MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by u_sama | 2025-12-10 15:19:55+00:00
There is a big elephant behind this article. There is no way for the EU to actually enact any meaningful change because:

- American big tech is too entrentched in all bureaucracies of Europe, and the few that try to change face a mountain of obstacles (Linux lol)

- because of the Ukraine war, idiotic energy policy in Germany (anti-nuclear + pro-LNG), political lock in France and the EU Comission blind Russophobia (Kaja Kallas comes to mind), we have come to be increasingly reliant in fossil products coming from the US (or other eager US allies like Qatar and the gulf states) which teamed up with the ideological turn of the current US administration means that any semblance of a trial to try to appear "sovereign" will end up in retaliatory consequences and another humiliating treaty where the EU has to acquiesce silently

- the gerontocratic and ossified EU bureaucracy (same adjectives apply to the UK) knows nothing other than to regulate, not to build and thus there is no way to meaningfully build infrastructures to counter both the US and the Chinese
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-10 15:20:34+00:00
Did you use the same prompts for all the models, or individualized prompts per model? Did you try a range of prompts that were very different from each other, if you used more than a base prompt?

I'm sure it's somewhere in the details somewhere, but after a quick skim I didn't find anything outlined about how you managed and used the prompts, and if it was per model or not.

Thanks a bunch for being open to answering questions here, and thanks for trying to attack this particular problem with scientific rigor, even if it's really difficult to do so.
by epsteingpt | 2025-12-10 15:21:00+00:00
This hurts the 'middle class' the most - as they have their savings locked up in growth stocks like AI.

Costs to the elderly would be socialized (we'd pay for medicare for more people); the youngest don't own stocks.

But you can imagine seeing knock on effects in housing prices, and massive increases in credit defaults as people who bought things thinking their portfolio was worth X, all of a sudden can't afford them when their portfolio is worth .5x

It's going to be bad when it happens - think DotCom crash. But if then crypto and other asset classes crash on top of that, you could have a real crisis.
by 0xdeafbeef | 2025-12-10 15:21:19+00:00
Yeah yeah, every gcc update I need to patch rocksb sources somehow, because now compiler doesn't ship some includes by default.

I remember only a single breakage of previously compiling code with the time crate because of a change in type inference, but even there the compiler told me to update the lib. And that’s in 6 years of using Rust.
by kbolino | 2025-12-10 15:21:30+00:00
Great info!

Personally, I like 3.1.2 from your link [0] best, which involves getting rid of pointer <=> integer casts entirely, and just adding methods to pointers, like addr and with_addr. This needs no new types and no new syntax, though it does make pointer arithmetic a little more cumbersome. However, it also makes it much clearer that pointers have provenance.

I think the answer to "can this be solved with editions" is more "kinda" rather than "no"; you can make hard breaks with a new edition, but since the old editions must still be supported and interoperable, the best you can do with those is issue warnings. Those warnings can then be upgraded to errors on a per-project basis with compiler flags and/or Cargo.toml options.
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-10 15:21:38+00:00
First, wealth and money are not the same. If you live in a mansion, but your bank account is zero, you can be wealthy and money-poor at the same time.

Money isn't some fixed object, like the amount of bills in circulation. It's the gross valuation of all sales, whether you trade a dollar bill or swipe a debit card or take out a small loan with a credit card tap.

And money can disappear, if something valued at $10 only sells for $9.
by surajrmal | 2025-12-10 15:21:40+00:00
It's makes the worse case sufficiently bad and unfair such that it makes things worse overall. If the lock is contended by a thread with higher priority, then that blocking thread will have its priority increased. Now if the ends thread to get the lock is one spinning on it rather than actual high priority one, then this will repeat, leading to large latency on front of the high priority thread and a lot of misaligned CPU utilization by a lower priority thread.

Spinning on a CAS is far more expensive than spinning on most other instructions as well as it affects all core that may try to access that cache line, which may include things other than the lock itself.

Also consider how the system acts under high CPU load. You will end up with threads holding locks when not running leading to the majority of the time you miss the lock you spin all 100 times. This just exacerbate the CPU load issues even more. Hybrid locks are only helpful under lower CPU load.
by adzm | 2025-12-10 15:21:47+00:00
Notably, AVIF uses the HEIF container like HEIC. HEIF is an extension of ISOBMFF, mp4 files are another example of an ISOBMFF format. I'm surprised how ubiquitous that container format is becoming; webm uses the matroska / mkv format but I bet if it was created today they would have likely used something ISOBMFF derived
by throwaway17_17 | 2025-12-10 15:22:10+00:00
Is this even a fair question? A common response to pointing out that Oberon and the other Wirth languages where used to write several OS’s (using full GC in some cases) is that they don’t count, just like Minix doesn’t count for proof of microkernels. The prime objection being they are not large commercial OS’s. So, if the only two examples allowed are Linux and Windows (and maybe MacOS) then ‘no’ there are no wide spread, production sized OS’s that use GC or reference counting.

The big sticking point for me is that for desktop and server style computing, the hardware capabilities have increased so much that a good GC would for most users be acceptable at the kernel level. The other side to that coin is that then OS’s would need to be made on different kernels for large embedded/tablet/low-power/smart phone use cases. I think tech development has benefitted from Linux being used at so many levels.

A push to develop a new breed of OS, with a microkernel and using some sort of ‘safe’ language should be on the table for developers. But outside of proprietary military/finance/industrial (and a lot of the work in these fields are just using Linux) areas there doesn’t seem to be any movement toward movement toward a less monolithic OS situation.
DuckDuckGo Icons Easter Egg
by njsubedi | 2025-12-10 15:22:51+00:00
There is a little easter egg in DuckDuckGo's icon. Go to https://DuckDuckGo.com/ and try searching for texts like linux, gnu, einstein, marie curie, yoda, harry potter, spiderman, batman.. The icon changes to match the respective keywords. Found this quite interesting.
by vel0city | 2025-12-10 15:22:52+00:00
I imagine it can take time to actually validate and build out that new infrastructure at scale after AMD/Intel announces these products to the market. It wouldn't surprise me if hyperscalers like AWS, Google, Microsoft, et. al. get a little bit of early previews of this hardware, but it still takes time to negotiate sales, buy the chips, and then actually receive the new chips and make actually useful systems.

Meanwhile, when AWS announces a new chip its probably something they have already been building out in their datacenters.
by corry | 2025-12-10 15:23:20+00:00
Some of this analysis seems a bit lazy for the Economist.

Apple is in the "AI-related companies in the SP500" group? Microsoft too? Tesla too? Amazon too? But... if these companies' AI efforts fail, 95%+ of their revenues would be unaffected. So big stretch to paint them with that brush.

Nvidia, OK that one is obvious. Meta, Alphabet, OK.

But MOST of the companies listed in that chart are only "AI companies" in the sense that EVERY tech company building peripheral AI into their products is an AI company.

Case in point: if Apple stock goes 'on sale' as part of an AI-bubble sell-off, are you really deciding whether or not to buy based on their AI-ness?
Ask HN: Meta/IG deactivated my trademarked handle
by throwawaycities | 2025-12-10 15:23:42+00:00
• in 2022 I submitted a TM complaint to IG. IG responded by verifying my trademark and giving me the trademarked handle.

• Following a similar complaint/demand this year for the trademarked Facebook username on the same basis, Meta/IG suspended my trademarked username alleging reported IP violation.

• I appealed & provided the trademark (again) and pointed to my Meta Business Suite - where my trademark is also on file/approved for “Brand Protection”

• Now I’m in the big tech hell of automation, no support, my appeal was denied without explanation besides referring me to the person that reported, but they will not disclose who reported/what was reported.

• It seems without being an influencer who can publicly shame them into action, or friends that work there, my remedy is sue for damages for deactivating my account damaging/diluting my trademark and find out who/what was reported (if anything)

Hoping this gets amplified on HN for resolution, but also soliciting any other advice/suggestions. Seems everyone here should have an interest in their trademarked usernames not being deactivated at the whims of big tech without remedy.
by cess11 | 2025-12-10 15:24:09+00:00
Here's a curl from my connection:

$ curl -v letsdecrypt.org * Host letsdecrypt.org:80 was resolved. * IPv6: (none) * IPv4: 62.116.130.8 * Trying 62.116.130.8:80... * Connected to letsdecrypt.org (62.116.130.8) port 80 * using HTTP/1.x > GET / HTTP/1.1 > Host: letsdecrypt.org > User-Agent: curl/8.14.1 > Accept: */* > * Request completely sent off < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently < Server: nginx < Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:20:48 GMT < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 < Transfer-Encoding: chunked < Connection: keep-alive < X-Redirector-ID: 14c2d856bcd2de3beae30791793b40ae43db49fc9ea482a825177a36e20108c4 < Location: http://www.nsa.gov/ < IX-Cache-Status: MISS < * Connection #0 to host letsdecrypt.org left intact

Seems to be hosted by InterNetX GmbH.

Edit: Ah, over HTTPS protocol it doesn't respond.

$ curl -v https://letsdecrypt.org * Host letsdecrypt.org:443 was resolved. * IPv6: (none) * IPv4: 62.116.130.8 * Trying 62.116.130.8:443...

Web browsers that add it automatically probably get stuck.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-12-10 15:24:42+00:00
TLDR;

No amount of fantastical thinking is going to coax AGI out of a box of inanimate binary switches --- aka, a computer as we know it.

Even with billions and billions of microscopic switches operating at extremely high speed consuming an enormous share of the world's energy, a computer will still be nothing more than a binary logic playback device.

Expecting anything more is to defy logic and physics and just assume that "intelligence" is a binary algorithm.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-12-10 15:24:58+00:00
Also: "The stock market is the only market where people complain when things go on sale." -Warren Buffet

If you're in a "selling stock" part of your life I understand, but if you're in a "buying stock" part of your life it's worth reflecting on the quote until you can shake the "recent price action IS investor psychology" out of your head.
by Hasz | 2025-12-10 15:25:07+00:00
...and in 2008. sadly, it might actually work:

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/article/the-deficit-in-a-downtu...

https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/eco...

The hard part is reigning that spending in during non-crash years (see the uproar over removing the temporary COVID subsidies) in a way that is not political suicide. At the Federal level, there is zero incentive to not run a deficit.
by 9rx | 2025-12-10 15:25:10+00:00
Well, that's what the checks are for: So that hallucinations are caught by said checks and can be fed back into the LLM to ruminate on.

If you don't find importance in those checks, you wouldn't choose Fil-C anyway. But, of course, it remains that if do find those checks to be important, you're going to use a serious programming language like F* anyway.

There is really no place for Fil-C, Rust, etc. They are in this odd place where they have too many checks to matter when you don't care about checks, but not enough checks when you do care about checks. Well, at least you could make a case for Fil-C if you are inheriting an existing C codebase and need to start concerning yourself with checks in that codebase which previously didn't have concern for them. Then maybe a half-assed solution is better than nothing. But Rust serves no purpose whatsoever.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-10 15:25:58+00:00
I've seen plenty of networking code in Java, including very large scale video delivery platforms, near real time packet analysis and all kinds of stuff that I would have bet were not even possible in Java. If there is one thing that I'm really impressed by then it is how far Java has come performance wise, from absolutely dog slow to being an insignificant fraction away from low level languages. And I'm not a fan (to put it mildly) so you can take that as 'grudging respect'.

The 'factory factory' era of Java spoiled the language thoroughly for me.
by kiba | 2025-12-10 15:26:03+00:00
Land prices are subject to speculative bubbles as well. The only way to get rid of speculation in the real estate market is to drive the price of land down to zero by taxing it.

You also need a lot of money to purchase land, so this effectively allows banks to make a lot of money on overly inflated price of land.

Land by itself doesn't generate wealth, only improvements on top of it does. Only problem is that we tax improvement along with the land, leading to the perverse incentive that building anything increases your tax burden. We call them property tax.
by jjk166 | 2025-12-10 15:26:16+00:00
> All of the aeroderivatives were designed in the 70's before we had computer modeling to help optimize the designs.

Not even remotely correct. The concept started in the 70s, and designs have been continuously improved, using the latest modelling techniques, for the last 50 years. Modern turbines are some of the most optimized machines humanity has ever produced.
by wavemode | 2025-12-10 15:26:31+00:00
> the LLM can read and write bits into executables directly to flip transistors on and off

No, that's the problem (same misconception the author has) - it can't. At least not reliably. If you give an LLM free rein with a non-memory safe output format, it will make the exact same mistakes a human would.

The point of a verbose language is to create extensive guardrails. Which the LLM won't be annoyed by, unlike a human developer.
by bigfishrunning | 2025-12-10 15:26:36+00:00
> The language that truly replaces C/C++ in systems programming - with memory safety, ergonomic resource management, ecosystem stability, formal specification, and 50-year longevity - doesn't exist yet.

Maybe true, but rust is currently the closest thing we've got. It may eventually grow into the language you're describing. This article very much feels like someone who doesn't have a ton of experience writing software complaining that proscriptive standards don't exist. The reason so much undefined behavior exists in the ISO C and C++ standards is because the programming community is still learning. And we're still learning.
by takinola | 2025-12-10 15:26:42+00:00
The real decision is whether medical advice from an LLM is better than no medical advice at all.

I would always prefer a doctor’s advice over consulting an LLM. However, if I was stuck in Antarctica with no ability to consult a doctor, I would definitely use an LLM. The problem is there are people in society that are effectively isolated from medical care (cost, access, etc) so they might as well be in Antarctica, as far as medical care is concerned.
by 79a6ed87 | 2025-12-10 15:26:50+00:00
But since then the other countries learned that the US government could weaponize their USD holdings if they don't align. Central banks started accumulating gold to counter this.

Also, debt market is not the same as it was 5 years ago, Japan now has inflation (and they hold the biggest bag of US debt).

To add to this, USD lost 10% of its value this 2025 according to the DXY index. To be fair, it pretty much went to what it was worth before 2022, but the Fed has to be careful anyway.

Many things happened since 2020. It's almost 2026.
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-10 15:27:27+00:00
> Expecting anything more is to defy logic and physics.

What logic and physics are being defied by the assumption that intelligence doesn't require the specific biological machinery we are accustomed to?

This is a ridiculous comment to make, you do nothing to actually prove the claims you're making, which are even stronger than the claims most people will make about the potential of AGI.
by scottlamb | 2025-12-10 15:27:44+00:00
Nvidia is selling shovels, widely believed to be a better business than panning for gold. So...

* You can't generalize from Nvidia to companies spending all the money on hardware, electricity, and labor without making a profit.

* It's also worth asking if Nvidia will keep having those earnings if all the AI companies crash. Unsure about this. At least there's a bunch of pent-up demand from people wanting GPUs for other reasons.

* Also, there's the $100B they invested in OpenAI...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-10 15:27:57+00:00
We're getting into the weeds, but the goal is usually to own your home free and clear by the time you retire, reducing your income needs from retirement to death by not having a non discretionary housing payment. The wealth in most homes cannot be tapped until sold, death, or stripping the equity (HELOC or reverse mortgage) and hoping you die with zero.

You can sort of think of a house as an I bond you can live in [1], and the return is the equity gains (historically). You need lots of money to buy land because demand outstrips supply, there is a shortage of ~4M housing units in the US, and the pipeline for building new housing was permanently impaired after the 2008 global financial crisis. We will never build as fast as we used to as we go into structural demographic labor shortages in the US; the value of existing real estate is ancient embodied construction productivity and material costs, similar to how oil is ancient sunlight.

[1] The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 - https://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/uploads/wp2017-25.pdf | https://doi.org/10.24148/wp2017-25
by Black616Angel | 2025-12-10 15:28:32+00:00
I like, how this C-brain read the headlines, that other hardcore C-fans bullied multiple people out of the linux kernel and made this a point AGAINST rust.

Also measuring a proof of concept by LOC of all metrics just tells you to completely ignore this blogpost as utter bs. No sane person should use LOC as a metric for anything. Linus Torvalds recently said that himself.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-10 15:28:35+00:00
Counter-intuitively, I think the fact that it's not a human seems to have a non-negligible effect too. It's a computer program you can share whatever with, and it'll never judge you, because it cannot. It reads exactly what you write and assumes you're faithfully answering, then provides a reply based on that.

I haven't been so unlucky myself, but I know many who've had terrible first experiences with therapists and psychologists, where I'm wondering why those people even are in the job they are, but some of them got so turned off they stopped trying to find anyone else to help them, because they think most mental health professionals would be the same as the first person they sought help from.
Show HN: A simple launchpad for stock research tools – finstack.pro
by egobrain27 | 2025-12-10 15:28:50+00:00
I built a one-page tool to speed up my stock research workflow.

You type a ticker, and it gives you quick links to 20+ research tools, like FinViz, TradingView, SEC EDGAR, Yahoo Finance, Seeking Alpha, Reddit etc. And each deep link is pre-loaded with that ticker.

Nothing fancy. Just got tired of typing the same ticker into 6 different sites every time I wanted to dig into a company.

Built with Next.js, Prisma, and Tailwind. Would love feedback on what tools to add or how to make it more useful.

Example:

https://finstack.pro/t/GOOGL
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-10 15:28:52+00:00
Government printing bills has literally nothing to do with the amount of wealth in the world. They don't use those physical objects to pay government debts, nor do they dole them out to stranger or "friends".

The government can generate money in the short term by changing lending rates ("the Prime"), which allows you to buy more for less interest, which encourages purchases. The long-term effect includes paying off that interest, of course, and someone still has to want to loan money at that rate; if the Prime went to zero your credit card rates still wouldn't be zero.
by chemotaxis | 2025-12-10 15:29:35+00:00
I've known quite a few people who went to therapy and I'm not sure that's even the right question to ask. I don't think they were paying to get helped as much as they were just paying to have someone to talk to. To be clear, there are people who genuinely need help, but for most, a therapist is probably just a substitute for a close friend / life coach.

And say what you will about this, a paid professional is, at the very least, unlikely to let you wind yourself up or go down weird rabbit holes... something that LLMs seem to excel at.
by bluecalm | 2025-12-10 15:29:41+00:00
The main thing is that he object can be a member of various structures. It can be in big general queue and in priority queue for example. Once you find it and deal with it you can remove it from both without needing to search for it.

Same story for games where it can be in the list of all objects and in the list of objects that might be attacked. Once it's killed you can remove it from all lists without searching for it in every single one.
by simonjgillespie | 2025-12-10 15:30:05+00:00
The PC is in a passthrough environment with the screen floating in mid air. I use it on a daily basis.

This is our promo video and its very clear it's in XR with passthrough. https://studio.youtube.com/video/At7KdrGfTTg

We also have a number of XR widgets which are not enabled by default (Holodeck for example). They will be turned on soon in a pro version so if thats what you're looking for I am delighted!

Try the download if you don't believe me.
by jfindper | 2025-12-10 15:30:06+00:00
As already mentioned: availability, convenience, and cost are huge.

It's also less pressure, a more comfortable environment (home vs. stranger's office), no commitments to a next session, and less embarrassing (sharing your personal issues to a computer via text is less anxiety-inducing than saying them to a person's face).

With that all said, I'm strongly opposed to people using LLMs as therapists.
by sbszllr | 2025-12-10 15:30:08+00:00
There's a lot of truth and real pain points in the article but others miss the point entirely. Two things that stand out to me in particular:

- C "standard" is quite flaky in practice, there are lots of un/underdefined things that compilers interpret quite liberally for the purpose of optimisations

- complaining about the syntax and symbols is unfair: rust offers all these semantics to represent the memory model of your codebase. The equivalent is not possible in C/C++, and when we try to do it, we're inventing our own constructs at the code level instead of relying on the syntax