MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by denis_dolya | 2025-09-19 15:43:32+00:00
Looking at Scar through the eyes of a senior developer the reaction is more curious than dismissive. There is a bit of surprise because in the past system languages were almost always implemented in C and that was considered a mark of seriousness. Now we see an example built on Go and that shows how approaches are shifting. The choice of Go has strengths like simple syntax, fast development cycle, built in support for concurrency, and good infrastructure. At the same time there are compromises like weaker memory control compared to C and some runtime overhead which can be critical for low level languages. Scar looks more like an experimental attempt to propose a new view on language design with emphasis on simplicity, immutability, and optional GC. As an engineer I find the idea interesting but its value can only be judged when real use cases appear and we see how it behaves under production workloads and whether it can compete with Rust or Zig.
by wffurr | 2025-09-19 15:43:44+00:00
>> You understand why that is exactly pointless…

I don't understand any such thing.

Modern OS sandboxing doesn't give you memory safety from Wasm's memory model or the capability-based security of WASI.

>> When what I want to do, is call into the OS/hardware layer directly…

If that's what you want to do, then I'm not sure what we're even discussing in this thread. The only safe way to run such code is with a hypervisor.
by ninalanyon | 2025-09-19 15:44:19+00:00
I went there over thirty years ago when it was still easy to just walk in without booking or being part of a tour.

One thing that impressed me about it was its effect on others. There were lots of Japanese tourists there at the time. I climbed the stairs up one of the towers with a Japanese man festooned with cameras as usual, I had my SLR with me too. When we got to the top we sat in silence looking out onto the church with it's unfinished roof, neither of us took a single picture. I think both of us were first overwhelmed and then we realized that no picture would capture what we saw and felt. I did take a few pictures of the spiral stairs on the way down, just to have a souvenir of the place.

When I got to the bottom I shovelled all my Spanish coins and notes in the donation box. Perhaps they bought a few kilos of cement with it, I like to think that I helped in an infinitesimally small way to build it.
by suriya-ganesh | 2025-09-19 15:45:21+00:00
This is wild. But eusocial insect have a lot of bizarre eccentricities in sex determinism. less than 1% of the colony can actually reproduce, every other being is there for the betterment of the 1%. The workers will mutilate, sacrifice and kill themselves just for the queen to have 0.1% better survivability.

It is helpful to think of the whole colony as a singular organism as opposed to individuals, because our understanding of individual starts breaking down at these levels
by teleforce | 2025-09-19 15:45:37+00:00
Not quite, as it stands now the most cost effective way is most likely framework desktop or similar system for example HP G1a laptop/PC [1],[2].

[1] The Framework Desktop is a beast:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44841262

[2] HP ZBook Ultra:

https://www.hp.com/us-en/workstations/zbook-ultra.html
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-19 15:46:02+00:00
It's definitely a stretch for my per-video budget, but I did want to have a 'maxed out' Pi cluster for future testing as well.

A lot of people (here, Reddit, elsewhere) speculate about how good/bad a certain platform or idea is. Since I have the means to actually test how good or bad something is, I try to justify the hardware costs for it.

Similar to testing various graphics cards on Pis, I've probably spent a good $10,000 on those projects over the past few years, but now I have a version of every major GPU from the past 3 generations to test on, not only on Pi, but other Arm platforms like Ampere and Snapdragon.

Which is fun, but also educational; I've learned a lot about inference, GPU memory access, cache coherency, the PCIe bus...

So a lot of intangibles, many of which never make it directly into a blog post or video. (Similar story with my time experiments).
by numpad0 | 2025-09-19 15:46:06+00:00
I don't know, but at least older Qwen models were a bit confused as to what words belong to which languages, and recent ones seem noticeably less sure about ja-JP in general. Maybe it vaguely relates Hanzi/Kanji character being more coarse grained than Latin alphabets so that there aren't enough character counts to tell apart or something.
by NemoNobody | 2025-09-19 15:46:31+00:00
That's why exactly it tho - normal ppl that are not the non-profit with very limited resources and staff, upload the infringing content - it's not even the IA fault that they are hosting it and placing such a responsibility on the IA to polofe the.archive - isn't what that is.

The recording companies should have gone after the individual uploaders or this one as always bullshit - the record labels themselves can just upload a bunch music and screw the IA - it's supposed to be a copy of the whole internet.

This was just to essentially own the IA, which they effectively do now - bc it was easier for them to take over the IA, than to actually protect their content creators by going after the actual distributors, the uploaders. Obviously, they broke tho

Yeah... nothing done against those companies is actually "wrong" - thats a grey area when corpos suck as bad as they do.
by rs186 | 2025-09-19 15:46:41+00:00
Same.

Combined with bad security practice from OEMs, preinstalled bloatware, app fragmentation (I love having Samsung "Phone" app and stock phone app at the same time) and customer service (try replacing your phone battery and compare the experience of ubreakifix and Apple store), I don't see a reason to go Android.

(P.S. people who cannot afford the latest iPhone can always purchase a two year old used/"refurbished" phone. It's a solid choice and many people do that. The fact that you can now add Apple Care to 4 year old device makes this more viable.)
by dh2022 | 2025-09-19 15:46:54+00:00
Someone will have to take the risk that the customer will walk away from the deal. Insurance companies maybe would pool different customers in some insurance pool?

An alternative would be to ask the customer to pay in advance for 3 years. This way both the customer and the producer have an incentive to keep this deal going (if the producer reneges on the deal the consumer can take the producer to court. My reading implies only the consumer can walk away with 2 months notice). But in the world of 6% interest rates who would want to front that much money?
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-19 15:47:04+00:00
The next generation M5 should bring the matmul functionality seen on the A19 Pro to the desktop SoC's GPU -- "tensor" cores, in essence -- and will dramatically improve the running of most AI models on those machine.

Right now the Macs are viable purely because you can get massive amounts of unified memory. Be pretty great when they have the massive matrix FMA performance to complement it.
by hcs | 2025-09-19 15:47:23+00:00
I don't know what ever happened to Netscape's version, but various homebrew attempts have been made.

One Linux on N64 project was discussed here a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25539319

There was a version of Mosaic in the SharkWire Online device, recently there have been some efforts to make that more usable without the SharkWire, though I don't think much is public yet, some discussion about the ROM here https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/1i2odym/update_f...
by suobset | 2025-09-19 15:47:34+00:00
Google, your platform currently does not inspire any privacy. It has no ecosystem going for it (workarounds do not count, I want Apple levels everything-works-together-100%-out-of-the-box). Your Watch and other products have repeatedly been called lukewarm, and the Fitbit integration with Google integration was the last straw that pushed me off your watch platform.

If you want me to buy an iOS clone with no competitive edges, I would rather stick with the real deal. At least Apple has been consistent with their views about what iOS is since day 1.
by mijoharas | 2025-09-19 15:47:43+00:00
> The unstated reason for this change was that many of the existing Rubygems maintainers have recently quit (including their only full-time engineer) due to their continued relationship with DHH.

Can someone expand on what this means? Is it a continued relationship between Ruby Central and DHH, or the maintainers and DHH? Why does the other party have a problem with that?

EDIT: It seems the post was clarified since I copy/pasted this, and it's RC and DHH. Why do the maintainers have a problem with this? I though the stated reason was about RC removing everyone's access with no warning.
by mothballed | 2025-09-19 15:47:48+00:00
You would adapt rapidly.

I was fired from a city job.

Started hitchiking and living outside. Eventually worked on a fishing boat in the Bering Sea, worked the oil fields in the Dakotas, fought in a civil war in another country, hiked state-long parts of the PCT, hung out with tree-dwelling hippies in the doug-fir forests etc.

I would live that life again in a heartbeat if I didn't have a child to support, which was pretty much the end of my adventures. If you're single you can pretty much work day labor 25% of the year and have plenty enough to live inna-woods. The reason why most 'homeless' people seem so miserable is they are too mentally ill or drug ridden to do some fairly basic things to make their lives living outside 100x better; if you are sober and able bodied and able-minded it is a cakewalk.
by codyb | 2025-09-19 15:47:51+00:00
“I don’t know him, but I was… they say it was very unfair. And they say the thing that he did wrong was he was one of the first people that supported a gentleman named Donald Trump for president,” the President said then.

The filing last month noted that “President Trump expressly decided here that Milton is factually innocent, the pardon did, contrary to the debtors’ assertions, wipe the slate clean.”

Absolutely disgusting. Now he's trying to pull 69 million in legal fees from the company.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-19 15:48:15+00:00
What a complete misrepresentation...

Limiting notice period to two months and forcing you to give customers the possibility to terminate at any time is not killing ARR. It might moderately increase churn but even then, unless you are frankly dishonest, not that much.

You still have ARR when your customer can terminate their contract.

Even yearly discount which the article presents as done for are still a thing with the possibility of early exit. You just put a clause indicating that the discount is forfeited if the customer leave before the end of the contrat. Phone companies do that all the time.
by lproven | 2025-09-19 15:48:22+00:00
Exactly so.

I own a Mac Plus, an Atari 1040ST and an Amiga 1200, but I didn't when they were new.

By 1989 I could just afford to buy myself a 2nd hand Acorn Archimedes A310, an 8MHz 32-bit RISC computer with a 20MB hard disk... but it nothing like it existed for any price in 1984 or 1985.

But I was still at school in 1984, and had to be happy with a 48K ZX Spectrum, a black-and-white portable TV as a display, and a single ZX Microdrive for 85kB of random-access storage.

One of the remarkable things about both the ST and the Amiga was that they had optional add-ons that contained Apple ROM chips, and with them, they could natively boot MacOS and thus run real Mac apps. Both machines' hardware capabilities comfortably exceeded the Mac's, so they could easily run Mac stuff and run it well.

Mac software was often fantastically expensive by Atari and Commodore prices, but even so, this was a very attractive option -- and even with the emulator, the result still cost substantially less than an actual Mac.

Of course, longer term, Apple's pricing means that Apple is alive and well and profitable, while Commodore and Atari collapsed decades ago.
by dijit | 2025-09-19 15:48:24+00:00
Tangially related; imgur uses (and used) 100% CPU for me; I was never quite sure how or why.

The reason I bring it up is because I tried to actually profile it a handful of times, but my C++/Rust/Python knowledge was completely useless in the face of a browser development toolchain.

Did I miss something, or is it not possible to easily see what functions take the meat of javascript execution time?

(it feels really absurd if it's not easy, given that people can essentially serve whatever arbitrary script they want and my computer pretty much has to deal with it if I want to use whatever site)
by elpakal | 2025-09-19 15:48:53+00:00
Came here to ask about how they view Apple Foundation Models as a threat.

> guarantees privacy by default, works offline, and doesn't rack up a massive API bill at scale.

I’ve been really interested in on-device ML for most of my career, and now I wonder how valuable these benefits really are. LLM vendor APIs are pretty performant these days, security is security, and with an on-device model you have to provide updates every time a new model comes out.
by pchangr | 2025-09-19 15:48:55+00:00
You should totally check this wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections

For a list of alternative projections

And also this one for a whole deep dive in the topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

People have gotten very creative about the topic .. also.. the UN actually uses a north-centered view of the world to compromise on this.. it’s really cool

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Sm...
by alphazard | 2025-09-19 15:49:01+00:00
> The academy (in physics at least), is crusty and traditional, but not to the point of ignoring good work.

I think experimental physics is always looking for theories that explain what they see, but theoretical physics hasn't delivered in the last few decades and the people employed doing theoretical physics have mostly succeeded at a political game, not a scientific one.

> It's like alternative medicine, do you think if essential oils cured cancer you wouldn't have all the big pharma companies leaping from their high horses?

There are effective chemicals offered in Europe that are not offered in the US. Sunblock is better outside the US for example. This is because of pharmaceutical interests and the US regulatory framework (which are really the same thing). If an essential oil cured cancer, I agree that word would get out, but the idea that things that work in any capacity for a specific ailment are automatically adopted by whatever corporation deals in that ailment is just not true.
by bandie91 | 2025-09-19 15:49:02+00:00
i don't think it's a valid way to think about society/religion/culture what your formulazation reflects.

up until just 2-3 centuries ago, people did not think about these questions in a self-deterministic way, i mean they trusted the ancestors to sorted out most of the things over the centuries, and they were not suposed to take huge social/cultural reforms, only minor adjustments. did not even have so huge view on the spacial and temporal panorama of different cultures and societies over the whle word like us today. today even just binging up this statement makes people angry like "oh those silly old people. they _unconditionally_ obeyed to whatever their parents and superiors told them. this is the way to opression and tiranny, etc, etc. not like us! we are truely grown ups today. humanity is out of the dark child days. now! now disagree to _everything_. default is «i deny»". i mean … who do you think want to fool you? i think, on average, parents wants to leave the well-tested and proven-to-be-stable fundamental ideas about the world to their children. and those dont change very often; the more fundamental the less changing world-properties are.

but changes in society started to accelerate, so came social and economic revolutions which all want to redefine as much as possible. with really big improvements in the sociology, antropology and other culture-related disciplines, people started to believe that we are watching ourself from the outside, so able to manipulate the norms and the law to "make society better". only noone has the same definiton what is "better".
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-19 15:49:08+00:00
What's your idea of very little power, though?

I know for many who run SBCs (RK3588, Pi, etc.), very little is 1-2W idle, which is almost nothing (and doesn't even need a heatsink if you can stand some throttling from time to time).

Most of the Intel Mini PCs (which are about the same price, with a little more performance) idle at 4-6W, or more.
Show HN: RocketQA – Write Tests in English (Gherkin), Run with Playwright
by refactormonkey | 2025-09-19 15:49:50+00:00
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Unlike most QA frameworks, RocketQA keeps tests both developer-friendly and business-readable. You don’t have to choose between speed of writing and clarity of output. It’s also lightweight - no complex setup, just plug it into your project and go.

It worked well for us, so I decided to make it open source and put it out there in case it helps anyone else. No sales pitch here - just sharing because I know how annoying QA automation can get when it doesn’t fit into your workflow. If anyone’s curious, I’m happy to record a quick video walking through how we use it. Or if you just want to poke around, docs are here: https//rocketqa.ai/docs

Would love feedback, ideas, or just to hear how you’re handling QA in your projects.
by breppp | 2025-09-19 15:50:54+00:00
I am not confusing anything, you (or the other poster that shares your exact same style) wrote three paragraphs previously about how it is disallowed to attribute responsibility to the Palestinians.

That seems very racist to me, why would you think a people capable of conducting an attack such as was done on October 7, is incapable of choosing more peaceful leadership? Why even the mere thought of the Palestinians being able to affect their future amounts to heresy?

Removing agency from natives is the mark of colonial thought, and it is no surprise that western thought that is stuck in colonial times (post-colonialism) kept the old colonial racist stereotypes
by unsupp0rted | 2025-09-19 15:51:12+00:00
> properly-written apps would inherit it and work fine

It's nice when there's only a handful of UI controls and they're all system-native. Visual Basic was a godsend.

Want a custom control? Draw one using the shape tool, but then you're in for a world of pain maintaining it and handling edge cases.

Want a shadow around it? Draw a second shape and offset it a bit below and a bit to the right of your first shape. Just don't forget when the window gets resized to move/resize not only the first shape but also its shadow separately.
by eYrKEC2 | 2025-09-19 15:51:34+00:00
Intel has always pursued agglomeration into the main CPU. They sucked up the math co-processor. They sucked up the frontside bus logic. They sucked up the DDR controllers more and more. They have sucked in integrated graphics.

Everything on-die, and with chiplets in-package, is the Intel way.

Default, average integrated graphics will continue to "statisfice" for a greater and greater portion of the market with integrated graphics continuing to grow in power.
by nine_k | 2025-09-19 15:51:35+00:00
What I run is https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify

I looked now and noticed that I actually reject VP8 and VP9 and accept AV1. I run Linux on a Ryzen 4750U, for the record. It did not have trouble chewing through VP8 / VP9 without skipping frames, but it ran unpleasantly hot.
by flufluflufluffy | 2025-09-19 15:51:52+00:00
> she ruled that the court lacks jurisdiction to order "retrospective relief", forcing NSF to pay out previously cancelled funds, saying those claims should be brought in the Court of Federal Claims, which handles lawsuits seeking money from the federal government

So many times a court ruling will come down similar to this, where the judge, in correctly and impartially analyzing the situation, deems that whatever the plaintiff is seeking cannot be granted due to jurisdiction or some other basically administrative problem, but the mass media reports on in it in a way that makes it seem like it was because they thought the plaintiff “unworthy.”
by afavour | 2025-09-19 15:52:22+00:00
Yep, this always happens.

My phone always runs slowly immediately following an OS update. I assume it's doing a bunch of work in the background, deleting temporary files or whatever. Even downloading and installing app updates I'm now eligible for. Can always tell because the thing gets warm.

Within a few hours it's back to normal. I don't like the Liquid Glass update but it's not impacted performance.
by wongarsu | 2025-09-19 15:52:28+00:00
The VMs quickly get expensive if you leave them running though.

The desktop equivalent of your 10 T3 Micro instances is about $600 if you buy new. For example a Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q Gen 2 Tiny 11JN009QGE has 8x3.2GHz processor with hyperthreading. That's 16 virtual cores compared to the 20 vcpus of the T3 instances, but with much faster cores. And 16GB RAM allows you to match the 1GB per instance.

If you don't have anything and feel generous throw in another $200 for a good monitor and keyboard plus mouse. But you can get a used crap monitor for $20. I'd give you one for free just to be rid of it.

That's a total of $800, or 33 days of forgetting to shut down the 10 VMs. Maybe half that if you buy used.

Granted not everyone has $800 or even $400 to drop on hobby projects, renting VMs often does make sense
by lxgr | 2025-09-19 15:52:39+00:00
Yes, I think Safari even did so dynamically based on the mac being plugged into external power or not for a while, which I think is a nice compromise.

Apparently, there's even an API attribute that indicates whether a given codec is power efficient (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaCapabi...), which Google must also be ignoring – not their problem, after all. (I wonder if anybody did the math of the opportunity cost of losing a few ad impressions due to the user's battery dying early vs. the incremental bandwidth cost?)
by bee_rider | 2025-09-19 15:52:40+00:00
> Donald Trump's erratic tariff policies are surprising.

This feels like a misreading of what I wrote. The discovery that he is using tariffs to make a personal profit should be surprising.

> Donald anounces tariffs and the markets react. He postpones tariffs and the markets react again. Only Donald and his friends know what he will announce next.

That wouldn’t surprise me at all, I just don’t think a hypothesis about how he could abuse his power will be very compelling to anybody who doesn’t already think he’s prone to corruption. If anything, I think it starts inoculating people to the idea.
by zhynn | 2025-09-19 15:52:40+00:00
My very favorite map projection is the AuthaGraph map: http://www.authagraph.com

It is a novel (I would say amazing) map projection that manages to retain proportional landmass size by using an "ioso-area-mapping" technique. It maps the sphere to a tetrahedron and then slices and unfolds that tetrahedron into a 2d plane.

The method places all of the continents into the map (proportionally!), while also being able to tessellate (so you can move the "viewfinder" to focus on different map subsections without changing the overall map). It's easier to see than describe. The "4" link is an example of modifying the "view" of the tessellated surface to create maps that focus on particular regions.

The downside is that "north" and "south" are rather arbitrary points on the map, instead of being at the top/bottom.

It is still by far my favorite 2D map projection!