MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-02 02:28:11+00:00
Unless one has a rack of older GPU hardware that uses an abandoned EOL NVIDIA kernel driver difficult to install past kernel 6.12.x Then one faces the harsh reality of Windows users rightfully laughing at a perpetually Beta Linux OS, as Win11 still boots with the older drivers. while the dkms build randomly implodes at some point.

People dual boot SSD OS for very good reasons, as kernel permutation is not necessarily progress in FOSS. Linux is usable by regular users these days, but "Good" is relative to your use case. YMMV =3
by coder543 | 2026-01-02 02:28:21+00:00
Even though big, dense models aren't fashionable anymore, they are perfect for specdec, so it can be fun to see the speedup that is possible.

I can get about 20 tokens per second on the DGX Spark using llama-3.3-70B with no loss in quality compared to the model you were benchmarking:

llama-server \
--model llama-3.3-70b-instruct-ud-q4_k_xl.gguf \
--model-draft llama-3.2-1b-instruct-ud-q8_k_xl.gguf \
--ctx-size 80000 \
--ctx-size-draft 4096 \
--draft-min 1 \
--draft-max 8 \
--draft-p-min 0.65 \
-ngl 999 \
--flash-attn on \
--parallel 1 \
--no-mmap \
--jinja \
--temp 0.0 \
-fit off

Specdec works well for code, so the prompt I used was "Write a React TypeScript demo".

prompt eval time = 313.70 ms / 40 tokens (7.84 ms per token, 127.51 tokens per second)
eval time = 46278.35 ms / 913 tokens (50.69 ms per token, 19.73 tokens per second)
total time = 46592.05 ms / 953 tokens
draft acceptance rate = 0.87616 (757 accepted / 864 generated)

The draft model cannot affect the quality of the output. A good draft model makes token generation faster, and a bad one would slow things down, but the quality will be the same as the main model either way.
by naranjapollo | 2026-01-02 02:29:01+00:00
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by ryukoposting | 2026-01-02 02:29:21+00:00
Yup. I fully understand that X11 is a shitshow under the hood, but it works and Wayland frequently does not work. Screen recording, window positions, various multi-monitor and calibration issues, ...

On my laptop I use to write blog posts, that never ever gets plugged into a second screen? Sure, Wayland's great. On a computer that I expect normal people to be able to use without dumb problems? Hell no!
by ryandrake | 2026-01-02 02:30:09+00:00
I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really hate the design trend of confining tiny text into a tiny narrow column down the middle of my browser. It's an awful stylistic decision, and this is the petty hill I'm willing to die on. It's so bad that I really can't take a site seriously that does it.

Now, someone's going to come out of the woodwork to remind me, "Well, ackshually, research suggests that it's easier to read text that's constrained by blah blah blah blah" I don't care. It sucks. It's always sucked. It will forever suck. I have a nice 27" monitor, and I want to use the whole thing. I don't want to have to hit ctrl-] ten times just to have text that is readable and spans my monitor.
by snazz | 2026-01-02 02:30:13+00:00
In his talk a few days ago, one of the main Asahi developers (Sven) shared that there is someone working on M3 support. There are screenshots of an M3 machine running Linux and playing DOOM at around 31:34 here: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-asahi-linux-porting-linux-to-app...

Sounds like the GPU architecture changed significantly with M3. With M4 and M5, the technique for efficiently reverse-engineering drivers using a hypervisor no longer works.
by eru | 2026-01-02 02:30:25+00:00
Chinese cities can't print their own money.

> How they do financial bailouts by printing their own debt-free money [...]

What do you mean by that?

> [...] and having fine-grained control of the banking system is also something that the west doesn't do.

Giving bureaucrats even more levers to pick winners badly isn't a good idea. There's a reason China isn't as rich as the west.
by Denzel | 2026-01-02 02:30:35+00:00
We probably work at the same company, given you used MAANG instead of FAANG.

As one of the WAU (really DAU) you’re talking about, I want to call out a couple things: 1) the LOC metrics are flawed, and anyone using the agents knows this - eg, ask CC to rewrite the 1 commit you wrote into 5 different commits, now you have 5 100% AI-written commits; 2) total speed up across the entire dev lifecycle is far below 10x, most likely below 2x, but I don’t see any evidence of anyone measuring the counterfactuals to prove speed up anyways, so there’s no clear data; 3) look at token spend for power users, you might be surprised by how many SWE-years they’re spending.

Overall it’s unclear whether LLM-assisted coding is ROI-positive.
by semilin | 2026-01-02 02:30:38+00:00
These seem annoying, but I'd argue that these problems are in some ways less significant on Linux than on Windows. If some function of Windows is broken or unsatisfactory, there is not necessarily a way to fix it.

But you can adjust your own system. It'd be unhelpful of me to suggest to an unhappy Windows user that they should switch to another operating system, as that demands a drastic change of environment. On the other hand, you're already familiar with Linux, so the switching cost to a different Linux distribution is significantly lower. Thus I can fairly say that "Ubuntu getting worse" is less of a problem than "Windows getting worse." You have many convenient options. A Windows user has fewer.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-02 02:31:31+00:00
> The news was confirmed by Sprinkles founder Candace Nelson, who stated in an Instagram post that the company’s final day of service is Dec. 31. Nelson, who has not been involved with the company for more than a decade since selling to private equity firm KarpReilly Capital Partners, called the abrupt closures “surreal.”

Another private equity write down in progress.

https://www.nrn.com/mergers-acquisitions/karpreilly-buys-int...

Investors Warn of 'Rot in Private Equity' as Funds Strike Circular Deals - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380751 - December 2025

Once Wall Street’s High Flyer, Private Equity Loses Its Luster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364566 - December 2025

Private Equity’s Latest Financial Alchemy Is Worrying Investors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44891882 - August 2025
by jact | 2026-01-02 02:32:27+00:00
It’s bad for society for the desktop OS market to be a proprietary monopoly. It basically allows Microsoft to extract rent from the public defender.

I do understand the evangelism being obnoxious. I don’t advocate for people to switch if they have key use cases that ONLY windows or OS X can meet. Certainly not good to be pushy. But otherwise, people are really getting a better experience by switching to Linux.
by braiamp | 2026-01-02 02:32:35+00:00
What are you talking about? Firefox hasn't been single process since more than 10 years ago. At most, it uses 7% for the main process and I have thousands of tabs open. I can't talk about the other two, but I've had processes use 60% of the system memory without problem (everything else is slow due swapping, but that's expected).
by LoganDark | 2026-01-02 02:32:58+00:00
I don't know either. Personally I can spend days or more on exploratory efforts that end up scrapped. My source code is usually version controlled, so I never have to worry about messing things up. But I suppose not everyone has this kind of time for stuff that isn't guaranteed to pan out.

Sometimes I will prototype an exploration in another crate or module so I can see if there are performance gains in a more limited application. Sometimes these explorations will grow into a full rewrite that ends up better than if I had refactored.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-02 02:34:56+00:00
Approximately, if the user doesn't have root then there's no way to trick them. They also can't access internal app files which gives app authors tight control over how their software is used.

That's the security model. Giving users root breaks both of those assumptions, hence it breaks the security model.

Notice that it is clearly in the best interests of users to at least have this option. But modern BigTech operating systems are designed around corporate interests, not yours. And security professionals seem to prefer to ignore inconvenient things like user freedom.
by eru | 2026-01-02 02:35:15+00:00
> The Shanghai stock exchange is still too heavy on insider trading, [...]

What does that mean?

Insider trading is good for the function of the market: it makes sure information is reflected in prices sooner, benefiting the general public.

> Like, you could wager some money on a mahjong game, or you could blindly pick a stock and hope you can get some money by riding in the wake of a connected insider trader.

If you are a clueless retail investor, buy a low cost index fund. Why would you be picking stocks?
by II2II | 2026-01-02 02:35:31+00:00
> Can it be worse than those acid green on red sites of the 90s-00s?

I think people are nostalgic for the social environment that enabled people to create websites of all fashions, may they be well or poorly designed. We simply hold up the poorly designed websites as an example of how accessible content creation was ("hey, anyone can do it"), though perhaps we should hold up the better sites ("hey, look at what we can accomplish").
by semilin | 2026-01-02 02:36:13+00:00
I think Wayland is good for more technical users. Going from i3 to sway or bspwm to river feels like essentially nothing has changed. On the other hand, Gnome X11 to Wayland might be a bigger shock.

Unfortunately, Wayland inherently can't be like Pipewire, which instantly solved basically 90% of audio issues on Linux through its compatibility with Pulseaudio, while having (in my experience) zero drawbacks. If someone could make the equivalent of Pipewire for X11, that'd be nice. Probably far-fetched though.
by agnosticmantis | 2026-01-02 02:36:26+00:00
I’ve started experimenting with Quarto[0] for scientific/technical publishing on a personal website, and it’s been quite easy to use so far. I especially like that it has builtin support for LaTeX, markdown, code blocks and Jupyter notebooks. Only thing is I wish there were more templates ready to use.

[0] https://quarto.org
by inferiorhuman | 2026-01-02 02:36:28+00:00
HPIB/GPIB itself should be reasonably fast, I think NI had some later revisions that were even faster. If I had to guess there will be two big hardware bottlenecks with the open source dongles: almost all of the 8-bit and cheaper ARM boards only do USB FS (12 Mbps, so 1MByte is pushing it) and most of those boards don't have any hardware acceleration for managing a parallel bus like GPIB. Even switching up to a Mega/Due form factor means you could potentially read the status and entire data byte in one read.

FWIW I'm working on a buzzword compliant stack for ARM MCUs interleaved with writing some HALs for Embassy. It'll be interesting to see how it compares. While I'm waiting on a replacement Chinese clone I decided to order a few more boards (Atmel, NXP, Renesas, STM), level shifters, transceivers, and whatnot from DigiKey to play around with.
by reincarnate0x14 | 2026-01-02 02:36:41+00:00
Comically the use of curl | bash managed to shoehorn them in there, and there were the occasional terminal escape characters that could do funny and sometimes mischievous things.

There used to be something of a game of making specific files that would change screen colors or play songs off terminal bells, etc, tailored for specific terminals or command prompt windows. I remember a few short animated sequences using various backspaces and colors that only really worked if you could expect the text to be loaded at specific baud rates or in specific BBS software.
by nuzzl | 2026-01-02 02:37:33+00:00
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by officehero | 2026-01-02 02:37:58+00:00
> You turn up the heat

Agreed it's what they're doing but this looks more like "turning everyone against you". And you want your enemies to underestimate you (like Song or Kievan Rus' underestimated the Mongols) but the world doesn't underestimate Russia. Maybe it could have but WW2 and appeasement are still too fresh in memory.
by wright-goes | 2026-01-02 02:38:07+00:00
I hear you, and also value Excel and a few other products, but I hit my perosnal limit with Windows enshittificatoion early last year and changed my daily driver at home to Linux.

I added a couple VMs running windows, linux, and whatever else I need in proxmox w/ xrdp/rdp and remina, and it's really the best of both worlds. I travel a good deal and being able to remotely connect and pick up where I left off while also not dealing with windows nagware has been great.
by eru | 2026-01-02 02:38:29+00:00
You are right that SpaceX is a separate company.

> And Tesla’s sales for the year are down for the second year in a row. Hardly a logical reason for the stock to go up.

If the market originally expected and priced in an even bigger decline, the stock would logically go up. Because of all the possible anticipations stock price movements are hard to understand, even in retrospect.
by WalterBright | 2026-01-02 02:39:07+00:00
> You're also not an asshole

Some disagree with your assessment(!)

> but Musk is

I'm going to reserve judgement on that because the media lens is pretty distorting. He's not afraid to stand up to bullies, and I've seen that interpreted as assholishness.

Steve Jobs also had a reputation as an asshole. A couple of my friends had encounters with him, and I asked is he really an asshole? Both confidently said yes. !!
Ask HN: Building a tool to ensure things get done on time
by Vishal19111999 | 2026-01-02 02:39:21+00:00
I used to run an agency and faced this issue of context overload and missing on tasks.

So thinking of building an app that can fetch data from Slack, Jira, Meetings, Email and put together a self populating todo list with all the important information at one place.

It would also have auto tracking and followups.

I would love to know whether this resonates with you or any other similar problem that you face.

Any inputs would be helpful.
by marc_abonce | 2026-01-02 02:40:04+00:00
How does copyright work with recorded music?

The article mentions that Charlie (Bird) Parker's music is now public domain in most of the world (life + 70 years), but most of his records are collaborations with other artists like Dizzy Gillespie who died much later, less than 50 years ago. I also wonder if that even matters if the records are owned by corporations.

In those cases, how would I know if a record is public domain or not?
by NooneAtAll3 | 2026-01-02 02:40:56+00:00
from my understanding, US strategy "for the world" is "you sell me things, I sell you dollars, do democracy or else" - while best China guess seems to be "build business, together, don't push your agenda on others or else" (as with anything, these will change over several decades tho)

but main divide seems to form on "ngo vs government" lines, imo - and ironically the exact opposite way of the proclaimed "authoritarian China vs USAID america" of the previous decade-or-two. (As always, best path is somewhere in the middle between the two)

the main thing that will happen for sure - globalization, unification into bigger and bigger pieces will continue. Sure, big pieces might go further from each other - but smaller ones will will get closer and closer (unless we all die, of course)
by wishfish | 2026-01-02 02:41:08+00:00
I do almost everything non-gaming on an MBA M1. Use Sunshine server on a Windows gaming laptop. Moonlight client on the Mac. Gaming machine does all the work but the output shows up on my Mac. Works perfectly. It's the perfect setup for me. Can command+tab in and out of the gaming environment as needed. Since the games are running on their own machine, there's nothing encumbering the Mac side. Have instant access to the preferred MacOS environment if I want to stop gaming and do something.

One side benefit is how fast Moonlight + Sunshine is for using a remote desktop. Much smoother than RDP. On those rare times I need to do work in Windows, I just tab into Moonlight.

If you were interested in PC gaming, this could be a great setup for you. Put a Windows or Linux box at the corner of your desk or in a closet. Never have to think of the hardware again after the initial setup.
by EMM_386 | 2026-01-02 02:42:48+00:00
> Without the random seed and variable randomness (temperature setting), LLMs will always produce the same output for the same input.

Except they won't.

Even at temperature 0, you will not always get the same output as the same input. And it's not because of random noise from inference providers.

There are papers that explore this subject because for some use-cases - this is extremely important. Everything from floating point precision, hardware timing differences, etc. make this difficult.
by mistivia | 2026-01-02 02:43:46+00:00
I don't want a Rust language without a borrow checker. I want a C language with a Borrow Checker. Rust's complexity is already approaching C++, and removing the Borrow Checker would turn it into a similar disaster. Austral looks like a good option to me, but it's not mature enough yet, and the Pascal-like syntax is also difficult to get used to.
by NooneAtAll3 | 2026-01-02 02:44:20+00:00
> China's #1 goal should be to keep the value of their currency stable

this kinda goes against the very policy of China for the last decade-2-3 of almost-manual depreciation of RMB to make export easier

> China's #1 goal should be to keep the value of their currency stable

and it's US strat to boost allies with money donations - while China seems to be more about joint infrastructure and industry building
by musicale | 2026-01-02 02:44:22+00:00
The iron laws of web encrapification:

1. Every new feature will be used to abuse the user, usually to push advertisements.

2. When browser features are added to protect the user, web designers will do their best to subvert them to abuse the user, usually to push advertisements.

3. When an advertising company controls your web browser, the game has been lost.
by joe_the_user | 2026-01-02 02:44:57+00:00
I think the reason Russia today is relentless anti-West is rooted the post-Soviet era in many ways characterized by (the alcoholic) Boris Yeltsin. Wikipedia gives the summary: "Yeltsin oversaw the transition of Russia's command economy into a capitalist market economy by implementing economic shock therapy, market exchange rate of the ruble, nationwide privatization, and lifting of price controls. Economic downturn, volatility, and inflation ensued. Amid the economic shift, a small number of oligarchs obtained most of the national property and wealth, while international monopolies dominated the market." and I'd add millions of people died (not an exageration).

The Putin regime began with Putin using military force to arrest any disloyal oligarchs while formulating his anti-Western ideology. But sequence of event explains why most Russians today have zero faith/interest in joining the Western World.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin
Show HN: Turning 100-plus comments HN threads into readable discussions
by freakynit | 2026-01-02 02:45:39+00:00
HN has some of the best discussions on the internet, but I don’t love reading 100 comments to find 10 great insights.

This site analyzes top HN threads with LLMs and summarizes the key ideas, disagreements, and resources — while preserving links to the original discussion.

Useful for revisiting old threads as well.

Updated daily, manual-assisted for quality, no spam, fan project only.

Would love thoughts from the community.

https://hn-discussions.top
by humships | 2026-01-02 02:46:17+00:00
Good question. There's filtering built in to keep noise down: reddit and hacker news posts need 50+ upvotes/points to make it through, and HN also has to match AI keywords. github only pulls the top 10 trending repos per language. arxiv and huggingface papers come through with less filtering since they're already curated by those communities.

there's also deduplication so the same link from multiple sources only shows once. the tradeoff is fewer posts but (hopefully) higher signal. I'm still working through happy to tune the thresholds if it feels too aggressive. The tradeoff is fewer posts but (hopefully) higher signal. User submissions bypass all that though, if you submit something it goes straight to the feed. So, I'm hoping folks find it useful enough to start sharing links they come across.

I'm still tweaking the approach for this, and the thresholds I picked are absolutely arbitrary, so I'm open to any feedback that can improve it!
by api | 2026-01-02 02:47:07+00:00
As an EV owner, and not even of a top end model (Nissan Leaf 220mi range model), the last paragraph is nuts.

If you can charge at home it’s like 1/4 the price of driving on gasoline per mile. That’s not counting the fact that it takes basically zero maintenance other than tire rotation. I think there’s some fluids you want to refresh at 100k miles, but that’s it.

Compared to a gas car it’s like a free to drive car.

It also drives better. You get used to instant full torque fast. Even an economy EV like the Leaf feels like driving an ICE sports car. In some ways it’s better since the response has no latency. When I drive an ICE car it feels laggy and mushy. Also seems loud and smelly and “steampunk”.

Recharge time and range are still better for ICE, but that’s literally the only advantage. EVs are superior in every other way: cost to operate, lack of maintenance, efficiency, acceleration, torque, quiet operation, and so on.

I’ve read a few analyses that claim that driving an EV is still better in terms of emissions than an average gas car even if you get 100% of your power from coal (very few do). This is because small heat engines suck and because gas takes tons of energy just to go from oil well to pump. A big supercritical turbine in a coal plant has much better thermal efficiency than any car engine, and oil has to be shipped and refined (very energy intensive) then post-processed then shipped again and all that counts against the overall efficiency.

EVs are just better. If the charge and range gap can close, ICE is obsolete for all but niche uses.