MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neutronicus | 2025-08-13 19:50:05+00:00
To your point:

I work on a commercial CAD application (architecture space) and we have a Polyline Tool (misnomer) that lets users add quadratic Bezier curves and arc segments and they are not clamoring for anything more than that. There is the ability to specify the quadratic segments by point on curve at t=1/2, and various different ways of specifying arc segments. But this is all just UI, under the hood it's arc segments, line segments, and quadratic Bezier and it seems to meet their needs.

There is also a NURBS curve tool but my impression is that the vast majority of our users just stick with the 2D Polyline.
by Vegenoid | 2025-08-13 19:50:18+00:00
I am more skeptical of the rate of AI progress than many here, but Claude Code is a huge step. There were a few "holy shit" moments when I started using it. Since then, after much more experimentation, I see its limits and faults, and use it less now. But I think it's worth giving it a try if you want to be informed about the current state of LLM-assisted programming.
by joshvm | 2025-08-13 19:50:24+00:00
I don't know about much better, but I like Whisper's ability to subtitle foreign language content on YouTube that (somehow) doesn't have auto-generated subs. For example some relatively obscure comedy sketches from Germany where I'm not quite fluent enough to go by ear.

10 years ago you'd be searching through random databases to see if someone had synchronized subtitles for the exact copy of the video that you had. Or older lecture videos that don't have transcripts. Many courses had to, in order to comply with federal funding, but not all. And lots of international courses don't have this requirement at all (for example some great introductory CS/maths courses from German + Swiss institutions). Also think about taking this auto generated output and then generating summaries for lecture notes, reading recommendations - this sort of stuff is what LLMs are great at.

You can do some clever things like take the foreign sub, have Whisper also transcribe it and then ask a big model like Gemini to go line by line and check the translation to English. This can include accounting for common transcription errors or idiomatic difference between langauges. I do it in Cursor to keep track of what the model has changed and for easy rollback. It's often good enough to correct mis-heard words that would be garbled through a cheaper model. And you can even query the model to ask about why a particular translation was made and what would be a more natural way to say the same thing. Sometimes it even figures out jokes. It's not a fast or fully automatic process, but the quality can be extremely good if you put some time into reviewing.

Having 90% of this be possible offline/open access is also very impressive. I've not tried newer OSS models like Qwen3 but I imagine it'd do a decent job of the cleanup.
by npongratz | 2025-08-13 19:51:17+00:00
Not completely unheard of but I get your point :). Babylon 5's pilot's animations (and I believe opening credits) was rendered in 1993 on sixteen souped-up A2000s, each with 32 MB of RAM.

https://www.generationamiga.com/2020/08/30/how-24-commodore-...
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-08-13 19:51:25+00:00
"New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients" - current HN title (matches article)

I don't like headlines like this because they lack any necessary context. Knowing that a treatment eliminates cancer in 82% of patients isn't data unless we know more or already experts in this field. For all I know the previous treatment was 99% effective but just cost more or something. PR-style headlines very often use misleading statistics to get attention, so this wouldn't even be surprising.

- What was the previous treatment's success rate? Was it 22% or 81%?

- What are the other tradeoffs? If the previous treatment was also 82% maybe this one doesn't cause incontinence, or maybe it's non-invasive?

How you should make a title:

"New treatment eliminates cancer in 82% of patients, a major improvement"

"New treatment is first non-invasive way to eliminates cancer in 82% of patients"

"New treatment way to eliminates cancer in 82% of patients - without causing incontinence"

"New treatment eliminates cancer in 82% of patients without radiation"
by perihelions | 2025-08-13 19:51:53+00:00
> "but it is just one US corporation that does this and they don't get to decide for all of us"

I don't understand your comment on so many levels. The ITU treaties do exist, and they do protect observational astronomy bands, and everything here is *in compliance with* extant ITU regs. As I quoted above. I can turn your words on your head: who are astronomers to make arbitrary choices for rest of the human species? Or, who are HN to? People do want their gadgets to work. They value that more highly than many things, things more important than mere astronomy experiments—more highly than human rights, for example (to contemplate all the slave labor in the modern electronics supply chains).

On another level: you say it's just one one company, but that company is obviously just an early-adopter, leading-edge of a great horde of space companies going in for the gold rush. There will be many others, and then there will be the Chinese military, and—do you think there will be more favorable outcomes negotiating with the PLA, filing complaints to the PLA over the RFI of their prized military assets? Yeah; no. In 5-10 years the landscape will certainly be utterly unrecognizable, and it will not be a SpaceX hegemony any longer. You will be opposed to a hundred adversaries of many nations—not just that one.

And following after that, there will be humans and human tourists going up, pretty soon I'd bet; by the thousands; and they'll be bringing their electronics gadgets up to visit, and later inhabit, Earth orbit. Have you internalized the numbers we're discussing here? This telescope array can detect the equivalent of a short-range wireless Bluetooth gadget at 2,000 kilometers range—and they're complaining about it, they want that banned. (Literally—if it weren't for the earth in between us, my wireless mouse right here could be radiating greater signal power through your body, dear reader, no matter where you are right now on the planet, than these satellites flashes we're discussing here. Click, click.) No way is that compatible with a future of humans inhabiting space. The space RF environment is, incomprehensibly pristine as it stands... but that won't last, can't last, there's no way humanity moving to the stars will preserve that pristine silence, you might us well give up right away. Fighting it is futile, foolish, misguided, and more than a little misanthropic.
by churchill | 2025-08-13 19:52:47+00:00
Thank you; you summed it up perfectly. Globalization is the reason many Western countries still have the level of stability they do, since they can export their inflation to the developing world, while maintaining a consistent stream of cheap, abundant goods.

No amount of mass-produced goods from the developing world will ever be enough, as long as Western governments are committed to diluting the wealth of their people through QE.

The perfect example of a country playing globalization to their benefit is Singapore: started off manufacturing cheap plastic stuff; kept levering up, retraining their citizens, and aggressively pitching their country to businesses; maintained a levelheaded, business-friendly atmosphere; accumulated extremely deep reserves.

Singapore has like $2.5T in reserves, which is mind-boggling for a country of 6M that spends just 10-20% of GDP annually. In comparison, excluding the UAE, most of the Arab Gulf who literally dig up money from the ground, haven't accumulated that much in their sovereign wealth funds.
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-13 19:53:01+00:00
>A white Christian ethno-state with strict hierarchies... no that sounds pretty terrible.

Why? Is a flatter, more pluralistic system of governance better? What's the reasoning behind that and, more importantly, what actual arguments can be put forth in support of your statement?

I'd love to hear the reasoned arguments in support of either of those. What's more, it would be great to hear other alternatives too.

As a general rule, folks here are fairly well educated and able to express nuanced viewpoints. Let's hear those -- not just one liners which are meant to (but don't) stand in for reasoned arguments.

Perhaps a better direction would be to identify business, technology and science drivers that would, presumably, be impacted by such different models of governance -- both positively and negatively.

Especially since the viability of the "tech" industry is quite dependent on those drivers.
by aiinblog | 2025-08-13 19:53:04+00:00
HomeAILunching GPT-5: A Quantum Leap in the World of Artificial Intelligence Lunching GPT-5: A Quantum Leap in the World of Artificial Intelligence Ai.InBlogAugust 08, 2025Advanced AI coursesAI programming tools Lunching GPT-5: A Quantum Leap in the World of Artificial Intelligence As we've come to know, the capabilities of artificial intelligence are powerful and capable of solving problems. One of the most prominent practical and real-life examples of AI capabilities is ChatGPT, which has impressed us with its various capabilities and features, from writing articles, solving problems, and providing answers to questions in various areas of life, to its ability to generate code and create images. Today, ChatGPT supports more powerful capabilities than before with the release of its fifth version, GPT-5.
by daemonologist | 2025-08-13 19:53:27+00:00
I think they're working with a very limited selection of off-the-shelf MIP displays. (The 2 Duo itself is using new old stock of a custom display manufactured for the Pebble 2.)

There is one bright spot, which is that I believe the new Time 2's higher resolution display matches the original Time 2 specification and therefore has been supported by the SDK for years already. There were only a handful of physical prototypes, so no users of course, but some developers probably did build support for it.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-13 19:54:07+00:00
FPV drones on the battlefield were absolutely obvious. The only strange thing about it was, and still is, that powerful armies of the biggest players were "nah, I'll pass" on this obvious application. Wedding photographer figured out that you can hit people with drones. Farmers figured out they can carry and release significant payloads. Yet for some reason, generals seen them as toys and preferred to stick with their bombs and artillery shells costing order of magnitude more. We needed a war and soldiers on the contact line to basically start doing this obvious thing out of necessity and demanding supply from commanders.

Computers being able to keep the conversation going about complex topic like development of a computer program were 5 years ago farther away than fusion energy. Perpetually 30 to 100 years away.

Sure, for the best results you need to guide it because without it you'll get some program but not a good program. If you don't help it to control the complexity of the code with sensible architecture it will paint itself into a corner. But a junior developer would also do that if you just piled up requirements and never steered his output.

I agree with you that it's a tool. But more like a combine harvester, that you still need to drive, for now, than a hammer. Already more like a CNC machine than a power drill. And still getting better.

Everyone can have their own opinion on this. But I think next 5 years will change those opinions.

For me it is at least as magical as cell phones. When I was a kid the peek of wireless personal communication was walkie-talkie with a very limited range. The idea that you could cram enough electronics, RF stuff and a battery in a small enough package and route the calls globally with vast networks of two way communication stations seemed absolutely ludicrous. I haven't even seen SMD element before I had my first cellphone and I picked apart a lot of electronics. Then it happened. It was the kind of technology that got me completely surprised, like LLMs. I remember not being that shocked because I was young and was expecting new things. I was reading a lot of SF and there instant wireless communication was everywhere. But after 4 decades of basically no progress in the machines that do anything that resembles thinking this innovation caught me off guard completely. I would be less surprised if we already had fusion reactors providing most of our electricity.

On a more practical note, do you switch a lot the models that you use? I can't really tell them apart because I haven't worked with them all that much but I heard good things about GPT5 and when I used it it was very good (but others, like Claude or swt-1 were great too).
by kube-system | 2025-08-13 19:54:18+00:00
To get technical -- US homes get two phases of 120v that are 180 degrees out of phase with the neutral. Using either phase and the neutral gives you 120v. Using the two out of phase 120v phases together gives you a difference of 240v.

https://appliantology.org/uploads/monthly_2016_06/large.5758...
by Vegenoid | 2025-08-13 19:54:47+00:00
> If you want to be pedantic about word definitions, it absolutely is AGI: artificial general intelligence.

This isn't being pedantic, it's deliberately misinterpreting a commonly used term by taking every word literally for effect. Terms, like words, can take on a meaning that is distinct from looking at each constituent part and coming up with your interpretation of a literal definition based on those parts.
by the_gastropod | 2025-08-13 19:55:08+00:00
I'd never heard this particular line. So had to look it up. According to the Wikipedia entry, assuming this happened at all, it:

1. Happened in 2017, when Joe Biden was a private citizen

2. Was rejected with "an emphatic no" by "the Chairman" (Joe Biden)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers...
by idoubtit | 2025-08-13 19:55:12+00:00
A little mistake with this release: they packaged the ngx_http_acme_module for many Linux distributions, but "forgot" Debian stable. Oldstable and oldoldstable are listed in https://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html (packages built today) but Debian 13 Trixie (released 4 days ago) is not there.
by yubblegum | 2025-08-13 19:55:20+00:00
> what is code, if not text, anyway?

Poetry is text too. It is a misleading categorization.

> I mean, then why use CI, version control and those fancy IDEs anyway?

CI, version control, and IDEs do not think for you.

Resisting using LLMs to do the code that you know perfectly well how to do is like resisting using maps to tell you to make "now make a left turn" to travel from A to B, when you have gone from A to B a zillion fucking times. It is perfectly sensible, specially if you want to retain your skills and mental acuity.

Anecdotally, I know individuals (ok, Dad /g) who can no longer negotiate even the most simple routes without the stupid map thing walking them through all the turns. Routes that were taken for years without these gizmos now require the gizmo.

This is an unfortunate 'experiment' we are conducting in this field. The actual lasting results (or damages) are unknown as of yet. We have some idea though.
by derefr | 2025-08-13 19:55:32+00:00
But all of the most-ridiculous hyperscale deployments, where bandwidth + latency most matter, have multiple GPUs per CPU, with the CPU responsible for splitting/packing/scheduling models and inference workloads across its own direct-attached GPUs, providing the network the abstraction of a single GPU with more (NUMA) VRAM than is possible for any single physical GPU to have.

How do you do that, if each GPU expects to be its own backplane? One CPU daughterboard per GPU, and then the CPU daughterboards get SLIed together into one big CPU using NVLink? :P
by tinuviel | 2025-08-13 19:55:50+00:00
You must have interacted with very low quality people from India unfortunately. Calling an entire nation dishonourable is racist, ignorant and crass. Try to be more respectful next time. Considering the fact that >50% on US population chose a rapist felon as a President - you should get of the ‘my western civilisation is honorable’ high horse.

And considering most US tech companies have huge growing offices in India (Microsoft has 20,000 employees in India) - no, Western society and India do share values of respect and trust. Thinking otherwise is disrespectful and downright insulting to people across continents who work together everyday.
by simoncion | 2025-08-13 19:55:55+00:00
From what I've seen, the faster PCI-E bus is important when you need to shuffle things in and out of VRAM. In a video game, the faster bus reduces the duration of stutters caused by pushing more data into the graphics card.

If you're using a new video card with only 8GB of onboard RAM and are turning on all the heavily-advertised bells and whistles on new games, you're going to be running out of VRAM very, very frequently. The faster bus isn't really important for higher frame rate, it makes the worst-case situations less bad.

I get the impression that many reviewers aren't equipped to do the sort of review that asks questions like "What's the intensity and frequency of the stuttering in the game?" because that's a bit harder than just looking at average, peak, and 90% frame rates. The question "How often do textures load at reduced resolution, or not at all?" probably requires a human in the loop to look at the rendered output to notice those sorts of errors... which is time consuming, attention-demanding work.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-13 19:55:59+00:00
> PCIe Gen 3 and SATA are still pretty new...

That's an interesting thought to look at. PCIe 3 was a while ago, but SATA was nearly a decade before that.

> I wonder what modulation order / RF bandwidth they'll be using on the PHY for Gen8. I think Gen7 used 32GHz, which is ridiculously high.

Wikipedia says it's planned to be PAM4 just like 6 and 7.

Gen 5 and 6 were 32 gigabaud. If 8 is PAM4 it'll be 128 gigabaud...
by logicchains | 2025-08-13 19:56:24+00:00
>It's kind of like when you fuck up and hire the wrong plumber and he tells his burglar friend about your huge TV and they break in to steal it a week later. That's your own fault, stop trying to get the government involved! Sheesh, I just don't understand why simple libertarian principles like this get people confused.

That's a great example because the venue where the plumber posted his advertisement would not be liable for the plumber's actions.
by OJFord | 2025-08-13 19:56:49+00:00
Even if you managed to reduce your intake enough to cause hyponatremia, I'm not sure that fits the 'rare condition' bill, and probably would've been discharged in well under 2 weeks after some fluids and advice.

Would be interesting if he started to become symptomatic and so asked ChatGPT and that's where he got the idea that it needed to be replaced with something though. (But I suspect it was more along the lines of salty taste without the NaCl intake.)
by invalidOrTaken | 2025-08-13 19:57:05+00:00
No, this is insane. I will make a thousand people uncomfortable on group dates if that's what it takes to have an actual country.

Are people hurt? Are things unfair? Would it be kinder and more humane if we could see each others' souls, and trust prevailed? Absolutely.

But we can not. And there is an asymmetry to civilization---it is easier to destroy than to build. This makes division and exclusion (other names: protection, safeguarding, immune system, comment moderation, firewalls, safe sex) practical and essential. Do you want your startup's bank account "united and standing together" with some other startup's bank account? Division allows good things to remain good.

None of this is to say all gatekeepers are honest, all standards are fair, or that injustice doesn't exist. Everything is a work in progress. But if the worst you have to complain about is an inconsequential misunderstanding on a group date, count yourself lucky.
by quantified | 2025-08-13 19:57:25+00:00
Human boyfriends are notorious for not maturing, not growing. They don't have a formal TOS or EULA (nor a well-defined privacy policy). Chatbots do have these. Very Black Mirror, we're there now. Upgrades are out of your control and aren't just because they lost their job or got engaged.

To seem a little uncharitable, it does feel like the people put themselves into this position. In the large, we are not a thinking animal, we are a feeling animal and thoughts are secondary. (If you don't believe that, try to learn how hormones affect your thinking, eg with testosterone fluctuations, pregnancy, and remember hunger surges, grief/depression, etc.) The primate babies who cling to stick-figure moms come to mind.
by bruceb | 2025-08-13 19:57:25+00:00
Selecting Other, some interesting jobs description including:

https://www.jobs.now/jobs/151415137-hotel-renovation-special... Must be fluent in Russian. Do you really need to have this to do the job?

https://www.jobs.now/jobs/153205684-senior-director-enrollme... Must have masters in Project Management, IT, Business Administration (pretty broad). Also have 4 years experience in enrollment management systems & operations in higher education setting.

Probably a decent number Americans who could qualify for this.
by cubefox | 2025-08-13 19:57:50+00:00
> People want the feelings associated with love. They don't care how they get it.

Most people want to be loved, not just believe they are. They don't want to be unknowingly deceived. For the same reason they don't want to be unknowingly cheated on. If someone tells them their partner is a cheater, or an unconscious android, they wouldn't be mad about the person who gives them this information, but about their partner.

That's the classic argument against psychological hedonism. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine
by zevon | 2025-08-13 19:58:05+00:00
I find this dichotomy a bit strange. A lot of people consume alcohol alone and in many cases this ends up badly for them (no need to speculate about foreboding - the body (and the bodies) of evidence is readily available). Cannabis can be very common in and around social settings, depending on where you are in the world. Other drugs are also pretty much everywhere, including social spaces. They are just more invisible due to their illegality.
by hellisothers | 2025-08-13 19:58:46+00:00
I’m not sure I buy this, from anecdotal evidence of friends who have 1-2 drinks a day vs those who have let’s say a similar amount of weed a day… the friends who drink are vastly more functional.

Arguably the friends who drink are indistinguishable from people who don’t aside from maybe some weight gain if it’s all beer. My weed friends though, you can tell they’re not doing as great, on or off weed.
by martin-t | 2025-08-13 19:59:25+00:00
And this is exactly the problem.

It used to be the case that you exchanged money for a good or service. It was a transaction of 1 thing for 1 thing.

Now you're exchanging your money AND personal information for goods or services (sometimes both mixed in a way that is optimized to get as much money out of you as possible). And because those providing goods or services all have the same incentives, you don't have a free choice to pay a competitor who doesn't use these business practices.

Freedom absolutists (such as ancaps) will claim you can always start a competitor. But that's just not true, these business practices are so advantageous that you either use them too or go out of business.

The real solution is for people to unite and demand change together. And that's what governments are for.
by zingababba | 2025-08-13 19:59:38+00:00
I haven't had anything alcoholic in nearly two decades. Even when I was drinking it never got me any closer to getting laid. I quit because only stupid shit happened when I was drunk or around drunk friends. If anything nicotine acts as a superior social lubricant. These days I just drop acid, drink espresso, and consume the occasional nicotine pouch. Have never missed alcohol one bit.