MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by strogonoff | 2025-10-23 00:26:20+00:00
I have not seen a description of what this “target reality” should even look like. It sounds like either you have not thought about what it would be, or you did but you would rather keep it to yourself.

It is not even a question that it would be strongly unethical (like evil addictive social media/crypto scams/online casino times a thousand level of unethical) to proceed on working on job-replacing robots without considering what a tenable no-job reality would like like, or after deciding it is probably not achievable.
by anyfoo | 2025-10-23 00:26:51+00:00
A few early CPUs (famously including the 6502) were fully reverse engineered through "ordinary" die photos, and they even have gate-level simulators now where you can basically see the individual transistors switching: http://www.visual6502.org

I don't know if that's still near feasible for an 8088 or 8086. Anything past that, almost certainly not. Anything modern, absolutely not.
by tactics6655 | 2025-10-23 00:26:58+00:00
Thanks a lot for the kind words!

The AI runtime part is still pretty experimental — right now it’s basically a set of hooks that let me call out to external processes (via FFI) and experiment with model inference or code-gen helpers. The idea was to see how far I could push PHP into interacting with AI runtimes without leaving the framework context.

Context Sync sounds really interesting. Persisting framework decisions across AI conversations could make the dev workflow much smoother. I’ll definitely take a look at how it might connect with Onetone.

Thanks again for the thoughtful comment, and have a great day!
by ajkjk | 2025-10-23 00:27:55+00:00
man I love stories like this. I know that that's impersonal and it was really hard for you. but it's very comforting and... inspiring?... to hear about people managing to face things they've held onto for many years. I feel like we get used to a model where people stay stuck how they are for most of their lives and I'd like to think that everybody can keep growing (past bad things, in many cases), and this kind of thing is a reminder of that.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-23 00:28:42+00:00
That minimap is wild, it duplicates the entire post but every word is surrounded by a span. I thought maybe it was like a bitmap or something but no:

<p><span class="censored">SSA</span> <span class="censored">is</span> <span class="censored">hugely</span> <span class="censored">popular,</span> <span class="censored">to</span> <span class="censored">the</span> <span class="censored">point</span> <span class="censored">that</span> <span class="censored">most</span> <span class="censored">compiler</span> <span class="censored">projects</span> <span class="censored">no</span> <span class="censored">longer</span> <span class="censored">bother</span> <span class="censored">with</span> <span class="censored">other</span> <span class="censored">IRs</span> <span class="censored">for</span> <span class="censored">optimization</span><sup id="fnref:ghc" role="doc-noteref"><a href="#fn:ghc" class="footnote" rel="footnote"><span class="censored">7</span></a></sup><span class="censored">.</span></p>
by olyjohn | 2025-10-23 00:28:50+00:00
I think it's hilarious that I can upgrade my 2004 Honda Accord and add CarPlay into it with a myriad of screen sizes and options, features, cameras. There's an entire world of car stereo / infotainment gear out there that is cheaper and better than ever. Meanwhile, everybody with their new cars are just stuck with the terrible built in systems, or can only upgrade with a $1000 worth of audio processing gear and multi-channel amplifiers.
by idoubtit | 2025-10-23 00:29:07+00:00
Other examples where native features are better than these self-made scripts...

> vim [...] I select a region and then run :'<,'>!markdownquote

Just select the first column with ctrl-v, then "i> " then escape. That's 4 keys after the selection, instead of 20.

> u+ 2025 returns ñ, LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE

`unicode` is widely available, has a good default search, and many options. BTW, I wonder why "2025" matched "ñ".

unicode ñ U+00F1 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE UTF-8: c3 b1 UTF-16BE: 00f1 Decimal: &#241; Octal: \0361

> catbin foo is basically cat "$(which foo)"

Since the author is using zsh, `cat =foo` is shorter and more powerful. It's also much less error-prone with long commands, since zsh can smartly complete after =.

I use it often, e.g. `file =firefox` or `vim =myscript.sh`.
by daft_pink | 2025-10-23 00:29:24+00:00
I think that the Class 1 and Class 2 and Class 3 regulations when properly followed tell you what you are getting. Since this is Class 3, it really is close to a Moped and has a lot more restrictions depending on your area similar to a motorcycle but still allowed on city streets without insurance in most places in the USA, but often has restrictions in parks etc.

The problem is that many other manufacturers have “selectable” class which really is meaningless and doesn’t really tell you what you are buying and often times is really close to a motorcycle. But unlike cars you can easily import bikes that don’t conform to the regulation so many don’t.

If I were buying a bike for my young child I would stick to class 1 or 2.
by gdulli | 2025-10-23 00:30:57+00:00
I'll choose the small, simple, reliable tool over the larger framework every time, if I can get away with having the smaller feature set. I'd go out of my way to make the simpler tool work if I could, to keep the overall cognitive load and complexity of the project down.

I never considered writing my own, I just want a tool to plug in and work so I can focus on the application. I also never thought performance of this part of the stack would be a bottleneck for my use cases.

In contrast, I am happy to use Django over Flask because you can't get away from needing lots of web framework features for a nontrivial web app. The bigger framework is usually justified, especially if it's high quality like Django. But spawning tasks (for my use cases) is just an aspect of the project that can have a simple interface and it doesn't justify adopting a big framework. Time I've invested in Django (going back to 2009) is still paying off for me today, but there'd be much lower ROI on the time I'd have to put into Celery. Unless my projects really needed its complexity, but I think far fewer projects actually require that in practice than their architects tend to think.
by positron26 | 2025-10-23 00:33:11+00:00
> amd needs to

It's right there. You're whole mentality is about how one company will fix a problem that they cannot inherently have the expertise to fix. Nvidia fixed that the slow way, building a consortium of partners. This is the mindset of dependents waiting for the world to drop benefits on them. If 7k companies stand to make trillions of dollars, which I hope they do with this level of capex, it makes zero sense to pretend AMD can or should do all the work or can do it as fast or as well. I'm building a new model and you're arguing for what the old model should do.
by hollerith | 2025-10-23 00:33:39+00:00
>The intentional infliction of emotional distress has long been recognized as a tort.

Disallowing testimony about psychological trauma is consistent with criminalizing intentional attempts to cause it -- and in fact the vast majority of attempts to cause psychological trauma are probably covered by existing laws against assault.

(Also, I hope everyone realizes that not all emotional distress is psychological trauma.)
by krapp | 2025-10-23 00:34:33+00:00
Are you one of today's 10000 on using parameterized queries and prepared statements?

Unless you're doing something stupid like concatenating strings into SQL queries, there's no need to "sanitize" anything going into a database. SQL injection is a solved problem.

Coming from the database and sending to the client, sure. But unless you're doing something stupid like concatenating strings into SQL statements it hasn't been necessary to "sanitize" data going into a database in ages.

Edit: I didn't realize until I reread this comment that I repeated part of it twice, but I'm keeping it in because it bears repeating.
by acdha | 2025-10-23 00:37:13+00:00
I think that’s backwards: most of the stuff you mentioned is using TLS and can switch to post-quantum algorithms with a config change, and do so incrementally with no user-visible impact - e.g. right now I’m already using PQC for many sites and about half of the traffic Cloudflare sees is using PQC:

https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage

In contrast, cryptocurrencies have to upgrade the entire network all at once or it’s effectively a painful fork. That effort appears to just be getting talked about now, without even starting to discuss timing:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1895
by wubrr | 2025-10-23 00:38:00+00:00
> If Justin Trudeau is found accepting money from a bunch of Taliban involved in weapons trafficking, would the RCMP turn a blind eye?

RCMP turned a blind eye to multiple corruption scandals involving bribery, fraud, embezzlement of public funds, etc. under Trudeau and his government, and helped cover them up. That is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to corruption within the RCMP - there is a long list of nefarious and straight up illegal shit they have done over the years.
by jbm | 2025-10-23 00:38:06+00:00
My "real lived experience" with a CarPlay device that I installed into my 2016 Toyota Sienna is that it was slow, annoying, and I actually removed it. You can have it for free if you are in the Calgary area, my email is in my profile.

The UX difference compared to my phone, and the change in speed / etc.. was infuriating. The experience with my phone was ALWAYS better.

An argument based on the desires of fiscally illiterate people with 19.99% APR loans on oversized cars would make more sense if I worked for an auto company, thankfully I don't.
by Paracompact | 2025-10-23 00:39:22+00:00
As a longtime chess and go player, I was just doing some research the other day into what modern abstracts are out there. I was disappointed by how dry I came up.

Even if you expand the search criteria to include video games, there just aren't many deeply strategic discrete-time games that weren't invented centuries ago and have players online at any given time. Here I exclude games that are perpetually changing and/or have strategies locked behind progression systems and paywalls, such as TCGs and virtual deck builders. The very few exceptions I found were niche Discord communities around games like Tak, Hex, or Advanced Wars.

When did we as a society lose the appreciation for these things? I get why including a component of dexterity in strategic video games (e.g. RTS) is to take full advantage of the medium, but all this in conjunction means we are very likely never to see another deeply studied cerebral game like go, chess, shogi, mahjong, etc. arise ever again.
by snailmailman | 2025-10-23 00:40:29+00:00
The world has already migrated through so many past now-insecure cryptography setups. If quantum computers start breaking things, people will transition to more secure systems.

In HTTPS for example, the server and client must agree on how to communicate, and we’ve already had to deprecate older, now-insecure cryptography standards. More options get added, and old ones will have to be deprecated. This isn’t a new thing, just maybe some cryptographic schemes will get rotated out earlier than expected.
by duxup | 2025-10-23 00:40:52+00:00
I might have seen it on HN, but I recall a study that was studying what made teams very effective. What they found was there were a rare few people who just by their involvement could make a team more effective. So rare that you may as well assume you won't ever see one.

But rather than finding magic to make teams better, they did find that there were types of people who make teams worse regardless of anyone else on the team, and they're not all that uncommon.

I think of those folks when I read that quote. That person who clearly doesn't understand but is in a position that their ignorant opinion is a go or no go type gate.
by gnabgib | 2025-10-23 00:41:18+00:00
Discussions

(69 points, 10 hours ago, 19 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45669719

(10 points, 9 hours ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670827

(447 points, 8 hours ago, 372 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45671778
by bawolff | 2025-10-23 00:41:42+00:00
> It seems like detecting a re-use like this should be reasonably easy, it would not look like normal traffic

I don't see why it wouldn't look like normal traffic.

> Somehow, I'm not all that scared. Perhaps I'm naive.. :}

We're talking about an attack that probably won't be practical for another 20 years , which already has counter measures that are in testing right now. Almost nobody should be worried about it.
by anon7000 | 2025-10-23 00:42:11+00:00
Cheating is often very obvious, even when the player is on your team. It’s when multiple improbable, too-perfect situations happen for the cheater in the same game.

But that’s beside the point. Gaming companies who produce competitive online games know that the competitive scene will die very quickly if there is rampant, unaddressed cheating. This is why kernel-level anticheat exists. When you have a free to play game banking on the competitive scene & selling cosmetics, cheating is an existential threat to your entire business model, and players demand you do something about it.

Valorant players BY FAR don’t care about kernel-level anticheat, but do care about cheaters getting detected and banned. People put a lot of time into ranked matches, and enjoy the game a lot.

Does riot have other options? Sure, and it probably uses a lot of tools beyond the kernel-level system to help with it. But there is zero business incentive for them to migrate to a different anti-cheat system.

It does not take much to upset your competitive players, because they spend so much time in your game system. And they’re the ones paying for season passes & cosmetics keeping the game alive. There is a lot of risk that companies have no business reason to tackle.

This doesn’t matter for plenty of games, sure, but for people who care about doing well and who enjoy being able to be ranked (and work toward being better) in a fair system, anti-cheat is an important part of the puzzle.

The HN crowd is asking people to prioritize something they don’t care about (how anticheat works) over something they already enjoy and put a lot of time into. That’s not how this works.

It’s going to take a company seeing the value of a Linux market to invest in better anti-cheat solutions for Linux, or investing completely into server-side tech.
by epistasis | 2025-10-23 00:43:54+00:00
What always shocked me were the number of tech-oriented people that were are not aware of the tremendous progress in lithium ion batteries. And not just in the cost, performance, and reduction in materials needed. Production capacity grows by 10x in a mere five years. We were at 1.2TWh of production in 2024, and will be at ~20TWh in 2030. When batteries are eventually recycled, they get recycled into a higher power capacity than went in because recovery of materials is high and gains in production are even higher.

The global average cost of solar panels is $90/kW. With high tariffs, it's $150/kW in India and $270/kW in the US. Raising tariffs is something like 6 months of price drops. (Meanwhile installed, it costs $500-$3000 on residential properties...)

Solar and storage are some of the most impressive technologies of the past century, and so many people are sleeping on the huge changes it will have.
by big_toast | 2025-10-23 00:43:57+00:00
I assume this comment in relation to the starting from a stop being unpleasant?

If it's w.r.t. effect of low max power on low cumulative generation, I agree it does seem like a little silly to arbitrage your power generation this way. But maybe the tradeoff is worth it in some circumstances in their view?

Or maybe it's just a low cost addition as other commenters say.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-23 00:46:14+00:00
> Meta has too many staff, exceptionally poor leadership, and a performance system that rewards bullshitters.

To be fair, almost every company has a performance system that rewards bullshitters. You’re rewarded on your ability to schmooze and talk confidently and write numerous great-sounding docs about all the great things you claim to be doing. This is not unique to one company.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-23 00:46:32+00:00
Yea, this seems to be an issue with this entire thread. Lots of people making lots of assumption about others.

As a kid into my teens I had plenty of my own trama, but was quiet and generally didn't interact with many other people my age, generally having friendships with people much older than I was. Once I got into my late twenties this turned around and I ended up being the person who many other people my age and younger would come and talk to about their lives. In general I'm just quiet and let them talk. Listening to a lot people talk about their lives has let me see one thing.

A lot of people are really screwed up from their childhood and bring it into their adulthood

The number of women that have been sexually assaulted or raped that disclose it is downright depressing, especially in their childhood. More depressing is the number of 'high status' people that cover it up.

The number of men that have some kind of depression coping mechanism such as alcoholism or hidden drug use is disturbing too. And a lot of these people are the ones you can't tell. They have successful jobs and make good money, have a wife and kids. All the checkboxes of supposed happiness. But so often these are things they had to do at some point after being driven by narcissistic parents for years. Trama driven workaholics with no at home coping mechanisms are common too.

I have no idea how much people that have had trauma can be fixed. What I'd really like to see is the signs if it taught younger so kids and learn how to avoid it and call it out.
by duxup | 2025-10-23 00:47:14+00:00
I worked at a company once who after several rounds of layoffs (and in the midst of a pretty pitiful product launch) sent out congratulatory emails about how exciting a time it was to work there and their main example was:

HR had completed many hours of meetings and listening sessions and had chosen to ... rename the HR department to some stupid new name.

It was like a joke for the movie Office Space, but too stupid to put in the film because nobody would believe it.

It’s amazing how process and internal operations will just eat up a company.
by gregbot | 2025-10-23 00:47:31+00:00
My understanding with Le Pen is that she used funds that were earmarked for he EU parliament staff to pay the salary of someone on her regular staff. I find it hard to believe that similar errors weren’t made by people the French establishment simply like more than her. Calling her a morally corrupt criminal for that is pretty obviously political, and if its political, it should be decided by a vote (which she would win)
by foxglacier | 2025-10-23 00:48:21+00:00
Huh? Computers were privately funded and you could have called them pornography machines if you wanted to be dismissive of the technology. I understand you're not excited by those technologies but no need to mischaracterize them. I'm not excited about curing cancer because it's just not something I think about much, but I still recognize it's a good thing, even if some big-pharma company ends up owning all the IP and overcharging for it.
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-23 00:49:28+00:00
I feel the same way, except Facebook had its mask off right from the start. Its precursor was a site that used Zuckerberg's female classmates' photos without permission to rate their attractiveness.

Zuckerberg is also famous for calling Facebook users "dumb f**s" back in the early days of Facebook for entrusting him with all sorts of information.

https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
by rorylawless | 2025-10-23 00:51:12+00:00
This is a nice allegory that hits on a few of the key tensions we're seeing at the moment.

The social and economic order is in constant flux, however, there has been tendency to totalize one preference over the alternatives. The abuse of the "invisible hand" metaphor is one way we see this, being used, as it is, to wave away the 50-year trend of increasing selfishness, moving away from seeing the economy as a potential welfare maximizing technology.

We're in a period in which the massive transfer of wealth to a few people is accepted as inevitable and should be pursued at any and all costs. The original post highlights that (individual and collective) human agency remains, people can make the choice to do things differently.
by AdrianB1 | 2025-10-23 00:51:26+00:00
I think these days the solar panels and even batteries are quite cheap, but the equipment needed build a hybrid system for a house is still a mess. One can find the right inverter, but not a good match for the battery, the backup/switching system that needs to match, DC fuse boxes, especially for European systems that are 230V and sometimes 3-phase, the progress is not good enough even if the problem is simple enough.
by blamestross | 2025-10-23 00:51:27+00:00
They don't actually show any results. Of any kind.

I have some spare compute credits and I'm taking it for a spin here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1XL91kdwMWQQf1xu1_zS...

I'm posting there before it completes, note that you have to reload to see progress. There should eventually be images at the end that show reconstructions from samples.
by reactordev | 2025-10-23 00:51:29+00:00
Is this the LLM hallucinating or you? Google has a long history of abandoning things. Samsung isn’t doing themselves any favors by pricing this at $1799usd. This is a #metoo product. Nothing more. Where is the killer experience that Apple headset / Samsung headset / Meta headset provides? Being social? Watching a movie? c’mon! They have nothing. Now, if AI gets to the point where you can stream worlds, imagine movies, or paint the universe than maybe we might have something down the road but today - It’s about as useful as the Apple Vision which isn’t very useful.

PiMax and others at least know their lane. Simulation. These phone makers and social media companies aren’t vested in it other than to sell you ads to your eyeballs.
by beala | 2025-10-23 00:52:48+00:00
It doesn’t seem like email scanning is necessary to explain this. It appears that simply having a “bad” subdomain can trigger this. Obviously this heuristic isn’t working well, but you can see the naive logic of it: anything with the subdomain “apple” might be trying to impersonate Apple, so let’s flag it. This has happened to me on internal domains on my home network that I've exposed to no one. This also has been reported at the jellyfin project: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/issues/4076
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-10-23 00:53:04+00:00
Yeah exactly. My wife's Volvo runs Android as its entertainment OS, and I still choose to use Android Auto. Because my phone has my music, has the music player I like to use, etc. The car has none of these things. There is no scenario where the car's software is going to be a superior experience to plugging in your smartphone, IMO.
by joshuamorton | 2025-10-23 00:53:21+00:00
I don't think this is quite right.

The git wrapper was never fully supported and had some rough edges (I think it was only ever a 20% project, and also its, like, really old). And the customized mercurial has been around for more than 7 years, I think close to a decade (the client I'm using right now is turning 7, and it wasn't my first one).