MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by compiler-guy | 2025-09-06 18:27:16+00:00
Lots of x86 assembly out there from that time period. Beating the compiler in the eighties and nineties was a bit of a hobby and lots of people could do it.

Modern ISA designers (including those evolving the x86_64 ISA) absolutely take into account just how easy it is for a compiler to target their new instructions. x86 in modern times has a lot of RISC influence once you get past instruction decode.
by cobertos | 2025-09-06 18:28:02+00:00
I had a _really_ in-depth conversation with a friend with multiple interesting lines of thought going at once that only worked because the chat we were using had a per-message reply feature. The conversation would not have been as meaningful to me otherwise. I'm not sure IRC could have supported a chat like that...

(admittedly I haven't tried anything other than a few basic IRC chats, never really getting deep into IRCv3 or new features and stuff)
by unethical_ban | 2025-09-06 18:28:08+00:00
When you say "this", do you mean sycophant-seeking authoritarian leaders demanding the appearance of commitments with fake numbers? Like when our president demanded a foreign leader "look like" he was investigating the presumptive Democratic nominee in 2019? Or when our president demanded certain numbers be made up in the state of Georgia for him to win an election?

I can't tell what you think "both sides" are doing.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-06 18:28:40+00:00
I was abused as a kid so my handwriting is crap. I also don't know cursive very well. I feel like if they made a font of my handwriting everyone would say, "woah, oh! There goes Mr. Poory McIrresponsible Parents!" If you tried to pull it up in Microsoft Word the font (typeface) name would be, "Danny Wets The Bed."

That's an aside though; great job mate mega post!
by fragmede | 2025-09-06 18:28:42+00:00
Waymo's done 10M rides*. If we hand wave $10 per ride, that's $100M. Which is way more money than I have, but not all that much. It's still much bigger than $0 though!

* https://www.cbtnews.com/waymo-hits-10m-driverless-rides-eyes...
by kosma | 2025-09-06 18:28:56+00:00
There is research correlating autism and mothers taking certain medications (painkillers, antidepressants). Since autism is hereditary, there is a significant chance that these mothers are autistic too. Autistic people have a vastly high risk of depression, and often have unusual pain thresholds, requiring more painkillers. I would not be surprised of the correlation was real, but the direction of action was reversed; after all, it's plausible that autism causes the need for taking more medication.
by varjag | 2025-09-06 18:29:15+00:00
It is hard to overstate how influential IRC have been in my life. I met my best friend on IRC in 1999. He found his wife on IRC a few years later.

We followed the towers collapse on 9/11 over IRC in a blizzard of all-caps screams and links to TV screenshots and RealVideo clips. It was hours before the government of my country had lifted the embargo on the media to report it. I called my friends and family and everyone was just incredulous, it sounded like a dumb thriller plot.

I got a job offer and moved countries via IRC, then again a few years later. We watched people join, age and disappear. One of the channels I am still on is full of VPS hosted ghosts; its topic had been set by a man who had passed away.
by ahmedfromtunis | 2025-09-06 18:29:27+00:00
That was not by (deliberate) choice.

The earliest writings were actually logographic or semasiographic, meaning they represented ideas, objects, or concepts directly rather than the sounds of a specific spoken language.

We actually don't know what language(s) was/were spoken by the people who recorded the earliest tablets (not sure if that also applies to this particular one, though).

Phonographic writing developed much later and with it came all the forms of textual recordings we're familiar with.
by battlesquid | 2025-09-06 18:29:36+00:00
Github made a cool app called Skyline around 2021 where you could make a 3D model of your contribution graph. Around the end of 2024, I went to print my Github Skyline; I already had one for 2023, and I wanted to grow my collection. Lo and behold, the app is offline. Fueled by my frustration and dissatisfied by the alternatives, I worked to create my own version.
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-09-06 18:29:43+00:00
Very true.

I had a coworker (Phd Stanford) go and tell a bunch of poorer neighborhood highschoolers "you don't need a phd to be sucessful" while partially true it's painful to watch those sitting in the sweat and blood of their forefathers discuss how it's actually morally wrong to work as they did.

Thank god for H1B because foreigners are the only ones who actually seem to understand this anymore.

USA has a "nobel class" it's almost identical to the british empires class structure. Thr upper class of the british empire directly thought working hard was a negative hence the "gentlemen" did almost nothing.

Your job in life is progress not to subsist on your parents and grandparents work.
by achierius | 2025-09-06 18:29:58+00:00
Sure, but it's still helpful to think of what components of production are 'intrinsic' to production (it is hard to imagine making things out of metal without some sort of manufacturing being done by someone) and which are accidents of the particular economic system we find ourselves in (a system without private ownership of capital would likely have little place for equity traders). Advertising as we understand it (push-based) would likely not exist in an economy not based on commodity production.

That's not too cast moral judgement -- just to point out that under a different economic system, these overhead costs could be avoided and these resources (human and otherwise) could thus be redirected to ends more concomitant with human flourishing.
by billy99k | 2025-09-06 18:30:01+00:00
It is irresponsible. It brings attention to an issue that has not yet been resolved, which will likely lead to users getting data stolen/scammed.

Even the most security-aware companies have a process to fix vulnerabilities, which takes time.

I would never hire someone that doesn't reaponsibly coordinate with the vendor. In most cases it's either malicious or shows a complete lack of good judgement.

In the case of bobdajrhacker? Both.
by kanak8278 | 2025-09-06 18:30:23+00:00
Can anyone help me on how to integrate this with Claude-Code? I went through it, I already follow few things manually but when I think of integrating most of the parts (not all), I don't know where should I put it for the Coding-LLM to understand. I fear if I put everything in Claude.md it will be just too much context for the CC.
by leo_researchly | 2025-09-06 18:30:56+00:00
Interesting because DeepL, traditionally a translation company, is coming under pressure due to "good enough" alternatives like OpenAI. One of their first experiments within the AI Labs is a general purpose agent (https://www.deepl.com/de/ai-labs/agent). I am super curious, how they will evolve over time, how their agent will be positioned and how they will deal with branding (currently they are know as translation software).
by zahlman | 2025-09-06 18:31:06+00:00
> a much stronger signal in how many issues are being tracked and closed

This is a strong signal, but what it signals is confused. How much of it is the nature of the user base in actually reporting issues? Suppose the project receives regular fixes and issues are promptly closed on average — how much of that is because the project has to constantly respond to external factors, and how much is due to developers doing constant fire-fighting on an intrinsically poor design and not getting around to new functionality? Suppose there are lots of outstanding issues — how many of them are effectively duplicates that nobody's bothered to close yet?
by mananaysiempre | 2025-09-06 18:31:52+00:00
> I found that there are not enough good teaching materials on type checkers -- e.g. the second edition of the Dragon Book lacks a type checker, which is a glaring hole IMO

Pierce’s Types and Programming Languages[1] is excellent. It starts with very little (if you understand basic set-theory notation, you’re probably OK), gets you to a pretty reasonable point, and just generally makes for very pleasant reading. You should probably pick something else if you want a hands-on introduction with an immediate payoff, but then you probably wouldn’t pick the Dragon Book, either.

[1] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
by panick21_ | 2025-09-06 18:32:16+00:00
Actually Kamikaze squadrons had lower mortality rates then when Japan did their conventional attacks against the US Navy. In conventional attacks whole groups of planes flew right into the teeth of US air defense, fighting threw 3 layers of death and getting annihilated.

The reason they adopted Kamikaze was that normal air-attacks were suicide but suicide with no results what so ever.

In Kamikaze the pilots had more freedom and often only attacked the outlining ships. And quite often they just bailed out, or faked engine problems and flew back.

In terms of the 'strategic' bombing in Europe, the US was just incredibly arrogant and didn't want to listen to the Brits who had already learned some lessons. The way they employed air-power was outright insane, suicidal and also completely and utterly ineffective.

It took smart people using internal politics to sideline the idiots to turn the strategy around and do something actually useful.
by thyristan | 2025-09-06 18:32:22+00:00
Docker != podman. Entirely different.

With podman, RedHat made an effort to make SElinux work. With Docker, as third-party-software, no proper SElinux config was ever written. With Docker, there is no hope at all that you'd get SElinux to work.

With podman, there is hope, as long as all your containers and usecases are simple, "well-behaved" and preferrably also RedHat-based and SElinux-aware. In the easy cases, podman + SElinux will just work. But unfortunately, containers are the means to get crappy software running, where the developers were too lazy to do proper packaging/installation/configuration/integration. So most cases are not easy and will not work with SElinux, if you don't have infinite time to write your own config...
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-06 18:32:29+00:00
> Change is always a hard sell to a lot of people, even when it benefits them.

You're assuming that the change is beneficial to people when you say this, but more often than not that just isn't true. Most of the time, change in software doesn't benefit people. Software companies love to move stuff around just to look busy, ruin features that were working just fine, add user hostile things (like forcing Copilot on people!), etc. It should be no surprise that users are sick of it.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-09-06 18:32:45+00:00
I didn’t — checked the labels for all medications I take, verified the medicinal ingredients and know not to double up on the acetaminophen.

I actually prefer cough syrups that don’t have acetaminophen precisely for that reason.

Sorry but being unable to follow instructions is a you problem not a me problem. My point stands: fail to follow instructions for potentially lethal everyday chemicals and you will end up dead. It’s not exclusive to Tylenol.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-06 18:35:17+00:00
> We all know about opiates

No, I do not think we do, because it causes none of the side-effects associated with NSAIDs, and it is even safer than acetaminophen, i.e. there is no risk of hepatotoxicity whatsoever. The only side-effect is euphoria. Please do not mention respiratory depression here, that is a non-issue, it matters as so much as liver failure matters with acetaminophen overdoses. Opiates are safer than any painkillers currently in existence, the problem is with impure products (i.e. not from the pharmacy), and people misusing / abusing them. They might as well abuse NSAIDs and acetaminophen, and the result is the same: harm. Taken therapeutically though, it is way safer than any other painkillers.

So I am not sure what your intention was with that sentence, because sadly no, people do not realize the therapeutic safety profile.

Tramadol is a nasty atypical opioid though, you could have singled that one out. It affects almost all receptors (serotonin, dopamine, etc.) there is, and it is one of the nastiest opioids out there, but that is why it is called an "atypical" opioid.

Edit: I missed constipation as a side-effect, see my other comment.
by memeboxx | 2025-09-06 18:36:15+00:00
Hey, my name’s Roman, I’ll keep it short instead of trying to over-explain everything.

Almost 2 years ago I started automating YouTube. At first I only had 1 channel, so paying $5 to ElevenLabs was enough. Things were going well, so I decided to scale and launch more channels.

That’s where the problem came in: if you want to use more ElevenLabs, you have to pay more. For my needs, I would’ve had to pay $1,320/month. That’s basically an average monthly salary in some European countries.

Since I’m a full-stack developer, I decided to dive into how TTS actually works. I found a repo on GitHub with tools to train and generate voices, rented a Google server with an Nvidia T4, and started training voices for my own use. After about 3 months of testing and training, I got the quality to the same level as ElevenLabs. And once I used it on my channels, I realized the cost of generating voice with my setup was way cheaper, same quality, but a fraction of the price.

That’s why I decided to make my own TTS public. Now, just 2 months later, without spending a single dollar on ads, I already have 300 active users on my site.
by kgwgk | 2025-09-06 18:36:42+00:00
This one is not exactly a “textbook” but it is more advanced and technical than most “popular science” books and follows a historical presentation:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-quantum-cookbook...

The Quantum Cookbook

Mathematical Recipes for the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Jim Baggott

1:Planck's Derivation of E = hn: The Quantisation of Energy

2:Einstein's Derivation of E = mc2: The Equivalence of Mass and Energy

3:Bohr's Derivation of the Rydberg Formula: Quantum Numbers and Quantum Jumps

4:De Broglie's Derivation of / = h/p: Wave-particle Duality

5:Schrödinger's Derivation of the Wave Equation: Quantisation as an Eigenvalue Problem

6:Born's Interpretation of the Wavefunction: Quantum Probability

7:Heisenberg, Bohr, Robertson, and the Uncertainty Principle : The Interpretation of Quantum Uncertainty

8:Heisenberg's Derivation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle: The Stability of Matter and the Periodic Table

9:Dirac's Derivation of the Relativistic Wave Equation: Electron Spin and Antimatter

10:Dirac, Von Neumann, and the Derivation of the Quantum Formalism: State Vectors in Hilbert Space

11:Von Neumann and the Problem of Quantum Measurement: The 'Collapse of the Wavefunction'

12:Einstein, Bohm, Bell, and the Derivation of Bell's Inequality: Entanglement and Quantum Non-locality
by sevensor | 2025-09-06 18:37:28+00:00
Ah, I see. Team A would like to deploy a new version of a service. It used to accept messages with schema S, but the new version accepts only S’ and not S. So the only thing you can do is define S’ so that it is ambiguous with S. Team B uses Team A’s service but doesn’t want to have to coordinate deployments with Team A.

I think the key source of my confusion was Team A not being able to continue supporting schema S once the new version is released. That certainly makes the problem harder.
by majormajor | 2025-09-06 18:37:42+00:00
It's easy to believe that on average longer hours may not have much marginal improvement to productivity but that for you specifically they do.

And being able to convince yourself that your team is special, not just average, is an ability that is more often found in people taking big crazy swings.

Especially if you have a history of working overtime in crunch time in your own career in the past and believe that you couldn't have finished certain projects on time if not. (Which could be different than working long hours every day for years, but then you're back to the potential for nuance around "on average" and "for me and my team, because we're exceptional.")
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-09-06 18:37:53+00:00
It could be. Even much stuff from the 'winners' from before common internet access is lost ;->

OTOH, considering how well the 'megabit-chip' went, I'm wondering wtf they'd do with fiber, at the times? For the military, agencies, ministries and some universities maybe, but for the masses? How common was the 'stinknormales telephon' in households, back then?
by abustamam | 2025-09-06 18:38:27+00:00
> Go look at the subreddit of any of the major exchanges and they all regularly have stories of locked funds. Given the scales it would be far more likely there.

Yeah that's why I wouldn't suggest anyone keeping a lot of funds on an exchange, and having custody of your own wallet. "Harder" is irrelevant (and relative) because a one-time setup in order to send money instantly — something that I need to reiterate that if our country's banking systems allowed us to do, I wouldn't look twice at crypto — is worth it.

> That's not a natural state of banking though that's a issue with your country.

Yeah I think that's my point though. If my country ("the great US of A") prevents me from easily moving money from me to me, and I've also had nothing but trouble trying to manage joint finances with my wife because of the difficulty of transferring money, then yeah I don't wanna play that game. In countries where bank transfers are instant then yeah, crypto doesn't make sense.
by ejstronge | 2025-09-06 18:38:37+00:00
> Yeah my wife is also pregnant and sometimes it is really tough on her but she doesn't use any medication other than baby aspirin for blood pressure. The alternative is exercise, anti-inflammatory foods, and also realizing that it isn't just your body anymore and you can't hurt somebody else's chances for a very small amount of pain relief.

It very much is still your wife's body - what other sentient entity is available for consultation?

I also am not sure if she is seeking professional medical advice - 'baby aspirin' is not a blood pressure medication, full stop. If this is based on non-medical doctor advice, please do consult a fully-qualified obstetrician.

Edit, just because this is very worrying to me, for later viewers, aspirin is an NSAID and its use should be weighed similar to that of other NSAIDs in the context of pregnancy. Consider this web page:

https://www.fda.gov/safety/medical-product-safety-informatio...
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-06 18:39:00+00:00
> This is not always possible. You're on a two lane road. Your vision system tells you there's a pedestrian in your lane. Your LIDAR says the pedestrian is actually in the other lane. There's enough time for a lane change, but not to stop.

This is why good redundant systems have at least 3... in your scenario, without a tie-breaker, all you can do is guess at random which one to trust.
by HappySweeney | 2025-09-06 18:39:59+00:00
I bought one of the Iocrest ones from Aliexpress so I didn't block my gpu's intake, with the AQC113 chip, and it worked perfectly right out of the box - much better than the Asus XG-C100C which made me configure it to get max 2.5gbps. I thought it was windows. Note it gets super hot (like 90°C even with the heatsink).
by johnisgood | 2025-09-06 18:40:40+00:00
You are right. It varies a lot though by different opioids and dosage plays a major role, too.

Morphine causes more constipation than oxycodone does, for example (not to mention IR vs ER formulations), and in some people morphine causes more sedation and oxycodone might be more stimulant-ish, so they may be opioids / opiates, but they can be significantly different.

That said, constipation can indeed be a major issue, especially in the elderly, but they are most likely are already taking or being given laxatives.

For adults without any GI problems, they can safely be on a better diet and take magnesium citrate before they want to defecate (if they have no kidney issues either). It takes 4-12 hours for magnesium citrate to work. There is an even better form of magnesium, but magnesium citrate should be fine, along with prunes or prune jam, lots of hydration and so forth.

I take opiates for pain, and the way I manage constipation (which is indeed frustrating) is through diet (fibre, prune jam, and so forth) and skipping two days (of the ER formulation) if I have no stool for a few days, along with taking magnesium citrate. I would not recommend taking opiates AND laxatives all the time (or rather, I do not recommend treating OIC with regular consumption of laxatives). Constipation would not be a problem with lower doses and IR formulations though, or much less so.

Just FWIW, if you can pass gass, your bowels are not obstructed, and it is a good sign, so if you take opiates, pay attention to that. If you cannot pass gas and you have abdominal pain, then it can easily become a medical emergency. You should not get to this point though, either by taking less, switching to a different formulation (ER -> IR), or switching to a different opioid, along with a better diet.

Additionally, if you do not take opioids (especially ER ones) on a regular basis (similarly to how some people only take NSAIDs once in a while), then constipation is not going to be an issue at all.

I hope this answers your concerns regarding opioid-induced constipation.
by achierius | 2025-09-06 18:40:40+00:00
> professional psychiatrist author

This is a fair point: I'm familiar with Scott Alexander but somehow didn't know he was a psychiatrist, so that part of my point was unfair.

Nevertheless, I think the broader argument still stands. I think that it's at best unhelpful and at worst actively harmful (in the sense of carrying water for AI forms who would happily drive people mad as long as it didn't hurt their stock price) to pretend it's possible to draw a line between "people with risk factors" and "normal people". Everyone is art risk to some extent -- e.g. nobody is too far from financial crisis and homelessness, a major risk factor on its own. Talking about how "people who weren't crazy already" are less at risk ignores the fact that 99%+ of people who "are crazy already" were at some point not crazy, and the path between is often surprisingly smooth. It does us as a society no good if we pretend "normal people" don't have to worry about this phenomenon -- especially when having some kooky ideas was enough to get bucketed in "not normal" for this particular survey
by setr | 2025-09-06 18:41:33+00:00
One of the things I find most annoying about DBAs is they don’t understand just how utterly awful their tooling is. The error messages alone should be enough to throw a hissy fit, but as a group they’ve never dreamed of a life better than the misery of ERROR ON LINE 1: <entire query>

The aggressively common pipe-delimited sproc output (the standard hack to get around commas being common in strings, instead of finding a legitimate data format) is another clear example of the brain damage the poor DBA incurs through constant investment in “modern” relational databases.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-06 18:41:47+00:00
You're right, that one drives me nuts. Any slide wheel doesn't change its underlying value until it stops animating, even if it's 99% of the way there. You navigate away from the screen thinking the new value is set, but it's not.

That one falls into the category of UX felony as far as I'm concerned. It's not just delay or confusion, but actively misrepresenting a value.