MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmward01 | 2025-11-26 21:24:38+00:00
I think some of it may be that everything is too big now and they all have too many options they can, relatively, easily take. When special effects became easy every movie turned into an action movie. Special effects are everywhere creating scenes that don't actually help tell the story or develop a character. It just seems like there aren't hard choices being made to force a movie to be its core best self. Every scene should matter. Of course we can't go back though. I don't think many people would pay to see the something like Jaws again.
by CharlesW | 2025-11-26 21:25:13+00:00
> …it's not Webkit that's the better core now.

I'm curious about your definition of "better". It's nice that Google is catching up to Safari on Speedometer benchmarks (Blink was 20% slower a year ago), so at minimum one can appreciate Safari for being the mechanical hare that triggers Google's prey instinct. Bun chose WebKit's JavaScriptCore for performance reasons. Safari's supposedly-poor support for web standards is mostly Google propaganda.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-26 21:25:16+00:00
And herein lies the joys of medical coding :). Likely more than 235k normal pregnancy checkups happening in hospitals over 3 years in the UK, these "Z34" codes will likely get coded as admissions if someone is admitted for concerns around the pregnancy and the net result is everything with the pregnancy ended up fine. Maybe some other oddball scenarios I'm not thinking of too, but if you just go in for a planned pregnancy checkup and it comes out fine it (shouldn't) be coded as an admission just because it was done in a hospital location. Unless the NHS just has really odd coding practices, which is possible, but the other chart isn't drowning in 10s and 10s of millions of vaccinations of each type either.

For similar reasons you may find a ton of other things which aren't normally an admission in the data, but at numbers less than one might expect because that alone isn't usually reason to admit.

I'm glad I got out of healthcare IT!
by amluto | 2025-11-26 21:25:31+00:00
> What if the moved-from DB object lazily opens a new connection, if someone uses it again?

Great, so now the stateful settings on my database connection change depending on whether I move from it.

Database connections are kind of a bad example — having a connection drop is not really unexpected behavior, and a program that uses a database should be prepared for a connection to drop, so there’s kind of an invalid state on a connection anyway. But things like file handles or mutex guards aren’t like this — it’s reasonable to expect that, on a functioning system, a file handle won’t go away. And if I’m using a type-safe language that supports RAII, I would like the compiler to ensure that I can’t use an object that isn’t in a valid state.

Rust can do this, as can lots of languages that support “affine” types (that name is absurd). GC languages can kind of do this too, as long as cloning the reference is considered valid. Languages with “linear” types can even statically guarantee that I don’t forget to close my object.

C++ can ensure that an object is valid if it’s in scope, but only if that object is not movable, so “consume” operations are not possible in a type-safe way.
by phony-account | 2025-11-26 21:25:59+00:00
> Modern digital cinema cameras can capture dark scenes far better than the film stocks of the 90s and earlier. So set designers don’t need to blast light everywhere to have actors be visible… > Go watch a 90s movie and look at a night or interior scene. You’ll see that everyone is actually lit by blue lights. Not natural darkness. That’s a major change.

Let me introduce you to some film history:

https://neiloseman.com/barry-lyndon-the-full-story-of-the-fa...
by alexose | 2025-11-26 21:26:24+00:00
The original stated goal was to 10x the speed of existing tunnel boring machines by bringing up the cutting head RPMs, automating liner installation, and speeding up spoil removal with electric sleds. Which would seem like a good bet, except that there are a million other bottlenecks to the process. On top of that, it doesn't seem like they even solved their core problems.

It would be cool if they'd post a postmortem or something, but I get the impression that reporting bad news is a good way to get fired in an Elon-run organization.
by georgefrowny | 2025-11-26 21:26:37+00:00
> 20-50 years of engineering can get us there.

I want to believe, but I think it'll be a lot more than that. The rocket equation is a stone cold bitch in this case.

Sustaining the thrust that accelerates a probe at 1g is very different to sustaining the thrust to move the probe and all the fuel. And it's much worse if you want to stop and not just fly past into deep space.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-26 21:26:40+00:00
> What about going out in front of your city hall with a poster saying no-chat-control?

Unorganized, individual acts cannot change anything in the EU.

> You risk nothing, do you?

Given the legislative maze the EU has become, you can't be sure of that, but you surely gain nothing.

The conditions in Europe are quite specific, and in that environment, pan-EU legislation (except the customs union) should be optional for individual members, anything else can and will be used against the people.
by nickff | 2025-11-26 21:26:48+00:00
It's not clear that concentrating so much money on a single government project fosters more benefit than having the money go to a variety of other projects. It is easy to see the items developed by something like the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo program, but we often miss the innovations created by private industry when you compare a similar total spend (Bastiat's "seen and unseen"). One example of the alternative is how (private) demand for cellular telephony has triggered many innovations, from powerful and efficient microcontrollers to bright LCD screens, and fast-charging lithium-ion batteries.
by wingmanjd | 2025-11-26 21:26:53+00:00
Not related to the main conversation, but I'm still mad that the DVD menu of that movie gave away the reveal before the movie even started (showed someone limping and then suddenly not limping anymore as they walked down the street). There was no real twist ending since I knew the guy was lying about something.

(Vagueness intended to avoid spoilers for that 1 in 10,000 someone who hasn't seen the movie)
by luqtas | 2025-11-26 21:27:12+00:00
aren't you being a little naive by calling dangerous activities men have to take to survive "inherently voluntary"? go to a 3° world country or works as an immigrant somewhere rich to check your options. transportation included. it's easy to say one shouldn't use a cheap motorcycle and go for the one way sardine packed 2 hours bus ride across the city to reach work, everyday
by m3047 | 2025-11-26 21:27:13+00:00
It's been over 20 years, but I used to build batch processing pipelines using SMTP (not Outlook). Biggest "choose your own adventure" aspect is accounting / auditing (making sure you didn't lose batches). I still joke about it as an option; although if somebody took me up on it I'd write up at least a semi-serious proposal.

In the middle are Mule, Rabbit, Kafka, ZMQ.

At the other end is UDP multicast, and I still use that for VM hosts or where I can trust the switch.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-26 21:27:37+00:00
Nvidia GPUs have always been a generation ahead of the rest... Because no one else has seen any value is developing GRAPHICS processors for gamers.

Nvidia had an edge in CUDA support but they were and are not anywhere near a generation ahead in CUDA acceleration.

Take a step closer to present with tensor processing and Nvidia is actually just getting started. GOOGLE has more experience with datacenter clustered TPUs and tensor acceleration; they are just waiting for the h100 to reach its peak lifecycle (~4 months) before they obsolete it and "release" a catch phrase and model number.
by burntsushi | 2025-11-26 21:27:54+00:00
If you haven't read my blog on this topic, I suggest you do so before replying further: https://burntsushi.net/unwrap

It should very clearly state my position. And it provides the examples that I previously referenced.

The GP got a link to this blog in the previous HN thread. They dismissed it out-of-hand without engaging with it at all. And tossed in an ad hominem for good measure. So your issue with me specifically here seems completely inappropriate.
by dubcanada | 2025-11-26 21:28:34+00:00
I don't particularly disagree with you, but do you have evidence that modern movies are calibrated and written to allow for someone to sit on their phones the entire time and understand?

Largely seems like some movies are written to be mass consumed and some are not. No different then a movie from the 90s. Our attention span is decreasing a lot obviously, but it's never been that long.
by Topgamer7 | 2025-11-26 21:28:45+00:00
I always enjoyed Garry's blog.

It just seemed like a public diary. And a place to vent about dev,life,w/e. He seems to be unapologetic-ally himself.

Although I was pretty sure there used to be more posts (although maybe I'm conflating his posts there with his contributions to his old forums.)

https://garry.net/posts/
by panzi | 2025-11-26 21:29:31+00:00
Personally I like Rust, but I'm against rewriting old well tested tools in Rust just because. There is this opinion out there that Rust devs rewrite everything for no good reason, but I only really saw that happening in coreutils and sudo. In the other cases that I heard of the rewrite wasn't from C/C++ (but e.g. from JavaScript and they need more speed) or they needed a rewrite anyway for different reasons (e.g. first working parallel style calculation in Firefox).

So I'm very skeptical of the coreutils rewrite. In the current state it's incomplete, slower (not optimized), and replacing all GPL code with MIT/BSD code also feels strange to me.
Show HN: I vibe-coded an ASCII Keyboard
by levgel | 2025-11-26 21:29:47+00:00
Today I vibe-coded a functional ASCII keyboard using Opus 4.5 and Swift. It lets you type normally and outputs FIGlet-style ASCII art. Toggle it on, type your message, press Enter and the ASCII art gets typed out wherever your cursor is. Not essentially useful, but still fun :~)

Features: - 20 FIGlet fonts (Standard, Banner, Doom, Star Wars, etc.) - Live preview as you type - Works in any app (Slack, Discord, Terminal, etc.) - Pure Swift

Cost: 92,118,535 Opus 4.5 tokens Time consumed: 30 minutes including domain setup and registration

What times we live in...
by voodooEntity | 2025-11-26 21:29:59+00:00
I really tried to get gemini to work properly in Agent mode. Tho it way to often wen't crazy, started rewriting files empty, commenting like "here you could implement the requested function" and many more stuff including running into permanent printing loops of stuff like "I've done that. What's next on the debugger? Okay, I've done that. What's next on the with? Okay, I've done that. What's next on the delete? Okay, I've done that. What's next on the in? Okay, I've done that. What's next on the instanceof? Okay, I've done that. What's next on the typeof? Okay, I've done that. What's next on the void? Okay, I've done that. What's next on the true? Okay, I've done that. What's next on the false? Okay, I've done that. What's next on the null? Okay, I've done that. What's next on the undefined? Okay, I've done that..." which went on for like 1hour (yes i waited to see how long it takes for them to cut it).

Its just really good yet.

I recently tried IntelliJs Junie and i have to say it works rather well.

I mean at the end of the day all of them need a human in the loop and the result is just as good as your prompt, tho with Junie i at least most of the time got something of a result, while with gemini 50% would have been a good rate.

Finally: Still dont see agentic coding for production stages - its just not there yet in terms of quality. For research and fun? Why not.
by snicky | 2025-11-26 21:30:00+00:00
> The Netflix catalog is full of not so good movies, and the video rental shops in the 90s were too.

I subscribed to Netflix for a year or two when the platform became popular, but I quickly realized it resembles those old school rental shops too much. Yes, you could get some popular classics like The Godfather or Goodfellas, but apart from that you were stuck with another crime story or a comedy with Steve Martin or John Candy. Actually, my analogy may not be 100% fortunate, because I still have good memories about watching these comedies as a kid with my dad. Now I wouldn't have time and patience to go through movies of "that" quality. Anyhow, my point is that you were very unlikely to get there anything that wasn't already proved to be popular. Forget about anything more niche / arthouse. Netflix has produced plenty by itself, but how many of those movies are actually any good? I remember a handful of them: Marriage Story, Roma, Don't Look Up and a movie for kids called Okja.
by rootlocus | 2025-11-26 21:30:06+00:00
Oooo, I remember Garry Newman! I found his UI library GWEN (GUI Without Extravagant Nonsense) when I was still in uni and working on my game engine. It's been abandoned for 9 years now, nice to see he's still working on cool tech.

[1] https://github.com/garrynewman/GWEN
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-11-26 21:30:33+00:00
>They barely have their toes in the middleware game anymore.

Well they do have Steam Audio but yeah I agree. I think Epic is much better in this space, even though its only source available in practice they do a lot to support engine modifications and also accept external PRs. I think Valve has a lot to gain from open sourcing Source 2 and they should realize how important modding was to their initial success. The issue is now they can just print money with Steam so there is no need to invest in modding support.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-11-26 21:31:12+00:00
It took ten years and twenty movies for the Marvel franchise to go stale and years more for hating on it to become cool ‡. That's an accomplishment by any metric not specifically designed to facilitate the latter.

You will never be 10 years younger again, but the kids who grew up with those movies will carry forward their fond memories of the good in them and when they find their voice on the adult stage they will reclaim them, making hating on them uncool again, just as we did for the Star Wars prequels. Whether you embrace or reject the backlash-to-the-backlash will be up to you but I'd like to put in a word for the psychological benefits of trying to see the good in things. It's much more fun than ruminating on the bad, both for yourself and those around you.

‡ Yes, I'm sure you were doing it before it was cool.
by smcleod | 2025-11-26 21:31:33+00:00
This has been a serious problem since macOS Tahoe. Whoever signed off on the UI for Tahoe needs a serious schooling in UI/UX design principles - it's incredibly hostile to users. Not only does it make it impossible to distinguish between overlapping windows as this tool seeks to mitigate, there's many confusing UI elements and lack of contrast not to mention why it has so much padding on everything - you're left with far less usable space.
by chao- | 2025-11-26 21:31:39+00:00
I remember seeing something like that referenced a while ago, and went back and found it:

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/

>Several screenwriters who’ve worked for the streamer told me a common note from company executives is “have this character announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have this program on in the background can follow along.”

I don't necessarily agree that it means all movies (or even most) are doing this, but it is some evidence that at least some are.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-26 21:31:41+00:00
The software literally includes an algorithm that says "this week, you will set the rate for this apartment at $X" based on RP's data.

And, if you want to deviate from that, without being kicked off RP and losing your substantial fee payments, you will do follow that rate (and they tell you that they _will_ check), or you can "request an override" from RealPage, that they may allow or deny at their discretion (and RP agents are formally trained that override approvals may not exceed 5% of requests).

> Consistent with their agreement to impose rents generated by RealPage RM Software nearly all the time, Defendants agreed to limit overrides. For example, a RealPage LRO training document states: “Overrides should be few and far between.” Similarly, internal RealPage LRO training documents teach cartel members’ regional managers to beware of “Override Overload” or “rogue” leasing agents who too frequently override the LRO-generated pricing.

> An internal presentation created by Defendant Greystar explicitly acknowledges that RealPage RM Software users should each seek to accept at least 95% of the RealPage-generated prices, emphasizing that “Discipline [o]f using revenue management increases more consistent outcomes.”

> Former Greystar employees have similarly confirmed that negotiating rents other than those set by the RealPage RM Software was unacceptable.

> Even where Participating Landlords do not enable auto-accept, most landlords cannot, on their own, charge rents other than those generated by RealPage’s RM Software— landlords can only “propose an override.” The landlord must then provide a written business justification for why they wish to depart from the RealPage-generated rent.
by D13Fd | 2025-11-26 21:32:08+00:00
I think it’s more survival bias than recency. But I strongly agree. There were many bad movies in the 1990’s, we just don’t remember them or have forgotten how bad they were.

Two examples off of the top of my head are Johnny Mnemonic and Escape from LA. Both of these are sci fi movies that are mostly just awful throughout. I remember watching them at the time and thinking they were pretty decent, but on rewatching them recently, I could barely make it through them.

Compare that to The Matrix, just four years later (and still in the 1990s), which hits super hard and seems almost flawless even today.

Really I think the movies that have survived in people’s minds are the ones where everything aligned: an incredible director with a great story to tell and everyone involved performing at the top of their game.
by prmoustache | 2025-11-26 21:32:31+00:00
Well nowhere in the page does the author mention any attempt to be authentic or using html written the same way ad in the 90's so I am wondering where does that negativity come and why?

It looks to me this service is proposing hosting like it is the 90's, not building a web page exactly like it is the 90's with just a wee bit of retro clues.
by svara | 2025-11-26 21:32:45+00:00
Yes but this is incredibly competitive and undifferentiated.

It's a huge market but who will it be a profitable business for?

Likely a company or multiple who own some sort of platform that people are already on, so not OpenAI.

What they have right now is the strong ChatGPT brand and that does mean a lot. But how long will it last?

They're not the technology leader anymore, and that spells a lot of trouble.

They are at a stage where they need to dominate the market and then leverage the data that gives them, plus the brand, plus the tech advantage to establish a durable near monopoly, but it looks like it's not working.

It's a bit as if in 1999 3 equally strong Google competitors had popped up, with some pulling ahead.
by haunter | 2025-11-26 21:32:57+00:00
I've seen many good films this decade too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There Is No Evil (شیطان وجود ندارد) 2020

Drive My Car (ドライブ・マイ・カー) 2021

The two Dune films

Alcarràs 2022

Suzume (すずめの戸締まり) 2022

Monster (怪物) 2023

Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet) 2023

The Holdovers 2023

Perfect Days 2023

The Substance 2024

Bugonia 2025 (even though it's a remake)
by poszlem | 2025-11-26 21:33:00+00:00
That take is unbelievably shortsighted.

A Far Side lunar base is not some cool sci fi brag. It is a massive strategic advantage, and brushing it off misses everything that actually matters.

The Far Side is the only place in the Earth Moon system where you can hide military hardware and basically disappear. No optical tracking, no radar, no interception. The Moon itself becomes a giant wall of rock that blocks sensors, lasers, and signals. It is the closest thing to perfect concealment anyone is ever going to get in space.

From that position, gravity is on your side. Sending kinetic weapons toward Earth takes almost no energy. Sending anything from Earth to the Moon takes a huge amount of fuel just to fight the gravity well. The attacker on the surface is always at a disadvantage, and the lunar side barely has to spend anything to strike.

A base on the Moon also survives whatever happens on Earth. Even a full scale nuclear exchange leaves it untouched. That means guaranteed retaliation. It becomes a true third strike platform, something no one can wipe out in a first strike. It locks in deterrence in a way that completely changes the strategic balance.

And if one country gets there first, mutual deterrence is over. They hold an untargetable, unreachable launch point that the rest of the planet cannot neutralize. That is not a symbolic win. It is unilateral control over the highest ground humanity has access to.

I honestly do not know why some people do not see it. This is literally rewriting Earth geopolitics. For hundreds of years we worked within Mackinder’s logic: Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World Island; who rules the World Island commands the World.

With a lunar base it becomes: Who rules the Moon commands cislunar space; who commands cislunar space commands Earth orbit; who commands Earth orbit commands the Earth.

This is not about pride or prestige. It is about who controls the one location in the solar system that offers absolute strategic dominance. Whoever controls the Moon controls the high ground.

Good luck competing with China if they get there first.

EDIT: Apparently posting six comments in thirty minutes counts as "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks. " and whoever decided that is a proper knob. I got throttled again, so if you reply, I can't respond anymore for now.
by AlexandrB | 2025-11-26 21:33:47+00:00
> If they can figure out how to get the right kickbacks/referrals without compromising user trust

This is a complete contradiction. Once there's money involved in the recommendation you can no longer trust the recommendation. At a minimum any kind of referral means that there's strong incentive to get you to buy something instead of telling you "there are no good options that meet your criteria". But the logical next step for this kind of system is companies paying money to tilt the recommendation in their favour. Would OpenAI leave that money on the table? I can't imagine they would.
by foxglacier | 2025-11-26 21:33:52+00:00
People don't want to buy poisonous food knowing it's poison. They might take a gamble on if it the odds seem good enough. (even in highly safety regulated western countries, people sometimes die from contaminated food). In contrast, people do want to burn petrol knowing that it 100% will pollute the environment every single time they drive their car. We do what benefits us personally despite the cost to the environment. So it's our fault. It's hard to correct your own faults while you're blaming somebody else for them instead of accepting responsibility.