MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by presentation | 2025-12-11 00:55:56+00:00
I disagree. It’s easy to say this from your armchair, but when your kid is the one kid not on social media because you’re such an righteous parent, and that kid is getting bullied by all the other kids for not knowing what’s going on in TikTok or Insta, you start seeing this as a problem that requires the coordination of large numbers of people who you may or may not know, many of whom are kids who lack executive function.

If you just disdain children in general, you can go ahead and say that instead.
by modeless | 2025-12-11 00:57:30+00:00
I find YouTube search to be serviceable. At least it has decent filtering and sorting options. Gmail search is just OK, but I haven't found anything much better. Chrome history search, though, is completely worthless. Especially since it got merged into that myactivity thing that is utter garbage, completely non-functional for any purpose. There's so much potential in searching a complete history of everything you've ever personally seen online, and it would make Chrome more sticky. Incredible fumble by Google here.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-12-11 00:58:08+00:00
There you go.

There is no state organised war crimes going on, just normal war. If you can't understand the distinction that's your problem not mine. In my opinion Israels actions in Gaza fall well within the actions of a legitimate war, to the extent warfare can be legitimised. I'm not commenting on individual cases, and anyway those are not relevant to my argument.
by robhlt | 2025-12-11 00:58:19+00:00
The closed-source user-space component isn't new, the drivers always contained a kernel module and user-space libraries. Those libraries provide an OpenGL and Vulkan implementation. It's equivalent to Mesa for AMD and Intel GPUs (and the kernel driver is equivalent to amdgpu and i915 respectively).

Since it's closed we can't really know for sure if anything was moved to it from the kernel, but I think it's quite unlikely something like HDMI link setup was moved to user-space instead of to firmware.
by vbezhenar | 2025-12-11 00:58:43+00:00
I just explained that. Basically government wants to block some specific webpage, say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursultan_Nazarbayev. Without MITM, they'll end up with blocking the entire en.wikipedia.org domain, so citizens will lose access to a lot of information. With MITM, they'll be able to target precisely one page and I can read any other wikipedia article without issues.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-12-11 00:59:01+00:00
This is a great example, and not odd as an analogy at all. It surfaces something subtle.

Language architecture is really interesting, I think, for programmers who have bought into the LLM hype in any meaningful way. It's an important field to have a sense of.

Tokenizers, for example, generally have multi-syllabic tokens as their base-level, indivisible unit.

You rarely see this mentioned when LLM capability against non-coding tasks is discussed, despite it being deeply important for prose construction.

Not to mention, putting language models aside, that the vast majority of code is written in language with a logical grammar. The disciplines are highly linked.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-11 00:59:06+00:00
This is actually an area I am incredibly interested in, an area that I have pretty deep technical knowledge of (power electronics, my day job), and and area where I would _love_ to make products in. I'm a total ebike evangelist just ask anyone who has ever commented anything to me when I am on my ebike.

But I sadly know enough to know that doing hardware in the USA is nightmare level expensive and difficult. I could pull every string and empty every account into making an eBike with twice the cost and half the performance of it's Chinese counterpart. I'd much rather just make an app that takes a cut for connecting people with eBikes that fit their needs/desires.
by Rochus | 2025-12-11 00:59:15+00:00
While I appreciate the authors optimistic take on Suno as a tool for empowerment, I believe his analysis misses the grim economic reality of the music industry as it has existed for the last two decades.

He draws a distinction between "professional musicians" and AI, but this ignores the crucial split between the "Stars" (the top 1%) and the "bread-and-butter" working musicians. The latter group has been starving for twenty years, long before generative AI arrived. They were effectively wiped out when DJs replaced live bands in clubs and when "stars" began touring with backing tracks instead of bringing session players along. That destruction was economic, not technological.

Regarding the "Stars": they won't necessarily be "forced to be better". Instead, they will likely use AI to improve their margins. They can now replace their composers, arrangers, and eventually even their own vocal labor with AI models trained on their past work. The lifecycle of a star is already much shorter than it used to be; AI won't change that, but it will make them cheaper to operate.

Finally, the hope that listeners will "filter through the noise" to find human connection contradicts current user habit studies. Spotify has successfully turned music into a commodity. The rise of anonymous "Mood" and "Chill" playlists shows that the vast majority of consumers already treat music as background noise and are neither able nor interested in distinguishing between human and computer-generated content. The industry isn't waiting for listeners to discern the difference; it's banking on the fact that they won't care.
by mediaman | 2025-12-11 01:00:39+00:00
Read the full post. Partway down you will see they agree with you that getting an API key is not hard.

Paying is hard. And it is confusing how to set it up: you have to create a Vertex billing account and go through a cumbersome process to then connect your AIStudio to it and bring over a "project" which then disconnects all the time and which you have to re-select to use Nano Banana Pro or Gemini 3. It's a very bad process.

It's easy to miss this because they are very generous with the free tier, but Gemini 3 is not free.
by hedora | 2025-12-11 01:01:12+00:00
Summarizing this thread:

- I paid for a device with a properly licensed hdmi port. It runs linux. So patent exhaustion applies, at least in the US. I can say ignore the patents to make my property work.

- I have no relationship to the HDMI people. (Never entered into a contract with them.)

- The links to the spec are here. (Trade secrets/nda no longer apply. This is the problem with using trade secrets to protect your stuff.)

- If I point a coding assistant (assume open weights/source) at this thread, and a copy of linux main, it can probably just fix the damn driver.

- I could probably publish my patch with a big fat “only for use with licensed hdmi hardware, not for resale” disclaimer on it.

At that point, what law would I have broken?
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2025-12-11 01:01:40+00:00
Nice AI slop.

Considering the scant or nonexistent details of what allegedly happened to the author, and the listicle of generic information about this vulnerability, I'm sure this didn't even happen, at least not to the author.

Posted on Medium by an account whose only other article is an AI slop article about MCP. Profile picture is AI as well.
by tptacek | 2025-12-11 01:02:45+00:00
Right, if in fact 1500 Hezbollah fighters were injured, any claim that over 1500 noncombatants were injured is suspicious. We have video footage of the explosions (along with a directional sense of the wounded vs. KIA count of the strike). It is not plausible that more noncombatants were injured than combatants, given the pagers were strictly military comms devices.
by khazhoux | 2025-12-11 01:03:58+00:00
> "This formatting standard aligns with the President’s One Voice for America’s Foreign Relations directive, underscoring the Department’s responsibility to present a unified, professional voice in all communications," it added.

This administration truly sets a high standard for professional communication...

> S.V. Dáte, HuffPost’s senior White House correspondent, asked the White House earlier this month who suggested Budapest, Hungary, as the location for an upcoming meeting between Trump and Putin. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded: “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung then followed up: “Your mom.”

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...
Show HN: Crystal V10 – Grepping 65GB of compressed logs in 0.8s vs. 8 minutes
by danebl | 2025-12-11 01:04:01+00:00
We just completed benchmarking version 10 of Crystal, our log archival tool. The goal is to replace standard .log.zst or .log.gz cold storage pipelines with something that is natively searchable without re-indexing or full inflation.

The results on large datasets were pretty startling.

The tl;dr from the benchmarks:

The Search Gap: On a 65GB MongoDB JSON log dataset, searching for a rare string (like a specific "ERROR" that occurs 0 times) took standard zstdcat | grep over 8 minutes. Crystal finished the same query in 0.8 seconds.

How? It uses internal Bloom filters to instantly skip huge sections of compressed data, and only decompresses necessary blocks when hits occur. Even on queries with millions of matches, it was still ~4x faster than raw grep.

Compression Performance: At Level 3, it clocked between 800 MB/s and 1300 MB/s on several datasets. At Level 19, it matches ZSTD-19 compression ratios but compresses roughly 10x faster.

We want to know how this fits your infrastructure.

Every logging pipeline is different. We are currently prioritizing packaging for various environments (CLI, K8s sidecar, Docker, etc.).

If you are interested in testing Crystal against your own log deluge, please let us know your preferred integration method in this 3-question form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehstef-rbLfM72scgx...

It helps us prioritize what to build next for real-world deployments.
by api | 2025-12-11 01:04:16+00:00
I’m using the word liberal to mean things like liberty, individual rights, democracy, and the rule of law. That’s why I also mentioned hard left authoritarianism.

Also there’s a world of difference between people registering dislike on an online forum and the use of state power. It seems like a lot of people these days draw no distinction between removal from a private space or even people just showing disapproval and actual state force.
by bonaldi | 2025-12-11 01:04:18+00:00
This doesn't feel like good-faith. There are leagues of difference between "what you typed out" when that's in a highly structured compiler-specific codified syntax *expressly designed* as the input to a compiler that produces computer programs, and "what you typed out" when that's an English-language prompt, sometimes vague and extremely high-level

That difference - and the assumed delta in difficulty, training and therefore cost involved - is why the latter case is newsworthy.
by themafia | 2025-12-11 01:04:28+00:00
> Instead, people want to capitalize on someone else's hard work for free.

This would only make sense if there _wasn't_ free video standards competing with HDMI. How is it that one group managed to do this for free yet the other group charges clearly exorbitant rates for a nearly equivalent product.

> They own IP.

That isn't nearly as valuable as they say it is. They only do this to prevent piracy and not to promote any useful technical standard.

> People want to use that IP.

People are _forced_ to because the same group practically gives away their technology under certain conditions so their connectors get added to nearly every extant device. I don't _want_ to use HDMI. I'm simply _forced_ to through market manipulation.

> want to make money.

Selling drugs would earn them more money. Why don't we tolerate that? It could be, under some torturous logic, be just another "standard business practice." In fact looking at our laws I see tons of "standard business practices" that are now flatly illegal.

The law is a tool. It can be changed. It should be changed. The citizens pay for 85% of it and while businesses only pay 7%. Why do their "standard practices" hold a candle to the "needs of the citizens."
by mmooss | 2025-12-11 01:05:07+00:00
It's not a characteristic of US automakers but of the status quo in any competition. The status quo power wants to keep things the same - that's how they got there, that's how they are making money, and any change destabilizes things and 'wastes' money: you're already (selling cars), what will you gain by innovating?

The revisionist power wants to become status quo. They need to beat the status quo power and they won't do it following the status quo's rulebook. They look for anything that might differentiate them, make them appealing to even narrow groups - they are trying to get a foothold and grow from there. They are cool, innovative, and disruptive, people think.

As soon as the revisionist becomes status quo, they adopt the status quo behaviors. Look at formerly revisionist SV.
by ignoramous | 2025-12-11 01:05:20+00:00
> US military ... worried about being dragged into some mostly-fictitious courtroom to answer for their misdeeds...

Acutely aware of this fact, yeah.

> There aren't a lot of opportunities in life you get to use the word "annihilatory"; this is one of them.

Not wrong. None of the former great empires that fell were as military capable as the super powers of the modern era.

> And in the immortal words of William Munny out of Missouri: "deserve's" got nothing to do with it.

True. Some on the Left have extreme take on "Nation States" for this reason:

One was to challenge the thesis that nationalism and colonialism are two separate things — that nationalism is the good side, colonialism the bad side; that nationalism came first, colonialism later, or vice versa. I wanted to show that they were twins joined at the hip. And I also wanted to show that from the outset, the nation-state project could not be achieved without ethnic cleansing and extreme violence. This could be seen in the expulsion of Jews and Muslims [from the Iberian Peninsula], and that soon led to a conflict between states, because each state had an official majority — the nation it claimed to represent — and its minority, or minorities. The human rights paradigm focuses on the perpetrators of violence. It wants to identify them individually so that we can hold them individually accountable. It does not look for the beneficiaries of that violence. Beneficiaries are not necessarily perpetrators. To address beneficiaries, you need to identify the issues around which violence is mobilized ...

The Idea of the Nation-State Is Synonymous With Genocide: A conversation with political theorist Mahmood Mamdani (2024), https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mahmood-mamdani-na...
by rpdillon | 2025-12-11 01:05:28+00:00
My comment has been weirdly controversial, but I'm not sure why.

I get that LLMs have problems.

I was recently looking into the differences between a flash drive, an SSD, and an NVMe drive. Flash memory is one of the technologies I had in mind when I wrote my comment.

Flash has a bunch of problems. It can only be written over so many times before it dies. So it needs some kind of wear-leveling abstraction that abstracts over the actual storage space and provides a smaller, virtual storage space that is directed by a controller that knows to equally distribute writes over the actual storage, and avoid dead cells when they manifest.

NVMe extends that with a protocol that allows a very high queue depth that allows the controller to reorder instructions such that throughput can be maximized, making NVMe enabled drives more performant. Virtual address space + reordered operations = successful HDD replacement.

My point here is that LLMs are young, and that we're going to compose them into into larger workflows that allow for predictable results. But that composition, and trial and error, take time. We don't yet have the remedies necessary to make up for the weaknesses of LLMs. I think we will as we explore more, but the technology is still young.

As for copyright infringement, I think copyright has been broken for a long time. It is too brittle in its implementation. Google did essentially the same thing as OpenAI when they indexed webpages, but we all wrote it off as fair use because traffic was directed to the website (presumably to aggregate ad revenue). Now that traffic is diverted from the website, everyone has an issue with the crawling. That is not a principled argument, but rather an argument centered around "Do I get paid?". I think we need to be more honest with ourselves about what we actually believe.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-11 01:06:17+00:00
Yeah, the article beat me to the gamedev example. Bubble sort being able to always "soft sort" on every iteration makes it the easiest to suspend and resume when you have a lot of other work to do, and when sorting is low priority.

Also, general wisdom to be mindful of data sizes and cache coherency. O(NLogN) vs. O(N^2) doesn't mean much when you're only sorting a few dozen items. Meanwhile, O(N) space can have drastic performance hitches when reallocating memory.
by vbezhenar | 2025-12-11 01:06:51+00:00
Java might not be the most popular VM in Linux, but let's talk Perl or Python. It's installed by default almost everywhere, it's probably impossible to find a useful Linux installation without these runtimes. So writing curl with Python makes perfect sense, right? It's memory safe language, good for handling inherently unsafe Internet data. Its startup time is miniscule, compared to typical network response. Lots of advantages. Yet curl is still written with C.

I've never used libcurl and I don't know why is it useful, so let's focus on curl. Of course if you want C library, you gotta write it with C, that's kind of weird argument.

My point is, there were plenty of better options to replace C. Yet people chose to use C for their projects and continue to do so. Rust is not even good option for most projects, as it's too low level. It's a good option for Linux kernel, but for user space software? I'm not sure.
by shirro | 2025-12-11 01:07:01+00:00
Australia does not have a bill of rights. Our freedoms are guaranteed by our participation in the electoral process which is very high. This government governs with a large majority and the social media legislation is broadly popular with parents and older people.

The law of unintended consequences will apply. The legislation has been written in such a way that there is some flexibility in the application and there are some safeguards but its not directly addressing some of the biggest social harms. It's primary purpose (despite the conspiracies) seems to be populism and being seen to do do something for the kiddies.

The much bigger social problem is gambling which is out of control here. The second, related problem, is the use of techniques and studies by the gambling industry in games and social media to increase engagement which is what is messing with peoples heads. The government does not dare to touch the gambling industry or stop algorithmic placement of content. This would cause immense damage to company profits and create lobbying pressure.
by sbuttgereit | 2025-12-11 01:07:39+00:00
I think your experience matches well with mine. There are certain workloads and use cases where these tools really do well and legitimately save time; these tend to be more concise tasks and well defined with good context from which to draw from. The wrong tasking and the results can be pretty bad and a time sink.

I think the difficulty is exercising the judgement to know where that productive boundary sits. That's more difficult than it sounds because we're not use to adjudicating machine reasoning which can appear human-like ... So we tend to treat it like a human which is, of course, an error.
by fn-mote | 2025-12-11 01:07:51+00:00
> The difference between sending it over a chat and handing it over to a clerk (who then photocopies it [...]

The difference is that the paper copy is local and only accessible to the hotel (and any government employee that might come knocking).

The digital version is accessible to anyone who has access to the system, which as we know well on HN includes bureaucrats (or police) with a vendetta against you and any hacker that can manage to breach the feeble defenses of the computer storing the data. That computer isn't locked down because the information is not valuable to the person who holds it; they're paid to satisfy a record-keeping law, not maintain system security.

> at least "Typing it into the computer" doesn't leave them with a picture, just most of the data.

Agreed, except now uploading a scan is the easiest way to file the data.
by echelon | 2025-12-11 01:08:02+00:00
I love Neal's work so much. He's constantly making some of the coolest stuff on the web. I'm utterly delighted every time I see his domain on the front page of HN.

I hope he never stops making these art pieces - everything he creates brings joy, regardless of whether it's educational or funny or whimsical. I'm in awe of his creative output, his manner of communication, and his ability to steal hours of our time playing ridiculous little games that make us question the fundamentals of life and society.

He's right up there with XKCD in my mind.

--

This is probably the only time I'll use my super pedantic mode on Neal's work, and it's only because I love biology -

> DNA

> The genetic instructions for life

> 3.5 nanometers tall

DNA has a lot of dimensional metrics. It gets complicated. The people that study this stuff really care because it's essential for how our enzymes work, and small differences in spacing tolerances would totally break all of the machinery.

This "3.5 nm" figure is roughly the height of one turn of the helix for one form of DNA (B-DNA). The figure is showing multiple turns in the cartoon illustration.

In theory, you could create a polymer of infinite length (or height).

B-DNA is 34 Å per turn, with 10.5 bp per turn (table 1) :

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6545/

> Blue Whale

> King of the animal kingdom, it is the largest animal to have ever lived. It can eat up to 40 million krill per day during peak feeding season.

Please fix this one, Neal! We don't know that the blue whale is the largest animal to have ever lived (even assuming we know we're just talking about earth).

Blue whales are perhaps the largest animal to have ever lived on earth. But we simply do not know. The fossil record is woefully incomplete.

We even have new papers coming up all the time that challenge this:

https://www.science.org/content/article/whale-whale-may-be-b...

Then refutations:

https://www.science.org/content/article/have-blue-whales-reg...

This is undoubtedly the last time the claim to largest will ever be challenged. Even if we dug up no new fossils, the estimations of previous finds change all the time as we learn more.

Also - what does "largest" mean? Mass? Length? Surface area?

It's okay to say that they're the largest (by some metric) that we know of. But it is not correct to say that they're the largest to have ever lived - at least as far as we know or could ever know. And by setting an absolute, inquiring minds memorize the point and stop wondering.

It's very probable that we'll never know the definitive answer to this.
by shalmanese | 2025-12-11 01:08:31+00:00
Youtube search does a baffling thing where it shows you 5 SERPs, then a bunch of unrelated things it thinks you like, then another 5 SERPs. It used to only show you the top 5 SERPs before switching to "suggested videos" for the rest of the scroll. Truly a terrible product when that was the design.