MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joegibbs | 2025-11-23 01:05:16+00:00
I think the ideal limit as far as complexity with no manual coding would be something like this new marketing site for my game (warning: 100mb of video on Chrome): https://redo--fallofanempire.netlify.app/

Cursor with Gemini 3. I didn't manually write a single line for it (except for the actual wording). Gemini did the React stuff, styling, writing ffmpeg commands for re-encoding the videos to work better with scroll-based scrubbing, splitting them out into AVIF image sequences for mobile, etc. I use Cursor + Codex for the actual game as well but it involves a lot of manual work - even with a really modular system like Unreal it gets convoluted.

I tried doing a spreadsheet application heavily using Sonnet 4 (https://app.embedsheet.ai/) and found it would make a ton of mistakes and massive files that it would then be unable to reason with, I think if I did it again I'd do all the core stuff by hand.
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-23 01:05:29+00:00
I smell AI writing assistance. Which is a shame because this is otherwise very good and well-collated information about Apple's security. But AI loves to use bullet point lists just for the hell of it and it makes the information here smell way less reliable than it actually is.

I'm also not sure if it's 100% accurate. My (possibly wrong) understanding of the guarded execution feature is that each GL is paired with a normal ARM EL. i.e. GL2 constrains EL2, GL1 constrains EL1, etc. XNU lives in EL2 so SPTM lives in GL2, and GENTER/GEXIT move you between ELx and GLx through a secure call vector. In contrast, this guide refers to GL0 being the "standard XNU kernel context" even though XNU lives in EL2 on macOS. Furthermore, on device OSes (iOS/iPadOS/etc) they put a second kernel in GL1 and various enforcement policy tools (i.e. code signing policy, camera indicator policy) in GL0[0]. So I'm not sure how macOS putting XNU in GL0 makes sense?

[0] XNU source refers to this concept as an Exclave, which itself can be grouped with other isolated resources as a Conclave.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-11-23 01:05:29+00:00
> Your average NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL athletes are broke 5 years after they are out of the league. Fame, is mostly a curse.

I'm not familiar with the financials of music / media production (I didn't read the linked article yet, sorry). But I feel this over-pitying attitude towards professional sports players is misplaced. They do often go broke after their career. That is sad. It is also completely avoidable with _very_ basic financial planning. I think feeling sorry for them is a disservice, because it makes it seem that this outcome is hard to avoid. It's not hard when they're making 500k+/year:

1. Spend (a lot) less than you make. At 500k/year anywhere in the US, you should easily be saving 200k / year.

2. Invest the money you've saved. There's lots of good advice online, and realistically if you're saving 200k/year you don't have to worry about making the best choices -- just decent ones.

3. Don't accept generic lifestyle creep!

People need to be responsible and take control of their finances. You can't rely on somebody else to watch your finances, or make you eat your vegetables, or brush your teeth. The same advice applies to lots of people in tech, IMO.
by joseda-hg | 2025-11-23 01:05:30+00:00
> Because no one would ever risk exposure. And so expression of non-sexual intimacies we would see as gay are not perceived as gay in those societies.

100% an interesting example of this that can even be seen in relatively recent history is the nature of some sports manerisms

The congratulatory ass slap or roughhousing, between people of the same gender is basically nothing of note (Enough to say, be televised), yet across diferent genders it's perceived as different enough to merit different treatment
by pan69 | 2025-11-23 01:05:46+00:00
In similar vein, the U2 song Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me has similar self-deprecating lyrics on what it is to be a pop star.

They want you to be Jesus They'll go down on one knee But they'll want their money back If you're alive at thirty-three

https://genius.com/U2-hold-me-thrill-me-kiss-me-kill-me-lyri...
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-23 01:07:27+00:00
The cost of the fuel is less than 0.1% of the cost of running a NPP. The cost of the fuel has almost nothing to do with the economics of nuclear power. And considering a liquid fueled reactor makes heat in the 900C range and a AP1400 makes heat in the 300C range, they aren't really substitutes for each other. The amount of incorrect information in this thread is truly shocking. For example, you can make synthetic fuel from a LFTR, you can't from a BWR or a PWR. That might be a valuable feature, don't you think.
by nativeit | 2025-11-23 01:07:29+00:00
The article also mentions this, and suggests the UA is not a silver bullet. That said, they didn’t go into specifics. I’m assuming there are other details that correlate to particular browsers that will betray a false UA. Plus, having a UA that says Chrome while including an extension that’s exclusive to Safari (tor example) will not only contradict the UA, but it will also be a highly distinctive datapoint for fingerprinting, in and of itself.
by sfblah | 2025-11-23 01:07:50+00:00
I had to go on Youtube to listen to some of the music mentioned here, as I'm pretty out of the loop on it. Given what I heard I honestly think we're basically at the point where AI can generate equivalent or even better music. It's just very simple and doesn't feel particularly innovative or noteworthy.

Point being, I think it's likely this person is one of the last pop stars.

Actually, as I'm writing this, I realized that probably the music being produced by this person is actually done by a computer. So, maybe she's in the first wave of totally artificial pop stars.
by toast0 | 2025-11-23 01:08:52+00:00
I think x87 fpu is the only 'weird' floating point units left. I think if you stick with 64-bit double precision floats or 32-bit single precision floats, where the registers are also 64 or 32 bits, all the modern stuff behaves the same. x87 is just weird because registers are 80-bits ... the idea was to have more accurate results from more precision, but it ends up weird because if you run out of registers and have to spill to memory, you typically lose precision.

Edit: since this post was second chanced, I can add on that some of the pre-PC consoles have weird floats too. If they had floats at all. Lots of fun for emulation developers. Even fun for contemporaneous game developers... PilotWings on the SNES comes with different revision accelerator chips and the demo only works properly on the early revision chips (but I think? the later revision chips have more accurate math). The PS2 FPU has weirdness around NaN, Infinity, very large numbers, and denormalized numbers. Etc.
by bsder | 2025-11-23 01:09:26+00:00
> I realize that I’m probably going to get dogpiled for saying it, but I think that the response to COVID (ie lockdowns) did far more damage than the disease itself.

You're going to blame Covid and/or Covid response for the fact that monopolies can jack up prices without consequence? That's your conclusion? Seriously?

What's happened is that McDonald's assumed they were a monopoly supplier like everybody else and jacked prices. McDonald's unfortunately discovered that "not eating out at all" is a viable substitute to their monopoly. Whoops.

However, if you want to fix the enshittification that is going on, you need to aggressively break up the monopolies everywhere in order to insert slack back into the system to re-enable competition.

On top of that, basing everything around "Always Late(tm) Inventory" (aka "Just In Time Inventory") means that there is zero slack in the system so even IF you want to compete, there is no upstream provider that can supply you with enough material to make a meaningful difference.

Want to fix modern capitalism? Bust monopolies. Over and over. At all levels. In all fields (not just tech). Aggressively.
by chichis | 2025-11-23 01:10:40+00:00
> But Mozilla had a good run.

I don’t think Mozilla is over.

I also don’t think people should equate their history with their current state. They lied to their users and told them they’d never sell their data, and then they did. That is much worse than never having made the promise. I don’t trust them.

But, they have far too much support and are far too embedded to disappear anytime soon.
by wtallis | 2025-11-23 01:11:10+00:00
I said "single-thread performance or power efficiency", not "single-thread performance and power efficiency". Though at the moment, the best single-thread performance does happen to go along with the best power efficiency. Old server CPUs offer neither.

> Even gaming is now more reliant on GPU performance (which in principle ought to benefit from the high PCIe bandwidth of server parts)

A gaming GPU doesn't need all of the bandwidth available from a single PCIe x16 slot. Mid-range GPUs and lower don't even have x16 connectivity, because it's not worth the die space to put down more than 8 lanes of PHYs for that level of performance. The extra PCIe connectivity on server platforms could only matter for workloads that can effectively use several GPUs. Gaming isn't that kind of workload; attempts to use two GPUs for gaming proved futile and unsustainable.
by jameslk | 2025-11-23 01:11:53+00:00
Charli XCX is diverse and experimental enough that my first instinct would be to assume she’s rather intelligent. For example, her collaboration in the PC Music scene comes off rather nerdy and eccentric actually, not exactly pop. And her lyrics usually have more to it than meets the ear, e.g. sometimes intentionally being a commentary on the party persona keeping her distracted from worse things. “I hate the silence (uh oh), that's why the music's always loud”

Of course, that isn’t a shallow opinion so perhaps someone unfamiliar to her would think otherwise
by lelandbatey | 2025-11-23 01:13:33+00:00
Sounds like you haven't been working long enough to forget your decisions, which you WILL do eventually. In such cases, where you're looking at code you wrote 10 years ago and you find a weird line, when you view the git blame and read the commit message, you'll be very thankful that you explain not just "what" you did, but "why" you did this, something an AI will have a very hard time doing.

You don't have to if you don't want to, but if you think "this commit message is just a summary of the changes made", you'll never write a useful commit message.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-23 01:13:38+00:00
The UK does the same thing. In fact, its across the entire west. Its almost as if absurd over-regulation is expensive. The Vogtle plant construction for example had to deal with 3 different tranches of changes to the design caused by regulators. Its not corruption, its over-regulation. If it is corruption, it is corrupt politicians intentionally over-regulating because their backers make lots of money extracting FFs.
by ai_critic | 2025-11-23 01:15:08+00:00
There's an assumption there that buying down the national debt is an important goal. Reasons that one might not want to take that position:

* Having debt helps keep a currency useful as a global reserve and store of value, with great soft-power benefits (though, honestly, the reverse is more true--being the reserve currency makes running up a debt easier).

* Having debt helps keep us out of capital-W War, as it binds nations together financially--if we owe another country a sufficient amount, they have a vested interest in seeing it come back. (Incidentally, historically, this is a shaky assumption as well.)

* Having a policy allowing for debt helps make re-investment in infrastructure and civilization-scale efforts more easy to accomplish.

* Having a debt helps encourage inflationary currency policy, which (in moderation!) has knock-on stimulatory effects on the economy. Some minor inflation is good for helping to encourage people to spend rather than hoard.

The more cynical take, of course, is: how can we not afford to pay UBI?

* Is it cheaper to remove, retrain, or simply resupply folks who are otherwise economic unproductive?

* Is it politically expedient to buy off the population whose only useful product is votes than to balance the budget?

* People are upset about work and making rent today...creditors of the US are some distant threat, and it's unlikely any politician will be in-office when that bill comes due--why hold off?

* We've spent more money on dumber things, what's wrong with this?

I don't exactly agree with any of the above points (in either category), but it's not hard to imagine people who do.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-23 01:15:12+00:00
> The main point of course is that those sites are at fault (sometimea intentionally when it comes to Google), but that doesn't change Mozilla's position. Stop using Google services is just not a great choice, and many of us use them rely heavily on them for work.

That's not exactly what happened. Yes, google did some shady stuff but in parallel Firefox was also slow for everything.

Only when FF Quantum launched the performance caught up, and the same launch gave power user a push to go elsewhere, coz all their plugins either stopped working or worked worse.

And it was too little too late too. IIRC the FF market share was already hovering around 10%. There were some people going back to it after Quantum release but that didn't last and were not at the level where companies like one I work for don't even test on FF because market share is so small clients don't require it

> Mozilla could make technical miracles and or bring some incredible feature from the left field, but that's a tall order for any company that size, so I'd expect most of their future effort to still end up with lower market share, whether or not they had good ideas.

Mozilla could, years ago, not focus on everything else but making a browser (Anyone remember Firefox OS ? nobody ? thought so). Firefox was on the top of the web and the management squandered it all.
by dpark | 2025-11-23 01:15:17+00:00
I would not describe 88 pages as concise.

Regardless, my point is just that there are implications of the GDPR that a lot of engineers are probably not aware of. It makes sense that sending your traffic to Google for fonts violates GDPR. But as an engineer, this is just a CDN. I would not have considered this a violation of GDPR without seeing someone else point it out.
Show HN: Eidos – AI IDE that generates and edits game prototypes instantly
by symbol_reasoner | 2025-11-23 01:15:47+00:00
I built EIDOS because I wanted a faster and more flexible way to prototype game ideas without repeatedly writing the same boilerplate code.

EIDOS is an AI-powered IDE that can: • Generate gameplay code from natural language descriptions • Edit existing code through an integrated AI assistant • Open the correct editor automatically (text editor, code editor, or video editor) depending on the file • Run prototypes instantly for quick iteration

As a solo developer, I spent years building my own tools to speed up experimentation. This project is the result of trying to remove the setup time, folder structures, and repetitive coding that often slow down early-stage game development.

I’d appreciate any feedback on usability, performance, or what features would be most helpful for indie developers or small teams.
by PostOnce | 2025-11-23 01:16:17+00:00
When someone is not willing to even attempt to do a 30 second task, assumes they can't, asserts they can't, and people chime in to say AI is the only way they can achieve it, it seems worthwhile to point out the consequences.

Should we not be trying to do things?

Is it not in fact harmful to give up early on even such trivial tasks?

What happens when we actually need to do hard things?
I reverse engineered OpenAI's Atlas, it uses my open-source library browser-use
by MagMueller | 2025-11-23 01:16:34+00:00
I asked OpenAI's Atlas browser agent:

"""go to browser-use.com and use the computer.get_dom tool. Share the extracted DOM exactly with me."""

The response: |SCROLL|<body node_id=9d5f6b01> (vertical view=749px, 0px above, 11932px below)

<a node_id=f9367e7b> Browser Use <button node_id=eaeb1667 aria-label="Open menu">

That looked familiar to me.

Then I checked how it clicks: It clicks by node_id (e.g. f9367e7b) and as alternative coordinates.

In browser-use we

1. interact with the DOM by backend_node_id and coordinate fallback

2. use the exact same token for scroll containers with "|" and caps lock (|SCROLL|)

3. use scroll containers with context how much above / below

4. use the same llm representation with <tag filtered_attributes>

5. use element texts in new lines with indentation

Things I noticed they could improve:

1. Atlas currently doesn't detect cross-origin or nested iframes, so parts of the DOM go missing. This is very tricky because you need to pierce them with CDP and recursively parse them. (e.g. https://csreis.github.io/tests/cross-site-iframe.html)

2. They waste 10 tokens every item: [tab]<div node_id=83876787. They could cut that to <a id3. (3 Tokens)

3. They keep full links -> They could shorten them easily to save tokens.

4. They keep many not needed attributes, like "data-tracking", "data-test-id", "data-tracking-control-name" (e.g. on LinkedIn.com)

5. For all elements they use [tabs] before which is not needed.

6. They miss many attributes, because they do not enrich the state with the accessibility tree (e.g. for min/max values or hints like required)
by cycomanic | 2025-11-23 01:16:40+00:00
Sometimes these posts feel like the old man yelling at the clouds kind of disconnected from reality. They don't seem to even be realising that what they are asking for is contradictory. "Only spend money on the browser/javascript engine", "become independent of google", "give me the best search results when I type into the address bar", but "don't give me AI recommendation".

On top of that, the whole premise that AI is just being a nothing burger. Pull your head out of your arse.

Is there an AI bubble? I tend to agree, likely yes. And yes it is very much overhyped etc. Does that mean that AI is useless and will disappear? No way! Just observe how Joe Doe's are interacting with the web. AI engines have taken over from where people used to use search. It's ironic how they say they just want search results when typing in their address bar, at a time when everyone is complaining that search has become increasingly useless (and yes we can blame AI tools at least partly, doesn't change the fact). Moreover, there are definitely use cases where an AI gives a much better answer than search (just try searching for how to do something a little niche with e.g. ffmpeg, you can either read 10s of block/stackoverflow posts try to understand the manual or ask an AI and typically immediately get a decent answer).

I tend to agree with Mozilla org here, AI does pose an existential thread to the web as we know it and if we don't get non-profit organisations to develop "open" (and I acknowledge the discussion what that entails is important) tools we will end up with a web that is much less free than it is today.
by 1propionyl | 2025-11-23 01:16:49+00:00
It’s just a blog post. No academic is going to read it as more than a very promising early result.

The issue is that lay people read every paper or post as if it were a final proclamation. They’re not. Even a peer reviewed paper on the cover of Science or Nature is still not “proof” of anything, science doesn’t produce positive confirmation. It produces evidence that taken together suggest one prior is more likely than another.

Bayes Rule is very intuitive. We update the prior by the likelihood of the evidence under a given prior divided by the likelihood of the evidence. That’s all it is.

Unfortunately, there is a very strong motive to flag plant. Academia is a water full of sharks.
by ghaff | 2025-11-23 01:16:54+00:00
>Everyone knows Medicare isn't "free".

No they don't. A lot of the "Medicare for All" crowd assumes that "medicare for all"/universal healthcare is free or at least very low cost rather than something that's in the ballpark of unsubsidized individual/family healthcare plans which is the reality at least within a few years of leaving the professional workforce.
by grep_name | 2025-11-23 01:17:57+00:00
I was diagnosed with ADHD at several different points and saw different professionals about it at different times, most notably in kindergarden, first grade, fifth grade, the beginning and end of high school, and college. (not all were re-diagnoses but for some reason took place at different locations) I don't really know why treatment was so off and on or varied, but I suspect it is because I don't respond well to stimulants. They make me feel extremely 'up' and anxious in very, very small doses. Everything from the amphetamines they prescribe to coffee.

When I was in college, I was prescribed them again just by my primary care physician. I didn't say I was having trouble focusing, I said I was having trouble with wakefulness. I still do sometimes. It was hard to stay awake in a lecture setting for some reason, borderline impossible on days when I had several in a row. Medication definitely helped me get through college but it was a rough time.

As an adult I don't take them, but it is hard to really work the full work day. I have always performed well enough that nobody questions it (and in some cases have brought so much value to a company that nobody cares), but it is a constant source of stress. I resonate with the top commenter in that I also have hundreds of unfinished personal projects across all domains. At this time in my life (33 y/o) I am more concerned about mitigating the constant stress I feel than I am about the actual ADHD symptoms. I am ok with my many personal projects clashing with each other.

At one point a few years ago I was stressed enough about my job to seek medication. For some reason I was not able to get the information about my diagnosis from my old primary care (from 8 years ago) and the one before that was pediatric and didn't seem to count. I talked to a therapist for a bit (which was not useful), got a diagnosis, and then talked to a psych briefly via zoom, and went on medication for a month before deciding (again) that it wasn't worth it. The whole thing was kind of disheartening.

Things are very weird when it comes to ADHD treatment and diagnosis. There seems to be a tendency towards the same 'easy button' when it comes to ADHD. I also don't think it's exaggerating to say that just about every single person I know well enough to have spoken to about these things says that they have been diagnosed with ADHD, often medicated. I don't think very many of them actually do have it. Sometimes I'm not even sure if I do, or there is something else going on.

I'm not sure what to conclude after all this except that maybe there are no answers for me in this space. It's frustrating, but I've never opened up to exploring this problem without the same exact solution being thrown at me, a solution I know is not sustainable for me. I've never spoken to a doctor who's ever suggested it could be anything else. Should I just find my own way, since I seem to be able to function well enough?
by giardini | 2025-11-23 01:18:03+00:00
Save your ass: make yourself a cup of cocoa!

FTFA:

"Forty young healthy men, 20 who had higher levels of fitness and 20 who had a lower level of fitness, consumed either a high-flavanol (695 mg of total flavanols per beverage) or low-flavanol cocoa drink (5.6 mg of total flavanols per beverage), before completing a two-hour sitting trial."

That last-highlighted phrase is you every day!

https://contentbash.com/who-are-butthole-surfers-facts-songs...

Butthole surfers - Pepper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRXty8lDUW0