MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by QuantumSpirit | 2025-09-19 19:19:01+00:00
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by dralley | 2025-09-19 19:19:04+00:00
IIRC the "token release" claim was more of a cleanup after the first and strongest version of his "reporting" didn't really pan out. IIRC he also said that there would be no gen 3 dGPU release after the "token" gen 2 dGPU release and that doesn't seem accurate if the gen 3 dGPU efforts still exist 2 years later, in order to be cancelled now.
by scotty79 | 2025-09-19 19:19:12+00:00
> There is a social contract that the billionaires must fund [yea much] government.

I don't think that's the contract. Government must be funded by citizens which all are consumers. What billionaires extract from consumers can't go towards funding the government. Unless it's borrowed directly from billionaires which is what got most governments in financial problems they are currently in.

> The question is whether that amount is reasonable or not

To asses that you only need to compare rate of growth of billionaires wealth to the rate of growth of the entire economy. Then you can see how much they suck out of non-billionaires.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-19 19:19:14+00:00
We bought $700 tickets to see a show we really wanted to see, but ended up being unable to make it.

We tried selling it on Ticketmaster, where you can in theory set your own price, or accept their "best offer". Our best offer was somewhere in the neighborhood of $150, and given that it was the night of the show, we accepted it.

We paid $54 per ticket in "processing fees" when purchasing, and paid $50 in more "processing fees" when selling. I'm sure the eventual buyers of our tickets probably had to pony up something like that as well.

If I had a magic button that made everyone above a certain level working there destitute and homeless, I'd probably break my finger pushing it.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 19:19:26+00:00
Interesting concept, but I feel as if the author only goes skin-deep.

"Without the pressure of basic survival, humanity might be forced to confront deeper questions of purpose and meaning."

Has the author been outside on the planet we inhabit? We're nowhere near a place where humanity has removed the pressure of basic survival.

If anyone can read this with a straight face and not think "wow, this is disconnected from reality" I would encourage that person to get into their community and away from their screens.

The world is very very far from post-scarcity, and the only people who think otherwise are knowingly or unknowingly part of the existing issue and likely is blind to their own role.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-19 19:19:33+00:00
GPUs are parallel compute engines. The difference between a high performance CPU core design from Intel/AMD/Apple and the low end stuff is a bunch of fancy branch prediction, out of order execution, cache hierarchies, etc. all designed to improve single-thread performance. The primary difference between a large GPU and a small GPU is that a large GPU has more cores.

Sufficiently far in the past you might have been able to get away with an integrated GPU that didn't even have meaningful 3D acceleration etc., but those days are gone. Even web browsers are leaning on the GPU to render content, which matters for iGPUs for battery life, which makes performance per watt the name of the game. And that's the same thing that matters most for large GPUs because the constraint on performance is power and thermals.

Which is to say, if you're already doing the work to make a competitive iGPU, you've done most of the work to make a competitive discrete GPU.

The thing Intel really needs to do is to get the power efficiency of their own process on par with TSMC. Without that they're dead; they can't even fab their own GPUs.
by WalterBright | 2025-09-19 19:19:48+00:00
My accountant told me of a newly minted Microsoft millionaire who decided to spend it all on a house. His advice was he would not be able to pay the taxes or upkeep on the house.

His client didn't listen, and in two years was forced to liquidate the house.

What you pay for a house is only the beginning of what you're going to pay.
by trhway | 2025-09-19 19:19:50+00:00
Yes, i see what you're saying. I'm just a layman here, so i talking only based on my recollection of what i read somewhere somewhen. I think i also read another study where there were scratches or some other damage and they did it similar to pothole filling by applying solution/mix of collagen with vitamin B and curing with UV.
by djhworld | 2025-09-19 19:20:17+00:00
I watched the video and enjoyed it, I think the most interesting part to me was running the distributed Llama.cpp, Jeff mentioned it seems to work in a linear fashion where processing would hop between nodes.

Which got me thinking about how do these frontier AI models work when you (as a user) run a query. Does your query just go to one big box with lots of GPUs attached and it runs in a similar way, but much faster? Do these AI companies write about how their infra works?
Show HN: GhostSys: CET-Compliant Windows Syscalls
by bolik | 2025-09-19 19:20:19+00:00
Windows 11 enforces Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET), which breaks many classical syscall stubs and ROP chains used in red teaming. I spent the last few months investigating whether attackers can still invoke syscalls in a CET-compliant way without tripping EDRs , and how defenders can close those gaps.

Within GhostSys, I formalized a post-CET syscall threat model, Five CET-compliant syscall invocation techniques (Ghost Syscalls, RBP Pivot, Speculative Probe, KCT Smuggle, eBPF JIT) with 12,000-call evaluation, 0 CET violations, no detections across three EDRs

You will also find defender-focused recommendations. Check it out!

Note > Some techniques within GhostSys are known - its supposed to be a systematic, reproducible study of CET-compliant syscall invocation and detection coverage, not cutting edge (eBPF jit had a similiar talk, SickCodes DEF CON talk), Specter vuln has been seen in the Pafish++, but not turned towards syscall hook detection. Gadget scanning is essentially a much more rigorous SysWhispers + Halos Gate.
by dcminter | 2025-09-19 19:21:27+00:00
Ok, but the equivalent for me was in the very early 1980s and I lived in an English village outside a small market town. Their library certainly didn't have any current in-depth book on the computing topics I was interested in. I recall coming across the term "cybernetics" in some tome from the 1950s that was about all they had and being completely unable to connect it to the microcomputers that I was fascinated by.

Probably it would have been possible to get something via inter-library loan, but I would have been 9 or 10, didn't know this was possible and didn't think to ask. The handful of topical books I obtained from parents and schoolfriends was a far cry from just scrolling on your phone to the information you want.

It's not better in every way. But it is better in some ways.
by shkkmo | 2025-09-19 19:23:03+00:00
> So all you will accomplish is increasing human misery of trafficked slaves or their loved ones, while accomplishing nothing besides feeling a sense of retribution.

You seem to be asserting that we should let them scam someone else. If you think that funding the scammers to protect their vicitm workers is moral then you should do it yourself rather than pawning the costs off on someone less aware who might unintentionally feed the scammers money they can't afford to lose.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 19:23:05+00:00
Unreliable source but interesting concept. I don't get the same net effect from taking notes on a computer, either. I wish I understood how to take/capture notes digitally in a way that is as useful as paper notes.

A lost note written on paper is much easier to recall than a "lost" or difficult to locate digital note typed up with some reminder.

I think it has to do with the uniqueness of each handwritten note - whether in the margins of a book or on sheets of paper, each note is unique and has visual, sound, and even textural differences.

Picking up an old notebook with a coffee ring on one of the pages brings back "the day" and the moment of taking those notes much differently than opening a file last modified last week. As much as I love digitizing as much as possible, my brain seems better suited to paper.
by ajross | 2025-09-19 19:23:45+00:00
This is the way shakedowns work. Disney backed down on Kimmel because he's "just a comedian" or it's "just one show" or he was "failing anyway". So now they're marks. It's always easy to squeeze a mark for a second time than to shake down a fresh one.

The View is "soft news", it's a "minor talk show", it's "daytime TV". It's not like they're coming after This Week or World News Tonight. Right?
by squigz | 2025-09-19 19:24:32+00:00
I'm sure there's some Republicans on HN. I'm curious why/if you think that, if the public pressuring companies to fire people for some things (what some people call "cancelling") is wrong, it's somehow more appropriate for the government to do it? Or is this just a matter of, "well, they did it for years, now it's our turn" for you?

(If you don't actually support this party, consider refraining from sharing your opinions of why Republicans support this. And for what it's worth, I don't think the downvotes for those actually sharing their opinions [in a productive way] are deserved, even if I disagree with them.)

Y'all really need to read the guidelines

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by floatrock | 2025-09-19 19:24:44+00:00
Should the price of these domestically-produced minerals include the environmental impacts on the watersheds, superfund'd land, and Americans living next to the mining operation?

Or is that just the inefficiency introduced by them pesky regulations you're trying to make more "fast and efficient"?

If you don't price all that in, some might say you're asking some locals and counties to give a pretty major subsidy to some private mine owner.
by DaveZale | 2025-09-19 19:24:59+00:00
Maybe I should have elaborated further. Her point was that the term "crazy" is in itself destructive and counterproductive. Although I use the term all the time, gotta fess up to that. So now I am naval gazing too.

The etymology was begging to be looked at, so I did. My understanding from undergrad was that it came from Greek "akrasia" as I recall but it's worth looking at:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/crazy

The use of language by leaders in the US lately sometimes seems reckless and inflammatory, even shocking and provocative, and I'll stop there before getting flagged for who knows what.
by saltcured | 2025-09-19 19:25:08+00:00
Your experience is localized and perhaps more anecdotal than you admit. I also graduated and started my career in '96. But, I grew up in the SF Bay Area and did my CS major at UC Berkeley. I saw a lot more of the idealist types being described by others in these comments. It's not that we didn't expect to need jobs, but there was more passion-driven interest. Back then, it seemed like people "just in it for money" or to meet family expectations were more often going to pre-law or pre-med.

I had a focus on programming languages in my undergrad studies and went into an academic R&D programming job, basically making tools for computational sciences. I've basically spent my whole career using and writing open source software.

I've definitely seen a kind of culture shift where the frontier nature of our old R&D culture is getting drowned out by boring process. To me, it is largely the influx of cybersecurity compliance that is killing the old culture. The bureaucratic compliance overhead is antithetical to the small team prototyping approach that drove progress during most of my career. It inspires a sort of cargo cult risk-management process that seems more about appearances and plausible deniability than actual secure systems.
by scotty79 | 2025-09-19 19:25:12+00:00
Government doesn't provide services. Government owns the land and the population simply by the fact of having army that can exert control. It provides monetary system you measure worth of everything in. You provide the service of producing economic value.

You can't with straight face claim that profit is not captured by billionaires but by everybody if economy grows 3% but billionaires wealth doubles in the same period. They not only capture the entire new profit of economy growth but also extract wealth from all other parties including government.
by econ | 2025-09-19 19:25:38+00:00
I think the creator of a work should be allowed to unpublish it but only if they own it entirely.

If other parties own it they should be required to make the work available without interruption or barriers and at a reasonable price.

If a recording was left to rot in some archive to the point others have a noticably better copy you've failed the obligation.

Anything that broadly looks like buying rights for the purpose of destroying the work should be stopped.

Objections should be written down and burned in a special ceremony.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-09-19 19:25:52+00:00
I have two ancient TV's I desperately want to restore .. a Sony TV8-301, which was Sony's first successful consumer product, a truly beautiful relic of 50's/early-60's design ethos, which I found abandoned on the side of a country road in the Austrian countryside, and a black and red mini-TV that would look so great paired up with my Oric Atmos retro computer.

The Sony, in particular, would make an amazing terminal screen.

Trouble is, it is becoming harder and harder to find repair manuals for these.

If anyone knows of a community where these kinds of repairs are executed successfully, I'd love to hear about them. I've kept these things on my shelf for decades now, and I remain committed to their restoration. I'm pretty sure the tubes are still viable .. but maybe the capacitors aren't.
by dralley | 2025-09-19 19:25:53+00:00
While I don't much care for either Kimmel nor The View - this is ridiculously corrupt, authoritarian, thuggish, illegal and arrogant behavior and cannot be allowed to stand.

And shame on Disney for caving. Cowards who kneel down to kiss the ring in the face of blatantly illegal threats are not worthy of a position of public trust. And over a merger no less.

I can't think of a better moral justification to prevent a corporation from owning a bigger slice of the ecosystem than to know that said corporation will dispense of any and all integrity they may yet possess to do it.
by gtirloni | 2025-09-19 19:25:57+00:00
I'm not a US citizen so take what I write below with a grain of salt.

I always thought the US to be a stronghold of democracy and free speech. I know, it's a naive view and we know how huge companies and corrupt politicians can subvert the system. But still, I thought it had a decent law system that, although imperfect like any other system, kept things from going back to the dark ages.

I don't believe that anymore after what I've seen this year. A few individuals can completely takeover the government, keep committing bigger and bigger crimes and nothing happens. All they get is outrage on social media, which they are happy to shrug off.

I know democracy and free speech are fragile things and we have to be constantly watching but I didn't imagine it would be this ephemeral in the US.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-09-19 19:26:01+00:00
> most companies aren’t going to pay such a large premium just for a typical software engineer.

Isn't that the idea tho? Stop companies abusing the h1b for "regular" staff? It's supposed to be for talent you can't find locally. So "exceptional" would fit, no?

(outsider perspective, eu here).
by Aerbil313 | 2025-09-19 19:26:21+00:00
It's common knowledge among people living in Arab countries that most Muslim countries' presidents are a sockpuppet from either the US or Russia. The exceptions are so few they can be counted on one hand. Mohamed Morsi was widely mourned in my not-even-Arab Muslim country when he died 5 years ago, as one of the few democratically elected presidents in the Islamic world. He was overthrown by the 2013 military coup d'état[1]. Currently, the dictator Sisi rules over Egypt, who is not opening the border for Palestinians. US does this regularly. See the US involvement in regime changes around the world[2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Egyptian_coup_d%27%C3%A9t...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
by mallowdram | 2025-09-19 19:26:23+00:00
Time to toss symbols and words. When everyone is the same thing that everyone's accusing one another of being, then signaling is done. We've reached the symbolic impasse that arbitrariness only enforces.

There's nothing coherent statement-wise coming out of the political leadership of all parties. That explains everything. No one is communicating. The news says nothing. All that matters is actions. And without a system of explanation for those actions, the species is dead.

Listen to the experts:

“...by getting rid of the clumsy symbols ‘round which we are fighting, we might bring the fight to an end.” Henri Bergson Time and Free Will

"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less," said Humpty-Dumpty. "The question is whether you can make the words mean so many different things," Alice says. "The question is which is to be master—that is all," he replies. Lewis Carroll

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.” Philip K. Dick
by roscas | 2025-09-19 19:26:24+00:00
Oh no!

Oh wait, I don't really care. I still have VBox installed with a few machines but since Workstation 17 is free, I only use that. And it is faster than VBox.

So until Broadcom decices to make people pay for WS17, that is my pick.

You still have other options. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Category:Virtualization

And if you have an old machine, put on Proxmox.

Bye bye VBOX!
by Sparkle-san | 2025-09-19 19:26:56+00:00
ABC is owned by Disney, which owns many subsidiaries. The one thing they and their shareholders care about is cold, hard cash. If you don't agree with what they're doing, then consider speaking the loudest way you can, with your wallet.

Disney owns:

- Hulu

- Disney+

- ESPN+

- National Geographic

- Pixar

- Marvel

- A whole lot more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_the_Wa...
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-19 19:27:20+00:00
We also found out that Kimmel was planning a second attack on MAGA when the executives at ABC were already on-edge about the timing causing a backlash; simultaneously when Kimmel's ratings have dropped 43% since January to under 1.1M, which is "advertisers bailing out" territory. That's a lot duller than the Brendan Carr theory.
by lavela | 2025-09-19 19:27:23+00:00
I don't understand yet how that relates to formalizing your decision structures as a group.

I'm sure NPM as a company has some form of decision hierarchy and RubyCentral does as well, but it seems like Ruby Gems doesn't (or didn't). I learned the hard way that writing this down is one of the first thing you should do in any kind of group formation process.

I get that organically grown tech projects don't have that from the start (and that they might not immediately recognize that they're a group at all), but I'd reckoned that an organization of the size of Ruby Gems, with such an importance, would have taken care of that a while ago and I think it's quite irresponsible that they didn't.
by gizzlon | 2025-09-19 19:27:40+00:00
> maintainers have recently quit (including their only full-time engineer) due to their continued relationship with DHH.

Ehh, what?! Basically 0 developers in the US have quit as a protest against literal totalitarianism, major and obvious corruption, the end of vaccines (will kill countless) and the end of USAID (already killed.. how many kids?).

But, sure, DHH.. that's where we draw the line!

FFS

Edit: maybe I misunderstood why they quit, quite confused. Still..

Edit 2: Unclear if this has anything to do with DHH? And it turns out I also disagree with some of his views. But, it still stands, he's writing a blog, not literally killing kids. Where's the mass quittings for those people?
by Jtsummers | 2025-09-19 19:27:48+00:00
It's tangential, as most people here aren't involved in traditional media, but this is a government that is interested in suppressing speech it dislikes [1]. Not actively harmful speech, threats and the like, just things they dislike. If this continues it could have significant impact for companies in the US, working with the US, and people working in the US but from other countries. This is the same administration that wants to go through social media posts and comments of people visiting the country to screen them for bad thoughts. Members of the administration are calling on people to rat each other out to their employers for this thoughtcrime.

[1] https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2025/09/15/higgins-calls-upon-... - a recent example, out of Congress. Calling on social media companies to ban users because they said something he dislikes.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 19:27:48+00:00
And yet, companies feel secure when they use Microsoft's online offerings such as 365.

I often work with clients in healthcare - they sometimes won't use anything except MS products, even when you can show them front-page news from that day showing it is full of vulnerability.

I think using Microsoft online today is the equivalent of "nobody got fired for buying IBM" back in the day. When MS has issues like this, people shrug and keep using them... other vendors would be wiped out.

Then again, Apple/Claris FileMaker had a huge server vulnerability for many many versions that basically opened the barn door in a similar manner (IIUC) and both the release & fix got almost no attention - zero comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41825851

It's almost like no one cares about security, really.
by leetrout | 2025-09-19 19:27:51+00:00
> Do you think the founders had this outcome in mind when they started?

Maybe not this _exact_ outcome but largely yes I suspect they did. Capitalists rent seeking all the way through their history and if you put money first in any business venture you will always feel pressure to enshitify. See 1994 Pearl Jam vs TM and monopolistic behavior 30 years ago.
by TheJoeMan | 2025-09-19 19:28:06+00:00
Not in any way to defend Ticketmaster's unscrupulousness, but my undergraduate university used TM for the student football tickets and we had none of the unfairness, which leads me to agree with the sentiments that TM is actually following the will of the artists / event managers. At school, we could sell our tickets to other students gray-market, and just "transfer" them for "free" in the TM app without issue. They even started out with static QR codes, but decided to enable the "live" updating QR codes due to embarrassments with duplicate ticketers denied entry. So not only is TM to blame, they are the henchmen.