MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fragmede | 2025-11-11 17:56:05+00:00
Why, P.A. Semiconductor, of course! Yeah I'm just making shit up in my alternate history, but even in our reality there are several SoC manufacturers; Qualcomm, Broadcom, MediaTek, NVIDIA, AMD, Marvell, Rockchip, Allwinner. There are a lot of things out there if just want to run Android on a thing. Even more if I'm just trying to run Doom.

I want an SE4 with touch ID and a 4 inch screen and an A18 processor in it, not the monstrosity that is the 16e. If things were more open; what I really want to see is what we almost get to see with Kickstarter. If I could find one million people to do a first run who're willing to pay $750 for a first run edition, just to simply break even, and then make money off subsequent runs as demand does or does not exist.
by John23832 | 2025-11-11 17:57:07+00:00
> I cannot judge his research output at Meta but he failed pretty bad at the LLM race. Since so many other organizations succeeded at creating open source models of far higher quality at much lower cost, it would be instructive to understand what exactly went wrong there.

What? Until the Chinese jumped in Llama was the premium open source model. The reason that the Chinese were successful at MOE was just that they were limited with chips and had to think outside the box. US labs are operating on the power law. They also, arguably, distilled from western models (llama).
by Loquebantur | 2025-11-11 17:57:13+00:00
Ironically, scientism is also a manifestation of "magical thinking": Going through ritualistic motions of scientific appearances without actual understanding, getting positive feedback from the multitudes being just as incompetent.

Here, with the "Telepathy Tapes", the subject matter is immediately categorized as "magic": stuff deemed to be impossible because of it "obviously/implicitly contradicting scientific knowledge".

But that contradiction doesn't really exist? To give a decidedly clumsy, but entirely "physically possible", explanation of "telepathy": little green men from outer space might facilitate that effect using extremely advanced technology, hiding their presence and foiling attempts at getting easily understood evidence.

While such a scenario is highly inconvenient for current human academia to address, it's not "impossible" in any way? Isn't it really "magical thinking" to assume, such "outlandish" scenarios were excluded by natural law?
by Galanwe | 2025-11-11 17:57:20+00:00
> A quick check indicates that storing something on the Bitcoin blockchain costs about a dollar

That's nonsensical, the price of using a service on a blockchain is essentially a floating value. That is the whole point of having a token in the first place: people willing to store and people storing are participating in the price of the service.

Last I checked, filecoin was a few cents per GB per month.

You can create a blockchain of kind hearted people to store Wikipedia as well, it's really up to you. But comparing apples and oranges makes no sense.
by layer8 | 2025-11-11 17:57:21+00:00
The battery is actually fine, better than the iPhone 16’s. The single camera and the pricing are the main problem, along with assorted minority showstoppers like single speaker and large size. It’s also not that much lighter, actually heavier than previous iPhones like the 12. People who are fine with a single camera and want less weight can also get the 16e for a much lower price, and then at least get stereo speakers. Add to that the very strong offering of the iPhone 17 this year.
by BSTRhino | 2025-11-11 17:57:31+00:00
Hi HN,

For the past 3 years, I’ve been creating Easel, a 2D game programming language that represents how I think (some) games should be made. One of the most pivotal ideas which makes the whole language is how the compiler helps you replace components on an entity by assigning an implicit ID.

I did a lot of React development (as in the frontend web framework) before making Easel and was quite inspired by how it hooks to change. The way you give it a function, which says what it depends on, and then it just fully re-executes that whole function when the dependencies change. So in Easel when you say `with Health { ... }` it makes a behaviour that re-executes every time the Health changes. But, if it just reran the behaviour, then you'd end up with it adding a new sprite (for example) every time it re-executes, until you've got hundreds of them. So the other trick is the Easel compiler assigns an implicit ID to things like sprites so that it will replace rather than add the second time around. It's built into the programming language so you don't see it (most of the time).

It actually took me 2 years to come up with that, which is both cool and depressing when I can explain it in one paragraph, but it is what makes the whole language and I thought the programmers of Hacker News might be interested in this unusual programming construct.
by jmyeet | 2025-11-11 17:57:32+00:00
There are different sources of antivax attitudes in different communities. For some, there's a religious or cultural basis. For others, they are simply the victims of a well-funded and concerted misinformation campaign.

A good example if the ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn for whom a gloosy booklet seems to bear a lot of responsibility [1] and this predates Covid. It's particularly interesting because certain preventable diseases can cause male infertility.

This became such a big problem that Israel had to counter this misinformation so ultra-Orthodox communities would get Covid vaccines [2].

None of this came from any form of Judaism.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/brooklyn-measles-outbre...

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/988812635/how-israel-persuade...
by rambambram | 2025-11-11 17:57:42+00:00
Back when smartphones were not a thing yet, I had some new Nokia model that I kept in a little fabric 'bag' that I got with my Minidisc-player. I remember being laughed at by some friends. Years later everybody uses some kind of case for their smartphone, and I go by some personal policy to keep the bare smartphone in my pocket. I don't know why I tell this, maybe because I sometimes feel like a trendsetter.
by samdafi | 2025-11-11 17:57:50+00:00
Music, as tracked by Billboard, cross genre, is as loud as ever. Here’s a survey of Billboard music:

https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/mastering-trends?srsltid=Af...

I have an Audio Developer Conference talk about this topic if you care to follow the history of it. I have softened my stance a bit on the criticism of the 90’s (yeah, people were using lookahead limiting over exuberantly because of its newness) but the meat of the talk may be of interest anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hj7PYid_tE
by Marceltan | 2025-11-11 17:57:51+00:00
We instrument JWT libraries directly (jsonwebtoken, jwks-rsa). Both `jwt.sign()` and `jwt.verify()` are captured during recording and replayed with the original results. During replay, you get back the recorded verification result. So if the token was valid during recording, it stays valid during replay, even if it would be expired "now". The test runs in the temporal context of when it was recorded.
by softwaredoug | 2025-11-11 17:58:01+00:00
Sure but the real problem are the companies that consume, not just the developers. A lot of developers would love to contribute back, but companies put schedule pressures and have limited interest in contributing back.

Companies actually want a kind of vendor relationship, but they don’t want to pay any money.

Devs want something dev focused, and open source is usually code for being dev focused.

I don’t think either truly wants actual “open source”
by brabel | 2025-11-11 17:58:30+00:00
I live in Europe and I am not sure what’s so terrible about us falling behind the US. Are people going hungry? Having a hard time finding a place to live? Traveling to nice places?? Not even that in my view. We live a happy fulfilling life. We are healthy . I would say even that most people are better off than most Americans. The US is ahead mostly because of a few giant corporations and billionaires. The average American is just not benefiting so much from all that wealth.

Also, please stop this colonialist nonsense about spreading our way of live elsewhere. If the world wants to use our model of life as an example, great otherwise leave them the hell alone! Want to help them out of poverty? Trade with them on fair conditions. Don’t give them scraps in exchange for doing as they’re told! China seems to be doing that much better than Europe ever did.
by torginus | 2025-11-11 17:58:55+00:00
I would put it on VR having a grand total of 3 good applications: HL Alyx, VRChat and Beat Saber, one of which was doing the metaverse better than Facebook, and on a shoestring budget.

(I forgot sims).

Besides I wonder what does a company, whose entire product lineup revolves around looking cool and successful and admired in front of strangers with a product whose main mode of usage involves blindly flailing around in a room with a plastic box stripped to your face.
by lunias | 2025-11-11 17:59:02+00:00
This is exactly what I see all the time in the wild:

- users service

- quotes service depends on users service

- notes service depends on quotes service

So... notes depends on users. Unless I'm missing something, I would not distribute this example ever in a million years. Most requests probably pull back all three pieces of data, so just do it in a single query. Do not introduce unnecessary extra network latency to aggregate the data. If you want to scale this horizontally then just add a load balancer in front of n copies of the single service.

Now, let's look at an example you might want to distribute:

- web service (API)

- video encode service (Running on specialized hardware)

Now we have an actual reason to separate our services, we want to take advantage of specialized hardware for our long-running, async video encode tasks while leaving our standard synchronous API responsive.

Another reason to distribute:

- Team A works on API A

- Team B works on API B

This allows each team to reduce the scope of their knowledge by focusing on a single API, but comes at the expense of extra network calls, serde, API negotiation, and versioning.

It cannot be overstated the convenience of:

Jump to code definition, update function, compile, fix compilation errors, code works.
by jmpavlec | 2025-11-11 17:59:12+00:00
It's been a part-time project since January 2023. I left my part-time job in July and started on this full-time in August after some vacation. Here's a recent blog post about going full-time: https://blog.gametje.com/posts/2025-09-16/

Would love to connect and trade some ideas. You can find my contact details at the bottom of the blog.
by joshdavham | 2025-11-11 17:59:23+00:00
The article is from 2011 so definitely from an easier time. But the overall advice in my opinion is still solid - it’s best to work for a recognizable company early on then to spend your first couple years at a company no one recognizes.

I’m a big proponent of startups, but I really wish I had read this when I first graduated.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-11 17:59:31+00:00
I'm not so sure if vector similarity is the right way to think about as opposed to classification but I do think we need an AI "grep"

This could be zero shot "show me paragraphs about unsuccessful construction projects" or one shot or many shot (e.g. have an -option to specify a training file or a model file) It should have some understanding of files in tabular or near-tabular formats such as CSV and JSON and probably be joined to an engine similar to awk or jq so it can effectively answer "When was the temperature greater than 20 degrees centigrade?" and it figures out which field is the temperature field and maybe even if the units are centigrade or something else.

Note I've had very good luck doing text classification using the kind of model people use for vector similarity (e.g. https://sbert.net/) but piping the results through a classical ML model such as the SVM,
by marksimi | 2025-11-11 17:59:32+00:00
Curious about how much risk Meta leadership was comfortable with when they decided to layer Yann. Perhaps the winds of open research were already blowing a different direction at the company, and he had already indicated that he wanted to leave as a result of that. We can only guess.

Kind of hilarious to me to consider him "failing" with LLMs. Given his remit was a research time horizon of 8-10 years, and the fact that he's gone on record saying that he expects the technology will stall out in the time horizon, it seems he can only take Ws and ties. Indirect influence on open-sourcing the models to propel research forward (which is pretty important for a chief scientist) which added benefit for Meta's other products.
by intermerda | 2025-11-11 17:59:32+00:00
And yet, the parent of one such child who died of measles because of being unvaccinated went on video for Children’s Health Defense (RFK's anti-vaccine group) to claim how vaccines are bad and measles are good.

The claim that these the religious fundamentalist groups have nothing to do with anti-vaccine propaganda inflicted by MAHA types is disingenuous or simply poorly informed.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/anti-vaccine-infl...
by pessimizer | 2025-11-11 17:59:39+00:00
I don't think this comment demonstrates an understanding of the argument. An unavoidable side-effect of the medium is part of the medium. You will consider unavoidable side-effects when you are building something for a particular medium, unless you are stupid. If that unavoidable side-effect were not part of the medium, you would have made different choices.

Colorizing a black-and-white film, for example, is not ever restoring the original intention or vision, even "subjectively." If the makers of a black-and-white film had been making a color film, they would have made different choices.

This does not mean that you should not colorize black-and-white films, you should do whatever makes you happy. I honestly can't wait until AI is recreating missing scenes or soundtracks from partially lost films, or even "re"creating entire lost films from scripts or contemporary reviews and cast lists, and expanding films to widescreen by inventing contents on the edges. But this will not be restoring a vision, this will be original work.
by yencabulator | 2025-11-11 17:59:53+00:00
The horrible kludge in Kitty of embedding pathnames inside VT-100 codes and making the terminal emulator delete the file when done is really, really far from the alternate timelines we once had.

Plan 9 says you're welcome to explore more. Here's a taste: Starting a "GUI app" in a "terminal" puts the GUI "window" in the pane where the terminal was.
by angiolillo | 2025-11-11 18:00:01+00:00
Totally: users can absolutely tell the difference and details and polish absolutely matter, but so does shipping the product. As a UX designer I'm always happy to have more time/money to spend on usability testing and refining ever more granular details in workflows and UI. But I'm also grateful for the wise product managers I've collaborated with who know where to draw the line to make sure we don't end up losing out to our "worse is better" competitors.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-11-11 18:00:05+00:00
Regarding your first paragraph, the other thing worth mentioning is that in addition to smear/motion blur in film, it's also a passive medium. Video games are interactive. You're responding to and making decisions based on what you're seeing.

In a FPS, trying to track movement at only 24 fps is pretty much impossible unless your target's movement is entirely predictable.

In a flight simulator, trying to land a plane in gusty weather conditions is a lot harder with only 24 fps.

Lower framerates don't just make motion choppy, it increases latency. At 24 fps, any change in movement could be up to 42 ms behind. At 120 fps, that's down to 8.3 ms. And those numbers assume that you can notice the difference in only a single frame.

I'm convinced that people claiming 24 fps is fine for games just because it's fine for film don't actually play games. At least, nothing that requires quick reaction times.
by n4bz0r | 2025-11-11 18:00:08+00:00
> It had some AI summary button or something that was new. I instantly wanted to eliminate this from the UI but I don't know how to do that. I guess it is possible?

Started a fresh profile, but couldn't find an AI button. The AI stuff in the context menu? You can remove the chat bot functionality right there. As for the buttons, if there is an undesirable button, it should be removable via context menu or toolbar customization.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-11 18:00:31+00:00
Untrue and defeatist. Tim Cook does influence Chinese policy, you can't pretend he's the victim here:

EU: Tim Cook will *leave your economic zone* if you fraudulently label him as a monopolist, okay? If your government doesn't change, Apple won't bless your economy. China: There's just nothing we could do. When they asked to backdoor iCloud we couldn't make any demands from them. They constantly demand authoritarian control and *never* let us say a single word. We're being abused, someone help us!
by ozb | 2025-11-11 18:00:32+00:00
So, like compulsory jury duty and the draft, this would be directly against the 13th Amendment.

Then again, according to the Supreme Court, even forced, unpaid road duty (chain gangs anyone?) is an inherent power of the government, so maybe this is ok.

> In view of ancient usage and the unanimity of judicial opinion, it must be taken as settled that, unless restrained by some constitutional limitation, a state has inherent power to require every able-bodied man within its jurisdiction to labor for a reasonable time on public roads near his residence without direct compensation.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/240/328/

(spoiler alert: according to the ruling, the US Constitution, including Amendments, does not limit this power; and this is in fact cited as justification for upholding the draft)
by chaps | 2025-11-11 18:00:35+00:00
Used to hate pigeons in my 20s. Not like, vile hatred or anything like that, just.... man, what's up with these pigeons.

Now, I live at a place that has a tiny pigeon colony right outside my window. Every morning, a cute pigeon couple flies up to my window sill to watch me for a bit. Sometimes they're not there, presumably hanging out with other pigeons.

Their instinct's to fly away from me if I get close or adjust in my seat, but when we're all just chilling, their feathers floof up into a ball of what looks like comfortable warmth. They slowly blink their eyes like cats and their preening care for each other is always cute.

They are not graceful.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-11-11 18:00:54+00:00
Really? How large is your project?

There is a very clear point in codebase size where LLMs tend to falter without very clear written down overview descriptions of the system structure. I have a hard time seeing that this system would be immune to that.

i have encountered LLMs seeminly knowing more about a system than it should because there are many similar in its training set; but that just lead me to be extra sceptical when it pulls up functions that dont exist. (Ive fought LLMs about json libraries quite a bit)
by phantasmish | 2025-11-11 18:00:56+00:00
Self-reply because I’m outside the edit window: the dvd “original” releases are based on the laserdisc, but supposedly they modify it to restore the pre-1981-re-release title, so I’m actually wrong!

I can’t find out if they fix the 3% speed-up from the laser disc. The audio mix, at any rate, will be a combination of the three (stereo, mono, 70mm) original mixes, like on the laser disc, so identical to none of them. The source should predate the replacement of Latin script with made-up letters (not conceived until ROTJ then retrofitted on some releases of SW and Empire) so that’ll be intact unless they “fixed” it.

Still stuck with sub-ordinary-dvd-quality picture, as far as official releases go, so that’s too bad. Oh well, fan 35mm scan projects solved that problem.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-11-11 18:01:03+00:00
If my for profit/for sale product couldn't exist without inputting copyrighted works into it, then my product is derivative of those works. It's a pretty simple concept. No 'but human brains learn'. Humans aren't a corpo's for profit product.

'Would this product have the same value without the copyrighted works?'

If yes then it's not derivative. If no then it is.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-11 18:01:14+00:00
I think it depends on what you want. If you want “credibility”, sure go ahead and join a big tech company, I’m not really denying this, I later joined a big tech company and my boss says it was one of the reasons they hired me. But I think you roll the dice on what you learned. If you want to know stuff and build skills?

Join any place dynamic. High growth startup is obviously ideal, but really probably anyplace that’s not quite steady state. This could be certain divisions in big tech, but it also might not be.
by pimlottc | 2025-11-11 18:01:29+00:00
> It would be like coming up with a sequence of Chinese characters that sounds like an English sentence when pronounced by a Mandarin speaker. Nothing really to do with translation.

Actually this does happen for some foreign terms/loan words, like the names of other countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_into_Chinese_cha...
by lifenautjoe | 2025-11-11 18:01:31+00:00
Thanks mnovak, that’s a really good question and something we’re putting a lot of work on answering accurately.

The buyer landscape is more diverse than most poeple think. It's really a mix of a few key groups:

- There's the classic one, the person who's climbed the corporate ladder, has some capital, and wants to buy back control of their own time.

- Then you have the employee who's ready to be the owner. Think of the head cook who wants to buy a restaurant after working at one for 10 years.

- There's also a new wave, partly driven by social media, of people looking for a "low maintenance" business like a laundromat to create cash flow. They quickly find out that even a 'passive' business is a real job, but it's a growing trend.

And on the more sophisticated end, you have roll-up funds and private equity groups who see the massive opportunity in that $10 trillion wealth transfer and are looking to professionalize this space.

To us, it’s honestly a mind-bending cross-section of the economy. Thanks for asking!
by kochb | 2025-11-11 18:02:16+00:00
The J&J vaccine (which I received) was ultimately pulled due in part to blood clots which resulted in one documented death [1]. The AstraZeneca vaccine suffered the same fate.

It has been affirmed that the risks of the vaccine are less than the risks of the virus. Still, we shouldn’t shout “the vaccines are safe” so loudly that we can’t document and discuss real side effects and relative risks between competing solutions.

We’ve ultimately reached the correct outcome here, removing an inferior product from the market.

[1]: https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/coronavirus-vaccine-blood-...
by cameldrv | 2025-11-11 18:02:21+00:00
I'm sort of surprised by SwissMicros focus on the 42. I have a 42S and a 48GX and the 48GX is IMO far superior in almost every way. My only complaint is that the UI can be sluggish in places, but with a modern CPU this would completely go away, and it does on the 49, which I also have, but unfortunately its screen died and the keyboard stinks. The 48GX was the last model I have where they actually built it with some quality.