MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flohofwoe | 2025-07-08 15:22:04+00:00
> Google's Native Client allowed people to run safety screened native assembly at like 95% native speed and virtually no startup time, while having a tiny fraction of the engineering complexity.

I worked both with NaCl and PNaCl, and they both had their own share of problems, like:

- any interaction with the browser side had to happen via message passing (e.g. the people who today complain that WASM has no DOM access would have a complete mental breakdown if each interaction with the DOM had to go through message passing instead of direct WASM-to-JS calls).

- NaCl had to invent its own APIs for 3D rendering, audio, and pretty much anything else which required any sort of performance (since the only alternative was the above mentioned slow message passing)

- The 'main thread' was basically just an event loop, to get continuous rendering you had to spawn a separate thread (much like what you need to do on the Android NDK)

- They had their own frigging build system which wasn't compatible with anything else. Good luck getting NaCl/PNaCl integrated with something more common like cmake (it works, but it was basically the same PITA like trying to integrate the Android NDK with a proper build system today).

- PNaCl (which was essentially LLVM bitcode) had an enormous startup time, even slower than the very first WASM experiments which used AOT.

Also, NaCl was quickly deprecated in favour of PNaCl, but PNaCl suffered from much worse problems than WASM ever had (especially in startup time and runtime performance was at best comparable to WASM).
by IceDane | 2025-07-08 15:22:06+00:00
I think 90% of peoples issues with window management can be solved by using workspaces intelligently. I won't prescribe a specific method, but I personally keep certain things on certain workspaces. Browser on 1, dev on 2 and 3, chat on 4, music on 5, misc on others. I rarely need to use more than 5. And then I have bindings to go straight to these workspaces(mod-number keys).

My personal hot take is also that most people who think they really need another monitor are just addressing these symptoms because they're exhausted by alt-tabbing through 15 windows. They would be more productive on a single screen with a nice workspace configuration, though there are of course plenty of good reasons to want multiple monitors.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-08 15:22:42+00:00
I don't understand why people like to navigate their windows temporally.

Super+h/j/k/l (left, down, up, right) to move focus spatially feels much more natural, given that you can know at a glance which window is to the left of yours but they typically give no indication about whether a window is the 6th most recently touched or the 7th...
Show HN: GrowIn – AI assistant to automate your LinkedIn content and growth
by lapomascheri | 2025-07-08 15:23:10+00:00
Hey HN,

We’re a small team of three from Italy, Gabriele Dalla Costa (founder of Eneox), Luca Rossit (marketing + UX), and myself, Lapo Mascheri (product & R&D). We’re young, a bit obsessed with building, and have been working between H-Farm College (Italy’s first innovation hub) and a LinkedIn agency we helped grow from scratch.

Here’s the story:

For the last 6+ months, we’ve been building a tool called GrowIn. It started with a simple question we couldn’t shake off:

“Why is building a strong LinkedIn presence so time-consuming, even for the people who know what they’re doing?”

We saw it with our clients, with freelancers, and even with ourselves. You get excited, post a few times, maybe see results. Then things change. You shift focus, your goals evolve, and suddenly LinkedIn becomes another source of pressure. What to post? What’s working? Should I even be doing this?

So we built GrowIn, not as another “scheduler” or “post generator,” but as a real AI assistant for personal branding. Something that understands your goals, your tone of voice, your context, and helps you keep growing, even when your direction shifts.

GrowIn is part strategist, part writer, part analyst:

• It learns your voice through a simple onboarding • It suggests what to talk about (based on your goals + real-time trends) • It writes and formats your posts in your tone • It helps schedule and manage them • It tracks your progress, engagement, and even competitors • It gives you insight on what’s working and what’s not, without overwhelming you with dashboards

We’ve been testing GrowIn with a few hundred people, but today we’re opening it up to this community because we know what HN brings:

direct, honest, no-bullshit feedback from people who build, question, and think.

We’d love to know:

• Does this solve a real problem for you? • What’s useful, and what just adds noise? • Would you trust a tool like this with your voice? • What would you build next on top of it?

You can try it now , fully open: https://growin-staging-54fbd516bc2d.herokuapp.com/

Here also an introduttive and onboarding video: https://public.3.basecamp.com/p/U5bXrWMZUHRQoZ2PjX396H6Q

If you like what you see, or even if you hate it but have ideas, we’ve set up a small early-adopter community where we share updates, gather feedback, and talk directly with testers: https://t.me/+OOK4unEjrd01YjQ8

We’re not trying to raise funds right now. We’re not selling seats.

We just want to improve what we’ve built with people who get what it means to iterate and push early products forward.

We’re three Italian guys with a vision:

to make personal branding not just faster, but smarter, and actually impactful.

We’d love your feedback, questions, thoughts, criticisms, and connections.

We’ll be in the comments all day.

Thanks for reading.

P.S. If you’ve built something similar, or tackled this problem from a different angle, we’d love to learn from your approach too. And if you’d rather just roast us – that’s fine, we’re here for it

Lapo and The GrowIn Team
by gilleain | 2025-07-08 15:24:01+00:00
Other options are :

1) Cats do not really think that much about us at all, except for thoughts like - "oh no! it's about to attack! wait no, it's fine, relax..." or "will it feed me if I shout at it?" or "it's sitting down, perhaps I feel like sitting on it"

2) Their thoughts about us revolve around our weird lack of fur, the strange way we never clean ourselves by licking, and how bad we are at catching small animals to eat.
by Supermancho | 2025-07-08 15:25:10+00:00
> Even calling this genocide is biased.

I do not agree. Unless this applies to European Jews then? They were not all killed. Some were captured, some were used as labor or for experimentation. Some started a new state! If a sustained campaign is not successful in killing every single individual, how many before you might call it a genocide? This is a poor metric. If the borders of a country are eliminated (first politically, then practically), alongside hundreds of thousands of deaths targeted by culture/location/race, and confiscation of their property, there has been a genocide as far as most of the world is concerned. These are elements of culture and they can only be recreated or replaced or lost to time.

> Retaliating to that to get your hostages back and to stop the endless attacks on your race is not genocide.

The retaliation sped up the ongoing genocide as a pretext. Each side has wrongs they are retaliating from. The hostages are a justification to do what was already an official state goal. Complete annexation of Palestine. Imagine if any US state (or country) was slowly swallowed by a neighbor encroaching with violent and disposable settlers, the violence would be the same. This is the state of modern warfare demonstrated repeatedly over the last 200 years. Further imagining there is a moral actor, is arbitrarily picking a side.
by serf | 2025-07-08 15:25:15+00:00
an unfilled niche would have the known properties of life with resources so bounding that there isn't a strict need for competition for survival. (a brand new uncovered dish of agar media)

a populated biome has an active +- exchange of resources between participants that facilitates the need for competition due to resource bounds. (the rain forest, most of the biological world)

a sterile biome has no known properties of life, and no known participants. The participants that are there struggle to exist or are in some form of stasis to survive the condition. (a brand-new sealed blood vacuum vial.)

as for 'as much as it can support', i'm unaware of how to determine an optimal maxima for biological growth independent of species or environment. Maybe some exotic sphere-packing type idea might work with a reward function for 'resources' ? I don't know.
by ep103 | 2025-07-08 15:25:32+00:00
Yeah, I'm not in the movie industry or anything, but it seems to me like if one was so inclined, they could put together a list of all of the things that have to be done well in order to make a fantastic movie.

If we ignored all of the things that aren't obvious in the end product, like market research and staff salaries, etc, I think it would probably look something like:

* Plot * Well written * Inherent meaning * Intelligent * Acting / Directing * Name brand actors * Size of cast * Cinematography * Music * CGI / Special Effects / Locations * Props / Clothes / Styles / etc * Action budget (choreography, explosions, etc) * Marketing / Marketability * Release logistics

Its rare that someone, usually a director, becomes a large enough force in Hollywood that they can actually get the funding and political pull to invest in every category. Most films sacrifice a few of them to put out a lower quality but hopefully still acceptable product.

What's interesting to me about a list like this, is that they are by no means equal in terms of cost and profit.

Marketing and Releasing internationally have major ROI, so every film leans as heavily into both as they can afford.

After that, Cinematography, music, CGI, props, and action budget are all far, far cheaper than the other items on this list. Which is how you wind up with so many beautiful looking movies that you leave wondering "really, did no one spend 5 minutes thinking about X in the plot? How do you spend this much money on a movie and not consider X?"

Similarly, Plot is probably the one thing on this list where creators can exchange time for capital. If you are low on capital, you might be priced out of better actors, and you won't be able to buy them on layaway, but you might be able to survive off of ramen for a few years while really building out a fantastic script. Hence why we see so many interesting indie films invest heavily into this aspect of their movies.

And that's before you start factoring in things like trying to make a plot that is accessible to world-wide release in every culture, or factoring the plot requirements particularly restrictive governments and cultures (China) will have about your movie in order to access their markets.

So yeah, most of the time when I see a movie now, I've noticed I'm more or less giving a score into how much I think the movie producers invested into each of these categories, to bucket the overall film. You invested 3/10 in every category, but tried for 10/10 plot? Okay, indie film, we'll judge you accordingly. Or, oh, this is another all-cgi-all-cinematography-all-big-actor-no-plot movie? Okay, judge it against the other AAA marketed B movies.
by wang_li | 2025-07-08 15:25:51+00:00
There's a strong case to be made that the impact not only was enough to trigger the extinction, it happened in 1 day. The theory is that the ejecta from the impact was voluminous enough that it was sent into space and then spread around the Earth. On reentry it heated the atmosphere to thousands of degrees. So animals in New Zealand that likely didn't even feel the impact died when the air was too hot to breath. The only survivors were things in burrows or nests or under water.
by khuey | 2025-07-08 15:26:03+00:00
> The wording in the quote explicitly states that an FBA unit can be substituted by owned by Amazon unit or other FBA units. But the wording is not clear whether SBA (Sold By Amazon) unit can be substituted by an FBA inventory.

It would have to go both ways. If there are 10 FBA and 10 SBA units in the inventory, and Amazon decides to fill an FBA order with an SBA unit for operational reasons, now there are 10 FBA and 9 SBA units in inventory but the FBA seller only owns 9 units. That 10th FBA unit eventually has to go somewhere. The only options are that it fulfills an SBA order or Amazon forces the FBA seller to buy the SBA unit that Amazon shipped for the FBA order. As far as I know the latter does not happen.
by pvg | 2025-07-08 15:26:37+00:00
No, there's also /shownew so it's not just that.

this wouldn't apply then?

Why not? Looks like a completely reasonable Show HN. Could probably use a better blurb i.e. 'tune for HN-interestingness' like I mentioned above.

Have you looked at this, for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

It's linked at the top of the Show HN page. You can also email the mods for help with a submission you think is a good HN submission but didn't get much attention.
Show HN: Decode Your Dreams
by neon443 | 2025-07-08 15:26:58+00:00
Have you ever had a dream and wondered… what does this even mean? WELL, Starwhale oracle is a dream interpreter. It uses keywords to create your personalized interpretation which will then be stored in your journal for you to remember. There are 300 interpretations based off 100 key words so your dreams will not go without interpretation. Simply type your dream in the box, select a tone, and click interpret! Happy dreaming.
by WillAdams | 2025-07-08 15:28:05+00:00
>- Starved for fuel in a world with no gas stations

Actually, gasoline was readily available in its rôle as fuel for farm and other equipment, and as a bottled cleaning product sold at drug stores and the like.

>- Unsuitable for the dirt roads of rural America

but the process of improving roads for the new-fangled bicycle was well underway.
by 9rx | 2025-07-08 15:28:31+00:00
> Most people wish they needed the performance or throughput of a language/environment like Go.

Most people do need the performance and throughput offered by modern languages like Go, though. Time to market is the most important consideration for most. Maybe at Facebook scale you can spend eons crafting perfection in a slow-to-develop language/ecosystem like PHP or NodeJS, but most people have to get something out the door ASAP.
by vectorcamp | 2025-07-08 15:28:36+00:00
Hi, I'm one of the SIMD.info team, thanks for your feedback.

We would actually like to include more information, but our goal is to complement the official documentation not replace it. We actually provide links to Felix Cloutier's and Intel sites anyway, same for Arm and Power, where we can.

The biggest problem is the generation of the diagrams, we're investigating some way to generate these diagrams in a common manner for all architectures, but this will take time.
by ricardobeat | 2025-07-08 15:28:44+00:00
It’s easy to fall back to known concepts to frame new things, but that is not accurate. LLMs do not hold “banks of copyrighted materials”, though they can recreate popular bits, in the same way a human can recall and hum the X Files theme but doesn’t actually have a recording of it in their brain. They are just a lot better at it.
by flohofwoe | 2025-07-08 15:28:49+00:00
> (or a myriad of other C libraries)

Thankfully it's not a myriad, but pretty much only a handful libraries which had been derived from libjpeg one way or another (and libjpeg - and by extension libpng - is a huge pile of excrement, and not just because of its weird "poor man's exception handling via setjmp/longjmp").

If you want to load image files with minimal effort, use stb_image.h instead.
by jmiskovic | 2025-07-08 15:29:16+00:00
It felt very different and not pleasant.

The PIC24 was actually my first large project. I learned awful lot from reading its docs, for example setting the DMA to read 32 samples from ADC and let CPU know when done. Putting it together felt like playing with LEGO blocks. There were many annoyances with the toolchain and the clumsy memory addressing but I enjoyed it overall.

The NXP was downright unpleasant compared to it. I don't think a junior could be handed a NXP dev board and all the docs to hone their craft. It requires significant patience and expertise to pick out the relevant details in the vastness of their documentation. Of course the NXP product line is huge and I can only comment on few uC models I had contact with. The sensors and other less complex ICs were vastly better and docs were quite digestable.
by shwaj | 2025-07-08 15:29:37+00:00
In this context I believe it refers to models that are trained to generate an internal dialogue that is then fed back in as additional input. This cycle might be performed several times before generating the final output text.

This is in contrast to the way that GPT-2/3/“original 4” work, which is by repeatedly generating the next finalized token based on the full dialogue thus far.
by BobbyJo | 2025-07-08 15:29:50+00:00
I think you missed the point of parent's comment.

> All life on Earth uses water to transport chemicals and ions across its cells. Period. It's one immutable requirement of life on Earth.

They were pondering this. With billions of years of evolution, life has found no way around this, and that's interesting.

That's all they were saying.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-07-08 15:29:53+00:00
Besides the cancellation aspect, I think he's very "of a time".

He wrote a lot of "strong female characters" that in retrospect all kind of look identical, and get into... suspicious situations. His quippy dialogue is also the kind of thing you might enjoy in small doses, but you quickly realize all his characters just talk like Joss Whedon and have no characterization (besides Tough Guy, Tough Guy with a Heart of Gold, and Waif who knows karate).

Back when it was doled out once a week on Buffy it was novel, but if you try and binge any Whedon content now it's pretty painful absent the nostalgia.

Edit: I forgot the fourth Whedon archetype: Waif who likes having sex but she owns it so it's feminist and not just Male Gazey.
by olddustytrail | 2025-07-08 15:30:36+00:00
Assuming you are referring to The Council of Elrond, I think perhaps you're misremembering.

The only characters who speak at length at the Council are Glóin, Elrond (whose account is mostly skipped over), Boromir, Gandalf (the longest account), Aragorn, Frodo and Bilbo.

All of these are previously known characters except Boromir and he is certainly a major character. Plus they all add either new backstory about the ring or foreshadow something later, like Moria has been reoccupied and there is something evil there.

So there really isn't any information given that doesn't bear on the story at all.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-08 15:30:45+00:00
I still like the tank so I upgraded to an ET-8550 which uses mainly dye-based inks except for a pigment black. Photos and art reproductions I print from that still look OK 2.5 years later of being on display, even in a south-facing room in my house which seems to be a good "accelerated aging" environment. Epson makes an Pro ET line which uses pigment-based ink, but when I tried to get one during the pandemic I couldn't find one so I got the ET-8550.
by jfengel | 2025-07-08 15:30:53+00:00
I really don't think that futzing with the audio is going to change the mixed impressions people got of the series.

The show was a mess. Which is exactly what you want from Twin Peaks. I'm sure it's punchier with theatrical sound... but you made a TV show, and you should have designed your art for that medium. Going to the cinema is a different experience.

I'm glad that people will get to see/hear something like what Lynch wanted them to see/hear. But 18 hours of Twin Peaks over two days... woof.
by danbruc | 2025-07-08 15:30:54+00:00
Let us see how this will age. The current generation of AI models will turn out to be essentially a dead end. I have no doubt that AI will eventually fundamentally change a lot of things, but it will not be large language models [1]. And I think there is no path of gradual improvement, we still need some fundamental new ideas. Integration with external tools will help but not overcome fundamental limitations. Once the hype is over, I think large language models will have a place as simpler and more accessible user interface just like graphical user interfaces displaced a lot of text based interfaces and they will be a powerful tool for language processing that is hard or impossible to do with more traditional tools like statistical analysis and so on.

[1] Large language models may become an important component in whatever comes next, but I think we still need a component that can do proper reasoning and has proper memory not susceptible to hallucinating facts.
by freejazz | 2025-07-08 15:31:14+00:00
I didn't describe an LLM. Read the thread. I decsribed a particular type of service or machine where the maker would liable as a contributory infringer without directly infringing. That's all. Read my post, I even said "Not saying this is exactly what Suno is doing"

Someone responded and said "Why not DAWs, then?" The answer is because a DAW is not that kind of service or machine.

>t’s easy to fall back to known concepts to frame new things, but that is not accurate. LLMs do not hold a “banks of copyrighted materials”,

As an aside. That's clearly not true in some models given that in a number of the cases, the plaintiffs can recreate their works verbatim.
by rangestransform | 2025-07-08 15:31:20+00:00
> Of course you can extinguish a battery fire with a fire extinguisher, or just water. The problem is that thermal runaway will make the battery really hot again, which will reignite anything flammable around the battery. So you need to keep it cool for a long while, generally by spraying or submerging it in water.

We actually had an issue with this at Robocup one year, where one of the teams charged their battery at 3C and then blew it up. We didn't have a Class D extinguisher within reach, so we blasted it with a CO2 extinguisher while someone ran to get a class D extinguisher. The battery kept burning after blasting it with the CO2 extinguisher, but at a much reduced pace, and the perpetrating team took a selfie with their burning battery.
by tom_m | 2025-07-08 15:31:42+00:00
Yea, a little. I think it's fun to see what it can do, but that gets old quick.

The real kick in the nuts is that people don't care about quality. Honestly they never have, but now it's just worse. People see productivity gains and that's literally all that matters. I guess they know they can ship bad stuff and still sell it. Only when retention numbers get bad do they complain - not even think about taking the time to do things proper of course - about it and demand higher quality.

I think there's going to be a high demand for AI slop fixers in the future. Don't get me wrong, it's not that AI itself is incapable, it's that people aren't putting any effort in.

I think we'll push the people who code for enjoyment away and they'll be replaced by people who aren't as senior.
by dml2135 | 2025-07-08 15:32:06+00:00
I think the problem is the premise that successful movies should become effectively genres in-and-of themselves.

The problem with these franchises isn't all the reasons why they are poorly made, but rather that they exist as franchises at all.

A sequel or two can be good if you have real ideas to explore, as you described. But the idea that you should just make Alien movies forever is just creatively bankrupt.