MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jay_kyburz | 2025-10-22 22:02:37+00:00
No expert, and fully expect to be flamed, but we are now living in a society that has discouraged "sucking it up" or "burying your emotions" for 30 years. It not really possible to study, at macro level, the impact of that thinking.

A lot of people just want to be a victim. They want to be special. They want sympathy.
by p_ing | 2025-10-22 22:02:57+00:00
> I know the truth is somewhere in the middle

Don't disable the page file, if you have 32GiB RAM, it's usage will generally be low unless you're doing something 'heavy', at which point if you're regularly doing that, add more RAM. Some applications absolutely require a page file and will not function without one (Adobe Photoshop is or was one of them).

The truth is not in the "middle". The truth is you should ignore people who peddle uninformed advice on the Internet about how to "optimize" your computer when they themselves don't understand the NTVMM.
by socalgal2 | 2025-10-22 22:05:26+00:00
jj undo is great but it's a one time thing. You can't do jj this, jj that, jj other, jj undo, jj undo, jj undo AFIACT. You have to look into the op log and jj op restore for that. It's nice you can get back to where you were though.

The biggest issue for me is it requires active change management (or feels like it). In git I do `git checkout foo` then I start editing. If I want to see what may changes are since foo then `git diff` tells me. With jj though, `jj edit foo` is the to git, state of the repo ALL changes to foo. So any new edits are invisible. So, instead of `jj edit` I have to do `jj edit` `jj new`, then later squash those into foo

I know there are similar cases in git but I guess I'm just used to git so I wasn't using those cases.

that said, I'm mostly enjoying jj. Though quite often i get a conflict I don't understand. Today I got 2 and it told me choose A or B. I did `jj diff -r A -r B` and it said no diffs. If no diffs aren't there no conflicts? I'm sure someone gets it but it was annoying to just have to pick one to abandon
by amyamyamy2 | 2025-10-22 22:06:22+00:00
I'm glad to hear how well this worked for your cousin! I don't eat breakfast often enough.

I specifically wanted to touch on the cycle of trauma & ADHD that's discussed in the article.

> That is, the ADHD leads to very negative experiences. Having had negative experiences (trauma) doesn’t lead to ADHD.

I think integrating traumatic experiences can have a lot of benefits to people, especially in the absence of easy fixes - as far as I know there's not really a smoking gun for ADHD, or borderline, etc. I'd argue the causality matters a bit less here. I say this even though I genuinely hated the fatalistic nature of the Body Keeps the Score, but I think Everett is a bit too quick to discard that the mind is relevant at all. I'd love to be proven wrong.

At least for myself, I've noticed increased well-being / reduced trauma responses when I avoid relationships that cause me a lot of stress, get enough sleep, and exercise regularly. But my baseline disposition is still there, and it's hard to untangle whether or not that's from trauma or from my body.

Everett argues that it's probably just my body (low T / high inflammation / too sensitive?) and I don't think that's very actionable. I'd argue that mind-body link goes in both directions, but that's purely anecdotal.

I also really liked softwaredoug's take on Adverse Childhood Experiences in the thread above.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-22 22:06:30+00:00
Not every company is investigating every direction. Like, it's clear that Google is investing a lot in embodiment and multimodal understanding, but Anthropic barely cares about either. Across the field though?

I think it's fairly safe to say that every remotely promising thing that showed up in the papers was tried at some big lab at least once. If it showed good results, they'd pick it up.
by dang | 2025-10-22 22:06:35+00:00
Recent and related:

Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45646559 - Oct 2025 (43 comments)

DeepSeek OCR - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640594 - Oct 2025 (238 comments)
by paranoidrobot | 2025-10-22 22:06:44+00:00
It's really amazing to see how far HP has fallen. They used to make brilliant printers that were top-quality, easy to service, and overall met the whole "Just Works" thing.

Then some time in the late 90s/early 2000s they let the bean counters at it, and they've become the poster child of terrible product design optimised to extract the maximum revenue at all costs from customers.

I honestly don't care how revolutionary or awesome a product is - if it's from HP I'm staying away, and would recommend everyone else to do so. The company deserves to die.
by janalsncm | 2025-10-22 22:07:04+00:00
Once you have a golden goose, the risk taking innovators who built the thing are replaced by risk averse managers who protect it. Not killing the golden goose becomes priority 1, 2, and 3.

I think this is the steel man of “founder mode” conversation that people were obsessed with a year ago. People obsessed with “process” who are happy if nothing is accomplished because at least no policy was violated, ignoring the fact that policies were written by humans to serve the company’s goals.
by Noumenon72 | 2025-10-22 22:07:15+00:00
> ocr my_image.png extracts text from an image and prints it to stdout. It only works on macOS

The Mac Shortcut at https://github.com/e-kotov/macos-shortcuts lets you select a particular area of the screen (as with Cmd-Shift-4) and copies the text out of that, allowing you to copy exactly the text you need from anywhere on your screen with one keyboard shortcut. Great for popups with unselectable text, and copying error messages from coworkers' screenshares.
by Hizonner | 2025-10-22 22:07:34+00:00
If you were talking about Apple or Google, you might have a point, although you would be better off to talk about "freedom of speech", since "the First Amendment" refers to a very specific piece of legal text (and one that nobody has actually ever said should apply to app stores).

But we're talking about F-Droid here. It has a tiny market share. It uses software that lets literally anybody else set up a repository and have it appear integrated in the same app. It doesn't benefit from any of the legal or social advantages given to large corporations. F-Droid, unlike Apple or Google, can't in fact do much to limit anybody's speech.
by freehorse | 2025-10-22 22:08:02+00:00
I understand the point of convenience, and having discussions and changes on implementations is good, but there is a reason that the law targets websites and why the whole discussion is around websites rather than browsers: the websites (their servers) are those who actually collect the personal data. The law does not target browsers because the browsers (their companies or whatever) are not the data controllers in this case, the website owners are.

Moreover, consent by law tends to need to be specific: you give consent for the specific purpose to the specific company. Of course there are and should be ways to convey denial of consent by "do not track" style headers, but I am not sure this can solve all the issues.

I think blaming the law is bullshit. When a website throws a cookie popup obstructing you from using it, it is because they really want you to click on "accept all". There is no other reason to do this. It is terrible UX and not all websites do this. It is a totally conscious and intentional decision.
by karambahh | 2025-10-22 22:08:08+00:00
Met him at HAL 2001, volunteered together a bit there. I think he was heading the speakers herald team I was part of. First encounter with the hacker conference scene, he guided me wisely.

Patient and kind indeed.

He's the reason I kept going around European hacking / free software events. I owe him cultural discoveries, long lasting friendships and tech partnerships. Very saddened by this news.

So far the thread is full of similar interactions with him.

That person changed so many lives, by his contributions to culture and technology but more importantly (?) because he had tremendous impacts on the lives of many people he took time to interact with.

I know that these threads are always full of "this recently deceased people made the world a better place". I lived with him 4 days 24 years ago so I can't say I knew him...but I know I wouldn't be writing this about more "famous" people I interacted with.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.
by blaz0 | 2025-10-22 22:08:11+00:00
Yes, games are a common case where your repo can be very large but building your code only requires access to a small subset of it.

For example, the League of Legends source repo is millions of files and hundreds of GB in size, because it includes things like game assets, vendored compiler toolchains for all of our target platforms, etc. But to compile the game code, only about 15,000 files and 600MB of data are needed from the repo.

That means 99% of the repo is not needed at all for building the code, and that is why we are seeing a lot of success using VFS-based tech like the one described in this blog. In this case, we built our own virtual filesystem for source code based on our existing content-defined patching tech (which we wrote about a while ago [1]). It's similar to Meta's EdenFS in that we built it on top of the ProjFS API on Windows and NFSv3 on macOS and Linux. We can mount a view into the multimillion-file repo in 3 seconds, and file data (which is compressed and deduplicated and served through a CDN) is downloaded transparently when a process requests it. We use a normal caching build system to actually run the build, in our case FASTBuild.

I recently timed it, and I can go from having nothing at all on disk to having locally built versions of the League of Legends game client and server in 20 seconds on a 32-core machine. This is with 100% cache hits, similar to the build timings mentioned in the article.

[1] https://technology.riotgames.com/news/supercharging-data-del...
by aatd86 | 2025-10-22 22:08:15+00:00
The same thing I don't know... but a long time ago, I remember reading that SSA and CPS were isomorphic. Basically CPS being used for functional languages.

edit: actually even discussed on here

CPS is formally equivalent to SSA, is it not? What are advantages of using CPS o... | Hacker News https://share.google/PkSUW97GIknkag7WY
by ValdikSS | 2025-10-22 22:08:48+00:00
le9 is a 'simple' method to keep the fixed amount of the page cache. It works exceptionally well for what it is, but it requires manual tuning of the amount of cache in MB.

MGLRU is basically a smarter version of already existing eviction algorithm, with evicts (or keeps) both page cache and anon pages, and combined with min_ttl_ms it tries to keep current active page cache for a specified amount of time. It still takes into account swappiness and does not operate on a fixed amount of page cache, unlike le9.

Both are effective in trashing prevention, both are different. MGLRU, especially with higher min_ttl_ms, could cause OOM killer more frequently than you'd like it to be called. I find le9 more effective for desktop use on old low-end machines, but that's only because it just keeps the (large/er amounts of) page cache. It's not very preferable for embedded systems for example.
by maxbond | 2025-10-22 22:08:54+00:00
`bcrypt` is probably the "standard" in the sense that it has the widest adoption, but since 2015 [1] the "standard" in terms of what you should recommend for new work has been `argon2id` (and you can find parameter recommendations here [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_Hashing_Competition

[2] https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Stor...
by ike2792 | 2025-10-22 22:09:12+00:00
There is some truth to this, but I think this way of thinking is overly simplistic. From a material standpoint, any job that can provide for you and your family's needs is "meaningful" since you can't really have a meaningful life without having basic needs provided for. From a spiritual standpoint, however, I think it is detrimental for someone to know that their job is largely pointless or achieves no tangible outcomes in the world. I think this same criticism applies to UBI and other "end of work" ideas, since a person with no job is likely to suffer from the same lack of purpose as someone who senses their job is BS. People are intrinsically wired to want to do work and make some kind of difference (even if that difference is just knowing that you helped manufacture 500 cars that day, dug a ditch that will be used for some useful purpose, whatever).
by Saki2007 | 2025-10-22 22:09:18+00:00
Hi HN,

This started as a simple script for my own workflow to optimize Gemini API costs using caching (often seeing 50-95% savings). Over time, I gradually added features I found useful, including wrappers for Veo 3.1 generation and a natural language video editor I call Flow Engine.

*Fair warning: The current UI and detailed docs are primarily in Traditional Chinese as it originated from personal use.* However, the underlying concepts (especially around caching strategy and the Flow Engine approach to video editing) might be interesting to the HN community.

Hope some find the ideas or code useful. Happy to answer questions!
by babypuncher | 2025-10-22 22:09:25+00:00
I think this is a pricing and billing problem more than a "people only want free shit" problem.

All the paywalled news agencies want a monthly subscription. But I, as someone who doesn't like getting all their news from a single source, am not interested in signing up for news subscriptions because the cost would pile up fast, and to be honest I don't read that many news articles in a given month.

I think we need some kind of usage based billing system where participating outlets can set a price per article, and users can agree to be billed for that article when they go to view it.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-10-22 22:09:28+00:00
Slowly, while kicking and dragging, GitHub gets Gerrit/Phabricator features.

(We've just started using the Merge Queue for Nix and Nixpkgs, which gives me similar feelings.)

For those of you not knowing what the hell is being talked about, https://gist.github.com/thoughtpolice/9c45287550a56b2047c631... is a good primer.
by zachixer | 2025-10-22 22:09:29+00:00
Every time I see a clean SSA explainer like this, I’m reminded that the “simplicity” of SSA only exists because we’ve decided mutation is evil. It’s not that SSA is simpler — it’s that we’ve engineered our entire optimization pipeline around pretending state doesn’t exist.

It’s a brilliant illusion that works… until you hit aliasing, memory models, or concurrency, and suddenly the beautiful DAG collapses into a pile of phi nodes and load/store hell.
by Schmerika | 2025-10-22 22:09:31+00:00
> The Body Keeps [the] Score is an ideology where the causality only goes one way.

No it isn't. You might have interpreted it that way, but there's no such assertion. Quite the opposite in fact: the book details therapies like yoga, EMDR, neurofeedback, and somatic experiencing; each demonstrating body to mind causality.
by nickff | 2025-10-22 22:09:47+00:00
I actually don't understand what you or the article mean by "meaningful and meaningless work", the article approaches an explanation in one paragraph, but they seem to have left a lot to interpretation by the reader. Perhaps you could enlighten me?

>"In a system where, as Gorz puts it, “we produce nothing of what we consume, and consume nothing of what we produce,” it is up to each and every one of us, connecting with others as a collective mass, to regain control over the meaning of work and over the determination of the needs that legitimize it. This is also the way for us to question the disastrous impact that the economy is having on the environment through its blind logic of profit and growth."
by tonetegeatinst | 2025-10-22 22:10:19+00:00
When a metric is the measure of performance, it will eventually become useless.

Also plenty of these corporations will agree its a threat....because it gives value to their product.

I would argue that this becomes a self fulfilling prophecy because of how over concerned we are.

Plenty of "extinction level threats to humanity exist" like forever chemicals, resource scarcity, war, and genetic engineering.
by sayrer | 2025-10-22 22:10:37+00:00
Yeah, "coq" is a grade school joke in French class. It just means "rooster" or something in French, but it sounds ridiculous in English. This one has the same problem.

A company with that in the name made the French national team jersey for a while.

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

It's Nike now, but it still has a rooster on it.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-22 22:10:39+00:00
A. What assets matter at this scale?

B. They are also taxed at 40%

C. And the estate may just want to sell more Steam shares to keep whatever they are intact

D. Even if by some miracle Gabe Newell still owns the required ~85% of Steam to barely squeak by on federal estate taxes ($16B presumed valuation = ~$5.5 billion tax bill if he owned 85%, leaving him with ~51% after payment), who is taking the reins?

- edits - additional points -

E. I forgot Gabe Newell lives in Seattle. If Washington is his actual residence, then Washington has an additional 35% tax rate on high-value estates. Which makes it completely impossible even with 100% ownership.

F. Why would his estate even bother trying to salvage Gabe's vision at this point, when they're left with an illiquid minority stake? A very possible scenario is to sell all shares they possess, in one transaction. The possibility of majority control could inflate the share price dramatically over a piecemeal sale.

G. In which case, within 9 months of Gabe's death (IRS deadline), there is a high likelihood there will be an estate auction of all shares to any willing purchaser (highest value per share extracted + tax bill paid). And that purchaser will then have immediate intent to cash in.

H. Betting on Steam then, promoting them as better than other companies, is completely dependent on Gabe's actuarial tables. Not to be harsh but just honest, considering Gabe's decades of obesity before getting to a healthier place now, they're probably worse than average, as long-term obesity has persistent irrevocable effects. (This sounds harsh, but actuarial analysis is directly used in insurance and estate planning; you can be assured every major company's CEO has been assessed.)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-22 22:11:53+00:00
> The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger (think of what started to happen when this even began to be approximated in the ’60s). And, on the other hand, the feeling that work is a moral value in itself, and that anyone not willing to submit themselves to some kind of intense work discipline for most of their waking hours deserves nothing, is extraordinarily convenient for them.

Isn't this sort of similar to 1984 Like they had ways to provide enough but they wouldn't because then they would lose the power or something similar
by NoPicklez | 2025-10-22 22:11:55+00:00
Reading the paper they wrote on this from their GitHub site, it does take into account the thermal management aspects quite considerably.

https://starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf

Your thinking seems more risk averse, which is similar to myself. However that doesn't mean that without the business drivers these types of things can't happen if enough attention is given too it. Costs are often because we're comparing one thing which has significant efficiencies built into the supply chain, vs something that doesn't, which by virtue drives up the cost. Perhaps Nvidia have money to burn on trying something.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-22 22:12:04+00:00
> How long until we see blockbuster movies produced by a guy in his basement for <$1000?

Probably never. If AI is good enough to cover all the skills needed to do what would currently make a blockbuster movie for less than $1000, the demand for movies will be small enough relative to supply that there will be no such thing as a “blockbuster movie”
by r0me1 | 2025-10-22 22:12:12+00:00
I disagree, I went that route and ended up regretting it. While converting a regular bike to an e-bike does work, a standard commuter bike is designed to carry a person’s weight with the center of gravity in mind. Adding an electric hub motor and a 20 lb lithium battery to a frame with cantilever brakes just feels sketchy. A properly designed e-bike typically comes with four-piston hydraulic brakes, and the placement of the motor and battery is engineered to maintain balance and handling.
by jaybrendansmith | 2025-10-22 22:12:49+00:00
These people do not understand the level of testing that we do; the statistics of efficacy or safety. Perhaps we need to explain it better, but it is really quite complex to explain. There's a trope that if you cannot explain something in a simple way, that thing must not be true. If so I would like someone to explain quantum mechanics and relativity to a 10 year old. Good luck.
by Telaneo | 2025-10-22 22:12:55+00:00
DRM is optional on Steam. The dev can opt to not include it, and the default Steam DRM is trivially bypassed anyway.

Valve barely does any gatekeeping that isn't caused by outside pressure, i.e. Visa and Mastercard in the latest instance, which they're atleast trying to fight back against, from what I can tell.
by imiric | 2025-10-22 22:13:18+00:00
If they're actually hosting it and providing a service, that wouldn't be a bad thing. Ovi's Apache license allows commercial use. They would only be infringing on the license by not publishing it and the original copyright, and would be morally bankrupt by not disclosing the original project and passing it off as their own.

But I also suspect that most of these are indeed SEO scammers, that there's no actual service, and that all payments are pocketed. It might take a few days for the scam to be reported and the site taken down, but it's likely enough to get a few hundred bucks out of it. They'll never be pursued because of where they live, and they can have many of these up in no time, thanks to AI, as you say.

What a sad state of affairs that no "AI" company or government is taking seriously.
by mc32 | 2025-10-22 22:13:37+00:00
If Covid conditions had gone on longer, decades, then output would have gone down, the treasury from which subsidies and government checks came from would have dried up. Even bullshit jobs add to GDP. Even socialist and communists had bullshit jobs to keep people busy.

That said, the jobs I’d consider non essential are things like advertising, lifestyle, gambling/gsming and the sort. They add to the economy but I’d rather not have them.
by int_19h | 2025-10-22 22:13:55+00:00
> I have discussed the book with various medical authorities. Not a single one disagreed or was negative towards it.

That is indicative of cherry picking the authorities you chose to discuss it with, since the problems with this book and the theories behind it are both well-known and well-documented. Start here:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10497315231206754
by Rochus | 2025-10-22 22:14:09+00:00
Thanks for the link. Looks like an interesting paper. Here is the original reference: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/197320.197331.

And here is a better readable postscript version: https://web.archive.org/web/20170706013237/ftp://ftp.ssw.uni...
by jongjong | 2025-10-22 22:14:11+00:00
Makes sense. It's easier to be right by saying no, but this mindset costs great opportunities. People who are interested in their own career management can't innovate.

You can't innovate without taking career-ending risks. You need people who are confident to take career-ending risks repeatedly. There are people out there who do and keep winning. At least on the innovation/tech front. These people need to be in the driver seat.