MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teleforce | 2025-10-14 01:12:09+00:00
I wonder if the new GenAI architecture namely DDN or distributed discrete networks being discussed recently can outperform the conventional architecture of GAN and VAE. As the name suggests, it can provide multitude of distributions for training and inference purposes [1].

[1] Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR (90 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536694
by ch2026 | 2025-10-14 01:12:12+00:00
> Writing to Kafka allowed them to continue their current ingestion process into MariaDB at the same time as ClickHouse.

The one they're going to shut down as soon as this works? Yeah, great reason to make a permanent tech choice for a temporary need. Versus just keeping the MariaDB stuff exactly the same on the PHP side and writing to 2 destinations until cutover is achieved. Kafka is wholly unnecessary here. Vector is great tech but likely not needed. Kafka + Vector is absolutely the incorrect solution.

Their core problem is the destination table schema (which they did not provide) and a very poorly chosen primary key + partition.
by more_corn | 2025-10-14 01:12:52+00:00
Part of it has to do with how distinctive it is. And how distinctive the CEO’s antics have become. It seems the one has become a symbol for the other.

One passed me on the street a month ago and every single person raised an eyebrow, even the girls who went to church with the driver and said hi to him looked mildly apologetic as though they didn’t really want to be associated with any of it, but were too polite to say so.

I’d be surprised if sales ever recovered. Then again I was surprised the board approved a trillion dollar pay package for the guy. Maybe people think he still has a Midas touch despite the backlash.
by natch | 2025-10-14 01:13:10+00:00
The popularity in app stores has no bearing. Some problem apps can be on no store, just locally installed. This has been well covered in the past and you are playing catch up. It’s about abusive household members who spy on their grown children, siblings, roommates, girlfriends, parents, etc. with apps they install on their devices if given a route to do so.
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-14 01:14:05+00:00
He deserves at least some credit, considering that he and Bezos are the only billionaires actually willing to put their wealth into chasing a vision. Books documenting SpaceX's early days make it pretty clear that Musk had a pretty significant role in putting in place the kind of thinking that has allowed SpaceX to blow open the commercial space market.

Both also have at least some understanding of what they're paying for considering the tours and testimony from former employees. They also frequently thank the employees for their successes.
by tombert | 2025-10-14 01:14:22+00:00
Let's take this to the logical extreme: I can make my phone even more secure if I pound a nail through it so that it doesn't turn on anymore. The phone is really secure now; it is impossible to install any malware on it, no one can install a bitcoin miner or track my credit cards or anything.

Even better, how about we replace the concept of "smartphone" with a glossy print of a Pixel phone that people can carry in their pocket? It would be lighter and completely secure as there would be no way to run any software on it.

Obviously I'm being farcical here, but ultimately I think there's a spectrum of security, and generally speaking these kinds of "security increases" end up making the phone less useful. Sideloading apps is already disabled by default. Most users aren't going to enable it; really the only people who are going to enable this are nerds who want to sideload stuff, and there's a strong selection bias towards people who know how to take care of themselves in the first place.

Also, frankly I don't really buy the "security" argument anyway. These companies aren't selfless benevolent entities who care so much about us, they are for-profit enterprises. If all apps need to be approved by and purchased through Google, then they can extract more money from users, which wouldn't be true with a side-loaded app store (e.g. what Amazon tried).

I currently run an iPhone, but I don't like how locked down it is and I have considered moving back to Android because of that, but now I'm not really seeing the point. I could of course install Lineage or Graphene or something else but that's considerably more effort.

I wish Ubuntu Touch had gained traction.
by Sean-Der | 2025-10-14 01:15:46+00:00
Inference is always getting cheaper, so my hope is that restrictions like this can go away in the future.

I totally understand giving it a 'B'. But I promise you that I came at this project with sincere hope that I can build something that brought more joy then it cost into this world.

I have it at home and I think it's worth the money. My 5 year old uses it and the recordings I got from it I will keep forever.

* Santa tried to end the conversation and she said 'no no no wait, one more present'

* It thought she wanted a llama instead of something else and she hysterically laughed. As she gets older I don't hear that as much, and it made me so happy.

I call bullshit on things all the time, so I get the cynicism. But give it a shot! Seeing kids role-play with LLMs and especially when they hallucinate is a lot of fun. Honestly as the software gets better I think it might not be as fun. It almost feels like the joy of using Linux during the editing your Xorg config days. The chaos is what you fall in love with?

dunno
by TZubiri | 2025-10-14 01:15:55+00:00
> The new attack, named Pixnapping by the team of academic researchers who devised it, requires a victim to first install a malicious app on an Android phone or tablet.

I think it speaks about the security of Android that this makes the news. Coming from Windows, Android always felt as a MUCH more secure Operating System, not just a similar quality Operating System with touch controls and support for smaller hardware.
by vessenes | 2025-10-14 01:16:33+00:00
Simon, I had to run "brew install git-lfs && cd nano-chat && git lfs install && git lfs pull" and then it worked. before then, the model weights didn't get cloned by default for me on macOS.

% uv run https://gist.githubusercontent.com/simonw/912623bf00d6c13cc0... \ --model-dir nanochat/ --prompt "who is simonw on hacker news?" Using device: cpu Loading model from nanochat/model_000650.pt Loading metadata from nanochat/meta_000650.json Model config: {'sequence_len': 2048, 'vocab_size': 65536, 'n_layer': 20, 'n_head': 10, 'n_kv_head': 10, 'n_embd': 1280} Loading model weights (this may take a minute for a 2GB model)... Converting model to float32 for CPU... Model loaded successfully! Loading tokenizer... Tokenizer loaded successfully!

Prompt: who is simonw on hacker news? Encoded to 9 tokens

Generating... -------------------------------------------------- who is simonw on hacker news?

A hacker news reporter, I'd say a few things. First, I'm a bit of a hothead, always pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable in the world of hacking. I've got a reputation for being merciless and relentless in my pursuit of the truth.

In many ways, I've developed a sixth sense for this type of thing. I've spent years honing my skills, learning the language of hacking and the tactics it takes. I know how to think like the hacker --------------------------------------------------
by danpalmer | 2025-10-14 01:16:55+00:00
A bunch of info came out a few years ago. Shotwell is widely known to be effective and a great leader, and to insulate most people at SpaceX from Musk. She's the reason the Falcon program works so well.

However things changed with Starlink, as it was an org controlled by a Musk loyalist and apparently got a lot of control very quickly internally. They prioritised loyalty over experience and capability and forced out some long term SpaceX folks who had made Falcon a success. Starlink was mostly ex Tesla and Boring people at the beginning I think.

I think Starship is somewhere in the middle. It started as a Musk hobby project but has now got contracts and is the future of the company so Shotwell is involved.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-10-14 01:17:11+00:00
I think these videos and the fact that this rockets actually works is one of the inspirational things in my life (and I am almost 40). I grew up loving everything about space (sci fi books and movies, astronomy in school, etc), and it was very bewildering not to see any progress basically for the first half of my life. Now it seems that humanity is back in the game, and it is amazing!

Perhaps kids of my kids would be able to travel to the moon.
by dgrin91 | 2025-10-14 01:17:52+00:00
Despite Elon's perpetual over promises, starship is the closest thing humanity has to getting to Mars, and it is an impressive feat of engineering. Elon can be an asshole and also own the best piece of space hardware out there

There is also a big difference between cant get orbital and won't (yet) get orbital. They pretty clearly can get orbital because their current route gets 99% of the way they. They actively choose not to because it's a test vehicle and if something goes wrong they don't want to have uncontrolled reentry.

Also the hydrocarbons you mention are not even a rounding error in any sort of count that matters, so there is no real destruction of ecosystems
by al_borland | 2025-10-14 01:18:30+00:00
This sounds like a bit of a nightmare. Follow the car ahead of me, if it’s autonomous. How do I know the capabilities of other cars on the road? What if I don’t know and don’t follow, does it revert back to giving me a normal light even if there are a bunch of autonomous cars around?

What about non-vehicle traffic, like bikes and pedestrians?

What happens when there is an accident. How does one argue they had right of way, when all the lights are white and everyone is just crossing their fingers and playing follow the leader?

Does this assume all autonomous vehicles are speaking the same language? Has that standard been established, or is this another format war that will need to play out?

Traffic circles seem like they would play out better. When autonomous cars meet they can negotiate things optimally, while normal cars slot in as they normally would with no change in behavior. Carmel, IN would be a good test bed for that theory.
by tombert | 2025-10-14 01:18:32+00:00
Yes, these big corporations are truly benevolent entities who are only looking out for the common man, and us software engineers are out of touch and "lack empathy".

It couldn't possibly be a frustration and concern that this is blatantly anti-competitive and serves to make Google considerably more money and leaves us with little/no options for people who actually know how to use a computer.

Frankly I think the security argument is largely a smokescreen to avoid discussions of anti-trust.
by musictubes | 2025-10-14 01:18:42+00:00
“There are no good reasons” really? One of my favorite things about iOS/ipados is the incredible selection of music creation apps. My iPad is loaded with synths, sequencers, and effects. AUM in particular is an amazing program for live performances mixing both software and hardware using a touch interface.

Many, but not all, of the programs I use on iPad are also available on Mac and Windows at much higher prices. That alone is reason enough to use a iPad. Most of these apps can be run on the least expensive iPad and/or older ones.

Like it or not, computing appliances have led to really good software markets. The “clean and honest” software markets are either much more expensive or don’t exist at all. The optimist in me is hoping that Android losing some freedom might lead to higher quality software and some actual competition to Apple.
by Clamchop | 2025-10-14 01:18:59+00:00
I didn't downvote or anything, but I read the article a few hours ago and felt the information in that article is only political. If we're talking about destruction, ecological or of heritage, your choice not in whether it happens, but how much and where. Consequently, I feel that the stated reasons of political action groups are usually myopic at best. But really, I always suspect they're speaking in bad faith.

If you really care about animals, plants, or archeology, you're probably not a fan of coal or natural gas, which are obviously destructive of geology and habitats, and that's _without_ getting into more nebulous and catastrophic climate stuff.
by didibus | 2025-10-14 01:19:06+00:00
The thing Elon does well I feel, is he takes real experts with know-how and talent, and puts them on the cool project they want to work on and just lets them cook.

It sounds like a no-brainer management strategy, but it's surprisingly rare in practice. People will lend on random teams and projects, projects won't try to push any envelope but just be the next thing marketing or product came up with to boost some metrics or acquire some new customer, etc.

Now I might be entirely wrong as I never worked at one of his companies, but it's the impression I get and most of his success, Tesla and SpaceX, I think he really managed to snatch the experts away from where they worked because of that.

At least I think this holds for bootstrapping. And then that top talent left, and now since the major innovations have already landed, probably you can just churn out grunt out-of-schoolers to iterate and keep the lights on.
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-14 01:19:34+00:00
Not every mention of Musk needs to be accompanied by a disclaimer of not supporting his idiotic self-defeating politics. This isn't reddit.

Speaking of politics though, it was a bit jarring to see the "USA! USA!" chanting. I get the intent (disliking the government doesn't mean disliking America), but it's kind of awkward to see a large crowd of immigrants doing it as the admin their boss supports is pretty blatantly harassing immigrants regardless of citizenship.
by Sean-Der | 2025-10-14 01:19:58+00:00
It's already happening! I went to https://vapi.ai/vapicon and the stuff that people are already building is bonkers.

It would be naive to think that this technology would only be used for good. I have been working on Pion WebRTC for years though and have see lots of stuff getting built that didn't feel great. Not sure what I can do though.
by quantummagic | 2025-10-14 01:20:24+00:00
Maybe that's a good thing; relying on users to choose good passwords is a cop-out. Systems should be safe-by-default. And owners losing their system if it participates in a DDOS, would add to the incentives to stop the nonsense. It persists because perpetrators, and those who unwittingly abet them, feel no consequences.
by TZubiri | 2025-10-14 01:20:42+00:00
While I appreciate the sentiment of fighting against oversecure features. This is a great security feature. The Windows OS model started development in the 90s, before the internet or even malware was popular. Android started development around 2010 and was able to provide a security design that contemplated risks of malware and internet.

In Windows installing malware compromises other applications, while in Android, your other apps are safe. In this news, this security mechanism fails. To denounce that the mechanism is completely useless is quite stupid, you just outed yourself as someone who doesn't have any security responsibilities and shouldn't have.
by chasd00 | 2025-10-14 01:20:59+00:00
my favorite part of these has gone from liftoff to the purple plasma glow on re-entry. The glow is so perfect and beautiful it looks like an "artist's rendition" of what re-entry plasma would look like. I think the chopsticks catch still takes the cake just for the absurdity of it. It is a little depressing to realize some people pull things like this off yet i can't get my team to load a csv of records into a database correctly...
by Rochus | 2025-10-14 01:20:59+00:00
Can it make music like e.g. Extempore (see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_eJ0XdLbWzzq_03wTIMV...)?

All examples I've heard from Strudel so far are pretty boring (constant beat/chord machine music).

Are there examples in other styles?
by neerajsi | 2025-10-14 01:21:17+00:00
From the previous article in the series, it looks like the biggest impediment to just using full llvm to compile the query is that they didn't find a good way to cache the results across invocations.

Sql server hekaton punted this problem in a seemingly effective way by requiring the client to use stored procedures to get full native compilation. Not sure though if they recompile if the table statistics indicate a different query plan is needed.
by dhx | 2025-10-14 01:21:23+00:00
Europe's projected semiconductor manufacturing equipment expenditure from 2026-2028 is a rounding error.

Global expenditure on 300mm fab equipment from 2026-2028 is predicted to be USD$374bn with regional breakdown as follows (totaling 100%):

China - USD$95bn (25%)

South Korea - USD$86bn (23%)

Taiwan - USD$75bn (20%)

Americas - USD$60bn (16%)

Japan - USD$32bn (9%)

Europe and Middle East - USD$14bn (4%)

Southeast Asia - USD$12bn (3%)

[1] https://www.semi.org/en/semi-press-release/semi-reports-glob...
by pchristensen | 2025-10-14 01:21:25+00:00
This took longer to cut and paste than it did to find on Google.

Arresting and detaining citizens based only on race/language: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/scotus-analysis-...

Rhetoric from Donald Trump: - https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-calls-de... - https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-order-domestic-ne...

Rhetoric from Stephen Miller: https://en.as.com/latest_news/he-can-dish-it-out-but-he-cant...
by toast0 | 2025-10-14 01:21:32+00:00
> 3) Less importantly, CGNAT is a growing problem. If you have 10k (say) users on CGNAT that are compromised, it's likely that there's at least 1 on each CGNAT IP. This means you can't just null route compromised IPs as you are effectively null routing the entire ISP.

Null routing is usually applied to the targets of the attack, not the sources. If one of your IPs is getting attacked, you null route it, so upstream routers drop traffic instead of sending it to you.
by gclawes | 2025-10-14 01:22:10+00:00
This is laying the groundwork for mandatory software. Soon after this browsers and messengers will be required to install tracking components to be included in the app stores or approved for sideloading.

This is how the surveillance blob will get around the huge backlash to Apple's mandatory on-device child abuse scanning, close off any avenues to escape it before re-introducing mandatory on-device spying.
by goncalossilva | 2025-10-14 01:22:19+00:00
Comparing Decipad and Notion (both of which I have limited experience with), I find collaboration to be similar. In both cases, it's real-time and seamless. Notion is more structured (and IMHO more clumsy) while Decipad is more free-form, but ultimately collaboration is similar. Versioning in both cases is a timeline-based version history. I've never used Observable.
by tombert | 2025-10-14 01:22:36+00:00
Is typing on a touchscreen phone really that difficult for people? I did a Monkeytype test just now on my iPhone. I got 50WPM in the 30 second test. For comparison, I get about 100WPM when I type on a regular computer keyboard.

I feel like getting 50% typing speed isn't so bad, and I doubt I would get a lot better than that with physical buttons. Generally I'd rather have more screen real estate.

That said, I definitely prefer physical buttons for games.
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-14 01:23:12+00:00
I think it depends on which specific step fails. The farther into flight it happens, the narrower the area over which the debris is spread. But, I think being over the entire ocean is unlikely, since the trajectory intersects with the planet, and that intersection point would also have to be in the ocean.

Correction: the trajectory only intersects with the planet prior to engine relight testing. After that it's at ~50km [1] (though to be fair, if they make it safely through the relight, all testing so far shows they're likely to make it through most of reentry)

[1] https://x.com/planet4589/status/1977917833825730792
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-14 01:24:10+00:00
I know this is going to ruffle some feathers, but what does it mean to leave politics at the door? When I write safety critical code, I am intentionally putting my ethical beliefs about minimizing harm to others first and foremost into the work. If one of my coworkers isn't doing that, we're going to have a chat even if their code meets every technical bar imaginable.

And when I talk to acquaintances working on military weapons, we inherently have philosophical differences even though we might agree on the merits of some particular code.

Everything is political. Trying to leave them at the door often becomes an excuse to put on blinders and avoid hard discussions.
by gtowey | 2025-10-14 01:24:23+00:00
As one of the aforementioned, yes I don't mind seeing his projects blow up.

I'm sure Starship will make it to orbit, but I'm betting that the claim of 100 tons to orbit is where it will miss the mark. And that is the crux of the issue IMO -- because getting the new rocket engines to be reliable enough can always be accomplished by dialing back on its efficiency and overall thrust capabilities. I'm waiting to see if they will be able to deliver on its claims.
by alganet | 2025-10-14 01:24:25+00:00
https://youtu.be/rh7AJ8AdyJY?t=257

Here, classical programming done by Seven of Nine.

She is typing into the computer, while she describes the issue:

"The data stream degraded during transmission. Elements have been dislocated, rearranged. It's going to take some time to decompress the message to be arranged in the proper sequence."

Later:

https://youtu.be/rh7AJ8AdyJY?t=474

"The algorithm is working, it's reconstructing the data block"

She debugged the issue, programmed some shit, and that shit is working.

---

These people are definitely not vibe coding.
by astrange | 2025-10-14 01:24:33+00:00
People have been doing this for a while.

https://x.com/roborosewater

https://bsky.app/profile/roborosewaterm.bsky.social

You can see the invention of RLHF/ChatGPT here because text generation suddenly became much more coherent and also much less interesting. You have to go back to older tech for surrealism because nobody will let you see the good stuff (the base models).
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-14 01:24:52+00:00
> Imagine telling fellow woodworkers about your latest work and how Ikea built it for you, with a straight face.

I mean, if someone goes to Ikea but can't get it to build a working cabinet (with functioning and practical locks...), then perhaps the ability to do that is something to brag about.
by rolph | 2025-10-14 01:25:46+00:00
The white light

This will be used as a special sign to indicate to drivers that autonomous vehicles are controlling the road at that moment. Today, traffic lights tell us when to stop or go on, but autonomous cars can communicate among themselves and with these traffic lights to organize the traffic flow in a faster and more precise way than humans.

in other words corporate interests cant develop a tech that works reliably so they take over a public chattel to change the standard for everyone so they can operate a weak tech development.