MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-26 03:13:49+00:00
I think this is pretty common for Quanta, and it might be sticking out more because it's a field we're familiar with.

I'm really torn about this, because I think they're providing a valuable service. But their general formula doesn't diverge a whole lot from run-of-the-mill pop-science books: a vague, clickbaity title and then an article that focuses on personalities and implications of discoveries while glancing over a lot of important details (and not teaching much).
by cco | 2025-11-26 03:13:53+00:00
Those might be the only ones? Desert Storm being the one that I'd probably call out, Just Cause was just so small.

One minor win, every major operation being a loss doesn't change the conclusion though imo.

I think it's also instructive to look at each of these operations and note that the two that were won were small, had clear objectives, and were executed quickly to meet those objectives and had no scope creep.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-11-26 03:14:39+00:00
> Short: BebboSSH – SSH2 suite (client/server, sftp) with modern ciphers

Sweet.

> It will work on an unaccelerated Amiga but establishing the connection takes about one minute.

Is latency good once the connection is established? Speed tests in the kB/s seem promising, but for interactive use that seems like the determining factor.

Also, slightly meta: What is this web ... app(?)? Looks like a git frontend?
by gus_massa | 2025-11-26 03:14:57+00:00
The eye has "rods" and "cones". Rods see in B&W (grayscale), and "cones" see in color. We have three types of "cones". Each see only one color: blue, green, red (it's actually more complicated, but they are defectively three types) When the green and red cones activate, your brain interpret yellow. And the other colors are also combinations. Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell

Dogs have "rods" and only two types of "cones": blue and yellow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog#Senses They also interpret combinations, like us, but have less info to combine.
by mgfist | 2025-11-26 03:15:12+00:00
I don't like unions because one bad hire can destroy a whole team, and the option to remove that hire is worth more than any benefit a union can give me.

I also think people here misunderstand what unions do. Unions are inherently conservative (small c) institutions that aim to protect the status quo. Improving processes is not a fundamental goal to unions. We saw this with the ILA that fought to essentially ban automation in the ports that would drastically increase efficiency because of the belief that this would reduce union jobs. It's foolish to think software unions wouldn't end up becoming like this.
by echelon | 2025-11-26 03:15:47+00:00
Cameron doubled down on the aesthetic in Aliens, he just changed the genre from horror to action. Both films were "peak 80s" (Alien was '79) and just ooze with what must be the absolute pinnacle of science fiction vibes.

If you haven't seen these two films, you need to fix that this week. It'll change your life.

Scott tried to expand the aesthetics with Prometheus and Covenant. I felt the films did a great job of refreshing the look and feel while remaining faithful to the 80's. Unfortunately, the writing was trite and Scott's directing is averaging .200 at bat these days.

Romulus was not bad, though certainly not a masterpiece. At least it was better written and had better character arcs than Scott's recent films.

I'd rather have the performance of this series than whatever Jurassic Park or Star Wars have become.

Predator, oddly enough, has strangely been improving if you don't count Shane Black's entry.

I'm happy they keep making these, and I hope the writers and directors at the reigns keep experimenting rather than conforming to "safe" or "understandable by a general audience".
by karmakaze | 2025-11-26 03:16:08+00:00
It's not that it only works on Nvidia cards, it's only allowed to work on Nvidia cards. A non-clean room implementation of CUDA for other hardware has been done but is a violation of EULA (of the thing that was reverse engineered), copyright on the driver binary interface, and often patents. Nvidia aggressively sends cease-and-desist letters and threatens lawsuits (successfully killed ZLUDA, threatened others). It's an artificial (in a technical sense moat).
Show HN: Vizier – Codifying My Agent Development Workflow
by JTan2231 | 2025-11-26 03:16:31+00:00
I was getting tired of forgetting things and typing other things repeatedly into Codex's prompt, so I've been building some config + prompt glue to help with what I find to be the more tedious parts of development.

It's a little dirty and rough (I've taken some liberty in testing it on its own master branch), but I would love to know if this maps to anything close to a solution for your guys' aches with using agents. I always hear a million different experiences people have for the same problem with them, so I'm wondering if something like this would be a step toward reducing that number.
by venturecruelty | 2025-11-26 03:16:36+00:00
YouTube sends my browser a lot of data, a LOT of data. It's not my fault if some of that data doesn't make it to the screen, or if hardware on my network blocks certain DNS requests. No, I asked YouTube for a web page, and it sent one back to me. I'm not sure why everyone is so eager to let someone else dictate what code they run on their own machine. It's really strange.
by zzo38computer | 2025-11-26 03:16:37+00:00
> What do you mean under "syntax typing" and complications in the syntax?

This question has been answered by someone else, but I have my own comments about this as well so I will write it also.

EDN does complicate the syntax (so does XML, TER, various extensions of JSON, etc), but DER (and SDSER, if you want streaming) avoids this problem because the framing is the same for all data types, even though it has many different types and the encoding of the values of each type.

> That [the whole world seems to run on JSON] is true, and I don't like that :)

I agree with you (well, not everything but too many things); I don't like that either.

> From my perspective JSON syntax is too "light" and that translates to many complications typically in the form of convention

I agree with you about that too. In this case it is a number (there are problems with the numeric types in JSON), but there is also such things as: octet strings, date/time, non-Unicode text, etc.

> I agree JSON’s number types are weak; it’s been a source of real problems for me. Given that observation, you can go in two directions: have richer types, like EDN, or give up on types in JSON entirely, which is the alternative I’d propose.

Not only the number type (which is floating point so there is not a proper 64-bit or larger integer type, even though a integer type has been added into JavaScript after JSON was invented); the string type is also weak (since it cannot be arbitrary bytes), and so is the key/value list type (keys are only allowed to be strings and cannot be other types).

There are other directions as well; I think DER does in between because of the same framing for all types even though there are many types (you do not have to use all of the types; it seems that some people don't like it apparently due to the expectation that you have to use all of the types, but that is wrong). (DER also has the advantage of the canonical form if you need it (DER is already canonical form); although there is a canonical form for JSON, it is a bit messy, and apparently the canonical form for numbers in JSON is complicated.)

If you want to give up on types entirely, then why should you use JSON?
by danpalmer | 2025-11-26 03:17:11+00:00
You might want to put a cap on the $2.99/m plan, otherwise one huge site could wipe you out. If you do, I'd express that in terms that most small Wordpress sites will understand (like unique viewers, page hits, etc).

I think some here will say "why not just use Cloudflare directly", but I disagree, I think this plugin makes sense. Cloudflare is relatively straightforward for technical users, but many Wordpress users are non-technical. $2.99 is a very small amount for reliable fast images, while also packing a pretty nice margin for you for most users who will need a tiny fraction of that.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-11-26 03:18:04+00:00
[dupe]

Discussions:

Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024983

Doge 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46028721
by Saigonautica | 2025-11-26 03:20:00+00:00
I find this argument fascinating overall!

I don't really use YouTube, but when ads play on random videos and it irritates me, I just close my eyes, the simplest version of content-blocking. (If the ad is painfully loud, I may also cover my ears in contexts where this is not extremely socially awkward)

Can we say it's immoral for me to close my eyes? Can someone's business model be the basis of an argument that it's immoral for me to exert this simple bodily function?

Is there some contract that I've signed where people have the right to my attention in any context? If they've based their business model on the assumption that this consent exists, and it does not, is it fair to say that the business model should fail?
by hattmall | 2025-11-26 03:20:17+00:00
The agent reviews the code. The agent has access to tools. It writes the code, runs it through a test, reads the error, fixes the code, keeps going. It passes the code off to another agent with a prompt to review code and give it notes. They pass it back and forth, another agent reads and creates documentation. It keeps going and passes things back.

Now that's the idea anyway. Of course they all will lie to each other and there's hallucinations every step of the way. If you want to see a great example look at the documentation for the TEMU marketplace API. The whole API system, docs, examples etc appears to be vibe coded and lots of nonsensical formatting, methods that don't work and parameters in example that just say "test" or "parameters", but they are presented as working examples with actual response examples (like a normal API) but it largely appears to just be made up!
by aurareturn | 2025-11-26 03:21:39+00:00
Nerds want to run local LLMs for one or more of these reasons:

1. They want privacy to have naughty discussions their AI

2. They want privacy to generate naughty pics/videos

3 They want privacy for work related discussions.

4. Often nerds need need to travel and don't have access to the internet. I can't count how many times I wish I had a good local LLM while on a long flight.

5. Nerds generally love to run software that maximizes every transistor in their computer so they feel like it was worth the money. They'll buy a game like Cyberpunk just to max out their hardware even if they don't care about the game.

6. They generally love to experiment with local LLMs and to understand it more. Maybe they want to work in this field or already do.
by binarymax | 2025-11-26 03:22:53+00:00
I played bughouse in the early 90s. It’s far better than chess. My teammate and I were really good. We would beat chess grandmasters because the game is so different. At the time we had bughouse Elos of something like 2300, which don’t make any sense because it was such a niche game.

When you get good at bughouse, you make your own openings and you each know who’s playing what. The openings are synchronized and you can plan out until a certain move where you sacrifice a bishop or knight on the opponents king bishop pawn, exposing them, then your teammate just trades as much material as possible.

We also got really really good at the clocks. We’d just have a winning position and sit on the clock on the other board in a zugzwang-like time force.

That game, and kriegspiel, occupied my time in much of the 90s. If you like chess, and can play in person, try bughouse. It’s the best.
by starmole | 2025-11-26 03:23:03+00:00
As an old scener myself I both love and hate it. The scene is about breaking rules, even it's own, and in that spirit it's hella cool.

On the other hand, at least for me, the scene was craft for crafts sake. Nobody would pay for somebody to optimize assembly code by the byte just to make art!

Spacepigs rule!
by dluan | 2025-11-26 03:23:07+00:00
As a subculture dedicated to being in the know on certain things, HN commenters purposely showing theyre being out of touch on this specific subculture is pretty funny.

It's not that serious, I promise. When you were a kid you probably also had beany babies, furbies, crazy bones, magic cards, tamagotchis, tech decks, steel bearing yo-yos, or whatever else thing was a fad. Guess what, those were all made in China too.
by jsheard | 2025-11-26 03:24:13+00:00
> I really think that they probably wanted to do something that makes more sense, but they couldn't get the silicon to pencil out for it. I've been hearing rumors for 5 years of the Mac Pro getting 2 Mx Ultras stitched together, but it just never showed up.

IIRC the Asahi Linux devs were quite confident that those rumors were bunk and a quad-die part was never on the table, at least not for the M1 or M2 generations. The hardware was only set up to support two dies.
by echelon | 2025-11-26 03:25:20+00:00
Wow, I didn't hear about this. That's impressive, and kudos to the team.

That's why they raised the massive round, then.

But this just leads to more questions - I have to wonder if and for how long this is just going to be to plug in a gap for Meta's own AI product offering. At some point they'll want to build their own in-house models or perhaps just acquire BFL. Zuckerberg would not be printing AI data centers if that wasn't the case.

From a PLG standpoint, Flux isn't really what graphics designers are choosing for their work. The generations look worse than OpenAI's "piss filter". But aesthetics might not be the play the team is going after.

Hopefully they don't just raise all of this dry powder energy and burn it trying to race Google. They should start listening to designers and get in their good graces if their intent is to build tools for art and graphics design work.

A good press release would consist of lots of good looking images and a video of workflows that save artists time. This press release doesn't connect with graphics designers at all and it reads as if they aren't even the audience.

If it's something else, more "enterprise", that BFL is after, then maybe I don't know the strategy or game plan.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-26 03:25:46+00:00
At 40kbps I don't think the latency can be great. Having done SSH over 64kbps when I overran my mobile data subscription, my experience is that modern SSH clients expect more than that to run smoothly.

> Also, slightly meta: What is this web ... app(?)? Looks like a git frontend?

Looking at the source, this seems like a custom-built git frontend, served by a bespoke web server called BEJY (by the same author) it seems.
by vunderba | 2025-11-26 03:25:49+00:00
Sadly, I tend to agree. I'm rooting for BFL, but the results from this latest model (the Pro version, of all things) have just been a bit disappointing. Google’s release of NB Pro last week certainly didn’t help either, since it set the bar so incredibly high.

Flux 2 Pro only scored a single point higher than the Kontext models they released over half a year ago.

The text-to-image side was even more frustrating. It often felt like it was actively fighting me, as evidenced by the high number of re-rolls required before it passed some of the tests (Cubed⁵, for example).
by Brian_K_White | 2025-11-26 03:26:16+00:00
I also pay for premium, and have for at least 15 years since it was called Red, and the experience is complete garbage.

If you turn off history, you get zero videos on your home screen. This is not because the history is needed to generate the suggestions, because the blank home only started a few years ago.

I used to never subscribe to any channels, I just got reasonable feed of suggestions based off of whatever I happened to search for explicitly or if I got there by clicking a link, or by what I chose to click on even if the list starts out totally random, except of course it never was totally random because they still have ip address and other fingerprnting signals.

After they blaked out the home screen and started showing the "you're not logged in, go here to fix this error", I subscribed to a bunch of channels to provide data for generating a feed. They still don't provide any. You can take extra clicks (which is agonizing on the Roku since it just doesn't react well and misses button presses all the time) to get to the subscriptions page, which will show recent uploads exactly from those channels and no others.

I also still get several other forms of ads in the form of the embedded/native ads and the irrelevant suggestions that come from youtube's interests instead of my own, like shorts. I also still get ads simply because I don't get to use my own account all the time. When you watch youtube anywhere but your own laptop by yourself, you are at the whims of someone else's account and some other platforms app limitations.

And even on your own machine, I absolutely resent having to tie my viewing history to my identity and have someone else log all of that. So there is reason to intentionally use no account even if you otherwise have no problem paying to support not only the content producers but even the delivery system.

Why can't I disable shorts? There is no amount I can pay to hide all shorts, but I can have it for free i=on a pc with a tampermonkey or ublock script. But that only helps on a pc. I watch mostly on a TV and I have no ability to hack the roku app. Maybe if I switch to a google tv I could use newpipe or something.

Paying for premium does not make youtube good. It does not resolve much of anything. It is not remotely the touche this smarmy comment attempts to suggest.

Paying for premium takes youtube from being like pulling out 10 of your fingernails to only pulling out 8 of your fingernails.

That 2of10 fingernals relief and for the sake of the creators, that's the only reason I still pay for premium.
by dilippkumar | 2025-11-26 03:27:04+00:00
I haven't studied math beyond what was needed for my engineering courses.

However, I also am starting to believe that infinity doesn't exist.

Or more specifically, I want to argue that infinity is not a number, it is a process. When you say {1, 2, 3, ... } the "..." represents a process of extending the set without a halting condition.

There is no infinity at the end of a number line. There is a process that says how to extend that number line ever further.

There is no infinity'th prime number. There is a process by which you can show that a bigger primer number must always exist.
by unscaled | 2025-11-26 03:27:13+00:00
Rust has concurrency issues for sure. Deadlocks are still a problem, as is lock poisoning, and sometimes dealing with the borrow checker in async/await contexts is very troublesome. Rust is great at many things, but safe Rust only eliminates certain classes of bugs, not all of them.

Regarding green threads: Rust originally started with them, but there were many issues. Graydon (the original author) has "grudgingly accepted" that async/await might work better for a language like Rust[1] in the end.

In any case, I think green threads and async/await are completely orthogonal to data race safety. You can have data race safety with green threeads (Rust was trying to have data-race safety even in its early green-thread era, as far as I know), and you can also fail to have data race-safety with async/await (C# might have fewer data-race safety footguns than Go but it's still generally unsafe).

[1] https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html
by Brendinooo | 2025-11-26 03:27:26+00:00
"get sick enough and you get dropped" is a very, very different statement than "leave you high and dry when you or your kids get hurt or sick".

And if it's "like the old days", then it must not be some some uniquely sleazy thing.

I'll also add:

>these plans do not comply with the Affordable Care Act, which requires comprehensive coverage, and bans exclusions for pre-existing conditions. These plans only exist because of loopholes in the ACA, designed for very small-scale employers or temporary coverage...

He lumps sharing ministries in with this, but it's worth noting that the company I'm with was explicitly exempted by the ACA from the outset. It's not a loophole. Health sharing ministries that existed before the year 2000 could be used to satisfy the individual mandate. So he's being misleading here as well.
by parth21shah | 2025-11-26 03:30:03+00:00
I wrote this because alerting on CPU% / loadavg as machine health indicator has burned me a few times. The simple split I use now is: - CPU% = how busy the cores are - PSI = how much time tasks are stalled (CPU / memory / IO) In an eBPF agent I am working on (Linnix), I ended up looking at CPU and PSI together. High CPU + high PSI is interesting. High CPU + low PSI is usually just “busy”. This obviously doesn’t replace latency/SLO alerts at the app level.It’s only about which host metric to look at.
by rhelz | 2025-11-26 03:31:25+00:00
There is a sea-change in the quality of recent college graduates. These are COVID kids entering the workforce. They all but lost an entire year of education, and nobody has made any effort to catch them back up. They are just given a pass, year after year, because, you know, COVID.

At the same time, state legislatures have been entshitifying schools. They give them less and less money, and make unreasonable demands from them. For example, I taught at a school in Indiana which didn't even send a school bus around for kids in predominately minority neighborhoods. They couldn't afford it, because the law requires them to bus kids to private schools.

Vouchers are sold as enabling educational innovation---but what really happens is that funding is drained from public schools, and the kids get sent to private schools, whose primary directive is to PREVENT kids from learning about evolution, and to PREVENT them from acquiring the critical thinking skills necessary to know that vaccines don't cause autism. Entshittification both ways.
by Xiaoyao6 | 2025-11-26 03:31:29+00:00
"I love this idea. It fits the privacy philosophy perfectly—keeping data within the local network. Since this is an MVP, I'm sticking to 'Export/Import' for now to keep things simple and robust. But eventually, solving the multi-device puzzle via local P2P sync (instead of cloud) is definitely the dream. Have you seen any web-based apps that handle this well? I'd love to check them out."
by webstrand | 2025-11-26 03:32:22+00:00
Container queries don't solve the responsive to sibling sizes issue that grid/flex can solve. And frustratingly container queries force your container element to be a new stacking context, unlike flex/grid.

I am sad that using containers and subgrids together doesn't work. Being able to query the size of the subgrid from a child element would be super powerful.
by chickensong | 2025-11-26 03:32:23+00:00
What a joke blaming the IT community for not doing better, when most businesses refuse to look past anything but shipping features as fast as they can. "We take security and reliability very seriously", until management gets wind of the price tag. Guess what areas always get considered last and cut first. We all know.

But sure, blame the community at large, not the execs who make bad decisions in the name of short-term profits, then fail upward with golden parachutes into their next gig.

And definitely don't blame government for not punishing egregious behavior of corporations. Don't worry, you get a year of free credit monitoring from some scummy company who's also selling your data. Oh and justice was served to the offending corp, who got a one-time fine of $300k, when they make billions every quarter.

Maybe if we just outsource everything to AI, consultants, and offshore sweat shops things will improve!

Okay cool, good article.