MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by robocat | 2025-11-12 21:20:13+00:00
> rats chewing up the money

Profit for the US government. Fixed by plastic bills.

Every $ printed but never redeemed is a significant profit (assuming other costs are low like printing).

Especially yummy when countries just want to hoard the currency - same as selling stamps that are never used:

estimate the stock of U.S. currency circulating in Argentina ... U.S. currency inflows during 1988-1992 totaled $20.8 billion

https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/1993/460/ifdp460.pd...
by nine_k | 2025-11-12 21:20:30+00:00
In 1934 the dollar was worth approximately 24x more than in 2025. A cheap loaf of bread is about $2 here in NYC, so it would be about 8¢ at the time.

On one hand, the difference between 2¢ and 8¢ looks completely inconsequential now. OTOH it's a four-fold difference.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-12 21:21:15+00:00
You're talking about "Wi-Fi 6" not "6 GHz Wi-Fi".

"6 GHz Wi-Fi" means Wi-Fi 6E (or newer) with a frequency range of 5.925–7.125 GHz, giving 7 non-overlapping 160 MHz channels (which is not the same thing as the symbol rate, it's just the channel bandwidth component of that). As another bonus, these frequencies penetrate walls even less than 5 GHz does.

I live on the 3rd floor of a large apartment complex. 5 GHz Wi-Fi is so congested that I can get better performance on 2.4 in a rural area, especially accounting for DFS troubles in 5 GHz. 6 GHz is open enough I have a non-conflicting 160 MHz channel assigned to my AP (and has no DFS troubles).

Interestingly, the headset supports Wi-Fi 7 but the adapter only supports Wi-Fi 6E.
by k_roy | 2025-11-12 21:21:17+00:00
Protecting it before generic is fine, but the pricing doesn't make sense.

If it's $1000 per month cost per person when it's the name brand, how many people are on it? At this point just the diabetics and people with really good insurance?

Wouldn't they make a hell of a lot more money selling it for $100 during their protected period to 1000x the people.
by btilly | 2025-11-12 21:21:19+00:00
When you are operating at that level, there is a lot of similarity between software compiled to machine code, and software compiled to a chip design. The differences are that the machine code comes with some extra overhead, and changing chip designs takes more work.

Fundamentally Transmeta to make iterations of designs quicker, at the cost of some performance overhead. What Intel chose that extra low level performance, at the cost of overhead on iterations. And then Intel made up for the extra cost of iterating designs by having more resources to throw at the problem.

If Transmeta had equivalent resources to throw at their approach, they would have likely won. But they didn't. And I think that they made the right choices for the situation that they were in.

Incidentally the idea of programmable microcode on top of the CPU was not original. It was used in all sorts of software systems before them. Such as Java. The first big use that I'm aware of was the IBM 360, back in the 1960s. There are still programs running on mainframes today that fundamentally think that they are running on that virtual machine from the 1960s!
by HDThoreaun | 2025-11-12 21:22:05+00:00
I dont really agree with your perception of current LLMs, but the point is it doesnt even matter. This is a pr war. Lecun lost it for meta. Meta needs to be thought of as an AI leader to gain traction in their metaverse stuff. They can live with everyone thinking theyre evil but if everyone thinks theyre lame has beens they are fucked.
by reaperducer | 2025-11-12 21:22:43+00:00
everyone like me that won't ever pay them a cent.

Yeah, how terrible that you should be expected to spend /eleven minutes/ of the average U.S. tech worker's salary for a month of information. Perish the thought.

They should sell their stuff by mail

You're in luck! You can subscribe to the New York Times by mail, just like you want.
by nsomani | 2025-11-12 21:22:54+00:00
Hi all - this is a small research prototype I built to explore cross-GPU reuse of transformer attention states.

When inference engines like vLLM implement prefix/KV caching, it's local to each replica. LMCache recently generalized this idea to multi-tier storage.

KV Marketplace focuses narrowly on the GPU-to-GPU fast path: peer-to-peer prefix reuse over RDMA or NVLink. Each process exports completed prefix KV tensors (key/value attention states) into a registry keyed by a hash of the input tokens and model version. Other processes with the same prefix can import those tensors directly from a peer GPU, bypassing host memory and avoiding redundant prefill compute.

Under optimistic conditions (perfect prefix importing), the prototype shows about a 15% reduction in latency and throughput gains without heavy tuning. The code is intentionally minimal (no distributed registry, eviction, or CPU/disk tiers yet) but it's a prototype of "memcached for attention."

I thought others exploring distributed LLM inference, caching, or RDMA transports might find the repo useful or interesting.
by vishvendra | 2025-11-12 21:22:58+00:00
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by AdamH12113 | 2025-11-12 21:23:36+00:00
Tangential question: Does anyone know of a basic large-signal equation for a triode (or any other vacuum tube type) like the simplified Ebers-Moll equation for BJTs or the square law equations for the linear and saturation regions of a MOSFET? It would really help my understanding, but whenever I google it I only see academic papers, like it's a weird thing to search for.
by Klonoar | 2025-11-12 21:23:39+00:00
> For a server there's no reason for user A to be able to see processes of user B.

I'm not sure about that. This isn't FreeBSD specific so it's a bit tangential, but I've certainly debugged systems where someone thought it appropriate to run their intensive job on a live box (mind boggling, yes). Seeing it smack dab under their name is kind of important.

Am I missing something?
by yesfitz | 2025-11-12 21:23:44+00:00
Exactly so. If I'm going to do anything with it later, I'll have to read it again anyway.

It's self-culling with time. I've got unread messages deep down on the list. Things that I wanted to do something about months ago, but never did, and they weren't important enough to come up again. And if they ever do come up again, I can see that I received a message and didn't do anything with it.
by rkomorn | 2025-11-12 21:24:05+00:00
Call me cynical but I don't at all believe the issue is tax jurisdictions or anything related to complexity.

It's that it's easier to show a price of $0.99 and have the consumer pay $1.08 (for example) than either show a price of $1.08 and have the consumer pay it, or show a price of $0.99 and have the consumer pay $0.99 and "lose" 7 cents (because your price was $0.92 before taxes).

Pre-tax price is lower and sells better than post-tax price.
by zaksingh | 2025-11-12 21:24:12+00:00
Congrats on the launch! I think this has a lot of potential in eliminating context-switching. DevTools has always felt unintuitive/unfamiliar coming from an IDE, so just bringing the IDE UX and vim keybindings over is already a big improvement. It also makes LLM prompting feel better contextualized.

As an aside, thinking back to learning React seven or eight years ago by watching a bunch of tutorial videos where they'd switch between IDE and browser views or awkward split screens, this seems like a way better format for explainers/walkthroughs of frontend code.
by Fabricio20 | 2025-11-12 21:24:39+00:00
I mean.. my X670E motherboard (a high end, modern mobo!) has only ONE usb-c port.. it has, in comparison, 3 usb-a 10gbps ports and another 4x usb-a 5gbps ports. Given the headset's main use case to be plugged in is for PC-VR game streaming, it makes sense that they'd go with USB-A. Maybe in a few years they can switch but right now most desktop mobos barely even have usb-c.
by hinkley | 2025-11-12 21:24:56+00:00
There were decidedly shitty engineering decisions behind that dumpster fire.

The biggest being that the only safe way to recycle feature flag names is to put ample time separation between the last use of the previous meaning for the flag and the first application of the new use. They did not. If they had, they would have noticed that one server was not getting redeployed properly in the time gap between the two uses.

They also did not do a full rollback. They rolled back the code but not the toggles, which ignited the fire.

These are rookie mistakes. If you want to argue they are journeyman mistakes, I won’t fight you too much, but they absolutely demonstrate a lack of mastery of the problem domain. And when millions of dollars change hands per minute you’d better not be Faking it Til You Make It.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-12 21:25:06+00:00
7900XTX not 9700XTX which didn’t exist.

9070XT is RDNA4 not RDNA3 and steam machine has 28CU’s on RDNA3 which is same as RX7400 the bottom of the range RDNA3.

The 7900XTX has 84 and 24GB of VRAM.

This is a strictly entry level last gen GPU, don’t expect miracles.

The hardware is not good unless the price is very cheap.

As for the 7900XTX been enthusiast only in the sense it it was the top of the line from AMD it’s about 4080 in some areas and loses badly in others (ray tracing), price wise it wasn’t far of the 9070XT price wise at launch.

I have a 7900XTX I like it a great deal but the 4090/5080 and 5090 crush it and the 90’s are enthusiast both on price and perf.

I ended up with a 7900XTX because nvidia pissed me off on Linux one time too many otherwise I’d have gotten the 4090 but between kernel installs causing pain (nothing insurmountable) and them straight breaking power management for nearly a year on mature hardware, nah, AMD deserved the sale, they really do support Linux better.
by mnemonet | 2025-11-12 21:25:34+00:00
That's a fair point, especially considering everything else you get with the plan.

However, the pricing is still a far cry from non-decentralized solutions (for example, MUX's free plan offers 100K minutes per month [1]) and so the only other selling point is joining the fediverse—which is a good thing, but hard to get people to convert on (in Bluesky's case the turmoil that is now X was required).

- [1]: https://mux.com/pricing/video
by rendall | 2025-11-12 21:25:47+00:00
Ikr? It's like everyone thinks "It is simply not possible to set a price on an item so that its total price is a nice round number after tax is applied! One would need to... invent a special kind of math to do that!"

It's like the whole country is unwilling to calculate 1.065x=$2 or whatever.

And... why not include tax in the display price? I never did get a good explanation for that.
by dunham | 2025-11-12 21:25:59+00:00
> I've heard of people who use Black Friday as a good trigger on what to unsubscribe from as every company wants to send you something for that.

That's a good idea. I also use app updates to decide whether I actually need to keep an app on my phone. (There is a convenient "remove" swipe on that screen, so I'm not the only one.)
by rohan_ | 2025-11-12 21:26:12+00:00
I never understood these types of things, what niche are they going after?

This feels like it could be a competitor to QT, but without a real-time operating system like QNX, what's the point?

React Native won out over Fluter, Java Applets lost to HTML5 / JS, Framer is much better than Wordpress.

Time and time again, clever simulations on top of the native world are never worth it.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-11-12 21:26:43+00:00
IMO, this is a strawman that is either going to be ignored or fixed easily.

The law did not account for every possible situation. Removal of the penny from national currency is clear a situation where minor variations on otherwise normal transactions would not be in violation of the intent of the law.

It'd be like TSA griping that your 100ml bottle of mouthwash was overfilled by .1ml because of slight variations in the filling process. Nobody cares.
by scoofy | 2025-11-12 21:26:56+00:00
Enforcement of traffic laws for public safety?!? Clearly you don't have American priorities. You need to focus more on level of service and only level of service.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09666...

https://archive.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/9/9/improvement...

Some of you may die, but that's a price we're willing to make.
by BeetleB | 2025-11-12 21:27:04+00:00
Gets less viable as you get older.

They increase their fees significantly once you're over 55 years.

Long term prescriptions are not covered. So if you become diabetic after you join, and need a continual prescription of metformin, you won't get it. I assume the same goes for statins, etc.

If you have pre-existing conditions, you have to wait till year 3 to get it covered, and they limit to $25K/year for pre-existing conditions.

Seems decent if young, healthy and not on a good employer sponsored plan. Bad idea as you start to age. His argument is that if you save plenty per month by not having regular insurance, you can stuff/invest those savings for use later when you're older.
by topato | 2025-11-12 21:27:24+00:00
The popularity of these drugs is specifically from the FDA-approved "weight loss" indication. You're at least a few years behind. I would also think the many many years when it was only prescribed for diabetes would have yielded some data about negative effects, (other than the ocular issue) if there were any. Glp-1s were so unprofitable, Novo Nordisk let their Canadian patent lapse almost a decade ago, rather than pay the upkeep fee lol. So I dont think anyone is protecting them from bad press.
by peterkagey | 2025-11-12 21:27:50+00:00
I wrote Problem 619 (https://projecteuler.net/problem=619) which was published on 2018-01-27 and solved by 474.

The problem was based on 2013 Putnam Exam problem A2 (https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/2013.pdf) which I took at the end of undergrad.

I got an email six years later (in November 2024) telling me they accepted the problem:

Greetings!

Please excuse the email. It's quite possible that you are no longer active at Project Euler, but we are currently trying to retrospectively acknowledge contributors of problems.

You were identified as being involved with Square subsets [619 m] in Sep-17.

If you would like to be added as a verified contributor, please reply to this email and provide the username you currently use at projecteuler.net. Please note that contributor usernames will not appear publicly, rather they will be used internally to unlock new contributor awards we are introducing.

Regards,

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by jedberg | 2025-11-12 21:28:20+00:00
That wouldn't apply if everyone included tax in their prices. In this case, the item would just be $1.10.

If the business really thinks they will lose money by pricing over a dollar, then yes, they would have to take that hit. But they are already taking that hit if the "real value" is $1.02 for example.

It's just a price/demand curve. They would simply have to optimize it differently.
by Mr_Eri_Atlov | 2025-11-12 21:28:26+00:00
This project is a gaming console dream.

Compact and looks nice, no qualms about displaying it in the living room, with customizable front panels.

Optimized to just barely hit 4K 60 fps as cheaply as possible.

Controllers designed to avoid stick drift, easy to charge, and featuring low-latency wireless connections.

Stream from a Steam Machine to a Steam Deck or a Steam Frame if you have one; the Steam Machine enhances your other purchases further.

Instantly supports everyone's libraries of dozens, if not hundreds, of games acquired over the years.

And you can just use it as a desktop computer if you like?

Give me the Gabecube!
by gitaarik | 2025-11-12 21:28:33+00:00
What do you mean? There is a statistic that's been supposedly well studied, and it concludes some differences between woman and man. Now you say as soon as you accept that statistic, you cannot set that aside when you're evaluating individuals?

I mean, yeah of course, in a way statistics give us bias about everything. Just like a woke kind of bias will also affect someones perception. That's just always going on. But that doesn't mean we can't realise that every individual is unique, and can be a unique asset in a company / project / whatever?
by ontouchstart | 2025-11-12 21:29:00+00:00
It is going to be a very competitive market but you still have a chance if you serve the needs of professional React development. Unlike POC and MVP projects by people who are learning React, professional React projects that serve production are very complex. Developers need to deliver features without regression, debug with whatever tools they have to find out root cause and fix the bug without causing regression and more issues. Tight unit tests, integration tests and QA cycles.

I have been using Cursor + Claude (Composer) in production code base with some success. Integrations with live React DevTools in the browser could make UI debugging and iterative development much faster. But you also need to think outside of the box of IDE. It is never about IDE. It is about high quality workflow.
by Lammy | 2025-11-12 21:29:03+00:00
> I don't know if I trust Waymo cars with my life, but at least there are SOME standards, compared to the natural variance of humans.

The one thing you can trust Waymo to do is spy on you. Hurray, more surveillance-on-wheels! Every one of these things has 29 visible-light cameras, 5 LIDARs, 4 RADARs, and is using four H100s to process all of its realtime imagery of you: https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2024/10/27/waymos-5-6...
by phillipcarter | 2025-11-12 21:29:49+00:00
By recently you mean a decade ago yeah? I mean it’s fair that it was only a half-decade (.NET 5) when it was genuinely complete enough, but lots of stuff was in good shape when it was called .NET Core.

It sounds like you’re projecting the problems of an existing .NET shop onto the shape of a startup without all that baggage. I can assure you, having worked with many customers running new business on newer .NET, it hasn’t been a legit technical concern since about .NET Core 3.
by creeble | 2025-11-12 21:30:09+00:00
Rob Robinette is a great guitar-amp resource; knows just about everything about Fender amps in particular. He has many mods to many common/not-so-common Fenders.

Just his list of 5E3 mods (Fender Deluxe) is awesome:

https://robrobinette.com/5e3_Modifications.htm
by JustExAWS | 2025-11-12 21:31:13+00:00
And people can communicate without using Facebook, search without using Google etc and they are still considered “Gatekeepers”. And who listens to CDs anymore or even has a CD player in their car or on their computer? How do you get the music on your phone?

I was in Seattle a couple of years ago walking around and someone was selling CDs of their music on the street like it was the early 2000s. WTF am I going to do with a CD?

Do people carry around CD Walkman’s anymore? But you’re not going to be a major artist and get wide appeal or even gain an audience without being on Spotify - more so in Europe than in the US where Apple Music has a larger market share.
by denysvitali | 2025-11-12 21:31:33+00:00
Oh wow, here's the thread I was looking for.

I'm stuck in the same loop and effectively locked out of my account. I wanted to complain about this on X and of course I can't do that. I also wanted to see if I was the only one affected or it was more widespread, but of course being logged out it's impossible.

Thankfully there's still HN :)
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-12 21:31:35+00:00
Its a Horn clause resolver...that's exactly the kind of reasoning that LLMs are bad at. I have no idea how to graft Prolog to an LLM but if you can graft any programming language to it, you can graft Prolog more easily.

Also, that you push Python and JavaScript makes me think you don't know many languages. Those are terrible languages to try to graft to anything. Just because you only know those 2 languages doesn't make them good choices for something like this. Learn a real language Physicist.
by zemvpferreira | 2025-11-12 21:31:37+00:00
GLP-1’s should make you less concerned in that case, they’re poised to become extremely affordable very soon. Ending the obesity epidemic will do more to bridge the class divide than anything I can practically imagine. Not to mention the other compulsions these drugs help moderate - alcohol, tobacco, gambling etc. It’s my best hope for worldwide quality of life improvement in the next 10 years.
by archon810 | 2025-11-12 21:31:59+00:00
Maybe in size, but at least by weight, it's not bad at all.

Steam Controller weight: 292g.

Nintendo Switch 2 controller: 235g.

Sony Playstation 5 DualSense controller: 280g. DualSense Edge: 322g.

Xbox Wireless controller: 280g. Wireless Elite series 2: 345g.
by gausswho | 2025-11-12 21:32:17+00:00
There's a third path:

3. No humans in your multiplayer

As someone who grew up amazed at Reaper bot for Quake, I'm surprised we don't see a rennaisance of making 'multiplayer' fun by more expressive, fallible, unpredictable bots. We're in an AI bubble and I don't hear of anyone chasing the holy grail of believable 'AI' opponents.

This also has the secondary benefit of having your multiplayer game remain enjoyable even when people's short attention spans move on to the next hot live service. Heck this could kill live service games.

Then again, what people get out of multiplayer is, on some unspoken and sad level, making some other person hurt.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-12 21:33:50+00:00
Seems like that "approximation" is perfectly sufficient for just about any task.

That whole take about the language being basically useless without a human mind to back it lost its legs in 2022.

In the meanwhile, what do those "world model" AIs do? Video generation? Meta didn't release anything like that. Robotics, self-driving? Also basically nothing from Meta there.

In the meanwhile, other companies are perfectly content with bolting multimodal transformers together for robotics tasks. Gemini Robotics being a research example - while modern Tesla FSD stack being a production grade one. Gemini even uses a language transformer as a key part of its stack.