MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by emmanol | 2025-12-25 06:08:33+00:00
“This Could Change How People Live”
Throughout the event, curiosity turned into genuine excitement. Visitors were especially intrigued by Yarbo’s modular ecosystem. Learning that the same core unit supports year-round functionality — from snow removal in winter to lawn care in warmer months — prompted reactions like “unique,” “cool,” and “this could actually change how people live.”

One dealer from another city in Colorado even drove five hours after hearing about the Aspen event. He noted a clear increase in customer inquiries back home and praised Yarbo’s continuous product refinement, expressing interest in future collaboration.

More than once, attendees commented that the Yarbo Snow Blower might be the best Christmas gift this year — a practical yet impressive investment that aligns perfectly with modern expectations of convenience and smart living.

Why Aspen Was the Right Choice

Aspen isn’t just scenic, it’s symbolic. It represents a global audience that values performance, aesthetics, and lifestyle integration. Yarbo’s presence there felt intentional and fitting, a direct response to the needs of homeowners who expect technology to elevate daily life, even in snowy conditions.

By showcasing its product in one of the world’s most prestigious winter destinations, Yarbo positioned itself squarely within the emerging category of “Winter Lifestyle Tech,” where automation meets premium living.

Redefining Winter Yard Care

At $4,999, the Yarbo Snow Blower is clearly aimed at homeowners who value time, safety, and innovation. It eliminates late-night shoveling, early-morning driveway clearing, and the physical toll of winter maintenance, all while operating quietly, efficiently, and autonomously.

More than a snow blower, Yarbo represents a shift: from labor-intensive winter chores to intelligent, proactive yard management.

And judging by the crowds, the cameras, and the conversations in Aspen, it’s a shift people are more than ready to make.

Next Stop: CES 2026 — See the Future in Person

Following its successful pop-up in Aspen, Yarbo is gearing up for a major unveiling at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the world’s most influential tech event. As a CES 2025 Innovation Award winner, Yarbo will showcase the Snow Blower in a full-scale interactive booth, highlighting its modular ecosystem, autonomous capabilities, and vision for four-season outdoor automation.

Attendees will have the opportunity to witness firsthand how Yarbo is transforming residential yard care into a fully intelligent experience — not just for winter, but year-round.

If you’re heading to CES, make sure to add Yarbo’s exhibit to your must-visit list. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, home automation advocate, or just tired of early morning shoveling, this is a demonstration that promises to redefine your perspective on outdoor living.

For more information, visit https://www.yarbo.com/products/snow-blower-robot?srsltid=Afm...

Brought to you by Yarbo - https://www.yarbo.com/
by mongol | 2025-12-25 06:10:57+00:00
The cashlessness in Sweden has strange effects on people. I don't think I recognize the coins in my country any more. They feel as foreign as coins do when travelling abroad before you get used.

A bigger problem may even be the dependence on US companies for payments. This was mentioned by the head of Riksbanken in an interview the past week. He mentioned Mastercard and Visa, and the Swedish payment system Swish. He did not mention that Swish requires IOS or Android.
by simonw | 2025-12-25 06:11:06+00:00
MicroQuickJS has 7, kind of: https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/tree/main/tests

Though if you look in those files some of them run a ton of test functions and assertions.

My new Python library executes copies of the tests from that mquickjs repo - but those only count as 7 of the 400+ other tests.
by 2001zhaozhao | 2025-12-25 06:12:40+00:00
In short it's striking a careful balance between giving game mods the flexibility to make whatever they want, and not giving them too much low-level access that it leads to incompatibilities with other mods.

In my case, I am not letting mods extend game code directly because I have additional constraints that require mods to run on a restricted runtime. In some other games, mods DO extend game code directly and I am most familiar with Minecraft. The problem with Minecraft is that the modloaders are community-made; the game itself isn't designed to support mods so there isn't a stable modloader API between versions. If that one issue is fixed it would be possible to effectively vibecode your own version of the game and not have to reinvent the wheel by coding up the base game first. You'd also have your changes persist indefinitely and benefit from base game updates. And like I said, I think this is a powerful pattern that can be applied to plugin systems in general non-game software as well.
by president_zippy | 2025-12-25 06:12:52+00:00
But alas, FreeBSD does support OCI container images! It supports Podman and has an OCI-compliant runtime:

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/oci-containers-on-freebsd...

However, I still can't pinpoint what the value proposition is compared to using jails. Is there anybody around here able and willing to shed some light? I know I didn't use Cunningham's Law to start the conversation like a clever netizen but maybe, just this once, a good faith response to a good faith question is possible.
by hatefulheart | 2025-12-25 06:14:52+00:00
What does this even mean?

I’m not being rude, what does it mean to unexpectedly carry cookies? That’s not what I understand the risk of CSRF is.

My understanding is that we want to ensure a POST came from our website and we do so with a double signed HMAC token that is present in the form AND the cookie, which is also tied to the session.

What on earth is unexpectedly carrying cookies?
by Veserv | 2025-12-25 06:15:02+00:00
Yes, I meant all of that when I explicitly said feature parity at 100 Gb/core-second. Reliable delivery of multiple independent bytestreams (which is actually more than SCTP gives since SCTP still suffers from head-of-line blocking due to SCTP SACKs being by TSN instead of a per-stream identifier) with dynamic stream count (again, more than SCTP gives) over a unreliable network that may reorder or lose packets.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-12-25 06:15:17+00:00
I feel like there's a bit if a disconnect with the cool video demos demonstrated here and say, the type of world models someone like Yann Lecunn is talking about.

A proper world model like Jepa should be predicting in latent space where the representation of what is going on is highly abstract.

Video generation models by definition are either predicting in noise or pixel space (latent noise if the diffuser is diffusing in a variational encoders latent space)

It seems like what this lab is doing is quite vanilla, and I'm wondering if they are doing any sort of research in less demo sexy joint embedding predictive spaces.

There was a recent paper, LeJepa from LeCunn and a postdoc that actually fixes many of the mode distribution collapse issues with the Jepa embedding models I just mentioned.

I'm waiting on the startup or research group that gives us an unsexy world model. Instead of giving us 1080p video of supermodels camping, gives us a slideshow of something a 6 year old child would draw. That would be a more convincing demonstrator of an effective world model.
by ronef | 2025-12-25 06:18:37+00:00
Highly recommend to check this out, the blog/Arnoult does an amazing job in very succinctly breaking down the aspects of SBOMs in a Nix based infra approach. We can go way beyond the current SLSA levels and provide full provenance at the atomic level of the supply chain for when it's needed. And as Arnoult points out, prune when it's not.
There's good work being done on this across the Nix ecosystem and we have also seen a lot of use for it come in through Flox as well!
by simonw | 2025-12-25 06:19:01+00:00
I was super-excited about vector search and embeddings in 2024 but my enthusiasm has faded somewhat in 2025 for a few reasons:

- LLMs with a grep or full-text search tool turn out to be great at fuzzy search already - they throw a bunch of OR conditions together and run further searches if they don't find what they want

- ChatGPT web search and Claude Code code search are my favorite AI-assisted search tools and neither bother with vectors

- Building and maintaining a large vector speech index is a pain. The vector are usually pretty big and you need to keep them in memory to get truly great performance. FTS and grep are way less hassle.

- Vector matches are weird. So you get back the top twenty results... those might be super relevant or they might be total garbage, it's on you to do a second pass to figure out if they're actually useful results or not.

I expected to spend much of 2025 building vector search engines, but ended up not finding them as valuable as I had thought.
by nutjob2 | 2025-12-25 06:21:35+00:00
Robots and technology have been replacing humans for many decades. It's a positive thing and change is a natural part of life. It's hardly depressing, it's progress.

It's not like humans are somehow put on this earth only to do certain jobs or the same job forever. Contrary to 100+ plus years of predictions, humans will never become obsolete.
by neilv | 2025-12-25 06:22:55+00:00
> Gemini made - “Telling my manager I’m quitting and both of us are upset about it"

I bet this AI slop image is actually leaning more towards photos of a counselor at a hospital or clinic.

Because it has several things that not only don't make sense for the prompted situation, but also suggest terrible HR for a company big enough to have ID lanyards.

A generic corporate stock photo would have a better chance of being appropriate.
by vlovich123 | 2025-12-25 06:23:05+00:00
Given that hiding among and behind victims is how abusers continue, I’m not so sure redactions really are all that beneficial when you count future victims in the pool of interested parties. And the public interest certainly isn’t helped by secrecy and redactions and selective release.

While protecting victims is noble, something like this really needs the light of day and a truth and reconciliation commission so that everyone associated with the crime ring is punished and accounted for.

And no, if you do find somehow all encryption is mathematically broken, it’s your duty to publicize it even if existing secrets are jeopardized (you mitigate as best you can obviously in the short term) because it’s likely people more powerful than you might have that knowledge anyway and are engaged in asymmetric warfare.
by tjpnz | 2025-12-25 06:24:38+00:00
I keep seeing articles here (even more on LinkedIn) on what makes a "senior" engineer. Op appears to be following that advice, but here's the truth: it's mostly a complete lie, good sounding, well intentioned and might even work 10% of the time, but still a lie. What you actually do doesn't matter a whole lot - suck up to your manager instead, propose endless meaningless initiatives, try to make good calls about the shit that's about to go belly-up and stay the fuck away from it. In a corporate environment the only thing which really matters promo-wise is visibility.
by trinsic2 | 2025-12-25 06:28:24+00:00
I'm pretty sure part of the reason of integrating everything on the board has some nefarious reasons, at least on Laptop's. Louis Rossman talked about a design flaw in Apple Macbooks where if the SSD fails, in my cases, your system will fail to power up because the mainboard is designed to fail when the SSD fails.(If I am interpreting that correctly)[0]. Remember this flaw is in the Macbooks where the SSD's are soldiered into the board. IMHO there are ways to design integrated hardware in such a way where failures minimize damage and I think many companies decide its not in there best interest to design hardware to prevent that. IMHO this is done in bad faith.

[0}: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qbrLiGY4Cg
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-12-25 06:30:03+00:00
> "Base 360 (2⁵ × 3² × 5 × 7) is divisible by all integers from 1 to 12, so common fractions like 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 1/10, 1/11, and 1/12 all terminate cleanly with no repeating digits."

Except neither 7 nor 11 is a factor of 360 and "(2⁵ × 3² × 5 × 7)" doesn't evaluate to 360.

> "(This body is engaging, explains the "why" quickly, invites interaction, and avoids hype—perfect for HN's technical audience.)"

Ah, so this is just AI slop. Apparently people have descended from vibe coding to vibe writing now.
by godelski | 2025-12-25 06:33:48+00:00
> But we feel Ok as long as the sequence doesn't horribly contradict the original image or sound.

Is the error I pointed out not "horribly contradicting"?

> That is the world model.

I would say that if it is non-physical[0] then it's hard to call it a /world/ model. A world is consistent and has a set of rules that must be followed.

I've yet to see a claimed world model that actually captures this behavior. Yet it's something every game engine[1] gets very well. We'd call it a bad physics engine if they made the same mistakes we see even the most advanced "world models" do.

This is part of why I'm trying to explain that visual quality is actually orthogonal. Even old Atari games have consistent world models despite being pixelated. Or think about Mario on the original NES. Even the physics breaking in that game are more edge cases and not the norm. But here, things like the lion's tail is not consistent even to a 2D world. I've never bought the explanation that teleporting in front of and behind the leg is an artifact of embedding 3D into 2D[2] because the issue is actually the model not understanding collision and occlusion. It does not understand how the sections relate to one another in the image.

The major problem with these systems is that they just hope that the physics is recovered through enough examples of videos. Yet if one studied physics (beyond your basic college courses) you'd understand the naïveté of that. It took a long time to develop physics due to these specific limitations. These models don't even have the advantage of being able to interact with the environment. They have no mechanisms to form beliefs and certainly no means to test them. It's essentially impossible to develop physics through observation alone

[0] with respect to the physics of the world being simulated. I want you distinguish real world physics from /a physics/

[1] a game physics engine is a world model. Which, as in stressing in [0], does not necessarily need follow real world physics. Mistakes happen of course but things are generally consistent.

[2] no video and almost no game is purely 2D. They tend to have backgrounds which places some layering but we'll say 2D for convenience and since we have a shared understanding
by hugs | 2025-12-25 06:34:31+00:00
i appreciate the persistence in getting an answer. :-)

i was being a little too cute using "embrace" and "extend" in a previous comment (look up "embrace, extend, extinguish"). sorry about that.

the big idea with vibium in v2 and beyond is to bring to test automation something old and boring in robotics: the "sense - think - act" loop. sensors observe the world, a brain makes decisions, and actuators carry them out.

right now most browser tools extend what's possible at the "act" layer. they make it easier for an llm to click, type, and observe the browser.

that's useful, but it mostly enables one-off demos. every run starts from scratch. there's no accumulated understanding of the app, and long workflows are navigated by guessing and retries.

what vibium is trying to extend is not just action, but the loop.

vibium v1 is just the "act" part, which i'm calling clicker. it clicks buttons, types, and navigates the browser.

retina and cortex are coming in v2. retina turns real interaction into durable signal (manual exploration, existing tests, production usage). cortex builds on that signal to create a navigable model of workflows that an llm can plan through, instead of reasoning from raw html each time.

clicker is the execution layer. playwright mcp largely lives here. vibium clicker overlaps in scope, but is designed from the start to feed sensing and planning rather than being the whole system.

so yes, playwright mcp covers part of this. what's missing today is first-class sense and think. that's the gap vibium is exploring, even if v1 only ships the act layer.

tl;dr:

sense -> retina (v2)

think -> cortex (v2)

act -> clicker (v1)

i've spent the past few months talking about applying the "sense - think - act" loop to browser automation, but at some point i realized i needed to "talk less, ship more". :-) i'm looking forward to shipping retina and cortex so we can see whether the full loop is actually a step change beyond what playwright or playwright+mcp can do.

happy to dig deeper if helpful.
by mrtksn | 2025-12-25 06:34:35+00:00
Not people doesn't mean that they must be bots, IMHO it means not people who are having opinions but social media workers or entrepreneurs who are having opinions based on metrics that fulfill their KPI which are often stuff like increase engagement, increase followers, increase revenue, get a talking point into the trends, make people talk about a brand or a politician etc. Many large accounts on Twitter are openly corporate accounts of some social media companies and many others are freelancers.

People are not having concerned citizen ideas 24 hours a day everyday, those are obviously professionals who are having concerns about the society, race, jews etc in order to fulfill some goals. Those are not real people, you won't be able to change their minds with argumentation because they don't speak their mind in first place. That's for Twitter of course, in other places they have other productions like "tradwifes" on Instagram or reviewers on Youtube. They are all businesses or indies trying to become businesses. They all use analytics and do A/B testing to acquire and steer their content ideas to the platforms liking. Platforms decide what will be shown to the users, they of course need to run their own business and they also pursue their own KPIs but as cost of doing business they allow other businesses to insert their KPI into the algorithm in exchange of money or favors. For example when there's a new movie release upcoming they can pay the platform to boost engagement on content about their movie, platforms also incentivize the creation of such content by paying certain influencers if they create a content that feeds into the campaign(i.e. if they do a dance from a movie that is being promoted they get paid if their dance video meets the quota). They can do all this for consumer products but they can do it for political stuff too.

Almost no genuine content, its all one big reality show all orchestrated by the big tech. I mean sure, there is genuine content but they are all fillers or trying to win against the flow.
by pityJuke | 2025-12-25 06:35:20+00:00
What do you mean they can’t control it? They could stop gambling tomorrow by disabling trading and disabling case openings. Valve already appear to be preparing for the latter to happen via regulation with the “Armory” feature in CS, which follows Fortnite & other major AAA titles.

(Oh, talking about Valve electing to engage in scummy behaviour, the “X-ray” feature is a classic example of them deliberately subverting regulation against loot boxes.)

If you want to bring up the “let the free market be the free market” angle, I’d at least be amenable to it.

But pretending as if they’re innocent passengers, and that they have no idea what is going on it ludicrous. Don’t baby a billion dollar company.

(I have skin the game too. If Valve blocked trading, I’d lose $400 worth of value in my skins. I’d still rather not support gambling, especially the type that is so incredibly unregulated.)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-25 06:36:52+00:00
Funny enough, I got into my one only and hopefully last BigTech company without a single coding interview even though my job description required me to know how to code. It was all behavioral. It was for a cloud application architect position at AWS ProServe (yes direct hire with the standard 4 year structure between base + bonus + RSUs).

My current job was also behavioral where I am a staff architect at a 3rd party company and it does require coding. As an interviewer, I also only do behavioral interviews. But let’s be realistic, it doesn’t take much to be a competent enterprise dev or even an enterprise architect.

The type of hard problems that BigTech has to solve is completely different. While I would never have trusted any developer I ever met at AWS within 100 feet of a customer, they also shouldn’t let me within 100 feet of the code that runs any of the AWS services.

Even at my medium size consulting company we have a 0.4% application/offer rate. Can you imagine what it is at BigTech? How do you filter just by talking to someone?
by kuschku | 2025-12-25 06:36:55+00:00
That's because you're using planned economy principles for your cities.

Remove all zoning but for industrial zoning, and remove prop 13, like it is in most of Europe, and the invisible hand of the market will transform most of cities into medium-density mixed-use like in Europe, though in your case likely accomplished with 5-over-1s instead.

And with increased density, maybe you'd even have space for some public parks again.
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-25 06:37:47+00:00
That might be if you're hitting a "distinguished" level or moving from IC to M or M to E.

Even at Netflix who is famous for "all cash, no stock, almost never bonuses": https://www.levels.fyi/companies/netflix/salaries/software-e...

Biggest jump is 400K and that's at L7, for Principal SE, the top level. Below that each level is about a $100-150K jump. Nothing to complain about, to be clear.
by kelnos | 2025-12-25 06:38:14+00:00
wlroots and smithay (I'm not familiar with louvre) do a lot of the difficult work for you, that most compositors will do without much variation but there's still a lot that compositor writers still have to do. It's still a significantly larger task than, for example, writing an X11 WM.

(Well, writing an X11 WM that also includes a built-in compositor is a bit more than just the WM, but I'd say still less than writing a Wayland compositor using wlroots or smithay. For example, xfwm4's compositor is around 5300 lines of C, which is... not nothing, but not crazy either.)
by hugs | 2025-12-25 06:39:55+00:00
thanks for using it! <heart-emoji/>

i try to say this often, but it never feels like enough: yes, i started the project, but it's a relay race. i ran the first few laps, but the project has been going for 21 years now. there's dozens (hundreds?) of people to thank at this point for the success and impact that the selenium project has achieved.
by chihuahua | 2025-12-25 06:40:27+00:00
No worries, I didn't sense any criticism. I've just become more critical of my own decisions, now that I have some perspective and it seems to me that most of what I did was poorly considered.

Getting through the interview process used to be so easy back then. I probably applied to 2-3 jobs to get an offer. That has changed drastically since 2023.
by AngryData | 2025-12-25 06:40:34+00:00
I don't think the chinese government cares about every fringe case. Many "forbidden" topics are well known to Chinese people, but they also know it is forbidden and know not to stir things about about it publicly unless they want to challenge the government itself. Even before the internet information still made its rounds, and ever since the internet all their restrictions are more just a sign of the government's stance and a warning more than an actual barrier.