MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-06 12:52:24+00:00
How about this... If I was afraid to attach my public identity to my views on the internet, that would probably trigger some reflection in me as to the root cause of that emotion. I'm guessing shame, but people are complex so YMMV.

If the incentive was to steal and rampage and rape, people would be doing it more. The incentives are reversed though; 10 years in prison for rape, 6 years for stealing, and the odds are you will get caught eventually. If we removed law enforcement, there would be a lot more stealing and raping, though people would take justice in to their own hands as they did in cases of theft and rape in olden times.

Ultimately this is a dumb back and forth because we agree about the wrongness of the act, we just disagree about the best course of action and the ultimate value of certain approaches. You keep doing you, but if you really care about this I'd suggest you do something more productive than trying to high horse people on the internet about norms.
by pmarreck | 2025-10-06 12:52:56+00:00
I bought a Mac IIci computer in 1990 from my savings working throughout high school, for my freshman year of college. It cost over $8k, which in today's dollars is over $20k.

So imagine my lack of sympathy when people complain about things being literally free (as long as you don't mind signing away your social media profile data)
by piva00 | 2025-10-06 12:53:04+00:00
It also happened in the dotcom bubble, telecom companies were providing leasing/loans to their customers to purchase more networking equipment.

Very similar to the circular funding happening between Nvidia, and their customers, Nvidia funding investments in AI datacenters which get spent in Nvidia equipment, each step of the cycle has to take a cut for paying their own OpEx where the money getting back to Nvidia diminishes in each pass through the cycle.
Show HN: Ghost Pro Racing 3D Async Multiplayer Arcade Racing in HTML5
by andvari_bekho | 2025-10-06 12:53:50+00:00
Hi HN!

I built a 3D arcade racing game in HTML5 using PlayCanvas.

It features arcade-style physics inspired by OutRun, with PS1/Dreamcast-style graphics. The multiplayer is asynchronous: you race against the “ghosts” (replays) of up to 7 other players, and after finishing a run you can share a link with a friend so they can race your ghost 1v1. The game currently has 20 tracks, plus a “daily challenge” mode with procedurally generated tracks.

We’ve tested it on both desktop and mobile. It supports touch and keyboard controls, though I personally prefer playing with a keyboard in landscape mode. I’d love feedback on the controls, performance, and overall fun factor. And I hope to see your names on the leaderboard!
by theli0nheart | 2025-10-06 12:54:19+00:00
> As part of the arrangement, AMD issued a warrant that gives OpenAI the ability to buy up to 160 million shares of AMD for 1 cent each over the course of the chips deal. The warrant vests in tranches based on milestones that the two companies have agreed on.

This is money printing, just in the private sector. We know what happens when governments do it, and it's not good.
by jakespracher | 2025-10-06 12:54:50+00:00
Use it and like it. If using aws is a requirement but you don’t want to get bogged down with their user experience it’s worth it IMO.

Have run into some aws quirks leaking out of their abstraction. But personally that has only made me say “man if they couldn’t figure out how to make this clean, I would have been toast dealing with it on my own”
by whstl | 2025-10-06 12:55:08+00:00
I always envied the amount of options bass players had. Even in the 90s there were new brands starting to pop up like crazy. Lakland, Ritter, Tobias, BassLab...

With guitars, apart from the metal guitars, there's only vintage-inspired stuff with either a tune-o-matic or a Wilkinson tremolos... I'm exaggerating but that's indeed what I see for sale on my local shops.

On the other hand we do have Teuffel guitars in Germany, so maybe I should just put up and buy one from Uli Teuffel while he's still young.
by einarfd | 2025-10-06 12:55:17+00:00
A bit off topic, but I find the tone of voice of ChatGPT with GPT5 really off-putting. While the antrophic models or even Le Chat. Sounds much better to me. While the examples used in this article aren't that bad, OpenAI has to be more that just marginal better, to make me want to use it, when it "talks" like that.
by lucideer | 2025-10-06 12:56:39+00:00
A coping strategy is something you turn to to "cope" with a problem when the underlying cause of your problem is beyond your direct control.

If you are in a position to address the underlying cause directly, I've found it to be a better option than "coping". Therapy was a big part of identifying the problems. Ultimately, as a sibling commenter mentioned, task avoidance is often a sign of (usually very well disguised from oneself) underlying anxiety. I was always extremely confident & presented as "capable" but ultimately that was a shallow facade that became impossible to maintain over a long period.

I haven't stopped procrastinating but I do it far less & have a pretty good success rate with overcoming it when I apply myself. I'm not using any "tools" to do that beyond (hard fought) self-awareness.
by wofo | 2025-10-06 12:57:08+00:00
Last time I had to create a C# desktop app, I went with Blazor Hybrid [1]. I'd say it's "Electron for C#". I don't want to use outdated stuff like WPF / WinForms, and I don't trust more recent frameworks, so for me building on top of the web platform felt safest.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/hybrid/...
by harlequinetcie | 2025-10-06 12:57:53+00:00
Who has a better blue-print on what would actually mean to have ephemeral code, as we do with assembly nowadays, and instead have a repo with prompts to generate your software?

I've been looking into frameworks like https://github.com/Hey-Diga/imploid during the past couple of weeks, and I'm trying to find out the most promising one out there.
by nerdix | 2025-10-06 12:58:04+00:00
The title didn't make this obvious (at least not to me) but it's OpenAI that has the option to buy 10% of AMD. Not the other way around.

In case you're wondering how OpenAI could afford to buy 10% of AMD while they are hemorrhaging money -- the terms of the deal allows OpenAI to buy 160 million shares at 1 cents a share.

I could be thinking about this the wrong way but it appears that AMD is basically subsidizing the cost of the GPUs with equity.
by Slartie | 2025-10-06 12:58:05+00:00
> Today solar panels make sense in terms of money ROI but not in terms of KWh ROI

That is clearly wrong. Even the worst-case embodied energy assumptions for solar panels estimate the cost of producing a square meter of solar panel area at 2000 kWh (the best cases are around 300, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment#Ph... ). A square meter of solar panel area produces an average of 200 kWh of power per year in Germany (which implies a pessimistic assumption, more sunnier countries can get a multiple of that). This means that even in the worst case, the solar panel has amortized itself from the perspective of embodied energy after 10 years. On average it will be more like below 5 years. Solar panels however have an expected lifetime of well over 30 years and require no maintenance if installed correctly.
by jackallis | 2025-10-06 12:58:14+00:00
if this article resonates with you, please go talk to a therapist to see if there is/are any underlying "issues" that is leading you to procrastinate; you might have ADHD. i am really tired of reading numerous artciles on how procrastination is matter of lack-of-will, not disciplined, time-waters to gets things done.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-10-06 12:58:56+00:00
it's the thing that would be easier to automate and use AI. your rationalization would apply to everything. heck the front page have a medical diagnosis slop.

the point is, seen critically, it's obvious that it's not even a replacement for a calculator. yet the hype pushes on with infinite exceptions "oh, its not the best for this that i know about, but everything else I'm not an expert I will clai AI is perfect"
by sipofwater | 2025-10-06 12:59:07+00:00
* "Let's talk security: Answering your top questions about Android developer verification": https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-... (android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html)

* "Answering questions about Android developer verification": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428832
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-06 12:59:25+00:00
my parents bought the "smart" tv a decade ago to switch away from setup box

It was kinda expensive at the time, its wild of sorts how cheap of sorts TV's have become right now but still we bought it and its just e-waste right now.

I am thinking of setting up a raspberry pi but I am more interested in learning the inner details or how to do things preferably without raspberry pi as well
by aucisson_masque | 2025-10-06 12:59:31+00:00
Everyone in France know that the NFP has no chance to even dream of ruling the country.

It's a conglomerate of far left, left and ecologist. Each one hate the other two, they did it for the election to be able to have only one candidate per location.

As soon as it was over, the NFP died and now the NFP is just the far left.

The far left has absolutely no chance to even dream of ruling France. They got a minority of highly motivated follower but the remaining of France population hate them.

Latest poll : https://x.com/IfopOpinion/status/1972701482156724327/photo/1

Far left is 13% top, far right is 35%.

You don't rule a country with 13% of the people supporting the party, at least not in France. Soviet republics ? yes.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-06 12:59:43+00:00
> Isn't the thing that costs everyone an arm and a leg at the moment the race for better models? So all of the training everyone is doing to get SOTA in some obscure AI benchmark? From all of the analysis I've read, inference is quite profitable for the AI companies.

From what I've read: The cost to AI companies, per inference as a single operation, is going down. However, all newer models, all reasoning models, and their "agents" thing that's still trying desperately to be an actual product category all require magnitudes more inferences per request to operate. It's also worth noting that code generation and debugging, which is one of the few LLM applications I will actually say has a use and is reasonably good, also costs far more inferences per request to operate. And that number of inferences can increase massively with a sufficiently large chunk of code you're asking it to look at/change.

> If there's one really tangible asset these companies are producing, which would be worth quite a bit in a bankruptcy it's the model architectures and weights, no?

I mean, not really? If the companies enter bankruptcy that's a pretty solid indicator that the models are not profitable to operate, unless you're envisioning this as like a long-tail support model that you see with old MMO games, where a company picks up a hugely expensive to produce product, like LOTRO, and runs it with basically a skeleton crew of devs and support folks for the handful of users who still want to play it, and eeks out a humble if legitimate profit for doing so. I guess I could see that, but it's also worth noting that type of business has extremely thin margins, and operating servers for old MMO games is WAY less energy and compute intensive than running any version of ChatGPT post 2023.

Edit: Also, worth noting specifically in the case of OpenAI are it's deep and OLD ties to Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't OWN OpenAI in any meaningful sense, but it is incredibly core to it's entire LLM backend. IMO (not a lawyer) if OpenAI were to go completely belly up, I'm not even sure the models would go to any sort of auction, unless Microsoft was ready to just let them do so. I think they'd devour whatever of the tech stack is available whole without even really spending too much, if any, money on it and continue running it as is.
by drob518 | 2025-10-06 12:59:43+00:00
Hm. Maybe I’m using terms incorrectly or my model for what is happening is incorrect. Please educate me.

“NOT a load/store architecture.” What do you mean by this, exactly?

“It's a simpler version of the external ISA, NOT a RISC.” How are defining “RISC,” exactly? What makes it not a RISC given that you’re also saying it’s simpler?
by lucideer | 2025-10-06 12:59:50+00:00
> "Just do it" is about as helpful as "don't be sad".

To be clear, I'm not saying "just do it" or suggesting anything quick or easy. Quite the opposite: coping strategies like this are imo the "easy way out". I'm suggesting a much slower, harder path that leads to long term results (& can't be generalised, packaged & sold in a neat article as it's entirely different for everyone).
by nickserv | 2025-10-06 12:59:51+00:00
That's not what the term "free and fair" elections means though. To be considered fair, there can be no government interference of the voting process (ex: ballot stuffing, voter suppression) and its results must be accepted.

Media manipulation exists of course, all democracies have this to a certain extent. But France is actually not too bad compared to other countries.
by tooltalk | 2025-10-06 13:00:02+00:00
> Allowing in Chinese EVs into markets where there are important domestic auto manufacturers will be very bad for those domestic manufacturers.

I want a level playing field/market competition. Allowing China's illegal subsidies and anti-market tactics to dominate the global EV industry is very dangerous, which is why they are already countervailed in many developed countries.

Subsidies aren't necessarily bad, but it's become China's choice of blunt instrument to price out/drive out foreign competition.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-10-06 13:00:08+00:00
> Which rights are you referring to? Do you think they all have a right to full Israeli citizenship?

Whichever rights israelis have, Palestinians also have. Whichever rights israel has, Palestine also has. If israel claims a right to safety from Palestinian attacks, then Palestine has an exactly equal right to safety from israeli attacks. If israel has a right to control their borders, Palestine does too. If israel has a right to 100% control their own trade, then Palestine does, too. This isn't that complicated.

> If one knew with a high degree of certainty that giving full voting rights to all Palestinians would result in the elimination of the Jewish population from the land...

You have this backwards: Palestinians already have rights by virtue of human beings, just like israelis. Likewise, Palestine has rights by virtue of being a country, just like israel. What comes after those rights are respected may be complicated, but is not as important as equal rights. Equal rights is most important, and an oppressor like apartheid South Africa or apartheid israel doesn't get to deny anyone their rights out of fear, or for any other reason.

> There is some level of Palestinian rule under the Oslo Accords

There is no Palestinian rule. They are ruled, dominated even, by israelis. They do not have freedom of choice, or freedom of trade, or freedom of speech, or freedom of press, or freedom of movement within their own land of Palestine, because israel denies them each and every one of those freedoms. Palestinians are frequently victims of israeli terrorist attacks in Palestine too. When the IDF shows up, they often participate in the terrorist attacks. israel does not even allow Palestinians to defend themselves from israeli terrorist attacks. That is not Palestinian rule.

> Palestinian leaders and society have in general not been very supportive of many of those freedoms you mention

Surprise surprise, israel is even less supportive, and "they did it first" isn't an excuse to deny a person or country their rights.

> I'm not sure if there have been war criminals and criminals against humanity elected

>Since [I personally believe] the claims of genocide against Israel are not supported by the evidence...

While you are no doubt a good person, reality does not depend on what you think or perceive. Luckily, the relevant authorities (international courts, scholarly institutions) seem pretty confident that israeli electees are war criminals, criminals against humanity, and genociders, so you don't need to be.
by margor | 2025-10-06 13:00:09+00:00
My perspective is very simple.

I can either struggle for the next 30 years with whatever I wished I was doing, and be always angry at myself, others, significant other and family, or I can take meds, bear the consequences (side effects really), but be happy for the moments where they do help and I can actually do what I wished for.

Took me almost 10 years to come to that conclusion, so take your time, but once I started my therapy and medication I was so angry at myself for not doing it earlier that it took me almost 2 weeks to shake out of it.

Feel free to check my other comment in my profile that describes my troubles.
by account42 | 2025-10-06 13:00:32+00:00
> Also people claiming cleaning isn't "creative" or "fun". Steam has a whole genre of games simulating cleaning stuff because the act of cleaning is extremely fun and creative to a lot of people: https://store.steampowered.com/app/246900/Viscera_Cleanup_De... being a great example

Someone making a game about an activity doesn't mean that the activity is fun or desirable in real life at all.

I mean yes there are people that find comfort in cleaning but they are not the target audience of cleaning simulators at all.
by sfn42 | 2025-10-06 13:00:52+00:00
I do have the cash, but I'm happy with my Opel Corsa-E that I bought used for mostly money I had sitting in my checking account.

It has heated seats, heated steering wheel, AC, backing camera/sensors, uses electricity which means it costs practically nothing to drive, doesn't make noise, isn't hard to get going in an uphill, and probably about 100 other advantages.
by tdeck | 2025-10-06 13:01:41+00:00
This was after Trump's secretary of war said the following on the same stage:

“We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy,” Hegseth said. “We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.”

It's not exactly subtle. The message is "we're going to commit war crimes more" and "we plan to use the military against people inside the US".
by dude250711 | 2025-10-06 13:01:47+00:00
True! At the end of the day, it's a multiplier - just like many other dev hype fads e.g. Python/JavaScript poorly-typed fad of 2010s - devs who do not know what they are doing are just producing worse tech debt at a higher rate.

Same with microservices or misusing HTML to make UIs instead of documents etc.
by p2detar | 2025-10-06 13:02:05+00:00
> The only good reason to go nuclear these days is if you want the bomb, like Iran.

I‘m sorry but this is just absolute nonsense.

Nuclear energy is the most dense energy type humanity ever produced. To put it in one line with coal and oil is not serious. Not to mention it’s far less hazardous to human health, again compared to fossil fuels. Here is a basic comparison:

> With a complete combustion or fission, approx. 8 kWh of heat can be generated from 1 kg of coal, approx. 12 kWh from 1 kg of mineral oil and around 24,000,000 kWh from 1 kg of uranium-235. Related to one kilogram, uranium-235 contains two to three million times the energy equivalent of oil or coal.

https://www.euronuclear.org/glossary/fuel-comparison/

edit: typo
by drewg123 | 2025-10-06 13:02:07+00:00
NFS was a huge part of my life in the 90s..

- It caused me to switch from Linux to FreeBSD in 1994 when Linux didn't have NFS caching but FreeBSD did & Linus told me "nobody cares about NFS" at the Boston USENIX. I was a sysadmin for a small stats department, and they made heavy use of NFS mounted latex fonts. Xdvi would render a page in 1s on FreeBSD and over a minute on Linux due to the difference in caching. Xdvi would seek byte-by-byte in the file.. You could see each character as it rendered on Linux, and the page would just open instantly on FreeBSD.

- When working as research staff for the OS research group in the CS dept, I worked on a modern cluster filesystem ("slice") which pretended to be NFS for client compat. (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi00/full_papers/ander...)
by incomingpain | 2025-10-06 13:02:13+00:00
Bari is a super interesting character. A left wing lesbian jew from nyc, whose journalistic ethics forced her to call out the bias at the ny times. HEre's a snippet:

>My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist;

A jew who is a nazi? But not an isolated incident. As you can imagine other jews like ben shapiro regularly are called a nazi by his political opponents.

So Bari then went on to start her own paper; and is now rewarded with a top dog position at cbs?

Easy prediction that CBS journalism is about to greatly improve.
by namibj | 2025-10-06 13:02:27+00:00
> There's a reason buildings with high bandwidth constraints huddle near internet backbones.

Yeah because interaction latency matters and legacy/already buried fiber is expensive to rent so you might as well put the facility in range of (not-yet-expensive) 20km optics.

> Copper doesn't work over these kinds of distances without powered switches, which adds latency.

You need a retimer, which adds on the order of 5~20 bits of latency.

> And that becomes a huge problem if you want to do any real-time work like DB replicas.

Almost no application would actually require "zero lost data", so you could get away with streaming a WAL or other form of reliably-replayable transaction log and cap it to an acceptable number of milliseconds of data loss window before applying blocking back pressure. Usually it'd be easy to tolerate enough for the around 3 RTTs you'd really want to keep to cover all usual packet loss without triggering back pressure.

Sure, such a setup isn't cheap, but it's (for a long while now) cheaper than manually fixing the data from the day your primary burned down.
by GeoAtreides | 2025-10-06 13:02:36+00:00
From the abstract:

> Here, using bivalve-derived environmental reconstructions, we show that the subpolar North Atlantic has experienced two destabilization episodes over the past ~150 years. The first preceded the rapid circulation changes associated with the 1920s North Atlantic regime shift, suggesting that a tipping point may have been crossed in the early 20th century.

The second and stronger destabilization began around 1950 and continues to the present, supporting evidence of recent stability loss and suggesting that the region is moving toward a tipping point.
by Telaneo | 2025-10-06 13:02:53+00:00
What's constitutional is what 5 out 9 people believe to be constitutional, and the bench is very stacked. He's already above the law.

My point isn't really about the US. My point is that Europe will do naught more than what they're doing now unless the US democracy compleatly collapses. Even if the elections are made and choose a candidate that can't legally be elected, him being elected still has a shred of democracy that means it isn't totally gone, and thus probably not gone enough for Europe to actually wake up. It won't be a free and fair election if that's the way things go, but it will be an election, and I believe that will be enough.
by estearum | 2025-10-06 13:03:25+00:00
So apparently:

The Sistine Chapel: Content, not art

The Mona Lisa: Content, not art

The Guggenheim: Content, not art

David: Content, not art

Geurnica: Content, not art

Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: Content, not art

I understand why the original comment said it, and my response is a simple explanation as to why the original comment was very obviously incorrect.