MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OskarS | 2025-09-04 08:51:28+00:00
As I've listened to more and more of it, I start to gravitate not to particular topics, but to particular experts. There are many guests who are regulars when topics in their field come up, and the good ones make any topic in that field interesting. For instance, if there's an episode about religious history and Martin Palmer is on it, it's bound to be a banger (listened to one on Augustine's Confessions recently, for instance, and it was great). Same with Ancient Greece and Paul Cartledge and Angie Hobbs. If I'm looking for something to listen to, I just put one of those three into the search field of my podcast player, and I'm never disappointed.
Show HN: Tsuki – Lua 5.4 ported to Rust
by ultimaweapon | 2025-09-04 08:51:35+00:00
Tsuki is a port of Lua 5.4 to Rust via C2Rust. I started working on this because I was tried to build a Lua bindings with overhead less than mlua and found out the approach I use is unsound due to Drop implementation on Rust is not guarantee to run. I can't find a solution for this so I decided to try C2Rust on Lua to see if it works. Turnout everything working as expected so I start to refactor the transpiled code to make it idiomatic to Rust.
by Tade0 | 2025-09-04 08:52:06+00:00
> 10% Hiring Andrei instead of Andrew

As one of the Andreis: they already had us all working for them a long time ago and with fertility rates as they are (and have been for three decades now) around here, there's hardly any new talent to choose from.

Also we got hit with job cuts all the same. For instance, my team is currently working half its usual hours per week. It's not enough to cover all my family's expenses, but I was actually anticipating a layoff, so I count my blessings.
by kfreds | 2025-09-04 08:52:54+00:00
Actually, no. Our goal is to make mass surveillance and censorship ineffective, not maximizing profit to our shareholders. If there was a big red button we could push that accomplishes our goal and makes Mullvad obsolete in the process, we'd push it. There's an abundance of problems to solve in the world. It'd be nice if we could figure out how to get rid of some and move on to other problems.
by matwood | 2025-09-04 08:53:06+00:00
> VSCode (and all Electron based editors) have undeniable input latency.

Start up time, sure. But VSCode was lauded as the first performant Electron based editor. I just tested VSCode, Zed, and vim and I can't see any difference from when I press a key to when a character shows up on the screen (appears instantly). I'd be curious to see the results of a blind test, and wonder if people's biases against Electron are showing up.
by pdw | 2025-09-04 08:53:34+00:00
Debian woody (2002) shipped gnustep. I tried it back then, but as far as I remember, it was weird enough that anybody who didn't have NEXTSTEP experience would bounce right off. The floating menus, the weird scrollbars, etc. There were also no non-trivial applications that I can remember.

People back then were looking for something that would be familiar to Windows/Mac users. GNUStep (at least at the time) was not interested in being that.
by jongjong | 2025-09-04 08:53:36+00:00
I hate cash and its digital equivalent. I only use it because I am forced to, against my will, because everyone else has been conditioned into thinking that it has value. Fiat money is the root of all evil. Besides the way it systematically steals wealth from the worker class and gives it to the owner class, there is nothing else to say about it.

Many reports have been written about the mechanisms via which the monetary system steals wealth from the working class. I'm tired of linking to them. The conditioning is too strong. Frankly the more this goes on, the more sympathy I feel for the owner class for their contempt for the sheeple. I'm starting to think they are right. People are dumb and evil and should be milked for all they've got.

I mostly feel bad for those of us who can see what's going on and are treated the same as the sheeple.
by lvncelot | 2025-09-04 08:56:24+00:00
Two things:

1. The user hostile changes I mentioned were a degradation of the initial experience, i.e. herding people into Remarkable's Cloud offering which, while it allowed for grandfathering, still was very restrictive in what sync features are available. Also, for new customers buying a RM now means a monthly subscription cost, which is why I said can't recommend it.

2. Remarkable itself was using the openness of their tablet in their marketing. If I were to buy an iPhone and then complain about the walled garden, that would be one thing. If I buy a product that prides itself as being hackable, I don't think I'm wrong to expect that.

Lastly, saying "I can't recommend this because of XYZ" is a far cry from "trashing the company".
by dkersten | 2025-09-04 08:56:41+00:00
I agree. I used to use vscode, then switched to Zed and used it for over a year (without AI). In February of this year, I started using Cursor to try out the AI features and I realised I really hated vscode now. Once Zed shipped agent mode, I switched back, and haven’t looked back. I very strongly never want to use vscode again.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-04 08:57:15+00:00
I think quantization is the simplest canary.

If we can reduce the precision of the model parameters by 2~32x without much perceptible drop in performance, we are clearly dealing with something wildly inefficient.

I'm open to the possibility that over parameterization is essential as part of the training process, much like how MSAA/SSAA over sample the frame buffer to reduce information aliasing in the final scaled result (also wildly inefficient but very effective generally). However, I think for more exotic architectures (spiking / time domain) these rules don't work the same way. You can't back propagate a recurrent SNN so much of the prevailing machine learning mindset doesn't even apply.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-09-04 08:57:28+00:00
"We have to learn the bitter lesson that building in how we think we think does not work in the long run. The bitter lesson is based on the historical observations that 1) AI researchers have often tried to build knowledge into their agents, 2) this always helps in the short term, and is personally satisfying to the researcher, but 3) in the long run it plateaus and even inhibits further progress, and 4) breakthrough progress eventually arrives by an opposing approach based on scaling computation by search and learning. The eventual success is tinged with bitterness, and often incompletely digested, because it is success over a favored, human-centric approach."
by mnky9800n | 2025-09-04 08:58:10+00:00
I mean, it costs nothing to ask them what to do. It seems like you are searching for your gold mine as opposed to building something cool and being happy with it. Yes sometimes you find gold mines building something cool but most of the time it's a grind to make something from nothing. So I would invest as much as you think you should invest in it and I would probably start with zero dollars by asking perplexity what to do and it will probably tell you to post a dev blog about the game, and post that on socials, and post about the game on socials with gameplay videos, and play the game on twitch so other people see the game. all of that costs zero dollars but lots of time.
by agos | 2025-09-04 08:58:56+00:00
my favorite online newspaper recently did a long form piece on eels and their decline in Italy ([1] - Italian only, sorry).

The comments mention a couple of books:

- Brian M. Fagan, Fish on Friday

- Patrik Svensson, The Gospel of the Eels (also wrote another book on eels)

maybe it's one of these two!

[1]: https://www.ilpost.it/2025/05/29/anguille-comacchio/
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-09-04 08:59:14+00:00
Yes, same. I have one that was grandfathered into the "no subscription" system, which means I can't buy another one (not sure if I will keep the ability not to have a subscription), and can't in good conscience recommend it to anyone else.

I do have a Boox Note Air4, which I bought with the intention of replacing the ReMarkable. On the plus side, it runs Android apps, but on the minus side, the UI is much less polished than the ReMarkable. Having said that, if I had the choice between the two, and weren't grandfathered into the no-subscription option, I would pick the Boox.
by guappa | 2025-09-04 08:59:46+00:00
> The article is one person recording their own use of AI

It's not ONE person. I agree that it's not "every single human being" either, but more of a preliminary result, but I don't understand why you discount results you dislike. I thought you were completely rational?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_do...
by drakonka | 2025-09-04 08:59:56+00:00
I have a RMPP and like it for reading and briefly annotating papers, journaling, drafting fiction. But I am so disappointed that they do not have split screen functionality. One of the core use cases for the device is reading a document and taking notes on it. Not being able to have a PDF open on one side of the screen and a notebook on the other is a huge miss.
by cardanome | 2025-09-04 09:00:07+00:00
I use Cursor solely for the agent mode and do all my editing in an proper IDE, meaning Jetbrains products.

I genuinely don't understand why one would want to AI autocomplete. Deterministic autocomplete is amazing but AI autocomplete completely breaks my flow. Even just the few seconds of lag absolutely drive me nuts and then it often it is close to what I wanted but not exactly what I wanted. Either I am in control or the generative AI but mixing both feels so wrong.

I am happy people find use for the autocomplete but ugh I really don't get how they can stomach it. Maybe it is for people that are not good at typing or something.
by frm88 | 2025-09-04 09:01:46+00:00
I'm like you for mostly the same reasons plus an additional one: pure spite. Supermarkets like Aldi no longer show or print out the return amount of money to your payment. The officially given reason is: staff is faster than the register doing it in their head [0]. Naturally that doesn't mean the customer is just as fast checking the correctness of the amount returned because frankly, who of us is used to this any more. So I make it my choice to stand and keep up the line until I have checked the return-amount. In this way I have had to discuss mistakes made by the cashier twice already this year, causing even more delay.

The real reason is that they want you to use cards, not cash and as far as I can tell, it's working. However, I find this kind of policy hurts people, particularly children, elderly people and disadvantaged.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.de/wirtschaft/aldi-spart-rueckge...
by beefsack | 2025-09-04 09:02:52+00:00
The model is usually so confused after a /compact I also prefer a /clear.

I set up my directives to maintain a work log for all work that I do. I instruct Claude Code to maintain a full log of the conversation, all commands executed including results, all failures as well as successes, all learnings and discoveries, as well as a plan/task list including details of what's next. When context is getting full, I do a /clear and start the new session by re-reading the work log and it is able to jump right back into action without confusion.

Work logs are great because the context becomes portable - you can share it between different tools or engineers and can persist the context for reuse later if needed.
by thecupisblue | 2025-09-04 09:05:46+00:00
Still is down - cannot access gmail, tried to Google the status page, then realised I'll have to use Bing for that.

Surprised it still hasn't been resolved, the problems have been ongoing for 2 hours already.

Waiting for that post mortem, really interested in how this failed - I'd assume they have dozens of fallback scenarios ready.
by dr_dshiv | 2025-09-04 09:06:23+00:00
Yes, but many of his books are not translated or ocr’d. For instance, La pestilenzia or de mysteriis.

And he is one of the most central figures of the renaissance. Less than 20% of neolatin has been digitized, let alone translated.

It is fine to question whether including neolatin, Arabic or Sanskrit in AI training will make AI better.

But for me, it is a core set of humanism that would be a shame to neglect.
by conartist6 | 2025-09-04 09:07:02+00:00
I bought an RM1 and was ultimately highly disappointed in the software, and, for all its supposed openness, the lack of any open software development.

They sold me a tablet they touted as having hundreds of pressure levels and most of the simulated writing implements only recognize about 4.

My biggest complaint is that I hoped to be able to use it to make sketches and diagrams I could use on websites or art projects, or do live drawings like it was a digital version of an overhead projector. It works like garbage for both use cases because the software ecosystem has no support at all for anything but the ultra-low-quality stroking algorithms that are used on-device. Put those pen strokes that looked so beautiful on e-ink up on a 4k monitor and they just look like the cheapest of cheap garbage because there's no pressure interpolation at all...!!!
by emiliacr | 2025-09-04 09:07:04+00:00
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by DrScientist | 2025-09-04 09:07:06+00:00
I do wonder whether we will switch back to ads or there is/will be a big switch to the subscription type model.

Would you trust output from OpenAI which is sponsered? I mean it's bad enough now in the ad space where they are increasingly trying to make the ads look more like content - imagine that in woven into your ChatGPT output?

The younger generation are quite used to subscription models - netflix, spotify, various gaming platforms etc. Perhaps access just becomes part of your internet access bundle.
by a5c11 | 2025-09-04 09:07:44+00:00
True. It's so hard nowadays to go out with a friend to grab a beer or a coffee. They don't feel the urge because they satisfy social interactions online, and they think it's enough. Well, it's undoubtedly simpler that way, but it's fake.

I, personally, hate chatting through instant messengers. I lost many connections because people started moving online more and more, and I just couldn't handle that anymore. For example, I don't like interrupting what I'm doing, and people usually expect to get a response within minutes. Plus, when I don't respond immediately, I simply forget and remind myself a month later. I could be the problem too, but the way we do communication today doesn't help either.
by 999900000999 | 2025-09-04 09:08:29+00:00
Had a chat about this with a friend yesterday.

In richer societies you can afford to be alone. This isn't good for tribal beings, humans didn't evolve as lone wolves. Even something as cooking for more than one person involves so much interaction.

At the lower end of the global income scale , you can't afford to be alone in your giant house. You might need to share communal goods.

Not everyone, but just having a role in society can be a major help for many people. The biggest crime of the modern era is the disposable human. You work for an anonymous corporation, that does some nonsense you can't even hope to understand, in exchange for currency, to support the basics of your existence.

You don't get to have any real status in that, for example In many places there was just one or two bread makers for the entire community. Baking bread isn't the most prestigious job, but you matter.

Tell me, fellow techy, working on serving ads. Who exactly would be disappointed if you failed in your duties today. Would anyone in your community be upset that they didn't get as many advertisements
by safety1st | 2025-09-04 09:08:49+00:00
Not really. I grew up below the poverty line. Everyone I knew was working class. Some of these people are still very dear to me.

However, I did something which virtually none of them did. I wanted to get out. So I identified a skillset that the world desperately wanted, and I spent thousands of hours learning how to build and sell with that skillset. Frequently I was criticized or ridiculed or simply ignored, but it worked and I made money. Then I used that money to amass assets.

This doesn't mean I think Elon Musk is my friend or a good guy or something or even that I think the system is just, I don't. But I correctly identified the ladder out of the working class trap. I have Marxist friends who didn't. They're still poor. They still won't listen. Their lives still suck.

The biggest thing I don't like about these Marxist politics warriors is that they actually seem resigned to a future where huge corporations control our destiny, as long as an even huger government extracts some value for the little people. They seem to think that will work but I saw in my own life that concentration of wealth and power always fails the little guy. My philosophy is that it's better to bust all the big guys down (don't mistake this for an endorsement of unregulated capitalism, it isn't) and give everybody the ability to amass their own wealth by creating businesses. I think this idea is way more hackerish than Marxism, because it's all about people building and creating without needing someone else's permission.

If you are a worker, you should want to become an owner. You should not want to appeal to a higher authority for a distribution, because the hand that feeds you will always control you. You will not be free. You should strive to own and control your own slice of the pie because that is the only thing which will make you free. The more workers we can convert into owners, the better, and I'm not talking some fantastical idea of collective ownership here (at least in today's system, it basically doesn't exist).
by frognumber | 2025-09-04 09:08:55+00:00
I think you're wrong, and you're underestimating the transformational impact of Ad-Words.

Free internet existed before paid internet, true, but mostly because people did things for other motives (like fun). Altavista was a tech demo for DEC. Good information was found on personal web pages, most often on .edu sites.

Banner ads existed, but they were confined to the sketchy corners of the Internet. Thing today's spam selling viagra. Anyone credible didn't want to be associated with them.

What Google figured out was:

1) Design. Discrete ad-words didn't make them look sketchy. This discovery came up by accident, but that's a longer story.

2) Targeting. Search terms let them know what to ads to show.

I can't overstate the impact of #2. Profits went up many-fold over prior ad models. This was Google's great -- and ultra-secret -- discovery. For many years, they were making $$$, while cultivating a public image of (probably) bleeding $$$ or (at best) making $. People were doing math on how much revenue Google was getting based on traditional web advertising models, while Google knew precisely what you were shopping for.

By the time people found out how much money Google's ad model was making, they had market lock-in.
by komali2 | 2025-09-04 09:09:41+00:00
> There should be some respect for that, no?

Not really. Like when my friend scolded me the other day for not finishing the dessert I ordered - "trash is burned here, you're contributing to excess methane production."

May I be flogged for my excess methane production. I will present myself with no resistance, so long as the floggings are delivered in a linear scale mapping to amount of methane produced. As soon as all the time in the universe is spent flogging the decision makers at all the oil and gas companies, I'm right there.

People listening to music for free is less than a drop of water in the ocean of causative reasons musicians get fucked.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-04 09:11:21+00:00
> Yes, massively it's not even linear 1/2 speed is probably 1/8 or less the value of "full speed". It's going to be even more pronounced as "full speed" gets faster.

I don't think that's true for most use-cases (content generation, including artwork, code/software, reading material, summarising, etc). Something that takes a day without an LLM might take only 30m with GPT5 (artwork), or maybe one hour with Claude Code.

Does the user really care that their full-day artwork task is now one hour and not 30m? Or that their full-day coding task is now only two hours, and not one hour?

After all, from day one of the ChatGPT release, literally no one complained that it was too slow (and it was much slower than it is now).

Right now no one is asking for faster token generation, everyone is asking for more accurate solutions, even at the expense of speed.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-04 09:12:36+00:00
Don't outsource your thinking to the one article. Different kids use AI in different ways. Many use it to help them learn. We still are in the very early stages of kids using AI to learn.

It's the role of the teacher to be a good explainer and to assign written exams that are doable only in class and only without any electronic help. The kids should not share blame for the teacher's shortcomings.
by intended | 2025-09-04 09:12:58+00:00
CAD vs Hand drawing isometrics spotlights the labor and effort, but then ends up overshadowing the role of effort in developing mental models.

The issue is that its a homework exercise. It's goal is to help you practice thinking about the problem. The Indian system is clear proof that passing an exam is easier, than actually mastering the subject being tested.

However, this is not the cause of the jobs crisis. That is simply because there are not enough jobs which can provide income and social mobility. That is why we needed growth.

Some of those ladders have been removed because automation has removed low-skill labor roles. Now we are going to remove entry level roles.

To put it in a crude manner - humanity's "job" today, seems to be "growing" a generation of humans over a 20 year time span, to prepare them for the world that we face.

This means building systems that deliver timely nutrition, education, stimulation, healthcare, and support.

We could do this better.
by sammorrowdrums | 2025-09-04 09:13:13+00:00
I took the plunge, I loved my RM2 but about a year ago I fell down stairs and landed on it.

I’ve ordered refurbed Paper Pro and Move.

Things that excited me about the device:

- with significant AI use I feel I need this more than ever. Drafting, thinking, note taking, annotating etc. - it looks wonderful for todos, shopping lists etc. - width designed to work with Paper Pro (and the landscape mode experience seems solid from reviews), so I will try the dual device setup - I didn’t always have RM2 with me, and I’m hoping this will now change to genuinely always. - I learned to love the constraints and for example I’ve discovered a love of Brandon Sanderson, Liu Cixin, Cory Doctorow, and countless other authors precisely because I went all in on DRM free ebooks, I want to expand that to graphic novels also hence the paper pro. - I do get random inspiration and obsidian has been my powerhouse for oh the go notes but I’m hoping scrybble.ink will now let me bring remarkable documents into obsidian. - very un-invasive to take notes in conversations etc.

Sure it’s a complete indulgence, but it helps me to enjoy note taking, being my library with me etc. and I find constraints foster my creativity and exploration and I lean into them.
by elashri | 2025-09-04 09:14:09+00:00
It is funny because this is one of the very few words I learned while a kid to construct it from other parts.

So it is "infra" + "structure" but structure is common word so I need to remember how to write "infra" only.

The most bizarre one is the word "yesterday" which I memorized as "yes" + "ter" + "day" and don't ask me why "ter" because I don't remember.