MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ang_cire | 2025-12-13 08:40:45+00:00
Not wanting centralization under one company does not equal advocating for "trustless society".

All the things you mentioned (registrars, ISPs, registries, etc) have multiple alternative providers you can choose from. Get cut off from GCP, move to AWS. Get banned in Germany, VPS in Sweden. Domain registration revoked, get another domain.

Lose your Apple ID, and you're locked out of the entire Apple ecosystem, permanently, period.

Even if a US federal court ordered that you could never again legally access the internet, that would only be valid within the US, and you could legally and freely access it by going to any other country.

So in fact, rather than everything being equivalent to Apple's singular control, almost nothing is equivalent (really, only another company with a similarly closed ecosystem).
by holigot | 2025-12-13 08:40:54+00:00
What a nightmare - hope everything will end well.

Concerning all those 'bricked' devices it would be really nice to get some more details concerning the 'block'.

Can you use your iPhone to call someone, can you use your MacBook overall? Login, use Apple Passwords(!), looking at photos within photos app and so on...

Or are all those devices completely locked?
by richardatlarge | 2025-12-13 08:41:23+00:00
not pavlov conditioning -- in Skinner's three term contingency, the stimulus context acquires meaning/significance related to the consequences of a response. a neutral or even negative stimulus (context) can become it's own reward through this process. this conditioned stimulus explains most animal and human experience. Humans are especially prone to constructing meaning based on the primal.

Think of the senses: sound becomes talking, music, etc. food become cuisine, obesity, and anorexia. eyes becomes art, movies, etc. desire becomes porn, s@m, etc.

meaning is constructed, socially constructed, or what skinner call "learning." His masterwork, long forgotten, is the "generic nature of stimulus and response." Generic as it open to near total manipulation

skinner was the man
by userbinator | 2025-12-13 08:42:10+00:00
Unfortunate name, as "CM0" is a common abbreviation for the ARM Cortex-M0 core.

Browsing the web on here is almost completely out of the question, since it only has 512 Megs of RAM

How far we have fallen... a quadcore 1GHz CPU and 512MB of RAM seems like ample computing power for those who have been very productive on PCs with far less.
by nasretdinov | 2025-12-13 08:43:00+00:00
Go was never truly portable on Linux unfortunately due to its dependency on libc for DNS and user name resolution (because of PAM and other C-only API). Sure, pure Go implementation exists, but it doesn't cover all cases, so, in order to build a "good" binary for Linux you still needed to build the binary on (oldest supported) Linux distro.

If your production doesn't have any weird PAM or DNS then you can indeed just cross-compile everything and it works
by ggm | 2025-12-13 08:43:32+00:00
For Mary Poppins, Disney used the sodium vapour process to get monochromatic light into a narrow channel for matte from a light splitting prism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_vapor_process

It's charming. I'm sure digital post offers many advantages. Van Dyke might be one of a few who has done both.
by kpython | 2025-12-13 08:46:10+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a little experiment rooted in a simple "What if?": Could we embed a high-level, garbage-collected runtime directly into the Linux Kernel to act as a programmable sidecar?

The goal wasn't to replace C or Rust, but to enable rapid prototyping and dynamic logic in Ring 0 without the "edit-compile-reboot" loop.

The result is kpython. It runs a stripped-down MicroPython interpreter inside a kernel module, allowing you to pipe Python code directly into debugfs for immediate execution.

* Repo:* https://github.com/pymergetic/kpython

The "Sidecar" Concept

Think of it as a dynamic scripting layer sitting alongside your rigid kernel modules.

Rapid Debugging: Inspect kernel structures or variables interactively.

Dynamic Logic: Imagine filtering network packets with a Python one-liner like if pkt.ip.src in blocklist: drop() (Socket bindings are conceptually possible and currently WIP).

AI Integration: It opens the door for LLMs to read dmesg and suggest/apply non-destructive fixes or diagnostics live.

Technical Implementation

Porting a runtime like MicroPython to the kernel space required solving a few interesting challenges:

Memory Safety: I mapped the Python allocator to vmalloc and implemented atomic-aware wrappers to prevent sleeping in interrupt contexts.

Exception Handling: Since the kernel lacks setjmp/longjmp, I implemented a custom x86_64 assembly shim to handle Python's non-local returns (NLR) safely.

Stack Constraints: To respect the small kernel stack (16KB), the interpreter enforces a strict 12KB stack limit to catch recursion early.

Minimalism: No FPU usage, no standard libc dependencies.

Status: Experimental

This is a research prototype. Running a GC in Ring 0 comes with risks. A bug here panics the kernel. Please do not use this on production systems.

Call for Collaboration

I’ve built the core engine, but there is huge potential for specific integrations (Netfilter hooks, VFS access, etc.). If you are a kernel developer or interested in embedded Python, I’d love your feedback or PRs to help stabilize the "sidecar".
by delaminator | 2025-12-13 08:47:00+00:00
Claude Code is not very good at “remembering” its skills.

Maybe they get compacted out of the context.

But you can call upon them manually. I often do something like “using your Image Manipulation skill, make the icons from image.png”

Or “use your web design skill to create a design for the front end”

Tbh i do like that.

I also get Claude to write its own skills. “Using what we learned about from this task, write a skill document called /whatever/using your writing skills skill”

I have a GitHub template including my skills and commands, if you want to see them.

https://github.com/lawless-m/claude-skills
by lelanthran | 2025-12-13 08:47:54+00:00
This looks like it was written by an LLM. Not complaining, because my major use of LLMs is rubber-ducking, not code-generation, and I very often get responses like this when doing repeated iterations and deep-diving into a review/comparison.

The concepts are probably the authors, but the text we are seeing is probably the LLMs.

Regardless of the LLM overtones, this is still decent content.
by lovich | 2025-12-13 08:51:38+00:00
No? Lots of philosophers and writers thought about the problems that happen when capital concentrates to the level that individuals can move nations.

It’s like a whole fucking genre.

What we call capitalism now is just reverting back to monarchism where the handful of rulers decide everything and we stop getting the market to be responsive to reality. Prepare for more absurd and random shortages as our betters play around with their toys
by rock_artist | 2025-12-13 08:54:08+00:00
The more I think about it I wonder why Chinese TVs using Android based TV don’t have Some GrapheneTV or basic trimmed down Android aimed to be “dumb”.

Unlike phones,

- if it should be air gapped then all you’d want is your HDMIs input and remote control to work.

- nice to have: ADCs/DACs for analog AV input and audio out and any antenna input if available.

- super nice to have: Bluetooth for passing audio out and maybe network (Ethernet, WiFi) stack if same.

But assuming the goal is airgapped. There are less security concerns in general, You just want the Android TV to be lightweight and fast and don’t care it’s “stuck” in specific version or use closed blobs.
by t0mas88 | 2025-12-13 08:54:30+00:00
It may also be relevant to study what in aviation is called MCC, Multi-Crew Cooperation. That's all about catching errors and making decisions under pressure as a team.

For example, two crew in the simulator, one as captain and the other as first officer, with some external resources like a dispatcher on the ground and air traffic control. The scenario is a flight over high terrain with zero visibility, the trainer then introduces a failure for example an engine fire with inability to maintain altitude.

You could as captain start making decisions immediately but you'll then loose the input of your FO and not optimally use the resources you have. Or you could start a long conversation together about what to do, but you would crash into a mountain (or burn) due to being too slow.

MCC is about how to get the team on the same page quickly, avoid tunnel vision and rushed wrong decisions, while being fast enough to deal with the problem. And making effective use of outside resources like air traffic contol. Of course it's quite aviation specific, but there are several concepts that work in other areas as well.
by 1659447091 | 2025-12-13 08:54:39+00:00
They are reporting that the US investors set to make the purchase are still waiting on China to finalize a deal.

The thing about Trump saying it was a done deal*, like most other things he says, was true in the sense that the deal to find the US investors to buy the app is done. And having the "blessing" or any other uttering of China's President Xi Jinping is not the same as having the official action of China finalizing the sale. It did allow him to sign an executive order allowing tiktok to continue operating while the deal is being finalized -- and additional executive order 90 day extensions in the mean time.

With the sale going to the usual suspects, Larry Ellison, Abu Dhabi MGX, it makes this look more like Trump is being played at his own game. Or, like the other comment says about ByteDance and China mocking the US in this silly posturing. Maybe they get it done on Monday, or give it another 90 days.

*See paltering.[0][1]. It's the reason you get people saying he lied and others saying he's unfairly being called a liar. A more accurate way to describe what he says is: manipulation. Even news outlets are capable of being manipulated (and some may encourage it), which in turn causes all of them to be called "partisan hacks" and the populace loses trust -- but in the wrong things/people.

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

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171114-the-disturbing-a...
by fishbacon | 2025-12-13 08:55:23+00:00
I swap back and forth between favorit movies. Every few days it may be Goodfellas. Some days it is The Room. But I always return to Kiki’s delivery service and Howls moving castle. Both are absolutely gorgeous and incredibly well told.

I also find myself quoting porco rosso a lot lately.

This a treasure trove of gorgeous lockscreen images. Very excited to put them into rotation.
Show HN: This week we shipped 'Surfaces' on rynk.io
by thefarseen | 2025-12-13 08:57:08+00:00
This week we shipped 'Surfaces'

Better way of consuming AI responses

You can ask AI to generate response in a particular way and interact with the response too!

You can create - Guides ( with progress ) - Wikis ( Grokipedia competitor i guess ) - Courses ( with progress tracking ) - Quiz ( with results ) - Compare ( detailed comparison between 2 ) - Flashcards ( for repetition ) - Timeline
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-12-13 08:59:30+00:00
Have you heard of balcony solar? Stick some storage with it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcony_solar_power

So you want a peaking nuclear plant for firming?

Vogtle costs 18 cents/kWh when running at 100% 24/7 all year around. A typical gas peaker runs at 15-25% of the time.

Running a peaking Vogtle now costs somewhere like 60-90 cents/kWh.

As soon as new built nuclear power with ruinously expensive CAPEX and acceptable OPEX hits the raw physical incentive systems of the our energy system it just becomes stupid.
by larusso | 2025-12-13 09:01:48+00:00
I think this is true for nearly all compiled languages. I had the same fun with rust and openSSL and glibC. OP didn’t mentioned the fun with glib-c when compiling on a fairly recent distro and trying it to run on an older one. There is the “many Linux” project which provides docker images with a minimum glib c version installed so it’s compatible with newer ones. The switch to a newer open ssl version on Debian/Ubuntu created some issues for my tool. I replaced it with rust tls to remove the dynamic linked library. I prefer complete statically linked binaries though. But that is really hard to do and damn near impossible on Apple systems.
by kuon | 2025-12-13 09:02:56+00:00
I treat apple ID and google ID like throwaway accounts. I would never trust anything valuable to either. The problem is that it is very hard for "usual people" to do that.

I will also never have an electronic ID. We (Switzerland) were dumb enough to vote yes for it but we are giving away our freedoms eventually.

We need regulations to ensure vendor cannot lock in users and cannot threaten them. Everything should work like if you have your own domain and use email. If your provider go nuts, move your hosting and change your MX and point your local copy to it.

This should not be reserved to some nerd like me, it should be an universal right.

It is already late, but it can be reversed. We need for more sotires like this one to errupt, so people understand.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-13 09:02:59+00:00
It was brought up in a different HN submission about a week ago, here's the specific quote from the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169499

> Budget brands normally buy older DRAM fabrication equipment from mega-producers like Samsung when Samsung upgrades their DRAM lines to the latest and greatest equipment. This allows the DRAM market to expand more than it would otherwise because it makes any upgrading of the fanciest production lines to still be additive change to the market. However, Korean memory firms have been terrified that reselling old equipment to China-adjacent OEMs might trigger U.S. retaliation…and so those machines have been sitting idle in warehouses since early spring. - https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram...

Every one seems so focused on that one company supposedly had "fake demand" just to ruin it for competitors, while the supply also seemingly is being suppressed, and no one seems to be talking about that. To me that seems like a much bigger deal, because then the market can't even restore the supply...
by silisili | 2025-12-13 09:04:00+00:00
> Brightness and saturation will probably be maxed out but with a cheap TV, it looks more like "normal" on a more expensive model.

That probably mimics Samsung TVs, which are popular for that reason but look like crap.

The actual best TVs, picture wise, are among the LG C series, which are surprisingly dim and unsaturated. That said, mine has held up terribly so I won't buy another. My $200 Onn looks good enough to my eyes and lasted longer.
by reacharavindh | 2025-12-13 09:04:59+00:00
Am I missing something? I have a LG nano something TV that has many “smart” features, but I never let it connect to my WiFi ever. Since day 1 it has been hooked up to an AppleTV. Can I not buy any fancy smart TV in 2025 and use it as a dumb HDMI display for AppleTV?
by baq | 2025-12-13 09:05:35+00:00
It’s so simple there isn’t really more to understand. There’s a markdown doc with a summary/abstract section and a full manual section. Summary is always added to the context so the model is aware that there’s something potentially useful stored here and can look up details when it decides the moment is right. IOW it’s a context length management tool which every advanced LLM user had a version of (mine was prompt pieces for special occasions in Apple notes.)
by tannhaeuser | 2025-12-13 09:06:11+00:00
Is it really? Last commit was a day ago [1].

Btw I'm not going to whomever's fscking clickbaity yt channel, for a markup language topic of all things. Provide a transcript OP!

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/tree/master/doc?ref...
by lazide | 2025-12-13 09:06:35+00:00
Last i’d heard, ‘they provided an interesting alternative way of thinking of the problem’ but provided no unique insights or additional testable behaviors. The folks using the alternative theories ended up being able to formulate them more directly using other (‘normal’) physics later. Do you have a cite for anything contrary to that?

It doesn’t help that when something does finally seem experimentally provable (Craig Hogan noise for example), but then gets tested and seems disproven, then it gets ‘removed from Canon’ as it were and ‘is not string theory’.
by watwut | 2025-12-13 09:08:09+00:00
That has nothing to with anything. Books are less fun then youtube/netflix/tiktok/video games.

And unlike youtube and tiktok, they cost money and you have to go to bookstore or library to get them. There are no equivalets of kids journals/channels that would promote fun books to kids either.

Schools cant change that. When my generation read, a lot of it was cheap junk with formulaic plot. That was replaced by tiktok. And once that does not exist, the books are not perceived as potential fun for kids. They are just another homework
by subscribed | 2025-12-13 09:08:33+00:00
I had Amazon close my old, almostt-unused account in Amazon-in-another-country because I dared to add a new payment method.

I proved them who I am, that the new payment method (virtual card from a well-known organization) is mine, everything.

After lots of back-forth I've been informed their decision is final.

I HAVE NOT BREACHED TOS. I wish I has a major law company behind me to force them to admit that.

Very happy it was my almost unused account, heavily went down with my purchases in mt main account (in my usual country of residence) as well.

And yes, I use login-with-companyName as sparingly as possible. We are not the users, we're beggars.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-12-13 09:09:47+00:00
I think this response embodies the problem with new built nuclear power.

1. Start with ignoring the EPR2 costs.

2. Cherry-pick data that does not represent western timelines. Of course ignoring the best case for the first EPR2 reactor is 12 years if they start today.

3. Blame everything on ”FOAK”. Despite Hinkley point C being reactor 5 and 6 in the EPR series. But that is of course ”FOAK”.

4. Allude that the next UK reactor will be cheaper. Despite the projected cost for Sizewell C is £38B before even starting compared to the current projection at £42-48B for Hinkley Point C.

Sizewell C truly shows the state of new built European nuclear power. EDF is too financially weak to take on any further nuclear construction liability like a fixed price contract, and the CFD would be ruinously expensive.

Instead it is a pure cost-plus contract where an extra surcharge is added to all ratepayers as soon as construction starts having people today pay for electricity hopefully delivered 10-15 years in the future. Hiding the true all-in cost in terms the average tax payer doesn’t understand rather than a trivially understood CFD.

Like I said. As soon as new built nuclear power is confronted with reality it becomes economic and opportunity cost lunacy unless you can motivate it with for example military ambitions.
by duskdozer | 2025-12-13 09:10:14+00:00
You're absolutely right! I did--in fact--fail to consider the obvious negative consequences of killing the patient to remove his pain. I am truly horrified about this mistake. Let's try again, and this time I will make sure to avoid intentionally causing the patient's death.

Oops--you're absolutely right! I did--in fact--fail to remember not to kill the patient after you expressly told me not to.
by charleshn | 2025-12-13 09:12:46+00:00
It's fundamentally because of verifier's law [0].

Current AI, and in particular RL-based, is already or will soon achieve super human performance on problems that can be - quickly - verified and measured.

So maths, algorithms, etc and well defined bugs fall into that category.

However architectural decision, design, long-term planning where there is little data, no model allowing synthetic data generation, and long iteration cycles are not so much amenable to it.

[0] https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/asymmetry-of-verification-and-...
by zeristor | 2025-12-13 09:13:15+00:00
Absurdly although I’m, currently paying for a BBC TV licence, I use an Apple TV but they have not, and will not provide UHD content for it on their streaming app.

Either I can do the stupid thing and connect my LG TV to the network, or through various means download the UHD content, and therefore have to manage it, especially the last watched position, or forego it.

Having ADHD, I never really watch to the end, and so rely so much on the saved position to resume.
by virtualritz | 2025-12-13 09:14:39+00:00
As someone who has written C and C++ for 35 years and Rust for a decade now, the last five years professionally, I don't see the point.

Even when I need what C does "well" from the author's pov I can just wrap my code in a big unsafe {} in Rust.

I still get a bunch of things from the language that are not safety- but ergonomics-related and that I would't want to miss anymore.
by nsteel | 2025-12-13 09:14:41+00:00
But they obviously knew the RAM was EoL since they already use it in the zero 2. It would be monumentally incompetent for either party to not know this so there must be a plan.

Perhaps these RAM chips are more readily available in China through some means. There are companies that will extend the lifetime of a product if you can get them the design, we've used it for niche (expensive) RAMs. Surprised that would be worth it for something at the low end. Maybe they just have a huge pile of them in China.
Gemini with Thinking 3 Pro can't script multi-line string replacement
by YouAreWRONGtoo | 2025-12-13 09:16:02+00:00
If writing a multi-line replacement script for removing a top-level nested if-endif in a CMakeLists.txt file is too difficult for Gemini with Thinking 3 Pro even after 10 new prompts with the full input file available, then why are you talking about these systems "taking over jobs"?
by harshreality | 2025-12-13 09:16:22+00:00
Why cancel your credit card if your card isn't compromised?

Chargeback. Tell your credit card company the truth, you can't login to cancel substack payments, and let your credit card company deal with them.

If you used paypal, they already allow you to cancel recurring payments from paypal's website, without going through the payee at all.

Maybe substack has been lazy in implementing this, or maybe the guidance the were getting as the deadline approached was conflicting. They may have it fixed soon. They may even determine that payments associated with the account indicate over-16 and they don't need to lock you out at all. Or, getting hit with a lot of chargebacks will motivate them to have a separate login flow to cancel billing even if they can't let you read what you paid for. You can't be the only person frustrated at being locked out while they're still billing you.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-12-13 09:17:06+00:00
It is quite telling that you are spamming this entire submission with extremely strong opinions about how amazing nuclear power is, ignoring any contrary facts. Taking any mention of renewables close to a personal insult.

Then turning around and not understanding that ”TWh” is already adjusted for capacity factor.

In my eyes it is hard to take you seriously when you don’t comprehend even basic physical properties of our grid and energy systems. Let alone economics, timelines, opportunity cost etc.
by IkanRiddle | 2025-12-13 09:17:48+00:00
Checked the link. You were right—we sit on fundamentally different philosophical axioms regarding consciousness, so a debate would indeed be circular.

However, your recommendation was spot-on. Kanaria007's work is precisely the structural framework I was looking for. It seems we disagree on the 'what' (metaphysics) but align surprisingly well on the 'who' (relevant thinkers).

Thanks for the lead. It was a productive exchange.