MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-03 13:05:18+00:00
The did something similar to Buffy The Vampire Slayer when "upgrading" it to HD. It lost all/most of the color grading and was cropped to 16:9.

Some night scenes now take place during daytime and you can see booms and camera operators in many shots.

It never even got a blu ray release. The only way to watch it at home without egregious errors is still DVD as far as I know.
by Lockal | 2025-12-03 13:05:54+00:00
A bit of salt from me. This is why I don't like target-audience-optimized distributions.

Problem statement: speaker do not work properly (Asus Rog Z13 in my case).

Here what Bazzite does: obtains a firmware _somewhere_, stores in a no-license personal repo with a promise to rewrite repo history and purge files within 5 business days on contact, builds Bazzite-only installation script and pulls it in a main repo[1]. Users after that say, that Bazzite is the only distro where it works out-of-the-box.

Here what I did: contacted linux-firmware, was redirected by Mario Limonciello to Cirrus, contacted few Cirrus people who commit these firmwares, got response the same day. Same day Asus Rog Z13 firmwares were added to linux-firmware[2]. Was it simple? Hell yes. Why other people prefer to reverse-engineer instead? Today users say that Bazzite is the best, tomorrow they will see the price of this smoothness and it will turn into another Ventoy-style drama[3].

[1] https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/ad5704b87388fbde7e3...

[2] https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware/-/commit/0...

[3] https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795
by og_kbot | 2025-12-03 13:06:12+00:00
One of my takeaways from this blog post highlights the on-going glaring issue that Reddit needs better user and mod tools.

Their simplistic spam filters are trivially easy to bypass especially when the problem is one of networked relationships. This is all left up to subreddit moderators who often lack the YAML/PRAW/API skills needed for advanced filtering and are left fighting a losing battle or are part of the problem themselves.

It seems like a fairly straight-forward proposition to create a User/subreddit/post/commet label propogation relationship and create a trust score highlighting the top or mostly likely botnets.

I've worked with the PRAW API enough to know that it could be possible to create a tool for this kind of filtering, maybe it's time to find a way to make a browser feature.

Or just go back to Digg (or usenet), ha.
by segmondy | 2025-12-03 13:06:17+00:00
Title should really be OpenAI declares 'code red' as OpenAI falls behind in the AI race. Google, Anthropic, Mistral, DeepSeek, Tencent, Alibaba, Moonshot, Zai, etc have all made great strides. OpenAI has been falling behind in terms of velocity while everyone else is moving faster
by Supernaut | 2025-12-03 13:06:29+00:00
> It was manufactured to be as cheap as possible.

Exactly. The membrane keyboards weren't aesthetic choices, they were one of a number of compromises that were necessary to achieve the price point set by Clive Sinclair. He intuited that a sub-£200 colour computer would sell in huge quantities, and he was right. My (middle class) parents couldn't countenance the cost of a Commodore 64, but they were prepared to buy me a ZX Spectrum.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-03 13:07:05+00:00
>A lot could probably be done with a simple "a person 1.80m in length must be able to see a 50cm high object 1 metre in front of the car" or something like that. Just making up numbers here and don't know what would be reasonable, but it seems this doesn't need to be that hard?

It's hard because the people pushing for new rules very transparently want rules far beyond what the public wants or considers sensible. If they were simply asking for that it'd probable be done already.
by lan321 | 2025-12-03 13:07:17+00:00
> These cars are just for show

I love vans more than any vehicle, but they're garbage at offroad compared to trucks (even 4motion, etc can't compare). Most people don't use them for that, but in villa constructions sometimes you really want a pickup to get to the site. They're also better than vans in snow. Edge cases but they exist and they're not so obscure that I haven't experienced them.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-03 13:07:29+00:00
You have reproduced yourself the 2 titles, which contain:

"Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil"

"Microbe That Could Turn Martian Dust into Oxygen"

The words "producing X from Y" and "turn Y into X" are extremely clear and they do not admit alternative interpretations. They both claim that X=oxygen comes from Y=soil|dust, contrary to what you say, that the titles do not contain such claims.

I normally avoid to follow the fashion of accusing posters of being AI bots, but such a failure of comprehension could be explained only for an AI bot, or perhaps for someone who understands very little English, but the latter explanation does not match the correct English of the message.

Perhaps you have used an English translation service that has confused you?
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-12-03 13:07:33+00:00
to quote something I said a day ago about AI spotting in the posts of other people:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114083

"I think that writing style is more LinkedIn than LLM, the style of people who might get slapped down if they wrote something individual.

Much of the world has agreed to sound like machines."
by stego-tech | 2025-12-03 13:08:14+00:00
Apples and Oranges from an enterprise perspective, with the additional wrinkle that consumer tech is generally ad-supported (ugh) while Enterprise stuff is super-high margin and paid for in actual currency.

If you assume the napkin math is correct on the $800bn yearly needed to service interest rates on these CAPEX loans, then you’d need the collective revenue of the major players (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc) to pull in as much revenue in a year as Apple, Alphabet, and Samsung combined.

Let’s assume OpenAI is responsible for much of this bill, say, $400bn. They’d need a very generous conversion rate of 24% for their monthly users (700m) to the Pro plan for an entire year to cover that bill, for one year. That’s a conversion rate better than anyone else in the XaaS world who markets to consumers and enterprises alike, and paints a picture of just how huge the spend from enterprises would need to be to subsidize consumer free usage.

And all of this is just for existing infrastructure. As a number of CEBros have pointed out recently (and us detractors have screamed about from the beginning), the current CAPEX on hardware is really only good for three to five years before it has to be replaced with newer kit at a larger cost. Nevermind the realities of shifting datacenter designs to capitalize on better power and cooling technologies to increase density that would require substantial facility refurbishment to support them in a potential future.

The math just doesn’t make sense if you’re the least bit skeptical.
by jaccola | 2025-12-03 13:08:22+00:00
I would take it one step further, often trying to eke out performance gains with clever tricks can hurt performance by causing you to "miss the forest for the trees".

I work with Cuda kernels a lot for computer vision. I am able to consistently and significantly improve on the performance of research code without any fancy tricks, just with good software engineering practices.

By organising variables into structs, improving naming, using helper functions, etc... the previously impenetrable code becomes so much clearer and the obvious optimisations reveal themselves.

Not to say there aren't certain tricks / patterns / gotchas / low level hardware realities to keep in mind, of course.
by bncndn0956 | 2025-12-03 13:08:29+00:00
3blue1brown proves your point.

The saying, "What one fool can do, another can," is a motto from Silvanus P. Thompson's book Calculus Made Easy. It suggests that a task someone without great intelligence can accomplish must be relatively simple, implying that anyone can learn to do it if they put in the effort. The phrase is often used to encourage someone, demystify a complex subject, and downplay the difficulty of a task.
by apple1417 | 2025-12-03 13:09:01+00:00
The MSVC linker has a feature where it will merge byte-for-byte identical functions. It's most noticeable for default constructors, you might get hundreds of functions which all boil down to "zero the first 32 bytes of this type".

A quick google suggests it's called "identical comdat folding" https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20161024-00/?p=94...
by testdelacc1 | 2025-12-03 13:09:16+00:00
Even Linus doesn’t act that way anymore. Here’s him a few years ago:

> This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for.

> Especially at times when I made it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me. I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry. The above is basically a long-winded way to get to the somewhat painful personal admission that hey, I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely.

> I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately.

He took time off and he’s better now. What you call “political correctness” is what I and others call “basic professionalism”. It took Linus 25 years to understand that. I can only hope that the people who hero worshipped him and adopted a similar attitude can also mature.
by amonith | 2025-12-03 13:09:40+00:00
I'm not hating, might be a language barrier, I'm from Poland, sorry.

1. Definitely not in my country. The average pay of a Wordpress/PHP dev is half of a modern full stack and the clients are terrible, because it's just websites for small businesses. Modern full stacks don't create websites most of the time, but highly interactive B2B apps.

2. It is absolutely my client. I optimize their happiness not their customers. I have no relationship with the customers, some don't know who I am.

3. I worked as a contractor for a couple of years and I'm not missing the stress and unstable pay. Especially now with a kid on board. Many contracts were actually "hey we need a React/[insert other tech] guy for our current project, wanna join?", not "we have an idea and we don't know how to do it" kind of thing. The latter are super rare and even more stressful, because they come from "non-technical startup founders" often with little money.

Keep in mind that I'm in EU, so the benefits of permanent employment make a huge difference.
by bruce343434 | 2025-12-03 13:10:03+00:00
Sadly most C++ projects are organized in a way that hampers static functions. To achieve incremental builds, stuff is split into separate source files that are compiled and optimized separately, and only at the final step linked, which requires symbols of course.

I get it though, because carefully structuring your #includes to get a single translation unit is messy, and compile times get too long.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-12-03 13:10:47+00:00
Yep. C was always meant to be a "close to the metal" language providing a feature set that could be mapped pretty directly to the processors it was running on. It's a "low level, high level language" where the expectation is more what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG), even though a modern optimizer might be expected to remove invariant code out of loops, etc - localized efficiency gains, but not large scale transformation.

So, optimal C targetting the 6502 is not going to look much like C targetting a modern processor. The developer still needs to be very aware of the limitations of the processor they are targetting.

One somewhat radical thing that LLVM-MOS does is to analyze the program's call graph, and for functions that are not used recursively it will assign parameters and local variables to zero page instead, both for speed of access and to avoid need for a stack frame. Even though this violates the WYSIWYG mental model, this is a nice abstraction of what the assembly language programmer would have done themself.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-03 13:10:47+00:00
>on European streets the easiest way to detect an American-designed car is that they only have one reverse light, the bare minimum. Only suitable as an indicator to the driver behind you. Ever considered trying to reverse into a parking spot without any streetlight nearby? Reversing blind is awesome!

A bunch of Japanese compacts and subcompacts do it too and it was basically unheard of on any vehicle from any continent until the last 15yr or so when backup cameras proliferated.

Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.
by blkhawk | 2025-12-03 13:10:55+00:00
I don't want to defend musk in any way but I think you are making a mistake there using him as an example because what boosted him quite a lot is that he actually delivered what he claimed. Always late but still earlier than anybody was guesstimating. And now he is completely spiraling but its a lot harder to lose a billion than to gain one so he persists and even gets richer. Plus his "fanatical" followers are poor. It just doesn't match the situation.
by Scene_Cast2 | 2025-12-03 13:11:16+00:00
This post assumes C/C++ style business logic code.

Anything HPC will benefit from thinking about how things map onto hardware (or, in case of SQL, onto data structures).

I think way too few people use profilers. If your code is slow, profiling is the first tool you should reach for. Unfortunately, the state of profiling tools outside of NSight and Visual Studio (non-Code) is pretty disappointing.
by exceptione | 2025-12-03 13:11:23+00:00
I think the goal is unclear, but the effect will be that Codeberg will be perceived as less of a real, stable alternative. Breaking in was not in my mind, but that will have the same effect, maybe even more damaging. Now, if that has been the intended effect, I hope I won't have to believe that.

Story time:

I remember that back in the day I had a domain name for a pretty hot keyword with a great, organic position in Google rankings. Then someday it got all of a sudden serious boost from black-SEO, with a bazillion links from all kinds of unrelated websites. My domain got penalized and dropped of from the front page.
by lccerina | 2025-12-03 13:11:50+00:00
Most likely, and probably inferring the structure on texts with "similar" writing forms. Tried with my handwriting (in italian) and the performance wasn't that stellar. More annoyingly, it is still a LLM and not a "pure" OCR, so some sentences were partially rephrased with different words than the one in the text. This is crucially problematic if they would be used to transcribe historical documents
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-12-03 13:12:10+00:00
That's interesting! Can you share which provider their MX record pointed to? Silently disappearing emails are typical Microsoft Forefront antics (but definitely also a misfeature of other products), but mostly when the originating domain has a p=reject DMARC policy. You didn't happen to relax that at the same time you added the reporting parameters?
by liampulles | 2025-12-03 13:12:22+00:00
Fun fact: The X-Files production team foresaw the coming of 16:9 home entertainment, so they made some effort (increasing with later seasons) to try and "protect" a 16:9 frame, which allowed for an unusually good 16:9 Blu-ray restoration. [https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7499/look-inside-the-files...]

I learned this from the older X-files DVDs, which have some unusually good special features.
by avidthinker | 2025-12-03 13:13:00+00:00
Sorry about that. I tried to introduce the necessary concepts starting from zero, or I thought I did.

We devs (take back that "just" :) ) deal with much harder stuff when we build complex APIs, so the problem must be at the syntactic level. To us devs, math may look like an antipattern, with all the short names and operator overloading.

But that's unavoidable, unfortunately. It's normal to spend hours or more on a single concept until it clicks. I'd say don't give up, but I understand one's time is valuable, and the return might not be high enough to justify the cost.
by stabbles | 2025-12-03 13:13:18+00:00
For people who enjoy these blogs, you would definitely like the Julia REPL as well. I used to play with this a lot to discover compiler things.

For example:

$ julia julia> function f(n) total = 0 for x in 1:n total += x end return total end julia> @code_native f(10) ... sub x9, x0, #2 mul x10, x8, x9 umulh x8, x8, x9 extr x8, x8, x10, #1 add x8, x8, x0, lsl #1 sub x0, x8, #1 ret ...

it shows this with nice colors right in the REPL.

In the example above, you see that LLVM figured out the arithmetic series and replaced the loop with a simple multiplication.
by rob74 | 2025-12-03 13:13:37+00:00
Stories like this regularly make the rounds when movies or shows that the original creators put a lot of love and thought into are "remastered" on the cheap. The last one I saw was the story about the garish colors in digital versions of old Pixar movies - amongst others, they intentionally exaggerated green hues in the digital original to compensate for the transfer process to analog film stock which was less sensitive to green. When Disney transferred the movies to digital formats and streaming, they took the digital original 1:1, so the colors now look off (https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-story-you-...)
by dr_dshiv | 2025-12-03 13:13:48+00:00
See Brett Victor’s: Kill Math https://worrydream.com/KillMath/

He separates conceptual understanding from notational understanding— pointing out that the interface of using math has a major impact on utility and understanding. For instance, Roman numerals inhibit understanding and utilization of multiplication.

Better notational systems can be designed, he claims.
by pu_pe | 2025-12-03 13:14:24+00:00
Yeah, I mostly agree with your opinion. It's true that in the short-term there will be tons of disruption and likely more bad than good will come out of it. I guess my point was that ultimately how the upsides and downsides of a new technology will be distributed depend a lot on how societies organize themselves. The industrial revolution allowed the concentration of wealth and robber barons, but also unions and social democracy as a reaction to that.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-03 13:14:27+00:00
Google was better but it wasn't far superior to AltaVista is what I remember.

Yahoo was always more a directory of websites.

AltaVista was better than Lycos or Yahoo but then Google was faster, gave better results than AltaVista and the very minimal UI was something interesting. I quite liked AltaVista but I never went back to it after using Google either.

I might even say Gemini 3 is better than GPT5 than what Google was to AltaVista. GPT5 feels rather useless to me after my time now with Gemini.
by stefs | 2025-12-03 13:14:34+00:00
it's just a lot easier to park illegally (space wise) when your vehicle is huge / larger than the usual parking spaces. on my usual bike route there's at least one spot where people often park huge vehicles partway over the bike lane, forcing me to divert into oncoming vehicular traffic. small cars fit, broad cars don't. by law, they're plain not allowed to park there, but when you call the drivers out on it, they usually just argue that it's not their fault if the parking spots are too narrow.
by n4r9 | 2025-12-03 13:14:47+00:00
Your misrepresentation of opposing views betrays a lack of intellectual openness. For example:

> liberals are in favor of practically unlimited immigration

Do you think "liberals" (are you from the UK btw?) are in favour of 5 billion people immigrating to the UK? Of course not. They just disagree that the current levels of immigration are as big a problem as right-wing media makes out.
by bgnn | 2025-12-03 13:15:05+00:00
Yeah I totally see that. What I struggle with with a single child is to be able to work full time for example. You are expected to work part time, but then how do you sustain your income, with multiple children. The problem will be bigger once they grow up though. It's really tough to find housing, to rent or to buy, for the youth. I'm working on getting a second house somewhere else so my child can use the house here when they grow up. Can't imagine the stress of raising 4 children.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-03 13:15:27+00:00
Shrodingers dead person. You don't actually know until you know what policy position you're gonna use the dead guy to advance.

Usually road deaths is all deaths and pedestrians get split out as a sub category. Primary sources and academic papers are typicaly good. Analysis thereof almost always has a policy it's trying to advance and will frequently mix and match to that end. Internet comments are worse still.
by singpolyma3 | 2025-12-03 13:15:33+00:00
it depends what you mean.

If you ask it "give me a library same as X" by name and it does it then this will surely be based on the code of the library and may even contain the actual code of the library. Don't do this.

If you feed it the code of the library piece by piece and ask for something "equivalent" that's even worse. Explicitly derivative.

If you write your own documentation of how the library works but don't mention it by name and it's not a very special purpose library and the LLM writes to your new spec... Then probably you'll spend a lot to get a worse version. IANAL
by amypetrik8 | 2025-12-03 13:15:35+00:00
just to go off of this there is also stochastic random overfit retraining process (SRORP). Idea behind SRORP is to avoid overfitting. SRORP will take data points from -any- aspect of the past process with replacment and create usually 3-9 bootstrap models randomly. The median is then taken from all model weights to wipe out outliers. This SRORP polishing -if done carefully- is usually good for a 3-4% gain in all benchmarks
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-03 13:15:38+00:00
> Tried with my handwriting (in italian) and the performance wasn't that stellar.

Same here, for diaries/journals written in mixed Swedish/English/Spanish and with absolutely terrible hand-writing.

I'd love for the day where the writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition, which is something I bet on when I started with my journals, but seems that day has yet to come. I'm eager to get there though so I can archive all of it!
by butvacuum | 2025-12-03 13:15:42+00:00
No, No typo- the problem with ChatGPT is the third party that would would be Attesting that's how it works, is just the 2nd party.

I'm not familiar with the referenced Google secure LLM, but offhand- if it's TEE based- Google would be publishing auditable/signed images and Intel/AMD would be the third party Attesting that's whats actually running. TEEs are way out of my expertise though, and there's a ton of places and ways for it to break down.