MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dylan604 | 2025-12-30 15:00:36+00:00
Look at any setup audio is being mixed on and tell me how many sound bars do you see there? How many flat panels with nothing more than the built in speakers being used? None. The speakers being used and the tricks the equipment do to make multichannel audio work with fewer speakers plays havoc on well mixed audio. Down mixing on consumer device is just never going to sound great
by bigcat12345678 | 2025-12-30 15:00:43+00:00
I don't get it

Riding a wave of industry is literally the foundation of startups paradiam itself. Why it suddenly became a sin for a Chinese founded startup?

This is exactly the disgusting bias (even to the point of racism) I mostly pointed out.

It's like everyone automatically applied double standards to Chinese founded startup and not even admit that under such influence.
by adityaathalye | 2025-12-30 15:01:06+00:00
I feel the same way... Posted this yesterday:

After "AI": Anticipating a post-LLM science and technology revolution (evalapply.org)

2 points by adityaathalye 1 day ago | 8 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419416

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/after-ai/index.html

> I, for one, welcome the coming age of the post-LLM-datacenter-overinvestment-bust-fueled backyard GPU supercomputer revolution.
by tolerance | 2025-12-30 15:01:48+00:00
Right. Now imagine something like this:

> In response, based upon the cumulative effects of these hostile acts against the citizens and interests of the United States and friendly foreign nations, the President recognized that the United States is in a non-international armed conflict with these designated terrorist organizations. The President directed the Department of War to conduct operations against them pursuant to the law of armed conflict. The United States has now reached a critical point where we must use force in self-defense and defense of others against the ongoing attacks by these designated terrorist organizations.

<https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SAP-SJ...>

In “Carlito”!

<https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Carlito>
by ianbooker | 2025-12-30 15:02:01+00:00
Kidnapper is likely not Deutsche Bahn but a regional subsidairy.

This is an effect of privatization gone wrong, with the national service, the infrastructure, the regional services (each), the network (not in infra), cargo and then some (sub)companies split for privatisation and an IPO that never happened. The highly segmented network is not digitalized in to any standard, so regional trains have to operate in policy frameworks and network cells that favor long distance trains. Its utter chaos on a daily basis.
by wonger_ | 2025-12-30 15:02:15+00:00
Thanks for that. I thought the same as phantom784 and never updated my opinion for hi-res screens.

Related to choosing defaults: I like these tips for evaluating the legibility of a body typeface: https://prowebtype.com/selecting-body-text/ They mention one serif advantage, that "most serif typefaces are often ideal choices for reading text due to the noticeable strokes in their ascenders and descenders."
by networked | 2025-12-30 15:02:35+00:00
Inline script metadata itself is not tied to uv because it's a Python standard. I think the association between the two comes from people discovering ISM through uv and from their simultaneous rise.

pipx can run Python scripts with inline script metadata. pipx is implemented in Python and packaged by Linux distributions, Free/Net/OpenBSD, Homebrew, MacPorts, and Scoop (Windows): https://repology.org/project/pipx/versions.
by mikewarot | 2025-12-30 15:02:36+00:00
I'm back to running Windows because of the shifting sands of Python and WxWindows that broke WikidPad, my personal wiki. The .exe from 2012 still works perfectly though, so I migrated back from Ubuntu to be able to use it without hassle.

It's my strong opinion that Windows 2000 Server, SP4 was the best desktop OS ever.
by austy69 | 2025-12-30 15:03:34+00:00
> The general public doesn’t perceive serif typefaces as professional and authoritative, a priori, before prioritizing their use in formal settings. Instead, people first observe that government, academia, and corporate workplaces disproportionately use serif faces — or are trained to use them — and only then infer that serifs must mean professionalism and authority.

A difficult to stomach claim followed up with evidence that I think supports the opposite than the author intended: the font being in used in The Times of London, which is indeed authoritative and professional despite it being written on cheap paper.

On another note, I would throw up if I had to read legal documents all day in a sans-serif font.
by Zababa | 2025-12-30 15:03:47+00:00
>This second method is, by the way, argued to increase compatibility as we utilize env to locate bash, which may not be located at /bin/bash. How true this is, is a topic I dare not enter.

At least it seems important on NixOS, I had to rewrite a few shebangs on some scripts that used /bin/bash and didn't work on NixOS.
by alexwhb | 2025-12-30 15:03:52+00:00
As much as my first gut reaction to this article was to be excited about its conclusion, I can’t say my experience matches up. Are LLMs perfect? Absolutely not, but I can point to many examples in my own work where using Codex has saved me easily a week or more—especially when it comes to tedious refactors. I don’t agree with the conclusion; the real-world improvement and progress I’ve seen in the last year in the problem-solving quality of these agents has been pretty astounding.

The reason for my excitement about the conclusion is obvious: I want programmers and people to stay in demand. I find the AI future to be quite bleak if this tech really does lead to AGI, but maybe that’s just me. I think we’re at a pretty cool spot with this technology right now—where it’s a powerful tool—but at some point, if or when it’s way smarter than you or me… I'm not sure that's a fun happy future. I think work is pretty tied to our self worth as humans.
Ask HN: How do you give estimates on work?
by reactordev | 2025-12-30 15:04:17+00:00
In this era of agentic coding, how do you give business stakeholders estimates on the units of work that you do?

Are you still cataloging man hours?

Are you doing everything in story points?

How do you account for the time it takes the agent(s) to do the work?

This is a dilemma I have at work currently. I can estimate how long it would take me to do something but Claude?
by CompoundEyes | 2025-12-30 15:04:29+00:00
The fourth place is the menu where all the inventory management, map viewing, crafting, skill point allocation occurs. In some games it feels like an integrated HUD (Pip Boy) and others a disconnected application in itself. Some the world pauses others you’re still vulnerable. Some the sound cuts and it feels cold and sterile or tacked on. If I’m spending hours in there rearranging furnkle berries into a corner not sure if I ought to throw them out yet, putting gems in sockets and comparing +3 modifiers on some purple enchanted drop — make it a nice experience! Some feel like business to business software. The trading system with NPC overlaps here. An area ripe for more creativity in my opinion. Have that mutant acid ostrich egg I’ve been carrying get cracked and burn a hole through my bag while ruining half my provisions.
by gordonhart | 2025-12-30 15:04:49+00:00
A few HN commenting guidelines might apply here:

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
by catapart | 2025-12-30 15:05:25+00:00
oh, sweet! happy to condescend to self-important, non-engaging, reply guys who think they know more than the actual implementers. so pleased I could help! if you'd like to return the favor, please shut up. but don't let that make you think I won't enjoy the snarky response you won't be able to help yourself from following up with, anyway. I take people as they come, friend.
Phantom Blade Zero dated for 2026: bold revolution or the next big overpromise?
by 01-_- | 2025-12-30 15:05:27+00:00
With an official launch date set for September 9, 2026, Phantom Blade Zero has moved from mysterious showcase darling to a concrete entry on the industry calendar. Developed by S-GAME and built on Unreal Engine 5, the title blends wuxia storytelling, Hong Kong martial arts cinema energy, and a self-defined “KungfuPunk” aesthetic while positioning its combat as fast, elegant, and distinct from the Soulslike mold it was initially compared to. The story centers on a protagonist with only 66 days to live after being framed for a murder, layering urgency with political intrigue and moral tension.

Beyond the narrative, there is serious industry weight behind this date. The game has already surpassed a million wishlists across platforms and is slated to land first on PS5 with timed exclusivity, before expanding to PC. This marks another major swing by a Chinese studio aiming to compete directly with the dominant Japanese and Western AAA space — not just with production spectacle, but with cultural identity and design philosophy front and center.

Now the real question begins. Can S-GAME actually deliver on the promise, polish, and cinematic precision shown in trailers, while sustaining momentum over the next year and avoiding the all-too-familiar cycle of overhype, delay, and disappointment? Or are we looking at a rare case where massive ambition, cultural distinctiveness, and community anticipation might actually align into something industry-shifting?

Sorce: <https://playstationcouch.com/post.php?id=482>
by cjbgkagh | 2025-12-30 15:05:28+00:00
Perfect was not the bar that was set. Elon can be the richest person in the world and a lair at the same time. It's about what kind of person lies about being one of the best gamers in the world when clearly they're not. This is of course not the only thing he has lied about but it is possibly the pettiest. And possibly the stupidest because the very people it was supposed to impress were going to find out near instantly and now despise him for it. Consider his foray into politics, it wasn't enough to sway the elections with a large sum of money he also had to insert himself into the process. In addition to being the best gamer he was trying to be the best politician - the result was a catastrophic failure. I'm still pretty convinced Adrian Dittmann is his sock puppet account and his attempt at being the best streamer as well. Done 'anonymously' to make the case that he's not bootstrapping on his other successes but not too anonymously to avoid being totally irrelevant.
by tuesdaynight | 2025-12-30 15:06:05+00:00
If I summarized men online as watching pornography and following hot women on social media, people would (correctly) point out that it does not encapsulate what men do online as a whole. A lot of people do these things, but that is only part of their online experience. However, these replies are talking about OLD apps and sexual market as if women only do that online, which relates to the point of the original comment.
by jamesliudotcc | 2025-12-30 15:06:06+00:00
As for Calibri, even Microsoft has moved on. They designed a successor font family for even better readability, and that happened before the State Department changed to Calibri. It also has serif variants.

https://microsoft.design/articles/a-change-of-typeface-micro...

No knock on Calibri, which I admire.

(edited to put the link on its own line.)
by he11ow | 2025-12-30 15:06:28+00:00
If I may be so bold, the fallacy here is of time. Dare I say, you are already surrounded by friends, and not noticing it.

It seems like you measure "friendship" not by the time spent with them when you go to events or in school, but what happens afterwards. In other words, you are discounting to zero the moments that are actually happening in your life, for an imagined future of what a friendship might turn out to be. But life only ever happens moment to moment. That time that you spend with people at an event, that IS the thing.

There is no "friendship certificate": some people, you'll only spend ten minutes with; some, you might spend an afternoon with; others you might end up seeing once a week for a term. You might date a girl for a fortnight, or a couple of months, and then break up and never see each other again. It's ALL GOOD.

If I understand correctly, none of the above would qualify in your eyes as "real friendship", only the deep, deep kind. You might find it helpful to learn about Dunbar's number, and the size of the model's concentric social circles. Most people end up with 1-2 very close friends (possibly including their spouse). That is the outcome over a lifetime of making connections. Popular culture markets this idea that we should all be carousing with a tightly knit group of friends - no statistical social evidence bears this out.

When sinking into deep analysis about all your self-perceived inadequacies, your attention beam is directed inwards. That's unhealthy. When it's directed OUT, into the world, it takes you out of your head, and lets you see that everyone, every single one (person or otherwise), is struggling in their own way. Everyone's got a thing. Looking out builds empathy and kindness and affection towards things that make you happy, and gazing inwards makes you miserable.

You are surrounded by people in school, and are at a stage in life where you get to be interested in whatever. Any experience you have, even if it doesn't lead to lifelong friendships, is worthy in the space of time it occupies.

Throughout my undergrad I had friends come and go. I'm not in touch with anyone I met at Uni during those years. It doesn't make the actual time spent with these people any less special.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-30 15:06:31+00:00
I would pick Delphi (with which you can build Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS apps - https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi)

Alternatively, RemObjects makes Elements, also a RAD programming environment in which you can code in Oxygene (their Object Pascal), C#, Swift, Java, Go, or Mercury (VB) and target all platforms: .Net, iOS and macOS, Android, WebAssemblyl, Java, Linux, Windows.
by robhlt | 2025-12-30 15:06:45+00:00
"Filmmaker mode" is the industry's attempt at this. On supported TVs it's just another picture mode (like vivid or standard), but it disables all the junk the other modes have enabled by default without wading though all the individual settings. I don't know how widely adopted it is though, but my LG OLED from 2020 has it.
by seec | 2025-12-30 15:07:12+00:00
Cook is just a major idiot. It's actually surprising he didn't completly fuck everything over. But it just shows how strong the fondation and initial strategy was.

I'm always annoyed by random idiots arguing that since Cook made Apple a shit ton of money, he must be good.
By the same standard, cartel head drug dealers are extremely good and an asshole who inerhit a business with a captive market and just manages to make more money by raising price is just as good.

Outside of Apple Silicon, much of what Apple has produced in the last 10 years isn't really good. And even Apple Silicon has major tradeoffs that do not look like they'll improve meaningfully.
by ookblah | 2025-12-30 15:07:35+00:00
well you don't have to "think" anything lol, if you've never tried it yourself that's step one. step two is to not assume everyone out there is a shill or lying because that's awful convenient. also its not black or white.

developers can exist in a small team, solo, large enterprise all with their mandates and cultures so just saying LLMs increase/decrease is reductive.

have a feeling i'm being trolled tho.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-12-30 15:07:58+00:00
> Don't these data centers have pretty elaborate cooling setups that use large volumes of water?

Depending on where, and (more importantly) when you last read about this, there's been some developments. The original book that started this had a unit conversion error, and the reported numbers were off by about 4500x what the true numbers are (author claimed 1000 times more water than an entire city consumption, while in reality it was estimated at ~22% of that usage).

The problem is that we're living in the era of rage reporting, and corrections rarely get the same coverage as the initial shock claim.

On top of this, DCs don't make water "disappear", in the same way farming doesn't make it disappear. It re-enters the cycle via evaporation. (also, on the topic of farming, don't look up how much water it takes to grow nuts or avocados. That's an unpopular topic, apparently)

And thirdly, DCs use evaporative cooling because it's more efficient. They could, if push came to shove, not use that. And they do, when placed in areas without adequate water supply, use regular cooling.
by dent9 | 2025-12-30 15:08:07+00:00
Have you had your head in the sand for the past two years?

At the recent AWS conference, they were showcasing Kiro extensively with real life products that have been built with it. And the Amazon developers all allege that they've all been using Kiro and other AI tools and agents heavily for the past year+ now to build AWS's own services. Google and Microsoft have also reported similar internal efforts.

The platforms you interact with on a daily basis are now all being built with the help of AI tools and agents

If you think no one is building real commercial products with AI then you are either blind or an idiot or both. Why don't you just spend two seconds emailing your company AWS ProServe folks and ask them, I'm sure they'll give you a laundry list of things they're using AI for internally and sign you up for a Kiro demo as well
Show HN: Nex Sovereign – AI OS with visible reasoning and governance
by NexAIOS | 2025-12-30 15:08:17+00:00
Hey HN,
I'm 18, built this solo over 7 months in India. Launched on Product Hunt this morning but wanted to share here for technical feedback.
What it is:
Nex Sovereign is a cognitive OS with 9 apps that make AI transparent:

Mind App – See its beliefs, values, goals + real-time dopamine/cortisol levels
Memory Graph – Auditable knowledge graph (not hidden RAG)
PDAR Thinking – Watch reasoning process (Perceive → Decide → Act → Reflect)
Boardroom – Internal CEO/CTO sub-agents make recommendations, you mandate approval (governance layer)
Chat, Memories, Goals, Settings

Tech stack:
Python/FastAPI (async event loop for cognitive simulation) + Next.js 14 + SQLite (local-first)
Why I built it:
Every AI is a black box. You never see what it believes, how it thinks, or why it decided. I wanted to solve interpretability at the architecture level (not as a research problem, but as a product design problem).
Current status:
Invite-only beta (8 concurrent users). Already got integration interest from Giselle (workflow orchestration platform).
Looking for feedback on:

Is the cognitive transparency useful or just "neat"?
Which app is most compelling? (Mind, Memory Graph, PDAR, Boardroom)
What would you build on a Nex SDK?

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/nex-sovereign

Happy to answer technical questions about the architecture.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-30 15:08:19+00:00
> CSS-in-JS was supposed to free us from global namespace nightmares and styling spaghetti.

That wasn't how "CSS-in-JS" was sold to me, and obviously, does nothing to actually solve that, scoping works the same in CSS regardless if you generate it from JS or not.

The way it was sold to me, was that developers were tired of having to have the styles in a different place than the layouting, and CSS-in-JS would make all of that worth it, even when you consider the performance tradeoff.

I was never sold on it, and continued doing CSS in separate files, mostly following something like BEM most of the time, and still am not affected by scoping issues, and I didn't even need to do the tradeoffs you get when doing CSS-in-JS.
by kmundy | 2025-12-30 15:08:53+00:00
The inequality gap, the root of our divisive and fractious politics, continues to widen. The “Great Decoupling” of 1973 was just the first leak. The AI revolution is now poised to burst the entire pipe.

I’ve been working on a system called the Taproot Model that works at reducing inequality as we progress into the AI Age. It is a market-driven, non-inflationary alternative to the welfare state that aims to future-proof our economy.
Before I reveal the architecture next week, can you suggest solutions that clear the 6 systemic constraints? Most current proposals (UBI, wealth taxes, subsidies) only clear a few. Join the discussion on Substack and enter your idea in the comments.
by Bad_Initialism | 2025-12-30 15:09:31+00:00
Or, and follow me for a minute here, what if everything people tell each other without supporting evidence is just nonsense, particularly when it is self-aggrandizing and intended to control others by emotional manipulation?

What, and I'm just blue-skying this here, if we're a random occurrence consisting of locally decreased entropy evolved on a chaotic substrate?

Or maybe, and this is just a what-if, we're just stochastic phenomena telling ridiculous stories to each other in a doomed and nonsensical search for meaning?

I'm not saying that humanity is the stupidest thing that ever existed and called itself sentient, but maybe think about that possibility for just one second before tripping off into mushroom-level miracle stories.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-12-30 15:09:33+00:00
> what actual climate scientists and orgs talk about isn't (mostly) what AI is consuming now, it's what the picture looks like within the next decade

that's the point - obviously the planet is not dying _today_, but at the rate at which we are not decreasing emissions, we will kill it. So no, "killing the planet" is not misinformed or misleading.

> Nobody, from what I remember, got angry at the actual, physical metal structure.

Nobody's mad at LLMs either. It's the companies that control them and that are fueling the AI "arms race", that are the problem.
by randerson | 2025-12-30 15:09:38+00:00
I'd pay good money for a dumb 4K OLED TV that does nothing but show whatever is coming in through the HDMI port.

I use a Playstation 5 for everything including Netflix, Apple TV and so on. But every time I turn on the PS5, my TV detects the Playstation and automatically changes the TV's Sound and Video modes to "Gaming", which makes dialog difficult to hear on TV. So I change the setting manually using its horrible remote control, only for it to change back to Gaming the next time I use it.
by michaelteter | 2025-12-30 15:09:42+00:00
Many of the crazy things we see happening today come from the same root problem: the wealth of humanity has increasingly been funneled into the hands of a few. These may be mostly companies rather than individuals, but they are a proxy for a relatively small few people.

This glut of finances leaves those few with a problem: what to do with it? And since accumulation of wealth is the ultimate goal, FOMO encourages increasingly foolish decisions (or at least unsustainable ones).

The housing crisis is one of the outcomes. This AI bubble is another. I'm sure if we look around, we can find other examples.

If resources were more evenly distributed, we would see different regions and peoples doing more varied things which would be appropriate for their needs.
by buildsjets | 2025-12-30 15:10:00+00:00
Howard Hughes also did impressive things. Built amazingly advanced aircraft for the era. Started a Hollywood movie studio. Owned one of the world’s largest airlines. His company (after his death of course) provided satellite IP links for decades before Elon showed up with a cheaper option.

He died as an isolated insane hermit wearing kleenex boxes as shoes and collecting his urine in mason jars.

I think that we have already seen peak Elon, and the only thing we will see in the future is his continued descent into madness, which I expect will be aided and abetted by his business associates, just as Howard Huges’s illness was.