooker that boasts "AI Smart Cooking Technology" while not even containing a microcontroller and just being controlled by the time-honored technology of "a magnet that gets hot". They also have lawyers.

AI doesn't mean anything. You can claim anything uses "AI" and just define what that means yourself. They could have some basic anti-collision technology and claim it's "AI".
by ThatPlayer | 2025-07-05 04:15:47+00:00
I don't think we are? Article talks about DLSS on RTX 20 series cards, which do not support DLSS frame-gen:

> What always rubbed me the wrong way about how DLSS was marketed is that it wasn’t only for the less powerful GPUs in NVIDIA’s line-up. No, it was marketed for the top of the line $1,000+ RTX 20 series flagship models to achieve the graphical fidelity with all the bells and whistles.
by necovek | 2025-07-05 04:15:48+00:00
Thanks for wanting to help, but:

1. You've lost my interest with no "meat", as the GP stated.

2. There is no "quality" in using a couple thousand words of text to say "I'll be writing about what helped with my chronic pain over time".

3. Here's the signal: I am not in for "weekly" sessions. I do have chronic pain, but what you want to be producing is utterly incompatible with what I need.
by koverstreet | 2025-07-05 04:15:52+00:00
There's no inherent reason why FUSE has to be noticably slower for buffered IO, it just hasn't gotten nearly enough well thought it attention. But that's starting to change, there's a lot more interest these days in a faster FUSE.

Direct IO would be slower via FUSE, but L4 style IPC could solve that.

It would be an interesting proposition, although not my first choice for the direction I want to go in :)
by Animats | 2025-07-05 04:16:56+00:00
That's a nice approach. Here's a similar move back in 2020, again from the SCMP.[1] This one turned a corner.

The robotic part is that all the lifters have load measurement, probably in at least 3 axes, and report stresses to the controller. Other ways of moving big structures require getting big rigid steel beams underneath to make the building strong enough to move. Like these US building moves.[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwu4ovaSiQY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htdVWM42mRg
by mcdeltat | 2025-07-05 04:22:16+00:00
Anyone else getting a bit disillusioned with the whole tech hardware improvements thing? Seems like every year we get less improvement for higher cost and the use cases become less useful. Like the whole industry is becoming a rent seeking exercise with diminishing returns. I used to follow hardware improvements and now largely don't because I realised I (and probably most of us) don't need it.

It's staggering that we are throwing so many resources at marginal improvements for things like gaming, and I say that as someone whose main hobby used to be gaming. Ray tracing, path tracing, DLSS, etc at a price point of $3000 just for the GPU - who cares when a 2010 cell shaded game running on an upmarket toaster gave me the utmost joy? And the AI use cases don't impress me either - seems like all we do each generation is burn more power to shove more data through and pray for an improvement (collecting sweet $$$ in the meantime).

Another commenter here said it well, there's just so much more you can do with your life than follow along with this drama.
by cthor | 2025-07-05 04:23:24+00:00
Surgeons mark where on the body they're operating. This didn't used to be a standard practice.

Asking "Did I mess up my left and right?" or "Is this the right patient?" feels like a stupid question to ask. I'd certainly rather they ask those questions before operating on me! But turns out it's very hard to get them to do that, so we do surgical site marking instead.
by creato | 2025-07-05 04:24:28+00:00
At least 50% of time on every software team I've ever been on was spent on maintenance and fixing bugs.

You can expense such time as opex, but it has to be justified, and that's often difficult to do. Did you fix a bug by refactoring some code to avoid the problem? Is that capex or opex? Can you convince the IRS of such?

The old (and now new) rules eliminated this accounting game and uncertainty.
by remram | 2025-07-05 04:26:04+00:00
> I hate ads, I love uBlock origin, I use pihole, I'm a proponent of ad blockers. I manage a Google Ads account with a $500,000 budget.

If you can write this without seeing how you are the very worst of our enemies, then I do hope your business die, there is obviously nothing that will make you understand. I still can't believe you put those words together, honestly.

Do you see yourself as a separate breed from your lowly users or something? How can you inflict and even try to justify what you yourself avoid and say you "hate"?
by seec | 2025-07-05 04:26:58+00:00
There is such a mythology around that it's basically religious fervor at this point. Apple stuff isn't any better or more convenient than any other brand. The gold standard is multi-point Bluetooth which Apple doesn't do because they would rather have you locked in their "ecosystem". Joke's on them because even if you are a customer, you can very much get a good experience by avoiding the Apple stuff.
by gbil | 2025-07-05 04:28:49+00:00
Back in 1991 a church built in the 1500s was moved on rails at Kifissia, Greece. Sure, not the same scale but taking into consideration the time it was built, it was a great achievement

Sorry, could only find reference in Greek language but the pictures and diagrams are universal :) plus translation options are always available https://www.mixanitouxronou.gr/to-ekklisaki-pou-xethemelioth...
by adrian_b | 2025-07-05 04:31:34+00:00
Many years ago, XFS did not support snapshots.

However, there is also a long time since XFS supports snapshots.

See for example:

https://thelinuxcode.com/xfs-snapshot/

I am not sure what you mean by "whole-volume" snapshots, but I have not noticed any restrictions in the use of the XFS snapshots. As expected, they store a snapshot of the entire file system, which can be restored later.

In many decades of managing computers with all kinds of operating systems and file systems, on a variety of servers and personal computers, I have never had the need to shrink a file system. I cannot imagine how such a need can arise, except perhaps as a consequence of bad planning. There are also many decades since I have deprecated the use of multiple partitions on a storage device, with the exception of bootable devices, which must have a dedicated partition for booting, conforming to the BIOS or UEFI expectations. For anything that was done in the ancient times with multiple partitions there are better alternatives now. With the exception of bootable USB sticks with live Linux or FreeBSD partitions, I use XFS on whole SSDs or HDDs (i.e. unpartitioned), regardless if they are internal or external, so there is never any need for changing the size of the file system.

Even so, copying a file system to an external device, reformatting the device and copying the file system back is not likely to be significantly slower than shrinking in place. In fact sometimes it can be faster and it has the additional benefit that the new copy of the file system will be defragmented.

Much more significant than the lack of shrinking ability, which may slow down a little something that occurs very seldom, is that both EXT4 and XFS are much faster for most applications than the other file systems available for Linux, so they are fast for the frequent operations. You may choose another file system for other reasons, but choosing it for making faster a very rare operation like shrinking is a very weak reason.
by topspin | 2025-07-05 04:31:39+00:00
No, it does not. It might need to be part of the kernel to be included downstream in Linux distributions, if the file system developer fails to maintain distro buildable modules that don't eat people's data. Should developers provide workable modules, getting these modules into most distros is generally unhindered.

And no, it's not necessary even for root file systems. Linux can load modules, such as file system drivers, before it mounts root. That's what initramfs is about.

ZFSoL has thrived for 15 years, fostering several commercial empires, and has never been in Linus's mainline.

Bcachefs development may continue as Kent Overstreet wishes, and he need not squabble with Linus going forward. Seems like an entirely workable outcome. Kudos to Linus for a.) giving Kent a chance, despite known issues with Kent, and b.) making the difficult decision to reverse himself. Both of these decisions were correct.

What I learn from all of this is that Linus is still in the saddle and still making good calls. We are blessed.
by cherioo | 2025-07-05 04:32:32+00:00
Switch 2 inventory was amazing, but how did RX 9070 inventory remotely sufficient? News at the time were all about how limited its availability https://www.tweaktown.com/news/103716/amd-rx-9070-xt-stock-a...

Not to mention it's nowhere to be found on Steam Hardware Survey https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
Ask HN: What are non-social media ways to share photography/art
by rPlayer6554 | 2025-07-05 04:32:38+00:00
Hello all,

I bought a camera and I found that I love taking pictures. However after a year or two of taking pictures I’ve found myself in a rut. I don’t know what to do with the pictures or how to share them with others because I cannot use social media (other than HN and LinkedIn.) I personally have just found the scrolling and infinite content mechanisms are way too addicting for me, so I stay off of it.

This leads to my photos just sitting in Dropbox, often unedited because I don’t have motivation to edit them, because the most I’d do with them is share with family / a few close friends, and put them on a website nobody looks at. If I could find a way to share with others it might motivate me to put more effort into it.

I’m wondering if people have any ways they’ve found to share their art with others that doesn’t involve social media.