MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by accrual | 2025-09-30 17:25:00+00:00
> The best thing would be not to connect any "smart" TV to the Internet.

Agree! I regret letting my Vizio TV stay online for as long as I did.

At first it was fine, and I did get a UI refresh a couple years back that was OK.

But then some update caused it to start ripping control away from whatever my last HDMI input was so it could show me ads (which fails). Even though it's perma-offline now, it still messes with my inputs sometimes.
by Jtsummers | 2025-09-30 17:25:18+00:00
> I guess that is my point; all of the languages I know are of the same paradigm, but I need to know them all for work. So I disagree with the assertion that only languages of a different paradigm from the one you know is worth learning.

I think you're taking that statement too literally, and way too seriously. Many of the epigrams are a bit tongue in cheek, and that one is too.

https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/1982-perlis.pdf - Full list as a PDF

127 is instructive here:

> 127. Epigrams scorn detail and make a point: They are a superb high-level documentation.

Don't take them literally and act like they're gospel truths you must live your life by. That's not what Perlis was going for with them. Just like you shouldn't take DRY (don't repeat yourself) literally. You should use judgement.

If you need to learn Fortran to write your numeric code, even though Fortran isn't teaching you anything, you should learn Fortran. You have a job to do. But if you don't need to learn Fortran for work, and it has nothing to offer over the other languages you know, why bother with it? That's the key point of the epigram.
by TrainedMonkey | 2025-09-30 17:25:25+00:00
I think we will land around 4300. On paper N3P is 5-10% more transistors and 5-10% more efficiency. Naively this puts the perf lift range from 10.25% (1.05 * 1.05) to 21% (1.10 * 1.10). 4300 would be around halfway estimate. Gains in iPhone and iPads perf are heavily supported by new cooling tech. When compared to iPhones and iPads, Macbook Pros are much less thermally constrained and M5 Macbooks are keeping M4 design.

TL:DR I expect a smaller MBP M4 to M5 pop compared to iPads M4 vs M5 because the latter are benefiting from new cooling tech.
by jsnell | 2025-09-30 17:25:58+00:00
Doing this as a social app somehow feels really gross, and I can't quite put to words why.

Like, it should be preferable to keep all the slop in the same trough. But it's like they can't come up with even one legitimate use case, and so the best product they can build around the technology is to try to create an addictive loop of consuming nothing but auto-generated "empty-calories" content.
by helsinki8 | 2025-09-30 17:26:10+00:00
> There's a reason why "AI = Actually Indians" is a meme everywhere on the internet

As a good reminder of the weird information bubbles the modern Internet has become, this is literally the first time I have ever seen this.

It might seem like it's "everywhere on the Internet" but it's really just what your Twitter/discord/subreddit/TikTok cohort are talking about.

And keep in mind, I'm a fellow HN user and likely overlap with you far more than even the average Internet user.
by somecontext | 2025-09-30 17:26:23+00:00
> you're assuming a lot. Including a notion of mathematical existence which bears little relation to any concept that most lay people have of what mathematical existence might mean.

John Horton Conway:

> It's a funny thing that happens with mathematicians. What's the ontology of mathematical things? How do they exist? In what sense do they exist? There's no doubt that they do exist but you can't poke and prod them except by thinking about them. It's quite astonishing and I still don't understand it, having been a mathematician all my life. How can things be there without actually being there? There's no doubt that 2 is there or 3 or the square root of omega. They're very real things. I still don't know the sense in which mathematical objects exist, but they do. Of course, it's hard to say in what sense a cat is out there, too, but we know it is, very definitely. Cats have a stubborn reality but maybe numbers are stubborner still. You can't push a cat in a direction it doesn't want to go. You can't do it with a number either.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-09-30 17:26:32+00:00
> I personally feel differently about the Pihole. I run one and it blocks a lot of telemetry traffic from smart TVs, apps like Netflix, etc. that are not originating from a browser. I'm showing a 23.1% block rate today.

Damn. I played around with PiHole years ago on an original Raspberry Pi Model B, and kinda forgot about it--it broke some stuff, and most of my connected devices could run their own adblocker.

Only in the past year did I finally buy a "Smart" TV and leverage its existing GoogleTV apps, because I got tired of trying to maintain my aging Kodi Box. I should probably setup PiHole anew and point my Smart TV's DNS at it...
by mempko | 2025-09-30 17:26:53+00:00
It's obvious there is no way OpenAI can keep videos generated by this within their ecosystem. Everything will be fake, nothing real. We are going to have to change the way we interact with video. While it's obviously possible to fake videos today, it takes work by the creator and takes skill. Now it will take no skill so the obvious consequence of this is we can't believe anything we see.

The worst part is we are already seeing bad actors saying 'I didn't say that' or 'I didn't do that, it was a deep fake'. Now you will be able to say anything in real life and use AI for plausible deniability.
by dlcarrier | 2025-09-30 17:27:05+00:00
There is a community of speed runners, who try to reach goals in video games as fast as possible, either with or without using glitches in the game, sometimes by hand and sometimes with tools, including tools that completely automate the entire process. The goals are usually related to completing the game or portions of the game, often as quickly as possible, as thoroughly as possible, or while doing as little as possible.

There's online forums for posting speed-running accomplishments and challenging others' accomplishments.

I'n this case, someone used the tools for automated speed running, to execute a glitch in SMB that allows for arbitrary code execution, then entered and ran a program that plays a Bad Apple music video, all with controller input. This is posted as a speed run with an accomplishment of playing the video.

A custom cartridge could be made to make a Bad Apple music video, but this is showing off a way to play the video using only SMB cartridges.

The data has to fit into RAM, which is much smaller than a tricky cartridge ROM. The music and graphic data is streamed as controller inputs, but the rest is done in RAM, using some data already in the SMB cartridge for video output, due to the low bitrate of controller input but also because the video processor can't display directly from RAM.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-30 17:27:10+00:00
As far as I know, ZFS is either for smart people who want to do something sophisticated or trendy people who want to do something unwise.

> ext4 on MDRAID or something

Are trivially easy to set up, expand, or replace drives; require no upkeep; and no setup when placed into entirely different systems. Anybody using ZFS or ZFS-like to do some trivial standard RAID setup (unless they are used to and comfortable with ZFS, which is an entirely different story) is just begging to lose data. MDADM is fine.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-30 17:27:16+00:00
It flourishes better in fact. Plenty of industries were started in specific locations because of lax intellectual property laws. Including the United States: the father of the american industrial revolution is just a guy who brought british intellectual property with him.

Intellectual property is just rent seeking by established corporations as well as protection against competition so that others can't enter the market. The days where they protected individual creators and inventors are long gone.
by _7acn | 2025-09-30 17:27:22+00:00
I'm not sure what causes the terrible RAF handling in Lightroom, but it's a fairly well-known issue. Lightroom produces so-called "worming" and apparently this is related to the X-Trans sensor which requires a different decoding algorithm. On my end, I can recommend Capture One - the handling here is perfect, though you do have to get used to the UI unfortunately
by gdulli | 2025-09-30 17:27:33+00:00
> The other part of the story is that a lot of formerly respectable quality brands now sell much poorer quality goods.

I've felt this. A few years ago I bought Eddie Bauer sheets online and they pilled up so badly after one washing that I couldn't use them anymore.

I can see how they'd be willing to ship off cheap crap to Amazon whereas they'd be more protective of what they sell in their stores.

Amazon didn't even let me leave a negative review, some AI model must have decided I'm fraudulent. That would be especially ironic if the reason for my bad experience had been counterfeit products commingled with real ones.
by jablongo | 2025-09-30 17:28:07+00:00
Sam Altman has made (for me) encouraging statements in the past about short-form video like TikTok being the best current example of misaligned AI. While this release references policies to combat "Doomscrolling and RL-sloptimization", it's curious that OpenAI would devote resources to building a social app based on AI generated short form video, which seems to be a core problem in our world. IMO you can't tweak the TikTok/YouTube shorts format and make it a societal good all of a sudden, especially with exclusively AI content. This is a disturbing development for Altman's leadership, and sort of explains what happened in 2023 when they tried to remove him... -> says one thing, does the opposite.
by eek2121 | 2025-09-30 17:28:09+00:00
Keep in mind that a big part of the huge jump in recent chips was that GB6 added support for SME, and to my knowledge, no app uses SME as of yet. GB5 is a better benchmark for all these chips for this reason.

The actual IPC increase and perf/clock of these chips excluding SME specific acceleration is MUCH smaller.
by al_borland | 2025-09-30 17:28:36+00:00
I’ve been using this for a few days now. I stumbled across it in the App Store last week.

I hoping this can fill a gap for me currently. I want something that will give me broad awareness of big news I should probably know about, that’s not a 24 hour firehose of news.

I like the once-per-day update and the relatively short list of stories. The jury is still out on how sticky it will be, in terms of being my go-to place for a daily update.
by DetroitThrow | 2025-09-30 17:28:40+00:00
I don't think it's disdainful to point out the lack of PMF for a dedicated app for Sora, nor how its behind competitors who don't require a dedicated social app. No need to strawman the guy, I think it's okay to be reasonably critical of ideas still on this website.

Inb4 make your own video model and see how easy it is
by mempko | 2025-09-30 17:28:49+00:00
It's obvious there is no way OpenAI can keep videos generated by this within their ecosystem. Everything will be fake, nothing real. We are going to have to change the way we interact with video. While it's obviously possible to fake videos today, it takes work by the creator and takes skill. Now it will take no skill so the obvious consequence of this is we can't believe anything we see.

The worst part is we are already seeing bad actors saying 'I didn't say that' or 'I didn't do that, it was a deep fake'. Now you will be able to say anything in real life and use AI for plausible deniability.

I predict a re-resurgence in life performances. Live music and live theater. People are going to get tired of video content when everything is fake.
by vldszn | 2025-09-30 17:28:56+00:00
It’s completely open-source, so it’s easy to fork and self-host if you want to avoid lock-in. I originally built it for myself and don’t have plans to monetize it. Even if I do in the future, the current version will always stay free and without sign-up. Any monetization would come as a separate pro version with extra features, not by removing what’s already available =)

Github: https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-30 17:29:10+00:00
There a lot of people who rail against fascism in a hateful way and if you replaced the word fascism with something else other people would say “that person talks like a fascist”. Like they are jealous or something.

I see DHH as being stuck in one of those finger traps, he’s engaged with a bunch of people who have to have the last word and as such they’ve taken over his life and he is going to go from forced errors to unforced errors. Not least concepts such as ‘free speech’, debate and such are problematic in the age of disinformation, polarization, spam, industrial-scale scams, Russian trolls, etc.

His best bet is to pretend those people aren’t there and focus on positivity and what will happen is his opponents won’t know what to do and surrogates will turn up to give those people the smack down. The harder he fights personally though the deeper hole he digs for himself and he doesn’t get it.
by DSpinellis | 2025-09-30 17:29:17+00:00
Nice benchmark! This is a (not at all efficient) awk one-liner.

awk -F\; ' $2 > max[$1] { max[$1] = $2 } !($1 in min) || $2 < min[$1] { min[$1] = $2 } { sum[$1] += $2; count[$1]++} END { for (n in sum) printf("%s=%.1f/%.1f/%.1f, ", n, min[n], sum[n] / count[n], max[n])}'

Can't see how dgsh could be applied to it.
by danw1979 | 2025-09-30 17:29:36+00:00
> I guess the lesson to be learned here is if you want your pet project to stick around in the kernel you really can't afford to be stubborn yourself.

Amen.

And to your point about it being a "pet project" - I'm sure I could go look at the commit history, but is anyone other than Kent actually contributing meaningfully to bcachefs ? If not, this project sorely needs more than one person involved.
by chubot | 2025-09-30 17:29:43+00:00
I'm pretty sure that's "interior" piping to ABS functions like split() and map()

As opposed to "exterior" piping to executables like grep and xargs, which may be written in any language

I believe the comment you're replying to is saying that's a design MISTAKE

And I agree -- in trying to make shell more consistent, you've actually REDUCED its power

I wrote a blog post about this issue:

Oils Is Exterior-First (Code, Text, and Structured Data) - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/06/ysh-design.html

(which was aimed at people working on Oils, not general users. Hopefully a more concise/illustrative post will appear, though I also welcome anyone else like the OP who wants to argue this ! )
by AlphaAndOmega0 | 2025-09-30 17:29:44+00:00
I own an M4 iPad Pro and can't figure out what to do with even a fraction of the horsepower, given iPadOS's limitations. The rumors about an upcoming touchscreen Mac are interesting, perhaps Apple will deign to make their ridiculously overpowered SOCs usable for general purpose computing. A man can dream..
by joshuaheard | 2025-09-30 17:29:59+00:00
Reducing 9 regional offices to 5, laying off 10% of employees, and cutting the budget by 34%, is "dismantling"? The article fails to mention the U.S. Forest Service's budget has doubled in the last 6 years from $4.7 billion in 2018 to $9.3 billion in 2024.
by LeFantome | 2025-09-30 17:30:00+00:00
I also waited until bcachefs was in the mainline. And I have been loving it. In fact, I even have multiple systems using it as root. Rock solid.

DMKS is not going to work for me though. Some of the distros I use do not even support it. Chimera Linux uses ckms.

As for how we got here, It was not just one event. Kent repeatedly ignored the merge window, submitting changes too late. This irked Linux. When Linus complained, Kent attacked him. And Kent constantly ran down the LKML and kernel devs by name (especially the btrfs guys). This burned a lot of bridges. When Linus pushed Kent out, many people rushed to make it permanent instead of rushing to his defense. Kent lost my support in the final weeks by constantly shouting that he was a champion for his users while doing the exact opposite of what I wanted him to do. I want bcachefs in the kernel. Kent worked very hard to get it pushed out.

It really is a great file system though.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-30 17:30:06+00:00
There are also cultural differences in these low cost USA areas that will make it hard to find educated techies there and/or get them to move there. Like it or not, the socially-liberal urban-California culture has become a sort of "Defacto Standard Culture" for tech, and a company is not going to be able to simply move all these people to rural Alabama because the cost of housing and living is cheaper there.

When work-from-home became more widespread, my spouse and I did the whole "Oooh, where could we live to maximize our income/expense ratio!" Zillow fantasy-exploration, and we concluded that even though many places in the country are significantly cheaper than where we are, we would be miserable in these places.

Reminds me of that story that made the rounds on HN a few years ago about that techie who moved to Bumblefuck Arkansas and bought an insanely cheap office for his tech enterprise, and regretted it for years due to the place otherwise being a total shithole.
by fresh_broccoli | 2025-09-30 17:31:01+00:00
I think this is the wrong direction. We need better journalism, not better summarizing aggregators.

Summaries are no substitute for real articles, even if they're generated by hand (and these apparently are not). Summaries are bound to strip the information of context, important details and analysis. There's also no accountability for the contents.

Sure, there are links to the actual articles, but let's not kid ourselves that most people are going to read them. Why would they need a summarizing service otherwise? Especially if there are 20 sources of varying quality.

There are no "lifehacks" to getting informed. I'll be harsh: this service strikes me as informationally illiterate person's idea of what getting informed is like.
by jasonsb | 2025-09-30 17:31:04+00:00
Democracy? Strengthened! Nothing says “informed electorate” like not knowing if a politician actually said they support nazism or if it was just a hyper-realistic AI puppet.

Trust in media? Soaring! Why believe your eyes or ears when you can doubt everything equally?

Journalism? Thriving! Reporters now get to spend their days playing forensic video detective instead of, you know, reporting news.

Social harmony? Better than ever! Nothing brings people together like shared paranoia and the collective shrug of “I guess truth is dead now.”

Honestly, what could possibly go wrong?
by matja | 2025-09-30 17:31:20+00:00
"lossless" has always referred to compression, not sampling - but it seems camera manufacturers want to change that for marketing reasons.

Similarly (without starting an audiophile thread): Recording a vinyl record and compressing to a MP3 is "perceptually lossless" but will be different to compressing to a FLAC, never mind that the sampling output will always have random noise.
by smugglerFlynn | 2025-09-30 17:31:40+00:00
Innovation is very slow in photography world these days, X-T5 made a big jump in MP count compared to X-T4, but resolution aside image quality is pretty much the same, and other improvements were marginal.

I still use X-T2, and it has not really aged, even when compared to my X100V. Infamous Fuji AF is where they progress slowly but steadily, so that's the primary feature that I'd look into when choosing between generations.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-30 17:31:56+00:00
Authoritarian regimes PREFER that most of their citizens are in violation of some small, stupid, or obviously nonsense law.

It gives people false confidence of "well sure it's horrible on paper but nobody goes to jail for that"

It releases some of the pressure from such oppressive regimes

If you ever want to crack down on it, your supporters can lean on the "but but but it's always been the law" apologetics (see illegally deporting people suspected of being illegal aliens)

And the best reason of all, if everyone is violating a law, you have carte blanche to attack anyone you want with the full force of the law. You aren't arresting that annoying Journalist or Politician for their speech or views, you are putting a criminal in jail!
by lifestyleguru | 2025-09-30 17:32:25+00:00
I'm torn about online dating. It figures the real market value, the real league of possible partners, as we established that real life pick up is unwanted and creepy. Our value and league are not what we'd want and expect, no surprise.

Honestly tinder shows me profiles of all potential partners with comparable wealth, age, and status within my area which I recognize from closer and wider circle of acquaintances. Even short appearances or breakdowns the apparently have by installing and setting up the app for a day or two. Sometimes even have moments like "wow, this match would be a romantic comedy plot with reunion after a decade". Then... they just swipe me left and continue complaining that there's nothing there.
by esafak | 2025-09-30 17:32:26+00:00
Greetings, Diomidis.

I would suggest a familiar notation like "[a, b] -> c" in a dedicated dag block:

dag text_stats { tee -> [ split_words, count_chars ] # word-based frequencies split_words -> tee_words tee_words -> ngram2 -> save_digram tee_words -> ngram3 -> save_trigram tee_words -> ranked_frequency -> save_words # character-based frequencies count_chars -> add_percentage chars_to_lines -> ranked_frequency -> add_percentage -> save_chars } run text_stats < input.txt

https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/dgsh/#text-properties

or

dag commit_graph { git_log -> filter_recent -> sort -n -> [ uniq_committers, sort_by_email ] uniq_committers -> [ last_commit, first_commit, committer_positions ] [ last_commit, first_commit ] -> cat -> tr '\n' ' ' -> days_between [ committer_positions, sort_by_email ] -> join_by_email -> sort -k2n -> [ make_bitmap_header, plot_per_day ] [ uniq_committers, days_between ] -> emit_dims -> plot_per_day make_bitmap_header -> cat plot_per_day -> morphconv -> [ to_png_large, to_png_small ] } run commit_graph

https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/dgsh/#committer-plot

The translations above are computer-assisted and may contain mistakes, but you get the idea.
by jscd | 2025-09-30 17:32:32+00:00
This is honestly very disappointing. Not using LLMs, but the complete lack of transparency about their usage. You can already see in the repository issues related to hallucinations[^1]. This is _fine_, but not if you seem to obscure the fact that these can be very, very wrong. This seems to only be mentioned in the very brief loading screen and at the bottom of the about page[^2]. Also, apparently many of the "core RSS feeds" are just... reddit[^3]???

For me, this is only useful as a curated list of news feeds (and subreddits I guess), but nothing more.

[1]: https://github.com/kagisearch/kite-public/issues/97#issuecom...

[2]: https://kite.kagi.com/about

[3]: https://github.com/kagisearch/kite-public/blob/main/core_fee...