MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheAlchemist | 2025-08-27 02:21:11+00:00
I always thought only tech people were interested in it.

But 2 years ago, I've talked to an old school, rather wealthy guy, and he was explaining to me that he always invested conservatively but he wants to buy Tesla stock, because Musk said they started producing Optimus robots and next year they will have thousands of those in the factory and all Tesla factory workers could be fired.

Yep, Musk knows exactly what he's doing overhyping his companies. The stock is the product.
by craftkiller | 2025-08-27 02:21:13+00:00
That article is from before Intel started to decline. Quoting the end of that article:

> Intel is already the best microprocessor manufacturing company in the world

Intel was not driving themselves into the dirt if they are the best in their field. Instead, I'd suggest looking at when the process nodes were achieved:

| | Someone Else | Intel | Lead | |------+----------------+-------+------| | 32nm | 2011 (Samsung) | 2009 | 2 | | 22nm | 2013 (IBM) | 2011 | 2 | | 14nm | 2015 (Samsung) | 2014 | 1 | | 10nm | 2017 (Samsung) | 2018 | -1 | | 7nm | 2018 (TSMC) | 2021 | -3 |

Seems almost exactly a decade ago that Intel lost their lead and fell behind the competition.
by Marsymars | 2025-08-27 02:24:12+00:00
I used an MS Ergonomic for 10+ years at the office and a Kinesis Advantage for a similar amount of time at my home office. I'm now entirely home-based, and plan to use the Kinesis Advantage until it's no longer an option.

I'm on my second Kinesis. Something about the function key connection (they're on separate boards internally) made them start failing intermittently after 3-4 years. After the third failure Kinesis had discontinued the replacement parts and I replaced the whole keyboard with a newer revision that has redesigned function keys which are going strong so far.

Kinesis supports key remapping if that's a thing you need.
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-27 02:24:42+00:00
This was the Rabbit R1's connundrum. Uber/DoorDash/Spotify have APIs for external integration, but they require business deals and negociations.

So how to evade talking to the service's business people ? Provide a chain of Rube Goldberg machines to somewhat use these services as if it was the user. It can then be touted as flexibility, and blame the state of technology when it inevitably breaks, if it even worked in the first place.
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-27 02:25:04+00:00
Im glad she stepped away from Asahi linux. Its absolutely great from a techincal perspective and the progress that team has made, but talented people like her shouldn't be trying to reverse engineer software/hardware from shitty anti-consumer company that can make the entire project work in a heartbeat by publishing documentation, in lieu of building better stuff from the ground up.
by 14 | 2025-08-27 02:25:16+00:00
Because we are too busy making ethanol to add to gasoline so that motorcycle mechanics and small engine mechanics are guaranteed to have unlimited work every spring.

In a more serious response almost all questions like yours can boil down to economics. You can be certain if there is a way make something at a profit someone will jump in and make it happen. If there is no money in it you can expect that even if it is more environmentally friendly it may be part of research but not going to be implemented unless it becomes profitable.
by dancrystalbeach | 2025-08-27 02:25:28+00:00
I can no longer hold the boiling and frothing mess of righteous anger that starts to rumble up from within me when I hear the words “Medallion Architecture” in the context of Data Modeling, especially when it’s used by some young Engineer who doesn’t know any better. Poor saps who have been born into a Databricks world where that fresh, supple mind has been polluted and twisted by the machinations of a marketing department.
by dangus | 2025-08-27 02:26:54+00:00
I think you are making up a scenario that is not real.

You assume Framework will just abandon models willy nilly and make slight model line changes to break compatibility like moving from 16” to 17”, but in reality they have no track record of doing that.

The original 13” model has been around for 5+ years and it’s been 100% forward and backward compatible through multiple iterations of parts. Framework has never discontinued a product line.

Obviously we can’t predict the future.
by nsomani | 2025-08-27 02:27:20+00:00
Hey friends, I was originally interested in a slightly adjacent space related to traversing a complex tree of actions in a web app: https://x.com/paulg/status/1897338753590653000?s=46

I open-sourced this repo to (1) identify all of the clickable components in a web app using `computer-use-preview`, (2) traverse the tree of actions using Browserbase/Stagehand, then (3) generate a reasonable MCP interface using GPT-5: https://github.com/neelsomani/web2mcp

Here's an example of it running on a demo app: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dy5lllRKkc7_usiiwsdOEMQTbdq...

Less trivial example where it generates a video using Hedra Character 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JeFidakOB8NYyB7LfrgPum40Pce...

You just need to set your login credentials in the .env file as specified in the README. Let me know if you have any questions - happy to share reasoning on the design!
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 02:27:46+00:00
I read this Musk biography a few years ago: https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future/dp/...

I don't think he's short of technical skill. I think he is a genius, and I think he's sincere in his desire to make humanity multiplanetary.

I recommend reading the biography to get the facts that aren't penetrating your bubble.

I think Musk is going kind of insane due to ketamine abuse, bipolar disorder, and/or whatever caused his father to go insane around his current age.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PaL38q9a4e8Bzsh3S/elon-musk-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/ketamine-...
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-27 02:28:47+00:00
When a a language gets a word from another language, linguists call it either a loanword or a borrowed word. They're odd terms, because loaning and borrowing mean it'll be given back, which isn't expected when a langauge adopts a word from a different language.

Japan loves to give words back to English though, with cosplay, anime, emoticon, and now micom all originally being from English, then used in Japanese, and brought back to English from their Japanese form.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-08-27 02:29:18+00:00
The backward hardware in my 2020 car has plateaued at driving me driveway-to-parking-lot on 100% of my drives in recent history. It’s a pretty nice plateau, really.

(I admit I’m mocking your wording; in fact it has not plateaued. Just every update makes things slightly smoother in non-safety-critical ways.)
by c0balt | 2025-08-27 02:29:40+00:00
I looked at the source code because I was interested in what template/backend was used and the header contains a `<meta name="twitter:site" content="@lovable_dev" />`. As far as I know this is an artifact from lovable.dev, a generative AI tool for website vibe coding, and this does link to lovables twitter account.

Note: the website has been updated since my original comment, notably the points on layout/design have been mostly fixed. The lovable tag has stayed through both iterations.
by pmontra | 2025-08-27 02:30:20+00:00
I never had problems with precision on HP high end models, Windows XP up to 2008 and several Ubuntu versions since then to 2022, then Debian.

I own an nc8430 and a ZBook 15 first generation. I use the lower row of three mouse buttons as left, middle and right click. Those touchpads don't move and don't bend. I disabled tap to click as buttons are much better and never move accidentally the pointer by design. Palm detection works very well, basically no issues. I use two finger scroll and pan. Several gestures work but I don't really like them. I disabled everything. I rather use keyboard shortcuts. I defined some of my own especially to navigate among virtual desktops.

There is still one ZBook Fury model with buttons, every other model lost them.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-27 02:30:47+00:00
These reductio ad absurdum arguments are wholly unpersuasive. The fact that there are some debatable gray areas in the DSMs seems like poor reasoning to throw the baby out with the bathwater. E.g. things like schizophrenia, OCD, major depressive disorder, etc. are so highly disruptive to the individuals involved that arguing that they shouldn't be disorders (or, contrary, that anything else is a disorder) feels like an unhelpful semantic game.
by mpyne | 2025-08-27 02:32:06+00:00
I agree that industrial policy is essential for a nation that wants to ensure that competitive industries exist within the nation's economy.

But the justification I replied to was that the nation must inherently suffer material inefficiencies for a nation to do this, due to how economies work, which is not the case (or at least, no real justification was offered other than the heuristic that larger firms are somehow inherently more efficient, which if anything is opposite to my experience in a very large org).

A nation might well implement an industrial policy so as to pessimize its local industries that survive, but that is not required to happen either.
by shibeprime | 2025-08-27 02:32:12+00:00
I’m more bullish on cryptographic receipts than on AI detectors. Capture signing (C2PA) plus an identity bind could give verifiable origin. The hard parts, in my view, are adoption and platform plumbing.

If we have a trust worthy way to verify proof-of-human made content than anything missing those creds would be red flags.

https://iptc.org/news/googles-pixel-10-phone-supports-c2pa-u...
by dotnet00 | 2025-08-27 02:32:26+00:00
I thought that while the spare tiles did exist, there was never an actual safe procedure for replacing tiles (that didn't require being docked to the ISS) they were only carried to be available when the choice was between losing the entire crew on reentry or risking a crew member?

I don't quite understand how the airplane shape made it easier to model the loading and positioning? (Not saying you're wrong, just doesn't fit my intuition and I'm curious).

My understanding is that Shuttle didn't have to answer the questions about tile gaps etc because it used glue rather than mechanical attachments, if that's what you mean by positioning.
by jonahbenton | 2025-08-27 02:32:30+00:00
Use them extensively in code analysis of unfamiliar code bases. Much more cognitively engaging to be able to engage in socratic interrogation than to fail to be able to because I am bogged down in bookkeeping.

Also use them for completion to spec of specific functions/components, as a kind of pairing. Permits staying at high cognitive engagement again without getting bogged down.

A lot of work is local, qwen and mistral models are go tos.
by brooke2k | 2025-08-27 02:33:16+00:00
Yes, that did unfortunately happen in the history of psychiatry. I am talking about modern American psychiatric practices (say, the last 10-20 years).

If the proposition here is that mental health disorders are fabricated maliciously in order to sell more medication or enforce some sort of social order, then I don't see how the very rare court-ordered enforcement of short-term stays at psychiatric institutions could be the mechanism for that.

The vast majority of people in the US who receive psychiatric care do so voluntarily, because they experience real symptoms that really affect their life, for which they need real treatment.
by defrost | 2025-08-27 02:34:23+00:00
Consider that a mere act of public theatre in which a token is exchanged.

Getting a grip on the magnitude of the Trump family profiteering through all the obfuscation and destruction of record keeping practices is an ongoing challenge in reporting.

* https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number

( Summary of the long form article above:

At the end of Trump’s first term, CREW calculated that Trump made more than $1.6 billion in outside revenue and income during his four years as president. Recently, however, The New Yorker staff writer David D. Kirkpatrick tallied up a new number, encompassing ventures from both Trump’s first and second terms: $3.4 billion.

~ https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-family-thr... )
by mythrwy | 2025-08-27 02:34:27+00:00
Any chance you could help keep this site political flamewar free?

Not everyone agrees with you politically and it's unpleasant to have to wade through these kind of rants to read about interesting things.

You have strong feelings, I get it, but please stop the pollution. I am trying my best to say this in a kind and sincere way. There are plenty of other places to make political rants.
Ask HN: What should I use to run React Native tests on a device?
by dboreham | 2025-08-27 02:34:47+00:00
Something of a common problem in JS/TS-land, I've found is that unit tests are expected to be run in a Node.js process. In the past in various projects this approach proved problematic because "environment parity" with the target runtime (browser) couldn't be achieved (e.g. no WebRTC[1]). In those projects we resolved this problem by writing our own test runner that could be injected into a headless browser process.

So now the same sort of problem has arisen with a mobile device project using react native: I assumed that unit tests would be runnable on a device or at least an emulator, but it seems not (see: https://docs.expo.dev/develop/unit-testing/). Or at least so far I haven't found the secret sauce or tool to allow that. Any pointers welcome.

[1]Yes there is a WebRTC port for Node that uses an old version of Google's C++ library, but it doesn't actually work properly.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-08-27 02:35:28+00:00
> But if you’re going to judge the book, judge it by how it presents itself, don’t judge it by how a third party misrepresents it.

As long as the boards don't go after the shrinks who "misrepresent" the DSM, I would claim that this misrepresentation is systemic of (and possibly even intended by) the psycho-industrial complex.
Show HN: An AI Tool to Summarize YouTube Videos
by omitchen | 2025-08-27 02:36:46+00:00
Hi HN,

I often watch long lectures or conference talks on YouTube, but usually only a few minutes contain the key points I need. I wanted a way to get the gist quickly, so I built a small tool to summarize YouTube videos using AI.

How it works: you paste a YouTube link, and it generates a short summary plus key transcripts. The backend is optimized so results come back in a few seconds.

Design choices: - No accounts or logins (I wanted it to be instantly usable). - Free to use (I run it as a side project). - Focused on speed and simplicity.

It’s still early and I’d love feedback on: - Whether the summaries feel useful/accurate - Which extra features would make it more helpful (timestamps, exporting, etc.) - Any issues you run into

Link: [vdown.me](https://vdown.me)

Thanks!
by tguvot | 2025-08-27 02:37:04+00:00
it's not whatabouatism.

it's a war. israel doesn't have to provide justification to you or anybody else. just like usa and allies didn't have to provide justification to anybody when they leveled Mosul, falluja or raqqa. or when they leveled germany.

all western media operating in west bank. the only problem is that PA authorities are interfering with it. or west bank not palestine enough for you ?

and what makes you think that journalist organization promote truth ? i saw multiple times main stream media at prime time lying and twisting facts. recently (3 weeks ago) abby phillips said that facts doesn't matter in case they stand in a way of "righteous narrative"

https://www.thefp.com/p/friedman-when-we-started-to-lie
by simoncion | 2025-08-27 02:39:32+00:00
I wouldn't call chips that fault and/or fail after mere months of operation when run within Intel-specified power and thermal parameters to be "fine".

Intel may be trying out more things than AMD, but perhaps they shouldn't? Maybe they shouldn't be trying to chase ARM envy with mixed-performance cores and disabling MT and the like and just stick to making reliable CPUs.

Honestly, the only thing of Intel's that I'm interested in are their video cards; and that's not because they're good, but because Intel hasn't (yet) all but abandoned their video card business for "AI accelerators"... so there's room for them to become good.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-27 02:40:07+00:00
> As someone with zero knowledge of psychology, I'm biased against it.

Then you are biased against "the science of mind and behavior"[0] by definition.

> For a while I've thought it would be nice to know what results the field of psychology actually has that are trusted.

Perhaps that people who seek out and engage in therapy with qualified professionals can (but not always) improve their lived experience?

Or that by studying the mind and human behavior, mental illness is now considered a medical condition, worthy of treatment, and has much less social stigma than years past?

0 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychology
by tzs | 2025-08-27 02:40:33+00:00
> Forget about why would they - they can't get here. The speed of light is too slow.

They could get here in a generation ship. Heck, we could almost build a generation ship that could reach another solar system.

First, there is the traditional generation ship where you set up a closed self sustaining ecosystem. I don't think we are anywhere near able to make such a closed system that would last for a trip to another star, but give it another few decades and there is probably a good chance we'll know how.

Second, there is another kind of generation ship that is called a seed ship or embryo ship. Your ship just carries a small crew, plus frozen eggs and sperm. During the trip as the crew ages you use artificial wombs to make babies from the frozen eggs and sperm and raise them to be the new crew. Any people you will need other than the crew at the destination (e.g., colonists if this is a colonizing mission) also come from the frozen eggs and sperm.

With enough automation the crew could be quite small. I once calculated the mass of high calorie density food that would be needed to sustain a small crew for thousands of years and it was actually small enough that I'd expect a civilization maybe a century more advanced in space than ours to maybe be able to manage. With that you don't need to solve the problem of making a closed self-sustaining ecosystem.
by veber-alex | 2025-08-27 02:40:42+00:00
MS uses Go for tsc because they are basically doing a line by line rewrite of tsc from typescript to Go.

It's impossible to do this kind of rewrite from a GC language to a non GC one, especially Rust where the object soup of typescript will probably cause the borrow checker to explode.

I think that if MS or someone else decided to write a typescript type checker from scratch there is a high chance Rust will be chosen.
by godelski | 2025-08-27 02:41:04+00:00
To add to this, it has generally been believed that the Wow signal didn't come from Earth. But being a rare event no one wanted to rule it out completely. Technically these papers don't even rule that out. But they do a good job at expanding the problem of figuring out what that signal might have been.

I'll put it this way: people would probably be more surprised if the Wow signal was terrestrial in origin than extra terrestrial.
by IFC_LLC | 2025-08-27 02:41:11+00:00
How can one identify an illness where one can't even tell who and how often have said illness?

In fact, there is a way of doing that. And we, as programmers, have access to those methods. It's called Numerical Analisys. At times it's quite amazing to see how well mathematics can estimate data.

One of the examples, is German Tank Problem. https://www.numberphile.com/videos/clever-way-to-count-tanks

While being an extremely opaque problem we are able to handle it to an extremely precise numbers.

One does not have to be that acquainted with the ways of math to figure things out. One can just use some data source and point such data source out. I mean, any book, be that a book on financing or programming book would have a list of references under such statements.

And here we have it. An absolutely out-of-wack statement saying that the poorest regions of Britain are affected by this condition more than others. Who? Why? Where? How was this number obtained?

Probably "contradictory" is not a right word for such a claim. But I would love to see at least anything that would prove such a statement.

In fact, flip to the end of the DSM and look for the list of references. You'll find none. I kid you not, there is not a single reference to an outside source in this book. This means that my work on "Use of Dynamic Library Link to execute Assembly code in C#" that I've written in 2005 while in the university has 6 more references to outside sources than the DSM itself.

The reason for my beef in here mainly that all the numbers are just stated, with no respect to what numbers are. And I would expect either an explanation of a numerical method to estimate this number, or a source as to where this number has been gotten from.
by woooooo | 2025-08-27 02:41:18+00:00
They've lifted a literal billion people out of third world, no-indoor-plumbing poverty in the last 30 years.

And, to the point of the article, SMIC is already doing 5nm manufacturing.

Political systems are more complex than dictator/freedom, there are lots of stakeholders. The USA stakeholders tend to be short-term focused financial engineers, this is separate from whether we have checks and balances or what color tie the President wears.
by JIE007 | 2025-08-27 02:42:58+00:00
This project was created to solve a tiny but annoying problem: typing the em dash (—) isn’t straightforward on most keyboards. Instead of memorizing obscure shortcuts, you can just copy it instantly.

Over time, I added other useful characters too—like en dash, hyphen, and different quotation marks—so it’s a quick reference for writers, developers, and anyone who works with text.

It’s a minimal tool, but sometimes simple solutions save the most time.
by byearthithatius | 2025-08-27 02:43:01+00:00
Thanks immensely. Very important detail,

Did you find a 02 at 3E40B? I found 01 at 2FD00, but there was no 3E40B byte position entry.

I did find something similar at 00003e40: 00003e40 02 00 04 00 0a 00 00 00 30 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 |........0.......|
by snowwrestler | 2025-08-27 02:43:21+00:00
Yes, various terrestrial sources have been proposed for this signal over the years, primarily because of its strength.

To have an extraterrestrial origin, and still be so anomalously strong at the point of reception, it must have been so strong at the source that it didn’t fit any known cosmic process. Given the inverse square law, the easiest explanation for the unusual strength was simply that it was unusually close. But this work seems to rule that out and also propose a process to create such a strong signal.
by breve | 2025-08-27 02:43:27+00:00
> It's a horrible comparison. Why do people keep making it?

Because Tesla keeps claiming they'll have full autonomy "next year", year after year.

In 2016 Tesla claimed every Tesla car being produced had "the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver". That was a lie: https://web.archive.org/web/20161020091022/https://tesla.com...

By the end of 2020 there were supposed to be 1 million Tesla robotaxis on the road. That was also a lie: https://www.thedrive.com/news/38129/elon-musk-promised-1-mil...

Tesla sets its own benchmark and consistently fails to achieve it.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-08-27 02:44:37+00:00
I didn’t realize steelmanning requires strawmanning the opposing view.

A 10% stake does what? Nothing. The U.S. doesn’t even get decision making capabilities.

OTOH, the CHIPS Act created an incredible amount of semiconductor manufacturing capacity from a wide variety of manufacturers including both TSMC and Intel.

So the real question is what does getting a 10% stake do, that the CHIPS act which Trump is trying to retroactively destroy, isn’t doing much better?