MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andsoitis | 2025-12-06 22:50:52+00:00
> hypnagogic state”. This is the twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness, when we drowsily linger in a semi-conscious state, experiencing vivid mental images and sounds.

There’s hypnagogia and hypnopompia. Both are liminal states between conscious and unconscious processing.

Hypnagogia is the transitional phase as you’re falling asleep, while Hypnopompia is when you are waking up.

Highly highly recommend trying out liminal dreaming.

It is a great place whence ideas may be harvested.
by chmod775 | 2025-12-06 22:50:56+00:00
The majority of treatments people ever thought up and think up today are somewhere between useless and terrible ideas. Whatever you think is looking so exciting right now, there have been a million other things that looked just as exciting before. They do not anymore.

We didn't come up with these rules around medical treatments out of nowhere, humanity has learned them through painful lessons.

The medical field used to operate very differently and I do not want to go back to those times.
by colechristensen | 2025-12-06 22:51:28+00:00
Eh.

Right now, Claude is good enough. If LLM development hit a magical wall and never got any better, Claude is good enough to be terrifically useful and there's diminishing returns on how much good we get out of it being at $benchmark.

Saying we're satisfied with that... well how many years until efficiency gains from one side and consumer hardware from the other meet in the middle so "good enough for everybody" open models are available for anyone who wants to pay for a $4000 MacBook (and after another couple of years a $1000 MacBook, and several more and a fancy wristwatch).

Point being, unless we get to a point where we start developing "models" that deserve civil rights and citizenship, the years are numbered to where we NEED cloud infrastructure and datacenters full of racks and racks of $x0,000 hardware.

I strongly believe the top end of the S curve is nigh, and with it we're going to see these trillion dollar ambitions crumble. Everybody is going to want a big-ass GPU and a ton of RAM but that's going to quickly become boring because open models are going to exist that eat everybody's lunch and the trillion dollar companies trying to beat them with a premium product aren't going to stack up outside of niche cases and much more ordinary cloud compute motivations.
by tsoukase | 2025-12-06 22:51:40+00:00
The following are my half-processional half-radical POV.

Autism and schizo- spectrums have a common base/mechanism: impairment of psychic functions (lack of empathy and non verbal commun, shallow feelings, social distance and similar). Their difference is autism starts at early childhood (maybe birth?), before any intelligence, language, soul and personality has evolved, while schizo/psychosis starts later (after teen age) when all these are fully developed.

The impact of each disorder on behaviour is different due to the different state it finds the rest of the brain. The maturity in schizo, for example, is the cause of its "positive" symptoms like hallucinations/delirium because the brain is full of images and words. On the other side autism heavily blocks social and verbal skills because it kills any "motive" of the brain to develop further from a very early stage.
by Levitz | 2025-12-06 22:51:41+00:00
It's a fridge. We are not talking a server, a raspberry pi, a phone, we are talking about a fridge.

Do you want to talk to my 70 year old father about how he should come up with solutions to ads on his fridge? Yes he can grab a garbage bag and some tape, we can all probably agree that the day stuff like that is commonplace we have very, VERY evidently failed as a society when it comes to dealing with this specific issue.
by yesfitz | 2025-12-06 22:52:24+00:00
The paper cited only studied software engineers at one Fortune 500 firm over 5 years, but the article states (emphasis mine), "[The paper] found that younger workers suffered career-wise by working from home, receiving less training and fewer opportunities for advancement."

It would be less disingenuous to suggest all workers wear hard hats citing a study of construction workers. At least that has been replicated.
by unsigner | 2025-12-06 22:54:12+00:00
Freely available and openly editable maps might be one of the things that we take for granted, but are simply an abberation of a brief period of peace and civility; now we'll return to the default hobbesian state of affairs.

See also: beautiful, detailed aerial photos of oil refineries posted by amateur drone photographers to public sites. Submarine cables and oil tankers, carrying the world economy on their shoulders without any protection out there at sea.
by latincommie | 2025-12-06 22:54:43+00:00
Not really, what keeps every media outlet doing that is the fact that China is the biggest economy in the world, and is an active enemy of western bourgeoisie. That is explicit defined in USA/UK and all major central capitalism countries currently.

You want another example of western hipocrisy? Everyone started worrying about a "massacre" on Xinjiang, WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE (the source was... Radio Free Asia, which is CIA). But then, the Palestian massacre came to news again with Israel large-scale deleting women and children from existence, and suddently everyone forgot of Xinjiang and genociding middle-east people is allowed. Wonder why?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-06 22:55:02+00:00
Well we have over a century of media and it should be diverse enough to serve everyone. The issue is we're shifting towards a future full of McDonalds and Dennys instead of culture. Safe, inoffensive slop that you grab because you're hungry, not curious.

It's also almost like we shouldn't have one restaurant serve 300m people. Aka a monopoly.it'll collapse overtime anyways, because of you're competing on slop you can't beat the social media model of a bunch of low cost addictive TikToks for "free". The race to the bottom was already won and ot doesn't cost $25/month.
by trollbridge | 2025-12-06 22:55:44+00:00
The IBM PGC (1984) was a discrete GPU with 320kB of RAM and slightly over 64kB of ROM.

The EGA (1984) and VGA (1987) could conceivably be considered a GPU although not turning complete. EGA had 64, 128, 192, or 256K and VGA 256K.

The 8514/A (1987) was Turing complete although it had 512kB. The Image Adapter/A (1989) was far more powerful, pretty much the first modern GPU as we know them and came with 1MB expandable to 3MB.
by ALhn909090 | 2025-12-06 22:56:14+00:00
You know what I appreciate. The tool does not pretend to be something huge. It is focused. Paste link, get card, group them. That is it. And this solves a real problem for me because I research in bursts and I always lose track of what I found earlier. A heavy project management tool is too much. A plain text file is too little. This sits in the middle in a nice way. GREAT!
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-06 22:56:31+00:00
Have you ever tried to pay a bank to do something for you ?

Trying to get some scale, you're hypothesizing about giving 10 millions to HSBC to make business with your startup, when they're throwing away 500+ millions every year just to cover their money laundering.

https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...

And we're discussing doing this for basically every major banks.
by franga2000 | 2025-12-06 22:56:44+00:00
I have the same issues in Zed and VS Code, but somehow everything works in PyCharm. Even all the double underscore nonsense in QuerySets that I've never seen work enywhere else. I don't use it very often because I mostly work from my potato of a laptop these days, but when I really just need to Get Shit Done, I sacrifice 10 browser tabs to reclaim some RAM and open PyCharm.
Ask HN: Is Opus 4.5 scaring the crap out of you as well?
by consumer451 | 2025-12-06 22:57:24+00:00
Opus 4.5 follows instructions, understands all my tool calls, it understands context, it has a very recent cutoff date... ummm...

I can now one-shot, or two-shot, slightly significant features. I still review all commits line by line, but I find far fewer issues using my angentic dev tools of choice. Am I nuts, or is this like a Sonnet 3.5 level step change?

Of course, anything truly significant requires creating docs, manually reviewing and editing them, then finally implementing, which still has many issues, but the difference in the last few months is blowing my mind and scaring me.

Also, once structured outputs come out of Beta and are available on Azure, I will replace almost every single LLM API call in my own apps with Opus 4.5. Gemini for search grounding, Opus 4.5 for everything else?
by valleyer | 2025-12-06 22:57:31+00:00
Yes, though it's worth stating that it's a little more nuanced than that, since (for historical, path-dependent reasons) the compiler and libc are often independent projects (and libc often includes a bunch of other stuff beyond what the standard/compiler need).

This is the case, for example, on macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux.

Cute username, BTW.
by Swizec | 2025-12-06 22:57:56+00:00
Having grown up less-well-to-do and post-communist/socialist, my favorite thing to remind people is that working class women always worked. The idealized past of stay-at-home moms never happened for a large majority of families.

Sure sure my great grandma was “stay-at-home”. That meant feeding an army of ~8 kids and any additional farm workers every day for 60+ years. She wasn’t stay at home, she ran a cantine. And worked the farm during peak harvest season.

I’ll never forget a quote from a BBC documentary (Ruth Goodman I think): ”While victorian science cautioned that weight lifting is bad for women, the women working their kitchens tossed around 100lb pots every day”
by programd | 2025-12-06 22:58:22+00:00
I'll go further. Ignore the Perl specific bits and Conway's "Perl Best Practices" is one of the best general programming books ever written.

It has so many great pieces of advice that apply to any programming task, everything from naming variables, to testing, error handling, code organization, documentation, etc, etc. Ultimately, for timeless advice on programming as a profession the language is immaterial.
by techblueberry | 2025-12-06 22:58:27+00:00
I will pre-empt this by saying I most certainly look to the past with rose colored glasses, and some of this is for sure childhood nostalgia, but one thing I appreciate about the aesthetics of the past is they felt more… Honest; for lack of a better term. Things made out of wood and metal were actually made out of hardwood and metal. Not so many composites that fall apart instead of wear ala wabi-sabi. So I think there’s something to the fact that the past was kind of “cute”, just not in all storybook way.

Theres a lake I visit in the summer that I’ve been visiting since the 80’s, and the houses used to all be wood cottages with no fences, now they’re all mansions, many walled off. Sure the houses weren’t insulated, and you would be crammed in there together, but it felt way more…. Human? Communal?
by pstuart | 2025-12-06 22:59:34+00:00
That's absolutely a fair dig but it's far more complex than that. Our whole manufacturing base being outsourced is on the corporations who chose that "cost-cutting" path.

And it's not an entirely binary choice on protecting neighborhoods and views; for example what's happening in south Memphis with the power plant that's powering the Grok center there is a classic case of environmental racism -- they are cutting costs on pollution regulation because they have a community that they can dump the externalized costs on via their emissions.

Nobody's saying Grok shouldn't have the power, it's just a small detail on how that impact is managed.
by RickJWagner | 2025-12-06 22:59:36+00:00
Well, some of what you have written is agreeable to me.

Remembering that Obama built the steel cages for immigrants, I believe you are not placing blame only on the present administration. I find that fair.

FWIW, the ACLU takes a similar stance. They condemn Trump strongly, and condemned Obama just as strongly. I find no fault with their reasoning there, either.
by creer | 2025-12-06 22:59:39+00:00
One-liners is one of the ways you can use perl. You can also use it as the embedded language in some larger project. As perl CGI. As mod_perl. etc. There is no "cultural pressure" to use any of these. You can choose to mess around with one-liners and you can choose to spend time shaving a few characters off your code. Or not. None of this is the one true way. This is not python.
by jychang | 2025-12-06 22:59:40+00:00
What's not to believe? Qwerky-32b has already done something similar as a finetune of QwQ-32b but not using traditional attention architecture.

And hybrid models aren't new, MLA based hybrid models is basically just Deepseek V3.2 in a nutshell. Note that Deepseek V3.2 (and V3.1, R1, and V3... and V2 actually) all use MLA. Deepseek V3.2 is what adds the linear attention stuff.

Actually, since Deepseek V3.1 and Deepseek V3.2 are just post-training on top of the original Deepseek V3 pretrain run, I'd say this paper is basically doing exactly what Deepseek V3.2 did in terms of efficiency.
by dhosek | 2025-12-06 22:59:44+00:00
Back in the Apple ][ days, the timing for writing to the cassette port and to the speaker were identical (just poking different addresses), so you could load audio from cassette using the ROM routines to read a program from tape, then use a modified routine that wrote to the speaker address instead of the cassette port address to play back the audio at 1-bit quality. It kind of sounded like something recorded off AM radio.

I also remember a lot of experimenting with timing to try to get a simulation of polyphonic sound by trying to toggle the speaker at the zeros of sin aθ + sin bθ.
by visioninmyblood | 2025-12-06 23:01:34+00:00
I tried this by using an gemini visual agent build with orion from vlm.run. it was able to produce two different images with five leg dog. you need to make it play with itself to improve and correct.

https://chat.vlm.run/c/62394973-a869-4a54-a7f5-5f3bb717df5f

Here is the though process summary(you can see the full thinking the link above):

"I have attempted to generate a dog with 5 legs multiple times, verifying each result. Current image generation models have a strong bias towards standard anatomy (4 legs for dogs), making it difficult to consistently produce a specific number of extra limbs despite explicit prompts."
by mhb | 2025-12-06 23:01:40+00:00
https://www.amazon.com/Start-up-Nation-Israels-Economic-Mira...

"Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel -- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK?"
by Aperocky | 2025-12-06 23:02:08+00:00
The biggest difference is that tascli supports records natively - you can use it to just record stuff. This is one of the main reason why I created it - I didn’t just want tasks, but also when I have anything notable to jot down.

Other than that, I try to keep tascli as simple as possible so it can stay small and concise. Putting `tascli list task today` in zshrc is really nice to have a reminder everytime I open a new terminal tab.
by lukan | 2025-12-06 23:02:32+00:00
"Phenomenal for those low powered servers you just want to leave on and running some tiny batch of cronjobs [1] or something for months or years at a time without worrying too much about wear on the SD card itself rendering the whole installation moot."

Yes, this is exactly what I want, except I need some simple node servers running, which is not so ultra light. Would you happen to know, if this still all works within the ram out of box, or does this require extra work?
by defrost | 2025-12-06 23:03:10+00:00
MAUD made repeated paper approaches to the US to convince them of the feasibility of a weapons program, these were ignored.

Mark Oliphant made several advances and presentations in person before the US were convinced.

It's on record that regardless of any papers read, whether from the UK group, the Germans, the Japanese, et al. US scientists largely remained skeptical that a bomb was possible until repeated outside influence resulted in outside scientists baby walking them through the approach and the numbers.

> You are mixing the order of events.

* The German Instrument of Surrender was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, ending World War II in Europe. It was signed at 22:43 CET on 8 May 1945

* Trinity was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project.

It would appear Germany did, as stated, surrender before the US had an actual working atomic bomb.

> Every part of the engineering and design of the bombs was done in secret in the US without any other country collaboration.

is straight up ahistorical; both the UK and Canada were deeply invovled in the project until, at least, the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. They played a crucial role in technique (magnetic seperation, etc.), raw material provision, provided a number of personal, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_contribution_to_the_Ma...
by LorenPechtel | 2025-12-06 23:03:34+00:00
I've burned them before. It's pretty effective if you understand the true goal. Despite the name you do *not* want to actually burn the weed! Burning the weed is no better than cutting off the part you burned--which obviously doesn't work very well. The objective is to give as much as possible of the weed a light singe--it takes a bit of experience to even see anything. The weed spends all it's energy healing the damage and dies.
by TrnsltLife | 2025-12-06 23:04:04+00:00
Well, people call it the gift of discernment.

The New Testament instructs the elders of a church to evaluate the messages brought by people who share a message or claim to prophesy. We're also instructed to "test the spirits" to see if they are from God. And to search the Scriptures in order to see if what people say is consistent with the teaching that has been given from God.

If you don't believe in God, divine revelation, and God speaking to people in their lives, then I'm not sure why you'd find her assertion creepy, it might make more sense to just find her and the entire Christian belief system false and mostly irrelevant.

At any rate, I doubt she was claiming spiritual authority over everyone else as you put it, more like saying God gave her a spiritual spidey sense or BS meter to help her personally and to help caution her local congregation or the people in her life.

It's a le legitimate claim within Christian teaching but I can't speak to her use of the gift. People's use of spiritual gifts isn't autonomous, but prophecy, preaching, administration, hospitality, discernment, and so on should be regulated within the Church body by the oversight of other Christians.
by chasil | 2025-12-06 23:04:08+00:00
I will admit to you that Brave historically had many problems with bad behavior:

https://old.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_b...

The lobste.rs site has taken hostile speps towards Brave:

https://lobste.rs/s/iopw1d/what_s_up_with_lobste_rs_blocking...

Still, Brave does offer a few unique advantages.

- it is equivalent to Chrome on sites that require it, and does not have the compatibility problems of Firefox

- Ad block is built in

- it is easily available if you are not running Play and GMS

- it is a mature browser, where most everything works as expected

- the bad aesthetic choices that have been introduced to Brave so far are easily undone

No, it's not perfect, but there are use cases.
by Neywiny | 2025-12-06 23:04:26+00:00
Right. It's bit packing and unpacking. Currently dealing with a 32 bit system that needs to pack 8 11 bit quantities each subsisting of 3 multi bit values into a 96 bit word. As you can imagine, the assembly is a mess of bit manipulation and it takes forever. Ridiculously it's to talk to a core that extracts them effortlessly. I'm seriously considering writing an accelerator to do this for me
by jychang | 2025-12-06 23:04:35+00:00
The catch that you're missing is that Deepseek did this ages ago.

They're just using MLA, which is well known to reduce KV size by 90%. You know, the MLA that's used in... Deepseek V2, Deepseek V3, Deepseek R1, Deepseek V3.1, Deepseek V3.2.

Oh, and they also added some hybrid linear attention stuff to make it faster at long context. You know who else uses hybrid linear attention? Deepseek V3.2.
by baobun | 2025-12-06 23:04:44+00:00
> I'm making the point that, in modern English, no other verb is available for the act of creating a poem.

Make, Create, Formulate.

> I am forced to tell people who ask me that the English translation of 姓 is "last name", despite the fact that the 姓 comes first.

"Family name" is availabe, commonly used and a better traslation than "last name" here, no?

> Similarly...

You're probably pretty alone in this thinking.

I don't think the metaphysical argument about Sisyhus is interestng or relevant.

I don't consider all movies to be literature. Do you consider all movies to be literature by definition?

I also write computer programs and banking checks. Does that make them literature to you?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-06 23:05:41+00:00
>I know I'm going to get downvoted to oblivion but I don't care.

I wasn't going to downvote you till this part.

Anyways, I disagree. But it really comes down to what you value in a story. You're not going to get the rich lore of Mordor, or even Tamriel in a 2 hour runtime. Movies excel at creating character moments, and any kind of worldbuilding that isn't built on an entire series will feel shallow. Or maybe boring because it will take the entire runtime and you have nothing to attach to.

Samurai jack feels like a great example. It could have been a focus oneshot on how Jack got back to the past and beat Aku. A great one, even. But that's not what the show is about. It's showing the long term effects of aku' reign, how society adapted around it, how the next generation receives propaganda to keep serving their tyrant, and the small bits of rebellion and hope shed among it. Jack getting back to the past to undo all that wasn't why Jack is thought of as a great hero. It's the influences he had and seeds of hope he sowed among the dystopia

(And yes, now Netflix owns that).
by Lariscus | 2025-12-06 23:06:31+00:00
It also buffers the downloaded data completely into memory last time I checked. So downloading a file bigger than the available RAM just doesn't work and you have to use WebClient instead.

Another fun one is Extract-Archive which is painfully slow while using the System.IO.Compression.ZipFile CLR type directly is reasonably fast. Powershell is really a head scratcher sometimes.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-12-06 23:07:46+00:00
This is deeply worrisome and brings to mind when Russia attacked Chernobyl, and then their soldiers got radiation poison digging latrine trenches etc. Let us dangerously hypothesize that if Confinement begins to fail catastrophically, who will step in to fix it? Russia? Is it.. possible Russia will allow the leak as a form of weapon?
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-06 23:08:01+00:00
Good enough? There's no such thing.

People said that "good enough" about GPT-4. Now you say that about Claude Opus 4.5. How long before the treadmill turns, and the very same Opus 4.5 becomes "the bare minimum" - the least capable AI you would actually consider using for simple and unimportant tasks?

We have miles and miles of AI advancements ahead of us. The end of that road isn't "good enough". It's "too powerful to be survivable".