MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by moritzwarhier | 2025-09-27 16:26:49+00:00
I was alive to hear the evolution of "dubstep" before it became a cliche (the wobble stuff). AI couldn't invent a new sound.

The way you describe music, sure, there will be an AI that is able to provide you with a continuous stream of audiotory stimuli, like the Penfield Mood Organ from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?".

That's just not what makes art or music interesting to me, and why I also don't listen to auto-curated "mood" playlists on Spotify.

> Penfield mood organ - Humans use the mood organ to dial specific emotions so they can experience emotions without actually possessing them. In the beginning of the novel, Rick implores his wife to use her dialing console to prevent a fight. He wants her to thoughtlessly dial emotions like "the desire to watch TV" or "awareness of the manifold possibilities open to [her] in the future" (Dick, 6). When emotions can be easily avoided with the mood organ, humans no longer require personal relationships to overcome feelings of isolation or loneliness.
by ack_complete | 2025-09-27 16:27:14+00:00
To add to what others have said, additional characteristics of a Win32 critical section:

- It is purely an in-process lock, and originally the main way of arbitrating access to shared memory within a process.

- It is counted and can be recursively locked.

- It defaults to simple blocking, but can also be configured to do some amount of spin-waiting before blocking.

- CritSecs are registered in a global debug list that can be accessed by debuggers. WinDbg's !locks command can display all locked critical sections in a process and which threads have locked them.

Originally in Win32, there were only two types of lock, the critical section for in-process locking, and the mutex for cross-process or named locks. Vista added the slim reader/writer lock, which is a much lighter weight, pointer-sized lock that uses the more modern wait-on-address approach to locking.
by gottorf | 2025-09-27 16:27:35+00:00
> I don't remember this because it did not happen.

There was a whole-of-government approach to silencing factually true statements about the pandemic because it either made officials look bad or Trump look good. There was a whole Supreme Court case around this that was sidestepped on grounds of standing, not on the facts of the case.

Anthony Fauci, a prominent NIH official who was the initial public face of the government's response to the pandemic, was revealed to have exhibited a significant lack of candor around the origins of Covid and his involvement in funding gain-of-function research. This was discovered by a House subcommittee formed by a Democratic majority and continued by a subsequent Republican majority.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-27 16:27:56+00:00
Management culture has issues, but in the tech industry, management has been technical in nature for a generation now.

I've funded startups in Israel and the US, and trust me when I say that the mindset of the average IC engineer in Israel versus the US is a night and day difference.

The Israeli IC will be extremely opinionated and will fight for their opinions, and if it makes sense from a business perspective, the strategy would change. But the Israeli IC when fighting these battles would also try to make a business case.

On the other hand, when I used to be a SWE, I almost never saw my peers try to fight for engineering positions while also leveraging arguments supporting the business. That's why I became a PM, but I noticed the same IC SWEs like the former overwhelmingly became PMs. And then a subset of those PMs become founders or VCs like I did.

I've found solutions and sales engineers to be the best management track individuals - technical enough to not be bullshitted by a SWE who really really loves this specific stack, but also business minded enough to drive outcomes that generate revenue.

But anyhow, the point is there is a mindset issue amongst Americans across the entire gamut of the American tech industry - especially amongst those who started their careers in the past 10 years.
by bekacru | 2025-09-27 16:27:56+00:00
> Does every app using an adapter for Better Auth need to implement every plugin’s many thousands of operations, even if they’re only using basic functionality and a handful of operations?

No, and actually if you really really wanna override the core database calls, we have a way to do so. You just need to write a hook or custom plugin to override the `internalAdapter`.

> Auth.js did everything we need regarding authentication

I don’t think this is true. Any sufficiently complex project has had to add a lot of customization and logic on top of NextAuth to make it even somewhat complete. I was one of those people, which is exactly why I started Better Auth.

> auth in JS is in a sorry state

That’s been the case long before we started Better Auth, it’s the reason we built it in the first place. I hope we’ll be able to change that narrative. But I think what we already have is something other ecosystems can only wish for. Some references:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNY4FKXwTsM - https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1le9q65/is_there_a_...
by avidphantasm | 2025-09-27 16:28:14+00:00
> could quickly surpass what humans are capable of and solve problems that have vexed society for millennia.

Bunk. Almost all of our vexatious problems are so because we lack the social and political tools to bring to bear existing technologies to address them. “AGI” will do nothing to address our social and political deficiencies. In fact, AI/AGI deployed by concentrated large corporations will only worsen our social and political problems.
by codedokode | 2025-09-27 16:28:30+00:00
I don't want traditional DAWs replaced with AI generator. What I want is using AI to improve/speedup existing processes, for example:

- extracting melody/instrument from a clip to be able to edit the notes and render it back with the same instrument

- extracting and reordering stems in a drum clip

- fixing timing and cleaning noise from sloppily played guitar melody

- generating high-quality multi-mic instrument samples for free

- AI checking the melody and pointing out which notes are wrong or boring and how it can be fixed. I want to write the notes myself but help would be very useful.

- AI helping to build harmony (pick chords for the melody for example)

This would help a lot, but current models that generate a song without any controls, are not what I want.
by luPowB6aAcRZcFr | 2025-09-27 16:28:39+00:00
I'm dealing with this now. It is the bane of my existence.

Paragraphs of content spread out over pages and pages of nothing. Laziness at enterprise scale.

Deep research reports are even worse. They will cite AI-generated content in their work, which makes verifying their sources an O(n^2) task since I, now, have to find the sources _those_ sources cited to find the truth.

This generation of AI is the worst thing to happen to humanity since social media.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-09-27 16:28:54+00:00
> I'm not a highly religious person so I may well be wrong about this, but my understanding of Christian principles (as you referenced in your Bible quote) is that you, the individual, should do these kind things to other individuals personally; and in that act of doing so personally, you become closer to God.

Why not read the verse and see that this refers to collections of people? The source material is readily available, no reason to speculate.

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/matthew/25.htm
by alsetmusic | 2025-09-27 16:29:27+00:00
So, I saw this when I was browsing HN from my phone and made a note to come back and check it out on my Mac when I was home. I started playing around with the settings and customizing the behaviors, and within about five minutes, I thought: "I really like this."

It's not perfect, but it's off to a great start. I can't really provide useful feedback until I've spent more time integrating it into my workflow. But I can tell you that I test-drive a lot of apps that look interesting and this is one of the rare gems that I knew right away is a good fit for me.

But the best part: Apple broke the workflow for cycling open windows via hotkey more than a decade ago and they haven't fixed it. Closing or interacting with a window in the middle of cycling through them causes the order to reverse. Interacting with another window causes it to reverse again. It's madness. I used to hope to see it fixed with each major releases. I've long since given up on that. Apparently, no one in the c-suite at Apple manages dozens of open windows on a daily basis.

Your app solves this problem, one that has been tripping me up for sixteen years. Thank you. For that alone, I'd have kept it installed. The rest is just gravy on top.
by armchairhacker | 2025-09-27 16:29:57+00:00
Ok, then scientists can form groups where they know each other, but publish anonymously outside those groups.

It doesn't solve all the issues, but it at least allows scientists to be "activists" (really just share their opinions like any other human) without affecting their credibility. Even if they're doxxed, they can eventually regain anonymity, because eventually other scientists with different views will publish papers on the same subject, and people can only distinguish who published what by its content.

Right now, scientists can share their opinions anonymously. This works well enough, except they can't share them in-person except to others they trust; and if they get doxxed, they can't remove their old posts from the name on their papers.
by Twey | 2025-09-27 16:30:02+00:00
Pianists are very (like 60%) susceptible to RSI, especially if they have small hands [1] (= lots of stretching motions). I think it's a tradeoff — moving your forearm around spares your wrists, but puts more strain on your elbows. I wouldn't be surprised if it's better overall, though, just because it involves a wider variety of movements.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12611474/

Anecdotally, I have large hands (or at least long fingers) and early piano lessons, and as a self-taught chaos typist on QWERTY I struggled with RSI at a relatively young age until I switched to more traditional touch-typing on Dvorak.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-09-27 16:30:22+00:00
Kind of suspicious that there are two recent posts with identical titles and text on different accounts:

- Ask HN: Is Fortran the first high-level language? 1 point by zaraz123 2 hours ago | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395853

- Ask HN: Is Fortran the first high-level language? 1 point by zoo56 2 hours ago | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395848

And that this user makes replies to one of the other accounts above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zoo56

[EDIT] This user seems to have several alt accounts, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Forgret and note that the git repository referenced by that user is also referenced by comments from this user.
by anta40 | 2025-09-27 16:30:23+00:00
I'm pretty sure LaTeX can do all the documents I want to, e.g anything with complicated math expressions, various pseudocodes, computer science-y diagrams like karnaugh map, algorithm flowchart etc etc.

Of course, it's not all roses and sunshines, though. Depending on your usecases, usually need to import a few packages and sometimes they don't work out of the box easily.

For real life work I don't need that much power, though. But after learning various alternatives like markdown, asciidoctor etc etc eventually I go back to LaTeX. Oh well :p
by the_precipitate | 2025-09-27 16:30:28+00:00
I've been testing EloqKV against TiKV, and it's much faster, specially for in-memory reads. I was seeking an alternative solution to replace KVRocks, which is essentially just a single node RocksDB wraped with a Redis API, EloqKV easily outperforms it by a large margin. Moreover, EloqKV can scale to multiple nodes.

I personally think that using the Redis API as a real database interface is quite useful. It saves me from dealing with the complexity of SQL, and it’s very natural to map my needs into Redis data structures. Coming from a programming background rather than a traditional DB background, I find imperative programming far more intuitive than declarative SQL, which I cannot "compile in my head" as easily.

Overall, kudos to the team for building such a solid solution and making it open source under a proper GPL license, which is becoming rare for new databases these days.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-09-27 16:31:01+00:00
>There was a whole-of-government approach to silencing factually true statements about the pandemic because it either made officials look bad or Trump look good. There was a whole Supreme Court case around this that was sidestepped on grounds of standing, not on the facts of the case.

> Anthony Fauci, a prominent NIH official who was the initial public face of the government's response to the pandemic, was revealed to have exhibited a significant lack of candor around the origins of Covid and his involvement in funding gain-of-function research. This was discovered by a House subcommittee formed by a Democratic majority and continued by a subsequent Republican majority.

These are very peculiar claims that I, despite very close following of factual news sources, have not seen.

What are your sources for these claims?
by strgcmc | 2025-09-27 16:31:11+00:00
I think they just read my first sentence and decided to take offense immediately. Shrug.

All I meant was, I didn't want to go down a path of talking about Trump... that's a very very dead horse to beat. I thought there were interesting elements to this person's ideas that were worth further discussion, that could be divorced/split-off from the Trump lightning rod, so I tried to do that. I generally thought I agreed with their original ideas, and wanted to build on them or respond to them, without getting sucked into wasting breath on Trump (nobody benefits, regardless if you have left or right leaning views).

I'm sure I could fix some gaps in the way I explained myself, but oh well, just another day on the internet.
by packetlost | 2025-09-27 16:31:22+00:00
I've found Bluesky does a really bad job at not showing me stuff I don't want to see. Furry p*rn on the "cute internet cats" feed? Yup. Heaps and heaps of political rage bait on the main discover feed? Yup.

I wanted to like BlueSky, but it's such a bizarre echo chamber of people who left Twitter for ideological reasons that it basically filters for people that I actively don't want to engage with.

Those types of people are still there on Twitter (mostly on the other side these days), but I don't see them because the algorithm filters them out.
by raincole | 2025-09-27 16:31:29+00:00
> I don't understand how Bluesky is going going to continue to exist past 2026, based on the sharply declining usage, their headcount, and the amount of funding they've taken.

Are you an insider? Where are the numbers?

how_long_can_bluesky_exists = f(usage, headcount, funding)

Three parameters and you supplied zero of them.

It does sound like you just randomly picked a number 2026 and proceeded to rant on how little engagement you received on Bluesky.
by biomedicalist | 2025-09-27 16:31:45+00:00
Most scientists don't have a professional profile on Twitter or Bluesky. It's the most self-aggrandizing ones who tend to do that.

The rest of us are just writing papers, presenting at conferences, collaborating with other research groups without any interest in putting it all out there on social media.

This whole X versus Bluesky thing is basically irrelevant. Neither of these platforms are good venues for dissemination of scientific research.
by bobmcnamara | 2025-09-27 16:32:55+00:00
> That said AVH-lite is called lite because it is a simplified form of the arm norm.

> The RP2350 can issue one fetch and one load/store per cycle, and that is that almost everything called a CPU and not a MCU will have ABH5 or better.

I mean, yes, but I'm not sure I see your point. The Harvard vs Von Neumann architectural difference is more related to the number of AHB ports on the core.

> That doesn’t apply to smartphones, PCs or servers even in the intel world due to instruction caches etc…

I wouldn't confuse instruction caches with Harvard vs Von Neumann either - loads of Von Neumann machines have instruction or Flash caches too.

It's also not uncommon to run into Von Neumann cores in mobile and PC chips, just as peripheral co-processors.

It is just middle aged guy who did this stuff for years...
by NotCamelCase | 2025-09-27 16:33:25+00:00
As a supporting point, I think it's connected not only with mental functions, but also our senses.

I have a weak memory in general, but I always remember the most mundane things in my life that I had no idea I still contained in my brain, triggered by a specific smell.

Another example is that when I moved to a new street, while crossing one road, I stumbled upon the edge of tram road and almost fell. Two years and counting, my brain always brings this memory up while passing the same point on the road..
by tekdude | 2025-09-27 16:34:00+00:00
One thing you can try with headphones is changing the earpads: specifically the shape, but maybe also the material. I have Shure SRH840A headphones, and out-of-the-box I was NOT happy with the sound. Someone suggested trying different aftermarket earpads, and I found a pair of "angled" pads that changed the sound quality to exactly what I wanted. I was surprised how dramatic the effect was. The pads are huge and look ridiculous, but I only use these headphones at home so it's fine.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-27 16:34:17+00:00
Although on the other hand, if you listen with AirPods Pro streaming 5.1, you get a better surround sound and audio experience than 99.9% of speaker setups. For just a couple hundred bucks.

Even beyond the audio quality and spatial processing, the noise reduction is magic that speakers can't do. It's amazing how much more detail you can hear when the sound of the HVAC is removed, the hum of the refrigerator, the rumble of traffic. Not to mention the total elimination of sonic reflections off your walls and ceiling that muddy the sound from speakers, unless you're applying treatments.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-09-27 16:34:17+00:00
I was alive to hear the evolution of "dubstep" before it became a cliche (the wobble stuff). AI couldn't invent a new sound.

The way you describe music, sure, there will be an AI that is able to provide you with a continuous stream of audiotory stimuli, like the Penfield Mood Organ from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?".

That's just not what makes art or music interesting to me, and why I also don't listen to auto-curated "mood" playlists on Spotify.

> Penfield mood organ - Humans use the mood organ to dial specific emotions so they can experience emotions without actually possessing them. In the beginning of the novel, Rick implores his wife to use her dialing console to prevent a fight. He wants her to thoughtlessly dial emotions like "the desire to watch TV" or "awareness of the manifold possibilities open to [her] in the future" (Dick, 6). When emotions can be easily avoided with the mood organ, humans no longer require personal relationships to overcome feelings of isolation or loneliness.

That being said, there is a spectrum, sure.

I am interested in generative music.

I do have scenarios where I listen to music and want it to blend into the background (e.g. soma FM).

But even then I love the short moment when a song comes up and I want to note it because it's distinct.

I am not interested in being robbed of that.

Also: why? Why, why, why?

Music is not just a recording packaged as a product. It is a thing humans do. And I say that as a person that enjoys mainly electronic music!

There are many talented humans, there is absolutely zero need for AI muzak, other than decreasing the price.

Musicians leveraging generative AI for creative purposes might become a thing and I am fine with that in principle, but the thought is a joke to me, as of now.

Creating audio from an idea is not the same as letting a machine create an interpolation of stolen ideas to match a prompt.
by JoeAltmaier | 2025-09-27 16:35:39+00:00
Cool. And not the problem robots are trying to solve?

A robot can work 365 days a year (part of each day anyway).

They don't have a union or a contract.

They are fungible - any humanoid robot can fill in for another. They are all programmed, so can have any skill that any other robot can have. Without retraining, just copying software.

Injury? Just snap off a mangled hand, snap on a spare.

Hot, humid, dirty, toxic fumes, low oxygen levels - just keep on working.

And, engineering will solve the energy density problem. See any graph of battery energy density over time e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/History-of-development-o...
by firefoxd | 2025-09-27 16:36:27+00:00
The font? The art style? The fluidity on a mobile device? It's fantastic.

I wasn't able to deliver packages but I was too mesmerized to be mad about that. Beautiful game. Kudos.

Edit: I did figure it out and completed all the deliveries. So many potential. It reminds me a bit of Sky by thatgamecompany

Edit 2: for the author, I noticed several players approached me and tried to communicate. Please explore games like Journey (thatgamecompany) to see different ways people communicate without chatting. People can help each other, veterans can guide newbies all without using words. Every time I met a player in the game back in the days, they sent me a heartfelt message.
by tedivm | 2025-09-27 16:36:27+00:00
The thing that is interesting though is that China is releasing the models they train (for the most part). Unlike OpenAI, for instance, China seems to still be developing in an open way including sharing code, weights, and publishing techniques.

These models are pretty amazing too. Their performance remains high even with smaller models, allowing them to competitively run on consumer grade hardware. I can (and do) run the Qwen models at home and use them for real tasks. As the tool ecosystem matures we can offload what the model is bad at to other systems, which makes it even easier to use smaller models. The focus on efficiency and performance from the Chinese companies has had huge practical gains.

Any US startup, or even large company, in the AI space can and should take advantage of this and use these models. The cost benefit compared to something like Azure or OpenAI is massive.
by ipnon | 2025-09-27 16:36:32+00:00
Reading this at 10 was like when Neo gets the kungfu program loaded into his brain. Completely mind blowing. The wildest music I had heard was Mandy Moore on the radio. And now there is a whole new horizon, with acid and 808s and sampling and breakbeats. It’s hard to imagine what I’d be listening to now without Iskur.
by Bender | 2025-09-27 16:36:46+00:00
An OS agnostic solution would be a keyboard hardware keylogger [1]. I have no idea who sells a modern version but I'm sure they must still exist. I used them extensively in the past to see if anyone was screwing with my computer. Some of them can transmit over bluetooth or wifi to download stored keystrokes.

Example [2] never tried this one

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_keylogger

[2] - https://www.keydemon.com/en/keydemon/66-usb-hardware-keylogg...
by tptacek | 2025-09-27 16:36:47+00:00
You can just Google these things. Nate Silver posted (grim looking) usage numbers --- followers and posters --- just a couple weeks ago. They very publicly raised a $15MM (priced) A round a year ago, after raising what I understood to be a comparable amount of seed funding. There was talk early this year of them raising again at a $700MM valuation, but I don't see a subsequent announcement that that happened.

You can generally take a headcount number and assign a fully loaded cost to it (say, $200k, conservatively) and just math it out. And of course that analysis assumes their infra expenditures round to zero.

So no, I'm not just making stuff up. I could be wrong! I feel like I was open about that.