MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kccqzy | 2025-09-20 18:34:39+00:00
HN comments aren't reflective of a person's intelligence at all. I write so many comments with grammatical errors such that my high school English teacher would berate me for low intelligence.

> A concept of a door is such that

It's just for comedic effect, or "performative erudition" in the words of a New Yorker reporter. No need to read too much into it. You have better things to do in life than to be offended so easily.
by ivape | 2025-09-20 18:34:54+00:00
Alright, this is one place where I don't think the race discussion belongs. The fremium games being played over in Asia are just, literally, lower quality games. Americans have higher taste because it's always been a powerhouse for video games, they've explored and innovated a lot of genres. Non-Japan Asia is new to gaming, and that's okay, it's going to take some time before they find their own voice.

"But popular games in India will never be discussed outside of the country unless they’re first presented via a US-based media like IGN"

No. Even GREAT games in America are not being discussed because that's how advanced the gaming culture is here. We've been doing it awhile. There's just a lot of ground to cover for new players (literally), and again, that's okay.

Lastly, white Americans are very important to the history video games. They took it up, built it up, evolved it, and they did it very seriously (fuck man, I think they might have invented a lot of it). They are steeped in the history of gaming, so the "gentrification" charge is really insulting. It would be better to merge into this history than try to fork it and claim outlandish things, one because it's practical, two because its honorable.
by p0d | 2025-09-20 18:35:49+00:00
This is not a book recommend, but what an average day looks like in my life, having lost about 40kg over a several year period and maintained the same weight for five years.

I walk at least 2-3 miles everyday.

* Breakfast: 60g porridge oats - 240g with skimmed milk, cut up pear and honey, coffee * Mid morning: flavoured Greek yoghurt, coffee * Lunch: Wrap with cut up chicken breast, cottage cheese, celery, then roughly 100 calories of chocolate, coffee * Mid afternoon: egg, coffee * Dinner: Anything really. Just learn what average portions look like. Diluted juice, coffee * I don't eat after dinner until breakfast * I eat a lot of ice cream at the weekend
by clanky | 2025-09-20 18:36:20+00:00
Crashes from safety bugs are rare in HFT because they can replay years of data against code changes. For a strategy that trades in and out of positions quickly and is flat most of the time, it's also often not a big deal if the program crashes in the midst of running, as long as some technique has been arranged to cancel resting orders and alert a trader (who is generally monitoring the system's operations at all times).

They're certainly not inclined to pursue safety at any expense of performance in their code.
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-20 18:36:35+00:00
The problem with voice control is that it requires you to know (or guess) a lot about the thing you're trying to control. When it malfunctions, it takes more, not less, attention than a touchscreen.

I've driven Teslas for seven years, and I still have no ^%$#^ing idea what I can and can't do with voice control.
by dh2022 | 2025-09-20 18:36:52+00:00
I preface my post by saying that I do not drive one of these cars that use touch screens to input car actions. So maybe what I am describing below is already done.

I reject the idea of touch screens for car functions because it takes more than one level of navigation to reach the active button. If the UI designers would change the design so that when the car starts moving the touch screen would change and lock to a display where all driving-related buttons (heating/wipers/car stereo/gears) are close by, highly visible and activated with a single touch I could see myself using a touch screen in a car.

My main reservation is taking my eyes and attention of the road to focus on navigating a touch screen UI put together by 5 teams and 3 different committees.
by tempodox | 2025-09-20 18:36:52+00:00
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest... :

> … the effective date of this proclamation, which shall be 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on September 21, 2025.

That doesn’t leave much time. I would have expected that current visa holders wouldn’t fall under this rule. Shouldn’t it be a legal standard not to apply new rules retroactively?
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-20 18:37:03+00:00
Neither I nor the last commented called the text dense. I claim the article use a-lot of words to say very little, and arguments its points in a overly preachy way. That is *not* dense, that is verbose.

mm. Perhaps phrasing it like this would help; The article is written in away to appeal to those that already agree with the premise, and dissuade those that don't. 6000 words is on the long side for a blog-post, but not unreasonable for a good essay. This does not read as a good essay, it reads like a preach. Most people that don't agree with the article stopped half way and moved on, and who do we have left in this comment section?

I don't disagree with the conclusion nor the arguments. I disagree with how the authors has written and presented those arguments and conclusions. It could have been 3000 words and still said what it wanted, or it could have said much more at the same word-count.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-20 18:37:05+00:00
Polling in the US has swung in favor of immigration:

> a record-high 79% of U.S. adults say immigration is a good thing for the country.

It’s hard to separate what’s supported by the public and what are random hobby horses of the far right once they get in power.

Because the US has historically been relatively more positive to immigration I am skeptical that we would see the same reaction as in the UK or other countries in the long run (in the short term, it’s all a sht show)

https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surge-concern-immigratio...
by sarchertech | 2025-09-20 18:37:45+00:00
Sure that can be your stance. But that's not we're talking about. I'm talking about people on the left who have historically been anti H-1B, but who have moved over to the pro H-1B camp because Trump acted against the program.

To that point though, there were ~40k O visas issued last year. And presumably that number would have been much higher if the H-1Bs were harder to get.

And unlikely H-1B the O visas actually have requirements that the person does have above average skills.
by SirensOfTitan | 2025-09-20 18:38:06+00:00
I’m convinced all of the major LLM providers silently quantize their models. The absolute worst was Google’s transition from Gemini 2.5 Pro 3-25 checkpoint to the May checkpoint, but I’ve noticed this effect with Claude and GPT over the years too.

I couldn’t imagine relying on any closed models for a business because of this highly dishonest and deceptive practice.
by omnicognate | 2025-09-20 18:38:37+00:00
You say this from any special knowledge or is it just your opinion from the video? Looks to me like it will go through your flesh and bone like they're not there, in a way even a razor sharp knife won't.

Also, while it's true that dull knives are in some ways more dangerous than properly maintained ones, that doesn't mean safety increases monotonically with sharpness. I sharpen my kitchen knives every weekend and I'm perfectly capable of achieving an edge I could comfortably shave with, but I deliberately don't (I skip the highest-grit step and leather stropping needed for that) because it's not optimal for the vast majority of cooking tasks. The only thing that happens regularly in my kitchen that needs razor sharpness is scoring the top of a sourdough loaf, and my wife uses actual razor blades for that.

This strikes me as more of a competitor to electric carving knives than something I'd want to replace a standard chef's knife with. It looks like it needs to be used with very great care.
by qrobit | 2025-09-20 18:39:02+00:00
While I don't use GitHub for personal projects, I don't see how moving off GitHub solves anything. If you are open source contributor, then repositories you interact with are public, and there is nothing preventing anybody (including GitHub) from using your code for any purpose. If you contribute to a public repository on any public platform, be it Codeberg, sourcehut or GitLab, your activity is public, issue you create are public[1], everybody knows who changed what in the code.

The social media effects are twofold, on one hand I think stars and contributors count, contributor profiles are great to see what is popular, but it went a little too far when they added scrollable home page. Virtually everyone has an account on GitHub, the best way to make your project visible and ease the contribution threshold is to put your project on GitHub.

What I would like to see is federated git, so that some protocol allowed different git servers could communicate with each other, which will make moving off GitHub much easier.

[1]: except for sourcehut I guess, which does not have issues or pull requests?
by bastawhiz | 2025-09-20 18:39:15+00:00
> any bit of criticism about his language

I'm not even sure that it's criticism. I read it as a genuine open question.

At least in my experience, asking questions like this through GitHub issues or a mailing list are met with negativity. I don't want to post through a channel where I'll get a snide, terse response from a maintainer. I'd much rather post to my blog audience, who I find to be generally knowledgeable and friendly enough to already be following me. And if I found an answer, I'd post about it and explain what I learned in the process, linking from the existing post.

In a lot of ways, I think Andrew's response is exactly the sort of flavor of reply that I would have expected no matter what channel the question had been posed through, and that's exactly why I wouldn't have gone through those channels if I was the author. His reply didn't answer the question aside from implying it's maybe an issue, nor did it invite feedback.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-20 18:39:39+00:00
Vapor chambers and heat pipes use some of the same physics concepts, but a vapor chamber is significantly more effective for spreading heat across a large area. They’re also harder to manufacture and more complex.

Have you ever seen a CPU or GPU heat sink that has 5-6 heat pipes in parallel because they need to spread the head over a larger area? A vapor chamber is an upgrade over heat pipes in applications that aren’t moving heat from a point to a line.

Don’t be so dismissive. This is actually cool.
by jmyeet | 2025-09-20 18:40:25+00:00
I guess it's safe to say there won't need to be an H1B lottery next year.

I do think we need a visa category for people who have completed an education in the US. Yes, there's OPT for certain fields for F1 visa holders but it's not enough.

But all that's a part of broader immigration reform that simply won't happen, particularly in this political climate.

As horrible as this all is for those affected, particularly for people who have been waiting patiently in line for 10-20 years, it's also true that:

1. There absolutely is H1B visa abuse, specifically by the bodyshops like Infosys and Tata;

2. H1Bs are used to suppress wages for the entire workforce; and

3. In an era of permanent layoffs and high unemployment in the tech sector, preference should absolutely be given to existing US permanent residents and citizens. That's the declared intent of the H1B program but the reality hasn't really worked that way.

The employers have brought this on themselves and ordinary people will suffer because of it. I do think that if you layoff more than 2% of your staff in any given year, you should be unable to sponsor any visa for a period of 2+ years.
by briga | 2025-09-20 18:40:30+00:00
I have a theory: all these people reporting degrading model quality over time aren't actually seeing model quality deteriorate. What they are actually doing is discovering that these models aren't as powerful as they initially thought (ie. expanding their sample size for judging how good the model is). The probabilistic nature of LLM produces a lot of confused thinking about how good a model is, just because a model produces nine excellent responses doesn't mean the tenth response won't be garbage.
by leshokunin | 2025-09-20 18:40:51+00:00
I don't care much for NotebookLM's UX. I find the layout confusing, the concepts conveyed in the UI not very intuitive. I feel like the power of what's under the hood doesn't translate very well into the frontend.

That said, this article was a very nice overview. Clean page, interesting to see his perspective. He clearly took tare and thought about the project. I don't agree with his conclusions and results, but that's just one user. Hopefully we see more thoughtful approaches. The space moving so quickly doesn't exactly foster a craftsman-like care in design.
by ashwindharne | 2025-09-20 18:40:58+00:00
This post has the same issues as NotebookLM for me -- overdesigned, overengineered for what at its core is a simple and valuable UX.

NotebookLM: obviously useful, but I just wanna select some files and chat w/ them or have them summarized for me. It's got low info density, way too many cards/buttons/sections/icons, and it makes the core UX really difficult for me to navigate.

This post: I wanted to know what cool thoughts he had while designing it. Instead I get some weird scrolljacking, image carousels, unnecessary visual hierarchy, cards galore, etc.

Not trying to be too negative, it's slick and all but it just gets in the way for me instead of disappearing.
by da_chicken | 2025-09-20 18:41:41+00:00
NotebookLM has been one of the more useful projects I've used. Being able to focus a language processing model directly to the content you're looking for is really useful.

I currently support a data application where the vendor's documentation for it is not particularly well organized. It's spread across dozens of PDFs, sometimes without particularly well reasoned organization. Dumping all those PDFs into NotebookLM has been extremely useful since it allows us to ask questions that either give us answers, or are immediately fruitless requiring us to contact the vendor. Having an LLM capable of processing all that text has been great.

I've also used it with tabletop roleplaying game manuals. It's especially useful for badly organized TTRPGs, or those with poor indexing. Being able to type a question out in the middle of a game and getting an answer without having to dig through the book and find it yourself can be really very useful.

What I've never found a use for is anything in the Studio pane. They're neat tools, but... it's never been anything I've wanted or needed.
by billy99k | 2025-09-20 18:42:20+00:00
Using this definition, identities are only copied, and not stolen.

Learning from the Chinese is entirely different than using operatives to take the corporate secrets from lets say the biggest steel company in the world, and then driving them out of business within a few years.

If this is the world you want to live in, fine. Just don't complain when large corporations copy your work one day with no legal oprecourse.
by ecshafer | 2025-09-20 18:42:48+00:00
When I was younger and had less money I tried to find a free alternative to World of Warcraft. I probably played every single free rpg and mmorpg out there. To be frank, they were universally garbage. This has changed a little bit with some newer games (Star Wars MMO freemium is pretty good). The reason some of these games are not talked about is that they were not as good, regardless of origin.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-20 18:43:00+00:00
(Edit?): I finally made the list [1]

I feel as if I currently made a gist but I might make some fediverse or reddit or bluesky posts too in the future.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/SerJaimeLannister/36b4cdc7e9bb790929...

Also side note but didn't knew that you couldn't really name gists or atleast I might have the skill issues to not find a way to change the gist name from this 36b4 thing to something better so that it might be search indexed too but idk lol

I mean, I just thought of a way of curating the software list/discussion without bloating hackernews which might make it a bit difficult to find if someone is looking for something similar imo, i can make a ask hn too but I am more than willing for some suggestions if you have any about it :p
by someperson | 2025-09-20 18:43:50+00:00
Abandon is the wrong word.

Should the country receiving the immigrants let elderly grandparents be cared for by their own country's pension and aged-care and healthcare industry, instead of burdening the receiving countries?

Absolutely unequivocally yes.

The grandparents can always come visit on tourist visas and the immigrants can visit their original country too.
by tomp | 2025-09-20 18:44:00+00:00
The problem with your solution (and similar solutions - e.g. implementing "salary auction" for H1B - i.e. it's not a lottery, but it's that the most paid get the visa) is:

It requires changing the law.

Which is very difficult, and requires a broad coalition in 2 houses of parliament.

On the other hand, executive orders are very easy.

I wish the better solutions get implemented, but until they are, we have to seek alternatives.
by dang | 2025-09-20 18:44:26+00:00
> The comments here are awful. What happened to “Hacker” news?

The contrarian dynamic strikes again: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Your comment is a good example of a corrective post, and the upvotes are deserved, but they get extra energy from this objecting-to-the-objections quality. On the internet, everybody needs something to object to!
by zozbot234 | 2025-09-20 18:44:36+00:00
> The problem with deductive proofs is that it's all-or-nothing, i.e. either you prove the theorem or you don't, and it's much harder to turn a knob to trade off cost for confidence and vice-versa than with other methods.

This is not really true though. Sound type checking is a kind of deductive proof, but it's practically usable because it establishes very simple properties and is generally "local", i.e. it follows the same structure as program syntax.
by evolve2k | 2025-09-20 18:46:11+00:00
TLDR; Big Tech companies have become worth trillions based on their AI positions. NVIDIA is saying that its new chips almost make their old chips redundant, raising the awkward question “how long should we budget that these chips (that these players each have stacks and stacks of), will last.

Budget the chips wil be redundant in 3 years ? 2 years, 1 year?

If 1-2 years everyone books are cooked and a massive write off is coming at some point (is what’s the article is implying per its back of envelope calcs)

So folks what’s your call? How many years is the real useful life of the NVIDIA chips they’ve all currently bought and filled their server farms with?

State years or months and why you think that timeframe :)
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-20 18:46:40+00:00
Agreed, last paragraph especially. Even if it's OK now, I would not undertake 20year debt when the d2/dt^2 of all immigrant high salary labour related numbers is negative.

However, being more exact with the question I originally had, the white house youtube video, which had trump + friends speaking and signing the order, painted the picture as "100k per H1B per year for the first 6 years".

But the order as written has something completely different.

It says the companies have to pay 100k at time of getting the visa. Doesn't mention per year or 6 years.

And this whole order expires in 12 months, unless it's extended.

And they can exempt industries or whole companies if it's important to national interest.

This difference made me think that this is just optics for what was a concern for a majority of his voter base, and that in practice, they will not extend it beyond 1 year, and also exempt big industries like tech and what not. Maybe have apple do a performative hire of few americans, similar to the performative factory investments the government gloats about [1].

Was curious what you thought about that?

Of course, the media houses have their own alternate reality going on, and the less said about twitter the better.

[1] I don't at all intend to say that all american hires and all factory investments are performative
by Aissen | 2025-09-20 18:46:59+00:00
You conveniently side-stepped the argument that YouTube already knows how to serve DRM-ized videos, and it's widely deployed in its Movies & TV offering, available on the web and other clients. They chose not to escalate on all videos, probably for multiple reasons. It's credible that one reason could be that it wants the downloaders to keep working; they wouldn't want those to suddenly gain the ability to download DRM-ized videos (software that does this exist but it's not as well maintained and circulated).
by necovek | 2025-09-20 18:49:08+00:00
Your fear seems to be unfounded if we can extrapolate data for Turkey: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-drivers-pa...

15k drivers and passengers dead for 3k pedestrians; 1.3M injured drivers/passengers for 170k pedestrians.

The only figure that supports your fear is that out of all injuries, 1.8% pedestrians die, whereas it's "only" 1.2% for those "encased in a machine".

But absolute numbers tell a different, more important story: ratio of deaths is 1:5, and 1:7.5 for injuries (meaning, they much less likely to be in a traffic accident).
by PlanksVariable | 2025-09-20 18:49:12+00:00
There’s an interesting discussion here of how other country’s economies and cultures impacted their gaming.

But framing it as erasure, gentrification, Sinophobia, etc., seems totally unnecessary. Americans discuss gaming from their perspective and based on their own experiences and that’s OK. That’s authentic. If your perspective and experience is different, and of interest to a broader audience, just share it with the world!
by keeda | 2025-09-20 18:50:04+00:00
1. The flaw in this premise is that the process is bad. Aside from the countless anecdotal reports about how AI and agents are improving productivity, there are actual studies showing 25 - 55% boosts. Yes, RCTs at larger size than the METR one that keeps getting bandied about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860577 and many more on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo...

2. Quality control is key to good processes as well. Code review is literally a best practice in the software industry. Especially in BigTech and high-performing organizations. That is, even for humans, including those that could be considered the cream of the industry, code review is a standard step of the delivery process.

3. People have posted their GitHub profiles and projects (including on this very forum) to show how AI is working out for them. Browse through some of them and see how much "endless broken nonsense" you find. And if that seems unscientific, well go back to point 1.
by mystraline | 2025-09-20 18:50:06+00:00
I'm going to keep banging on this website, of definitions of fascism. And also, for the time being, is also hanging in short form at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.

https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

Labor Power is Suppressed

Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

These are all elements of fascism, and is directly on display. We are living in a country being invaded by fascists from within the republican party.

And to my knowledge, no fascist government willingly cedes power. All have required extreme violence (aka war) to oust them. And most also have done so with Communist and Socialist allies (see Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, et merde).

In a way, it might be safer for the H1B's abroad to stay away. Wish I had an exit plan as well.