MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vel0city | 2025-10-24 14:14:08+00:00
I'll share my experience. Playing a small pot poker game every now and then can be fun between friends. I've had a few groups of guys I'd go play poker with from time to time throughout the years.

The buy in would be something kind of low for everyone playing, like $20. No repeat buy-ins. So the loss if you didn't win wasn't much, and the payout wasn't exactly life changing but like take your spouse out to a nice date night with the winnings kind of thing. I'd often spend $20 or so doing some other kind of event with friends from time to time anyways, so its not like its some large amount being spent on entertainment. Paying for a batting cage for the evening or go-karts or renting a karaoke booth is also a 100% chance of losing money, should we also never do these things?

There's lots of deception to be played in tons of card games and board games, I don't know why poker would be held as something odd. Any game where you're holding a secret hand pretty much involves some amount of hidden motivations. One might also bluff in Catan or deceive their opponents in their strategy, should we also avoid playing that game? I'll try and hide my routes from everyone else when I'm playing ticket to ride, is that bad?

I'm stuck sitting at a table and following rules for hours. Like any other board or card game. People are stuck sitting at a table and following rules for hours playing tabletop role-playing games as well. To me, it was a chance to catch up with these friends, which at that point in time in our lives catching up at the poker game was kind of the big quarterly check-in with each other. I loved spending the time with these friends, sitting around the table and sharing life with each other, often also partaking in meals and drinks.

The victory condition is winning the pot, yes. Which, as mentioned, for at least in my games wasn't exactly some life changing amount of money one was taking from friends. We all went in knowing we'd probably be out the $20 in the end, and in the end the winner would have a small amount of money as a little bonus. And as mentioned, most of us would use it to take our significant others out on a date the next night.

I honestly don't see it as any different from spending a night playing any other board game or roleplaying game with friends, other than with a small bit of money involved as well. Obviously, other people go way harder with this gambling, which quickly just becomes an addition to the high of winning.
by zipy124 | 2025-10-24 14:14:18+00:00
The depth information that sony cameras collect is almost certainly low-res enough that even with a simple image->depthmap model[0] you could fool it. Also they don't say anything about the sensor itself being secure, no need to print something if you can just emulate the sensor with an FPGA or other.

[0]: https://github.com/CompVis/depth-fm
by tricorn | 2025-10-24 14:14:30+00:00
There are problems with either approach, because an LLM is not really thinking.

Always starting over and trying to get it all into one single prompt can be much more work, with no better results than iteratively building up a context (which could probably be proven to sometimes result in a "better" result that could not have been achieved otherwise).

Just telling it to "forget everything, let's start over" will have significantly different results than actually starting over. Whether that is sufficient, or even better than alternatives, is entirely dependent on the problem and the context it is supposed to "forget". If your response had been "try just telling it to start over, it might work and be a lot easier than actually starting over" you might have gotten a better reception. Calling everyone morons because your response indicates a degree of misunderstanding how an LLM operates is not helpful.
by simonsarris | 2025-10-24 14:14:41+00:00
I mean, one could write something like "I cannot imagine why people actually like ski resorts"

- 100% likelihood you lose money

- the point of the game is fly down a mountain and not hit any trees (about 45 more deaths per year than poker in the US)

- you're stuck sitting in a lift or a line and following rules for hours

- there are no victory conditions
by Bostonian | 2025-10-24 14:15:48+00:00
'Scale drives efficiency—for almost a century, industrial planners have relied on this simple principle. In 1936 aeronautical engineer Theodore Wright discovered that costs fell in a predictable way every time production doubled. The more you produce, the cheaper things become, in part because the learning cost per unit declines.

Artificial intelligence has accelerated this principle. It is rewriting Wright’s Law, which assumes that experience follows production: You make mistakes, learn from them and improve. AI makes it possible for experience to come before production. Simulation can happen millions of times before a single box is shipped. Experience scales almost instantly at no real cost. The learning curve doesn’t only steepen. It collapses.

That means knowledge that once took decades of human trial and error can emerge in weeks, days, even hours. In a supply chain, this is a profound shift. Decisions about capacity, warehouse space, routing, technology adoption and risk management can be modeled, tested and optimized in advance. The costs of imprecise planning shrink dramatically.

AI is breaking Wright’s Law because the learning cycle is no longer physical but computational. Distribution models can test, fail and improve millions of times faster than any team of human engineers. Experience can be generated in advance, at scale and at negligible cost.'

...
by dktp | 2025-10-24 14:15:55+00:00
People making most money _playing_ poker are really really good players that get invited to games with the wealthy people. This takes both poker skills, social skills (being entertaining) and potentially doing some occasional "fun" (incorrect) plays.

They are not the best poker players in the world. Best poker players have the misfortune of not being invited to "fun" millionaire games

If you have enough of an edge, the variance is really not that big. The only reason to have high-tech cheating when you already have a table full of fish - is if the people running the scheme are not very good at poker
by ranadomo | 2025-10-24 14:16:14+00:00
This is a common fallacy. Criminals often turn to crime because they're not very good at honest endeavors. Having failed to succeed on a fair playing field (hard), they victimize the weak and take advantage of others' naivety and trust (easy).

Almost nothing about crime is indicative of an intelligent mind that could be put to good use. It's a lot of lowlife midwits who are bitter they have no chance to compete or associate with real players.
by tmerc | 2025-10-24 14:16:35+00:00
No experience in the uk, but I might be able to explain. YellowJackets are wasps, I'm calling them out specifically; wasp is used for other species.

Wasps nest under the eaves of houses all the time. If they're not near an entryway, usually people leave them alone as long as the nest stays small.

Yellow jackets do not nest under the eaves of a house. They burrow in the ground (or walls) where you can't see them or the nest size. They're also particularly aggressive and will swarm if you step on their nest.

YJs are more aggressive and territorial than a normal "wasp" with the added bonus of sometimes they just swarm you out of nowhere.
by agentcoops | 2025-10-24 14:17:07+00:00
It’s the same for me and every other aphantasic I’ve spoken with. I go years and years without remembering dreams, but there are distinct periods in my life when I remembered them often. For me it’s essentially if I wake up in a dreaming state and can quickly “translate” them into language. Strange to describe, but I do have a very distinct experience of dejavu sometimes, which I’ve come to believe is tied to latent dream memories—curious if you have anything like that?

It’s actually something very interesting about the function of dreaming in the brain that this is the case. That there’s such insane variability in the structure of conscious experience and memory, but the imagistic quality of dreaming fulfills a necessary role for all. I’ve read reputable studies that suggest it’s crucial for learning, something similar to training on synthetic data.
by clifdweller | 2025-10-24 14:17:38+00:00
The idea isn't a bad one in some cases like travel photography. Between background people removal and lightroom a good chunk of travel pictures are not a good representation of what you can expect. on Instagram there are plenty of pictures of people standing alone in front of the Eifel tower or at inari gates in afternoon lighting that is unrealistic outside the pandemic or a 6am shot. Or take cherry blossom viewing in tokyo. More trees are white or very light pink but you would not know that looking at what people post often the camera auto balancing to make them more pink because if it doesn't people think there is a problem with the camera; that incentivizes sony, canon etc to build that in.
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-24 14:17:41+00:00
>As a Canadian

Didn't take long to discover that your "as a Canadian" is actually "as a hyper-partisan Alberta separatist that thinks oil is all that matters".

Kind of gave up the game when you said this nonsense: "we've been putting up tariffs on trading partners' goods".

"It's funny, we've been trying to forge closer ties with the EU and China but again"

You really, really have no idea what you're talking about.
by SamTinnerholm | 2025-10-24 14:18:07+00:00
Type 'EV adoption rates in Norway' and get a formatted time-series CSV in 10 seconds. That's the entire product. Statista charges €490/month for literally the same thing.

Still early and has rough edges: some queries fail, source citations need work, and the UI is... functional. But it works well enough that I've stopped paying for Statista. Which is wild because most of this data is already public anyway.

Free tier is live at qoery.com. What data would you search for first, and did it actually work?
by elmerfud | 2025-10-24 14:18:22+00:00
It does give them the means, the problem is it gave them too much. Gen Z claims they can't afford anything but they're walking around with cellphones that are far in excess of what any financially responsible person would consider appropriate for their income. Sucking down $6 foofoo drinks and $20 lunches and then getting their dinner delivered!!! My God, this doesn't even scratch the surface on now financially irresponsible they are.

They were given a society of dreams and desires but failed to be taught to control themselves or to be responsible. So yes elders do deserve the blame, it's their fault for giving too much and teaching too little. A world full of wonders and amazements and temptations and a generation that has zero self-control. But as far as the society that doesn't allow them the means to support themselves, that is a complete and utter garbage argument in every way shape and form.
by Clouudy | 2025-10-24 14:18:44+00:00
TBH I don't necessarily think that ecosystem is what matters in every application, but it is necessary for most people, I agree. And I do agree with finishing a lot of the half-baked features too, but I'm unsure if the people maintaining the language have the will or the means to do that.

Do you have any other ideas about how D could stand out again?
by DannyBee | 2025-10-24 14:19:26+00:00
" So offering something for free and then rescinding later is treated worse than never offering anything for free at all!"

This is true plenty of times. In particular, if you violate social expectations/etc, you will often see this.

For example, here's an easy case:

I am about to go plant a bunch of trees.

A neighbor sees me going to do it, and offers to do it for me for free, because they like to do it.

I say cool. They can even say "just so you know, i'm not your contractor, blah blah blah" or whatever. Doesn't matter.

I go do something else with my time.

A week later, they did half the job, and quit, or they did the whole job and made a hash of it, or whatever.

1. It wouldn't make sense for me to expect them to fail or stop doing it or do it poorly just because it was free. Nor plan for them to fail.

2. Most people would still complain even though they paid nothing, and are arguably no worse off (depending on the options you pick) then when they started.

3. Most people would definitely feel like it was worse than doing nothing.

Now, in this example you could argue it's the poor quality/stopping halfway through that is causing this result, but you would IMHO see the same result even if they did a great job, but stopped after doing 90% of it, leaving me definitely no worse off, and probably much better off.

In the end, people's expectations are emotional and not simply rational.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-24 14:19:30+00:00
In my country (UK) the Gen Z's that are old enough to vote are largely ignored because they don't vote (less than half voted at the last election compared to >75% for people over 65).

That's been the pattern for a long time and as a result the politicians are very careful around pensioners and absolutely happy to do so at the expense off people aged 18-30.

I don't blame them for been angry in the slightest (I'm a Xenial at 45) - they are witnesses to the greatest transfer of wealth in history towards both billionaires and older people while been told that there is no "magical money tree" and that state pension ages are going to keep rising, housing is going to keep rising, they'll be paying more for university than they already do etc etc.

All of this against the backdrop of a world that has a rapidly changing climate.

Yeah I don't blame them for been angry one bit - as a cohort they are getting even more wrecked by a system they didn't create/vote for than millenials did.
by Avamander | 2025-10-24 14:19:31+00:00
> If breakage is not due to a language change, and the program is fully compliant with the standard, and there is no issue in the standard, then the compiler has a bug and must fix that bug.

There are almost no C programs without UB. So a lot of what you would call "compiler bugs" are entirely permitted standard. If you say "no true C program has UB" then of course, congrats, your argument might be in some aspects correct. But that's not really the case in practice and your language standard provides shit in terms of practical stability and cross-compatibility in compilers.

> I do not see how it would be possible for you not to know that I am completely right about this and that you are completely wrong. For there is absolutely no doubt that that is the case.

Lol, lmao even.

> Rust is worse when unsafe is involved.

It's really not.
by kenjackson | 2025-10-24 14:20:20+00:00
This is honestly an odd take. For most people the money is in exchange for having fun (there are pros and likely addicts though for which the money is the goal). I play in fantasy sports leagues and I pay into them. I don’t even care about winning the pot - I enjoy the game. The victory condition is having fun. Winning money is a bonus.

The point of the game isn’t to lie to friends. Is this how you see the point of chess or sports in general? Or any game where revealing your strategy would diminish your chances of winning?

I don’t think your comment is very HN typical, but it does indicate some other qualities you may have - not bad or good, but not typical.
by jmclnx | 2025-10-24 14:20:31+00:00
When they eliminated the bismarck, I stopped going there. FWIW, I do not drink coffee, never did. And yes, as fsckboy said, when they stopped making the donuts at each shop, they became awful.

Luckily there is a local donut shop, one location only and it in my area. It is very good, far far better than any chain shop. Sadly they are the only private donut shop one left in the City. FWIW, I was there 2 days ago :)
by JohnFen | 2025-10-24 14:21:05+00:00
What I doubt is that AI can provide a useful enough insight into my needs and desires so as to be able find appropriate real estate for me. It's not about evaluating listings, it's about the ability to evaluate me well enough. Even if it theoretically could (which I doubt), how could it possibly learn enough about me to actually do that? It would have to know me as well as my close friends do.

So, I guess me answer is no, I don't think AI can be very useful for this sort of thing.
by agentcoops | 2025-10-24 14:21:08+00:00
For me, it’s dependent on waking up in a half-dreaming state. Then I’m able to sort of “translate” the dream into language, which I remember—-and sometimes from there I can get back to parts of the dream I didn’t think I remembered. It’s still very rare for me and I’ll go years without remembering a single dream—-in fact, mentioning this to friends when I was younger was one of the first areas where I learned my conscious experience was so different. I imagine getting better at it would be similar to getting better at lucid dreaming.
Ask HN: Do all those AI-generated skills help?
by tobwen | 2025-10-24 14:21:44+00:00
Over the last few days, tons and tons of `SKILL.md` files have been popping up on marketplaces everywhere.

There are tons of tutorials on Youtube, how to use Claude to create a skill out of nothing. I bet no human ever reviewed, or optimized those texts. So instead of feeding the AI the real experience and skills of a human coder, we're stuffing it with input based on what the AI thinks a human would do.

Does this actually lead to better code, or is it just a vicious loop of "SISO" (shit in, shit out)?
by ch_fr | 2025-10-24 14:21:53+00:00
> How are my photos stored?

>> We store the photos generated by the Roc Camera on IPFS (by default). We'll have more information on this soon, so check back for more details in the future.

> How do I get my photos off the camera?

>> Coming soon. We're working on export functionality to get your photos off the camera.

> Where is the ZKP generated?

>> The zero-knowledge proofs are generated on-device using the Raspberry Pi 4.

I am a bit puzzled as to why IPFS was used as the "primary" storage medium there, it's a Pi so wouldn't it be pretty easy to make it have a micro-sd port? Wouldn't it be able to work fully locally then?

When I look at their socials, it seems like they primarily engage with a crypto-focused audience, all of this leads me to believe that IPFS and ZKP are the actual main appeal of this product... not that there's anything overtly wrong with this.
by breuleux | 2025-10-24 14:22:01+00:00
If you are a highly accomplished, highly respected individual (like Linus Torvalds) telling someone 'that is just stupid' can be effective, because most people will instinctively trust that you have a good reason to say this and are probably correct.

But that's a special case, not a usual one. Unfortunately, quite a lot of people say things are stupid when they don't understand them (often because of an inflated sense of their own expertise). If they can politely explain why they think an idea is bad, they are more likely to be listened to, and they can save face if the other person successfully counters their argument.

Bottom line is, if you go around calling ideas stupid you better make damn sure you're never wrong, otherwise, well... that's just stupid :)
by elashri | 2025-10-24 14:22:16+00:00
The killer features of LaTeX that does not let me go with typst (Although I like my typst generated resume) as an academic are.

1. Beamer, I create multiple slide decks per week and the out of the box setup that beamer provides with different styles and fonts for different needs are unmatched. The efforts to generate some of this on typst is not there yet.

2. Generating figures using tikz and be able to modify it on the source file. Because I don't bear using GUI tools. And now life is easier that LLM can help you with complex tikz generation.

3. Not that it is actually a point but I am used now to overleaf and I have professional account as CERN member. It is also better on collaboration level and features than typst cloud.

I hope that one day typst will grow into this direction so that I can stop using LaTeX. Until then I have couple of overleaf templates generated for my use.
by zwog | 2025-10-24 14:22:26+00:00
Semi related: A couple of years ago a waste facility in Berlin measured increased levels of radio activity and traced it back to a restaurant where 13 cards laced with radioactive Iodine-125 were found:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42157129

I couldn't find anything about how the cheat actually worked, though. In Mongolia they found radioactive dice at an airport: https://conferences.iaea.org/event/16/contributions/7187/att...
by mort96 | 2025-10-24 14:22:30+00:00
It's arguably not the shell's role to protect against garbled output. Do you expect a shell to reset the TTY state after every command too in case you accidentally `cat /dev/urandom` and the terminal emulator enters a weird state due to random escape sequences?

The newline is a line terminator, a command outputting an incomplete line without a line terminator is producing garbled non-textual output. Files which contain incomplete lines without a line terminator are similarly garbled non-textual files and not very different from /dev/urandom or any other binary file.
by noobermin | 2025-10-24 14:22:35+00:00
Just a note, it's very clear the OP's associated account was an attempt at an AI managed account created for HN 5 days ago, looking at their post history and their single comment. I'm not sure about this post in particular but it is strange that you have a full 8-bit CPU simulator with no history older than 4 days ago, full with comments on each function. It's likely this "CPU simulator" is AI-generated and in fact not from scratch. Of course, it's possible you had a rather polished, from scratch project the OP polished on their own PC before uploading to github. That said, their first post already cast some doubt.

I'm not sure if this is in the spirit of "Show HN" because really anyone can do this.
by rcrowley | 2025-10-24 14:24:03+00:00
Yes, a single disk in a VPS or cloud provider has durability concerns. That's why EBS and products like it that pretend to be a single disk are actually several. Instead of relying on multiple block devices, though, we create that redundancy at a higher level by relying on multiple MySQL or Postgres servers for durability, each with a local NVMe drive for performance.
by morkalork | 2025-10-24 14:25:24+00:00
Exactly, to a pro poker player a celebrity or athlete looks like an easy target. Someone with a lot of money, likes to play for fun, and doesn't have the same skills as a pro. They are at the table to bait the pros. But now the problem is you need those same players to win in order to extract any money from the game, hence the high-tech cheating.
by cbondurant | 2025-10-24 14:25:36+00:00
Lean was a gamechanger for me as someone who has a "hobby" level interest in abstract mathematics. I don't have the formal education that would have cultivated the practice and repetition needed to just know on a gut level the kinds of formal manipulations needed for precise and accurate proofs. but lean (combined with its incredibly well designed abbreviation expansion) gives probably the most intuitive way to manipulate formal mathematical expressions that you could hope to achieve with a keyboard.

It provides tools for discovering relevant proofs, theorems, etc. Toying around with lean has actively taught me math that I didn't know before. The entire time it catches me any time I happen to fall into informal thinking and start making assumptions that aren't actually valid.

I don't know of any way to extract the abbreviation engine that lean plugins use in the relevant editors for use in other contexts, but man, I'd honestly love it if I could type \all or \ne to get access to all of the mathematical unicode characters trivially. Or even extend it to support other unicode characters that I might find useful to type.