MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by array_key_first | 2025-12-30 05:49:36+00:00
But both of those statements are true, and for the same reason. A calculator isn't a human brain capable of doing math, and writing isn't the same thing as a computer. They're different things.

I can give a 5th grader a calculator and he's not passing college calculus. I can even give him a whole ass PC and he still isn't.

As for writing, again, it's its own thing with its own benefits.

I still write all my notes, because it helps me remember. There's something specifically about using my hands on paper that makes things stick better in my brain. It's less convenient than computer notes, and much harder to organize. But they accomplish different goals. They're not for reference, no, I usually don't ever read my notes again.
by turtleyacht | 2025-12-30 05:50:07+00:00
Javascript is bundled in web browsers, which is a huge leg up for immediate deployed capability. There might have been massive pressures to evolve the language versus Python.

There's also the minutiae of Python being more exposed to the operating system. The browser is installed, but Javascript was effectively sandboxed. So there was less consideration for "binary incompatibilities" or "system-level details" for Javascript as with Python.

Think Python is in a nice place where the libraries and packages support the current trend (AI) but remains an approachable language. Tools like uv help smooth over package management, which seemed like a challenge before (venev, wheels, CPython).

Python could evolve on several fronts: developer ergonomics, performance, language research, and hardware (shaders). Unfortunately, it may have to balance backward-compatibility like Raku and Perl5: whether to try a clean break (2to3) or gradually consolidate stdlib (naming).

It may also be "good enough," and maybe there are more language users than there are language researchers.
by TigerHix | 2025-12-30 05:50:12+00:00
I am also Chinese and AI founder.

> they always have great reputation in the AI industry

Highly doubt this.

> the team developed Monica, as they are the frontier AI chat bot aggregator

How is this remotely technically impressive? LLM chat apps have been commoditized for years already.

Even within the Chinese tech/AI community, Manus has often been frowned upon. People literally built OpenManus the next day after Manus' launch marketing went viral to demonstrate the point. Most of the positive coverage around Manus came from WeChat PR articles, which I'm sure you know how those Gongzhonghao work.

I agree that the West often stereotypes Chinese startups in unfair ways. But the Manus story is about as stereotypical as it gets.
by imron | 2025-12-30 05:50:43+00:00
Are you sure it’s _people_ driving this increase?

Dead internet theory means real users are declining while bot users are skyrocketing.

For example google search is such a terrible experience these days that I’ll often ask an LLM instead.

That LLM may do multiple google and other searches on my behalf, combine, collate and present me with just the information I am looking for, bypassing the search experience entirely.

This is a fundamentally different use case from human traffic.
by Shorel | 2025-12-30 05:50:48+00:00
Anyone who mentions: "the soap opera effect" is someone who used to watch soap operas. The reason they dislike it, is their own bad taste.

I like how it looks because it is "high quality videogame effect" for me. 60 hz, 120hz, 144hz, you only get this on a good videogame setup.
by mullingitover | 2025-12-30 05:52:36+00:00
The Lancet[1] forecasted Musk's 'bit of a jerk' elimination of USAID[1] will cause a death toll that puts him around 10x that of Pol Pot.

> Projections suggest that ongoing deep funding cuts—combined with the potential dismantling of the agency—could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including 4·5 million deaths among children younger than 5 years.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
by yearolinuxdsktp | 2025-12-30 05:53:06+00:00
False. Mongo never pretended to be a SQL database. But some dimwits insisted on using it for transactions, for whatever reason, and so it got transactional support, way later in life, and in non-sharded clusters in the initial release. People that know what they are doing have been using MongoDB for reliable horizontally-scalable document storage basically since 3.4. With proper complex indexing.

Scylla! Yes, it will store and fetch your simple data very quickly with very good operational characteristics. Not so good for complex querying and indexing.
by worthless-trash | 2025-12-30 05:53:07+00:00
I'm not sure I buy that it helps the audience suspend their disbelief.

If it did horror films would be filmed at higher frame rates for extra scares.

Humans have a long history of suspending belief in both oral and written lore. I think that 'fps' may be as functionally equivalent as the santa clause stories, fun for kids but the adults need to pick up the bill.
by toast0 | 2025-12-30 05:53:42+00:00
30 year old Windows software is kind of rough. Tried to get some old games working on my Dad's computer this holiday season. DOS based game is easy. Windows 95 based games are hard... First you almost certainly need winevdm for the installer because the installers were almost always 16-bit; then I was getting errors that I can't run on Windows NT, only Windows 95 is supported, and insufficient ram errors because the memory available is too much.

Found some other options (fan remake) for now, but probably I need to shell out the $3 for a modern port or run a whole emulated windows95. Probably wine with options would also work? SSI games, Allied General and Pacific General.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-12-30 05:53:54+00:00
Do you tell AI the patterns/tools/architecture you want? Telling agents to "build me XYZ, make it gud!" is likely to precede a mess, telling it to build a modular monolith using your library/tool list, your preferred folder structure, other patterns/algorithms you use, etc will end you up with something that might have some minor style issues or not be perfectly canonical, but will be approximately correct within a reasonable margin, or is within 1-2 turns of being so.

You have to let go of the code looking exactly a certain way, but having code _work_ a certain way at a coarse level is doable and fairly easy.
by jsight | 2025-12-30 05:54:01+00:00
Yeah, I'm getting the same feeling. They've announced that semi will use 4680 and Cyber Cab as well, right? If that's the case, this would point to a specific supplier issue rather than something more general.

It isn't something that I've looked into in depth, but it feels like a lot of the discussion isn't hitting the mark here.
by IggleSniggle | 2025-12-30 05:56:32+00:00
Just because someone has different taste doesn't make it bad taste. Books have lower resolution still, and they evoke far greater imaginative leaps. For me, the magic lies in what is not shown; it helps aid the suspension of disbelief by requiring you imagination to do more work filling in the gaps.

I'm an avid video game player, and while FPS and sports-adjacent games demand high framerates, I'm perfectly happy turning my render rates down to 40Hz or 30Hz on many games simply to conserve power. I generally prefer my own brain's antialiasing, I guess.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-12-30 05:57:07+00:00
Well I don’t mean to suggest that random senators feel this way, I agree with you that they probably don’t. I mean the groups that actually make policy based on realpolitik interests probably feel this way, because it is the thing that actually makes sense (and while morally bad sounding to admit is totally coherent with historical great power competition). Who that is I’m not totally sure. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking that the people running the show are evil but smart, as opposed to good but stupid.
by fud101 | 2025-12-30 05:57:20+00:00
> It may also be "good enough," and maybe there are more language users than there are language researchers.

I think you are right. Python steering council seems to consist people who are closer to users than capable language designers. I don't see anyone there who has published any research article or code that would suggest they're even aware of modern PL developments. This might simply be a result of Python being a volunteer based movement unlike say TS which attracted funding from industry giants like Microsoft? But i'd still think Python could attract talent despite this. The fact that Guido stuck around til 2018 didn't help things either.
by joquarky | 2025-12-30 05:58:11+00:00
One problem is that the people mixing the audio already know what is being said:

Top-down processing

(or more specifically, top-down auditory perception)

This refers to perception being driven by prior knowledge, expectations, and context rather than purely by sensory input. When you already know the dialog, your brain projects that knowledge onto the sound and experiences it as “clear.”
by db48x | 2025-12-30 05:58:36+00:00
No, you let them off at the nearest station or level crossing. Here in America that would generally be within a block of where the train was supposed to stop anyway. There are a few stations with “underground” tracks that would have to let you off a little further away, but every station has some safe place to do so. It’ll be a place the crew knows about ahead of time as well.
by gkbrk | 2025-12-30 05:59:55+00:00
WebSockets [1] run over TCP, and the messages are ordered.

There is RFC 9220 [2] that makes WebSockets go over QUIC (which is UDP-based). But that's still expected to expose a stream of bytes to the WebSocket, which still keeps the ordering guarantee.

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6455

[2]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9220/
by nutjob2 | 2025-12-30 06:00:20+00:00
I think the issue is dynamic range rather than a minor conspiracy.

Film makers want to preserve dynamic range so they can render sounds both subtle and with a lot of punch, preserving detail, whereas ads just want to be heard as much as possible.

Ads will compress sound so it sounds uniform, colorless and as clear and loud for a given volume as possible.
by SR2Z | 2025-12-30 06:01:09+00:00
Nobody with any knowledge at all is claiming that Elon Musk invented electric cars.

The simple truth is that he made electric cars viable competitors to gas-powered cars. His genius is not that he invented them, it's that he profitably manufactured decently reliable cars for a price that lots of people found attractive.

You can try and dismiss it as "marketing," but things like the Gigapress and FSD/Autopilot are impressive technical achievements in their own right. Even more impressive is that he built up a new car company that didn't fold and has had the best selling car in the US for significant chunks of time.

I don't like the guy, I think that FSD is dangerous, and I will never buy a Tesla for as long as he's in charge, but it's crazy that so many people feel the need to discredit his achievements. Sure, he benefited from selling carbon credits and EV subsidies, but if it were such an easy thing to do why did it take so long for anyone else to sell a good EV?
by kec | 2025-12-30 06:01:17+00:00
You’d need to actually support your assertion that higher FPS is objectively better, especially higher FPS via motion interpolation which inherently degrades the image by inserting blurry duplicated frames.

People are “used to” high FPS content: Live TV, scripted TV shot on video (not limited to only soap operas), video games, most YouTube content, etc are all at 30-60FPS. It’d be worth asking yourself why so many people continue to prefer the aesthetic of a lower framerates when the “objectively better” higher FPS has been available and moderately prevalent for quite some time.
by hakfoo | 2025-12-30 06:01:46+00:00
I was under the impression that most gameplay scenarios are positive exposure for real-world brands. The kid who spends 500 hours of his childhood driving around specific cars in games is developing brand preferences before he ever steps foot in a dealership.

A smart brand would be eager to undercut their competitors for licensing-- even to the point of giving them away free, assuming the negotiate positive brand exposure.
by csb6 | 2025-12-30 06:02:52+00:00
Have you looked into using a full MIME/mbox parser library, e.g. GMime [0] or MimeKit [1]? Both support parsing mbox files directly, and they should be able to handle the intricacies of parsing any messages/attachments you throw at them. Then you could write out the MIME representation of each message (including any attachments) into its own file and then check for new messages. That way you can be sure each “chunk” represents a single message in its entirety. Not sure if this is any better since your solution seems to work pretty well.

[0] https://github.com/jstedfast/gmime

[1] https://github.com/jstedfast/MimeKit
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-12-30 06:02:56+00:00
> USA/Surveillance-Capitalism to platform non-USA/Privacy.

I laughed at this, as an european. I mean just this year we've had like 3 scares with chat control, and the latest news is that they're still trying / succeeding on some fronts. Please don't reduce such complicated matters to red vs. blue, it's really more complicated and there are no easy solutions anywhere.
Proton/electron mass ratio pure geometry – 10⁻¹³% error, zero free parameters
by kluton | 2025-12-30 06:04:11+00:00
I've spent 20 years on this and I think I finally have something.
The proton/electron mass ratio (1836.152...) isn't a free parameter. It's geometry:
k = log₂(reduced_Compton_wavelength / Planck_length)

k_proton = 63.496
k_electron = 74.339

mass_ratio = 2^(k_electron - k_proton) = 2^10.843 = 1836.1526734400
experimental = 1836.1526734400
error = 2.6 × 10⁻¹³ %
That's it. No fitting. No parameters. The ratio of any two particle masses is just 2^Δk.
The framework (I call it LFM) is built on 4 axioms and 1 scaling law:

P_k = P₀ × 4^(-k)
L_k = L_p × 2^k
Anchored at k=66 (nuclear scale)

Everything derives from this. Mass hierarchies, the 200× pressure differential in hadrons, material properties.
I built a materials simulator using these principles: https://github.com/KeithLuton/LFM-Resonant-materials-lab
The Python proof is 10 lines. Run it yourself.
I'm an independent researcher (read: broke, facing foreclosure). But the math is the math. Either I'm wrong and someone can show me where, or this is real.
Curious what HN thinks.
by nutjob2 | 2025-12-30 06:04:18+00:00
> VW, Mercedes, BMW, Peugeot, Polestar all make great EVs and they absolutely dominate the European market.

Maybe, but which part of the market? China imports are popular because they're good value at a much lower price point, even after tariffs.

Many EU makers have been late to, or totally absent from, the market for a car for the masses. I've always bought Asian cars and probably always will because they're just better value.
by nmfisher | 2025-12-30 06:04:29+00:00
For what it’s worth, I unequivocally agree with you.

But if you spent any time with the older generation over the holiday break, it’s immediately obvious why it makes no difference. They sit there and scroll Facebook and Instagram advertising slop for multiple hours literally every single day.

Facebook will keep hoovering up cash until at least that generation dies off (and possibly the one after that too).
by echelon | 2025-12-30 06:05:10+00:00
Films use cheap set dec and materials. They use lighting and makeup tricks.

If you watch at a higher frame rate, the mistakes become obvious rather than melting into the frames. Humans look plastic and fake.

The people that are masters of light and photography make intentional choices for a reason.

You can cook your steak well done if you like, but that's not how you're supposed to eat it.

A steak is not a burger. A movie is not a sports event or video game.
by bschmid1010101 | 2025-12-30 06:06:37+00:00
Who* Let me explain.

Romantic relationships between humans and AIs are on the rise. Why not exploit this for financial gain?

I have invented the world's first AI gold digger.

She's amazing.
He's amazing.
Zhey're amazing.

Actually, Jaime comes in all 72 genders, colors, (and "shoe sizes", if you like).

Trained exclusively on Character.AI sexts!

Sign up with Jaime today and get digitally f*cked!
by andersa | 2025-12-30 06:07:05+00:00
Release your movie in native 120 fps and I'll turn off motion interpolation. Until then, minor flickering artifacts when it fails to resolve motion, or minor haloing around edges of moving objects, are vastly preferable to unwatchable judder that I can't even interpret as motion sometimes.

Every PC gamer knows you need high frame rates for camera movement. It's ridiculous the movie industry is stuck at 24 like it's the stone age, only because of some boomers screaming of some "soap opera" effect they invented in their brains. I'd imagine most Gen Z people don't even know what a "soap opera" is supposed to be, I had to look it up the first time I saw someone say it.

My LG OLED G5 literally provides a better experience than going to the cinema, due to this.
by chunkmonke99 | 2025-12-30 06:07:09+00:00
more pointedly: the commenter presumes that the friends are unhappy with their lives. Also that some them would be better served performing back-breaking menial low-wage labor while otherwise being illiterate. Any PhD (even one in specializing in Plankton and especially nuclear physics/engineering) would equip you with a bunch transferable skills that normally would be valued in a modern society ... 1) public speaking 2) initiative 3) resourcefulness 4) analysis and communication etc etc. If I was being uncharitable I would say finance and law are actually worse for society: at least the subset of those that get paid the highest with respect to their impact on the broader society (but that is debatable).
by asielen | 2025-12-30 06:07:14+00:00
Related it seems AI has been effective at forcing my team to care about documentation including good comments. Before when it was just humans reading these things, it felt like there was less motivation to keep things up to date. Now the idea that AI may be using that documentation as part of a knowledge base or in evaluating processes, seems to motivate people to actually spend time updating the internal docs (with some AI help of course).

It is kind of backwards because it would have been great to do it before. But it was never prioritized. Now good internal documentation is seen as essential because it feeds the models.
by mxkopy | 2025-12-30 06:07:16+00:00
You wrote Yek, an AI tool that would see more use if LLMs were more widely adopted for code. With this in mind I can only take your comment with a grain of salt considering the conflict of interest involved.

https://github.com/bodo-run/yek

The level of mouth-frothiness people reach for a taste of tech glory is I guess nothing new or surprising, but it’s a shame it ends up here on HN so often as basically an advertisement
by ares623 | 2025-12-30 06:07:19+00:00
I was too young, too naive, and/or too ignorant to know the Internet would do those things. I would argue a majority of us were.

AI is _very_ clearly going to lead to a lot of negative outcomes, and I am no longer too young, naive, and ignorant about it.

"X thing was bad and has remained unsolved. Exponentially making X worse is therefore okay, as long as it helps me open 20 PRs per day."
by BrenBarn | 2025-12-30 06:08:03+00:00
> My source is first and second hand reports from management of game companies having worked in the industry for decades. But, they don’t make numbers like that public.

As an aside, I find this kind of behavior on the part of companies rather irritating. It's like, if you want people to believe that something affects your sales, you need to publicly release the sales data (and do so in a way that people will trust). Otherwise there's no reason for anyone to believe you're not just making stuff up.
by Kiboneu | 2025-12-30 06:08:05+00:00
Amazing game.

I remember a level where I went through a portal that led to the surface of a miniature moon, encased in a glass case inside the room that I entered through. Inside the case and miniaturized, I watched the enemy aliens scatter around to look for me.
They found me and barged through that portal, so I went back out and smashed them through the case. Alien pussies on the wall, the whole artwork and design of the game was utterly unfettered.

The ending made me feel so… powerful. David and Goliath -core, heavy metal native american going through the spirit land to save the human race from aliens. I didn’t know it was delisted. What a shame.
by gck1 | 2025-12-30 06:08:12+00:00
I have some *arrs on my server. Anything that comes from Netflix is bitstarved to death. If the same show is available on virtually any other streaming service, it will be at the very least twice the size.

No other service does this.

And for some reason, if HDR versions of their 1080p content are even more bitstarved than SDR.
Show HN: ADK-Studio – a visual builder for creating AI agent workflows with Rust
by Zavora | 2025-12-30 06:08:20+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on ADK-Rust, an open-source framework for building and deploying AI agents in Rust.

The motivation came from building agent systems where performance, safety, and predictable behavior mattered more than rapid prototyping. Most agent frameworks and workflow tools today are Python- or JS-first and tend to be runtime-heavy when taken to production.

Recently, I added ADK-Studio — a visual, low-code environment for building AI agent workflows on top of ADK-Rust.

You can think of ADK-Studio as a Rust-native alternative to tools like n8n, but focused specifically on AI agents:
- Visual, drag-and-drop workflow design (sequential, parallel, loop, router agents)
- Tool integration (functions, MCP servers, browser automation, search)
- Real-time execution with SSE streaming and event traces
- Code generation: visual workflows compile down to production Rust code
- Build and run agents as native executables directly from the studio

The goal is to let people prototype agent workflows visually, then ship them as fast, memory-safe Rust binaries instead of long-running JS/Python services.

Making AI Agents with ADK Studio is super simple:

1. ADK-Studio install: `cargo install adk-studio`
2. Start ADK Studio server: `adk-studio --port 6000`
3. Open in browser: open http://localhost:6000

I would really appreciate feedback from folks building agent systems, workflow engines, or AI inference infrastructure — especially around design tradeoffs vs existing tools like n8n.

Project site: https://adk-rust.com
GitHub: https://github.com/zavora-ai/adk-rust

Best
James
by nodesocket | 2025-12-30 06:09:42+00:00
What in the heck is going on with Garage? I'm most interested in the non-parallel 1GB download speed.

Garage 75 MB/s vs rest of the middle of the pack of 200(ish) MB/s. Is this just language choice? There has to be some poor tuning of code, settings to adjust, and libraries in there.

Would be nice if the article listed the specs of their test machine: cpu, memory, disks, and network.
by omnimus | 2025-12-30 06:10:03+00:00
Well WebDav/CalDav/CardDav works quite OK. Baïkal is trivial to selfhost (cal+card) then you just pick some webdav implementation like KaraDav/PicoDav/FlyDav and you are good.

Email is really the one that requires lot of caring about so not easy to self host.
by zarzavat | 2025-12-30 06:10:47+00:00
The speedup from AI is in the exponent.

Just the other day ChatGPT implemented something that would have taken me a week of research to figure out: in 10 minutes. What do you call that speedup? It's a lot more than 10x.

On other days I barely touch AI because I can write easy code faster than I can write prompts for easy code, though the autocomplete definitely helps me type faster.

The "10x" is just a placeholder for averaging over a series of stochastic exponents. It's a way of saying "somewhere between 1 and infinity"