MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ethin | 2025-08-20 17:34:51+00:00
This. I will continue maintaining the opinion that the US needs to just stop supporting Israel. Seriously. Israel can fight it's own religious wars and I see no reason for us to be backing that when our very constitution says "Hey, no endorsing any religion!" If I remember right, Israel has only been able to do half the things it's done with respect to wars because we've just kept giving them weapons and supplies in the first place.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-20 17:35:07+00:00
> terrorism exists in the first place due to US support for Israel and unnecessary interference in the Middle East.

I'm no fan of being Israel's sugar daddy but that's a gross mis-characterization of the situation.

The terrorism landscape of the 80s through 2010s has to do with the cold war, the post-colonial governments of the middle east, etc, etc. It's not a simple problem.

But yeah we should def stop supporting Israel. Not our sandbox, not our problem.
by sfink | 2025-08-20 17:35:31+00:00
> Vector embeddings are lossy encodings of documents roughly in the same way a SHA256 hash is a lossy encoding.

Incorrect. With a hash, I need to have the identical input to know whether it matches. If I'm one bit off, I get no information. Vector embeddings by design will react differently for similar inputs, so if you can reproduce the embedding algorithm then you can know how close you are to the input. It's like a combination lock that tells you how many numbers match so far (and for ones that don't, how close they are).

> It's virtually impossible to reverse the embedding vector to recover the original document.

If you can reproduce the embedding process, it is very possible (with a hot/cold type of search: "you're getting warmer!"). But also, you no longer even need to recover the exact original. You can recover something close enough (and spend more time to make it incrementally closer).
by joloooo | 2025-08-20 17:35:47+00:00
One of our clients is a procurement marketplace. One of the current struggles we face is getting vendors to upload catalog details for each product, which our marketplace needs to populate for a better shopping experience. Would your API assist us with filling in those gaps on products? (think common office products, industrial equipment etc). The caveat is that we can only show products from specific compliant vendors.
by diggan | 2025-08-20 17:37:08+00:00
> It says what’s not changing for people

For the people who are currently experiencing the first time a project they heavily used gets acquired by a for-profit company, it's worth remembering that everything written is "As it stands currently", which can change at any time.

It wouldn't be the first time the founders/company/project said "Nothing will change now when we got acquired" only for it to shutdown/change drastically just months after.
by the__alchemist | 2025-08-20 17:37:16+00:00
This hits on a point I'm noticing more and more. I'll ask an LLM to QC a segment of code (Or ask for help, and it'll QC nearby parts). It suggests I change from A to B.

I ask it another question later, or maybe troubleshoot. It tells me B is causing the problem, and I should do A instead.
by ecocentrik | 2025-08-20 17:37:32+00:00
Wrong take. The social or political positions that advertisers take are all strategically calculated to maximize sales and they take those position regardless of the advertising platform.

Correct take: Monetization pressure creates engagement pressure which is unnatural for human social communities outside of temporary fads and social upheaval events. In social terms Facebook, X, Truth Social... are thirsty and can only continue to grow if they convince you to be thirsty too.
by braden-w | 2025-08-20 17:37:54+00:00
I totally agree with this hot take. Whispering is not there yet, but I eventually want it to store as many of the transcripts as plain text markdown, alongside your audio files, in a folder.

The idea is that as we add more local-first apps into the ecosystem (writing, etc.), they're share this context. Transcription would benefit immensely if you also had a writing app that you could trust to store your data. To execute that vision, we needed a transcription app where we have control over how data is stored, and the best solution was to build our own.
by rconti | 2025-08-20 17:37:55+00:00
Higher than I would have thought! I was just thinking about this again and my SWAG was 5%. I asked ChatGPT which repeated the shockingly high 28% number, but it elides the fact that this was in a (small) survey of 2000 "travelers" (whatever that means-- but i suspect it means 2000 people who travelled in the past year):

> In the past year, the poll of 2,000 U.S. travelers, conducted by Talker Research, found 94% have traveled domestically, and 28% have traveled internationally.

source: https://www.myjournalcourier.com/features/article/unpacking-...
by nickpsecurity | 2025-08-20 17:38:14+00:00
Where did it say "popularity contest" because I overlooked it.

On climate, that has always been a popularity contest or act of dominance. People with specific views and set to make piles of money on soecific solutions gave funding for research that reinforced those views. Eventually, they dominated academic groups with dissenting views not allowed. Whatever results is not a scientifuc consensus since squashing dissenting work isn't science.

Further, people with that posotion started funding mamy documentaries and Hollywood blockbusters to push it on hundreds of millions of people. Liberal media outlets added it to the list of topics they'd repeatedlt emphasize to condition viewers' minds. Schools added it to their curriculums. Eventually, all these people started reoeating it on blogs, etc.

So, instead of an open discussion with grass-roots views, climate change as Progressives see it was always forced on people by elites in academia, philanthropy, Hollywood, and media. It was always a marketing campaign to make that idea win by a popularity contest. If dissent isn't allowed or is mocked, it was never science or very democratic either.

If anything, their numbers being at 60+% with billions spent show their campaign largely worked. I still want to see rigorous, peer review of all the stuff done strictly with observational science and not funded by Progressives. Esoecially exploring all alternative views that got censored. I'm curious what that would show.
by do_not_redeem | 2025-08-20 17:38:14+00:00
> Pro Res Zoom uses Tensor G5 and an all-new generative imaging model to intelligently recover and refine intricate details.

Reminds me of https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moo...

I guess we'll never be able to trust any photos taken with a Pixel 10 or above.
by jjice | 2025-08-20 17:38:29+00:00
> Tensor G5 and the latest version of Gemini Nano work together to run Magic Cue privately and securely on your phone.

Running Gemini Nano on device is the most interesting thing here. Magic Cue sounds exactly like the Siri improvements that Apple failed to launch this past year (and have stayed mostly quiet about for this coming year, except saying "eventually"). I hope it works well, because on-device AI for simple lookups and such is actually one of the most interesting use cases for LLMs on mobile phones to me.

I love the idea of an on-device model that I can say something like "who's going to the baseball game this weekend" and it'll intelligently check my calendar and see who's listed. Or saying something like "how much was the dinner at McDoogle's last week?" and have it check digital wallet transactions. There are so many possibilities. I assume this kind of thing would just be implemented as tool calls with app intents. I hope we see this across the board in the next three years.
by duxup | 2025-08-20 17:38:50+00:00
> He rose through the ranks of the agency to become its chief data scientist. Friends and former colleagues of Mr. Nguyen said he had been in charge of developing artificial intelligence systems to improve the gathering of foreign communications. He has also been involved in the intelligence community’s work on quantum computing, which has the potential to break current encryption systems and revolutionize espionage.

Lost job because a political appointee claims he did something or other…. but won’t show any proof of it.

Current administration is a clown car of incompetence.
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-08-20 17:39:12+00:00
"Thousands of cdp calls" from the link.

Cdp does add a good chunk of latency. Depends on what your threshold is.

An image grab is around 60ms and a snapshot can range from 40ms -> 500ms

The latency is pure data movement. It's like the difference of using ram vs ssd vs data from the internet.
by unshavedyak | 2025-08-20 17:39:55+00:00
I disagree, i think there's degrees of governance that these concepts cover. It's all subjective of course. For me though, i've "vibe coded" projects (as testing grounds) with minimal review, but still used my programming experience to shape the general architecture and testing practices to what i thought would best fit the LLM.

The question is how much do you review, and how much does your experience help it? Even if you didn't know code you're still going to review the app. Ideally incrementally or else you won't know what's working and what isn't. Reviewing the technical "decisions" from the LLM is just an incremental step towards reviewing every LOC. There's a large gulf between full reviews and no reviews.

Where in that gulf you decide to call it "vibe coding" is up to you. If you only consider it vibing if you never look at the code though, then most people don't vibe code imo.

I think of "vibe coding" as synonymous with "sloppy/lazy coding". Eg you're skipping details and "trusting" that the LLM is either correct or has enough guardrails to be correct in the impl. How many details you skip though is variable, imo.
by s__s | 2025-08-20 17:40:10+00:00
The law has yet to catch up to the idea of vibe coded software. I see significant problems.

Example: the other day someone was promoting their saas. They proudly advertised that they knew nothing about technology, and that AI created everything.

Yet their saas had a detailed privacy policy describing how your data was used. Of course the problem is, they have no way of knowing that their privacy policy is at all accurate. After all they don’t even know how to read their product’s code.

This undoubtedly exposes them to legal issues. I can imagine software being more tightly regulated as this spirals out of control.

We’ll hit a point soon where there’s so much dangerous and untrustworthy AI slop software on the market, that people will actively seek out and pay a premium for software created by professionals at reputable companies.
by smithkl42 | 2025-08-20 17:40:55+00:00
More-or-less agreed about the waterfall model, but you can't blame horrific US government website performance on "corporations" or "corporate management". This is precisely the sort of thing that would get you fired in any real-world corporation that wants to survive, and it's precisely the fact that you can't get fired by the federal government that allows this sort of thing to continue.
by scythe | 2025-08-20 17:41:19+00:00
I think this is basically misguided. Digg failed because their commenter UX was clunky. It tried to split the baby between linear and tree comments and just ended up being a mess. Reddit had been slowly stealing traffic from Digg for years by the time of the "rebellion".

In the end, Reddit became many times larger than Digg ever was. The biggest problem with displacing Reddit as such is that currently most of the users hate most of the users; consequently there is no reason that people leaving Reddit would want to converge on a single alternative.

In some ways, Reddit has already survived its own replacement. The workflow for getting involved with a video game community is to ask on Reddit which Discord you should join. In this case Discord plays the role of a parasitoid wasp.

It hangs on as a less reactionary NextDoor and a gathering place for semi-serious discussion of niche topics (/r/MedicalPhysics, for example). It also hosts some political stuff, but nobody wants to invite Reddit's political elements to their new community.
by hn_ohnoes | 2025-08-20 17:41:49+00:00
"Don’t forget Digg’s demise wasn’t just the revamp, it’s that most of the front page was dominated by a few people who were literally posting all the damn time."

It was even stupider than that. Digg didn't even have a real, working promotion system. It was literally one guy who personally curated the big stories. Google almost bought them but looked under the hood and immediately bailed. The upvotes were all smoke and mirrors.
by NoGravitas | 2025-08-20 17:42:23+00:00
Get a pack of Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens. Just write with them, with no pressure. The cheapness and disposability means no reason to be intimidated. Then after you go through one pack of Varsities, buy a Pilot Metropolitan for about $20, and optionally a $10 piston-fill adapter and a bottle of ink. A Metropolitan is one of the cheapest "good enough" fountain pens.
by isr | 2025-08-20 17:42:33+00:00
The reason why other members of the core white-anglo-saxon empire, Canada, UK, Aus, NZ have draconian surveillance systems is because it's the only way the US can "legally" hoover up a lot of this data as it's own constitution gets in the way.

A small island state in the south Pacific, close only to Aus & Antartic penguins, doesn't need or care about your data.

An outpost of the wasp empire, without constitutional impediments getting the way, ABSOLUTELY DOES want to hoover up as much data that passes through it as possible.

Which do you think NZ is? "5 eyes" has the membership it has, for a reason.

So yes, as the centre of this unholy empire, the US is involved, and responsible.
by TZubiri | 2025-08-20 17:42:46+00:00
Disclaimer: not an american, but I too am a citizen of a country with borders.

As far as I understand, there's 3 categories here, citizens, non-citizen residents, and non-citizens non-residents.

The greatest spikes in constitutional and legal rights and guarantees come from being a resident. Being a citizen gives you political rights like voting and participating in the three branches sure, but for the average man it's nothing compared to the rights bestowed by simply walking down a street freely and engaging in free commerce.

This might be one of those restrictions of freedom that allow for greater freedoms to be guaranteed down the line.

Once a non citizen goes through the border, they enjoy a huge spike in rights and guarantees, if you losen the border, you dilute the rights of the residents and citizens, and you add costs (especially if you let aliens in that don't even pay taxes, enjoying only rights but no responsibility)

Ironically, if you value your freedoms as a resident, you should value restricting freedoms at the border.

Similar to how GPL briefly restricts user rights by requiring them to share the source code.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-20 17:42:48+00:00
I got my entire family Pixel 4XLs when they were new. Every single one had the battery replaced once under warranty, and then they denied more batteries (it was actually the fragile connector). So I started replacing them myself. I even slightly modified the connector mount so it would stop failing. The third batteries ended up lasting years because of my modification. Finally, all 3 died around 2023 from motherboard problems apparently. Otherwise great phones. Sad that some weird hardware problems killed them all for most people.
by hugs | 2025-08-20 17:43:04+00:00
thanks! yeah, playwright was a huge improvement there -- waiting until an element was actually ready. the official posture from the selenium project ("figure it out, be explicit") wasn't always the most user friendly messaging.

having to add ids to elements is one of those classic tradeoffs -- the alternative was to use css or xpath selectors, which can be even worse, maintenance-wise. i'm secretly hoping ai code-gen apps pumped out by things like Lovable or Claude Code automagically generate element test-ids and the tests for you and we never have to worry about it again.
by LucidLynx | 2025-08-20 17:43:08+00:00
> Tensor G5 and the latest version of Gemini Nano work together to run Magic Cue privately and securely on your phone.

YES! Here we talk.

The fact we can now host a version of an AI model, and make sure everything is processed locally and is not sent to the cloud is the best feature of those phones. I just hope that data do not leave the phone OR are encrypted to be stored in Google servers...
by phailhaus | 2025-08-20 17:43:22+00:00
Like I said: any system that optimizes for engagement has this problem. Advertising revenue scales with engagement, so engagement becomes optimized. Advertisers are not picking and choosing particular policy positions to place ads on. They're targeting certain demographics, and want to make sure their ads are not next to trash content. So ironically, ads both cause companies to optimize for engagement but they also force moderation.

If you fixate on dropping ads but still optimize for engagement, you get the worst of both worlds.
by hakunin | 2025-08-20 17:43:52+00:00
This is anecdotal, but one thing I do when comparing languages and frameworks, is browse the most popular libraries on GitHub from that ecosystem, and see how much maintenance they're getting. I usually use the contributors graph, as well as review how/when issues are handled. Ruby projects seem to have the most contributors maintaining the "deepest" libraries of any ecosystem I've seen, consistently, for the longest time. In other ecosystems I keep seeing one guy trickle-maintain some massively popular (based on stars) project that fizzled out over time. You could argue that some of that is due to "completeness", but I keep seeing evidence to the contrary: still many unsolved issues, but the initial activity spike subsides down to a trickle. To me that's what represents the health of an ecosystem: not how many new projects are created, but rather how well supported existing projects are.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-08-20 17:43:52+00:00
> The Xilinx tools are very, very good

Ummm... no, that has not been my experience at all. I'd replace 'good' with 'buggy' in that sentence. And also very, very bloated - like 90GB bloated. I've had good experiences using yosys/nxtpnr/SymbiFlow, but that's kind of limited to the Lattice ICE40, ECP5 families and Quicklogic.
by ChickeNES | 2025-08-20 17:44:03+00:00
See, here's what I don't get: Who wants to go through the trouble? Buying tons of nibs, pens, inks, and paper to find one I like, when I go months without even picking up a normal pencil or pen? I'm really curious what people are still writing by hands these days, especially where others would have the ability to comment on it. I don't think I've even used a pen for a signature in god knows, since all the doctor's offices, etc, these days either have touchscreens or email you the forms to fill out online. Are you writing for fun? Doing math? What am I missing here?
by 51Cards | 2025-08-20 17:44:05+00:00
I still carry my Pixel 5 for this reason. 2 replacement batteries in now and I have a spare sitting on a shelf. That said the Pixel 9A is tempting as it's not much larger than my Pixel 5. I hate that the finger print readers have moved to the front though. The sensor on the back of my 5 is perfectly postioned and also acts like a little track-pad for opening the notification tray. It was a perfect design IMO.
by nfriedly | 2025-08-20 17:44:10+00:00
Looks like a minor improvement to the pixel 9 series. Honestly, that's fine, I'm pretty happy with my Pixel 9 Pro.

The built-in magsafe charging magnets are a nice addition, although a case with magnets in it works for me for now.

Of course, the #1 feature I'd like to see is expandable storage, which Google seems to be strangely against. #2 would be a headphones jack - Google has already reversed course on that one once, but another reversal seems unlikely.
by reillyse | 2025-08-20 17:44:39+00:00
but don't you see, Communism is so bad that it changes the laws of fundamental physics! But of course you are right, this is a total nonsense story but it is interesting to reflect on why somebody would feel compelled to tell such a lie and spread such propaganda. Also interesting to reflect on what the capitalist analog of this story might be - do we trust that American food corporations would never knowingly ship unhealthy meat?
by pornel | 2025-08-20 17:44:43+00:00
There are two CUDAs – a hardware architecture, and a software stack for it.

The software is proprietary, and easy to ignore if you don't plan to write low-level optimizations for NVIDIA.

However, the hardware architecture is worth knowing. All GPUs work roughly the same way (especially on the compute side), and the CUDA architecture is still fundamentally the same as it was in 2007 (just with more of everything).

It dictates how shader languages and GPU abstractions work, regardless of whether you're using proprietary or open implementations. It's very helpful to understand peculiarities of thread scheduling, warps, different levels of private/shared memory, etc. There's a ridiculous amount of computing power available if you can make your algorithms fit the execution model.
by leetharris | 2025-08-20 17:45:08+00:00
I just went from a Z Fold 5 to a Z Fold 7 and I hate it for this exact reason.

Z Fold 6 and earlier were slim, one handed use phones when folded, small tablet when opened.

Now it's just a regular phone, and a medium tablet when I open it.

First phone I've ever regretted upgrading to.
by linker3000 | 2025-08-20 17:45:16+00:00
> As far as I remember Digg didn’t have followers or any major original content or influencers.

Yep, some personalities on Digg had their groupies and if they posted something, all their followers would vote it up the listing, in effect the post was influenced.

That's when I bailed because genuinely interesting stuff not posted by the 'right' people had no chance of exposure.
by mooreds | 2025-08-20 17:45:23+00:00
That's a good point that different types of users gravitate toward certain types of content. Certain passes the sniff test.

Would be interesting to see you could back things out.

I also think there's an effect based on just how fast the new page is refreshed. I sometimes post in the early morning (US MT) and stuff can hang on there for a while (hour or two). By mid-day, it's more like a 30 minute lifetime on that page.
by usefulcat | 2025-08-20 17:45:59+00:00
> OTOH, 99% of use cases don't care about performance

For many other languages, I'd agree with '99%', but in the case of c++, performance is one of the main reasons it's still used, so I doubt the number is nearly that high.

With hindsight, I'd say that std::unordered_map is fine for what it is, but there are a lot of cases where it's really not suitable due to having a dynamic allocation for each element and the resulting lack of cache locality, and because of that many people have to go looking elsewhere for a usable hash map. There are good reasons why we have both std::vector and std::list.
by hinkley | 2025-08-20 17:46:31+00:00
Has anyone done this work with multiple sizes of blocks? It looks to me that some of the solutions fail because (n + 1)/2 % 1 = 0.5 which puts each block ready to fall over at the slightest breeze.

Whereas a small number of blocks of 2/3 or 1/2 size allows one to sub one into the middle of a stack to adjust fulcrum points without sacrificing the extra mass needed to further stabilize lower layers. Normal bricks are half as wide as they are long and cutting one in half and turning it sideways is absolutely common. And 3:2 ratios aren’t rare. But perhaps more common in tiling.