MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-08 00:57:34+00:00
In a lot of cases it only supported integer math, one of the selling points of Microsoft BASIC was that it supported floats. Notably Wozniak's Integer BASIC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_BASIC

wasn't considered good enough for education because it could only count to 32,767, there was the same problem with Level I BASIC for the TRS-80 Model I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_I_BASIC
by Jun8 | 2025-07-08 00:57:54+00:00
Same principle, reducing water activity (aw), is how Nutella keeps fresh for so long without refrigeration: its water activity is even lower than honey. Most bacteria need an aw of around 0.85 to thrive, Nutella’s aw is around 0.4, honey’s around 0.5-0.6. Peanut butter is 0.7, so it stays fresh for relatively long, too.

Here’s the definition of water activity from FDA:https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-c...
by jfengel | 2025-07-08 00:58:27+00:00
Sadly, that is often a consequence of trying to turn a novel into a three hour (or less) film.

Since then we're seeing a lot more studios willing to take a chance on a TV series of perhaps a dozen hours, which seems to map better into a novel. Roughly that's a chapter or two per hour.

Perhaps a Jurassic Park TV show reboot would do better than an increasingly hokey set of sequels.
by echelon | 2025-07-08 00:58:36+00:00
> unspoken "show-don't-tell" internal logic

This is another axis separate or orthogonal to worldbuilding.

Recent Marvel and Disney films, the Jurassic Park and Star Wars sequels, and most Godzilla / Kong slop doesn't build believable worlds. The writers don't spend any time writing the universe that the story takes place in.

Lord of the Rings (the theatrical film trilogy), Game of Thrones (save for the last seasons), and Jurassic Park (1993) all build vast and credible worlds. Intricately detailed, living and breathing universes. Backstories, histories, technologies, warring factions, you name it. They then create believable characters that occupy those worlds and give them real character arcs within which they suffer, rise to prominence, grow, and die. Multiple heroes with multiple journeys. You're fully immersed in the fictional world, watching characters you care about occupying it. It's masterful storytelling.

Villeneuve's Dune has the same vast world and literature to draw upon as many of the other great epics, but he makes the rare mistake of not communicating anything to you about it. If you haven't read the books, much of the story is easily lost. He doesn't spend time on character arcs or even as much as dropping hints to what the subtitles of the world are. It's a super rare misstep, because most bad storytelling is from under baking the fictional world.

Then there's the mistake of sequels that try to expand on the mystery of the original world. The Matrix films and countless others have over-illuminated the mystery of their stories in trying to build universes. In doing so, the magic has been lost.
by ryandrake | 2025-07-08 00:58:42+00:00
I've always wondered why central vacuum systems never took off. We recently moved into a house that was built in that sweet spot in the late 80s / early 90s when central vac was getting pretty popular, and we love it. Quiet, light (you're not hauling around a motor) and with lots of wall inlets, you can vacuum the whole house with a pretty short hose. In my view, this was peak vacuum design, and they perplexingly seemed to go out of style and are not built into newer homes.
Show HN: Gore – A Doom Engine Port in Go
by EstIgnavus | 2025-07-08 00:59:19+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on Gore – a port of the classic Doom engine written in pure Go, based on a ccgo C-to-Go translation of Doom Generic. It loads original WAD files, uses a software renderer (no SDL or CGO, or Go dependencies outside the standard library). Still has a bit of unsafe code that I'm trying to get rid of, and various other caveats.

In the examples is a terminal-based renderer, which is entertaining, even though it's very hard to play with terminal-style input/output.

The goal is a clean, cross-platform, Go-native take on the Doom engine – fun to hack on, easy to read, and portable.

Code and instructions are at https://github.com/AndreRenaud/Gore

Would love feedback or thoughts.
by janalsncm | 2025-07-08 00:59:40+00:00
IP theft is one of the stated reasons for the trade war in the first place. It’s one of the major gripes the US has against China. There are limited means available to restrict a foreign country compared with an entity in the US. The DoJ did sue Huawei and win though.

Whether or not the countermeasures have been effective in practice is a minor detail in the GP point that we would not expect an American company headquartered in the US and conducting significant business in the US to get away with the same thing.
by dekhn | 2025-07-08 01:00:23+00:00
I did not find my Prusa (MK3 upgrade to mk3s and also a new mk3s) to be reliable. It had all sorts of failure modes and eventually I stopped using both of them. I did repair both of them a few times but the extruder design is just really inconvenient. I replaced it with a printer that cost far less - cheap enough that after a few years, if it started to behave poorly, I'd replace it with another cheap printer (after reading reviews to make sure its constraints were consistent with my workflow).

Prusa did some great stuff but the market copied the good stuff and evolved past them.
by FpUser | 2025-07-08 01:01:31+00:00
>"because our industry would improve massively if we actually removed a barrier to allowing standardized licensure"

I call BS on that but each one of course is entitled to their own opinion. Go get your license if you don't have one already.

>"..instead I said a fee, which could be sponsored. No degree required, though one certainly would help I imagine."

We have enough mafia type bloodsuckers. My take on those money collectors: go fuck yourselves.

>"We live in a society, and we should think beyond the individual in terms of benefits. This would be a big win for society."

And who would be thinking? Our masters looking to squeeze yet more money from people? Enough of that "won't anyone think of children" vomit.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-08 01:03:02+00:00
I dunno. My son and I the other day were thinking that could be more people in the United States who are interested in anime than are interested in the Calarts junk we get subjected to. Sure, Spongebob Squarepants got "good" ratings because it was always on. The interest that people show at the box office for the latest Marvel and DC films seems to show the audience isn't really there.
by bombcar | 2025-07-08 01:03:15+00:00
Because dinosaurs aren’t human-sized.

Zombies are so it’s easier to make it “feel” like a fair fight.

Dinosaurs are big so it’s either a tanks and machine guns bloodfest or humans being torn apart.

IMO a really good dinosaur movie would start with the premise that they never died out, so we grew up alongside them.
by weird-eye-issue | 2025-07-08 01:04:03+00:00
Seems completely broken.

I used the provided HTML example on https://morphllm.com/dashboard/playground/apply. Without editing anything at all, I pressed apply.

Your model added a bunch of CSS even though that wasn't in the update instructions at all. It also added a contact section, which again, wasn't in the update instructions that your demo provided.
by GianFabien | 2025-07-08 01:05:09+00:00
>letting the AI just generate it while I prompt

But isn't prompting and iterating another way of instructing the computer to do what you want? Perhaps we could view it as a step up in the level of abstraction we work at.

We had similar arguments when high-level languages were introduced. Experienced programmers of that era maintained that they could write better programs in assembly language than in COBOL/FORTRAN/PL-I/Pascal etc. Yet even today we still need core portions of code written in assembler, but not much.
Show HN: I built a single API to post on all social platforms
by calebpanza | 2025-07-08 01:05:12+00:00
Building integrations for TikTok, X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn got frustrating with how different every platform is with auth setup, rate limits, and media requirements. So we built Post for Me: one REST API that handles scheduling and publishing posts for TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Bluesky, and Threads.

It's built for developers. You bring your own app credentials from the social platform, so you're in control of your data. There's no limitations on account connections, and pricing is based on usage (not some arbitrary limitations). We wanted the API we wish we had when we first started.

What it does - A single POST replaces a dozen different calls - Pay-per-post metered pricing (volume discounts) and a free tier (no seat fees) - Cascading configs: set captions/media globally, then override per platform or account

Try it at https://www.postform.dev. Would love feedback, bug reports, or architecture questions!
by CobaltFire | 2025-07-08 01:05:29+00:00
Some of these are, as others have commented, guidelines meant to be broken. Others are solid insights into technical limitations leveling the playing field (Phase One being equal to a phone after compression and resizing when displayed on a phone).

I have to say that the one regarding the rule of thirds was... wrong. Thats always been a rule to break, and square isn't even close to a new format. Shooting 120 film in 6x6 is, and was, common. Its what the Apollo Astronauts took with them. Its also my favorite format.
by Proofread0592 | 2025-07-08 01:06:00+00:00
> The macOS built-in protection (Gatekeeper and XProtect) will scan the application for potential malware the first time you open it and notify you if anything is suspicious. Also, most applications in the Homebrew Catalog are notarized, which means they come from a registered developer.

Is there any way to request Applite only show notarized casks? I saw notarized casks mentioned in the FAQ, but no mention of a setting for only showing them.
by hedayet | 2025-07-08 01:06:11+00:00
And I have added a few more lessons since.

Specially this simulation can help you decide whether to quit your job for a startup. Walk through realistic scenarios like "You have 9 months runway, no traction yet - what do you do?" Based on Paul Graham's "Before the Startup" essay. Any feedback welcome.

https://mythosgym.com/courses/before-you-quit/
by germandiago | 2025-07-08 01:06:29+00:00
qu: the u is always silent and qu is followed by i or e. It is still a systematic way of reading. It is like gue and gui, you pronounce as in "singer" the "ge", the u is mute. If you want to pronounce the u, as in pingüino, you set the diaeresis.

The stress rules, to the best of my knowledge, is very systemaic (not 100% but I would say "almost" at least for the words in use). Even the stress rules are very uniform.

> r and rr are distinct sounds but r = rr at the beginning of words, I think.

This is still systematic reading. At the start of a word it is the strong one, yes. And when it is preceded by a consonant, such as in "enredar" (that is strong r). There is no exception of any kind here.

> d has a sound a little like English voiced-th at the end of words (e.g. juventud)

That is some dialects in some areas. We pronounce a clean d at the end in my area (around Valencia). It is also the correct, standard way to do it for spanish. The other is a deviation existing in León, for example.
by calebpanza | 2025-07-08 01:06:38+00:00
Stack: NestJS + Supabase + React Router + Stripe + Trigger.dev

Hardest part: designing an endpoint that stays simple yet lets teams override per-platform features

Road-map: JS & Python SDKs, outbound webhooks on publish, integrations with comments and DM's

ama / happy to dive deep into any questions!
by kunzhi | 2025-07-08 01:06:53+00:00
Funny this article is trending today because I had a similar thought over the weekend - if I'm in Ruby and the LLM hallucinates a tool call...why not metaprogram it on the fly and then invoke it?

If that's too scary, the failed tool call could trigger another AI to go draft up a PR with that proposed tool, since hey, it's cheap and might be useful.
by csinode | 2025-07-08 01:07:17+00:00
The problem here is societal, not technological. An end state where people do less work than they do today but society is more productive is desirable, and we shouldn't be trying to force companies/governments/etc to employ people to do an unnecessary job.

The problem is that people who are laid off often experience significant life disruption. And people who work in a field that is largely or entirely replaced by technology often experience permanent disruption.

However, there's no reason it has to be this way - the fact people having their jobs replace by technology are completely screwed over is a result of the society we have all created together, it's not a rule of nature.
by cco | 2025-07-08 01:07:41+00:00
> There's a bit of backstory in the new one about how dinosaur zoos are closing, and that no one wants to see dinosaurs anymore. That premise struck me as strange, as people have been going to zoos for a lot longer than these fictional dinosaur zoos...

I find it plausible that the immense cost to run Jurassic Park results in per-ticket cost that just wasn't sustainable long term. Just the flights to get there would be a lot, add on the cost to create a "new and sexier dino" at $75mm, shrug.
by zamadatix | 2025-07-08 01:08:45+00:00
Descartes would like a word as well, I'm sure. The big difference in the impact theory story is it's the first time we had enough evidence about any of the possibilities that widespread consensus (but not universal agreement it is the sole possible cause) was reached. Prior to that we weren't really sure if we'd even be able to get to that level about it. At least if the theory is replaced it'll be about something we see even clearer evidence of instead of "I dunno, could possibly have been...".
by Rodeoclash | 2025-07-08 01:09:13+00:00
In my opinion that's what makes Villeneuve's so great. For example, I think almost any other director would have had an info dump about what Mentat's are in the Dune universe, motivations and they they are important. Instead in Villeneuve's version, you simply see the results. For those watching the film without the context you simply chalk it up to a weird and wonderful way that the universe works. For those that have read the book, you get to do the information dump about Mentat's on your poor unexpecting wife who's watching the film with you.

This embodies show don't tell and it works amazingly.
by mwarkentin | 2025-07-08 01:09:35+00:00
> Specifically, the paper estimates that Llama 3.1 70B has memorized 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book well enough to reproduce 50-token excerpts at least half the time. (I’ll unpack how this was measured in the next section.)

> Interestingly, Llama 1 65B, a similar-sized model released in February 2023, had memorized only 4.4 percent of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. This suggests that despite the potential legal liability, Meta did not do much to prevent memorization as it trained Llama 3. At least for this book, the problem got much worse between Llama 1 and Llama 3.

> Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was one of dozens of books tested by the researchers. They found that Llama 3.1 70B was far more likely to reproduce popular books—such as The Hobbit and George Orwell’s 1984—than obscure ones. And for most books, Llama 3.1 70B memorized more than any of the other models.
by Arcorann | 2025-07-08 01:09:45+00:00
A while back I came up with the idea to carve out 4096 code points in plane 14 (Supplementary Special-purpose Plane) for super-surrogates, and use three such surrogates (1 initial, 2 extension) for codepoints beginning from U+110000. If done properly you get unlimited range and self-synchronizing, at the expense of needing 12 bytes minimum per codepoint (more if you want it truly unlimited), but I figured the demand for UTF-16 would be low enough by the time it's needed that it's a workable tradeoff.
by adastra22 | 2025-07-08 01:11:14+00:00
It'll be settled when the generation of researchers who fought over it retire/die off. The short TL;DR is that the guy who came up with the asteroid theory knew basically nothing about paleontology and paleoclimate, was way outside of his depth (he was a physicist that worked on the Manhattan project). He then made some pretty wild claims given the evidence that was available. When criticized by people who actually knew the field, he would personally attack them and drive public support against them as dinosaurs in a field of dinosaur research.

Then the Chicxulub crater was found and dated to basically the exact same time as the K-T extinction event to within experimental error. So I guess the asshole was right?

Except science doesn't work by smoking guns, as appealing as that would be. There are a lot of contradictory evidence. Better instruments and more careful data collection shows that in some places the fossil record stops prior to the impact layer. Also the fossils are of animals you would expect of an extinction event already ongoing. Oh, and coincidentally right before the Chicxulub impact India hit the continent of Asia and the Deccan Traps started spewing CO2 and other gasses into the atmosphere in volumes that put human-caused climate change to shame. The ocean was acidifying and ecosystems collapsing. Is it really fair to say an asteroid impact killed the dinosaurs, when they were already on the way out?

IMHO the current best theory is the "one-two punch" that the Deccan traps eruptions basically put every large species on extinction watch, then the asteroid impact happened and finished the job. But it has become so political within that research community that people just aren't rational about the evidence, on either side.
by kelnos | 2025-07-08 01:11:36+00:00
Not sure we can infer that (or anything) about Suno from this ruling. The judge here said that Anthropic's usage was extremely transformative. Would Suno's also be considered that way?

Anthropic doesn't take books and use them to train a model that is intended to generate new books. (Perhaps it could do that, to some extent, but that's no its [sole] purpose.)

But Suno would be taking music to train a model in order to generate new music. Is that transformative enough? We don't know what a judge thinks, at least not yet.
by w10-1 | 2025-07-08 01:11:50+00:00
(warning: outside, naive perspective)

> 1) Raw inference speed matters [most] for dev UX—agree or disagree?

Or maybe incremental content-assist and full-file problem-solving are two significantly different uses, though they're both dev UX use cases.

Because they're confusingly similar, comparing them (and denigrate full-file solutions) wastes time/energy. You muddy your own message.

Just concentrate on showing the value of what you do where and when. To wit...

In the inference case, you're really using context to provide affordances -- next steps. In the full-file case, you're starting instead from a goal statement, with context providing constraints.

I think where you want to go is to show when the tool anticipates where you *should* go; i.e., the extent to which it can lead junior developers to the next step, and senior developers to the next constraint/issue they're ignoring.

I believe just as "attention is all you need" surprised people, this kind of bottom-up approach has more legs than people expect.

I understand the naked probability model is trained on world code corpus; what would interest me is whether you can also create a model that learns the developer's biases.

Then the work is to see the issues in the context, but address them in the order and manner that the developer would. Lock-in would occur because, well, the system understands me. And it would be particularly nice when Programmer A wants to code like Programmer B. If your assistant has a model of Programmer B, the assistant could guide Programmer A in that direction.
by atq2119 | 2025-07-08 01:11:55+00:00
> The book [...] didn’t

You mean the book that has a 40(?)-page chapter in which characters you never hear from before or afterwards describe what's happening in their home lands didn't go into the day-to-day? :)

Lord of the Rings (the book) is obsessed with this kind of detail to the point that many people find it difficult to read.
by leonroy | 2025-07-08 01:12:32+00:00
You could say the same about Apple or any company over 20 years old which has had time to go through a few department leads and culture shifts.

I’ve had the Dyson DC02 (1995) - great machine, rubbish plastic in the handle which always cracked after 5 or more years. The filters were also a terrible, throwaway design.

Then bought the DC25 (2008). The DC02 still worked, but this was a dramatic upgrade, solid, strong, easy to clean the brush bar (a long haired dog and 2x daughters made this a god send feature) and easy to wash filters.

Then bought the DC16 - their first cordless. Appalling suction and batteries which died after 1-2 years of use.

Next decided to try a different brand and bought a Miele CX1 (2019) - their first bag less cleaner. Highly rated, very expensive. It had the worst brush head I’ve ever seen, required fiddly disassembly to empty the weird little dust compartment within the canister and had a very odd dust filter which was a pain to clean. Terrible vacuum and lousy design compared to our previous Dyson.

Now we have the V15 - phenomenal cordless vacuum. Can’t praise it enough. It’s just a vacuum mind but it’s very good.

As an aside we’ve also bought the Dyson fans for work. The circular one worked well the HP02 heater purifier which cost a fortune has a high pitched whine which is so irritating that everyone turns it off and this is despite Dyson reluctantly taking it back and ‘fixing’ it - whereupon a year later it’s back to whining.

Dyson himself seems a hypocrite and a little questionable - between Brexit and then incorporating in Singapore and also buying swathes of British farmland I’m not exactly enamored. Also backing out of the Dyson car seemed a low ambition move to me given he has total ownership of the company and is one of the few people in the world who can make that kind of impact.

But the article itself just seems a nothing burger.