MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EnPissant | 2025-10-14 06:44:46+00:00
Something is wrong with your numbers: gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b should be much much faster than what you are seeing. I would suggest you familiarize yourself with llama-bench instead of ollama.

Running gpt-oss-120b with a rtx 5090 and 2/3 of the experts offloaded to system RAM (less than half of the memory bandwidth of this thing), my machine gets ~4100tps prefill and ~40tps decode.

Your spreadsheet shows the spark getting ~94tps prefill and ~11tps decode.

Now, it's expected that my machine should slaughter this thing in prefill, but decode should be very similar or the spark a touch faster.
Show HN: NPM package for React Document Picture in Picture(PIP)
by kangbit | 2025-10-14 06:45:15+00:00
Hi HN! I built a React component that makes it easy to use the Document Picture-in-Picture API.

Unlike the traditional video PiP, Document Picture-in-Picture lets you put any HTML content in an always-on-top floating window.

Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-document-pip

This library uses the Document Picture-in-Picture API, which is currently supported in:

- Chrome 116+

- Edge 116+

- Opera 102+
by jjav | 2025-10-14 06:45:38+00:00
> In a perfect world, I'd see no code at all and just tell the AI what I want, and a blackbox implementation with my product appears that I start to sculpt down to something I can work with and serve to users. That would be my ultimate satisfaction.

To use the woodworking analogy of the (current) top comment, the woodworking equivalent of this is to call someone to build you a cabinet and come back home after they're done. Which of course is how most people get their cabinets built.

But it's not woodworking, for sure. Which for someone who just wants a cabinet, that's cool. But for someone who enjoyed the woodworking part of it, not cool.
by kqr | 2025-10-14 06:46:13+00:00
> you really need as much breadth as you can get

Sure, more is always better. Practically, though, we are trading depth for breadth. In my experience, many problems that look dissimilar after a shallow analysis turn out to be caused by the same thing when analysed in depth. In that case, it is more economical to analyse fewer incidents in greater depth and actually find their common factors, rather than make a shallow pass over many incidents and continue to paper over symptoms of the undiscovered deeper problem.
by Peteragain | 2025-10-14 06:46:28+00:00
I do feel this is a case of Americans believing their own propaganda. What the US does well is efficiency. The problem is, capitalism has pushed the time to ROI (return on investment) to get shorter. 5 years is what venture capitalists were working on. At one point there was status for a corporation to have a research lab of quality - in the same way as corporations had glorious architecture for their headquarters, Bell labs was about status. These research labs provided a safe space for curiosity driven scientists. In the interests of efficiency (and because it no longer had kudos) the labs were abandoned and - in a classic US way - it was decided the State should do the science. The trouble now is that the Universities are thinking about their ROI. Curiosity driven science has no home at the moment.
by 9029 | 2025-10-14 06:46:51+00:00
Used Intel 8th gen based mini PCs seem like a pretty good value. 100-150 bucks for a pc from a somewhat reputable brand (lenovo, dell, hp) with slightly better multi core than N150 and ~6W idle if you manage to get it to stay in C10. Some of them have a low profile pcie slot, like M720q and M920q. Also the CPU is socketed so you could technically upgrade it to e.g. i9-9900K, at least the M920q is known to take one as long as you use a powerful enough PSU. Few of them (at least M920q) also support coreboot due to an Intel Boot Guard vuln which could be fun, I'm planning to look into whether it could be ported to my M720q as well.
by exe34 | 2025-10-14 06:47:18+00:00
this is an incredible leap in imagination. I'm constantly impressed by that kind of diversity in thought towards a common goal.

normally it's the other way round - diverse thought leads to many places, but in hating the big bad leftie boogeyman, certain people seem really great at joining the dots.

here's a hint: it's actually written in the stars! don't believe me? take a map of a deep sky survey, and draw dots! you'll find the message you're looking for.
by chris_va | 2025-10-14 06:49:24+00:00
I think the article does not explain this well, but (having worked in an applied science field for many years) much of the work is picked up from these failed projects by other members of the field. Sometimes this is quick, sometimes years later. Anyway, while it might not immediately evident, shelved projects often do move the state of the art forward and unlock someone else's success (hence part of the argument for it being a public funded system). Of course, a lot do not, but that is the nature of research.
by tovej | 2025-10-14 06:49:35+00:00
Replication != validation, replication would be purely for experiments, which usually do not use that much causal language or attributions to theory. I'm talking about validating theory, and specifically neoclassical theory.

But still, that is interesting. Thank you for taking the time. Although you first source is a survey of expectations by authors on replicability over time, not an actual measurement of replicability.

Your second reference says there are historically more replication studies being published now than before (people trying to replicate other studies), not that more studies replicate.

As you might be aware of, the number of scientific publications in general is growing, so I would also expect the subset if replication studies to grow. This is not very surprising or meaningful, but interesting.

The third one is actually about reproducibility, the authors have taken open data sets published together with papers and see if they can produce the figures and final values in the papers from the original data sets. That is an entirely different thing.
by cma | 2025-10-14 06:49:57+00:00
Yeah Asian tigers mostly didn't follow the narrow comparative advantage guidance and instead did state protection of industry to develop it: https://www.amazon.com/Kicking-Away-Ladder-Development-Persp...

The US did the same when it was young, along with large instances of exfiltrating tech (Samuel Slater, kicked off the American industrial revolution).
by nvader | 2025-10-14 06:50:33+00:00
I'm not arguing with your overall conclusion.

However, the hardware situation you described sounds very brittle to me. If the machine shop is so tightly constrained and error-phobic, that sounds like there's very little space of tinkering, exploration or innovation.

Unless that was your overall point, that capacity in hardware manufacturing has rotted away to the point where things are hanging on by a thread.
by hank808 | 2025-10-14 06:51:12+00:00
You guys that continue to compare DGX Spark to the Mac Studios, please remember two things:

1. Virtually every model that you'd run was developed on Nvidia gear and will run on Spark. 2. Spark has fast-as-hell interconnects. The sort of interconnects that one would want to use in an actual AI DC, so you can use more than one Spark at the same time, and RDMA, and actually start to figure out how things work the way they do and why. You can do a lot with 200 Gb of interconnect.
by exe34 | 2025-10-14 06:51:47+00:00
it's like not speaking to the police - but it's everything you have ever said/asked for in your life outside of talking to yourself in the shower. or at least it's getting there.

a lot of people, especially younger ones, seem to use chatgpt as a neutral third party in every important decision. so it probably has more extensive records on their thoughts than social media ever did. in fact, people often curate their Instagram feeds - but chatgpt has their unfiltered thoughts.
by nobodywillobsrv | 2025-10-14 06:52:22+00:00
A few points that seem to be going unstated here:

a) allowing share buy-backs might be good or bad. But it isn't good or bad unconditionally! The restrictions on the buyback policy should matter. Ideally, buybacks should make prices boring not create ultra thin books with hefty valuations that are cheaper to manipulate. But it seems the regulations around buybacks are in line with incentivizing growth and not stabilizing real prices.

b) to some extent putting uncertain/opaque research inside corporations is a defense against getting into regimes where it becomes easier to manipulate prices. I hadn't thought of it before, but if if important public companies become beholden to traded price and it becomes easy enough for large foreign entities to move markets, then it is simply a matter of "pricing" short term market punishment of a company for any policy you don't like. Yes, this might seem a bit far fetched, but remember that this kind of incremental worsening of outcomes is precisely what people say is hapenning via regulation and legal challenge in key industries.

Just some interesting thought legs spun off from the discussions here.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-14 06:52:23+00:00
Right but those things are not unrelated. Back in the day if you suggested to the average FOSS developer that maybe it should just be possible to download a zip of binaries, unzip it anywhere and run it with no extra effort (like on Windows), they would say that that is actively bad.

You should be installing it from a distro package!!

What about security updates of dependencies??

And so on. Docker basically overrules these impractical ideas.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-14 06:52:52+00:00
Then why does Google make so few anti-consumer decisions? I mean, compare Google with Facebook. Surely we can agree Google is the better behaved of those two.

Apple only allows software on their macbooks and mac mini, and every release of MacOS it's more locked down. Everything else, from iPhone to the watch, is 100% locked down. Likewise, every version of Windows tries, again and again and again, to lock down programs that can be run. People absolutely don't accept it, but they do try (remember when they tried to bury the ability to run unverified apps behind a price hike?)

I'd at least give it a shot to simply appeal to Google on the justification they give. After all, the blogpost ... It is very strange for Google to do what they do in that blogpost, don't you think?

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-...

"In Brazil, the Brazilian Federation of Banks (FEBRABAN) sees ..."

"Indonesia's Ministry of Communications and Digital Affairs praising it for providing a “balanced approach” that ..."

"Thailand’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Society sees it as a “positive and proactive measure” that aligns ..."

"Developer’s Alliance have called this a “critical step” for ..."

And it's easy to come up with other government requirements, like the DMA (yes, ironically) and ChatControl that require vendors are able to disable apps.

Clearly there is more than a little government pressure on Google to do this, including US and EU lobby groups (Developer's Alliance). Clearly Google is unwilling or unable to resist government pressure to allow governments to control which apps get to run ... Has anyone even asked these groups why they push for this?
by Closi | 2025-10-14 06:54:04+00:00
> Chinese people aren't stupid, they have been spending a fortune on automating as much of their manufacturing as possible!

Slight nuance - they have spent a [reasonable amount of money] automating production.

The trick to automating something that ‘isn’t a car’ is often to put in small bits of low-cost and flexible automation that can be moved around and repurposed. IMO this is often what we are bad at in the west - companies can/do setup massive automated sites at huge expense, but there aren’t the skills/infrastructure to do this at the lower end of production (eg if you want to deploy one AMR in the west the AMR companies don’t want to talk to you, and there isn’t really an easy way to get one yourself without talking to an integrator which will charge tens of thousands which will wipe out the benefit, and we don’t have the skills within most small production companies to get a small robot arm/AMR working without external integrators - but a one-AMR deployment might be a more common scenario in China).
by battesonb | 2025-10-14 06:54:47+00:00
I can vouch for Mealie. My wife and I run it locally for family recipes and to pull down recipes from websites. I have a DNS ad blocker running, but most recipe sites are still a mess to navigate on mobile.

You can also distill recipes down. I find a lot of good recipes online that have a lot of hand-holding within the steps which I can just eliminate.
by sensanaty | 2025-10-14 06:55:18+00:00
Sorry but whenever I hear employers say "much better pay/benefits compared to the competition", the reality is in 99.9% of cases that it's a negligible difference for work that is harder and much less desirable.

How much higher is the pay? Cause the first thing that crosses into my mind is oil rigs, where they get paid more than many software engineers I know do, and there's a huge number of people doing the work happily despite the gruelling conditions. I realize not every business can pay Big Oil salaries, but still, it might be worth thinking realistically about whether your pay & benefits really are better than Walmart's (who are the number 1 employer in the states AFAIR, so they must be doing something right).
by JPLeRouzic | 2025-10-14 06:56:31+00:00
The article suggests that as users choose certain behaviors and engineers introduce them in the next LLM generations, an LLM company's commercial product becomes biased toward those population prejudices.

"Technically, personality drift is not consciousness but tone alignment: the sum of phrasing, affect, and response framing learned during RLHF and interface fine-tuning. When millions of users reward a particular conversational energy, the model weights that energy higher in subsequent updates."

I guess the cumulative effect might become significant in a decade, to the point one LLM user may feel more at ease with some LLM products than others.
by ninalanyon | 2025-10-14 06:56:42+00:00
That UK police do not carry firearms really has nothing to do with whether the UK is heading in the direction of being a police state. Firearms are no more necessary for oppression than the private possession of them is sufficient to fight against it.

> and the cops themselves don't want to change that.

I think that you will find that there is a minority of UK police who would welcome being armed with deadly weapons.

Here's an article from 2017:

"A national survey carried out by the Police Federation of England and Wales found more than a third of officers supported the idea of routinely being armed, compared to 23 per cent when the last survey was carried out in 2006.

Another 55 per cent said they would be prepared to carry a gun if asked to – up more than 10 per cent."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/armed-police...
by TheAlexLichter | 2025-10-14 06:59:33+00:00
Consulting doesn't scale though and draws resources from development itself, harming both the OSS and the business side.

All functionality as part of OSS projects will stay there. OSS projects such as Vite, Vitest, Rolldown and Oxc will stay open source.

Eventually, the (financial) success of Vite+ is directly tied to the health, stability, and adoption of the free, open-source Vite ecosystem, so the incentive is rather low.
by al_borland | 2025-10-14 07:00:35+00:00
I worked in a factory for a few months. They moved me around on the line. While each week looked the same, each day in the week was different. Though I was told by some of the other guys on the line that it was one of the nicer factories they ever worked in. I did some tech work in a few auto factories as well, and those had a very different vibe on the floor.

While it may be boring to someone who use used to doing knowledge work, there are a lot of people who need jobs who aren’t going to be doing knowledge work. They need something.

I worked fast food for a shift before I quit. I found that much more boring and hated it much more than the factory. I’d rather see people employed making stuff domestically rather than have yet another drive-thru window in town.

I grew up in a small town with two fairly decent sized factories. That was a solid job prospect for a lot of people coming out or high school that didn’t know what else they could do. It gave those kids options and kept them in town where they could buy a house, raise a family, and spend money supporting other local businesses. Now they’re both closed and the city is hunting for ways to bring businesses to town. My brother-in-law is driving 100+ miles per day to drive to an area with more jobs opportunities. I’m sure if there was a local factory gig he’d probably take it and save a ton on gas, not to mention getting back 10 hours per week of his time.
by illiac786 | 2025-10-14 07:01:46+00:00
that’s a very manichean view. War ist all shades of (horrible) gray and you can have rules, a lot, none, everything is possible. Don’t know what you mean with “Geneva Convention notwithstanding” here, it’s exactly the kind of rules that _can_ exist in times of war – or be completely ignored on both sides.

It’s not because it’s war time that one should just resign, shrug and accept any atrocities. The less atrocities during war time, that more chances for a stable peace afterward.
by bilekas | 2025-10-14 07:02:02+00:00
It honestly feels like they're trying to speedrun autocracy, but it's not clear to me the game plan here. Assuming the voting and election situation doesn't change, they won't be in office forever, possibly even the next term. They've just weakened oversight and standards of decency that surely they will be crying about later. To be honest it's exhausting just listening to the adults supposedly running the strongest country in the world like a Twitter trolling session.
by 7237139812 | 2025-10-14 07:02:51+00:00
My nights and weekends project at the moment is a virtual staging tool for real estate agents.

I'm focusing on the South African market (I know a bunch of agents and I've noticed an increase of very obviously ChatGPT generated images on property listing websites)

My hope is that I can own a nice slice of the listing marketing workflow:

- Creating great, but realistic staging images for listing websites - Improve property descriptions and copy

There is some early interest from agents, hoping to start marketing properly this week!

https://propertyagentpro.ai/
by bsder | 2025-10-14 07:03:23+00:00
> The business loses employees to Walmart etc. despite the factory having higher pay and significantly better benefits.

I'm SUPER doubtful of this.

When I last bumped into this, the local Amazon warehouse paid more than all the local manufacturing. It wasn't even close.

Local manufacturing got used to being a local monopoly and being able to underpay. Now that they're not a monopoly, all they do is whine and complain.
by mike_d | 2025-10-14 07:04:16+00:00
Yes they are trying to be cheeky, but missing the mark.

Pine Gap is a large facility for collecting data coming down from our own satellites.

Foreign satellite collection in Australia happens at two other facilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoal_Bay_Receiving_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Defence_Satellite_C...
Show HN: Ark v0.6.0 – Go ECS with new declarative event system
by mlange-42 | 2025-10-14 07:04:56+00:00
Ark is a high-performance Entity Component System (ECS) library for Go.

Ark v0.6.0 introduces a new event system built around lightweight, composable observers. These allow applications to react to ECS lifecycle changes like entity creation/removal, component updates, relation changes using declarative filters and callbacks. Observers follow the same patterns as Ark’s query system, making them easy to integrate and reason about.

Custom events are also supported. They can be emitted manually and observed with the same filtering logic, making them ideal for modeling domain-specific interactions such as input handling, and other reactive game logic.

As a new performance-related feature, filters and queries are now concurrency-safe and can be executed in parallel.

This release also includes a load of performance improvements, from faster archetype switching over optimized query and table creation to improved performance of bitmask operations. The new World.Shrink method helps reclaim unused memory in dynamic workloads.

Docs have been expanded with a full guide to the event system, examples for both built-in and custom events, and an Ebiten integration example. A cheat sheet for common operations has been added. Finally, Ark now has 100% test coverage.

Changelog: https://github.com/mlange-42/ark/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md Repo: https://github.com/mlange-42/ark

Would love feedback from anyone building games, simulations, or ECS tooling in Go.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-10-14 07:06:37+00:00
> I'm an adult, I know how to circumvent these limits, and I will if motivation is low.

That point can be easily fixed as there are various online timelock services where you can put in your security code or password that will not reveal it to you within a certain timeframe [0][1].

[0]: https://lockmeout.online/ [1]: https://password-locker.com/
by nebula8804 | 2025-10-14 07:06:46+00:00
It was a different era. Bush and the old Republican guard were never imaginative nor were they product people. Trump started with his signature red hat but look at what it blossomed into.

No one should have been surprised. Trump has a long history of being a product person (Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Vodka, Trump Fragrance, Trump Mattresses, Trump: The Game etc.)

You also have to consider that the pre Web 2.0 world of the internet during the Bush years also had less opportunity of flooding the market with branded crap. You had to call a phone number or mail out a money order to order merch.
by CalRobert | 2025-10-14 07:07:15+00:00
When I hear "data sovereignty" I usually think of things like transfers to another country, etc. Are you using it to refer to censorship here?

If memory serves, China wanted to censor Google, Google declined (had a redirect to the Hong Kong site for a while), China blocked accessing foreign Google sites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China has more.
by awesome_dude | 2025-10-14 07:07:56+00:00
I think that one of the things that they neglect to mention, on why we invent new languages, and it's probably the most important thing - people want new ways to express concepts.

It's super important because those concepts get measured, and absorbed into existing languages (as best they can), but that wouldn't have happened without the new languages

New concepts like Rust's "ownership model", Smalltalk's "Object Orientation", Lisp's "Functional programming", Haskell's "Lazy evaluation", Java's "Green threads"
by axiolite | 2025-10-14 07:09:47+00:00
You could technically fit 10 SD channels together in the US, except I recall that the government ("FCC") specifically REQUIRED (at least during initial rollout) at least one to be in highdef, unless you applied for a special waiver.

These days the FCC is unlikely to care, but I suspect viewership would suffer if any of the major broadcast networks downgraded their "main channel" signal to SD.

This explains the typical arrangement, as well as listing some of the extreme cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subchannel#United_Stat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subchannel#Tradeoffs
by bilekas | 2025-10-14 07:10:30+00:00
> Did he start the fire knowing it could kill people? Did his actions lead to the death of people?

I think those things are to be decided in court. As for the charges and times, it's mentioned only the ranges for arson but there's nothing to stop them bringing charges of manslaughter for example. They'll build evidence and charge as such. It's the process.