MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by colonCapitalDee | 2025-11-18 19:25:33+00:00
I have a tiny Hetzner VPS (2 vCPUs, 2 Gb RAM) in their west us datacenter that costs me $5.59 a month. I get 1 TB a month free outgoing bandwidth and unlimited incoming bandwidth, plus additional outgoing bandwidth at a rate of $1.20 per TB. I host my personal project's git LFS server there, a file server, and a Caddy instance that proxies over Tailscale to a more powerful box in my apartment. It's a great homelab architecture and I couldn't be happier with it. Thanks Hetzner!
by jhallenworld | 2025-11-18 19:25:55+00:00
In the early years of Linux, before it had networking, we used KA9Q for the TCP/IP stack:

https://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/

This worked in DOS, but was easily ported to Linux.

As far as DPMI: I used the CWSDPMI client fairly recently because it allows a 32-bit program to work in both DOS and Windows (it auto-disables its own DPMI functions when Windows detected).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CWSDPMI
by pseudalopex | 2025-11-18 19:26:06+00:00
What in the video did you interpret to show introspection or humility?

Karp interpreted the question if he regretted working with ICE as a question if he had suffered because of it. This was self centered.

He implied it had caused conflict between him and his family. He complained employees he liked left. He complained about protests. This was what he called suffering.

He said protesters protested him. Not Palantir. Not his work. This was self centered.

Were you impressed he said he asked himself if he would protest if younger and a student? Knowing your political views changed requires not much introspection and no humility.

The interviewer asked what was protesters' most valid criticism. Karp asked if 1 instance of injustice tarnished all instances of justice. But this was not protesters' criticism.
by sosodev | 2025-11-18 19:26:19+00:00
Here's some insight from Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer's interview with Dwarkesh Patel https://youtu.be/v0gjI__RyCY&t=7390

> When you think about divulging this information that has been helpful to your competitors, in retrospect is it like, "Yeah, we'd still do it," or would you be like, "Ah, we didn't realize how big a deal transformer was. We should have kept it indoors." How do you think about that?

> Some things we think are super critical we might not publish. Some things we think are really interesting but important for improving our products; We'll get them out into our products and then make a decision.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-11-18 19:27:50+00:00
I was naive enough to believe at first that the MAGA movement was actually about the surface issues they claim to be concerned about, but in continually trying to be understanding and steelman their positions, and in also personally knowing and interacting with a lot of these people, those positions just don't hold water, especially as they have gained power and have largely stopped putting any effort into maintaining a non-racist facade. The only coherent explanation for MAGA is that of white nationalist authoritarianism, fueled by fear of losing protected race-based social status[1].

In fact, I don't think really anyone is really confused by that anymore, the only people claiming otherwise are people that personally identify as white supremacists, that see it as in their best interests to try to protect the political momentum of their movement by trying to maintain the facade of not being racist- a strategy they adopted after major losses way back during the civil rights movement in the USA. There may be a small number of people that just don't follow the news and don't know what is happening, but they aren't out defending anything online in their free time.

[1] "What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cruel? A Psychiatrist Explains" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T8jF8BEeCM
by amiga386 | 2025-11-18 19:27:54+00:00
GCC cross-compiling for the Amiga is available from https://franke.ms/git/bebbo/amiga-gcc for a standalone toolchain, and https://github.com/BartmanAbyss/vscode-amiga-debug for one that requires VSCode.

I'm not aware of any working LLVM solution? All I know is that LLVM supports MC680x0 as a backend, can spit out 68k-but-non-amiga-objects and some brave souls have trying to use vlink or mold to produce Amiga executables. Have you seen any working LLVM-based Amiga (680x0 in hunk format) cross-compilers in the wild?
by jordanb | 2025-11-18 19:28:08+00:00
They really are shameless aren't they?

Makes one think that this was the plan all along. I think they saw how SVB went down and realize that if they're reckless and irresponsible at a big enough scale they can get the government to just transfer money to them. It's almost like this is their new business model "we're selling exposure to the $XX trillion dollar bailout industry."
by zdragnar | 2025-11-18 19:28:29+00:00
Hasn't it been pretty widely acknowledged that AI funding has created a whirlpool of money cycling between a few players- cloud / datacenter hosts / operators (oracle), GPU (nvidia) and model operators (openai).

To pile on, there's hardly a product being developed that doesn't integrate "ai" in some way. I was trying to figure out why my brand new laptop was running slowly, and (among other things) noticed 3 different services running- microsoft copilot, microsoft 365 copilot (not the same as the first, naturally) and the laptop manufacturer's "chat" service. That same day, I had no fewer than 5 other programs all begging me to try their AI integrations.

Job boards for startups are all filled with "using AI" fluff because that's the only thing investors seem to want to put money into.

We really are all dirty here.
by tomaskafka | 2025-11-18 19:28:35+00:00
I am one of the developers who did make Pebble apps - here's a screenshot with the Pebble version of Weathergraph on Eric's watch: https://x.com/weathergraph/status/1959253197664469246

Today is the day I found out Rebble is claiming the ownership of my app's binaries. All I can say is that they don't have it.
by wordpad | 2025-11-18 19:28:46+00:00
This works because a problem could be broken down to a prompt which rarely hallucinates.

Most real world prompts can't be reduced to something so consistent and reliable.

Their key finding was that the number of votes grows linearly with number of prompts you are trying to chain.

However the issue is that the number of votes you need will grow exponentially with hallucination rate.
by YurgenJurgensen | 2025-11-18 19:28:51+00:00
Yes, technically, having spare resources to devote to your own appearance is considered a positive signal, but it is an unreliable one, and often one not as valued by the people making the judgement. If there are many ways to signal wealth, a signal that has some intrinsic downside will lose its value if lots of people are sending the other wealth-signals.
by neal_ | 2025-11-18 19:29:00+00:00
Neal here- Still very much under development. The public repo is now several months behind. I have been contracted to integrate my project into a particular product, which I have been working this last month. To do this I have been working on the embeddable version, which now can run in Unreal, Vulkan, and OpenGL. It also works on imgui docking branch. Anyways, hopefully I will be able to upstream all my work and make it public. I do intend to continue this project as time permits.
by marcellus23 | 2025-11-18 19:29:04+00:00
Even if we're considering only other cars and not pedestrians, it's still pretty annoying. The brights will only turn off _after_ another car is already in their field of illumination, and only after a short delay. If you're manually managing your brights, you can almost always switch them off before another car even comes into view (by e.g. seeing their headlights approaching)
by rchaud | 2025-11-18 19:29:25+00:00
Most bubbles occur due to excessive levels of credit offered too cheaply, resulting in a whole bunch of defaults happening at the same time. All the major AI players have borrowed money to buy GPUs and build data centers and have used Special Purpose Vehicles to do it so the debt doesn't fall on their own balance sheet, probably using a certain amount of stock as collateral. If the SPV defaults, could that trigger a big sell-off?
by qsort | 2025-11-18 19:29:29+00:00
My background is more on math competitions, but all of those things are essentially speed contests. The skill comes from solving hard problems within a strict time limit. If you gave people twice the time, they'd do better, but time is never going to be an issue for a computer.

Comparing raw Elo ratings isn't very indicative IMHO, but I do find it plausible that in closed, game-like environments models could indeed achieve the superhuman performance the Elo comparison implies, see my other comment in this thread.
by iLemming | 2025-11-18 19:29:44+00:00
Ah, I've misinterpreted it then.

> I too can't take a seriously an editor which doesn't have Vim keybindigns at least in a very basic form.

tbh, I can't take any experienced programmer seriously if they never even tried learning at least some basic vi-navigation commands. I'm like, "what? have they never used `sed`, `less`, `more` or never read man pages? have they never logged to a remote machine? why kind of a coder doesn't know any of this shit?" I mean I get it, it's not universally appealing to everyone, some prefer not to bother. But not knowing it at all? That's weird to me. And yes, I agree - If you're making an editor for coders (standalone, embedded, web or native), modal navigation must be possible.
by seec | 2025-11-18 19:30:10+00:00
Yes and even before that they had PowerPC. The only reason that even stopped is because R&D was done by Motorola and IBM and they ended up going in other directions which made working for Apple has a sole client not much of good deal.

If Apple had enough money back then to bankroll full R&D on both the chip design and the foundry, they would have never gone with Intel in the first place. Intel won because of massive volume PC sales got them with a similar amount of money thrown into PowerPC it would probably stayed competitive.

Apple Silicon share many similarities in design philosophy with PowerPC and Apple had invested in ARM way before Cook was even considered as a CEO replacement.

The best thing we can say about Cook is that he managed to not fuck it up. In practice he is just a greedy snake that is very good at sucking every last drop of profit of anything Apple manages to create. He has very little positive influence on the vision and roadmap side of things.

The fact that people keep praising Cook is just reflection of the times, where money in itself has become a goal and the sole worthwhile target.
by tetris11 | 2025-11-18 19:30:20+00:00
It'll be fine. When the banks burst in 2008, they were gifted 7 trillion to make up the shortfall and life went on for the rich.

This time they'll be gifted 70 trillion to make up for the shortfall, and life shall continue on for the rich.

It's win-win for them, there's no risk at all
by throwaway150 | 2025-11-18 19:30:25+00:00
> Guess what. This was months ago and nothing happened. Nada. Zero. Null.

Just because it didn't happen to you does not mean that it doesn't happen to others. You can see a few anecdotes in this thread itself where people commented that they did get attacked for pissing people off. Like check this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968219
by 827a | 2025-11-18 19:30:28+00:00
The amount of internet drama a smartwatch that stopped being produced ten years ago generates even to this day is truly incredible. Nothing that's happening here is so important as to make enemies, and the fact that Core Devices even wants to use the open source app store and is willing to pay for it should have been an immediate "Yes, that's incredible, lets make it work" from Rebble. So what if they get bought by Fitbit or go closed source? Rebble will just be back to where they were before. That's the beauty of open source; it doesn't need them, it just needs people who are interested in the project.
by margalabargala | 2025-11-18 19:30:32+00:00
> They fear being replaced/made irrelevant after Core builds their own infrastructure using Rebble's work. They want guarantees that if they give Core access to the app store data, Core won't build a proprietary/walled garden that cuts Rebble out.

It's understandable that Rebble fears someone doing this, since this is what Rebble did.

Rebble took the original open-source Pebble work of thousands of independent developers, scraped it off the original store, and is re-offering it within their own walled garden and calling it "theirs".

It's great Rebble kept things alive but they seem to be fearing a second one of themselves.

> being at the mercy of a nonprofit's decisions when his company has customers and obligations.

Both Rebble and Core Devices are for-profit companies, neither is a non-profit, so I'm not actually sure which you're referring to here.
by baxtr | 2025-11-18 19:30:51+00:00
Yes, exactly!

Selfish VC becoming filthy rich through an IPO is exactly my point. Up to an IPO a private company will only make their owners rich - in your example "selfish vulture capitalists".

After an IPO anyone can participate. When Google, Amazon, Apple went public, VCs got rich. Everyone after that included every day people like you and me.
by alyxya | 2025-11-18 19:31:18+00:00
Making a VSCode fork is probably the wrong direction at this point in time. The future of agentic coding should need less support for code editor related functionality, and could eventually primarily support viewing code rather than editing code. There's a lot more flexibility in UI starting from scratch, and personally I want to see a UI that allows flexible manipulation of context and code changes with multiple agents.
by evil-olive | 2025-11-18 19:31:27+00:00
this part of the response doesn't pass the smell test for me:

> Accusation 4: ‘[Eric] scraped our app store, in violation of the agreement that we reached with him previously’

> Here’s what happened. I wanted to highlight some of my favourite watchfaces on the Pebble Appstore. Last Monday Nov 10, after I put my kids to sleep and between long calls with factories in Asia, I started building a webapp to help me quickly go through Pebble Appstore and decide which were my top picks.

> Let me be crystal clear - my little webapp did not download apps or ‘scrape’ anything from Rebble. The webapp displayed the name of each watchface and screenshots and let me click on my favs. I used it to manually look through 6000 watchfaces with my own eyes. I still have 7,000 to go. Post your server logs, they will match up identically to the app I (well…Claude) wrote (source code here)

so it wasn't "scraping"...it was just a vibe-coded webapp that made at least 6,000 requests to Rebble's servers in a short period of time? possibly more, depending on how many intermediate versions of the app he tested, and possibly many more, if one of those intermediate versions had a vibe-coded "feature" like prefetching a bunch of data for performance reasons?

he agreed not to scrape their services. and then scraped their services. and his excuse seems to boil down to "but I was doing it for a cool reason"

and he tosses in completely unrelated details about putting his kids to bed and having long calls with factories in Asia. those seem calculated to make him sound more relatable - an honest, hardworking, humble family man.

this seems like a relatively minor point in the overall dispute, but if he's unwilling or unable to take any responsibility there, it doesn't boost my confidence that he's being honest about the rest of it.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-18 19:31:36+00:00
The context makes it clear that it's not any sort of implied threat. Pichai made his statement in response to an interview question about whether Google might be so well positioned that they're immune to the impact of an AI bubble. (But I don't blame you for being misled - like most headlines these days, this would have been intensely optimized for virality over accuracy, and making tech CEOs sound like supervillains is great for virality.)
by senfiaj | 2025-11-18 19:31:42+00:00
Haven't used Gemini much, but when I used, it often refused to do certain things that ChatGPT did happily. Probably because it has many things heavily censored. Obviously, a huge company like Google is under much heavier regulations than ChatGPT. Unfortunately this greatly reduces its usefulness in many situations despite that Google has more resources and computational power than OpenAI.
by jcelerier | 2025-11-18 19:32:31+00:00
> AIUI the forks are required because Microsoft is gatekeeping functionality used by Copilot from extensions so they can't be used by these agents. reply

I always wonder how this works legally. VSCode needs to comply with the LGPL (it's based on Chromium/Blink which is LGPL) ; they should provide the entire sources that allow us to rebuild our own "official" VSCode binary
by n8cpdx | 2025-11-18 19:32:46+00:00
> If you're big enough that we'd be screwed without you then take whatever risks you like with impunity".

I know financially it will be bad because number not go up and number need go up.

But do we actually depend on generative/agentic AI at all in meaningful ways? I’m pretty sure all LLMs could be Thanos snapped away and there would be near zero material impact. If the studies are at all reliable all the programmers will be more efficient. Maybe we’d be better off because there wouldn’t be so much AI slop.

It is very far from clear that there is any real value being extracted from this technology.

The government should let it burn.

Edit: I forgot about “country girls make do”. Maybe gen AI is a critical pillar of the economy after all.
by zer00eyz | 2025-11-18 19:33:33+00:00
Vertical integration has ZERO to do with any sort of market dominance.

A company could be vertically integrated, and have a small portion of the market. A company could be a full on monopoly and have little to no vertical integration.

YKK processing raw metals and plastics, building its own zipper making machines has nothing to do with how much market share it has. It has everything to do with product quality.

Faunc is another example of "vertical integration" where they make the mills, software and controllers for their devices, as well as servos and spindles. Servos and spindles are commodity items (you can buy them cheaply from china) yet Faunc makes their own for quality and reliability reasons.
by lemoncucumber | 2025-11-18 19:33:36+00:00
I think we're defining "less" differently. You're interpreting "less open" to mean "not open at all," which is not what I said.

There's a long history of Google slowly making the experience worse if you want to take advantage of the things that make Android open.

For example, by moving features that were in the AOSP into their proprietary Play Services instead [1].

Or coming soon, preventing sideloading of unverified apps if you're using a Google build of Android [2].

In both cases, it's forcing you to accept tradeoffs between functionality and openness that you didn't have to accept before. You can still use AOSP, but it's a second class experience.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-si...
by fusslo | 2025-11-18 19:33:40+00:00
Thanks, previously the only other car I had was a 1995 volvo which used additional bulbs when the high beams were engaged. Intensity and field of view were increased. The outback's headlights were very confusing to me since I leapt through like 3 generations of cars

I wonder if it became normal around the time everyone started complaining headlights were too bright
by dylan604 | 2025-11-18 19:34:02+00:00
> They debuted this tech way too early, promised way too much,

finally, some rational thought into the AI insanity. The entire 'fake it til you make it' aspect of this is ridiculous. sadly, the world we live in means that you can't build a product and hold its release until it works. you have to be first to release even if it's not working as advertised. you can keep brushing off critiques with "it's on the road map". those that are not as tuned in will just think it is working and nothing nefarious is going on. with as long as we've had paid for LLM apps, I'm still amazed at the number of people that do not know that the output is still not 100% accurate. there are also people that use phrases as thinking when referring to getting a response. there's also the misleading terms like "searching the web..." when on this forum we all know it's not a live search.
by gspencley | 2025-11-18 19:34:13+00:00
I ran a highly trafficked adult website for 18 years. In the early days, CDNs were unattainable for me and I managed my own rudimentary network by hosting bare metal servers in data centres around the world, using geo-ip aware DNS servers to send traffic to the closest data centre to them.

My most significant running expense was bandwidth cost. So I never switched to cloud since the bandwidth costs would have instantly bankrupted me. Cloudflare, on the other hand, was the single most significant development when it came to my bottom line. Adding a basic, $200 / month business account saved me thousands per month on bandwidth + server costs.

DDoS protection was just a nice perk.

Most small websites are hosting with cloud providers these days. If their websites are at all media rich (and most are these days), and those assets can be cached by a CDN ... the cost savings on bandwidth are not marginal. They are often the difference between being able to afford to host your website or not having one at all.

There are, of course, ways to optimize and reduce those expenses without a 3rd party CDN. But if Cloudflare still has their free plans for smaller traffic volumes, it is often a financial decision to use them over your cloud provider's CDN options.
by dndvr | 2025-11-18 19:34:13+00:00
-------------------------- John-Tony12 27 minutes ago | parent | context | on: How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

Fascinating deep dive — shows how Quake.exe integrated its own TCP/IP stack, highlighting clever engineering and early game networking innovations.

--------------------------

This is AI right? the em dash and the inane sycophantic reiteration
by YurgenJurgensen | 2025-11-18 19:34:15+00:00
You might think that those people’s opinions don’t matter, but it turns out that ‘lots of other people value me highly’ is in itself a signal.

And yes, it is horrible, but if you want to solve a problem, you must first understand the problem, and ‘some people are just born with Evil in their hearts’ is not a very good sociological model.
by Zetaphor | 2025-11-18 19:34:47+00:00
If you're looking for an alternative to all of this, the BangleJS v2 is both cheaper and more hackable than the Pebble watches. It doesn't tick all of the same boxes, but it's performed well for me over the last 6 months.

Here's what it offers:

* Screen is fully visible under direct sunlight

* With the screen always on the battery lasts me well over a week

* Heart rate monitor

* EXTREMELY hackable, everything can be hacked on with JS, even the launcher you're using for apps

* 108 Euros shipped to the US

* Fully supported by GadgetBridge (open source mobile app)

https://www.espruino.com/Bangle.js2