MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yencabulator | 2025-12-27 17:44:00+00:00
Magical thinking, like Mullvad burning large amounts of engineering effort to make sure their infrastructure never stores anything worth a subpoena. Their VPN servers don't have hard drives. Mullvad is one of the rare examples of doing more than marketing.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/we-have-successfully-completed-o...
by quantbagel | 2025-12-27 17:44:20+00:00
When I made a swift package manager as Rust rewrite I realized that the language wasn't the issue, design is a lot more important. Rust just gave a boost to everything else. you can try Gust here https://github.com/quantbagel/gust a lot better than using SwiftPM but there's room for improvement! Make issues with your ideas
by ossa-ma | 2025-12-27 17:44:39+00:00
No shade but most other coverage will focus on whether this signals an AI bubble. That's missing the story.

Nvidia explicitly did NOT acquire Groq. They licensed the IP and hired the talent. This structure dodges CFIUS review (Groq had $1.5B in Saudi government contracts), antitrust scrutiny, and years of regulatory delays.

The $13B premium over the September valuation was the cost of regulatory arbitrage. Announced Christmas Eve while Trump's AI Czar (Chamath's All-In podcast co-host) is in office. Chamath's Social Capital made AT LEAST ~$2B on this exit.

My article breaks down: what Nvidia actually bought vs what they left behind, why the deal structure matters, who got paid, and the political connections nobody's talking about.
by ripped_britches | 2025-12-27 17:44:49+00:00
You are missing the point that it is a strategic acquisition to kickstart a new vertical that they have struggled with: serving inference. They have tried to organically grow this and do weird things like inference within their other customers’ clouds.

It certainly isn’t a “panic” as nvidia is so flush with cash. This is a minuscule amount of money for them.
by idorosen | 2025-12-27 17:45:05+00:00
Interesting interface. Some feedback:

- Email delay to Gmail inboxes for verifying an SSH key used via SSH via email is longer than the timeout of the "Waiting for verification email..." stage in the SSH key registration. Wait longer or provide a non-email way to authorize a new key. You could imagine a few ways to do this: Allow users to add/delete SSH keys from the website or exe.dev shell; create a bearer token/random string that I can generate from the exe.dev shell or website to associate a new SSH key; SSH key signatures (existing key signs new key); SSH CAs (like @cert-authority); etc.
- SSH U2F/FIDO2 authentication support has become mainstream, and offers you a way to have homogeneous auth across web and SSH interfaces. Maybe consider unifying authN this way?
- exe.dev ssh interface does not allow me to list SSH keys, only to delete them. Consider moving all authN/authZ functionality into an "auth" subcommand/submenu (like you have for "share") and support SSH pubkey CRUD in there.
- You make some strong assumptions about email addresses that aren't true -- what happens on email address changes, lost email access, etc. This will become more important when you start billing (and possibly costly).
- How do I manage persistent disks? Any way to attach them to a different VM after I'm done with them on the original one? Is there always a single PD per VM or can these be managed separately? What about data or database volumes? Can PDs be attached to one or multiple VMs at a time?

At what scale do you break even on fixed costs (wages, rents, etc.)?
by avaer | 2025-12-27 17:45:08+00:00
Ah, but if we're not talking 6DOF what's new with ml-sharp? We've had good autostereoscopy for a couple of years at least.

> So far the best looking results are still achieved with good old mesh warping and no inpainting at all.

I agree

> This may change that.

Seems not to be the case in my testing. The splats are too fine and sparse to yield an improvement. There are actually better (slower) image -> splat models than ml-sharp (with much higher dynamic range for the covariance) but I still don't use them over meshes for this.

The only improvements ml-sharp seems to add to the SOTA is 1) speed and 2) an interesting 2-focal layer architecture, but these are somewhat tangential steps.
by credit_guy | 2025-12-27 17:45:08+00:00
> It's a shame. Groq was really great. Nvidia is stifling innovation here.

I don't share your view. Groq continues to exist. Nvidia did not take any or their hardware, so the same Groq you access on OpenRouter will exist tomorrow or one year from now. If anything, they'll significantly increase their presence, since they just got $20 billion in cash.

As for Nvidia stifling innovation: one can argue that they do the opposite. They hired key personnel from Groq (including their founder and CEO, Jonnathan Ross). These people agreed to the move, presumably for the money, but most likely also because they think they can deliver even more if they have access to Nvidia's resources. So, in terms of overall innovation, it will most likely go up.

But you can say that they stifle independent innovation. Maybe, but the case for that is not that open and shut as it might seem. They entered a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Groq. Which means Groq can provide their "secret sauce" to other interested entities, maybe Apple, maybe Intel or AMD, maybe OpenAI, maybe Oracle. The number of companies who could be interested in their tech is quite high.

Or simply, Groq, with the many billions in unencumbered cash they just received will decide to go for version 2.0 of their tech, or they can significantly expand the GroqCloud. Their valuation just went from $6.5B to significantly higher than $20B. They can pursue an IPO, or they can issue debt. There are countless possibilities for Groq now.
by skrebbel | 2025-12-27 17:45:11+00:00
This is not new in any way. Famously, Cisco has done this for decades, having been on a nonstop mad acquisition spree since the nineties, and more than once even acquiring companies that started as Cisco spin-out.

Also many of Google’s flagship products come from acquisitions. Eg Android, Docs, YouTube, their entire ad network, Firebase, DeepMind, lots more.

This isn’t easy! Equally famously, Microsoft routinely botches acquisitions, eg Skype, Nokia etc. Seems to me the only MS acquisitions that don’t fail are the ones they mostly leave alone (eg LinkedIn, GitHub).
by gigatexal | 2025-12-27 17:45:26+00:00
Insane this administration wants pimp the US out to the highest bidder and let the crypto weirdos run the world. If we ever lost the reserve currency peg treasury bills will spike and it’ll be impossible to fund the government. We spend 7T every year and take in 5T in taxes. This admin is gutting the IRS and banking on tarrifs which are just taxes. So … without the ability to keep interest rates very low because everyone wants our debt …
by warthog | 2025-12-27 17:46:24+00:00
There was an old legendary HN comment around the following concept:

"All things being equal, people buy from their friends. So just make more friends"

If you are confident of your services, just make more friends. Talk to people more. If it is too salesly already, you lost the conversation. Instead try and learn about their lives. I sometimes even open up with "No agenda to sell, genuinely curious"

Note: If anyone finds the link to the comment, please drop it here to credit the author.
by hendersoon | 2025-12-27 17:46:26+00:00
Yes, this was a defensive move from Nvidia.

My understanding is Groq failed to deploy their second-gen chips on time, which caused their stock to deflate.

Groq's primary advantage over Cerebras and SambaNova, as I see it, is they don't fabricate on TSMC. That's attractive to Nvidia, who doesn't want to give up any of their datacenter GPU allocation.
by bitwize | 2025-12-27 17:46:43+00:00
x86 based small computers are just so much easier to work with than most second- and third-string ARM vendors. The x86 scene has had standards in place for a long time, like PCIe and the PC BIOS (now UEFI) for hardware initialization and mapping, that make it a doddle to just boot a kernel and let it get the hardware working. ARM boards don't have that yet, requiring per-board support in the kernel which board manufacturers famously drag their feet on implementing openly let alone upstreaming. Raspberry Pi has its own setup, which means kernel support for the Pi series is pretty good, but it doesn't generalize to other boards, which means users and integrators may be stuck with whatever last version of Ubuntu or Android the vendor thought to ship. Which means if you want a little network appliance like a router, firewall, Jellyfin server, etc. it often makes more sense to go with an N150 bitty box than an ARM SBC because the former is going to be price- and power-draw-competitive with the latter while being able to draw on the OS support of the well-tested PC ecosystem.

ARM actually has a spec in place called SystemReady that standardizes on UEFI, which should make bringup of ARM systems much less jank. But few have implemented it yet. I keep saying, the first cheap Chinese vendor that ships a SystemReady-compliant SBC is gonna make a killing.
by gspetr | 2025-12-27 17:46:46+00:00
Isn't the problem that of finding out a consistency heuristic? For example, test that the resulting state is consistent with your test suite.

If it is a directory that gets deleted, then you can diff it with a previous state. If you don't control the state and don't know the surface area that you should observe, then yes, you're inviting trouble if agents run amok.
by jameslk | 2025-12-27 17:49:34+00:00
Cold sales/outbound sales is dying or mostly dead. SaaS platforms that made it easy to set up sales sequences and find ICP lists helped kill it. AI making it easy to personalize and do all the work has been the nail in the coffin

This is because sales is a zero sum game. When everyone can do something at scale, like send an email sequence, nobody wins. Now inboxes are flooded with spam that get deleted and phones go straight to voicemail because people have learned it’s not worth it. You can try to create even bigger lists to capture some 0.01% that will respond, but that’s a shrinking game and many B2B companies don’t have the market size for it

Instead, for my company and others I know, we’ve returned to old fashioned human relationships that don’t scale as easily. Building partnerships, asking for warm introductions, conferences, networking, events, hell I even know of someone who knocks on doors for B2B and it works for them. People ignore spam from bots but they’ll listen to real humans. They’ll read emails and take phone calls from people they know. It’s about trust now, not scale

I’d still recommend learning closing and everything needed for once a deal is in your pipeline. I think a book like Founding Sales is good for that, if a bit dated now (skip the stuff about cold sales in the first half of the book). For in person cold sales, this is basically what anyone in partnerships and outer sales do. I don’t know of resources on that but I’m sure someone does
by librasteve | 2025-12-27 17:50:26+00:00
Well my point is that the energy of the spallation neutrons is monotonically related to the energy of the protons hitting the Tungsten target ... although somewhat lower. I would consider these 100s MeV partiles to be (quite) high energy in contrast to the thermal neutrons alluded to elsewhere. Sure the spallation is lossy, but the result is still pretty high. And the physics is somewhat different with neutron experiments vs. protons... iiuc
by pizlonator | 2025-12-27 17:50:33+00:00
It could mean different things I guess, but here’s my take:

If you do very risky R&D in a big corpo then the risk creeps into other things: other projects might look at the R&D and say, “we will just use that when it’s done”. It’s a lazy kind of move for tech leaders to make, because it makes you look like a team player, and if the R&D goes belly up then you have someone else to blame. This ultimately leads to risky R&D in a big corpo not being compartmentalized as much as it should be. If it fails, it fails super hard with lots of fallout.

But risky R&D at a startup is compartmentalized. Nobody will say they use the output of the startup until there are signs of life, and even then healthy caution is applied.
by vee-kay | 2025-12-27 17:50:49+00:00
The word "Trigonometry" itself is of Sanskrit origin: Tri (three) + kona (corner/angle) + niti (measure). The word "meter" or "metre" is from Sanskrit "Miti" (मिती) (meaning: measure/measurement). The decimal system of weights and counting we all know so well is of Indian origin too.

India was enslaved and exploited for centuries. By the people who stole its ideas and claimed them as their own.

But greatness can only be suppressed for a while, sooner or later, it will show itself.

The world will heal from its wounds, and the truths shall surface again.

India is #5 world economy now, by the way, and will become #3 before the end of this decade. Not bad for a nation that was still a slave just a few decades ago.

Did you know..
Ancient India (subcontinent) was world #1 economy for thousands of years? Guess who made it poor?
by elric | 2025-12-27 17:51:05+00:00
This is depressing.

From what I can piece together while the site is down, it seems like they've uncovered 14 exploitable vulnerabilities in GnuPG, of which most remain unpatched. Some of those are apparently met by refusal to patch by the maintainer. Maybe there are good reasons for this refusal, maybe someone else can chime in on that?

Is this another case of XKCD-2347? Or is there something else going on? Pretty much every Linux distro depends on PGP being pretty secure. Surely IBM & co have a couple of spare developers or spare cash to contribute?
by antonvs | 2025-12-27 17:51:18+00:00
The second sentence of your comment is incoherent and ungrammatical. Even a small LLM could write a better one.

How do you justify to yourself the idea that LLMs are just some sort of fancy autocomplete, when they have a better functional grasp of natural language grammar than you do?

Are you saying that your cognitive capabilities are less powerful than a fancy autocomplete?
by Der_Einzige | 2025-12-27 17:51:24+00:00
We wrote the paper on how to deslop your LLM outputs and if you use our factory de-slopped versions of gemma3 you don't have to worry about this, similarly if you use our antislop sampler, your LLM outputs will look very close to human.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15061
by omoikane | 2025-12-27 17:51:54+00:00
> It's not subtle, and it's not trying to please everyone.

Reminds me of Dan Luu's thread on Microsoft communication style:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128061 - Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale (2022-01-29, 272 comments)

https://xcancel.com/danluu/status/1487228574608211969
by Der_Einzige | 2025-12-27 17:53:06+00:00
You're supposed to also remove the fancy UTF-8 quotes that people can't normally type, the EM dashes, and reorder sentences/clauses because the paragraph level "template" slop is really obvious to people who use these models all the time. (I'm also pretty sure that the UTF-8 shenanigans with LLM responses was done very on purpose by those who have a vested interest in making it easier for mass surveillance of written communication.)

Or, use the "deep research" mode for writing your prose instead. It's far less sloppy in how it writes.

These people are amateurs at humanizing their writing.
by bdangubic | 2025-12-27 17:53:10+00:00
how exactly is different…? I give you Trump, you give me Biden. I give you Scott, you give me Pelosi. I give you Bush, you give me Clinton… it is not different but regardless of whether it is or isn’t no one is defending it. it is just a disservice to everyone to think somehow magically things are all this different now than before, same crap different toilet paper
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-27 17:53:39+00:00
I'd say that's an unfair characterization.

It is true that some of the people in riots loot businesses opportunistically but it a few percent and is not the "match" or the "fuse".

People's increasingly ahistoric thinking though leads to all sorts of not-so-mysterious mysteries such as the researcher who might struggle to wonder why a certain neighborhood is a "food desert" who, if they dug a little deeper, would find that 30 years ago there was a supermarket and numerous smaller stores that were burned down by the residents -- and that scars like that don't heal!
by neoCrimeLabs | 2025-12-27 17:53:58+00:00
I can attest at least some of this is true.

My blogging and publishing almost never comes up during an interview. Afterwards, I am openly told it's why they either asked for me, or why they chose me over another candidate. This has happened at almost every job I've accepted.

My writing style or content is not all that special. As the saying goes, 90% of success is simply showing up.

Just being explain complex topics in simple ways can go a long way, even if you're not an amazing author.
by aljgz | 2025-12-27 17:54:13+00:00
Loosely fitting the bill, but:

The link between gluten and my 2 decade long bad insomnia, on edge mind, and restlessness.

Simply cutting gluten changed many things. Now I sleep so deeply I sometimes need a brief reality check to know what year it is, where I am, and how long I've been asleep.

Probably not for everyone, but if you have similar problems, definitely go gluten free for a few days and check the impact.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-12-27 17:54:16+00:00
> Where was that defined so?

Anything more than the definition is extra. In this case it's political. That doesn't require a definition.

> The purpose of words and terms is so that people can exchange ideas effectively and precisely, without needing to explain the terms every time from the grounds up.

Do you think the 10 criteria of a non-profit's opinion effectively conveys information without needing to explain the terms from the ground up?

> Having different groups having divergent definitions on the same words is counterproductive

Right, which is why the parent is wrong. It's just an organization's opinion

> If "open source" and "source available" (and "open weights") mean the same thing

They don't mean the same thing and I never claimed they do.

> It doesn't seem there is any benefit in using less precise terms when better-defined ones are available.

Use the more precise terms then. But you can't say the definition of open source is this 10 points of criteria that people disagree about....
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-27 17:54:19+00:00
> I don't share your view. Groq continues to exist. Nvidia did not take any or their hardware, so the same Groq you access on OpenRouter will exist tomorrow or one year from now. If anything, they'll significantly increase their presence, since they just got $20 billion in cash.

The linked article expects differently:

> Nvidia’s buying them with their insanely inflated war chest. They don’t want a chunk taken out of their market share. They can’t afford to take that chance. So it’s like they’re just saying: “Shut up, take the $20 billion, walk away from this project.”

How much this is true I can't really verify myself but it certainly sounds concerning.

> But you can say that they stifle independent innovation.

But this is exactly what a market watchdog is supposed to prevent. A market with one player (or two) is no market. And Groq was going in a decidedly different direction than Nvidia.

The linked article echoes my worries in other ways as well e.g. worker displacement, explosion of energy usage. I often equate it with the dotcom era, I worked on this thinking we made the world better. But the endgame, with the Google, Meta, pervasive tracking etc is much more dystopian. Especially considering the societal effects. Enshittification, corporate rule, polarisation due to social medias promoting "engagement" and thus conflicting content that get people riled up.

I don't want the same to happen with AI here and it feels like they are already aligning the stars to make exactly that happen.
by TheJoeMan | 2025-12-27 17:54:31+00:00
Many small businesses (and small teams inside large orgs) do not have “servers” in the sense that an employee can push code to it. It’s just Windows Server and handles email, file share, ERP, etc. I think those in the tech industry may not appreciate the ease of having a platform you can “program” jobs in, and it’s included in M365, despite the very-large warts.
by Rendello | 2025-12-27 17:55:08+00:00
- Data-Oriented Design – Richard Fabian

DoD is an interesting design philosophy used in game engine design. This book was both quite concrete and quite abstract, so I walked away not exactly sure if I got the message, but the idea of modelling data closer to a SQL database for performance is interesting.

- Never Split the Difference – Chris Voss

Nightly audiobook. There's a lot more information than it seems on first reading, I'm trying to internalize and practice it in daily life.

- Lost Connections – Johann Hari

A book about depression, connection, and medication. It was quite good, though I learned later that the author has quite a bit of controversy.

- The Twentysomething Treatment – Meg Jay

The book was good, her interviews on people's podcasts are even better.

- You Can't Win – Jack Black

Awesome HN recommendation, an autobiography of an early 1900s criminal.

- The Starship and the Canoe – Kenneth Brower

Another HN recommendation. A snapshot of the life of Freeman Dyson of project ORION and his son George, who built a giant fiberglass canoe and paddles the west coast of Canada and the States.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-12-27 17:56:04+00:00
Well, yes, but it also means a gag gift; I'd hazard a guess that >99% of uses of the term in the past several decades have been of the "gag gift" persuasion. There are many white elephant parties thrown by people who care little for history.

Even then, intentionally ruining someone's financial life requires more care and attention than telling an AI agent to perform random acts of kindness (so far).
by saisrirampur | 2025-12-27 17:56:11+00:00
You should try PeerDB, it was acquired by ClickHouse for exactly this use-case - Fast, simple Postgres replication to ClickHouse. https://github.com/PeerDB-io/peerdb

In ClickHouse Cloud, you have ClickPipes which is a simpler/managed manifesation of PeerDB https://clickhouse.com/cloud/clickpipes/postgres-cdc-connect...
by throwup238 | 2025-12-27 17:56:15+00:00
Almost the entire biotech industry has been this way for decades once the small molecule patent cliff hit pharma and the R&D costs for therapies skyrocketed. If you look at biotech IPOs, the majority of the startups IPO pre-revenue, long before they’re even legally allowed to sell anything.

Which is totally fine: anyone who is a biotech investor knows this and everyone makes tons of money in this arrangement. Investors (both public and private) take on the science risk and some of the regulatory risk, and the pharmaceutical companies provide a guaranteed (big $$$) exit and take over scaling manufacturing to bring a drug to market. Most people with retirement accounts and pensions and index funds rarely touch this stuff except as a diversification strategy that pools the risky stuff to get the upside on the whole industry.
by gandalfgeek | 2025-12-27 17:56:20+00:00
> About a year ago, Groq announced a $1.5 billion infrastructure investment deal with Saudi Arabia. They also secured a $750 million Series D funding round.... Then in maybe one of the best rug pulls of all time, in July they quietly changed their revenue projections to $500 million. A 75% cut in four months. I’ve never seen anything like that since the 2008 financial crisis.

Not following the core argument here. Author seems to be comparing valuation in funding rounds to revenue projections. Revenue projection was revised downward, valuation was not.

Good point about not running the proprietary models, but that doesn't preclude strategic fit with Nvidia.