MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by happytoexplain | 2025-10-06 13:36:28+00:00
Note that this is also just how many engineering-minded people prefer to write when describing a system or tool when the goal is to sell or the audience isn't technical.

Compare with what I think a lot of us are highly used to reading, which is copy written by salespeople, or by management-minded people with sales in mind.

IMO, the way the copy is written is not like minimally-guided AI, aside from the clarity (which is the good part of AI writing). AI has a different character/tone. It tends to sound a little more like a salesperson, or a 50's PSA video.
by cs702 | 2025-10-06 13:36:39+00:00
Today, yes, it's true that AMD hardware can be competitive mainly for inference.

The story here is about the future. Over time, OpenAI would benefit if AMD hardware becomes competitive for training too.

Nvidia currently gets to charge whatever the market can bear on its dominant training hardware.

If AMD hardware becomes a real alternative for training, Nvidia will be forced to compete on price.
by typewithrhythm | 2025-10-06 13:36:43+00:00
I have spent a fair amount of time in very large companies (single projects involving thousands of devs). You end up producing a whole lot of management training (and managers) in this environment, just due to its size.

You end up with not exactly an intentional bureaucracy, but one where the idea of fairness from somehow "objective" numbers becomes a focus.

This kind of works at this scale, because you need to have a way to abstract and reason about the capabilitys of far too many people than you can know individually.

The training and materials don't scale down though, so you get someone trying to apply metric driven performance in cases where it just doesn't fit.

It's generally "ok" for big business, because projects at this scale can survive on rigid organisation, simply because achieving anything at that scale is a challenge enough to be valuable.

Occasionally you see inspired leadership, but every level of management it has to go through erodes it. It's part of why it's so rare for a big company to produce anything unusualy good at scale, it takes a real alignment of stars.
by dotwaffle | 2025-10-06 13:36:54+00:00
I know quite a few AFS systems that moved to AuriStor's YFS: https://www.auristor.com/openafs/migrate-to-auristor/auristo...

As I understand it, it mitigated many of those issues, but is still very "90s" in operation.

I've been flirting with the idea of writing a replacement for years, about time I had a go at it!
by eldaisfish | 2025-10-06 13:37:23+00:00
this website is filled with people who believe that the future source of energy is entirely renewable energy. That is false, as many european countries show.

I live in a part of Canada with mostly nuclear energy and i am thankful that my electricity rates are low. This helps me reduce emissions via heat pumps and EVs. I don't need solar panels and most people do not either.

You are correct, the future is mostly renewable energy where feasible, with a combination of nuclear and hydro.
by huem0n | 2025-10-06 13:38:22+00:00
Can we agree GDP is a bad metric even if Palladium's arguments have problems?

I mean it is good to correct the record on value-added whatever. But let's not miss the forest focusing on one tree: GPD can go up from car crashes, natural disasters -- hell it goes up for totally economically-neutral actions like if I sell a car today, then buy it back for the same price tomorrow. It doesn't account for borrowing aganist the future, it doesnt account for income inequality, environmental degradation, etc. It is simply how much money is swirling around. As a measure for economic prosperity or quality of life, it is truly terrible.
by pyrale | 2025-10-06 13:38:57+00:00
They pay for themeslves when compared to your bill prices. They absolutely don't pay for themselves when compared with actual market prices for electricity generation.

Your bill is priced that way so that you can have predictable price for what you consume. That means sometimes markets electricity at zero, but you'll pay the full contract price. Other times, electricity is _much_ more expensive than your contract, and, likewise, you'll pay a fixed price.

That fixed price is not competitive with balcony solar because it pays for services that balcony solar doesn't provide. That means that on average, your solar panels produce electricity when electricity is cheap for your utility provider, and when they don't, electricity is on average (but not always) more expensive.

The logical consequence of this is that your contract is going to become more expensive, because you use your solar when it would be profitable for your utility, and you draw from the grid when it's unprofitable to them.

Another alternative would be the end of fixed cost contracts, where balcony solar users would have to pay market price + subscription for their electricity. If that was the case, balcony solar users would probably spare cents during sunny weekends, and get hammered during winter workdays when there is no wind.

edit: just checked the data, in August, Germany's prices at noon hit 0€ 17 days. On the other hand, prices at 18h soared above 100€/MWh every single day, and above 150€ 10 days in the month. In Sepetember, prices at noon hit zero 14 days.

Another (wind-related this time) example, market electricity prices this weekend were negative most of the time (with a tiny 4€ peak) for 40h straight.
by olivierestsage | 2025-10-06 13:38:58+00:00
I didn't know about these Sonic games, but as a Doom fan, I have to say that the use of the Doom engine for Sonic makes good sense. The way it feels to move around in "3D" space in Doom is one of the best parts of the game, IMO; there's a weight and sense of momentum to the player that I found lacking in full 3D games like Quake. I could see this working very well in a platforming/kart racing context.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-06 13:39:04+00:00
> All of that has happened - what more is needed and why ?

Who they are threatening:

1) Latin American people and countries

2) Canada + Greenland

3) US Liberal cities.

The American war machine has come home to the Western hemisphere. This is a declaration of war against us.

As for the why... again listen to them. Trump said it: "I am your retribution". This is all about settling petty vindictive scores.
by ionwake | 2025-10-06 13:40:40+00:00
Its bizarre how easy it to make smart people on HN just assume people who are doing something weird are just low IQ.

Its almost weirdly a personality trait that a trained programmer just goes around believing everyone around him doesnt understand what way the wind blows.

Government installation for backups for a government ruled by a weird religious sect, have no offsite backups, it goes up in flames? Well clearly they were not smart enough to understand what an off-site backup is.

Its like wtf guys?

Now dont get me wrong, occams razor, they tried to save a few bucks, it all went Pete tong, but cmon, carelessness , chance, sure, but I doubt its all down to stupidity.
by itsnowandnever | 2025-10-06 13:41:00+00:00
my spouse and I used a spreadsheet for this purpose when we were house shopping. it also included local income and property taxes for all of the localities we'd choose to live in so we knew the full financial pros and cons of buying a specific house

because of it, we actually went with an area that had higher property taxes because the lower income taxes made up for it
by namibj | 2025-10-06 13:41:25+00:00
Assuming that dark fiber is actually dark (without amplifiers/repeaters), I'd wonder how they'd justify the 4 orders of magnitude (99.99%!) profit margin on said fiber. That already includes one order of magnitude between the 12th-of-a-ribbon clad-fiber and opportunistically (when someone already digs the ground up) buried speed pipe with 144-core cable.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-06 13:41:29+00:00
I do wonder why IA does not maintain a IPFS instance, or if they do, why they're not more popular? There's tons of IPFS mirror services out there that operate at reasonable speeds. One issue I've run into with IA is old enough websites that there's JS or CSS that just wont render, what I'm not sure about is, can we retroactively fix such things? Would be nice to be able to un-ruin the code somehow if they exported everything possible at the time.

Edit:

Would be really neat if you could click on a domain while on IA, and a desktop client downloads as many WAR files in a slower priority download queue, as many as you're interested in, with higher priority pages first, and then you can view it fully offline.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-06 13:41:35+00:00
Interposers exist for every type of memory.

We use them during hardware development to look at the waveforms in detail well beyond what is needed to read the bits.

The reason their interposer doesn't work with DDR5 is because they designed it with DDR4 as the target, not because DDR5 is impossible to snoop.
by meindnoch | 2025-10-06 13:41:53+00:00
>It's being advertised as being used for generic disaster recovery, where it's beneficial to be human-shaped (human infrastructure is designed for humans, so its easier to interface with it if the robot is human-shaped too)

Ummmm, disaster recovery is hard precisely because the infrastructure (e.g. a collapsed building) ceased to be suitable for humans.
by AlanYx | 2025-10-06 13:42:04+00:00
>Couldn't they just buy the AMD chips if they're good enough?

OpenAI would presumably need to raise money to buy the AMD chips.

The "genius" of this deal is that AMD is "giving away" 10% of the company (at $0.01/share) to OpenAI. Then OpenAI will presumably turn around and sell those shares (or borrow against them) to raise enough money to purchase the AMD GPUs.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-10-06 13:43:31+00:00
I’ve been getting great mileage out of service catalog products. They’re a great middle ground between custom CDK and in-house PaaS. You can even use them as CloudFormation resources so they compose well and users are agnostic to which CDK language (or Terraform even!) that is used to write them. I’m currently experimenting with using them to expose terraform modules as CDK constructs.
by borxtrk | 2025-10-06 13:43:45+00:00
I got tired of missing material corporate events buried in SEC filings, so I built SEC Whisperer - a system that monitors, downloads, and summarizes 8-K filings using Gemini 2.5 Flash.

Technical Stack: - Python pipeline polling SEC EDGAR API every 2 hours - Cloud Run jobs for serverless processing (avoiding cold starts with batch processing) - 98% noise reduction on HTML filings before LLM analysis - Firebase for real-time publishing to Next.js frontend - Gemini with structured JSON output + post-processing to prevent hallucination The interesting technical challenges: 1. SEC filings are massive (40KB+ exhibits). Had to build a sectionizer that identifies item boundaries and caps exhibit text at 5KB (770x speedup) 2. LLMs hallucinate quarters and M&A tags. Solution: deterministic post-processing that strips anything not in source text 3. Filing amendments create tricky supersedes/superseded_by relationships in Firestore Live site: https://secwhisperer.com Code: Not open source yet, but happy to discuss architecture Example output: The site caught Nvidia's $5B Intel deal within minutes of the 8-K filing and had AI analysis published before most financial news sites. Would love feedback from the HN community - especially on the LLM hallucination prevention patterns. What other techniques are you all using?
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-06 13:44:31+00:00
>While I understand what you're saying, you can extend this logic to such things as faster-than-light travel, over-unity devices, time travel etc. They're just "hard" math problems.

No you can't. Those aren't hard math problems. They're Universe breaking assertions.

This is not the problem of flight. They're not engineering problems. They're not, "perhaps in the future, we'll figure out..".

Unless our understanding of physics is completely wrong, then None of those things are ever going to happen.
by vintermann | 2025-10-06 13:44:37+00:00
I have often wondered how long you could string along a mathematician if you started off like many (bad) textbooks from 50 years ago: rattling out a few definitions, proving a few trivial things about them, then making up a couple of new ones and do it again, maybe very tangentially tying it to something previously mentioned, and carefully obfuscate that the definitions and lemmas aren't really going anywhere.

I have long wanted to read firmly motivation-transparent mathematics. They can be abstract nonsense, but it has to be motivated abstract nonsense, you have to tell me what abstract nonsense result you seek and how you plan to go about getting it!

I'm almost offended at the author justifying the need for this database by AI. Yeah, you bet de-obfuscating motivations will help AI, but it will help me too!
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by voidhorse | 2025-10-06 13:44:50+00:00
It's a common problem in any field that presumably revolves around intellect, since supposedly being smarter gets you further (it may, but it is not enough on its lonesome).

People, in general, severely overestimate their own intelligence and grossly underestimate the intelligence of others.

Consider for a moment that most of the geniuses on hacker news are not even smart enough to wonder whether or not something like IQ is actually a meaningful or appropriate way to measure intelligence, examine the history of this notion, question what precisely it is we mean by that term, how its use can vary with context, etc. etc.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-06 13:46:34+00:00
I don't quite get how it's supposed to introduce calculus/analysis - the introductory chapters just start talking about metric spaces without even bothering to properly introduce the real numbers or their peoperties. I don't think that's quite sensible. For comparison, mathlib4 of course does it right by starting from topological spaces - and it manages to nicely simplify things throughout, by defining a basic "tends to" notion using set-theoretic filters.
Show HN: Chimera Browser Lets Web Surfers Swap HTML for Live LLM Rewrites
by napsy | 2025-10-06 13:46:36+00:00
Chimera is a Go desktop browser that scrapes pages into structured data, then renders either via a built-in WebKitGTK template or a local OpenAI-compatible API, offering environment overrides for flexible, AI-assisted browsing.
by orochimaaru | 2025-10-06 13:46:48+00:00
So, I resisted getting off of Google but did find perplexity very compelling especially for q&a, comparisons, research, etc. I don’t work for them, just a satisfied user. They allow you to switch between foundation models if you want to.

They are not free like Google. It’s a paid subscription. So they don’t share your data (yet) for advertising, etc.
by sneilan1 | 2025-10-06 13:46:54+00:00
This is awesome! I’m already integrated into TillerHQ. Apart from price, do you have any differentiators that make it take less time for auto categorizing? Tiller doesn’t have any built in AI tools for auto categorization so I had to roll my own.

Also I’m extremely skeptical of your pricing. $5 one time seems too good to be true.
by HankStallone | 2025-10-06 13:47:04+00:00
"Democracy" in these discussions increasingly just means the 21st-century bureaucratic status quo. It no longer has anything to do with antiquated notions like "the will of the people." If the people want something different, they're trying to dismantle democracy and should be ignored and given what the managerial class knows is best for them.

Persuading the voters is seen as a last resort, a distasteful task that really shouldn't be necessary, if we could just get the right systems in place to keep them pacified and voting for more of the same.
by jcranmer | 2025-10-06 13:47:33+00:00
Don't forget that OpenAI also has a similarly-massive deal with Oracle and another one with Nvidia. And its own Stargate initiative. And probably a couple more massive contracts with neoclouds to use more stuff.

Like best possible scenario is OpenAI merely optioning from literally everybody because they don't think they have a shot at getting any capacity otherwise. There is just no possible way that they can actually afford all of the buildouts. For that matter, there's not even any possible way for all of these buildouts to actually be completed.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-06 13:47:56+00:00
The could definitely do with cutting down some of the empty space and the “border stacking” problem that feels like old fashioned “div padding” stacking when doing html, though I feel like that trend started a few versions back in the flat ui design. Interestingly the iPhone version of Liquid Glass seems to have much less “extra” white space than the Mac version of it, which seems backwards because the iPhone should need/want more for larger touch targets. Or maybe it’s just less noticeable because it needs those large touch targets but also lives on a smaller screen.
by thiago_fm | 2025-10-06 13:49:07+00:00
It's the final phase of the cycle.

In theory, expect even higher amounts of "virtual" money being circulated (stock options deals), until people stop believing in it.

It's the time you can be certain that NASDAQ will go only up.

Until it doesn't.

Then we will learn how much money came from banks financing either directly those GPU deals, or indirectly (energy, infra etc).

Lots of depreciation will happen.

Then banks will start posting huge lossess, and then FED will need to rescue it all, because it goes on a spiral and can end up worse if they don't do anything.
by alberth | 2025-10-06 13:49:20+00:00
The 10% option is interesting.

As a comparison of stocks over the last 5-years:

1-Year 5-Year Market Cap (Today) ------ ------ --------- AMD 20% 150% $0.35T NVIDIA 50% 1,250% $4.5T

Today, AMD is up ~30% (which wipes the past year stock slump).

So a healthy portion of AMD overall 5-years gain are just from this announcement today.

And OpenAI ($0.50T) is currently valued more than AMD ($0.35T) itself.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NVDA/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMD/
by TechSquidTV | 2025-10-06 13:49:22+00:00
They do torrents. I was looking into this recently as well, considering building an Activity Pub alternative to IA. I came to what I assume is the same conclusion that IA came to.

No one uses IPFS. For the average user, it is significantly more difficult to get started. For the experienced user, the ecosystem of tools around IPFS is extremely small.

All in all, IPFS offers very little benefit over torrents in practice and has a much smaller user pool.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-06 13:49:47+00:00
Fwiw iirc Intuit has to offer a free version of their tool with the same capabilties but it is so hidden from everybody behind so much stuff that its hard for people to reach there.

Honestly, yes there shouldn't really even be a discussion about this. US should definitely do it. I think US and India are the only two major countries still stuck on something like this and I am not sure if there are really any advantages of it.
by ralfn | 2025-10-06 13:49:53+00:00
Because of the vesting milestones the stock price of AMD would go up by such an extent that creating more s hares would not dilute the share price.

Obviously, for the stock price to go up money needs to come from somewhere. It makes sense that this deal would lower the NVidia stock price, so technically it will be NVidia investors waiting too long to respond to this news that will be paying for this. A tax on the mistaken believe that NVidia has an monopoly on putting transitions in a particular configuration which they obviously don't. The rest is just momentum and this would kill that.

The real winners will be TSMC and ASML
by N70Phone | 2025-10-06 13:50:28+00:00
AMD issues new shares and gets a penny (read: effectively zero) back for them.

ALL ELSE BEING EQUAL this means everyone holding AMD has 10% of their equity/value taken away and handed to OpenAI.

But all else is not equal. OpenAI only gets the shares if they buy AMD GPUs. The intent is that this offsets the dilution by making AMD overall more valuable. (This is why the stock price jumped on the announcement) It's a GPU subsidy paid for by AMD's shareholders rather than AMD itself.

The real risk is that this further entangles AMD in the AI bubble. OpenAI already has enormous datacenter construction obligations. The likelihood of them failing to meet these new obligations, and thus this deal falling through or otherwise not materialising, is pretty high. If the AI bubble goes *POP*, AMD will be hurting a lot more than before this deal.
by mopsi | 2025-10-06 13:50:43+00:00
> Consider what Russia could possibly have to gain by randomly flying drones near civilian airports... nothing?

What could Russian military intelligence possibly have to gain from an arson attack on a COOP grocery store in rural Estonia? And yet, they were caught red-handed: https://english.nv.ua/nation/two-gru-arsonists-jailed-in-est... Many other Russian-sponsored terrorist cells have also been caught and are awaiting trial or have been sentenced, the most notable being a network that tried to smuggle incendiary devices aboard DHL cargo planes.

> Oh, I forgot about the supposed Russian drones in Poland too, drones which don't even have the range to get to Poland

Then how do they reach western Ukraine every night? It's much farther away than the distance Russian drones penetrated into Poland.

> Look at this map of NATO's expansion eastward toward Russia, and then please do tell about Russia's supposed expansion plans

Comparing European countries voluntarily joining a mutual defense pact to a foreign invasion is moronic. You could make a similar map for any major international organization: the closer a country was to Russia, the less developed it tended to be (no coincidence) and the later it joined. Has the Council of Europe been slowly expanding towards Russia and threatening them with human rights? Has Starbucks been fighting a shadow war to surround Russia with mediocre coffee?
by stavros | 2025-10-06 13:51:07+00:00
I have a design for a system where you can "donate" your disk space to a provider. Basically, you run the client, you say you want to make 1TB available to archive.org, and their server can push the rarest content to your computer.

It's based on torrents, and you can easily make a content delivery system on top of this (so people can fetch data from this network).

I emailed a few archiving teams but nobody seemed interested, so I never made it.
by Jlagreen | 2025-10-06 13:52:06+00:00
And you have that right.

And now imagine what will happen when OpenAI makes deals with Nvidia and AMD. Do you think Hyperscalers will just watch?

I expect Musk to make a $1 trillion deal soon. I guess, that's why he wants to get the $1 trillion from Tesla.

And do you think Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Google will stand by while Altman and Musk are buying future supply from Nvidia and AMD?

I love that. As an investor in Nvidia, I hope that these future promises will push the stock 4-5x quickly in Cisco fashion because then I can sell and retire in my 40s with a huge pile of money watching the bubble explosion on some beach on an island :)