MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway4496 | 2025-08-07 02:39:30+00:00
You think VIM is a niche? neovim + vim is used by over 38% of developers according StackExchange survey. That is more than 1 out of 3 developer, closer to 2 out of 5.

I am not sure what is going on with here recently, maybe I have overgrown the place, or maybe everyday a little by little this place is getting filled with people who shouldn't be talking about CS.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-08-07 02:40:17+00:00
My response last time you said that was that fertilization is also a process which takes place on a continuum.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8406655/

> In mammals, fertilization involves multiple ordered steps, including the acrosome reaction, zona pellucida penetration, sperm–egg attachment, and membrane fusion.

All development is a continuum.
by habryka | 2025-08-07 02:40:24+00:00
We were thinking about whether there is any way to do some kind of income sharing agreement, but given how messy those tend to be (see all the Lambda school stuff as an example) we couldn't figure out a way to make it work.

Maybe if everyone was definitely starting a Substack we could take a small cut of Substack revenue for the next year or two, which would be straightforward enough.

If anyone has ideas, I would definitely be curious to hear them.
by michelsedgh | 2025-08-07 02:40:35+00:00
It's just the evolution of intelligence, there's no stopping it and its a dream to reach super intelligence. it might not be your dream, but its the dream of so many, and the arguments against super intelligence aren't so sound, why are you so scared of it? we're not its food or competition, so why would it wanna create the only other live intelligence and its parents basically? We can only help it, in the end and it can help us. There's no need for destruction on either side.
by darknavi | 2025-08-07 02:41:40+00:00
> It'd be fun to join in from afar by pledging to do the same things, but for nowhere near the cost.

I am not familiar with blogging or this sphere at all, but it's so funny to me that I was assuming the website said that the program would PAY the bloggers to be there for a month (including housing) and not the other way around.

I assumed this was one of those "We'll let you write a book while riding Amtrak for free" sort of thing. Not sure why I thought that, but it made me laugh after reading your comment.
Show HN: OrcaCam – A Flappy Bird-style game celebrating Cambridge innovation
by john-doherty | 2025-08-07 02:42:35+00:00
Hello HN. I built OrcaCam, a Flappy Bird style game where you control an orca and dodge columns while learning surprising facts about innovations that came out of Cambridge, UK (DNA, IVF, the webcam etc). The top score is visible in a shopping center in Cambridge City center for the next few months.

I’m using pure JS (ES5), no frameworks. It’s a fully offline-capable PWA, using a service worker. I’ve not written a game in years, so was a fun way to learn what’s possible on the web today using the latest standards. The hardest part was a consistent level of gameplay on different resolutions.

Anyway, it’s playable on desktop, mobile and even a Tesla dash -> https://orcascan.com/game - let me know what you think

PS: where is the best place to publish a PWA?
by jjani | 2025-08-07 02:43:24+00:00
> There are plenty of places to place the blame, but this is a function of any LLM, and a funcamental way LLMs work, not just a problem created and profited from by Google- for example the open-weight models, where no-one is actually profiting directly.

First time learning that scraping and training on data that they have often been explicitly disallowed to obtain for free or for that purpose by the rights holders is "fundamental to how LLMs work". If not, then there is no reason those who gathered the information wouldn't stand to profit by selling LLMs this data.
by benreesman | 2025-08-07 02:43:27+00:00
Yeah, I also like being able to get real blacks, and certain kinds of panels can do it (I'm not an expert on panels by any means but I think this is one of the bigger selling points of the OLED family of panel designs is that they can turn off a pixel completely, which let's them get an infinite contrast ratio and therefore pure blacks).

But on a lot of displays (including a couple of the ones I use all the time) the panel can't really do it well, and so there are all kinds of hinting and cheats and other workarounds, and so to get perceptual black, you actually wind up cranking the lum up a little, and that's what I've tried to do with the baseline Ono-Sendai Hypermodern blacks, is give a range of options starting from absolute black, and going up incrementally to GitHub "black"/darkest which is a very expertly designed grayscale (their designers on this are world class), but it's light, it's really high to cope with just about any panel.

If you want to try it out, you can pop these codes into whatever way you set colors:

https://gist.github.com/b7r6/581295d8bb905ef598a05fdf2810a07...

The "Ono-Sendai Memphis" grayscale starts at #000000.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-08-07 02:43:46+00:00
Yeah, I wasn't sure about the commit flag either! I opted to add the feature using a `--commit` flag with no arguments, and the default remaining to not commit, much like `fetch` itself.

Then, I made the automatic commit messages reflect a style that looked like git's standard automatic commit messages, with summaries for larger commits. Though upon reflection, maybe a list of file changes or updates would be more in-line with git's style.

Maybe that's close enough.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-08-07 02:44:16+00:00
The internet also fundamentally changed in the middle of the rollout. End user devices stopped being directly accessible because this was a security issue, they stopped being always online because they mostly run on battery now, and IP addresses costing money became a kind of barrier to spam and abuse.

Even if we could directly address every device on the internet, you'd still mostly want to run through a middle server anyway so you can send files and messages while the receiver device is sleeping, or to sync between multiple devices.

Pretty much the only loss was people self hosting servers, but as long as you aren't behind CGNAT you can just set up DDNS and be fine. Every ISP I've been with lets you opt out of CGNAT as well as pay for a static IP.
by Balgair | 2025-08-07 02:44:23+00:00
I want to see the vectors.

I know I'm very much not a typical user in this regard, but I want the raw vectors. I want to take some inputs and then find their subtractions or dot products or whatever. I want to apply these new vectors to other vectors. I want to manipulate this thing in the vector layers to see what I can really get away with, semantically speaking.
by tomhow | 2025-08-07 02:47:06+00:00
In similar spirit to what dang posted in reply to you a few months ago: we empathize with your experience and can understand you feeling this way, but we need you to avoid expressing your feelings like this on HN.

Rather than fulminating and attacking other community members, which is clearly against the guidelines, please think of a way you can draw on your experiences to educate others who may not share your experiences and thus may not be aware of the reality for people in this situation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-07 02:47:10+00:00
> didn't notice any prisons included in the design, so that assumption seems fair

Does it?

You don’t need dedicated prison space as you won’t have a permanent prison population. (Depending on labour requirements and resource availability this may not be a choice.) Nothing about not having a prison implies no hierarchy. And you don’t need prisons to “condemn people to death.”
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-07 02:47:12+00:00
There’s still large gaps that need to be filled.

> people want to differentiate on style in ways that go beyond a CSS skin.

And the reason this is a problem is due to shortcomings in current widgets, which is part of what I was getting at. There’s no technical reason why everything can’t be skinned with CSS, as we’ve seen with modern versions of GTK+ which rely on it entirely for styling. It’s fixable, but there’s little work being done to actually fix it.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-08-07 02:47:47+00:00
Not everyone is a great fit for big companies. Not everyone is a great fit for startups. Not everyone is great at being a small business owner. And not everyone is great at being a regular employee.

Point is that Linus would be fucking miserable and ineffective at a generic BigTech co. He’d hate every second of it. And that’s ok!
by morpheos137 | 2025-08-07 02:48:20+00:00
Honestly i think this post was mostly written to myself but thanks for your input and engagement. I could try more therapy. I agree the internet is a trash heap for self help but it's there. Like an easy woman or porn. Gets it out but doesn't address the long term problem. If this post intereted people then good. If it is inappropriate for the forum sorry.
by Timwi | 2025-08-07 02:48:24+00:00
> their algorithm is basically as good as it gets in terms of showing you what you want to watch and getting you hooked on it

It is? Are we talking about the same YouTube? I get absolutely useless recommendations, I get un-hooked within a couple videos, and I even keep getting recommendations for the same videos I've literally watched yesterday. Who in the world gets hooked by this??
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-07 02:52:41+00:00
> That seems like the worst case scenario though?

> but at the same time it's unfair to pretend the typical experience of getting a voter id resembles whatever the TV show is depicting either.

"Typical" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Is it typical in your socioeconomic class? No probably not. Is it typical in terms of many millions of people experience this problem every election cycle? Yes.

> when I specifically acknowledged that homeless not being able to get id is a real issue.

In one breadth you acknowledge it and then say "but is it really that big a deal?" in the next. That's minimization.
by throwanem | 2025-08-07 02:54:27+00:00
Who said caring about things is dumb? I'm saying it's pointless and unhealthy to make a big deal out of this nonsense, which is totally irrelevant to the ongoing destruction of the republic and concurrent real collapse of American hegemony throughout the world. That is a big deal. This is chickenshit.

The Constitution is not being curtailed by mere edits to a website, and only a child could imagine otherwise. But if you think I'm being an asshole about it, you can say so without the circumlocution.
by iaiuse | 2025-08-07 02:55:49+00:00
You’re raising a very important concern — the slow disappearance of human-curated knowledge niches. While AI can summarize the obvious and the popular, it struggles to preserve the quirky, community-driven, and idiosyncratic corners of the early internet. Forums and specialty sites were full of experiments, debates, and lived experiences — not just canonical facts.

If we don’t actively archive, incentivize, or reimagine those spaces, AI-generated content may become a sterile echo chamber of what’s “most likely,” not what’s most interesting. The risk isn’t that knowledge disappears — it’s that flavor, context, and dissent do.
by ifckncantakeit | 2025-08-07 02:56:40+00:00
> This new competition seems like its goal is to actually take the design/ideation of working professionals as a serious output

While it’s interesting, the only things that sell trips to space are cheap ways to get additional resources (information or materials), steady flows of income (from recurring tourism, travel, services), or war/defense.

Long, expensive one-way trips that require incredible amounts of money to pull off will never, ever make business sense.

The only reason explorers were funded hundreds of years ago was the promise of vast amounts of gold, magical life-extending water, mysterious new jewels and materials, wild native art, new sources of food, beautiful mostly naked natives that would look to you as gods and be your slaves willingly, and a shitton of fertile land to farm and colonize; and it must benefit the homeland within a reasonable time period, preferably not more than a year or two.
by zamadatix | 2025-08-07 02:56:42+00:00
I think we're saying the same thing except I'm splitting the blame from IPv6 (which was very much about adding more bits) and placing it on the unrelated hobby horses people like whats-his-name on Android ride in on. Intentionally not supporting DHCP in the new protocol had nothing to do with the design of IPv6, it's just something they prefer.

To put it from another perspective: If the situation was reversed would you be blaming IPv4 and saying IPv4 should have been designed differently or would you just be asking why this guy from Android doesn't want to add DHCPv4 when DHCPv6 is supported? In both situations it's not IPv4/IPv6 to blame for the inconvenience, it's the guy taking advantage of the transition between protocols to do something stupid at the same time. No amount of changing the definition of IP is going to make them like DHCP, they'll always push some SLAAC-like address assignment onto users. The only reason they didn't for IPv4 was they came in after it was already the way instead of before networks were deployed and they could force it.

It's often very difficult to use IPv6 in practice, but not because IPv6 made it that way.
by erlkonig | 2025-08-07 02:58:00+00:00
<tirade style="justified">

F*k systemd, and systemd-homed along with it.

Their docs don't even mention homes mounted over NFS, or LDAP managed users. This is the same sort of pathetically marginal garbage that damns Snaps, which somehow think that large environments put all user directories in /home - even that that is NOT a standard and doesn't scale worth a damn.

Systemd is a curse, the TRON MCP that doesn't even seem have a system for alternate solutions to compete. Before systemd we saw a more lively environment of alternatives for each service area, but systemd strangles this with a collection of mediocrities, and lack of foresight.

Looking through the doc at https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/ shows a entire webpage built of ideas many would rightfully reject, some defy standards, some defy common sense, and best practices, fail to scale, add arbitrary constraints, or have other problems.

I've been a sysadmin at large sites before. systemd-homed looks a lot like unusable trash.

</tirade>
by OptionOfT | 2025-08-07 02:59:27+00:00
One place I had issues was rapidly allocating space I needed temporarily but then discarding it.

The space I needed was too large to be added to the heap, so I used mmap. Because of the nature of the processing (mmap, process, yeet mmap) I put the system under a lot of pressure. Maintaining the set of mapped blocks and reusing them around fixed the issue.
by Cyan488 | 2025-08-07 02:59:31+00:00
Was waiting to see all different colors of iMac G3 in the high resolution device icons, but alas.

I believe those icons are used in Network places if a device with a known model is on the local network. The BSOD device would represent Windows PCs with network shares, of course! I also recall seeing the Xserve icon for a qnap NAS on our network.
by dikobraz | 2025-08-07 02:59:38+00:00
I am working on a platform for GPU rental and have recently encountered an extremely annoying issue.

On all machines with RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000 GPUs, the cards occasionally become completely unresponsive — usually after a few days of VM usage or at seemingly random times during startup/shutdown. Once it happens, the GPU can’t be reassigned. GPU is in a limbo state and doesn't respond to FLR. The only way out is a complete node reboot, which is undesirable, as it will stop VMs that are already running on the node.

H100s, B200s, and older RTX 4090s are solid, but these newer RTX cards are a menace. I understand that RTX cards are not designed for virtualization, and NVIDIA likely doesn't care; however, those cards are very well-suited for a variety of applications, and it would be nice to make virtualization work.

Is there a way to recover the GPU from this state without a complete node reboot?

We've put a $ 1,000 bounty on it if anyone is interested in helping. We also have an open position for an engineer who can help with problems like this.
by 7e | 2025-08-07 02:59:39+00:00
It's interesting that AI fulfilled for the common user—through vibe coding—the mission which GNU/FSF could not: the freedom to create any software you want at any time. And it's ironic that of all of the software used to create AIs (like PyTorch and NVIDIA's CUDA stack), none of it was licensed GPL, though plenty of it is OSS. GNU is no longer relevant and, compared to MIT and BSD licenses, really never was. RIP FSF.
by rlk | 2025-08-07 02:59:52+00:00
I found a couple of fun tricks you can do with this (for some definition of "fun" anyway).

Go's http.Redirect function allows non-3xx statuses, and also renders a trivial page with a status message and link:

https://301party.com/451?url=javascript:alert(%27hello%27)

Alas not infinitely recursive but enough to make your browser give up:

https://301party.com/301?url=/301?url=/301?url=/301?url=/301...

[edit to add:] https://301party.com/0 causes a panic
by n4te | 2025-08-07 03:00:11+00:00
Hard disagree. Lots exist but none are great. Usually layout isn't sane. Another blunder is components are too complex with too many layers. Customization and creating your own components becomes difficult. Often the event system is terrible.

Eg Swing has all those problems, in addition to ugly themes. The uncanny valley resulting from trying to mimic native UI was bad. At least nowadays users don't necessarily expect native looking UI, even browsers don't do it.

It's not a question of can you make a nice UI with it. You can drive a nail with a rock. The high pain needed to be productive with bad tools leads to Stockholm syndrome. People would rather stick with what they know than go through such pain again to learn something new, and rightly so when the new one is likely just as bad in new ways.
by c0nducktr | 2025-08-07 03:00:33+00:00
Thanks for posting this (possibly again) I use another site to browse HN and while I could find the flagged post's comments I couldn't actually figure out what they were regarding.

Getting flagged (even as a [dupe]) deletes the link in the post. For anyone that somehow finds this and is curious what it was, it is referring to the following substack post: https://whatwelost.substack.com/p/im-tired-of-stupid-people-...
by rootbear | 2025-08-07 03:00:51+00:00
My best friend George (Gyuri) from college is Hungarian and I've picked up a few words (mostly cuss words) from him. One of the hardest parts for an English speaker to learn about Hungarian and Finnish is that the length of a sound (how long you articulate it) is significant. Finnish uses doubled letters for this, Hungarian uses accents (a vs á, o vs ó, etc.) for vowels and doubled letters for consonants. I've gotten to where I can hear the difference when listening to George speak Hungarian but it took some effort.
by velcrovan | 2025-08-07 03:01:06+00:00
This is something I might otherwise consider, but Gwern being an advisor gives me pause. Awhile back I shared a blog design on Twitter in response to someone doing a “show me your cool stuff” kind of thing, someone replied and tagged gwern and then he replied with a bunch of very unconstructive crap-on criticism. I had looked up to him before that. Maybe he’s different in person but based on that interaction I have no desire to find out.

Edit: if someone can explain why this was instantly downvoted I would genuinely appreciate knowing where I went wrong here
by Freedom2 | 2025-08-07 03:01:27+00:00
I don't disagree. My comment has little to do with that.

Let's take the fact that sales tax isn't baked into the price in the US, a common criticism of the US. I understand the sales tax is different per state. Not having the sales tax baked in is an annoyance, and I believe almost everybody would agree having it baked in would be an improvement.

I don't understand why Americans work backwards to try and explain it away. I've genuinely seen comments such as:

"What if the sales tax changes often? Then they have to reprint all the labels" (does this actually happen that often?)

"They have to print different labels for each state" (Many stores already print different labels for regional pricing, or use e-ink)

"It's not that hard to just compute +X%, just get better at math" (It's not hard but what's wrong with transparency and clarity with the price?)

It's that kind of discussion that my comment is referring to.
by celeritascelery | 2025-08-07 03:01:54+00:00
I think I have been convinced by this thread that risks of no-ID voting is fairly low. Certainly not nearly as big of an issue as I thought when I first posted.

I still maintain that this should be a non-issue. ID’s are issued by the state, and they are the entities responsible for voting and voter registration. You don’t need a national database to fix this.
by satyrun | 2025-08-07 03:02:05+00:00
I love this software but I was completely sick of the 303 by the late 90s.

If anything, I think it got over exposed in the 90s. The sound is just so distinct with the slides and accents.

Rebirth was also the first really popular software synth I remember and at that point it was just 303 overkill.

For me, it was an acid house album in the 2010s that I can't remember that made me appreciate the 303 again.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-08-07 03:02:31+00:00
>Every creed has only one test to pass in regard to the social body: it has only one examination to which it must submit, that of its morals, he proclaimed. We must refuse everything to the Jews as a nation and accord everything to Jews as individuals. We must withdraw recognition from their judges; they should only have our judges. We must refuse legal protection to the maintenance of the so-called laws of their Judaic organization; they should not be allowed to form in the state either a political body or an order. They must be citizens individually.

Still the dominant "French view" today. More to say on this later..

Related:

https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/end-of-protestant-america

https://unherd.com/newsroom/emmanuel-todd-vaporisation-of-pr...

Connecting antisemitism (or most identity politics, really) to simple racism is blinding us to the fratricidal nature of ... A lot of conflict

>What is common to Protestantism and Communism is the obsession with education
by yazantapuz | 2025-08-07 03:02:51+00:00
I have fond memories of watching F1 races with my dad in the late '90s and early '00s. Legends like Lauda and Gilles Villeneuve were mythical figures from a distant past to me. Now, for my children, Schumacher, Häkkinen, and Damon Hill are in that very same position... how time flies.
by subject4056 | 2025-08-07 03:03:11+00:00
We're not it's competition in the same way chimpanzees aren't our competition. Some fraction of us are interested in their well-being for aesthetic reasons, but a lot of the time this fraction loses to a not particularly powerful faction in direct competition for territory. And if there is any serious conflict of interest, there is no contest and the chimps lose. If we get lucky some fraction of superintelligence will look on us the way we look at ground apes, but that's far from a given.
by radixdiaboli | 2025-08-07 03:05:02+00:00
So on the one hand, you acknowledge that the admin has done similar things. On the other hand, you think it's "obvious" that they didn't do this thing. Which, again, is similar to other things. That they have done.

The best advice I've ever heard, I'm going to proffer to you: remove the word "obvious" from your vocabulary.

I actually don't really care whether it's benign or not. Not everyone cares about this as much as you do. I just think soapbox warrioring needs to be addressed.