MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aabajian | 2025-12-04 19:36:01+00:00
Well, it isn't every user. We use a version of Epic called Epic Radiant. It's designed for radiologists. The tab that always opens is the radiologist worklist. The thing is, we don't use that worklist for procedures (I'm an interventional radiologist). So that tab is always there, always opens first, and always shows an empty list. It can't be removed in the Radiant version of Epic.
Show HN: Marvin, your own AI-powered game studio
by marvinai | 2025-12-04 19:36:12+00:00
We’ve spent years working at large game studios, and one thing we saw repeatedly is how hard it is for a small team—or an individual—to not just build a game, but to run one like a sustainable business. We wanted to make those capabilities accessible to anyone and for anybody to bring their ideas to life.

Marvin works through a set of specialized agents you can talk to directly. You can describe the game you want to build, and the agents collaborate with you on design, mechanics, art, physics, progression systems, and level creation. From there, you can publish the game to different platforms, including the ability to play directly inside an X feed.

The goal isn’t only to help you create a game, but to give you the full operating stack that real studios use: content pipelines, iteration loops, live ops, and eventually monetization, analytics, and retention tools. In other words, not just “game creation” but “game operations,” end-to-end.

It’s still early, and we’re adding new agents and systems weekly. Next up are live operations and monetization tools.

We’d love feedback on anything—how Marvin responds to your chats, how the art assets integrate, whether mechanics feel coherent, or any rough edges you hit.

You can try it here: marvin.hyve.gg/?r=hn

Let us know what you think.

Thank you for your time and support, Marvin
by gizmo | 2025-12-04 19:36:17+00:00
The big 3 memory manufacturers (SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron) are essentially all moving upmarket. They have limited capacity and want to use it for high margin HBM for GPUs and ddr5 for servers. At the same time CXMT, Winbond and Nanya are stepping in at the lower end of the market.

I don't think there is a conspiracy or price fixing going on here. Demand for high profit margin memory is insatiable (at least until 2027 maybe beyond) and by the time extra capacity comes online and the memory crunch eases the minor memory players will have captured such a large part of the legacy/consumer market that it makes little sense for the big 3 to get involved anymore.

Add to that scars from overbuilding capacity during previous super memory super cycles and you end up with this perfect storm.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-12-04 19:36:57+00:00
Hosted some Japanese study-abroad students over Thanksgiving (they often have no where to go over break). A few times when I suggested an activity they asked if it was "safe". Like taking an Amtrak train. Seeing the "Walk of Stars" in Los Angeles.

It was sad to realize that they viewed the U.S. as so dangerous. But I can say for certain that I feel I could walk around Tokyo at night and not have a worry in the world. From time to time I am embarrassed by the U.S.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-12-04 19:37:10+00:00
I don't gave proof but I would say that most successful startups are copies of other startups. A unique idea is so much harder to execute in both money and effort so coping an ongoing business and making it better is the way to go.

A successful business is mainly about managing resources and people. The idea is secondary.

I would bet on a successful team over an idea any time.
Google Cloud: Disclosure of Information to the European Commission
by scblzn | 2025-12-04 19:37:25+00:00
Received a few minutes ago by e-mail:

We’re notifying our customers about the mandatory disclosure of certain information to comply with a formal Request for Information from the European Commission.

Hello Google Cloud customer,

On November 18, 2025 the European Commission (EC) launched three market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), focusing on Microsoft Azure, AWS, and whether there exist practices that limit competitiveness and fairness in the cloud computing sector in the EU (the Investigations).

In connection with these Investigations, the EC issued a Request for Information (RFI) legally requiring Google to provide certain information regarding our Google Cloud customers:

The EC has informed us that it intends to contact some of our customers to find out more about how such customers choose, buy and use cloud services. To this end, the EC has requested that we provide them with contact details for contacts at certain of our EU customers (comprising the organisation’s name, country code, contact person name, email address and customer’s sector(s) of activity).

The EC also requested that we provide, for each of the relevant customers, their total GCP spend during the most recent financial year (or, in some cases, the last six months).

What you need to know To comply with the EC’s requests, we will be providing the following information: (i) the contact details noted above, and (ii) the spend data noted above

No action is required from you.

We will request that the EC treats all commercially sensitive and confidential information as confidential under the EC’s policies and applicable EU laws, including that the information provided should not be disclosed to any third parties. In addition, to minimise any risk of your revenue data being identifiable, we will provide only your Customer ID and revenue in one file, and your Customer ID and the other details requested by the EC in a separate file.

Note: This communication constitutes notice in relation to the present RFI as well as all subsequent requests the EC may issue in connection with the Investigations.
by bncndn0956 | 2025-12-04 19:37:46+00:00
Null set as 0 and then successor method of defining new numbers.

But your way of putting it is like these successor function could be considered as edges of graphs or references or signposts

Imagine a number system with 3 distinct types of Null Sets and they meet at number P after applying successor function for 10, 42, 135 times respectively.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-04 19:37:46+00:00
> There's a point where it's not immoral to leverage systems available to you to land yourself in a better situation.

That sounds loaded with a lot of value judgment. I don't think it's inappropriate for you to suggest it, but I think you'll find that a lot of people who value equitability, collaboration, communalism, modesty, earnestness, or conservation of resources might not share that perspective with you.

It turns out that people just disagree about values and are going to weigh judgment on others based on what they believe. You don't have to share their values, but you do kind of just need to be able to accept that judgment as theirs when you do things they malign.
by teknopaul | 2025-12-04 19:38:09+00:00
What they get is amphetamines, legally.

38% of stanford kids taking or selling drugs, legally, because they are rich kids: and the poor kids get jail time for buying it off them.

Go USA.

Wierd that no-one on this thread seems aware of it.

There are two standard treatments for adhd: met & dexies midnight runners.
by throwaway290 | 2025-12-04 19:38:16+00:00
Must be nice. Now imagine living not so close to "center" (the mostly white west of the country). They test more advanced blocking in the regions first because people don't complain so much. Same logic with contractors, most people are recruited to the war from these regions. Why? because they are poor and watch tv. What even is VPN? another ploy by anglo-saxons?;)

Basically I'll tell you it's like this:

60% chance you have some VPN apps, if you are not old or if you have a child to explain it to you. The main use: whatsapp or telegram which are semi blocked, and if you are young and fashionable or your fashionable son sends you these links then youtube-instagram-tiktok which are blocked. Regularly VPN fails (ISPs block them fast) so you turn on another one and keep doing like this until one works. Fun fact, paid ones are blocked faster so it is more reliable to use free VPN. (Remember that you won't hear about VPN by random people or teachers at school because it is very illegal)

And you should know that outside of tech bubble the most popular media in the country is by far VK, Telegram and maybe Whatsapp. Youtube/instagram/tiktok are minority. Telegram/whatsapp are legit why many people use VPN, but it is not required (probably the only reason they are not fully blocked is to discourage VPN use). And even then only until everybody switch to Max which is already required by many schools and in all budget jobs. Remember that most most people in Russia support the government and do what they are told.

So ask yourself how many people have a reason to bother with all this. And actually who of them is bigger idiot, who is using free VPN (safe like used condom) or who is not using VPN.

But OK, you can call everybody complete idiots, that's fine. Just don't expect people to take you very seriously while you are looking down on them.
by anakaine | 2025-12-04 19:38:43+00:00
Perhaps this is a place where developers can offer two builds.

HDD and SSD, where SSD is deduplicated.

Im.sure some gamers will develop funny opinions, but for the last 8 years I have not had a HDD in sight inside my gaming or work machines. I'd very much rather save space if the load time is about the same.on an SSD. A 150gb install profile is absolute insanity.
by leeoniya | 2025-12-04 19:39:11+00:00
after trying multiple distros 6 years ago to replace the enshittified Windows 8/10 [1], ended up at EndeavourOS + KDE. there is very little i miss about Windows. maybe Foobar2000.

amazing distro.

[1] after it messed up my linux dual boot config, continuously reset my registry tweaks with forced updates / restarts, insisted on re-enabling the io-destroying Defender, and started force-feeding me ads
by thayne | 2025-12-04 19:39:15+00:00
> It goes asks some AI to write a "Javascript: as She Is Spoke" junk book on Amazon just so they can hang on to the trademark.

IANAL, but I don't think that wouldn't be enough to keep the trademark.

Also the petition was a "we'll ask nicely first so we can all avoid the hastle and expense of legal procedings", they are now in the process of getting the trademark invalidated, but Oracle, illogically but perhaps unsurprisingly is fighting it.
by Javin007 | 2025-12-04 19:39:35+00:00
So to fully close the loop, I convinced the client to go to AWS after this week's debacle. I showed them how simple it was to spin up a new box on AWS, and everything just worked. Then, I showed them how DIRECTLY within the AI help interface, as SOON as you say you "need to speak to a human" it gives you the SUPPORT TICKET INTERFACE to fill out RIGHT there. No "you must have a support contract to ask about a billing question" horseshit. DIRECT access to the support ticket system.

The customer has agreed that we should pivot to AWS. Microsoft has officially lost a $10M, 10 year contract, and it's going to their primary competitor.

I wonder how often this really happens, just so they can save a few bucks on tech support?
by latexr | 2025-12-04 19:39:44+00:00
> are the LLMs wrong sometimes, yes. But so are humans so it's not really a novel thing to point out.

The thing with humans is that you can build trust. I know exactly who to ask if I have a question about music, or medicine, or a myriad of other topics. I know those people will know the answers and be able to assess their level of confidence in them. If they don’t know, they can figure it out. If they are mistaken, they’ll come back and correct themselves without me having to do anything. Comparing LLMs to random humans is the wrong methodology.

> This is no different than another type of combustable engine that was created that has negative consequences on the environment in different ways.

Combustible engines don’t make it easy to spy on people, lie to them, and undermine trust in democracy.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-04 19:39:52+00:00
There's a whole genre of viral social media posts that amount to lumping anyone who appears to have cared quite a bit about something that's not obviously exciting (to most other people) into the autism spectrum. Especially historical figures. "This guy made tons of detailed beetle drawings and cataloged them in books! See, there have always been autistic folks, because he definitely was!"

Like I mean maybe, but also he was a bored rich aristocrat before TV was invented, and sometimes there are no parties going on or everyone's hiding in their country estates because of a cholera outbreak or whatever, and "making shitloads of drawings and organizing them" was like 50% of scientific work at the time. So. Maybe he just had a lot of time to kill.

Going by randos posting online, "liking things" and "knowing stuff" and "caring about things" are all autistic traits when present in any but the tiniest of degrees. It's ridiculous.
by Spooky23 | 2025-12-04 19:39:54+00:00
They are actually more efficient. Remember in any agency there are the political appointees, who are generally idiots, and the professionals, who are usually very competent but perhaps boring, as government service filters for people who value safety. There are as many people doing fuck-all at Google as at the Department of Labor, they just goof off in different ways.

The professionals are hamstrung by weird politically imposed rules, and generally try to make dumb policy decisions actually work. But even in Trumpland, everybody is getting their Social Security checks and unemployment.
by benlivengood | 2025-12-04 19:40:46+00:00
Someone pointed out in another HN discussion that for the highest security it would be nice to have an independent service that accepted/pulled ZFS snapshot streams to apply to the backup datasets, as opposed to using ssh and risking local privilege escalations or relying entirely on ZFS user permissions.

Does anyone know of an existing service like this? Is it something rsync would consider hosting/providing? Currently to support sending encrypted ZFS snapshots to rsync.net I need to use the freebsd VM option with its own zpool.
by wubrr | 2025-12-04 19:40:47+00:00
Gemini weirdly messes things up, even though it seems to have the right information - something I started noticing more often recently. I'd ask it to generate a curl command to call some API, and it would describe (correctly) how to do it, and then generate the code/command, but the command would have obvious things missing like the 'https://' prefix in some case, sometimes the API path, sometimes the auth header/token - even though it mentioned all of those things correctly in the text summary it gave above the code.

I feel like this problem was far less prevalent a few months/weeks ago (before gemini-3?).

Using it for research/learning purposes has been pretty amazing though, while claude code is still best for coding based on my experience.
by Animats | 2025-12-04 19:40:51+00:00
This little 20HP one-cylinder Diesel engine [1] powers much of third world agriculture. The original design seems to have come from Shanghai Engine Company in 1953, and is still manufactured by multiple companies. It's water-cooled, but non-recirculating; you have to fill the water tank when you fill the fuel tank. No electrical components at all. Starts with a hand crank.

Over 75 years of production of that design. It's the AK-47 of engines.

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/High-Quality-Manufact...
by aabajian | 2025-12-04 19:41:07+00:00
Auto Hotkey doesn't work well for Epic manipulation because Epic runs inside of a Citrix Virtual Machine. You can't just read Window information and navigate that way. You'd have to have some sort of on-screen OCR to detect whether Epic is open, has focus, and is showing the tab that I want to close. Also, the tab itself can't be closed...I'm just clicking on the tab next to it.
by jph00 | 2025-12-04 19:41:10+00:00
Amongst groups for extremely gifted kids I’ve seen, well over half are neurodivergent. It’s a well understood issue in gifted kids psychology. When these kids are accommodated appropriately they ace their classes, and when not, they fail out entirely, even at the most basic levels of education.

So the statistics mentioned in the article are not necessarily inconsistent with what we’d expect, since Stanford is a highly selective school that’s by definition going to be picking gifted kids over less gifted ones, and from that group will pick those that were accommodated appropriately.

(There could also be cheating - I don’t know either way. I’m just commenting on the premise of the article. One person in it claims the kids aren’t really disabled because they don’t have wheelchairs. Hopefully it’s fairly obvious that this claim is totally illogical. Such an obviously unreasonable claim on a website called “Reason” makes me wonder what they are actually trying to achieve there.)
by TacticalCoder | 2025-12-04 19:41:13+00:00
> 45+ year run... I'd bet that as long as the 911 is made...

Hardly. The first Porsche 901 came out in 1963 (and was renamed 911 for Peugeot had the right to "901" for car models even though they never used it).

That's 62 years that the 911 exists now.

Heck my 911 Carrera is now 38 years old and it's a late 80s one.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-12-04 19:41:50+00:00
> Asperger’s

This term has a complicated history so people use "high-functioning" now. Many refer to Hans Asperger as a Nazi eugenicist. Reasonably, I'd say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Asperger#Children_sent_to...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_Spiegelgrund_clinic#Experim...

> Just as the physician must often make painful incisions during the treatment of individuals, we must also make incisions in the national body, out of a sense of responsibility: we must make sure that those patients who would pass on their diseases to distant generations, to the detriment of the individual and of the Volk, are prevented from passing on their diseased hereditary material
by asdfman123 | 2025-12-04 19:42:02+00:00
I can't help but be the pessimist angle. RAM production will need to increase to supply AI data centers. When the AI bubble bursts (and I do believe it will), the whole computing supply chain, which has been built around it, will take a huge hit too. Excess production capacity.

Wonder what would happen if it really takes a dive. The impact on the SF tech scene will be brutal. Maybe I'll go escape on a sailboat for 3 years or something.

Anyway, tangential, but something I think about occasionally.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-12-04 19:42:05+00:00
I know this is mostly paranoid thinking on my behalf, but it almost feels like this is a conscious effort to attempt to destroy "personal" computing.

I've been a huge advocate for local, open, generative AI as the best resistance to massive take-over by large corporations controlling all of this content creation. But even as it is (or "was" I should say), running decent models at home is prohibitively expensive for most people.

Micron has already decided to just eliminate the Crucial brand (as mentioned in the post). It feels like if this continues, once our nice home PCs start to break, we won't be able to repair them.

The extreme version of this is that even dumb terminals (which still require some ram) will be as expensive as laptops today. In this world, our entire computing experience is connecting a dumb terminal to a ChatGPT interface where the only way we can interact with anything is through "agents" and prompts.

In this world, OpenAI is not overvalued, and there is no bubble because the large LLM companies become computing.

But again, I think this is mostly a dystopian sci-fi fiction... but it does sit a bit too close to the realm of possible for my tastes.
by groundzeros2015 | 2025-12-04 19:42:10+00:00
The direct result of this thinking is that people who need the accommodation face difficulty in getting it.

You don’t have to return your shopping cart. You don’t have to donate to the collection plate. You don’t have to give a coworker recognition.

But when everyone has an adversarial “get mine” attitude the systems have to be changed. Instead of assuming good intent they have to enforce it. Enforcement is very expensive and very unpleasant. (For example, maybe you need to rent the shopping cart.)

Unfortunately enforcement is a self fulfilling cycle. When people see others cheating they feel they need to cheat just to not be left behind.

You may be from a culture where this is the norm. Reflect on its impact and how we would really like to avoid this.
by h2zizzle | 2025-12-04 19:42:14+00:00
I disagree. Those place the problem at the corporate level, when it's clearly extended through to being a monetary issue. The first thing I would like to see is the various Fed and banking liquidity and credit facilities go away. They don't facilitate stability, but a fiscal shell game that has allowed numerous zombie companies to live far past their solvency. This in turn encourages widespread fiscal recklessness.

We're headed for a crunch anyway. My observation is that a controlled demolition has been attempted several times over the past few years, but in every instance, someone has stepped up to cry about the disaster that would occur if incumbents weren't shored up. Of course, that just makes the next occurrence all the more dire.
by leptons | 2025-12-04 19:42:33+00:00
About 2 years before Javascript existed I was very much into the web, first using the Lynx browser, and later Mosaic on an Amiga. I had also been doing a lot of AREXX script programming on the Amiga at the time. I remember telling a friend "This web browser thing really needs a scripting language", like I wished AREXX (or some language) could automate the web browser.

When Javascript first came out in Netscape, my prayers were answered, and there was no looking back. I've been coding Javascript every day since it was released in Netscape.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-12-04 19:42:46+00:00
"We cooperate with law enforcement agencies when required by law. While we do not inspect traffic content, we will provide connection logs and IP address information in response to valid legal process (such as a subpoena or court order) to assist in investigations regarding illegal activity."

https://tunnl.gg/assets/index-Bjpn0hFX.js

If the requesting party knows it's possible they might ask for traffic to be logged
by walterbell | 2025-12-04 19:43:26+00:00
If the OpenAI Hodling Company buys and warehouses 40% of global memory production or 900,000 memory wafers (i.e. not yet turned into DDR5/DDR6 DIMMs) per month at price X in October 2025, leading to supply shortages and tripling of price, they have the option of later un-holding the warehoused memory wafers for a profit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46142100#46143535

Had Samsung known SK Hynix was about to commit a similar chunk of supply — or vice-versa — the pricing and terms would have likely been different. It’s entirely conceivable they wouldn’t have both agreed to supply such a substantial part of global supply if they had known more...but at the end of the day - OpenAI did succeed in keeping the circles tight, locking down the NDAs, and leveraging the fact that these companies assumed the other wasn’t giving up this much wafer volume simultaneously…in order to make a surgical strike on the global RAM supply chain..

What's the economic value per warehoused and insured cubic inch of 900,000 memory wafers? Grok response:

> As of late 2025, 900,000 finished 300 mm 3D NAND memory wafers (typical high-volume inventory for a major memory maker) are worth roughly $9 billion and occupy about 104–105 million cubic inches when properly warehoused in FOUPs. → Economic value ≈ $85–90 per warehoused cubic inch.