MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lenerdenator | 2025-07-24 21:26:26+00:00
> It's a failure of the will to do the right thing for both the shareholders and the country.

They've been doing the exact right thing for the shareholders: squeezing the living shit out of an asset (x86/64) for decades while cutting anything interesting or competitive to the bone to give shareholders more money. Money spent on something that could really have been competitive is money not sent to the retirement fund that keeps John and Jane Q. Public swinging in more ways than one at their golf course retirement community in Florida.

The problem is, you can only do that for so long. There is a minimum spend to remain a competitive company with regard to being able to market products to consumers. Executives don't have a fiduciary duty to create the best possible product for consumers to look at and potentially buy in the marketplace, but they do have a fiduciary duty to shareholders to meet an earnings projection. If these two activities can coexist peacefully, great. If not, the first activity stops while the company gets gutted.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-07-24 21:26:49+00:00
Chandler Carruth told a similar story in one of his talks.

He met Ken Thompson and saw beautiful C code for the first time because he had encountered a performance problem in a service. The service had to choose a policy to enforce (or something) based on the incoming request. It was taking too long to match the criteria of each potential policy against the request.

Ken wrote a finite automata based pattern matcher that would simultaneously advance through all of the policies' predicates. It was perfect, and it was much faster than the existing code.

Then somebody noticed that 99.9% of requests matched a particular policy, so they changed the existing code to just check that predicate first, and the code sped up a zillion times, much more than with Ken's solution.
by johngalt | 2025-07-24 21:27:25+00:00
Intel has been cooked for years. Observable back in 2017, but more visible today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14588429

The top of the market will go GPU and the bottom will go ARM, and the middle will be an ever shrinking x86 market share. The few places that will need heavy CPU resources will be the same people who can apply pressure to Intel's margins.

The process of chip making will look very similar in the future, but the brand of the CPU will matter less every year. Intel's not "dead in five years", but Intel will definitely cross the point of no return in that timeframe. Shifting a big company's focus is more difficult than growing another company who already has the right focus.
by Yoric | 2025-07-24 21:27:50+00:00
> To be fair that thirst probably comes from people who aren’t seeing the gains the hype would lead you to believe and are reaching into the void to not feel like they’re taking crazy pills.

Yes, exactly!

I've spent way too much time trying to get anything remotely close to an LLM writing useful code. Yeah, I'm sure it can speed up writing code that I can write in my sleep, but I want it to write code I can learn from, and so far, my success rate is ~0 (although the documentation along the bogus code is sometimes a good starting point).

Having my timelines filled by people who basically claim that I'm just an idiot for failing to achieve that? Yeah, it's craze-inducing.

Every time I see research that appears to confirm the hype, I see a huge hole in the protocol.

Now finally, some research confirming my observations? It feels so good!
by giantg2 | 2025-07-24 21:28:54+00:00
"But Sig Sauer has stated that the M18 military version did not have those problems."

More lies and misdirection on Sig's part. The only mechanical difference is really the manual safety (which works on the trigger and not on the striker), and if we're being generous the second would be the spanner screw. They should have the upgraded FCU, but in the civilian world there are still reports of the issue even after the upgrade.
by panki27 | 2025-07-24 21:29:50+00:00
If modern EDR systems are so great without relying on classical signature matching, then why are they still doing it? Why do they keep fetching "definition databases" as often as possible?

... because it's the only thing that somewhat works. From my personal experience, the heuristic and "AI-based" approaches lead to so many false positives, it's not even worth pursuing them.

The best AV remains and will always be common sense.
by cma | 2025-07-24 21:30:10+00:00
> There were people walking nature trails with nobody around with their masks securely on their faces.

Rogan got really worried about masks and health and at the same time was for instance having a guy on who does underwater weight lifting for training NBA players and gave him the highest praise and started advertising his tumeric coffee. Were masks during that kind of activity really harmful to people but underwater weight lifting and extreme in-sauna exercize good?

If California had held their restrictions a month or two longer until the vaccine they would have had many less deaths.
by ripped_britches | 2025-07-24 21:30:11+00:00
I think you are greatly misinformed.

China has literally millions (tens of millions?) of hardworking engineers that do their job and get a paycheck

NK has zero of these people. They are basically a sovereign crime syndicate. They get hired and then extort or exfiltrate from their employers.

You might be exposed to some of the rampant anti-Chinese propaganda.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-07-24 21:30:13+00:00
>violations that result in administrative action are permanent with no chance of appeal. Any funds on the account will not be eligible for payout.

This is just theft, no? I'm sure they've got a ToS that lets them do whatever they want, but it's nevertheless ironic to commit an actual immoral act in order to prevent depictions of immoral[1] acts. If they don't want people making money off of this stuff on their platform, they need to stop it before they allow the developer to sell their work to a customer there.

[1] Presumably this includes, eg., consensual BDSM, which I wouldn't consider immoral. But then, I'm not Australian, so what right do I have to determine what other people should be allowed to do?
by BHSPitMonkey | 2025-07-24 21:30:20+00:00
I've installed untold thousands of .deb packages in my lifetime - often "officially" packaged by Debian or Ubuntu, but in many cases also from a software vendor's own apt repository.

Almost every one contains preinst or postinst scripts that are run as root, and yet I can count on zero hands the number of times I've opened one up first to see what it was actually doing.

At least a curlbash that doesn't prompt me for my password is running as an unprivileged user! /shrug
by kgeist | 2025-07-24 21:30:26+00:00
A friend of mine recently quit his job because the CEO insisted on personally reviewing and approving designs. The thing is, as a CEO, he was super busy with other CEO stuff, so my friend could only get small time slots, like 5 to 15 minutes every few days.

Each time, the CEO would give tons of small, random suggestions, then disappear for several days before reviewing again. He'd request more tweaks, then repeat the cycle. Because of all this back and forth, even simple tasks that should've taken a couple of days ended up dragging on for a month.

In the end, my friend got so frustrated with the whole process that he just quit.
by quickthrowman | 2025-07-24 21:30:29+00:00
This has absolutely zero effect on Visa and Mastercard, they exist to make money and they’ll process any dollars they can, provided the chargeback and fraud rate is low enough. In the case of porn, it isn’t.

They’d probably need to charge merchants 5-10% fees to cover the fraud and chargebacks on porn sites.

Again, Visa and MC arent declining on ethical grounds, it’s not profitable for them without gouging merchants on processing fees.
by recursive | 2025-07-24 21:30:41+00:00
I don't know about possible, but I'm sure the Michael Phelps regimen is wildly impractical for everyone, including Michael Phelps.

My personal experience is that "outrunning" a poor diet is absolutely possible, and I kind of did it unintentionally. I started biking to work out of necessity. I wasn't planning to lose weight, but it happened. I had no weight loss ambitions or plans, but it was probably a good thing.
by Anamon | 2025-07-24 21:30:55+00:00
It works for people who don't really look at the code, or try to understand what the LLM spat out. It's right there in this article: if it compiles and runs, just commit and push.

They usually don't write this kind of blog post anymore after they tried to vibe-code an extension or modification onto their vibe-coded application.

There was a good one on HN a while ago, though, of someone who decided to actually take a look at their vibe-coded codebase, finding an unbelievable mess of inconsistencies and redundancies.

People who just want to put something together and hate programming can be fine with this. Anyone who wants to build something clean that actually lasts, won't.
by andoando | 2025-07-24 21:31:07+00:00
I mean most of the anti-smoking, weight-loss, campaigns are focused on trying to convince people thats its bad for you because it increases the chance of lung cancer, or heart morbidity. Ergo, you shouldn't do them because you won't live as long.

Instead, I think we need to focus on "you'll feel better, like right now".
by bsder | 2025-07-24 21:32:49+00:00
This is precisely it.

Consuming a bunch of calories is super easy and quick. That tiny snack bag of chips that you can scarf down in three bites in less than a minute? Yep, 200 calories.

Burning that 200 calories off? Basically a 30-60 minute workout.

Not eating those chips is WAY easier than trying to burn them off after the fact.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-07-24 21:33:42+00:00
Because Best Korea is politically/diplomatically permissible. No one gives a shit if the North Korean government is painted as the bad guy (maybe not even the North Korean government!).

However, this is 110% the opposite for China and the Chinese government. They are not permissible as the bad guy. So much so that it scuttled a Hollywood reboot of an action movie a decade ago (Red Dawn). Hollywood is on a short leash, but don't be fooled into thinking the capitulation ends there. Even our own politicians know better. If one were generous (I'm not inclined towards generosity) one might wonder if the politicians know that our economy is hostage to the CCP and do not wish to see us harmed, but the more likely explanation is that there's soft corruption that persuades them to sell us down the river.

The Chinese have worked hard, tirelessly even, for more than half a century, to make it very difficult to say anything bad about them without repercussions, even in countries far outside China's obvious sphere of influence. North Korea needs to invest in global propaganda efforts if it wishes to get off the jerkwar list...
by exiguus | 2025-07-24 21:33:46+00:00
Is this because they have now more then 50 user per square mile [1]?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/18/starlin... https://www.ookla.com/articles/starlink-hughesnet-viasat-per... (PDF) https://thexlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Starlink_Anal...
by Prunkton | 2025-07-24 21:33:53+00:00
Since the headline is about gaming distros: I'm on a quiet similar OS for like 2 years now, Garuda. Also tuned for performance/gaming, arch based, btrfs etc. Biggest differences will probably be the zen kernel, pre installed gaming utils like lutris, fan control etc. and a probably less performant but highly customized default style.

Its a curated version of Arch, releases drop in with a ~2w delay. It's brutally stable. As I said, I'm running the first installation for almost 2y now, doing my updates (everything comes with GUI support) daily to weekly and I faced one single hick up so far. I resolved it on the most user friendly way, picked the last snapshot during the boot (it automatically created before the update) and it acted like nothing ever happened. BTRFS with Timeshift works like magic for these rare edge cases.

I wonder how it compares to CachyOS, will definitely test it in a few weeks on my laptop
by jjcm | 2025-07-24 21:33:58+00:00
As mentioned in the article, this is primarily the result of a campaign from Collective Shout: https://www.collectiveshout.org/open-letter-to-payment-proce...

What isn't mentioned is there are some pushbacks against this. If you're opposed to credit card companies being able to effectively deem what is and isn't legal to purchase, consider supporting one of these efforts:

The ACLU has an open letter to Mastercard urging them to reverse this action, with the primary messaging that deplatforming sex workers makes their jobs more dangerous: https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-en...

There's also the Fair Access to Banking Act. The primary point of the bill is CC providers shouldn't be deciding legality of what can and cannot be paid for. This puts restrictions on any bank/payment provider with over 50b in assets to not be able to restrict payments to legal content: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/401

I'd definitely encourage you to either write to your representatives or sign the open letter if you're opposed to this.
by curious_cat_163 | 2025-07-24 21:34:48+00:00
Oh, I don't know. Maybe build chips that do things 10x more efficiently and sell them a lower cost to compete?

It _is_ a hype bubble but it is also an S-curve. Intel has missed the AI boat so far, if they are trying to catch up, I would encourage them to try. Building marginally better x86 chips might not cut it anymore.
by quickthrowman | 2025-07-24 21:35:11+00:00
Maybe the chargeback rate on porn games is lower than actual pornography, the credit card statement will just say “Steam” or “Valve” instead of ‘Monthly subscription to kink.com”.

Do you really think that Visa and MC are ethical organizations who listen to whiny Christian conservatives about porn? They’re giant money making machines, and porn is legal. If it was profitable, they’d allow it, their shareholders would demand it.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-07-24 21:35:14+00:00
We don't need to "ban" cars, removing parking minimums effectively does this in a friendlier way while allowing for some vehicles (only the most necessary) and vehicles where they are most needed (businesses will still build parking, just not a "required" excessive amount).

In fact removing parking minimums would probably do 50% of the work of this whole list. Combine that with mixed-use zoning, more units per lot (including reducing FAR/height limits) and narrower streets, and dare I say you are 80-90% of the way there. It only takes a few high-impact changes.
by benreesman | 2025-07-24 21:35:16+00:00
It's not actually good for the shareholders unless you have a divisor which is effort. Intel is a semiconductor company, investors that want to invest in treasuries or Exxon or whatever is considered extreme low-beta (ha, maybe not Exxon anymore, maybe Visa) have every opportunity to do so.

The most expensive, highest-margin, technically advanced and risky business in the world is for investors who want that in their portfolio. If they wanted to milk a dying industry on the way down they would go buy Disney stock.

It is very clearly in the interests of long-term investors in Intel to maintain a commanding position in fabrication: it's been the secret sauce of the company since the very beginning, it's never been more in demand.

This idea that companies are obligated to do what will deliver some little bump in the stock price in 90-180 days is everything from not how the rules work to just a lazy meme for people who don't want to earn their princely salaries.

Don't make excuses for weakness at the top.
by bgnn | 2025-07-24 21:35:22+00:00
800mm^2 die would roughly cost 300-350 usd axcoeding to [1]. That's the Taiwan price and dor N4. This doesn't include the memory or the package. The silicon cost for N3 is close to 2x.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/spitballing-...
by l-albertovich | 2025-07-24 21:35:43+00:00
Just for fun I reformatted it minimally in the conservative way I write code that is intended to be easy to read and understand to improve the odds of future contributors (or future me) introducing a bug in it due to misunderstanding it.

It's painfully verbose but I think it's worth it considering that we're in 2025 and we're not limited to one character variable names.

https://gist.github.com/leonardo-albertovich/984fff0825ff8fe...
by OutOfHere | 2025-07-24 21:37:00+00:00
I advise users to just abandon async in Python for long term success because the future of Python is free-threaded, and async is inherently single-threaded. Even if you don't need multiple threads now, your CPU will thank you later when you do, saving you a full rewrite. With Python 3.14, free-threading is an established optional feature of Python.
by crooked-v | 2025-07-24 21:37:19+00:00
> sign the open letter

> By completing and submitting this form, I agree to receive emails, and, if I have entered a phone number, phone calls and texts (including automated recurring text messages) from the ACLU and its state affiliates at the contacts I provided.

Fuck no. I get enough of that "YOU MUST DONATE IMMEDIATELY OR THE WORLD WILL EXPLODE" shit 24/7 already.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-24 21:38:40+00:00
Since they specify a section of their city, I think they just mean fully pedestrianizing that section by blocking off some streets with bollards, letting people roam the full street, letting restaurants put out tables.

While you're talking about how to transform a city more systemically.

It is kinda crazy to see parts of cities where hundreds of people are confined to sidewalks on a Friday night waiting to cross a street for the convenience of a tiny fraction of people who insist on driving. Every city has at least a few blocks that make sense to block off from cars.
by constantcrying | 2025-07-24 21:39:00+00:00
This is absurd. Seriously, read the EULA: https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix/blob/main/OSMFEULA.txt

This fee only governs the binaries compiled directly by the company. You can "circumvent" this license by building the software yourself, or having someone else build the software.

Right now I can click the download button on their github build, what then? They do not even link to to the EULA there, yet the EULA stipulates that this exchange requires me to pay money to them. The github statement stipulates that paying money requires me to first pay the maintenance fee, which is not part of the EULA, why? What is the point.

Here is a tip: If you want to make money, make it easy to give you money. Right now any legitimate company has to fear walking into legal troubles with this. Can you imagine how the discussion with accounting is going to go?
by jackdawipper | 2025-07-24 21:39:01+00:00
pull back the layers. This is the usual masking of the facts. A rose by any other name... is after money.

FOSS is destroyed the moment that is introduced to the mix. Its like political sells - begin pushing a small degree, they wont notice the temperature as it rises over time until its closed source and corporate.

This is how you kill off FOSS, or your project. "corporate creep" I call it.
by samrus | 2025-07-24 21:39:19+00:00
No im saying that agnetic AI itself is software. The parts that require hardware is just the neural network. The agentic part is all in software. So how does intel focus on agentic AI beyond just making better datacenter gpus? That like a farmer saying they're gonna focus on wedding cakes; they make wheat, the wehat will get used for whatever demand exists down the line, they can only focus on making the best wheat they can?

Is this just marketing?
by raydev | 2025-07-24 21:39:30+00:00
Not sharing what our coding questions are, but we also allow LLMs now. Interviewees choice to do so.

In quite a few interviews in the last year I have come away convinced that they would have performed far better if they had relied on their own knowledge/experience exclusively. Fumbling with windows/tabs, not quite reading what they are copying, if I ask why they chose something, some of them would fold immediately and opt for something way better or more sensible, implying they would have known what to do had they bothered to actually think for a moment.

I put down "no hire" for all of them of course.
by edwardbernays | 2025-07-24 21:39:40+00:00
Payment processors will refuse to service payments for fictional harm, but will happily help people support a fascist[1]. If we're going to censor things, we should at least censor the actual, out-and-out, self-admitted fascists. Icky games with fictionalized harm do not seem to result in real harm, yet we have a very recent history showing the harm of real-life fascism. What a strange standard!

[1] https://www.givesendgo.com/rift-connor-emergency-fund
by jiggawatts | 2025-07-24 21:39:41+00:00
I consult for large bureaucracies where this kind of thing is occasionally enforced.

There’s nothing more fun than a carefully thought out cohesive design that takes into account all business and technical constraints being randomly “improved” by a too-busy senior manager who’s been “off the tools” for decades.

“You should switch to NoSQL.” — a nearly verbatim quote from a meeting just last week. No justification or elaboration, just… abandon a relational database platform with two decades of built up business value on a whim.

“Rejoice! For you have been managed!”
by mullingitover | 2025-07-24 21:40:07+00:00
It'll never happen. It's the standard US playbook:

- Allow industry to consolidate to a tiny group of winners, or just one winner

- Turn a blind eye to anticompetitive behavior in the marketplace

- Protect the uncompetitive winner from innovative global competitors

- Bail it out because national security depends on it

It's funny because we don't have socialism, government doesn't 'own' heavy industries, but at the same time the major firms will obviously never be allowed to fail on national security grounds.
by znpy | 2025-07-24 21:40:08+00:00
+1 for undernourishment.

Discovered that as a broken uni student, and has become my goto fix to lose weight. Lost 10-11kgs over the last year by means of that. The occasional “cheat” (mostly social events really) slows the process down but don’t really stop it. It’s not really a fast process though… but it strongly depends on how under nourished you are and how active you are. For me keeping myself between 8000 and 10’000 steps a day was sufficient.
by rybosworld | 2025-07-24 21:40:08+00:00
Rant:

There are too many companies out there that started with a good product/service - and then bureaucrats took over. Smart companies minimize layers of management, and manager headcount. Bad companies don't - and they eventually are unable to grow/innovate. A shockingly high percentage of corporate America is parasitic management.

Intel happens to be in an industry that moves so fast that this doesn't work for long, relatively.
by mlsu | 2025-07-24 21:40:30+00:00
Another flipflop. Canceling the Germany fab, bringing SMT back.

> Looking further ahead, we’re developing Intel 14A as a foundry node from the ground up in close partnership with large external customers. This is essential to designing a process that meets specific customer requirements and enables us to address a broader segment of the market. Going forward, our investment in Intel 14A will be based on confirmed customer commitments. There are no more blank checks. Every investment must make economic sense. We will build what our customers need, when they need it, and earn their trust through consistent execution.

are these large external customers in the room with us right now?