MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by everdrive | 2025-11-17 16:03:05+00:00
This really interesting, and I first observed this with the movie the Matrix. Not so much that the conflict couldn't be resolved. (although the Oracle's entire character is based on this idea) But instead, if I were really on the Nebuchadnezzar I would have wanted to have hours-long conversations with Neo about the nature and limitations of his powers. The crew is faced with a deistic and perhaps apocalyptic super hero on their crew. They might be witnessing the end times!

And NO ONE digs into this for more details? When I was younger this frustrated me, but as I got older I realized this was a reflection of normal human psychology. People avoid interesting topics all the time. "Why did you cheat on your husband?" "How come you're depressed all the time?" "What do you do when no one is watching?" "Do you like your job?" etc ... all of these questions have pretty direct answers, but it seems like people will do almost anything to avoid speaking about uncomfortable topics directly.

It's still not something I fully understand, but it's something I've at least made some peace with. It's human nature, for better or (usually) for worse.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-11-17 16:03:09+00:00
It depends. The military is not particularly efficient, but it's not clear whether that is desirable. The tax system is not efficient, but that is by design of the industry. Many other organizations are surprisingly efficient actually, hence why some of DOGE's scalpel treatment was so harmful.

The government is an enormous ship and you want enough checks and balances to ensure it cannot suddenly turn on a dime without a huge emergency.

As for the debt, that mostly comes down to:

1) Military spending to enforce US domination across the globe.

2) Social security for the Boomers (many countries are being hit by this).

3) Unsustainably low tax rates given the requirements of government. In particular, the presence of numerous tax loopholes for the ultra-wealthy.

4) The insanity of the healthcare industry in the US.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-17 16:03:12+00:00
AFIAK, and I'm not MIPS expert, but I believe it doesn't have the ability to add a value directly to a memory address. You have to do something like

// Not real MIPS, just what I've gleaned from a brief look at some docs LOAD addr, register ADD 1, register STORE register, addr

The LOAD and STORE are atomic, but the `ADD` happens out of band.

That's a problem if any sort of interrupt happens (if you are multi-threading then a possibility). If it happens at the load, then a separate thread can update "addr" which mean the later STORE will stomp on what's there.

x86 and ARM can do

ADD 1, addr

as well as other instructions like "compare and swap"

LOAD addr, register MOV register, register2 ADD 1, register2 COMPARE_AND_SWAP addr, register, register2 if (cas_failed) { try again }
by oneseven | 2025-11-17 16:03:19+00:00
This is based on the Dear ImGui library/framework [0]. It's not intended, strictly speaking, for standard desktop applications. It's intended for applications that use 3d rendering, like games or CAD.

Although you could certainly use it as a desktop editor if you wanted to, I think the real value is in embedding.

[0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-17 16:03:52+00:00
Probably because their last funding round was in 2023 and they may have been looking for another round because their revenue and cost were probably not really adding up to the valuation needed for another round. Running GPU hardware at scale is just expensive

Given the price was not announced, it seems investors decided to exit via acquisition instead of trying to raise a multi hundred million round consistent with a multi billion dollar valuation and a high level of ambition that investors are shooting for in this space.

If the amount was high, they'd be be bragging about it. Given that they aren't, it might be on the lower end of the 2023 valuation for the then 40M round.

Just speculating here; I don't have any more information. Basing this on my understanding of how this stuff works. This might actually be the opening round for a few more such acquisitions of the somewhat risky investments of a few years ago of companies that are probably not going to turn into trillion $ unicorns. There are lots of pretty well funded startups in this space converting investment capital into cloud GPU cost. I think some level of consolidation is overdue and might take away some building concern about over exposure in the market. Big banks and investors might be getting nervous.
by coldtea | 2025-11-17 16:04:04+00:00
The problem is being told those things (e.g. the examples in TFA from Lala Land, Good Will Hunting, etc) often accomplishes nothing. If anything, being told about such issues, even softly and subtly, will make people recoil, be offended, double down, or deny them.

It's only when push comes to shove, or when you get a bitter reality lesson, that you can understand them, or that you can accept and benefit from being told such advice.
by brazukadev | 2025-11-17 16:04:10+00:00
You are absolutely right!

But also, no, it was hallucinating completely. Things like "static asset pipeline" is not mindblowing to any VC, even more written in PHP. Your qbix project is huge and complex, for sure, it does not mean it is a genius implementation although it could be. Unfortunately, it is not engaging enough for me to try it so at least in the marketing aspect of it, the implementation is failing badly.
by EGreg | 2025-11-17 16:04:16+00:00
Original thread was posted late at night here: https://chatgpt.com/share/691a9edc-b5b8-800a-99a3-c32d9abccf...

I re-did the whole sequence, posting the same subset of my platform’s code base, but this time with instructions throughout to remain fully objective.

What prompts can be used to get an LLM more realistic assessment of codebases or personal output? Assuming it has been trained on a lot of code, it should be one of the best judges of what is good/rare/valuable or not. But how to get meaningful output for 1. oneself, 2. to be shared with others?

I think if we standardized this kind of assessment it could be good as a first look for eg hiring people or investing in projects. So I am interested in feedback from the people here as to how to make this type of thing more useful.
by dominicrose | 2025-11-17 16:04:25+00:00
Node.js's core library is purposefully minimal. Purposefully or not, it's still an issue. Wether you add many small things to your project using an LLM or NPM, it still requires work and the annoying thing is that you'll have to do it for every new Node.js project.

Node.js is very good for IO and it has decent performance even for CPU-intensive work considering it's a dynamic language, but it would sure be nice to have a rich core library like Ruby or Clojure has.

The fact that ClojureScript can do it proves that it's doable even for front-end javascript (using advanced optimisations).
by Two_hands | 2025-11-17 16:05:27+00:00
This has been done! It’s the paper I first looked at for this task: https://github.com/rehg-lab/eye-contact-cnn

They create this CNN for exactly this task, autism diagnosis in children. I suppose this model would work for babies too.

Edit: ah I see your point, in the paper they diagnose autism with eye contact, but your point is a task closer to what my model does. It could definelty be augmented for such a task, we’d just need to improve the accuracy. The only issue I see is sourcing training data might be tricky, unless I partner with some institution researching this. If you know of anyone in this field I’d be happy to speak with them.
by nerdsniper | 2025-11-17 16:05:36+00:00
Yeah but also for an upright vacuum I bought they stopped selling parts less than one year after I bought it. They couldn’t even tell me the basic dimensions of the vacuum belt I needed. For a vacuum that was less than a year old.

The instant they stop selling a model, all the documentation is thoroughly whisked away and inaccessible to customers or anyone a customer can reach.

And they never gave me that kind of documentation so it’s not even something I “should have” saved myself.
by corry | 2025-11-17 16:06:37+00:00
In fact, the entire movie's point is that simply HEARING others tell you those things doesn't do anything! The inner journey of the character getting to a place where he believes it himself -- or rather believes himself to be worthy of a greater path -- is THE crucial part.

So the example is exactly opposite the author's intent.

That said, I liked the article and agree with its point. In fact, I'd guess that effective leaders all have learned techniques and ability to remain calm/comfortable in having these blunt conversations that cut to the chase (but still value and hear people).
by stopbulying | 2025-11-17 16:06:51+00:00
Also, they sell Trump Vodka.

Trump Vodka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Vodka :

> The brand was launched in the United States in 2005, but ceased production under the Trump name in 2011 when it failed to meet the required threshold for distribution. However, it is still sold (in 2016) in Israel, especially around the Jewish holiday of Passover.[2]

Trump Vodka is made from potatoes.

Trump Vodka is sold in a gold-plated glass bottle that can't be recycled.

> Trump Vodka started being sold unofficially in Israel by H. Pixel International based on a signed deal with Drinks Americas, but Trump brought a lawsuit against the company for copyright infringement, as they did not have his agreement to use his image in advertising or the brand. [10][11]
by lsaferite | 2025-11-17 16:07:02+00:00
How so? The protocol doesn't obfuscate things. Your agent can easily expose the entire MCP conversation, but generally just exposes the call and response. This is no different than any other method of providing a tool for the LLM to call.

You have some weird bone to pick with MCP which is making you irrationally unreceptive to any good-faith attempt to help you understand.

If you want to expose tools to the LLM you have to provide a tool definition to the LLM for each tool and you have to map the LLM's tool calls into the agent executing the tools and returning the results. That's universal for all agent-side tools.

The whole purpose behind MCP was to provide a low-impedance standard where some set of tools could be plugged into an existing agent with no pre-knowledge and all the needed metadata was provided to facilitate linking the tools to the agent. The initial version was clearly focused on local agents running local tools over stdio. The idea of remote tools was clearly an afterthought if you read the specification.

If you want your agent to speak OpenAPI, you are *more* than welcome to make it do so. It'll probably be fine if it's a well-specified API. The context issues won't go away, I guarantee you. OpenAPI specs for APIs with lots of endpoint will result in large tool definitions for the LLM, just like they do with MCP.

A core issue I see with MCP, as someone using it every day, is that most MCP Server developers clearly are missing the point and simply using MCP as a thin translation layer over some existing APIs. The biggest value with MCP is when you realize that an MCP Server should be a *curated* experience for the LLM to interact with and the output should be purposefully designed for the LLM, not just a raw data dump from an API endpoint. Sure, some calls are more like raw data dumps and should have minimal curation, but many other MCP tools should be more like what the OP of this post is doing. The OP is defining a local multi-step workflow where steps feed into other steps and *don't* need LLM mediation. That should be a *single* MCP Server Tool. They could wrap the local bash scripts up into a simple single tool stdio MCP Server and now that tool is easily portable across any agent that speaks MCP, even if the agent doesn't have the ability to directly run local CLI commands.

Anyway, maybe take a breath and be objective about what MCP is and is not meant to do and disconnect what MCP is from how people are *currently* using (and frequently misusing) MCP.
by pixelpoet | 2025-11-17 16:07:06+00:00
This is the exact opposite of what I want, actually: imgui keeps promising an official mode that doesn't totally melt the machine from running at peak refresh rate the entire time (since it was developed for games, not normal desktop apps), but it never materialises, and the hacks we all implement ourselves stop working as they update the code etc.

Everyone seems to want 9234567345863489634589 fps, when that's IMO completely absurd for a normal desktop app, e.g. editor! What you actually want is low latency, not constant massive bandwidth and power usage. If all your normal desktop apps constantly ran at uncapped FPS, your computer would scream and laptops wouldn't last 5 minutes on battery.
by leeter | 2025-11-17 16:07:20+00:00
Honestly? I expected this to be talking about the MiSTer project FPGA core[1]. That has been tuned so it's capable of running the AREA5150 demo[2] which is an insane challenge (AFAIK the timings of the v20 break that demo). Not saying this isn't cool, but it's definitely not what I was expecting.

[1] https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/PCXT_MiSTer

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOmcgp99fEk
by ghusto | 2025-11-17 16:07:27+00:00
Fully behind his argument, but boy did he pick a bad example with Good Will Hunting:

> “I feel like you have a tremendous amount of intellectual potential that you’re wasting here — why are you getting in fights rather than trying to do something interesting?”

Nobody said that because that was his whole problem, that he _couldn't_ go there. That was his entire character!
by valyala | 2025-11-17 16:08:13+00:00
Boring monitoring software is rare, since it is hard to refuse adding yet another shiny feature (and breaking the core functionality along the way) instead of focusing on improving the usability for the core functionality.

We at VictoriaMetrics try making boring monitoring solution which just works out of the box - https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/goals/
by coldtea | 2025-11-17 16:08:17+00:00
In software companies priorities mean nothing, they're there to check a checkmark that "we also have prioritization". Anything they want to have will be "top priority" even if they have 50 "top priority" deliverables this release.

What actually prioritizes things is actual friction: from stuff actually taking time to make, to things falling apart and needing time to repair, to employees unionizing and refusing endless overtime.

And anything else (scalability, policy, etc) is also irrelevant, when it comes to "the customer/CEO/higher manager wants this". People are not actually hired to make the product better, or to follow policies. They work to do what the company higher ups want them to do - the rest is up to them to try to fit under those contraints.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-17 16:08:41+00:00
Yeah, I think the point this article is trying to make is somewhat interesting, and I do try to do this in my life, but the analogy their trying to make is actually I think the opposite of what they present. The point of Good Will Hunting is how hard what they’re trying to do is, that despite being confronted with “the problem” repeatedly Will needed some other life experience to snap him out of himself. And actually by the end of Good Will Hunting, I think what you realize is that everyone was wrong. That what Will was looking for was someone who could look past the surface conflict and love him for something deeper, and really simpler. I don’t think she needed him to be a genius the way his teacher tried to use him for that, and neither really did Robin Williams.

And in this I think movie logic is in some ways correct, that people often have to have experiences to make real change happen.

Maybe this is about deep truths vs shallow truths. “Hey it seems like there’s beef between us, is a shallow truth (for a relationship without years of history, if it’s father/son after 30 years of beefing, same applies?) Just addressing it is fine. “Hey, I think you’re not achieving your life purpose” is a deep truth. You can’t just tell someone what their purpose is.
by extropic-engine | 2025-11-17 16:09:02+00:00
since the flock CEO’s comment is dead, i hope you don’t mind if i reply to him here.

Your wealth and power will not save you. Your rich friends will not save you. Turning off the monstrosity you are helping to create and reckoning with what you have already done in the world is the only thing that will. If there is still any shard of humanity left in you, I hope this finds it. It is not too late to turn away from the path you chose. But it soon will be. And there will be a reckoning either way.
by gambiting | 2025-11-17 16:09:44+00:00
Ok I spent the last hour looking for this interview and I honestly can't find it - the closest I can get to the source is this article saying that Russia is building a strategic reserve of tanks:

https://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7%2C114881%2C3206584...

But it's not the one I read which was literally a general saying "they are building tanks and not sending them to the front - why if not to fight with NATO eventually".
by rewilder12 | 2025-11-17 16:09:46+00:00
Windows 10 will be the last msft os I ever use. I rebuilt using AMD CPU/GP booted up Fedora 42 and I have never had to run a single shell command to get anything to work. I don't even notice my OS. Work, games, local models (this one still takes some tweaking but is better), all work fine
by yawaramin | 2025-11-17 16:09:56+00:00
Failure scenario in modern fission reactors is also benign. Reactors are designed to lock down to prevent any leaks.

We deploy solar PV capacity, this doesn't mean we actually get that much power from the deployments. Nuclear fission provides reliable, baseload power, and doesn't require huge battery arrays to compensate for the sun setting or winds calming.
by klabb3 | 2025-11-17 16:10:00+00:00
Ive been very pro nuclear my whole life, but a part of me is disheartened by the mega projects that commercial fission deployments have become (even if the reasons are bad) that’s a problem that nerfs traditional fission. If nuclear remains both political, extremely bureaucratic and requires public investment, it just won’t be the solution, and not because the tech or physics is bad, but the decision makers & investors can no longer organize large infrastructure projects effectively (except maybe China). This is not unique to nuclear.

Having smaller scale local power generation, whether it’s SMRs, solar, wind or geothermal, there’s a huge advantage in terms of economy, investment, and politics.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-17 16:10:12+00:00
setting aside the AWS DB offerring I've done 2 "Project: Aurora" in the past 3 years, and a bonus project "Audite" (make sure you say it correctly when execs are around!)

Look, I'm all for "big bets" but when the majority of time and effort goes into the naming, kick-off and t-shirt design, this ain't it.
by microtherion | 2025-11-17 16:10:16+00:00
Was going to mention that point: http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/en/knowledge/geothermal-energy-ear...

The worst earthquake that was induced that way was 3.5, but given that one of the quakes happened in an area that had a catastrophic earthquake in the Middle Ages, some caution might be warranted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1356_Basel_earthquake
by eslaught | 2025-11-17 16:10:45+00:00
It's because if you explain what's going on, you stop the action. And viewers/readers don't like that.

In fiction it's called an info dump. As an aspiring science fiction author, virtually every beta reader I've had has told me they don't like them. I want my fiction to make sense, but you have to be subtle about it. To avoid readers complaining, you have to figure out how to explain things to the reader without it being obvious that you're explaining things to the reader, or stopping the action to do it.

Movies are such a streamlined medium that usually this gets cut entirely. At least in books you can have appendices and such for readers who care.
by chmod775 | 2025-11-17 16:10:58+00:00
I don't know why HN lately is a roller coaster of hot takes, but I'm quite enjoying it.

Since the authors of these comments rarely ever deign to lay out the thought process that makes them arrive at what they are laying out so matter-of-factly, I'm free to imagine the inner workings of the author myself. I don't think I'll be bored of it anytime soon.
by Herring | 2025-11-17 16:11:06+00:00
What do you mean median values? Trump 2020 won the most votes of any sitting president ever. Then he won the popular vote in 2024.

Honestly given US history (slavery, individualism etc) I'm surprised democracy has lasted so long here. The Economist rates the US as a "flawed democracy", it has been undergoing erosion for a long time.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-17 16:11:09+00:00
Enough renewables are deployed annually to replace the global nuclear fission fleet, year after year, even when accounting for capacity factor derating (to make a like for like comparison). The race is over, and renewables (with batteries) won. If you can find someone unsophisticated to invest in a fission reactor that takes billions of dollars and 10-15 years to build, more power to you. There will be no need for it by 2035-2040 when it prepares to send its first kwh to the grid.

(and to stay on topic for this thread, geothermal is a component of this when geothermal potential exists, cost is competitive, and dispatachability is a requirement to push out fossil generation in concert with renewables, hydro, legacy nuclear, battery storage discharge, and demand response)

https://www.google.com/search?q=baseload+is+a+myth

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/15/coal-killing-sodium-ion...

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/q3-global-power-rep...

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-electricity-e...

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-electricity-e...

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspec...

https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-e...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices

https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/solar-panel-prices-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513185 (lfp battery storage cost citation in 2025)
by stopbulying | 2025-11-17 16:11:25+00:00
Apparently they also got into a civil legal dispute about use of their brand name or likeness by Carl Icahn, who acquired multiple failing casinos in Atlantic City with business names featuring Trump's name; and he was later hired as an advisor by the Trump Administration.

So, they seem to understand likeness and name rights.

Did they have knowledge of right and wrong at the time of the offense?
by andrewflnr | 2025-11-17 16:11:35+00:00
Eh, it's at such a superficial level it doesn't really pose a problem at the "revealing secret capabilities" level. It's EW, and Ukraine is covered in EW. If it's working against Kinzhal particularly, Russia doesn't need to read random English blog posts to find out. So this is just fluff propaganda or something. It's not that deep.
by foobarian | 2025-11-17 16:11:58+00:00
> uglier light that is less warm

I figured out why this happens.

The light color they call "daytime" is around 5000K, so I expected it to look like being outside in the sun; but instead I got a cold blueish vibe. The problem? Not enough power! I got the equivalent of a moonlit room.

So I got this 180W LED lamp (that's actual 180W, not 180W equivalent) [1]. It's so bright I couldn't see for 5 minutes. I put two in my office on desk lamps. The room now looks like being outside, without the "ugly blue" tint, even though the product says it's 6000K. The days of my SAD suffering are over!

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0962X573M