MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by albert_roca | 2025-12-25 23:34:16+00:00
Because AI has been in the center of the debate so far, I ran your comment through my AI system, and it concluded that you captured the essence of the model perfectly: the polyhedra are topological standing waves, and the edges are nodal lines. So [Pred] is the geometric attractor, and [Diff] is the amplitude of the oscillation around that limit. As I understand it myself, the polyhedra don't exist as real solids, but as an optimized way to distribute the intensity of the oscillation. Does this perspective make the results physically plausible in your view?
by array_key_first | 2025-12-25 23:35:23+00:00
You do both, but I know at work for me the problem with written communication is we just talk past each other. Writing is, still, a very distilled and compressed medium. Meaning, a lot of the information is lost when translated to writing. I've spent weeks talking over email and on ticket just to solve it within 5 minutes on a zoom call.
by bossyTeacher | 2025-12-25 23:35:59+00:00
>If you compare the viewership of Game of Thrones with the readership of the original novels

The novels are unfinished though and I hardly believe they will be completed by him seeing how the penultimate novel has taken him over a decade to do about 75% of it and him being 77 already. I would never start a series I know it is unlikely to be completed.
by Terretta | 2025-12-25 23:36:29+00:00
“LLM as editor (and how you know)”

Too many keys.

Here's the key ... Here's the key ... Here's the key ... Here's the key ... Here's the key ... Here's the key ... Here's the key ... Here's the key ...

Can't fit all these here keys on one key ring!

// That said, the sims are great, and the article instructive.
by lioeters | 2025-12-25 23:37:13+00:00
A snowflake is a 3D recursive growth algorithm over time. The macroscopic shapes are inherent in an earlier seed of molecular structure and arrangement of other factors by chance and circumstance. As they form while falling through the air, I imagine the crystalline shape grows in three dimensions, stretched by gravity or air resistance. So I'd say their design, at any moment, is a slice of a fourth-dimensional structure-over-time that can be described by a mathematical function, which ends in a wet puddle on the ground.
by dangus | 2025-12-25 23:37:27+00:00
Right, and let’s not forget that the VC game that YC plays in assumes that the vast majority of their ventures will fail.

It’s way more exploitative than it gets credit for, even those who criticize VC firms aren’t verbalizing the vastness of the scope of the issue:

Startup incubators prey on young and ambitious people’s willingness to have zero life outside of work in order to set 90% of them up to fail and make huge profits off of the 10% Airbnb-type success stories.

These VC firms have money but no talent or time of their own so they basically steal it from founders in exchange for a Hollywood or pro sports-style superstar pipe dream where most are statistically guaranteed to fail, and even those who succeed don’t keep the majority of the fruits of their labor.

These failed startup founders end up with skills that are supposedly transferable to future ventures or what have you, but I bet if someone actually tracked down a lot of these people they might find a lot of sob stories of early stage founders who ended up burning out of their early career and having the whole startup founder experience representing a net negative in their lives.
by numpad0 | 2025-12-25 23:38:07+00:00
The UI wasn't doing multitasking correctly. The [X] button was [_] button for no good reason, and users tended to leave bunch of apps burning battery not knowing how to close them(e.g. through a third party quick task switcher-killer).

The OS kernel wasn't so stable relative to anything else at that time including embedded Linux, had 32MB/process hard RAM limit that ruled out WebKit, and also the scheduler was badly designed that the UI frequently stuttered or locked up. The UI also did not utilize GPU for general UI rendering(common at the time; made an obsolete idea by Apple), tasking CPU and its bus for everything.

The device I had came with a stylus shaped like a handstrap charm that doubled as the reset button pick. Isn't that inexcusable by modern standards? Everything back then did have a recessed reset button hole, but not everything came with a carry-on tool to poke it. The WM device I had did. Which I didn't use as lifting and reseating the battery was faster.
by crote | 2025-12-25 23:38:19+00:00
> However, there will be cases where lacking the LLM output, there isn't any output at all.

Why would there be? You're using something to prompt the LLM, aren't you - what's stopping you from sharing the input?

The same logic can be applied in an even larger extent to foreign-language content. I'd 1000x rather have a "My english not good, this describe big LangChain bug, click <link> if want Google Translate" followed by a decent article written in someone's native Chinese, than a poorly-done machine translation output. At least that way I have the option of putting the source text in different translation engines, or perhaps asking a bilingual friend to clarify certain sections. If all you have is the English machine translation output, then you're stuck with that. Something was mistranslated? Good luck reverse engineering the wrong translation back to its original Chinese and then into its proper English equivalent! Anyone who has had the joy to deal with "English" datasheets for Chinese-made chips knows how well this works in practice.

You are definitely bringing up a good point concerning accessibility - but I fear using LLMs for this provides fake accessibility. Just because it results in well-formed sentences doesn't mean you are actually getting something comprehensible out of it! LLMs simply aren't good enough yet to rely on them not losing critical information and not introducing additional nonsense. Until they have reached that point, their user should always verify its output for accuracy - which on the author side means they were - by definition - also able to write it on their own, modulo some irrelevant formatting fluff. If you still want to use it for accessibility, do so on the reader side and make it fully optional: that way the reader is knowingly and willingly accepting its flaws.

The stigma on LLM-generated content exists for a reason: people are getting tired of starting to invest time into reading some article, only for it to become clear halfway through that it is completely meaningless drivel. If >99% of LLM-generated content I come across is an utter waste of my time, why should I give this one the benefit of the doubt? Content written in horribly-broken English at least shows that there is an actual human writer investing time and effort into trying to communicate, instead of it being yet another instance of fully-automated LLM-generated slop trying to DDoS our eyeballs.
by themafia | 2025-12-25 23:40:19+00:00
> If you scale this over the next years, "manual driving is over" :-D

I ride a motorcycle. Unless you make this illegal, then no, "manual driving" is not over anytime soon. Some people actually _like_ driving, although, none of them appear to frequent hacker news.

> there is nothing that can stop this?

We learned the lesson of over automation in aviation very quickly. The best solution is very often, turn off autopilot and autothrottles, then hand fly the plane. You don't want pilots with their heads down in a computer making changes when they can, and should, just fly the plane. It also tends to reduce over all competence and harms safety particularly during equipment failures.

> and you see already today that self-driving produces already much less accidents

The utility of these statistics are harmed by the fact that "self-driving" does not occur in all the circumstances that "manual driving" does today. They're barely past the foundation stage, in a limited operational scope (cabs), and in a limited operational area (where it never snows).

> Lets come back in 10 years! :-)

I think this technology will eventually be prevalent. I think hacker news constantly gets the time lines wrong. You're going to need 25, minimum, and possibly more like 50.
by fallinditch | 2025-12-25 23:40:36+00:00
Yes it sounds like a bold statement. I called Gemini out on that and it admitted that it over-egged its confidence on that assertion.

But presumably the LLMs do have some knowledge about how they are used?

On further probing Gemini did give a plausible justification - in summary:

"Creation is easy. Selection is hard. In an era of infinite content, the "most successful" writer isn't the one who can produce the most; it's the one with the best taste. Using an LLM as a distillation machine allows a writer to iterate through their own ideas at 10x speed, discarding the "average" and keeping only the "potent."
by storus | 2025-12-25 23:40:38+00:00
I know of three possible reasons:

- your supplement is a dud

- you took niacin too often (best to do it once a few days as body adapts quickly)

- you have a gene mutation that prevents you from absorbing enough B3 (common in some schizophrenia cases that can be managed by huge doses of daily B3, like 4-10g)
by cassianoleal | 2025-12-25 23:40:41+00:00
It's been a minute since I ran ZeroTier, so my memory is fuzzy.

Tailscale and ZT are not the same. ZT can do certain things that TS can't. One example is acting as a layer 2 bridge. Or a layer 3 bridge. TS can do neither. It can achieve mostly similar results though.

ZT can be a pain to setup. TS is a breeze. ZT's raw performance is quite poor. TS's is usually very good.

If I understood you correctly, you want both a way to access your home LAN when you're out - this is easy. Set up a node with NICs on the LAN subnets you want access to (I run it on my router), and configure the TS node to announce routes to those subnets. Install the TS client on your laptop and mobile and accept those routes. Job done.

If you also want to mask your egress - i.e. reach the Internet via your home network as if you were there - then you need a node (can be the same as above) configured to act as an Exit Node. When you want one of your devices to use this, just select the appropriate exit node. Job done.
by I-M-S | 2025-12-25 23:40:42+00:00
I haven't really found a way to incorporate AI into my creative process.

I do sometimes use it as thesaurus on steroids when I can't think of the right word or if I need to check grammar / sentence structure (I'm not a native speaker). I would never use AI in the way Gemini self-reports (and I doubt that's really a thing anyway).

I might be tempted to use it for episode art if I didn't have access to a professional illustrator.

I am experimenting with some AI-generated music at the moment, but that's for background cues that I'd use canned royalty-free music for anyway (emotionally important scenes have tailored-made music done by a professional composer).

One way I'm eyeing to use AI in the future is as a way to translate what are currently audio stories into video. But I feel we're still not there.
by chilmers | 2025-12-25 23:40:49+00:00
If you’re a fan of LOTR but don’t fancy reading it aloud yourself, I’d really recommend the new audio versions read by Andy Serkis. While I don’t vibe with every facet of his performance, overall it’s a tour-de-force, and really makes the prose come to life. Especially in those descriptive sections that it’s possible to glaze over when reading the text. Having an actor of the calibre of Serkis reading them to you brings out the poetry and beauty of Tolkien’s language.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-12-25 23:40:49+00:00
It's incredible that in 2025, Google has sprung for "basic competency" after operating a bad email service for 24 years.

In my case, many years ago I changed my last name. (Turns out a lot of women also do this when they do things like... get married. But also for a progressive company everyone's purchases being permanently locked to their deadname seems... bad.) But all of my Android apps, my entire digital life at the time, was permanently locked to my old name. I had another account I created as a mail forwarder but if people sent an invite to it for a Google thing it wouldn't connect to my real account, and obviously there was an added security risk of someone stealing my forwarding account.

I remember talking to Yonatan Zunger about this problem during the Google+ era and it seemed to be renaming an account wasn't something the company was capable of.
Are students replacing laptops with iPads in 2026?
by xthe | 2025-12-25 23:40:54+00:00
I’m seeing a lot of claims that modern iPads can fully replace laptops for students.
For those who’ve tried this in real life:
– What workflows actually worked?
– Where did it break down (coding, multitasking, writing, file management)?
– Would you recommend it today, or is it still a compromise?
Curious to hear real-world experiences rather than marketing claims.
by SonOfKyuss | 2025-12-25 23:41:27+00:00
So what you’re proposing here is that the Wall Street Journal of all publications is unfairly covering Trump compared to Biden and that both administrations are equally corrupt based on your observations of their past actions? I’m just going to be real with you, either you are the one carrying a bias, or you just haven’t been paying attention to the real world for the past 10 years
by colechristensen | 2025-12-25 23:41:48+00:00
Films got dramatically cheaper to produce and streaming gave them a platform to be easily distributed outside of the very exclusive cinema market.

Now the problem is quality and production. Studios don't have to be very selective at all any more so median quality has gone way down. Streaming platforms have a ton of content and terrible discovery which means there are huge volumes of mid content and a few gems that unless they are popular are impossible to find.

Publishing had a huge demographic change and is suffering from a different kind of bias than in decades past which has the same kind of diversity-limiting effect, just substituting different groups being promoted and left behind.

Culturally all over media production there's also a problem with a difficult to make distinction – "trying to be diverse" vs "actual diversity" and the imbalance is pushing people into silos: politically, culturally, and in every other way.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-12-25 23:42:36+00:00
My bad, I should not read AI generated code while drunk at a xmas party. That's the total run time for 10000 iterations.

Average time for 100 tests is hence 0.8 ms. Completely normal, and absolutely acceptable, especially for an operation as rare as routing.

Letting my previous comment as-is for historical purposes. And to remind myself I'm a dumbass.
by aristofun | 2025-12-25 23:42:51+00:00
Jesus was a real person, it’s a historical fact, not disputed by any worthwhile historians.

If 25 december is not an accurate birthday it’s okay, im happy with moving the celebration to other day if new findings arise.

I wasn’t saying that one particular way of celebrating is right or wrong. My point was about it’s only natural to pay respect to a man who influenced your life, no matter who you are and where you are in this world today. Apparently the degree of influence varies by many factors from almost zero to maximum possible.
by codedokode | 2025-12-25 23:43:10+00:00
1Tb m.2 SSD cost 70 USD in summer 2025, and probably much less when bought in bulk as a chip. It doesn't make sense to install anything less than 1Tb in an expensive premium laptop. Or it should be upgradeable.

Apple's pricing is one of the reasons I am not going to buy their laptops. Expensive, and with no upgradeable or replaceable parts. And closed-source OS with telemetry.

> Lots of people more or less use their computer as a glorified web browser

For this purpose they can buy $350 laptop with larger screen.
by teruakohatu | 2025-12-25 23:43:38+00:00
If workers (i.e. me) choose to use it without it being imposed on them, is that a morally bad thing in your worldview?

I was trying to use an obscure CLI tool the other day. Almost no documentation and one wrong argument and I would brick an expensive embedded device.

Somehow Google gave me the right arguments in its AI generated answer to my search, and it worked.

I first tried every forum post I could find, but nobody seemed to be doing exactly what I was attempting to do.

I think this is a clear and moral win for AI. I am not in a position to hire embedded development consultants for personal DIY projects.
by themafia | 2025-12-25 23:43:55+00:00
> Waymos are 100% reliable.

There is nothing in this world that is 100% reliable. The vehicles are new. Wait until they start clocking more miles.

> it will definitely actually show up at X time.

In what city and at what time of day? Waymo is just one vehicle in a sea of them. If traffic starts choking the city I don't see how they're not as vulnerable as every other vehicle.
by pottertheotter | 2025-12-25 23:45:48+00:00
This crosses from quirky to unhinged:

During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he smuggled some Vidalias onto his vacation cruise ship, and during each meal, would instruct the server to ‘take this onion to the back, chop it up, and add it onto my salad ‘.
by websiteapi | 2025-12-25 23:46:25+00:00
I like Cal Newport and own all of his books, but this sort of commentary is ultimately just pretentious. Aristocrats back in the day had similar thoughts about peasants even being literate.

I assure you, by sheer virtue of quantity, no matter what criteria you use YouTube has a [set of videos] which demonstrates quality similar to any novel or literary work.

It's true there's more garbage out there than ever before, but this is an artifact of democratization of creation and this is good imho. I also reject the premise that time to creation is an indication of quality.
by andai | 2025-12-25 23:47:37+00:00
I found this article interesting but I'm not sure I understood the point.

I think the main concern with short form video isn't taste or appetite, but just the ability to digest.[0]

Though the effects on attention might be more acute than we think. A friend of mine found that he's able to read books just fine, if he just switches off his electronics first. Suddenly his brain comes back online...

[0] See also: The mere presence of a smartphone reduces basal attentional performance [even when switched off]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36256-4
by westurner | 2025-12-25 23:47:58+00:00
ScholarlyArticle: "Green Mechanochemical Production of Amino-Acid-Derived N-Doped Graphene for Functional Vitrimer Composites" (2025) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c09378

Letter from the authors: "How sustainability is driving innovation in functionalized graphene materials" https://phys.org/news/2025-12-sustainability-functionalized-...
by Foxboron | 2025-12-25 23:50:42+00:00
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3

All talks will be live streamed, and right after the talk is done you have a rough cut available instantly under "re-live" you can watch until the final recording is available; https://streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/relive

The final recording will appear under a day or two after the talk is held: https://media.ccc.de/c/39c3

EDIT:
A different variant of the schedule with better filtering is available here: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/schedule

I should note that some talks will not be recorded, and only available at the congress. These are clearly marked on the congress hub website, but not easily available on the fahrplan view.
by nly | 2025-12-25 23:51:15+00:00
You mean like this one directly from AMD showing a median 1/2 RTT ef_vi latency of 590ns (for UDP)?

Using their latency generation card that came out just a few months ago?

https://docs.amd.com/r/en-US/ug1586-onload-user/Latency-Test...
by snet0 | 2025-12-25 23:52:07+00:00
I never said C++ was inefficient, you don't have to prove anything. It's a hypothetical, try use your imagination.

> Corporations gobbling up tax payer money to build power hungry datacenters so billionaires can replace workers is.

Which part of this is important? If there was no taxpayer funding, would it be okay? If it was low power-consumption, would it be okay?

I just want to understand what the precise issue is.
by michaelt | 2025-12-25 23:53:31+00:00
> I think the solution is pretty obvious, TBH. Pay people to take care of their family with disabilities.

Maybe, but we do also need a way to deal with people whose problems can’t be managed in a family setting.

If a person is prone to violent meltdowns with little provocation, or can’t help but steal from their family to feed an addiction, family caregivers aren’t going to be enough.
by Symbiote | 2025-12-25 23:53:41+00:00
The EU's safety rules for children's toys are impressive -- I read them out of curiosity when I was 3D printing a toy.

e.g. dropping a 1kg steel block onto the toy, and checking it doesn't break in an unsafe way (section 8.7 in the link).

https://law.resource.org/pub/eu/toys/en.71.1.2014.html#s8.7

Section A.51 is about magnetic construction toys.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-25 23:54:29+00:00
FWIW, like everything else in Wayland, it's per-compositor. Here's a working headless sway in a container:

https://gitlab.com/yjftsjthsd-g/docker_sway-vnc

(This is not a defense of Wayland, just trying to share useful information)
by brokencode | 2025-12-25 23:55:13+00:00
I’ve never heard someone describe the aluminum body as bad.. what do you not like about it?

The number one benefit is the Apple Silicon processors, which are incredibly efficient.

Then it’s the trackpad, keyboard and overall build quality for me. Windows laptops often just feel cheap by comparison.

Or they’ll have perplexing design problems, like whatever is going on with Dell laptops these days with the capacitive function row and borderless trackpad.
by delichon | 2025-12-25 23:56:35+00:00
My dad was a busy construction contractor. One summer he tore himself away from work and took the family to a week long boat camp out next to a big beautiful lake. It turned out that our campsite was actually in the lake by a few inches at high water, but dad saw a way to dam it off and keep it dry, so he grabs the shovel and starts digging trenches and building walls and ordering us around.

About an hour into that, pouring sweat, he stops cold and says "what the hell am I doing?" The flooded camp was actually nice on a hot day and all we really had to do was move a couple of tents. He dropped the shovel and spent the rest of the week sunbathing, fishing, snorkeling and water skiing as God intended. He flipped a switch and went from Hyde to Jekyll on vacation. I've had to emulate that a few times.
by ahmedfromtunis | 2025-12-25 23:57:00+00:00
I don't use TikTok but spend some time on Instagram. Despite the format, I enjoy a lot of intellectually stimulating content (and, sometimes, conversations) on the platform.

Sometimes a friend would show me their feed and I'd be shocked at how different the content they are presented by their version of the algorithm.

There are a lot of people putting a lot of effort to create very interesting content.
by verdverm | 2025-12-25 23:57:02+00:00
Politics has never been out of scope

The reason there is more when Trump is around is because he is at heart a reality TV star and his number one metric for success is how much he sees people talking about him. He acts out when it's not enough for his tastes, he says outlandish things to create buzz, many of those things impact millions or billions of people, including all the stuff we talk about here
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-25 23:57:22+00:00
I don't think you have any concept of the technologies involved here.

This isn't a case of who has the biggest gun. This is a case of someone has a gun that can wipe out your entire planet and you have a rock.

No, a planetary society cannot stop an invasion once they're in orbit. It simply is not possible, not with any technology we can even imagine.

You very much do not at all understand the argument you're making.