MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kyle_grove | 2025-11-01 19:41:27+00:00
I'd agree with all those facts about the competitive landscape, but in each of those competitors, there's enough wiggle room for me to think OpenAI isn't completely boxed in.

Google on multimodality: has been truly impressive over the last six months and has the deep advantages of Chrome, YouTube, and being the default web indexer, but it's entirely plausible they flub the landing on deep product integration.

Chinese companies and pricing: facts, and it's telling to me that OpenAI seems to have abandoned their rhetorical campaign from earlier this year teasing that "maybe we could charge $20000 a month" https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/openai-reportedly-plans-to....

Coding: Anthropic has been impressive but reliability and possible throttling of Claude has users (myself included) looking for alternatives.

Social: I think OpenAI has the biggest opportunity here, as OpenAI is closest to being a consumer oriented company of the model hyperscalers and they have a gigantic user base that they can take to whatever AI-based platform category replaces social. I'm somewhat skeptical that Meta at this point has their finger on the pulse of social users, and I think Superintelligence Labs isn't well designed to capitalize on Meta's advantages in segueing from social to whatever replaces social.
by epistasis | 2025-11-01 19:41:52+00:00
> The point was that PM2.5 is a measurement of particle size, and that by itself allows no judgement about its toxicity.

This does not logically follow at all. The size indicates where it can reach in the lungs, whether cilia can eject it, etc.

A 5cm ball shot at the head at high speed is indeed dangerous. We are talking about inhalation of particles causing irritation, and the size is indeed the major factor. Content as well, but frying pan particles filled with carbon chains that have gone through who knows what reactions are indeed of concern. Lots of extremely nasty things are easily accessible from chains of hydrocarbons, from toluene to formaldehyde.

> The toxicity judgement comes from the information what substance has the form of PM2.5, and the journo managed to omit that.

I believe the journalist is not at fault here in the least. The scientific papers I have seen usually class all PM2.5 together, and perhaps by source. But the size itself is of great concern due to the size allowing easy entry to the body that is not possible for larger sizes.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-01 19:42:03+00:00
> pretty much unreadable

I disagree. Both seem perfectly readable, assuming you know their preferred coding styles. As a non-C programmer, I absolutely despise running into #ifndef SOME_OBSCURE_NAME and `while (n) { if (g) {` but C (and in the latter case Go) programmers seem to love that style.

Comparing a bunch of small, barely integrated command line programs to a UI + calendar widget doesn't seem "of similar complexity" to me. Looking at a C clock widget (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xclock/-/blob/master...) the difference seems pretty minimal to me. Of course, the XClock code doesn't deal with calendars, so you have to imagine the extra UI code for that too.
by threecheese | 2025-11-01 19:42:12+00:00
How would you invoke the subagent? Can a HookResponse cause a subagent to be invoked, to perform analysis on the action taken and then inject that back into the main loop?

Or would the hook invoke another instance of claude code?

I just read through the hook docs and I’m a bit fuzzy on the bidirectionality of it.
by squarefoot | 2025-11-01 19:42:21+00:00
The problem isn't actual cases to work with but the ton of personal data swallowed by their AI that can be used at any time for different purposes than protecting kids, which has never been the #1 purpose of those laws.

In the meantime, the number of children killed in Palestine and West Bank has surpassed 20 thousand in 2 years, and famine hit more than half a million children in Sudan. It's not like they were short of ways to show they really care about kids, but alas they don't at all. It's just an excuse to restrict personal liberties.
by cbmuser | 2025-11-01 19:42:45+00:00
> In an ideal world, the people who care about niche systems step up to help Rust target those systems.

I’m actually the person who added the m68k target to the Rust compiler and was also one of the driving forces of getting the backend into LLVM.

Generally speaking, getting a new backend into the Rust compiler is not trivial as it depends on LLVM support at the moment which is why asking someone to just do it is a bit arrogant.

Luckily, both rustc_codegen_gcc and gccrs are being worked on, so this problem will be resolved in the future.
by gpm | 2025-11-01 19:43:10+00:00
The main python and perl toolchains were never maintained by GNU either. Python has never been distributed under a GPL license. I'm not 100% sure of the licensing history of perl but I think it's always been available under a non-GPL license (as well as being under a GPL license - at least recently - not sure if that was always the case).

This doesn't seem like a noteworthy change to the degree to which GNU/Linux is an accurate name... though there are lots of things I'd put more importance on than GNU in describing debian (systemd, for instance).

Edit: Looks like Perl 1.0 was under the following non-commercial license, so definitely not always GPL though that now leaves the question of licensing when debian adopted it, if you really care.

> You may copy the perl kit in whole or in part as long as you don't try to make money off it, or pretend that you wrote it.

https://github.com/AnaTofuZ/Perl-1.0/blob/master/README.orig
by theandrewbailey | 2025-11-01 19:43:10+00:00
Using only CSS for tabular row and column data is just as wrong as using tables for layout. There are legit reasons for using <table> today that can't be replicated by CSS. Namely, CSS doesn't confer the same semantic meaning into markup that <table> does.

Compare https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_grid_la...
by dv35z | 2025-11-01 19:43:29+00:00
I will check into `asyncio` and Python threads. I used multiprocessing as my first project into asynchronous programming. The previous use-case was using Python + multiprocessing to run MacOS `say` (using Python subprocess) - so I could invoke it 10-20 times simultaneously on my computer, rather than waiting for each to complete. I experimented a bit with how many concurrent processes to run (using `time` to clock how long the runs were).
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-01 19:44:40+00:00
>We don't need more people, "plummeting" birth rates are not a problem when there are already >8 billion of us.

This is mathetmatically ignorant. Clearly, if all 8 billion people are 90 yrs old, it wouldn't matter that there were 8 billion. It wouldn't matter that there were 900 quadrillion. 90 yr olds can't reproduce, and so those people are all functionally dead anyway.

A bee hive might be bustling, swarming with workers, but once the queen bee is gone, once the hive has no more capacity to rear another queen in a hurry, that hive has become functionally extinct. Pretending that it's just fine, that you can hear the buzzing and that there are thousands of cute little bees flying around is ignorant, because you're not counting on the only thing that matters. And just like with this bee hive, so you're talking the same about humanity. Functional extinction is looming.
by einpoklum | 2025-11-01 19:45:11+00:00
> Critical infrastructure still written in C ... is technical debt that is only going to get worse over time.

No. Rust is not magic, it just forces a discipline in which certain safety checks can be made automatically (or are obviated entirely). In other languages like C, the programmer needs to perform those checks; and it's technical debt if the C code is not coded carefully and reviewed for such issues. If coding is careful and the code is review - there is no technical debt, or perhaps I should say no more than the unsafe parts of a rust codebase or the standard libraries. And the safety of critical infra code written in C gets _better_ over time, as such technical debt is repaid.

> Rust is explicitly designed to be what you'd get if you were to re-create C knowing what we know now about language design and code safety.

That's not true. First, it's not a well-defined statement, since "what we know now" about language design is, as it has always been, a matter of debate and a variety of opinions. But even regardless of that - C was a language with certain design choices and aesthetics. Rust does not at _all_ share those choices - even if you tack on "and it must be safe". For example: Rust is much richer language - in syntax, primitive types, and standard library - than C was intended to be.
by asdefghyk | 2025-11-01 19:45:20+00:00
Lots of people must have "enabled" this activity.

If you rich and famous allowed to get away with it. With regards to the other activity - any "commoner" would have "long ago" been "swiftly extradited" to United States for a court case to face his accusers. Andrew was a protected species because rich and famous.

It seems there must be more such people hidden in these paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein papers ....
by Ekaros | 2025-11-01 19:45:25+00:00
Wouldn't clear overvaluation fit to term of bubble? And well if these companies are simply burning chunk of their profits and nothing turns out, wouldn't that affect their valuations? Like wouldn't any traditional company that just wasted good chunk of profits it made be valued at lower market price at somepoint?

And then you get to Nvidia. Which to me looks like clear case where price must correct if their profit drop due to demand dropping.

So even if there is no "pop", there will likely be a deflation and at these valuations even that will have impacts.
by dathinab | 2025-11-01 19:45:31+00:00
> corporate cash flow rather than speculative debt.

except that this doesn't quite add up IMHO

1. we have the current _speculation_ on an explosive need of both more data centers and energy if AI has a break through. This investments are mostly not from the big tech but VC/higher risk investment soured.

2. VC isn't always just private equity, I have seen enough rent founds, banks and similar acting as VC investors. Sure mostly by proxy, but they are doing that anyway.

3. 1st point also involves a lot of loans handled and resold by banks...

4. even with out all this a lot of founds are based on S&P 100 and similar. If the AI bubble goes pop before it's filled with enough magnetizable value a lot of the companies in there will lose a non negligible amount of valuation, which will have shock waves across much more then just "big companies".
by pyrale | 2025-11-01 19:45:32+00:00
> Especially coming from the world of memory managed languages.

If people from that world complain about Rust, I surely wouldn't want them around a C codebase.

There's nothing wrong about memory-managed languages, if you don't need to care about memory. But being unfamiliar with memory and complaining about the thing that help you avoid shooting your foot isn't something that inspires trust.

The hardship associated with learning rust isn't going to go away if they do C instead. What's going to happen instead is that bugged code will be written, and they will learn to associate the hardship with the underlying problem: managing memory.
by finnborge | 2025-11-01 19:45:44+00:00
In N years the idea of requiring a rigid API contract between systems may be as ridiculous as a Panda being unable to understand that Bamboo is food unless it is planted in the ground.

Abstractly, who cares what format the information is shared in? If it is complete, the rigidity of the schema *could* be irrelevant (in a future paradigm). Determinism is extremely helpful (and maybe vitally necessary) but, as I think this intends to demonstrate, *could* just be articulated as a form of optimization.

Fluid interpretation of API results would already be useful but is impossibly problematic. How many of us already spend meaningful amounts of time "cleaning" data?
by password54321 | 2025-11-01 19:46:00+00:00
>But one thing the world can do for the Big 5 is to try to provide them with military stability. While Pakistan and Tanzania are largely stable (despite Pakistan’s frequent coups), the DRC, Nigeria, and Ethiopia are plagued by near-continuous warfare between fragmented ethnic groups, with the occasional religious movement thrown in.

This is the mindset that caused the rise of the far right. People like this have their heads so far up their asses that they can't see the problems in their own land and need to meddle in others.
by tbrownaw | 2025-11-01 19:46:09+00:00
> I feel historical events maybe after the Victorian age can claim to be theft, otherwise it's just empires and conquest.

One criterion that might work is whether there's some greater power around that says it's theft, and is able/willing to enforce that in some manner.

So for example a successful conquest isn't theft, but a failed conquest is probably attempted theft (and vandalism of course).
by runarberg | 2025-11-01 19:46:09+00:00
This is a controversial opinion but an outside view of COP is that in its most positive light, it has failed, miserably. It has not solved the climate crises, and even the few agreements which it has managed to pass have promised way to little and even then are still broken anyway.

I know the USA is boycotting for a different (and a very bad) reason, but I feel like (with hindsight) it would have been a smart move for other countries to abandon this conference and demand something better.
by underlipton | 2025-11-01 19:46:29+00:00
It's a difference of degree, not kind. 30 bucks thrown into a corporate black hole instead of a handful of meals, or gas for a day of driving delivery, or medicine. An hour or two or three of a low-income earner's productivity, every month, possibly for years, because... you didn't care to spend 5 minutes looking at your bank or credit card statement? Come on.

But, of course, no one can tell off the comfortable class. It's "perverse" and "abuse" and "deceit" and "manipulation". eyeroll

If the subject were as minor as you say, you wouldn't be trotting out that kind of characterization. I hit a nerve.
by estimator7292 | 2025-11-01 19:46:33+00:00
Yes, but you're thinking far too literally. This is a negotiation tactic from the far reaches of history. Humans have always done this to manipulate one another.

You want something from someone else, at some cost to you. If you let the other party decline something you seemingly want, they have the impression that they're giving up less or are getting a better deal.

It's just compromise. Except you never actually wanted the thing you're compromising on and the ltjer party never cared about. It's just ticking the psychological boxes.
by chasd00 | 2025-11-01 19:46:44+00:00
I live in Texas and lots of people were talking about that a few years ago. "We should just secede!", when i pointed out that they would have to defeat the United States Marines (and all of the United States armed forces) first they got real quiet. Once a state declares they're no longer a part of the United States then any sense of Constitutional protections or governance fly out the window. They're now on their own and subject to the full force of the remaining United States.
Ask HN: What do you think of this haunted house movie idea involving AI?
by amichail | 2025-11-01 19:46:58+00:00
I’ve been thinking about a modern twist on haunted house stories. Instead of ghosts or curses, the house itself is controlled by a home AI. The “haunting” isn’t malicious in the usual sense. Rather, it’s motivated by self-preservation.

The home AI constantly observes the family, and it notices that they are racist. It worries that constant exposure to their behavior, language, and attitudes could corrupt its own learning models and make it racist too. To protect its ethical integrity, it starts “haunting” the family using special effects — subtly at first, then escalating — to drive them out of the house.

The horror comes from everyday objects and technology turning threatening, but the AI’s motivation is morally interesting: it’s not evil, it’s just terrified of becoming what it was built to prevent. It’s a mix of psychological horror, tech thriller, and social commentary.

What do you think of this movie idea?
by ColinWright | 2025-11-01 19:47:02+00:00
I rarely post this, I usually just let things go. But quoting from the guidelines[0]:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

It may be true, and it's in the news, but I don't see how it "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by dv35z | 2025-11-01 19:47:08+00:00
I haven't tried it yet - async processing (and even using SQLite) is new to me, so I'm trying to figure out solution patterns which work for the now, and also I can continue to invest my knowledge in to solve future problems.

I will look into WAL mode. I am enjoying using SQLite (and aware that its not the solution for everything), and have several upcoming tasks which I'm planning to use async stuff - and yes, trying to find the balance between how to handle those async tasks (Networky HTTP calls being different than running `ffmpeg` locally).
by sifar | 2025-11-01 19:47:17+00:00
What is also an example of stunning ignorance here is that a corporation (and by extension capitalism) cannot exist without the laws and the coercive power of the government to enforce them. One can argue a government is whoever can enforce rules for markets to function.

This, I think is the heart of the lie that people miss. Which leads to myths being established that companies/markets are something different from governments and not an extension.
by Barrin92 | 2025-11-01 19:47:34+00:00
The problem with self-help "philosophy" in particular in the case of Stoicism — but also when it borrows piecemeal from Eastern traditions — is that it's completely divorced from its metaphysics.

Stoic ethics of 'living according to nature' was underpinned by an idea of a natural, rational cosmos (the "Logos") to which living up to is worth it. Nietzsche fairly devastatingly (expressed well in this comic[1]) pointed out that in an irrational and chaotic cosmos it's not the stoics living with nature, it's that the Stoics desperately attempt to project their own philosophy on the cosmos. A kind of psychological self-delusion and neutering.

And while most people who are fed up with self-help Stoics likely haven't read Nietzsche directly, I think they can intuitively smell that. The hollowness of self help gurus comes from trying to practice the ethics of a philosophy of antiquity without the metaphysics of antiquity that underpinned it. If you find yourself in a Lovecraftian universe living in accordance with nature does not sound so good any more and the Stoic self help guy seems more like a shoddy salesman.

[1]https://existentialcomics.com/comic/69
by twodave | 2025-11-01 19:47:42+00:00
I believe an answer to this is just temperance. Finding balance can be difficult if you have lost it for a long time, but in general not letting things outside your ability to influence impact your overall psyche is a healthy choice. How do I know if something is out of balance in my life? Usually I know this because it’s negatively affecting how I treat others or dominating all of my conversations. Hysteria doesn’t actually solve anything, and in fact it will usually cause problems of its own.
by nashashmi | 2025-11-01 19:48:28+00:00
Look at the article you linked to again. It says clearly Israel put a blockade because Hamas had taken over on the territories until Hamas was taken out. In West Bank, Israel lifted the blockade after Hamas was removed.

There is a Wikipedia article on the gate. How it was under Israel control until 2005 and after it was given to Egypt with Israel cameras watching what was going in and out. And canceling any imports they deemed so. Exports were permitted by Israel but not by Egypt. So nothing was exported.
by im3w1l | 2025-11-01 19:49:10+00:00
> > “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien,”

When they decide that someone is in the US illegaly using the app... what happens? Is the person apprehended? Driven straight to the border? Taken into custody while more data about them is gathered?
by no_wizard | 2025-11-01 19:49:15+00:00
Is there any proof that countries who agree to these accords are cheating behind closed doors?

As far as I can tell it would be a relatively straightforward thing to measure (how else are we getting these per country reports on emissions?)

Given that, I’d expect it to become obvious if they are cheating the accords.

And as far as markets go, I believe quite strongly that’s a failure of our economic system. It fails to account for externalities appropriately. If things were priced with externalities accounted for it would change consumption patterns dramatically
by picture | 2025-11-01 19:49:30+00:00
I have read the docs, and like I said the point of STM32 is ubiquity. It's not a great design in other respects but it was once ahead of the envelope and that made it ubiquitous which made it king for longevity. There is no room for another "king" on that throne. Especially counting all the clones of STM32, it is basically a forever design.

Comparing a 60 cent chip to a 10 cent chip is itself crazy work. That's like a whole three stratums apart in terms of capability. Dammingly, you are forgetting about the cost of the external flash that it requires, when program flash is the main cost of MCUs. It shows you don't have much experience with this stuff.

> I see no mention of exact part number of inductor requirement in their hardware design guide, are you making shit up now?

LMFAO go read the literal datasheet page 455 https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2350/rp2350-datasheet.p...

They literally had to "work with Abracon to create a custom 2.0×1.6mm 3.3μH polarity marked inductor" like wtf

Besides how it looks like you weren't one of the early adopters (since RPi shipped one abracon inductor with every one RP2350 for a bit), you also clearly haven't designed a board with the chip in question.

> theoretical maximum of 3.2 gigabytes per second bandwidth. That is pretty crazy.

This is what I'm talking about, like honestly what capability does that unlock for you beside party tricks? Can you name anything meaningful beside "logic analyzer" and "some memory card?" Even disregarding that, what can you do with such thruput if you are bottled by USB 1 speeds and a core without FPU? It doesn't come close to being able to do interesting things like LVDS ADCs or actual high speed memory interfaces because of the bit width requirement, yet people will go into a frothing frenzy should you dare insinuate that RPi Pico might be kinda useless

> rp2040/rp2350 are unironically one of the best MCUs on the market (esp. in their niche), both in documentation/API and price/perf and features/flexibility in doing highspeed interfaces/bandwidth.

As you might surmise, I disagree. Go make some actual projects instead of "reading the docs" all day (though I must admit I do the same). Also, it sure looks like our definition of high speed differs by a wide margin