MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DiskoHexyl | 2025-11-13 13:22:18+00:00
SteamOS has way more appeal to gamers in 2025 than it could have had in, say, 2004.

On the surface the lack of popular multiplayer titles that require a kernel-level anti-cheat is a heavy downside, but gaming is extremely fragmented these days. In 2004 everyone, save for the casual players, at least tried DOOM3 and Half-Life 2. In 2025 Fortnight has an all-time peak of 12M players, but at the same time there are many millions of Minecraft players who never even launched Fortnight. And DOTA2/LOL players who've never launched either of those 2. And then you see a bunch of indie titles selling tens of millions of copies, and their player base is completely unrelated to those above.

The days of the gaming mono-culture are long gone, and inability to play a limited number of Game As A Service titles is not as severe of a handicap anymore, especially since people who play those kinds of games aren't typically as interested in any other titles. For better or worse, peer pressure doesn't work as heavy these days, as it used to
by simondotau | 2025-11-13 13:23:59+00:00
In the world of cars, industrial design is the version number. Beyond that, VW just wants to sell their latest Golf to whomever is buying a new hatchback today. End of strategy.

Numbering helps sell electronics because it makes it clear that your old phone/console is old and "needs" upgrading. It's also critical for selling software exclusive to a certain hardware generation.
by reaslonik | 2025-11-13 13:24:23+00:00
Breaks as in contains words that grammatically work but don't make sense, mistakes the symbol | for a person, points back to things that didn't exist in the request etc. I use templates like these for explaining questions:

from

```

excerpt of text or code from some application or site

```

What is the meaning of excerpt?

Just doesen't seem to work at a useable level. Coding questions get code that runs, but almost always misses so many things that finding out what it missed and fixing those takes a lot more time than handwriting code.

>Overall it still seems extremely good for its size and I wouldn't expect anything below 30B to behave like that. I mean, it flies with 100 tok/sec even on a 1650 :D

For it's size absolutely, I've not seen 1,5B models that form even sentences right most of the time so this is miles ahead of most small models, not just to the hinted at levels the benchmarks would you have believe
by saalweachter | 2025-11-13 13:24:28+00:00
> The biggest problem in car accidents is speed differential.

Yes: it is way more dangerous to slam into a stationary object going 80mph than it is to be rear-ended by an object going 80mph while you're going 65. Only a 15mph differential in the initial collision.

Also, it almost never happens, compared to vehicles losing control due to excessive speed.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-13 13:24:47+00:00
This response is misleading. Almost all computer services keep logs for a short period of time, so the court order to retain existing information is quite a bit more powerful than a layman would think. Because a huge amount of data is retained for a short period of time and then rapidly deleted in most web services I've worked on for the past 30 years.

This is true in services like Datadog, New Relic, and logging services like Splunk. But even privacy-focused services like Mullvad keep logs for 24 hours to monitor for abuse. So this concept that retaining logs is significantly weaker than not ordering the collection is really a bit of misdirection. I'm not sure whether it's intentional, but it's definitely misleading.
by vxvrs | 2025-11-13 13:24:50+00:00
I agree with what you're saying.

Personally, I also think that in some situations I do prefer to use it as the google replacement in combination with the imitated human conversations. I mostly use it to 'search' questions while I'm cooking or ask for clothing advice, and here I think the fact that it can respond in natural language and imitate a human to hold a conversation is benefit to me.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-13 13:24:51+00:00
> 2160 x 2160 LCD (per eye) 72-144Hz refresh rate

I question that we could not create a special purpose video codec that handles this without trickery. The "per eye" part sounds spooky at first, but how much information is typically different between these frames? The mutual information is probably 90%+ in most VR games.

If we were to enhance something like x264 to encode the 2nd display as a residual of the 1st display, this could become much more feasible from a channel capacity standpoint. Video codecs already employ a lot of tricks to make adjacent frames that are nearly identical occupy negligible space.

This seems very similar (identical?) to the problem of efficiently encoding a 3d movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2D_plus_Delta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiview_Video_Coding
by vessenes | 2025-11-13 13:25:07+00:00
I like this plan, but don't you already have this from the input vector in the prompt, at least if the inference is 'chunk wise' - generating a latent space vector, decoding it, outputting it, doing the next one.

What if you trained a separate thinking phase using the auto encoder, though? Might be more efficient, and then you've got it using neuralese internally.

Actually, reading the (summary) paper - they tried your idea and had trouble with it for a different reason:

> Once the generative head predicts the next vector , a natural next step would be to feed it directly as input to the Transformer for predicting . However, we found that the model struggles to unpack the semantic information from such a compact representation. Instead, we ground the autoregressive process back in the more structured discrete space, where the predicted is passed through the autoencoder to reconstruct the K tokens.
by BruceEel | 2025-11-13 13:25:14+00:00
and plus one here! I don't know, I like my mac workflow but irritation and aggravation have crept in more frequently of late. Last week I was told a binary that clang++ had just produced from my own code could not be run because Apple couldn't check whether it was safe.. And what to make of power users complaining bitterly about Tahoe & liquid glass etc? I'm hanging on to Ventura for now.
by clickety_clack | 2025-11-13 13:25:27+00:00
You should only organize things as you actually use them. The things you use are then generally organized and you haven’t wasted a bunch of time organizing stuff you never use.

If you do decide to organize a bunch of stuff you never use, that decision is then totally aesthetic, so you should choose a method of doing it that you find aesthetically pleasing.

Source: obsidian user who spent a bunch of time organizing stuff he never uses.
by zaphar | 2025-11-13 13:25:32+00:00
Literally the only thing I ever actually used gpg for was file encryption. I tried dong key management and signatures for a very brief period 20 years ago and gave up because no one else was doing it and it was annoying trying to do the right opsec things with no payoff.

Ever since then, as far as I can tell there has been a very small very niche group who use gpg for anything other than file encryption. So age is the obvious choice for the vast majority of us and it's adoption seems to be reflecting that.
by robtherobber | 2025-11-13 13:26:18+00:00
> He further argues that the failure to diagnose the trend has led to a degradation in political discourse since left and right leaning actors blame the policies of "the other side" and "what I like to call the 'honest middle' cannot be heard above the din."

I disagree, there's no blaming on the other side since just one side has really been in charge and that side is comprised of both Dems & Republicans. Whilst I can understand that in the US some would deem Dems as a left-leaning actor - it has never been that. In effect, the US has always had a right-leaning government, oscillating further or closer from the centre.
by jll29 | 2025-11-13 13:26:25+00:00
First of all, Jenn, I'm very sorry about your father's passing.

The scheduler gave your family the correct instruction to wait for the ambulance car to arrive.

There is something called the "rescue chain", which begins with first aiders (standers by) who are expected to take first action, then hand over to paramedics upon their arrival, who in turn provide professional emergency care and transport the patient - once stable - to a hospital, again handing over the patient to an ER/stationary care.

Instead of "just waiting", next of kin are normally advised to start resuscitation procedures according to the algorithm recommended by the Red Cross or CHA

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiopulmonary_resuscitation

* https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/cpr/performing-cpr/cpr...

* https://www.mayoclinic.org/first-aid/first-aid-cpr/basics/ar...

All kind of bad things can happen when transporting a critically ill person in a private car, notably accidents caused by a shaking, stressed and overwhelmed driver (e.g. a relative) ignoring traffic lights actual traffic and sometimes buildings. Ambulances have medication onboard as well as qualified staff, and they are only supposed to live once a patient is deemed stable.

In case an ambulance is very far away, the scheduler can also be asked to send a volunteer semi-professional or professional aider e.g. a medic living in the neighborhood or a Red Cross paramedic volunteer, to walk over and bridge the time.

Once, one of my co-workers died in the office (in Switzerland), which was right next to a hospital, despite two dedicated colleagues calling for help and administering CPR/first aid (I was at home in the shower when it happened). It can happen that all cars are somewhere else, or all emergency medical staff is already dealing with emergencies. In this case, the ambulance arrived after more than 40 minutes, which triggered a routine investigation by the attorney general.

To all readers: in case you have never taken a First Aid course, now it is the time to register for one. They are typically offered free of charge, and you may regret one day not to follow this advice now in case you are thrown into a situation such as standing next to a loved one of yours who collapses.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-13 13:26:53+00:00
> simulate color blindness

I believe Microsoft already has this built into the OS these days:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools/ac...

Of course shader glass will let you write your own, custom, possibly more-realistic colour blindness simulations, but you don't necessarily need third party tools for that kind of thing these days.
by quotemstr | 2025-11-13 13:26:55+00:00
> this can be bypassed by applying a CSS blur effect of 0 pixels, permitting extraction

That's not real DRM then. The real DRM is sending the content such that it flows down the protected media path (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Media_Path) or equivalent. Userspace never sees decrypted plaintext content. The programmable part of the GPU never seen plaintext decrypted content. Applying some no-op blur filter would be pointless since anything doing the blur couldn't see the pixels. It's not something you can work around with clever CSS. To compromise it, you need to do an EoP into ordinarily non-programmable scanout of the GPU or find bad cryptography or a side channel that lets you get the private key that can decode the frames. Very hard.

Is this how YT works today? Not on every platform. Could it work this way? Definitely. The only thing stopping them is fear of breaking compatibility with a long tail of legacy devices.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-11-13 13:27:10+00:00
> but there’s no way that one in five working adults has a health condition so bad that they cannot work.

I would go further, I would also say that there are no "working adults" who also "cannot work".

You don't see ill people walking around? Yes, that's how it works, it doesn't prove anything. We're not seeing what we don't see, and can't draw "common sense" inferences from that missing data. You need actual studies.
by aboringusername | 2025-11-13 13:27:18+00:00
> (c) security updates or corrective updates mentioned under point (a) need to be available to the user at the latest 4 months after the public release of the source code of an update of the underlying operating system or, if the source code is not publicly released, after an update of the same operating system is released by the operating system provider or on any other product of the same brand;

> (d) functionality updates mentioned under point (a) need to be available to the user at the latest 6 months after the public release of the source code of an update of the underlying operating system or, if the source code is not publicly released, after an update of the same operating system is released by the operating system provider or on any other product of the same brand;

So if Google releases an update for Pixel, the 'clock' starts ticking from that date, otherwise, it goes by when the source code is released. Google can pick and choose what works best for them and their partners according to these rules.

Hence why delaying the source code may be preferable. This is why security patches are being delayed as per GrapheneOS (under embargo)

For example: Google releases Android 20, under embargo to all OEMS, this is not released on Pixel, is entirely closed source (hence why AOSP is now private) and therefore doesn't trigger the law. Android 20 could be ready for months, but until it's released on Pixel or open source, those clauses are not triggered. This is already happening to security patches, see my comment above.
by eevmanu | 2025-11-13 13:29:19+00:00
> I tried Gemini's 2.5 Pro Deep Research.

I’ve been using `Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Research` extensively.

( To be clear, I’m referring to the Deep Research feature at gemini.google.com/deepresearch , which I access through my `Gemini AI Pro` subscription on one.google.com/ai . )

I’m interested in how this compares with the newer `2.5 Pro Deep Think` offering that runs on the Gemini AI Ultra tier.

For quick look‑ups (i.e., non‑deep‑research queries), I’ve found xAI’s Grok‑4‑Fast ( available at x.com/i/grok ) to be exceptionally fast, precise, and reliable.

Because the $250 per‑month price for Gemini’s deep‑research tier is hard to justify right now, I’ve started experimenting with Parallel AI’s `Deep Research` task ( platform.parallel.ai/play/deep-research ) using the `ultra8x` processor ( see docs.parallel.ai/task‑api/guides/choose-a-processor ). So far, the results look promising.
by iamsaitam | 2025-11-13 13:29:39+00:00
The problem lies in the fact that these companies are generating work for volunteers on a different time-scale and binding them to it by giving them X days before disclosing vulnerabilities. No one wants their project to have security vulnerabilities that might affect a lot of users, which creates pressure in dealing with them.

The open source model is broken in this regard, licenses need to address revenue and impose fees on these companies, which can be used as bug bounties. Game engines do this and so should projects like FFMPEG, etc. The details are complex of course, but the current status quo is abusing people's good will.
by lovehashbrowns | 2025-11-13 13:30:43+00:00
I’d wager that like half the teams (at least) using kubernetes today should be using Nomad instead. Like the team I’m on now where I’m literally the only one familiar with Kubernetes and everyone else only has familiarity with more classic EC2-based patterns. Getting someone to even know what Helm does is its own uphill battle. Nomad is a lot more simple. That’s what I like about it a lot.
by fukka42 | 2025-11-13 13:30:58+00:00
Sure.

> The sentence that crossed the line egregiously was: "I understand it's difficult for you as an American to realize that other countries exist and are just as valid as America".

This is actually me being emphatic. I know Americans are raised to believe they're special, most of them never leave their country, and so it is difficult for them to see things from a normal point of view.

Now go moderate the rest of that thread. Plenty of heinously offensive comments you seem to have missed.
by Noaidi | 2025-11-13 13:31:02+00:00
Sorry, really confused user here, so can someone ELI5 for me? I was looking to go to GrapheneOS, will this effect that at all? The title now says they will allow side-loading and it sounds like good news but everyone in here is still complaining. I do not mind this extra step and I think it is way better than what my POS iPhone 16e with Liquid@ss is offing me.

"Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversations with the community, we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn't verified. We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren't tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer. It will also include clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved, but ultimately, it puts the choice in their hands. We are gathering early feedback on the design of this feature now and will share more details in the coming months. "
by stef25 | 2025-11-13 13:31:19+00:00
> Why does OpenAI collect and retain for 30 days^1 chats that the user wants to be deleted

When working on an e-commerce gig we would get "delete my data" requests from customers, which we're legally obliged to comply with. A script would delete everything we could from the DB immediately. Since we had 30 day backups, their data would only be deleted from the backups on day 31. I think this was acceptable to the GDPR consultant.

Going in to the backups to delete their data there in insane.
by ojosilva | 2025-11-13 13:31:29+00:00
I'm also a synthetic.new user, as a backup (and larger contexts) for my Cerebras Coder subscription (zai-glm-4.6). I've been using the free Chatbox client [1] for like ~6 months and it works really well as a daily driver. I've tested the Romanian football player question with 3 different models (K2 Instruct, Deepseek Terminus, GLM 4.6) just now and they all went straight to my Brave MCP tool to query and replied all correctly the same answer.

The issue with OP and GPT-5.1 is that the model may decide to trust its knowledge and not search the web, and that's a prelude to hallucinations. Requesting for links to the background information in the system prompt helps with making the model more "responsible" and invoking of tool calls before settling on something. You can also start your prompt with "search for what Romanian player..."

Here's my chatbox system prompt

You are a helpful assistant be concise and to the point, you are writing for smart pragmatic people, stop and ask if you need more info. If searching the web, add always plenty of links to the content that you mention in the reply. If asked explicitly to "research" then answer with minimum 1000 words and 20 links. Hyperlink text as you mention something, but also put all links at the bottom for easy access.

1. https://chatboxai.app
by eschnou | 2025-11-13 13:31:30+00:00
Can Agentic AI be used to augment existing tools? I think there is a lot of nice open source software out there that is too complex/difficult/heavy for most users. There is an opportunity to use AI to simplify the user experience through some automation.

This is the little experiment I did here, building an AI-SAST by wrapping CodeQL with an agentic layer. It makes it so easy to use CodeQL that I’m now revisiting past projects and discovering quite a few surprises!

The agent is used to:

- write custom codeql queries based on the code and a prompt

- triage SARIF output and group issues, extract most important ones

- investigate issues for risk, false positive, etc

- prepare pull requests with fixes

Github: https://github.com/eschnou/patchsmith

Blog post with more details: https://blog.transcode.be/patchsmith-ai-codeql-cli/

What other interesting open source tool could benefit from a AI driven UI/UX wrapper layer?
by sim7c00 | 2025-11-13 13:31:36+00:00
i see a lot of complaints about certain games (windows / kernel-anti-cheat) not working. Consoles have always had exclusive titles. Windows also has them now via this anti-cheat stuff. This changes litterally nothing.

Also, you can even install windows on the box. it's one of its selling points actually... if you really want to...

kernel level anti-cheat is generally not even needed, so perhaps those companies will now consider rolling proper anti-cheat themselves rather than third-party rubbish that no one asked for.

What i also like about this console development is that it might open the door to other smaller players creating consoles in the form of mini-PC with linux and a gaming layer on there. maybe there will be (oem?)partner for valve that make more beefy machines, machines with alternate OSes (windows + skin) etc.

its a different angle that will open up many things hopefully. make it less exclusive market between essentially 3 parties.
by aboringusername | 2025-11-13 13:31:59+00:00
And what does 'released' mean in this context? GrapheneOS has very publicly stated that security patches are under embargo, and they already have patches for the March 2026 release. See [1]:

> 2025110800: All of the Android 16 security patches from the current December 2025, January 2026, February 2026 and March 2026 Android Security Bulletins are included in the 2025110801 security preview release. List of additional fixed CVEs:

So, have they been released? No. So the clock hasn't started ticking yet. This EU law made security worse for everyone as patches that are done today are not released for 4+ months.

Note: These are CLOSED source blobs GrapheneOS is shipping. If they were open source, the 4 months clock would trigger immediately but they are not allowed to do this themselves as they get the patches from an OEM partner. GrapheneOS shipping these CLOSED source blobs, that Google has NOT released does not trigger the timer.

I do accept that QPR1 was 'released' by Google on Pixel months ago, and therefore the timer started, however, Google will likely pick and chose what is best for OS updates/security patches. It explains why AOSP is now private/closed source and embargos are being used to get around the laws requirements.

[1]: https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025110800

From the EU law:

> (c) security updates or corrective updates mentioned under point (a) need to be available to the user at the latest 4 months after the public release of the source code of an update of the underlying operating system or, if the source code is not publicly released, after an update of the same operating system is released by the operating system provider or on any other product of the same brand;

> (d) functionality updates mentioned under point (a) need to be available to the user at the latest 6 months after the public release of the source code of an update of the underlying operating system or, if the source code is not publicly released, after an update of the same operating system is released by the operating system provider or on any other product of the same brand;
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-13 13:33:14+00:00
Valve has specifically taken down the (desktop) steamOS download page and only kept up the recovery page because it just isn’t a viable desktop OS if you want to play modern games consistently (as well as other shortcomings). They explicitly discourage its use for desktop on the recovery page IIRC and emphasize it’s for handheld hardware.

The amount of tinkering and driver patching and just general work it requires to get it to play games properly (especially if the person is not AMD CPU/GPU) now makes it a non-starter except for people who explicitly want to make it work.

It can run. It generally runs poorly and with major holes in it.