MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-20 14:17:24+00:00
>The actual port for the actual clock, the little metal thingy that is going buzz, buzz, buzz with voltage every second on the dot? Yeah, that little port isn't actually hooked up to anything, as again, it's so sensitive (impedance matching). So they use the other ports on the card for actual data transfer to the rest of the world.

Can you restate this part in full technical jargon along with more detail? I'm having a hard time following it
by xattt | 2025-12-20 14:17:42+00:00
Some of it is likely “subconscious” long-term planning. University programs that result in high income post-graduation typically have prerequisites that include heavy extracurricular activity involvement.

The truth is if you don’t do it early, it will be harder to scale up your ECs when your kids are older, which will then lower their chances in getting into something that provides a higher degree of insurance against financial uncertainty.
by MrOrelliOReilly | 2025-12-20 14:18:59+00:00
Yes, I personally feel that the "official" benchmarks are increasingly diverging from the everyday reality of using these models. My theory is that we are reaching a point where all the models are intelligent enough for day-to-day queries, so points like style/personality and proper use of web queries and other capabilities are better differentiators than intelligence alone.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-20 14:20:13+00:00
Can you link to the source for your stats?

I'm not finding anything to corroborate that -- I'm seeing stats suggesting things like 90% of Chrome users are on the newest version after two weeks:

https://timotijhof.net/posts/2023/browser-adoption/

And Stat Counter shows that the current version of Chrome utterly dominates in any given month:

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-market-share/desk...

The glacial adoption you're describing doesn't make much sense when you consider how aggressively Chrome auto-updates, so I'm quite confused.
by temp0826 | 2025-12-20 14:20:48+00:00
Thanks for the suggestions, I do appreciate it. I was being pretty brief with my post but I really have spent a lot of time and tried this from a number of angles. I've had good luck with non-LLM tools to do the initial OCR, but it's not context aware especially about column/page breaks (like I mentioned it's kind of a dirty scan, and if the breaks happen on a Shipibo part it barfs a bit. Good for a rough search at least).

I would love to create a json version of it that would essentially have a bunch of fields for each word (Shipibo/Spanish/English word/definition/example, type of word, etc). It's further complicated by how words can be modified in Shipibo (it's actually a very technical language- words can have any number of prefixes and suffixes tagged on to change their meaning and their precision. In their "icaros", the healing songs they sing in ceremony, the most technical use of the language is considered to be the most beautiful. Essentially poetry from their "medical" jargon).

I've done some human-in-the-loop attempts but still come up short in one way or another (I end up getting frustrated and throwing my hands up after seeing how much time I dump on it). So I figure this will remain a good test as the tools (and my prompting abilities) get better. It's definitely not urgent for me.
by michaelcampbell | 2025-12-20 14:21:13+00:00
Thanks for posting that; as soon as I saw the title here I was going to look that up if no one else had already. Sabine Hossenfelder too, though there's far too much content from her on this to put a list, but anyone interested might like some of her takes.

A few debates between Brian and other notables; Hossenfelder, Eric Weinstein, and Roger Penrose to name a few; have popped up in my youtube feed lately which are typically also engaging.
by amluto | 2025-12-20 14:21:47+00:00
Skipping flushing the local disk seems rather silly to me:

- A modern high end SSD commits faster than the one way time to anywhere much farther than a few miles away. (Do the math. A few tens of microseconds specified write latency is pretty common. NVDIMMs (a sadly dying technology) can do even better. The speed of light is only so fast.

- Unfortunate local correlated failures happen. IMO it’s quite nice to be able to boot up your machine / rack / datacenters and have your data there.

- Not everyone runs something on the scale of S3 or EBS. Those systems are awesome, but they are (a) exceedingly complex and (b) really very slow compared to SSDs. If I’m going to run an active/standby or active/active system with, say, two locations, I will flush to disk in both locations.
by Iyas_Fouad | 2025-12-20 14:23:06+00:00
Hi HN, I built Mirrorify after seeing a post in twitter and noticing how often I open the camera just to quickly check my appearance, and how slow and awkward that flow still is on Android and IOS ecosystem.

if you want to do it now you need to open the camera then flip to the selfie mode this is if not distracted by notifications, messages etc.

Mirrorify lets you long-press a floating bubble on the lock screen to get a small, circular front-camera mirror — no unlocking, no full camera UI.

I would appreciate feedback, especially on UX, privacy expectations, and edge cases across different Android devices.
by JoeAltmaier | 2025-12-20 14:24:34+00:00
You must be very young. This was well-known back in the day. Lots of articles (some even posted here some time back) of rant on cars, how they were ruining everything.

Btw The cute one-line slam doesn't really belong here. It's an empty comment, adds zero to the conversation, contributes nothing to the reader. It only makes a twelve year old feel a brief burst of endorphins. Please refrain.
by atakan_gurkan | 2025-12-20 14:24:51+00:00
To make this valuable, it should produce a limited set including standard model. If you produce pretty much everything one can dream of, that does not carry predictive power.

What does string theory predict that (1) is within experimental reach in, say, 5 years (2) if not found, would prove it wrong. Was there ever anything satisfying these two simultaneously? AFAIK,the answer is "no".
by Johanx64 | 2025-12-20 14:26:05+00:00
> So far, he hasn't shown that using Jai is particularly productive for software engineering.

And how would he do that exactly to whatever ungodly standards you are setting for the man?

Many people have criticized C++ in past (which is very easy to do), yet he's practicing what he's preaching in the most direct way humanly possible, he's both (1) designed and implemented a new programming language (that has directly addressed most of the issues), whilst (2) also making a complete non-trivial game in the newly designed language at the same time.

His games have always taken long time to make, and now he's making game + engine + programming language. At the same frigging time!

The only "luxury" JBlow has is that he's an exceptional individual and you're not. He has rare combination of ability, perseverance and work ethic, and by all accounts most people are neither of those things at once.

Most criticisms 99% of time are either misrepresentitive, misinformed jealousy or something to do with politics.

I have no issue with personally acknowledging that some rare individuals are simply way better than me.

And to prevent sounding like a gushing-fanboy, I suspect that his newest game won't sell very well, because his first two games have atleast something to appeal to general public (either visuals of Witness or time travel mechanics (somewhat novel at the time) of Braid) while this game doesn't appear to have the same draw.

This game has too much of a generic-sokoban puzzler vibe to it to appeal to the general public who aren't already ardent puzzler fans (and are there enough of those and can he reach enough of them? etc). And the trailer doesn't help to change this perception.
by concinds | 2025-12-20 14:26:39+00:00
> But many claims of “broken sites” are really just evidence of lazy developers failing to test beyond Chrome or to implement graceful fallback.

Correct. People test Chrome first and often only. That'll never change because people are lazy and you have a humongously long tail of websites with varying levels of giving a shit and no central authority that can enforce any standards. Even if another browser takes other, they'll only test that one.

The solution is formal tests and the wpt.fyi project. It gives a path to perfectly compatible implementations of agreed-upon standards, and a future where *the only* differences between browsers will be deliberate (e.g. WebMIDI). Brilliant.

That's why I wish the gap between Safari TP's wpt.fyi score and Safari stable's score was shorter. Simple!
by MrOrelliOReilly | 2025-12-20 14:26:58+00:00
Totally, however OP's point was that Claude had to compensate for deficiencies versus a state of the art model like ChatGPT 5.2. I don't think that's correct. Whether or not Opus 4.5 is actually #1 on these benchmarks, it is clearly very competitive with the other top-tier models. I didn't take "state of the art" to here narrowly mean #1 on a given benchmark, but rather to mean near or at the frontier of current capabilities.
by joshstrange | 2025-12-20 14:28:31+00:00
One of the most valuable things about code generation from LLMs is the ability to edit it, you have all the pieces and can tweak them after the fact. Same with normal generated text. Images, on the other hand, are much harder to modify and the times when you might want text or other “layers” is specifically where they fall apart in my experience. You might get exactly the person/place/thing rendered but the additions to the image aren’t right but it’s nearly impossible to change just the additions without losing at least some of the other image/images.

I’ve often thought “I wish I could describe what I want in Pixelmator and have it create a whole document with multiple layers that I can go back in and tweak as needed”.
by UncleMeat | 2025-12-20 14:28:48+00:00
Hossenfelder is not really comparable to Collier. Collier's video is critical of string theory as a testable framework but she ultimately still supports people who do research in string theory. Most of her criticism is with media coverage of string theory, not the research or the researchers.

Hossenfelder has gone off the "the physics establishment is all idiots and they are suppressing the real physics" deep end and has converted specific complaints into trashing the entire field.
by Certhas | 2025-12-20 14:29:02+00:00
The thing is. There always was a strong theoretical case that Rust should improve software quality (not just because of the fact that you have a lifetime system). The only reasonable counterpoint was that this is theory, and large scale experience is missing. Maybe in high quality code bases the mental overhead of using Rust would outweigh the theoretical guarantees, and the type of mistakes prevented are already caught by C/C++ tooling anyways?

The (in recent years) rapid adoption of Rust in industry clearly shows that this is not the case.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-20 14:29:16+00:00
If the tech plateaus today, LLM plans will go to $60-80/mo, Chinese-hosted chinese models will be banned (national security will be the given reason), and the AI companies will be making ungodly money.

I'm not gonna dig out the math again, but if AI usage follows the popularity path of cell phone usage (which seems to be the case), then trillions invested has a ROI of 5-7 years. Not bad at all.
by djoldman | 2025-12-20 14:29:59+00:00
"nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is trivially disproved.

Humans arrive at conclusions about other humans based on information. Sometimes these conclusions are incorrect because humans aren't perfect at reasoning and this happens more often with some kinds of information.

Therefore, it's perfectly rational to hide/not-disclose/obscure some information to lessen the chance that others take action based on faulty conclusions.
by docmars | 2025-12-20 14:31:17+00:00
Borders can be applied to table cells independent of the content inside cells.

Gap decorations allow you to add borders between flex/grid items, but without the woes of dealing with table quirks and behavior.

Common use cases would include mimicking design patterns found in print layouts, particularly newspapers and menus, to help divide groups of items or info.

Examples: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/gap-decorations
by encom | 2025-12-20 14:32:06+00:00
Baseless fear mongering. I've had webservers raw-dogging the Internet for about 25 years. Nothing of any consequence has happened. Hasn't happened to anyone I know, either. Anecdata yes, but people are making it sound like running a webserver is like connecting a Windows XP machine to the internet - instant pwnage. It isn't.

I've been DDoS'ed exactly once. In 2003 I got into a pointless internet argument on IRC, and my home connection got hammered, which of course made me lose the argument by default. I activated my backup ISDN, so my Diablo 2 game was barely interrupted.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-12-20 14:32:09+00:00
My point was more that there's plenty of software that is not FOSS and is also not published by an identifiable legal entity

Yes, installing any software of "unknown origin" is a gaping security hole --- whether FOSS or not.

The fact that some people do dumb stuff does not negate the fact that a lot (if not most) FOSS fits in this category. Anonymous maintainers and contributors is pretty normal operating procedure which equates to zero accountability.

The common retort is, "Well, the source is available for review". But as this example shows, this is a very weak indicator of security or safety. A review is often not done before (or even after) distribution --- and certainly not with a malicious actor in charge.
by doctorwho42 | 2025-12-20 14:32:28+00:00
The answer is, no one can know for sure.

The most probably answer from the facts we have is quite simple and human... Jealousy. They both were classmates in the same overseas undergrad program, Nuno was a well established and accomplished professor in one of the preeminent tech schools in the world. While he flunked out of his program, and hasn't done much of note.
by quickthrowman | 2025-12-20 14:32:37+00:00
> Superconducting cables have progressed a lot. I’m assuming that setting up a cryogenic system to keep cables cool enough, in a confined space wasn’t thought to be worth it.

Yeah, the cost isn’t worth it.

Buying two transformers to step up the voltage on one end and step down the voltage at the other end is going to be several orders of magnitude cheaper than actively cooling cables to 20K for their entire length.
by jrm4 | 2025-12-20 14:32:55+00:00
Thank you, op, for bringing sanity to this whole thing.

Relatedly, this is why I think every "new" social media service that isn't Mastodon is barking up the most wrong tree with "take everything with you," you're essentially helping to build an even harder to erase social history.

Mastodon's individual server model, like email's, is better PRECISELY because each node is a point of "failure." That makes erasure easier. Which is good.
by frankc | 2025-12-20 14:33:30+00:00
The skills that matter most to me are the ones I create myself (with the skill creator skill) that are very specific and proprietary. For instance, a skill on how to write a service in my back-testing framework.

I do also like to make skills on things that are more niche tools, like marimo (a very nice jupyter replacement). The model probably does known some stuff about it, but not enough, and the agent could find enough online or in context7, but it will waste a lot of time and context in figuring it out every time. So instead I will have a deep thinking agent do all that research up front and build a skill for it, and I might customize it to be more specific to my environment, but it's mostly the condensed research of the agent so that I don't need to redo that every time.
by greenavocado | 2025-12-20 14:33:56+00:00
The Planck scale where string theory's distinctive physics should appear is around 10^19 GeV. The LHC operates at about 10^4 GeV. That's a factor of 10^15 which is a million billion times too weak. No foreseeable accelerator technology can bridge this gap. The proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC) would reach maybe 10^5 GeV. Still 14 orders of magnitude short.
by redbush237 | 2025-12-20 14:35:37+00:00
Lol, lmao.

Some relevant DOGE’s effects:

-time and frequency division director quit

-NIST emergency management staff at least 50% vacant

-NIST director of safety retired, and NIST safety was already understaffed when compared to DOE labs

-NOAA emergency manager on the same Boulder campus laid off

etc
by chocochunks | 2025-12-20 14:35:37+00:00
I like eBooks, I've had eReaders from Sony, Kobo, Amazon and Boox, bought from Amazon, Kobo, Google Play, and several of the smaller players like Baen. Outside of the completely DRM-free places like Baen which are very limited in selection, Kobo is IMO the easiest to get a DRM-free file in the end. Your posts were IMO very off the mark that it got me to comment. I'd rather people try Kobo than keep feeding the Amazon machine.
by kjfarm | 2025-12-20 14:36:26+00:00
Love that it is in NC! Though, I'm confused who this is for. Is it for genomics data scientists mainly or is it general compute (I would also compare with hetzner and the other clouds if you are going the general compute method). If genomics or data scientists is the main audience, is this going to grow to be more collab notebook plug and play? Very cool and wish you the best!
by clejack | 2025-12-20 14:36:33+00:00
Am I the only one who doesn't take this statement literally and immediately extrapolate it to all aspects of an individual's existence? "I have nothing to hide" is a broad statement that clearly encompasses "everything", but it's often said in the context of a specific thing that a person doesn't care about.

Those of you who would ask someone for financial information after they say this, would you also say "it's hot out side" if they described something as cool during the summer?

Ultimately, given the complexity of security, expecting there to be some cultural shift on privacy is silly unless it's made trivially easy. We can't get people to eat right, exercise, or control their screen time and social media use and all of those have more immediate and tangible consequences.

I appreciate the message, but I don't think the call to action is practical.
by HolyLampshade | 2025-12-20 14:37:07+00:00
This is not uncommon between even allies: https://www.dw.com/en/german-intelligence-spied-on-white-hou...

The issue has less to do with intelligence silliness, and more to do with the fact that the overall geopolitical objectives of the US can not be trusted, and that rift has grown to a point where self-reliance on critical infrastructure may be in Europe’s best interest.
by Lapel2742 | 2025-12-20 14:37:36+00:00
> Honest question, what is it that you hate about modal editing?

It's annoying. I'm fine with being in one mode. I'm fine with selecting 7 lines and typing "whatever". I hate "7ddiwhatever<esc>".

And yes, it may be the case that you are faster in VI(m) than I am in (choose the editor) but that doesn't matter. For me speed of typing is never critical.
by rpdillon | 2025-12-20 14:37:43+00:00
I think Snowden put it well:

> Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Your framing suggests that hiding personal messages is akin to carrying a gun into a store, and it's exactly that parallel that the blog post is railing against. Encrypting messages needs to be normal and expected.
by jmclnx | 2025-12-20 14:38:08+00:00
Where I am the last couple of years, the EU model out performed the US model. The local stations tend to show both when sever weather is on its way to the area.

We know how the current admin views science and with the cuts to NOAA done this year, I expect that trend to continue and widen. At least where I am, we get to see both.
by energy123 | 2025-12-20 14:38:57+00:00
I'm uncertain that programming will be a major profession in 10 years.

Programming is more like math than creative writing. It's largely verifiable, which is where RL is repeatedly proven to eventually achieve significantly better than human intelligence.

Our saving grace, for now, is that it's not entirely verifiable because things like architectural taste are hard to put into a test. But I would not bet against it.
by exabrial | 2025-12-20 14:39:51+00:00
> Commit-to-disk on a single system is both unnecessary

If you believe this, then what you want already exists. For example: MySQL has in memory tables, but also this design pretty much sounds like NDB.

I don’t think I’d build a database the way they are describing for anything serious. Maybe a social network or other unimportant app where the consequences of losing data aren’t really a big deal.
by runtimepanic | 2025-12-20 14:39:55+00:00
This feels like a classic case of extensions having incentives that don’t align with user expectations.

Browser extensions sit in a uniquely privileged position, and once they start touching AI chats, they’re no longer just dealing with URLs or page content but with highly contextual, often sensitive data.

We’ve seen this pattern before with “free” VPN extensions, where the business model quietly depended on harvesting or reselling user data. The mechanics are different, but the incentives look familiar.

The scary part isn’t even malice, it’s scope creep: a feature added “to improve the experience” gradually turns into large-scale data collection.

This seems less like an AI problem and more like an extension permission and auditability problem that the browser ecosystem still hasn’t fully solved.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-12-20 14:40:36+00:00
> The distinction Karpathy draws between "growing animals" and "summoning ghosts" via RLVR

I don't see these descriptions as very insightful.

The difference between general/animal intelligence and jagged/LLM intelligence is simply that humans/animals really ARE intelligent (the word was created to describe this human capability), while LLMs are just echoing narrow portions of the intelligent output of humans (those portions that are amenable to RLVR capture).

For an artificial intelligence to be intelligent in it's own right, and therefore be generally intelligent, it would need to need - like an animal - to be embodied (even if only virtually), autonomous, predicting the outcomes of it's own actions (not auto-regressively trained), learning incrementally and continually, built with innate traits like curiosity and boredom to put and keep itself in learning situations, etc.

Of course not all animals are generally intelligent - many (insects, fish, reptiles, many birds) just have narrow "hard coded" instinctual behaviors, but others like humans are generalists who evolution have therefore honed for adaptive lifetime learning and general intelligence.
by gruez | 2025-12-20 14:40:43+00:00
>Here's how the average "privacy-focused" service actually works:

> ...

>5. Confirm identity for "fraud prevention" (now we have your ID)

I can't tell whether OP is being hyperbolic but it's certainly not representative of the average "privacy-focused" service I've came across. The typical service only asks for an email and maybe billing information (can be prepaid card or crypto). The only exception is protonmail, which might require SMS verification[1], but given the problem of email spam I'm sympathetic, and it's bypassble by paying. It's certainly not the "average" service, and no service asked to "Confirm identity".

[1] https://proton.me/support/human-verification