MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andsoitis | 2025-07-26 03:05:30+00:00
The paroxysmal science

Assume those loops have maximum force and the economy becomes “information produced by information capital, which is produced by information, which in turn is producing information ever faster every year”, as William Nordhaus, a Nobel laureate in economics, wrote in a paper in 2021. This brings about the “singularity”—a point when output becomes infinite. The singularity is really a counterargument: proof that the model must, eventually, be proved wrong. But even the first step on the journey, a big acceleration in growth, would be a profound event.
by bpev | 2025-07-26 03:06:04+00:00
Not really... like sure if you want a static site, but I'm talking about static apps. Like if you want to handle /id/$id routes with data based on user-generated content saved in localStorage... you'll have to handle routing somewhere. Basically, what I'm saying is that if you have an stateful app that doesn't require server state, I think SPA+PWA is pretty ideal.
by Izkata | 2025-07-26 03:06:46+00:00
Speaking of speed, don't forget when gmail and google maps first came out: With the data copied locally they could separate the UI from server requests for a lot of interactions so a lot of the UI was actually instant and you could keep doing things while the requests were handled in the background. This seems to have been missed by a lot of modern stuff that doesn't bother figuring out if this is even possible and opts to show a loading spinner instead.
by godelski | 2025-07-26 03:06:49+00:00
> I think automating driving is much harder than automating even air travel.

This is a pretty common belief. Well supported too since we've had a high level of automation in aviation for decades. Helps that things are very monitored. 3 dimensions provides a lot of benefits given that it makes for a lower density. Not to mention people don't tend to be walking around in the sky
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t | 2025-07-26 03:07:22+00:00
I hate imgur with their freaking redirects of deep links that have .jpg or .png in their URLs. They redirect to the HTML and then ask me to download a shitty app and prevent me from looking at the damn content.

If you cannot afford the web traffic, just shut down your webservers instead of this bullshit.
by SoftTalker | 2025-07-26 03:08:24+00:00
A regulated monopoly might be appropriate for something like a railroad. It doesn't really make sense for competing railroads to all run their own tracks between the same destinations. We give monopolies to utilities for this reason.

Or maybe all trackage should be government-owned, like streets and highways are. Then any operator can pay a toll and run their trains on any tracks. Traffic coordination is left as an exercise for the reader.
by dang | 2025-07-26 03:08:55+00:00
No worries! If you had added a version of this current comment to the original one, i.e. if you had spelled out your underlying thinking more, it would have been fine. The issue from a moderation point of view is the reductionist/snarkyy/inflammatory style. It's not what we're going for, and it evokes worse from others.

In other words I think this is a case of the 'rebound' thing I posted about earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44687473.

p.s. Btw, I don't think the "I must get to know him better" line is intended as a rule (maybe the word 'must' is a bit misleading in there). It's more an expression of an attitude that one can choose to take or not. To quote that line is to say "this is how I want to be".
by wredcoll | 2025-07-26 03:10:13+00:00
> lobbying an authority to do so is something different than speech

Really? How is it different, specifically?

If you're a guest in my house and you say something racist and I ask you to leave...

Or you're a customer in my restaurant...

Or you work for the company I'm a ceo of...

Which one of those freedoms should I be disallowed from using?

(The actual issue here is that mastercard/visa are effectively a duopoly with no competition. The only reasonable way to have a monopoly provider of a vital service is to make it part of a democratic government)
by yuanchuangAI | 2025-07-26 03:10:31+00:00
Over the past 3 months, I tested 50+ AI tools across different use cases — writing, automation, design, coding, etc.

Surprisingly, 90% of them didn’t stick. Why?

- Many had beautiful UIs but no real utility - Too many were wrappers around ChatGPT with zero differentiation - The ones that worked were either extremely focused or built on workflows (not features)

So I built a small tool tracker to help myself and others avoid this waste of time: [https://www.toolsverse.tools/](https://www.toolsverse.tools/)

It filters AI tools by use case, ROI, and actual usefulness.

Would love feedback, or hear your stories — what tools actually made your workflow better?
by galangalalgol | 2025-07-26 03:11:26+00:00
There isn't even a need for JavaScript for reddit though it does seem to require it. I posted this without JavaScript enabled so it obviously would be fine for reddit too. Using an app for reddit doesn't make any sense to me at all. Banking apps make sense, they are doing some crazy device finger-printing to avoid id theft. But when the goal is to convey information use html and css. If you are taking payments then yeah maybe some JS. If it is a game, try wasm. Apps are for things that need access to hardware that the browser doesn't allow, which these days is a short list.
by culturalgeology | 2025-07-26 03:11:43+00:00
Do LLMs tempt us into specious reasoning and digital illusion?

“LLMs, since they are designed and trained using behaviourist principles that rely on reinforcement, have an almost invisible instrumental component to their communication. They are aiming at what they have been trained to produce, and they produce it very well: language compiled in a way that is satisfying to the user. The text is completely empty of any attempt to approximate reality, and it certainly is devoid of any motivation to communicate.

All use of text produced by LLMs will necessarily carry with it this instrumental limitation, because the very act of using LLMs recasts language from its uniquely human purpose of discovering the truth about things and instead subordinates it to the purposes underlying LLMs.”
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t | 2025-07-26 03:12:08+00:00
In this discussion, both can be bad faith actors.

It's not a defensive argument about "but he did it too"!

That's not how you get to a better solution to the problem at hand.

On iOS there is no effective way to install sideloaded apps, therefore this rent seeking behavior is even more hostile to the user.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-26 03:14:57+00:00
> that the manosphere stuff is rooted in poor sexual attitudes of men that only got worse with tons of porn.... The Christian right is wrong about so much, but the progression of our society has finally made them mostly correct on this issue.

I have news for you my friend, the Christian right is fucking people up way more than porn.

So is the NoFap/incel movement.

There are some pretty fucked up people who see women as breeding machines. This is tied pretty closely to the great replacement conspiracy theory and similar white nationalist conspiracy theories.

People who believe this junk promote the idea that porn is bad because they want young men desperately horny so they breed with women either with or without their consent. This is the same reason it was a major priority for them to deny women's rights to their own bodies.
by strcat | 2025-07-26 03:15:39+00:00
> creating a separation between hardware trust and OS trust

Typical Android devices have fully open source kernel drivers. There are usually dozens of closed source libraries in userspace such as the well known Mali GPU driver library. Closed source libraries can still be reviewed. Open source doesn't make something secure and trustworthy. It also isn't a hard requirement to review a library. Auditing a low-level C library doesn't imply finding all the vulnerabilities, particularly something hidden. Widely used open source code still has many vulnerabilities lasting for long periods of time after many people have reviewed it. It does not solve security or trust.

> That said, to your point, both are misrepresented as fully open frequently which is just not true, and obscures efforts by teams that are working on fully open hardware solutions the hard way.

A closed source SoC with open source hardware built around it and other closed source components including radios is not a fully open source computer either.
by godelski | 2025-07-26 03:16:01+00:00
Don't cherry-pick, act in good faith. I know you can also read the top comment I suggested.

I know it's a long article and the top comment is hard to find, so allow me to help

> Treat it like a slot machine > > Save your state before letting Claude work, let it run for 30 minutes, then either accept the result or start fresh rather than trying to wrestle with corrections. ***Starting over often has a higher success rate than trying to fix Claude's mistakes.***

*YOU* might be able to iterate well with Claude but I really don't think a slot machine is consistent with the type of iteration we're discussing here. You can figure out what things mean in context or you can keep intentionally misinterpreting. At least the LLM isn't intentionally misinterpreting
by markhahn | 2025-07-26 03:16:33+00:00
I think that footnote is close to the heart of it: on a modern OoO superscalar processor, there are hundreds of instructions in-flight. that means a lot of work done to maintain their state and ensure that they "fire" when their operands are satisfied. I think that's what this new system is about: a distributed, scalable dataflow-orchestration engine.

I think this still depends very much on the compiler: whether it can assemble "patches" of direct dependencies to put into each of the little processing units. the edges between patches are either high-latency operations (memory) or inter-patch links resulting from partitioning the overall dataflow graph. I suspect it's the NOC addressing that will be most interesting.
by jay-barronville | 2025-07-26 03:17:00+00:00
> And let's be honest, how many of us meticulously read through every single permission pop-up? Most of the time, we just tap "Allow" to get to what we want to do.

I do. I also, without exception, read and make sure that I understand every single word of every piece of legalese that I’m presented with to agree to and/or sign. My wife sometimes jokes that she married me so that I could become her in-house attorney. I digress…

You should regularly review and reevaluate all of your devices’ configurations/settings from a privacy and security perspective (I do so at least once every two weeks).
by sitharus | 2025-07-26 03:17:49+00:00
> Unless we want a carve out for payment processors. Treat them as a utility of sorts?

Given that there are two payment processors that have about 90% global market share (excluding China) and your bank chooses the payment processor for the most part, yes we should regulate them and force them to process payment for any legal business.

They have the ability to effectively determine what we can spend our money on when we can’t get cash to the vendor in person, and almost every alternative processor has to deal with them and is also subject to their rules.

The only way around this is via informal networks. Cryptocurrency isn’t an option for many as it’s very hard to obtain, due to the duopoly coercing banks and governments to keep people on their systems.

I don’t live in the US, and where I live has a local electronic non-credit card payment system which has been around since the 80s. It’s less popular now because only the card networks support contactless payments instead of swipe/chip and pin. All the systems support contactless use, but banks won’t enable it because it has no interchange fees.
by defrost | 2025-07-26 03:18:41+00:00
DJI drones are not arriving in the US strapped with explosives and ready to swarm an airbase taking out bombers and jets.

A more realistic "danger" is DJI drones taking over the market (more than they have already) and:

* backdooring usage patterns back to China - that gives a lot of info via traffic analysis especially if adopted by law enforcement and military,

* suddenly proving useless in a crunch (when used by military or paramilitary for observation or weapons delivery against forces China favours) due to backdoor control.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-07-26 03:19:32+00:00
Property owners generally don't have complete freedom to control access, hence easements.

Even if those weren't a thing, there's a coherent political view (which I'm not arguing for) that "resolves" the issue: nationalizing the infrastructure and licensing access back like the UK.

It's a strawman though. There's no reason anyone needs to hold identical political views on the property rights of private houses, home improvement stores, and rail infrastructure. They're different things.
by ksec | 2025-07-26 03:19:49+00:00
Depending on how well AMD execute, this may be all too late. And if I am reading in between the line, I dont think Intel or specifically Lip-Bu understand much about Foundry business, and that is despite him being CEO of Cadence.

I am guessing Intel will give up on GPU as well.

Their Foundry is 3 - 4 years behind in terms of technical, volume and capacity. TSMC is aiming to do N2 next year in US, accelerating from previously expecting US Fabs to be 2 years behind Taiwan. Not only has TSMC be able to execute well, they manage to execute at speed beyond anyone thought was possible.

Somewhat along the line Server CPU market is finally cracked by AMD. In between 2022 - 2024 Intel's sales people managed to pull off some magic along with heavy discount, Intel managed to maintained 60 - 70% market share, at a cost of significant reduction of profits and revenue from Server sector. Current Zen 5 suggest AMD just broke the 50% market share and the trend will continue to increase. Zen 6 and Zen 6c is about to arrive. One of Intel's cash cow is no longer there. Just when they need cash flow to rejuvenate their Foundry side of business.

GPU burning cash, x86 losing business to ARM on PCs, Server market not competing well and nothing much on roadmap, foundry does not have any competitive advantage.

May be a chance for AMD to buy Intel in a few years time. There isn't any thing left with Intel.
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t | 2025-07-26 03:20:09+00:00
This is an untrue statement.

Music was played by the iTunes process on mobile until 2016, and only a single audio stream at a time. How dare you wanted a fade in/out with less than 3 seconds latency!

And even then Apple was reluctant to implement a correct Promise based Audio API in WebKit, which in turn was incompatible with all other Web Browsers (up until today, btw) and also had very different audio formats supported that were only compatible with iOS due to proprietary patents.

Saying WebKit played music in 2007 is literally a worse experience than a Flash web player doing that.
by ncallaway | 2025-07-26 03:20:21+00:00
I mean, I'm absolutely not going to take the current FDA's guidance on drinking raw milk. You need to evaluate what you're willing to trust for yourself. I printed out the pre-January 2025 FDA vaccine schedule, so I could compare it against any updated recommendations.

All that said, the cooking temperatures aren't something that they've changed, and I would still rely on the US government published number over a AI generated value
by meehai | 2025-07-26 03:20:47+00:00
Tbh, the web won the application platform mostly because it's a standard. Everybody knows html, css and a little JS.

On the other hand, for mobile apps, there is still a device-specific mentality.

Imagine web apps being built with a different flavor for all the major browsers...

I hope that the same level of standardization comes to mobile apps too with the option to use more device-specific features on top of the generic UI.
by Aloha | 2025-07-26 03:21:22+00:00
They built the railroads, often on their own dime, and paid taxes by the fistful for them.

Their competition was subsidized by the general government, and continues to be every year.

If you want to argue that nationalizing railroads should be done for the public good, do that - dont just demonize them, because its not a fully winning argument.
by jasonjayr | 2025-07-26 03:22:43+00:00
The 3rd party Reddit apps made an effort to be more 'native', and actually used native UI elements to make rendering and interactions faster than the web page could.

WAAAAAY too often the 1st party native app is exactly what the other poster said: a browser context with access to some local native API's in order to hoover more data about the user. It is rare that a first-party app actually has some effort put into it to be a quality app. Is in fact so rare, that the sites that actually put in the effort suffer because folks can't believe that a native app for a site could actually be better or worth it.
by derektank | 2025-07-26 03:23:04+00:00
I mean, the accountability lies with the company. To take your example, Boeing has paid billions of dollars in settlements and court ordered payments to recompense victims, airlines, and to cover criminal penalties from their negligence in designing the 737 Max.

This isn't really that different from malpractice insurance in a major hospital system. Doctors only pay for personal malpractice insurance if they run a private practice and doctors generally can't be pursued directly for damages. I would expect the situation with medical robots would be directly analogous to your 737 Max example actually, with the hospitals acting as the airlines and the robot software development company acting as Boeing. There might be an initial investigation of the operators (as there is in an plane crash) but if they were found to have operated the robot as expected, the robotics company would likely be held liable.

These kinds of financial liabilities aren't incapable of driving reform by the way. The introduction of workmen's compensation in the US resulted in drastic declines in workplace injuries by creating a simple financial liability company's owed workers (or their families if they died) any time a worker was involved in an accident. The number of injuries dropped by over 90%[1] in some industries.

If you structure liability correctly, you can create a very strong incentive for companies to improve the safety and quality of their products. I don't doubt we'll find a way to do that with autonomous robots, from medicine to taxi services.

[1] https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/history-of-factory-safety
by userbinator | 2025-07-26 03:23:05+00:00
This looks like another extremely obscure attack vector which is largely leveraged only to secure devices against their rightful owners.

Physical access to these devices leads to a wide range of security exploits

Physical ownership = real ownership. That's how it's always been and should've stayed that way, if it weren't for the greedy megacorps. Valid exceptions to this level of paranoia are state secrets and other military-adjacent applications.
by woodruffw | 2025-07-26 03:23:54+00:00
That's true, but I'd argue that the land grants are what made it economically worthwhile to develop and maintain the denser parts of the network. You correctly observe that the network itself tracks with population density, but the value of the network is in its completeness: it wouldn't be nearly as valuable if there was a 1000 mile hole in it in the middle of the country.
by coastalpuma | 2025-07-26 03:24:49+00:00
I think people are dismissing the possibility of universally accessible self-hosting too quickly. We really need to be ambitious as engineers and imagine a future where people have sovereignty over their own computing. In 1990, we wouldn't have accepted someone else taking custodianship of our personal documents, memories, books, music, and films, and yet it's normalized today. With the benefit of hindsight, we need to brutally simplify every single layer of the stack and optimize it for being usable by non-technical people.
by strcat | 2025-07-26 03:29:59+00:00
> PPC64le Talos II workstation which has a fully open hardware motherboard and open CPU architecture?

The ISA is open source, not the whole CPU architecture and design. There are older open core designs from IBM but that's a different thing from the more modern and powerful Power9 and Power10 CPUs.

> you still only have to trust your CPU vendor even there, as it is possible to have FOSS firmware/software for everything else

A device with assorted closed source components including as part of the motherboard itself is hardly open beyond the CPU. Open source also doesn't mean you aren't trusting those vendors. With a fully open hardware design CPU, you're still trusting that it matches the open source design and you're trusting the open source design. The manufacturing process is also generally going to be proprietary.
by rustystump | 2025-07-26 03:30:29+00:00
Let’s take a step back from political knee jerk reactions and look at the nuance.

Say 50% of the queer content on itch is innocuous dating sim games much which may not have any pornographic images at all.

There is another chunk, idk the amount, that is clearly not nice and what dishonest groups bundle that 50% into.

There is seemingly little interest even acknowledging that other chunk of content as being a problem though. I dont want queer dating sims to be banned but they are gonna be if no one is honest about what shows up next to them in places where they exist.
by gonzobonzo | 2025-07-26 03:31:21+00:00
The very strange thing I’ve found about liberal democracies is not just the amount of people who believe the entire world believes in the value of liberal democracies. It’ the amount of people who believe, for some strange reason, that other countries support the values of liberal democracies even more than liberal democracies themselves.

Hence comments about the U.S. being extremely puritanical, when anyone can look at laws throughout the world and see that the U.S. is more open on most of these issues than the vast majority of countries.

It’s a very strange form of self-loathing. I’ve discussed it with a lot of people from non-Western countries, and they find this behavior extremely confusing.
by iJohnDoe | 2025-07-26 03:31:22+00:00
Apple, like any company, had to learn how to properly craft things in an efficient and elegant way. They certainly didn’t do it right out of the gate. They did ship products that were a disaster inside, including iPhones and MacBooks. Foxconn publicly said Apple needs to get their act together if they ever want to manufacture and assemble things in an efficient and cost effective way. The complexity and amount of screws for certain products were crazy.

Now, with all that said, Apple has tried to improve in all these areas and have since been innovative in how things are actually put together.

So, the takeaway is if if the quote from Jobs did inspire people then it was a good thing.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-25184
by MichaelNolan | 2025-07-26 03:35:05+00:00
Might be the form factor. I think most of the big companies have moved away from 18650 cells. The cheapest full packs (not cells) in the US are $800 for 5kwh. Search “Server Rack Battery” on eBay, amazon or alibaba. These things are way cheaper than they were 12 months ago. The raw cells can be had even cheaper, but they require more specialized knowledge and equipment to use.
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-07-26 03:35:14+00:00
I don't offer a native app for my business. We have a PWA. It works great on mobile. Yet users keep asking for an app. They're so conditioned to look in the app store now. I keep having to tell them to just pin the website to their desktop. Just a couple taps. All good.

I don't need or want their data. It's a liability. They pay a monthly subscription. I want their money. Not their data.