MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-12-20 04:43:59+00:00
So with regards to the YMF724... what you describe about how spartan the offering was to you doesn't surprise me in the least. That specific chip was pretty much offered to OEMs very cheaply by Yamaha, and a ton of Chinese card makers (mostly of the generic variety) snapped them up and implemented the chip however they saw fit. As for Yamaha, they apparently did produce their own branded soundcard based on a later revision of the YMF724 chip called the WaveForce WF-192XG.

There is some guy on Youtube that reviewed his specific generic YMF724-based sound card many many years ago that did have SPDIF on board and he seemed quite fond of it. Though later on, he redacted his initial recommendation due to how hard it is to find a YMF724 card built exactly like his was. So to be honest, it's likely you didn't miss out after all.

Initial review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zueKH6CUVqE

Comment on rescinding his recommendation (w/ timestamp): https://youtu.be/fl3D9trFJ8E?t=1410

Regarding the SPDIF implementation on the Creative AWE-series cards, those SPDIF brackets turned out to be very important due to their proper support for the TTL-level signal, yet back in the day, most users discarded it or lost them in the shuffle, making them exceedingly rare in the long run. If you are out shopping for any AWE32 or AWE64, good luck finding one with the bracket! Frankly, I wish Creative just slapped the coaxial SPDIF port on the card itself rather than on a separate bracket, though I suppose Creative wanted the world to know how they half-assed the implementation anyway. I digress. :)

That ESI Juli@ was the most interesting sound card I ever used, and I've not seen one like it since. I even recall ensuring that it had a dedicated PCI slot for it that did not connect over a PCI-to-PCIe bridge, in case that would introduce latency. Hilariously though, my needs were never particularly stringent. I was just being OCD.

For me? As far as Linux audio subsystems go, I preferred the ease of PulseAudio, even if it was rather buggy in its earlier days. I even played around with JACK many years later, but would go right back to PulseAudio, since it's truly set-it-and-forget-it in the current era... or I guess we default to pipewire now? I kinda stopped paying attention since audio is so seamless now.
by opello | 2025-12-20 04:44:06+00:00
Wow, there are multiple things like that!

Qweremin: C64 Theremin: https://linusakesson.net/hardware/theremin/index.php

Qwertar: C64 Keytar: https://linusakesson.net/music/glyptodont-live/index.php

Very neat!
by zdragnar | 2025-12-20 04:44:56+00:00
I agree with the other comments that this sentence is just poorly written.

In cities people tend to not make eye contact while walking by each other, though in smaller towns it is more common to acknowledge each other in passing.

In neither case would it be accurate to find eye contact suspicious. The sentence appears to be a summation of several things the person saw, convincing them poorly and creating the ambiguity.
by PKop | 2025-12-20 04:46:13+00:00
You turn your brain off and outsource your thinking to other people, because you're incapable of perceiving reality for yourself, is what you're telling me.

Of course everyone is responsible for their accuracy and their errors, doesn't mean it's impossible to infer things based on observation experience and intuition. This is an evolved ability, but I do agree some people are better than others like most things.

You're conflating a lot of things. Many prejudices are accurate and prudent, which craft is stupid, but so what? I'm not going to deny my perception on something that's correct just because some other idiot believes in magic; non sequitur.
by JSR_FDED | 2025-12-20 04:47:33+00:00
I don’t mind if Maguire has strong or fringe opinions on things related to his industry.

But if you have a high profile role you shouldn’t be “contributing” unsubstantiated theories to the coverage of fresh tragedies.

The former Sequoia managing partner Roelof Botha says about Maguire that he has a “specific profile” that appeals to certain founders. Seemingly forgetting that there are more stakeholders than just those specific founders.
by wahern | 2025-12-20 04:48:39+00:00
NPR News veered sharply left over the past ~10 years, even more so local affiliate programming like that put out by KQED. In the past year or two there's been a moderate course correction, but their reporting is still clearly stuck in a liberal cognitive bubble.[1] I think a large part of it was the generational turnover that occurred, and their eagerness to "speak the truth", emboldened by the belief that any random sociology study that happened to support their view firmly established their beliefs as scientific fact, unchecked once Republicans disengaged from earnest empirical debate. But I agree about PBS, they managed to stay the course.

[1] NPR generally has always had a liberal bias, but their professionalism was sufficient to keep them straight shooting. Even Justice Scalia used to listen to NPR News, at least as late as the aughts.
by dpark | 2025-12-20 04:50:10+00:00
> the majority realizes they can't tyrannize the minority because the minority can run away and work under their own system of law

Keep going. What happens when the majority refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of the minority government?

Go down the hole deep enough and you’ll figure out why everyone who doesn’t want to be a dictator or a dictator’s lackey prefers democracy.
by ewoodrich | 2025-12-20 04:50:28+00:00
My company (and others in the same sector) depends on certain proprietary enterprise software that has literally no publicly available API documentation online, anywhere.

There is barely anything that qualifies as documentation that they are willing to provide under NDA for lock-in reasons/laziness (ERPish sort of thing narrowly designed for the specific sector, and more or less in a duopoly).

The difficulty in developing solutions is 95% understanding business processes/requirements. I suspect this kind of thing becomes more common the further you get from a "software company” into specific industry niches.
by vkou | 2025-12-20 04:53:42+00:00
I'm a professional developer, using SOTA systems, and dealing with them is like bargaining with a fucking empathy vampire. It is emotionally draining.

They trick the reptilian part of your brain that you're dealing with something resembling a human being, but if they were one, they'd be described as a pathological liar and gaslighter. You can't go off on them for it, because they don't give a shit, and you shouldn't go off on them for it, because making a habit of that will make you a spiteful, unpleasant piece of shit for your coworkers to be around.

It's one thing when a machine or a tool doesn't function in the way you intend it to. It's another when this soulless, shameless homunculus does.
by noduerme | 2025-12-20 04:54:13+00:00
>> Killing a non-military scientist has no moral justification

No one said it did.

You transparently attempted to create a completely unrelated conspiracy theory by involving Israel in a civilian scientist's murder. Something we know Israel had absolutely nothing to do with.

You could have asked whether he had connections to Iran or China, or Tesla or General Motors. You didn't just randomly pick Israel because you "wanted to find a reason."

Let me suggest that if your attempt to find a reason for everything begins and ends with Israel, you may be an antisemite. Scratch that, you are one. And your question didn't age well. And your self-professed interest in finding a reason doesn't hold up to the slightest scrutiny, either.

1/5 stars for a very weak attempt at agitprop on behalf of whoever sent you to write it.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-20 04:55:01+00:00
Right to be forgotten is fine for people who aren't celebrities. If you want to be forgotten then don't have a CEO job at a huge company.

Also it generally applies to situations where people are associated with a crime and either there wasn't enough evidence or they already served their time. Neither of those is true here. He has faced nothing except people being mad at him for something he definitely did.

It would be so easy for him to say he changed. Why should I pretend it never happened if he won't do that little thing?
by lovich | 2025-12-20 04:55:03+00:00
There is zero evidence that would sway me other than full transparency into all company records, which I recognize as an implausible ask.

I do not trust companies, or any organization involved in their creation and investment like this forum, to speak honestly and openly.

They have an incentive not to and their peers have proven time and time again that this incentive is too enticing to avoid.

I have seen and taken part in threads on here that were negative for ycombinator and/or their business partners be removed at almost machine level speed.

Maybe it’s the company, maybe it’s the community opinion, maybe it’s another option that I didn’t anticipate.

Regardless I assume it’s the company because they have not proven otherwise and companies in the American business setting are guilty until proven innocent to me.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-12-20 04:56:53+00:00
> The Buteyko method is not widely supported in the medical community, in part due to the lack of research supporting the theory that hyperventilation and hypocapnia causes disease,[7] with one review noting the absence of convincing evidence to indicate that trying to change asthmatics' carbon dioxide level is either "desirable or achievable."

The comment about it being neither desirable nor achievable is so funny to me! It really walks the line between complete dismissal and polite confusion.
by 0x00C0FFEE | 2025-12-20 04:57:54+00:00
My team owns a couple of backend APIs, but we’re also working on re-engineering a legacy batch-processing system into a more modern streaming architecture in Spark and Scala. I say “re-engineering” rather than “re-writing” because the domain has changed a lot in the last 10 years.

I’ve been with the team for three and a half years, and it’s been a very educational experience.
by lukeschlather | 2025-12-20 04:57:58+00:00
I think the claim that DeepSeek was trained for $5M is a little questionable. But OpenAI is trying to raise $100B which is 20,000 times as much as $5M. Though even at $1B I think it's probably not that big a deal for Google or OpenAI. My feeling is they can profit on the prices they are charging for their LLM APIs, and that the dominant compute cost is inference, not training. Though obviously that's only true if you're selling billions of dollars worth of API calls like Google and OpenAI.

OpenAI has had $20B in revenue this year, and it seems likely to me they have spent considerably less than that on compute for training GPT5. Probably not $5M, but quite possibly under $1B.
by danparsonson | 2025-12-20 04:57:59+00:00
Your original contention was

> Education helps channel cognitive ability into useful pathways, but you either have something to channel or don't.

You didn't say "some people have it easier than others", which I could agree with; hence my physical training analogy.

> we don't know a way to improve a healthy brain's performance (*in a general way

Yes we do - it's called education.
by gwern | 2025-12-20 04:58:06+00:00
There's a vein of research which interprets self-attention as a kind of gradient descent and says that LLMs have essentially pre-solved indefinitely large 'families' or 'classes' of tasks, and the 'learning' they do at runtime is simply gradient descent (possibly Newton) using the 'observations' to figure out which pre-solved instance they are now encountering; this explains why they fail in such strange ways, especially in agentic scenarios - because if the true task is not inside those pre-learned classes, no amount of additional descent can find it after you've found the 'closest' pre-learned task to the true task. (Some links: https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/transformer/attention/meta-desce... )

I wonder if this can be interpreted as consistent with that 'meta-learned descent' PoV? If the system is fixed and is just cycling through fixed strategies, that is what you'd expect from that: the descent will thrash around the nearest pre-learned tasks but won't change the overall system or create new solved tasks.
by minitech | 2025-12-20 04:58:40+00:00
> This is largely not true for most processes.

> In most scenarios, forking a process has a negligible effect on the overall memory consumption in the system.

Yes, that’s what they’re getting at. It’s good overcommitment. It’s still overcommitment, because the OS has no way of knowing whether the process has the kind of rare path you’re talking about for the purposes of memory accounting. They said that disabling overcommit is wasteful, not that fork is wasteful.
by cavisne | 2025-12-20 04:58:59+00:00
The state government already failed with Feeding our Future and nothing has changed. The judge who "suggested" the payment of 250m is still serving his term, Jacob Frey (who's aide was indicted as part of it) is still in office, despite a literal vote rigging attempt to primary him.

This should be handled at the federal level, even just to reduce the chances of another jury bribe attempt!
by trollbridge | 2025-12-20 04:59:45+00:00
Klarna, now there's a company that seems to have no idea what direction it's going in. In the past month, they've announced they're going to be at the forefront of Agentic AI for merchants so... agents can figure out what merchants are selling? They're somehow offering stablecoins to institutional investors to use USDC to extend loans to Klarna? And then they're starting some kind of credit-card rewards program with access to airline lounges?
by almosthere | 2025-12-20 04:59:48+00:00
I mentioned to someone that day that the person would be caught by a family member - that this stuff was looking more and more like Mangione - who was also primarily caught by his mom. That being said, the only reason family ends up ratting these people out is because of the high pressure it ends up on the family. If it turns out they find these people, and the family did not turn them in, they are going to the big house too.
by nullc | 2025-12-20 04:59:52+00:00
> There were not _witness statements_ presented by the defense in support of myriad facts, but it's not like the case for the defense wasn't made at all.

It kind of wasn't. In UK civil cases your witness statement takes the place of your testimony on the stand (only cross exam is done on the stand). Outside of your witness statement(s) the other material in your case (e.g. random pleadings and inter-parties correspondence) aren't made under the same penalties for perjury.

So if you're going to tell a bunch of lies in your case (ill advised, for sure) then you're best off to do it via all other means and avoid ever producing a witness statement.

But as a result it's also important for the judge to generally discard such positions when not supported by material attested to in a way with serious consequences.
by vitaut | 2025-12-20 05:00:15+00:00
Please note that there is some error in your port:

Error: roundtrip fail 4.9406564584124654e-324 -> '5.e-309' -> 4.9999999999999995e-309

Error: roundtrip fail 6.6302941479442929e-310 -> '6.6302941479443e-309' -> 6.6302941479442979e-309

Error: roundtrip fail -1.9153028533493997e-310 -> '-1.9153028533494e-309' -> -1.9153028533493997e-309

Error: roundtrip fail -2.5783653320086361e-312 -> '-2.57836533201e-309' -> -2.5783653320099997e-309
by armada651 | 2025-12-20 05:00:48+00:00
In the 70s and 80s if you wanted to play video games you would go to an arcade and meet other kids there. Where are those arcades now? Or you might go to and hang out at a mall, but those are few and far in between now too.

The fact that adults don't have third places anymore affects kids just as much, maybe even more.
Ask HN: The internet is getting worse every day. How do we fix this?
by electrodisk | 2025-12-20 05:01:13+00:00
Outrage, addiction, shallow engagement... this is what much of the modern internet is optimized for, with younger users especially vulnerable.

This is vastly different than the internet’s original promise: a global system that allowed access to knowledge, creativity and collaboration no matter who you are.

The internet feels increasingly broken every. single. day.

How do we fix it?
by amhoab | 2025-12-20 05:01:15+00:00
This is a huge market and there are lots of competitors out there. Just FYI that 1/3 of the AWS price isn't really considered cheap when you look at the budget market. Some of the cheap European providers have US presence now as well. That said, the pricing isn't too bad and the lineup looks good. Also, the website also gives me issues on my Android phone.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-12-20 05:01:22+00:00
Danbooru[1] and Danbooru-derived image boards handle this perfectly, and are a genuine pleasure to browse relative to the awful experience that is pinterest. There is empty space between images, and that is fine. You don't need to occupy every pixel in the screen to begin with, that's why we have these magical things called "margins", elements need room to breathe in the first place.

[1]https://safebooru.donmai.us/ (note: this is a "safe" subset of danbooru for reference, but it is still not safe for work)
by dang | 2025-12-20 05:02:32+00:00
Related. Others?

A better zip bomb [WOOT '19 Paper] [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20685588 - Aug 2019 (2 comments)

A better zip bomb - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20352439 - July 2019 (131 comments)
by IGHOR | 2025-12-20 05:03:30+00:00
I built FTVDB.com as a single place to collect firmware update URLs and make them easy to browse, search, and reuse.

It originally supported Fire TV based devices. I’m happy to share that I extended it to support all Kindle E Ink devices as well.

How it works • Community submits firmware URLs • The system automatically extracts metadata and organizes everything per device in a structured, easy-to-read format • The full database is saved to GitHub as JSON files, so it’s easy to integrate into any service, script, or workflow: https://github.com/FTVDB/FTVDB

Amazon publishes current Kindle firmware download links publicly, so new Kindle versions will be added automatically as they appear.

If you have URLs for older Kindle firmware packages that are missing, I’d appreciate submissions to help complete the archive.

Fully automated and anonymous — no logs are saved about who submits URLs.
by 1gn15 | 2025-12-20 05:04:00+00:00
This article commits several common and disappointing fallacies:

1. Open weight models exist, guys.

2. It assumes that copyright is stripped when doing essentially Img2Img on code. That's not true. (Also, copyright != attribution.)

3. It assumes that AI is "just rearranging code". That's not true. Speaking about provenance in learning is as nonsensical as asking one to credit the creators of the English alphabet. There's a reason why literally every single copyright-based lawsuit against machine learning has failed so far, around the world.

4. It assumes that the reduction in posts on StackOverflow is due to people no longer wanting to contribute. That's likely not true. Its just that most questions were "homework questions" that didn't really warrant a volunteer's time.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-12-20 05:04:28+00:00
"A. At the beginning, Google had a very small executive team, and there was a growing conflict within. Some people said, we’re secretly taking people’s data, if folks find out about this, they’re going to be furious; we have to tell them. But the other side said, if we tell people what we’re doing, they will never forgive us. In I’m Feeling Lucky, Douglas Edwards, the first brand manager at Google, writes about a meeting where this argument was going on between the two factions. And Larry Page, the founder, was sitting there very quiet, listening. When they were done arguing, he just said: “We can never tell them.” He understood that they were stealing. And they were terrified of one thing then, and it’s the same thing they’re terrified of now: the law. That it would come into their sphere and say: this is illegal, this is theft, you can’t do this."
by socketcluster | 2025-12-20 05:06:46+00:00
For me, Claude Code was the most impressive innovation this year. Cursor was a good proof of concept but Claude Code is the tool that actually got me to use LLMs for coding.

The kind of code that Claude produces looks almost exactly like the code I would write myself. It's like it's reading my mind. This is a game changer because I can maintain the code that Claude produces.

With Claude Code, there are no surprises. I can pretty much guess what its code will look like 90% to 95% of the time but it writes it a lot faster than I could. This is an amazing innovation.

Gemini is quite impressive as well. Nano banana in particular is very useful for graphic design.

I haven't tried Gemini with coding yet but TBH, Claude Code does such a great job; if I could code any faster, I would get decision fatigue. I don't like rushing into architecture or UX decisions. I like to sit on certain decisions for a day or two before starting implementation. Once you start in a particular direction, it's hard to undo and you may try to double down on the mistake due to sunk cost fallacy. I try hard to avoid that.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-20 05:07:40+00:00
It's not uncommon. University buildings are pretty open even today. I worked with a homeless guy who was a university employee, so he had a legit staff ID card. He just didn't want to spend money on rent. He knew where the empty rooms were that nobody ever used, where the showers were.

I bet every major university has a few people living/sheltering in campus buildings.
by fainpul | 2025-12-20 05:09:19+00:00
The Karma looks interesting – not ugly, not pretty, but kinda unique.

I had a Rio 500 [1], which I wouldn't call ugly, but certainly not beautiful and it felt like a cheaply made plastic box, even though it was expensive (64 MB flash!).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_500
by rramadass | 2025-12-20 05:09:34+00:00
These are unproven techniques based on retelling/modifications of ancient techniques from Pranayama - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranayama

Yes, i have read James Nestor's book "Breath" and did not find it illuminating.

A better way is to read some good books explaining the techniques of Pranayama. There are plenty (the two books "Prana and Pranayama", "Prana Vidya" published by Yoga Publications Trust, Munger, Bihar, India are good) so buy a few which appeal to you.

Here are some suggestions (based on my practice);

1) Do not practise the breathing exercises when you are feeling hungry, too full, tired, hyper, sleepy etc. Your practice should be done only when you are feeling comfortable and calm.

2) Do the exercises in a well ventilated place.

3) Do not do any breath holding exercises in the beginning for at least a few months. You should only practise inhalation/exhalation with various lengths and force as prescribed in the techniques.

4) Generally, the ratio of lengths of Inhalataion:Exhalation should be 1:2

5) Generally, Inhalation/Exhalation should be "subtle" and in a "thin stream" unless the technique calls for force, but should not hurt the nostrils.

6) Both before and after the practice massage your whole body lightly with your hands; particularly the forehead, eyebrow ridge, temples, and the scalp.

7) The following techniques are enough to give you immediate benefits; a) Kapalabhati b) Bhastrika c) Nadi shodana (alternate nostril breathing) d) Deep Inhalation through the Nose followed by slow Exhalation through the Nose e) Deep Inhalation through the Nose followed by slow Exhalation through the Mouth. Note: The first two will clear your sinuses/nostrils and energize you making the subsequent ones easy, the third one will stabilize and integrate you, and the last two return you to relaxed and calm mode.

Finally, you can use a Blood Pressure Monitor/Pulse Oximeter/Spirometer etc. to monitor/measure your physiological parameters both before and after practice.