MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: One-click publishing for Godot games (Linux, Windows, macOS)
by Mup_TIpekpaceH | 2025-10-21 00:47:09+00:00
I've built a Godot plugin that lets you publish and update your projects directly from the editor to TheGates. It gives you free hosting and native performance on Linux, Windows, and macOS — no setup or packaging needed.

it’s meant for indie devs who want to share builds quickly, gather feedback, or host small demos without exporting to multiple platforms or asking users to reinstall every time.
by levodelellis | 2025-10-21 00:47:35+00:00
I've been meaning to ask you what the motivation of your project is? Why would you want a safe-c? When I saw the headline I was worried that all my runtime code would break (or get slower) because I do some very unsafe things (I have a runtime that I compile with -nostdlib)

I'm also tempted to write a commercial C++ compiler, but it feels like a big ask, paying for a compiler sounds ridiculous even if it reduces your compile time by 50x
by estearum | 2025-10-21 00:47:36+00:00
Would you get upset if someone told you to go looking for something only to say afterwards “lol jk there was never anything to find!”

People generally have the expectation that there is a human to be understood (even if imprecisely or incorrectly) on the other side of a piece of art. Expectation violation (especially after some effort has been spent) is just about the most basic source of disappointment there is.

Can you say specifically what you think is “pseudoscientific” about the claim that there’s a chain of causality from artist’s mental state to viewer’s?

How exactly does a piece of art come into your awareness if not by some chain of causality preceding it?

You think there was just artist and viewer and no chain of physical events in which the former is affecting the latter’s consciousness? Talk about pseudoscientific mumbojumbo!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-21 00:47:40+00:00
> yet, automakers think that the smaller more affordable cars that do well overseas somehow have no audience in the US

Blame fleet efficiency standards [1] and the light-truck loophole [2].

[1] https://me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/news/cafe-standards-c...

[2] https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
by bokohut | 2025-10-21 00:48:28+00:00
Posted 12 days ago under "Swiss Glaciers have shrunk..." and more previous to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503882

" The mass of ice on the earth's poles has also led to the shape of the planet via tectonics over thousands of millennia. As that mass melts and redistributes from a solid to a liquid spreading around the globe our spheroid will begin to rebound. We have sensors everywhere, even in space, so the resulting effects will not be a surprise to some when the 'mass'ive shift begins. As those tectonic events increase in frequency so too will volcanic activity so I ask if anyone else has been checking on such data? "
by jval43 | 2025-10-21 00:48:46+00:00
The original MIT video from 2011: "Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second" https://youtu.be/EtsXgODHMWk (project site: https://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/)

He mentions this as the inspiration in his previous video (https://youtu.be/IaXdSGkh8Ww).
by shwaj | 2025-10-21 00:49:10+00:00
That doesn’t logically follow. It got this very straightforward thing correct; that doesn’t prove their response was cynical. It sounds like they know what they’re talking about.

A couple of times per month I give Gemini a try at work, and it is good at some things and bad at others. If there is a confusing compiler error, it will usually point me in the right direction faster than I could figure it out myself.

However, when it tries to debug a complex problem it jumps to conclusion after conclusion “a-ha now I DEFINTELY understand the problem”. Sometimes it has an OK idea (worth checking out, but not conclusive yet), and sometimes it has very bad ideas. Most times, after I humor it by gathering further info that debunks its hypotheses, it gives up.
by wyre | 2025-10-21 00:49:14+00:00
unfounded, are you sure?

They've made 8 billion this year with 800 million users, or $10 ARPU (average revenue per user). They have committed to spend a trillion dollars over the next 5 years. I'll call it $200 billion/year, with a (rounded-up) billion active users, they would need to make $200 ARPU . For comparison Meta has about $50 ARPU. I'm having a harder time finding Google's ARPU, but with $350 billion in revenue last year if they made $200 ARPU they would have less than 2 billion users (I can't find how many user's they actually have but I would bet money it's a lot more). They would have to be making 3-4x more money per user than two of the largest companies in the world for this bet to work out.

I don't see how this is going to work out for them.
by theSebBlack | 2025-10-21 00:50:24+00:00
Been moonlighting on this while working on other projects — but it’s time to make it a main one.

vistoya.com — think Dribbble for the fashion industry (if you’re a designer or brand), or Product Hunt for fashion (if you’re a shopper).

The core idea: fashion pros need a place to show their vision, not just list their products. Most platforms today are built for transactions, not creative discovery.

I started with a web app (not mobile-first) because it’s a platform for pros, and pros work on desktop. When solving the classic chicken-and-egg problem, it made sense to optimize conversion for the supply side first — the content creators.

Dribbble has over 16M users. If something similar takes off in fashion, the monetization potential is even more interesting — not just via pro accounts, but by layering a marketplace on top once the community is thriving.

The marketplace won’t look or feel like traditional e-commerce. Here, you’re not shopping — you’re discovering brands through their creative output, storytelling, and visual identity. It’s shopping without realizing you’re shopping.

I’m planning to test multiple TikTok organic growth agencies to drive early traffic and build the initial network effects.

If this resonates with you — fashion, creator economy, community-driven discovery — would love to chat.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-21 00:51:05+00:00
TBF

- they made and are still making the headlines for how many months ?

Any press is not always good press, but in this case it's not like their users were going to flock to android anyway. So same deal as the orange iPhone: they kept a pretty big place in the news cycle.

- not doing any changes to the OS appareance for more decades would make it exponentially harder the more it goes on.

Doing a shit job at it is still fine in that respect, they get leeway to fix it, and people will still praise Apple for having seen the light at the end.

As a parallel we had the port situation and the keyboard on MacBooks. They did a shit job and reversed it, and during that time sales didn't specially tank. They could afford to do two or three cycles of "here we fixed it", to scrap it all at the end, and people still love their MacBooks the same.
by jacurtis | 2025-10-21 00:51:11+00:00
Yes Sora hallucinates significantly more than Claude.

I find that Codex generally requires me to remove code to get to what I want, whereas Claude I tend to use what it gives me and I add to it. Whether this is from additional prompting or from manual typing, i just find that codex requires removal to get to desired state, and Claude requires adding to get to desired state. I prefer adding incrementally than removing.
by jkmcf | 2025-10-21 00:51:33+00:00
Contrary to what others say, I don't think MacOS is that bad. In general, it's perfectly stable. There has been an increase in situational paper cuts -- I haven't experienced any I recall, but one cannot discount that others encounter weird problems. In the end it's significantly more stable than Windows and completely free of crapware.

Personally, the new look is annoying at worst, but it doesn't affect my day to day at all.

The biggest Apple problem is the same as its been for a decade: languishing Apple app development.
by smileysteve | 2025-10-21 00:51:47+00:00
A car that averages 15k miles/year, has a maintenance record, and appears in good condition tends to be less likely to be a lemon than most brand new cars.

For an anecdote, consider that Jeep just bricked thousands of new cars, including on interstates 2 weeks ago.

That GM recalled most 6.2l engines made in the last 5 years; ... Toyota engine castings, bmw chain tensioners, Ford Ecoboost coolant passages, Porsche bearings... Most of these problems became apparent before a long term first owner sold (yes, you should do research)

A pre purchase inspection, and all around maintenance (brake, coolant, oil, transmission oil, and differential oil) will get you a long way; a $2k suspension refresh will take you even further.
by gpm | 2025-10-21 00:51:58+00:00
Nah, it's definitely 2B fps, the frames are just 1x1 wide and a lot of the interesting output comes from the careful synchronization, camera pointing, and compositing of nearly a million 1x1 videos of effectively identical events.

And there are 1 million milliseconds every ~15 minutes. It doesn't take that long to capture all the angles you need so long as you have an automated setup for recreating the scene you are videoing.
by didibus | 2025-10-21 00:52:01+00:00
Same, I find Codex not good to be honest. I have better success manually copy/pasting into GPT5 chat. There's something about Codex that just wants to change everything and use the weirdest tool commands.

It also often fails to escalate a command, it'll even be like, oh well I'm in a sandbox so I guess I can't do this, and will just not do it and try to find a workaround instead of escalating permission to do the command.
by Callicles | 2025-10-21 00:53:28+00:00
Hey,

We went from the get go to that infrastructure for multiple reasons in the first place:

* Having a durable buffer before ensures if you have big spikes that gets eaten by the buffer, not OLAP which when it is powering your online dashboard you want to keep responsive. Clickhouse cloud now has compute/compute that addresses that but open source users' don't.

* When we shipped this for the first time, clickhouse did not have the async buffering in place, so not doing some kind of buffered inserts was forwned upon. * As oatsandsugar mentioned, since them we also shipped direct insert where you don't need a kafka buffer if you don't want it

* From an architecture standpoint, with that architecture you can have multiple consumers

* Finally, having kafka enables having streaming function written in your favorite language vs using SQL. Definitely will be less performance to task ratio, but depending on the task might be faster to setup or even you can do things you couldn't directly in the database.

Disclaimer I am the CTO at Fiveonefour
by sporkland | 2025-10-21 00:54:05+00:00
Garbage reporting: 1. AWS had an outage 2. AWS has lost a lot of employees

Conclusion: The brain drain lead to the outage...

I need an LLM trained explicitly on folks confusing correlation and causation and put a big old red dot in my address bar.

I love that there's a whole section "The talent drain evidence" trying to defend their journalistic integrity, but they then go on to totally face plant.
by ghaff | 2025-10-21 00:54:42+00:00
I'd note that a huge amount of the work at those companies was hardware (and a lot of theory in the case of Bell Labs)--though there was, of course important software as well, a lot of it related to Unix.

Doesn't mean it might not have been a blast but not hacking on software and playing in the open source world as is the case at at least some companies today.
by inopinatus | 2025-10-21 00:54:48+00:00
The actual experts I was paying attention to said that wearing a K/N-94/95 type mask lowers the statistical rate of transmission, that is, infection of others by your deadly virus.

The subsequent findings are that cloth-type masks are less effective (but not wholly ineffective) compared to clinical/surgical masks at limiting the aerosolized viral shedding from those already infected. So if a cloth mask was all you had, the advice became "please wear it".

Turns out, many people assume advice is only relevant when given for their own direct & immediate personal benefit, so they hear what they want to hear, and even the idea of giving a shit about externalities is sheer anathema. That gets boiled down further for idiot-grade TV and bad-faith social media troll engagement and we wind up with reductive and snarky soundbites, like the remark above, that help nobody at all.

Back on topic, the choice of so-called "experts" in the Guardian's coverage of the AWS matter seems to be a classic matchup of journalistic expediency with self-promoting interests to pad an article that otherwise has little to say beyond paraphrasing Amazon's operational updates.
by culi | 2025-10-21 00:55:26+00:00
> The boilerplate with NextJS is cleanest (compared to all the other frameworks) and API is the most straightforward one, and you can safely ignore the vendor lock in. Its just a pretext to hate on NextJS. They all have some kind of a "vendor" lock in. Be it a vendor-or-a-specific-approach-or-whatever-lock-in.

The vendor lock-in on NextJS is certainly much more egregious than other frameworks. They have their own undocumented build flag to give different build outputs that Vercel uses vs the build outputs that are documented. Hosting nextjs on your infrastructure is not as simple as sticking it into a docker file as with most frameworks

And I would also push back on the idea that every framework has vendor lock in. Remix was so focused on "using the platform" that it basically willed itself out of existence. It's no longer even a framework. Just part of the react-router library. I've also used Astro which is a framework of similar complexity and feature richness as Nextjs and certainly has no "lock in". At least as far as
by jonhohle | 2025-10-21 00:55:48+00:00
I would gladly take the indulgences of the 10.2 era where clickable things looked like clickable things instead of hobs and gobs of indistinguishable text.

What’s misunderstood about aqua was how most of the visual flair was for usability. Things looked like what they did. Windows XP famously ripped off how MS thought they looked without considering how they worked.
by laughing_man | 2025-10-21 00:56:45+00:00
Long ago I had a girlfriend who was still paying on a Ford Bronco which had broken down. The repair was going to cost $300, which she didn't have.

She was able to trade that car in for a brand new one without spending any money. It was literally cheaper (in the short term, of course) to buy a new car than to fix the old one.

It was one of the reasons we broke up -- she was the type of person who counted the amount she could borrow as an asset.

Banks keep lending money for stuff like that because they can repossess your car if you stop paying.
by dangus | 2025-10-21 00:57:09+00:00
I have done a round one interview and I don’t see how it can be interpreted to do anything but turn away people with a brain.

Memorize Amazon’s insane company values and relate your resume experience to it. And that I mean every single bullet point.

Interviewers were all run by robotic people. Coding test had zero flexibility, you had to just write code in a special barebones text editor that had zero feedback besides pass/fail.

You’d have to solely care about Amazon RSUs to consider that job. They are self-selecting for the worst kinds of candidates.

The dumb thing is that it should be a job that doesn’t burn people out because they basically own the market and haven’t needed to do any sort of innovation. Amazon’s corporate culture just has a burnout fetish.
Anyone here work on Amazon Kindle iOS app?
by stmw | 2025-10-21 00:58:18+00:00
The Kindle iPhone app has changed greatly, going from what felt like a quiet, efficient clone of the physical Kindle to a something bigger and less pleasant. After many years of happiness, to this user it now feels like an unstable, many-click portal to the larger platform. For example, instad of resuming where you were reading, it always goes back to "for you" page, with "your library" as an afterthought in the background. It literally takes 3 clicks to get back to the book you were reading, with various zoomed-in promotions. It uses lots of resources and often locks up.

The question is: if you were an engineer who worked on this, are there some good reasons why it is this way? Am I missing something in Settings to get it back to be like it was? What happened to Kindle iOS app?

[While I originally started writign this earlier, John Carmack asked something similar recently on X].
by kaladin-jasnah | 2025-10-21 00:58:32+00:00
Well I still think that software like DTrace, ZFS, NFS, IRIX and Solaris, IrisGL, and the like are cool, even if there was a lot of hardware engineering. I realize that there are disadvantages to it, but the variances in ISAs (MIPS, SPARC, Alpha, etc) seems like it could have posed challenges for software people.

I don't know; I'm not young enough to remember.
by kragen | 2025-10-21 01:01:09+00:00
Maybe, but stainless may not be the best material for that, because the oxide layer formed is largely chromia, and chromia is a motherfucker, which is why stainless doesn't rust. Etching chromium off the chromia sounds practically difficult but probably feasible; etching chromia while leaving metals sounds hard. Maybe molten sodium hydroxide?

Instead, you could choose a different metal whose oxides are easy to etch. Magnesium is probably the extreme case here, with an oxide that instantly vanishes in the weakest of acids, but if someone gave me a US$7000 fiber laser, I would try to keep the laser beam away from thin pieces of magnesium. But mild steel, for example, forms oxides that etch pretty easily with acids. I think copper oxides also etch easily with either acids or bases, too, and the copper itself is more resistant to etching.

Really, though, if you're molding silicone or chocolate, you don't need the high strength, flexibility, conductivity, etc., of metals. Maybe etch your grating into a material chosen for other properties. Glass, for example, is perfectly isotropic and has no grain structure to introduce into your cuts, and it has a low TCE. It sticks to silicone, but not to chocolate. Fused quartz is a glass with a near-zero TCE. I assume but don't know that the MOPA laser can ablate the glass surface.

Other amorphous solids might be more amenable to easy laser shaping and not stick to silicone. Sugar glass, for example.
by sans_souse | 2025-10-21 01:01:44+00:00
I have 4 Android devices I still use regularly, 2 OP7 Pro's, a Samsung S20 5G and a Pixel 7. That's 3 different OS's and all using most recent updated play store versions of gBoard. I've noticed in the past month or so, all my devices seem less precise when typing, and I know it's not just me.

Just my observations from the Android side of things.
by lazerwalker | 2025-10-21 01:02:18+00:00
I have criticisms of both tools like Claude Code and how applicable the 'pair programming' metaphor is here, but strong disagree that the person driving during pairing is the one who learns the most (or perhaps the implied "and the non-driver doesn't learn enough"). A good dynamic pairing session is equally valuable for both participants, even if there's a skill gap, and even if you're not alternating drivers as often as you should.
by alon_honig | 2025-10-21 01:02:23+00:00
The problem with recovery rates is that they different by orders of magnitude across different borrowers and credit products (for example car loans are around 70%, industrials are a bit loweer at 40%-50%, and high yield credit cards are single digits) so if you have a random sample of credit products in a portfolio it will approximate 40%. What generally happens is that the bank will sell it off to a specialist distressed investor long before the bankruptcy event so 40% is both wrong and not a horrible number to go by.
by nico | 2025-10-21 01:03:16+00:00
I just built a logistic regression classifier for emails and agree

Just using embeddings you can get really good classifiers for very cheap

You can use small embeddings models too, and can engineer different features to be embedded as well

Additionally, with email at least, depending on the categories you need, you only need about 50-100 examples for 95-100% accuracy

And if you build a simple CLI tool to fetch/label emails, it’s pretty easy/fast to get the data
by kbolino | 2025-10-21 01:03:24+00:00
The type is named atomic, but atomicity is not its only useful property. The atomic types also give control over the memory ordering, defaulting to sequentially consistent (seq_cst, the strongest).

Without memory order guarantees enforced by memory barriers, a write to the boolean in thread A is not guaranteed to be observed by thread B. That matters both after initialization--where thread A sets the boolean to false but thread B may observe true, false, or invalid--and also after the transition--where thread B may fail to observe that the boolean has flipped from false to true.

[edit: I'm not sure the above reasoning actually matters; as stated already by parent, "It's a CPU, not an FPGA"; modern multicore shared-memory CPUs have coherent caches]
by r_lee | 2025-10-21 01:03:32+00:00
I'd say the problem with house prices is that unlike with other assets, a regular person can go absolutely insane with the leverage on Real Estate because it can be used as collateral that is expected to hold value, thus interest is low and you can only put in a small down payment

so mix in the "house prices always go up" and you've got a whole nation (world?) who are using housing as the ultimate get rich quick scheme

all while leveraged quite a lot because hey, the prices will never go down so why not, it's a profit multiplier!

And you pay the rent via the tenants who will always be out there to rent any property no matter what.. it's not like the economy will somehow suffer and people will be unable to pay that ever increasing rent right?
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-10-21 01:05:20+00:00
"the customer only really cares about the monthly payment,"

I noticed this when I bought my Subaru. There was a young couple next to me that worked hard with the sales guy to get an acceptable monthly payment for their desired car. No thought about actual price or duration of the loan. I wanted to scream at them that they were making a big mistake.
by monster_truck | 2025-10-21 01:05:30+00:00
Shouldn't they have seen this coming when insurance premiums, rent, etc started shooting up? It's not just healthcare either.

Used to be that you could winter paid off 'fun' cars at nice (live security, climate controlled, fire suppression, low risk zip code) storage units for the steep discount on the auto insurance.

Where I'm at, the cost of units like this are up by >20%. The introductory rates at new places are minor and only good for 1-3 months. The insurance discount (which was previously as much as -35%) is gone because of the risk from increased tenant churn at the storage places, and the insurance is up almost another 20% anyways.