MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metadope | 2025-11-27 16:15:26+00:00
> The feds could raid every marijuana dispensary in the country

This is not a realistic scenario, but does seem to present the argument, that Federal law and the power to enforce it is inherently and legally superior to individual State laws?

> fix the laws and roll back the abuses of executive power

Perhaps we could start with the federal law that made marijuana a Schedule One controlled substance: so that ordinary residents of responsible and responsive states would not have to rely on "arbitrary non-enforcement of the law" in order to get their smoke on.

Think about it! Every one of those citizen-puffers are in violation of federal law! Send in the troops!

The argument seems to be that federal laws overrule states', and that underlying idea justifies sending military forces into cities, because, you know, federal laws are being violated, everywhere, like, all the time, man.

Sheesh.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-27 16:15:39+00:00
You can buy a tabletop LTO tape drive, a SAS HBA card and an appropriate cable and you can use them with any desktop computer with a free big enough PCIe slot.

The problem is that while the tapes are at least 3 times cheaper than HDDs, and you have other additional advantages, e.g. much higher sequential reading/writing speed and much longer storage lifetime of the tape, the tape drives are extremely expensive, at a few thousand $, usually above $3k.

You can find tape drives for obsolete standards at a lower price, but that is not recommended, because in the future you may have a big tape collection and after your drive dies you will no longer find any other compatible drive.

Because the tapes are cheap, there will be a threshold in the amount of data that you store where the huge initial cost of the tape drive will be covered by the savings from buying cheap tapes.

That threshold is currently at a few hundred TB of stored data.

I use an LTO tape drive and I have recovered its cost a long time ago, but I have more than 500 TB of data.

However, only a third of that is actual useful data, because I make 2 copies of each tape, which are stored in different locations. I am so paranoid because it is data that I intend to keep forever and I have destroyed all the other supports on which it was stored, e.g. the books that I have scanned, for lack of storage space. An important purpose of the digitization has been to reduce the need for storage space, besides reducing the access time.

I keep on my PC a database with the content of all tapes, i.e. with all the relevant metadata of all the files that are contained inside the archive files stored on the tapes.

When I need something, I search the database which will give me the location of the desired files as something like "tape 47 file 89" (where "file 89" is a big archive file, typically with a size of many tens of GB). I insert the appropriate tape in the drive and I have a script that will retrieve and expand the corresponding archive file. The access time to a file averages around 1 minute, but then the sequential copying speed is many times higher than with a HDD. Therefore, for something like retrieving a big movie, the tape may be faster overall than a HDD, despite its slow access time.

There are programs that simulate a file system over the tape, allowing you to use your standard file manager to copy or move files between a tape and your SSD. However I do not use such applications, because they reduce a lot the performance that can be achieved by the tape drive. I handle frequently large amounts of data, i.e. the archive files in which I store data on the tapes are typically around 50 GB, so the reduced performance would not be acceptable.
by flohofwoe | 2025-11-27 16:15:53+00:00
A blanket ban is really the only sensible thing to do so that no time is wasted for both sides (contributors know upfront that there's no point trying to get an AI-generated PR accepted - so they won't waste time creating one, and project maintainers don't waste time reviewing what might be broken AI slop - even if some AI generated PRs would be acceptable from a quality point of view).

When there's a grey zone then there will be lots of pointless discussions like "why was this AI-generated PR accepted but not mine" etc etc...
by VladCovaci | 2025-11-27 16:16:16+00:00
I’ve been building something for technical founders who want to ship faster without redoing the same setup work for every new idea.

It’s called StartupKit — a MicroSaaS boilerplate that includes the usual fundamentals (auth, payments, emails, dashboard, SEO, blog, etc.), but the main focus is actually the AI agents that come built in.

These aren’t generic chatbots. They’re role-based agents designed to act like a tiny product team you can talk to while you’re building:

Analyst – clarifies your idea and requirements

Architect – helps design the system structure

Product Manager – builds a roadmap

UX Designer – reviews and improves flows

Developer – assists with implementation

Technical Writer – generates documentation

Test Architect – creates QA checklists

Everything lives inside your IDE as a simple .yaml config and works with whatever model you prefer (GPT-5, Claude, Cursor, etc.).

The idea is simple: Go live in ~24 hours instead of spending weeks setting up and planning.

If you want to check it out: Website → https://startupkit.today/

Demo → https://demo.startupkit.today/
by cobri | 2025-11-27 16:16:23+00:00
From the study: "The musical pieces were selected based on their slow and meditative tempo (60-100 beats per minute), and only non -lyrical instrumental piano or flute based versions were chosen.The flute version which was preferred by most patients was a combination of Raga Yaman and Raga Kirwani. Raga Yaman is bright and uplifting and Raga Kir wani is known for its soothing and calming effects. Combining these two Hindustani classical ragas provides musically uplifting qualities that could be helpful in reducing the stress associated with surgical procedures and control the hemodynamic responses to surgery. Noise cancelling headphoneswere used to play the instrumental pieces at 60db."
by Lsoskans | 2025-11-27 16:16:50+00:00
Bringing determinism to a non deterministic world is basically the entire story of the human advancement. We require determinism.

AI is more of a new raw material instead of a new tool for humans. It’s our job to make it deterministic. “Pull the slot machine lever again” isn’t great advice (unless you work for a company that makes money off those lever pulls like the author).
by ArcHound | 2025-11-27 16:16:53+00:00
I think that this is imbalanced in favour of wannabe influencers, who want to be consistent and popular.

If you really have no metrics to hit (not even the internal craving for likes), then it doesn't make much sense to outsource writing to LLMs.

But yes, it's sad to see that your original stuff is lost in the sea of slop.

Sadly, as long as there will be money in publishing, this will keep happening.
by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-11-27 16:16:56+00:00
They get drowned by bots and missinformation and rage bait and 'easyness'.

Economy is shit? Lets throw out the immigrants because they are the problem and lets use the most basic idea of taxing everything to death.

No one wants to hear hart truths and no one wants to accept that even as adults, they might just not be smart. Just beause you became an adult, your education shuld still matter (and i do not mean having one degree = expert).
by m4r1k | 2025-11-27 16:17:26+00:00
Check the specs again. Per chip, TPU 7x has 192GB of HBM3e, whereas the NVIDIA B200 has 186GB.

While the B200 wins on raw FP8 throughput (~9000 vs 4614 TFLOPs), that makes sense given NVIDIA has optimized for the single-chip game for over 20 years. But the bottleneck here isn't the chip—it's the domain size.

NVIDIA's top-tier NVL72 tops out at an NVLink domain of 72 Blackwell GPUs. Meanwhile, Google is connecting 9216 chips at 9.6Tbps to deliver nearly 43 ExaFlops. NVIDIA has the ecosystem (CUDA, community, etc.), but until they can match that interconnect scale, they simply don't compete in this weight class.
by mickael-kerjean | 2025-11-27 16:18:10+00:00
emacs is quite approachable because of its self documenting nature. In practice, if you want to drill down on a particular thing, you need to use some of the describe-* commands. For example want to know how emacs save something?

1) find the command it uses with describe-keybinding, you find the command "save-buffer"

2) "describe-command save-buffer" brings you onto the lisp world where it is defined => "files.el"

3) want to know how a variable is define within files.el? "describe-variable buffer-file-name" and now you are in C territory

4) rinse and repeat with some describe-function when needed

5) get lost onto the beauty of emacs which in my opinion is its interactive / self documenting nature which unfortunatly is not more common in all the software we use
by array_key_first | 2025-11-27 16:18:24+00:00
Yes, yes they are generating $200 billion on accidental clicks.

Consumers don't know what they're clicking on is an ad, that's the only reason they clicked on it. They googled something for an answer - and oh look, the top results are what I want! Except those aren't results, they're ads. Here, put on your reading glasses - there's 8pt font there that says it's an ad.

It's the same thing with YouTube. Maybe half of the ads are just outright scams, and consumers know that. It's not like TV. So they don't click them, because you're playing Russian roulette if you do that. They only click them accidentally.

The main problem with online ads is that Google and Meta are dumb as rocks. They've decided to sell ad space to anyone with a pulse for a quick buck. The problem with that is that, over time, it devalues the ad space as consumers are trained to ignore it. We're quickly approaching the point where these ads only work on people born yesterday.

The ad space is grossly, grossly overvalued. Shh, nobody tell advertisers teehee!
by casenmgreen | 2025-11-27 16:19:21+00:00
I've heard good and bad.

I've seen complaints about servers disappearing without warning.

I've also seen people say they're completely happy.

It seems to me Hetz have good pricing, and technically what seems to be a superior product. I was put off by lack of spaces in passwords (trivial in and of itself, but like... 2025 you know), but I've seen their support do something sensible in my case just now, and Kathy posting here in NH.
Show HN: ZigFormer – An LLM implemented in pure Zig
by habedi0 | 2025-11-27 16:19:55+00:00
Hi everyone,

I've made an early version of ZigFormer, a small LLM implemented in Zig with no dependencies on external ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX. ZigFormer is modelled after a textbook LLM (like GPT-2 from OpenAI) and can be used as a Zig library as well as a standalone application to train a model and chat with it.

This was mainly an educational project. I'm sharing it here in case others find it interesting or useful.

Link to the project: https://github.com/CogitatorTech/zigformer
by llm_nerd | 2025-11-27 16:20:23+00:00
"Over time, it has become obvious just how many posts are being generated by an LLM. The tell is the voice. Every post sounds like it was posted by the same social media manager."

I'd love to see an actual study of people who think they're proficient at detecting this stuff. I suspect that they're far less capable of spotting these things than they convince themselves they are.

Everything is AI. LLMs. Bots. NPCs. Over the past few months I've seen demonstrably real videos posted to sites like Reddit, and the top post is someone declaring that it is obviously AI, they can't believe how stupid everyone is to fall for it, etc. It's like people default assume the worst lest they be caught out as suckers.
by the_af | 2025-11-27 16:20:49+00:00
I seriously doubt people didn't write blog posts or articles before LLMs because they didn't know how to write.

It's not some magic roadblock. They just didn't want to spend the effort to get better at writing; you get better at writing by writing (like good old Steve says in "On Writing"). It's how we all learnt.

I'm also not sure everyone should be writing articles and blog posts just because. More is not better. Maybe if you feel unmotivated about making the effort, just don't do it?

Almost everyone will cut novice writers and non-native $LANGUAGE speakers some slack. Making mistakes is not a sin.

Finally, my own bias: if you cannot be bothered to write something, I cannot be bothered to read it. This applies to AI slop 100%.
by wvbdmp | 2025-11-27 16:21:02+00:00
Eh, if you’re going to outrage-farm over Steam, them following local laws isn’t it. One might instead ask the question why they still operate in Russia in the first place, but that, too, is more of an indictment of the West’s limp-dick economic sanctions. It seems we prefer to stoke the fire and profiteer with military aid. I bet Steam doesn’t censor games in Iran, though.
by gambiting | 2025-11-27 16:21:33+00:00
>>For text and image-based tasks they are infinitely better than a human.

Sometimes. When the stars align and you roll the dice the right way. I'm currently using ChatGPT 5.1 to put together a list of meals for the upcoming week, it comes up with a list(very good one!), then it asks if I want a list of ingredients, I say yes, and the ingredients are completely bollocks. Like it adds things which are not in any recipe. I ask about it, it says "sorry, my mistake, here's the list fixed now" and it just removed that thing but added something else. I ask why is that there, and I shit you not, it replied with "I added it out of habit" - like what habit, what an idiotic thing to say. It took me 3 more attempts to get a list that was actually somewhat correct, although it got the quantities wrong. "infinitely better than a human at text based tasks" my ass.

I would honestly trust a 12 year old child to do this over this thing I'm supposedly paying £18.99/month for. And the company is valued at half a trillion dollars. I honestly wonder if I'm the bigger clown or if they are.
by sublinear | 2025-11-27 16:21:41+00:00
Language is an interface between whatever our thoughts actually are and the outside world.

Imagine trying to write apps without thinking about the limitations of the APIs you use. In fact we just recently escaped that same stupidity in the SaaS era! That's how silly LLMs will seem in the near future. They will stick around as the smarter chatbots we've wanted for so long, but they are so very far away from AGI.
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-27 16:22:03+00:00
> It's not just LLMs, it's how the algorithms promote engagement. i.e. rage bait, videos with obvious inaccuracies etc.

I guess, but I'm on quite a few "algorithm-free" forums where the same thing happens. I think it's just human nature. The reason it's under control on HN is rigorous moderation; when the moderators are asleep, you often see dubious political stuff bubble up. And in the comments, there's often a fair amount of patently incorrect takes and vitriol.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-27 16:22:07+00:00
> only really faster and better if you don't use them for gaming, unfortunately. Upscaling and frame generation is not a better GPU, it's one with a band-aid applied to hide the fact that it actually did not get much faster.

The generations gains haven’t been as great as past generations, but it’s getting silly to claim that GPUs aren’t getting faster for gaming.

Intentionally ignoring frame generation and DLSS up scaling also feels petty. Using those features to get 150-200fps at 4K is actually a very amazing experience, even if the purists turn their noses up at it.

The used GPU market is relatively good at calibrating for relative gaming performance. If new GPUs weren’t actually faster then old GPUs wouldn’t be depreciating much. Yet you can pick up 3000 series GPUs very cheaply right now (except maybe the 3090 which is prized for its large VRAM, though still cheap). Even 4000 series are getting cheap.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-27 16:22:17+00:00
You need low level access to the AI in question, and a lot of compute, but for most AI types, you can infer whether a given data fragment was in the training set.

It's much easier to do that for the data that was repeated many times across the dataset. Many pieces of GPL software are likely to fall under that.

Now, would that be enough to put the entire AI under GPL? I doubt it.
by hofrogs | 2025-11-27 16:22:32+00:00
>You cannot logically claim "Russia's censorship is authoritarian oppression" while defending EU (or funnier, the UK authoritarian) hate speech laws as "democratic protection".

No, I can. One is a repressive, anti-human law designed to push queer people out of society, while another, at least in spirit, prevents incitement of violence against those vulnerable people. They are not the same and the values are not identical. Good and bad things are different.
by sillyfluke | 2025-11-27 16:22:48+00:00
Yeah, as I recall Carmack came out against some of the anti-trust actions of Lina Kahn, soecifically blocking certain type of acquisitions and mergers by big tech companies.

Though I'm curious what the take of "founders first" type of VCs like YC on the Figma IPO is, after the acquisition by Adobe was blocked. Whatever the stock price of Figma is now, would they specifically argue that of the two outcomes the Figma IPO was worse for the founders? To be clear, if that acquisition wasn't blocked the IPO wouldn't have happened.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-27 16:23:00+00:00
- Ethernet - I have to do the same for every MacBook for the past decade - use an adapter. The iPhone can use the same adapter.

- I don’t need a USB-C to headphone adapter, there are plenty of USB C headphones and the mixer my wife uses has a USB C interface for computers and it works with her iPad and I assume my phone. It shows up as an audio input/output device. You plug up a regular old USB C to USB C cable.

- you don’t need an “HDMI adapter”, you use the same USB C to HDMI cord that computers have used since USB C was introduced on computers over a decade ago.

USB C has supported video natively for over a decade. I use the same USB C - USB C cable to plug up my phone to my external monitor that I use for my Mac

Bluetooth doesn’t transmit data at 10Gbps like USB C does on an iPhone Pro or even USB 2 speeds of the cheaper iPhones.

You don’t need special Apple compatible dongles for any of these use cases. They all support the standard USB protocols
by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-11-27 16:23:09+00:00
The global alignment also happens through media like tv shows and movies, the internet overall.

I agree I think we should try to do both.

In germany for example, we have very few typical german brands. Our brands became very global. If you go Japan for example, you will find the same product like ramen or cookies or cakes a lot but all of them are slighly different from different small producers.

If you go to an autobahn motorway/highway rest area you will find local products in japan. If you do the same in germany, you find just the generic american shit, Mars, Modneles, PepsiCo, Unilever...

Even our german coke like Fritz cola is a niche / hipster thing even today.
by simonask | 2025-11-27 16:23:46+00:00
Music major here. Surprise, all music you know is “sounds with some beat”.

I don’t know what counts as Music to you, but I sure hope you’re not out here trying to promote your particular taste as somehow more refined, because we know a lot about how that is usually just good old classist, generational, or racist biases peeking out.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-27 16:23:59+00:00
If Apple as a whole is a disaster, then Tim Cook needs to be fired.

If Mac as a whole is a disaster, then whoever is responsible of that needs to be fired.

If Mac hardware is a disaster, then whoever is responsible of that needs to be fired.

If Mac software is a disaster, then whoever is responsible of that needs to be fired.

If Mac software UI design is a disaster, then whoever is responsible of that needs to be fired.

And of course the people above are responsible as well. But in this case there's a very obvious project which has failed.
by Tostino | 2025-11-27 16:25:04+00:00
You're naive if you think those don't affect small shops.

If you want to do enterprise software, even as a small shop, things like requiring pull request approvals is an absolute must.

Our customers demand it.

Doesn't matter how many employees we have, or how profitable we are. If we want to sell software to most large CPG companies, this stuff is non-negotiable.

So I just use GitHub.
by blenderob | 2025-11-27 16:25:31+00:00
> I don't disagree, but LLMs happened to help with standardizing some interesting concepts that were previously more spread out as concepts ( drift, scaffolding, and so on ).

What do you mean? The concepts of "drift" and "scaffolding" were uncommon before LLMs?

Not trying to challenge you. Honestly trying to understand what you mean. I don't think I have heard this ever before. I'd expect concepts like "drift" and "scaffolding" to be already very popular before LLMs existed. And how did you pick those two concepts of aaallll... the concepts in this world?
by rdtsc | 2025-11-27 16:25:48+00:00
I call it the enshittification fix-point. Not only are we losing our voice, we'll soon enough start thinking and talking like LLMs. After a generation of kids grows up reading and talking to LLMs, that will be only way they'll know how to communicate. You'll talk to a person and you couldn't tell the difference between them and LLMs, not because LLMs became amazing, but because our writing and thinking style become more LLM-like.

- "Hey, Jimmy, the cookie jar is empty. Did you eat the cookies?"

- "You're absolutely right, father — the jar seems to be empty. Here is bullet point list why consuming the cookies was the right thing to do..."
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-27 16:26:11+00:00
> In a lot of ways, I'm thankful that LLMs are letting us hear the thoughts of people who usually wouldn't share them.

I could agree with you in theory, but do you see the technology used that way? Because I definitely don't. The thought process behind the vast majority of LLM-generated content is "how do I get more clicks with less effort", not "here's a unique, personal perspective of mine, let's use a chatbot to express it more eloquently".