MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-17 00:13:14+00:00
> "Using lmgtfy makes you shitty" is ridiculous levels of tone policing.

I guess my question is: what is the point of sending a lmgtfy link? What do you want to happen?

I don’t think this is tone policing tbh unless we call any time someone says “stop” tone policing. In which case I’d say I guess I support some light policing.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-17 00:13:54+00:00
It's 2025, people are going to use technology and its use will spread.

There are intentional communities devoted to stopping the spread of technology, but HN isn't currently one of them. And I've never seen an HN discussion where curiosity was promoted by accusations or insinuations of LLM use.

It seems consistent to me with the rules against low effort snark, sarcasm, insinuating shilling, and ideological battles. I don't personally have a problem with people waging ideological battles about AI, but it does seem contrary to the spirit of the site for so many technical discussions to be derailed so consistently in ways that specifically try to silence a form of expression.
by gassi | 2025-11-17 00:14:23+00:00
> Why does it matter?

Because AI gets things wrong, often, in ways that can be very difficult to catch. By their very nature LLMs write text that sounds plausible enough to bypass manual review (see https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s...), so some find it best to avoid using it at all when writing documentation.
by ForOldHack | 2025-11-17 00:14:29+00:00
We found out after the third try, that both the IBM and one of the clone BIOSes would run the install, and all of them would boot. ( And an OMTI Rll controller, supported... Dual hard disks too. ) I needed an assembly language program to much the speed up to 10mhz, and it still ran fine, right up to the 'make nethack' then 4 hours later...beeeep beeeep beep. OS not found. We never figured out weather it was a out of memory error or a temp file error ... But the OS was gone.
by dperrin | 2025-11-17 00:16:53+00:00
Spitballing here, but I suspect it's a density thing. If you are considering all prime powers up to some bound N, then the density of prime powers (edit: of size p^n with n > 1) approaches 0 as N tends to infinity. So rather than things being 1/4 like our intuition says, it should unintuitively be 1/2. I haven't given this much thought, but I suspect this based on checking some examples in Sage.
by IgorPartola | 2025-11-17 00:17:23+00:00
I see what you are saying but we are speaking of slightly different things. Let’s say you need a piece of software that effectively is full text search but you don’t know that such a thing exists. Since you don’t know what you don’t know you are at a disadvantage when looking for a solution. But knowing that something like Elastic Search or Postgres’ full text search is a thing will mean that I can have a starting point to look at what is possible.

Imagine for a moment that you didn’t know that S3 was a thing. You would end up rolling some sort of home grown solution that would be less robust and possibly more expensive. You don’t need to use it, but knowing that it exists and being able to reason about its basic promise is a good thing.

AWS has grown so huge that they have everything from hosted Valkey to satellite launchers. And knowing that launching satellites is an option is valuable, but unless you know to look for it you won’t find it. And the larger the number of offerings the more difficult it is to keep up with what is possible.

To bring it back to the concept of an enterprise team to manage stuff, doing something like managing 10,000 EC2 instances manually is less good than using something like Cloud Formation. But is Cloud Formation better than some other orchestration system? You can hopefully see where this is going.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-17 00:19:00+00:00
I mean, that's one way to look at it I suppose, and it's why you see Healthcare Insurers and Private Equity diversify into elder care for a captive audience.

In reality though, I was not-so-subtly trying to suggest that if something is necessary for the public good (curing diseases) but a bad business model, then perhaps Capitalism itself is the wrong vehicle for that segment of industry and a different option - be it an incentive structure, government-owned pharmaceutical research, or managed economy - is needed.

Society fundamentally needs things that are simply bad business - sheltering everyone (lowers long-term housing revenue), feeding everyone (lowers long-term food revenue), healing everyone (lowers long-term healthcare revenue), educating everyone (lowers the value of degrees/credentials). If our economic model prohibits or discourages achieving optimal resource usage and human outcomes, then it's our obligation to explore and identify alternatives that may improve those outcomes respectively.
by p1necone | 2025-11-17 00:19:05+00:00
You say that, but some of the games that people point at as having harmful monetization have basically the same system of only selling cosmetic items that don't give you an advantage (e.g. Fortnite). And PoE's stash tabs straddle that line a bit.

As far as I can tell the main difference is a younger demographic and being more pop culture adjacent. I don't think that should affect whether you consider it "bad" monetization, but I will concede that context is important with these sort of things.
by cryptonector | 2025-11-17 00:19:54+00:00
This is not relevant to GP's point. This is a separate topic, which... I don't really care, but I know a lot of people want to be able to write SQL as you suggest, and it's not hard to implement, so, sure.

Though, I think it might have to be table sources, then `SELECT`, then `WHERE`, then ... because you might want to refer to output columns in the `WHERE` clause.
by im3w1l | 2025-11-17 00:20:02+00:00
I think it's the opposite. I think people are very aware of those effects, and that's actually why they ask the question in the first place.

They ask it "is this good business" not just because they care about the answer itself but because they want to start a debate on how society should promote the invention of cures.

Like I think most people in most industries are passionate people that really want to do good, but they do need to eat too.
by wat10000 | 2025-11-17 00:20:30+00:00
If literally 100% of miners switched, leaving zero on the original chain, then people will have no choice since it won’t do any more transactions.

But if, say, a mere 99% of miners switch, it’s far from a given that people would follow. Having more mining capacity makes the chain more secure, but it’s not that big of a deal.
by Spivak | 2025-11-17 00:21:46+00:00
This really does keep getting worse, first you were just wasting money for your ideals now you're suggesting we purposely let kids go hungry until they behave in the way you want. We're beyond they just don't happen to like what's being served but you're trying territory and into they're going to eat it and like it or they don't get lunch. Please don't ever run for your local school board.

And no we didn't all turn out overweight, it's been a minute but I think in my grade there were three "fat kids," two girls and one boy. I really don't understand why you take being overweight as the natural consequence of this. Kids crave sweets because it's calories and they're growing. In my early teens the size of my meals were on the order of two Chipotle burritos or the entire taco twelve pack and I was a perfectly normal weight. I mean I was a girl in high school so I didn't exactly think that back then but I was fine. It wasn't until I was post college and had depression that I put any kind of significant weight.
by nanomonkey | 2025-11-17 00:22:53+00:00
Most of the "alternative webs" are fairly dark forest by design. Each exists at a different variation of the OSI model. And strangely enough most that I've experienced have had entirely better cultures due to their smaller size, or even due to the alternative methods of transmission and replication (no one has to listen or replicate your messages, so if you're an ass, your messages don't propagate).

Often the problem is that we have higher expectations from our technology. It's no longer okay to send a message over clear text on a network. We expect things to be fast, latency free and with security primitives. These additional elements are hard to implement without infrastructure, and hardware that is optimize for the particular task.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-17 00:23:01+00:00
Public Transit was very much thrown in there as an example of the kinds of societal-good projects that often are "bad" business models or run at a loss (Japan being a very notable exception, kinda). Thing is, anyone even casually looking at n+1-order effects sees that the value created isn't for the transit system itself, but all the components that make it function (jobs, logistics, and materials for trains, rails, signals, ports, tunnels, etc) and all the effects of easing people movement (more money to spend, more job opportunities, cleaner air, safer streets, etc). Real estate is one such effect, provided communities recognize the benefit of real estate near stations and not let naysayers constrict development around them (like you see in much of America, for some reason).
by toast0 | 2025-11-17 00:23:04+00:00
> When someone plays a game, the user's goal could be expected as "having fun for as much time as they want to." Being addictive is usually in service of that.

I disagree. Being addictive leads to it being hard to stop playing when you are done, and sometimes hard to avoid playing, which leads to playing even when you would like to be doing something else.
by Klonoar | 2025-11-17 00:24:10+00:00
> That’s like saying you used a calculator to calculate your equations so I can’t trust you.

A calculator exists solely for the realm of mathematics, where you can afford to more or less throw away the value of human input and overall craftsmanship.

That is not the case with something like this, which - while it leans in to engineering - is in effect viewed as a work of art by people who give a shit about the actual craft of writing software.
by gsnedders | 2025-11-17 00:24:15+00:00
Arguably this is a problem in when the patch is unapplied.

Presumably in the coverage case it’s being called by a trace function, which inevitably runs during test execution — and while we want the trace function to be called during the test function, we really want it without any patches the test function is using. But this arguably requires both an ability for the trace function to opt-out of patches and for the patcher to provide a way to temporarily disable all of them.
by westurner | 2025-11-17 00:24:58+00:00
How distinct is this from cavity QED?

I found a bunch of tangential articles by trying to find an answer:

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40876505 :

> 4. Are SPPs distinct from Cherenkov radiation, and photon-electron-phonon vorticity?

"Coherent Surface Plasmon Polariton Amplification via Free Electron Pumping" (2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03455-4

How did the emissions vary in this experiment given input Terahertz electrovolt input from a graphene circuit?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715175 :

"Cavity electrodynamics of van der Waals heterostructures" (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19745

> ; graphite / graphene optical cavity

..

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44922581 :

"Grover's algorithm to efficiently prepare quantum states in optical cavity QED" (2025) https://phys.org/news/2025-08-grover-algorithm-efficiently-q...

"Deterministic carving of quantum states with Grover's algorithm" (2025) https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/s3vs-xz7w

...

"Selective excitation of a single rare-earth ion in an optical fiber" (2025) https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-33-19-41011 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620981

..

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442489 :

"Extreme light confinement and control in low-symmetry phonon-polaritonic crystals" like quartz https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06805 *
by jeremy_flox | 2025-11-17 00:26:10+00:00
You pin the CUDA toolkit version compatible with your driver; manifest.lock ensures zero drift.

Driver version is host-managed (stable), toolkit is hash-pinned (stable). No drift on either side.

Initial selection matters (pick compatible versions, nothing automatic will stop you from initially installing the wrong thing), but once pinned, and unless/until you change it, you get the same toolkit forever regardless of catalog updates or time passing.
by badlogic | 2025-11-17 00:26:41+00:00
Oh, I didn't intend this to come across as MCP being useless. I've written this from the perspective of someone who uses LLMs mostly for coding/computer tasks, where I found MCP to be less than ideal for my use cases.

I actually think MCP can be a multiplier for non-technical users, where it not for some nits like being a bit too technical and the various security footguns many MCP servers hand you.
by ForOldHack | 2025-11-17 00:26:46+00:00
The Roms it came with did not work, also the disks had to have perfect media. Everything bad to be formatted beforehand. So, I got IBM ROMS and it worked, then got some other roms so the keyboard speed switch would work, while the IBM ROMS were installed there was a simple program that would kick up the speed, and turn wait states off. It was slightly faster than a 6mhz AT for DOS and we did not have Xenix 286. Got me through K&R and passed the class, but do useful work? No.
by voidhorse | 2025-11-17 00:28:17+00:00
Yeah there's no there there when it comes to MCP. It's crazy to me that the world bought into the idea when the "spec" literally boils down to "have your server give the LLM some json". Just illustrates how powerful it is to attach names to things, especially in a hypestorm in which everyone is already frothing at the mouth and reason is hard to come by. Give people some word they can utter to help them sound like they're on the "bleeding edge" and they'll buy into it even if it's totally pointless.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-17 00:28:18+00:00
Sounds great if it is so efficient. The final paragraph pretty much sums up my entire attitude to heat pumps. Please note that this is from a person who is actively developing the technology. I seem to remember that just as they started pushing heat pumps covid happened and electricity costs have tripled, which has contributed tremendously to killing the discussion imo.

>Not every home will be suitable for a heat pump. And not every budget can accommodate one, either. Yu himself says that the cost of replacing the gas boiler in his own home remains prohibitive. But it’s something he dreams of doing in the future.
by weitendorf | 2025-11-17 00:28:47+00:00
Net neutrality is kind of a different thing with wireless services than wired ones. I certainly wouldn’t want Facebook to be the entire Internet for me, but if someone wants to run an Internet-like wireless network and someone else wants to pay to be a part of it, it’s not necessarily harmful to them or me. It would be the only realistic medium for something better than the Internet to take off without being physically dependent on the legacy Internet.
by krackers | 2025-11-17 00:29:57+00:00
MCP is something that's filled with buzzwords and seems like something created solely so that you can be "sold" something. From what I actually gathered, it's basically somehow four things rolled into one:

* A communication protocol, json-rpc esque except it can be done over stdio or via HTTP

* A discovery protocol, like Swagger, to document the "tools" that an endpoint exposes and how it should be used

* A tool calling convention, the specific sequence of tokens the LLM needs to output for something to be recognized as a tool call

* A thin glue layer orchestrating all of the above: injecting the list of available tools into the LLM context, parsing LLM output to detect tool calls and invoke them with appropriate args, and inject results back into LLM context
by ModernMech | 2025-11-17 00:29:58+00:00
I'm 100% okay with AI spreading. I use it every day. This isn't a matter of an ideological battle against AI, it's a matter of fraudulent misrepresentation. This wouldn't be a discussion if the author themselves hadn't claimed what they had, so I don't see why the community should be barred from calling that out. Why bother having curious discussions about this book when they are blatantly lying about what is presented here? Here's some curiosity: what else are they lying about, and why are they lying about this?
by rzerowan | 2025-11-17 00:30:23+00:00
Yeah, even the industrial design angle seems a bit on the wane.Most likely move to open a new product lineand integrate it into the apple ecosystem. At this point they havent had any new product lines or innovations rather than thinner and custom chip designs , if they want to go that way.Although i think a better fit for them would be one of the humanoid robot firms and apply some of that industrial design they are(were) famous for.
by nineteen999 | 2025-11-17 00:31:04+00:00
So WinAFL is a C/C++ program? So they debugged a Rust OOB access bug in the Windows Kernel with a C/C++ program?

A bug in Rust component that could have led to Windows kernel compromise was detected with a C/C++ program?

Excuse me while I just sit over here and snicker for a bit at the irony.
by gnabgib | 2025-11-17 00:31:24+00:00
Not the title, and not what Arkm does (https://arkm.com/: Buy Bitcoin, ETH, SOL, and many other cryptocurrencies).

Dubious AI looking articles that claim to reach back to 2022, but as recently as 2 months ago (https://web.archive.org/web/20250919070411/info.arkm.com) didn't exist.
by toast0 | 2025-11-17 00:32:31+00:00
Some games have enough room for new meta to develop even though there have been no updates.

That doesn't mean that's the only way to be a good game, and I don't necessarily have an issue with powercreep. If it's mild and expected, powercreep can also be a way to handicap... If you're introducing new people to a game, maybe you let them use current cards and you use 5 year old cards (or whatever), they get to practice with current cards, get to experience old cards, you get some nostalgia from your old decks, and you don't have to sandbag, because they've got an advantage.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-17 00:33:01+00:00
That's interesting, and makes sense.

Mr. Flock Person, how about a feature request to alert only on 'interesting' warrants? I wonder if that's even possible — it might be a binary flag on the plate data. Hm. If so, that would be a serious bummer and something perhaps the legislature should look into remedying (such a change would require funding after all). A will-extradite flag seems like it would be useful.
by sfpotter | 2025-11-17 00:33:11+00:00
Alternatively, consider being an idealistic programmer!

- Fall in love with a single topic, regardless of how trendy. - Learn as much as you can about it. - Keep learning about it. - Learn about it some more. - Spend years of your life doing nothing but breathing and thinking about this one topic. - Let fads and fashion pass you by. - Don't settle for good enough. Try to build the best version possible. - Choose where you work based on your ability to reach staggering new heights with this one topic, and disregard whether it seems like an amazing CV line item. - Fail to even notice fads and fashions passing you by. - Become a master.
by diamond559 | 2025-11-17 00:34:24+00:00
The impetus is that 90% of our country is in recession and the rest are soon to follow. Delinquencies are rising fast and not just in subprime. Layoffs are at levels not seen since 2008. Crypto, tech stocks and many housing markets have already peaked or are already in bear markets. The crash is here and it's inevitably going to get worse.
by arjunchint | 2025-11-17 00:34:28+00:00
Hey we actually just released rtrvr.ai, our AI Web Agent Chrome Extension, as a Remote MCP Server that obviates lot of the setup you needed to do. We had the same intuition that the easiest way to scrape is through your own browser and so we expose dedicated MCP tools to do actions, scrape pages, and execute arbitrary code in Chrome's built in sandbox.

We give a copy/pasteable MCP url that you can use with your favorite agent/chatbot/site and give those providers browser context and allow them to do browser actions.

So compared to Playwright MCP and others that require you to run npx and can only be connected to local clients, with ours you just paste a url and can use with any client.

Checkout our recent posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898043 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4BTWNTuE-s
by westurner | 2025-11-17 00:35:45+00:00
Audio mixing would be a useful feature; there could a free-spinning volume slider or knob for each audio input, and an option to focus/isolate only the focused AV source

Re: pikvm a "DIY IP-KVM Based on Raspberry Pi", DB9 & RS-232, AMT, DASH: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38062923#38065133
by tacitusarc | 2025-11-17 00:36:08+00:00
> In reality though, I was not-so-subtly trying to suggest that if something is necessary for the public good (curing diseases) but a bad business model, then perhaps Capitalism itself is the wrong vehicle for that segment of industry and a different option - be it an incentive structure, government-owned pharmaceutical research, or managed economy - is needed.

I believe the great innovation of capitalism is markets, and the next era of economic and social progress will be driven by mixed capital/social good markets.

For example, what if you tied the tax rate for an industry to a combination of broad social goods (say, homelessness) and industry-specific goods (say the incidence rate of cancer for cancer drug companies), such that if we’re in a the middle of a homelessness crisis and many people have cancer, the tax rate might be 50%, vs if there is virtually no homelessness and we’ve cured cancer, maybe it’s 10%. Obviously there are other market approaches but eventually they would be converted to capital markets, so something like the above makes sense to me as a start.
by anal_reactor | 2025-11-17 00:36:55+00:00
My point is more that these two occupy two distinct areas. For example, the word "cool" has two very common meanings depending on whether you're talking about temperature of an object or the value of something in social context. Yes, it would be very confusing if "cool" had multiple meanings from the same domain, but that's not the case. Similarly, golang and Go! are terms from different domains. One is domain of practical engineering, and the other is academia.
by gnabgib | 2025-11-17 00:37:20+00:00
(2023) At the time:

(62 points, 41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38753096

(260 points, 208 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34846762

(399 points, 477 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34397715
by AlbertoGP | 2025-11-17 00:38:11+00:00
Around the time this website was made, I was building an application for a big company in Spain that was to run as a Java applet and required the code to be signed.

They did not yet have their own certificates so I had to make my own CA during testing and sign the code, and I wanted to make sure that they did not forget to switch to their certificates later, so instead of signing the code with my name which some bureaucrat might decide to not bother changing, the code was signed by Britney Spears.

They noticed it, got the joke and made sure to switch certificates for the release. Everything went well thanks to Britney.
by joaohaas | 2025-11-17 00:38:48+00:00
Overall it feels like unless your game is a linear single-player game, it will fall under multiple of the site's labelled 'dark patterns'. Here are some really bad ones:

Infinite Treadmill - Impossible to win or complete the game.

Variable Rewards - Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.

Can't Pause or Save - The game does not allow you to stop playing whenever you want.

Grinding - Being required to perform repetitive and tedious tasks to advance.

Competition - The game makes you compete against other players.