MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-10-26 20:59:06+00:00
> This is like sending an unsolicited email to someone who might want to buy your product.

It's worse than that. It's interrupting people who are trying to enjoy their night out and demanding they review your homework for you.

If people don't flat out tell you to go away, they're going to try to make up something simple as quick as possible to fulfill your task in the hopes that it will make you leave them alone.
by l9o | 2025-10-26 21:00:30+00:00
This is awesome. Thank you for sharing. I have been working on a small interpreted language for shell scripts with lots of help from Claude Code. The main idea is to automatically generate the cli interface for the scripts based on function definitions. However, I'm far from a programming languages expert, so I've been a bit hesitant to share my work. Going to give this book a read this week to see how far I am. Thank you!
by lukan | 2025-10-26 21:00:31+00:00
"It seems like the standard of acceptable behavior probably shouldn't depend on whether someone is attractive or charming."

It does not. Before asking someone out, there is also nonverbal communication happening like eye contact. Ignoring eye contact and all the little signs and then asking out of the blue can be awkward, but is also not problematic in a bad way, unless it was asked in a sexually charged way.

The standard of acceptable behavior is reading all the little signs, before asking for more. But asking someone out in no sexually charged way is never problematic, even though it might result in comments.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-26 21:01:11+00:00
So it is apparently fine to balance a nuclear grid with fossil fuels????

Just pretend that the fossil fuels doesn’t exist by exporting the nuclear electricity and have someone else build them and balance both grids!

What do you think would happen if you tried sticking two French grids with an over supply of nuclear powered electricity when no one wants the electricity next to each other?

You mean the brownouts storage and renewables have now completely fixed?

Yeah, way faster than handouts to new built nuclear power and waiting until the 2040s for the solution!

> Sweden just approved new nuclear construction, after rescinding a nuclear exit.

Yes. The current government has spent soon four years pushing paperwork around. They want nuclear power without having to accept the costs.

They seem to not want to have the costs associated with new built nuclear power subsidies on their political records for their entire careers.

I bet they will push through a monstrous handout package the final weeks before the election next September and then spend years crying about it being cut.
by lijok | 2025-10-26 21:03:42+00:00
Notice under “Managing dependency”, the focus is exclusively on technological solutions.

There is no technological solution to this. We have the equivalent of unlimited crack in everyone’s pocket 24/7 with no possible oversight over its use and no way to reel it back in. The genie has been out of the bottle for a while now.

Just like gluttony, there is no solution, only management strategies and they’re all very human.

Sensible education about these things starting at K1. Social and outreach programs for addicts. Etc
by kragen | 2025-10-26 21:06:03+00:00
Yeah, I agree. I have the advantage of living in a subtropical climate, which seems like less of an advantage when the dengue season hits, but the 3400W heat pump my wife and I bought last year does a fine job of heating our 18m² bedroom—and, far more importantly, cooling it when it's +35° outside. You, by contrast, have apparently bought a palace somewhere closer to Antarctica.

200m² of solar PV can only provide about 45kW peak anyway, and on the roof under two meters of snow it would provide roughly zero. One of the advantages of vertical panels like Joey Hess's system discussed here the other day is that they don't necessarily get snowed on, and in some orientations they produce the most energy in the winter. But without enough insulation there's a limit to what you can do. This was apparently a major reason for hanging tapestries in castles older than yours.

Every solar setup ten years from now is going to look exotic by our current standards. Think about automobiles before and after the Model T, or shipping before and after the steam locomotive.

If I was contemplating heating a mansion on Hoth with 2000 amps of low-voltage DC from solar panels, I don't think I would want it connected to a single busbar. I think I'd want it in 5–40 separate circuits to limit the risks from possible short circuits.
by jancsika | 2025-10-26 21:06:08+00:00
> It's a strange situation, it'd be like if a majority of drivers didn't know how to change gears.

If you literally can't change gears then your choices are a) go nowhere (neutral), b) burn out your clutch (higher gears), or c) burn out your engine (1st gear). All are bad things. Even having an expert come along to put you in the correct gear once, twice, or even ten times won't improve things.

If a programmer doesn't know that git is a folder or that the commits are nodes of a DAG, nothing bad will happen in the short term. And if they have a git expert who can get them unstuck say, five times total, they can probably make it to the end of their career without having to learn those two details of git.

In short-- bad analogy.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-26 21:06:09+00:00
The "gamer to alt-right pipeline"[1] is weirdly real, but what I don't understand is why all these social media companies are trying to funnel gamers as a particular group into extreme right political content, and why is the alt-right targeting gamers in particular? I guess it's possible that gamers tend intentionally seek out this content, so the algorithm matches this energy, but it would surprise me. Why would gamers want this crap?

1: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/05/660642531/right-wing-hate-gro...
by 10000truths | 2025-10-26 21:06:20+00:00
The ELF loading logic in the Linux kernel is intentionally very simple, so it's more like a bare-bones subset of what the dynamic linker handles. matheusmoreira summarizes it well in a previous discussion [0]:

> Yeah it turns out the kernel doesn't care about sections at all. It only ever cares about the PT_LOAD segments in the program header table, which is essentially a table of arguments for the mmap system call. Sections are just dynamic linker metadata and are never covered by PT_LOAD segments.

The simplicity of the ELF loader in Linux can be exploited to make extremely small executables [1], since most of the data in the ELF header is stuff that the kernel doesn't care about.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706380#45709203

[1] https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.ht...
by boznz | 2025-10-26 21:07:31+00:00
The normal writing 'journey' is several months, or years, of hard work and multiple revisions. I invest a little of my time explaining the journey on my blog, and also include the text in the prefix of my novels that it was written by a real human. It is my way of saying I was invested in the story, but it is pretty naive to think this will work in the age of AI today.

I also wrote an article on my blog that you are mainly writing for yourself and your family, friends and followers these days, the algorithm is very unlikely to get you outside of that word-of-mouth audience, unless you pay $$, go full-in promoting on social media (which may backfire), or are extremely lucky. With AI the algorithm has become the enemy and finding genuine indie authors is unfortunately getting harder.
by westurner | 2025-10-26 21:07:34+00:00
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282604 re: spiking neuromorphics:

> What are the ways to get spiking behavior out of integrated nanophotonics?

> Saturable Absorption (excitable semiconductor lasers, graphene laser cavity ,), NDR Negative Differential Resistance (RTD Resonant Tunneling Diodes,), PCM: Phase-change materials (DVD-RW,),

> Metamaterials and metasurfaces are probably useful for extreme nonlinear spiking neuromorphic computing with integrated nanophotonics.

Some optical metamaterials have picosecond phase change latency
by aseipp | 2025-10-26 21:07:49+00:00
I'm not yet using mine for ML stuff because there are still a lot of various issues like this post outlined. But I am using mine as an ARM dev system in the meantime, and as a "workstation" it's actually quite good. The Cortex-X925 cores are Zen5 class in performance and it is overall an absolute unit for its size, I'm very impressed that a standard ARM core is pushing this level of performance for a desktop-class machine. I thought about buying a new Linux desktop recently, and this is good enough I might just plug it into a monitor and use it instead.

It is also a standard UEFI+ACPI system; one Reddit user even reported that they were able to boot up Fedora 42 and install the open kernel modules no problem. The overall delta/number of specific patches for the Canonical 6.17-nvidia tree is pretty small when I looked (the current kernel is 6.11). That and the likelihood the consumer variant will support Windows hopefully bodes well for its upstream Linux compatibility, I hope.

To be fair, most of this also true of Strix Halo from what I can tell (most benchmarks put the DGX furthest ahead at prompt processing and a bit ahead at raw token output. But the software is still buggy and Blackwell is still a bumpy ride overall, so it might get better). But I think it's mostly the pricing that is holding it back. I'm curious what the consumer variant will be priced at.
by tomnipotent | 2025-10-26 21:08:46+00:00
Clippy at least had the courtesy of only blocking the bottom right of the window, these ridiculous Gemini pop-ups appear next to whatever cell you have selected and block things like column headers or values that you actually want to look at while editing the formula/value. It's insane to me that this was ever allowed to get deployed without a rational human being calling out the obvious issue.
by gschoeni | 2025-10-26 21:09:07+00:00
Wanted to share some learnings we had optimizing and deploying Qwen-Image-Edit at scale to replace Nano-Banana. The goal was to generate a product catalogue of 1.2m images, which would have cost $46k with Nano-Banana or GPT-Image-Edit.

Qwen-Image-Edit being Apache 2.0 allows you to fine-tune and apply a few tricks like compilation, lightning lora and quantization to cut costs.

The base model takes ~15s to generate an image which would mean we would need 1,200,000*15/60/60=5,000 compute hours.

Compilation of the PyTorch graph + applying a lightning LoRA cut inference down to ~4s per image which resulted in ~1,333 compute hours.

I'm a big fan of open source models, so wanted to share the details in case it inspires you to own your own weights in the future.
by johnjwang | 2025-10-26 21:10:05+00:00
(Author here): I hear what you’re saying, though I’ve never “crowed about regularly checking code in on Saturdays and Sundays” and I think that’s a false characterization of my article.

Do I love to code? For sure. Is it something I do on the weekends? Generally yes because it’s something incredibly fun for me, and it gives me a lot of energy. Now, is it an expectation I have of my team? No, it’s not because I want a sustainable pace for the team and I recognize not everyone has the same relationship with work or coding as I do.

And on the “circumventing process” bit — what I shared wasn’t an example of blowing past legal/security review recklessly. It was a case where I, as someone with full context, could quickly build something safe and unblock a customer, going through our normal code review and deploy process. I don’t expect anyone (myself included), to have any exceptions to this.
by neilv | 2025-10-26 21:11:17+00:00
> Their reaction was notably disturbed! I apologized, saying I had a pitch coming up, and would really like their opinions. Well, they were much more negative toward my idea than I thought they would be!

Because you interrupted their social outing with techbro baggery, including being kinda disingenuous about "a pitch coming up".

> Focus grouping. The only real difference is it is FREE.

A non-consensual focus group, in a venue where people are going partly to get away from biz BS they have to tolerate during the workday.

But if you're going to do it anyway, there is a convention in bars, of offering to buy a person a drink. Especially when it's an ambitious approach. No longer FREE.
by jchw | 2025-10-26 21:11:23+00:00
I think this is how it has been since the beginning of ELF in Linux. PT_INTERP comes from the original TIS specification of ELF and I think it was probably also in the original SVR4 ELF implementation.

I understand why they went this route. While it is unfortunate to need duplicate code parsing and loading ELF files, the ELF binfmt in the kernel is at least relatively simple, since it does not need to worry about dynamic linking. Doing what QNX did would be possible, but it would also add moving parts and change the relationship Linux has with the userland, which is one thing they do not like to do. They could probably come up with a middleground, like pre-baking a raw memory image with an ELF loader that can be stuck into a new process when exec'ing an ELF binary and shipping that with the kernel, but I'm sure there would be observable side-effects with regards to performance and maybe locks, I can see it being more impactful to focus on ensuring the existing implementation is correct. (AFAIK it is still "only" a few thousand lines.)
by quantummagic | 2025-10-26 21:11:37+00:00
You're playing word games. The point is that any system that has no concept of fair-use, no allowance for reasonable usage of copyrighted works, except where explicitly granted by the copyright holder, is inherently unjust and stifling to free expression. How such allowances are specified in law, is irrelevant pedantry. What matters is that the allowances are afforded.
by nativeit | 2025-10-26 21:11:44+00:00
Douglas Hofstadter wrote Gödel, Escher, Bach nearly 50-years ago, and it won a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and got featured in the popular press. It’s been on lots of college reading lists, from 2007 online coursework for high school students was available from MIT. The FBI concluded that the 2001 anthrax scare was in-part inspired by elements of the book, which was found in the attacker’s trash. Anyone who’s wanted to engage with the theories and philosophy surrounding artificial intelligence has had plenty of materials that get fairly in-depth asking and exploring these same questions. It seems like a lot of people seem to think this is all bleeding edge novelty (at least, the underlying philosophical and academic ideas getting discussed in popular media), but rather all of the industry is predicated on ideas that are very old philosophy + decades-old established technology + relatively recent neuroscience + modern financial engineering. That said, I don’t want to suggest a layperson is likely to have engaged with any of it, so I understand why this will be the first time a lot of people will have ever considered some of these questions. I imagine what I’m feeling is fairly common to anyone who’s got a very niche interest that blows up and becomes the topic of interest for the entire world. I think there’s probably some very interesting, as-yet undocumented phenomena occurring that’s been the product of the unbelievably vast amount of resources sunk into what’s otherwise a fairly niche kind of utility (in LLMs specifically, and machine learning more broadly). I’m optimistic that there will be some very transformational technologies to come from it, although whether it will produce anything like “AGI”, or ever justify these levels of investment? Both seem rather unlikely.
by AppleBananaPie | 2025-10-26 21:12:20+00:00
If a system requires a sign off for a PR to be submitted then it's a collaborative effort for the PR to succeed.

Someone just leaving comments and not signing off on reviews isn't helping unblock anyone and should put in more effort to be willing to sign off and move the work forward. If the most people in the org thought this way nothing would be committed and everyone would have 'non-blocking' comments to deal with.

Another way to look at this is in absence of another code reviewer, not signing off after commenting is equivalent to passively blocking the PR and can be a bit toxic depending on the circumstance.

I'm probably missing a scenario (maybe there's a bunch of people you know will review the code for instance) that this makes sense so happy to learn where/when specifically it makes sense :)
by ericmcer | 2025-10-26 21:12:28+00:00
It isn't even a perverted implementation, we just overestimated ourselves.

All our sci-fi futurism of the 70s/80s showed enlightened humans elevating themselves with technology. In real Star Trek the holo deck would be used for porn, the computer would be used to play shitty podcasts while they procrastinated work and the replicator would be churning out donuts and fried foods.

It's philosophically a weird time, because we are more socially progressive than ever before, but we have a nonstop flow of evidence that people cannot self-govern. It feels paradoxical to demand freedom and protection from your own impulses at the same time.
by thwarted | 2025-10-26 21:12:35+00:00
It doesn't matter. They are centralized on servers that are ssh accessible, creating it is effectively mkdir and git init.

It's not about how long the action takes, it's about how much the team responsible for that is loaded and can prioritize things. Every team needs more round tuits. Anyone who works in an IT support role knows this. The point is that they can self-service immediately and there is no actual dependency to start writing code and using revision control, but people will trot out any excuse.
Ask HN: Handwriting OCR Options?
by giantg2 | 2025-10-26 21:12:40+00:00
I'm looking for options to convert handwritten documents to text without online services. I specifically remeber someone on here providing a link to a blog or something about doing this with historical document in some society's archives, maybe in SF area. I think it used a local machine learning OCR library that has been around for a while and is popular with converting historical documents. Any ideas what that library might be?
Show HN: Zimic: TypeScript-first HTTP integrations
by diego-aquino | 2025-10-26 21:12:53+00:00
Zimic is a set of TypeScript-first HTTP integration libraries, designed with developer experience and type safety in mind.

https://zimic.dev

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Background:

Ever since I first started using TypeScript, I felt that mocking HTTP responses was hard to scale with tools like MSW and Nock. Having used these libraries for a couple of years, primarily for testing, I often had to write, review, and duplicate a lot of custom abstractions on top of them, trying to ensure:

• Mock compliance: every mock should be realistic and accurate with the real service it represents; mocks with incorrect parameters, incompatible responses, or out of sync with the actual API directly reduce test confidence; • Test completeness: if an application is expected make a number of requests with certain parameters, it should be clear from the tests what these expectations are and they should fail if not met;

Over the years, I've come to believe that the tools we use have a unique opportunity to shape our mental models and encourage good practices. So I started exploring a question:

How could a library help developers create better API mocks?

The insights I gained during my research led to the early drafts of @ zimic/interceptor and a published paper on IEEE (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11126628). From there, I started expanding Zimic's core principles to cover more aspects of the development process, not just API mocking:

• @ zimic/http: declare HTTP schemas, infer types from OpenAPI, and type native Web APIs. • @ zimic/fetch: create type-safe Fetch API clients and have your requests and responses fully typed by default. • @ zimic/interceptor: mock HTTP services in development and testing, and simulate responses with type safety.

Earlier this year, Zimic reached 1.0 and I'm curious to hear what you think!

https://zimic.dev
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-26 21:13:12+00:00
>Sure, but there is a good reason for that. The way they are currently post-trained is the only way to make them actually useful.

Post training them to speak like a bot and deny being human has no effect on how useful they are. That's just an Open AI/Google/Anthropic preference.

>If you take the raw model, it will actually be much worse at the kinds of tasks you want it to perform

Raw models are not worse. Literally every model release paper that compares both show them as better at benchmarks, if anything. Post training degrading performance is a well known phenomena. What they are is more difficult to guide/control. Raw models are less useful because you have to present your input in certain ways, but they are not worse performers.

It's besides the point anyways because again, you don't have to post train them to act as anything other than a human.

>If their behavior needs to be restricted to actually become good at specific tasks, then they can't also be claimed to pass the Turing test if they can't within those same restrictions.

Okay, but that's not the case.
by 1313ed01 | 2025-10-26 21:13:49+00:00
Do you use the built-in WiFi on any of the Raspberry Pis?

By coincidence I installed NetBSD last weekend on a Raspberry Pi. Never used it before, but it seemed very nice. I had some issues with sshd (most likely just me doing something stupid) and never got as far as experimenting with WiFi, but supposedly there is some support (unlike FreeBSD and OpenBSD that do not support WiFi on any Raspberry Pis?).
by rsynnott | 2025-10-26 21:14:25+00:00
> To stem the backlash, many journals and universities are starting to resist or have stopped using AI altogether in the peer review process.

… Excuse me, they were doing _what_? The world has gone mad. Unless you think a chatbot that doesn’t know how many ‘r’s are in strawberry is your peer you shouldn’t be using it for peer review, bloody hell.

At least in tech there’s still usually human code review which catches the worst of the magic robot-generated nonsense.
Show HN: Doodl – Free Online Doodling Canvas (No Account Needed)
by tidalboot | 2025-10-26 21:14:53+00:00
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It’s intentionally minimal — you just open it and start drawing. You can save your doodle or clear the canvas instantly.

Works on mobile + desktop

We made it because we wanted something frictionless for quick sketches and brainstorming. Would love to hear your feedback, especially around performance and UX!
by zamadatix | 2025-10-26 21:14:59+00:00
Theoretically it has slightly better memory bandwidth, (you are supposed to get) the Nvidia AI software ecosystem support out of the box, and you can use the 200G NIC to stick 2 together more efficiently.

Practically, if the goal is 100% about AI and cloud isn't an option for some reason, both options are likely "a great way to waste a couple grand trying to save a couple grand" as you'd get 7x the performance and likely still feel it's a bit slow on larger models using an RTX Pro 6000. I say this as a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 owner, though I got mine because it's the closest thing to an x86 Apple Silicon laptop one can get at the moment.