MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amy_petrik | 2025-11-01 00:53:29+00:00
Guys, guys, I don't think we're on the same page here.

The conversation I'm trying to have is "stop mutating all the dynamic self-modifying code, it's jamming things up". The concept of non-mutating code, only mutating variables, strikes me as extremely OCD and overly bureaucratic. Baby steps. Eventually I'll transition from my dynamic recompilation self-modifying code to just regular code with modifying variables. Only then can we talk about higher level transcendental OOP things such as singleton factory model-view-controller-singleton-const-factories and facade messenger const variable type design patterns. Surely those people are well reasoned and not fanatics like me
by GeorgeTirebiter | 2025-11-01 00:54:27+00:00
Geez. I was the first one to comment. It was "This may be great, but... would you please give us more explanations / context." It's not "laziness" but trying to understand how this table is useful / teaches us something. And, to the OP, that a 'typical' HN reader didn't get it.

I know 8008, 8080, z80, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, and some fancy opcodes for SSEx. The table still, IMHO, needs further explanation. Some have provided pointers to more info; thank you.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-11-01 00:54:46+00:00
I have only ever used the M4 (on my wife's Macbook Air) and M4 Pro (on my Macbook Pro) and it was reasonable speeds, I was able to tie LM Studio with PyCharm and ask it questions about code, but my context Window kept running out, I don't think the 24GB model is the right choice, the key thing you have to also look out for is for example I might hvae 24GB of RAM, but only 16 of it can be used as VRAM, so I'm more competitive than my 3080 in terms of VRAM, though my 3080 could probably run circles around my M4 Pro if it wanted to.
by gerdesj | 2025-11-01 00:55:36+00:00
What is wrong with Motown?

You seem to be picking on a US city as an example of (something) and attempting to apply (something) to the entirety of the UK that isn't a particular city in the UK.

Are you sure that is a wise comparison? I'm certain that Youtube is a source of information, but are you sure it is a useful one?

I live next door to a park and have just stuffed shit loads of cash into an American cruise company as a passenger (P&O - British name, American owner).

I'm alright mate and I'm sure you are too.
by creer | 2025-11-01 00:57:09+00:00
> - Nvidia also benefits from growth due to the equity they own.

aka this might be nvidia's next pivot. Contrary to gaming cards, the AI GPUs are productive assets. If nvidia feels that they will be very productive, then it makes sense that they invest broadly in the companies that are likely to make these profits. To share in the rewards while selling more GPUs.
by Affric | 2025-11-01 00:57:33+00:00
It’s interesting their schtick was that they were robots and that the line between man and machine was blurred but I think that really it was just the instrument.

A dehumanisation of themselves while exploring human themes contrasts well with the GAI craze whereby humans are ripped off by anthropomorphised mathematical models.

Truly music for our age anf anticipating the future.
by Negitivefrags | 2025-11-01 00:58:22+00:00
If Vsync is on which was my assumption from my previous comment, then if your computer is fast enough, you might be able to run CPU and GPU work entirely in a single frame if you use Reflex to delay when simulation starts to lower latency, but regardless, you still have a total time budget of 1/30th of a second to do all your combined CPU and GPU work to get to 60fps.
by sothatsit | 2025-11-01 00:58:43+00:00
1. This is obviously not about popularity... It is about capability. You cannot use crappy 2-year-old models with chain-of-thought to make inferences about frontier reasoning models that were released less than a year ago.

2. It is literally impossible for the models to have memorised all the results from multiplying 8-digit numbers. There are at least 10^14 8-digit multiplications that are possible (lower-bound), which from an information theory perspective would require a minimum of 48 PiB of data to hold. They have to be applying algorithms internally to perform this task, even if that algorithm is just uncompressing some unbelievably-well-compressed form of the results.

3. If you expect 100% reliability, obviously all humans would also fail. Therefore, do humans not reason? The answer is obviously not. We are trying to demonstrate that LLMs can exhibit reasoning here, not whether or not their reasoning has flaws or limitations (which it obviously does).
by YZF | 2025-11-01 01:00:11+00:00
I work in an org where you can talk directly to any leader. That doesn't actually help with the outcome. The org and culture are stronger than any leader. If the org has evolved with gate keepers the leader is generally never going to remove them just because you go and complain about them.

This is not necessarily being clueless. It's more about being powerless against organizational forces. I've seen accessible strong leaders, with strong beliefs in culture, having their culture subverted by middle management and "organization".
by runlevel1 | 2025-11-01 01:00:51+00:00
One did "fall off a truck" and into Moxie Marlinspike's hands back in 2021: https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

A bunch of their software was also leaked in a hack back in 2023: https://ddosecrets.com/article/cellebrite-and-msab
Show HN: A desktop app for managing multiple CI/CD pipelines
by hcavarsan | 2025-11-01 01:00:52+00:00
launching my new side project pipedash today - a desktop app for managing multiple ci/cd pipelines.

ideally we'd just use one ci/cd platform for everything and this wouldn't need to exist. but most of us deal with multiple platforms and i kept forgetting which pipeline was where. got tired of it so i built this.

it's new and still rough around the edges, so bugs will happen... if you run into any, just open an issue.
by 9rx | 2025-11-01 01:01:13+00:00
> as long as they are humans. I don't want it accessible to bots.

A curious position. There isn't a secondary species using the internet. There is only humans. Unless you foresee some kind of alien invasion or earthworm uprising, nothing other than humans will ever access your content. Rejecting the tools humans use to bridge their biological gaps is rather nonsensical.

> You are free to say "well, there is no mechanism to do that", and I would agree with you. That's the problem!

I suppose it would be pretty neat if humans were born with some kind of internet-like telepathy ability, but lacking that mechanism isn't any kind of real problem. Humans are well adept at using tools and have successfully used tools for millennia. The internet itself is a tool! Which, like before, makes rejecting the human use of tools nonsensical.
by pushfoo | 2025-11-01 01:01:17+00:00
ARM/RISC-V extensions may be another reason. If a wide-spread variant configuration exists, why not build for it? See: - RISC-V's official extensions[1] - ARM's JS-specific float-to-fixed[2]

1. https://riscv.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HOME/pages/16154732/... 2. https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0801/h/A64-Floati...
by tock | 2025-11-01 01:01:31+00:00
> People in India are poor but that doesn’t mean the country is poor.

Please stop. By your logic any country with a lot of people is rich. I already pointed out Norway vs Philippines for you. It is dirt poor by all numbers. Their extreme poverty rate just dropped recently. Their annual budget is 1/10th of the US with 5x more people. Energy needs per person will grow by over 10x in the next few decades to match the US. There is a long way to go.

> The Indian government has resources to build out renewables as evidenced by them doing exactly that.

I'm actually very impressed to see India sticking to the Paris accords. What exactly is the excuse of the worlds greatest superpower? Maybe a century of polluting the world isn't enough.

> The United States does not provide much direct funding but you are the only one suggesting that is necessary.

You're right. It needs to first fix itself lol. Maybe ask India for help :p Then again if you don't understand why the rich countries need to try and incentivise the world to move faster to renewables then you don't understand the urgency of the matter.
by Nursie | 2025-11-01 01:03:20+00:00
Abandoned homes in any great number would be a real surprise. I think those videos are likely quite carefully staged.

I left the UK about four years ago but AFAICT the picture of housing over there hasn’t changed a lot - it keeps going up in price and there’s a shortage.

There are economic problems at the moment, and service provision problems in particular with the NHS. A decade of post 08 GFC austerity stripped public services and hammered government investment, which turned out to have not been that smart. Then Brexit hammered trade.

Closed-up shops have been a minor trend for a while - small shops have been failing for years due to high taxes, insane rents and being thoroughly outcompeted by the internet. Many old-fashioned high streets have become little more than strips of coffee shops and charity retailers, the former because apparently there is no limit to the appetite for coffee, the latter because they often get tax and rent concessions.

It has always been true that London is like its own country, with transport, employment and investment there dwarfing everywhere else, and tackling this to spread out the prosperity more widely has been a consistent failure of British politics for as long as I remember.

Beyond London there’s the ever expanding, fairly wealthy belt of dormitory-towns, and then there’s the rest of the country, which in my last visit did just feel run down.

I’ve been to Detroit, and I’ve read about the decline there. I don’t think the UK is anywhere near that. But it is languishing in a prolonged economic malaise.
by watersb | 2025-11-01 01:04:30+00:00
On a Mac IIci with a reasonable amount of RAM, I has users run out of System memory when the "Grouch" extension was loaded. The audio was uncompressed PCM, and it took about 200KB.

It was a nice tech support call, in the sense that removing the extension fixed all the weird crashes and reboots.

But some folks were really sad to let the Grouch go..
by fuzztester | 2025-11-01 01:04:30+00:00
>that's not counting the reputation and brand damage. M&S is seen as a premium retailer and this whole hack made them seem utterly incompetent and unreliable

>>The retailer continues to use the Indian group for other services.

>lol.

>is seen

lol. a lot of things are seen as blah blah. doesn't mean they are blah blah.

google is seen as a world leading tech company. yet see how HNers regard them (except those desperate for FAANG salaries).

If they hired their vendors without due diligence, they may be incompetent and unreliable themselves. On the other hand:

>> M&S chair, told MPs that hackers had used “sophisticated impersonation” to gain entry “involving a third party.”

If the impersonation was sophisticated, maybe it was not so much the fault of TCS?

If it was a Western company, would you talk / think the same?

Nahi. Non. Nein. Nyet. Nada.

lol.
by olyjohn | 2025-11-01 01:04:52+00:00
Want me to tell you about my 3 failed MacBook Pro logic boards?

Hate to say it, but Macs aren't any better. I've worked on literally thousands of laptops, and you win some, and you lose some. There are some shitty Dells, and some good Dells, and there are some shitty MacBooks and some good MacBooks.

I even have a couple of old Dells that are about 10 years old now. Working just fine too.
by 1659447091 | 2025-11-01 01:05:02+00:00
> BUT there are NO 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS. They do not exist [...] 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS DO NOT EXIST

I am not sure if you somehow mean something different, but 3 bedroom apartments absolutely do exist. I know for a fact that they exist in California, Texas and Florida. I don't have direct experience with them in other states however.
Ask HN: Did HN just switched to Masonry layout?
by hnthrowaway0328 | 2025-11-01 01:05:43+00:00
I just realized thay once I scrolled past item 30, I could keep scrolling and the screen shows page 2, like a waterfall.

Is this a layout change or my plugins? I'm using Chrome but this was the first time I saw this happening.
by Teever | 2025-11-01 01:05:58+00:00
So glad to see a Stephen Hawes video make the front page. I've been trying for a few years now to get discussion going around his opensource pick and place the LumenPNP[0]

His goal of bringing small scale manufacturing down to the workshop / home garage level is really inspiring and is especially relevant in the modern era of tariffs and economic upheaval.

To get good at something people need to get hands on experience and it needs to be affordable and relatively easy to use. The kinds of tools that Stephen is promoting make that possible and that's critical if we want people to get good at building things.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LumenPnP
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-11-01 01:06:23+00:00
In re: 4 - during desert storm Lt Patrick Olson managed to bring a damaged A-10 back to base. He attempted to land, but his damaged hydraulics were insufficient and the plane cartwheeled, landing upside down resulting in pilot death. It is likely Lt Olson would have survived by ejecting near the base in a designated area, and this became SOP for that category of failure afterwards.

I also recall reading about another damaged A-10 in the same conflict that managed to touch down only to discover the brakes didn't work. Pilot overran the runway but survived. Can't recall pilot's name off the top of my head.
by ianbutler | 2025-11-01 01:06:26+00:00
I think this means we need to rely on web technologies more. PWAs are looking pretty good on mobile devices these days and you can publish any web app you want with no reviewing authority. The web has a bunch of crazy APIs now that let you build crazy things and for everything else you're a hosted server away somewhere that can run more complex jobs.

I believe devices I own should let me do whatever I want with them and I agree that the verification is BS, but I'll work around it in the ways I can which means building more for the web.

If that ever drops the open pretense (since both traffic and trust authority are largely centralized and thus easily controllable) then I'll only write for self hosted linux boxes.

We as individuals can only do so much. We'd need actual organization and some measure of political power to do anything more since normal people do not care about this.
by fwip | 2025-11-01 01:07:30+00:00
> Liberals care about you losing your money when you buy a $5 scratch-off, they don't care about you losing your mind with mind-bending psychoactive substances.

It's hard to take anything you say seriously if you insist on being this disingenuous. You could just as easily say "Liberals care about people being financially ruined and driven into homelessness, but they don't care about you sharing a doobie on the weekend with your bros."
by bwesterb | 2025-11-01 01:07:59+00:00
If your browser is online on an unrestricted network, then the tree heads will be kept up to date, and this will leak nothing. If you had your laptop closer for a weekend, open it up immediately and visit a website before your browser had a chance to update, well, you leak for maybe a minute or two you had your laptop closed for a weekend. So it's not that much. But we'll want to see how we can reduce this as much as possible.
by riku_iki | 2025-11-01 01:08:15+00:00
> You cannot use crappy 2-year-old models with chain-of-thought to make inferences about frontier reasoning models that were released less than a year ago.

the idea is to train new specialized model, which could specifically demonstrate if LLM can learn multiplication.

> It is literally impossible for the models to have memorised how to multiply 8-digit numbers. There are at least 10^14 8-digit multiplications that are possible

sure, they could memorize fragments: if that fragment contains that seq of digits, then that fragment must contains that seq of digits, which is much smaller space

> If you expect 100% reliability, obviously all humans would also fail. Therefore, do humans not reason?

Human fail because they are weak in this case because they can't reliably do arithmetic, and sometimes make mistake, also I speculate if you give enough time, and ask human to triple check calculations, result will be very good.
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-01 01:08:32+00:00
No, dropping a Rust future is an inherently safe operation. Futures don't live on their own, they only ever do work inside of .poll(), so you can't "catch them with their pants down" and corrupt state by dropping them. Yield points are specifically designed to be cancel-safe.

Crucially, however, because Futures have no independent existence, they can be indefinitely paused if you don't actively and repeatedly .poll() them, which is the moral equivalent of cancelling a Java Thread. And this is represented in language state as a leaked object, which is explicitly allowed in safe Rust, although the language still takes pains to avoid accidental leakage. The only correct way to use a future is to poll it to completion or drop it.

The problem is that in this situation, tokio::select! only borrows the future and thus can't drop it. It also doesn't know that dropping the Future does nothing, because borrows of futures are still futures so all the traits still match up. It's a combination of slightly unintuitive core language design and a major infrastructure library not thinking things out.
by boncester | 2025-11-01 01:08:33+00:00
That was excellent!

Couple of tweaks though, try to avoid the same call for response, '..is that right?' or whatever. Patterns in speech become REALLY old REALLY quickly.. It can start to create a picture in their head that this is staged (and it kinda is) which then starts to cause them to raise walls up. Keep to the context of the question using whatever words you're comfy with 'X...? I got that right?', or 'soooooo... X yeah?' and they'll spot the pattern but because of the conversational nature of it their hackles will take a lot longer to raise.

The other thing is putting pauses in. Yes pauses are remarkably powerful, actual dead air forces the other side to fill it, but it also creates a pressure vacuum, it FEELS like minor bullishness and can start causing combativeness. For me if I want the conversation to feel level between two equals I'll instead fill the pauses with word-salad appropriate to whatever the context is with a couple of words in there to ping reactions. 'Oh wow, yeah the more I think about this the more I'm just... wow. Yeah that's annoying', where 'the more I think' is reflecting back that I agree there's something to what they are saying and 'annoying' to cause them to reflect on the irritation, trying to draw out that feeling more so they can then talk about the next layer down, but it's still basically a pause, it quietly says 'I hear you, I don't have anything to say right now, so go on...'
by heavyset_go | 2025-11-01 01:09:24+00:00
The history of passports has always been surveillance and control of movement of, and enforcing quotas on, the proles.

In their earliest form, they were documents from your lord that permitted you to travel, and specified where you belonged and where you were allowed to travel to, most often used for internal travel. Later and in general, they were used to keep the poor from moving, for example, to find work elsewhere.

Later Americans used them to limit European immigration based on country of origin, Europeans used them in WWII to do some not good things, Soviets used them to exile or keep undesirables where they wanted them, etc
by AgentME | 2025-11-01 01:10:07+00:00
> Grok is without a doubt the single most important contributor to convincing believers of right-wing conspiracy theories that maybe the theories aren't as sound as they thought. I have seen this play out hundreds of times. Grok often serves as a kind of referee or tiebreaker in threads between right-wing conspiracy theorists and debunkers, and it typically sides overwhelmingly with the debunkers. (Or at least used to.) And it does it in a way that validates the conspiracy theorist's feelings, so it's less likely to trigger a psychological immune system response.

I've seen this too and agree. It's surprising how well it accomplishes that referee role today, though I wonder how much of that is just because many right-wingers truly expect Grok to be similarly right-wing to them as Elon appears to intend it to be. It's going to be sad when Elon eventually gets more successful at beating it into better following his ideology.
by bwesterb | 2025-11-01 01:10:24+00:00
I agree that there is a big gap between what browsers offer today, and a non-browser client. This is a good moment to improve things. There is no reason that we can't have system service populating /etc/ssl/treeheads, which openssl can read. Or fall back to $USER/.config/treeheads, or per application.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-11-01 01:10:41+00:00
I thought Brent Simmons did a great job laying out why PWAs don't work: https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-we...

The tl;dr is that a PWA implies an app which is based in the cloud. So suddenly you need a server, and you need to store user data, which means costs and dealing with privacy and security.
by SamPatt | 2025-11-01 01:12:19+00:00
I can visualize things in a lucid dream, and it's identical to seeing for me. But I can only control it for a short time before I wake up.

When awake, I have a "mind's eye," but it's more like what you're describing. As I fall asleep, I can actually begin to see things. I wonder if some people can do that when awake.
by westurner | 2025-11-01 01:13:49+00:00
ScholarlyArticle: "Bioinspired photoresponsive soft robotic lens" (2025) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adw8905

NewsArticle: "Light-Powered Soft Lens from Georgia Tech Researchers Brings Human-Like Vision to Robotics" (2025) https://bme.gatech.edu/news/light-powered-soft-lens-georgia-... :

> The photoresponsive hydrogel soft lens (PHySL) is constructed entirely from soft, bio-safe materials, making it ideal for applications where rigid optics are impractical—such as soft robots and medical devices that interact safely with tissues. At the core of the design is a thermally responsive hydrogel—a water-absorbing polymer commonly found in products like contact lenses—infused with graphene, which converts light into heat, triggering shape changes that act as artificial muscles. This property allows the lens to be controlled remotely without needing battery power or wired connections.
by jerf | 2025-11-01 01:14:24+00:00
For the same reason you don't modify autogenerated files in your source code base. It's easy to get an LLM to just regen the page but once someone tries to edit it you're even farther down the road of what an LLM can't do right now. I wouldn't even trust it to follow one edit instruction, at scale, at that size of document, and if we're going to have humans trying to make multiple edits while the LLM is folding in its own improvements... yeah, the LLMs aren't even remotely ready for that at this point.
by LPisGood | 2025-11-01 01:14:58+00:00
The house does not always win in online sports books. I personally know some quant minded people that have been banned or backed off from a dozen or more online sports books because they are crushed by any nontrivial understanding of price/probability and arbitrage. They do make a lot of money from people who bet for fun or based on their perceived knowledge of the particular sport.