MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cess11 | 2025-12-10 18:44:22+00:00
Whether intentional or not, one consequence of a success in this area would be to isolate older people from the views of young people and to stifle the younger generations influence on these communication media in the future.

Personally I suspect these elderly people in powerful political positions to be quite afraid of kids, it wouldn't be the first time in history, but it's likely the first time they're this old and as alienated from younger generations as they are.

Perhaps we're seeing patriarchal class societies mutate into primarily gerontocratical societies.
by steveklabnik | 2025-12-10 18:44:44+00:00
Yes, I'm being vague here because I don't think it's productive to bring up some old stuff, but I bring up at at all because I was trying to agree with you: at this point, it appears to be very fine and healthy, even if I didn't think that was 100% the case at one point.

If you really want to know, we can email about it, but I don't think it matters, because whatever it was is clearly under the bridge by now.
by autoexec | 2025-12-10 18:44:55+00:00
> And it's always, always a vague group of people who are apparently affected. Never specific examples.

Someone on the other side of the country is only going to see the way this will impact the lives of people like them. They aren't going to say "Clearly this policy has impacted the household budget of NYC plumber Mitchell Tnenski" They don't know Mitchell. They know that congestion pricing coming to their city would hurt them in very real ways. They also know that rich people don't give a shit about a couple extra bucks in fines for getting where they want to go by car. That's why this issue has resonated nationally.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-12-10 18:44:56+00:00
Speaking of bugs, I remember the last time I thought maybe I'd try making a simple game in Unity I gave up when I couldn't stop clipping through walls.

The collision was clearly working, just some n% of the time you'd end up on the wrong side of the clean flat rectangle you were walking into.

I lost interest pretty soon after that.
by 1121redblackgo | 2025-12-10 18:45:30+00:00
We do not currently have the political apparatus in place to stop the dystopian nightmares depicted in movies and media. They were supposed to be cautionary tales. Maybe they still can be, but there are basically zero guardrails in non-progressive forms of government to prevent massive accumulations of power being wielded in ways most of the population disapproves of.
by pipo234 | 2025-12-10 18:45:50+00:00
Well, in video land there is patent pools. For example, you pay nominal fee to download specs from iso/ice 14496-12 to learn the details about BMFF and then pay mpeg-la a couple of dollars per device of it uses an AVC / h264 decoder.

These are open standards, but mpeg-la tries to recoup some of the research costs from "freeloaders".

Open source implementations like ffmpeg are a bit of a grey area,here
by dang | 2025-12-10 18:45:51+00:00
> 95% of flagged comments don't break guidelines in any given discussion

That number is much too high IMO, so I assume we interpret the site guidelines very differently.

> as example, just below there is reply to you saying that flagging been abused, been flagged

I assume you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221396? No, you'd see "[flagged]" if that were the case. The comment is [dead], but it was killed by software, not flagged by users. I'll restore it.
by crote | 2025-12-10 18:45:53+00:00
That's meaningless, because they delegated licensing to HDMI® Licensing Administrator, Inc. And even if they are somehow a nonprofit: you are also not making any profit when all the money you retrieve via licensing fees is used to pay the royalties of the various patent holders.

Nobody cares if the mailing list where they discuss the upcoming specs is managed by a non-profit, the broader HDMI ecosystem is still a massive money grab.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-10 18:46:20+00:00
Dividing their number by 1000[1] is technically the later but in practice it's pretty much the former.

[1]: this the order of magnitude presented in the recent Android blog post: https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move...

> Our historical data for C and C++ shows a density of closer to 1,000 memory safety vulnerabilities per MLOC. Our Rust code is currently tracking at a density orders of magnitude lower: a more than 1000x reduction.
by dns_snek | 2025-12-10 18:46:35+00:00
Where are you finding that name constraints aren't supported? I've only come across that on embedded/IoT devices. They work fine for me across Firefox and Chrome on Linux, on Android, and they are supposed to work fine on Apple devices too.

> If I find that I want to use a specific website and want to do something with the traffic...

I agree but that's a different problem. If you just need a certificate for your router and some internal services (the original discussion), you can do that using an internal root CA and you have nothing to worry about as long as you using name constraints.

On IoT devices without nameConstraints support I just use an alternative CA certificate without name constraints (same key, different extensions).
by abnercoimbre | 2025-12-10 18:47:19+00:00
Bookmarked! Excited to look into this and potentially subscribe this week.

Our coding meetups [0] are going increasingly offline and I'm looking for ways to exit the feed [1]. So I really want to learn from organizations like The Offline Club and now you.

[0] https://handmadecities.com/meetups

[1] https://abner.page/post/exit-the-feed/
by throw310822 | 2025-12-10 18:47:25+00:00
> Sovereignty to rebuild the temple is all that's required for Jesus to gain his Jew-teleportation powers.

They already have sovereignty, so why don't evangelicals lobby to withhold all aid to Israel unless they get to work and rebuild the temple?

> I made no such claim. My claim is that they're getting "favorable" treatment as a purely instrumental means to an end.

That's exactly the claim I was talking about. You strive to justify every favorable treatment Israel gets as the fortuitous side-effect of something that has nothing to do with those who actually materially benefit from it- that is, those who live in Israel or consider the promised land of their own people. Isn't that a bit suspicious to you?

> Because otherwise a person literally can't parse the factual statement that American evangelicals love Israel but don't care for Jews?

I understand this, but can't help thinking that this alliance with religious fanatics is too lucky to be random. I mean "they want absolutely nothing from me except giving me money and protecting me politically and militarily? That is great, how do I get more of these? Who can I finance and boost to spread this religion even more?"
by jfindper | 2025-12-10 18:47:34+00:00
I think this might be true at the parent level, but less and less true as you climb up the government ladder.

The shitty part is that when the parents really do believe something is "for the kids", it becomes that much easier to push through laws that have awful side effects (intentional ones or not). Which is why "for the kids" is so common, of course.
by yanokwa | 2025-12-10 18:47:41+00:00
I think open-source leaders who want sustainable resourcing should focus on building obvious paths for people who find ongoing value in their project to contribute. That to me is the best return-on-investment.

If it's a library, make it easy for developers to contribute code.

If it's an app, make it easy for individuals/businesses who value it to pay (e.g., cloud hosting).

I gave a talk about this at the launch of WHO's Open Source Program Office[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/live/yNK27_6MrF8?t=1215s
by clhodapp | 2025-12-10 18:48:08+00:00
It's cheaper to implement than HDMI. So if DisplayPort ports are common on displays, devices will start using it (cheapo devices first). If DisplayPort ports are common on devices, displays won't need HDMI anymore. Plus, industry-wide, it's wildly inefficient to have one high-bandwidth video connector for monitors and a different one for TV's when the technical distinction between those is pretty much non-existent and we could scale our engineering effort across a much wider set of devices.

So, after a transition period, cost-saving will eventually lead to DisplayPort taking over.
by therein | 2025-12-10 18:48:24+00:00
Yeah right, 100s of Claude and Gemini subscriptions towards breaking the standard... That's how things are done. Not just one guy with a good reverse engineering skillset.

What if you crowd sourced not 100s but 1000s of Claude subscriptions. That's where the power is. You just give them a task and they just finish it for you. That's how things are done now.

Hard problem? Throw 50000s Claude subscriptions and it will kneel in front of you. Unstoppable. 50000s Claude subscriptions not enough, throw 10000000 subscriptions at it and problem solved. That's how it all works, we know this is the way to do things. Everybody knows you take a problem and throw more Claudes at it and that's it.

For example, we can do anything we want, we just need more Claude subscriptions. I couldn't do something the other day, the problem is I didn't have enough Claudes.

We just need an order of magnitude more Claude subscriptions to figure out cold fusion and unify general relativity with quantum interpretation of the world. Can you imagine what 10E10 Claude subscriptions would do with that problem? Problem stands no chance.

It is so annoying people think this is future, that this is analysis. Despicable.
by aakashprasad91 | 2025-12-10 18:48:28+00:00
We infer the applicable codes from the project metadata + the drawings themselves.

The location + occupancy/use type tells us the governing code families (e.g., IBC/IRC, ADA, NFPA, local amendments), and then we parse the sheets for callouts, annotations, assemblies, and spec sections to map them to the relevant provisions.

So the system knows when to check (e.g., plumbing fixture clearances) because of the objects it detects in the drawings, and it knows what code to check based on jurisdiction + building type + what’s being shown in that detail.

The model still flags with human-review intent so designer judgment stays in the loop.
by klez | 2025-12-10 18:48:30+00:00
This reads like a mish-mash of various science fiction sources I can't quite pinpoint (except WALL-E in the end, maybe).

Anyway, that's probably how it would go, but I'd like to think of the better vision for the future where such a machine would instead result in a post-scarcity world where one of the few actual jobs is designing the stuff the machine creates (of course excluding all the jobs that can actually be automated once the economy changes so drastically).
by eqvinox | 2025-12-10 18:48:52+00:00
https://www.club-3d.com/shop/cac-1088-1223 (https://geizhals.eu/club-3d-aktiver-adapter-cac-1088-a331004...)

https://www.club-3d.com/shop/cac-1087-1128 (3m cable version)

DP 1.4 → HDMI 2.1. Apparently they're no longer being manufactured (?? - not sure that's correct), so get one while it's still possible...

[Ed.: accidentally linked another adapter that is the other direction. Added 3m & direct manufacturer links.]
by artur44 | 2025-12-10 18:49:17+00:00
Interesting experiment. Using modern LLMs to retroactively grade decade-old HN discussions is a clever way to measure how well our collective predictions age. It’s impressive how little time and compute it now takes to analyze something that would’ve required days of manual reading. My only caution is that hindsight grading can overvalue outcomes instead of reasoning — good reasoning can still lead to wrong predictions. But as a tool for calibrating forecasting and identifying real signal in discussions, this is a very cool direction.
by sshadmand | 2025-12-10 18:49:19+00:00
This is perfect for AI video creation. Everyone is dead so you can easily get likeness for the actors and produce a teaser real for pennies on the dollar. Did you try that yet? Throwing that on a post and/or youtube will get a nice ghetto test of interest you can then show some execs - 1M views is the new "here is my idea".
by p_gloom | 2025-12-10 18:49:30+00:00
Author here. We built a system that synchronizes live EEG with high-resolution pressure-sensing floors (10 Hz, pixel-level gait tracking), currently in clinical trial for early detection of mobility decline in neurodegenerative disease.

The core problem: by the time gait instability is clinically obvious, significant neural decline has already occurred. We're trying to catch it earlier, ideally at a level where cognitive load and motor control first start to interact differently.

The fusion algorithm combines theta-band EEG activity with floor-measured step asymmetry into a single index. The goal is to identify patients who'd benefit from early physical/cognitive therapy before fall risk becomes severe, and potentially slow disease progression. Additionally, we hope to develop concrete evidence of how surface aesthetics (like floor patterns) directly impact mobility health.

The longer vision: spaces that reduce neural friction for vulnerable populations. Not just measuring decline, but designing environments that actively support cognitive-motor health. Identify patterns that meaningfully spike cognitive load. For someone with early Parkinson's or cognitive decline, that extra neural tax could be the difference between stable gait and compensation patterns that accelerate decline.

Still early (hypothesis stage on some claims, active data collection on others), but the measurement infrastructure is operational. Happy to answer questions about the sensor fusion, clinical trial design, or neurodegenerative biomarkers.
by jrowen | 2025-12-10 18:49:34+00:00
The leak is not open source because it was not blessed by the creators. If we're worried about rug pull stuff, maybe there's some type of governance or commitments that can be worked out. Ultimately yeah we're at the whim of the company, but that's the status quo, this still seems like a step in the right direction to be encouraged and fostered and not shit on. I just don't think the hardline strategy is really winning hearts and minds to the cause.

> If you start putting restrictions on it, anyone using it has to stop and think about their usage to ensure it's not falling afoul of the restrictions.

Is this really that ornery? In practice, with a license like this, are people doing benign things hunted down and hassled? The whole "I can do whatever I want and never get sued" angle kinda seems a little selfish or at least not super good-samaritan? I recall the brouhaha over the "don't do evil" license. Can't we find a good-faith agreement between interests?

I replied to a sibling with further comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221378
by dathinab | 2025-12-10 18:49:35+00:00
the problem only affect a subset of HDMI 2.1 features, not HDMI 2.0

but the steam machine isn't really super powerful (fast enough for a lot of games, faster then what a lot of steam customers have, sure. But still no that fast.)

So most of the HDMI 2.1 features it can't use aren't that relevant. Like sure you don't get >60fps@4K but you already need a good amount of FSR to get to 60fps@4k.
by lumost | 2025-12-10 18:49:53+00:00
IMO the wrapper products all suffer from the same problem. The LLM is trained to do a specific set of tasks such as Chat, Coding, Image understanding, and image/video generation, and tool use in support of the above. If you suddenly ask the LLM to do something it was not trained for such as producing power points - you get a few surprisingly successful results, followed by a large set of crap. There is no reason for customers or your own team to expect the underlying model to improve unless token usage is so massive it motivates training investment in this area.

LLMs are a facsimile of general intelligence on tasks similar to their training set and which can be solved in finite context length. If you are outside of the training set - you will have poor results. Likewise if you are in the training set, then the foundation model vendor will already have a great product to sell you (claude code/chatgpt etc.)
by bluGill | 2025-12-10 18:50:01+00:00
There is more than stock required to be non-profit. I suspect technically a non-profit could issue stock, though it is probably not something any would ever try.

Non-profit is a business arrangement where making money isn't the goal. There are many different versions of one though: many local clubs are a non-profit and they exist only for the benefit of their members.
by orwin | 2025-12-10 18:50:13+00:00
The issue is using civil infrastructure as weapon, that could arguably be an act of terror. As pagers are rarely used in non-criminal settings, i guess this is somewhat okay in my opinion, but the callousness and overall reactions (proudness, smugness) of israelis and most of the west on this near-terror attack is in my opinion another proof of a lack of empathy that is starting to be pervasive in our societies.

I know people talk about the "entitlement epidemic", but entitlement is just another name from narcissism, in essence a lack of empathy. Which seems to be more and more socially acceptable and even rewarded (with internet points mostly), like your comment show (i'm not jumping on you, you are tamer than many, so i think it's a better exemple for my point than more violent ones).

And since that's the example we show our kids today, i'm now officially more worried about our society ability to handle social media than climate change.
by bmitc | 2025-12-10 18:50:13+00:00
C/C++ basically demand that codebases be large. And we hear all the time about software troubles written in these languages. Finding reports of this are almost endless.

I think people who write complex applications in more sane languages end up not having to write millions of lines of code that no one actually understands. The sane languages are more concise and don't require massive hurdles to try and bake in saftey into the codebase. Safety is baked into the language itself.
by ls-a | 2025-12-10 18:50:35+00:00
No worries I didn't take offenses. I just disagree. The title should've been we reduced bugs in the kernel and here is some proof of that. The 2018-2022-ish hype (I call it bullying campaign) is still strong. Google recently did a blog post about Rust speeding up their development, in the age of LLMs, seriously! I can't stop lol'ing at that
by throw4847285 | 2025-12-10 18:50:39+00:00
I don't speak Russian, but whatever the Russian word is for "book." Or maybe others called it a novel but Tolstoy rejected the label. I'm not sure.

Either way, the word "novel" wasn't necessarily equivalent to how it is used today: any book length work of narrative fiction.

Though watch out, this is a rabbit hole. Just look up novel on wikipedia. You'll see a big orange message at the top which is the first sign there is a problem. And then the article is excessively long. A lot of ink has been spilled trying to define what a "novel" is.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-12-10 18:50:42+00:00
Thanks for the correction, I was late night scrolling and didn't want to look it up, but looks like we're behind UAE, Ireland, Switzerland, Singapore, Belgium.

I do want to push back that higher level of education attained equates to universally better outcomes, because there's opportunity cost to being in school into your twenties, not becoming a taxpayer, getting deep into debt only to become underemployed. Again, people I've met who entered work at a young age are plenty intelligent and more skilled in their field than peers who went to grad school. I don't know that schools increase your intelligence, just your credentials.
by collinmcnulty | 2025-12-10 18:50:51+00:00
> But if intelligence really does become too cheap to meter, it will become possible to do a perfect reconstruction and synthesis of everything. LLMs are watching (or humans using them might be). Best to be good.

I cannot believe this is just put out there unexamined of any level of "maybe we shouldn't help this happen". This is complete moral abdication. And to be clear, being "good" is no defense. Being good often means being unaligned with the powerful, so being good is often the very thing that puts you in danger.
by rkagerer | 2025-12-10 18:51:12+00:00
I'm amazed by the degree of hate and bitterness around here the last few years toward Bitcoin and the like.

Regardless of anything else, it's money I can email. Without having to rely on almighty permission from whatever country or company controls the currency or platform (and all the corresponding bullshit that often entails, like user-hostile terms of service which nobody in their right mind would agree to if they actually read, overreaching indemnities, arbitrary limits, and in some places risks arising from which way the political winds happen to be blowing).

I've used it to buy real things (that aren't drugs or contraband) where it offered less friction than competing forms of payment, and still feel the magic of that.

Have the finance leeches clawed their fangs into it? Yes of course!

But they did the same thing to regular currency and stocks decades ago (eg. with tangled webs of Nth order derivatives eventually crashing entire economies). Does that mean you don't use cash or credit cards or stocks?

I share the tweeter's frustration with the accretion of scams and other illegal actors, but not their surprise. Technology can't fix human nature.

(Although personally I see regulation catching up - for better or worse - and over time I expect feature improvements will mitigate more of the toxicity, eg. baked-in decentralized dispute resolution mechanisms that are less costly than the traditional judicial system but fairer and more efficient than arbitration alternatives you see today).
by clhodapp | 2025-12-10 18:51:28+00:00
HDMI Forum don't like TV SOC boards that have both kinds of ports and discourage them from being made.

Also, HDMI Forum don't like converter boards that support every advanced feature at once (Variable Refresh Rate, HDR, etc.) and won't license them.

DisplayPort and HDMI kind of leapfrog each other in terms of technical superiority, so neither is definitively technically superior in the long term.
by cyberax | 2025-12-10 18:51:34+00:00
> CT logs do allow enumeration, but avoiding that is just security through obscurity.

Well, yes. There are also other issues, like rate limits. Some companies have hundreds of thousands of hosts (some virtual) and requesting certificates for all of them might be problematic.

> If you want to avoid enumeration of internal-only hosts: just use your own self-signed root cert.

This becomes increasingly problematic, as browsers start relying on DoH/DoT, or making it more difficult to enroll custom root certs.

> Nobody's stopping you from writing an ACME proxy which only forwards requests from known-good hosts to LE & friends.

I actually tried that. LE uses multiple viewpoints to resolve the challenges, so you need to open your internal DNS resolvers/HTTPS to basically all the world. Or play with the horror of split-horizon DNS.