MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ModernMech | 2025-12-23 03:58:44+00:00
> We’re talking about discretionary grants, where Congress gave the executive branch a bunch of money and said to spend it with some broadly defined purpose

Yeah, this is the hack that's being run right now. Indeed, the United States runs on norms to a large degree, and a small group of people have decided that if something isn't spelled out explicitly, that gives them untold unilateral power in the gray areas to do whatever they want because again, they've achieved a >50% margin in a single election, so therefore that makes them king for 4 years.

The norm that has worked out well for everyone for decades has been that we trust experts to run their own systems, because we understand that political interference from the government is suboptimal and leads to cronyism. Now, for some reason it's the conservatives who have a problem with this arrangement, and want to involve themselves to the point they are filtering by keywords what's allowed to be researched, big government at it's best.

So now, a system that took decades to build, which was the envy of the world in terms of research output, and which has been beneficial to US GDP and national security, is decimated in a few years time because a small group of people didn't like what they saw.

In this new Unitary Executive world, long-term research projects can only happen as long as Democrats have political control, because every time a Republican president comes into office they will shut down all research projects they don't like. I don't think it will work out well but we will see.

> The presidency and Congress are both majoritarian institutions.

But Congress cannot reliably affect a tyranny -- they're too fractious, they are reelected as a whole every 2 years, and their priorities are too local. Moreover, the minority actually has power in Congress, even if it's just power to block progress. This is why they are supposed to be invested with more power than the President.

> Republicans should run on stuff openly, then get what they want if they win.

They did and they have (Project 2025) which is why we got torture prisons, rampant bribery and corruption, and a complete power / money grab from the Oval Office on down. I actually love that this is happening because we finally get to see the Conservative political project come to fruition. Finally we can stop pretending it was about "maintaining US institutions" and "preserving the soul of the nation". They are finally saying "we will go to war for the oil" instead of pretending it was about defending freedom and liberty. It's a nice change of pace.

But anyway, I don't agree this is something that should happen. What you're proposing will just going to lead to political instability as subsequent administrations flip back and forth. In feedback control systems we call that a "divergence" and it usually precedes total system collapse.
by willis936 | 2025-12-23 03:59:14+00:00
It's already happened, people just haven't realized. iCE40-UP5K costs a few bucks, needs minimal support circuitry, and is supported by FOSS toolchains (yosys). Fun packages like the pico-ice bring it all the way down to the entry-level arduino crowd. It just doesn't have the marketing mindshare.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-23 03:59:40+00:00
> It's P2P as far as the physical layer (L1) is concerned.

Only in the sense that the L1 "peer" is the switch. As soon as the switch goes to forward the packet, if ports 2 and 3 are both sending to port 1 at 1Gbps and port 1 is a 1Gbps port, 2Gbps won't fit and something's got to give.
by sipjca | 2025-12-23 04:00:12+00:00
> It may be possible to run a "good enough" model on consumer hardware eventually

10-15 years?!!!! What is the definition of good enough? Qwen3 8B or A30B are quite capable models which run on a lot of hardware even today. SOTA is not just getting bigger, it's also getting more intelligence and running it more efficiently. There have been massive gains in intelligence at the smaller model sizes. It is just highly task dependent. Arguably some of these models are "good enough" already, and the level of intelligence and instruction following is much better from even 1 year ago. Sure not Opus 4.5 level, but still much could be done without that level of intelligence.
by epicureanideal | 2025-12-23 04:00:13+00:00
You may be correct, but I wonder if we'll see Mac Mini sized external AI boxes that do have the 1TB of RAM and other hardware for running local models.

Maybe 100% of computer users wouldn't have one, but maybe 10-20% of power users would, including programmers who want to keep their personal code out of the training set, and so on.

I would not be surprised though if some consumer application made it desirable for each individual, or each family, to have local AI compute.

It's interesting to note that everyone owns their own computer, even though a personal computer sits idle half the day, and many personal computers hardly ever run at 80% of their CPU capacity. So the inefficiency of owning a personal AI server may not be as much of a barrier as it would seem.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-12-23 04:01:41+00:00
Doesn't this lead to a lot of tension between the hardware makers and Microsoft?

MS wants everyone to run Copilot on their shiny new data centre, so they can collect the data on the way.

Laptop manufacturers are making laptops that can run an LLM locally, but there's no point in that unless there's a local LLM to run (and Windows won't have that because Copilot). Are they going to be pre-installing Llama on new laptops?

Are we going to see a new power user / normal user split? Where power users buy laptops with LLMs installed, that can run them, and normal folks buy something that can call Copilot?

Any ideas?
by neomantra | 2025-12-23 04:02:27+00:00
This is true for simple UDP, but reliable transports are often built over UDP.

As with anything in computing, there are trade-offs between the approaches. One example is QUIC now widespread in browsers.

MoldUDP64 is used by various exchanges (that's NASDAQ's name, others do something close). It's a simple UDP protocol with sequence numbers; works great on quality networks with well-tuned receivers (or FPGAs). This is an old-school blog article about the earlier MoldUDP:

https://www.fragmentationneeded.net/2012/01/dispatches-from-...

Another is Aeron.io, which is a high-performance messaging system that includes a reliable unicast/multicast transport. There is so much cool stuff in this project and it is useful to study. I saw this deep-dive into the Aeron reliable multicast protocol live and it is quite good, albeit behind a sign-up.

https://aeron.io/other/handling-data-loss-with-aeron/
by godelski | 2025-12-23 04:02:47+00:00
That's one way to read but I think a narrow way. Besides, my issue wasn't actually an issue with security now was it?

In practice we don't actually want the best security though. We frequently make concessions. I mean with my bank I don't want "the best" security. If I lose my credentials I don't want to go broke. If my credentials get hacked (especially if hacked by no fault of my own!) I want that money recovered. These things would not be possible with "the best" security.

In fact, in a different interpretation I would call those paths less secure. Ability to recover is a security feature just as much as it's not.

Both security and privacy do not have unique all encompassing solutions. They are dependent upon the threat model.

Importantly when designing things you have to understand modes of failure. When you design a bridge you design it to fail in certain ways because when/if it fails you want it to do so in the safest possible way. Why does this pattern of thinking not also apply here? It seems just as critical here! In physical security you also have to design things for both fail open and fail closed. You don't want you always fail close, doing so gets people killed! So why is the thinking different in software?

Not to mention:

How do I login from my Linux machine if I'm only using my iCloud key?

Your logic would lock me into the apple ecosystem forever and that's a worse security setting than anything else we discussed. Apple decides to become evil and I'm just fucked. Or swap Apple with Microsoft who is actively demonstrating that transition
by bigiain | 2025-12-23 04:02:59+00:00
Yep - I totally got that from your original comment.

I did think to myself "I hope they're using the Richard Feynmann/MIT Model Railroad Club sense of the work "hacking" there, not the "dude in a hoodie in front of a green on black terminal" sense. HN, for me, for over a decade, has been a source of intellectual curiosity provoking links, not just software/computing related stuff.
by Mey0320 | 2025-12-23 04:03:32+00:00
We just released “DataFlow: An LLM-Driven Framework for Unified Data Preparation and Workflow Automation in the Era of Data-Centric AI”, now featured as the #1 Paper of the Day on Hugging Face with early community support.

DataFlow addresses a real pain point in AI research and product development — reliable, reproducible, and scalable data pipelines powered by large language models. Rather than ad-hoc scripts, it provides:

A unified LLM-driven data preparation framework with modular operators and reusable pipelines.

Natural language to executable pipelines via automated planning and synthesis.

Strong empirical improvements across text, code, SQL, math reasoning, and agentic RAG tasks.

We hope this helps the community build better data workflows and improve downstream model performance. If you find this useful, please upvote on Hacker News and share your thoughts!
by Nevermark | 2025-12-23 04:04:32+00:00
> implementing fully optional, widely blocking restrictions as "parental safety options") was the industry taking it seriously

The myriad of settings, accessed differently on every site or service, that everyone needs to be aware of, and actively fight dysfunctional defaults and frequent "helpful" resets after updates, are not the solution parents or anyone else are looking for.

Why are the defaults set to favor the company, in a way that makes them real customer/user-targeted security holes that people have to play endless wack-a-mole to secure themselves?

That is industry taking plausible deniability and the monetizing potential of parasitical behavior at scale "seriously" indeed.
by autoexec | 2025-12-23 04:08:29+00:00
> MS wants everyone to run Copilot on their shiny new data centre, so they can collect the data on the way.

MS doesn't care where your data is, they're happy to go digging through your C drive to collect/mine whatever they want, assuming you can avoid all the dark patterns they use to push you to save everything on OneDrive anyway and they'll record all your interactions with any other AI using Recall
by godelski | 2025-12-23 04:08:54+00:00
I remember once I was working for a big tech and we had windows computers. I tried to use Hello so I could login with my fingerprint. It broke outlook for some reason. So I switched to a Yubi key since they were offering.

Every login was the same: fails -> try again or try different method -> list of methods (including "security key") -> ok -> tap security key -> ok

It would not let me set the key as the default and there were two unnecessary clicks. The box literally only had a single button (besides the standard x on the window)! It was absolutely infuriating.

I'm with you. I don't believe these companies are actually trying to create the best solutions. And you can absolutely see that when you try to move from one ecosystem to another.

Look at my problem again and now consider had I been using my iCloud key and wanted to login from my Linux machine. It literally wouldn't be possible!
People who wish for the end of developers
by haebom | 2025-12-23 04:09:49+00:00
Recently—or perhaps since vibe coding became popular—I've been seeing an increasing number of posts claiming that fundamentals don't matter and that there's no need to study coding. I do agree that vibe coding enables rapid prototyping and helps many people discover an interest in programming, and I wholeheartedly support how it creates new opportunities.
However, when I see blogs, news outlets, and media outlets portraying this as the end of the developer era—suggesting that studying development is now useless, that learning foundational knowledge is foolish, and that majoring in computer science is misguided—I find myself questioning their agenda. Is there some kind of fascination with watching developers become a modern Icarus, falling from the sky?
by iJohnDoe | 2025-12-23 04:10:13+00:00
You’re overall point and sentiment isn’t wrong. As a species, we do tend to focus on things that aren’t for the collective good. If some collective good actually happens, then it’s almost guaranteed another group will come along to undo it.

We’re not a species that will likely ever reach singularity (unified, fully cooperative humanity). We operate in packs and if we don’t have a pack we’re loyal to then it’s every man for themselves.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-12-23 04:10:18+00:00
There's a fair amount of uncertainty on this point. In general it's unclear when/whether things will plateau out (although there are indications again that the trend is accelerating not decelerating).

That being said, if by "agentic coding" you are implying that a leap in capabilities is due to novel agentic frameworks/scaffolding that have appeared in 2025, I believe you are confusing cause and effect.

In particular, the agentic frameworks and scaffolding are by and large not responsible for the jump in capabilities. It is rather that the underlying models have improved sufficiently such that these frameworks and scaffolding work. None of the frameworks and scaffolding approaches of 2025 are new. All of them had been tried as early as 2023 (and indeed most of them had been tried in 2020 when GPT-3 came out). It's just that 2023-era models such as GPT-4 were far too weak to support them. Only in 2025 have models become sufficiently powerful to support these workflows.

Hence agentic frameworks and scaffolding are symptoms of ongoing exponential growth, not one-time boosts of growth.

Likewise reasoning models do not seem to be a one-time boost of growth. In particular reasoning models (or more accurate RLVR) seem to be an on-going source of new pretraining data (where the reasoning traces of models created during the process of RLVR serve as pretraining data for the next generation of models).

I remain uncertain, but I think there is a very real chance (>= 50%) that we are on an exponential curve that doesn't top out anytime soon (which gets really crazy really fast). If you want to do something about it, whether that's stopping the curve, flattening the curve, preparing yourself for the curve etc., you better do it now.
by sandworm101 | 2025-12-23 04:10:33+00:00
I've been playing around with my own home-built AI server for a couple months now. It is so much better than using a cloud provider. It is the difference between drag racing in your own car, and renting one from a dealership. You are going to learn far more doing things yourself. Your tools will be much more consistent and you will walk away with a far greater understanding of every process.

A basic last-generation PC with something like a 3060ti (12GB) is more than enough to get started. My current rig pulls less than 500w with two cards (3060+5060). And, given the current temperature outside, the rig helps heat my home. So I am not contributing to global warming, water consumption, or any other datacenter-related environmental evil.
by laurencerowe | 2025-12-23 04:10:34+00:00
I completely agree that green hydrogen is prohibitively expensive at the moment and it currently makes no sense to burn it for electricity generation. But it will likely be necessary in the future if we are to decarbonise aviation fuel, steel making, fertiliser production, etc. What matters at the end of the day is reducing total carbon emissions for the whole economy.

Intermittent renewables and batteries will get us to 80% carbon free electricity generation for more quickly and cheaply than nuclear. While nuclear might make sense in the very narrow use case of 100% carbon free electricity generation, given we also need to decarbonise non-electrical emitters, it will probably reduce more carbon emissions per dollar spent to instead spend that money on even more cheap intermittent renewable generation capacity and use the excess to generate hydrogen. At the point hydrogen based fuels may make sense to use as a buffer for intermittent electricity generation.
by Marsymars | 2025-12-23 04:11:38+00:00
> As far as I know, it is impossible to use the BTS without getting spammed, because the only way to interact with it is via email, and every interaction with the BTS is published without redaction on the web. So, if you ever hope to receive updates, or want to monitor a bug, you are also going to get spam.

Do the emails from the BTS come from a consistent source? If so, it's not a good solution, but you could sign up with a unique alias that blackholes anything that isn't from the BTS.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-12-23 04:12:49+00:00
> In 2010 the typical consumer PC had 2-4gb of RAM. Now the typical PC has 12-16gb. This suggests RAM size doubling perhaps every 5 years at best. If that's the case, we're 25-30 years away from the typical PC having enough RAM to run Kimi K2.

Part of the reason that RAM isn't growing faster is that there's no need for that much RAM at the moment. Technically you can put multiple TB of RAM in your machine, but no-one does that because it's a complete waste of money [0]. Unless you're working in a specialist field 16Gb of RAM is enough, and adding more doesn't make anything noticeably faster.

But given a decent use-case, like running an LLM locally, and you'd find demand for lots more RAM, and that would drive supply, and new technology developments, and in ten years it'll be normal to have 128TB of RAM in a baseline laptop.

Of course, that does require that there is a decent use-case for running an LLM locally, and your point that that is not necessarily true is well-made. I guess we'll find out.

[0] apart from a friend of mine working on crypto who had a desktop Linux box with 4TB of RAM in it.
by maxglute | 2025-12-23 04:13:00+00:00
If by head-canon you mean political/legal reality under pre/post NSL. Anomalously large 1000+ employee consulate scale for city of 7m is you know... intelligence node. Of course the point is to clamp down on figures Beijing doesn't like, something they didn't get to hammer with full legal prejudice before and now can by explicitly using NSL instrument. How many bold compradors are shaking hands with State Department now vs pre NSL? How many libtard parties disbanded pre and post? Actual legal cannon > your head-canon.

> clearly

Well no, because Beijing still allows HK to stagnant on 2S, apart from half hearted directives to address absolute freemarket shithole dynamics like cage homes, PRC hands off with HK. Useless bombchecks (and XJ securitization) brought national terrorism to basically 0, how many school shootings have the very useful security checks in US prevented ¯\_(ツ)_/¯?. As for how much SZ gets done vs HK, tell that to the ~100m cross border trips from HKers to SZ. Revealed preference has a mainland bias. TLDR the play is letting HK system burn itself out, geoeconomically replacing HK libtards with PRC TTPS and eventually integrating desperate HKers into Northern Metropolis next SZ in next 30 years.
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by UltraSane | 2025-12-23 04:13:54+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestivation_hypothesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9sh9NpL4i8

https://mindmatters.ai/2020/10/researchers-the-aliens-exist-...

https://aleph.se/andart2/space/the-aestivation-hypothesis-po...
by dxxvi | 2025-12-23 04:13:55+00:00
You couldn't get the rue-lang.org domain? There are rust-lang.org, scala-lang.org, so rue-lang.org sounds better than .dev.

I'd love to see how Rue solves/avoids the problems that Rust's borrow checker tries to solves. You should put it on the 1st page, I think.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-12-23 04:14:26+00:00
> I'd assumed HN skewed heavily technical but seeing 1984, Dune, and Foundation in the top mentions suggests the community has broader reading habits than stereotypes suggest.

Seeing 1984, Dune, Foundation as the top fiction is about as on-brand and unsurprising as it gets. I don't I could pick more expected fiction except for some popular cyberpunk and something from LOTR.

Throw in a hitchhikers guide, zen motorcycle and something from Feynman and you've covered all the bases.
by rramadass | 2025-12-23 04:14:27+00:00
> FPGAs need their "Arduino moment".

This is exactly it. Why hasn't some expert group produced a very simple open design board with a simple Arduino-like IDE for FPGAs? Make it easy to access and use, get it into the hands of makers/hobbyists and watch the apps/ecosystem explode.

As an example, one could provide soft-cores for 8051/RISC-V etc. right out of the box with a menu of peripherals to mix and match. Provide a simple language library wrapper say over SystemVerilog (or whatever the community settles on) just like Arduino did (with C++) that makes it "easy" to program the FPGA.

For apps, one good example would be putting TinyML (or any other ML/LLM models)
on a FPGA. This would take advantage of the current technology wave to make this project a success.

PS: Folks might find the book FPGAs for Software Programmers by Dirk Koch et al. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-26408-0) useful.
by bsder | 2025-12-23 04:14:42+00:00
> My prediction is one of the Chinese FPGA makers will embrace open source

Sadly, this doesn't seem to be panning out because the Chinese domestic market has perfectly functional Xilinx and Altera clones for a fraction of the price. Consequently, they don't care about anything else.

It irritates me to no end that Gowin won't open their bitstream format because they'd displace a bunch of the low end almost immediately.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-23 04:17:36+00:00
Within this blog post on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44617309 is hyperlinked, verbatim, as "the post in question".

Was there some other aspect to this blog post under this article under this very posting, here, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46312812, that is more in question -- perhaps one that I missed?

Did I not read deep-enough into the rant?

(If I did not, then I'm really not sure how much I care. But I do suspect that my care is approximately zero for the output of someone who very deliberately puts overtly-patronizing, browser-fucking shit like this on their blog: https://imgur.com/a/bOkSsd4 )
by mint5 | 2025-12-23 04:18:21+00:00
What’s up with all these posts that try to normalize the current admins turning ice into the gestapo, waging a war against the environment, and blatant overt corruption like pardoning every white collar criminal and fraudster they can.

Because bush invaded Iraq the current guy gets a free pass to round up immigrants with gestapo like tactics?

These “but in the past…” posts come off as excusing current wrongs and it seems willful
by tantalor | 2025-12-23 04:19:30+00:00
> Hybrid drones offer great potential in many industries due to their ability to operate in air and water.

"Hybrid" usually means a combination of features from two different things.

For instance, a car with electric & internal combustion engines.

But here they are using "hybrid" to mean a combination of capabilities. That's different than features.

Also, "hybrid done" already has a meaning:

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