MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-12-19 09:37:58+00:00
There are two separate ongoing projects to make a rust compiler that uses GCC as a backend (one on the gcc side adding a c++ frontend that directly reads rust, one on the rustc side to make rustc emit an intermediate format that gcc can ingest).

The long-term solution is for either of those to mature to the point where there is rust support everywhere that gcc supports.
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-12-19 09:38:08+00:00
Do not want.

Implants to regain communication or movement capabilities lost to brain injury are one thing. But since you asked about:

> basically augmenting your cognition with AGI-cloud

Being able to (somehow) mentally query the web (or some knowledge source) and wait for the result (which I imagine might be like touching an object to see if it is hot) would be maddening. I can imagine subjects getting stuck in loops, or the mental equivalent of doom-scrolling. The reward seeking mechanisms in our brains would just lock-on this stuff like mainlining a drug.

As for just having knowledge just appear in your mind, effortlessly - this could be even worse. There would be no boundaries. What happens to everyday activities? If you look at a sunset (say) or the face of someone you love, what does the implant's overlay do to the subjective experience? Of anything? It would be like never being alone or being eternally distracted, only exponentially worse.

I can easily imagine subjects being driven to psychosis or suicide.

And, of course, there will be advertising and porn, and malware and memetic replicators. Because there always are.
by tromp | 2025-12-19 09:39:38+00:00
> better privacy, or easier scaling

You can get both [1] without trading away anything except trusting Pedersen commitments to actually commit to their values (i.e. no-one ever able to compute one particular EC discrete log).

> they often sacrifice decentralization or long-term economic incentives.

One could argue that Bitcoin's capped supply sacrifices long-term economic incentives as its shrinking security budget threatens long term network security, and that an uncapped supply better serves long-term economic incentives [2].

[1] https://forum.grin.mw/t/scalability-vs-privacy-chart

[2] https://tromp.github.io/blog/2020/12/20/soft-supply
by nness | 2025-12-19 09:39:57+00:00
Every time I stumble upon this I end up losing an hour.

The Rare era Nintendo 64 games are particularly interesting from a graphical stand-point, as Rare really got the most out of the N64's limited texture cache by blending textures with vertex colours.

In Banjo-Kazooie its mostly for used as a primitive baked-lighting (Mad Monster Mansion being a great example of this.) But by the time you get to DK64, they're really working overtime to leverage vertex colours to add variety to the textures and help blend texture edges.

People refer to N64's blurry textures as its signature look, but I think what Rare did with vertex colours is really what most people think when they remember back to the N64.

(Would love to see GoldenEye or Perfect Dark maps added to this site.)
by voodooEntity | 2025-12-19 09:40:12+00:00
Funny idea, some days ago i was really annoyed again by the idea that these AI crawlers still ignore all code licenses and train their models against any github repo no matter what so i quickly hammerd down this

-> https://github.com/voodooEntity/ghost_trap

basically a github action that extends your README.md with a "polymorphic" prompt injection. I run some "llm"s against it and most cases they just produced garbage.

Thought about also creating a JS variant that you can add to your website that will (not visible for the user) also inject such prompt injections to stop web crwaling like you described
by cma | 2025-12-19 09:40:13+00:00
Let's say a VC finances a company that successfully makes cost effective fusion, would it be offset for a loss in such a way that if they had financed one that when on to try and fail the same thing it would work out the same for society?

Lots of finance stuff, like index/underlying latency arbitrage, is really zero or negative sum, but there are parts that aren't.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-19 09:40:35+00:00
I feel like it's a cultural thing with the designers. Ceragon were the exact same when I used to do microwave links. Happy to provide demo kit, happy to provide sales support, happy to actually come up and go through their product range.

But if you want any deep and complex technical info out of them, like oh maybe how to configure it to fit UK/EU regulatory domain RF rules? Haha no chance.

We ended up hiring a guy fluent in Hebrew just to talk to their support guys.

Super nice kit, but I guess no-one was prepared to pay for an interface layer between the developers and the outside world.
by _jholland | 2025-12-19 09:41:39+00:00
Obligatory Tom7 reference: [Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio)

He stores data in ICMP ping packets, but also Tetris board states, among others. If you are not familiar with Tom7, let this be an introduction to a heavyweight whimsical internet nerd
by spacedcowboy | 2025-12-19 09:41:56+00:00
Dexcom G7's are ok (I checked) FWIW.

By far the largest problem I've had is that if you move from region to region (I just escaped the USA back to the UK), there's a complication between subscriptions and regional stores.

You can't switch your region while you have an active subscription - which includes any AppleCare or other long-term (1 year, say) "subscriptions".

Applications like Glucose monitors and Diabetic Pump controllers are distinct between regional stores - a UK pump won't work with US software and vice versa, at least for Tandem.

So I had to wait for the subscription to time out. Cancelling it just means you don't pay on the anniversary, it's still active, and calling Apple support wasn't useful - they tried to help but ultimately couldn't effect any change.

Fortunately my last subscription timed out this month, and I can now use my UK pump with the UK software, linking to the UK hospital systems.

So, just beware if you move continent - you might want to make sure you time it well regarding any Apple subscriptions, which didn't occur to me before I moved.
by MadameMinty | 2025-12-19 09:42:48+00:00
That reminds me when I got a server-grade Xeon E5472 (LGA771) and after some very minor tinkering (knife, sticker mod) fit it into a cheap consumer-grade LGA775 socket. Same microarchitecture, power delivery class, all that.

LGA2011-0 and LGA2011-1 are very unalike, from the memory controller to vast pin rearrangement.

So not only they call two different sockets almost the same per the post, but they also call essentially the same sockets differently to artificially segment the market.
by protocolture | 2025-12-19 09:42:55+00:00
But not just other web pages, other apps too. So again, why a browser. Why ask firefoxs pop out expansion panel instead of a right click context menu in word, or a chat interface in copilots phat app or a website chat interface or the precious space under a google search or any of the other 10000 places people are inserting this shit.

And a copy paste task isnt necessarily going to be aided by a pop out sidebar running a local LLM chewing up already precious RAM. There's no guarantee its going to integrate correctly with the users chosen LLM provider.

Like we are looking at having LLM's inserted into almost every customer facing application. At some point, they will want a subscription for each of them or they are all going to need local resources. They are all going to have to be interoperable and run off the same account. Or you are going to have to have something that just works with the whole stack.

It doesn't make a lick of sense to try and preempt that situation, with mainline features pushed to all customers.

Googles approach, having a separate AI enabled browser makes the most sense. If it takes off its because of affirmative user consent and they can merge it into chrome. If it doesn't work they can silently discontinue it like so many other things.
by lurk2 | 2025-12-19 09:43:32+00:00
As other users mentioned, these screenshots are almost certainly not being transmitted as screenshots as the bandwidth costs would be enormous. The screenshots are converted to a hash on the user’s device before being sent to a server where the hash is compared to a database of known hashes. A user’s x-ray would just appear as a hash. This might still constitute a HIPAA violation, but I doubt it.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-19 09:44:18+00:00
Oh I would like so but I saw that the amount of compiler optimizations/optimizations in general for an architecture like arm or intel are so high that risc was unable to perform

I think I really like risc-v but I saw the performance and I am doubtful about this, so I am interested if you have any evidence/resources that I don't know of to back up this claim
by user34283 | 2025-12-19 09:45:30+00:00
This is why Grok is important.

So far it's rarely been the leading frontier model, but at least it's not full of dumb guardrails that block many legitimate use cases in order to prevent largely imagined harm.

You can also use Grok without sign in, in a private window, for sensitive queries where privacy matters.

A lot of liberals badmouth the model for obviously political reasons, but it's doing an important job.
by ehnto | 2025-12-19 09:45:36+00:00
I don't think it's quite that simple. A great deal of work has nothing to do with computers, and even more human activity has nothing to do with economic advantage. The scope of your statement is a bit too broad in that regard but for computer based work I think you are a) more or less right but b) if you are right it's not clear how much economic benefit LLMs will actually provide on balance, long term.

Does it make the world a better place, and more prosperous? Does it just move economic activity around a bit in regards to who is doing what? We'll find out in ten years when the retrospective economic studies are done.
by arethuza | 2025-12-19 09:46:01+00:00
X (the Window System not the thing that was Twitter) explicitly allowed a remote machine to send rendering commands over a network to the local machine? (I'm avoiding using the term "server" as X has this round the other way - from the users perspective the server is local and the client can be remote).

Sun's NeWS also allowed something similar - but with a large amount of programmability using PostScript.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-12-19 09:46:16+00:00
> accusing them of “secretly recording what consumers watch in their own homes.”

Secret? There's T's&C's that people agree to when starting up their TV that tells them.

That doesn't make it right of course and it shouldn't just be opt-in, it should be banned entirely. If you want to analyse my viewing behaviour, pay me.
by jwr | 2025-12-19 09:46:23+00:00
> so maybe that 1.9L Diesel engine looks more attractive now again

Sure, if you don't care about leaving a planet for your kids to live on.

But this discussion got derailed, I should not have used the muggle joke. I didn't mean to be condescending, but rather highlight how little people that don't drive EVs know about driving EVs and how they repeat the PR talking points that are being fed to us by the biggest money-making industry ever created in the history of mankind (the fossil fuel industry). Hence the mass market repeating things about "getting stuck in the middle of the highway with 2 screaming kids in the back seat" which somehow doesn't happen to people driving EVs.
by KeplerBoy | 2025-12-19 09:46:45+00:00
Authors don't pay for that personally though. Nobody bats an eye at the $1500 publishing fee for a mediocre paper, that could have been a blog post, because the institution is happy to bolster its publication count.

Heck, nobody even bats an eye if that publication is to be presented at a conference with a few thousand bucks in travel costs.
by keiferski | 2025-12-19 09:46:50+00:00
With his hands in the pockets of his jacket, he stared through the glass at a flat lozenge of vatgrown flesh that lay on a carved pedestal of imitation jade. The color of its skin reminded him of Zone’s whores; it was tattooed with a luminous digital display wired to a subcutaneous chip. Why bother with the surgery, he found himself thinking, while sweat coursed down his ribs, when you could just carry the thing around in your pocket?

We're firmly in sci-fi territory here, hence my quoting of Neuromancer. 95% of the benefits of tech seem achievable via exterior devices, whether that be glasses, a phone, or some other thing. I don't see much reason to up the invasiveness 100x while only gaining a little bit of cognitive advantage.
by heavyset_go | 2025-12-19 09:46:58+00:00
Yes, they can go to the 1 other option, where they've boiled the frog completely by matching the App Store's policies, practices and advertising schemes. The entire mobile app and mobile app distribution markets are captured by two entities, including Apple.

I'd buy your suggestion when Apple's duopoly status is rightfully fixed, perhaps by breaking out the App Store into its own independent business, along with the rest of Apple.
by ben_w | 2025-12-19 09:48:00+00:00
> People pay the mafia protection money because it's cheaper than fighting the mob and it makes the mob go away for awhile, and in the long run, we're all dead. Most mafia-like entities don't have an inexorable existential drive to take it all, they just charge what the market will bear.

If I had to guess, the Mafia will have professional economists on payroll telling the bosses about the Laffer curve and emigration.

But in this context, Apple's clearly on the low end of the Laffer curve* because they don't need a million apps, so who cares if the store fees are 15% or 85%, the supply is still there?**; while for emigration, being the least bad of the Apple/Google duopoly is all that is necessary.

* if you take literally that the App store fee is the "Apple tax"

** Answer: Judges in market abuse/monopoly cases because Apple is not actually sovereign; on paper neither is the Mafia, but this is where "monopoly on violence" is a useful definition of a state, in that where anything like the Mafia can exist, the state is de facto not sovereign no matter what it says on paper.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-19 09:48:06+00:00
Yup I had written a similar comment where I feel like stablecoins do seem to have a good idea but I still believe that the whole industry even with stablecoins would tend on becoming even more regulated and getting more integrated with centralized finance

I do feel like it would be centralized finance which would run stablecoins and not defi/crypto companies which would connect with/partner with centralized finance in my opinion tho.

Or as I said in that comment, the rise of finance superapps like coinbase so I feel like their stablecoins might be more of influence but either way, I do feel like its going to be extremely hard for people to enter the stablecoin market basically.
by spwa4 | 2025-12-19 09:48:06+00:00
Crypto provides banking services (savings, moving money, exchanging overseas money, pensions, mortgages, ...) which in a lot of countries are normally entirely exploited by the government to the point that crypto is far superior. And yes, of course that means it's for dodging taxes, moving criminal gains, and dodging sanctions by Russia and North Korea.

But in many countries "exploited" means that the country is so corrupt that "yes, but your crypto savings can disappear overnight" is not a very good argument against crypto, because the normal system has the same problem. In some countries the very currency of the country itself has that problem, and it's not always hyperinflation. For example, I've heard quite a few times from Chinese people that they prefer bitcoin over Yuan, just for the ability to dodge the banking system. Apparently one factor is that normal people can't use Yuan outside of China without very strict limits (which is another instance of "why does anyone trade with China? They are never going to allow a fair bidirectional trading relationship with their citizens. Trading with China, you can only lose".

Crypto is also the only way Venezuelans, Egyptians, and many others ... have any banking services at all.

So I would argue crypto is a lot more useful than Apple. Just not to people living in the richest countries.
by godelski | 2025-12-19 09:48:14+00:00
Last I checked Firefox was sitting at 4% browser market share. If you include Brave you just get to 5%[0].

So truth is that privacy isn't enough to get people to switch. 5% share isn't enough to stay alive and protect privacy.

> they are blindly implementing things before they are requested

This is the job of every engineer. Your job is to understand the product and where it advances and where it can help the users. The users don't know the technical side. They barely know what they want. Yes, you should listen to users but you also have to read between the lines to actually figure out what they want. Frankly, the truth of the matter is that what people say they want is very different than what they actually want.

Work with customers and you'll experience this first hand... I thought it was a big enough meme that everyone knew this

Speaking about reading between the lines, the privacy community is not very good at advocating for privacy. Look at Signal, it has similar backlash to Mozilla. The community shoots itself in the foot because the products are not perfect. But here's the thing, both Signal and Firefox are not products intended to maximize privacy at all costs. They are products to maximize privacy while being appealing to the masses. Are there more secure and private solutions out there? Hell yeah. But are those tools practical for the masses? Don't fool yourselves.

So stop with this bullshit, you're shooting yourself in the foot. You don't have to use Firefox to root for them. Go use a fork like the Mullvad browser or Waterfox. If you're a power user then just be a fucking power user. I use Arch but that doesn't mean I'm going to piss on Ubuntu every chance I get. I fucking hate Ubuntu but I'm going to root for them because every new Ubuntu user is one less for Microsoft and Apple and every new Ubuntu user is a potential new <literally any other distro is better> user. So why get angry because someone is making a step in the right direction? So what if their legs aren't long enough to get all the way to where you are (which didn't take one step either!).

So let's be very clear about this. I'm not mad at you because I want AI in Firefox (I don't), I'm mad at you because you're attacking our literal last line of defense for a secure and private internet. I'm mad at you for purity testing. Stop with this "no true Scotsman" bullshit. We can have those arguments at a later date when Firefox isn't on its last leg and/or when we have a diverse choice in browsers. But at this point *all you are doing is advocating for Chrome*. Whether you realize it our not. We've been playing this fucking game for a decade now and you can either look at the results or continue to ignore them. But it didn't work, so we need to try something else.

[0] https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-20...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-12-19 09:48:47+00:00
Not necessarily, it can be done on-device, the screenshot hashed, and the results deduplicated and accumulated over time, then compressed and sent off in a neat package. It'd still be a huge amount of data when you add it all up, but not too different from the volume that e.g. web analytics produces.

Then server-side the hash is matched to a program or ad and the data accumulated and reduced even further before ending up in someone's analytics dashboard.
by rcxdude | 2025-12-19 09:49:13+00:00
Keep in mind the definition of 'work': Bitcoin was originally intended to be a day-to-day medium of exchange, not a 'long term store of value'. It's much more of a threat to governments as the former but that really hasn't actually panned out (including in the places you mention), and it's just a random speculative asset which financial systems will toy with like any other.
by gnull | 2025-12-19 09:49:30+00:00
https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/PDF/rnd.pdf

Then you reach derandomization and it hits you once again, it shows you that maybe you can "cheat" in the same way without randomness. Not for free, you usually trade randomness for a bit more running time, but your algorithms stay deterministic. Some believe all probabilistic algorithms can be derandomized (BPP = P), which would be a huge miracle if true.
by kachapopopow | 2025-12-19 09:50:23+00:00
wow... relaxed inline tables is this a dream? that was my primary complaint with toml.

now if we found a solution for [sometimes.unavoidable.and.very.long.keys.problem] then I think there will be pretty much no replacement for toml.

thinking about it, inline tables partially solve the long keys problem, lists will still feel relatively painful.
by epochcore | 2025-12-19 09:50:58+00:00
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by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-19 09:51:09+00:00
I think I am young but I do feel like we base our expectations of 2026 from 2025 which lets admit, was not good. I do not think that there would be sudden change from 2025 -> 2026 that could fundamentally change reality if the fundamentals stay the same which in my opinion they kinda would.

I do feel like 2026 would be like 2025 but just a little better maybe or little worse.
by rhdunn | 2025-12-19 09:51:14+00:00
AI is a broad term going back to 1955. It covers many different techniques, algorithms, and topics. The first AI chess programs (DeepBlue, et. al.) were using tree search algorithms like alpha-beta pruning that are/were classified as AI techniques.

Machine translation is a research topic in AI because translating from one language to another is something humans are good at while computers are not traditionally.

More recently, the machine learning (ML) branch of AI has become synonymous with AI as have the various image models and LLMs built on different ML architectures.
Show HN: I built a self-hosted link shortener with rate limiting
by Omakidx | 2025-12-19 09:51:31+00:00
link - https://link6ync.app

The moment you submit, paste something like this (example tailored to you):

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Tech stack:

Next.js (App Router)

MongoDB for persistence

Redis for rate limiting and click counters

Edge middleware for fast redirects

Interesting challenges:

Preventing link abuse without slowing redirects

Designing analytics without third-party trackers

Handling high write volume efficiently

It’s early and not production-ready, I’d really appreciate feedback on the architecture and any mistakes you spot.