MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yocoda | 2025-09-24 11:29:53+00:00
Zuck didn't build a social network.

Facebook's real product isn't connecting people; it's redefining what human connection means. They proved emotional states transfer via algorithmic contagion¹, then industrialized it.

Graph Search could find anyone based on intimate details, but felt too predatory. So they embedded the same targeting into every interaction; News Feed, Groups, PYMK-recommendations. Same data harvesting, and behavioral influence with an invisible delivery. The brilliance was introducing Groups. It felt like organic community building, and it keeps enough people on Facebook for them to sell ads.

Two generations now think algorithmic feeds and sharing memes counts as socializing. Why predict and connect when you can nudge and influence?

He weaponized culture at scale.

¹ https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1320040111
by illusive4080 | 2025-09-24 11:30:01+00:00
Mobile users should remove old from the url [0]. The old Reddit website does not load properly on my mobile device.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1np6kyn/my_games_s...

Edit: commenters below made me realize that my extension StopTheMadness messed up old Reddit. Sorry
by cjs_ac | 2025-09-24 11:32:18+00:00
It's ironic that there's a link to a YouTube video praising James Dyson at the bottom of this post, because Dyson is an example of someone whose narrative is bullshit. The clever physics and engineering in Dyson's products don't result in superior products. Have a look around the Dyson Institute after hours and you'll see the cleaners using Henry vacuum cleaners made by Numatic.
by _bohm | 2025-09-24 11:32:53+00:00
On the contrary, it is not a mundane issue. Traffic infractions and parking violations such as blocking bike lanes or crosswalks directly contribute to a less safe environment for everyone on the street. Traffic fatality is the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States. It is the cavalier attitudes of people who think they should be able to whatever they want, whenever they want with their cars that belies a lack of moral character.
by seec | 2025-09-24 11:33:26+00:00
Yeah, but that's the reality distortion field. It's true for many luxury brands where people just won't accept any criticism of the uber expensive products they bought because it makes them feel bad.

I have been buying Apple hardware since the early 2000s (the first thing I own was a 1.5 Gen iPod) and there is almost no product that didn't get an issue. Very often developing early in life because of bad design/engineering. I think the most reliables have been iPhones but that's only if you don't count annoying battery swap and other minor repairs that came for aging (like port replacement).

But they look good and make people feel good, so they get bought.

That's definitely the problem with Apple, if you could run macOS on any machine, they would lose market extremely fast.
by sputr | 2025-09-24 11:34:43+00:00
> First, Chat Control refers to a proposition in the EU, which has not been accepted at this point. So no, it's not Chat Control.

The EU proposition of Chat Control is the proposition to make it mandatory. Facebook has already been performing it voluntarily (as I've discovered today).

> The problem I see is that you disagree with how Meta handles Messenger, but still use it. Chat Control or not, there is no law preventing Meta from reading your messages for moderation.

Meta isn't just some random company who's decisions don't have wide and far reaching societal effects.

Moderation of private 1v1 chats only make sense in case of harassment - i.e. when one side complains. In all other cases, except with a courts decree based on legitimate suspicion of wrongdoing, it's absurd.

> Yes, and that's a good thing.

For now.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-09-24 11:34:52+00:00
> Robbery is a crime, so why should people take any measures to protect their things from being stolen? Murder is a crime, so why care about death threats?

I don't understand how your question relates to the discussion. Perhaps you could answer my earlier questions first and it might clear things up for me.

Being censored by the robber from discussing the burglary is not a measure to protect your belongings any more than giving the government the power to prevent freely speaking about their carrying out the democratic processes is a measure to protect democracy from abuse by government officials.

Should Trump have had the power to censor news and discussion of the 2016 election when there were a lot of election deniers and conspiracy theorists concerned about the legitimacy of the election and conspiracies with Russia? Absolutely not.

> New age medicine has been around forever, yes. But the effects are only known to be negligible outside of pandemics. We know from history that people did many irrational things during past pandemics due to fear and social contagion.

There are unfounded claims about how much damage was caused by people exercising their right to speak about covid, and they all come from authoritarians who sound like they have ravenous thirst to gain the power to silence their critics and the population at large. So I consider them totally unreliable handwaving at best, and more likely fraudulent fabrications. I actually don't think there's anything wrong with letting them use social media platforms like anybody else. It's fine if those companies decided to decide whose message to amplify or create their own terms of use, but having governments pressure corporations to carry out this censorship is a crazy overreach and violation of human rights by the government.

The response, policies and messaging and communication by governments and bureaucrats has caused far more damage to society, to public health, to trust in institutions and trust in vaccines and medical science than common people talking about it.
by sfn42 | 2025-09-24 11:34:56+00:00
We all have history. It's not long ago that a lot of us Europeans did some pretty messed up stuff. We got over it and now we're all holding hands and such. Except for the damn Russians of course, because we can't just be friends and have nice things, someone has to ruin it for everyone.

I don't care what your history is. I care what you're doing now, and if what you're doing now is killing people over 80 year old beef (or anything else really) then I have absolutely no respect for you nor your history. Get over it, move forward. War should be a thing of the past at this point, we all share one planet.
by xtiansimon | 2025-09-24 11:34:59+00:00
“…which often requires a form of independence/neutrality that news organizations don't have.”

Really? I see a difference between 24h infotainment news and News.

The News I listen to (AM radio) is compacted into fact, point, counterpoint. And that’s it. When it repeats, no more news. I’m old enough to remember this basic News playbook, and it’s not changed on those stations I listen to.
by sixhobbits | 2025-09-24 11:35:47+00:00
That's a long enough phrase to be unique. Journalists often agree to speak to all kinds of sources "on condition of anonymity". Even if you just don't want to be sued by your employer you might not be comfortable being named.

Overall I found the substack author to tell a good story and speak with what seems to be relevant technical experience so I reposted the link that I saw in another hn thread as a separate story, but as other commentors have pointed out it's possible that both he and the original journalist are hyping up conspiracies in both directions (compromised press vs state actor hackers) and actually the truth is often a more boring mid ground (Journalists hyping up stories and shady people doing shady things)
by keyringlight | 2025-09-24 11:35:58+00:00
I think one factor to this is that PC gamers are hostile to telemetry, and couldn't give a damn if the reasoning for it is advertising, real world feedback on game design which would feedback for future patches or the next game, or a mutual benefit of "hardware like (this) generally performs like (this) at low/med/high quality preset".

The only thing I've seen which is close is Star Citizen's telemetry: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/telemetry
by leo_researchly | 2025-09-24 11:37:21+00:00
hi pella, thanks for your comment, especially "the reason behind the status is key."

We built the radar primarily to have a data-driven reasoning behind it. I have explained our approach in more detail here: https://blog.tryresearchly.com/articles/built-own-technology...

Here is the summary: We score each technology across three dimensions: market adoption (how many big companies are really using it and seeing results), relative impact (on our bottom line), associated risks, and internal prios.

For each dimension we have a scorecard along the lines of: if five top 100 startups are using it publicly it gets 3 points of market adoption. The scorecard is far from perfect, but it gives us a good, repeatable algorithm across time and trend.

In the case of GPT-Codex: it is on hold because the perceived relative impact for us is low (we already have a good setup with alternative tools; bolt + cursor). In the above-article I have also linked to our Google Sheet. It contains the scores (some redacted) including the underlying data.

Also if you klick on some of the trends (e. g. GEO) it links to our written-out rationale (e. g. https://blog.tryresearchly.com/articles/wie-wir-uns-auf-geo-...)

Thanks for the Oreilly radar. Didn't know this one.
by pfekin_2nd | 2025-09-24 11:38:02+00:00
Summation-based aggregation replaces pairwise similarity with position-modulated projections and direct summation, reducing per-layer cost from quadratic to near-linear.

On its own, summation is competitive for classification and multimodal tasks. In language modeling, a hybrid design — summation in most layers with a single final attention layer — matches or slightly outperforms full attention while staying nearly linear in cost.

GitHub: https://github.com/pfekin/summation-based-transformers
by vidarh | 2025-09-24 11:38:23+00:00
> because the universe is uncomputable

We have no evidence to suggest that is true. If no individual process in the universe exceeds the Turing computable - and we have no evidence it does, or that anything exceeding the Turing computable can even exist - then the universe itself would be existence-proof that it is computable. Now, we can't be 100% sure, because we'd have to demonstrate that every physical interaction everywhere is individually Turing computable. But we also have nothing that even hints of evidence to the contrary.

Note that it is possible the universe is not computable from within with full precision due to e.g. lack of compressibility.

> On long enough scales - and they're not that long when you're talking about billions of years - we don't even know if the solar system is stable.

That has zero relevance to whether or not it is computable. If it is computable, then any such instability is simply an effect of a computation.

In other words you're committing the logical fallacy of begging the question - your conclusion rests on your premise, as you're trying to argue that the universe is computable by using processes as evidence that can only be uncomputable if the universe as a whole is uncomputable.

> The universe is not clockwork.

That is irrelevant to whether or not it is computable.

> but by the fact that any physical system of computation has physical limits which place hard bounds on precision and persistence.

This is also in general irrelevant to whether or not a system is computable. We can operate symbolically on entities that requires any arbitrary (including infite) precision and persistence within various constraints. E.g. we can do math with 1/3 to infinite precision for a whole lot of calculations.

Unless you can show specific processes that demonstrably happens with a precision that is impossible to simulate without the computation becoming infinite, this argument doesn't get you anywhere. Note that it would be insufficient to show a process that appears to have infinite precision in a way that would take infinite time to calculate unless there is demonstrably no way to lazily calculate it to whatever precision you actually try to observe in a finite amount of time, as such a system can be simulated.

Length of time would also not be a problem unless you can show why such a simulation needs to run at full speed to work, rather than impose a subjective time on the inside of the simulation that can vary with computational complexity.

Space complexity is also irrelevant unless you can show limits on the theoretical maximum capacity of an outside simulator.

Now to the question of whether life is computable, then if the universe is computable, then life is too, but if the universe is not, life might still be, and so this is largely a digression from the original point I made.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-24 11:38:53+00:00
First lets see if it actually manages 1.0, then lets see what major company adopts it for real.

D once upon a time was also hyped due to its Facebook usage, Remedy game engine tooling.

Also, has Zig already gone to space?

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/10614fc$273$1@digitalmars.com

Or used by car companies?

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/evridmtwtnhhwvorohyv@forum.dl...

Anyway, I don't expect any of them to grow beyond their niche userbase.

D has lost its momentum, and Zig isn't really interesting as 21st century language in the AI tooling age.
by slightwinder | 2025-09-24 11:39:07+00:00
This reads as if he started Calibre when Python 2 was already deprecated..but to be clear, it was started some years before the first release of Python 3, 14 years before the deprecation.

And at the time of the beef, many bigger apps were not ported yet (some even till today). The authors' opinion was more an extremer version of something the whole community felt at the time.
by teamonkey | 2025-09-24 11:40:03+00:00
It’s not terrible at low-end hardware. Fortnite has been able to run on phones for a long time now. It’s not as lightweight as Unity or Godot by any means and they still remain the optimal choice for low-end platforms.

What you can’t do is hit compile out of the box and expect it to work well on those low-end platforms, because it will try to use all the high-end features if it thinks it’s allowed to.

I don’t think it exactly overpromises how easy it is, but unlike a lot of software it has a learning curve that seems gentle at first and then exponentially increases. It’s high-end AAA-grade development software aimed at professionals, it expects you to know what you’re doing.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-24 11:40:25+00:00
> As a bonus football hooligans and football vandalism will disappear,

You think these people would suddenly stop needing an outlet for their emotions? They'll find a different way of doing the same thing, around a different theme. If you've hanged out with people who are proud to be hooligans and ultras today, you'd see how removing football wouldn't get them to stop.
by krapp | 2025-09-24 11:40:49+00:00
What evidence do you have that he "killed in the name of his leftism?"

As far as I know, there is no evidence of a specific "leftist" motive and no connection has been found to "leftist" organizations. Bear in mind that many Christians were opposed to Charlie Kirk's politics, and right-wingers didn't feel he went far enough. So that alone isn't evidence of "killing in the name of his leftism."

The memes aren't hard evidence either, since they're just memes.
by jackpepsi | 2025-09-24 11:41:32+00:00
We expect comitted founders to make the best of their constraints.

This founder is doing that by putting a positive spin on their constraints in their social media posts.

Fallibility is important and I hope that founder is honest with their team, but at the same time keeping a positive public narrative about your company is also important. Not everyone has to perform their growing pains in public.
by pfekin_2nd | 2025-09-24 11:41:44+00:00
Author here — a few clarifications up front:

How is this different from Performer / linear attention? Performer and related methods approximate the softmax kernel with random features or low-rank projections. Summation is not an approximation — it eliminates similarity altogether. Tokens are modulated by positional encodings, projected with nonlinearities, and aggregated by direct addition.

Does pure summation replace attention? In classification and multimodal regression, yes — summation alone is competitive and often faster. In autoregressive language modeling, pure summation underperforms. But a hybrid design (summation in most layers + a single final attention layer) matches or slightly beats full attention while keeping most of the network near-linear.

What scale are the experiments? Small-to-moderate scale (document classification, WikiText-2, AG News, etc.). Scaling laws remain an open question — collaboration on larger-scale validation is very welcome.

Why might this work? Summation acts as a bottleneck: only task-relevant features survive aggregation, which seems to restructure embeddings before the final attention layer stabilizes them. PCA and dimensionality analyses show distinctive representation dynamics compared to attention.
by klaussilveira | 2025-09-24 11:42:04+00:00
As I got older, I've noticed I was slouching more and more. So I got one of those LG UltraGear 45” curved monitors. It's gigantic, but helped me so much with posture and eye strain. I view every website at 200% or 250% zoom, my text editor has Inconsolata at 28px.

Of course, that came with some pains. Managing windows was time consuming, so i3 came into the picture. rxvt and st got slow, so zutty came to the rescue.

But I would be a liar if I didn't say that I miss 1024x768 with pixel-perfect fonts and UI widgets.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-09-24 11:42:26+00:00
Apparently it's not being communicated properly, or you don't actually read what you come across, because "Internet does not work in Spain when there are football matches" isn't true at all.

Large parts are blocked, yes, as collateral damage. But it doesn't seem like they're completely switching it off, as obviously then there would be huge protests, mostly because people wouldn't be able to legally watch the games then!
by JdeBP | 2025-09-24 11:42:41+00:00
It's not actually a contrarian view. Hacker News, the comments section of The Register, and other places where one might expect a larger proportion of the readership to know how telecommunications actually works, are all covering these same points.

The involvement of the politicians was someone that was using this kit almost certainly for some minor side-line, as one does not need expensive kit capable of transmitting thousands of simultaneous messages from sites in three states in order to send hoax police reports.

Indeed, the people whose operations (most probably high volume scamming, or some kind of dodgy telecommunications carrier) were primarily the purpose of this kit are probably rather cross with whoever it was who saw this kit as an opportunity for pursuing their own ends. It's the old found-major-criminal-through-a-broken-tail-light story.
by bartread | 2025-09-24 11:43:08+00:00
Whilst I don’t necessarily disagree with your overall point, this kind of inflammatory commentary which has taken a solid step into personal attack territory

> If you and your friends all talk in this way you are just oblivious to the fact you are the problem.

isn’t really helping, is it?

Moreover, generational complaints about use of language and communication style are solidly off topic and do not rise above the level of cliche.
by nasmorn | 2025-09-24 11:43:17+00:00
The problem with AI is how confidently wrong it is. In Lisbon I uploaded a picture of myself on some church steps and asked ChatGPT where that is. I came up with a place I was sure I’d never been. Then I asked if it could be part of some other place and it said sure it’s inside the main church. The pic was clearly outside. Next it gave me a random famous stair that is so clearly different a human could never be fooled. Each of these lies were extremely elaborate citing sources and describing all the things that matched. The only matching experience was with a taxi in Delhi some 20 years ago where the driver pretended to know where he was going and when I further questioned him he said the 40 story hotel I am looking for has been demolished 5 years after opening. At least he has monetary interest in lying to me so I enter his cab.
by charlieyu1 | 2025-09-24 11:44:03+00:00
Me neither.

But I asked for a bank statement from my old savings account a few years old and it took two weeks to print out, printed in monospace dot matrix.

Or the betting company that I was a customer that suspends betting everyday 6:30am for an hour for daily maintainance. Ironically, they would accept bets for football matches played at the time, but the system was shut down.

I suspect both are run on COBOL.
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by lxgr | 2025-09-24 11:45:18+00:00
> SIM farms are normal, common things that exist all over the place to allow messages from far-away senders to be sent as if they came from a local number.

Meanwhile, many US companies won't let me, the actual legitimate user they're trying to authenticate, use Google Voice, because it's "so dangerous and spoofable, unlike real SIM cards".

Hopefully this helps a little bit in driving that point home.
by thrance | 2025-09-24 11:45:46+00:00
Have you been living under a rock these past few years? The "bad" ideas outnumber the "good" ones ten to one. The current secretary of health lets internet conspiracies dictate its politics, such that vaccines are getting banned, important research is getting defunded, and now they're even going after paracetamol (!!). People will die.

Cue the quote that says it takes 30 minutes to debunk 30 seconds of lying.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-09-24 11:46:19+00:00
Yeah, it's hilarious that, on the same planet, we have articles like "Nine things I learned in ninety years" come out, while the courts of an EU country give "LaLiga," which appears to be a private corporation (a football company), the authority to ban any IPs they want arbitrarily, for everyone, country-wide. People just don't care any more, if ever did.
by skwee357 | 2025-09-24 11:46:37+00:00
I don't think hobbies are in decline. Anywhere I go, anything I do, it's packed with people, with a backlog of reservations that spans months. So I guess it's the "doom and gloom" of MSM.

As for me: programming, hiking, board games, reading, blogging, sports (martial arts / gym). And I'm trying to pick up some more.
by keyringlight | 2025-09-24 11:46:40+00:00
Something I wonder is if this new version is a linux build specifically targeting the deck hardware+OS setup, have Larian now committed themselves to following whatever Valve does in future for changes to that setup. In any case, they've got a fallback which is the windows version on proton, but it's inverting how Valve has trained many to behave which is to make just a windows version and delegate linux support to them.

There's also been persistent speculation about whether Valve would take on the burden of releasing SteamOS as a general distribution anyone can install on their own hardware (which I think is unlikely), which could in turn affect how Larian has to treat this port even if that is just communicating what it is and isn't.