MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by octoberfranklin | 2025-12-31 08:57:46+00:00
This is why gcc and linux use mailing lists instead of github pull requests.

In the gcc/linux flow, convincing the rest of the mailing list to not ignore their message is the submitter's job.

In the github flow, keeping the "unresolved PR count" (displayed right beneath your project's title) low is the developers' job.
by cush | 2025-12-31 08:58:19+00:00
Google didn’t eliminate malicious ads - adblockers and easylists did that.

I hate to break it to you bud, but the full-page ads never went away - they just look like content now. You know why you need to scroll for 9 pages to see the ingredients to a recipe?

Google created the pageview driven business model that incentivized the internet to be filled with hostile UX, low-quality lists of paged content, affiliate spam, etc.
Squad In Sync – Kill the group chat "Where are we going?" loop
by alexcloudstar | 2025-12-31 08:58:21+00:00
I’m tired of good plans dying in 400-message threads. I just shipped an MVP that turns messy chats into a structured "logistics layer" with no login required.

Link: https://squadinsync.com

Why? Chat is a stream, but planning is a state machine. I built this to decouple the data (locations/dates) from the chatter so you can actually get your squad in sync without the mental load.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the no-friction flow.
by nr378 | 2025-12-31 09:00:20+00:00
> The simple evidence for this is that everyone who has invested the same resources in AI has produced roughly the same result.

I think this conflates together a lot of different types of AI investment - the application layer vs the model layer vs the cloud layer vs the chip layer.

It's entirely possible that it's hard to generate an economic profit at the model layer, but that doesn't mean that there can't be great returns from the other layers (and a lot of VC money is focused on the application layer).
by shiveeshfotedar | 2025-12-31 09:02:00+00:00
Its true , the interaction only works when its surrounded with other interaction. Moving all the heavy files in an video editing bay with this much pressure will just accelerate carpal tunnel.

I was interested in exploring to give more physicality to the virtual objects , they are "opened" , they "moved " I was playing with the idea if they can be "lifted" or be able to "stick" with pressure etc.
by dannye | 2025-12-31 09:02:09+00:00
One drawback.

► execute <script> at bottom of file

► execute <script defer>

Both do the same; they execute script after DOM was parsed.
When your JS creates GUI you now have to battle FOUCs.

► "import" loads your script async

so it _could_ load before _all_ DOM has parsed... but 9999 out of 10000 scenarios it won't
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-31 09:03:56+00:00
> Amazon already has not been paying any sort of income tax to the EU.

That should be expected, because

https://european-union.europa.eu/priorities-and-actions/acti...

> The EU does not have a direct role in collecting taxes or setting tax rates.

> There was a lawsuit in Belgium but Amazon has won that in late-2024 since they had a separate agreement in/with Luxembourg.

Dec 2023.

> Speaking for EU, all big tech already not paying taxes one way or another, either using Dublin/Ireland (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, ...) and Luxembourg (Amazon & Microsoft as far as I can tell) to avoid such corporate/income taxes. Simply possible because all the earnings go back to the U.S. entity in terms of "IP rights".

Ireland (due to pressure from EU) closed this in 2020. The amount of tax collected by Ireland quadrupled. See Figure 5 and 6 in link below.

https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2024/10/14/the-...
by roenxi | 2025-12-31 09:04:17+00:00
Yes I read the article. Have you read the comment you're replaying to? It clarified exactly that point. The scale of spending in the federal budget is so large that it a state billionaire tax is meaningless. They could confiscate the entire wealth of every billionaire in the US and it wouldn't make any difference to how much tax Californians are going to need to stump up, their federal commitments are far too large for it to make a meaningful difference.

And as long as this tax is being thought of entirely as a social engineering exercise that is fine as far as it goes. I think it's stupid but hey, Californians can vote for social engineering experiments. It just isn't a serious proposal for making a difference to their lives financially vis a vis the taxes they will pay. They're on the hook for a lot of taxes.
by 112233 | 2025-12-31 09:05:22+00:00
Thanks, I did read it! Things like footnote 236: "This means that an implementation is required to provide an actual function for each library function, even if it also
provides a macro for that function", where macro is shown to use compiler builtin as an example.

Again, could you please explain how compiler can decide to remove call to a function in an external dynamically loaded library, that is not known at compile time, simply based on the name of the function (i.e. not because the call is unreachable)? I do not see any such language in the standard.

And yes, calling unknown function from a dynamically loaded library totally is a side effect.
by officialchicken | 2025-12-31 09:06:09+00:00
> It's puzzling to me why some still don't understand the systemic incentives...

Then I guess you're the type who will be really surprised to learn that with diminishing rewards comes increasing consolidation.

> ... that make all this work as it has for 16 years and counting...

That's convenient way to memory hole the market flash crashes, network forks, the blocks mined without consensus, and everything bad that happened over that timeframe.
by chanchowancho | 2025-12-31 09:06:16+00:00
Yes! I once met a highly paid contract tech lead who had walked out of a lucrative contract with a supermarket after he became aware the new credit card product he was working on was to be exclusively targeted at customers in poor areas.

The moral fortitude on that man!

I applaud his actions, but genuinely do not know if I would have the stones to leave my job if I was in a similar position!
by mg | 2025-12-31 09:06:53+00:00
Is there an error in the first video at 00:25?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMXuk97NeSI&t=25

It says the input has 3 dimensions, two spatial dimensions and one feature dimension. So it would be a 2D grid of numbers. Like a grayscale photo. But at 00:38 it shows the numbers and it looks like each of the blocks positioned in 3D space holds a floating-point value. Which would make it a 4-dimensional input.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-12-31 09:06:58+00:00
Haha, no background. I might be the least educated person I know. I just enjoy learning new things, and this happened to stick with me. It's a very gratifying thing to do.

I culture plants which are popular in aquariums and terrariums. It's a nice way to get a break from software and science where I spend my days, get my hands dirty, enjoy refining different skills, make some money, and meet different types of people.
by ofalkaed | 2025-12-31 09:08:24+00:00
>Which of course causes issues when languages with more proper strings interact with C but there you go.

Is is an issue of "more proper strings" or just languages trying to have their cake and eat it too? have their sense of a string and C interoperability. I think this is were we see the strength of Zig, it's strings are designed around and extend the C idea of string instead of just saying our way is better and we are just going to blame C for any friction.

My standard disclaimer comes into play here, I am not a programmer and very much a humanities sort, I could be completely missing what is obvious. Just trying to understand better.

Edit: That was not quite right, Zig has its string literal for C compatibility. There is something I am missing here in my understanding of strings in the broader sense.
by fainpul | 2025-12-31 09:10:24+00:00
You talk about interactions. In my mind the useful part is the added information density which comes easy (we are good at judging object sizes visually, not by numbers). I also want this information before interacting with the files. The value is knowing in advance, at a glance, what you're dealing with.

When you mention CoG, spinning etc. it becomes game-like — not something I would want in a productivity focused interface. But if you're developing a game or a toy experiment, go for it.
by shiveeshfotedar | 2025-12-31 09:11:25+00:00
Yup thats a legit issue, built in the design. With your hand over the touch surface there is only one direction of the Z axis that you can apply force. I tried playing with other ideas too. Like , "sticky" where you apply some extra force to "pick it up" or adhesive , where you apply force "to stick it" to the canvas.
by cherryteastain | 2025-12-31 09:11:34+00:00
Clearly not cheap enough.

> Even at $200 a month for ChatGPT Pro, the service is struggling to turn a profit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lamented on the platform formerly known as Twitter Sunday. "Insane thing: We are currently losing money on OpenAI Pro subscriptions!" he wrote in a post. The problem? Well according to @Sama, "people use it much more than we expected."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/altman_gpt_profits/
by imiric | 2025-12-31 09:12:47+00:00
I don't see how you're avoiding development branches. Surely while a change is in development the author doesn't simply push to main. Otherwise concurrent development, and any code review process—assuming you have one—would be too impractical.

So you can say that you have short-lived development branches that are always rebased on main. Along with the release branch and cherry-pick process, the workflow you describe is quite common.
by ramraj07 | 2025-12-31 09:15:06+00:00
This is no different, and frankly far less alarming to me, than Uber's project greyball from 2017, which should have tanked a company in a just world. I suppose some companies just promulgate a culture where its acceptable or even lauded to evade law and contracts: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...
by jimmyhamdriks | 2025-12-31 09:15:21+00:00
I built a citeable explainer that converts published 2026 tables into “what it costs you” examples (and shows the arithmetic).

Highlights: ACA cap sensitivity if enhanced subsidies aren’t extended; NYC congestion pricing daily + annualized; Hawaiʻi lodging tax delta; Illinois grocery tax repeal vs local replacement; plus federal indexed tax parameters for context.

Feedback welcome, especially missing high-signal schedule changes with official tables. And happy new year guys!
by baubino | 2025-12-31 09:15:49+00:00
> Police suspect the gang may have remained inside the building for several days, using the long holiday weekend to break into the deposit boxes undetected.

Do German banks not have alarms? Another quote from the article says that witnesses saw men carrying out big bags over several days. This doesn’t seem like a complicated bank heist; it seems like a remarkable lapse in security.
by 578_Observer | 2025-12-31 09:16:17+00:00
As a loan officer, I like this policy.

We use plenty of models to calculate credit risk, but we never let the model sign the contract.
An algorithm can't go to court, and it can't apologize to a bankrupt family.

"Human in the Loop" isn't just about code quality. It's about liability.
If production breaks, we need to know exactly which human put their reputation on the line to merge it.

Accountability is still the one thing you can't automate.
by bayindirh | 2025-12-31 09:17:11+00:00
Their Ultra series motherborads were legendary for the time. Namely AN7-Ultra for AthlonXP and AN8-Ultra for AMD64.

Besides being able to overclock anything to its absolute limits, they have repurposed a keyboard microcontroller to monitor temperatures, fans and voltages on the board (aka uGuru), providing unparalleled flexibility and reliability when no other company was able to provide at that time, and after them.

Setting fan curves for temperature response was great and allowed me to run AthlonXP at 2200Mhz (200x11@1T) without excessive noise for normal tasks.

Their AN8 Ultra provided a rock solid foundation for my AMD64 system, too.

None of my capacitors have leaked/bulged despite using systems under relatively heavy load.
by throw310822 | 2025-12-31 09:17:36+00:00
It's meaningful because it shows that people like the product a lot, and for a lot of different reasons. There are only few products that can reach such market penetration, not to mention in only three years. As the quality of AI increases, people will quickly realise that they are willing to pay for it as much as they pay for electricity. And the same goes for businesses.
by imiric | 2025-12-31 09:20:25+00:00
I can guarantee that your codebase is spaghetti of conditional functionality that no developer understands, and that most of those conditionals are leftovers that are no longer needed, but nobody dares to remove.

Feature flags are a good idea, but they require a lot of discipline and maintenance. In practice, they tend to be overused, and provide more negatives than positives. They're a complement, but certainly not a replacement for VCS branches, especially in monorepos.
by aebtebeten | 2025-12-31 09:21:43+00:00
I think that notion is largely true: the military started desegregating in 1948[0]; the Civilian Enforcers not until decades later[1]. (I'd believe, recent purges notwithstanding, that the military has successfully integrated[2]; civilian society apparently ... not as much as one might have hoped, 160 years after Reconstruction[3]?)

I'm not surprised at the inflation: USD has crashed by ~20% against CHF since last year[4], so it makes sense that less real value would show up in domestic prices.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9981

[1] eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968

[2] eg I believe if it were up to career officers, US Fort Bragg would not currently be named after a CSA general

EDIT: my bad, Bragg has been retconned to refer to US PFC Roland L. Bragg instead of CSA Gen Braxton Bragg

[3] the really silly thing is that Reconstruction seems to have been thrown in the trash in order to buy southern support for WWI, yet unlike the other major XX unpleasantry, the US participation in and effect upon that conflict was minimal

[4] I lay the blame squarely on US domestic policies; others may differ...
by thijsr | 2025-12-31 09:21:47+00:00
Hi, author here. Thanks for posting this! I gave a talk yesterday at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg that goes into detail about how the vulnerability works [1]. Short summary, on affected CPUs, all of host physical memory can be read, despite commonly applied software mitigations. On Google Cloud, we were able to leak from all of the physical memory from other tenants as well, without having to interact with the victim virtual machine.

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-spectre-in-the-real-world-leakin...
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-12-31 09:24:03+00:00
That's right, it's very doable.

The technique for creating clean plants from infected plants is really cool and remarkably simple. You typically take tissue from the part of the plant called the meristem, where cells are actively dividing and less likely to be infected, then rapidly disinfect and transfer the tissue to a sterile culture.

It seems like it should be such a sophisticated and complex process, but all you're doing is cutting a chunk of fresh cells out and popping it into some goo where it can continue to grow.

Extracting meristem tissue is usually the only difficult part. They can be extremely tiny. It takes a sharp eye and very steady hands. I've only done it for practice, never out of necessity. I'm pretty bad at it.

It seems kind of like magic if you ignore the biologal machinery. It makes perfect sense why it works, yet it's also absolutely crazy that it does.
by fernandotakai | 2025-12-31 09:24:12+00:00
>Do you know of anyone declining to work on a project For ethical in their view ( non military non killing) ?

o/

i was offered a high paying job, with relocation to a 1st world country (at the time, i was living in a 3rd world country with high murder rates), to a industry that i consider quite shady (and it's not military and not around killing -- i have no issues with both of those). i politely refused.

most of my friends, at the time, told me that they would've have accepted without even thinking, but for me, it's just not worth it.
by A1kmm | 2025-12-31 09:25:29+00:00
The concept of 'positive rights' (i.e. rights that are not just that the state doesn't do something to you, but affirmative rights to something happening) has a long history, and such rights are affirmed by treaties ratified by every member of the United Nations - so the existence of such rights is broadly accepted on an international scale.

Article 25 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Huma...) declares: "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control".

UDHR is mostly aspirational - it is just a declaration with no enforcement mechanism (although there are a whole series of more binding treaties on specific issues under UDHR). The existence of UDHR does reveal what the international consensus is.

However, it is worth mentioning that positive rights are nominally obligations on the state - i.e. if people's positive rights aren't being met, it is a failure of the state in the same way as if the state infringes on their negative rights. It does not imply that every private individual needs to arbitrarily solve those failures as in your example.

So to answer your original question, according to widely accepted declarations of human rights, people are entitled to live in a society where they have the opportunity to obtain food and shelter (people who are able can be made to work for that food and shelter, but still have a right to food and shelter if they are disabled or unemployed for reasons outside their control).
by overfeed | 2025-12-31 09:26:15+00:00
> Try your best to talk to people. Having a shared hobby/interest makes for easy conversation and ice breakers.

Unfortunately for OP, they have a distaste for small talk, and yet small talk is the launchpad for any potential conversation partner.

Small talk is the lubricant for all social interactions and provides a safe, shallow harbor where people can get to know each other before heading out to deeper waters that require more earned trust. People actively reject small talk come across as socially awkward, uninterested, or both.
Would you still celebrate New Year's Day, if it wasn't a day off?
by olek | 2025-12-31 09:26:22+00:00
I wonder how many people would actually celebrate New Year’s Eve / New Year’s Day, if they could choose whether they wanted to have a day off on New Year’s Day, or they could have it whenever they wanted.

The same question goes for other public holidays, like Christmas, Passover, Independence Day, etc.
by maccard | 2025-12-31 09:28:22+00:00
Im a bit confused why you’re surprised to see American terminology on a site with a predominantly American user base, or why it’s worth commenting on.

That said, I’m Irish and live in the UK. You’ve never heard people say “I’ll hoover that”, or “you can google that”? Kleenex and band aid are definitely American ones but given the audience I thought it was apt
by piva00 | 2025-12-31 09:28:42+00:00
Protobuf is decent enough, I've used Avro and Thrift before (way way before protobuf came to be), and the dev experience of protobuf has been the best so far.

It's definitely not amazing, code generation in general will always have its quirks, but protobuf has some decent guardrails to keep the protocol backwards-forwards compatible (which was painful with Avro without tooling for enforcement), it can be used with JSON as a transport for marshaling if needed/wanted, and is mature enough to have a decent ecosystem of libraries around.

Not that I absolutely love it but it gets the job done.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-12-31 09:30:02+00:00
Sort of tangential: I used to be able to tell episodes of depression were setting in because I'd stop brushing my teeth. It was the clearest indicator I can recall.

I'd then brush my teeth hoping it would cure the depression. It clearly worked, because I'm no longer depressed. It just took a few years to kick in.

Always remember to brush your teeth.
by WoWSaaS | 2025-12-31 09:30:20+00:00
I’m trying to understand why Google is not displaying my site’s logo in search results.

The site is indexed and appears normally in SERP, but the brand logo does not show alongside the result. I’ve verified basic requirements (indexing, HTTPS, favicon, structured data present), but I may be missing something subtle related to schema, asset constraints, or domain-level trust.

Search result for context:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avect.pro

If anyone has experience with Google’s logo rendering rules, Brand entity signals, or reasons logos get ignored even when schema is present, I’d appreciate insight.

Thanks.
by alex43578 | 2025-12-31 09:30:41+00:00
There's already a lot that the US taxpayer is on the hook for that's a lot less valuable than a best on the next big thing in software, productivity, and warfare.

It shouldn't be the job of the US taxpayer to feed someone that doesn't want to work, study, or pass a drug test, and it absolutely shouldn't be the job of the US taxpayer to feed another country's citizens half a world away.
by aurareturn | 2025-12-31 09:31:33+00:00
Bing is mostly the same. Kagi is mostly the same. Yahoo, Yandex, etc. It's 2025. Hardly any difference. There were tens of search engines in the 90s and 2000s that were generally mostly the same. Yet, Google still won and owned nearly all search monetization.

Search was even easier to switch. At least ChatGPT has memory.

Most chat apps are the same as Whatsapp. All of them are free too.
by piva00 | 2025-12-31 09:32:33+00:00
> The corporate income tax rate could be zero for all I care; the money's taxed when it gets transferred to the actual people that own the corporation, anyway.

As far as I know there are quite a few loopholes to be exploited which don't trigger a taxable event, loans using assets as collateral is one of them but there are a bunch of other nice holes that creative and well paid accountants/lawyers find if you have enough money for their services.
by ur-whale | 2025-12-31 09:32:48+00:00
> However, as Bitcoin's security inevitably weakens over the coming years due to diminishing miner rewards (denominated in BTC),

Says you, without a hint of a rationale backing your argument.

It seems to me that the historical hashing rate curve tells a different story.

And block rewards have been diminishing regularly (and very predictably) pretty much since day one.
by aurareturn | 2025-12-31 09:34:01+00:00
So just raise the price or decrease the cost per token internally.

Altman also said 4 months ago:

Most of what we're building out at this point is the inference [...] We're profitable on inference. If we didn't pay for training, we'd be a very profitable company.

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/17/sam-altman/