MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrlonglong | 2025-10-15 16:52:58+00:00
Good old Brits, taking over the world with an ISA extraordinarily efficient that at inception they discovered that the processor still kept operating by sucking voltage from leakage currents even though the power was off.

From: https://www.theregister.com/2012/05/03/unsung_heroes_of_tech...

"> The power test tools they were using were unreliable and approximate, but good enough to ensure this rule of thumb power requirement. When the first test chips came back from the lab on the 26 April 1985, Furber plugged one into a development board, and was happy to see it working perfectly first time.

> Deeply puzzling, though, was the reading on the multimeter connected in series with the power supply. The needle was at zero: the processor seemed to be consuming no power whatsoever.

> As Wilson tells it: “The development board plugged the chip into had a fault: there was no current being sent down the power supply lines at all. The processor was actually running on leakage from the logic circuits. So the low-power big thing that the ARM is most valued for today, the reason that it's on all your mobile phones, was a complete accident."

> Wilson had, it turned out, designed a powerful 32-bit processor that consumed no more than a tenth of a Watt."
by bschne | 2025-10-15 16:52:58+00:00
This. I've started thinking of it like this — the iPad, in my case, has an absolutely abysmal cost to usage ratio. On the far other end of the spectrum (and in a similar form factor if you squint) is probably my Kindle.

That being said, _some_ people I know consistently seem to get lots of work use out of their tablets, and I can't quite put my finger on where we differ.
by jandrese | 2025-10-15 16:53:04+00:00
The fundamental problem with UBI is that if it is enough to live on (even if it's a crummy life), then who is going to pick the strawberries? The ugly truth is our society is built on top of people doing absolute shit jobs for insulting pay.

If someone needs that money to eat they'll do the job, but if you're asking them to wreck their body in inhumane conditions in order to have slightly more spending money then they're going to say no. Even if their living conditions are lousy it's better than bending over in the mud under the boiling sun while a slave driver yells at them all day long.
by klelatti | 2025-10-15 16:53:41+00:00
The Byrne 'solo album' number Big Business [1] has long been my favourite track (actually outtake) from Stop Making Sense. Byrne's eclectic collaborations and willingness to learn from others (eg Fela Kuti) have always amazed me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYFqdrOMqk4
by AlexeyBrin | 2025-10-15 16:53:48+00:00
macOS has a different dev culture than Linux, but you can get pretty close if you install the Homebrew package manager. For running LLMs locally I would recommend Ollama (easy) or llama.cpp. Due to the unified memory, you should be able to run larger models than what you can run on a typical consumer grade GPU, but slower.
by ksec | 2025-10-15 16:55:14+00:00
No WiFi 7 and WiFi 6E only is annoying. Especially for what they are charging. And Bluetooth 5.3, Their Pro Mac are slower than their iPhone Pro.

SSD has double the speed. I guess they say this only for M5 MacBook Pro, because the previous M4 has always had slower SSD speed than M4 Pro at 3.5GB/s. So now the M5 should be at 7GB/s.

I assume no update on SDXC UHS-III.
by reactordev | 2025-10-15 16:55:17+00:00
Which is why it’s possible. We don’t know why life is conscious. What if it is just a function call on a clock timer? You can’t dismiss it because it can’t be proven one way or another until it can be. That requires more research, which this is advancing.

We will have something we call AGI in my lifetime. I’m 42. Whether it’s sentient enough to know what’s best for us or that we are a danger is another story. However I do think we will have robots that have memory capable of remapping to weights to learn and keep learning, modifying underlying model tensors as it does using some sort of repl.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-15 16:55:51+00:00
Interesting, because I've come to the exact opposite conclusion, outside a few edge cases, it seems like the core way people expect to make money from AI is social networking(1), streaming video(2), search(3) and porn(4), exactly the core functions of the internet:

1. https://openai.com/index/sora-2/ 2. https://www.meta.ai/vibes 3. https://www.perplexity.ai/ 4. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-wi...
by fullstackchris | 2025-10-15 16:56:15+00:00
you do understand this would require re-training billions of weights in realtime

and not even "trainingl really.... but a finished and stably functioning billion+ param model updating itself in real time...

good luck, see you in 2100

in short, what ive been shouting from a hilltop since about 2023: LLMs tech alone simply wont cut it; we need a new form of technology
by hannesfur | 2025-10-15 16:56:31+00:00
It's great that they finally target all three mayor platforms! Let's see how developers using Windows treat them.

I used to be a Neovim purist, spending days on my config and I have barely touched it since I moved to Zed. It's so much nicer to use then VScode (and it's forks) because it's so snappy.

I hope they ship leap.nvim (https://github.com/ggandor/leap.nvim) support soon, then I am completely happy!
by kakacik | 2025-10-15 16:56:44+00:00
Sure, but race to the bottom brings best price/value ratio that most consumers value above some nicer underlying ethics. What race to the bottom means long term for society, ie its annihilation of middle class and proper misery for the poor who will forever stay poor to be exploited cheaply is another topic.

Btw don't get me wrong, that ethics push sounds nice, all patting our backs in our little bubble slowly sliding down, but we are what, 7% of the global population? Economically still more significant, but unless we get our shit together right now and become more competitive we will slide into mediocrity soon, no way to avoid that. Chinese will easily push us away and steamroll over any tech we are still proud about.

There is absolutely no reason ridiculous social and welfare systems should be in place. Ie in France, they interviewed some rioter lady - she is doing some cinematography work when she wants, but otherwise living in free apartment in heart of Paris, and getting additional welfare from state. While protesting against evil capitalism which pays for it all, expecting to be richer because... ?. She herself is insignificant, but there are fuck millions of such spoiled people out of touch with current reality out there, who grew up with very twisted socialist/communist ideologies, while expecting a stellar economy to fund their little resistance to hands feeding them. Ultra-protected corrupt and inefficient state employees that each state has too many of.

There is absolutely 0 reason for any sort of green deal while rest of the world doesn't give a nanofraction of a fuck, not in 2025, not when facing a massive decline up on horizon. Thats self-harm par excellence and a great ammunition for most of eastern EU bloc and extreme right wing to get more popular, just pointing how ridiculous all that has become. But now there is no age limit for gender change, really something that all parents of kids across whole Europe need to hear now. Look, we all want to help saving the planet, but this political super-costly corrupt meh will only achieve our poverty and instability, nothing more.

If you want future for Europe, I mean realistic and achievable path, look no further than ie Switzerland. Still has most European values, has stronger middle class than any EU country, has way more actual freedom than any EU country has (not joking here, look it up), but also most capitalistic country in old continent. Simple, uneducated people keep blabbing about nazi gold (still in 2025), or some evil bankers or some other hoaxes while economy is based on a very different mix of income, and primarily a population which doesn't mind putting in some hard work when needed, and not just envying and complaining all the time and expecting to be taken care of when not even trying to contribute to society by working. The difference between them and literally any other EU country is striking, and so is their future. But good luck having western EU egos accepting that somebody figured out a better way, not happening.
by ciupicri | 2025-10-15 16:56:48+00:00
It's 2 years according to https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...

> Under EU rules, if the goods you buy turn out to be faulty or do not look or work as advertised, the seller must repair or replace them at no cost. If this is impossible or the seller cannot do it within a reasonable time and without significant inconvenience to you, you are entitled to a full or partial refund. You always have the right to a minimum 2-year guarantee from the moment you received the goods. However, national rules in your country may give you extra protection.

> The 2-year guarantee period starts as soon as you receive your goods.

> If a defect becomes apparent within 1 year of delivery, you don't have to prove it existed at the time of delivery. It is assumed that it did unless the seller can prove otherwise. In some EU countries, this period of “reversed burden of proof” is 2 years.
by gizmo686 | 2025-10-15 16:57:03+00:00
Testing on my machine, Hello World in java (openjdk 21) takes about 30ms.

In contrast, "time" reports that rust takes 1ms, which is the limit of it's precision.

Python does Hello World in just 8ms, despite not having a separate AOT compilation step.

The general guidance I've seen for interaction is that things start to feel laggy at 100ms; so 30ms isn't a dealbreaker, but throwing a third of your time budget at the baseline runtime cost is a pretty steep ask.

If you want to use the application as a short lived component in a larger system, than 30ms on every invocation can be a massive cost.
by kragen | 2025-10-15 16:57:04+00:00
While I mostly agree, I have some small quibbles which I think will present a more complete picture.

I've had a good developer experience with 74LS00-family SSI chips (like the quad-NAND-gate 74LS00 and the hex-inverter 74LS04), so your mileage may vary.

Just to clarify, the Padauk and Nyquest chips I linked above are one-time programmable (PROM), not mask ROM, except the PFS122 (3.53¢), which is reprogrammable Flash. (It's advisable to debug your code with a Flash chip or an ICE before you start consuming PROM chips, unless you really like to desolder.) Padauk doesn't seem to make mask-ROM chips at all, and I haven't seen any from Nyquest.

I'm not sure what you mean by "highly specialized". They're tiny, slow 8-bit microcontrollers, so you will certainly be disappointed if you go in hoping for STM32-like capabilities. But they're programmable, and their peripherals don't include things like LiDAR pulse timing circuits or AES encryption hardware or anything like that. It's just very general-purpose stuff like watchdog timers and PWM generators.
by ishouldbework | 2025-10-15 16:57:16+00:00
Well, anything POSIX or GNU does support the --. I think most golang libraries as well? And if the program does not, you can always pass the files as relative paths (./--help) to work around that.

For sure though, this can get tricky, but I am not really aware of an alternative. :/ Since the calling convention is just an array of strings, there is no generic way to handle this without knowing what program you are calling and how it handles command line. This is not specific to xargs...

Well, I guess FFI would be a way, but it seems like a major PITA to have to figure out how to call a golang function from bash shell just to "call" a program.
Ask HN: What are you vibe coding?
by phendrenad2 | 2025-10-15 16:57:21+00:00
I hope this doesn't seem spammy or redundant, but I thought it might be fun to have a thread just for "vibe-coded" projects, especially things that you wouldn't have attempted without AI support.

Personally, I'm working on a Multi-user dungeon (MUD).
by myrmidon | 2025-10-15 16:58:18+00:00
I'm sticking to materialism, because historically all its predictions turned out to be correct (cognition happens in the brain, thought manifests physically in neural activity, affecting our physical brain affects our thinking).

The counter-hypothesis (we think because some kind of magic happens) has absolutely nothing to show for; proponents typically struggle to even define the terms they need, much less make falsifiable predictions.
by Valk3_ | 2025-10-15 16:58:29+00:00
What I'm wondering about is, if you have lots of dependencies, like in the hundreds or thousands, idk how many npm packages usually can have for the average web dev project, how do you even audit all of that manually? Sounds pretty infeasible? This is not to say we should not worry about it, I'm just genuinely curious what do you do in this situation? One could say well don't get that many dependencies to begin with, but the reality of web dev projects nowadays for instance, is that you get alot of dependencies that are hard to check manually for insecurities.
by rsynnott | 2025-10-15 16:59:38+00:00
> Hyatt later reflected on some of the balls’ flaws, recalling, “A lighted cigar applied would at once result in a serious flame and occasionally the violent contact of the balls would produce a mild explosion like a percussion guncap.” He received “a letter from a billiard saloon proprietor in Colorado, mentioning this fact and saying that he did not care so much about it but that instantly every man in the room pulled a gun.”

Huh. There's a mention in a Discworld book of an exploding billiard ball, and until just now I hadn't realised that it was a _real thing_.

(Seems to by no relation to the Hyatt who invented the annoying hotel chain, incidentally.)
by ilikepi | 2025-10-15 17:00:11+00:00
> Or otherwise you can enable the app exposé feature to swipe down with three fingers and it will show you only windows of the same app.

If you have an Apple keyboard, CTRL-F3 (without the Fn modifier) will do the same. Not sure if there are third-party keyboards that support Mac media keys, but I'm guessing there are some at least...
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-15 17:00:49+00:00
Apple's in the tough spot (re [1]) that mobile games have already surpassed conventional PC and console games in terms of revenue. I don't know what fraction of that is the block crusher games that I see on everybody's phones and what fraction is the otaku who is serious about Umamusume, FGO, Arknights or Genshin Impact. Either way why would they want to jump onto what seems to be a sinking ship?

My take on the living room is that streaming boxes and most Blu-Ray players really suck these days (crappy little Sonys take 45 seconds to boot!) and if you want something to sit next to your TV to be a Plex client it should be a PS or XBOX.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
by ascagnel_ | 2025-10-15 17:01:08+00:00
The YouTube app has never been good and never felt like a native app -- it's a wrapper around web tech.

More importantly for games, though, is the awful storage architecture around the TV boxes. Games have to slice themselves up into 2GB storage chunks, which can be purged from the system whenever the game isn't actively running. The game has to be aware of missing chunks and download them on-demand.

It makes open-world games nearly impossible, and it makes anything with significant storage requirements effectively impossible. As much as Apple likes to push the iOS port of Death Stranding, that game cannot run on tvOS as currently architected for that reason.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-15 17:01:14+00:00
> If I can have ChatGPT audit a file

You can't, end of story. ChatGPT is nothing more than an unreliable sniff test even if there were no other problems with this idea.

Secondly, if you re-analyzed the same malicious script over and over again it would eventually pass inspection, and it only needs to pass once.
by ImPleadThe5th | 2025-10-15 17:01:17+00:00
I'm kind of shocked by this thread. I cant get over the hubris that we think concepts that were introduced to society at large by science fiction in and before the 19th century is _inevitable_ just because we made a really really good predictive text engine in the 21st century.

Just because a concept exists star trek episode does not guarantee technology moving in that direction. I understand art has an effect on reality, but how hard are we spinning our gears because some writer made something so compelling it lives in our collective psyche?

You can point to the communicator from star trek and I'll point to the reanimation of Frankenstein's monster.
Show HN: Dirt-cheap custom ranking layer for your vector search
by vtaya | 2025-10-15 17:01:28+00:00
I built CoderSwap for coders who want experimental, cheap search that ships fast. It’s a tiny layer on top of your DB that does hybrid (vector + keyword) search with explainable scoring. You can express ranking rules in plain English (e.g., boost recent, prefer verified, down-rank competitors) and we compile them into a safe, tunable scoring policy. Why use it with your existing vector DB? It adds governance (versioning/rollback) and explainability without an ML team. Free tier: 100MB, 10k calls/month. Quickstart/docs on the site. Would love feedback: what’s confusing, where it breaks, and what knobs you’d want.
by whizzter | 2025-10-15 17:01:32+00:00
The GH issue mentions POTENTIAL risks, looked at the patch and I can see 2 scenarios:

1: You have a load-balancer infront that handles authentication somehow and then coalesces multiple incoming requests into single connections, one authenticated user's request can then somehow to be confused by the backend to the attackers that can then impersonate.

2: The .NET request pipeline seems to be meant to be fairly thin to enable performance, potentially you have some middleware for authentication that again gets fooled by this bug.

I think the high rating is that if it is found out that some popular application like Umbraco turns out to be vulnerable, then tons of targets will be viable and having them patch their servers before that is found out is beneficial.
by lijok | 2025-10-15 17:01:32+00:00
Inside private repos we use pull_request_target because 1. it runs the workflow as it exists on main and therefore provides a surface where untampered with test suites can run, and 2. provides a deterministic job_workflow_ref in the sub claim in the jwt that can be used for highly fine grained access control in OIDC enabled systems from the workflow
by pmarreck | 2025-10-15 17:01:34+00:00
Is there a market for software that will use whatever tools are available to detect human users from bots and thereby gain some "real" metrics?

Because I could probably write that, and I'm currently (mostly) on the bench

EDIT: It seems that people actually reject this filtering for business-incentive reasons. Well here's what I propose: In order to get out of this "debt", we "pay it off" at some rate. So for example, every week we subtract an additional 1% of the traffic detected as "fake", in order to hopefully get back to some real numbers at some point
by leakycap | 2025-10-15 17:01:48+00:00
> I know it’s silly, but I think I represent over 90% of apples customers in that way

You're not silly, you're just able to see reality.

Apple knows who is buying the bulk of their computers, and it isn't power users ... most people buying computers don't have a clue what RAM is even used for.

I'd hit beachballs, but macOS balances 8GB of RAM fine even with Tahoe for regular users
by nocoiner | 2025-10-15 17:02:28+00:00
When I was listening to some of the samples on the page you linked (pronunciation of “when”), it really seemed to me like the difference they were highlighting was how much the “h” was pronounced. Even knowing what I was listening for, it was very like my brain was just refusing to recognize the vowel sound distinction. So I think you must be right about it being a matter of basic brain chemistry.

In the example of the reverse pen/pin merger (HMS Pinafore) on that page, I couldn’t hear “penafore” to save my life. Fascinating stuff.

I used to think of the movie “Fargo” and think “haha comical upper midwestern accents.” And then at some point I realized that the characters in “No Country for Old Men” probably must sound similarly ridiculous to anyone whose grandparents and great grandparents didn’t all speak with a deep, rural West Texas accent - which mine did, so watching the movie it just seemed completely natural for the place and time at a deeply subconscious level.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-10-15 17:03:47+00:00
Did "they" actually try to call it universal? I could (easily!) be wrong, but I don't recall the scheme ever actually being labelled UBI by the government, only by the media and commenters on social media.

To conflate this with UBI very much misses the point. This isn't some experiment in post-capitalist utopia, it is basically a subsidy for the arts. Societies often subsidise things they want more of and that the market, for one reason or another, cannot or will not provide. As someone who paid taxes in Ireland for many years I never had any issue with subsidies for the arts. I would be happy for the government to subsidise FOSS development, too, for what it's worth (and in fact the EU does this to an extent).
by zamadatix | 2025-10-15 17:03:48+00:00
It's definitely significantly more common from China. I think part of it is Indian names can often be made easier for English speakers to work with anyways + cultural trends in recent times have made having unfamiliar sounding names less of a big deal over time. One of our teams is in Bangaluru with ~100 folks and maybe 8 of them bother using anglicized names in calls/emails.
by drivebyhooting | 2025-10-15 17:04:04+00:00
Not just literacy but everything is significantly affected by the care rendered from 0 to 4. My concern was broader: the children’s and society’s future.

By your own admission, a father cannot alone provide care for an infant. And if there are siblings then the critical time period will stretch - perhaps to 3 or 4 years.

Apparently the eldest would be reading chapter books by then, according to other comments in this thread. But I do not understand it.

It is a bitter choice. For mothers to have a life outside of motherhood it is the children who are deprived.
by bdcravens | 2025-10-15 17:04:07+00:00
I cashed out a significant amount a few years ago to help pay for an IVF attempt (sadly, it didn't work out for us, but no regrets). Obviously that amount would represent a large sum today.

On the flip side, when I was packing up our house, I found some old paper wallets that I assumed were empty (from a time when I was doing some experimentation with various scripts). One of them had about $2k in BTC, that I promptly added to our downpayment on our new house.
by znort_ | 2025-10-15 17:04:32+00:00
>clear links for an evolutionary path

there are clear links for at least 2 evolutionary paths: bird brain architecture is very different from that of mammals and some are among the smartest species on the planet. they have sophisticated language and social relationships, they can deceive (meaning they can put themselves inside another's mind and act accordingly), they solve problems and they invent and engineer tools for specific purposes and use them to that effect. give them time and these bitches might even become our new overlords (if we're still around, that is).