MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by osigurdson | 2025-11-12 22:44:47+00:00
I think cross compilation has gotten a lot better so there is basically no need for it today. Obviously nothing is for free and would be hard for .NET to completely get rid of it at this point but I don't think a greenfield project would take the bytecode approach. Bytecode still makes sense in something like WASM as it is a sandboxed environment but otherwise skip the VM abstraction if you can imo.
by jsunderland323 | 2025-11-12 22:45:05+00:00
We gotta stabilize on chromium but then 100%. It's tough while we are so dependent on auto updating to put out hot-fixes. We built with https://wxt.dev, which, I highly recommend. So it shouldn't be too tough of a port. But you are heard loud and clear. Dan hates Chrome from the bottom of his heart.
by kazinator | 2025-11-12 22:45:08+00:00
The words are divided into bytes. The bytes are rearranged, but the bits stay the same. The bits are not addressable and so represent pure binary values.

For instance given the word DEADBEEF, the least significant byte is EF.

That is a specific binary value: the value 239.

That value stays the same whether the bytes are EF BE AD DE in memory, or DE AD BE EF.

EF is just 239. We don't think about reversing the bits; they are not addressable. They have an abstract order determined by the binary system. The most significant bit of the value contributes 128 and so on.

The order matters when the bits have to be transmitted over a wire to another machine. Then we have to decide: do we transmit the low bit of EF first, or the high bit 1? If the two sides of the data link are inconsistent, then one side transmits 11101111 and the other receives 11110111, which is F7.
by woodruffw | 2025-11-12 22:45:19+00:00
The answer to this is nuanced because of how it works, but the short answer is yes: you can build random things from source and run them, and you can download random binaries from the internet and run them. The only thing that Homebrew itself is changing is that it no longer provides an automatic way to lift the quarantine bit from a specific subset of binary packages (casks).
by ck2 | 2025-11-12 22:45:21+00:00
just want to point out it's not just for obesity

GLP-1 has been demonstrated to even cure some types of long-covid in some people in some cases

and various other diseases

but it's priced way out of reach even for micro-doses until it becomes generic

so all those cases suffer until 2030, if they make it that far, five years is a long time
by jdprgm | 2025-11-12 22:45:27+00:00
Annoying not to include price or release date.

Considering the quest 3 came out 2 entire years ago this feels too close in terms of hardware instead of feeling like a next generation headset.

Responses do seem fairly positive though. I wonder if this had been released as the quest 4 though would you all be reacting as positively?
by Onavo | 2025-11-12 22:45:29+00:00
Anyone interested in forking homebrew? Seems like they need more competition when it comes to user friendly package managers (macports doesn't count).

It's a pity the original author got lost in the crypto rabbit hole

https://tea.xyz/

There's also Sps2 which is written in Rust but it's very early stage

https://github.com/alexykn/sps2

Breaking the momentum and institutional adoption of homebrew is non-trivial but the developer community needs to band together unless we want to be slaves to Apple's whims forever. The current homebrew maintain Mike McQuaid clearly had no interest in listening to users.
by yndoendo | 2025-11-12 22:45:49+00:00
That is not 100% correct. Apple is slowing closing in the walls on a general purpose computer and preventing the bypassing of Gatekeeper with the execution of unsigned applications to _protect the children._ [0] [1] [2] [3]

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/rosetta-2-on-a-mac-...

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256079635?sortBy=rank

[2] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/20755

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45907259
by tpmoney | 2025-11-12 22:46:39+00:00
No, my stance is that it is reasonable for ffmpeg to ask for patches along with bug fixes and that is it simultaneously reasonable for Google to submit bug reports without those patches. Just like it would be reasonable for Google to ask for a feature in ffmpeg and it's equally reasonable for the ffmpeg maintainers to decline to implement the feature. Reasonableness is not a binary thing.
by zimpenfish | 2025-11-12 22:46:43+00:00
> So this when they became a new brand (?) called Hilo.

Around the same kind of time, yeah - when the app got a (not great) refresh.

> I am not following their business but presume something is up.

I think someone just realised that "Aktiia" is a godawful name and "Hilo" (with the new actually good logo) is much better.

> I assumed no one else uses it so was not in a hurry - any feedback gratefully recvd :-)

Will give it a run out tomorrow. Didn't even knew it existed which is to my shame.
by ivanjermakov | 2025-11-12 22:46:59+00:00
I'm also not a fun of such overengineered programs, but using raw yt-dlp alone is not enough for replicating full workflow.

Your command is nice for downloading a single video (I also provide a url from clipboard via xclip), but archiving videos daily from a list of favorite channels would require a bit more scripting. Didn't manage to find anything both minimal and popular to link instead.
by omcnoe | 2025-11-12 22:47:05+00:00
How important is being a language expert in x vs all your other skills as a Software Engineer? My opinion is that "higher level" skills (like system design/architecture, product thinking/planning etc.) are so much more important than language minutia (outside of specialized fields).

If a business is turning away candidates because they "don't have n years of experience in x" that doesn't sound like a very dynamic/interesting place to work, it sounds like a code monkey job. AI is going to eat code monkey jobs.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-11-12 22:47:45+00:00
I truly don't understand US politics I think. MAGA movement cares very much (or is it just optics ?) about family etc, and this Epstein scandal seems to be extremly important to them.

But the problem, and a pretty big one, is that their guy, Trump, was best friend with Esptein for decades and it's very well documented everywhere.

So on one hand they want to release all the files, but on the other one they can't be that stupid and think Trump is not in there ? Or are they so brainwashed by Fox News and influencers propaganda that they don't bother look up some articles from that period ?
by rft | 2025-11-12 22:47:59+00:00
Yepp, saw that number and I am very hopeful about it. But numbers are not everything and can be gamed (heh), the "feel" during gameplay is most important. I hope to try it out "early 2026" :).

I get very annoyed by the atrocious audio delay of Bluetooth, so I'll keep my long USB cable ready.

P.S. I am aware of USB also not being zero latency, but it is the lower bound, the dongle is USB as well.
by fgimenez | 2025-11-12 22:48:05+00:00
They have a lot of anecdotal, observational, and emerging RCT evidence on their effects on substance consumption and abuse.

The biggest effect and best tested is on alcohol use disorder. Mechanistically we don't know if it's through some complex reward mechanism, or something simpler like "alcohol is a calorie and you consume fewer calories." The JAMA study showed that GLP-1 reduce Heavy Drinking Days (>2 drinks/day), but did not reduce overall drinking days. This would imply the simple mechanism -> it's hard to drink a lot of calories even if you do enjoy a drink.

More anecdotal evidence showing this effect in opiates, but nothing in an RCT yet.

So far, nothing has worked in stimulants. Cocaine and Meth abuse are insanely difficult to manage therapeutically right now.
by fsckboy | 2025-11-12 22:48:20+00:00
>That cannot possibly be true. Not knowing what exactly is going on with the charge carriers at the subatomic and quantum levels is not the same as not knowing how the amplifier works

since everything that happens inside a transistor is exactly what is going on in a quantum sense, you've described "not knowing how it works". You cannot understand a bipolar transistor without quantum effects, it's the thing that creates the transistor effect.

the theory of amplifiers you go on to talk about was well developed at that time because it's the same theory for vacuum tubes.
by acdha | 2025-11-12 22:48:21+00:00
It’s fairly limited: taking over maintenance for popmail or forking NTPSec certainly isn’t nothing but his reputation is built on the Cathedral and Bazaar essay getting attention at the right time in the 90s when open source was really taking off and his subsequent OSI work. I’d wager that an order of magnitude more people heard about fetchmail from his writing rather than the other way around.

That’s not to say that his open source projects aren’t useful, only that there are thousands of other developers who’ve done work of similar scale and adoption.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-11-12 22:48:40+00:00
ok, let me "hn-speak" what's already a clear position that you understand that i hold:

i think your views on women's roles are ridiculous, to the point of deserving hyperbolic comparison. your position is misogynistic, bigoted and repulsive to the ideas of self-determination, social equity, liberty, and nonaggression... summarized perhaps irreverently but not inaccurately by the phrasing "regressive troglodyte."

but you knew what i was saying.
by pxc | 2025-11-12 22:48:57+00:00
> Most people I know are not installing too many casks

Casks are the only things Homebrew does that some other package manager available on macOS doesn't reliably do better. Nix, Pkgsrc, MacPorts, and (and now Spack) all have better fundamental designs; sane, multi-user-friendly permissions; and enough isolation from the base system that they break neither each other nor manually-installed software.

I use Homebrew exclusively tucked away in isolated prefixes, only to install casks, and without ever putting any binaries it installs along the way on my PATH. I don't remember which programs it is, exactly, but I do use a few that are unsigned.

It also doesn't seem to me that the signing process is as vital in determining actual risk as the curation and moderation processes involved in maintaining "third-party" software distributions like Homebrew or Debian or whatever.

`--no-quarantine` in particular is one of the conveniences that makes Homebrew casks useful. If I have to give my consent anew for each app update, I might as well install the apps manually and live in the usual auto-update pop-up hell.
by chazeon | 2025-11-12 22:49:13+00:00
The one thing I wish it has is 3.5mm audio jack. Both Xbox and SONY's dualsense controller have this. But SONY don't support audio via Bluetooth. The Xbox one need a USB adapter but its build is not as good as SONY's. SONY don't have a USB adapter. Given Steam controller is already using an USB puck, it should be able to support it.
by pixelpoet | 2025-11-12 22:49:41+00:00
As a lover of ray/path tracing I'm obligated to point out: rasterisation gets its efficiency by amortising the cost of per-triangle setup over many pixels. This more or less forces you to do fixed-resolution rendering; it's very efficient at this, which is why even today with hardware RT, rasterisation remains the fastest and most power-efficient way to do visibility processing (under certain conditions). However, this efficiency starts to drop off as soon as you want to do things like stencil reflections, and especially shadow maps, to say nothing of global illumination.

While there are some recent'ish extensions to do variable-rate shading in rasterisation[0], this isn't variable-rate visibility determination (well, you can do stochastic rasterisation[1], but it's not implemented in hardware), and with ray tracing you can do as fine-grained distribution of rays as you like.

TL;DR for foveated rendering, ray tracing is the efficiency king, not rasterisation. But don't worry, ray tracing will eventually replace all rasterisation anyway :)

[0] https://developer.nvidia.com/vrworks/graphics/variableratesh...

[1] https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2010-06...
by saaaaaam | 2025-11-12 22:50:16+00:00
I just cannot imagine myself sitting just “chatting away” with an AI. It makes me feel quite sick to even contemplate it.

Another person I was talking to recently kept referring to ChatGPT as “she”. “She told me X”, “and I said to her…”

Very very odd, and very worrying. As you say, a big education problem.

The interesting thing is that a lot of these people are folk who are on the edges of digital literacy - people who maybe first used computers when they were in their thirties or forties - or who never really used computers in the workplace, but who now have smartphones - who are now in their sixties.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-12 22:51:08+00:00
For controllers you can use any cable you want. The Xbox controller will charge just fine on a C-C cable. I don't think they should have gone all in on USB-C like laptops have, but there should have been more than one USB-C and one should have been on the front. Pretty much the only thing you need USB-A for these days is mice/keyboard with non removable cables. Which are becoming increasingly rare.
by PeaceTed | 2025-11-12 22:51:18+00:00
That sounds reasonable but I suspect it was a little bit of both. Initially Covid slow down followed by large demand. A lot of older Nodes were shutdown (300-400nm) with the Covid slow down and a lot of chips ended up having to be moved over to newer nodes once demand picked up again. It led to a big swing in the flow of production and would have roll on effects.

Combine that with a huge GPU boom and you have the setup for production issues.
by KronisLV | 2025-11-12 22:51:38+00:00
> I mean, yes, but also because it's not as good as Claude today.

I'm not sure, sometimes GPT-5 Codex (or even the regular GPT-5 with Medium/High reasoning) can do things Sonnet 4.5 would mess up (most recently, figuring out why some wrappers around PrimeVue DataTable components wouldn't let the paginator show up and work correctly; alongside other such debugging) and vice versa, sometimes Gemini 2.5 Pro is also pretty okay (especially when it comes to multilingual stuff), there's a lot of randomness/inconsistency/nuance there but most of the SOTA models are generally quite capable. I kinda thought GPT-5 wasn't very good a while ago but then used it a bunch more and my views of it improved.
by wasabi991011 | 2025-11-12 22:51:41+00:00
Is that even remotely possible?

You'd have to ensure a positive expectation value over not only every item, but every combination of items a consumer could by. You could focus only on the most likely possible orders (assuming you have the data, I don't know how many stores actually track combination of items bought), but it's not obvious to me that there's a tractable top n most likely orders that gives a reasonable enough estimate of expectation value.

On top of that, you would be interfering with whatever system you already have that sets the cents of each item (whether marketing with 99¢, or % discounts, or a system that tracks that 97¢ means lowest sale, etc).
by terminalshort | 2025-11-12 22:51:47+00:00
> The lawsuit focuses on using copyrighted material for AI training

Well that's going to go pretty poorly for them considering it has already been ruled fair use twice: https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/two-california-distr...

On the other hand, distributing copies of NYT content is actually a breach of copyright, but only if the NYT can prove it was actually happening.
by 0manrho | 2025-11-12 22:51:50+00:00
Any tech focused social media site (or tech subcommunity on one) are having a fieldday poking fun and/or expressing how baffled they are.

In the tech world, this is a laughable proposition to most people even at $22.90 (though an order of magnitude more palatable at that price).

In the fast fashion world, this is pretty typical pricing for a seasonal trendy item with a "premium" brand/designer attached. Of course, that's predicated on the trend actually taking off, which isn't guaranteed. But all this social media activity around it in the tech circles is certainly boosting it's visibility to people in the fast fashion world that have iphones, which - going out on a limb here - wouldn't surprise me if it were a not-insignificant number.

Besides, at this price point vs what it is and what it costs to manufacture, even if it "flops" it's unlikely to be a big expense to write off.

Whether or not this tarnishes the Apple brand by shear ridiculousness of it remains to be seen, but Apple's general strategy in the post-Jobs era seems to be "Enshittify, just not as much/fast as everyone else and people wont want to leave even if they complain because we're still not as bas as everyone else"
by Klaus23 | 2025-11-12 22:51:52+00:00
Perhaps a trusted execution environment based anti-cheat system could be possible.

I think Valve said something about working with anti-cheat developers to find a solution for the Steam Deck, but nothing happened. Perhaps they will do something this time.

With a TEE, you could scan the system or even completely isolate your game, preventing even the OS from manipulating it. As a last resort, you could simply blacklist the machine if cheats are detected.

There would probably still be some cheaters, but the numbers would be so low as to not be a problem.
by IshKebab | 2025-11-12 22:53:04+00:00
I'm not sure I've ever seen that actually come in to play. Little Endian is obviously the best Endian, but I don't think that argument really makes sense.

The most obvious argument is that little Endian is clearly the most natural order - the only reason to use Big Endian is to match the stupid human history of mixing LTR text with RTL numbers.

I've seen one real technical reason to prefer little endian (can't remember what it was tbh but it was fairly niche) and I've never seen any technical reasons to prefer big endian ("it's easier to read in a hex editor" doesn't count).
by skavi | 2025-11-12 22:53:29+00:00
If do_async_thing was implemented as below, i can’t imagine the futurelock post getting anywhere near this much attention. As for why you might use an async lock in a future which acquires and unlocks in the same poll, there still may be other actors which hold the lock across multiple polls. (there is one in the RFD’s minimized example).

async fn do_async_thing(label: &str, lock: Arc<Mutex<()>>) { println!("{label}: started"); let _guard = lock.lock().await; println!("{label}: acquired lock"); sleep(Duration::from_secs(5)).await; println!("{label}: done"); }
by evilkorn | 2025-11-12 22:53:51+00:00
I doubt that most people in the US know the local sales tax. Let alone any change that may occur due to laws changing or traveling. I'd like to see the out the door price listed but that throws the 99 cent game off retailers like. Also I don't shop very often but Aldi US is the only place I've seen the eink price displays, the rest still have paper.
by crote | 2025-11-12 22:54:11+00:00
The problem is that all the AI companies have been getting incredibly intertwined, see [0] for example. Nvidia isn't just selling chips - it is also actively investing in its own customers in order to drive up demand. This is giving us neat headlines like "NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as the new NVIDIA systems are deployed". The Coreweave deal is even worse: Nvidia is investing in Coreweave, so that Coreweave can buy GPUs from Nvidia, so that Nvidia can rent compute from Coreweave.

Sure, Nvidia is making crazy money right now, but what's going to happen to all those deals when the market blinks and some of those lesser players start falling over?

[0]: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-investment-is-sta...
by likeclockwork | 2025-11-12 22:54:18+00:00
"holy FOSS war"?

Why not have a commissar sit behind every gamer to make sure they're not cheating?

That's a startling degree of access to give to these people for access to cosmetic micro-transactions.

But, I guess if all your friends are snorting coke in an alley, FOMO will have you right there with them.
by scuff3d | 2025-11-12 22:54:40+00:00
I get your point, but I don't think the pricing is long term viable. We're in the burn everything to the ground to earn market share phase. Once things start to stabilize and there is no more user growth, they'll start putting the screws to the users.

I said the same thing about Netflix in 2015 and Gamepass in 2020. It might have taken a while but eventually it happened. And they're gonna have to raise prices higher and faster at some point.
by modeless | 2025-11-12 22:54:48+00:00
According to LTT the VR controllers have two stage triggers. Is the controller confirmed to not have them? Would be odd. PS5's triggers are the most advanced though, would be cool to have those. I'll reserve judgement on the new trackpad location until I try it. Though personally I was never a fan of the trackpads on the original or indeed any controller with trackpads.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-12 22:55:03+00:00
It takes even more time to read and understand a patch. Not only to you have to do all of the work of reading and understanding the bug report for which the patch is relevant, but you now also have to read and understand the submitted code, which until just this moment you didn't even know was necessary and have no specific context for. Then you have to validate whether or not the code in the patch is sufficient to fix the issue or whether those changes have any additional knock on effects. Yes, you could hope that the Google coders did this, but since you already have such a low opinion of Google's efforts and behavior on this front, I would argue that trusting their submission without validation would be insane.

Then if there's any changes or additional work to be done, you now have to spend time communicating with the patch sumbmitter, either getting them to make the requested changes, or rejecting their patch outright and writing it on your own.

And after all that we'd be right back here, only instead of the complain being "we don't have enough time to review all your bug reports" it would be "we don't have enough time to review all your PRs"
by cruano | 2025-11-12 22:55:44+00:00
> It adds a questionable improvement in graphics and immersion at the incredibly high cost of excluding yourself from the real world.

That's a feature for a good number of games, if not most. For example, Resident Evil 4/8 in VR are by far the best horror experiences I've had, and part of it is that you stop seeing your living room while playing.

> The motion controls in VR will also always be severely limited by the fact that you can’t see your surroundings.

There is zero chance that aiming with a controller is more intuitive than point-and-shoot. What I get from your comment is that the movement can be awkward which is absolutely true, but plenty of games have neat ways around that. And then there are games that require no actual movement, like racing games with a sim setup.
by spaceribs | 2025-11-12 22:55:57+00:00
My family have bought macs and been apple fanboys since the "Pizzabox" 6100 PowerPC. My dad handed me down a DuoDock when I was in middle school. We bought a G4 Cube, I had an iBook and Powerbook throughout college and throughout the 2010s.

In 2017 I built my first desktop PC from the ground up and got it running Windows/Linux. I just removed Windows after the 11 upgrade required TPM, and I bought a brand new Framework laptop which I love.

This is to say that Apple used to represent a sort of freedom to escape what used to be Microsoft's walled garden. Now it's just another dead-end closed ecosystem that I'm happy to leave behind.