MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-21 12:14:40+00:00
I really have great admirations for the German(ic?) people. They have much the same mindset as neighbours such as the Nordics. Perfectionists, quality standards in all they do, doing things "the right way" as you mentioned. Maybe an "autistic" mindset when it comes to work.

The difference from the Nordics is that Germans have had the determination to go all the way with things, which means that for almost any great invention in the world there's always a German behind it.

But when it comes to the social cohesion, I always thought that the Germans had to fake it like the Nordics do, or like people in the Soviet Union did. But more and more I start to realize it's not the case. Germans actually support their government and support the European Union (in Nordic countries you can't find 1 in 1000 people who supports the EU), and support the official ideologies in their country. Is this the case, or am I encountering Germans online in isolated spaces?
by capitain | 2025-10-21 12:14:46+00:00
It's the whole idea of 'apps' before smartphones became a thing. It's also the simplicity of how these worked, forget multitasking, just focus on one thing at a time.

No subscriptions! Either the applications were free or it's a one-off fee/shareware kind of thing.

And it's ofcourse nostalgia, I made my first game for Palm OS over 20 years ago, it was nice to revisit it and get familiarized again with how the whole build system worked.
by travelalberta | 2025-10-21 12:14:58+00:00
Similar situation. I work for a provincial government and make €61k, my scope is actually relatively large for how long I’ve been with my team but the actual problems are simple enough that some decent code means I have 0 downtime. As a result if I don’t bug anyone I typically get left alone to manage a bunch of products that run without issue. This week I literally have no meetings on my calendar, just a small project with a generous due date where I’m the solo developer.

I’m lucky in that before I got the job I was in talks to do a PhD but negotiated saying I’d only do it remote.

Now I do whatever is required to keep my day job happy and then spend the rest of my time working on my PhD. My plan was to go to FAANG after I got my degree but who knows… a comfy, unionized tech job that gives me ample time to do side projects is also not something I’d give up too easily.

I’d say do whatever is necessary to keep your job and then devote any extra hours 9-5 to some project. If I wasn’t doing my PhD I’d be making an app or a game probably, or maybe still moonlighting as a researcher. I think most office/tech jobs don’t require your full 40 hours and I can tell you I have a bunch of friends who have even less work responsibilities than me but they just use that spare time to play video games. Just do something productive 9-5 and you will outpace 99% of people is what I’ve found.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-21 12:15:11+00:00
The reason being, as can be seen on the archives, the conservative tracing GC had several gotchas to work with existing code, thus segfaults were common.

The way ARC works in Objective-C, by automating retain/release call patterns already required by existing frameworks was much safer to implement, without such crashes.

Similar to all those C++ smart pointers automating COM reference counting.
Show HN: I built a virtual tabletop for in person RPG games
by snide | 2025-10-21 12:15:44+00:00
Hey all. I've spent the bulk of 2025 fiddling with Table Slayer, a virtual table top specific to in person play with a television. Although there are plenty of options for playing games like Dungeons and Dragons online, there wasn't much tailored to running a game with friends at a table.

The source is open[0], and my stack is currently SQLite, Sveltekit, and Fly. I use Cloudflare for my media, and workers that handle the Partykit real-time syncing (which additionally uses YJS for conflict resolution and syncing).

I have a few dozen paying users at this point, but mostly this is a labor of love that scratches a specific itch I've had myself. Right now I'm working on touch screen controls to support some large-format touchscreens I'm trying to source.

[0]: https://github.com/Siege-Perilous/tableslayer
by freetime2 | 2025-10-21 12:16:11+00:00
I would probably call it 2 billion fps* (with an asterisk), with a footnote to explain how it’s different than video is typically captured. Especially the fact that the resulting video is almost a million discrete events composited together as opposed to a single event. All of which the video is transparent about, and the methodology actually makes the result more interesting IMO.

I would say that everyone - you, other commenters disagreeing with you, and the video - are all technically correct here, and it really comes down to semantics and how we want to define fps. Not really necessary to debate in my opinion since the video clearly describes their methodology, but useful to call out the differences on HN where people frequently go straight to the comments before watching the video.
by Aperocky | 2025-10-21 12:16:21+00:00
DNS is always the single point of failure.

But I think what wasn't well considered was the async effect - If something is gone for 5 minutes, maybe it will be just fine, but when things are properly asynchronous, then the workflows that have piled up during that time becomes a problem in itself. Worst case, they turn into poison pills which then break the system again.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-21 12:16:28+00:00
Thanks, fixed. I intended the 5090 indeed but haven't had a coffee.

Anyway, even the 145W of a 5060 are... an ugly challenge to meet. The 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro for example can happily guzzle 90W when you max out the i9 CPU and the dGPU and gets uncomfortably warm after a few minutes once the aluminium case goes into thermal equilibrium.

Add in even just a 60W CPU to match with a 5060 and you're looking at double that heat to be dissipated!
by fweimer | 2025-10-21 12:16:56+00:00
I don't know if it is intended this way, but there's one useful outcome even with the limited amount of detail disclosed:

There are industry partners who work closely with AMD and Intel (with on-site partner engineers etc.), but who are not represented in the x86 ecosystem advisory group, or maybe they have representation, but not at the right level. If these industry partners notice the blog post and they think they have technology in impacted areas, they can approach their contacts, asking how they can get involved.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-21 12:17:10+00:00
You might be interested in gdevelop; but honestly havent tried it.

I've had multiple attempts at Ursina and Panda3d. AI isnt capable of coding these in any reasonable way.

Pygame is far more plausible to code, but soon as you go beyond that 8bit complexity game, it really starts to chug; but it can get there. Gotta stay 2d it seems.
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by pjmlp | 2025-10-21 12:18:42+00:00
I see plenty of foundational software in the biggest mobile OS, IoT devices and cloud computing infrastructure.

Ada only has use-after-free if unchecked deallocation is used, since we are way beyond Ada83, alternatives do exist in Ada 2022.

If anything we will only get more foundational software in safer languages, when the generation that only accepts C and C++ for specific domains is no longer among us.

Unfortunately to me as well, it isn't something I will be able to witness.
by yowlingcat | 2025-10-21 12:19:02+00:00
You're getting answers in child responses that while accurate are not necessarily answering the spirit of your question. In my personal opinion, you'll find what you're looking for by searching for a high growth Series A - B startup (I would recommend Seed but that's almost a different animal in terms of risk) with a technical product and strong technical founders + eng leadership.

When you're at a company at that stage that's doing well and has a lot of commercial runway ahead of it, the reality can often end up being that the golden age will last long enough for a very pleasant 4-6 year tenure if you so decide to stay at the company through its growth phase (which often takes it from a 50m-100m valuation to $1B+). Some of these companies will also make the leap from $1B+ to $10B+ or beyond (which makes the golden era at least as long as 6-10 years) and although nothing lasts forever, it can last long enough for you to find what you're looking for at least for a decently long period of time. This pertains to what other commenters have mentioned with regards to "making it golden" -- the golden era is what it is because everyone needs to make it golden and the company is too small for anyone who would dilute that for their own gain to do so without anyone noticing.

The challenge to this approach is that it requires being able to assess a company's commercial prospects as well as the quality of the company's founders, leadership and early team well enough to assess whether the company merely looks like a golden era company or whether it is actually the real deal -- something which even professional investors who target these kinds of companies struggle with. It is possible, but in my experience, it definitely took a couple of rounds of trial and error and getting burned a few times before my radar worked.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-21 12:19:44+00:00
There is also an element of tradition with scotch, which is something that can survive even the occasional craftsman who may not care as much about what they do, as long as they respect the traditions.

Humans don't live that long, and there's a constant onslaught of fleeting fancies, especially in business (Wikipedia foundation should buy some crypto for it's treasury!)

Tradition is simply brand value to be monetized for most businessmen (to add to your criticism). Just look at scotch whisky and multinational conglomerate acquisitions. They would never plant trees in America, they simply order giant vats used for the strongest PX Sherry to get maximum flavor per euro for their blending process.
by scott_w | 2025-10-21 12:21:04+00:00
You say this as though it's trivial to just see that Tesla is a scam. There's multiple decades of fawning articles and reviews of Tesla to the point where the average person can't be blamed for assuming they're a reputable company.

But of course, blaming the victim is much easier because it lets the person doing the blaming pretend they're morally and intellectually superior in some way.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-10-21 12:21:11+00:00
Yep, and OPUS files are even lighter. That's why I just sync a "currently listening" music folder with Syncthing and do not think about connection, caching and all that. (I have the rest reachable when I need it, of course.)

200ms and even n+1 won't cut it for a subway, a semi-basement pub, a tunnel, a train or an airplane trip, a hike, a countryside visit, etc.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-21 12:21:36+00:00
The American economy minus AI is most definitely in a recession. The common people are struggling to buy groceries. Wages have been stagnant and prices go up and up.

The problem is that AI is ultimately a luxury good. Even at it's currently ultra-subsidized rate, it's hard to justify. If it gets any more expensive, no consumers will buy it.

Which might be fine, if we turn to enterprise. Except: a problem. Companies produce goods, which people then buy. AI can replace labor maybe, but it can't replace consumers.
by sillyfluke | 2025-10-21 12:22:13+00:00
I think this view is doing a bit of a disservice to the article and to the concept by looking at things a little too narrowly. The point is this is not about myths this is about reality -- valid oral records exist in the modern world that are not myths.

Let's take a modern example. There is a place where the road to it's entrance has changed recently. It's been six months and Google Maps has still not updated the "written record" (Incidenetally this a real situation I'm talking about, not a hypothetical fhough it shouldn't matter.) The only reason people in the vicinity know the correct way is through word of mouth. It's a simple case where the oral record is correct and the written record is false. The truth has propagated orally from the people witnessing the change to the surrounding region.

Another example. The educated member of family of farmers always teases their mother about how she always tells them to use oils extracted from various plants whenever they have different ailments, recommending a specific plant depending on what the ailment is. Since the educated child can't find scientific literature supporting the claim, they often ignore the advice. Big pharma is not incentivised to fund clinical studies on these type of plants since they'd rather create a synthetic form of whatever property of the plant is aiding the healing and patent that synthetic formula instead, so studies like these are not prioritized. Years later, when someone finally gets around to conducting clinical studies on some of the regional plants, they end up supporting their mother's claims.

It should be even more apparent if we use the legal system as an analogy, since everyone now understands that if you are not literate in legal matters or don't have a top notch lawyer you can lose even if you're in the right. People are abused because they are legally illiterate, and it is in fact a type of tyranny. Oral records vs written records have the same problem. It's a very hard problem to solve but it is a problem.
by mnutt | 2025-10-21 12:23:58+00:00
Even their transfer rates between AZs _in the same region_ are expensive, given they presumably own the fiber?

This aligns with their “you should be in multiple AZs” sales strategy, because self-hosted and third-party services can’t replicate data between AZs without expensive bandwidth costs, while their own managed services (ElastiCache, RDS, etc) can offer replication between zones for free.
by UncleMeat | 2025-10-21 12:24:53+00:00
But what are they?

You said this:

> One example of many I remember was a social/music class where the prof asked the lecture if there are any innate, non-culture-specific features that make music enjoyable. I raised my hand to say I think so, because octave equivalence seems pretty universal, but the right answer was no.

Does the octave interval make music enjoyable in some non culturally contingent way? I don't think that the evidence for this is super strong. There's music from around the world that would consider harmonic motion from consonance to dissonance to consonance to be wrong. There's music from around the world that would consider metered rhythm to be wrong.
by latexr | 2025-10-21 12:24:54+00:00
> ignore it at your own peril

I’m not arguing for ignoring it, my point is different.

> but I think it will profoundly change software development.

The point is that this is said every time, together with “the previous thing to which the exact same praise was given, wasn’t it”. So it’s several rounds of “yes yes, the previous time the criticisms were right, but this time it’s different, trust me”. So everyone else is justified in being skeptical.

No one wants AI to have the problems it has (technical, ethical, and others). If they didn’t it would be better for everyone. Criticism is a way of surfacing issues so they can be fixed.

And sure, I’ll grant that some people want to bash the other side more than they want to arrive at the truth, but those exist in all sides of the argument (probably in roughly equal measure?). So to have a productive conversation we need to go in with the mindset of “we’re on the same side in the goal of not having this suck”.
by sam_lowry_ | 2025-10-21 12:25:13+00:00
I may be utterly wrong, but this is what I think has happened:

This post triggered the an attempt to cancel DHH: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

DHH races sports cars with Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke. These two plus some pro-Israel and anti-immigration pals pushed out all the cancel culture guys that already tried to cancel DHH in 2022 after his no-politics fiasco at Basecamp.

That's how RubyGems landed in the hands of the only impartial arbiter Matz.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-21 12:25:18+00:00
I don't know -- as I said in another comment, my Wikipedia usage has gone down 90% thanks to LLMs.

But that means I'm still using it. Especially for more reference stuff like lists of episodes, filmographies, etc. As well as equations, math techniques, etc.

If you're the kind of person who donates to Wikipedia, you're probably still using it some even if less, and continue to recognize its importance. Possibly even more, as a kind of collaboratively-edited authority like Wikipedia only becomes more important as AI "slop" becomes more prevalent across blogs etc.
by _hark | 2025-10-21 12:25:43+00:00
They really should have just marketed the software "as-is" to whatever extent that is allowed by law. I guess they didn't because deployed automobile software is probably not allowed to be considered experimental.

Still, comms that framed it like: "This software purchase upgrades your car with state-of-the-art autonomy capabilities from our AI team, as we approach full self-driving" would have been more honest, still exciting to consumers, and avoided over-promising.
by panick21 | 2025-10-21 12:25:45+00:00
AI and focus on Self-Driving has been the biggest failure and blindspot for Tesla (Musk). So much of the strategy evolved around that, its a big reason why I pulled my investment. I invested because they were growing fast, had a pretty good product and had very high marin despite massive investment charging, service and verticial integration. And their next generation product should have been a reusable platform that could delvier a basic van, basic suv and basic pickup, all from the same assembly line. After that focus on a cheaper smaller electric car.

I thought it made a lot of sense to focus on a well functioning Level 2 System that they owned themselves. Make highway driving, start-stop traffic and such easy as possible. Make the car helpful and easy to use.

But then Tesla started focusing on making complex navigation and remote summening a feature when tons of basic stuff didn't work very well yet. For example, automated parking, 360 view, detection of features like shadows and such. Why not focus specifically on the actual dangrous problem looking around blind corners and installing a sensor suit that can help humans with the problem.

Promsing Full Self Driving with existing hardware and selling that when they had not proven that it could work was idioitc and I always felt like it was a liability. They should have been sued over this a while ago.

Initially Tesla messaging was save, nice software, fun to drive and green, and it then became half baked software, don't drive it and risky.

When it came out that Musk said they should build a cheaper next generation car, because Self-Driving would collapse the car market by 80% I knew the company had completely lost its way.
by deadbabe | 2025-10-21 12:25:48+00:00
I just did the same thing but instead of vector space I used full text search with sufficiently tokenized text and searched for possible existing keyword matches before assigning the label, and basically got the same results or better than the article at a fraction of the cost (no need to vectorize).

It’s fairly obvious tbh, an agent needs a way to search, not just expect it to produce the same labels that magically match prior results. Have we been so blinded we’ve forgotten this kind of stuff?
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-10-21 12:26:06+00:00
What platform are you talking about in this case?

If anyone here is a conman, it is Musk - given that he literally had people pay a subscription for something that never materialized, repeatedly promising 'oh it'll be here soon' - that is literally the textbook definition of a conman - 'a person who tricks other people in order to get their money'[0]

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/con%20man
by benterix | 2025-10-21 12:27:01+00:00
> On one hand, it's not their job to care about your long term health - they need to rule out an emergency and get you out the door as quickly as possible - but it's very concerning.

Yeah, but what's the alternative when you have a stroke? They need to understand it's type and the mistake here is likely to be fatal since they require opposite treatments.
by freehorse | 2025-10-21 12:27:08+00:00
> There's a reason that people with strabismus lose depth perception.

Still we don't stumble onto things nor do we fail recognise what is on a glass vs inside. Even if we do not have binocular depth perception, we actually perceive depth irl just fine.

And people with binocular vision also fall for depth illusions just fine, too. The brain does a lot of predictive processing. It would be too inefficient to be constantly relying on such details for basic tasks.
by infecto | 2025-10-21 12:28:17+00:00
Not sure why this is downvoted. Yes it requires human monitoring. I use it on a daily basis though for my commuter with zero interventions on highways. I choose to drive my HW3 Tesla for road trips and is a lot less exhausting paying attention than it is driving.

By all means not a defense of the general Tesla grift and how many years of failed promises it took to get here but what’s here now is pretty decent.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-21 12:28:26+00:00
> It means that now, people are paying for their AI subscriptions

Most people are not paying a cent. And the people that are, are paying for stuff like coding assistance or classification, not the kind of info you get on Wikipedia.

Looking up Wikipedia-style information on LLM's is not a driving factor in paid subscriptions to ChatGPT etc.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-21 12:28:32+00:00
AIUI "Autopilot" and "Full Self Driving" were always just SAE Level 2, although arguably a more full-featured implementation of that SAE level than other automakers. Which means you must pay attention to the road at all times (i.e. you're still very much driving!) and the car provides enhanced cruise control and lane following.
by nicohayes | 2025-10-21 12:29:08+00:00
I built an AI music generator that turns text prompts into full tracks. Features: • 50+ music styles (rock, jazz, electronic, classical, etc.) • Three modes: Inspiration, Custom, Instrumental • Outputs: WAV, MP3, MIDI • Commercial license included • Sign up and get 2 free generations to try Link: https://musicgeneratorai.io What kind of music would you create with this?
by Fricken | 2025-10-21 12:29:27+00:00
I was initially dismissive of the photo, but it is part of a series, titled "Study of perspective" that Weiwei has been adding to since 1995. He has been giving the finger to many symbols of imperialism and authoritarianism around the world for 30 years.

https://publicdelivery.org/ai-weiwei-study-of-perspective/
by pjmlp | 2025-10-21 12:29:28+00:00
Define modern.

IDEs with such capabilities were already available in the 1990's.

I became an XEmacs user in the 1990's, because there was hardly anything better in UNIX systems.

Remember, Emacs still lacked many niceties only available on XEmacs, and vim was yet to be invented.

This is how old such IDE features have been available.