MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jimbo808 | 2025-09-28 00:48:15+00:00
There is still a demand for these tools. I know they are useful to me. Do they make me more productive as a software engineer? Probably not, at least not significantly. But they're still useful, especially for little tools and one-off scripts which are not intended to become production code anywhere.

I also just enjoy using them for bouncing ideas off of them and doing sanity checks on all sorts of topics, personal and work-related. Sometimes they spark a better idea that I may not have had otherwise. I will still be using them after the bubble bursts.

That being said, I'm also fine if all the current AI companies implode and I'm just running an OSS model locally.
by ux266478 | 2025-09-28 00:49:33+00:00
I think a good introductory text on the deep nature of the divide in America is We Have the War Upon Us by William J. Cooper.

It's mostly a book about the civil war, but it introduces some post-revolution pre-war history and names. That gives you more resources to dig up. You should read as much as you can and form your own opinions on that.
by ivanjermakov | 2025-09-28 00:49:56+00:00
I think SIMD would be a lot more approachable and popular if intrinsics APIs didn't look like this: _mm512_cmpeq_epi8_mask. I understand that keeping naming close to instruction names is a good idea, but this ain't a great newcomer experience.

Modern LLVM already does not a bad job with SIMD optimizations, maybe even AVX-512 when targeting supported CPU.

Wonder if we soon see a language employing SIMD/MIMD optimizations without explicit asm/intrinsics from user. I remember @cmuratori said somewhere this is one thing he misses a lot in todays languages.
by nomel | 2025-09-28 00:50:35+00:00
They make conductive spray paint for this sort of thing [1], so it can be applied to the inside cover of electronics. Usual use is targeted application for EMI suppression.

You'll sometimes find a squirt this on the inside of consumer electronics, for a quick radiated emissions compliance fix.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/stores/MGChemicals/page/0ADAC495-496D...
by zamadatix | 2025-09-28 00:50:58+00:00
Mature should still be fixing bugs, which something like mosh is bound to always run into. From that perspective, it doesn't seem like it's just mature. There doesn't seem to be a clear all-in-one successor fork taking the reins either. E.g. https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1339, as a random sample.
by zahlman | 2025-09-28 00:51:31+00:00
> that isn't going to work if you try to use type hints in python because you're going to end up with a cyclic import. More specifically, you don't need cyclic imports in Python normally because you don't need the types, but you HAVE to import the types to add type hints, which introduces cyclic imports JUST to add type hints.

Yes, `typing.TYPE_CHECKING` is there so that you can conditionally avoid imports that are only needed for type annotations. And yes, importing modules can have side effects and performance implications. And yes, I agree it's ugly as sin.

But Python does in fact allow for cyclic imports — as long as you're importing the modules themselves, rather than importing names `from` those modules. (By the way, the syntax is the other way around: `from ... import ...`.)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/744373/
by ofalkaed | 2025-09-28 00:52:00+00:00
This does not really address drills, the tool of interest to the woodworker, it is an advertisement for impact drivers and hammer drills, shop cordless drills on Amazon! What should you buy? Doesn't matter but Amazon has it what ever it is.

Edit: Yes, I am jaded. Years ago I put a great deal of time and effort into the online woodworking community and it was mostly for nothing. I had an effect on a very small number of people but there was no way I could fight that current.
by hwillis | 2025-09-28 00:53:18+00:00
Cruising altitude is ~40k feet or 12 km and the range of the weapon is 2km. The system only works because of all the exposed wiring on quadcopters; everything in a plane is enclosed in a highly conductive aluminum shell and is very well protected. The windows are large enough to let in microwaves, but not very well. Some antennas might be in danger but in general planes are built to survive lighting. It would be a real freak accident for something to break.
by Waterluvian | 2025-09-28 00:53:52+00:00
“Xenotransplantation” is pretty #%^*ing metal.

It’s pretty wild being alive these days. Lots of big stuff the species is struggling to adapt to and figure out how to exist with.

But also… we got the tablets from Star Trek. And now we have the ship’s computer from Star Trek, and the early makings of the holodeck. And we’re making pigmen senior citizens who would otherwise be dead.

It’s quite something to stop and think about how the problem is becoming less and less about “how do we do the science and the engineering?” And more about “how do we handle how this changes what it is like to be human today?”
by riffraff | 2025-09-28 00:54:02+00:00
> The Musk Twitter massacre taught everybody a lesson

Well, depends on which lesson. "The company can still run" or "we actually won't build anything new for years".

Twitter released a couple things that were being worked on before the acquisition, and then nothing else (grok comes from a different company which later was merged into it, but obviously had different employees).
by zahlman | 2025-09-28 00:54:21+00:00
> They don't seem to come with the benefits of optimisation that you get with static typed languages

They don't. And cannot, for compatibility reasons. Aside from setting some dunders on certain objects (which are entirely irrelevant unless you're doing some crazy metaprogramming thing), type annotations have no effect on the code at runtime. The Python runtime will happily bytecode-compile and execute code with incorrect type annotations, and a type-checking tool really can't do anything to prevent that.
by rvz | 2025-09-28 00:54:27+00:00
> No what's driving much of the valuations is the biggest leap in human technology since the internet and skyrocketing revenues as a result

That is a 1999-like bubble and how you get 75 - 90% of these companies crashing when the music stops.

> Private companies soaring to $100m ARR in 12 months is commonplace now. That's what's driving the valuation.

We don't even know if that is even real to begin with. Even if it is, that revenue can be lost as quickly as it is gained.

This happened to Hopin and other companies who grew extremely quickly and then their valuations crashed.

The questions you should be asking yourself is even after looking at the competition, what is the retention and the switching cost of these said "$100m ARR in 12 months" companies if a competitor moves into their core business?
by tkgally | 2025-09-28 00:54:27+00:00
I agree that traditional dictionaries are still very useful. I wouldn’t trust today’s LLMs, for example, for information about etymologies, pronunciations, alternate spellings, conjugations and declensions, etc., unless they had access to human-curated lexicographic databases. But for grasping the meanings of words in real-life contexts, LLMs are much better than static dictionaries.

On the prescriptive vs. descriptive issue: As a (former) lexicographer, I think I can say with confidence that it is very difficult to maintain a consistent prescriptive stance when trying to create a general dictionary of a language. You have to have some basis for declaring that a particular usage is wrong. In a few cases, such as hopefully used as a sentential adverb or data as a singular noun, you can find prescriptive grammarians who condemn it or a systematic reason (logic, etymology, etc.) for excluding it. But the vast majority of words in a language acquire and change their meanings through people using them in various ways and situations, without being noticed by prescriptivists and without following clear patterns.

Canonical seems to be such an example. I think I’ve seen that podcast usage before, but I can’t say how old or well established it is. The entry for canonical at the online Oxford English Dictionary does not include it, though that entry has not been updated recently. And the most recent edition of the huge, prescriptivist-friendly Garner’s Modern English Usage says nothing about it. If further investigation revealed that the word has in fact been used in that meaning fairly widely for more than a decade or two, I think the meaning should be included in dictionaries without any marker of incorrectness or inaccuracy.

I don’t know how many dictionaries other than the OED are being regularly updated, though. The market for conventional dictionaries seems to have collapsed.
by yen223 | 2025-09-28 00:55:46+00:00
As someone who grew up in a tropical country and has moved to a temperate one, this rings very true.

It is significantly easier to walk in 20C, 50% humidity than to walk the same distance in 28C, 100% humidity. You get lethargic really quickly in a hot humid area.

Every physical action just feels easier in a temperate climate than in a tropical one. Which is why air-conditioning is such a big deal - it lets you get temperate conditions in a tropical location.
by kmeisthax | 2025-09-28 00:57:10+00:00
Radical left-wingers subdivide into two groups:

1. Those who intuitively understand power dynamics and endeavor towards a "don't kill, and don't be killed[0]" mentality, even if they understand that the radical change they want is generational

2. People who want to wear the boot

To be clear, every organization and movement has #2. Libertarian conservatives are chock full of Trump bootlickers, neoliberals were basically completely coopted by corporate bootlickers, Free Software activists have an unsavory habit of falling in with whatever RMS says, anarchists have to deal with people who want to break windows for fun, socialists have "tankies" that just want Soviet Russia to invade and oppress, etc.

The book "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" covers this tendency if you want to read more.

[0] There are a lot of Floweys out there.
by Gigachad | 2025-09-28 00:57:31+00:00
That’s still not good enough. Being a mildly good idea assistant doesn’t come close to paying for the investment spent and valuations of these companies. It’s all bet on completely changing everything. And if that doesn’t happen soon, the valuations are going to crash bad.

And since the entire US economy is being propped up by AI investing, it’s going to be a disaster.
by greazy | 2025-09-28 00:57:53+00:00
It sounds like you haven't lived in the tropics. The heat exerts a different force than cold winters. Sure there's plenty of water and food (if you can find it), but where and how you sleep matters. For example in a rain forest you never sleep under a tree because they will randomly fall on you.

Weather can be chaotic and highly destructive and like winters, cyclone season will hit hard. Rain all the time sounds lovely until it rots everything. Food expires far quicker.

The tropics also gave rise to the best sea faring people; the polynesians. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation

The gene pool comment is ignorance combined with misinformation. Our ancestors interbred with a number of hominins across the world and then with each other. Especially across asia-europe, everyone banged each other and other hominins.

To be honest your comment annoyed me a tad because I lived in the tropics and loved it. Wish I could go back. Wish the tropics had more jobs for me. Unfortunately my government doesn't spend enough.
by Gualdrapo | 2025-09-28 00:58:08+00:00
As a colombian I feel like in current times that situation is pretty much the opposite - though I feel like most people here are "hot blooded", i.e. they're temperamental on many times they do not give critical thinking or learning stuff any value and take decisions on the moment.

On the other hand I reckon this feeling is happening a lot in "richer" countries. I just feel like though we gain political independence from Spain we are yet to gain "economical" independence. Add corruption and the same people ruling the country for more than 200 years and you got the current situation where kids in the northest part of the country were starving to death and at the same time some daddy's boys ask on r/Colombia or r/Bogota why the whole country does not have Netflix.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-28 00:58:27+00:00
I've seen it a lot with communication protocols for some reason, I guess it's just relatively clear it means "the non virtualized" even though it's clearly a misnomer. E.g. with VRRP a ton of people just say "the physical IP" when talking about the address that's not the VIP, even though the RFC refers to it as "the primary" IP. Arguably "primary IP" is more confusing as to which is being referred to, even though it's more technically accurate.

Of course, maybe there's a perfectly obvious word which can apply to all of those kinds of situations just as clearly without being a misnomer I've just never thought to mention in reply :D.
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-28 01:00:58+00:00
In fact, in "Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation" by Paul Karger and Roger Schell, having a stack growing up is given a lot of credit:

"Third, stacks on the Multics processors grew in the positive direction, rather than the negative direction. This meant that if you actually accomplished a buffer overflow, you would be overwriting unused stack frames, rather than your own return pointer, making exploitation much more difficult."

https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf
by misswaterfairy | 2025-09-28 01:02:19+00:00
Why not release the source under AGPL (where 'network use' counts as distribution, unlike GPL), and offer commercial licences for those who want more favourable terms?

https://fossa.com/blog/dual-licensing-models-explained/

The maintainer of libxml2, Nick Wellnhofer, will be moving all his future contributions over to an AGPL fork as corporate users of libxml2 were unwilling to contribute financially.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288488

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/976#note_253...
by treyfitty | 2025-09-28 01:03:03+00:00
I’m glad someone pointed this out about the case study/brain teaser interviews:

> “Many wealthier students have a sense of this, he says, from parents or networks, but to low-income students—save the handful who receive coaching—it’s utterly counterintuitive. “This is one of the major ways that consulting firms—and, really, investment banking firms—block low-income students,” Portela said. For all practical purposes, the case study “is in another fucking language.”

Being raised on welfare and paying for college on my own, I hated the post-grad interview cycle because it seemed so asinine. Almost 20 years later, I’m somewhat better at knowing how to answer these questions, but I can’t help but to acknowledge the cynical side of these questions in finding surreptitious ways (either intentionally or unintentionally) discriminate against low-income candidates.
by hwillis | 2025-09-28 01:03:13+00:00
Lasers and masers are not inherently collimated or straight lines. The only thing specific to lasers/masers is that all the light is the same wavelength. Beam, parabolic and phased antennas are all very capable of making much tighter beams than your average laser.

In fact at the limits of performance lasers (and particularly masers) are quite bad at generating straight beams, because they are quite small sources of light and divergence is inversely proportional to the width of the emitter. It is a misconception that they are low-etendue.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-09-28 01:03:16+00:00
Objectively false.

There is a wealth of options between latest_master -> nightly -> ..... -> RedHat update.

And there's only a very small number of specific libraries that you'd even want to consider for nightly. Majority of repo should absolutely be pinned and infrequently updated.

There have been so many vendor supply chain exploits on HN in 2025 that I'd consider it borderline malpractice to use packages less than a month old in almost all cases. Certainly by default.
by its-kostya | 2025-09-28 01:03:48+00:00
From a different article on the same Deutsche Bank warning [1]

> However, there isn’t a consensus on Wall Street regarding AI’s longevity. Goldman Sachs took a more bullish view this morning. “We expect productivity gains from artificial intelligence (AI) to boost GDP significantly, by about 0.4% through the next few years and 1.5% cumulatively as adoption rises over the long run. Once it is widely adopted, AI is likely to allow workers and firms to produce more output for a given set of inputs, which will raise [total factor productivity] growth,”

[1]: https://fortune.com/2025/09/23/ai-boom-unsustainable-tech-sp...
by kcplate | 2025-09-28 01:04:34+00:00
Quite familiar, I have been on the technical side of marketing and advertising industry for over 30 years.

Also, I lived through the 1985 New Coke debacle and was one of the people that were pissed off at the change. I know why I reacted how I did and quite a few others around me. It wasn’t because we felt “America” change, it’s because the new product tasted like shit compared to the old one.

I didn’t want a “generic” tasting cola. Cracker Barrel fans didn’t want a generic feeling restaurant. Whatever bots did for the great Cracker Barrel crisis of 2025, they didn’t cause my 88 year old mother who goes to CB once a week to be pissed off that they changed “her restaurant to look like those stupid damned First Watch places”.
by schiffern | 2025-09-28 01:06:22+00:00
Combining AC with some of the modern low-cost roof coatings could be a game changer for reducing the total global amount of AC this will require.

https://www.habitat.org/emea/stories/how-excel-coolcoat-maki...

https://www.xlcoatings.com/cool-roof-paint-cool-coat
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-28 01:06:41+00:00
Well Corbyns been hard at work proving them right. At least people should be pondering how making palestine a cornerstone of his political ideology would meaningfully help Britain. Unrelated but it's something George Galloway should think about. I accidently listened to about 30 seconds of him talking and he seems to be a captivating speaker.

Anyway what sunk corbyn wasn't his anti semitism, that was the excuse, but his socialism, which isn't at all what New Labour is about. Starmer is a centrist, which stems from his policy of having no position on anything. He is rightfully mistrustful of the left wing of his party. They would have lost in the elections.
by naveen99 | 2025-09-28 01:07:16+00:00
It would be problematic if OpenAI wasn’t the torchbearer of ai. Think of it as vertical integration. Normally antitrust would stop it, but given the competition from China, that’s a nonstarter. so it’s not so different from microsoft investing in OpenAI. Basically everyone and their mother wants to invest in OpenAI. It’s not so much that they have to invest in OpenAI to sell their gpu’s which are chronically under supplied.

I think Amazon buying compute from oracle is a lot more questionable.
by snickerbockers | 2025-09-28 01:08:17+00:00
>What if the issue is related to their expertise?

NTA but I think one example which deserves far more scrutiny than it gets is all the public health experts[1] in the early months of COVID who were telling people to stay inside, don't gather in groups even if you're outside, don't go to church etc only to suddenly change their minds and say that gathering in large groups is actually very safe as soon as the protests surrounding the murder of george floyd happened. This is a topic they have expertise on (or at least they claim to) so it's certainly within their lane, but the abrupt change in policy was obviously motivated by their political leanings and it did *a lot* to hurt their personal credibility as well as perceptions of the pandemic in general.

[1] IDK how many of them should actually be considered 'experts' as this is not a field I follow, but they were presented as such in the media and so that is how they are perceived.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-09-28 01:08:42+00:00
Nah. Docker was created to solve the "works on my machine" problem. Because Linux made the wrong choice of having a global pool of shared libraries. So Docker hacked around this by containerizing a full copy of the desired environment.

What Docker has done is kinda right. Programs should include all of their dependencies! But it sucks that you have to fight really hard and go out of your way to work around Linux's original choices.

Now you may be thinking wait a second Linux was right! It's better to have a single copy of shared libraries so they can be securely updated just once instead of forcing every program to release a new update! Theoretically sure. But since everyone uses Docker you have to (slowly and painfully) rebuild the image and so that supposed benefit is moot. Womp womp.

Additional reading if you are so inclined: https://jangafx.com/insights/linux-binary-compatibility
by dcre | 2025-09-28 01:10:58+00:00
It’s way better. iPhone’s is awful. On macOS, interestingly, the built in dictation seems a bit better than on iOS, but still not as good as Whisper and Parakeet. Worth noting I have never used Whisper Small, only large and turbo. Another comment says Parakeet is the default now, though, despite what the site says.
by vunderba | 2025-09-28 01:11:31+00:00
The biggest issue you have right now is that it's far too easy to completely replace the original room by deliberately or accidentally floodfilling it out of existence.

I'd recommend several possible methods to fix this:

1. Set a MIN_ORIGINAL_IMAGE as a percentage - though it'll have to be a perceptual check since Nano degrades the original image. When it falls below this value, reset the counter.

2. Setup an intermediary LLM to determine if the user's instructions are "malicious"

3. Add system instructions to Nano Banana that coerce user prompts to only allow them to fill in a "portion" of the original image
by sheepscreek | 2025-09-28 01:13:15+00:00
I can echo everyone here in saying the graphics of the game and the execution is fantastic. The keyboard controls on desktop and the thumb control on mobile works great. This got me very excited about the future! Can’t imagine the amount of effort that would have gone in this.

One additional input, although I could play it well on the desktop - the mobile gameplay made me a tad nauseous. I am someone prone to nausea in VR too, but I’ve never felt this in any other mobile game before. I think it’s probably the amount of motion (hilly topography) and the very narrow field of view, along with the way the mobile controls behave. This was on iOS Safari btw (iPhone 16 Pro Max).
by godelski | 2025-09-28 01:13:46+00:00
I mean I'm 6' and my desk goes far higher than I'm comfortable with and lower than my 5'4" partner is comfortable with.

I guess I would say, don't cheap out on things you want to last a long time and that you use frequently. Things like a desk are one of your most important "tools" as a developer, right? Just like a chair, monitor, and keyboard
by streetmeat | 2025-09-28 01:13:53+00:00
Hey thanks for the notes. This was previously using the google API which was failing much faster and not degrading the quality over edits to this degree. I hastily switched to fal.ai and it's a lot jankier rn. I'll be digging into this tonight, despite likely running out of credits again in the next 24 hours lol.

Imo seeing the janky api made me realize that a lot of the magic is still there even when it goes awful.
by daniel_iversen | 2025-09-28 01:14:00+00:00
Drone defence (detection and neutralisation) has to move fast because it’s quite asymmetric warfare (i.e drone worth $4K and take out a tank worth $30m) - over the last week for many nights Denmark’s airports and military installations has had drones disrupt air traffic and cause a lot of angst in the population and they were completely not prepared, haven’t wanted to shoot them down, and they don’t know where they’re coming from or where they’re going - scary that they’re caught so much on the back foot

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-25/denmark-defence-minis...