MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by araes | 2025-12-26 06:08:42+00:00
That's a very specific skill development. I'd ask why Forth, yet guess because "must be beautiful"?

Seems like kind of strange / yet somewhat appropriate choice since Forth "traditionally use neither operating system nor file system." and "A full-featured Forth system with all source code will compile itself". Bootstrap your own operating system on a computer with literally nothing.

Interesting to read about though as a tangent, very different kind of language. "grammar has no official specification" "looks the word up in the dictionary" and then does whatever the dictionary specifies.

Good luck on the project though, seems like it fell out of use in the 80's and only got recovered recently. The Forth Interest Group comments on the subject are funny too. [1] "What ANS Forths are available?" -> "The simple answer is: none" Apparently somebody (Vincent Hamp) got it to work on Thumb-2 ISA (ARMv7-M and newer) though. Tiny. 7kb flash, 320B of ram. [2]

[1] https://www.forth.org/ansforth/ansforth.html

[2] https://gitlab.com/higaski/Shi
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-26 06:09:46+00:00
For some context, this is the a long time Googler who's feats include major contributions to GoLang and Co-creating UTF-8.

To call him the Oppenheimer of Gemini would be overly dramatic. But he definitely had access to the Manhattan project.

>What power do big tech companies have and why do you have a problem with

Do you want the gist of the last 20 years or so, or are you just being rhetorical? im sure there will be much literature over time that will dissect such a question to its atoms. Whether it be a cautionary tale or a retrospective of how a part is society fell? Well, we still have time to write that story.
by jonathanlydall | 2025-12-26 06:10:17+00:00
I wonder if they’ll make it work like Outlook.com’s support for multiple email addresses on the same account which they made a fully first class feature.

Although I primarily use a Gmail for my personal email, I still have a Hotmail address from the 90s.

For at least 10 years now Outlook.com and Microsoft accounts have supported multiple aliases.

This has allowed me to keep my old cringey box name at Hotmail address, but also have a name.surname@outlook.com on the same account, which looks nicer for Microsoft services I use, like Windows login with OneDrive.
by jjtheblunt | 2025-12-26 06:14:02+00:00
You overlooked the UTM app on the App Store (and open source available too), which wraps Apple Silicon virtualization excellently, or you can use Qemu (which I don't).

I used to use Asahi, but the sleep modes power drain was tedious.

With UTM, I install a latest Fedora ISO (declaring it a "Linux", which exposes the option to skip QEMU and use native Apple Silicon virtualization.

It's fantastic. I mention this only because it's been super useful, way better than Asahi, with minimal effort.
by coip | 2025-12-26 06:14:59+00:00
It is a mindset thing insofar as my opinion is that there are more interesting things to practice with, sure. Grindy endeavors aren’t bad, just grindy. Given how much of the practical application side of that practice is handled by libs/pkgs @ runtime for a lot of product dev I’ve been involved with, it can seem a bit much. It isn’t so black and white of course, but this is just an off the cuff musing. I miss whiteboarding sessions, and I feel like the lc grind does a disservice to both sides of the hiring table in a lot of cases. Sure, “what’s a better alternative at scale” comes to mind, but I’ll digress lol
by slowking2 | 2025-12-26 06:15:44+00:00
Although it's possible for someone with type 1 to have an A1C below 6%, it's very difficult. I've known a few people like that, and they are all super users. It's also going to depend somewhat on the lab running the A1C test, personal biology (A1c is not only affected by blood glucose levels) etc. 6-6.5% is superb control! Parent should be very proud. 6.5-7% is still very good, I haven't looked at the distribution of A1c's for T1D recently, but that would be much better than median which I think is above 8%.

Especially with kids, it's difficult since you don't control how much they decide to eat making pre-bolusing meals challenging (part of why reducing carbs tends to be helpful for people is it reduces the need to pre-bolus and makes it less risky since you need less up front meal insulin).
by jjtheblunt | 2025-12-26 06:17:17+00:00
Hard disagree : try the UTM app on the App Store (or build it from open source) and you get Apple Silicon native virtualization and super simple installation of Aarch64 linuxes from an iso.

i've been doing this for maybe a year, after frustration with power draw and sleep modes (and dual boot) with Asahi.

it's been great...and Apple silicon is still super efficient, which is why i said hard disagree.
by vidyesh | 2025-12-26 06:17:49+00:00
I don't think the article wants to belittle their work. The format isn't wrong, but the way the content is structured is troubling; it is to cater to the algorithm by tapping into the parts of our brain that are not meant to be stimulated all the time.

Any form of media isn't bad as long as it's analytical, i.e., one that forces you not just to be an observer all the time. Most content on such platforms is designed to keep your brain constantly stimulated so you never shift your attention to think. The stimulation and the dopamine hits just keep you hooked to it. They give little time for contemplation, encouraging passive consumption.

When consuming long‑form content in any format, you get bored or drift just enough to think your own thoughts as you consume. But when consuming short‑form content, you are forced not to think unless you choose to pause; if you get distracted, you might think you missed something, which you don't want to do.

Information‑dense content is not good in any way, whether academic or entertainment. It doesn't leave you with any time to think on your own, discuss with yourself or the creator, dismiss some faulty thoughts, and eventually form an opinion of your own that you want to discuss with someone, somewhere.

That being said, not everything has to be long form content. Short content can provide concise information where needed, also serve as a gateway to deeper exploration, if the viewer follows up. I am not sure how that can be encouraged as most do not choose to do, as they are drowned with it and never get time to explore deeper into topics they want to.
by biztos | 2025-12-26 06:19:34+00:00
Great idea!

Although I have "known" how to drive for a long time, I didn't get my formal license until much later in life than most people, for similar reasons to yours.

Now that I have it, I kick myself for not doing this earlier, but as they say: the best time was ten years ago, the second-best time is now.

Owing to the city life I often go up to six months without driving anywhere, but when I finally get out on the road again it feels great. Country driving is amazing, in any country where people drive safely. It's even pretty nice where they don't. City driving still stresses me out, but I'm determined to get better at it.

Good luck! If you find yourself having trouble getting the license in Singapore, there are other countries where you could get a license more easily, and with that license you could drive in third countries.
by LouisSayers | 2025-12-26 06:23:51+00:00
Stock trading can be quite lucrative if it's a good match. Have a look at Qullamaggie on YouTube.

> Edit, I say this as someone that has been learning to trade the last 6 months. To be completely transparent I've actually overall lost money doing this, but have also brought my account back up from having halved to almost break even a couple times now and can definitely see the possibility of doing very well. If I was better at following instructions I would 100% be profitable. The YouTuber I mentioned doesn't sell any courses.
by imron | 2025-12-26 06:24:11+00:00
> I have learned how to use Claude Code effectively

This is step 3 of “draw the rest of the owl” :-)

> the most reasonable advice is to just keep going and try different kind of things.

This is where I’ve been at for a while now. Every couple of months I try again with latest models and latest techniques I hear people talking about but there’s very little concrete info there that works for me.

Then I wonder if it’s just my spend? I don’t mind spending $30/month to experiment but I’m not going to drop $300/month unless I can see evidence that it’ll be worth it, which I haven’t really seen, but maybe there’s a dependency and you don’t get the result without increased spend?

Some posts I’ve seen claim spending of $1,500/month, which would be worth it if it could increase productivity enough, but there’s very few specifics on workflows and results.
by Richardc-5 | 2025-12-26 06:25:36+00:00
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by ronsor | 2025-12-26 06:26:20+00:00
> believes that AI training data is built on the theft of people's labor

I mean, this is an ideological point. It's not based in reason, won't be changed by reason, and is really only a signal to end the engagement with the other party. There's no way to address the point other than agreeing with them, which doesn't make for much of a debate.

> an 1800s plantation owner saying "can you imagine trying to explain to someone 100 years from now we tried to stop slavery because of civil rights"

I understand this is just an analogy, but for others: people who genuinely compare AI training data to slavery will have their opinions discarded immediately.
by biztos | 2025-12-26 06:26:41+00:00
Tech:

1. Rust, I quite like it but I still need AI assistance.

2. Desktop app dev, I'm making one in Tauri and love it, now I want to "go native."

3. Lower-level AI stuff, so far everything has been with APIs, and while that's great it feels a little too abstract.

4. Leetcode pattern matching. (Grumble grumble, but when job-hunting in Rome...)

Differently tech:

5. City driving. Thanks @kenrick95 for reminding me!

6. Color grading, and video editing in general.

7. The Thai language (speaking and reading).

8. Writing for the public.
by refulgentis | 2025-12-26 06:29:44+00:00
I appreciate a good debate. However, this won’t fit in one. It is tasteless, offensive, and stupid to compare storing the result of HTTP GET without paying someone to slavery in the 1800s. Full stop.

Anyone tempted to double down on this: sure, maybe, someday it’s like The Matrix or whatever. I was 12 when it came out & understood that was a fictional extreme. You do too. And you stumbled into a better analogy than slavery in 1800s.
by volk45 | 2025-12-26 06:30:47+00:00
Scheduled for Fire 1 (basic Fire academy) in 2026. Looking forward to developing basic fire fighting skills and strengthen my knowledge in this new volunteer undertaking I started in mid 2025.

As for tech skills in 2026, I’d love to develop a photogrammetry pipeline mixing shoulder mounted SLAM scanner, DSLR terrestrial photography, and aerial LiDAR data sets. I’m lucky to have access to these data sets, just gotta put the pieces together.

I’m already familiar with UAS (unmanned aerial systems) photogrammetry and mixing that with terrestrial photos for high detail models. Aerial Lidar and SLAM datasets are something new I’ve been working with over the past 6 months.
by zem | 2025-12-26 06:31:02+00:00
for lotr in particular my last reread was slower paced because I kept this map[0] open and paused frequently to refer to it and see where everyone was. it was super enjoyable, I have literally read the book dozens of times before that and have never gotten so good a sense of the world's geography and the difficulty of various journeys.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/tolkienfans/comments/100n0y/maybe_t...
by merelythere | 2025-12-26 06:31:40+00:00
Had the same feeling a while ago, I called it the teleportation effect. From the moment you reduce the time needed to go somewhere, you alter the experience to a point that it's not recognizable. Not to say that it's not nice to see the mountain from the sky for one hour but it is an other thing to go through them.

Something to break the teleportation is obviously to make breaks and enjoy where you are (a lake not too far on the road, any viewpoint...). Plan in advance, have a tent, be ready to not reach your target in one day and you will enjoy a much better a road trip than a train, a plane or even the highway.
by mmooss | 2025-12-26 06:32:00+00:00
Rob Pike is not a 'Googler' by birth or fame or identity. He was at Bell Labs and was on the team that created Unix, led the team creating Plan 9, co-created UTF-8, and did a bunch more - all long before Google existed. He was a legend before he deigned to join them and lend them his credibility.
Show HN: AI Accel,Tension-based pruning framework(40% sparsity, 1.5-2x speedups)
by wwes369 | 2025-12-26 06:32:05+00:00
I built a PyTorch framework that achieves ~40% effective parameter reduction with 1.58x training and 2.05x inference speedups on mid-sized models—while keeping accuracy almost intact.Key ideas: Dynamic tension thresholds aggressively prune low-importance weights (with rollback for stability)
Vibration-based deferral skips low-signal computations
Entropy scheduling + sparse conversion for hardware gains

It's a drop-in replacement for nn.Linear (CurvatureTuner) and works out-of-the-box on MLPs. Planning Transformer tests next.Benchmark on ~400k param MLP (synthetic data, 5 epochs): Baseline: Train 2.45s / Inf 0.0045s
Enhanced: Eff params ~281k (40% reduction) / Train 1.55s (1.58x) / Inf 0.0022s (2.05x)

Repo (MIT): https://github.com/wwes4/AI_Accel_1.5x Feedback, forks, and real-dataset tests very welcome! Inspired by unconventional efficiency ideas.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-26 06:32:09+00:00
> TypeScript exists?

TypeScript is JavaScript with a moderate improvement to one of its many flaws. An actual solution would look like choosing/developing a decent modern scripting language and getting the web standards people to add it to browsers and have access to the DOM, which would in turn cause that to be the first language novices learn and temper the undesirably common practice of people using JavaScript on the back end because it's what they know.

> Rust is "something which is easy enough for ordinary people to use that it could plausibly displace [C/C++] but has a better security posture"

It's kind of the opposite of that. It's something that imposes strict constraints which enables professional programmers to improve the correctness of their software without sacrificing performance. But it does that by getting in your way on purpose. It's not an easy thing if you're new. And there's a place for that, but it's an entirely different thing.

The problem with WordPress isn't that it's designed for performance over security. It's not fast, and a replacement with a better design could easily improve performance while doing significantly more validation. And it's full of low-hanging fruit in terms of just removing a lot of the legacy footguns.

> So now that all that effort has been expended in producing Rust, you want to just... forgo applying the solution and redirect that effort to working on solutions to other problems?

In general when you come up with some new construction methods that are better able to withstand earthquakes, you apply them whenever you build a new building, and maybe to some specific buildings that are especially important or susceptible to the problem, but it's not worth it to raze every building in the city just to build them again with the new thing. After all, what happens when you get the new new thing? Start all over again, again?
by neilv | 2025-12-26 06:34:43+00:00
Maybe you could organize a lot of big-sounding names in computing (names that look major to people not in the field, such as winners of top awards) to speak out against the various rampant and accelerating baggery of our field.

But the culture of our field right is in such a state that you won't influence many of the people in the field itself.

And so much economic power is behind the baggery now, that citizens outside the field won't be able to influence the field much. (Not even with consumer choice, when companies have been forcing tech baggery upon everyone for many years.)

So, if you can't influence direction through the people doing it, nor through public sentiment of the other people, then I guess you want to influence public policy.

One of the countries whose policy you'd most want to influence doesn't seem like it can be influenced positively right now.

But other countries can still do things like enforce IP rights on data used for ML training, hold parties liable for behavior they "delegate to AI", mostly eliminate personal surveillance, etc.

(And I wonder whether more good policy may suddenly be possible than in the past? Given that the trading partner most invested in tech baggery is not only recently making itself a much less desirable partner, but also demonstrating that the tech industry baggery facilitates a country self-destructing?)
by ipaddr | 2025-12-26 06:35:01+00:00
Interesting ideas. The bridge from what he built to what you suggest is far. The free outlook plugin sounds like a good onboarding vector but who downloads outlook plugins? Not the type of person in a medium/large company who is using 360 and/or has IT manage software like outlook.

You are on step 49. Being able to sell hostile image data requires a volume. The free plugin is local so is the plan to sell corporate data?

Investing in a software patent without the ability to enforce is a waste of money.

I think he might be better off making this into a wordpress plugin before going to outlook.
by vlovich123 | 2025-12-26 06:35:30+00:00
First, let me say that I really respect the work you’re doing in fil-c. Nothing I say is intended as a knock and you’re doing fantastic engineering work moving the field forward and I hope you find success.

That’s good to know about nasal demons. Are you saying you somehow inhibit the optimizer from injecting a security vulnerability due to UB ala https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1897 ? I’m kinda curious how you trick LLVM into not optimizing through UB since it’s UB model is so tuned to the C/C++ standard.

Anyway, Fil-C is only currently working on (a lot of, but not all yet I think right?) Linux userspace while C and C++ as a standard language definition span a lot more environments. I agree the website should call out Fil-C as memory safe but I think it’s also fair to say that Fil-C is more an independent dialect of C/C++ (eg you do have to patch some existing software) - IMHO it’s too confusing for communicating out to say that C/C++ is memory safe and I’d rather it say something like Fil-C is memory safe or C/C++ code running under Fil-C is memory safe.

> Memory safety is a property of language implementations, which is all about what happens when the programmer does not follow the rules.

By this argument no language is memory safe because every language has bugs that can result in memory safety issues. Certainly rustc definitely has soundness issues that haven’t been fixed and I believe this is also true of Python, JavaScript, etc but I think it’s an unhelpful bar or framing of the problem. The language itself is memory safe and any safety issues within the language spec or implementation are a bug to be fixed. That isn’t true of C/C++ where there’s going to always exist environments where it’s impossible to even have a memory safe implementation (eg microcontrollers) let alone mandate one in the spec. And also fil-C does have a performance impact so some software may not ever be a good fit for it (eg video encoders/decoders). For example, a non memory safe conforming implementation of JavaScript is not possible. Same goes for safe rust, Python or Java. By comparison that isn’t true for c/c++.
by colordrops | 2025-12-26 06:36:53+00:00
I've got a relatively new p16s with a hybrid Nvidia/Intel GPU, and a p14s gen 5 with an AMD GPU, and I was able to get both of them to suspend by closing the lid. Not sure if the issue you speak of is unique to the P1 or not, but all my ThinkPads have been decent with Linux.
by why-o-why | 2025-12-26 06:39:39+00:00
>> a considerable chunk of the market — including three of the six most popular VPNs — is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that country’s national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and Duvdevan Units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).”

What are those VPNs? Asking for a friend...
by tordrt | 2025-12-26 06:41:11+00:00
I might have experienced one of these deadly bugs, although I got way to high measurements, not too low.

I bought one of these monitors for fun, because I wanted to see how my blood sugar reacts to different foods. The freestyle libre 3 plus.

After wearing it for some time I woke up one morning to sky high blood sugar, talking 13+mmol/l. My manual measures showed around 4.9mmol/l.

The device was essentially not functioning anymore. I sent the company an email, filed out a report, returned the device and received a new one in the mail.
by baobun | 2025-12-26 06:43:20+00:00
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When trying to browse their profile:

This account has requested that users sign in to view their profile.

Meanwhile I can read other Bluesky posts without logging in. So yeah, I'd say it looks like robpike is explicitly asking for this content to not be public and that submitting a screenshot of this post is just a dick move.

If there was something controversial in a post that motivates public interest warranting "leaking" then sure, but this is not that.

He did share a public version of this on Mastodon, which I think would have been a much better submission.

https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/115782101216369455

IMO the current dramabait title "Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI" is not appropriate for either.
by sph | 2025-12-26 06:43:32+00:00
Honestly, I could do a lot worse than finding myself in agreement with Rob Pike.

Now feel free to dismiss him as a luddite, or a raving lunatic. The cat is out of the bag, everyone is drunk on the AI promise and like most things on the Internet, the middle way is vanishingly small, the rest is a scorched battlefield of increasingly entrenched factions. I guess I am fighting this one alongside one of the great minds of software engineering, who peaked when thinking hard was prized more than churning out low quality regurgitated code by the ton, whose work formed the pillars of the Internet now and forevermore submersed by spam.

Only for the true capitalist, the achievement of turning human ingenuity into yet another commodity to be mass-produced is a good thing.
by decide1000 | 2025-12-26 06:43:42+00:00
China and Europe (Mistral) show that models can be very good and much smaller then the current Chatgpt's/Claudes from this world. The US models are still the best, but for how long? And at what cost? It's great to work daily with Claude Code, but how realistic is it that they keep this lead.

This is a new tech where I don't see a big future role for US tech.
They blocked chips, so China built their own.
They blocked the machines (ASML) so China built their own.