MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iamflimflam1 | 2025-10-11 11:57:10+00:00
Invent a fictitious finance controller for your business.

This “person” can be as angry/obnoxious as needed to get paid. And don’t be afraid to pass debts onto collection agencies - or at least threaten this…

You can preserve your nice relationships with customers - after all, what can you do, finance are a separate department, it’s out of your hands.
by _kb | 2025-10-11 11:58:21+00:00
Outside of AV1/2 (and linear media in general) that's already well and truly developed tech. Nvidia DLSS, AMD FSR and Intel XeSS all provide spatial/temporal super sampling to process lower fidelity base renders [0].

There also seems to be a fair bit of attention on that problem space from the real-time comms vendors with Cisco [1], Microsoft [2] and Google [3] already leaning on model based audio codecs. With the advantages that provides both around packet loss mitigation and shifting costs to end user (aka free) compute and away from central infra I can't see that not extending to the video channel too.

[0]: https://mtisoftware.com/understanding-ai-upscaling-how-dlss-...

[1]: https://www.webex.com/gp/webex-ai-codec.html

[2]: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftteamsblog/...

[3]: https://research.google/blog/lyra-a-new-very-low-bitrate-cod...
by flohofwoe | 2025-10-11 11:58:41+00:00
Looking at the ANARI spec and SDK it looks pretty much like a typical C API to me, implementing an old-school scene-graph system. What am I missing - e.g. what makes it specifically well suited for non-C languages? :)

If anything it looks more like an admission by Khronos that Vulkan wasn't such a great idea (but a 3D API that's based on scene graphs isn't either, so I'm not sure what's so great about ANARI tbh).
by _heimdall | 2025-10-11 12:00:32+00:00
One token at a time.

If it has detailed context of exactly what the entire app will need to do before writing any code, the first tokens will be more likely to build an architecture that works well in a language and framework that is suited for it.

If the initial context is thin on details, it will still pick an architecture, language, and framework but it may not be the best fit for the end goal. After those choices are made that just becomes more context, and it likely would never consider whether the language is now wrong and the entire codebase should be started fresh with a new language or framework.
by xpe | 2025-10-11 12:00:45+00:00
> Now this is ironic.

Ironic is the opposite of what you mean, don't you think? By your explanation, Kahneman acted according to his life's work.

> The guy who spent his life researching how to live rationally chooses suicide at age 90, upon seeing “increasing metal lapses”, presumably in order to not ever live irrationally.

That was possibly part of his motivation. But also the pain, suffering (goes broader than physical pain), confusion, and cost -- to him and his family.
by joshstrange | 2025-10-11 12:02:02+00:00
It didn’t take me long to parse out the meaning but the phrasing was confusing.

“The next book he wrote, Noise, ….” Would have been better or “After that book he wrote Noise….”.

I absolutely was confused for a second or two and thought “wait, are we talking about a different person? He isn’t going to have a ‘next’ book unless he had one queued up?”.

Did I need the explanation above? Not really, I’d come to the right conclusion on my own but I can imagine someone who isn’t a native speaker (reader?) might stumble on that more and I enjoyed the confirmation.
by Bender | 2025-10-11 12:03:33+00:00
That would be also nice, but given we can't make everyone to do the most basic interoperability I don't see it working…

Many moons ago there were a couple browsers that looked for the ICRA PICS label but the adoption was low due to complexity of the header creation and a lack of laws requiring it. I expect it would take an intern an afternoon to create the code to look for the RTA header and probably a couple weeks to get through the QA/staging process. It only needs to initially get into Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox to protect small children on a tablet with kids using a normie account and parents retaining the super-user account. Should a law pass that has a timeline for the check to be mandatory I expect a majority of web agents to recognize and act on the RTA header long before the deadline.

It would be 100% more than what we have today is nothing in the browser and privacy invading third parties that would not be involved in kids going to sites that do not force people into said third party sites which is most of them. To be a fly on the wall when someone tries to force the third party ID checks on 4chan...
by worksonmine | 2025-10-11 12:03:49+00:00
I don't know about Helix but Neovim (and vim) has something called sessions and it does everything but unsaved files. By default it's manual but it wouldn't be too difficult to automate. A very simple way could just create/update the session on BufWritePost and ExitPre. Then create an alias to open Neovim with that session: 'nvim -S .session.vim'.

You'll get an error if the session doesn't exist but it's easy to dismiss. There are probably plugins that do this in a more seamless way though if you prefer.
by matt_kantor | 2025-10-11 12:04:03+00:00
How much time do you think people should invest in staying informed about politics?

The upthread discussion was about being glued to the 24/7 news cycle, which at least in the US focuses mostly on national political drama. If you're suggesting that people should spend most of their limited attention budget following that news cycle, then they won't have attention left for much else.

I don't think anyone in this thread would say that spending, say, 15 minutes a day getting caught up on political happenings is a bad thing. It only becomes harmful when it sucks up all of your attention (as it does for political junkies).
by sillyfluke | 2025-10-11 12:04:21+00:00
Apple engaging in "me-tooing" speculative investor trends then chickening out when the hype bubble bursts is getting tiresome, almost conjuring into evidence it's being run by a visionless CEO.

It can still turnaround it's mediocre position on the post-metaverse hype bubble that is AI. I'm concerned that they'll show the same analysis paralysis and lack of vision to follow through once the AI bubble bursts as well. But if they somehow managed to turn it around on both fronts that would be epic obviously.
by 1dom | 2025-10-11 12:05:01+00:00
> If you’ve already made it to 90 with no major issues, you’re expected to make it to 95 and you could make easily live to 100. My wife’s grandad is 90 and he still lives alone, drives, plays golf nearly everyday, and regularly sees his 12 grandchildren and many great grandchildren.

Counter-anecdote, my partners Granddad is 93. Age 90, we said the same as you. Now he's an old, rude, obnoxious liability - he's still great, and I don't hold it against him, he's earned the right. But I've never known anyone naturally age and die without losing their ability to be civil in some way towards the end.

From the article:

> Kahneman knew that many would see his decision as premature. But that was exactly what he intended, he wrote: If you wait until a life is "obviously no longer worth living", it is already too late.

I personally wish my partners final memories of her Granddad were him at 90, and not at 93. I've known for a good 5 - 10 years I will take the same route as Kahneman. I feel the desire to stay alive long enough to be a liability for yourself and those around you is a decision motivated by ego and fear, rather than compassion or logic.
by James_K | 2025-10-11 12:05:25+00:00
Would you consider this to be indicative of the quality of the C++ language? I think the standard library should usually be an example of optimal code with respect to performance, and when it is very complicated this would indicate, to me, that the language makes good code complicated.

If you look at an advanced C library, you'll see perhaps some odd tricks or nifty algorithms, but you probably won't see something that leaves you scratching your head about what the code is even asking the computer to do.
by aurareturn | 2025-10-11 12:06:14+00:00
I could absolutely see something like rendering a simplified and stylised version and getting Transformers to fill in details. That's kind of a direct evolution from the upscaling approach described here, but end to end rendering from game state is far less obvious.

Sure. This could be a variation. You do a quick render that any GPU from 2025 can do and then make the frame hyper realistic through a transformer model. It's basically saying the same thing.

The main rendering would be done by the transformer.

Already in 2025, Google Veo 3 is generating pixels far more realistic than AAA games. I don't see why this wouldn't be the default rendering mode for AAA games in 2035. It's insanity to think it won't be.

Veo3: https://aistudio.google.com/models/veo-3
by hayden_dev | 2025-10-11 12:06:19+00:00
The vast majority of this comment is false, btw

The infrastructure to host the forges is still a problem yes, but PDSes are VERY trivial to run, they’re just a Node.js app and they have a Compose file to make running it a quick shell script to run. And they will always be free, Bluesky is well aware that making access to the platform a paid thing would kill the project outright, and even then the code is open source and in the process of being written up as an RFC, so… please fact check your comments before posting :)
by ilaksh | 2025-10-11 12:06:52+00:00
Does this use CLIP or something to get embeddings for each image and normal text embeddings for the text fields, and then feed the top N results to a VLM (LLM) to select the best answer(s)?

What's the advantage of this over using llamaindex?

Although even asking that question I will be honest, the last thing I used llamaindex for, it seemed mostly everything had to be shoehorned in as using that library was a foregone conclusion, even though ChromaDB was doing just about all the work in the end because the built in test vector store that llamaindex has strangely bad performance with any scale.

I do like how simple the llamaindex DocumentStore or whatever is where you can just point it at a directory. But it seems when using a specific vectordb you often can't do that.

I guess the other thing people do is put everything in postgres. Do people use pgvector to store image embeddings?
by exasperaited | 2025-10-11 12:07:28+00:00
There’s a solution to this you can start on right now: structure your life and experiences such that you become an awesome grandparent with hilarious stories, humility and appeal to your grandchildren.

I probably won’t ever meet my grandchildren if there are any, because I am over fifty and single; I probably will never be a parent. So I will have to go a lot sooner if I am not to be a burden on society. But if you think you are going to be a grandparent, you can work on being an irreplaceable and useful one.
by xpe | 2025-10-11 12:07:44+00:00
You seem quite interested in right versus wrong. I wonder if you will be intellectually honest if/when I reveal errors, mistakes, oversimplifications, and so on?

> I looked up the word in a few different dictionaries and the top entry aligns more with "subsequent" in every one.

Even if you had looked at every dictionary, would you claim such a process resolves ambiguity in general? I hope not.

As you know, there are other entries other than the first in a dictionary. Multiple entries means there are multiple usages: there can be ambiguity. Sometimes usage diminishes or eliminates ambiguity, but not always.

> I looked up the word in a few different dictionaries...

You only took a small sample. How can you offer this as definitive evidence? You can't.

In case you didn't check it or overlooked it, here is the first entry from the Apple Dictionary:

> 1 (of a time or season) coming immediately after the time of writing or speaking: we'll go next year | next week's parade.

Anyhow, my argument does not rely on pointing to a dictionary and saying "I'm right" and "you are wrong". I am saying:

1. Reasonable people see ambiguity (in this specific case and in general)

2. No one person is the arbiter of what is ambiguous for others.

3. Claiming there is a definitive process to resolve ambiguity for everyone is naive.
by setopt | 2025-10-11 12:07:53+00:00
Same here. I was about to order a new MacBook recently, but there’s been a lot of small issues annoying me over the past few years and Liquid Glass was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.

Back to Linux for me. Ended up ordering a Thinkpad X1 Carbon instead, and am planning to throw Fedora on it.
Ask HN: Can AI Coding redefine how enterprises approach digital transformation?
by mikasisiki | 2025-10-11 12:08:38+00:00
Most companies don’t just need standardized SaaS tools — they need customized solutions like tailored CRMs, ERPs, Retool-style internal tools, Notion-like platforms, or Salesforce-level systems that align with their unique, self-driven business logic for data creation, modification, and management.

How can AI help build and adapt these personalized systems more efficiently than traditional software development?

Does this demand really exist?
by megous | 2025-10-11 12:08:47+00:00
Yes, you can first validate the buffer, to know it contains valid JSON, and then you can work with pointers to beginings of individual syntactic parts of JSON, and have functions that decide what type of the current element is, or move to the next element, etc. Even string work (comparisons with other escaped or unescaped strings, etc.) can be done on escaped strings directly without unescaping them to a buffer first.

Ergonomically, it's pretty much the same as parsing the JSON into some AST first, and then working on the AST. And it can be much faster than dumb parsers that use malloc for individual AST elements.

You can even do JSON path queries on top of this, without allocations.

Eg. https://xff.cz/git/megatools/tree/lib/sjson.c
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-10-11 12:10:24+00:00
MAID being inappropriately offered to people who haven't expressed interest in it, and also being extended widely to people without terminal illness, has certainly become a controversy in Canada.

https://archive.is/bd0PV

https://thewalrus.ca/assisted-dying/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/doesnt-line-up-mps-c...
by tomhow | 2025-10-11 12:10:38+00:00
It's fine to think that, and I hope you can trust that what we care most about is the trust and health of the overall community, and it's an ongoing challenge to find the right balance. We won't get it right every day or month but we hope we can over the long term. It's still important for all users to make an effort to observe the guidelines do their own bit to contribute constructively to HN.
by nabla9 | 2025-10-11 12:13:05+00:00
If the society treats people badly, that's not a reason to deny them the ability to do final exit with dignity. We must fight to fix the problem cases, not take dignity away from those who suffer from it.

> It’s relatively common for families to push people into nursing homes,

So you are rejected by your family and punished even more by taking away a dignified exit strategy?
by sarchertech | 2025-10-11 12:13:11+00:00
1. You get the money now as opposed to potentially many years from now.

2. You likely get much more money if they die now without spending it on cost of living, and healthcare.

People do all kinds of awful things in order to get control of an elderly family member’s money—up to and including outright murder. Pressuring a suggestible family member into assisted suicide is a comparatively easy and low risk method.
by iamflimflam1 | 2025-10-11 12:13:42+00:00
Just be aware that if your aim it to generate income it’s not a hobby anymore.

Also remember that for every successful person making money online - there is a long tail of people grinding away making next to nothing.

For example, my YouTube channel with just over 50K subscribers makes around $80-$90 per month. And I’m considered by a lot of people to be “successful”.

Sponsorship can bump this up - but being very honest - if I had been earning my consulting rates for the time I spend on this “hobby” I would be happily retired by now.
by wl | 2025-10-11 12:13:49+00:00
> The Egyptian and the Sumerian culture were very strongly linked with near identical cultic symbols and building plans for temples up until 3100BC.

There was prehistoric (i.e. pre-writing) trade between Sumer and Egypt. Scholars have argued that the idea of writing based on the rebus principle—but not a specific writing system—may have been communicated one way or another through this trade contact.

Your claim that the cultures were "very strongly linked with near identical cultic symbols and building plans for temples" is a new one for me—and I volunteer at a museum of ancient near eastern archeology. The material culture of pre-Dynastic Egypt and Sumer are rather distinct from each other. And when we do get writing describing their religion, those are also rather distinct from each other.
by lnenad | 2025-10-11 12:14:18+00:00
I don't know how old are you but I distinctly remember how big of a hard on everyone had for Angular and then React and virtualdom. React actually brought some good things in how you engineered your frontend code. This thing goes back on that completely and forces you to mix and match your frontend code on both the frontend and the backend. I genuinely don't understand how one could seriously consider this for a large application.
by rolandog | 2025-10-11 12:14:49+00:00
I read your comment and it strikes me as a cautionary tale that can be used by bad people to justify or push for eugenics: "they took him; they said he developed Alzheimer's".

As we're currently seeing happen: whatever is left unsaid in the body of the law can and will be abused by evil people to concentrate more power (even if the spirit of the law advocates for something kind).

So, we have to normalize some sort of stress tests for laws... because you sure don't want to be dragged against your will because you're poor.
by ThatPlayer | 2025-10-11 12:14:49+00:00
> Enabling raytracing in games tends to suck.

Because enabling raytracing means the game supports non-raytracing too. Which limits the game's design on how they can take advantage of raytracing being realtime.

The only exception to this I've seen The Finals: https://youtu.be/MxkRJ_7sg8Y . Made by ex-Battlefield devs, the dynamic environment from them 2 years ago is on a whole other level even compared to Battlefield 6.
by speff | 2025-10-11 12:15:00+00:00
I found two, but it looks like the topic was deleted. Kagi had it partially cached as a search result[0]. The first thread in that list seems a bit more ...pushy than the second thread. Though I think you're still right - was probably just a new coder who was excited about what they found.

[0]: https://files.catbox.moe/oepmri.png
by fidotron | 2025-10-11 12:15:45+00:00
Tangentially:

> The vision was meant to use the trade facility and urban renewal as tools to clear and revitalize what had become a “commercial slum”.

What this refers to is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Row#New_York_City

Basically you cannot have Akihabara or Shenzhen style electronics markets because the sort of people that built the WTC don't like their chaotic appearance.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-11 12:15:54+00:00
We lived at least in a consensus reality world, where most people with some basic education agreed on most things that were obviously true, and most people had a shared sense of the fuzzy boundaries of fact and opinion.

We now do not, and it has nothing to do with power systems [0] and everything to do with a newfound facility to mislead at scale, which states and individuals alike will use.

[0] except that elements of one power system —- west coast tech firms —- are inventing the very tools of this destruction of consensus.
by consp | 2025-10-11 12:16:10+00:00
Transflective memory cell lcd's are amazing technology for the price they cost and the power they use. You trade some viberance for that but I'd call that acceptable tradeoff for always on.

The "epaper" branding is Sharp's idea. And "epaper" has been used for all kinds of things which are not the technology eInk has developed and popularized.
by iamflimflam1 | 2025-10-11 12:16:24+00:00
You’ll be joining a lot of other people doing exactly the same thing.

The barriers to entry for this used to be slightly higher. You would have to write the script, read it out, edit any bloopers and then find some interesting b-roll to go along with it.

This is not all pretty much automated and the sea of AI slop on YouTube is quite incredible.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-11 12:17:03+00:00
> 60% of the patients who died with Kevorkian's help were not terminally ill, and at least 13 had not complained of pain....The report also stated that Kevorkian failed to refer at least 17 patients to a pain specialist after they complained of chronic pain and sometimes failed to obtain a complete medical record for his patients, with at least three autopsies of suicides Kevorkian had assisted with showing the person who committed suicide to have no physical sign of disease. Rebecca Badger, a patient of Kevorkian's and a mentally troubled drug abuser, had been mistakenly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The report also stated that Janet Adkins, Kevorkian's first euthanasia patient, had been chosen without Kevorkian ever speaking to her, only with her husband, and that when Kevorkian first met Adkins two days before her assisted suicide he "made no real effort to discover whether Ms. Adkins wished to end her life," as the Michigan Court of Appeals put it in a 1995 ruling upholding an order against Kevorkian's activity.[26] According to The Economist: "Studies of those who sought out Dr. Kevorkian, however, suggest that though many had a worsening illness... it was not usually terminal. Autopsies showed five people had no disease at all... Little over a third were in pain. Some presumably suffered from no more than hypochondria or depression."[27]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian
by ta1243 | 2025-10-11 12:17:49+00:00
My nan made it to 92 without any mental issues, but then deteriorated significantly over the course of 18 months, forgetting she'd ever been married, had kids, etc, just reverted to believing she was a teenager who wanted to go home to her parents (in a house which was destroyed in ww2)

She couldn't look after herself was was forced into care by the courts. Since going into a home she's physically never been fitter, but mentally she's not the person she was 10 years ago -- it's not that she's changed personality, it's as if her memory of the last 80 years was wiped.
by exDM69 | 2025-10-11 12:17:52+00:00
> I am sadly aware, but I won't switch until the complexity is fixed

It pretty much is by now if you can use Vulkan 1.4 (or even 1.3). It's a pretty lean and mean API once you've got it bootstrapped.

There's still a lot of setup code to get off the ground (device enumeration, extensions and features, swapchain setup, pipeline layouts), but beyond that Vulkan is much nicer to work with than OpenGL. Just gotta get past the initial hurdle.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-11 12:18:41+00:00
> Not only lack of truth, but lack of locality/relevance is an issue.

You could have stopped there. I don't think we (in the U.S.) get too much international news — to the contrary in fact. But to be sure we are not getting enough local and relevant news.

For example, just opened Google news and saw "Joy Behar calls out “The View” cohost's revealing outfit: 'Where are you going in that dress?'"

(Of course it's easy to cherry pick dumb celebrity "news".)