MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by igravious | 2025-11-22 13:41:06+00:00
monopoly? this is from DeepSeek, ymmv

Here is a list of major ARM licensees, categorized by the type of license they typically hold. 1. Architectural Licensees (Most Flexible)

These companies hold an Architectural License, which allows them to design their own CPU cores (and often GPUs/NPUs) that are compatible with the ARM instruction set. This is the highest level of partnership and requires significant engineering resources.

Apple: The most famous example. They design the "A-series" and "M-series" chips (e.g., A17 Pro, M4) for iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Their cores are often industry-leading in single-core performance. Qualcomm: Historically used ARM's core designs but has increasingly moved to its own custom "Kryo" CPU cores (which are still ARM-compatible) for its Snapdragon processors. Their recent "Oryon" cores (in the Snapdragon X Elite) are a fully custom design for PCs. NVIDIA: Designs its own "Denver" and "Grace" CPU cores for its superchips focused on AI and data centers. They also hold a license for the full ARM architecture for their future roadmap. Samsung: Uses a mixed strategy. For its Exynos processors, some generations use semi-custom "M" series cores alongside ARM's stock cores. Amazon (Annapurna Labs): Designs the "Graviton" series of processors for its AWS cloud services, offering high performance and cost efficiency for cloud workloads. Google: Has developed its own custom ARM-based CPU cores, expected to power future Pixel devices and Google data centers. Microsoft: Reported to be designing its own ARM-based server and consumer chips, following the trend of major cloud providers.

2. "Cores & IP" Licensees (The Common Path)

These companies license pre-designed CPU cores, GPU designs, and other system IP from ARM. They then integrate these components into their own System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designs. This is the most common licensing model.

MediaTek: A massive player in smartphones (especially mid-range and entry-level), smart TVs, and other consumer devices. Broadcom: Uses ARM cores in its networking chips, set-top box SoCs, and data center solutions. Texas Instruments (TI): Uses ARM cores extensively in its popular Sitara line of microprocessors for industrial and embedded applications. NXP Semiconductors: A leader in automotive, industrial, and IoT microcontrollers and processors, almost exclusively using ARM cores. STMicroelectronics (STM): A major force in microcontrollers (STM32 family) and automotive, heavily reliant on ARM Cortex-M and Cortex-A cores. Renesas: A key supplier in the automotive and industrial sectors, using ARM cores in its R-Car and RA microcontroller families. AMD: Uses ARM cores in some of its adaptive SoCs (Xilinx) and for security processors (e.g., the Platform Security Processor or PSP in Ryzen CPUs). Intel: While primarily an x86 company, its foundry business (IFS) is an ARM licensee to enable chip manufacturing for others, and it has used ARM cores in some products like the now-discontinued Intel XScale.
by pardon_me | 2025-11-22 13:41:24+00:00
The current LLM models are too fallible and inefficient for everyday use. Energy requirements have become a major concern, bucking the trend of banking exponential computing gains through the efficiency improvements. Until recently, year-on-year global energy demands of data-centers were increasing linearly despite the exponential increase in computing power.

This has changed since the cost of equipment and infrastructure has been close to "free" for the large corporations running a cycle of funny-money investment in a bubble. This has allowed them sell access to the computing and models for just above operational energy costs (to the extent of increasing global energy prices), whilst offering free accounts to harvest data. No small competitor could possibly compete with that model.

The calculation for profitability (useful output for humans in a cost-benefit analysis) of the current setup is broken, and trades on our dreams of the future. Scaling computing forever simply does not work. It will never be profitable without further leaps forward in the technology--either more efficient models or hardware. By this time, the extent to the excessive investment in new data-centers will be clear.
by lazide | 2025-11-22 13:43:03+00:00
Also, current political turbulence makes planning for the long term extremely risky.

Will the company be evicted from the country in 6 months? A year? Will there be 100% tariffs on competitions imports? Or 0%? Will there be an anti-labor gov’t in effect when the investment might mature, or a pro-labor?

The bigger the investment, the longer the investment timeframe, and the more sane the returns - the harder it is to make the investment happen.

High risk requires a correspondingly high potential return.

That everyone has to pay more for current production is a side effect of the uncertainty, because no one knows what the odds are of even future production actually happening, let along the next fancy wiz-bang technology.

But people do need the current production.
by krapp | 2025-11-22 13:44:11+00:00
>A nit, the word socialists is actually in the acronym (ie in the name).

Context, as always, matters. The Nazis were not socialist, they were infamously and violently anti-socialist. The reason "socialist" was in the name was that Hitler wanted to reframe the concept of socialism around nationalist and racist tenets.

Hitler himself explained his rationale in a magazine interview[0,1]:

“Socialism is the science of dealing with the common wealth. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality, and unlike Marxism, it is patriotic... We are not internationalists. Our socialism is national. We demand the fulfillment of the just claims of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity. To us state and race are one.”

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/18twsvk/why_...

[1] https://archive.is/usjmJ#selection-2535.0-2539.363
by Neywiny | 2025-11-22 13:44:19+00:00
Just to be clear, some micros (STM32s come to mind) have what they call "on the fly decryption" for external flash. Basically, if the micros wanted to, they would. I think ESP32s are also using qspi flashes but they're integrated in package? Maybe that's changed but that's how I vaguely remember it
by retSava | 2025-11-22 13:45:02+00:00
I would assume, yet _another_ standard. There are a bunch of them, and product builders are taking a long long time to properly implement, and often buggy. And they often result in the consumer need to buy yet another gateway/router, and learn the ins/outs and quirks of another protocol that won't work properly in years, all the while two new competing standards have been introduced. An example - how long has Matter existed? Yet, it hasn't had a profile for smart plugs with energy monitoring (eg the 12$ IKEA one). Such a basic use case...

And all this so Samsung et al can siphon off more user data and show more ads.

I fully understand the consumer viewpoint.

But, it's great news imo with sub-GHz (Suzi)!
by globular-toast | 2025-11-22 13:45:24+00:00
I'd say you've just grown up and experienced decent food now. McDonald's is marketed to children and caters for the child-like palate: sweet, salty and acidic, like tomato ketchup.

When I grew up in the UK in the 80s/90s we ate typical British food. Potatoes every day, boiled veg, baked beans, beige protein things. Back then it was possible to have "Chinese" or "Indian", but it's all total shit: overly sweet, not spicy, greasy as fuck bastardised rubbish. Nowadays I can actually find real Indian, French, Italian etc. that is actually delicious. It's difficult to imagine going back to beige stuff I grew up on.
by chuckadams | 2025-11-22 13:45:25+00:00
I do see some CI running without lockfiles, and there's still a contingent that believes that libraries should never commit their lockfiles. It's a reasonably good idea to _test_ a configuration without the lockfile, since any user of your dependency is using _their_ lockfile that their local solver came up with, not yours, but this ought to be something you'd do alongside the tests using the lockfile. So locking down the CI environment is a good idea for that and many other reasons.

Realistically, no one does full side-by-side tests with and without lockfiles, but it's a good idea to at least do a smoke test or two that way.
by the_af | 2025-11-22 13:45:57+00:00
Is it me or is this interview incredibly boring? Lots of words that say very little.

Also: Zynga (and its clones, like Vostu) used to be the cancer of gaming, rightly reviled by people like Jonathan Blow and Ian Bogost. From a predatory business angle maybe it was interesting to discuss, much like one would discuss the life of Jordan Belfort. Is Zynga still alive? That's one company that didn't deserve resuscitation.
by daoboy | 2025-11-22 13:46:02+00:00
We've refined and relabeled the art of naming the demon that possess a person based on the characteristics of their symptoms. Then put a scientific sheen on the proscribed exorcisms and potions, without understanding the underlying issue. Modern day shamanism.

That is a bit hyperbolic (we clearly have real knowledge of the underlying neurological mechanisms), but closer to the truth than most people like to acknowledge.

The DSM was never meant to carry the burden we've placed upon it. https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/you-arent-in-the-dsm
by azan_ | 2025-11-22 13:46:14+00:00
But I didn't say anything about roblox, why do you think I'm fine with whatever they are doing? I just think you are wrong to think that anti-pedophilia guardrails thorough the ages were good and should be example for us. If you are fine with how things were done, sign your kids up for marriage and pregnancy at 13 years old.
by lazide | 2025-11-22 13:46:24+00:00
If intervention x results in y behavior changing in z% of the population (or not), would that count? I think it would.

Just because it doesn’t describe 100% of situations or work 100% of the time doesn’t mean it couldn’t be shown to produce useful predictions and work or not.

And yes, that isn’t particle physics type falsifiable, but it is medical treatment falsifiable. Kinda. Newtons theory never predicted Mercury’s behavior, but was still super useful eh?
by srean | 2025-11-22 13:46:30+00:00
I will emphasize your point more forcefully. All mathematicians I know work on what they work because of the beauty and aesthetics in their field.

Much like sex. Sex has reproductive utility but that's not why most people engage in it. Those who do are are missing much.

Notion of beauty for a mathematician is quite specialized. It's the difference between spaghetti code that works and an elegant and efficient code that is correct. They are easy to build upon efficiently.
by elemdos | 2025-11-22 13:46:59+00:00
I feel like that’s a different type of ADD or something. My wife has that type, so if she’s on her phone or focused on something I almost have to shake her to get her attention, whereas I’m very much the opposite (hard to focus on anything). Makes it hard to watch a series together bc she always wants to binge the whole thing in one sitting and I can never watch more than two episodes at a time.
by heymijo | 2025-11-22 13:47:26+00:00
Yep, Peter Drucker wrote about this all the way back in 1964.

> The competition is therefore all the other activities that compete for the rapidly growing “discretionary time” of a population

His examples were bowling ball manufacturers competing with lawn care companies, but the idea is the same, go up an abstraction layer, and the competition is for time.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-11-22 13:48:15+00:00
also called for patience in establishing a bullet-proof charging infrastructure.

Lack of charging stations is currently the biggest impediment to electric adoption.

Most people take a significant break (30 minutes or so) to replenish themselves on long trips. The problem is finding a place to do this while also recharging the EV. There are some EV restaurants but not nearly enough to be practical on long trips.

Alternative approach --- build specialized, cheap, short range EVs focused on local use. Most driving is short, local trips. Most households with a vehicle have more than one.

This offers opportunity for specialization --- one vehicle for local driving, another for long distance. The auto industry in the US is focused on maximizing profit per car and thus tends toward pricey all purpose vehicles.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-22 13:50:17+00:00
Climate activists backed and propagandized by the fossil fuel industry and the KGB.

And now that there are a number of barriers to creating new nuclear, the propaganda has flipped with fossil fuel companies supporting nuclear because they know it'll be decades before anything real can happen.

I have nothing against nuclear and if it can be built I'm for it. But at the moment, solar + battery is quick to deploy and about as cheap as you can get.
by adiian | 2025-11-22 13:50:22+00:00
IMO blogs were killed by big tech and social media. By creating centralized ways to distribute information. They started by killing rss, was way too decentralized. Facebook, Twitter, every single platform are just gate keepers that have complete power on what you see. They all start in the same way, making it convenient to access information, by centralizing it. Once you change your habits, they make it in such a way that you get locked in, and they start inserting in the feed all kind of junk you don't want, until a point when you are sick of it and jump to the next place, which is still in phase one, convenient, enjoyable. Then the story repeat, you end up seeing 90% junk, just to be able to see some of the posts of the people you follow.

Somehow there is a lot of truth in this fake quote: "Those who would give up essential liberty to decide whom to follow, for getting a little temporary convenience in exchange, deserve neither to chose what to read nor convenience"
by walterbell | 2025-11-22 13:51:33+00:00
> We will continue to monitor developments and evaluate the X2E at the appropriate time for its Linux suitability. If it meets expectations and we can reuse a significant portion of our work on the X1E, we may resume development. How much of our groundwork can be transferred to the X2E can only be assessed after a detailed evaluation of the chip.

Apparently the Windows exclusivity period has ended, so Google will support Android and ChromeOS on Qualcomm X2-based devices in 2026, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45368167
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-11-22 13:51:48+00:00
I feel the parent. I assume what they refer to is good will accumulated over the years. But that by itself does not last forever and eventually disappears ( faster in some than others ). I personally learned to not get too comfy. Stuff changes, which means we have need to adjust as well. It is just hard sometimes.
by strken | 2025-11-22 13:52:28+00:00
I think the point was that, yeah, auto manufacturers are incentivised to make unsafe cars...but in real life, they make safe(ish) ones. Pizza restaurants are incentivised to use the cheapest ingredients possible...but in real life, they have stopped somewhere above the absolute lowest quality. How can this be?

Pointing out one incentive is not a complete argument without an understanding of the broader dynamics. Auto manufacturers are incentivised much more strongly and in the opposite direction to make safe(ish) cars. Pizza restaurants are incentivised not to make pizza from reconstituted sawdust and rancid milk fat, for multiple reasons.

Then, goes the argument, if we are willing to regulate cars and abandon truly bad pizza restaurants, how come we put up with dating apps instead of e.g. deleting them and offering a $10k bounty to matchmakers, payable on our one year wedding anniversary? Why don't we ditch them? There must be more than just one incentive at play.
by abhish16 | 2025-11-22 13:53:16+00:00
I genuinely feel that search engines, especially Google after 2020, played a major role in wiping out personal blogs.

There was a time when searching for anything online, say best running shoes or how to install a WordPress plugin, gave you a healthy mix of personal websites, hobby blogs, and commercial sites.

Then Google rolled out EEAT or whatever and the spotlight shifted almost entirely to big commercial websites. These companies hire professional writers for every niche. People with degrees, credentials, and polished resumes that an individual blogger simply cannot compete with. Naturally, Google’s algorithm began pushing those sites to the top over individual bloggers assuming better information and content due to more impressive writer's resume.

So now, if you search for the same things like running shoes, WordPress tutorials, anything remotely informational, the top results are all from big commerical websites and strangely total "unrelated" garbage after the 3rd page.

Sometimes it reaches an absurd point like search results showing Forbes or similar outlets giving you medical or legal advice right in the first page if not the first suggestion.

Google seems to forget that these articles often come with an inherent bias, a subtle (or not so subtle) push to sell something, regardless of how qualified the writer is.
by isodev | 2025-11-22 13:53:46+00:00
And it's very easy to start with something that is also "social":

- https://write.as - a https://writefreely.org instance that also syncs with Mastodon, so people can see/discover/subscribe/ comment on your posts without extra hassle of setting up comments or other privacy invading tools.

- https://bearblog.dev - just text, very simple and quick to get started.
by antonymoose | 2025-11-22 13:54:03+00:00
Throughout my 20s that was about the only factor that led me to McDs - a cheap, fast meal. The 2/$3 McChicken for a lazy dinner or a McMuffin for a hangover fix was always too cheap to pass up.

Nowadays McDonald’s feels like a Seinfeld bit: _Whats the deal with fast-food, it’s not fast, and it’s not food._

I’m pretty much guaranteed to spend so much on a biscuit and coffee that I could go to the local coffee shops in town and get a coffee and breakfast sandwich for the same money and oftentimes faster, somehow.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-22 13:54:53+00:00
So AI drives prices up, directly and indirectly. I am not happy, in part because I actually need to purchase new hardware (eventually, and unfortunately quite soon, probably next year already, again).

I think there must be a tax of all those AI corporations - they cost us as society WAY too much. We need to bring this into the discussion; right now lobbyists such as the orange king want to ban all discussions therein aka making AI investments exempt from numerous things. This is leeching on the general taxpayers, in all countries. It is not acceptable.
Show HN: Compare Word documents in the browser (client-side only)
by nighwatch | 2025-11-22 13:55:07+00:00
I built this after almost losing a client because we couldn't agree on which contract version was "final."

The problem with existing tools: • Word's "Track Changes" only works if someone remembered to turn it on. • Online comparison tools often require uploading sensitive legal/financial docs to their servers. • Desktop software is often bloated, expensive, or platform-specific.

My solution: • 100% Client-Side: Your files never leave your device. No server uploads, no database storage. • Format Support: Works with Word (.docx), PDF, Excel, PPT, TXT, and CSV. • Smart Parsing: I wrote custom parsers to preserve table structures and layouts during comparison (so complex contracts don't turn into a mess). • Zero Install: Works on any device with a modern browser.

Technical stack: • Next.js & React for the frontend. • Web Workers for handling heavy parsing tasks (like PDF rendering) without freezing the UI. • Mammoth.js & PDF.js for document text extraction. • Pure client-side diffing algorithms optimized for performance.

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback on:

Parsing Accuracy: How well does it handle your complex Word tables? (I spent a lot of time on the rowspan/colspan logic!) UI/UX: Is the side-by-side comparison intuitive? Performance: How does it feel with larger documents? Happy to answer questions about the implementation or discuss the tradeoffs of building a serverless document tool!
by bsenftner | 2025-11-22 13:55:29+00:00
Me too, 6 schools by 7th grade, with 3 city moves. I unfortunately had a stutter, which made forming friendships harder, I basically gravitated to the outcasts. And I read a shit ton; by the end of 4th grade I was finishing the entire classic section of the high school library. Reading way over my head, I joined an adult book club and had my first introductions to serious intellectual debates; which really put a distance between my same age peers and my interests. My stutter did not really get under control until my mid 20's.
by robertakarobin | 2025-11-22 13:55:41+00:00
I'm a victim of depression too, and don't think it's fair that you say we "gave up." I would never give up on my child. You imply that we didn't talk to our son, listen to him, and do our best to give him advice before we discussed medication? Don't we all try to make the most well-informed decisions we can?

This decision was made collectively by me, my wife, our pediatrician, the child therapist, the psychiatrist, and for what it's worth also my son. We did extensive research. You may disagree with our decision, but please don't cast aspersions on how much we care.
by mritchie712 | 2025-11-22 13:55:55+00:00
Some things we've[0] learned on agent design:

1. If your agent needs to write a lot of code, it's really hard to beat Claude Code (cc) / Agent SDK. We've tried many approaches and frameworks over the past 2 years (e.g. PydanticAI), but using cc is the first that has felt magic.

2. Vendor lock-in is a risk, but the bigger risk is having an agent that is less capable then what a user gets out of chatgpt because you're hand rolling every aspect of your agent.

3. cc is incredibly self aware. When you ask cc how to do something in cc, it instantly nails it. If you ask cc how to do something in framework xyz, it will take much more effort.

4. Give your agent a computer to use. We use e2b.dev, but Modal is great too. When the agent has a computer, it makes many complex features feel simple.

0 - For context, Definite (https://www.definite.app/) is a data platform with agents to operate it. It's like Heroku for data with a staff of AI data engineers and analysts.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-22 13:56:00+00:00
Yeah you are not alone here being annoyed. I think we need to penalise all who drive the prices up - that includes the manufacturers but also AI companies etc...

Those price increases are not normal at all. I understand that most of it still comes from market demands but this is also skewing the market now in unfair manners. Such increases smell of criminal activity too.