MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RichardCA | 2025-08-25 19:56:07+00:00
OK I have a question. I've been trying to track down a Unix book that was similar from that time period, covering command-line tools and shell programming. It had some funny cartoons in between the text. One particular cartoon featured a man who had spent too much time at the command line and was using single-word commands for everything, e.g. when he needed to send a letter he would point to it and say "MAIL" and when someone knocked on his door he would point to it and say "ENTER". Does anyone else remember that one?
by xiphias2 | 2025-08-25 19:56:16+00:00
Hyperland is one part (it's amazing), but the other is a distro embracing the keyboard 100% and not treating it as an option where I need to think about how to set it up.

The only problem I have is that I bought a new beelink Pro9, put Omarchy on it and Hyperland locks up every day, and I don't know if it’s only me or not.
by hadlock | 2025-08-25 19:56:30+00:00
Presumably prices will come down as this market segment matures; it's not unreasonable to assume performance will double and the price will reduce by half within a decade. A $2000 brain in a $20,000 robot is 10% of the total cost but at that price point it's not prohibitively expensive for the market they're catering to. The unitree G1 can be had for as little as $16,000 usd allegedly but capable models can be north of $40,000.

If you're buying a durable good like a warehouse robot or household chores robot that costs as much as a car this doesn't seem like that high of a starting point for the market segment to me.
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-25 19:56:32+00:00
And, indeed, it could be argued that past administrations have done that. Congressional deadlock has been an issue in the US for quite some time, and the administration has to go on anyway. Off the top of my head, I am reminded of Obama essentially ceding control of marijuana policy to the states by making it clear to the ATF that prosecuting federal possession crime in states that had legalized the drug was legal, within their authority... And a short path to locking in a desk job at their current level indefinitely.

But when previous administrations did this, they (usually, as far as I know) consulted with domain experts on predictable consequences and set timelines to factor that in. This administration seems to have "effective immediately" as the only timeframe it's aware of.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-08-25 19:56:45+00:00
It. Doesn't. Matter.

Getting a DUNS number is ass, getting the 20 testers is ass, etc etc.

I do not want to give Google my government ID to write a shitty little app that only my family will use, or only close friends use and it gets sideloaded through sending it on chat. I do not want people making apps to skip ads on YouTube giving out their government ID. I do not want people making apps that might get them in trouble with their government to give out their government ID to Google.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-25 19:56:54+00:00
> I spent a weekend building a system where you can call a phone number, complain about your broken Kubernetes cluster, and have an AI therapist with a posh British accent tell you that "your infrastructure is code poetry written in YAML."

Related comedy video: "Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8Q51ouA_s
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-25 19:57:08+00:00
Data is the lifeblood of mobile gaming, everything is data-driven.

Everything is measured and analysed and optimised for engagement and monetisation.

When you have 200 people making a game, "luck" or "art" doesn't factor in at all. You test, get data, and make decisions based on the data, not feelings.

Solo devs can still make artsy games and stumble upon success.
by gruez | 2025-08-25 19:57:23+00:00
Taking the article at face value, they'll have to register with google and have their apps be signed. Presumably this is subject to less review than the play store (eg. you don't have to justify your permissions list or whatever[1]), but there's no guarantees that developers will bother with the hassle. A lot of developers are willing to put some release up on github, but not dox themselves to google.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895718
by m463 | 2025-08-25 19:58:04+00:00
I wonder what the economics of water cooling really is.

Is it because chips are getting more expensive, so it is more economical to run them faster by liquid cooling them?

Or is it data center footprint is more expensive, so denser liquid cooling makes more sense?

Or is it that wiring distances (1ft = 1nanosecond) make dense computing faster and more efficient?
by dhosek | 2025-08-25 19:58:56+00:00
> √3/2 … that isn't a useful value for calculation

Some tables do indeed have that value and it is a very useful value for calculation, one that can be symbolically manipulated to get you an exact number (albeit one likely expressed in radicals) for your work. When I used to teach algebra, it was a struggle to get students to let go of the decimal approximations that came out of their calculators and embrace expressions that weren’t simple decimals but were exact representations of the numbers at hand. (Then there’s really fun things like the fact that, e.g., √2 + √3 can also be written as √(5+2√6) (assuming I didn’t make an arithmetic error there)).
by tptacek | 2025-08-25 19:59:20+00:00
Ordinarily:

you> what's going on? > It's going great --- how can I help you today?

Tool calls:

you> [json blob of available "tools": "ls", "grep", "cat"] you> what's going on? > [json blob selecting "ls"] (you) presumably run "ls" you> [json blob of "ls" output] > [json blob selecting "cat foo.c"] (you) dump "foo.c" you> [json blob of "cat foo.c"] > I can see that we're in a C project that does XYZ...

The key thing is just: tools are just a message/conversation abstraction LLMs are trained to adhere to: they know to spit out a standardized "tool call" JSON, and they know to have multi-round conversations with sets of different "tools" (whichever ones are made available to them) to build up context to answer questions with.

That's the whole thing.
by junto | 2025-08-25 20:00:25+00:00
In Germany such nonsense has historically been propagated in the German press by Axel Springer, which until 2024 was majority controlled by the fossil-fuel focused private equity group KKR. They have the vast majority of their portfolio in fossil fuel interests.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer_SE

https://www.lobbycontrol.de/lobbyismus-und-klima/springer-ko...
by SonnyTark | 2025-08-25 20:00:44+00:00
100% agree. Mini PCs in my opinion are the only modern PCs designed to stay on for decades. Sort of like those old server towers with SCSI drives that still run many legacy online things to this day.

I bought my forever box on impulse, it was only $130 for a whole mini PC! (with my own ram+storage) I thought surely it'll join the group of devices collecting dust... I was very wrong.

Turns out this PC is meant to be the most utilized of all my computers. It basically has been up 24/7 for 7 years and I really have no excuse to upgrade it yet.

While its processor is nothing to look at (even an N100 is a meaningful step up), on paper it roughly matches a Phenom II X4 955 BE CPU, which was my Windows 7 gaming CPU for many years! so it holds a special place in my heart. It was also my entry to the world of self-hosting docker containers which empowered me to replace the paid/enshitified services I depended on before.
by 87636899376 | 2025-08-25 20:01:04+00:00
Official announcement: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-...

More info:

https://developer.android.com/developer-verification

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

Personally...we all know the Play Store is chock full of malicious garbage, so the verification requirements there don't do jack to protect users. The way I see it, this is nothing but a power grab, a way for Google to kill apps like Revanced for good. They'll just find some bullshit reason to suspend your developer account if you do something they don't like.

Every time I hear mentions of "safety" from the folks at Google, I'm reminded that there's a hidden Internet permission on Android that can neuter 95% of malicious apps. But it's hidden, apparently because keeping users from using it to block ads on apps is of greater concern to Google than keeping people safe.

> we will be confirming who the developer is, not reviewing the content of their app or where it came from

This is such an odd statement. I mean, surely they have to be willing to review the contents of apps at some point (if only to suspend the accounts of developers who are actually producing malware), or else this whole affair does nothing but introduce friction.

TFA had me believing that bypassing the restriction might've been possible by disabling Play Protect, but that doesn't seem to be the case since there aren't any mentions of it in the official info we've been given.

On the flip side, that's one less platform I care about supporting with my projects. We're down to just Linux and Windows if you're not willing to sell your soul (no, I will not be making a Google account) just for the right to develop for a certain platform.
by mikepurvis | 2025-08-25 20:01:16+00:00
I think what's most galling about it is that Nvidia gets away with behaving like this because even a decade later they're still basically the only game in town if you want a low power embedded GPU solution for edge AI stuff.

AMD has managed to blunder multiple opportunities to launch something into this space and earn the trust of developers. And no, NUC form factor APU machines are not the answer— both for power/heat concerns and the software integration story being an incomplete patchwork.
by kllrnohj | 2025-08-25 20:01:19+00:00
> iOS devices [..] have much less data collection than stock Android

iOS does a tremendous amount of data collection including for the usage of ads as per Apple's privacy policy. All the same types of data that stock Android collects, even.

You may believe Apple is a generally better steward of that data than Google, but using iOS does not reduce the amount of data being hoovered up in any meaningful capacity.

> Now there's also no more sideloading, so what purpose does Android even serve anymore?

I hate this change, but I still prefer Android. iOS is hardly perfect nor does it do everything better...
by ieuanking | 2025-08-25 20:01:30+00:00
I surround myself with people I trust. They tell me when I'm wrong and when I'm right. Everyone is right, everyone is wrong, and everything has bias. Instead of trying to discern what is real and fake, I think you should try to decide what you believe, and through that belief, you will find liars and trustworthy people full of valuable information. Most importantly, try to understand people who disagree with you - I grew up with a family with entirely different values and beliefs than I do. Having people around you who agree and disagree with you, with whom you feel comfortable discussing those topics, is vital to personal development and growth.
by wafflemaker | 2025-08-25 20:01:33+00:00
There is a whole world out there, full of people who call Wi-Fi the internet. Nearly all of them do many things better than you, and most of them wouldn't treat you with contempt just because you find small talk difficult, can't swim or can't dress well on a tight budget.

Think about what kind of image your present to them and if it's really how you would like them to see you. Just honestly.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-25 20:01:47+00:00
The memory improvement seems so so awesome. 3x the bandwidth, 2x capacity, via Open Memory Interface (OMI) buffers.

Really looking forward to x86 getting similar: Intel's MR-DIMM and industry standard MCR-DIMM are both sort of happening. Intel's Granite Rapids (Xeon 6900P series) for example takes either DDR5-6400 or MRDIMM-8800, a 38% increase. And which should also allow a capacity increase, up to 256GB dimms supposedly. But so far, seems like 96GB is as big as we get, and MCR-DIMMs are still work-in-progress. https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon6-mrdimm-ddr5 https://www.serversupply.com/MEMORY/PC5-70400/96GB/MICRON/MT...
by pessimizer | 2025-08-25 20:02:20+00:00
> This needs to be repeated. Tariffs are a tax on ordinary citizens. Unlike regular taxes, tariffs are not progressive and therefore benefit the wealthy.

No, people need to stop repeating it, because it's an extremely stupid anti-tax argument. Tariffs are meant to onshore production and raise wages. Telling half the story is simply lying. You might as well complain about buying food because it costs money. You might as well complain about all consumption because consumption is regressive.

The problem isn't tariffs, you can send that money to poor people. The problem is that nobody cares about poor people, including Trump. A lack of tariffs isn't going to make America moral.

One of the only things Trump is doing unbelievably well on is trade. Tariffs haven't been damaging at all. They should be more damaging, but the US is so dependent on foreign poverty that we have to leave any tariff scheme as filled with holes as swiss cheese. The fact is our manufacturing is so based in the exploitation of low-rights and low paid workers from other countries that entire industries would immediately start failing if we ended up in a real trade war with e.g. China.

> To make the rich, richer. And then turn around and complain that rich are getting richer and they are getting poorer.

These are Koch brothers policies you're advocating as if they're social justice. The reason why every capitalist you know is complaining about tariffs isn't because they make the rich richer (by some method yet to be explained.)
by chriskw | 2025-08-25 20:02:21+00:00
I could see it being handy to estimate probability where each word is to better inform each guess. The tricky thing is I'm not sure if each run of wave function collapse (with randomness injected) would be an accurate sampling method for the real distribution of possible permutations. While doing this writeup I tried to find ways to analyze permutations with restriction, but it turns out most general methods are pretty intractable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_(mathematics)#Enumer...
by sneilan1 | 2025-08-25 20:02:56+00:00
Yes, thank you for being one of the few people to appreciate this experiment. Sure, maybe it's a little wonky right now but I'm glad someone took this risk and tried the "jesus take the wheel" move with Claude Code.

We, as human beings, keep trying this and eventually figure out how to get models to build more and more of the software stack for us and professionally!
by HankStallone | 2025-08-25 20:03:03+00:00
That's been the reality for longer than I've been alive. Nothing new about it in 2025 except that at some point we went from billions to trillions, but it's been unsustainable for decades.

Basically, we're all used to it. Most of us probably had a moment when we realized how screwed the system was and expected it to crash soon. Mine was in the 90s when personal bankruptcies were climbing fast. But they've managed to kick the can down the road so many times that complaining about it seems quaint now.
Is there a way to have a UX QA AI with keen eye to design?
by odai4real | 2025-08-25 20:03:10+00:00
Hi all! As many of you, I jumped on the vibe coding train hard. The first prompt is always so promising then the quality deteriorates as the complexity of what you're trying to build increases. The issue I am finding is that there is no clear feedback loop for any agent to get updated prompts related to the UX itself (similar to what a human QA with keen attention to details would be able to see). Has anyone found a tool that can close that feedback loop? I had heard about Playwright and I have been using it but it is not effective. I would appreciate the help. Thanks!
by godelski | 2025-08-25 20:03:18+00:00
My last job gave me a windows machine. I tried using Windows Hello for login and... it broke Outlook. Apparently this was a known bug.

My solution? Type my strong password at every reboot and move to using the Yubi key they offered me. Great, I like Yubi keys. Oh, I can't set a security key as my primary means of 2 factor? My options were Hello or using the Microsoft authenticator phone app (couldn't use my other OTP app...). So every single login always started with "Sign in with Hello or use a security key". If using Hello I could just tap my finger and move on (and Outlook might crash silently). If security key I had to go through this dumb process of clicking: "use another device", "security key", "next", "type credentials", "tap security key", "ok". I think that needless "next" button was what really got under my skin. It was already a manufactured problem but an extra dialogue screen that is just doing nothing. Quite Kafkaesque.
by jacob2161 | 2025-08-25 20:03:41+00:00
That's a good point too. It seems a bit weird to me to garbage collect connections that I know I'll just recreate in most cases, especially when they're so cheap and limited in number.

Cycling connections may cover for certain classes of bugs but I dislike doing things for this reason, but maybe there are others. I'll put some thinking/testing into it at some point.

Thanks!
by marcosdumay | 2025-08-25 20:03:49+00:00
Most people from almost every specialty mostly dismiss calculus as useless, don't even remember linear algebra is a thing, and never learn or forgets everything about statistics. (But the reaction to probability varies a lot.)

I have no idea what's up with those disciplines, but it's an almost universal reaction to them. Unless people are very clearly and directly using them all the time, they just get dismissed.
by Melonai | 2025-08-25 20:03:59+00:00
I kind of get where you're coming from, but if your solution for them is to:

- Relearn the way they grip their mouse completely

- Stop secreting skin oils

- Stop some ointment that you are assuming they use for some reason

- Buy mouse grip replacements constantly

Or:

- Just buying a slightly more expensive mouse that they like

I don't think you're going to sell them on this...
by sllabres | 2025-08-25 20:04:29+00:00
For those who have asked who runs this system: Power systems today run either "AS/400" aka iSeries, IBMs traditional Unix (AIX) or Linux (RedHat or SuSE).

In addition to the technical parameters mentioned in the article (an IBM Red Book would certainly provide more):

From what I know from conversations, SAP users are a large customers base for Power systems. I think the size of the possible main memory might be one reason, persistent main memory [1] could be another, in my opinion. But this feature is not new, it was available at least with Power 9. The systems are available with up to 64 TB memory (I don't know if all this memory would by available for one process, but from what I have read at least 32 TB is) and that seems to mix well with SAP HANA.

Another reason is licensing. LPAR partition is considered hard partitioning for Oracle databases, which makes licensing much easier and, in many configurations, also more cost-effective. [2]

Then there are several RAS features. Think of: if one core of a processor in a x86 server dies, your server dies. This is not the case in the IBM Power environment. These days many customers are happy with horizontal redundancy, but not all are equal.

[1] https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-member...

[2] https://oraclelicensingexperts.com/oracle-licensing-virtuali...
by jijijijij | 2025-08-25 20:04:35+00:00
So Germany isn't actually an exception like you claimed? Or why are you moving the goalpost? Little sus...

Information wasn't censored, deliberate misinformation was. The German democracy is set up to be resisting forces which threaten it's very existence. RT's mission was not set out to inform the German population with journalistic integrity, but using false reports meant to destroy the social fabric of an enemy state (from Moscow's perspective).

Quite funny you mentioned "Hitler's diary", which is a fabrication as well. Also not censored... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries

As for bomb making, yeah sorry, you can't get field instructions how to make something you are not allowed to produce, use or have. The chemistry isn't banned tho. Maybe try wikipedia or a library?
by phoenixhaber | 2025-08-25 20:04:36+00:00
I'm worried that this could have unforeseen knock on effects or create havoc. Fukushima knocked out global supply chains for parts on cars so for a couple years there were no Honda fits for example (they were missing a necessary but small part). Is there any risk of domino effects having to do with business closures or is it just moronic and annoying?
by empyrrhicist | 2025-08-25 20:04:46+00:00
> This just isn't true. In practice any such screening model can ALWAYS improve with more data—basically because the statistical power goes up and up—up to an asymptote set by noise in the physical process itself.

That isn't how this works at all.

1. If you assume the test results are iid, sure you can increase your precision (presuming you're talking about repeatedly testing people?), but biology is messy and the tests are correlated. You can get all kinds of individual-specific cross-reactivity on a lab assay, for example. As another example, you can't just keep getting more MRIs to arbitrarily improve your confidence that something is cancer/not cancer/a particular type of cancer etc. 2. Statistical power is not relevant here, but rather different kinds of prediction error. It turns out that in the general population, it is NOT medically relevant that PSA is correlated with the presence of prostate cancer, because it is NOT predictive of mortality, and it IS a cause for unnecessary intervention and thus harm to patients.

I really don't mean to cause offense, but you're talking about this like someone who has no idea how these concepts interact with reality in the biomedical world. Like, you seem to be applying your intuition about how tabular data analysis tends to work in systems you're familiar with, and assuming it generalizes to a context where you don't have experience.

> this whole anti-MRI-everyone argument to be bewildering

It's not about being against MRIs, it's about the idea that (even ignoring costs/cost effectiveness) there are known real-world effects of over-screening people for things.

> But it is not inherently true—it is really a statement about poor statistical and policy practices in the field, which could be rectified with concerted effort, with a potential for great public upside.

This is still not at all a certainty. Let's say you lock this behind a screening system run by data scientists so that there's no patient or provider pressure to act in what you're calling a statistically poor manner. Ok, then what? They have to come up with a decision rule about when to dig deeper and get more data (which again, isn't an MRI, but rather is often an invasive procedure). It is not obvious that there exist any decision rule that could reasonably be arrived at that would be a good trade-off in terms of false positives and the corresponding additional burden.

I am 1000% willing to entertain the idea that new screening can be a net benefit, but we'd need to know what kind of sensitivity/specificity tradeoff would be involved to even start approximating the numbers, and then you'd need to do a trial to demonstrate that it's worthwhile, and even then you'd need to do post-trial monitoring to make sure there aren't unexpected second order effects. People DO, in fact, do this work.

The idea that "more data == better" is just way too simplistic when the data is messy and necessarily inconclusive, the outcomes of interest are rare, and the cost of additional screening can be severe - again also ignoring that all of this is expensive in the first place.