MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-10-03 15:04:34+00:00
So what’s the “right” amount of power

Seems like we’re way beyond the point of no return on the concept that humanity has consistent needs and that individual freedom should be limited for the good of the larger group

The arbitrary nature of the “larger group” being limited in scope is entirely ethno-socially constructed.

So again wouldn’t the idealized form of this live at the highest level of human coherence such that there is a singular ethnicity (“human”) that has consistent rules applied to it no matter where you go on the planet?
by frogblast | 2025-10-03 15:04:39+00:00
Often not elusive bugs, but elusive performance. GPU compilers are hard: Once you've done the basics, trying to do further transforms in a mature compiler will almost always produced mixed results. Some kernels will go faster, some will go slower, and you're hoping to move the balance and not hit any critical kernel too hard in your efforts to make another go faster.

An optimization with a universal >=0 speedup across your entire suite of tests is a really hard thing to come by. Something is always going to have a negative speedup.

My experience is with non-Nvidia GPU systems, but this feels like a familiar situation. They probably found something that has great outcomes for one set of kernels, terrible outcomes for another, and no known reliable heuristic or modeling they could use to automatically choose.
by cardanome | 2025-10-03 15:04:53+00:00
The one thing I really regret is listening to the kind of opinionated people that will tell how a certain popular language is bad and you shouldn't use it.

Twenty years ago when I learned Python, people told me it was a waste of time. Sure it is a nice language but you will never get a job doing it.

When I got into PHP ten years ago people told me it is a horrible language and basically dead already. Still, PHP was key to my career and I am making good money programming with in in 2025.

I used to be a C++ hater because that was the cool thing to do. Then I tried Unreal Engine and had to use C++ and discovered it is... fine. Really. There is a good reason it is heavily used in the gaming industry. I don't totally love it. The compile times are kind of annoying but C++ is not the only language suffering from that. If you need the performance and the ecosystem, C++ still isn't the worst choice.
by gcr | 2025-10-03 15:05:02+00:00
Blender doesn't use the nice boundary representations that you might be familiar with from Fusion 360 or Solidworks. Everything in Blender is "bag of triangles/quads," so it's lower level than what you may be used to. Getting good CAD-like results requires keeping this in mind. There are addons that are starting to address this. SolverSpace has a blender addon, for example.

What do you want to build? If you're not making CAD parts, the story is much different for artistic / game engine / character or environment design. I strongly recommend checking out Blender and noodling around.

If you're intimidated, the only cost is time, which is offset by the pleasure of learning something new. Here's a particularly good starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzHvD9RFrT8
by perardi | 2025-10-03 15:06:01+00:00
I don’t think this is a great solution for, broadly, consumer sites and apps.

In a lot of cases, branding matters, and having consistent cross-platform rendering matters.

However, I’ve had good experiences using system-ui with in-house dashboard-y apps. I’m the principle UI designer at my startup, and I recommend this font stack for anyone coding up internal-use-only observability tooling and monitoring stuff. We’re all on Chrome, we’re all on Macs, and getting SF Pro on the page without having to call a CDN or manage font assets is a win.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-03 15:06:07+00:00
This is everything outside of Linux now. Every freaking device or service is now just a sales funnel, and the whole industry has stopped making good products and are just rent seeking now.

It's a damn shame the hardware is so good for laptops, and that Qualcomm is taking their sweet time getting device trees for the Snapdragon X elite stuff into Linux, so the one laptop that's even remotely comparable to my Macbook (my Surface laptop 7) can't run Linux either. No other OEM seems to give a crap about putting out a decent laptop without compromises.
by hkt | 2025-10-03 15:06:24+00:00
Even just saying this applies downward pressure on pricing: NVIDIA has an enormous amount of market power (~"excess" profit) right now and there aren't enough near competitors to drive that down. The only thing that will work is their biggest _consumers_ investing, or threatening to invest, if their prices are too high.

Long term, I wonder if we're exiting the "platform compute" era, for want of a better term. By that I mean compute which can run more or less any operating system, software, etc. If everyone is siloed into their own vertically integrated hardware+operating system stack, the results will be awful for free software.
Show HN: RCFT Descent Engine – Geometric memory convergence in partition space
by formslip | 2025-10-03 15:06:29+00:00
I built a system where integer partitions explore majorization space while accumulating memory (4D echo vectors). Memory coherence creates an OR gate: transitions happen if classically allowed OR if memory is sufficient.

Emergent behaviors after ~10k steps: - Override rate converges geometrically (still investigating rates and behavior) - Dreams spawn from temporal projection, decay unless confirmed - Parallel realities fork and select (hundreds of events per run) - Archetypes crystallize irreversibly Not a consciousness sim - investigating mathematical autonomy through memory. Code: https://github.com/Kaidorespy/RCFT-Descent-Engine DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17258220 Run it yourself: `python n20_complete_continuous.py 10000`
by AJ007 | 2025-10-03 15:06:30+00:00
But that's a bullshit excuse, just like with email the answer to spam posting is the person gets un-followed/unsubbed.

When its an algorithm, the user is incentivized to produce content in order to increase their chances of getting a hit. Secondarily the loss of visibility increases value of advertising on the platform. It's a lose-lose for users, first they are forced to use the platform more for fear of missing something, second the user has to post more to get any reach. The platform wins on increased engagement, overall content depth, ad revenue, and the ability to sneak in a whole lot of shit the user never was interested in or followed. Facebook & Instagram now are functionally high powered spam engines.

Interestingly the FT has an article today about a drop in social media usage ( https://www.ft.com/content/a0724dd9-0346-4df3-80f5-d6572c93a... ) - one chart titled "Social media has become less social" shows a 40% decline since 2014 of people using social media to "share my opinion" and "to keep up with my friends" In many ways, what is being referred to as social media has become anti-social media.

An algorithmic email feed would be useless, as would any sort of instant messenger, yet that's exactly what social media turned in to. Twitter/X is teetering in that direction. The chronological feed still works and is great. Anyone who posts a lot and doesn't balance out the noise with signal I just unfollow.

I might be wrong about this one, but one outcome of generative AI might be an engagement cliff. Some users will be very susceptible to viewing fake photos and videos for hours (the ones still heavily using FB likely are), but others may just choose to mentally disengage and view everything they see on FB, IG, Tiktok as fake.
by aintitthetruitt | 2025-10-03 15:06:52+00:00
In college I would go climbing frequently and one of the people I met along the way was a student from Italy that was here for her doctoral. On one trip we were talking about all the things we found beautiful and I made a comment about how much I loved the sound of the romance languages, and how they were so sing-songy to my ear. She then proceeded to talk at length about how she found English so much more interesting because it allowed for expression that just wasn't possible in Italian. Specifically, the nature of English being a pidgin that not only accepts creating new concepts on the fly but almost encourages it means that she can think about things in English that are actually difficult to formulate in her native Italian.

I've since heard interesting comparisons as well from native Mandarin speakers, where there is a certain formulaic piece missing in English that let's them form ideas easier. Interestingly in that case they would describe opposites too where there are certain groupings of ideas that they found easier to form in Mandarin that they had to invent words for in English to get across. But they could do so - invent those words.

I'm a native English speaker and only a third rate French and Spanish speaker, so I have to take this on faith for the most part, but it is interesting to hear that common view across origins.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-10-03 15:06:58+00:00
Most of the land allocated to the jews was uninhabitable desert. You can count acreage but that doesnt really tell you anything about the value each side received. Im not going to act like the plan was a great deal for palestinians, but it was an choice they had and they spurned it in favor of a never ending war that they can not win.
by em-bee | 2025-10-03 15:07:58+00:00
depends, that's my point. i have done a lot of biking when i was younger. for me it does have the same effect, but only if there is no, or not much traffic. biking through a busy street is like walking through a busy market. to relax you want a quiet empty path. for 1 hour walking that path is 4km long. to get the same with one hour biking you need 20km of quiet empty road.
by balls187 | 2025-10-03 15:08:32+00:00
> produce the illusion of growth and future cash flow in this bubblified environment.

I was ranting about this to my friends; Wallstreet is now banking on Tech firms to produce the illusion of growth and returns, rather than repackaging and selling subprime mortgages.

The tech sector seems to have a never ending supply of things to spur investment and growth: cloud computing, saas, mobile, social media, IoT, crypto, Metaverse, and now AI.

Some useful, some not so much.

Tech firms have a lot of pressure to produce growth, it's filled with very smart people, and wields influence on public policy. The flip side is the mortage crisis, at least before it collapsed, got more Americans into home ownership (even if they weren't ready for it). I'm not sure the tech sectors meteoric rise has been as helpful (sentiment of locals in US tech hubs suggests a overall feeling of dissatisfaction with tech)
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-10-03 15:08:35+00:00
Why are you still defending your antisemetic language? Repeating that you think your antisemetic language is ok if other antisemites said it first?

Just don't say it. I'm not even asking you for an apology for your hurtful, antisemetic words. Just recognize that your spreading of antisemitic tropes is bad, and please stop. Are you seriously so dead-set on repeating antisemetic tropes that you refuse to do even that?
by kakacik | 2025-10-03 15:08:48+00:00
There are also old radon baths in Jachymov in Czech republic working on same principle. Exactly for same primary purpose - problems with joints and bones.

Then communists made local uranium mines/gulags for 'enemies of the state' which was basically a prolonged death sentence, many were just beaten to death or died from cold/starvation.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-03 15:09:17+00:00
> Nothing wrong with deliberation and listening to stakeholders. Great idea.

True if you can identify the correct stakeholders and those stakeholders are aligned to the goal.

It becomes unhelpful when the list of stakeholders is so long and disconnected from the goal that listening to stakeholders becomes an endless cycle of meetings and talking about the problem instead of doing anything about it.

In my local experience, initiatives related to homelessness and drug addiction treatment attract a lot of people who like the idea of being involved because it advances their career or sounds good on their resume, but many of them are unqualified to be involved and think the role will involve a lot of delegation and deciding where to send money to other groups, not actually doing any of the work directly.

Basically, a lot of people who want to be in charge and claim leadership but who also don’t want to actually do the hard work.
by ryukoposting | 2025-10-03 15:09:31+00:00
I've been using i3 for 7 years now, and my immediate response to the scrolling thing was "why?" and after reading your comment, I'm still trying to understand. As one would expect for any tiling wm, the screenshots only show how pretty it can be, and don't really illustrate how it helps with productivity.

Would you mind going into more detail on what actually happens when you move horizontally? What happens when you have a fullscreen editor, then slide over to a half-screen browser? Do you only see half the editor, or does the editor get squished?

One thing I desperately want is a tiling wm that is also a browser. Like if surf ran a practical engine and was more deeply integrated into dmenu.
by lkey | 2025-10-03 15:09:32+00:00
SF, Dallas, and Houston all have Democratic leadership that could be described as center left? (For America. To an outsider, America has two conservative parties)

The unhoused are 'stakeholders' too actually, so I'd describe Cali's problem as listening too much to wealthy/powerful stakeholders, while ignoring those most impacted. Who can forget Newsom's camp-destroying photo-op and forced bussing the undesirables out of town to prevent people from seeing 'crime' aka 'poverty'.

These institutions are not log-jammed by accident. "You cater to trying to listen to every voice" Reader, they only listen to their friends and donors, this is the problem. These 'listening sessions' you are told are 'stopping progress' exist to placate legitimate concerns. Blaming unions is also fun, I heard that a lot back in Cali, no matter the issue, no matter the union, from the wealthiest people.

Politicians that seem to do almost nothing are preferred by the donor class. Bog standard Democrats have more smoke for Zohran (the sincere housing and affordability guy) than they have for their 'Republican colleagues' in this era. That should tell you everything you need to know.

"This level of ineffectiveness just enables authoritarianism ("at least they get something done") and gets people to seek the private industry for their solutions."

EXACTLY. THIS IS INTENTIONAL. PUBLIC COST, PRIVATE PROFIT IS THE GOAL. A WELFARE STATE FOR BUSINESSES, NOT PEOPLE.
by chaps | 2025-10-03 15:09:42+00:00
Having worked with SQL for many years now, I truly disliked using graphql when I used it. Most of the time all I need is just a csv-like structure of the data I'm working with and I had a very difficult time with just getting something like that. Joining tables tended to be difficult where the pivot points between relationships was rather semantically unbounded, so it was difficult for me to create a reasonably rigid mental model of the data I was working with. That was especially noticeable in some of the API documentation I worked with -- where a simple REST-like API just gives a simple, usually flat, json... graphql api responses were deeply nested and often in implementation-dependent ways[1] of thousands of lines. Which has IME made explorability practically impossible.

GraphQL implementations have consistently felt like a hobby project where implementing it in an API becomes a thing to put on a resume rather than making a functionally useful API.

[1] https://graphql-docs-v2.opencollective.com/queries/account (navigate to the variables tab for a real mindfuck)
by est | 2025-10-03 15:09:51+00:00
> it's not impossible to force other filetypes in there. This in itself makes it high risk

you mean other files will bloat the repo and slow down the performance? Yes it's a very valid concern, but this system targets personal blogs, which I assume had very few comment traffic.

> Git is the wrong tool for the job ..... A database ... is a far superior choice in just about every possible way

the same argument applies to Wordpress.

But most tech people are choosing static generated blogs anyway, and with git too. File system is the database.

And there are good reasons for that.
by ge96 | 2025-10-03 15:09:53+00:00
Ahh okay yeah I watched the 2 min one on the main readme

This does have the dots (vertical position) on the right bar

Long as the windows stay fixed, it annoys me how Mac will just randomly re-arrange your virtual desktops or whatever you call em

I use i3 personally at this time regarding this topic but yeah although I used to only care about it because I had crappy computers at the time so not having a full desktop meant saving 400 MB of RAM at idle for example
by dialup_sounds | 2025-10-03 15:10:50+00:00
You do not understand. I am equating the desire of unhinged private citizens to commit violence to the desire of other unhinged private citizens to commit violence. Reasonable people aren't the problem.

"An app that gives you real-time updates on the location of people you deeply dislike" is

It's extremely unlikely that there are not more people out there

The point is that If you're in Apple's position it doesn't especially matter who is being targeted and how many people are actually using the app that way. If they don't want to be in the anonymous people-reporting app game on the basis that it may make people unsafe vis a vis said unhinged private citizens, that's not unreasonable or inconsistent, and it doesn't necessarily take an extraordinary government threat to the business for Apple to want to distance themselves from that kind of app.
by WD-42 | 2025-10-03 15:10:57+00:00
The only thing I feel like is missing from niri is a scratch layer. There are some apps that just don’t need to be tiled and it’s nice to have access to them immediately no matter “where” you are. Perfect example is matrix client. If the wife texts me I want to become able to pop that sucker up immediately and reply, not find the “matrix client workspace”. Plus it’s tiny and doesn’t need to be tiled. Same with media players.

Paperwm on gnome has this.
by stephen | 2025-10-03 15:11:49+00:00
I want to use/try Niri, but have been staying on Hyprland from my safety blanket of Omarchy [1], and really liking its hyprscrolling plugin:

https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-plugins/tree/main/hyprscr...

Imo Hyprland should merge this hyprscrolling plugin into the main project, and just ship it as the default (only?) layout option -- it just scales to "more than 4 windows" so much better than either of Hyprland's master/dwindle layouts.

[1] I tried vanilla arch + archinstall + sway/niri/etc but really couldn't make it work from scratch, vs. the contrast of Omarchy which was "wow this all works" :shrug:
by nagisa | 2025-10-03 15:11:50+00:00
Been using sway for many years before moving to niri last year.

Outside of the fundamental window management differences, I find that a lot of stuff with niri is easier to make work, or just happens to work out of the box. Screen sharing with sway was always a problem for me[1], whereas for niri it works great (incl. sharing individual windows only[2].) I also found that niri is much better at letting hardware go to sleep (which saves 10W on my GPU.)

[1]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7898 etc.

[2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/issues/3864
by social_quotient | 2025-10-03 15:11:58+00:00
For the oldest… The primary driver for us was realizing that most alternative learning models just don’t align well (maybe id say incompatible) with the structure of college/higher education. Things like homework, progressing through subjects without full mastery, or being required to read material you’re not interested in... are all givens. You’ll have to take notes while someone lectures at the front of the room (maybe with an accent you dont understand) and juggle five different subjects a day, each squeezed into an hour-long block. The momentum and constructs of higher-ed and the teaching scaffolding is the way it has been for decades... and to be frank I didn't want her getting introduced to this her freshman year. Its just not the "real world" of academics. (insert here, why go to college argument)

For the youngest… Her abilities consistently surpassed what the grade levels could accommodate, and she often found herself operating outside the norm for what the "level" is designed to do. In this situation, there’s something to be said for an experienced teacher—someone who’s worked with tens of thousands of students over their career and can provide personalized challenges that push her toward excellence.... IMO there is no magic bullet here and even if there was, it's not probably scalable. It’s a level of growth that goes beyond what algorithm based scoring can offer... being a tech guy and fully understanding the school and the tech... it's a difficult problem. It's even difficult to explain (for me) Maybe it’s one of those “slow down to speed up” scenarios.

On the practical... once one kids is out they both need to be. Alpha has 6 weeks on, 1 week off.. different summer and spring breaks from the school system so it would be insane to try and support that on a calendar alone. -- The central idea is that whether it’s Alpha or a public school, everything hinges on having teachers/guides who hold themselves and their students to the highest standards... lets call it excellence. In my opinion, teachers should likely earn two to three times their current salaries, similar to Alpha. With this substantial pay increase, there should also come higher expectations for merit-based excellence, rather than teaching being seen as just another job... or worse.. Teaching should be a respected, high-value $$ profession. It should be challenging to become a teacher and equally challenging to remain one, but the rewards should be dramatically reimagined compared to what we see today. Im aware this is not just a simple choice but it should be something we figure out...
by periodjet | 2025-10-03 15:12:26+00:00
I don’t use Twitter, and I abhor white nationalism as much as any other kind of genetic population-based supremacy movement. So you’re at least wrong about me.

Like DHH, though, I am staunchly anti-multiculturalism. This has nothing to do with genetics or identity groups; it has everything to do with beliefs. Search your own convictions, and you’ll likely find that you feel the same way as DHH and I: you likely want your neighbors to not be ardent believers, for example, that women are inherently 2nd class citizens.

See? We’re already on the same page. You’ve just been misled into thinking that anti-multiculturalism is somehow related to the poison of one specific identity-based movement (white supremacy). You should attempt to discover how and why you’ve been duped, and by whom.
Show HN: Real-time app starter with FastAPI, PostgreSQL pub/sub, and UV
by jvanveen | 2025-10-03 15:12:40+00:00
Starter template for real-time web apps using modern Python/JS tooling and PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY instead of external message queues.

Stack: - UV (Python package manager - incredibly fast) - FastAPI with full async/await - PostgreSQL triggers + LISTEN/NOTIFY for pub/sub - Bun for frontend builds - Proper connection pooling and lifecycle management

GitHub: https://github.com/garage44/plank

This came from rebuilding the same pattern across projects. Most examples I found were toy demos that didn't handle reconnection, dead clients, or proper shutdown.

Includes working frontend example that updates in real-time when database changes. Docker Compose setup for testing.

Good for: admin dashboards, monitoring tools, collaborative apps where you just need current state pushed immediately. Not for: guaranteed message delivery or job queues.