MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Maken | 2025-08-25 10:24:49+00:00
Sadly, this is a real possibility. I would even conjecture they are testing a new pipeline, in which the input is real videos and the output are AI-generated.

For now it's a kind of autoencoding, regenerating the same input video with minimal changes. They will refine the pipeline until the end video is indistinguishable from the original. Then, once that is perfected, they will offer famous content creators the chance to sell their "image" to other creators, so less popular underpaid creators can record videos and change their appearance to those of famous ones, making each content creator a brand to be sold. Eventually humans will get out of the pipeline and everything will be autogenerated, of course.
by rafaelmn | 2025-08-25 10:25:15+00:00
Thats such a rear view mirror take. I am not in this industry but it was obvious Intel had a manufacturing advantage back then and this let them be the dominant player in this space for decades. High margins and they were the only game in town for the x86 in most key markets (AMD was just a cover for antitrust cases).

Even 10 years ago Intel was a blue chip stock, saying they should have cannibalized their lead to go into a lower margin market for volume would have gotten you kicked off any executive role.

Imagine being in a boardroom in 2010:

- You're printing money with 60%+ gross margins - You have a 2-3 year process lead over everyone - Your R&D budget dwarfs competitors because of your integrated model - PC sales are still growing and servers are booming with cloud build-outs - Also you are betting that Apple is going all in on your foundry to drive the volume and R&D

And someone proposes: "Let's split the company, cut our margins for a bet against our design team in mobile volume, and start manufacturing chips for companies that might become our competitors."
by anilakar | 2025-08-25 10:25:45+00:00
I wanted to try Smalltalk earlier and discovered Pharo, but I found it to be just one huge antipattern as everything involved a single combined toolchain/IDE/runtime virtual machine image. Amber's documentation seems to have screenshots of the very same object inspector.

If I want to build a wooden chair, I don't want to start by learning to use a steel metal punch to create a panel saw first...
by turblety | 2025-08-25 10:26:35+00:00
We could say the same before AI, but I don't think it's true. Ignoring AI for a moment, if I look at databases as an example, there is lots of choice and competition out there:

MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, Teradata, Snowflake, TiDB, SQLite, DuckDB, and more probably.

I think it's led to great choice and a great sharing of ideas. Theres also been a lot of failures too, that's true, but I'm sure some of those failures have led to a few unique features across those products too.

So now with AI, for me it's the same process, just accelerated. Yes, there is lots of junk coming out there, but I think there's lots of good too.
by quibono | 2025-08-25 10:27:02+00:00
Yes, the comment has it backwards.

> Also, how are we encoding “current node”? Is it an integer? Does A=0, and the rest of the nodes have some arbitrary value? How do we calculate `neighbors(node)`?

This is the "discussion" part of the interview where you're supposed to ask, and the interviewer will tell you that you can assume the nodes are numbered from 0/1 to N-1/N. I imagine the adjacency modeling is up to you since you'll be judged based off what representation you pick, and that will depend on the proposed solution.
Ask HN: Why aren't Android manufacturers interested in GrapheneOS?
by palata | 2025-08-25 10:28:07+00:00
It probably sounds naive, but I have been following GrapheneOS for a few years, and it seems like adoption is growing at a fair speed. They currently estimate [1] that they have more than 300k users.

I know it's not a lot for the likes of Samsung, but FairPhone, for instance, sold 100k units in 2023.

So if FairPhone made their hardware work with GrapheneOS, they would possible double their marketshare. Also for a major manufacturer like Samsung or Huawei, it feels like it shouldn't be too hard to meet the GrapheneOS requirements, and that would immediately get them those customers that want GrapheneOS (especially given that Google has been seen less reliable recently).

Why is it that Android manufacturers just don't care? Is it too much work for a market of hundreds of thousands of users (and growing)?

[1]: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1137-market-share/16
by akoboldfrying | 2025-08-25 10:28:34+00:00
I think your quantifiers are in the wrong order.

Because you wrote "But trivially, either a machine...", I think you must think that the second sentence in your quote means "For every program p, there does not exist any method m that, when applied to p, determines whether p halts" -- which would clearly be false, since it allows every program to have its own method (and as you say, just 2 "constant-valued methods" suffice). But I interpret that second sentence in your quote as "There does not exist a single method m that, when applied to any program p, determines whether p halts", which is correct.

>Given a particular set of axioms, there are machines which do not halt, but which cannot be proven not to halt, and maybe that’s what the article means.

I also think that's what the article means, and I think it's a very nice way of putting it, though it's an interesting enough wrinkle to discuss further.
by x0x0 | 2025-08-25 10:29:12+00:00
You're probably right; either that or beat Qualcomm/Samsung at providing the non-Apple chips. As rafaelmn points out, 2010 may be premature, but by 2015, they should have understood.

How they fiddled and watched Apple take the phones that make a profit; Samsung/Qualcomm provide chips to the rest; and all the hyperscalers make their own arm chips in the data center while doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. Is beyond comprehension.

Meanwhile, (I think Asianometry?) pointed out that Intel's headcount was recently as large as AMD, nVidia, and TSMC combined.
by tromp | 2025-08-25 10:30:00+00:00
> it makes other "googology" numbers vanish by comparison.

I consider TREE to be medium sized in the googology universe. It obliterates Graham's Number of course, as well as Goodstein sequence and simple hydras. But it's easily bested by an ingenious matrix generalization of hydras known as the Bashicu Matrix System, even when fixed at 2 rows. 3-row BMS goes far beyond that, let alone n-row. BMS is so simple that it can be encoded in under 50 bytes [1], where TREE would take significantly more. Beyond that there vastly greater numbers still such as Loader's Number. I shouldn't mention Rayo's because that's no longer computable in the usual sense.

[1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/18028/largest-n...
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-25 10:30:18+00:00
That only changes the math if collisions are "free" to the vehicle purchaser while causing damage to someone else. Otherwise their interests are aligned, i.e. neither of them wants that to happen and so will want the safety feature unless it has low effectiveness in their circumstances.

Obviously some people will make a poor choice, but that's just as true as legislators, and all costs are a trade off against what else you could have gotten for the money. In other words, all safety features that cost money have an opportunity cost, which is also measured in lost lives, so the ones that aren't effective or have diminished effectiveness under particular circumstances shouldn't be mandatory in all cases.
Show HN: Finite element simulation library built in JavaScript
by nikoscham | 2025-08-25 10:30:46+00:00
FEAScript is a lightweight finite element simulation library built in JavaScript. It empowers users to create and execute simulations for physics and engineering applications in both browser-based and server-side environments.

The following lists contain some, but not all, of the available features in FEAScript:

Physical Modelling - Solid heat conduction solver - Front propagation solver Geometry and Meshing - Simple mesh generation (1D and rectangular 2D domains) - Unstructured mesh import from Gmsh (".msh" file format) Numerical Solution - Linear system solvers (LU decomposition, Jacobi method) - Newton-Raphson method for nonlinear problems Parallelization - Web worker support for multi-threaded computation Visualization - Line and surface plotting Resources: GitHub: https://github.com/FEAScript/FEAScript-core Website: https://feascript.com/ NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/feascript
by bayindirh | 2025-08-25 10:31:41+00:00
How can you license the correct formatting process and create a sweet recurring value stream for the shareholders of the SD Card Association if you open source this?

Are you a communist? /s

Jokes aside. I'd love to see this standardized and widely available with a document why SD cards needs to be formatted this way, but I think everyone is afraid that someone's patent or secret or something will be revealed, and its library form is probably, really a revenue stream for them.

Shortsighted, I may say.
by AndrewDucker | 2025-08-25 10:33:46+00:00
"biggest" doesn't not mean most people support it. That's not how most democracies work - they have proportional representation, so they have many parties, and the biggest one may still only (as in this case) have a small percentage of the vote (in this case, 25%[0])

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_G...
by nailer | 2025-08-25 10:33:55+00:00
That’s true. It’s a bit of a self fulfilling prophesy: the browsers didn’t present a meaningful verification UI, then removed the UI because users didn’t find it meaningful.

Steak isn’t delicious because, after I pee on it, people dislike the taste.

The concept of matching an real world identity to a public key is very much intact outside the browser world.
by DrBazza | 2025-08-25 10:33:57+00:00
No. We were typically indifferent to our Government. Very much a case of 'go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.' But substitute 'tea'.

But in the last couple of decades, things have changed. Arguably, a public referendum in 2016, was very much a protest vote against several Parliaments that didn't listen to its citizens. And the last decade shows nothing has changed.

My friends and family, and myself included, were never very political, and very much a case of 'No Matter Who You Vote For The Government Always Gets In', but now everyone is talking about the Government. Interesting times ahead.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-25 10:34:23+00:00
I appreciate the link. I get the sense that he is putting out a lot of content because he’s doing updates for his project, along with broad strokes videos for why folks should care about the issues, and also nuanced takes for specific topics, so I couldn’t cut through the noise to find the signal, as I haven’t followed his content closely, but I did like what I saw.
by PickledJesus | 2025-08-25 10:34:46+00:00
Obviously few would with that framing, but if they're given policies, lots of British people across the political spectrum would support ones that are more paternalistic. Support for the OSA is very high: https://yougov.co.uk/technology/articles/52693-how-have-brit...

British people are much happier with the state being paternalistic, across the political spectrum, it is a very strong differentiator between the US and the UK. "The government should do something!" You can see it in attitudes to the NHS, pensions, welfare. At its peak, in the 70s, 32% of people lived in social housing!

Labour voters, young and old, are generally quite paternalistic. Lots of Conservative voters are too, depending on the flavour. The exceptions are the Lib Dems and some conservative tribes. I am consistently surprised when talking to highly-educated, politically engaged people, left or right, how much the default is that the state should act.
by tzury | 2025-08-25 10:35:01+00:00
Quote:

colors are much more accurate in terms of how humans perceive them and it makes working with them much easier

This is an aim, which I am not sure fully addressed. Think of the reason why can't I get oklch or any other method of color definition in HTML to produce the "gold color" as we humans think of it.

The fundamental reason you can't get a truly convincing "gold" color using a single value in oklch, rgb, or any other color definition is because gold is a material, not a color.

What our brain perceives as "gold" is not a single, flat hue. It's a complex interplay of light, reflection, and texture.

Point is, even with sophisticated CSS involved with linear gradient it is still a challenge

See demo at https://jsfiddle.net/oyw9fjda/

---

<style> .flat-gold { width: 200px; height: 200px; /* Using Oklch for a perceptually uniform yellow */ background: oklch(85% 0.11 85); } .gradient-gold { width: 200px; height: 200px; background: linear-gradient( 135deg, oklch(60% 0.1 65), /* Dark, desaturated shadow (brownish) */ oklch(85% 0.11 85) 45%, /* Rich mid-tone gold */ oklch(98% 0.1 90) 50%, /* Sharp, bright highlight (almost white-yellow) */ oklch(85% 0.11 85) 55%, /* Back to the mid-tone */ oklch(70% 0.1 75) /* Softer shadow on the other side */ ); } .conic-gold { width: 200px; height: 200px; border-radius: 50%; /* Often looks best on a circle */ background: conic-gradient( from 90deg, #B38728, /* Darker Start */ #FEE9A0, /* Bright Highlight */ #D4AF37, /* Mid-tone */ #FEE9A0, /* Another Highlight */ #B38728 /* Darker End */ ); } .premium-gold { width: 200px; height: 200px; background-color: #B38728; /* Fallback color */ background-image: /* Layer 1: Sharp highlight on top */ linear-gradient( 175deg, rgba(255, 253, 240, 0.6) 0%, rgba(255, 215, 0, 0.2) 40%, rgba(136, 96, 0, 0.5) 90% ), /* Layer 2: Base metallic gradient */ linear-gradient( 105deg, transparent 35%, #FEE9A0 48%, #D4AF37 52%, transparent 65% ); border: 2px solid oklch(60% 0.1 65); box-shadow: inset 0 0 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.4); } </style> <div class="flat-gold"></div> <hr /> <div class="gradient-gold"></div> <hr /> <div class="conic-gold"></div> <hr /> <div class="premium-gold"></div>
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-08-25 10:35:43+00:00
I may have to develop additional content. The thing I noticed about the show is they got many obscure details of life in Dallas in the 80s correct. The neighborhood they filmed Gordon and Donna's house in? It looked very much like Richardson. [though I'm pretty sure it was actually Atlanta.] Joe's condo? It looked very much like some condos they put in on the north side of Woodall Rogers. The night club? Just like the Starck Club. Even the house Donna and Cameron set up Mutiny looked very much like a friend's house on Vickery. [again, most certainly shot in Atlanta]

I read the production designers used old issues of Texas Homes, D Magazine and sears catalogs as visual guides, and it really shows through. I had a very strong nostalgic reaction. The only thing missing was an avocado green refrigerator.

I think it would be fun to take some of the shots and then try to find photos of places, people and things that might have influenced the designers.
by rwmj | 2025-08-25 10:36:57+00:00
The lasting infrastructure of railways was the rights of way and the stations, and I think you're hinting that building them in the 1840s allowed us to do that when no one cared very much about NIMBYs or bulldozing through the countryside.

What's the corresponding infrastructure of AI? The major cost - the GPUs - are effectively obsolete after 3-5 years. The physical location of the datacenters, power, cooling and fibre that connects them might be the lasting infrastructure. Is datacenter location important? Are we actually building up new power sources (apart from endless announcements about FANGs opening nuclear power stations, which as far as I'm aware have not happened yet)?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-25 10:37:05+00:00
How close cars are to each other is generally determined by traffic volume. If there are twice as many cars, they can only be half as far apart because otherwise they can't physically fit on the same length of road. If you try to leave more space than that, other cars will merge into the empty space. The only way to actually do it overall is to reduce the traffic volume (or add more lanes), which is not something an individual driver has any control over.

Which is to say, in practice cars will be following too closely whenever there is high traffic volume, and systems that don't work under real life conditions are broken.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-08-25 10:37:15+00:00
> Some people are probably into the duty free shopping though it's mostly not a bargain.

Depends on where you are. Certainly, flying from Ireland you can get some really good spirits (particularly whiskey) for much cheaper than you would in the rest of the country. That's mostly because of our absurdly high duties on booze though.
by indiaupdate | 2025-08-25 10:37:45+00:00
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by seanparsons | 2025-08-25 10:38:36+00:00
LFS and git-annex have subtly different use cases in my experience. LFS is for users developing something with git that has large files in the repo like the classic game development example. git-annex is something you'd use to keep some important stuff backed up which happens to involve large files, like a home folder with music or whatever in it. In my case I do the latter.
by kloud | 2025-08-25 10:39:16+00:00
Also he has no regards for breaking userspace to the point of needing to get scolded by Linus. But some ideas are good and there is a lot of pioneering work that moves the needle. The trajectories of PulseAudio and systemd are similar, it just needs cleaning up. PulseAudio got fixed up by PipeWire, whereas systemd is at the point of lifecycle yet to reach that stage.
by eru | 2025-08-25 10:40:59+00:00
I have a little system that takes a .git and mounts it as a fuse filesystem. Every commit becomes a directory with a snapshot of the project at that point in time.

You could read the whole .git in at once, and then you'd have an in-memory file-system, if you wanted to.

In any case, I agree with you: it's not about mocking.
by tankenmate | 2025-08-25 10:41:02+00:00
Some GOSIP (remember that?) implementations on some Unicies did have files for network connections, but it was very much in the minority. Since BSD was the home of the first widely usable socket() implementations for TCP/IP it became the norm; sockets are a file, but just not linked to any filesystem and control is connect()/accept() and the networking equivalent (setsockopt()) of the Unix system call dumping ground; ioctl().
by nikoscham | 2025-08-25 10:41:04+00:00
Hi friends. we are developing FEAScript, a JavaScript-based, open-source, finite element simulation library. It allows users to create and run simulations for physics and engineering problems. Our goal is to democratize finite element analysis by making simulation capabilities accessible to everyone, everywhere.

FEAScript is currently under heavy development with new features being added regularly. We would love to hear your feedback!
by kypro | 2025-08-25 10:41:23+00:00
For what it's worth as a Brit I agree with you.

When I talk to people in Britain about sugar-taxes, smoking bans, porn bans, hate-speech laws, etc, most people will explain that without these things people will say/do harmful things therefore the government should stop them.

I remember when they started rolling out biometric facing scanning technology in stores and using it to ban people from all supermarkets within a designated area – basically forcing them to shop in smaller stores without these cameras or get their friends and family to buy their groceries. I thought this was utterly insane but to be horror Brits seem to almost universally support of this stuff because face scanning is a great way to identity people which private companies have flagged high-risk.

Our opinion of others is very low, and are comfort with authoritarianism is relatively high.
by qwytw | 2025-08-25 10:42:30+00:00
> There’s a reason the USA flew a B2 stealth bomber into Iran instead of lobbing munitions over

Wasn't it because the only optional they had if they wanted to do any damage was the GBU-57 (which probably wasn't close to being enough but still..)?

Cruise missiles are offer pretty decent precision for ground targets (supposedly around 5 meters).
by bigfudge | 2025-08-25 10:42:40+00:00
Decided not to, but continued to actively campaign on. It’s created a really weird situation where the actual policy choices are hugely disconnected from the rhetoric and emotion in the debate.

Legal immigration from South Asia dominates illegal immigration by an order of magnitude, but nobody wants to lose seats in Birmingham, so essentially doesn’t figure in the arguments about small numbers of afghans in miserable hotels in Essex.
by threeducks | 2025-08-25 10:42:46+00:00
> The best way to mitigate the load from diffuse, unidentifiable, grey area participants is to have a fast and well engineered web product.

I wonder what all those people are doing that their server can't handle the traffic. Wouldn't a simple IP-based rate limit be sufficient? I only pay $1 per month for my VPS, and even that piece of trash can handle 1000s of requests per second.
by avhception | 2025-08-25 10:42:51+00:00
As a German born in 87, it didn't feel _that_ recent any more. But it was definitely close, both my granddads served in the war and were scarred for life by that, mentally and physically. Family history a mess of war-torn biographies. I found some rusted, old big munition in the forest as a kid. Old bunkers and flak towers can still be seen in the cities, and many of the local kids in my hometown and age cohort adventured into the old mining shaft used as an air raid shelter and saw the gas masks that were still there. And then there was the GDR (or DDR, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, in German) and all the reunification that happened when I was already alive (although I was a child at the time). Thinking about my childhood visit to Ost-Berlin still makes me shiver with thoughts about all the suffering. Many of the buildings still had bullet holes and it felt like you could touch history.
by roguebloodrage | 2025-08-25 10:43:00+00:00
I add re-actively. I figure there are "legitimate" IP's that companies use and I only look at IP addresses that are 'vandalizing' my servers with inappropriate scans and block them.

If I saw the two you have identified, then they would have been added. I do play a balance between "might be a game CDN" or a "legit server" and an outright VPS that is being used to abuse other servers.

But thanks, I will keep an eye on those two ranges.
by jascha_eng | 2025-08-25 10:43:09+00:00
We've deployed a few internal MCP servers (e.g. to access our slack messages, salesforce cases and other internal information)

MCP allows to both: - Mount these into your chatbot of choice - Use these in any automation (custom chatbot or other LLM flow) if your framework supports MCP

Tbf I am still under the impression that for the later use case you would rather use the (HTTP) API directly because MCP doesn't allow you to customize the tool descriptions and if you truly want to make your automation perform well you need to iterate on those in my experience.