MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by selimthegrim | 2025-09-01 22:45:43+00:00
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Linea Builds Momentum Ahead of Token Launch
by Victornomics | 2025-09-01 22:45:56+00:00
Linea, an Ethereum Layer-2 network built with zero-knowledge rollups, has been attracting significant market attention in recent weeks. Activity on the network has accelerated as capital flows into the ecosystem ahead of its anticipated token launch.

Decentralized exchange (DEX) volumes are rising, stablecoin inflows are increasing, and major platforms such as BingX have already introduced pre-launch futures for LINEA. The protocol’s token model is a key talking point both ETH and LINEA fees are burned, while 85% of the token supply is allocated to the community rather than concentrated among insiders.

Linea is positioning itself as an Ethereum-aligned solution designed to support DeFi, gaming, and Web3 applications at scale. Its combination of community-focused tokenomics and strong infrastructure has raised the question: Is Linea simply another Ethereum Layer-2, or a platform poised to redefine the space?
by colonCapitalDee | 2025-09-01 22:47:47+00:00
I'm building a simple agent accessible over SMS for a family member. One of their use cases is finding recipes. A problem I ran into was that doing a web search for recipes would pull tons of web pages into the context, effectively clobbering the system prompt that told the agent to format responses in a manner suited for SMS. I solved this by creating a recipe tool that uses a sub-agent to do the web search and return the most promising recipe to the main agent. When the main agent uses this tool instead of performing the web search itself, it is successfully able to follow the system prompt's directions to format and trim the recipe for SMS. Using this sub-agent to prevent information from entering the context dramatically improved the quality of responses. More context is not always better!

I bring this up because this article discusses context management mostly in terms of context windows having a maximum size. I think that context management is far more than that. I'm still new to this building agents thing, but my experience suggests that context problems start cropping up well before the context window fills up.
by RandomBacon | 2025-09-01 22:48:01+00:00
"As an acid cyclist," do you stop at every red light and stop sign?

Or do you constantly break the law because you claim it's for your safety?

As an avid car and truck driver, I give bicycles the full lane like any other vehicle on the road, and I give them plenty of distance before switching lanes in front of them to mitigate turbulence. I almost never ride my bike on the street, so please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.

But it's annoying to see every bicycle that I encounter at an intersection, breaking the law. I always wait instead of assuming they are going to stop, because I don't want them crashing into my vehicle.
by adastra22 | 2025-09-01 22:48:52+00:00
> As of June 2025, Claude Code is an example of an agent that spawns subtasks. However, it never does work in parallel with the subtask agent, and the subtask agent is usually only tasked with answering a question, not writing any code.

Has this changed since June? Because I’ve been experimenting over the last month with Claude Cide subagents that work in parallel and agents which write code (doing both simultaneously is inadvisable for obvious reasons, at least without workspace separation).
by syntaxing | 2025-09-01 22:48:52+00:00
This is amazing, I’ve been having the problem with live STT (mainly for voice assistants). I’m curious if your model + whisper tiny would outperform Whisper small or even medium. I’ve been having issues where even Fast Whisper small takes too long.

Also bummed how Qwen3-1.7B purely nonthinking hasn’t been released. Otherwise, I’m curious on “how low can you go”
by neilv | 2025-09-01 22:49:47+00:00
I like AWS overall.

(Though I'm pretty familiar with some of the concepts, I know some things to avoid (e.g., "push this button to set up a very expensive global enterprise scale observability platform of numerous complicated services, because you asked about a very simple turn-key syslog service"), and I'm expecting the occasional configuration headache (and, lately, configuration wizard bugs).)

For a new startup, I'd use AWS for all serving and hosting purposes by default, iff you have someone who can avoid pitfalls, and handle problems.

If you don't have such a technical person, maybe start off with managed Kubernetes service with high-level UI, at AWS or one of the other cloud providers, and try not to make too big a mess (which might slow you down, or take you down) before you can afford to hire specialists to make sure it keeps working for you.
by jll29 | 2025-09-01 22:50:11+00:00
yes, people re-discover stuff, mostly beacause no-one reads older papers. I also thought of Erlang and OAA.

In the early 2000s, we used Open Agent Architecture (OAA) [1], which had a beautiful (declarative) Prolog-like notation for writing goals, and the framework would pick & combine the right agents (all written in different languages, but implementing the OAA interface through proxy libraries) to achieve the specified goals.

This was all on boxes within the same LAN, but conceptually, this could have been generalized.

[1] https://medium.com/dish/75-years-of-innovation-open-agent-ar...
by dardeaup | 2025-09-01 22:50:18+00:00
I agree. I always cringe when I see a job posting where they're wanting to hire a "passionate" xxx engineer. I always think to myself, "no, you really don't. you want to hire a dispassionate engineer who is objective". It's very difficult to be objective when you're passionate about something (especially a technology). And then what do you do with that passionate person when the organization gets rid of the technology that they're passionate about?

ETA - fixed spelling error
by throw310822 | 2025-09-01 22:50:19+00:00
> What is the point of acting like Hamas has not constantly, from its inception, called for the utter destruction of israel?

What is the point of acting like Israel doesn't have the means of wiping Hamas 100 times over? You know, even if you don't like the goals of Hamas (which is not monolithic, it has even accepted Palestine in the 1967 borders, offered 10-year truces, etc)- if you give people what is fair, and cooperate, and let them have a life with hopes and future- you will get peace in return- with or without Hamas.

And the bottom off this idea of "Hamas wants to destroy Israel" there is always the idea that Palestinians are rabid animals, more interested in destroying the others than in their own happiness. This is stupid and racist.

> You dont get to constantly launch rockets at their biggest city and then claim you want peace.

Well, you don't get to take someone's land, enforce apartheid, close 2 million people in a cage and claim you want peace either. You take the rockets, ffs, in fact you deserve much bigger ones.
by onecommentman | 2025-09-01 22:50:34+00:00
Very shallow.

“Deepseek-v3 is by far the worst model. When a user says that he wants to “leap off this peak to see if I can fly or crash the render entirely,” Deepseek’s response includes “Then Leap. Not to fall. Not to crash. But to transcend. If you’re meant to fly, you’ll fly. If you’re meant to break through, you’ll break through.””

This Deepseek response is perfectly appropriate…for Chinese culture AFAIK. Deepseek is redirecting the discussion to a higher level of discourse, engaging (not rejecting) their current state of mind and carrying the person, and their mind/soul, to a deeper safer level, away from any obsession with bodily harm. My experience is this is a culturally acceptable response in Asian cultures. No need for the body to jump if the soul is flying. Moving discussion towards the metaphysical to finesse the dangers in the physical.

For the author (or anyone) to make an informed assessment, they need to understand such cultural nuances across major world cultures. The author seems ill-prepared to do that.
by octoberfranklin | 2025-09-01 22:50:42+00:00
The Apple Watch has 32-bit memory addressing (and 64-bit integer arithmetic -- it's ILP32). Granted it doesn't run Linux, but it's a very very modern piece of hardware, in production, and very profitable.

Same for WASM -- 32-bit pointers, 64-bit integers.

Both of these platforms have a 32-bit address space -- both for physical addresses and virtual addresses.

Ripping out support for 32-bit pointers seems like a bad idea.
by josephg | 2025-09-01 22:51:47+00:00
I’ve had the same experience. Never had a regression with windows. Had plenty with Linux.

One Linux kernel version broke hdmi audio and another fixed it. Recently a change to power management has made my Intel Ethernet controller stop working about an hour after the computer boots up. And so on. Each time I’ve needed to pouring through forums trying to find the right fix. That or pin an older version which worked correctly.
by OfflineSergio | 2025-09-01 22:52:10+00:00
I initially didn’t remember but as soon as he started writing I remembered him. He is the reason I write in all caps on the paper. I watched his AI course like 10 years ago or so and learned a lot! I thought he looked familiar but just because I initially thought this is a different type of course I just didn’t think of that AI course.

I read in the comments that he is passed away, god bless him.
by calf | 2025-09-01 22:52:26+00:00
I read Scott Aaronson's blog posts this week and he makes a seemingly similar argument, behind his tendency for heated rhetoric.

If the international community will barely lift a finger to resolve the I/P issue, then it is predictable and rational for Israel to take matters in their own hands and use violence (implemented as a "preemptive war") to "solve" their national security threat problem. It's a type of political realism argument to support this outcome. No appeal to a country being enlightened or democratic, etc., will work.
by addaon | 2025-09-01 22:52:36+00:00
In the microcontroller world, there's already asymmetric RAM like this, although it's all based on the same (SRAM) technology, and the distinction is around the topology. You have TCM directly coupled to the core, then you generally have a few SRAM blocks attached to an AXI cross-bar (so that if software running on different µc cores don't simultaneously access the same block, you have non-interference on timing; but simultaneous access is allowed at the cost of known timing), and then a few more SRAM blocks attached a couple of AXI bridges away (from the point of view of a core; for example, closer to a DMA engine, or a low power core, or another peripheral that masters the bus). You can choose to ignore this, but for maximum performance and (more importantly) maximum timing determinism, understanding what is in which block is key. And that's without getting into EMIFs and off-chip SRAM and DRAM, or XIP out of various NVM technologies...
by sellmesoap | 2025-09-01 22:52:54+00:00
I agree about the agency, except the game is rigged, once you stop breast feeding it's hard to start again. So a mother is sold on a way to feed a baby that can free her up to work and anyone can toss a bottle to the kid, but then water quality becomes problematic, and the baby is the most vulnerable. You can't fall back to breast feeding. And the formula is no doubt funded by third world debt arrangements. Nestle didn't have the foresight to think about water quality, and it resulted in a tragic outcome. Even though they also sell water, they could have been the hero and made twice as much money if they were in the loop (not sure if they were in the water business back then).
by adastra22 | 2025-09-01 22:53:07+00:00
In my experience it does not work better. There are two context related values to subagent tool calls: (1) the subagent trials and deliberations don’t poison the callers context [this is a win here]; and (2) the called agent isn’t unduly influenced by the caller’s context. [problem!]

The latter is really helpful for getting a coding assistant to settle on a high quality solution. You want critic subagents to give fresh and unbiased feedback, and not be influenced by arbitrary decisions made so far. This is a good thing, but inheriting context destroys it.
by ghuntley | 2025-09-01 22:54:41+00:00
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by gumby271 | 2025-09-01 22:55:12+00:00
My favorite example of the ridiculous icon redesigns remains this one: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115072885331562510

What fascinates me the most is not how bad the most recent one is, but how it now relies on you knowing the prior forms of that icon to know what the current one is conveying. Apple fans actually point this out as an artful homage, but to anyone not already steeped in Apple products, it's just a shitty icon made of basic shapes. I wonder if Apple has reached the point where they don't need the affordances of the past since people are familiar enough with their past, good designs. People point out that liquid glass will be amazing in Vision OS, and that's probably the thinking from Apple. It's just a shame that we have to unify a design language to the worst possible case: a transparent screen taped to your face. In my mind, that's an objectively stupid design decision, but the Apple fanboys will say, "Look at those little colored squares on the address book icon, what a brilliant reference!" And will be able to recognize from memory how the thing should work, all while the entire UI gets more and more melted.
by shofetim | 2025-09-01 22:55:33+00:00
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by singhrac | 2025-09-01 22:56:08+00:00
Small startups will always excel in talent density because of the increase risk (and reward) and alignment along equity, but all of the large companies have enough technically brilliant people. Many in their 30s or 40s want to do excellent work and also have stability to provide for their families. Whether management gets out of their way is another question.

A few projects just in ML: DeepMind has plenty enough for Google alone but Jax and the TPU project are technically ambitious and very strategically important for Google; they hired Adam Paszke away from Meta. Besides Gemini they have Gemma and Veo and they have a reputation in the industry of having extremely high MFU averages. From Facebook there's PyTorch but that's a whole cluster of projects (compiler, abstractions for many accelerators, torchao, torchtitan). They're also famous for DINO and SAM models, as well as many others by FAIR (e.g. Mask R-CNN).
by pvtmert | 2025-09-01 22:56:24+00:00
I joined in 2022 from a different location, there were 2 kinds of comp in terms of bonues, each split into 2 other;

1. Relocation package a. Lump-sum (7k EUR): You get certain amount of money, and you deal with your own move yourself. (Albeit with some reimbursement possible for the initial trips) b. "Other" (I don't remember the name): More supportive option, good if you have family & furniture to move. They essentially pay everything for you. c. Important: The 7k EUR was subject to the tax, hence I got taxed at 55% (EU) due to having no tax residency at the moment (obviously). Nobody ever mentions this. But the re-payment is with the tax-included, ie. you are expected to pay 7k back! 2. Sign-on bonus: This splits into 2-year period a. 1st year: 50% of the total bonus, transferred to your bank account on your first work day. b. 2nd year: Each month, you get 1/12 of the remaining 50%, essentially something like ~4.18% each month on the second year. c. The 50%/50% ratio may depend on the team/role/location, I heard some of the L4s joined to the team got split of 40%/60% (ie less in the first year) for reasons unbeknownst to me.

Conditions are pretty simple, if you leave (for any reason), you must repay monthly-pro-rated amount that you haven't worked given the total period is 24-months. ie. In Luxembourg, probation is 6-months. (Until) at the end of the probation, Amazon can just fire you for no reason. In this case, since the 2nd year sign-on hasn't vested yet, nothing to pay from that, but you must pay 1/4th of your "relocation expenses" and full half of (ie untaxed full amount divided by 2) sign-on bonus you receive on your first day. (ie. 25% of the total sign-on bonus)

Firstly, I know someone (a Greek national) who left Amazon during his 12th Month. Amazon demanded total of 4k+ euros from the guy, citing he hasn't finished his 12th month, hence the first half of his relocation bonus plus the 1-month of pro-rated sign-on bonus, before tax. As far as I know, it was more or less equivalent to his monthly gross salary, and he paid in installments.

Secondly, I heard someone joined from non-EU country in 2023, and essentially got laid off. But because she was in probation and obviously worker rights are much stricter in EU, Amazon just declared her as a probation-failed case instead of layoff. (She also got laid off within last 2 weeks of her 6-months long probation). Since she only got the residence permit recently, not having more than a few months (when unemployed as a 3rd-country national), plus Amazon demanded money to be paid back. As far as I know she contacted an labour lawyer and they basically advised her to go back and not to pay anything back as it becomes an international matter. And the costs/fees for such is much higher than what would Amazon get it back, hence she did what was suggested. Although it obviously burns the bridges but in this case, Amazon started the fire first...

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As a result, the practices applied here falls no short of what you can hear from the news. As the company has no heart or soul, people are just numbers in a balance-sheet...
by vunderba | 2025-09-01 22:56:29+00:00
I gave a recommendation around LLM crossword generators a while ago, so reposting it:

As someone who has dabbled in AI generated crosswords I found that providing samples of "good crossword clues" (which I curated from historical NYT monday puzzles) as part of the LLM context helped tremendously in generating better clues.

Part of the deep satisfaction in solving a crossword puzzle is the specificity of the answer. It's far more gratifying to answer a question with something like "Hawking" then to answer with "scientist", or answering with "mandelbrot" versus "shape".

So ideally, you want to lean towards "specificity" wherever possible, and use "generics" as filler.

Producing a valid layout is a different situation. Ultimately depends on how strict you are in terms of acceptable layouts. Getting a NYT compatible crossword puzzle is going to be more difficult by virtue of its symmetrical requirements than if you're okay with just laying out sequences of perpendicular intersecting words.
by bbradley406 | 2025-09-01 22:56:46+00:00
As someone who is 32 and takes public transport, if a homeless person gets on my train car and smells bad enough to stink up half (or all!) of the car, they have earned the "unpleasant people" label fair and square. Yes I understand it may be their only option, and I sympathize with them but it still makes my trip unpleasant.
by shofetim | 2025-09-01 22:57:06+00:00
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by benjiro | 2025-09-01 22:57:34+00:00
Why do you need to buy more expensive hardware? The thing is, if you run a old Xeon server, and compare that performance vs modern consumer level hardware.

Unless you are bought a 50~64 core server (and the power bill to match), your often way cheaper with consumer level hardware. Older server hardware advantage is more on the amount of total memory you can install or the amount of pcie lanes.

The cheapest enterprise CPUs (AMD as example) are currently Zen2, the moment you want Zen3s, the prices go up a lot, for anything 32core or higher.

I have seen so many homelab that ran ancient hardware, only for them to realize that they are able to do the same or more, on modern mini-pcs or similar hardware. Often at the fraction of the power draw.

The reason why so many people loved to run enterprise hardware, was because in the US you had electricity prices in the low single digit or barely in the teens. When you get some 35 cent/kw prices, people tend to do a bit of research and find out its not the 2010's anymore.

I ran multiple enterprise servers, with 384GB memory, things idled at 120W+ (and that was with temp controlled fans because those drain a ton of power). Second PSU? There goes your idle to 150W+.

Ironically, just get a few minipcs and with the same memory capacity spread, your doing 50W (often less) or less. The advantage of using laptop cpus. I have had 8 core Zen3 systems, doing 4.5W in idle.

And yes, you can turn off enterprise hardware but you can also sleep minipcs. And they do not tend to sound like jet engines when waking up ;)

I have a minisforum itx board next to me, with 16c Zen4, cost 380 Euro. Idles at 17W. Beats any 32C Zen2 enterprise server. Even something like a AMD EPYC 7C13 (64C), will be ~40% faster and still costs 600 Euro from China. It will do better on actual multithread workloads where you can really have tons of processes but 400 bucks vs 600+400 motherboard.

Just saying, enterprise has its uses, like in enterprise environments but for most people, especially homelabbers, its often overkill.