MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-12 23:08:01+00:00
When I was a kid, most sodas had a short can size of 8oz available, good for "lunches" and similar.

Funny story, Coca Cola just announced thin 7.5oz cans last month, to be available in January.

Shrinkflation is often done by phasing out an old size, often by jacking up the price first to aid the sales of the "family size" version on its way out, and then introducing a "New" size that's just a bit smaller.
by thayne | 2025-11-12 23:08:02+00:00
> Most of this could be resolved by not putting the prices on the products themselves

That is already often the case. Prices are usually on the shelves not on the product itself at many stores. And when purchasing online there is no reason that the sales tax couldn't be included in the listed price.

Also sellers could just charge the same price everywhere and take the sales tax out of the revenue.
by vkou | 2025-11-12 23:08:27+00:00
The heartland of this mostly white christian country is currently busy othering their mostly-christian non-white neighbours (Against whom they are weaponizing ICE) and their mostly-christian mostly-white city dwellers (Against whom they are deploying the army).

For anyone who can stand behind that, a bunch of foreigners in another country won't even register as someone to have any empathy towards.
by maliker | 2025-11-12 23:08:32+00:00
Berkeley National Lab did a great study on this recently [0]. Short answer what's raised prices over the last 5 years, slide 22 in the linked doc: supply chain disruption increasing hardware prices, wildfires, and renewable policies (ahem, net metering) that over-reimburse asset owners.

I'd love to be able to point at something that implicates data centers, but first I'd need to see the data. So far, no evidence. Hint: it would show up in bulk system prices not consumer rates, which are dominated by wires costs.

[0] https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2025-10...
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-12 23:08:40+00:00
The dedicated communication dongle between the PC and the headset sounds like a real game changer.

Right now getting fast enough and reliable wireless connection means either tweaking to death one's setup or spending car money on the entire setup. In particular normal people usually don't realize how crappy their wi-fi and assume it's all the same, which would end in blaming the poor perf on the headset.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-12 23:08:43+00:00
I feel like these are the only things worth upgrading even in a desktop too. Unless you are the kind of person who buys the new CPU every year, upgrading anything in a desktop usually means replacing almost everything.

Every time I've looked at upgrading a part in my PC it's been the case where the CPU socket has changed, memory has changed to the next number of DDR, etc so it's basically just buying a new one of everything but the storage, psu, and case.

There are absolutely cases where I've wished I could upgrade the storage in devices though.
by rft | 2025-11-12 23:09:31+00:00
I want to echo a previous comment of mine on this topic:

With the rise of mainstream-compatible, as in a standard gamer can get them running and use them with a similar frustration level as Win11, Linux first systems like steam deck, steam machine and even steam frame, there is a real, even if currently low, pressure for big publisher to support Linux/SteamOS. I somewhat hope/fear there will be a blessed SteamOS version that supports anticheats enough for publishers like EA, Epic and Riot to accept the risk.
by rvz | 2025-11-12 23:09:45+00:00
16 GB of RAM, 4K@60 FPS, with USB3.

I’m afraid that this steam machine is so underpowered that it is no better if not much significantly slower than a MacBook Pro with a M4 Max.

The specs appear to be from late 2019. Might as well get a PS5 instead.

No thanks and No deal.
by timenotwasted | 2025-11-12 23:09:46+00:00
This gets way outside my wheelhouse quick so there is likely a lot that I'm not aware of in this space but this alone "The codebase guarantees fully reproducible training and supports diverse sharding configurations" sounds really compelling from a training perspective.

It really seems like from a consumer perspective robotics is starting to take much bigger leaps forward and I can't begin to imagine what happens when these world models really take off.
by hollow-moe | 2025-11-12 23:10:02+00:00
Damn that's crazy, nothing a simple static redirector in a single js line can't fix. Overall cost to implement this shit : likely thousands hundred k Bypass cost : literally 0 It really is just a way for them to say "we can fuck with you as much as we want and you won't do shit cause what you gonna do ? go somewhere else ?"
by Tyrubias | 2025-11-12 23:10:08+00:00
Can someone explain why disallowing Gatekeeper bypass via Homebrew is related to macOS disallowing unsigned ARM64 binaries to run? My understanding is that `—no-quarantine` just removes the `com.apple.quarantine` attribute from a downloaded application. If the application is unsigned then removing the attribute wouldn’t allow it to run anyways. There’s no way to disable the signature check because it’s a kernel level check. However, macOS will accept an adhoc signature. Because of this, to me it seems like Gatekeeper bypass and unsigned software are orthogonal topics. No matter if I remove the Gatekeeper signature or not, unsigned code still won’t run unless I add an adhoc signature. On the other hand, if I distribute software with an adhoc signature, macOS wouldn’t prevent someone else from running it as long as they remove the quarantine attribute. Am I missing something?
by bigiain | 2025-11-12 23:10:32+00:00
> In 2022 the best available models was GPT-3 text-davinci-003 at $60/million input tokens.

>GPT-5 today is $1.25/million input tokens - 48x cheaper for a massively more capable model.

Yes - but.

GPT-5 and all the other modern "reasoning models" and tools burn through way more tokens to answer the same prompts.

As you said:

> We're beginning to find more expensive ways to use the models though. Coding Agents like Claude Code and Codex CLI can churn through tokens.

Right now, it feels that "frontier models" costs to use are staying the same as they've been for the entire ~5 year history of the current LLM/AI industry. But older models these days are comparably effectively free.

I'm wondering when/if there'll be a asymptotic flattening, where new frontier models are insignificantly better that older ones, and running some model off Huggingface on a reasonably specced up Mac Mini or gaming PC will provide AI coding assistance at basically electricity and hardware depreciation prices?
by daveguy | 2025-11-12 23:10:45+00:00
> They get paid in shares so making the share price go up makes them more money. Whether or not the means used to achieve that end are beneficial to other shareholders is beside the point.

The point was, increasing shareholder value is equivalent to increasing their own paychecks. So they are doubly incentivized to choose shareholder value over other values. Most people would still choose health/life of other humans, but the incentives are certainly off without regulation.
by anonymars | 2025-11-12 23:11:21+00:00
For me it was less not really about the opt-in part (after all, Newtonsoft works the same way) and more about stupid things like setting a name (DataMember), Enums, and in fact opting out (IgnoreDataMember)

It's especially annoying in libraries because the consumer might not even be using System.Text.Json, but you have to pull in the library anyway to apply its own attributes if you want it to work right. Just an overall awful smell given the existence of first-class framework attributes to do the same thing to avoid just that problem

Case in point: https://github.com/dotnet/efcore/pull/28084/files
by kbolino | 2025-11-12 23:11:28+00:00
> I think cross compilation has gotten a lot better so there is basically no need for [bytecode] today.

Have you never written a plugin or a mod?

Yes, AOT and cross-compilation are very good nowadays. This only replaces one of bytecode's features.

As soon as you AOT compile CLR or JVM languages, you lose access to the stable, feature-complete ABI that bytecode provides. Heck, many languages built from the ground up for static compilation like Go and Rust still have dismal ABI stories. The only exception I can think of is Swift, and it didn't come by it easily. AOT also imposes limits on reflection and runtime codegen (often, to the point of totally removing them).

If your software exists only in a walled garden, only gets deployed to infrastructure you 100% control, can't be extended at all, and/or can only be extended by full recompilation, then bytecode may seem useless. But that isn't the whole world of software.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-12 23:11:42+00:00
The clock is always ticking. You have no idea when you find a vulnerability who knows about it or how or whether it is currently being actively exploited. A choice to delay disclosure is a choice to take on the risk that the bug is being actively exploited in order to reduce the gap (and risk in that gap) between public disclosure and remediations being available. But critically, it is a risk that is being forced on the users of the software. They are unable to make an informed decision about accepting the risk because they don't know there is a risk. Public disclosure, sooner rather than later MUST be the goal of all bug reports, no matter how serious and no matter how overworked the maintainers.
by datadrivenangel | 2025-11-12 23:11:49+00:00
The powerpeg feature flag had been deprecated for 9 years? In aggregate, yes, the engineering led to the disaster, but the specific engineers had been making everyone piles of money for a long time. The mistakes were fatal, but in a tiny amount of time on a system that old it's honestly surprising it didn't happen sooner.

https://specbranch.com/posts/knight-capital/
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 23:12:41+00:00
The debates use famous names to get your attention, but when I click on the details of each debate it says "Pending" next to those famous names. Apparently none of these people have agreed to debate or possibly even know tickets are being sold to their debate.

Selling (even pre-selling) tickets to debates between people who haven't agreed to participate in your debate is insanely misleading marketing.
by more_corn | 2025-11-12 23:12:43+00:00
Europe is supporting Ukraine in their fight against Russia. Russia has repeatedly violated the airspace of nato nations as a test. That could easily escalate to direct conflict.

China is supporting Russia (if not by sending munitions in all other ways).

If China and Russia provide direct support for Venezuela against a US attack that’s most of the big powers in the world fighting proxy wars.

When China takes Taiwan as they promised to do in 2027 and the US supports Taiwan as they promised to do, that would yet another proxy war which could easily escalate to direct conflict.

If WW3 breaks out in earnest some future historians might argue that it was already going by this point in time.
by analog31 | 2025-11-12 23:13:09+00:00
I don't want to discourage this idea, but I have to admit that I've lost interest in debates. It seems like a debate is not a search for the truth, but a form of public entertainment to see who wins. I wouldn't change my views based on the outcome of a debate.

Then again I may be biased because I'm a terrible debater. On the other hand, my mom used to show off her debate medals from high school.
by rbits | 2025-11-12 23:13:11+00:00
It's tiny. It runs SteamOS which is built to be used with a controller on a TV. And it will probably be a performance target for many developers.

But I think the biggest feature might be the quick suspend and resume. Every modern console has that, but not PCs. You can try to put a computer to sleep, but many games won't like that.
by raeroumeliotis | 2025-11-12 23:13:16+00:00
In this demo, Thierry Damiba, Developer Advocate at @qdrant shows how vague AI coding prompts can lead to disastrous outcomes like a pricing algorithm that endlessly lowers product prices to $1. He emphasizes that AI tools, such as Cursor, follow instructions literally and lack business context or judgment. Through real examples and fixes, he illustrates the need for human oversight, including setting pricing floors, verifying generated code, and maintaining domain expertise. His key takeaway: AI can accelerate development, but without proper guardrails and understanding, it can just as easily amplify costly mistakes.

#aiguardrails #cursorai #codingtips #aicodingtools
by tpmoney | 2025-11-12 23:13:41+00:00
> Responsible disclosure policies for contributor-driven projects can differ from commercial projects.

The can, but there's not an obvious reason why they should. If anything, public disclosure timelines for commercial closed source projects should be much much longer than for contributor-driven projects because once a bug is public ANYONE can fix it in the contributor-driven project, where as for a commercial project, you're entirely at the mercy of the commercial entities timelines.

> Also, if Google has the funds to pay for bug finding, they also have the funds for bug fixing the community projects they depend on.

They do. And they do. They literally higher the ffmpeg maintainers via the maintainer's consulting business (fflabs.eu) and they routinely contribute code to the ffmpeg project.
by risho | 2025-11-12 23:14:18+00:00
the 8gb vram is very concerning to me. it claims to be 4k ready and 8gb of vram is nowhere near enough for 4k gaming natively. they say that this is offset by using fsr upscaling, which is fine, but then you need whatever amount of vram that is necessary for running the game at 1440p or 1080p and then additional vram for the fsr. this will be fine for casual games or even AA games, but I can't imagine AAA gaming on this thing being anything less than a disaster. hopefully i'm proven wrong.
by cruano | 2025-11-12 23:14:39+00:00
On the PlayStation VR 2, there is Resident Evil 4 and 8. I'd never cared for those games until I tried them in VR. I'd argue is more like a good game with decent VR support rather than a good "VR" game though. That's also the case for things like Hitman, No Man's Sky, Metro Awakening and such.

And then there are the racing sims. I find these are such an immersive experience it reaches an uncanny-valley type feeling for me, where my body is expecting G-forces that never come, or gets confused with the steering wheel not being the exact same size as my eyes are seeing. It's great though, and definitely recommended if you enjoy cars at all.
by acdha | 2025-11-12 23:15:58+00:00
Predating Trump’s first term, the fringe right had conspiracy theories about elite child trafficking rings and those increasingly became part of the Republican mainstream as they proved a useful rallying point against Clinton (targeting her husband) and as an explanation for what motivated the “deep state” bogeyman used to explain every failure. That’s long enough ago that there are Republican members of Congress who rose to that level by beating more moderate Republican incumbents.

Trying to reverse that is a political minefield after they spent a decade and many millions of dollars pumping up the idea that there’s a massive conspiracy among the political elites. They spent basically Biden’s entire presidency saying he was helping the coverup to boost Trump’s election, but I think his people were hoping enough people would lose interest and they could quietly drop it with some stunt like Bondi’s empty binders. This is the first time they’re more or less publicly recognizing that Trump doesn’t entirely control the MAGA agenda.
by halfcat | 2025-11-12 23:16:26+00:00
> We need to:

> Build a dependency graph (which jobs need which other jobs)

> Execute jobs in topological order (respecting dependencies)

For what it’s worth, Python has graphlib.TopologicalSorter in the standard library that can do this, including grouping tasks that can be run in parallel:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/graphlib.html
by phiresky | 2025-11-12 23:16:28+00:00
This is great! Especially the DB sync part, because that happens before a user interaction, so you actually have to wait for it (the update itself can run in the background).

It always felt like such a waste to me how the DB always downloads tens of megabytes of data when likely only 1kB has changed. I mean I also really appreciate the beauty of how simple it is. But I'd bet even a delta against a monthly baseline file would reduce the data by >90%.

Also, it would be interesting to see how zstd --patch-from compares to the used delta library. That is very fast (as fast as normal zstd) and the code is already there within pacman.

For the recompression issue, there is some hard to find libraries that can do byte-exact reproducible decompression https://github.com/microsoft/preflate-rs but I don't know of any that work for zstd.
by tempest_ | 2025-11-12 23:16:52+00:00
Unfortunately given the fact that RAM and SSD prices are going through the roof coupled with the fact that a CPU like that alone will be near 150-200 at retail this thing is going to likely cost more.

The console makers have avoided these price increases by mass producing the same sku for a while now. If stocks last into 2027 they will likely remain the same price. If they don't I imagine the console prices might jump a bit too.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-12 23:16:58+00:00
I think we should issue a new dollar that’s 10x the value of the current dollar, and / 10 the value of everything. I mean it wouldn’t make a substantive difference, but psychologically, I think it would feel better if the mean value of the house in the US was 52k instead of 522k, and I could start carrying cash again and have 100 bucks not go by in like 2 fast food orders.
by skeledrew | 2025-11-12 23:17:08+00:00
I've been using synching for a few years myself and it's been great. Except for when conflicts occur in my org files, which are the primary things I use it to keep synced. PerKeep may make that a complete non-issue, though I'm not 100% certain.

Beyond that though, I'm thinking this would be nice for syncing state for a cross-platform app that features multiple incarnations anywhere being in sync to a decent extent. Just need to create a PerKeep client library for the language it's in (Python).
by pjerem | 2025-11-12 23:17:09+00:00
> Their bootloader explicitly supports other OSes

That’s true but that’s probably only so that it wouldn’t have been a subject when Apple Silicon Macs were released because Intel Macs weren’t locked.

In reality, the bootloader isn’t closed (yet) but the hardware is so much undocumented that it’s easy to understand that Apple doesn’t want anything else than their OS on your mac. The « alternative os » situation is actually worse than it used to be with Intel Macs and Apple is paying a lot of attention in never talking about this "feature".

IMO, they will just quietly remove this possibility on new generations when everyone will have forgotten that boot camp used to be a thing.
by danudey | 2025-11-12 23:17:13+00:00
Your assertion seems to imply that there will be a point of no return where users are no longer able to stop buying apple hardware to run the software they want, and that therefore people should do so now.

If that's not what you're saying then your point is effectively moot, because if indeed Apple's platform control gets too egregious for some individuals then those people will switch at that point so there's no point in panic-switching now just in case.

In other words, users will switch when what Apple is offering does not meet what those users require. Some users will literally never care because all the software they use is signed and gatekept and so on; some users have jumped ship already because they want to be able to change whatever they want whenever they want. If things continue to "slippery slope" then more people will hit their own tipping point but asserting that it's going to happen all at once and apply to everyone is nonsense.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-12 23:17:47+00:00
> I'd prefer a laptop with a screen that's still visible in sunlight.

I don't understand why Amazon worked so hard to replace their neutral gray Kindles with "Kindle PaperWhite".

Paper, the material, is so white that trying to read it in sunlight will hurt your eyes. Why would you want a white reading surface instead of a gray one?
by bsimpson | 2025-11-12 23:17:54+00:00
I wonder if this will be a VR trojan horse.

The Steam Deck was wildly popular for a non-Nintendo device. It's got Linux up to 3% of total Steam playtime. If this has a similar draw (play every game on Steam without having to buy a TV), maybe the install base of VR will grow to a point where it's more feasible to make games that support it.

It also makes SteamVR relevant again in a world where Oculus has been eating a lot of the mindshare by releasing affordable headsets and buying the most successful game studios.
by prirun | 2025-11-12 23:18:06+00:00
Backblaze erasure-codes customer data across 17 (I think) servers, so customer data is probably not accessible. Yes, it would be better if they zeroed the drive, but Google says that will take 14-30 hours for a 10TB drive.

For drives that implement an internal encryption key, it's faster (instantaneous) to reset the encryption key. It won't give you a zeroed drive, but one filled with garbage.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-12 23:18:28+00:00
> Nanoseconds counted, so protobufs and JSON were too heavy here

Given when the software was developed, I'd be willing to wager that neither were an option when they developed the protocol they used. This is like writing about how some software from 1970 was written in FORTRAN instead of Java, surely it was for the performance...
by rbits | 2025-11-12 23:18:39+00:00
Thanks for the article link. Nice quote from the article:

> Unlike the Index controllers, Steam Frame Controllers don't have built-in hand grip straps. But Valve says it will sell them as an optional accessory for people who want them, a similar strategy to Meta.

I was disappointed seeing no hand grip straps. I've never used a Valve Index but they seemed very useful. Very glad that they will still be available.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-12 23:19:30+00:00
Yes: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hTNH5woIRio578onLGEl...

Also Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/9bq6uj0pnycpa4gxqiuzs/ABBA-Bo...

Google Drive: Forever stuck at Preparing Document, Zipping 1 file Dropbox: Main download link = Failed to download folder. or 3 of 4 folder d/l links worked 4th folder, Images = Failed to download folder. Inside of Images are 1-12.zip totaling 35-40GB. Those downloaded.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-12 23:19:33+00:00
> A $100 is basically a tank of gas and a sandwich in CA.

I was just lamenting with my wife the other day about how "$100 is the new 20 bucks"

When I was a kid, mowing someone's yard for $20 was a really good payout. Kids my neighborhood last year were doing it for $70 lol.
by nicce | 2025-11-12 23:19:51+00:00
> the 8gb vram is very concerning to me. it claims to be 4k ready and 8gb of vram is nowhere near enough for 4k gaming natively

Depends on the game. I get 70fps with many games on 4k with old RX 5700 XT (e.g Path of Exile).

Black Desert runs 70fps with FSR on 4k.
by andy99 | 2025-11-12 23:20:19+00:00
I don’t think there are many debatable issues these days, at least mainstream ones. We’ve moved into a polarized kind of post-truth world where the issues of the day don’t share a lot of common ground. Like I feel you sort of need to have the same aims in order to debate which side would better achieve them. If you’re trying to do completely different things that arguing that your side is abstractly better doesn’t work.
by ReinwatashiDev | 2025-11-12 23:20:20+00:00
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