MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by musictubes | 2025-10-16 02:07:44+00:00
That article points out that GB5 and GB6 test multi-core differently. The author notes that GB6 is supposed to approach performance the way most consumer programs actually work. GB5 is better suited for testing things like servers where every core is running independent tasks.

The only “evidence” they give that GB6 is “trash” is that it doesn’t show increasing performance with more and more cores with certain tests. The obvious rejoinder is that GB6 is working perfectly well in testing that use case and those high core processors do not provide any benefit in that scenario.

If you’re going to use synthetic benchmarks it’s important to use the one that reflects your actual use case. Sounds like GB6 is a good general purpose benchmark for most people. It doesn’t make any sense for server use, maybe it also isn’t useful for other use cases but GB6 isn’t trash.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-10-16 02:08:44+00:00
Author should have used Universal Radio Hacker instead. https://github.com/jopohl/urh

It’s an amazing tool. In less than an hour I decoded my RF remotes for the fans in my house.

Whipped up a Python script (without external modules) that transmits a modulated carrier using HackRF. Now I can control fans (with lights) with scripts.

URH also really good at recognizing the pulse durations and repetitions.

All crude RG devices aren’t even ASK, it’s really OOK. The receivers don’t have an ADC!
by hellisothers | 2025-10-16 02:08:44+00:00
“It might be true for now…” “As soon as…” “It’s just a matter of time…”

I find myself in this type of discussion with AI maximalists where they balk at me suggesting there isn’t much “I” in “AI” and they get upset that I’m not seeing how smart it is and shocked I think it’s impossible… and then they start adding all the equivocation about time horizons. I never said it wasn’t possible eventually, just not right now. If I try to pin people down to a timeline it all of a sudden becomes “surely eventually”…
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-10-16 02:08:59+00:00
Yes you nailed it! Thanks for the thoughtful response.

> I just don’t think it’s a realistic expectation to expect this at the global scale.

This is exactly my point. We dont have the biology for it - mammals don’t have eusocial traits because we’re too complex and egocentric, to the extent that game theoretic defections are individually risky but can have individual benefits.

A group of soldier ants can’t start their own colony because they physically cannot reproduce without a heirarchical queen because they are effectively sterile.

Dunbar number limits the possible social interactions at the depth you describe to 150-250 people at the most. That’s your tribal limit and it’s seen in extant hunter gatherer groups as you describe

While your ideas are valid about global labor cooperation, ultimately it’s stymied by the limitations of the cerebellum size, and you’re back to where you started.

Note that we already tried the hunter gatherer thing for about 250ky and it got overrun by transacional colonialism.

If you want to read my theory work on this here are some resources - note though it’s a lot of reading:

https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html

https://kemendo.com/GTC.pdf
by orionblastar | 2025-10-16 02:10:02+00:00
I had a small business in 1995. We offered Slackware Linux for free and provided free training and installation for clients who wanted to try it. When Windows 95 came out, I had a 486DX 50Mhz system that booted Windows 95 and Linux, and Linux was more stable than Windows 95. Linux was also better than OS/2, but it didn't run DOS and Windows programs in Linux yet.

Those who chose Linux were happy with the choice. But they were only a minority.

Now, Windows 11 requirements make a lot of PCs obsolete unless they install Linux on them.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-16 02:10:37+00:00
> Make sure libreoffice is included

Probably an unpopular thing to say here, but in my experience pushing non-tech people to use libreoffice as part of a Linux transition is a fast track to getting them to hate Linux.

Using Google Docs has been much more welcoming in my experience. Something about libreoffice doesn’t resonate with a lot of non-tech people.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-16 02:11:08+00:00
> cannot understand why an “all of the above” approach to energy production has basically no political salience

Anger is incredibly viral. In a country on social media, that means cutting opposition spreads faster than support. (Most elements of support, for this reason, scaffold themselves along opposition to something else. Even if that something is a manufactured totem.)

All of the above has a slight advantage, policywise. But it has, by sharing all its components’ weaknesses, a larger cross section than any one alone. Thus you’ll see all-the-above picked apart by the anti-renewable lobby at the same time as the anti-nuke and anti-gas greenies.

(Comprehensive energy policy articles on HN typically have a top-voted commentating the stupidity of a random component.)
by siglesias | 2025-10-16 02:11:40+00:00
Ok, things are getting a little heated and personal so I'll attempt to engage one more time in good faith.

The premise of the argument is that the Chinese Room passes the Turing Test for Chinese. There are two possibilities for how this happens: 1) the program emulates the brain and has the right relation to the external world more or less exactly, or 2) the program emulates the brain enough to pass the test in some context but fails to emulate the brain perfectly. We know that as it currently stands, we've "passed the Turing Test" but we do not go further and say that brains and AI perform "indistinguishably." Unless there are significant similarities to how brains work and how AIs work, on some fundamental level (case 1), even if they pass the Turing Test, it is possible that in some unanticipated scenario they will diverge significantly. Imagine a system that outputs digits of pi. You can wait until you see enough digits to be satisfied, but unless you know what's causing the output, you can never be sure that you're not witnessing the output of some rational approximation or some cached calculation that will eventually halt. What goes on inside matters a lot if you want a sense of certainty. This is simply a trivial logical point. Leaving that aside, assuming that you do have 1), which I believe we are still very far from, we're still left with the ethical consequences, which it seems you agree does hinge on whether the system is conscious.

You made a really strong claim, which is "I can simply not mistreat anything that appears conscious"--which is showing the difference in our intuitions. We are not beholden to the setup of the Chinese Room. The current scientific and rational viewpoint is at the very least that brains cause minds and they cause our mental world. I'm sure you agree with that. The very point we are disputing is that it doesn't follow that because what's going on on the outside is the same that what goes on on the inside doesn't matter. This is particularly true if we have clear evidence that the things causing the behavior are very different, that one is a physical system with biological causes and the other is a kind of simulation of the first. So when I say that a brain is trivially different from a calculating machine, what I mean is that the brain simply has different physical characteristics from a calculating machine. Maybe you disagree that those differences are relevant but they are, you will agree, obvious. The ontology of a computer program is that it is abstract and can be implemented in any substrate. What you are saying then, in principle, is that if I follow the steps of a program by tracking bits on a page that I'm marking manually, that somehow the right combination of bits (that decode to an insult) is just as morally bad as me saying those words to another human. I think many would find that implausible.

But there are some who hold this belief. Your position is called "ethical behaviorism," and there's a essay I argued against that articulated this viewpoint. You can read it if you want! https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2023/03/eth%C2%ADi%C2%...
by discordance | 2025-10-16 02:12:12+00:00
That’s a fair point and looking at most of the countries on the list with higher ratings, it looks like they are more socialist and have higher equality.

No doubt in my mind that if you are wealthy in the US you can have a very good life, but on a whole and for most people there it’s probably fitting that it’s lower down the list for quality of life.
Show HN: Veo 3.1 – Cinematic AI Video Generator with Multi-Scene Control
by lu794377 | 2025-10-16 02:12:15+00:00
Hi HN, We’ve been working on Veo 3.1, an AI video model that turns text or image prompts into cinematic video clips with built-in audio and scene control. It’s the next step after Veo 3, focused on longer storytelling and directing flexibility.

Veo 3.1 builds on transformer-based video diffusion with improved temporal consistency and sound integration.

Key features:

Extended 30-Second Clips: Generate longer cinematic scenes with natural pacing and narrative flow.

1080p & Vertical Format: Outputs in full HD and native 9:16 for social or professional use.

Stronger Scene Consistency: Improved lighting, framing, and character stability across shots.

Multi-Shot Orchestration: Create multi-shot sequences with transitions and camera motion control.

Built-In Audio & Lip-Sync: Automatically syncs dialogue and ambient sound for cinematic realism.

Why we built this: We wanted to move beyond short clips toward full cinematic storytelling — where a single prompt can define a sequence of shots, pacing, and sound without external tools.

We’d love your feedback on:

What kinds of projects longer 30-second clips could unlock

How you’d like to control multi-shot sequencing or camera motion

What integrations (APIs, plug-ins, etc.) would make Veo 3.1 easier to build with
by davemp | 2025-10-16 02:12:28+00:00
It’s semantics. Zig can still have dangling references/uaf. You can do something like ‘var foo: *Bar = @intToPtr(0x00)’ but in order to “properly” use the zero address to represent state you have to use ‘var foo: ?*Bar = null’ which is a different type than ‘*Bar’ that the compiler will force you to check before accessing.

It’s the whole make it easy to write good code—not impossible to write incorrect code philosophy of the language.
by dwd | 2025-10-16 02:13:42+00:00
This has been the reality in Australian for the last 2 decades ever since Demographia first started publishing their annual report.

The Australian average right now is 9.7. Maybe 30 years ago, it was closer to 3 (the 150k house on a 50k wage).

Demographia unfortunately stopped covering my locality which consistently ranked in bottom 10 internationally. Given the local median house price is 1.3m and median household income is 90k it would be 14.4. Makes a mortgage literally a "death pledge" with no chance of paying it off in your working lifetime.
by qingcharles | 2025-10-16 02:14:03+00:00
It's insanely fast. I didn't know it had even been released, but I went to select the copilot SWE test model in VSCode and it was missing and Haiku 4.5 was there instead. I asked for a huge change to a web app and the output from Haiku scrolled the text faster than Windows could keep up. From a cold start. Wrote a huge chunk of code in about 40 seconds. Unreal.

p.s. it also got the code 100% correct on the one-shot p.p.s. Microsoft are pricing it out at 30% the cost of frontier models (e.g. Sonnet 4.5, GPT5)
by mercutio2 | 2025-10-16 02:14:56+00:00
It’s rare that I get feedback like this about a feature I owned for a decade.

1) The vast majority of users have only one contact-sync account, so it’s not an issue for them, merge works fine

2) For users that have multiple contact-sync accounts, they almost never want a feature to silently choose one account’s contact and delete the other account’s contact. So linking is really what these users want if the contacts live in different accounts.

It’s interesting feedback that a combined “link or merge” command would be what you’d expect. That’s a reasonable request; in my day we generally steered clear of combining destructive operations (merging) with non-destructive (linking).

I was more focused on the fact that the macOS implementation of “look for duplicates” is pretty broken; there’s a decent iOS implementation we never got around to migrating to macOS.
by collingreen | 2025-10-16 02:15:04+00:00
Not believing everything you read on the internet? Being jaded from constant fluff and lies? Not having gell-mann amnesia?

I get your sentiment of "why you gotta bring down this good thing" but the answer to your actual question is battle scars from the constant barrage of hostile lies and whitewashing we are subject to. It's kind of absurd (and mildly irresponsible) to think "THIS time will be the time things only go well and nobody uses the new thing for something I don't want".
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-16 02:15:39+00:00
We can evaluate if these projects as a net positive or negative for the enviroment. The enviroment can be divided into local and wider. Which is why i'm suspicious of how good electric cars are for example. If this project will wreak havoc on the local enviroment that is certainly very important and the irony of the situation is that it is getting sidelined in favour of broader enviromental concerns. I don't know what respective weights to attach to them, but the cynic in me says that washington prefers a big project which has better optics, then more local concerns.
by ImPleadThe5th | 2025-10-16 02:17:01+00:00
To clarify my stance, I do think that AI research is a good thing and that it can help us understand our own consciousness by studying it. I just think anyone concerned about AGI at this point is drinking too much kool-aid.

I think science fiction makes us feel like AGI is closer and more relevant than it really is. Are we really so close that there's "no time" to regulate for it? Are we even close enough to give a care at all? Is there any evidence at this time at all that AGI would be a existential threat? Is all this talk coming from decades of "Creator vs. Daemon" stories combined with LLMs abilities to sound human? Does someone gain something from pointing our attention at the far-far scifi imagined future instead of current day issues with AI?

To your simulation point. We talk about our bodies, brains and conciousness like they are machines, computers, and software. They are not. They are organic and their function is highly emergent. Think about all the endless input our bodies receive, we probably don't even fully understand all the sensitivities our "consciousness" has. We don't "execute" a program based on input, in fact the input is likely part of the system. Its why our gut biome can affect our mental health, why our cells communicate with each other locally and likely guide our behaviour in ways we don't understand yet.

In other words, we're not any closer to simulating human consciousness than we are to simulating the universe itself.

So I do think its hubris to think that a rock with some switches on it running some mathematical probability model can come even close to generating consciousness.

> exceed animal capabilities

Hubris like this. We don't even have a way to measure this. We've just made a math equation that can spit out language, you're comparing this to things that can actually _experience_ without someone clicking enter on a keyboard.
by doctaj | 2025-10-16 02:18:12+00:00
Same. Also have a super old iPad Pro, and it still works amazing. I always ponder upgrading, knowing that I’ve gotten so much use and enjoyment out of it, but then get wrapped around the axle about how the CPU is absurdly overpowered for what I do with it (YouTube, podcasts, music, drawing/note taking, reading). It’s my main device at home, too, so I never feel like I need to upgrade my phone - it’s definitely saved me money in that regard, too. :P
by rustystump | 2025-10-16 02:18:27+00:00
I dont buy it can tell if something sounds ai. Multiple times i have given it direct ai slop writing and it could not tell it was ai written. As a matter of fact, it would insist it wasnt.

This flow sounds like what an intern did in pr reviews and it made me want to throw something out a window. Please just use your own words. They are good words and much better words than you may think.
by platevoltage | 2025-10-16 02:19:45+00:00
I never understood the interview questions around what you would call "esoteric facts" about specific frameworks. This tells you nothing except that the candidate is good at cramming, and knew what they needed to cram for.

Now if it's "open book", and the idea is to see how efficient the candidate is at finding the answer, that makes more sense to me.
by wtfwhateven | 2025-10-16 02:19:52+00:00
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/119

"the term “restricted personal information” means, with respect to an individual, the Social Security number, the home address, home phone number, mobile phone number, personal email, or home fax number of, and identifiable to, that individual; "

Posting names is completely fine.

> So is encouraging physical violence.

That page never did such a thing
by eduction | 2025-10-16 02:20:06+00:00
People are allowed to crticize a project whether or not they want to fix it. It was a mild, brief mention of one issue. Accurate, too, so not slander.

You seem to think there is a conspiracy against Caddy. That seems doubtful. But I could see disproportionate defensiveness like what is on display here causing some people to not be fans.
by hinkley | 2025-10-16 02:20:35+00:00
So I had a random thought about what is the most platters that any hard drive has had. I looked it up it seems that the Western Digital Ultrastar® DC HC690 has eleven platters in a 3.5” form factor. That certainly gives you a lot more bandwidth, though not much help for seek time (unless you do the half-allocated trick).
by jen20 | 2025-10-16 02:21:48+00:00
I still have both 13" and 15" Touch Bar MacBook Pros from 2016, and the keyboard is hands down my favorite laptop keyboard to type on since the Lenovo X220. The new ones aren't _bad_ but not as nice. The physical escape key doesn't matter to me, I have had it mapped to caps lock forever.

I also used to use the Touch Bar for a status display for things like tests, it was honestly great. Do not miss the battery life and performance compared to my subsequent Apple Silicon laptops, but definitely miss the keyboard.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-16 02:21:55+00:00
I can't imagine trying to replace MS word with libreoffice for businesses. I respect the project and the complexity of the task, but it's just not there for even light professional use.

As an example, I recently submitted a manuscript following standard format [0] with libreoffice. Nothing difficult, just basic professional functionality.

The only way to do it involved editing global default page styles (because custom page styles can't be used for title pages?) and other advanced features. Fair enough, at least it was possible. It's a shame the export process didn't preserve the formatting and screwed up page numbering.

I had to fix the manuscript in gdocs instead, where it was easy.

[0] https://www.shunn.net/format/story/1/
by duskwuff | 2025-10-16 02:22:23+00:00
> Selecting a window and having all the app’s windows come to the fore

... would only happen if the application you switch to is enforcing it for some reason. Ordinarily you can interleave windows all you want.

Switching to an application by clicking on it in the Dock or Cmd+Tabbing to it will bring all its windows to the front, though.
by wtfwhateven | 2025-10-16 02:24:04+00:00
>Could you show me a serious post about anyone actually advocating for injecting bleach and not a misrepresentation of a question asked by the President?

Obvious sealioning.

>Publishing a persons photos, with their home address and advocating for physical attacks is not "monitoring a police scanner" ... It's putting their families lives at risk.

The page in question never did such a thing. You are knowingly lying.

>blocking legitimate arrests

Extremely unlikely given the total lack of arrest warrants.

> The fact that there hasn't been a bloodbath in and of itself mostly disproves the narratives.

Yes it disproves your narrative that ICE agents and their families are in danger by people documenting states-sanctioned disappearances.

The supreme court has routinely held law enforcement can be recorded. You know this which is why you're insisting on pushing the lie about posting home addresses and advocating for violence.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-16 02:24:26+00:00
You must be speaking of yourself. That's no way to speak of someone. Fwiw, you've been here so many years, and I have a lot more points than you.

Looking at your comments, badmouthing users is your prime specialty. Here are just a few examples from your comments:

1. It's a pattern for this user unfortunately

2. Calling someone deranged is rich given your post history.

3. You're arguing with a... just read the comment history and don't waste your time.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-16 02:24:27+00:00
The 13" MBP chassis is not built for 90W though, let alone 50W. Intel was making 30W i7 chips and they were still throttling in that chassis. I think we have enough benefit of hindsight to blame Apple's egregious and power-hungry ACPI tables for not throttling to safe temps. I own several other laptops that do not hit 90c, ever.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-16 02:25:06+00:00
> Something about this statement screams that companies are setting themselves up for free money from big old gov'ment welfare titties.

From the published CISA mitigation[0]:

A nation-state affiliated cyber threat actor has compromised F5’s systems and exfiltrated files, which included a portion of its BIG-IP source code and vulnerability information. The threat actor’s access to F5’s proprietary source code could provide that threat actor with a technical advantage to exploit F5 devices and software.

> Its the boogyman [sic] like terrorism.

Or maybe it is a responsible vulnerability disclosure whose impact is described thusly[0]:

This cyber threat actor presents an imminent threat to federal networks using F5 devices and software. Successful exploitation of the impacted F5 products could enable a threat actor to access embedded credentials and Application Programming Interface (API) keys, move laterally within an organization’s network, exfiltrate data, and establish persistent system access. This could potentially lead to a full compromise of target information systems.

0 - https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-26-01-mitigat...
by AstralStorm | 2025-10-16 02:25:18+00:00
Thing is, because the whole design is closed as well as firmware, the security of it is near zero, even for sealing firmware device images (e.g. option ROM), much less bootloaders. Multiple security holes have been found.

There's no issue booting a boot rootkit with the standard Windows bootloader unless you manually seal the image with command line or group policy, and even then it's possible to bypass by installing a fresh bootloader because the images are identical and will boot after a wipe.
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-16 02:26:49+00:00
Hilariously, the Microsoft SQL Client is the primary blocker for AOT for most potential usecases.

Want fast startup for an Azure Function talking to Azure SQL Database? Hah… no.

In all seriousness, that one dependency is the chain around the ankle of modern .NET because it’s not even fully async capable! It’s had critical performance regression bugs open for years.

Microsoft’s best engineers are busy partying in the AI pool and forgot about drudgery like “make the basics components work”.