MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-11 17:04:56+00:00
Assuming one trusts climate.nasa.gov, and it would be weird if Vinós doesn't because that's where his graph comes from. But if one looks at https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/?intent=121 one can see a longer time series indicating 97.6mm of sea level rise since 1993. (Or at least those were the numbers when I looked a them in September 2025.)

This sort of Cherry-Picking is common among people with no training in statistics.

If his point was "hey, look, the last two years of data seems to contradict the previous 30, perhaps there's something going on here," then that is probably what he should have said that in his tweet.

There have been periods of "global warming hiatus" in the past where it appears global temperatures were falling, staying the same or not rising at the same rate as other times. Climate researcher, famed statistician and US senator Raphael Cruz (R-TX) argued a hiatus from 1993 to 2013 disproved the anthropomorphic global climate change hypothesis.

It's likely worth noting the weak statistical significance of small changes over small sections of a larger data set (because Vinós clearly doesn't.)
by cibernox | 2025-09-11 17:05:31+00:00
24gb is the minimum ram in the Pro lineup, the max is 128gb and can run 200B models.

The mac ultra has up 512gb and while expensive has more than twice the memory than any GPU alternative on a similar price point.

What was dragging it behind was the lack of Matmul acceleration, which seems that will change soon. Likely nvidia cards will still be faster and have better support, but paying a very big premium for it (ironic that apple is the cheaper option for once)
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-11 17:05:37+00:00
If you are content with an apartment (with roommates to start), used vehicles, packing lunch, and basic polo shirts/Ross dress shirts and being dev adjacent (QA, some sort of support role) you might meet those goals. If you want to live like a normal middle class adult and have interesting dev work it's going to be tough. I you can build off your current work/connections it could be different.
by nradov | 2025-09-11 17:05:43+00:00
That's not quite how the actual incentives work. Most commercial insurers (both for-profit and non-profit) are increasingly adopting the "payvider" business model pioneered by Kaiser Permanente. As health plans pressured network providers to cut rates, the providers responded with M&A activity (some financed by PE) to gain more negotiating power. In some regions there are only a couple large health systems left that dominate the local market. Like in the SF Bay Area, health plans are pretty much forced to have Sutter Health in their networks in order to maintain adequate coverage. So now the only lever that health plans have left to control costs for their customers (i.e. large employers) is to hire clinicians directly as employees and cut out the middleman. UnitedHealth Group has been particularly aggressive about this strategy but all of their major competitors are taking similar approaches.
by achatham | 2025-09-11 17:05:53+00:00
This was in place of reorganizing the codebase, which would have been the alternative. I've done such work in the past, and I've found it's a pretty rare skillet to optimize compilation speed. There's just a lot less input for the compiler to look at, as the useless transitive text is dropped.

And to be clear, it also speeds up the original compilation, but that's not as noticeable because when you're compiling zillions of separate compilation units with massive parallelism, you don't notice how long any given file takes to compile.
by Daneel_ | 2025-09-11 17:05:58+00:00
If you can have one robot do multiple tasks at 80% of the capability of a special-purpose robot, then that’s a win. Buy a fleet of them and just repurpose them as necessary.

If they’re humanoid then they can already use tools, equipment, and access methods we already use for ourselves.

What part of the vision doesn’t make sense?
by dang | 2025-09-11 17:06:47+00:00
No, these are mostly regular users who post about eBPF or Haskell under other circumstances. You can check that yourself by looking at commenting histories, which are public.

If the situation were as you say, we could deal with it by banning the "overrunners" who are not here to use HN as intended. But it's not that—it's that the community is divided in much the ways that society at large is divided, and that divisive topics generate strong reactions.
Show HN: Forked styled-components with optimizations (40% faster for Linear)
by kmelve | 2025-09-11 17:07:03+00:00
Hey HN! We forked styled-components after it entered maintenance mode because our production apps (and many others) can't migrate overnight.

Backstory: We submitted PR #4332 (https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components/pull/...) to styled-components in July 2024 with React 18 optimizations. When maintenance mode was announced, we turned that PR into this fork.

What we fixed: - Added React 18's useInsertionEffect - Rewrote streaming SSR for React 19 - Replaced ES5 output with modern JS - Optimized array operations with native flatMap - Fixed Next.js App Router to work without 50+ lines of boilerplate

Linear tested it and saw 40% faster initial renders with zero code changes.

How to try it: npm install @sanity/styled-components@npm:styled-components

Or for React 19: npm install @sanity/css-in-js@npm:styled-components

Benchmark tool to test yourself: https://css-in-js-benchmarks.sanity.dev/

We named it "last-resort" because that's what it is. We're not trying to maintain styled-components long-term - we're actually migrating to vanilla-extract ourselves. This is just a performance bridge while teams migrate properly.

The React team recommends moving away from runtime CSS injection. We agree. But migrations take time, and production apps need to ship today.
by fair_enough | 2025-09-11 17:07:16+00:00
I love the new colors, especially Sky Blue but why do I need my phone to be wafer thin? It's an engineering marvel, and I'm definitely not complaining, but it just seems odd to make every part of the phone except the top part where the camera resides as thin as possible.

I would have gladly taken uniform thickness and a bigger battery or better transceivers any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Call me a Philistine, but all I really want out of my phone is its ability as a communications device (voice, video, email, SMS, etc) and a GPS. I spend so much time in front of a computer, that by the end of the day I want to unplug myself and touch grass.

Either way, big respect to some former undergrad classmates of mine at Apple who may have played a role in this. This new generation of Apple devices is bringing back color and personality, and I'm all for it. Same for ever-improving FaceTime cameras. The camera on the front is more important to me than the one on the back.
by chmod775 | 2025-09-11 17:07:26+00:00
Then they're just a worse human on every metric: from capability to real cost.

When these things can make a burger without help I'll change mind, but right now they're not even close to that. Everything I've seen so far makes them look like clumsy pieces of junk. I haven't even seen one make a sandwich without a human having to prepare every step for them so they could then perform "cutting motion" or "stack ingredients" (painfully slowly and shaking like a geriatric).
by taylodl | 2025-09-11 17:08:04+00:00
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Let's not forget the liberals who've been murdered and attacked:

- Gabrielle Giffords (2011) - shot in the head, survived.

- Gretchen Whitmer (2020) - kidnapping plot foiled by the FBI.

- Paul Pelosi (2022) - hammer blows to the head, survived.

- Josh Shapiro (2024) - arson attacked family home while Josh Shapiro along with this wife and kids were residing at the time.

- Melissa and John Hoffman (2025) - Murdered by a man posing as law enforcement.

Now you want me to get concerned that MAGA might get upset with the murder of Charlie Kirk? I'm supposed to get concerned that MAGA is going to use this event as a rally cry - a rally cry for what, exactly? More violence? What does that say about them? That's just a threat they make to further their use of fear and intimidation to silence their critics. As I told my grown children time and time again while they were growing up: don't ever use the excuse that someone "made you" do something to rationalize your behavior. You chose your behavior, stop making excuses to justify it. Own it.
by Rendello | 2025-09-11 17:08:27+00:00
As of 2022 the Unicode Consortium will not accept proposals for any new flags. Moving forward, anything with an ISO 3166-1 code will automatically get a flag. The Iraq Kurdistan subdivision mentioned below has a 3166-2 subcode, so doesn't automatically get a flag pushed though. They could've worded it less confusingly, but the rest of the article is quite thorough.

> As a recent example, Kurdistan (a subdivision of Iraq) became an official subdivision in ISO 3166-2 (IQ-KR) on May 3, 2021. The corresponding Unicode subdivision code (iqkr) is slated for release in CLDR v41 on Apr 6, 2022. At that point the flag for Kurdistan will officially be valid — any platform, app, or font could support it. But that doesn’t mean it automatically gets in the queue for everyone’s phone. Only countries with ISO 3166-1 region codes are automatically recommended and require no proposal to move forward.

https://blog.unicode.org/2022/03/the-past-and-future-of-flag...
by philipkglass | 2025-09-11 17:08:31+00:00
The Soviet and other later nuclear weapons programs were significantly less expensive/complicated to reach equivalent capabilities, because they didn't pursue several paths simultaneously like the Manhattan Project did. They also weren't so rushed.

For example, the USSR built plutonium production facilities and tested a working plutonium-based implosion bomb before they produced highly enriched uranium. The Soviet uranium enrichment program was also simplified compared to the US: they built out the most effective technology that the American program demonstrated (gaseous diffusion). They developed the marginally effective calutron enrichment process only to a trial scale and ignored the practically useless liquid thermal diffusion enrichment process.
by MisterTea | 2025-09-11 17:08:50+00:00
I feel that the automation exists to make the car weaker in the long term. More gadgets adds to the overall complexity creating a shorter MTBF. And with all this technology the average auto garage will have a hard time acquiring knowledge and tools or the manufacturer might simply say "sorry, proprietary - you need to take it to the dealer and spend a small fortune." That windshield likely had to come from the OEM at great cost because no one can make an aftermarket windshield. Vendor lock in disguised as convenience.
by nradov | 2025-09-11 17:09:24+00:00
That's such a naive and uniformed take. While there are certain benefits to GLP-1 agonists and they are medically indicated in some cases, there are a host of benefits that come from frequent hard physical exercise that go way beyond weight loss. You won't be "ultra smart" in middle age when you have reduced blood flow to your brain due to a sedentary lifestyle. And you can't fix that with a pill or injection.
by delichon | 2025-09-11 17:09:26+00:00
It’s impossible to generalize about the entire population of the site—many of Bluesky’s users do not post in English and do not engage with American politics—yet it has developed an identity as a haven for liberals in the aftermath of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter and Donald Trump’s reëlection as President.

Apparently the diaeresis in reëlection is correct but ideosyncratic to The New Yorker. As a former student of Hebrew I approve of niqqud in English.
by khaledh | 2025-09-11 17:09:35+00:00
It goes way before that. It starts with IDS (Integrated Data Store) from GE (1964), which was a network database system. Next was IBM's hierarchical database system IMS (Information Management System, 1966), still in use today. Then the CODASYL model (late 1960s), which was an effort to standardize the network model. And then Codd came up with the relational model in the early 70s, upon which an explosion of database systems were built (first is IBM System R, SQL, Oracle, DB2, Ingres). Then came the PC-based database systems you mentioned.
by MrOwen | 2025-09-11 17:09:46+00:00
How are you coming to the conclusion that it will run dry? For example, in the US, arguably the most prosperous period here was in the first half of the 1900s. It is when Roosevelt's New Deal went into place and the US experienced extraordinary growth and prosperity. Do you know what also coincided with this? The marginal income tax rate. From wikipedia:

> For tax years 1944 through 1951, the highest marginal tax rate for individuals was 91%, increasing to 92% for 1952 and 1953, and reverting to 91% 1954 through 1963.

Since that time, the income tax rate has declined, especially for the higher brackets. From my perspective, it kinda just sounds like wealthy people got greedy and they were able to advocate for income tax changes. Back then, they couldn't pull as much funny business as they do today with high compensation modalities ($1 trillion for Musk?) so they opted for marginal tax rate reduction. But there's no evidence from what I can see that the the money was about to "run dry." Quite the opposite it seems. Even in nordic countries, the money is not "running dry". They have great support systems in large part because of the high marginal tax rates.
by npoc | 2025-09-11 17:09:50+00:00
There is no man-made global warming crisis. The earth is in fact one of the coldest periods in history.

Thoroughly explained here: https://youtu.be/KDwCUAueLUU

What the "man-made global warming crisis" is, is an example of how a corrupt/captured state will overreach and control the people for its own gain through manipulation. Many governments are captured by the now global financial system that has almost unlimited power due to its money printers. It charges interest on money that it prints out of thin air. By leveraging its existing power to steer the governments to spend money it is able to effectively spend printed money (governemnt loans) on itself and then receive interest on that money as a bonus. A positive feedback loop that ends in global domination by the unelected financial system with the national and international central banks at its heart. Even worse is that it's power obtained essentially through fraud - it's all based on lending out something for interest that isn't theirs. It started with them lending out gold that people had given them to safely look after in their vaults.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-11 17:10:07+00:00
"The vision" is that instead of building 9999 specialist robots for 9999 different tasks, you mass produce one robot model that can do all of them.

Less efficiently, sure, but for the manufacturing, logistics, maintenance? The economies of scale are immense.

The reason why we weren't doing exactly that back in the 80s isn't that universal humanoid robots somehow weren't desirable. It's that for a universal humanoid hardware to be useful, you need a fairly universal AI to back it.

That "universal AI" was nowhere to be seen back in the 80s, or the 90s, or the 00s. Now, we finally have a good idea of how to build the kind of AI required for it.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-11 17:10:09+00:00
Okay. So you’re saying tax dodging giant corporations like to save money?

Why does it have to be so complicated? The government HAS to pay for treatments that are FDA approved. UNH and Apple, working together, do not. Furthermore, Apple doesn’t have to cover everyone, the government would! It’s that simple!

For people reading this thread: Apple gets paid a rebate at the end of the year by United. The employee whose paycheck has a cut out for “health plan” does not. It’s that simple. Apple gets to pay the employees less when it chooses United. Apple has not lost many antitrust cases, but it has lost them for paying employees less! This is their MO! Your cheaper ACA plans do not pay rebates for unused services. The government, which pays for the health costs of the people whose claims are denied, does not pay you a rebate. Your auto insurance sometimes “pays” you a “rebate,” if for some idiosyncratic reason Gavin Newsom decides that’s how it should work. So generally, Apple is not lobbying for public health because the status quo lets them save a TON of money by overcharging their own employees for “health plans.”

I don’t think you should throw around “total misunderstanding” like that either. You don’t know me, or know how much I know about this stuff. Not every generalization is Wrong. It can be wrong, but not Wrong. And anyway, you have a problem with my generalizations, and then you say “total misunderstanding,” which is itself a generalization. It’s bad faith. I am choosing rhetorically to generalize, in a way that aligns very well with the truth, and you are choosing meaningless specificity that may be ever so slightly more truthful, but doesn’t align with the emotions - the anger against giant corporations, the government, etc. - at all. We’re both being intellectually honest, but only one of us is co-opted. That is my feedback to you.
by nozzlegear | 2025-09-11 17:10:55+00:00
Frankly I think we need to establish a definition for comparable if you're going to nitpick the numbers of infant mortality rates and life expectancy between two modern Western democracies. The average infant mortality rate in Canada is 4.4 deaths per thousand, is that comparable to the EU? The UAE is sitting pretty at 4 per thousand so that's obviously more comparable than Canada. Russia's at 6.42 so they're out.

Anyway, my point is those numbers are comparable when there are countries like Mexico, Brazil and India out there with an infant mortality rate of 11, 12.5 and 25 deaths per thousand, respectively.

(For the record I don't think the US is a better place to live than the EU, I just don't think it's worse either.)
by dijit | 2025-09-11 17:10:56+00:00
weird tangential question then: when does GPL stop being infectious?

I would understand in a modular system like an operating system: one can argue that the kernel is a single component.

But if you're buying an appliance, the OS is effectively one single unit: all linked together.

Why does a binary executable and a binary image seem to operate differently in this space - both are inscrutable?
by AlecSchueler | 2025-09-11 17:11:04+00:00
> What's obviously missing is a "fitness function" that can approximate the equivalent of human taste, so the final evolved forms just end up being widely random in terms of quality.

Honestly for me this is a feature not a bug. If I want to hear music that matches my personal taste exactly I can just go to my instrument and play it. These tools are a way to taste more exotic forms and see if there's anything worth carrying over.
by pohuing | 2025-09-11 17:11:31+00:00
> This created an ugly split in the ecosystem because if you were using Container<X> you could not pass it to an old API that expected a Container.

Correct me if I'm wrong but allowing this would mean the called api might insert objects wholly unrelated to X. This would break every assumption you make about the container's contents. Why would this ever be allowed or wanted?
by ricksunny | 2025-09-11 17:12:43+00:00
> it was believed at the time that German scientists were also very close to producing a nuclear weapon.

Yes this was the prime motivator, at least on paper. One can suspect Vannevar Bush or Leslie Groves of ulterior motives (Vannevar: fomenting a defense-fueled ‘Big Science’ infrastructure which he certainly achieved going into the postwar, Groves: creating a weapon to fend off the Soviets for the postwar).

> As was later discovered after the war, there were not.

Man this is a dicy one. There has been some scholarship in recent decades that the Germans may have got a lot farther than history has hitherto accepted to date, all the way up to minor (semi-fizzled?) detonations. Rainer Karlsch has been the main accumulator of relevant archives especially from the Soviet side. Todd Rider formerly of MIT’s Lincoln Lab has done yeoman’s work in piecing together the logic of Karlsch’a work and archive digging of his own & volunteers’. In short, we are not sitting on a consensus reality of just how far the Germans got in developing an atomic bomb, and we aren’t 100% certain on how little we relied on recuped German know-how in developing our own atomic bomb between May-August 1945, not how much we (ahem, Teller) may have relied in part on German know-how in developing the H-bomb. As I mentioned in another comment, the reference for this is

https://riderinstitute.org/revolutionary-innovation/#chapter...

Appendix D is the main one for this topic, and Chapter 8 for context.
by kgnz | 2025-09-11 17:13:14+00:00
I built this to solve my own problem as a small streamer: chat moves fast, viewers come and go, and I kept forgetting who was who and what we'd talked about before.

StreamKin is a real-time dashboard that organizes chat by viewer rather than just a message feed. It builds both short-term memory (AI prompts from recent conversations) and long-term memory (persistent viewer profiles with notes, history, relationships).

Key features:

- Live viewer cards with chat history and notes

- Multi-platform: Twitch + YouTube live simultaneously

- AI insights from previous stream conversations

- Works as web app or OBS browser dock

- Real-time sync with PostgreSQL + WebSocket architecture

Tech stack: React/TypeScript, Supabase (PostgreSQL + realtime), Mistral AI, platform APIs (Twitch TMI.js, YouTube Live Chat).

The beta is completely free: https://beta.streamkin.com

This started as a personal tool but seems it could addresse a common streamer problem. Is this solving a real problem or just adding complexity? I welcome all feedback/thoughts!
by pfdietz | 2025-09-11 17:13:36+00:00
This is the same Todd Rider whose PhD work at MIT (advised by the late Lawrence Lidsky) showed aneutronic fusion was unlikely to be workable. Lidsky had previously argued DT fusion wasn't going to cut it because of inherently low volumetric power density and had argued aneutronic fusion should be pursued. Between those two approaches lies lower neutronicity D-3He fusion, which may be fusion's only real hope. Helion has the lead in pursuing this approach, with a design focusing on highly efficient energy recirculation that feels informed by Rider's analysis.
by cmdr2 | 2025-09-11 17:13:40+00:00
https://pypi.org/p/torchruntime might help here, it's designed precisely for this purpose.

`pip install torchruntime`

`torchruntime install torch`

It figures out the correct torch to install on the user's PC, factoring in the OS (Win, Linux, Mac), the GPU vendor (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel) and the GPU model (especially for ROCm, whose configuration varies per generation and ROCm version).

And it tries to support quite a number of older GPUs as well, which are pinned to older versions of torch.

It's used by a few cross-platform torch-based consumer apps, running on quite a number of consumer installations.
by webstrand | 2025-09-11 17:14:30+00:00
I actually enjoy writing code... most of the time. I find myself turning to AI to write code I have an aversion to writing, not as a substitute for my own practice, but to get code that I would not have written in the first place. Like benchmarks, bash scripts, dashboards, unit tests, etc.

I can live without these things, but they're nice to have without expending the effort to figure out all the boilerplate necessary for solving very simple problems at their core. Sometimes AI can't get all the way to a solution, but usually it sets up enough of the boilerplate that only the fun part remains, and that's easy enough to do.