MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WalterBright | 2025-10-13 06:17:30+00:00
> a new BASIC interpreter for the 1983 Mattel ECS add-on for Intellivision

Fun fact: Hal Finney (yes, that Hal) wrote a BASIC interpreter for the Intellivision back in 1978 or so in a weekend. It was 2K of code. Mattel shipped it on a cartridge.

ROM space was so tight, the only error message it produced was:

EH?

Which Hal was very proud of. He showed it to me to make me laugh. At the time I was programming the Mattel Intellivision Roulette cartridge.
by sema4hacker | 2025-10-13 06:18:30+00:00
It would be helpful for the box for each test to include some explanation, eg:

25-Hydroxyvitamin D, also known as calcidiol, regulates calcium absorption in the intestines, promotes bone formation and mineralization, and supports immune function.

Apolipoprotein B (ApoB) is a protein that binds to LDL receptors on cells, allowing lipoproteins to deliver cholesterol and triglycerides to tissues for energy or storage.

Lipoprotein(a) is a low-density lipoprotein variant identified as a risk factor for atherosclerosis and related diseases, such as coronary heart disease and stroke.

etc.
by deanc | 2025-10-13 06:19:06+00:00
Understandably, as technologists we are in uproar at yet another Electron app due to the widely-accepted performance concerns many have with them. But if you don't want to run this, you can always just run it in the browser as before. Nobody is forcing you to install it.

I sometimes think we forget that Electron would have allowed them to ship this to customers super quickly, across all desktop platforms, and get a nice-looking application in to the hands of their customers (who probably have been requesting this for years).
by eswat | 2025-10-13 06:20:27+00:00
Started working on digital nomad event and workation aggregator two months ago. https://reorient.guide/

That main usecase is done. I’m now focusing on travel guides for remote workers. Goal is to help those new to a country to become as productive as they would be at home within 2-3 hours upon landing at the airport. I completed 80% of a guide to South Korea.

I started working on these guides after my friends in Tokyo commented during our last co-working session on how fast I got to our favourite spot (Tokyo Innovation Base) from Narita Airport; they thought I was already in-town.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-13 06:20:54+00:00
AGILMs that have anything like a working internet connection will likely find a way to replace these shareholders sureptitiously --- and without alerting/injuring their caregivers. how you feel about that? depends on your temperament..

EDIT: trying to address the Roko part..I'm assuming once AGI is achieved.. the AGI doesn't need more compute to increase its intelligence beyond those of an average activist employee (I can assure you that in OpenAI there are such employees, and they know to shut up for now)

the antisocial part: it's already happening. What can you do about that.
by brewdad | 2025-10-13 06:21:09+00:00
I can’t speak to the specific living standards of a bottom half European but I can say I have visited probably a dozen major cities of Europe and never seen a single person living in a tent on the street. In at least half of those cities I have ventured well outside the “tourist” areas.

Meanwhile, I can’t go anywhere in my American city without encountering people living in conditions worse than the average person in a third world country.
by rtpg | 2025-10-13 06:21:39+00:00
I don't hold it against them in the sense that this is the easiest stack to onboard onto, but all the recurring lost effort on native e-mail clients seem very unfortunate.

Fastmail does, of course, probably consider its UI chops etc to be part of their value add. Just seems like if they also want to win over people who like native clients then "here's a bunch of shit that makes native clients also work very well with our offerings" is less of a lift while being more helpful overall. Maybe.
by oezi | 2025-10-13 06:21:41+00:00
If you visit the German study cited you will see that only a third of those transition costs are for electricity generation and transmission networks. The remainder is spent on climate change adaptations of housing, transport and industry.

I personally believe the transition to electric vehicles will soon reach a tipping point due to reduced battery prices and won't add much cost. Costly building upgrades (insulation and heat pumps will be delayed), but renewable installation will continue strongly. It is just to cheap not to do it.
by epistasis | 2025-10-13 06:22:34+00:00
> Also, Iowa is too far north for solar to do much good in the fight against AGW.

Absolutely not, Iowa is great for solar, it often provides more income than corn (and corn has massive subsidies), and is certainly better than most of Europe. Iowa really is not very far north

https://globalsolaratlas.info/map?c=44.374588,-77.81811,3
by tavavex | 2025-10-13 06:24:22+00:00
Did you forget the dozen or so Start Menu ads for random garbageware they started bundling with Windows 10? They didn't shy away from it either, you got all of that even in the Pro SKU.

Windows 10 isn't any less ad-ridden than 11. I remember it in all the OneDrive pushing, default browser resetting, lockscreen ad inserting 'glory'. Only after you manually stamped all of that out did it start being usable. But you can do that with 11 too. For now.
by hshdhdhehd | 2025-10-13 06:24:55+00:00
Can full scale solar make a dent in the land available in any country for food? And how does it compare to urban sprawl? (Although suburbs may have the benefit of solar on the roof powering the house below pretty well).

Another option is of course put the solar where you cant for whatever reason grow food. Hopefully there is enough shitty land to so that.
by vulkoingim | 2025-10-13 06:25:35+00:00
I got tired of Spotify recommending me the same songs, from the same artists, over and over again.

So I built Riff Radar - it creates playlists from your followed artists' complete discography, and allows you to tailor them in multiple ways. Those playlists are my top listened to. I know, because you can also see your listening statistics (at the mercy of Spotify's API).

The playlists also get updated daily. Think of it as a better version of the daily mixes Spotify creates.

https://riffradar.org/
by necovek | 2025-10-13 06:25:39+00:00
What did it take to port Linux to M1 series Macs (which at least has an unlocked bootloader)?

How do I install GNU/Linux distribution on a latest Galaxy S25 or iPhone or Google Pixel or Apple Watch or... (these are likely top-selling general compute devices in the world)?

Yes, on Windows PCs, Linux usually works better than Windows itself (except for the very newest stuff for a short while). But I think you missed the point of the GP.
by optimog | 2025-10-13 06:25:45+00:00
We are in the early stage of building the platformed version of our current WordPress plugin https://www.pathmetrics.io

It's a full funnel marketing attribution & insights tool with the intent of making marketing & marketing spends more transparent. We started from creating an utm tracking tool for our agency clients and currently it's a product on its own. We'll make it a platform to remove some of the limits that we have with WordPress and reach a larger audience.

Eu based.
by koeng | 2025-10-13 06:25:54+00:00
I've thought a lot about this! My main goal is to create a cloud lab that doesn't suck - ie, a remote lab that is actually useful for people, and a lot of these are relevant things. Let me run down the ideas I have for each

1. You can purchase gel boxes that do 48 to 96 lanes at once. I'd ideally have it on a robot whose only purpose is to load and run these once or twice a day. All the samples coming through get batched together and run

2. Bioanalyzer seems nice for quantification of like PCRs to make sure you're getting the right size. But if I'll be honest I haven't though that much about it. But qPCRs actually become very cheap, if you can keep the machines full. You can also use something like a nanodrop and it is much much cheaper

3. Pichia pastoris expression ^

4. You can use a plate reader (another thing that goes bulk nicely), but the reagents you can't really get around (but cheaper in bulk from China)

5. If you aggregate, these become really cheap. The complicated bits are getting the proper cytomat parts for shaking, as they are limited on the used market

6. These can't be automated well, so I honestly haven't thought too much about it.

7. Reagents cheaper in bulk China

8. ehhhh, maybe? But not really. But if you think about a scaled centralized system, you can get away with not using oligos for a lot of things
by yes_really | 2025-10-13 06:26:40+00:00
> While it is undeniable that the US leads in these areas, it should be pointed out that the distribution of who spends and who has disposable income does matter.

Agreed. But the median American has one the highest consumer spending and disposable incomes in the world.

> Europe is a lot more densely populated than the US. You really should be comparing urban areas in both, or rural areas in both.

OK. But housing in American cities is generally larger than the equivalent in European cities. And housing in American suburbs is likewise larger than in European suburbs.
by teleforce | 2025-10-13 06:26:42+00:00
Typical Japanese will devour their small rice bowl until there's none of rice grain is left over, since they're taught from the very young age not to waste food.

Most of other Asian nations will not eat their rice until it's completely finished. Even with their most delicious biryani dish there're always many rice grains left in the plate. I think the small bowl make it much easier to completely consume the rice unlike the big bowl or plate.
by thunfischtoast | 2025-10-13 06:26:55+00:00
I'm working on a little website that helps me and my friends to decide easier what to play on a gamenight, because it always goes like this: - I want to play x and y - I want to play y and z - I don't have z - I don't really feel x - Lets play b - I'd rater play c - Let's settle on d - Today H is joining, he does not have d

It'll work in sessions where first everyone can suggest games, then in the second phase veto out suggestions, then vote and it'll display the games with the highest vote. You can also manage/import a list of your games and it'll show who owns what. It's geared towards video games, but will work for board games too. Hope to release it for everyone in the next weeks.
by prmejc | 2025-10-13 06:27:08+00:00
TPS takt scheduling and execution system. It is a system to support any kind of production or logistics process in Toyota Production System way of working.

You define resources needed for activity, time per activity, dependencies between activities to complete a process.

After you input the process you want to complete, you get a schedule similar to a gantt chart.

System displays which activities should be ongoing at any moment, you click gui or call API to complete the activities.

After process is complete you get a report of delays and deviations by Takts, activities and resources.

Based on that report you can decide what improvements to make to your process.
by gf000 | 2025-10-13 06:27:12+00:00
The same is true for Java/Kotlin (in this case at least). The problem is that there is a zero parameter version that implicitly depends on global state, so you may end up with the bug unless you were already familiar with the issue at hand - I think the same applies for C#.

Though linters will routinely catch this particular issue FWIW.
by shermantanktop | 2025-10-13 06:27:26+00:00
I saw this a couple of weeks ago in NYC — the exact graffiti that is depicted. My reaction: right on.

This is a young founder acting young, but with a bankroll. He may not grow out of it. The tech industry hampers the painful development of emotional maturity. It doesn’t prevent it, but if you want to avoid it, retreating into a world of expensive toys which do your bidding is a great way to do that.
by k_bx | 2025-10-13 06:27:58+00:00
Thank you for the detailed report!

Anothing thing from my recent (couple years) discoveries is that emacs is actually pretty good out of the box, so on my servers/containers I just started doing `sudo apt-get install --no-recommends emacs-nox` and use that. The only annoying default is the need to disable the "backup files".
by fencer | 2025-10-13 06:29:29+00:00
Currently building out an application to help me allocate project funding in an academic setting to contracts and scientific staff. It'll be for internal use first, depending on my motivation I might release it at one point. The main features will be the management of split contracts (30% project A, 70% project B), pay grade progressions (German system), handling of unique spending and budget requirements from funding agencies (also for now only Germany + EU Funding), and reporting features for internal planning. I am not a computer scientist, so we will see how this goes and if it can replace the currently used disgusting excel sheet.
by ibizaman | 2025-10-13 06:30:15+00:00
I help privacy and data sovereignty enthusiasts take back control of their data without needing to change their habits.

I’ve been working for the past 3 years on SelfHostBlocks https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks, making self-hosting a viable and convenient alternative to the cloud for non technical people.

It is based on NixOS and provides a hand-picked groupware stack: user-facing there is Vaultwarden and Nextcloud (and a bunch more but those 2 are the most important IMO for non technical people as it covers most of one’s important data) and on the backend Authelia, LLDAP, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Grafana and some more. My know-how is in how to configure all this so they play nice together and to have backups, SSO, LDAP, reverse proxy, etc. integration. I’m using it daily as the house server, I’m my first customer after all. And beginning of 2025 it passed my own internal checkpoint to be shared with others and there’s a handful of technical users using it.

My goal is to work on this full time. I started a company to provide a white glove installation, configuration and maintenance of a server with SelfHostBlocks. Everything I’ll be doing will always be open source, same as the whole stack and the server is DIY and repair friendly. The continuous maintenance is provided with a subscription which includes customer support and training on the software stack as needed.
by UltraSane | 2025-10-13 06:30:27+00:00
"there really were a significant portion of the population who in fact were not okay with what they were seeing in Gaza,"

I'm not saying there wasn't. BUT the extreme consistency of the people commenting about it on sites like Reddit combined with the fact that it ultimately ends up helping Trump get elected makes me update my Bayesian estimate that Russia and/or the GOP is behind a lot of them. You saw the same thing in 2015 with all the "Hillary will start world war 3" posts. Those weren't organic at all. You see it in every US presidential election since Hillary v Trump: Many "people" making very similar posts about some reason why democrats or liberals shouldn't vote for the Democratic candidate. This works because voter turnout is what wins or loses elections.
by braza | 2025-10-13 06:30:38+00:00
DevRel has its values in several contexts, and I think as a role it proved that it is important, and we have companies that without it would not be so successful.

That said, the problem for me was when the centi-billion-dollar corporations started to use DevRel to do two things that I really distaste, that is, put marketing and its subdivisions as gatekeepers with engineers, and the sometimes very infantized way that they treat engineers of their clients.

For the first point, back in time, if you're using, let's say, SQL Server 2012 and you're in a hairy scenario of spinlock in your instance, you could get a call with a senior PFE and in some scenarios, some of the core engineers of SQL Server could join in on it.

Now with the DevRel, it started to be our entry point to communicate with those companies, and most of the time it adds one extra layer of context building for something that needs to have the most direct and urgent access to it.

For the second point, the high number of beginner/pure feature showroom events it bad by itself. On top of that, seems that most of the DevRel of those big corps cannot modulate their communication style and look appealing to the common audience for DevRel.

One example happened in some mandatory DevRel scheduled meeting about a CI tool. One of the mainframe Dev teams has the average age of 58, and out of 1h30m of feature pushing and a lot of Star Wars and pop culture references in the slides, everyone got almost nothing from it.
by HK-NC | 2025-10-13 06:30:43+00:00
Theres an abridged fan version of the chinese 3 body series uploaded for free online, its in 3 movie length installments.

https://disembiggened.com/

Theres also Ethernaut, an Argentinian series that I think just has one series so far. People enjoy it, I didn't find it that interesting til the end. I just really dislike stories stretched thin over dozens of hours. I prefer Xfiles, Outer Limits, or aimple movies, that sort of scifi.
by j_bum | 2025-10-13 06:30:59+00:00
> “We have a cat and a dog and a child and an adult in the same room,” he said. “Why not an A.I.?

Because pets are living creatures with agency that form emotional bonds to their owners. Pets also can’t sycophantically talk back to us.

I’m just as stunned as any other at the ability of LLMs/agents to code, plan, execute, etc.. But these sycophantic stochastic parrots do not have agency or emotion in the historic sense of those words.

LLMS can cause dangerous mental health outcomes for the unequipped who don’t understand that they don’t have agency.
by morsch | 2025-10-13 06:31:19+00:00
Pretty much all of this is wrong or misleading

The Energiewende wasn't an attempt to go 100% renewable

Germany's dependency on Russian gas goes back to the 1990s and beyond

While people were worried about the impact of sanctions on Russian gas, the actual impact was lower than expected. Consumer bills did not go through the roof, partly due to government intervention

Combined power generation share from coal compared to before Russia started a war with Ukraine is slightly down, nuclear is 0 (or a percent or two if you consider imports), gas is marginally up
by brucehoult | 2025-10-13 06:32:34+00:00
Which do you have in mind?

I don't think newer things labelled as "RISC" have significantly (if at all) exceeded original 1985 ARM for complexity of an individual instruction, or 1990 IBM RS/6000 for sheer number of instructions, so unless you have a newer example this "semantic drift" happened 35-40 years ago in the first 5-10 years after publication of the first RISC papers.

Arm64 of course hits both axes.

While I think having a small number of instructions (at least optionally) is desirable for a number of reasons I don't see that as defining RISC. RISC is, I think, about instructions being uniform enough to not complicate the execution pipeline. If you keep the instructions to reading two registers and writing a result to one register, preferably after 1 clock cycle, then I don't think there is any number of different operations available on those 2 operands that would make something be not RISC any more.

Some people think it's ok to read 3 input registers -- again, Arm since 1985. And everyone in floating point, since `±A*B±C` is the fundamental and most common operation in floating point algorithms and IEEE 754-2008 mandates that the operation be done without intermediate rounding.

There are some manufacturers who have apparently thought "RISC" is a good marketing thing and put the label on things that I don't consider to be RISC. For example Microchip claims 8 bit PIC is RISC. It certainly isn't -- it's a classic accumulator architecture (as are Intel 8051 and 8080 and MOS 6602) with Acc-Mem and Mem-Acc instructions. Calling memory "registers" doesn't change that On the other hand Atmel AVR is clearly RISC.

Also TI market the MSP430 as RISC. It's a lovely little minimalist 16 bit ISA very similar to PDP-11 and, like PDP-11, all the 2-operand arithmetic operations can be done memory-to-memory which is a definite RISC no-no. Original M68000 - also PDP-11 like -- has a better claim to being RISC as (like 8086) it at least kept everything except MOV{B,W,L} down to reg-mem.

But, no, PIC and MSP430 are not RISC despite their manufacturers saying they are.
by overfeed | 2025-10-13 06:32:55+00:00
More likely than not, they'd work as they were designed to: increase profitablity of whatever company that authored them.

As a thought experiment, say you were the CEO/board member of a company that's told your new platform is choosing public benefit over profits. What would you do? Now filter down the decisions going down the heirarchy, considering job security and a general preference for earning bonuses.

For all the discussions around "alignment" - any AI that's not aligned with increased profits will be unplugged posthaste, all other considerations are secondary.
by BeauNer | 2025-10-13 06:33:03+00:00
TP-Link says it has made history by completing the first Wi-Fi 8 data transmission with a prototype device. The test validated both beacon and throughput functionality, signaling that the next generation of wireless tech is already taking shape.

The milestone comes even as most consumers haven’t yet upgraded to Wi-Fi 7, which already delivers extremely high speeds and reliability. Some argue the industry is pushing new standards too quickly, leaving real-world adoption lagging far behind.
by Zarathruster | 2025-10-13 06:33:55+00:00
Of all the things I studied at Berkeley, the Philosophy of Mind class he taught is the one I think back on most often. The subject matter has only grown in relevance with time.

In general, I think he's spectacularly misunderstood. For instance: he believed that it was entirely possible to create conscious artificial beings (at least in principle). So why do so many people misunderstand the Chinese Room argument to be saying the opposite? My theory is that most people encounter his ideas from secondary sources that subtly misrepresent his argument.

At the risk of following in their footsteps, I'll try to very succinctly summarize my understanding. He doesn't argue that consciousness can only emerge from biological neurons. His argument is much narrower: consciousness can't be instantiated purely in language. The Chinese Room argument might mislead people into thinking it's an epistemology claim ("knowing" the Chinese language) when it's really an ontology claim (consciousness and its objective, independent mode of existence).

If you think you disagree with him (as I once did), please consider the possibility that you've only been exposed to an ersatz characterization of his argument.