MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by threecheese | 2025-12-24 22:07:37+00:00
IME it’s a term that’s been popularized by generative AI solutions, a meme at this point, and doesn’t speak to real production readiness quantifiably (professionally). It’s something that I’ve seen models frequently claim during coding and planning sessions, and it can also be found around Reddit/Twitter/Github vibe coding spaces.

Seeing this term in marketing materials signals that the target audience is non-professionals (and I don’t mean this derisively, only that we need to apply a different lens).
by mfworks | 2025-12-24 22:08:21+00:00
They did in fact control for these factors.

> Body mass index (BMI) was calculated from measured weight and height and categorized into 4 groups (<18.5, 18.5–24.9, 25–29.9, and ≥30 kg/m2). Hypertension was defined as systolic blood pressure ≥140 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mm Hg, or the use of antihypertensive medication. Diabetes was identified through self-reported diagnosis, medication usage, and registry records. The intake of lipid-lowering drugs was self-reported. Baseline blood lipoproteins were only available in 4,549 participants and, therefore, not included as covariates. The APOE genotype was determined based on 2 single-nucleotide variants, rs429358 and rs7412, which define the ε2, ε3, and ε4 alleles. Participants carrying at least 1 ε4 allele were classified as APOE ε4 carriers.
by KlayLay | 2025-12-24 22:09:26+00:00
Last time I checked, China's state-owned enterprises aren't all that invested in developing AI chatbots, so I imagine that the amount of control the central government has is about as much as their control over any tech company. If anything, China's AI industry has been described as under-regulated by people like Jensen Huang.

A technology created by a certain set of people will naturally come to reflect the views of said people, even in areas where people act like it's neutral (e.g., cameras that are biased towards people with lighter skin). This is the case for all AI models—Chinese, American, European, etc.—so I wouldn't dub one that censors information they don't like as propaganda just because we like it, since we naturally have our own version of that.

The actual chatbots, themselves, seem to be relatively useful.
by tsunamifury | 2025-12-24 22:09:35+00:00
This is dumb trying to call others dumb. This argument is not just inhumane it’s also wrong. The average of something assumed does not negate a real data point. If you did even bit of data science you’d know that. But just another HNer calling someone dumb while confidently wrong. And ironic calling others dumb because of it. So think on that.

Maybe Christmas just leaves the worst on HN … statistically.
by kccqzy | 2025-12-24 22:09:47+00:00
You don't need PostScript for that. The PDF text commands are Tj and TJ, and rarely ' and ". They are easy to delete without going through PostScript. Tj means showing a simple text string. TJ means showing an array of strings possibly with space adjustments. ' means moving to the next line and showing a simple string. " means doing that and setting character spacing.
by exasperaited | 2025-12-24 22:09:52+00:00
> The best anyone can offer is scaremongering about neonazis which are not a threat anywhere in the western world.

Did you write this with a straight face? Are you foolish, or are you arguing in bad faith?

There are neo-nazi sympathisers in the current US government. Paul Ingrassia, Kash Patel.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5387299/trump-white-hou...

I mean really.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/20/trump-nomine...

https://capitalandmain.com/the-white-supremacist-house-extre...
by gisho | 2025-12-24 22:10:05+00:00
I created a similar app just 2 days ago targeting Whatsapp (https://linqshare.com) . Context: In my locality, EA, we normally have Whatsapp groups raising funds for whatever reason; for every content edit, the admin has to copy-edit-paste updated content(which contains name and amount) to the group. This small app intends to provide a table that's easy to convey this info. App stores content in the url but a preview image (needed for Whatsapp share) is stored at R2. Let me know if you want the source code running at Cloudflare.

--edit--
test link: https://linqshare.com/#eJxtkM9KxDAQxl-lzLmHrv8Ova3IHlz04BY8F...
by lioeters | 2025-12-24 22:10:27+00:00
By the way (I'm who submitted the link) - I found a prior discussion on the same document but different URL now expired. There's even a comment by one of the authors, sharing some context.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555654 (2011)

My favorite line from the biography:

> [As a child] Bellard was drawn to electronic devices. His first word was magnétophone (tape recorder).
by Terretta | 2025-12-24 22:11:20+00:00
Having managed fleets of Macs (along with Windows and Linux machines) at last three $worksplace, repair/replace is no more hassle with Apple than Lenovo.

Arguably less, as if you have the right relationship with Apple, you can let your employee walk into any Genius Bar™ for fix, or walk into Apple Store or visit your own smart hands crew (with inventory on hand), for an incredibly straightforward swap.

And to your point, it's almost never needed.
by ben_w | 2025-12-24 22:12:15+00:00
> I'm not sure what the best way to solve this problem is. I would much appreciate any advice.

Serious answer: All the dark patterns.

Loot boxes even if they only give users a digital hat, small animated bird (like the green one, but not) doing a silly dance when users get enough correct answers, some weird phrases sprinkled amongst the lessons which make the users laugh.

Just, please let them have an off switch for people like us :)
by mgaunard | 2025-12-24 22:12:20+00:00
My experience is that anything involving Bazel is slow, bloated, and complicated, hammers your disk, copies your files ten times over, and balloons your disk usage without ever collecting the garbage. A lot of essential features are missing so you realistically have to build a lot of custom rules if not outright additional tooling on top.

I'm not too surprised that out of the box docker images exhibit more of this. While it's good they're fixing it, it feels like maybe some of the core concepts cause pretty systematic issues anytime you try to do anything beyond the basic feature set...
by ozim | 2025-12-24 22:12:47+00:00
It is easier to write your own code than to understand someone’s else code.

It would be much better if we get more humble people who get down to work to understand why and how existing code or framework works instead of trying to work around it or simply throwing all away and writing their own code.

Thera are of course some exceptions - but those are like pro athletes - no you are not the one, learn existing code instead of making excuses about some edge cases you ran into so you have to rewrite all from scratch.
by mopsi | 2025-12-24 22:13:39+00:00
If I recall correctly, Vladimir Chirkin (commander-in-chief of Russian ground forces 2012-2013) said that in the 27 November 2025 interview with Yuri Tamantsev on RBC. I went back to verify it, but the entire interview is now missing from both RBC's website and Tamantsev's YouTube channel as well. Only a reupload of the first segment can be found on another YouTube channel.
by Garlef | 2025-12-24 22:14:05+00:00
My pet idea (which I'm also reluctant to fully get behind):

Participation in social media (including comments sections in newspapers, etc) only with verified identities but behind some sort of escrow (so that you're anonymous to the public and also the platform... until you break the law by threatening SA or similar).

Why?

Bots, trolls, etc are a huge problem and if only actual people could post, this would a bit harder for bad actors.
Ask HN: Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras?
by ray__ | 2025-12-24 22:14:28+00:00
Cerebras' wafer-scale chips seem like the outperform any of Nvidia's solutions for inference workloads. Since most people run inference in the cloud anyway, why aren't more datacenters being built with this technology instead of Nvidia GPUs? Is it simply a production bottleneck? Given the magnitude of hype around any AI-related advances, I'm surprised that Cerebras doesn't get more press.
by neerajsi | 2025-12-24 22:15:13+00:00
If you want recognize all the common patterns, the code can get very verbose. But it's all still just one analysis or transformation, so it would be artificial to split into multiple files. I haven't worked much in llvm, but I'd guess that the external interface to these packages is pretty reasonable and hides a large amount of the complexity that took 16kloc to implement
by sodality2 | 2025-12-24 22:16:09+00:00
The solution is to learn content that you actually use with some regularity in your life outside of the testing! If you're doing this for education, the payoff might be the exam; if you're doing it to learn things without some particular end goal, you'll have to make your own way to make it worth it.

The language learning app people could try scheduling monthly video chats with native speakers (swapping turns halfway through so it's mutually beneficial) and notice their proficiency improve.
by yanis_t | 2025-12-24 22:16:13+00:00
While I’ve been working on my knowledge base meets spaced repetition project, I looked through a bunch of articles, and it’s very easy in fact.

We keep forgetting stuff. But we can remember it more by active recalling. And there is an evidence that you can recall with intervals that grow, to make it optimal. That’s it really. Everything else is tooling on top of that simple fact.

* https://github.com/odosui/mt
by badpun | 2025-12-24 22:16:18+00:00
My Mum just had a giant pituitary tumor removed by a neurosurgeon and I have to say, the things they can achieve and they obstacles they can overcome to perform surgery boggle my mind. In this case, the whole 9 hour surgery was done with a optic nerve dangling in front of the operating area, as tumor was directly below it. The surgeon didn’t nick it.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-12-24 22:16:18+00:00
The crux of the matter is that even if one values upgradability and repairability, neither is a frequent need for practically anybody. Reliable machines rarely need repairs outside of owner mistreatment, and most people I know who are technically capable enough to care about upgrading generally do it maybe once every 4-6 years, by which point hardware has usually advanced far enough that buying a new laptop is easy to justify.

So while upgradability and repairability are great to have, their material impact on day to day user experience is minimal, except maybe for people who have a tendency to severely underspec their initial hardware purchases. On the other hand, things like chassis rigidity, cooling performance, fan noise, and battery life being subpar are constant reminders that you spent a pretty penny on a laptop that's not meeting your needs.

The reality may be that wanting a laptop that's well rounded and competent across the board AND repairable+upgradable is akin to having your cake and eating it too, but that doesn't stop people from wanting it anyway.

As an aside, I believe that Framework could probably get closer to that ideal if they unchained themselves from the port module idea. Yes it's cool, but it forces all sorts of design compromises that otherwise wouldn't be necessary, and I'd bet that something like 80-90% of Framework buyers would be just as happy if changing ports required opening up the chassis, swapping out side plates, and doing a little bit of internal wiring.
Modern Rust and llama.cpp running on 20-year-old PowerPC Macs (Tiger/Leopard)
by AutoJanitor | 2025-12-24 22:16:20+00:00
World-first ports:
- Modern Rust compiler (borrow checker, async, AltiVec) on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 PowerPC
- llama.cpp LLM inference on Tiger/Leopard (1-5 t/s on real G4/G5)
- llama.cpp on IBM POWER8 with PSE optimizations (85+ t/s)
- 59-tool bundle for vintage Macs

And we are just getting started. Rustchain: Proof of Antiquity Coin @rustchainpoa X. We solved satoshi's 1 cpu 1 vote. https://youtu.be/T_o39s7r0iE https://youtu.be/KEE6QV2dCEU Claude code on power 8? Done
https://github.com/Scottcjn/rust-ppc-tiger
https://github.com/Scottcjn/rust-ppc-tiger
by 9rx | 2025-12-24 22:16:23+00:00
> Mocks are usually all about reaching inside the implementation and checking things.

Unfortunately there is no consistency in the nomenclature used around testing. Testing is, after all, the least understood aspect of computer science. However, the dictionary suggests that a "mock" is something that is not authentic, but does not deceive (i.e. not the real thing, but behaves like the real thing). That is what I consider a "mock", but I'm gathering that is what you call a "fake".

Sticking with your example, a mock data provider to me is something that, for example, uses in-memory data structures instead of SQL. Tested with the same test suite as the SQL implementation. It is not the datastore intended to be used, but behaves the same way (as proven by the shared tests).

> checking that query.Execute was called with the correct arguments.

That sounds ridiculous and I am not sure why anyone would ever do such a thing. I'm not sure that even needs a name.
by troupo | 2025-12-24 22:16:46+00:00
Turkish is regular, has well specified rules you can learn in a week, is extremeley easy to read (pronounce as written, there's no floating/jumping/changing stress). Oh, and the alphabet is latin-based.

Russian: extremely complicated grammar using concepts entirely alien to English (declensions, inflections, conjugates, grammatical cases, genders, transgressives, and even plurals are weird), has free-form-not-really sentence structure, jumping stress. Oh, and a completely different alphabet to boot.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-12-24 22:16:52+00:00
Pretty much all the Greek philosophers grew up in a world where the classical element model was widely accepted, yet they had reasoning skills that led them to develop theories of atomism, and measure the circumference of the earth. It'd be difficult to argue they were less capable than modern people who grew up learning the ideas they originated either.

It doesn't seem impossible that models might also be able to learn reasoning beyond the limits of their training set.
by michaelcampbell | 2025-12-24 22:17:07+00:00
FSRS has dials to tweak to show you cards either more or less often, so if it's feeling "too hard" you can tweak that dial to show you cards when "easier" (at the risk of seeing more cards per day since you're seeing them more often).

Failing to do that, one might consider that instead of focusing on how hard each card feels, but rather the size of the corpus that they have "under their belt". This is the case if you're constantly adding new cards - if you are and your cards/day is stable, then you have an ever increasing mound of memorized knowledge.

If you aren't adding new cards, then the cards/day will inevitably go down, barring some actual cognitive issue.

It's a matter of what you focus on as your measure of success.
by paulbgd | 2025-12-24 22:18:06+00:00
kinda similar experience with my thinkpad t14s gen 2 amd (what a name.) I like framework's philosophy, but there's so many refurbished business laptops out there (many unused) that I like upgrading every few years to a 3-4 yr old laptop.

Getting a laptop that's linux certified has been better than I thought, things like sleep and power management "Just Work" whereas on other laptops I'd spend more time configuring TLP or even just hibernating every time because I couldn't get a good sleep experience. Hope this inspires the other manufacturers to work on getting this working out of the box.
by mothballed | 2025-12-24 22:19:02+00:00
>If this is your standard for a relaxing “chilled out” lifestyle then I’m afraid you’d be deeply disappointed if you saw the realities of living like this.

Not my standard, the standard presented by the previous poster, where getting food/water/shelter is "chilling" and doing that plus conquering etc is the "less chill" version.

I wasn't explaining why the heart of Africa is "chilled out." I was explaining why at least the initial waves of people with guns who spent an inordinate amount of their "chill time" scheming on how to conquer others, didn't bother much with inner central Africa, thus even if they were chilling they were a bit safer from western ships and guns.

I don't think I ever made the claim all of the heart of africa is just chillin. I'm explaining why there is the potential people in some places could focus more on just eating and sheltering and watering and not as much time fighting against people who spend time on gunpowder and ships. All else equal it should cost less time to eat and shelter than to do that plus other things, and by the standards here, that was the "chill" that was relative to doing all that plus worrying about conquering.

>>Those human tribes who just chilled out after meeting the bare requirements of survival died off because some greedy assholes outcompeted them

>If this is your standard for a relaxing “chilled out” lifestyle then I’m afraid you’d be deeply disappointed if you saw the realities of living like this.

What you've done is redefined chilling out, from what the OG poster had it at (basically food + shelter), and instead you're arguing against someone else that their original definition we were already working on is wrong.
by ryukoposting | 2025-12-24 22:19:27+00:00
We struggle to recycle normal batteries without injuring or killing people. Lead-acid batteries contain literal plates of lead oxides, and we can't manage to keep that out of the water supply! I don't see how we'd do any better with silver nanoparticles.

Nothing I'm saying is meant to condemn recycling as a concept, by the way. Only to condemn technologies where disposal is dismissed with a shrug and a "idk just recycle it."
by bluGill | 2025-12-24 22:19:48+00:00
If your only exposure to words is the spaced repititon why are you wasting your time learning? Use the language and soon you won't need the repitition at all. The app is good to start because you need a couple thousand words before you can do anything, but in a few months you should be switching from learning words to reading and listening (and soon after writting and talking). if you do it that way most words will occure far more often than the algorithm suggests and become easy
by hn_acker | 2025-12-24 22:19:55+00:00
> The courts say.

Do you have an example of a court saying that violating robots.txt violates an existing law?

In Ziff Davis v. OpenAI [1], the District Court for the Southern District of New York found that violating robots.txt does not violate DMCA section 1201(a) (formally 17 U.S. Code § 1201(a), which prohibits circumvention of technological protection measures of copyrighted content [2]). 1201(a) is the legal basis of Google's lawsuit announced in TFA.

It's my understanding that robots.txt started as a socially-enforced rule and that it remains legally voluntary.

[1] https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/12/are-robots-txt...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
by nine_k | 2025-12-24 22:19:59+00:00
The player speed in Doom is completely unrealistic, which is fun, but plays against immersion.

In Quake, the player speed is less insane, more in line with human abilities, and it makes Quake feel more real. BTW the same is true for System Shock, where the player is not a sprinter champion at all (but can obtain a skateboard, but this is another kettle of fish).
by nostrademons | 2025-12-24 22:20:27+00:00
Car ferries don't really make much sense in a Waymo-ubiquitous world. It's not your vehicle; there isn't really a reason why you would need to have the same vehicle on the other side of ferry ride. You're better off having one Waymo network on one side of the waterway, a separate Waymo network on the other side, and then a passenger-only ferry with a much higher passenger capacity (and oftentimes, they go much faster, since you can have hull forms like wave-piercing catamarans, hydrofoils, and hovercraft when you aren't carrying cars).
by schmuckonwheels | 2025-12-24 22:20:32+00:00
Framework 16 has a 6 port maximum.

6.

That means if you want:

- HDMI

- Ethernet (a must if you're doing real work)

- an audio jack (why is this even an option?)

- SD reader

- USB-A port

You are allowed (1) USB-C port. This is in a > $2200 laptop.

$200 netbooks had all this (minus the Ethernet port) standard 10 years ago.

This is unacceptable. An artificial limit imposed by the mechanicals of the inefficiently large port modules - an idea that should have never left a whiteboard, let alone made it into a production laptop.

On the bright side you are forced into configuring them as all USB-C, you can reuse the man purse you used to carry all your dongles from an earlier generation Macbook.
by bri3d | 2025-12-24 22:20:33+00:00
The bottleneck in training and inference isn’t matmul, and once a chip isn’t a kindergarten toy you don’t go from FPGA to tape out by clicking a button. For local memory he’s going to have to learn to either stack DRAM (not “3000 lines of verilog” and requires a supply chain which openai just destroyed) or diffuse block RAM / SRAM like Groq which is astronomically expensive bit for bit and torpedoes yields, compounding the issue. Then comes interconnect.
by criley2 | 2025-12-24 22:21:49+00:00
I have a half dozen language learning apps on my phone and have vibe coded a few concepts as well and while spaced recognition is amazing, it still suffers from the duolingo "vocabulary is not a language" problem.

IMO the way around users feeling like spaced recognition isn't progression is by redefining progression away from memorizing vocabulary into into becoming proficient in conversation both listening and speaking. If spaced recognition vocab is just one feature of a holistic experience, users will judge their progression holistically.

I'm really waiting for that one app that finally connects ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode or Gemini Live to a context-aware and well trained language tutor. I can already have impromptu practice sessions with both in Mandarin and English but they quickly lose the plot regarding their role as a tutor. I'd love to have them available as part of a learning journey. I can study vocab and flash cards all day but the second that voice starts speaking sentences and I need to understand in real time, I freeze up. The real progress is conversing!
by cesarb | 2025-12-24 22:22:00+00:00
> Could dominant vs non-dominant hand for operating things on the center console make a difference?

Large airplanes usually have a pilot on either side of the center console, and they AFAIK take turns operating the airplane, so if it made a difference, I'd expected it to be studied by the aerospace industry. Given that I've never seen it mentioned on any of the airplane incident reports I've read, it probably isn't a big factor, and I see no reason why it would be different for cars.