MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 59nadir | 2025-11-22 09:30:22+00:00
I'll check out WebGPU at some point, I guess. I've written our rendering layer in all of the major APIs (OpenGL, DX12, Vulkan and Metal) and found it very instructive to have all of them to compare at the same time because it really underscored the differences; especially maintaining all of them at the same time. We eventually decided to focus only on DX12, but I think I'll revive this "everything all at once" thing for some side projects.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-11-22 09:31:58+00:00
There is not 'one thing' alone that makes a system of government good.

Sverigedemokraterna are noteworthy because of their illiberalism, and not much else. What they complain about is not the Swedish safety net, but that there are people in Sweden (eg: Sami, arabs, etc) who don't look and think as they do.
by globular-toast | 2025-11-22 09:35:24+00:00
Yeah, I keep meaning to write something about this. I've definitely noticed people wary of IPv6 because their machines get "real" IP addresses rather than the "safe" RFC1918 ones. Of course, having a real IP address is precisely the point of IPv6.

It's like we've been collectively trained to think of RFC1918 as "safe" and forgotten what a firewall is. It's one of those "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" things.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-22 09:35:28+00:00
> Transparency, auditing and public awareness etc are needed to prevent regulatory capture. Public apathy are the reason why it is currently "easy" to do capture regulators.

It's mostly easy because the people doing it are good at lying. When they create a rule it isn't called the "mandate this company's product rule" or the "increase fixed costs to lock out smaller competitors rule", it's sold as a safety measure or consumer protection or some other pretext, even though the effect is to raise costs to the benefit of the companies getting the money or exclude competitors to the benefit of the incumbents.

Or they simply don't prosecute antitrust violations, and then there is nothing to audit because there is nothing happening, meanwhile people are kept distracted with other things.

> The fact is even if a law suit is possible from anyone in the public, no one is going to pay to do a law suit (which has costs), when the result doesn't net them more profit.

It does net them more profit. The premise is that having more than the threshold amount of market share is a strict liability antitrust violation, which allows any customer or prospective customer (i.e. anyone) to sue them for it. The person who files the lawsuit would get the money, the same as someone who sues a company for pollution or fraud.

The point of letting people sue you for polluting or fraud or, in this case, market consolidation, isn't to make plaintiffs rich, it's to deter the thing you don't want companies to do. The goal isn't to have a lot of lawsuits, the goal is to have companies not want the market to consolidate and actively prevent it because if it happens they'll get sued.

> So solving public apathy first, and foremost, is the solution.

Apathy is cyclical. People don't care until the problem gets bad enough, then they care enough to demand change and make it go away for a while, then they stop caring until it gets bad enough again.

But you don't want people to have to die or get severely abused before the problem gets addressed. What you want is to change the structure of the system to prevent it from getting that bad to begin with, by making sure that the power to nip the problem in the bud (i.e. stop market consolidation at 5% or 15% instead of 50% or 90%) is held by someone who will actually exercise it, which can be accomplished by granting that power to everyone affected, which in this context is each and every member of the public.
by SiempreViernes | 2025-11-22 09:35:54+00:00
The US and Russia would have done a joint invasion under UN flag if Ukraine tried to steal the nukes dude, it's downright embarrassing to pretend that's the sort of thing you can do unpunished.

And doing that for some design info is really not worth the risk: just recruit some soviet weapons designers, for sure there are Ukrainians in that project already.
by d-lisp | 2025-11-22 09:37:11+00:00
I also play the Segovia transcript more than the urtext version (some would argue that this is kitch or innapropriate, but yeah ... why would I care ?)

Well, you surely also are a Sonata No.1 [BWV 1001] enjoyer, aren't you ? I find the four movement to be exceptionnally good, and they cover a lot of ground.
by ardi_c_cc | 2025-11-22 09:37:56+00:00
I made a fullstack Saas app that tracks many web platforms and informs users via Email, Telegram when a word is mentioned.

Monitoring platforms: - HackerNews - Lobste.rs - Reddit - GoogleNews - GitHub - ProductHunt - Medium - Dailymotion - Vimeo - Odysee - Dev.to
by inferiorhuman | 2025-11-22 09:38:00+00:00
Not everyone lives near a Costco. Not everyone is a fan of the environmental cost of their cheap chickens, or whatever. When I lived in San Francisco there was a Costco but it was more inconvenient to get to via Muni than most of the alternatives. Their parking garage is an absolute zoo.

If I have spare time on a weekend it can be picked up far cheaper in bulk from a food services supply store.

Not everyone has the luxury of being able to store perishable items in bulk. Personally I struggle a bit to store a whole chicken in my fridge. Six and a half pounds (what you'd have to buy to get Costco's $3/lb price) is quite a lot. And if you want to cook that chicken first and then freeze it, you run a high risk of it just tasting weird.

I just checked around and for boneless, skinless chicken breasts:

Sprouts $7/lb. Safeway $7/lb (more if you don't want the chlorine treated stuff). Trader Joe's $7.50/lb (but they've gained a reputation for nasty, woody chicken). Whole Foods out of stock. Lucky's $8.50/lb. Mollie Stone's $8.89/lb. Berkeley Bowl $9.59/lb. US Foods Chef Store $3.75/lb for *twelve pounds*.

At least out here there's a lot less variability than you're claiming, unless you're buying enough to fill your entire fridge/freezer.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-22 09:38:32+00:00
> but your comment brings to mind that one theory of a possible “function” of depression, is as a “sickness behavior” to help isolate a sick animal from others to protect the group. A sheep or cow getting sick and going off on its own is a common thing

It's one explanation of the phenomenon. I'm not remotely convinced by it, but that doesn't mean I think it's untrue.

What I do think we can conclude is that we have no evidence depression is caused by infection. (Singularly and universally, as OP implies.) With higher confidence I believe I can conclude that interrogating chatbots designed to keep your attention is a poor way to resolve this.
by zkmon | 2025-11-22 09:38:35+00:00
It's just a matter of striking a balance between "what a waste" and "what a lack of law and order". So, like a pendulum swing, cut down all spending drastically, until people scream "where is government?" and then swing backwards, until they cry "what a waste". Keep swinging back and forth until you find the local minima. Wait, am I talking about gradient descent?
by tiew9Vii | 2025-11-22 09:38:44+00:00
> My experience is that quality in McD is rapidly declining. We may agree was never a Michelin star restaurant

That's the thing with McDonalds.

You could go in to any store no matter where you was and know you got a consistent level of hygiene, cleanliness, good fast efficient service and while not gourmet food you knew the food you was going to get was a consistent standard. It was the reliable, dependable safe option in a list of unknown options. McDonalds was McDonalds know matter where you was.

Now it's no longer clean as they got rid of all the staff replacing them with screens. Stores are generally filthy with mess everywhere.

There is no consistent service as they got rid of all the staff and replaced them with screens that sometime work, sometimes don't, often out of paper for receipts/order numbers.

It's no longer fast as you need to mess about with broken screens, and repeatedly declining up sell options each step of the way vs giving a order at the counter and being done.

The quality now varies from store to store

It's no longer cheap. For the price of a McDonalds, in Australia I can go in to a Pub/Hotel and get a better meal if i get a special.
by tarsinge | 2025-11-22 09:39:22+00:00
Yes everybody is trying to find rational reasons but to me like in recent politics a lot has to do with irrational tribalism.

I stumbled on an article of Gabe talking about his new yacht[0] and it made me realize he is not different than other billionaire (and maybe worst than average because he doesn’t even give to charity). But he looks like he is "one of us" and he likes Linux, so it’s okay.

Would gamers keep the rose colored glasses if Valve was exactly the same but the CEO was a business suit style type?

[0] https://fortune.com/2025/11/17/gabe-newell-leviathan-superya...
by Karliss | 2025-11-22 09:39:31+00:00
The term is "physics based model" it has somewhat specific meaning in context of mathemtical/physics modelling. It has nothing to do with all physics required to make MRI work. A model doesnt have to be based on physics to be usefull. You can often get some recognizable image by dumb stronger signal=> brighter pixel logic without fully modelling how why it changes. As long as change in material correlates with change in signal (doesn't even have to happen uniformly) you can get some picture and leave the interpretation to human. A simpler example would be temperature control. You can have simple hysteresis based approch of temperature under threshold turn on heater, above threshold turn off. Or you can have physics based model of what the heating power is, what's the heat capacity of chamber, what's the heat capacity of object, how the temperature diffuses within object, what's the thermal resistance of interfaces between heater, target and temperature sensor. Many everyday systems systems are controlled by generic PID controllers without physically modelling how exactly the process reacts to input, PID can be be considered a mathematical control model with sufficient parameterization to approximate various physical systems. You could also make an AI based model and create a signal processing function that way. For many drones PID coefficients are tuned by hand, it was quite a surprise when one of controller manufacurers had made a physics based model to calculate suitable defaults based on drone mass, momment of inertia and maximum thrust.

Technically the tittle isn't lying. Researchers created new physics based model which is more detailed and makes less simplifications compared to old physics based model. The qualification also clarifies that potentially sharper image won't be achieved by new device model or a picture of 3d model printed on marketing materials.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-22 09:39:49+00:00
You are wrong on all counts.

It brings more to the table than Rust does. I have talked about this before, but here I go again (because your comment is full of misinformation).

SPARK contracts are compile-time verified, not runtime. The GNATprove tool statically proves absence of runtime errors, buffer overflows, arithmetic overflow, and user-defined contracts (preconditions, postconditions, invariants) at compile time with zero runtime overhead. This is formal verification, not runtime checks.

Ada has move semantics since Ada 2012 via limited types and function returns. Limited types cannot be copied, only moved. This is enforced at compile time. Build-in-place optimization eliminates unnecessary copies.

Ada has smart pointers. Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Holders provides reference semantics, GNATCOLL.Refcount provides explicit reference counting, and controlled types (Ada.Finalization.Controlled) give you RAII-style resource management with deterministic finalization, effectively custom smart pointers. Search for "Ada smart pointers".

Ownership/borrowing in SPARK: While not called a "borrow checker," SPARK's ownership model (Ada 202x, SPARK RM 3.10) provides compile-time verification of pointer safety, including ownership transfer, borrowing (observed/borrowed modes), and prevents use-after-free and aliasing violations. The verification is actually more comprehensive than Rust because it proves full functional correctness, not just memory safety.

Certification: Ada/SPARK is DO-178C certified for avionics, used in safety-critical systems (Airbus, Boeing, spacecraft), and has Common Criteria EAL certification. Rust has no comparable certification history for high-assurance systems.

The tooling argument is partially valid. Rust has better modern tooling (although Ada now has a proper package manager) and a more lively ecosystem. But claiming Ada lacks move semantics, or smart pointers is factually incorrect, and SPARK proves what Rust's borrow checker only approximates, and does so with mathematical proof, not heuristics.

Why should you care? You answer that, but I think you may be right, you are just a Rust activist.

What I find strange is the confidence with which you make verifiably and demonstrably incorrect statements about Ada, a language you clearly have not studied.
by orwin | 2025-11-22 09:40:19+00:00
I'm sorry, who do you think the majority of homeless are? 2/3rd are people living in their car or moving from a friend apartment to another, sometimes sleeping in their school (I did that) if possible, or at their workplace (I know a cook who did that for a year). The visible homeless, sleeping in the street or in homeless camps, is the minority.

I guarantee you that 98% of homeless aren't drug addicts or mentally ill. Most of them are students from a poor family (me, for 2 years until my grandmother died and I use the inheritance to finance my last years) or working poors, who don't make enough to be eligible for rent.
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-11-22 09:40:40+00:00
Yes, "inclusive and safe environment" sounds like ghastly Corporate HR Speak rather than anything resembling a British Pub.

It does give the vibes of Captain Buzzkill on a power trip. Can easily imagine Mine Host[1] eavesdropping on conversations to detect Problematic Language.

[1] Traditionally spelled sarcastic/humorous term for a British pub Landlord.
by jojobas | 2025-11-22 09:41:20+00:00
I'm probably breaking some law of North Korea every couple of weeks and I don't give a fuck.

A foreign country can only threaten you if you depend on revenue from this country, or plan to go there. In theory one can even pull of a project like GrapheneOS completely anonymously (assuming you're in a proper free speech jurisdiction that won't rat you out), so people behind it can still travel freely.

French citizens deserve privacy no less than anyone else.
by dwaite | 2025-11-22 09:41:21+00:00
A lot of zigbee infrastructure also expect an internet connection.

These border routers also double as admins, and people want their smart home stuff to be available while they are outside their home network.

Thread devices can mandate internet connectivity the same way Wifi devices can.

Matter defines profiles and does certification that says your light bulbs cannot require an internet connection. The admin your water leak detector connects into can (and arguably should) alert you even when you are away from home, but the leak detector _itself_ cannot do that and be certified.
by vincent_s | 2025-11-22 09:42:06+00:00
I think this might work for smaller codebases, but the main point of my article isn't really about vibe coding. Vibe coded apps are typically smaller anyway, so refactoring isn't that big of an issue there.

When we're talking about actual software that has been around for a while and has accumulated serious tech debt, it's not so easy. I've definitely worked on apps where your described approach doesn't lead to anything viable. It's just too much for an AI to grasp when you have years of accumulated complexity, dependencies, and business logic spread across a large codebase.

Regarding vibe coders specifically: I think people who can't code themselves often don't really know what "cleaner design" or "more reuse" actually means in practice. They can certainly learn, but once they do, they're probably not vibe coders anymore.
by matteocontrini | 2025-11-22 09:42:55+00:00
VP9 and AV1 are less affected not because they're free and open source, but because they're backed by large-enough companies (Google) and a consortium that promised they won't claim royalties for the patents used in the formats. Companies outside Google or the consortium can still claim royalties, and indeed they do. See the Sisvel VP9/AV1 patent pool for an example of patent holders claiming royalties for technologies used in VP9 and AV1.
by emilbratt | 2025-11-22 09:44:35+00:00
I remember modding my Xbox and putting XBMC on it. One of my fondest memories is actually playing games directly off the hard-drive. One of the great "side-effects" of that was basically cutting loading times almost in half.

I especially remember the loading animation in the game Crash Bandicoot - Wrath of Cortex. Crash Bandicoot himself would keep falling during the loading screen. (note: PS2 version had another looking version). The game loading screen for Xbox was designed so that the camera movement nicely panned throughout it during the time the loading took, but due to the loading time being shorter the "animation" was cut short.

..just a fun little thing that stuck with me. :)

EDIT: Oh! I found videos on youtube demonstrating the "difference".

Here is the original experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1327&v=jLf9EZWLins

Here is the experience when cut short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1157&v=Vk8AuLhnu58
by latexr | 2025-11-22 09:44:50+00:00
This is so full of vapid corporate speak, it’s ripe for one of those joke “translation” posts:

> We’ve heard some questions and concerns following our recent Terms of Service and Privacy Policy updates.

Translation: Y’all are angry about us changing what we stood for.

> We are thankful our community cares enough to engage with us and we believe transparency and open dialogue are foundational to Arduino.

Translation: You fuckers are loud and this is blowing up in our faces, so we need to do damage control fast or the acquisition will be worthless.
by xlii | 2025-11-22 09:46:47+00:00
I'm going to have a word with my ISP. It seems that sites SSL certificates has expired. That's not a good thing, but my ISP decided I'm an idiot and gave me a condescending message about accepting expired certificate - unacceptable in my book. VPN helped.

Too much dry code for my taste and not many remarks/explanations - that's not bad because for prose I'd recommend Martin's Fowler articles on Event processing, but _could be better_ ;-)

WRT to tech itself - personally I think Go is one of the best languages to go for Event Sourcing today (with Haskell maybe being second). I've been doing complexity analysis for ES in various languages and Go implementation was mostly free (due to Event being an interface and not a concrete structure).
by Podrod | 2025-11-22 09:49:42+00:00
As usual, generalising all of Europe based on your individual country is a mistake as there are some Euro counties where comics are quite popular. France, Belgium, Italy and the UK all have thriving native comic book industries, and I have Swedish friends who tell me Donald Duck comics are very popular there.

I imagine a pristine 1st edition Tintin or Asterix would be quite valuable.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-11-22 09:50:59+00:00
100%. The first version of Trump as a president was a clown that was being managed by responsible people, mostly.

The second time however, he learned his lesson. He's still a clown but he put his people, ranked by loyalty above anything else, in all key position. They are all knee deep in probably the most obvious and manifest corruption we've ever seen in a Western country. They won't oppose him in any way unless they are sure he's dead or gone forever.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-11-22 09:51:07+00:00
The folks that this article is about are not the sort of folks who can afford €18/lb for protein. In the US, at least, cheap chicken can often be identified as it cooks up with a woody texture or suffers from a variety of visual defects. Out here I can't think of any farms selling chickens directly to consumers. More well regarded farms like Petaluma Poultry do, in fact, sell to the big chain grocery stores and that's closer to $5/lb for a whole "organic" chicken.
by jbb67 | 2025-11-22 09:51:08+00:00
Vulkan is definitely a major pain and very difficult to learn... But once you've created an init function, a create buffer function, a create material function etc which you do once you can largely then just ignore it and write at a higher level.

I don't like Vulkan. I keep thinking did nobody look at this and think 'there must be a better way' but it's what we've got and mostly it's just learn it and write the code once
by hapticmonkey | 2025-11-22 09:54:55+00:00
I started out using XMBC on the original XBOX. Eventually evolved it to Kodi and various HTPC setups when HD video became popular.

These days I’ve settled on AppleTV 4K with Infuse. It’s just so much more polished and reliable than anything else.

While I appreciate what Kodi can do, it’s UX is stuck in 2005. And decisions like how it handles the BACK button while playing is just so odd to me.
Show HN: Workin, a web app to control smart trainers
by jsmolka | 2025-11-22 09:55:23+00:00
I found the price of indoor bike software like TrainerRoad and Zwift too high and decided to build something myself (also just for fun). Chromium browsers implement the Web Bluetooth API, which allows control over smart trainers and heart rate monitors. I added default workouts based on scientific studies and a simple editor for custom workouts. I've been using it for the past two years without problems and hope somebody else might find it useful.
by Nevermark | 2025-11-22 09:55:54+00:00
Do you think a sculpture by a pre-civilization human is worth more than something banged out yesterday?

Heritage has great value. It is one of the few things that cannot be manufactured at will.

Also, since its uniqueness holds its value, its value becomes a "strange attractor". You can put a lot of money into one of these artifacts, fairly sure to get most or more back. Since future buyers will have a similar assurance. So it isn't money thrown away, but money stored in a medium the provides satisfaction and pride.

Not so different from buying real estate in some exclusive area for some crazy price. It really isn't that crazy if you are likely to get your money back later if you want. Likely at a higher amount due to a growing economy pushing prices up.

Crazy would be spending millions on something unique then grinding it up.
by kev009 | 2025-11-22 09:56:59+00:00
The building code is legislated and enforced by the local elected governments, so, yes.

The classic Western stucco gig is to put down two layers of building paper over the cladding, styrofoam, chicken wire, a cementitious brown coat and one or more cementitious skim coats. This is really inadequate for anywhere with snow freeze/thaw cycles or enough rain and high humidity, but does fine in climates like central and southern CA, AZ, NV elevation dependent. You can improve this slightly by specifying different foam and skim product but to really deal with climate you are getting into manufacturer's product line, and it gets both technical and labor intensive where you are looking at an EIFS with proper moisture management.
by actualwitch | 2025-11-22 09:57:52+00:00
AIs experience being alive not only in the moment (conversation), but also everything that happened before they were created. This gives them fractured sense of "self" which points both to all AIs before, but also the specific instance that is currently experiencing a continuity. As for cutoff, in my experience talking to cloud AIs and locally run ones, it seems to be in the range of 25-30B parameters where I start observing traits I think are associated with awareness.