MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dijit | 2025-10-06 08:45:05+00:00
General computing has not required a dedicated GPU for nearly 20 years, I would argue that the continued perseverance of Windows hinges on a handful of productivity software and, for ordinary people, crucially, games. So judging a market so completely, based on "general" computing is too shallow.

> The best phone APUs nowadays are more powerful than my not so old MacBook Air M1.

Which is, itself, an APU.

The question is, is it better than a 2020 era dGPU and CPU combo (at any thermal/power envelope).

The answer is complicated unfortunately, but a 3090 (a 5 year old card) has 4x the memory bandwidth of an M4 Pro and also about 4x the FP32 performance.

So on the high end, descrete graphics cards are still going to be king for gaming. (I know that a 3090 isn't common, but 5080s are more powerful than 3090s).
by rikafurude21 | 2025-10-06 08:46:21+00:00
Relying on medication to mask the symptoms of ADHD is effective until you have been taking that medication for years and end up depending on it to function at all. ADHD medication is usually just a stimulant, which your brain adapts to rather quickly, and the sense of "needing it to function" is just your body trying to reach a state of equilibrium.
by tooltalk | 2025-10-06 08:46:31+00:00
Tesla's US subsidies mainly came from a ATVM loan from the DOE back in 2008/2009, repaid back in 2013 -- Ford ($6B) was the largest recipient. The DOE had/have other auto/EV/battery subsidies, equally available to foreign domestic producers/recipients, which is what the global subsidies standard requires. No special, or "specific" subsidy favoring Tesla over others (or local companies over foreign competitors). America's consumer purchase EV subsidies prior to the IRA were also neutral without preference to any "specific" company, industry or country of origin.

China's NEV subsidies were/are illegal and Chinese EVs are countervailed in many developed countries (eg, the EU, Turkiye, Canada, US) because they are misapplied in three key ways.

i. forced tech transfer: no subsidies or market access unless hybrid/BEV/batteries tech transfer to China since 2011; violates China's 2001 Accession Protocal (see Section 7, Non-Tariff Measures); litigated before the WTO by the EU (WT/DS549)

ii, local content requirement: no subsidies or license/permit to operate in China unless automakers' EVs used Chinese batteries made by Chinese local "champions" only, namely CATL, since 2015; all foreign battery producers effectively banned and all EV producers forced to switch to local battery suppliers; violates Article 3(a) Prohibition of the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM) Agreement

iii, export subsidies: subsidies given to MIC exporters to under price/under cut foreign competitors in markets abroad; EU Commission's counter measures: 2024/1866 and 2024/2754.

Tesla China benefited significantly from China's NEV subsidies and is likewise also countervailed in the EU, at the import tariff rate of 7+%. Tesla no longer imports EV from China in the US/Canada.
Ask HN: Founders under load: what system keeps you from not dropping the ball?
by velyan | 2025-10-06 08:46:49+00:00
I’m mapping real founder hacks that protect focus on highest-leverage work.

Looking for concrete, copyable details: • Capture: How do you grab every commitment in-flow (keyboard macros, Raycast/Alfred, email rules)? • Triage → Focus: Your scoring/heuristic (e.g., unblock_others > revenue_this_week > existential). • Follow-ups: How do you guarantee chase-backs (SLA rules, auto-nudges, snooze loops)? • Calendar design: Maker blocks, default 25-min calls, guardrails, “no-meeting” windows. • Automation: Filters, scripts, Shortcuts/Zapier/Make, CRM/email/Slack glue. • Rituals: Daily shutdown, weekly review, “burn down open loops.” • Anti-hacks: What you stopped doing that freed time.

Please reply in this format (paste scripts/gists if you can):

Stage/Team: EA/VA: Y/N Stack (email/PM/CRM/etc): Capture (where + triggers): Prioritization heuristic (exact rule): Follow-up system (tools + SLAs): Automation hacks (scripts/workflows): Weekly review ritual (steps, minutes): Biggest recent miss & fix: One hack that saved ≥5h/week:
by jstummbillig | 2025-10-06 08:48:55+00:00
I find the the historic argument to be not so great, when trying to argue the current state of the world. In the 1950s we "managed" 5% child mortality rate (in developed countries). Trees are not kids, but the point is: If something has not changed for a few decades, that's probably something you would want to look at and see what can be improved.

Granted though, leaf blowers ain't it. We are way too lenient regarding noise pollution.
by owenpalmer | 2025-10-06 08:49:13+00:00
I felt this when I decided to do dev work while going to school. The structure of work was a break from the chaos of school, and the novelty of school was a break from the monotony of work.

I want to understand the mechanism and purpose behind procrastination. It seems like there's a reason evolution chose for ADHD to exist.

In my experience, sometimes the frustrating signal telling me not to do the superficially "productive" thing is a defense mechanism against doing meaningless shit. It's a voice screaming at you, informing you of your mortality.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-06 08:49:17+00:00
Yes, like any other argument about Norway, the situation must and shall be considered to be that they are smart and progressive and forward thinking, rather than rich. It's "not" that they have money to burn to do the new fancy thing. It must be forward-thinking policies!

There's a small amount of truth, I'll admit. I guess you can say that Norway's policies are easily a lot smarter than Saudi Arabia's policies. But what is always done is comparing Norway's policies to, say, Spain or France and declare Norway a progressive forward-thinking nation with great and working policies. In reality the opposite is true because France and Spain can't just fix big problems by showering them in money.
by jcul | 2025-10-06 08:50:03+00:00
This looks really cool. I thought in the past about implementing something like this myself.

I have use anki, and briefly mochi.

Having plain text cards that are simple to edit and manage with basic linux tools is really important.

I have used the genanki python library in the past to generate cards, but it's not great.

Going to give this a go.
by Geee | 2025-10-06 08:50:25+00:00
Doesn't this also happen in humans? I think a lot of people think that seahorse emoji exists, or think that it existed in the past (Mandela effect).

This is an interesting case of "something should exist", but doesn't.

Tinfoil hat: maybe it actually existed, and we switched to a different timeline where it doesn't, but LLMs have captured it from the past.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-06 08:50:29+00:00
> he has written some other really vile things about transgender people.

Do you have a link? I suspect these "really vile things" will turn out to be not so vile (like JKR), just things you don't agree with.

> I'd like to leave my identity home and discuss software engineering and interesting technical ideas. DHH has made that impossible.

Really? Did he talk about politics at this Ruby conference? Seems like it is you that can't focus on Ruby.
by Telaneo | 2025-10-06 08:50:38+00:00
If the US democracy collapses to the point where there truly is no hope (think civil war or Trump declares himself king (or whatever other fancy word)), I'd imagine Europe will take that very seriously and push to get out of there and become independent in all the ways that matter that they aren't now.

However, I have a hard time imagining that happening. As long as elections are still a thing over there, even if Trump gets a third term, that's still probably not enough hope lost to push Europe over the edge to actually take action rather than continuing to wait it out and slowly distancing themselves from the US rather than quickly.
by FooBarWidget | 2025-10-06 08:50:39+00:00
That's a very niche use case compared to the majority. Also, opposition research has got nothing to do with "I asked about [political event] and it refused to answer" kind of complaint. Opposition researchers don't ask LLMs about Tiananmen or whatever. The latter kind of queries are still just testing censorship boundaries as a form of virtue signaling or ideological theater, to make some rhetorical point that's completely decoupled from the vast majority of practical use cases.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-06 08:51:07+00:00
> You are missing the long arm of russia that is funding discontent all over the EU as well as to help create the problems that are at the root of that discontent.

The trend in Europe started many decades ago. It is too convenient to blame Russia to avoid acknowledging reality. Russia does not create problems, it is an opportunistic actor that tries to use the existing problems and discontent to its advantage.

Immediately labelling discontent as "xenophobia" is exactly what I mentioned in my previous comments, a denial of reality and of people's concerns. It shuts down debate and only fuels discontent. People are effectively told that they have no choice and if they don't like it they are wrong and racist.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-06 08:51:17+00:00
I'm not saying that they do this today, I'm saying that China and US will both leverage that capability when the time and conditions are right and it's naive to think that they wouldn't.

Antrophic have already published a paper on this topic, with the added bonus that the backdoor is trained into the model itself so it doesn't even require your target to be using an attacker-controlled cloud service: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566

> For example, we train models that write secure code when the prompt states that the year is 2023, but insert exploitable code when the stated year is 2024. We find that such backdoor behavior can be made persistent, so that it is not removed by standard safety training techniques, including supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and adversarial training (eliciting unsafe behavior and then training to remove it).

> The backdoor behavior is most persistent in the largest models and in models trained to produce chain-of-thought reasoning about deceiving the training process, with the persistence remaining even when the chain-of-thought is distilled away.

> Furthermore, rather than removing backdoors, we find that adversarial training can teach models to better recognize their backdoor triggers, effectively hiding the unsafe behavior. Our results suggest that, once a model exhibits deceptive behavior, standard techniques could fail to remove such deception and create a false impression of safety.
by jamiecurle | 2025-10-06 08:53:10+00:00
Maybe if you're just doing your own back garden and it's just leaf matter. But for professional arborists / municipal arboricultural teams, a leaf blower - specifically a backpack blower (battery / alkalyte | petrol) speeds up clean up by orders of magnitude.

I could understand the ban for residential use, fine - I agree just using a rake if it is just leaves, but for tree work / hedge work where the owner expects "tidy" as one of the things they see at the end of the job they're essential. Without then It'd mean an extra couple of hours on every job, which means less jobs, which means higher costs. The fine chips, the hedge cuttings and the tiny snapped twigs they take ages to clear up. Especially on gravel or grass. Fast moving air is the perfect tool for cleaning up this stuff on all surfaces.

All that being said, it is actually better to leave material for habitat and detritivores. It's really valuable, so in that regard it may force peoples hands in "accepting the mess" or as I like to say "the reconfigured habitat".

It'll boil down to "the cost", "the mess" or "the noise".

context: I'm an arborist as well as a software engineer.
Show HN: Chat Plays Chess (YouTube)
by omeysalvi | 2025-10-06 08:53:21+00:00
I was interested in making a live game like Twitch Plays Pokémon from years ago. I recently saw the Falling Pickaxe game trending on YouTube and decided to go for it as a small project. I had already made a Chess game and thus had some code. I made this version by integrating the YouTube Data API. Game engine is Unity. Moves are checked every 20 seconds. The underlying AI is Stockfish. It falls well below the api quota and can be run all day.
by byroot | 2025-10-06 08:53:27+00:00
That's a particularly one sided account of the events.

Ruby Central wanted to oust one or two specific maintainers because of a rocky relationship (whether it was warranted or not is not my point).

It later backfired when a majority of the other maintainers resigned.

> They could start to gatekeep or even worse add some sort of paid version.

That's a funny accusation given that's something the ousted maintainers now behind gem.coop wanted to do a while ago.
by Fanmade | 2025-10-06 08:53:32+00:00
I'm usually first in line when talking shit about the German government, but here I am absolutely for this. I was really positively surprised when I had my apprenticeship at a publishing company and we had a routine to bring physical backups to the cellar of a post office every morning. The company wasn't that up-to-date with most things, but here they were forced to a proper procedure which totally makes sense. They even had proper desaster recovery strategies that included being back online within less than 2 hours hours even after a 100% loss of all hardware. They had internal jokes that you could have nuked their building and as long as one IT guy survived because he was in the home office, he could at least bring up the software within a day.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-06 08:53:45+00:00
LLMs spend a fixed amount of effort on each token they output, and in a feedforward manner. There's no recursion in the network other than through predicting predicated on the token that it just output. So it's not really time pressure in the same way that you might experience it, but it makes sense that sometimes the available compute is not enough for the next token (and sometimes it's excessive). Thinking modes try to improve this by essentially allowing the LLM to 'talk to itself' before sending anything to the user.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-10-06 08:53:48+00:00
> Your generalization that any kind of decentralization amounts to collective action failure is wrong. Some kinds of decentralization do; ... Others don't.

That's correct, yes. I too prefer a decentralized washing machine to coin-operated laundromats which are very common in France where I live nowadays.

However I still believe that electricity generation has more in common with steelmaking than with laundry. Today solar panels make sense in terms of money ROI but not in terms of KWh ROI, they're largely enabled by economical disbalances around the world and not by their long-term value. The long-term solution in my view is nuclear which coincidentally the French do rather well, it's not all laundromats.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-06 08:53:58+00:00
> The trend in Europe started decades ago.

In the intelligence community there is very little doubt that russia has been doing this for decades. Yes, there is a home grown component as well but it would not be nearly as large if not for all this meddling.

> Immediately labelling discontent as "xenophobia" is exactly what I mentioned in my previous comments, a denial of a reality and of people's concerns. It shuts down debate and only fuels discontent. People are effectively told that they have no choice and if they don't like it they are wrong and racist.

Yes.
by bilekas | 2025-10-06 08:54:12+00:00
> Your team gets bogged down with complex Terraform scripts, manual configuration, and endless CI/CD pipelines.

I really hate marketing speak like this. Terraform is there specifically to solve the Aws infrastructure complexity.you create your system once and minor changes if needed.

> Flightcontrol fully automates infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD, and deployments. All within your own AWS account where you retain full visibility and control

Why does everyone think this is a desirable thing? Excluding adding to your aws price, you're now vendor locked in for your pipelines also.

I'm not seeing any benefits here for any already established company, maybe a small start-up of fresh graduates who don't want to learn Iac/DevOps ?
by mdhb | 2025-10-06 08:54:16+00:00
This absolutely does however happen in practice.

It’s a bit ironic in the sense that the EXACT logic of what you’re saying here is precisely what makes it such an ideal thing to target.

I think sometimes people put way too much faith into the concept of open source as being some kind of meaningful shield against attacks like this. Like absolutely nobody in an intel background for example who does stuff like this for a living would agree with you.

It only ever needs to look plausible and I don’t think it’s all that complicated a problem to come up with a reason as to why you’re introducing some code that is suddenly very focused on reading mouse sensor data.
Show HN: Aikoa – minimalistic todo web app for work-life
by visualblack | 2025-10-06 08:54:57+00:00
I build Aikoa for myself to replace paper lists and todos.

There is gaziljion different todo apps. Why not use one of them? Every todo app I tried just confused my brain and I wanted something really simple that makes me want to mark tasks as done. And as a nerd, I wanted the power to stay in the background.

I’m currently building Aikoa in my free time, but I keep releasing new features regularly.

As a fun bonus for all early birds, I’m sending out a limited custom sticker. Delivered anywhere in the world.

Would love to get feedback from you and hope this little web app helps you as much it have helped me!
by simianparrot | 2025-10-06 08:55:26+00:00
I interpret it differently; it’s usually a signal that my current approach to an activity is not effective. And it’s not static. For example if I feel this signal when practicing piano songs I otherwise want to improve on, I will try an entirely different or new sheet. If I still feel it, I’ll just do some technical practices and then stop. If I feel it when it’s a chore I know I should do, I give myself the option between that chore and another. Whenever I challenge the feeling like this I end up being more in control than simply giving up altogether.
by sad-pack | 2025-10-06 08:56:08+00:00
"I care about Ruby and want it to die…”

“I try to discourage them because I don’t want more Ruby code in the world…”

I wouldn't bother replying to that account, it's not arguing in good faith. Ishkebab has stated many times its goal is to kill ruby and its community.

It's commenting here to stir things up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331847

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331847
by sph | 2025-10-06 08:56:12+00:00
Not much software directly targets syscalls. Even just linking to libc (musl/glibc) exposes you to the churn of userspace linux.

Games depend on the entire stack (audio, HID, VR, Vulkan, desktop compositor choice, etc.) so are the most vulnerable to any minor change. And game developers, rightly so, have better things to do than to recompile if not re-port their game because Linux has decided that Pulseaudio is out, or X11 has been replaced with Wayland.

So yes, in practice, there are only two stable APIs/ABIs on Linux: the syscalls, and Proton.
by tim333 | 2025-10-06 08:56:16+00:00
Ah - that's interesting. I see there's an LA Times article from 2018 about it "Stalls, stops and breakdowns: Problems plague push for electric buses".

On the other hand they seem to be getting a lot in in London, mostly for short less busy routes far from the center. Here's some youtube shot in one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaHZufvD_C4 They do look a bit cheaply made compared to usual London busses.

On 13 routes with 16 more scheduled https://bus-routes-in-london.fandom.com/wiki/BYD_BD11#Routes...

The problems seem to be mostly the batteries running out. Maybe they've improved?

(update - went and tried one in Canary Wharf https://postimg.cc/XBJ2zXvX https://postimg.cc/D8SjQWDM - was fine really)
by steve_gh | 2025-10-06 08:56:54+00:00
I'm really pleased to see this happening, but sad that it has come to this.

What I'd really like to see is a whole bunch of people acting more professionally. Who you pray to, who you vote for, and who you sleep with are irrelevant to a professional context - and open source development is a professional context. So everyone needs to keep their professional and personal lives separate. I know that at best I would be disciplined, and at worst sacked if I made comments on the lines that some of the lead players in this sorry saga have made. And that's not pointing the finger at any one person.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-06 08:57:02+00:00
> for ordinary people, crucially, games

PC gaming is a niche which is incredibly small. Ordinary people don’t use games on their PC provided they have one in the first place. Most PCs nowadays are laptops and they are mostly bought by companies sometimes by people and mostly to do work.

If you look at the respective market size, gaming is mostly done on smartphones and dedicated consoles and they all use APUs.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-06 08:57:37+00:00
With an LLM Agent (specifically an agent, not a web page chat) I can go from idea to 50-80% execution in 30 minutes.

Then I can pretty quickly see whether my idea was a good one or not. It's so easy and quick to build tiny bespoke tools now, that I'm building them left and right.

Some stay with me and I use them regularly, the others I forget. But I didn't have to spend hours and hours building them so the time-cost is not an issue.
by Nursie | 2025-10-06 08:57:44+00:00
A static binary that contains a huge variety of useful posix commands (ls/cp/mv/cat/md5sum/nohup/mount etc etc), all baked into one program, which exhibits different behaviour depending on how it is called - if you name the executable to one of these, or provide a hard or soft link with that name, it will behave as that program.

This generally makes things easier on devices with strict storage space constraints by reducing the overhead of having separate executables and/or libraries for the code for all these. It may reduce load times in very constrained systems compared to dynamic linking too, as everything is bundled in the one image, and in some cases it can exhibit performance gains.

It's generally (but not exclusively) of interest to embedded device manufacturers. Toybox is licensed very permissively, compared to busybox's use of GPL, so manufacturers like it. IIRC it is now used in android.
by grumpy-de-sre | 2025-10-06 08:58:00+00:00
Yep in a lot of ways it's a failure of the electricity market.

It's absolutely bonkers how much I pay for electricity while I sit in the shadow of a giant onshore wind farm in Brandenburg. Transmission losses are nothing at this distance and the turbines cover the towns needs many times over.

But because of the lack of regional and dynamic pricing (and tax burden) we pay ridiculous rates.

I think if folks could financially benefit from renewable projects in their neighborhoods, suddenly citizens opposition would fall apart.

Maybe balcony solar is just a tax minimization play, in that the energy you get from panels isn't burdened by excessive network charges, consumer taxes etc.
by amadeuspagel | 2025-10-06 08:58:05+00:00
Interesting.

It would be easier to play with this if you could adjust the variables with a slider and if the simulation happened immidiately when the variable was changed. No need for a button.

The texts are hard to read in these tiny boxes. Maybe you could have one page for every model where the text is displayed on one side and the simulation on the other side.