MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-12-02 05:28:03+00:00
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-plans-...

Apparently they've declared a code red, because competition has got so hot. They're definitely going to do ads, but they may have to put it off. They can't afford ads at the moment ironically.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-declares-...
by onion2k | 2025-12-02 05:28:37+00:00
not via marketshare

That's not an entirely fair measure though, considering Microsoft lost an antitrust case that was brought because they were unfairly leveraging their monopoly in operating systems to give them an advantage in browser adoption. The DOJ threatened to break up Microsoft over it, and eventually only stopped when Microsoft added an option for users to pick a difference default browser over IE.

By that time IE's dominance was beyond Mozilla's reach and it was only when Google leveraged their monopoly in online advertising that a real alternative option for users became viable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
by notnaut | 2025-12-02 05:29:36+00:00
Is it not likely that people are more motivated to collaborate, talk about their work, plan together, feel a sense of excitement about work, etc. when they are communing in person? The ol watercooler mindset or whatever.

I mean - there’s this popular topic of the issue of loneliness lately. People are less motivated to do things that would maybe normally bring them social joy and get them out of their own homes and bring them together with others in the flesh. You’d expect people to be motivated to do that kind of thing, maybe? But it’s hard. And it’s harder every day when there’s a zeitgeist of growing isolationism.

I certainly don’t think the inflexibility of a 5 day in person work week with a hellish, uncompensated commute is the answer to the loneliness issue, nor the lack of motivation to do good work. But maybe there is some middle ground that would serve as a kick in the pants of sorts, without making us all miserable little ants going to and fro once again, that could help people get back out there in a way that helps.

I mean, at least, it doesn’t seem like the metaverse or whatever else is filling that gap as the techno-seers foresaw… but maybe future generations will prove that to be more realistic than bringing people back out together in meatspace. Or maybe we just stoop deeper into this new reclusiveness without any real stand ins for grabbing lunch together at all.
by VogonPoetry | 2025-12-02 05:29:58+00:00
After writing this I decided to look at my shortcut. The action seems to have been a simple "get directions to <place>" and sent verbatim to Siri.

I was not able to edit / update it! However, there was now a new "maps" option for `Open <type> directions from <Start> to <Destination>`

Where type can now be {driving,walking,biking,transit} and <start> is Current Location by default.

After updating, this now seems to correctly set actual driving directions, even if I'd previously set up a walking route!
by zeroq | 2025-12-02 05:32:01+00:00
Totally random rant.

I have a lot to say. About lot of things.

I don't blog because, most of the time, I'm worried about what people might think. Sometimes I speak up in public and people are confused, so - I think - it will only be amplified online. Sometimes I want to share a bit of code, and I'm not sure if the formatting will please everyone. Or naming convention.

But most of all it's putting it all together.

There was this famous kid who only talked in tweets because he had ADHD. Sometimes series of tweets. Like 20 of them. But always in tweets, because that gave him control, and removed - or add, depends on your point of view - constraints.

Anyway - don't be like me. Speak up. Tell people what you want them to hear.
by imcrs | 2025-12-02 05:32:25+00:00
It's not about productivity at all. These same companies were commissioning studies during Covid that told their analysts "look how productive our employees are now that they are working from home!"

It's about crushing labor.

WFH forces employers to compete. It gives a lot of power to employees, because they can apply for far more roles, work fewer hours, moonlight for multiple companies, etc, apply for other jobs during work hours, etc. These companies know that white collar workers are not fungible. Their intellectual workers are genuinely very difficult to replace and produce a lot of value.

For talent that isn't fungible, it's RTO. For talent that is fungible, offshoring.
by logician127 | 2025-12-02 05:32:42+00:00
You’re right on the money. It’s intimately tied to computability theory, complexity theory’s more abstract sibling (I.e. the Halting problem and further Turing degrees). Both rely on the core techniques of diagonalization and reductions. The meat of it can differ a lot because estimating time bounds and determining logical equivalence rapidly become different problem spaces, so it’s not like results in one are really applicable to the other. But a researcher in one will usually be well versed in the other.
Show HN: Webclone.js – A simple tool to clone websites
by jadesee | 2025-12-02 05:32:42+00:00
I needed a lightweight way to archive documentation from a website. wget and similar tools failed to clone the site reliably (missing assets, broken links, etc.), so I ended up building a full website-cloning tool using Node.js + Puppeteer.

Repo: https://github.com/jademsee/webclone

Feedback, issues, and PRs are very welcome.
by free_bip | 2025-12-02 05:33:19+00:00
I'm going to steelman your argument and assume a few things:

- You are a real person who genuinely wants to make a difference in the field of physics

- The proposed mathematics isn't technobabble and actually does generate the constants you say it does

- The contributions are overwhelmingly yours, not overwhelmingly AI-generated

Even under these generous assumptions, this just isn't how citizen science is done. Your first step isn't publishing a 2-page paper with no references and basically no details on what you're doing or why. Your first step is taking your results to the nearest PHd theoretical physicist you can find, and getting them to take you seriously so you can find out if your work actually has merit.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 05:33:38+00:00
I see it as "learning how to learn", not directly learning itself like a curriculum. It's more for those who want to build proper study habits.

Reading the chapter of AI seems to support that feeling. It was about tips on where to use it, where to not use it as a shortcut, how to be critical of any output, and some personal speculation.
by cinci | 2025-12-02 05:34:14+00:00
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by nineteen999 | 2025-12-02 05:34:34+00:00
Preetham is the author of the paper that defines this algorithm from 1999:

https://tommyhinks.com/2009/02/10/preetham-sky-model/ https://tommyhinks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1999_a_practical_analytic_model_for_daylight.pdf

Rather than stolen from Mr. Preetham, it's much more likely this fragment is generated from a large number of Preetham algorithm implementations out there, eg. I know at least Blender and Unreal implement it and probably heaps of others was well.

Nobody is going to sue you for using their implementation of a skybox algorithm from 1999, give us break. It's so generic you can probably really only write it in a couple of different ways.

If youre worried about it you can always spend a day with Claude, ChatGPT and yourself looking for license infringements and clean up your code.
by cryptonector | 2025-12-02 05:34:40+00:00
I... wouldn't use it for a greenfield project either unless I got good at porting Luke Howard's Swift ASN.1 stack to whatever language I might be using that isn't C. For C I'd just use Heimdal's awesome ASN.1 compiler and be done. Even then I would be tempted to use flatbuffers instead, or else I'd have to go implement OER (a bunch of work I don't really care to do).

The problem with ASN.1 -- the only real problem with ASN.1, is lack of excellent tooling.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-12-02 05:34:52+00:00
I can also conceive of a universe why my FTL drive is powered by good vibes, 40K-style. Much to my chagrin, I'm expected to show an ounce of proof for that hypothesis.

Throw in some sci-fi mumbo jumbo with fringe theories that require matter that doesn't exist and defies causality as we understand it, and apparently that requirement goes away for some otherwise intelligent people.
by TZubiri | 2025-12-02 05:34:54+00:00
Oh cool. Shame that I can't access the bill, but that's for the better, it's after all a domestic issue that you guys want to keep domestic.

The US network policies were so open that it sometimes felt voyeuristic, in my country we are also implementing national firewalls organically due to malicious traffic, so it seems the world is converging on closing the networks a bit, thanks Russia and China.

best of lucks!
by D-Coder | 2025-12-02 05:35:10+00:00
Sending the tech from 100 years in the future to today is not directly comparable to sending today's tech 100 years back.

By 2125, military aircraft will probably be silent, able to rapidly ascend to 100,000 feet (out of visible sight), and maybe even invisible. So people today, faced with properly-done future technology, can't see it at all.
by chii | 2025-12-02 05:35:39+00:00
> housing is a consumption expense

only the building portion.

The land is not consumed when you live there. It only appreciates due to the developments around that land, making it more desirable and thus, more valuable.

And if the land is more valuable, then it makes sense for it to cost more - either as rent, or as capital appreciation.

> everyone gets to own a house

which is not a truth, but a want/desire. So housing is an investment first and foremost, and will always remain so.
by alexchantavy | 2025-12-02 05:35:44+00:00
> So, while it’s clearly possible to have a career in a lucrative field you dislike, it’s (a) going to be harder for you than for people who like it and (b) maybe you should consider a field that you do like?

> You gotta want it. Do you want it enough to go through the tremendous amount of effort it takes to learn it? Maybe you hate programming, but you want the money enough. Maybe you don’t care about the money, but you want to program every second of the day.

> Just make sure you have the drive to make it happen.

Man this is so true
by d-lisp | 2025-12-02 05:36:19+00:00
> You don't need to be a standup comedian yourself to spot bad comedy.

I am not a native english speaker, I don't know anything about humourous form of language in that tongue.

Charisma depends on your audience, and audiences can differ quite a lot. There is no "right/wrong" because what please you as an audience may be considered wrong by another one. "Writing in a more engaging way" aka changing your conceptions of what is right/wrong in order to conform to the current cultural supremacia that is built up everyday by pushing some kind of fast-food culture or idk.

Your story is interesting, and I don't understand how you could be surprised : people that go to clowning classes can share the same taste about what is good/bad ? That's not a very surprising fact ! If you had told me that they were people from different cultures ...

Do you think Baudelaire cared about engagement ? You talked like there were no way taste could dramatically change to the point "ugly" is becoming "good" or vice-versa. Some of the writers and artists I like the most braved the taste™ of the different hegemonic culture of their time, and just trusted their own intuition of what they did want to express, say, create.

Marcel Duchamp is a great example of how a mid level joke can change the art world suddenly (and people's taste with it).
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-12-02 05:36:24+00:00
> Open source software is not the best argument for distributed teams when you need to iterate fast.

You want to actually compete for fast iteration? We'll happily take you on over at ardour.org ...

Yes, there are some FLOSS projects which may take a long time to approve PRs. Even in our case, that happens sometimes when someone proposes something we're not convinced by but also cannot reject immediately.

Meanwhile, it's not unusual for comments in our discourse server to lead to direct changes in the main branch within hours.

So while FLOSS may contain examples against distributed teams, it also contains very strong, and very numerous examples that argue in favor of it.
by BrenBarn | 2025-12-02 05:36:42+00:00
> if i've got any of the above wrong please just say, rather than downvote :D

Maybe it's not necessarily that any of those are wrong per se as that they just don't address several other important issues raised in the article, such as (copied from headings in the article):

* Needs constant cleanup

* Database grows out of control

* Element X is now recommended as the new and better client. It is not.

* Calls are not backward compatible

Also saying the info is "outdated" because a bug was fixed two weeks ago (and you're not even sure if it made it into a built yet!) seems pretty disingenuous. More generally, I think the timeline on which info becomes "outdated" is maybe different for you than for actual users. Actual users expect to install it and have everything work. If there are major bugs, protocol changes, and app-throwaway-and-rewrites happening on a timescale of 2-3 years, that's still too fast for most people to consider their info outdated. If everything were going swimmingly with none of these problems for like 5 years, then yeah, okay, but that's not the situation.
by imcrs | 2025-12-02 05:36:44+00:00
For your comment about the turn towards authoritarianism, yeah, there's a reason every DEI program at every large corporation was pulled back within a few months, and it's not because the C suite all reads the same Musk tweets on X.

Employees started making demands of management to actually look at some... structural issues. Those demands had teeth because employees acted and organized as a bloc. Only a matter of time before other lines of questioning besides race and sex were explored at work.

Yeah.
by maknee | 2025-12-02 05:36:47+00:00
Location: New York City, NY, USA (NYC) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-zhu-347233121/ Email: find email on my blog OR reach out on linkedin LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-zhu-347233121/ Github: https://github.com/maknee

Things I've done (I've put all these projects on my blog: https://maknee.github.io/blog/):

- Analyzed DeepSeek's distributed filesystem from the ground up in a multipart series

- Built a 100k+ (1TB+) RL dataset for a popular online MOBA game by reverse engineering data format (~50k -> ~100k downloads monthly on huggingface)

- Optimizing finetuning/RL on multi-node GPUs

- Built a framework that intercepts OpenGL pipelines and re‑renders them with NVIDIA ray tracing

I'm looking to work on optimizations and performance analysis of systems. This includes: building profiling tools, building and running large scale distributed systems (training, inference, vectordb, db, compilers, etc...), discussing napkin-math & identifying bottlenecks and writing about the work.
by ahmedbaracat | 2025-12-02 05:38:10+00:00
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by RoyTyrell | 2025-12-02 05:38:34+00:00
That timezone thing really threw one of my client's management for a loop. During covid they expanded some of their India and Philippians office presence and depending on what you're working on, you need to have regular communication with some of those folks. When they did full RTO they were trying to "make" some of the staff (engineering and management) come in at 5am so they could meet with the offshore staff before they went home but everyone bucked, as you'd expect. When folks were WFH they just went with it. Eventually executive staff just said "you guys figure it out". So they ended up changing the meetings from twice a week to once a month and now projects keep slipping deadlines, including one that went from approx on time to 2mo behind, and it's costing them serious revenue since they cant sell it yet.
Show HN: Eatelligence – Scan pantry items, get AI recipe suggestions
by xsonerx | 2025-12-02 05:38:37+00:00
I built a mobile app that scans barcodes or photos of food in your pantry and uses GPT-4 to suggest recipes based on what you actually have.

Tech stack: React Native (Expo), Supabase for backend/auth, react-native-vision-camera for scanning, OpenAI API for recipe generation.

Built it in about a week.It's free to use with a premium tier. iOS only for now.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eatelligence/id6755645485

Would love feedback or questions!
by cryptonector | 2025-12-02 05:39:17+00:00
I've been working on and with Kerberos and PKIX for decades. I don't find ASN.1 to be a problem as long as you have good tooling or are willing to build it. The specs are a pleasure to read -- clear, concise, precise, and approachable (once you have a mental model for it anyways).

Of course, I am an ASN.1 compiler maintainer, but hey, I had to become one because the compiler I was using was awesome but not good enough, so I made it good enough.

I'm curious what made it a nightmare for you.
by taftster | 2025-12-02 05:39:43+00:00
Right, I find the use of protobuf lacking with direct support in the browser. Since JSON is a native data encoding format of the browser (effectively), it's just easier to have a JSON-based API.

Yes, there are abstractions or other hacks that would bolt on protobuf support in the browser, but that's not ideal in my mind.

Protobuf is an ideal exchange format when you're not dealing with the public as a whole. That is, a private or corporate API for your data processing pipelines, etc.
by daguu | 2025-12-02 05:41:04+00:00
This is a hybrid in-person role. We generally spend ~2 days a week at the office, so not a huge burden, but you need to be in commuting range. Relocation is provided. Aerospace is a hardware-centric field so it tends to come with the territory.

I'm happy to answer questions via email: doug at the same domain as the website listed above.
by chii | 2025-12-02 05:41:20+00:00
> overarching conspiracy theory.

it's because it's so easy to simply blame the ills of society on some illusory few pulling the strings behind the scenes. It used to be the migrants, or blacks, or the chinese (still is apparently) or the japanese...and now, it's the rich/shadowy figures etc.

The actual truth is that the collective actions of everybody leads to certain outcomes - today's outcomes. It can't really have happened any other way.
by alexandre_m | 2025-12-02 05:41:38+00:00
> What hurt open source in the past was its inability to keep up with the quality and feature depth of closed source competitors

Quality was rarely the reason open source lagged in certain domains. Most of the time, open source solutions were technically superior. What actually hurt open source were structural forces, distribution advantages, and enterprise biases.

One could make an argument that open source solutions often lacked good UX historically, although that has changed drastically the past 20 years.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-02 05:41:58+00:00
Yes, you've successfully confirmed: We're quite clearly speaking different languages.

(Good luck with...whatever it is that you may be talking about. My diction is good. I don't have time or patience to explain it for outliers who aren't following along well and who also insist that it must somehow be wrong. I apologize for this; I am actually sorry.)
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-12-02 05:42:09+00:00
What? We build skyscrapers and supersonic jets and computer chips with nanometer precision now. We haven't "lost" anything. This is just blind worship to some ancient, primitive knowledge that never existed. The past 10,000 years has just been normal people living normal lives.

And, yes, I feel confident that with a few weeks, a rope, and a really good reason - almost any American could strap a horse to a buggy. It's not rocket science and countless humans have done it before.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-12-02 05:42:10+00:00
Diploid. Peas have 7 pairs of chromosomes. Many types of plants have multiple (polyploid) copies of each chromosome, and you will not discover the classic Mendelian dominant-recessive pattern by studying them. Mendel lucked out by studying a diploid species. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=polyploid&ia=web
by occamsrazorwit | 2025-12-02 05:44:29+00:00
"15 years ago" is funny, because Siri couldn't even do either of those functions on desktop 7 years ago [1]. It's crazy how they've managed to do nothing with a winning hand.

[1] https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9q7ugf/it_is_truly_absur...
by chii | 2025-12-02 05:44:37+00:00
> I would not want to live in a society of these kinds of people.

of course not. Nobody does.

However, what happened to your civic responsibility to keep such a society to make it function? Why is that not ever mentioned?

The fact is, gov't regulation does need to be comprehensive and thorough to ensure that individual incentives are completely aligned, so that law of the jungle doesn't take hold. And it is up to each individual, who do not have the power in a jungle, to collectively ensure that society doesn't devolve back into that, rather than to expect that the powerful would be moral/ethical and rely on their altruism.
by hresvelgr | 2025-12-02 05:45:36+00:00
I somewhat mirror this opinion, but I would like to point out that there are scant alternatives that meet the intersection of attributes ImGui possesses. The best alternative I've seen as of late is Slint[1]. It's early days but it's looking very promising and is light enough to work on embedded systems.

[1] https://slint.dev/
by rozap | 2025-12-02 05:46:52+00:00
The recent-ish Dell XPS I had for work was the worst hardware I've ever had in my entire life, full stop. The touchpad was an abomination. Like, nobody bothered to use it before it shipped. Just completely broken. I also experienced everything else you experienced with regard to power management. That fact that a team of human beings could create something so awful actually made me depressed.

Very happy with my framework when I switched jobs. And my asus zenbook was also great.