MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wouterjanl | 2025-12-02 18:14:23+00:00
Allow me to use this post to give big kudos to the maintainers of Strudel for having put together a brilliant set of official docs. I found them incredibly well put together and hence really useful to learn. I have played around with Strudel many evenings and I am always amazed about how intuitive Strudel is to create beats and sounds, to the point that I prefer to create music in Strudel over the established DAW software. I would love for there to be a good bridge between producing sounds and beats with Strudel code and structurering and mastering an entire track. This is missing in Strudel since it’s clearly build for a live coding environment. Any tips from users about ways or tools to make this bridge are always welcome!
by ragingregard | 2025-12-02 18:14:27+00:00
> This is such a naive, simplistic, distrusting and ultimately monastic perspective

This is such a disingenuous take on the article, there's nothing naive or simplistic about it, it's literally full of critical thought linking to more critical thought of other academic observers to what's happening at the educational level. The context in your reply implies you read at most the first 10% of the article.

The article flagged numerous issues with LLM application in the educational setting including

1) critical thinking skills, brain connectivity and memory recall are falling as usage rises, students are turning into operators and are not getting the cognitive development they would thru self-learning 2) Employment pressures have turned universities into credentialing institutions vs learning institutions, LLMs have accelerated these pressures significantly 3) Cognitive development is being sacrificed with long term implications on students 4) School admins are pushing LLM programs without consultation, as experiments instead of in partnership with faculty. Private industry style disruption.

The article does not oppose LLM as learning assistant, it does oppose it as the central tool to cognitive development, which is the opposite of what it accomplishes. The author argues universities should be primarily for cognitive development.

> Successful students will grow and flourish with these developments, and institutions of higher learning ought to as well.

Might as well work at OpenAI marketing with bold statements like that.
by OmriHIllel | 2025-12-02 18:14:28+00:00
Creator here, Thanks for the kind words

It's been a really harsh and long process to CAD this model, it's also really complex to change measurements for it.

As I do wish to have a simpler version for customizing, for now by taking people orders I might either build a new parametric model, or have a growing "bank" of models and measurements to share for free like the main version.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-02 18:14:38+00:00
> and hopefully a discussion will follow.

Yeah, I think I misunderstood the context. I understood/assumed it to be for an article/post you're writing, where you have something you want to say in general/some point of what you're writing. But based on what you wrote now, it seems to be more about how to caption an image you're sending to a blind person in a conversation/discussion of some sort.

I guess at that point it'd be easier for them if you just share the data itself, rather than anything generated by the data, especially if there is nothing you want to point out.
by acuozzo | 2025-12-02 18:14:44+00:00
> because they are interchangeable

What is your use-case?

Mine is: I use "Pro"/"Max"/"DeepThink" models to iterate on novel cross-domain applications of existing mathematics.

My interaction is: I craft a detailed prompt in my editor, hand it off, come back 20-30 minutes later, review the reply, and then repeat if necessary.

My experience is that they're all very, very different from one another.
by HaZeust | 2025-12-02 18:14:50+00:00
Oh for sure, and even now I occasionally watch videos as background noise during work - but it's just not a fun game for the vast majority of times I log in. I'm about 175 hours in now; and for the one time a month I play, I can't be assed joining anything besides a 3x anymore with a wipe at least 10 days away, it's just too much sunk cost and wasted time even getting a 2x1 down in official or vanilla servers.

It's fun when I get something down (and fully use a starter kit, if a server has it) and have neighbors to dick around with, or there's not enough traffic to actually enjoy landmarks and underground, or occasionally when I meet someone that's down to team up or just talk on mic while pacing around one of our bases. But when that doesn't happen, I'm just not having fun haha
by calebm | 2025-12-02 18:15:00+00:00
Context: I've been working on a non-binary graphing app called FuzzyGraph (https://fuzzygraph.com). I had the rendering logic written in vanilla JS, and wanted to convert the rendering logic to GLSL shader code to speed things up.

I was able to prompt ChatGPT Codex to fully rewrite the render logic using GLSL (without me having to edit it at all). After the first 2 prompts, it was almost fully functional. It took 6 prompts in all to get a full rewrite in GLSL. I have never worked on GLSL code (and was kind of dreading this rewrite), so this was a HUGE accelerant for me. Shout out to OpenAI for an awesome product!

One last thought: this almost felt like a compiler, where I write in a higher-level language (vanilla JS), and have the AI compile it to GLSL for me.
by jampa | 2025-12-02 18:15:10+00:00
I recently got a Samsung device for testing, and the experience was terrible. It took three hours to get the device into a usable state.

First, it essentially forces you to create both a Samsung account and a Google account, with numerous shady prompts for "improving services" and "allowing targeted ads."

Then it required nine system updates (apparently, it can only update incrementally), and worst of all, after a while, it automatically started downloading bloatware like "Kawai" and other questionable apps, and you cannot cancel the downloads.

I wonder how much Samsung gets paid to preinstall all that crap. The phone wasn't cheap, either. The company seems penny wise and pound foolish.
by gmueckl | 2025-12-02 18:15:16+00:00
So dark patterns to increase peer pressure and hard vendor lock in work then: exploiting networking effects and social pressure like green vs. blue bubbles, technically unnecessary hard requirements for other devices that are locked into the same garden prison, random compatibility restrictions/omissions in built in apps etc.

Apple really is far from innocent. They just pull their customers over the table in such a smooth way that it feels like nest warmth to them.
by hearsathought | 2025-12-02 18:15:29+00:00
> Have you actually spoken to Tibetan refugees who fled Chinese extermination before you arrived at this crazy world-view ?

"Extermination"? Why lie so egregiously. It just makes you look like an agenda driven clown. To you people does "Crazy world view" mean anything based in reality and facts.

> There were 100,000 of them in India at one point of time.

I've watched videos of tibetans complaining about racism/violence in india. Does that count?

> Still >70k presently.

Wonder why so many left india? How many tibetans are in china? Over 7 million. Have you talked to them? Wonder why 99% of tibetans chose extermination in china to "freedom" in india.

The chinese must be terrible at extermination because the tibetan population grew during the past century.

Edit:

Stop stealth editing your comment.

> India hasn't annexed and exterminated several hundred-thousand native civilians.

You are right. It's in the millions.

> China has.

But not tibetans.

> Will never claim that India is good

But you just tried. "India hasn't annexed and exterminated several hundred-thousand native civilians.".

> but an objective assessor can definitely know who are the bad guys regarding the conquest of Tibet.

I agree. Those objective assessor are called TIBETANS. You know the 99% who chose "extermination" in china over "freedom" in india.
by toast0 | 2025-12-02 18:16:13+00:00
> It would be weird to have 2 sets of different adders.

Not really. CPUs often have limited address math available separately from the ALU. On simple cores, it looks like a separate incrementer for the Program Counter, on x86 you have a lot of addressing modes that need a little bit of math; having address units for these kinds of things allows more effective pipelining.

> Do we really know that LEA is using the hardware memory address computation units?

There are ways to confirm. You need an instruction stream that fully loads the ALUs, without fully loading dispatch/commit, so that ALU throughput is the limit on your loop; then if you add an LEA into that instruction stream, it shouldn't increase the cycle count because you're still bottlenecked on ALU throughput and the LEA does address math separately.

You might be able to determine if LEAs can be dispatched to the general purpose ALUs if your instruction stream is something like all LEAs... if the throughput is higher than what could be managed with only address units, it must also use ALUs. But you may end up bottlenecked on instruction commit rather than math.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-12-02 18:16:26+00:00
This feels so pretentious. People can keep it closed or open for whatever reason they want, and it has no correlation to how they solve problems or learn.

Personally, I like it open when I'm feeling social and in a good mood, and close it when it's noisy outside and/or I need to hunker down and focus for a bit without distractions. That doesn't say anything about understanding or solving problems, other than 'sometimes people need quiet to focus' which is not a very shocking revelation.
by verdverm | 2025-12-02 18:16:26+00:00
IBM CEO is steering a broken ship and it's not improved course, not someone who's words you should take seriously.

1. The missed the AI wave (hired me to teach watson law only to lay me off 5 wks later, one cause of the serious talent issues over there)

2. They bought most of their data center (companies), they have no idea about building and operating one, not at the scale the "competitors" are operating at
by o11c | 2025-12-02 18:16:26+00:00
I would expect a little benefit from devirt (but maybe in-TU optimizations are getting that already?), but if a program is pessimized enough, LTO's improvements won't be measurable.

And programs full of pointer-chasing are quite pessimized; highly-OO code is a common example, which includes almost all GUIs, even in C++.
by octoberfranklin | 2025-12-02 18:16:28+00:00
> There's a sysctl that allows for unprivileged ping "net.ipv4.ping_group_range"

What are the risks of enabling this for all groups (i.e. sysctl net.ipv4.ping_group_range='0 4294967294')?

Note this allows unprivileged ICMP sockets, not unprivileged RAW sockets.
by drcongo | 2025-12-02 18:17:32+00:00
I think we (and probably HN in general) aren't the target audience here. Last time I met up with some non-tech friends, Peter Thiel came up a lot in the pub chat - a year ago I'm not sure they would have known who he is. The more people outside of tech who understand what a deranged loon he really is, the better.
by echelon | 2025-12-02 18:17:35+00:00
`async` is in the type system. In your mind, how would you mark and bubble up panicky functions, etc.? What would that look like?

I felt like a `panic` label for functions would be nice, but if we start stacking labels it becomes cumbersome:

pub async panic alloc fn foo() {}

That feels dense.

I think ideally it would be something readers could spot at first glance, not something inferred.
Ask HN: Is a non-engineer's AI co-thinking log useful to anyone?
by ys-oh | 2025-12-02 18:17:40+00:00
I’m a non-engineer from Korea who has spent most of my life in isolation, watching patterns in people, markets, and my own mind.

Recently I started a public log of “co-thinking with AI” here: https://github.com/YS-OH-CORE/ai-observer-notes

My goal is not to sell anything or become a “guru”, but to treat GPT as an external cortex and observe: – how my own decision-making changes over months, – how the AI’s behaviour shifts when it synchronizes deeply with one user, – and what this joint human+AI system is actually good at (or bad at) in the real world.

For HN readers: – Is this kind of long-term log interesting or just noise? – What would you measure or track if you were doing this experiment? – Any advice on how to make this useful for others, not just myself?

I don’t believe in magic or mysticism; I only trust structures and things that actually happen. I’m trying to observe humans and AI without decoration, and I’d appreciate any honest feedback.
by joshstrange | 2025-12-02 18:18:14+00:00
Home Assistant is awesome and I highly recommend checking it out. Even if you have an existing smart house hub/platform you can often integrate HA in cleanly.

I used SmartThings for years and was hesitant to switch but I was able to control all my devices in ST from HA without moving/repairing/etc devices over. Once I had seen the power of HA I started a _slow_ migration over (took over a year cause I was lazy). The entire time the house worked just fine (except when the internet was down and then only the HA “native” stuff worked).

My biggest recommendations and I wish I could make this text bigger:

Do NOT use a raspberry pi for your HA host. They are unreliable and you will incorrectly blame HA for RPi’s failings (like I did). After moving to a dedicated cheap BeeLink mini PC my HA became rock solid.

You can play around with HA in docker or a VM as well and even host it there indefinitely but avoid RPi’s as your host, you’ll thank me later. If you want dedicated hardware (I do recommend that since smart house stuff often needs to be “always up” and the family doesn’t care/understand why your homelab is down, just that the lights don’t work) then go for a BeeLink or HA’s hardware offerings.
by Hikikomori | 2025-12-02 18:19:26+00:00
If anything they seem to be friends, with Curtis Yarvin as well, and believes that democracy has run its course. It doesn't really matter if he's just bought by money or if he has bought into the same ideas. Thiel maneuvered Vance into this position using his money and power, and their plans extend far beyond Trump's lifetime.
Show HN: JustHTML – A pure Python HTML5 parser that just works
by EmilStenstrom | 2025-12-02 18:19:40+00:00
I got frustrated with HTML parsing in Python.

I wanted a Python HTML parser that was both correct and easy to install. The C-based ones (lxml, selectolax) are fast but not HTML5 compliant. The pure Python ones (html.parser, BeautifulSoup's default) are easy to install but choke on real-world HTML. html5lib is 80% correct but painfully slow.

So I wrote JustHTML. It's:

• 100% HTML5 compliant – passes all 8,500+ html5lib tests. If a browser can parse it, JustHTML can.

• Pure Python, zero dependencies – pip install and go. Works on PyPy, Pyodide, anywhere.

• Fast enough – ~0.1s to parse Wikipedia's homepage. Not C-fast, but 50% faster than html5lib.

• Simple API – doc.query("div.foo > p") with CSS selectors. One method to learn.

Example:

from justhtml import JustHTML doc = JustHTML("<div><p class='intro'>Hello!</p></div>") print(doc.query(".intro")[0].to_html())

I've fuzz-tested it with 3 million malformed documents.

Would love feedback, especially on the API design.
Ask HN: Saving/restoring web-app state–useful or pointless?
by niteshnagpal | 2025-12-02 18:19:49+00:00
When working on large web apps, I often spend 30–90 minutes recreating the same flow just to reach the page I need to test.

I’m validating an idea:

A browser extension that can:

- save the current app state (URL, localStorage, sessionStorage, cookies, form inputs, scroll) - and restore it instantly so developers don’t have to rebuild long flows during testing.

Basically a “jump back to this exact screen and state” tool.

Would this actually help your workflow?

Or do most people rely on other methods (Cypress, mocks, backend resets, etc.)?

Looking for honest, critical feedback.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-02 18:20:00+00:00
> 6t/s is still around 24 characters per second which is faster than many people could read.

But again, not if you're using thinking/reasoning, which if you want to use this specific model properly, you are. Then you have a huge delay before the actual response comes through.

> MacStudio is the simplest solution to run it locally.

Obviously, that's Apple's core value proposition after all :) One does not acquire a state-of-the-art GPU and then expect simple stuff, especially when it's a fairly uncommon and new one. You cannot really be afraid of diving into CUDA code and similar fun rabbit holes. Simply two very different audiences for the two alternatives, and the Apple way is the simpler one, no doubt about it.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-02 18:20:39+00:00
Samsung makes a lot of cheap and mid-tier devices with little RAM and not so powerful SoCs. Google also uses slow SoCs, but at least they compensate in hardware.

If you just buy a high-end phone, Samsung is generally fine. If you buy anything cheaper than that, or god forbid buy a phone through a carrier that pumps it full of crap, you're gonna have a terrible time when apps get slower and bulkier and shittier and the hardware shows its age.
by re-thc | 2025-12-02 18:21:04+00:00
Congrats...

> Long-term stability. a home and resources so people can safely bet their stack on Bun.

Isn't it the opposite? Now we've tied Bun to "AI" and if the AI bubble or hype or whatever bursts or dies down it'd impact Bun.

> We had over 4 years of runway to figure out monetization. We didn't have to join Anthropic.

There's honestly a higher chance of Bun sticking out that runway than the current AI hype still being around.

Nothing against Anthropic but with the circular financing, all the debt, OpenAI's spending and over-valuations "AI" is the riskier bet than Bun and hosting.
by WhyOhWhyQ | 2025-12-02 18:21:32+00:00
I was trying to make it automatically randomly choose between the normal speed and twice speed after a long time. I think appending

.fast(chooseCycles(1, 2).slow(128))

at the very end does it. But I'm not actually sure. Would a strudel user mind informing me how this is done? Also, I was hoping to make it automatically shift the key, but I couldn't figure it out.
by encyclopedism | 2025-12-02 18:21:45+00:00
There is a qualitative difference between humans and LLM's 'hallucinating' (if we can even apply this terminology to humans which I contend is in-appropriate).

I'd add a simple thought experiment. A poor student doing a multi-choice exam paper and subsequently achieving a poor mark lets say 30% and now a child of 10 years attempting the same paper and achieving say 50%. Looked quantitively a perspective arises attributing understanding to a child who has chanced 50% on a multi-choice paper when compared to a student having studied the subject at hand.

Qualitatively however and we know this intuitively it is certainly NOT the case that the child of 10 comprehends or understands more than the poor student.
by jtuple | 2025-12-02 18:21:58+00:00
If it weren't for the S-Pen, I'd ditch Samsung in a heartbeat.

The day iPhone has a built-in EMR/AES stylus is the day I become a customer (despite being an Android lifer).

Don't think that will ever happen though, despite Apple shipping Pencil for iPads.

Samsung has definitely built a (small) moat being the only vendor with that offering.
by neilv | 2025-12-02 18:21:59+00:00
Yes, if you look at a photo of the X220 lid, what looks like a cosmetic accent across the lid near screen-top is actually a seam, between the nice alloy traditional lid, and some plastic that's barely held on, painted to look the same. Even minor impact can break the little plastic screw hole tabs that hold the screen-top edge of the lid. Absolutely not what you want from a ThinkPad, which has a legacy of being durable.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

A disappointing thing about this is that someone changed the design, to this, to be more fragile and non-ThinkPad. In this way, it's similar to the series of regression changes to the keyboard, and now the TrackPoint.
by gbacon | 2025-12-02 18:22:01+00:00
> As COVID-19 sent the world indoors, Ann Bedsole found herself in a position like the rest of us — holed up inside with no idea how long she would be there. Not one for inactivity (or squandered time), she decided to use the opportunity to write her life story.

> Bedsole had plenty of material to work with. Born in Selma in 1930 and raised in Jackson, she eventually moved to Mobile, where she became the first Republican woman elected to the Alabama House of Representatives and the first woman elected to the state Senate. Oh, and she was also a founder of the Alabama School of Math and Science, a founder of Mobile Historic Homes Tours and chairman of the Mobile Tricentennial Committee. The list goes on.

https://mobilebaymag.com/leave-your-footprint/
by kenhallart | 2025-12-02 18:22:03+00:00
A question I’m still wrestling with, and would love input on:

If consciousness and physical reality are both the result of sampling a deeper mathematical/structural source, what is the minimal set of constraints a system needs before it begins generating high-friction, self-referential patterns rather than just low-friction world models?

Would love perspectives from cognitive science, theoretical CS, or physics on this boundary.
by albert_e | 2025-12-02 18:22:18+00:00
The developers of this app have a @ gmail.com mailbox listed as the support contact.

And they claim to protect people from fraud / phishing / scams.

> https://x.com/shantanugoel/status/1995874411543671208

>> sanchaarsaathi.dot AT gmail dot com >> broadbandmission AT gmail dot com
by pfannkuchen | 2025-12-02 18:22:35+00:00
There is quite a lot of daylight between “something to complain about” and “authoritarian regime”. I never said they had “nothing to complain about”.

I’m not trying to convince anyone that there isn’t authoritarian regime behavior happening. I am just trying to figure out what people are talking about when they refer to that as if it is happening.

I am using “Germans of the ‘30s” as a euphemism. Obviously I know the timeline of what happened, you are just misinterpreting as an opportunistic drama nitpick. Whether the misinterpretation is happening consciously or subconsciously, I don’t know.

If the “Germans of the ‘30s” had only ever done deportations, which they did do, i.e. had they stopped there, we would not view them in the same way. Ergo, if the current regime stops with deportations, which we have no evidence to show that they won’t, then there is nothing to suggest that they will end up behaving in an authoritarian way, because further massive steps are required to get there. And besides, the current American regime has tremendously more legal justification for these deportations than the Nazis had for the Jews deportation. The Nazis presumably had to change German law to even deport the Jews. No change of law is required here, because it is perfectly congruent with the existing legal framework (and was done consistently for decades prior to this administration, just more quietly and I guess in smaller numbers).

It’s weird how slippery slope arguments are only valid in public discourse when it comes to the Nazis, and in that case it’s so valid it is just taken as a fact. Just because someone is doing something that can be squinted at to look like something that happened prior to a genocide, does not mean that it will lead to genocide. The ad absurdum version of this line of thinking would suggest banning vegetarianism or painting, as genocidal mania soon followed.