MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brucehoult | 2025-07-28 02:06:51+00:00
Manufacturers don't lie about how many clock cycles Dhrystone or Coremark or SPEC takes on their design.

The first two can be checked at the verilator (or commercial equivalent) stage, and SPEC in FPGA, both long before physical chips.

The only things in doubt are:

- whether they hit the hoped-for MHz

- whether the code you want to run has the same characteristics as their benchmark

For example SG2044 GeekBench results have been appearing on the site from time to time for more than half a year now. GB as a whole is pretty much worthless for what I care about, but the Clang test within it aligns closely with what I do, including the rqtio between multi-thread and single-thread.
by unidentifiedfly | 2025-07-28 02:07:16+00:00
https://www.narcap.org/blog/narcaptr20

> brilliant yellow white plasma object teardrop shaped

> took 8 photographs and four video segments of the UAP including a 4:47 video of the UAP/light embedded in this report.

> ACAS SSR radar did not detect anything

> As the aircraft and its attendant UAP/Light approached the Mexico/US border the UAP/Light began to flicker, it changed colors from yellow-white to pinkish/purple, and turned on a perpendicular heading away from the aircraft and parallel to the border without crossing into the United States

That’s hilarious.

> Movements

> 1. The UAP/Light came from above and stopped/hovered near FL37, about the same altitude as the aircraft, shone a light on the 767 and briefly approached the aircraft. Then it instantly matched the speed, and heading of the aircraft and maintained a consistent separation.

> a. The light descended vertically, stopped abruptly, and shone a light on the 767 causing the crew to believe that there was another airliner on a collision heading with its landing lights on.

> b. It changed direction from vertical descent to a sudden stop/hover, to approaching the aircraft briefly, to taking the same heading and speed of the aircraft at about the same altitude and an estimated distance of 1-2k ft.

> c. It matched the altitude, speed, and heading of the aircraft, 575mph and at 37,000ft for over 32 minutes.

> d. The UAP/Light changed colors and turned away from the aircraft on a perpendicular heading, West, just inside the Mexico/US border.

> e. The UAP/light did not have wings or running lights. It was a new and unique observation to the experienced air crew.

Standard UFO behavior.
by brudgers | 2025-07-28 02:07:58+00:00
I was involved in those decisions. The people I worked for knew their businesses and knew the importance of cash flow to it. It had a lot to do with capital.

The simple equation was that setting up a network did not look like it would make those companies money. And in the Windows for Workgroups era, running CAD on Windows was a massive performance hit.

Don’t ignore the capital cost of buying Windows versions of Cad software…potentially thousands of dollars per seat. Don’t ignore the cost of graphics cards…the high performance card might not have Windows drivers and every machine might have a different card bought at a different time.

And don’t ignore the cost of a file server that inspires confidence. In an environment where contracts are five to seven figures, the local PC repair shop is not the most enticing risk.
by lurking_swe | 2025-07-28 02:08:30+00:00
there are many many 6 figure jobs that don’t require working more than > 40 hours a week. Bureaucracy is hard to avoid though, unless you’re at a startup, but then you’re working all the time lol.

For me personally, lack of money early in my career caused me _far_ greater daily stress than bureaucracy at work. Not needing to budget daily purchases? now that’s low stress.
by motohagiography | 2025-07-28 02:09:00+00:00
"age verification app," is such a phony pretext. They know that android fragmentation and the lack of consistent verifiable hardware is what prevents govts from implementing a punitive digital ID that is sufficient to punish and fine people using western standards of evidence and legal defense.

these people are monsters. don't help them, and don't be complicit. working on digital ID tech, and even disclosing vulns in it is like helping Hollerith make faster and more efficient punch cards.
by presentation | 2025-07-28 02:09:29+00:00
It's good that the Fed can set monetary policy without pandering to whatever short-term goals politicians have at the time, as they've thoroughly proven their incapability to tackle long-term challenges like the deficit.

I also don't think that bailing out SVB is a sign that Dodd-Frank was just symbolic, since not doing so would have pretty significantly hurt the USA's tech sector, which is is strategic nationally for the economy.

But I can see an argument for limiting the Fed's purview to mostly be about monetary policy and less about enforcement of legislation, as it's done in other countries.
by dami16z | 2025-07-28 02:09:51+00:00
Ever since Google's AI video model Veo was released, I've been keeping a close eye on it. Like many others, I spend most of my time scrolling through Twitter to check out stunning AI-generated videos and hunt for high-quality prompts.

However, the information is so scattered that sifting through the timeline every time is inefficient and time-consuming. That's when I got the idea to build an aggregation website—bringing all those top-tier prompts together, not only for my own convenience but also to help others.

This is how Veo3 Prompt Hub came into being.

Website: https://veo3-prompt.com/

It mainly has a few simple features:

High-quality Prompt aggregation: I regularly collect and filter impressive, inspiring Veo videos and their prompts from Twitter.

Categorized browsing: The collected prompts are sorted into categories such as Sci-Fi, Nature & Animals, Urban Scenes, etc., making it easy to find inspiration based on interests.

Intuitive experience: No need to jump to external links—you can watch videos and copy prompts directly on the website, with a "what you see is what you get" experience.

My original intention for developing this site is simple: Save time: No more searching through a sea of information; get high-quality prompts in one place. Spark inspiration: See how others "cast their spells" to generate content, and gain new ideas for your own creations.

This is currently a personal side project of mine, so there are definitely areas for improvement. I warmly welcome everyone to try it out and would love to receive your feedback and suggestions to make it better.

If you're also interested in AI video generation, I hope this small website will be helpful to you!
by Fwirt | 2025-07-28 02:10:28+00:00
There’s also the excellent Nomad Sculpt, which while not a mesh editor, is an incredibly performant digital sculpting app. Compared to Blender’s sculpt workflow it maintains a higher frame rate and smaller memory footprint with a higher vertex count. Of course it’s much more limited than Blender but its sculpting workflow is much better and then you can export to Blender.

There is room for more than one modeling app on iOS as long as you can offer something that Blender doesn’t, even if it’s just better performance.
by baby_souffle | 2025-07-28 02:10:32+00:00
> It's been a relatively common position to find, at least before the most recent hubbub around Steam, Itch.io, Britain, etc.

If you stretch the definition of "recent" to ~ 60d then you can also search for the pornhub/France thing. Quick google nets this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210557. There are likely others, too... but I'm lazy :).
Show HN: Vested – A financial analyst for retail investors
by adityar2 | 2025-07-28 02:12:13+00:00
We built Vested, a website to aggregate information around the internet to give retail investors more informed understanding of the companies they are investing in. Currently, we generate our reports with information from SEC and current news, but we plan to expand this in the near future to include job listings, social media, papers, and more.

Our goal is to make institutional-grade research accessible to everyone. We'd love feedback and features you'd would like to see.
by brucehoult | 2025-07-28 02:12:20+00:00
Tenstorrent won't be many months behind them, with true 2020s Apple / Intel / AMD performance levels.

An original November 2020 M1 Mini (4P+4E 3.4 GHz) is still my main computer to sit in front of, and I have zero plans to change that right now.

You'll be able to buy RISC-V at that level sometime next year.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-07-28 02:12:40+00:00
It would be neat if there was a standard interface for device drivers, similar to what POSIX does for user-space. That way, interesting kernels like this one can just comply with that and the enormous amounts of Linux modules can be ported to comply with that standard so that they can also be loaded by redox, blueos,etc..

But the complication I suppose is data-structures being accessed by drivers that reside in the core kernel and other assumptions that come with linking against a monolith program like the Linux kernel. It would be momentous to simply get Linux drivers to comply with a kernel-agnostic ABI.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-07-28 02:13:22+00:00
Websites were a way to get authoritative information about a company, from that company (or another trusted source like Wikipedia). That trust is powerful, which is why we collectively spent so much time trying to educate users about the "line of death" in browsers, drawing padlock icons, chasing down impersonator sites, mitigating homoglyph attacks, etc. This all rested on the assumption that certain sites were authoritative sources of information worth seeking out.

I'm not really sure what trust means in a world where everyone relies uncritically on LLM output. Even if the information from the LLM is usually accurate, can I rely on that in some particularly important instance?
by PostOnce | 2025-07-28 02:13:28+00:00
The concept of being able to (for a physical example) rip ANY page out of a book and being able to replace it using only the information on your single "magic page" is incredible. With two magic pages you can replace any two torn out pages, and the magic pages are interchangeable.

The math we have mastered is incredible. If only they could impart this wonder to children instead of rote worksheets enforced by drill sergeant math teachers.

While I'm ranting, I checked out a book from the library yesterday called "Math with Bad Drawings", it's very fun, and approachable for anyone with no math background, kids and adults enjoy it.

We need more STEM for fun, and not just STEM for money. That's how we get good at STEM.
by twoodfin | 2025-07-28 02:14:10+00:00
“About a third” doesn’t sound anywhere near a monopoly to me.

This is all demand-side inflation: For any number of better and worse reasons (mostly worse), as building codes have gotten stricter and fires have become rarer, municipal spending on fire departments has exploded. Well-funded fire departments buy more expensive trucks than they probably need, just like well-funded police departments buy military-class SWAT equipment they probably don’t need.
by nuriodaci | 2025-07-28 02:14:30+00:00
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by trailrunner46 | 2025-07-28 02:16:10+00:00
These numbers for trucks paired with the 3+ year wait times are very real. It hits small communities the hard because they have a small tax base but still need a certain amount of trucks. You can only consolidate so much before you are to far to respond.

Another good point called out in the article are the floating costs. The manufactures do in fact increase the costs after the fact so not only do you need to order a truck years ahead of time with a budget you don’t have (borrow money) but then you have to cough up an indeterminate amount of money years later. A real sad time for first responders.
by brucehoult | 2025-07-28 02:17:02+00:00
Other than having RVV, that board is slower than a VisionFive 2, at least for what I primarily do (building software). Yes, even with 8 cores vs 4.

Also the K1 chip offers support for 16 GB RAM, but the RV2 only offers 8 GB. I have 16 GB on the same chip on my LicheePi 3A.
by Rapzid | 2025-07-28 02:17:06+00:00
These unilaterally, and likely illegally, imposed tariffs under the excuse of bogus "emergencies" by the executive are like to expire along with the power to impose them.

Further there seems to be no coherent tariff strategy that would enact the changes people are fantasizing about. Instead we see special interest, lobbyist, and perhaps even personal quid pro quo carve outs based on who has access to one man while the rest of us are told 15% taxes on foreign goods is a "great deal!".

For any of this policy to be long term it must go through Congress. For it to be effective and not the worst openly corrupt politics we ought to WANT it to come from Congress.

I don't see how anything that's happened with tariffs is evidence of ""the federal government" looking long term".
by crimsontech | 2025-07-28 02:17:21+00:00
I'm making a personal app to help me visualise time passing.

I get "time blind" when I'm fixated on something like work, programming, reading, research, etc. While it can be a good thing, it also means I forget to eat, don't take breaks, miss meetings, or just spend way too long doing one thing and end up wondering where the day went. Typical notifications don't seem to snap me out of it either.

The app creates a thin, always visible line at the bottom of my screen that shrinks inwards as time passes, at the end of the allotted time the screen will blur preventing me from doing whatever I was doing and snapping me out of my hyperfocus state. I can choose how long the timer runs for and how long the screen blurs for. Tonight I added a loop feature so I can use it like a pomodoro timer with enforced breaks.

It's a simple menu bar app for MacOS and could be better, but it does what I want it to do. I've been using it for the past week and found it really helpful.

I haven't used Swift before so it was a good learning experience too.

It's the same principle as a Time Timer (timetimer.com) which I used previously but I find my app works better as the screen blur actually prevents me from just continuing whatever I'm doing, and the bar is always in my line of sight.
by stan_kirdey | 2025-07-28 02:17:30+00:00
needed to find a kids’ orthodontist. made a tiny voice agent: feed it numbers, it calls, asks about price/availability/insurance, logs the gist.

it kind of worked. the magic was the smallest UI around it:

- timeline of dials + retries

- "call me back" flags

- when it tried, who picked up

- short summaries with links to the raw transcript

once i could see the behavior, it stopped feeling spooky and started feeling useful.

so yeah, copilots are cool, but i want HUDs: quiet most of the time, glanceable, easy to interrupt, receipts for every action.
by btown | 2025-07-28 02:18:05+00:00
It’s really important to remember in this context that “the purpose of a system is what it does.”

Do not think for a moment that ID verification primarily protects children and only incidentally enables authoritarian restrictions on speech. Do not think for a second that verification initiatives are designed without anticipating this outcome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
by Aunche | 2025-07-28 02:18:11+00:00
The most popular new car is the RAV4, which starts at $29,500 today [1]. In 2010, a new RAV4 retailed for $21,675 [2]. Dealers were more flexible with haggling back then, but at best, that's still only a 50% increase.

[1] https://www.toyota.com/rav4/

[2] https://www.motortrend.com/cars/toyota/rav4/2010
by gklitt | 2025-07-28 02:18:26+00:00
Author here. I thought about including TCAS in the article but it felt too tangential…

You’re right that there’s a voice alert. But TCAS also has a map of nearby planes which is much more “HUD”! So it’s a combo of both approaches.

(Interestingly it seems that TCAS may predate Weiser’s 1992 talk)
by baby_souffle | 2025-07-28 02:18:57+00:00
> Age verification is already a thing IRL, there is no reason to not extend it online considering so much of our lives is digital. Overall I think anonymity should be reduced on the internet in general - a big reason of the world issues, especially in USA is that ideas can grow in forums where people under etherial identities can tell lie after lie without any repercussion.

Ah yes. Anonymity is the only thing that enables dishonesty and of course it's the government's moral duty to regulate it.

Once anonymity is banned, the world will be honest and good and True and we'll all look back on the Bad times thinking how silly we all were.

The best part of minority report was the way everything constantly tracked identity through retinal scans; i can't wait for the future!
by kiitos | 2025-07-28 02:19:25+00:00
> In the iroh world, you dial another node by its NodeId, a 32-byte ed25519 public key. Unlike IP addresses, this ID is globally unique, and instead of being assigned,

ok but my network stack doesn't speak nodeID, it speaks tcp/ip -- so something has to resolve your public keys to a host and port that I can actually connect to.

this is roughly the same use case that DNS solves, except that domain names are generally human-compatible, and DNS servers are maintained by an enormous number of globally-distributed network engineers

it seems like this system rolls its own public key string to actual IP address and port mapping/discovery system, and offers a default implementation based on dns which the authors own and operate, which is fine. but the authors kind of hand-wave that part of the system away, saying hey you don't need to use this infra, you can use your own, or do whatever you want!

but like, for systems like this, discovery is basically the entire ball game and the only difficult problem that needs to be solved! if you ignore the details of node discovery and name mapping/resolution like this, then of course you can build any kind p2p network with content-addressable identifiers or whatever. it's so easy a cave man can do it, just look at ipfs
by Nevermark | 2025-07-28 02:20:19+00:00
> Media bias is largely demand-driven, not supply-driven

The vast resources spent on surveillance and psychologically manipulative feed optimization, are an example of psychological demand creation. Using the original demand to be connected to friends and family, as the ingress for massively successful businesses based on manipulating people.

Referring to that as demand driven market is ridiculous.

Social media isn't a simple demand-driven or supply-driven market.
by godelski | 2025-07-28 02:21:25+00:00
> That doesn't mean that government investment in science is necessarily a good idea.

Sure, only a Sith deals in absolutes. What's your point? If you inferred from my comment that I think we should just fund everything all willy nilly I'm curious how you think I would resolve this with the lack of infinite money. I'd have to assume we have infinite money if I was suggesting to fund everything, right? And I'd have to be incredibly dumb to think there's infinite money (and resources). Right? I mean I'm dumb, but do you really think I'm that dumb?

> Where they financed by the government?

Yes

> Btw, I can also look at winning lottery tickets

Do you have anything to comment that isn't reductio ad absurdum?

You're not making an argument, you're just intentionally misunderstanding. Sorry, I'm not going to respond if all you want to do is troll
by bryanhogan | 2025-07-28 02:21:31+00:00
I'm working on DailySelfTrack ( https://dailyselftrack.com/ ) , an app to track what matters to you in a way that you find relevant. So it is a mix of habit tracker, health log and journal. Like a spreadhsheet app, but with much better UX. And like a habit/health app, but with much greater customization.

I want this to be a tool highly useful for people who have complex health issues, are working towards ambitious goals, or just want to regularly reflect on their day.

I'm building it since I couldn't find a satisfying solution anywhere. It's local first and does not force you into a subscription, or tries to exploit you with any other dark patterns.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-28 02:22:34+00:00
Been thinking about something similar, from fairly grounded ideas like letting a model autogenerate new features with their own name, keybind and icon, all the way to silly ideas, like letting a model synthesize arbitrary shader code and just letting it do whatever within the viewport. Think the entire UI being created on the fly specifically for the task you're working on, constantly evolving in mesh with your workflow habits. Now if only I went beyond being an idea man...
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-07-28 02:22:45+00:00
I was very curious about what was up with the insane rise in Bulgaria.

I’m not sure if we collectively reject copy-paste from GPTs yet, but I thought this was worth sharing and it even got the references correct (wasn’t always true)

https://chatgpt.com/share/6886de11-f21c-800c-82b3-b62afc4f03...

TLDR: Bulgaria’s sharp rise in one-person households is driven primarily by rapid population aging, with many elderly (especially widowed women) living alone. Massive emigration of young people since the 1990s has fragmented families, leaving older generations behind in rural homes. High home ownership rates and urban migration have enabled more people—young and old—to live independently. These trends reflect broader shifts toward individualism, delayed marriage, and declining birth rates, especially in urban areas.
by rahuldey | 2025-07-28 02:24:36+00:00
Sunday Podcast : A fun little Sunday Project I built this afternoon with Claude Code. How it works: 1. Enter any topic (e.g., "space exploration") 2. Pick voice, tone & length 3. AI writes and narrates your episode 4. Listen while doing Sunday chores!

You can try it out here https://sunday-podcast.vercel.app Hope you learn something fun this Sunday :)
by digdugdirk | 2025-07-28 02:25:39+00:00
I'm concerned that you're not trolling. If you do mean this in earnest - do you truly believe that this was positive for all future workers? Do you not see how this is bad for the organization as a whole from a systems perspective?

Like I said, I hope you're trolling, but I also know there's plenty of people who have drank so deeply from the rabidly pro business kool-aid so hard they're drowning in it.
by defrost | 2025-07-28 02:25:42+00:00
It was your choice to introduce "In America the racial cultures place different values on learning this skill" and leave that hanging.

Not everyone is "well aware of the history" despite your claim to the contrary so it's worth dragging events that occurred during my lifetime into the mix given they form the root of a particular part of why one American cultural group came to have values that became stereotypical..

Past actions leave shadows that by your own comment appear to still exist even if many have moved to the penumbra.

> Meanwhile, the black people i know well

Contrariwise the vast majority of black and not quite so black people I grew up with and know well swim like fish and a good number free dive toward the upper limit of human ability .. that's a whole other oyster shell of pearl though.

> but that was generations ago at this point

Perhaps for yourself, as mentioned above 1964 was within my lifetime.