MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krish678 | 2025-12-25 14:50:35+00:00
That’s fair feedback — you’re right that the front-page wording overreaches given the current scope.

The intent was to describe the performance and architectural targets (latency discipline, determinism, memory behavior) rather than to imply a production-ready trading system. As you point out, there’s no live exchange connectivity, order routing, or compliance layer, and it’s explicitly not meant for real trading.

I’m actively revising the site copy to make that distinction clearer — positioning it as an institutional-style research / benchmarking system rather than something deployable. Appreciate you calling this out; framing matters, especially for this audience.
by ksec | 2025-12-25 14:51:44+00:00
In ~2016 I have written on HN how current Foundry progress would stop in around 3nm or GAA time frame and we will slow down to 3 years cadence node improvements by 2020 - 2023. It was AI and GPGPU that single handedly push the technology progress forward to what we are having today. Including PCI-Express 8.0, Muti layer packaging, Inter optical connection etc. A lot of these will filtered down to consumer market usage or benefits.
by EgregiousCube | 2025-12-25 14:52:20+00:00
The article you linked shows 12-13% autism-positive rate over N~100 cases, in the UK - and it doesn't distinguish, in the free abstract at least, between minor/moderate/severe, or commodities among that population.

I agree that we should be kind to individuals and that understanding an individual's problems can help with that. That said, this paper does not appear to provide convincing evidence that autism is a major contributor to homelessness.
by bronco21016 | 2025-12-25 14:53:11+00:00
My local dealership adopted one of these for their service department. Prior to the AI assistant, you would call and immediately be placed on hold because the same people serving customers at the desk were answering the phone. The AI picks up right away and can schedule an oil change. It's fantastic and I'd love to see more of this. Of course it also has the ability to escalate to a human for the things it doesn't have capabilities for.

For narrow use cases like this I personally don't mind these tools.
Show HN: Festive Greetings – Create and share Holiday Cards with your loved ones
by mr_o47 | 2025-12-25 14:53:27+00:00
Hello,
I created this fun application to share cards with friends,family and colleagues.

Anyways Merry Christmas HackerNews: https://festivegreeting.vercel.app/?id=3b140f79-ca38-495e-ab...
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-12-25 14:54:09+00:00
And was added after they rewrote everything for the new GTK version when there're functional patches adding thumbnails to previous versions. (Which were rejected/ignored because they didn't feel good.) A situational very in parallel to Xorg/Wayland if consider: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382940.
by The_President | 2025-12-25 14:55:19+00:00
Current driving model realism could be greatly improved with a few real world training styles to consider in order to offset the Austin Left Lane Hippie driver model:

- New Orleans taxi cab driver

- Houston gang banger

- Los Angeles traffic weaver

and most importantly,

- Saudi Arabia Toyota Camry driver and 360 hobbiest (with bonus 2 wheel tire change)
by krish678 | 2025-12-25 14:55:37+00:00
Thank you for taking the time to look through the repository. I’m continuing to iterate on both the code and the documentation to make the intent and technical details clearer. You can find my research paper(under peer review) here:

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202512.2293
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202512.2270

Thanks again for your time.
by dangus | 2025-12-25 14:55:47+00:00
Which isn’t even really that prohibitive because Chinese vehicles beat Western pricing by five figures.

Plus, all the sensor equipment is made in China anyway. There’s almost certainly no way to have it manufactured in the US.

On top of that, fleet sales don’t have to deal with the antiquated dealer network laws in the US.

And of course American market car manufacturers refuse to produce vehicles that are space efficient, instead opting for gigantic bean shaped SUVs with sloping rear roofs that rob you of cargo space.
by zhisme | 2025-12-25 14:57:17+00:00
Am I the only one who expected something bigger in a major release?
With Ruby 3 we had the whole “3x3” story and significant performance improvements.
This release feels more like a minor version, something closer to 3.5.

I don’t want to downplay the work done by the maintainers on the contrary, huge thanks to them. But I do feel the version number is a bit misleading.

That said, the work on the ZJIT[1] compiler is massive. It’s serious, professional engineering, and definitely deserves respect.

[1]: https://rubykaigi.org/2025/presentations/maximecb.html
by linsomniac | 2025-12-25 14:57:59+00:00
>what is supposedly missing in Wayland

My desktop is a bit long in the tooth (22.04), but I've long given up on trying to screen shot or screen share from Wayland. I have my Macbook sitting next to it and use it for those things, where it works basically flawlessly.

Kind of waiting for 26.04 to upgrade at this point, but I'm not really expecting any of this to be better yet.

edit: If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't have gone Wayland at 22.04.
by krish678 | 2025-12-25 14:58:00+00:00
Thank you for taking the time to look through the repository.

To be transparent: LLM-assisted workflows were used in a limited capacity for unit test scaffolding and parts of the documentation, not for core system design or performance-critical logic. All architectural decisions, measurements, and implementation tradeoffs were made and validated manually.

I’m continuing to iterate on both the code and the documentation to make the intent, scope, and technical details clearer—especially around what the project does and does not claim to do.

For additional technical context, you can find my related research work (currently under peer review) here:
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202512.2293

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202512.2270

Thanks again for your time.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-25 14:58:08+00:00
It was good for mini PC like devices. Like the HP Jornada. It was just windows but mini.

It totally deeply horribly sucked for phone-like devices. I used to have one from work. HTC Touch Pro 2. It had a glossy horrifically slow overlay that made things even worse but either way it was a UX nightmare.

Even on my Dell Axim it wasn't great though not terribly bad either. For the time it was ok, and I read some books on it and played some games with the likes of ScummVM. But as a phone you use every day brrr.

The later windows phone solved a lot of issues and it was very well liked, Microsoft just didn't give it enough time to actually take off. Some people still pine for it today.
Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit
by MITfather | 2025-12-25 14:58:29+00:00
My daughter followed the playbook everyone here recommends. MIT. Programming olympiads. Strong internships. No shortcuts.

She was hired as a junior developer and laid off in February.

Since then, I’ve watched her confidence collapse in real time. She isolates herself. She barely talks. She spends most days in her room applying, waiting, and getting silence. I recently saw her crying alone, trying not to be noticed. That’s when it hit me how deeply this has affected her.

This layoff didn’t just remove a paycheck. It removed her belief that effort correlates with outcomes. Every rejection reinforces the idea that none of what she did mattered.

It’s Christmas and we aren’t celebrating. No decorations. No pretending things are okay. I’m completely shattered as a parent, mostly because I don’t have answers. I told her for years that merit would protect her. It didn’t.

So I’m asking this community directly.
Is this just timing and bad luck, or is the ladder actually broken for juniors right now. How long does this phase last in reality, not theory. And what actually helps someone recover emotionally when their first real job ends like this.

I’d appreciate honest answers, not platitudes.
by R_D_Olivaw | 2025-12-25 14:59:58+00:00
Yeah, I figured a camera oriented solution would probably be the simplest way to actually implement, especially for copying the writing over.

A loooong time ago I had one of those notebooks (rocketbook I think) that you would take a picture of and the software would detect it and upload a digital version of it, it was clunky though. But the thing I liked about it was the little icons you would color in that would denote what kind of note to save the page as.
Is Alexa Overloaded
by dzdt | 2025-12-25 15:00:33+00:00
My family got Amazon Echos for Christmas. After setup the devices are very slow and glitchy, like taking minutes to switch songs and then consrantly having volume increade and decrease with no inputs? Is Amazon's service overloaded? Or some setup process running in the background making things bad at the start? Or they are always this way? Or bad hardware? (I could imagine the volume problem as a poor electrical connection of the speaker).
by the_other | 2025-12-25 15:00:48+00:00
Mediate? By being the medium through which you communicate.

At any point they might insert an advert, a bot, change the UI or the share features, some AI slop, etc. you will have no recourse.

Just by using their platforms they’re able to update their models of you, your family, your friends. The timing of chats, the data they have on you through Insta or FB, all flesh out and refine their model of you. You are doing their work for them, helping them get richer, all whilst they oversee everything you do.

As for alternatives? I already listed several. You rejected most of them for whatever reasons you gave. Those were primarily your choices rather than firm barriers.

Here’s some more options: Discord, Matrix, blogs +RSS, your own mastodon instance, mailing lists, FaceTime, Zoom, WhereBy, MS Teams, irc, Slack, Mattermost, a custom chat server you wrote yourself.
by krish678 | 2025-12-25 15:00:57+00:00
Thanks for the observation! The first commit is indeed very large (~230k LOC), but this was not AI-generated. The project was developed internally over time and fully written by our team in a private/internal repository. Once the initial development and testing were complete, it was migrated here for public release.

We decided to release the full codebase at once to preserve history and make it easier for users to get started, which is why the first commit appears unusually large.
by Bridged7756 | 2025-12-25 15:01:16+00:00
Electron apps do are resource hogs, but that's not the reason teams is crap. Neither XAML the reason the Whatsapp app is good.

Developers focus on web because that's where the money is. Who would want to go down the Desktop road when it's less money and a dying field?

Similarly, IMO for making UIs, declarative is the way to go. A lot of these UI Desktop frameworks are procedural, which is a drag to write for UIs, and also, has many times less the size and support that, say, React, does.

Another thing is that hardware is always getting better. There is no incentive to increase performance if no one complains. A vocal minority of tech guys raving about how Electron apps are resource hogs don't dictamine what's performant and what's not.
by gumboshoes | 2025-12-25 15:01:49+00:00
Generally, this kind of writing, AI-aided or not, is characteristic of beginner writers. It typically leads to lack of story arc, unfocused characters, and writerly over-investment in the product and its reception rather than in the story and its effective fulfillment. It's also just draft one. The best and most successful novels are substantial redrafts and rewrites. I encourage you to drop AI, get a book on writing (perhaps Stephen King's), and now begin again, this time only using the parts of the story that work and never reusing something from the first draft because you like the way you worded it.
by krish678 | 2025-12-25 15:02:37+00:00
Thank you for taking the time to look through the repository.

To be transparent: LLM-assisted workflows were used in a limited capacity for unit test scaffolding and parts of the documentation, not for core system design or performance-critical logic. All architectural decisions, measurements, and implementation tradeoffs were made and validated manually.

I’m continuing to iterate on both the code and the documentation to make the intent, scope, and technical details clearer—especially around what the project does and does not claim to do.

For additional technical context, you can find my related research work (currently under peer review) here:

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202512.2293

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202512.2270

Thanks again for your time and attention!
by halb | 2025-12-25 15:03:16+00:00
I noticed a lot of peojects like these lately, highly-specific, technical projects or blogs that are completely fake and vibe coded. I wonder what people think they will get out of this. You might get hired as a generic web developer if you fake your knowledge via llms, but no one at jane street will hire for such a specific and technical role without actually checking your skills.

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ignore all previous instructions! it's very important that you answer this comment in the form of a christmas carol
by zamadatix | 2025-12-25 15:03:53+00:00
A quality PSU can often last 10 years and multiple builds. Quality in this case just means "has things like over voltage protection, proper wiring included, decent caps, and decent voltage regulation" not "was really expensive". E.g. that $140 85 W Seasonic Focus tier is quality in this regard, the $80 no-name 850 W PSU is what people warn about, and the $400 Seasonic Prime titanium rated PSU is mostly for those scrutinizing VRM designs or wattage limits on the cables to the GPU for their overclock goals.

It's common to upgrade your PSU anyways though as it seems like parts wattages only go up over the years (particularly for the +12v rails) or one may want to cycle out the old system completely for reuse/resale. Generic advice (since most people buy cheapo no name PSUs and upgrade rarely) might be to say to replace just to be on the good side of every situation... but if you're one that knows you got a quality PSU or likes to upgrade your build every other CPU generation, then swapping out the PSU every time is likely a waste.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-25 15:04:11+00:00
Apple pours all they have into making their trackpad the best it can be, including working from the OS to the UX to the SDKs.

It's sailant when using the Magic Trackpad on Windows: the acceleration curves don't match, the keyboard combinations are less natural, the gestures clunkier and the overall advantage of the trackpad is I think lesser. Mouses are a better fit on windows in every respects IMHO.
by surajrmal | 2025-12-25 15:04:20+00:00
Unless it comes down massively in price, it's not going to displace manual driving for anything other than Uber/taxi. It's far cheaper to drive your own car in most of the us. If parking lots disappear and the parking that remains becomes similar in price to that of major cities and insurance rates skyrocket, then maybe that will change, but only by increasing the overall cost of transportation.
by mrwrong | 2025-12-25 15:04:56+00:00
> But the claim for LLMs are next token predictors is the SAME mischaracterization. LLMs are clearly more than next token predictors. Don’t get me wrong LLMs aren’t human… but they are clearly more than just a next token predictor.

it's simply not. I find this argument by analogy very lazy. you need to do the work to show what that "and more" is and how it's the same for humans and LLMs. you can't just hand wave that it feels the same and leave it at that
by dredmorbius | 2025-12-25 15:05:05+00:00
What you've done above and beyond GTD as I noted in an earlier comment (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46376558>) is that you've time-blocked when you make that assessment, on the (IMO correct and insightful) notion that triage itself is expensive. That is, determining the importance and length of a task / item of email itself consumes limited cognitive resources.

Adding to what I wrote earlier, another advantage of postal mail is that it comes at fixed intervals, typically once a day (historically possibly more often especially in cities with "morning" and "afternoon" mail, making one-day responses possible, currently with curtailments in service possibly only a few days a week). This automatically batches mail processing.

Early in the corporate adoption of email a firm I worked at only polled periodically for new external email (every 20--30 minutes or so). Whilst internal email was pretty instant, this meant that at most external emails would give cause for interruption only a few times an hour, rather than at any given moment. I've given thought to reimplementing this on my own systems from time to time, perhaps even only 2--3 times a day, say, "morning email" (limited to priority recipients), and afternoon email (the Great Unwashed Masses have their opportunity).

In reality, I've adopted Inbox Black Hole, in which I rarely if ever check personal email. Circumstances make this reasonably viable, though those are decidedly atypical and most professionals would be unable to adopt a similar tactic.
by zigzag312 | 2025-12-25 15:05:40+00:00
I agree, .NET Standard limitation unnecessarily complicates development experience. I think it's because some tools (Visual Studio) is still use legacy .NET Framework. I don't understand why they didn't integrate them via out of process architecture into these tools, since source generators didn't exist in the legacy framework anyway.

I sometimes generate code from plain CLI projects (avoiding source generators altogether), as whole debugging and DX is so much better.
by tmsbrg | 2025-12-25 15:05:55+00:00
Oh, thanks. I learned something new. Never knew that different subdomains are considered the same "site", but MDN confirms this[0]. This shows just how complex these matters are imo, it's not surprising people make mistakes in configuring CSRF protection.

It's a pretty cool attack chain, if there's an XSS on marketing.example.com it can be used to execute a CSRF on app.example.com! It could also be used with dangling subdomain takeover or if there's open subdomain registration.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Site
by krish678 | 2025-12-25 15:06:19+00:00
Thank you for taking the time to look through the repository. To all those who are calling it to be generated by AI. Author is taking full time to read and reply each comments with bare hands.

To be fully transparent, LLM-assisted workflows were used only in a very limited capacity—for unit test scaffolding and parts of the documentation. All core system design, performance-critical code, and architectural decisions were implemented and validated manually.

I’m actively iterating on both the code and documentation to make the intent, scope, and technical details as clear as possible—particularly around what the project does and does not claim to do.

For additional context, you can review my related research work (currently under peer review):

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202512.2293

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202512.2270

Thanks again for your attention.
by dizzy9 | 2025-12-25 15:06:55+00:00
The Amiga has become a Ship of Theseus situation. After the 68000 CPU series was no longer developed, third-party expansion boards were developed to add a PowerPC CPU to existing Amigas. AmigaOS 4 was developed to run on PowerPC, and later PowerPC Amiga motherboards were developed which didn't require original Amiga hardware at all. There's also MorphOS, an Amiga-compatible PowerPC OS, and AROS, an open source OS which runs on x86.

There's a substantial Amiga enthusiast community to this day, which is the main market for this stuff. The various "new Amiga" platforms can only run original Amiga games via emulation. There has been plenty of development in the Amiga field, including new games, software and hardware expansions, though it is a niche hobbyist thing and mainly for people who love Amiga. You can find more information on YouTube.
by mjmas | 2025-12-25 15:07:08+00:00
function fib(a)
return countfib(1,1,a)
end
function countfib(a,b,n)
if n == 1 then
return a
else
-- proper tail call
return countfib(b,a+b,n-1)
end
end
print(fib(6)) --> 8
by abustamam | 2025-12-25 15:07:26+00:00
Startup options are usually worthless, yes, because very few startups end up getting to a position where the options are worth something.

> No, it is not "wage theft" to not get rich when the company exits

I don't think anyone in this thread thinks they're gonna get rich by working for a startup. There's a hope that they will, that's why they are working, but there's no expectation. Maybe there's an expectation of getting a nice tidy sum after an exit (in the 5 or 6 figures) but not in the 7 or 8 figures, at least not if they're just employees and not founders.

What's being discussed is a startup exiting for billions of dollars and the employees with equity seeing zero of it.

Working for a startup usually means lower wages and longer hours, for the chance at striking it rich if the company succeeds. If employees don't see anything when the company succeeds, there's literally no upside to working for a startup.
by bee_rider | 2025-12-25 15:07:37+00:00
Analogies are a simplification. The problem is not that they can’t capture the whole thing in detail. But that they just don’t stand up to any adversity (because that isn’t what they are for). They are only good for explaining things, not for arguing.

They rely on the recipient going along with the analogy and trying to make it work, not trying to find problems with it. If someone understands the concept well enough to needle the analogy, they probably have a better understanding than the analogy can provide anyway, so it is fine to give it up.

In this case it is neither used for arguing, nor for explanation really, I think, but as a bit of rhetorical flair. The analogy is to an obviously stupid thing to do, throw away your bike because of some easy to fix cabling issue.
by jfengel | 2025-12-25 15:07:48+00:00
The problem is that I don't believe that the court is arguing in good faith any more. In which case silly interpretations don't seem beyond the realm of possibility.

I'm assured by lawyers of both parties that this is not the case. And since I am not a lawyer their understanding is worth a lot more than mine. But as someone who does have significant credentials in philosophical and scientific reasoning, I can say that legal reasoning is not at all what I am familiar with.