MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Arkhaine_kupo | 2025-10-31 14:32:43+00:00
> they’re using their equity to buy compute that is critical to improving their core technology

But we know that growth in the models is not exponential, its much closer to logarithmic. So they spend =equity to get >results.

The ad spend was a merry go round, this is a flywheel where the turning grinds its gears until its a smooth burr. The math of the rising stock prices only begins to make sense if there is a possible breakthrough that changes the flywheel into a rocket, but as it stands its running a lemonade stand where you reinvest profits into lemons that give out less juice
by lucianbr | 2025-10-31 14:33:26+00:00
You too can change direction easier if there is an object (like a pole or something) you can push/pull against. Try it, maybe it will help your intuition.

Run towards a pole and then try to come back around it, once without touching it and once using it to swing around. That's the role the curved tracks play. You exchange momentum with the object, and in the end with the Earth.
by pdabbadabba | 2025-10-31 14:33:54+00:00
You're using the word "stolen" here with a lot of conviction but, imho, not a lot of rigor. In what sense did people "own" the artifacts that the British removed from Egypt? Who owned them? If nobody owned them, how were they "stolen"? That's the weak version of the problem.

The stronger version: how is it the case that Egypt, or Egyptians, today "own" something that has been in the British museum far longer than any of them have been alive? Even if the artifacts were wrongfully taken in the first instance, does that automatically mean that the only right thing to do is to return them, even after centuries? Are the myriad other interests that have accumulated in the interim simply not matter? How long domes something have to remain in Britain for it to meaningfully become part of British heritage as well as Egyptian? Should we also be working to return artifacts looted by the ancient Egyptians to their own ancestral homes, even though the looting occurred thousands of years ago when they were the dominant power? Perhaps they should give back everything south of the First Cataract to the Nubians. (Hopefully it's clear that this is a reductio not a policy proposal!)

That's not to say I think it's categorically acceptable for powerful nations to take historical artifacts. But I don't think this has really anything to do with "stealing" in the usual sense. if anything, that rhetoric just obscures the issues here that might truly be worth thinking about.
by rockostrich | 2025-10-31 14:34:19+00:00
I'm using Chipotle's nutrition calculator (https://www.chipotle.com/nutrition-calculator/burrito) to get the nutrition info. That may be off but probably not by more than 10%. If you're only getting 30g of protein in your burrito from Chipotle then you're ordering something super weird because rice, beans, and a tortilla come out to 20g.

And a chicken burrito at a Chipotle in Atlanta is $8-10 before taxes depending on the location. Sales tax on food from a restaurant in Atlanta comes out to around 9% but even if you add a 4% credit card fee that still only amounts to being $11.30 after taxes on a $10 burrito.
by ActionHank | 2025-10-31 14:34:39+00:00
This is one of the issues with LLMs in dev IMO.

You either have the case that tech moves on and the LLM is out of date on anything new, so adoption slows or you have tech slowing down because it doesn't work with LLMs so innovation slows.

Either way, it's great if you're working on legacy in known technologies, but anything new and you have issues.

Can I write a spec or doc or add some context MCP? Sure, but these are bandaids.
by cess11 | 2025-10-31 14:34:44+00:00
Not really. What other political tendencies perform violent colonisation at home?

And, well, yeah, they have a lot of similarities. They both agree on things like 'Arbeit macht Frei', extremely violent punishment of petty crime and industrial futurism regarding e.g. unrestrained extractive energy exploitation and so on. It's harder to figure out but it seems to me that the Manhattan Institute agrees with Hitler on the jewish question, jews need to be removed from 'white' societies, but disagrees with immediate industrial extermination and rather opts for the more palatable solution of having them migrate to and serve a colony. I.e. the kind of Madagascar plan that mainstream zionism amounts to, though it targets Palestine instead of the island.
by zdw | 2025-10-31 14:34:59+00:00
I have no idea on the internet core, but I wouldn't be surprised if SDN capable gear is used there. One major performance benefits of SDN is lowering latency as the processing is happening in the switch silicon instead of a general purpose CPU, which seems very applicable to core switching.

For access networks, it has been used. VOLTHA (PON solution that is in production in various places, see other post) is being used for this, and also there is code for doing PPP encap/decap in P4, which allows access control and lower latency at line rate.

I'm not aware of anyone making the programmability parts of SDN available as a service. Usually most hyperscalers don't allow access to infra components - anything below the kernel or certain specific peripherals - and the underlying network would be one of these areas.
by tehjoker | 2025-10-31 14:35:02+00:00
That's true, but without the kind of horsepower provided by modern hardware, even though I'm skeptical that it's all needed, especially given DeepSeek's amazing results, AI would be nearly impossible.

There are some important innovations on the algorithm / network structure side, but all these ideas are only able to be tried because the hardware supports it. This stuff has been around for decades.
by pols45 | 2025-10-31 14:35:11+00:00
Yup. Not just Nvidia. Just look at the quarterly results reported by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Apple. Each one is reporting revenues never before seen in history. If you make 100 Billion a quarter you have to spend it on something.

These guys are running hyper optimized cash extraction mega machines. There is no comparison to previous bubbles, cause so no such companies ever existed in the past.
by 18272837023 | 2025-10-31 14:35:13+00:00
I built DeepOCR.cc/pdf-text-extractor , a free and privacy-friendly tool for extracting text from PDFs — including scanned documents.

It runs entirely online, with no registration or upload limits. You can extract text from academic papers, invoices, or multi-page scanned files in seconds.

I made it because most online PDF extractors are either paywalled, slow, or collect user data. DeepOCR is designed to stay fast, simple, and truly free.
by zbentley | 2025-10-31 14:35:16+00:00
I’ve seen government datacenters. We should be thankful they’re using the cloud.

That’s not “cloud > onprem always”, that’s “even given cloud providers’ many faults governments are so terrible at managing and securing infrastructure today that the cloud is preferable for them”. Whether you anre pro- or anti-particular-government, you should still support gov-moves-to-cloud. The alternative is proven unbelievably worse on every possible axis.
by mulmen | 2025-10-31 14:35:47+00:00
Why the dig at Americans? This is nothing more than tock’s misinformed personal opinion. The United States does work with India to develop green energy.

California is famous for green initiatives and my state of Washington trades clean energy with Canada. I’d be shocked if we are unique in that.

These agreements have been in place for generations. It’s obvious they have voter approval.
by robenkleene | 2025-10-31 14:36:48+00:00
This is analysis is spot on.

I made the same argument about Figma (that what made Figma successful is that design software had started to be used more like office suite software) in my overview of the historical transitions in creative software https://blog.robenkleene.com/2023/06/19/software-transitions...:

> In the section on Photoshop to Sketch, we discussed an underappreciated factor in Sketch’s, and by extension, Figma’s, success: That flat design shifted the category of design software from professional creative software to something more akin to an office suite app (presentation software, like Google Slides, being the closest sibling). By the time work was starting on Figma in 2012, office suite software had already been long available and popular on the web, Google Docs was first released in 2006. This explains why no other application has been able to follow in Figma’s footsteps by bringing creative software to the web: Figma didn’t blaze a trail for other professional creative software to move to the web, instead Sketch blazed a trail for design software to become office suite software, a category that was already successful on the web.

Regarding this, I'm curious how big this market is really. E.g., for me, working on software, I almost never see design work from folks that aren't professional designers (and if I do, they use Figma already, not the Creative Suite). But I'd be curious to hear other folks impressions, even just anecdotally:

> To explain what I mean: Let’s say you’re a company that subscribes to Adobe Creative Cloud. You might buy it for one department—like your video team, or your web team, or your print team. But there are a lot of other people in your office, and they need design too. They need to build social posts and presentations and email signatures and graphical work that your $150,000-per-year senior designer doesn’t have the time for.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-10-31 14:36:48+00:00
>Basically AMD missed the opportunity to be first mover on a market which is now huge with a project Apple proved to be viable three years after the planned AMD release. Any way you look at it, it seems like a major miss.

No man, apple basically had the power to frog march it's app devs to a new cpu arch. That absolutely would not have happened in the windows ecosystem given the amount of legacy apps and (arguably more importantly) games. For proof of this you need look no further than Itanium and windows arm
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-31 14:36:50+00:00
> If you grab a bunch of world-class chip designers in the same scenario but don't have world-class fabs for them to use, they're not going to be able to ship competitive designs.

But why such an unfair comparison?

Instead of comparing "skilled people with hardware VS skilled people without hardware", why not compare it to "a bunch of world-class ML folks" without any computers to do the work, how could they produce world-class work then?
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-10-31 14:37:02+00:00
> For example take a train moving 100 kmh to the north which wants to reverse direction to the south. It has to break and then accelerate again, a very costly operation. Except when the tracks make a turn? But how can a northward momentum change to a southward momentum?

Your train is decelerating, and then accelerating southwards. It really is.

If you were on a train that was travelling in a straight line northwards and the driver applied the brakes, it would decelerate, which really is acceleration with a negative value (and I can hear that in my old high school physics teacher's voice, hope you're doing well, Mr Siwek). You would feel yourself being thrown forwards if the acceleration was strong enough because your momentum wants to keep you moving north.

If you were on a train that was travelling around a U-shaped bit of track looping from northbound to southbound, then you'd be thrown towards the outside of the curve. Guess what? The train is not moving north so fast, and your momentum is trying to keep you moving north.

The difference here is that if you brake the train to a stop and throw it in reverse then you're dissipating energy as heat to stop it, and then applying more energy from the drivetrain to get it moving again, but if you go round a U-shaped track the energy going north is now energy going east. You have not added or removed energy, just pointed it a different direction.
by fifticon | 2025-10-31 14:37:16+00:00
There is a different problem at play behind this. There are strong lobbying efforts that want this tech/system, for their own reasons which are not being advocated to the public. At the same time, the lobbying forces behind this are pushing a random assortment of "popular" reasons to implement it - "think of the children/vegetables/climate". All this crap is not being driven by grassroots movements. To the extent those are involved, they are being manipulated and sheepherded. A lot of politics, if not all of it, are driven by real reasons separated from the methods used to push it through. See Brexit, MAGA, and a lot of other crap :-/. As happens in other countries, I see the politicians in my own country implementing a lot of random policies that have no popular support, but is quite relevant to some inner circle and network of policitians and their friends.
Olsrt – OverLab Streams Runtime
by JavadInteger | 2025-10-31 14:37:39+00:00
Hey HackerNews Community My laptop is so old that the only game it can run is SFG Soccer But from this machine, I'm building something ambitious: a language-agnostic runtime called OLSRT. The story started when I tried to bring the power of Node.js, Golang, and Erlang (especially WebSocket) into PHP, but I can't, because phpize.bat didn't work on my system, then I tried to compile it with MSVC, but I failed again, because of my system.

This limitation gave me a new idea! A Runtime that wasn't only for PHP, it was for all languages that can talk to C (Programming Language)

And now, I'm here to introduce you to this, you and the powerful runtime called OLSRT!

You can do anything (Actor, Channels, Event Loop & Poller, HTTP, Parallel, Promise & Futures, Streams, Timers, TLS, and especially WebSocket) in all languages!

If you want more about it, see Github: https://github.com/OverLab-Group/OLSRT
by crazygringo | 2025-10-31 14:37:49+00:00
But that has nothing to do with the arrangement of deals here.

If it's a bubble, then it will pop. If it's not a bubble, then all these investments will turn out to be great. But that's a different question.

The point is, all these deals happen all the time. They're not some kind of sign of a bubble. They happen just as much in non-bubbles. They're just capitalism working as usual.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-31 14:38:45+00:00
I think the advantage is often oversold and people often miss how things actually exist on a continuum and just plainly opposing mutable and immutable is sidestepping a lot of complexity.

For exemple, it's endlessly amusing to me to see all the efforts the Haskell community does to basically reinvent mutability in a way which is somehow palatable to their type system. Sometimes they even fail to even realise that it's what they are doing.

In the end, the goal is always the same: better control and warranties about the impact of side effects with minimum fuss. Carmack approach here is sensible. You want practices which make things easy to debug and reason about while mainting flexibility where it makes sense like iterative calculations.
Show HN: Whisper Menu Bar – a push-to-talk transcription script
by 0asa | 2025-10-31 14:38:54+00:00
A minimal, clean speech-to-text menu bar application for macOS, consisting of approximately 300 lines of code, utilizes OpenAI's Whisper. Hold the Option key to record and release it to transcribe. The transcribed text is automatically copied to the clipboard. I plan to enhance it with LLM improvements based on an Ollama server. What do you think?

I was inspired by this Raycast Extension: https://www.raycast.com/finjo/whisper-dictation
by acdha | 2025-10-31 14:39:32+00:00
> Counting the number of letters in a word is a significantly more difficult task than lying

No, it’s not - you don’t even need to be literate to count symbols - but also consider the complexity of the second task and how many skills each requires: unlike counting letters, lying isn’t simple confabulation and requires a theory of mind and some kind of goal. A child who lies to avoid trouble is doing that because they have enough of a world model to know they are going to get in trouble for something even if they haven’t worked out yet that this is unlikely to work.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-10-31 14:40:42+00:00
AMD has been making ARM chips for a long time (they bought Xilinx and have been an ARM licensee for forever). This is just their first APU (graphics plus cpu) with an ARM core as the CPU.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/soc....
by EGG_CREAM | 2025-10-31 14:41:01+00:00
I don’t know why I keep hearing that conciousness “could be an illusion.” It’s literally the one thing that can’t be an illusion. Whatever is causing it, the fact there is something it is like to be me is, from my subjective perspective, irrefutable. Saying that it could be an illusion seems nonsensical.
by jimbohn | 2025-10-31 14:41:08+00:00
Determining if there is a genocide or not doesn't depend on the kill score but on factors which (ironically) find their highest experts among jews and Israelis (Lemkin, Bauer, Charny, Auron). Some of them have actually helped define the definition in the UN Genocide Convention. If you take a look at the definition, even before October 7th, Israel is pretty much committing a genocide. Regardless of the outcome, one of the key factors is intent, and after October 7th, lots of important Israeli figures came forward with unambiguous statements of their intent.
by Borealid | 2025-10-31 14:41:21+00:00
The only difference between a `fun doThing: Result<X, SomeError>` and a `fun doThing: X throws SomeError` is that with the checked exception, unpacking of the result is mandatory.

You're still free to wrap the X or SomeError into a tuple after you get one or other other. There is no loss of type specificity. It is no harder to "write functional code" - anything that would go in the left() gets chained off the function call result, and anything that would go in the right() goes into the appropriate catch block.
by tarentel | 2025-10-31 14:41:46+00:00
For your first question, yes, it can be optionally turned on and set to a specific value. In the early days of Swift it was quite useful. I still have it on in one project but it rarely shows up anymore and when it does it is usually a mystery as to why it shows up and there's no clear way to fix it.

For your second point, this is mostly the case for Swift as well. 123 defaults to Int so if you wanted a floating point you'd have to write let x: Double = 123 or let x = 123.0. Most people will default to the latter because it is less typing.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-31 14:43:25+00:00
> We demonstrate fungal computing via mycelial networks interfaced with electrodes, showing that fungal memristors can be grown, trained, and preserved through dehydration, retaining functionality at frequencies up to 5.85 kHz, with an accuracy of 90 ± 1%. Notably, shiitake has exhibited radiation resistance, suggesting its viability for aerospace applications

Soon we'll have shiitake replacing transistors in our airplane and spacecraft computers, while sitting and eating ramen on the vehicles themselves. The future is shaping up to be interesting.
by ewa-szyszka | 2025-10-31 14:43:41+00:00
This looks like the Blinkist app's next evolution. Most of the summary tools you guys mentioned like notebookLLM, Scirate etc. cover general non-domain expertise and rely on simple RAG/knowledge bases.

Academia definitely needs a tool that can parse complex equations, cross-links etc.

I was using notebookLLM today with FAA aviation charts loaded and the tool still hallucinates and does not parse visual data (maps, charts) well. I can imagine that in the world of ArXiv papers similar level of complex charts and visualizations would not be processed properly
by zoeysmithe | 2025-10-31 14:43:43+00:00
I mean the baby stage doesn't last very long. I dont even remember the sleepless nights from my own kids anymore lol

Chronic sleep deprivation is the larger issue. And how we really don't have treatments on how to fix that, and how ultimately sleep phase issues are a social issues (being forced to follow a fixed modern schedule). Not to mention how closely that's tied to ND people. So a lot of us deal with sleep issues since we were little, but work and school dont give us the flexibility we need. For example, flex hours could be helpful here. I would rather work 10am to 6pm or 11am to 7pm most days. Or 5-6 hours during the day and 2-3 hours late at night.
by notmyjob | 2025-10-31 14:44:43+00:00
There are others. Ferlingetti as just one example had some great stuff. That was the critical lesson for me: you have to evaluate works by big names with self blinding to the person’s reputation. Real life reviews aren’t that different from yelp. I ask myself, is a work good on its own, not because of who did it or what other people tell you to think or how often you hear the artist’s name referenced. Doing so opens a whole world of beauty and saves you from so much dreck and wasted time. So much is overrated and so much is underrated. There’s a lot to gain by understanding that and then seeking to refine one’s own sensitivity to what is good.
by puzzlingcaptcha | 2025-10-31 14:45:17+00:00
It's not unusual to feel good after pulling an all-nighter. Sleep is when re-uptake of serotonin takes place, so if you interrupt it you end up with a surplus. Although there are also other possible explanations [1]

1. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214505120
by antonyh | 2025-10-31 14:45:23+00:00
I loved the Affinity apps, but not on a subscription. I don't do subscriptions or 'freemium' for apps, only for content. On desktop I'll move to Krita / Inkscape / Scribus. On iPad, not sure yet. The key here is watching out for proprietary formats that won't open without the app or subscription; this is something we are going through with Microsoft Publisher offboarding right now to ensure we can archive and read the designs in the future. The same applies to Affinity - if you value past creations, export them to a common future-proof format.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-31 14:45:32+00:00
Is it a “bug” when Apple releases a new OS/phone that either breaks backwards compatibility or does something like release the iPhone 5 and changes the form factor making your app look janky? This was when Apple released frameworks to allow phones of different sizes around 2012?

Or more recently should users expect a free upgrade when Apple deprecated 32 bit apps?

The Mac sees a lot less churn than iOS. But things do happen that cause apps not to work there. The most recent is that Electron was using a private API and all apps that used that version of Electron on Macs broke.
by ryandv | 2025-10-31 14:45:44+00:00
That's right - immutability enables equational reasoning, where it becomes possible to actually reason through a program just by inspection and evaluation in one's head, since the only context one needs to load is contained within the function itself - not the entire trace, where anything along the thread of execution could factor into your function's output, since anybody can just mutate anybody else's memory willy-nilly.

People jump ahead using AI to improve their reading comprehension of source code, when there are still basic practices of style, writing, & composition that for some reason are yet to be widespread throughout the industry despite already having a long standing tradition in practice, alongside pretty firm grounding in academics.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-31 14:46:24+00:00
Same here, I grew up in a world where you had a handful of registers and a bunch of memory locations, and those were your variables.

clc lda value adc #1 sta value lda value+1 adc #0 sta value+1 value .byte 0,0

These constraints are pretty much built into my concept of programming and it would take great effort to break out of it. It feels nice doing:

x = 20 x = x + func(y) x = x / func(z)

And it would feel weirdly wasteful to do:

x = 20 x1 = x + func(y) x2 = x1 / func(z)

Like, I know that variables are no longer a scarce resource, but my brain still wants to conserve them.