MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by snowmaker | 2025-09-02 07:22:38+00:00
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by sigmoid10 | 2025-09-02 07:22:50+00:00
This "moat" is actually constantly shifting (which is why it isn't really a moat to begin with). Originally, it was all about quality data sources. But that saturated quite some time ago (at least for text). Before RLHF/RLAIF it was primarily a race who could throw more compute at a model and train longer on the same data. Then it was who could come up with the best RL approach. Now we're back to who can throw more compute at it since everyone is once again doing pretty much the same thing. With reasoning we now also opened a second avenue where it's all about who can throw more compute at it during runtime and not just while training. So in the end, it's mostly about compute. The last years have taught us that any significant algorithmic improvement will soon permeate across the entire field, no matter who originally invented it. So people are important for finding this stuff, but not for making the most of it. On top of that, I think we are very close to the point where LLMs can compete with humans on their own algorithmic development. Then it will be even more about who can spend more compute, because there will be tons of ideas to evaluate.
by adornKey | 2025-09-02 07:23:40+00:00
I've sometimes witnessed newsworthy events. It was very interesting to see what media made out of it. Local news was very inaccurate. In Big papers the stories were more like fiction - using some fact from the real event as inspiration. It was surprising that local papers can't even get simple local news right. Only once I think the local paper got into a little bit of trouble. They wrote some nagging critic about the performance of some school theatre - but the event had been cancelled...

I think it is safe to say that using newspapers to wrap some garbage is where their real value shines. Reading the garbage wrap is something that people do, but I wonder why?
by vanderZwan | 2025-09-02 07:24:08+00:00
> It's an OS that mounts/searches all drives (such as an SD card reader) for the first available KZI file which is a format that describes how a specific game is run (the runtime, additional gamescope options, etc).

I hope it also supports putting multiple games on one cartridge and choosing between them at boot time? Don't see a reason to waste a multi-gigabyte SD card on a single ROM of a few megabytes.
by homebrewer | 2025-09-02 07:24:27+00:00
It's getting repetitive to come with the same message over and over and over again, but in many countries you can no longer interact with your bank through the web browser. The banks' applications are either required for 2FA, or are the only way to use remote banking at all.

The last one applies in my country. You can of course go to the bank branch for every little financial operation, which is bad enough by itself for us living in cities, but is practically impossible for my relatives in the rural area, who would have to drive 100 km to the nearest bank branch, and then back just to move some money between two accounts.

Even if you don't care for anyone else but your country, it will come to you also, I promise.
by thicknavyrain | 2025-09-02 07:24:30+00:00
I know it's a reductive take to point to a single mistake and act like the whole project might be a bit futile (maybe it's a rarity) but this example in their sample is really quite awful if the idea is to give AI better epistemics:

{ "causal_relation": { "cause": { "concept": "vaccines" }, "effect": { "concept": "autism" } } },

... seriously? Then again, they do say these are just "causal beliefs" expressed on the internet, but seems like some stronger filtering of which beliefs to adopt ought to be exercised for an downstream usecase.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-02 07:24:32+00:00
You're talking about the US case I believe. Alternative app stores were born out of the EU Digital Markets Act which Apple has been brazenly violating since day 1.

The purpose of the DMA is to eliminate gatekeepers' stranglehold over the market and promote competition by forcing them to compete on equal footing. Apple's compliance strategy thus far has been to create an appearance of compliance (alternative app stores, what more do you want??) while fully retaining their chokehold in strategic areas like notarization and core technology fees which completely undermine the goals of the DMA. They remain a gatekeeper who imposes taxes on competition and retains the ability to kill your project (or business) without a due process.
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by russnes | 2025-09-02 07:25:44+00:00
No just directly in Steam. You can just add a non steam game to your library and select the .exe file you want, and steam will create a c drive environment for each non steam game you add.

In some cases you might have to change which exe file it runs, if you initially run a setup.exe which creates the real exe file you'd want to launch inside the c drive environment folder
by elric | 2025-09-02 07:26:32+00:00
I disagree entirely, but I'd love to hear your arguments (other than vague allusions to "popularity" and other languages).

Improved checked exception handling in Streams would be nice, but that's my only gripe with them. They force you to stop and think, which is a good thing.

There are some checked exceptions that should probably be unchecked, like UnsupportedEncodingException thrown by ByteArrayOutputStream::toString which takes a charset name. I'm sure there are other subclasses of IOException that could be an IllegalArgumentException instead. But those few inconveniences don't invalidate the concept of checked exceptions.
by yourusername | 2025-09-02 07:26:37+00:00
A 64GB SD card is $4 and should fit the majority of games that fit the "no DRM" requirement. This product is not for me but i would just standardize on 64GB cards. Should be big and fast enough for most example games they show. For the full old school console experience you shouldn't have hundreds of games lying around anyway, most people had less than a dozen games per console.
by carra | 2025-09-02 07:26:52+00:00
Though it may be impractical I can definitely see the appeal of something like this. I'm not a fan of the current gaming model. Games we buy should be something we can own, preserve and control. It would be enticing to have a physical collection of actual, working games and to be able to use them without internet connection, user accounts, EULAs, launchers, stores, etc.
by dmurray | 2025-09-02 07:26:57+00:00
I also like "the Holy land" as a less political name for that region.

It's out of fashion and perhaps identified with Christianity, and some people think I'm being tongue-in-cheek or gently trolling by using it. But IMO it's neutral and unambiguous: that's a part of the world that is sacred to all the major religions of the Western hemisphere, while not being tied to any particular set of boundaries.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-02 07:27:46+00:00
> Writing and rewriting notes; explaining topics out loud to myself and others; and using information to create something of my own — those are the ways I learn best. And at that point I've naturally memorized a lot already because I've "internalized" it.

Yes precisely. That's generally where i end it. If I've understood the topic well enough to reason about it, rephrase in a compact form, or explain it to someone else, i consider the process done. Doing so during university always made me pass reliably.

Flash cards & repeated practice always felt like a cheat to memorize parts i had not sufficiently understood or learnt. Memorization techniques are a great way to pass exams and get grades, but terrible way to learn in the longrun. Any details that would truly require memorization techniques (numbers or large lists of terms) are things i would want to look up to be sure of in the real-world anyway, so why try memorize them.

Whenever i look up "study advice" i often see memorization techniques, but very rarely see plain old; "read the book slowly page-by-page, Write down any questions, summarize whenever you feel you understood the section, go back to previous chapters when confused, cross check with other sources or explanations if not sufficient, try practice problems to check if you've understood correctly"

This article leans in that direction as-well; 1&2 are mentioned briefly, but encompass the vast majority learning process. All the rest of the points are memorization aids that i would consider footnotes to the learning process at best.
Show HN: Opensyte – Open-Source Hubspot and Zoho Alternative
by dagermohamed | 2025-09-02 07:28:02+00:00
Hey HN,

I saw that many small business owners complain about the complexity of using Hubspot and Zoho, so I thought, why not create an all-in-one platform that includes CRM, project management, finance, and HR management?

These features are very easy to use and will be highly beneficial for anyone trying to manage their business more effortlessly without needing an expert.
by Foofoobar12345 | 2025-09-02 07:28:54+00:00
1. Don’t work from home. Even if you are working for a fully remote company, get a personal office.

2. Have a laptop or desktop that only has a command line on it. Don’t carry your normal laptop along.

3. Don’t carry your phone. Instead invest in an Apple Watch with cellular or something similar for emergency calling. Have a regular old landline for your office.

4. Invest in specialized devices such as kindles and zoom meeting devices.

1-2 months of this will help change your default behavior of needing to satisfy your frequent dopamine demands immediately. Slowly introduce other devices.
by kimixa | 2025-09-02 07:29:07+00:00
No, I definitely remember it behaving differently if I pressed "return" (right of "#" on the keyboard) vs "enter" (on the numpad).

EDIT: In the US I guess that's right of "'"? Below backspace, above the right shift.

The reason I remember is it took me quite a while to actually run the damn thing :P
by reitanuki | 2025-09-02 07:29:39+00:00
Agree with this. Either you'll get SMS OTP (which is free for the user, at least in the UK?) or they will send some 'calculator' or multi-colour-code-scanner device that generates OTPs. (Honestly this last one was the most impressive bank security system I'd seen yet; for every individual transaction, you'd have to scan the code and the scanner device would tell you what you were authorising, then you put the PIN in and get a OTP to put back in the bank)
by GoblinSlayer | 2025-09-02 07:29:57+00:00
>I've never had hardware regressions with Windows.

Until recently I didn't either. Windows resizing to 640x480 when display turns off and sound resetting to 100% after a toast notification.

>It is a pretty niche problem.

I think hdmi audio is a niche problem. What do you even use it for? With linux you can at least try a different version, with windows you have to just eat it.
by 3036e4 | 2025-09-02 07:30:01+00:00
I said "as much sense", not "more". I am just not used to a language that makes the distinction.

Doesn't seem perfectly consistent in English either. When there is a "wagon train" in a Western movie it is often full of people in wagons. Seems like wagon vs carriage is a bit more complex than just if it carries people or not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covered_wagon
by nanark | 2025-09-02 07:30:08+00:00
hey (author here). obviously, the rest of the content adds a lot of nuance to this statement. it's a bit provocative on purpose.

But in practice, now that I am working with it, what I needed from those tools already works, with no major bugs so far. I haven’t recreated the tools! just the parts I need to able to plug in and plug out features. Also, many of those features are usually available in great libraries (like Tiptap).
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-02 07:30:19+00:00
> They want to seem altruistic but want to also be the only provider.

Some people pick the AGPL because the license itself acts like garlic to commons destroying IP vampires and are disappointed that those vampires still found a way to drink their IP milkshake.

Has nothing to do with altruism and everything to do with not wanting to be taken advantage of for free labor and IP by powerful entities that would deny them a glass of water if they were dying from thirst.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-02 07:31:14+00:00
For B2B, there are often close relationships with client interests. If a small firm signs a non-compete and NDA with a competitor, it can cost a lot more than a single sale to chat.

Also, in niche industries everyone already knows one another for decades. People looking to fragment that market are seen as a problem even if they don't know they are a problem.

It is rude to "ghost" people, but it is unfortunately a modern pop-culture trend. Most competent firms should at minimum refer your team to a competitor if their schedule is full for the year. =3
by unsungNovelty | 2025-09-02 07:31:18+00:00
It definitely is. This was my first visit after 7 years. Cos I only recently moved back to BLR.

And I do remember a time where there was a dip in visitors on weekends (Or maybe I felt?). But that has definitely changed.

Kind of annoying as well with way too crowded blossoms. Good problems to have. :)

There is also https://www.tumblr.com/overheardatblossoms

Looks like it is not updated anymore.
by creshal | 2025-09-02 07:32:40+00:00
> I think that there is a shitload of old desktop and laptop computers from 10 to 15 yrs that are still usable only with a linux distribution and that will not be true anymore.

For mainstream laptops/desktops, the 32 bit era ended around 2006 (2003, if you were smart and using Athlon 64s instead of rancid Pentium 4).

Netbooks and other really weak devices held out a few years longer, but by 2010, almost everything new on the market, and a good chunk of the second-hand market, was already 64 bits.
by bigbuppo | 2025-09-02 07:32:43+00:00
Big money investors know that real tangible products that have real tangible benefits aren't usually decimal-point-shifting-your-net-worth jackpots. They make money, sure, but factories can't be built in a day. Also, if they can make AI work as it says on the box, they'll be able to get rid of all those pesky employees and turn their companies into pure money-printing enterprises.

Pay no attention to the cracks that are showing. Nevermind the chill. Everything is fine.
by zeroCalories | 2025-09-02 07:33:11+00:00
> Capital doesn't really care what you want, it will exert control regardless.

Working as intended. The market doesn't care what capital wants either.

> So in this case Netflix will continue to be part of capital that normalizes the need for DRM to access videos

I can access video without DRM. If you want to access Netflix's service that's on you.

> write IP law

Netflix does not write IP law, our politicians do. Vote better.

> generally force you into either accepting the world they want or forcing you to become a hermit.

I don't accept their world, and I'm not a hermit.
by 7373737373 | 2025-09-02 07:33:13+00:00
The grandparent comment wasn't mine, and I can kind of agree with yours. I can understand both of you, you in that the phrasing used may feel patronising. On the other hand, it is frustrating to know of a solution, of a good technical and theoretical foundation and see it ignored by the world at large. Hence probably the reminder phrasing used by the grandparent.
by danielllesk | 2025-09-02 07:35:54+00:00
After 150 commits, hours of debugging, and plenty of late nights reading documentation, I finished my game: SpotiSnake. SpotiSnake combines the classic Snake game with Spotify. You search an album, play Snake, and each apple reveals part of the album cover. Every five apples, a new track plays and the snake speeds up. When it was fully working locally and ready to leave development mode, I discovered that Spotify had just updated its API permissions (May 2025). To make the game public now requires an organization account, extensive compliance documentation, and 250,000 monthly active users, not exactly realistic for a small passion project. So I refactored it with the Discogs API, and the game is currently playable on itch.io. The tradeoff is that Discogs doesn’t allow music playback, so one of the coolest features is missing. The work wasn’t wasted, though. I created a technical_documentation.md file in the github repo that explains how the system works without digging through thousands of lines of code. I also included something I called “journey notes”, short, behind the scenes reflections from development. Even if you don’t code, you can read the journey notes for fun, they're not super formal. Most importantly however, I gained a much deeper understanding of APIs, project building, and game development. The idea started with wanting to use the Spotify API and a simple Snake tutorial as the base. It didn’t end up exactly how I pictured, but I’m proud of what I built and what I learnt. I’m excited to share more projects soon. I’ve also attached a short gameplay demo with sound in the github repo that shows what could have been . Checkout the github repo: https://github.com/danielllesk/SpotiSnake If you try the game out, send me your finished album covers!
by rsynnott | 2025-09-02 07:37:32+00:00
"Winning this race" doesn't even really make sense (and it's a fundamental error that a lot of people made in thinking about Tesla, hence the silly valuation). They're just cars. There always have been and always will be a bunch of car manufacturers.

People get very excited about BYD drawing ahead of Tesla in Europe, but VW AG still sells more BEVs in Europe than either. (This is of course a less interesting media narrative in that VW has been around forever, so it tends to be framed as a Tesla vs BYD thing, but really this is a bit silly.
by BlackLotus89 | 2025-09-02 07:37:35+00:00
Where I live no 64GB SD card is 4$ and more like 8$-12$ and the quality of those is shit. Even if they were 4$ I would still see it as an absolute waste of money and storage. You _will_ have a better gaming experience using a cheap nvme/ssd. Like I said for games that would require a 64GB SD card sd-speed is too slow. For the full old school console experience you should use a console and not emulate the nostalgia (oh and this doesn't feel nostalgic to me at all)

> most people had less than a dozen games per console.

This isn't a console and if you want to for instance emulate every of the dozen games per console you would for 10 consoles still need 120 SD cards at the price you listed this would add up to 480$ for that price you could buy one fast and reliable nvme that would fit your needs...
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-02 07:37:38+00:00
Companies that follow the law will release their changes to the Linux kernel when they distribute their products to users.

Just using Linux is not enough to say anything built with it is a combined product in the eyes of the GPL, the license is pretty specific about what it considers a derivative work.

For example, you can ship closed source apps and OS on top of Linux so long as you respect the license.
Who's Your Champion?
by rubberducksales | 2025-09-02 07:38:12+00:00
Who is your champion?

Sales reps have heard this question a hundred times, pretty much in every QBR you have sat in.

And you reply: "Mr X"

Is Mr X a champion or a coach?

And then you're confused going back to sales academics to learn the difference between a champion and a coach.

Soon you give in - yeah I guess Mr X is a coach & not a champion.

Then comes the next question:

Who does Mr. X report to?

You think twice. You knew the name but the pressure of QBR is too high to recall the name.

And before you could think more, the skip leader asks:

Who is the EB? Does Mr. X report into him? Does he influence him?

I have gone through many many QBRs, and mapping the stakeholders in opportunities especially the ones that take months to close is a number one sign that the sales rep knows his s*t.

If this is something you struggle with as well, check RubberDuck.Sale. We rolled out Stakeholder Mappings yesterday & you can use it to make your QBRs better - free of cost.
by motorest | 2025-09-02 07:38:13+00:00
> I feel like these functional GUI renderers are all trying to make JS something it is simply not.

I wholeheartedly agree.

I liked React's support for function components and hooks are quite a treat, but still I think class components are a far better fit for complex components that have logic and state. I'm seeing all this complex logic being expressed as a convoluted mix of hooks and I can't help myself thinking it would be far cleaner to have a class where this logic was handled eith plan old inversion of control.
by Lyapunov_Lover | 2025-09-02 07:38:46+00:00
> The evidence shows that there is no methodological moat for LLMS.

Does it? Then how come Meta hasn't been able to release a SOTA model? It's not for a lack of trying. Or compute. And it's not like DeepSeek had access to vastly more compute than other Chinese AI companies. Alibaba and Baidu have been working on AI for a long time and have way more money and compute, but they haven't been able to do what DeepSeek did.
by King-Aaron | 2025-09-02 07:38:47+00:00
I find it interesting that people go to such great lengths to come up with anti-environmental positions, even when the issue they're talking about it overwhelmingly obvious without doing deep research into it.

Even without pawing over the exact numbers, having a cursory understanding of how a datacentre works should highlight to you that excessive water consumption is going to be a problem. I couldn't imagine writing essays to try and argue against that in the first place. And to be an order of magnitude wrong in your position... sheeesh.