MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by auto | 2025-09-11 13:06:16+00:00
Once I gave this sometime I actually enjoyed the concept quite a bit. I think it's a novel twist on the bullet hell genre, and I'm a sucker for single button/input style games. I'm playing on a mouse, specifically a Logitech G502 that I can "unlock" the screen wheel to be almost frictionless, which to me feels like the right meta for a game like this.

Couple constructive criticisms:

- Is there a pause button that I'm missing? If not, add one, I want to actually play this more but I need to be able to take breaks

- The beginning is too easy. I'm biased as I like difficult games that encourage mastery, but I found myself dying early on runs because I was getting impatient with how slow the early progression is

- I haven't played enough yet to know whether monsters eventually come from the top, but eventually they should, it would greatly increase the difficulty curve - Hitboxes feel a little meh, and don't seem to match the sprites

- If there's sound, it wasn't working for me, which leads to...

- Pump up the juice. You've got a great core loop, but you need the juice. One of my favorite game dev talks of all time would be perfect for you to watch and iterate with (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U)

- Monster diversity. Again, maybe I didn't play long enough yet to get to newer monsters, but from what I can tell the only diversity is their looks, health, and approach angle. Monsters that are faster and incentivize different movement, or that shoot back at you, or blow up after shooting so you have to avoid, etc.

I'll stop there, don't want an absolute laundry list. Keep at it, you've got a unique foundation, it'd be a shame not to polish it up!
by brookst | 2025-09-11 13:06:24+00:00
I don’t disagree with your diagnosis of American culture, but the tip thing is just shifting wages from employer to customer. It’s no different from VAT versus sales tax: same result, different math.

Opting not to tip when it is part of the economic transaction is no different from walking out with the silverware; not expressly forbidden, just a breach of social contract.
by cherryteastain | 2025-09-11 13:06:43+00:00
People keep repeating this defeatist drivel but it's just not true. It's still up in the air whether you can defeat a law using technical measures, but it is a thoroughly settled matter that you cannot legislate away mathematics.

We saw how laws completely failed to make encryption illegal in the 90s as open source encryption code spread rapidly on the internet. "Exporting" encryption software was illegal in many countries like USA and France but it became impossible to enforce those laws. A technical measure defeated the law.

Encryption is just maths. It is the law being unreasonable here, and it will be the law which will ultimately have to concede defeat. UK is the perfect example here - Online Safety Act's anti-E2EE clauses have been basically declared by Ofcom to be impossible to implement and they are not even trying anymore.
by qsort | 2025-09-11 13:06:57+00:00
> how in anonymous forums there's a lot more people pointing out that they think this is hype whereas when we wear our professional hats many of us join in

Different speeches for different audiences. On HN, for all its faults, people don't need to be told that yes, SOTA LLM can somewhat help you with code, parsing documentation, etc. A lot of people in the "real world" are still grossly underestimating this technology.
by baggachipz | 2025-09-11 13:07:10+00:00
> It's definitely interesting how in anonymous forums there's a lot more people pointing out that they think this is hype whereas when we wear our professional hats many of us join in. It's like we all want you to party going no we all know what's going to happen

Well, when people's financial and employment stability are dependent on placating the overlords who are entranced...
by alborzb | 2025-09-11 13:08:12+00:00
>>hope more countries join in

By the looks of it, besides Ireland (in OP), Iceland ( https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-09-09-iceland-may-not-take-p... ) and Spain ( https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2025/09/11/spain-thr... ) have also stated their intention to boycott.
by weinzierl | 2025-09-11 13:08:18+00:00
Very sad to hear.

If you read Gregg's Health FAQ be sure not to miss the "You seem oddly calm about this." section. You could otherwise get a wrong impression.

Life really was not kind to him, but he doesn't seem to have let it get in his way.

https://greggkellogg.net/health-faq.html
Paying for 20 Years, banned overnight for 'cheating' I didn't do
by succo | 2025-09-11 13:09:11+00:00
Blizzard just banned my World of Warcraft account, which I've had for over 20 years (since 2005). The stated reason was "hacks" but I've never used hacks, gold sellers, or anything against the rules in WoW or any other game. I was just doing missions and chatting with a friend when I suddenly got disconnected and banned.

I appealed, but the first ticket was closed without proof or explanation. I opened a new one, but I'm worried it'll be auto-closed again. To make matters worse, I had just bought the new expansion and renewed my annual subscription before this happened, no refund! how this can even be legal!

Has anyone else experienced something similar with Blizzard? Do they really have the legal right to terminate long-standing accounts without showing evidence? And what practical steps, if any, can be taken in situations like this?
by bell-cot | 2025-09-11 13:09:29+00:00
Point. I read the sleep deprivation meaning into the phrase "pressure caused by the operational tempo, something the RN and USN would recognise" - because I'm somewhat familiar with the subject.

Try a search on "naval officer sleep deprivation", and notice just how many military, government, and adjacent sites have been talking about that specific problem. (For me, its role in accidents and collisions pops up in the 2nd sentence of Google's AI overview.)
by alborzb | 2025-09-11 13:09:45+00:00
It's interesting as it causes a divide amongst EBU members for Eurovision - besides Ireland (in OP), Iceland ( https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-09-09-iceland-may-not-take-p... ) and Spain ( https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2025/09/11/spain-thr... ) have also stated their intention to boycott if Israel participates.
by alias_neo | 2025-09-11 13:11:02+00:00
I'm completely new to this, and know nothing about MCP, but why is it that when it fetches that stuff it isn't just "content"?

We make code and other things benign all of the time when we embed it in pages or we use special characters in passwords etc, is there something about the _purpose_ of MCP that makes this a risk?
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by Qem | 2025-09-11 13:11:21+00:00
This. Not all ejecta from asteroid/comet impact is vaporized. Some is launched at escape velocity mostly undisturbed[1]. Mars both cooled first, giving it a leg up to allow biogenesis[2], and has lower escape velocity, making easier for rock chunks to be launched from there to Earth, rather than the reverse. From thousands of impacts and billions of rock chunks ejected from Mars in the early solar system, the successful delivery of a single viable microbe would be enough to seed Earth.

[1] https://fire.biol.wwu.edu/cmoyer/zztemp_fire/biol345_F10/pap...

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0403049
by catigula | 2025-09-11 13:12:08+00:00
I'm trying to soft-land you on this but this is specifically because you don't know and haven't been curious about it, not because there isn't any evidence.

Nobody denies David Grusch is exactly who he says he is with the access he says he had. His lawyer was the former inspector general of the intelligence community for God's sake.

I find "conspiracies can't be true" a tiresome point. Any secret is a conspiracy and many are kept. Are the technical details of the F-47 or nuclear physics not true because these secrets have been kept? Nuclear physics have been classified and protected for going on 90 years now.

You can transform your claim to accommodate this, but it becomes suspicious.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-11 13:12:25+00:00
Fourier transforms are simply ways of interpreting. The senses restrict, the existing memory/engram/affinity of those senses: we don't yet know how much is lost, whether any of it is lost. In the schema, we must assume their inputs are preserved in some way, (study those with photographic memory, or the eidetic as example) and it is assumed preservation is chemical in nature that represents or co-represents the oscillations, yet we're not sure what exactly this is as of 2024 (I haven't finished reading this year's). Of course there are disruptions, and sleep - you do not remember the sounds around us when asleep. But if you recorded an event, it is still there. By lossless, I am referring to the idea there is no true separation between the world and the brain. While the senses mitigate, the fields interact. Would the toroidal manifold of the entorhinal cortex exist without a Copernican-Mach universe? Of course not. In essence, as Northoff illustrates on his last book's cover, the universe is within us. He is neither being poetic nor ironic. Rather paradoxical. Brain's are oscillatory Copernican bulbs, the design elements of the brain reflect the Machian idea that everything affects.

Without direct perception, and using such poor tools as symbols and narratives to externalize memory, we're deeply impoverished as to the nature of memory and our ability to access it. But once we have a better grasp of the neuronal units, spatial-syntax, we will unlock every memory.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10500127/

Also to consider are the shapes and phases between oscillation. "It’s high dimensional complexity; the mind is an attractor in high dimensional phase space formed between neural oscillators." Emergent properties are not reducible to their constituent parts.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-09-11 13:12:26+00:00
A lot of people feel this way, but as someone with experience here, it's also not just about trying to be overbearing.

Remember, servers are dealing with the average American. A decent portion of the people that come in are extremely demanding. /Three rounds of sauce on the side in different configurations... Can I have the sauce from that dish on the other table on the side of my dish? Oh it's part of the cooking process? Can you ask the chef if he can put it in a little ramekin? Oh it's a sickly sweet glaze that needs to be cooked? I think I'll try a little bit of it anyway. Ewww this is disgusting take this back!

Dealing with this day in and day out will default you to that service state after a while, especially because the "average working class Americans" often tip the best.

Every server knows screwing up the actual food nukes their tip (and it often does). If they're working in that context and still messing that up, well, they probably can't be helped.
by bushbaba | 2025-09-11 13:13:58+00:00
It’s a statement against a state, but the voices behind it are really referring to Jews in general. Their remark about hostages shows it. Why are there hostages in Gaza is due to actions from Hamas, not Israel.

More importantly ask yourself. Why is it that there’s not any meaningful quantity of Jews in Ireland, even though there’s larger numbers of Jews historically in nearby countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Ireland
by Thorrez | 2025-09-11 13:14:00+00:00
Reflowing the current line won't work. If I delete a word, I need the next line's text to be flowed up to join with the current line. And that might require reflowing of subsequent lines as well.

Reflowing the current sentence won't work, because this style involves inserting semantic line breaks in certain places within a single sentence.

Reformatting a user selected portion is going to take more effort on my part. Currently my editor reflows the entire file every time the file is saved; I don't have to think about which part to reflow.
by piltdownman | 2025-09-11 13:14:26+00:00
It's very easy to wrap your head around - Germany is Israel's main arms supplier after the US.

Germany accounted for 30% of Israel's arms imports between 2019 and 2023. In 2023 it accounted for 47% of Israel's total imports of conventional arms.

Between October 2023 and May 2025, Germany greenlighted the delivery of weapons and military equipment worth €485m to Israel

They since stopped the export of weaponry 'used in gaza' but it's naive in the extreme to accept assurances from the incumbent Israeli government to the contrary.

https://news.sky.com/story/germany-is-one-of-israels-stronge...

N.B. Israel continues to illegally carry weapons through Irish airspace, and kindly refers our government agency to El Al's Legal department on inquiry.

https://www.ontheditch.com/israels-national-airline-departme...
by Fricken | 2025-09-11 13:14:56+00:00
I've been following progress on self-driving cars since the 2004 and 2005 Darpa Challenges. Things were very exciting in the 2011-2015 timeframe. Demos were mindblowing. Engineers were giddy. The auto industry went from laughing to shaking in their boots, and then scrambling to make it appear as though they had a horse in the self-driving car race. Hundreds of billions in investment were flying around. Now here we are in 2025, things aren't dead at all, but also nobody with skin in the game is under any delusions about how hard it is to build and scale a viable robotaxi operation.

So far the Self driving car hype cycle has served as a useful reference for understanding the hype with LLMs. The main difference with LLMs is that there is 10 times as much money flying around.
by Mizza | 2025-09-11 13:16:07+00:00
Even at $10k/yr/employee, you'd need 30 million people on the 10k/yr plan to hit 300B ARR. I think that's a hell of a big swing. 3 million, recoup over ten years? Maybe, but I still don't think so. And then competition between 4 or 5 vendors, larger customers figuring out it's cheaper to train their own models for one thing that gives them 90% of the productivity gains, etc.

But rather than speculating, I'm generally curious what the companies are saying to their investors about the matter.
by catlikesshrimp | 2025-09-11 13:16:35+00:00
Remember there are are radical nationalist / racist / xenophobic groups in germany / anywhere.

Such groups are so strong in Germany that Hitler used them to strenghten the power of his discourse.

Recognizing Israel / the Jews are the ones now doing Genocide would *in the sight of the extremist groups* prove their belief that Hitler was right / the Jews are the devil. (I repeat, in their regard, not mine)

Therefore, my opinion is that the official stance in Germany must be "historical responsability" mainly not for the sake of the Jews, but for the stability of the society.
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-11 13:16:37+00:00
> My thinking is that if a data protection office did not fine Meta or Bytedance in a given year, heads would roll. It's a revenue collection device

Not sure which field you work in, but this is already in contradiction with the fact that those companies aren't simply fined spontaneously.

The fine is the outcome of an investigation that started with an inquiry to the company, possibly based on a complaint.

In case of the 1.2bn EUR fine for Meta, the process took YEARS of investigation [0], and the company was fined because the GDPR-violating transfers were "systematic, repetitive and continuous"

[0] https://www.edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/consistency-findin...
by sailingparrot | 2025-09-11 13:16:42+00:00
One of the top 5 most active contributors to pytorch over the last few years, and specifically working on some of it's most hardcore components is "just popular online"?

If you say so.

> the author has nothing to do with the original comment

Except for the part of the comment that was assuming the author had no idea how this all works, has only used LLMs through API and has never run a local model, you mean?
by piltdownman | 2025-09-11 13:16:45+00:00
The Ultra-Orthodox can't even join the IDF. The issue is that the US HR Bill passed which legally equated Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism, and the US control the narrative in the english-speaking world around the Genocide. It's Orwellian in the extreme.

https://www.thefire.org/news/combat-anti-semitism-house-bill...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/1/us-house-passes-cont...
by natebc | 2025-09-11 13:16:55+00:00
I don't have specifics for how many people running a fork of ZFS on Linux (or the fork for opensolaris, nexenta, etc) have copy-pasted some configuration from a wiki/forum/stackexchange and resulted in a pool that's misconfigured in some subtly fatal way. I don't have any personal anecdotes to share about my own homelab or enterprise IT experience with ZFS because I don't use it at home and nowhere I've worked in IT has used it.

I did live specific situations over several years in a support engineer role where a double digit percentage of customers in enterprise configurations that ended up somewhere between terrible performance and catastrophic data loss due to the misunderstood configuration of a very complex piece of software.

If you wanna use ZFS, use ZFS. I'm not the internets crusader against it. I have no doubt there's thousands of PB out there of perfectly happy, well configured and healthy zpools. It has some truely next-gen features that are extremely useful. I've just seen it recommended so, so many times as a panacea when something simpler would be just as safe and long lasting.

It's kinda like using Kubernetes to run a few containers. Right?
by amluto | 2025-09-11 13:17:01+00:00
> To make it worse, any low privilege Active Directory account can request a TGS for any service, even if they are not allowed to access that service.

I have a vague understanding of Kerberos, and this is where I’m mystified. Why is the KDC or anything else willing to issue a TGS ticket encryption against a service password before the requesting user authorizes themselves? Or is the issue that authentication and authorization are split and the KDC has no idea whether the requesting user is authorized.
by thrance | 2025-09-11 13:17:03+00:00
The GOP and its entourage actively cheered on the Hortmans getting assasinated in their home by a republican guy disguised as a cop [1]. Trump was golfing during their funrerals and used the occasion to dunk on Tim Walz to the press. He didn't order that flags should be at half mast as he did for Charlie Kirk, depsite him not being a lawmaker. They also turned the attack on Paul Pelosi into a running gag [2], which lasted for years. There is no question as to which side of the political spectrum is normalizing and encouraging political violence, and I wish people scould stop with this very misplaced bothsideism.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/republican-s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Paul_Pelosi#Misinfor...
by danbruc | 2025-09-11 13:17:03+00:00
Because the goal of the Zionists has always been to conquer all of Palestine and the State of Israel has been following those foot steps since day one. From the river to the sea. This has been declared illegal under international law more than half a century ago but Israel does not care about the law. Therefore Israel should be forced to comply, which means boycotts and sanctions or military force. And we should probably try boycotts and sanctions first before we send tanks. Which is unlikely to happen any time soon anyway as that would mean opposing the USA and we have seen in recent history what happens to people and countries supporting the Palestinians.
by jsmith45 | 2025-09-11 13:17:04+00:00
My view, which I suspect even Toub would agree with is that if being allocation free or even just extremely low allocation is critical to you, then go ahead and use structure and stackalloc, etc that guarentee no allocations.

It is far more guarenteed that that will work in all circumstances than these JIT optimizations, which could have some edge cases where they won't function as expected. If stopwatch allocations were a major concern (as opposed to just feeling like a possible perf bottleneck) then a modern ValueStopwatch struct that consists of two longs (accumulatedDuration, and startTimestamp, which if non-zero means the watch is running) plus calling into the stopwatch static methods is still simple and unambiguous.

But in cases where being low/no allocation is less critical, but your are still concerned about the impacts of the allocations, then these sort of optimizations certainly do help. Plus they even help when you don't really care about allocations, just raw perf, since the optimizations improve raw performance too.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-11 13:18:06+00:00
The "game plan" is, and always was, to target human labor. Some human labor is straight up replaceable by AI already, other jobs get major productivity boosts. The economic value of that is immense.

We're not even at AGI, and AI-driven automation is already rampaging through the pool of "the cheapest and the most replaceable" human labor. Things that were previously outsourced to Indian call centers are now increasingly outsourced to the datacenters instead.

Most major AI companies also believe that they can indeed hit AGI if they sustain the compute and the R&D spending.
by xoa | 2025-09-11 13:18:38+00:00
>>"something they have neither the ability nor the desire to do."

>100% they could add client side scanning, why do they think its impossible?

I think you've misread that sentence. It's saying that they don't have the ability right now, as-in this is not a feature they've written in their software, and that further they do not wish to do so (in the same way that Apple did not want to write a backdoor for the FBI previously). Obviously as a matter of programming of course backdoors can be written and have been. But software developers don't want to be forced at gun point to do so like the EU proposes, which seems perfectly understandable.

And fwiw with open source software it actually would be arguable that they "don't have the ability" on a more technical level since that couldn't actually be enforced on the users and the EU's jurisdiction ends at its borders. Obviously many of the most popular messengers are proprietary, but not all. And even for the proprietary vendors that probably does factor into their arguments, as it'd put them at a commercial disadvantage.
by freechoice913 | 2025-09-11 13:18:45+00:00
If it's not evident I can't do much. The constant outpour of media content that depicts Israel as cruel and unfair despite there being no real story. The constant conflation of Israel with antisemitic stereotypes. The denial of Israel's right to exist in both subtle and gross ways.

European left isn't giving any path to Israel to get respect, they will attack Israel no matter what they do.
by Razengan | 2025-09-11 13:19:08+00:00
> It would probably creep into my suspension of disbelief and mess with my enjoyment.

You mean trying some interaction that should be plausible in a point-&-click adventure game but getting told "I can't do that" because the devs didn't think of it, or typing some slightly different grammar in a text adventure game and the parser not understanding common words, or getting the same responses over and over in an AAA+ RPG once the prewritten dialog tree runs out, does NOT creep into your suspension of disbelief?