MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by monster_truck | 2025-12-19 07:36:03+00:00
LGA2011 was an especially cursed era of processors and motherboards.

In addition to all of the slightly different sockets there was ddr3, ddr3 low voltage, the server/ecc counterparts, and then ddr4 came out but it was so expensive (almost more expensive than 4/5 is now compared to what it should be) that there were goofy boards that had DDR3 & DDR4 slots.

By the way it is _never_ worth attempting to use or upgrade anything from this era. Throw it in the fucking dumpster (at the e waste recycling center). The onboard sata controllers are rife with data corruption bugs and the caps from around then have a terrible reputation. Anything that has made it this long without popping is most likely to have done so from sitting around powered off. They will also silently drop PCI-E lanes even at standard BCLK under certain utilization patterns that cause too much of a vdrop.

This is part of why Intel went damn-near scorched earth on the motherboard partners that released boards which broke the contractual agreement and allowed you to increase the multipliers on non-K processors. The lack of validation under these conditions contributed to the aformentioned issues.
by taneliv | 2025-12-19 07:36:18+00:00
> was it a security vulnerability? I'm pretty sure it was "just" a crash.

It's a race condition resulting in memory corruption.[1][2] That corruption is shown to result in a crash. I don't think the implication is that it can result only in crashes, but this is not mentioned in the CVE.

Whether it is a vulnerability that an attacker can crash a system depends on your security model, I guess. In general it is not expected to happen and it stops other software from running, and can be controlled by entities or software who should not have that level of control, so it's considered a vulnerability.

[1] https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-68260 [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025121614-CVE-20...
by happymellon | 2025-12-19 07:36:43+00:00
> > I use zero so-called "AI" features in my day to day life. None. Not one.

> I know so many people who made that same argument, if you can call it that, about smartphones.

I had to use a ledger database at work for audit trails because they were hotness. I think we were one of the few that actually used AWS QLDB.

The experience I've had with people submitting AI generated code has been poor. Poor performing code, poor quality code using deprecated methods and overly complex functionality, and then poor understanding of why the various models chose to do it that way.

I've not actually seen a selling point for me, and "because Google is enshittifying its searches" is pretty weak.
by teekert | 2025-12-19 07:38:23+00:00
Hmm, I'm a molecular biologist, not an expert at this particularly, what I do know is that damage of muscle fiber may not be necessarily mean new cell growth and thus extra DNA replication. The growth of the muscle cell certainly does.

Exercise is good for the immune system, this helps clear cancer, helps stay away from inflammation (ie auto-immune diseases). Where as a sedentary life style a poor diet will promote this.

But indeed for some things/behaviors, the relation the cancer may be complex.
by px1999 | 2025-12-19 07:40:00+00:00
This is really nice and a very original take. It feels good on mobile / other touch devices.

I'd love to see it feel a bit more polished on desktop (maybe I'll give that a shot if I find a bit of spare time!) - I could see a few simple things like adding up/down arrows to the picked item and wiring into up and down arrow presses going a long way to making it work really well there too.

Genuinely, thank you for sharing this, it's something different and interesting.
by meheleventyone | 2025-12-19 07:40:50+00:00
Thank you for saying this. In particular people are often already on a journey of self radicalisation so blaming people reacting to their views for radicalising them further is seeking to soft soap that. On top of which the people reacting are often framed as “going too far” and thus becoming more radical is the only natural reaction. It removes all agency and generally I think is mostly deployed by people that agree already with the radical views but are too scared to say so.
by mrweasel | 2025-12-19 07:41:56+00:00
Your experience illustrates precisely why the ads in the ad store should be worthless. I have never clicked on the ad in the app store. Regardless of how legitimate it looks, I will never click it. The vast majority for ads are clearly either scams or they are at least attempting to piggy back on the popularity of others, and I'll support neither of those cases.

I don't know what it is with Apple, maybe they aren't sufficiently exposed to scams, but they seem to not understand it's an issue, or their metrics are solely based on revenue. Because even if something is a borderline scam, Apple probably gets their 30%.
by bf9d413906 | 2025-12-19 07:42:30+00:00
The collective West will continue its negative momentum. People will continue to seek easy solutions to hard challenges and vote accordingly, making things worse. We'll see further fragmentation of the post-WW2 international order. China does not interrupt while others are making mistakes.

The US stock market will see a correction (and possibly a crash) due to it being generally overvalued, LLM advances unproven for most enterprise contexts, and premature investment in infrastructure. Other stock markets will be dragged down because everything is correlated these days.

Building software continues being commoditized, putting downward pressure on salaries. Software quality diminishes due to prioritizing speed and using LLM output.

Billionaires continue taking control of media companies and continuing using them to influence public thought and discourse. Big budget media production companies show no signs of newfound creativity or risk taking and continues producing remakes, sequels and prequels within existing franchises.

Many people have further diminishing mental health due to a severe value crisis and lack of human connection.

The neurological, cardiovascular and long-term consequences of repeated SARS-CoV-2 infections become better known and understood. But nothing is done to prevent further damage.
by geon | 2025-12-19 07:42:52+00:00
> I had to find names that would allow the variables to appear in the correct order. So after some trial and error, I wrote a small throw-away program that generated a bunch of variables with random names and ran that list of variables through the Turbo C++ compiler. Disassembling the generated .OBJ file showed me which order these variable names would produce

Nice puzzle!

Is the ordering the only thing that can be recovered from the binary? If the hash is available anywhere, it should be possible to brute force the exact original names.
by Earw0rm | 2025-12-19 07:42:53+00:00
It underlines much anti-immigrant sentiment today, in that immigrants are a self-selected sample of the hardest working and most motivated people from their country of origin, whichever country that might be.

There's a lot of Americans here in London, from all over the US, and virtually none of them are anything at all like the stereotypical flyover-state USian - and yet in the US itself, there's plenty of those. Heck, go to any of the countries where smart, hard-working immigrants are said to come from and you'll find plenty of dumb, lazy or just not-that-capable people

So it's almost inevitable that e.g. a Somali who ends up in Leeds is going to be smarter, more motivated and harder working than both the average Leeds native and the average Somali.
by godelski | 2025-12-19 07:42:54+00:00
> Most likely ... sending the hash

If you're tracking packets can't you tell by the data size? A 4k image is a lot more data than a hash.

I do suspect you're right since they would want to reduce bandwidth, especially since residential upload speeds are slow but this is pretty close to verifiable, right?

Also just curious, what happens if you block those requests? I can say Samsung TVs really don't like it... but they will be fine if you take them fully offline.
by vasco | 2025-12-19 07:43:15+00:00
> since it wasn’t made by God, we can definitely make it ourselves.

This implies copying what someone else did. Rather than inventing something new. I know it's not what you meant but if it wasn't made by God it's because it's already made by someone else. The sentence says to me more about copying than some relentless pursuit. The people who invented the thing to copy, those were more relentless presumably.

And then again the Chinese invented plenty over the years. These generalizations are bit meh.
by rglynn | 2025-12-19 07:43:50+00:00
How many civil engineers or architects know how to put up scaffolding or lay bricks?

That was a little tongue in cheek, but I am genuinely curious what you think the correct approach is? I have seen many teams that do need to have someone overseeing the overall architecture, even if that person isn't writing the code line-by-line.

If you have that capacity baked into "Backend Programmer", then great, but not every team is the same.

Is there something inherently wrong with an "architect" who hasn't written code in a decade but is instructing seniors? One might believe that the answer is self-evident, however, I would argue that the organisational structures we see in the world (functional or otherwise) do not bear this out.
by 7bees | 2025-12-19 07:45:03+00:00
You can correlate microarchitecture to product SKUs using the Intel site that the article links. AMD has a similar site with similar functionality (except that AFAIK it won't let you easily get a list of products with a given uarch). These both have their faults, but I'd certainly pick them over an LLM.

But you're correct that for anything buried in the guts of CPUID, your life is pain. And Intel's product branding has been a disaster for years.
by zkmon | 2025-12-19 07:46:20+00:00
Electronic communications came out of blue, outpacing the traditional messengers at blitz speeds, heralding the arrival of aliens that do not recognize distance between locations, lack time duration to do work and create clones. They can build a retail shop that available everywhere in the world all the time. with cloned salesmen.

Aliens from quantum world. Quite unearthly and unhuman.
by mmooss | 2025-12-19 07:46:31+00:00
> This is a regurgitation of the old critique of history: what's it's purpose? What do you use it for? What is its application?

Feeling a bit defensive? That is not at all my point; I value history highly and read it regularly. I care about it, thus my questions:

> gives us an interactive compression of the views from a specific point in history without the subsequent coloring by the actual events of history.

What validity does this 'compression' have? What is the definition of a 'compression'? For example, I could create random statistics or verbiage from the data; why would that be any better or worse than this 'compression'?

Interactivity seems to be a negative: It's fun, but it would seem to highly distort the information output from the data, and omits the most valuable parts (unless we luckily stumble across it). I'd much rather have a systematic presentation of the data.

These critiques are not the end of the line; they are step in innovation, which of course raises challenging questions and, if successful, adapts to the problems. But we still need to grapple with them.
by rockskon | 2025-12-19 07:47:43+00:00
Again: ???????

You people need to be forced to use your product in the exact form your product is presented to end users. With the exact frequency it's presented to end users. In all the wrong places as it is presented to end users.

Maybe then you'll understand why shoving AI in every conceivable crevice is incredibly obnoxious and distracting and, most importantly, not useful.
by DamonHD | 2025-12-19 07:47:51+00:00
I am doing a PhD (by publication, self-funded) because I want to improve how we are decarbonising home heating in the UK, and one target audience is academics, and those papers also support communications with policy makers and industry. As I have made clear to my supervisors the PhD would be a nice bauble side-effect of this climate fixing work.
by VerifiedReports | 2025-12-19 07:47:53+00:00
Thus Apple announces that they're making their already piss-poor, fraudulent app-store search WORSE.

I wrote an app for my company and put it on Apple's app store. It was basically IMPOSSIBLE to find. You could search for the company's exact name (it was the publisher of the app), and it did not appear in the top 300 results (which is where I gave up).

What I caught Apple doing was essentially hijacking the company's (trademarked) name and not showing it, but rather any and every alternate spelling of a similar word... or listings that had no part of the string in their name or description at all. The search string was not present in ANY part of the vast majority of search "hits."

I complained to Apple, and after being blown off once with a bullshit boilerplate response, I mentioned legal action in defense of our trademark. Then they addressed my case with a lie: They claimed that the publisher name is one of the top three search criteria. That is utter bullshit, in practice.
by simianwords | 2025-12-19 07:47:55+00:00
I absolutely believe this and follow what I said to an extent. You don't need to triple check every line of code and deeply understand what it has done - just the highlevel design.

I usually skim through the code (spot some issues like are they using modern version of language?), check the high level design like which interfaces and do manual testing. That is more than enough.
by josephg | 2025-12-19 07:48:55+00:00
> - Intel's technical docs will say "if CPUID leaf 0x3aa asserts bit 63 then the CPU is affected". (There is no database for this you can only find it out by actually booting one up).

I’m doing some OS work at the moment and running into this. I’m really surprised there’s no caniuse.com for cpu features. I’m planning on requiring support for all the features that have been in every cpu that shipped in the last 10+ years. But it’s basically impossible to figure that out. Especially across Intel and amd. Can I assume apic? Iommu stuff? Is acpi 2 actually available on all CPUs or do I need to have to have support for the old version as well? It’s very annoying.
by muzani | 2025-12-19 07:50:01+00:00
The details matter. Will it hurt? Is it subsidized and will be more expensive later or the other way around? How's the latency? What killer apps? Is it under health privacy laws or typical internet privacy laws? What likely side effects are there besides laziness?

It does sound useful. Like go to the mall, look at a keyboard, immediately search up the reviews, then the price elsewhere, sort by nearby. Or in an interview or during a meeting, just search the answer on the spot.
by miguelxt | 2025-12-19 07:50:45+00:00
We do agree. The desired objective of the regulations I mentioned is good. It's a good thing to have some stability as a renter, to not be kicked out and on the streets if you have children and cannot pay the rent, or that yearly rent increases are small enough that renters don't feel asfixiated.

However, we should not only consider the stated objective of the law but the real consequences of them. My point is, housing and rents are quite regulated in Spain. More regulation is being added every year as it serves the political and electoral objectives of our leaders, yet the situation is getting worse. Regulation detached from practical realities will fail to reach the desired objectives.
by TheDong | 2025-12-19 07:51:27+00:00
You missed step 3 - click the first result, which is an Ad for a some shovelware app with an almost identical name and icon to the real thing and which displays ads.

For example, my friends told me about wordle and said they play it on an app on their phone. I search "wordle" in the app store, and the correct app is the 4th result, after an ad and some other gunk.

My friend told me I should use "Google Authenticator", the first result is an ad for another paid authenticator app that uses the Google logo in its first screenshot to try and confuse people into downloading it instead.

The Apple App Store is actively hostile to users. I thought the point of iPhones was you could give them to your technologically illiterate parents without them getting phished, but I guess those times are gone.

It's gone from "search something in the app store and install the first result" to "google '<term> iOS app store' and click the first result", that gives you better safer results.
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-12-19 07:51:31+00:00
Which does that and that's what Llang suggests as well, I remember 2 in some power in his formula. I myself find the separate one-bit counter easier to understand: each side counts pages, but they don't need the full number, only the difference between their counters and the difference can be at most one, so one bit is sufficient. If the counters are same, the actors are on the same page, if they are different, then the writer is one page ahead.
by paul_h | 2025-12-19 07:51:35+00:00
Diverged as well as standardized. I did some research into "out of pocket" and how it differs in meaning in UK-English (paying from one's own funds) and American-English (uncontactable) and I recall 1908 being the current thought as to when the divergence happened: 1908 short story by O. Henry titled "Buried Treasure."
by user34283 | 2025-12-19 07:51:44+00:00
No, in my day job I obsess over every line I add, although there is QA.

In my side project I'm building a frontend that, according to me, is the best looking and most feature rich option out there.

I find that I'm making great progress with it, even when I don't know every line in the project. I understand the architecture and roughly where what functionality is located, and that is good enough for me.

If in testing I see issues with some functionality, I can first ask the model to summarize the implementation. I can then come up with a better approach and have the model make the change. Or alternatively I edit some values myself. So far it wasn't often that I felt the need to write more than a few lines of code manually.
by meheleventyone | 2025-12-19 07:52:32+00:00
Tell me what happened to democracy when Hitler took power? And how democratic was the overall process? So was the decision to commit mass murder of millions of people really the democratic will of the people?

It’s like people haven’t even touched a history book sometimes.

You can also look at the parallels to Trump and his continued assault on the democratic norms in the US government. For example assuming powers that are those of Congress, trying to control what states can do via executive order, a thankfully rebuffed attempt at gerrymandering even the Republicans shied away from and so on.

If one believes democracy is important one must also believe that we need checks and balances within government such that democracy is maintained in the face of bad actors. Trump is not the only elected person in government after all and democracy requires free and fair elections to continue when his presidency ends.

Also nothing about a democratic result means that any side needs to be happy about it or that anyone is or should be protected from criticism.
by eikowagenknecht | 2025-12-19 07:52:47+00:00
I got another mail from Hetzner on Dec 10, telling me that the BSI told them my web site was having serious security problems with Next.JS. Not having high opinions on the BSI, I first thought this was some very elaborate scam attack but no, it turns out it was legit and also Umamis inbuilt Next.JS for me. But apparently there was no crypto miner or other active abuse yet.
by hulitu | 2025-12-19 07:53:32+00:00
> the Dutch ISP trade association compiled a consolidated blocklist. This list is based on input from regulators in other countries and features over 700 blocking targets. It includes several unexpected blocklist entries, such as the social media networks Weibo and ShareChat, pirate IPTV services, and other seemingly unrelated domain names.

Of course Weibo, ShareChat and pirate IPTV services were included by "mistake", with no input from any lobby organization.

Also what is "the Dutch ISP trade association" ? An EU body ? Can I also make a "trade association", "Cavaglieri Media für alle" and make lists with sites which shall be blocked ( based, of course, on the wishes of the highest bidder) ?
by LiKao | 2025-12-19 07:53:35+00:00
Look up predictive coding theory. According to that theory, what our brain does is in fact just autocomplete.

However, what it is doing is layered autocomplete on itself. I.e. one part is trying to predict what the other part will be producing and training itself on this kind of prediction.

What emerges from this layered level of autocompletes is what we call thought.
by KingMob | 2025-12-19 07:54:50+00:00
Hmm, I'm not 100% convinced. What if there are multiple downstream formats that have to be exported to? (E.g., another commenter mentioned PubMed requires something called JATS XML.)

In that case, a consistent input format assists with generation of the output formats, and without that, there'd be even more work.

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That being said, I don't doubt publisher fees exceed their actual costs for this.

I always wonder why there's no universal academic interchange schema; it seems like something XML could have genuinely solved. I suppose the publishers have no incentive to build that, and reduce what they can charge for.
by liampulles | 2025-12-19 07:54:58+00:00
I agree that one should push back, but I suspect we have different notions of when to do that (which is fine, my approach here is not fixed in stone). Making a page needlessly dynamic would be a concern for me if it violates business rules or for whatever reason harms the overall system. But if it doesn't do that, and it genuinely does make the business and users happy, then I'm happy to do it and then get a bit of leverage to take some time to tackle tech debt that needs addressing on the backend.