MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reaperducer | 2025-11-03 19:02:01+00:00
I think what you're describing is that we used to have more common experiences.

When Seinfeld was on, there were far fewer video options, and very few high quality ones.

Just like how before there were hundreds of thousands of radio stations, most were "full service," so you were exposed to things you didn't necessarily like or want (farm news, blues, morning chat shows). But you were aware that they existed and shared an experience with people who did like them.

Even when radio started fragmenting, I think of the 80's, we all listened to each other's music. If you listen to reruns of American Top 40 on Sirius, you'll hear a disco song followed by an R&B song, followed by a rock song followed by an oldies song followed by a soul song followed by a folk song.

Today, very often people silo themselves into a single genre, or even subgenre, of music, and anything else is "other" and bad.

The internet enables the hyper-optimization of media (music, video, games, sports, politics), which drives us apart, rather than brings us together. And big tech companies are happy to carve out personalized echo chambers for each of us to wallow in.
by IshKebab | 2025-11-03 19:02:05+00:00
IMO none of them are particularly useful. Sixels is hilariously inefficient. Kitty is slightly better because you can send data as PNG, but ... you have to send image data as PNG!

I wish there was a high performance way of remoting graphics over SSH. How cool would it be if you could SSH to a remote machine and it just showed you the remote desktop in the terminal itself? No messing around with port forwarding, weird X servers, etc.

I think probably that requires a full fat video codec like H.264 to work well though. Or maybe RDP?

Probably too many GUI naysayers and "What's wrong with remote X?" for this to ever happen though.
by aespinola | 2025-11-03 19:02:08+00:00
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by pbiggar | 2025-11-03 19:02:29+00:00
Non corporate and non-addictive social media doesn't really count. For example, Upscrolled [1] is an ethical social media that's doesn't aim to be addictive (among other ethical aspects). I don't think it's the same as being part of the dopamine machine like on IG.

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by anon291 | 2025-11-03 19:02:32+00:00
Then the shrinking is exponential as well. That's the point. Population grows or shrinks according to an exponential curve. If the exponent is one, then things are stable. If it's less than one, then things will experience exponential decline, which is different than linear decline since it never reaches 0. If it's more than one, then things experience exponential growth.

Most problems in life come down to misunderstanding exponents.
by vessenes | 2025-11-03 19:02:39+00:00
The reason you're getting slightly downvoted, I think, is that you need to answer this question first: which of the 15T tokens are you going to evaluate for forgetting? And, please explain how doing that is different than doing another full epoch type pass over the weights.

Some of the appeal here is that this architecture (handcrafted) allows ongoing gradient descent learning as you go on a much smaller set of weights.
by jonway | 2025-11-03 19:02:46+00:00
Yes!

There are related works: The Medium is the Message and the television program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwVCHkL-JU

"A medium is not something neutral. It does something to people."

and The Society of the Spectacle. When I reread this, I was alarmed at how applicable it is today.

Problems: We don't really have any remedy. We can see if we look, but what to do?
by coldtea | 2025-11-03 19:02:49+00:00
If we ignore the ML/AI/array libs, where Python shines, the core development has really done nothing much for it since 3.0.

Despite MS, Guido and co throwing their weight, still none of the somewhat promised 5x speedup across the board (more like 1.5x at best), the async story is still a mess (see TFA), the multiple-interpreters/GIL-less is too little, too late, the ecosystem still doesn't settled on a single dependency and venv manager (just make uv standard and be done with it), types are a ham-fisted experience, and so on, and so forth...
by gwalk | 2025-11-03 19:02:52+00:00
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by RajT88 | 2025-11-03 19:02:59+00:00
I see kids blasting around at high speeds without helmets.

Kids treat them like fast bikes you do not have to pedal. Wiping out on a bike at 13mph is a very different proposition to wiping out on a bike at higher speeds.

I saw just a couple nights ago some kid doing what appeared to be about 40mph on an eBike. Wind in his hair, not pedaling, just blasting it. I am sure new regulations will come to speed limit them, but at the cost of dead and disabled young people.

ETA: I went to go look up laws requiring speed limiters on bikes, and the top hit was about how you can disable them:

https://goebikelife.com/how-to-remove-ebike-speed-limiter/

Article states typical eBike speed limiters are 20-28mph. That is the kind of sustained speed Olympic cyclists can maintain for some period of time, and much faster than kid's toys need to be capable of. And these are the mandated limiters!
by ramon156 | 2025-11-03 19:03:07+00:00
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by educasean | 2025-11-03 19:03:22+00:00
The debate around whether or not transformer-architecture-based AIs can "think" or not is so exhausting and I'm over it.

What's much more interesting is the question of "If what LLMs do today isn't actual thinking, what is something that only an actually thinking entity can do that LLMs can't?". Otherwise we go in endless circles about language and meaning of words instead of discussing practical, demonstrable capabilities.
by flatline | 2025-11-03 19:03:24+00:00
I think this is a salient counterpoint. While I value online interactions, I also don’t want them to be my predominant form of socialization. That works well for some people, less well for others, but it’s increasingly becoming the de facto mode of bonding with people over common interests. Because, you know, you can find that group of people really into the same thing you are. I also work from home full time and it requires a lot of continual work on my part to get my social needs met - sometimes impossible if I’m tired from working a full week.

Surely there is some middle ground. When we don’t have anything in common with our real life counterparts, there’s an issue. Likewise if we are forced to exclusively socialize with people we have nothing in common with. I feel like we’re on a pendulum swing where online interactions are taking over everything, and I’m hoping that swings back to some extent, but not to the thing we had before.
by reaperducer | 2025-11-03 19:03:36+00:00
When the world was smaller, it was harder for people to get together with their common interests. There wasn't anyone around the coffee pot or water cooler who I could talk to about the shows or music I liked.

That was a feature, not a bug. You broadened your knowledge, and did the same for the people you talked with.

Compulsive navel-gazing is not healthy, individually, or for society.
by CactusBlue | 2025-11-03 19:03:48+00:00
You made a right decision; The big-world social platforms are doomed to fail, as they have quadratic scaling costs. I am a big proponent of "curation over moderation".

I am working on Mikoto Platforms, which is basically designed to be somewhere between Discord and Notion, but open source + decentralized. There is no global feed; in fact, some users thought it was a bug that it took you to such an empty screen when you first started it. Platforms are what you make of it.
by dalberto | 2025-11-03 19:04:22+00:00
Async django is not for the faint of heart, but it's definitely possible in 2025.

I recently wrote about issues debugging this stack[1], but now I feel very comfortable operating async-first.

[1] https://blendingbits.io/p/i-used-claude-code-to-debug-a-nigh...
by Uehreka | 2025-11-03 19:04:33+00:00
People always talk about shorting like it’s an efficient and reliable way to make money being right when everyone else is wrong. But it isn’t.

When you go long, you can still make money by being “sort of right” or “obliquely right” or “somewhat wrong but lucky”or by just collecting dividends if the market stays irrational long enough. If you short something you have to be exactly right (both about what will happen and precisely when) or your money will end up in the hands of the people you’re betting against. It’s not a symmetrical thing you can just switch back and forth on.
by gchamonlive | 2025-11-03 19:04:33+00:00
And it's good to have this in mind. Sometimes people go to the solution with the most batteries included and import lots of potential vulnerabilities without any real benefit. KISS should be the rule.

On the other hand it's hard to know if you are eventually going to need more batteries in the future and you risk having to migrate your solution stack. It's kinda the same with no-code platforms, where it's very easy to do basic CRUD but once you need to do anything slightly more complex you need to reimplement everything in a real language.
by com2kid | 2025-11-03 19:04:40+00:00
The funny thing is all the python people will tell you how great FastAPI is and how much of an improvement it is over what came before.

FastAPI does have a few benefits over express, auto enforcing json schemas on endpoints is huge, vs the stupidity that is having to define TS types and a second schema that then gets turned into JSON schema that is then attached to an endpoint. That IMHO is the weakest link in the TS backend ecosystem, compiler plugins to convert TS types to runtime types are really needed.

The auto generated docs in FastAPI are also cool, along with the pages that let you test your endpoints. It is funny, Node shops setup a postman subscription for the team and share a bunch of queries, Python gets all that for free.

But man, TS is such a nice language, and Node literally exists to do one thing and one thing only really well: async programming.
by dwp0123 | 2025-11-03 19:04:48+00:00
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by egonschiele | 2025-11-03 19:05:01+00:00
Hey everyone, I'm the author. I'm seeing a lot of the same comments here, so I want to address them.

I teach math by leading with examples. I try to show the intuition behind an idea, and why it is interesting. For this series, my reader is someone who knows algebra, and likes learning new things, especially when a teacher shows what is interesting about a topic.

## You didn't cover x about the dot product.

I try to only teach as much as is necessary to get the student to the next point, which is matrix multiplication. I usually end up cutting a lot of material out of my chapters to keep them simple. In this case, I cut out a whole section on the properties of a dot product, as well as a discussion about inner and outer products, because those weren't necessary to get to matrix multiplication. I think this context was lost while posting to HN.

## 3B1B already has a series on this.

I love 3B1B, but his style of teaching and mine are quite different. Even though we both teach visually, his videos are densely packed with information and his expectation is that you will watch the video a few times till you understand the topic. He also leads with math more than I do. My posts are written more like stories. My goal is they should be easy to get into, and by the time you have finished reading, you should understand more about the topic. I don't expect readers to read through multiple times. I personally learned linear algebra through Strang's videos and textbook, and those videos are awesome, but can be confusing. If you found the Strang or 3b1b videos confusing, hopefully my posts will make it easier for you to follow them. I think comment is spot on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800657

If these ideas resonate with you, I think you'll like this post, and if not, there are plenty of guides that go the more traditional route. You can also read the first post in the series and see if you like it: https://www.ducktyped.org/p/an-illustrated-introduction-to-l...

For another example of my writing, see my series on AWS: https://www.ducktyped.org/p/a-mini-book-on-aws-networking-in...
by tracker1 | 2025-11-03 19:05:06+00:00
More often than not, preference should be given to the language most of the team know the best. The only exception is when everyone on the team feels a different language is a better fit for the need or there are underlying reasons for a language shift.

Personally, my bias is towards the languages I'm most comfortable with. I recognize this and will make other suggestions and if I'm not responsible for the code, I'm more than flexible.

All the fad chasing and top down declarations that we're all going to use Cucumber, GraphQL, Microservices or anything else is often a bad move.

First learn the problem you are trying to solve and empathize on behalf of the user... Then empathize on behalf of support... on behalf of the maintenance developers... on behalf of yourself in a decade. Is there a boxed solution? Buy it.. Is something custom really needed, what can you outsource as part of it? integrate it. Do the simplest, easiest thing you can to get the job done.
by bityard | 2025-11-03 19:05:08+00:00
The thing that kills me is that Nextcloud had an _amazing_ calendar a few years ago. It was way better than anything else I have used. (And I tried a lot, even the calendar add-on for Thunderbird. Which may or may not be built in these days, I can't keep track.)

Then at some point the Nextcloud calendar was "redesigned" and now it's completely terrible. Aesthetically, it looks like it was designed for toddlers. Functionally, adding and editing events is flat out painful. Trying to specify a time range for an event is weird and frustrating. It's better than not having a calendar, but only just.

There are plenty of open source calendar _servers_, but no good open source web-based calendars that I have been able to find.
by aeldidi | 2025-11-03 19:05:38+00:00
Nextcloud is something I have a somewhat love-hate relationship with. On one hand, I've used Nextcloud for ~7 years to backup and provide access to all of my family's photos. We can look at our family pictures and memories from any computer, and it's all private and runs mostly without any headaches.

On the other hand, Nextcloud is so far from being something like Google Docs, and I would never recommend it as a general replacement to someone who can't tolerate "jank", for lack of a better word. There are so many small papercuts you'll notice when using it as a power user. Right off the top of my head, uploading large files is finicky, and no amount of web server config tinkering gets it to always work; thumbnail loading is always spotty, and it's significantly slower than it needs to be (I'm talking orders of magnitude).

With all that said, I'm so grateful for Nextcloud since I don't have a replacement, and I would prefer not having all our baby and vacation pictures feeding some big corporation's AI. We really ought to have a safe, private place to store files in 2025 that the average person can wrap their head around. I only wish my family took better advantage of it, since I'm essentially providing them with unlimited storage.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-03 19:05:38+00:00
> Not only that it will concentrate important decisions in the hands of fewer people.

Technology doesn't do this, politics do. Make it illegal for billionaires to control the laws and politics in your country and make it illegal to become a millionaire while you're an elected official, and you'll prevent people from using technology to take control. Protest on the streets, organize general strikes, anything that makes your voice heard consistently, and do it soon because soon it'll be too late.

Don't get stuck focusing in on individual efforts, because that's how they win. Focus on the root cause of the problems.
by NullPointerPat | 2025-11-03 19:06:00+00:00
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by maerF0x0 | 2025-11-03 19:06:40+00:00
I've observed a trend, both across my own life, and also seems to pattern match elsewhere. It's the idea that the dearer something is, the more carefully it's used, or inversely the cheaper something is the more we waste it. I've noticed it in the sense of money, "environmentalism" (green washed products get consumed more, despite using less being the better response), computing resources, publishing/printing books etc.

I am noticing that the internet makes discourse/arguments essentially "free" and seem to mostly contain garbage takes.

I also am wondering about this same trend with human lives as we break 8B and folks seem to be flippant even with lives.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-03 19:06:43+00:00
I don't think I am. Even before Apple released Game Porting Toolkit, Crossover could play the game at nearly the same framerate as native: https://youtu.be/mEZJFjhLAbc?t=46

Looking at this kind of footage really does not convince me that "porting properly done" is worth enduring a library with no games. Nevermind the fact that the game runs fine through translation on the $400 Steam Deck hardware. You really are overstating the difference it makes.
by almosthere | 2025-11-03 19:06:50+00:00
Well, a model by itself with data that emits a bunch of human written words is literally no different than what JIRA does when it reads a database table and shits it out to a screen, except maybe a lot more GPU usage.

I permit you, that yes, the data in the model is a LOT more cool, but some team could by hand, given billions of years (well probably at least 1 Octillion years), reproduce that model and save it to a disk. Again, no different than data stored in JIRA at that point.

So basically if you have that stance you'd have to agree that when we FIRST invented computers, we created intelligence that is "thinking".
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by vessenes | 2025-11-03 19:07:03+00:00
You'll have your shot at shorting oAI soon apparently. I'm in a lot of these threads on the bull side, and I'll say - please be careful if you do, and only short what you can afford to lose. I'm sure the stock will be crazy volatile, but I don't see signs of anything unsustainable in oAI's ops right now, with the sole exception of increasing training spend using investor money. We're not in a good position outside the company to know if that will pay off. The parts we do know about, inference, users, growth, revenue growth and net income, are all generationally significant, and make shorting really risky.