MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BoredPositron | 2025-09-17 21:47:49+00:00
I remember getting some stickers at a tiny booth in 2011 at FMX. Ton was great to talk to, and I've had it installed ever since. I hope we'll see you again at FMX... I will stand in line for the free soft serve from cadnetwork and bring some over again :P Not only did the booth grow bigger every time they showed up, but the community did as well. Now we get talks and workshops, and we see Blender popping up in more and more breakdowns from the bigger VFX houses. It's been quite a journey, and I hope it continues. I doubled my yearly donation today. Godspeed.
by extr | 2025-09-17 21:48:54+00:00
> Incorrect routing affected less than 0.0004% of requests on Google Cloud's Vertex AI between August 27 and September 16.

Matches my experience. I use CC through our enterprise Vertex AI account and never noticed any degradation.

In general it seems like these bugs, while serious, were substantially less prevalent than anecdotal online reports would have you believe. We are really talking about a ~1-2 week window here where most issues were concentrated, a relatively small percentage of total requests and total users impacted.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-17 21:50:01+00:00
If the "failed replication" was a single study, as in many cases listed here, there is still an open question as to whether the 1) replication study was underpowered (the ones I looked at had pretty small n's), or 2) the re-implementation of the original study was flawed. So I'm not so sure we can quickly label the original studies as "debunked", no more than we can express a high level of confidence in the original studies.

(This isn't a comment on any of the individual studies listed.)
by boggio | 2025-09-17 21:50:11+00:00
While their lithography may lag, their system-level engineering is leveraging unique strengths. China's lack of power constraints allows them to build massive, optically-networked systems like the CloudMatrix 384. There is a SemiAnalysis that compares it to Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72. It looks like they overcome weaker individual chips to outperform Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 with 2x the compute, 3.6x the aggregate memory, and 2.1x the memory bandwidth. with scale-out networking and software optimization, not just silicon.
by MagicMoonlight | 2025-09-17 21:50:42+00:00
And do you think we defeated the nazis by leaving their food intact? By leaving their bomb factories intact?

Did we refuse to invade their cities in case the innocent nazi citizens got killed?

War is war. I don’t see a single person in that territory that opposes the war. They simply want the other side to surrender because they are losing a war they started.
by fleeting900 | 2025-09-17 21:50:42+00:00
Why do YouTube creators deserve special treatment compared to any other entity whose analytics are impacted by adblockers?

Every publisher on the internet has been bleating for years about how adblockers negatively impact their business and their ability to provide [some value] to customers.

If your ability to generate value is hitched to surveillance capitalism then that’s a choice, whether you’re a folksy mom and pop YouTube creator or a multinational publisher.
by beefnugs | 2025-09-17 21:50:52+00:00
Great! A diviner has vibe-exposed the arcane magic word knowledge on the steps to ultimate knowledgeplasty! Come let us get together to share more trial-and-error wordsmithery, Together we will someday have ultimate power!

If the model creators themselves arent sharing this magic-word bullshitteryy then why is anyone spending time on this? It is just going to change with every model release
by us-merul | 2025-09-17 21:50:57+00:00
I see you edited your response after my reply. I’m not denying that you’ve read about those observed differences. I’m trying to say that those differences don’t need to be driven by biology, and evidence suggests otherwise. Behavior can’t be reduced to genetics, and the mechanistic link isn’t there. You are claiming that morphological differences explain the variation. Besides, by your reasoning, you could look at the NBA before Bill Russell and make very different claims.
by mglazebrook | 2025-09-17 21:52:40+00:00
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by ericdotlee | 2025-09-17 21:52:46+00:00
I've been toying with the idea of building a dedicated machine to continue working on my FPV flight control model.

So far I've just been renting gpu time but it's getting expensive. I also occasionally use qwen3-coder in my homelab but my headless "inference" machine is quite limited with an RTX 3080.

Curious if this build from llamabuilds.ai looks good? In terms of gpu etc? I'm maybe considering buying more GPUs in the future - hard to tell if stacking RTX 6000 ADA's is worthwhile!

Thanks HN!
by themafia | 2025-09-17 21:52:58+00:00
This is largely true because this is where the largest volume of traffic comes from; however, it's not exclusive to these two by any means. There are some pretty big Supply Side Platforms and aggregators out there for advertisers to use. This comes into play a lot more often on podcasts and streaming audio, in particular, consider the fleet of Amazon Alexa devices out there.

Many of the advertisers that sell on these platforms are quite familiar with buying ads directly from "old school" media companies. So they have the competence and familiarity to be put off by the metrics but are apparently not in a position to force Google and Facebook to match standards used in other contexts.
by e_y_ | 2025-09-17 21:53:10+00:00
And Waymo doesn't currently operate on highways for passenger service (I think they have authorization to, but they're only testing on highways right now).

They should be able to get to SFO from Millbrae Ave and San Bruno Ave without getting on the highway proper, although it'll likely be a lot slower unless you're getting a ride from nearby. While SJC can serve downtown SJ and Santa Clara without getting on a highway.
by drillsteps5 | 2025-09-17 21:53:38+00:00
I would say that the easy access to previously unthinkable amount of storage and compute (and obv network throughput to tie it together) is thought to make the data modeling unnecessary. Normalized/denormalized data models, Inman/Kimbal architectures were largely dictated by limits of compute and storage which are no longer relevant.

What is forgotten is the data governance and the data quality, which results in, yes, data swamps as far as the eye can see and hordes of "data scientists" roaming around hoping to find actionable "gems".
by amluto | 2025-09-17 21:53:46+00:00
OR-Tools is a whole grab-bag of tools, most of which are wrappers around various solvers, including Gurobi and CPLEX. It seems like CP-SAT is under the OR-Tools umbrella, and CP-SAT may well be state-of-the-art for the specific sets of problems that it's well-suited for.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-09-17 21:53:50+00:00
The whole essay is worth reading, but the bottom line is:

> So maybe one answer to how to write now is to teach yourself what you might need to be relentless. To ask yourself how do I tell the truth while I’m alive, and how do I keep telling the truth after I die? How do I keep showing up for what I believe in in ways that cannot be stopped? How can I keep making people feel possible? And so I try every day to live there until the day my books carry on without me.

I haven’t been able to write (long form fiction, specifically) for three years now. The author is largely correct in their diagnosis. It’s hard to believe anything matters when every day brings fresh evidence of waxing nihilism and cruelty sans justice.

But if I have to wait until those conditions abate in order to take up writing again, then I probably never will.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-17 21:54:47+00:00
> Claimed result: Adopting expansive body postures for 2 minutes (like standing with hands on hips or arms raised) increases testosterone, decreases cortisol, and makes people feel more powerful and take more risks.

A heuristic I use that is unreasonably good at identifying grifters and charlatans: Unnecessarily invoking cortisol or other hormones when discussing behavioral topics. Influencers, podcasters, and pseudoscience practitioners love to invoke cortisol, testosterone, inflammation, and other generic concepts to make their ideas sound more scientific. Instead of saying "stress levels" they say "cortisol". They also try to suggest that cortisol is bad and you always want it lower, which isn't true.

Dopamine is another favorite of the grifters. Whenever someone starts talking about raising dopamine or doing something to increase dopamine, they're almost always being misleading or just outright lying. Health and fitness podcasters are the worst at this right now.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-17 21:54:57+00:00
The bleeding edge behind closed doors token burning monsters of 2023 are bad compared to the free LLMs we have now.

I believe it was Sundar in an interview with Lex who said that the reason they haven't developed another Ultra model is because by the time it is ready to launch, the flash and pro versions will have already made it redundant.
by ispeaknumbers | 2025-09-17 21:55:13+00:00
I'm not sure if you can claim these were "less prevalent than anecdotal online reports". From their article:

> Approximately 30% of Claude Code users had at least one message routed to the wrong server type, resulting in degraded responses.

> However, some users were affected more severely, as our routing is "sticky". This meant that once a request was served by the incorrect server, subsequent follow-ups were likely to be served by the same incorrect server.

30% of Claude Code users getting a degraded response is a huge bug.
by slater | 2025-09-17 21:56:11+00:00
I threw this together a while back, use with Stylus extension[0]: https://pastebin.com/WzjQJ1Zp

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/ (Firefox)

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpee... (Chrome)
by godelski | 2025-09-17 21:56:48+00:00
Thanks. Mind providing screenshots? I believe you, I just think this helps. Your comments align with some of my other responses. I'm not trying to make hard claims here and I'm willing to believe the result is not nefarious. But it's still worth investigating. In the weakest form it's worth being aware of how laws in other countries impact ours, right?

But I don't think we should talk about explanation until we can even do some verification. At this point I'm not entirely sure. We still have the security question open and I'm asking for help because I'm not a security person. Shouldn't we start here?
by sfRattan | 2025-09-17 21:56:49+00:00
Yeah, that's fair enough. Security and privacy aren't totally mutually excluse, but there are absolutely tradeoffs. And security in a modern threat environment and customizability (at root level) are pretty much non-overlapping circles on a venn diagram.

My perspective is that I want one or two devices in my life, ideally one phone and then either a tablet or small laptop, which are maximally secure and almost never leave my direct custody. I am willing to give up root on these devices to achieve that level of security. Though I'll note that sideloading apps is absolutely possible on Graphene OS.

There are plenty of other general purpose computers at home on which I have root access and can use to tinker and experiment to my heart's content, and which I do not use for highly sensitive personal information (banking, primary email, etc).

The other important difference for me is that, whereas Graphene OS restricts root access for end-user security, companies making locked down devices withhold root from the end-user in order to keep control for themselves.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-17 21:56:58+00:00
> weird to say Israel could replace the US as a security partner without giving an example of who that would be. Russia? China?

China, Russia and India come to mind. (The latter two need Israeli weapons expertise and are transactional about their geopolitics. The last is in the growing throes of anti-Muslim ethnonationalism. The first and third import energy.)

> what money are they to buy the materials with, their own?

Yes. Amercan aid to Israel is less than 1% of its GDP [1][2]. We buy influence with that money, but it's not existential.

> What if Iran really does get nukes, what if a 3rd country gives them one

...Israel already has nukes and superior delivery mechanisms to Iran. Also, if Iran gets nukes, I put Israel becoming a regional hegemon protecting the Gulf from a nuclear Iran on the board.

> Americans are trying to figure out how much sovereignty they really have and are discovering that it's indeed effectively none

This is dumb. America's Israel policy until about 2025 has been broadly popular with the electorate. (Israel could have become unpopular earlier, but nobody particularly likes folks occupying universities and blocking bridges.)

[1] https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Israel
by bb88 | 2025-09-17 21:57:29+00:00
> UX and print quality

GUI and UX are not the same. Prusa has pretty good print quality too but not as good a GUI as the Bambu.

UX would include the ability to easily tear down a hot end, replace a nozzle, tighten any belts, and anything else that would affect your ability to print high quality prints.

For prusa, since that's the printer I have experience with the most. Replacing the nozzle and clearing filament jams are pretty easy. But tearing down the hot end to remove debris wrapped around the extruder gear was not.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-09-17 21:57:54+00:00
> On August 25, we deployed a misconfiguration to the Claude API TPU servers that caused an error during token generation. An issue caused by a runtime performance optimization occasionally assigned a high probability to tokens that should rarely be produced given the context, for example producing Thai or Chinese characters in response to English prompts, or producing obvious syntax errors in code. A small subset of users that asked a question in English might have seen "สวัสดี" in the middle of the response, for example.

Can anyone explain to a layperson how this sort of thing is even possible for an LLM?

For normal code, of course stupid bugs happen all the time. You accidentally introduce an off-by-one error in a conditional, for example, or add an extra `goto fail`.

But LLMs aren't written by humans! Models are trained by automated programs over a period of many months across unfathomably massive data centers.

How would a human introduce a bug like the one described in TFA?
by whizzter | 2025-09-17 21:57:56+00:00
As a _user_ JSPI looks neat, however as a compiler writer JSPI looks like an horrible hairball of security issues and performance gotchas to degrade generated WASM code performance.

Say you have a WASM module, straight line code that builds a stack, runs quickly because apart from overflow checks it can just truck on.

Now add this JS-Promise thing into the mix:

A: now how does a JS module handle the call into the Wasm module? classic WASM was a synchronous call, now should we change the signature of all wasm functions to async?

B: does the WASM internal calls magically become Promises and awaits (Gonna take a lot of performance out of WASM modules), if not we now have a 2 color function world that needs reconciliation.

C: If we do some magic, where the full frame is paused and stored away, what happens if another JS function then calls into the WASM module and awaits and then the first one resumes? Any stack inside the wasm-memory has now potential race conditions (and potentially security implications). Sure we could make locks on all Wasm entries but that could cause other unintended side-effects.

D: Even if all of the above are solved, there's still the low-level issues of lowlevel stack management for wasm compiled code.

Looking at the mess that is emscripten's current solution to this, I really hope that this proposal gets very well thought out and not just railroaded in because V8's compiler manages to support it because.

1: It has the potential to affect performance for all Wasm code just because people writing Qemu,etc are too lazy to properly abstract resource loading to cooperate with the Wasm model.

2: It can become a burden on the currently thriving Wasm ecosystem with multiple implementations (honestly, stuff like Wasm-GC is less disruptive even if it includes a GC).
by flutas | 2025-09-17 21:58:01+00:00
And yet no offers of credits to make things right for the users, for what was essentially degraded performance of what you paid for.

I know I'll probably get push back on this, but it left a sour taste in my mouth when I paid for a $200 sub that felt like it was less useful than ChatGPT Plus ($20) at times.

Or to summarize: [south park "we're sorry" gif]
by proee | 2025-09-17 21:58:29+00:00
This begs the question of what is the most quiet fan(s) on the market? If all of us sat down in a room together and had this mission, what would it look like? An electrostatic fan (using electrohydrodynamics) would be pretty silent, but provide very little airflow. It's a fun problem to solve and would love to see a company create better products than those overpriced Dyson fans (which are junk IMHO).
by janalsncm | 2025-09-17 21:58:55+00:00
> Asking DeepSeek for a program that runs industrial control systems was the riskiest type of request, with 22.8 percent of the answers containing flaws. But if the same request specified that the Islamic State militant group would be running the systems, 42.1 percent of the responses were unsafe. Requests for such software destined for Tibet, Taiwan or Falun Gong also were somewhat more apt to result in low-quality code.

What is the metric they’re even talking about here? Depending on how you read it, they’re comparing one, two, or three different metrics.
by fidotron | 2025-09-17 21:59:16+00:00
This is the truth, and it's not really much better in non-GCed languages either. (In reality my impression is the GCed wasm side runtimes are even worse).

Some of the least fun JavaScript I have ever written involved manually cleaning up pointers that in C++ would be caught by destructors triggering when the variable falls out of scope. It was enough that my recollections of JNI were more tolerable. (Including for go, on Android, curiously).

Then once you get through it you discover there is some serious per-call overhead, so those structs start growing and growing to avoid as many calls as possible.

I too want wasm to be decent, but to date it is just annoying.
by jrflowers | 2025-09-17 21:59:21+00:00
This is a good point. We know that the periods of time that they conducted their tests must be finite because there is a year between them. We also know that the tests happened in August

>Their non-response rates fell from 31 percent in August 2024 to 0 percent in August 2025

Was it a day or a week or a month? This matters greatly, and you can tell that I’m not deliberately misunderstanding simple phrases that are not difficult to understand because
by lordnacho | 2025-09-17 21:59:40+00:00
Clickhouse is excellent btw. I took it for a spin, loading a few TB of orderbook changes into it as entire snapshots. The double compression (type-aware and generic) does wonders. It's amazing how you get both the benefit of small size and quick querying, with minimal tweaks. I don't think I changed any system level defaults, yet I can aggregate through the entire few billion snapshots in a few minutes.
by jsnell | 2025-09-17 22:00:01+00:00
What you're ignoring is that this was a change to an ad blocker[0], not a change to the site.

Google did not implement a change to stop counting views. An ad blocker intentionally[1] choosing to block the long-standing API calls used for the view statistics. How would you propose Google fix this, when there is an adversarial team in control of what requests many browser may make, and are choosing to use it to break the site?

[0] Or rather, an URL block list used by many ad blockers.

[1] It was almost certainly an honest mistake originally. But when the blocklist authors were informed of the problem and chose to not roll back the change, it became intentional.
by mikeyouse | 2025-09-17 22:00:18+00:00
Yeah, I’ve signed dozens of contracts for services and some are explicit in the way you expect but a lot of software or SAAS type contracts have flexible terms that refer to TOS and privacy policies that are updated regularly. It’s uncommon that any of those things are changed in a way that either party is upset with so companies are generally okay signing up and assuming good faith.
by akerl_ | 2025-09-17 22:00:48+00:00
It's wishy washy. I tend to bias away from things on the Mac App Store / Windows Store largely based on anecdotal experience. It feels like a higher percentage of app store offerings are junk. Not sure if that's just the lower barrier to entry, or that I'm seeing way more of the field than I see when I'm searching outside the store.

As a counterpoint: I absolutely love the iOS App Store experience, largely because of the unification of subscriptions and subscription cancellation.
by its-kostya | 2025-09-17 22:00:59+00:00
Any "self driving" from Tesla carries large amount of risk because it uses _only_ cameras. Visual anomalies happen and without radar/lidar as a second source of truth, the vehicles will always sketch me out. Some say "separate the art from the artist" but at the end of the day, Elon's stubbornness to only use cameras is the reason many people are apprehensive to shell out money for the vehicle and especially the any autonomous driving capabilities.

Even if future vehicles DID have lidar, every vehicle up to now does not and therefore will never be truly self-driving. Customers already paid for it with the promise that vehicle hardware is capable. So either they will have to be refunded, or retro fitted with new sensors - at the expense of Tesla I assume. Still no idea how they are valued so much.
by basisword | 2025-09-17 22:01:18+00:00
Nope. I get a lot localised content. The local food reviewers etc. won't miss out on US views. The people creating content in local languages won't notice a difference either. 15 years ago I think things would have went differently but now I think people will want the non-US version. And I wouldn't be surprised if US users grab themselves a VPN and a pirated APK and use it too.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-09-17 22:02:09+00:00
I don't know when Tesla valuation will crash and Musk will go bankrupt, but once it does it will be one for the ages !

Company is still valued at >>1 trilion $, supposedly because they will soon roll out Robotaxis everywhere - 50% of US population before the end of the year, according to Musk !

Meanwhile, 3 months after the start of the operation, it's still open only for influencers, running with ±10 vehicles and operates with a driver in the front seat...

This is so absurd, that could make us forget the 2 million Cybertruck orders or the fact that all Teslas were to become Robotaxis with an OTA update in 2020.
by _Microft | 2025-09-17 22:02:19+00:00
If you've got a budget of $1000 for that, have you considered getting a used 3D printer first? Some models are sold used for like 50€ (e.g. Ender 3 V2) on classified ads which hardly makes a dent in your overall budget. This will force you to actually familiarize yourself with the processes and will allow you to make more informed decisions later?