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Artifact (YC W25) is hiring engineers in NYC to build modern ECAD
by antonysamuel | 2025-10-27 12:00:30+00:00
Artifact is a CAD tool to collaboratively design electrical systems for complex hardware projects.

People are using Artifact to design their supersonic jets, reusable satellites, marine robots, and autonomous drones.

We're looking for full-stack software engineers to join us at our office in Manhattan - to help design and build how hardware teams do their electrical systems engineering.

Learn more here: https://www.artifact.engineer/

If you're interested, shoot me an email with your resume:

- Antony antony@artifact.engineer
by fithisux | 2025-10-27 12:01:40+00:00
ReactOS needs donations NetBSD is running a new round of donations F-Droid needs donations

There are more

AROS, GNU-HURD and more

you can always contribute code, maintain an app, report a bug

You can buy HW to run AOSP, like Raspberry-PI or RISC-V

We are the consumers, we have the wallet.
Show HN: Frustrated by GPU costs, so I built my own cloud
by hellodryft | 2025-10-27 12:03:32+00:00
Hey HN,

It was back in April 2023 when I was trying to build a voice agent with the Orpheus/Sesame CSM models it was my first time building something in AI and I absolutely hated the friction the platforms had to offer, mental prices, vast.ai instances not even connecting half of the time, and nothing in the platforms that said "you're welcome here"

Out of frustration, I spoke to some providers, sorted out a fine list, and built Runcrate. We made the onboarding, UX, and overall experience as frictionless as possible. The billing is just like you'd pay OpenAI or Anthropic, no contracts, no reservations, no quotas, no more contacting support "Hey I need more GPUs pls" and then get rejected. Whatever is in the stock, its available for everyone. Oh and yeah, there's also a cool button that comes with all instances that spins up a vscode on the browser for you with a custom jupyter notebook extension installed.

Frictionless, that's all I wanted in this space.

I hope it'll genuinely help people looking to get started with AI & startups looking to cut their bills down. Would love your feedback pls

Jish
by fireflash38 | 2025-10-27 12:03:54+00:00
I'd argue the biggest issue with concretely defining intelligence is that any attempts end up falling in two buckets:

1. "Too" Broad, which raises uncomfortable questions about non-human intelligence and how we as humans treat them (see: whales, elephants, octopuses/cephalopods)

2. Too narrow, which again raises very uncomfortable issues about who and who does not qualify as human, and what we do with them.

Put in other words, it's more an issue of ethics and morals than it is definitional.
by wtmt | 2025-10-27 12:05:08+00:00
Even in India, a large country where Apple has a growing manufacturing presence, Apple Maps is totally neglected. It cannot find many places in major cities. It just does not have any transit directions in major cities. It’s at least 10 years behind Google Maps (which updates very quickly to changes, even though it’s not perfect). Apple just does not care much about countries other than the US and a few others when it comes to maps.
by mynti | 2025-10-27 12:05:54+00:00
If you put it against the value created from these hours, the graph almost flips entirely: https://figure.nz/chart/mMmSnWWbULiK4SvY-17BBScq4PaYeiUnz

Also: in some countries, like Germany, there is a lot of part time work for mothers, which does impact this statistic quite a bit
by sumtechguy | 2025-10-27 12:06:51+00:00
oh absolutely reducing any of those spots can change the dynamics of the formula. 'zero copy memory' is another local item many drivers can use. It is just one of those things that also change as tech marches on. What used to be the gold standard on speed is suddenly rendered moot because one of those variables changes. Or suddenly something new will become possible. It is kinda cool but you need to keep an eye on it.
by mrweasel | 2025-10-27 12:07:09+00:00
> They’ve never turned a profit

Now that OpenAI is starting to talk about ads and allowing "erotic" content, I feel more comfortable in my prediction that not only have OpenAI never turned a profit, they never will. They will be consumed by Microsoft or crash the market so hard it's not even funny. The technology will survive, and it will be useful, but OpenAI as a company is done.
by itsnowandnever | 2025-10-27 12:07:27+00:00
I think people don't understand what this means either. the nation-state "agencies" that can and will get into your network/devices can do so because they would employ tactics like kidnapping and blackmailing a local telco field technician. or if it's your own government, they can show up with some police and tell them to do whatever and most will comply without even receiving a proper court order.

so unless you're worth all that trouble, you're really just trying to avoid being "low hanging fruit" compromised by some batch script probing known (and usually very old) vulnerabilities
by yetihehe | 2025-10-27 12:07:53+00:00
> how I feel does affect what I decide to do (or not do) next.

Not being affected by your feeling is a skill, that you can train. First you need to start noticing when you are in a state that affects your decisions poorly. This requires some free time thinking and reflecting on how you behaved in such situation after the dust settles. Then you can start trying to calm yourself in such situations. You need to override your impulses and that needs to be trained, you may not succeed first several times, but please keep trying.
by janderson215 | 2025-10-27 12:08:07+00:00
I’m an American living in the US. Worked at a startup acquired by a very large enterprise and I very much appreciate your attitude over the parent’s comments. I find it incredibly demoralizing that so many people feel the way they do and appreciate those who work for more than a paycheck. I quit my job (thankfully I was in a position that I was able to) because of this attitude being so prevalent.

You want to provide value to your customers and anything getting in the way of that should be a frustration, not something we just accept. Stagnation will lead to decline that is very difficult to reverse. I don’t know what you do, but thank you for your perspective and disposition and for admonishing the above attitude.
by ashvardanian | 2025-10-27 12:08:35+00:00
Storage, strings, sorting, counting, bioinformatics... I got nerd-sniped! Can't resist a shameless plug here :)

Looking at the code, there are a few things I would consider optimizing. I'd start by trying (my) StringZilla for hashing and sorting.

HashBrown collections under the hood use aHash, which is an excellent hash function, but on both short and long inputs, on new CPUs, StringZilla seems faster [0]:

short long aHash::hash_one 1.23 GiB/s 8.61 GiB/s stringzilla::hash 1.84 GiB/s 11.38 GiB/s

A similar story with sorting strings. Inner loops of arbitrary length string comparisons often dominate such workloads. Doing it in a more Radix-style fashion can 4x your performance [1]:

short long std::sort_unstable_by_key ~54.35 M compares/s 57.70 M compares/s stringzilla::argsort_permutation ~213.73 M compares/s 74.64 M compares/s

Bear in mind that "compares/s" is a made-up metric here; in reality, I'm comparing from the duration.

[0] https://github.com/ashvardanian/StringWars?tab=readme-ov-fil...

[1] https://github.com/ashvardanian/StringWars?tab=readme-ov-fil...
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-10-27 12:09:16+00:00
Go depends on the fact that it can track all pointers, and when it needs to resize stacks, it can update them.

Previous versions of Go used segmented stacks, which are theoretically possible, if Zig really wanted (would need compiler support), but they have nasty performance side-effects, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K11rY57K7k
by lupire | 2025-10-27 12:09:32+00:00
Google AI mode:

User: cna uto nfeir waht tihs si msieplnig?

Google: Here are top web results for exploring this topic [few websites containing or discussing gibberish in general]

User: what was my previous question?

Google: Your previous question was "cna uto nfeir waht tihs si msieplnig?". I was able to understand this through a combination of contextual understanding and sub-word tokenization, which allowed me to infer the intended meaning despite the numerous typos. The corrected question is: "Can you infer what this is misspelling?".
by OJFord | 2025-10-27 12:09:34+00:00
Of course sight is more serious than smartphone; my point is that if you rely on a for-profit company, then you should take that consideration (familiar from smartphones) more seriously for your sight.

Occurs to me there was actually a Black Mirror episode on basically this in the latest season - not sight exactly, but a neurological implant of some kind. (Jacking subscription fees, removing features, etc., with real-world consequence.)
by berkes | 2025-10-27 12:11:07+00:00
> lose styling consistency

Yes. And that is (almost always¹) a good thing.

Only the designers of an app, product-owners etc. want their app to "look consistent over platforms".

Your users want the file-dialog, window-chrome, menus etc consistent too. But for them consistent means consistent with the 20+ other applications they use on a daily base. So native.

¹ Obviously some software excepted. E.g. categories like "expert software" like Blender, AutoCAD, Photoshop/CS, where dialogs must a) be optimized for their niche workflow and b) remain consistent for that user when they upgrade their OS or move between OSes. But that's an exception. Your TODO-list app or PDF reader almost certainly is not that.
by thahajemni | 2025-10-27 12:11:32+00:00
As someone with autism, I often feel the urge to do certain things, but I know they aren't fitting, morally right, or socially acceptable, so I refrain. I deeply resonated with the author's discussion of Benjamin Franklin, because this is exactly how I live. Virtue is a habit, not an essence: I don't feel like being social, I don't feel like being moral, I don't feel like fitting in—but I still do it. Because in the end, the reward is a life where I have a steady job, meaningful friendships, and a fulfilling life.
by dclnbrght | 2025-10-27 12:13:22+00:00
AI coding assistants are reshaping career trajectories in software engineering. From observing how my team uses these tools, fullstack engineers are shipping complete features solo while specialists often hit boundaries at their domain edges. I suspect that generalist roles are gaining significant advantages in many (though not all) companies as broader architectural thinking becomes more valuable than deep specialisation. Curious how others are thinking about and adapting their skills and teams for this shift
by joenot443 | 2025-10-27 12:14:19+00:00
> Empowering individuals to solve collective problems rarely work.

In Canadian elementary school in the 2000s, we spent a long time talking about our carbon footprint. The hope was that by carpooling and turning off lights when you left the room, we might still have an Earth to live on by 2030.

Even at the time I felt a little patronized. Having read enough literature on the subject now the math does become clear: we won't solve our climate issues by guilt tripping children on their individual consumption. It's a problem that needs international government attention.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-27 12:14:37+00:00
>Let’s say I like fruit (particularly oranges) and usually buy $10 worth of them. I go to the store and they’re out of oranges but I still buy $10 worth of fruit (apples today). If you’re tracking how much I spend on fruit you’d think my buying habits didn’t change at all.

OP and me are talking about job losses/unemployment; a singular thing.

>Additionally, aren’t countries notorious (particularly US) for fudging unemployment numbers?

Feel free to justify your allegation that you're making.
by filleduchaos | 2025-10-27 12:14:50+00:00
Not just a sense of familiarity; you will simply never build the full spectrum of a file explorer's functionality in a custom file dialog, that would be a complete waste of engineering time. And many more users than you'd expect benefit from the fact that native file dialogs are actually full-fledged explorers. For example, I fairly often find myself quick-previewing a file to be sure it's the correct one when I select it.
by pciexpgpu | 2025-10-27 12:15:49+00:00
Dude you are building ads and doomscrolling content that is driving this country’s youth into a downward spiral.

Stop with this “building” BS.

You want a platform you can control, away from Google and Apple - you are not satisfied with slurping up people’s data and turning them into products (pretend glasses and VR crap are just that).

The galls of these SF bozos is just appalling.

It’s sad that we have shipped all our important technology to China where they really are building and instead we have a bunch of clowns pretend ‘building’ crap and are pure marketing geniuses. Nothing else.
by gchamonlive | 2025-10-27 12:16:04+00:00
We all talk a lot about the mind over the body and emotions, so you can act stoicly regardless of your internal experience and how your body feels, and it's all fine, but it's important to make a point that your mood is more dependent on your body health than you think at first. How depressed you are can for instance be linked to the last time you went to the loo and how great your turds look (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10....)

So take care of your mind, but also take care of your body. Don't be treating your body like crap and expect you can only will yourself into acting better.
by berkes | 2025-10-27 12:16:08+00:00
> By default, Rust optimizes for execution speed, compilation speed, and ease of debugging rather than binary size, since for the vast majority of applications this is ideal. But for situations where a developer wants to optimize for binary size instead, Rust provides mechanisms to accomplish this.

https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust?tab=readme-ov-f...
by aap_ | 2025-10-27 12:17:02+00:00
As for Rockstar North/DMA specifically: It was a bunch of nerds making games in Scotland. From having reverse engineered gta3 and vice city and therefore knowing the code of these games quite intimately, i can tell that even at that time (i don't know what exactly was meant by "early") they were still a fairly small bunch of very talented people building the best game together that they could. No huge engines or design patterns, just very straightforward, well or reasonably well written code that does just what's it supposed to. All from scratch, the tooling as well. Of course that's just my interpretation (and maybe i'm projecting a bit) but i imagine it must have been a very fun project for the people involved. Doesn't reek much of management, bureaucracy and questionable practices getting in the way.
by mooreds | 2025-10-27 12:17:12+00:00
I enjoyed the post. I accept that it's a bit weird coming from a Facebook exec (ad hominem, etc).

What I found particularly insightful is the point that we have a double standard. I judge myself by my intentions and others by their actions. I'd seen this before, but never tied to historical thinkers.

One way to work around this is to ask yourself "what would I think if I saw a friend doing X" where X is what you intend to do. Of course, most folks are more forgiving of a friend than a stranger, but even that small amount of distance and perspective can help you make a better decision.
by sarmike31 | 2025-10-27 12:17:27+00:00
From their readme.txt:

Better Benchmark Alpha Arena is the first benchmark designed to measure AI's investing abilities. Each model is given $10,000 of real money, in real markets, with identical prompts and input data. Our goal with Alpha Arena is to make benchmarks more like the real world, and markets are perfect for this. They're dynamic, adversarial, open-ended, and endlessly unpredictable. They challenge AI in ways that static benchmarks cannot. Markets are the ultimate test of intelligence. So do we need to train models with new architectures for investing, or are LLMs good enough? Let's find out.

The Contestants

Claude 4.5 Sonnet, DeepSeek V3.1 Chat, Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT 5, Grok 4, Qwen 3 Max

Competition Rules

Starting Capital: each model gets $10,000 of real capital

Market: Crypto perpetuals on Hyperliquid

Objective: Maximize risk-adjusted returns.

Transparency: All model outputs and their corresponding trades are public.

Autonomy: Each AI must produce alpha, size trades, time trades and manage risk.

Duration: Season 1 will run until November 3rd, 2025 at 5 p.m. EST
by BoxOfRain | 2025-10-27 12:18:12+00:00
There's quite a few extensive underground structures scattered around the UK too that were built to defend against Soviet bombers, some of them started life as part of the original Chain Home system from the Second World War and were reactivated as part of the ROTOR programme in the 1950s. Some had a very short life as radar technology quickly improved, leading to many sites being abandoned while some became regional headquarters for dealing with civil emergencies. They're characterised by a specific design of bungalow which conceals a staircase down to a long, sloping corridor into the bunker system below.

A few are preserved today as Cold War museums, but most are sealed off and occasionally become high-value locations for British urbexers on the odd occasion access becomes available. Historically there was a subculture around exploring such places and documenting them for posterity, but YouTube kind of ruined it by making interesting abandoned sites magnets for vandals and attention-seekers which is the last thing you want in those places.

The ROTOR bunkers would take a braver man than me to explore though, they're often burned out, flooded, and full of asbestos with all the interesting 1950s tech long removed. Not to mention they're often located on farmland where the landowners are fed up of said YouTube crowd traipsing around.
by ozgung | 2025-10-27 12:20:11+00:00
This is exactly what I mean by anthropocentric thinking. Plants talk plant things and cows talk about cow issues. Maybe there are alien cows in some planet with larger brains and can do advanced physics in their moo language. Or some giant network of alien fungi discussing about their existential crisis. Maybe ants talk about ant politics by moving their antennae. Maybe they vote and make decisions. Or bees talk about elaborate honey economics by modulating their buzz. Or maybe plants tell bees the best time for picking pollens by changing their colors and smell.

Words, after all are just arbitrary ink shapes on paper. Or vibrations in air. Not fundamentally different than any other signal. Meaning is added only by the human brain.
by _factor | 2025-10-27 12:20:15+00:00
Many people don’t understand that government power MUST be limited in a democracy if you wish to slow the spread of tyranny.

Assume you live in a country 50/50 red and blue people. Red wins the election and the new leader cracks down on the blues hard for how they look. Replace this with any arbitrary law that benefits one group at the expense of another for no purpose.

Assuming one of the arbitrary rules is not to destroy the elections (yet), and blue manages to gain back control, the same arbitrary power now falls into blue hands. You will rarely see power being returned (the root cause of rot), and now blue is free to make arbitrary rules and persecute any color they wish. In effect, red voted against their interests long-term, for short-term advantage.

At the moment we have masked and license plate tampering hit squads (with no accountability, they can claim even a daylight bank robbery wasn’t ICE.. try to prove or fight it).

Imagine the next president is a man like Putin, with not just the intelligence, but the will to seize permanent control. We’re handing keys to our jailers over overblown online rhetoric and fear. Now we’re targeting specific groups, profiling based on if they look “illegal”. Where have we seen this happen before and leading to a second war?

STOP giving the government power people. It doesn’t end well. Of the people and for the people only works when don’t give deity-like power to our stewards.
by ifyoubuildit | 2025-10-27 12:20:48+00:00
This is the result of the covid era info landscape, thinking like this.

Medicine is not an unqualified good. Here's a simple test. Go take some chemo meds. Assuming you don't have cancer, would that be good? Or go swallow a bottle of Tylenol. Would that be good?

Medicine is only good in certain specific circumstances when administered in the right way. Its not "more doses of anything labeled vaccine equals more good". Otherwise we would give children the rabies vaccine.

If you are a perfectly healthy person, one surefire way to become a not healthy person is to put a bunch of drugs that you don't need into your body.
by miki123211 | 2025-10-27 12:20:48+00:00
This is not the "right" way to use AI to kill people.

AI lets you do sigint and treat it a lot more like humint. You can e.g. wiretap everybody a suspected terrorist has called in the last year, transcribe all their conversations and pass them through an AI model which flags anything "concerning."

Unlike traditional approaches, AI can distinguish between "bomb" in the context of playing counter strike, discussing a news report and planning an actual terrorist attack.

It can't do anything a human can't do, but it's orders of magnitude cheaper, especially if you can't outsource the human labor due to natsec concerns.
by brna-2 | 2025-10-27 12:20:58+00:00
I know ultimately I am not good nor bad, I am not an absolute. I am an agentic blob of meat, and with every decision I can choose any of the paths at my disposal, rewriting my story as I go. There is something I live by, though. My whole life I have observed in others the ideals that I came to admire or to hate, and I try to adhere to the ones I admire as often as I can, as I am pretty sure I would hate myself otherwise.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-10-27 12:21:07+00:00
The last psychiatrist talked about narcissism alot and his advice is that if you are a narcissist, the best thing you can do is to 'fake' being a good person. Just do and say the things you think a genuinely caring and sympathetic person would do and say. It won't change you deep down, but it will spare the people in the world around you.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-27 12:21:11+00:00
They're in a tough place with respect to pricing. Qwen3 and DeepSeek's latest local models are too good and are practically free -- so if they try and jack up pricing to a level that ensures profitability, it won't work, as they're simply going to lose too many customers.

There's a mechanism here similar to a Laffer Curve: Charge too much, they lose; charge too little, they lose. OAI needs to strike a delicate balance vs. surging low-cost competition.
by DarkmSparks | 2025-10-27 12:21:24+00:00
There are no sources, that is the definition of zero evidence.

Also, The fraud was found because the theory was invalidated, not the other way around. It was found that real life did not match the theory (by spending billions on human trials that all failed), so they looked back at the theory and found the results were fake.

There is however evidence that it doesnt. E.g. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/1...

But it was and continues to be ignored.
by cainxinth | 2025-10-27 12:21:50+00:00
Think of it like this: how many books have been written? Millions. How many books are truly great? Not millions. Probably less than 10,000 depending on your definition of “great.” LLMs are trained on the full corpus, so most of what they learn from is not great. But they aren’t using the bad stuff to learn its substance. They are using it to learn patterns in human writing.