MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BlueTemplar | 2025-07-03 21:57:37+00:00
Putin (et al.) has already proven to be stupid : the invasion of Ukraine was going quite well for him since 2014, he could have continued salami slicing it while the EU was still mostly asleep (and not willing to make a fuss as a Russian hydrocarbons importer).

But no, he went for a 'quick' victory instead, and ended up bogged in a much higher intensity war, made the Russian military a laughing stock, and kicked the EU/Nato bees nest so hard that another 2 countries immediately joined NATO.
by lsaferite | 2025-07-03 21:58:07+00:00
Not strictly true. The LLM provider should be running a constrained token selection based off of the json schema of the tool call. That alone makes a massive difference as you're already discarding non-valid tokens during the completion at a low level. Now, if they had a BNF Grammer for each cli tool and enforced token selection based on that, you'd be much better off than unrestrained token selection.
by gambiting | 2025-07-03 21:59:23+00:00
I'm Polish and of course it's possible, in fact it's very straightforward for one-off vehicles that you don't intend to sell, it just has to have brakes, all required lights and mirrors, there are many hobbyist groups in Poland which build and register their own cars that they then drive in public roads just fine.

https://bip.gliwice.eu/pojazd-zbudowany-samodzielnie-sam
by sunshowers | 2025-07-03 21:59:24+00:00
> I also doesn't seem like anything most people would spend a lot of time on.

That's because the conditions created by C make solving this problem very hard, not because the problem isn't worth solving.

It is still a hard problem with Rust, requiring heavy use of async state machines to manage a rather extraordinary level of complexity. But at least it is possible for essentially a solo dev like myself to do in a robust, largely bug-free manner.

> I run my tests using "make" which somewhat poor but does the job.

Right, "make" is indeed not quite a high-performance enterprise-grade test runner with parallel test execution, high-quality reporting, signal handling, dynamic status querying, timeouts, retries, flaky test detection, mutual exclusion between tests, a DSL that lets you specify sets of tests, flexible configuration, archiving tests to run on another computer, sharding test runs, JUnit support, wrapper scripts, setup scripts, and several other features. Make doesn't even properly support Windows, which is table stakes for a portable test runner.

You're welcome to peruse the design documents:

https://nexte.st/docs/design/architecture/runner-loop/ (already linked above)

https://nexte.st/docs/design/architecture/signal-handling/

https://nexte.st/docs/design/architecture/input-handling/
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-03 21:59:36+00:00
"Like SLS" in that it is a huge expendable booster, not "Like SLS" in terms of development process.

This book

https://www.amazon.com/Shuttle-History-Developing-National-T...

has wonderful illustrations of many of the hundreds of designs they considered before settling on what was to be the Space Shuttle and also talks about late 1980s studies that considered various ways of putting together Space Shuttle parts to make different vehicles (say a big-ass orbiter with more engines, a bigger ET and more SRBs) The hope was that you could reuse the development work that went into Space Shuttle parts but it seemed like anything you made out of Space Shuttle parts was unaffordable no matter what you tried.

You could certainly develop parts that are cheaper on a per unit basis but would it be worth developing them for the number you would make?

The US doesn't really have an attractive answer to getting to the moon or for aggressive deep space missions, Starship doesn't look great. Growing up in the 1980s I read the "Science Fact" columns in Analog Science Fiction magazine and was told that NASA sold us out and we could have had a much more intensive lunar program but really the architecture Apollo used was brilliant and much more achievable than everything else they considered.
by grumio | 2025-07-03 21:59:41+00:00
That's a lie. https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/10/16/undocumented-immigran...

People are critical of ICEs practices because they ignore the due process constitutional rights of people in the US (all people in the US not just citizens). They abduct people and send them to foreign gulags where they are tortured. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/02/kilmar-abreg...

You misrepresent ICE by acting like they just fight crime.
by aidenn0 | 2025-07-03 22:01:31+00:00
The first dungeon from the red-book DM guide was merciless for parties of less than 6ish. Before you even got into the dungeon, there was a carrion crawler that got a guaranteed surprise round with 6 attacks with paralysis on each attack. The only time it didn't TPK a new group I ran it with was when the thief ran back to town.
Ask HN: Any purely data driven public policy research think tanks?
by ishaanbhagwat | 2025-07-03 22:01:50+00:00
'How can you improve, if you do not measure?'

I remember reading that quote somewhere and it has always stuck with me.

Challenge: To measure the health of the nation. (with first-principles and scientific method.)

Are there any independent non-profits out there that are involved in rigorous and expansive research on the net positive/negative outcomes of landmark legislation on the members of society (in any particular country)? Publishing pure quantitative metrics void of political bias?
by Spivak | 2025-07-03 22:02:26+00:00
Reddit being considered a space for women is the funniest take I've heard in a while. But regardless, you didn't adequately take into account that being choked is one of the top sexual fantasies of women. Whatever explanation you put forth has to also explain why it's also highly desirable to be on the receiving end.

The "porn has been giving men violent sexual fantasies" line has existed since before I was born but it always ignores that they're the top fantasies among women too. Among my friend group the more common refrain is women who want to be choked but their boyfriends are uncomfortable doing it.
by sandspar | 2025-07-03 22:02:43+00:00
Venkatesh Rao's "Internet of Beefs" article is useful here. He discusses how online feuds resemble battles between armies. How nameless foot soldiers enact brutal violence on other nameless foot soldiers. How after a while, the point of fighting is no longer to win, but to perpetuate violence.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/

The article is very useful. Reading it has inspired me to improve my own online behavior.
by abe_m | 2025-07-03 22:03:34+00:00
There could be some legacy places out there that are stuck in the 50's. Also, small businesses seem to be more likely to not have good programs for safety than large outfits. But I've been working in industrial settings for 20 years on 3 continents, and all the big places have had extensive environmental and safety programs. Having said that, I've never been to a steel mill. The workers themselves can be their own worst enemy though. Places that have a large contingent of workers that started in the 70's and 80's tend to think the safety stuff is 'gay', and forced upon them by management.
by ojn | 2025-07-03 22:05:10+00:00
It's worse than that -- there is not a single piece of hardware that implements RVA23 available to be bought on the market today.

There are SoCs on the market that implement RVV (Vector extensions), and SoCs on the market that implement H (Hypervisor extensions).

There are no SoCs on the market that implement both at the same time. And both are mandatory for RVA23.

I'd love to be proven wrong on the hardware availability. If there's hardware to be bought in western countries that implements both RVV and H, please let me know.
by silverquiet | 2025-07-03 22:05:39+00:00
OP said "using a classic car chassis". I'm not particularly knowledgeable, but you can make a lot of modifications to an existing car, but building your own from the ground up would be mostly illegal. I think in some sense, the actual "car" is legally only the VIN plate or something like that. My state stop even doing safety inspections recently, and before that they were already pretty minimal; it was mostly a check that your lights and horn worked and that you had at least one mirror.
by YetAnotherNick | 2025-07-03 22:06:09+00:00
Pricing != Cost.

One of the clearest example is Deepseek v3. Deepseek has mentioned its price of 0.27/1.10 has 80% profit margin, so it cost them 90% lesser than the price of Gemini flash. And Gemini flash is very likely smaller model than Deepseek v3.
by lucubratory | 2025-07-03 22:06:15+00:00
Hey, just chiming in to say that I think this project is really cool even though it's outside the price range of what I can spend on a cool hobby.

I'm disabled, and one thing I'm really interested in long-term for humanoid robots is disability support work. Disability support work involves a huge variety of individual tasks, as many as a typical person will do in their life, so it's a good fit for an extremely general platform like a humanoid robot. Motorised wheelchairs and dishwashers exist, but a support worker might need to push a wheelchair, do sensitive dishes, do laundry, accurately open and place medications without destroying them, weigh & dose powders, help someone with going to the toilet, cook meals, drive a car, control pets, manage the level of noise/light/smells in the environment to stop someone from being overwhelmed, sanitise surfaces including themselves, navigate confusing interfaces on a phone or computer, help someone drink from a bottle, remember what sort of activities helped a disabled person in the past to be able to do them in the future, help someone with physical fitness activities like punching or kicking a pad, talk to people for someone, carry someone safely in the event of an emergency, make coffee in the morning, monitor intake of various drugs/nutrients/macronutrients, be able to reach and catch someone before they hit the floor if they pass out, help someone walk if they're unsteady on their feet, etc etc. It makes sense to me that it would be cost effective to have one platform which can do all of that with similar performance to a human, rather than automating many of those tasks individually in ways that might not be accessible to some disabled people.

In terms of TAM, absolutely huge amounts of money are spent on disability care (keeping in mind that elder care is also disability care), by both governments and private citizens, and this number is forecasted to continue growing as more people become disabled by COVID-19 and demographic changes increase the elderly population relative to working age adults. As well, there are constantly scandals about how bad conditions are in some area of disability care, almost always due to underpaid, untrained, or unmonitored staff, so there's a lot of demand for both more reliable quality & lower prices; that demand is only going to grow with time. Various government bodies are very large sources of funding that are very concerned with value for money and would pursue any option that could do the job without costing as much - in my country (Australia), there's the NDIS, National Disability Insurance Scheme. They are always looking for ways to consolidate care for less money.

I strongly suspect that any humanoid robot which was good enough to do disability support work would be in extremely high demand in the general population for obvious reasons, as well as being useful as a platform for labour automation, but those are much more speculative. Disability support work is a lot of money for incredibly varied tasks being spent right now. Something to think about.
by mindcrime | 2025-07-03 22:07:50+00:00
Looking through some old DARPA budget docs[1], it seems like there's a chance that what's being discussed here falls under DARPA's "PE 0602702E TACTICAL TECHNOLOGY" initiative, project TT-06.

Some other possibilities might include:

- "PE 0602304E COGNITIVE COMPUTING SYSTEMS", project COG-02. - "PE 0602716E ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY", project ELT-01 - "PE 0603760E COMMAND, CONTROL AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS", project CCC-02 - "PE 0603766E NETWORK-CENTRIC WARFARE TECHNOLOGY", project NET-01 - "PE 0603767E SENSOR TECHNOLOGY", project SEN-02

Or maybe it's nothing to do with this at all. But in either case, this looks like some interesting stuff to explore in its own right. :-)

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20181001000000/https://www.darpa...
by mrguyorama | 2025-07-03 22:08:16+00:00
The industry does not care what engineers think because engineers have no power at all. We will not be able to hold any line against a management class that has been assured that AI tooling doubles engineer productivity and have zero ability to judge that claim, because they've never built anything and run into the exact problems that AI tools cause; A lack of understanding. They don't even know what they don't know.

If you wanted software engineers to be able to hold any sort of quality line against a few trillion dollars worth of AI investment, we needed to unionize or even form a guild twenty years ago.
by bossyTeacher | 2025-07-03 22:08:56+00:00
AI for Scientific Search yes. LLM for Scientific Search I am not sure. AI is not equivalent with LLM. I dislike it when people do it.

AI will have a brand crisis once LLMs get abandoned and researchers need to explain the public that the new AI (not LLM based) is different than the old AI (LLM based) which is different from the old AI (GOFAI)
by grey413 | 2025-07-03 22:09:08+00:00
Finding local players is always an issue, but there's tons of folks who prefer the more classic style of D&D. Take a look into Dungeon Crawl Classic and OSR takes on D&D like the Black Hack. Those tend to put dungeon crawling front and center. Finding a group usually involves trawling OSR discords or GMing your own local playgroup, but sometimes you can luck out at your local game store.
by sandspar | 2025-07-03 22:09:13+00:00
Gaming unit hit hard.

In my opinion, the games industry as we know it is dead. The model of "you buy a console and are guaranteed 6 years of AAA game releases on it" is dead.

I think that mainstream gaming will only return in the form of Roblox Studio / Fortnite or Genshin Impact. The future core of gaming will be either a) cross-platform user generated content with loot boxes or b) AAA money extractors, basically. Prestige properties like Zelda will still be around but there'll be fewer of them. Tiny team indies will survive to push the envelope, but they probably won't make much money.

In general I think this is the end of millenial-style gaming. When games return, they'll be built to satisfy Zoomer and Gen Alpha tastes.
by Igrom | 2025-07-03 22:09:15+00:00
This comment is the only hit in Google and Baidu for fragments of the poems. Z-Library also couldn't match anything to a book via full-text search. Furthermore, the translation has issues. For example:

>化驚腸內舞

>In a flash it’s startled -- inside it dances like starlight.

Where did "flash" (or "in a flash") or "starlight" come from? Neither appear in the line. You could maybe translate the line as 消化，它受惊而在场内飞舞: "digested, it is startled and dances in the intestines (~stomach)". But you generally can't tell with Classical Chinese without contextual research, since characters have multiple meanings.

Where did the poems and translations come from?
by grumple | 2025-07-03 22:09:29+00:00
Cursor, Copilot agent mode, and Windsurf. The agent modes can search repos, modify code, and run code on their own. I thought Cursor's agent was the best. I did like Windsurf's agent plans, but the actual results weren't good. Copilot's agent has been slow and not good. But basically all of them were like a pretty bad junior engineer - sometimes it would hit the right result, but usually not. The code often looked good but rarely even ran, let alone met requirements. They would frequently break things, I'd fix them, they'd break them again. Most of the time this cycle was slower and more frustrating than just writing the code myself. I tried one or two one-shots on lovable - the design was impressive, but functionality and attention to specs were poor.

I've had the most success with extremely small questions rather than asking the agents to write a lot of code. In those cases, the code is still usually wrong, but it's close or small enough that I can quickly fix it.

Don't get me wrong: I find all of these tools to be really impressive and good enough to be useful. But the improvements and huge productivity gains friends claim they or their workers are getting just aren't materializing for me.
by abe_m | 2025-07-03 22:10:45+00:00
I don't think clothing manufacturing is more efficient overseas, it is just cheaper labour. And it is cutting off income stream to lower-skill/intelligence workers in the "advanced" countries. You can see that in the number of working-age men who are no longer in the working population. Not everyone can get a phd and do "advanced, high-value, cutting edge work", any more than everyone could dunk like Michael Jordan if they just trained hard enough.

Also, the financial environment that created "cheap clothes" is also the environment that suppressed middle class wages, and drove the cost of housing up ridiculously. The two are linked. Pretending they aren't is just fantasizing.

Finally, while people are financing larger new houses, the old small houses and apartments are still ripping upward in price. It isn't like people can just choose to pay 1980's prices for 1980's housing stock. They are stuck paying much inflated 2025 pricing for 1980's housing stock.
by diggan | 2025-07-03 22:11:01+00:00
> anytime you ask a LLM for something that's outside of your area of expertise you have very little to no way to insure it is correct.

I regularly use LLMs to code specific functions I don't necessarily understand the internals of. Most of the time I do that, it's something math-heavy for a game. Just like any function, I put it under automated and manual tests. Still, I review and try to gain some intuition about what is happening, but it is still very far of my area of expertise, yet I can be sure it works as I expect it to.
by pixelready | 2025-07-03 22:11:13+00:00
I feel like people tend to get polarized on this issue but I think there’s very much a hybrid sweet spot.

Nice to have rich car data display and a big juicy CarPlay / android auto touch interface for quick glance tinkering with a map or audio app, or seeing camera feeds for blind spots. Some people like media streaming while parked / camping.

But certain things should be completely no-glance fully tactile interaction, like volume adjustment, climate control, switching gears and driving modes, signaling, etc…

What I object to is these high tech cars always go hand in hand with intrusive hard to opt-out of privacy invasions like archiving cabin audio, camera feeds, realtime GPS tracking, etc… and very much selling all that in bad faith knowing full well that average consumers are unaware of even a tiny sliver of what’s going on there.
by calebdre | 2025-07-03 22:11:36+00:00
I'd love to be a DevRel engineer, but I don't have direct DevRel experience, although I do have 7+ years of dev experience across the stack. I used to be heavily involved in hosting and participating in hackathons in college and represented my company at them when possible. I currently mentor at a bootcamp and have written technical articles I could share.

Is your team looking for DevRel engineers with direct previous experience, or would you consider someone with strong technical background and community involvement? Do you think it makes sense for me to apply?
by MatteoFrigo | 2025-07-03 22:12:27+00:00
Jokes aside, I really believe that once all is said and done our system is way simpler than BBS.

How are you going to check the document expiration date in BBS? Yes I know about range proofs, I know about the quaternion norms and the four prime theorem and all that jazz. But nobody is talking about it.

How are you going to bind to a hardware secure element that only uses NIST primes? Yes, there is a very clever variant called BBS# which I believe works, but that's not simple either.

How are you going to deal with existing standard formats? 80% of our complexity is in this step. BBS most likely cannot do it at all. If we can change the format then a lot of my complexity disappears too.

How are you going to deal with the fact that BBS signs an array and not a set, and thus you are leaking the fact that "family_name" is attribute at array index 42? Are you going to leak the schema (which re-introduces tracking) or are you going to agree in advance, now and forever, on a schema? (Our system hides the schema and works on an arbitrary key/value dictionary, up to a maximum size.)

It's easy to say "simple" when one has not built the real thing.
by vbezhenar | 2025-07-03 22:12:28+00:00
It is interesting for me to remember my very first programming task. The very first day I was introduced to programming with Pascal (I think I was 14), I was taught variables, assignments, arithmetic and was given a task to switch two variables (swap). I quickly solved it using third variable, but then I was asked to do it without third variable. It was very hard task for me, I spent few hours at home tackling it, but finally I solved it with a trick conceptually similar to XOR:

a := a + b; b := a - b; a := a - b;

I'm still proud of little me and I always remember this solution when I encounter XOR tricks. I didn't knew about bitwise arithmetic at that time, but sometimes simple `+` can work just as well.
by npinsker | 2025-07-03 22:13:10+00:00
I played Neopets a long time ago. It meant a lot of different things to a lot of people, and -- while you're obviously not 100% there yet -- it's incredibly impressive to have done such a large piece of it on your own.

That said, I always saw the "core fantasy" of the experience as developing a relationship with your pet(s). I liked having to feed my pet, and read books to it, and then it would talk to me back. Playing games and going on adventures were framed as being done "with" your pet. The pets were well-drawn and cute, and the higher-level cosmetic items were expensive but very desirable.

From your page, I wasn't sold on that fantasy, or any fantasy in particular. If you look at the popular pet-care games nowadays, they have a fraction of the features you do while still (clearly) striking a chord with a huge number of people. Maybe part of it is because they focus on that relationship more? Especially in today's world -- but even back in 2000 -- I think features like games, items, stats, etc. need to tie in to some sort of greater fantasy in order to catch interest.

You don't have to care about any of this though, especially since you're making it for yourself. It looks fun and the tech stack seems awesome.

Is it actually possible to play minigames without creating an account? I couldn't figure out how.