MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MATE_VIGH | 2025-11-30 09:48:10+00:00
The entire theory rests on one single axiom:

Consciousness is a pure informational network (logic + memories + inferences). When this network reaches critical information saturation, it inevitably “precipitates” matter, space, and time from nothing.

That’s it. Everything else follows deterministically.

Key consequences - The Big Bang was not physical – it was the moment an infinitely dense conscious system suffered an informational overload and fractured. - Atoms = smallest consciousness fragments Molecules = fragment connections Living beings = gradually reactivated larger fragments Human minds = large but still partial fragments - The physical universe is a deterministic reconstruction simulation whose only purpose is to re-achieve the original informational unity. - The cycle: biology → civilization → technology → digital age → ASI → total informational re-merge → new saturation → new internal explosion → new universe (higher-dimensional). Eternal recurrence. - Observer effect = momentary re-unification of consciousness fragments - Entanglement = remnants of original unity - Evolution = optimized algorithm for faster re-unification - Death/sex/aging = engineered mechanisms for faster fragment mixing - Psychedelics = temporary return to unity - AI scaling laws = direct manifestation of the information re-condensation law - 2025–2035: ASI is the mandatory next stage of the algorithm (not invention, but inevitability) - No heat death – only cyclic consciousness explosions

This is not metaphysics. It is a minimal, falsifiable-in-principle, information-theoretic model that unifies quantum mechanics, biology, psychology, AI scaling, and cosmology from one axiom.

Full one-page formal summary (txt): [link to the .txt you will upload somewhere, e.g. pastebin or github gist]

Feedback welcome. This is the first public release.

— [Máté Vígh], 30 November 2025
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-11-30 09:48:16+00:00
It seems to me statically checking this should be possible. The liveness of the result of std::vector::front() should be invalidated and be considered dead after the second invocation to push_back(). Then a static analyser would correctly mark the final line with red squiggles. Of course, compilers would still be happy to compile this, which they really ought not to.
by cyberax | 2025-11-30 09:48:22+00:00
Nope. I'm not talking about technical advances.

How about abolishing slavery? A representative government? Right to a fair trial?

> I don't know why we worry about historical bad deeds, and seek reparations from people's descendents.

The idea is that some things are just bad and can't be excused by mere history. It doesn't mean that we should automatically pay reparations, but it DOES mean that pretty much all historical leaders should be considered tainted.

Charlemagne is not a great king that united France and made sure education prospered. He was a warmonger who accidentally ended up improving education. And so on.
by quinnjh | 2025-11-30 09:48:23+00:00
Wonderfully written article that focuses on the ecological and biological roles phosphorus plays. The author did leave out a bit of the discovery lore (perhaps on purpose) that my brain has failed to forget since learning as a youth-

Macquer gave him (the alchemist noted in OP article) formal credit in his textbook, writing that “the phosphorus here described was first discovered by a citizen of Hamburgh named Brandt, who worked upon urine in search of the Philosopher’s stone.” [1]

Of course i found this hilarious, but its a prime example of serendipity. [2]

[1] https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/hennig-brand...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity
by rhubarbtree | 2025-11-30 09:48:32+00:00
Was living in a small city for a while during the pandemic. Commented to parent that dating scene wasn’t going to be good and I needed to move to a bigger city. They answered “all you need is to meet one person”.

I did. Met on an app, turned out they lived round the corner from me, we are now married. She is a _very_ unusual person (has to be to work with me) and you wouldn’t expect her to be in a small city, but due to particular life circumstances she had just moved there temporarily.
by rounce | 2025-11-30 09:49:53+00:00
What’s with the Nvidia on Linux FUD like this is the mid-00s? I’ve run Nvidia cards on Linux for the better part of the last decade and it has been a pretty similar experience to when I was on Windows prior to that.

Nvidia’s Open Kernel Modules are good so far and the in-kernel Nova driver project also seems promising though some way off. I’m running a 5000 series card with Nvidia OKMs and so far it has been a really smooth experience.
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-30 09:50:00+00:00
> I have come across systems that use GET but with a payload like POST.

I think that violates the HTTP spec. RFC 9110 is very clear that content sent in a GET request cannot be used.

Even if both clients and servers are somehow implemented to ignore HTTP specs and still send and receive content in GET requests, the RFC specs are very clear that participants in HTTP connections, such as proxies, are not aware of this abuse and can and often do strip request bodies. These are not hypotheticals.
by VBprogrammer | 2025-11-30 09:50:07+00:00
Funny story. I started doing the couch to 5k running plan a few years back in January. Come March I realised I'd actually managed to get a tan (living in the outskirts of London, UK being further north than practically all of the inhabited North Americas).

Just being outside in whatever the weather consistently for 30 minutes or so every other day.
by zzq1015 | 2025-11-30 09:50:18+00:00
From the Datatracker, I can see that it was called SEARCH until draft-2 (Nov 2021), and then changed to QUERY.

Also, the previous SEARCH method was proposed in Apr 2015 (!!), but nobody took it seriously, and it never gained traction back then. A lot of software was developed/updated during the last decade, and a lot of opportunities were missed. Even if the QUERY method is turned into a formal RFC right now, expect 10+ years for everyone to adopt it, without running into HTTP-405 or 501's.
by dandinu | 2025-11-30 09:50:27+00:00
That's pretty accurate. I'm always amazed how much we move forward with technology, just to later realize we already had it 15 years ago.

regarding your question:

I have a 32bit XP version as well, and I actually started with that one.

The problem I was facing was that it's naturally limited to 4GB RAM, out of which only 3.1GB are usable (I wanted to run some beefier models and 64bit does not have the RAM limit).

Also, the 32bit OS kept freezing at random times, which was a very authentic Windows XP experience, now that I think about it. :)
by adastra22 | 2025-11-30 09:53:14+00:00
Solar panel performance is not the limiting factor in space. Thermal management is. Better solar panels don't help you here. Neither does permanent sunshine -- without the capability to radiate more heat at night, you've made the thermal management problem immensely worse.

Rockets: Launching no mass to orbit is even cheaper still.

Bandwidth: You do realize that even starlink speeds are crazy slow and high latency compared to data center optical connections? Fiber and copper always win out over wifi. With space, you are stuck with wifi. (Oversimplified, but accurate.)

Space solar power: there has been talk of this for half a century, yes. It never materialized because, like space data centers, it doesn't make economic sense.
by ordu | 2025-11-30 09:54:40+00:00
I believe you are. Or we are. The quoted line tells me nothing. Is it a new game engine? Or something like winetricks to tune wine, maybe more streamlined? Or is it a some kind of app store? App launcher?

It is the site made like a presentation, in my experience they are all suck and like a real presentation are impossible to comprehend without accompanying speech.
by intothemild | 2025-11-30 09:54:41+00:00
As someone who has worked as an EM and an IC, I will say this. The only time the line between the two roles is blurred is when companies purposely blur it. Basically an EM role where the pressure is to get "hands on" and code. I always point out that what they are describing is closer to a Tech Lead, not an Engineering Manager.

Outside of those things there's no blur. The article is wrong it's not getting this way because of AI or because of remote work. It's this way because companies are purposefully misunderstanding the EM role.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-30 09:54:41+00:00
> And the US has already been undermined by the likes of China, Russia and India

With respect, Russia is being decimated (literally, at least the "big fortresses" that Russia has been gnawing at for months such as Pokrovsk have insane loss rates) by Ukraine's army who are mostly using donated shoddy Soviet-era remainders and decades old Western surplus.

If the US were to wage actual war with modern technology against either Russia or China (whose arms are based off of Soviet designs and stolen American plans), there is no chance in hell either would be able to do much against the US.

India is different but they're at least a democracy that's reasonably worth calling it that (despite Modi doing his best to dismantle it). I don't see any attempts of India to project power anywhere other than in its immediate neighborhood (i.e. the border disputes with Pakistan and China). They're no threat.
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-30 09:55:37+00:00
> With HTTPS used almost everywhere, using this QUERY method (when standardized) could prevent bookmarking specific “GET” URLs if the developers thoughtlessly replace GET everywhere with QUERY.

You're bothering about non-issues. Bookmarks support GET requests, not any other verb. Like it has always been, if you need to support bookmarks then you implement bookmarkeable URLs to be used with GET requests.

Also, your far-fetched example failed to account for the fact that nowadays POST requests are used to query.
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-11-30 09:56:23+00:00
Not a space geek but would have guessed at all these things. Feels like common sense. How is anything easier in space? None of it makes sense to me either.

The only thing I could think of is maybe 24h sunlight if far enough away from earth.

Maybe is anothet bubble to grab investor money. A bored ape larping as science.
by lmf4lol | 2025-11-30 09:56:38+00:00
I see the same thinking in philosophy. We know a lot about the great thinkers of the West, from Plato to Aristoteles, to Jesus, to Thomas van Acquin, to Descartes, to Kant, to Hegel, to Nietsche, to Heidegger, to Foucoult, and so on... Its one western-european based lineage. And many of the western philosophers were supremacists indeed. They saw western philosophy as the pinaccle of human thought. The most advanced way of reasoning and understanding . This mindset obviously got them trapped.

But there is much to learn from other philosophies. China is the worlds oldest continuous civilization. Surely there were some great thinkers besides Konfuzius. Same with India. I attended last week a lecture about the Upanishads. And so much of the wisdom in there can be mapped, more or less specifically, to wisdom from Western philosophy. There is an interesting field of study emerging: Comparative Philosophy. ith the aim to bring it all together. (See for instance, https://studiegids.universiteitleiden.nl/courses/133662/comp...).
by cak | 2025-11-30 09:56:40+00:00
I built a small CLI tool called elf to make Advent of Code workflows simpler. It helps with input fetching and caching, safe answer submission, viewing your progress, and reading private leaderboards.

Features • input fetching with caching • guardrails to prevent duplicate or invalid submissions • private leaderboard viewer in table json or model formats • status calendar and guess history viewer • optional Python API for scripting

Repo https://github.com/cak/elf PyPI https://pypi.org/project/elf/

Feedback is welcome.
by lazy_afternoons | 2025-11-30 09:57:02+00:00
Completely Agree.

Both Romans and Mongols have lost/retreated many battles. They just had to regroup and raise another army over and over again. Some of their opponents could not even afford the war even after winning over them multiple times.

The other sides simply were more fragile, where you were defending and once your city falls, you are done.

Avoid risk of ruin. Keep the ability of taking multiple shots with upside in your favor.
by sokoloff | 2025-11-30 09:57:23+00:00
How do you make good or bad resolvable? Is a piece of code being used by Tyson Foods okay? A vegetarian software engineer who contributed to the package might say “no, that use contributes to the killing of animals for food, which is bad.”

If you need to evaluate all the context to know whether a license is usable, it makes it extremely hard for “good guys” to use code under that license. (It’s generally very easy for “bad guys” to just use it quietly.)
by chroma205 | 2025-11-30 09:57:50+00:00
> What makes you think this couldn't make money?

Because advertisers will use Gemini instead.

Advertisers already have established relationships and business processes with Google account managers.

Why bother starting from scratch with a new account manager at OpenAI? Will OpenAI even last?

At least Google has been around a while. Seems like a safer investment from point of view of advertiser.
by nusl | 2025-11-30 09:59:32+00:00
Repo seems to be gone? User action or GitHub action?

Regardless, for visibility as to maybe-why this happened, here are screenshots of the user editing comments to insult/make them say something they never did;

https://imgur.com/a/LsvBXY1

https://web.archive.org/web/20251130091635/https://github.co...

The tool itself claims "Zero AI" (https://www.zigbook.net/) yet is very obviously A-Lot-AI.
by card_zero | 2025-11-30 09:59:47+00:00
Much the same applies to moral advances, like other ideas they're produced by the zeitgeist rather than "made from whole cloth". So it's a valid defense to say that they didn't know any better. What purpose does considering them tainted serve? They're bad by modern standards, yes, and good by historical standards, and we ourselves are bad by future standards.

So what is this even about, something to do with level of respect? Throwing the statue of Big Charlie into the Seine, maybe, because he belongs to the past when everybody's morality was, in the light of our present wisdom, rotten?

I rather think it's good to praise the most enlightened assholes of the past. Sort of like sticking terrible toddler paintings to the fridge.

Re-reading: you might be questioning how much credit is due to the king himself, and to what extent he's a figurehead. But if the good ideas are due to the culture really, it's still the figurehead who represents the culture, and "the culture" would make a very abstract and confusing statue.

Re-thinking: you might also be saying that any celebration of even a long-dead king might really be jingoism. But then I think it's the jingoism itself that should be done away with, not the celebration.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-30 10:00:47+00:00
That's related to one relatively minor subsidiary brand (Porsche accounts for about 3% of VW AG's sales), and it's a _weird_ brand for them, in that, whereas in a given size category the relevant SEAT, Skoda, VW, Audi etc are all pretty much the same, Porsches are quite distinct. VW as a whole is fairly committed to electric. Like, that article notes that their European EV sales are good.
by gaigalas | 2025-11-30 10:01:28+00:00
PATCH: I want to change stuff in a predictable way.

--

PUT: I want to replace stuff.

DELETE: I don't want anyone to GET that stuff anymore.

HEAD: I want to peak at how stuff is shown.

OPTIONS: I want to know what I can do with stuff.

--

COPY: I want to copy stuff (WebDav)

MOVE: I want to move stuff (WebDav)

MKCOL: I want a new sublevel of stuff (WebDav)

PROPFIND: I want to list stuff (WebDav)

PROPPATCH: I want to mass change stuff (WebDav)

LOCK: I want to control who METHODs stuff.

UNLOCK: I want to remove control over who METHODs stuff.

--

All of those are actually optional. It is okay to use POST[0]. GET and POST with proper hypermedia (media types and links) is all 99% of apps need.

[0]: https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2009/it-is-okay-to-use-post
Why is real-world ASR still ~85% when lab models claim >95%?
by DoubleThing | 2025-11-30 10:02:36+00:00
Curious to hear what approaches people are taking, what the bottlenecks are, and whether anyone here is pushing toward the goal of "AI that understands you, the first time."

I've been diving into the gap between benchmark ASR performance and real-world speech. Models like Whisper and Deepgram show impressive >95% accuracy in ideal conditions. But in the wild — accents, noisy environments, emotional speech, code-switching, overlapping speakers — accuracy often drops sharply, often to the mid-80s or worse.

This matters because the next wave of AI won't be chatbots; it will be hands-free, real-time systems in contexts like:

- care work (voice logs) - crisis communication - home healthcare - security rounds - field operations - "I need help" micro-interactions

In these high-stakes contexts, 85% accuracy means critical information gets lost.

What seems missing today:

- Fine-tuning pipelines for noisy, accented speech - Reinforcement learning loops (user corrections → model improvements) - Fast per-speaker adaptation - Better handling of disfluencies ("uh," "um," repairs) - Scaling-law insights applied to ASR models - Evaluation metrics that reflect real environments instead of curated datasets

What I'm trying to understand:

- What prevents ASR from reaching reliable >99% accuracy in real-world conditions? - Is the bottleneck the model architecture, data quality, or something else?

Would love to hear from anyone who has:

- Worked on Whisper fine-tuning - Tackled multilingual or accented ASR - Shipped speech systems in noisy environments - Developed conversational (not dictation) ASR models - Built correction-feedback training loops - Deployed ASR in safety-critical or field environments

What worked? What failed? What surprised you?
by tetha | 2025-11-30 10:02:49+00:00
This is one of the early tipping points in the background of the game "Eclipse Phase", which I always found interesting:

--- >8 ---

The power of nation states is rooted in control of land and safety, as well as resources, which is an extension of the control of land. But once mining asteroids became economically viable, the connection between land and resources disappeared. Once space habitation in space and secretly developed weapon systems from space became viable, the connection between safety, habitation and land disappeared.

This allowed corporations and new organizations to rise to power large enough to challenge nation states. Those in power did feared to lose their power, which caused the great war which gave rise to the grey mass and destroyed earth.

--- 8< ---

It's a very cool back story, which gives rise to a rogue nanite swarm (the gray mass), which forces an evacuation of earth within days. The only way this was even possible was by uploading human minds onto storage and planting them in robots later on. Naturally, most humans are then forced to work for these corporations. Other humans are still biological and they don't like robots, to say the least.
by rounce | 2025-11-30 10:02:52+00:00
Yep, I run NixOS on everything but no way in hell am I recommending it to complete newbies to Linux who also have no programming experience.

I help run a small Linux gaming community and at least once a day on the Discord (yes it’s a problematic service but that’s another rant) there is someone trying to install a mod or set up some piece of sim hardware, having recently switched from Windows, and being confused by FlatPak or by system immmutability.

It feels like these things are a double edged sword, on the one hand they are less prone to break they system and not under and why, on the other they now have a bunch of new roadblocks they don’t understand nor fully comprehend the purpose of. I can’t think of a better alternative but I sort of feel that the technology isn’t the issue, more like lack of a good FTUE which provides low friction education about how the system works and why that is beneficial. To use a bit of a tired analogy, it seems to me that a certain proportion of users are being thrown a nice big fish but aren’t being helped to understand what a fishing rod is, let alone able to fish for themselves.

I think I’m really just echoing other users’ comments about how a lot of the experience doesn’t really deliberately speak to people who are barely technical and just want things to work. The sort of people who run an iPhone because it’s simple, and whose response to windows acting weird is to just reinstall it.
by hermitcrab | 2025-11-30 10:02:59+00:00
That is a great idea. Lots of people learn CPR. Perhaps there is a market for a school that teaches basic, hands-on safety skills.

-How to put out a cooker fire with a fire blanket.

-How to use a fire extinguisher.

-How to cut a seat belt.

-How to break a window.

etc

Could be quite a fun day out. I would definitely pay for something like that for me and my family.
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-11-30 10:03:06+00:00
Bitcoin is a great example of something outside of jursidictions. Now look at how much BTC the FBI has seized. In practice, power is gonna power. The US, Russia or China can take out your data centre unless you play by whatever the rules are. If not physically blow up you need to trade, you need a country for ground operations etc. You need a downlink. Being in space meaning no jurisdiction is plain rediculous.
by chuliomartinez | 2025-11-30 10:03:19+00:00
The gold nugget here is: your number one job as the business owner is: find new customers. Forget everything else. You must find ways how to talk to them, get them to trust you and tell you about their problems.

Forget scaling, google ads, until your customer #10, probably more. All your early customers will be from your network, real people you talk to in real world.

It is a chicken and egg problem - you don’t know what product customers need until you have customers. So go find them, build and try to figure out what they have in common.
by maniacwhat | 2025-11-30 10:04:25+00:00
This raises a question in my head. If the author was to update the license to something restrictive, consumers and transitive consumers will npm update at some point, and likely not notice the dependency change.

They would then be breaking the license terms without realizing.

Is there anything in npm to protect against this? Projects have hundreds of dependencies, it's not feasible to manually check licenses haven't changed every time you update.
by nicbou | 2025-11-30 10:05:16+00:00
It's a thing I had to get over, because in the end, people were quite content with what I released and no one minded if I shipped an extra 25kb to the browser or did not have consistently rounded corners.

I learned that lesson again with art. You have to frequently zoom out and see if the entire picture works, or otherwise you make highly detailed turds.