MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by p-e-w | 2025-12-19 09:23:40+00:00
It’s as if every researcher in this field is getting high on the small amount of power they have from denying others access to their results. I’ve never been as unimpressed by scientists as I have been in the past five years or so.

“We’ve created something so dangerous that we couldn’t possibly live with the moral burden of knowing that the wrong people (which are never us, of course) might get their hands on it, so with a heavy heart, we decided that we cannot just publish it.”

Meanwhile, anyone can hop on an online journal and for a nominal fee read articles describing how to genetically engineer deadly viruses, how to synthesize poisons, and all kinds of other stuff that is far more dangerous than what these LARPers have cooked up.
by PostOnce | 2025-12-19 09:24:04+00:00
It sure seems like it. That or delirious, misguided fans who want AI to succeed even though there would be no benefit in it for them if that were the case. They'd just be serfs again.

I watched a man struggle for 3 hours last night to "prove me wrong" that Gemini 3 Pro can convert a 3000 line C program to Python. It can't do it. It can't even do half of it, it can't understand why it can't, it's wrong about what failed, it can't fix it when you tell it what it did wrong, etc.

Of course, in the end, he had an 80 line Python file that didn't work, and if it did work, it's 80 lines, of course it can't do what the 3000 line C program is doing. So even if it had produced a working program, which it didn't, it would have produced a program that did not solve the problems it was asked to solve.

The AI can't even guess that it's 80 line output is probably wrong just based on the size of it, like a human instantly would.

AI doesn't work. It hasn't worked, and it very likely is not going to work. That's based on the empirical evidence and repeatable tests we are surrounded by.

The guy last night said that sentiment was copium, before he went on a 3 hour odyssey that ended in failure. It'll be sad to watch that play out in the economy at large.
by nnevatie | 2025-12-19 09:24:57+00:00
Do you think Intel names things poorly?

NVidia has these, very different GPUs:

Quadro 6000, Quadro RTX 6000, RTX A6000, RTX 6000 Ada, RTX 6000 Workstation Edition, RTX 6000 Max-Q Workstation Edition, RTX 6000 Server Edition
by nottorp | 2025-12-19 09:25:06+00:00
Meh.

Context: we're migrating to MS cloud services at work from Google so everyone is setting up accounts, authenticators etc. Pretty seamless migration overall btw, guess our admins worked like dogs.

So I post this screenshot in a work chat as a warning (that's why i still have it). All my Android using colleagues tell me "it's the same in the Play Store, watch what you click."
by mike_hearn | 2025-12-19 09:25:23+00:00
People who just refuse to pay on principle do exist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement

Sovereign citizens also don't agree that the US courts are legitimate, and you'll never guess what happens next:

https://www.cpr.org/2018/05/22/sovereign-citizen-bruce-douce...

He was "was sentenced to 38 years in prison". That's why most tax evaders try falsification rather than refusal.

> At the sentencing hearing in Denver District Court, Doucette fidgeted in his spinnable chair, while chained up in a green jumpsuit. He sat alone because he has insisted on representing himself in this case. Before the hearing, the judge asked him if it was OK to proceed and he said, “I do not consent and never have.”

Note the photo of him wearing handcuffs, surrounded by police.

All law is implemented through using violence or the threat of using it. You can't resolve that conundrum by claiming that holding a vote to tax rich people is somehow apart from using violence. It's just an abstraction over it.

These are basic facts, but a lot of people struggle to understand them because our society likes to pretend that there's nothing underneath the abstraction - that courts and rules is all there is. It helps them believe that if they vote to take other people's stuff, it's white and pure, that nobody is getting hurt. It's a "might makes right" argument pushed at every level of society, because it enables what you're doing here: claiming that "we" should be able to choose what is done with the fruits of other people's labour.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-12-19 09:26:15+00:00
Considering that Apple is moving away from Linux in the datacenter to its own devices, I'm not sure that's the case. The apple machines aren't available to the consumer (they're rack-mounted, dozens of chips per PCB board, custom-made machines) but they're much less power-hungry, just as fast (or more so), much cheaper for them to make rather than buy, and natively support their own ecosystem.

Some of the machine-designs that consumers are able to buy seem to have a marked resemblance to the feature-set that the datacenter people were clamouring for. Just saying...
by b112 | 2025-12-19 09:26:37+00:00
You seem to have missed the context in the post you replied to, and the original. I've said it several times, he said effectively "why am I looking at this woman", but countered with a complement to ensure his statement was not taken incorrectly. EG, he had no issue with the woman in film visually.

You should not be confused, for politeness is not a thing easily turned on and off. It is often automatic. Further, a film is shown to contemporary audiences, and those viewing, audiences of less sophisticated times with media, may find his comment rude otherwise.

Viewing another culture is difficult at best, but I find it more so when it's your culture yet shifted by time or location. An example being British vs US culture.

The statements are the same, but sometimes subtly the meaning not.

This chart is a good example:

https://tommccallum.medium.com/british-business-language-tra...

Peering into the past is much the same. The language seems the same, but what is conveyed is sometimes different.

I think you're really missing my point, and not really attempting to view this 60 year old film as I suggest culturally.

Regardless, the main point is... viewing the past needs to be taken without finger pointing.

I don't think there is much value responding beyond what I've said. You appear to be slicing concepts out of the whole, and responding to only those portions.

Regardless, have a good one.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-19 09:27:15+00:00
But that's the point of something like HTMX, though.

You draw a simple web page with very basic elements, tag them with an HTMX element, and let the client side javascript turn that into something that "does stuff".

I wrote a phone directory with find-as-you-type using Django (because it's what I had lying around) and HTMX (because I read somewhere that it was cool and fun and I should try it, and I bow easily to peer pressure), and then min.css to make it not look shit.

All totally vendored, just download the appropriate .js and .css file and check them into your source control.

When you type it hits an endpoint that returns a bit of HTML that contains a table, and swaps it into a div. The querying part and the drawing part is client-side and there's nothing stopping you passing a query string to the endpoint and getting just a bare table out.

Indeed there's nothing stopping you detecting if it's an HTMX request and only returning the fragment, or if it's "bare" returning a full valid page. You know what? I should do that, I'll log a feature request on my project for it.

I've gotten a little away from the original point.

You use HTMX on the client side, to turn a plain HTML page with no interactivity into something that will pull data from a backend and swap it into the DOM. If you want to return JSON and render that with yet another library you can, but you're probably already filling in the blanks in an HTML template as it is.
by bmn__ | 2025-12-19 09:27:17+00:00
> How has Jai introduce ideas if it’s not even released?

These are orthogonal concepts. Jai can or cannot introduce ideas, and Jai can or cannot be released. As of now, it is in fact so that Jai has introduced ideas, and has been released to a closed group of beta testers.

> How can we claim to know what it did “right” when only a few projects have been built in it?

To judge whether Jai did something right, in my opinion, it suffices to read the documentation and experience someone else programming second-hand and take advantage of its offerings, namely making programming less tedious, more enjoyable, more safe. It appears to me that you set the bar of usefulness or success too high for no good reason.
by rhdunn | 2025-12-19 09:28:11+00:00
We are still in the exploratory phase of what features are useful or not.

I could see describing images useful for blind or vision impaired people. Publishers often have a large back catalogue of documents where it is both impractical and too costly/time consuming to get all the images in those described with alt tags. This is one area where the publishers would be considering using AI.

Text-to-speech and speech recognition also fall under the category of AI and these have proven useful for blind/visually impaired people and for people with injuries that make it difficult to use a mouse and keyboard.

On the search side it would be interesting to see if running the user's query through an encoder and using that to help find the documents would help improve finding search results. This would work like current TF-IDF (Term Frequency, Inverse Document Frequency) techniques work.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-12-19 09:28:28+00:00
Yes, actually!

It's trivially easy to improve most aluminum alloys, especially in the 7000-series, with the addition of a little bit of Zr and sometimes a bit of mischmetal or Ce/Er/whatever. We're talking on the order 0.1% Zr and 0.3% Er, so it's not expensive. You get way better strength, better fatigue performance, and at no penalty to ductility.

Why is this not more commonly done?!?!

Why does something like 7075 still exist, when 7068 is better in every way, and 7068+Er would be better still? Yet 7068 is not only uncommon, it's practically impossible to find.

I honestly don't get it.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-19 09:28:31+00:00
Obviously as with Minecraft this is just a game, and so however you enjoy it is fine, but I will say that conquering the resource needs is itself IMO a fun aspect of the game. In Bequest mode (the default, if you aren't aware of modes you're in Bequest mode) the game intentionally gets gradually easier

There are things that are just intentionally crazy hard, Day One Dare Mode is an example, lots of people had no idea that was even possible but it is and so somebody of course did it. But Bequest mode over a period of interactions is supposed to be a fun normal way to play this game and IMO is a lot of fun. Still, do whatever you enjoy.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-19 09:29:26+00:00
As someone said, minority languages do benefit from Wikipedia. Or sometimes.

The Broad Scots one was mangled by someone who couldn't even speak it and that made international news.

The Scottish Gaelic one got taken over by a German guy. It seems something similar has happened with Greenlandic. A learner from outside Greenland has taken it over, and by his own admission deleted vast numbers of articles.

Here is what they say: "When I became admin, there were around 1500 articles, most of them consisting only of a few words or completely unintelligible. I deleted most of them some years ago, so now there are only around 250 articles left, which more or less consist of some sentences, which seem to be written by Greenlanders."

I have no doubt that deleting hundreds of articles "of a few words" probably drove people away from the site. In fact, a native speaker of Greenlandic points out further down the discussion that important articles were being deleted and not just machine translated ones.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-12-19 09:29:28+00:00
No one is doing any kind of serious computing on 30 year old CPUs. But the point of the hobby isn’t turning on the computer and doing nothing with it. The hobby is putting together all the pieces you need to turn it on, turning it on and then doing nothing with it.

There’s an asymmetry in what the retro computing enthusiasts are asking for and the amount of effort they’re willing to put in. This niche hobby benefits from the free labour of open source maintaining support for their old architectures. If the maintainers propose dropping support because of the cost of maintenance the hobbyists rarely step up. Instead they make it seem like the maintainers are the bad guys doing a reprehensible thing.

You propose they get their hands dirty and cherry pick changes from newer kernels. But they don’t want to put in effort like that. And they might just feel happier that they’re using the “real” latest kernel.
by terrortib | 2025-12-19 09:29:54+00:00
I built a timesheet / activity report management app years ago.

In the French freelancing market, there’s a specific administrative hurdle: the Compte Rendu d’Activité (CRA). It’s a signed activity report that acts as the "source of truth" for billing. Most people use messy Excel sheets. I built Timizer to solve my own frustration with this workflow. What started as a side project for my friends eventually caught the eye of larger agencies. It’s now a nice $1k/month SaaS.

I recently translated the app in English so I can address larger markets, but I have no idea if this activity report is even a thing in foreign markets, like US, UK,...And if somebody has the answer here I would love to talk about it :)

My website is here : https://timizer.io
by jampekka | 2025-12-19 09:30:10+00:00
Nobel prizes in physics are awarded typically with lag of 20-30 years. In early 2000s China was still a relative backwater economically (and academically). In 2000 US R&D spending was over 8 times China's. Now China has likely surpassed USA. It surpassed EU already in about 2014.

Working in academia, the rise of China academically is palpable. There's an avalance of Chinese research published, and a reasonable chunk of it very high quality, and getting better.

https://www.statista.com/chart/20553/gross-domestic-expendit...

https://itif.org/publications/2025/06/30/china-outpacing-us-...
by Agraillo | 2025-12-19 09:30:29+00:00
> Modern LLMs suffer from hindsight contamination. GPT-5 knows how the story ends—WWI, the League's failure, the Spanish flu. This knowledge inevitably shapes responses, even when instructed to "forget.

> Our data comes from more than 20 open-source datasets of historical books and newspapers. ... We currently do not deduplicate the data. The reason is that if documents show up in multiple datasets, they also had greater circulation historically. By leaving these duplicates in the data, we expect the model will be more strongly influenced by documents of greater historical importance.

I found these claims contradictory. Many books that modern readers consider historically significant had only niche circulation at the time of publishing. A quick inquiry likely points to later works by Nietzsche and Marx's Das Kapital. They're possible subjects to the duplication likely influencing the model's responses as if they had been widely known at the time
by user34283 | 2025-12-19 09:31:17+00:00
AI works. This is evidenced by my side project which I spent some 50 hours on.

I'm not sure what your "empirical evidence and repeatable tests" is supposed to be. The AI not successfully converting a 3000 line C program to Python, in a test you probably designed to fail, doesn't strike me as particularly relevant.

Also, I suspect that AI could most likely guess that 80 lines of Python aren't correctly replicating 3000 lines of C, if you prompted it correctly.
by prennert | 2025-12-19 09:31:32+00:00
I would file this under blogspam, given the length of the article, the atrocious oversimplifying, highly compressed map and the number of ads.

If you are interested in the geology of Scotland, there are excellent books available, including "Land of Mountain and Flood: The Geology and Landforms of Scotland". I am sure good books about the Appalachians and the Atlas are available, too.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-12-19 09:32:06+00:00
I worked on some of the internal server hardware. Yes they do have their own boards. Apple used to be all-in on Linux, but the newer chips are far and away more power-efficient, and power is one of the (if not the) major cost of outfitting a datacenter, at least over time.

These machines are very much internal - you can cram a lot of M-series (to use the public nomenclature) chips onto a rack-sized PCB. I was never under the impression they were destined for anything other than Apple datacenters though...

As I mentioned above, it seems to me there's a couple of feature that appeared on the customer-facing designs that were inspired by what the datacenter people wanted on their own PCB boards.
by danhau | 2025-12-19 09:32:26+00:00
They are efficient FIFOs (queues). You‘ll find them in many places. I know them from multimedia / audio, where you often have unsynchronized readers and writers.

In the audio domain, the reader and weiter are usually allowed to trample over each other. If you‘ve ever gamed on a PC, you might have heard this. When a game freezes, sometimes you hear a short loop of audio playing until the game unfreezes. That‘s a ringbuffer whose writer has stopped, but the async reader is still reading the entire buffer.

Zig‘s “There are too many ring buffer implementations in the standard library“ might also be interesting:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/19231
by noosphr | 2025-12-19 09:34:08+00:00
The safest computer is a rock.

The point is that when you start using rust in the real world to get real work done a lot of the promises that were made about safety have to be dropped because you need to boot your computer before the heat death of the universe. The result will be that we end up with something about as safe as C is currently - because CPUs are fundamentally unsafe and we need them to work somehow.

Rust is from the universe in which micro kernels weren't a dead end and we could avoid all the drivers being written in C.
Ask HN: What open-source side projects are you working on in 2025?
by pratik227 | 2025-12-19 09:34:12+00:00
Curious to hear what open-source projects people here are building, why you started them, and if/how you’re sustaining them (donations, hosting, support, etc.).

Here is Mine

1. https://github.com/Buho-Ecosystem/Buho_go 2. https://github.com/pratik227/zap_dashboard

Links welcome.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-19 09:34:38+00:00
There would be very strong emphasis on financial superapps, I saw coffeezilla's recent video about how coinbase is expanding to stocks and other stuff too but they are also expanding to prediction markets themselves which are also eating away at gambling/basically are gambling apps itself

Coffeezilla (and me too right now) basically shout that its like a health app tried to give you junk food off the back alley basically

But I feel like these trends will continue to grow, I was partially interested in stablecoin markets and it seems that apps like paypal,venmo,cash app etc. would essentially just stand back as stablecoin and so there are chances that these financial superapps will do these too in the near future

There would be more emphasis on removing VPN's in countries. I feel like UK (and in extent other countries too) will have some influence on gatekeeping their populations from websites who dont comply to their arbitrary rules and VPN's being the last hope for many, I feel like a real crackdown on it is gonna come in 2026

I feel like centralization and extremism might continue slipping up in 2026 too perhaps. To me I just feel like we see things and this illusion that there are many players in any marketplace but it does feel like they are centralizing (some major tech apps, some major finance apps etc. which will influence a lot of average person's opinion) and we just saw something similar happen to dram prices which i also think wont really reduce even in 2026

I am seeing people fed up with centralization and big tech and more interested in homemade-alike solutions/created by normal people. Projects like clippy and others have made more people aware of such things and I think it will continue in 2026 when more people see this real "AI tax" of increasing prices of hardware

Centralized finance and decentralized finance (although I dont appreciate crypto) feel to me would kinda converge on stablecoins and then merge/already are merging and In my opinion the company with more ties to centralized finance could win. Tech and finance seem to me would have more coupling on a rate similar to 2025.

The AI bubble has chances of popping in 2026 but I am not sure about it but that being said, its a matter of when, not if in my opinion. But if AI bubble does pop, I feel like finance and tech would decouple most likely because it seems to me that if an offer as lucrative as "AGI" for the financial investors failed in their eyes, they would stray away from real tech businesses who make real life problems much easier but wont have the lure/lucrativeness if the bubble pops up

Else, we are gonna see the same thing where people will slap AI over anything to get funding. I do feel like if AI bubble pops then the companies who picked AI hype when there was no need might be shamed for it but It never really happened in the crypto space because those companies went straight to AI after crypto so I think we would need some time in between after AI bursting and another hype to give people some time to think what really happened and the scale of it if it does bursts.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-12-19 09:34:43+00:00
AWS is just used for storage, because it's cheaper than Apple maintaining it, itself. Apple do have storage-datacenter at their campus at least (I've walked around one, it's many many racks of SSD's) but almost all the public stuff is on AWS (wrapped up in encryption) AFAIK.

Apple datacenters are mainly compute, other than the storage you need to run the compute efficiently.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-12-19 09:35:10+00:00
> You and Greg are sorely mistaken.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has been a Linux kernel developer for 25 years, responsible for large parts of the kernel.

You’ve been a hacker news commenter for 1 day.

Could you pipe down with these wild claims that you know better than him?

Also, please don’t complain about downvotes. It’s tedious to read.
by bannana2033 | 2025-12-19 09:36:52+00:00
Average Joe or Joan will install some crap AI assisted browser if some idiot in Tiktok or FB says follow me and I will DM you a special link to get baby-clothes for -10% discount. Hope your family is not that. My spouse despite reading HN etc thinks that anyway privacy is lost - so why notget at least that 10% discount.

Another problem for Mozilla:

- If they don't pivot to AI people will leave it. Yes, some hardcore RMS fans will use some clone of Firefox - all others will not

- If they adopt modern AI people scream

- Same happened when Mozilla accepted DRM (for Netflix etc). Many tech writers, commentators were against that. But if Firefox did not adopt it then all those tech writers would have used Chrome to see Netflix. No one of these commentators say they will boycott Netflix.
by strickvl | 2025-12-19 09:37:57+00:00
Author here. I work at ZenML, where we maintain the LLMOps Database (https://www.zenml.io/llmops-database) — a collection of production LLM case studies we've been cataloguing for a while now. This post summarises patterns from the latest 400+ entries (database just crossed 1,200 total).

The findings that surprised me most:

- Context engineering has become a distinct discipline — teams are treating the million-token window as a ceiling to stay under, not a feature to exploit

- Software engineering skills matter more than AI expertise for production success (durable execution, distributed systems, infrastructure work)

- The "wait for the next model" strategy keeps not working — teams shipping today are constraining models, not unleashing them

There's also a shorter TL;DR version if you prefer: https://www.zenml.io/blog/the-experimentation-phase-is-over-...