MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tirant | 2025-12-01 13:40:42+00:00
Ok, then I misinterpreted you.

However it’s still unclear how much you’re paying, as the problem with socialized services like healthcare is that you never know exactly how much you’re paying and if you’re overpaying or underpaying as there’s no free competition whatsoever.

There are of course also negative second order consequences. In socialized health care systems, where doctors and hospitals are payed the same no matter their performance, the economical incentives to provide modern treatments or provide better services do not exist, so best professionals need to leave the public systems if they believe they are being underpayed according to their value.

I’ve seen that happening in Germany and Spain a lot. Best doctors I had left their public healthcare position to open their own private business as that was the only way to be compensated economically according to the level of service they were providing.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-12-01 13:40:50+00:00
> It's been decades since Wayland was "ready".

Decades? Really?

Wayland very first release was 17 years ago in 2008 and QT didn't support it until 2015. xdg-desktop-portal first stable release was in 2018 and PipeWire in 2023.

I thought we had peaked with systemd when it came to FUD here but Wayland might give it a run for its money.
by eel | 2025-12-01 13:40:50+00:00
Evaporative cooling (like a "swamp cooler" for residential homes) is how most data centers in the US are cooled. The water is primarily consumed by evaporation. When you continually evaporate water from a system, eventually the remaining water in the system gets concentrated in salts and other minerals and is dumped and replaced with fresh water.

Much of the day/season, evaporative cooling is not needed and data centers can pull in outside air. Ultimately you state the main reason in your comment: using outside air + evaporative cooling is cheaper and consumes less power than any other approach.

In a lot of cases, even if the server chips themselves are liquid cooled (for example, in an NVIDIA GB200 rack), then liquid is then air cooled through a cooling distribution unit (basically a giant radiator.
by deadbabe | 2025-12-01 13:41:03+00:00
The industry had turned to shit long ago when we deviated from the path of the UNIX philosophy and fell into cargo cult frontend programming. We had the most powerful UI in the world, the command line, and we gave it up for pretty pixels and shiny buttons. We have lost what it truly meant to be an engineer, now just look at the kinds of people entering the industry today: No passion for the science, just chasing cash and quick thrills. And you wonder why our interview process has gotten so shallow?
by DontForgetMe | 2025-12-01 13:41:10+00:00
> recently the best AI models are veering into not sucking territory

I agree with your assessment.

I find it absolutely wild that 'it almost doesn't entirely suck, if you squint' is suddenly an acceptable benchmark for a technology to be unleashed upon the public.

We have standards for cars, speakers, clothing, furniture, make up, even literature. Someone can't just type up a few pages of dross and put it though 100 letterboxes without being liable for littering and nuisance. The EU and UK don't allow someone to still phones with a pre-imstalled app that almost performs a function that some users might theoretically want. The public domain has quality standards.

Or rather, it had quality standards. But it's apparently legal to put semi-functioning data-collectors in technologies where nobody asked for them, why isn't it legal to sell chairs that collapse unless you hold them a specific way, clothes that don't actually function as clothes but could be used to make actual clothes by a competent tailor, headphones that can be coaxed into sporadically producing round for minutes at a time?

Either something works too a professional standard or it doesn't. If it doesn't, it is/was not legal to include it in consumer products.

This is why people are more angry than is justified by a single unreliable program. I don't care that much whether LLM's perform the functions that are advertised (and they don't, half the time). I care that after many decades of living in a first world country with consumer protection and minimum standards, all of that seems to have been washed away in the AI wave. When it receeds, we will be left paying first world prices for third world enquiring, now the acceptable quality standard for everything seems to have dropped to 'it can almost certainly be used for its intended purpose at least some times, by some people, with a little effort'.
by magicalist | 2025-12-01 13:41:38+00:00
Is your argument that Terence Tao says it was a consequence from a known result and he categorizes it as low hanging fruit, but to you it feels like one of those things that's only obvious in retrospect after it's explained to you, and without "evidence" of Tao's claim, you're going to go with your vibes?

What exactly would constitute evidence?
by vardump | 2025-12-01 13:41:39+00:00
> - mov ax, 0 - needs 4 bytes (66 b8 00 00) - xor ax,ax - needs 3 bytes (66 31 c0)

You don't need operand size prefix 0x66 when running 16 bit code in Real Mode. So "mov ax, 0" is 3 bytes and "xor ax, ax" is just 2 bytes.
by tgv | 2025-12-01 13:42:28+00:00
As someone said about the lack of a Switch anti-cheat: it's a numbers game. If cheating is as easy as downloading a .exe for a few $$$, you're going to find cheaters everywhere. If it requires a complex, and/or fairly expensive setup, the number is going to be very low.

That's assuming there's no money in being a cheater.
Show HN: I made an AI video builder
by clementjanssens | 2025-12-01 13:43:01+00:00
Hey everyone,

With AI for photo and video getting CRAZY good and insanely precise, I realized that editing videos can be a real challenge

You gotta prompt, generate images, sometimes create starting/ending shots, generate videos, edit, and so on

So, I made an AI video editor that lets you edit AI videos in no time using the latest models (Nano banana pro, Veo 3, Sora 2, ...)

No idea if anyone out there will find this useful, but here’s a speed-up vid of me making a short clip

I’m not expecting much from this project, but if ppl like it, I have tons of ideas to take it to the next level and make the experience super cool

For anyone curious to try it, you get a 15-min trial when you sign up

https://renderize.studio

No pricing or anything for now, not the main goal, but if anyone’s interested, hit me up on WhatsApp (link in the app under support) and I’ll explain how to add your API keys

Hope you find the tool as cool as I do
by 360MustangScope | 2025-12-01 13:43:05+00:00
You can’t prevent wall hacks with only server side anti cheat. The client needs that data locally before the enemy is rendered on screen.

As mentioned in another comment, you can’t do this on the server without expensive checks for every single player that is always checking line of sight, because it’s not just your session running on a single server but multiple sessions.

And let’s say you did this, now you have a latency problem because most modern games to make them feel fluid has client side prediction with server reconciliation. This is what makes your modern games feel more responsive, if you put a constant server check there you have lost this.

No matter what people say online, it isn’t just move all of it to the server, there is data the client needs to know and can’t be spoonfed by the server.
by orbital-decay | 2025-12-01 13:43:52+00:00
We're not going to advance the discussion this way. I also hate this kind of HN comment that makes grand sweeping statement like "LLMs are like having a fictional friend in a text file for the token predictor", because there's no way to tell whether you're just pulling these things out of your... to get internet points or actually have insightful parallels to make.

Yes, during the Wright era aeronautics was absolutely dominated by tinkering, before the aerodynamics was figured out. It wouldn't pass the high standard of Real Engineering.
by narrator | 2025-12-01 13:44:03+00:00
Well I could do a web search and read all the thousands of articles about social media censorship in Britian and write an essay on it with grammar errors, or I could go on here and blame Israel like the OP, because that's just what I'm feeling today and I saw a bunch of stuff while TikTok doomscrolling yesterday that made me believe that. You'd say the articles I quoted that didn't say Israel were not from reliable sources, and absolutely nobody's mind would be changed. I'll trust AI to be more objective about doing the research. However, I did write the comment myself. I mean I would go back and edit it and put in random no-no words for AI, just to prove that, but I'd get flagged.
by nicoco | 2025-12-01 13:44:11+00:00
An open protocol can mandate indeed, but that is still in the realm of pinky promise security. A better design for a privacy-friendly chat protocol is to not write a lot of stuff on a lot of different remote servers when that's not necessary IMHO. One of matrix's selling points is to be censorship-proof though; in that case copying stuff as much as possible makes a lot more sense.
by billy99k | 2025-12-01 13:44:54+00:00
"especially as we won’t work on product marketing for AI stuff, from a moral standpoint, but the vast majority of enquiries have been for exactly that."

You will continue to lose business, if you ignore all the 'AI stuff'. AI is here to stay, and putting your head in the sand will only leave you further behind.

I've known people over the years that took stands on various things like JavaScript frameworks becoming popular (and they refused to use them) and the end result was less work and eventually being pushed out of the industry.
by zeta0134 | 2025-12-01 13:44:58+00:00
Sure. That also means it doesn't have to be kernel-level rootkits that fundamentally break the security model of my operating system and risk my bank account. Most people will be stopped by userland anticheat, right? It's inconvenient. So ... put it *there.*

And if someone does the kernel bypass thing, well, rely on server-side heuristics (which are imperfect, but also unknowable to the attacker) and you'll discourage enough of that with account bans.

Helpfully eSports players tend to have video captures of their gameplay, and most of these "undetectable" cheats are real obvious if you actually watch the footage. That catches most of the serious stuff at the upper level. It's why video verification has been a thing in the speedrunning scene for such a long time.
by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-12-01 13:45:14+00:00
He is right though:

"Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming,”

ChatGPT can listen to you in real time, understands multiply languages very well and responds in a very natural way. This is breath taking and not on the horizon just a few years ago.

AI Transcription of Videos is now a really cool and helpful feature in MS Teams.

Segment Anything literaly leapfroged progress on image segmentation.

You can generate any image you want in high quality in just a few seconds.

There are already human beings being shitier in their daily job than a LLM is.
by Zambyte | 2025-12-01 13:45:42+00:00
> Also are you really using same account for gmail, your personal pictures/docs and youtube?

Most people use "sign in with Google" and tie their Google account to services well beyond the Google ecosystem, just to avoid creating a new entry in their password manager (lol). You think people are making new Google accounts for each Google service? That's hard for me to believe.
by bluGill | 2025-12-01 13:45:43+00:00
401k and IRAs is where millennials should have their stocks and those have done very well over the years. There is little point in stocks elsewhere (unless you are very rich) since stocks are for long term investments and those two cover the retirement needs of nearly everyone (except the very rich), and there are few other savings needs people might have that stocks qualify for.

Remember you won't live forever (at least not to current medical knowledge, you can bet otherwise if you want), and you can't take it with you (according to most religions). Thus once you have retirement covered and emergency savings you should be spending everything you earn. You should have enough money left at the end of the month to afford the things you buy at the end of the month, but there is no point in any more, enjoy life with what you earn. (donating to charity counts as enjoying life!)
by everydaydev | 2025-12-01 13:45:45+00:00
Fair question — we’re not eliminating failure so much as isolating it behind a system that’s purpose-built for durability. Our infra is built with redundant queues, retry pipelines, and observability you typically wouldn’t stand up for a single product team.

And on the data side, we don’t use webhook payloads for anything other than delivery. They’re encrypted at rest, transit, and automatically purged based on retention settings.
by recurser | 2025-12-01 13:45:53+00:00
Try and make a new folder and drag a chat into it. Web works, desktop doesn’t. Try to copy paste deep-research json via the copy button they provide. Web copies json, desktop includes attribution links from the ui that breaks json parsing. It’s not easy to make a desktop app worse than the web, especially when you have that much money to spend, but it’s clearly possible
by tim333 | 2025-12-01 13:45:54+00:00
Couple of points -

What is absolute truth? You can get into long philosophical debates. As a practical matter Wikipedia goes with mainstream sources.

The "stated goal of Grok is to seek out the truth" sounds good in theory but I fear it may be to reflect Musk's views in practice.

If the options are either the NYT or the visions of Musk, I'll take the NYT personally.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-01 13:46:05+00:00
>> The free market exists because it does a better job than any other system at giving consumers what they want.

> Nobody wants this!

OK, well if you don't believe in the free market then sure.

Good luck seeing how well state ownership manages the economy and if it does a better job at delivering the software features you want, or even of putting food on your table. Because the entire history of the twentieth century says you're not going to like it.
by nathan_douglas | 2025-12-01 13:46:28+00:00
I tell it to accomplish only half of what it thinks it can, then conclude with a haiku. That seems to help, because 1) I feel like it starts shedding discipline as it starts feeling token pressure, and 2) I feel like it is more likely to complete task n - 1 than it is to complete task n. I have no idea if this is actually true or not, or if I'm hallucinating... all I can say is that this is the impression I get.
by arthurfirst | 2025-12-01 13:46:43+00:00
Fair question! But why am I -1 on this?

Risk is relative and not just about THAT security. I worked at an AV vendor and the joke internally was our security threat lists were the scoreboard for bad actors. But if you asked our salespeople you are an irresponsible hack if you don't keep up to date. They never account for the person who really can do it himself -- that is not their customer.

Yes I used to build custom FreeBSD kernels a lot. I manually made security patches on a few occasions and I put in many work-arounds by reading the security mailing list etc. Yes I went well past EOLs a few times for sure.

Always behind a firewall, workloads always in a Jail.

IIRC the release cycles used to be longer and it was less of an issue ~10 years ago. Can anyone confirm?

Most of my downtimes started with a power issue in the datacenter or a need for a hardware upgrade.
by hypeatei | 2025-12-01 13:46:51+00:00
Did you miss the part in that article where he paid back all taxes and penalties? We got a real criminal on our hands! Untimely tax payments because you were a drug addict? Straight to jail.

The gun charges were the result of a fishing expedition; rarely is anyone ever charged with those things stand-alone[0].

But that's okay, keep ignoring my questions and applying the highest scrutiny to a former drug addict and private citizen who has never held public office. Trump might give you a medal for your service in deflecting to Hunter Biden slop anytime Trump's unprecedented corruption is brought up.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/us/politics/hunter-biden-...
by tete | 2025-12-01 13:46:58+00:00
You are looking completely wrong at this. There is no anti-cheat that cannot be bypassed. Period.

You can always run things in a VM, you can always replace your keyboard and mouse with a different device, you can always have your a camera instead of human eyes and have something that recognizes enemies.

Even cheat detection in the real physical world (sports, chess, etc.) is not a completely solved topic.

You can connect computers to other computers so other computers will always be able to control them.

The idea that any (currently realistic) cheat prevention is unbypassable is silly.
by data-ottawa | 2025-12-01 13:47:15+00:00
I think it’s an organization accountability issue.

Why would a company pay for anti cheat infrastructure when they can outsource it to some company and blame them if there are cheaters or upset users? Windows is the status quo too, so it’s very easy to point to everyone else when justifying your choice to the execs.

It would be great if steam deck+box start costing studios quantifiable amounts of money that can be used to justify fixing this instead of outsourcing and hand waving.
by nirui | 2025-12-01 13:47:52+00:00
You forgot to mention that everyone else also raised their price because, you know, who don't like free money.

Last year I brought two 8G DDR3L RAM stick made by Gloway for around $8 each, now the same stick is priced around $22, a 275% increase in price.

SSD makers are also increasing their prices, but that started one or two years ago, and they did it again recently (of course).

It looked like I'll not be buying any first-hand computers/parts before the price can go normal again.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-01 13:48:32+00:00
> For the record I do think the AI community tries to unnecessarily reinvent the wheel on crap all the time.

On Reddit's LLM subreddits people are rediscovering the very basics of software project management as some massive insights daily or very least weekly.

Who would've guessed that proper planning, accessible and up to documentation and splitting tasks into manageable testable chunks produces good code? Amazing!

Then they write a massive blog post or even some MCP mostrosity for it and post it everywhere as a new discovery =)
by senordevnyc | 2025-12-01 13:48:39+00:00
This is so condescending and infantilizing of young people. Of course many of them have it hard. They’re not the first, and they won’t be the last, but they’ll figure it out.

I graduated right before the collapse in 2008, and I’ve spent the last 17 years hustling, scraping, and clawing to make, save, and invest every dollar I could. It wasn’t easy, and after a divorce and a recent layoff, it’s still not. Particularly in one of the most expensive cities in the world, with kids and child support.

I worry a lot about my kids and their future economic prospects. I don’t want them to suffer, but the reality is that suffering comes for all of us, and saving and investing has been good advice for millennia. Blaming others and refusing to take responsibility for your own life and predicament has never been good advice. I hope my kids have the strength of character to resist the learned helplessness you’re offering here.
by runako | 2025-12-01 13:48:48+00:00
> Individual deductibles are limited by law to ~$6500 even on the worst plans

This was not the case for 2025, so I just did a search to determine whether you are referencing a new law. No, you are just flat wrong on this claim.

In Georgia (georgiaaccess.gov), the first bronze plan I looked at has an individual deductible of $10,600 (family deductible is $21,200). The plan's SBC is available to the public[1].

> no one is paying $3500 per month for individual coverage on one of those plans

You are correct, but also many people are not single and live in family units where the family unit is on the hook for $3,500 per month.

1 - https://sbc.anthem.com/dpsdeeplink/deepLink/AnthemBronzeBlue...
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-01 13:49:38+00:00
Wait, what? Their choice is specifically a politically neutral one, wouldn't that mean their target audience is a politically neutral one? Why is your impression that Kagi's target audience is politically polarized users? Been a paying user of Kagi for years, never got that impression.

FWIW, I don't think Kagi should remove or avoid indexing content from countries that invade others, because a lot of the times websites in those countries have useful information on them. If Kagi were to enact such a block, it would mean it would no longer surface results from HN, reddit and a bunch of other communities, effectively making the search engine a lot less useful.
by bpt3 | 2025-12-01 13:50:08+00:00
The people who use chatGPT or Claude are replacing Google searches with chat conversations. Google already has most of what you're talking about from queries, so they don't need to infer much.

These companies are in on AI because there was a rush to produce the first GAI, which would be immensely valuable. I think we'll see it shortly after the first fully self driving car.
by UncleMeat | 2025-12-01 13:50:12+00:00
Yes, sort of.

ACA insurers are required to pay out N% of their premiums. This means that a really important way of keeping premiums down is to make sure that people who use less medical care are in the insured pool. But if somebody is looking at a $20,000 annual bill in premiums and is generally healthy they might look elsewhere than the ACA markets or just simply go uninsured. That person leaving the insured pool means that everybody else's premiums go up.

The ACA had two strategies to keep these people in the pool: the individual mandate and the subsidies trying to keep prices lower. The mandate was removed years ago. And while we still have subsidies below 400% FPL, the ones for people above 400% FPL are gone. A self-employed person making $75,000 annually who previously could afford insurance might now be looking at alternatives.
by jnmandal | 2025-12-01 13:50:42+00:00
Data centers should do everything they can to reduce water usage.

That said, this is masterful scapegoating. The ag lobby must be gleeful if they're not directly responsible for this narrative.

In 2003 my middle school in Central Pennsylvania had this exact same problem. All our water fountains had to have signs posted stating that the water was not safe to drink. Many of my classmates had the purple-tinged skintone that is characteristic symptom of consuming the polluted water.

The issue stems from high input, fossil-fuel based farming, and most of society simply looks the other way because no one has figured out a cheaper way to produce enough food. Data centers are just a red herring.
by tete | 2025-12-01 13:50:47+00:00
Well, that's just silly. Hook up a Raspberry Pi as your keyboard, mouse input and video output and all the anti-cheat fails. Same (largely) for VMs, same for many emulators.

And if nothing works you can always build a robot pushing mouse, buttons, etc.

Of course you can raise the bar, but if anything has been shown it's that cheating is not something that anyone has been able to prevent yet.

In many situations you can also interfere on the packet level. Of course maybe you need to extract some key, but in many situations that's not exactly hard. And then you can hook something into network.