MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Palmik | 2025-11-19 19:11:49+00:00
It's a fair question, even if it might be coming from a place of misunderstanding.

For example, DeepSeek 3.2, which employs sparse attention [1], is not only faster with long context than normal 3.1, but also seems to be better (perhaps thanks to reducing the noise?).

[1] It uses still quadratic router, but it's small, so it scales well in practice. https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250929
by lysace | 2025-11-19 19:11:59+00:00
Perhaps something could have been done via the EU. (No, I know, France/Italy/Spain/Germany are way too obsessed with their exports to PRC.)

Been there/done that - Sweden was unjustly bullied by China and got next to no support from EU. That was a mask off moment for some of us. It seems that for member states like Sweden and the Netherlands, we're supposed to just pay a lot of money in order to get toll-free access to the internal market.

Edit: I would welcome a split into EU North and EU South. Sort of like Aldi North and Aldi South.

EU North: UK (welcome back!), Norway (hello!), Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Estonia.

EU South: The other countries.
by tredre3 | 2025-11-19 19:12:03+00:00
> An electric tea kettle that didn't take an hour to warm up would be very nice.

I've been using electric kettles in north america and whilst they take longer, we're talking 5 minutes not an hour.

Some hyperbole can be appropriate but you're just being disingenuous here, or you've never actually used a kettle.
by sinker | 2025-11-19 19:12:09+00:00
FreeCAD is still in active development and there was a major release (1.0) recently. There will be a feature freeze soon where the devs will focus primarily on stability and eliminating bugs.

That said, I use FC as my main CAD driver and, not only tolerate it, but enjoy using it. I had to watch several hours of introductory videos to get the hang of things initially, but now I'm quite fast and proficient.

The initial pains and common complaints about UI and such, are basically non-issues for me now and when I model, my cognitive energy is basically devoted to the design problem itself rather than issues with UI or the behavior of the software.

It's necessary to put the time into learning it, but it's worth it.
by devincintron | 2025-11-19 19:12:10+00:00
What business has the smallest context window to operate?

Like maybe if you can have constraints in place such that the space of variables is minimal we already have economically relevant AI

Like a drop shipping t-shirt thing - surely the right sequence of LMs can

(1) parse out vibes/trends (e.g., "67 is currently a meme") (2) tool call that out to a print shop (3) spam it on twitter

Seems like there's just so much white space on benchmarks and gyms for this
by tavavex | 2025-11-19 19:12:56+00:00
> You run a merch store. You want to share with your suppliers order data so that you can get the right number of sizes/colors/etc. Is this PII under GDPR rules? Technically, yes! Not only is there information on gender, but also people's height and weight and maybe even family makeup.

That seems like a very long stretch. First of all, why assume that clothes sizes constitute PII at all? The store never asks me for my height, weight or family relations. It asks me what item variants I'd like to order. Even if the item size happens to match me, there's no telling that I'm ordering it for myself. They're just fulfilling an order that's built to my request, not collecting my biometrics. It would have to be an insane world in which "Supplier, send me 20x unisex medium sizes with XYZ illustration" is considered a breach of privacy. Each time the GDPR comes up, there are so many hypotheticals that never happened (and likely can't happen) in the real world, when the much simpler line of reasoning is that privacy regulation is digging too much into the profit motive of corporations and the US at large, so the sore thumb that is the EU needs to be pushed back in line in their minds.

Tracking and ad companies don't need your real name or email to track you across the internet. And even if they did want that, with a large enough corpus of data, a social media company can probably deduce who most people are anyway based on their behavior even if they're technically marked with an "anonymous identifier". Letting business identify you in any way and trade that "anonymized" data back and forth will effectively be a reversal to full tracking.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-11-19 19:13:08+00:00
Can confirm, my family back in Iran doesn't use Telegram and haven't for quite some time. They're all on WhatsApp. Telegram seemed to be popular in Iran during the Whatsapp ban and it switched back to Whatsapp being dominant it seems. Which is very annoying to me because I loathe Meta and don't use any of their products.
by mindcrime | 2025-11-19 19:13:33+00:00
Looks like there are definitely some (maybe most) of the seminal names in cryptography on here... but cypherpunks aren't just "people who worked on cryptography". At least in the strain I'm familiar with, proper "cypherpunks" had a specific ideological bias. Depending on who you ask, or how you interpret things, that bias might be described as "anarchist" or "anti-government" or "pro individual" or "libertarian", or something of a similar ilk. So... not sure how many of the people on this list would identify as "cypherpunks" if asked (assuming they were around to ask at all).

Still, there's some interesting reading there. I'm seen worse lists submitted to HN. :-)
by deltoidmaximus | 2025-11-19 19:13:57+00:00
> They had neat party tricks like a compact bed for daily driving that could expand out to fit full size ply...

Unless I'm missing something this sounds like the bed extenders which I've seen on lots of trucks that allow the tailgate to be used as part of the bed when folded down. I was initially think they might be allowing the passenger compartment to be opened up to temporarily get full bed size but I didn't see anything like that when browsing the page. The closest thing I ever saw to that was on the Subaru Baja (which was far more a sedan than a truck) and given how short the bed was and the the fact that the back window was immobile seemed like it had less hauling utility than a standard hatchback.
by ultra_nick | 2025-11-19 19:15:03+00:00
It's crazy how many adults think regulation is free, especially here. All consuming vague regulations like GDPR increase the cost of a startup by 500%. Europe should have just banned startups entirely. It would have the same effect.

Imagine being a college student with 240 hours and $1,000 to release an MVP over the summer. How long would it take to read GDPR yourself, 100 hours? How much would it cost to hire a lawyer verify that your startup meets GDPR guidelines, $5,000? It would be almost impossible for any young person to start a business. GDPR was obviously a failure from the start. Anyone who couldn't see that has a child's understanding of business. Grow up.
by microtonal | 2025-11-19 19:16:11+00:00
What I really want to see is Meta getting irrelevant ON MERIT. People stop using Meta products, and then I want to see it die.

The problem is that with a nearly infinite amount of money, you are not going to get irrelevant on merit. You just buy up any company/talent that becomes a threat. They have done that with Instagram and WhatsApp (which was and is really huge in Europe etc.).
by foofoo12 | 2025-11-19 19:16:21+00:00
> I really don't think Python was close to dying

It absolutely was. What saved it was:

1. The data science / AI crowd that was gathering momentum any many only used Python 3.

2. No popular alternative. Perl got python as an alternative.

Python was also a good, simple language and had a good healthy culture. But it's nothing sort of a miracle that it survived that biblical software calamity.
by munificent | 2025-11-19 19:16:22+00:00
> you don't actually have to form a consensus. You can split off whenever you want.

This is true and is a key property of open source.

But it's also true that network effects and economies of scale are key for how open source projects provide value to their users. Those effects mean that the value an open source project provides to its community is often super-linear relative to the number of users.

A concrete example: If someone writes a blog post about how to use some feature, every other user of the feature can benefit from it. But also every user can potentially write this kind of documentation. So the value people provide through documentation is very roughly quadratic in the number of people reading and writing docs.

Because value like that scales super-linearly with the number of people in the ecosystem, breaking a community in two can result in less total value even if the total number of users of both communities put together is the same.

If you fork and the forks diverge, now a given bit of documentation may only be relevant to one side of the fork. A given person writing some docs may documenting things that are only true for one fork.
by zrn900 | 2025-11-19 19:16:25+00:00
From Europe, I agree with big tech getting it. But i dont agree with random flower shop somewhere getting fined because they dont know how to deal with a fcking complicated, ever-changing law that is designed for megacorps who have the cash to just keep paying the fine and abusing everyone. I also dont agree with dealing with fcking cookie banners on every other website either.

The law got SO convoluted over 9 years of interpretation by the European courts that its now impossible to be 100% compliant. It now requires you to give an easy 'Accept' button to accept the listed cookies at the first pop up, but penalizes you if the user actually uses it to accept cookies because the user has to manually go through all the listed cookies and approve them by hand one by one.

So:

- If you dont provide the easy 'accept' button, you are in violation.

- If you do and the user actually clicks it, you are still in violation because you didnt make the user approve each cookie one by one

- If you give a list of cookies to the users and force the user to manually approve what he wants in the first pop up, you are still in violation because its not easy and your easy 'Accept' button is meaningless as a result

And this is just one of its contradictions. The more you dive, the more convoluted it gets. Its a sh*tty law that got more complicated over time and only helped megacorps.

People need to understand that the early days of the Pirate Party are gone and the current crop of tech-savvy politicians that remain from those days are those who made a career out of it. And like every politician who made a career out of something, the only way for those politicians to keep getting elected is by doing 'more' of what they have been doing. So they just keep bloating tech regulation to keep their career, making it difficult for everyone but the large corporations. It must also be noted that some of them sold out and are basically the tech lobbies' henchmen, pushing for American-style legislation to build regulatory moats for big corporations.
by wk_end | 2025-11-19 19:16:26+00:00
Not to dispute the overall premise that Perl 6 did enormous damage to Perl, I want to interrogate this a little bit:

> There are many languages still in use today that have all kinds of warts and ugliness, but they remain in use because they still have momentum and lots of legacy things built in them. So being ugly or old isn’t enough of a factor for people to abandon something in droves.

Nothing forced anyone to abandon Perl 5 code, and I suspect most Perl 5 wasn't abandoned for its own sake; it was a Cambrian explosion of new greenfield projects rising out of the ashes of Web 1.0 that brought Python and Ruby and PHP to the forefront. It's just that a lot of the Perl 5 code out there in the world was quick and dirty CGI scripts that died naturally after the dotcom crash and as the web became more sophisticated.
by nicholashead | 2025-11-19 19:16:34+00:00
I am going through something very similar. My entire family is on the same T-Mobile plan, and on recent iPhones - however, my wife's phone is the only one where RCS fails to work over Wi-Fi (only works over cellular). I've reset her network settings completely, no dice. T-Mobile support is worthless on this and basically just offered to recreate her eSim (didn't work). Apple said I need to talk to T-Mobile, not them. When she's off Wi-Fi, it seems to work. I honestly have no idea what could be broken here.
by syntaxing | 2025-11-19 19:16:39+00:00
It’s a balance, I haven’t felt like codex provided anything that Sonnet 4.5 didn’t. Why wait longer for getting the same results.

Though that does bring up an interesting point. Anecdotally, Sonnet does a lot more grep-ing while Codex reads files straight up. Might be the difference in speed and maybe smarter models will do better. Once this model is on copilot, I can test it out.
by roger_ | 2025-11-19 19:16:49+00:00
I have around 6 cameras, mostly 1080p, and about 8 GB RAM and 3 cores on the VM (plus Coral USB and Intel VAAPI). CPU usage is about 30 - 70% depending on how much activity there is. I also have other VMs on the machine running container services and misc stuff.

There are some camera stability issues which are probably WiFi related (2.4 GHz is overloaded) and Frigate also has its own issues (e.g. with detecting static objects as moving) but generally I’m happy with it. If I optimize my setup some more I could probably get it to a < 50% utilization.
by filoleg | 2025-11-19 19:16:50+00:00
> [...] most websites just don't follow the law. Yes, they're doing illegal things, but it turns out enforcement is weak so the lawbreaking is so ubiquitous [...]

I just checked the major institutional EU websites listed here[0], and every single one (e.g., [1][2][3]) had a different annoying massive cookie banner. In fact, I was impressed I couldn't find a single EU government website without a massive cookie banner.

I don't know if it is due to the law enforcement being so weak (or if the law itself is at fault or whatever else). But it seems like something is not right (either with your argument or EU), given the EU government itself engages in this "lawbreaking" (as defined by you) on every single one of their own major institutional websites.

The potential reason you brought up of "law enforcement is just weak" just seems like the biggest EU regulatory environment roast possible (which is why I don't believe it to be the real reason), given that not only they fail to enforce it against third parties (which would be at least somewhat understandable), but they cannot even enforce it on any of their own first party websites (aka they don't even try following their own rules themselves).

0. https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/european-union/official-ser...

1. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en

2. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/

3. https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en
by toddgardner | 2025-11-19 19:16:50+00:00
Yea agreed. I don't build my own CDNs.

But I don't choose cloudflare either, because its too complicated and I don't need that. So I choose the simplest possible thing with as little complexity as possible (for me, that was BunnyCDN). If it goes down, its usually obviously why. And I didn't rely on anything special about it, so I can move away painlessly.
by Dusseldorf | 2025-11-19 19:17:57+00:00
Honestly at this point, untangling my group chat mess was such a headache that I'll never turn RCS on again. I need to have 100% confidence that my messages are received and sent, and Google has forever broken that trust re: RCS. I managed to coax most of them over to alternative platforms, but I can't subject my poor grandmother to that headache, so it's SMS/MMS going forward for me.
by reckoning | 2025-11-19 19:18:00+00:00
> LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful

But this is itself an issue.

LLMs aside, whenever people see a human bullshitter, identifies them as a bullshitter, and then thinks to themselves, "Ah! But this bullshitter will be useful to me" it is only a matter of time before that faustian deal, of allowing harm for the people who put trust in you in exchange for easy returns, turns to harming for you eventually.
by ljm | 2025-11-19 19:18:08+00:00
I misrepresented it, yes, but learning from my then-time friend, the purging aspect was a key aspect of it for them. More or less a way of getting ‘all that shit’ out of your system.

That is obviously a perversion of the social act of taking ayahuasca in the context of a cult-like situation, when you also combine it with the ritual of deep and frequent cleansing.

I think a good characterisation of it is Vera in Mr Robot, who basically does this and comes back as if he’s fully enlightened.
by alwa | 2025-11-19 19:19:05+00:00
I don’t follow. In this case, the law required everyone to do what they did: provide an update, warn subscribers to update, and eventually drop devices that chose not to heed the warnings.

> Under the federal Emergency Service Call Determination, all operators must block handsets that can't complete Triple Zero calls if they remain unpatched for 28-35 days after the first warning – a rule TPG says it followed.

How would you even begin to pin down what “customer safety” means here? Isn’t it very much in the spirit of safety to say “if it can call at all, it must be able to place an emergency call; if it can’t place an emergency call on the current emergency calling scheme, you have to prohibit all other calling too”?

Plus, safety from unpatched devices on the customers’ network is safety too, right? Would it be “safer” to force the system update onto handsets without letting the subscriber decide?

Plus, just because something is a “priority” doesn’t mean you’re good at it…
by einpoklum | 2025-11-19 19:19:50+00:00
> the world of desktop mail clients

We live in that world still.

> but basically during the height of MSFT dominance there was only one real mail client: Outlook.

On Windows, you had:

* Netscape Suite (later Seamonkey)

* Eudora

* Pegasus

and (edit:) two of those still exist. Plus, Outlook cost money (unless you used Outlook Express), while Netscape was gratis, and on Linux and most Unix variants, Outlook has never even existed. On Linux specifically there's Evolution and there's KMail.

And I'm sure I'm forgeting a few others.

> Then Thunderbird arrived on the scene

It was a development of the MailNews component of Netscape, to use the same XUL-based platform as Firefox. So, an evolution, not a revolution.

(edit:) Oh, look what I found!

https://missive.github.io/email-apps-timeline/

uncheck 'Web', iOS and Android.
by Barrin92 | 2025-11-19 19:19:56+00:00
>is a patently ridiculous

It's patently ridiculous to trust the Signal Foundation more than phone carriers? I wasn't aware that AT&T and T-Mobile are run for the benefit of humanity.

Any app that implements RCS is run by gigantic corporations, most of which I'd argue are closer to the US government than even Meta, it's not obvious to me where the ridicule comes in.
by dmoy | 2025-11-19 19:20:04+00:00
> I'm sure Cloudflare spared no expense in that part of their infrastructure yet here they are

Almost everyone developing software spares some expense. It's maybe the main argument you can make for why it's engineering vs not. It's a cost-benefit tradeoff.

Cloudflare isn't doing e.g. super expensive formally verified software up and down its whole stack, practically nobody does that.
by decimalenough | 2025-11-19 19:20:18+00:00
Because SMS is horribly limited. 140 chars per message* (less if chars are not plain vanilla ASCII), no support for attachments, group messages, reliable delivery receipts, emoji reactions, etc etc.

* There's a terrible hack called concatenated SMS that strings together multiple messages to build one longer message under the hood, but if any of those parts go missing along the way, the whole thing gets dropped on the floor.
by wpietri | 2025-11-19 19:20:27+00:00
Oh, please. This sort of anonymous, hopelessly vague character assassination does not belong on HN.

You have of course given no idea of which people you're objecting to. But the people I know who were upset at Stallman a few years ago had clear, specific concerns, and some of them were directly harmed by Stallman.

If you would like to rebut their complaints, feel free to give it a go. Or you could also claim that the harm caused was justified or excusable given the positive things he's done. But you have to actually make the case, rather than just smearing them like this.
by pants2 | 2025-11-19 19:20:29+00:00
> The idea you are going to beat Two Sigma at their own game with tokens is just an absurdity.

Individual quant traders aren't competing with Two Sigma. If you're an individual quant trader and you find a signal with $500k/yr capacity, that's awesome. If you're Two Sigma you won't give a single cahoot if it's not a $50M/yr signal. Two completely different ball games. I doubt Two Sigma is even trading on Hyperliquid either.
by Kirby64 | 2025-11-19 19:20:50+00:00
JPEG only supports up to 8 bit color. It has much worse compression than more modern standards. It doesn't support alpha transparency. It doesn't support many of the modern smartphone image embedding functions (image sequences, derivatives/edited images, small movies embedded in the image).

You could make the same arguments about any of the wide variety of outdated video formats. This sort of thinking leads to a lack of progress in the industry.
by alwa | 2025-11-19 19:20:53+00:00
Only (in the case at hand) if they choose not to apply the free system update, right? And even then, only to the extent that they use cellular network calling?

It looks to me from the list that the newest device that needs replacement (vs updating) is a Galaxy S7, released 2017, which would be well outside the 5-year-extended-warranty period that seems to be the longest one they sell at your link, no? If I’m reading it right.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-19 19:20:57+00:00
>but I will mention that it is impossible to buy a sedan from US automakers today

Toyota/Honda/Subaru/Mazda/Tesla/Volkswagen manufacture sedans made in the US, that you can buy today. Not sure why it would make a difference where it is made anyway.

If you wanted a lower priced sedan, you would choose from the 10+ great options, cheaper than a larger vehicle, and buy a sedan.

Which means if you paid more for a larger/higher vehicle, it is because you wanted the larger/higher vehicle.
by MisterKent | 2025-11-19 19:21:05+00:00
I'm gonna phrase this terribly.

People said the exact same thing about web searches, and I think there's a lot of devs who would instant search for every issue they hit.

Isn't this just better web search?

On the other hand, it definitely feels like it might be too big a step in the spoon feeding direction.

Writing code without AI feels like art, and writing it with AI feels like painting a wall: get it done quickly, cheaply, and good enough that people don't see issues.

It's the art part of engineering that's being lost, AI has no appreciation of elegance. It has no empathy for cognitive overhead of bad code or poor-fit design patterns.

Cognitive Debt is the phrase to Google btw.
by croes | 2025-11-19 19:21:22+00:00
> if you don't do anything "bad" then you don't need the banners.

Because that’s how it is. For instance why does a site need to share my data with over 1000 "partners“?

And the EU uses the same tracking and website frameworks as others so they got banners automatically.

It wasn’t a mistake but website providers maliciously complied with the banners to shift the blame.

Seems you fell for it.