MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yladiz | 2025-12-13 02:46:55+00:00
Two points:

1. Growth is not a must have for an economy, as long as it is sustainable, so even if it is a problem, which is highly arguable, it’s not really a problem like you’re positing.

2. Can you be more specific about what the next Eurozone crisis will be? It’s not useful to be vague and to scaremonger.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-13 02:49:05+00:00
> As a result, the Huawei Kirin 9030 SoC is likely produced at an operating loss

Yields are always bad at first but they improve with time and experience. Besides, stretching DUV to smaller nodes is a stopgap measure while China is working on their own EUVL technology and that research is led by the same people who developed ASML's EUV.

https://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/china-is-close-to-manufact...
by array_key_first | 2025-12-13 02:49:13+00:00
I think it's just plainly true that guns cause gun homicide and obviously having more guns means more gun homicide. And suicide. And other stuff, too, like kids shooting themselves in the face on accident. Surprisingly common, which is why you probably should not have a gun in your home with children.

Look, it's just a simple matter of probability and being honest about the world. Bad things, like robberies, are very, very, very rare. Heat of the moment disagreements and accidents are not.

You're optimizing for something that you know, deep down, does not matter - and to do it, you're actively making a bunch of MUCH MORE LIKELY stuff easier. And even here I am being far too charitable to you - I'm assuming the gun would help you in the case a crime is committed. It probably won't, especially if you follow safe gun keeping guidelines.
by mrandish | 2025-12-13 02:49:16+00:00
If you already have a "smart TV" of some kind, one strategy is to block it from having Internet access at your router and then use an Android TV based streaming box/stick or other external source for all content (OTA tuner, 4K Blu-Ray player, game console, etc). It's pretty easy to side load apps like Kodi and SmartTube on Android TV (a YouTube client with ad blocking, other features and zillion UX improvements).
by komali2 | 2025-12-13 02:49:51+00:00
> You’re just a parasite.

No. It's parasitic to horde human knowledge and seek rent for it.

If one is obsessed with the idea of maximizing profit above all other considerations including one's brotherhood to man, there's still other ways to do it that don't involve hoarding knowledge.

You are morally righteous to liberate human knowledge, it just annoys rent seekers. Honestly, annoying rent seekers should just be an immediate marker that whatever you're doing is probably ethical.
by 951560368 | 2025-12-13 02:49:52+00:00
Hi there!

First, thank you so much for taking the time to share this thoughtful feedback - it means a lot to me as I work to make Zen Moment better for everyone.

I completely resonate with what you're saying about meditation apps being fundamentally auditory. That's such an important point, and I'm sorry the current experience doesn't make that clear enough.

I want you to know we do have guided breathing sessions available! If you haven't found them yet, they're on the [Breathing Exercises page](https://zenmoment.net/breathing-exercise) - they include different patterns like 4-7-8 and box breathing, with audio cues for each phase (inhale/hold/exhale) so you don't have to keep your eyes open.

But you're absolutely right about the navigation and the overwhelming options. I added a lot of customization features based on some user requests, but it sounds like I might have gone too far and made the basic guided experience harder to find. That's something I need to fix.

Here's what I'm planning to do based on your feedback:

1. *Make guided sessions more prominent* - I'll add a clear "Start Guided Session" button right on the homepage so it's the first thing you see 2. *Create a simplified "Audio-Only Mode"* - This will strip away most customization options and focus entirely on voice/ audio guidance 3. *Improve audio navigation* - I'm looking into adding voice prompts for basic menu functions

Would you be willing to share a bit more about what specific type of guided session would be most helpful for you? Longer meditations? More breathing techniques? Something else entirely? Your input would help me prioritize the right improvements.

Again, thank you for sharing your experience. It's feedback like yours that helps me build a better app for people who just want to sit back, close their eyes, and meditate without distractions.

Warmly, KevinLee Founder, Zen Moment
by colechristensen | 2025-12-13 02:50:22+00:00
>What is AGI? Artificial. General. Intelligence.

Here's the thing, I get it, and it's easy to argue for this and difficult to argue against it. BUT

It's not intelligent. It just is not. It's tremendously useful and I'd forgive someone for thinking the intelligence is real, but it's not.

Perhaps it's just a poor choice of words. What a LOT of people really mean would go along the lines more like Synthetic Intelligence.

That is, however difficult it might be to define, REAL intelligence that was made, not born.

Transformer and Diffusion models aren't intelligent, they're just very well trained statistical models. We actually (metaphorically) have a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years creating Shakespeare.

My efforts manipulating LLMs into doing what I want is pretty darn convincing that I'm cajoling a statistical model and not interacting with an intelligence.

A lot of people won't be convinced that there's a difference, it's hard to do when I'm saying it might not be possible to have a definition of "intelligence" that is satisfactory and testable.
by Borrible | 2025-12-13 02:50:34+00:00
That reminds me of how the manufacturer's customer service department for my car some thirty years ago tried to convince me that the problems with the ignition electronics could also be caused by solar flares. Which could have been the case, of course, but then it would surely have affected other vehicle owners as well. Though, maybe the sun did shine just for me back then, you can never be sure, can't you. I briefly considered consulting an astronomer.
by eru | 2025-12-13 02:51:24+00:00
If you are a really big fan of something, you'll get familiar with the lingo, but that doesn't mean you can play StarCraft well or weld or shred your guitar.

That's actually part of why FizzBuzz was so notorious: there were (apparently) plenty of people who could talk the talk about programming and software engineering, but couldn't do FizzBuzz.
by teleforce | 2025-12-13 02:54:41+00:00
>None of this means Rust is "bad" or that C is "better". It means they optimise for different values. Rust optimises for correctness and maintainability under heavy abstraction. C optimises for transparency and minimalism under extreme constraints.

>Sometimes you don't want a language that keeps you safe. Sometimes you want one that simply gets out of your way.

D lang is a wonderful Goldilocks in this regard between C and Rust. It has D-as-better-C [1]. There's no head scratching macro, excellent meta programming, bare metal programming and fast compile time and run time [2]. The programming syntax is very intuitive with UFCS [3].

[1] Better C:

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html

[2] Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? (255 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494490

[3] Function:

https://dlang.org/spec/function.html
by alephnerd | 2025-12-13 02:55:45+00:00
FP&A is useless for most ICs (I only taught myself when I transitioned into a leadership role with P/L responsibility some time ago).

For marketing and pricing strategy, probably "Monetizing Innovation".

For UX research, CS160's content [0]

For sales strategy, "Blue Ocean Strategy".

For launching products, "The Lean Startup".

But most critically, start having sincere conversations with stakeholders and understand why they do what they do.

Ofc, if you don't work in a major tech and startup hub like in the Bay, Seattle, NYC, TLV, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Shanghai, Beijing, London, Prague, Warsaw, or Bucharest, much of this is moot because the kind of organization that would allow you to grow doesn't exist outside of those hubs.

[0] - https://kwsong.github.io/cs160su23/
by Mehvix | 2025-12-13 02:55:52+00:00
per halting problem: any system capable of self reference has unprovable (un)truths, the system can not be complete and consistent. consciousness falls under this umbrella

I'll try and ask OG q more clearly: why would the brain, consciousness, be formalizable?

I think there's a yearn view nature as adhering to an underlying model, and a contrary view that consciousness is transcendental, and I lean towards the latter
by bleepblap | 2025-12-13 02:56:41+00:00
Sorry, but it certainly isn't--

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/gpudirect-rdma/index.html

The "R" in RDMA means there are multiple DMA controllers who can "transparently" share address spaces. You can certainly share address spaces across nodes with RoCE or Infiniband, but thats a layer on top
by shadowgovt | 2025-12-13 02:56:50+00:00
> Doesn't seem obvious unless your dutch.

I believe this is a reference to the old "Zen of Python," which one gets by running `import this` in the Python REPL.

"""

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.

"""
by chronolitus | 2025-12-13 02:58:39+00:00
I had been working on a 4-th Dimension renderer project, when yesterday I saw the hackernews post where Gemini predicts the front page 10 years from now[1], and one title was "Visualizing the 5th dimension with WebGPU 2.0".

So I figured, what the heck, might as well make the implied previous article real, and fulfill our collective destinies.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
by taw1285 | 2025-12-13 02:59:17+00:00
Curious if anyone has applied this "Skills" mindset to how you build your tool calls for your LLM agents applications?

Say I have a CMS (I use a thin layer of Vercel AI SDK) and I want to let users interact with it via chat: tag a blog, add an entry, etc, should they be organized into discrete skill units like that? And how do we go about adding progressive discovery?
by Austin_Conlon | 2025-12-13 02:59:18+00:00
SwingVision is the AI tennis & pickleball app that provides automated stats, highlights, and line calling using just your phone. Our mission is to democratize the pro sports experience for all athletes.

Senior iOS Engineer (Berkeley or Irvine): https://swing.vision/careers/52cda8ee-f6e8-433e-8b4b-5bbbce7....
by aleksejs | 2025-12-13 02:59:25+00:00
Most of these attack vectors have been known for 10 years, and yet researchers keep finding bugs in major implementations to this day. Here's one from last week: https://portswigger.net/research/the-fragile-lock

> How would you digitally sign a Json document and embed the signature in the document?

You would not, because that's exactly how you get these bugs. Fortunately serialization mechanisms, whether JSON or Protobuf or XML or anything else, turn structured data into strings of bytes, and signature schemes operate on strings of bytes, so you'll have a great time signing data _after_ serializing it.
by scythe | 2025-12-13 03:00:20+00:00
>The deal with BMW was cancelled in June 2024 because of Northvolt not being able to deliver on time. [Wikipedia]

Certainly this is some kind of failure. But this is Hacker News. Surely we can appreciate that you can't just blame the core technology when a company fails. History is full of companies that failed. Japan and the USA have battery companies despite high wages. There is something to be learned here, but I don't have the determination to figure out exactly what it is.
by colechristensen | 2025-12-13 03:00:58+00:00
Getting into the weeds about what is and is not "A Theory" is an armchair scientist activity, it's not a useful exercise. Nobody in the business of doing physics cares or grants "theory status" to a set of models or ideas.

Some physicists have been trying to build an updated model of the universe based on mathematical objects that can be described as little vibrating strings. They've not been successful in closing the loop and constructing a model that actually describes reality accurately, but they've done a lot of work that wasn't necessarily all to waste.

It's probably either just the wrong abstraction or missing some fundamental changes that would make it accurate.

It would also be tremendously helpful if we had some new physics where there was a significant difference between an experiment and either GR or the standard model. Unfortunately the standard model keeps being proven right.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-12-13 03:01:01+00:00
> You don't need to be a genius or a billionaire to realize that when most of the global supply of a product becomes unavailable the remaining supply gets more expensive.

Yes. Absolutely correct if you are talking about the short term. I was talking about the long term, and said that. If you are so certain would you take this bet: any odds, any amount that within 1 month I can buy 32gb of new retail DDR5 in the US for at least 10% less than the $384 you cited. (think very hard on why I might offer you infinite upside so confidently. It's not because I know where the price of RAM is going in the short term)

> So with prime that's $439+139 for $578 which is only slightly higher than the cost without prime of $549.99.

At this point I can't tell if you are arguing in bad faith, or just unfamiliar with how prime works. Just in case: You have cited the cost of prime for a full year. You can buy just a month of prime for a maximum price of $14.99 (that's how I got $455) if you have already used your free trial, and don't qualify for any discounts. Prime also allows cancellation within 14 days of signing up for a paid option, which is more than enough time to order a computer, and have it delivered, and cancel for a full refund.

So really, if you use a trial or ask for a refund for your prime fees the price is $439. So we have actually gotten the price a full 10% lower than I originally cited.

Edit: to eliminate any arguments about Prime in the price of the PC, here's an indentically speced mini PC for the same price from Newegg https://www.newegg.com/p/2SW-00BM-00002
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-12-13 03:01:24+00:00
> This is just semantics.

Precisely my point:

semantics: the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning.

> You can say they don't understand, but I'm sitting here with Nano Banana Pro creating infographics, and it's doing as good of a job as my human designer does with the same kinds of instructions. Does it matter if that's understanding or not?

Understanding, when used in its unqualified form, implies people possessing same. As such, it is a metaphysical property unique to people and defined wholly therein.

Excel "understands" well-formed spreadsheets by performing specified calculations. But who defines those spreadsheets? And who determines the result to be "right?"

Nano Banana Pro "understands" instructions to generate images. But who defines those instructions? And who determines the result to be "right?"

"They" do not understand.

You do.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-13 03:02:10+00:00
I think it costs less too, whereas a new or used PS5 costs more but doesn't add a lot of value -- there are roughly 15 exclusive games for the PS5 so it's not compelling if you have a gaming PC, but it is a nice package to sit next to your TV that does a lot and can stream games from the gaming PC. Personally I like a PS4 controller better than the Apple TV thing.
by vishalvshekkar | 2025-12-13 03:03:13+00:00
Currently, only the perma-part of permalink is possible per post (or jot). Something like this: https://jottings.vishalvshekkar.com/jots/19620509 always links to that specific jot. Where `19620509` is the permanently assigned ID to that specific jot.

It is not human-readable and not extracted from the post (jot) itself because the post may be edited and over time, may go out of sync.

But, I am open to allowing this setting to be adjusted per site, where the site owner may choose to go with a human-readable ID that is extracted from the jot content.

Is your need more the stable permanent link to a jot, or a human readable permanent one, @gradientsrneat?
by colechristensen | 2025-12-13 03:04:55+00:00
The word "theory" doesn't matter in the way you are portraying it as.

Like a book is a book because it's got pages with words on them glued to a spine with covers. It's not "not a book" because the plot makes no sense.

Scientists don't care about what "a theory" is, it's not philosophically important to them. It's just a vague term for a collection of ideas or a model or whatever.
by randycupertino | 2025-12-13 03:05:25+00:00
If it wasn't, though, why wouldn't he apologize and unequivocally denounce nazi-ism after it happened instead of trolling, playing gotcha games to pwn the libs and doubling down? His jokes about the Holocaust and mocking critics made it worse. He loves reckless, performative provocation and to stir the pot.

Terrible branding for Tesla of him to singlehandedly permanently alienate the majority of his customer base.
by Acrobatic_Road | 2025-12-13 03:06:12+00:00
Not the first sketchy Polymarket resolution. It's also worth noting the rules can change on the fly. Earlier this year ISW changed how they map the war in Ukraine by introducing "Russian infiltration areas" where in the past they would have said "Russian-controlled territory". Polymarket updated the rules to say "Russian infiltration areas" wouldn't count if you are betting on a "Will Russia capture X?" market. Great news if you're betting on Ukraine, not so great if you're betting on Russia.
by EarthMephit | 2025-12-13 03:08:45+00:00
Aren't these all solved problems that we've worked out decades ago with certificates?

Certificates prove that a website/server (and sometimes the client) are who they say they are.

We force the website to renew their certificate from an issuer every year so that stolen tokens/certificates are less of a problem.

The issuer can protect or hide the identity of the certificate owner, and doesn't get any information about which clients accessed a server.
by panarky | 2025-12-13 03:09:47+00:00
This was in the early days of HANA, I'm sure they've fixed the defects by now, but it was shocking to pay nose-bleed prices for every 64gb shard, and then have basic SQL return provably incorrect results. It was a catastrophe, and after spending heavily on consultants to work around the defects, the organization eventually switched to SQL Server.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-12-13 03:10:04+00:00
We can debate the scale/scope/impact of the US's influence campaigns, but the outcomes are clear: they definitely contributed to souring US-Russian relations.

Here's why I consider this whole issue important, and it has very little to do with self-determination in Ukraine:

China is the greatest adversary the US has ever faced. Greater than the Soviet Union, IMO. We will need help from every major nation on the planet if we really intend to remain the hegemonic superpower. We had a narrow window circa 1999-2007 where we could have integrated an Authoritarian Russia into a security and economic framework that would put China in a vulnerable strategic position. We failed because we went full-bore on the ideological "Liberal democracy uber alles!" agenda, which was doomed to fail in Russia and has now wasted the monumental accomplishment of the Sino-Soviet Split. The Eurasian landmass is now dominated by China-Russia-Iran, three powers with internal lines of communication. Read Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard, and what we've done is exactly how to LOSE the game.

https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/36/36669B789... Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an "antihegemonic" coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances. It would be reminiscent in scale and scope of the challenge once posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc, though this time China would likely be the leader and Russia the follower. Averting this contingency, however remote it may be, will require a display of U.S. geostrategic skill on the western, eastern, and southern perimeters of Eurasia simultaneously.

Well golly-gee-willikers, I daresay we've thoroughly punted that into the stands.

Note that ZBig goes on to prescribe solutions that I heavily disagree with. But he was able to cogently articulate the problem.
by glenstein | 2025-12-13 03:10:13+00:00
We're long past the point where people can claim string theory has contributed nothing. AdS/CFT correspondence helped us understand what happens to information in black holes, and brought us the holographic principle which now is looking like it might potentially be the next big conceptual revolution in physics. Holography is making meaningful predictions in nuclear and plasma physics right now

Holography desperately needs it's own Brian Greene style ambassador to share the good news. In terms of momentum and taking center stage, it's now in the place where String Theory used to be like 10-15 years ago as the frontier idea with all the excitement ever momentum behind it, and it has been borne from the fruit of string theory. It's quite amazing times we're living in but I think there's been no energy in the post covid world to take a breath and appreciate it.
by abhijeetst22 | 2025-12-13 03:13:05+00:00
This makes a lot of sense given the current fragmentation in the agent ecosystem. Every framework has its own way of doing things, so wiring multiple agents together is repetitive and brittle. Treating agents as small services feels like the right abstraction.

One thought: as agents start behaving like services, developers will probably want a hosted runtime (something like “Vercel for agents”). Not everyone will want to run their own infra or manage identities/payments for each agent.

Is the plan for Bindu to stay SDK-only, or do you eventually see a managed platform for hosting these agents?
by ETH_start | 2025-12-13 03:13:35+00:00
It's clear from the development trajectory that AGI is not what current AI development is leading to and I think that is a natural consequence of AGI not fitting the constraints imposed by business necessity. AGI would need to have levels of agency and self-motivation that are inconsistent with basic AI safety principles.

Instead, we're getting a clear division of labor where the most sensitive agentic behavior is reserved for humans and the AIs become a form of cognitive augmentation of the human agency. This was always the most likely outcome and the best we can hope for as it precludes dangerous types of AI from emerging.
by rramadass | 2025-12-13 03:15:38+00:00
Huh? It seems like i have showed up your ignorance on this subject and hence you are just trying to "appeal to authority" which is funny given that you have actually not mentioned any one Authority nor any papers/books in support of your argument.

I have studied Linguistics from the pov of Philosophy which any intelligent person should be able to infer from my references.

I don't think you even understand what the phrase "All languages are equally expressive" means. It means very different things when applied to Natural Languages vs. Formal Languages. The latter is where this expression is usually used/studied which is what you are parroting without any understanding.

For your edification, i highly recommend reading about the well-studied Pirahã language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language Note in particular the reference papers/books by Daniel Everett on the Pirahã - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Everett