MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dingnuts | 2025-08-22 23:01:23+00:00
this website is insufferable.

instead of explaining yourself, you offer a pretentious reading list? those authors wrote a LOT and had many different topics. you couldn't even point to any specific writing?

give me a fucking break. you just want to sound smart. this website is filled with the most arrogant people anywhere on the Internet. if you want to comment about an idea, and then you intend to recommend several semesters' worth of reading instead of just explaining your comment when someone asks nicely, maybe kindly shut the fuck up instead?

you had no reason to post this comment, or the first one, besides making yourself feel superior
Ask HN: What's Hacker News's vision for the future?
by gooob | 2025-08-22 23:04:01+00:00
It's the weekend. Let's do some brainstorming. What's forefront on your mind with regards to the human predicament, and how we move forward?

We all see that it seems pretty much everyone has gone insane, or at least that's what the narrative portrays. Why are companies, governments, and other organizations doing such stupid things?

So we've made machines that can appear to "think", by articulating linguistic constructs that make sense. In fact, there appears to be actual semantic and logical structure embedded within the neural networks of LLMs. Ok, let's keep our heads on straight, keep in mind the mathematics involved, chill out, and just think about what it is that we actually want (and what "we" are, for that matter). Are we going to someday transcend language? I'm aware that I'm typing this message out to you, using language, with hopes that this form of communication will become obsolete. But what will that look like? I know that human language in it's current form is severely limited.

If we're to design some future communication protocol and methodology, let's contemplate what types of things even need to be communicated? For example, what is "the news" nowadays? Could it be simply a video stream of the sunrise? Well it would take a long time to get there. In the meantime, it should probably be something like "yeah, it's another day, and humans are doing the work necessary to put order to chaos and make things better for everyone".

From a more concrete perspective, I'd say that we've reached the point when we can transcend the idea of what "work" is currently. We can see beyond the limited view of doing things for monetary profit, and see that certain systems could be implemented much better if there were certain forms of entity-organization and resource-allocation at play. What is a company if it's ran by a computer? What does it serve? I mean, it sounds silly to suggest some big companies with overlapping domains of operation should consolidate their operations, but we all know that that's where things should be headed in many cases.

So yeah, what's your vision for the future?
by baddriversuk | 2025-08-22 23:04:04+00:00
Hi HN,

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I’m building a Car Check & Valuation tool (think CarVertical/HPI but with: • Cleaner, app-style UI • AI-powered valuations + depreciation curve • WooCommerce checkout + instant PDF/email reports

Market is proven (CarVertical makes tens of millions annually). My edge: I already have the audience and can drive sales from day one.

Looking for a WordPress/PHP dev who can integrate with a UK car data API, build a mobile-first plugin, and handle payments + PDF/email.

Instead of upfront payment, I’m offering 10% recurring profit share. I’ll handle marketing + distribution, you handle dev.

If interested, comment or DM me. Happy to share mockups + valuation pseudocode.

— Gee
by kstrauser | 2025-08-22 23:04:16+00:00
It could be that we have drastically different ideas of "easy way to do things". To me, XSLT has never remotely resembled an easy way to do things. It seemed like a weird, difficult, almost deliberately obtuse horse designed by committee that technically worked but in a horrifying kind of way, like finding that someone write a C compiler Bash. Wow, it's cool that someone was able to do it at all, but I can't imagine ever wanting to jump on that train.
by pornel | 2025-08-22 23:04:24+00:00
You can implement this in Rust.

It's an equivalent of Rc<Cell<(Option<Box<T>>, Option<Box<T>>)>>, but with the Rc replaced by a custom shared type that avoids keeping refcount by having max 2 owners.

You're going to need UnsafeCell to implement the exact solution, which needs a few lines of code that is as safe as the C++ version.
by j-bos | 2025-08-22 23:05:03+00:00
Kernel level anti-cheat a short term curse with long term damages. For those wondering about the short term, here's a cheat that will never be handled by rootki-anticheat: https://youtu.be/9alJwQG-Wbk (vid description, an aimbot that triggers your human muscles to aim faster than any unaugmented human) That solution was effectively made from a box of scraps. Now imagine in a year when some go getters package and sell it to the mass market.

Long term damages are self explanatory, it's called a-rootkit
by UlisesAC4 | 2025-08-22 23:05:45+00:00
To be fair I cannot trust your shape in your jsonrpc, I am not sure if id is truly an integer or if you sent me an integer by mistake, same as params or even the payload of the params' param, this is why we ended adopting openapi for describing http interactions and iirc jsonrpc specifically can also be described with it. At least in the schema part no one would say it is ambiguous, also one does not need do heavier parses, the obj is a tree, no more checking on scaping strings, no more issues with handcoded multiline strings, it is dropped the need to separate attributes with commas as we know the end tag delimits a space and so on.
by bawolff | 2025-08-22 23:05:52+00:00
While i think a lot of xml was a bad idea, some of the issues are not instrinsically the fault of XML but some really poor design decisions by people making xml based languages.

They tended to be design by comittee messes that included every possible use case as an option.

Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of having to deal with SAML knows what i'm talking about. Its a billion line long specification, everyone only implements 10% of it, and its full of hidden gotchas that will screw up your security if you get them wrong. (Even worse, the underlying xml-signature spec is literally the worst way to do digital signatures possible. Its so bad you'd think someone was intentionally sabotaging it)

In theory this isn't xml's fault, but somehow XML seems to attract really bad spec designers.
by fine_tune | 2025-08-22 23:05:56+00:00
I'm no ruby expert, so forgive my ignorance, but it looks like a small "NER model" packaged as a string convince wrapper named `filter` that tries to filter out "sensitive info" on input strings.

I assume the NER model is small enough to run on CPU at less than 1s~ per pass at the trade off of storage per instance (1s is fast enough in dev, in prod with long convos - that's a lot of inference time), generally a neat idea though.

Couple questions;

- NER doesn't often perform well in different domains, how accurate is the model?

- How do you actually allocate compute/storage for inferring on the NER model?

- Are you batching these `filter` calls or is it just sequential 1 by 1 calls
by echelon | 2025-08-22 23:06:45+00:00
You're right on that front.

I currently wouldn't recommend any Rust ORM, Diesel included. They're just not quite ready for prime time.

If you're not one to shy away from raw SQL, then SQLx is rock-solid. I actually prefer it over ORMs in general. It's type-checked at runtime or compile time against your schema, no matter how complex the query gets. It manages to do this with an incredibly simple design.

It's like an even nicer version of Java's popular jOOQ framework, which I always felt was incredibly ugly.

SQLx might be my very favorite SQL library of any language.
by JeremyNT | 2025-08-22 23:07:05+00:00
Spell out what you are implying.

I have no idea what the originator of this thread was doing to end up in their situation. I've seen nothing like it on bluesky.

Maybe it's obvious to you and others why it happened, but it's not to all of us, and down voting people for asking this question doesn't make is any clearer.
by nostrademons | 2025-08-22 23:07:23+00:00
Note that there are several drone microcontroller manufacturers based in the U.S. right now - ModalAI, ARK Electronics, Rotor Riot, etc.

The thing about drones is that they actually don't require much computational power compared to modern consumer computing. It's just math - control systems, calculus, trig, waypoints, etc. All of these were solved problems in the days of the Apollo Guidance computer, and will run comfortably on chips from 2 decades ago. The STM32F722 microcontroller that is one of the most common hobbyist drone chips is built on the 90nm process node, runs at 216MHz, has 512K of SRAM, and costs about $5/chip. FWIW, it's made in France and Italy rather than China, and STMicroelectronics owns its own fabs rather than outsourcing to TSMC or Chinese companies.

If you want to do things like computer vision on the drone, the computational requirements are quite a bit higher, but you can still run something like YOLO at orders of magnitude less computational power than what you've got in a Pixel 9 or iPhone 16.

...which makes me wonder if a better strategy for the military would be to fund a wide variety of domestic chip manufacturers operating at decades-old process nodes (eg. the 65nm process node from 2005 seems to be at about the sweet spot), rather than try to prop up the one American company that can compete on cutting edge 7nm process nodes. Particularly since the experience of WW2 was that simple, robust designs that could be easily licensed to other suppliers and mass produced (eg. the Hawker Hurricane, Grumman F6F Hellcat, Grumman/GM TBF Avenger, Liberty ship, escort carrier) were much more effective at turning the tide of battle than designs that were on the cutting edge of technology (eg. the Vought F4U Corsair, Gloster Meteor, Japanese Shinano aircraft carrier). The latter were often better in absolute performance, but arrived late, in small numbers, and with teething troubles that made the former carry the bulk of the battle. The Liberty Ship, for example, used reciprocating steam engines that were 50-year-old technology in WW2, but they were "good enough" and dead simple to make.
by mhall | 2025-08-22 23:07:33+00:00
My first job out of uni in the mid 2000s was working on line doubling and film mode detection for Imagination Technologies (makers of the graphics chip in the Dreamcast). Faroudja was our benchmark!

Felt like a real baller with a giant HDTV on my desk, but less fun was watching test scenes from Titanic at 1FPS over and over.
by hammock | 2025-08-22 23:07:37+00:00
No one wants to risk a ticket with a guess at how long the yellow is going to be, or whether they’ll make it thru or not. That is the unsolvable part. Yellows are inconsistent , and you aren’t accounting for slow-moving traffic ahead of you that might cause you to block the intersection, etc.

There was actually a scandal in Chicago were a study found that the city systematically reduced the length of yellows only on lights that had red light cameras in order to harvest tickets.
by trod1234 | 2025-08-22 23:09:06+00:00
Your wrong. Here's how it might go down.

Web advertising goes away because communications platforms reach the Shannon limit driven by AI generated slop, and deceit. People can no longer communicate with each other, this spawns chaotic hallucinations and delusions that grow into a dragon-king event. Businesses make decisions based on the hallucinatory perceptions that are not sound resulting in losses. Money-printing increases to try to cope with losses by extending debt nationalizing the economy, inflationary pressures cause rapid devaluation of the dollar which in turn puts companies responsible for food production out of business. This culminates in one single company remaining in the food production sector that serves as inputs for other smaller companies, and then they too fail due to chaotic instability and devaluation of the currency, with no further food production thereafter citing regulatory and safety issues confounded by corruption. All the while advertising to everyone that food will be available in the future, but never actually taking the steps to make it happen given the desperate situation that cannot be resolved.

Three days later, most people start getting desperate to feed their families. Rioting breaks out. Some start resorting to cannibalism, looting, and ivolence. The electric grid fails. Production of everything ceases, and the remaining people kill each other using guns/other tools, or detonate nuclear bombs ending it for everyone.

The relation between each step of this is a small domino that by itself wouldn't break a resilient system, it would only break in a predisposed centralized system, a system that has been optimized for chaos to create profit.

You've got the cause and effect reversed that seems based in fallacy. Are you one of those people that would say, "This can't ever happen", sound in that false belief but through your actions then try to make it happen?

Cascade failures lag with time. If you juggle balls up in the air, eventually they will all come down at the same time, where you won't be able to react. This is why these failures are so serious and existential, and shouldn't be ignored by rational people. Those that ignore reality end up dying through their own choices given sufficient time.
by mandevil | 2025-08-22 23:09:50+00:00
Because this clears the way to sell Intel Foundry and separate the chip design from the chip-manufacturing businesses completely.

The CHiPs act money had claw-backs such that if Intel sold the Foundry off they had to pay the government all the money back. This new deal waives all the clawbacks and says instead the Government gets warrants, good for five years, for 5% of the company at $20/share, good once they control less than 51% of the Foundry.

Ergo, the reason for the deal is that the board wants to sell off the Foundry, and didn't want to pay back the CHiPS act money.
by mkl | 2025-08-22 23:10:01+00:00
> tar xzf foobar.tgz

You don't need the z, as xf will detect which compression was used, if any.

Creating is no harder, just use c for create instead, and specify z for gzip compression:

tar czf archive.tar.gz [filename(s)]

Same with listing contents, with t for tell:

tar tf archive.tar.gz
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-08-22 23:10:45+00:00
Yeah, you're right; I did not understand the context. This is obviously a motte and bailey.

"Nothing to see here" (even referring to the title alone) is the hard to defend position and when that's called out as ridiculous they say that they were just talking about the actually normal things that countries do for immigration, which nobody is going to argue with.

The end goal being for the "nothing to see here" that everybody is looking at to become normal.
by Analemma_ | 2025-08-22 23:10:47+00:00
This is very wrong: farmers still have incredibly outsized influence in American politics, mostly to our detriment. We have a number of horrible policies (ethanol subsidies, HFCS in everything, tons of inexplicable restrictions on food stamps, water policy in the west emptying all the aquifers) that are entirely because of lobbying by farmers, and the Farm Bill distributes between 70 and 100 billion per year, much of it well-spent but also with a great deal of graft and patronage because of farming lobbying.
by orbital-decay | 2025-08-22 23:10:58+00:00
>It can't be that hard to do occlusion calculations server-side, right?

I think you already know the answer. Yes, it's bottlenecked by latency and jitter (of the laggiest player, no less), and in addition to that the maximum possible movement velocity makes it much much worse in fast paced games. It's been attempted a few times since at least late 90's, with predictable results.

In other words, complete server-side calculations are a fantasy. Besides, they won't even remotely make cheating impossible or even harder! Even complete hardware lockdown won't.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-22 23:11:07+00:00
My naive take is that technical solutions are possible, but critically they can’t be fully automated. The most effective anti-cheat solution possible probably looks something like a full-time in-house team comprised of seasoned ITSEC, data nerds, a couple of ML people, and a few devs. A team like that could probably pick out and boot cheaters with a very low rate of false positives given adequate data to crunch, and they’d only get better over time as they build a roster of patterns and behaviors to match against.

The problem is that this costs more than game companies are willing to spend, even when they’re raking in cash hand over fist. As long as the problem isn’t so bad that it’s making players quit, it’s cheaper to employ more automated, less effective strategies. The end goal isn’t player happiness, it’s higher profit margins.
by int_19h | 2025-08-22 23:11:13+00:00
That's not really any different than the distinction (or lack thereof) between "ae" and "æ". For that matter, in Russian there is a letter "ы" which is historically a digraph consisting of two separately letters "ъ" and "i" that just happens to be treated as a single letter for so long that few people would even recognize it as a digraph. This kind of stuff is all language-specific, which is why for Worlde etc you always need to be aware of the context, and this context will then unambiguously decide what constitutes a single letter.
by internetter | 2025-08-22 23:11:33+00:00
> Cloud gaming is flatly non-workable for any kind of game where latency matters.

Not if only the rendering is done on the client. Look at rocket league.

Edit: of course, it is still possible to cheat in rocket league, but because all physics state is server authoritative at best a perfectly coded cheat could play like a perfect human, not supernatural.
by tomhow | 2025-08-22 23:11:36+00:00
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by Stevvo | 2025-08-22 23:12:15+00:00
No. When you write code in a high-level language, your data is still in-memory offset at some 'precise tracked position', even if you are not being explicit/conscious about that layout. Games that use high-level languages are often easier to hack. e.g. Escape from Tarkov is one of the most hacked games because players can hook directly into its C# script VM, writing code as easily as if they had the original source.
by bluGill | 2025-08-22 23:12:43+00:00
That graph would be misleading - wind may only have a tiny footprint, they cover a lot more area. In some parts of iowa there are wind turbines in all directionsas far as the eye can see. That is how my iowa utility can claim I'm 103% wind - they generated more wind power than all customers used. (But there are other utilities in iowa so state wide and official numbers are not as good - though iowa is number 2 in the us for windpower)
by echelon | 2025-08-22 23:14:08+00:00
The web has been replaced by walled garden apps.

Most people consume Reddit through, specifically, the iOS version of the app. The same is true of TikTok and Instagram. This is how most people get their news.

Google destroyed web discoverability and search. Platforms sucked up all of the value and monopolized distribution.

The indie web is pretty much dead for normal people. It's only us developer / hacker / enthusiasts that have websites and play around with CSS.

The news and content gets consumed by most people through apps and the walled-gardens.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-22 23:14:28+00:00
I am curious how many other "social" sites took this stand.

I think what bluesky did is the only way to fight these laws that all it will do is be a boon to people who obtain and sell PI.

For people in Mississippi, you can always get a VPN. You should avoid Free VPNs, but that is your decision.
by perching_aix | 2025-08-22 23:14:47+00:00
> Number of monospaced font character blocks this string will take up on the screen

To predict the pixel width of a given text, right?

One thing I ran into is that despite certain fonts being monospace, characters from different Unicode blocks would have unexpected lengths. Like I'd have expected half-width CJK letters to render to the same pixel dimensions as Latin letters do, but they don't. It's ever so slightly off. Same with full-width CJK letters vs two Latin letters.

I'm not sure if this is due to some font fallback. I'd have expected e.g. VS Code to be able to be able to render Japanese and English monospace in an aligned way without any fallbacks. Maybe once I have energy again to waste on this I'll look into it deeper.
by etempleton | 2025-08-22 23:15:16+00:00
They are the only US company that can produce cutting edge chips now and realistically within the next 15+ years. It doesn’t matter that TSMC produces chips in the US. That is nice for the short term but doesn’t do much for the US in the long term if TSMC falls under China’s influence.

Intel is in the midst of a dramatic turnaround and huge shift in strategy. It might fail. But if they succeed it puts Intel and the US in a much stronger position in terms of technology and military leadership.
by klipklop | 2025-08-22 23:17:14+00:00
But there is no proof more energy == more intelligence. In some areas I am smarter than the best ChatGPT model and my energy source is Taco Bell double deckers. Clearly there is a lot of low hanging fruit for efficiency before needing to encompass the entire sun and suck it dry of energy. It's an absurd thing to suggest. It's exactly the type of thing a conman would suggest. Something cool, fantastic and completely impossible to actually implement.