MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gertlex | 2025-11-27 00:03:30+00:00
apparently wspm is Wafer Starts Per Month

guess I'm interpretting "1million wspm; add 10%; was effectively a 20-30% capacity increase" in 2015.

Not sure where 5% then comes from. Guessing "relative shrink" is referring to process size (5, 4, 2 nm, whatever) not linearly corresponding to density of transistors, etc.
by burntsushi | 2025-11-27 00:04:53+00:00
The fact that this wasn't RCE or anything other than denial of service is a raging success of Rust.

“If it compiles it’s probably correct” has always been a tongue-in-cheek pithy exaggeration. I heard it among Haskell programmers long before I heard it in the context of Rust. And guess what? Haskell programs have bugs too.
by nearbuy | 2025-11-27 00:05:00+00:00
You're being rigid about your preferred definition of life, but for what purpose? What is gained by categorizing this as strictly non-living?

Wikipedia on the definition of life:

> Since there is no consensus for a definition of life, most current definitions in biology are descriptive. Life is considered a characteristic of something that preserves, furthers or reinforces its existence in the given environment. This implies all or most of the following traits: [list of seven common traits of life]
by tomhow | 2025-11-27 00:05:08+00:00
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062504.

Whilst this submission was posted a little earlier than that one, this article is re-reporting of the Ars Technica article. We normally reward the user who submits the first article about a topic, however the guidelines ask us to submit the original source for a topic, so in this case we're rewarding the user to submitted the original source.
by Gagarin1917 | 2025-11-27 00:05:09+00:00
That’s a discussion about where wealth gains are going, however my comment was about the concept of excess capital, investment, and jobs.

Yes, the wealth of the 1% has increased over the decades, but so has investment. The economy still dwarfs what it was decades ago. There are more jobs than there were decades ago.

Hopefully you see my point but now. The “waves” of economics effects objectively didn’t stop at the rich.
by hdgvhicv | 2025-11-27 00:05:17+00:00
We either go extinct or we populate the galaxy (potentially an evolution which will be unrecognisable)

Currently though there’s nothing planned to leave the solar system faster than voyager 1. New horizons will never catch up short of some weird gravity slingshot in millions of years which is probably just as likely to fling musks roadster out into interstellar space
by yieldcrv | 2025-11-27 00:05:29+00:00
There is very little literature about Chinese requirements rolled out

and when there is, its talked about as American tech companies bowing to an authoritarian regime as opposed to fighting a burgeoning market force acting on behalf of consumers and the American tech companies losing that fight

the latter is how the EU work is syndicated

in between is that there likely is no fight with Chinese regulators alongside an unwillingness to alter access to that market
by buzer | 2025-11-27 00:05:36+00:00
> - Making design choices such as ensuring that E2EE is opt-in by default, rather than opt-out would require people to choose E2EE should they wish to use it, therefore allowing certain detection technologies to work for communication between users that have not opted in to E2EE

So you make it so that when the user starts the application you ask them "Your current configuration allows government, and probably some hackers as well, to see your messages. Do you want to enable encryption? Your government's suggestion is that you should say 'No' here. That's also what the foreign intelligence agencies suggest" "Yes, enable encryption" "No". That's clearly opt-in, you even provide the government's recommendation. And of course you then ask that whenever they open the application if they selected "No", we have learned that it's completely fine to keep asking same question from the user.

Oh, and make sure that the other party is clearly aware that the other side has not enabled encryption.
by kawfey | 2025-11-27 00:05:39+00:00
It’s the perfect pharmaceutical miracle drug: a shot that cures the root cause for thousands of diseases (obesity) with a whole bunch of unexpected benefits (like reductions in substance abuse, fewer migraines), with mild symptoms and rare complications. But you’re stuck on it for life or else return to your pre GLP1 body.

The fact it spun of of research on Gila monsters is still crazy to me.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-27 00:06:32+00:00
-1. One of the most famous biggest budget dudes, Stanley Kubrick, using an ultra rare incredibly special f/0.7 he bargained with NASA to get is, to me, an argument not that the past was great with natural lighting & could use it. It's an argument that that was the hardest most difficult costly & inaccessible upper-est echelon of what was possible, that only a couple rare gods of cinema had any access to dark natural lighting.

A focal plane mere inches thick!

Incredibly wild constraints here. It's incredibly fun to read about & folks should!

But everything about the Barry Lyndon story & the extreme effort to make it validates the top post to me. Our modern sensors are just stratospherically better & wildly unconstraining vs the past.
by gishh | 2025-11-27 00:06:41+00:00
What about “detect when the content isn’t correct and take protective measures so that a core service of the global internet _doesn’t_ crash?” Wasn’t that the whole point of rust? I’ll repeat again “if it compiles it is almost absolutely correct” is a mantra I see on hn daily.

Apparently that isn’t true.

Edit: isn’t the whole idea of C/C++ being flawed pivoted around memory management and how flawed the languages are? Wasn’t the whole point of rust to eliminate that whole class of errors? XSS and buffer overflows are almost always caused by “malformed” outside input. Rust apparently doesn’t protect against that.
by MBCook | 2025-11-27 00:06:55+00:00
I wouldn’t blame USB-C for that, personally.

The Pencil situation is a disaster. There are at least 3 first party versions plus the 3rd party ones. And when version X + 1 comes out they don’t drop support for version X, they use it in a different product for some stupid reason. Probably because the tooling already exists.

So you can find entire matrices online attempting to explain which iPads support which pencils.

It’s horrible. The Lightning -> USB-C transition is probably one of least objectionable parts of pencil history.
by refulgentis | 2025-11-27 00:08:01+00:00
I’m sad the mid to late 2010s alt reality era has come for HN the last 6 months, after 16 years here.

This was my last respite for intellectual argumentation.

Now, every day there’s multiple stories where you have to be caught up on this cinematic universe where AI is fake and doesn’t work and no one uses it and anyone who does is a grifter and or amateur and or embarrassing and any data centers they build will be a waste and they’re probably not even being built and OpenAI is JUST like pets.com so this is basically the web bubble from 1999…so therefore, $X! (In this case, X = RAM supply shortage is fake and actually just coordinated price gouging)

As my MD friend noted wisely a couple weeks ago: it’s noteworthy how this became a culture after LLMs became ubiquitous and user friendly. It was tons of fun and happy times when we were going to reduce # of radiologists, not software engineers.
by muppetman | 2025-11-27 00:08:19+00:00
McDonalds has been shown multiple times to use their app to figure out how much someone is really willing to play for their slop: https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/350476761/mcdonald-s-under-fir...

To you and me, the consumer, the value of an app is "the same" as the old loyalty cards. But the value to the company is huge! How often you open the app (how often are you thinking about their food), how often you accept an offer, what the price of the offer is, what card you used to pay, where were you when you opened the app etc etc.

Going to be fun times when in 10 years time they sell all that information to your health insurance provider for them to go "Holy hell" and jack your insurances prices up 5 times over.

But sure, we got 20c off a burger.
by vmurthy | 2025-11-27 00:08:36+00:00
> have you seen Amazon's "Rufus"? It's hilariously useless.

I'd argue -- for now. Maybe it's an incentive/urgency thing. At the moment, Amazon isn't seeing ChatGPT do the buying of goods bypassing Amazon's own search. I expect Rufus to drastically improve especially given that Amazon has an AWS offering of LLM(s) [0].

[0]https://aws.amazon.com/ai/generative-ai/
by ohhnoodont | 2025-11-27 00:08:52+00:00
I’m glad that someone has built this and made it their personal crusade, but this is a problem that I can’t relate to having. I find it far more uncomfortable/intimate to sleep next to someone (even if in separate beds) than to shower or use the toilet in front off someone. Snoring, farting, dream talking, morning erections, etc.

Somehow I seem to be in the minority with this opinion. But if we’re sharing a room we’re probably pretty comfortable with each other.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-27 00:08:54+00:00
As soon as the cat is out of the bag and consumers know that ChatGPT is a vehicle for advertisement, consumers will reject it.

If I, a consumer, want to buy a car, I need to do research. Where do I go? Online, across many websites. I talk to my friends. I talk to my coworkers.

Where do I NOT go? To the car salesman, and ask him for help. Because of course he will lie - he's a car salesman, he wants to sell cars that he sells.

Even with Google we see this being the case. Nobody is clicking the Google ads at the top because they know those are ads, not research. They only do it accidentally, which is evidenced by Google making it more difficult over time to tell what is or is not an ad.
by grugagag | 2025-11-27 00:10:03+00:00
Its more than coupons. These apps track your location, usage and so on then sell this data to a 3rd party. Coupons don’t do that. Do you read full useragreement you accept when installing apps? Most people wouldn’t understand the legalese in those.

A coupon could still be an image you find online that can be scanned and that’s it. Apps are totally not necessary unless they squeeze something out of the user.
by valiant55 | 2025-11-27 00:11:30+00:00
It's upsetting that it's commonly pushed that something as complex as "the economy" could ever be summerized or understood through a single, uncontextualized number. E.g. GDP, jobs reports, SP500 or unemployment rate.

Even just breaking down unemployment rate by race starts illuminated a better understanding of our current conditions. Labor participation sees at least some discussion in the main stream but trying to distill everything into a 5 second headline is hurdling us to doom.
by gslin | 2025-11-27 00:11:35+00:00
Quote from the first paragraph:

> Today, we’re announcing Amazon Route 53 Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records, a new Domain Name Service (DNS) business continuity feature that is designed to provide a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) during service disruptions in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. This enhancement ensures that customers can continue making DNS changes and provisioning infrastructure even during regional outages, providing greater predictability and resilience for mission-critical applications.
by SamInTheShell | 2025-11-27 00:11:50+00:00
Not a lawyer, but if you're talking USA, would recommend checking regularly for updates: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/

Even if AI output isn't copyrightable, could you really argue a solid case if I taint random parts of the source code with my own isms? Which this is something I do, I don't care if the AI generated portions of my code base are copyrightable, perhaps my licensing is not valid for those portions, but throughout my code is going to be parts I hand crafted or patterned out because the AI just can't get it right. Those snippets are just proverbial land mines in waiting for a copyright infringer in waiting.
by buu700 | 2025-11-27 00:12:50+00:00
I recently learned that this is (for all intents and purposes) a feature in npm as well, specifically the `--before` flag to `npm install`: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/commands/npm-install#before. That was harder than it should've been to figure out; it really needs better marketing.

Related to that is the proposal for `stabilityDays`, which seems way more practical: https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/8570#issuecomment-33004136.... So rather than merely saying "I only want package versions more than N days old", you'd be adding the requirement that "...and also they should have gone at least N days without a subsequent patch release". e.g. if mylib@6.0.0 is released, only to be quickly followed by 6.0.1 and 6.0.2, you ideally wouldn't want to risk ever installing the probably-broken 6.0.0 or 6.0.1 based on luck of the draw; the better behavior would be to stick with the last 5.x release until 6.0.2 has aged past the threshold.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-11-27 00:13:52+00:00
I recently stayed at a hotel in San Francisco that had no bathroom door. I'd even upgraded to the queen size room specifically because their layout map showed a door while the smaller rooms did not. I was pretty annoyed by that. (Edit: Despite being a single traveller. I think doors are important for hygiene).

Happy to see someone is trying to fix this trend.
by yyyk | 2025-11-27 00:14:19+00:00
OpenBSD FFS is robust in the sense of 'it is unlikely an FFS bug will lose your data'. But it is ancient, and, well, there are reasons for filesystem developments in the last half century, like 'not losing your data thanks to blackouts or hw bug'.

The lack of at least a journaling FS is inexcusable in a modern OS. Linux and Windows have had it for 25 years by now, and we could argue softupdates are roughly equivalent (FreeBSD has had SU+J for years now too).
by vunderba | 2025-11-27 00:14:26+00:00
Sure! So that image was pretty zoomed out, I've gone ahead and attached some of the reference images in greater detail:

https://imgur.com/a/failed-style-transfer-nb-pro-o3htsKn

Now you should be able to see that the generated image is stylistically not even close to the references (which are early works by Yoichi Kotabe). Pay careful attention to the characters.

With locally hostable models, you can try things like Reference/Shuffle ControlNets but that's not always successful either.
by cubefox | 2025-11-27 00:14:55+00:00
Payment services like credit cards demand a significant fee for a (nowadays) technically trivial service: instant cash-free payments. These could be replaced with modern instant bank transfer standards, like FedNow in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedNow

These don't require external middle men (like credit card companies) and are therefore almost free. Unfortunately the US is late to the party (in India and some other countries these are already widely used for years), so many banks don't support FedNow yet.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-27 00:14:59+00:00
We do see competition there, iMessage is superior, so many android apps try to emulate it. thunderbolt was around before USB 4, lightning was before USB-C, the Apple appstore is still a model of better quality/security. You can see google trying to emulate that and requiring devs to id themselves (competition isn't always pleasant). Why would you spend making something better, if it doesn't give your company a competitive edge? If you're forced to help your competition have the same capability, where is the ROI?

> Apple considers themselves above competition

In literally every market apple is in, they have intense competition!?

> they ultimately decide what is righteous and anyone who disagrees buys a different phone

Ugh.. yeah.. shouldn't they be allowed to sell things that they believe will sell well? I mean on one hand people complain about cheap devices engineered with planned obsolescence, and then you complain about what.. better quality? If they believe it is a superior system, then certain, I want that as a consumer. Why don't you? And I also thing being able to buy a different phone is great, that means no monopolies, that's what we all want right?

> neither get superior software solutions nor cheaper products.

I am getting a superior hardware and software for apple. What his happening now is, for no amount of money I could possibly earn can I get a good quality product, I have to settle with EU's forced mediocrity even though I don't live in the EU. People who can't afford apple products have alternatives, but that isn't enough for you, you want everyone to get participation trophies? that's what it sounds like, i could be wrong, it sounds like you don't want to feel envious of people who get superior products? Even though there are many android phones more expensive than iPhones, so it isn't even a question of affordability. it's just forced mediocrity. With no upsides to anyone other than people who feel great about "america bad" "middle finger to apple".
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-11-27 00:16:08+00:00
Looking at the table, I will admit that I don't get most of the use cases ( maybe with exception of comparison shopping ( gather info ), but are people really 'outsourcing' shopping? Am I really that much outside what 'normal' consumers do these days?

Task Segment Tasks SoM GPT-4o-0513 SoM o3-mini SoM GPT-4o GLM-4.1V-9B OAI Comp-Use UI-TARS-1.5 Fara-7B Single-Site Tasks Shopping 56 62.5 71.4 38.1 31.0 42.3 41.1 52.4 Flights 51 60.1 39.2 11.1 10.5 17.6 10.5 37.9 Hotels 52 68.6 56.4 31.4 19.9 26.9 35.3 53.8 Restaurants 52 67.9 59.6 47.4 32.1 35.9 22.4 47.4 Activities 80 70.4 62.9 41.7 26.3 30.4 9.6 36.3 Ticketing 57 58.5 56.7 37.4 35.7 49.7 30.4 38.6 Real Estate 48 34.0 17.4 20.1 16.0 9.0 9.7 23.6 Jobs/Careers 50 49.3 44.0 32.7 22.7 20.7 20.7 28.0 Multi-Step Tasks Shopping List (2 items) 51 66.0 62.7 17.0 7.8 34.0 20.9 49.0 Comparison Shopping 57 67.3 59.1 27.5 22.8 1.2 8.8 32.7 Compositional Tasks 55 51.5 39.4 26.7 17.0 10.3 9.1 23.0 Overall
by array_key_first | 2025-11-27 00:17:11+00:00
Being the most visited or the most used or the most whatever is absolutely useless information, and you should delete it from your mind.

Any idiot off the street can be the most used website on Earth. Easy - go to my website, and I give you free stuff. So why am I not a billionaire? Because that's a dumbass business model and that won't go anywhere.

The idea that if you just "flood the market" you can be successful is a crock of shit, and I think we're all starting to realize it. It's not difficult, or impressive, or laborious to provide something people want. It's difficult to do it in a way that makes money.

You might say - but what about Spotify? What about Uber? Those companies are not successful. They are just barely profitable, after investment on the order of decades. We don't actually know if a service like Spotify even works long term. It sounds fantastic - pay ten bucks or whatever and get all the music you want.

But has anyone taken a step back and asked - hmm - how do we make money off of this? Because obviously that is not the cost of music, right? And we don't own any of the capital, right? And we don't actually make a product, right, we're just a middle man?

ChatGPT is in a similar predicament. The value of ChatGPT is not the ChatGPT, it's what ChatGPT produces. It's a middle man, operating at massive losses, with absolutely no path towards profitability.
by Aloisius | 2025-11-27 00:17:18+00:00
The problem isn't E2E encrypted group video calls. FaceTime supports that. The issue is interoperability with E2E encryption.

If Apple says sure, implement this FaceTime spec. Facebook does the same thing, go ahead and implement Messenger video chat.

Now you have the Android NewVideoChat app which supports its own protocol, Facebook's and Apple's. A user with NewVideoChat tries to invite a NewVideoChat user, an Apple user and a Facebook user to a video chat.

Except Facebook Messenger's app doesn't support Apple's Facetime app doesn't support Facebook Messenger, so you run into some issues. Something needs to dupe the stream out to all three services which use radically different payloads and encryption methods - and they have to do it without breaking end-to-end encryption. Do it at the client-side and the Android app users will need to dupe their own streams three times and at least one user will need to relay the other two other streams, with all the bandwidth and latency issues that entails. Do it on the server side and you somehow need to translate between protocols (and possibly codecs!) without decrypting them.

And if your video group chat supports private messaging between a subset of participants, you can end up in a situation where a Facebook user wants to send something to a Facetime user without the NewVideoChat user seeing it.. which is a bit of a problem.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-11-27 00:17:41+00:00
Some people make noise when they eat with their mouth open. It's not scandalous, it's just ignorant and gross. It's always an utter clod that is so unaware of themselves just smucking and squelching away on their open mouth full of gloopy donut muck.

It's not a virtue to be so unselfcounscious. It's not about being ashamed or inhibited or in pathological denial of biological realities. It's about being fucking minimally considerate and just the tiniest bit self-aware.
by vunderba | 2025-11-27 00:18:01+00:00
Hi bn-l, yeah as mentioned above and in the Release Notes - we'll be adding a more nuanced numerical score in the next week.

I don't know if I'm going to get as granular as 1-10 only because the finer the scoring - the more potential for subjectivity. That's why it was initially set up as a "Minimum Passing Criteria Rule Set" along with a Pass/Fail grade.

A suggestion from a previous HN post was something along the lines of (0 Fail, 0.5 Technical Pass, 1.0 Proficient Pass).
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-27 00:19:00+00:00
My state does not require a door on a guest bathroom in a hotel. A bathroom serving employees and the public in a hotel is required to have a self-closing door, but the law does not say anything about doors on guest only bathrooms.

I couldn’t find anything in the International Building Code about bathroom doors aside from minimum opening width, but I don’t have access to the full code. I’d have to ask an architect or GC to verify.

> 4625.1200 TOILET REQUIREMENTS.

> Every hotel, motel, and lodging house shall be equipped with adequate and conveniently located water closets for the accommodation of its employees and guests. Water closets, lavatories, and bathtubs or showers shall be available on each floor when not provided in each individual room. Toilet, lavatory, and bath facilities shall be provided in the ratio of one toilet and one lavatory for every ten occupants, or fraction thereof, and one bathtub or shower for every 20 occupants, or fraction thereof. Toilet rooms shall be well ventilated by natural or mechanical methods. The doors of all toilet rooms serving the public and employees shall be self-closing. Toilets and bathrooms shall be kept clean and in good repair and shall be well lighted and ventilated. Hand-washing signs shall be posted in each toilet room used by employees. Every resort shall be equipped with adequate and convenient toilet facilities for its employees and guests. If privies are provided they shall be separate buildings and shall be constructed, equipped, and maintained in conformity with the standards of the commissioner and shall be kept clean.

> https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/4625.1200/
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-27 00:19:27+00:00
There were several different components internal to Cloudflare that failed in a complex distributed systems context; the Rust failure is garnering more attention partially because it was a very legible failure, which also makes it easy for Cloudflare to fix this bug and all similar bugs quickly. The Cloudflare postmortem is a pro-Rust argument. It's also an argument that too many institutions rely on Cloudflare, which is a harder problem to solve.