MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwway120385 | 2025-12-29 18:02:43+00:00
You could argue that outside-in versus inside-out is more of a temperament than it is a form of neurodivergence. For example, what you're describing is basically typical of how Keirsey describes concrete versus abstract reasoning in Please Understand Me. And it could be kind of alienating to be the one abstract reasoner in a group of concrete reasoners and if you believe his statistics it's kind of likely that you'll find yourself in that situation a lot because you gravitate toward the abstract rather than the concrete/operational aspects of a concept.

I generally do the same thing when I'm learning something, and I have to fully understand a concept and then attack the concrete applications of the concept. But I've also learned how to go the other way when I need to because much of the technical writing I encounter is written for people who need a lot of examples but don't follow abstract concepts. So I've internalized building up the abstract concept from the concrete examples.
by kgwxd | 2025-12-29 18:02:44+00:00
I bought a lot of stuff from GOG a long time ago, but the only thing I've use them for in the past 5 years is claiming Prime Gaming rewards on Twitch. I don't think I've even downloaded a single one of them. I'm curious if that agreement with Amazon might have hurt GOG. Did it cost them some money when people like me to claim all those games without ever converting to a paying customer?
by runjake | 2025-12-29 18:02:44+00:00
1. Visit unicorn's rubygems.org page. -> https://rubygems.org/gems/unicorn/versions/5.1.0

2. Click on the homepage link in the lower right of the page.

3. Click the README and scroll down to Contact section. Or look at the ISSUES file:

https://yhbt.net/unicorn/ISSUES.html#label-Issues
by maerF0x0 | 2025-12-29 18:02:46+00:00
Additional to your point, one of the benefits of high user pays is to allow opt-in progressive taxation. (The rich who want to use it can, at their own cost, the rich who do not feel it's fair can sit in the traffic with everyone else and avoid the taxation)...

idea: Maximize the income of the toll lane and use the money to subsidize new free lanes or other forms of mass transit.
by kayo_20211030 | 2025-12-29 18:03:36+00:00
Respectfully, I disagree. You're correct on the facts, but any "new techniques, materials and tools" need to be communicated to the brick layers. That takes time and effort i.e. it all needs to be actively managed. The brick layers have to be able to work with those new techniques and materials. I don't want some of them using method #1 over here, and method #2 over there, unless I'm wholly conversant with the methods, and fully confident that it'll all mesh eventually. The system i.e. the whole shebang has to work coherently to serve its purpose.
by pigpop | 2025-12-29 18:03:39+00:00
I'm sorry but I don't quite believe you because I've done exactly this for learning much more complicated topics. For fun I've been learning about video game programming in the Odin programming language using a Claude project where I have Opus 4.5 write tutorials, including working code examples that are designed to be integrated with each other into a larger project. We've covered maze generation, Delaunay triangulation, MSTs, state machines, rendering via Raylib and RayGUI, and tweening for animations. All of those worked quite well with only very minor corrections which Opus was also very helpful for diagnosing and fixing. I also had it produce a full tutorial on implementing a relational database in Odin but I haven't had time to work my way through all of it yet. This is all with a somewhat niche language like Odin that I wouldn't expect there to be a lot of training data for so you'll excuse my incredulity that you couldn't get usable introductory code for much more commonly used languages like Java and Python.

I'm wondering if your test includes allowing the models to run their code in order to validate it and then fix it using the error output? Would you be willing to share the prompts and maybe some examples of the errors?

I haven't had many problems working in Claude Code even with full on "vibe coding". One notable recent exception was in writing integration tests for a p2p app that uses WebRTC, XTerm.js, and Yjs where it ran into some difficulty creating a testing framework that involved a headless client and a local MQTT broker where we had to fork a few child processes to test communication between them. Opus got bogged down working on its own so I stepped in and got things set up correctly (while chatting with Opus through the web interface instead of CC). The problem seemed to be due to overfilling the context since the test suite files were too long so I could have probably avoided the manual work by just having Opus break those up first.
by sevensor | 2025-12-29 18:04:02+00:00
> Master of Magic

I picked up a bargain bin CD ROM of this game in 1996 and it works under dosbox as well as it ever did. Which is to say mostly ok but sometimes hilariously crashy. I think what needs to happen for us to spend another 30 years crafting overpowered plate mail is for there to continue being good emulators for the mid 90s DOS environment.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-29 18:04:24+00:00
> Real stores sell steam keys because they are selling directly from the developers

And how did these "real stores" get those Steam keys unless they bought them, maybe even directly from the developers? Or are you saying game developers hand out these keys for free to the store, then the store sends the developer money for each key they sell? I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense.

What is an example of one such site selling Steam keys who you wouldn't consider a reseller?
by amir1372 | 2025-12-29 18:04:43+00:00
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by songeater | 2025-12-29 18:04:44+00:00
>> Man pushes slot machine lever 5,000x and edits together best slot machine sounds to make song. Proceeds to beat chest about being a music maker.

While you may have meant that as a criticism, I don't think that is an inaccurate description of the process and do hope my post describes it as such. Yes sampling from the latent-space is an exercise in curating and harnessing randomness.

>> ...the mental justifications in the blog post are painful. I think you may find musicians bristle at your claim that all art is circular,

Yes I many/most do. This is not a method of "making music" that could have been contemplated 5 years ago (harnessing randomness = learning an instrument for 10+ years = wtf!!!??). But it exists today, and there are a lot of folks like me who are enabled by it. There will be some among us (not me!) who come along who are far more talented, and when this tech is shown to enable their talent, then I think the bristling will lessen.

>> [various issues about copyright]

I write my own lyrics from my meat-brain, so I may own the copyright to the words (maybe?). But I've chosen to release the words out into the world with no expectation of keeping that. And yes I understand I do not own the copyright to the songs/music/etc (I have read Suno's rights and recent Udio/UMG deals etc). In any case, I don't much care about that, nor am I looking to make $$$ off this. I wrote (words) for a long time... and can now put them to music. If there are any others of you out there who would like to do that, I would suggest you try these paths as well.

Just try not to push the button 1x... do it 5,000x! It's the effort and vision that keeps you from "slop" - and maybe you'll be the one who'll make it great fucking art!
by hedgehog | 2025-12-29 18:05:12+00:00
FWIW I have some background in this area and got curious how Meshtastic works so I read some of the docs and code. It seems like they are unaware of existing work even 20+ years ago, a specific suggestion is to study the state of single radio CSMA meshes in say 2005 and make a list of subjects to read on, then do that. There's a lot of stuff that happened later but in the early 2000s many people tried to make meshes out of 802.11b IBSS and a lot got written about those efforts.
by kibwen | 2025-12-29 18:05:29+00:00
> It’s the only kind of program that can be actually reasoned about.

Theoretically infinite memory isn't really the problem with reasoning about Turing-complete programs. In practice, the inability to guarantee that any program will halt still applies to any system with enough memory to do anything more than serve as an interesting toy.

I mean, I think this should be self-evident: our computers already do have finite memory. Giving a program slightly less memory to work with doesn't really change anything; you're still probably giving that statically-allocated program more memory than entire machines had in the 80s, and it's not like the limitations of computers in the 80s made us any better at reasoning about programs in general.
by paxys | 2025-12-29 18:05:31+00:00
Ever bought anything from MSN Music? Yahoo Music? Desura? Microsoft eBook Store? Walmart MP3s? Anything using Adobe Content Server? MusicNet? CinemaNow? UltraViolet?

It is laughable to think that digital media "clearly works". Companies shut down and stores shutter all the time. In most cases there is no recourse for customers, because – surprise – you didn't actually own the rights to what you bought, just a revocable license. You have to be pretty young and/or naive to think that this can't eventually happen to Steam as well.

And even if you fully trust Steam to stick around and keep its word, digital licensing means you can still get screwed. For example - if the publisher's license to in-game music expires, the game will automatically be updated to remove all the tracks (e.g. GTA Vice City and San Andreas). For larger issues and conflicts the game might be removed entirely (e.g. Spec Ops: The Line). Or the publisher might decide to just switch off the DRM servers, even for single player games (e.g. The Crew). Outside of gaming there are countless examples of publishers "upgrading" music tracks you own to different versions or censoring/altering content of books you own.

The only recourse to all this is to buy and store DRM-free versions of your media.
by xp84 | 2025-12-29 18:05:45+00:00
If I were Anthropic I would have some kind of TOS restriction saying that you can't use their trademark to represent what you use their API to enable. It's just inappropriate. Even if you are a full anti-AI activist, it seems clear that the blame for specific things 'Claude' does in response to a deliberate prompt should fall on the person(s) operating it, and as such they shouldn't be allowed to make it appear that this is what Anthropic designed Claude to do.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-29 18:05:51+00:00
> We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history, all as people are told that there “just isn’t the money” to build things like housing, or provide Americans with universal healthcare, or better schools, or create the means for the average person to accumulate wealth. The money does exist, it just exists for those who want to gamble

Wealth is not a zero sum game.

Unless you're going to tax or create more subtle incentives, you cannot tell people what to do with their money. They don't HAVE to give it to charity, they don't have to funnel it into investments they don't want to. Heck, you can't tell them not to gamble.
by maipen | 2025-12-29 18:06:47+00:00
I think the major advantage for consumers is being able to securely ensure their cards never breaks and device restarts make their sim always available, no need for pin.
Even if someone steals your phone they can’t disable your SIM card unless you don’t have a pincode.

I’ve had a SIM card constantly fail and require me to put my pin to unlock it multiple times in the same day. If someone wanted to call me they would not be able to because I didn’t know it was off.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-29 18:07:04+00:00
https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/investors/result-center/q3-2025... [has a bunch of files at the bottom too, for more data]

> Consolidated net earnings during the reporting period stood at 193 million PLN – 2.5 times more than during the corresponding period of the previous year, which results in a net profitability of 55%.

Maybe I don't understand "profits above all" sufficiently well as some of my peers, but that seems Good Enough to me.
by jeremyjh | 2025-12-29 18:07:11+00:00
> But if you are in the habit of using custom elements then you will likely continue to use them even when a more useful element is available

This article is written for web developers. I’m not sure who you think you are addressing with this comment.

In any case - the argument is a weak one. To the extent people make the mistake you allege they can make it with classed div and span tags as well and I’ve seen this in practice.
by jcranmer | 2025-12-29 18:07:31+00:00
Dereferencing an arbitrary integer cast to a pointer means you are dereferencing an arbitrary memory location, which includes memory that is outside the purview of the C abstract machine model, say the return address of the function. That means the effect of that operation can't be meaningfully constrained, and the only option for that is UB.

(Integer-to-pointer conversions beg the question of pointer provenance, which is a long, complicated topic that is still not fully solved, but does go to show that UB is actually a lot more complicated than most people expect.)
by Ekaros | 2025-12-29 18:07:32+00:00
No it was actually just circa 9 thousand Euros from GOG.COM. And it seems there was period of having potential loss of million PLN as well in Q3 of 2024 I think. So it looks quite variable based on which products release.

See: https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2025/11/c...

Starting from page 28.
by analogpixel | 2025-12-29 18:07:38+00:00
100 Books like Project Hail Mary (https://shepherd.com/books-like/project-hail-mary) :

- Travels with Charley : With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco.

- Invisible Women : Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives.

then, if you love Andy Weir, you'll love this romance novel:
The Duke's Christmas Redemption by Arietta Richmond

and then after scrolling through even more book recommendations I'm assuming are just ads:

Interested in time loop, philosophy, and time travel?

which is weird, because Project Hail Mary wasn't about time loops or time travel.

This is why I dislike recommendations on the internet anymore, it's just a cash grab to get some click through profit to amazon.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-12-29 18:07:39+00:00
Additional to your point:

1. Women do not find guys in tiny cars to be attractive

2. Cars in America are becoming an arms race in terms of danger to others (tall front grills, heavier)

3. Liability/Regulation is too low. We'd see safety go up if we made the minimum insurance $5M , instead of $30000. Also if our police actually enforced traffic laws, including tags and insurance.
by leros | 2025-12-29 18:08:41+00:00
Sounds like you could target a small niche that is currently using a broader more generic product.

I'm always surprised by things like the fact there are several software solutions for managing gyms, but there are also specific solutions for rock climbing gyms, yoga studios, etc. I know a guy who builds rock climbing gym software and he's got a team of 20+ employees.
by irishcoffee | 2025-12-29 18:08:55+00:00
> HN works very hard to avoid becoming politicized and not discouraging minority views is a large part of that.

> For example, I now seldom bother to write anything that I expect to rub the left coast folks the wrong way: I don't care about karma, but downvoted posts are effectively hidden. There is little point of writing things that few will see.

These two statements don't seem to agree with each other.
by hopelite | 2025-12-29 18:09:15+00:00
It also depends on the particular dialect a German speaks. Dutch is effectively old German before all the various alterations and "reforms" to the German language that were instituted to create fragmentation between the germanic people of Europe, i.e., English, Dutch, Germans, Austrians, Swiss, Belgians throughout the ~16th-20th century by aristocrats driving wedges between peasants between kingdoms and dukedoms in order to define their own nations/ethnicities through language and culture so their royal families could rule over and would find it difficult to associate with each other. It is one of the things that also contributed to the fragmentation of Germany before unification, language barriers that even created unique cultures between sides of a valley that were in different dukedoms.

A similar thing has caused the tension between the germanic and Romance languages that followed the Roman border line N to S that separates Europe.
by bratwurst3000 | 2025-12-29 18:09:19+00:00
yes but there are so many
cases where they took the worst of the worst and gave them high profile jobs with way way way to much power for high ranking nsdap members.

Rheinhard gehlen and everyone around him is a something that could have been prevented.

And so many high class nazis where in such good positions because they where experts on anticommunism. For the americans and brits it was "safer" to give positions to exnsdap officiers then people from the SPD(socialists)

Gehlen kicked even the only high ranking spd member in secret service out

for god sake they even hired klaus barbie. that guy had entertainment partys where the guests could
torture jews homosexualls etc... and he killed most of french opposition.
Got hired from the bnd and cia as expert on anticommunism

Germany didnt change much..

fuck we even voted a full member of the nsdap as chancelor. Kurt kiesinger. Yes we had two Nazi chancellors!!

honestly the only reason the denazification was shit was because most people at power at that time where kind of nazis.

edit:// btw the DDR had somehow solved the problem and didnt had as much nazis in high position.
by rayiner | 2025-12-29 18:10:09+00:00
Your link shows that NYC is very corrupt! It ranks #3 in corruption prosecutions since 1976. On a population-adjusted basis, it’s probably #1. Your article tries to account for population, but does so incorrectly. It overlooks that NDIL includes the entire Chicago metro area (over 10 million people), not just the city of Chicago (2.7 million). CDCA includes the entire LA metro area, plus surrounding cities like Santa Barbara (total almost 19 million people). In contrast, SDNY includes just Manhattan and a few counties north of the city (Westchester, etc), totaling about 3 million people. And EDNY includes just Brooklyn and Long Island. The NYC metro area also is covered by DNJ (which is also very corrupt) and probably a bit of D. Conn as well.

Focusing on SDNY, it's about 462 federal corruption convictions per million people (current population) since 1976. D. Mass is at about 107.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-29 18:10:14+00:00
TSLA exposure is a call option on Musk succeeding (with success criteria being "TSLA price go up") regardless of reality. SpaceX is buying up Cybertrucks; is it illegal? Will anyone do anything about it? That sort of success (quasi fraud). The product is the stock and the hope there is a greater fool who will buy it eventually.

SpaceX Buys over 1000 Cybertrucks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405984 - December 2025

Last week: Elon Musk's SpaceX bought tens of millions worth of Cybertrucks Tesla can't sell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317462 - December 2025 (6 comments)

Elon Musk's SpaceX and XAI Are Buying Tesla's Unsold Cybertrucks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572152 - October 2025 (8 comments)

Tesla's European Sales Plunge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391352 - December 2025 (3 comments)

Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248803 - December 2025 (60 comments)

Tesla looks to reset strategy amid sluggish India sales - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084554 - November 2025 (2 comments)

Tesla's European sales tumble nearly 50% in October - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46063634 - November 2025 (57 comments)

Tesla sees worst sales performance in China in years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881302 - November 2025 (1 comment)

BYD Pulls Ahead of Tesla in UK, Closes Sales Gap in Germany - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859618 - November 2025 (35 comments)

Tesla's German car sales more than halve in October as wider EV sales jump - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827314 - November 2025 (135 comments)

[Flagged] Tesla sales in Germany have cratered from last year, data shows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826384 - November 2025 (28 comments)

Study: The Musk Partisan Effect on Tesla Sales - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45825382 - November 2025 (2 comments) ("Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles. Musk’s partisan activities also increased the sales of other automakers' electric and hybrid vehicles 17-22% because of substitution, and undermined California’s progress in meeting its zero-emissions vehicle target.")

Tesla Cybertruck sales are flatlining - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573985 - October 2025 (17 comments)

Tesla Pivots to Robots as Investors Question Sales and Soaring Valuation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228566 - September 2025 (3 comments)
by hnlmorg | 2025-12-29 18:10:24+00:00
> your exaggerated language presents a distorted slant, and such one-sided rhetoric, especially when repeated many times, actually contributes to the political shifts and the spirals of violence that you worry about.

Definitely constitutes as you being exaggerative.

You knew what I meant. This wasn’t about a fallacy of understanding, it was a technical pedantry.

Hence why I said I agree with your general point but you’re also missing my point and exaggerating things: yes you’re right that Israel and Iran are not literal neighbours but my point was meant to be the general theme of their foreign policy rather than a literal geography lesson.

This discussion is getting rather silly now though. Especially when I don’t think either one of us disagrees with the actual point the other was making.
by firedexplorer | 2025-12-29 18:10:26+00:00
I got tired of checking 15 charts, Twitter, and news just to figure out "are we green or dead today?"

So I built tldr.market - a daily snapshot of the main markets + a brutally short TL;DR of what actually moved things. No fluff, no "AI will change everything" essays.

Built it for myself, sharing in case it saves someone else a few brain cells.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-12-29 18:10:26+00:00
Literally everything you are describing, like long term purchase agreements, have been used by corporations (and non-corporations, like farmers) for decades if not centuries, and nobody called this "scalping" before.

You're just "trying to make fetch happen". Stop trying to make fetch happen, Gretchen, because nobody else thinks it's scalping.