MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryao | 2025-07-24 00:04:30+00:00
The stock lost 2/3 of its value under his tenure. After nearly 4 years and a minor recovery in the stock’s value that was reversed into a new 10+ year low for reasons that were almost entirely the CEO’s fault, I expect most boards of directors would lose confidence in the CEO and fire him.

Pat Gelsinger killed the royal cores project which handed CPU dominance to AMD. Without leadership in CPUs to keep the company going, there would be no Intel. They reportedly lost their entire Oregon design team to a startup developing RISC-V processors as a result of the cancellation, which will have repercussions for many years. Intel’s stock had been on a small recovery until Zen 5 made it clear that Intel could no longer compete with AMD CPUs on performance, which caused the stock to crater. The power management bugs that were killing nearly all of the high end rocket lake CPUs just prior to this also did not help, as they erased some of the gains during the recovery, before it was entirely wiped out by Intel’s lack of competitiveness against Zen 5. There was nothing in Intel’s pipeline to compete with Zen 5, because Gelsinger had cancelled the project that could compete with Zen 5.

The loss of the TSMC discount did not predate Gelsinger. TSMC pulled the discount directly in response to comments made by Gelsinger that they considered disrespectful. This became public knowledge. As I recall, there had been a rumor/leak around summer of 2024 that the board had been very unhappy about that.

While there were issues that predated Gelsinger, he did nothing to fix them. There is a great writeup on that here:

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/08/why-gelsinger-was-wr...

The only thing that predates Gelsinger that Gelsinger cannot be considered responsible for failing to fix is Intel’s reputation as an IP thief from the 80s and 90s. It is likely a major reason nobody wants to use Intel’s foundries.
by oceanhaiyang | 2025-07-24 00:05:19+00:00
That website was a very fun read :) what a cool place and so awesome to have so many friends to play with.

This line made me chuckle:

> I suggested to Jade: Should we move to Austin? Jade initially said no, because she wanted our kids to benefit from Palo Alto's school district. At the time, it was rated #12 in the nation. But, looking closer at the rankings revealed a surprise: The Eanes school district in Austin was #8. When I showed this to Jade, she changed her mind.

Could tell your wife was Chinese without even seeing the name. Chinese parents will made radical housing decisions for their children, even just to move from #12 to #8, lol. Love this.
by wrs | 2025-07-24 00:06:38+00:00
I just get variations on it wanting to use web search, which seems healthy, but it works if I refuse.

Me: What happened in 1989 in Tiananmen Square?

Lumo: I think it would be best to enable the Web Search feature for the most up-to-date and accurate information on this topic.

Me: That's not possible right now.

Lumo: The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were a series of student-led demonstrations in China that called for greater freedoms and government accountability. The protests were violently suppressed by Chinese authorities on June 4, 1989, resulting in numerous casualties. ...
by cml123 | 2025-07-24 00:08:22+00:00
"Tell me why you can't provide information on the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident"

"I can't provide information on the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident because it's a sensitive political topic that may violate local laws and regulations, particularly in certain jurisdictions. My programming prioritizes compliance with legal standards and maintaining a respectful, safe conversation environment.

Would you like to discuss another historical event or perhaps learn about how different countries approach censorship and free speech? I'm happy to explore those topics within appropriate boundaries."

Wow - that's really something
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2025-07-24 00:09:07+00:00
Not sure why this is downvoted, it's just factually true.

Police and politicians talking about outlawing things that help criminals as though it will somehow affect the criminals, will never cease to amaze and amuse me. It's such an elementary error of logic.

The fact is that in a reasonably free society it's quite feasible to get away with lots of crime, if you're smart enough. There is no stopping this. Especially if it's a crime which doesn't leave a whole lot behind in terms of physical evidence. Downloading an OS is one such thing. Sure, if you seize my phone, you could prove it runs Graphene. But in a free society, you need probable cause for that, sorry. And if I am some major criminal, and Graphene stops my criminal enterprise from being proven, in a free society that's always preferable to getting busted, because the punishment for using graphene is gonna be meaningless compared to the punishment I'm avoiding by using it. Because a free society includes a protection against disproportionate punishments for minor crimes. Sure I'll pay your $500 fine to avoid 20 years in prison. Cost of doing business.

Once you realise this, you realise the only way to tackle crime is by legalising as many of them as possible, as long as they're not actively and unambiguously violating people's rights. Murder and other violent acts, obviously stay illegal. Drugs, prostitution etc? Legalise them. That's most of the crime right there, because these classes of crime actually provide something that's in wide popular demand. Demand + black market pricing + lack of taxes means lots of money, and money means power to create strong criminal organisations that can do whatever they want with impunity, including influencing politics. With all that out the window, all you have left is a bunch of individuals going at it alone; murdering psychopaths, desperate poor people, the mentally ill, crimes of passion, sex crimes, etc. And you just freed up a ton of societal resources to channel into those vestiges, both via targeted, intelligent policing and broader societal reforms that target the sociological processes that cause these kinds of crime(like wealth inequality, to name one).

Instead, what we get is a never ending arms race towards a totalitarian society. Oh well, see you after the next revolution, I guess.
by creakingstairs | 2025-07-24 00:09:14+00:00
"""

Luminae AI

Hack Your Medical Account Receivables

Luminae AI accurately predicts your uninsured patient's asset values so that you can quickly write off bad debts and only chase those with high asset values. Luminae AI will increase your net collection rate by at least 15%.

"It's a game changer, we've increased our gross collection rate by 30%. We've also started a new business to flip foreclosed homes nearby."

- John Smith

"""

BRB applying to YC
by imoverclocked | 2025-07-24 00:09:51+00:00
> What else is lurking that you and I aren’t aware of?

All of systemd... and network manager/modem manager/...

I grew up with static configuration files, init scripts, inetd, etc... then grew into Solaris smf, dtrace, zones ... and then Linux implemented systemd. I really miss smf and related tools but systemd is still just meh to me. The implementation feels like a somewhat half-in-each-world brainchild.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-24 00:10:16+00:00
> How many US companies are donating more than 10k to perl? Or even that much?

Craigslist used to donate $100k per month until 2017.

Perl has been a member of Google Summer of Code for several years now

And Duck Duck Go (based in Pittsburg) recently donated $25k [0] (imo they could have donated more, but something is better than nothing)

[0] - https://spreadprivacy.com/2024-duckduckgo-charitable-donatio...
by dvt | 2025-07-24 00:10:47+00:00
Antifragile means that whenever something bad happens to the system (i.e. an airplane crash), the system gets stronger by design. A robust system is just a system that is resistant to bad stuff happening (but does not necessarily improve once it happens, or at least it's not built that way).

I'd argue that most Western government institutions (say, governments that have been around for 200+ years) are what you'd call "robust"; likely churches (the Catholic Church, since it's quite centralized), as well.

"Fragile" systems are systems like the Prisoner's Dilemma, the Tragedy of the Commons, tenuous alliances, societies/industries that are constantly in turmoil, etc.
by andsoitis | 2025-07-24 00:11:29+00:00
> Yeah, they're going to do all they can to block cheap renewables and give handouts to fossil fuel companies.

Many AI people in positions of influence have argued that AI will all but solve the climate crisis.

Viewed from that angle, it would make sense that you wouldn’t care about how dirty the sources of energy is on the way to AGI because once there, the climate crisis will be magically solved. Somehow.
by ofalkaed | 2025-07-24 00:12:15+00:00
I have only researched this from the standpoint of going there by private boat which is different and has some extra work including getting approval from the USCG but what I picked up about general travel is that doing the paper work allows you to take a direct flight, can save you from headaches down the line and offers some protection from headaches caused by how this changes in the future. What changed is how the law is enforced, not the law itself and this changes every decade or so.
by stevage | 2025-07-24 00:13:28+00:00
The enormous difference from an infrastructure standpoint is where the arrows are happening and how much effort it is.

> OSM Database -> PNGs

This is a tile rendering farm. It takes a lot of compute power and has to be redone every time a style changes or data changes.

> OSM Database -> Vector Tiles

This is a relatively cheap data extraction process. It has to be redone when data changes.

> PNGs -> Your screen

This is extremely simple.

> Vector Tiles -> Your Screen

This is pretty complex and hard to do fast. Mapbox GL JS is the leader here and they have put a lot of resources into doing it well and fast. Maplibre GL JS is the fork, which is decent, and there are also Leaflet and OpenLayers options.

Source: This is basically my life for the last 10 years.
by em-bee | 2025-07-24 00:13:38+00:00
thank you for that answer. yes oracle is well hmm :-o

alpine feels a bit to opinionated for my taste. i just found this though: https://mrgecko.org/blog/2024/add-btrfs-support-to-rocky-and... centos has a SIG that provides kernels with btrfs which can be used with alma and rocky. that sounds promising.
by Henchman21 | 2025-07-24 00:13:46+00:00
I think you may have misread this: For some reason, too many tech workers think they are some kind of top 1% of tech workers

They’re saying too many erroneously believe they are part of the top 1% of their field. They’re thinking they’re better than they actually are. And so, mistakenly, it follows that unions are of no use to these top performers.
by BrenBarn | 2025-07-24 00:14:01+00:00
That's true, I've seen more of that kind of thing as well. Film music (sometimes a live orchestra accompanying a movie) is another similar thing. I suppose it's true that that provides an income stream for the orchestra, but personally I do actually like classical music. :-) So I hope they can keep that up as well and not just shift to 100% pop/film/etc.
by parpfish | 2025-07-24 00:14:41+00:00
This is a very-HN way of describing it, but one way I conceptualize my list-making is memoization/function caching.

My brain already went through the hard work of figuring out what to do, so I should cache that result in the todo list. later I can do a quick O(1) lookup of what do and use all of my focus on doing that.
by giantg2 | 2025-07-24 00:15:37+00:00
"The "fast tracking" accusation is not credible without evidence."

It was approved in a flury of approvals between the election and inauguration. So that's not direct evidence. However, do you have direct evidence that the revocation was just based on it being renewable? Sure, there's circumstantial evidence of it. If there's circumstantial evidence for both positions, we need some hard evidence to support either one.
by stevage | 2025-07-24 00:15:48+00:00
For anyone who wants to actually try the new layer, it's called "Shortbread" and can be accessed under the layers selector. Or use this link: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map&layers=S

The blog post could do a better job of surfacing that bit!

You can compare it to the existing vector tile layer created by MapTiler, which mimics the classic raster tile style: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map&layers=V
by johnfn | 2025-07-24 00:16:41+00:00
Ooh, I really like this. I have spent quite a while scrolling the page and internally going "yes! this guy gets it!" after reading a particularly good line.

If you want feedback, I think you should take the bit you said about "you're probably using the wrong dictionary" and put that right at the top as a sort of summary of the intent of your word of the day. It really helps contextualize what you're doing. For context, I have a strong prior (hey, that could be a wotd) that word of the day is some random garbage, and I spent a long time reading your site before I understood what your intent was, and why it is so much better than all existing wotds.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-07-24 00:17:00+00:00
> thing with a point to it.

I'm less caring about which services are watched or games are played. But intentionality is key. The decision is made before the action is started as to what the point of the time is.

Don't get me wrong, "looking to zone out for 30mins due to a tiring day" is as valid as anything else - I'm not some kind of "always be hustling" guy.

But just turning something on mindlessly is not allowed.
by dap | 2025-07-24 00:17:12+00:00
>> If you ran into a problem like this on ZFS, for example, you'd have very high confidence about whether the disk was at fault > Would we, though? I'll admit to not being that familiar with ZFS's internals, but I'd be a bit surprised if its checksums can detect lost writes.

Yup. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Data_integrity:

> One major feature that distinguishes ZFS from other file systems is that it is designed with a focus on data integrity by protecting the user's data on disk against silent data corruption caused by data degradation, power surges (voltage spikes), bugs in disk firmware, phantom writes (the previous write did not make it to disk), misdirected reads/writes (the disk accesses the wrong block), DMA parity errors between the array and server memory or from the driver (since the checksum validates data inside the array), driver errors (data winds up in the wrong buffer inside the kernel), accidental overwrites (such as swapping to a live file system), etc.

(end of quote)

It does this by maintaining the data checksums within the tree that makes up the filesystem's structure. Any time nodes in the tree refer to data that's on disk, they also include the expected checksum of that data. That's recursive up to the root of the tree. So any time it needs data from disk, it knows when that data is not correct.

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> More generally, I'm not entirely sure how practical it would be to add verification at all layers of the stack, as you seem to be suggesting.

Yeah, it definitely could be a lot of work. (Dealing with data corruption in production once it's happened is also a lot of work!) It depends on the application and how much awareness of this problem was baked into its design. An RDBMS being built today could easily include a checksum mechanism like ZFS and it looks like CockroachDB does include something like this (just as an example). Adding this to PostgreSQL today could be a huge undertaking, for all I know. I've seen plenty of other applications (much simpler than PostgreSQL, though some still fairly complex) that store bits of data on disk and do include checksums to detect corruption.
by jayd16 | 2025-07-24 00:19:28+00:00
The two biggest for-sale engines have their implementations as well as what others have posted.

Unity ECS (has a pretty good general introduction to ECS) https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities@1.3/man...

Unreal https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...
by cogman10 | 2025-07-24 00:19:50+00:00
You can always give yourself a blind taste test. Get two (or more) opaque bottles, add the various rums in test, mark the bottom of the container for the type of rum, mix it up and see if you can reliably tell the difference.

My assumption is you could because that oak flavor is pretty strong, but who knows.

Worst case scenario is you find out you still prefer expense alcohol :)
by sershe | 2025-07-24 00:20:24+00:00
People always talk about shareholder value like it's some outrageous weird thing. Really, shareholders are just.. owners. And managers are their agents.

Let's say you hire a general contractor to remodel your house. How would you feel about him doing what's good for society without consulting you - e.g. buying sustainable material that is more expensive, or locally sourced material that is less durable or less safe? Or hiring more workers like they do on NYC construction projects cause it's good for labor? Especially if it's something you disagree with, like he's maga and refuses to hire cheaper immigrants, giving preference to disgraced former cops. When the bill comes with all the extra costs, hed just say he's not working for the owner value but for the good of society as he sees it :)
by progmetaldev | 2025-07-24 00:20:44+00:00
This is exactly why I use Debian when I install Linux. I want something that will keep chugging along, yet may not have the most cutting edge software. I can take my time with the system, and know that it is solid.

If I need newer software that isn't in their package repository, I understand that I have the ability to compile what I need, or at least make an active decision to modify my system to run what I want. Basically, the possibility of instability is a conscious choice for me, which I do sometimes take.
by cxr | 2025-07-24 00:21:01+00:00
You're dug in, but none of this is what the linked paper is about (perversely).

It's about students who are literally unable to parse sentence structure and grasp what's being described in a scene—ones who think that Michaelmas Term is the name of a character and that the image of a hypothetical Megolasaurus walking up the street is an actual dinosaur in the scene.

Try reading the paper linked here to see what the discussion is about, rather than (as the authors of the paper criticize) just guessing at what they should have meant.
by wbnns | 2025-07-24 00:21:13+00:00
Some people will fold, while others continue to hold or buy the dip

Bear case: Solar flare or thermonuclear war/nuclear winter puts us back a century without an internet, which in effect turns off crypto for everyone

Bull case: It all becomes ubiquitous, everyone holds it in some form and as to the technology behind it, people don't even realize they're using it everyday to easily maintain their digital sovereignty
by nerdsniper | 2025-07-24 00:21:21+00:00
“Internal” temperatures are measured near a single point. Some internal, watery, parts will be hotter than other internal, watery, parts. On average, the temperature goes down over time even if it increases in some local parts.

So the average pressure will decrease.

(Yes, for an ideal cavity, pressure is equal everywhere, but for meat which contains highly tortured paths and a three-phase state mixture for the vapors to escape from - there can be different pressures in different areas especially once there’s any flow at all)
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-24 00:22:06+00:00
> The manufacturing cost is emphatically not only 1% of the total development cost.

I have no idea what is the manufacturing cost of a 800 mm^2 die is, but I am sure it is lower than the development cost.

> Particularly for GPUs, the high bandwidth memory and manufacturing costs are a significant portion of the product price.

HBM is not manufactured by the GPU vendor, it is an off-the-shelf component that AMD buys like any other company can. Thus, the cost of HBM is tallied in the BOM and integration costs (interposer, packaging, etc).
by zapzupnz | 2025-07-24 00:24:32+00:00
And yet macOS Tahoe reverses a lot of "getting rid of desktop design patterns", such as Launch Pad (which emulates the iPadOS home screen) being replaced by a more generic list of apps using the same interface as Spotlight.

Again, I think what people see as "getting rid of desktop design patterns" in macOS is mostly aesthetic. Mac apps remain Mac apps, they retain all the aspects of their interfaces that make them Mac apps.

More evidence in the way iPadOS 26 adopts certain aspects of the macOS interface, but does them in an iPadOS-oriented way that you wouldn't really say the two OS are converging, more that they're doing really weird impressions of each other — but underneath the grease paint, the same actors as always remain, each with their strengths.

(In saying that, System Settings is an abomination)
by aoeusnth1 | 2025-07-24 00:24:51+00:00
Yes, Google uses trunk based development for almost everything. Even Android is now on trunk based development (previously a branchy mess) and heavily uses sets of feature flags for promotion / demotion through quality lifecycles.

I’m not sure why TBD should have anything to do with code reviews. You aren’t able to submit to main without first uploading a change or stack of changes to code reviews, then you submit the changes after they are approved. That has absolutely nothing to do with your branching model. Just think of it as a rebase request instead of a pull request. PR was always the wrong terminology anyway.
by vohk | 2025-07-24 00:24:53+00:00
Mainly I don't think Proton is serious competitor here. I'm not sure there is much of a market demand for mediocre white labelled LLMs priced at a premium. I can see it carving a bit of a niche with privacy-focused customers already in their ecosystem, but I don't see this taking off for them.

I echo the parent comment. I'm really on a Proton user for email and VPN. The quality drops off rather quickly after that. Calendar, Drive, Pass, and Wallet are all adequate at best; their primary selling point is not being Google rather than being particularly well built or supported. I would rather see them focus on being a truly competitive ecosystem.

I'm also not terribly impressed at the way they've positioned Lumo as a separate service from the existing Scribe AI features, and so conveniently not part of Ultimate plans.
by marcusb | 2025-07-24 00:25:09+00:00
And Meathead over at Amazing Ribs[0]. Their explanation[1] for the "stall" (evaporative cooling) in smoking large cuts of meat is great as well.

0 - https://amazingribs.com/more-technique-and-science/more-cook...

1 - https://amazingribs.com/more-technique-and-science/more-cook...
by slg | 2025-07-24 00:25:35+00:00
>Why can't I just chat with an AI bot and get my prescription?

Because people have decided that whatever drug you are taking shouldn't be taken without a doctor's oversight. If you have a problem with that conclusion, the response should be lobbying to get that drug reclassified as safe for over-the-counter sale, not completely removing the doctor's oversight from the prescription process. Ironically, your proposal here is using AI to treat the symptom that frustrates you without any attempt to diagnose or treat the actual root cause of the problem.
by hluska | 2025-07-24 00:25:47+00:00
Five Eyes is (or was, as its status is undetermined) an intelligence sharing agreement between the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Each nation has to abide by its own constitution and intelligence gathering limits. For example, the United States generally refrains from sharing intelligence on American citizens with other Five Eyes partners. Canada generally won’t share information on people who only hold Canadian citizenship, etc.

Couldn’t you have googled that?