MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2025-11-07 13:10:55+00:00
Game development and game design are completely separate domains.

Game development can be generalized to algorithms and languages targeted to specific processors and architectures because it's a subset of programming and computer science. You can't have a DSL for design because the domain is the human mind. The design of a game like Undertale has absolutely nothing to do with the language used to develop it.

Unless you're talking about things like modelling and UV unwrapping and the like, but even then I don't see what benefit a separate language would provide.
by duxup | 2025-11-07 13:11:00+00:00
> He also threw his Subway sandwich at Gregory Lairmore, an agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Lairmore, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, told jurors the sandwich exploded and he smelled onions and mustard — though he wasn't hurt.

This entire administration is fragile as can be. They tried to make this sandwich throwing situation a felony.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-07 13:11:04+00:00
> They probably had setup the whole boot process via RAM (see "RAD" disk on the Amiga), but I hadn't any idea about that back in the days.

> Still to this day I think this is how it should be. You want to switch ON your computer and it should be ready for use.

Don't we already kind of have this? It's setup to be dynamic, and we'd ended up calling it "sleep", but it basically does what you're talking about, but dynamically and optionally, basically chucking the entire state into RAM (or disk for "hibernate") then resumes from that when you wanna continue.

Personally I've avoided it for the longest of times because something always breaks or ends up wonky when you resumes, at least on my desktop. The PS5 and the Steam Deck handles this seemingly even with games running, so seems possible, and I know others who are using it, maybe Linux desktop is just lagging behind there a bit so I continue to properly shut down my computer every night.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-07 13:11:14+00:00
Same here, I don't have any use for Rust, and am perfectly fine with automatic resource management languages (regardless of the approach).

However, Rust has been quite successful making more developers think about less known type systems, besides affine types, there is also linear types, effects, dependent types, prof systems.

And we as industry aren't going to throw away the millions and millions of stuff that was written in C, C++ and less extent Objective-C, thus efforts like Fil-C are quite welcomed.
by jitl | 2025-11-07 13:11:28+00:00
The JavaScript Otel packages are implemented with 34 layers of extra abstraction. We wrote our own implementation of tracing for Cloudflare Workers and it performs much better with 0 layers of abstraction. I’ve seen a few other services switching over to our lightweight tracer. The emitted JSON is still chunky but removing all the incidental complexity helped a lot.
by Thorrez | 2025-11-07 13:12:03+00:00
I do not own a business. In 2024 I only worked in CA. However, a couple years back I worked in MI for a few days, which means for the following 4 years I have to file MI taxes as well due to RSU vesting. So my 2024 taxes were federal + CA + MI.

For details about why RSU vesting requires 4 years of MI taxes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676698
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-11-07 13:12:03+00:00
Between stuff like this, and the risks of effects on regulated industries like therapists, lawyers and doctors, they're going to regulate ChatGPT into oblivion.

Just like Waymo facing regulation after the cat death.

The establishment will look for any means to stop disruption and keep their dominant positions.

It's a crazy world where we look to China for free development and technology.
by NYCNews | 2025-11-07 13:12:56+00:00
Masked Gunman Sticks Up Shops

By Dan Gesslein Queens Voice November 7, 2025

QUEENS LOCAL NEWS - Cops are looking for a Covid inspired gunman who struck a Queens chicken joint and a nail salon within a 24 hour period. The suspect was caught on surveillance video wearing a paper mask and surgical gloves.

Police are searching for a man who’s been hitting small businesses in Queens — and they’re asking for your help to track him down.

According to the NYPD, the same suspect is wanted for two armed robberies that happened just a day apart, one in the 116th Precinct and the other in the 106th.

The first incident happened around 3 a.m. on October 25, 2025, at a Checkers takeout on 245th Street near South Conduit Avenue.

Investigators say a man in a mask walked in, pulled a gun on a 21-year-old employee, and demanded the cash register be opened. The worker handed over about $150 before the gunman took off running east on South Conduit Avenue. Thankfully, no one was hurt. Less than 24 hours later, police say the same man struck again — this time a nail salon in Ozone Park. At around 6:50 p.m. on Sunday, the suspect walked teh salon and allegedly pointed a gun at a 52-year-old employee. He grabbed a bag full of electronic devices before jumping into a Dodge Durango and speeding off down 107th Street. Again, no injuries were reported. Cops say the man they’re looking for was last seen wearing a surgical mask, a blue sweatshirt, blue jeans, and white sneakers. Surveillance images from the first robbery have been released and are available through the NYPD’s DCPI media site. If you recognize this guy or know anything about these robberies, police want to hear from you. You can call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also send tips online at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on X (formerly Twitter) at @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept strictly confidential.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-07 13:12:59+00:00
> From my (just a user) perspective, GPUs are expensive, they shouldn't be left standing if they're not being used.

How much does a idling GPU actually take when there is no monitor attached and no activity on it? My monitor turns off after 10 minutes of inactivity or something, and at that point, I feel like the power draw should be really small (but haven't verified it myself).
by knert | 2025-11-07 13:13:14+00:00
I have ‘22 Lightning and it’s the best vehicle I have ever driven. The 50/50 weight distribution from the batteries makes it perform amazing in the snow. No need for sand bags in the winter. The linear acceleration curve with instant torque lets you merge like a car. The creature comforts are amazing. When I get into any gas vehicle now, even with good HP, it just doesn’t compare because of gear shifts and torque ramp up. I charge it at home overnight and it lasts 2 weeks just bumming around town before i have to charge again. In almost every category, it is better than my v8 f-150. Sure, if you tow a lot or drive long distances everyday, it can be annoying trying to find a level 3 charger along the way but if you’re driving less than 150 miles a day, you never need to stop, even when it’s cold.
by burnermore | 2025-11-07 13:13:48+00:00
>Which language would you classify as not corp owned?

I would like to respectfully disagree with you there as well. The above was the context. I was replying to this which opened the conversation.

Not to mention, end users and consumers don't get a say in the corp funded projects. Everything works as long as it aligns with the goals of the corp. Not otherwise.
by aljgz | 2025-11-07 13:14:02+00:00
I bought many ikea products when I moved to a new place, only to be disappointed by all. The light bulbs create a hissing noise, so much to be unusable for bedroom and living room. I put then in the bathroom and storage. The app is much worse than the previous generation. Their sofa bed was so much worse than the much cheaper one I had earlier, I dubned it my worst purchase in the last 5 years, outcompeting the Samsung TV. Lesson learned: just because my favorite brand has good products a couple years back, does not mean I should walk in and buy things from them again.
by matt-p | 2025-11-07 13:14:25+00:00
Yeah, I mean thats what like ~$4.9/TB/Month including 4TB+ of internet transfer at a substrate level. So with say 10 servers on 8+2 parity you're looking at ~$6/TB/Month including >5TB of internet. Probably makes sense until you can fill at least one whole rack and buy a 2X100Gb internet connection.
by t8sr | 2025-11-07 13:14:48+00:00
My friend, it renders at 15 fps on a literal supercomputer. It takes 30 seconds to load. The time between clicking a button and something happening is measured in seconds. It may be successful, but it is not good.

The problem is that you’ve (and we all have) learned to accept absolute garbage. It’s clearly possible to do better, because smaller companies have managed to build well functioning software that exceeds the performance of Google’s slop by a factor of 50.

I’m not saying RETVRN to plain JS, but clearly the horrid performance of modern web apps has /something/ to do with the 2 frameworks they’re all built on.
by i80and | 2025-11-07 13:14:52+00:00
There's something very dark about a machine accessible in everybody's pocket that roleplays whatever role they happen to fall into: the ultimate bad friend, the terminal yes-and-er. No belief, no inner desires, just pure sycophancy.

I see people on here pretty regularly talk about using ChatGPT for therapy, and I can't imagine a faster way to cook your own brain unless you have truly remarkable self-discipline. At which point, why are you turning to the black box for help?
by ramon156 | 2025-11-07 13:15:14+00:00
OTel has been slow as hell since release. we tried using it for tracing last week and the app was significantly slower.

We just use prometheus+grafana now. Yes, this technically also slows the app down, but OTel was unbearably slow.

I'm sure im doing a million and one things wrong, but i can't be arsed to set something up just to see some performance metrics. Deadlocks can be found using transaction metrics, that's all you need.

Edit: I now read in the comments the JS ver is a bad impl, I guess this might be part of the reason.
by jboggan | 2025-11-07 13:15:55+00:00
My friend Dave Taylor (programmer on Doom / Doom 2 / Quake / Abuse) was famous for marathon gaming sessions when he was at id. He told me it almost killed him after a session because he was driving and saw what he thought was a Quake rocket ammo box and he instinctively swerved the car at speed to "pick it up", but it was in fact a concrete pylon securing a guardrail by a drop-off. He narrowly swerved back into the road.

On a lighter note, I played far too much GTA: Vice City on PS2 in college, to the point that when driving in real life I forgot to check my side and back mirrors at stop signs, and instead realized I was squeezing my middle fingers on the steering wheel instead of turning my head to look.
by torginus | 2025-11-07 13:16:19+00:00
I heard this argument about Rust vs. C that Rust might be memory safe, but the reason why memory safety issues are so prominent in C programs, is that basically every other kind of problem has been fixed throughout its lifetime, so these are the only kind of issues that remain. Both in terms of security and stability.

This is very much not the case for programs that are much newer, even if they are written in Rust they still need years of maturation before they reach the quality of older C programs, as Rust programs suffer from non-memory safety issues just as much. That's why just rewriting things in Rust isn't a panacea.

The perfect example of this the Rust coreutils drama that has been going on.
by astrobe_ | 2025-11-07 13:16:37+00:00
That "Fun" is a de gustibus sort of thing is the important point. I wonder if there is something like relationships between the various flavors of fun, or if one can infer good "collateral fun" activities from the main genre.

For instance, I think that puzzles are ok in Mass Effect, but the many mini-games in Final Fantasy 7 are borderline annoying.
by delichon | 2025-11-07 13:16:47+00:00
“I’m with you, brother. All the way.”

I'm a big AI booster, I use it all day long. From my point of view its biggest flaw is its agreeableness, bigger than the hallucinations. I've been misled by that tendency at length over and over. If there is room for ambiguity it wants to resolve it in favor of what you want to hear, as it can derive from past prompts.

Maybe it's some analog of actual empathy; maybe it's just a simulation. But either way the common models seem to optimize for it. If the empathy is suicidal, literally or figuratively, it just goes with it as the path of least resistance. Sometimes that results in shitty code; sometimes in encouragement to put a bullet in your head.

I don't understand how much of this is inherent, and how much is a solvable technical problem. If it's the later, please build models for me that are curmudgeons who only agree with me when they have to, are more skeptical about everything, and have no compunction about hurting my feelings.
by the_af | 2025-11-07 13:17:08+00:00
Some pushback to this: I understand MMORPGS are addictive, but for some reason I was never hooked, so their "repetitive" aspect is a negative to me.

For Assassin's Creed, it was so repetitive even within the same game (the first one) I couldn't even finish it once I noticed the grind. It drove me nuts.

A lot of games then followed that pattern (e.g. Shadow of Mordor, Mad Max, and I'm sure countless others -- I just mention the ones I tried). I find some of their mechanics interesting but once the grind kicks in (which is fairly soon, since these sandbox games are all grind-based) I despair and abandon them.

They feel like repetitive work rather than entertaining to me.

But hear this: Papers, Please, a game that is literally a bureaucracy simulator, engages me in a way Assassin's Creed never could. I wonder why! (Random guess: I think it's because PP, for all its repetitiveness, feels like a small game, while Assassin's Creed and its like feel like endless games you could spend your life within... and I have better things to do with my life).
by brian626 | 2025-11-07 13:17:14+00:00
That may be true for bigger artists on major labels, but for smaller independent bands it’s not always the case. I am a heavy user and fan of Bandcamp for listening to and purchasing music but I use Spotify for listening in the car and sharing playlists. I often find albums that are only available on either Spotify or Bandcamp but not both.

The ones that aren’t available on Spotify tend to be self-released but otherwise there isn’t much of a pattern. Albums not on Bandcamp, though, tend to be mediocre at best.

And that’s not even mentioning bands that are pulling their music from Spotify in protest…
by tomatocracy | 2025-11-07 13:17:18+00:00
All businesses used to get votes in local elections in England and Wales (by virtue of being ratepayers) and boroughs/cities had separate Aldermen and (Common) Councilmen. The City of London (ie the square mile, not the metropolis) retained the old system when it was abolished elsewhere (in favour of only residents voting and a single type of councillor) because the number of residents in the City then was absolutely tiny by comparison to the number of people who use the City daily (after much of the residential population left, partly due to war damage during WW2).

What changed more recently was the allocation of which individual people get to exercise those votes - "business votes" became "workers votes".

The election of the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs is separate though. This is still done at Common Hall (and the franchise is still Liverymen), but that election is very very rarely contested.
by joshmn | 2025-11-07 13:17:33+00:00
This one was really important to me. Even the transactional emails were a bit fun to read. I kept them informal, as if I was talking to a friend of a friend. I certainly swore in them, too (at myself), when I was apologizing for things not working right.

Occasionally I'd get replies saying that the person looked forward to me automatically emailing them. That was a good litmus test.
by billfruit | 2025-11-07 13:18:06+00:00
I feel much of the knowledge and experience in the industry is simply lost because it isn't widely documented and studied. There needs to be detailed histories of major software development projects from the industry, in book form for people to learn from, in the same way as histories of military campaigns and railway projects.

It not widely done, and we end up with mere "Software Archeology", where we have artefacts like code, but the entire human process of why and how it reached that form left unknown.
by encom | 2025-11-07 13:18:10+00:00
>Send fun emails.

Eh... I lean towards "no" on that point, unless you can do it well. I've received far too many reddit-tier fellow kids/omg so random/cringe emails, and I hate it. An example from Queal (a Soylent-style meal powder):

Winter is coming in Westeros and you must prepare by stocking up on food. Who knows if Drogon will fly by and burn your storage of snacks. Or the Night King will come to reign in the long winter. So prepare to receive a package from *REDACTED* with tracking ID: *REDACTED* You can keep an eye on the progress of your package with this tracking link *REDACTED*. People in the Seven Kingdoms still use carrier pigeons, so please note it could take up to a full workday for the link to become active. Autumn will end soon enough, be prepared!

Please just fucking stop. I really like their product, but their emails make my blood boil. Don't be like Queal.
by seec | 2025-11-07 13:18:41+00:00
I agree and find it disturbing people downvote this point of view because that is actually the most reasonable one when you look at the actual facts.

It's completely stupid to pretend China is going green when their emissions have continuously increased and the rate has even accelerated the richer they got.

It was all done so they could capture the business of western countries and run a silent economic war. Now most of europe is so dependent on China it's hopeless and they are not even cheaper because all kinds of costs have been added.
by GaryBluto | 2025-11-07 13:20:03+00:00
The Waymo case annoys so much. The cat directly went quickly and stealthily under the car while it was stopped and decided to lay directly beneath the wheel. A human driver wouldn't have been able to act any differently in the same situation.

These people were waiting for any excuse to try and halt new technology and progress and thanks to the hordes of overly-emotional toxoplasmosis sufferers they got it.
by i80and | 2025-11-07 13:20:52+00:00
Users would hate a simple deny list, even if it may be a good idea. That means the safeguards, to the extent they currently exist at all, have to be complicated and stochastic and not interfere with growing metrics.

The industry has known it's a problem from the get-go, but they never want to do anything to lower engagement. So they rationalize and hrm and haw and gravely shake their heads as their commercialized pied pipers lead people to their graves
by moron4hire | 2025-11-07 13:21:22+00:00
"Ready for change" is just the polite way to say, "I can't stand it here anymore. I'd rather roll the dice on a new place because reversion-to-mean means it's probably going to be better than whatever this has become."

There are a lot of things I don't like about my current job, but not enough for it to make sense to gamble on a new place. It's easier to push for change from my current position than to count on any new place being any better.

But if it gets worse and I do leave, I'll definitely be telling the interviewer, "I was just ready for a change."
by OisinMoran | 2025-11-07 13:22:17+00:00
There are lots of other non-videogame related versions of this too! The one I'm probably most familiar with is Parkour Vision, where practicing parkour enough leads you to view the environment completely differently, seeing a kash vault here, a kong to precision there. It's quite enjoyable! I imagine skaters have a similar thing. From the little bit of skating that I did I mainly just got to appreciating smooth areas of road or path.

On the game side of things, the strongest I've ever got this was during/after playing The Witness. It's an incredible (and incredibly addictive) puzzle game that will have you seeing puzzles everywhere in the real world if you play it enough. The game even alludes to this effect in one of the endings!
by Telaneo | 2025-11-07 13:23:16+00:00
> This idea would last in the short-term, and once money dried up, result in a nonexistent market.

Tell that to the music industry. That is not without its fault, but the products on offer are much better than the movie industry has. The market is smaller than it once was, i.e. there's less money flowing through the system, because the consumer isn't being squeezed from every side. The customer is being provided a better product for less money. That's a good thing in my opinion. Having the market be artificially inflated because everyone's got their own small realm no-one else is allowed to touch without paying a hefty licence fee is not a good thing in my opinion.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-07 13:24:44+00:00
What is the preferred setup for deploying OpenTelemetry on a Kubernetes cluster? Is OpenTelemetry the choice today?

I am running a few projects on a minimal Hetzner K3S cluster and just want some cheap easy observability to store logs, reduce log noise and instead rely on counters/metrics without paying an arm and a leg.

Languages used are Rust, Javascript and Python mostly.
by stkr | 2025-11-07 13:25:08+00:00
This opinion is conceptual, redundant, and difficult to understand. The problem is that many people make it too specific, like SQL's explicit SELECT statements (e.g., SELECT data = 'xxx' from yyy;), which overly narrows down the candidates. This approach only outputs the most average and mundane information. After nearly a year of use, LLMs simply make it easier to extract desired information by structuring SQL anti-patterns within the range where processing returns in real-time:

1. Make column candidates and the FROM clause as ambiguous as possible.

2. Communicate conditions like WHERE clauses and GROUP BY clauses as prior information.

3. Since conditions like WHERE clauses and GROUP BY clauses are strongly affected by context memory limitations, they should have an efficient data structure and be as compressed as possible.
by basch | 2025-11-07 13:25:16+00:00
This is mostly my physics ignorance talking, but if we measure distance in space-time and not just space, and speed or velocity is space-time/time (which somehow are both relative to each other) and the derivative of velocity is acceleration, cant acceleration mean either expanding "faster" in the sense of distance OR time speeding up or slowing down? All of it seems so self referential its hard to wrap around.
by dachworker | 2025-11-07 13:25:19+00:00
I'm super excited to give this one a spin. It seems like a neat idea, Triton, but simpler and with automatic autotuning. My head is spinning with options right now. I love how everyone was hyping up CUDA this and CUDA that a couple of years ago, and now CUDA is all but irrelevant. There's now so many different and opinionated takes on how you should write high performant accelerator cluster code. I love it.

It's also kinda of ironic that right now in 2025, we have all this diversity in tooling, but at the same time, the ML architecture space has collapsed entirely and everyone is just using transformers.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-07 13:25:48+00:00
> is just the polite way to say

Can be*, that's not necessarily always true. I've quit jobs plenty of times without having any plan for the future or particular drama-reason for leaving, just "It's not as fun here anymore, despite this being a great place to work", I'm sure I'm not the only one who does so.

What I've never done though, is leaving a place without being 100% honest exactly why I'm leaving. I won't say "I was just ready for change" if that wasn't the reason, I have no reason not to be honest about why I'm leaving.