MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flipped | 2025-12-27 06:32:49+00:00
You are missing the entire point. The money itself is fake and artificially generated at will by these authorities. Monero and any major coin has actual value because you can't just create out of thin air. Fiat is on it's edge. Look at monero's price, it's growing at record breaking point. Why? People realize it's true value and anonymity/privacy aspects.
by drysine | 2025-12-27 06:33:51+00:00
People have forgotten the old joke((

"A new monk arrived at the monastery. He was assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He noticed, however, that they were copying copies, not the original books. The new monk went to the head monk to ask him about this. He pointed out that if there were an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies.

The head monk said, ‘We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.’ The head monk went down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original.

Hours later, nobody had seen him, so one of the monks went downstairs to look for him. He heard a sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and found the old monk leaning over one of the original books, crying.

He asked what was wrong.

‘The word is ‘celebrate,’ not ‘celibate’!’ sobbed the head monk."
by array_key_first | 2025-12-27 06:35:40+00:00
The main problem with the "a little lag is fine" mentality is that, in most organizations, it's becomes cancerous. It spread and infiltrates every team, every corner.

When you have hundreds of teams and they're all doing suboptimal things for shits and giggles, that extra 500 milliseconds is now a minute.

And, the real kicker is that usually the slow stuff isn't even simpler or better. It's just naive and poorly thought out. Usually it's super simple stuff like use a hash map instead of iterating through an array a bajillion times over. Or, do this network request asynchronously instead of just blocking for no reason. Or, in the case of some suspicious Microsoft GitHub code, just use sleep() instead of spin locking.

These things aren't harder, they're just different. So it's not even laziness really, it's something else. Apathy, maybe?
by OmPatel555 | 2025-12-27 06:36:19+00:00
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by ffuxlpff | 2025-12-27 06:36:40+00:00
The sudden all encompassing popularity of smoking is one of the most astonishing things in modern history. I can think nothing that would show better the power of advertising.

Everyone knew from the start smoking is unhealthy, or at least not healthy and addictive. Nicotine probably happened to help with the new kind of stress and frustration the higher tech world caused and so it kind of answered to a real need.

Now when pretty much nobody smokes anymore, at least nobody who don't belong to underclass, it is weird reading. I remember a film of some kind of an underwater station by Cousteau and people where smoking there! A place where air for breathing is sparse if anywhere.
by fouc | 2025-12-27 06:38:17+00:00
Photon microGUI was included in that, and it blew my mind that you could literally kill and restart Photon without disturbing any of the GUI apps that were still running.

They also mailed a manual along with the demo disk, and I was amazed that QNX had built-in network bonding, amongst lots of other neat features. At the the time I was using Slackware & the linux kernel version was still 1.x, I don't think bonding came to linux until 2.x?
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-12-27 06:38:45+00:00
Indeed, but unzipping while downloading do. Analysing multiple metadata files and exporting lock data as well.

Now I believe unzip releases the GIL already so we could already benefit from that and the rest likely don't dominate perfs.

But still, being fast is just easier in rust. And so rust software is faster on average due to less friction.

Thought the main benefit of uv is not that it's fast. It's very nice, and opens more use cases, but it's not the killer feature.

The killer feature is, being a stand alone executable, it bypasses all python bootstrapping problems.

Again, that could technically be achieved in python, but friction is a strong force.

But maybe the strongest advantage of rust is that it attracts people that care about speed, safety and correctness. And those devs are more likely to spend time implementing fast software.

After all, if all those things are possible in python, we haven't seen them all in one package manager before uv.
by mindslight | 2025-12-27 06:39:07+00:00
> this “madness” today is nothing new

What is with this tendency to downplay the current drastic escalations? It feels like a kind of hipster denialism - "I was complaining about the US being a police state before it was cool" but also if it's this is "nothing new" then there's nothing to really earnest worry about, right?

How hard is it to acknowledge that we have been gradually losing our rights AND that the Trumpist bonfire is a marked departure into something much more rapid?

Surely you can see the difference between a society where occasional flagrant abuses happen but the majority can still speak out about them, versus a society where abuses are routine and anybody who speaks out becomes a target at scale?
by tangjinzhou | 2025-12-27 06:39:16+00:00
I’m making around ~$600 MRR with Mentorbook.

It’s a tool that turns long-form content (PDFs, docs, YouTube videos) into structured, personalized courses based on how you want to learn.

I built it initially for myself — I consume a lot of content but struggled to turn it into a system I could actually finish and retain.

Early users came mostly from Twitter. Pricing is intentionally low ($9.9/mo), so it’s more of a slow, steady project than a high-growth one.

Still early, but I’ve learned a lot about what people are actually willing to pay for.

https://www.mentorbook.ai
by habinero | 2025-12-27 06:40:06+00:00
Not the original poster, but that was snark and not meant literally.

Also, building your own plane is absolutely worse, even if you do have expert-level knowledge. That's true for any complex design. Aircraft design, material sourcing, fabrication, assembly and quality control are all very different skill sets, but the real kicker is experience.

The reason why commercial aircraft are so safe is a lot of work goes into investigating and understanding the root causes of accidents, and even more work goes into implementing design fixes and crew training.
by harhargange | 2025-12-27 06:40:30+00:00
As someone who owns a QNX phone, the Blackberry Q10, I’m not just optimistic of the return of the cross-platform and secure os, I’m rooting for it.
Especially for portable Linux handhelds.
If Blackberry were to just release a phone tomorrow, it would be the most secure android phone. Since i still run some of my favourite android apps on my BB10os via the android translation layer.

Some comments mentioning QNX can run Swift code makes me think of it could also run iPhone apps.

While Blackberry exited the phone market, I’m surprised to know QNX is still the most popular os for cars. With 275 million devices running it atm.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-27 06:41:27+00:00
Fair, but you could have 2025 gnome, or even KDE!

My main problem with liquid glass is it's slow, and the trade off is... a worse user experience in literally every conceivable way? Wow, okay, not a very good deal.

Granted, most downgrades in things like legibility or density are very slight. But they're still downgrades. Downgrading is only worth it if you get something out of it.
by zsoltkacsandi | 2025-12-27 06:41:31+00:00
> a questionably designed custom operator

This is the logging operator, the most used logging operator in the cloud native ecosystem (we built it).

> This is like blaming Linux for the UI in Gimp.

I never blamed anything, read my comment again. I only pointed out that problems arise when you use something to do something that is not built for. Like a container orchestrator managing infrastructure (DNS, logging pipelines). That is why I wrote to "it is super important to treat a container orchestrator a container orchestrator". Not a logging pipeline orchestrator, or a control plane for Route 53 DNS.

This has nothing to do with Kubernetes, but with the people who choose to do everything with it (managing the whole infrastructure).
by colechristensen | 2025-12-27 06:41:38+00:00
Things I really liked:

- The Murderbot Diaries (all of them)

- Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero (Sprawl Trilogy) – perfection

- Discworld series (almost all of them)

- Bobiverse serise (all of them)

- Old Man's War series

- Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir – Werner Herzog's autobiography

- The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin

- Kissinger: A Biography (approval of Kissinger not required)

- various collected works of Borges

- various works of Carl Jung

- Starship Troopers

- A Man Called Ove – made me cry

- A Stitch in Time – a star trek actor novelizing his headcannon of the character he played

- Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

- Mickey7

- Solaris

- Flowers for Algernon

- Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

- I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Things I disliked:

- The Wheel of Time (I forget how many I got through)

- Eruption – a posthumous Michael Crichton book was really terrible

- The Book of the New Sun

- The Creative Act: A Way of Being – an artist trying and failing to talk about science
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-27 06:43:42+00:00
In response to

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23475069

It seems that "third-person first" encapsulates the ALARM theory perfectly..

(Shannon's game "antibootstraps": if the machine loses twice in a row, it acts to prevent the human from learning its own strat. The "insurance[1]-dual" ? :)

In https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113189883152005058

The bottom box is labelled "emptiness, void, etc". its archaic nature would suggest it's that primordial "third person"?

[1] as usual, a shorthand for Morelly's

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

Which also points to

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

(take on solidarity later..)
by mindslight | 2025-12-27 06:47:14+00:00
Well you see before Covid, Aunt Karen could go out to a restaurant for "wine night" every week, and could even threaten to leave a bad review and get half the bill comped (she didn't need the money but it was a nice power trip). During Covid, half the tables were lOcKeD dOwN and when the hostess had the gall to tell her that she needed to wear something to cover her schnauzer, the manager took the hostess's side. So you see in many ways it was much more oppressive than being made to tan outside all day at some sunny vacation resort.
by pwnfunction | 2025-12-27 06:48:13+00:00
hello everyone, author here.

although this is self-hostable on gcp, they can get quite expensive due to the machines used. cheapest vm with nested virtualisation on gcp costs about $60/mo. on aws, you'd have to go with bare metal, which can cost you a lot more.

i think the next best thing for sandboxes is, "vm as a library", atleast for personal/small scale workloads.
by mukhayy | 2025-12-27 06:48:39+00:00
I fine-tuned LLaMA 3.1 to generate 3D furniture models—essentially teaching an LLM to output mesh structures instead of just text.
The main technical challenge was handling furniture geometry complexity. I extended the context window to 20k tokens to capture the detailed mesh representations needed for furniture (sofas, chairs, tables, cabinets).
Dataset was curated from open-source 3D model repositories, filtered for furniture categories. Training was done on verda.com's GPU infrastructure.
Demo site: llm3d.space (currently in testing mode due to GPU costs)
The approach shows LLMs can bridge natural language understanding with 3D content generation. Potential applications in e-commerce visualization, interior design tools, and AR/VR.
Happy to answer technical questions about the fine-tuning process or mesh format adaptation!
by 0biodiversity | 2025-12-27 06:49:09+00:00
That it is reported that the global AI footprint is already at 8% of aviation footprint [1] is indeed rather alarming and surprising.

Research on this (is it mainly due to training? inefficient implementations? vibe coders as you say? other industrial applivations? can we verify this by the number of gpus made or money spent? etc) is truly necessary and the top companies must not be allowed to be not transparent about this.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/18/2025-ai-b...
by EvanAnderson | 2025-12-27 06:49:55+00:00
Similar experience w/ my daughter (now 12 y/o) here. We read the heck out of children's books when she was little. There were nights when I really didn't want to slog thru the same Suzy Spafford[6] book again, but I did it anyway. I think it paid off. My daughter is an avid reader now.

She says she still wants me to read to her, so I do. This year was a bit sci-fi heavy, and we've decided to target more fantasy and literature in 2026.

This year's books included:

"Below the Root", "And All Between", and "Until the Celebration" - The "Green Sky Trilogy"[0] by Zilpha Keatly Snyder. We held off on playing the "Below the Root" video game[1] but I'm hoping that as we get into winter weather and outside time becomes more scarce we can get to it. It's arguably the final book in the "trilogy".

"Redshirts"[2] by John Scalzi. We've been slowly making our way through Star Trek TOS in the last couple years so. That gave her enough cultural fluency with the tropes in the book to make it effective.

"To Say Nothing of the Dog"[3] by Connie Willis. My daughter adores Victorian England and comedy. This book also turned her on to Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)"[4] (which I'm still working thru on my own-- I do not particularly love Victorian England but it is a good book).

Besides the books I read to my daughter, I also read Martha Wells' "The Murderbot Diaries"[5] series myself. I'm vaguely interested in the television adaptation. I'd love to hear what somebody who has read the series thinks of the TV version.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Sky_Trilogy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Sky_Trilogy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirts_(novel)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_in_a_Boat

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzy_Spafford
by varshith17 | 2025-12-27 06:50:01+00:00
Async stack traces are a nightmare. You lose the causality chain completely.

We ran into a similar issue with 'Shared Context.' We tried to sync the context between an x86 server and an ARM edge node, but because of the floating-point drift, the 'Context' itself was slightly different on each machine.

Step-level visibility is great, but did you have to implement any strict serialization for that shared context to keep it consistent?
by 578_Observer | 2025-12-27 06:50:25+00:00
Glad it resonated.

The addiction to "visible output" (like LOC) is hard to break because it feels like work. But in the AI era, "Judgment" is the new labor.

Think of it like a traditional Japanese Hanko (seal). The value isn't in the paper or the ink (which are cheap/commodities), but in the authority of the stamp that guarantees the content.

Your "tangible result" is no longer the code itself, but the trust that comes from your seal of approval. Keep guarding.
by vincnetas | 2025-12-27 06:50:37+00:00
thats why for some prison systems main goal is not punishment but rehabilitation. i think this is scandinavian approach.

"The stated goal of the Swedish prison system is to create a safer society by reducing recidivism and rehabilitating offenders rather than focusing solely on punishment. This is achieved through humane treatment, education, and reintegration programs designed to prepare prisoners for life after release."
by zsoltkacsandi | 2025-12-27 06:50:39+00:00
> Which products do you think are only “container orchestrators”? Even Docker Compose is designed to achieve a desired state from a declarative infrastructure definition.

The way how something describes the desired state (declaratively for example) has nothing to do with if it is a container orchestrator or not.

If you open the Kubernetes website, do you know what is the first thing you will see? "Production-Grade Container Orchestration". Even according to their own docs, Kubernetes is a container orchestrator.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-27 06:51:56+00:00
The text based side of protobuf is not base64 or json. We'd be looking at either CSV or length delimited fields.

Many large scale systems are on the same camp as you as their text files flow around their batch processors like crazy, but there's absolutely no flexibility or transparency.

Json and or base64 are more targeted as either low volume or high latency systems. Once you hit a scale where optimizing a few bits straight saves a significant amount of money, self labeled fields are just out of question.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-27 06:54:58+00:00
Something I like about Lego is that there are some small changes to available pieces, that result in large changes to play style.

Large flat bases to build on, or not.

Wheels, or not.

Little characters, or not.

Train tracks, or not.

Etc.

If you don't make all basic context-defining options available all the time, it keeps lego play fresh and fun.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-27 06:56:13+00:00
Right, and materially - what do you think damages EVs more? A few fires, or structural policy choice deliberately intended to destroy the industry?

Yes, we can truly both sides everything. But we can't just claim things are the same when they're obviously not.

It's clear, and indisputable, that most EV adoption is coming from green policy, particularly around the economy. And who is most responsible for that? The explicitly pro-oil republicans, or not-them?
by throw310822 | 2025-12-27 06:56:32+00:00
I'm sure we'll all get replaced eventually. But we won't be alone, the entire society is going to be upended. So we will be part of a vast social and economic experiment in which nobody will be in a position much different from ours. Hopefully, solutions will be found to avoid complete social breakdown.

So I feel like I'm on the Titanic- the ship is sinking and we're going all to hit the water eventually, the trick is to try to keep dry as long as possible. If you've been in an organisation for long, and you know the business, the people, the organisation, have domain knowledge and can contribute beyond translating to code someone else's requirements... These are all valuable assets that will keep you relevant and useful for some time.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-12-27 06:57:08+00:00
I'll throw out a recommendation for Neal Stephenson, if you're not already familiar. I like all of his stuff, personally, but the books "Zodiac"[0], "Interface"[1], and "The Cobweb"[2] (the latter two co-authored with his uncle) I think would be a slam-dunk for you, based on your list.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_(novel)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(novel)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cobweb_(novel)
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-27 07:00:14+00:00
>Saying that Trump is not allowed to be blamed is symptomatic of just how damaged the public discourse is.

He didn't say that.

The trouble is that ALL anyone does is blame Trump, when both parties have undermined US industry for the past 50 years or so. I think there is no clear solution to keeping industry here. Protectionism often undermines competition and raises costs. But with the current monetary system, and our collective labor/wage standards, we cannot compete in the long run. We will ultimately have to resort to some protectionism for critical industries.

>Too many snowflakes who are terrified of facing basic accountability for the consequences of their beliefs and actions.

I think both of our political parties are unwilling to admit fault. Unfortunately, people like you only want to shit on Trump and Republicans.

No doubt this will get several downvotes because HN is in fact overwhelmingly populated by liberals with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
by saghm | 2025-12-27 07:00:22+00:00
The corporation would be terminated, all of its copyrights and trademarks would be nullified, and the assets seized. If investors want to try to spend their money on building the exact same thing again under a different name after those losses, that's their perogatice. I suspect that after a few of these occurrences they might start to get cagey about whether they want to give money to someone who's had this happen before though.
by zingar | 2025-12-27 07:00:57+00:00
I’m still not sure why sending files to the cloud is supposed to be a disadvantage of other approaches but not this one. Whether you run your LLMs commands in this sandbox or not, content is going to the cloud if the LLM is in the cloud, and not going to the cloud if the LLM is local. It looks like data in the cloud is entirely orthogonal.
by 112233 | 2025-12-27 07:01:28+00:00
Not many normal people want to install python. Instead, author of the software they are trying to use wants them to install python. So they follow readme, download windows installer as you say, pip this pipx, pipx that conda, conda this requirements.txt, and five minutes later they have magic error telling that tensorflow version they are installing is not compatible with pytorch version they are installing or some such.

The aftertaste python leaves is lasting-disgusting.
by mrinterweb | 2025-12-27 07:03:31+00:00
The times I've been bitten by type safety issues is far less than the hassle of maintaining types. Seriously, it is a much smaller issue than people make it out to be. I will say that I do get bitten by the occasional `NoMethodError` on `nil`, but it really doesn't happen often. Since ruby is very dynamic it is hard to say how many of those errors would be caught even with type annotation. I also don't find myself needing to write specs to cover the different cases of type checking. For me it is a tradeoff with productivity.

That said, I do like it when an LSP can show some nice method signature info, and types are helpful in that way. I think it depends. At the surface level, I like some of the niceties that type annotations can bring, but I've seen how tricky defining more complex objects can get. Occasionally I would spend way too much time fighting types in elixir with dialyzer, and I've often not enjoyed TypeScript for the verbosity. So I understand the cost of defining types. To me, the cost often outweigh the benefit of type annotation.
by futuraperdita | 2025-12-27 07:06:01+00:00
What worries me is that _a lot of people seem to see LLMs as smarter than themselves_ and anthropmorphize them into a sort of human-exact intelligence. The worst-case scenario of Utah's law is that when the disclaimer is added that the report is generated by AI, enough jurists begin to associate that with "likely more correct than not".
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-27 07:07:32+00:00
The policy choice to stop subsidizing EVs makes sense. The ones on the market SUCK for normal people. If they were actually so good and fit for purpose, people would not have to be bribed to adopt them. It turns into a coupon program for yuppies to buy expensive and impractical status symbols at a discount.

In addition to individual considerations, we don't have enough electricity to run all the charging for EVs. And now, we need much more for AI. If we leave the market alone, people will allocate resources where they are actually needed the most. Any other scheme will be disappointingly inefficient.