MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by extr | 2025-09-10 06:04:43+00:00
Anthropic can't seem to get a win lately. Claude code hangover, their lunch is getting eaten by Chinese OSS on the value side and GPT-5 High on the quality side.

I may be in a minority but I am still quite bullish on them as a company. Even with GPT-5 out they still seem to have a monopoly on taste - Claude is easily the most "human" of the frontier models. Despite lagging in features compared to ChatGPT Web, I mostly ask Claude day-to-day kinds of questions. It's good at inferring my intent and feels more like a real conversation partner. Very interested to see their next release.
by ashsriv | 2025-09-10 06:05:35+00:00
this is a fantastic summary of how LLMs can be used in general. I have found chatgpt/gemini to be useful in following scenarios 1. ELI5 with examples on any technical paper. This summarises papers and explains to me in a way i can understand. 2. At my work, we have to make a lot of proposals, so I have a project created where I put public documents that I can share for proposals and then share the Statement of Work, and it creates a technical document in my format which is about 70% right. I can add/modify the remaining 30% 3. > Use these tools as a massive force multiplier of your own skills. - This is massive when I want to start a new code base. I spend so much time in my head architecting that tools like these help create a boiler plate and structure. 4. Many times, I have stupid ideas but not enough time to waste coding those stupid ideas. The tools help me right terrible codes for my stupid ideas!! :)
by dclowd9901 | 2025-09-10 06:05:59+00:00
I was so surprised in BotW and TotK to see NPCs duck, huddle, gasp and otherwise react to odd shit you might be doing. Also in dialogue, do contextual things like talk about the weather and time.

I would love to see a Zelda game implement LLM dialogue for random inconsequential dialogue or relating dialogue to the game context.
by hobs | 2025-09-10 06:06:13+00:00
You couldn't be more wrong, no evidence supports your assertions.

https://fortune.com/2024/07/24/return-to-office-mandates-lay... https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/its-offi... https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/12/why-rto-mandates-are-layoffs...

You are very ignorant of the real world.
by godelski | 2025-09-10 06:06:35+00:00
> You are not entitled to protection from future competition

What do you think patents, copyright, trademarks, and all this other stuff is even about?

There's "Statutory Damages" which account for a wide range of things[0].

Not to mention you just completely ignored what I argued!

Seriously, you've been making a lot of very confident claims in this thread and they are easy to verify as false. Just google some of your assumptions before you respond. Hell, ask an LLM and they'll tell you! Just don't make assumptions and do zero amount of vetting. It's okay to be wrong, but you're way off base buddy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_damages
by k_g_b_ | 2025-09-10 06:06:47+00:00
All kinds of fees (e.g. for the grid) and taxes, yes. It differs by year and depending on which surcharges were added/removed through laws. E.g. one part was for renewable subsidies and that's been removed in '22.

40% source is here (German, slide 7) https://www.bdew.de/media/documents/BDEW_Strompreisanalyse_0...

Consumer prices are now down to below 0.30 €/kwh again for new contracts (takes a few clicks for anyone) - they were mostly high previously because of Russia's war. This influence on electricity production was removed.
by ta20240528 | 2025-09-10 06:07:46+00:00
Then your customers are morons, let me explain:

1. the USA has secret FISA courts - defendants cannot even say they whether they were summoned, let alone what case or judgements were

2. the CLOUD Act compels American companies to hand over data, regardless of where its hosted.

So your German companies would never even know if they have been compromised.

But ignorance can be bliss.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-10 06:09:45+00:00
It's detestable how Apple handled the aftermath of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORCEDENTRY

In November 2021, Apple Inc. filed a complaint against NSO Group and its parent company Q Cyber Technologies in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in relation to FORCEDENTRY, requesting injunctive relief, compensatory damages, punitive damages, and disgorgement of profits but in 2024 asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit.

The perpetrators were caught red-handed and let, go by Apple! This crime can, will, and has continued to happen due to the negligence of Apple's leadership. No doubt influenced by Tim Cook's obligation to the White House and their friends.
by kemitchell | 2025-09-10 06:10:24+00:00
Art versus engineering is a very dangerous generalization of the law. There is a creativity requirement for copyrightability, but it's an explicitly low bar. Search query "minimal degree of creativity".

The Supreme Court decision in Oracle v Google skipped over copyrightability and addressed fair use. Fair use is a legal defense, applying only in response to finding infringement, which can only be found if material's copyrightable. So the way the Supreme Court made its decision was weird, but it wasn't about the creativity requirement.
by tomduncalf | 2025-09-10 06:10:41+00:00
It is, but I don’t think this a bad offering - up until recently all iPhone cameras were 12mp, so you still get “good enough to print” quality. I guess it’s a bit of marketing speak but I don’t mind - to me it seems they made good choices on the lenses this year. 5x always seemed a bit too much without something in between but hopefully 4x is a decent compromise while still enabling “8x” (which I suspect is important for marketing and honestly will be quite fun)
by fjfaase | 2025-09-10 06:11:07+00:00
Finally, there is a response. In the past days several drones flew through Polish airspace on their way to Ukrane.

Putin is constantly escalating in this war. I read that the missile that hit the government building a few days ago, did not explode. There was but a luke warm response to that in the west. It won't surprise me, if another attempt will follow.
by zahlman | 2025-09-10 06:11:15+00:00
Python has a heavy standard library, and the most popular third-party libraries tend to have simple dependency graphs because they can lean on that standard library so much. Many of them are also maintained under umbrellas such as the Python Software Foundation (for things like `requests`) or the Python Packaging Authority (for build tools etc.). So there are many eyes on everything all the time, those eyes mostly belong to security-conscious people, and they all get to talk to each other quite a bit.

PyPI also now requires 2FA for everyone and makes other proactive attempts to hunt down malware (https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-05-25-securing-pypi-with-2f...) in addition to responding to reports.

There was still a known compromise recently: https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-07-31-incident-report-phish... (`num2words` gets millions of monthly downloads, but still for example two orders of magnitude less than NumPy). Speaking of the communication I mentioned in the first paragraph, one of the first people reporting seeing the phishing email was a CPython core developer.

Malware also still does get through regularly, in the form of people just uploading it. But there are automated measures against typo-squatting (you can't register a name that's too similar to existing names, or which is otherwise blacklisted) and for most random crap there's usually just no reason anyone would find out about it to install it.
by ggm | 2025-09-10 06:14:23+00:00
Small sample but big message. If we can get beyond "it's just calories" in the wide, we can start to have more rational conversations about food in general.

Ultra processed food is shelf stable, often cheaper overall per unit serving (not always, but consider time poor working poor, cost of cooking in the broad sense as well as raw input costs if you want to criticise this) easy to heat, and so attractive for all kinds of reasons to disadvantaged people. Aside from their amazingly addictive effect on us as mouth feel, taste, fat salt and sugar reactions kick in.

For many people, "good calories" are a luxury, unless you mean "cold calories" because high quality can demand prep. Banging an ultra processed package straight out of a box into a microwave which didn't have to be refrigerated is doable.
by pezezin | 2025-09-10 06:14:23+00:00
I wonder about the influence of the language. I regularly watch videos in English, Spanish (my mother language), and Japanese (my girlfriend's language).

English-speaking channels are usually more "polite" in the way they speak, while Spanish-speaking channels are way crazier, using expressions that no American would dare to use xD

Regarding Japanese, I don't understand enough to have a judgement, but Japanese people are usually very careful and non-confrontational.
by atoav | 2025-09-10 06:15:12+00:00
I run multiple websites since I have been roughly 14 and I never had any of those problems. I am not saying they could theoretically happen. What I am saying is that to most people running small websites they don't.

I don't use cloudflare because there was never a reason to. And if there was a DDOS I'd just wait. My websites are important to me, but I don't give a damn if they are down for some time. This isn't critical infrastructure.
by raffraffraff | 2025-09-10 06:16:32+00:00
[not a dev] why isn't there the equivalent of "Linux distributions" for npm? I know I know: because developers all need a different set of libs. But if there were thousands of packages required to provide basic "stdlib-like functionality" couldn't there be an npm distribution that you can safely use as a starting point, avoiding importing asinine stuff like 'istrue' (yea I'm kinda joking there). Or is that just what bloated Frameworks all start out as?
by reliableturing | 2025-09-10 06:17:32+00:00
Here’s an actual hot take compared to the sentiment in this discussion: this will be the best selling iPhone ever.

Specs wise sure, I’d also love a bigger battery than it being thin*. But the iPhone has been an unbelievable fashion statement, and this insanely sexy iPhone will be the strongest yet.

I’m pretty sure when it comes out, people will actually hold it in their hands and the sentiment will turn. Not talking to you tech nerds, but for the other 99% of the world.
by teo_zero | 2025-09-10 06:17:37+00:00
> A modern C11 library

I'd say "mostly C11": it uses __VA_OPT__ that's been standardized only in C23.

The "foreach" macros need a lot of refinement: passing the body in the parameters is asking for troubles, for example. And using a non-unique default name for the index prevents nested loops.

To overcome the issues with generic and qualified types, have you considered using typeof_unqual?

_Generic(*(typeof_unqual(x)*)0, ...)
by yoz-y | 2025-09-10 06:18:34+00:00
Back in the days when OLED screens didn’t exist, the rule was that white on black text needs to be bolder for legibility. Since super high contrast is now par for the course, designers with high end devices forgot about this.

I agree that the dark mode on the boox is terrible (I find for example obsidian absolutely unusable). But this could be easily fixed with bolder fonts.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-09-10 06:18:46+00:00
> but now that we have AI, what's it to me if I end up with my own string-colouring functions for output in some file under my own control

Before AI code generation, we would have called that copy-and-paste, and a code smell compared to proper reuse of a library. It's not any better with AI. That's still code you'd have to maintain, and debug. And duplicated effort from all the other code doing the same thing, and not de-duplicated across the numerous libraries in a dependency tree or on a system, and not benefiting from multiple people collaborating on a common API, and not benefiting from skill transfer across projects...
by gpm | 2025-09-10 06:18:55+00:00
> Fair use is what is called an affirmative defense

Yes

> it means that yes what I did was technically a violation but is forgiven

Not at all. All "affirmative defence" means is that procedural the burden is on me to establish that I was not violating the law. The law isn't "you can't do the thing", rather it is "you can't do the thing unless its like this". There is no violation, there is no forgiveness as there is nothing to forgive, because it was done "like this" and doing it "like this" doesn't violate the law in the first place.
by h4ch1 | 2025-09-10 06:19:33+00:00
What's the best e-paper/e-ink display on the market with a good price-performance ratio that I can use to tinker around with?

I basically want to build a custom e-reader with a RasPi Zero for learning/home use, 8-10inches would be great.

Don't care much about it being touchscreen.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-10 06:19:52+00:00
>Notice that everything on GP's list is fraud (except Gohn of Nissan who was accused of embezzlement and failure to report income). It's very difficult for an executive to go to prison any other way.

I did notice. Which is why my list included mass deaths and massive pollution/ecological destruction, some of which we still don't know what the eventual damage/death toll will be.

And that's the bigger issue: property crimes are considered more serious than mass murder and poisoning our world. Just as with the fraudsters, the corporate veil should have been pierced for the murderers and despoilers of our environment, with harsh prison sentences for those whose avarice and sociopathy allowed them to murder and despoil.

Civil liability is fine, and the "corporate death penalty" (revoking charters, barring directors/managers from future employment, etc.) should be invoked with extreme prejudice in those circumstances as well.

But we don't do that. Because corporations are, in the above circumstance, not "people", but a legal fiction protecting its owners from liability. But when it benefits the corporation and its owners/managers, a corporation is a "person."

I'd say we should work it the other way -- if a corporation is responsible for deaths and despoilation, all the owners should have a share in the punishment.

That way, after a few thousand wealthy individual investors and the owners of a few dozen hedge funds/investment houses are put in SuperMax for a decade or two for the misdeeds of the companies in which they've invested. And let's not make the boards of directors, C-Suite and any others directly involved feel left out either. They can commiserate with their fellow scumbags in the prison yard.

That does sound pretty harsh doesn't it? Perhaps too harsh? I don't think so. Because as we're constantly reminded, business responds strongly to incentives.

And if businesses are strongly incentivized to not poison our citizens, kill airplane passengers and destroy our environment with the threat of long prison sentences and a stripping of their assets, I'd expect they'd respond to such incentives.

But, as it is now, when the incentives are to privatize profit and hold harmless those who kill us, make us sick and destroy our environment, those are the incentives to which corporations will respond.
by Atlas667 | 2025-09-10 06:20:13+00:00
You're missing the point. "American" can be interpreted as racially neutral, but then why is "african-american" very common, but using "european-american" is almost non existent?. Same as "native-american".

The fact is that there already exists a racial default, I didn't make it, it simply exists due to the nuances of our society, its history and/or its media.

I didn't invent either term and I am not THE dictionary.

This is how these terms are interpreted by the world and also through simple logic. I am not the one who interprets these terms and their usage.

American society and culture is still severely segregated due to how crappily it dealt with the consequences of its racist history.

White americans are considered american and black americans are considered african americans. It is not a mutually exclusive truth, but it is the norm, and that's what we're talking about.

We're not talking about pure logic of meaning, we're talking about social usage of terms.
by atoav | 2025-09-10 06:20:53+00:00
I had my mail hosted with my managed server for 10 years, then they started charging ridiculous amounts of money for SSL certs, so I moved all websites to a self-managed 10 times cheaper yet more performant webservers. Then they wanted to force Microsoft 365 on me and I migrated the mailserver in a similar fashion.

I use mailcow and did the migration over a weekend. It took a few hours after to get all the spam stuff right (SPF, DKIM etc), but now it works flawlessly since 3 years and I use maybe a few hours per year to run updates.
by Balinares | 2025-09-10 06:21:05+00:00
Do you mean Stadia? Stadia worked great. The only perceptible latency I initially had ended up coming from my TV and was fixed by switching it to so-called "gaming mode".

Never could figure out what the heck the value proposition was supposed to be though. Pay full price for a game that you can't even pretend you own? I don't think so. And the game conservation implications were also dire, so I'm not sad it went away in the end.

But on technical merits? It worked great.
by prmoustache | 2025-09-10 06:21:33+00:00
The RX100 has had wifi transfer since the 3rd gen.

I understand the "second device to carry around" but it isn't a real point for baby pics you might take at home. A ridiculous number of times I have no idea where I last put my phone anyway and sometimes have to make it ring from kde connect on my laptop so it is not like a smartphone is necessarily readily available at all time anyway.

I also know a number of people who don't leave home with their smartphone amyway for short errands since they have an apple watch, that leave one pocket available for those that would prefer having a camera.
by laurencerowe | 2025-09-10 06:23:02+00:00
> To gain access to the Deno (and Node.js compat) standard library used by Deno requires forking deno_cli as they have largely coupled these additions to the main executable.

This is no longer the case. While it does not currently provide a stable API, that functionality exists in the deno_runtime crate and is relatively easy to reuse.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-10 06:23:23+00:00
I remember this take when the iPhone X came out, which incidentally also felt like the first year (here in the US) where Apple was truly detested, publicly. Instagram and Twitter were chock-full of memes like "999x Kinder Chocolate or 1x iPhone X?" and the notch/design overhaul met a pretty lukewarm reception. The agony of yearly upgrades really set in, then.

It's not impossible for this to take off, but I won't hold my breath. It's a small gamble that could go either way.
by atoav | 2025-09-10 06:24:10+00:00
How do you messure this? Every university in my country has thousands of mail accounts that are constantly used and having worked at an university IT department I have never heard of any numbers collection coming by to ask us how many mails our users sent to each other.

I wouldn't be surprised if that percentage was made up by the big ones to give you the feeling that self hosting mailservers is useless.
by donatj | 2025-09-10 06:24:22+00:00
I'm coming in a little hot and contrarian. I've been working with the Go JSON library for well over a decade at this point, since before Go 1.0, and I think v1 is basically fine.

I have two complaints. Its decoder is a little slow, PHP's decoder blows it out of the water. I also wish there was an easy "catch all" map you could add to a struct for items you didn't define but were passed.

None of the other things it "solves" have ever been a problem for me - and the "solution" here is a drastically more complicated API.

I frankly feel like doing a v2 is silly. Most of the things people want could be resolved with struct tags varying the behavior of the existing system while maintaining backwards compatibility.

My thoughts are basically as follows

The struct/slice merge issue? I don't think you should be decoding into a dirty struct or slice to begin with. Just declare it unsupported, undefined behavior and move on.

Durations as strings? Why? That's just gross.

Case sensitivity by default? Meh. Just add a case sensitivity struct tag. Easy to fix in v1

Partial decoding? This seems so niche it should just be a third party libraries job.

Basically everything could've been done in a backwards compatible way. I feel like Rob Pike would not be a fan of this at all, and it feels very un-Go.

It goes against Go's whole worse is better angle.
by Iger | 2025-09-10 06:25:30+00:00
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by adastra22 | 2025-09-10 06:25:34+00:00
You can run Kimi K2 (SOTA on metrics) for about $10k/mo on full speed for many parallel sessions and no quantization on rented hardware. About $20k to buy Mac Studio hardware for running locally, at a slower but usable speed. Maybe $4k or so for an Epyc box that gets you a snail's pace output, but still usable if you are very patient.

3rd party dependence is out of convenience, not necessity.
by giveita | 2025-09-10 06:26:06+00:00
> One of the important things to take away from this is that every dependency could be malicious. We should take the time to understand the entire dependency tree of our programs, but we aren't given that time. At the end of the day, we still have to ship things.

That's why you need vuln scanners and not upgrade to the latest thing as soon as released.