MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tptacek | 2025-11-07 04:12:01+00:00
Yes. You've caught on to our devious plan. To do anything I suggested in this post, you'd have to use a computer. By spending compute cycles, you'd be driving scarcity of compute. By the inexorable law of supply and demand, this would drive the price of compute cycles up, allowing us to profit. We would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-07 04:12:38+00:00
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-electrotech-rev...

> 80% of the world lives in fossil fuel importing countries, with over 50 countries importing more than half their primary energy as fossil fuels. In contrast, 92% of countries have renewables potential over ten times their current demand. Replacing imported fossil fuels using three key levers—EVs, heat pumps and renewables—can cut net fossil fuel imports by 70%, saving $1.3 trillion globally each year. Once electrotech is bought, it lasts for decades, providing insulation from the vagaries of global pricing. When fossil flows stop, the economy stops. When electrotech flows stop, only growth is at risk.

> China’s pivot to electrotech has been central to the global shift, sparking an explosion in manufacturing, innovation and deployment. China’s domestic roll-out of electrotech is unparalleled: it accounts for half of global solar panel installations, 60% of EV sales and two-thirds of global growth in electricity demand since 2019. In the first half of 2025, Chinese fossil demand in electricity generation was down by 2%. This is highly significant because global fossil fuel demand excluding China has been flat since 2018, and China has driven all the net growth.

> As electrotech surges into one country and sector after the next, it drives replacement, not addition. Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, and may peak for electricity this year. Two-thirds of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, and half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity. China is the pivot nation in the global system, and fossil electricity demand in China is down 2% in the first half of 2025. If current trends continue in renewables deployment and electrification, fossil fuel demand will be in decline by 2030. That implies disruption for the fossil fuel sector and the rise of new electrotech winners.
by zeroq | 2025-11-07 04:12:44+00:00
Did they? I recall similar site back from as far as from 2008. Might be them or something similar.

Anyway. I can totally see such site running purely on statistics. Every song, every artists, every genre is a bucket. You listen to a song you put a drop in these buckets. Once there's enough water running we can compare you to other users and their buckets.

It might be hard to run it on scale in real time, but c'mon, it's leetcode junior level assignment level of complication.
by tekbruh9000 | 2025-11-07 04:12:57+00:00
PVE was indeed awful. Especially given the back drop; it should have been full of adventure across the galaxy, established characters messing with players, but was merely "run here and kill 6 kobolds". NPC AI sucked.

Would love to strip from my private server, NPC generation as-is as implementation is static and does not allow dynamic responses. Replace it with modern agents to connect like players and train them to build out the world like players can.

Also started a project to make a new client using video and segmentation, gen AI to recreate initial game engine entities as Godot scenes to have full control.

Too little time for either, initial code has sat untouched for years.
by aryonoco | 2025-11-07 04:12:58+00:00
My Bitwarden account is protected with YubiKey as the 2FA. I then store every other TOTP in Bitwarden right next to the password.

I get amazing convince with this setup, and it’s still technically two factor. To get into my Bitwarden account you need to know both my Bitwarden password and have my yubikey. If you can get into my Bitwarden, then I am owned. But for most of us who are not say, being specifically targeted by state agents, this setup provides good protection with very good user experience.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-07 04:13:27+00:00
Reality is much worse than a noir plot for almost everyone in America not middle-class or rich; it was only marginally better post-Obama/RomneyCare where a major health event like cancer can still easily lead into one or both of these common scenarios:

A. Can't afford treatment and denied by insurance? One must beg on GoFundMe to get life-saving treatment because they reached insurance lifetime limits, lacked disastrous coverage, or it's considered "experimental"/"not medically necessary".

B. Spend their last weeks going through chapter 7 or 13 personal bankruptcy where they fight with healthcare collectors to keep transportation, housing, and clothes in their final days while they're in pain, on nasal infusion pumps, etc. Sell almost everything and hand it to the collection vampires.

Oh, and about the only way to qualify for Medicaid for extremely expensive long term care (not covered by Medicare) should anyone live long enough to become elderly requires having almost no income and no resources. If one becomes disabled and/or elderly without resources, dual eligible (Medicare and Medicaid) is the best place to be (SNP) or one is probably looking at homelessness, misery, and/or a shorter life.

Medicaid cuts were passed to pay for tax cuts for billionaires that won't take effect until after 2026 midterm elections. Millions of elderly people are at risk of being made homeless and around 1 in 5 elder care facilities and many thousands of rural hospitals will close. Meanwhile, half of the White House is demolished to make it horrible, POTUS is enriching himself with planes and gold trinkets, goes golfing for millions of dollars, and has a Great Gatsby-themed party without understanding how bad it looks.
by chihuahua | 2025-11-07 04:14:23+00:00
If I read that word salad correctly, Cloudflare says they're blocking it because they want to "protect the privacy" of users who do a DNS lookup of archive.today, to prevent the requester's IP address from being reviealed to archive.

That seems ludicrous, given that after a DNS lookup, the next thing anybody does is to send an HTTP request, which obviously reveals that same IP address to the archive servers.

So it's an obvious and blatant lie by Cloudflare, and I wonder what their real reason is.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-07 04:14:56+00:00
Are you making the claim that only "white" people live in the neighborhoods under discussion?

Or are you making that claim that those neighborhoods should only have "white" people?

As much as I've given you the benefit of the doubt, it's pretty clear you're not posting in good faith in any of the multiple interactions we've had in this specific discussion. I'm done.
by retentionissue | 2025-11-07 04:15:00+00:00
Since I started working night shifts, I have read on average two books a week.

As others have said, the amount of time spent reading depends on the book in your hand. I recently picked up two books by David Baldacci for this week and just finished the second one tonight - His style is stellar, keeps me hooked and I can read for 5 hours solid some nights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innocent_(Baldacci_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Target_(novel)
by msafi04 | 2025-11-07 04:15:33+00:00
This is a fantastic toolkit, and the discussion in the comments about the learning benefits of manual creation is spot-on.

I think the real killer feature here isn't just bulk-generating new cards, but enriching existing, manually-created ones.

My ideal workflow would be:

Manually create a basic card when I encounter a new word (e.g., the word and the sentence I found it in). This preserves that crucial "moment of discovery" and initial learning. Once a week or so, run anki-llm as a batch process on all new cards to add powerful, context-rich fields like: etymology, common collocations, or subtle nuance (vs. a similar word). This way, you get the best of both worlds: the initial learning from manual creation, followed by automated enrichment that would be too tedious to do by hand. Really powerful stuff, great work!
by sipofwater | 2025-11-07 04:15:38+00:00
"Traditional Data Centers ‘Not Fit for Purpose,’ Say Half of EMEA IT Leaders, as AI and Energy Pressures Collide" "New research from Lenovo inspires concept designs showing how data centers must evolve to meet tomorrow’s compute and climate demands": https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/datacenter-... (news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/datacenter-of-the-future-emea-research/)
by zzo38computer | 2025-11-07 04:15:48+00:00
> I'm interested in the idea of a clean slate hardware/software system.

I am also interested and I have many ideas about it. However, although my ideas are different from many existing systems in many ways (in many ways that most operating system projects aren't), there are many similarities too, so they are not quite "truly radical".

> I think being constrained to support existing hardware or software reduces opportunities for innovation on the other.

I think this is correct. (My ideas are not intended to be constrained to support existing hardware and software, although emulation of other systems is still possible (NES/Famicom, Game Boy Advance, uxn, etc).)

> It is defined by properties that it does not want to be.

Although it is not sufficient by itself, I think that it is still helpful to define what it is not supposed to be, as well as what it is supposed to be.
by righthand | 2025-11-07 04:16:19+00:00
No the Mba is Freeds boss who installed him there and ensure he enforces closing of the web. Coming from sensor manufacturing to software isn’t really that impressive but it does make sense why a sensor manufacturing engineer would make arguments for removing a spec like XSLT but not a terribly complicated and security vulnerable spec like bluetooth. Which probably has 10x the complexity and 10x security plane of xslt. Thank you this whole thing is an even bigger joke.

Enjoy the precedent this sets for other tech not in the Google stable. You clearly are getting what you want so why continue this discussion. Who are you trying to convince?
Show HN: Practice your captcha skills with Google's weirdest Street Views
by SantiDev | 2025-11-07 04:17:33+00:00
This is my newest project developer on my current road to becoming a Fullstack developer:

[ PROJECT ] - Street Captcha: Practice your captcha image skills with Google's Street View oddest captures as images.

[ TOPICS ] - Dynamic Styling, DOM Manipulation, State Management, ES6 Modules, CDN, State Management, PNPM, Responsiveness, classList manipulation, CSS Variables, Flexbox.

[ LINK ] - https://street-captcha.netlify.app/

Big shoutout to the man himself @nealagarwal (twitter). Many of the visuals and creative inspiration come from his project Wonders of Street View. You can check him out here: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/
by sigmonsays | 2025-11-07 04:18:10+00:00
These statements really ring home when i'm thinking about my 20s and coding.

Back then, i'd dive right in, start coding, prove what works, figure it out as I go, then have to adapt the existing code to the figured out design. I was much more attached to that code and didn't want to lose it. Today, if I write code, I plan it out, have a good idea of how the pieces will work and then go implement it. And honestly, if the code gets thrown away, it's not the end of the world.

Code is really a small portion of what engineers do...
by aeonfox | 2025-11-07 04:19:31+00:00
According to this[0] podcast some captains of industry in SV consider that bubbles are good, actually. At least, that is the thesis of this[1] book published by Stripe Press. Not because they'll deliver returns for their investors, but because they drive innovation in the long run. But obviously, if they are perceived to have terrible ROI, they aren't getting over the line, which leads to a dilemma – how do we reach that moonshot without fooling a bunch of people and destroying the economy along the way?

All that said, anyone who spends a lot of time with AI knows the current direction of generative AI isn't really that moonshot. But the scale of compute that is being unlocked right now, along with technologies like photonics, might be what's key to AGI.

[0] https://shows.acast.com/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/episode... [1] https://www.stripe.press/boom
by rramadass | 2025-11-07 04:19:45+00:00
Not what i meant (these are superficialities).

Erlang is a concurrency-oriented language though its concurrency architecture (multicore/node/cluster/etc.) is different from that modeled by GPUs (Vectorized/SIMD/SIMT/etc.) Since share-nothing Processes (so-called Actor model) are at the heart of the Erlang Run Time System(ERTS)/BEAM it is easy to imagine a "group of Erlang processes" being mapped directly to a "group of threads in a warp on a GPU". Of course the Erlang scheduler being different (it is reduction based and not time sliced) one would need to rethink some fundamental design decisions but that should not be too out-of-the-way since the system as a whole is built for concurrency support. The other problem would be memory transfers between CPU and GPU (while still preserving immutability) but this is a more general one.

You can call out to CUDA/OpenCL/etc. from Erlang through its C interface (Kevin Smith did a presentation years ago) but i have seen no new research since then. However, there has been some new things in Elixir land notably "Nx" (Numerical Elixir) and "GPotion" (a DSL for GPU programming in Elixir).

But note that none of the above is aimed at modifying the Erlang language/runtime concurrency model itself to map to GPU models which is what i would very much like to see.
by righthand | 2025-11-07 04:20:25+00:00
I don’t care to continue this discussion primarily because you are making nearly the same points as two other commenters and it has become a three way exhausting conversation. You hate XSLT or something and love Google, congrats, you win this discussion. XSLT will be removed, Javascript will reign king. You will be happy. Every one will say Mason Freed is right and smart and that XML sucks because no one who matters uses it. I was never going to convince you to like or consider other technologies, anyways. And since that is true, this conversation doesn't do anything to try and help save XSLT and not worth continuing for me at least.

I wish it weren't the case but good luck and I'm sure we'll speak again with nearly the same conversation at the next thread for a standard deprecation that ad companies don't like.
by margalabargala | 2025-11-07 04:21:57+00:00
That's OK! There are a lot of things you don't know. What's important is that you're learning.

Consider that your assumption that Norway is not socialist is incorrect. Just because Norway may not meet whatever definition the Heritage Foundation is telling you when you look it up, doesn't mean that Norway does not nevertheless use the word "Socialist" to describe their own government.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-07 04:23:04+00:00
This is how crazy shit like accelerationism, communism, or French Revolution take hold: wider factional extreme consolidations of power and swings between them rather than stable groups of sane, restrained people with a sense of shame and reasonableness set in roughly-balanced, countervailing opposition. (Status quo statism is not necessarily sustainable if it's been terrible for too many for too long either.)

The richest country in history of the world cannot afford healthcare or food banks, and has millions of homeless people living rough are absurd embarrassments, but can afford to bail out the austerity economic terrorist in Argentina, give bombs and missiles to a genocidal regime to flatten an indigenous population of millions into the Stone Age and man-made famine, bomb random boats claiming they're "narco-traffickers" without evidence, and maintain higher military expenditures than the next nine (9) countries combined.
by thesmtsolver | 2025-11-07 04:23:37+00:00
Disagree. Part of the reason China produces more power (and pollution) is due to China manufacturing for the US.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-do-china-and-america-...

The source for China's energy is more fragile than that of the US.

> Coal is by far China’s largest energy source, while the United States has a more balanced energy system, running on roughly one-third oil, one-third natural gas, and one-third other sources, including coal, nuclear, hydroelectricity, and other renewables.

Also, China's GDP is a bit less inefficient in terms of power used per unit of GDP. China relies on coal and imports.

> However, China uses roughly 20% more energy per unit of GDP than the United States.

Remember, China still suffers from blackouts due to manufacturing demand not matching supply. The fortune article seems like a fluff piece.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/01/1042209223/why-covid-is-affec...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58733193
by simonw | 2025-11-07 04:23:37+00:00
> There’s honestly not a reason they have to be 1T parameters and cost an insane amount to train and run on inference.

Kimi K2 Thinking is rumored to have cost $4.6m to train - according to "a source familiar with the matter": https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/alibaba-backed-moonshot-rele...

I think the most interesting recent Chinese model may be MiniMax M2, which is just 200B parameters but benchmarks close to Sonnet 4, at least for coding. That's small enough to run well on ~$5,000 of hardware, as opposed to the 1T models which require vastly more expensive machines.
Show HN: FlashVSR – High-Speed 4K Video Super-Resolution
by lu794377 | 2025-11-07 04:24:23+00:00
I built FlashVSR, a high-performance video super-resolution model that enhances clarity up to 4× while keeping motion stable and natural — running up to 12× faster than diffusion-based approaches.

Unlike typical upscalers that trade off realism for speed, FlashVSR combines High-Fidelity Detail Recovery, Optimized High-Speed Reconstruction, and Temporal Consistency to achieve real-time 4K enhancement.

Key Features

Up to 12× faster reconstruction without quality loss

1×–4× flexible upscaling to Full HD, 2K, or 4K

Integrated color correction for cinematic tone

Adaptive temporal attention to prevent flicker and ghosting

Trained on VSR-120K for superior texture and clarity

Applications

AI Video Generation & Restoration (Runway, Sora, etc.)

YouTube / TikTok / game footage upscaling

Film & Archival Restoration

4K mastering for creators and production teams

https://www.aiupscaler.net/flashvsr?i=d1d5k

Would love feedback from the HN community — especially on real-time upscaling, color accuracy, and AI video tool integration.
by pizlonator | 2025-11-07 04:25:21+00:00
- Don’t put flags in the high bits of the aux pointer. Instead if an object has flags, it’ll have a fatter header. Most objects don’t have flags.

- Give up on lock freedom of atomic pointers. This is a fun one because theoretically, it’s worse. But it comes with a net perf improvement because there’s no need to check the low bit of lowers.
by martin82 | 2025-11-07 04:27:33+00:00
I don't know if I am all that smart, but I can attest that the one thing that made me happier beyond my wildest expectations is seeing my daughter see the light of the world and then spending every single day of her life, so far, giving my very best to raise her into an exceptional being. Seeing the milestones and progress that she makes is utterly incredible.

Our society will never get fixed if we don't raise children. It completely changes the game and your worldview.
by pizlonator | 2025-11-07 04:28:35+00:00
I’ve been thinking about this problem since 2004.

Here’s a rough timeline:

- 2004-2018: I had ideas of how to do it but I thought the whole premise (memory safe C) was idiotic.

- 2018-2023: I no longer thought the premise was idiotic but I couldn’t find a way to do it that would result in fanatical compatibility.

- 2023-2024: early Fil-C versions that were much less compatible and much less performant

- end of 2024: InvisiCaps breakthrough that gives current fanatical compatibility and “ok” performance.

It’s a hard problem. Lots of folks have tried to find a way to do it. I’ve tried many approaches before finding the current one.
by decimalenough | 2025-11-07 04:28:39+00:00
OP didn't say that. They said a lot of people go to Berghain a) just because it's Berghain, arguably the most famous techno club in the world, and b) because you're pretty much guaranteed to have some good artists if you do go.

Their famously strict door policy also means that it's entirely possible to try to go there for a specific artist and get denied entry.

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/03/26/berghain-more-be...
by snthpy | 2025-11-07 04:29:03+00:00
Very cool. I have seen Futhark mentioned before but I don't know anything about it.

The example you showed is very much how I think about PRQL pipelines. Syntax is slightly different but semantics are very similar.

At first I thought that PRQL doesn't have scan but actually loop fulfills the same function. I'm going to look more into comparing those.
by simonw | 2025-11-07 04:29:30+00:00
Once the MLX community get their teeth into it you might be able to run it on two 512GB M3 Ultra Mac Studios wired together - those are about $10,000 each though so that would be $20,000 total.

Update: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Kimi-K2-Thinking - and here it is running on two M3 Ultras: https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1986601104130646266
by ericd | 2025-11-07 04:29:36+00:00
Whisper.cpp/Faster-whisper are a good bit faster than OpenAI's implementation. I've found the larger whisper models to be surprisingly good in terms of transcription quality, even with our young children, but I'm sure it varies depending on the speaker, no idea how well it handles heavy accents.

I'm mostly running this on an M4 Max, so pretty good, but not an exotic GPU or anything. But with that setup, multiple sentences usually transcribe quickly enough that it doesn't really feel like much of a delay.

If you want something polished for system-wide use rather than rolling your own, I've been liking MacWhisper on the Mac side, currently hunting for something on Arch.
by adastra22 | 2025-11-07 04:30:00+00:00
As I said above, they all suck in some way. It's a matter of deciding what is most important to you and picking the one that sucks least for that.

Egui is easy to get started with, and has a lot of widgets that work out of the box. The performance story isn't great, layout options is terrible (largely due to being immediate mode), and it is not very customizable. You take what they give you, and you like it.

Iced is a phenomenal and well-thought out API that is a wonder to work with. When it does what you need, which it often doesn't because it's not nearly as complete as the alternatives. But if you know that a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, Iced might be right for you.

Slint is like Qt, but Rust. I don't think I need to say any more - if you have used Qt before, that sentence either immediately sold you on it, or convinced you to never go near it.

GPUI is a wonderful, extremely fast, stable, perfect API. If you are making a cross-platform native text editor. If you are doing anything else, sorry :(

There are a slew of projects bridging rust to run packaged browser apps which have some sort of DSL for specifying HTML front ends. People seem to like this for some reason. Some people also like being chained up in leather and whipped. I sometimes wonder if these are the same people.

Ratatui really is the best of the bunch. It has layout, accessibility, nice and easy user interface. It's a wonder to work with. Only problem: it is a TUI, not a GUI.