MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjmlp | 2025-07-25 12:55:04+00:00
Commercial embedded vendors with RTOS capabilities,

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

https://www.aicas.com/products-services/jamaicavm/

JikesRVM (https://www.jikesrvm.org) no longer active, but it was its own thing.

Then you have Azul Zing and OpenJ9, which use parts of OpenJDK for the standard library part, but the foundations are their own thing.

https://www.azul.com/products/prime/

https://developer.ibm.com/components/open-j9/

Then you have that mobile OS, which isn't really JVM compliant implementation, but it is close enough for many workloads and libraries to work on top of it.
by jt2190 | 2025-07-25 12:55:04+00:00
Having an entity that’s sorta kinda government (I assume that the Brazilian Federal Bank is somewhat independent) develop and run Pix brings an interesting set of problems with it, including how it should be regulated and by whom. Open sourcing the platform’s software is only one form of audit/refulation. So maybe the source is secure and maybe another entity could run it but could another entity participate in the Pix network or would they have to establish their own separate one?
by kllrnohj | 2025-07-25 12:55:07+00:00
> What kills performance are not memory copies, but locks.

I'm pretty sure if every thread executing an LLM model had to have its own copy that that would murder performance more than any lock does, and it won't even be close.

It's cheaper to copy than to lock when the data is small, but that does not scale and it also ignores things like reader/writer locks where the data is primarily read-only, at least during the concurrent stage. Or where the work can be safely chunked up such that writes don't ever overlap which is very common in graphics
by jvanderbot | 2025-07-25 12:55:08+00:00
One time I explained that I was afraid of tesla full self driving, because while using it my tesla accelerated to 45mph in a parking lot that was parallel to the road and only separated by a curb. The pushback I got was "Why would you use FSD in a parking lot". Well, "Full", right?

Same here. It's either capable of working unsupervised or not. And if not, you have to start wondering what you're even doing if you're at your keyboard, running tools, editing code that you don't like, etc.

We're still working out the edge cases with these "Full" self driving editors. It vastly diminishes the usefulness if it's going to spend 20 minutes (and $) on stupid simple things.
by diggan | 2025-07-25 12:55:26+00:00
> It's sexual for a decent proportion of people - just the fact that this article was tagged NSFW shows that

I don't think it shows that at all. Any content not suitable for a work computer in the typical office gets a NSFW label, it's literally in the name. An image of some war-time event can be as NSFW as an image of a woman removing her clothes, and at the same time neither images can be sexual.
by Lockyy | 2025-07-25 12:56:03+00:00
There's more than a subtle misogyny to the anti-OF messaging people throw around, not to label the grandparent comment as falling into this issue.

I have seen comments along the lines of "Onlyfans spotted, opinion dismissed," numerous times online under posts/videos completely unrelated to a content creators OF business. The idea that a person is a sex worker and therefore a slut (in a derogatory rather than reclaimed sense) and therefore they and their opinions are worthless, is the unstated logic of this sentence.

The misogyny drips off of the concept of an Onlyfans lessening someone.
by tomhow | 2025-07-25 12:56:43+00:00
We've banned this account. Please don't engage in gender warfare on HN. It's not what HN is for and it destroys what it is for, and is against the guidelines. Further, don't register new accounts just to break the guidelines.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44676655 and marked it off topic.
by sokoloff | 2025-07-25 12:56:58+00:00
> I want new and genuine insights that only another human can create.

I’m not sure that’s true in an iron-clad, first-principles way. I think that many of the insights created by humans are combinations/integrations of existing concepts. That category of insight does not seem to require carbon-based reasoning.

I don’t claim that it can be achieved by statistical text generation, but I doubt the typical blog author is creating something that forever will be human-only.
by chasd00 | 2025-07-25 12:57:13+00:00
well, again, let me preface this with I don't conceal carry nor do I feel in my day to day life unsafe to the point I want to conceal carry. However, I got interested in IDPA, as a hobby, which is a shooting competition that does time trials through a practical scenario. For example, move to a station, fire at 4 targets from behind cover, move to another station, reload, move to another station and fire at 3 targets. Your score is determined by speed through the scenarios and the accuracy of your shots. i'm no stranger at all to shooting firearms having spent a large portion of my childhood hunting and years of going to the range. During my intro to IDPA class I was shocked at how hard it is to keep everything straight in your head and operate a handgun safely and effectively under the very minor stress of a time trial and a group of people watching.

Now, in my 49 years i've been in only one situation where i was attacked, beat up, robbed and would have been justified to use lethal force in my defense. Had i been armed I would not have had it together enough in the amount of time i had to chamber a round, aim, and fire. Unless your brain is trained to respond there just isn't time to think through anything, it's like your mental capacity just grinds to a halt in those moments. If you have it together enough to chamber a round, aim, and fire you have it together enough to use run-fu and escape the situation.

finally, once again, i don't conceal carry and thank my lucky stars my job doesn't involve making decisions like draw and fire or don't. Maybe someone with more training and experience will weigh in in this conversation, i'm just giving my two cents.
by legobmw99 | 2025-07-25 12:58:05+00:00
This feels a bit like Stroustrops comment “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses”. If MDN was not such an invaluable service, not nearly as many people would end up forming opinions!

As someone who only dabbles in the web platform I’ve always found the MDN pages to be very refreshing compared to a lot of documentation out there
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-25 12:58:46+00:00
That's you though (also you're oversharing a bit lol), everyone will respond differently to the picture, mostly depending on culture and associations. The question then becomes, who gets to decide where the boundary lies? Anthropologists, mixed sauna-goers, nudists, hippies and gynacologists, or prudes, christian/muslim fundamentalists, Victorians and payment providers?
by pmbstyle | 2025-07-25 12:58:56+00:00
Alice is an open-source AI companion, designed to live on a user's desktop.

Built with Electron, Vue, Pinia, Vite, and TypeScript. Alice brings together voice interaction, intelligent context awareness (deep memory system), powerful tooling (function calling, MCP, computer use, cron tasks), and a friendly personality to assist you with everything from daily tasks to more complex creative work.

Alice is more than a chatbot — she’s built to feel present, responsive, emotionally engaging, and deeply useful.

Key Features

Voice Interaction - Fast, VAD-powered voice recognition (via gpt-4o-transcribe or whisper-large-v3) - Natural-sounding responses with OpenAI TTS - Interruptible speech and streaming response cancellation for smoother flow

Memory & Context - Thoughts: Short-term context stored in Hnswlib vector DB - Memories: Structured long-term facts in local DB - Summarization: Compact message history into context prompts - Emotion awareness: Summaries include mood estimation for more human responses

Vision & Visual Output - Screenshot interpretation using Vision API - Image generation using gpt-image-1 - Animated video states (standby / speaking / thinking)

Computer Use Tools Alice can now interact with your local system with user-approved permissions:

- File system browsing (e.g. listing folders) - Shell command execution (ls, mv, mkdir, etc) - Granular command approvals: -- One-time --Session-based -- Permanent (revocable)

Function Calling - Web search - Google Calendar & Gmail integration - Torrent search & download (via Jackett + qBittorrent) - Time & date awareness - Clipboard management - Task scheduler (reminders and command execution) - Open applications & URLs - Image generation - MCP server support

Flexible Settings Fully customizable settings interface:

- LLM provider selection between OpenAI and OpenRouter - Model choice & parameters (temperature, top_p, history, etc) - Prompt and summarization tuning - Audio/mic toggles & hotkeys - Available tools & MCP configuration - Google integrations
by jgb1984 | 2025-07-25 12:59:12+00:00
I'm long on no-AI becoming a label of quality, a badge of honor, as people are more exposed to the slop LLMs forces upon them. I want prose, music, photography and movies made by humans, for humans. I want to use software built by developers. The last part in particular because I've seen my share of bug riddled code spewed by the LLM du jour, I'm convinced our industry is vibecoding itself into the abyss.
by nemomarx | 2025-07-25 12:59:16+00:00
I think I would agree that she's sexy / attractive depending on terms, but I don't think that makes it a suggestive or sexual photo strictly I guess. I can be turned on by a partner fully clothed and showing a little shoulder, if I'm in the right mood! But that wouldn't make it a sexy outfit, I'm biased by my emotions about her.

I think this is why there's a lot of pedantry and "know it when I see it" to the discussion
by Thaxll | 2025-07-25 13:00:36+00:00
I have a hard time believing that it's common to create SEGFAULT in Go, I worked with the language for a very long time and don't remember a single time where I've seen that. ( and i've seen many data race )

Not synchronizing writes on most data structure does not create a SEGFAULT, you have to be in a very specific condition to create one, those conditions are extremely rares and un-usual ( from the programmer perspective).

In OP blog to triggers one he's doing one of those condition in an infinite loop.

https://research.swtch.com/gorace
by monatron | 2025-07-25 13:00:42+00:00
Very cool indeed. I started building something similar - relying on Auto Export [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/health-auto-export-json-csv/id...] to export my health data to an endpoint which stores it in a sqlite database. I never got as far as building an MCP server around the data but that's certainly the direction I was heading. The initial idea was to use my health data to provide context to a health/fitness agent that would recommend workouts, check-in on things, etc.
by chrsw | 2025-07-25 13:01:25+00:00
It could have happened already, but hasn't for some reason. I guess the hype is still too strong. Didn't Sam Altman already come out and say GPT-5 is just going to be a more streamlined offering of the different types of services that already exist?

I like Claude Code. I think it's the best thing that's happened to software development in a long time, actually. Other similar tools are probably good too, I just haven't used them yet. But I'd hardly call that a transformational technology ushering in a new era of civilization.

It took decades for electricity to transform the way we live. Same with computers 100 years later. I suspect it will be the same for AI.
by threemux | 2025-07-25 13:01:39+00:00
Hah - Legal at my company wouldn't respond to this by forcing us to pay. They'd take one look at that bizarre EULA and tell us to stop using the product entirely. I suspect this is what will happen in most cases.

Perhaps that's fine in the eyes of the maintainers! But I say this every time someone says they want to restrict commercial use while still being Open Source: just slap AGPL on it. It's radioactive to enterprises; I've never worked anywhere that allowed us to use AGPL code in commercial products. Then, charge for a commercial license.
by sgarland | 2025-07-25 13:01:50+00:00
This is apparently an unpopular opinion, but in many games (fantasy RPGs come to mind), I like the fake look. It helps it look other-worldly, IMO. I think for something like Flight Sim, I’d prefer photorealism, but otherwise I’m fine with it looking like, well, a video game.

It might be a generational thing, too; I was born in the late 80s, and my formative years were spent playing cartoonish games like Commander Keen, Command & Conquer, etc.
by ralfj | 2025-07-25 13:02:00+00:00
> There is plenty of undefined behavior that can't lead to violating memory safety. For example, in many languages, argument evaluation order is undefined. If you have some code like:

You are mixing up non-determinism and UB. Sadly that's a common misunderstanding.

See https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2021/11/18/ub-good-idea.html for an explanation of what UB is, though I don't go into the distinction to non-determinism there.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-25 13:02:11+00:00
Plenty of "normal" people outside of HN visit saunas, nudist parks, and nude beaches. It's perfectly alright not to be comfortable with doing so yourself, but other people feel differently.

Then again, there are societies that will shame (and do worse things to) women for showing their hair or skin to strangers.

If you're (un)lucky, your innocent holiday pictures may make the front page of Wikifeet, but that doesn't mean you're a creep for posting your holiday pictures online. There's a spectrum here and claiming to know the absolute truth and branding everyone else as perverts is silly.

Personally, I find the puritan idea that any nudity is sexual to be quite childish and immature.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-07-25 13:02:11+00:00
If I ever heard "population collapse" as a kid, it would have been in relation to endangered species of animals.

The phrase one did hear - and fairly often - was "population explosion".

In fact, "population collapse" is a less intuitive concept. Egg heads, 40 years ago, worried about the "population explosion"; people reproduce, and there is only so much space and so much food to go around.

Incidentally, the first I heard anyone attribute "population collapse" to a "trend towards individualism" was, I think, last year.
by pornel | 2025-07-25 13:03:15+00:00
You know that Rust supports scoped threads? For the borrow checker, they behave like same-thread closures.

Borrow checking is orthogonal to threads.

You may be referring to the difficulty satisfying the 'static liftime (i.e. temporary references are not allowed when spawning a thread that may live for an arbitrarily long time).

If you just spawn an independent thread, there's no guarantee that your code will reach join(), so there's no guarantee that references won't be dangling. The scoped threads API catches panics and ensures the thread will always finish before references given to it expire.
by rprend | 2025-07-25 13:03:53+00:00
I’m still convinced that someone could play our playbook and it would work. Just someone with deeper pockets and deeper industry connections.

Luxury is struggling in 2025 and is losing to the resale market which is growing 3x faster. They’re especially struggling with gen z. Build a branded luxury-only payments network that owns the category “buy to resell”. Attach purchase metadata to pay-by-bank identity for digital proof of purchase.

You have to play it right (digital proof of purchase generates social media posts and a verified stamp, ie buying it to flex). But that way you can convert young customers from rewards cards AmEx etc without having to compete on rewards
by susam | 2025-07-25 13:04:21+00:00
I could fulfil my childhood dream of creating a space-invaders-like game [1], much later as an adult [2], thanks to MDN!

The excellent documentation for the Canvas API [3] and OscillatorNode [4] on MDN made it quite easy to get started with developing the game.

[1] https://susam.net/invaders.html

[2] https://github.com/susam/invaders#why

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API

[4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OscillatorN...
by techpineapple | 2025-07-25 13:04:43+00:00
I am both bearish on AI and don’t see the bubble popping soon. People are too invested. Some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley have staked their reputations in it. What happens to Satya Nadella if the bubble bursts? The freaking president of the United States is all in as they say.

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
by jerf | 2025-07-25 13:04:44+00:00
I like to measure languages by "what do I miss when I leave them".

I used Erlang professionally for about 5-6 years.

I have not missed "let it crash".

It's an interesting idea that should be grappled with, but Erlang users have this tendency to very badly strawman their opposition and spout their propaganda like it's still 2005 and the rest of the world has just been twiddling their thumbs, gormlessly ramming into brick walls as they scale up and are just flabbergasted about how to handle the problems of scale, when in fact, to a first approximation all of the large systems in the world that are reliable are also not written in BEAM. There are other solutions to the problem. Strong types are a big component of how I deal with this in my current code, yes. It's not 100% a solution, but then, I can have both anyhow so I generally do.

I was just providing context. When trying to understand BEAM it is always helpful to have in the back of your head that it was written for telephony, with all that implies.
by zeyad117 | 2025-07-25 13:05:41+00:00
note: i’m just a 14 yo new to this stuff (i watched no courses). i just tried to observe my behaviors and how people react, then implement it into code with no hard coding (just raw). so don’t expect much — i just need feedback. details: • built from scratch — no ML libraries or frameworks • just pure logic + 3 built-in libraries • it tries to mimic how a brain works: raw, flexible, always learning • it’s so optimized it can run 10+ layers on a phone • it currently predicts the next character from an input string. • i paused the looping/thinking part until i confirm it’s actually learning properly. • it’s super modular — you can tweak the number of neurons/layers in real time, and it adapts on the fly (like a real brain). • it even handles corrupted or missing save files like a champ. • ASCII input only for now, but i’m working on vision + hearing modules next. • it learns live while running, so yeah… it might fry your potato laptop. • you can even mutate two brains by merging their save files (yes, brain children exist ) this is the second version, btw. links: VirusTotal scan (clean): https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4f3a7204855cc0a9812ae45b... Download the .exe from Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YesKhmloboCwGVPYTlfraLm2peA... watch a video where i train it on a phone (yes... a phone): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GAG6gyBuZ8DTH6OetRIpb-K9GKi... if you want proof it works: check the video link above where i enter “hello” twice on a phone you’ll clearly see the total error drop massively in just one loop (like 634 to 62, or 500 to 2) ⌨ commands: `/options` — enter setup process `/save` — saves current weights `/exit` — saves + exits note: use a lower learning rate if the total error keeps going up (might be exploding gradients — i think it can recover from it though)
by danbruc | 2025-07-25 13:05:52+00:00
Why is this discussion always about nudity and sexuality? Would it not be much better if children see people having fun fucking each other than seeing people murder each other in countless ways? Why is it more acceptable to show Wile E. Coyote trying to murder Road Runner by dropping anvils onto him than showing Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny fuck each other? Ignoring for the moment that children probably find the former much more funny than the later.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-07-25 13:06:00+00:00
I won the Premier League's first analytics hackathon (at Man City, 2016, IIRC), and all we did was some regression using some data that nobody had really looked at in detail before.

Back then, it was relatively easy to just look around and prod relatively available data and find new angles if you went in eyes open. If you were trying to justify spending all that money on that kid who isn't working out with you, the approach lets you dig the hole you want.
by redleader55 | 2025-07-25 13:06:34+00:00
I don't think most people would contest the 100 years you mentioned.

If we look at the military investments US did since Clinton(so, last 30 years), you'll notice a trend of looking after it's own interests before the ones of the world. An example is the lack of investment in destroyers to patrol the seas, while at the same time the focus shifted to super-carriers which are good for one thing: obliterate a single, powerful country.

This is not just Trump, but everyone after Bush Sr.
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-07-25 13:06:42+00:00
Okay, I will now say "they are difficult to work with" or "i don't have time" every time a client walks up that I don't want to serve. Infact, that's exactly what a lot of handymen say already to avoid the irritation associated with declining a job. I hope you see how your "ought" will be difficult to implement in practice
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-25 13:06:54+00:00
The founders of Finc Biotech went to Japan to study how they cultivated Beech mushrooms and then they went home to do it bigger and better -- they got some award from the CCP for patriotic accomplishment or something like that. If that's patriotism I want to see more of it.

The only drawback of their Beech mushrooms is that you have to cook them before you eat them, you can't slice them up and put them in a salad raw the way you can with those white buttons.

They're great with red meat. I think most Texans would like them sauteed next to a steak or in a burger
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-25 13:06:58+00:00
THIS. Why is this PoV even controversial? Especially given that the videogames in question weren't even illegal.

Hell, I don't even like those games, but it's about the precedent of corporate overreach: if it's all legal, Visa/MasterCard shouldn't be able to decide for me what games I'm allowed to buy, no matter how weird they may be. It's not their job to judge the legal kinks I'm up to in the privacy of my own home.

If the gov doesn't clamp down hard on them, I can only assume the gov is in on this grift of having corporations acting as unofficial censors and freedom of speech moderators for the state under the loophole of "the state didn't mess with your constitutional rights to freedom of expression, but what you did broke the ToS of the payment processors, so now they're free to de-bank you and take away your ability to buy and sell things. Tsk tsk, shouldn't have sent those memes making fun of JD Vance and Trump I guess".
by tmtvl | 2025-07-25 13:07:03+00:00
Photorealism is a bad idea if your movement engine isn't good enough to handle the character walking around on uneven terrain. For racing games or flight simulators or such it is less of a problem, but seeing a regular person being absolutely flummoxed by a knee-high wall is massively immersion breaking.

It's something I really noticed when playing Disaster Report 4, where the people look amazingly realistic but some restrictions are clearly just 'developers didn't make this bit walkable'.
by sgarland | 2025-07-25 13:07:04+00:00
> The exposure level is also noticeably lower, which actually leaves room for better mid-tone saturation.

Decades ago, when I shot film, I remember discovering that I really liked how photos looked when underexposed by half a stop or so. I never knew why (and I wasn’t developing my own film, so I’ve no idea what the processor may have been doing), but I wonder if this was a contributing factor.