MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Myrmornis | 2025-08-10 09:44:55+00:00
Remember that in Europe and the UK people don't have access to the type of dryers that Americans use that actually ... get clothes completely dry in a reasonable time period. In fact those sorts of vented dryers that make Americans think that dryers are supposed to actually get clothes dry are being made illegal in the EU:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...

So we hang clothes outside in good weather, and otherwise use heat-pump washer-dryers to get things partially dry, and then hang them around the house. So you will typically need to sleep while sheets are drying.
by suspended_state | 2025-08-10 09:44:59+00:00
You should do what better fit your usecase.

I don't know how large is framework's market, nor how deep their pockets are, which condition their ability to produce 2 different models.

It's clear that a modular design is preferable, hopefully once a standard emerges they will use it in their next devices. Perhaps framework will help in that process, but I don't know if they can afford to put up with the initial costs, particularly in a market they don't have a strong foothold yet.
by griffzhowl | 2025-08-10 09:45:32+00:00
The sci-fi trope is based on the idea of artificial intelligence as something like an electronic brain, or really just an artificial human.

LLMs on the other hand are a clever way of organising the text outputs of millions of humans. They represent a kind of distributed cyborg intelligence - the combination of the computational system and the millions of humans that have produced it. IMO it's essential to bear in mind this entire context in order to understand them and put them in perspective.

One way to think about it is that the LLM itself is really just an interface between the user and the collective intelligence and knowledge of those millions of humans, as mediated by the training process of the LLM.
by cdavid | 2025-08-10 09:45:37+00:00
I was surprised at previous comparison on omarchy website, because apple m* work really well for data science work that don't require GPU.

It may be explained by integer vs float performance, though I am too lazy to investigate. A weak data point, using a matrix product of N=6000 matrix by itself on numpy:

- SER 8 8745, linux: 280 ms -> 1.53 Tflops (single prec) - my m2 macbook air: it is ~180ms ms -> ~2.4 Tflops (single prec)

This is 2 mins of benchmarking on the computers I have. It is not apple to orange comparison (e.g. I use the numpy default blas on each platform), but not completely irrelevant to what people will do w/o much effort. And floating point is what matters for LLM, not integer computation (which is what the ruby test suite is most likely bottlenecked by)
by TacticalCoder | 2025-08-10 09:45:40+00:00
> It's funny how all Ukrainian criminals are Russians. /s

I'm in Poland atm : it's funny how all criminals in Poland are Ukrainians /s

(fwiw my mom is from Ukrainian roots and has one of those family names ending in "-enko" so chill out guys)

Seriously though: lots of car theft here in Poland are cars being stolen and finding their way to Ukraine (and some to Russia).
by sliken | 2025-08-10 09:45:54+00:00
Sure, you could. The design would do something like:

We need a bigger memory controller.

To get more traces to the memory controller We need more pins on the CPU.

Now need a bigger CPU package to accommodate the pins.

Now we need a motherboard with more traces, which requires more layers, which requires a more expensive motherboard.

We need a bigger motherboard to accommodate the 6 or 8 dimm sockets.

The additional traces, longer traces, more layers on the motherboard, and related makes the signalling harder, likely needs ECC or even registered ECC.

We need a more expensive CPU, more expensive motherboard, more power, more cooling, and a larger system. Congratulations you've reinvented threadripper (4 channel), siena (6 channel), Threadripper pro (8 channel), or epyc (12 channel). All larger, more expensive more than 2x the power, and is likely to be in a $5-$15k workstation/server not a $2k framework desktop the size of a liter of milk or so.
by creatonez | 2025-08-10 09:46:05+00:00
Why do you think this is an attempt at a persuasion tactic? Taint flags in this context just means something that might be relevant to debugging. Which this condition might be, if people in the future are unfamiliar with a potentially anachronistic split between /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. The debug message isn't there to judge the morality of your configuration. It's actively improving your ability to continue to support both ways, by properly indicating what style of system it is for troubleshooting purposes.
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by shreyasjk | 2025-08-10 09:46:47+00:00
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by Jensson | 2025-08-10 09:46:52+00:00
> A correction: most humans. There are a few who like communism. Why not them live their lives as they want?

Because those people then starting to kill all the problematic people, as we saw in Soviet and China. They put all the blame on these "bad people" and sent them to the gulag.

You can't ever let people with this kind of thinking into power.

> Communities like the Longo Maï are a living proof this is absolutely possible on a tiny scale when a willing subset is involved.

At that tiny scale they depend on the surrounding capitalist people and therefore it makes sense they also abide by the laws of the country.
by sensanaty | 2025-08-10 09:46:54+00:00
And on the plus side that liability also provides people a lever with which they can push back against stupid managerial decisions. My father was an aeronautical engineer, and his favorite word to say to management was "No". Yes, the engine inspection takes a long time. No, I cannot cut corners in any way just to save you some money (No idea if this is just one of his stories or a real situation, but you get the idea :p ).

I don't know why people are so against it in this field
by ath3nd | 2025-08-10 09:47:35+00:00
Very insightful.

You are not alone: https://rgoldfinger.com/blog/2025-07-26-claude-code-is-a-slo...

> Are we at the point of doing rain dances for these models and describing the moves as "counterintuitive and sublte"

Yes, we are. LLM cultists can downvote as much as they like, but the reality is that with all the incantations and coaxing, we not only don't see a positive effect, we see a net negative effect on the quality of our software. On the ground level of OSS we are drowning in AI generated slop: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/curl_creator_mulls_ni...

On the enterprise level we are creating more and worse code, faster. In the news, we are generating more and worse and factually wrong articles, faster. In our personal lives, guided by our sycophantic LLMs assistants, we offload more and more cognitive chores, becoming dumber and dumber.

LLM-produced slop is like the plastic of text: cheap and easy to use and proliferate, and then 40 years later you realize it's everywhere in the environment and in your brain, and that it's toxic to all life.
by raesene9 | 2025-08-10 09:47:44+00:00
Everything in security is a tradeoff, and unfortunately compliance risks are real risks :D

That said yep corps over-complicate things and given the number of 0-days in enterprise VPN providers, it could easily be argued that they add more risk than they mitigate.

That's not to say a good VPN setup (or even allow-listing source IP address ranges) doesn't reduce exposure of otherwise Internet visible systems, reducing the likelihood of a mis-configuration or vulnerability being exploited...
by qcnguy | 2025-08-10 09:47:45+00:00
What you are arguing here is factually false and the exact kind of communist apologetics the article is trying to combat. The Soviets deliberately starved the Ukrainians who would otherwise have been fine. In Ireland Britain used its Royal Navy to deliver regular relief supplies then deployed every available steamship in Ireland to deliver aid. They cut taxes and took on massive debts to fund employing half a million Irish in public works programmes - all aid to try and help them, even as the Irish themselves exported their food.

The idea these are in any way comparable shows up the true weakness of communism - there are no capitalist equivalents to far left barbarities anywhere. The fact that the best anyone can find for a capitalist Holodomor is a massive aid programme shows just how wide the gulf truly is.

Ultimately this confusion is rooted in economics. The potato famine aid was structured in a similar way to modern aid programmes. Why, because the only sort of "aid" the left deem acceptable is price controls, but they ignore the demand side. If you force prices down without addressing that then you just bankrupt all the farmers as income drops below production costs.

If your response to a famine is to bankrupt all the farmers, you just made things worse instead of better. It puts the country into permanent dependency that means everyone will die if the flow of aid is ever interrupted (like, say, by a World War).

The smart thing to do is to provide targeted immediate relief if you can, whilst simultaneously channelling money to people so they can afford to buy food and build up their economy so they can stand alone again. All modern aid programmes work this way, or try to. And it's what Britain did.

You might disagree about the best way to help desperately poor countries recover from natural disasters, but to draw an equivalence with man-made famines in the USSR or China is a category error of the worst kind.
by npteljes | 2025-08-10 09:47:47+00:00
>They just have more success on getting their NIH babies accepted as the standard by everyone else.

This depends on the phrasing. We could also say that Red Hat produces actually useful software, in contrast with Canonical, whose developments don't seem to provide value over existing solutions.

We could also say that Canonical tries really hard to do exactly what Red Hat does, but in a slightly different space, and not very successfully.
by mavamaarten | 2025-08-10 09:47:55+00:00
Yeah. In the same vein I also don't distribute my app in the Play Store in certain countries. I realize it completely sucks for them, but it's purely a business decision. Certain countries are just very vocal in terms of negative reviews, simply swap 5 star and 1 stars due to cultural differences, and also bring in almost zero revenue. The net result of distributing in these countries is literally negative: they hurt my ratings and reviews and don't make up for that in terms of money.
by 1dom | 2025-08-10 09:49:37+00:00
> Watches with weeks-long battery life typically use something that is more akin to a powerful microcontroller with operating systems tailored to such low-end hardware.

This is what I'd assumed. But then I also assumed that's actually an exceptionally expensive and high resource approach to take compared to using higher level smartphone chips. By using lower level hardware, they're having to do more bespoke hardware design, and more bespoke low-level firmware and software creation, and also support all of that extra creation. This seems like the super expensive, heavy, slow way of building a smartwatch.

So I guess the "what's the deal" what's trying to understand how some random knockoff looking company ("Amazfit" in 2016) took the super expensive, heavy, slow way of building a smartwatch, and got better results than some of the largest most notorious software/hardware companies on the planet.

Ultimately, they took the pebble approach, and pebble also got a huge amount of backing and extra funding, time, support etc. and seemed to commercially fail. But Amazfit is still going strong.
by terminalshort | 2025-08-10 09:50:26+00:00
In my case it was that I was doing something very wrong in undergrad. But somehow the fact that I didn't do a damn thing but alcohol and drugs and cram one week before finals didn't stop me from getting good grades and graduating. Somehow the lack of all that knowledge that I was supposed to learn didn't didn't disadvantage me at all. Somehow just holding the stupid credential that was the only thing I got out of it is the only thing anyone cares about.
by salmonellaeater | 2025-08-10 09:50:26+00:00
If the LLM was as smart as a human, this would become a social engineering attack. Where social engineering is a possibility, all three parts of the trifecta are often removed. CSRs usually follow scripts that allow only certain types of requests (sanitizing untrusted input), don't have access to private data, and are limited in what actions they can take.

There's a solution already in use by many companies, where the LLM translates the input into a standardized request that's allowed by the CSR script (without loss of generality; "CSR script" just means "a pre-written script of what is allowed through this interface"), and the rest is just following the rest of the script as a CSR would. This of course removes the utility of plugging an LLM directly into an MCP, but that's the tradeoff that must be made to have security.
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by loocao | 2025-08-10 09:51:42+00:00
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by spauldo | 2025-08-10 09:54:40+00:00
There are options if you're willing to put in the work and run the risk of breaking things.

You can always not install QT or KDE packages and compile your desktop from source. It's a major pain in the ass but I did it for years. A side benefit is you can participate in testing and interact with KDE developers directly.

Another option is to go all FrankenUNIX and add neon sources to your apt cache. I've done similar but I don't recommend it.

Or you can just run unstable. Lots of people do. I did for a long time, and as long as you're willing to fix the package system occasionally it's not a bad experience. Certainly better than the two previous options.
by maccard | 2025-08-10 09:55:38+00:00
5-10kg overweight is anywhere from 10-20% over - that’s actually a lot.

And I used those as examples of snacks that people might have. For people who are looking to drop a few kg, portion control is the key thing. My parents idea of a serving of pasta is “what fits in the plate we’re serving it on” - people who eat healthy and think “I’ll have the avocado salad” and don’t realise the avocado itself is the same calories as the morning roll they skipped and that’s before you add the dressing.

> In the end you're constantly hungry and irritable, you go through all this crap to lose weight and lose none, which doesn't help with the mood either.

You need to eat less than you use to lose weight, whether that’s with or without exercise. Part of losing weight is getting used to what is actual hunger and what is “craving/hormone/comfort” eating. If you don’t do that, you’ll fail even harder when you start exercising because the feelings are mega intense.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-10 09:55:57+00:00
The same useless claim could be made for C and with the same effect.

The trick Rust is doing here that Zig is not is that Rust's safe contracts are always what we would call wide contracts. As a safe Rust programmer it's never your fault because you were "holding it wrong". For example If you insist on sorting a Vec<Foozle> even though Foozles all claim they're greater even than themselves, Rust doesn't say (as C and C++ do) too bad, you broke it so now all bets are off, sorting won't be useful in Rust because Foozles don't have a coherent ordering, but your program is fine. In fact today it's quite fast to uselessly "sort" that container.

Zig has numerous narrow contracts, which means when you write Zig touching any of those contracts it is your responsibility as a Zig programmer to ensure all their requirements were upheld, and when you in turn create code or types you will likely find you add yet further narrowness - so you can be and in practice often are, "holding it wrong".
by 1dom | 2025-08-10 09:57:41+00:00
> The deal seems to be that you get a really good fitness watch for a fraction of the cost of Android and Apple offerings

Fair point, I elaborated a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854032

You're right in your assessment. My "what's the deal" was more asking "how did such a small unknown-to-me company do this with similar or better results to the worlds largest hardware/software companies (Apple/Google) in 2015/2016?" It sounds like they did it with even more specific and low level hardware and software, which makes it even more impressive.

Like I said, my bip did GPS, bluetooth notifications, hardrate tracking and most of the other things an iWatch did, but it had 20x the battery life and cost 1/5 of the price. I find this an unbelievable achievement that I don't understand, and it's rarely talked about.
by mavamaarten | 2025-08-10 09:58:19+00:00
I agree to a point. But I also would like to point out how alarming your take is.

I mean you can easily compare this to trades and construction. Would you want a house that's built in a week by cheap foreign workers that don't know what they're doing? The end result looks great on the outside, and you can always let some other cheap worker fix some issues you're having! The electricity works! Until it doesn't and a fire breaks out.

I get it - the hype is based around the quick gains you can absolutely have. The gains are insane, I have been able to be more productive at boilerplate and repetitive tasks too. But just building software isn't hard. Building software that lasts, building software that is rock solid, efficient and maintainable, that's hard!

It's sickening to me how quickly people want to throw that in the garbage. All because it saves a few $ in development time, quality is suddenly a metric that is completely ignored, rather than weighed in.

It's going to bite people in the ass.
by jdfr | 2025-08-10 09:59:41+00:00
OP seems to have run a programming language detector on the generated texts, and made a graph of programming language frecuencies: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gx2kvNxXEAAkBO0.jpg?name=orig

As a result, OP seems to think the model was trained on a lot of Perl: https://xcancel.com/jxmnop/status/1953899440315527273#m

LOL! I think these results speak more to the flexibility of Perl than any actual insight on the training data! After all, 93% of inkblots are valid Perl scripts: https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
by V__ | 2025-08-10 09:59:56+00:00
I just can't understand McDonald's long term strategy. I can either go to them or to a locally owned burger place near me, and spend about the same. Waiting times are the same, and every other metric is worse at McDonald's. I went to McDonald's last week because I haven't been there for over a year and well, I won't be going for the next few years again. If they can't compete on price, speed or taste, they only compete on location and/or their current customer base. I just don't see how that is a viable long-term strategy.
by azangru | 2025-08-10 10:00:09+00:00
> Are you going to pay extra those two engineers of your company for doing something that is clearly outside what they were hired for at beginning or outside their competences?

Why is it outside (and not just outside, but clearly outside) of what they were hired for or what their competencies are? Engineers work on the product. Engineers review each other's code. Engineers are a stakeholder in this whole process — after all, the candidate may become their future colleague, and engineers are best positioned to know what they want to see in a prospective colleague. Engineers can appreciate whether their peers have the desired skills.

Why does this activity require a higher pay than developing a new feature with your teammates?
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-08-10 10:00:10+00:00
> It "somehow works" isn't engineering.

Consider this - everything will "somehow work" if the system has been there for generations and is complex enough that no single human brain can keep everything about it in the brain at any given time.

It is easy to keep a system high quality, well maintained, well understood for a year with a small team, but imagine doing that for 100+ years with a system constantly evolving in complexity with generations of maintainers, people being rotated.
by michaelt | 2025-08-10 10:00:17+00:00
The problem, in my mind, is the interaction of legacy admissions with other forms of background-based admission.

Once I'm overlooking poor test scores for the 'landed gentry' background, I've got little defence when people demand I overlook poor test scores for other backgrounds too.

Before I know it, a trivial amount of arguably-unfair-ness that was flying under the radar becomes a non-trivial amount, and now everyone's mad at me.
by heraldgeezer | 2025-08-10 10:02:01+00:00
Not really.

A laptop CPU defeats the purpose. Get a 9800X3D for gaming will be waaaay faster or Threadripper for productivity or the 9950X3D chips with 16 cores/32 threads.

Why this laptop crap when you can get a nice PC case.

Then again he thinks the Fractal North was "bulky"? What?
by maccard | 2025-08-10 10:02:10+00:00
Yeah - walking solidly for an hour is going to max out at about 250 calories (unless you start hill walking or adding extra weight). A latte (not even a Starbucks-y sugary one) is about the same amount of calories.

You should walk. It’s really good for you. But skipping the coffee break at the end will have more of an impact on your weight than the walk itself.
by energy123 | 2025-08-10 10:02:45+00:00
Has anyone noticed that OpenAI is cutting off submitted context in ChatGPT Pro?

If I send about 60k tokens, the model can't see the question (at the bottom of the text). I need to reduce it to 50k.

If I send two prompts with 40k tokens, the model can't see the beginning of the first prompt.

This seems quite unethical given they advertise 128k context, and I doubt it's an accident (since it runs in the direction of cost savings).
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-08-10 10:03:32+00:00
There are mathematical certainties. In this instance we have that all exponentially growing bubbles will necessarily display the property that values grow and at an increasing rate just before the bubble bursts. This is so fundamental that I can't believe you don't see it. You can construct the growth curve out of this very fact alone. Therefore, the simple fact of growing values and increasing rates of growth in values is not determining bubble/non-bubble.

In other words, the statement "I know I am not chasing a bubble because valuations are high and growing at an increasing rate" is categorically false because this property is a common indicator of the exact opposite; that you are in an exponentially growing bubble.