MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matheusmoreira | 2025-11-28 01:57:25+00:00
> You are free to do whatever you want on your computer as long as

You are not free. "Your" computer is not actually yours. It doesn't do what you want.

> Most, if not all, anti-cheats will also not do anything when the game isn't open.

Stop believing this. For god's sake I just posted an example of a corporation that thought it was perfectly justified in hacking their customers and stealing their browser passwords. There is no line they wouldn't cross.

They could be doing literally anything and you know it. There's no way for you to know unless you reverse engineer the software, and if you try they are only too happy to label you a cheater and permaban your account or whatever it is that they do.

> I would be more worried about computing becoming more phone-centric where Apple and Google are in control of what you can and cannot do.

This is the exact same issue.

Apple, Google, Disney, Netflix, Hollywood, the games industry, the copyright industry, all the governments the world over are all battling for control over our machines.

This anticheating nonsense is just the tutorial boss.
by ranger_danger | 2025-11-28 01:57:51+00:00
What is your definition of "track you" in this context?

If it's to pinpoint a unique device accessing a website even through VPNs and/or other IP changes, there are an untold number of ways that apps can track you better than a website.

Apps have access to many device-specific APIs in addition to all the web ones, and every additional bit of information used can be added to the mix to create an even more unique fingerprint of the specific device accessing a website.

For example with phones, an app (even if it's mostly just a webview) may now also have access to your phone model, phone number, maybe your contacts or GPS location, and many other things.
by Viaya | 2025-11-28 01:59:46+00:00
I recently came across HunyuanVideo 1.5, a lightweight AI model developed by Tencent for video generation. It combines text-to-video (T2V) and image-to-video (I2V) in one pipeline, enabling high-quality outputs with stable motion and seamless video production.

The model's ability to handle dynamic prompts while maintaining 1080p resolution and strong visual consistency is impressive. It leverages advanced architectures like the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) for optimized performance, ensuring smooth rendering without the need for high-end hardware.
by fragmede | 2025-11-28 01:59:56+00:00
Plenty of people go on to have second or third careers. One programmer I know was a music teacher for decades. He's really good with the interns. That winning the startup lottery means you have more money and thus freedom than most, means you're also less constrained in what you choose. Which may be a good or a bad thing. Constraints are useful, and absolutely freedom is like staring at a blank page not knowing what to write. You really have to push yourself, make yourself uncomfortable in order to find yourself. You can waste the rest of your life sitting at home posting on HN, or whatever forum comes next.

There's a whole big world out there that hasn't heard of Nvidia. Go find them, volunteer at a local non profit, help people you think need your help (Alan Watts has a bit on who not to help though). A human has to have a purpose, even if that purpose is planning the next cruise destination. That sounds boring as hell to me, personally, but that's at least got my friend doing things and leaving the house. Learn new skills. Travel. Make friends in strange new places. For the love of Dang, don't just sit at home on HN.

Or do. I'm just some rando on the Internet. (This message brought to you by someone who spent a year retired, posting on HN, and is now, back, gainful employed, trading hours for dollars. Email in profile if you wanna connect.)
by Aurornis | 2025-11-28 02:01:24+00:00
> An open-door policy where anyone can schedule time with you is essential.

In my experience, open door policies are necessary but not sufficient. If the policy is to wait for feedback to walk through your door you will only hear from the set of people motivated, willing, and trusting enough to do that.

You have to go out and ask everyone one by one the appropriate questions and also be willing to listen. I’ve been in some companies where feedback was requested but then the immediate reaction was to argue and deny any feedback given, which is a fast path to ensure people stop providing feedback.
by abrugsch | 2025-11-28 02:02:39+00:00
Can you not use the "free for hobbyists" license? Autodesk make it unreasonably hard to renew it, instead dark-patterning you into upgrading to the paid tier. (Unless of course you need paid tier features) I agree on the easy to use front though. I'm trying to move to freecad but it hasn't had its blender moment yet.
by epistasis | 2025-11-28 02:03:01+00:00
I think this is exactly right, and people are focusing on the wrong risk with nuclear. It's financial risk, not safety risk, that is the biggest burden for more nuclear.

Finland was very very wise and savvy to get a fixed price contract for Olkiluoto 3. The final cost was far far far above its price, and France ended up paying that price. I'm not sure if you'll see a builder go down that route any time soon again.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-28 02:04:47+00:00
Tensor cores can help a lot for matrix maths, sure, definitely. They made a big splash in 2017 & have been essential. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/programming-tensor-cores-c...

But it's still something grafted onto the existing architecture, of many grids with many blocks with many warps, and lots and lots of coordination and passing intermediary results around. It's only a 4x4x4 unit, afaik. There's still a lot of main memory being used to combine data, a lot of orchestration among the different warps and blocks and grids, to get big matrices crunched.

The systolic array is designed to allow much more fire and forget operations. It's inputs are 128 x 128 and each cell is its own compute node basically, shuffling data through and across (but not transitting a far off memory).

TPU architecture has plenty of limitations. It's not great at everything. But if you can design work to flow from cell to neighboring cell, you can crunch very sizable chunks of data with amazing data locality. The efficiency there is unparalleled.

Nvidia would need a radical change of their architecture to get anything like the massive data locality wins a systolic array can do. It would come with massively more constraints too.

Would love if anyone else has recommended reading. I have this piece earmarked. https://henryhmko.github.io/posts/tpu/tpu.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44342977
by msandford | 2025-11-28 02:04:51+00:00
Thanks for the response! I agree that it's not obvious the reservoir possibilities.

I don't agree that we're selecting against birds that get infected in the first place, or at least I don't think that's how it works. My understanding is that if any birds on a farm get sick, the whole house is killed. Maybe the whole farm.

To me that seems like selecting for lucky birds not selecting for populations that never get sick because lots of populations never get exposed.

I could be wrong on my understanding or how I interpret the impact, though, so I'm super open to learning more.
by zeroq | 2025-11-28 02:06:01+00:00
I wanted to join the NAS club for so long but it was always either bang for buck for prebuilts ($1k for 4 bays, with 4Gb RAM and the CPU is slower than my previous phone?!) or lack of availability for 4+ SATA boards.

Last year I had aha moment when I learned about SAS boards.

My final build was:

- Jonsbo N3 case - ITX PSU - ASRock B550M/ITX - Ryzen 5500GT - LSI 9207-8i - 16GB DDR4

Result - for ~$1k I have 8 bay NAS that's also strong HTPC and console capable of running games like Silksong with no sweat.

Before I learned about SAS cards my biggest limiter was number of SATA slots. If not for that card I would be looking at $600+ niche mobos.

But the biggest winner was 5500GT. I was looking at N300 for lower power consumption, but Ryzen draws 1W at idle and has APU capable of serious gaming (not 4k Elden Ring, but c'mon).
by kalleboo | 2025-11-28 02:06:16+00:00
This is how it works in Japan for the newer rate plans for consumers now (replacing the previous method of charging you based on the size of your main breaker), but checked in 30 minute increments rather than 15.

The steps are pretty coarse - on my rate plan there are just 3 steps: 0-10 kW, 11-15 kW, 15 kW+. You're not going to surpass peak 10 kW in an apartment anyway.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-28 02:06:35+00:00
> Thinking on though, if the models are trained on any GPL code then one could consider that they contain that GPL code, and are constantly and continually updating and modifying that code, thus everything the model subsequently outputs and distributes should come under the GPL too.

If you ask a model to output a task scheduler in C, and the training data contained a GPL-licensed implementation of the Fibonacci function in Haskell, the output isn't likely to bear a lot of resemblance to that input. It might even be unrelated enough that adding that function to the training data doesn't affect what the model outputs for that prompt at all.

The nasty thing in terms using code generated by these things is that if you ask the model to output a task scheduler in C and the training data contained a GPL-licensed implementation of a task scheduler in C, the output plausibly could bear a strong resemblance to that input. Without you knowing that. And then if you go incorporate that into something you're redistributing, what happens?
by epistasis | 2025-11-28 02:08:56+00:00
> An efficient steam turbine is largely inaccessible to hobbiests and I am scared of steam/pressure.

Thermal electricity generation really benefits from scale and extremes. The Carnot efficiency is proportional to the temperature differential between hot and cold. Even so-called "low quality" heat from a standard nuclear rector design is far hotter than anybody should deal with at home and it only gets ~1/3 efficiency. And dealing with small turbines is really inefficient too.

This is where batteries and solar really shine. They scale so well, and are extremely economical and electrically efficient.

Heat storage works well when you get beyond the scale of individual homes, but it's hard to make it work. I'd love to see something related to heat pumps in the future for homes, but district heating, such as could be accomplished by converting natural gas systems to heat delivery, are probably required for it to make sense.
by strken | 2025-11-28 02:09:20+00:00
In hindsight, this explanation was a bit sparse, so here is the actual text from TFA:

> your baby will still be somewhat less fit compared to you and your hopefully-hot friend on average, but now there is variance, so if you cook up several babies, one of them might be as fit or even fitter than you, and that one will likely have more babies than your other babies have

This is a nearly word-for-word explanation of mutation-selection balance, e.g. check out the Wikipedia explanation:

> an equilibrium in the number of deleterious alleles in a population that occurs when the rate at which deleterious alleles are created by mutation equals the rate at which deleterious alleles are eliminated by selection

Regression to the mean is a statistical phenomenon about, well, measurements that regress to the mean. In the given quote, the average baby isn't regressing to the mean, the average baby is carrying a higher number of deleterious alleles and is less fit across the board. TFA then describes fitter babies having more babies themselves, which is irrelevant to regression to the mean but an integral part of mutation-selection balance.
by pepoluan | 2025-11-28 02:09:47+00:00
LLM will guiltlessly produce hallucinated 'review', because LLMs does NOT 'understand' what it is writing.

LLMs will merely regurgitate a chain of words -- tokens -- that best match its Hidden Markov Model chains. It's all just a probabilistic game, with zero actual understanding.

LLMs are even known to hide or fake Unit Test results: Claiming success when it fails, or not skipping the results completely. Why? Because based on the patterns it has seen, the most likely word that follow "the results of tests" are the words "all successful". Why? Because it tries to reproduce other PRs it has seen, PRs where the PR author actually performed tests on their own systems first, iterating multiple times until the tests succeed, so the PRs that the public sees are almost invariably PRs with the declaration that "all tests pass".

I'm quite certain that LLMs never actually tried to compile the code, much less run Test Cases against them. Simply because there is no such ability provided in their back-ends.

All LLMs can do is "generate the most probabilistically plausible text". In essence, a Glorified AutoComplete.

I personally won't touch code generated wholly by an AutoComplete with a 10-foot pole.
by Madmallard | 2025-11-28 02:10:37+00:00
I'm getting grifted hard by Gemini 3 at this point.

I've been working with the chat bot online on a local web application for about 4 days now.

It's markedly worse than Claude at this point. It does not listen to any new instructions and insists on doing wrong changes it thought up of 20 messages ago that I already repeatedly stated were bad.

"the best ever"

more like

"the newest grift"
by elzbardico | 2025-11-28 02:10:42+00:00
I was obviously talking about grid scale, that's what matters.

I have solar Li-ion and hybrid inverters at my home, basically because I foresee more frequent blackouts in the future. Part of the cost of my system is generously paid by poorer consumers, because I still have net-metering in my country (talk about subsides).

Nuclear power is one of the most insanely regulated industries due to the misinformed work of science denier green militants and populist politics. Talking about subsides ignoring all the red tape nuclear is a common tactic behind the propaganda of big finance and big green corrupt interests.

LCOE is absolutely the right measure only in two cases:

1) You have a financial interest on selling intermittent power or/and 2) You're hopeless ignorant about both the physics and the economics of a power grid.
by kyledrake | 2025-11-28 02:12:02+00:00
I've had an HN account for 17 years now. This is one of the last good places left on the web for intelligent conversation, and pretty much the last place I even want to post comments anymore honestly. Thank you @dang for the hard work on maintaining that. Hopefully this site can continue to be a bastion in an increasingly dismal social media environment.
by strogonoff | 2025-11-28 02:12:26+00:00
If LLMs are like human minds enough, then legally speaking we are abusing thinking and feeling human-like beings possessing will and agency in ways radically worse than slavery.

What is missing in the “if I can remember and recite program then they must be allowed to remember and recite proframs” argument is that you choose to do it (and you have basic human rights and freedoms), and they do not.
by dolebirchwood | 2025-11-28 02:12:37+00:00
> Maybe having a loud profile is a positive to some sorts of recruiters but posting anything beside resume information on that site just seems like a guaranteed malus on future prospects.

At one of my past companies, I recall a recruiter disqualifying a candidate for a SWE role solely for having a "weird" headline banner image on their LinkedIn profile.

The "weird" image was a benign screenshot of a landscape backdrop of some Miyazaki film. No characters, no action sequences -- literally just trees, mountains, shit like that.

This is the kind of lunacy you're up against.
by tomhow | 2025-11-28 02:12:44+00:00
Please don't engage in political battle on HN. As moderators we make an effort to protect people in all countries from being attacked for the actions of their government, no matter which country they're in. We think it's important for HN to be a place where people can be respected as an individual and not treated as an avatar for national stereotypes or the actions of their government. With that in mind, please don't initiate these kinds of battles here. We wouldn't tolerate others initiating this kind of thing against you, and we equally can't allow you to initiate it against others.
by energy123 | 2025-11-28 02:13:08+00:00
From the article:

> [250MWh] held in a container 14m high and 15m wide

According to Gemini 3.0 Pro, lifepo4 is 1.5-3.5x more dense than this, which isn't bad. 250MWh is a lot of capacity for such a small land footprint. At 2MW it can power ~2000 homes for ~5 days while taking up the land footprint of ~1 home.

What's the price? And how does the price scale with capacity?
by kukkeliskuu | 2025-11-28 02:14:34+00:00
I have no beef with the academic, careful definitions, although I dislike the practice where academics redefine colloquial terms more formally. That actually causes more, not less confusion. I was talking about the colloquial use of the term.

If I search for "eventual consistency", the AI tells me that one of the cons for using eventual consistency is: "Temporary inconsistencies: Clients may read stale or out-of-date data until synchronization is complete."

I see time and time again in actual companies that have "modern" business systems based on microservices that developers can state the same idea but have never actually paused to think that you something is needed to do the "synchronization". Then they build web UIs that just ignore the fact, causing application to become flaky.
by zmmmmm | 2025-11-28 02:16:22+00:00
I always enjoy being wrong and I was very wrong in my predictions about Google : I thought they should theoretically win, but I was also very confident they couldn't possibly turn their execution ship around to actually pull together a coherent competitor to OpenAI. But they do seem to have done that and it's very impressive. If they do continue to execute, I can't see anybody stopping them dominating and I would be bearish on nearly every other player catching them.

The biggest problem though is trust, and I'm still holding back from letting anyone under my authority in my org use Gemini because of the lack of any clear or reasonable statement or guidelines on how they use your data. I think it won't matter in the end if they execute their way to domination - but it's going to give everyone else a chance at least for a while.
by habosa | 2025-11-28 02:16:38+00:00
Kinda sad but LinkedIn has fulfilled the original promise of Facebook for me. Almost all the people I’ve met in my career and at school have a verified profile under their real name and when I want to reach out to them, that’s a place I can start if I lost their number.

The feed is hell. The content is cringe. All true. But it’s a very good directory.
by strix_varius | 2025-11-28 02:20:15+00:00
> Is that not also true of human written software that costs more per hour than the monthly cost of a coding agent?

The difference is that a human can learn and grow.

From your examples, it sounds like we're talking about completely different applications of code. I'm a software engineer who is responding to the original topic of reviewing PRs full of LLM slop. It sounds like you are a hobbyist who uses LLMs to vibe code personal apps. Your use case is, frankly, exactly what LLMs should be used for. It's analogous to how using a consumer grade 3d printer to make toys for your kids is fine, but nobody would want to be on the hook for maintaining full scale structural systems that were printed the same way.
by tomhow | 2025-11-28 02:25:24+00:00
Please don't perpetuate political battle or make personal attacks on people on HN, no matter how right you are or feel you are. The topic of this thread is "Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform". Let's keep comments on that topic, and definitely not pollute it with personal attacks on individuals over the actions of their government. In case there's any perception that I'm "taking sides", I've replied to the commenter who initiated this subthread too, but it's not OK to reply to a bad comment with another bad one.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-11-28 02:26:50+00:00
It's pronounced the same only by people speaking English with a French accent. An American, Brit, Indian, or any other native speaker of English absolutely does not pronounce "bit" the same way a French person pronounces "une bite."

Rather than measuring whose French pedigree is longer, I will put down a wager on this. ₹3? :D
by pepoluan | 2025-11-28 02:27:45+00:00
I am one of the maintainers of aiosmtpd [1], and the largest PR I ever made was migrating the library's tests from nosetest to pytest. Before doing that, though, I discussed with the other maintainers if such a migration is welcome. And after getting support from them, I made the changes with gusto. It took weeks, even months to complete and the PR is massive [2]

But still the crux of the matter is: Massive changes require buy-in from other maintainers BEFORE the changes even start.

[1] https://github.com/aio-libs/aiosmtpd [2] https://github.com/aio-libs/aiosmtpd/pull/202
by Terretta | 2025-11-28 02:28:02+00:00
> Mac owners aren't sticking with preinstall...

Installing Chrome on MacOS is a cargo cult thing. Devs tell everyone to install Chrome, and everyone tells everyone else to install Chrome. (Except some devs who tell some friends to install Firefox.)

Zero devs say install Safari, it's already there. And there's no hip narrative for just using what's there even though it saves energy, protects privacy, seamlessly works across devices, and more.

Safari's problem: it doesn't signal tech savvy (Chrome) or anti-establishment (Firefox).
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-11-28 02:28:20+00:00
Since people are getting very fixated on Apple's success and how they dominated all the previous European phone manufacturers, let me state it clearly, they're a monopoly and must be regulated, but you regulate a market by setting up market rules, not by chasing individual companies.

European regulators are playing favoritism for themselves, not dismantling monopolies for the sake of consumers. There are a lot of companies from Spotify to ASML who are enjoying monopolistic powers in their own market, squandering innovation by not letting their competitors use their platform or implement standards created by other foreign companies. Apple being a bigger monopoly doesn't make others a saint, it's just that those monopolies suit the regulators while Apple doesn't, and that's the original point I made with the ASML example, they're being a hypocrite about it.