MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dTal | 2025-11-04 14:58:19+00:00
That's not really how any of this works.

Pulseaudio is both a protocol and also an implementation of that protocol. Pipewire also implements the pulseaudio protocol, hence its compatibility with all existing software.

Wayland is a protocol only. Every compositor - and there are many - implements it "from scratch". The "pipewire of display" would simply be yet another Wayland compositor. No one is going to solve the problems of Wayland in one fell swoop by releasing another Wayland compositor. What is actually happening is that problems are being gradually solved by the introduction of protocol extensions, which usually get adopted by other compositors after achieving success in one.
by HelloNurse | 2025-11-04 14:58:29+00:00
> Perhaps, in the process of producing it, the human notices what's happening and reconsiders (or even better, improves it such that it's no longer "slop".)

Given the same ridiculously large and complex change, if it is handwritten only a seriously insensitive and arrogant crackpot could, knowing what's inside, submit it with any expectation that you accept it without a long and painful process instead of improving it to the best of their ability; on the other hand using LLM assistance even a mildly incompetent but valuable colleague or contributor, someone you care about, might underestimate the complexity and cost of what they didn't actually write and believe that there is nothing to improve.
Show HN: Deep-ML Labs:Learn machine learning by building it from scratch
by mchab | 2025-11-04 14:59:14+00:00
We just launched Deep-ML Labs, a new section on Deep-ML

Each Lab is a hands-on challenge where you implement parts of real models, activations, layers, optimizers, normalization, even small transformers — directly in PyTorch (and sometimes NumPy).

You can test your implementations on actual datasets, see how your results compare to others, and understand what’s really happening under the hood of deep learning frameworks.

let me know what you guys think and if we should work on making more of these questions
by mk89 | 2025-11-04 15:00:11+00:00
I prefer a guy that performs a show like Musk to a Zuckeberg that is leading our youth to a very bad path - probably worse is only Tiktok. And all for some coins.

At least the guy says what he thinks, which you might agree or disagree with. And yes, in the meantime he is getting richer.

Not sure what's bad about that.
by taylodl | 2025-11-04 15:00:18+00:00
Stupid people are unable to learn from history or the experience of others, they must learn everything first-hand. The decline of American education over the course of the past 50 years or so has resulted in a not insignificant portion of Americans are stupid. It's sad, but I always knew this day would eventually come. There's a price to pay for decimating education and not teaching people critical thinking skills.
by officeplant | 2025-11-04 15:00:25+00:00
I lost a ton of indie electronic music from the early days of myspace music in a 2009 hard drive fuckup. I can't imagine doing that willingly, because I still wish I could find some of those hobby musicians again. I do occasionally trim a few gigabytes of music I don't care for anymore, but I regularly listen to most of my collection that sits around 280gb of mainly flac files.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-04 15:00:54+00:00
You can build Firefox without Widevine if you don't like DRM. The browser itself will work just fine. A few specific websites won't, by design: they do not want to work on computers that will let you save the high-res video they serve to a file.

Without EME, we'd still be stuck with Silverlight or ActiveX DRM in these browsers. There are browsers without Widevine that stream just fine; they use FairPlay and PlayReady instead. The current situation is still a significant improvement over the days when "free" web browsers were still a thing.

This isn't a web browser problem, it's a video streaming problem. As it turns out, the vast majority of people care more about streaming Netflix than they do about software freedom.

The minority that wants a truly open browser can buy DVDs and Blurays, or pirate the content they want to stream.

If Ladybird is willing to agree to the right terms and sign the right paperwork, I'm sure they'd get Widevine support eventually, but obviously they wouldn't be able to publish the source code for any of it.
by slig | 2025-11-04 15:00:58+00:00
They lie. Meta ad deliver has been completely fucked for about two months, and they rarely update their status page [1]. When they do, they update with "medium disruptions" hours late and then with "resolved" hours before actually solving. I could understand the "resolved" before because of "web scale" and deploying slowly.

This third partt status page reflects the issues much better [2].

[1]: https://metastatus.com/ads-manager [2]: https://statusgator.com/services/meta
by runjake | 2025-11-04 15:01:01+00:00
I don’t have the same take, but the algorithm and site is so broken, the patterns so dark, that I’m down to maybe 5 minutes of X a week at best.

Everything is posted to get views, even from the more quality people. It’s ironic that I hear about “brainrot” the most on X, but it’s full of brainrot masquerading as valuable information.
by sd9 | 2025-11-04 15:01:06+00:00
This seems like a fairly reasonable UX improvement. Unless I'm missing anything, it doesn't seem like this has nefarious intent, it's just there so that when a user clicks a link, they see the content as quickly as possible.

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It's astonishing how quickly discussion disintegrates when Musk is mentioned on HN. He really is such a divisive figure, with incredibly polarised language both in support and against him.

Normal reasoned arguments are just absent here. Sometimes when two people disagree, they can still have a nuanced conversation/argument about it. But not about Musk.

There are some opinions in this thread that I vehemently disagree with, but it's not worth escalating by adding my opinion to the pile.

It reminds me of that phenomenon where you read the newspaper and notice an article in your domain of expertise and it's riddled with errors! Then you turn the page, read an article about something else, and completely trust it. You somehow didn't transfer the knowledge that the newspaper is inaccurate to the new domain.

It makes me wonder what other discussions on HN (and elsewhere) are completely devoid of nuance and reason, but I just don't notice it.
by metalman | 2025-11-04 15:01:55+00:00
unfortunately the article is very offensive to anyone living outside of major urban centers, it presumes that along with our daily cake, that unlimited data and means to aquire it are only to be mentioned as trivialitys, if at all. rural devitalization is accelerating, with another article here describing how unreliable electrical power is in Calfornias country side I wont get into the details, but please imagine all the fun to be had attempting to turn off a win11 laptop, with hyper low speed and bandwidth internet, in order to try and save some battery in case the power does not come back on, which is the reality on most of our planets surface.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-04 15:02:03+00:00
On October 22nd the US national debt passed $38 trillion, a record number. That is the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic. We only hit $37 trillion in in August.

Further, unless you are in the top .1% of earners, or you live on tips (I somehow doubt there are many stippers on HN) your taxes will not decrease as a result of any of Trumps "cuts".

In short, you have been lied to and are celebrating unnecessary cruelty for the sake of cruelty which will save you personally $0.00 and which only further increases America's debts.

Worse the ridiculous tariffs are pushing us toward a recession that only AI investment has forestalled. AI investment now represents the single largest investment of capital in human history, and if that bubble bursts we will enter into what could potentially be the worst economic collapse in not only American history, but human history.
by scott_w | 2025-11-04 15:02:37+00:00
You're always going to be up against "good enough" and inertia. For plenty of applications, a bloated Electron app really is good enough!

The library you built looks fucking awesome, by the way. However, I think even you acknowledged on the page that Matplotlib may well be good enough for many use cases. If someone knows an existing tool extremely well, any replacement needs to be a major step change to solve a problem that couldn't be solved in existing, inefficient, tools.
by bpavuk | 2025-11-04 15:03:02+00:00
Well, there are platforms that did figure it out, but it's quite fractured. For US, you have Bluesky and Fediverse (Flipboard, Mastodon). In Ukraine, you can use Threads. Germany seems to love Bluesky and Mastodon, given the amount of independent Personal Data Servers and Mastodon instances located there.
by horsawlarway | 2025-11-04 15:03:24+00:00
This is incorrect.

Two of the four core tests for fair use hinge on this.

1. Purpose and character of the use. With emphasis on whether the copy was made for commercial use.

4. Effect on the work's value, and the creator's ability to exploit their work.

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Both can be dramatically impacted by the intent of the copy, usually with enforcement and punishment also being considerably stronger if the copy is being made for commercial gain and not private use.
by Kye | 2025-11-04 15:04:08+00:00
(not a lawyer) This is the exact opposite of how it works, at least in the US.

Copyright: covers works on publication. Registering it allows for seeking of statutory damages.

Trademark: covers defining characteristics. This can be muddy since defining characteristics are not necessarily the same as style.

It can be especially confusing when certain things become characteristic of a genre. This is mostly what transformer and diffusion models cover: the strongest weights will be what's most common in the training data. You get a lot of em dashes and heroes in colorful outfits, but they don't constitute a violation on their own in any modern model unless the operator of the model goes out of their way to violate.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-11-04 15:04:27+00:00
You suspect correctly.

For people who don't know much about solar panels mystified about this:

Solar panels are not ideal voltage sources, their internal impendance varies depending on temperature and the amount of light falling on the panels. Because the point of maximum power in the circuit is achieved when the internal and external impendances are matched, a simple resistive circuit is inefficient and results in the panel converting less light into electricity. If you had a variable resistor, you could adjust it over the day to match the panel, but it is of course easier to use a semiconductor device that does this for you. Any halfway decent battery charger setup or PV inverter has one, but if you are building your own heating system, just stringing together a bunch of diodes might sound stupid, but totally works.
by meowface | 2025-11-04 15:04:46+00:00
I fully agree with your stance on Elon but I simply find Twitter too useful for too many things to quit. I've tried Bluesky and although I am very left-leaning on sociocultural topics I just find them too... annoying over there. (I'm closer to neoliberal on economic topics and that's also a bit of an issue there. And I like AI and they pretty much all deeply hate AI.)
by aldousd666 | 2025-11-04 15:04:57+00:00
Nobody wants a damn web view. If I'm clicking off to a link, I may want to click to another app and back in and still be where it was... If it's in a webview that's gone as soon as I click out. Yes, you can open in Chrome or whatever, open in a browser, but that's a pain in the ass to do an the time. I hate web views, in all forms.
by suncemoje | 2025-11-04 15:05:07+00:00
I was recently approached by a lawyer who wants to automate legal workflows. “Intriguing” I thought, given the advancements of LLMs / agentic AI + the huge funding rounds I keep seeing in LegalTech. I eventually had to give the project a pass because I didn’t believe I would be able to get AI to consistently produce accurate outputs, EVEN IF the inputs stayed the same. Couldn’t imagine building a deterministic system that scales in the legal domain…
by jerdman76 | 2025-11-04 15:05:15+00:00
This article is awesome - I love the meme

As a former CS major (30 years ago) that went into IT for my first career, I've wondered about bloat and this article gave me the layman explanation.

I am still blown away by the comparison of pointing out that the WEBP image of SuperMario is larger in size than the Super Mario game itself!
by sudodevnull | 2025-11-04 15:05:28+00:00
So you can support JSON while still being REST. For example, Datastar supports merging in HTML, JS, JSON into the current view of a resource. They work together to keep the resource state unified versus polling. In general the Datastar way is...

1. make an MPA 2. each page is a resource 3. keep a stream open on the current state of that resource 4. ship, touch grass, repeat
by OutOfHere | 2025-11-04 15:05:35+00:00
Healthcare in the US is a complete protectionist racket in all of its aspects. The costs and bureaucracy are 100x to 1000x what they should be in a highly competitive system. No wonder it's unaffordable. Until this is fixed, shuffling around who pays can't sustainably fix it. Regulations in favor of the racket need to be systematically identified at all levels of government and loosened or struck down.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-11-04 15:06:22+00:00
I wonder where they're getting the data. I assumed OSM but I found at least one place on this map that I couldn't find on OSM or in All the Places (but it is on Google Maps).

If anything it seems to err on the side of false positives. A lot of these places seem to be traditional gyms or trampoline parks that I don't think have any bouldering walls.
by atonse | 2025-11-04 15:06:24+00:00
It feels extremely disingenuous to have a video of burned Teslas (from vandalism) at the top of the article... why do this? Is there any explanation for this except malice? It has absolutely nothing to do with the safety of robotaxis.

Isn't it spicy enough to just report on the safety issues from Robotaxis?

Also:

> But several of the Austin crashes occurred while the vehicles were moving slowly or stationary, one incident involved contact with a fixed object in a parking area. Analysts say this suggests the system's perception and decision-making may not be giving monitors enough time to react, a key issue NHTSA has previously flagged in other FSD-related investigations.

Interesting for sure. This is also what some of the FSD influencers see when they test the limits (especially with parking with small obstacles).
by fainpul | 2025-11-04 15:06:33+00:00
Or just 2. I like my screen aspect ratios in decimal representation. The "wider" the image, the larger the number. Square would be 1.

It makes it easy to compare ratios: for example the aspect ratio of a movie (say 2.39) to my screen (2.33) and see that I can expect a good fit. My screen is a bit "more square", so there will be slivers of black borders on top and bottom.
by dredmorbius | 2025-11-04 15:06:41+00:00
Gas turbines aren't generally noted for their efficiency, but rather:

- Power-to-weight ratios. Critical in aerospace applications.

- Long duty cycles. Everything spins, reducing wear-and-tear relative to reciprocating designs. Maintenance on piston engined aircraft during WWII was a major logistical concern.

- Raw speed. Supersonic flight requires high rotary speeds, and the few propeller-driven aircraft which achieved this had ... issues. Ground crews and pilots suffered health effects from the noise alone, and notoriously often flat refused to work with the XF-84H "Thunderscreech": <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H_Thunderscreech...>. At near-supersonic speeds and above, propeller blade tips themselves break the sound barrier, losing aerodynamic flow over the blades, making quite a racket, and greatly reducing efficiency.

Propeller-driven planes remain more efficient than jets in many instances, though last I checked US military forces rely on turboprops over reciprocating engines in virtually all instances, possibly excepting some civilian-based (e.g., Cessna / Piper, etc.) trainer or observer variants.
by fabian2k | 2025-11-04 15:06:51+00:00
The Electrek article (https://electrek.co/2025/10/29/tesla-robotaxis-keep-crashing...) contains more information. It's 4 crashes in around 250,000 miles. But Tesla redacts most information in these reports unlike e.g. Waymo, so the information is limited. If Tesla wants people to trust them regarding safety, this is not the way to go.

Personally, I'd be interested in how often the safety drivers had to intervene. But I assume we'll never get that information.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-04 15:06:57+00:00
A large amount of tests includes rendering text and basic elements correctly, which is an incredibly difficult problem. Getting JS to render right is one thing, but preventing bugs like "Google Maps works but completely breaks when a business has õ in its name" requires a lot of seemingly useless tests to pass.

Fixing a few rendering issues could fix all of the tests that depend on correct rendering but break, so I think the rate at which tests are fixed makes a lot of sense.

https://wpt.fyi/results shows that even the big players have room for improvement, but also has a nice breakdown of all the different kinds of tests that make up the score.
by nbbaier | 2025-11-04 15:06:58+00:00
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by WorldMaker | 2025-11-04 15:07:20+00:00
Another random band I was listening to because of MP3.com was Lazlo Bane which is best known because one of their songs "Superman" (which was on MP3.com) became the Scrubs TV show theme song.

MP3.com also had a bunch of very early meme bands such as The Laziest Men on Mars with songs based on "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" and "The Terrible Secret of Space" which were viral and hard to escape in certain friend groups.

Because most of the music was free to download and a lot of it was pretty viral, I'd maybe add a Spotify if it was Legal Napster analogy to the Bandcamp and Soundcloud put together analogy.
by api | 2025-11-04 15:07:22+00:00
The root of Tesla's problems here is Musk's decision to drop LIDAR.

The reasoning, I think, was that humans can drive using sight and a little bit of sound, so an AI should be able to do this too.

Humans can do this because we have a very rich well-developed world model that allows us to fill in the gaps. We don't do it perfectly but we can do it decently well.

Modern AIs, or at least the ones small enough to be run on smaller machines that are economical to put in cars, don't have a rich world model like that. They're doing stimulus response backed by a database. That's going to break down at all kinds of edge cases.

The way to compensate for this is to give the car superhuman senses like LIDAR. The car is much dumber than a person but it can perceive its environment orders of magnitude better than a person, which compensates well enough that it has a chance of driving at least as well as a person.
by __jonas | 2025-11-04 15:07:39+00:00
> the dev was making breaking changes that would require a full rewrite

This is funny because I already get the feeling a lot with management sim / automation type games that I'm pretty close to doing the kind of thing I'd do at work, except only the fun parts and without getting paid. Often that's the reason I quit playing these types of games after a while - having to deal with migrating legacy code after breaking API changes would bring this feeling to a new level I bet.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-04 15:07:48+00:00
"If we worked hard to keep OS requirements to a minimum- could we be looking at unimaginably improved battery life? Hyper reliable technology that lasts many years? Significantly more affordable hardware?"

Volunteer-supported UNIX-like OS, e.g., NetBSD, represents the closest to this ideal for me

I am able to use an "old" operating system with new hardware. No forced "upgrades" or remotely-installed "updates". I decide when I want to upgrade software. No new software is pre-installed

This allows me to observe and enjoy the speed gains from upgrading hardware in a way I cannot with a corporate operating system. The later will usurp new hardware resources in large part for its own commercial purposes. It has business goals that may conflict with the non-commercial interests of the computer owner

It would be nice if software did not always grow in size. It happens to even the simplest of programs. Look at the growth of NetBSD's init over time for example

Why not shrink programs instead of growing them

Programmers who remove code may be the "heros", as McIlroy once suggested ("The hero is the negative coder")
by Mojah | 2025-11-04 15:07:48+00:00
Most companies prefer to fix any downtime before it's noticed, and sharing any details on a status page means admitting something went wrong.

There's plenty of status page solutions that tie in uptime monitoring with status updates, essentially providing a "if we get an alert, anyone can follow along through the status page" for near real-time updates. But, it means showing _all_ users that something went wrong, when maybe only a handful noticed it in the first place.

It's a flawed tactic to try and hide/dismiss any downtime (people will notice), but it's in our human nature to try and hide the bad things?

[1] ie https://ohdear.app/features/status-pages
by frisbee6152 | 2025-11-04 15:08:39+00:00
A well-optimized program is often a consequence of a deep understanding of the problem domain, good scoping, and mindfulness.

It often feels to me like we’ve gone far down the framework road, and frameworks create leaky abstractions. I think frameworks are often understood as saving time, simplifying, and offloading complexity. But they come with a commitment to align your program to the framework’s abstractions. That is a complicated commitment to make, with deep implications, that is hard to unwind.

Many frameworks can be made to solve any problem, which makes things worse. It invites the “when all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” mentality. The quickest route to a solution is no longer the straight path, but to make the appropriate incantations to direct the framework toward that solution, which necessarily becomes more abstract, more complex, and less efficient.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-04 15:08:41+00:00
I have been on a crusade now for about a year to get people to share chats where SOTA LLMs have failed spectacularly to produce coherent, good information. Anything with Heavy hallucinations and outright bad information.

So far, all I have gotten is data that is outside the knowledge cutoff (this is by far the most common) and technicality wrong information (Hawsmer House instead of Hosmer House) kind of fails.

I thought maybe I hit on something with the recent BBC study about not trusting LLM output, but they used 2nd shelf/old mid-tier models to do their tests. Top LLMs correctly answered their test prompts.

I'm still holding out for one of those totally off the rails Google AI overviews hallucinations showing up in a top shelf model.