MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by texan_dev123 | 2025-12-22 00:02:04+00:00
Glitch is a text-generation model shaped after one ordinary person living an ordinary life in America… and that ordinariness is the whole point. Glitch is an LLM that isn’t chasing perfection or polish. It’s trying to hold memory, doubt, impulses, half-formed thoughts, and contradictions without sanding them off.
by threethirtytwo | 2025-12-22 00:02:29+00:00
What Le Guin is expressing is a beautiful idea, but it is a false beauty. It feels like truth because it aligns with how narrative engages the human mind, not because it accurately explains what stories are or why they exist. The sense that fiction reveals destiny, inner depth, or essential humanity is an illusion created by evolved cognitive machinery, not evidence of genuine insight.

From an evolutionary and cognitive standpoint, imaginative fiction is not a privileged tool for understanding who we are. It is a byproduct of more basic adaptations. The human brain evolved as a prediction engine optimized for survival in social groups. Its primary function is to anticipate outcomes, model other agents, and reduce uncertainty well enough to reproduce. Narrative arises because the brain naturally organizes experience into causal sequences involving agents, not because stories convey deeper truths about the self.

Fiction works by hijacking the same neural systems used for social reasoning, memory, and planning. When reading a story, the mind runs simulations of social situations. This feels like insight, but feeling insight is not the same as acquiring accurate models of reality. Fantasy and science fiction are not special forms of wisdom. They are simply inputs that exaggerate certain variables, making simulations emotionally vivid rather than epistemically reliable.

Le Guin’s claim that someone without stories would be ignorant of their emotional or spiritual depths is not supported by biology. Emotions are not learned through narrative. They are innate regulatory systems shaped by natural selection. Fear, attachment, anger, desire, and joy exist prior to language and independently of story exposure. Stories can name, frame, or intensify these states, but they do not create or deepen them in any fundamental sense.

The universality of storytelling also does not imply that it is an adaptive route to understanding. Evolution does not favor truth or self knowledge. It favors fitness. Many of the most persistent stories humans tell are systematically false. Myths, religious narratives, romantic ideals, and national legends endure because they exploit cognitive biases like agency detection, pattern completion, and emotional salience. Their spread demonstrates susceptibility, not insight.

Fantasy and science fiction do not teach us to imagine better worlds. They teach us to imagine compelling ones. A narrative can feel profound while being completely disconnected from reality. Inspiration and accuracy are orthogonal. The persuasive power of stories comes from their alignment with evolved psychological vulnerabilities, not from their correspondence with truth.

So the correct technical framing is this. Stories are not tools invented to gain understanding of humanity or destiny. They are artifacts produced by brains shaped for survival under uncertainty. They can be pleasurable, motivating, or culturally stabilizing. They can sometimes illuminate patterns of behavior. But their beauty should not be confused with truth. The feeling of depth they produce is an illusion, not a discovery.
by cfelicio | 2025-12-22 00:02:58+00:00
For the last decade, the conversation around decentralized storage has been dominated by blockchain projects.

Projects like Filecoin and Arweave have focused on solving Global Permanence by relying on Global Consensus: the entire network must validate and record the proofs of storage for every file, secured by a native token, mining rigs, and a global ledger. Highly complex, computationally expensive, and not user friendly.

This type of architecture might serve a purpose / use case, but I feel it is the wrong approach for self-hosted storage users that want a way to have cloud / offsite backup for family photos, documents, etc. There is no need for a global market, gas fees, or a wallet. The only requirement is a guarantee of data safety for recovery in the event of a disaster (e.g. your house burned down).

Commercial vendors like Backblaze are currently the main solution for this, but for users who cannot afford cloud storage and have TBs of data to safeguard, there must be a better way.

What are your thoughts?
by seec | 2025-12-22 00:03:05+00:00
Yeah the only use of the large bandwith in Apple Silicon is for the GPU. I'm always amazed by the fanboys who keep hyping this trope.

Even when feeding all cores, the max bandwith used by the CPU is less than 200GB/s, in fact it is quite comparable to Intel/AMD CPUs and even less than their high-end ones (x86 still rules on the multi-core front in any case).

I actually see this as a weakness of Apple Silicon, because it doesn't scale that well. It's basically the problem of their Ultra chip: doesn't allow doubling of the compute and doesn't allow faster RAM bandwith, you only get higher RAM capacity in exchange for slower GPU compute.

They just scaled up their mobile architecture and it has its limit.
by BoredPositron | 2025-12-22 00:04:05+00:00
Not worth it yet. I run a 6000 black for image and video generation, but local coding models just aren't on the same level as the closed ones.

I grabbed Gemini for $10/month during Black Friday, GPT for $15, and Claude for $20. Comes out to $45 total, and I never hit the limits since I toggle between the different models. Plus it has the benefit of not dumping too much money into one provider or hyper focusing on one model.

That said, as soon as an open weight model gets to the level of the closed ones we have now, I'll switch to local inference in a heartbeat.
by dmurray | 2025-12-22 00:04:32+00:00
But the reason factoring numbers is used as the quantum benchmark is exactly that we have a quantum algorithm for that problem which is meant to scale better than any known algorithm on a classical computer.

So it seems like it takes an exponentially bigger device to factor 21 than 15, then 35 than 21, and so on, but if I understand right, at some point this levels out and it's only relatively speaking a little harder to factor say 10^30 than 10^29.

Why are we so confident this is true given all of the experience so far trying to scale up from factoring 15 to factoring 21?
by tzs | 2025-12-22 00:04:46+00:00
No, it is an article that includes a short in-article ad for Linear. It's the text equivalent of when a YouTube video thanks some company for sponsoring the video and spends 30 seconds saying some good things about them before resuming whatever the video is about.

This is good. This is the kind of advertising that people here usually say that sites should be using if they need ads.
by em-bee | 2025-12-22 00:05:41+00:00
The lower class is often not financially smart, is not health smart, and systematically poisoned to buy things they cannot afford, including kids, so they have kids.

i don't believe that is true.

raising kids is not that expensive. what is expensive is the high expectations for what you should spend on your kids with that middle class and high earners have. like sending kids to college.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-12-22 00:07:01+00:00
Windows XP sold for $200 in 2001. In 2025, that's $364[1]. If we can find enough people willing to pay $364 for an OS that values privacy and doesn't push needless upgrades, that'll be a start. But XP itself was probably priced based on the belief that people would be upgrading in a few years to Windows Vista. So we might need more than that.

[1] - According to minneapolisfed.org, which uses the official economist-approved inflation rates. Not that I'm implying that there's anything wrong with that. I have all of the orthodox beliefs about inflation that a good citizen should have.
by adsteel_ | 2025-12-22 00:07:31+00:00
It looks great, but it's missing the one thing I want most in the site - the ability to select the version of the language documentation in some way other than editing the URL directly. I use ruby-lang almost exclusively for the documentation.

I also wish the documentation search parameter were saved in the URL. This would allow people to create a custom Chrome search engine like @ruby and dramatically speed up doc searching.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-12-22 00:08:34+00:00
Home Depot making themselves less useful for their own customers. Galaxy brain.

For the apparenly many people who are baffled by this, it's not like this is some unrelated activity that Home Depot doesn't benefit from. It's super convenient to go pick up both the paint and the painters from the same place at the same time without even any planning. No emails or phone calles or coordinating schedules.
by krackers | 2025-12-22 00:08:57+00:00
>think they are training for the spatial part of the tests

I'm not sure the party that "they" is referring to here, since arc-agi-3 dataset isn't released yet and labs probably have not begun targeting it. For arc-agi-2, possibly just synthetic data might have been enough to saturate the benchmark, since most frontier models do well on it yet we haven't seen any corresponding jump in multimodal skill use, with maybe the exception of "nano banana".

>lend itself well to token based “reasoning”

One could perhaps do reasoning/COT with vision tokens instead of just text tokens. Or reasoning in latent space which I guess might be even better. There have been papers on both, but I don't know if it's an approach that scales. Regardless gemini 3 / nano banana have had big gains on visual and spatial reasoning, so they must have done something to get multimodality with cross-domain transfer in a way that 4o/gpt-image wasn't able to.

For arc-agi-3, the missing pieces seem to be both "temporal reasoning" and efficient in-context learning. If they can train for this, it'd have benefits for things like tool-calling as well, which is why it's an exciting benchmark.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-22 00:09:03+00:00
AFAIK in most games or storefronts with a real-money exchange pipeline, the resulting units are simply not gift-able. Being unable to exchange value with other users makes it qualitatively different.

In other words, you spend regular money for company-points, but thereafter you can only spend the company points on things that cannot be transferred. While there is certainly a cynical aspect to locking up customer funds, it makes it a lot easier to handle things like fluctuating currency exchange rates, and simplifies refunds within the points-store.
by nicepost | 2025-12-22 00:09:10+00:00
I really resonate with it. When I was a teenager I was a burn out. I went to college and became enamoured with a field of study. Everyone thought I was very smart and people would drop the g word and it made me feel gross. I always just wanted to learn everything I could.

Now I am in a very different area of practice. Partially because I got tired of being good. Making young professionals give talks to factory floors about things they can't relate too, getting hired because it would look good for an acquisition, etc. it's draining and makes it hard for colleagues to realize they are your equal or even more exceptional at many things than yourself.

I actually worked with Jyn, though we don't keep in touch I will say they were great. Made strong contributions, learned new things quickly and was genuinely curious about everything. It's cool to see them on here. Nothing but good wishes for them and I hope they are enjoying whatever they are doing now. Come to think of it, I feel that way about all my former colleagues.
by ineedasername | 2025-12-22 00:11:09+00:00
I’ve been using Qwen3 Coder 30b quantized down to IQ3_XSS to fit in < 16gb vram. Blazing fast 200+ tokens per second on a 4080. I don’t ask anything complicated, but one off scripts to do something I’d normally have to do manually by hand or take an hour to write the script myself? Absolutely.

These are no more than a few dozen lines I can easily eyeball and verify with confidence- that’s done in under 60 seconds and leaves Claude code with plenty of quota for significant tasks.
by yoan9224 | 2025-12-22 00:12:28+00:00
The cycle of proposing the same surveillance legislation under different names is exhausting. Chat Control, ProtectEU, Going Dark - same invasive proposals, different branding.

What's particularly concerning is the metadata retention scope: "which websites you visit, and who is communicating with whom, when and how often" with "the broadest possible scope of application" including VPN services. This isn't about protecting children or fighting terrorism anymore - it's about normalizing mass surveillance through legislative attrition. Keep proposing it until opposition fatigues and it slips through.

The only sustainable solution is enshrining privacy rights into constitutional law with penalties for repeated attempts to circumvent them. Otherwise we'll be fighting Chat Control 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 forever.
by stephen_g | 2025-12-22 00:12:51+00:00
I have one machine that runs Windows (apart from one Windows 11 VM on my Mac laptop I use for work), all this nonsense has got me to install Fedora on a separate M2 drive on it, and I haven't booted up Windows in a few days now. Will be an interesting experiment, I've run it before but more for fun, but will try to go as full time on that computer as possible.
by yoan9224 | 2025-12-22 00:12:54+00:00
The visual refresh is great, but the technical implementation is disappointing. Code examples are static text fetched via JavaScript instead of being in the HTML. With JS disabled, you get a frozen "0%" loading screen.

This is ironic because Ruby has always emphasized doing things "the right way" and developer happiness. A language website should be a poster child for progressive enhancement - especially one that champions elegance and proper practices.

Still, huge improvement over the 2005-era design. Just needs optimization work to align the implementation with Ruby's philosophy.
by alexwennerberg | 2025-12-22 00:13:19+00:00
This was an excellent explanation of a complex business problem, which would be made far more complex by splitting these out into separate services. Every single 'if' branch you describe could either be a line of code, or a service boundary, which has all the complexity you describe, in addition to the added complexity of:

a. managing an external API+schema for each service

b. managing changes to each service, for example, smooth rollout of a change that impacts behavior across two services

c. error handling on the client side

d. error handling on the server side

e. added latency+compute because a step is crossing a network, being serialized/de-serialized on both ends

f. presuming the services use different databases, performance is now completely shot if you have a new business problem that crosses service boundaries. In practice, this will mean doing a "join" by making some API call to one service and then another API call to another service

In your description of the problem, there is nothing that I would want to split out into a separate service. And to get back to the original problem, it makes it far easier to get all the logging context for a single problem in a single place (attach a request ID to the all logs and see immediately everything that happened as part of that request)
by yoan9224 | 2025-12-22 00:13:26+00:00
The TPM 2.0 "requirement" is mostly artificial - you can bypass it with Rufus and Windows 11 runs fine on older hardware. But that misses the point.

Microsoft is using aggressive dark patterns (undismissable upgrade prompts) to force hardware obsolescence and create e-waste. This isn't about security - it's about maintaining the upgrade treadmill when performance improvements have stalled.

The real issue is consent. Users should be able to say "no" once and have that decision respected. Instead, we get daily nagging designed to exhaust users into compliance. This is the opposite of user-centric design.

Time to consider Linux seriously, or at least Windows 10 LTSC IoT which has support until 2032.
by rldjbpin | 2025-12-22 00:13:42+00:00
imho it is more elegant to do this way if you are not google than to spin off your own browser.

about privacy concerns - if you limit it to your work (and if your company is cool with data leakage risks), you can still do things like the video shows.

i do wonder if there could be more potential use cases if the underlying models also support audio. not for user input but rather audio playing in the browser.
by yoan9224 | 2025-12-22 00:13:52+00:00
The premise is interesting but feels incomplete. The "Monday morning excitement test" doesn't account for the hedonic treadmill - even meaningful work becomes mundane once your brain adjusts to it.

Also, many people are genuinely burnt out from overwork, not just existential malaise. When you're juggling demanding work, family responsibilities, and barely have time for basic self-care, the problem isn't finding your "highest purpose" - it's structural.

That said, I agree that meaning matters. But meaning doesn't always come from work. Sometimes the healthiest thing is treating work as necessary fuel for a meaningful life outside of it - relationships, hobbies, community involvement.

The "go into politics" solution is fascinating though. Zero-sum games as existential fulfillment feels counterintuitive.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-22 00:14:17+00:00
> Windows 95. No upselling services. No automatic updates

Even Windows 95 came bundled with MSN on the desktop which had a paid monthly fee to access. And its lack of automatic updates was a real problem, as you had to manually find the service packs and security patches. The automatic updates in Windows XP were vastly more convenient.

Automatic updates are needed for security. The only era when you didn't need them was pre-Internet. They're not something we want to get rid of.
by andy99 | 2025-12-22 00:15:24+00:00
> has broad (and cross-border) value

I’m wondering if this is the primary use case and that’s why I don’t really get it? I see the online aspect, but it comes with a whole other set of problems that for most cases it’s hard to imagine are easier to deal with than exchanging cash. But a way to send money across borders without any controls I can see why that might be popular. Hard to tie that back to advice the AARP should be giving though.
by drweevil | 2025-12-22 00:16:00+00:00
> Cynics might point out that any old farmer could distill ethyl alcohol from grain. It couldn't be patented, or its distribution profitably controlled. Tetraethyl lead could.

Were they cynics, though? As the article itself points out, the dangers of tetraethyl lead were already well know. And then there is this:

> And, as Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner point out, "For the next four decades, all studies of the use of tetraethyl lead were conducted by laboratories and scientists funded by the Ethyl Corporation and General Motors".

It doesn't take a cynic to see what was going on here.
by tmoertel | 2025-12-22 00:16:07+00:00
I guess we will have to agree to disagree.

I believe that the history of English language usage is replete with examples such as "X times less than" when X > 1, but similar constructions for X <= 1 do not appear with appreciable frequency.

In any case, I think that continuing our conversation is unlikely to be productive, so this will be my last reply.

I will just say in closing that our conversation is a good example of why the MAGA folks have probably chosen phrasing such as this.
by linguae | 2025-12-22 00:16:40+00:00
Security and upselling are orthogonal; I can make a secure operating system that doesn’t notify the user of OneDrive, iCloud, and other services.

Things get more nuanced when we talk about other types of notifications and about whether updates should be automatic or always require a user’s explicit consent. I personally believe that a key tenet of personal computing is that the owner of the computer, not the hardware or software vendor, should have full control over the hardware and software on the computer. This control is undermined when systems are designed in ways to give users less control. There may be legitimate security benefits to mandatory automatic updates, for example, but there are risks, such as buggy updates leading to broken installations or even lost data, and there’s also having to deal with unwanted UI/UX changes.

As a power user, developer, and researcher, I want control over my computing environment. Unfortunately Windows and macOS have been trending toward more paternalism, more nagging, and more upselling. Thankfully Linux exists, but at the cost of needing to switch away from convenient proprietary software tools like Microsoft Office. I can do without Word or Excel, but PowerPoint is what keeps me on Office (I’ve tried LibreOffice and the Beamer LaTeX template). I’m also concerned about hardware getting increasingly locked down, which will hurt Linux.
by cycomanic | 2025-12-22 00:17:18+00:00
The distance is likely calculated based on the stored volume and the area you cover until the height is significantly below head height (because as you point out CO2 settles to the bottom). Regarding the little house 15m from the bubble, they are not planning to build this in residential areas, so it's very unlikely that there would be a house within 15m just for operational purposes already.
by thechao | 2025-12-22 00:17:39+00:00
At best you'd be restricted to the forward mode, which would still double stack pressure. If you needed reverse mode you'd need 2x stack, and the back sweep over the stack based tape would have the nearly perfectly unoptimal "grain". If you allows the higher order operators (both push out and pull back), you're going to end up with Jacobians & Hessians over nontrivial blocks. That's going to need the heap. It's still better than an unbounded loop tape, though.

We had all these issues back in 2006 when my group was implementing autograd for C++ and, later, a computer algebra system called Axiom. We knew it'd be ideal for NN; I was trying to build this out for my brother who was porting AI models to GPUs. (This did not work in 2006 for both HW & math reasons.)
by buzer | 2025-12-22 00:17:41+00:00
I believe it's this one (which is likely leaked document as that document number isn't publicly accessible): https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/eu-data-retention-presidency-...

There's also this one: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/WK-11640-2025-...

The first one appears to be the result of the of the second which called member states to submit their opinions.
by addaon | 2025-12-22 00:17:55+00:00
This is not how communication is done in aviation. Instead, it’s common to abbreviate to the last three alphanumerics of tail numbers (so “niner alpha bravo” for N789AB) after the first call — but this is conditional on not having a potentially confusing other aircraft on frequency (N129AB), and the system here can’t reasonably know that, so must take the conservative option.
Show HN: Type-safe JSON-LD schema builder for Next.js
by adas014 | 2025-12-22 00:18:40+00:00
I built a lightweight library for generating SEO-optimized JSON-LD structured data in Next.js applications.

Problem: Existing solutions like next-seo have limited JSON-LD support, and manually writing schemas is error-prone.

Solution: Type-safe builders with full TypeScript inference.

Features: - WebSite, Organization, SoftwareApplication, BlogPosting, FAQ, Breadcrumb schemas - Works with Next.js App Router and Pages Router - Zero dependencies (React peer dep only)

Used in production at https://www.hemenhesap.com - a Turkish financial calculator platform with 100+ pages.

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nextjs-jsonld-schema

Feedback welcome!