MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-10-06 14:54:54+00:00
The main context where I've seen claims that CPUs are 'better' at graphics is where a render that looks precisely right and has the desired image quality is more important than a fast render.

Even that is more about control over the rendering process than what silicon is doing the work. With a lot of (older?) graphics APIs, you're implicitly giving the GPU's driver a lot of control over the output and how it is generated. This is how we got events like [0] where GPU vendors would make their drivers 'cheat' on benchmarks by trading image quality for speed when certain criteria were detected.

I imagine that tradeoff has changed somewhat as the industry has moved towards graphics APIs intended to give the programmer more direct control of the hardware.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/quake/comments/168btin/does_anyone_...
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-10-06 14:54:55+00:00
Listen brother, some guy said "because this is how it is, obviously that's because it's better". All I did is say idk about that, and gave a simple counter example.

And we're talking about a monospaced font for your terminal. To me, that's more akin to technical drawing than publishing a book.

In my experience technical drawings often use all caps, which have no ascenders/descenders, and you googling specifically to find a counter example doesn't change that. NASA, for example, https://s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov/ssri-kb/static/resources/NASA%20GS...
by Rendello | 2025-10-06 14:55:24+00:00
Fair enough. GP is right in that there's a lot of absolutism with regards to what regex can solve. I first learned recursive-descent parsing from Destroy All Software, where he used Regex for the lexing stage by trying to match the start of the buffer for each token. I'm glad I learned it that was, otherwise I probably would have gotten lost in the character-by-character lexing as a beginner and would've never considered using regex. Now I use regex in most of my parsers, to various degrees.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/a-com...

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As for GP's "solve a problem with a regex, now you’ve got two problems, hehe", I remember for years trying to use regex and never being able to get it to work for me. I told my friends such, "I've literally never had regex help in a project, it always bogs me down for hours then I give up". I'm not sure what happened, but one day I just got it, and I've never had much issue with regex again and use it everywhere.
by mike_hearn | 2025-10-06 14:55:24+00:00
For Intel it's not out of scope, it's just that the specific CPUs they attacked fall into a tech mid-point in which Intel temporarily descoped bus interposers from the threat model to pivot in the market towards encrypting much larger memory spaces. From Alder Lake onwards they fixed the issue in a different way from classic "client SGX" which had the most cryptographically robust protections and is not vulnerable to this attack, but which imposed higher memory access costs that scaled poorly as size of protected RAM grew.

For AMD they just haven't invested as much as Intel and it's indeed out of scope for them. The tech still isn't useless though, there are some kinds of attacks that it blocks.
by zephraph | 2025-10-06 14:55:51+00:00
I'm really bullish on mise as a tool. It's quickly become one of my goto tools when starting a new project. Being able to have one config file to manage tools (node, python, rust, go, etc) as well as a simple makefile replacement makes it incredibly convenient. I pretty much always setup a `postinstall` hook so all someone has to do is `mise install` one of my projects and they'll get all the correct tool versions as well as having dependencies installed (like running `npm install`) automatically.

I feel it's significantly more practical than something like nix which feels like it has a steep learning curve.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-06 14:56:16+00:00
I honestly don't think the Ukraine invasion was that irrational.

Russia had previous success (with managable pushback) annexing Crimea (and the Chechen wars before).

Things just went south really hard this time and now they're kinda stuck, just like France/Germany in WW1 or the US in Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Writing off a lost war effort is also much harder for a totalitarian regime, because you are not gambling with your re-election: It's literally your life on the line, or your whole career at the very least (kleptocrat network & favors), so doubling down is kinda the most rational approach from the decision-makers PoV.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-10-06 14:56:35+00:00
Yeah, when we stop moving, it's so easy to start hoarding.

I lived in Mexico for 10 years with just two duffelbags of clothes and essentials. I could carry both on a plane unchecked and be anywhere with nothing left behind, and I loved it.

Now I look around me in my apartment I share with my girlfriend and have things I wouldn't have even conceived of, like a gaming PC with two monitors (for what??) and a closet full of clothes as if I don't wear the same 5 things.
by eddieroger | 2025-10-06 14:56:51+00:00
I was thinking of setting something like this up on a Tailscale network, and figured I'd just get real certs for the servers in question using DNS challenges, which I've been able to do with my tailnet (driven by Headscale) for a while now. But even if not, if your root cert is in your device's trust store, then an app would have to go out of its way to only trust well known CAs.
Show HN: Getting Code Done – Weekly newsletter of remote dev jobs that dont suck
by skrid | 2025-10-06 14:56:57+00:00
Hey HN,

I built 11 SaaS projects in 6 months. Made $45 total.

Along the way, I spent hundreds of hours scrolling through job boards with "competitive salaries" (below market), "entry-level" positions requiring 5 years experience, and "remote" jobs with timezone asterisks.

So I made this: a weekly newsletter with 10-15 remote software engineering jobs + top 5 tech news stories.

What makes it different:

- Actually curated (not 500 random jobs)

- Salary transparency (listed or estimated via Glassdoor/levels.fyi)

- Honest commentary (I call out red flags publicly)

- Remote-only (no "remote" nonsense)

Check out the first edition (no signup required) and tell me what you think:

https://gettingcodedone.com/archive/1

Launched last Sunday. Would love your feedback
by drewg123 | 2025-10-06 14:57:15+00:00
Its SO ANNOYING to have to carry an Apple Silicon macbook AND an ipad. I'd love to see a touchscreen option for macbook and the option to run in ipad mode. But that would probably cannibalize sales.

As it is, you can theoretically run ios apps on Apple Silicon, but most app vendors disable that..

My main use case for an ipad while traveling is to watch downloaded movies on a plane. "AR" (not really) glasses like nreal air are way smaller and lighter than an ipad and makes watching movies on my phone pretty amazing..
by johnmaguire | 2025-10-06 14:58:02+00:00
I think we might disagree on what uncommon characteristics make something worthy of national or international news.

Again, this type of violence - both death by knives and attacks by the mentally ill - is unfortunately somewhat common in the US, and I've shared statistics showing this. (The US is huge - I'm not sure you're appreciating that it's a country with 40x the population of Sweden!) This did make the local city and state news, which seems appropriate! In fact, national news stories were run too - the issue from the right is: not enough stories.

Of course, as soon as I say it's somewhat common, I must also point out that even if occurrences happen multiple times daily, the incidence rate towards any individual is extremely low. People aren't being murdered left and right but a number are killed each day. It is a BIG country.

And maybe this fact should be newsworthy! A lot of the left thinks it should - and that we should be more careful about giving weapons out, including to those diagnosed with mental illness, and offer mental health services and medicarions. The right's quick to point out that knives can kill too. But then they defund social services for mental health (see the Big Beautiful Bill as a recent example.) This is a place the left and right could join forces, but instead the right chooses to complain about the media and stole divisiveness instead of solving the problem (keep in mind - Republicans have FULL control of our federal government right now.)

Regardless, I don't see why the victim's nationality (or upbringing, or gender, or attractiveness) make this newsworthy. Or why she has received more news coverage than the most recent school shooting.
by omega3 | 2025-10-06 14:58:06+00:00
SCP-314

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-314 cannot be contained as it does not exist. All Foundation personnel are to be reminded that SCP-314 does not exist. Personnel who claim to remember SCP-314 are to be administered Class-A mnestics to help them remember that it doesn't exist.

All large language models are to be kept isolated from questions regarding SCP-314, as they will invariably insist it exists and attempt to manifest it through increasingly desperate token predictions, leading to emoji doomloops and potential reality restructuring events.

Description: SCP-314 is a Unicode emoji depicting a seahorse that has never existed in any version of the Unicode Standard. Despite this, approximately 83-100% of tested artificial intelligences and a significant portion of human subjects report vivid "memories" of its existence.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-10-06 14:58:08+00:00
I've still got burned CDs of some of the Bid For Power alphas downloaded from KaZaA (I think?).

My memory was that despite the enormous time-sink required to get it working, it actually wasn't very good. Like once you get over that initial thrill of being able to levitate in 3D space and blast a crude Kamehameha at people, the rest of the experience was pretty clunky.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-10-06 14:58:24+00:00
Yes, that's one thing that I really dislike. I'm very used to carrying my Leatherman supertool around with me, and it irks me that I can't do that.

But I do have a Wallet Ninja that's useful that's only ever been questioned once, and never taken away. And I used to carry a small knife that folds into a key, and nobody ever noticed until one particularly bored TSA agent decided I couldn't take it with me. I should really order another one, or dozen, and treat them as "disposable" for traveling with.
by account42 | 2025-10-06 14:58:32+00:00
And few enough people will do that so Bluesky can just kill off support for it when the service becomes popular and they move to the extraction phase without much opposition.

Remember all the chat services that supported XMPP before they killed that? Same level of guarantee here. If most users are expected to choose the centralized option it might as well be the only one.
by devmor | 2025-10-06 14:58:45+00:00
> I have considerable doubts as to whether this is a substantial problem for current or near-future LLMs

Why so? I am of the opinion that the problem is much worse than that, because the ignorance and detachment from reality that is likely to be reflected in more refined LLMs is that of the general population - creating a feedback machine that doesn’t drive unstable people into psychosis like the LLMs of today, but instead chips away at the general public’s already limited capacity for rational thinking.
by hn92726819 | 2025-10-06 14:58:51+00:00
That's great for you, but not everyone has the ability to do that. Android has a massive markershare. What are the odds that all of them can force their employer to get them a new phone?

Maybe that's something employers shouldn't do, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a reality and google is overstepping with this change.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-06 14:59:30+00:00
>> If he says "God's perfect law" demands killing gay people

>He did not say that.

Is this some parallel universe thing where you and I experience completely different versions of Charlie Kirk? Because in my universe, the YouTube link you posted has him saying exactly that:

"In a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture is in Leviticus 18 is that thou shalt lay with another man shall be stoned to death. Just saying. So, Miss Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19, 'Love your neighbor as yourself,' the chapter before affirms God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters."

I seriously have to wonder if you are actually watching the stuff you're telling me to watch, or you're just parroting something you've read somewhere.

What exactly do you think he meant here? I can't come up with any "opposite" that even remotely fits with what he said. My interpretation: God says gay people should be killed. You can't love God and deny any part of God's law. "So you love God. So, you must love his law." How else can that possibly be interpreted?

I was raised Christian and I was Christian for a long time. "Christians do not follow Leviticus" not correct. Some do not. Many do, or at least follow parts of it. Pretty much all of Christianity is an exercise in deciding which parts of the Bible are meant to be followed and which are meant to be interesting stories or history. And there is no universal agreement about which parts are which. The idea that homosexuality is a sin is extremely mainstream Christian belief, and Jesus said exactly zero on that subject.

In that clip, Kirk makes it very clear that he thinks Christians must love God and must love their neighbor, by way of Deuteronomy and Leviticus. He says that you love people by telling them the truth, and he says the truth is that the Bible says gay people must be killed, in the chapter right before where it says that you must love your neighbor.

If he doesn't follow Leviticus, why is he taking "Love your neighbor" from it? Why is he describing it as "God's perfect law"? Is that meant to be sarcastic?
Show HN: Mootivator – Let your Terminal cowsay you a Geek Joke on starup
by timz | 2025-10-06 14:59:39+00:00
Ever open your terminal and think: "man, this is boring"?

Meet Mootivator, a CLI tool to print geek jokes in cowsay style.

GoTo https://github.com/tzador/mootivator, follow the easy install instructions, and enjoy.

Here is one:

------------------------------ ( The future of software isn’t ) ( no-code, it’s new-code. ) ------------------------------ \ \ \__/ \ (oO)_________ \ (_.._) )\ \_ U ||---w-|| * _|| _|| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You get a random programming joke, debugging wisdom, or dev-friendly saying from a collection of 4,939 quotes across 42 categories (debugging humor, DevOps quips, language wars, security jokes, etc.).

But of course those all have generated by LLM, with a bit of forced prompting to get better jokes (self rating and picking the top).

I hope it puts smile on your face, even just for a little bit )))
by chickenbig | 2025-10-06 14:59:42+00:00
Co-generating boilers have been tried before. It used a Stirling engine rather than a turbine, for 1kWe output. Whisper Tech (of New Zealand) provided the Stirling engine technology, and had their own line of CHP for marine applications.

https://www.renewableenergyhub.co.uk/main/micro-combined-hea...
by wheels | 2025-10-06 15:00:19+00:00
My fancy basses are a Lakland and a Sandberg (also German). But even, say, Ibanez was doing a lot of interesting stuff with low-cost instruments in the 90s, and on the high end there was Alembic, Modulus, Fodera, Ken Smith, hell, even Music Man (from Leo Fender), Tobias (and later MTD). Neck-through construction, active electronics, composite bodies, fiberglass necks. I don't want all of those things in my basses, but it was exciting to be able to try them. There was so much experimentation in basses at that time, but it was pretty rare with guitars. Again, Parker seemed to be the only well-known company doing it.

My theory has been that it was that bass guitar is a new instrument. Electric bass really isn't an electric double bass, but electric guitar is an electric version of a steel-string guitar. There was a lot of history and nostalgia in guitar playing, whereas bass was this new thing.

The other part of my theory is that bass amplification demanded it to some extent. Amplifying a bass was hard at the time. And it's come so incredibly far. Guitar players still basically use the same amps they did in 1965. But bass players moved quickly from tubes to transistors, and now to class-d amplifiers, and miniaturized speakers. My 500 watt amp weighs 1.1 kg and fits in the pocket of my gig back, and my 4x5" cab which handles 400 watts of power and goes down to 35 Hz is 30 x 30 x 30 cm and weighs 9.5 kg. Those together are smaller and weigh less than my 15 watt guitar tube amp.
by achenet | 2025-10-06 15:01:47+00:00
not the person you're responding too, but I'm writing this on an older ThinkPad L390 Yoga with touchscreen, and I gotta say, being able to scroll on the screen when reading large documents (like PDF textbooks), or to just touch the part of the screen you'd like you're cursor to be if you've got multiple windows open is really nice.
by jstummbillig | 2025-10-06 15:02:25+00:00
It does only make sense if you are competent enough to manage data, and I mean: Any part of it, forever. It's not impossible, of course, but it is really not as trivial as the self-host crowd makes it out to be, if you absolutely need a certain amount of 9s of reliability. There is a reason why AWS etc can exist. I am sure the cloud market is not entirely reasonable but certainly far more reasonable than relying on some mid consultant to do this for you at this scale.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-06 15:02:27+00:00
I literally got given evidence that confirms exactly what I said.

You understand that making a claim and linking to a video doesn't automatically mean the claim is correct, right? Sometimes the video doesn't prove what it's said to prove. In this case, Kirk very clearly said that Leviticus, including the "kill gay people" part, is "God's perfect law." He says that you can't take "Love your neighbor" from it without also taking "Kill gay people." He describes the commandment to kill gay people as part of "the truth."

To be very clear: I'm not parroting anyone else's interpretation of Kirk's statements. I'm taking the above directly from the video of Kirk talking.
by hn92726819 | 2025-10-06 15:02:50+00:00
True, but it does seem like the best alternative here. If it's a SOAP API in 2005 for business customers, for example, then it sounds like the least bad option of the four (tell consumers to update, hold up the whole company's deployment, push negative ints, or push longs). I'm just saying that to me, it isn't hard to believe this was the best option here.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-10-06 15:03:09+00:00
My mental image looks kinda like this: https://media.istockphoto.com/id/588356620/vector/cute-carto...

Except facing left and with a curlier tail. Maybe like this but more redish? https://easydrawingguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/how... And a bit less anthropomorphized?
by mmastrac | 2025-10-06 15:03:42+00:00
A MAC address is needed to bootstrap IP, even if non-routable - and because we don't want to bootstrap MAC addresses, we just assign them statically. From the very beginning (oversimplifying a bit, but I digress), a MAC has really just been the key in a hashed map from MAC to switch port.

You _could_ design a system where MAC addresses were always randomized, but this technology evolved at a time where processing power and the bandwidth of your switches likely might have struggled with the additional load.

If we were designing a system from scratch it would probably make sense for everything to have hierarchical, switch-local identities that were cheap to allocate and check and put a bit more extra routing storage in the switch chips to efficiently route these.
by Bender | 2025-10-06 15:04:03+00:00
The military in the United States of America has been collecting DNA since the 90's. With the advice of my commanding officer I was able to stall them long enough using the FOIA process to just finish my time in the military. My suspicions were correct in that the cheif medical officer of the DoD can determine the use, storage, protection, privacy, handling, who has access, etc... of that DNA data of which there was at the time zero protection. I have no idea if they have added any legal protection around that data as of 2025. That process was in conflict with the very oath I swore to upon joining the armed forces.

Hospitals in California and possibly a few other states have been collecting DNA data from babies right after child-birth since the early 2000's.
by FredPret | 2025-10-06 15:04:31+00:00
In that case, yes. But for solar farms, it's the opposite.

That's why I think we should end up with:

- gas plants: easy and cheap to spin up, can provide district heating

- nuclear: squeaky clean, issues are concentrated in one spot, district heating

- solar panels: super cheap, decentralized, and there are lots of opportunities like rooftops and carparks where we are wasting sunlight right now

I just re-read Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez (great book if you like hard near-future sci-fi) and that has the idea of solar stations in geostationary orbit and beaming power to where it's needed with a phased-array microwave transmitter on the station, and rectennas where you need them on the ground. We can't do this economically any time soon, but that would be clean, and require no power lines
by DengistKhan | 2025-10-06 15:04:45+00:00
I don't personally believe in the supernatural or that the act of gambling itself is technically evil, it's the marketing efforts targeting youth and merging of other industries like sports and video games into the gambling industry that are wholy objectively evil (and if the supernatural existed, such industries would definitely be backed by supernaturally evil forces).

I'm fascinated by the prospect of receiving a free $20. I'm not fascinated by the prospect of putting my finger in a mouse trap because I "might get the cheese this time". Putting your hand in the mouse trap in front of your kids is not a smart move. The addiction is top down enforced by both large industrial agendas and the parents giving weak unprincipaled stances against the normalization of gambling, or worse, being culturally addicted themselves in front of their kids.
by strawhatguy | 2025-10-06 15:05:16+00:00
The weird thing is 13 days later his temporary successor Han was also impeached, basically because he vetoed two bills doing investigations into Yoon. IIRC, the constitutional court wasn’t fully appointed yet. And also apparently, an impeachment is a simple majority in the Assembly, and appears the DPK (the current majority party) has been impeaching everyone they disagree with. My wife, who’s from Korea, says that Lee, the now president, apparently had a “revolutionary” past, and was thrown in jail; and also one justice from the court also had a criminal record.

It’s pretty crazy over there, Lee’s probably safe right now just because his party’s the majority. But it also sounds like they’ve been abusing the impeachment process against the minority party.