MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by doublerabbit | 2025-12-19 20:08:54+00:00
I state my age so at least I can represent myself as someone with experience in this world and who has seen the internet deteriorate from something fundamental awesome to a wash-rag floating in a swamp.

I see it as Digital Heroin. If others, you don't, fine.

Social Media is addicting. I use none and explaining it as " digital heroin" may be an extreme way to present the thought but at least it's bluntly represents the curse of it. Finally, it's not the teenagers at fault. It's the governments in the first place for allowing this. I saw it on the wall when Facebook came to be back in 2007.
by formerly_proven | 2025-12-19 20:09:35+00:00
The 5800X3D is an almost four year old CPU (2022), which was the last major product on its platform (first product in 2016, last new chipset launched in 2020). The successor platform (AM5) was released just months later and is now about 2/3rds or so through its lifecycle.

Normally an old, used CPU for a dead 10yo platform will go for a small fraction the MSRP. Not a multiple. Silicon economy seems in a good shape.
by adamsb6 | 2025-12-19 20:09:42+00:00
Khan had already accused them of abusing monopoly power and filed a lawsuit against them, and had a history of blocking acquisitions. At this time she also had a lawsuit in place seeking to undo the nearly decade old acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp.

The smart thing to do in that environment isn't to push the issue so that years later someone can't write that there wasn't an official challenge. It's to read the room and abandon the deal.
by 999900000999 | 2025-12-19 20:09:46+00:00
Ok...

So as a black person should I demand that all books written before the civil rights act be destroyed?

The past is messy. But it's the only way to learn anything.

All an LLM does it's take a bunch of existing texts and rebundle them. Like it or not, the existing texts are still there.

I understand an LLM that won't tell me how to do heart surgery. But I can't fear one that might be less enlightened on race issues. So many questions to ask! Hell, it's like talking to older person in real life.

I don't expect a typical 90 year old to be the most progressive person, but they're still worth listening too.
by xnx | 2025-12-19 20:09:48+00:00
"On Monday, the FTC requested more information from both companies about the $1.7 billion deal, according to an investor filing from iRobot, in what’s known as a “second request” and an indicator of deeper scrutiny by antitrust officials."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/tech/roomba-amazon-ftc-invest...
by igor47 | 2025-12-19 20:09:52+00:00
I think the world would be a better place if more people donated to charities, especially effective charities. I also, separately, believe in effective government that takes care of it's people, progressive tax rates, and democracy/input. I don't think these beliefs are in conflict.

Also I'm pretty sure that EA as a movement is only concerned with the former mission, and does not advocate for any of the bad policies you're worried about
by jbergler | 2025-12-19 20:10:30+00:00
The 6 hour claim is interesting, but I highly doubt Avelo (or any airline) would handle 100k requests/sec

If we consider that the real major's move about 400k-500k passengers/day, let's be really optimistic and say that they check their booking 6 times a day for the week before they fly. That's around 250 requests/sec.

Anyone know about the consumer facing tech stacks at airlines these days? Seems unlikely that they'd have databases that would auto scale 400x...
by DrewADesign | 2025-12-19 20:10:40+00:00
From Wikipedia: “Telemetry is the in situ collection of measurements or other data at remote points and their automatic transmission to receiving equipment (telecommunication) for monitoring.”

There is nothing “tele” about going to the doctor, and nothing automatic about the information they gather. You’re conflating telemetry and simple examination or observation. Most types of examination are not telemetry, and many types of telemetry are not as benign as simple observation/examination. There is telemetry on my car but I can’t access the data. It’s not for my benefit— it’s for Jeep’s benefit. I don’t need it and I don’t want it.
by FrinkleFrankle | 2025-12-19 20:11:23+00:00
That's kind of what learning to code is like, though. I assume you're using an llm because you don't know enough to do it entirely on your own. At least that's where I'm at and I've had similar experiences to you. I was trying to write a Rust program and I was able to get something in a working state, but wasn't confident it was secure.

I've found getting the llm to ingest high quality posts/books about the subject and use those to generate anki cards has helped a lot.

I've always struggled to learn from that sort of content on my own. That was leading me to miss some fundamental concepts.

I expect to restart my project several more times as I find out more of what I need to know to write good code.

Working with llms has made this so much easier. It surfaces ideas and concepts I had no idea about and makes it easy to convert them to an ingestible form for actual memorization. It makes cards with full syntax highlighting. It's delightful.
by smokeydoe | 2025-12-19 20:11:55+00:00
Looks really cool, but unfortunately I can not use it because thermal printing paper is coated with endocrine-disrupting chemicals like Bisphenol-A (BPA) or its substitute, Bisphenol-S (BPS), which can be absorbed through skin contact, potentially leading to metabolic, reproductive, or cancerous issues. It’s basically a very fine plastic dust. Though risk depends on exposure duration and amount, it’s not something I would feel comfortable with kids.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5453537/
by igor47 | 2025-12-19 20:12:39+00:00
It's only known for doomerism and SBF because reporters like the FA author chose to focus on this, and not on, say, the hundreds of thousands of lives saved around the world by EA donors and their recipient organizations.

I gotta say, I'm also pretty annoyed at the guilt-by-association with the SBF thing. If word got out that SBF liked puppies, would his enemies forswear dogs? It seems pretty easy to disavow fraud and even crypto in general (I'm not a fan of crypto), while simultaneously embracing taking a giving pledge, figuring out metrics by which to judge philanthropies, and focusing donations on the effective orgs (by whatever metric makes sense to you). It's like our civilization has lost the ability to hold two ideas in mind at a time, or to think beyond "bad people are bad"
by bavent | 2025-12-19 20:12:44+00:00
Let’s also work on your reading comprehension as well please. I’m not defending this person, I am asking you to please point out exactly where in this blog post they talk about it. From what I saw, I had to actually click a link )in other words, go looking) to discover they’re a furry or whatever the fuck they are.

So, please quote from this post where you saw it.
by supermatt | 2025-12-19 20:12:48+00:00
What is the max token throughput when batching. Lots of agentic workflows (not just vibe coding) are running many inferences in parallel.

It seems like every time someone does an AI hardware “review” we end up with figures for just a single instance, which simply isn’t how the target demographic for a 40k cluster are going to be using it.

Jeff, I love reading your reviews, but can’t help but feel this was a wasted opportunity for some serious benchmarking of LLM performance.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-12-19 20:13:07+00:00
X8 3.0 vs x8 4.0 and x8 5.0 benchmark comparisons.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-t...

I'll let others judge for themselves, personally I'd be tempted to get an x16 GPU since the 5800X3D is actually very near top of the line and the GPU should match the CPU imho but in general even the worst case of x8 GPU on a PCIE 3.0 motherboard doesn't seem to be the end of the world
by Animats | 2025-12-19 20:13:08+00:00
Setting 2 is still pretty generous. It means "Kernel does not allow allocations that exceed swap + (RAM × overcommit_ratio / 100)." It's not a "never swap or overcommit" setting. You can still get into thrashing by memory overload.

We may be entering an era when everyone in computing has to get serious about resource consumption. NVidia says GPUs are going to get more expensive for the next five years. DRAM prices are way up, and Samsung says it's not getting better for the next few years. Bulk electricity prices are up due to all those AI data centers. We have to assume for planning purposes that computing gets a little more expensive each year through at least 2030.

Somebody may make a breakthrough, but there's nothing in the fab pipeline likely to pay off before 2030, if then.
by arevno | 2025-12-19 20:13:29+00:00
I know that by modern standards, 18% is better than average, but it's also still pretty fat for men. Men should strive for a 10-14% range. <10% is associated with hormone (specifically testosterone) deficiency, and >14% is both aesthetically disgusting, and bad for metabolic health.

Try losing more fat, to the 12% level, then check your biomarkers again.
by ypeterholmes | 2025-12-19 20:13:37+00:00
Nah, it's your support for lawless authoritarianism because you think it will improve your safety- that's the part you missed in history class. That's the con you are falling for. The truth is that once authoritarianism takes hold, nobody is safe. Many Germans who thought the Nazi's would only target "bad people" learned this the hard way.
by c0l0 | 2025-12-19 20:13:46+00:00
I realize this is mostly tangential to the article, but a word of warning for those who are about to mess with overcommit for the first time: In my experience, the extreme stance of "always do [thing] with overcommit" is just not defensible, because most (yes, also "server") software is just not written under the assumption that being able to deal with allocation failures in a meaningful way is a necessity. At best, there's an "malloc() or die"-like stanza in the source, and that's that.

You can and maybe even should disable overcommit this way when running postgres on the server (and only a minimum of what you would these days call sidecar processes (monitoring and backup agents, etc.) on the same host/kernel), but once you have a typical zoo of stuff using dynamic languages living there, you WILL blow someone's leg off.
by agavra | 2025-12-19 20:13:55+00:00
Sounds like a perfect fit for https://slatedb.io/ -- it's just that (an embedded, rust, KV store that supports transactions).

It's built specifically to run on object storage, currently relies on the `object_store` crate but we're consdering OpenDAL instead so if Garage works with those crates (I assume it does if its S3 compatible) it should just work OOTB.
by ack_complete | 2025-12-19 20:14:13+00:00
This is unfortunately the same for GPUs. The graphics APIs expose capability bits or extensions indicating what features the hardware and driver supports, but the graphics vendors don't always publish documentation on what generations of their hardware support various features, so your program is expected to dynamically adapt to arbitrary combinations of features. This is no longer as bad as it used to be due to consolidation in the graphics market, but people still have to build ad-hoc crowd sourced databases of GPU caps bits.

It's also not monotonic, on both CPU and GPU sides features can go away later because either due to a hardware bug or the vendor lost interest in supporting it.
by kwame_owusu | 2025-12-19 20:14:28+00:00
Hello everyone, I have created a little cli tool that I have found useful myself when programming, helping you take notes and jot down things to do next, Will mostly benefit people who code in terminal using TMUX + NVIM, or even NVIM only as it can be invoked with a lua function. Check it out and let me know what you think about it.
by _heimdall | 2025-12-19 20:14:46+00:00
Well no disagreement there, unfortunately.

I definitely agree our democracy seems to be under attack on multiple fronts, and at least the people I'm often around regardless of political affiliation seem to have lost sight of how our system is intended to work.

A violent civil war wouldn't surprise me, though I don't think we're close to it yet and I hope I never see it happen. Though I would prefer seeing that rather than seeing our system successfully destroyed and replaced with what seems to be coming up, an authoritarian socialism of one form or another.
by palmotea | 2025-12-19 20:15:13+00:00
> Do we think less because we use C++ vs assembly? Less because we use assembly over punching cards? ...

Apologists love to make such analogies. "From 30,000 feet, doesn't the new things kinda look like some old thing? Then they're the same and you should accept the new thing!" But the analogies are never apt, and the "argument" is really only one of glossing over the differences.

The whole point of AI is for people to think less. It's basically the goddamned name. If people aren't thinking less, AI isn't doing its job. All of those things you listed are instances of mechanical translation, and aren't thinking..

> You can put a strong local coding model on your local hardware today and no investor will be involved (unless you mean investors on the company you work for, but the truth is,n those were never in any way interested in how you build things, only that you do).

Don't pretend you can cosplay a capitalist with AI. You need money, and if you can build something with a local model, the people with money can do it too, so they don't have to pay you. We work for a living.

Also it's a fantasy your local model with be anything but a dim candle to the ones the rich have. Real life is not a sci-fi novel.

Your employers are hoping to use you up making this current imperfect iteration of the technology work, because the hope is the next version won't need you. Don't be cheerful about it. It's a bad end for you.
by echelon | 2025-12-19 20:15:26+00:00
Roombas have always been terrible.

I bought a top-of-line Dreame, Roborock, and Eufy recently for our place - we have lots of pets.

The Dreame is easily 10,000x better than Roomba ever was. It never makes mistakes. I'd advocate for Dreame for anyone in the market for a robot vacuum. The app is annoying, but everything else about it is sublime.

Eufy would be better if they'd fix their roller brush design and didn't lean so heavily into making you buy their replacement components. It's designed around buying Eufy refills. The Anker team nails user friendliness and design, though.
by timschmidt | 2025-12-19 20:15:40+00:00
My understanding is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140-2 required Dual-EC DRBG to be implemented in any crypto system used by government, including such protocols as SSL/TLS, these algorithms are typically also adopted by industry, and NSA went further by paying RSA and perhaps others to make it the default in their security products.

This came after previous attempts such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
by enriquepablo | 2025-12-19 20:15:46+00:00
The Chomsky hierarchy is a classification of grammars. So it's about Syntax.

GPT is purely about semantics, about truth. To the extent that I think it can be said to be fundamentally informal in its dedication to truth, since it can easily be prompted to produce syntactically incorrect output - wrt the syntax of whatever language whose semantics determine the truth GPT is asked to reflect.

So I think this is a categorically incorrect question.

I mean, what is the fundamental syntax of the output of an LLM? It would have to be that any sequence of utf8 chars is valid.
by jscottmiller | 2025-12-19 20:16:11+00:00
I think that choice is already happening in a way that is as natural as we're going to get. I found the recent legal business with Perez Hilton kind of interesting. Take this passage from this story https://www.cjr.org/feature/perez-hilton-og-original-news-in...:

> Still, there was a problem. Hilton’s insurance would not foot the bill for a lawyer to defend against a subpoena. He would have to cover his legal costs out of pocket. Instead of finding an attorney, he did two things legal experts always advise against: he decided to represent himself and to use ChatGPT to help draft his legal briefs. At first, this did not go smoothly. An early filing written by ChatGPT, which Hilton nicknamed Dad, invented several legal references. “There’s this phenomenon called ghost law,” Hilton said. “They make up citations, they make up anything.” After a set of embarrassing errors was called out on social media, Hilton started double- and triple-checking every citation, and asked ChatGPT to review its own output. The process went more smoothly from there—so much so that Hilton came to see AI as a great legal leveler. “Now that I know that I can so effectively use ChatGPT, I’m not going to be paying a lawyer unless it’s absolutely necessary,” he told me.

The (imperfect) tools gave him the ability to keep his case alive, and he was eventually taken up by the ACLU. While Hilton is far from a sympathetic underdog, the levelling effect is pretty compelling.
by Iridescent_ | 2025-12-19 20:16:36+00:00
Who deserves to receive help (and, by contrast, who is undeserving of even basic decency) should never, ever be the decision of a few ploutocrats. The state should decide on such matters, and be the upholder of equality. Else, misery becomes a contest for who can be the most compelling, most attractive miserable to the elites.
by w0m | 2025-12-19 20:16:38+00:00
> Normally an old, used CPU for a dead platform will go for a small fraction the MSRP.

True in general- used CPUs from discontinued platforms sell for a small fraction of the original MSRP.

Buuuut, the final flagship part on nearly every platform is an exception to this rule. They are generally sought after as the definitive 'End Game Upgrade' because they provide users with the simplest, most cost-effective performance boost—a single component swap—bypassing the need for a costly migration to a successor platform (which requires new RAM and a new motherboard).

It tends to happen every generation swap, 5800X3D is just the latest.
by ypeterholmes | 2025-12-19 20:17:02+00:00
Any change in behavior? Is that a joke? Setting aside the masked men terrorizing our communities, immigrants are being literally tortured inside camps across the country. They are being treated worse than criminals- tortured. Abused. What's happening right now is horrific, and the dehumanization propaganda can only be compared to Hitler's vilification of the jews.
by belter | 2025-12-19 20:17:35+00:00
Silicon Valley was never liberal. It was always pro libertarian, wrapped in some kind of social progress branding. What changed is that the mask slipped...

The same people, who preached openness and democracy, now pivot overnight to nationalism and strong state fantasies when regulation or taxes appear, like for example Marc Andreessen recent disgusting ideological flip-flops.

Calling this an intelligentsia is too kind, when its more wealthy tech bros with PhDs rediscovering pre 1910s reactionary ideas and mistaking contrarianism for depth. When Peter Thiel bankrolls figures like Eric Weinstein, it is just money confusing confidence for intelligence.

The latest is [1] Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale openly calling for public hangings to show “masculine leadership”, what just proves how unserious this crowd is. They do enterprise software but want medieval justice systems. They are deeply dumb, but in a very well funded way... :-)

[1] - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/palantir-j...
Show HN: BareAgent – Agent that detects Docker container anomalies and incidents
by hmontazeri | 2025-12-19 20:17:42+00:00
Hi there,

I've been working on BareAgent lately. It's meant for small teams and ppl who generally self-host their apps and manage their containers.

The idea is that a small (<10mb Golang agent binary | around 20mb ram) reads frequently the server metrics and docker container metrics and filters logs for filter words like fatal, panic and web based errors like 500 etc. and gives alerts in various ways.

Another cool feature is that it learns your base levels of CPU / RAM usage over 2 weeks and checks pulses against those and send alerts if they keep staying outside that range.

So it's basically metrics + alerts + basic incident management for your severs.

It has a free tier and I'd love some feedback.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-19 20:17:49+00:00
I did that some after eth stopped mineable.

My office-room was heated mostly by resistance, plus whatever gas-fired heat trickled in through the doorway.

I didn't have as much power available there as I had in the basement, but I had enough to mine a bit of crypto to supplement the resistance heater. :)

From one perspective: It was never directly profitable to do this. Other than eth, nothing has ever been profitable-enough for me to care about.

From another perspective: I was going to burn the energy anyway. The Joules cost the same and add the same amount of warmth either way, so I might as well get them with a side dish of free crypto.

Good times.

(These days, I transcode videos with Tdarr during the winter.)
by jcalvinowens | 2025-12-19 20:19:22+00:00
There's a reason nobody does this: RAM is expensive. Disabling overcommit on your typical server workload will waste a great deal of it. TFA completely ignores this.

This is one of those classic money vs idealism things. In my experience, the money always wins this particular argument: nobody is going to buy more RAM for you so you can do this.
by system2 | 2025-12-19 20:19:23+00:00
Do they even know what DDR5 or DDR4 are? Best Buy still sells 10-year-old laptops, and people buy them. CPU power means nothing to the average user. They do not know anything about RAM or CPU. Maybe here and there, a little disk space knowledge, just because they are familiar with the concept of disk space because of their phones.
by dvrp | 2025-12-19 20:19:24+00:00
Qwen-Image-Layered is a diffusion model that, unlike most SOTA-ish models out there (e.g. Flux, Krea 1, ChatGPT, Qwen-Image) it's (1) open-weight (unlike ChatGPT Image or Nano Banana) and Apache 2.0; and has 2 distinct inference-time features: (i) it's able to understand the alpha channel of images (RGBA, as opposed to RGB only) which makes it able to generate transparency-aware bitmaps; and (ii), it's able to understand layers [1]—this is how most creative professionals work in software like Photoshop or Figma, where you overlay elements into a single file, such as a foreground and a background.

This is the first model by a main AI research lab (the people behind Qwen Image, which is basically the SOTA open image diffusion model) with those capabilities afaik.

The difference in timing for this submission (16 hours ago) is because that's when the research/academic paper got released—as opposed to the inference code and model weights, which just got released 5 hours ago.

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Technically there's another difference, but this mostly matters for people who are interested in AI research or AI training. From their abstract: “[we introduce] a Multi-stage Training strategy to adapt a pretrained image generation model into a multilayer image decomposer.” which seems to imply that you can adapt a current (but different) image model to understand layers as well, as well as a pipeline to obtain the data from Photoshop .PSD files.
by faxmeyourcode | 2025-12-19 20:19:40+00:00
While I agree with the premise of the article, even if it was a bit shallow, this claim made at the beginning is also still true:

> Everyone’s heard the line: “AI will write all the code; engineering as you know it is finished.”

Software engineering pre-LLMs will never, ever come back. Lots of folks are not understanding that. What we're doing at the end of 2025 looks so much different than what we were doing at the end of 2024. Engineering as we knew it a year or two ago will never return.