MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qchris | 2025-12-31 15:54:00+00:00
I often like SemiAnalysis' work, but there's parts of this article that are shockingly under-researched and completely missing critical parts of the narrative.

> Eighteen months ago, Elon Musk shocked the datacenter industry by building a 100,000-GPU cluster in four months. Multiple innovations enabled this incredible achievement, but the energy strategy was the most impressive.

> Again, clever firms like xAI have found remedies. Elon's AI Lab even pioneered a new site selection process - building at the border of two states to maximize the odds of getting a permit early!

The energy strategy was to completely and almost certainly illegally bypass permitting and ignore the Clean Air Act, at a tangible cost to the surrounding community by measurably increasing respiratory irritants like NOx in the air around these communities. Characterizing this harm as "clever" is wildly irresponsible, and it's wild that the word "illegal" doesn't appear in the article once, while at the same time handwaving the fact that permitting for local combustion-based generation (for these reasons!) is one of the main factors to pushing out timelines and increasing cost.

[1] https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/

[2] https://www.selc.org/news/resistance-against-elon-musks-xai-...

[3] https://naacp.org/articles/elon-musks-xai-threatened-lawsuit...
by bgbntty2 | 2025-12-31 15:54:11+00:00
> time spent determining if the item is dishwasher proof

It's done once per item. In my case I have just a few things I know are not dishwasher proof.

> time spent playing dishwasher tetris

Get a bigger dishwasher.

> time spent filling and emptying

The same time you'd spend putting things in the sink and taking them out after you've washed them.

> time pre-cleaning before putting things in the dishwasher

No need to that, unless you leave actual chunks of uneaten food on your plates.

> time spent re-washing after it turns out that the dishwasher did not clean your as well as it advertised on the box

Try powdered detergent. There are a few Technology Connections videos discussing dishwashers, including how capsules are inefficient - basically they're used up on the "pre-wash" cycle. There are a few other tricks to improve the efficiency of the dishwasher, too.

So you have a few things to do once and a few things to do always, which you'd do with hand washing anyway. Having a dishwasher is a game changer. If you're not happy with the results, don't give up just yet. Think of how to improve the process, because it's possible. At first I was also skeptical and disappointed in my (first) dishwasher.
by onion2k | 2025-12-31 15:54:44+00:00
Start your own company.

Eventually you'll want to know what users are doing, and specifically why they're not doing what you expected them to do after you spent ages crafting the perfect user journeys around your app. Then you'll start wondering if installing something to record sessions is actually a great idea that could really help you optimize things for people and get them more engaged (and spending more money.)

Fast forward three years, and you'll be looking at the source of a page wondering how things got so bad.
by ck2 | 2025-12-31 15:54:50+00:00
Why is the supreme-court slow-walking the tariff decision which is crystal clear as lower courts clearly demonstrate only Congress can set taxes/tariffs?

It would end inflation within 90 days

Even their silly 15% tariff fallback law abuse would be more sane than the 50-150% currently

Next few years is going to be insanity
by louthy | 2025-12-31 15:55:24+00:00
I've just bought a house in Alderwasley in Derbyshire, the nearest town is Wirksworth [1]. I assumed that, because this area was the heart of the industrial revolution [2], the town was an eponymously named workers town built for mill workers (there are actually towns in the area that were built for mill workers).

Then I read the history on wikipedia:

The name was recorded as Werchesworde in the Domesday Book of 1086 A.D. Outlying farms (berewicks) were Cromford, Middleton, Hopton, Wellesdene [sic], Carsington, Kirk Ireton and Callow. It gave its name to the earlier Wirksworth wapentake or hundred. The Survey of English Place-Names records Wyrcesuuyrthe in 835, Werchesworde in 1086, and Wirksworth(e) in 1536.

The toponym might be "Weorc's enclosure", or "fortified enclosure".

I just love how place names in the UK have evolved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirksworth

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromford_Mill
by jmyeet | 2025-12-31 15:56:01+00:00
Three thoughts:

1. Just to repeat myself from another comment on this thread, there is no such thing as a defensive weapon. Were it not for the various missile shields, the Israeli state wouldn't act with wanton abandon against its own citizens and its neighbours. All of the various war crimes and terror attacks are a direct consequence of the effectiveness of a "defensive" missile shield.

Let me pose this question to you: if these were purely defensive technologies, why don't we give them to everyone, including the Palestinians? and

2. Israel has already ruled out giving Ukraine the anti-missile (and assumedly anti-drone) defenses [1]; and

3. Many people, yourself included it seems, need to examine these conflicts around the world through the lens of historical materialism.

Take the genocide and conflict in Sudan. The SAF are arguably the ones with the "cheap rockets" here. Should we be giving the RSF anti-drone technology? The RSF are backed by the UAE using US weapons. Why? To loot Sudanese gold.

Why did Russia invade Ukraine? Territory, access to the Black Sea, resources and to create a land bridge to Crimea that had otherwise become extremely expensive to maintain as a colonial outpost. Like, just look at a map of controlled territory.

But why is it in a stalemate? In part because Russia is a nuclear power but also because the West is unwilling to let Ukraine do the one thing it could do to defend itself properly and that is to attack Russian energy infrastructure. Despite the sanctions, Russia is still allowed to sell oil and gas to places like Hungary, Slovakia, France, Belgium, India and China.

Back to the Middle East, we have Yemen, who was devastated by war and genocide at the hands of another US ally, Saudi Arabia.

The solution to these conflicts isn't more weapons, not even "defensive weapons". It's solving the underlying economic conditions that created that conflict in the first place.

[1]: https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-rules-out-giving-ukr...
by doug_life | 2025-12-31 15:56:24+00:00
“In Feb. 2024, Stardew Valley reached 30 million copies sold, and if we assume each copy sold for $15, that means that the game could have generated a revenue of $450 million. A modest 10 percent profit margin puts ConcernedApe’s earnings at $45 million, a number that is likely to increase in the future.” Source: https://dotesports.com/stardew-valley/news/how-much-money-di...
by Terretta | 2025-12-31 15:56:33+00:00
If expert devs have junior devs to assign code to, that you review and integrate, do they become “hopelessly dependent” on junior devs?

My experience of expert devs is those who are happy to have extra leverage are not slowed much by having to do it themselves.

In no cases have I seen experts become “dependent” on the junior devs.
Show HN: Eimi – Turn any information into daily cards
by xjconlyme | 2025-12-31 15:56:35+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the developer behind Eimi (https://eimi.tech/).

The Problem: I found myself constantly distracted. I wanted to learn new words and keep up with specific news, but every time I opened an app, I ended up doomscrolling for 20 minutes. The signal-to-noise ratio was too low.

The Solution: I built Eimi to "calm down" my consumption. It’s a card-based app that delivers content depends on your personal needs. Instead of an infinite feed, you get curated highly customizable cards.

Use Cases:

Language Learning: Instead of flashcards without context, it generates cards with usage examples for words I'm trying to learn.

News/Market Watch: I hook up my interests (e.g., tech news, specific stocks), and it generates a summary card. No clickbait, just the gist.

It's currently in Public Beta. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the UX and what other "card types" you’d find useful.

Thanks!
by thatguymike | 2025-12-31 15:57:16+00:00
Happy new year from SF. 2025 was about hanging on, balancing a heavy workload and a new baby, but in ways which I’m confident are the right decisions for our future. I did a lot of Becoming An Adult this year, learning to trust myself and my partner, and prioritizing what matters. 2026 will probably be more of the same..! But I am hopeful things should ease up over time.

Happy new year, this community has given me a lot and I’m grateful for you all.
by mort96 | 2025-12-31 15:57:46+00:00
According to https://www.co2meter.com/blogs/news/carbon-dioxide-indoor-le..., at 1000 ppm people start getting drowsy. Let's assume that a decent indoor environment has 300 ppm more CO2 This means that our threshold for when people start getting drowsy even in decent indoor environments is when atmospheric CO2 reaches 700 ppm. For reference, it is currently around 420 ppm, and pre-industrial levels were 280 ppm.

From https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/..., the pessimistic projections suggest that we may reach our 700 ppm threshold by roughly 2070; 45 years from now. (The graphs are hard to read precisely)

The 300 ppm offset compared to the outside air is naturally just an arbitrary number, everything up to 1000 ppm (meaning everything up to 580 ppm more than atmospheric levels) is considered "acceptable". That means any increase in CO2 concentration will take an indoor environment which used to be considered "acceptable" and make it cross the threshold into "unacceptable". An indoor environment which would've been at 900 ppm around the industrial revolution (280 ppm) would've crossed the threshold when we surpassed 380 ppm (which was in 1965 according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/1091926/atmospheric-conc...).

let's compare the past 20 years. In 2004, the concentration was ~377 ppm. That's 47 ppm lower than what was in 2024. An indoor environment which was "borderline but acceptable" at 955 ppm CO2 in 2004 would've crossed the arbitrary 1000 ppm threshold by now, and therefore would benefit from a CO2 scrubber. The next 20 years will likely have a higher increase than the past 20 years, so there will be a larger range of currently acceptable indoor environments which will cross the 1000 ppm threshold by 2045.

TL;DR: It's complicated, 20 years is arbitrary, but as CO2 concentrations increase, indoor quality gets worse so indoor environments which were already bad will become worse. 45 years is a more realistic estimate for when your typical good indoor environment will become unacceptable, but it's a gradient.
by whitehexagon | 2025-12-31 15:58:08+00:00
I'm not surprised they have to pay higher, since no amount of money could convince me to work towards human irrelevance, or BigAdTech.

When I see this technology improve and free the lives of those whose salary is akin to slavery, then I might reconsider.

Context: I've been reading about the Mondragon Corporation, and it seems a much better model than this maximum extraction economy we are building. I'll submit a story for it, although I discovered it through a HN book recommendation (Kim Stanley Robinson).
by deepankarm44 | 2025-12-31 15:59:06+00:00
I built this after dealing with agent reliability issues in production. LLM APIs fail in weird ways, tools return garbage, streams cut mid-response. Traditional chaos tools don't understand these failure modes.

`agent-chaos` lets you define conversation scenarios, inject chaos (rate limits, tool errors, corrupt data), and assert behavior. Integrates with DeepEval for LLM-as-judge assertions.

Feedback welcome.
by sharyphil | 2025-12-31 15:59:20+00:00
Happy New Year everyone!

You guys are all truly wonderful, otherwise you wouldn't be here.

As from someone who started my own company last year and decided to dive into a dozen of projects, reached new milestones and a lot of success, but suffered from severe burnout and depression:

Remember - you can do anything, but not everything. Choose what to focus on and what makes you happy and go for it.
Happy 2026!
by TrackerFF | 2025-12-31 15:59:47+00:00
I'm also a happy customer.

But, one thing has been consistent for the past 3 years: After every release from all the serious competitors, the hype can go either way.

As far as the hype cycles go, OpenAI is oscillating between "Best model ever" and "What a letdown, it's over" at least twice a year.

The competition is fierce, and a never-ending marathon of all the players getting ahead just a bit. No clear long-term winner.
by the_gastropod | 2025-12-31 16:00:06+00:00
Think about the magnitude you’re talking about here. Every internal combustion engine on earth is emitting CO2. Every volcano, forest fire, coal power plant, etc. The atmosphere is massive. We’ve been, basically, doing our best to pump it full of CO2 for the last 150 years, and this is what we’ve got. Ignoring the chemical challenges with your idea here, the scale is impossibly gargantuan.
by d-us-vb | 2025-12-31 16:00:17+00:00
This comment is quite strange to me. e is the base of the natural logarithm. so ln 2 is actually log_e (2). If we take the natural log of 2, we are literally using its value as the base of a logarithm.

Does a number not matter "in practice" even if it's used to compute a more commonly use constant? Very odd framing.
by hannesfur | 2025-12-31 16:00:20+00:00
Interesting thought but you would need a lot of these gasses on the one hand and on the other hand it doesn’t help in working against the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect depends on the absolute amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, not the percentage. How much infrared light is absorbed by CO2 primarily depends on the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
by ridgeguy | 2025-12-31 16:00:39+00:00
Happy New Year from the Sierra Nevada foothills.

2025:
- set up new facility for mfg of CVD diamond tech products
- replaced awful old carpets at home with bamboo wood floors
- lost 42 lbs (thanks, tirzepatide)
- secured $ for a new CVD diamond system, build starts in January
- road trip to see friends & family, some for first time in a decade

Wishing happiness, love, accomplishment and adventure to all!
by zyngaro | 2025-12-31 16:01:08+00:00
The author of the comment I replied to seems to find it perfectly okay for "might is right" to be the norm. I pointed out that if we believe that this way of thinking is okay at the international politics level then the corollary is that democracy and human right must be a farce. Don't be mistaken, what we see happening at the level of world affairs will trickle down to everyday life. At the world stage, this wicked way of thinking leads to genocides being normalized. At the societal level it leads to societies with no morals. Might is right at every level.
by xiphias2 | 2025-12-31 16:01:19+00:00
Docstrings and comments are amazing to be able to work with huge code bases with big teams where you don't want to understand the whole code base, because it's impossible.

If the goal is to not abstract anything away, and always look at the implementation itself to be able to change it / rewrite it, keep it tiny and it is able to beat PyTorch+CUDA+LLVM with 1000x smaller codebase, who am I to judge?

Actually in that case less comments / docstrings may mean less to read.
by estearum | 2025-12-31 16:01:38+00:00
The gas turbines are hopefully an intermediate solution due to the long and not guaranteed process of grid connection and renewable buildout.

> The data centers are being built, sorry to anyone who gets triggered by that.

It's obvious that you're starting from your conclusion and working backwards, which is probably how your initial comment was full of so much motivated reasoning to begin with.

In your mind, is there any set of negative externalities that would justify not building the data centers, or at least not building them now, or at least not building them now in some areas?
by avianlyric | 2025-12-31 16:01:53+00:00
Where else are they going to come from? They’re all basic elements, either you separate them from air, or you have to go through an energy intensive process to liberate them from various chemicals they’ve been compounded into.

But guess what, all of those chemicals are extremely valuable, such as nitrates for fertiliser, water, and Argon does really react with anything (it’s a noble gas), which is why we use it as a shield gas in processes like welding.

So producing enough of those gases to somehow offset CO2 production would first require ludicrously large amounts of energy, and if we had access to that amount of clean energy we wouldn’t even be having this discussion. Plus it requires breaking down really valuable chemicals that we spend quite a lot of energy trying to produce or preserve anyway.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-31 16:02:28+00:00
> It means that the colors should be correct. The sky on tv should look like the sky. The grass on tv should look like grass.

It is not as clear cut as you think and is very much a gradient. I could send 10 different color gradings of the sky and grass to 10 different people and they could all say it looks “natural” to them, or a few would say it looks “off,” because our expectations of “natural” looks are not informed by any sort of objective rubric. Naturally if everyone says it’s off the common denominator is likely the colorist, but aside from that, the above generally holds. It’s why color grading with proper scopes and such is so important. You’re doing your best to meet the expectation for as many people as possible knowing that they will be looking on different devices, have different ideas of what a proper color is, are in different environments, etc. and ultimately you will still disappoint some folks. There are so many hardware factors at play stacked on top of an individual’s own expectations.

Even the color of the room you’re in or the color/intensity of the light in your peripheral vision will heavily influence how you perceive a color that is directly in front of you. Even if you walk around with a proper color reference chart checking everything it’s just always going to have a subjective element because you have your own opinion of what constitutes green grass.
by btdmaster | 2025-12-31 16:02:29+00:00
Ah you can use https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/pull/564

So you can do e.g. `patchelf --remove-needed-version libm.so.6 GLIBC_2.29 ./mybinary` instead of replacing glibc wholesale (step 2 and 3) and assuming all of used glibc by the executable is ABI compatible this will just work (it's worked for a small binary for me, YMMV).
by sameg14 | 2025-12-31 16:02:37+00:00
Ever wish finding help was as easy as texting a friend?

"I need a plumber in Austin who can come this week"
"Looking to sell my MacBook Pro"
"I'm offering piano lessons for beginners"

That's literally all you have to say.

Our AI understands what you need and connects you with people who can help. No endless scrolling. No complicated filters. No frustration.

Just speak your find.

https://speakyourfind.com/
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-31 16:02:44+00:00
Is it incredibly rare? We've seen time and time again in the last few years, really basic indie games overtake AAA games in sales on Steam. Schedule One is another one which had 450 thousand concurrent players not very long after its launch. It seems AAA game studios are missing what gamers want at every turn. There's an uptick in indie devs that have broken through the barriers with good gameplay despite the graphics not being AAA quality.

Edit other games that come to mind: Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hades II, Schedule 1, and R.E.P.O.

More obvious examples: Minecraft, Terraria, Factorio were all indie studios as far as I am aware. Minecraft being one of the most successful games at 350 million copies sold.
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-31 16:02:45+00:00
Still, it will add some 80ppm over the amount you have today. There's a huge amount of disagreement over how much CO2 is harmful, but it tends to happen over numbers way above 800ppm.

If your room has 2 times the open air concentration, and you are concerned if it's 2.0 times or 2.2 times, you should already be dealing with the problem.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-12-31 16:03:03+00:00
My contributions/spins on this:

The most general problem cannot be solved. (If you don't limit scope, you will never finish. You won't even finish the design.)

If you want it bad, that's how you're going to get it. (That is, rushing a project means you get crummy results. This may be "Hanka's Law", because I first heard it from Steve Hanka, but it may not be original to him.)
by jqpabc123 | 2025-12-31 16:03:12+00:00
That's nice but the single biggest threat to national security is not military but rather economic.

Why attack mitilarily when you can just strangle your adversary economically? This is what China is well on it's way toward doing.

The USA is surrendering international markets and influence to China --- which is the playbook for economc subjugation.

No one reads anymore but Sun Tzu is a requirement when dealing with China.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-31 16:03:15+00:00
> LLM's skip over the "actually verify that the code I just wrote does what I intended it to" step.

I'm not sure where this idea comes from. Just instruct it to write and run unit tests and document as it goes. All of the ones I've used will happily do so.

You still have to verify that the unit tests are valid, but that's still far less work than skipping them or writing the code/tests yourself.
by zdragnar | 2025-12-31 16:03:20+00:00
I don't think it is intended to be commercially viable on the basis of benzene production alone.

Rather, it is a more permanent solution compared to sequestration, where the benzene production offsets the cost.

If, as they plan, it can be done on-site, that would also eliminate transporting the soil and avoiding accidentally spreading it elsewhere, which is appealing as well.

Sanitary landfills (the sort that prevent seepage) are not exactly cheap either, and pose an ongoing risk in that the DDT is always there, waiting to get back out.
by mothballed | 2025-12-31 16:03:32+00:00
It slowed down Americans because we aren't recently used to it. The rich did adapt relatively quickly by buying up all the housing they could at negative real interest, stocks, gold, and to a lesser extent crypto.

The lesson has been learned by this point though, even a day laborer is holding silver and crypto nowadays because we have in recent memory the COVID shenanigans of mass QE.

People in China and Russia have basically taken for granted so long that their currency is completely manipulated, they all already knew to not be hoodwinked.
by bgbntty2 | 2025-12-31 16:03:53+00:00
Are all of these apps only available through Google's Play Store repo, or are any of the available as an apk file directly from the bank's site? For some reason most companies only distribute their apps through Google and Apple's repos. People shouldn't have to have an account with and agree to a third party US company's ToS just to download a banking app.

Why are Google Play Services required?

Genuine questions - I'm not from Switzerland and I don't have a Google account.
by einshutoin | 2025-12-31 16:04:08+00:00
Currently, lazy-image does not support Cloudflare Workers.

lazy-image uses native modules (.node files) built with NAPI-RS, which cannot run in Cloudflare Workers' V8 Isolate environment (only WebAssembly or pure JavaScript are supported).

*Currently supported environments:*
- Node.js 18+ environments (AWS Lambda, Vercel Serverless Functions, Google Cloud Functions, etc.)
- Serverless environments where native binaries can execute

*Cloudflare Workers support:*
- A WASM version is planned for v2.0

I appreciate your patience until v2.0 is released.