MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keepamovin | 2025-12-31 16:29:13+00:00
This guy's books sounds fascinating, Keys to Infinity and Wonder of Numbers. Definitely going to add to Kindle. pi transcends the power of algebra to display it in its totality what an entrace

I think I read a book by this guy as a kid: it was an illustrated mostly black and white book about Chaitin's constant, halting problema and various ways of counting over infinite sets.
by mmooss | 2025-12-31 16:29:23+00:00
> all the low hanging fruit have already been picked

What is that based on?

Also, I'm not talking about 'low hanging fruit' necessarily; only solutons that become cost effective for vendors if drug prices aren't so extreme.

There's reason to think there is low-hanging fruit: Research is incentivized for the most profitable solutions for the vendors, not the most cost-effective solutions for patients.
by skydhash | 2025-12-31 16:29:34+00:00
> 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

That's putting the cart before the horse. The way it's properly done is just to invite a few users and measure and track their interaction with your software. And this way you'd have good feedback instead of frustrating your real users with slow software.
by jstummbillig | 2025-12-31 16:29:38+00:00
> You might be tempted to say "what about a missile shield?" but such a thing allows the owner to act with impunity with levels of violence we arguably haven't seen since 1945.

I would still say "what about a missile shield?".

If a missile shield is a weapon, because of its affordances, then any object is a weapon. And while that's marginally true I don't think we get anywhere by entertaining category errors.

If something enables aggression, because it makes counter attacks unreasonable, that seems like a fairly nice thing to have more of, in a world where destruction is far too easy and construction is fairly hard.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-12-31 16:29:39+00:00
Its hard in a corporate structure to just 'donate.' The culture and system is not designed for it very well. This is why selling books or support works out better for foss projects.

Its hard to see SDV as some niche 'indie' project and more and more pedantic definitions of 'indie' aren't helpful. This is a game with an estimated half BILLION in sales. He's extremely wealthy and could have given 50x more easily. Its a bit arbitrary on who or who hasnt done enough. Why no metrics like 10% of your income if you use the tool? "Volunteerism" doesn't work and stuff like this seems like mostly PR and a tip, moreso that "let me help you run this project." I mean does this make monogame better? It seems like a tool that's not really used by any commercial devs. This just seems like a "thank you for helping me get super rich," kind of thing. A tip, which is different than funding a project, fundamentally. You can tip a dying business that is destined to fold shortly, for example. That's not the same as funding it.

This sort of "we are and aren't a business" gray-zone these foss projects live in needs reform, imho. Expecting the kindness of strangers doesn't work. Look at how many foss projects get little to no donations. I don't have the fix here but these developers should probably roll up a LLC and market some kind of service these companies can just easily write invoices for instead of just expecting a random middle-manager to fight the execs to write a $100k check to some guy named Phil in Minnesota that maintains something-something-lib, which is one tiny part of a larger ecosystem that maintains their backend.
by hvb2 | 2025-12-31 16:30:10+00:00
Let me phrase it this way for you. The best universities are in the US for a lot of things. But they don't scale.

In another way, the top talent gets Ferraris for their tuition, the rest gets a bike. In a lot of European countries everyone can get the Toyota Camry of education, decent but not world class. That does scale though.

Spending isn't everything, it's how you apply that spending.
by Insanity | 2025-12-31 16:30:12+00:00
5.2 is good. But at this point every few months company A trumps company B with a new “SOTA” (for some definition of SOTA).

OpenAI has no real moat. Anthropic is focusing on developers as a clear target, and Gemini has the backing of Google.

I don’t see OpenAI winning the AI race with marginally better models and arguably a nicer UI/UX (ymmv, but I do like the ChatGPT app experience).

That said, my usage decreases month over month.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-31 16:30:36+00:00
If they take it by force then they don't really lose much (barring nuclear exchanges) and cripple the rest of the world.

If they take it by force, they will take a smoking hole in the ground where all that "critical tech" used to be.

If Xi pulls it off he's comparable to Mao.

Famous for getting tens of millions of his countrymen killed for no good reason?
by PTOB | 2025-12-31 16:30:41+00:00
I see my comment was downvoted, and I apologize.

I meant to agree entirely with the parent comment by showing one specific way in which Win2K SP4 is far superior to Windows 11.

In Win2K, Task Manager takes less than a second to start on a 200 MHz, single core Pentium II with 64MB of RAM and a 5400 RPM IDE HDD.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-31 16:31:03+00:00
Providing a chain of reasoning to support a logical conclusion is not “pro bono PR for those companies”. Claiming that someone doing that seems like an emotional kneejerk reaction to an idea that does not jive with the model of the world you would like to have.

I even provided an example of a healthcare provider choosing to be more transparent. It is always Eli Lilly’s choice to sell their medicine at a flat price to everyone. But it is also in Eli Lilly’s benefit to engage in price discrimination, so that they get paid more by people who can pay more:

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

Another example of this was when I was in college, US textbooks cost multiple times more than the international
version of the textbook I could buy on Abe books or whatever website. Or, coupons for grocery stores. The insurance company has no hand in this.

To be clear, insurance companies also cause waste, because the government does not audit them, and the insurance companies are not staffed appropriately to resolve disputes in a timely manner.
by wjgilmore | 2025-12-31 16:31:30+00:00
It differs according to product. SecurityBot.dev has solid SEO because I put a lot of focused work into the landing pages. Interest in DependencyDesk has come exclusively through showing it directly to industry contacts.

The latter is partly what I was getting at regarding domain expertise because with that expertise comes an industry network. AI is great but if you’re creating solutions in search of a problem then the code doesn’t matter because nobody will need/want your product. I feel like your chances of success are much higher if you’ve personally felt the pain your product intends to solve, and that pain is built into the domain expertise people accrue over a long period of time.
by mittensc | 2025-12-31 16:32:12+00:00
> If they take it by force, they will take a smoking hole in the ground where all that "critical tech" used to be.

Sure, but first, it's the rest of the world that loses it. With that tech manufacturing base gone, rest of the world might be forced to buy from china. China doesnt buy from Taiwan.

Second, people and documents will still be around similar to germany's rocket scientists, they can be put to work.

> Famous for getting tens of millions of his countrymen killed for no good reason?

Sure, that too. Dictators don't care about pople... (Putin is doing it too and if anything, killing your own people solidifies power...)

I was thinking more how he's perceived like some sort of deity by chinese people and was untouchable power wise.
by grishka | 2025-12-31 16:32:27+00:00
Yeah that's what I meant. I also came across some script with redefinitions of C standard library functions that supposedly also allows you to link against older glibc symbols. I couldn't make it work.

Any half-decent SDK should allow you to trivially target an older platform version, but apparently doing trivial-seeming things without suffering is not The Linux Way™.
by m132 | 2025-12-31 16:33:19+00:00
Cool!

Doing my part and sending you some samples of UPC cable from the Czech Republic :)

720x576i 16:9: https://0x0.st/P-QU.ts

720x576i 4:3: https://0x0.st/P-Q0.ts

That one weird 544x576i channel I found: https://0x0.st/P-QG.ts

I also have a few decrypted samples from the Hot Bird 13E, public DVB-T and T2 transmitters and Vectra DVB-C from Poland, but for that I'd have to dig through my backups.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-31 16:33:19+00:00
The only reason people work is that they can have food so that their thermodynamic process of biology maintains consistent - if you do not account for this then you have not even begun to think about an economy

I have a degree in econometrics

that has nothing to do with reality

economists are totally completely capitulated to capitalism as a religion

there is no other possible thing that institutional economics talks about

so if your entire point is that you wanna stay within the frame of institutional economics then like I said there’s nothing else to be said here

If you really wanna go fully into this then you can read my paper that pulls all of it together:

https://kemendo.com/GTC.pdf
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-12-31 16:34:12+00:00
> Does HN spread Fake News?

Yes? Even newspapers do that. You have never had Gell-Mann when reading something here outside mainstream topics of interest? (e.g. almost anything from outside the US, or health related).

Is this really the criteria you want to use to decide whether to require age checks for a website?

> the EU chooses to force concrete measures from the social media pages.

This just sidesteps the issue of how a website ends up in the list. Today, Reddit. Tomorrow, Discord. Then Github. Eventually, HN.
by LasEspuelas | 2025-12-31 16:34:18+00:00
This seems like the actual work of the article:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.5c13908

And the superbase is 1,5,7-triazabicyclo [4.3.0] non-6-ene

It is an anime based technology. Other amines in water-based solutions also get regenerated at about <200C. It is great to find new molecules to do this work but as I usual, these marketing articles sensationalize the actual work.
by oefrha | 2025-12-31 16:34:29+00:00
I mean, this indie developer sold more than lots of (most?) AAA studios, and AAA studios have a lot more operating costs than an indie. Donating one dev year is a lot easier when you sell 50 million copies and hire no one than when you sell a couple million copies and have 100 employees plus investors. (I have 3000 hours on this game, so definitely not biased against indies or something.)
by roxolotl | 2025-12-31 16:34:51+00:00
The difference is they are new. It’s not rational but people on the whole generally are ok with the status quo of how the sausage is made largely because they don’t really think about it. But new systems being spun up provide an entry point for a discussion. Ideally that discussion can then be widened and open up an opportunity for wider scale change. Or nothing happens and it all becomes the new status quo which most don’t think about again.
by ecshafer | 2025-12-31 16:35:11+00:00
Java startup time shouldn't really be an issue with a terminal program. I have written some pretty complex Java and Rust and C++ terminal programs, they are basically indistinguishable on run time. The reason Java starts up slow for most people is that they are running webapps with Spring and 50 dependencies and loading Tomcat, not because they are just booting a JVM and running through some functions.

Getting AoT compiled Java programs has been a life saver. Running java -jar main.java -foo -bar is very annoying and not friendly. It needs to be packaged so you can just run tool -foo -bar
by ericmay | 2025-12-31 16:35:21+00:00
You’re missing the point. The styles aren’t meant to be 1-1 matches of Greek or Roman architecture, they’re rather good attempts at building and designing our governments buildings which that they harken to where our legal and cultural traditions hail from. That’s why the Capitol looks the way it does.

I’m not sure how that’s lazy or cheesy. I’m certainly open minded to other styles but they need to be rooted in western civilization. Otherwise you wind up with silly things like replicas of the Eiffel Tower in weirdly designed and inappropriate little French mockup towns, or you wind up with the lowest common denominator - Wal-Mart and strip malls.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-12-31 16:35:26+00:00
It's a very charitable explanation.

My experience with the people around me who are in this situation is rather either:

- They just don't care. Society and others are not on their radar.

- They don't think it's that bad.

- They think it's not great, but the benefit is too good so they ignore the voice at the back of their head. Or they have a lifestyle and that takes priority.

- They think it's bad, but the friction to live according to their own moral view of the world is higher than their desire to adhere to such a moral view.

When I was 20, I declined interview offers from Facebook and Google. Huge opportunity cost. My friends looked at me like I was dumb.

I have friends regularly coming to me with ideas that are about spamming, selling personal data or basically fraud. They don't see a problem with it.

When you talk to people and say "advertising is basically normalized lying at the scale of the entire society", people just give you a blank stare.

There is no need to look for coercion every time you see something bad to explain it. The human population is diverse and they all draw the line of what's acceptable in different places.

It's not rocket science.
by larusso | 2025-12-31 16:36:22+00:00
When ever I hear and see Mono Game I think back at the time I decided to dig a bit into XNA. I was a huge Xbox 360 fan and liked the idea of the indie platform they tried to setup. At the time the decision moving from Flash was either XNA in c# or Unity. Back then Unity used JS as a scripting engine. I wanted nothing to do with that. I also thought that MS is a saver bet. Well XNA is dead but the legacy lives on in parts in MonoGame. Unity well, would have been a better choice. But in end I had to work with Unity anyways be it not as a game developer implementing game logic.
by vasco | 2025-12-31 16:37:12+00:00
There's no general will, it's not specifically political will. Emitting less CO2 means doing less things or doing them for much more money due to high taxes to discourage it (and also disproportionately affect poor people). Other than some luddites I've never met anyone that genuinely was willing to sacrifice eating a nice steak or going on vacation unless they are millionaires, and that's only because those people know they can do it as much as they want. You have a huge mass of people getting lifted from poverty that will tell you to fuck off if you tell them that now they are finally out of eating rice and starving they can't have a steak, because of CO2.

All the things silicon valley "caviar communists" say you need to stop doing are basically the dreams of a whole mass of people coming out of poverty. Nice food, traveling, having a car, having A/C, etc.

So we can either find alternatives, or slowly figure out more geoengineering projects like mass absorbing CO2 and the like.
by OfflineSergio | 2025-12-31 16:37:22+00:00
Happy New Year!

2025 I'm proud of my 2025. I lost weight with a slow pace. I launched one of my projects and built on top of it and I'm currently at 99 items sold. Hopefull it will get to 100 by end of the year. Not gonna lie, bad stuff happened too, but I'm not gonna focus on those.

2026 If everything goes as planned, I'm hoping to see my my mother and brother after 4 years. I want live a bit healthier, and I want to grow the same side project. I really hope I scroll less shitty content.

This is the community I feel safe the most in and really helps me keep going everyday.
by Teever | 2025-12-31 16:37:26+00:00
Absolutely. People seem to think that we just need to recycle more, seal some cracks in the house with foam, install some solar panels, and buy an electric car.

They underestimate the scale of the intervention that will be required to stave off the potential end of human civilization as we know it. If we have any hope of continuing to live at something resembling the quality of life that we've grown up in it will require radical science fiction like developments.

We're going to need things like space based solar shades to regrow glaciers and icepack, advanced breeding and cloning and ecosystem engineering to reconstruct collapsing food webs, and I think the big picture thing is that we're going to need to engineer people to reduce susceptibility to addictive food and manipulative marketing.
by snowpid | 2025-12-31 16:37:43+00:00
My news is almost outside of the US as I am not American. (wow this should be sent to r/USDefaultism). So let's say like this: I do read a lot outside of "American mainstream media".

Most good working journalist try to verify claim and statements. This is the opposite to Fake News, Clickbait and Russian state propaganda spread in Social Media because its their business model.
by roxolotl | 2025-12-31 16:37:48+00:00
It’s cute they describe this as a solution to _the_ power problem. It’s a solution to _their_ power problem. We have a grid problem. This massive amount of investment would be an incredible time to do something about it. Instead we’ve got an administration hostile to modern energy solutions and an industry hostile to everyone. Really depressing to see all this money go up in smoke in such a massive short sighted rush.
by randycupertino | 2025-12-31 16:38:23+00:00
Yuchen Jin called it! https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1988305476132675675

> Yann LeCun is finally leaving Meta. An outcome that is inevitable after Zuck spent $15B to acquire Alexandr Wang and made Yann report to him. OpenAI’s LLMs and ChatGPT have made Zuck panic. Llama 4 flopped, and Yann never believed in LLM-to-AGI. Zuck’s patience ran out.
by m132 | 2025-12-31 16:38:32+00:00
Print was always density-independent. The web, at least how I remember it, for the longest time was "best viewed in Internet Explorer at 800x600", and later 1024x768, until vector-based Flash came along :)

It's the desktop software that mostly had problems scaling. I'm not sure about Windows Mobile. Windows Phone and UWP have adopted an Android-like model.
by nabla9 | 2025-12-31 16:38:49+00:00
Just like in previous incidents they:

1. asked the ship raise its anchor, and move to a safe anchorage in Finnish territorial waters.

2. It was boarded inside Finnish territorial waters and seized there.

The police was in contact with ship's flag state, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines. Flag state can give permission to board the ship if it's not complying.

Seizing a ship in international waters is a serious violation of sovereignty unless it falls under very specific exceptions outlined in UNCLOS: piracy, slave trade, illegal broadcasting, or drug trafficking. Also ships without nationality have no protection and can be boarded by anyone.
by orthoxerox | 2025-12-31 16:39:16+00:00
Yes, this is basically correct. When you start writing a game with MonoGame, all you get is basically a class with two methods, Update() and Draw() that MonoGame will be calling in a loop, plus a bunch of libraries for input, graphics, audio, content loading etc. you can use in your code. It's a step beyond something like bare raylib or SDL2, but it's a far cry from Unreal, which lets you think in terms of game entities from the very start: "here's the map, here's where the player will spawn, here, add some buildings and you can run around them".

With MonoGame/XNA/FNA, LOVE2D, libGDX, HaxeFlixel you are getting a bunch of tools instead, which is probably not bad if you like coding and your game doesn't fit into one of existing popular genres.
by ericmay | 2025-12-31 16:39:29+00:00
What’s an example that you’re thinking of? I think this can make sense - I mean if you have a town of 5,000 people and a government office there or something you probably don’t need a big, giant, building (unless that’s the message you’re trying to send). It’s also impractical from a cost-standpoint.

Federal buildings though should have gravitas and signify importance. If they don’t, and/or we think the government isn’t important, I’ll take my tax dollars back, thank you very much.

You can liken this to how western countries are leaving Christianity. Who can believe in God when you drive a Jeep to your mega church next to Costco and everyone is wearing sweatpants? (I’m not particularly spiritual but I see the problems here)
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-12-31 16:39:48+00:00
I used it to follow some functional programming discussions that had chosen it as it's main bulletin board, as did many other software projects. (I am not a fan of Reddit, which is why it is of paramount importance to me to be able to continue to browse it without an account.)

But fine: if you think Reddit deserves the cut, please let me know why you think this site does not deserve it. Or why Discord (also used by a lot of software projects, to my annoyance ) does not deserve it. In a way that a "80 year old judge which hates computers" can understand.

We should have kept to mailing lists, as I said many times.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-12-31 16:39:52+00:00
The lottery definitely has worse odds, I just don't think that's saying much.

If you want to create indie games—and you can make it work without quitting your day job—go for it! But I don't think it would be smart for EA or Ubisoft to, like, stop making big-budget games and make indie games instead. If you can make a breakout hit, you can make a huge profit—but you have to make a breakout hit, and that comes down to a lot of luck.

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Now, I do think it would make sense for EA/Ubisoft to try more mid-budget releases, which explore something new instead of continuing a 10+ year franchise. A lot of them will fail, but if a few are extremely successful, they could make up for the failures. It kind of felt like the studios were doing this for a while (Grow Home, Little Nightmares) but my sense is that it has kind of stopped? Although caveat, I also haven't been following gaming as closely as I once did.
by sokoloff | 2025-12-31 16:39:56+00:00
When our old dishwasher gave up, I got a mid-range Bosch dishwasher. I never thought I’d catch feelings for an appliance, but this thing is awesome. Dishes come out squeaky clean and nearly dry just from the temps. Glasses are spotless. Third rack is very convenient as well.

I’m sure other modern dishwashers are also very good, but I’d buy the same again in a heartbeat.
by LargeWu | 2025-12-31 16:40:29+00:00
I've wondered if capturing carbon emissions from industrial-scale compost facilities would be a net positive. It would have the added benefit of the carbon initially being captured by natural organic processes (i.e. growing food), so it avoids the problem of the energy requirements from trying to just pull carbon from the ambient atmosphere. I don't know if this is feasible but I haven't seen any research on it.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-12-31 16:40:56+00:00
I'm not sure if the nokia example works. When the nokia launched the screen technology, SoC horsepower, battery tech, etc just wasn't there to make an iphone. Even when the 2007 iphone launched it was a bit of mess, with the first gen not being 3G when other phones were and no app store, but instead devs were told to write web apps.

If anything, some of these early smartphones were pushing a lot of limits considering the hardware restraints. Its just by the time the iphone came out, these restraints were lessened and Apple did a good job using these technologies.