MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chibi00 | 2025-09-04 12:29:29+00:00
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by DavidWishengrad | 2025-09-04 12:30:04+00:00
spaceprison,

"Life is Most Important in Life is The Most Important Truth in Life"

Flourishing is not a replacement for life — it is a subset condition of life. To say “flourishing is more important than life” is a contradiction: flourishing presupposes life, but life does not presuppose flourishing. If life is gone, there is no flourishing to speak of; but if flourishing is absent, life still remains as the necessary baseline.

That is why your reversal collapses into absurdity. By first agreeing that life is necessary, then claiming flourishing surpasses it, you’re trying to put the branch above the tree that holds it. Logic, mathematics, and philosophy all forbid that inversion.

This isn’t a matter of opinion. The proof shows:

Necessity: Flourishing requires life; life does not require flourishing.

Irrefutability: To argue about flourishing, you must already be alive.

Reductio: If flourishing were “most important,” then death could be “acceptable” if it ended suffering — yet that erases the very ground needed to recognize flourishing at all.

Therefore, “flourishing is more important” is not a valid axiom. It is a derivative good, real and needed, but always downstream of life. Life remains the only irreducible, non-negotiable truth.

Thank you,

David
by PxldLtd | 2025-09-04 12:30:16+00:00
I've just done something similar with a Object tracking + IR Floodlights and one of VA Imaging's MER2 cameras. We have had some fantastic results with objects sat on these "Interactive Dance Floors" from Alibaba. Didn't even need the IR Absorbing film to get decent tracking results using OpenCV @ 300fps or so.
by stn8188 | 2025-09-04 12:30:20+00:00
You exactly describe my journey! After undergrad, I went right to industry doing hardware design. Given a complex PCB, I was confronted with this field of signal integrity and I fell in love with it. My undergrad didn't explicitly require EM courses, but I learned on the job (lots of reading plus guidance from some experienced RF engineers). Eventually I went back for my master's, and it was so nice knowing exactly which niche I wanted to focus on (and finally get a ton of EM fundamentals under my belt). It truly feels like EE is an infinite field with no limit to the possible type of work...
by markus_zhang | 2025-09-04 12:31:20+00:00
Interesting. My approach to hobbyist EE (actually embedded) is:

1. Learn soldering

2. Treat circuits like black boxes. If I need X amount of Y, e.g. I need a circuit to smooth the voltage, I pick one black box with adequate attributes.

However this is pretty introductory and I have no idea how to learn to fix old consoles. Sometimes it’s just a broken capacitor but I first need to figure out which part is broken.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-09-04 12:31:49+00:00
Additionally, all these VPNs do it with very pretty graphics. If the OSes went overboard with their Wi-Fi and Ethernet connection graphics, embellishing the connection security[1], VPN services would evaporate.

[1]

UNIVERSAL-->SECURE CONNECTION

https://youtube.com/v/zXyG_HncULU
by komali2 | 2025-09-04 12:33:00+00:00
> I don't know how you can square that with the fact that when people bought records musicians made more money.

Everyone used to make more money, and anyway this could just as easily be further evidence that the current streaming model is worse and the harm is coming from megacorporations rather than individual behavior, which is my argument.

I don't think your second paragraph is very good faith. It's not clear to me why this basic fact of piracy needs to be restated so often but I guess I'll do it again: Stealing a sandwich from a homeless person deprives a homeless person of a sandwich. Downloading a song deprives nobody of nothing - they can still sell the song. You can't reasonably compare these two completely different actions. You can make other arguments against piracy if you want but it simply isn't theft.

Also my original was talking about orders of magnitudes difference. Burning my leftover pastry being the equivalent of like, a millisecond of the methane output of Chevron. Stealing a sandwich from a homeless person is 1 / 336580 vs, what, do I gotta do the math here to show how astronomically small my output is compared to chevron?
by viridian | 2025-09-04 12:33:25+00:00
I'm curious what your prompts look like, as this is the opposite of my experience. I use lmarena for many of the random one shot questions I have, and I've noticed that mistral-medium is almost always the worse of the two after I blind vote. Feels like it consistently takes losses from qwen, llama, gemini, gpt, you name it. I find it overwhelmingly the most likely to produce factually untrue information to an inquiry.

Would you be willing to share an example prompt? I'm curious to see what it'sesponding well to.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-04 12:33:27+00:00
They may just be backing off the ID.number thing. Their _old_ electric car name was the normal car name with an 'e' in front (eGolf, eUp); feels kind of like they're going back to some version of that.

Which seems sensible, honestly; ID.3 through 8 either currently exist or will soon. Who's going to keep track of which is which?
by Tzt | 2025-09-04 12:33:42+00:00
Well, there are also legless salamanders, that look like eels pretty much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-toed_amphiuma

Some of them have no lungs even:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcaecilia_iwokramae

So, it makes sense to say that eels are fish, because there are lungless eel-like creatures that are actually amphibians.
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-09-04 12:34:32+00:00
It’s a bit of a hobby of mine to investigate wearables for HUD purposes so I have tested Engo 2 among others I would mention that something neat about Active Look’s is they publish all their Bluetooth protocol and have open source libraries to interact with their glasses.

I don’t have a pair of these Solos glasses (yet) but it looks from specs their resolution and display quality is much higher compared to Engo 2, obviously because it’s an actual microled display not prisms or waveguides.
by mynameajeff | 2025-09-04 12:36:07+00:00
The build part was really helpful for me when I really struggled with EE. My program only ever made us build things for very first semester "build a circuit to light up the LED" type labs. Once we got to even the most basic of components it all became on paper. I really struggled with some of the mental models to the point where I made a habit of going out of my way to build a lot of circuits that I was just supposed to solve on paper. Getting everything correct felt no different to getting things completely wrong in a paper problem until I actually built out the circuits and suddenly "correctness" actually became a real thing that I was tangibly experiencing. I wish my program would've at least taught SPICE a little more to at least scratch the ability to simulate things a little better.
by komali2 | 2025-09-04 12:36:52+00:00
USSR and Maoist PRC indeed took actions that killed millions, but so did capitalist India or mercantilist Britain or hegemonic America. I don't see a correlation between "forcing equality," which I'm not really even sure those regimes did (since Party members were clearly unequal in their power and quality of life), and the deaths. Just politics.
by swores | 2025-09-04 12:37:08+00:00
Not a big deal, but FYI there's an 'h' in the company name "Anthropic".

Inspired by the Greek word for human: Anthropos / ἄνθρωπος, the same etymology as English words like anthropology, the study of humans.

(I'd hazard a guess that your first language is something like a Romance language such as French, where people would pronounce that "anthro..." as if there is no h? So a particularly reasonable letter to forget when typing!)
by vrighter | 2025-09-04 12:38:05+00:00
I hate this "early stages" argument. It either works, or it doesn't. If it works sometimes that's called "alpha software" and should not be released and hyped as a finished product. The early stages of the GUI paradigm at release started with a fully working GUI. Windows didn't sometimes refuse to open. The OS didn't sometimes open the wrong program. The system didn't sometimes hallucinate a 2nd cursor. The system worked and then it was shipped.

The "early stages" argument means "not fit for production purposes" in any other case. It should also mean the same here. It's early stages because the product isn't finished (and can't be, at least with current knowledge)
by rsynnott | 2025-09-04 12:38:09+00:00
> They are chasing the higher profit margins that come with selling "premium" models and sacrificing the budget market to the chinese.

Well, also, they've been increasingly pushing cheap stuff out of the VW brand over the last decade or so. I'd suspect that, when the dust settles, they'll have something around the 20k mark, but it'll be Skoda or SEAT, not VW.

> Finally how much cheaper is electricity? Since 2020 the prices have more than doubled and the prices of charging in service stations are huge.

This may be a regional-differences thing (in particular, I bet it differs at least in timing based on whether you're in a mostly-wind country or a mostly-solar country), but at least in Ireland you can sign up to an electricity plan that gives you electricity for like 8 cent/kWh at 02:00-04:00 (vs ~30c at peak times and ~15c at night); this is explicitly marketed at electric car users. Here's a fairly typical example; note that it actually has EV in the name (though it doesn't actually require one or anything). https://www.electricireland.ie/residential/electricity-and-g...
Ask HN: What Are Your Prompt Framework Design Principles?
by mingtianzhang | 2025-09-04 12:38:32+00:00
I’ll go first. My guiding principle in prompt framework design is that its output should remain invariant across different LLMs. The only distinction lies in efficiency: stronger models achieve results in fewer calls, while weaker ones may need more. Aside from speed, the expected outputs should be roughly consistent across all capable models (above a certain level of course).

Feel free to share yours.
by Eawrig05 | 2025-09-04 12:38:57+00:00
This study is so limited in scope that the title is really misleading - "AI Use Reprograms the Brain" is not really a fair assessment of the study. The study focuses on one question: what is the effect of relying on an LLM writing your essay. The answer: it makes you forget how to write a good essay. I mean, I think its obvious that if you rely on an LLM to write for you, you effectually lose the skill of writing. But what if you use an LLM to teach you a concept? Would this also lead to a cognitive decline? I don't know the answer, but I think that is a question that ought to be explored.
by sirfz | 2025-09-04 12:39:30+00:00
SQL is definitely easier and faster to compose than any dataframe syntax but I think pandas syntax (via slicing API) is faster to type and in most cases more intuitive but I still use polars for all df-related tasks in my workflow since it's more structured and composable (although needs more time to construct but that's a cost I'm willing to take when not simply prototyping). When in an ipython session, sql via duckdb is king. Also: python -m chdb "describe 'file.parquet'" (or any query) is wonderful
by vince14 | 2025-09-04 12:39:45+00:00
Their fetch call is missing `keepalive: true`.

When set to true, the browser will not abort the associated request if the page that initiated it is unloaded before the request is complete. This enables a fetch() request to send analytics at the end of a session even if the user navigates away from or closes the page.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RequestInit...
by troupo | 2025-09-04 12:39:46+00:00
State was never easy. GUI apps have struggled with this as well. Hence you have the proliferation of different approaches: MVC, MVVM, various attempts at streams and observables, state machines, flows... All of these came from outside the web world. And, as most things in the web, all these concepts either arrived too late, or couldn't be implemented properly for various reasons.

And the problem is exacerbated by the fact that people are trying to push native app paradigms onto what is still a document-rendering system. So where you can have thousands of objects rendered at 120Hz on a mobile phone, the web struggles showing and animating a few hundred nodes even on a desktop computer. So you have to think of all the machinery to change as few DOM nodes as possible.

--

As for the difficulty...

The difficulty usually comes from people mixing up two concepts: the state of data, and the state of the UI.

E.g. while a music player should present data on the currently playing song (state of data), there's a few other things that are UI-only. E.g.: there's a timer running on when to hide the controls (that has to be reset/disabled when a button is pressed)
by Liftyee | 2025-09-04 12:39:49+00:00
Can vouch. I have a Brother B/W double-sided laser printer from 2011 that just keeps on going. The maintenance manuals are detailed down to each gear and lever, which let me fix a paper feed issue (gear slid out of place) and keep it going for probably many more decades. No DRM chips in sight - third party toner works just fine, and the Ethernet connectivity is rock solid.
by dtagames | 2025-09-04 12:40:03+00:00
This is so strange. How would Atlassian convince their enterprise customers to switch browsers? That seems really unlikely, and unnecessary.

The main feature being touted is the ability to take context from multiple tabs and ... do something with it? So unconstrained access to what you're doing in multiple tabs feeding into exactly what and why? The announcement is concerning because it mentions "AI skills" which are, of course, nonexistent.

If anything, the "arc" of The Browser Company proves a fundamental tenet of the post-capitalist era: You can get rich without making or selling any products that anyone wants. It's all stock transactions between wealthly elites. The software, if any, is an afterthought.
by viridian | 2025-09-04 12:40:04+00:00
I'm sure the reason is the plethora of markdown data is was trained on. I personally use ``` stuff.txt ``` extremely frequently, in a variety of places.

In slack/teams I do it with anything someone might copy and paste to ensure that the chat client doesn't do something horrendous like replace my ascii double quotes with the fancy unicode ones that cause syntax errors.

In readme files any example path, code, yaml, or json is wrapped in code quotes.

In my personal (text file) notes I also use ``` {} ``` to denote a code block I'd like to remember, just out of habit from the other two above.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-04 12:40:07+00:00
> it often descends into pettiness. When you talk to people in the real world, that rarely happens

If you are talking about one on one with a stranger, then I can see that, yeah, but if you have worked with people, then you know it is a huge mess, creation of cliques, gossip, and all sorts of crap, including heavy pettiness, greed, jealousy / envy, and so on.
by brazukadev | 2025-09-04 12:40:19+00:00
> As soon as they try to build any kind of container element they hit big problems.

That's not true. Web components that render nothing will contain only their children as nodes, that's good enough for a good amount of container use cases.

So you can have something like:

<uix-modal> <uix-button icon="wifi"></uix-button> <dialog> <div class="flex flex-col gap-4 p-4 w-[640px]"> ... </div> </dialog> <uix-modal>

It could be better, but this little annoyance is still better than React, Angular, and the other options.
by lunaticlabs | 2025-09-04 12:40:24+00:00
I'm also from Helsinki, and I lived in Chicago, and I can tell you that Chicago gets MUCH colder than Helsinki does. Chicago regularly gets to -10-20C each winter, for weeks on end (or at least used to, I no longer live there), with winds and snow to match. Helsinki rarely gets that cold, and doesn't stay there for long periods. The darkness in Helsinki is brutal, but Chicago winters are nothing to sneeze at.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-04 12:40:40+00:00
> What is it like to be an LLM?

That's a question I actually asked myself.

From the point of view of a LLM, words are everything. We have hands, bats have echolocation, and LLMs have words, just words. How does a LLM feel when two words match perfectly? Are they hurt by typos?

It may feel silly to give LLMs consciousness, I mean, we know how they work, this is just a bunch of matrix operations. But does it mean it is not conscious? Do things stop being conscious once we understand them? For me, consciousness is like a religious belief. It is unfalsifiable, unscientific, we don't even have a precise definition, but it is something we feel deep inside of us, and it guides our moral choices.
by ajd555 | 2025-09-04 12:40:48+00:00
Hi HN! This is my first blog, inspired by many posts read here. I attempt to explain how Vector Tiles in GIS tools are constructed from scratch, and how easy it is. This also sets up future blog posts about MapLibre tiles as well as some tricks in the backend to pre-generate the MVT files to serve them up quickly, and update tiles for real time updates on a map. I'll be happy to answer any questions or feedback!
by yencabulator | 2025-09-04 12:42:08+00:00
That article was pretty complicated; I appreciate the historical understanding but frankly web legacy is too complex to bother with "why" too much, in the end so many things just don't make sense and are historical accidents.

Here's another take, just a short list of replacements. Interestingly, "&" is also escaped: https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json#HTMLEscape
by sevensor | 2025-09-04 12:42:51+00:00
My biggest criticism of EE pedagogy is that it tends to proceed from abstractions and then derive the whole world. This makes it a bit of a slog for a lot of students. I’d like to see an application-first approach that builds up principles from observed behavior. Like, measure the slip in an induction motor and then work out what’s going on there, instead of deriving motors from Maxwell’s equations.
by moduspol | 2025-09-04 12:42:56+00:00
That'd be nice. I had LASIK a few years ago and the number of Windows Vista generic error sounds (BONG BONG) I heard during the procedure was a little unsettling. Ended up working out just fine though, so far at least.

EDIT: Given some of the comments below, for reference: mine was done almost six years ago.
by nahuel0x | 2025-09-04 12:43:35+00:00
Also to consider, how the massive datasets powering LLMs were generated? For the case of text, it was generations of humans and humans lives, experiences and interactions with the real world that coagulated into masses of text and the language itself.. not to mention the evolutionary process that made that possible. There is an history of biological computation and interaction behind what it seems to be static data.
by threeducks | 2025-09-04 12:43:37+00:00
- 1100 tokens/second Mistral Flash Answers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC_F2umJH58 - 189.9 tokens/second Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite - 45.92 tokens/second GPT-5 Nano https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5-nano - 1799 tokens/second gpt-oss-120b (via Cerebras) https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-oss-120b - 666.8 tokens/second Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 (via Cerebras) https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and GPT-5 Nano seem to be comparatively slow.

That being said, I can not find non-marketing numbers for Mistral Flash Answers. Real-world tps are likely lower, so this comparison chart is not very fair.
by bgwalter | 2025-09-04 12:44:03+00:00
It looks like Mistral wants to collect data before people are able to try out the sacred "AI". Too bad. If all training sites that Mistral stole had done the same, Mistral would not exist.

Naturally, Cloudflare is in the business, too:

https://docs.mistral.ai/deployment/self-deployment/cloudflar...

mistral.ai name servers:

Name Server: ivan.ns.cloudflare.com Name Server: ada.ns.cloudflare.com
by d--b | 2025-09-04 12:44:34+00:00
How does the brain do it?

A baby's brain isn't wired to the entire internet. A 2-year-old has access to at most 2 years of HD video data, plus some other belly-ache and poo-smell stimuli. And a baby's brain has no replay capacity.

That's not a lot to work with.

Yet, a 2-year-old clearly thinks, is conscious, can understand and create sentences, and wants to annihilate everything just as much as Grok.

Sure you can scale data all you want. But there should be enough to work with without scaling like crazy.

Having AI know all CSS tricks out there is one thing that requires a lot of data, AGI is different.
by Shorel | 2025-09-04 12:44:39+00:00
This Monty Hall problem was asked to Marilyn vos Savant, a woman with an extremely high IQ, who solved it correctly, and many readers of her column, including PhD and mathematicians, declared her solution wrong.

Then careful analysis proved her correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem#Savant_and_...
by pavlov | 2025-09-04 12:44:52+00:00
I never knew the Browser Company had such an awesome logo!

Anyway, the idea of making Dia into the knowledge worker's browser sounds good.

For me, this new browser would be successful the day I prefer to run Linear and Notion in Dia rather than using the companies' own Electron desktop apps (which are pretty terrible on Mac at least, so the bar is not necessarily very high).
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-04 12:45:01+00:00
Fun fact about lapis lazuli/ultramarine: if you grind it too finely, it turns gray. A friend who has recreated many medieval paint pigments discovered this the hard way... Just another reason it is so complicated to produce.

The reason is that the crystalline structures that finely select for that narrow band of blue are destroyed. The same thing happens if you put an oil drop on water: at first brilliant rainbow bands of color are produced (from the selective reflections off either side of the oil, where the oil thickness is a multiple of the light quarter-wavelength). Then the oil spreads further, until it is less thick than a blue light quarter-wavelength, and it turns dark.
by nerdjon | 2025-09-04 12:45:11+00:00
Putting aside that the title and the tweet very much do not line up since there is no announcement that they are in fact making printers...

This would be interesting and would love to see it, but I just can't imagine it would be viable financially. The scale just doesn't line up for a company of this size.

How many people have printers at home anymore, and even if they went after offices looking at only a couple per (most) offices at most unless you are specifically an organization that does a lot of printing.

Laptops, yeah one per person. Printers, 1 for every few hundred employees? Would they even sell enough for it to make sense for a brand that is not as well known as the major players.