MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by michaelanckaert | 2025-09-24 11:15:03+00:00
I didn't glace at it, I read it :-) The architecture is a 'unified memory bus', so yes the GPU has access to that memory.

My comment was a bit unfortunate as it implied I didn't agree with yours, sorry for that. I simply want to clarify that there's a difference between 'GPU memory' and 'system memory'.

The Frame.work desktop is a nice deal. I wouldn't buy the Ryzen AI+ myself, from what I read it maxes out at about 60 tokens / sec which is low for my use cases.
by habinero | 2025-09-24 11:15:40+00:00
> We understand the outcomes well enough

We do not, in fact, "understand the outcomes well enough" lol.

I don't really care if you want to have an AI waifu or whatever. I'm pointing out that you're vastly underestimating the complexity behind human brains and cognition.

And that complex human brain of yours is attributing behaviors to a statistical model that the model does not, in fact, possess.
by felineflock | 2025-09-24 11:15:42+00:00
I couldn't get to the PDF.

Here are articles commenting some of the content:

https://nrc.canada.ca/en/stories/worlds-first-ultraweak-phot...

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-emit-a-visible-light-that-va...

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-emit-faint-extinguishes-death....
by bsza | 2025-09-24 11:15:43+00:00
> I don't understand gamers with 15 years old hardware leaving bad reviews or whining when a game chokes above 720p with minimum settings.

Depends on what the game can be reasonably expected to run on. Most games don't even approximate what would be technically possible on today's hardware and waste your electricity on lazy coding instead. "15 years old hardware" is what was cutting edge when Crysis 2 and Skyrim came out, so that's not a good excuse in the majority of cases.
by Lucasoato | 2025-09-24 11:15:51+00:00
In Italy something similar is happening: they have split the football game rights among different competitors, so that if you want to watch every game you have to spend >100€ monthly (that's very high for our economy). To this, add the facts that there has been a major hit to illegal streaming piracy and that football games are getting extremely boring in our country (compared to the Premier League or our Serie A of twenty years ago). The major effect of this is that newest generations aren't giving a shit anymore about football, much less than their parents and grandparents. These people are trying to milk a cow that will be dry in less than 5 years, unless a major revolution happens in FIGC (Italian Football Federation).
by alansammarone | 2025-09-24 11:16:12+00:00
Ok, that makes sense. I couldn't quite fish that out of the article (there's a lot more being said that obscures it), but you're right. If this is indeed relatively common (at this scale and/or level of sophistication), then that definitely would make it much more likely that this is a PR stunt. Not completely settled, but much more likely.
by ffsm8 | 2025-09-24 11:16:30+00:00
A legacy software to me is whatever the company that employs me says is said legacy software.

Pretty much every business I've worked at to date has had such legacy software, which was inevitably still used in some contexts.

It's not always obvious, because - following with the previous example numbers - only 1-2 Java devs will have to interact with the legacy software again, hence from the perspective of the remaining 98, Cobol doesn't exist anymore.
by pella | 2025-09-24 11:16:42+00:00
imho - it’s not enough to list trends - the reason behind the status is key.

for example: "GPT-Codex" = Hold. Why?

I find tech radars very interesting - especially in today’s fast-moving world.

A good reference is the ThoughtWorks Radar: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

My other favorite: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/topics/radar-trends/
by onethought | 2025-09-24 11:16:42+00:00
This technique is explicitly frowned upon in a number of licensing tests. Hand is required to be completely on throttle, or all four fingers completely on brake. So I'm not sure "completely irresponsible" is the right term, as it's actually taught that way.

If you drop the throttle, you will already begin to decelerate from the engine your fingers are A LOT faster than "a second or two" in clasping the brake... easily sub one second.
by FrenchyJiby | 2025-09-24 11:16:58+00:00
Podman has good systemd integration, in the form of quadlets.

It lets you define a systemd job with some custom syntax and run it as a systemd service, and even stretches to allow some form of kubernetes YAML to be run as local (single node, rootless) containers!

Real nice.

See previous presentation on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43456934
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-09-24 11:17:09+00:00
I'm the same but opposite, I like Rust but find myself using Swift most of the time. They sort of do the same thing but coming from opposite directions. Can't go wrong with either imo.

I really do wanna try Kotlin at some point as well. Rust, Kotlin, and Swift feel like the future of languages to me.
by jodrellblank | 2025-09-24 11:18:06+00:00
You be more exact; I’ve spent plenty of time in internet woo-woo ideas and I don’t think I’ve heard of auras since the nineties, reading about Kirlian photographs from a hundred years before that.

Here you are saying that some unspecified group is deriving some unspecified ideas which are, you claim, life riskingly serious.

Just for the sake of making HN interesting to read, can you stop with the one sentence comments that vaguely imply you know something we don’t, and be more exact, explanatory and specific?
by IshKebab | 2025-09-24 11:18:38+00:00
I agree it is pretty nice (with uv and as long as you REALLY don't care about performance). But even if you are one of the enlightened few to use that setup, you still have to deal with dependencies that don't have type annotations, or only basic ones like `dict`.

Typescript (via Deno) is still a better option IMO.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-09-24 11:18:43+00:00
I switched to kitty after a periodic assessment of my user environment. Turns out, of modern terminal emulators, only Kitty is under a copyleft license. Considering, most of them are pretty capable and competitive, this was enough to switch.

What I don't like:

- No remote terminal persistence solution in the works + termux/screen incompatibility.

- Two modes of font rendering and both are meh. Legacy is uneven and jagged, modern has unbalanced perceived font thickness for dark-on-light and light-on-dark, and the modifications can only make it more unbalanced.

Have no complaints besides that. Default keybindings are ok, performance is great, features are plenty, configuration is easy. Font config `kitten` is great.
by amiga386 | 2025-09-24 11:19:27+00:00
Normal convention is that an agency will make no comment about any ongoing investigation, because making public comment prior to bringing charges could be prejudicial to the case.

If, for whatever reason, the agency feels like it's not risking its own case and wants to blow its trumpet... it really doesn't matter what the names of the spokespeople for the agency are. They don't need to speak anonymously, as they won't get in trouble with anyone at the agency for saying what the agency told them to say to the press. The NYT could just say "officials said" and not name them.

It is not like there is a whistleblower inside the Secret Service with scuttlebutt to dish, and the NYT need to protect the identity of Deep Throat 2.0... and all they had to say was the spam operation itself didn't pose any threat to the UN conference.

I think what the blog author's arguing is that this phrase is unnecessary detail that just adds intrigue to sell a rather mundane story.
by bluetomcat | 2025-09-24 11:20:12+00:00
> These lies don’t just affect them but also the people reading it as they might never see what actually happens

This is what sustains this whole economic bubble built on debt and future promises. At all levels of society, you have these inflated unrealistic expectations and BS circulating in the media. Technically-incompetent but eloquent and charismatic CEOs predict that in 6 months, some major technological shift will happen. Managers preach about adjusting their organisations to these new realities. Workers have no choice but to play the game with all its dirty tricks, if they want to stay employed. Anyone who dares to say that the emperor has no clothes is isolated in a dark corner because they may suddenly deflate the value of the whole economy. This is corporate feudalism disguised as a competitive economy.
by mijoharas | 2025-09-24 11:20:52+00:00
Ahhh, sorry, I was focusing on the rascist side.

In the article he supports Tommy Robinson[0], who I think most people in the UK would consider a fascist. He started the EDL (english defense league) which was a more violent extreme version of the BNP (british national party), which the ADL article I just linked describes as "fascist".

I only found out about his views the other day too, so can't say I've noticed any articles that are explicitly fascist, but given what I've read and his support for fascist figures I wouldn't necessarily be surprised at the moment to be honest.

You do raise a fair point though.

[0] https://www.adl.org/resources/article/tommy-robinson-five-th...
by tronfuel | 2025-09-24 11:21:01+00:00
Hi HN — we built TronFuel, a developer-oriented API that lets dApps, wallets and marketplaces on TRON offer “gasless” UX without custody or staking.

Why it matters:

TRON requires energy & bandwidth for on-chain ops; end users typically need TRX or teams must stake/lock capital. That’s UX friction and cost.

TronFuel rents energy/bandwidth on demand, estimates cost, and relays signed transactions — users sign locally, private keys never leave the client.

Pay-as-you-go model (no staking), REST API, webhooks, SDK examples. Typical integrations see large resource cost reductions (depends on operation; many report big savings vs. naive flows).

Quick technical flow:

Build unsigned tx in app

Estimate resources via API

User signs locally

Submit signed tx to TronFuel to rent resources & broadcast; track via webhooks

We’re launched with a few paying customers and a sandbox for testing. Looking for feedback from TRON devs: what integrations or primitives would make adoption even faster? Interested in security review partners and benchmarks too.

Docs & sandbox: https://tronfuel.dev/docs

Happy to answer technical questions or share a demo key for quick testing. — The TronFuel Team
by bckr | 2025-09-24 11:21:47+00:00
It’s perhaps even more maddening than that. Even if all these factors are at play, it doesn’t mean they actually matter all that much to anyone involved. These two coworkers might otherwise really get along and respect each other, but this is one of the games that they are playing with each other.

On the surface, implicitly negotiating over who is more important sounds horribly dramatic, but it’s a game that’s happening constantly among everyone. Usually folks push and pull over some equilibrium point, one person making concessions, then the other, in turns, with the actual hierarchy determining roughly how many turns each person should concede before making a demand of the other. This is where you get dynamics like “he’s a very demanding boss but he cares a lot about his employees” (high amplitude of switching between demand and concession) or “she’s very sharp but also hard to get along with” (doesn’t concede enough to make others feel important).

Concession in this game can be anything, small to large, from being the one who opens the door to let the other through, to offering help during personal problems, to letting someone take more credit on a collaboration.

But, again, these are all played in the implicit layer. They can be raised to the explicit layer by having a “heart to heart”, like “you’re always so kind. I appreciated when you did XYZ”, or “I’d really like if sometimes you did ABC”.
by SoraNoTenshi | 2025-09-24 11:21:48+00:00
It is of course an exaggeration, but that's what is somewhat annoying to me. But dismissing this point by just saying me "get better" after literally years of using Rust is a bit of a weak point, or am i in the wrong here?

And it's not even that i dislike the language, but this is evangelism to just dismiss the point of my argument with "skill issue". A tool isn't supposed to be difficult, it should help you in whatever you're trying to achieve, not making it more difficult.
by n4r9 | 2025-09-24 11:22:42+00:00
Cognitive dissonance is holding conflicting beliefs simultaneously. For example, believing that immigrants are lazy and job-shy whilst also believing that they are taking all the jobs.

What you described sounds more like either a lack of awareness or revisionism (depending on how conscious it is).

There are parallels, though, and I don't like the snark you're getting from other replies here. Both relate to how identity and image drive beliefs. You could even frame the revisionist founder as having cognitive dissonance about what the primary reasons are for their decisions.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-24 11:23:20+00:00
> I switched to zig from rust for implementing a database since 6 months and have no regrets but just don’t think anyone would use it for writing backend code or other similar smaller things.

I don't have a horse in this race, but have you shared more about this decision? It would make for a good blog post and an even better HN discussion.
by Hendrikto | 2025-09-24 11:23:27+00:00
> they have split the football game rights among different competitors, so that if you want to watch every game you have to spend >100€ monthly

Same in Germany.

> newest generations aren't giving a shit anymore about football

Also the same in Germany.

But I am not sure which direction the causality goes. Maybe people are less interested in football because of the shenanigans they are constantly pulling. Or maybe they try to squeeze the remaining audience because people are less interested. It may also not be related at all.
by notatoad | 2025-09-24 11:24:34+00:00
I think, the more extraordinary the claim is, the more proof is required. And I’m with you, I’d normally be incredibly skeptical of a substack post from an author I’ve never heard of before, who writes as egotistically as this. But there is just no extraordinary claim in this article. Only a very very ordinary claim that should be believable to any person who has ever owned a cell phone:

SIM farms are normal, common things that exist all over the place to allow messages from far-away senders to be sent as if they came from a local number.

That’s all the author is asking us to believe.
by Nyr | 2025-09-24 11:24:36+00:00
Internet mostly works in Spain when there is a match: one can see traffic figures from the mayor exchange points: they are unaffected.

Big businesses are unaffected, since LaLiga will quickly reverse any block that impacts popular websites and risks triggering significant public outcry.

Most people in Spain don’t care — and many aren’t even aware of the overly broad blocks.

Cloudflare and RootedCON are challenging this in court, but it may take many years before a final outcome is reached.
by rixed | 2025-09-24 11:24:43+00:00
It is of course subjective. For you hate speech does not justify censorship but for me it does. Probably because we make different risk assessments: you might expect hate speech to have no consequences in general and censorship to lead to authoritarianism, whereas I expect hate speech to have actual consequences on people life that are worse and more likely than authoritarianism. When I think about censorship and authoritarianism, I think about having to hide, but when I think about hate speech I picture war propaganda and genocides.
by GoatInGrey | 2025-09-24 11:25:28+00:00
I spent five years working in quality assurance in the manufacturing industry. Both on the plant floor and in labs, and the other user is largely correct in the spirit of their message. You are right that it's not just up to things being easy to spot, but that's why there are multiple layers of QA in manufacturing. It's far more intensive than even traditional software QA.

You are performing manual validation of outputs multiple times before manufacturing runs, and performing manual checks every 0.5-2 hours throughout the run. QA then performs their own checks every two hours, including validation that line operators have been performing their checks as required. This is in addition to line staff who have their eyes on the product to catch obvious issues as they process them.

Any defect that is found marks all product palleted since the last successful check as suspect. Suspect product is then subjected to distributed sampling to gauge the potential scope of the defect. If the defect appears to be present in that palleted product AND distributed throughout, it all gets marked for rework.

This is all done when making a single SKU.

In the case of AI, let's say AI programming, not only are we not performing this level of oversight and validation on that output, but the output isn't even the same SKU! It's making a new one-of-a-kind SKU every time, without the pre and post quality checks common in manufacturing.

AI proponents follow a methodology of not checking at all (i.e. spec-driven development) or only sampling every tenth, twentieth, or hundredth SKU rolling off the analogous assembly line.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-24 11:25:32+00:00
> measurable way of understanding a languages real utility

It feels like that metric misses "utility" and instead comes from a very American (or capitalistic maybe is better) mindset.

What about Max/MSP/Jitter? Huge impact in the music scene, probably has very small amount jobs available, so it'd rank fairly low while it's probably the top media/music language out there today. There are tons of languages that provide "the most utility for their domain" yet barely have any public job ads about them at all.

I think such metric would be useful to see the "employability of someone who knows that language" if anything, but probably more pain than gain to link "# of job ads" with "utility".
by siva7 | 2025-09-24 11:26:01+00:00
We are already in a state where crackheads and also the brightest people you remember from school talk with chatgpt about their own theories on physics, nature, ... and every response they get back is like "You're absolutely right". Then they go on to publish them on the internet, and what they find are people who agree on that genius. They form together... and one day they cure cancer!
by bawolff | 2025-09-24 11:26:24+00:00
> If you don't know, then you aren't the target audience.

If you do know, then you also know md5 being broken is really really old news.

Seriously. Cryptographers have been warning that md5 seems weak since 1996. There are probably people reading this thread who weren't even alive yet. (It got totally broken in 2004 but the warning signs were way earlier).
by glenstein | 2025-09-24 11:26:57+00:00
I understood them perfectly so I'm not sure what you're talking about. It's a thoughtful high-level overview about the difference between authoritative factual communication and vibes-based speculation. I made a similar point in a thread yesterday about the various disorganized allegations of "fraud" attributed to MrBeast and how they rarely cohere into a clearly articulated harm.

I think scatterbrained, vibes based almost-theories that vaguely imitate real arguments but don't actually have the logical structure, are unfortunately common and important to be able to recognize. This article gets a lot of its rhetorical momentum from simply declaring it's fake and putting "experts" in scare quotes over and over. It claims the article is "bogus" while agreeing that the sim cards are real, were really found, really can crash cell towers, and can hide identities. It also corrects things that no one said (neither the tweet nor the NYT article they link to refer to the cache of sim cards as "phones" yet the substack corrects this phrasing).

The strongest argument makes is about the difference between espionage and cell tower crashing and the achievability of this by non state actors (it would cost "only" $1MM for anyone to do this), but a difference in interpretation is a far cry from the article actually being bogus. And the vagueposting about how quoting "high level experts" proves that the story is fake is so ridiculous I don't even know what to say. Sure, the NYT have preferred sources who probably push preferred narratives, but if you think that's proof of anything you don't know the difference between vibes and arguments.

So I completely understand GPs point and wish more comments were reacting in the same way.
by davemp | 2025-09-24 11:27:27+00:00
There are levels here, Zig addresses:

- out of bounds access (70% of CVEs)

- nullptr dereferences

- type safety issues

That’s massively better than C. Preventing use after free errors requires much less discipline than never missing a boundary or bungling a signed/unsigned conversion.

Zig also has a knock your socks off incredible cross platform build system, empowers some really nice optimizations/ergonomics with comptime, has orders of magnitude faster build times that C++/rust.

Zig is still < v1.0 so standard library could use some work and there are other warts, but I think it will be a great choice for performance oriented programs in the future.
by firesteelrain | 2025-09-24 11:27:56+00:00
I wouldn’t say the NYT article falls apart it is just less sensationalistic. Very likely as this substack article suggests that these SIM farms do knock out SMS from time to time because they DDoS the tower. So that part is correct. Nation state ? Ok maybe far fetched. These farms are not out of reach of a normal person who over time purchases the technical pieces. It’s an investment.
by jvanderbot | 2025-09-24 11:28:20+00:00
Specifically from paper: The live/dead mice (and container) were all held at 37C, which google tells me is a normal mouse body temp. And, the observed light does not match the spectrum of black body radiation expected for the temps at which images were taken or subjects were held.

Also strange: The effect changed w/ injury or anesthetic treatment according to the abstract.
by adrian_b | 2025-09-24 11:28:44+00:00
The visible range corresponds to the typical energy differences between different states of an outer electron in a molecule, which also correspond to the typical energy differences between the input and output molecules of a chemical reaction.

(The near infrared range corresponds to the typical energy differences between different vibrational states of the atoms in a molecule. Such energy differences are smaller than the energy differences encountered in most chemical reactions, which involve extracting or adding atoms from/to the molecule, which obviously needs more energy than the vibration of those atoms, when they remain bound in the molecule.)

Thus it is normal and expected that the output molecules of an exothermic chemical reaction may be in an excited state from which they can decay to their ground state by emitting light exactly in the visible range.

As long as it is living, in any organism a lot of exothermic chemical reactions happen. In many cases the energy produced by those reactions is used for something useful for the organism (i.e. the excited output molecules transfer their surplus energy to other molecules), but it also may escape as emitted light, reducing the efficiency in the use of the energy produced by an exothermic chemical reaction to less than 100% (the efficiency is also reduced when the energy of the excited molecule is transferred to other molecules than those intended, which eventually results in warming the environment instead of doing useful work).