MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thisislife2 | 2025-09-08 16:00:31+00:00
Since you are being downvoted, perhaps out of ignorance, I posted to back your assertions - you are absolutely right that social media fuelled the Islamophobia that has now culminated in the ongoing genocide of Rohingyas. My country too has experienced how social media (especially WhatsApp and Facebook) actually normalised hate speech against the minorities (mostly Muslims and Christians), weakened our nations' secular fabric, and lead to the rise of the right- in India.

(But I don't blame FB alone - US and China's cyber warfare division is definitely involved in all those social media experiments on fuelling hate, attempting to create unrest, and change people's political opinion in a country, using their country's various social media platform).
by rmah | 2025-09-08 16:00:36+00:00
Calling people who hold beliefs you find wrong "evil" is, IMO, counter-productive and will lead not only to conflict but to worse outcomes for yourself (even if your side "wins"). The root of cultural differences (both within and between societies and sub-cultures) are differing beliefs of what is right and wrong; what is morally good and morally bad.

What you view as hateful, others will view as loving. And what you view as loving, others can view as hateful. Painting the opposition in simplistic terms like "evil" and refusing to even try to see why they feel they way they feel solves nothing and empowers extremists. And when groups led by such people "win", the majority still lose.

IMO, any side of any belief, be it individualism vs collectivism, atheism vs religion, sexual openness vs sexual restraint, free speech vs censorship, capitalism vs socialism, etc, etc. can easily morph into something harmful. You may have discovered "evil", but after many decades, I've come to see that most people's hearts are in the right place. But there are always a significant fraction on any side of any issue that, for whatever reason, cannot regulate their emotions and seem to need to strive for the extremes.

Compromise can happen if you reject extremists. Solutions can be found if you understand that the extremists on your own side are as much the opposition as the other side of an issue. Purity of belief always seems attractive on the surface. But moderation is not a cop out, it's pragmatism. Moderation is the practical philosophy through which solutions can be found. Fundamentalism, extremism, dogmatism, are approaches that lead to worse outcomes. Moderation leads to better outcomes. History has shown this again and again.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-08 16:00:41+00:00
True, and yet...

I think there is broad consensus that too much poverty is a problem, and (perhaps somewhat less broad) that therefore too much wealth inequality is a problem. I think there's fairly broad consensus that college costs are a problem, that healthcare costs and access are a problem. I think there's a fair consensus that fixing these things would make the nation better.

Then you get to "how do we fix them?" and all consensus disappears.

As for the rules, it seems pretty clear to me that "the rules" are the Constitution and the existing law, plus the rules on how to pass or repeal laws.

But this framing also misses one category: Those who think that they should break the rules to make the nation better. I think that they are misguided at best and lying (either to others or to themselves) at worst.

Why misguided? Because preserving the rule of law is a really big deal. Even if they have the best of intentions, once they knock the law down flat and pave a road over it, they won't be the only one to drive on it. Tyrants try to build that road; if it's already there, the tyrant's job becomes much easier and much harder to stop.

So I oppose such tactics. It doesn't matter whether they are well-meaning or not. Even if the person doing them will never be a tyrant, the next person who wants to be a tyrant will find the door wide open.
by rob74 | 2025-09-08 16:01:07+00:00
There has already been a narrow-body aircraft that can fly transatlantic routes for quite some time: the Boeing 757. In fact, American operated 177 of them until they were retired early in 2020 due to Covid (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet; video of a Dublin-Philadelphia flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1OIdiKgqrA), and now intends to use the A321 XLR for the same role.
by devnullbrain | 2025-09-08 16:01:20+00:00
Jim Keller has a storied career in the x86 world, it isn't surprising he speaks fondly of it. Regardless:

>So fixed-length instructions seem really nice when you're building little baby computers, but if you're building a really big computer, to predict or to figure out where all the instructions are, it isn't dominating the die. So it doesn't matter that much.

Well, efficiency advantages are the domain of little baby computers. Better predictors give you deeper pipelines without stalls which give you higher clock speeds - higher wattages
by dzonga | 2025-09-08 16:01:35+00:00
now people suddenly realize why "economics" was referred to as "political economy" when people started studying these things.

unfair maybe on consumers (google customers ie those who pay google, not those who use google products) but a very good and pragmatic decision by the U.S gvt.

let your homegrown champions stay strong and keep getting stronger.

because the alternative if Google got broken up, a foreign competitor would replace google not a homegrown one.

markets don't work the way libertarians think.
by wubrr | 2025-09-08 16:01:42+00:00
> Nevertheless, these seemingly "worthless" forms of sense-stimuli are supporting a huge portion of our livelihoods at the moment.

'supporting' in what way?

> By the way Saquon Barkley can squat 600lbs. Surely that's of value, no?

It could be of value to him, not really of value to others or society at large.
by JCM9 | 2025-09-08 16:01:42+00:00
Social media is the 21st century’s tobacco company. The companies selling it know it’s terrible for people’s health, but they keep doing it because $$$.

If one wants to work in that industry is a personal ethical one, but 20 years from now we’ll probably look at folks working at these companies like we’d look at someone who worked as a tobacco executive. Made good money but maybe not leaving a legacy of an ethical career.
by andsoitis | 2025-09-08 16:01:53+00:00
pity their product page[1] errors out:

Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://www.acer.com/us-en/desktops-and-all-in-ones/veriton-w..." on this server. Reference #18.80ed217.1757347267.eee429f

https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.80ed217.1757347267.eee429f

[1] https://www.acer.com/us-en/desktops-and-all-in-ones/veriton-...
by user____name | 2025-09-08 16:02:13+00:00
I'm a fan of teaching people the wrong way first, then ask them if they can find ways to improve the situation, and only after that give the "best practice" solution.

Doing things the wrong way shows them why, asking them to try to solve it themselves teaches them under which conditions the issues present themselves -- this is actually the most important part, don't write 200 lines of abstraction just to work around the fact that you use a paltry 4 globals.
by Eisenstein | 2025-09-08 16:02:50+00:00
> It is similarly based to something that has existed for around 4 decades.

Four decades ago was 1985. The thing is, there was a huge jump in progress from then until now. If we took something which had a nice ramped progress, like computer graphics, and instead of ramping up we went from '1985' to '2025' in progress over the course of a few months, do you think there wouldn't be a lot of hype?
by nucleardog | 2025-09-08 16:02:50+00:00
> horror stories like “I got DDOSed and AWS shutdown all my EC2s and destroyed the data I accidentally wrote to ephemeral storage.”

I mean, S3 also incurs ongoing charges, so if you're going to stop accruing charges you'd also be deleting your data that wasn't on ephemeral storage...

And potentially deleting all of your DNS zones (and recreating them will likely give you different nameservers so you'll need to wait for the registrar to update them once you're back)...

And...
by junon | 2025-09-08 16:03:36+00:00
Ignore anything coming from npm you didn't expect. Don't click links, go to the website directly and address it there. That's what I should have done, and didn't because I was in a rush.

Don't do security things when you're not fully awake, too. Lesson learned.

The email was a "2FA update" email telling me it's been 12 months since I updated 2FA. That should have been a red flag but I've seen similarly dumb things coming from well-intentioned sites before. Since npm has historically been in contact about new security enhancements, this didn't smell particularly unbelievable to my nose.

The email went to the npm-specific inbox, which is another way I can verify them. That address can be queried publicly but I don't generally count on spammers to find that one but instead look at git addresses etc

The domain name was `npmjs dot help` which obviously should have caught my eye, and would have if I was a bit more awake.

The actual in-email link matched what I'd expect on npm's actual site, too.

I'm still trying to work out exactly how they got access. They didn't technically get a real 2FA code from the actual, I don't believe. EDIT: Yeah they did, nevermind. Was a TOTP proxy attack, or whatever you'd call it.

Will post a post-mortem when everything is said and done.
by mmis1000 | 2025-09-08 16:03:41+00:00
I think it would only be fair to compare it when running some more resource efficient system.

Steamdeck with Windows 11 and SteamOS is a whole different experience. When running SteamOS and doing web surfing, the fan don't even really spin at all. But when running windows 11 and do the exact same thing, it just spins all the time and becomes kinda hot.
by ZuLuuuuuu | 2025-09-08 16:04:13+00:00
There are a lot of theoretical articles which claim similar things but on the other hand we have a lot of empirical evidence that ARM CPUs are significantly more power efficient.

I used laptops with both Intel and AMD CPUs, and I read/watch a lot of reviews in thin and light laptop space. Although AMD became more power efficient compared to Intel in the last few years, AMD alternative is only marginally more efficient (like 5-10%). And AMD is using TSMC fabs.

On the other hand Qualcomm's recent Snapdragon X series CPUs are significantly more efficient then both Intel and AMD in most tests while providing the same performance or sometimes even better performance.

Some people mention the efficiency gains on Intel Lunar Lake as evidence that x86 is just as efficient, but Lunar Lake was still slightly behind in battery life and performance, while using a newer TSMC process node compared to Snapdragon X series.

So, even though I see theoretical articles like this, the empirical evidence says otherwise. Qualcomm will release their second generation Snapdragon X series CPUs this month. My guess is that the performance/efficiency gap with Intel and AMD will get even bigger.
by theamk | 2025-09-08 16:04:34+00:00
Maybe if the cars weren't so bad, I'd be more loyal to them.

Latest example: on my current car, if I wanted to tune treble EQ (say I entered loud section of highway), or a balance (my passengers don't like current song), it takes tens of seconds touching the touchscreen with no audible or tactile feedback. It's basically impossible to do safely while driving. And meanwhile, the steering wheel has 4 buttons which are mostly useless as long as car is in the motion.

(For the reference, my previous car, 2012 model, had nicely designed physical buttons with characteristic feedback that allowed one to tune this without taking eyes off the road. And the car before that had dedicated rotary knobs.)
by siwakotisaurav | 2025-09-08 16:04:41+00:00
Antitrust in US seems more and more of a joke for every new one.

First few literally broke apart big companies, then we have Microsoft with “just don’t make IE default browser” and now basically nothing for google, forget selling off chrome now, not even banned from making search deals, just “maybe in a few years perhaps reconsider the search deals? Totally non binding tho”
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-08 16:04:47+00:00
It doesn't have to be part of your identity.

Maybe you live in an apartment where you can't charge overnight. Or don't have many options for fast charging. Or you drive enough that the range is an issue and you don't want to plan around that or have to own a second car for long trips.

There are many places and use cases where EVs work great. And there are many where they do not.

Edit: and I'll add, that the fraction of EV owners for whom the car is part of their identity likely much larger than for ICE vehicle owners, though the relative sizes of each pool probably affects this. EVs are still in the early adopter phase in many/most areas.
by craftkiller | 2025-09-08 16:04:52+00:00
Apparently it does, though I'm learning about it for the first time in this thread also. Personally, I just run llama.cpp locally in docker-compose with anythingllm for the UI but I can see the appeal of having it all just run in the browser.

https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm https://github.com/ngxson/wllama
by sigmoid10 | 2025-09-08 16:05:25+00:00
That's a ridiculously cynical claim. And even if it were true, it still misses the fact that horses and the entire economy built around them stood no chance in the end. Today we are again in the sitation where many people who are alive and working today will have to consider getting reeducated if they don't want to be left behind, whether they want it or not.
by storus | 2025-09-08 16:05:58+00:00
> The end of communism in China and the Soviet Union was a major factor in the 42 percent reduction of hunger between 1990 and 2017.

This sounds like a complete BS. There were no starving people in the Soviet Union and its satellites after a brief post-war period. They had no luxuries all year round like exotic fruits, but the basics were covered. They had also vastly more educated population than the US. Just their governance and understanding of economics didn't consider the innate selfishness of humans and the need to dominate and outdo others so supply-demand laws didn't work well. China fixed that part later by allowing private corporate ownership and throwing its population into a Darwinian environment while keeping minimal social standards for the unlucky ones. North Korea, Cambodia and Laos would be the only "communist" countries where famines were still present.
by rdos | 2025-09-08 16:06:11+00:00
There is no point in using a low-bandwidth card like the B50 for AI. Attempting to use 2x or 4x cards to load a real model will result in poor performance and low generation speed. If you don’t need a larger model, use a 3060 or 2x 3060, and you’ll get significantly better performance than the B50—so much better that the higher power consumption won’t matter (70W vs. 170W for a single card). Higher VRAM wont make the card 'better for AI'.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-09-08 16:07:23+00:00
There is a joy and psychological benefit to having minor, positive social interactions. If you are mostly seeing your partner and coworkers, or even working from home, you may not realize how little human interaction you have.

This is not to say that every McDonald's employee is a joy to be around. But it is good for your brain to smile at a stranger face to face and make a little small talk every now and then. It is also a skill you have to practice or it becomes hard to do.
by nine_k | 2025-09-08 16:07:26+00:00
Having a module for every little trivial thing allows you to only bring these modules inside the JS bundle you serve to your client. If there's a problem in one trivial-thing function, other unrelated trivial things can still be used, because they are not bundled in the same package.

A comprehensive library might offer a more neat DX, but you'd have to ship library code you don't use. (Yes, tree-shaking exists, but still is tricky and not widespread.)
by ParetoOptimal | 2025-09-08 16:08:22+00:00
> I promise after a week you'll just get used to whatever format your team lands on.

Arthur Witney formats like this:

C vt[]="+{~<#,"; A(*vd[])()={0,plus,from,find,0,rsh,cat}, (*vm[])()={0,id,size,iota,box,sha,0};

If your code was formatted automatically like that, do you think you'd get used to it after a week?

My point is there is meaning of how code is formatted and there is an effect on understanding for certain people.

I think that at a certain point of "reasonable" and for most "normal" people your statements hold true, but I don't want anyone to think that every person caught up on formatting is just doing it for bike-shedding or other trivial reasons.

I don't know what is actionable if what I say is true, but it feels important to say.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-08 16:08:24+00:00
I think they are basically right, but it's not at the level of "test taking" it's at the level of "linguistic competence".

I worked on a few projects that tried to develop foundation models and ruled out or tried to rule out [1] quite a few approaches based on arguments like "in the tokenization step you lose critical information in 8% of all cases so that puts a ceiling of 92% accuracy"

That wasn't quite right because that's assuming the model has to get the right answer by the right process, if you give it credit for the right answer by the wrong process then maybe it makes a wild assed guess which is right 50% of the time so the ceiling is more like 96%. But we call that last 4% a "hallucination".

You could make the case that we could make models that do a better job of reasoning about probability but I think that the magic of LLMs is that they reason about probability wrong in a way that empirically works and it's my perennially unpopular opinion that the "language instinct" in humans is similarly a derangement of reasoning about probability that collapses the manifold of possible productions into a lower-dimensional space which is easier to learn.

[1] properly in the case of those models I think because nobody else has made progress with then
by daveguy | 2025-09-08 16:08:34+00:00
> "One test for potential investors will be their willingness to support Sovereign Australia AI’s decision to earmark $10 million of its future funding to compensate copyright owners for the data used to train its model. This includes working with news services under a paid model and buying books and music where needed."

> “We don’t want the adversarial relationship of most other AI builders around the world who chose not to take that proactive approach to copyright.”

> "Sovereign Australia AI said it would not scrape the pages of publishers who have added “robot.txt” files to their web pages. This is a line of code that tells bots not to scrape the information, but it is frequently ignored. The company will add a meta tag to every piece of data it acquires, recording where it came from and how it was sourced."

> To build its model, Sovereign Australia AI says it has placed Australia’s largest-ever order for sovereign AI capacity: 256 of the latest Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs which will be hosted inside one of NextDC’s Melbourne data centres

So... almost the exact opposite. Please read the article before commenting next time.
by apparent | 2025-09-08 16:08:53+00:00
They're starting out allocating $10MM AUD for copyright payments, when Anthropic has just paid $2.3BB AUD to settle their lawsuit. While I give them credit for realizing that $10MM is just the starting point, I don't understand how they can possibly build a competitive model while spending less than $100MM when others are spending 20x that amount just on copyright.
by thisislife2 | 2025-09-08 16:09:00+00:00
Not OP, but I don't consider regulating social media as "censorship" at all because the nature of foreign owned social media platforms means that you do not know if it is your own citizens talking or some foreign agent with their own vested interest. Media and communication platforms in every country is regulated. All countries also have stricter regulations for foreign media and telecom companies. Online platforms - who are now media and communication platform - have somehow managed to wriggle by most governments so far, and even become dominant, without any oversights. That does not bode well for any country, including democratic ones. This kind of digital colonisation is the most egregious mistake made by the Global South, and they are just now waking up to it, hoping to reign it before it is too late.
Show HN: My portfolio in the style of a campy early-internet Geocities site
by jmkni | 2025-09-08 16:09:16+00:00
Thought I would share this after seeing a similar post about a guy who posted his as a Windows XP clone, which I though was cool

Going for that campy early-internet aesthetic, the kinds of sites I used to make on Geocities as a kid, but it's fully responsive, accessible and had a near perfect Lighthouse score as well as a strong SSL security posture etc

Just don't press THAT button (can you figure out my password?)
by angelgonzales | 2025-09-08 16:09:51+00:00
It might not be on the national level, but we’re fighting over here in California to maintain/take back our gun rights. A court recently ruled that the state cannot require a background check for ammunition, we also got rid of the one gun a month rule recently as well. This progress gives me hope we still have so much more work to do re. privacy, property rights and freedom of speech!
by kube-system | 2025-09-08 16:09:51+00:00
My stove, my car, and my locks are all opinionated in their design and use proprietary parts. None of them were designed to my personal requirements. Many of the products that I buy do in fact, not work exactly how I want them to, nor do they facilitate my desire to change them.

I can't name a single product in my house that uses any sort of open hardware design, except for the things, I've 3D printed or built myself.
by brokencode | 2025-09-08 16:09:53+00:00
Not sure about the Mac Pro, since you pay a lot for the big fancy case. The Studio seems more sensible.

And of course Nvidia and AMD are coming out with options for massive amounts of high bandwidth GPU memory in desktop form factors.

I like the idea of having basically a local LLM server that your laptop or other devices can connect to. Then your laptop doesn’t have to burn its battery on LLM work and it’s still local.
by hu3 | 2025-09-08 16:10:12+00:00
I just tested Qwen3 A3B vs ChatGPE a random prompt from my head and:

> Please write a C# middleware to block requests from browser agents that contain any word in a specified list of words: openai, grok, gemini, claude.

I used ChatpGPT 4o from GitHub Copilot inside VSCode. And Qwen3 A3B from here: https://deepinfra.com/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B

ChatGPT 4o was considerably better. Less verbose and less unnecessary abstractions.
by rvba | 2025-09-08 16:10:17+00:00
My work computer with Widnows, Outlook, few tabs open and Excel already craps put with 16 GB

If you hae a private computer, why wpuld you even bug something with 16GB in 2025? My 10 year old laptop had that much.

Im looking for a new laptop and Im looking at a 128GB setup - so those 200 chrome tabs can eat it, I have space to run other stuff, like those horrible electron chat apps + a game
by bstsb | 2025-09-08 16:10:22+00:00
looks like it won't affect you if you just downloaded the packages locally.

the actual code only runs in a browser context - it replaces all crypto addresses in many places with the attacker's.

a list of the attacker's wallet addresses: https://gist.github.com/sindresorhus/2b7466b1ec36376b8742dc7...
by rudedogg | 2025-09-08 16:10:32+00:00
This is the answer IMO. The number of targets and noise would be a lot less if JS had a decent stdlib or if we had access to a better language in the browser.

I have no hope of this ever happening and am abandoning the web as a platform for interactive applications in my own projects. I’d rather build native applications using SDL3 or anything else.