MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-12-06 03:12:46+00:00
Yeah. Companies like OpenAI need a lot of RAM. That is why they just bought up what is apparently a material chunk of the market.

There is a certain level of crazy that crowds can find when people identify something as a fundamental industrial product critical to national security and simultaneously someone is calling for companies buying a lot of it [0] to be made illegal. If something is critically important to industry then companies should be encouraged to dump as much money as they like in the sector. Otherwise industry will suffer.

[0] And OpenAI is probably going to turn out to be closely associated with US national security too.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-06 03:13:17+00:00
Technically having your own domains is superior, but it can be difficult to get past spam filters if you have your own domain. Not least because Google and Microsoft often automatically trash anything from custom domains. If you're ok with the delivery issues that can come with this setup, it's better. But personally I get really pissed off when my mail does not get delivered for any recipient.
by drpython | 2025-12-06 03:13:18+00:00
I stopped being a Dell customer after owning 3 XPS for 13 years.

Currently using an Aussie brand named Metabox (metabox.com.au) for virtual production workload on Windows. I've been using a Macbook Pro for the last 5 years for general-purpose tasks. Also using a few $100 "mini PCs" for home automation.
by tasn | 2025-12-06 03:13:20+00:00
Even if true (and I agree with sibling that I don't think that it is), base64 encoding/decoding feels like one of those things you'd have a micro benchmark for regardless. It's also shocking that the gap is so wide, as I feel like people working on such things would start with a fairly optimized v1.

I wonder if this is why Firefox feels so sluggish with some more complex SPAs.
by brailsafe | 2025-12-06 03:14:28+00:00
Whatever the purpose, it's clearly surreptitious.

> This level of AI paranoia is getting annoying.

Lets be straight here, AI paranoia is near the top of the most propagated subjects across all media right now, probably for worse. If it's not "Will you ever have a job again!?" it's "Will your grandparents be robbed of their net worth!?" or even just "When will the bubble pop!? Should you be afraid!? YES!!!" and also in places like Canada where the economy is predictably crashing because of decades of failures, it's both the cause and answer to macro economic decline. Ironically/suspiciously it's all the same re-hashed redundant takes by everyone from Hank Green to CNBC to every podcast ever, late night shows, radio, everything.

So to me the target of one's annoyance should be the propaganda machine, not the targets of the machine. What are people supposed to feel, totally chill because they have tons of control?
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-12-06 03:14:41+00:00
I don’t have hard data, but I think this optimal value is very closely approximated by coffee drinkers’ daily average. 400 ml is about 1.75 cups, and i think the normal distribution of coffee cups among drinkers is centered at ~2 cups. Makes me wonder if we’re all self medicating and accidentally finding the sweet spot.
by vips7L | 2025-12-06 03:15:07+00:00
Nah man. They could make checked exceptions less boiler platey. Simple things like Swift’s try! Or try?, and making the try construct an expression would go a long way to increase checked error usage and therefore correctness. We don’t even need to solve the lambda problem. We just need to make it easy to deal with checked exceptions. Right now you have a minimum 5 lines of boiler plate to escape them.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-06 03:15:07+00:00
The video shown as evidence is full of compression artifacts. The influencer is non-technical and assumes it's an AI filter, but the output is obviously not good quality anywhere.

To me, this clearly looks like a case of a very high compression ratio with the motion blocks swimming around on screen. They might have some detail enhancement in the loop to try to overcome the blockiness which, in this case, results in the swimming effect.

It's strange to see these claims being taken at face value on a technical forum. It should be a dead giveaway that this is a compression issue because the entire video is obviously highly compressed and lacking detail.
by christophilus | 2025-12-06 03:15:52+00:00
RAM is a very cyclical market, historically. You can look at $MU historical charts and kind of see that it trades like a cyclical (compare it to $RIO, for example).

Cyclical companies are easily burned by investing in infrastructure right at the peak. It happens all the time with little mining companies, and I think DRAM manufacturers are sort of the mining companies of tech.
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by plakhlani2 | 2025-12-06 03:16:11+00:00
We launched Flexy because we got tired of watching startup founders waste weeks hiring contractors for small, urgent development tasks. Here's the problem we saw repeatedly: A critical bug needs fixing today. You spend 3 days interviewing freelancers on Upwork.

You need a quick API integration. The freelancer goes dark mid-project. You hire an agency, pay 5x markup, wait 2 weeks. Your engineer is drowning in tech debt work. You want to outsource it, but hiring and managing contractors is almost as much work as doing it yourself.

Our solution: We productized software development. Instead of hiring or negotiating with vendors, you describe your task, get a fixed-price quote instantly, and a vetted developer gets to work. Most tasks ship in 1–3 days. No contracts. No management overhead. No surprises. We've delivered: - Bug fixes (critical production issues resolved within hours) - API integrations (Stripe, Twilio, third-party platforms) - UI/UX updates (responsive design, polish work) - Database optimization (queries cut from 2s to 50ms) - CI/CD automation (teams going from manual deploys to daily shipping) - Test infrastructure (legacy code now covered with automated tests)

The model: We vet developers across multiple tech stacks (.NET, Node.js, React, Python, Go, etc.). When you submit a task, we match it to the best developer for your stack and requirements.

Everything is transparent pricing—no hourly rates, no scope creep. Why this works better than alternatives: - vs. Freelancers: Variable quality, unpredictable timelines, no recourse if work is bad - vs. Agencies: Expensive, slow, overkill for small tasks - vs. Hiring: Takes weeks, adds payroll, you're stuck with capacity you don't need

Traction: Early users include Y Combinator startups, bootstrapped SaaS founders, and digital agencies managing multiple client projects.

Customers report: 50% faster turnaround than traditional hiring 30-40% lower cost than agencies Team focus stays on features, not maintenance work

We're starting with small dev tasks, but the vision is bigger: make it frictionless for any software business to access expert help on-demand, at any scale. You can see it here: https://www.flexytasks.dev/

We're in early launch and actively looking for feedback from the HN community.

What small dev tasks are slowing you down right now? What would make outsourcing actually appealing to you?
by eagleinparadise | 2025-12-06 03:17:09+00:00
I buy into this conspiracy theory, it's genius. It's literally a boiling the frog kind of strategy against users. Eventually, everyone will get too lazy to go through the mental reasoning of judging every increasingly piece of content as "is this AI" as you mentally spend energy trying to find clues.

And over time the AI content will improve enough where it becomes impossible and then the Great AI Swappening will occur.
by hearsathought | 2025-12-06 03:18:51+00:00
> The US industrialized without much in the way of large scale state industrial policy.

What? From funding the Lewis&Clark missions, to forcing japan open, to clearing out the natives for railroad companies, to helping found colleges ( check out many engineering/tech focused colleges like MIT was founded in the 1800s ). You can even argue that american independence and the civil wars were about expanding state industrial policy.

> The federal government was quite weak in the 19th century

So "weak" that we went from 13 small states on the east coast and expanded 3000 miles all the way to the pacific? What the hell are you talking about?

> I can't think of any explicit policies it established that were intended to foster industrial capacity.

The US became the dominant industrial power in the 1800s and you can't think of any policies that helped? You think all the territories in the ohio valley, texas, oklahoma, california, etc chock full of oil were just given to americans by overly generous natives, brits or mexicans? Are you a moron?

If the US didn't have state industrial policy, the US would have never become and industrial power. We'd have just gone down the jeffersonian agrarian paradise road.
by plakhlani2 | 2025-12-06 03:19:05+00:00
I'm one of the founders of Flexy. Happy to answer questions.

The insight that led to this: I watched a friend's startup spend 3 weeks hiring a contractor for a 2-day task. The friction—interviews, contracts, onboarding—wasn't worth it. But they couldn't just ask their engineers to drop everything, and they couldn't wait 3 weeks.

Productized services work great for other verticals (design, marketing, copywriting). We thought: why not development?

The hard part wasn't the development—it's the matching. Getting the right developer for each task's tech stack. We've built our vetting and matching process around that.

Feel free to ask about pricing, use cases, tech stack limitations, or why we think this is better than Toptal/Upwork/agencies. Happy to engage.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-06 03:19:31+00:00
> What type of compression would change the relative scale of elements within an image?

Video compression operates on macroblocks and calculates motion vectors of those macroblocks between frames.

When you push it to the limit, the macroblocks can appear like they're swimming around on screen.

Some decoders attempt to smooth out the boundaries between macroblocks and restore sharpness.

The giveaway is that the entire video is extremely low quality. The compression ratio is extreme.
by Telaneo | 2025-12-06 03:19:34+00:00
> "Deceiving users with blue checkmarks, obscuring information on ads and shutting out researchers have no place online in the EU," said European Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen.

I agree. Good EU!

> Pre-empting the announcement on Thursday night, United States Vice President JD Vance that "the EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage."

Sorry, but your garbage has influence outside the US. Keep it to yourself or clean up.

Deception and fraud aren't even protected by the 1st Amendment, and the blue checkmark scheme being pay-to-win is definitely leaning that way, if not just straight up there. Seems the EU thought is just is.

And if you care so much about free speech, maybe you should be more open about those ads of yours?
by rezmason | 2025-12-06 03:20:11+00:00
base64 is embarrassingly parallel. So just pipe it to the GPU:

precision highp float; uniform vec2 size; uniform sampler2D src,tab; void main(){ vec4 a=(gl_FragCoord-.5)*3.,i=vec4(0,1,2,0)+a.y*size.x+a.x,y=floor(i/size.x),x=i-y*size.x; #define s(n)texture2D(src,vec2(x[n],y[n])/size)[0] #define e(n)texture2D(tab,vec2(a[n],0))[0] a=vec4(s(0),s(1),s(2),0)*255.*pow(vec4(2),-vec4(2,4,6,0)),a=fract(a).wxyz+floor(a)/64.,gl_FragColor=vec4(e(0),e(1),e(2),e(3)); }
by swatcoder | 2025-12-06 03:20:16+00:00
Britain? Russia? China?

Admittedly, Europe was being slow to reconfigure until finally forced to do so this year but they've jumped on board now too.

And in typical historical fashion, everybody with less little influence/independence to project their own sphere are now cautiously but attentively jockeying to accumulate the best deals they can gather among those they do.

The world is far from united, even if many do happen to share opinion about the administration.
by danaris | 2025-12-06 03:21:40+00:00
> I'd like accurate communication from the beginning.

So you want magic. Got it.

In situations like the one five years ago, perfect understanding of how a new vaccine will interact with a relatively new virus is not going to be available.

Even more, perfect understanding of how good our information is at any given point in time is not always going to be available.

There were definitely some failures to communicate well with the public during that time, but demanding that only definite information be communicated, and then never be contradicted, is asking the impossible.

It also really doesn't help that there are so many people who were (and are) just so scared of everything during that time that any information coming out that wasn't 100% unquestionably positive about any new measure to try to improve things would cause them to shun it forever as too dangerous to try.
by mcswell | 2025-12-06 03:22:43+00:00
Thank you--the diagram you link is a better explanation of whey the tide "bulges up on the sides of the Earth closest to and farthest from the Moon"--the article left this entirely unclear.

In particular, I could understand how two satellites connected by a cable would result in the cable being stretched. But I still find it hard to wrap my mind around the fact that we get a high tide where the Earth's gravity and the Moon's add (the far side of the Earth from the Moon), but we also get a high tide on the opposite side, where the Moon's gravitational pull is subtracted from the Earth's. The centrifugal force is (I think) a much better explanation. (I realize physicists don't consider that a force, but...)

So yes, tides really are weirder than I think.

(The other facts in the article were actually familiar, e.g. the fact that the tides in Hawaii are quite small, because it's not far from an amphidromic point.)
by TheTaytay | 2025-12-06 03:23:46+00:00
Yes! Thank you! He is talking about AI generated summaries being inaccurate, which is plenty to get up in arms about.

A lot of folks here hate AI and YouTube and Google and stuff, but it would be more productive to hate them for what they are actually doing.

But most people here are just taking this headline at face value and getting pitchforks out. If you try to watch the makeup guy’s proof, it’s talking about Instagram (not YouTube), doesn’t have clean comparisons, is showing a video someone sent back to him, which probably means it’s a compression artifact, not a face filter that the corporate overlords are hiding from the creator. It is not exactly a smoking gun, especially for a technical crowd.
by filleduchaos | 2025-12-06 03:23:48+00:00
Oh, I do have a fully-formed argument for this that I should probably write out at some point :)

The gist of it is that Rust is (relatively) the French of programming languages. Monolingual English speakers (a stand-in here for the C/C++ school of things, along with same-family languages like Java or C#) complain a lot about all this funky syntax/semantics - from diacritics to extensive conjugations - that they've never had to know to communicate in English. They've been getting by their whole life without accents aigu or knowing what a subjunctive mood is, so clearly this is just overwrought and prissy ceremony cluttering up the language.

But for instance, the explicit and (mostly) consistent spelling and phonetics rules of French mean that figuring out how to pronounce an unfamiliar word in French is way easier than it is in English. Moods like the imperative and the subjunctive do exist in English, and it's easier to grasp proper English grammar when you know what they are. Of course, this isn't to say that there are no parts of French that an English speaker can take umbrage at - for example grammatical gender does reduce ambiguity of some complex sentences, but there's a strong argument that it's nowhere near worth the extra syntax/semantics it requires.

On top of all that, French is nowhere near as esoteric as many monolingual Anglophone learners make out; it has a lot in common with English and is easier to pick up than a more distant Romance language like Romanian, to talk of a language in a more distant family (like Greek or Polish). In fact, the overlap between French and English creates expectations of quick progress that can be frustrating when it sinks in that no, this is in fact a whole different language that has to be learned on its own terms versus just falling into place for you.

Hell, we can take this analogy as far as native French speakers being far more relaxed and casual in common use than the external reputation of Strictness™ in the language would have one believe.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-06 03:24:52+00:00
This link is to a Mastodon thread which links to another blog post which links to an actual source on ynetnews.com which quotes another article that has a quote from a YouTube rep. Save yourself the trouble and go straight to that article (although it's not great either): https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg

The key section:

> Rene Ritchie, YouTube’s creator liaison, acknowledged in a post on X that the company was running “a small experiment on select Shorts, using traditional machine learning to clarify, reduce noise and improve overall video clarity—similar to what modern smartphones do when shooting video.”

So the "AI edits" are just a compression algorithm that is not that great.
by fallous | 2025-12-06 03:24:58+00:00
"My architecture depends upon a single point of failure" is a great way to get laughed out of a design meeting. Outsourcing that single point of failure doesn't cure my design of that flaw, especially when that architecture's intended use-case is to provide redundancy and fault-tolerance.

The problem with pursuing efficiency as the primary value prop is that you will necessarily end up with a brittle result.
by komali2 | 2025-12-06 03:25:39+00:00
Clicking through his links to various posts about e.g. stack pointers or flame graphs, my takeaway is he's an outlier in productivity, and got a lot done in 3.5 years at a monstrously large organization.

I'm pretty envious of his capabilities, in 3.5 years I can ship a couple webapps, I would never personally get JVM compilation flags added.
by cyberax | 2025-12-06 03:25:42+00:00
Before committing to plugs, I tried temporary plugs made of (essentially) collagen. They completely seal the tear ducts, and they were just as effective as my current plugs. And my plugs have been in place for 10 years so far.

> The lipid emission will heal partially if one supplements vitamin A (10k IU) softgel, omega-3 triglyceride ester, taurine, and at least 4K IU of vitamin D3. It will heal enough to work.

Omega-3 acids help a tiny bit, and I'm getting D3 and A from multivitamins. And I'm doing all other recommended stuff: eyelid washing, compresses, IPL, etc. Over the years, I tried discontinuing all of that a few times, and my symptoms worsened as a result. But not by much.

PFHO is the most effective "artificial tears" type product. Nothing comes close to it.
by smj-edison | 2025-12-06 03:26:14+00:00
What form of interfaces would you want? Something trait-based? Rust's orphan rule has bitten me many times now, and it causes consolidation around certain libraries. Something like Go's interface, where the signature just needs to match? That would be nicer than the current situation with `anytype`, but I don't know if it's better enough to justify a full interface system. Curious to hear your thoughts.
by hiworld6543 | 2025-12-06 03:26:20+00:00
You could get it in any state, if you are not expecting anyone else to pay for it. All his panel did was not recommend it be given universally, which you are free to ignore. They didn’t ban it.

The only effect of the panel’s recommendations is to guide insurance reimbursement. The recommendations give insurers the leeway to insist that young, healthy people get a checkup before a vaccine is covered.

New York, like every other state and RFK junior himself, politicized it. But that doesn’t change the fact that the vaccine recommendations don’t prohibit use of them.

But nice try.
by Arainach | 2025-12-06 03:26:40+00:00
What does "actually contributed" mean?

Joe implemented feature A. Sandra implemented feature B. Raj implemented C. All launched in July. Since then metric X is up 20%. Who gets credit, and what does that credit really mean?

Now say all 3 did that in 3 different products. One produced a 200% improvement in an internal product, one a 40% improvement in a product with thousands of users, one a 1% improvement in a product with a billion users? Compare *that*.
by Metaboat | 2025-12-06 03:26:52+00:00
thank you sir! i can improve the html op css was 152, we have the whole page at 144

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by ChrisArchitect | 2025-12-06 03:27:16+00:00
Being driven mad by conspiracy paranoia about 'face filters' (possible compression artifacts) is a great example of being AI-pilled.

And then the discourse is so riddled with misnomers and baited outrage that it goes nowhere.

The other example in submitted post isn't 'edits to videos' but rather the text descriptions of automated captions. The Gemini/AI engine not being very good at summarizing is a different issue.
by AmbroseBierce | 2025-12-06 03:27:48+00:00
You are right! Would you like me to pretend I'm able to generate better responses if you just give me more input but will end up just wasting your time and your money? And with some luck when you inevitably end up frustrated you will conclude that it was your fault for not giving me good enough input and not mine for being unable to generate good output, in other words that to you just need to get better at GPTing.
by themafia | 2025-12-06 03:27:48+00:00
Advertising is not particularly expensive as it is, go look up the "rate card" for your favorite broadcaster, even if you increased those rates by an order of magnitude they would still be approachable by most clients. You would also expect that if the cost of ads go up then the number of "avails" for them would go down.

Collective industry groups would advertise more and politicians would advertise a lot less.
by coliveira | 2025-12-06 03:28:37+00:00
There's already a huge number of AI generated channels in youtube. The only difference is that they're uploaded by channel owners. What's is gonna happen very quickly (if not already) is that Youtube itself will start "testing" AI content that it creates on what will look like new channels. In a matter of a few years they'll promote this "content" to occupy most of the time and views in the platform.
by jascination | 2025-12-06 03:29:13+00:00
This, but Real-Debrid. No need to self-host TBs of content and manually download them.

This slightly outdated guide helps you set it up pretty easily - instead of Zurg+ Black hole, use Decypharr

https://savvyguides.wiki/sailarrsguide/

Real-debrid == imagine a huge cloud storage service. You have 1000 people trying to download Burgonia.4k.mkv. it downloads the torrent once to the shared server, then gives each user their own access to it via a WebDAV mount.

WebDAV == trick you server into thinking a cloud server is a local folder. You use RClone to mount this and it's accessible from your local drive so you can stream all your stuff directly.

What this means: you add a show in Sonarr or a movie in Radarr. Prowlarr searches Torrentio or Zilean for torrents. The best match is chosen. It sends to Decypharr (or black hole) to say "download this torrent to my real debrid box". It finds the cached version of the file, which is instantly available in your drive. It's symlinked so Plex can pick up the file.

Basically the lead time from requesting a movie/series to watching it on your tv is about 10 seconds, with no storage overhead required.