MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by red-iron-pine | 2025-07-30 14:14:43+00:00
Having worked for both FedGov and Contractors directly, plus several F500s, the Gubmnt was wayyyyy more focused on loss, waste, and long-term planning.

the levels of waste and BS and general suck at some large mining + O&G companies was astounding, on top of being absolutely brutal, miserable places to work.
by laweijfmvo | 2025-07-30 14:15:42+00:00
Meta has a lot of users (for better or worse). AFAIK they give away all the current “AI” features for free (via ads) like all of their products, right? That must take an enormous amount of compute to be able to offer all of their users the ability to generate AI Slop at any time… there’s no way they can continue to do that with anything close to a “super intelligence”, right? Do they have that much faith in ads?
by jerjerjer | 2025-07-30 14:16:27+00:00
> That kind of thing is surprisingly hard to implement.

If response contains prompt text verbatim (or it is below some distance metric) replace the response text.

Not saying it's trivial to implement (and probably it is hard to do in a pure LLM way), but I don't think it's too hard.

More like it's not really a big secret.
by dcminter | 2025-07-30 14:16:52+00:00
Upvoted, but just in a friendly "hello, I recognise myself in this comment" sort of way :)

I currently have a little stack of index cards with in-play projects scrawled on them and at the end of the year the plan is to weed those and shut down any resources that aren't required for the ones still in the list. Hmm, maybe I need a domain name for that though...

One thing I will add is that it's ok to recognise that one enjoys some of these behaviours. There's no moral element to being a starter-not-a-finisher of personal projects so long as you're paying appropriate attention to your important commitments (family, the day job, etc.)
by shazbotter | 2025-07-30 14:17:00+00:00
I'm an American, in my circles "liberal" is almost a curse word. It's what we tend to call people who support corporate power, profit motivation, and social progress as long as it doesn't inconvenience them personally.

We broadly use "leftist" to refer to ourselves, whether that's democratic socialists, anarchists, communists, syndicalists, unionists, etc. Philosophically, these folks are fundamentally pushing for wellbeing of all, social motivation, and social progress even if it inconveniences me personally.

I don't think it's helpful to refer to these differences in ideology as bubbles, though. I think there's a very real philosophical difference between liberals and leftists, and has been for generations. 60 years ago Phil Ochs sang "Love me I'm a liberal", and it wasn't a new idea back then. Liberals and leftists hold incompatible worldviews. Just like liberals and conservatives do. I think deploying the term "bubble" for such broad groups is probably more reductive than helpful.
by threecheese | 2025-07-30 14:17:30+00:00
I am loving Marimo, I think they are doing a good job of balancing ease of use with the ability to drop into a virtualenv and run the code. The UI is much nicer than colab, from a visual and feature perspective. Key for me though is repeatability and ability to collaborate at the branch level, shared notebooks have issues we all know about.

What’s missing for me is a local desktop app like Jupyter Studio, but that’s an easy thing for the community to build.
by techpineapple | 2025-07-30 14:17:53+00:00
I’m curious how many people are actually outside of this, most debates seem to boil down to, “ AI isn’t bullshit I’ve used it and I find I useful” and my argument as a skeptic isn’t that it doesn’t do the things people clearly see it does, nor that those use cases will improve, but that valuations and investment are at the levels of “solving scarcity”
by animal531 | 2025-07-30 14:17:56+00:00
Yeah, for example Unity uses C#, so you can used a managed CUDA library. If you're using a C engine like Unreal etc. its even easier since you can just include the code.

But having said that, a giant drawback to using CUDA in gaming is that the overhead of transforming and copying your data to/from CUDA kills off a lot of the performance, so while its still great its not nearly as good as writing compute shaders.

They are a topic of their own, the code can start off quite basic but with recent additions you can now also do some really advanced thread management and coordination.

They still come with big overhead to moving data around, but in general they're better suited to the use-case than CUDA.
by ebiester | 2025-07-30 14:18:03+00:00
Yes, a well-engineered SSR webapp could be indistinguishable from an SPA. However, it is much harder to build a well engineered SSR with the tools we have. I haven't seen someone solve errors with form submissions and the back button well at the framework level. Post-Redirect-Get was awful. Trying to solve back buttons and wizards. Trying to solve modals. Is a modal a separate page with the rest in the back? What does closing a modal mean? What does a sidebar mean? How about closing it? Pretty soon, you're in half-an-SPA already.

And since you don't want a 2000 character URL, you're either storing half of the session on the server or having to build an abstraction with local storage. And since our frameworks didn't evolve to handle that, what is the purpose?

The key insight into the SPA is that you are writing a coherent client experience. No SSR framework figured out how to do this because they thought about pages rather than experiences.

Let me be clear: I am speaking about web applications. If you're providing information and only have a small number of customer interactions, an SSR is superior. CNN should not be an SPA.
by ijk | 2025-07-30 14:18:27+00:00
The sneaky thing is that the things we used to rely on as signals of verification and credibility can easily be imitated.

This was always possible--an academic paper can already cite anything until someone tries to check it [1]. Now, something looking convincing can be generated more easily than something that was properly verified. The social conventions evaporate and we're left to check every reference individually.

In academic publishing, this may lead to a revision of how citations are handled. That's changed before and might certainly change again. But for the moment, it is very easy to create something that looks like it has been verified but has not been.

[1] And you can put anything you like in footnotes.
by lumost | 2025-07-30 14:18:39+00:00
For early/mid stage startups - this is an awful position to take. These orgs are heavily influenced by who they hire - what you pay defines your incentive structure.

Does the world class engineer or business development lead just take it easy and travel around after they join?

Does the new manager push the team and business forward or prioritize stability?

Do engineers spend their time on reactors and impressive sounding projects or figuring out what customers need?

Do people feel lucky to have a seat in the org or do they spend their time complaining and looking for the exits?

Money isn't the only lever, but its a strong one - startups will never compete with established firms on cash outlays.
by maxbond | 2025-07-30 14:19:04+00:00
I think parsing BSON is simpler than parsing JSON, BSON has additional types but the top level is always a document. Whereas the following are all valid JSON:

- `null`

- `"hello"`

- `[1,2,NaN]`

Additionally, BSON will just tell you what the type of a field is. JSON requires inferring it.
by Barrin92 | 2025-07-30 14:19:12+00:00
The problem was them going public. Honestly looking at the fact that it's a 20 year old company that's really good at one thing, take it private if you can, slim the company down and offer more competitive prices. The other user is right on that. Accept that you're Jetbrains instead of fancy big tech giant.

If they offered a competitive 100 Gig tier or a cheaper 1 TB tier I'd instantly switch my entire family back from Google Drive because at a technical level Dropbox is just simply better. Insync + GDrive is much worse than the block based sync. If they just focused on this they have a good business. The headcount expansion and desperate horizontal creep into other services just makes miserable products.
by ForOldHack | 2025-07-30 14:19:27+00:00
It works for me, said every Linux zelot ever. NVidia acceleration is horrid. The only thing that worked was directx on zorin. AMD? Only a few machines, even fewer models. What all the zelots we're running is built in Intel. "It works for me." Followed by bins by the truck full of unsupported hardware.

ThinkPads? Perfect every time? Dell? Have you configured you bios lately? Unsupported AMD? Grab your crayons on a race the old hardware will loose.

Linux has had 10 years to run on 10 year old hardware. Linux is not an OS. It's an attitude, and it's not a reflection on the technology, it's a reflection on the lowest common denominator.

Windows 10? I still have another 14 months left, and mass*.dev to thank.

Hardware that was built to run Linux? Drivers? If you have an AMD card and any interest in Linux, pull the card and prepare to trash the entire system, like the HP sitting on the sidewalk last night. Bye.
by berkes | 2025-07-30 14:19:36+00:00
Is this a fundamental issue with any LLM, or is it an artifact of how a model is trained, tuned and then configured or constrained?

A model that I call through e.g. langchain with constraints, system prompts, embeddings and whatnot, will react very different from when I pose the same question through the AI-providers' public chat interface.

Or, putting the question differently: could OpenAI not train, constrain, configure and tune models and combine them into a UI that then acts different from what you describe for another use case?
by bearl | 2025-07-30 14:19:38+00:00
Internet commerce requires databases with pii that will be breached.

Who is to blame for internet commerce?

Our legislators. Maybe specifically we can blame Al Gore, the man who invented the internet. If we had put warning labels on the internet like we did with NWA and 2 live crew, Gore’s second best achievement, we wouldn’t be a failed democracy right now.
by itsanaccount | 2025-07-30 14:19:39+00:00
This is the same idea as the propane mosquito traps, that when run for a few weeks can eliminate a local population.

But the only places where they're useful is exurban, edge of the city kinds of places. Places where we've already disturbed the local ecosystem so much that the populations aren't kept in balance. Otherwise your other environments don't need them:

- a place where they're spraying so many pesticides that nothing survives, ie most cities

- a place where the bats, barn swallows and larval predators are so plentiful mosquitos are kept in check.

- a place where there are seasonal swarms of small bugs you simply cant put a dent in. people tend to visit these in-between seasons.
by throw0101c | 2025-07-30 14:19:45+00:00
Meta: Oxide has talked about the designs of their cooling [1][2][3], so I'm curious to know if they ever start offering GPUs how they'd handle that.

Folks seem to be moving toward liquid cooling[4] either to the rack/chassis[5] or even to the chip[6].

[1] https://oxide.computer/blog/how-oxide-cuts-data-center-power...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vVXClXVuzE

[3] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hTJYY_Y1H9Q

[4] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/blackwell-platform-water-effic...

[5] https://datacentremagazine.com/data-centres/top-10-liquid-co...

[6] https://zutacore.com
by diggan | 2025-07-30 14:19:52+00:00
> The dunks contain an unhealthy—for the mosquito larvae—dose of the bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis, or BT. Don’t worry about your dog, Moonpie, or your cat, French Fry. They can drink straight from the bucket and be perfectly fine. Hey, it’s probably better than when they drink from your toilet, right?

Here I was under the impression that the water in the toilet is the same water as go into the taps, potable water, at least that's common here in Spain. Is it not the same in the US? Then both of them may have stagnant water or even "polluted" water in one way or another, but seems more or less the same.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-07-30 14:19:53+00:00
> Wasting no time, the Pact makes sure to get the point across in its introduction that energy demand from air conditioning and cooling systems is rising faster than that from AI, but claims the sheer speed of datacenter growth and the difficulty in obtaining robust data is "troubling policy makers and leading to unhelpful speculation."

Air conditioning keeps people from dying of heat stroke and AI lets people generate pictures of Garfield with big naturals holding an AR-15.
by napkin | 2025-07-30 14:20:01+00:00
When prompting an LLM service to leak the system prompt, how do you have the faintest idea as to its accuracy?

I‘ve read people say it‘s a difficult challenge for the providers. But aren‘t there some pretty basic strategies? E.g., code pretty near the front of the stack that just does some fuzzy string comparison on all output? They don‘t need to rely on just model behavior…

I imagine it‘s likely that the model is just doing what it‘s good at? Hallucinating a prompt?
by jvanderbot | 2025-07-30 14:20:03+00:00
There is something so calming and pleasant about a well-structured thesis statement:

> Our thesis was that cloud computing was the future of all computing; that running on-premises would remain (or become!) strategically important for many; that the entire stack — hardware and software — needed to be rethought from first principles to serve this market; and that a large, durable, public company could be built by whomever pulled it off.

Very clear and logical, stating from their first principle world view what the result could be if they succeed.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-07-30 14:20:05+00:00
> The problem is that until a few hundred years ago, you could stand your ground and either win or lose (happened a lot) or you sought uninhabited land elsewhere )or a weaker party to kick out) That also happened a lot. Back then borders were defined by what you could actively defend, though treaties also existed.

That is the same situation that exists today. Might makes right is the only rule of nature. Treaties are just hopes that someone will help with defending your borders.

See Russia expanding its borders into what was previously recognized as Ukraine.
by jsattler | 2025-07-30 14:20:57+00:00
I'm actually not so interested in the editing software. I think that part is doable with any modern video editing software. I'm more interested in the screen capture and how to preserve the transparency. He mentioned Cleanshot X somewhere for screen recording, but I doubt that he is using it for the recording. I tried it and it did not support the transparency that you can see in his videos.
by gishglish | 2025-07-30 14:21:13+00:00
> I'm curious what hiring managers are now looking for to cut through the noise.

A referral.

At least, in my experience a year or two ago. It was impossible to get past initial screenings for jobs I was perfect for on paper.

None of my skills, experience, etc. even mattered. In the end what mattered was getting a nepo referral for a job I wasn’t even qualified for on paper.
by dmix | 2025-07-30 14:21:33+00:00
Trump was never free trade, he campaigned on tariffs both times and loves welding the government over private industry. People always call out the lack of conservative laissez-faire values in their admin as a contradiction, because other GOP pushed those values particularly in the past. But this admin has been pretty honest about their agenda as a populist authoritarian right wing movement.

People are probably just surprised to find out what that means in practice.
by Aperocky | 2025-07-30 14:21:54+00:00
A lot hinges on this magical contraption that can both accept connection and command, deliver power in sufficient amount when needed while being integrated into the hub, light enough to hide in a bike and somehow even be able to recharge. Have you seen the ebikes that they sell and the hubs that they have?

Now it could definitely work if you only care about a single attack - not even a full climb, but maybe 200-300m where you want to distance your rivals, but the risk (not just of discovery, but of malfunction, etc) just doesn't seem to be worth it. There's domestiques for a reason.
by ipdashc | 2025-07-30 14:22:10+00:00
A great point regarding mainframes, but isn't it somewhat irrelevant given that Oxide's computer is x86 and mainly (...only?) intended as a VM host? And I assume most people are running things in VMs nowadays, so you can "just" migrate over images to the new system (I know it's not that simple, but it's also not quite as complicated as, I imagine, porting something from a bunch of bare-metal x86 boxen to a mainframe).

Also, I'm given the impression that Oxide prioritizes user experience - their website shows off a clean UI and they presumably have modern, easy-to-use APIs. Mainframes, in contrast, seem like a whole different world - if I convinced my company to move to a mainframe, who would even operate it? I know modern mainframes are closer to "normal" servers than their old reputation, but still, I'd imagine it's pretty esoteric stuff, and IBM is famous for not being the cheapest to work with.

I do find it pretty funny that their business model seems to be reinventing mainframes, but I feel like there are important distinctions too. Hopefully they do well (I'd also love to have access to this stuff, but yeah, same "needs that are at most 3 servers" deal).
by wonkyfruit | 2025-07-30 14:22:23+00:00
There's one Peter Levels, and I don't even think he's actually Peter Levels. I think he's a dude who went viral, so now anything he does gets traffic.

ALWAYS, it comes down to one thing. If you built the best thing in the world, and no one visits it, then it's a "failure" at least in terms of earning anything.
by akomtu | 2025-07-30 14:22:46+00:00
If Meta invents superhuman AI and Mark gets to own it, we'll effectively enter the era of Antichrist. Imagine a human as greedy, as capable and as hollow as Mark, but made 1000x smarter than anyone else on the planet? Corporations are kept in check by competition between them, they can't be too abusive, but this brittle balance will end if one of them creates AI.
by dagmx | 2025-07-30 14:23:05+00:00
I’m sorry, if you’re going to argue it’s completely off base at least make a statement that isn’t easily dismissed by looking at the back of a phone.

My iPhone pro has 3 lenses of 15,24 and 77mm equivalents. This is far fewer than many Android phones.

Even the cheapest iPhone 16E has a super sampling sensor which allows a cropped 50mm equivalent. (And yes that’s a digital crop but that’s why I mention a super sampling sensor)

So yes, unless they were shooting on a budget phone or a much older iPhone, they have a choice of focal lengths that would better match whatever camera they’re comparing to.
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by k310 | 2025-07-30 14:23:29+00:00
Get an iPad, and load up Carnets (Jupyter Notebooks), a-Shell and/or iSH, which are linux environments, or maybe PocketCAS (not sure why I chose that from the CAS apps)

For reading books and papers, pdf is natively supported in the files app.

Mini-rant

Epub books are supported in Apple Books, formerly iBooks, but I 100% prefer to manage my books as regular files, just like on the mac. You can get Epub readers for iPad, for this purpose. Or, just use Calibre on a desktop to convert Epubs to pdf.
by boringg | 2025-07-30 14:23:36+00:00
Isn't mitochondria the hot new topic du jour (last couple of years) for bio? Is this kind of peak hype cycle?

Science follows the exact same cycle as tech ... I feel like the microbiome was huge and going to solve all our problems 8 years ago.

I don't want to sound jaded but history repeats itself in echoes - and these cycles seem somewhat predictable if the specific technology isn't predictable.
by diggan | 2025-07-30 14:23:47+00:00
Maybe I'm old-school, but I clicked on the logo in the top left, then read the first sentence which reads "On-demand elastic resources", which gives me some idea about what it is, and then later it says "A rack-scale system, built true to cloud architecture, that you can own and operate in your data center." which makes me 100% understand what the product is.

Do new internet users not know that the landing page usually contains information about the product they're talking about in their blog posts? 99% of the cases you can find what you're looking for on the landing page, and it took me a whole of 30 seconds to get here, writing this comment took longer time.
by mikewarot | 2025-07-30 14:23:54+00:00
I thought the article was parody/sarcasm at first.

I've got an old Nikon D5100 DSLR which I sometimes pull out and take photos with, and a cheap $200 Motorola phone, which does amazingly well, if there's plenty of light and the subject happens to take up most of the frame (and can thus focus)

Getting a good photo with the Nikon is easier for me, but I've had a lot of practice. The main issue is getting things to focus in macro land.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-07-30 14:24:38+00:00
some aspect of that picture are nanny-state sorts of laws like Accreditation which have a bias that says if you're "poor" then you're not intelligent enough or qualified enough to make your own best choices of investment.

I was happy to learn about Sweater Ventures https://www.sweaterventures.com/our-story (and their kind) which are opening up access to investments, and also helping ensure the entry price is quite low (for example I invest $50 a month with them) .

It is my hope that in the future you will be able to order a micro fraction of any company as easily as you could a starbucks.

And IMO part of that equation might be to have the state start to work against contracts which restrict your rights on your own property (essentially contracts restrict when you can sell your shares, usually not until IPO or a company organized liquidity event)
by Aurornis | 2025-07-30 14:24:39+00:00
> Are you being snarky and suggesting that employees deserve the same upside that founders deserve

The founders are excluded from the employee compensation discussion. They own the company because they founded it. Nobody thinks they just put the equity into a structure that nobody owns.

The question is whether all employees are compensated equally, which is a very important detail. Giving everyone the same salary is very different than giving everyone the same total compensation.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-30 14:24:41+00:00
Not sure why you were downvoted. Though it's a disgustingly poor excuse to say "at least we're not as bad as the Nazis" in justifying your own country's crimes against humanity, it also gives a bit of perspective when people do actually compare the modern Israeli state's violence with the savagery of the political system that provoked its formation.
by ineedasername | 2025-07-30 14:24:43+00:00
>I'm puzzled (but not surprised) by the standard HN resistance & skepticism

Thinking back, I believe the change from enthusiasm to misanthropy (mis[ai]thropy?) happened around the time, and in increasing proportion to, it became a viable replacement for some of the labor performed by software devs.

Before that, the tone was more like "The fact is, if 80% of your job or 80% of its quality can be automated, it shouldn't be a job anymore."
by cholantesh | 2025-07-30 14:24:46+00:00
The US scaffolding the vast majority of the IDF's offensive apparatus, the EU pumping 70 billion € into its economy, multiple ICC warrants, an open ICJ case, multiple G7 states weighing in on the question of Palestinian statehood, and Yemeni, Lebanese, and Iranian military cooperation are all rather odd shows of indifference.