MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by slau | 2025-09-01 05:32:21+00:00
I don’t refute your claim, but I think on average people are unable to match a dishwasher.

12 litres for 150 items is ridiculously good. The university of Bonn indicates that the equivalent handwash uses 100L, and in some cases 300-400L. Pre-rinsing uses 100L alone. These are averages. Some people are extremely good, others are terrible. In some countries it’s customary to let the tap run while washing dishes, etc, so that’s why the extremes vary so wildly.

I also think that sink setup has a massive impact. In my current flat (which came with a dishwasher) I only have a single sink. It’s complicated to be efficient with water, unless I use a secondary container where I can store soapy dishes together until I can rinse everything. Years ago when I lived in a flat without a dishwasher, it had “three sinks” (two large and deep ones, and a smaller area in the middle). It was trivial to have a little soapy water on one side, wash everything, move it to the other side, and literally rinse and repeat. Water usage was greatly reduced compared to my current setup.

The only thing I don’t run in the dishwasher are wooden items and the couple of non-stick items I still have left.
by throwaway7783 | 2025-09-01 05:32:39+00:00
Probably not for $200/mo EC2, but AWS/GCP in general

* Centralized logging, log search, log based alerting

* Secrets manager

* Managed kubernetes

* Object store

* Managed load balancers

* Database HA

* Cache solutions

... Can I run all these by myself? Sure. But I'm not in this business. I just want to write software and run that.

And yes, I have needed most of this from day 1 for my startup.

For a personal toy project, or when you reach a certain scale, it may makes sense to go the other way. U
by xelxebar | 2025-09-01 05:32:50+00:00
I've used btrfs for 5-ish years in the most mundane, default setup possible. However, in that time, I've had three instances of corruption across three different drives, all resulting in complete loss of the filesystem. Two of these were simply due to hard power failures, and another due to a flaky cpu.

AFAIU, btrfs effectively absolves itself of responsibility in these cases, claiming the issue is buggy drive firmware.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-01 05:35:08+00:00
>Even the smallest nations have the legal right to permanently incarcerate, strip you of your assets or even murder you if you are in their sphere of influence.

A nation that did that would be able to do that exactly once before everyone decides to never do business with it ever again, which they can afford to do because it's such a small market. Exercising arbitrary power is not the trump card you think it is. Hell, even a tiny nation with reasonable but annoying (from the point of view of a corporation) laws may not be worth it to deal with.
by waste_monk | 2025-09-01 05:35:38+00:00
Presumably they mean something treating it more like renting a car.

E.g. if a game console manufacturer wants to retain owner-level control of their console, they can rent it to you for $X per month, which would include a Y% sales/VAT/GST/whatever tax.

And correspondingly if the device is sold to you, they should not be able to do things like disallow you from running custom software, remotely brick the device with a soft fuse, etc. and otherwise stop you from using it freely.

I think there is a middle ground (e.g. you can buy the console and either have it in "secure" mode as it ships from the factory, or choose to "root" the device and gain the ability to run custom code - perhaps this would invalidate the manufacturer's attestation keys from the secure enclave or burn a soft fuse as part of the process, so it no longer passes checks for DRM and so on). However that may not be economically viable as I understand the consoles are often loss leaders on the hardware and the profit is made on game sales and licensing.
by wtallis | 2025-09-01 05:36:46+00:00
Pop-up ads from the dark ages of the web largely weren't modal dialog boxes. For the most part, clicking to dismiss them, or clicking to bring the window you cared about back to the foreground was at least as easy as getting rid of "toast" style pop-ups. Both are intentionally distracting, neither is blocking in the sense of preventing you from continuing to interact with the window they partially obscure.
by richardfeynman | 2025-09-01 05:37:16+00:00
You are not commenting in good faith. The author, a respected computer scientist with deep knowledge of this issue, is not a propagandist; you just don't like what he says. I have been on Hacker News for well over a decade, I'm not some fresh two year old account like yours. And I didn't say I don't consume any propaganda (I'm sure I do), it's you who said I'm "deep into propaganda" which is a false and evidence-free statement.
by motorest | 2025-09-01 05:37:25+00:00
> The sensible way to speed up compilation 5x was implemented almost 10 years ago, worked amazingly well, and was completely ignored. I don't expect progress from the standards committees. Here it is if you're interested: https://github.com/yrnkrn/zapcc

Tools like ccache have been around for over two decades, and all you need to do to onboard them is to install the executable and set an environment flag.

What value do you think something like zapcc brings that tools like ccache haven't been providing already?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ccache
by amilios | 2025-09-01 05:37:51+00:00
Personally I've downgraded my phone intentionally, from an iPhone 14 Pro to an iPhone SE 2020 (the previous iPhone I had). It's slow, it overheats, the battery is short. But that's what I want -- the friction makes me really consider every use of the phone, and the occasional slowdowns frustrate me just enough to reconsider taking it out of my pocket for everything. It kind of "works" for me. Might get a battery pack though hahah
by reactordev | 2025-09-01 05:39:18+00:00
They did this to micro sd cards on the first switch. Looks like they found another way. Nintendo isn’t customer friendly. Gone are the days of the N64 and gone are the days of Nintendo pushing the boundaries of fun and entertainment.

Now, they make underpowered handhelds for kids with proprietary dongles like Apple in hopes of trapping their customers to their platform.

No thanks.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-01 05:40:52+00:00
Have an apoplectism

https://agorism.dev/book/math/ag/royal-road-algebraic-geomet...

Also iirc, various books titled Royal Road to Geometry, which might make more sense given that IMO geom was the first to get crushed by chatbots

Ymmv, but denying existence of royal road to math seems like a narcissism limited to the most elite layity
by Rohansi | 2025-09-01 05:41:57+00:00
Also the good old phishing emails/links. So many people are simply unaware when a website is pretending to look like an app/floating window. Even younger people who you'd hope know better are falling for it today. I work on a PC game and players (mostly young adults) are constantly getting their accounts compromised by the same phishing sites that pop up monthly.

AI voice and video cloning scams are also only going to increase. Why would scammers need to get people to install random APKs when they can just impersonate a family member and tell them what to give directly?

To me it seems very much like the classic "think of the children" type argument. It's not going to really fix anything in the end but it will benefit Google.
by nikkwong | 2025-09-01 05:42:53+00:00
I'm sort of inclined to agree with your premise that ADHD may describe how a patient presents without describing the underlying faulty physiology; but, at the same time—it's all about attention.

It doesn't matter how you get there—mechanisms that can improve executive control and control over the mind's salience network will greatly end up benefiting those who suffer with ADHD. Those who practice mindfulness meditation—ADHD sufferers or not—show strengthened neural circuitry in both executive control and salience networks. Head trauma, environmental factors, genetics or what have you; working to strengthen these networks is a good thing.
by soonc | 2025-09-01 05:43:33+00:00
> It should be possible to run Android on an iPhone and manufacturers should be required by law to provide enough technical support and documentation to make the development of new operating systems possible.

Why?

The author doesn't explain why and I've yet to see any justification for this other than, essentially, "because I want to" - usually evoking supposed freedoms and rights that exist only in the realm of wishful thinking.
by motorest | 2025-09-01 05:44:39+00:00
> Both zapcc and Fil-C could benefit from the involvement of the standards committee.

I think there is a hefty deal of ignorance in your comment. A standardization process is not pull-based, it's push-based.

If you feel you have a nice idea that has technical legs to stand, you write your idea down and put together a proposal and then get in touch with committee members to present it.

The process is pretty open.

> Certainly more useful than anything else the standards committees have done in the past 10 years.

Do you understand the "standards committee" is comprised of people like you and me, except they got off their rear-end and actually contribute to it? You make it sound like they are a robe-wearing secret society that is secluded from the world.

Seriously, spend a few minutes getting acquainted with the process, what it takes to become a member, and what you need to do to propose something.
by whateveracct | 2025-09-01 05:45:11+00:00
They also threaten to sue grassroots scenes playing their >20yo games. Scenes that spend on their own dime to host 1000+ entrant tournaments and use skilled time to push the old game to the limit. (Melee). They have the scene currently in a legal stranglehold. It's partially gagged, but people who host Melee events are beholden to Nintendo so they can't run even lightly modded gameplay.

Melee runs on mods always nowadays (input processing patches for fairness and bugfixes), but they mod it in a way that doesn't have any visible difference so they get away with it.
by snuxoll | 2025-09-01 05:45:19+00:00
Originally diagnosed as a teen, was put on Adderall XR and it made me feel like an empty shell every day I took it - stopped taking it after a few months, figured the diagnosis was wrong. Last year after realizing many of my struggles in my adult life indicated I did, in fact, have ADHD, I went to my primary care provider and...well, duh, I do have ADHD. Started taking lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse) and, while it doesn't magically make many years of learned habits vanish, I can actually function like a normal adult, or, as another poster in this thread said, I can get shit done without it being an emergency (or something I'm inextricably interested in that would immediately cause me to go into hyperfocus mode.)

Hell, caffeine barely does anything for me if I'm not taking my meds - I could pound energy drinks and go to bed 30 minutes later. Meanwhile, unless I have built up a tolerance, nicotine would give me a legitimate rush, and I unknowingly self-medicated that way for years (though it was substantially less effective).

The human brain is funny, it doesn't matter if you're ND or not, different stimulants affect people in wildly varying ways.
by strogonoff | 2025-09-01 05:45:24+00:00
In a technical sense, no technology is ever the cause of anything: at the end of the day, humans are the cause. However, technology often unlocks scale, and at some point quantity becomes quality, and I believe that is usually implied when it is said that technology “causes” something.

For example, cryptocurrency and tumblers are not themselves the cause of scams. Scams are a result of a malevolent side of human nature; a result of mental health issues, insecurity and hatred, oppression, etc., whereas cryptocurrencies, as many people are keen to point out, are just like cash, only digital. However, one of the core qualities of cash is that it is unwieldy and very difficult to move in big amounts. Cash would not allow criminals to casually steal a billion USD in one go, or ransomware a dozen of hospitals, causing deaths, subsequently washing the proceeds and maintaining plausible deniability throughout. Removing a constraint on cash makes it a new thing qualitatively. Is there a benefit from it? Sure. However, can we say it caused (see above) a wave of crime? I think so.

Similarly, if there has been a widespread problem of mental health issues for a while, but now people are enabled to “address” these issues by themselves—at humongous scale, worldwide—of course it will be possible to say LLMs would not be the cause of whatever mayhem ensues; but wouldn’t they?

Consider that it used to be that physical constraints made any individual worldview necessarily be tempered and averaged out by surrounding society. If someone had a weird obsession with murdering innocent people, they would not be able to find like-minded people to encourage them very easily (unless they happen to be in a localized cult) to sustain this obsession and transform it.

Then, at some point, the Internet and social media made it easy, for someone who might have otherwise been a pariah or forced to adjust, to find like-minded people (or just people who want to see the world burn) right in their bedrooms and basements, for better and for worse.

Now, a new variety of essentially fancy non-deterministic autocomplete, equipped with enough context to finely tailor its output to each individual, enables us to fool ourselves into thinking that we are speaking to a human-like consciousness—meaning that to fuel one’s weird obsession, no matter how left field, one does not have to find a real human at all.

Humans are social creatures, we model ourselves and become self-aware through other people. As chatbots are becoming normalized and humans want to talk to each other less, we (not individually, but at societal scale) are increasingly at the mercy of how an LLMs happen to (mal)function. In theory, they could heal society at scale as well, but even if we imagine there were no technical limitations preventing that, sadly practice is more likely to show selfish interests prevail and be amplified.
by Intralexical | 2025-09-01 05:45:47+00:00
> Tradeoffs aren't real. Your human brain expects them to be, but they aren't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antagonistic_pleiotropy_hypoth...

So… You're just approaching this with, like, zero reference to actual science at all? "My mind imagines I can have eternal life, and therefore I can, and anybody pointing out flaws with my position is worthless miserable fluff"?

Look, I don't like the limits of thermodynamics more than anyone does. But I think it says a lot that there are, you know, actual real diseases that people suffer from and we can make a cost-effective amelioration of with focused effort. And instead you're here raging that we as a society aren't spending billions of dollars trying to make you immortal.
by mannyv | 2025-09-01 05:46:12+00:00
One thing that we ran into back in the day was EEC failure on reboot.

We had a few Dell servers that ran great for a year or two. We rebooted one for some reason or another and it refused to POST due to an EEC failure.

Hauled down to the colo at 3AM and ripped the fucking ram out of the box and hoped it would restart.

Hardware fails. The RAM was fine for years, but something happened to it. Even Dell had no idea and just shipped us another stick, which we stuck in at the next downtime window.

To top it off, we dropped the failing RAM into another box at the office and it worked fine. <shrug>.
by cameldrv | 2025-09-01 05:47:14+00:00
IMO their original product simply shows less and less meaningful content every year. Originally you'd go to facebook because "I want to see what are my friends up to." Now it's "I want to waste my life by watching 30 second videos that make me upset."

The AI generated content is not going to have meaning. It can make a really cute picture of a baby, but it's not your friend from high school's baby.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-09-01 05:48:05+00:00
I agree with your point. And meanwhile in Korea (according to article I've read) to use any bank's website you have to install a spy software in your PC. It looks like every major service vendor is organising a crawling subversion against their users and they really count we won't notice.

One of the articles: https://palant.info/2023/01/02/south-koreas-online-security-...
by motorest | 2025-09-01 05:49:02+00:00
> 'm not asking the standards committees to develop them for free. They were already developed!

That's great to hear. It sounds like you have everything set to put together a proposal. Do you have any timeline in mind to present something?

> I'm saying that the committees should acknowledge their existence, (...)

Oh does this mean any of the tools you're praising was already proposed to be included in the standard? Do you mind linking to the draft proposal? It's a mailing list, and all it takes is a single email, so it should be easy to link.

Where's the link?

https://isocpp.org/std/submit-a-proposal
by Intralexical | 2025-09-01 05:49:22+00:00
Yep. The point I'm making is that there is no precedent in nature for a complex animal maintaining homeostasis indefinitely like that (that doesn't rely on bulk regeneration). And given such immortality would presumably be highly evolutionarily advantageous, there is therefore no reason to believe it's possible at all, and many reasons to suspect it might not be (antagonistic pleiotropy, chaos theory, thermodynamics…).
by fluoridation | 2025-09-01 05:49:35+00:00
>I also don’t see Apple or Google as merely companies that assemble parts and selling us "hardware". The decades when hardware and software were two disconnected worlds are gone.

That when you buy a phone you're also buying software components doesn't change the fact that the phone is owned entirely by you. You're not entering into a partnership to co-own the phone with anyone else, it's entirely yours. No one should get to decide how you use it but you.

>But we’re not buying pans anymore — we’re buying airplanes that also happen to serve food.

So the argument is that by taking a piece of electronics I paid for that is running on electricity I pay for, and making it run some arbitrary piece of software, I'm putting people's lives at risk?
by mannyv | 2025-09-01 05:49:50+00:00
The one big box assumes that you know how to configure everything for high performance. I suspect that skill has been lost, for the most part.

You really need to tweak the TCP/IP stack, buffer sizes, and various other things to get everything to work really well under heavy load. I'm not sure if the various sites that used to talk about this have been updated in the last decade or so, because I don't do that anymore.

I mean, you'll run out of file descriptors pretty quickly if you try to handle a few hundred simultaneous connections. Doesn't matter how big your box is at that point.
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by samyakk | 2025-09-01 05:50:01+00:00
As a founder, I've always had the hardest time building landing pages.

You either buy a template and spend hours editing, or scream at Cursor to "make it beautiful". It's exhausting and waste of our time as founders.

We simply need AI to generate beautiful landing pages that we can ship.

I'd been working on this problem statement for a while and was able to get great results when I provided AI with a detailed design system to follow. So I ended up building a collection where I've curated 100s of design systems for AI tools to use.

Now, after launch of Nano-Banana, I updated our flow to first generate a preview of how your website will look in different design systems - so you can choose the one you find best and get a full website with it.

It outputs the result in HTML/CSS so you can easily ask any ai tool to translate it to your frontend framework.

Would love thoughts.
by cryptonector | 2025-09-01 05:50:20+00:00
There is also the possibility that without a [paid] curator (the vendor, like Google or Apple) we can't have security for how do we ascertain provenance? You might not buy that argument, but the vendor will make it, and it will resonate with the public and/or the politicians.

Establishing trust with hardware, firmware, and operating system software is currently an intractable problem. Besides the halting problem and the reflections on trusting trust problem (i.e., supply chain problems) the sheer size of these codebases and object code (since you'll need to confirm that the object code is not altered as in the reflections on trusting trust paper) is just too big for the public to be able to understand it. Sure, maybe we could use AI to review all of this, but... that's expensive if every person has to do it, and... that's got a bootstrapping problem.

Basically the walled garden is unlikely to go away anytime soon. It would be easier to change the rules politically to do things like reduce transaction fees, but truly allowing the wide public to run anything they want seems difficult not just politically but technically, because the technical problems will lead to political ones.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-01 05:51:44+00:00
It blows my mind people here don't understand this. Copyright is a huge benefit to society. And under copyright, people that don't want to use it are free to release their rights to the world, so you get two approaches. Which one do we see contributing the most to modern thought? To modern entertainment? To education? Imagine if all text books were open, the only authors would be overworked grad students assigned to update them for next quarter.
by wickedsight | 2025-09-01 05:52:23+00:00
It's not that strange. USB-C is a plug, not everyone who implements the plug also implements it correctly. Some chargers with a USB-C Plug might just send a fixed voltage over the cable, rather then implementing the protocols.

I'm not saying that's the case for you, but USB-C is a minefield and I've seen some weird things happen with USB-C plugs.
by beeflet | 2025-09-01 05:53:17+00:00
>It should be able to make an OS. It should be able to write drivers.

How is it going to do that without testing (and potentially bricking) hardware in real life?

>It should be able to transpile compiled binaries (which are just languages of a different language) across architectures

I don't know why you would use an LLM to do that. Couldn't you just distribute the binaries in some intermediate format, or decompile them to a comprehensible source format first?
by Rzor | 2025-09-01 05:53:17+00:00
You gotta appreciate how this lovely story, (which to me has too many Is to have "enlightenment" close to it), is sitting on /business/, even though Bigthink has Neuropsych, Thinking, The Present, The Future, Life, Health and Special Issues. I guess it wasn't a conscious decision to have it there, or so I hope. ;)
by SahAssar | 2025-09-01 05:59:04+00:00
The TLS guarantees are to the edge of the infra of the vendor. If that vendor has decided to use infra providers that issue certs for them without their knowledge and they have not implemented CAA then the blame is not on TLS, it is on the vendor. A lot of what you mention can be explained by cloudflare issuing certs for customers without them knowing when using their DNS, an agressive WAF or other much more plausible things.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-01 05:59:22+00:00
I wouldn’t be totally opposed to having some sort of totally locked down device that I was just used for banking. The bank could even sell them or give them away with the account (doesn’t need high performance).

Another though; if we were actually able to pass laws that helped people, one that I’d like to see would be: for a totally locked down proprietary device, everything done with it should be the legal liability of the vendor. If your bank account gets broken into via the device, you can’t audit what happened, you couldn’t have have broken it, so it ought to be their responsibility.