MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scottlamb | 2025-07-29 15:17:37+00:00
IMHO, the issue [edit: once understood/documented] was overhyped. From browsing blogs/forums you'd think the chip was completely useless. But many uses of the chip didn't run into the problem, and others could be solved with external resistors. Even https://github.com/gusmanb/logicanalyzer eventually found a nice RP2350 design.

I think they didn't preannounce because it could have taken longer than expected and people would have held orders in the meantime, which could have been a problem. [1]

Although they did do this a little bit:

> Eventually all Pico 2 products will use the A4 stepping. While the A3 stepping will not be made available to silicon customers, approximately 30,000 units of A3 inventory will be used to build Pico 2 and Pico 2 W products.

~~I'm hesistant to buy a Pico 2 or Pico 2 W right now because I might get this weird stepping that could have issues almost no one else ever sees.~~ [edit: not so much after seeing phire's comment and the bootrom-only changes in the datasheet.]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
Ask HN: Where is a local (no cloud audio) voice assistant useful?
by takuya_h | 2025-07-29 15:18:00+00:00
We're exploring a fully local voice assistant (wake word -> ASR -> LLM -> TTS, all on-device). No audio or transcripts ever leave the device.

Context: Alexa ended a niche "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" (local-processing) option on Mar 28, 2025; it had long processed most requests in the cloud, and that continues. You can still choose not to save recordings after processing.

To be clear: our device may periodically fetch non-voice data (e.g., weather/traffic). And on user command (e.g., send an email), it may call user-selected APIs/tools, sending only the necessary structured fields, not audio or transcripts.

No sales and no public link. I'm trying to learn if there's real demand and where.

Short, blunt answers welcome:

1. Experience: In the last 12 months, did you disable, avoid, or remove a voice assistant? (yes/no) If yes, one line reason (e.g., privacy, company policy/compliance, recognition/answer accuracy, false wakes, latency).

2. Context & scale: Where did you use or plan to use it (e.g., home, meeting rooms/offices, hotels, cars, healthcare, government/police), and roughly at what scale (# rooms, devices, or users)?

3. Alternative & outcome: What did you use instead (e.g., tablet, app, local-only assistant, manual), and did it meet the need? (yes/mostly/no)

4. Comments: Any other relevant detail (even one line) is welcome.
by freedomben | 2025-07-29 15:18:27+00:00
I run our interviewing process as well and fully agree with you. An interview process that most closely mirrors "real work" gets much better results. Some of the best people we've had were really terrible at algorithms and leet code, but wrote quality code (that they tested!), had strong work ethics, were willing to be around off-hours for the occasional production outage, took ownership/accountability for their tasks, and were enjoyable people to work with/around. It's good to have at least one person on the team who is good with algorithms and stuff for those times when that comes up, but having that be a requirement for everyone on the team is an anti-pattern IMHO
by takuya_h | 2025-07-29 15:18:28+00:00
Why I'm asking: not to debate the news. Just gauging where (if anywhere) a no cloud audio assistant is actually useful. I'll post a brief takeaways summary in 24 - 48h.

Sources about Alexa

- AP: Alexa ended the optional local‑processing setting on Mar 28, 2025; affected 3 US‑English Echo models; <0.03% usage; cloud processing since then; "don't save" still available. [https://apnews.com/article/amazon-privacy-echo-7fb3c19fa7f66...]

- The Verge (with Amazon comment). [https://www.theverge.com/news/630049/amazon-echo-discontinue...]

- TechCrunch summary. [https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/15/amazons-echo-will-send-all...]

(Optional) Quick reply template:

- Experience: Disable/avoid/remove (12m): [yes/no] - reason

- Context & scale: [home/offices/hotels/cars/healthcare/gov]; [~# rooms/devices/users]

- Alternative & outcome: [tablet/app/local-only/manual]; met need? [yes/mostly/no]

- Comments:
by kibwen | 2025-07-29 15:18:32+00:00
Sure, but this is making the common mistake of viewing government intervention as being somehow separate or outside of the market system, rather than being inside the system. Corporations in a competitive market consolidate to the point of monopoly, they use that monopoly to abuse customers, customers demand their governments intervene, some measure of competitiveness is restored, goto start. This is the system.
by unshavedyak | 2025-07-29 15:18:40+00:00
Fwiw i don't necessarily think SR is not learning new material. It was a question from me, not a counter.

For SR to apply i imagine it depends on the underlying set of SR cards/etc. If you're just topping off on well known material then SR can't do much - but if it's well known material, there's often not even a review stage to have - all the material won't be flagged for review.

However if you have several items that you're reviewing then the SR algo has determined you don't know it (or perhaps they're new, but that's a bit besides the point).
by genewitch | 2025-07-29 15:18:50+00:00
in order to have public ipv6 on starlink you need to manage the /56 they delegate to you into however many /64s that is (at least 8); i tested it with a store bought router, everything worked if you can do PD with DHCP[v6] or whatever. I returned the router because it was $200 and i will eventually figure it out on a VM.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-07-29 15:18:57+00:00
My god such a telelogical view of history and it smells like generated with ChatGPT and using a few prompts to try to textual style hide it.

Howard Zinn, Chomsky, and most other anti imperialist intellectuals viewed history similarly badly and are looking almost as stupid in retrospect as Fukuyama did with his claim that history has ended. For every example they bring up, there's 5 counterexamples that they didn't bring up because in some cases the evidence for the good they did is locked up in a spooks SKIF for the next 50 years - or in other cases they didn't bring it up because America just isn't allowed to be the good guy anymore if you personally took part in America doing bad things.

The amount of damage that folks like Marx did through making people believe in telelogical views of history ( i.e. "Capitalism is GUARANTEED to destroy itself due to internal contradictions") is colossal.

Shit bad regimes which are based on lies are now stronger than ever. I'm willing to bet $$$ that not only does NK exist in 50 years, but it's stronger than ever and even more authoritarian. AI literally locks in power structures and perfects them.
by Almondsetat | 2025-07-29 15:18:58+00:00
Phones have always been designed for "normal" people, nonetheless manufacturers are actually giving pros more tools than ever. Smartphone photography might have been less processed in the early 2010s, but the outputs were difficult to edit and jpeg only. At least nowadays the big players allow you to shoot also in raw formats. Before smartphones, "normal" people who wanted to take photos without bothering too much would have simply shot in JPEG and blindly trusted the color decisions from the camera manufacturer, or by the chemical engineers at the film/development/printing factory.
by NervousRing | 2025-07-29 15:19:04+00:00
There are a lot of things in the article that I find a bit wishy-washy.

> It’s a signpost for a broader trend—one that treats friction as failure, learning as delivery, and formation as a plug-in.

I think building something provides a lot more friction (and learning opportunities) than reading books. We had computer classes for at least 7 years in school and beyond some loops and recursion, I didn't really think I understood computers. One month of trying to build an app and that worked. Similarly, hundreds of hours of YC (and other) video content paled in comparison to trying to salvage a startup that was going bankrupt.

> And what’s the real tragedy of this model? It’s not that it fails—it’s that it succeeds. Brilliantly. But at the wrong task: a perfect system solving for performance, not presence.

I don't know why this line feels like it's written by ChatGPT. Maybe because it has that tone of trying to say something deep in a verbatim manner that is the signature style of ChatGPT.

> Training children to outperform machines may win the game, but it misses the point: Machines don’t need meaning. We do.

And I haven't found more aimless people than those coming out of current highschools. They then go to the universities their peers go to, get the job their peers do and try to fill their weekends with entertainment. No judgement, but I don't think AI will reduce any of that.
by taeric | 2025-07-29 15:19:14+00:00
Very fun read! My first try at implementing DLX was for sudoku, as well. I keep meaning to add something showing why it backtracked at a particular spot. Is fun watching the numbers it tries along the way.

And if you haven't seen it, Knuth has a whole section on puzzles in his newer writings. Always fun to flip through.

(If you want to see the numbers fill up, I have that at https://taeric.github.io/Sudoku.html)
by __mharrison__ | 2025-07-29 15:19:31+00:00
Odd. My MBP has 16 GB and I routinely have 5 browsers windows open. Most of them have 5-20 tabs. I'm also routinely running vi vscode and editing videos with davinci resolve without issue.

My only memory issue that I can remember is an OBS memory leak, otherwise these MBPs incredible hardware. I wish any other company could actually deliver a comparable machine.
by graemep | 2025-07-29 15:19:38+00:00
Very possibly. It will be an excuse to gather more user data. Will the lost users be the valuable ones for their business model? Also, once people have registered with a site, it imposes a switching cost, so it does favour incumbents over new entrants.

There must be smaller sites in the same business that will block UK users rather than comply.

So, they very likely do.

What is more important is that the tech giants, and social media in particular does love this law. As I pointed out in another comment, and has been reported many times on HN before, they have already gained users as people switch from independent forums to social media, and in the future it will keep competition out.
by ramesh31 | 2025-07-29 15:19:56+00:00
>Even if that’s true (and it gets repeated as a very general statement without general data to back it up, so I’m not sure), then why couldn’t payment processors either a) charge retailers in high-risk segments a higher transaction fee, b) charge merchants penalty fees if the number of chargebacks from their transactions exceeds some threshold, or c) compete with each other to serve higher-risk markets?

They do all of the above. There are obviously an endless number of niche payment providers who serve the segments. And they are... expensive and unreliable. Not suitable to a huge business like Valve that derives the majority of their revenue from mainstream products.
by alias_neo | 2025-07-29 15:19:57+00:00
I'm anti-DRM personally, but I suppose in this case we could argue it's serving its purpose, it's just that workarounds have been found in the form of scanning physical books.

If no physical copies existed and there were only DRMd digital copies of everything, the companies scanning books for AI training would be forced to work out some deal with the DRM-overlords to have it removed for their use. That (I think) would be a net benefit as hopefully the authors would get paid too.
by wongarsu | 2025-07-29 15:20:20+00:00
If only that was true. ChatGPT has gotten a bit more subtle since the early days when it was allowed to criticize certain politicians but not others, but so-called "safety training" still seems to impart plenty of additional bias. Some others like Grok appear to be less biased, until they suddenly turn into mecha-hitler after a slight prompt tweak
by alephnerd | 2025-07-29 15:20:20+00:00
It's called Dutch Disease.

And it did severely reduce Netherlands' competitiveness back when the Groningen gas field was operational.

Norway is a well off country, but compared to their Scandi peers Denmark and Sweden, they don't have as diversified an economy - especially innovation industries like Pharma in DK or DefenseTech in Sweden - due to their heavy ONG dependency [0].

Denmark is equally blessed with NatGas fields like Netherlands was (look at a map) and similar to Norway, yet they still incubated a domestic innovation industry and additionally retained a diversified manufacturing and agricultural economy.

Furthermore, large soverign wealth funds in democracies can become especially enticing to raid during protracted downturns or the rise of populism - look at Alaska's PIF as an example.

Additionally, plenty of black swans exist in the world now. The US-EU FTA makes US ONG exports signficantly more cost competitive than Norwegian offerings, and potential FTAs with MERCOSUR (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay) and Canada can further reduce Norway's staying power in European energy markets. As Norway is not an EU member state, it's in a worse position to defend it's interests in it's largest market.

And that's the crux of the argument - Norway is unable to incubate alternative industries that can help diversify away from their ONG dependency, which increases the long term risks for Norway, and has risks that could lead to opportunistic raiding of their SWF.

[0] - https://oec.world/en/profile/country/nor#yearly-trade
by motorest | 2025-07-29 15:21:05+00:00
> That's why I include "massive leagues". If a city or school district is large enough to impel doping, the entire premise of sport is undermined.

I don't think you understand. Some amateur athletes purposely resort to doping even if they are not particpating in major competitions. Hell, check out steroid abuse in bodybuilding circles. Is taking ADHD drugs also a kind of doping?

I'm not sure you get the "performance enhancing" part of performance enhancing drugs. The pull is not from the competition, but the way they enhance performance. Capitalism has zero to do with this.
Show HN: I waste my time extracting stuff every week from the Internet
by rdorgueil | 2025-07-29 15:21:06+00:00
I started a few weeks ago (6 to be exact) a curation process. To make it short, I selected 150 feeds of news that I think are relevant, including HN, download new items on a regular basis, pre-filter them using light llms to filter out things that I'm not interested in (like billionaire drama, politics, recruitment, fundraising, astrophysics, commercial software ...) and filter them manually using a tinder-like application for news, with a few internal criterias: like open source software, human written inspiring text, dislike pricing buttons...

So basically, I got into a process of swiping 2500 or so times a week about content, before diving even more in the one that interested me at first glance, which means I've eaten a lot of my time for little to no value.

Any genius (or stupid) ideas on how to do better? I'd like to continue, but as it is now, it's too much time consuming and I'll get bored soon ... Of course I could automate the selection with LLMs but that's not the point, I like human-picked stuff (although I may benefit from auto-filtering generated content if I knew how to).

Thanks :)
by amiga386 | 2025-07-29 15:21:33+00:00
If Google is adopting this, maybe rachelbythebay's vagueposting was ahead of the curve?

I jest; the vagueposting led to uninformed speculation, panic, reddit levels of baseless accusation, and harassment of the developers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43477057

I hope Google's experiment doesn't turn out the same.
by kalberg6429 | 2025-07-29 15:21:53+00:00
>The question of whether you can find third-hand (or even first-hand) accounts of Zionists saying or doing bad things doesn’t really have any bearing on the question of to what extent Jews faced persecution, or to what extent that persecution motivated the Zionist project.

True! Zionism was clearly a white supremacist colonial project inspired by european nationalism in teaching and writing either way.

>Incidentally, the idea that persecution or trauma necessarily makes a person (or a people!) better is flatly untrue; anyone familiar with psychology knows that. And, after all, we can find lots of examples of Palestinians doing bad things too.

Also true! Similarly, Norman Finkelstein describes in "The Holocaust Industry"[1]: "that the American Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for political and financial gain and to further Israeli interests. According to Finkelstein, this "Holocaust industry" has corrupted Jewish culture and the authentic memory of the Holocaust". Zionists pumped out Hollywood movie after movie to lecture the world on how their tribe's oppression has been so uniquely evil, just to turn around and oppress others in the exact same way once they gained power.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Holocaust-Industry-Reflections-Exploi...
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-29 15:21:59+00:00
I don’t think anybody who’s serious about off-planet habitation is shirking the risks. They’re just confident that the problems can be solved one way or another and are trying to get the ball rolling so that all the required systems are in place to enable iterating on solutions. That way, when the technology is ready we can just go instead of twiddling our thumbs waiting for tech and systems to arrive.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-07-29 15:22:33+00:00
> Have you considered taxing less in the first place? So that there's more money for eg private research?

You really think that if the government axed the NSF/NIH, and cut taxes but corresponding amount, the private sector would somehow take all those tax cuts and invest in scientific research?

And the other factor is that private research is going to be geared towards that which is 1) less risky and 2) has some eventual commercial application. Many areas of scientific research are not like this. e.g. basically all of astronomy, and a good chunk of particle physics. The commercial applications have been pretty much zero.

AI is getting a ton of investment by the private sector now, because it is expected to have commercial application.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-29 15:22:34+00:00
> would probably need to be put into context to make sense

You're right. The book ("1001 Movies to See Before You Die") gives that context. I was surprised though that, as I went through them — slogging even, as you say, at times — in time I started to develop perhaps a new way of looking at film. And then slowly I found I was "slogging" a lot less. I began even thinking a bit more fondly back on the films I had seen earlier on that had been more of struggle for me to watch.
by devmor | 2025-07-29 15:22:35+00:00
> The real utility value of LLM for programming is to come up with something new.

That's the goal for these projects anyways. I don't know that its true or feasible. I find the RAG models much more interesting myself, I see the technology as having far more value in search than generation.

Rather than write some markov-chain reminiscent frankenstein function when I ask it how to solve a problem, I would like to see it direct me to the original sources it would use to build those tokens, so that I can see their implementations in context and use my judgement.
by nirui | 2025-07-29 15:22:48+00:00
I think the title of the original article itself should be changed to "Too bad life in International Space Station would suck", as many examples are based on ISS experience.

If your vessel can do constant 1G acceleration/de-acceleration like those in The Expanse, then many problems mentioned in the article will simply not exist. For example: you never shower because gravity problems, toilet is hard to use also because of gravity problems, body fluids problem (including pee) is also because of gravity.

So I guess you just need is to wait for someone to invent Epstein Drive, and then you're good too go. Or, you can just take a walk in the park see if it reduces the urge, it's free and you can do it right now.
by sowbug | 2025-07-29 15:22:49+00:00
It doesn't infringe any kind of intellectual property.

This isn't copyright infringement; it isn't based on the original assembly code or artwork. A game concept can't be copyrighted. Even if one of SI's game mechanics were patented, it would have long expired. Trade secret doesn't apply in this situation.

That leaves trademark. No reasonable person would be confused whether Simon is trying to pass this creation off as a genuine Space Invaders product.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-29 15:22:58+00:00
That particular deity appears to embody "nature isn't super concerned with compassion/fairness". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahakala; "because they are Kala or Time in the personified form, and Time is not bound by anything, and Time does not show mercy, nor does it wait for anything or anyone"

That said… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_grafting
by alistairSH | 2025-07-29 15:23:01+00:00
You wouldn't necessarily use mechanical doping to win the general classification, or even a particular stage.

More likely, you'd use it on select stages for very specific reasons... for example, a rider could use it to avoid the time cut on an ITT stage (effectively getting extra rest vs their competitors). Similarly, a pure sprinter could use it to stay in contention on a punchy "sprint" stage (like a stage that MvdP might be a favorite instead of a pure sprinter).

Edit - I don't think anybody is doing this at the top levels of pro cycling. Maybe in regional racing (masters, etc).
by phkahler | 2025-07-29 15:23:03+00:00
>> Nontrivially, LLMs can absolutely produce code for entirely new requirements. I've seen them do it many times.

I think most people writing software today are reinventing a wheel, even in corporate environments for internal tools. Everyone wants their own tweak or thinks their idea is unique and nobody wants to share code publicly, so everyone pays programmers to develop buggy bespoke custom versions of the same stuff that's been done 100 times before.

I guess what I'm saying is that your requirements are probably not new, and to the extent they are yes an LLM can fill in the blanks due to its fluency in languages.