MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kbolino | 2025-10-11 19:57:23+00:00
I don't know what these words mean to you vs. what they mean to me. But whatever you call the visual quality that Baldur's Gate 3, CyberPunk 2077, and most flagship AAA titles, etc. are chasing after that makes them have "better graphics" and be "more immersive", whatever that is, is not the only way to paint the medium.

Very successful games are still being made that use sprites, low-res polygons, cel shading, etc. While these techniques still can run into hardware limits, they generally don't benefit from the sort of improvements (and that word is becoming ever more debatable with things like AI frame generation) that make for better looking [whatever that quality is called] games.
by mft_ | 2025-10-11 19:57:44+00:00
Nice project, but It's interesting how differently one's formative experiences makes this subject seem.

As someone who grew up in a household in a small village, brought up by parents whose music collection was 99% classical music and who actively fought the influence of modern/US-centric culture, and with limited personal money (a typical album would have been ~1.5 month's pocket money) the current world of Youtube, Spotify, et al is a utopia.

I wish I'd had the problem of infinitely available music. :)
by opo | 2025-10-11 19:57:49+00:00
>...It's not a subsidy to be allowed to sell a thing you produce at market price.

The market price is not the retail price. Does a grocery store buys produce from a supplier at the price they sell it to the consumer? Of course not. The wholesale price for power in CA is variable but generally around 4 cents a kilowatt wile the retail price that customers pay is generally 30 cents and above. If the market price for power is 4 cents, and a supplier can effectively sell their power for 30 cents, they are not selling it at the market price. If consumer solar producers were treated as every other supplier of electricity and were paid at the same rates, then there would be no subsidy.

>...If someone is increasing your power bill and blaming it on some one else's solar panels, I'd say you are being scammed

No, that is the reality of how net metering works. That $115 to $245 cost estimate paid by every other household in CA was from the CA PUC. They have made some changes to this going forward, but the current beneficiaries are still grandfathered in.

>...But this is a choice that doesn't exist. We are not talking about a bunch of money that has been collected and is being spent on people's rooftop solar instead of being spent on utility solar.

This was a choice that was made by politicians and this is money that is being spent every day. The CA legislature and PUC could have said that household rates will increase by $115 a year and the money will be used to build out grid solar and storage - if that had been done there would be MUCH more solar power and grid storage being produced. You just need to look at the LCOE for utility and consumer rooftop solar to see the cost differences. The LCOE difference grid batteries vs home batteries is also dramatic.

>There is no money except the homeowner's money that is being spent here, and they can only choose to get rooftop solar. ... It transfers no money from anyone but from the homeowners to makers of solar panels.

If every household's electricity rates go up by $115 a year, then every household is spending an additional $115. If someone is paying an extra $115 a year, it doesn't make sense to tell them they are not paying extra.
by system2 | 2025-10-11 19:58:24+00:00
I’m surprised they don’t have their own Synology C2–type backup service. Instead, they list AWS S3, Backblaze B2, and Wasabi as back-end integrations.

We use Synology with VMware ESXi backups, and it’s a lifesaver. Unless they add VM support, I wouldn’t consider UI. I also wonder what their backup-restore timeline/search looks like.

EDIT: You know what grinds my gears on HN? Getting downvoted for a basic observation and never knowing what I said that sounded wrong to others.
by jebarker | 2025-10-11 19:58:45+00:00
It was this one: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/dev-tool-time-mitchell-hashimot...

They even used the quote as the title of the accompanying blog post.

As I say, I didn’t mean this as a gotcha or anything- I totally agree with the change and I have done similarly. I’ve always disabled autocomplete, tool tips, suggestions etc but now I am actively using Cursor daily.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-11 19:59:08+00:00
Big tech all moving hard right is interesting, and it smells desperate, and I suspect it is.

Everyone is running out of new ideas, there’s an AI bubble that is about to pop. And everyone hates big tech, I don’t know that there’s a world where the next Democrat president moves back to them, and I suspect they’re right not to. That the kind of support big tech needs right now doesn’t align with Democrat values.

So, in an attempt to “conserve” their wealth and position they move to the right. The question becomes. Is that sustainable either. Trump is perceived as the head honcho in that big tech is groveling too, but I doubt anyone else will be seen that way. “JD Vance, the big tech president” doesn’t sound like a great sales pitch, nor a way to keep MAGA happy. And I doubt other elements of the right have truly lost their skepticism of big tech.

If the AI bubble pops and it takes the rest of the economy down with it, big tech probably doesn’t come out of that looking great. Criminal investigations not great? We shall see.
by vincent-manis | 2025-10-11 19:59:50+00:00
No, MUMPS (or M) is a remote descendant of JOSS, an interactive language of the 1950s. JOSS has all sorts of variants (DEC's FOCAL language of the 1960s was a dialect), but I think MUMPS is the only living one. MUMPS code is mostly unreadable, as the commands can be, and often are, abbreviated to the first letter. As a result, it looks a lot like line noise.

Regardless of its many warts, Cobol cannot be accused of being unreadable. Verbose, yes.
by wtallis | 2025-10-11 20:00:15+00:00
Their storage architecture was novel in that they made different tradeoffs than off the shelf SSDs for consumer PCs, but there's absolutely no innovation aspect to copy and pasting four more NAND PHYs that are each individually running at outdated speeds for the time. Sony simply made a short-term decision to build a slightly more expensive SSD controller to enable significant cost savings on the NAND flash itself. That stopped mattering within a year of the PS5 launching, because off the shelf 8-channel drives with higher speeds were no longer in short supply.

"Five years later, laptops are just catching up" is a flat out lie.

"at the same price point, it's faster than what you'd expect from a PC" sounds impressive until you remember that the entire business model of Sony and Microsoft consoles is to sell the console at or below cost and make the real money on games, subscription services, and accessories.

The only interesting or at all innovative part of this story is the hardware decompression stuff (that's in the SoC rather than the SSD controller), but you're overselling it. Microsoft did pretty much the same thing with their console and a different compression codec. (Also, the fact that Kraken is a very good compression method for running on CPUs absolutely does not imply that it's the best choice for implementing in silicon. Sony's decision to implement it in hardware was likely mainly due to the fact that lots of PS4 games used it.) Your own source says that space savings for PS5 games were more due to the deduplication enabled by not having seek latency to worry about, than due to the Kraken compression.
by wtfwhateven | 2025-10-11 20:00:39+00:00
1) 121 mentions of trump in 600+ comments does not mean more than 90% of the comments are trump. You know this of course, you are just lying. Why else would you mention a count of trump mentions as if your original assertion wasn't a percentage?

2) 90%+ of the comments here were never about trump. Not when you posted and not when I posted. You are lying. Even with the "even more trump comments" it is still nowhere near 90%. The sentiment is not "overwhelmingly partisan." Again, you know this, you are just lying.

3) Asserting that trump has nothing to do with the topic at hand is completely absurd, egregiously dishonest and ridiculous. You know exactly why people are bringing him up. Even Machado mentioned him when accepting the prize. The assertion is even more dishonest than you saying more than 90% of the comments here mention trump (an objectively false and easily refutable lie)
by toast0 | 2025-10-11 20:01:25+00:00
If you want 100TB, you need a bigger NAS than most, and that makes most of the DIY NAS not so good. 2-4 drives seems to be where DIY shines. These days motherboards often stop at 4x sata, so you'll need a HBA or USB (eww).

Personally, I just don't have that much data, 24TB mirrored for important data is probably enough, and I have my old mirror set avaialable for media like recorded tv and maybe dvds and blu-rays if I can figure out a way to play them that I like better than just putting the discs in the machine.
by gus_massa | 2025-10-11 20:02:16+00:00
Too late to edit. I forgot a 3 in

x4-3*x3+x2-x1 --> x4-3*x3+3*x2-x1

Good luck with the project.

PS: Usually tweaking the parameters to select the opponents/ghost and make the game fun (that is what is important) is hard. (More cars? Less cars? Use the last time of the player? Use the average time of the player?) So after you solve the problem, a post-mortem may be an interesting blog post to summit here.

PS2: another typo in my first comment: defectively -> effectively
by themafia | 2025-10-11 20:02:22+00:00
"You can only turn off this setting 3 times a year."

Astonishing. They clearly feel their users have no choice but to accept this onerous and ridiculous requirement. As if users wouldn't understand that they'd have to go way out of their way to write the code which enforces this outcome. All for a feature which provides me dubious benefit. I know who the people in my photographs are. Why is Microsoft so eager to also be able to know this?

Privacy legislation is clearly lacking. This type of action should bring the hammer down swiftly and soundly upon these gross and inappropriate corporate decision makers. Microsoft has needed that hammer blow for quite some time now. This should make that obvious. I guess I'll hold my breath while I see how Congress responds.
by cubefox | 2025-10-11 20:02:44+00:00
Combining both ray tracing (including path tracing, which is a form of ray tracing) and rasterization is the most effective approach. The way it is currently done is that primary visibility is calculated using triangle rasterization, which produces perfectly sharp and noise free textures, and then the ray traced lighting (slightly blurry due to low sample count and denoising) is layered on top.

> However, full-scene ray tracing has essentially a fixed cost: the hardware needed depends primarily on the resolution and framerate, not the complexity of the scene.

That's also true for modern rasterization with virtual geometry. Virtual geometry keeps the number of rendered triangles roughly proportional to the screen resolution, not to the scene complexity. Moreover, virtual textures also keep the amount of texture detail in memory roughly proportional to the screen resolution.

The real advantage of modern ray tracing (ReSTIR path tracing) is that it is independent of the number of light sources in the scene.
by childintime | 2025-10-11 20:02:52+00:00
Firefox on Android could maybe be the best, and I use it exclusively, but it's certainly not without its flaws:

- the confusing home screen comes up all the time after i leave the browser, while i just want to get back to the last tab

- try closing all private tabs, it then goes on to show the now empty list of private tabs, wtf? The point of closing the tabs was to get back to the regular tabs.

- for all i care a private tab can just be listed next to a normal tab, the grouping in private tabs serves no purpose, except for surfacing implementation details

- filtering bookmarks on tags doesn't work in any version AFAIK

- but it's the only way to listen to youtube, with ublock origin and Youtube audio_only
by amluto | 2025-10-11 20:03:29+00:00
I know nothing about this particular product, but I would not buy anything from UniFi where you will be sad if it becomes essentially useless for any remotely nontrivial use case.

In recent days, I've encountered at least the following issues:

- Removing a fixed DHCP address from a device that is no present requires switching to the old UI.

- Gateway network traffic by client is flat-out broken.

- My particular combination of hardware does not support UniFi's speedtest. Dunno why. They don't care.

- Doing almost anything temporarily disruptive to the network resuts in long-lasting disruption as the controller re-adopts everything.

- Per-port switch settings are janky. They often result in the settings page and the actual applied settings not being in sync. And sometimes the port I want to configure is missing. (Seriously, the ports will be in numeric order except one is skipped. So maybe I have port 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Traffic is passing on port 4 just fine, but there is no port 4 as far as the UI is concerned.

- Network ACLs are a serious mess and often simply don't work, although I admit it's been a little while since I've re-tested this issue. (The ones above are all things I've encountered very recently.)

I'm sure I'm forgetting something. UniFi is... sort of featureful but not actually impressive.
by jonas21 | 2025-10-11 20:03:32+00:00
I don't really see the issue. If you don't want the face recognition feature, then you'll turn it off once, and that's that. Maybe if you're unsure, you might turn it off, and then back on, and then back off again. But what's the use case where you'd want to do this more than 3x per year?

Presumably, it's somewhat expensive to run face recognition on all of your photos. When you turn it off, they have to throw away the index (they'd better be doing this for privacy reasons), and then rebuild it from scratch when you turn the feature on again.
by godelski | 2025-10-11 20:03:33+00:00
> I’m trying to understand how removing an entire sheet of gypsum

This is a fixed task. Required if you install the conduit or not. You have to cut the wall to make the port. If you have the port you can just use a slightly longer conduit, brace it where you can reach, and oh no you need an extra 2" of cable?

> Raceways are unnecessary in stick built houses

Your mental model is too naïve. Have you done this before? Have you then replaced it or added additional lines?

The conduit makes all that easier, and provides the additional protection that I discussed. By having a conduit you're far less likely to get snagged on something while fishing the lines. You can stop hard corners that strip your cables while pulling on them. It's also a million times easier to see while you're chasing those cables. Sure, your house is a framing with wood but you still have insulation and who likes icy hands?

Really, think about it. What is the cost now compared to the future?

Is an additional 10 or let's even say a crazy 50% additional work now really that costly when you have to do the whole thing again in the future? And multiple times? It's a no brainier lol. Definition of chasing pennies with pounds. Just be nice to your future self. Be lazy long term, not lazy short term because lazy short term requires more work
by dbg31415 | 2025-10-11 20:04:01+00:00
I don’t understand why we need age verification in Discord. Why should people who play games have to prove they’re old enough to talk to others? It’s not like anyone ever forced anybody else to join your Discord community, it’s all opt in!

If parents don’t want their kids playing certain games, or if a community is more adult in nature, then don’t buy those games for them. If they don’t want their kids exposed to bad influences, they can move the computer into a shared space or—better yet—just engage with their kids on a human level. That’s called parenting.

Politicians shouldn’t be meddling in this kind of personal interaction. It didn’t work when Nancy Reagan or Tipper Gore tried to police music, and it’s not working now. Modern authoritarians are just running the same tired playbook.

Age verification doesn’t make kids safer. It adds bureaucracy, harvests private data, and pretends to solve a problem that only families can actually fix. The result is more surveillance, less trust, and the illusion of protection.
by mitchellh | 2025-10-11 20:04:59+00:00
Yeah understood, I'm not taking it negatively, I just genuinely wanted to understand where it came from.

Yeah this is from 2021 (!!!) and is directly related to LSPs. ChatGPT didn't even get launched until Nov 2022. So I think the quote doesn't really work in the context of today, it's literally from an era where I was looking at faster horses when cars were right around the corner and I had not a damn clue. Hah.

Off topic: I still dislike [most] LSPs and don't use them.
by ziml77 | 2025-10-11 20:05:35+00:00
Can confirm on the gigabit because I've got my gigabit internet running over old phone line right now. I'm not sure exactly how long the run is, but it goes to this floor's electrical room where the ONT is housed into a closet in my apartment where it's then spliced into CAT-5 to reach the router. I really didn't expect it to work but speed tests report that I'm getting 900+ Mbps.
by drewg123 | 2025-10-11 20:06:10+00:00
One of the things that makes our wifi suck are HP (and other) printers using wifi direct. Looking at a wifi scan, I can see new fewer than 5 of my neighbors printers screaming to the top of their lungs.

The only thing that makes wifi in a large condo building viable is the 6Ghz channels available on wifi 6e
by stillsut | 2025-10-11 20:06:52+00:00
I've actually written my own a homebrew framework like this which is a.) cli-coder agnostic and b.) leans heavily on git worktrees [0].

The secret weapon to this approach is asking for 2-4 solutions to your prompt running in parallel. This helps avoid the most time consuming aspect of ai-coding: reviewing a large commit, and ultimately finding the approach to the ai took is hopeless or requires major revision.

By generating multiple solutions, you can cutdown investing fully into the first solution and use clever ways to select from all the 2-4 candidate solutions and usually apply a small tweak at the end. Anyone else doing something like this?

[0]: https://github.com/sutt/agro
by loverofhumanz | 2025-10-11 20:07:03+00:00
Some of the responses to me were rude and I calibrated my responses to them appropriately. You stated I was "missing the point" which is more rude than me sincerely asking you to explain your rationale.

Your claims made very little sense. In my view, this potential new technology in no way increases the power of security personnel beyond what they already posses.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-11 20:07:52+00:00
The largest school massacre in US history[0] happened in the 1920s. It was accomplished with high explosives. There were several school bombings in the 1950s too but few shootings. For whatever reason, school shootings displaced school bombings in recent decades. It has been a long time since there has been a major school bombing.

Bombings were the popular mode of creating mass casualties 50+ years ago even though actual machine-guns were widely available back then and almost completely unavailable for the last several decades.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
How to Control Virtual Dub Job Control?
by nilslindemann | 2025-10-11 20:08:50+00:00
On what do I need to click in the Virtual Dub Job control window, in order to temporarily make it stop running the jobs? Button "Postphone", Button "Stop" or Button "Abort"? I already unselected "Autostart", but this seems to have no effect. And what do the other buttons do (Background, I am afraid to lose data)
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-11 20:10:43+00:00
I don't play video games much, so maybe it's law of small numbers, but recently putting Linux on my spare PC, I didn't get how people say it's fine for games now. Proton didn't work right for my one Steam game BeamNG, and Gamecube controllers had unfixable input lag for Dolphin (Slippi). Nvidia GPU + Intel integrated spelled trouble for Xorg to the point where I had to change to Ubuntu just to have Wayland, and that worked.

On top of the game stuff, this PC is under my TV, so I kinda wanted a way to remote in. VNC is surprisingly jank, and Chrome Remote Desktop somehow never worked. So combined with 0/2 of my games working, I just gave up and went back to Win10.
by dkarl | 2025-10-11 20:12:15+00:00
Definitely underrates the impact of annotations. I'm personally not a fan of the way annotations are used to implicitly wire together applications, but I have to admit the impact. Maybe 5/10 is fair in light of the wide range of positive and extremely negative ways annotations can be used.

So many of these features were adopted after they were proven in other languages. You would expect that since Java took such a slow and conservative approach, it would end up with extremely polished and elegant designs, but things like streams ended up inferior to previous developments instead of being the culmination. Really disappointing. Java is now a Frankenstein's monster with exactly as much beauty and charm.
by watwut | 2025-10-11 20:12:31+00:00
Kirk on the attack against Pelosi husband: “Why has he not been bailed out? [] By the way, if some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out,..." That was about attacker by the way. Like common, the start if Kirks career was making a list of "leftists professors" and promoting their harassment. Kirk literally intentionally created and promoted toxic culture we have now. That is who he was.

Yeah, he would defend right winger or bigot. He would attack anyone not right wing. The rights of people who were not white conservatives did not concerned kirk. He was literally against civil rights, openly. Blacks are all stupid and trans are all groomers. They all should be fired.

I have no idea about what happened between that "left leaning professor" and student. But there is about zero reason to believe what right wing activist like Kirk says about the issue. As far as he was concerned, left need not exist and need to be punished for existing.
by maccard | 2025-10-11 20:14:05+00:00
I agree with you but;

> I don’t understand why we need age verification in Discord. Why should people who play games have to prove they’re old enough to talk to others? It’s not like anyone ever forced anybody else to join your Discord community, it’s all opt in!

Discord doesn't require age verirication for voice chat, it requires it for access to "sensitive media", or when yuo try to access a channel that has self opted in as age restricted [0].

[0] https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/30326565624343...
by toast0 | 2025-10-11 20:14:42+00:00
A lot of the GPUs have fixed function hardware to accelerate parts of encode/decode. If the new codec is compatible, sure.

But often a new codec requires decoders to know how to work with new things that the fixed function hardware likely can't do.

Encoding might actually be different. If your encoder hardware can only do fixed block sizes, and can only detect some types of motion, a driver change might be able to package it up as the new codec. Probably not a lot of benefit, other than ticking a box... but might be useful sometimes. Especially if you say offload motion detection, but the new codec needs different arithmetic encoding, you'd need to use cpu (or general purpose gpu) to do the arithmetic encoding and presumably get a size saving over the old codec.