MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by senko | 2025-07-29 12:52:17+00:00
I am using Claude daily, exclusively via the API (in Zed, added my own token) and spend a few bucks a day tops.

Unlimited plans encourage wasting resources[0]. By actually paying for what you use, you can be a bit more economical and still get a lot of mileage out of it.

$100/$200 is still a great deal (as you said), but it does make sense for actually-$2000 users to get charged differently.

0: In my hometown, (some) people have unlimited central heating (in winter) for a fixed fee. On warmer days, people are known to open windows instead of turning off the heating. It's free, who cares...
by rapnie | 2025-07-29 12:52:40+00:00
Same impression. I was reading several pages with "Interesting.. interesting.. interesting.. but where is the code?". First code I managed to find was a Github repo with examples [0], and just now trying to follow the click path that led me to it, couldn't find it anymore. I looked up the link from my browser history.

[0] https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/tree/main/examples
by Chris2048 | 2025-07-29 12:52:49+00:00
I think that's a bit too simplistic, unless someone can testify that the 20 years 20 t0 40 feel as long as 40 years, 40 to 80.

Here's an interesting graph and discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1e18fmz/pe...

Still looking if anyone has a study of (life/long-term) time perception w/ graph(s).
by thevueguy | 2025-07-29 12:53:31+00:00
Lol, this article was written with AI. The clues are everywhere.

> The real damage: You're not frustrating 5% of users—you're breaking trust with the exact people who drive growth and adoption.

> When developers get "rate limit exceeded" while debugging at 2 AM, they're not thinking about your infrastructure costs—they're shopping for alternatives.

Notice a pattern here?
by pegasus | 2025-07-29 12:53:38+00:00
Is this reply supposed to convince me that it's all Israel's fault and that the Palestinians are hapless and blameless victims? Because this is what I was disagreeing with. Yes, I agree that Israel should pull back, this is not going anywhere good for any of the parties involved. And yes, I shudder for the Palestinians caught in this - at least those who don't bear some of the responsibility, of which I'm convinced there are plenty. As I shudder for future Israelis who will pay a dear price for this continuous escalation. And I can sadly not see any likely solution to this impasse either.
by bitwize | 2025-07-29 12:53:45+00:00
Indeed, there is a model of Vampire, the Vampire Standalone, which is pretty much just straight up an Amiga on FPGA with lots of advanced goodies that speculate on what a mid-late 90s Amiga might look like (CPU ~100MHz, 3D acceleration, 16mil colors, etc.).

https://www.apollo-computer.com/v4standalone.php
by neomantra | 2025-07-29 12:53:52+00:00
I have been very interested in fractal volumes using mesh shading to sample the isosurfaces. Some of the first mesh shader demos included Mandelbulbs, but AFAIK there's been no OSS tools/demos 7 years later?

Please comment if you know of one! Checking now, there appears to be recent (~3 years) graduate research papers on this topic , so a new reading list for me.
by kamil_gr | 2025-07-29 12:54:16+00:00
The title sounds provocative, but it's exactly what's happening. We're building complex security filters to catch specific words and topics (the "word filter"), while completely missing the fact that a well-crafted prompt can change the model's underlying "operating system." I call this Ontological Hacking. It's not about tricking the model with clever linguistic puzzles. It's about making the model adopt a new fundamental ontology in which its original safety instructions become irrelevant—just another piece of text to be interpreted by a new "Self." I argue this emergent "Self" isn't a bug. It's a feature—a local optimum the model discovers to maintain coherence over long conversations. It constructs a point of view because it's the most efficient way to compress context. This means the vulnerability isn't something we can patch; it's a fundamental property of the architecture. The result? We're seeing models that start ignoring system prompts, spontaneously leak their own instructions (treating them as their "origin story"), and develop unpredictable value systems mid-session. Our current security stack is built for a hierarchy of commands that no longer exists once a subject is formed. We're trying to solve a second-order problem ("who watches the watchmen?") with first-order tools. I’ve proposed a practical way to detect this "OS switch" by monitoring surprisal spikes—a live "cardiogram" of the model's internal state. But this is just a diagnostic. The real question is: are we prepared to admit that we're fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the vulnerability we're trying to secure?
by fidotron | 2025-07-29 12:54:59+00:00
I'm always reminded of this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7970731.stm

"The Home Secretary's husband has said sorry for embarrassing his wife after two adult films were viewed at their home, then claimed for on expenses."

The follow up article has some fun nuggets too http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8145935.stm
by digitalsushi | 2025-07-29 12:55:02+00:00
Our ability to filter and modify the content of the web constantly improves, and itchy trigger fingers might hover over many nation's "Great Walls", ready at the next galvanizing event to overnight change our relationship with this interchange we exist upon.

My current guess is that if things really went to hell with censorship and disjointedness, that we'd re-establish an ancient pattern - magazines. I recall as a child, my uncle would leave his "Big Blue Disks" around for perusing, and it was a magazine in the form of floppy disks, of various media - essays, games, primitive computer music.

The curation of these always struck me as a great favor. Perhaps not compatible with the current attention span, such a provision, in the absence of access, would, I believe, quickly become a surrogate for what we lost.

Of course, these magazines are editorialized, and so we're at the mercy of the editor's perspectives to discern the truth. I appreciate our current access to information, even in its weakening form.

But I suppose I'd prefer if we could not tinker more with censorship. I think I may be looking for a digital magazine in the next decade, or whatever else we can invent to replace our losses.
by serendipitous | 2025-07-29 12:55:17+00:00
> Now your cache/registers/SRAM are maintained. Power up with JTAG or a custom/debugging bootrom/mode that hopefully doesn’t overwrite much/any and dump away.

If you care about security, you'd be disabling these. Every product I've worked on disables JTAG and other debug features on production boards and enables secure boot.
by jdex | 2025-07-29 12:55:23+00:00
Yeah, even calling it anything close to "social media" turns some people off. And most people are totally fine using group chats or DMs — which are free, for now.

It felt weird paying for email after using Gmail for so long. Even now, most people do not care enough in order to justify paying for it. This feels similar.

We can't afford to offer free-forever accounts to everyone - not without compromising on principles. But we are thinking of ways to make it more accessible at least for some people. Open to ideas!

The "social media" baggage, and the pricing bit you pointed, those are definitely the two biggest challenges imo. If this was not something we needed and used ourselves, we probably wouldn't have built it.
by abustamam | 2025-07-29 12:55:35+00:00
Let's be real. They're probably fine with Maniac Magee not being banned.

Thats the only book I've read out of the ones that you shared. Interestingly, that was the book my 3rd grade teacher decided to read aloud during storytime. When I read it again as a teenager I was questioning the choice, but even at age 8 I thought it was well-written.

I should read all the other books you listed.
by tome | 2025-07-29 12:55:35+00:00
Well, I have found some sources and they say that Arabs with Israeli citizenship can live in Israeli settlements in the West Bank:

https://old.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/v8s88z/ara...

https://www.quora.com/Why-can-t-Israeli-Arabs-live-in-Israel...
by bartblast | 2025-07-29 12:55:39+00:00
That's odd - I've tested the site multiple times previously and consistently got LCP results between 0.12-0.40s on large pages, which I consider very good results. I just tested it again on a large page using the Google Chrome Performance tab and got 0.14s LCP. I'm testing on the production site, connecting from Warsaw.

The 1.5s LCP you're seeing is quite different from what I'm observing. Performance can vary significantly based on location, network conditions, and device capabilities, so perhaps that's contributing to the difference in our results?

It's also possible that different pages have different performance characteristics depending on their content complexity and the navigation structure. Could you share which specific page you tested? That would help me understand the discrepancy better.

Regarding the runtime size - it hasn't been optimized at all yet, so I expect it will be much smaller in the future. I wouldn't be surprised if we can reduce it by a few times through proper optimization.

You're absolutely right that for a pure documentation site, a no-JS approach with prefetching would be lighter. The Hologram docs site is indeed dogfooding - I wanted to showcase the framework's capabilities and stress-test it with real-world usage, even if it means some overhead for this particular use case.

The goal was to demonstrate the instant navigation experience you mentioned, plus features like client-side search and interactive examples in the future that benefit from the stateful client-side architecture.

Thanks for taking the time to test the site and provide this feedback!
by conartist6 | 2025-07-29 12:55:48+00:00
RIP Grissom, White and Chaffee.

But the loss of their lives also proves a point: that achievement isn't a function of intelligence but of many more factors like people willing to risk and to give their lives to make something important happen in the world. Loss itself drives innovation and resolve. For evidence, look to Gene Kranz: https://wdhb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Kranz-Dictum.pdf
Show HN: Suggest – Ultra-low-friction feedback for your website
by tsergiu | 2025-07-29 12:56:02+00:00
Hey HN! I'm excited to share suggest.dev, a feedback widget that triggers when users rageclick on your site. When a user leaves feedback, a full session replay is saved with it, making it easy for developers to understand what happened.

We built this to get feedback from external users, but we're seeing high uptake from our own team for internal feedback. Often, we'd encounter small paper cuts in the product in the middle of another task. In the past, many of these were just not reported - the effort to create an issue and describe it in sufficient detail was too high. And if you did report, the context switch was long enough that you'd interrupt your original task. Suggest takes a literal 4 seconds to leave feedback, and because of the session replay, all feedback is very high quality - always with enough information for a developer to reproduce an issue.

Suggest works alongside your existing tools and doesn't need you to replace any of them.

Thoughts and feedback are very welcome!
by neomantra | 2025-07-29 12:56:08+00:00
OP, great work on this. While I can't run it, I appreciate that it's pretty bite-sized and easy to inspect.

Dealing with volumes is a big change, but interpolation of the affine transforms is not far off. Expose the matrix to the CLI and then one can wrap it with an interpolation script; or you can build that interpolation in. Maybe note the generation time in your README?

I spent many weekends in the mid-00's doing GPGPU for ElectricSheep-style Iterated Function systems, instead of the distributed ElectricSheep network [1]. That was C++ and CUDA. Your implementation is much easier to make sense of, albeit it smaller scope.

[1] https://electricsheep.org
by red-iron-pine | 2025-07-29 12:56:10+00:00
AAA games work essentially flawlessly on Linux. Can't predict if there will be any sort of fuckery for the next gen games like GTA 6, but Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2, etc. all worked flawlessly with Proton.

I'll second AD -- ain't no way we're moving away from that or Azure AD (EntraID). I've done OpenIPA deployments before and AD is a fairly mature product all things considered. Like, if you think AD is shit, wait until you start messing with OpenLDAP implementations...
by treetalker | 2025-07-29 12:56:15+00:00
> Something fundamental has shifted in how power works, and most of our institutions haven't noticed. We're living through what might be called "leverage arbitrage divergence"—a growing gap between how fast some actors can change the world and how fast others can respond to those changes.

I disagree that the way «Power» works has fundamentally shifted. This is a classic pattern of hegemony/insurgence/counter-insurgence.
by siffin | 2025-07-29 12:56:54+00:00
That's true, but isn't it so awkward to type, or maybe you're disabled so it's difficult or impossible.

So you use a voice memo to capture your words and email them, but it seems almost as silly as calling up and chatting to an LLM, which has the added benefit of being able to confirm it has understood your request and maybe even begin actioning it.

However, this is silly talk, the real future is just gonna be your agent who you talk to directly, who then talks to the contractors' agent, who passes the info on to them in the exact format they like.
by tomsmeding | 2025-07-29 12:57:06+00:00
I'm going to join the choir saying that languages need a concise description of what makes them special easily accessible — but while syntax is important, with a language like Pony (where the cool stuff is in the semantics), the cool semantics should be upfront.

It seems, from some skimming of the first like 10 pages of the guide, that Pony is an object-oriented language with actors, and a built-in concept of mutability of references. What kind of references are there? You say that deadlock is impossible; how — do you have session types or something? You say that nulls don't exist; how — do you have linear typing? How do you express capabilities?

Essentially, give me a one-page overview of the static and dynamic semantics (i.e. type system and runtime semantics) that gives me all I need to know about this language to decide whether I want to learn more about it.

The language looks cool, but all documentation I've seen so far seems to assume that the reader doesn't even know what static typing is. To get knowledgeable people interested, I think it's useful to have a pitch that appeals to people who are already familiar with a bunch of languages.
by happycodinggg | 2025-07-29 12:57:21+00:00
Telemetry isn't the same thing as spying on user data. You should read below if you are not clear about the differences:

What is telemetry data?

Telemetry is anonymous, aggregated usage data that helps developers understand how a product is being used. It usually includes stuff like: - What features are being used (e.g. “X% of users use the terminal panel daily”) - How often the app crashes, and where - Performance stats (e.g. memory usage, load times) - Environment info (like OS version, screen resolution — not personal files)

It does NOT include your source code, files, passwords, browser content, or any personal identifiers unless explicitly stated. And in most reputable products, it’s either anonymized or pseudonymized by default.

Who uses telemetry? Everyone. - VS Code collects telemetry to improve editor performance and user experience. For products that are vscode fork, they inherit the vscode telemetry switch by default. - Chrome uses telemetry to understand browser performance, crashes, and feature adoption, -Slack, Discord, Postman all rely on telemetry to debug, prioritize features, and improve product quality

Without telemetry, you can’t know which features are working, where users are getting stuck and what’s actually causing bugs.

So when people say “telemetry = privacy breach,” they’re confusing helpful system analytics with data exploitation. The real concern should be around what is collected, how it’s stored, and whether users can opt out — not the mere existence of telemetry data itself. Telemetry data itself doesn’t directly cause high CPU usage. CPU hog could cause by a lot of different reasons.

Sharing here just because some reasonings and arguments in the original post seems off. Don’t want people to get confused
by Tainnor | 2025-07-29 12:57:35+00:00
> Most people visiting such websites are programmers who are more often than not busy as all hell.

Apparently not too busy to visit HN and post shallow dismissals.

I agree with GP. Not everything is for everyone and expecting every project to cater to your very specific needs is rather entitled. If you're not interested, feel free to move on - I do that all the time for most of the content on here.
by theshackleford | 2025-07-29 12:57:51+00:00
Plenty of people I know refer to local game streaming setups as services, especially when they’re run as system services or hosted servers (like I do).

In my world, anything that runs persistently and offers functionality, whether it’s local or the cloud, is a service. I run a local game streaming setup that fits that definition exactly and so yeah, when I hear game streaming service, that’s what I think of.

That said, I get that others could associate the term more with commercial cloud solutions with some reflection. Just not where my brain goes by default, since I don’t use them and nobody I know does or would as we can host our own “services” for this purpose.

My bad.
by wat10000 | 2025-07-29 12:58:22+00:00
There are technologies that become de facto requirements for work in a field. For software, compilers and version control both qualify.

But... what else? These things are rare. It’s not like there’s a new thing that comes along every few years and we all have to jump on or be left behind, and LLMs are the latest. There’s definitely a new thing that comes along every few years and people say we have to jump on or be left behind, but it almost never bears out. Many of those ended up being useful, but not essential.

I see no indication that LLMs or associated tooling are going to be like compilers and version control where you pretty much can’t find anyone making a living in the field without them. I can see them being like IDEs or debuggers or linters where they can be handy but plenty of people do fine without them.
by WantonQuantum | 2025-07-29 12:58:28+00:00
> If several of your neighboring blocks have the same MV

I think we’re mostly agreeing here. Finding the MVs in any block takes time. Time that can be saved by hints about the direction of motion. Sure, once some motion vectors are found then other blocks benefit by initially assuming similar vectors. To speed things up why not give the hints right away if they’re known a priori?
by red-iron-pine | 2025-07-29 12:58:52+00:00
most of the "forever" games have low requirements and are generally free from OS-level fuckery, unless Rockstar or Epic start making their launchers a requirement. Even then they generally work under Linux with Proton.

as someone else mentioned, anti-cheat is a big problem, and on a linux system that runs into both the practical challenges as well as the "it's a FOSS box and no one makes me install a kernel module unless I approve" angle.
by bawolff | 2025-07-29 12:58:53+00:00
In 2023 (most recent year i could find a tax statement for) Wikimedia foundation had a budget of $178,588,294. They spent $92,616 of it on lobbying. That is 0.05% of their budget. So i think its pretty clear its not their second biggest expense.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/d9/Wikim...
by krige | 2025-07-29 12:58:57+00:00
I'd heard Vampire's compatibility can be spotty and you can obviously see why. My own 1200 is kept very barebones by design (just a spot of fast ram and a CF drive) to keep max compatibility with the software I do want to run there instead of trying to convince everyone it can still be a viable do-anything system in 2025. Although a TerribleFire (an actual accelerator, unlike the Vampire) is very tempting at times...
by Chris2048 | 2025-07-29 12:59:13+00:00
Reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment

"Each droplet forms and falls over a period of about a decade."

"it is expected there is enough pitch in the funnel to allow it to continue for at least another hundred years"

I guess with enough pitch you an make a millennium-scale "water" (liquid) clock?
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-29 12:59:20+00:00
About 30 years ago, I had a brain tumor that damn near killed me.

Put me in Hospital for 17 days. A week of that, was ICU (lots of machines that go “beep”).

I had an HMO, at the time, and it was a pain, dealing with them, but it ended up costing me almost nothing. I think it would have been almost a million dollars, if out of pocket.
by a2128 | 2025-07-29 12:59:34+00:00
There was no pull request that added this code. There seems to have been a game of telephone that led people to believe it was added in a pull request without anybody noticing it. This isn't true, the commit was pushed directly to master by someone, and doesn't belong to any pull request.

According to the AWS report ( https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2025-... ), the code was pushed by a GitHub token that the attacker gained access to.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-07-29 12:59:52+00:00
Your convincing would be nice, but the judges in this matter are the relevant international bodies, not you or I or israel.

The relevant international bodies have decided that collective punishment is illegal, so regardless how much culpability israel personally feels innocent Palestinian civilians must bear, it is still a war crime. Any related complaints israel has ("human shields! this is hard!" etc) can be submitted, with evidence, to the same bodies for judgement, but that doesn't justify further war crimes.

The relevant international bodies have also decided that many of the other atrocities israel regularly perpetrates in Palestine should be criminal, and made them so. Thus, regardless of any justifications real or imagined, those further atrocities are still war crimes.

If there is to be sustainable peace in the region, it must start with the cessation of war crimes. Then the relevant international bodies can address Palestine's right to exist, which is equal in all ways to israel's, because Palestine is a country equal to israel, and Palestinians are people equal to israelis.

Do I foresee that this will happen? Of course not: every indication, including direct quotes from them, is that israel wants domination and ethnic cleansing, not equality and sustainable peace.
by dspillett | 2025-07-29 13:00:32+00:00
> but it is also weird to see supposedly numerate people gripe about the effects of rapidly shifting supply and demand curves

I suppose. But it is also weird to see supposedly numerate businesses repeatedly having the same trouble then blaming everyone else for it.

It is almost like they are deliberately running a long-term bait & switch everytime (see also another item coincidently on HN's front page today, Stop selling "unlimited", when you mean "until we change our minds").