MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by liendolucas | 2025-09-08 10:22:00+00:00
Today they are mostly irrelevant. Just skimmed their website and I can't find any reason why people would spend money on their products. In a competitive industry such as audio I would never purchase headphones or speakers from them. Audio cards, I don't know, today probably no, and not from them.

In the '90 they were renowned for many of their products (multimedia kits, anybody?). I remember having purchased a Sound Blaster Live and was kind of blown away at the time with its audio quality, maybe because what I had in my motherboard was really bad audio.

One of my siblings had a Creative Zen Vision for ages, it was rock solid to the point that he destroyed its case and audio jack and the thing still worked perfectly. It was possibly one of a few products I've seen that resisted so much and kept working.

I do understand that the market for audio players now are kind of niche/dead if you can run an audio player on your phone, but I would still buy a good quality and affordable audio player that is not polluted with android. Just put music and play it... Their audio players were nice, not the best in terms of software. I owned a Zen Pebble and a Zen Micro and at the time I was quite happy with them.

One thing that is not minor is that they never seemed to have any interest on supporting other OSes rather than Windows or MacOS (a sign that still reflects that they haven't adapted to today's open source movement). If it weren't for the OSS community their cards wouldn't work on Linux.

Another company that suffered a similar or worse fate is Turtle Beach. I remember that they sound cards were also renowed at the time. They now make headsets and joysticks. I guess both companies didn't learn to adapt to the unforgiving tech market and kind of perished.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-08 10:22:38+00:00
I agree that mid-90s is a bit early but I would say mid 00's is too late.

I'm pretty sure it's a rapid change almost immediately after AC97. In 1998 it's cool if your new PC has built in CD quality audio. In 2000 that's a basic feature like colour graphics, if your PC doesn't then it sucks.
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-08 10:22:50+00:00
I believe that respect for IHL is more important than anything.

If IHL were deeply ingrained in international political behaviour and absolutely established I could see deviations from it where such deviations could be justified on moral grounds as acceptable, but since the law is hardly even established it is more important that it be followed than that it minimizes suffering in the now.

Furthermore, I don't think that it mattered. Everyone places his tactical concerns very highly in the moment, but over time they are often irrelevant. Do you really think it matters now, whether that information was available or not?

I don't really believe there's anything useful that can be achieved when it comes to the North Korea's nuclear weapons. They have them, they'll probably try to build more of them. That sucks, but there's nothing that can be done.
by petre | 2025-09-08 10:23:14+00:00
> I'm struggling to understand the need. I ride my bike every day but I don't remember the last time I was surprised by a car approaching from behind.

Not get rear-ended by a car? There's also model with a camera to collect evidence. I have the one without the camera, just the radar and a light.

> Where in the world do you live / where do you typically ride your bike? In what situations are you glad to have that radar?

Central and Eastern Europe. Whenever I share the roads with cars. Although I'm more relaxed on outdoor paths or gravel roads where I don't have to keep an eye on cars all the time.

For MTB you probably don't need it, but in road scenarios it's great.
by sfdlkj3jk342a | 2025-09-08 10:23:33+00:00
After traveling for years, I often wonder how various cultures end up high or low trust. Wealth or financial inequality doesn't seem to be the main driving factor, despite seeming an obvious cause. Racial and ethnic homogeneity doesn't always explain it either.

Destruction of traditional culture by things like colonialism seems to be an important factor.
by Joker_vD | 2025-09-08 10:23:57+00:00
"Since forever" as in, "since the start of electronic computing"; we started printing the programs out on paper almost immediately. The 132 columns comes from the IBM's ancient line printers (circa 1957); most of other manufacturers followed the suit, and even the glass ttys routinely had 132-column mode (for VT100 you had to buy a RAM extension, for later models it was just there, I believe). My point is, most of the people did understand, back even in the sixties, that 80-columns wide screen is tiny, especially for reading the source code.
by saagarjha | 2025-09-08 10:24:30+00:00
I actually really hate CUDA's programming model and feel like it's too low-level to actually get any productive work done. I don't really blame Nvidia because they basically invented the programmable GPU and it wouldn't be fair to have them also come up with the perfect programming model right out of the gate but at this point it's pretty clear that having independent threads work on their own programs makes no sense. High performance code requires scheduling across multiple threads in a way that is completely different if you are coming from CPUs.

Of course, one might mention that GPUs are nothing like CPUs–but the programming model works super hard to try to hide this. So it's not really well designed in my book. I actually quite like the compilers that people are designing these days to write block-level code, because I feel like it better represents the work people want to do and then you pick which way you want it lowered.

As for Nsight (Systems), it is…ok, I guess? It's fine for games and stuff I guess but for HPC or AI it doesn't really surface the information that you would want. People who are running their GPUs really hard know they have kernels running all the time and what the performance characteristics of them are. Nsight Compute is the thing that tells you that but it's kind of a mediocre profiler (some of this may be limitations of hardware performance counters) and to use it effectively you basically have to read a bunch of blog posts by people instead of official documentation.

Despite not having used it much, my impression was that Nvidia's "moat" was that they have good networking libraries, that they are pretty good (relatively) and making sure all their tools work, and they have had consistent investment on this for a decade.
by throwup238 | 2025-09-08 10:25:19+00:00
Why wouldn’t the steam turbine cycle or pressurized water in the primary circuit work?

Terrestrial nuclear reactors need a lot of water on the tertiary circuit but on Mars that can just dump into the ground instead which isn’t possible on Earth. The primary and secondary circuits are closed loop and don’t need so much water that it would be prohibitive, at least not compared to the difficulty of getting everything else to the planet and assembled.
by dahauns | 2025-09-08 10:25:33+00:00
The cpu temps are one thing, but if - as you said - even a beast like the D15 G2 has it pegged at 100C, this very much sounds like bad ventilation and other parts of the system being toasted as well - VRMs in particular, for which the "PRIME" (actually being the low-end series) mainboards from Asus, as used here, don't exactly have a stellar reputation.

And yeah, having Arrow Lake running at its defaults is just a waste of energy. Even halving your TDP just loses you roughly 15% performance in highly MT scenarios...
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-08 10:25:45+00:00
> The demoscene events are not for coding, although I'm sure it happens

How to tell you've never been to a demo party without saying you've never been to a demo party.

I jest, but scrambling to implement the last effect before the deadline, or fix some stupid last minute bug was certainly typical at the events I was at. And you see this in a lot of the prods which released post-party "proper" versions.

There were also parties which had "live" competitions, where a theme would be announced at the party and you had then just a few hours to make a demo. Obviously wouldn't do it from scratch but typically coding would be involved, if for nothing else to tie the effects together.

But yeah, the main demos and intros would primarily be made well in advance.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-08 10:26:20+00:00
Nearest neighbor doesn't necessarily mean a near neighbor. :p (Technically Venus is closer, but in the other direction.)

Compared to Earth, Mars is ~1.52x as far from the Sun, which is a pretty hefty jump!

As you travel the distance from the sun by a factor of R, the same sunlight energy is distributed across a broader "shell" that grows in area by R^2.

1.00^2 / 1.52^2 =~ 43.3%
by lupusreal | 2025-09-08 10:26:46+00:00
My dude, an Indian is going to call your Apple-using grandmother and tell her that he works for "the Microsoft" and he needs her to give him all her banking details, or go to a bitcoin ATM, or buy a stack of $500 gift cards, and she's going to do it.

The sensor in her macbook lid does not matter! Get real.
by tinco | 2025-09-08 10:26:51+00:00
No. The A1000 was well over $500 last year. This is the #3 player coming out with a card that's a better deal than what the #1 player currently has to offer.

I don't get why there's people trying to twist this story or come up with strawmen like the A2000 or even the RTX5000 series. Intel's coming into this market competitively, which as far as I know is a first, and it's also impressive.

Coming into the gaming GPU market had always been too ambitious a goal for Intel, they should have started with competing in the professional GPU market. It's well known that Nvidia and AMD have always been price gouging this market so it's fairly easy to enter it competitively.

If they can enter this market successfully and then work their way up on the food chain then that seems like good way to recover from their initial fiasco.
by rep_lodsb | 2025-09-08 10:27:23+00:00
IIRC, even GW-BASIC allowed direct access to the hardware via peek/poke/inp/out. When you turned on the PC, it loaded the first 512 byte sector from floppy or hard disk into memory and transferred control to that. In theory, you could use the tools it came with to write a complete replacement for the operating system and install it so that after the BIOS loads that first sector, not a single machine instruction that you haven't written yourself runs.

I'm genuinely asking everyone here: How can I do this on a smartphone or tablet? Not just "root it", or install an "alternative OS" that is really just a tweaked Android, and "also you first have to buy this particular device it works on". Preferably without having to solder SMD components.

But from all I've read, I'm expecting the answer is "you can't". Which is too bad, since I have a couple of old devices from family laying around and would like to tinker with them. I'm not connecting them to any network as long as I don't have that level of control over what they do. Wouldn't do it with a new, "secure" device either -- the problem for me is what the built-in software does when working as intended by Goo666le + Shenzhen (I don't trust Apple either, and their devices seem even less hackable).
by louthy | 2025-09-08 10:27:31+00:00
Seems a rather tenuous link to the state of the NHS. The UK has a lower tax regime than most equivalent nations. If we wanted a better NHS we could just collect similar tax rates to that of Germany or other western nations.

One of the issues is we’re trapped with a media ecosystem that won’t even allow progressive parties to say “we’ll take a bit more in tax and in return you’ll get a functioning health service”, instead they feel they have to promise to run the economy like the Tories (which is mind numbing).

It’s not just the recent Labour election I’m referring to. The first time Blair got in it was the same.

We get the services we deserve.
by spaceman_2020 | 2025-09-08 10:27:52+00:00
I understand the legal motivation behind a blanket ban, but what's the point of having artificial "intelligence" if the model can't contextualize the request? Any intelligent model would be able to figure out that JFK is not under any threat of being doxxed

I legitimately had to ask Reddit for answers because I saw a picture of historical figures where I recognized 3 of the 4 people, but not the 4th. That 4th person has been dead for 78 years. Google Lens, and ChatGPT both refused to identify the person - one of the leading scientists of the 20th century.

You can't really build a tool that you claim can be used as a learning tool but can't identify people without contextualizing the request.
by vintermann | 2025-09-08 10:28:35+00:00
No, just someone who is not a jingoist for an Eastern European country.

Though I'm sure Russian jingoists over 60 today too prefer to see Soviet-allied states as "their empire". It's no more true than saying Argentina was a US colony - which means yes, you could say it, but we'd all be dumber for thinking of it like that.
by kristopolous | 2025-09-08 10:28:43+00:00
Formatters, if you want to be specific, are even worse.

They slyly add git noise and pollute your audit trails by just going through and moving shit around whenever you save a file.

And sometimes, they actually insert bugs - string formatting errors are my favorite example.

It's for people who think good code is a about adhering to aesthetic ideologies instead of making things documented and accountable.

This is most noticeable in open source contributions. Sometimes I'll get a pull request with like 2 lines of change and 120 lines of some reformating tool.

You think I accept that?

It's not a good idea
by pclmulqdq | 2025-09-08 10:29:25+00:00
Pezy and the other Japanese native chips are first and foremost about HPC. The world may have picked up AI in the last 2 years, but the Japanese chipmakers are still thinking primarily about HPC, with AI as just one HPC workload.

These Pezy chips are also made for large clusters. There is a whole system design around the chips that wasn't presented here. The Pezy-SC2, for instance, was built around liquid immersion cooling. I am not sure you could ever buy an air-cooled version.
by lazide | 2025-09-08 10:30:17+00:00
Haha, no. In geothermal, you aren’t concentrating shit. Rather the opposite. You’re just moving it down the entropic slope/dissipating it.

And converting (lossily) the form (usually, unless you’re doing geothermal heat - even then you need a heat exchanger).

And it all boils down to ‘within an enclosed system’. With heat pumps the scope is typically within a hundred meters of itself.

With deep geothermal it’s 1+ mile underground and the surface.

There is useful power between 1+ mile down and the surface. There isn’t 100 meters away and the surface - unless you’re sitting on top of a hot spring anyway.
by utyop22 | 2025-09-08 10:32:30+00:00
The biggest side cost (that’ll ultimately kill AI investment for awhile once this bubble pops) is the fact that for many people LLM = AI.

It’s going to be difficult to justify AI investment in private financial markets - causing more consolidation and control of future technology to fall into the hands of the large tech firms.

It’s a gamble that Sam Altman and others have taken - hoping and praying it won’t blow up in their face.
by maratc | 2025-09-08 10:32:59+00:00
> Why should others with wider screens leave space on their screen empty for your sake?

Because "I" might be older or sight-impaired, and have "my" font at size 32, and it actually fills "my" (wider than yours) screen completely?

Would you advise me to "fix my eyes" too? I'd love to!

"Why should I accommodate others" is a terrible take.
by yieldcrv | 2025-09-08 10:33:13+00:00
Meanwhile generative video doesn’t need to be adopted by large companies and the demand still needs 4-5x as many GPUs and compute power then exists today, as nobody is offering 4k video at 60fps yet

That’s one use case alone

So although this may be indicative of how much text inference you’ll need, or what you’ll hear about it on the job, it doesn’t have much to do with the actual AI sector or semiconductor sector yet
by utyop22 | 2025-09-08 10:34:44+00:00
Yeah and I don’t think Zuckerberg et all will be willing to risk a steep drop in their wealth for a long period to carry on reinvesting - yea they have control but investors can still reflect their sentiment in the stock price. And the wealth of senior management at these firms is tied up in the price of stock.

This is what happened with the metaverse debacle where the share price fell below 100usd.
by jstummbillig | 2025-09-08 10:34:45+00:00
> What if it turns out to be more of a, say, tens of billions of dollars market?

If it was treated as a multi-trillion dollar market, and that was necessary to justify the current investments, then it turning out to be a tens of billions of dollar market would make it not useful.

We can go to the most extreme example: Human life, that presumably is invaluable, which would mean that, no matter what, if we have an effective treatment for a life threatning diseases, that's useful. But it clearly is not: If the single treatment cost the GDP of the entire country, we should clearly not do it, even if we technically could. The treatment is simply not useful.

For AI the case is much simpler: If the AI, that we are currently building, will in effect have destroyed economic value, then it will not have been useful (because, as far as I can tell, at a minimum the promise of AI has to be positive economic value).
by Y_Y | 2025-09-08 10:35:19+00:00
There's more than one good way to define "esoteric" but it gave me cognitive whiplash to hear the term used about lambda calculus.

I can understand that perspective, there are plenty of purpose-built esolangs which are very close to the OG lambda calculus, and depending on your background the whole thing might seem bizarre and unfamiliar and ancient and irrelevant.

At least logically I see that could happen, but my heart disagrees. I see lambda calculus as a root of the conjoined tree[0] which supports all of modern programming. It feels to me like calling written English esoteric because some people get by without reading and writing!

(I'm certainyl not saying you're wrong, but just that it's fascinating how different two valid perspectives can be.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inosculation
by ThailandJohn | 2025-09-08 10:36:31+00:00
AST parsing fails primarily due to installation issues, not syntax errors in your code.

TheAuditor uses a sandboxed environment (.auditor_venv/) to avoid polluting your system. When Tree-sitter isn't properly installed in that sandbox, we fall back to regex patterns. Common causes:

1. Missing C compiler - Tree-sitter needs to compile language grammars 2. Incomplete setup - User didn't run aud setup-claude --target . which installs the AST tools 3. Old installation - Before we fixed the [ast] dependency inclusion

If your code had syntax errors, you'd get different errors entirely (and your code probably wouldn't run). The "AST parsing fails" message specifically means Tree-sitter isn't available, so we're using the fallback regex patterns instead.

Just pushed clearer docs about this today actually. Run aud setup-claude --target . in your project and Tree-sitter should work properly.
by krapp | 2025-09-08 10:36:57+00:00
It is the perfect name for an industry that considers "enshittification" a serious term of art.

And I say that knowing it will absolutely rule everything in the future - I'd bet at last half of all Show HNs are vibe coded apps now. Not long ago tech was seriously talking about monkey JPEGS being the future of global commerce and finance. We've been living in unserious times for a while.

I'd feel better about vibe coding and AI in general if I thought it would lead to more people learning how to do what it enables for themselves, and actually exercise control over their devices and creativity. But as useful as it can be - and I have to concede that much at this point - it requires depending on centralized AI services and isn't much better than proprietary code in terms of defending end user rights. I fear AI driven everything will lead to more closed systems and more corporate commoditization of our data and our lives. Unfortunately from what I've seen not only do many vibe coders not care, they don't want to care and they think anyone who does care is a slope-headed neanderthal.

So yeah, call it what it is. OP's app would have just been a simple web app ten years ago, it's just a quiz, doesn't require any deep coding magic. But no one cares about anything but the vibe anymore.
by kawsper | 2025-09-08 10:37:10+00:00
It also allowed us (a small startup) to run huge test suites, on cheap dedicated hardware from Hetzner, without sacrificing the developer experience.

It was the bill I was the happiest to pay.

We used Knapsack Pro to efficiently parallelise our Ruby test suite.

Today, I still use Buildkite, but now I build golden images (with packer) and deploy them with terraform.
by anbende | 2025-09-08 10:37:54+00:00
I think this one way of looking at what your parent was describing.

They weren’t just saying ‘AI writes the boilerplate for me.’ They were saying: once you’ve written the same glue the 3rd, 4th, 5th time, you can start folding that pattern into your own custom dev tooling.

AI not as a boilerplate writer but as an assistant to build out personal scaffolding toolset quickly and organically. Or maybe you think that should be more systemized and less personal?
by wbnns | 2025-09-08 10:37:56+00:00
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by rs186 | 2025-09-08 10:38:38+00:00
Ah, eslint-config-airbnb. My favorite airbnb config issues:

https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/issues/1271

https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/issues/1122

I literally spent over an hour when adapting an existing project to use the airbnb config, when code was perfectly correct, clear and maintainable. I ended up disabling those specific rules locally. I never used it in another project. (Looks like the whole project is no longer maintained. Good riddance.)

The airbnb config is, in my view, the perfect example of unnecessarily wasting people's productivity when linting is done badly.
by ThailandJohn | 2025-09-08 10:38:41+00:00
Yes, i cant code but i can build systems, more news at eleven... That's why I built this.

The 204 SQL injections it found in production? Those were real. Those are produced by industry standard tools....

The nightmare isn't that I used AI to build a security tool. The nightmare is that your production code was probably written the same way.

At least I'm checking mine.