MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tgtweak | 2025-12-10 19:25:21+00:00
Depends where you are plugging them in - but yes they are older gen - despite this, 8xV100 will outperform most of what you can buy for that price simply by way of memory and nvlink bandwidth. If you want to practically run a local model that takes 200GB of memory (Devstral-2-123B-Instruct-2512 for example or GPT-OSS-120B with long context window) without resorting to aggressive ggufs or memory swapping, you don't have many cheaper options. You can also parallelize several models on one node to get some additional throughput for bulk jobs.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-12-10 19:25:30+00:00
>I only write around 5% of the code I ship, maybe less.

>I do thoroughly audit all the code that AI writes, and often go through multiple iterations

Does this actually save you time versus writing most of the code yourself? In general, it's a lot harder to read and grok code than to write it [0, 1, 2, 3]. For me, one of the biggest skills for using AI to efficiently write code is a) chunking the task into increments that are both small enough for me to easily grok the AI-generated code and also aligned enough to the AI's training data for its output to be ~100% correct, b) correctly predicting ahead of time whether reviewing/correcting the output for each increment will take longer than just doing it myself, and c) ensuring that the overhead of a) and b) doesn't exceed just doing it myself.

[0] https://mattrickard.com/its-hard-to-read-code-than-write-it

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

[2] https://trishagee.com/presentations/reading_code/

[3] https://idiallo.com/blog/writing-code-is-easy-reading-is-har...
by klipklop | 2025-12-10 19:25:37+00:00
There isn't one that supports VRR/Gsync/Freesync well. What gamers want is chroma/RGB 4:4:4 + HDR + VRR/Freesync + 4k,120hz for their Linux PC on a TV. This is not possible with any DP --> HDMI 2.1 dongle on the market. They need support at the driver level to make this work. This is what the idiots at the HDMI forum are blocking. The only way to have high quality visuals on a PC/TV setup is to run Windows. That really sucks.
by cess11 | 2025-12-10 19:26:25+00:00
Video from the incident:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-obhMBSWi4c

BBC reporting:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dzq41n4l9o

The accused person claims to have panicked due to how the police were interfering. If I understand the article correctly the cop was off work for three months due to the injury.
by usrusr | 2025-12-10 19:26:31+00:00
But are there any that don't overheat when you try to funnel dual screens through the USB-C/TB4?

The only setup I have that doesn't is a super minimal one that has a single DP out that feeds a daisy-chain (and a single USB out that feeds a simple hub for low bandwidth peripherals, and a PD in). Unfortunately, most of the screen pairs that I run don't do daisy-chain.

Every other hub I tried eventually got me to give up and connect one of the screens through direct HDMI.
by MangoCoffee | 2025-12-10 19:26:35+00:00
Google said the dotcom bubble is roughly from 1995 to 2001. That's about 6 years. ChatGPT was released in 2022. Claude AI was released in 2023. DeepSeek was released in 2023.

Let's just say the AI bubble started in 2023. We still have about 3 years, more or less, until the AI bubble pops.

I do believe we are in the build out phase of the AI bubble, much like the dotcom bubble, where Cisco routers, Sun Microsystems servers... etc. sold like hotcakes to build up the foundation of the dotcom bubble
by ada1981 | 2025-12-10 19:26:45+00:00
The report is 4,000 civilians injured (which means they just didn't die -- people lost fingers, limbs, eyes, etc.)

Presumably if you have thousands of Hezbola people walking around within their homes, businesses, hopistals, shops, etc. it makes sense you'd have many civilian injuries when these went off. There wasn't a geo fence around them and if someone was in an NICU or preschool the explosions were indiscriminate.

So while there was some element of precision in placement of who had these pagers, there was zero awareness (by design) to where they actually were when they all exploded.
by jfindper | 2025-12-10 19:27:47+00:00
>If you look back at vox pops from when drink-driving laws were introduced, or when seatbelts became mandatory, or when ID requirements were tightened, the arguments for and against were eerily similar.

If you think the arguments are eerily similar, I feel like you haven't really been listening to the arguments against these types of age-verification-for-websites laws.

I mean, there's some similarities, of course. But I think there are some very stark differences.
by jsheard | 2025-12-10 19:28:02+00:00
Did that change in a more recent version? According to the (admittedly old) source linked from the Wikipedia article, integrators are allowed to skip HDCP but incentivized with reduced royalties if they do support it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20081218170701/http://www.hdmi.o...

> For each end-user Licensed Product, fifteen cents (US$0.15) per unit sold.

> If the Adopter reasonably uses the HDMI logo on the product and promotional materials, then the rate drops to five cents (US$0.05) per unit sold.

> If the Adopter implements HDCP content protection as set forth in the HDMI Specification, then the royalty rate is further reduced by one cent (US$0.01) per unit sold, for a lowest rate of four cents (US$0.04) per unit.
by mothballed | 2025-12-10 19:28:22+00:00
I'm not claiming you'd be safe even with a gun. I'm not claiming there is any real government you are safe living under given a long timespan (maybe longer than even your own lifespan, but still these skills are passed down in families so breaking the chain during 'safe' times is still harmful).

To your specific question, probably not, but the better question is whether you have more of a chance with or without a gun? If you look at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising for example, having a gun bought those people hours to days, which is better than nothing. Of course if you look at places like Chechnya, it bought them outright years that they were able to obtain independence from the brutality of Russia (even if not from their own brutality) as a result of militia activity in the first Chechen war.
by f154hfds | 2025-12-10 19:28:28+00:00
The post script was pretty sobering. It's kind of the first time in my life that I've been actively hoping for a technology to out right not deliver on its promise. This is a pretty depressing place to be, because most emerging technologies provide us with exciting new possibilities whereas this technology seems only exciting for management stressed about payroll.

It's true that the technology currently works as an excellent information gathering tool (which I am happy to be excited about) but that doesn't seem to be the promise at this point, the promise is about replacing human creativity with artificial creativity which.. is certainly new and unwelcome.
by uticus | 2025-12-10 19:28:38+00:00
> Chrome, Safari, and Edge are funded by their parent companies.

Of course, but how do the parent companies fund them?

If I were a company, I'd only fund something if it provided capital (or the reasonable assumption of capital in an agreeable timeframe). But nobody is paying for Chrome (Google Chrome), Safari, or Edge.

Someone may say "but everyone uses a browser. If Google stopped releasing Chrome it would upset a lot of people." Of course, but Chrome is a huge effort, very complex, lots of money. Google isn't pouring money into it because it makes lots of people happy, nor are they doing it because they have a gun pointed at them (although I bet legislative guns would appear quickly if Google did unexpectedly pull Chrome from the virtual shelves). So I'm left with the only alternative: money being moved from something revenue generating (probably advertising as you've mentioned or selling datasets etc) to the Chrome effort to keep it going.

My question is about the specifics. These are publicly-traded companies, but a lot of the decisions are opaque. Has anyone here on HN come across good data or analysis of specifically how money is moved around to support the huge efforts of maintaining popular web browsers?
by pedrozieg | 2025-12-10 19:29:22+00:00
The wild part is that this isn’t really a pricing mistake, it’s the business model. That $65 Canon isn’t “a printer”, it’s a subsidized acquisition channel for a customer who will buy OEM ink at a huge margin or sign up for some kind of recurring refill program later. Accounting is fine eating some or all of the printer cost if the average buyer turns into years of cartridge revenue.

If you buy a new printer every time you run low on ink, you’re basically arbitraging that CAC line item. On paper it can be a “life hack” as long as only a few people do it and you ignore the e-waste and friction. If it ever became common, the easy knobs for the manufacturer are obvious: even smaller starter carts, more lock-in, more activation hoops, and less of the subsidy that makes this trick work in the first place.
by munificent | 2025-12-10 19:29:28+00:00
It looks like, overall, this design gets the parser about twice as fast as a simple one that creates tree-like ASTs.

That's not nothing. But a parser is rarely the most time-intensive part of a production compiler. And the parser does get iterated on a lot in languages that are evolving and adding new syntax.

Given that, I'd be inclined to take the performance hit and stick with a simpler AST representation if that yields a more hackable, maintainable compiler front end.
by pants2 | 2025-12-10 19:29:29+00:00
Not OP, but Go has some major advantages in cryptography:

1. Well-supported standard libraries generally written by Google

2. Major projects like Vault and K8s that use those implementations and publish new stuff

3. Primary client language for many blockchains, bringing cryptography contributions from the likes of Ethereum Foundation, Tendermint, Algorand, ZK rollups, etc
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-10 19:29:54+00:00
You're ignoring the point of abstraction.

Intelligence can be expressed in higher order terms than the logic that the binary gates running the underlying software is required to account for.

Quarks don't need to account for atomic physics. Atomic physics doesn't need to account for chemistry. Chemistry doesn't need to account for materials science. It goes on and on. It's easy to look at a soup of quarks and go, "there's no way this soup of quarks could support my definition of intelligence!", but you go up the chain of abstraction and suddenly you've got a brain.

Scientists don't even understand yet where subjective consciousness comes into the picture. There are so many unanswered questions that it's preposterous to claim you know the answers without proof that extends beyond a handwavy belief.
by echelon | 2025-12-10 19:30:10+00:00
It's the moral imperative of every country to optimize for its citizens' economic prospects.

The CIA (and every other intelligence org.) is literally a weapon designed to operate in the grey area to fit the mandate of the policy makers and elected leadership. Many of the things they do are questionable or worse. In the case of the DoD, they do these things at the behest of democratically elected leadership.

Of course US and China will operate in their own best interests. Of course they will both play chess, both name call, both sanction and impede. When it's not a hot war, it is still a never-ending battle for each country's total economic, soft, and hard power market share.

This is every country.

It's geopolitics.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-10 19:30:10+00:00
I'm not sure if you mean that as a dig, or not, but if you are referring to me then I have these data points to discuss.

1. I have encountered a problem where AI will suggest 4 different "solutions" and when I point out a problem with one, it cycles on to the next, and stays in that loop, repeating over and over that set of 4, with no recollection of the previous refutation of the soltuion (this is a mix of context retention, and the fact that the solution selection is limited to that which has already been fully explored on the web - I had a 5th idea in mind which the AI failed to understand, but worked well)

2. Yesterday I was discussing with AI the fact that I had three options for action, and it misunderstood that as 4 actions, a trivial arithmetic failure.

This demonstrates (clearly) that the AI didn't "understand" the points discussed, and was instead staying with the correlation of text with other text.

I really like where AI is at the moment and use it a lot - it's very helpful for debugging, for example, but as every vibe coder out there will attest, AI fails hard at standalone coding, and I submit that this is a symptom of its inability to understand what its doing.

It's still correlation is not causation, and it demonstrates why correlation is so attractive, you can get quite far knowing that there is a correlation between ice cream sales and shark attacks, but it takes work to understand that there is no causative link (FTR I suspect that it's because ice cream sales go up in hot weather, more people are in the ocean during those hot weather periods, therefore there's more opportunity for people to interact with sharks)

Edit: Note how I use the word "suspect" when I talk about the cause of the correlation - it's VERY tempting to say that the weather is the cause, but that's still a correlation, and the fact is, as humans have discovered, actual research is required to verify whether that is, indeed, the cause, or not - something AI might miss.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-12-10 19:30:25+00:00
> Western shows are all about the "you don't have to sacrifice anything to win" and Eastern shows are all about the "you're the chosen one" but this one was "the establishment is the establishment and most of the time it wins".

What's sorely missing is the very rare theme of "the establishment wins, and for a good reason, and it's actually a good thing".
by aakashprasad91 | 2025-12-10 19:30:25+00:00
Yep, the model identifies objects/conditions on sheets (fixtures, stairs, rated walls, landings, etc.) and triggers the relevant checks automatically. It can run thousands of checks per project, but we only surface high-confidence findings where the combination of geometry + annotations + code context points to a real risk. Humans stay in the loop to confirm what matters.
by jjice | 2025-12-10 19:30:51+00:00
> It's odd to always say "Hashicorp, an IBM company". Looks like they want to assign blame.

All their branding does this now, including the HashiCorp logo on their website [0]. There's gotta be a name for this specific branding pattern, but I don't know it.

[0] https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/products/terraform
by jmyeet | 2025-12-10 19:31:05+00:00
This is the least surprising thing ever and was highly suspected when DeepSeek released their original model.

We've also seen this with sanctions on Russia but they still somehow bought a bunch of TI chips for missiles [1].

As many here know, the US restricts the export of certain technology to China because reasons. This includes lithography machines from ASML, a Dutch company, who have a monopoly on the latest EUV processes. It's geopolitically interesting that the big buyer of ASML products are TSMC in TAiwan as well as Samsung in South Korea (and possibly Japan?).

I expect this will become a national security issue for China and long-term you will see China try and replicate the best lithographic processes and chips such that the gap will greatly narrow. This will take years and involves a lot of depenedent industries but of anyone China has shown the willingness, ability and resolve to pursue decades-long infrastructure and national security projects.

In the meantime, bans on GPU exports to China will continue to be circumvented (eg [2]) and honestly there's no real reason for those export restrictions anyway.

[1]: https://archive.is/S2uD4

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-justice-department-ac...
by reissbaker | 2025-12-10 19:31:53+00:00
Fortunately, you are wrong. The cost of milk in 1995 was $2.50/gallon; today, it's about $4.13/gallon — which is less than inflation since 1995. Ditto for many other grocery products: although you can always cherry pick some that have gone up relative to inflation (e.g. eggs), there are many that gave gone down. Groceries are tracked by the CPI.

Vehicles are also cheaper relative to inflation. In 1995, a new Toyota Camry cost $16k base. Today, a new Toyota Camry costs $28k base, which is less than inflation on $16k since 1995 — while being much safer, faster, larger, more comfortable, with a better sound system, and more fuel-efficient. Vehicle prices are tracked by the CPI, as well.

We can keep going. How about a pair of canvas Converse sneakers in 1995? $30 new. Today, 30 years later with 112% inflation: $60 new, aka, slightly cheaper relative to inflation than in the 90s.

I'm guessing you use a laptop for work. Let's see: in 1991, an Apple Powerbook cost a little over $2k. Today, you can buy a Macbook Air that makes the 1991 laptop seem like an abnormally heavy and ugly calculator for $1k. Is it unfair that I'm using laptops rather than desktops? Okay, let's look at desktops: in 1998 when the iMac launched, it cost $1299. Today, a massively faster iMac with a much larger screen costs... $1299.

Etc etc.

As per my original comment: you are right that housing has gone way up. But not everything has, and wages have gone up as well, and it would be very hard to claim overall cost of living is up 3x while wages are up less.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-10 19:32:35+00:00
Your claim is weird.

No standard has ever been developed using money obtained by selling copies of the standard.

The kind of work described by you, which is indeed needed for developing a new communication standard cannot be made profitable by selling copies of a text describing its results.

If such work provides valuable techniques that are necessary for the implementation of the standard, they are patented and those who want to implement the standard for commercial purposes must license the patents.

Any owner of a device that implements a standard has the right to know what the standard does, so all standards should be distributed if not for free only for a small price covering the distribution expenses and not for the prices with many digits that are in use now.

The big prices that are requested for certain standards have a single purpose, to protect the incumbent companies from new competitors, or sometimes to prevent the owners of some devices to do whatever they want with what they own.

The very high prices that are demanded for many standards nowadays are a recent phenomenon, of the same kind with the fact that nowadays most sellers of electronic devices no longer provide schematics and maintenance manuals for them as it was the rule until a few decades ago, in order to force the owners to either never repair their devices or to repair them at a few authorized repair shops, which do not have competitors. These kinds of harmful behavior of the corporations have been made possible by the lack of adequate legislation for consumer protection, as the legislators in most countries are much less interested in making laws for the benefit of their voters than they are interested in things like facilitating the surveillance of the voters by the government, to prevent any opposition against unpopular measures.

In the more distant past, there was no way to download standards over the Internet for a negligible cost, but you could still avoid to pay for a printed standard by consulting it in a public library and making a copy. There were no secret standards that you could not access without paying a yearly subscription of thousands of $, like today.
by rshanreddy | 2025-12-10 19:32:43+00:00
This is a 1250 word judging prompt - likely AI generated Along with 10 scored conversation samples - all also AI generated No verification in the field, no real data

In other words, AI scores on AI conversations - disguised as a means of gauging clinical competence / quality?

This is not an eval - this is a one-shotted product spec!
by josho | 2025-12-10 19:32:49+00:00
Good analogy.

The solution, however, isn't prohibition or age restrictions; it's either regulating the algorithms or holding these companies responsible for the adverse outcomes their platforms contribute to. Safe harbor laws made sense when tech wasn't filtering/promoting content, now that they are influencing the material we see, these laws must no longer apply.

This may mean adopting a modern equivalent to libel laws. Something akin to: if an algorithm pushes false information, the company behind the algorithm can be sued for harm. Disallow terms of service that force arbitration or cap liability limits.
by tadfisher | 2025-12-10 19:32:58+00:00
HDMI is patent-encumbered. The original specification has lost patent protection, but VRR and the other bits which form HDMI 2.1 and 2.2 are still protected as part of the Forum's patent pool. You could certainly try and upstream an infringing implementation into the kernel, but no one would be able to distribute it in their products without a license.
by anthk | 2025-12-10 19:32:58+00:00
The easiest example: an interpreter for the Subleq VM. One instruction. Literal three or four lines, three more (if any) for I/O.

https://github.com/howerj/subleq/

As a goodie you can run Eforth on top which almost writtes itself. Compiler, interpreter, editor, IDE and a Sokoban, all in a simple VM.

Let's scale. Mu808/n808. Interpreters in C and AWK, a compiler in Python.

https://codeberg.org/luxferre/n808

You have the exact assembly algorithm in the page. What you see it's what you get. Now, for real, I'd suggest getting lvltl (VTL-02) interpreter written in C for a "bigger" language running not just under a VM, but for small machines and simulators such as the 6502 based Kim-1 and Apple1. With that "not enough to be called Basic" a Sokoban might be written with a bit of patience.
by cess11 | 2025-12-10 19:33:05+00:00
It's not something I've dabbled in but I think you could do something like that.

If you look at https://re.factorcode.org/2015/06/bit-test.html and the vocabularies it links over to I'm sure you'll be better able to figure it out.

Edit: This article says you can and shows how, https://re.factorcode.org/2010/11/estimating-cpu-speed.html .
by brian_spiering | 2025-12-10 19:33:38+00:00
That is interesting because of the Halo effect. There is a cognitive bias that if a person is right in one area, they will be right in another unrelated area.

I try to temper my tendency to believe the Halo effect with Warren Buffett's notion of the Circle of Competence; there is often a very narrow domain where any person can be significantly knowledgeable.
by tullie | 2025-12-10 19:33:39+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’m one of the founders of Shaped. We’ve spent the last few years building relevance infrastructure.

Over the time we've noticed a convergence happening: The stack for Search (usually Elastic/OpenSearch) and the stack for Ranking (Vectors + Feature Stores) are merging. Maintaining two stacks for the same math is inefficient.

We just launched Shaped 2.0 to collapse this stack. It treats Relevance like a database problem:

1. Ingest: Connect to Snowflake/Postgres/Kafka. 2. Index: We handle the embeddings (ModernBERT, etc.) and statistical feature engineering. 3. Query: We built a SQL-like language (ShapedQL) to retrieve, filter, and rerank candidates in <50ms.

Instead of writing Python glue code to merge BM25 and Vector results, you can do it in a single query:

SELECT title, description FROM semantic_search("$param.query"), keyword_search("$param.query")

ORDER BY -- Combine semantic relevance (ColBERT) with a personalized model

colbert_v2(item, "$param.query") + click_through_rate_model(user, item)

We have a free tier ($300 credits/no-cc) if you want to try the SQL abstraction yourself.

Try it here: https://console.shaped.ai/register