MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chatmasta | 2025-08-22 19:25:32+00:00
Just search for the name of the sport and “bite” and you’ll find some sketchy successor of the original subreddits for pirated sports streams (“r/nflbite,” “r/nbabite,” etc.) Or find the latest streameast mirror which is usually the best.

Make sure your ad blocker is working. Then it’s just a matter of finding the best stream, extracting the playlist, and opening VLC.

I documented [0] some useful tricks for this technique and the comments also include more useful snippets and bookmarklets.

[0] https://gist.github.com/milesrichardson/4661c311199b98023701...
by koreth1 | 2025-08-22 19:26:10+00:00
> I'll start by saying I'm skeptical of the answer and ask it to state its reasoning.

How do you tell if it's actually stating the reasoning that got it to its answer originally, as opposed to constructing a plausible-sounding explanation after the fact? Or is the goal just to see if it detects mistakes, rather than to actually get it to explain how it arrived at the answer?
by peteey | 2025-08-22 19:26:31+00:00
In FL, a speed camera can give a car's owner can a ticket without needing to know he was the driver. Your perspective is not true nation wide.

"The registered owner of the motor vehicle involved in the violation is responsible and liable for paying the uniform traffic citation issued for a violation"

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...
by tincholio | 2025-08-22 19:26:37+00:00
> the ones that like to think everything up-front before doing anything.

I don't think that's the case. If they were really thinking up-front, they'd be doing proper req analysis and design work, rather than interactively growing a ball of mud that "does the minimal thing to pass a test". To me, it seems like TDD is sold as this "foolproof" design / dev approach, which is anything but.
by mrandish | 2025-08-22 19:26:41+00:00
As a consumer who nursed an overclocked 1080ti along for 2.5 gens longer than I would've liked thanks to crypto and then AI, I was reading this fearing a positive conclusion - thinking "Oh great, just when it's time to upgrade my 5600x CPU data centers will start driving up already over-priced consumer CPUs too."

Although said somewhat tongue in cheek, it has been a rough several years for tech hobbyist consumers. At least the end of Moore's law scaling and the bite of Dennard scaling combined to nerf generational improvements enough that getting by on existing hardware wasn't as nearly as bad as it would've been 20 yrs ago.

Now that maybe the AI bubble is just starting to burst, we've got tariffs to ensure tech consumers still won't see undistorted prices. The silver lining in all this is that it got me into retro gaming and computing which, frankly, is really great.
by Permit | 2025-08-22 19:26:54+00:00
Yes.

If they run a red light today there is some small chance they will injure/kill someone.

If they run a red light with a camera, there is a 100% chance they will receive a ticket.

The key factor is not the magnitude of the penalty (i.e. whether someone dies or they receive a fine) but the chance that they will encounter the penalty.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-08-22 19:26:56+00:00
xml + xslt should never have been allowed client side. not sure why no one decided to force this as a server side operation, or at least require it to be done in js.

BUT since it's there, don't take it out, or at least take it out of the spec and then require all browser vendors to auto-install a plugin that re-performs the missing feature, and warn that this page relies on a plugin or something
by forgotpwagain | 2025-08-22 19:27:22+00:00
I am totally onboard with the premise (as a TechBio-adjacent person), and some of the approaches you're taking (focused domain-specific models like Orthrus, rather than massive foundation models like Evo2).

I'm curious about what your strategy is for data collection to fuel improved algorithmic design. Are you building out experimental capacity to generate datasets in house, or is that largely farmed out to partners?
by ggreer | 2025-08-22 19:27:27+00:00
Pretty much all electric cars have single speed transmissions, so there's no downshifting. And modern vehicles have electronic stability control, anti-lock brakes, automatic emergency braking, and several other safety systems. It's pretty hard to overreact with those enabled. The main issue is that people exceed safe speeds for the conditions, making them unable to brake or turn in time to avoid a collision.

Right now, most self-driving software will refuse to activate in conditions of poor visibility. I've had that happen with Tesla's FSD, though in that case it was snowing so much that the road should have been closed. Also when the snow is deep enough that your front bumper becomes a plow, it will refuse to activate.
by Havoc | 2025-08-22 19:27:36+00:00
>No MLC lasts 5 years tops.

A 64gb Intel’s X25-E is rated for about 2 PB of TBW.

A S3700 (400gb) is rated for 7 PB TBW range and gets you 400gb not 64gb usable space.

>The stats don't look too good.

It seems to me that you're trying very hard to not look at stats and insist on extrapolating your small sample personal experiences?

Frankly for 3k you could have built a pure optane rig of equivalent capacity that would have crushed both your X-25E suggestion and my S3700 if you're really obsessed on endurance.

I'm generally of the meet people where they are and support their journey persuasion but when someone says 64GB SATA v2 drive with no trim and really bad metrics across the board is their best ssd buy I gotta say something
by jpollock | 2025-08-22 19:27:41+00:00
That was the lesson I was learning. I should use the LLM to generate the tools that I use for consistently repeatable tasks.

Then I can rinse and repeat using the tool, fixing the bugs in the tool myself instead of repeating the expensive (in time) cost of using the LLM.

That was my last attempt, but I ran out of time.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-08-22 19:27:54+00:00
Trauma is not an excuse or justification for the level of hatred described and especially not for years.

Unless someone is completely incapable of rational action (which has happened to me), there’s some level of personal responsibility involved.

I wouldn’t argue that conservatives are stupid and motivated by hatred. However, many people voted for a campaign of blatant hate and an explicitly stated desire for revenge. This definitely colors your view of anyone that doesn’t think this is a bad thing.
Show HN: CopyMagic – The smartest clipboard manager for macOS
by rtk0 | 2025-08-22 19:28:13+00:00
It’s been one month since I launched CopyMagic, a smarter clipboard manager for macOS that makes sure you never lose anything you copy.

Instead of digging through endless items, you can type things like “URL from Slack”, “flight information”, or “crypto rate” and it instantly finds what you meant.

It’s all completely offline and privacy-first (we don’t even track analytics).
Show HN: Unbreakable – An AI Focus App That Blocks Based on Context, Not URLs
by FezzikTheGiant | 2025-08-22 19:28:14+00:00
hey hn, wanted to share something i've been working on for a bit.

most focus apps like opal are static. they block a list of websites and that’s it. once you start a timer, you’re locked in. can’t quit, can’t delete, can’t reason with it.

but real focus isn’t that binary. sometimes i actually need to use youtube or reddit for a task, like watching a physics lecture or checking a solution. blocking everything just doesn't work. also, sometimes "harmless" sites like wikipedia pages or news pages send me into rabbit holes. you can't realistically block every one of these.

so i tried to build something that uses the context on your screen to figure out whether you're focused.

i set a task (e.g. “studying physics – waves + optics”), describe what i’m doing, and how long i want to focus.

then the app uses my browser's context to check if i'm on-task or off-task, based on what i'm doing - not just what site i'm on.

if i'm off-task, blocks the site. even after it's blocked, you can explain to it why you really need the site - if the app thinks the reason's valid, it lets you in. this takes care of most false positives.

still early and it's only a chrome extension, but it works and it’s helped me a lot.

happy to hear feedback and would be curious to hear if people would pay for this.

there's also a demo video on the extension page for those curious.
by Jarwain | 2025-08-22 19:28:22+00:00
Super cool! I'm excited to explore it as an excalidraw alternative for a lot of the diagrams I make.

Some initial notes:

- On the very first initial load, ~~there's no default tool selected~~ it selects the 'hand' tool in the bottom left, which hides the cursor. It seems to select the pointer tool after a refresh. I'm able to replicate in an incognito browser or by clearing site data. After scanning your documents, it appears its touchscreen related. My guess is that it got confused because I'm using one of the ASUS Duo laptops. - I personally think it makes more sense to start docs on "What is Context" (on the documentation drawer), but that's a matter of opinion. The sandwich icon isn't as obvious as I'd like though, and it'd be nice to have a link to the next page at the bottom of every article. - my initial thought from the sequence diagrams panel was that I could type to generate an initial image, then drag that into my canvas for position changes. - this actually makes me think about mermaid's rendering engine, and how hard it would be to support moving and "pinning" an element, such that further diagram changes need to work around the pinned elements.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-08-22 19:29:00+00:00
The increasing frequency of mouse studies showing reversal of aging symptoms indicates a few things in itself, regardless of whether any single result (like FTL1) holds up in humans:

1. Field Maturation

We’ve moved from “aging is inevitable” → “aging can be slowed” → “specific mechanisms can be reversed in vivo.” That shift means:

- Tools (CRISPR, single-cell omics, proteomics) are now precise enough to pinpoint single culprits.

- Researchers are designing interventions that don’t just extend lifespan, but restore youthful function in cognition, muscle, or immunity.

2. Convergence on a Core Set of Mechanisms

Different labs, different pathways (NAD+, senolytics, plasma dilution, now FTL1), but similar outcomes: old mice regaining youthful traits. This convergence hints aging may not be a diffuse “wear and tear” process, but the result of a relatively small number of upstream regulators.

3. Proof-of-Concept Momentum

Even if each specific intervention fails to translate, the fact that so many are succeeding at all in mice makes it harder to dismiss rejuvenation as fringe. The signal: aging can be manipulated, not just observed.

4. Cultural Shift in Geroscience

Funders, journals, and institutions are increasingly willing to spotlight “reversal” claims, where a decade ago the same results might have been relegated to smaller journals. The fact we’re seeing more of these studies may reflect both real progress and changed editorial appetite.

the trend suggests aging is experimentally tractable and reversible in model organisms. That doesn’t mean translation to humans is imminent, but it reframes aging from “inevitable decline” to “complex but solvable engineering problem.”
by openasocket | 2025-08-22 19:29:10+00:00
No, Go isn’t actually that widely used at my company. The original developers chose Go because they thought it was a good fit for our use case. We were particularly looking for a compiled language that produces binaries with minimal dependencies, didn’t have manual memory management, and was relatively mature (I think Rust was barely 1.0 at the time). We knew we wanted to limit memory usage, but it was more of a “nice to have” than anything else. And Go worked pretty well. It was in production for a couple years before we started getting burnt by these issues. We are looking at porting this to Rust, but that’s a big lift. This is a 50K+ line code base that’s pretty battle tested.
by NobodyNada | 2025-08-22 19:29:18+00:00
That would be "\U0001F926\U0001F3FC\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" in Python's syntax, or "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}" in Rust or JavaScript.

Might be a little long for a title :)
by averne_ | 2025-08-22 19:29:33+00:00
Do you have a link for that? I'm the guy working on the Vulkan ProRes decoder mentionned as "in review" in this changelog, as part of a GSoC project.

I'm curious wrt how a WebGPU implementation would differ from Vulkan. Here's mine if you're interested: https://github.com/averne/FFmpeg/tree/vk-proresdec
by mrguyorama | 2025-08-22 19:30:01+00:00
For reasons I don't think I understand, using the functions is "discouraged" because "someone might muck with how those functions work" and the python world, in it's perfect wisdom responded "Oh of course" instead of "That's so damn stupid, don't do that because it would be surprising to people who expect built in functions to do built in logic"
by dang | 2025-08-22 19:30:10+00:00
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44984785, which has the original source. (Edit: I mean the announcement this article is reporting on.)

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: since people seem to agree that this was the wrong move, I'm going to undo it.

Edit 2: undone now!
by Natsu | 2025-08-22 19:30:21+00:00
If you actually ride in one, you do notice some off behaviors that I didn't pick up while just driving alongside them. That said, I agree that the bad human drivers have done things far, far worse than any of the cars.

The biggest gripe with riding in one is that they're slow, both because of super cautious driving and because they won't take freeways yet.
by jgilias | 2025-08-22 19:30:26+00:00
I get what you’re saying. They probably only care about people coming in buying Lexuses paying cash. But to streamline things, as well as not discriminate Lexus buyers or cash, it applies wholesale.

I’m very critical of the system in general. It’s an extra-legal way to “fight” crime, that weaponizes private enterprises against their will, inverts the burden of proof, and at the end of the day just doesn’t work. Because, obviously the cash for buying the Lexus came from a completely legal casino payout.
by crazygringo | 2025-08-22 19:30:33+00:00
You joke, but the reality is going to be dynamic self-driving buses that don't have preset routes or stops but respond to instant demand.

You'll pay $$$ for a nonstop ride into midtown in a dedicated vehicle, or $ for a short dedicated ride to a self-driving bus you only need to wait a few minutes for, and which will drop you off on your destination block.

So yes -- self-driving buses seamlessly integrated into ride sharing are certainly going to be a major part of 21st century urban transportation. Which will save a ton of time compared to current buses.
by searls | 2025-08-22 19:30:52+00:00
Yeah, I've been griping about LLM overconfidence for years, as somebody who is racked with self-doubt and second-guessing. On one hand, my own low opinion of myself made me a terrible mentor and manager, because having a similarly zero-trust policy towards my colleagues' work caused no end of friction (especially as a founder where people looked up to me for validation). On the other hand, i don't know very many top-tier practitioners that don't exhibit significantly more self-doubt than an off-the-shelf LLM.

Hence this blog post. I will say I've got a dozen similar tricks baked into my Claude config, but I'm not sure they've helped any.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-22 19:31:34+00:00
Cheating and worrying about cheating in these matchmaking FPS games is a ridiculous thing to do. If you get matched with cheaters, and the ranking system actually works, they are cheaters whose cheat-augmented skill is equal to yours.

Game designers could have just worked on their ranking systems, and least the cheaters rocket off into their own domain of impossibly-high-elo games. Let there be a cheaters league. It could be fascinating, what’s fully-cheated gameplay look like? Just ban disruptive behavior like ddosing other players.

OTOH, artificially lowering your rank to stomp low-level players is a problem. But cheaters, as well as just legitimately really good players, can do this; the place to solve this is the ranking system.
Why QUIC might kill TCP for good
by josephbenedict | 2025-08-22 19:31:46+00:00
Cloudflare just announced the first media CDN built entirely on QUIC (moq.dev), and it feels like one of those quiet inflection points where the old guard (TCP) finally starts looking obsolete.

QUIC + HTTP/3 has been “the future” for a while, but until now most deployments were edge cases or just browsers quietly switching protocols under the hood. Media delivery is different, it stresses latency, congestion control, retransmissions, and real-time resilience in ways that show off QUIC’s strengths.

A few things that make me think TCP’s days are numbered (at least for large-scale internet workloads):

QUIC’s user-space implementation means iteration speed that TCP will never match.

Built-in multiplexing avoids the classic “TCP head-of-line blocking” problem.

Encryption as the baseline, not the addon.

Congestion control that works better for streaming and real-time traffic.

If the economics work out for Cloudflare and others, media over QUIC could be the wedge that normalizes QUIC everywhere — not just browsers, but infra, APIs, and even enterprise backends.

Curious if anyone here is already seeing QUIC make TCP irrelevant in production workloads (beyond web browsers)? Or is TCP going to stick around longer than we think, the way IPv4 has?
by schneems | 2025-08-22 19:31:52+00:00
The article is stating what inputs they used and the output they observed. They stated they saw more tokens used and more time spent before returning an answer. That seems like a data point you can test. Which is maybe not the zoom level or exact content you’re looking for, but I don’t feel your criticism sticks here.

> testing where they change one word here or there and compare

You can be that person. You can write that post. Nothing is stopping you.
by 1zael | 2025-08-22 19:31:57+00:00
The Vulkan compute shader implementations are cool...particularly for FFv1 and ProRes RAW. Given that these bypass fixed-function hardware decoders entirely, I'm curious about the memory bandwidth implications. FFv1's context-adaptive arithmetic coding seems inherently sequential, yet they're achieving "very significant speedups."

Are they using wavefront/subgroup operations to parallelize the range decoder across multiple symbols simultaneously? Or exploiting the slice-level parallelism with each workgroup handling independent slices? The arithmetic coding dependency chain has traditionally been the bottleneck for GPU acceleration of these codecs.

I'd love to hear from anyone who's profiled the compute shader implementation - particularly interested in the occupancy vs. bandwidth tradeoff they've chosen for the entropy decoding stage.
Ask HN: Has GitHub's web UI gotten tremendously slow or is it just me?
by SirensOfTitan | 2025-08-22 19:32:33+00:00
Sometime since March or so this year, GitHub has become utterly agonizing to use. Particularly:

- The file explorer drops frames, scrolling and searching cause lockups.

- Reviewing anything but the most trivially small PRs doesn't work: clicking on files often lazily loads them and never finishes, ctrl+f causes huge frame drops

I've tried both the new and old PR view and neither is particularly good on either Safari Technical Preview or Google Chrome, and my general purpose machine is an M1 Max with 64 GB of RAM.
by jpollock | 2025-08-22 19:32:58+00:00
I gave it explicit ordering, instructions on what tools to _not_ use, and before/after examples from the codebase. A full page of instructions.

After iterating on that for a while, I did a bunch manually (90) and then gave the LLM a list of pull requests as examples, and asked _it_ to write the prompt. It still failed.

Finally, I broke the problem up and started to ask it to generate tools to perform each step. It started to make progress - each execution gave me a new checkpoint so it wouldn't make new mistakes.
by GTP | 2025-08-22 19:33:01+00:00
The problem with changing email provider due to privacy concerns, is that most of your emails will still end up inside Google's or Microsoft's servers.

I considered self-hosting my own email, as I already have a domain name. But this has always put me off. The reason I would still consider self-hosting is to have readily available email address for side projects, like if I want to receive email notifications from services.

But for privacy, you unfortunately don't gain much, as most of the people/entities you're exchanging emails with are using Google or Microsoft emails.
by EasyMark | 2025-08-22 19:33:07+00:00
1 tube lasts me nearly 3 months. Eat at home one time and you're good. I'm not saying people who are living paycheck to paycheck where $15 makes a big difference between choosing rent or food or toothpaste, but that should have been obvious I think. Fluoride works of course, but I think in the long run nHAP works better and is probably better for your teeth. I know it fixes all my sensitivity issues and I haven't had a cavity in 10 years since I started it, was using novamin before that.
by bgnn | 2025-08-22 19:33:08+00:00
If you are running engineering jobs (HPC) like electrical simulation for chip design the only two thingd you care about are the CPU clock speed and memory RW speed.

It's unfortunate that we can only have 16 core CPUs running at 5+ GHz. I would have loved to have a 32 or 64 core Ryzen 9. The software we use charge per core used, so 30% less performance is that much extra cost, which is easily an order of magnitude higher than a flagship server CPU. These licenses cost millions per year for couple 16 core seats.

So, at the end, CPU speed is determining how fast abd economically chips are developed.
by clickety_clack | 2025-08-22 19:33:09+00:00
If I was stuck there I probably would have pushed it, but I had better options than setting out on an odyssey to reform a product team.

It got me thinking that in general, people with options will probably sort themselves out of those situations and into organizations with like-minded people who use AI as a tool to multiply their impact (and I flatter myself to think that it will be high ability people who have those options), leaving those more reliant on AI to operate at the limit of what they get from OpenAI et al.
by nxobject | 2025-08-22 19:33:52+00:00
> For example: "On a more contemporary note, these theoretical & empirical considerations also throw doubt on concerns about ‘algorithmic bias’ or inferences drawing on ‘protected classes’: not drawing on them may not be desirable, possible, or even meaningful."

As much as I do think that good, parsimonious social science modeling _requires_ theoretical commitments, the test is whether TFA would say the same thing about political cause du jour - say, `is_white` in hiring in an organization that does outreach to minority communities.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-22 19:34:11+00:00
Well, if nothing else, it makes me think that if you are doing truly security-sensitive work, you almost certainly need to get a separate computer for that. Whether or not you play any games with kernel-level anti-cheat, you probably have cpu-z installed.

And if you're not doing something particularly sensitive, then security on consumer PCs must matter a lot less than some people think.
by dang | 2025-08-22 19:34:11+00:00
The submitted title was "Evolution is still a valid machine learning technique" but that sentence doesn't appear in the article, which is really about (interesting!) specific work on a specific program. I couldn't find a better representative sentence in the article so I went with the page's own title, which is what the HN guidelines default to anyway (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).