MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vrmiguel | 2025-11-18 20:48:12+00:00
Since the thread mentions Rust: in Rust, you often replace Mutexes with channels.

In your case, you could have a channel where the Receiver is the only part of the code that transfers anything. It'd receive a message Transfer { from: Account, to: Account, amount: Amount } and do the required work. Any other threads would therefore only have copies of the Sender handle. Concurrent sends would be serialized through the queue's buffering.

I'm not suggesting this is an ideal way of doing it
Show HN: I made an Premiere plugin to edit faster
by correa_brian | 2025-11-18 20:48:34+00:00
Adobe Premiere plugin built with the CEP framework. Bring your own OpenAI key to remove silences and auto-generate animated captions with natural language. Built this for my own youtube videos.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVmRTNHV8o4
by vvpan | 2025-11-18 20:48:41+00:00
All of that said the most interesting experiments in currency/tokenization/etc are happening on the blockchain. Are they successful? It's mixed but I think blockchain allows people to easily try new things and it's been fascinating to see. For example (and I'll do my best to explain in a sentence or two):

- Bread Cooperative (https://breadchain.xyz/) - Active project. Creates a "vault" for your stablecoins where accumulated lending yield is distributed to non-profits based on a weighted vote.

- Circles UBI (https://circles.garden/) - Active project. Creates a network of wallets where a wallet's humanity is proven through economic means. Each network participant starts receiving a token of the Circle's native "currency" effectively creating a network of humans in which money creation is evenly democratized.

- Reflexer RAI (https://reflexer.finance/) - More inactive. Created a "un-pegged" stablecoin. Meaning something that is not a dollar but is stable. It's been described as "capital inefficient" meaning you gotta put a lot of collateral in to get mint RAI, which appears to be a fatal flaw. But I love all experiments in unpegged stable coins.

And in general the ecosystem is full of all sorts of communities with their little currencies that have all sorts of properties like stability, minting mechanisms, distribution, voting power, you name it. It is not all good but I think it's fascinating.

Addendum: Yannis Varoufakis (economist, author and briefly Greece's Minister of Finance) has a book in which he outlines an example of a utopian economic system. (Great book). While being generally anti-crypto he bases the central bank around a transparent blockchain "smart contract". Any money printing by this contract is easily trackable and obvious to others and the yield generated from central-bank lending is distributed to all citizens. He has recently pursued this as an actual goal, albeit in a different form (I have yet to get into the details): https://monetarycommons.com/
by 0_____0 | 2025-11-18 20:49:05+00:00
What you're saying makes sense, and I agreem. But I don't think Karp, as he is described in the article, agrees...

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Karp referenced the political scientist Samuel Huntington’s belief that “the rise of the west was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence’.”

-snip-

Karp seems to be using that idea to pat himself on the back for tapping into the stream of money that flows toward "the guns" so to speak.

Does he think about whether the US' global hegemony will flourish under domestic fascism that he's paving the way for?
by boringg | 2025-11-18 20:49:20+00:00
Theres a really funny thing going on right now -- in that everyone is forecasting an AI bubble to pop. It feels like every single human is saying that from the heads of tech companies with comments that are veiled to bankers and everyone on the street.

It reminds me of the time that everyone said the economy was going to tank and somehow everyone had it wrong a couple years ago.

It feels implausible that it isn't overbuilt but it also feels really strange for everyone to be pushing this narrative that its a bubble - and people taking very public short bets. It feels like the contrarian bet is that its going to keep running hot. Nvidia earnings tommorrow big litmus test.
by leetharris | 2025-11-18 20:49:28+00:00
I used to work in ASR. Due to the nature of current multimodal architectures, it is unlikely we'll ever see accurate timestamps over a longer horizon. You're better off using encoder-decoder ASR architectures, then using traditional diarization using embedding clustering, then using a multimodal model to refine it, then use a forced alignment technique (maybe even something pre-NN) to get proper timestamps and reconciling it at the end.

These things are getting really good at just regular transcription (as long as you don't care about verbatimicity), but every additional dimension you add (timestamps, speaker assignment, etc) will make the others worse. These work much better as independent processes that then get reconciled and refined by a multimodal LLM.
by scarecrowbob | 2025-11-18 20:49:38+00:00
"This sneering oversimplification pushes people away from generosity. "

If you don't like "sneering oversimplification" you're really not gonna like it when you find out what smug "I'm the adult in the room" rhetoric does to both how you're perceived by interlocutors and the limitations on your own ability to work out the logic of these situations.
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-18 20:49:39+00:00
Interestingly when I hear the author describe different kinds of "difficulty" I find myself thinking that some of those don't really seem like difficulty. For something like a book, I think the main thing that makes it seem difficult is when there are parts that are not fun to read (or maybe moments where you question the point of the entire read because you pause to go "what the heck is even going on here"). If something's fun it often doesn't really feel difficult.

In particular various kinds of formal experimentation can be quite fun and I wouldn't perceive them as difficult at all (especially in shorter form). I read a short story in multiple-choice form years ago and loved it. I've read most of Milorad Pavic's books, all of which have unusual formal structures (e.g., Dictionary of the Khazars has the nonlinear structure of a cross-referenced dictionary or encyclopedia). Some were a bit baffling (they also can fall into the "confusing events, surrealist dream logic, and elliptical plots" category) but I didn't find them difficult exactly.

One of the more common practical difficulties that can add friction to a book is a complex storyline with many characters who can be hard to keep track of. But this won't make the book as a whole feel super difficult as long as the content is worth it. War and Peace is a classic example of this, with multiple intersecting storylines and a large cast of characters. A Suitable Boy is a modern example in a similar vein.

But I think a lot of times when people say a book is difficult they just mean either "gosh I actually kind of have to pay attention to this" or "this is really long". To me those things actually are positive qualities if the content of the book is good, since they just make it richer. My favorite novel is In Search of Lost Time, which is one of the quintessential "difficult" books, but if you get into its rhythm, most of it is blissfully engrossing.
by ethmarks | 2025-11-18 20:49:49+00:00
> The ability to add context via a local apps integration into OS level resources is big

Good point. I can see why integrated support for local filesystem tools would be useful, even though I prefer manually uploading specific files to avoid polluting the context with irrelevant info.

> Its own icon that I can CMD-TAB to is so much nicer

Fair enough. I personally prefer Firefox's tab organization to my OS's window organization, but I can see how separating the LLM into its own window would be helpful.

> having access to my chats for context has been repeatedly valuable to me.

I didn't at all consider this. Point ceded.

> I haven't looked at provider-agnostic apps and, TBH, would be wary of them.

Interesting. Why? Is it security? The ones I've listed are open source and auditable. I'm confident that they won't steal my API keys. Msty has a lot of advanced functionality that I haven't seen in other interfaces like allowing you to compare responses between different LLMs, export the entire conversation to Markdown, and edit the LLM's response to manage context. It also sidesteps the problem of '[provider] doesn't have a desktop app' because you can use any provider API.
by meowface | 2025-11-18 20:50:19+00:00
I do not believe that Google Antigravity is aimed at wooing investors. I believe it is intended to be a genuine superior alternative to Cursor and Kiro etc. and is attempting to provide the best AI coding experience for the average developer.

Most of the other people (so far) in this sub-thread do not think this. They essentially have a conspiratorial view on it.
by jmye | 2025-11-18 20:50:22+00:00
Would be hard to roll my eyes harder. I get not wanting to respond to the substance, but maybe I can help:

Do you advocate 'not restricting' murder? I assume not, which means you recognize that there's some point where your personal freedom intersects with someone else's freedom - you've simply decided that the line for 'information' should be "I can have all of it, always, no matter how much harm is caused, because I don't care about the harm or the harm doesn't affect me directly and thus doesn't matter. Thoughts and prayers."
by ewoodrich | 2025-11-18 20:50:33+00:00
The very light moderation (that even shows dead comments from banned accounts) and clean, minimal frontend with essentially no restrictions on creating throwaways also makes it pretty attractive for "my first AI app" experiments. Ever since GPT 3 was released I see a graveyard with a scattering of dead, green, obvious LLM replies on most articles, sometimes with account names like "accounttest14" that don't even try to hide it.
by Desafinado | 2025-11-18 20:50:38+00:00
It's alarming how many blatantly anti-human features they've deployed. The one that gets me is arbitrarily restricting users from deactivating their Instagram account. You can only deactivate your account a week after re-activating it.

Why? Because some sociopathic moron thought that was a good idea, instead of just letting users access a feature.

How toxic must their corporate culture be to get this bad?
by justsomehnguy | 2025-11-18 20:52:46+00:00
I still don't quite get how you should had communicate with the other systems over the network with STREAMS.

With IP you have an address and the means to route the data to that address and back, with TCP/UDP sockets you have the address:port endpoint so the recipient doesn't need to pass a received packet to the all processes on the system, asking "is that yours".

So if there is already some network stack providing both the addressing and the messaging...
by IngvarLynn | 2025-11-18 20:53:08+00:00
Can't find the following argument in the replies: respect your visitors by not showing cloudflare's spinners and other bs in their faces.

If your site is static, a VPS would carry it a long way. I once hosted a tiny video site - 500 daily visitors, 100GB, 10$/month. Worked better than youtube, 0 issues.
by jhallenworld | 2025-11-18 20:53:41+00:00
I did the same, but with Tandy 4000s.

>That's when I knew Arm would eventually eat x86: in 1989. It's finally happening now.

I had kind of the reverse feeling: when the 486 came out, I knew those expensive SPARC and MIPS workstations were all doomed.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-11-18 20:54:36+00:00
> Or maybe you're telling yourself that a raging racist president is lighting Diwali candles in the White House for "show"? I dunno, doesn't compute for me.

Trump was sued for running racially segregated housing that excluded black people, and when he lost the lawsuit he dishonestly claimed to have won, and continued to discriminate against black people and didn't comply with the court orders in general. During the case he said to a federal prosecutor "you wouldn't want to live with them either."

Here is a direct quote from Trump published by journalist John O'Donnell, that in 1997 he said was accurate, but then changed his mind and now claims to say he never said it: "I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes…. Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else… Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that guy’s lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks."

His dad was arrested as an attendee at a KKK rally, suggesting he was raised in a KKK household, and numerous acquaintances have said his dad would frequently rant about how great Hitler was.

He is now running a terror campaign with masked secret police violently kidnapping anyone that looks Hispanic, even if they have proof of residency or citizenship on their person. He openly courts the support of white supremacists like Nick Fuentes and Charlie Kirk. When members of his own cabinet like Paul Ingrassia have been found to self identify as Nazis, he continues to protect and promote them. When he talks about black people in politics that don't support him, he always tacks on the insult "low IQ" - he does it so consistently, you can tell the race of the people he is talking about by his choice of insults.

If you think lighting a candle as a political stunt proves someone isn't racist, you may want to look more into what racist people are actually like in the real world.
by sempron64 | 2025-11-18 20:54:42+00:00
Hamachi and STUN were what I was thinking of when I referred to user-unfriendly NAT busting. It's true that these are not much harder to get working than a modem, but they don't match up with modern consumer expectations of ease-of-use and reliability on firewalled networks. It would be nice if Internet standards could keep up with industry so that these expectations could be met. It's totally understandable where we've landed due to modern security requirements, but I still feel something has been lost.
by hinkley | 2025-11-18 20:55:03+00:00
I used to make a habit of talking to coworkers who were leaving about why they left.

You have to have a pretty good reputation for discretion to get them to really talk, but I noticed a pattern in those who would.

You tend to hear their list of grievances in reverse chronological order. The last straw comes first, but if you keep them talking long enough the first straw eventually comes out.

Some of those first straws are often something pretty avoidable. The final straw can be harder to avoid but recency bias makes us focus on it in ways that don’t seem to line up with the experiences of the person who feels wronged.

I can’t say for sure if they accumulate linearly or not but it does seem like fixing the easy ones does result in longer times to last straw. But they seem so minor to the team that it can be difficult to get movement on them. And it sometimes only applies to new “customers”. Some will forgive you for things they had to deal with if nobody else has to, but that would take a lot more data points than I have to say for sure.
by scottLobster | 2025-11-18 20:55:09+00:00
Virtually everyone's 401k is overexposed to these companies due to their insane market caps and the hype around them. If they go every S&P 500 and total US market ETF goes with them, right as the Boomers start retiring en-masse.

Even Vanguard's Total World Index, VT, is roughly 15% MAG 7.

That's not even getting into who's financing whom for what and to whom that debt may be sold to.
by falcor84 | 2025-11-18 20:55:34+00:00
I love it that there's a "Read AI-generated summary" button on their post about their new AI.

I can only expect that the next step is something like "Have your AI read our AI's auto-generated summary", and so forth until we are all the way at Douglas Adams's Electric Monk:

> The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself; video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself. Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

- from "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-18 20:55:52+00:00
I'd say just in general people have become way more cavalier and oblivious as drivers. I frequently see people doing wild stuff like driving at night with no headlights, or driving for several blocks in a bike lane. Every single yellow light is pushed to the limit, with often at least one (and sometimes multiple) drivers running the red light as well. I feel like a lot of is connected to a more general post-COVID decline in awareness of how one's actions affect others. People are just fine with doing anything they can get away with. I suspect the trend won't be reversed without a major increase in enforcement.
by ndriscoll | 2025-11-18 20:56:54+00:00
It does if you're paying for that housing (either rent or mortgage payments). People invest into stocks while simultaneously holding a liability (e.g. they need to somehow come up with payments to continue living somewhere, or to continue having heating/cooling/lights). If you think all of the financial investments available to you might crash, and your source of income may evaporate in a correlated event, you can instead put all of your money into minimizing your liabilities. The goal is not to see your home value increase--you're not trying to sell it. It's to secure everything you need to have the standard of living you want by owning those things.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-18 20:58:06+00:00
It really depends on a lot of factors.

It can definitely be frustration, as you keep re-assessing whether it's really worth switching to SwiftUI, and getting upset that something isn't as easy as it was the previous way, for you. I've definitely started switching to a new library and then ultimately stopped because it was too frustrating. What I thought was going to be a better library for me, wasn't. Other times I've learned a new library and felt mostly delight, as I'd discover it was set up in ways that solved all my old problems, and I could see how much time it was going to save me in the future.

Also, you can feel frustration on a daily scale, without feeling frustrated on a larger scale. E.g. you know you want to learn SwiftUI, but today you're running into roadblocks with it, and you need to figure out whether to step back from it today and come back to it tomorrow, refreshed and having slept on it.

If there's anything frustration can be confused with, it's often resentment. E.g. when switching to SwiftUI doesn't actually help you achieve any goals of your own in any direct way, and you feel like Apple is creating busywork with some arbitrary deprecation or migration.

Often, you may feel both -- resentful that Apple is forcing you to learn something new, and frustration that learning the new technology is harder than you'd expected, or not providing the expected benefits, and therefore possibly not worth it at all, or at least not worth it today.
by jimbokun | 2025-11-18 20:58:41+00:00
It is anything but "meh".

It scares the absolute shit out of everyone.

It's clear far beyond our little tech world to everyone this is going to collapse our entire economic system, destroy everyone's livelihoods, and put even more firmly into control the oligarchic assholes already running everything and turning the world to shit.

I see it in news, commentary, day to day conversation. People get it's for real this time and there's a very real chance it ends in something like the Terminator except far worse.
by rdlw | 2025-11-18 20:58:49+00:00
If 1% of the last 10 billion people to live were academics and published on average 5 papers (many only had one, i.e. their dissertation/thesis, but a small fraction will have had dozens or hundreds), that comes to 500 million.

I'm curious, do you think it's an order of magnitude too low or too high?
by tylervigen | 2025-11-18 20:59:17+00:00
I disagree with your logic. Increased mean error 72 hours out (vs 24 hours out) is not an indication that GFS is getting worse over time. At that scale it’s obviously getting better over time; 24 hours out is further in the future than 72 hours out.

However, an increase in the mean error at the same time out year over year (or between 2005 and 2025) is an indication of an issue, and that’s what we see.
by mrandish | 2025-11-18 20:59:35+00:00
The article mentions the significant impact of the failure of the XBox One but then goes on to lay the ultimate blame on smartphones in the last sentence (and headline). I don't agree. Playstation and Nintendo have both successfully navigated the smartphone-centric competitive landscape with different strategies.

The XBox business never recovered from the XBox One - which was a huge fail on almost every dimension. And that was the worst generation to fail on - because PS4 didn't fail. While PS4 wasn't perfect, it didn't have the critical issues PS3 did (high cost, extremely difficult to program, reliability). It was also the generation when the console business stabilized and platform ecosystems (subscriptions, online-only games, backward-compatibility) greatly increased user loyalty and platform lock-in.

While the XBox Series X generation returned to hardware, cost and feature parity (or close enough), Playstation had already pulled away enough and thanks to social stickiness (friends buy what other friends have), any lead compounds. Also - while it's a more minor issue - I have to mention... after screwing up the "XBox One" name (yeah, calling the third generation "One" won't confuse anyone), they screwed up again naming the next generation (WTF does "XBox Series X" even mean? What other "Series" are there?).
by apparent | 2025-11-18 20:59:57+00:00
> If they're not soliciting donations from you I'm not sure why you'd care about their federal tax status.

Well, if they portray themselves as a "nonprofit" then most people who read that will think they are a 501c3, which is almost always the case. I don't know why they don't qualify for that status (if they don't), but it's possible that it's a reason I would care about when deciding whom to side with on issues like this one.

The battle of for-profit versus non-profit comes across differently than for-profit versus Michigan Domestic Non-Profit Corporation (which for some reason does not qualify for IRS nonprofit designation).
by tasuki | 2025-11-18 21:00:20+00:00
I guess I wasn't being clear: I wasn't talking about the person from this thread!

You said:

> Most people are about 2 bad decisions from poverty.

My reaction was to this. I agreed with you, and added the cause: utter financial recklessness. People spending money on things they don't need instead of saving say a quarter of their salary.

For some time I was earning a couple times the average salary in my region of the world. Yet I found that spending about the average salary was more than enough to live a very comfortable life. I feel this is not the norm for whatever reason: most people inflate spending to match their income, and then they're 2 bad decisions (or even some bad luck) from poverty.
by kccqzy | 2025-11-18 21:00:46+00:00
Yes, madness. VS Code wasn’t developed entirely by Microsoft. It uses plenty of other open source libraries. Why is it that VS Code should be acknowledged but not the underlying V8 engine, or Chromium, or WebKit or KHTML?

Stallman said that in 1997 there were 75 acknowledgements in a single piece of software. With today’s trend of micro libraries on npm, there will be at least thousands of acknowledgements in one piece of software.