MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bob1029 | 2025-09-24 10:57:13+00:00
UE is easier to ruin a project with but it's not inherently cursed.

The real reason many of these games run like shit is over reliance on real time lighting systems. RT lights are easy. It's easy to throw a bunch of artists into a box and hope for the best. A complete idiot can make a scene mostly look good without much thinking. Baked lights require a lot of anticipation and planning. It impacts iteration time, etc. The tradeoff being that this is orders of magnitude more performant than RT lights. Imagine watching Toy Story after the offline render vs attempting to do it live. This is literally the same scaling problem.

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-09-24 10:58:11+00:00
This is a poor argument, because the universe is uncomputable. We have models that apply on short time scales, but it's fundamentally not computable either in practice or in principle.

On long enough scales - and they're not that long when you're talking about billions of years - we don't even know if the solar system is stable.

Bio-computability has the same issue at smaller scales. There are islands of conceptual stability in a sea of noise, but good luck to you if you think you can compute this sequence of comments on Hacker News given the position of every atom in the original primordial soup.

The universe is not clockwork. The concept of computability is essentially mechanical, and it's essentially limited - not just by conceptual incompleteness theorems, but by the fact that any physical system of computation has physical limits which place hard bounds on precision and persistence.
by alansammarone | 2025-09-24 10:58:35+00:00
Exactly! Thank you! :)

I believe we're making very similar points in essence - see my other reply. Personally, I'd say that foreign security services having some involvement in this is slightly more plausible. If nothing else, just because some are basically nation-wide gang states, which very well could be doing this just for monetary reasons. Seems a bit more likely, not much, than a fed agency trying to do something (unclear what the author claim is about the point of the lie - "hype it up", I guess), concluding that lying about what they know in a case is a good way to do it, and choosing this case and this particular lie.
by serbuvlad | 2025-09-24 10:59:00+00:00
I HATE this. I regularly look at really high end products I'll never buy for the fun of it in a "What's the best X that money can buy?" sort of way. And it took me half an hour to find what's the "best" Lenovo laptop money-no-object . Not even ChatGPT could figure it out easily (as far as I can tell it's the P16s). Apple? Well they sell 2 laptops: the MacBook Air and Pro. Select the Pro, spec it out to the max, done. Even the 13/16-inch choice is part of the spec process, and not a separate product.

PC manufacturers, please, for the love of all that is holy, make FIVE laptops: the thin, the tablet-laptop, the "pro", the gaming (the "pro" with RGB) and the workstation (as in Xeon/Quadro). Keep the name you give each of them year-after-year-after-year. And just offer me a lot of CONFIGURATION options to each of these, not a lot of different products.

Dell seams quite reasonable by comparison with Lenovo.
by iambateman | 2025-09-24 10:59:18+00:00
As a counterpoint, I’ve been coding professionally since 2010.

Every feature I’ve asked Claude Code to write was one I could’ve written myself.

And I’m quite certain it’s faster for my use case.

I won’t be bothered if you choose to ignore agents but the “it’s just useful for the inept” argument is condescending.
by graemep | 2025-09-24 10:59:20+00:00
> when the entry side of the career funnel has dried up "thanks" to AI... suddenly there will not be any interns that evolve into juniors, no juniors that evolve into intermediates, no intermediates that evolve into senior

> This has happened before in other industries. Lots of things that are now automated or no longer exist due to computerisation (e.g. manually processing cheques, fixing many types of bookkeeping errors) were part of the training of juniors and how they gained their first real world experience. There is still a funnel in those careers. A narrower one, but still sufficient.
by Brendinooo | 2025-09-24 10:59:26+00:00
>That’s not a thing, that’s not a valid reason to grant anonymity under normal journalistic principles.

I'm not even sure the apple is green! If you search `site:nytimes.com “anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation"` you'll see that this news outlet has done this multiple times in the past.

I suppose "valid" and "normal" are giving the author a bunch of wiggle room here, but he never backs this claim up.
by smcin | 2025-09-24 10:59:48+00:00
Not really: Meta's overall brand was not in general about using AR headsets in the workplace, if you factor in IG and WA. Developing AR is not necessarily the same as using it for leisure let alone using it in the workplace, notwithstanding Meta's marketing claiming it could be used for that. (Are there any stats to show that business users in general ever believed Meta's marketing on AR? I'm not aware of any.)

Also, the RTO mandate can serve as a basis/pretext for layoffs and cost consolidation, although CXOs tend not to admit that directly.
by gnfargbl | 2025-09-24 11:00:12+00:00
From the original article, linked from this article:

> Moreover, during intense braking scenarios, it flashes proportionately to the braking intensity.

Is it just me who finds this behaviour to be a regression? If I see a brake light on a motorbike, I know that the bike is slowing, and I respond accordingly. An urgent flashing brake light doesn't make me react faster, but it does serve to confuse and distract my brain.
Ask HN: How are you using LLMs?
by 0x303 | 2025-09-24 11:00:57+00:00
I've just got back from a nice long period off work to become a parent, and it seems like I've fallen behind in what the SOTA is with LLMs and uses. Let's say about I've got about a year to catch up on.

My workflow was to use Claude/ChatGPT for security research assistance, basically a Google step-in, and Cursor in manual mode to generate and modify code. Wasn't really too fond of agent mode in Cursor but that now seems like the standard, that or Claude Code generating heaps of code?

So what does your workflow look like in your day-to-day? Anything other than Cursor/CC + some LLM provider?
by fransje26 | 2025-09-24 11:01:07+00:00
Historically, the rounding-up were not meant to straight-up murder people, but to get rid of undesirables..

Now, if we read the original parent post wrote:

> [..] the stakes go up: $1M USD fine and up to 20 years in federal prison. [..] you, the manager or executive in charge, and anyone else who is in the know on the transaction is now facing 20 years in federal pounding-in-the-ass prison if they don't immediately cease all communication and break off contact

That sounds a lot closer to "rounding-up" than "a strong attempt to prevent technology transfers supporting unwanted regimes."

Now for the kicker. Taking into context the US developments of the past 9 months, the people affected by such legal threats are a lot closer to the indiscriminate "rounding people up" part than to the "balanced and reasonable legal consequences" part.

Just a small thing to ponder about before blurting out things such as

> I am not going to risk 20 years in prison for something realistically nobody is going to care about

Yesterday, one might not have cared about communists being rounded up, today it might be "illegal" migrants being ICEed up, who knows what it will be tomorrow.
Show HN: Interactive video that brings websites to life
by JJooaa | 2025-09-24 11:01:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a project called Sisu Video, which introduces something we’re calling videobots.

The backstory: I’ve always felt that websites are cold. Most are just walls of text or static images, sometimes with a chatbot, but they rarely feel like there are real people behind them. We wanted to change that.

A videobot is an interactive video experience you can embed on your site. Instead of reading text or chatting with an AI, visitors interact with short videos recorded by you or your team. After each video (10–30 seconds), they get clickable choices that determine what plays next. Eventually, the flow leads them to a clear next step: booking a call, signing up, or learning more.

What makes it different:

- Combines the authenticity of video with the interactivity of branching logic - Everything is human-recorded and guided, not AI-generated text - Makes websites feel personal - visitors see real faces explaining your product or service

We’ve just launched v1, and you can try it here: https://sisuvideo.fi/?ref=hn

You can see it in action in the bottom-right corner of the page, like a chatbot. No signup barrier if you just want to explore.

I’d love feedback from this community - especially around whether this feels useful, how the UX comes across, and potential edge cases we may have missed. Brutal honesty is welcome.

- Joa
by ramon156 | 2025-09-24 11:02:09+00:00
No, fameworks are relatively opinionated towards the goal the creator had, which is usually in a README.

They're all tools that need more context to decide on when you use them.

For example, in my use case (SaaS) I focus on something that makes refactoring a breeze. Type-safe end-to-end is important there, so I use orpc+react for most projects. If you don't like contract-first APIs you're going to hate this, but it makes me think out what I actually want in my frontend before I write the database. This kind of [mocking -> real data] way of coding makes you proactive when designing the app
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-24 11:02:28+00:00
Not wanting the bike lanes blocked is fine. The problem is that you want, as a means to this end, 100% enforcement of laws that were never written nor were their punishments apportioned with the expectation of such with zero regard for the consequences. That is a bad thing to be advocating for over such a mundane issue and I think it's belies a lack of moral character you often see in this subject of discussion (though you do see it in others and it's bad there too) wherein people want their preferred class of traffic prioritized using state force to the determent of all the others.
by slightwinder | 2025-09-24 11:04:55+00:00
Yes, those nutheads who are twisting it, not all nutheads who are in spiritual stuff. There are many old and ancient creeds which are barely changing for decades and centuries. Those can be also problematic, but usually their believers are more pragmatic and won't tell you how you can cure cancer by just praying hard enough while sipping the 200 dollar tea they sell you.
by adrian_b | 2025-09-24 11:06:49+00:00
Hardware SHA-1 and SHA-256 are now supported by many CPUs, many of which are already older than a decade, i.e. almost all 64-bit ARM-based CPUs, all AMD Zen, many generations of Intel Atom and the Intel Core CPUs starting with Ice Lake.

The only CPUs still likely to be in use and without SHA support are the Intel Core CPUs until and including the Skylake derivatives (i.e. up to Comet Lake, i.e. up to 6 years ago).

The Intel Atoms have received SHA support many years before Intel Core, because they competed with ARM, which already had such support.

The support in Intel Core has been added due to AMD Zen, but the products with it have been delayed by the failure of Intel to achieve acceptable fabrication yields in their 10-nm CMOS process, before 2019/2020.
by defrost | 2025-09-24 11:06:51+00:00
You'd prefer if your immigrant MacGuffin had nailed your head to the floor like Dinsdale Piranha or the Kray brothers?

Maybe done you over with blunt instruments and broken glass like a couple of 'scouse trainspotters?

Traditional native British violence then, none of that soft foreign stuff?

You're wise to consign such thoughts to a meconium account.
by watwut | 2025-09-24 11:07:08+00:00
> I think that the composition of “technical” people has changed, over the years.

I am old enough. It is not about changed composition. It simply never was true that everyone would be a "nerd" or bullied. Or even majority of us. Or that majority of the people in tech would ever be neurotypical. There might be more neuroatypical people then in teaching, but not enough to make it reasonable default assumption.

Some people were nerds and some people were bullied. There was overlap between those groups, but not perfect circle and it was far from majority of people in tech.

> Misanthropy is often a self-fulfilling prophecy. That’s different from social awkwardness or fear.

Yes. And what I had in mind was something kind of third. When I said "mean I meant literally "being mean": being condescending, telling people they are idiots, mocking them or their interests.

There is being awkward, which is socially punished. And then there is something else that is euphemized away as "awkward" so that we avoid saying something negative.
by griffzhowl | 2025-09-24 11:08:25+00:00
This is specifically not thermal (blackbody) radiation, which is negligible at the visible frequency range for mice at these temperatures. The researchers find a difference in visible wavelength emission between living and dead mice at the same temperature

This point is addressed on page 2 of the paper.

Paper is accessible on bioarxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.08.622743v1
Ask HN: How many good developers do you personally know?
by codingclaws | 2025-09-24 11:09:48+00:00
By good, I mean a developer that can successfully build an app from scratch that doesn't have any bugs.

I have a theory that there just aren't that many good developers due to the way the industry works (more pay to move into management, lots of developers just making small changes to large existing codebases, lots of people only in it for the money and don't care).
by crote | 2025-09-24 11:09:54+00:00
Absolutely not. Why would they spend a significant amount of time and effort engineering a special mode which is far more complicated, less secure, and will rarely be used?

And how is it even supposed to work? How are you going to handle billing? Does a cell phone tower even know the phone number of the connected devices? What's going to happen when the recipient disconnects mid-SMS? What happens when the same number is in use by multiple SIM cards?
Show HN: WilsonAI – Cursor for Legal with contract editing and research
by sharanry | 2025-09-24 11:09:54+00:00
Wilson eliminates legal bottlenecks by automating contract reviews, term extraction, and legal research that normally take hours. Our autonomous legal agent researches the web + your internal datasources, drafts/analyzes contracts, and provides verifiable answers with citations.

Built by lawyers for legal teams, our agentic architecture combines: - internal + web research: Autonomous browsing and querying across your knowledge bases, legal databases, and web sources - Document intelligence: Multi-modal ingestion of PDFs, Word docs, messy files with custom term extraction - Drafting & redlining: AI-powered contract generation and negotiation assistance, with direct Word file editing

What it unlocks for tech firms: - 10x faster legal workflows: Autonomous research and document editing eliminates manual document review bottlenecks - Scalable legal ops: Handle 10x more contracts without headcount growth - Integrated toolchain: 15+ API integrations with Slack, Google Drive, SharePoint and your existing legal tech stack - Multi-jurisdictional: Works across languages and legal frameworks

Currently helping tech firms allocate more headcount to tech and less on non-tech essentials like HR and Legal. Would love your feedback on our agent architecture and research capabilities!

Try it here: https://www.getwilson.ai/
by afro88 | 2025-09-24 11:10:10+00:00
I use a similar pattern but without the subagents. I get good results with it. I review and hand edit "research" and plans. I follow up and hand edit code changes. It makes me faster, especially in unfamiliar codebases.

But the write up troubles me. If I'm reading correctly, he did 1 bugfix (approved and merged) and then 2 larger PRs (1 merged, 1 still in draft over a month later). That's an insanely small sample size to draw conclusions from.

How can you talk like you've just proven the workflow works "for brownfield codebases"? You proved it worked for 2/3 tasks in 2 codebases, one failure (we can't say it works until the code is shipped IMO).
by thrance | 2025-09-24 11:10:27+00:00
That journey of "fringe hypothesis" to "actual fact" doesn't start out on right-wing Facebook groups, nor has it ever. There are more efficient channels for this. Make a paper, submit it for review, tell the press maybe. But social media can't play a part in establishing the truths we hold for granted, lest we want to be ruled by absolute buffoons that would make vaccines and paracetamol illegal on pseudo-scientific grounds.
by rubyfan | 2025-09-24 11:10:54+00:00
Maybe it’s ok if it was an independent business decision but I’m not saying Youtube’s was or wasn’t.

It’s a problem especially if there is a direct or implied threat to use the powers of the government to impact a business if the government is acting counter to the first amendment. This is essentially the government causing the outcome, not a business using its free speech after an independent business decision.

One could argue a business might come to a decision to pull content the government doesn’t like independently without coercion if they had an antitrust case pending with the DOJ. There’s probably a line here where the government needs to act in a specific way to threaten to make it coercion. Maybe the line was crossed in YT’s case?

On all of these cases I come to the conclusion there needs to be separation of powers on some of these executive branch actions. I’m not sure how to do it something is needed to protect individual rights from executive overreach (regardless of which party is in power).
by Anamon | 2025-09-24 11:12:17+00:00
Yeah, younger folks don't remember that new operating systems used to be a thing of excitement -- what cool new features will we get? -- and not, like today, a thing of distress -- what did they break this time, and which new ways have they found to piss me off

I remember my dad driving us to the local Windows 95 pre-launch event by Microsoft. I was 10 and had learned the ridiculous and useless skills of DOS memory configuration and bootdisk juggling to get all of the games to run. Win95 was so cool! I remember spending hours on the multimedia catalog and demos on the CD-ROM and marvelling at the possibilities.
by adrian_b | 2025-09-24 11:12:32+00:00
Unlike SHA-256, BLAKE3 can be evaluated in parallel, so the speedup factor over SHA-256 depends on the number of available CPU cores.

While BLAKE3 can be many times faster than SHA-256, by consuming many times more power, the amount of work for computing a hash differs much less between the 2 hashes than the execution time on a multi-core CPU.

The speed difference quoted by you for a single thread is caused by your Skylake-based CPU, which does not have the SHA hardware instructions.

Moreover, even the programs that claim to use the SHA hardware instructions may have a speed several times lower than allowed by the hardware, because the more recent CPUs, e.g. from the last 4 years, have wider SHA instructions than the older CPUs, but the programs must have been compiled to support such CPUs, e.g. Zen 3 and newer or Alder Lake and newer.
by latexr | 2025-09-24 11:12:54+00:00
It depends entirely on what you’re building. The OP mentioned “humans fishing out faulty items” that would otherwise be built by artisans, so clearly we’re not talking complex items requiring extensive tests, but stuff you can quickly find and sort visually.

Either way, the point would stand. You wouldn’t have that factory issue then say “alright boys, dismantle everything, we need to get an artisan to rebuild every single item by hand”.
by griffzhowl | 2025-09-24 11:13:28+00:00
A lot of comments are assuming this is just heat.

This is specifically not thermal (blackbody) radiation, which is negligible at the visible frequency range for mice at these temperatures. The researchers find a difference in visible wavelength emission between living and dead mice at the same temperature

This point is addressed on page 2 of the paper, accessible on bioarxiv:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.08.622743v1
by mmillin | 2025-09-24 11:14:01+00:00
The biggest cause of these issues isn’t style-related or something that can be easily documented ahead of time.

A recent example: an engineer wrote a custom caching layer for a service call, then called the service wrapper every time the data was needed, relying on caching to avoid hitting our dependency too often. I suggested fetching the data once and passing it around, but the engineer pushed back, citing the feature’s launch deadline and the effort required to update multiple interfaces. Their solution ultimately has more failure modes and is harder to test (requiring mocking of the service wrapper in several places), but it isn’t terrible and we probably won’t encounter cache overflow issues.

Another persistent example is function parameter length. Inevitably, there’s always “just one more argument” needed until we hit our configured linter limit. About 70% of the time, engineers add a suppression and push the change through as-is. Refactoring to reduce parameters can require significant work (and simply stuffing them into a parameter object doesn’t solve the underlying problem).

I could respond to these patterns by expanding our coding standards guide. It could document that caching shouldn’t be relied upon within a single request’s scope, or reinforce that functions should have fewer than 7 parameters (already enforced by our linter). But in my experience, these guidelines are rarely consulted before contributing. As the parameter example shows, people often push for exceptions rather than follow standards rigidly.

I do think standards guides can work well for open source projects, where contributions should never block someone from delivering value. Contributors always have the option to fork and use their changes as-is, which undermines arguments for “just getting something in.” Internal service codebases don’t have that luxury. When you’re changing a service to launch your feature before a major sales event, delays have real costs, and there’s no “I’ll fork this and maintain it myself” alternative.
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-24 11:14:30+00:00
Was it? What does “near the UN” really mean?

My guess is they did some sort of sweep in advance of the president’s visit and the secret service decided, probably rashly, to do something about it instead of ignore it.

The NY Post, dipshits that they are, broke the story and were the headliner on Drudge Report. They spun/blew up the story as being potentially the biggest telecom disruption since 9/11.

Bullshit experts weighed in that only the Chinese, Russians or Israelis could possibly buy SIM cards. That’s how you know it’s bullshit, as outcomes of counterintelligence investigations that make the security services look dumb don’t get headline billing.

The other news outlets went with a slightly less unhinged variant of the story.
by haunter | 2025-09-24 11:14:58+00:00
Native vs Proton benchmark

https://flightless.yobson.xyz/benchmark/10

https://flightless.yobson.xyz/benchmark/11

Roughly ~10% better FPS in Act 3 but the first benchmark average is pretty much the same.

You can download the native version on any Linux distro

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1nokcej/laria...