MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jensson | 2025-08-28 09:28:17+00:00
> In what logical or philosophical framework does my opinion dictate your opinion?

Because priors affect your conclusions.

For example, I don't like licorice, that makes me not like many kinds of candy. But I know that if a person likes licorice, they will have a very different view on these candies. Similarly how you define art affects how you see AI art, because its meaning is completely different to different people.

So for the example in question, I don't view a banana taped to a wall as art, but I know some other people do, and I understand why they do so, so answering that question tells us a lot about a persons priors.
by fg_exa | 2025-08-28 09:29:06+00:00
Wow, didn’t expect that! I always thought DuckDB was unbeatable on a single machine, but seeing Exasol not just keep up but actually crush it. Being 4× faster even without a cluster is really wild. The fact that its MPP DNA translates so well to a single box really shows how mature the optimizer and execution engine are. Hats off! Exasol isn’t just “good at scale,” it’s seriously impressive even in the playground DuckDB was built for.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-28 09:29:22+00:00
> They literally gave my grandparents their freedom. More than that, they forced the Allies to enshrine minority rights in our constitution

And Allies gave others in the country their freedom. And pushed the Austrian constitution in other ways. What you’re saying would be like a West German arguing Germany was mostly liberated by the Allies, because they happen to be on the side that they got to first.
by DrBazza | 2025-08-28 09:29:42+00:00
It could be worse, it could be 'learnings'. It's lessons. We don't go for 'drivings'. Though ChatGPT will probably force more nonsense like that into the mainstream.

That's from the last decade.

'Please revert' seems to be from the 00's, it's 'reply'. There are others I've tried to ignore and forget.

Language changes, and I'm a dinosaur unfortunately.

I also love the fact American English sometimes uses better, or more interesting words, than English. 'Median' (thanks World's Wildest Police Videos), or 'fall' for autumn.

https://nolearnings.com/
by manmademagic | 2025-08-28 09:30:01+00:00
Mostly because there are different depths of reporting required depending who you’re creating said reports for. Often it’s unnecessary bureaucracy, but also often the ones doing the “actual work” don’t have a full understanding of how what they’re working on interacts with other parts of a system. (I mean this broadly, and not just related to software development)

Middle management can sometimes be good at this, because they may actually have the time to step back and take a holistic look at things. It’s not always easy to do that when you’re deep in the weeds with clients, managers, colleagues, or direct reports bugging you about misc things.

Overall I think (or hope) the more useless reporting will die a slow death, but I also think there’ll be a loooooong period of AI slop before we reach the point where everyone says “why are we actually doing this?”
by Michvalwin | 2025-08-28 09:31:27+00:00
About two months ago My 9950X3D died. I presume it the memory controller died because my asus board reported a ram problem. It was with a 2x48GB 6000 ram. Which was not supported by the board (at least on the docs). I also limited the max PBO by 400Mhz and limited VDDIO to 1.3V. But it still died while shutting down cachyOS.
by pyman | 2025-08-28 09:32:46+00:00
Although I'm sure @stinkbeatle was joking, I should clarify that most LLMs are trained on books and online articles written by professional writers. That's why they tend to have a rich vocabulary and use things like hyphens.

I agree, HN is an amazing community with brilliant people and top quality content, but it's not enough to train an LLM.

Last thing. An LLM is just a tool, it can clean up your writing the same way a photo app can enhance your pictures. It took a while for people to accept that grandma's photos looked professional because they had filters. Same will happen with text. With ChatGPT, anyone can write like a journalist. We're just not used to grandma texting like one, yet :)
by gmokki | 2025-08-28 09:32:55+00:00
If there is no sprained ankle diagnostics and doctors just tell you to ignore not being well: just jump and run around as normal there is nothing seriously wrong.

And doctors only react when you can no longer use your legs for a year, otherwise they must be amputated.

Or would you rather have an earlier disgnostic with instructions to reduce extreme loads and try to take it easy. Let's check again in a week.
by Jensson | 2025-08-28 09:33:14+00:00
Why end there, why isn't the manager who told the artist to make a piece the artist?

> AI doesn't do anything you don't tell it to, it is the banana creator in this case

So if I tell the AI "create me a piece of art", and it gives me a cool image, I am the artist? So, if a manager tells a person "create a piece of art", the person goes and tapes a banana to the wall, the manager was the one who created the art?

Edit: And if you think an AI can't handle that question, I just gave it to an image model and got this. Did I create this art-piece? If not, who did? Did the AI create it?

https://imgur.com/aWT8YCb
by account42 | 2025-08-28 09:33:20+00:00
Zen 2 is supposed to be able to work up to 95 C so that shouldn't have caused your CPU to fail. And it should clock down before it fails anyway, way below the specified "minimum" frequency if needed - got to experience that with a failing AIO. A better cooler should only be required to make full use of your CPU not to protect it.
by andriesm | 2025-08-28 09:33:30+00:00
I've always been perplexed when I see 100s-1000+ people work on software product development and very little happen with the product for YEARS while there are tons of obvious (to me) improvements possible. Only tiny bug fixes released on a pretty slow release cycle. Then I also just think of the twitter/X example.

Occasionally one reads stories of how people get paid pretty hefty salaries to mostly just work very casually. Contrast with the usual software engineering types I know that work insanely hard solving difficult problems day-in and day-out.

When I was younger I remember a lot of project managers (almost exclusively ladies in my environment back then) that mostly just ran around interrupting the programmers and relaying feedback and status and a lot of chitchatting and busy work. Often there can be tons of support roles, wellness officers and who knows what that can probably be slashed. What shocks me is when a lot of these really low value-add positions are given high seniority with crazy paychecks and very little real skill required and fairly low responsibility or accountability for anything vaguely tangible. I suspect in tech companies generating huge cashflows that almost seem decoupled from headcount in comparison to non-tech businesses, this stuff just get covered up. A big machine that is very profitable due to massive competitive advantage/network effects, can hide a ton of HR waste.
Show HN: Eintercon – A 48-hour social window to meet people worldwide
by abilafredkb | 2025-08-28 09:33:40+00:00
I’ve been building something I’ve always wished existed: a way to discover and connect with people across the world, but without the endless scroll or shallow matches.

Eintercon is a social app where you get paired with people globally, but each connection lasts only 48 hours. The idea is to give just enough time to have a meaningful exchange before you hop off to meet someone new. It’s not about collecting followers — it’s about sparking real conversations, learning about other cultures, and keeping things fresh.

A couple of things that make it different:

Global-first design: built to make cross-border connections effortless.

48-hour connection window: keeps the experience engaging, without endless ghost chats.

Mailing & Labs: you can also drop into themed chatrooms ("Labs") filled with people from diverse cultures, or send cross-border messages to test how connections spark.

Passport feature: answer light “visa-style” questions to connect intentionally with people from specific regions.

We’re live on iOS (testflight) and web. I’d love feedback on:

Does the 48-hour limit feel like a good balance between fleeting and meaningful?

Are there other cultural-exchange features you’d expect or want in something like this?

Does the name “Eintercon” work for you, or is it too clunky? (I’ve been getting mixed reactions).
by alias_neo | 2025-08-28 09:34:17+00:00
I'm pretty new to this, so if I wanted to benchmark my current hardware and compare to your results what would be the best way to do that?

I'm looking at going for a Framework Desktop and would like to know what kind of performance gain I'd get over the current hardware I have, which so far I have a "feel" for the performance of from running Ollama and OpenWebUI, but no hard numbers.
by amiga386 | 2025-08-28 09:34:54+00:00
Ultimately we didn't need Jon Lech Johansen's work (and Derek Fawcus's, and others') on cracking DVD DRM or cracking Apple's FairPlay DRM, as there have always been alternatives. But their efforts did push the fight against DRM in our favour, and who knows what the world would be like if we had done nothing?

Creating things is a gamble, as mass adoption is almost never by technical merits, but by marketing. So you could make open documented everything but still end up with nobody benefiting from that openness, because a competitor (whether open or not) wipes you out. You saw this happen even in the era where electronic devices were expected to come with full schematics -- there were winners and losers even then.

But, if something has become widespread and well adopted, and it's not open, that's a problem. It absolutely should be opened up and documented. Especially if it's not because the money-grubbing creators of the something are deliberately hiding how it works and locking down control in order to extract more money from everyone else's pockets. The sooner you put an end to that, and the more often you fight against that, the sooner society itself becomes more efficient and fairer for everyone.
by nofunsir | 2025-08-28 09:35:50+00:00
Wait... this whole time reading this thread, I'm racking my brain for what bitnami provided (I used to use them before docker came around. I never would have got Redmine up and going without them -- the install seemed so foreign.) that building a docker image couldn't, because surely everyone knows how to build one from scratch, right?... right?

Is all the panic because everyone is trying to avoid learning how to actually install the pieces of software (once), and their magic (free) black boxes are going away?

I recommend VS Code remote connections and docker builds via the docker extension to do rapid build-run-redo. Remember to make sure it works from scratch each time. You can automate them with Jenkins... (which came first, the Jenkins or the Jenkins Docker image?) I also recommend Platform One. (you'll need a smart card) I also recommend reading the particular software's documentation ;)
by pjmlp | 2025-08-28 09:36:01+00:00
Like this code snippet?

(* Expressions *) type Exp = UnMinus of Exp | Plus of Exp * Exp | Minus of Exp * Exp | Times of Exp * Exp | Divides of Exp * Exp | Power of Exp * Exp | Real of float | Var of string | FunCall of string * Exp | Fix of string * Exp ;; let rec tokenizer s = let (ch, chs) = split s in match ch with ' ' -> tokenizer chs | '(' -> LParTk:: (tokenizer chs) | ')' -> RParTk:: (tokenizer chs) | '+' -> PlusTk::(tokenizer chs) | '-' -> MinusTk::(tokenizer chs) | '*' -> TimesTk::(tokenizer chs) | '^' -> PowerTk::(tokenizer chs) | '/' -> DividesTk::(tokenizer chs) | '=' -> AssignTk::(tokenizer chs) | ch when (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z') || (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z') -> let (id_str, chs) = get_id_str s in (Keyword_or_Id id_str)::(tokenizer chs) | ch when (ch >= '0' && ch <= '9') -> let (fl_str, chs) = get_float_str s in (RealTk (float (fl_str)))::(tokenizer chs) | '$' -> if chs = "" then [] else raise (SyntaxError ("")) | _ -> raise (SyntaxError (SyntErr ())) ;;

Hint, this isn't Rust.
by myrmidon | 2025-08-28 09:36:04+00:00
Seconding that advice to just use prismatic lifepo cells. Those have become really cheap, too: You can order brandnew 1kWh cells for $60ish + shipping even if you only need single digit quantities (those want to be squished a bit for longevity, so you might have to design a suitable enclosure).

Energy autarky has never been so affordable, progress on batteries and solar panels was awesome over the last decade.
by vanderZwan | 2025-08-28 09:36:46+00:00
Hah, you remind me of how I basically had to learn to ignore the "wellness instructor ASMR" voice used in audio guides to yoga, mindfulness, and so on. And of my sister who did her biology PhD on breathwork as an intervention method for pregnant women, which also involved selecting and sending out mindfullness audio-guides of that kind to pregnant women who were part of the research. By the end of it she swore that if she ever had to listen to someone using that kind of voice again she'd lose her mind.

On that note, you might find the Medlife Crisis' video where he investigates the genre of "people roleplaying as doctors giving you a check-up using an ASMR voice" entertaining, and also enlightening on why some people do like it[0]. Don't worry, it doesn't feature too many actual clips of that.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33QoTKgYKDI
by FiniteField | 2025-08-28 09:38:04+00:00
Perhaps on the smaller subreddits, but have a look at /r/all on any given day and it's obvious that real people, and diverse backgrounds, it is not. Every single subreddit that goes above a certain activity threshold collapses into the exact same state of astroturfed, mass-produced political slop targeted towards low IQ people.
by lstodd | 2025-08-28 09:38:26+00:00
Origin is the electrical grid overload which caused incandescent lights to literally "brown out", as has been mentioned here.

Later is was coopted to mean any problems with power supply not including outright drop to zero-zero/disconnections. cf microcontroller brown-out handling, also mentioned above.

Then later it seems it was generalized to mean sort-of-non-terminal problem with supply of most anything.
by closewith | 2025-08-28 09:38:54+00:00
> 'Please revert' seems to be from the 00's, it's 'reply'. There are others I've tried to ignore and forget.

Reversion to a topic during a conversation has been used for centuries, especially when a conversation reverts to a tedious or exhausting topic.

So if you accept that you want someone to get back to you on a dreary or boring request, then it's particularly apt.
by drclegg | 2025-08-28 09:39:07+00:00
I'd strongly advise against free VPNs; they are a massive security and privacy risk.

Here's recent news about another free vpn that took screengrabs of users' sessions: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/a-...

As the saying goes, if you're not paying for the product, the product is you.
by Nekorosu | 2025-08-28 09:39:32+00:00
I'm a victim of such a fraud. It started gently on LinkedIn and ended up on http://fiverr.com that exploits PayPal to extract money from unsuspecting clients. I paid for CV editing service that was never provided. 60 euros gone and PayPal just accepts sellers side of the story.

http://fiverr.com is a scam. Don't use it. PayPal's support is a joke.
by KingMob | 2025-08-28 09:39:56+00:00
> This hazard exists whether it's a few centers or many.

I think the primary hazard to focus on is one vs many. The major danger of moderation is when you can't opt out.

I would argue they're not quite the same here, because 3rd-party delegation can be revoked at any time, limiting the damage.

> any meaningful decentralization will do away with moderation

Perhaps if LLMs get way better than they currently are.

Otherwise, there's too many things to do in a day to make every possible decision in life yourself, so optional, revocable delegation feels like an acceptable compromise to me.

There's many cases where we just rely on others. Do you personally check all your lettuce for e.coli? Did you check your outlets for proper grounding? Did you examine your medications with a mass spectrometer to verify the chemical composition was correct? No, we rely on institutions, fallible as they are, because there's only so many hours in the day.
by avar | 2025-08-28 09:39:57+00:00
> I really would like to have been payed > to use Windows phones

I meant paid in the indirect sense of being the beneficiary of a loss leader for Microsoft.

I.e. I'm poking holes in your (somewhat unstated) premise that they'd already reached around 10% of marketshare, and could have just organically grown from there. As reporting at the time shows[1] the average selling price of these phones was €72.4.

So Microsoft (Nokia, but we all know who was really running/paying for the show) were spending a lot of money to buy themselves into the market, and just barely holding on to double digit market share for a bit there by subsidizing entry level phones.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/01/microsoft...
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-28 09:40:08+00:00
I'm in an older generation, but like some other commenters started young with logic games as a preteen. I got into a school that was recognized for its academic games program but that was years before Mastermind came out.

By then I was in college with some of my high school buddies when one of them got the original board game. These were not actually that common even among those who liked thinking games since they were about $10, for $1 worth of plastic. And the box was way small compared to the full-size popular board games which were about $5.

It was quite interesting that there were diverse international people pictured on the cover and it didn't take long to realize this was a game where no players need to speak the same language at all.

By the time I got my Atari computer, this was the only game I ever coded since it's absolutely perfect to play having the computer in the role of "codemaker". I had never seen or heard of a computer mouse but I had my trackball for playing Centipedes and Missle Command so used it to point & click, then before I was done I was dragging & dropping the colors from their repository to the hot spots. I was simulating picking & placing like the board game.

Eventually I used two columns so two players could play against the Atari simultaneously, each with their own trackball or joystick. Since it was always basically a "one-player" game doing the solving, then two people could solve at once. I was going to suggest trying it that way next time but I don't know if it's as straightforward to use two mice and associate one with each player.
by edgineer | 2025-08-28 09:40:36+00:00
"We don't overclock or overvolt or play other teen games with our hardware."

You overclock as a teen so that as an adult you know to verify your CPU's voltage, clock speeds, and temperature at a minimum when you build your own system.

They made no mention of monitoring of CPU temperature, ECC corrected/detected errors, or throttling. They then ran CPU benchmark loads for several months on the system.

"The so-called TDP of the Ryzen 9950X is 170W. The used heat sinks are specified to dissipate 165W, so that seems tight."

Yikes. You need a heatsink rated much higher. These CPUs were overheated for months.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-28 09:40:50+00:00
> citing of that study is astonishing and somewhat comical

I would like to see your study, one that's not sponsored by OpenAI or github, that shows LLMs actually improved anything for experienced developers. Crickets.

So, to summarize:

1. An actual study shows that experienced developer's productivity declines 19% when using an LLM.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

2.The recent actual MIT study showing 95% GenAI projects fail to have any tangible results in enterprises:

https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generat...

And your source is: 'Trust me bro'. I swear the new LLM fanbase is the same as good ol' scrum: a bunch of fanatic gaslighters.

It's always a "skill issue" , "not doing it right" , "not the proper llm/scrum flavor", or a "flawed study".

When I see the studies, then I might actually listen to the LLM booster crowd, but for now I got studies, what you got? Vibes? Figures.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-28 09:41:22+00:00
> A competent lawyer can usually see where the weight of precedent lies, and it's extremely helpful to have that precedent for legal clarity and prospective decision making.

I've seen cases where Side A has 10 examples of case law that support their position, which they use in their motions and filings -- and Side B has 10 counterexamples of caselaw that support the opposite position, which they also use. The Judge, who is a very busy man, simply cannot research the issue in exhaustive detail, so de facto isn't "bound by precedent" -- he rules in favor of the side he's inclined to support. (Posner was briefly derided for laying this bare.)

It's a major problem. When you have literal mountains of case law (IIRC all US court decisions in plaintext come out to something like 1.5TB) just about any litigant can find case law to support almost any position. You end up with a system that's much like the Civil Law, but with the added burden of "research."
by digitcatphd | 2025-08-28 09:41:58+00:00
I had a team of developers and essentially told them all 'either learn to code with Claude' or you're out. What I found is the more junior developers started 'vibe coding' resulting in a net decrease in performance, where the more senior ones used it to accelerate their speed cautiously and selectively.

My conclusion was senior engineers were better because they were used to managing developers and taking on more managerial tasks building 'LLM Soft Skills' and also frankly fixing mistakes, the junior developers were pressured for speed and had their managers to correct them.

Within 12 months, despite extensive attempts, only the mid level team members remained.
by IgnaciusMonk | 2025-08-28 09:44:33+00:00
USB is on same "OSI model" layer as PCIE is. SATA is not.

PCIE sata controllers in m.2 ssd are a thing, as are m.2 direct sata ssd, as are sata controllers on m.2 card with sata connectors capable of connecting 4-6 disks ( ASM1166 ). so i do not seem to see point you want to make there

sata -> memory card is solution for embedded market of 2000s not today, for refurbishments or efforts to keep using old embedded stuff. and again it has nothing to do with guys point, it is absolutelly different use case. he is talking about servers, ( servers with a lot of drives have expanders ) ! ! ! ! M.2 NVMe to CFexpress Extender is something else entirely, so depends highly on what EXACTLY are we talking about ! ! ! !

simple reason why it is nonsense - how much does 256 GB m.2 ssd cost? so just use that.

or use M.2 to PCI-E 4X 1X Riser Card ( adt-link K42ST ) and connect standard ubiquitous SATA/SAS/NVME HBA/RAID card into it and use any freaking disks.

or

M.2 Key M to SFF-8643 and use cable to connect it to something like H3platform Falcon 4118... which is "just" PCIE switch + psu + connectors.

or

m.2 to pcie connector and use HBA with optics to connect to 5 miles remote ARRAY.
by cbracken | 2025-08-28 09:44:37+00:00
In my mind, Yamada Denki is the absolute worst. I bought a washing machine there in 2004 and, almost entirely due to the song, have been back maybe once since then. I remember at the time telling my wife I couldn't imagine what working there would do to a person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3aR-DnEcM8