MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dangus | 2025-10-04 13:47:51+00:00
I personally think inkjet has superior richer color printing to laser jet even for basic use like printing out websites and recipes, and it also doesn’t take up a massive amount of space and weight like a laser printer. I also don’t like the power spike that laser printers do that flickers the lights.

Plus, a lot of inkjet buyers really need the scanning and copying functionality more than the printer itself.

I have a ~$200 HP OfficeJet printer it’s small, has all the multi-functions I need, and has been reliable.

Yes, the ink isn’t cheap. But I buy it at Costco which makes it less painful and it’s not the 1990s so printing isn’t an everyday thing. I have never had an issue with ink drying up or anything like that.

I think the thing you have to understand is that customers like me are not looking for the best dollars per page, they’re just looking for something convenient so that they don’t have to print at work or go to the library. They don’t want to buy a serious appliance that can’t be lifted by a large portion of the population.
by idiotsecant | 2025-10-04 13:48:28+00:00
A) it's not illegal, as evidenced by the fact that not a single person has been prosecuted. There is no law being broken, just the feel-feels of the surveillance state getting hurt.

B) Even if there was a law, its the duty of every American to disobey unjust laws. The government serves at the pleasure of the people, not the other way around. There are a lot of people getting awfully comfortable with weak men ordering other jack booted weak men to systematically tear down what actually makes America great. I thought we settled this last time, but maybe we need to revisit the issue.
by shagie | 2025-10-04 13:48:59+00:00
I would say "spoilers" ... but it's the title of the story. The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fermi_Paradox_Is_Our_Busin...

https://www.tor.com/2010/08/11/the-fermi-paradox-is-our-busi...
by nerdponx | 2025-10-04 13:49:15+00:00
This is literally how extortion by organized crime works. It's the same mechanism. Of course they'll be back for more, but if you don't give them your money, they will beat the shit out of you and then come back for more anyway. You know what's expected of you, and the alternatives are generally much worse.

Incidentally it's also a textbook presentation of the Manufacturing Consent Propaganda model, except it's not only propaganda, it's an outright authoritarian coup.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-04 13:50:26+00:00
Ever since I had covid 5 years ago, my body has been stuck under a constant firehouse shower. High heart rate, shortness of breath, and a constant pressure in my upper chest.

I know it's immune related, because when I am coming down with a cold the symptoms all vanish. Like the firehose has an actual fire to fight.
by dzaima | 2025-10-04 13:51:03+00:00
gcc, via -m32, still defaults to no SSE, i.e. pre-1999, i.e. ≥26 years and counting for increasing default.

clang, as far back as Compiler Explorer goes (i.e. clang 3.0.0, i.e. 2011), always assumes SSE for -m32; presumably because there's nothing to be backwards-compatible to, unlike gcc.

Doesn't look particularly good for "default will just change at some point", though we can hope.
by jeffrallen | 2025-10-04 13:51:08+00:00
The problem with a NSL is that the gag rule is pretty watertight. For example, "oops, I accidentally wrote my password on a bathroom wall" is gonna land you in a world of hurt.

You need to find a way to bring some of your other rights into balance (and conflict with) those of the state, to bring professionals who have a duty to protect your confidence to your defense.

The power of the state is asymmetric warfare against an individual, which is what they count on. You need leverage from other competing lawful protections working on your side.
by antasvara | 2025-10-04 13:51:58+00:00
Inflammation is a blunt instrument. It's one of the body's tools to contain and attack a pathogen. Without it, many bacteria and other irritants would wreak havoc on the body.

As allergies and (to an extent) COVID have shown, inflammation can also be dangerous. Too much acute inflammation can cause essential body functions to shut down or function incorrectly.

Point being that inflammation is "good" when the alternative is an infection running rampant in your body. But it's "worse" for your body than the baseline, so chronic inflammation is bad for you (and seems to increase cancer risk).

Anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen are good for knocking down inflammation, but they have a suite of side effects unrelated to this function that make them terrible for prolonged use. I don't know for sure, but I'd bet that these side effects are way worse than the benefits of reduced chronic inflammation.

More generally, reducing inflammation across the board leaves you open to infection. It's why we don't prescribe steroids long-term in most patients: the downside of reduced immune response vastly outweighs the benefit for generally healthy patients. It's only considered if the condition (like your body attacking an organ transplant) is more dangerous than the reduced immune response.
by xxmarkuski | 2025-10-04 13:52:04+00:00
The best teams from Google CTF were invited to compete in Hackceler8, a combination of speedrunning and CTF, this year on a SEGA Genesis. Today are the finals, which are steamed and commented on YouTube. See this teaser [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/QQjxHBW7wSQ?si=ElmaUomuFnVx043T
by danaris | 2025-10-04 13:52:05+00:00
There's even a specific court case setting precedent that there is no "fiduciary duty" to screw people over in pursuit of higher profits:

> Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. - https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/13-354

> While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations is to make money, modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so. For-profit corporations, with ownership approval, support a wide variety of charitable causes, and it is not at all uncommon for such corporations to further humanitarian and other altruistic objectives. Many examples come readily to mind. So long as its owners agree, a for-profit corporation may take costly pollution-control and energy-conservation measures that go beyond what the law requires. A for-profit corporation that operates facilities in other countries may exceed the requirements of local law regarding working conditions and benefits.
by jofla_net | 2025-10-04 13:53:12+00:00
>Those on the left also quite often suffer from letting perfect be the enemy of good.

Exactly, its because they are idealist. Its also not hard to follow this observation over to Europe, pretty much the epicenter of idealism on earth, and then look around. Oh yeah, much more liberal than the US, with countless examples of idealism throughout. One of the current such examples is how Europe sees Putin, and how the East sees him.

The antidote to the idealism are individuals with confidence, and of course testosterone. Elements which when put in a pot with the aforementioned mix violently. You need people saying, well, this is good enough, and if its not I'll come up with something that'll fix it, when that happens.

As usual, a mix of both is needed.
by redwood | 2025-10-04 13:53:16+00:00
TLDR: Lucent was committing various forms of accounting fraud and had an unhealthy cash flow position, and had their primary customers on economically dangerous ground. Nvidia meanwhile appears to be above board, has strong cash flow, and has extremely strong dominant customers (eg customers that could reduce spending but can survive a downturn). Therefore there's no clear takeaway: similarities but also differences. Risk and a lot of debt as well as hyperscalers insulating themselves from some of that risk... but at the same time as lot more cash to burn.
by taneq | 2025-10-04 13:54:26+00:00
The issue is (as I understand it) that some early supply chain distributors either unwittingly bought shipments of counterfeit parts, or otherwise ended up stocking them as genuine. Then legitimate hardware manufacturers used them. And let's be upfront here, any part using FTDI USB interfaces is low volume hardware that's either indie or, like, niche scientific gear. These are not chips you use when you have a 20-person hardware procurement department with the time to do a deep dive into every shipment of every component. These are chips you use when you're used to serial ports and have had USB foisted upon you and just want to sell the thing you built.

Sending it back only punishes the OEM you bought the weird niche thing off, and they likely had no indication that the chips they paid genuine prices for were counterfeit. If they try to get a refund from Alibaba or DigiKey or whoever, they'll politely be told to fuck off, if they get a response at all.

I totally understand why FTDI chose to take this path, but I also think it was a poor choice overall and I now avoid FTDI products (which back in the day I happily used, before all this) just in case I get caught up in the BS.
by jfengel | 2025-10-04 13:55:18+00:00
It's too soon to tell. Here's total attendance data:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/misc.shtml

COVID did such a number on attendance that it's hard to separate anything else out. It has been increasing since it bottomed out but is still below the peak.

The best I can say: it was falling before the pandemic and it's now above where it was even before everything shut down. So... maybe?
by reaperducer | 2025-10-04 13:56:45+00:00
Unlike in USA you cannot just pull cash from someone's account if you know their bank account number

People say things like this as if the money taken in a fraudulent transaction just disappears and is untraceable, and unrecoverable. That is false.

It's one of those scare tactics that the middlemen use to sell a vision of financial-techno-secure-utopianism in order to collect a percentage of the money. Don't fall for the marketing.

The money has to go somewhere: Into another bank account, usually, which is easily traceable since banks by law have to know who they're dealing with.

Even if a check gets cashed at a check cashing store, the store requires ID, the person getting the money is on video, sometimes they have their fingerprints taken by the store, and if something still goes wrong, the store is on the hook for the money when the transaction is reported as fraudulent and reversed.

These are all problems that were largely solved last century.
by dzaima | 2025-10-04 13:56:49+00:00
There's not much sign that RISC-V will be extremely-fusion-focused; indeed it'd be good for the base ISA, but Zba, Zbb, Zicond add a bunch of common patterns as distinct instructions, and things often fused on other architectures (compare + branch) is a single instruction in even the base RV64I. That largely leaves fusing constant computation as a fusable thing, and.. that's kinda it, to achieve what current x86 & ARM cores do. (there's then of course doing crazier things like fusing multiple bitwise/arith ops together, but at that point having a too-minimal base ISA comes back to bite you again, meaning that some should-be-cheap fusions would actually need to fuse ≥3 instrs instead of just two)

In any case, "force hardware to do an extremely-stupid amount of fusion to get back the performance lost from intentionally not adding/using useful instructions" isn't a sane thing to target in any universe no matter ones goals; you're just wasting silicon & hardware development time that would be better spent actually doing useful things. Fusion is neat (esp. for fixing past mistakes or working around fixed-size instructions (i.e. all x86 & ARM use fusion for, but a from-scratch designed ISA with variable-length instrs (e.g. RISC-V) should need neither)), but it's still very unquestionably strictly worse than just having more actual instructions and using them.
by volfpeter | 2025-10-04 13:57:44+00:00
It's just sugar.

It hides the manual template selection, context creation, and rendering logic behind a simple decorator. This way you always write standard FastAPI routes (or you add HTML rendering to existing JSON APIs without changing the route or breaking the existing functionality).

With htmy, it does a bit more, like adding some utilities to the rendering context, adding context processor support, simplify rendering, letting you statically check whether your components receive the correct properties.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-04 13:57:59+00:00
That's the furthest thing from a "deal-breaker". Flap damage is an inconvenience at best.

Keep in mind: they're yet to reuse a ship, and landing Starship onto the launch tower is even more precarious than their first stage landing trick. There's still a lot of room for actual fuckups to happen there. They're going to lose ships, and they'll be lucky to avoid losing a tower.
by edward_9x | 2025-10-04 13:58:10+00:00
I find C++ friendlier for small hobby projects because it lets you get your code compiled even if it's a little messy or slightly unsafe.

As for "serious code", I admit that Rust is maybe better for low-level security-critical stuff. But for native applications it's on par thanks to smart pointers and also just -fsanitize=address.

(also default copy semantics just seem more intuitive i dunno why)
by dangus | 2025-10-04 13:59:03+00:00
I think we are at the PS3/Xbox 360 phase of AI.

By that I mean, those were the last consoles where performance improvements delivered truly new experiences, where the hardware mattered.

Today, any game you make for a modern system is a game you could have made for the PS3/Xbox 360 or perhaps something slightly more powerful.

Certainly there have been experiences that use new capabilities that you can’t literally put on those consoles, but they aren’t really “more” in the same way that a PS2 offered “more” than the PlayStation.

I think in that sense, there will be some kind of bubble. All the companies that thought that AI would eventually get good enough to suit their use case will eventually be disappointed and quit their investment. The use cases where AI makes sense will stick around.

It’s kind of like how we used to have pipe dreams of certain kinds of gameplay experiences that never materialized. With our new hardware power we thought that maybe we could someday play games with endless universes of rich content. But now that we are there, we see games like Starfield prove that dream to be something of a farce.
by StackRanker3000 | 2025-10-04 13:59:14+00:00
Yes, the US was in a particularly prosperous and exciting period compared to much of the rest of the world in 1995. If you’re, say, Chinese, chances are you find life in 2025 much more appealing

Overall, life is better in 2025 for the vast majority of humans. Life expectancy, child mortality, health (despite the obesity epidemic, which is a result of an abundance that has eliminated hunger and food insecurity from large swathes of the globe), purchasing power, access to technology and entertainment, etc, etc…

That some people in the US are feeling disillusioned because housing has become more unaffordable (partly because of regulations and technological advancements that have improved their quality and safety) and that they don’t have the same incredible economic trajectory as the preceding generations, especially since WWII, doesn’t negate that. A run like that can’t last forever, especially since it to a large extent depends on having a relative advantage over the rest of the world - at some point, they’ll start to catch up

Much of the same dynamics apply to Europe, too
by mystraline | 2025-10-04 14:00:20+00:00
An 18 year old (HS senior) and a 15 year old (HS sophomore) can have sex together and thats a statutory rape charge that will follow you the rest of your life.

And say its 2 17 year olds, and you take nude pictures to send to your partner. Now, having sex is legal here, but a picture? Thats possessing 'child sexual assault imagery'. Nobody would think 17 year olds are 'children'. Even the law routinely charges them as adults.

And getting a felony at all follows you around, unless you can pay the danegeld to have it removed. Of course, staying clean isn't sufficient. Paying $10k or more is.
by savolai | 2025-10-04 14:00:23+00:00
”The 15.18.5 update is also having an adverse reaction to sideloaded books. If you deliver a book using Send by Email or copy it to your computer via USB, a critical issue may arise, where a pop-up appears with an ‘Invalid ASIN‘ number. The new DRM system is attempting to locate the book in the Amazon store to decrypt it, but since it can’t find it, it reports that the book is invalid. Amazon claims they are working on the issue, ... ”https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45393505
by CableNinja | 2025-10-04 14:00:27+00:00
Im battling this at work. We have 4 different monitoring solutions; sensu, checkmk, icnga, prometheus/telegraf. Everyone at work suffers through them because they are "known", however whenever i have to monitor something, i quickly grow frustrated at the limitations and features from my favorite monitoring (zabbix) that are missing in the other options.

If i want to watch 17k similar but different items in anything other than zabbix, ill be spending weeks building the checks. Thanks to templating in zabbix, done in 5 minutes. Sure this might be because im more familiar with zabbix than the others, but i generally feel critical features are missing from our other solutions. Trying to convince others to see the light has been tough
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-04 14:01:05+00:00
The thing is that even for a super low probability event, the size of the universe is so huge and such events must be happening all the time.

e.g. Say chance of a random planet ever being hit by a water-carrying comet is one in a billion, then with 100B - 1T planets in the milky way it'd happen here 100-1000 times. If chances are only one in a trillion, and we're the one in the milky way, then there are still another 100B - 1T galaxies out there and therefore a similar number of such events.
by slacktivism123 | 2025-10-04 14:01:48+00:00
>dumb ahh prompt detection algorithm

Don't worry, you can write "dumb ass" here without needing to use algospeak. This isn't Instagram or TikTok and you won't be unpersoned by a "trust and safety" team for doing so.

P.S. No need for a space after your meme arrows :-)
by techjamie | 2025-10-04 14:03:54+00:00
It's moreso about the general trend that's happening where everything must be sanitized and advertiser-friendly. Like, is it really that far-fetched for an action thriller movie, that contains guns and people using them, to also have a gun on the poster? Do we really need to protect society from that?

Plus, movie posters are art to a number of people. Someone very specifically chose the lighting, the expression, pose, and background to convey a message about the movie. But now it's being censored because "gun scary."

I, for one, don't welcome the bland, homogenized world that corporations are trying to turn everything into.
by visarga | 2025-10-04 14:03:59+00:00
> The Dotcom boom was probably good for everyone in some way, but it was much, much better for the extremely wealthy people that have gained control of everything.

You are describing platform capture. Be it Google Search, YouTube, TikTok, Meta, X, App Store, Play Store, Amazon, Uber - they have all made themselves intermediaries between public and services, extracting a huge fee. I see it like rent going up in a region until it reaches maximum bearable level, making it almost not worth it to live and work there. They extract value both directions, up and down, like ISPs without net-neutrality.

But AI has a different dynamic, it is not easy to centrally control ranking, filtering and UI with AI agents. You can download a LLM, can't download a Google or Meta. Now it is AI agents that got the "ear" of the user base.

It's not like before it was good - we had a generation of people writing slop to grab attention on web and social networks, from the lowest porn site to CNN. We all got prompted by the Algorithm. Now that Algorithms is replaced by many AI agents that serve users more directly than before.
by sunscream89 | 2025-10-04 14:04:48+00:00
It’s all very much simpler to this.

There are those in this world who will actually literally (not jackass joke about fair trade injustice) sacrifice an “innocent” for power (their own or any other), there are those who will do no such thing, and there are those who would murder a man before letting such things stand.

I advocate a righteous rule of law. I advocate moral and lawful violence as a resolution to the lawless violation of those not culpable for anything so fuck all.

I don’t care what others get away with.
by davedx | 2025-10-04 14:04:56+00:00
Some great insights with some less interesting in there. I didn’t know about the SPVs, that’s sketchy and now I wanna know how much of that is going on. The MIT study that gets pulled out for every critical discussion of AI was an eye roll for me. But very solid analysis of the quants.

How much of a threat is custom silicon to Nvidia remains an open question to me. I kinda think, by now, we can say they’re similar but different enough to coexist in the competitive compute landscape?
by ivape | 2025-10-04 14:05:35+00:00
Competitive edge. Some agents will be better than others, therefore worth paying for. So for example, if one writes an AI trading agent, there’s no reason to share it similar to how it is at the moment with regular trading algos.

I’m not saying it won’t eventually be known, but not in these initial stages.

The only thing separating Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT is their context and prompt engineering, assuming the frontier models belong to the same class of capability. You can absolutely release a competitor to these things that could perform better for certain things (or even all things, if you introduce brand new context engineering ideas), if you wanted to.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-10-04 14:05:47+00:00
I love the DMA in theory, but as currently implemented it doesn't fix this problem, because they're letting Apple enforce their stupid notarization scheme for alternate app stores. Apple can just pull notarization from a politically inconvenient app.

I also haven't heard anything about Europe being excluded from the upcoming Android crackdown, so apparently Google has decided it's DMA compliant. Which makes sense given what Apple is doing.
by hmry | 2025-10-04 14:06:53+00:00
Wanted to buy a GOWIN FPGA recently, like on Sipeed's dev boards. Mouser wanted $37 for it, more than twice what the whole devkit costs.

Meanwhile the list price from the manufacturer is $3, but it's completely impossible to order anything as an individual. Not sure why they designed a hobbyist beginner-friendly dev board around a part from a company that makes all their products impossible to buy...