MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Mtinie | 2025-09-03 15:44:31+00:00
It could matter but what isn't clear to me is if 70MB is wasteful in this specific context. Maybe? Maybe not?

Flagging something as potentially problematic is useful but without additional information related to the tradeoffs being made this may be an optimized way to do whatever Brave is doing which requires the 70MB of RAM. Perhaps the non-optimal way it was previously doing it required 250MB of RAM and this is a significant improvement.
by etothepii | 2025-09-03 15:45:02+00:00
Define white goods. Define warranty.

Would this guys experience meet your criteria? What are the consequences for failing?

Is it 10 years of normal use or still 10 years if you basically run a laundrette. What if you never used it at all. What if (and where I live this is a serious use for a washing machine) you only used the washing machine for making a special rum based cocktail?
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-03 15:45:28+00:00
Like op says, fun and a nuisance. :)

Modular stuff is fun, especially if it looks nice on a shelf, but it becomes a nuisance when your shelf runs out of room, or when you upgrade a system and you either have to re-buy some gear or find that's there's no real replacement.

For example, after buying an N64, would you keep your SNES around just for your Super Gameboy?
by adrian_b | 2025-09-03 15:45:42+00:00
The author does not appear to be aware of this but eels are not the most snake-like among fish.

Already the Ancient Greek and Roman authors had a classification of fish, where eels where less snake-like, because they have pectoral fins, while the most snake-like group of fishes consisted of morrays and lampreys, both of which have neither scales nor any kind of fins, being less similar to other fish than eels.

The loss of the legs and the elongation of the body, resulting in a snake-like form has happened not only in many groups of vertebrates, including eels and morrays, caecilian amphibians, snakes and several groups of legless lizards, but also in many worms, e.g. earthworms and leeches, which evolved from ancestors with legs. Even among mammals, weasels and their relatives have evolved towards a snake-like form, though they still have short legs.
by dillydogg | 2025-09-03 15:45:50+00:00
It surely does. This website is a good way to visualize the common ancestor of the bottlenosed dolphin and zebrafish. It's the same common ancestor as a human and a zebrafish, or a bird and a zebrafish. It's an ancient ancestor!

https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Gnathostomata=278114?otthome=%...
by monocasa | 2025-09-03 15:45:51+00:00
> Cut the fluff. Especially if you're adhd or other neuro diverse, you need to work to stay on topic. It _might_ help if you write a script, and have someone go through and mark anything off topic. Even if you don't use the script on stage, writing it and having it might anchor you to the topic at hand.

This one depends. I agree with you probably 4 out of 5 times it happens, but that other 20% are probably some of the best, most memorable talks.
by lanceflt | 2025-09-03 15:46:25+00:00
The key issue for the sector is the tens of legacy systems that don't integrate with each other, often with manual spreadsheet processes that could be easily automated. Yet the big players like Oracle sell a generic CRM experience that doesn't fit well with higher education.

Are you hiring? I have 8 years of university SIS implementation & migration experience and 2 years of Edtech AI engineering experience and this is the exact problem space I want to work in.
by JimDabell | 2025-09-03 15:46:28+00:00
> The result has been API enclosure; appropriation of commodity capabilities that themselves are standards-based — e.g., USB, Bluetooth, NFC, file storage, etc. — by a proprietary ecosystem and denial of even the safest and most privacy-preserving versions of those features by open, interoperable, and standards-based application platforms.

WebUSB, WebBluetooth, WebNFC are not standards. They are Blink-only non-standard APIs.

Google employees wrote these specifications and proposed that they become standards. In order to become standards, they need more than one independent implementation. So in practice, this means that they ask their counterparts at Mozilla and Apple for feedback and approval.

Both Mozilla and Apple rejected WebUSB, WebBluetooth, and WebNFC on privacy and security grounds.

This is what Mozilla has to say about WebUSB:

> we believe that the security risks of exposing USB devices to the Web are too broad to risk exposing users to them

This is what Mozilla has to say about WebBluetooth:

> This model is unsustainable and presents a significant risk to users and their devices.

This is what Mozilla has to say about WebNFC:

> We believe Web NFC poses risks to users security and privacy

— https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

This is not Apple’s doing. The reason these things are not standards is because Google have been unable to convince anybody outside of Google to implement them, even when they pay Mozilla half a billion dollars a year.

Perhaps you think that Mozilla and Apple are too sensitive about potential privacy and security issues relating to new protocols proposed by the world’s biggest ad company. Did you know that after Google wrote a spec. for WebMIDI and shipped it in Chrome, porn companies started using it to fingerprint and track people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679063

> Apple alone must be on the hook to implement any and every web platform feature shipped by any and every other engine.

This is basically the author saying “Hey, you know those specifications we proposed that nobody wanted to implement but us? Let’s force Apple to implement them! Now we’ve got two independent implementations and they can be standards now!”

Why on earth would he do this?

> Hi, I'm Alex Russell, a Microsoft Partner Product Architect on the Edge team and Blink API OWNER. […] From 2008-2021, I was a software engineer at Google working on Chrome, Blink, and the web platform.

— https://infrequently.org/about-me/

> The sham of WebKit as an Open Source project

Chrome was created as a fork of that “sham” open-source project.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-09-03 15:46:54+00:00
> They can't help themselves. It's part of their DNA.

They can help themselves. They can be trained, they may have been trained in the past to focus on that drama but they can be re-taught, can learn and grow and create something that's different.

It's just that sometimes they need a reminder from the hosts that GBBO isn't that kind of show. Hopefully it's a shared cultural vision and a friendly refresher, rather than a hostile producer vs. host relationship where one drags cameras in and the other pushes them back with expletive improv...
Show HN: dvcdbg 0.3.0: 1.3KB Initialization Sequence Explorer(Arduino in Rust)
by Placeless | 2025-09-03 15:47:27+00:00
I recently purchased an SH1107G-based OLED and found no Rust driver that worked in a synchronous, no_std environment.

So I wrote my own driver, and along the way implemented a *1.3KB algorithm to search and verify the initialization sequence* on an Arduino Uno.

Key features: - Iterative topological sort to explore init sequences - Optimized for AVR constraints using bit flags and static arrays - Utilities: I2C scanner, hex/binary dump, serial adapter

This actually initializes a Grove OLED on Arduino Uno using just 1.3KB SRAM.

Code & docs: https://github.com/p14c31355/dvcdbg Crate: https://crates.io/crates/dvcdbg
by jazzypants | 2025-09-03 15:47:48+00:00
Thanks! That's hardly the biggest difference to Lit. I think Lit is a fantastic framework, and I'm not trying to replace it or anything. However, it's really unopinionated which is fantastic for flexibility, but it leads to every deployment looking and feeling very different.

Basically, I'm just curious what a full-stack web component framework with strong defaults could look like. This is primarily a learning exercise, and a way to experiment with integrating web components into modern framework concepts like streaming server components, resumability, automatic serialization, and type-safe RPCs. I don't know if it will ever be production-ready, but I've learned a lot and it's been a ton of fun.
by SXX | 2025-09-03 15:47:49+00:00
This is possible, but mostly for generating assets in the somewhat same style that you already have. Problem is that AI models are not good at tracking state of multiple entities on one image including 2.5 Flash Image.

If you actually want something consistent you should really generate images one by one and provide extensive description of what you expect to see on each frame

And if you want to make something like animation it's only really possible if you basically generate thousand of "garbage" images and then edit together what fits.
by mid-kid | 2025-09-03 15:48:29+00:00
On the one hand what you're saying seems somewhat fair, but on the other hand, I prefer encouraging the attempt. A portion of the people who do this will never have to call you, having managed to solve the issue, and any experience gained with the attempt will go into doing it better next time.

In a world where people know less and less about how to solve problems themselves, I think repair skills are incredibly important for people to have.

Personally, I would happily pay more if you show me what you're doing and/or explain what I did wrong :)
by bee_rider | 2025-09-03 15:48:50+00:00
We’ll see if these LLMs end up having a real use, once the “giving away investor money” business model dries up. They really might! But it seems early to say that the EU has missed out on anything, before we see what the thing is.

In general, it is hard to compare the US and the EU; we got a head start while the rest of the world was rebuilding itself from WW2. That started up some feedback loops. We can mess up and siphon too much off a loop, destroying it, and still be ahead. They can be setting up loops without benefitting from them yet.
by reptilian | 2025-09-03 15:49:25+00:00
As though America's oligarchs aren't having the same conversations. I know a few US billionaires who already clone their pets, and a bunch more investing heavily in longevity, across multiple fields of research.

American prisons organ harvest, and America leads the world in the trade.

Funny how it's only bad when Russia or China do it. Silly Americans.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-03 15:49:58+00:00
It seems far too deliberate not to be so. Wonder about the reason too. Maybe dual-use with printouts?

Edit: I found their reasoning:

"Moreover, activity analysis has highlighted possible impairment in reading context: variations of light and viewing angle, high cognitive load for the pilot etc�

So, B612 has created a concept of increased legibility of shape for less ideal situations and associated methods of mark corrections, to optimise the final rendering of the text and on-screen reading, particularly with the use of incises and ‘light-traps’ .

An incise is a small serif which interrupts the regularity of the vertical line: here it allows to accentuate the clarity of the leading stroke (top part) of the vertical stem 8 to avoid it being rounded off when antialiasing.

The principle of ‘ink traps’ has existed as long as typography has: it is a small indentation at the junction of letter strokes which ‘traps’ the ink on small characters, so that it doesn't block the junction and affect the legibility. In the case of B612, the ‘light traps’ accentuate the counterforms 7, particularly for the sharp angles� The indenta- tions are always well distinguished, even at a small size, and the contrast between the different strokes of the character is reinforced."

From page 8 of: https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/docs/B612-Leafl...

The doc also has a photo of their experimental test environment (unsurprisingly: a cockpit) and info on the test process.
by hedora | 2025-09-03 15:50:17+00:00
I’ve dealt with multiple companies that hang up after hearing what your issue is, before and after AI became common.

Since it is standard industry practice, I think draconian regulations are appropriate.

Off the top of my head, if you are caught having a policy to do this, you pay all customers $100/hour retroactively for the total time they spent on hold (clawing back executive comp if necessary).

An amount equal to the total automatically goes to the whistleblowers that reported the behavior (even if they engaged in it).
by okeuro49 | 2025-09-03 15:50:20+00:00
It reminds me of the proposal to shake hands at the end of Goldeneye:

> Miyamoto, with a series of suggestions for the game. “One point was that there was too much close-up killing – he found it a bit too horrible. I don’t think I did anything with that input. The second point was, he felt the game was too tragic, with all the killing. He suggested that it might be nice if, at the end of the game, you got to shake hands with all your enemies in the hospital.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/26/goldeneye...
by devjab | 2025-09-03 15:50:37+00:00
I like Aarhus but I'm not sure what they say about it. I was born and raised here, then at 19 I moved to Aalborg. A few years later I changed university and moved to Odense (they are the 3rd and 4th largest cites). I've spent a lot of time in Copenhagen over the years, both for work and in my private life. I don't think there is too much difference between Odense or Aarhus, I didn't like Aalborg as much but it's been 20+ years since I lived there. What I miss most about Odense (aside from house prices) is that it's closer to Copenhagen, but my now wife lived in Aarhus when we met, and I found a job here easily so...

Anyway, I think the biggest difference is between Copenhagen and the rest of our cities. Copenhagen is different in that it has a lot more going on in terms of basically everything. I'm personally happy I'm not raising children in Copenhagen, mostly because of the cost of living.

We're just 5.5 million people though, so it's not like there is that much of a difference between places. When I say that I miss being closer to Copenhagen, we're talking 1,5 hours closer... It still only takes 3 hours from here.

If you work in IT like I do, Aarhus is a little more boring than both Copenhagen and Odense. Odense has a lot of IoT and robotics going on, and Copenhagen has everything. In the Aarhus area you'll probably want to work with C#, PHP, Java, Typescript or Python and Azure + general Microsoft products if you're going to work in tech.
by names_r_hard | 2025-09-03 15:51:31+00:00
5D3 is perhaps the best currently supported ML cam for video. It's very capable - good choice. Using both CF and SD cards simultaneously, it can record at about 145MB/s, so you can get very high quality footage.

Re what we can support - it's a reverse engineering project, we can support anything with enough time ;) The very newest cams have software changes that make enabling ML slightly harder for normal users, but don't make much difference from a developer perspective. I don't see any signs of Canon trying to lock out reverse engineers. Gaining access and doing a basic, ML GUI but no features port, is not hard when you have experience.

What we choose to support: I work on the cams that I have. And the cams that I have are whatever I find for cheap, so it's pretty random. Other devs have whatever priorities they have :)

The first cam I ported to was 200D, unsupported at the time. This took me a few months to get ML GUI working (with no features enabled), and I had significant help. Now I can get a new cam to that standard in a few days in most cases. All the cams are fairly similar for the core OS. It's the peripherals that change the most as hardware improves, so this takes the most time. And the newer the camera, the more the hw and sw has diverged from the best supported cams.

The cheapest way for you to get started is to use your 5D3 - which you can do in our fork of qemu. You can dump the roms (using software, no disassembly required), then emulate a full Canon and ML GUI, which can run your custom ML changes. There are limitations, mostly around emulation of peripherals. It's still very useful if you want to improve / customise the UI.

https://github.com/reticulatedpines/qemu-eos/tree/qemu-eos-v...

Re docs - they're not in a great shape. It's scattered over a few different wikis, a forum, and commit messages in multiple repos. Quick discussion happens on Discord. We're very responsive there, it's the best place for dev questions. The forum is the best single source for reference knowledge. From a developer perspective, I have made some efforts on a Dev Guide, but it's far from complete, e.g.:

https://github.com/reticulatedpines/magiclantern_simplified/...

If you want physical hardware to play with (it is more fun after all), you might be able to find a 650d or 700d for about $100. Anything that's Digic 5 green here is a capable target:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Canon_EOS_digital_cam...

Digic 4 stuff is also easy to support, and will be cheaper, but it's less capable and will be showing its age generally - depends if that bothers you.
by benterix | 2025-09-03 15:52:55+00:00
Yeah but in spite of that if you ask me take a Jira ticket and do it properly, there is a much higher chance that I'll do it reliably and the rest of my team will be satisfied, whereas if I bring an LLM into the equation it will wreak havoc (I've witnessed a few cases and some people got fired, not really for using LLMs but for not reviewing their output properly - which I can even understand somehow as reviewing code is much less fun than creating it).
by tim333 | 2025-09-03 15:53:01+00:00
I sympathise with most of Zitron's points but re the quips "You Just Don’t Get It" and "AI Is Powerful, and Getting Exponentially More Powerful", I think Zirton doesn't really get it. It's not that AI is getting exponentially more powerful but the hardware it runs on is in a steady Moore's law like way, which allows the AI to get better in more of a linear manner.

In the past, chess programs advanced steadily in ELO scores as a result or hardware improvements, allowing the year they would beat the human champion to be predicted fairly well and now AI is advancing in something like IQ in a similar way.

I'm not sure Zitron gets that - he acts like it's just some novel software we've come up with that isn't really that good. Which is sort of like thinking Computer-Chess 1975 was just some software that wasn't very good and so talking about computers getting better than humans was nonsense.

Of course Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997 and now chess computers are about ELO 3500 against about 2800 for the human champion. Similar will probably happen in AI.
by eth0up | 2025-09-03 15:53:11+00:00
I won't try to evaluate that.

For me, as a born eccentric, aspects of the concept terrify me. I tend to favor the principles of a Republic, with unassailable foundations impervious to popular fervors and whims. Ideally with heavy democratic principles fortifying the Republic. I don't see either.

I look at recent affairs with FTC for example, and too many things to list. I don't even know what to call what I see. Recipe for nightmares comes to mind, but I know the flaws of emotions well enough.

Personally I find myself retreating into a quasi spiritual state, remotely bordering asceticism. Fading into an in but not of it.

I'm convinced it's a brutally complicated situation. Evey day, though, I think it could be drastically simplified with kindness, but that's a subject where I'm inclined to go full macabre and will hush now.
by anfractuosity | 2025-09-03 15:53:20+00:00
https://light.bio/ looks more interesting than injecting glowing substances

Heh, I just came across this though "Our Firefly Petunias are protected under patent, and as such, propagation and breeding are not permitted. These petunias are sold exclusively for personal use."

Edit: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11913033B2 curious if anyone has come across DIY versions?

Did also find - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowing_Plant_project
by zduoduo | 2025-09-03 15:53:29+00:00
I found this article really helpful, and a lot of the advice made me nod along. The point about “making sure your audience knows what to take away” is something I realize many people, including myself, often overlook. I used to think preparing slides was enough, but now I see that giving a talk is more like having a conversation—you want people to feel comfortable and engaged. I also like the reminder to add a bit of humor and warmth. Next time I get the chance to speak, I’d really like to put this into practice.
by fooker | 2025-09-03 15:53:31+00:00
I recently obtained an astro converted 6D. Have played around with CHDK a long time ago as a teenager but never magic lantern.

I am a compiler dev with decent low level skills, anything in particular I should look at that would be good for the project as well as my ‘new’ 6D? (No experience with video unfortunately)

I have a newer R62 as well, but would rather not try anything with it yet.
by PhantomHour | 2025-09-03 15:53:38+00:00
I'm sorry but I simply do not believe you that it does handle things like puns and things requiring footnotes, my experience is that LLMs are miserable at this even when directly "instructed" to.

But for what it concerns my previous comment: It doesn't really matter what the "state of the art" AI is because companies simply do not use that. They just pipe it through the easiest & cheapest models, human review (that does not actually get the time to do meaningful review) optional.
by cnst | 2025-09-03 15:54:00+00:00
Apple is the only one that effectively knows the Real Name of all their users, because you cannot do anything on an iOS device without signing up for an Apple Account first.

It's virtually impossible to sideload anything on an iOS device without extensive developer know-how; but for Apple itself to do a targetted attack, would be a trivial task.

Android is the privacy heaven by comparison.

It's relatively trivial to get started with F-Droid and Aurora Store, and then you can install whichever apps you need, without providing any identifying information system-wide, without needing anything beyond the Android device itself.

No PCs, no mandatory 0days, no exploits, no specific software/hardware requirements, no warez, no copyright infringement, just pure free software and a few warning dialogues from Google about the dangers of installing the third-party apps, before you can do whatever you wish with the hardware you paid for, on any Android device of any vendor.
by duxup | 2025-09-03 15:54:14+00:00
One of those problems of the past that is sorta not talked about much anymore.

It is interesting that like the social media thing where hosting an image isn't really hard,the image hosting sites make image hosting super easy ... and yet as far as general use image hosting goes nobody seems to like a given image host for very long. Image hosts come and go out of business fairly regularly.

Granted there's always an image host that seems to be "good" ... for a while.
by xp84 | 2025-09-03 15:54:56+00:00
Also anecdotally: by 2006 I also don't think it was that hard, in SF. 2008 of course kicked off a new cycle of capital scarcity, but, what it seemed like to me was that two gold rushes kicked off in earnest around that time which in tech seemed to mitigate any major difficulties for software people: First the online/Facebook gaming goldrush (Zynga being the poster child, but there were dozens more publishers, advertising and monetization firms drinking from that trough) and of course the App Store goldrush.
by mooreds | 2025-09-03 15:55:36+00:00
I've posted this Asimov short story before, but this comment inspires me to post it again.

http://employees.oneonta.edu/blechmjb/JBpages/m360/Professio...

"Somewhere there must be men and women with capacity for original thought."

He wrote that in 1957. 1957!