MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nickandbro | 2025-11-25 00:09:29+00:00
"Create me a SVG of a PS4 controller"

Gemini 3.0 Pro: https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/CxLSTx2X

Opus 4.5: https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/dOSPSHC5

I think Opus 4.5 did a bit better overall, but I do think eventually frontier models will eventually converge to a point where the quality will be so good it will be hard to tell the winner.
by brokenmachine | 2025-11-25 00:09:37+00:00
>It was slightly weird that the old website didn't support https

It always did if you linked to https://reg.bom.gov.au , eg https://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDN60801/IDN60801.94768.shtm... https://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDR711.loop.shtml
by apparent | 2025-11-25 00:09:44+00:00
> I don't see why you are defining success as 30 days of battery life when the baseline is charging your watch every day.

Up until about 10 years ago, no one would have considered the baseline to be charging your watch every day. Even today, most watches/wrist-worn step counters don't require daily charging.

I wouldn't define 30 days as success, but I do want to start out at 2+ weeks. Battery life gets worse over time, and watches aren't meant to last for just a little while. I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on something that will require charging more than once a week within a year or two.

Appreciate the links, but I'm guessing these are estimates with AOD disabled? That's another benefit of the Pebble (AOD doesn't reduce battery life).
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-25 00:10:09+00:00
Note that the SSD that showed corrupted files was the one that had been worn out well beyond the manufacturer's max TBW rating (4× the TBW or so). There was a difference of two-to-three orders of magnitude in the ECC count between the "fresh" and the worn-out SSD; I'd call that very significant. It will be interesting to see if there's any update for late 2025.
by throw310822 | 2025-11-25 00:11:56+00:00
> I get the impression that the authors of the paper have some kind of woo (nonmaterialist) view of consciousness.

Indeed:

"Our findings, however, reveal that although the two hemispheres are completely insulated from each other, the brain as a whole is still able to produce only one conscious agent."

Which is materially impossible, given the premise.
by lambda | 2025-11-25 00:13:53+00:00
That's one of the big problems with any kind of AI alignment or safety work.

Safety for whom? Alignment to whose needs?

And a lot of time, that's contextual. You don't necessarily want to be effortlessly crafting novel exploits for a ransomware attacker, but you do want to be able to create a PoC exploit when deciding the severity of a CVE.

Or one valid use of an LLM is to craft examples of various kinds of abuse for training some smaller simpler model as a classifier.

So yeah, in trying to create a general purpose tool and then applying some notion of alignment or safety, you are automatically limiting some use cases that are valid for certain people.
by jmcphers | 2025-11-25 00:15:13+00:00
Eric has made it clear that the Pebble 2 Duo was always going to be a limited run because it was made mostly of leftover components and there's no reasonable path towards making new copies of those components.

> Pebble 2 Duo is sold out! We are not making more.

https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-software...
by metalman | 2025-11-25 00:15:14+00:00
ICE is killing people on the streets and in captivity, but you will have to.dig down hard to find the cases which is why they are so afraid of the protestors calling the thugs out as the psychos they often are, like the deviants that worked "security" at the truely peversly named GHF, yep, sending them right back out on americas streets after going on a child murder safari in gaza good luck with that!
by frankus | 2025-11-25 00:15:20+00:00
Pre-Tesla EV companies were kind of stuck in a catch-22, where they couldn't enter the low end of the market (because the tech was still super costly) and they couldn't enter the high end of the market (because either the performance was lacking or they didn't have the resources to scale production).

But with a combination of throwing a lot of money at the problem, being in the right place at the right time, and good execution, they managed to scale up the high end of the market enough to eventually move (somewhat) down-market.
by SiempreViernes | 2025-11-25 00:16:15+00:00
> You're contradicting yourself. If "they haven't thought this through" they clearly haven't been paranoid enough

There is no contradiction between "being paranoid" and "not being rational".

Oh my mistake, you intentionally put "benefit" and "Brexit" in the same sentence; yes, there's absolutely a contradiction there, well done lad.
by alisonatwork | 2025-11-25 00:17:38+00:00
This comment is so divorced from reality on the ground in Taiwan that it's hard to respond to. Certainly, someone can look at cherry-picked pieces of legislature or historical documents and imagine that they represent some kind of intrinsic truth, but in reality it is simply not the case that Taiwanese people understand themselves as locked in some kind of ongoing civil war with the CCP. The culture has long since moved on from 1940s era politics that even at the time were imported by a minority group from the mainland.
by wildzzz | 2025-11-25 00:17:47+00:00
I hung out with the neopets kids in school who were doing html stuff. I never really got into neopets myself but some of them were really into geocities which I totally clicked with. Some of my friends were artsy so I made pages for webcomics and CYOA games (with hand drawn graphics to accompany). Those friends ended up getting careers in the arts while I ended up as a computer/electrical engineer.
by mrandish | 2025-11-25 00:19:05+00:00
I'm curious what samples it's using for playback. Is it just using whatever the host OS offers or does it have its own internal samples? I searched on the main page, About and FAQ for the term "Samples" and didn't see any info.

As someone into both music production and retro gaming, my experience of MIDI is that the instrument types are standard but the fidelity and quality of the music varies depending on the samples used. While low-end 90s sound cards had small sample ROMs and better cards had larger sample sets (2 or more MB). More recently there are even larger, very high quality MIDI sample sets which are open source. Also, is General MIDI 2 supported? How about extensions like Roland GS and Yamaha XG?
by chubot | 2025-11-25 00:19:13+00:00
I have definitely experienced the sycophancy ... and LLMs have sometimes repeating talking points from real estate agents, like "you the buyer doesn't pay for an agent; the seller pays".

I correct it, and it says "sorry you're right, I was repeating a talking point from an interested party"

---

BUT actually a crazy thing is that -- with simple honest questions as prompts -- I found that Claude is able to explain the 2024 National Association of Realtors settlement better than anyone I know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnett_v._National_Associatio...

I have multiple family members with Ph.D.s, and friends in relatively high level management, who have managed both money and dozens of people

Yet they somehow don't agree that there was collusion between buyers' and sellers' agents? They weren't aware it happened, and they also don't seem particularly interested in talking about the settlement

I feel like I am taking crazy pills when talking to people I know

Has anyone else experienced this?

Whenever I talk to agents in person, I am also flabberghasted by the naked self-interest and self-dealing. (I'm on the east coast of the US btw)

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Specifically, based on my in-person conversations with people I have known for decades, they don't see anything odd about this kind of thing, and basically take it at face value.

NAR Settlement Scripts for REALTORS to Explain to Clients

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-ESZv0dBo&list=TLPQMjQxMTI...

https://www.nar.realtor/the-facts/nar-settlement-faqs'

They might even say say something like "you don't pay; the seller pays". However Claude can explain the incentives very clearly, with examples
by sbinnee | 2025-11-25 00:19:18+00:00
As much as I am excited by the price, the tools they called "the advanced tool"[1] look so useful to me; Tool search, programmatic tool calling (smolagents.CodeAgent by HF), and tool use examples (in-context learning).

They said that they have seen 134K tokens for tool definition alone. That is insane. I also really liked the puzzle game video.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
by reachableceo | 2025-11-25 00:19:18+00:00
VMs are a standardized system primitive. The “bare metal” bit with RBAC etc through the management layer / hypervisor.

K8s is pallets Vms are shipping containers

Systems / storage / network team can present a standardized set of primitives for any vm to consume that are more or less independent of the underlying bare metal.

Then the VMs can be live migrated when the inevitable hardware maintenance is needed (microcode patching , storage driver upgrades , etc etc etc). With no downtime for the vm itself
by phendrenad2 | 2025-11-25 00:19:39+00:00
Interesting take. To me it seems like a big leap. Take it from a serial Linux dabbler, about once a year I download 10-20 of the top Linux distros and try them all. I download them on my main machine, which is Windows, and copy them all to USB sticks and try them one by one. If someone is only looking at metrics, 20 people just switched to Linux!
by tptacek | 2025-11-25 00:20:09+00:00
I tried to defend a similar argument in a private forum today and basically got my ass handed to me. In practice, not only would modern P-curve implementations not be "significantly weaker" than Curve25519 (we've had good complete addition formulas for them for a long time, along with widespread hardware support), but Curve25519 causes as many (probably more) problems than it solves --- cofactor problems being more common in modern practice than point validation mistakes.

In TLS, Curve25519 vs. the P-curves are a total non-issue, because TLS isn't generally deployed anymore in ways that even admit point validation vulnerabilities (even if implementations still had them). That bit, I already knew, but I'd assumed ad-hoc non-TLS implementations, by random people who don't know what point validation is, might tip the scales. Turns out guess not.

Again, by way of bona fides: I woke up this morning in your camp, regarding Curve25519. But that won't be the camp I go to bed in.
Show HN: TX-2 ECS – A web framework that treats your app as a world
by iregaddr | 2025-11-25 00:20:32+00:00
I’ve been building a different kind of web framework and would love feedback.

TX-2 ECS is a TypeScript-first framework where your app is modeled as an ECS world (entities, components, systems) instead of a tree of UI components + ad-hoc state.

A few things that might interest HN:

- Single world model shared across server and client; systems run in both places. - Rendering is “just another system” that produces DOM; SSR + hydration are built in. - Built-in RPC + state sync that ships only deltas, on a tunable rate limit (aimed at reducing egress/CPU for real-time apps). - Designed for long-lived products where you care about dev velocity 5+ years in (features are usually new systems, not surgery on existing code).

It’s aimed at apps that feel more like living systems than CRUD: multiplayer tools, dashboards, agents, simulations, collaborative editors, etc.

Repo: https://github.com/IreGaddr/tx2-ecs

I’m especially interested in: - “This will/ won’t work in production because…” from people who run real-time systems. - Critiques of the ECS-centered architecture for web. - Benchmarks or experiments you’d want to see before considering something like this.
by Spooky23 | 2025-11-25 00:21:12+00:00
100%. We’ve seen crazy swings in RAM prices before.

A colleague who worked with me about 10 years ago on a VDI project ran some numbers and showed that if a Time Machine were available, we could have brought like 4 loaded MacBook Pros back and replaced a $1M HP 3PAR ssd array :)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-25 00:21:42+00:00
The HD brand is tied to a demographic that is dying out [1]. It’s actually a great private equity play to squeeze out what’s left of the enterprise value as Boomers slowly age out of their market. HD tried to market an electric motorcycle ("Livewire") [2], but ended up having to spin it out into its own company because HD riders are buying the HD aesthetic, not the motorcycle itself, which is simply a vehicle for said aesthetic. Livewire for younger buyers, HD for old men buying the exhaust note of a copyrighted engine that is purposely louder but less efficient.

> To be fair, revenues and unit sales have enjoyed a nice bounce since the pits of the financial crisis. But Harley will never get its old mojo back for one critical reason that is completely outside of its control: demographics.

> Down the road from my house in Dallas, there is greasy drive-in burger joint called Keller’s … a place I’ve been known to frequent a little more often than my doctor might recommend. On any given weekend, you might see a dozen or more bikers parked in the lot, showing off their chrome-laden Harleys. And nearly all of them are over the age of 45. Most are over 50.

> This isn’t a coincidence. Harley-Davidson is a brand whose sales depend disproportionately -- almost exclusively, in fact -- on middle-aged Caucasian males. Riders younger than 40 generally lack the time, interest or the bankroll to buy a Harley. But by the time they get into their 60s or older, the noise and joint pain have begun to make riding lose its allure. You might still ride in your 60s, but you’re doing it less frequently and you probably aren’t buying a new bike.

> The sweet spot is the mid-40s to early 50s. And with the Baby Boomers -- the largest and wealthiest generation in history -- now largely aged out of this key demographic bracket, Harley has a serious problem. Generation X -- my generation -- is not nearly large enough to pick up the slack, and Generation Y (aka “the Millennials” or “Echo Boomers”) are decades away from being in the demographic sweet spot for Harley, and this assumes they take to riding like their dads did. The number of American men aged 40-49 is set to decline through the early 2020s and won’t reach its old 2010 peak until 2035.

> CNN Money reported on this as far back as 2010, and demographic strategist Harry Dent -- my old boss -- has used Harley as a case study for decades.

[1] Blame Harley-Davidson's Downfall On Baby Boomer Demographics - https://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2013/11/13/harley-... - November 13th, 2013

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveWire_(motorcycle)

(for context, ~2M people 55+ die every year in the US, and ~4M Boomers retire; by 2031, the US population over the age of 65 will be ~75M, almost double what it was in 2008)
by occam65 | 2025-11-25 00:21:49+00:00
Jeeeesus I wasn't ready for that. my wife was diagnosed 11 years ago. we had been trying for kids for 4 years prior and finally had to give up. the drugs they put you on for cancer for 5 years, well, you cannot have kids. and she was already getting up there in age. she finally came off of them in 2020. then a year later, we found out she was pregnant. and because she was pregnant with a girl, my wife got a genetic test and found out she has the BRCA-1 mutation which explained her breast cancer diagnosis from 2014... and also put her on high alert for ovarian cancer. after the preventative surgery, it turns out she had precancerous cells in her fallopian tubes. this little girl of ours had saved her life. just by being born. she's now three. and my wife is healthy, and happier than ever. I'm a lucky, lucky guy.

good on you, Randall. Congratulations.
by AIorNot | 2025-11-25 00:22:40+00:00
your use-case is NOT Everyones use-case..(working in depth across one codebase or api but instead sampling dozens of abilities across the web or with other systems) thats the thing

how is that going to work with my use case, do a web search, do a local api call, do a graphql search, do an integration with slack, do a message etc..
by tylervigen | 2025-11-25 00:22:57+00:00
This is awesome. What a way to do a relaunch. I was a Pebble user in 2013 on first release and saddened when it all broke down. I was so turned off from that experience that I swore off smart watches (I wear a Casio now).

This could get me back, though I’ll admit the appeal has gone down since I’ve realized how nice it is to create separation between me and my notifications.
by davidsainez | 2025-11-25 00:23:11+00:00
AFAICT, kimi k2 was the first to apply this technique [1]. I wonder if Anthropic came up with it independently or if they trained a model in 5 months after seeing kimi’s performance.

1: https://www.decodingdiscontinuity.com/p/open-source-inflecti...
by tracker1 | 2025-11-25 00:23:32+00:00
I'm of a similar mindset... yeah, it's inconvenient when "everything" goes down... but realistically so many things go down now and then, it just happens.

Could just as easily be my home's internet connection, or a service I need from/at work, etc. It's always going to be something, it's just more noticeable when it affects so many other things.
by swiftlyTyped | 2025-11-25 00:24:01+00:00
AG-UI is compatible with both MCP-UI and other declarative UI specs.

AG-UI is built to support agentic behavior in your application, more similar to the Vercel AI SDK but horizontal and standardized.

MCP-UI helps external apps and APIs pass UI to applications, really well suited for use cases like Shopify stores inside of ChatGPT.
by geoffhill | 2025-11-25 00:24:14+00:00
One of my agents is kinda like this too. The only operation is SPARQL query, and the only accessible state is the graph database.

Since most of the ontologies I'm using are public, I just have to namedrop them in prompt; no schemas and little structure introspection needed. At worst, it can just walk and dump triples to figure out structure; it's all RDF triples and URIs.

One nice property: using structured outputs, you can constrain outputs of certain queries to only generate valid RDF to avoid syntax errors. Probably can do similar stuff with GraphQL.
by frankus | 2025-11-25 00:24:34+00:00
I had a couple of coworkers who had them. I vaguely remember it being based on a ~$35k value in 1997 dollars, so definitely out of my price range as a new graduate earning only a little more than that in a year.

On top of that I'm pretty sure the unit economics were firmly in the negative, even discounting the R&D costs.

They were pretty remarkable though—I got a chance to drive a pre-production one at a ride-and-drive a year before and was super impressed.
by andsoitis | 2025-11-25 00:25:00+00:00
Within 1 hour commute that you could live comfortably on 100k:

- East Bay (El Cerrito, Richmond, Concord, Walnut Creek, Martinez)

- North Bay (Petaluma, Novato, Vallejo, Santa Rosa)

Within 90mins:

- South Bay (Milpitas, South San Jose, Morgan Hill, Gilroy)
by gruez | 2025-11-25 00:25:54+00:00
>Generally, the data refresh will all happen in the background when the system is powered (depending on the power state).

How does the SSD know when to run the refresh job? AFAIK SSDs don't have an internal clock so it can't tell how long it's been powered off. Moreover does doing a read generate some sort of telemetry to the controller indicating how strong/weak the signal is, thereby informing whether it should refresh? Or does it blindly refresh on some sort of timer?
by leoh | 2025-11-25 00:26:48+00:00
Don’t know what to tell you. Just trying to keep things real in response to a highly ungrounded post. The issues with compilation times are as severe an issue because of the reason I mentioned — folks don’t like to think about how they factor their build. So some members of the core team are sympathetic to that — and for good reason.

But the virtues of shifting context to the build and refactoring it is rarely discussed and would alleviate many individuals problems. I see it rarely mentioned, just “rust is slow to compile” so I really do feel it should be discussed more; even if I could have perhaps mentioned it in a way you (and others?) would have experienced as less dismissive.
by j_walter | 2025-11-25 00:27:55+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/Semiconductors/comments/18x5vr5/sem...

This reddit post captures what I've seen at TSMC in Taiwan. $120K is normal pay at the director level...engineers make $2500-5000 a month. TSMC AZ starting pay for a new college grad w/ BS is probably just under $100K/year with just salary, with the potential to make over $120K within a few years with full vested bonuses.
Show HN: Housepoints
by jamesdhutton | 2025-11-25 00:28:44+00:00
My wife and I tried making reward charts for our kids. We never could make paper rewards charts last long. So I built an app. We've been using it at home for the last few months, with reasonable success. If you have kids aged 5-10, you might find it useful too. I'd love to get your feedback.
by shallowsax | 2025-11-25 00:29:01+00:00
Even if the criticism is fair, it's still whataboutism. I agree with you that countries other than China have done bad things, including post-WWII, but not that it in any way justifies turning the streets of Taipei into a warzone.

I wouldn't unconditionally agree that "the US is a much more egregious international actor than China". I'd use a more neutral descriptor than "egregious", maybe "militaristic". Following the rule of "might makes right", as you point out, the US more or less became the self-appointed world police after WWII. That's inherently going to involve unpopular decisions and occasional abuse of power, but it's a fundamentally different relationship with the world than pure assertion of first-party interests. The ultimate goal of post-WWII American foreign policy has been to ensure that the rest of the world remains stable and open enough for reliable trade, from which China has also benefited tremendously.

US as world police is a mixed bag, but it is what it is. No one outside the US is really complaining that America bears the cost of its navy protecting international trade routes, for example. I'm as harsh a critic of certain US actions and policies as anyone, but modern American hegemony doesn't resemble the prior centuries of great powers running amok. The US today doesn't invade innocent countries for the purpose of stealing their land and resources or enslaving their people.

The concerns about China aren't limited to its past military actions, but also its domestic policies and stated future goals. For better or worse, China's domestic policies are quite illiberal relative to American values. This alone precludes China from being considered a clear ally of the US, and informs perceptions of what a hypothetical Chinese-led world order might look like. China gets to play the "what about America" card because the US is still generally invested in globalism, but how China might behave in a power vacuum created by a US shift to isolationism remains speculative.
by Nathanba | 2025-11-25 00:30:33+00:00
I think we shouldn't be using package repositories in this way at all, shouldn't it be much better to have a package system like golang has where you directly import the sourcecode from github? You get around an entire class of problems. At least now you can only be compromised if the github source code itself is compromised, not any part of some build pipeline or a tool like npm or an npm registry. That means to vendor everything and only upgrade if you need to upgrade, treat all the code like you are responsible for it all because you are. The entire concept of relying on builds of other people is part of the problem, it's bad enough that we rely on source code of other people but that goes with the territory. Relying on their build systems is not as mandatory.