MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zkmon | 2025-09-09 05:54:05+00:00
One need to look at it from view point of the buyers. Who are these buyers? Someone who has lots of floating money, not concerned about future of his people or country or economy, having completely predictable life routine and not too busy at work. And most importantly someone who is nostalgic about old times and old things and who can sense and admire the human effort that goes into art.

That species of humans is getting extinct or do not have control of their investment decisions anymore. Someone who was born in the 70's and later is likely to be less interested in collectible than someone who was born in the 50's.

Another big problem is, the buyer now has hard time in sensing the raw human talent that went into the art vs the machine output. If it is a sculpture, we can't know whether it is 3d-printed. In old-times this trust issue wasn't there. It was raw human skill at display.

I keep telling this story from pancha-tantra the folk-lore tales from India. Friends walking in a forest, come across a dead tiger. Having great skills in different branches of science, they decided to test their skills to bring the tiger back to life. Sure, it worked, but before they could celebrate, they were attacked by the tiger.
by ben-schaaf | 2025-09-09 05:54:07+00:00
> Personally I do not entirely buy it. Intel and AMD have had plenty of years to catch up to Apple's M-architecture and they still aren't able to touch it in efficiency. The PC Snapdragon chips AFAIK also offer better performance-per-watt than AMD or Intel, with laptops offering them often having 10-30% longer battery life at similar performance.

Do not conflate battery life with core efficiency. If you want to measure how efficient a CPU core is you do so under full load. The latest AMD under full load uses the same power as M1 and is faster, thus it has better performance per watt. Snapdragon Elite eats 50W under load, significantly worse than AMD. Yet both M1 and Snapdragon beat AMD on battery life tests, because battery life is mainly measured using activities where the CPU is idle the vast majority of the time. And of course the ISA is entirely irrelevant when the CPU isn't being used to begin with.

> The same goes for GPUs, where Apple's M1 GPU completely smoked an RTX3090 in performance-per-watt, offering 320W of RTX 3090 performance in a 110W envelope

That chart is Apple propaganda. In Geekbench 5 the RTX 3090 is 2.5x faster, in blender 3.1 it is 5x faster. See https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/31/m1-ultra-gpu-comparison-with-... and https://techjourneyman.com/blog/m1-ultra-vs-nvidia-rtx-3090/
by rubenbe | 2025-09-09 05:54:30+00:00
Initially I fiddled a bit with full Open wisp stack to try to make a smaller edition. But I quickly stopped that. But I know their two daemons well.

The config one is a neat little piece of software. It will merge UCI configs and check the connectivity. You can adjust virtually any file with it (although not always with merging). My main issue with it is that it can't be easily temporary disabled from the central controller (I currently implement it by not sending the config, but that triggers retries on the AP end)

The monitoring one spits out an amazing amount of data, although it needs some post processing to make it actually useful. Unfortunately that one can't be extented to add custom entries. I'm currently missing an easy way to see which MAC address is connected which LAN port since OpenWRT DSA puts everyone one the "br-lan".

The whole thing is polling based. So it is quite chatty on the network since I use lower polling rates to make the updates fast. (I suspect on a setup with 100+ you will have longer polling times). All in all the existence of these daemons saved me a ton of time handling networking corner cases. Kudos to the Openwisp team.
by negassa | 2025-09-09 05:54:31+00:00
Moges Yeshiwas was 27 when he arrived in that remote corner of western Ethiopia in 2012, eager to gain valuable experience in his profession. The completion of the project is set to change his nation, but it also changed his life.

On a personal level, Mr Moges, now 40, was also "very proud to be part of it".
by teiferer | 2025-09-09 05:54:37+00:00
> There's a normal premium for $14 and a premium "lite" for $8. I'd have subscribed at $1/month, but those prices are absolutely insane

This just demonstrates how much money is in those ads and how much Youtube needs to charge to compensate for that. And advertisers wouldn't pay that much if it wasn't at least somewhat worth it, i.e., the psychological manupulation is worth at least that much w.r.t. their bottom line. The average person therefore "pays" with $14 worth of brainwashing.

You could obviously argue that $14 is just a ripoff and they don't make that much money off you. Sure you are not average and perhaps less influenced than others, but fun fact, a large majority of people believe that about themselves.

By the way, Youtube Premium still collects your data and uses it. Without that, it would need to be even more expensive.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-09 05:55:13+00:00
> Blue bubble isn't really a thing ever mentioned in France either, not enough iPhone market share.

Nobody uses iMessage. People with iPhone use WhatsApp too.

The user experience of iMessage used to be subpar and now everyone has WhatsApp installed anyway, the feature set is the same and it works on all phone brands so nobody feels like switching.
by freakynit | 2025-09-09 05:55:42+00:00
These client-side solutions don't work in real life. For details, here is claude giving real bypass scripts and some info: https://gist.github.com/freakynit/4ba5c1a6ff1fa935dd01d873d0...

Rule of thumb: never rely on client-side-only checks for any verification. All client-only checks can be spoofed. There might be extremely specific cases where this is not true, but, mostly, it is.
by yesnomaybe | 2025-09-09 05:56:02+00:00
it's really not that hard. I've set up backblaze which is reasonably cheap. with the help of AI I was able to setup a permanent cron job that backs up everything from local into B2 using rclone, which client side encryption. It's epic. I haven't looked at it for a while but I do DR test every once in a while a small subset and it works really well. I use postgres as DB and this is the big one to back up daily. Rest is just the increment. Can be further optimised I guess but I'm happy with it.
by charcircuit | 2025-09-09 05:56:28+00:00
>There is no societal expectation around what I do with those bytes

Yes, there is. If you had a group of 100 people and asked what google.com should look like and showed them how Chrome renders the page and your 80x24 modification does that all 100 would say that yours is not expected. You are still too hung up on these technical details of how things are implemented than how the average person thinks of these things.
by naiv | 2025-09-09 05:56:30+00:00
I think this is directly related to https://x.com/sama/status/1965110064215458055

And I think it was 100% on purpose that they degraded the model performance as Claude Code got so popular and they either ran out of capacity or were losing money too fast.

But now that people are fleeing to Codex as it improved so much during the time, they had to act now.
by aredox | 2025-09-09 05:57:57+00:00
BBC: "Supreme Court lifts limits on LA immigration raids"

PBS: "Supreme Court ends restrictions on LA immigration stops set after agents swept up U.S. citizens"

Politico: "Supreme Court lifts restrictions on ‘roving’ ICE raids in Los Angeles"

WaPo: "Supreme Court lifts limits on immigration raids in the Los Angeles area"

And in practice:

ABC: "Immigrants in Southern California go on high alert after Supreme Court ruling

If you have any knowledge of what is happening on the ground, it fully represents the consequence of the opinions:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/us/politics/supreme-court...
by anovikov | 2025-09-09 05:58:03+00:00
Question that must be asked: isn't giving equity harmful long-term for tech performance? Almost everyone who is capable of being there, is already there because there are few other fields that pay so well, especially fields open for everyone to join. So it's not like promise of high equity comp will attract more or better people. But once people cash out, don't they just retire, thus excluding themselves from labour pool? Why would anyone want to work on society-crushing, toxic, hated fields in an insane rat race? Certainly it's good for them, but is it good for the industry?
by namibj | 2025-09-09 05:58:55+00:00
rclone.

Just use rclone if you need to turn object storage semantics usage into an encrypted mount.

It doesn't do well with non-object-storage access patterns but we're not putting an sqlite database on it here so that should be fine.

rclone has a `crypt` layer you can just paper over any of it's backends and still access through any of it's comfortable ways.

I'd personally likely bind mount the database folder over the rclone mount or the other way around, as needed to keep that database on a local filesystem.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-09 05:59:04+00:00
>However this culture of expecting websites to host the data then freeloading off it by blocking the tracking and ads is also a bit ugly.

You know what's even uglier? The notion that because I got access to a bit of your free content, I should then be completely fine with utterly pervasive, deeply granulated parasitic tracking, measuring, watching, spying and recording of as many of my habits as possible. This is a sick notion, an idiotically, disgustingly fucked up concept of fairness and those who subscribe to it are either deluded or neatly entrenched in earning from it.

No, nobody has any "right" to expect people to submit to utter surveillance because that person created content that they can't get enough people to pay for directly. I'd rather see any sites on the web that can't sustain themselves without such ad garbage burn and die than make it somehow punishable to evade their shitty cookies and other trash.

With that said, unlike many on HN comments, I also don't think ads should be banned.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-09-09 05:59:09+00:00
"When RISC first came out, x86 was half microcode. So if you look at the die, half the chip is a ROM, or maybe a third or something. And the RISC guys could say that there is no ROM on a RISC chip, so we get more performance. But now the ROM is so small, you can’t find it. Actually, the adder is so small, you can hardly find it? What limits computer performance today is predictability, and the two big ones are instruction/branch predictability, and data locality."

Jim Keller
by Pooge | 2025-09-09 05:59:09+00:00
I am fine with static ads like you would have in newspapers. Another answer to this thread lists things advertisers did.

Those are the reasons tracker blockers were created in the first place. Advertisers went too far and now they lost control and weep.

My privacy, attention and digital security is not worth sacrificing for those greedy, unregulated people.

Literally nothing prevents a blog from having static images for sponsored content. Yet, nobody does it.
by eastbound | 2025-09-09 05:59:09+00:00
Summary: Atlassian announces the end-of-life of Data Center, with the following dates:

- March 30, 2026: Sales of new Data Center subscriptions and Marketplace apps will end for new customers.

- March 30, 2028: Last date for existing customers to purchase new Data Center licenses, Marketplace apps, and license expansions.

- March 28, 2029: Data Center end of life. All Data Center licenses and associated Marketplace app licenses will expire and become read-only.

In June 2025, their revenue was as follows:

Cloud: $3,447,427,000

DC: $1,467,167,000

Marketplace: $300,710,000

Total: $5,215,304,000
by bluefirebrand | 2025-09-09 05:59:11+00:00
I dunno man if you can't see how creativity and thinking are inextricably linked I don't know what to tell you

LLMs aren't good at either, imo. They are rote regurgitation machines, or at best they mildly remix the data they have in a way that might be useful

They don't actually have any intelligence or skills to be creative or logical though
by card_zero | 2025-09-09 05:59:30+00:00
By the way, don’t call it “AI.” That catchall phrase, which used to cover everything from expert systems and neural networks to robotics and vision systems, is now passe in some circles. The preferred terms now are “knowledge-based systems” and “intelligent systems”, claimed Computerworld magazine in 1991.

https://archive.org/details/computerworld2530unse/page/59/mo...
by Y-bar | 2025-09-09 05:59:43+00:00
They are somewhat correct though, Signal has written code explicitly to prevent iOS users from including Signal data in Apple’s encrypted local and/or cloud backups.

Allowing encrypted backups was free for Signal, but they spent time and money to prevent it for iOS users.

Part of the code the wrote to prevent backups in question:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/5590f09c3643f12...
by margalabargala | 2025-09-09 06:00:45+00:00
I understand your point. However I think that in practice it's more likely to play out like the Greek Fire example in the article. That is, no we can't precisely replicate it, but it doesn't matter because we have napalm. Greek Fire specifically is unnecessary, since we can meet or exceed the spec with things we can make.

There are many different types of ultra-accurate magnetometer. They are made in many different ways. If one relies on some byproduct of some other industry that goes under and becomes nonviable, then the many competitors will fill the niche with a different type of magnetometer that will be just as good.

Even if we consider a different hypothetical industry that truly is single point of failure, well, there are academic papers explaining how these things work and how to make them. Maybe the specific model of metal is no longer made, but the instructions there and an intelligent, motivated person will figure it out. And then they'll figure out how to improve it.

I don't think the failure mechanism you describe will in practice lead to anything more than brief gaps in the availability of a technology. We can remake things to spec, like FOGBANK.
by treetalker | 2025-09-09 06:01:16+00:00
The letter doesn't exist. And if it does exist, the signature of Donald J. Trump on the letter, which looks identical to my signature, isn't my signature. And if it is my signature, I didn't put it there. And if I did put it there, the Democrats forced me to. I can't even write! This is very unfair, this is a hoax. I'm an FBI informant. I'm the President, so I can be creepy if I want to be. I can do anything I want. This is so unfair.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-09-09 06:01:18+00:00
Why would they? They are dominated by gaming benchmarks in a way Apple isn't. For decades it was not efficiency but raw performance, 50% more power usage for 10% more performance was ok.

"The same goes for GPUs, where Apple's M1 GPU completely smoked an RTX3090 in performance-per-watt"

Gamers are not interested in performance-per-watt but fps-per-$.

If some behavior looks strange to you, most probably you don't understand the underlying drivers.
by dybber | 2025-09-09 06:01:49+00:00
The issue is that what is considered AI in the general population is a floating definition, with only the newest advances being called AI in media etc. Is internet search AI? Is route planning?

Technology as a term has the same problem, “technology companies” are developing the newest digital technologies.

A spoon or a pencil is also technology according to definition, but a pencil making company is not considered a technology company. There is some quote by Alan Kay about this, but can’t find it now.

I try to avoid both terms as they change meaning depending on the receiver.
by ilvez | 2025-09-09 06:02:06+00:00
I'm still waiting for killer demo for switching from x.org/i3 to wayland/whatever next tiling. At least there are options now in Wayland other than sway, but hyprland currently is not motivating enough when demos mostly focus on eyecandy. Transitions especially are excess.

That being said I'm glad that Hyprland exists and shows people that there is power in minimalism. Fluxbox was my first love..
by topspin | 2025-09-09 06:02:17+00:00
I've listened Keller's views on CPU design and the biggest takeaway I found is that performance is overwhelmingly dominated by predictors. Good predictors mitigate memory latency and keep pipelines full. Bad predictors stall everything while cores spin on useless cache lines. The rest, including ISA minutiae, rank well below predictors on the list of things that matter.

At one time, ISA had a significant impact on predictors: variable length instructions complicated predictor design. The consensus is that this is no longer the case: decoders have grown to overcome this and now the difference is negligible.
by troupo | 2025-09-09 06:02:23+00:00
> OOXML is complex because it has to be.

What it didn't have to be is sections upon sections of "this behaviour is as seen in Word 95", "this behaviour is as seen in Word 97" without any further specification or context.

The main struggle for independent implementors was reverse engineering all the implicit and explicit assumptions and inner workings of MS Office software.

> But admitting that would have been hard. Easier to come up with conspiracy theories.

I actually read through a lot of that spec at the time. A lot of it was just lip service to open standards at a time when MS was under a lot of regulatory pressure.
by cik | 2025-09-09 06:02:51+00:00
Not that I'm a fan of spyware, but isn't this effectively barking at the wind. We're either getting Google's approved spyware, Samsung's approved spyware, or <insert shady> spyware. Sure, we all implement blocks, and things like blocking VPNs and the like.... but the reality is also IP (not DNS) based for tier two of getting around blocks, in applications that they solve the dns blocking issue.

Combine this with the common method of literally fetching static files with updated IPs from AWS IPs, github gists, and other "safe" static hosts... Ultimately, your device connects to the internet, and you become the product.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-09-09 06:03:03+00:00
The OOXML fight is near and dear to my heart because, when it happened, I was a baby developer, and I cared about the issue for some reason I can barely recall, and I found an expert on the issue on Twitter. That guy would regularly tweet about everything that was going on and the problems with the spec and the shenanigans, and I was one of the, like, 20 people who was hanging on his every word. And sometimes he'd talk about bee keeping instead. It was my first introduction to Twitter at its best. You got these unfiltered whole views of the lives and concerns of real people who were, in part, experts at what you cared about. So sometimes you had to listen to them talk about other random stuff they thought was neat. And that's great!
by Eikon | 2025-09-09 06:03:44+00:00
The bench suite is published at the root of the repo in bench/. Stating “a bunch of claims” seems a bit dismissive when it’s that easy to reproduce.

JuiceFS maps operations 1:1 to s3 chunk wise, so the performance profile is entirely unsurprising to me, even untaring an archive is not going to be a pleasant experience.
by camel-cdr | 2025-09-09 06:03:52+00:00
> Handling of misaligned loads/stores

Agreed, I think the problem is that RVI doesn't want to/can't mandate implementation details.

I hope that the first few RVA23 cores will have proper misaligned load/store support and we can tell toolchains RVA23 or Zicclsm means fast misaligned load/store and future hardware that is stupid enough to not implement it, will just have to suffer.

There is some silver lining, because you can transform N misaligned loads into N+1 aligned ones + a few instructions to stich together the result. Currently this needs to be done manually, but hopefully it will be an optimization in future compiler versions: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/150263 (Edit: oh, I should've recognised your username, xd)

> The hardcoded page size.

There is Svnapot, which is supposes to allow other page sizes, but I don't know enough about it to be sure it actually solves the problem properly.

> You have to use a CSPRNG on top of it for any sensitive applications

Shouldn't you have to do that reguardless and also mix in other kind of state on OS level?

> Extensions do not form hierarchies

The mandatory extensions in the RVA profiles are a hierarchy.

> Detection of available extensions

I think this is being worked on with unified disvover, whch should also cover other microarchitectural details.

There also is a neat toolchain solution with: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-c-api-doc/blob/main/s...

> being unable to port tricky SIMD code to the V extension

Anything NEON code is trivially ported to RVV, as is AVX-512 code that doesn't use GFNI which is pretty much the only extension that doesn't have a RVV equivalent yet (neither does NEON or SVE though).

Where the complaints come from is if you want to take full advantage of the native vector length in VLA code, which can sometimes be tricky, especially in existing projects which are sometimes build arround the assumption of fixed vector lengths. But you can always fall back to using RVV as a fixed vector length ISA with a much faster way of querrying vector length then CPUID.

> P.S.: I would be interested to hear about other people gripes with RISC-V

I feel like encoding scalar fmacc with three sources and seperate destinations and rounding modes was a huge waste of encoding space, I would trade that for a vpternlog equivalent, which also is a encoding hog, any day.

The vl=0 special case was a bad idea, now you have to know/predict vl!=0 to get rid of the vector destination as a read dependency, or have some mechanism to kill an instuction if vl=0.

There should've been restricted vrgather variants earlier, but I'm now (slowly) working on proposing them and a handfull of other new vector instructions (mask add/sub, pext/pdep, bmatflip).

Overall though, I think RVV came out suprizingly good, everything works thogether very nicely.
by teiferer | 2025-09-09 06:03:55+00:00
And the political/religious angle, don't forget that one. Hate against "woke" goes deep, gotta drive that diesel F150 cause that's our patriotic identity!!1 /s

The economic angle argument backfires though in this thread's context. If fixing a little bit of behavior down here is too expensive then it surely is prohibitively expensive to attempt all that on a different planet. Everybody not seeing this as obvious has watched too much scifi.
by occoder | 2025-09-09 06:04:13+00:00
Apple design nowadays should be something we point to and laugh at, not something to imitate.

Apple lost the plot on design after Steve Jobs died and Jony Ive assumed full control.

It's not Jony Ive's fault. That's the nature of their partnership, he created and Steve Jobs edited. Ive, of all people, probably lost the most when Steve Jobs died.

It's all been downhill ever since. Ousting Jony Ive and putting Alan Dye in charge didn't help.

The problem remains: there's no longer an editor in charge.

Apple fans like to think that they've recovered a little since the iOS 7 debacle, but in reality it's just self delusion.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-09-09 06:04:42+00:00
Sure, it does do that. But I can't think of many scenarios where proving something was signed at least at a certain date is particularly useful. Usually when you are signing something you have two parties involved so you can just write the date on the document and if you lie the other party will call it out.

NFTs seem like a solution to a non existent problem. Or a problem you have to search really really hard to find.
by Animats | 2025-09-09 06:06:15+00:00
The article mentions Helion. Those guys were supposed to have their Polaris demo machine running by now. But they've become very quiet about that. Press releases about it in 2024, but not much in 2025.

Polaris is supposed to pass theoretical breakeven, and maybe even technical breakeven - more electrical power out than they put in. That would be a huge event.